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A response to ‘The age of the feminist influencer’
Sheena Magenya
Sheena Magenya is a feminist with twelve years of working experience in Namibia, South Africa and Kenya. Sheena has a background in media and communications, and is interested in the opportunities that African women have to influence and effect change in social and political spaces, including online spaces.
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Image description: Dominoes falling. Photo by Mark Bonica under Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) license
Social media feminist influencers play an important role in reminding us offline and institutionalised feminists that the ‘who’ in feminist movement building matters less than the ‘how’.
If there is something that we all have to admit, it is the fact that we have always had influencers. Less than 10 years ago we had political, ideological and yes, feminist influencers who too had followers; on listservs and mailing lists and academic journals where their ideas held what they thought were the building blocks of an African feminist movement. There has always been a handful of African feminists that form and influence what other feminists think and feel about the shape-shifting nature of our contexts and movements.
If there is something that we all have to admit, it is the fact that we have always had influencers.
Often, if not always, these few feminists and activists were located within influential organisations and institutions that then in turn magnified their influence or vice versa. What these iterations of influence then did, was (whether deliberately or not) create a gate-keeping mechanism, that left out a lot of younger activists and feminists, as well as people that worked outside institutions and organisations. Proximity to an influential feminist or an organisation affiliated with said feminist(s), made all the difference in determining who did and who did not have access to what spaces and resources. These influencers were referred to as ‘leaders’ back then, but the critical premise still holds true.
I remember, 15 or so years ago, as a young university student and a budding feminist hungry for courses, conferences, meetings and feminist gatherings, my applications to attend specially created feminist spaces were consistently rejected. Who were my references? My sociology and psychology lecturers did not cut it and neither did any other women or activists that inspired me. None of them were feminists. I was not affiliated with any ‘known’ and ‘respected’ feminist organisations in Southern Africa and the small girl’s empowerment project that I was co-running was not ‘feminist enough’. This all changed when I began working for an influential feminist organisation in Southern Africa. In the space of a month there was no conference, no meeting, no feminist pow-wow, both within Africa and outside it that I could not gain access to by simply stating my organisational affiliation. This organisation was then led by a highly regarded and respected feminist influencer, and my interest, passion or even skill and ability to participate actively in a space suddenly felt less important than my proximity to this sphere of influence.
While riding this wave of newfound access and acceptance by proxy, it was hard to see how I too was participating in the gatekeeping that individuals and feminist activists outside institutions face. Fungai Machirori, founder of the feminist organisation Her Zimbabwe adds another dimension to the dynamics of organising in African feminist spaces. Fungai writes about an encounter where
"… An older feminist who I held in high esteem came to me at a meeting one day. Curtly, she asked me why I had not sought the buy-in of the women’s movement before going about and setting up a platform. I was perplexed and embarrassed. Was there a procedure that one was supposed to follow prior to starting up an initiative? Had I flouted the rules?"
There is an unspoken desire or requirement to be ‘allowed’ to feminist in a particular way. One can argue that this is how we work in Africa-that you need the permission of the area chief to open a kiosk at the intersection of Main Road and Chipera Avenue. But what this does, whether as protocol or not, is it sends a clear message that our feminism needs to look a certain way or it cannot belong. And over the years our belonging and the legitimacy of our activism and feminism has come by way of institutional affiliation. This subtle, but far-reaching exclusion of unaffiliated and un-institutionalised feminists and activists is still a frustration, but now, we have the internet and with it, we have social media.
Times, as will always happen, have changed.
There is an unspoken desire or requirement to be ‘allowed’ to feminist in a particular way.
Influence, no matter what we call it ̶ this ability to command attention, space, time, resources, whether on a global scale or a local one ̶ has always been, and will always be about power. This analysis of power, and locating it not in the who or the where but in the why is what Jessica Horn’s opinion piece is missing. It is unfair to simplify this collecting and wielding of power by individuals that identify as feminist and their many followers on social media into an obsession for the narcissistic and self-absorbed. Yes, it is easy to see how social media feminist influencers place themselves firmly at the centre of a collective politic, contradicting what we intended to be a shared and a co-created feminist movement. But if it looks like a feminist, walks like a feminist, talks like a feminist and says it’s a feminist, is it not a feminist?
I see this uptake of feminist language, representation and space on social media as a way for the unaffiliated and un-institutionalised to gain some credibility in what is still a very heavily policed and controlled African feminist space. Horn asks of these influencers ̶
‘We are not really sure how they came to represent us, but there they are speaking about us (or is it for us?) on Africa policy platforms, mingling at events with dubious heads of state and other representatives of the ruling patriarchy and requesting us to “like” it because, well, proximity to mainstream power."
I too have in the past asked the same question of the small collection of feminist voices and faces that time and again occupied space and voice in local and international spaces speaking for ‘us’. We, and I too implicate myself, have been these people, many times, token Africans and lesbians and feminists and trans* humxns in international conferences and panels where we spoke for everyone, without caring who ‘everyone’ was. We had inhabited a certain kind of power and privilege that easily made us blind to the replication of the same oppressive power dynamics that we point fingers at. We assumed too easily that our political arguments for feminism and whatever other social justice cause we represented was the voice of the majority.
It is clear by now that one of my critiques of Horn’s opinion piece is that there is nothing new afoot. That the culprit here is not social media and the devious way in which it shifts the focus of a politic away from the ‘we’ to the ‘I’. These dynamics have existed long since before I started working and participating in institutionalised feminist and social justice spaces over ten years ago. We are all complicit in creating what we think is a deviation from the intention of our feminist movement and voice that manifests as individuals presenting themselves as a movement, and not the other way around. What this social media feminist influencer has done is found a space, and occupied it. Legitimacy now looks different for this social media influencer. Buy-in is not an invitation to a conference or employment at an institution, it is retweets and followers and a verified badge. It is people’s people ‘fetching’ each other online once a ‘fave’ feels slighted. It is also plagiarism, it is also misinformation. Issues last as long as a hashtag does, and soon they are off to the next one.
We are all complicit in creating what we think is a deviation from the intention of our feminist movement and voice that manifests as individuals presenting themselves as a movement, and not the other way around.
Movements and movement building look very different today. For all our criticism (I too get exhausted by the fleeting way in which we mobilise for change online) we also have to ask, would we rather they don’t exist? Or how can we invite these new, tech-savvy, social media influencers that we think need ‘a commitment to the rigour that our visions and practices of freedom absolutely require‘ to our offline gatherings and spaces to share and learn? One big difference between these two approaches is that it is cheaper to be a social media feminist influencer online than it is to organise offline. Social media is faster and there is autonomy of voice where your platform is yours and your words your own. There’s a freedom that social media feminists experience that we cannot inhabit offline and within institutions. Social media feminists are not afraid to insult and offend and often irritate. This all on its own is quite refreshing.
I remember being in awe and complete admiration of Activist Dr. Stellah Nyanzi, years ago when she spoke so poetically about her vagina and vulva and how she would use her words and all parts of her body to bring down the tyranny of Yoweri Museveni on Facebook. The internet and social media made that possible. Because (and I stand corrected) the only other space for Dr. Nyanzi to express herself would have had to be in a carefully worded, thoroughly edited, slightly sanitized chapter in a feminist book or a paper in a feminist journal. Social media is the bottom door of a full silo flung open, with thousands and millions of messages, ideas, stories, feelings, everything rushing at you all at once. At its very core and intention, social media and the internet offers us all a freedom to express ourselves, even our most problematic expressions, which is a freedom we must fiercely defend. I would in fact argue that we need more such voices to drown out the noise of misogyny online.
Social media is the bottom door of a full silo flung open, with thousands and millions of messages, ideas, stories, feelings, everything rushing at you all at once.
A problem with social media feminism and influencer culture that I will concede to is that it sharply shifts the focus of our work to transform oppressive structures and institutions into a heartbreaking obsession with ‘who is occupying so much space and influence (and power) and how did they get here?‘ These questions are valid. Legitimacy is important, but how we demonstrate or show how we gained this legitimacy needs a conversation. Many old and older feminists found our politics literally through blood, sweat and tears. We fought, with our bodies and minds to be seen, respected, and recognised for trying to move this once immovable rock called patriarchy and capitalism and heterosexual hegemony. From where we sit, it feels too easy, for someone to gain access to a feminist space and use our words, thoughts and ideas, when really we don’t know who they are. But again it should not matter. Because this is the nature of ideas, of popular politics which feminism has become. It must change. Our intentions and our vision for what a feminist future looks like are not the same. The diversity of our realities and histories create a kaleidoscope of possibilities for what a feminist future can look like. We must, sooner rather than later, let go of the idea that how feminism is being articulated today is not our vision for the feminist future we work so hard for.
No matter how our ideas and iterations of feminism manifest, we should never shift our focus from the issues, we should not forget that this same internet where self-centred selfie feminists occupy space and power is itself a site of oppression, and the existence of this voice, whether it speaks for us or not, is resistance. The internet and social media, in particular, has the effect of a microscope, where we stop looking at the whole petri dish of fungus and follow around this one bacteria. Our fight should always be against structures of social, cultural, political, economic and environmental power that oppress us and force us to either hoard space and resources or carve it out for ourselves and on our own terms.
Now, more than ever, we need solidarity with and for our selfie-taking, natural hair care vlogging, feminist fashion selling, anything-goes social media feminist influencers. We don’t have enough of them, and the few that dare make popular a difficult politic are facing a considerable amount of backlash. Feminists that dare the best way they know how to occupy whatever space and influence they can, even when what is being sold is Feminism Lite, we must stand in solidarity with them. The quiet, introverted and offline feminists can co-exist with the loud, self-absorbed online feminists. We have to believe that we dream of a feminist future where we take turns to stand in the hot sun, and believe it or not, the twitter feminists too are doing this blood, sweat and tears work.
Now, more than ever, we need solidarity with and for our selfie-taking, natural hair care vlogging, feminist fashion selling, anything-goes social media feminist influencers.
What the feminist influencers have done is open the curtains in a dimly lit room, allowing us to see the dust in the corners of our house. Now that we see this dust, the work left to do is to clean it, not to call for a meeting to ask who is responsible for opening the curtains. Thank you Jessica, for moving this conversation away from what might have been a hashtag that becomes redundant once Beyonce changes the colour of her hair.
This article has been written in response to and in conversation with the article ‘The age of the feminist influencer: https://mg.co.za/article/2019-08-12-the-age-of-the-influencer
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The Friends of the Wild Flower Garden, Inc.
Plants of the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden
The oldest public wildflower garden in the United States
Late Goldenrod
Solidago altissima L.
Aster (Asteraceae)
Garden Location
Prime Season
Late Summer to Autumn
Late Goldenrod is a native erect perennial and is a common roadside Goldenrod.
Stems: It grows from 1 to 5 feet high. The stem usually has short hair throughout but the base of the stem may sometimes lack hair.
Leaves are alternate, narrow and lance shaped with sharp teeth, larger leaves with two noticeable veins parallel to the mid-rib. Upper stem leaves will be without teeth. Most leaves are sessile (stalkless) but base leaves may have a short stalk and these usually wither by flowering time. The underside of the leaf has hair on the main veins and nerves and both the underside and the upper-side are somewhat rough from fine stiff hairs. These hairs give the leaves a gray/green tone.
The floral array is a spreading pyramidal cluster at the top of the stem with the flowers on one side of each branch of the cluster, which branch tends to recurve backward (downward).
Flowers: The yellow flower heads are less than 1/4 inch across, composed of two types of florets: 5 to 13 tiny pointed ray florets, with yellow rays, which are pistillate and fertile, and 3 to 6 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. These surround and are appressed to the style. Anthers turn darker at pollen maturity. The thin phyllaries are yellowish to yellow-green in color and these surround the flower head in 3 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, 0.5–1.5 mm, 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: Late Goldenrod is subject to some interesting galls (see below). The plant can form dense colonies from its creeping rhizomes and of all the goldenrods, this one could be considered invasive as it spreads readily by the roots and by seed. It grows in roadsides, open fields, prairies where there is full to partial sun, moist to dry conditions.
Names and varieties: The genus Solidago is from the Latin solido, to 'make whole' as the plants of this genus were known to "make whole". (see bottom of page). The species altissima means 'tallest'. This species is one of the tallest native goldenrods. The author name for the plant classification - 'L.' refers to Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), Swedish botanist and the developer of the binomial nomenclature of modern taxonomy.
An attempt to explain the names: The common name for S. altissima should be referred to as Late Goldenrod, but it is sometimes interchanged with S. canadensis var. scabra, Canada Goldenrod. USDA lists both S. canadensis and S. altissima as 'Canada Goldenrod'. Our Minnesota sources, the DNR and the U of M Herbarium, both list S. altissima as Late Goldenrod as does the authoritative Flora of North America whose classification I follow here. Although S. altissima is sometimes treated as S. canadensis var. scabra, that variety does not show the gray/green leaves and has other subtle differences. The insect galls (see below) rarely appear on S. canadensis. The differences between S. canadensis and S. altissima require close inspection of the florets and leaves. Then there is Giant Goldenrod, S. gigantaea which closely resembles the previous two, but has smooth stems. more disc florets, and leaves with more teeth. It is also subject to some of these galls. See bottom of page for more location specifics and subspecies specifics.
See bottom of page for notes on the Garden's planting history, distribution in Minnesota and North America, lore and other references.
Above: The 1/4 inch wide flowers have both ray and disc florets. 2nd photo and below - The phyllaries are linear and light yellow to greenish-yellow in color. 3rd photo - The leaves have 3 prominent veins.
Below: 1st photo - The stem has fine short hairs top to (usually) bottom. Stems may show some red coloration. 2nd photo - Leaf detail. Upper and lower leaves (center photo) vary greatly in size. The larger leaves have sharp teeth. 3rd photo - The underside has fine hair on the veins and nerves.
Below: 1st photo - The flower branches of the inflorescence have flowers on one side only and tend to curve backwards. 2nd photo - The seed is a small dry cypsela with a fluffy white pappus attached to carry them in the wind.
Below: The floral array in seed has a beauty of its own.
Below: The root system with its long spreading rhizomes - very aggressive spreading 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: Late Goldenrod is indigenous to the Garden area. Eloise Butler catalogued it on Sept. 6, 1907 as S. canadensis, but as explained above, that species is not found in Hennepin County where the Garden is located. Instead it had to be S. altissima and in fact, on Sept. 6, 1917 she recorded seeing S. altissima in the Garden. In 1925 she reported planting S. canadensis sourced from Hubbard County. Again, today it is not found there, but maybe it was in 1925 or maybe it was our current species. S. altissima was listed on Martha Crone's 1951 inventory of plants in the Garden at that time as Tall Goldenrod, and listed on subsequent Garden plant census'. This is one of the most wide spread goldenrods, the two main species, S. canadensis and S. altissima, occurring in most of Canada and all states of the U.S. except the very SE corner.
Subspecies: There are 18 species of Solidago known in the wild in Minnesota. S. altissima has two subspecies in Minnesota - subsp. altissima and subsp. gilvocanescens. They differ in the size of the flower. Both are subject to insect galls and both are found in the metro area including Hennepin County. The two subspecies of S. altissima have range overlap with subsp. gilvocanescens belonging more to the Great Plains east to Illinois and subsp. altissima also being on the east edge of the Great Plains and then eastward through the U.S. and Canada. S. canadensis has two varieties in Minnesota - var. canadensis and var. hargeri. These two are far less common in Minnesota, found in only a quarter of the counties, not subject to insect galls and are not known in the metro area at all per the MN-DNR surveys.
Medicinal Lore: The genus Solidago has several species including, altissima and canadensis, 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, including S. altissima, for treating cramps, fevers, colds, ulcers and boils. As regards S. canadensis specifically, the root and flowers were used. Moistened pulverized root was applied as a poultice for boils; similarly, moistened dried flowers were applied to skin ulcers and those same flowers when mixed with flowers of giant hyssop and green-headed coneflower. became a poultice for burns. Mrs. Grieve (Ref. #7) reports on European use of various species.
References and site links
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References: Plant characteristics are generally from sources 1A, 32, W2, W3, W7 & W8 plus others as specifically applied. Distribution principally from W1, W2 and 28C. Planting history generally from 1, 4 & 4a. Other sources by specific reference. See Reference List for details.
Identification booklet for most of the flowering forbs and small flowering shrubs of the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden. Details Here.
Friends of the Wild Flower Garden, Inc. Text and photos are by G. D. Bebeau unless otherwise credited. "www.friendsofthewildflowergarden.org"
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by Guestspeaker | 2018/08/16 · 8:00 am
The written, the spoken, and the audible a part of the soul and a blessing to humanity but also the trigger to those who love Crusades and the Inquisition
Bill Ziegler who started studying the Geography of the Middle East in 1965, two-years before the Six-Day War, completed his M.A. at Kansas State. Having got a translation eduction and Master’s degree at the University of Cincinnati, he followed a year of post-graduate studies at Justus Liebig Universitãt in Giessen, West Germany. Getting Around in German at Tristate German-American School for 22 years 1989 – 2013, now lives in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, where he specialises in
Manufacturing Business/Commerce (general)
IT (Information Technology) Construction / Civil Engineering
Telecom(munications) Materials (Plastics, Ceramics, etc.)
As a Certified Teacher of German Language: State of Ohio Department of Education he also is a member of the American Production and Inventory Contro, TriState German-American School. He is presently teaching German language and culture to students ranging from Kindergarten to adults: beginners to advanced levels at the TriState German-American School and integrated techniques practised at Cincinnati Waldorf School to dramatically involve each student’s learning with a wide range of teaching methods.
He is aware that
The culture where I live does not seem particularly interested in learning foreign languages. But the written, the spoken, and the audible become a part of the soul and a blessing to humanity when civilized thought can gain a foothold. {Thinking about Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew, Gießen and Savak}
Bill Ziegler writes
Main building of the research university in Giessen, Hesse, Germany, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
My interest in German language led to an opportunity for study in Giessen, at that time West Germany, from 1971 to 1973. Upon arriving at Justus Liebig Universität I learned German as a second language with fellow students from Iran, Japan, Egypt among others. German was the tongue we shared, so that we could talk to the brain. Then we could join the citIzenry and talk to the heart. {Thinking about Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew, Gießen and Savak}
Learning a second or 3rd or 4th language is like escaping the gravity of your native land. You probe about in another way of being, of thinking, of observing. Better still — if you’ve the inclination — learn another tongue via a second or third language. Meet the stranger in a place foreign to each. {Languages, Escape Velocity and Bigly Lies}
He reminds us of a fact we may never forget
Propaganda relies upon endlessly repeated mistranslations, designed to obfuscate. Weaponized language to serve hidden agendas, to move geopolitical stakes through sabotage, bigotry, racism, straw men, false flags, pacification, liquidation; in other words, chicanery of any convenient kind. Whatever works. No questions asked. {Languages, Escape Velocity and Bigly Lies}
In this world we can find lots of people who tell a lot of lies and nonsense bout other people or about other organisations. They are eager to make use of the knowledge that people can not check certain things because they do not know the language of the others. In many countries we find the presidents or leaders of that country telling lies about “the others”.
Mark Chmiel wonders about certain moments in history
Were the Democratic and Republican presidents who consistently lied to the American people merely making slips of the tongue? … or …. Were U.S. war crimes merely bumbled into, over and over, month after month for years, an oddly uncorrectable error? {Mistake}
A lot of misunderstandings do come from not having or not grasping the essence of what is being said and meant. Everywhere can be found pepole who hate our world, our way of life, the free spirited, the one who thinks differently than some one else, the one who has an other faith than the main stream religions. Some want to have everything in control or want to dictate their own rules and ways of life. Non-Trinitarians and others who preach pacifism and a life where everybody can accept the differences between each other, are by many considered a danger for society, and as such have to be attacked and must be eradicated. This is not new and has happened more than once. Such an extermination of a certain people or a certain faith group has taken place more than once in history.
All dictatorships are sexually repressive and anti-life. All affirmations of life are diametrically opposed to dogmatic regimes. It was logical for Fidel Castro to persecute us, not to let us fuck, and to try to suppress any public display of the life force.
-— Reinaldo Arenas {Our Only Salvation Lies in Words: On Arenas’s Before Night Falls}
Religious groups have always been the target of those who did not like the free thought of others. To silence those who thought differently the most used weapon was and still is disinformation and telling lots of lies, not giving the other the opportunity to defend himself publicly. (One good example for today is how a certain Dave Norris writes lots of articles about several denominations, but has his readers to believe all the nonsense he writes about those groups. Cfr. his loads of articles on the Belgian Bible Students like “The Watchtower Belgian Biblestudents” using a name for an organisation which even does not exists.) Some love to make crusades against others and would love to see the inquisition re-installed.
The Crusades and the Inquisition (The Church Militant) were not good ideas. Spreading lies like Joseph Goebbels lends not a single grain of truth. Truth went into exile from 1933 to 1945. No literature or art of any value springs forth under Fascism. Nothing good comes of Fascism. “When I hear the word ‘culture’…”
Islamophobia (from the xeno family of racism) will not lead to a better gentler world.
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Turkey: A dictatorship by any other name
I could not resist to reblog this nice overview by the musician Philip Lee, of what a dictatorship implies or means. I would have loved it to be placed on my private blog Marcus Ampe’s Space, but at the moment I am very far behind by posting my personal visions and non-religious articles. Not fitting yet in the series nor in my other blogspot “Our World” I am publishing it here in the hope you may enjoy it too.
In his article the writer looks at how a dictatorship gives total power to its ruler and its hallmark which is often a cult of personality. In Turkey Erdogan managed to built up his personal ‘cultus’ very cleverly, being patient enough to get his goal. As the the 12th President of Turkey since 2014 Erdogan has done all he could to bring the country back to 80 years ago concerning the way of life but this time in an economically much improved country, that must be said. though he handy made use of war to divert attention from domestic problems.
Today we not only see a dictatorship in Russia and Turkey, soon there is one looming around the corner with Trump and some other nationalists, who get the citizens in their trap by telling them lots of lies and making them cross against those who were before them so that attention on any default of them is taken away by diversion.
current State of Emergency rule = wide net targetting coup conspirators + Erdoğan’s opponents => After 2016 coup, thousands arrested + thousands of civil servants (supporters of the many secular-oriented officials who opposed Erdoğan in the past) ousted from their jobs => eliminating any criticism or opposition.
President Erdoğan targeting anyone who doesn’t support him > silence anyone who is critical of the ruling AKP party >by ongoing state of emergency
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) > breakdown of a peace process + escalating conflict between Turkish security forces + armed Kurdistan Workers’ Party => mounting civilian deaths + multiple human rights violations.
Freedom of expression + freedom of the press curtailed or drastically censored > shutdown of newspapers + magazines
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A dictatorship gives total power to its ruler and its hallmark is often a cult of personality.
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Tagged as Democratic freedoms, Dictatorship, Freedom of expression, Freedom of press, Nationalism, Philip Lee, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey
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World Tourism Organization launches a travelers’ competition to promote sustainability
With the aim of promoting responsible travel, the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has launched a travelers’ competition ahead of World Tourism Day. The initiative is part of the ‘Travel.Enjoy.Respect’ campaign taking place within the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development 2017. A one-month trip across the world visiting sustainable tourism initiatives is the prize that will be awarded to the winner of the competition.
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Donald Trump has announced new travel restrictions on visitors to the United States that will expand his controversial travel ban to eight countries. Now it includes people from North Korea, Venezuela and Chad.
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Barbuda, a Caribbean island of 1,700 residents, is now deserted by Hurricane Irma. Ronald Sanders, the Antigua and Barbuda ambassador to the United States said, "For the first time in 300 years, there's not a single living person on the island of Barbuda -- a civilization that has existed in that island for close to, over 300 years has now been extinguished."
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Airline Wants Flight Attendants to Land Planes In Case of Emergency
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A low-cost airline wants flight attendants to fly airplanes in case of emergency. The reason: Having two pilots in the cockpit is too expensive. That's great, because I really can't wait to see Steven Slater landing a 747 at JFK.
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Authorities and aircraft manufacturers are actually looking into this. Embraer is planning to have a one-pilot-only commercial jetliner by 2020, and General Electric and Lockheed Martin are actively working in incorporating remote control capabilities—now used in military Unmanned Air Vehicles—into civilian aircraft.
This is not crazy. These companies argue that, nowadays, airplanes could be easily flown by only one pilot. The only reason for having a co-pilot, they say, is in case the pilot becomes incapacitated, which is a strange circumstance. Civil aviation authorities are already considering the idea. In the UK, officials say that, if a one pilot plus high technology solution can offer "equivalent safety" to a two-pilot solution, it could be admitted.
It seems crazy, but consider David Learmount's—operations and safety editor at Flight International magazine—description of aviation 60 years ago:
Some 60 years ago, airliners with about 30 passenger seats on board needed a pair of pilots, a flight engineer, a navigator and radio operator because the workload was so high in each of those roles. The reasons such a crew is no longer necessary are too obvious to need rehearsing here. An aeroplane today may be extremely complex, but automation and massive advances in system reliability has reduced the human operator's workload dramatically.
Technology—with the incorporation of UAV systems—is almost at the point in which one-pilot operation could be considered safe. After all, it's not a true one-pilot system, since another pilot can take control from the ground in case of emergency. And, indeed, flight attendants could be trained to activate or override systems in case of emergency.
Learmount even goes further and imagines no-pilot planes, fully automated and supervised from the ground by real pilots. But forget about that not-so-remote future. The question now is: Are you ready for one-pilot airplanes?
Before you answer, look at this plane landing in heavy crosswind:
Or this one landing in Honduras:
I know what my answer is. [Flight Global]
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Brampton mother says pharmacy misfilled baby’s prescription with strong opioid
By Jamie Mauracher Global News
Posted December 13, 2019 4:39 pm
Updated December 17, 2019 1:08 am
3:04 Brampton mother says pharmacy misfilled baby’s prescription with opioid
WATCH ABOVE: A Brampton mother says she will never trust another pharmacy again after she alleges her local Shoppers Drug Mart misfilled her daughter’s anti-reflux medication prescription with a powerful opioid. Jamie Mauracher reports.
Omayma Pathan says she will never trust another pharmacy again after she alleges her local Shoppers Drug Mart misfilled her daughter’s anti-reflux medication prescription with a powerful opioid.
“I was given a full bottle of methadone — basically a legal substitution for heroin,” she told Global News.
Pathan, a first-time mother to five-month-old Maryum, said she had been to the Shoppers Drug Mart location at Chinguacousy Road and Queen Street West three times prior to fill her daughter’s anti-reflux medication. But it was during the fourth visit that she said she was instead given the opioid.
“This was a pharmacist I trusted,” she explained.
“Even if I gave her a few drops, this could have killed her.”
The head of the emergency department at North York General Hospital told Global News that Pathan’s belief isn’t wrong. If an infant of Maryum’s age were to take methadone, the consequences could be devastating.
“At a minimum they would be sedated — really, really drowsy — but even in small volumes, it could definitely be fatal. It would not take very much,” Dr. Paul Hannam said.
Hannam said methadone is often used as a tool to combat the opioid crisis.
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“It would be considered life-saving when given to the right population … but it would 100 per cent be an emergency situation if an infant were to ingest this drug.”
Pathan said to make matters worse, the directions on the bottle prescribed all of the contents.
“Luckily I was literate enough to read, but in Brampton there are a lot of people who can’t read and write English. Can you imagine what would have happened?” she asked.
“When you go to a Shoppers, when you get a bottle of something, you don’t always read it.”
Omayma Pathan said while she and her husband are “traumatized” by the incident, they are pleased the company is now investigating. Jamie Mauracher / Global News
Global News contacted the Shoppers Drug Mart location where Pathan filled the prescription. The owner of the pharmacy, Raina Hanna, said she had no comment at the time, referring Global News to head office.
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A statement from the corporate office said in part, “We share the view that this is a considerable error, and one that absolutely should not have happened. We have been in constant contact with the family to apologize, address their concerns and answer any questions. We have many controls and processes in place to protect patients. This was a case of human error, one that we do not take lightly.”
The company said they are in the process of “reinforcing” procedures to ensure something like this does not happen again.
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Pathan said she has also been in touch with the pharmacy giant. She said while she and her husband are “traumatized” by the incident, they are pleased the company is now investigating.
“They seem to be taking it seriously,” Pathan said, adding she hopes the pharmacist in question will receive extra training.
This is not the first time a child’s prescription has been misfilled by an Ontario pharmacy.
In 2016, an eight-year-old Mississauga boy died after ingesting the wrong medication.
“We had no idea this could even happen,” Andrew’s mother, Melissa Sheldrick, told Global News in March of that year.
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A coroner’s report revealed the bottle of medication Sheldrick picked up from a Mississauga pharmacy didn’t contain Tryptophan, the sleeping drug Andrew had been prescribed. Instead, the report indicated he ingested a toxic level of Baclofen — a muscle relaxant.
In November 2018, the Ontario College of Pharmacists (OCP) implemented a program to track any mistakes.
Dubbed the Assurance and Improvement in Medication Safety program, it required medication incidents to be recorded into an independent third-party database “to better support shared learning and further promote quality improvement.”
In response to Global News’ request for information, OCP revealed a summary of the program’s outcome thus far.
According to the latest data, over a 15-month period — February 2018 to May 1 2019 — there were 4,426 “medication events” at the pharmacies in Ontario enrolled in AIMS.
READ MORE: Mandatory reporting of medication errors to be implemented by Ontario pharmacies
That works out to around 300 incidents per month.
OCP would not say exactly how many pharmacies its preliminary report included, pointing out, only, that it ranged from 100-2700 during the dates mentioned.
Of these reported cases, in 46 per cent, the medication reached the patient.
None of the events reported were fatal, however, 148 were listed to have harm levels ranging from mild to severe.
Almost half of the cases were due to incorrect strength or incorrect drug.
AIMS found reasons for the medical incidents included environmental, staffing or workflow issues, a lack of quality control or independent check system, or a lack of education and “other contributing factors.”
READ MORE: Ontario pharmacists move towards mandatory reporting of prescription-dispensing errors
As of August, approximately 3,600 of the province’s 4,500 have enrolled in AIMS.
The Dean of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Cincinnati, Neil MacKinnon, says while AIMS is quite new, this report shows Canada is “a world leader in medical incident reporting.”
“The information collected as part of these reports should lead to a safer medication-use system,” MacKinnon told Global News.
Pathan, meanwhile, says she wants to use her daughter’s incident to remind other parents to double check their children’s medication.
“God knows what the next morning would have brought us. This is the only child we have … our lives would have been shattered if I didn’t read the actual bottle,” she said, noting she’s grateful she took a double take, but is fearful for other families.
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It seems that one of the first questions spouses and other family members (especially mothers) ask is, “How safe is club racing?” This is a valid question, and you must be aware that there are inherent risks associated with racing. Skip Barber Racing School’s book Going Faster contains the most meaningful statistic I was able to find on safety as it pertains to racecar driving. They quoted the research of Dr. Harlen C. Hunter and Rick Stoff, as published in Motorsports Medicine: “It should be safe to assume that the annual incidence of driver fatalities falls between 7 and 14. According to participation and fatality data from the National Safety Council, those rates would put driving racecars in the same hazard range as swimming, alpine ski racing and boating. Race driving would be slightly less risky than scuba diving and mountain hiking and far less dangerous than parachuting and hang-gliding.”
When writing this section, I spoke with my wife about her viewpoint on club racing safety. Maybe I should also point out that we have a good relationship, and she does not have malicious plans for me. Her response was that after seeing what I had to do to prepare the racecar and myself prior to actually racing, she had a higher comfort level with my participation in club racing. In fact, she even went as far as stating that she is more concerned about my safety when I drive on the Mass Pike into Boston during rush hour on a business trip. When on the street, how often do you see people tailgate, cut people off, or perform other unsafe driving activities? On a racetrack you will never see someone eating, reading, talking on a cell phone, or applying makeup while driving. When I first started racing, I was approached by one of my friends who thought that it was a dangerous hobby for me to be doing. I looked at him puzzled and asked if he really thought his motorcycle riding on the street was safer than racing on a track. My point was that there are many activities people participate in; each has an associated risk which a person needs to evaluate and then make a decision if they are willing to accept the risk or not. It is important that you and the people who care about you become educated about club racing safety.
Racing sanctioning bodies recognize the importance of safety for everyone involved including drivers, crew, workers and spectators. Safety needs to be the first and foremost priority. You will find that some racing clubs have stricter safety regulations than others. When I first looked into racing, I became attracted to one racing club because of the low costs to become involved. I had some knowledge of what SCCA, NASA and other race clubs enforced for their minimum safety requirements, so I questioned what safety regulations this club had. I was very surprised with what I learned about their safety requirements, or lack there of. While to some it is great that this other club doesn’t require extensive roll cages or technical inspections of the car each year, among other items, is this really a good thing?
Just as it is necessary for drivers to participate in intensive training prior to participating in racing events, many clubs such as SCCA and NASA also require that corner workers obtain training on safety standards and flagging techniques. Check with the club you are considering racing with to see how they train their drivers and flaggers. There is more to flagging than simply watching racecars go by and occasionally holding up a yellow flag. Many important messages are relayed to drivers through the use of various flags. In addition to the corner workers and safety stewards, there are also trained emergency medical technicians ready to be deployed, if need be. When trying to determine if racing with a particular club meets what you are looking for, the club’s safety requirements should be high on your list of considerations.
What Types of Things are Done to Address Safety?
When I sat down and began thinking about what SCCA, NASA and other clubs do to make racing safer, I developed a much better appreciation of how conscientious most clubs are about ensuring the safety of participants on all levels. One of the first items which clubs address is the safety of the racecar itself. As discussed later in the Technical Inspections section, before a racecar is allowed in a racing drivers school or a race, it is necessary for the driver to have a logbook for the car certifying that it passed the thorough safety inspection. Even after this initial process is completed, most clubs require that the racecar pass annual inspections.
What are a Few of the Safety Items on a Racecar?
Roll cage: It is necessary to meet strict specifications as to how the cage is constructed, including the minimum thickness of the tubes, mounting locations, and overall design. A roll cage is built to protect the driver from side impact and injuries in vehicle rollovers.
Racing seat: Instead of utilizing a standard passenger car seat, the racecar must have a seat designed specifically for racing. While standard car seats are hinged to adjust seatback positioning, a racing seat uses a single-piece construction and has a fixed back. The fixed back is designed to enable the racing seat to absorb stronger forces, whereas a hinged seat may break and cause injuries to the driver. The other purpose of a racing seat is to better secure the driver, holding the person in place during an incident, and also while driving around the track, especially in the corners. The benefit of this is that the driver is able to be in better control (not sliding around the seat) and provides side support that is crucial during a side impact. Racing seats are also designed to accommodate a racing harness.
Racing harness: These “seat belts” hold the driver in place, enabling the driver to better maintain control of the car. Unlike a standard passenger seat, a racing harness should always have a snug fit to keep the driver in place. Even the bolts used to secure the racing harness must meet a minimum quality grade.
Window net: The window net prevents the driver’s arm and hand from reaching outside of the car, which could cause serious injury especially if the car were to roll over.
Windows are rolled down or removed to reduce glass injuries.
Fire extinguisher: Assuming a more comprehensive fire system is not used in the racecar, a hand-held fire extinguisher must be securely mounted in the cockpit. This fire extinguisher must contain specific chemicals; not just any type of fire extinguisher will meet the required specifications.
Kill switch: This allows a corner worker, safety worker, or driver to turn off all electrical components of the racecar. The primary purpose is to enable the engine to be shut off to prevent an engine fire.
Removal of the steering lock: Have you ever been in a car that is turned off, and the steering wheel has become locked? Imagine if a racecar shut off while driving and this happened.
For most clubs the racing seat, racing harness, window net, and driver’s suit must meet SFI specifications. Also stipulated is how often safety gear needs to be replaced. What is SFI? The SFI Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit organization established to issue and administer safety standards including standards for racing equipment. This allows people to differentiate between quality-assured products and untested products. More information about SFI can be found at www.SFIfoundation.com.
Driver’s suit: There are several different brands and models to choose from. When looking at driving suits, a few factors that will influence the decision as to which one best meets your needs include the SFI rating, price, overall comfort of the suit, and brand name. (The suit’s SFI rating will tell you how fire retardant it is.) I recommend that you purchase a one piece suit versus a two piece suit for safety reasons. Think about wearing a one-piece suit versus a pair of pants and shirt. It is much easier for the jacket of the two piece suit to become out of place and potentially expose your body to fire. A single layer SFI-3.2A/1 rated suit: $240.
Fire retardant underwear: Depending on the racing suit, it may or may not be necessary to also wear fire retardant underwear. Top and bottom: $90 total.
Fire retardant socks: $15.
Fire retardant racing gloves: As with the drivers suit, the SFI rating will tell you how fire retardant the gloves are. $40.
Racing shoes: $75.
Helmet: All clubs that I am aware of require that the racing helmet meet Snell’s SA safety standards and have a specified certification date. What are the differences between an inexpensive and expensive helmet? The Snell Memorial Foundation states: “The Snell standards do not measure factors like comfort, ventilation, brand recognition or style, and only indirectly look at fit, weight, materials and workmanship. These are factors that frequently drive helmet cost.” Anticipate spending approximately $250 for a Snell SA helmet.
The above costs represent moderately-priced personal safety equipment, equivalent to the gear I own and feel comfortable utilizing.
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Prato biscuits: don't call them cantucci! – Italian Cuisine
They are famous all over the world thanks to the fame of the Prato fabrics, and they preserve the historical recipe. Even today at the Mattei Biscuit Factory they are made like they used to be, by hand, tile after tile
In 1858 Italy did not exist yet, Tuscany was a Grand Duchy and a Meadow, in Via Ricasoli 22, Antonio Mattei opened his own Biscottificio with resale. Baked up a dry almond biscuit with a recipe developed by him, and certainly he never imagined that that biscuit would become the traditional biscuit of Prato, which would have survived for over two centuries and that would have traveled far beyond the borders of what a few years later would have become a nation.
Prato has always been known throughout Tuscany for bread, and the bakeries that produced the Bozza Pratese (the typical local silly bread) also produced biscuits. In addition to all the historic biscuit factories in fact, in Prato it is common practice that the ovens also make the biscuits, so there is a vastness of offer and declinations that have always been, then become ecellence. Thanks to the fame of the fabrics before, and then in the years of the Italian economic boom, the city has become one of the most famous and studied textile districts in the world, and the industrialists of the time have contributed not a little to the spread of Prato biscuits, sending them and giving them away in every part of the world. Even today in Prato it is not Sunday unless a blue bag of biscuits "di Mattonella" is discarded.
Cantucci or biscuits from Prato?
The first documented recipe of this cake is a manuscript, preserved in the State Archives of Prato, and bears the signature of Amadio Baldanzi, a Pratese scholar, dated 1779: here the biscuits are called Genoese. The Accademia della Crusca in 1691 had already defined the cantuccis as a "sliced biscuit, flour flour, with sugar and egg white". The almonds were not present and only appear at the home of Caterina De ’Medici.
Both the cantucci and the Prato biscuits are dry cakes made with a mixture of eggs, sugar and whole almonds, neither roasted nor peeled, and are obtained by cutting a piece of dough into pieces while it is still hot after cooking. The difference is in the cut, which is twisted diagonally in the Prato biscuits, and in the ingredients. "The Biscotto di Prato, the one we pack in our famous blue bag – explains Francesco Pandolfini of Biscottificio Mattei – follows a slightly different recipe from that of the cantuccio: it is somehow a simpler product without the addition of yeasts, fats or aromas, which inherits the tradition of Prato bakers". The substantial difference compared to the codified recipe of 1779 is that today the biscuits are no longer "biscottati", that is cooked twice, and this time a time necessary to give greater conservation to the product is today skipped.
The Mattei Biscuit Factory
Prato biscuits are made with flour, sugar, almond, eggs and pine nuts – they do not contain preservatives, animal fats or vegetable fats. The fame of Mattei products began to spread beyond city limits, traveling together with the precious fabrics that merchants bought in the city. The merit medal was won in 1861 at the Italian Exposition and the honorable mention at the Universal Exposition in Paris in 1867 and illustrious fans such as Pellegrino Artusi, who reported the recipe for their Torta Mantovana in his famous recipe book, and mention the products of Antonio Mattei also Malaparte, Ardengo Soffici, Sem Benelli, Hermann Hesse, and the Presidents Carlo Azeglio Ciampi and even Bill Clinton. In 1904 the business passed to the Pandolfini and Ciampolini families, and it was in the 1920s that new products were born, such as the Candone Filone, the Brutti Buoni, the Biscuit of Health, which today are classics, rigorously disciplined in receiving and cooking almost as much as the Prato Biscuit. Even today the Biscottificio of Antonio Mattei is owned by the fourth generation Pandolfini. As has always been the case since 1858, the production is still done in the same laboratory, in the 13th century family palace in the historic center of Prato, with the same quality raw materials and artisanal methods: in addition to having preserved the same processing methods, the cookies in the traditional blue bag, for example, are still closed and hand-tied one by one. Novelty, from pichi years in biscuit factory you can also sleep in one of the four apartments above the laboratory, Le Dimore di Casa Mattei.
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the best restaurants in Prato – Italian Cuisine
World famous pastry shops, a new finedining scene, cocktail bars and new gastronomy entrepreneurs are renewing the city. Once again and thanks also to its Chinese half
Italy is the country of a thousand bell towers, Prato was the city of a thousand chimneys, today it is one of a thousand food and wine specialties. Prato has been called "the Manchester of Tuscany" for the incredible industrialization that had transformed it in the nineteenth century, but it is also the city of the Chinese, the home of Prato biscuits, Prato peaches and an unexpected series of typical products , new or secular.
The city of a thousand chimneys. Photo Daniele Mari
Prato has always been a rich and cultured city, boasting a cathedral frescoed by Filippino Lippi, the world-famous Contempoeanea Luigi Pecci art center, examples of industrial archeology such as the Fabbricone, now home to a theater and destination for architects on a pilgrimage. Prato has been able to reinvent itself throughout history and today has decided not to leave its destiny to chance. Not even culinary.
At 20 km from Florence, it has about 1/10 of the population and, as tradition has it, there is no good blood between the two. But so much for a level playing field we do not agree historically with Pistoia and this has translated into a programmatic will to create, conserve and protect a unique food and wine heritage.
Eat Prato, the event that twice a year talks about local typicality. Photo Daniele Mari
Local excellence
The concentration of Slow Food Presidia is impressive: there are the Biscuits of Prato (which for heaven's sake even if they look like nooks, they are not at all!), The Bozza Prato, silly bread, typical of the rural tradition, the Mortadella of Prato PGI so special and aromatic due to the addition of Alchermes, the dried Figs of Carmignano. They even invented a supply chain flour, the GranPrato, and a real pride of the local food and wine called Eat Prato, very popular and which takes place twice a year. Obviously there are also the Prato Peaches – which alone are worth the trip.
The Lazzerini Library. Photo Daniele Mari
The pastry shops
The star of the pastry shop hovers over the city, and the pastry shops are the real local flagship. The reason? Professor Daniela Toccafondi, Councilor for Productive Activities, Trade and Tourism with University and Europe of the City, explains this to us: “Prato has always been a rich city, a crossroads of businesses, travelers and astute entrepreneurs. It was a city in which it has always eaten well and that together with the fabrics has exported other excellences bringing them far away and making them famous ". The Biscottificio Mattei has been making Biscotti di Prato since 1858 and boasts in a single city two pastry masters such as Luca Mannori, chocolate guru, World Pastry Champion and holder of the original Setteveli cake recipe. A few hundred meters away, the Pasticceria Nuovo Mondo by Paolo Sacchetti, wife and heir Andrea "Sacchettino" Sacchetti from which come out mythical and unmatched Pesche di Prato and leavened like the Giulebbe. Sacred monsters aside, other young people are also making their way as Luca Borgioli, pastry chef at I Frari delle Logge, won third place in the FIPGC contest at the national level for the Best Modern Single Section.
New Wave from Prato
Other than the province, in Prato there are places like Schiaccino, a place that if you landed in Milan would make a fortune: young boys, enthusiasts, selection of natural wines, large sourdough focaccia with sourdough and special grain flour filled with excellence, of the territory . Beautiful the place, the environment, good food and were even able to organize an event like Winezilla – the first Prato fair of natural wines. You will hear about them. Even the cocktail bar scene wants to emerge, thanks to the Nunquam factory which produces white Prato Vermouth, bitters, bitters, alchermes and even Ju, a Tuscan London Dry Gin, and places like Apotheke Prato, De'Sto or the Cul de Sac – so much so that the Florence Cocktail Week in May has evolved to become the Tuscany Cocktail Week.
The historic center seen from the Emperor's Castle. Photo Daniele Mari
Emerging chefs
There is also an embryonic scene of fine dining in the city, led by the restaurant Pepe Nero (which everyone in the city swears is now in the odor of a star). But not only the suns. They returned to the city to stay, the young people of Paca, a new gastronomic restaurant that alternates insights such as the Sushi of Chianti with more classic Pappardelle with wild boar, shallot and pine nuts – made with a professional hand and with an excellent quality / price ratio. Try the Steak, which here finds its gourmet dimension, becoming a main course for two, with a haute cuisine service. The young chef Francesco Preite has been serving omakase and sake menus to his fellow citizens for eight years (but it is necessary to present them for 9 pm, one time shift), the Dek Bistrot in piazza delle Carceri which serves seafood, raw fish and Mediterranean dishes. At the Pecci Center, Angiolo Barni (patron and chef) has found a home that unites Tuscan tradition and contemporary cuisine, as well as the gastronomic restaurant in the expansion designed by Maurice Nio, and in the new opening of the bistro, with outdoor tables and a suggestive view of the original amphitheater designed by Italo Gamberini.
Chinatown. Photo Daniele Mari
Chinatown today
Prato, however, is also the most famous Chiantown city in Italy, grown in the nineties when local textile industries moved into the industrial area, leaving a whole slice of the city abandoned. Today it teems with life, restaurants and small shops, and given that even "the Chinese" have moved to produce outside the city, now we face the emergence of industrial spaces abandoned for the first time to themselves. Thus cultural associations such as Chì-Na were born, right in the infamous Via Pistioiese, and initiatives such as the WOM, Wonderful Market of vintage clothing, streetware and handicrafts in Corte Genova, in the spaces of the former Lanificio Umberto Bini and now a space shared among young creatives . To them it seems normal, but for those who come from outside to discover spaces like these or like the Lazzerini Library in the former Cimatoria Campolmi, another restored textile factory where students study under a vault of windows and steel.
Table integration
The integration in Prato was a will as well as a duty, thanks to a far-sighted municipal administration that can now reap the benefits of its work. With the 2019 elections, the first two councilors of the Chinese community joined in and there are already so many four-handed businesses that are giving new economic and cultural strength to the city. Trade flows in the blood of new and old Prato, and this may have been the land on which the future of this city will be built. The history of the MySea restaurant is precisely this: two Chinese-born partners who grew up in Milan, two from Tuscany, a restaurant that combines the Italian tradition of raw fish and the all-oriental passion for crabs and lobsters freshly caught from the aquarium. The clientele is as mixed as the property and in the kitchen there is the chef Davide Chen, an almond-shaped eye, a Florentine dialect, a Tuscan DOC (despite appearances). Raw crudités, Mussels au gratin with parsley and roasted lemon panura, Taglierini pasta with fresh lobster with rigorous homemade pasta and the inevitable Catalan lobster. Why inevitable? Because this is the most loved, ordered and consumed dish by the people of Prato. Why Prato is really a surprise.
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Prato Peaches: a typical dessert from Prato – Italian Cuisine
Typical dessert, brought to the fore thanks to the TV and to the maestro Paolo Sacchetti. Three elements, such as tiramisu, and no crunchy parts: the magic formula of Italian pastry
The Peaches from Prato they are not a fruit. I'm a sweet, typical of the city of Prato, and one of the attractions of the city. Thanks to a pastry chef, Paolo Sacchetti.
The first historical mention written on peaches is when in 1861 at the Contrucci inn in Piazza del Duomo in Prato, the inn served a menu dedicated to the recipes of the peninsula during the feast for the Unity of Italy. This was the dessert, hence the name Pesche di Prato.
The sweet it is apparently simple, composed of two hemispheres of Brioche dough immersed in a liquor bath with alkermes, covered with sugar and stuffed with custard, so that it comes out to tie the two halves: a third of dough, a third of syrup, a third of cream, only the best ingredients, for a perfect result. It's a sweet of tradition, it is sweet, soft, crunchy on the surface, never cloying thanks to the liqueur, interesting to every bite thanks to the different consistencies. In the fifties and sixties, with the economic boom and the routine of cabaret of pasta on Sundays, even the Peaches had their moment of glory, then they were almost forgotten. Too long to do, not very innovative and cosmopolitan, too rooted to be renewed … We had to wait for the rediscovery of the typical product, the renewed regional pride, the fashion of tradition to see them appear in the windows of pastry shops, even in those of his city where they had gradually fallen into oblivion. The Tuscany Region has included them in the list of traditional agri-food products (PAT) for the provinces of Florence and Prato but the merit is however above all a pastry chef, not even a Prato but Florentine, who in his pastry shop has dedicated himself to the good and the right without compromises.
The rebirth of peaches
Paolo Sacchetti opened the Nuovo Mondo pastry shop in Prato with his wife Edi in 1979, an outsider with an obsession with quality that managed to bring the “peaches” to the forefront.
"It all started with Dolcemente Prato, the first pastry event at national level, in 2003, Italian TV stations arrived but also English, Japanese … and I, who was one of the organizers, had brought my peaches. By now no one in the city made them any more … They intrigued because they were a typical dessert, then in 2006 with the book Le pesche di Prato (Claudio Martini Editore) their fame spread even more. They started buying me all the restaurants and trattorias, the other pastry shops in the city started to go back to them trying to follow the same recipe and I taught them to do them even to colleagues of the caliber of Sal de Riso ”.
Merit of television
He tells Sacchetti “Up until the 1980s, there was no talk of pastry in Italy. The first name was that of Ernst Knamm, because he was the pastry chef of Gualtiero Marchesi. When Luigi Cremona came to me, I had just opened, he told me I was worthy of joining ANPI, the Academy of pastry chefs who had just been born and told me to go to Iginio Massari. I didn't even know who he was, yet he is the master of masters for thirty years! But the magazines were few, and there was talk of cooking, pastry was excluded ”. "The press and the television change your life, since 2000 I have been vice-president in the Academy and yet it is from 2012, when I was elected Pastry Chef of the Year, which magically the schools propose to send me the boys on stage, before I do not they were spinning mica! "
The secret of success. The Holy Trinity
But why this happened? "Because they are the classic Italian dessert. It's like tiramisu, it's a genetic thing we have in our hearts, alcohol gives freshness and makes us want to eat them again. My secret, my diversity is that I make them well balanced, with alchermes bono, the best ingredients and balance everything to reach balance. The tiramisu has a third of Savoyard, a third of soaking and a third of mascarpone. Today they tell us what's needed is the crunchy part, the acidity … they don't really serve, it needs to be good and the good is in the tradition because it speaks to us instinctively ”. He cooked them alongside Massimo Bottura, taught them at the ANPI Academy of Italian pastry chefs, served them at events, fairs, dinners and congresses. He studied the recipe, understood chemistry and physics, discovered the magic formula to make them perfect and can't stop, because if it doesn't bring them it's a popular insurrection. "But I can do other things too!" He points out in front of a pastry shop full of sweets. They are magical because they awaken ancestral memories, flavors engraved in national DNA and childhood memories. They awaken the senses, even for those of sweets that do not nourish a passion, explode in the mouth and then leave that sweet spicy and bitter aftertaste.
Word of Iginio Massari
It is foolish to give them the recipe, there are things that it is useless to try to do at home and instead they should be eaten by those who have found the magic formula to do them over the years. "A harmonious, soft dessert, for lovers of tradition – writes Iginio Massari in the book Le Pesche di Prato (Claudio Martini editor). "Quality is not just a point of arrival of a noble mix of ingredients, but a way of thinking, of existing. In practice it means choosing to work with the heart, sensitive and attentive to the well-being of men, creative and imaginative in satisfying desires ". Difficult to find a better definition, the Prato Peaches satisfy desires, even those you did not know you had, and thus make you unexpectedly happy.
Paolo Sacchetti. Photo Daniele Mari.
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‘Halloween 6’ Writer To Direct New ‘Amityville Murders’ Movie
May 18, 2017 May 18, 2017 Matt Artz 0 Comment Daniel Farrands, Halloween 6, The Amityville Murders
We are thrilled to report that our friend Daniel Farrands, who wrote Halloweeen: The Curse of Michael Myers, produced The Haunting in Connecticut and the as-yet-still-unreleased Amityville: The Awakening, and directed Never Sleep Again and Crystal Lake Memories, will write and direct the new horror film The Haunting on Long Island: The Amityville Murders, which is currently being shopped around to possible distributors at the ongoing Cannes Film Festival.
THR broke the news earlier today that Farrands will direct The Haunting on Long Island: The Amityville Murders from his own screenplay, with production set to being this summer.
The Haunting on Long Island: The Amityville Murders will go beyond the well known story of the Lutz family and the house depicted in the Amityville Horror films.
The official synopsis: On the night of November 13, 1974, Ronald DeFeo, Jr., took a high-powered rifle and murdered his entire family as they slept. At his trial DeFeo claimed that “voices” in the house commanded him to kill. Thirteen months later the Lutz family bought the house and stayed only 28 days before fleeing in terror. Their nightmarish ordeal shocked the world in The Amityville Horror. The Lutzes may have escaped from Amityville with their lives … but the DeFeos weren’t so lucky. This is their story.
CineTel films will be introducing the film to buyers in Cannes and will be premiering a teaser trailer and artwork at the market.
Farrands broke into the horror world’s subconscious as writer of 1995’s Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, and he has since directed the documentaries His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th, Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th, Scream: The Inside Story, and Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy, and served as a producer of the 2009 hit The Haunting in Connecticut.
He is also one of the producers of Amityville: The Awakening, a sequel to the original franchise films that has been delayed numerous times since production finished and has yet to be released, though it is currently dated for June 30 (at least as of this writing).
Farrands also wrote last year’s Havenhurst starring Danielle Harris, and the 2006 family film The Tooth Fairy starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
Earlier tonight on Facebook, Farrands explained of the new project, “It’s not an ‘Amityville’ movie per se. It really only focuses on the DeFeo tragedy and what may have led to it.” He also states, “It doesn’t follow the Lutz haunting, Jody the pig, etc.”
Be sure to read our in-depth 2014 interview with Daniel Farrands here!
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GFFIS 2013: Opening Ceremony and Promised Land screening
The 10th Green Film Festival in Seoul
On a rainy Thursday the 9th of May, the 10th Green Film Festival in Seoul (GFFIS) got underway with an opening ceremony at Yonsei University’s Baeyang Concert Hall in Sinchon, Seoul. Hosted by duo Kim Tae-Hun (김태훈) and actress Park Hee-bon (박희본), the event sported several videos celebrating the festival’s now decade long run – including a quite sweet musical video called Have a Cup of Tea, or See a Film! (차라도 한잔, 영화도 한편!) helmed by renowned director Kim Tae-yong (김태용).
Important politicians and policy makers, including Mr. Park Jae-dong, Mr. Yoon Seong-gyu from the Ministry of Environment, and Chairman of the Board of the Korea Green Foundation Mr Lee Se-jung all gave welcoming speeches regarding the importance of the festival and of ecological awareness in general, and their comments were warmly greeted. This was followed by an opening declaration by Mr. Kim Won, the Chairman of the Organizing Committee, who then brought actor Ji Jin-hee on stage to present him with a small plant as part of his acceptance in becoming the latest eco-friend of the festival.
Yonsei University’s Baeyang Concert Hall hosted the opening ceremony
Legendary festival programmer Kim Dong-won was in attendance
The hosts begin the ceremony
Actor Ji Jin-hee accepts his award as an eco-friend
Director Kim Tae-yong’s short film was a fun opening to the festival
The hosts and director Kim discuss the film and the festival
After a short interval, everyone was again seated for the opening film. Gus Van Sant’s Promised Land , which re-teams the director with star Matt Damon after the critically acclaimed Good Will Hunting, sees a duo from an energy company attempt to buy land in the country in order to harvest the natural gas beneath. Yet the residents become concerned due to the process of ‘fracking’, in which chemicals are pumped into the Earth to get the resource, making the prospect a tough sell. The film was very well-received by the audience, and the film itself is a very apt opening due to the debates involving nature, community, big industry, and money. Please see below for the review.
Opening Film
Promised Land – 6/10
Promised Land is, in many ways, a great film to open the festival with. The story sees Steve (Matt Damon) and Sue (Frances McDormand) as workers for Global, a giant energy conglomerate who wish to obtain the natural gas residing under a farming community in Pennsylvania. Few actors do ‘everyman’ as well as Matt Damon, and that charm is present throughout the film as he is simply a good guy trying to do the best job he can. Unfortunately that job is to buy the land out from under the people, and his naivety in this regard is perplexing as it’s quite obvious what the ramifications are from the start. To reinforce the point director Gu Van Sant features plenty of establishing shots of the countryside to emphasize what’s at stake, making Promised Land a very attractive film throughout. Despite the quite serious subject matter the narrative is often comedic, featuring some real laugh-out-loud moments as Steve and Sue continually face obstacles ranging from school teachers to the weather. Steve’s journey is an interesting one as he is torn between being a man with working class roots and his desire for (financial) success, although his reasoning isn’t explored nearly enough. Furthermore the narrative is far too ambitious as it attempts to cover too much in the running time, and in doing so lacks any real heart or emotional power. The inclusion of a love interest for Steve tries to address the issue, but she is often jettisoned in favor of returning to the environmental debate. Promised Land is a good, solid film and certainly one of the better dramas to deal with environmental issues, yet the curious lack of heart make the film a thought-provoking, but somewhat emotionless, endeavour.
Festival News Green Film Festival in Seoul (제10회 서울환경영화제) Korean Festivals 2013
May 2, 2013 January 31, 2015
GFFIS 2013: The 10th Green Film Festival in Seoul
Kicking off on the 9th of May and running through until the 16th, the 10th Green Film Festival in Seoul (GFFIS) will take place at CGV cinemas in Yongsan. The festival screens films that highlight environmental matters from all over the world, ranging from GMO foods to corporate corruption, animal welfare to government protesting, and that great variety continues to be present within the 2013 edition.
Opening with the Matt Damon starring Promised Land, directed by Gus Van Sant, the festival boasts an impressive array of international screenings. For the full list of films please visit the official website here (in Korean), however featured below are the Korean entries that will emphasize the environmental issues occurring within the country.
But first, be sure to check out the official trailer for the festival:
International Environmental Film Category
Forest Dancing (춤추는 숲)
Director: Kang Seok-pil (강석필)
Synopsis: The documentary follows the residents of a small village community in Seoul, who protest against a building project that will raze part of a mountain to make way for a private academy.
Korean Environment Category:
Boiler (남양주는 모른다)
Director: Lee Hyun-Ji (이현지)
Synopsis: Fictional film Boiler explores the lives of a handful of binge drinking tunnel laborers. Their mundane existence is changed however when they discover something underground while working.
Cats and Dogs (그 강아지 그 고양이)
Director: Min Byung-Woo (민병우)
Synopsis: The first film to be shot entirely using the iphone 4s, this romantic-comedy depicts the lives of two pet owners and their relationships.
Cats in the Pool (수영장의 고양이들)
Director: Kim Bo-Kyoung (김보경)
Synopsis: In this animated short, a man hits a cat while driving. The guilt of the event causes him to hallucinate the cat – and other felines – wherever he goes.
Cement Town Tragedy (투구꽃 그 마을)
Director: Oh Kyu-Ik (오규익)
Synopsis: The documentary examines a small town and the impact of a cement plant built 50 years ago, and the fallout of hazardous materials on the health of the community.
Cruel Inheritance – Heredity (잔인한 내림 – 遺傳)
Director: Kim Hwan-Tae (김환태)
Synopsis: Cruel Inheritance is a documentary concerned with the ramifications of the atomic energy and bombs, from Hiroshima in 1945 through to Fukushima in 2011.
Fog and Smoke (안개와 연기)
Director: Cha Jea-Min (차재민)
Synopsis: Experimental film Fog and Smoke explores the complicated and intense emotions involved in the development of a city in the port of Incheon., including issues related to the financial crisis.
Green Slime (녹색물질)
Director: Kwon Oh-Kwang (권오광)
Synopsis: This 12 minute short fiction film portrays a group of friends who reunite in a bar, and recount their childhood story involving a ‘green monster’.
The Hours of Tree (나무의 시간)
Director: Jeong Da-Hee (정다희)
Synopsis: Exploring the life of trees across seasons and beyond, this animated short is concerned with the way life unfolds and develops for vegetation, and the very meaning of existence.
KBS Environment Special; Experiment Excrement (KBS 환경스페셜: 똥을 실험하다)
Director: Shin Dong-Man (신동만)
Synopsis: The environmental impact of human waste is examined in this KBS documentary, portraying the thoughtless consumption of materials every time a person flushes the toilet.
A Monster in the Reservoir (저수지의 괴물)
Director: Lee Sung-Gang (이성강)
Synopsis: The life of a monster who dwells in a reservoir is portrayed in this animated short. When human development approaches, the monster’s home is threatened.
Paldang (팔당 사람들)
Director: Kauh Eun-Jin (고은진)
Synopsis: Paldang examines the issues involved in farming in contemporary Korea, from government subsidies to organic farming and wind power, and the conflicts that arise.
Souvenir Animation
Director: Kang Min-ji (강민지)
Synopsis: This 11 minute animated film explores the keepsakes and mementos that are obtained over time through traveling. The photos and ornaments from trips in different times state the importance of travel.
Sweet Temptation (잘 먹고 잘 사는 법)
Director: Jeong Han-Jin (정한진)
Synopsis: A young boy who had previously only consumed organic foods is suddenly introduced to chocolate, and begins to question his lifestyle.
Talking Architecture, City:Hall (말하는 건축, 시티:홀)
Director: Jeong Jae-eun (정재은)
Synopsis: The difficulties of the new city hall project in Seoul are captured in this documentary, exemplifying the struggle of old versus new.
Who Made It? (누가 만들었을까?)
Director: Ji Tae-kyoung (지태경)
Synopsis: The beautiful landscapes of Jeju Island are the focus of this documentary. The people of Jeju and their relationship to the surroundings are also featured, alongside Jeju musicians.
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Mina Mina Jukurrpa: Kelly Napanangka Michaels & Alma Nangala Robertson
The following essay was written to accompany the exhibition Mina Mina Jukurrpa: Kelly Napanangka Michaels & Alma Nangala Robertson at Mossenson Galleries, Perth, Western Australia, from June 1, till July 4, 2010
Alma Nangala Robertson, Mina Mina Jukurrpa 2010
Far to the west of the remote Indigenous community of Yuendumu, in the distant reaches of the Tanami Desert, lies one of the most important ceremonial sites for the women of the Warlpiri. Mina Mina is a sacred landscape made up of two large clay-pans guarded by a feathery sentinel of desert oaks, where, in the Jukurrpa (Dreamtime) a series of karlangu (digging sticks) emerged from the ground. Taking up these sticks, a large group of ancestral women began a heroic journey north to Jayinki and then eastward through Alcoota country. Marching in joyous exultation, their paths shaped the landscape, permeating it with the spirit of their songs. According to the Warlpiri, the spindly desert oaks at Mina Mina are an embodiment of these first digging sticks and of the ancestral women who brandished them.
The story of Mina Mina is of profound spiritual sustenance to the Warlpiri. It helps explain the genesis of the landscape, and circumscribes their relationship to it. Despite being over 300 kilometres from Yuendumu, it remains an important site of ceremonial and custodial obligations. Not surprisingly, it has also been one of the great sources of artistic inspiration for Warlpiri women. At the hands of Yuendumu’s great chroniclers it has revealed itself in a myriad of ways: some artists have chosen to focus on the desert oaks (Kurrkara), others the hair-string skirts (Majarrdi) worn during ceremony, others still have focused on the edible fungus (Jinti-parnta) or vine (Ngalyipi) first collected by the ancestral travelers. Combined, these stories create a stunning vision of place, united by the indelible spiritual identification that is felt by the Warlpiri, and in particular those of the Napangardi/Japangardi and Napanangka/Japanangka sub-sections for whom this place resonates with personal significance.
Kelly Napanangka Michaels, Majarrdi Jukurrpa (Ceremonial Dancing Skirt Dreaming) 2010
In contrast to the other early epicentres of desert painting, such as Papunya and Lajamanu, the painting movement at Yuendumu did not coalesce around senior men, but began in 1983 through the efforts of a group of senior Warlpiri women. Encouraged by the anthropologist Françoise Dussart, the women helped forge the dynamic ‘Yuendumu style’, which, as Judith Ryan has noted, was “characterised by vibrant colour, large brush-strokes and an almost messy, gestural freedom.”[1] In 1985, the artists formed Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, through which they have refined the style, adding a level of accomplishment and elegance, while retaining the intensity of colour and spontaneity of design that defined the early movement. Subsequent generations of Yuendumu women have gained international acclaim as artists, including Maggie and Judy Napangardi Watson, Bessie Nakamarra Sims and Betsy Napangardi Lewis. Despite generational change and aesthetic transformation, the presence of Mina Mina in Warlpiri art has remained an iconic constant.
It is this legacy that is taken up in the paintings of Kelly Napanangka Michaels and Alma Nangala Robertson. Born in the late 1960s, Michaels (b.1965) and Robertson (b.1969) heard the Jukurrpa stories from their elders, and saw them painted with passion and dedication by their artistic forebears. Now they pass these stories onto their children and grandchildren, retelling them in a kaleidoscopic explosion of colour. The influence of their elders runs through their work; the dominant iconographies of Warlpiri painting are clearly present, as is the characteristic Yuendumu palette of pink, mauve, purple and blue. However, this is not a slavish form of imitation. In the paintings of Michaels and Robertson, influence exists as an aesthetic undercurrent that bubbles to the surface like the spiritual residue of the ancestors that informs the landscape. The influence of their artistic precursors becomes a song that infuses the canvas, filling it with the authority of cultural continuity and uniting it with the performative actions of song and ceremony that connect the Warlpiri to the Jukurrpa.
In Michaels’ depictions of Mina Mina, two key elements of the story dominate: the ceremonial dancing skirts (Majarrdi) and the edible fungus (Jinti-parnta) collected by the women on their journey. Majarrdi and Jinti-parnta are painted with a jutting angular intensity, which makes them appear to quiver across the canvas. Using extremes of contrasting colours (including a distinctive use of black and white outlines), Michaels creates a fluttering tension between foreground and background that makes the Majarrdi appear to float above the canvas as though suspended by invisible dancers. This creates an ethereal sense of spiritual presence, while the thickly painted ground of the canvas anchors them to the temporal materiality of the landscape. Like her artistic precursors, Maggie and Judy Napangardi Watson, Robertson’s focus is the sacred Ngalyipi vine and the desert oaks (Kurrkara). Her paintings are swirling evocations of the landscape that shuttle between the narrative of travel and the fixed nature of place. Meandering lines sink into the landscape, evoking the residue of ancestral travels that simmer below the surface. Mina Mina pulsates in a spiral of colour that alludes to the constant spiritual undercurrents of ancestral travels, which shape and inform this place.
In drawing attention to this continuity of ancestral presence, both Michaels and Robertson testify to the continuing power of the Dreaming – a power that runs through all things, and unites all time and place. In their paintings, culture, aesthetics, history and place unite in a joyful continuum of colour and song. The Jukurrpa of Mina Mina is carried forward; its transformative power is expressed in an artistic evolution that pays homage to the past, while presenting a new vision for the future. On these fresh tongues, the exultant songs of the ancestral women are given new breath, proclaiming the creative power of Mina Mina for future generations.
[1] Judith Ryan, Mythscapes: Aboriginal Art of the Desert from the National Gallery of Victoria exhib. cat. (Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 1989), 69.
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Ge(m)ological Tourism
Gems Exhibitions
(Associations, Institutes, Organisms, Laboratories, Titles of Study…etc)
· ACAM: Academie voor Mineralogie
· ACA: American Crystallographic Association
· AGA: Accredited Gemologists Association
· AGL: American Gemological Laboratories
· AGTA-GTC: American Gem Trade Association-Gemological Testing Center
· AJA: Applied Jeweler Arts
· AJP: Accredited Jewelry Professional
· ATC’s: Allied Teaching Centers
· AWDC: Antwerp World Diamond Centre
· BJA: British Jewellers Association
· BSc (Hon): Bachelor of Science (Honours Degree)
· CAAJ-ZENHOKYO: Gemmological Association of All Japan
· CAP-CJA: Certified Appraisal Professional-Canada Jewellers Assiociation
· CDG: Certified Diamond Grader, graduate
· CGA: Canadian Gemmological Association
· CNMMN: Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names
· CIG: Collegio Italiano Gemmologi
· CIJT: California Institute of Jewelry Training
· DCLA: Diamond Certification Laboratory of Australia
· DEF: Diamond Empowerment Fund (Μη Κερδοσκοπικός Οργανισμός που φροντίζει την εκπαίδευση των παιδιών της Αφρικής)
· DGA:
· DGI: Dutch Gemmological Institute
· DTC: Diamond Trading Company
· DTSC: Department of Toxic Substance Control
· ECM: European Crystallographic Meeting
· EGL USA: European Gemological Laboratory USA
· EGUB: Escola de Gemmologia de la Universitat de Barcelona
· FCGmA: Gemmologist, graduate
· FEEG: Federation for European Education in Gemmology
· FGA: Fellow, Gemmological Association (of Great Britain)
· GAA: Gemmological Association of Australia
· GAGTL: Gemmological Association and Gem Testing Laboratory of Great Britain
· GAHK: Gemmological Association of Hong Kong
· GANZ: Gemmological Association of New Zealand
· GASL: Gemmologists Association of Sri Lanka
· GCAL: Gem Certification and Assurance Laboratory
· GCI: Gemological Center Inc Israel
· GCS: Graduate Colored Stones
· GD: Graduate Diamonds
· GG: Graduate Gemologist
· GIA: Gemological Institute of America
· GII: Gemmological Institute of India
· GJ: Graduate Jeweler
· GP: Graduate Pearls
· GREGA: Greek Researching Educational Gemmological Association
· GTC: Gemological Testing Center
· GTLA: Gem Testing Laboratoty Athens ATC
· HRD: Hoge Raad voor Diamant (Institute of Gemmology/Antwerp)
· IDI: Israel Diamond Institute
· IGA: Italian Gemmologists Association
· IGE: Instituto Gemologico Espanol
· IGI: International Gemmological Institute
· IGI: Istituto Gemmologico Italiano
· IMA: International Mineralogical Association
· ING: Institut National de Gemmologic
· IUCr: International Union of Crystallography
· ISG: International School Gemology
· JBM: Jewelry Business Management
· JCOC: Jewelry Consumer Opinion Council
· LFG: Laboratorie Francais de Gemmologie
· LMHC: Laboratory Manual Harmonisation Committee
· MAF: Master of Fine Arts
· MSc: Master of Science
· NEL: Nederlands Edelsteen Laboratium (Netherlands Gemmological Laboratory)
· NRC: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Επιτροπή Ατομικής Ενέργειας (USA)/Έλεγχος ραδιενεργής ακτινοβολίας σε πολύτιμους λίθους)
· PAI: Palladium Alliance International
· PGI: Platinum Guild International
· PGJD: Pakistan Gems and Jewelry Development.Co
· RJC: Responsible Jewellery Council
· RMV: Registered Master Valuer, graduate
· RUM: Russian University of Mineralogy
· SBG: Societe Belge de Gemmologie
· SGG: Schweizerische Gemmologische Gesellshaft
· SSEF: Schweizerische Stiftung für Edelstein-Forschung (Swiss Gemmological Institute)
· SSG: Societe Suisse de Gemmologie
· WDL: Williamson Diamonds Limited (Κοινοπραξία μεταξύ της Κυβέρνησης της Τανζανίας και της De Beers)
· WFDB: World Federation of Diamond Bourses
· WGI: World Gemological Institute
· ΒΕΑ: Βιοτεχνικό Επιμελητήριο Αθηνών
· ΓΣΕΒΕΕ: Γενική Συνομοσπονδία Επαγγελματιών Βιοτεχνών Εμπόρων Ελλάδας
· ΕΛΚΑ: Ελληνικό Κέντρο Αργυροχρυσοχοίας
· ΕΟΜΜΕΧ: Ελληνικός Οργανισμός Μικρών-Μεσαίων Επιχειρήσεων και Χειροτεχνείας
· ΕΣΠΑ: Εθνικό Στρατηγικό Πλαίσιο Αναφοράς
· ΚΠΑ: Κέντρο Προώθησης Απασχόλησης
· ΙΓΜΕ: Ινστιτούτο Γεωλογικών και Μεταλλευτικών Ερευνών
· ΠΟΒΑΚΟ: Πανελλήνια Ομοσπονδία Βιοτεχνών Αργυροχρυσοχόων Κοσμηματοπολών Ωρολογοπωλών
· ΣΑΑ: Σύλλογος Αργυροχρυσόχοων Αθηνών
· ΣΒΑ: Σύνδεσμος Βιοτεχνών Αργυροχρυσοχόων
· ΣΚΩΘ: Σύλλογος Κοσμηματοπωλών-Ωρογοπωλών Θεσσαλονίκης
· ΣΧΑΘ: Συντεχνία Χρυσοχόων-Αργυροχρυσοχόων Θεσσαλονίκης
...Written (2009)….. By George K.Kiamos FGA, DGA ...
Gemmology and Jewellery Glossary
ABSORPTION SPECTRUM - The absorption of certain wavelengths of light causing dark lines or gaps in the visible spectrum.
ACICULAR - Thin, elongated, needle-like crystal inclusions.
ADULARESCENCE - The appearance of a floating, billowy light in some cabochons such as moonstone.
AIGRETTE - An ornament worn in the hair or on a cap, often set with pearls or gems, that was popular in the middle of the eighteenth century and the early twentieth century. Often a tuft of upright plumes, especially the tail feathers of an egret.
ALLOY - A metal such as copper, nickel or zinc (among others) which is added to precious metals, to provide strength and colour variety.
Copper added to gold makes rose gold while nickel added to gold produces white gold.
AMORPHOUS - A material that has no crystal structure, no regular arrangement of its atoms,
ANNEALING - The process of heating metal and then cooling, either slowly or by quenching, to make it more pliable.
ANISOTROPIC - A gemstone possessing the property of double refraction.
ASTERISM - The optical phenomenon of a rayed figure in the form of a star. The star may be 4-ray, 6-ray (most common) or the rarely seen 12-ray. Asterism is caused by the reflection of light from minute oriented and aligned needle-like inclusions.
AKOYA OYSTERS - The most important mollusk in the cultivation of saltwater pearls.
ALLUVIAL DEPOSITS - Gems deposited by a stream, river, or running water away from the original source.
A JOUR - An opening in the setting that leaves the pavilion facets open.
ART DECO - A streamlined, geometric style of architecture, home furnishings and jewelry characterized by geometric lines and angular shapes, zigzags, bold colours, plastics (such as Bakelite) and chrome. Colored stones such as jade and onyx and were often set in geometric shapes.
ART NOUVEAU - A period of design between the 1890's and 1910; the jewelry is characterized by flowing lines,
unusual interpretations of nature and the utilization of unusual materials
ASSAYING - The process of determining the amount of precious metal contained in a specimen.
AVENTURESCENCE - A glittery appearance on the surface of a gemstone caused
by the reflection of light off small mineral inclusions or platelets. Aventurine quartz is one obvious example.
BAGUETTE - A rectangular or tapered style of step cut used for small gem materials, most often diamonds.
BAKELITE - Trade name for the first moldable, synthesized plastic, invented early in the Twentieth Century by Dr. Leo Backeland.
Used extensively during the depression of the 1930's to make jewelry and many other items.
BAROQUE - Irregular in shape. Most often associated with pearls but can also refer to tumbled stones or freeform shaped gem materials.
BASE METAL - Any non-porous metal which is often electroplated or bonded with gold.
BASSE-TAILLE - A technique of enameling in which the surface of the metal is hollowed out and overlaid with translucent enamel.
An extension of the champleve process.
BEAD - A drilled stone designed to be strung.
BEZEL - A type of setting where the girdle of the stone is completely covered by the metal.
BEZEL FACET - The kite shaped facet on the crown of a brilliant cut stone.
There are eight bezel facets on the standard round brilliant cut.
BIAXIAL - Having two optic axes of single refraction in a doubly refractive gem.
Only gems from the orthorhombic, monoclinic or triclinic crystal systems are biaxial.
BIREFRINGENCE - The measure of the difference between the highest refractive index and the lowest refractive index of a doubly refractive stone.
BIWA PEARL - Freshwater cultured pearls from Lake Biwa in Japan.
BLEMISH - Any surface imperfection on the surface of a gemstone or pearl.
These include nicks, knots, pits, scratches, abrasions, abraded facet junctions, polish lines, minor cracks or fissures or a poor polish.
BLISTER PEARL - An irregularly shaped, hollow pearl cut from the inside surface of a mollusk's shell,
that it is dome-shaped on one side and flattened on the other.
"BLUE-WHITE" - A term which should not be used anymore. According to the Federal Trade Commission,
only diamonds with a distinct blue body color may be traded as "blue-white."
For many years the term referred to a diamond without a distinctive body color.
Misuse of this term has rendered it meaningless.
BRASS - An alloy of copper and zinc. Yellow brass has 65% copper and 35% zinc.
BRILLIANCE - The total amount of white light returned to the eye from a diamond or colored stone as the result of internal and external reflections. Refractive index, proportions, polish, symmetry and transparency are the major factors that affect the amount of brilliance in a gem.
BRILLIANT CUT - The most common style of diamond cutting. Has the table, 32 facets above the girdle,
24 facets below the girdle and sometimes the culet. The round brilliant cut features 57 facets without the culet or 58 facets with the culet.
BRIOLETTE - A tear-drop shaped stone, sometimes pierced at the top, without a table, that has facets all the way around.
Also known as drop-cut, this type of cut makes a nice pendant or pair of earrings.
BRONZE - A metal alloy containing 8 parts copper to 1 part tin.
BOULE - A pear or carrot shaped rough form of flame fusion synthetic corundum or spinel. Must be split to relieve strain before being cut into gems.
BOX CHAIN - A chain with square links resembling small overlapping boxes.
BYPASS SHANK - A ring design in which the two sides of the band do not meet but pass by one another.
CABOCHON CUT - A rounded gem, without facets, polished into a dome shape.
CALIBRATED GEM - Gemstones with standard dimensions and shapes to fit ready made findings or mountings.
CALIPERS - An fine instrument used for measuring of both the outside and inside surfaces of a stone or mounting.
CARBUNCLE - An almandine garnet cut en cabochon.
CAMEO - A carved shell or other material, usually with colored layers, cut into a raised or bas-relief form.
CANARY - A term referring to diamonds with an intense yellow hue which is beyond Z in the GIA diamond color grading scale.
Also called fancy yellow.
CANNETILLE - A wirework decoration of gold or silver filigree with fine twisted wires forming a coiled spiral to achieve a delicate scrolling effect.
Used in early nineteenth century jewelry during the Georgian period.
CARAT - The term used to denote the weight of gemstones. Equals 100 points, 200 milligrams or 1/5 of a gram (0.200 grams).
CASTING - The method that uses a wax pattern from which an investment mold is made. The investment is heated and the wax melts away (or is "lost") and the metal is poured or injected into the form where the wax once was. Also known as "lost wax casting."
CAT'S EYE - An optical phenomena which shows a thin bright line across the gem. A form of chatoyancy, these gems are always cut en cabochon.
Champlevé - a technique of enameling where the enamel is placed in stamped, cut or engraved recesses of the metal.
CHANNEL SETTING - A row of stones, generally of the same size, that are set into a metal channel.
CHASING - The technique of working a design into the front surface of a metal using a hammer and/or punches
CHATELAINE - An ornamental chain, pin or clasp, usually worn at a woman's waist, from which various implements are suspended.
CHATOYANCY - The optical phenomena of a silky, broad band of light across a stone's surface which moves
as the stone or light source is moved. Certain stones with chatoyancy display a "cat's-eye" effect,
a thin bright line across the gem when cut properly.
These gems are always cut en cabochon. Some stones such as tiger's eye show broad bands of chatoyancy.
CHOKER LENGTH - A strand of pearls 15" in length, worn high on the neck.
CLARITY ENHANCEMENT - Also called fracture filling, a gemstone, usually a diamond, is treated
to improve its appearance by filling fissures or fractures with a transparent, glassy substance.
CLARITY GRADE - One of the four value factors of a diamond or colored stone. Diamonds are ranked on a scale from flawless
(no inclusions visible under 10x magnification) to included (eye visible inclusions).
The grades are Fl, IF, VVS-1, VVS-2, VS-1, VS-2, SI-1, SI-2, I-1, I-2 and I-3.
CLEAVAGE - The tendency of a crystalline mineral to break in certain definite directions,
connected to its atomic structure, called cleavage planes.
A diamond can be split by cleaving, a process where a stone is studied so that the plane
may be defined and divided with a swift blow.
This swift blow splits the stone into proportions quickly as opposed to sawing.
Ironically, gems defined as having perfect cleavage are the ones most likely to break when being cut or faceted.
Cloisonné - A technique of enameling in which the piece is shaped by soldering wire or thin strips of metal
to a metal backing with the enamel held in small cells.
COLOR - A property used in the evaluation of a gem. In diamonds, the less color the higher the value index while in colored stones,
the more color the higher the value index.
COLOR CHANGE - An optical phenomenon of some colored stones in which the gem appears as a different color under different types of light.
Caused by selective absorption and/or transmission of the specific type of light to which the gemstone is exposed.
COLORED STONE - Any natural gemstone excluding diamonds.
COLOR GRADE - One of the four value factors of a diamond. Diamonds are ranked on a scale from "D" (colourless) to "Z"
(noticeable tint of color, typically yellow or brown). Diamonds with saturation greater than "Z" color
are considered Fancy Colored Diamonds and are graded on a separate scale.
The colors D, E and F are all colourless, differing very slightly in transparency.
COLOUR ORIGIN - The determination of the cause of color in fancy colored diamonds.
Naturally colored diamonds are very rare and expensive.
The two most common ways of enhancing the color of diamonds are irradiation and the high pressure high temperature (HPHT) process.
CONCHIOLIN - The dark substance secreted by a mollusk for protection which is the beginning of the cultivation of pearls.
Nacre will cover the conchiolin for the final finish on the pearl.
CONCHOIDAL - The most common type of fracture where the surface resembles a clamshell. Common is glass and most gemstones.
CRITICAL ANGLE - When measured from the normal, the largest angle from which light can escape
from a gemstone and the smallest angle to the normal from which light is totally reflected within the gemstone.
CROWN - The top portion of a faceted gem which is above the girdle.
CRYPTOCRYSTALLINE - Crystals so small that they cannot be resolved by an ordinary microscope.
The effect on polarized light is the method of detection.
CRYSTAL SYSTEM - One of the seven systems in which the patterns of atoms are arranged in space to form minerals.
The six systems most gemologists use are isometric (cubic), tetragonal, orthorhombic, monoclinic, triclinic and hexagonal.
The seventh system, trigonal, is sometimes treated as a subdivision of the hexagonal system.
CULET - The small facet polished at the very tip of the pavilion of a diamond. It was cut to avoid breaking this tip.
CULTURED PEARL- A pearl produced by the human implantation of a nucleus, usually a shell bead or mantle tissue,
into the body of a pearl bearing mollusk.
CUBIC - One of the seven crystal systems in gemmology.
Having a cube shape. Also known as the isometric crystal system.
DEMI-PARURE - A small suite (two pieces) of matching jewelry, consisting of a brooch and earrings,
a necklace and bracelet, necklace and earrings or some other matching pair.
DENSITY - Mass per volume unit; approximates specific gravity.
DIAMOND-CUT - A process to bright cut gold jewelry using a diamond embedded cutting tool.
DICHROISM - The ability of some doubly refractive gems to display a second color when viewed from a different angle.
Easiest seen with a dichroscope.
DICHROSCOPE - A small instrument used in gem identification to detect pleochroism in doubly refractive gems.
DIFFUSION - The process of enhancing the color of a stone by heating it in the presence of iron oxide, chrome oxide or similar compounds.
The treatment is only done on stones already cut because it only colors the surface. Recutting will remove the treatment.
Often used on sapphires and topaz to increase or change the colors.
DISPERSION - The separation of white light into its component spectral colors.
Sometimes called fire, it is the difference in the gem's refractive index for red light and blue-violet light.
DOG COLLAR - A broad choker worn tightly around the neck, often set with parallel strands of gemstones or pearls.
DOUBLE REFRACTION - Light entering a gemstone where the beam is split into two rays.
DOUBLET - An assembled stone with two pieces fused or cemented together.
Sometimes an opal with a quartz cap or a garnet top with a glass pavilion. Easily detected using immersion.
DOUBLING - Facet edges, scratches or inclusions that are doubled when viewed in a doubly refractive gemstone.
DR - Double refraction or doubly refractive. Light entering a gemstone where the beam is split into two rays.
DURABILITY - The combination of hardness, toughness and stability that describes the ability of a gemstone to resist breakage and wear.
DWT - The abbreviation for pennyweight which is equal to 1/20th of a troy ounce or approximately 1.555 grams.
ELECTROPLATING - A process where an electric current deposits a layer of metal from a plating solution on a piece of jewelry.
Rhodium plating is an electroplating process.
EMERALD FILTER - Also known as a Chelsea Filter, imitation gems appear green while natural and synthetic emerald
(and some other natural gems) have a reddish color.
ENAMEL - In jewelry, a vitreous glaze that is usually fused glass heated to a base, most commonly to the surface of metal.
ENGINE TURNING - A process to decorate a metal surface by moving the surface of the object against a rotating blade.
ENGINE TURNED EFFECT - Seen on ivory, a distinct grain of intersecting lines with a diamond shape between them.
ENGRAVING - A technique where metal is cut away with a graver to form a design or lettering.
Once commonly done by hand but mostly done by machine today.
ETCHING - The process of using acid to remove or alter a metal surface for a decorative effect.
FACET - A flat polished surface of a gemstone that increases brilliancy and beauty when cut at the proper angle.
FACETED GIRDLE - A girdle of a diamond that has many flat facets around the circumference of the stone.
FACETING - The act of cutting a gemstone, generally transparent, to increase its brilliancy and beauty.
FEATHER - A cleavage, fracture or break in a gemstone, typically healed, that often has a white and feathery in appearance.
FILIGREE - Fine gold or silver wire twisted to form an openwork pattern and soldered into place.
Reaching its peak during the Edwardian period, most filigree is stamped today.
FINDINGS - Pre-manufactured gold and silver parts of jewelry such as heads, settings, clasps, jump rings, earwires and pins.
FINISH - The term that refers to the quality of the gemstones polish and symmetry.
FIRE - Another name for dispersion which shows the flashes of spectral colors seen in gemstones.
FLAW - An imperfection visible at 10x magnification.
FLORENTINE FINISH - A finish, done by hand and put on with a line graver.
First, one set of lines is put on and then a perpendicular set of lines is laid on top of the first.
A deep finish that takes more time but lasts much longer than a satin finish.
FLUORESCENCE - The visible glow from a gemstone when it is subjected to ultraviolet light.
Diamonds, under ultraviolet light, will often emit a visible light of blue or yellow.
FLUX - A solution used in soldering to keep the metal from oxidizing which would impede the flow of solder.
FOB - A chain that secures a pocket watch to a man's vest, or any ornament that hangs from such a chain.
An adornment that hangs from a watch chain.
FOILING - A technique used to enhance the color of a gemstone or imitation,
by inserting a colored or silver foil behind it, in a closed-end setting. Used most often in the production of rhinestones.
FOUR C'S - Four terms, all starting with the letter "C," describing a diamond's value characteristics. Cut, color, clarity, and carat weight.
FOUR-PHASE INCLUSION - Very rare. A host crystal containing a negative crystal filled with gas, a liquid and a crystal inclusion.
FRACTURE - A break within a gemstone, often around the girdle.
FRACTURE FILLING - A treatment applied mostly to diamonds.
Fissures on the surface are filled with a substance having an RI similar to that of diamond
so that it blends with the gem to improve clarity. Also used in emeralds.
The process in diamond is fairly stable unless the stone is exposed to high heat such as that from a jeweler's torch.
FRESHWATER PEARL - A cultured pearl formed in a freshwater mollusk.
Mantle tissue from a mussel is inserted into mussels living in freshwater lakes or rivers.
Freshwater pearls are less expensive than salt water cultured pearls.
FULL CUT DIAMOND - A description of a round brilliant cut stone with 57 to 58 facets,
at least 32 above the girdle and 24 below the girdle. The term also may apply to colored gems.
GALLERY - Strips of metal, with a pattern resembling the gallery of an early sailing ship, on the sides of a ring.
A type of mounting with a pierced, openwork design, usually in support of heads for stones.
GERMAN SILVER - An alloy of copper, zinc and nickel. A misnomer, there is no silver in German silver.
GIRANDOLE - A style of earring or brooch in which a large stone or decorative motif, such as a bow,
suspends three smaller pear-shaped stones or pearls.
GIRASOL - An opal with flaming red, orange and yellow colors. The term is rarely used anymore.
GILDING - A process of covering an object, such as silver, base metal, wood, with a thin layer of gold, gold leaf or gold foil.
GIRDLE - The narrow band around the widest part of a faceted gemstone. It separates the crown and the pavilion.
GEMSTONE - A mineral, combination of minerals or organic material that possesses rarity, durability,
and beauty thereby creating desirability.
GEMSTONE ENHANCEMENT - The human process by which the appearance of a gem is improved.
Heat enhancement, an excellent example, is most often used to clarify a gem or improve its color.
GEODE - A rock, often spherical, having a hollow lined with crystals, often amethyst or peridot.
GOLD - A shiny, bright-yellow, precious metal mined from the earth. Too soft in its native state
it is commonly alloyed to make it stronger and lessen the cost.
In the 24 part karat system, gold is typically 14 parts gold and 10 parts alloy
(stamped 14K or 585) or 18 parts gold and 6 parts alloy (stamped 18K or 750).
GOLD PLATE - A base metal that is electroplated with gold. Also known as gold flash, gold finish, gold tone or gold dipped.
GOLD FILLED - A layer of gold bonded to a base metal.
The weight of gold must be 1/20th of the total weight or more and must be 10KT or better.
Wears better than a gold plated item because there is much more gold.
GRAIN - A unit of weight equal to 0.25 of a carat.
GRAM - A metric unit of weight equaling 5 carats. There are 28.35 grams in an avoirdupois ounce.
Often used in expressing the weight of precious metals such as gold and silver.
GRANULATION - The process of decorating a metal surface with tiny grains of metal
GRAVER - A tool similar to a chisel used for engraving metal or raising beads in the stone setting process.
GREEN GOLD - Gold with a high proportion of silver.
GREY GOLD - Gold with a high proportion of iron.
GUEST CRYSTALS - A gemstone inclusion inside the host crystal. Essentially an included crystal.
GUILLOCHÉ Enamel - A type of enamel work in which the metal is turned on an engine lathe
to form a pattern and then enameled over the pattern.
Was used for decorating valuable objects such as Fabergé eggs and pocket watches.
GYPSY SETTING - A setting in which the stone is set low into the surrounding metal
with the table of the stone almost level with the top of the metal surface.
HALLMARK - A mark stamped on gold, silver or platinum by an assay office after
the metal has been tested and shown to contain the proper amount of precious metal as required by law.
Purity determined after assaying.
HANDMADE - The FTC defines handmade as entire shaping and forming of a product
from raw materials and accomplishing the finishing and decoration
by hand labor and manually-controlled methods which permit
the maker to control and vary the construction, shape, design, and finish of each part of the product.
HEAT TREATMENT - The application of heat to a gem for the purpose of improving its color or clarity.
Many gems are treated in this manner, including rubies and sapphires.
HABIT - The crystal form in which a mineral most often occurs.
The most common habit of diamond is the octahedron, but it comes in other habits such as the macle or the cube.
HARDNESS - The ability of a material to resist scratching. A gemstone which is the same hardness as another, or softer, will be scratched.
HEXAGONAL - One of the seven crystal systems in gemology.
Has three equal axes at 60 degrees and a fourth axis perpendicular
to the other three and unequal in length.
Some hexagonal gems include quartz, corundum, beryl, tourmaline and calcite.
HUE - The primary color, such as red, blue or green.
ILLUSION SETTING - A setting that gives the impression of a larger diamond
by use of a highly polished white gold reflecting plate around the stone.
INGOT - A bar or brick of precious metal.
INLAY - A piece containing gems, woods and metals which are cemented together and ground down to create a smooth surface.
INVISIBLE SETTING - A channel setting using stones that are scored on the pavilion
and snap into place on wire lattice under the stones.
No metal shows from the top giving the piece the "invisible" look.
IMPERFECTION - Any surface blemish, internal flaw or inclusion in a gem.
INCLUSIONS - Internal characteristics present in gemstones other than fracture or cleavage.
Common diamond inclusions are feathers, crystals, internal graining and pinpoints.
Often displays different colors from the rest of the stone.
In colored stones inclusions may be solid included crystals or negative voids.
INORGANIC - Any substance that does not come from living organisms.
INTERFERENCE - The effect of two or more light waves moving along the same path after traveling different distances.
When they are "in phase" they reinforce each other which intensifies the color.
They will cancel each other out if they are "out of phase.
" Play-of-color in opal occurs when the interference of white light results
in the cancellation of some wavelengths and reinforcement of others.
INTERFERENCE FIGURE SPHERE - A small sphere used to determine uniaxial and biaxial figures in doubly refractive gems.
INTAGLIO - A gem, or shell, engraved or carved into the object so that it sits below the surface level of the material.
An intaglio is the opposite of a cameo.
IRIDESCENCE - Rainbow colors inside or on the surface of a material caused
by inclusions interfering with light entering the stone. Fire agate is an excellent example of iridescence.
ISOMETRIC - The crystal system with the greatest symmetry. Has three equal cyrstallographic axes, all at right angles.
Also known as the cubic crystal system. Some of the most important gems from this system are diamond, garnet and spinel.
JABOT PIN - Designed to hold the jabot (a kind of ruffle) onto the shirt.
It is a pin with a brooch at either end one of which is removable so that the pin
can be stuck through the garment and then secured by reattaching the removable brooch.
A form of Art Deco mourning jewelry.
LABRADORESCENCE - A flash of color caused by the interference of light due to repeated twinning.
Primarily on the surface. Most commonly seen in labradorite.
LACE BROOCH - A small brooch, usually set with diamonds, worn in the later 19th century.
LAPIDARY - An artisan or craftsperson who cuts, facets, carves, engraves and polishes gemstones.
LAVALIERE - A chain from which an ornament or gemstone hangs in the center.
LIQUID INCLUSION - A negative crystal inclusion or space within a gem that is filled or partially filled with a liquid.
LOCKET - A hinged pendant, often engraved on the outside, which opens to areas where small photos can be kept.
LOST WAX CASTING - The method of casting metal that uses a wax pattern
from which an investment mold is made. The investment is heated and the wax melts away (or is "lost")
and the metal is poured or injected into the form where the wax once was.
LOUPE - A small magnifying glass used by jewelers and gemologists to examine stones.
10X (ten power or ten times normal) is the standard magnification for diamond and colored stone grading.
LOWER GIRDLE FACETS - The 16 pavilion facets (8 matching pairs),
extending from the girdle, in between the pavilion main facets.
LUSTER - The quality and quantity of reflected and refracted light from the surface of a gemstone or pearl.
MABÉ - Mabé means "half," and this term is used to denote the large half pearl, flat on one side,
that forms inside a mollusk. Also known as blister pearls.
MACLE - A flat, often triangular, diamond that is a twinned crystal. Most macle rough is cut into fancy shapes.
MAKE - A trade term which refers to the proportions, symmetry, and polish of a gemstone.
MATINEE LENGTH - A strand of pearls 20" - 24" in length.
MELANGE LOT - A parcel of stones in the same size range with a mix of color, clarity, and cut grades.
MELEE - A term used primarily to describe small, round faceted diamonds or colored stones of less than .20 carats (1/5th of a carat).
METAMICT - The condition of a mineral which occurs with the breakdown of its crystal structure due to radioactivity.
Zircon is rendered into a nearly amorphous state as the radioactivity of uranium or thorium slowly destroys the crystal lattice.
MILGRAIN - A raised, beaded edge on a ring either done with a special engraver's tool or cast into the piece.
Often seen on wedding bands.
“MISSISSIPPI” RIVER PEARLS - Irregularly shaped, elongated freshwater pearls.
MINERAL - An inorganic, natural material that usually possesses a crystal structure and has a characteristic composition.
MOH'S SCALE - An arbitrary scale of hardness devised by Friedrich Mohs,
a German mineralogist, in the 19th century. Assigned with numbers from 1 to 10 (with 10 being the hardest).
Note that diamond is many times harder than corundum. The comparative scale of hardness is as follows:
1) talc
2) gypsum
3) calcite
4) fluorite
5) apatite
6) moonstone
7) quartz
8) topaz and beryl
9) corundum
10) diamond
MONOCHROMATIC - Possesses a single color.
MONOCLINIC - One of the seven crystal systems in gemology.
Has low symmetry and all the axes are different lengths.
Two of them, the A and C axes, meet at 90o, but the third does not.
MOTHER-OF-PEARL - The substance lining the inside of a mollusk.
Used for many things including buttons, "pearl" handles on hand guns and as inlays on many objects.
MOUNTING - A term for the part of jewelry in which a gem or other decorative object is set.
NACRE - The iridescent substance secreted by a mollusk that forms the outer surface of a pearl.
NATURAL - The term for a piece of the original skin of the diamond that is left as the stone is being shaped.
Naturals can be found on the culet (usually on Old European or Old Mine cuts) or on any indented area
of the stone, but are usually found near the girdle. They are represented in green on a plotting diagram.
NATURAL PEARL - A pearl that originates naturally in a mollusk without the aid of human help.
NEGATIVE CRYSTAL INCLUSION - A void in a host crystal that takes on the habit of the host crystal.
An empty cavity is known as a single-phase inclusion.
If the cavity contains a gas or a liquid it is a two-phase inclusion.
If the cavity contains a gas or liquid and a crystal it is called a three-phase inclusion.
The very rare four-phase inclusion would be composed of the negative crystal filled with gas, a liquid and a crystal inclusion.
NICK - A very small chip on the surface of a diamond.
OFF ROUND - A pearl that has a slightly irregular shape, not "round."
OIL TREATMENT - A treatment using oil, often used on emeralds and rubies
to keep inclusions from detracting from the beauty of the stone.
Should be disclosed to the consumer at the time of purchase.
OPALESCENCE - A variety of adularescence, it refers to cloudiness inside a stone, not actual play-of-color.
OPAQUE - A gemstone that allows no transmission of light, not even thin pieces.
OPERA LENGTH - A strand of pearls 28" to 30" in length.
ORIENT - The iridescent phenomenon on or just below the surface of a pearl.
Caused by the interference and diffraction of light from the minute aragonite
and calcite crystals comprising the pearl's nacre.
ORGANIC - Any gem, such as jet or amber, formed by a living organism.
ORTHORHOMBIC - In this system there are three axes, all of which meet at 90o to each other.
However, all the axes are a different length. Orthorhombic gems include peridot and topaz.
PALLADIUM - A white metal belonging to the platinum group, it weighs a little more
than half as much as platinum and sells for slightly more than half the price.
Palladium is sometimes alloyed with gold to obtain a greenish tint.
PARURE - A suite of matching jewelry with at least three pieces,
usually containing a necklace, earrings, brooch and a bracelet.
Sometimes also a belt.
PASTE - A high content leaded glass imitation of a gemstone.
May be backed with colored foils to imitate other gemstones (similar to rhinestones).
PATINA - Discoloration that forms on an object's surface resulting from natural aging due to wear and oxidation.
Often planned for in the artist's design, patina can be introduced artificially by use of chemicals.
Antique jewelry is expected to have patina and if it is cleaned or polished off, the value of the piece may be less.
PAVÉ - To be classified as pavé, a setting must have one prong touching three or more stones.
Otherwise, it is a cluster. The pavé setting is most often used with diamonds.
PAVILION - The area of a faceted gem that lies below the girdle. The bottom of the stone.
PAVILION MAIN FACET - The elongated kite shaped facet on the pavilion of a brilliant cut stone.
There are eight pavilion main facets on the standard round brilliant cut.
PEARL ESSENCE - A coating, made from the scales of a herring, that adds a pearl-like luster to simulated pearls.
PENDALOQUE - A brooch with a tear drop or pear shaped gemstone suspended
from a smaller stone which is separated by a bow or other motif.
PENNYWEIGHT - A unit of weight for precious metals. 1/20th of a troy ounce.
PERFECT - The Federal Trade Commission states "It is unfair or deceptive to use the word "perfect,"
or any representation of similar meaning, to describe any diamond unless
the diamond meets the definition of "flawless" and is not of inferior color or make.
" Jewelers should avoid its use entirely.
PHENOMENA - Properties that some gemstones exhibit. An excellent example of a phenomenon is the chatoyancy of chrysoberyl cat's-eye.
PIETRA DURA - A composition or mosaic of gemstones, such as agate, chalcedony,
lapis lazuli or sardonyx set into a floral pattern.
Was sometimes applied to the panels of furniture. Also known as a hardstone mosaic.
PIQUÉ- Tortoiseshell which is inlaid with mother-of-pearl, silver or gold.
Produced by pressing a heated piece of gold or silver into the shell, which causes it to melt slightly.
When the shell cools it hardens around the metal. Popular in the 18th and 19th centuries.
PLANISHING - A hammering or refining process done to give a smoother finish
to the surface of a metal object with highly polished hammer faces.
PLATINUM - A dense, heavy, non-corrosive silver white metal, which resists erosion extremely well.
The rarest of the three precious metals (platinum, gold, silver). Used in a nearly pure form from 85% to 95%.
PLAY-OF-COLOR - The fire of an opal. An array of moving colors flashing on and off as the opal
or the light source moves. Caused by the orderly arrangement of tiny spheres inside the stone
that interfere with the light waves hitting the stone. A result of diffraction.
PLEOCHROISM - Two colors (dichroism) or three colors (trichroism) created when the beam
of light enters a doubly refractive material. The beam splits in two and they are absorbed unequally.
PLIQUE Á JOUR - An enameling technique in which the design is outlined in metal
but has no metal backing and is filled with a transparent enamel.
Creates a stained glass window effect. From the Art Nouveau era.
PLOTTING DIAGRAM - A diamond outline diagram included on diamond reports
that illustrate the facets (printed in black) and the approximate location
and type of internal and external characteristics (printed in red and green).
PLUMB GOLD -Gold that meets the stamped karat content.
An assurance that gold is not under karated which was allowed before 1976.
A stamp in a ring such as 14KP means the item is plumb (not plated), having the full 14 parts gold and 10 parts alloy.
POINT - A metric weight of a gemstone equal to 1/100 of a carat. 0.75 carats is equal to 75 points.
POLARISCOPE - A gem instrument that utilizes two polarizing filters,
one of which rotates, to determine pleochroism, single and double refraction and to resolve interference figures.
POLARIZED LIGHT - Light waves uniformly aligned in a single plane.
POLISH - The final finish on the surface of a fashioned gem.
Optical reflection is maximized when the stone is polished as finely as possible.
POLISHED GIRDLE - A girdle that has been polished. Rarely done with diamonds.
PRECIOUS STONES - An obsolete term which refers to diamond, emerald, sapphire, or ruby.
Should be avoided in the industry.
PRIMARY DEPOSIT - A deposit where the gem (or mineral) is found in its original rock.
PRINCESS LENGTH - A strand of pearls 18" in length.
PRONG - A prong is a tiny metal arm or claw that is part of the setting which holds a stone in place.
PROPORTIONS - Proportions and finish make up the "cut" of a diamond.
Proportions are the size and angle relationships between the facets and other parts of the stone.
REFLECTION - The return of light to the eye from the surface of stone.
Light is reflected at the same angle to the normal as the angle of incidence.
REFRACTION - The bending of light rays as they enter a gemstone at angles other than perpendicular to the normal.
REFRACTIVE INDEX - The ratio of the velocity of light between the air and the gemstone.
Developed by Willebrord Snell in the seventeenth century.
REFRACTOMETER - An instrument that measures the gems critical angle and translates it into a refractive index figure.
REPOUSSÉ - A method of embossing a metal object by hammering
a design from the back of the metal to form a three-dimensional bas-relief surface.
RHINESTONE - Glass, higher quality crystal, or rock crystal which are faceted
into diamond and gemstone imitations with a foil back to increase reflectivity.
RHODIUM - A white metallic element of the platinum group. Widely used for electroplating white gold.
RIVIÉRE - A choker type necklace composed of a single strand of gemstones, usually diamonds, of the same size and cut.
RONDELLE - A pierced, flattened ball or saucer shape made of metal or a gemstone strung between the beads in a necklace.
ROSE CUT - An early type of diamond cut dating from the mid-seventeenth century.
The diamond is cut with 24 triangular, hexagonally arranged facets that terminate in a point.
The bottom of the stone is flat.
ROSE GOLD - Gold that has been alloyed with copper and silver producing a pink tint.
Tends to tarnish more quickly than other gold alloys.
ROUGH - Material that is uncut or unpolished into a gemstone. The raw, natural state in which gems are found.
SATIN FINISH - A finish on gold, achieved by brushing the surface to create a silk like luster instead of a high polished surface.
SAUTOIR - An extremely long neck chain, usually made of chains, beads,
or pearls and ending in a tassel or fringe. Popularized in the Edwardian era because Queen Alexandra often wore them.
SCARAB - An engraved or carved gem used to represent a Mediterranean beetle.
Considered to be a symbol of the soul by the ancient Egyptians.
SCHILLER - A glow caused by light reflecting off the inclusions of copper or hematite platelets.
A form of aventurescence commonly found in sunstone.
SCINTILLATION - Sparkling reflections or flashes of light off of the facets
of a diamond or gemstone when the light source or the observer moves.
SEED PEARL - A small pearl that measures approximately two millimeters or less.
SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES - An obsolete term used to describe gemstones of lower price
(not diamond, emerald, sapphire, or ruby). These terms are misleading and shouldn't be used in the trade.
Many so-called "semi-precious" gemstones are extremely valuable, and more rare than lower grade "precious stones."
SHANK - The band of a ring that encircles the finger and to which the head or setting for stones or pearls is attached.
SILK - The term for long needle-like crystal inclusions. Found in corundum, garnets and other stones.
Can cause phenomena such as cat's eyes and asterism.
SILVER - Pure silver is 0.999 or 99.9% pure, occurring naturally in the earth.
Because it is too soft to be used in jewelry in this form it is alloyed with copper..
SIMULANT - Any substance or stone used to imitate the appearance of a natural gemstone.
Natural stones such as colorless sapphire can be used to simulate diamond.
SINGLE CUT - A round cut with 17 or 18 facets: 8 bezel, 8 pavilions, a table and possibly a culet.
SINGLE-PHASE INCLUSION - Any solid included crystal or negative crystal in the host mineral.
SOLITAIRE - A term that refers to a ring containing a single gem, usually a diamond.
SPECTROSCOPE - An instrument for viewing gem spectra.
There are two basic types, the prism spectroscope and the less expensive diffraction-grating units.
The prism units allow more light to enter so absorption lines stand out more and have greater contrast.
Diffraction spectroscopes spread the colors out more evenly so it is easier to see in the red and violet end of the spectrum.
SPECIFIC GRAVITY - The ratio of the weight (or density) of a material to an equal
volume of water at 4 degrees Centigrade.
SR - Singly Refractive or single refraction.
STAR FACETS - The eight triangular facets that surround the table of a round brilliant stone.
The star facets meet the top of the kite shaped bezel facets.
STAINLESS STEEL - A durable metal typically used in creating watch cases, flatware and bands.
Steel alloyed with nickel.
STERLING SILVER - A homogenous mixture of 92.5% fine silver and 7.5% copper.
SYMMETRY - The consistency of the shape, positioning and arrangement of the facets.
SYNTHETIC - Essentially the same physical, optical and chemical properties
as a natural gemstone but it is man-made. Another term for synthetic is lab created.
TABLE - The largest facet on the crown of a faceted gemstone.
TABLE PERCENTAGE - The comparison of the size of the largest table facet to the average width of the stone at the girdle.
TENEBRESCENCE - A mineral that changes color between light sources.
The change can take a few seconds to several weeks to occur, making it different than the color change phenomena.
TENSION SETTING - Setting in which opposite ends of a setting hold a stone
by pressure or the force of tension, making it appear as if it is floating.
TETRAGONAL - One of the seven main crystal systems used in gemology.
Has three axes that all meet at 90o. It differs from the isometric system
because the C axis is longer than the A and B axes (which are the same length).
THREE-PHASE INCLUSIONS - A cavity in the host crystal which contains a gas or liquid and a crystal.
TITANIUM - A hypoallergenic, ultra-light and very strong gray metal.
Becoming more common in jewelry and used extensively in watches, it is resistant to salt water corrosion.
TONE - The lightness or darkness of the color of a gemstone.
The tone scale ranges from 0 (colourless/white) to 10 (black).
TOUGHNESS - The ability of a gemstone to resist breaking.
Toughness is not the same as the hardness of a stone, which is a stones ability to resist scratching.
TRANSPARENT - The quality of the transmission of light through a gemstone which shows a minimum of distortion.
TRANSLUCENT - Diffusely transmitted light such as you would see through frosted glass.
TREATED GEMS - A catch-all term that describes gemstones that have been modified to improve their clarity or color.
Processes include dyeing, heat, laser drilling, fracture filling (clarity enhancement),
impregnation, smoking treatment, sugar treatment, high pressure high temperature (HPHT), annealing and irradiation.
Some treatments require equipment that the average gemological lab won't have.
TRICLINIC - One of the seven crystal systems in gemology.
All the axes are different lengths and none of them meet at 90 degrees.
The least symmetrical of the crystal systems.
TRIGONAL - One of the seven crystal systems in gemology.
TRIGONS - Triangular shaped pits or indentations found on the octahedral faces of Diamonds.
Trigons are the result of the growth process.
TWINNING or TWINNED CRYSTALS - Two or more mineral crystals that have grown together
in a symmetrical nature, usually nonparallel.
TWO-PHASE INCLUSIONS - A void in a host crystal containing a gas or a liquid.
TROY OUNCE - A unit of weight for precious metals. Twenty pennyweights (dwt) equals one troy ounce,
and twelve troy ounces equals one troy pound.
ULTRASONIC CLEANER - A cleaning machine that vibrates thousands of times per second.
Fragile gems such as opal, emerald, pearls and many other should not be put into the ultrasonic.
ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT - Consisting of wavelengths shorter than those of visible light
making them invisible to the naked eye. In gemology, the UV lamps are short-wave and long-wave (315-400 nanometers).
UNIAXIAL - Having only one optic axis in a doubly refractive gem.
Only gems from the tetragonal or hexagonal crystal systems are uniaxial.
UPPER GIRDLE FACETS - The 16 facets on the crown (8 matching pairs) that meet the star facets and the girdle.
VERMEIL - Gold plated silver.
WHITE GOLD - An alloy of gold that has nickel as the main agent for creating the silvery color.
Needs to be rhodium plated on a regular basis to maintain a bright white color or it will turn slightly yellowish.
Not found in nature.
YELLOW GOLD - The natural color of pure gold is a deep yellow.
As the alloys increase the color of the gold begins to pale.
Therefore, 18K yellow gold has a deeper color than 14K or 10K yellow gold.
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An early Christmas treat for the overseas Filipinos in the UAE
Honouring five Filipino Noble Heroes at the Bayanihan Festival
Published: December 05, 2019 19:39 Manuel Almario, Community Editor
Bela Padilla entertain the crowd at the Bayanihan Festival in Zabeel Park Image Credit: Manuel Almario/Gulf News
Barrio Fiesta Bayanihan Festival is an early Christmas celebrations for the overseas Filipinos in the UAE
Five overseas Filipinos are awarded Dakilang Bayani (Noble Heroes) 2019 at the Bayanihan Festival
These Noble Heroes highlight their advocacies and service to the community
Filipinos in the UAE celebrate Bayanihan Festival 2019
Filipino actress Bela Padilla in Dubai for Barrio Fiesta and Bayanihan 2019
Dubai: The overseas Filipino community, their family and friends will be in for a full-day treat during the Barrio Fiesta Bayanihan Festival (Bayanihan stands for spirit of cooperation or unity) on December 6, at Zabeel Park, Dubai.
It is an annual early Christmas celebration for overseas Filipinos in the UAE. This year’s motif Barrio Fiesta (Village Festival) is uniquely Pinoy. You’ll be able to savour authentic Filipino dishes such as Kakanin, Biko, Bibingka, Puto and Kutsinta (different rice cake flavours). They’re yummy! You’ll enjoy the Yugyugan (Hip Hop dance), contemporary dance, singing competitions and a lot of presentations from school children and fashion shows.
Sam Milby entertain the crowd at the Bayanihan Festival in Zabeel Park Image Credit: Manuel Almario/Gulf News
Filipino artists are flying in fresh from the Philippines just to entertain the crowd. Actor-singer Sam Milby, actress and screenwriter Bela Padilla and Filipina pop diva singer-songwriter Yeng Constantino will serenade the audience with their renditions of their original ‘Pilipino’ music such as Milby’s ‘Mahal Pa Rin’, ‘Hindi Kita Iiwan’ and ‘Tunay Na Pagibig’, and Constantino’s hits ‘Hawak Kamay’, ‘Ikaw’, ‘Salamat’ and many more.
Bela Padilla Image Credit: Supplied
Award for overseas Filipinos
One of the highlights of the Bayanihan Festival is the Dakilang Bayani Awards (Noble Heroes).
What are the Dakilang Bayani Awards?
It is the highest award given to an overseas Filipino by the Philippine Consulate.
The Bayani Awards is the Philippine Consulate of Dubai and the Northern Emirates’ way of giving meaningful recognition to the exceptional overseas Filipinos in Dubai and the Northern Emirates. Since 2016, in this yearly tradition by the consulate, five overseas Filipinos are selected for their outstanding and honourable contributions to the community. Over the years the awards have become popular and very prestigious. The thrust is to recognise transformative Filipinos and to make them an inspiration to other Filipinos.
How were they selected?
The panel of judges for the Dakilang Bayani Awards consist of honourable Paul Raymond Cortes, the Consul General of the Philippines in the UAE, Madame Yasmin Balajadia-Cortes, spouse of the Philippine Consul General, and Atty Felicitas Bay, Philippine Labor Attaché. A Filipino group, known as the Power of 5 consisting of Ben Lebig, Francis Medina, Dr Rommel Sergio, Dr Nino Decenorio, and Dr Rex Bacarra, conducted the initial screening of the nominees for Dakilang Bayani. From 47 nominees 21 were shortlisted, out of which 11 were further shortlisted. They went through rigorous questions by the panel of judges. Five emerged at the top.
Consul-General Paul Raymund Cortes and wife Dr Yasmin Balajadia Cortes during the celebrations. Image Credit: Antonin Kélian Kallouche/Gulf News
These exceptional awardees have elevated the Filipino identity globally, considering their significant contributions and tireless efforts to foster goodwill not only within the Filipino community but also among the citizens of the world. They were selected based on the set criteria with Community Service as the highlight.
Dakilang Bayani awardees for 2019
1. Reynaldo Buenaflor Angulo, office employee in Dubai, is living in the UAE for 30 years.
2. Elena Cruz, Marketing and Sustainability Professional: VP – Head of Brand and CSR Emirates NBD, is living in Dubai. She has been in the UAE for more than 20 years.
3. Leo Barrameda, Manager, International Collector Programme at Art Dubai, living in the UAE for 11 years.
4. Captain Conrado Ramos Quizon, Air Force pilot, has been living in Dubai for 11 years.
5. Marjorie Nazaret, Principal, Al Alfiah Filipino Private School, living in Sharjah for 20 years.
Gulf News interviewed the five Filipino Noble Heroes to get their reaction upon winning and to know their advocacies and service to the community.
Reynaldo Buenaflor Angulo said: “The humbling feeling is amazing because my main aim in what I do is to share kindness and hope, and nothing more. I am happy that the extra miles that I did for other souls, from whom I never expected anything in return, did not go unnoticed.”
Advocacies to the community:
“Over the past years, I have done countless works of mercy to the needy, particularly towards the helpless patients at Rashid Hospital, the hopeful female detainees at Al Awir Central Jail, including the endless problems of the Filipino community in Satwa area, plus the repatriation and/or cremation of departed Kabayans [compatriot]. To the patients, I visit them literally every day, offer them hope and cheer, and arrange for their eventual repatriation and escorting them (if necessary) to the Philippines. To the female detainees, I serve as a bridge between them and the Philippine Consulate for their needs. And to the Filipino community in Satwa, I extend my best guidance with regard to their various challenges in life.”
What do you want your legacy to be?
The legacy that I want to be is the perpetuation of my hospital mission of kindness and hope. This will give me the feeling that my life in Dubai truly mattered.
His message of hope to those underprivileged people:
“To those underprivileged who feel that they have reached absolute darkness in life and that God is quite far away, they must resist the mighty pull of hopelessness. Because, when they keep God in their hearts, they have more than enough.”
My main aim in what I do is to share kindness and hope, and nothing more.
- Reynaldo Buenaflor Angulo, office employee in Dubai
Elena Cruz said: Truly grateful for the opportunity to serve and lead. I am thankful to the Filipino community and to the bank where I work, for giving me the opportunity to lead and give back; and be a part of the bank’s strategic advocacies to create shared value with customers and partners.
I had the precious opportunity at the bank to lead the founding of a UN-award-winning corporate volunteering programme, Exchanger. It has over 4,000 active volunteers comprising of staff, friends and relatives, customers, and vendors and partners; and use this platform to help the Filipino community. Our Exchanger program has over 120,000 hours of community work to its credit and the winner of the UN Impact2030 Global Innovation Award for 2019. Most active members of this platform are Filipinos. I have also led the bank’s other strategic advocacies, like Financial Literacy and People with Disabilities.
Leave behind strong advocacies like the Financial Literacy and Advocating for People with Disabilities. It is made more precious by the fact that I have contributed this in a place I call home, the UAE, in collaboration with the government and NGOs.
I am thankful to the Filipino community and to the bank where I work, for giving me the opportunity to lead and give back
- Elena Cruz, Marketing and Sustainability Professional: VP – Head of Brand and CSR Emirates NBD
Leo Barrameda said: I am extremely grateful for the recognition and overwhelmed because I did not expect to be chosen. I’ve been doing years of community service and having this citation is a bonus.
Advocacies to the society:
In Dubai, I am one of the directors of Philippine Business Council – Dubai and Northern Emirates, a non-for-profit Filipino organisation recognised by the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry. I am one of the key members behind various initiatives assisting Filipino entrepreneurs and aspiring business owners in the UAE.
In the Philippines, we adopted an indigenous community of Blaan from North Cotabato. We organised feeding programs, medical missions, partnered with cargo companies to send pre-loved items, and supported the education of the children and out-of-school youth in the area. Together with friends and project supporters, we provided assistance for the schooling of 250 plus Blaan students for this school year.
I want to be remembered as an overseas Filipino worker that even with limited resources, still able to inspire others and give back to the community through various partnerships from like-minded individuals, organisations, and some corporate companies.
What I am today is a result of years of hard work, perseverance, and resilience. Life is a continuous process - strive more, tolerate differences, be motivated to achieve goals, and accept that things happen for a reason. Never stop moving forward, get the habit of learning new skills, and have faith. Destiny is preparing something great to those who are hopeful and take steps to make it happen.
I want to be remembered as an overseas Filipino worker that even with limited resources, still able to inspire others and give back to the community
- Leo Barrameda, Manager, International Collector Programme at Art Dubai
Captain Conrado Ramos Quizon said: I have mixed emotions when I received the announcement by email. I guess I was born to serve the Filipino people, not only the overseas Filipinos but also our brothers and sisters from indigenous community from our motherland, the Philippines by providing them school supplies (B’laan Tribes in Mindanao) and continuous support to the House of Hope in Davao City, for those children afflicted with cancer.
My legacy is very simple… get out of your comfort zone and volunteer for the Filipino community anywhere in the world; do ordinary things in an extra-ordinary way and make a difference. Don’t lose hope to those underprivileged people, God is good, and he will not forsake us.
My legacy is very simple… get out of your comfort zone and volunteer for the Filipino community anywhere in the world
- Captain Conrado Ramos Quizon, Air Force pilot
Marjorie Nazaret said: I am overjoyed by the recognition that was given to me, but at the same time I am humbled by the experience and the achievement. While I celebrate this milestone, I wish not to bask on it as I am aware of the added responsibility that comes with it. Instead, I intend to use it as a motivation to continue revolutionising Filipino education for our younger generation.
I wish to educate more minds not just in our region, but in our country as well. I am very much aware of the problems that we face as nation in terms of education and I intend to take action in whatever capacity I can.
My desire may not burn as bright a light, but I can be a spark. A spark that will light a fire in the heart of those who are under my care as an educator. With their hearts afire, I believe we can continue to make a difference in the lives of the younger generation.
I hope I leave a legacy of being an educator that strived to bring change and make a difference in the lives of the Filipinos in Dubai and the Northern Emirates. I would be happy if I would be known for that. Anything greater than that will just be a bonus.
I hope I leave a legacy of being an educator that strived to bring change and make a difference in the lives of the Filipinos
- Marjorie Nazaret, Principal, Al Alfiah Filipino Private School
Her message of hope to those underprivileged people:
Do not stop learning, it is only when we stop learning that are defeated by whatever circumstances we are facing. As the famous saying goes, “it is not our fault that we are born poor, but it is our fault if we die poor.”
Our government has laid out programs to support individuals who desire to learn despite financial incapacity. Private institutions have also extended their support through various charity programs and scholarships to encourage an individual to pursue learning. There are countless ways to study and all that they have to do is to ‘want’ to study. Our education will bring us opportunities beyond what we can think of. Let us not limit ourselves just because we do not have the means. Remember, our desire far outweighs our means.
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Investigating the potential of puerarin for managing symptoms of diabetes
12/04/2019 / By Evangelyn Rodriguez
Researchers from the University of Macau and Zunyi Medical University in China summarized the beneficial effects of puerarin on diabetes mellitus and its complications, as well as the mechanisms underlying these effects. This review was published in The American Journal of Chinese Medicine.
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the most challenging public health problems globally.
The increasing prevalence and mortality rate of DM call for more effective treatments, especially for DM complications.
Traditional herbal medicine has a long history of clinical application for the treatment of DM.
Puerarin from Pueraria lobata (kudzu) is a natural isoflavone consumed both as a functional food and a medicinal herb in East Asia.
According to studies, puerarin has cardio-protective, neuroprotective, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.
Puerarin can benefit people with DM by lowering their blood glucose levels, improving their insulin resistance, protecting their pancreatic islets, inhibiting inflammation, decreasing oxidative stress and inhibiting Maillard reaction and the formation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs).
Puerarin can also delay and improve DM complications such as cardiovascular complications, diabetic nephropathy, diabetic retinopathy and diabetic neuropathy.
However, comprehensive studies on its effect and mechanisms are needed, especially since its efficacy is relatively low partially due to its pharmacokinetic profile.
The researchers believe that puerarin is a potential adjuvant for the treatment of DM and DM complications that should be further studied.
Chen X, Yu J, Shi J. MANAGEMENT OF DIABETES MELLITUS WITH PUERARIN, A NATURAL ISOFLAVONE FROM PUERARIA LOBATA. The American Journal of Chinese Medicine. 2018;46(08):1771–1789. DOI: 10.1142/s0192415x18500891
Tagged Under: alternative medicine, anti-diabetes, diabetes mellitus, disease treatments, food cures, food is medicine, functional food, herbal medicine, Herbs, natural cures, natural medicine, phytonutrients, prevention, remedies, research
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SENATE ACA REPEAL AND REPLACE UP IN THE AIR
Posted on June 26, 2017 by thehealthinsuranceanswerman
Senate’s ACA Repeal and Replace Bill Up In Air
― op-ed by D. Kenton Henry
The passage of the Senate’s Affordable Care Act repeal and replace bill, prior to their scheduled July 4th recess, is as up in the air as the fireworks will be coinciding with that illustrious date. With five Republican and additional Democrat senators currently opposed, its passage appears tenuous at best. This, in spite of President Trump’s expressed confidence it will happen.
As a medical insurance broker the past 30 years, I have certainly have an opinion on, and a vested interest in, the passage (or failure) of the bill. The reality is, the Democrats own the current Patient and Protection Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Not one Republican voted for it. Therefore (if repeal fails), come 2018, it will be the Democrat’s law which, I believe, will result in an even greater increase in health insurance premiums we have already seen skyrocket since the Act’s passage. And be certain―we will see an even greater exodus of insurance carriers from the marketplace, leaving some counties―and possibly states―with only one carrier. Or, possibly, none. In which case, Trump and the Republicans can continue to tell the Democrats, “We told you so!”.
The problem for the Republicans is, they were elected on a platform of repeal and replace. As such, there are two ways Republicans can fail the people. The first is by not fulfilling that promise. The second―and quite possibly the larger failure― is to pass something which turns out to be an equal or greater debacle than the PPACA itself. As much as I want to see the Act replaced with something better, upon analysis, I find myself largely in agreement with Senator Rand Paul. This bill almost resembles Obamacare more than it does not. Not only does it continue subsidies based on income, but it maintains ten of the twelve mandated “essential coverage items” which forced premiums up in the first place! The primary objectives of repeal and replace were to give people more control over the coverage they purchase and reject, and to bring premiums down. To acquire just what they need and reject what they don’t, all at a lower cost. As it stands today, the Senate bill cannot accomplish either because the remaining forced mandates will force insurance companies to keep premiums high while rationalizing the subsidies allow enough people to pay them using “other people’s money”. When all is said and done, if the bill passes as is, those who don’t qualify for a subsidy will feel angry and betrayed and our twenty trillion dollar budget deficit will grow at even faster than its current, virtually criminal, rate of escalation. Couple doing away with the individual mandate to purchase and maintain coverage with allowing people to purchase it anytime of the year―in spite of the state of their health―and you have a recipe for absolute failure. Many will refrain from purchasing until they receive a dread diagnosis, then purchase the insurance to force the loss of huge medical claims on someone else! I.e., the insurance companies and those responsible insured members who pay their own premiums. If passed without restrictions on when insurance may be purchased (Open vs. Closed Enrollment), I predict this replacement will fail more quickly than Obamacare has failed.
Who will be the major losers if this bill passes as is? Those individuals who must pay their own premiums; the American taxpayer; and―when the healthy drop coverage because they are no longer forced by law to purchase it―me. Who are the major winners? Employers who will see the mandate to provide coverage for groups of 50 plus dropped, creating an incentive to hire; Medical Device companies who will see taxes on their products repealed, encouraging innovation; those individuals and families who have someone else paying all, or the majority, of their premium; and the insurance companies who continue to be subsidized and receive even greater premiums (subsidized or not) for somewhat diminished coverage. And―in the case of where a broker’s compensation is based on a percentage of premium―me.
Who knows how this will ultimately shake out. All I know is, whatever the result, it will be a mixed bag depending on your position in the equation. Stay tuned and―regardless the result―contact me at 281-267-6565. Whatever your options, unless agents and brokers fall on the chopping block, I intend to be here to assist you identifying and obtaining the option most beneficial to your physical and financial health.
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Senate health-care draft repeals Obamacare taxes, provides bigger subsidies for low-income Americans than House bill
By Paige Winfield Cunningham By Paige Winfield Cunningham June 21
Senate leaders on Wednesday were putting the final touches on legislation that would reshape a big piece of the U.S. health-care system by dramatically rolling back Medicaid while easing the impact on Americans who stand to lose coverage under a new bill.
A discussion draft circulating Wednesday afternoon among aides and lobbyists would roll back the Affordable Care Act’s taxes, phase down its Medicaid expansion, rejigger its subsidies, give states wider latitude in opting out of its regulations and eliminate federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
The bill largely mirrors the House measure that narrowly passed last month but with some significant changes aimed at pleasing moderates. While the House legislation tied federal insurance subsidies to age, the Senate bill would link them to income, as the ACA does. The Senate proposal cuts off Medicaid expansion more gradually than the House bill,\ but would enact deeper long-term cuts to the health-care program for low-income Americans. It also removes language restricting federally subsidized health plans from covering abortions, which may have run afoul of complex budget rules.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) intends to present the draft to wary GOP senators at a meeting Thursday morning. McConnell has vowed to hold a vote before senators go home for the July 4 recess, but he is still seeking the 50 votes necessary to pass the major legislation under arcane budget rules. A handful of senators, from conservatives to moderates, are by no means persuaded that they can vote for the emerging measure.
Aides stress that the GOP plan is likely to undergo more changes to garner the 50 votes Republicans need to pass it. Moderate senators are concerned about cutting off coverage too quickly for those who gained it under the ACA, also known as Obamacare, while conservatives don’t want to leave big parts of the ACA in place.
As a nod to conservatives, the Senate bill would give states more leeway in opting out of the ACA’s insurance regulations through expanding the use of so-called “1332” waivers already embedded within the law, according to the draft proposal. States could use the waivers to make federal subsidies available even off the marketplaces — but they couldn’t go so far as to lift ACA protections for patients with preexisting conditions.
But it may prove trickier to get moderates on board. Senate leaders are hoping the big draw for them lies in the bill’s more generous income-based approach to insurance subsidies, which closely mirror the subsidies offered under Obamacare.
Subsidies are available to Americans earning between 100 percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty level. Starting in 2020, under the Senate bill, this assistance would be capped for those earning up to 350 percent — but anyone below that line could get the subsidies if they’re not eligible for Medicaid.
The subsidies would also mirror the ACA in that they would be pegged to a benchmark insurance plan each year, ensuring that the assistance grows enough to keep coverage affordable for customers.
The Senate bill would also keep the ACA’s Medicaid expansion around for longer, gradually phasing it out over three years, starting in 2021.
Despite these shifts, moderates are likely to be turned off by how the bill cuts Medicaid more deeply than the House version. But the biggest cuts wouldn’t take effect for seven years, a time frame that could be more politically palatable for members like Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.).
Under the Senate draft, federal Medicaid spending would remain as is for three years. Then in 2021 it would be transformed from an open-ended entitlement to a system based on per capita enrollment. Starting in 2025, the measure would tie federal spending on the program to an even slower growth index, which in turn could prompt states to reduce the size of their Medicaid programs.
In a move that is likely to please conservatives, the draft also proposes repealing all of the ACA taxes except for its so-called “Cadillac tax” on high-cost health plans in language similar to the House version. Senators had previously toyed with the idea of keeping some of the ACA’s taxes.
The Senate bill would also provide funding in 2018 and 2019 for extra Obamacare subsidies to insurers to cover the cost-sharing discounts they’re required to give the lowest-income patients. Insurers have been deeply concerned over whether the subsidies will continue, as the Trump administration has refused to say whether it will keep funding them in the long run.
The House had a difficult time passing its own measure after a roller-coaster attempt, with the first version being pulled before reaching the floor after House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) determined he did not have the votes. House Republicans went back to the drawing board and passed their own measure — which would more quickly kill Medicaid expansion and provide less-generous federal subsidies — on May 4.
Even if the Senate measure does pass the upper chamber, it will still have to pass muster with the more conservative House before any legislation could be enacted.
Juliet Eilperin and Amy Goldstein contributed to this report.
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Medicare Part B Premiums Projected To Go Up For 2017 ― Insurance Companies Participating In Obamacare Going Down
Posted on August 9, 2016 by thehealthinsuranceanswerman
By Kenton Henry, editor
A double whammy is expected to impact the medical insurance market for 2017. There is bad news for the consumer on both the Medicare and the Under Age 65 ends of the medical insurance spectrum.
One positive note ― more than 60 million Medicare recipients are projected to receive a cost of living adjustment in their Social Security Benefit! But if you’re part of this group … don’t spend all your new found increase in one place. It’s projected to be a minuscule 0.2 percent! What the government giveth . . . (well, you can see this coming!) The flip side is, their monthly Part B premiums would go to $107.60 in 2017 ― a $2.70 increase.
On the other hand, 30% of recipients, which includes those new to Medicare in 2017; those who do not have their Part B premiums deducted from their Social Security Income Account in 2016; and those with higher incomes may see increases in premium to $149.00 for the lowest tax bracket; from $166.30 ― to $204.40 per month for the next; and from $380.20 to $467.20 in the highest bracket. Whether these projections―which amount to as much as a 22% increase for the highest income earners―are realized will not be known until October.
Part B premiums are extremely relevant when one has the option of remaining on one’s (or one’s spouse’s) company group health insurance beyond age 65 and into retirement and is weighing the cost of such against the cost of transitioning fully to Medicare Part A and B.
For guidance in this consideration please feel free to consult with the author / editor. *(see featured article from the Wall Street Journal below)
And for those still not age 65, or otherwise eligible for Medicare―and not covered by an employer’s group health insurance plan―your options for coverage are scheduled to diminish along with competition in the individual and family Affordable Care Act (ACA) compliant insurance market. If realized, the proposed mergers between Anthem and Cigna and between Aetna and Humana would reduce your options. This on top of Unitedhealthcare’s (America’s largest insurer) announcement it is pulling out of 90% of its current markets in 2017. Furthermore, BlueCross BlueShield Association announced they may also decline or diminish participation in the marketplace. Lastly (until our next episode), to cast further doubts on what options will remain for the consumer, both Aetna and Humana have announced they may pull out of the majority of their individual and family markets regardless of whether their proposed merger is approved. Humana issued a statement just last week to the effect they would be limiting coverage to 156 counties this month compared the 1,351 they participate in currently. **(please refer to feature article on Humana below)
For these reasons, and because the majority of my individual and family clients have been forced to migrate to Health Maintenance Organization plans (where their providers and treatment are rationed) I have been advising those who are business owners to transition to group health insurance where they not only have more options relative to benefits but can still benefit from Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) coverage. With the PPO plans, they have the final say on their providers and, thereby, better control the quality of their treatment. Small Business (less than 50 employees) owners should take note that if they enroll during the Small Business Open Enrollment Period (November 15th ― December 15th) they will not have to meet the 75% full-time employee participation rate or the 50% of employee premium contribution requirement. The only requirement is that a minimum of 2 full time, W-2 employees be covered on the plan. This is an excellent opportunity for small, closely held companies who want to improve their family’s health insurance but cannot afford coverage for all employees.
Again, please feel free to contact our office for further insight and guidance on this issue.
Feature Article #1
By Anne Tergesen
Updated June 22, 2016 5:12 p.m. ET
Nearly a third of all Medicare beneficiaries face a steep increase in their premiums next year, the result of a policy that in certain circumstances requires some beneficiaries, including higher earners, to shoulder the burden of rising costs.
The government health-care plan’s trustees projected in a report Wednesday that premiums would rise by as much as 22% for wealthier beneficiaries of Medicare Part B, which covers doctor visits and other types of outpatient care.
The projected increase results from an intersection of the rules governing Medicare and Social Security, said Tricia Neuman, senior vice president and an expert on Medicare at the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Under the Social Security Act’s “hold harmless” provision, Medicare can’t pass along premium increases greater than what most participants would receive through Social Security’s annual cost-of-living adjustment. That adjustment is expected to be just 0.2% in 2017 thanks to low inflation. As a result, Medicare couldn’t pass along any premium increase greater than the dollar increase in Social Security payments to the estimated 70% of beneficiaries who will qualify for hold harmless treatment in 2017, Ms. Neuman said.
Instead, Medicare must spread much of the projected increase in its costs across the remaining 30%. Those who are paying the standard $121.80 a month for Medicare Part B this year would be charged $149 a month in 2017 if the trustees’ predictions come to pass.
Higher earners would pay more. The trustees project individuals earning between $85,001 and $107,000 and couples earning between $170,001 and $214,000 would have their 2016 monthly premiums rise from $170.50 a person this year to about $204.40 in 2017. For those earning more than $214,000, or $428,000 for couples, the projected increase is to about $467.20 a month, from $389.00 in 2016.
This isn’t the first time there has been such a disparity in Part B premiums between Medicare recipients.
Last year, Congress staved off a 52% premium increase for Medicare beneficiaries not covered by the hold harmless provision via a deal in the budget agreement that raised premiums by 16% for them instead. Those covered by the hold harmless provision, in contrast, pay $104.90 a month—the same amount they paid in 2014 due to the fact that there was no Social Security cost-of-living increase in 2016.
The projected increase in Part B premiums affects several other groups of Medicare beneficiaries, including those who receive Medicare but have deferred or aren’t eligible for Social Security benefits. It also would apply to those who are new to Medicare in 2017 and lower-income Medicare beneficiaries whose premiums are paid by state Medicaid programs.
In the latter case, the increase would be paid by Medicaid, Ms. Neuman said.
Paul Van de Water, senior fellow at the nonprofit Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, said the final Social Security cost-of-living adjustment won’t be known until October. If inflation rises by more than the trustees expect between now and then, it could “reduce the spike in the premium” for those who aren’t held harmless, he said.
Acting Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Andy Slavitt said at a news conference Wednesday, “We will continue to monitor the data and explore administrative options as needed.”
The Medicare trustees are projecting that the base Medicare Part B premium will reset for everyone at $124.40 a month in 2018, because they expect higher Social Security cost-of-living increases.
Medicare covered 55 million people last year, according to the trustees’ report. Part B covered nearly 51 million. In 2017 Medicare is expected to have 58.7 million total participants and 53.5 million in Part B.
Feature Article # 2
Humana beats 2Q forecasts, details ACA-related scale back
Tom Murphy, AP Health Writer
Published 9:09 am, Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Humana beat second-quarter earnings expectations and reaffirmed its forecast for 2016, even as the health insurer set aside an additional $208 million to cover expenses in its individual, commercial coverage.
The company also said Wednesday it was scaling back that individual business for next year and would only offer it in 156 counties, compared to 1,351 this year. The insurer also said it will sell coverage on Affordable Care Act individual exchanges in 11 states next year, down from 15 this year.
Humana, based in Louisville, Kentucky, provides individual coverage for nearly 500,000 people through the exchanges. It covers an additional 200,000 individual customers off the exchanges, a small slice of its total medical membership of 14.2 million.
Other major insurers like UnitedHealth Group and Anthem also have recently detailed struggles with coverage they sell on the ACA’s state-based exchanges, which have helped millions of consumers gain insurance since they opened for enrollment in the fall of 2013. Aetna, which is trying to buy Humana, said Tuesday that it cancelled its exchange expansion plans for 2017 and was taking a hard look at the markets in which it is currently participating.
Insurers have been struggling with higher-than-expected claims on the exchanges and lower-than-expected support from government programs, among other issues.
Humana also is one of the nation’s largest providers of Medicare Advantage plans, which are privately run versions of the government’s Medicare program for people over age 65 or disabled. The company said Wednesday that its core businesses remained strong in the second quarter.
Overall, Humana earnings plunged 28 percent to $311 million compared to last year’s quarter, when it booked a $267 million gain from a business sale.
Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs and amortization costs, came to $2.30 per share.
Analysts expected, on average, earnings of $2.22 per share, according to Zacks Investment Research.
The health insurer posted revenue of $14.01 billion in the period, which topped the average Wall Street forecast for $13.63 billion.
The company also said Wednesday that it still expects full-year earnings to total at least $9.25 per share.
Shares of Humana edged up 52 cents to $170.09 Wednesday morning while broader indexes were flat.
Humana shares have decreased 5 percent since the beginning of the year, while the Standard & Poor’s 500 index has climbed 5.5 percent.
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Contemporary Drawing: A Conversation with Tony Lewis and Matt Saunders
Wednesday, July 10, 2019, 6:00pm to 7:15pm
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street
In this lecture, Tony Lewis, a Chicago-based artist, and Matt Saunders, an artist and the Harris K. Weston Associate Professor of the Humanities at Harvard, will discuss various practices and techniques of drawing. Considering their own work, Lewis and Saunders will explore some of the unique questions that the fugitive medium of drawing poses to contemporary audiences.
The lecture will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway. Doors will open at 5:30pm.
Free admission, but seating is limited. Tickets will be distributed beginning at 5:30pm at the Broadway entrance. One ticket per person.
Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge.
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The conversation continues, not always politely
Do I like being insulted? Not specially. But, having been insulted by experts over the years, and having handed out a fair amount of raillery and abuse, I take it as part of what I do and am largely unaffected by it. What is much, much worse is to meet blank walls of what seems to be a deliberate desire not to grasp what I am saying. Or to come across wearisome standard-issue, conventional wisdom arguments, so feeble that no thinking person could accept them, put forward by people who imagine that these off-the-peg formulae are original, and their own.
What's also provoking is the 'you never explain such and such, or never say what you're in favour of' approach. As I've said before, I've now written many hundreds of thousands of words in the Mail on Sunday, on this site and elsewhere, plus three substantial books on public policy, plus a specific manifesto (Google ‘Peter Hitchens’ and ‘manifesto of sorts’) Anyone who has read all this knows what I propose, and what I like. Anybody who hasn't cannot use the word 'never'. If they've never seen it (another matter) those are hints as to where they may find it.
Just thought you might like to know.
Now to some of the more recent comments. A person calling himself 'Crumblekid' (oh dear) produces the ancient, rust-streaked EU propaganda claim that the EU has somehow prevented a European War since 1945. I've asked before, and I'll ask again, which potential armed conflict has been in any way prevented by the EU? The only European power-struggle during this era was that between the USSR and the Western European free countries. The EU played no part in preventing that developing into war. That task was achieved by NATO (in its first, genuine, incarnation).
There is a strong argument for suggesting that the EU (largely under German pressure) actively caused the various armed conflicts in former Yugoslavia by pushing forward with the recognition of Croatia as an independent state. It is widely believed, for instance, that Britain's opt-out from the Euro had to be 'paid for' by British recognition of Croatia. It is true that the Franco-German conflict has been institutionalised by the EU. But that was made possible by France's humiliating and permanent defeat at the hands of Germany in 1940. No new war was ever likely. Vichy France (in which Francois Mitterrand was deeply involved) was in a way the prototype for the new Franco-German relationship. Germany had by then defeated France three times, (though initially it had not yet become a fully-fledged nation) playing a decisive part in the Battle of the Nations in Leipzig in 1813, and again in the Anglo-Prussian victory at Waterloo in 1815, the debacle of 1870 and the second debacle of 1940. The French elite realised in 1940 that they would never again be able to seek military supremacy over Germany, and thought deeply about what sort of new relationship they could have with their Eastern neighbour. The original ECSC was based upon a French recognition that France could no longer contemplate war with Germany, and must come to a permanent accommodation (the Elysee Treaty of 1963, signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer, is the real political basis of the modern EU, codifying a Franco-German axis under which Germany is the unacknowledged European superpower, while France maintains its international prestige, nuclear weapons etc, has its agriculture lavishly subsidised, and that the two countries consult before any EU summit to ensure that they present a united face).
Mr Kid, or may I call him 'Crumble', goes on to warn: ‘Loosen the political ties that bind us and all those ancient tribalisms may well yet emerge. Have you thought this through? Being tied up in red tape is a small price for peace.’
Not sure about the logic of this. One of the most destructive and cruel wars of modern history was fought in the United States from 1860 to 1865 because of Abraham Lincoln's belief that the ties which bound the original states were too loose.
Yes, yes, I know that the pretext for the war was slavery, and that the South fought to keep slavery, and shouldn't be allowed to claim it was just a matter of state's rights. Even so, the point that the underlying issue was the freedom of states to decide their own destiny is correct. Gore Vidal's superb historical novel 'Lincoln' reminds us just how divided the North was on the abolition of slavery, and that Lincoln himself wanted Black Americans to leave the country, because he thought they could never be integrated.
It was the tightening of those ties that led to war. The moves towards ever-narrower union, which is stipulated as the EU's aim in the Treaty of Rome, might conceivably cause conflicts in Europe that could lead to war. They are at least as likely to do so as they are to prevent it. Those who seek to justify British membership of the EU will have to do better than this. In any case, secessionists like me do not want to break up the EU. We just want to leave it, and negotiate a civilised relationship with it as an independent nation. If other countries are happy with it, that's their affair. Most, I think are. The fundamental difficulty for Britain is twofold. One, its Common Law presumption of innocence tradition is incompatible with EU law and two, its outward-looking global trading engagement is unsuited to membership of a continental protectionist bloc. Adversarial government is also pretty much unknown in continental countries, and our strong, independent national press is pretty much unique as well.
If 'je' would say what was 'tiresome' about my writing, I might be able to answer the charge. My columns and reports from abroad range over many, many subjects and places. At present, all subjects are overshadowed by the biggest political scandal of our generation, and by the coming elections. I could hardly ignore them. If he is just saying he disagrees with me, then he should say that. And why.
I have never said that the BNP are going to build gas chambers. Everything I have said about them, mainly that their constitution is explicitly racialist, that their origins are disreputable and that Judophobia is rife in their ranks, is true. None of their defenders on this site has been able to fault my facts, or those of other critics of the BNP who have posted here (not least the interesting connection between Nick Griffin and David Duke, and the words spoken when they met).
No, it hasn't occurred to me that the closeness between David Cameron and the Guardian is symptomatic of his appealing to a wider audience. Nor is the Guardian's schmoozing of Mr Cameron (or the BBC's) 'occasional'. It is virtually constant. Mr Cameron already had a wide audience. What he wanted was a different audience, and a different kind of voter and supporter. He also wanted to seek the endorsement and permission to stand, which he believes he needs, from the BBC - which long ago adopted the Guardian as its house newspaper. He chose, quite deliberately and consciously, to appeal to Liberal Democrat voters, if necessary at the cost of losing some conservative ones. This lay behind his adoption of 'Green' policies, his husky moment, his 'hug a hoodie' moment, his endorsement of homosexual civil partnerships, his denunciation of those who 'bang on' about Europe and his dismissal of UKIP supporters as 'fruitcakes', along with his endorsement of comprehensive schools, his sending of his own child to a state primary (though of course a wholly untypical one) when he could easily have afforded independent school fees, and his official abandonment of grammars. I think he probably assumed that he would not lose many votes by doing this. In this, I think he was mistaken.
Of course the Guardian and the other left-wing papers have plenty of writers who loathe the Tories because they are Tories, and are not interested in getting close to Mr Cameron. But the central policy-making core of the paper is increasingly convinced that Mr Cameron is their man, and that Blairism is safe in his hands. Just look at the way in which they presented his 'constitutional reform' plans on Tuesday. Even The Times was more critical. This development, and its significance, is explored at more length in my book 'The Broken Compass'. I commend it to 'Adam' of London. And I thank him for his permission for me to have my own views. I'd also say to 'Adam' that Mr Cameron's ditching of grammar schools is not just a small thing, to be taken by itself, and disagreed with while supporting everything else he does. It is symptomatic of his general move of the party towards the egalitarian left. Comprehensive education (for the benighted poor) and secretly selective education for the rich and powerful is the real and unshiftable Clause Four of the Labour Party, and has now been officially adopted by the Tories too. Why? Because it is the key to the leftist egalitarian policy of the political class.
Adam also says : ‘The argument you make for a 'Tory Collapse' at the election is seriously flawed. You seem to imply that this could bring the Conservatives round to your way of thinking.’
How can he have missed the point so completely? I have never thought or said any such thing. I wish the Tory Party to collapse and split. I do not think it is saveable, or worth saving, let alone that it can be 'brought round to my way of thinking.'
He adds: ‘Seems you have a short memory, as after the collapse of ’97, a swing to the right got us nowhere.’ My memory is rather good. This rubbish about a post-1997 'swing to the right' is repeated again and again. Can one person please tell me what this 'swing' involved? Did the Tory Party favour leaving the EU? (No, it wouldn't even promise to stay out of the Euro.) Did it say it would bring back capital punishment, or indeed any punishment? (No.) Did it say it would halt mass immigration? (No.) Did it say it would return to selective education? (No.) Did it propose to purge the welfare state and the vast social services bureaucracy? (No.) Did it set its face against political correctness? (No.) In any case, my position has long been that the Tory Party is too worn out and loathed to be saved. It must split and collapse, and then it will be possible to replace it. I refer him to the posting which can be found by Googling ‘Peter Hitchens’ and ‘The Tories are still useless.’
‘Mev’ (sounds like an ice lolly) asks: ‘You say you do not agree with mass immigration and multiculturalism - whilst attacking the BNP for similar policies because they place racial differences at the centre of the reasoning - but can you tell us then the reason why you do not support these things? Yes, I can, though my book 'The Abolition of Britain' sets it out at greater length. A nation is the largest organisation in which it is possible to be effectively unselfish, which is the fundamental reason for desiring the existence of a nation, and wishing to live in one. To be a nation it must have one language, one culture, one law. A country which does not demand acceptance of a monoculture will become a series of hostile solitudes, and eventually ungovernable and unworkable as a society. Integration and the inculcation of a single culture cannot be successfully achieved if there is a constant high level of immigration. Migrants already here need time to integrate, and can most effectively be enabled to do so when immigration is low or non-existent. The levels of migration into this country at present are qualitatively higher than anything previously experienced, and endanger the culture of which I speak. The evidence of history is that this country has absorbed people from different cultures (and non-Christian religions) in the past. But only under conditions of controlled immigration, and only when a monoculture was generally supported. The same is largely true of the USA, which before the 1960s ensured that migrants became American, learned English etc.
Somebody called 'George' (one of those irritating people who feels the need to remind me of my own name), asks : ‘Peter, please could you explain why you think it is wrong for those of English ethnicity to wish to remain a majority in their own country?’ Well, ‘George’, I am not specially concerned about the 'ethnicity' of the people in this country. I am concerned about whether they are British, and I do not think, ‘George’, that their Britishness is a product of their ‘ethnicity’ but of a thousand years of law, liberty, faith, culture, landscape, memory, music, architecture, humour, self-sacrifice, martial valour, conscience, self-restraint, and all the things that go to make us what we are. There are, ‘George’, plenty of people in this country whose 'ethnicity' may be British (if by that you mean the colour of their hides) but who have, thanks to multiculturalism and other demoralising forces, entirely ceased to be British in any recognisable sense. Whereas there are people here whose skins are black or brown who honour and value those traditions greatly, and seek to uphold them. Therefore, ‘George’, 'ethnicity' cannot be the defining matter. I hope this helps, ‘George’.
Paul Embery makes a welcome return (presumably busy hunting for a good non-Church school in the countryside) to ask: ‘Mr Hitchens argues against an elected House of Lords. Are we to assume he is a unicameralist, because I can't imagine for a moment that he is in favour of a fully-appointed second chamber (and no sane person nowadays argues for membership by bloodline)?’ The famed tolerance of the liberal rationalist is on display once again. Any idea he can't stomach is automatically mad, and the person who puts it forward is not fully human. Does Mr Embery ever wonder where his ideas lead?
It is perfectly reasonable to argue, as I do, for a hereditary chamber. A hereditary chamber is entirely independent of the executive, owes it no favours, and is not subject to its pressure or corruption. Likewise, it owes nothing to the party machines which dominate selection to the Commons. Its members, brought up from their earliest youth with the knowledge that they will inherit a great responsibility and a great tradition, seem to me to be at least as likely to be good legislators as babbling party hacks kicking their way up the greasy pole of professional politics. We should never have spat on our luck by abolishing it. It's not too late to bring it back, and a lot of people would be very glad to see it so. And no, I am not a 'unicameralist', which sounds faintly rude, nor yet a unicameronist.
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Hang on, Peter, one minute you're saying it was the German recognition of Croatia which fanned the flames of the Balkan conflict. Now, apparently, it was a 'united EU'. Which was it.
Your remarks re fishing policy don't contradict my argument. OK, we've got the short straw when it comes to fishing and we've failed to defend our corner, but there hasn't been a war over it. Nobody within the present EU has invaded any of their neighbours since 1939. This feels like a significant improvement that can't be dismissed, whatever other EU shortcomings you may choose to highlight.
Posted by: CrumbleKid | 14 June 2009 at 05:22 PM
Bob, the term 'Google' in this context means 'search'. I don't honestly think that Peter is trying to give Google any more exposure than other search engines and I am quite sure he assumes people will use the search engine that they most like.
It seem to me that we need another post from Peter, PDQ! Things are deteriorating around here.
Posted by: Vikki Boynton | 12 June 2009 at 12:53 PM
Contributor Bob asks Mr Hitchens:
"Why can you not use the neutral " Web search".
I know people may like to use the term Google in a context such as : "I hoovered the carpet with my Dyson today".
Don't you almost answer your own question there, sir, without perhaps realising it? How many people, I wonder, have any intention, when they talk about "hoovering the carpet", of advertising any particular model of vacuum cleaner.
I would say that the verb "to google" is a more convenient way of saying "to websearch" or any other similar but less convenient expression.
Language usage seems to be quite beyond the influence of even the most powerful. Not only words but even pronunciations of words will happen,as they do, and there is little or nothing that we can do about it.
I personally have been trying, by my own very limited example, to discourage the modern English habit of pronouncing an unwritten 'stepping-stone' "r" inserted - I would imagine unconsciously - by many people when a word ending in "aw" attracts a suffix starting with an "i", turning, for example "draw-ing" into "draw-r-ing" but so far I detect little change, even among my own little circle of friends.
It is said that Hitler actually tried to rid the German language of any words which were not believed to be of pure Nordic or Aryan origin. He hadn't a ghost of a chance of achieving his aim, of course, but then he seems to have made a few other philosophical errors too.
Where language usage is concerned, sir, the only option you have is to correct what you see as lapses by personal example. If no-one follows your example, at least you tried.
Posted by: Peter Preston | 11 June 2009 at 12:09 PM
Mr Hitchens,
On sundays I look forward to reading your column.
I was reading your blog when I read something very disappointing I would not expect or like from you.
" Google ‘Peter Hitchens’ and ‘manifesto of sorts’ "
Use of the term Google I think is the hallmark of the lazy journalist. The sort of journalist who continually goes on about YouTube or worse iPod this and iPod that.
There are three big search engines, just a good as each other, they are: Microsofts Bing, Yahoo, and Google.
I personally us Yahoo's Altavista.
I have done before Google even came on the scene.
Why can you not use the neutral " Web search".
But I do not think Google deserves this treatment, when Yahoo is just as good and has been around longer the Google.
Posted by: Bob | 10 June 2009 at 05:11 PM
If you believe as I do that tribalism is a natural form of self preservation why is every move and utterance of the BNP. reviled and rejected out of hand by otherwise moderate people? After all Griffin seeks only to maintain a British tribe. Granted he represents some views more extreme than most of us do, but almost anyone over 60 would agree with their printed manifesto. Surely the brutish element of the party will be cast aside. There is more to fear from uncontrolled immigration and the total suffocation of Britishness than there is to fear from a party suffering from a form of xenophobia which is entirely curable. Be that as it may, despite getting the worst press in history they now have two seats in the EU. so perhaps we protest too much.
Posted by: Denis Gillon | 09 June 2009 at 12:30 PM
To contributor Vikki Boynton.
Thank you for your reply, ma'am. You write:
"What we need are honest and decent people. "
We agree on that at least. I suggest, however, that when you find them you don't burden them with any kind of power, because if you do they will find it harder and harder to remain honest and decent. My reaction to my continuing failure to win the lottery is somewhat ambivalent On the one hand I would like to be rich but on the other hand perhaps it may be one of God's ways of telling me that I'm already quite corrupt enough without making matters worse.
Whoever the fellow was, who first came out with "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely", he certainly, as they say, 'said a mouthful'.
Peter Preston, your example above isn't comparable. I don't doubt, either, that some claims were genuinely mistaken and not intentional. However, flipping your first and second home, is clearly a deliberate way to take advantage of the rules and avoiding capital gains tax and building up a property portfolio at the tax payers expense could hardly be either abiding by the rules or remotely within 'the spirit' of the rules. Avoidance of tax is criminal.
People sometimes talk about 'a silent agreement'. It is an agreement of certain unspoken expectations. For example, I am persuaded to lend my ball gown to a friend, though perhaps I'd rather not and tell her to look after it. I tell the friend to help themselves, it's upstairs. The friend takes it off to the ball and when she returns, not only has it got a stain on it, I discover, that while in bedroom she decided to borrow some jewelry which she forgot to give back to me. The unspoken agreement is that she should at least get the dress cleaned and I shouldn't have to ask for the return of the jewelry which she shouldn't have 'borrowed' in the first place.
In the same way with the MP's, they are given expenses to help maintain their homes. They should under this arrangement, only carry out vital and necessary maintainance. There is an unspoken agreement that they will not include such things as a duck house on the expenses for that is not strictly necessary to the maintenance of their house. The rules are perfectly clear and those who have taken advantage have broken the rules and the spirit with which they were intended. It's quite simple. Where the problem seems to lie, is the idea that MP's can buy or charge for things instead of having a pay increase. This seems to be the general attitude where expenses have been looked upon as 'perks' of the job. As Peter said a while ago, they didn't dare ask for a raise in their salary as they knew the extent to which they had been milking the system already.
What we need are honest and decent people.
Peter says that it could be argued Germany started the Balkans crises, but who also independently recognised Croatia as an independent State? Was it not the Vatican? At a time the former Telegraph journalist Robert Hutchinson (in his book Thy Kingdom Come) claimed the Vatican then funded the arming of Croatia while Clinton on their behalf broke the UN arms embargo to get the weapons in?
Peter, the German airforce began its bombing of Belgrade on the very day Serbs remembered that Nazis first bombing Belgrade during WW2. Now why was that? What would the EU/NATO wish to play these cruel mindgames with those who were victims of the NAZIS second only to the Jews? Is this psy-ops? To pander to the worst Serb fears the EU is some German plot and continuation of National Socialist foreign policy? The media should have presented this in its true light. That war was all about sending messages.
In truth one of the biggest reasons the Palestinians will not make peace in the middle east is related to our decision to bomb Serbia on behalf, as they see it, political expansionist Islam. Ever since then the whole Palestinian policy has been based on desperately trying to demonize Israel and conning the worlds mesia even by making their own people cannon fodder for media consumption if necessary in hope of provoking a similar Kosova style UN intervention. Infact during the last war Hamas provoked Israel into the messageboards were full of people calling for a Kosovo style UN military intervention against Israel.
Posted by: R Brown | 07 June 2009 at 12:41 PM
Contributor Vikki Boynton, whom I thank for her reply, writes:
" The crux of the issue is the 'spirit' in which these rules were intended and MP's were well aware of this spirit. When they were set up, clearly MP's were expected to act in an honourable and honest way and not to take advantage of the good will towards them. No one thought it necessary to write down chapter and verse on these rules because they assumed the 'Honourable members' would be honourable. "
Although I would not be surprised if some of the allegations you make about MPs turned out to be true, I do not agree with you, ma'am, about the perceived 'spirit' of the rules concerned being "the crux of the issue". To me the whole MPs' expenses story is just one more manifestation of an important truth, which we neglect - and many of us do seem to neglect it - at our peril. It is a truth so blindingly obvious that only in intellectually confused, materialistic societies, such as ours currently is, could it ever be doubted. It is known to orthodox Christians as the Doctrine of Original Sin and is admirably summed up for all practical purposes in the wise old saying "Give 'em and inch and they'll take a yard" (or, for readers recently comprehensively schooled, "Give ' em a centimetre and they'll take a metre").
I blame no-one for 'toeing the line' for I am prepared to do it myself. If the Inland Revenue tell me, for example, that I no longer need to declare this or that income or if the amount of VAT payable on what I buy is reduced, I see no reason to worry my head about what might have been the 'spirit' of the regulations thus modified but gratefully enjoy the modifications concerned.
The answer is, of course, very simple. Simply don't give 'em the "inch" (or "centimetre", as the case may be). Frame the rules, as the Inland Revenue seems to have done with its rules and the VAT people with theirs, in such a way that busy MPs have no need to worry about any 'spirit' alleged to be involved therein.
Imagine, for example, if you will, a young children's birthday party to be held at your house. You are nataurally concerned about preventing your valuables from being damaged by the high spirits of the little ones, as yet too unsophisticated to concern themselves with things like expensive porcelain and the like.
I suggest that there are two ways to protect your precious items:
1) Leave them in place but instruct all the children as they arrive that they must be very careful indeed and not get too excited because, if your Ming dynasty items got damaged, you'd be very upset because they were irreplaceable and so everyone had better behave 'responsibily'.
2) Lock your valuable away for the duration of the party in a room to which access was to be denied to the visiting children.
Option 1) expects the youngsters to observe your 'spirit' of the occasion - but hardly theirs.
Option 2), I suggest, represents the 'rules'.
Under Option 1) even a momentary and involuntary inattention by any of the children might result in costly damage, whereas under Option 2) the only way such damage could be effected is by a conscious and deliberate act of vandalism.
Plainly only a foolish parent would go for Option 1) or be surprised at any subsequent damage. Similarly, I maintain, it is not realistic to be surprised - still less shocked - by allegations that some MPs may have failed to honour a perceived 'spirit' of rules either badly drawn up or else inefficiently enforced.
MPs are human beings and human beings are prone to error. Simple charity, I suggest, ought to prevent us from assuming that all errors must have been deliberate.
Peter Preston, thanks for your reply. You say, "But wouldn't almost anyone in their position, ma'am, be at least sorely tempted to avail himself of the facilities available? If 'the rules' allow something, those 'rules' may indeed need to be revised but those who obey them are hardly to be despised. There is surely a world of difference between toeing a line (however closely and however misdrawn that line may subsequently be judged to have been) and actually crossing it."
I'm afraid I disagree. They have crossed the line. The crux of the issue is the 'spirit' in which these rules were intended and MP's were well aware of this spirit. When they were set up, clearly MP's were expected to act in an honourable and honest way and not to take advantage of the good will towards them. No one thought it necessary to write down chapter and verse on these rules because they assumed the 'Honourable members' would be honourable. Ther rules are quite clear, claims are supposed to be for things that directly relate to MP's abiliy to carry out their jobs. Flipping homes, avoiding capital gains tax and so on, is quite clearly not the intention or within the 'spirit' of the rules. It is plain and simple fiddling.
We've had years of a labour government which brought in people who probably have never seen such money pots and all their high minded socially moral attitudes about the working men (and women, mustn't forget them) flew out of the window. Through all the years of spouting class hatred towards the Tory Toffs and their disgustingly unfair wealth, they have themselves been lining their pockets while continuing to berate the Toffs and all the while they have become further and further removed from the very people they said they wanted to represent. Their socialist leanings are ok for you and I but not for them anymore. I have nothing but contemp for them.
As I have said before, the rules don't necessarily need to be changed. We just need to find decent people who won't take advantage. Labour's reforms to date have been appalling and I don't trust them to 'clean up' parliament. Their track record is woeful already.
But the best thing to happen now, is to let Gordon dig his heels in as he is, and stay as PM. He is so awful and arrogant and out of touch that he will bring about his own demise, whether sooner or late. You may have noticed on tonights news that he has said he is determined to carry on with *his* ideas, to keep doing the job and that he will not leave until *he* has carried through the changes *he* wants to make for Britain. He has failed to realise despite the local election results, that *we* don't want *him* to make his ghastly changes to our country - he's done enough damage already.
Liked your limmerick!
Contributor Vikki Boynton writes:
"The whole sickening business of them making use of private healthcare whilst expecting us to use the NHS, sending their children to private or selectively good schools, having police escorts and extra security and so on, while we have to make do. But most of all, I despise this Labour government who say they represent the common man whilst living the life of Riley. What are they doing with all these riches?"
But wouldn't almost anyone in their position, ma'am, be at least sorely tempted to avail himself of the facilities available? If 'the rules' allow something, those 'rules' may indeed need to be revised but those who obey them are hardly to be despised. There is surely a world of difference between toeing a line (however closely and however misdrawn that line may subsequently be judged to have been) and actually crossing it.
I agree with you entirely about the luxuries which some MPs by reason simply of their position are permitted to enjoy, luxuries denied to the rest of us but surely now -if ever- with the government seemingly 'on the ropes' and cabinet ministers, it seems, almost queuing up to abandon a sinking ship, now surely, if ever, the voters have an opportunity to seek to redress the balance.
Pigs, however, are more likely to fly than any such balance is to be redressed, because the people en masse are readily maneuvered and science-blinded by vague and unsubstantial promises couched in largely incomprehensible language. For most people -rightly preoccupied with the important things in life, like raising families - politics, I suggest, affords merely a simple and well-trodden means of venting their impotent frustration - frustration sometimes, it seems, orchestrated by copy-hungry news-media - when things go badly wrong.
The readiness of most people to let politicians - despite all their faults - go on managing things as before is nicely expressed by a limerick I found:
Democracy works (entre nous)
When a knowing, intelligent few
Tell the people, "You rule"
And each plebeian fool
Answers, "Right, guv'nor. What must we do?"
Peter Preston writes, "Besides it's not nice to be glad when some else seems to have misbehaved."
In normal circumstances I would heartily agree with that sentiment. I am not one to go along with the mob, instinctively turning away from peoples enjoyment in seeing someone squirm. However, I cannot find sympathy for the MP's under current attack for their behaviour. Possibly because they have been so domineering towards us in passing endless unwanted laws, but also, because so many of them have double standards. The whole sickening business of them making use of private healthcare whilst expecting us to use the NHS, sending their children to private or selectively good schools, having police escorts and extra security and so on, while we have to make do. But most of all, I despise this Labour government who say they represent the common man whilst living the life of Riley. What are they doing with all these riches? They despise the rich - usually. It is their champagne socialist leanings that I thoroughly despise. Why can't they be the working class types that they purport to sympathize with. Why take all that money? They don't even have the courage of their own convictions and that makes me sick. And that's why I don't mind the people expressing their disgust and giving them a hard time!
Peter Preston 03 June 2009 at 12:41 PM.
You asked a question so I had better reply. The recent expenses fiasco is a case in point. There is very little hearsay involved here I would say, as resignations have followed and some MPs face deselection, I would call that deception on a grand scale. It has been admitted that the justification for the invasion of Iraq was based on a student thesis published on the web and that its authenticity was never called into question. nobody ever thought to ask the questions, 'What weapons of mass destruction?', 'Who is he going to use them against?', 'How is he going to launch them?'. Just as well really because any truthful answer would have stopped the invasion.
Going back to Ted Heath's government, their manifesto was clear, they were going to investigate and negotiate our terms of entry, the next thing we know is the legislation is being forced through Parliament. If it wasn't a lie to begin with, subsequent actions made it one.
I could go on but it would be tedious.
Posted by: Michael Williamson | 04 June 2009 at 05:13 PM
" Would you rather we just didn't know what politicians have been up to, in case they lose their authority?? Children can distinguish between having respect for those in authority who truly deserve that respect and not having respect for those in authority who have proven that they don't deserve to be in authority through despicable behaviour."
I am sorry, ma'am. I have not expressed myself very well. It is not the politicians' authority but ours, as ordinary citizens, that I would prefer to salvage from the wreck.
The trouble with the current widespread and rather gleeful public Schadenfreude over the humiliation of public authority - and especially of one so bereft of resources to defend itself - is that it undermines - and especially in the still malleable and naturally idealistic minds of the young - any sense they may still retain in our ever more 'in-yer-face' culture of respect for those who are not in a position to command it.
Besides it's not nice to be glad when some else seems to have misbehaved.
Michael Williamson in an otherwise amusing reply, for which I thank him. replies for my request for proof of his charge that politicians lie:
"If you insist, I'll start with the invasion of Iraq, I could go on with numerous examples but I have neither the time nor the inclination.
I would say that just about every human being has lied and deceived in his lifetime sometimes for noble motives sometimes not."
Well, your information on the recent invasion of Iraq is plainly more complete than mine. I only 'know' what the radio, tv and newspapers have told me and I tend to treat hearsay with caution. Have you, for example, any proof that that military action was not mounted at that time in order to counter a genuinely perceived danger - even if it may later turn out to have been groundless - to Britain or British interests? I have no such proof but, as I say, perhaps your information is better than mine.
Isn't it anyway a bit thick to make generalised accusations and then claim personal disinclination as a reason for failing to supply further and better particulars?
If, as you maintain, sir, "just about every human being has lied and deceived in his lifetime sometimes for noble motives sometimes not", is not unjust to rejoice quite so inquisitorially over the humiliation of one class of citizens, currently pilloried for being similarly human? Would it not simply be better to accept that all politicians are by reason of their position exposed to more, or more far-ranging, temptations to corruption than the rest of us are but at the same time accept the unfortunate necessity of employing such people simply because we ourselves have better things to do?
It might even, who knows, awaken a little Christian charity in us.
Posted by: Peter Preston 02 June 2009 at 11:48 AM.
"Have you any proof, sir, that they "lie and deceive". It would not surprise me particularly, if you turned out to be right, because they are human beings and some human beings lie and deceive but I have no evidence that politicians do so.".
This has to be ironic, you cannot really be asking for proof surely? If you insist, I'll start with the invasion of Iraq, I could go on with numerous examples but I have neither the time nor the inclination.
I would say that just about every human being has lied and deceived in his lifetime sometimes for noble motives sometimes not. Politicians are merely a branch of PR/Marketing conglomeration whose raison d'etre is lies and deception. They don't see it that way of course they would prefer to say:
1. "We present the facts in the best possible light" (We lie through our teeth)
2. "The figures prove that we are right" (We changed the figures yesterday)
3. "When we look at the big picture" (A completely different big picture)
4. "Let me phrase that question in a different way" (Let me change that question, because I have no convincing answer to it)
5. "The opposition are appealing to the populist vote" (Damn, why didn't we think of that?)
6. "That is a matter of national security and it would be irresponsible to discuss it" (That was well below the belt but that response usually ends the matter - careful not to use it too often though)
They are, for the most part, unable to answer a simple question with an honest answer so they lie and deceive.
Peter Preston writes "I think that on balance I would opt for less "transparency" because the sort we have is not only boring but it might also rob the young of respect for rulers of any kind. It is folly to increase your knowledge at the expense of your authority. Those who rub their hands with glee to see politicians humiliated may be sawing at the branch on which their own parental authority is sitting."
I can't make head nor tail of this statement frankly. Would you rather we just didn't know what politicians have been up to, in case they lose their authority?? Children can distinguish between having respect for those in authority who truly deserve that respect and not having respect for those in authority who have proven that they don't deserve to be in authority through despicable behaviour.
In some ways the behaviour of some MP's is all the worse because they claim to be acting within the rules, when in fact, they have seen loopholes in the rules which they have taken advantage of, whilst knowing that they can later claim that they have done nothing wrong. It is the moral bankruptcy that is so disturbing and we need to know all about it!
I'm disappointed. My last contribution included a reference to a quote attributed to Lyndon Johnson about Edgar J Hoover which has been removed. I will admit that the quotation is slightly bawdy and perhaps, to some sensibilities, profane but I did represent the offending word with asterisks - isn't this carrying censorship a little too far?
Contributor Paul Embery, whom I thank for his reply, writes:
"Do politicians lie and deceive? Yes."
Have you any proof, sir, that they "lie and deceive". It would not surprise me particularly, if you turned out to be right, because they are human beings and some human beings lie and deceive but I have no evidence that politicians do so.
You further allege, sir, that I "say words to the effect of "Things are not what I would like them to be; the democratic process isn't functioning as well as it might, so why not let’s just cut our losses and hand back power to the unelected aristocrats.""
I don't mind being criticized for things I have said but it really is a bit thick, sir, to put words, so to speak, into my mouth and then criticize me for saying things I have not said - involving sentiments incidentally which I do not recommend.
You advise " more democracy, more accountability, more transparency" but to what end, sir?
Are we not already "accountable" enough to our rulers, whom modern electronic technology already permits not only to keep enormous quantities of our personal data in their records but also occasionally to mislay those very records in public places. Might not the "transparency" which you recommend turn out to be nothing other than one more demonstration of how public opinion can be manipulated by the communications media and those controlling them. After all, where is the desired transparency to come from, if not from the newspapers, radio and tv? Why should we be more ready to believe what they tell us than what the politicians tell us? Either way it's just hearsay, isn't it?
As for your assertion that "Every word of your contribution betrays your belief, like that of Mr Hitchens, that the voters are a bunch of boneheaded imbeciles who are simply too thick to choose their own leaders and really need rescuing from themselves", your own words, sir, would appear to betray a disinclination to read carefully enough what others have written not to make unwarranted assertions.
Some of our fellow-citizens might indeed qualify for membership of the psychological category "boneheaded imbeciles" to which you refer but the notion that voters in general should be thus described seems to me not only fatuous nonsense but also discourteous.
What I do actually say about a sizable majority of my fellow-citizens is that they seem to be so imbued with a malleable naiveté - which in children would be an endearing and charming condition - that, when it comes to electing those who are to rule over them, they seem happy to 'buy a pig in a poke'. It doesn't seem to occur to many of them even to ask the candidates what precisely they mean by the vague abstraction-filled and encoded language in which they couch their parliamentary intentions and promises.
A man who was prepared to buy a second-hand car unseen and on the basis of a vague description by the seller might not be certifiable as "boneheaded" but doubts might reasonably be entertained about his prudence.
I think that on balance I would opt for less "transparency" because the sort we have is not only boring but it might also rob the young of respect for rulers of any kind. It is folly to increase your knowledge at the expense of your authority. Those who rub their hands with glee to see politicians humiliated may be sawing at the branch on which their own parental authority is sitting.
Posted by: Peter Preston | 02 June 2009 at 11:48 AM
A response to Peter Preston (1 June 2009 at 12:19pm).
Is our political system perfect, Mr Preston? Absolutely not.
Do politicians lie and deceive? Yes.
Are our elected representatives as accountable as they ought to be? Nowhere near.
Is the political process as transparent as it should be? See above.
Can we really claim to be a democratic nation? Probably not. We are, at best, a partial democracy, I would venture.
So what's the answer? I say more democracy, more accountability, more transparency. We've made some progress since the nineteenth century, but there is a long, long way to go. Whereas you say words to the effect of "Things are not what I would like them to be; the democratic process isn't functioning as well as it might, so why not let’s just cut our losses and hand back power to the unelected aristocrats."
And how can it be a given fact, as you suggest, that "the electorate has been less than judicious in its selections"? That, Mr Preston, is entirely a matter of opinion. You may be of the view that the electorate got it wrong by electing a Labour government for a third time, and you are entitled to that opinion. But to state it as though it were an unalterable truth, like two plus two is four or the Earth is the third planet from the sun, is arrogant and dangerous. Like I said, it's this kind of talk that justifies the overthrow of elected governments by autocratic tyrants around the world.
Every word of your contribution betrays your belief, like that of Mr Hitchens, that the voters are a bunch of boneheaded imbeciles who are simply too thick to choose their own leaders and really need rescuing from themselves. Thank God that you, Mr Hitchens and those charitable unelected and unaccountable aristos are on hand to enlighten us and lead us to the promised land, eh? Where would we be without you?
Posted by: Paul Embery | 01 June 2009 at 06:51 PM
Wesley Crosland 30 May 2009 at 08:50 PM.
Linking Tony Benn (the 2nd Viscount Stansgate) with common sense is surely an oxymoron is it not? The man is as mad as a hatter. Likeable and probably quite nice to know but make sure the matches are hidden before leaving him on his own.
As to the hereditary principle, let us consider a few things. Peers of the realm were created for a variety of reasons throughout the centuries:
1. The were relatives or close friends of the monarch.
2. They allowed the king to take their wives as mistresses without complaint.
3. They formed armies and killed a lot of foreign johnnies.
4. They were too powerful not to have on side.
Are you suggesting we re-instate these worthies? Should life peers also be considered as these don't follow the hereditary principle? I think you's better think it out again.
Paul Embery | 31 May 2009 at 07:26 PM - thanks for your fascinating and funny comment (in the best sense) . I especially enjoyed:
"He doesn’t think the electorate is intelligent enough to make a good fist of choosing the first. We’re all a bunch of clots for misusing our votes and choosing a government that Mr Hitchens doesn’t like. That’s why we need the aristocratic elite to ride to our rescue: we need saving from ourselves. And he accused ME of being a totalitarian."
Change 'the aristocratic elite' to 'Peter Hitchens' and it still works.
Posted by: Alec T. Movitmuvit. | 01 June 2009 at 12:51 PM
Contributor Paul Embery writes:
"He (Peter Hitchens) then lets the cat out of the bag with his talk about a “conformist” electorate which is ”manipulated…into endorsing the aims of the elite”. See, this is the real reason Mr Hitchens wants an unelected second chamber. He doesn’t think the electorate is intelligent enough to make a good fist of choosing the first. We’re all a bunch of clots for misusing our votes and choosing a government that Mr Hitchens doesn’t like.
I suggest, sir, that our recent history and recent public confessions by some elected parliamentarians would strongly support the view, which you seem for some reason to find contemptible, that the electorate has been less than judicious in its selections. Whether or not the rulers we have in our democratic way chosen in the last decade or so are to Mr Hitchens' liking - as you claim - many of them are not even to the liking of those who chose them.
Political power is, like fire, a good servant but a terrible master and should be handled by as few people as possible and even by the few with great caution
To expect the electorate to decipher the vague, non-committal and hopelessly generalised and encoded abstractions which constitute almost all political speeches and pronouncements and in such linguistic and psychological confusion to choose on which of the three or four pre-selected options to put their money may be labelled by some slogan-obsessed individuals "democracy" but its results have, I suggest, served only to demonstrate that the over-praised and rather sheepish "people" are indeed "conformist" and easily "manipulated" and. it would seem, as virtuous or corrupt as their more aristocratic predecessors have been.
There's no getting away from it, sir. The rulers of all societies turn out in the end, whatever labels intellectuals may give them, to be oligarchies - or 'juntas', as they are nowadays called - small groups or cabals of powerful people who, even when not 'celebrities', are to be found, so to speak, pulling the strings.
I personally see nothing to suggest that our present oligarchy has been rendered the more virtuous or disinterested for having been selected from the few options allowed to the people than were earlier administrations which owed their formation to less democratic criteria.
Contributor Paul Carlin advises Peter Hitchens:
"Are you standing as an Independent? Please do so."
If Mr Hitchens were in any danger of following such advice, it would convince me that I had completely misread his personal philosophy over the last decade or so.
Mr Hitchens does not need my advice, I'm sure, and in any other circumstance I would not offer it but perhaps I might take the liberty of seeking to balance Mr Carlin's request with one of my own:
"If you have any intention, sir, of standing as a candidate for parliamentary election, please think again. What beckons to people to follow that road rarely leads to their personal good. Be rather like the wily fox in Aesop's fable who, asked by a lion feigning sickness why she would not bring him some food, as the other animals had done, replied:
"It's these footprints in the dust that I'm worried about; I notice that they all point towards your lair but there are none pointing back!"
As for Germany having economic dominance with its near neighbours - what of it? Somewhat inevitable given its size and position. Those are matters for the countries concerned. We should concern ourselves with the state of our own economy.
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Momad and ShoesRoom to be held in same space
Triana Alonso
today Dec 13, 2019
Momad and ShoesRoom, which went their separate ways in 2015, are joining forces to host a joint showcase at Ifema in Madrid on 6-8 February, according to an announcement issued by the events’ organiser on Wednesday 11 December.
Momad and Shoesroom will take place in Madrid in February - Ifema
This will allow Ifema to organise “the largest trade event in the sector”, after a series of surveys conducted by Momad showed widespread support from ShoesRoom exhibitors. According to Ifema, 72% of those surveyed would prefer to showcase their footwear collection under Momad’s umbrella. Meanwhile, 64% of visitors evaluated a joint show as “positive”.
Ifema said it has always supported the sector’s needs. “Following the latest exhibitor survey, we will support the integration of both shows into a single and exclusive event to reflect a move towards what is known as ‘Canal Boutique’, stores that sell everything from clothing to accessories and footwear, under one roof,” said Ana Larrañaga from Ifema.
The Spanish trade body for footwear (FICE) welcomed Ifema’s decision, with CEO José Monzonís saying it will be “interesting to go back to a collaboration model in response to the sector’s needs.”
The last edition of Momad, held at Ifema on 12-14 September, welcomed over 15,200 visitors as well as 800 brands from 37 countries. Meanwhile, ShoesRoom by Momad took place in La Nave, Madrid on 20-22 September with a line-up of over 112 brands and more than 3,000 visitors.
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Bert Gardiner
Jack Beattie
1937–38 New York Rangers season
Ice hockey leagues, Ice hockey in Great Britain
English Premier Ice Hockey League
Sport Ice hockey
No. of teams 10
Country(ies) England.
Most recent champion(s) Peterborough Phantoms
Official website English Premier Ice Hockey League
The logo of the EPIHL as of the 2009-2010 season.
The logo of the EPIHL prior to the 2009-2010 season.
The English Premier Ice Hockey League commonly abbreviated to EPIHL, or simpy EPL, is a senior ice hockey league in England, and is run and administered by the English Ice Hockey Association. The league currently consists of 10 teams predominantly based in Southern England, and is generally considered to be the second tier league below the Elite Ice Hockey League although there is no promotion or relegation between the two.
The league was founded in 1997, where it initially served as the effective 3rd tier of the game, offering a level of play above the import free English leagues, but below the 8 import British National League. Since the 2005–06 season it has functioned as the second tier, as previously the now disbanded British National League filled this position; and, in fact, many previous BNL teams now play in the EPIHL.
League Structure Edit
The league operates on a 54 game schedule. Each team plays the others in a 3 home, 3 away series. A number of these games also double up as the initial fixtures in the EPIHL Cup tournament. Each team will play 2 games per week during the season, with the exception of a break over the christmas period. The majority of the games are played on Saturdays and Sundays, reflecting the semi-pro status of many of the leagues players.
The Season culminates with the play-offs. 8 teams qualify, and engage in a 2 leg home and away series to decide which 4 teams will attend the Play Off Finals weekend, held in the SkyDome Arena Coventry, a neutral venue.
The league is administered and sanctioned by the EIHA. The team owners meet regularly to discuss league matters under the auspices of the league chairman, and take a democratic vote on all decisions.
Distribution of EPIHL Teams
Current Teams Edit
Basingstoke Bison (2009– )
Bracknell Bees (2005– )
Guildford Flames (2005– )
Manchester Phoenix (2009– )
Milton Keynes Lightning (2002– )
Peterborough Phantoms (2002– )
Romford Raiders (1998– )
Sheffield Scimitars (2005– )
Slough Jets (2002– )
Swindon Wildcats (1997– )
League Restrictions Edit
The league operates under a number of restrictions, allowing it to classify itself as a 'developmental league'.
The main restriction placed on the member clubs is a limit of 4 non EIHA trained, EU passport holding 'import' players dressed per game. Further to this, only 3 of these players may be on the ice simultaneously, with certain exceptions. Full details are available at the following link: [1]. Despite the 4 imports dressed rule, it is not uncommon for some teams to sign a 5th import as 'backup' in case of injuries to an 'active' import.
The league has no wage limitations, although it is generally accepted that due to the import restriction, wage bills are lower than teams in the EIHL. Despite the lower wages paid, the league still suffers from teams folding, or quitting the league due to financial problems.
Comparison to other leagues Edit
The EPIHL is played at a standard significantly below all of the major European leagues.
On a domestic level, the league is considered to be much less skillful that the Elite Ice Hockey League, mostly due to the restrictions in place on imported players. When games have been played between EPIHL and EIHL sides, invariably the EPIHL side has been soundly defeated, although these games are a very rare occurence, usually retricted to pre season friendlies.
Opposite to this is the fact that the EPIHL is considered to be a superior league to the English National Ice Hockey League. Indeed, a number of ENIHL sides act as offical and unoffical 'feeder' clubs to EPIHL sides (such as the Trafford Metros relationship with the Manchester Phoenix).
Stadium Capacity Edit
Bracknell Bees: John Nike Leisuresport Complex, 2400
Guildford Flames: Guildford Spectrum, 2200
Milton Keynes Lightning: Planet Ice Milton Keynes, 2200
Manchester Phoenix: Altrincham Ice Dome, 2150
Basingstoke Bison: Planet Ice Silverdome Arena, 1800
Sheffield Scimitars: iceSheffield, 1500
Romford Raiders: Romford Ice Arena, 1500
Swindon Wildcats: Link Centre, 1250
Peterborough Phantoms: Planet Ice Peterborough, 1250
Slough Jets: Slough Ice Rink, 1000
Previous Teams Edit
Billingham Eagles (1997–1998)
Blackburn Hawks (1998–1999)
Chelmsford Chieftains (1998–2001, and 2002–2008)
England u20-u18 (2000–2003)
Haringey Greyhounds (2000–2003)
Hull Stingrays (2005–2006)
Hull Thunder (1997–2003)
Invicta Dynamos (1997–2003)
Milton Keynes Kings (1998–1999)
Nottingham Lions (2000–2003)
Oxford City Stars (1998–1999)
Solihull Barons (1997–1999, 2000–2002, and 2003–2007)
Sunderland Chiefs (1997–1998)
Telford Tigers (2002–2009)
Whitley Bay Warriors (1997–1998)
Wightlink Raiders (1997–2009)
League Champions Edit
1997-98 Solihull Barons
1999-00 Chelmsford Chieftains
2000-01 Swindon Wildcats
2001-02 Invicta Dynamos
2002-03 Peterborough Phantoms
2003-04 Milton Keynes Lightning
2005-06 Guildford Flames
2006-07 Bracknell Bees
Playoff Champions Edit
1997–98 Solihull Barons
1999–00 Chelmsford Chieftains
2000–01 Romford Raiders
2001–02 Invicta Dynamos
2002–03 Milton Keynes Lightning
2006–07 Bracknell Bees
2007–08 Slough Jets
2008–09 Peterborough Phantoms
2009-10 Slough Jets
English Cup Champions Edit
1997–98 No Cup Competition
1998–99 Milton Keynes Kings
2002–03 Wightlink Raiders
2006–07 Guildford Flames
Knock-Out Cup Champions Edit
EPIHL Official Website
Unofficial EPIHL website & Forum
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Sabine McNeill on trial: Day 6
Sabine McNeill’s trial on 17 charges of violating a restraining order and four charges of stalking ground to a complete halt today, for reasons completely unconnected to her transportation to and from Bronzefield Prison.
Rather, the problem today originated with a person who has until now had almost no connection to the Hampstead SRA hoax. Some readers might remember “Eddieisok”, the would-be Tommy Robinson supporter and YouTuber whose interview with Brian Harvey last summer consisted of him nodding and saying, “Go on…”.
Well, it seems that he has taken it upon himself to “investigate” people accused of being connected to the alleged cult.
Yesterday this took the form of Eddie standing just beyond the court precinct (at the foot of the stairs outside) filming people with his iPhone as they went into and out of the court. He claimed to be looking for “trolls” who he wanted identified and investigated, and chief among those he listed was EC, who he had divined (from being in the same room but not speaking to her) is “very full of herself”. Uh-huh.
Anyway, back to the trial…
A waiting game
Outside Courtroom 11, supporters for both sides sat in the hallway…and sat…and sat…and sat. A sign on the courtroom door informed us that HHJ Sally Cahill QC was in chambers, and another hand-scrawled sign said, “Please do not come in”.
Various officers of the court bustled in and out, with no sign of any change in the situation. We had no clue what was up, and there was much grumbling to be heard.
The assembled groups included Belinda McKenzie; Mary Rooney; a woman we refer to affectionately as ‘Cardi Lady’ for her large and rather beautiful Kaffe Fassett cardigan; another lady named Margaret; Barbara Collier (formerly known as Babs, who has apparently decided that the gossip on the other side of the hoaxer fence is more rewarding…for now); various people unknown to us, and Eddieisok himself.
On our relatively sparse side: a gentleman we’d never met; Postnein, and EC.
A trip to the office
At one point late in the morning, a court guard approached Eddie and asked him whether he had been taking photos in the court precinct. Eddie denied this, but when the guard asked EC and Postnein whether we knew anything about it, we described yesterday’s videos, as well as a third one which Eddie had made earlier this morning. At this point, the guard told us to come with him to an office on the first floor, and asked us to tell the nice lady at the counter what had happened.
We did so, and the lady went off into an inner office for a bit. Eventually a court police officer came and told us that the police were already aware of Eddie’s escapades, that it was being handled, and we were free to go back upstairs.
In the public gallery
And then it was back to waiting. At one point Neelu Berry made an appearance with Edward W. Ellis in tow; and whither Neelu goes, Lee Cant cannot be far behind. In fact, Neelu was still lingering at the other end of the hallway when the court doors opened and we were told we could come inside. Neelu remained outside the court, but Lee Cant did come in, along with Eddie and the rest.
The public gallery was nearly full for the first time since this trial began. At 2:50 p.m. (a new record for late starts!), the court usher called the dock officer to the court. The dock officer arrived with Sabine, but the usher indicated that Sabine was not wanted at present, so she was sent back to wait.
The waiting game explained?
The court clerk then indicated that the person they wished to deal with was Paul Rogers, aka Eddieisok. He was asked to step into the now-empty dock, which he did, seeming a bit confused.
Judge Cahill informed him that on 15 December 2017, Judge Beddoes had made an order governing this case, that no people should be named whose identification could lead to the identification of any children who might be involved. We have referred to this reporting restriction on several occasions.
The judge said she was aware that Rogers had uploaded clips to YouTube yesterday in which he had named a witness who testified last week. She asked him to read a document he had been given, which outlined the charges against him, and stated that he had the right to immediate legal advice if he wished.
Rogers declined this offer, and started to explain: “I was outside the court, and I did a video. I just wanted to film people identified as trolls”.
However, it appeared that the court was not interested in his filming, but in the actual content of one of his videos.
Judge Cahill stated that while it would be premature to do anything today, she was satisfied of the need to protect the integrity of Sabine’s case. Therefore, she said, Rogers would be remanded in custody overnight.
As he was led out of the dock to the cells, Rogers called over his shoulder, “Thank you, Karen Irving”. Apparently it had not yet sunk in that this arrest had nothing to do with his filming outside the court, and everything to do with contempt of court.
Neelu’s lucky escape
Once Rogers had been taken away, Miranda Moore QC told the judge that Neelu Berry had been spotted in the building. Indeed, she had started to come into the court with the rest of us, but had changed her mind and left.
The judge rose whilst a search of the building was carried out, to no avail. At 3:35, Moore asked Judge Cahill to formally refer the matter to the court Attorney, which she did.
The public gallery was once again cleared, as the court needed to determine whether members of the jury might have been compromised by Rogers’ filming outside the court.
Court is set to resume at 10:30 tomorrow morning, at which point we hope to learn of the court’s decision.
We have to say we are less than impressed with Eddieisok’s performance today, as his conspiranoid shenanigans managed to lose this trial a full day’s worth of testimony.
Not only has he delayed matters at court, but if his goal is to assist Sabine (whom he rather comically persists in calling “Sabeel”), he has failed miserably. Instead, what he has done is drawn out an already long trial, and ensured that she will have to endure yet another round trip on the dreaded prison bus.
Good going, mate.
27/11/2018 in Legal news. Tags: arrest, contempt of court, reporting restriction, restraining order, Sabine McNeill, trial
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Owies, and they went looking for neelu too….
This is starting to look like the hoaxers are all being looked at- hard….
First apd’s video gets her noticed by the courts, then eddieisnotok… and neelu was being looked for….
I bet there are some worried people right now out there in hoaxerland…
Wow! 😲
Thanks for this news, EC!
I thought when his later promised video didn’t appear, that he may have been banged up, I’m really glad he is being dealt with. But for everyone participating, what a frustrating pain.
Not only has he delayed matters at court, but if his goal is to assist Sabine (whom he rather comically persists in calling “Sabeel”), he has failed miserably. Instead, what he has done is drawn out an already long trial
And if the goal was to convince the jury that Sabine’s witch-smelling was perfectly harmless, and did not injure people, and did not incite borderline-personality eedjits to start their own witch-smelling careers, he is not doing it right.
In other Southwark Crown Court news: David Noakes sent down for 15 months..
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/notorious-noakes-10m-guernsey-gcmaf-crook-imprisoned
He was saying yesterday that the ‘trolls’ were rattled. Who’s rattled now?
He said EC is ‘full of herself’. No mate. She’s SURE of herself which is altogether different. It’s old Eddy who is full of himself and he’s projecting….he does that a lot.
I can’t imagine how any supposed supporter or friend of Sabine can act this way. Whatever one thinks of the events which led up to this trial, she is entitled to a fair and professional hearing, which numpties like Paul Rogers seemed determined to f**k up.
That said, many thanks for the very full and informative coverage EC.
I suspected something as amiss when causelist.org wasn’t updating.
it was always going to be this way. There are several sections of the law related to cases involving children but this case was very specific in the reporting restrictions being a Section 46 order, S46 is to prevent the identification of ADULTS involved in a youth case where this could result in the identification of a child. Now some of the witnesses will be professionals where it is legitimate to name them. However, a general filming of people going in an out of a court building in an attempt to identify “trolls” was always going to lead to at a minimum questioning and detention.
Too many people living in lala land and thinks reality deoes not apply to them.
Eddie probably thought he was doing a public service braving the ‘trolls’. He was warned yesterday about filming outside court but paid no heed. Did he really think he was doing something so important that the law would applaud him for it. Plank!
rosywillow says:
If Neelu is still of no fixed abode, the court seems like a sensible place to find her. Although wherever EWE and Lee Cant are, there will also be Neelu, and I suspect they have homes of sorts,
I’m trying very hard to feel sorry for Eddyisok, but nope, I just can’t do it.
I think it’s safe to say that the courts aren’t willing to tolerate any more nonsense about this case.
Yes, it really was frustrating to have to waste a day on this.
Yes, there was much commotion down the hall from us at one point.
I have no idea where people draw these conclusions about me. 🙂
Thanks, PA. The odd thing about Rogers is that I am quite certain he’s never met Sabine, nor does he have any connection with the case. He seems to have been egged on by (surprise!) Angela, but other than that I can see very little reason for him to have been there.
Yes, the Section 46 order is posted on the courtroom door (twice) and there are signs noting that there is a reporting restriction on the TV screens outside the courtroom and in the lobby of the building. It’s hard to miss.
The funny thing is that I have never, to my knowledge, said anything about him on this blog or elsewhere. I vaguely knew who he was, but I’ve certainly never trolled him.
So I wonder who could have given him the idea that he ought to come after me and claim I was a troll? coughAngelacough
He does seem quite unaware that he is doing anything wrong.
Paterson read out this entire post to Andy Devine and Angela on Devine’s livestream earlier.
He praised you on your fine writing, EC.
One of the sentences above is a lie. Can you guess which one? 😆
Another great write-up. Thank you, Karen Irving 😁
I think the court officials should look into how Eddieisok managed to report on tomorrow’s proceedings at 1pm today. Witchcraft? Time machine? Crystal ball…?
Yes, I would tend to agree. Really she would need to calm down or she will blow a gasket. I can’t imagine what her BP is!
Andy Devine’s latest video is very very disturbing & threatening towards you. There is also talk of going to court tomorrow with a knife. It’s a disgusting video! I would love to report it but it’s better left for the Police to see & listen to.
By the way, I gather that for all his pre-match bluster, John Paterson bottled it and never showed up 😂
That disgusting pig Angela has publicly named the children again 😡
Praterson also made death threats again, including one to the judge!!!
That mad bint Heather Brown is threatening to turn up at court tomorrow with a group of Wiccan activists 🙄
Oh and she says she’s cast a cancer spell on Angela.
Yeah, he was extremely threatening in that video.
😡😡😡😡😡
I’m only 24 minutes in so far and he’s already made three separate death threats to the judge (including one to have her put through a woodchipper by gangsters)! He needs to be reported and arrested asap.
Headless chickenry latest…
And he’s threatening to have you and Steve followed home by gangsters tomorrow, EC. Probably all bluster but please be careful
Oh and he’s just said his gangster mates know where you live and told you not to go home!
Andy’s been egging him on with these threats too; and at one point when Praterson says we’re all going to be killed, he says, “The sooner the better.”
Word is Jake Clarke’s gonna make an appearance too, lol.
Oh Gawd, Angie makes an appearance too. Sigh
Disturbing stuff. i’ll be interested to see where this behaviour leads the relevant parties. i’d certainly like to see inspector gobshite (Paterson) have his collar felt. they really don’t grasp what absolute idiots they’re being and where it leads. glad to see a judge finding out first hand exactly what an online gang of trolls masquerading as whistleblowing journalists are like, vile thugs and scumbags. i had sausages and mash with onion gravy, sprouts and carrots for my supper. burp.
Mark Trellis says:
Tick tock, Angie!
You must be a met copper if you say ‘banged up’
Refreshing to hear, EC.
A strict judge is needed. What surprises me is the sheer amount of time this stuff takes out of court time – when it is costs thousands per hour per hearing – for the tax payer. What also surprises me is that the judge did not require Eddieisok to immediately take down the offending material from youtube- it is still there.
So grateful for your reporting and all the things that accompany that effort – the time, expense, the discomfort of the hard benches when waiting, and now the unpleasantness of being the centre of attention, vilified by the likes of Eddieisok.
Eddieisok, when you read this, you come across as a stupid man, constantly referring to Finchley Rd which has nothing to do with the case at all.
He’ll have it spelt out to him in no uncertain terms wednesday. fun and games will be over for the dunderheaded fake journalist with no concept of reporting regulations. the man’s a knobhead.
Either that or he’s pregnant.
It’s true what they say, then – no peas for the wicked.
I posted a comment under eddieisok’s video (sans my usual thigh-slapping humour) that he could be seen to be intimidating potential witnesses and that in his video he had named one victim which was a contempt.
He removed the comment.
I assume he regarded me as one of the “Hamstead trolls who are losing their minds and attacking him furiously”.
Serves him right for not respecting the court process.
Judges: what they have to put up with at times. I can now imagine the judge in this case will be the victim of vicious and nasty claims. Thank God they are generally not intimidated by social media.
Dr Ghost of Sam (Oz) says:
Poor Andy Devine and “Dr” Anthony G.Pike (UK)- don’t they know that “gender fluidity” is all the rage these days?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6434819/Gender-fluid-model-Rain-Dove-maced-tracked-attacker-Instagram-abuse.html
“Rose McGowan’s gender-fluid partner Rain Dove was MACED in a public bathroom”
They didn’t “waive anonymity”. Their names were revealed illegally by..dozens of people.
I don’t think this should be ignored. Making death threats to a judge or even implying it is a very serious matter.
Look at the dreadful things that have happened recently- we have no idea which unhinged person may seize upon this and decide to act.
It’s that flaming red hair. Or is it purple? . Can’t keep up.
I don’t know the ins & outs of his case but I’m amused by Neelu’s claims that it’s “Big Pharma” trying to protect their profits as she ignores the fact Noakes had pocketed at least £5M from his dodgy therapy and has companies registered in tax havens.
Has anyone done a study on why these people latch onto EVERY single conspiracy theory going from Flat Earth to Quack Cancer Cures, Fake Moon Landings and Satanic Baby Eating Cults in North London?. (JFK is in there somewhere as well).
Sorry, what has Spiny Norman got to do with this? I can attest that Spiny does not have a criminal record (thats one of Angie’s evil lies) and i am pretty sure he wasn’t at the court. The amount of outright lies from these people is staggering, I cant keep up.
Some studies linked here: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Crank_magnetism#How.3F
I cannot conceive how that could happen.
Don’t forget the car that runs on water, the abominable snowman and lord lucan being jack the ripper.
I was using up the sprouts and carrots left over from sunday and didn’t want to open a tin of peas.
Making death threats to a judge or even implying it is a very serious matter.
Making death threats to anyone is a serious matter that invites a period of her majesty’s hospitality.
It’s also terribly unprofessional. “Oh yes,” people think, “let’s warn the client, and give him / her a sporting chance.” But that just makes more work for everyone.
I for one, welcome all of the self grave digging bullshit, threats and bile that is spewing out from all of the nutcases listed above. This case will in my opinion, prove to be the catalyst that brings about the demise of the whole lot of them. There will be many a knock on various doors and invitations to pop down the station for an interview before much longer. Evidence lockers will be bursting at the seams with laptops, tablets and mobile phones and hard drives!! APD probably has a bag packed and stashed near her door.
Remember, even Spivey and La Verite ( in her former guise ) wouldn’t touch this subject with a bargepole and they are two of the biggest loonies on the planet. That must speak volumes about these other dickheads.
Big thanks to EC for keeping us so well informed. We should all be very grateful.
Actually Neelu referred to “Edward Ellis of no fixed abode” a few days ago.
I love the defective. sorry detective skills of these morons
“Ottawa not London with an E-Mail addressxxxxx@infolink.ca and is a former” etc etc etc
My email address still shows .uk, yet last time I looked, I am halfway around the planet….
from andy (not at all) devine…
And that clown Pike, he’s another one that needs a good looking at by the police…
Paterson on the other hand, he just handed them his head on a platter, I hope someone has told the judge about his little tirade of threats….
And as MKD pointed out, children don’t have the right/power to waive their anonymity anyway.
“Rise up,” she says…from the comfort of her Oldcastle kitchen 🙄
At least it’s not a French prison, which are the worst in the world (according to one of David Noakes’ anonymous sockpuppets) and no place for an elderly gentleman.
Perhaps he will appeal the sentence, and create an opportunity for it to be reconsidered and extended. But it would be wrong to speculate.
16.15 to be precise…
and again at 19.15…
23.40 woodchipper death threat…
Cpt. Frank Furillo says:
Anyone going today – be careful out there!
That’s good Grobknob, you don’t want your peas touching your carrots after all…
Ok, that made me do a very unladylike snort.
They seem extremely confused.
Yes, if he was unaware that naming a witness in this trial was a very poor idea, then it’s only because he didn’t bother to read the signage all over the place. This has nothing to do with him taking pictures; it’s to do with him naming a witness when he wasn’t supposed to. He and his dim-witted friends should give their heads a wobble.
“Parents differently than most”…oh, is that what they call it now? I didn’t know there was a name for letting your boyfriend batter your children to force them to tell lies.
Dear EC,
many thanks for continuing to us all up to date. Your efforts are very much appreciated.
He claims to have masses of Sarf London gangsters at his beck and call, but I think this is just his not-terribly-clever way of being able to claim later, “Oh, no, yer honour, I never said I would do that…but I can’t control these imaginary friends of mine, now can I?”
LOL will do, Captain! 🙂
That sounds better if you imagine it in the voice of a Goon Show character.
I wonder if they will speak out when they are older?.
If they criticise these hoaxers and say what a nightmare it’s all been they’ll just be accused of joining the (imaginary) Cult and having been brainwashed.
My guess is they will have to change their names and by the time they are 20 years old they would be unrecognizable as to who they were.
Or they may well become warriors against the on-line false accusers.
But it’s so unfair.
Isn’t she the one who threatens to “chin” people?. Could be interesting.
Ghost of Reggie Kray says:
John Patterson of Finchey Road fame’s last foray into the Sarf London gangster scene was pretty much a failure. He didn’t realise that Arfur had, well moved on to greater pastures and Terry was pretty well beyond it.
Mind you he did pick up some gorgeous frocks at a knock down price that had fallen off the back of a truck right in front of the lock up.
I hope he realizes he’s skating on very thin ice.
Let’s hope that Eddie’s crime will not take up the whole day, that Neelu does not play hide & seek in the courthouse again, that Praterson gets arrested for his violent threats & Sabine’s case can get on it’s way again.
Potentially another man to add to the tally of those she has got arrested/imprisoned/sectioned.
I have a mental picture of court officials with a large butterfly net chasing a giggling Neelu and Edward around the corridors of the court building.
And I'll Remember says:
Top notch reporting, El C! Thank you for keeping everyone up to date – the twists and turns of this whole tale would be impossible for a bestselling author of fiction to imagine! Thank you, and above all, please stay safe out there.
Crotchety Auld Womandcfm , says:
Grobnob, I’m not a journalist and never was, but I’m sure that I read (or heard) somewhere that bona fide journalists are advised to find 3 independent sources for a story before they “run” with it (of course in a proper newspaper an editor would hopefully weed out the more loony tunes stories*). YouTubers are their own editors so that doesn’t happen unfortunately.
I’m not even against the media being used (both printed and online media) in genuine cases – like “The Oldie” ran the story about the insalubrious aspects of Jimmy Savile’s shenanigans.** Though that wasn’t until after he was dead.
* Well sometimes tabloids may have printed daft things.
** To be honest, I never realised how screwed up said gentleman was. I thought he was weird but then I thought well he raised money for good causes but I wasn’t astute enough to suspect there might be unsavoury aspects to his character.
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But you look very good for your age! First you are complimented on your writing skills and now we hear about your youthful looks. What’s the secret? I’m guessing hard work and Oil of Olay.
I can tell by your avatars that Karnevilnine is actually a giant chaos sign and Ghost of Sam is a classic floating white sheet spectre. I have a diamond shaped head and a green complexion. Given how distinctive we all are it is amazing that we haven’t been tracked down yet.
I think that we were both caught in the same loop of circular reasoning regarding Savile. I always thought he was creepy and strange – but he was allowed to work with children so you assume that meant he was alright really. Some people did know things and tried to expose him, including Anthony Burgess, but they probably didn’t have anything other than hearsay that would never be accepted in court. Savile was clever, good at ingratiating himself with the powerful and intimidating and isolating victims and witnesses. Looking at it in the clear light of day I don’t think he was guilty of many of the bizarre things claimed in the tabloids since his death, but he certainly seems to have been a prolific abuser of children and women who got away with it for a long time.
I was going to say “was allowed to get away with it”, but that would suggest someone somewhere was capable of stopping him and actively chose not to.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/study-it-only-takes-a-few-seconds-for-bots-to-spread-misinformation/?fbclid=IwAR0PMLP-fibNs5V8XThJjWDGzv0I7EQISSSRM-PbHJQ33Byix4X2eXd9kso
I won’t post it here for obvious reasons but I see Angle has done yet another contemptuous, slanderous, self-incriminating interview, this time with creepy Thomas Dunn 🙄
She illegally names the protected witness numerous times, and launches a really vicious attack on him in the last 15 minutes.
There are also calls from Dunny the Dunce for people to storm the court! He also lays into and names the witness.
Thanks, Tinribs. Watching it now. Angela has been in total overdrive these past 2 weeks, she just can’t shut up.
That creepy bloke in Kincorth has posted a death threat to EC too tonight. He can’t be arsed to attend court himself of course – or doesn’t have the bottle to – but has called for her to be killed from the comfort of his grubby little hovel.
Never mind naming witnesses which may lead to the children bring identified, they are both quite happy to name the children too. They really do not give a flying fuck about these particular children, do they? These so called ‘campaigners’. They also twist everything including about why someone was charged with contempt of court. Anything to keep pushing the money spinning ‘the whole world is against us’ theme.
Rebecca Shan is mouthing off a lot at MKD & others on Eddie’s vids. Allegedly she had quite a chequered past
Sorry pressed send by mistake!
Yeah Rebecca, stop with your wittering, allegedly there was a problem with counterfeit €50 notes at one stage……stop licking Angela’s derrière, she is dangerous to get mixed up with & you could end up in Carrick — ——- court or further afield where she could be heading. If you have previous, it won’t do you a lot of good either.
Man attacked outside Southwark Crown Court claims attacker was agent of global 'Zionist conspiracy.' pic.twitter.com/LwjgVIkQ0O
— CourtNewsUK (@CourtNewsUK) November 28, 2018
Haha. His big mouth gets him a beating again. Remind me never to threaten EC on video 🙂
Im joking!
Devine was going on about Praterson being attacked, says Praterson is going to be on that Sean bloke’s show tonight.
How on earth does he manage to get himself into these situations? I’m not excusing anyone lamping him, but what on Earth lead to him getting bloodied, again?
When did this happen, lol?
I dont know what happened but after the threats he made last night including against women its not surprising this happened.
This means there was a court reporter at Southwark today too, I suppose.
“Parent[ing] differently” is not generally an acceptable synonym for starving and abusing one’s children, nor for allowing a partner to abuse those children.
Lie detector tests are unreliable and easy to fool. APD is so desperate to be relevant that she posts lies; c’est la vie.
“Satanic Jimmy Saville Supporting Scum”
We have no idea who else Mr Patterson insults and verbally abuses or defames quite apart from all the matters we are interested in.
For all we know he says dreadful lies about his neighbours and so forth.
I believe in the internet age there needs to be a new law of Criminal Libel (there is in one Australian state- South Australia and a few people have been jailed).
While reluctant to have any new restrictive law defamation on the net is a quite vicious new way of permanently harming people ie: as in Hampstead, Sandy Hook parents and about 100,000 other examples.
Libel actions really are for the rich but what about the average citizen?. They are denied justice because of the lack of funds and the notion of suing a “man/woman of straw” could be financially ruinous. 20 years ago a newspaper defamation was published and may have been forgotten a month later. Today we have dreadful lies repeated ad infinitum on the net echo chamber. I can’t imagine what it must be like to be the victim of campaign and even when folk like Cliff Richard are found innocent it doesn’t stop the trolls.
Lord Leveson recommended a Libel Tribunal be set up for all citizens to access but that was ignored.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-46305141
Caddington Village News blogger sued for libel over fraud claims
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"Regime Crises and Immunity Attack to HDP" & "What Germany Wants from Turkey?"
by MLCP, International Bulletin 163, 19 May 2016
The consequences of dirty war conducted by President Erdogan and the AKP government at home (Northern Kurdistan) and in the region deepens and resolves the crises of the colonial fascist regime. The developments in the last month as follows: President Erdogan has intervened with the management of AKP, of which he is a founder. He achieved the resignation of Prime Minister Davutoglu who did not fully bow his head to him. He ordered AKP MPs and state bureaucrats to join in the meetings of Constitution Commission in the parliament. He ordered them quickly to lift the immunity of mostly Kurdish HDP MPs those whom he calls “terrorists in the parliament” with tyranny and physical attack. And thus he moved the fascist state terror into parliament too. The journalist Can Dundar has been accused with “treason” and “spying” and imprisoned by Erdogan because of exposing the trucks full of weapons sent to ISIS by Erdogan and fascist regime. And Dundar was also subjected to gun attack when he went to court on 6 May. Erdogan and the AKP government want to surmount the regime crises through one-man dictatorship, Kingdom and “Turkish-type Presidency”. They aim to strengthen political Islamic fascist regime.
Thus it once more became clear that AKP's -who governed for 13 years under the slogan of “advanced democracy” and “membership to EU”- “democratic politics” and “solution process” in the Kurdish question was a full insincerity and hypocrisy.
The attack to lift immunity on HDP Mps aims not only the prevention of the strengthening of HDP who gained %13 of the votes on 7 June 2015 but to liquidate it. This attack is an attack against Kurdish people, Alewites, different belief groups, national communities, women, the youth and all revolutionary forces. Because HDP is an organization and struggle tool of all these political and social sections. Because HDP is the only party which could stop the dictatorship of “Turkish-type Presidency”.
The attack to lift immunity is an attack against the choice and will-power of the people. The attacks against journalists, academicians, the parties defending revolution and freedom, the youth and women on the basis of Kurdish enmity, have been widened to Amedspor (football team representing Kurdish city Diyarbakir) directors and players, to relatives of Kurdish prisoners, and lynching of people who speak Kurdish on the street. And continued with dismissals , trial and imprisonment of elected mayors and members of assemblies in the Kurdish cities; break of will-power and imprisonment of elected democrat, revolutionary and patriot representatives.
Turkish Assembly will consider the lifting the HDP representatives' immunity on 16 May 2016. And most probably they will achieve their aim to take 59 HDP representatives out of the parliament and try them through votes of fascist MHP , nationalist CHP and political Islamic fascist AKP representatives.
HDP co-chairs and representatives have announced that they will always and every where, including in parliament, resist to such fascist attacks, will not give statement to the courts and prosecutors in the government direction, any “touch” to one of them would be considered as an attack to all HDP representatives. And as a first step, the HDP representatives have been attacked by the members of fascist-reactionary regime party during talk in the parliament.
HDP announced that it will continue to organize “no to dictatorship and coup, do not touch my representative and will-power campaign” both in the parliament and all over the country. The revolutionary and progressive parties, democratic mass organizations, trade unions and intellectuals signed a declaration called “do not touch the people's will-power and their voice in the parliament”. And the number of signatories is getting higher everyday. and
Fascist Erdogan's attacks and tyrant policies “either you will bow your head or give your head” on Kurdish people, Alewites, women, laborers and revolutionary structures will be smashed by the united revolutionary resistance and strength of the HBDH (People's United Revolutionary Movement) who very recently announced its foundation.
What Germany Wants from Turkey?
Recently, especially after the flow of migrants to EU through Turkey, there is a diplomatic traffic between Turkey and Germany which has not been seen since the 2nd World War. The real and visible side of the matter is the undeniable key role of Turkey in preventing entrance of migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Syria to Europe. This is why Germany, the hegemonic power within the EU, have taken steps to solve migration question in line with the policies designed by Merkel. These steps have ended with agreement between Turkey and EU in the end. The most important parts of the agreement are; EU to pay 6 billion dollars to Turkey until 2018, Turkish citizens to enter EU without visa, Turkey to prevent migrant passage and to accept migrants who will be sent back. Considering the recent statements from both sides, it is highly possible that the agreement may become invalid due to conditions to lift visas.
As the Prime Minister, A. Merkel has became the highest foreigner political representative who frequently visited Turkey on top level. It is one of her very well known characteristics that she does not hold special sympathy to Erdogan, Davutoglu, and Turkey and its citizens in general. This is why her frequent visits cannot be explained only with migrant question. Her direct deal with migrant question does not mean that Merkel to visit Turkey personally. Such diplomatic traffic could have been conducted through different mechanisms.
It is very clear that the high attention does have direct relation with German imperialism's interests in the Middle East. German imperialism wants to intervene directly with the developments in the Middle East upon Turkey and Syrian war. It does not consider the EU and NATO as enough to be active in the Middle East.
Not only Germany but the EU as a whole is dependent of Russia in regards to natural gas energy and its transportation. The transportation of natural gas energy from Iran, the Middle East (including the energy resources in Eastern Mediterranean) and Caspian Basin (Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan) to Europe is the only way to become free from this dependence. And Turkey is the only serious route for this.
The Sykes-Picot agreement, which represents division of the Middle East by France and Britain in 1916 for their colonial interests, is no more valid in practice. This is being shown the struggle of the Kurdish Freedom Movement, the divided situation of Iraq in practice and the war in Syria. In the strategic and energy-based re-devision of the Middle East, German imperialists consider the relations with Turkey as important directly for their own interests rather than EU.
The active role played by German imperialism in the developments within the Middle East should not be forgotten; it is the Germany who gave the weapon to US and Israel that was used to kill Refik Hariri in 2005. It is the Germany who organized the “Friends of Syria” meeting in Abu Dabi in 2012; this meeting aimed re-sharing of Syrian natural gas resources. Germany is ne of the countries who follow Geneva meetings so closely. And now it directly involves with the Syrian centered Middle East questions due to so-called fight against ISIS and migrant question. This is why they demanded temporarily to position in Incirlik from Turkey and their demand has been accepted.
Now German imperialism is in the position of the most important and closest supporter of fascist dictatorship and dictator Erdogan in Turkey. Germany is one of the countries who does not say anything but support the destruction of cities in Northern Kurdistan and the killing of Kurdish people. It is one of the states who made easy for fascist dictatorship the massacres by not seeing them but saying “it is the natural right of every state”. It has minimized its understanding of democracy to abolishment of repression on media. Furthermore, it is Germany who directly defends Turkey's, especially Erdogan's “Buffer Zone” or “No-fly Zone” policy. Merkel frequently talks about this.
German imperialism wants to participate in the re-division process of the Middle East in practice and believes that it can only do this upon Turkey.
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4th Stage of World Cup 2013 — Competition «White Nights-2013»
International draughts-64 competitions «White Nights – 2013» — 4th Stage of World Cup 2013 ended. 70 players took part in competitions. Open-tournament and youth tournament was held. Grandmaster from Nizhny Novgorod Alexander Burov won the 4th Stage of World Cup. The master of sports Reef Sultanov from Nizhny Tagil took second place. Champion of Moscow, youth master of sports Nikita Slavyanov took third place. See results of World Cup, youth tournament, team standing and new photo.
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Competitions are held in order to:
— Promotion and development of draughts-64;
— improvement and respect for international titles;
— the reveal of the winner of the 4th Stage of World Cup 2013;
— The strengthening of friendly relations between the draughts players from different countries.
Competitions will be held in St. Petersburg, Russia, from June 29, (arrival day) till July 07, 2013 (departure day).
The turnout and registration: June 29, Chigorin club, Bolshaya Konyushennaya str. 25, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Credentials Committee will work June 29, from 15.00 till 20.00.
Opening ceremony will be June 30, at 12.00, 1st round at 12.30. Closing ceremony will be July 06, at 16.00.
Participants must to be on the closing ceremony of the competition, in breach of the item they are deprived of official awards.
Leaders of the competition
General management, organization and carrying out of competitions held by the FMJD Section-64 — IDF and St. Petersburg Draughts Federation. Direct responsibility of the conduct of the competition makes the panel of judges, approved by the Section-64 and St. Petersburg Draughts Federation.
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Two tournaments are held:
Open tournament — 4th Stage of World Cup.
Youth competitions separately for boys and girls 1997 year born and younger (with the offset of the age groups).
Team results are determined in the youth competitions. The composition of teams: 3 boys and 1 girl.
The participation in the 4th Stage of World Cup is allowed for the players who have rank not lower than «Candidate Master»; in the junior competitions — players born no later than 1997, who registered in accordance with this regulation time and paid the tournament fee. The number of participants representing the country is not limited.
Competitions are conducted according to the rules of FMJD Section-64 — IDF.
System of competition is Swiss or round robin, depending on the number of participants.
Competitions are held in the Russian version of draughts-64 by the system of micro-matches consist of two games with time control 45 minutes till the end of the game plus 10 seconds on each move, break between parties 5 minutes.
4th Stage of World Cup is played with the draw of the moves according to the official tables of the Section-64, youth competitions are played without draw of the moves.
Places of competitors are determined by most amounts of points. For team standing — on the largest amount of points scored by all team members.
In case of equal points of two or more participants, the additional criteria established by the panel of judges according to the system of the competition.
Participants who win each competition are awarding by cups and diplomas. Participants who take 2nd and 3rd place in each competition are awarding by diplomas.
Team-winner of youth competition are awarding by cup. Participants of teams-winners are awarding by diplomas.
The money prices for 4th Stage of World Cup are 80% of collected tournaments fees, but not less than 30 000 rubles.
Prizes will be paid for highest classifications, the best woman and other prizes according to organizers decision.
In accordance with the Regulations of the World Cup points in the overall standings of the World Cup are given to players, who took in the 4th Stage of World Cup places from 1 to 15:
Applications for participation in competitions must be submitted to the Section-64 until June 15, 2013 at the following addresses: Langin Vladimir, mob +79219562001, e-mail [email protected];
Makarov Victor, e-mail: [email protected]
Each participant of the competitions should pay organizational tournament fee at the day of arrival: 1000 rubes for participating in the 4th Stage of World Cup, 600 rubles for participating in youth competitions.
Travel expenses, accommodation and meals paid by sending organizations.
Accommodation can be available in different mini-hotels near the club. Accommodation is booking independently. Organizers may to help with the cheapest options if necessary.
With all hospitality, visa and travel questions please contact:
Section-64: Langin Vladimir, mob +7 921 9562001, e-mail [email protected]
Organizers: Makarov Victor, e-mail: [email protected]
This schedule may change. The date and time of registration, opening and closing the tournament are final.
Information about the tournament will be posted on the sites of FMJD Section-64 — IDF www.fmjd64.org and St. Petersburg Draughts Federation www.fed-shashek.spb.ru
Previous Belarussian Draughts-64 Championships
Next 5th Stage of World Cup 2013 in Pardubice
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Sister Grace Mary Olfs grew up in Detroit, along with her younger sister, and became a boarding student at St. Mary Academy in Monroe. As a boarder, she went to many functions at the Motherhouse and got to know the sisters well. She joined the IHM community after high school graduation. “I just loved the nuns. Their way of life spoke to me,” she says. Once Sister Grace Mary entered, she knew she was where she belonged.
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Performance And Complexity Analysis Of A Reduced Iterations LLL Algorithm
Nizar OUNI1 and Ridha BOUALLEGUE2
1National Engineering School of Tunis, SUP’COM, InnovCom laboratory, Tunisia
2SUP’COM, InnovCom laboratory, Tunisia
Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are playing an increasing and interesting role in the recent wireless communication. The complexity and the performance of the systems are driving the different studies and researches. Lattices Reduction techniques bring more resources to investigate the complexity and performances of such systems.
In this paper, we look to modify a fixed complexity verity of the LLL algorithm to reduce the computation operations by reducing the number of iterations without important performance degradation. Our proposal shows that we can achieve a good performance results while avoiding extra iteration that doesn’t bring much performance.
MIMO systems, LR-aided, Lattice, LLL, BER, Complexity.
MIMO communication systems are introduced to combat fading and provide high data rate. The MIMO system consists of transmitting multiple independent data symbols via multiple antennas. For the reception, a MIMO decoder needs to be used to detect, estimate, and reconstruct the received symbols. Multiple detection schemes can be used, such as the zero-forcing (ZF) or the minimum mean square error (MMSE) criterion. Also, the maximum likelihood decoder (ML) is considered as the optimal solution for the MIMO detection in term of Bit Error Rate (BER). But, unfortunately the ML algorithm seems to be complex for hardware implementations. Therefore, linear MIMO detection techniques like ZF and MMSE are better in term of complexity, but suffer from BER performance degradation.
The lattice-reduction (LR) preprocessing technique has been proposed to be used with linear detection in order to transform the system model into an equivalent system with better channel matrix’s effect and so to reduce the complexity of the system. It was shown in previous studies that LR techniques improve the BER performances significantly.
The populated LR algorithm is called Lenstra-Lenstra-Lovàsz (LLL) algorithm is the most used one. It was called according to the name of the inventors [1]. But, the LLL algorithm brings many challenges due to higher processing complexity and the undeterministic execution time [2].
LLL algorithm has a major limit which is the varying complexity that could be large and limits the decoding speed of the communication system. But, it is always presenting the best performance in term BER. The complex Lenstra-Lenstra-Lovàsz algorithm (CLLL) [3]is applying
the basis reduction for complex field, while the LLL is targetinga real valued matrix. The different studies and simulation results show that CLLL requires less processing operations [4]. Effective LLL algorithm (ELLL) [5], come with a new idea that consists to change the Lovàsz reduction condition in order to relax the related equations. Also, the FcLLL prposed by Wen [2] reduces the number of iterations for the algorithm to fix iteration number instead of infinite iterations. This technique improves the complexity but remains worse than LLL in term of BER performance.
In this paper we, will focus on the FcLLL algorithm using ZF decoding technique and we propose some modifications to the original FcLLL algorithm to keep a reduced number of loops and targeting a good BER.
2.System Model Description
During this paper we will consider that (.)H and (.)T denote respectively the hermission transpose and the transpose of a matrix.
We consider the spatial multiplexing MIMO system with transmit and receive antennas with a Rayleigh channel non variant in the time.
3.Lattice Reduction Technique
We can interpret the columns hi of the channel matrix H as the basis of a lattice and assume that the possible transmit vectors are given by Zm, the m dimensional infinite integer space. Consequently, the set of all possible undisturbed received signals is given by the lattice.
In next section we will consider the proposal in [2] and start form the Wen’s algorithm as described in table 1 where, Wen proposed an enhanced form of Vetter’s algorithm. The proposal is based on an improved column traverse strategy and an enhanced termination criterion for practical LR-aided SIC MIMO detection.
4.Modified Algorithm And Study Of The Effect Of Max Iteration On The Fcll Algorithm
In this section we will start from the FCLLL algorithm proposed by Wen [2] and we will try to do modify it. In fact, for line 21 there is the table “CS flag ” which is a condition for the loop as mentioned in line 6. The summation of the elements of this “table” seems to add Nt-1 more addition operations that need to be computed for each loop. So, for us, it will be better to come back to the single element condition as mentioned in [9]. A second remark, the Lovàsz condition such as described in line 16, is representing four complex multiplication, one addition operation and one subtraction operation (which can be considered as addition operation). All of them are complex and being running in loop. It will be better to use the Siegel condition which is always fulfilling the Lovàsz condition and we can go more to show that it reduce the computing operations [10] & [11]. The representation is below:
In the proposed algorithm we have modified the line 5 by avoiding “CSflag” table summation presented in table 1 and proposed in [2]. This will help to reduce additional processing operations which will help to “relax” the algorithm in term of complexity and decoding timing. In fact, and as described in the previous section, the contribution of the elementof this “table” in the algorithm doesn’t exceed the termination condition. The importance of this modification can be observed in the next sections, especially of the gain in terms of complexity.
We can clearly observe that the max iteration number (Nmax ) is a condition to exit from the loop and so, it can increase the number of computation operations. This means, there is an ideal max iteration value that above it the system becomes exponential complex without large BER enhancement. Also, the modifications in line 10 and line 15 will help to reduce the processing operations because the algorithm will converge quicker than the initial version. In fact, the Siegel condition helps to relax the processing operations like presented in [10].
So, it’s interesting to evaluate the effect of the Max iteration on the BER performance and also the system complexity. For this, we tried to do the simulation of the algorithm with varying the value of the Max iteration.
5.Simulation Results And Effect Of The Max Iteration On The FCLLL Algorithm
For our simulation, we will consider the 16QAM constellation, ZF equalization will be checked. The MIMO model will be 4×4 ; means a 4 antennas at both transmitter and receiver side. We used a frame size of 105 . We will indicate inline any changes to the above configuration. In the flowing figures, we tried to increase the max iteration number from 4 to 18.
Observing figure 2, the ML curve is outperforming all different curves. But we should note that the ML scheme is extremely complex to implement. So, we are indicating it just for reference and comparison reasons.Another quick remark is that comparing the FCLLL curves and the ordinary LLL algorithm we can see that for IterMax ≤ 5 , the LLL is better comparing FCLLL. But for MaxIter equal to 5, the two curves are overlapping till SNR equal to 24dB and after the deviation is minimal. Which means that in terms of performances we are still in an acceptable range and so it will be interesting to push the analysis and also evaluate the gain in complexity and processing operations.
In the figure 3, we increase the max iteration value from 4 to 18 to observe if any threshold value for this parameter; that allow to reach a better result with lower iterations.
Looking to figure 3 we can observe that, staring from IterMax ≥ 6, the FCLLL become similar or better than the LLL. But, starting from 8 iteration we can observe that no improvement for the BER.
Means, the curves remain overlapping each other. This leads us to conclude that no need to increase the IterMax parameter above 8 iterations. Else, the system became costly comparing to its performance. For IterMax between 5 and 8, we can push the analysis. In fact, the LLL algorithm as described in [1], will do a minimum of 2.Ntloops; taking in consideration the fact that the size of the channel real-valued matrix H used for the LLL algorithm is double of the complex matrix H. Thus, for this case and with 8 IterMax we are exactly in the same condition as the LLL algorithm. From another point of view, a IterMax≤4 will show a BER degradation. This is related to the fact that the algorithm will do a column swap for only half of the possible columns of the matrix. If we consider 5, 6 and 7 as IterMax we can see that we more or less close to the LLL algorithm, since the difference is observed only for the high SNR and the deviation is minimal. In the case of the IterMax=6 BER curve is almost overlapping the ordinary LLL curve. From our point of view, using the IterMax equal to 6 seems to be the recommended value, since it has a good complexity to performance balance.
Figures 4 and 5 show a zoom on the different curves to illustrate our analysis.
We remark that starting from IterMax=8 the system BER performance reach the saturation but also the system computing operation are increasing according to the IterMax. Means, the complexity continue increasing function of IterMax but the BER performance will saturate. Just looking to numbers, the BER saturation is reached for 8 IterMax and the BER performance for 6 IterMax is same as the ordinary LLL. So, we got same performances as ordinary LLL with a gain of ¼ of operations. It’s a good performance vs complexity balance to be considered…
6.Complexity Analysis
In this section we will discuss the complexity aspect of our proposal and show the profits and benefits of our proposal.
First we will give some details about the operation done by the algorithm. In [12] it was presented that a real matrix multiplication of A (N×M) and B (K×M) leads to matrix C (N×M) and the overall operations are N(K-1)M addition operation and NKM multiplication operations. It is also known that a complex addition is equivalent to two real addition operations. In fact, for the complex case we will add the real and imaginary parts separately. For the complex multiplication it is different and the operation can be written as below:
(a+ib)*(c+id)= (ac-bd)+i(bc+ad) = (ac-bd)+j((a+b)(c+d)-ac-bd) (16)
The first options can be done in four multiplications and two additions (assuming that a subtraction can done via an addition operation). The second option can be done in three multiplications and five additions. But the first option is almost used. So, we will consider it. Also, in [13] it was shown that the different arithmetical operation requires different FLOPS. In the table below we present the number of FLOPS needs for each operation (for real values) [13].
Table 3: FLOPS vs operations
Add Mult Sqrt
Nombre of FLOPS
8The size reduction require (N_Max-2)×{1×(Div)+2×(Mult+Add) }
The lovàsz condition require {4×(Mult)+2×(Add) }
Colum swap require N_r ×{3×(Add) }
The Givens rotation matrix computation require {2×(Div)+2×(Mult)+1×(Add)+1×(Squrt) }
The rotation operation for R (matrix multiplication) require 2×{2×(Mult)+1×(Add) }×N_r
The rotation operation for Q (matrix multiplication) require 2×{2×(Mult)+1×(Add) }×2
The CSflag condition sum require N_t (Add)
Also, the complex division and square root operations consists of many real operations.
A square root of complex value require {1×(Div)+3×(Mult)+2×(Add)+3×(Sqrt) } of real values.
A complex value division require {1×(Div)+8×(Mult)+4×(Add) }
All these operation will be running in loop for N_Max iterations for MIMO 8×8 scheme.
LLL algorithm
12200 <
Wen’s algorithm [5]
Outperform LLL (11dB at )
< 9100 Gain 2dB at vs LLL
The most important point is that we reach same performance with ~31% of FLOPS gain
Gain 2dB at vs LLL
< 5800 Loose 2dB at vs LLL
Gain ~36% of FLOPS and the performance degradation is minimal (2dB)
The table above shows that with our proposal we can reach approximately the same performances as the LLL algorithm with reducing 36% of FLOPS. This is important in term of decoding delay. In fact, we can avoid some decoding delay and achieve the same performance with limited iteration number (N_Max=8).
7.Conclusions
In this paper we proposed some modifications to the FcLLL algorithm proposed by Wen [2]. Simulation results show that for 4×4 MIMO system, there is min and max values for the IterMax (5 to 8) where the BER performances seems to be good (more or less near to the original LLL results) and also the system complexity remains reasonable. Outside these limits the complexity vs performance balance become undesirable. And the extra iterations don’t enhance the performance. Thus, to implement this algorithm we recommend an ideal value of IterMax=6 which allows having a BER quite same as the original LLL and limits the iterations loop. In fact, with this recommended value we can gain ~36% of operations and the BER degradation will be ~2dB at 10 -4. The challenge of our proposal was to not bring many changes to the original algorithm, but to identify the possible points that we can enhance in order to relax the processing operations and complexity while keeping good performance results (nearest to the original algorithm). Such study and the presented results aim to help the industry using a low complexity, low cost and high performance solution based on the LLL decoding technique.
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[2] Qingsong Wen, Qi Zhou, and Xiaoli Ma, (2014), “An Enhanced Fixed-Complexity LLL Algorithm for MIMO Detection”, Globecom 2014 – Signal Processing for Communications Symposium.
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[9] H. Vetter, V. Ponnampalam, M. Sandell, and P. A. Hoeher, (Apr. 2009), “Fixed complexity LLL algorithm,” IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 1634–1637.
[10] B. Gestner, W. Zhang, X. Ma, and D. V.Anderson, (Apr. 2011) “. Lattice Reduction for MIMO Detection: FromTheoretical Analysis to Hardware Realization,” IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. I, Reg. Papers, vol. 58, no. 4, pp. 1549-8328.
[11] L. G. Barbero, D. L. Milliner, T. Ratnarajah, J. R. Barry, and C. F. N. Cowan, (Jun. 2009), “Rapid prototyping of Clarkson’s lattice reduction for MIMO detection,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Commun., Dresden, Germany, pp. 1–5.
[12] Markus Bläser, (2013), “Fast Matrix Multiplication”, Theory of Computing, Graduate Surveys , vol. 5, p. 1-60
[13] Ameer Youssef , Mahdi Shabany , P. Glenn Gulak, (May 2011), “Performance analysis of lattice-reduction algorithms for a novel LR-compatible K-Best MIMO detector,” Conference: International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2011.5937662, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Celebrate Karen Gillan's Birthday With 5 Truth Bombs From Nebula
Askmen India > Lifestyle > Entertainment > Celebrate Karen Gillan's Birthday With 5 Truth Bombs From Nebula
Karen Gillan turns 32 today!
Rucha Sharma
Gillan devoted a good six years of her life to Nebula. During this journey, Nebula parted some truth bombs and some pearls of wisdom.
Karen Gillan is celebrating her 32nd birthday on Thursday. Yours truly fell in love with her moxie when she first appeared on BBC One's science fiction series Doctor Who. She played Amy Pond, the Eleventh Doctor's (played by ever so charming Matt Smith) companion for the run from 2010 to 2013. The chemistry between Gillan and Smith found hardcore fan-following. It was a tiny bit above the iconic pairing of David Tennant and Billie Piper as the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler, respectively. The additional dose of adorable and kindness came from Arthur Darvill's Rory Williams. Gillan as Amy Pond etched her name in the glorious history of the beloved sci-fi saga.
But Gillan shot to international fame only after she was cast as Nebula -- a luphomoid assassin/Marvel Superhero. The imperfect daughter of Thanos started out as the right-hand woman of Ronan the Accuser in director James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy. In the first movie, she fought against her adopted sister Gamora to try and stop her and the rest of the Guardians from taking the Power Stone. But in volume 2 of the Guardians of the Galaxy, she goes through a whole journey of making peace with her sister, fighting alongside her during the battle on Ego's Planet. In Avengers: Infinity War she goes on a mission to exact revenge on Thanos for what he did to her in order to make her perfect. But is eventually captured. She becomes the bargaining chip for Thanos to extract the location of the Soul Stone from Gamora. Nebula escapes imprisonment and lands on Titan in the hope of stopping Thanos from destroying half of the universe. She loses the Battle on Titan along with losing Star-Lord, Drax, Mantis, Doctor Strange, and Spider-Man.
At the beginning of Avengers: Endgame, we saw Nebula adrift in dead Benatar ship with Iron Man. Blue Meanie, what Iron Man prefers calling Nebula, and Tony are then saved and brought back to Earth by Captain Marvel. Later she takes part in an ambush on Thanos, watches her father die, then travels through galaxies helping out other planets in the after-effects of the snap. But eventually returns to Earth to take part in the Time Heist. She becomes the key factor when the Avengers travel to Morag in alternate 2014 to steal the Power Stone. Presence of two Nebulas leads to Thanos from an alternate reality charging to Earth in an attempt to regain the control of all the Infinity Stones. We all know the outcome of the Battle of Earth. Once an angry recluse, Nebula sticks around to attend Iron Man's funeral. From the final scenes of Endgame, we also know that she is now part of the Asgardians of the Galaxy!
Gillan devoted a good six years of her life to Nebula. During this journey, Nebula parted some truth bombs and some pearls of wisdom. To celebrate Gillan's birthday, let's revise what we heard from Nebula over the years.
1. Explaining choices to Gamora from 2014
In 2023, during the Battle of Earth, when Gamora sees goofy Peter Quill/Star-Lord for the first time, she cannot believe that her future version was in love with him. Explaining her limited choices Nebula blurts out: It was either him or the tree.
2. Gardens of the Galaxy
During their sisterly squabble in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 over Yaro Root, Nebula lets Gamora know that the title they have chosen to bestow upon themselves is rather wordy. It went something like this:
Nebula: I am hungry. Hand me some of that Yaro Root
Gamora: No. It's not ripe yet... and I hate you.
Nebula: You hate me?! You left me there while you stole that stone for yourself. Yet here you stand, a hero, a Garden of the Galaxy!
Gamora: A what? It's ‘Guardians of the Galaxy.'
Nebula: Oh
Gamora: Why would we be ‘the Gardens of the Galaxy’?
Nebula: I don’t know. I thought it was stupid.
Gamora: Yeah, it would be.
Nebula: It's still wordy.
3. Nebula - the one trusts no one
In Avengers: Endgame, all the surviving Avengers called back to go on the Time Heist. Upon her arrival, for the first time, she lays her eyes on Scott Lang/Ant-Man. She quickly shoots a warning message to Colonel Rhodes/War Machine and drops a truth bomb on Scott.
"Rhodey, careful on re-entry. There's an idiot on the landing zone."
Scott was an idiot to sit near the landing zone with the assembly line for tacos. He deserved that the tacos were blown away. That also gave him the opportunity to bond with Professor Hulk.
4. Strip them down to who they are
In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, Nebula finds herself imprisoned on Ravagers ship with Yondu and Rocket the Raccoon. While trying to formulate a plan to escape, she sums up the tow guys down to their basic origins.
"I assure you, I am not as easy a mark as an old man without his magic stick or a talking woodland beast."
5. What is the definition of a friend?
While formulating the plan to escape Ego's Planet, Nebula brainstorms with all Guardians minus Peter Quill. The brainstorming session turns into the regular inane argument amongst the Guardians and Nebula reminds them that yelling at each other does not make them friends. Drax's counter-argument is too cute to miss.
Gamora: We need to find Peter now and get off this damn planet.
Mantis: Ego will have won him to his side by now. He has a way...
Nebula: Then we just go!
Gamora: No! He's our friend.
Nebula: All any of you do is yell at each other. You are not friends.
Drax: You're right. We're family. We leave no one behind.
(looking at Nebula)
Drax: Except maybe you.
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Moving To Barcelona … An Expat Guide
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Looking down onto the bustling, vibrant city of Barcelona from Parc Guell
Ah, Barcelona!* This effervescent and intoxicating city is a world-renowned cultural hot spot, which is probably why the city’s popped up on your radar as a possible place to relocate to as a British expat.
As well as being a very popular destination for University students wanting to go study abroad on the Erasmus Programme, and with it buzzing with modern sophistication and oozing with provincial charm, it’s not for the fainthearted.
Barcelona is a city in a state of constant flux. It pushes and pulls between tradition and modernity. It’s a place where expats have to jostle for space with up to nine million tourists, and where the traditional laidback attitude and slow-paced lifestyle associated with Spain have seemingly been exiled far, far away.
That being said, moving to Barcelona can sometimes feel like falling down a Gaudi-designed rabbit hole where most people only speak Catalan: infinitesimally deep and complex, sometimes even chaotic and confusing.
But don’t let this put you off! For the adventurous expat, or ones who just can’t shake off the love for the hubbub of a bustling city, this in-depth guide will help you to navigate Barcelona, with its colourful and flamboyant modernist-style architecture sandwiched between medieval romance and Gothic treasures.
This guide aims to help you decide whether you’d like to move there or not. And if you do, don’t forget to contact us for your removal to Barcelona from the UK
* How do you pronounce it? Barthelona is how many people think it’s supposed to be pronounced. Contrary to popular belief, the Catalonians don’t actually add the lisp and they think that whoever does is foolish!
Where exactly is Barcelona?
Barcelona, Spain’s second-largest city, is found on the North East Coast of Spain, in the centre of the Catalonia region. Click on the picture above for a google map guide.
How can I get there?
By air, you can fly to Barcelona-El Prat Airport, which is about a 20-minute drive away from the city centre. Most airports within the UK offer affordable, direct flights to Barcelona, and you can get there in less than three hours. Check out Sky Scanner to get more information on prices, airport locations, and great deals.
By car, you can drive onto a ferry in Portsmouth or Plymouth, arrive in Bilbao or Santander, and then drive across to Barcelona, which should take you no more than six hours. Visit Brittany Ferries to book your tickets.
If you are relocating and require a removal to Barcelona from the UK, then please don’t hesitate to contact us, as we specialise in removals from the UK to Spain.
Why Choose Barcelona?
Catalonia is one of the most economically dynamic communities of Spain, and its capital, Barcelona, is a major international cultural centre, as well as being the third most-visited city in Europe.
Here are our top three reasons why we think British expats love moving there.
Reason #1 – No One Ever Gets Bored in Barcelona
Even expats love sightseeing and the traditional touristy haunts of Barcelona
Barcelona is popular as an expat and tourist destination for many reasons, but the thing which we think that everyone loves the most about the city is that it never fails to amaze and entertain anyone, time and time again.
Honestly, you won’t have the chance to get bored here and there is guaranteed to be something for all your family to enjoy! You might even pick up not one, but several new hobbies.
You can shop in stylish boutiques, visit museums, breathe in creativity whilst you sip on coffee in an art café, you can explore the city’s eclectic neighbourhoods and hunt for a bargain at one of its famous flea markets, and overall be a part of an amazing and pulsating social scene.
Other interesting things expats can see and do in Barcelona
Arouse your curiosity at the Erotic Museum
Just a stone’s throw from La Rambla, El Jardinet dels Gats is home to dozens of beautiful kittens who are waiting to be adopted. Most passers-by miss what’s going on behind the tall wire fence – cats curled up asleep in the sun, stretching to scratch a tree, and playing in the tunnels and boxes left out for their amusement. It’s like something straight out of a children’s story.
Find an oasis of calm atop Park Guinardó. Take in spectacular views, spot the remnants of an old shanty town, and the gun turrets of the anti-aircraft base.
Enjoy experimental theatre at the Sala Hiroshima. It’s established a reputation for itself as a place to experience some of the most interesting performances in town.
Seek out the Romans – One of the best preserved relics of the Roman Empire (the columns of the Temple of Augustus) can be found at Carrer Paradis 3.
Celebrate a special event (like an anniversary or birthday) with a Photo Shoot Tour of your new home city. Awarded a Certificate of Excellence on Trip Advisor.
Try a variety of classes including Authentic Spanish cookery, mosaics or watercolour painting
Take up sailing
Learn about the universe and star gaze at the Fabra Observatory
Visit the open air museum of El Poble Espanyol which has 117 full-scale replicas of different buildings from all around Spain.
The nightlife in the city certainly packs a punch
The nightlife in the city certainly packs a punch as well. Even if clubbing isn’t your thing, Barcelona has a lot to interest expats: cocktail bars, restaurants, pubs, theatres, music halls, galleries, you name it, it’s probably got it.
If you’re looking for an adventure, Barcelona will certainly provide one, every night, for the rest of your life. You’ll definitely find more than enough to keep you going, long after the sun goes down… In fact, if you want to keep pace with the locals, you’d best be prepared to see the sun come back up again!
Where to go to spend an evening in Barcelona
Las Ramblas – A natural starting point for any new expat is, of course, Las Ramblas and – on either side of it – the narrow streets of the medieval Old Town.
Barcelona’s busiest boulevard by day, Las Ramblas is also heaving by night. Street performers still ply their trade and the pavements throng with locals and tourists heading out for drinks and dinner.
Best Restaurant: The Irati Taverna Basca is a gorgeous restaurant serving up traditional Basque cuisine. If you’re eager to try dishes from these proud people, then don’t look any further than here.
Best Cocktail Bar: Le Pop Cocktail Bar in the Lounge of Le Meridien Hotel (it boasts one of the best bartenders in town, who can mix you a signature Catalan Bellini).
Best Entertainment Venue: Watch a Flamenco Show in Tablao Cordobes, where some of the biggest names in the history of flamenco have performed.
Gothic Quarter – For the more authentic local venue, the labyrinthine alleyways and history-steeped backstreets of the Gothic Quarter await an adventurous expat. Here you’ll find scores of sassy little spots hidden away in dark corners.
Best Restaurant: Attic– A first floor restaurant with a full view of the busy street of the Ramblas, serves Mediterranean cuisine in a reasonably formal atmosphere. Wooden decking, white canopies and orange trees makes for a truly romantic and summer-like setting. The terrace is also framed by two historic buildings, creating a truly unique and regal backdrop for a delicious Spanish meal.
Best Cocktail Bar: Milk Bar
Best Entertainment Venue: El Bosc de Les Fades – its name means ‘fairy wood’, and this sangria-serving grotto just off the bottom end of Las Ramblas is decorated just like one. Fake trees, illusory mirrors, haunting music and simulated rainstorms are all part of the experience.
El Born – One of the most wanted areas to live in Barcelona, is for the trendily-attired expat who wants a more ‘hip’ and sophisticated slice of Barcelona’s nightlife. Here you’ll find history, culture and you can discover hidden hotspots and weird and wonderful surprises.
Best Restaurant: Petra – This is a typical Spanish restaurant for the locals. It is hidden on the corner of Carrer Banys Vells and is a little hard to find because there is no terrace or sign which tells you that it´s a restaurant. The menu is printed on wine bottles and they only serve fresh products. Prices are quite cheap compared to other restaurants.
Best Cocktail Bar: Miramelindo
Best Entertainment Venue: The Palau de la Música. This is one of the finest concert halls in the world and proud UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was designed by Lluís Domènech I Montaner, a contemporary of Gaudí. The hall is exquisitely decorated and has a very special skylight, which is an attraction itself.
Raval – Located on the other side of the Ramblas, Raval is a bohemian’s paradise, it’s Barcelona’s most colorful district. Street kids play cricket or football and generally run riot as beatniks stroke their beards and order another chupito or two.
Best Restaurant: El Rincón de Aragón – a restaurant characterized by traditional, home cooked Aragonese dishes. It has a familiar and welcoming atmosphere and a rustic, authentic and characterful interior.
Best Cocktail Bar: Marmalade
Best Entertainment Venue: La Boqueria – a huge public market that’s one of the city’s most famous landmarks. The grand iron entrance leads into what is one of Europe‘s largest and most famous food markets, selling fresh produce and for providing a seemingly never-ending supply of exotic fruit smoothies and fresh lemonade.
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L’Eixample – ‘The Addition’ is a grand, grid-patterned section of the Catalan capital which is largely residential… but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing going on! Trendy and vibrant, L’Eixample is a bustling area filled with young professionals, and the area around Casanova Street has been dubbed Gayxample, and you don’t need to be a genius to figure out why.
For those missing a quiet pint or for a wee dram of exquisite whiskey, The Lock Inn in L’Eixample is a great place to call your new local.
Best Restaurant: Paco Meralgo – Known to be one of the best tapas bars in Barcelona, it’s casually elegant and always busy. Their mix of delicious, high-quality food is accompanied by a large wine, cava, and champagne selection. Try their brie and asparagus dish, it’s phenomenal.
Best Cocktail Bar: Slow Barcelona – A suave club which creates some pretty innovative concoctions
Best Entertainment Venue: L’Auditori – A cutting edge, classical music venue
Gracia – Another area of Barcelona with an alternative vibe, it feels like a village-within-a-city. Here, you’ll find a very Catalan quarter oozing with charisma and an energetic vibe – with not too many tourists, except those who lost their way trying to find Parc Guell. A quieter part of Barcelona, with an older, free-spirited and more genteel crowd.
Best Restaurant: La Pubilla – A bright and cozy restaurant that’s well-known throughout Barcelona for serving up the best menu del dia, or fixed price lunch menu. Beautifully creative presentation, top-notch quality and generous portions make this place a must for a chic Barcelona lunch. Reservations a must!
Best Cocktail Bar: Belle Epoque – Stylish and comfortable, luxurious and relaxing.
Best Entertainment Venues: For a low-key jazzy vibe try Woody’s.
Poble Sec – Shh, keep it quiet, but these days the once unloved district of Poble Sec a.k.a. Dry Town is now considered to be a pretty hip barrio. Quirky, creative, relaxed and culturally diverse, this area has recently undergone something of a renewal and is quite enchanting.
Best Restaurant: Xemei – If you’re in the mood for a quick break from Spanish cuisine, this restaurant is the stand-out option. The simple yet exquisitely cooked Venetian haute cuisine means it’s normally full so it’s worth making a reservation.
Best Cocktail Bar: Maumau Underground
Best Entertainment Venue: El Molino – Barcelona’s most famous theatre in the area is located on the equally famous Parallel Avenue. Expect risqué yet largely tasteful cabaret and burlesque shows.
Reason #2 – Barcelona Has A Wonderful Culture
Catalan culture, quirky architecture, funky street art and beautiful textiles – just some of the things which make up Barcelona’s culture
Barcelona is a lively, unusual, artistic city with a heart that hasn’t changed for over 500 years. Catalans are extremely proud of their identity, rich culture and beautiful language, and this unique heritage blazed the trail for Spain’s 19th Century industrial revolution and artistic boom.
However, after Franco’s armies defeated the Republicans in 1939, the dictator banned the Catalan language, changed street names from Catalan to Castillian (Spanish), and censored their culture.
It was only after Franco’s death in 1975 that the Catalans restored their traditions, speech, and literature – thanks to the European Romantic movement – and reminded the world about its distinct culture.
The Catalan flair for beauty and their love for art and music is evident all over Barcelona. The city offers a feast of sculptures, galleries, concert halls, impressive architecture, art cafés, and fashion. It is the city of the young Picasso, of Miro and Tapies, of Modernista buildings by Gaudí, as well as the cutting edge structures by Gehry and Nouvel.
The atmosphere which coats Barcelona can only be described as open. Everyone is accessible, friendly, and always willing to chat. When moving from the UK to Spain, one of the biggest details to consider about what you’d like to experience from your new home should be the ambiance of the village, town or city you’re moving to, and Barcelona offers open views, open people, and an open mindset which inspires and entertains.
The Catalans generally have a reputation for being hard-working, ambitious and conservative, and their folklore has been strongly influenced by Roman Catholicism.
Their love of superior fashion and the traditional importance they give textiles is reflected in Barcelona’s drive to become a major fashion centre.
There have been many attempts to launch the city as a fashion capital, and The Brandery, an urban fashion show, is held in the city twice a year. The dress style in Barcelona is classed as formal for both men and women. Shorts are still vaguely catching on for ladies, but most of the time you will get a weird look when wearing shorts. Stick with skirts and dresses for the summer.
Very few European cities can compete with the cultural experiences on offer in Barcelona. The city celebrates its remarkable artistic legacy at every turn and British expats living there can while away hours exploring its numerous delights.
Reason #3 – Barcelona Has Beautiful Architecture
An eclectic mix of design and architecture
Ornate medieval buildings appear alongside Gaudi’s unique modernist creations, ultra-contemporary, sleek high-rises stand shoulder to shoulder with ornate, ostentatious old churches, and traditional tapas bars intermingle with chic eateries and glamorous Michelin-starred restaurants.
Barcelona really is a mishmash of structures, and has a series of architectural works awarded the World Heritage designation by the UNESCO.
Other important things to consider about Barcelona
Picturing yourself living in Barcelona is one thing, working out whether it’s feasible to actually live there is something entirely different.
The thought of spending long, warm summer days exploring the city’s maze of alleyways and narrow streets whilst immersing yourself in culture, treating yourself to a shopping trip, and smelling the intoxicating aromas of rice dishes and tapas as you go, is all well and good, but can you afford to do the shopping? Will you be able to cope with all that walking?
These are just some of the questions you’ve got to ask yourself, and below you’ll find all the other things you should consider before moving to Barcelona from the UK.
We’ve also thrown in a few tips and tricks on how to “Hack Barcelona” like a local.
1. Cost of Living
You’ll need more than other places here in Barcelona
The cost of living in Barcelona is over six per cent higher than it is in Spain’s capital, Madrid. Therefore, you really need to have substantial savings to start your new life here. An average sized, two-bedroom apartment across the city can cost you around €1200 to rent, per month. Try Foto Casa, it’s a great website to view apartments to rent/buy and gives you a general idea of how much your new dream home might cost.
A cinema ticket will cost you about €8, a gym membership will be around €40, a bus ticket costs more than €2, and most essential grocery items cost upwards of €1.50. If you’re looking for a gastronomic delight, a three-course meal will set you back about €40 per person.
If you’re looking to buy or sell things once you’re in Spain, try downloading the Segundamano app. It’s the most popular secondhand service in Spain, like Gumtree, where people can sell and buy their used stuff.
2. Transport
Barcelona is a small, compact city of just under 40 square miles, making it smaller than London and similarly sized to Amsterdam. You can explore the city’s nooks and crannies, its 86 gardens and parks, plus its 3 miles of coast by foot, but this can be incredibly tiring.
So, here are a few suggestions of how to move around the city like a local.
Bicing – Bikes that you can rent and park up anywhere around the city
Bicing to move around – If you like riding a bike, renting a Bicing bike is the perfect way to move around Barcelona. Very efficient, quick and simple.
Bla Bla Car to go outside Barcelona for less – Bla Bla Car is a hitchhiking system that connects passengers with drivers who have spare seats in their car. It might not be for everyone as it is based on ridesharing but I assume it’s worth to put it out here for your consideration.
Free parking outside of the city center – Parking in Barcelona city center can easily give you a headache. We highly recommend leaving your car on a free parking away from the city center and getting to your destination by metro.
Download the TMBApp – The official Barcelona public transport app. After downloading it and creating an account you can configure it to work best for you. Choose underground and bus lines, the ones you use most frequently, and get the access to their timetables. You will also get notifications with alerts about “your lines”.
3. Meeting New People
Download the Meetup App or join their website. This application is well-known all over the world but its particular value is shown when you arrive in a new place. Barcelona is a vibrant city and it would be a sin to just stay at home all the time.
If you want to make friends or acquaintances to jog with, go to yoga with, play golf, drink wine, watch a movie, on Meetup you’ll find groups with similar interests. Many of them are expats just like you, so chances are you’ll find someone with common interests. It’s always worth trying at least once anyway!
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Hopefully this will be you soon, jus chilling out, taking in the sites of beautiful, albeit chaotic Barcelona!
We really hope our handy guide has been helpful. Either you’ve learned something new about this wonderful place, or it’s helped you to make your decision and you’re thinking of moving to sunny Barcelona!
If that’s the case, please don’t hesitate to contact us now for help and advice on your removals from the UK to Barcelona, or anything else about becoming an expat in Spain. If we don’t know the answer to your question, we can point you in the right direction to get one!
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Free Public Lecture and Guided Meditation in Boston on April 20
Satyananda
LOS ANGELES—Satyananda, a long-time monk of Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF), founded in 1920 by Sri Yogananda, will discuss the power of yoga meditation for reconnecting with one’s essential nature during a talk entitled “Finding Inner Peace through Meditation” in Boston
The public lecture, which will include a guided meditation, will be held on Friday, April 20 at Old South Church of Boston at 645 Boylston Street from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
In his talk, which is based on the teachings of Sri Yogananda, Satyananda will offer insights and practical advice on how yoga meditation works in one’s life, helping to turn the searchlight of the senses from the outer to the inner realm.
The benefits of regular practice help create an inner calmness that becomes the stable ground from which to conduct all of life’s activities. As Satyananda explains, “The attitudes, behaviors and interpersonal skills which grow from a foundation of daily meditation and a balanced, healthy life-style can help each of us to become more productive contributors to a better society and a more peaceful world.”
The public lecture is hosted by Self-Realization Fellowship, which Paramahansa Yogananda founded nearly a century ago to disseminate his Kriya Yoga teachings.
Kriya Yoga includes a sacred technique of meditation that serves to quiet both body and mind, making it possible to withdraw one’s energy and attention from the usual turbulence of thoughts, emotions, and sensory perceptions. In the clarity of that inner stillness, one comes to experience a deepening interior peace and attunement with one’s soul.
Admission to the lecture is free. For more information, please call 617-776-9664, email bmg.of.srf@gmail.com or visit http://www.bostonmeditationgroup.com/.
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The Newest Frozen Sequel Trailer Is Enchanting and Dangerous
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Elsa and Anna’s world is getting a whole lot bigger, more beautiful, and a bit more terrifying, as the latest trailer for Frozen II introduces the magic that lies beyond Arendelle.
The first trailer for Frozen II was beautiful, to be sure. But outside of showing that Anna and Elsa’s world was about to get a whole lot bigger, it didn’t give away much in the way of what the movie is about. The second trailer expanded that just a bit, revealing we’re going to learn more about where Elsa’s powers came from and what they were meant to be. And yet, any sign of new characters or music are completely absent.
The New Trailer for Frozen II Takes Us on a Wild Adventure Outside Arendelle
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It’s clear that Elsa’s growing abilities, and the discovery of this enchanted land and its people, are pushing her away from her own family and kingdom—making Anna’s role as the reasoned, balancing force in Elsa’s overpowered life all-the-more crucial.
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VDOT Unveils Website for I-66 Express Lanes Inside the Beltway
Parul Dubey on September 20, 2017 - in Corporate, News, Technology
FAIRFAX – With express lanes opening this December on I-66 Inside the Beltway, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) unveiled a new website, 66ExpressLanes.org, to educate travelers about how tolling will work, the necessity of getting an E-ZPass or E-ZPass Flex, and other changes coming to the highway. The express lanes, which will be in effect Monday through Friday, 5:30-9:30 a.m. eastbound, and 3:00-7:00 p.m. westbound, are designed to offer new travel choices that move people on I-66 with greater speed and reliability.
This new website provides comprehensive information to prepare commuters for the opening of the Express Lanes, including:
How the dynamically-tolled I-66 Inside the Beltway Express Lanes will operate;
Who is subject to the toll by explaining the difference between a free and tolled trip. Solo drivers will be able to use the highway during rush hour for the first time since it opened in 1982 by paying a toll, while carpoolers, transit riders, motorcyclists, and emergency and law enforcement vehicles performing their duties will experience toll-free trips. The elimination of exemptions for special user groups such as clean-fuel vehicles and Dulles International Airport-bound vehicles, to treat all I-66 users equally;
What type of transponder to choose by making a distinction between E-ZPass (which enables solo drivers to pay a toll to access the rush-hour Express Lanes) and E-ZPass Flex (which enables vehicles with two or more occupants to travel toll-free);
Where to get an E-ZPass/E-ZPass Flex, including AAA Mid-Atlantic locations, select Wegmans and Giant grocery stores, Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles centers, and online;
When are the new HOV/tolling hours? In the morning driving eastbound between 5:30 and 9:30 a.m. and in the evening heading westbound between 3:00 and 7:00 p.m.; and
How much will it cost? A toll calculator that will display current toll rate estimates, which will be activated when the Express Lanes open.
“We are excited to roll out our new website to help the public get ready for Toll-Day 1,” said Amanda Baxter, Special Projects manager for VDOT. “Our site offers one stop shopping for everything you need to know about the Express Lanes on I-66 Inside the Beltway and other changes to the rules of the road.”
In addition to 66ExpressLanes.org, VDOT will roll out a multi-faceted education program this fall that will include media events, news stories, advertisements, briefings and other strategies to prepare travelers to use the express lanes in ways that best suit their individual needs.
The I-66 Express Lanes Inside the Beltway will open as HOV-2, but will switch to HOV-3 when the I-66 Outside the Beltway Express Lanes open in mid-2022, matching the current HOV rules on I-495 and I-95 Express lanes.
After covering the cost of maintaining and operating the facility, remaining toll revenues from the I-66 Inside the Beltway Express Lanes will be invested in transportation alternatives that improve mobility and benefit travelers using I-66 Inside the Beltway will be administered by the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission.
More information can be found at 66ExpressLanes.org and Transform66.org
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Pagina principale Democratic enlightenment : philosophy, revolution, and human rights 1750-1790
Democratic enlightenment : philosophy, revolution, and human rights 1750-1790
Israel, Jonathan Irvine
That the Enlightenment shaped modernity is uncontested. Yet remarkably few historians or philosophers have attempted to trace the process of ideas from the political and social turmoil of the late eighteenth century to the present day. This is precisely what Jonathan Israel now does.
In Democratic Enlightenment, Israel demonstrates that the Enlightenment was an essentially revolutionary process, driven by philosophical debate. The American Revolution and its concerns certainly acted as a major factor in the intellectual ferment that shaped the wider upheaval that followed, but the radical philosophes were no less critical than enthusiastic about the American model. From 1789, the General Revolution's impetus came from a small group of philosophe-revolutionnaires, men such as Mirabeau, Sieyes, Condorcet, Volney, Roederer, and Brissot. Not aligned to any of the social groups represented in the French National assembly, they nonetheless forged "la philosophie moderne"--in effect Radical Enlightenment ideas--into a world-transforming ideology that had a lasting impact in Latin America, Canada and eastern Europe as well as France, Italy, Germany, and the Low Countries. In addition, Israel argues that while all French revolutionary journals powerfully affirmed that la philosophie moderne was the main cause of the French Revolution, the main stream of historical thought has failed to grasp what this implies. Israel sets the record straight, demonstrating the true nature of the engine that drove the Revolution, and the intimate links between the radical wing of the Enlightenment and the anti-Robespierriste "Revolution of reason."
Acclaim for earlier volumes in the trilogy:
"His vast--and vastly impressive--book sets out to redefine the intellectual landscape of early modern Europe. Magnificent and magisterialwill undoubtedly be one of the truly great historical works of the decade." -- Sunday Telegraph
"The scholarship is breathtaking. Israel has read everything, absorbed every nuance, followed up every byway." -- New Statesman
"An enormously impressive piece of scholarship. The breadth and depth of the author's reading are breathtaking and Enlightenment Contested is set to become the definitive work for philosophers as well as historians on this extraordinary period." -- Tribune
Edizione: 1st
Editore: OUP Oxford
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DEMOCRATIC ENLIGHTENMENT
Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750–1790
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During the years I have spent working on this third volume of my Enlightenment series, I have benefited so extensively from discussion about the Enlightenment in its many aspects with colleagues—historians, philosophers, and social scientists—around the world that it would make little sense simply to present a long list of them here. To those who have helped me most to correct errors and advance my understanding of the numerous themes and aspects where I have profited from the expertise of others, I have repeatedly spoken of my sense of debt and obligation. I would simply like to add here that I am immensely grateful for all the stimulation and help that resulted from all this discussion and sing the praises, as many of them would wish to too, in particular of three splendid centres for research and debate where the largest amounts of this process of comparing notes went on. For training in informed as well as independent critical thinking about society, politics, the democratic freedoms, and the uses of knowledge, the humanities surpass everything else by far, and in this uncomprehending era when the humanities are in retreat in so many higher education systems around the world there is nothing to beat the international research institutes for advancing what is best in the humanities.
Without the immense advantage of having been based at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, during the period on which I worked on this volume not only would it lack much of whatever strength it has but it would almost certainly never have been attempted at all. Neither the time, nor the scholarly resources, nor the debates, nor the cross-disciplinary stimulation would have been available to anything like the necessary extent. The several months that I spent at the NIAS (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study), the Dutch equivalent of the Princeton Institute, were also invaluable in this respect as were the months I worked in Oxford based at Corpus Christi College. It is to these three centres, above all the Princeton Institute, that I owe my overriding debt. Further, I would like to add a hearty word of thanks to all the many librarians in libraries in Europe and both Americas that assisted with this vast task.
List of Plates
1. Defining the Enlightenment
2. Interpreting the Enlightenment: The Argument
3. Social Context, Cultural Process, Ideas
PART I: THE RADICAL CHALLENGE
2. Nature and Providence: Earthquakes and the Human Condition
1. The Great Enlightenment Earthquake Controversy (1750–1757)
2. Philosophy and Interpreting Disaster
3. The Encyclopédie Suppressed (1752–1760)
1. Fighting ‘la Philosophie Moderne’
2. Diderot Loses his Contributors
3. The ‘War’ of the Encyclopédie after 1759
4. Rousseau against the Philosophes
1. Breaking with the Encyclopédistes
2. Virtue Restored
3. Deism and the Roots of Political Radicalism
5. Voltaire, Enlightenment, and the European Courts
1. Moderate Enlightenment Dominant?
2. Regrouping at Cleves
3. A Faltering Mainstream
6. Anti-philosophes
1. Anti-philosophie as a Cultural Force
2. Catholic Enlightenment against Radical Thought
3. Philosophy, Religion, and the Social Order
4. Anti-philosophie versus Spinoza and Bayle
7. Central Europe: Aufklärung Divided
1. The Legacy of Leibniz and Wolff
2. Berlin and its Royal Academy
3. Kant: Searching for the Middle Passage
4. Reimarus: Erosion from the Centre
PART II: RATIONALIZING THE ANCIEN RÉGIME
8. Hume, Scepticism, and Moderation
1. Hume’s Enlightenment
2. Hume, Aristocracy, and the British Empire
9. Scottish Enlightenment and Man’s ‘Progress’
1. Smith, Ferguson, and Civil Society
2. Kames, Race, and Providence
3. Reid and ‘Common Sense’
10. Enlightened Despotism
1. Radical Enlightenment against ‘Enlightened Despotism’
2. The German Small States
3. Joseph II, ‘Josephism’, and the Austrian Monarchy
4. Music, Literature, and the Fine Arts
11. Aufklärung and the Fracturing of German Protestant Culture
1. Deism besieged
2. Bahrdt and Freedom of Expression
3. Lessing and the Fragmentenstreit
12. Catholic Enlightenment: The Papacy’s Retreat
1. Moderate versus Radical Enlightenment in Italy
2. Beccaria and Legal Reform
13. Society and the Rise of the Italian Revolutionary Enlightenment
1. The ‘Reform of Italy’ Controversy
2. Reforming Austrian Milan
3. Deprivation, Revolution, and the ‘Two Sicilies’
14. Spain and the Challenge of Reform
1. Remaking a Transatlantic Empire
2. The Jesuits and Carlos III’s Church Policy
3. The Olavide Affair
4. Spain and the Radical Challenge
PART III: EUROPE AND THE REMAKING OF THE WORLD
15. The Histoire philosophique, or Colonialism Overturned
1. The Book that made a World ‘Revolution’
2. Philosophy and the Indies
3. Transatlantic Impact
4. The Histoire philosophique as a Project of World Revolution
16. The American Revolution
1. Enlightenment and the Birth of the United States
2. Counter-Enlightenment and Modernity
3. Princeton, Harvard, Yale, and Columbia
4. Undemocratic States
5. An Inconclusive Legacy
17. Europe and the Amerindians
1. Aztecs and Incas Reconfigured
2. Amerindians: Saved, or to be Saved?
3. The Tupac Amaru Rebellion
18. Philosophy and Revolt in Ibero-America (1765-1792)
1. The Creole-Peninsular Rift
2. Bourbon Enlightenment in the Americas
3. Radical Enlightenment Diffused across the Atlantic
4. The American Revolution and the Spanish American Revolution (1780–1809)
5. Philosophy and Self-Emancipation from Spain
19. Commercial Despotism: Dutch Colonialism in Asia
1. An Asian Empire
2. The Enlightenment Radiating from Batavia
20. China, Japan, and the West
1. Sinophilia in the Later Enlightenment
2. Chinese Society: Two Incompatible Radical Accounts
3. Enlightenment in Asia: The Case of Japan
21. India and the Two Enlightenments
1. Radical Critique of the British Raj
2. Administration and Law in British India
22. Russia’s Greeks, Poles, and Serfs
1. Russia’s ‘Liberation of Greece’ (1769–1772)
2. Diderot’s Clash with Catherine
3. Russia’s First Radical
PART IV: SPINOZA CONTROVERSIES IN THE LATER ENLIGHTENMENT
23. Rousseau, Spinoza, and the ‘General Will’
1. Towards the Modern Democratic Conception of Sovereignty
2. Radical Enlightenment, Revolution, and Rousseau’s Counter-Enlightenment
24. Radical Breakthrough
1. D’Holbach’s’Bombs’
2. Voltaire’s Last Encounter: Battling Spinoza
3. The Trial of Delisle de Sales (1775–1777)
25. Pantheismusstreit (1780–1787)
1. Lessing’s Legacy
2. The Early Stages of the German ‘Spinoza Controversy’
3. Mendelssohn, Jacobi, and the Public Rift
4. Kant’s Intervention
5. Later Stages of the Pantheismusstreit
26. Kant and the Radical Challenge
1. Dilemmas of Moderation
2. Critiquing Kant’s Critical Philosophy
27. Goethe, Schiller, and the New ‘Dutch Revolt’ against Spain
1. Drama and Political Philosophy
2. Art as the New ‘Religion’
PART V: REVOLUTION
28. 1788–1789: The ‘General Revolution’ Begins
1. Nobility versus the Third Estate
2. The Revolution’s Second Phase
3. Books and Revolution
29. The Diffusion
1. Publishers, Booksellers, and Colporteurs
2. Anti-philosophie and the Diffusion of Radical Literature
30. ‘Philosophy’ as a Maker of Revolutions
1. D’Holbach’s Politics
2. Representative Democracy
31. Aufklärung and the Secret Societies (1776–1792)
1. ‘Revolution’ and the Secret Societies
2. Weishaupt’s ‘General Reformation of the World’
3. Bavaria’s Counter-Enlightenment
4. The Deutsche Union
5. Prussia’s Counter-Enlightenment
32. Small-State Revolutions in the 1780s
1. The Geneva Revolution of 1782: Democrats versus ‘Aristocrats’
2. Aachen, Liège, and the Austrian Netherlands
33. The Dutch Democratic Revolution of the 1780s
1. How to make Democracy
2. Liberation Movement in Exile
34. The French Revolution: From ‘Philosophy’ to Basic Human Rights (1788–1790)
1. From the Bastille to the King’s Return to Paris (July–October 1789)
2. Ideas and the Revolutionary Leadership
3. Philosophes against the Revolution
35. Epilogue: 1789 as an Intellectual Revolution
1. The ‘General Revolution’ as a Global Process
2. Commemorating the Revolutionary Enlightenment’s Heroes
1a. The Birth-place of ‘la nouvelle philosophie’. Diderot and his circle always regarded the ‘nouvelle philosophie’ as a group effort and the Paris cafes such as the Café Procope as its cradle. (By courtesy of the Musée Carnavalet, Paris / Roger-Viollet/The Image Works)
1b. The Amsterdam Book-Shop of Hermanus de Wit in 1763, engraving by Renier Vinkeles. (By courtesy of Roger-Viollet/The Image Works)
2. Denis Diderot (1713–84). Portrait by Dimitri Levitzky made in 1773. (By courtesy of the Musée d’art et d’histoire Ville de Genève)
3. The Paris Salon of Madam Geoffrin: a reading of a play by Voltaire in 1755. Painting by Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier. (By courtesy of the Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, NY)
4a. Benedict de Spinoza (1632–77). Anonymous portrait. (By courtesy of the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel)
4b. Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d’Holbach (1723–89). Portrait by Luis Carrogis Carmontelle. (By courtesy of the Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resources, NY)
5. David Hume (1711–76). Portrait by Allan Ramsey. (By courtesy of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery)
6a. Adam Ferguson (1723–1816). Portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds. (By courtesy of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery)
6b. Adam Smith (1723–90). Portrait by unknown artist. (By courtesy of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery)
7. The ‘Coterie’ of Milan (1776) showing from left to right Alessandro Verri (seated), G.B. Biffi (standing), Cesare Beccaria (reading), L. Lambertenghi and Pietro Verri. Painting by Antonio Perego. (By courtesy of the Collezione Sormani Verri, Milan)
8. ‘The Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776’. Painting by John Trumbull. (By courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery/Art Resource, NY)
9a. ‘Europe supported by Africa and America’ by William Blake of 1796. The female figures wear gold bands around their upper arms symbolizing their valuable but enslaved ‘support’. (By courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum)
9b. ‘The Negro Revenged’ depicting black defiance, engraving by Henry Fuseli illustrating an abolitionist ballad by William Cowper composed in 1788. (By courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum)
10a. Claude-Adrien Helvétius (1715–71) portrait by Michel Vanloo. (By courtesy of a private collection)
10b. Anne-Catherine, Madame de Helvétius (1722–1800) portrait by Michel Vanloo. (By courtesy of a private collection)
11. Armed Clashes between Democrats and anti-Democrats in Rotterdam, 1784. (By courtesy of the Atlas van Stolk, Rotterdam)
12. Mary Wollstonecraft. Portrait by John Opie of c.1797. (By courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London)
13a. Jacques-Pierre Brissot (de Warville) (1754–93). (By courtesy of Roger-Viollet/The Image Works)
13b. Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (1743–94)
14a. Anarcharsis Cloots (1755–94). (By courtesy of the Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resources, NY)
14b. Ludwig Wekhrlin (1739–92), radical journalist. Engraving by A. W. Küfher of 1788.
15. The French Revolution commences: The ‘Tennis Court Oath’ June 1789. Painting by Jacques-Louis David. (By courtesy of Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY)
16. Jean-Baptiste Belley (1747–1805) next to a bust of Raynal deputy from Saint-Domingue to the National Convention in Paris. Portrait by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson. (By courtesy of the Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, NY)
American Historical Review
AHRF
Anuales historiques de la Révolution française
BJECS
British Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies
BMGN
Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden (Low Countries Historical Review)
BTLVNI
Bijdragen tot de Taal-Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië
Correspondance générale d’Helvétius, ed. A. Dainard et al. (3 vols., Toronto, 1984)
CHEPh
Knud Haakonssen (ed.), The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy (2 vols., Cambridge, 2006)
CHEPTh
M. Goldie and R. Wokler (eds.), The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought (Cambridge, 2006)
Corpus: revue de philosophie (Paris X—Nanterre)
R. Trousson and J. Vercruysse (eds.), Dictionnaire général de Voltaire (Paris, 2003)
Dix-Huitième Siècle
DJJR
R. Trousson and F. S. Eigeldinger (eds.), Dictionnaire de Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Paris, 2006)
Etudes sur le XVIIIe siècle: Université libre de Bruxelles
French Historical Studies
GCFI
Giornale critico della filosofía italiana
GWN
H. W. Blom, Wiep van Bunge, H. A. Krop, and M. Wielema (eds.), Geschiedenis van de Wijsbegeerte in Nederland (Rotterdam, 1990–2004)
HAHR
Hispanic American Historical Review
History of European Ideas
HPSGF
Handbuch politisch-sozialer Grundbegriffe in Frankreich 1680–1820
HPTh
History of Political Thought
Intellectual History Review
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
JHI
Journal of the History of Ideas
IHPh
IMEH
Journal of Modern European History
IMH
Journal of Modern History
Kn.
W. P. C. Knuttel, Catalogus van de Pamfletten-verzameling berustende in de Koninklijke Bibliotheek
OHBE
R. Louis (ed.), Oxford History of the British Empire (5 vols., Oxford, 1998)
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
SHPHSC
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (Geneva)
TJEAS
Taiwan Journal of East Asian Studies
Abbreviations of Libraries, Collections of Manuscripts and Collections of Official Printed Edicts and Prohibitions
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Archivo y Biblioteca Nacionales de Bolivia, Sucre, departamento de manuscritos
The Hague, Algemeen Rijksarchief
ARH VOC
Algemeen Rijksarchief, The Hague, archives of the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie
Amsterdam: Universiteitsbibliotheek
London: British Library
BN Lima
Biblioteca Nacional, Lima, departamento de manuscritos
Greifswald: Universitätsbibliothek
Göttingen: Universitätsbibliothek
HKB
The Hague: Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Royal Library)
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale
Tilburg: Universiteits Bibliotheek
Venice: Bibliotheca Marciana
Wolfenbuttel: Herzog August Bibliothek
Washington, Library of Congress
WUL
Wroclaw (Breslau) University Library
Yale: Sterling Memorial Library
In recent decades the other major historical transitions towards modernity—the Renaissance and Reformation, and also the British Industrial Revolution—have receded somewhat from the commanding centrality they used to enjoy in the world of historical studies. Both the Renaissance and the Protestant–Catholic split have recently tended to lose something of their earlier importance in our society. The effect of this together with the growing clash between theological perspectives and secularism and the increasingly fraught question of universal human rights has been to push the Enlightenment increasingly to the fore as the single most important topic, internationally, in modern historical studies, and one of crucial significance also in our politics, cultural studies, and philosophy.
Meanwhile, a growing tendency, from the 1970s onwards, to contest the validity of the ‘Enlightenment’s’ ideals and see its laying the intellectual foundations of modernity in a negative rather than a positive light has, at the same time, caused an escalating ‘crisis of the Enlightenment’ in historical and philosophical studies.1 In particular, Postmodernist thinkers have argued that its abstract universalism was ultimately destructive, that the relentless rationalism, concern with perfecting humanity, and universalism of what they often disparagingly called ‘the Enlightenment project’ was responsible for the organized mass violence of the later French Revolution and the still greater horrors perpetrated by imperialism, Communism, Fascism, and Nazism in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Many argued that the assumption that humanity is ‘infinitely malleable’, as James Schmidt put it, ‘provided the intellectual inspiration for attempts by totalitarian states to eradicate every trace of individuality from their subjects’.2 Others insisted that the Enlightenment reduced complex moral dilemmas to a superficial level using simplistic solutions to iron out long-existing and deeply felt community differences and values. This multi-faceted indictment was lent added philosophical coherence by Michel Foucault’s overarching and powerful claim that the Enlightenment’s insistence on the primacy of reason was ultimately just a mask for the exercise of power. He maintained, often very convincingly, that Enlightenment was not just about liberation but even more about new forms of constraint. Postmodernist theorists urge us to forget the Enlightenment’s quest for universal moral and political foundations, claiming different cultures should be left ‘to determine their own priorities and goals without our discriminating politically or morally between them’.3 In this way a new ‘project’ arose, replacing the intellectual foundations forged by the Enlightenment with a fresh set of criteria framing a postmodern world built on multiculturalism, moral relativism, and the indeterminacy of truth.
Given the overriding importance and vast scope of this global cultural-philosophical clash today any scholar discussing Enlightenment in broad terms has a clear responsibility to render as accurate, carefully delineated, and complete a picture of the phenomenon as possible. Except for those willing to yield to Postmodernism and concede the death of reason and moral universalism, it remains an ongoing, live, and vital issue. Moreover, even many of the Enlightenment’s contemporary defenders appear to agree that this great movement in global thought, interpretation, and reform ‘was flawed and one-sided’. But was it? Before we can answer we need scholarship to explore the issue thoroughly, and it is an astounding fact that many aspects of this great movement still remain remarkably little known.
In view of this, and since this present study has now grown into a trilogy of volumes and become too large for readers easily to obtain an overview of, it seems essential to begin here by providing a clear and concise résumé of the overall argument, to enable readers to grasp clearly what is being argued and how this volume connects with the previous two in the series. This is all the more essential in that numerous determined and sometimes sharply expressed critiques questioning my general interpretation of the Enlightenment have appeared in recent years, notably by Theo Verbeek, Paolo Casini, Margaret Jacob, Henry Chiswick, Antony La Vopa, Wiep van Bunge, Antoine Lilti, Sam Moyn, Dan Edelstein, and on one crucial point also Siep Stuurman—the latter insisting that there is no ‘necessary connection’ between one-substance metaphysics and Radical Enlightenment political and social reformism, a contention in which he as well as the others are most certainly mistaken—debunking efforts which raise important and relevant questions and objections that need answering, certainly,4, but also include much that amounts to little more than failure to grasp the argument and inaccuracy in reporting what is actually being argued.
The Enlightenment, I maintain, was the most important and profound intellectual, social, and cultural transformation of the Western world since the Middle Ages and the most formative in shaping modernity. It must be understood both as an intellectual movement and as mainstream socio-economic and political history—for historiography a distinctly unfamiliar combination. It evolved on both sides of the Atlantic and began in the second half of the seventeenth century. The product of a particular era, it has profoundly affected every aspect of modernity. What was the Enlightenment? Historians have found it notoriously difficult to provide a fully adequate definition. Many definitions have been suggested and used which are correct and relevant up to a point and capture much of what historians and philosophers identify as the Enlightenment, but none seems altogether satisfactory. Peter Gay was right to claim that the ‘men of the Enlightenment united on a vastly ambitious programme, a programme of secularism, humanity, cosmopolitanism, and freedom, above all, freedom in its many forms—freedom from arbitrary power, freedom of speech, freedom of trade, freedom to realize one’s talents, freedom of aesthetic response, freedom, in a word, of moral man to make his own way in the world’.5 Only his definition seriously overstates the secularism of the mainstream Enlightenment and the strength of the commitment of many enlighteners to free speech, free trade, and personal freedom. It is also largely valid to say that the Enlightenment ‘began not as a definite “thing” or even as a chronological period, but as processes concerned with the central place of reason and of experience and experiment in understanding and improving human society’.6 What distinguished the Enlightenment’s particular emphasis on reason was indeed a belief that applying reason tempered by experiment and experience, not anything based on blind authority, would bring vast social benefits. It can also be justly defined as an era that pursued with greater consistency than any other the notion that things ought to be justified rather than ‘blindly accepted from habit and custom’.7
But while true as far as they go such definitions crucially miss the social historical dimension: they fail to give a sense of the Enlightenment being a response to the dilemmas of a society standing at the confluence of the static, the traditional norms, with the rapid changes, fluidity, and pluralism so typical of modernity,8, or a sense of the ideologically and politically embattled status of the Enlightenment, its being besieged by powerful forces from without while also being continually ravaged by disputes within. Like both the Renaissance and Reformation, in the Enlightenment intellectual and doctrinal changes came first but impacted on—and responded to—social, cultural, economic, and political context so profoundly that they changed everything. But unlike the Renaissance which revolved around the rediscovery of the texts of classical antiquity, or the Reformation which pivoted on a revolt against Catholic doctrine and ecclesiastical authority and forged several Protestant confessions, with the Enlightenment it has proven difficult even to agree as to which intellectual tendencies should chiefly be stressed. Even the notion that the Enlightenment placed a new and particular stress on ‘reason’ can be easily questioned by citing the examples of Hume and Burke, two of the Enlightenment’s greatest thinkers. Given the notorious difficulty of providing a complete definition it is unlikely that there will be general agreement regarding the definition employed here. But it is important to begin by clearly formulating the definition used in these volumes and briefly explaining why this definition of the Enlightenment seems more adequate than other characterizations.
In defining the Enlightenment, we must bear in mind two particular difficulties hindering a satisfactory, historically accurate characterization: first, it is undoubtedly true that as a general cultural phenomenon the Anglo-American Enlightenment placed much less emphasis on the role of reason and philosophy as the agent of change than was the case in France, Italy, and Germany; secondly, it is necessary to remember that the very term ‘Enlightenment’ we use today and its French equivalent Lumières, or Spanish Ilustración, are to a large extent later nineteenth- and twentieth-century constructions—though the German Aufklärung was more widely used in the late eighteenth century; the term ‘Enlightenment’ therefore carries an ideological baggage and resonances often superimposed later and not part of the original phenomenon. Hence, a fully adequate historical and philosophical definition does not necessarily have to accommodate some of the things academics, politicians, social theorists, and others writing today mean by the term ‘Enlightenment’. Especially alien to the eighteenth-century concept—and sometimes pernicious in our contemporary usage—is the today widespread assumption in some quarters that we in the Western world are ‘enlightened’ and need to defend and preserve a supposedly shared body of values.
Furthermore, a habit has developed in recent decades in historical studies of focusing much attention in Enlightenment studies on questions of sociability, mondanité, cultural spaces. The study of sociability and social practices is often interesting and important but has little directly to do with what contemporaries meant when they accounted innovations, recommendations, or changes ‘enlightened’, éclairé, or aufgeklärt, terms incessantly used at the time. No significant Enlightenment figure had sociability or social practices in mind when designating as ‘enlightened’, or the fruit of ‘enlightened’ attitudes, the great shifts, cultural, scientific, social, and political, they saw occurring, or as having recently occurred or as needing to occur. Therefore little attention is paid here to this aspect of eighteenth-century history and it is neither necessary nor advisable to find room for the cultural history of sociability and social practices in defining the Enlightenment. If the Parisian salons, for example, were an extremely important social space, their contribution to the Enlightenment as such was practically zero except as a (very) marginal conduit of dissemination.9 Sociability, in short, is just a gigantic red herring. But this most certainly does not mean that Enlightenment was a purely intellectual movement. There was a great deal of social grievance and legal archaism in the eighteenth century, and the Enlightenment precisely by establishing new principles, understood intellectually, set up a powerful process of social and political innovation, reformism, and change which profoundly affected the whole of society. The Enlightenment is not a story of ideas but a story of the interaction of ideas and social reality.10
John Robertson begins his important 2005 study by characterizing the Enlightenment as a shift commencing in the 1740s involving ‘a new focus on betterment in this world, without regard for the existence or non-existence of the next’. The main intellectual effort, he argued, was ‘concentrated on understanding the means of progress in human society, not on demolishing belief in a divine counterpart’.11 His emphasis on there having been a core of original thinking to the Enlightenment ‘that was not simply a matter of common aspirations and values’ and within which ‘the understanding of human betterment was pursued across a number of independent lines of enquiry’ is in many ways excellent and, like earlier definitions, captures much of what is needed. Any workable definition of Enlightenment must focus on betterment in this world and get away from social practice and common values to stress especially new principles, concepts, and constitutional arrangements being introduced that are conceived to be transforming society for the better. But Robertson’s characterization still has four considerable limitations. Both advocates and (the many) opponents of the Enlightenment typically saw the process as beginning in the mid and late seventeenth century so that the 1740s is simply too late a starting point; Robertson’s formula insufficiently stresses the tendency to see human amelioration as something arising from a general transformation in men’s thinking, attitudes, and ideas and by challenging accepted values, rather than stemming from other arguably useful forces for change such as economic processes, social practices, inherent national characteristics real or alleged, imperial expansion, religious revelations, rediscovering ancient texts or ancient constitutions; thirdly, it fails to capture the general consensus that what was needed and happening (or about to happen) was a giant leap forward, a vast revolutionary change, that the difference between enlightened attitudes and society and unenlightened attitudes and society is like light and darkness. At one point, Robertson criticizes Darnton for postulating too close a link between Enlightenment and the French and American revolutions; but here, arguably, Darnton was entirely correct.12 Finally, missing here is any reference to the profoundly typical quest for universal solutions and recipes. Universalism was one of the quintessential characteristics of the Enlightenment.
Admittedly, other recent definitions have put more stress on pluralism and the national perspective within the Enlightenment than either Robertson or myself. But the concept of distinct ‘national’ enlightenments seems to me altogether invalid first because in most countries, including Russia, Scandinavia, the Austrian empire, Poland, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and post-1720 Netherlands, the United States, Canada, Brazil, and Spanish America, the primary intellectual influences were predominantly foreign—mostly French, British, or German, though before 1720 the Dutch factor was also crucial. Secondly, while there was never any basic unity to the local enlightenment in any given country, including Britain, America, and France where the Enlightenment was always divided between competing factions drawing inspiration from different sources both national and international, the rifts were characterized less by plurality than duality. Nowhere did these divisions point to a high level of fragmentation. Pocock holds that in studying the intellectual history of the late seventeenth and eighteenth century we encounter positions and lines of thought ‘to which the term “Enlightenment” may usefully be applied, but the meanings of the term shift as we apply it. The things are connected, but not continuous; they cannot be reduced to a single narrative; and we find ourselves using the word “Enlightenment” in a family of ways and talking about a family of phenomena, resembling and related to one another in a variety of ways that permit various generalizations about them’. This seems to me far too vague and diffuse to be useful. There was a wide range of opinion, certainly, but it was not a spectrum but rather a set of rifts between closely interactive competitors readily classifiable as a single narrative. Indeed, with its two main contending streams—moderate and radical—the Enlightenment can only be understood as a single narrative.
The definition used here retains Robertson’s emphasis on the unitary and fundamentally transforming character of the Enlightenment while avoiding the narrower, fragmented quality, and resort to national perspectives, of Pocock’s definition. It also avoids the excessively unitary character of Gay’s definition. Mainly, though, the definition proposed here attempts to be more complete than other definitions in particular by correcting Robertson’s four gaps. That is it seeks to incorporate the full chronological span—the Enlightenment era runs from around 1680 to around 1800—to restore the centrality of ‘philosophy’ rather than other things as the primary agent of betterment, to reflect the close linkage of Enlightenment with fundamental transformation, challenging accepted values, and revolution, and, finally, to accommodate the quest for universality. Such a formula, one might suppose, at first glance, misses the essence of the British Enlightenment; but I do not think that it does. Even the most conservative of the Enlightenment’s great philosophers, and the most inclined to restrict the scope of reason, Hume and Burke, clearly thought the principles and new (as they saw it) constitution produced by the Glorious Revolution of 1688–91, and the toleration, press freedom, and mixture of monarchy and republicanism issuing from it, had recently transformed England, Scotland, and North America fundamentally, and could transform other societies—Burke hoped to see this in India, Ireland, and France—comparably, and that philosophy and philosophical history played a large part as a critical tool, especially in revealing what the real nature of these salutary and transforming principles was and how to preserve and propagate them.
Enlightenment, then, is defined here as a partly unitary phenomenon operative on both sides of the Atlantic, and eventually everywhere, consciously committed to the notion of bettering humanity in this world through a fundamental, revolutionary transformation discarding the ideas, habits, and traditions of the past either wholly or partially, this last point being bitterly contested among enlighteners; Enlightenment operated usually by revolutionizing ideas and constitutional principles, first, and society afterwards, but sometimes by proceeding in reverse order, uncovering and making better known the principles of a great ‘revolution’ that had already happened. All Enlightenment by definition is closely linked to revolution. Here I think is an accurate, historically grounded, complete definition. This projected ‘revolution’—this term was continually used in this connection at the time by Voltaire and other contemporaries—had either recently happened, as was often supposed in England, Scotland, and pre-1776 America, or was now happening, as Voltaire believed was the case in Germany, France, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Russia, and Italy, or would eventually happen, as was hoped by most radical philosophes and the first Spanish American libertadores, such political visionaries as Francisco de Miranda.
Enlightenment is, hence, best characterized as the quest for human amelioration occurring between 1680 and 1800, driven principally by ‘philosophy’, that is, what we would term philosophy, science, and political and social science including the new science of economics lumped together, leading to revolutions in ideas and attitudes first, and actual practical revolutions second, or else the other way around, both sets of revolutions seeking universal recipes for all mankind and, ultimately, in its radical manifestation, laying the foundations for modern basic human rights and freedoms and representative democracy. Certainly, there was a deep internal split between radical and moderate enlighteners. But both radical and moderate enlighteners sought general amelioration and both could readily accept Adam Smith’s definition of ‘philosophy’ as the ‘science of the connecting principles of nature’.13 Both tendencies could agree that therefore nature and everything shaped by Nature is the sphere of philosophy and that ‘philosophy’ is the key debate with regard to everything. Of course, both sides adamantly insisted on their realism and practicality while assailing the opposition for being impractical, Burke rebuking Richard Price, for instance, for dealing in empty abstract propositions when speaking of inalienable rights.14 But where moderate Enlightenment demonstrated its practical good sense by being able to compromise with the existing order, by disavowing reason’s applicability in some areas and justifying existing constraints and circumstances in part, the radical wing claimed to be, and was, the more realistic in offering comprehensive solutions to increasingly urgent unsolved social, legal, and political problems that the moderate Enlightenment proved unable to cope with.
What caused the Enlightenment? As one would expect from so profound, far-ranging, and multi-faceted a phenomenon, its roots were numerous, complex, and very deep-seated. There were two main categories of causes that can be usefully classified as intellectual-scientific, on the one hand, and social-cultural on the other. The first group were essentially factors of destabilization undermining long-accepted scientific, theological, and philosophical premisses. An obvious strand here was Copernicus’ heliocentrism and the researches of Galileo rejecting all previously accepted notions about the relationship of the earth to the sun and other planets and changing the ways nature itself was conceived and science pursued. In other words, the impact of what today is commonly still called the ‘Scientific Revolution’, originally an idea forged by Fontenelle, d’Alembert, Voltaire, and others in the Enlightenment era, was a key cause of the Enlightenment.
But there were other major destabilizing initiatives such as the Renaissance’s rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, especially the rediscovery of ancient scepticism which eventually introduced systematic doubt in every area of argument and belief, generating intense and long-lasting unease persisting well into the eighteenth century. Another strand was the tension between philosophical reason and theology associated with the advance of Western Averroism in the later Middle Ages and the inability of Aquinas’ powerful synthesis of reason and faith to effect a fully satisfactory reconciliation. Another crucial cause and symptom of the underlying tension characteristic of intellectual life, especially in Italy and France, during the century and half prior to the Enlightenment proper, was the rise of a literary movement known as libertinage érudit, a tendency hinting at religiously and morally subversive ideas that operated in a hidden, veiled manner, especially by quoting disturbing and disorienting comments drawn from classical literature and encouraging readers to read between the lines. This trend helped generate what from the late seventeenth century evolved into an underground literature of clandestine manuscripts rejecting all the most basic and sacred suppositions of existing authority and religion.15
Among social-cultural and political causes of the Enlightenment the most crucial was the stalemate that ended the Wars of Religion and untidy compromises embodied in the Peace of Westphalia (1648), ending the Thirty Years War. God must be on one side or the other, men assumed, so how could the outcome of the struggle be absolute deadlock and totally inconclusive? The psychological shock of such a result was tremendous, and the problems associated with organizing the many compromises that had to be hammered out forced a whole new culture of de facto toleration and acceptance of religious plurality which then had to be theorized and legitimized in complex ways. This unavoidable pressure to accommodate religious plurality peacefully had to be faced not just in Germany, France, Britain, and Ireland but also in the Netherlands, Czech lands, Switzerland, Poland, Russia, and Hungary-Transylvania. At the deepest level the dilemmas de facto toleration generated in a deeply traditional cultural world precipitated a weakening of theology’s power to fix social norms and policy that arguably became noticeable in some areas of government policy earlier than in intellectual life. A prime example were the late seventeenth-century monarchies’ willingness to give more emphasis to economic, and less to theological and legal, criteria than had been usual earlier, in widening de facto toleration and accommodating Christian dissenters and Jews.
Another social factor was the unprecedented expansion of the urban context especially in a few great capitals such as London, Paris, Vienna, Berlin, and Petersburg but also in the closely bunched Dutch towns, creating a new sphere of cultural cosmopolitanism fed by imported products and sometimes people from Asia, Africa, and the Americas and social and sexual fluidity and vagueness blurring traditional class distinctions. It is vital not to suppose, meanwhile, that anything like a socioeconomic class shift of the sort Marxist historians tended to predicate was under way. Although it has been claimed that in North America the Enlightenment was the work of the ‘landed gentry’, in fact nowhere was the Enlightenment the work of any particular social group. Leading representatives of Enlightenment thought came from aristocratic, bourgeois, and artisan backgrounds and the Enlightenment movement itself always remained socially heterogeneous and non-class specific, in terms of its spokesmen, objectives, and socio-economic consequences.
Typically, when eighteenth-century authors referred to what we call Enlightenment they spoke of, ‘ce siècle éclairé’ [this enlightened century], ‘ce siècle philosophique’ [this philosophical century], the progress of reason, or invoked as Voltaire did writing to d’Alembert, on 4 June 1767, the ‘triomphes de la raison’ and this ‘happy revolution occurring in the minds of all the well-intentioned over the last fifteen or twenty years’.16
Together, the long-term causes, intellectual-scientific and social-cultural, set in motion a philosophical ‘revolution’ which shattered all the major thought-structures and premisses of the past causing an unprecedentedly sharp break in intellectual and academic life. Seven great philosophers were associated with this initial process of rupture—Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Bayle, and Leibniz—all of whom to a greater or lesser degree shared the ‘revolutionary’ tendency of all Enlightenment to sweep the past aside and lay down new premisses. Within a very short space of time, these thinkers powerfully demonstrated that both the basic assumptions of centuries of previous thought and most men’s prevailing beliefs and ideas in existing society were fundamentally wrong and ill grounded. Were it possible, moreover, to improve men’s thinking this would in itself greatly improve human life and institutions by rendering society safer, healthier, more tolerant, more effective in its use of science, and more orderly and equipped with better legislation and laws.
All seven, then, powerfully contributed to grounding the Enlightenment. However, the revolutionary tendency inherent in their innovations later developed along two distinct lines. On the one hand, there was an impulse to find ways to reconcile the new premisses with reaffirming at least the most basic components of authority and faith drawn from the past in an adjusted, slimmed-down format. This strategy of compromise, allowing some of the theologians’ claims and some validity to traditional sources of authority, was most explicit in Descartes with his two-substance metaphysics and the great German thinker Leibniz, but central also to Hobbes and Locke. The other embryonic tendency discernible among the seven great thinkers and many of their disciples deemed the new universal principles uncovered by philosophical reason the exclusive guide rather than the joint source of guidance and legitimacy and hence carried the revolutionary tendency further.
Bayle was pivotal in this process of polarization because his corrosive scepticism about everything and anything anyone believes served to sever moral thought and politics from theology altogether while his use of philosophical reason to legitimize toleration (in which respect he went further than Locke), and establish the social basis for moral, social, and political principles, had the effect also of separating social theory generally from theology and church doctrine.17 However, Spinoza’s contribution was arguably the most crucial in crystallizing what is here termed Radical Enlightenment, primarily because his thought goes further than that of the other six in undermining belief in revelation, divine providence, and miracles, and hence ecclesiastical authority, and also because he was the first major advocate of freedom of thought and the press as distinct from freedom of conscience and the first great democratic philosopher. Radical Enlightenment, the reader needs to bear in mind, remained a largely clandestine movement, generally denounced and decried, until the 1770s. It was everywhere a much weaker force, at least on the surface, than the moderate mainstream Enlightenment and before 1789 (with one or two very fleeting exceptions) never enjoyed the backing of any governments, commanders, or churches in the way moderate Enlightenment frequently did.
Many scholars contend that in the Enlightenment era ‘Spinozism’, a category frequently denounced and condemned, was not actually a coherent intellectual position but a vague, almost meaningless notion amounting to little more than a battle-cry useful for accusing enemies of being ‘atheists’. Some even claim the term means substantially different things in different contexts. Doubtless there are isolated examples of vague, loose usage. Much evidence can be cited, though, showing that this presumption of prevailing loose usage is wrong and that in all the major public controversies of the Enlightenment era from Spinoza’s own time down to and after 1800, the term in fact designates a broadly coherent intellectual position. What is that position? In essence, it is the acceptance of a one-substance metaphysics ruling out all teleology, divine providence, miracles, and revelation, along with spirits separate from bodies and immortality of the soul, and denying that moral values are divinely delivered (with the corollary that therefore they have to be devised by men using terms relative to what is good or bad for society). Logically, ‘Spinozism’ always went together with the idea that this man-made morality should provide the basis for legal and political legitimacy—and hence that equality is the first principle of a truly legitimate politics. Always present also is Spinoza’s concomitant advocacy of freedom of thought.
Wherever segments of governments, churches, universities, academies, and other learned bodies were pro-Enlightenment, prior to 1789, they invariably rejected radical ideas and preferred one or other variant of what is here termed ‘moderate Enlightenment’. Even though all Enlightenment writers and thinkers, by definition, considered the philosophical and scientific assumptions of the past to be broadly wrong, in renewing science, thought, and culture, and introducing toleration and the legal, educational, and social reforms, many felt that reason is not and should not be the only guide and that a balanced compromise between reason and tradition, or reason and religious authority, is necessary. Some leading proponents of moderate enlightenment such as Voltaire and Hume accorded little or no validity to religious authority as such but nevertheless remained anxious to restrict the scope of reason and retain tradition and ecclesiastical authority, duly clipped, as the primary guides for most people. There was a marked tendency for the moderate Enlightenment to shy away from the idea that the whole of society needs enlightening, and some of its foremost practitioners, such as Voltaire and Frederick the Great, even insisted on not attempting to enlighten the great majority, seeing any such plan as ill advised and dangerous.
Both ‘moderate’ and ‘radical’ enlightenment, whether in France, Britain, Germany, or wherever, centre around the notion of ‘revolution’. All enlighteners thought of the Enlightenment as something revolutionary in the sense of being a process wholly transforming our understanding of the human condition, effecting large changes in institutions and political life, and in the relationship of ideas to reality even if their field of specific action was limited, as with Wolff busily transforming German philosophy and the world of university studies or with the young Beccaria engaged in legal reform. The formerly widespread misconception among historians and philosophers that the modern usage of the term ‘revolution’ to mean fundamental, sweeping change was not in use before the French Revolution is, we have stressed throughout, totally wrong.18 This assumption (still widespread among some scholars) has no basis in the evidence; on the contrary, nothing could be easier than to cite innumerable examples of such phrases as ‘cette heureuse révolution’ used by Voltaire to designate the Enlightenment as a transforming force as he did writing to d’Alembert in June 1767. Far from being unknown or rare, conceiving Enlightenment as a ‘revolution’ transforming everything either to a large extent or totally was wholly characteristic and, after 1750, became more and more so.
However, for Hume, Adam Smith, Ferguson, Franklin, John Adams, and Burke, the ‘revolution’ that counted was something that in Britain and North America had already happened in the first place with the Glorious Revolution, the perfecting of the British constitution, instituting a stable toleration and free press and the expansion of British prosperity and power. Crucial also, for them, was the recent rise of Newtonian science and Locke’s empiricism which were also deemed to have profoundly changed Britain and the American colonies for the better and in principle to be a potential recipe for others. Nor were they alone in thinking so. Quite the contrary, British mixed monarchy, toleration, science, philosophical empiricism, and even English law were seen by a number of key figures on the Continent, most notably Voltaire and Montesquieu, as the best available example and package of values transforming society for the better, something to be emulated on all sides.
Considered philosophically, there were two varieties of moderate enlightenment, on the one hand the Lockian-Newtonian construct dominant in Britain, America, Spain, France, and Holland; and, on the other, the Leibnizian-Wolffian tradition dominant in Germany, central Europe, Scandinavia, and Russia. Both of these vigorous Enlightenment currents could find expression as a form of religious enlightenment (Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish), or alternatively flourish as a form of deism, atheism, or agnosticism. As regards the Radical Enlightenment, there was only one lasting philosophical basis—one-substance doctrine denying there is any divine governance of the world. Lots of thinkers shared or participated in such a vision, and helped shape it, but as Bayle, himself one of its leading heralds, emphasized, even though the rudiments of the system itself reached back to ancient times, and had flourished as an underground during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, no other thinker had managed to lend so coherent a face to this way of thinking as Spinoza. Innumerable denunciations of one-substance doctrine and materialism in the eighteenth century commonly refer to these two (not quite identical) phenomena as ‘Spinozism’.
By 1789, radical thought and its social and legal goals had indeed come to form a powerful rival ‘package logic’—equality, democracy, freedom of the individual, freedom of thought and expression, and a comprehensive religious toleration—that could be proclaimed as a clearly formulated package of basic human rights. Only adherents of radical ideas embraced fundamental human rights as the veritable basis for social theory and political constitutions and enthusiastically welcomed this aspect of the Revolution. However, adherents of radical ideas did not have to be atheists and were almost never willing to admit (as Spinoza was not) to being atheists. There was undoubtedly some scope for reform-minded deists, Christians, Jews, and Muslims to join the one-substance Enlightenment. During the 1660s Spinoza had formed a close alliance with a group of Socinian Collegiants in Amsterdam, and subsequently, in Holland, Britain, and America, there existed significant groups of Unitarians, of whom Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) was the foremost publicist in the English-speaking world and Carl Friedrich Bahrdt (1740–92) in Germany, who not only rejected practically the entire apparatus of traditional theology, but steered their variant of Christianity as close to materialism as possible: Priestley actually claimed (not altogether coherently) to be a Christian materialist. Insofar as this religious fringe also called for a comprehensive toleration and full freedom of thought and the press and supported democratic initiatives, insisting the British constitution was very far from being the perfect thing most contemporary Englishmen believed it to be, and that there was an urgent need of far-reaching parliamentary, legal, social, ecclesiastical, and educational reform in Britain and the United States too, this group likewise belonged to the Radical Enlightenment. The Unitarian strand of the Radical Enlightenment, though, was always unstable intellectually and tended to fragment during the 1790s and, unlike the Unitarian churches more generally, disappeared during the early nineteenth century.19
During the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the Radical Enlightenment existed only in the form of tiny underground networks, atheist, radical deist, and Unitarian, in France, Holland, Germany, and England, propagating their ideas mainly in the form of clandestine manuscripts and a few illicit, anonymous publications that were vigorously suppressed by all authorities—monarchical, republican, ecclesiastical, and academic alike. Before 1750, the radical tradition was intellectually central to European civilization but socially and politically wholly marginal. From the great public controversy over the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert, in France during the 1750s onwards, however, the position changed. This raises the question of how and why the radical tendency surged up from the underground to become briefly hegemonic in the 1780s and 1790s. Its advances in the 1780s and early 1790s was so impressive that Tom Paine and many others assumed Radical Enlightenment was on the verge of decisively transforming the political face and social and cultural norms of the entire Western world. Its successes in the years 1788–92, however, were very partial and its philosophical principles rapidly rejected and perverted by Robespierre and the Jacobins. As Paine, one of the giants of radical ideology, aptly expressed it a few years later: with Robespierre, ‘the principles of the Revolution, which philosophy had first diffused’ were ‘departed from [and] philosophy rejected. The intolerant spirit of church persecution… transferred itself into politics; the tribunals, styled revolutionary, supplied the place of an inquisition; and the guillotine of the stake.’20 And although the ‘revolution of reason’ was briefly reconstituted in the years 1795–1800, Napoleon (while incorporating some parts of it) shortly after 1800 definitively replaced its freedoms and democratic contours with a new kind of authoritarianism. Nevertheless, the Radical Enlightenment survived through the nineteenth century, especially in the minds of great artists and poets, like Heine and George Eliot, as the hope for a free, just, equitable, democratic, and secular society in the future.
Some critics mistakenly suppose that I claim the Radical Enlightenment achieved its partial successes in the late eighteenth century through the power of ideas alone. This criticism has been repeated time and again but is completely misplaced. The principal reason for the partial successes of radical thought in the 1780s and 1790s was the almost total failure of the moderate Enlightenment to deliver reforms that much of enlightened society had for decades been pressing for. There were many religious minorities eager for a comprehensive toleration but except for France in 1789, no European country delivered a full toleration and in Britain the position of the Catholics and Unitarians remained especially unsatisfactory. Many publicists agitated for (more) freedom of thought and the press; yet no European country delivered full, formal freedom of the press and freedom of thought until Denmark did so, fleetingly, in 1770–2 and France during the years 1788–92. Serfdom still oppressed large numbers in central and eastern Europe; but nowhere were the serfs wholly emancipated before 1789. Black slavery marred the Americas; but only slowly and marginally were the slaves being emancipated. There were ceaseless (and all too justified) complaints about the archaic, inconsistent, and often highly inequitable character of Europe’s legal systems (that of Britain included); yet, full equality before the law was nowhere delivered except by revolution in America first and then, in France, in 1789. Democratic ideas were nowhere respectable except to some degree in the nascent United States and, again, in France after 1789. Men tyrannized over women everywhere as they had for centuries. This remained the case after 1789; but in radical circles in France in 1789, some editors and spokesmen began calling for reforms to the marriage laws, seeing abolition of the dowry system and civil divorce as the key to less subjection of women as well as to generally diminishing the power of paternal family heads over individuals.
The official Enlightenment of the courts and churches broadly failed in their Enlightenment reform programmes extending from Chile to Russia and from Scandinavia to Naples, because moderate Enlightenment, dependent as it was on the backing of kings, aristocrats, and the ecclesiastical arm, was incapable of delivering the emancipatory reforms many others besides radical philosophes wanted (albeit even more people opposed them). It was because social grievance was widespread that radical ideas proved able to mobilize support and gain an important field of action, an opportunity widened by the fact that one-substance monism yielded a metaphysics and moral philosophy apparently more consistent and free of logical difficulties than any philosophical alternative—at least prior to the rise of Kantianism as a major cultural force in the late 1780s. Philosophies reconciling reason with religious authority, or, like Hobbes’s naturalism, with absolutism, or, like Hume’s scepticism, combining a pruned-back reason with tradition, inevitably incurred more difficulties than la philosophie moderne in looking consistent and in combining principles with sweeping reform. It may be true that most people remained wholly untroubled by inconsistency and ‘bad arguments’. But there are always some at all social levels for whom intellectual consistency matters—and this applies especially to those aspiring to reform customs, laws, and institutions.
Briefly, one-substance metaphysics went hand in hand with sweeping reform. The whole point of the great Pantheismusstreit in Germany in the 1780s is that conservative thinkers like Jacobi and Rehberg concluded that no philosophy can withstand Spinoza using rational arguments as he is generally more consistent than any other thinker then available. From this they inferred the impossibility of blocking the materialism of Diderot, d’Holbach, and Helvétius intellectually and, consequently, the need, or duty, of true conservatives to abandon philosophy and Enlightenment altogether relying on faith and authority instead. Such arguments helped fuel the rise of the Counter-Enlightenment, rejecting reason and insisting that faith and authority are the sole true guides in human life, a key factor weakening mainstream Enlightenment. Spinoza’s seemingly incomparable cogency (which greatly troubled Voltaire in his last years) cannot be dismissed, as many try to, as some sort of philosophical judgement on my part. Rather it is a historical fact that in the late eighteenth century, many people believed or feared (often much to their consternation) that one-substance monism, at least to all appearances, was much the most formidably coherent philosophy obtainable.
Finally, and integral to explaining why Radical Enlightenment eventually emerged so powerfully after 1770, is the evidence of the familiar mechanism of modern revolutions. Prior to the late eighteenth century, simmering discontent usually just kept on simmering. Institutionalized oppression persisted in pre-enlightened circumstances for centuries unaddressed or barely addressed. But this is not what happened between 1775 and 1810 when there were a truly astounding number of revolutions successful or unsuccessful in America, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Ireland, Peru, New Granada (Colombia), Haiti, Italy, Spain, and the Rhineland. Study of these upheavals suggests the most crucial feature of their revolutionary mechanics is the introduction by an aggrieved but aspiring intellectual leadership of totalizing, all-renewing revolutionary ideologies the concepts of which the common people were not interested in and had little grasp of, but which could be successfully used (and manipulated) as channels for popular grievances and resentment.
Except for the American Revolution which followed a different pattern, all these revolutions were orchestrated by tiny batches of mostly strikingly unrepresentative editors, orators, pamphleteers, and professional agitators or renegade nobles, like Mirabeau and Volney—and practically never businessmen, lawyers, or office-holders. These entirely unrepresentative intellectuals captured a mass following by seizing on and amplifying popular protest arising from widespread discontent into a formidable political force. The leaders of the French Revolution of 1788–92 were socially completely marginal, and heterogeneous as well as unrepresentative; all they had in common was their ideological standpoint, and here the ‘revolution of reason’ was strikingly cohesive, especially after the pro-British, anti-philosophique moderate monarchiens—great devotees of moderate Enlightenment—were ousted from the National Assembly in October 1789. This same pattern, a socially heterogeneous and unrepresentative tiny smattering taking the lead employing a coherent ideology, likewise recurred in Italy and characterizes the German radical Aufklärung and subsequent Mainz revolution of 1792–3.21
This cultural phenomenon—revolutionary leaderships ranging from Germany to Peru that are totally heterogeneous and unrepresentative socially but highly cohesive ideologically—is in many ways the key to understanding both the French Revolution and the saga of the Radical Enlightenment itself. A correct understanding of the Radical Enlightenment is impossible without overturning almost the whole current historiography of the French Revolution which puts far too much stress on alleged institutional and social factors not directly connected to the principles of the Revolution, thereby nurturing a quite incorrect notion of the three-way relationship between ideas, Revolution, and social grievance. One might object here that the interpretation I am proposing simply revives the accusations of those anti-philosophes of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries who attributed the French Revolution to the supposedly malign influence of the philosophes. But what I am arguing is that the Radical Enlightenment—and not the Enlightenment as such—is the only important direct cause of the French Revolution understood as a total transformation of the political, legal, cultural, and educational framework of French life, administration, and society. Everything else, the financial difficulties that brought the French ancien régime monarchy crashing down, discontent of the peasantry, pre-1789 legal politics, and the French nobility’s tenacious promotion of its power and privileges, however crucial to the mechanics of the historical process that made the Revolution possible, was entirely secondary, in fact tertiary, in shaping the revolutionary outcome. The countless contemporary commentators blaming the French Revolution on the philosophes were partly right, then, except they clouded the picture by conflating their greatest enemy, la philosophie moderne, or philosophisme as they often called it, to embrace the religious scepticism of Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Hume as well, in deference to the overriding priority given to religious concerns and ecclesiastical authority.
Failure to distinguish between the Enlightenment’s two main rival factions not only played directly into the Counter-Enlightenment’s hands but has badly confused modern scholarship. Failure to stress and explore the rift between radical and moderate tendencies has the especially grave disadvantage of making it impossible to explain why so many enlighteners and heirs to the philosophes vigorously opposed the Revolution. A major advantage of the classification proposed here, conversely, is that it affords a clear explanation as to why, even if it was not always automatic, ardent long-standing adherents of radical ideas, such as Gorani in Milan, Paine, Priestley, and Godwin in England, or Georg Forster in the Rhineland, instantly embraced the Revolution as the apotheosis of the Enlightenment whereas many other enlighteners, headed by Burke, Ferguson, and Gibbon, and in France by Mounier, Necker, and the monarchiens, and also Marmontel, were never willing to recognize the Revolution as anything of the sort.22 The primary task of the historian of the French Revolution today is to refine, clarify, and deepen the late eighteenth-century insight that modern historiography has somehow lost much to its cost that la philosophie was the primary cause of the Revolution. It was indeed overwhelmingly the primary factor; but not quite in the way that the anti-philosophes envisaged it and to explain this is one of the central objectives of these volumes.
Discussing political reform, law, and administration, at the close of his Principles of Moral and Political Science (Edinburgh, 1792), the eminent Scottish thinker and social theorist Adam Ferguson (1723–1816) beautifully summed up the difference between the sort of Enlightenment he endorsed and ardently supported, the empirically grounded path of moderation exalted by Montesquieu and subscribed to by most—but by no means all—British participants in the Enlightenment, and the kind he rejected.23 Confident that the post-1688 British constitution was superior to ‘any other constitution’, as he put it in his tract denouncing the American Revolution in 1776, ‘in the known world’,24 Ferguson compared the kind of Enlightenment he repudiated with an ambitious architect planning to tear down the entire edifice of existing institutions, lock, stock, and barrel, all at once, and then rebuild the house from scratch on purely rational principles. The intentions of such confident architects were not in themselves bad though they betrayed a distinct lack of respect for the divinely fashioned order of things, as he saw it, that anyone appreciative of the role of divine providence in history would not lack. But their method was catastrophically mistaken and the consequences of their recklessness would prove disastrous for men.
Like Hume, Adam Smith, Montesquieu, and Voltaire, Ferguson did not deny the need for improvements and to make society better. On the contrary, he too supported reform and was convinced God wants us to strive for improvement: even ‘the walls’, he remarked, ‘may be renewed or rebuilt in parts successively’. He also saw the Glorious Revolution as a pivotal change of crucial world significance. But his Enlightenment sought to retain most of the existing foundations, walls, and roof in place at any one time, making only gradual, step-by-step, and carefully restricted changes without taking ‘away so much of your supports at once as that the roof may fall in’.25 If attitudes needed transforming extensively, the basic structure of government, law, and administration, as he saw it, and the main lines of social hierarchy, should remain in place. Most great figures of the Scots Enlightenment thought similarly. The one major exception was the republican-minded and remarkable John Millar (1735–1801), author of The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks (1771), an enlightener powerfully infused with a sense of the need to weaken aristocracy and push forward much more vigorously the emancipation of women, slaves, serfs, and the non-privileged generally.
Between these two consciously opposed and rival enlightenments, one wanting to tear the old house of ancien régime society down and put another in its place, the other seeking to modify and effect repairs on the old structure, given us by divine providence, and hence basically good, obviously, no compromise or half-way house was really possible. Equally, eighteenth-century science divided between those who saw the laws of physics, biology, and chemistry as divinely given, laws conceived, as Newton, and still more his disciples, had, within a framework of physico-theology, and those who saw no evidence of anything but the operation of purely physical forces. This fundamental rift could perhaps be bridged to some extent by personal friendships; but historians have hitherto not sufficiently stressed that it could not be bridged intellectually or in the practical consequences of so deep a philosophical rift. Thus, Condorcet has recently been accounted a ‘close ally of Turgot’.26 But while there were, indeed, practical issues, including questions of fiscal, judicial, and naval improvements, toleration, and widening freedom of expression, where they agreed,27 when it came to basic philosophical questions the two were at odds and regularly, if politely, reverted to the same, unbridgeable disagreement. This, in essence, was exactly that differentiating moderate from Radical Enlightenment. Turgot espoused a basically Newtonian vision of the universe. He detested the ideas of Diderot, Helvétius, and d’Holbach.28 Broaching his basic disagreement with Condorcet, in a letter of May 1774, Turgot invoked the principle of universal gravitation. Nature, held Turgot, like Newton, but unlike Spinoza, Diderot, and d’Holbach, requires an outside force to put it into movement; from this he inferred an external mover, and that all movement in the universe must be initiated by a higher cause working outside and beyond all known mechanical causes.29 This ‘first cause’ must be both free and ‘intelligent’ like the soul of humans, and since ‘freedom of the will’ seemed to him equally undeniable, he rejected the arguments by which ‘les philosophes irréligieux’, that is Diderot, d’Holbach, and Helvétius, strove to demonstrate its ‘impossibility’.
Minds, as Turgot formulated in his metaphysical dualism and Lockean psychology, are determined not by ‘des moteurs’ but by motives, not by mechanical causes but in pursuit of final causes. Beings that feel, think, and desire, he argued, have goals and choose means, and hence constitute a realm of things ‘at least as real and as certain’ as that of beings deemed purely material and moved by purely mechanical causes.30 Turgot, who, incidentally, possessed an immense personal library crammed with bibles and theology but containing comparatively little pure philosophy, adhered to a basically deist, more or less Voltairean standpoint. Condorcet, later to emerge as a prominent revolutionary leader, replied that he had examined his friend’s ‘reflections’ on metaphysical questions with great pleasure but disliked his sliding from clear facts of physics to ‘mythologie’.31 Turgot’s claim that the principle of an intelligent first cause, and the existence of minds that are free, is at least as consonant with what we know from science as mechanistic determinism struck Condorcet as wholly unproven and at odds with what we know, as incoherent philosophically and completely ‘de mythologiques’.32
Throughout the history of the Enlightenment, whether we approach it from a scientific, religious, or political standpoint, this fundamental and irresolvable duality between the created and providential and non-created and non-providential schemes of reality was so important that it generally remained the chief factor shaping the Enlightenment’s course. It is the starting point of the characteristically modern split between those who think in terms of science versus religion, as against the plea that science and religion do not conflict but stand in harmony, as well as the start of the equally basic modern split between ‘right’ and ‘left’ in politics and social theory.
Exactly as radical and moderate Enlightenment divided over the status of reason and tradition, and whether reality is governed by a knowing divine providence or by blind nature, so they diverged fundamentally over every basic issue. On one side was a body of thought maintaining that ‘reason’, meaning inference and argument based on physical and mathematical evidence only, is the sole criterion of truth, the exclusive guide in our affairs, and sole means of understanding the human condition. On the other stood the mainstream Enlightenment refusing this exclusive privileging of ‘reason’ and claiming two fundamental and distinct sources of truth, namely reason and religious authority (or alternatively tradition). True Enlightenment, held this camp, asserts the harmony between these. The religious main body of moderate Enlightenment, whether Catholic, Protestant, or Jewish, upheld formally dualist approaches, firmly separating spirit entities from physical ones, because this is essential for harmonizing reason with faith. In the case of essentially secular or deistic thinkers like Hume, Voltaire, and Montesquieu, Enlightenment moderation relied on forms of sceptical, de facto dualism of a sort restricting reason’s scope and apt for explaining why the moral, social, and political order should not be primarily based on the dictates of reason.
Reason depending for its sway on reasoning, debate, and argument, Radical Enlightenment unreservedly endorsed freedom of expression, thought, and the press, seeing this as what best aids discussion and investigation, through debate, law-making, and social amelioration, claiming ‘we shall never experience how far human reason can reach in the sphere of general truths’, as Diez, the first major German proponent of full freedom of the press, put it in 1781, ‘if we restrict or wholly refuse freedom of thought’.33 Against this, both moderate and still more the Counter-Enlightenment stream retained (or re-introduced) permanent elements of thought policing and censorship. For by proclaiming two separate sources of authority in human life—‘reason’ and religious knowledge (or else tradition)—both provided and also required greater scope for limiting debate, expression, the theatre, and the press. Where for Radical Enlightenment, truth ascertained by ‘philosophy’ (i.e. what today we would call science and philosophy) and the supposed ‘truths’ of theology and tradition stand in direct antithesis, theology being viewed by these thinkers as imposture, the mainstream subordinated human affairs, morality, marriage, and society generally to what was deemed the divinely created and revealed physical and moral order.
This divide, the key to any proper grasp of the Enlightenment, extends to practically everything of importance, even toleration, though both wings favoured toleration in general terms. The irreducible difference here concerned whether a full toleration, treating everyone equally, ‘une tolérance universelle’, was the proper aim along with full liberty of thought and expression, as materialists and Socinians (and also d’Argens’s non-rabbinic Jews and liberated Muslims) maintained, or whether toleration should, as Locke argued, be delimited to exclude atheists, discriminate against some groups—in his case Catholics, Jews, and agnostics—and privilege others—in his case Protestants—while curbing ‘dissolute’ conduct. A full toleration moderate Enlightenment considered harmful to religion, morality, and social stability, while radical thinkers held that ‘la tolérance universelle’ and full freedom of thought and expression are ‘les remèdes infaillibles’, as d’Holbach put it, against the common people’s prejudices.34 Catholic apologists endorsing Locke and Newton were a very numerous segment of the moderate Enlightenment but one especially unwilling to countenance full toleration. According to the mid-eighteenth-century Catholic apologist the Abbé Hayer, la tolérance universelle is a pernicious concept originally introduced by Bayle, revived by La Beaumelle in his L’Asiatique tolérant (1748), and receiving its fullest form in the Encyclopédie. Quite different from true Christian tolerance, this tolérance universelle of the encyclopédistes was dressed up to sound very grand and positive but really amounts to ‘une indifférence totale’ for religious authority and tradition.35
All sweeping political and social reformism of a kind denying the basic legitimacy of ancien régime monarchism and institutions was, in principle, bound to be more logically anchored in radical metaphysics denying all teleology and divine providence than in moderate mainstream thought. Basic human rights defined as individual liberty, equality, freedom of thought and expression, and democracy were inextricably linked to radically monist philosophical positions during the Enlightenment era. Moderate thought, by contrast, of necessity postulated a strong providential dimension either explicitly, as a fundamental principle, as in Voltaire, Kames, Smith, Ferguson, Turgot, Wolff, and Mendelssohn, or else as an indispensable by-product and practical consequence, especially with regard to morality and legislation, as in Hume and Kant.36 Proponents of far-reaching reform invariably found radical philosophy more amenable to their aims than systems more supportive of conventional and traditional standpoints.
Catholic, Protestant, deist, Stoic, and orthodox Jewish doctrines could easily explain individual corruption but not how human society overall, including the churches, had somehow managed to become comprehensively rotten, oppressive, malfunctioning, and corrupt. At the time, virtually all churches explicitly sanctioned ancien régime society’s basic institutions on a daily basis—monarchy, aristocracy, and ecclesiastical authority, of course, but also, at least obliquely, serfdom, slavery, the impermissibility of civil divorce, and suppression by law of freethinking, homosexuality, and extra-marital ‘fornication’. Intellectually, it was by no means impossible for a moderate enlightener angry about some perceived defect to cross the divide between non-providential and providential and join with radical voices in the political arena; but it was both rare and arguably also impossible to do coherently. Only Rousseau persistently combined a strong commitment to deism and divine providence with the complaint that all men are in chains and all societies and existing institutions fundamentally corrupt. But Rousseau, as we shall see, was a strange mixture of radical, moderate, and Counter-Enlightenment tendencies and on all sides continually accused of contradicting himself.
The fact that monist systems were far more readily adapted to radical politics than Christian, Jewish, or deist ones does not necessarily mean, though, that all those embracing a Spinozistic monism or Unitarian quasi-materialism in the style of the philosopher-scientist Priestley were automatically champions of democracy, equality, and individual freedom, rejecting the existing political and social order in its entirety, even if they often were. For there existed also other kinds of sweeping opposition to the status quo fuelled by one-substance doctrine. Boulainvilliers, a great foe of Louis XIV and monarchical absolutism, was a Spinozist but an aristocratic not democratic republican; and one can think of still more striking divergences from egalitarianism and democratic republicanism. Goethe was a passionate Spinozist in the 1780s and one resolved to reject all accepted opinions and traditions about the divinity, providence, nature, science, and the human condition; but he did so in a completely different way from the revolutionary democrats. He sought an inner transformation of himself and others on the basis of a new vision of things, a transformed perspective on nature and all reality rooted in the aesthetic of ancient Greece and what we would call the Italian Renaissance. His style of liberation from the status quo liberated not oppressed social groups but instead the higher individual, such as himself, seeking an inner revaluation of all values and release from everything conventional that ordinary men think and believe.
But everyone, democratic republican or not, rejecting divine providence, divinely delivered morality, and belief that God created the world, was implicitly a forward-looking revolutionary. This is because such a person refuses to acknowledge the existing order to be divinely intended or benevolent, even if, in Goethe’s case, he was a revolutionary of an inward, distinctly peculiar kind. A philosophy excluding divine providence, and holding the existing order to have no divine sanction or preordained direction or benevolence, is inherently better suited to buttress claims that our world has been captured by self-seeking, oppressive elites and is fundamentally disordered than one holding that the moral, social, and political as well as the physical order is designed by a supreme intelligence. Philosophy denying the created, planned, and supervised character of the existing order, while simultaneously maintaining that reason can provide a better social and moral order, must therefore always be more appealing to outright opponents of ‘priestcraft’, intolerance, archaic laws, economic inequality, slavery, monarchy, religious, gender, and racial discrimination, and aristocracy than any theological or moderate Enlightenment system.
The point needs emphasizing because questioning the link between Spinozism and political radicality has recently become one plank of the growing literature devoted to attacking the concept of Radical enlightenment underpinning this series of volumes. However necessary the fuel of social discontent in making revolutions, monist systems were in fact indispensable to the rise of a generalized radical outlook which was, in turn, the principal cause of the French Revolution and the other revolutionary movements of the late eighteenth century. This thesis is rejected by Lilti, La Vopa, Moyn, Stuurman, and Chisick as a ‘very reductive vision’ not amenable to empirical verification. They see it as a form of anachronism projecting into the eighteenth-century cultural milieu a political configuration enabling one to locate authors as more or less ‘radical’—that is more or less ‘leftist’ in the terms of a later era—in the ‘name of an assumed homology between philosophical and political standpoints’.37 To the extent that any effort is made ‘to convert this philosophical logic into an analysis of historical process’, avers La Vopa, ‘it is by showing that complete rejection of theological and ecclesiastical authority led to rejection of other forms of authority’.38 The obvious weakness of this criticism is that there is nothing whatever assumed in the linkage between radical philosophy and the politics of basic human rights politics in the late eighteenth century. On the contrary, all the evidence shows an inextricable and universal connection just as Paine states between ‘philosophy’, that is monist systems, and genuinely democratic (i.e. non-Robespierriste) radical politics, this being both inherent philosophically and clearly demonstrable factually in the French Revolution down to 1792.
Lilti, La Vopa, etc. could not be more mistaken. There was always an inherent tendency during the Enlightenment for democratic and egalitarian revolutionary movements urging drastic change to justify their programmes via monist, materialist systems defining the moral order as something purely natural and properly constructed exclusively on the principles of equity and reciprocity in social relations. Conversely, it followed directly from their structures and value-systems that a comparable revolutionary and egalitarian tendency could not easily feed on Lockean empiricism, Hume’s scepticism, Kantianism, mainstream Christianity, or de La Mettrie’s atheistic epicureanism. Far more readers were convinced by moderate than by radical thought throughout the Enlightenment. But this embedded preference could not help the oppressed peasantries of Europe, religious minorities, serfs, slaves, tradesmen resenting monopolies and privileged businesses, imprisoned debtors, and other victims of an archaic legal system and penal code, and underprivileged colonists, including the Spanish American Creole; only radical ideas could. If it is true that many moderate as well as radical theorists wanted to reform the law and commercial regulation extensively and improve administration and social conditions, radical critics were right to say that without abolishing the existing order and changing political constitutions fundamentally none of this was attainable. As Turgot’s failure in France and Beccaria’s and Pietro Verri’s in Milan showed, moderate approaches were basically impotent under ancien régime monarchy, aristocracy, magistracy, and ecclesiastical authority.
Political and socio-economic developments, then, are the real, the important social context that intellectual historians, no less than general historians, need to be relating ideas to and not the cultural spaces and trends identified by Chartier, Darnton, and their disciples, or the ambiguities and contradictions so beloved by the Postmodernists. The chief link between the historiography of Chartier, Darnton, and their followers and Foucault’s thought is the latter’s insistence that truth is not something that resides outside and separate from power and authority. It is not the outcome of protracted meditation in isolation of debate and control. Truth is not merely a thing of this world, maintains Foucault, but also something that takes multiple forms, being the outcome of many kinds of constraint and pressure. Each society, he contends, has its ‘regime of truth’, general politics of truth, and specific types of discourse underpinning its conception of truth as well as its own way of fixing the status of those it considers to be exponents of what is ‘true’. Foucault’s influence certainly spread far and wide and broadly infused discussion of the fundamental relationship of truth and power. But while such a philosophy is a splendid basis for multiculturalism, the coexistence of different sets of values, plainly anyone strongly committed to moral universalism and basic human rights predicated on the principle of equality must reject Foucault’s philosophy as false. Anyone believing truth is universal, and that human rights imply a common code that it is the duty of everyone to defend, cannot avoid taking up cudgels not just against Foucault and Postmodernist philosophy but also against the exponents of historiographical theories and approaches focusing attention on sociability, ambiguities, and ‘spaces’ rather than basic ideas interacting with real social context, by which I mean socio-economic tensions and political clashes, the main lines, that is, of general history. I do not mean by this that the ambiguities and discontinuities of the Postmodernists are not genuinely parts of social context: of course they are. What I mean is that they represent a secondary sphere to be kept firmly subordinate to the main lines of social, economic, and political development. In other words, our diffusionists have a completely different conception of social and cultural context and how it intersects with ideas and politics from the one adopted here and, moreover, one difficult to relate coherently to either ideas or events.
Political revolutions, undoubtedly, are not made by philosophers but a collaboration of crowds with revolutionary leaders. Hence the chief bone of contention in this mounting historiographical quarrel is the question of diffusion of ideas outside narrow intellectual circles into society. At the close of the eighteenth century, radical ideas became what one contemporary called the ‘torrent de l’esprit philosophique’, a torrent so powerful that it swept aside and partially defeated the moderate Enlightenment, though it was itself in turn afterwards overwhelmed by contrary movements among the public, and especially Robespierre’s (and later Napoleon’s) authoritarianism and Counter-Enlightenment. This raises searching questions about the character of social and cultural history and especially the question of diffusion of Enlightenment ideas whether moderate or radical, a topic which has now become a regular battle ground between Chartier’s and Darnton’s many followers, on one side, and general historians holding that social and cultural context interacts with ideas very differently from how they envisage the process.
Diffusion of ideas, maintains Chartier, should not be considered a direct transfer, ‘une simple imposition’; rather, reception of ideas is a form of appropriation that transforms, reformulates, and distorts what it receives. Opinion is never a mere receptacle or a soft wax to be shaped in any direction ‘et la circulation des pensées ou des modèles culturels est toujours un processus dynamique et créateur’. Conversely, Enlightenment texts, he holds, have no stable, fixed ‘signification stable et univoque’, and their impact on the perceptions of a given society produces ‘interprétations mobiles, plurielles, contradictoires’. Hence it is impossible to make any valid distinction between diffusion, conceived as a progressive adjusting and enlargement of socio-cultural contexts infused by new ideas, and a body of doctrines considered in isolation from this complex process of appropriation.39 Chartier and Darnton are doubtless right that intellectual historians of the old type did either ignore or greatly oversimplify the process of diffusion. But their new conception of diffusion and public opinion, I maintain, must also be rejected as too simplistic. If l’opinion publique was never a passive receptacle of ideas, neither was it ever the actively responsive evolving receptacle postulated by Chartier either. The democratic republican Gerrit Paape (1752–1803) was surely far closer to the mark when he pronounced the public’s reception of the democratic ideas set out in speeches, texts, and slogans in the 1780s and 1790s a ‘fantastic whirl’, an utterly unstable mass of misrepresentation, contradictions, and wild, unexpected contortions that no one can express as a coherent whole.40 This does not mean l’opinion publique is not worth studying. It is, precisely for its wild gyrations and obsessions. But such studies must be kept subordinate to the interaction of clearly and consistently articulated ideas expounded by representatives, leaders, and influential journalists with the political, socio-structural, and economic structures that chiefly determine social context. The revolutionary crowds, the cogent reasoning of some individuals from all backgrounds notwithstanding, mostly just followed their leaders and even that only sporadically, their grasp of ideological slogans and principles being always highly unstable, uncomprehending, volatile, and inconsistent.
One of Chartier’s most curious arguments is that the Enlightenment and ‘la philosophie’ were to a large extent creations of the Revolution. ‘En un sens, c’est donc bien la Révolution’, he suggests, ‘qui a “fait” les livres, et non l’inverse, puisque c’est elle qui a donné une signification prémonitoire et programmatique à certaines œuvres, constituées comme son origine.’41 No doubt many enthuse over this stunning reversal of the once familiar order. But is anyone really inclined to imagine this could be literally true? It contradicts all the evidence. Conceiving the Enlightenment as a general reforming and regenerative force was well established by the 1760s and many pre-1789 texts refer to la philosophie as an engine powerful enough to cause a mighty political and social revolution. In the 1770s and 1780s there were numerous premonitions that a great ‘revolution’ would soon occur, with Albrecht von Haller’s, Dom Deschamps’s, and Louis Sebastien Mercier’s, as we shall see, among the most emphatic, a circumstance historians have by no means sufficiently emphasized. The reason for the numerous pre-1789 predictions of a great revolution was the clear recognition that the growing ‘torrent de l’esprit philosophique’, as Sabatier de Castres put it, was such as to make any other outcome hard to imagine. A prior ‘revolution of ideas’, as Dominique-Joseph Garat, a lesser revolutionary leader, later expressed it, was essential, and such a revolution certainly occurred during the decades from the 1740s to 1789. It had to come first, Garat rightly insisted, before any revolution of fact could ensue, being the motor and shaping force behind the ‘revolution of events’.42
Noticeable before 1788, expectation that a fundamental revolution was pending became positively commonplace in 1788 and early 1789 prior to the opening of the Estates-General. In the pamphlet Lettre à Monsieur Raynal, dated Marseille, 17 March 1789, for instance, a work issued before the Estates-General convened, we are assured of the expected vast transformation soon to occur, with France’s pending ‘new destiny’ being something ‘reason’ had prepared and ‘la philosophie dont vous [i.e. Raynal] êtes l’apôtre et le martyr’ had shaped. The author asks why he should not state a truth known to all Europe: Raynal had ‘prophesied’ the great event about to take place by teaching the nation ‘la justice de ses droits’ and inspiring men with the hope of seeing themselves soon in possession of these rights. The people were thereby instilled with the courage and capacity for ‘une heureuse révolution, que votre prédiction a préparée’.43 There could be no clearer illustration of the close linkage of Radical Enlightenment with the process of revolution.
The common people’s role, hence, was not just highly unstable and sporadic but also basically secondary, if not in providing the muscle that actually toppled the ancien régime then certainly in formulating the laws and forging the institutions that replaced it. One critic of the thesis that radical philosophy overthrew the ancien régime, apparently experiencing difficulty in understanding what is being argued, even asserts that ‘neither Radical Enlightenment nor Enlightenment Contested seem able to make a case for the dissemination of Spinozistic ideas among the general European population’.44 This is an absurd objection and one that betrays a complete failure to grasp not just the basic argument for la philosophie but the processes of diffusion and cultural reorientation we are dealing with. No sensible historian proposes a decisive spread of philosophical ideas among the general population. Philosophical ideas have never spread broadly among any population. But they do sometimes penetrate where it counts. The pre-1970 view that one would need to demonstrate the diffusion of Enlightenment ideas through society to show how Enlightenment ideas could activate revolutionary masses was never a cogent concept. The real question, if we are to construct a meaningful social history of ideas, is to ask from where did the revolutionary leaders most effectively voicing popular grievance and frustration before the Jacobin takeover—Mirabeau, Sieyès, Brissot, Volney, Condorcet, Bailly, Cloots, Forster, Roederer, Manuel, Gorani, and others, whether directing the Assemblée Nationale, the Paris municipality, the Mainz revolution, or the main revolutionary journals—derive their egalitarian and democratic concepts? What is the complexion of the ideas, proposals, and slogans enabling them to lead l’opinion publique? Not many coherent suggestions have been advanced; and there is only one convincing answer: the Radical Enlightenment.
It was the revolutionary leaders, then, or rather those who worked in a particular direction, egalitarian, democratic, and libertarian, whose minds were filled with radical philosophy, and for this, as we shall see, the evidence is overwhelming. Does this mean that if fundamental change was on the way, and philosophy shaped the great changes, that the Radical Enlightenment was responsible for what Deschamps called a ‘révolution horrible’ and for the Terror, as Samuel Moyn and many others maintain? Certainly not. As it veered towards briefly gaining the intellectual upper hand, in the 1770s, 1780s, and early 1790s, radical thought did not assert that the most essential changes would, should, or could take place violently or suddenly, in one go, in particular countries or regions. Before 1789, radical ideas amply justified ‘revolution’ but also admonished that in politics as in medicine, violent remedies ‘sont toujours dangereux’ and should only be employed where ‘l’excès des maux les rend absolument nécessaires’.45 Spinoza and d’Holbach are both said to have disapproved of violent revolutions. Possibly they did but that hardly affects the issue. Radical Enlightenment consciously sought to revolutionize human existence by changing men’s ideas, starting with those few capable of understanding philosophical arguments and then placing these in positions of influence; it never advocated or glorified violence or subversion for its own sake.
Diffusion and outreach was the challenge for all wings of the Enlightenment. Thinkers on both sides of the divide, Voltaire and Turgot no less than d’Holbach, Helvétius, and Priestley, agreed (at least in their more optimistic moments) that progress was not only occurring but accelerating thanks to books and printing. By the 1760s it appeared undeniable that a general ‘revolution’ in patterns of thought and social practice was indeed taking place. ‘La révolution s’achève’, intoned Delisle de Sales, in the early 1770s, ‘et tout le monde devient philosophe.’46 For Voltaire and Frederick, the ‘revolution of the mind’ happening before their eyes need not, should not, and could not involve the great mass of humanity. The principal task and objective of the ‘revolution’ which they endorsed was to weaken the influence of the churches and render governments and courts more secular, tolerant, and willing to concede individual liberty. But for their radical critics, culminating in Diderot, Helvétius, and d’Holbach, and their disciples, as well as Priestley, Price, Paine, and Godwin, moderate Enlightenment’s partial liberation of man, based on a revolution in thinking confined to courts and social elites, was something restricted, reprehensible, and ultimately illogical and impossible. Those on the radical side of this schism considered it a great presumption to maintain, like Voltaire and Frederick, that most of humanity should be left permanently in the dark, condemned to live on for centuries in what they denounced as the most abject and crassest ignorance as well as endless degradation and exploitation. Enlightenment, held d’Holbach, who thought it impossible to ameliorate man’s lot without attacking people’s misconceptions and prejudices, means above all universal re-education since it is only by teaching men the truth that they will learn to understand their true interests ‘et les motifs réels qui doivent les porter au bien’.47
What greater insult to the human race can there be than to claim reason is reserved for some while all the rest ‘n’est pas fait pour la connaître’?48 Those inclining to moderate positions saw no ‘insult’ and refused to agree that the existing status quo was as oppressive, and misery and injustice as all-pervasive, as the radicals contended. Moderate Enlightenment not only excluded the people from ‘philosophical’ debate
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The Malawi Social Action Fund (MASAF) is a social investment programme (SIF) that provides funds for District government and communities to invest in roads, health centres, schools, and income-earning activities.
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The Most Unusual Things You Never Knew You Could Do in Singapore
September 7, 2014 by Bino 5 Comments
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Branching out from my previous entry on free things to do in Singapore, I thought I’d steer from mainstream activities and attractions and focus instead on some offbeat ideas. As a tiny and highly urbanized city state, people have a certain notion of what Singapore is and what it should be that seemingly mundane things elsewhere are considered highly unusual here. But aside from this, the city state is not as predictable and sterile as most people think – you might get thrown off by the city’s state quirkier side, especially if you’re not from here! To prove my point that not everything is what it seems in this city, here is a short list of unusual things you can do the next time you find yourself in this part of the world and which you can include in your Singapore itinerary:
#1: Go to Haw Par Villa
taking a short break in haw par villa
a grandmother breastfeeding from a lady while children look on… not even planning to decipher what this means
One of the weirdest attractions in Singapore, Haw Par Villa is well known for its Ten Courts of Hell. Here, the types of punishments that one can expect to receive for committing various sins are vividly depicted. These are no ordinary comeuppances mind you – from bodily dismemberment to being thrown into a “valley of knives” – the dioramas here make for some truly gruesome scenes.
what people get in hell for infidelity – they get thrown into a valley of knives
It is less gruesome in the areas outside the Ten Courts of Hell but certainly no less bizarre or graphic. Random statues of animals coupled with depictions of prominent Chinese folklore added with a tinge of Alice in Wonderland makes this rather neglected theme park an interesting side of Singapore. If your impression of the city state is one where everything has an order and purpose, then Haw Par Villa will blow your mind.
How to get there: Thanks to Singapore’s new Circle Line, getting here is a breeze. Your best bet is to take the train. There’s a station that goes by the same name located just beside the park.
#2 : Kayak through a mangrove forest in the Singapore mainland
still in the singapore mainland… around 2 or so kilometers from the dense housing estates of the north | by Yip Yew Chong
Believe it or not, it is very much possible to have an authentic jungle experience without ever having to stray away from the Singapore mainland. Even locals and long-time residents will find this surprising, but a stretch of Singapore’s northern tip is still covered by mangrove forests. The vegetation is best seen by kayaking through two rivers – the Sungei Mandai Besar and Sungei Mandai Kechil – giving off a semi-Amazon rainforest feel. There’s also a bit of wildlife in these parts, including horseshoe crabs and the occasional sea eagle.
How to get there: Trips are organized by the Nature Society of Singapore and are often open to the public. For the latest schedules, you can visit their site here.
#3 : Scuba dive without having to leave the country
Before you think I’ve gone bonkers – I’m not here to give a lecture on how Singapore is an up-and-coming diving destination, or even a great one at that. But given the public perception that Singapore is 100% urban, the mere fact that it is actually possible to dive here makes for an interesting subject.
marine life at the waters around pulau hantu by Min Sheng Khoo | CC by 2.0
The one place that divers go to if they wish to dive in Singapore is Pulau Hantu (translated as: Ghost Island). On good days, divers can actually spot clownfish, crabs, sea slugs, starfish and even seahorses as well as giant clams. This diving spot may not compare to the seemingly pristine ones in Thailand or the Philippines but it’s passable and offers a good alternative to those who prefer not to leave the country or those looking for off-the-beaten-path diving spots.
How to get there: You can book for scheduled diving trips to Pulau Hantu here.
#4 : Go for drinks in a password-only bar
wise words posted just outside the library
In the list of ever-growing F&B concepts in Singapore, the one I’ve found most unusual is that of a password-only bar located in Keong Saik Road. Traditionally called The Library (it’s never really had any formal name), the password needed to access this speakeasy changes every week. Those who manage to get in won’t be disappointed, with the many creative concoctions served in equally creative mugs (if they can even be called that!) that seem to be peculiar to this establishment.
How to get there: The Library is located at Keong Saik Road. Passwords are dished out on a weekly basis from their facebook and twitter pages.
#5 : Scout for personal treasures at the flea markets
the thieves market by Ng HK
Given that malls and big chain brands have practically dominated the retail market here, it often comes as a shock to newcomers and tourists that Singapore has a thriving flea market scene. The most popular one is the Sungei Road Thieves Market which has existed for decades. Hipsters on the other hand, will find the Sunday Artist Market in Ann Siang Hill and MAAD Market in the Red Dot Museum more to their liking.
Sungei Road Thieves Market -closest MRT station at Little India
MAAD Market – occurs every first weekend of the month, at the Red Dot Museum. Closest MRT station is Tanjong Pagar
Sunday Artist Market – occurs every other Sunday of the month, at Ann Siang Hill. Closest MRT station is Chinatown
#6 : Be a farmer for a day
feeding the goats by Kenneth Pinto | CC by 2.0
For a throwback to the simple life, head out to Kranji, in Singapore’s northwest. In this remote and most rural part of the island, there are no less than a dozen farms growing anything from vegetable and farm produce to ornamental flowers. You can even find farm animals here.
How to get there: Cars are advisable around these parts. Else, the nearest MRT station to the farms is Kranji MRT. There is a shuttle bus that takes visitors around the farms from the MRT station on an hourly basis.
#7 : Camp in a deserted island
clear waters in one of Singapore’s outlying islands
There’s more to the outlying islands than just Sentosa. For starters, there’s Kusu and St. John’s islands which are further afield and are accessible by ferry. You can find temples, beaches all to yourself, picnic spots and places filled with myths and folklore. It’s possible to stay in these uninhabited islands overnight, gazing at the stars and at the Singapore skyline in the distance.
How to get there: Read my guide on Kusu Island and St. John’s Island.
#8 : Chew on some frogs
live frogs for sale by walter lim | CC by 2.0
Eating frogs is not so much an unusual thing to do for locals as it is for foreigners visiting or living in Singapore. With several stalls that abound selling nothing but frog porridge (most of them in Geylang), this is perhaps the most accessible “exotic dish” that one can try in Singapore.
How to get there: The red-light district of Geylang is the most popular place to try frog porridge. Alight at Aljunied station and walk towards Geyland Road. You can’t miss these stalls, often with bright neon signs.
Where to Stay in Singapore
Budget – Wink Hostel is one of the first flashpacker hostel to open in Singapore and until today remains to be generally considered as one of the best. The dorms take on the names of local tree species. Each guest gets his own “pod” containing a bed, charger as well as storage space. The beds are more private than your usual hostel.
Midrange – I can’t recommend Hotel Yan enough. Rooms are on the cozy side but are clean while breakfast at Cafe Nido is generally excellent. The surrounding Jalan Besar neighborhood is also among my favorites in Singapore with its hipster scene.
Luxury – Generally considered as one of the best luxury hotels in Singapore, the Mandarin Oriental Singapore is one of just two hotels with an unblocked view of Marina Bay. Service here is impeccable. Check out the club lounge during your stay – you may not want to leave after that!
Not sure where to stay during your visit? Check out this area by area guide of the best hotels in Singapore or book the best hotel deals HERE.
What are some of the other unusual things that you can do in Singapore? I’d love to hear your suggestions!
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Nancy Davolio says
Such a fantastic place. it seems to be lot of fun. thanks for posting nice views.
Deddy says
Singapore is a hi-tech, wealthy city-state in south-east Asia, also known for the conservatism of its leaders and its strict social controls.
Sneha S says
The blog is very interesting and informative. I would like to get in touch with travel operators who can arrange for this kind of trip. Kindly get in touch on my email ID: sneha@naturextreme.com
Phone number: +91-7022049448 (India)
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Pedro Giovani Zanetti says
I had the chance to live in SG last year, such an intense and vivid place. Very different from my brazilian culture, I’ve had great times and made excellent friends there.
Bino says
That’s nice to hear! You should visit again 😀
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Back to Basics: Pitting Edema and the Optimization of Hypertension Treatment in Incident Peritoneal Dialysis Patients (BRAZPD)
Sebastião R. Ferreira-Filho ,
* E-mail: sebahferreira@gmail.com;
Affiliations Nefroclínica de Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil, Federal University of Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Gilberto R. Machado,
Valéria C. Ferreira,
Affiliation Nefroclínica de Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Carlos F. M. A. Rodrigues,
Thyago Proença de Moraes,
Affiliation Center for Health and Biological Sciences, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
José C. Divino-Filho,
Affiliation Baxter Healthcare, Division of Baxter Novum and Renal Medicine, CLINTEC, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Marcia Olandoski,
Christopher McIntyre,
Affiliation Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom,
Roberto Pecoits-Filho,
on behalf of the BRAZPD study investigators
Sebastião R. Ferreira-Filho,
Sebastião R. Ferreira-Filho Gilberto R. Machado ... on behalf of the BRAZPD study investigators
Systemic arterial hypertension is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease that is frequently observed in populations with declining renal function. Initiation of renal replacement therapy at least partially decreases signs of fluid overload; however, high blood pressure levels persist in the majority of patients after dialysis initiation. Hypervolemia due to water retention predisposes peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients to hypertension and can clinically manifest in several forms, including peripheral edema. The approaches to detect edema, which include methods such as bioimpedance, inferior vena cava diameter and biomarkers, are not always available to physicians worldwide. For clinical examinations, the presence of pitting located in the lower extremities and/or over the sacrum to diagnose the presence of peripheral edema in their patients are frequently utulized. We evaluated the impact of edema on the control of blood pressure of incident PD patients during the first year of dialysis treatment. Patients were recruited from 114 Brazilian dialysis centers that were participating in the BRAZPD study for a total of 1089 incident patients. Peripheral edema was diagnosed by the presence of pitting after finger pressure was applied to the edematous area. Patients were divided into 2 groups: those with and without edema according to the monthly medical evaluation. Blood arterial pressure, body mass index, the number of antihypertensive drugs and comorbidities were analyzed. We observed an initial BP reduction in the first five months and a stabilization of blood pressure levels from five to twelve months. The edematous group exhibited higher blood pressure levels than the group without edema during the follow-up. The results strongly indicate that the presence of a simple and easily detectable clinical sign of peripheral edema is a very relevant tool that could be used to re-evaluate not only the patient's clinical hypertensive status but also the PD prescription and patient compliance.
Citation: Ferreira-Filho SR, Machado GR, Ferreira VC, Rodrigues CFMA, Proença de Moraes T, Divino-Filho JC, et al. (2012) Back to Basics: Pitting Edema and the Optimization of Hypertension Treatment in Incident Peritoneal Dialysis Patients (BRAZPD). PLoS ONE 7(5): e36758. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0036758
Editor: Emmanuel A. Burdmann, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Brazil
Received: December 13, 2011; Accepted: April 9, 2012; Published: May 23, 2012
Copyright: © 2012 Ferreira-Filho et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Funding: The authors have no funding or support to report.
Competing interests: Baxter Healthcare sponsored this study. During the data collection and analysis, JCDF was employed by Baxter. RPF received a consulting fee and speaker honorarium from Baxter Healthcare. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Cardiovascular disease is the most common cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) [1]–[3]. Systemic arterial hypertension (SAH) is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease and is frequently observed in this population along with a decline of renal function [4]. Although overload and renal replacement therapy (RRT) with dialysis usually improve fluid balance and partially remove uremic toxins, high blood pressure levels may persist after the initiation of dialysis, and hypertension is present in the majority of both peritoneal and hemodialysis patients [5], [6].
The reduction in blood pressure levels observed in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients can be attributed to the continuous effective control of fluid balance and, consequently, extracellular volume [7]; however, this reduction is not always sustained. In fact, higher than normal blood pressure levels are observed in many patients during dialysis therapy, mainly due to the limitations in achieving normal fluid status [8]–[10]. Hypervolemia due to water retention predisposes PD patients to hypertension [11], [12] and can manifest clinically in several forms, including peripheral edema [9]. Detecting occult edema often involves the measurement of metrics such as bioimpedance, inferior vena cava diameter and biomarkers, but these methods are not available to all physicians. To detect edema in their patients, many doctors have at their disposal only the presence of pitting located in the lower extremities and/or over the sacrum.
Despite the fact that some patients present SAH independently of volemic status, it is recognized that hypervolemia, with or without the presence of edema, is one of the principal factors responsible for the resistance of PD patients to SAH treatment [13], [14]. Blood pressure normalization often requires modifications to the ultrafiltration target, an increase in sodium removal, a decrease in fluid and sodium intake, blood sugar control and/or an increase in the number of prescribed hypertension drugs [6], [7], [15], [21]. Considering that the expansion of extracellular volume can occur during dialysis and that peripheral edema detectable on a physical exam can be the result of a hypervolemic state [13], little is known about the correlations between pitting edema and blood pressure control in hypertensive patients receiving PD treatment.
We hypothesized that the presence of pitting edema is associated with the worsening of SAH, which leads to the cardiovascular impact observed in fluid-overloaded patients. Thus, in the present study, we evaluated the impact of peripheral edema on hypertensive control in incident PD patients with SAH during the first year of dialysis treatment.
Each consecutive incident patient recruited from 114 Brazilian dialysis centers participating in the BRAZPD study from December 2004 through October 2007 was included, totaling 3439 patients. Incident patients were defined as patients who originated from pre-dialysis conservative treatment or HD, who started treatment with PD during the study period and who remained on the therapy for at least 90 days. In Brazil, 60% of the patients start treatment in APD and 40% in CAPD. Details of the BRAZPD study design and characteristics of the cohort are described elsewhere [16]. Briefly, after being selected to participate in the study, each clinic submitted the project to its local ethics committee (the protocol was approved by the ethics committees of Federal University of Uberlandia), and all patients signed an informed consent. Physician and nurses at each dialysis center were trained by the study monitors to use the clinical research software PDnet, which was designed specifically to collect data for this study. From a total of 3439 incident patients, 239 were excluded because they were less than 18 years old, 1650 were excluded for not completing 12 full months of follow up (i.e., patients who missed at least one medical evaluation monthly for 12 consecutive months, or who dropped out due to hemodialysis, transplant or death), 430 were excluded because they were normotensive with or without previously using any antihypertensive drugs and because they did not have peripheral edema at the beginning of the PD treatment, and 31 were excluded due to missing data. After exclusion criteria were applied, 1089 hypertensive patients were included in the analysis.
The variables analyzed included anthropomorphic data, comorbidities, systolic arterial pressure (SAP), diastolic arterial pressure (DAP), mean arterial pressure (MAP), erythropoietin use, PD modality (CAPD or APD), and physical examination. During the physical examination, peripheral edema was characterized by the presence of pitting after finger pressure was applied to the edematous area for at least five seconds. The nephrologists graded pitting edema on a scale from 1+ to 4+. The urea and plasma creatinine, serum potassium, and hemoglobin values of the patients were measured to be used as annual means.
For all patients, the dialysis nurse or the nephrologist measured blood pressure during their monthly visits to the dialysis clinic. For the diagnosis of systemic hypertension, the following WHO/ISH criteria were applied: SAP≥140 mmHg and/or DAP≥90 mmHg, with or without the use of hypertensive medication. SAP levels were verified using an oscillating method. Mean arterial pressure was calculated using the formula MAP = (2DAP+SAP)/3. The number of anti-hypertensive drug classes used monthly by the patients (NAC) was also reported. The classes considered were diuretics, beta-blockers, ACE inhibitors, angiotensin II receptor blockers, centrally and peripherally acting alpha-blockers, and calcium channel blockers. Each class listed was counted as one unit, and the NAC represented the mathematical mean of the number of anti-hypertensive drug classes used per patient for each subgroup.
After the exclusion criteria were applied, the final sample consisted of 1089 hypertensive patients. These patients were subdivided into those with (E+) and without (E−) clinically detectable pitting edema, according to the monthly medical evaluation at both the beginning of the observation period and during the twelve months of follow up. The number of patients in each subgroup varied monthly depending on the presentation of edema at that particular evaluation (Figure 1). In order to analyze the trend for edema and high blood pressure levels, we also monitored for 12 months the patients classified E+ and E− based on the first month classification.
Figure 1. Number of patients/month with clinically detectible edema.
Categorical variables are presented as frequencies and percentages. Continuous variables are presented as the mean ± standard deviation (mean ± SD). In the figures, continuous variables are presented as the mean ± standard error. The chi-squared test and analysis of variance (ANOVA), with repeat measures and measures of position and distribution, were utilized for the comparison between the E+ and E− subgroups. The parallelism analysis of both groups was performed to verify the trends and similarities between the groups, for the initial defined groups at month 1. For all analyses, a p-value of <0.05 was considered statistically significant. All statistical analyses were performed using SPSS version 8.0 (Chicago, IL, USA).
Descriptive data at baseline PD treatment level (after the first month on PD) for all patients included in this study are shown in Table 1. The mean patient age was 58.2±15.3 years, and more than half (56.9%) of the patients were female. The mean SBP was 156.7±18.7 mmHg, the mean DBP was 90.0±12.7 mmHg, and the mean MAP was 112.2±12.8 mmHg. The mean body mass index (BMI) was 25.4±5.0 kg/m2. The correlation between BMI and the number of patients with edema was negative and significant (r = −0.83). The increase of blood pressure (SBP, DBP and MAP) correlated with the number of patients with edema: 0.76; 0.69 and 0.52 respectively (p<0.001).Overall, 42.6% of study participants were diabetic, and the mean number of anti-hypertensive class drugs (NAC) used was 2.1±1.0 drugs/patient. Forty-three percent of patients were on APD using Homechoice™ (Baxter Healthcare) as the cycler, and all patients were prescribed only glucose-based PD solutions (Dianeal, Baxter Healthcare).
Table 1. Demographic, clinical and laboratory characteristics of patients at the baseline evaluation.
Analysis of groups divided by the presence of clinically detectible edema
Subgroup analysis of patients with clinically detectible edema (E+)
During the study, subgroup E+ (n = 307) presented a decrease in SAP between the 1st and 5th month (from 159.5±19.6 to 150.0±25.3 mmHg, p<0.05), and SAP remained constant from the 5th month until the end of the study (151.2±30.3 mmHg, p>0.05). DAP did not change significantly between the 1st and 12th month (from 90.7±13.3 to 89.0±17.7 mmHg, p>0.05). SAP decreased significantly between the 1st and 5th month (from 113.7±13.4 to 108.0±17.2 mmHg, p<0.05), and MAP remained constant from the 5th month through the 12th month (109.7±19.8 mmHg, p>0.05). NAC did not change between the 1st and 12th months (from 2.3±1.0 to 2.2±1.0 drugs/patient, p>0.05). The number of patients with edema decreased between the 2nd and 6th months from 307 to 245 individuals; this number varied through the end of the evaluation period, at which point 243 patients were clinically diagnosed with edema (Figure 1). BMI increased from the 2nd to the 12th month of evaluation (from 26.7±5.1 to 28.1±5.6 kg/m2, p<0.05) (Figure 2).
Figure 2. Twelve-month evolution of the body mass index (BMI) in the patient cohort.
Subgroup analysis of patients without clinically detectible edema (E−)
Subgroup E− (n = 782) presented a significant decrease in SAP between the 1st and 5th month (from 155.6±18.2 to 142.7±24.2 mmHg, p<0.05). After this initial period, SAP remained constant until the end of the study period (141.2±26.6 mmHg, p>0.05). DAP did not change between the 1st and 12th months (89.7±12.5 to 84.7±15.8 mmHg, p>0.05). MAP decreased significantly between the 1st and 5th months (from 111.7±12.6 to 104.1±15.8 mmHg, p<0.05) and then remained constant from the 5th month through the 12th month (103.6±17.9 mmHg, P>0.05). NAC did not vary throughout the study period; the mean at the 1st month was 2.0±0.7, and the mean at the 12th month was 2.1±1.1 (p>0.05). For subgroup E−, there was no difference in BMI during the 12 months of follow-up (Figures 3 and 4)).
Figure 3. Systolic (SBP), Diastolic (DBP) and Mean Arterial Pressures (MAP) in incident PD patients during 12 months of follow up.
Figure 4. The initial groups (first month) were followed for 12 months.
Comparison between the two subgroups of patients
The descriptive characteristics of the two subgroups defined by the presence of edema at the start of dialysis are shown in Table 1. At baseline, subgroup E+ consisted of 307 patients and E− consisted of 782 patients; however, these numbers varied according to monthly clinical evaluations (Figure 1). When only the patients classified E+ and E− in the first month were monitored, the results confirmed the monthly patient classification. E+ and E− move in the same way for the SBP (p = 0.654) although with different mean profiles (p = 0.001). In other words, E+ group showed higher SAP values than E-group during the 12 months period. For the DAP and MAP the trend and mean profile did not show statistical diferences (Figure 4). A comparison of subgroups E+ and E− at the start of treatment (Table 1) revealed significant differences with respect to age (59.6±14.3 vs. 57.7±15.6 years, respectively; p<0.03), BMI (26.7±5.1 vs. 24.9±4.9 kg/m2, respectively; p<0.0001), SAP (159.5±19.6 vs. 155.6±18.2 mmHg, respectively; P<0.001), MAP (113.7±13.4 vs. 111.7±12.6 mmHg, respectively; P<0.01), NAC (2.3±1.0 vs. 2.0±0.7 drugs/patient, respectively; P<0.05) and erythropoietin use (51.0 vs. 41.2%, respectively; P = 0.003). In both subgroups, there were a greater percentage of patients on APD than on CAPD (63.5/36.5 vs. 55.5/44.5%, respectively; p<0.01/0.02). The percentage of patients with diabetes mellitus was greater in subgroup E+ than in subgroup E− (56.0 vs. 37.3%, respectively; P<0.0001), and the number of patients with a history of cardiovascular disease at the start of PD was not significantly different between the two groups (Table 1). SAP, MAP, NAC, and BMI were significantly different between the two subgroups (E+ and E−) in the analysis of the entire follow up period (p<0.05).
It is well known that the expansion of extracellular volume with or without detectible edema is one of the principal factors responsible for the increase in SAP in patients with CKD [3], [9]. In the present study, we observed that SAP and MAP of both subgroups presented a significant decrease in values in the first five months after starting PD therapy and stabilization of these values through the end of the observation period. This behavior was also conferred by Menon et al. [17], who reported a reduction in systemic pressures at the start of PD and, contrary to our data, detected an increase in blood pressure levels after 6–12 months on PD. On the other hand, Saldanha et al. [7] reported a decrease in blood pressure levels during PD treatment over 5 years, which was associated with the concomitant increase in the number of anti-hypertensive drugs used. In the present study, the initial decline observed in the E+ and E− groups could be attributed to a reduction in extracellular volume as a result of PD [8], [18] because NAC did not change during this period. However, it should be noted that NAC represents a number of anti-hypertensive classes of drugs, which allows for the possibility of variations in the measurement of anti-hypertensive drugs within the same class. On the other hand, NAC maintenance can reflect a non-worsening of SAH in these patients and/or the medical preference to use these drugs for other therapeutic goals such as cardio-protection and/or preservation of residual renal function. Despite the initial decline in arterial blood pressure levels observed in our study, they did not decrease to values within the normal limits; SAP levels were above 140 mmHg during the entire study period. There are other reasons that could explain in the relative control of blood pressure levels in both groups, which are increase activity of the sympathetic nervous system, increase endothelium-derived vasoconstrictors, vascular calcification and activation of the renin-angiotensin system.
Upon separate analysis of the E+ and E− groups, we observed a monthly variation throughout the study period in the number of patients. This variation was a consequence of bi-directional flow between these groups. Despite this, the number of patients in the E+ subgroup decreased significantly after 12 months, from 307 to 243 patients (Figure 1). Among the E+ subgroup, SAP and MAP levels decreased from baseline until the 5th month, at which time they stabilized until the 12th month (Figure 3 and 4), while DAP did not change significantly during the entire period. In our study, patients with edema exhibited greater blood pressure levels (SAP and MAP) than those observed in the E− subgroup (Figure 3 and 4). Gunal et al. [12] and Katzarski et al. [19] demonstrated that volume overload is an important factor in resistance to SAH treatment for dialysis patients, while Ates et al. [20] showed that SBP and DBP were negatively correlated with total fluid and sodium removal, as well as with sodium restriction. The increase of blood pressure values was correlated with the number of patients with edema. This association shows that the patients who belonged to the E+ had higher blood pressure levels than those of group E− (Figure 5).
Figure 5. The increase in blood pressure levels correlates positively to the number of patients with edema.
Our data demonstrated that the NAC in the E+ subgroup, despite not varying throughout the study, was significantly greater than in the E− subgroup during the months evaluated. This observation may suggest a greater difficulty in SAH control in the E+ group. Furthermore, BMI in the E+ group increased progressively over the 12 month period. A strong and negative correlation between BMI and the number of patients with edema was observed. This association could be explained in two ways: a worsening of the edema status during PD therapy or a real gain of body mass. We believe that future studies with adequate designs will help to answer this question.
The progressive increase in body weight, likely caused to a large extent by the presence of edema, can be attributed to a water and salt imbalance, the patient's failure to follow medical recommendations, and/or an inadequate PD prescription. The progressive increase in body weight among PD patients might also be attributed to a gain of fat mass due to glucose absorption from the peritoneal cavity, as the patients may have been prescribed more hypertonic PD solutions to improve UF.
In the E− subgroup, blood pressure patterns followed the trend observed in the E+ group and decreased in the first months of PD before subsequently stabilizing (Figure 3). In the E− group, blood pressure levels were lower than those observed in the E+ group during the entire observation period, whereas the NAC in the E− group did not vary significantly during the study period. However, blood pressure values did not reach the normal recommended levels. In general, there are several associated factors that make normalization of blood pressure levels difficult to attain in PD patients, including the presence of diabetes mellitus, aging, and the use of erythropoietin [11], [14], [18]. This was observed in the present study in the E+ group, in which the patients were significantly older and the percentage of patients with diabetes mellitus was significantly greater than in the E− group (Table 1). The significantly larger number of E+ patients who were treated with CAPD as opposed to APD may reflect an inadequate PD prescription, as many of these CAPD patients may be high transporters and/or have UF problems in the long run. Therefore, these patients should have been switched to APD. However, during the observation period, Extraneal was not available in Brazil. Moreover, blood pressures above the normal values could be caused by therapeutic inertia, where soft reasoning often leads to avoidance of intensified therapy by the medical staff [21].
The present study presents several limitations. Edema evaluation cannot be easily standardized, and the influence of expansion or retraction of volume on the systemic pressure levels could be better analyzed if it was evaluated by other methods, such as bio-impedance, inferior vena cava diameter [22], and biomarkers such as ANP [22], [23]. This approach, however, is uncommon in daily medical practice due to the need for tools that are not always available. In addition, the analysis of fluid retention in PD patients is limited by the absence of data regarding residual renal function, the peritoneal membrane solute transport type and UF measurements [9]. Hypoalbuminemia, and consequent water and sodium retention, can explain the presence of edema and the difficulty in normalizing pressure levels; however, an evaluation of the causes of resistance to anti-hypertension therapy was not a focus of this study. It is important to note that the results of this observational study reflect PD practices in Brazil, which may be similar to treatment practices in a large number of countries around the world.
Hypertensive CKD patients experienced a significant reduction in blood pressure levels after the initiation of PD, which was more pronounced in the first few months of therapy. However, most patients do not achieve normalization during the first year of treatment. This difficulty in reducing arterial blood pressure to normal levels is aggravated by the presence of edema, which points to a pivotal role of fluid overload in the hypertension of CKD patients on dialysis. The presence of clinically detectible pitting edema can be a useful clinical sign that could be used to guide the optimization of SAH treatment in patients undergoing continuous peritoneal dialysis.
In summary, volume status is of major importance to outcomes in patients undergoing PD. The lack of a robust edema evaluation and the limited availability of BIA and other objective measures of quantifying volume status make clinicians highly dependent on clinical evaluation. Clinically detectable pitting edema remains the most readily used clinical assessment tool. This study is the first to give a large-scale systematic description of pitting edema in the context of arterial hypertension in PD patients and to assess the effects of edema resolution in blood pressure values with PD initiation.
The results presented here strongly indicate that the presence of such a simple and easily detected clinical sign as pitting edema should be considered to be a relevant observational tool to assess a patient's clinical status, PD prescription and compliance with treatment. The term “back to basics" could mean, “examine your patients, look for edema and observe the blood pressure" and to do this sophisticated technologies are not needed.
Conceived and designed the experiments: SRFF GRM RPF. Performed the experiments: GRM SRFF. Analyzed the data: SRFF GRM VCF CFMAR CM TPM MO JCDF. Wrote the paper: SRFF GRM. These authors contributed with important points in the discussion: JCDF.
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22. Leunissen KM, Kouw P, Kooman JP, Cheriex EC, deVries PM, et al. (1993) New techniques to determine fluid status in hemodialyzed patients. Kidney Int Suppl 41: S50–56.
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Response to Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report
Posted on August 14, 2018 by Maureen Smith
Bishop Joseph Kopacz Statement Regarding the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report of Clergy Sexual Abuse:
“The recently released Pennsylvania Grand Jury report detailing cases of sexual abuse going back to the late 1940’s in six Pennsylvania Catholic dioceses, including Pittsburgh, Greensburg, Allentown, Scranton and Erie brings to light more horrific behavior within our church. The report is a stark reminder to all to whom children and young people are entrusted, starting with me in the Diocese of Jackson, that we must redouble our efforts to create safe environments for all vulnerable children of God, younger and older. Likewise, we must recommit ourselves to exposing past abuse and encouraging victims to come forward. We must never tire of healing and reconciling the pain that victims and families have suffered through the behavior of church personnel, especially the ordained. All perpetrators of sexual abuse must be removed from ministry. Because I served in the Diocese of Scranton during the relevant period and am referenced in connection with my handling of three complaints of abuse, I feel it is essential — in keeping with our commitment to transparency — that you be informed of my role in those cases.
I was the Vicar for Priests for eight years in the Diocese of Scranton from 1998 to 2006 during the time that the sexual abuse crisis exploded on the scene. As the Vicar, it was my responsibility to respond to all allegations of sexual abuse that involved clergy, along with other diocesan officials. Tragically, during that period, I was called upon to respond far too many times to such allegations. Of those, the report references three instances where I was tasked with responding to the complaints of parishioners.
In the first reference, the victim initially confided in me that she had been abused but stated that she wanted it to be held in confidence. I kept that confidence and made no report. Though her request to maintain the confidentiality of her report was documented in a prepared memo that was available to the Grand Jury, the Grand Jury report excludes this fact. The report does however confirm that once she removed the restriction of confidentiality, I and other diocesan officials quickly acted to report the abuse to civil authorities and remove the offending priest from ministry. In the second reference, which involved a deceased priest who had been removed from ministry, the victim requested counseling and I arranged for him to receive counseling. In the third reference, I questioned the offending former priest and despite his denials (and the fact that he had previously been removed from ministry), reported this additional allegation to local authorities.
Forged in the fire of the abuse crisis, the vast majority of dioceses in the United States, including the Diocese of Jackson, have worked hard during the past 16 years to be faithful to the Promise to Protect and the Pledge to Heal, the document we know as the Dallas Charter. The fostering of safe environments in our ministries is now the norm, and the steadfast support for victims of sexual abuse who struggle for healing and hope in their lives, has been an unflagging commitment.
The full document is available through the U.S Conference of Catholic Bishops’ website. The Charter directs action in all the following matters:
Creating a safe environment for children and young people;
Healing and reconciliation of victims and survivors;
Making prompt and effective response to allegations;
Cooperating with civil authorities;
Disciplining offenders;
Providing for means of accountability for the future to ensure the problem continues to be effectively dealt with through the Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection and the National Review Board.
It is my great hope that anyone who has been abused by a member of the clergy or an employee or volunteer of a church come forward. Our victim’s assistance coordinator, Valerie McClelland, a licensed social worker, is available to assist in making a report. You can contact her at (601) 326-3728. Suffering has no statute of limitations. Sexual abuse is an evil and a crime that wreaks havoc, destruction and despair, and the enemy, the Evil One, loves it, because it is shrouded in darkness, lies and shame. It unleashes the power of hell upon victims and their families and it often spreads from one generation to the next unless the cycle is broken by the light of truth, healing and reconciliation.
With my brother bishops, I offer my apology for the grave sin of sexual abuse and I pledge to continue the needed work to create and maintain a safe environment within our parishes, schools and service centers.”
Most Rev. Joseph R. Kopacz
Bishop, Diocese of Jackson
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Short-term letting
As the State Government tries to decide how (or if) to regulate short term letting, it has passed a bill through the House of Assembly to the Upper House. MPs are lobbied by friends and foes of this industry, and this is such a passionate debate that major issues are unresolved. How (for example) to define a “principal place of residence”? Should the same rules apply to an owner who lets a single room and someone who goes away for six months leaving a letting agent in charge? There may be a limit of 180 days per annum, but who has to keep the score?
For more information, visit www.neighboursnotstrangers.com/
The Owners Corporation Network has run an effective campaign to enable strata committees to exercise some control. Our local member Alex Greenwich has been making a similar argument and has (for example) successfully amended the draft bill to create a register of premises involved in short term letting.
It is not too late to express your opinions, directly to members of parliament or through Alex’s petition.
And even after legislation takes effect, there will be a review 12 months later.
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New laws on car registration, tags take effect July 1
Posted 5:50 pm, June 21, 2019, by Lili Zheng
OKLAHOMA CITY - Changes are right around the corner for Oklahoma drivers thanks to a new law taking effect July 1.
Under Senate Bill 1339, passed and signed into law during the 2018 legislative session, drivers will now keep their tags if they choose to sell a car. Paula Ross with the Oklahoma Tax Commission said it's meant to assist both law enforcement and the public, because it can currently be a hassle to prove a driver no longer owns a vehicle.
"Many people, for instance, they’d sell [a] car and, six months later, they would get bills from the turnpike saying they’ve been through the turnpike and didn’t pay or they would get traffic tickets," Ross said. "Now, once your car goes, your tag will stay with you so there won’t be a marker on that car that shows “you.” That will help citizens across the state and not worry about having somebody else’s traffic fines, somebody else’s parking, somebody’s toll tickets."
However, the new law also requires drivers to keep their registration or an official copy of it in their cars.
"They don’t have to have their title and all the paperwork. They just basically have to have that simple registration sheet," Ross said. "If someone can’t find their registration, they can go to a tag agency and get a copy of that. They can get a copy of it online, so there’s many measures, and they’ve been working on this for months to be ready for July 1."
According to Ross, 42 other states already have similar laws.
The upcoming changes have been praised by some people. Moore resident Bobbie Hotze said she believes it's a good idea.
"You should have some kind of verification that the car is yours, you know, other than just your insurance. I don’t keep my title with me. I keep my title at home, but the registration? Absolutely," Hotze told News 4.
However, some told us that they think the new law is redundant.
"If it shows proof on the back of the tag, I don’t understand you've got to keep the registration," said Oklahoma City resident Shaquille Webster. "If you read the tag, it shows if it’s up to date, who’s the owner of the tag, if it’s stolen."
Many Oklahomans took to social media when the Oklahoma Tax Commission posted a reminder of the change on Facebook. One person commented "1 more piece of identity for thieves to steal!"
Regarding the concerns, Ross said Oklahomans have been required to keep a proof of insurance in their cars for many years.
"That has your information on it, so that is just a portion of the law. Unfortunately, in this society we live in with Google, people can find out where you live very easily, so I do understand always safety concerns," she said. "But, this is something, I think, when they (lawmakers) did the law and looked into to prevent other issues for citizens and they felt like this was one the best safeguards."
News 4 spoke with Rep. Kevin West, R-Moore, one of the bill authors, who said they may need to have discussions with the Oklahoma Tax Commission and law enforcement shortly regarding possible penalties for not having a copy of registration in vehicles. He said the bill, as signed, does not specifically list a penalty.
However, if a driver were to a sell a car and did not have another car to place the unexpired tag on, West said they can contact the tax commission for a reimbursement.
For more information, visit tax.ok.gov.
New law changes process for DUI arrests
Permitless carry, liquor store bills to go into effect in November
Proposed bill seeks to require older children to wear seatbelts in the back seat
Not so fast: Officials looking at raising speed limits to 80 MPH on some turnpikes
Officials: New law aims to protect stranded motorists, wrecker services
Naked woman arrested after fiery & deadly turnpike crash
Residents fed up with drivers speeding past stopped school buses
Clarity on Oklahoma permitless carry law following ‘Second Amendment auditor’s’ arrest
Judge denies injunction to halt permitless carry law
“Our state will be ready,” State leaders preparing for REAL ID implementation
Portion of Kilpatrick Turnpike now open to drivers
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Film review: Black Book (Zwartboek)
Zwartboek
uFilm, Fu Works
STARRING Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn, Waldemar Kobus, Derek de Lint, Christian Berkel, Dolf de Vries, Peter Blok, Michiel Huisman, Johnny de Mol, Hugo Metsers, Matthias Schoenaerts
WRITTEN BY Gerard Soeteman, Paul Verhoeven
PRODUCED BY Jeroen Beker, Teun Hilte, San Fu Maltha, Jens Meurer, Jos van der Linden, Frans van Gestel
DIRECTED BY Paul Verhoeven
SHOT BY Karl Walter Lindenlaub
EDITED BY Job ter Burg, James Herbert
MUSIC BY Anne Dudley
DISTRIBUTED BY A-Film
Seen on 2006-10-05
As World War II just about wraps up, we find Jewish singer Rachel Stein (Carice Van Houten) hiding away in rural Holland. When her hideout is bombed she is forced to flee, and in the process her family is gunned down through the acts of traitors to the Jewish cause. Stein then finds herself is the midst of freedom fighters, and with the lingering memory of her ensanguined family still in mind, changes her name and agrees to assist the resistance. Mission one: resume her flirtation with head of the Gestapo, Ludwig Müntze (Sebastian Koch). Stein becomes a valuable spy, which doesn’t help the growing love between herself and Müntze (who appears as one of the most sympathetic Nazis you’ll encounter), so we’re left to squirm in anxiety while the drama of loyalties and compromises play out for us. Thankfully Black Book does not take up our time with incidental historical benchmarks; Book remains ardently personal to its multifaceted characters. Stein is a wonderful female lead – brave, beautiful, inspiring, and true – and Van Houten makes her well worth watching. Book represents the largest-scale film production ever put forth in The Netherlands. The film’s only flaw, which falls under “nitpicking,” is that its scope could stand to be a little larger – perhaps Lean-ish. Book tells a tremendous story, but at times scenes pass us in episodic moderation that doesn’t do justice to its own grand scale.
So, Book is Paul Verhoeven’s triumphant return to form after two decades of debauched American genre flicks. He really is a talented director and it’s a relief to see that he hasn’t, in fact, “lost it”…indeed, he never had anything to lose, he simply was forced to compromise while working in a foreign country. A deeply personal project, Verhoeven and Gerard Soeteman, a longtime friend of Verhoeven’s, had been working on the script for 20 years. It seems that Verhoeven finally felt the time was right to tell his story, and it is doubtless not coincidental that Book comes seven years after his most shameful work, Hollow Man, when his identity as an artist found itself most compromised. Book portrays a world where we’re all simply trying to our best as tumult resounds, and the drama exists in the “hell of other people.” Hollywood, whose prize ponies have of late been shoddily-gilded stags, could perhaps take a lesson from Stein and other resistors who hold true to a way of life that may be threatened to the death… but is not without its dignity.
written by David Ashley
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Hal 4.4.11 / 3pm
This is an A+ entertainment, with an incredible revelation in the final section. Another example of foreign, under-hyped cinema being far superior to most of what Hollywood grinds out.
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Hurricane in Hue’s Town- Genocide on African people?(Part 1 of 2)
September 2, 2017 by Kushite Prince
A few days ago, I wrote an article about what’s been going on in Houston and the actual stories coming from the brothers and sisters down there in Houston.
It’s quite obvious that The State doesn’t care about Africans (black people) because The State only serves to protect their own best interests while having no qualms about discarding their own in the process.
Not to mention that parasitic capitalism is also currently going on in Houston particularly in the form of illegal price gouging where big parasitic capitalist corporations are literally charging people up to $99 for a case of water, hotels that are tripling or quadrupling their prices and fuel at $4 to $10 a gallon.
It’s now being reported that about 20 people (mostly African) have been killed from this genocidal act inflicted against African people by The State. That African death count at the hands of The State will increase over the next several days.
I am NOT a conspiracy theorist, nor am I a fan of them at all because I call things the way I see them in a very honest and unapologetic way.
Here are several reasons why Harvey is a form of genocide against African people.
1. African People Being Told Not To Leave Their Homes By The State – Neocolonial Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner actually told African people not to leave their homes and evacuate in the midst of the heavy flooding because he claimed in a press conference that it’s “too dangerous” to do so. This is clearly the work of The State manifesting itself in the form of neocolonialism.
2. The Coast Guard Deliberately Ignores African People – For all the tax paying money that goes towards the coast guard, one would think that they would rescue everyone in Houston, but as it turns out, The Coast Guard was ordered by The State to specifically rescue white people and stray pets and not rescue any African people at all because the coast guard is a part of and works only in the interest of The State.
3. Houston’s Not Under Water, Africans Are Under Water By The State – It’s also being reported that more than 6,000 people in Houston (mostly white) have been rescued by The State while there are pictures on social media of many African people are still standing on the rooftops waiting to be rescued so that they get can to a safe spot. The colonial media has already painted this false narrative of “Houston Under Water”, when in reality, it’s Africans Under Water by The State.
4. The Parasitic Capitalistic Corporation “Red Cross” Exploiting People – Last night, I saw a video of a sister on social media telling African people “Do Not Donate To The Red Cross!!!” because according to her, they came by with a hot dog stand that they were deliberately using as cover to exploit the people by taking all the “donations” they got and didn’t help the people at all, they instead lined up their own pockets as well as paying off their families, friends, and associates with the “donations”.
5. The State’s Involvement In This Environmental Genocidal Act – The Army Corps Of Engineers (which is also a part of The State) had released 2 dams of water at 2am, but they actually released them two hours early right around midnight.
Both of the dams were initially designed to protect the downtown area of Houston, the interests of The State and the white ruling class that that lived there. But what they did in releasing the dams was that it caused additional flooding into other areas of the city causing the water levels to rise to very dangerous levels that not only spilled onto people’s homes, but also flooded their entire homes while losing most of everything in the process in this genocidal act carried out by The State.
We saw it with Katrina a dozen years ago, we saw it with Haiti seven years ago, we saw it last year with Flint, and just recently in Sierra Leonne where 400 Africans were killed in a so-called “mudslide” and now we are seeing it with Harvey. This is clearly no coincidence that these incidents are acts of environmental genocide against African people carried out by The State.
The State only cares about one thing: protecting its own interests.
African people are forced to live under the most oppressive conditions of police containment, police terrorism, poverty, food deserts, gentrification, lack of quality education for our kids in the school system which are all genocidal acts inflicted against African people by The State on a daily basis.
Under this vicious, oppressive system of colonial imperialism, African people have no economic or political power as well as not having the ability to be a self-determined.
Colonial imperialism doesn’t care about country, age, or people because it still carries out acts of state-sanctioned violence against colonized people on a daily basis.
Colonial Imperialism Must Go!!!
The Conclusion – It’s important that our people unite so that we can overthrow this toxic, vicious, corrupt, and destructive colonial social system that’s been oppressing us for over 600 years.
Article written by Kwame Shakir
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Detachable Karma
All This Wandering
January 22nd, 2006, 03:07 am
In Xanadu did Kublai Khan
a stately pleasure-dome decree,
down to a sunless sea,
with walls and towers were girdled round.
and there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
where blossom'd many an incense-bearing tree.
And here were forests as ancient as the hills,
enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
But O! That deep romantic chasm which slanted,
down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover.
A savage place! As holy and enchanted
as a'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
by woman wailing for her demon lover.
In from that chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
as if this Earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
a mighty fountain momently was forced,
amid whose swift half-intermitted burst,
huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail,
and 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever,
it flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion,
through wood and dale the sacred river ran.
Then reach'd the caverns measureless to man,
and sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean.
And 'mid this tumult Kublai heard from afar
ancestral voices prophesying war!
The shadow of the dome of pleasure
floated midway on the waves
Where was heard the mingled measure
from the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device
a sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice.
A damsel with a dulcimer
in a vision once I saw.
It was an Abyssinian maid,
and on her dulcimer she played,
singing of mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
her symphony and song.
To such a deep delight 'twould win me,
that with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air!
Thy sunny dome! Those caves of ice!
and all who heard should see them there!
and all should cry, Beware! Beware!
his flashing eyes! his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
and close your eyes with holy dread!
for he on honey-dew hath fed,
and drunk the milk of Paradise.
-Coleridge
It's odd to stumble across the blog of a friend you knew, but haven't spoken with in roughly ten years...
Time... is still marching on...
A Night Drive
We were driving in the rain, on our way back from having dinner. The Muse had the passenger's side window cracked, so she could ash her clove cigarette. I forbid her from smoking in the car. Tom Waits creaked from the stereo, "With charcoal eyes and Monroe hips... she went and took that California trip."
"If you decided to kill me," the Muse said, apropos of nothing, "how would you go about it?"
"Well, that's a rather random thing to ask," I replied. I downshifted to take an easy curve in the road.
"Would you get in close? Put your hands around my throat and crush me, pop your thumbs in there nice and tight?" I glanced at her as she took a drag from her cigarette. She regarded me, and blew the smoke out of the side of her mouth, toward the window. "No, wet work isn't really your style. Of course, neither is taking me out with a rifle from a hundred yards, either. If you knew anyone who'd do it, you'd probably contract me out. Keep yourself distant and your hands clean."
"There's every possibility," I said, "that I might just as well steer this car into a concrete abutment at sixty miles an hour, and take us both out. I mean, I couldn't very well go on without you, and it's not like you could go on without me."
"Dunno. I'm resilient."
"I'm the Leopold to your Loeb, baby. The Sturm to your Drang. The Tommy Lee to your Pam."
She snorted. "I've seen the video, buddy. You're no Tommy Lee."
"Let's just keep that information between you and me, okay? Let the rest of the free world think that I've got a summer sausage between my legs. Besides, you're no Pam Anderson, either."
"Thank God," the Muse said.
"Well... yes, that's true. That would be a fairly hideous fate, I should think. Although I could use you as a flotation device in the event of a water landing."
The Muse grabbed her breasts and gave them a bounce. "I think you'd manage quite well in any case."
I glanced away from the wet road. "Think you can hold off groping yourself until we get home? You can do it all you'd like when I'm not trying to drive."
"You'd like that, wouldn't you?"
"Immensely."
"Pig," she said. She tossed her cigarette out into the street, then rolled up the window. "No more groping for you this evening."
"Tease."
She nodded. "Oh yes, I'm terrible. A harsh mistress."
"We'd have to be sleeping together for me to call you my mistress, you know."
"Whatever. Like you don't constantly fantasize about me as it is."
"Guilty."
She patted my knee. "It's cute. I like being the object of someone's lust. Don't ever stop, or I'll be severely disappointed."
"I'll be sure to keep up my onanistic activities."
"You're such a sweetie. I'll have to grope myself again for you later as a reward."
I hummed. "Muse, I think I've decided to let you live."
"I knew you would. Such is the power of the boobs."
"I kneel before them."
"Baby," she said, "everyone does."
Tom Waits - Hold On
January 22nd, 2006, 07:44 pm
Not So Much a Jerk
Something stolen from the archives of shannonsays, who posted this excerpt from a Steve Martin interview from last year.
BLVR: But it seems like in both books, you’re presenting a philosophy of relationships wherein they’re very fluid. The message is that they’re inevitably fleeting, which strikes me as a pretty antiromantic stance.
SM: Well, I don’t know how to answer that. Because, first, so what?. . .
BLVR: I guess what I mean is in both cases you seem to be suggesting that the purpose of a relationship is to make us more of what we need to become in order to have the next relationship. They’re building blocks.
SM: There’s a similarity in both stories that I never recognized. They’re about relationships that prepare and lead you into another, where the neurotic elements of the previous relationship are fixed.
BLVR: Do you believe that personally?
SM: Yeah. But I don’t mean like it’s a perfect match. Or that you meet one person and then the next one is perfect. Sometimes it takes ten people. I have friends who’ve been married for thirty years and they’re in love.
BLVR: Do you think it’s a matter of chance or is there something about an individual’s brain chemistry that hard-wires him or her to need a certain number of relationships before finding a good match?
SM: I think some people are just set up to go, “Hey, I love you and here we are and we’re together and it’s great.” I do think that. And it probably gets less fixed as you move toward the big cities. In a big city, you’re being introduced to new things all the time. In small towns, you meet who you meet. In a small town, there may be eight appropriate people.
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December 28, 2012 by KingSigy
Briskly Walking “The Line”
So, that Spec Ops: The Line was quite the game, right?……..Right?…….Ugh, sometimes I hate being me.
Just the other day, I finished my journey through Dubai in what seems to be record time; 5 hours. I played on the hardest default setting, otherwise known as Suicide Mission. This game was far from that.
While I found the narrative very ambitious and intriguing, Spec Ops: The Line seems to run at breakneck speed through all of its high points. I mean, in the first hour alone, I conquered 5 of the games 15 chapters. They get considerably longer after that point, but I hadn’t even realized how little time I had spent.
I have no problem with games being short, but I just feel a little short changed here. This game was touted as having a very deep and complex narrative and most of the anecdotes I’ve heard from gamers are how affecting they felt the games “decision” scenes were. I saw them so close together; I don’t even know how the hell I’m supposed to think.
This contrasts with Hotline Miami, another game that brings up questions of violence and does so in an even shorter time span than Spec Ops. I managed to plunk through that little gem in about 3 and a half hours, but the pacing worked much better.
Some missions gave some breathing room in terms of combat and there was even a break from the constant murder for a stealth mission (even if that level was a little crappy). Hotline wasn’t a constant bloodbath and it worked to make me more interested in the combat and plotline.
Spec Ops, though, doesn’t give you a single minute to reflect on anything. Even the cutscenes aren’t that long, with the longest probably being around 6 minutes. You simply deal with a firefight, walk to the next room and repeat. When a decision comes up, you make it in a snap fashion and then proceed to shoot some more.
I can’t say I was disappointed with the game (and I got it for dirt cheap, so how could I truly be?), but I feel like it would have been a greater story if I was just given more time to explore it. Let me sink in the details of the game’s world, let me reflect on my awful actions and give me periods that help build character instead of pushing me directly into the action.
One of the best moments in Uncharted 2 comes during chapter 16. After practically non-stop action, Drake finds himself stranded in Nepal. The only task for the chapter is to walk around and soak in the sights. This gives you ample time to think about how you arrived at this location and reflect on what Drake has gone through.
NaughtyDog understood that packing a game with minute to minute firefights would sully the experience and leave the gamer wishing for a break. While you don’t want to have too much time dedicated to simply doing nothing, even just the smallest amount of leisure or padding can create a sense of relieve and a desire to continue.
For all the flack the Zelda series may get for sidequests and lack of innovation, the padding in that series really drives home the desire to press on. The early games in the series (namely Zelda 1 and 2) suffer because there is nothing else to do. You simply proceed with quest or you don’t play the game. Without any break of alternate activity, the quest feels long winded (even being only an hour!).
This is completely related to saving the Princess…trust me!
So honestly, while I won’t deem a game of lower quality because it’s short, some titles need extra game time to justify their existence. I can’t sit here and whole-heartedly recommend Spec Ops: The Line because I feel like it’s incomplete. It’s too damn short and leaves too much unexplained.
If I only simply had more time to feel the anguish that Captain Martin Walker was going through, maybe I’d be in love with the game. As it stands, it’s a very ambitious experiment, but one that ultimately doesn’t feel as impactful due to a sense of being rushed.
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Lil Xan Claims He Was Kidding About Quitting Rap
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Lil Xan's retirement only lasted about 24 hours.
After telling fans on social media he was quitting rap to focus on other things on Friday (Dec. 13), it appears the California rapper was just kidding. On Saturday (Dec. 14), Xan posted an unrelated video on Instagram that shows him having a huge feast.
He captioned the post, "Sorry to get your hopes up I’m not quitting haterszzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ."
Just Friday, it appeared Xan was hanging up his mic. On his Instagram Story he posted, "I quit rapping and I'm only gonna focus on moving forward with the Xanarchy clothing line and brand [too]."
After a day to think about it, it appears Xan has had a change of heart.
Xan's year has been an event-filled one. In April, his girlfriend suffered a miscarriage a short time after the couple announced the coming birth via Instagram. In June, he pulled a gun on a man during a gas station confrontation and was later investigated for assault with a deadly weapon for the incident.
Last month, Xan admitted to suffering from seizures while trying to quit his Xanan habit cold turkey.
"You guys remember back when everyone was like, 'Oh, Diego's M.I.A. Where's Diego at' and stuff?" Xan asked during an interview with TMZ. "I was in the hospital..because I stopped taking drugs...I went cold turkey 'cause I didn't want to be on drugs no more. But the withdrawals actually gave me seizures, you know what I mean? It was a wake-up call."
Xan is prepping his forthcoming album, When September Ends.
Read 10 Wild Stories That Took Place During Hip-Hop Tours
Source: Lil Xan Claims He Was Kidding About Quitting Rap
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Big Ten college football preview: week five
Week five is the start of Big Ten play, and there will be plenty of excitement in the opening week. Big matchups between Nebraska and Wisconsin as well as Ohio State and Michigan State headline this week’s games. There is also an Illinois instate rivalry game along with the battle for the Little Brown Jug in Ann Arbor. Big Ten Conference play is upon us and the competition to win the Leaders and Legends divisions will be starting.
8 Nebraska (4-0) @ 7 Wisconsin (4-0)
In the matchup of week, not only for the Big Ten but for all of college football, Nebraska will play in their first Big Ten Conference game. Both teams are off to great starts and ranked in the top 10. Nebraska has relied heavily on the running game so far, averaging a Big Ten best 272.5 yards per game. Most importantly is the production improvement from Rex Burkhead who has rushed for 290 of his 420 rushing yards in the last two games. Nebraska has had to deal with injury issues on the defense, with stars Jared Crick and Alfonzo Dennard both missing games this year. Wisconsin counters with the league’s top scoring offense and top scoring defense. Russell Wilson has been great, throwing for 1136 yards and 11 touchdowns with only one interception. The Badgers also have the best backfield in the Big Ten with Montee Ball and James White, both averaging over 75 yards per contest. There will be a lot of points in this game and Wisconsin will show they are the team to beat in the Big Ten.
Pick: Wisconsin 38 Nebraska 24
Northwestern (2-1) @ 24 Illinois (4-0)
Thankfully this game will not be played at Wrigley Field this year and we can watch a normal football game. Illinois did not play well last week, looking a little hungover from their win over a ranked Arizona State team. But the Illini did find some offensive sparks with running backs Troy Pollard and Donovonn Young, the duo combined for 233 yards and a touchdown. Northwestern has struggled on offense with the absence of Dan Persa. Persa is expected to play this week, and if healthy enough should be a huge boost to the Wildcat offense that is currently 10th in the Big Ten in scoring offense. Even if Persa does play he will be rusty for not playing in almost 10 months. It will be a close game, but Illinois will be able to score enough on Northwestern’s defense to get the win.
Pick: Illinois 27 Northwestern 24
Minnesota (1-3) @ 19 Michigan (4-0)
This game matches up two of the most dynamic quarterbacks in all of college football in MarQueis Gray and Denard Robinson. The big difference in this game is that Gray is doing most of the work himself while Robinson has had some help from other players, including big plays/games by some receivers. Minnesota is last in the Big Ten in scoring offense and scoring defense. Michigan’s offense will overpower Minnesota early and this game will be in Michigan’s control by halftime.
Pick: Michigan 42 Minnesota 17
Michigan State (3-1) @ Ohio State (3-1)
This matchup between two of the 2010 Big Ten Co-Champs has lost some of its luster with both teams suffering early season losses. Ohio State has struggled on offense as they are still looking for their answer at quarterback. Ohio State has only passed for 145 yards over the last two games, pushing them to the bottom of the Big Ten in total offense. Until the three suspended offensive starters return Ohio State will continue to have offsenive woes against good teams. Michigan State’s offense has been average this season, but the defense has been stout allowing only 12.3 points per game. Michigan State needs to improve their running game, but that won’t happen against Ohio State. Look for Kirk Cousins and BJ Cunningham to lead the Spartans to a big win on the road.
Pick: Michigan State 27 Ohio State 24
Penn State (3-1) @ Indiana (1-3)
Penn State’s quarterbacks will look to build on the success they had last week against one of the poorer defensive teams in the Big Ten. Penn State’s offense is still young and should continue to improve as the season progresses. The defense will need to replace the production of Michael Mauti, who was lost for the season with an injury. Indiana’s offense is good enough to keep them close in this game, but the talent level is currently lacking for them to win a lot of games.
Pick: Penn State 28 Indiana 17
Notre Dame (2-2) @ Purdue (2-1)
Notre Dame is taking on their third Big Ten team of the season, going 1-1 in the first two contests. Caleb TerBush has been solid for Purdue and now Robert Marve is looking like he is ready to play a large part of the offense after getting a fair amount of snaps in Purdue’s last game. Notre Dame looks to have found their groove after winning two games in a row after dropping their first two games in heartbreaking and head scratching fashion. Notre Dame has too much talent for Purdue this season and it will show on the field Saturday.
Pick: Notre Dame 31 Purdue 21
Must see game: 8 Nebraska @ 7 Wisconsin
There are many reasons as to why watch this game. From being a matchup of top 10 teams to Nebraska’s first Big Ten game to a potential Big Ten Championship preview. Both offenses have been lighting up the scoreboard this season while both defenses have the capability of shutting down opponents. This has the potential to be one of the best college football games of the season.
Upset watch: Northwestern @ 24 Illinois
Dan Persa’s return will give the Wildcats a boost on offense that is needed. If Persa is able to play the whole game and be effective Northwestern will be a much improved team to what we have seen so far this year. Remember that Illinois looked pretty pedestrian last week against Western Michigan and they haven’t been overly impressive on offense this season.
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'Europe' in Ukraine: many things to lots of people
Again, on the protests in Ukraine; this time mostly on the attitude towards 'Europe' among the several forces within the protests.
Again, there is mass protest in Ukraine. On Sunday, 8 December, hundreds of thousands have been gathering in Kiev, the capital. Demonstrators torn down a statue of Lenin, still seen as symbol of Russian domination. Opposition politicians are announcing that the protests will continue till government and president are gone. One opposition leader is giving president Yanukovych 48 hours to resign. Otherwise, his “residence will be blocked”. The demands of the rally, according to an English-language announcement : “Current Ukrainian President and government must resign”; new elections and the forming of a new government should follow; “Stop persecution of innocent people who participated in the peaceful protests”; freedom of assembly and of speech should be guaranteed; “Sign the Association Agreement with the European Union”. Yanukovych 's refusal to do so triggered the protests. What makes people so angry about this decision, and so insistently 'pro-European'?
For business circles and opposition politicians connected with these circles - main protagonists in the protests - there is class interest involved. These people see trade with European countries, export to European markets, as a profitable opportunity. The treaty – a free trade agreement – promises to get rid of taxes on Ukraine exports to EU countries. That means: better ability to compete. But taxes on EU exports to Ukraine will be skipped as well, though somewhat later. That means that highly profitable Western European companies can enter the Ukrainian market more easily, and push their Ukrainian competitors to the wall. Maybe Ukrainian businessmen see themselves as intermediaries between Western European and Ukrainian capital. Maybe, there is profit to be made for them. For countless Ukrainian workers, unemployment is threatening, as well as downward pressue on already low wages, in order to compete desperately against much more productive rivals. What is good for these kind of business people and the political opposition forces connected with them, may turn into a disaster for workers. Gas prices – currently based on concessionary rates granted by Russia – will rise to “full market prices”, which means: higher costs to heat houses, higher costs for Ukrainian companies. Another attack on living standards, another disadvantage to Ukrainian business as well, which they will translate in bankruptcies and/ of cost-cutting on the backs of their personnel. Applauding the EU treaty is applauding part of a neoliberal attack, to be ferociously opposed, not supported. Here, 'Europe' means misery, austerity, neoliberal agony. Broader EU-Ukrainian links – credits, to be connected to International Monetary Fund (IMF) conditions - point in the same direction.
For other, more openly right wing political forces driving the protests on, Europe means something else. These forces are strongly, sometimes extremely, nationalist. In Ukraine, this means: anti-Russian. Russia is, not unjustly in itself, seen as former imperial oppressor still trying to defend and regain the upper hand. Nationalists exploit the resentment amongst Ukrainians that this produces. But they translate this into hostility against all things and people Russian.This threatens not just 'Russian interests', but the rights of the large number of Ukrainian citizens whose first language is Russian. It ties Ukrainians to the state, and to their chauvinist politicians, under the cloak of the 'national interest', masking the fact that wage workers are getting 230 a month, while business people and politicians profit handsomely. For these nationalist – partly fascist – political forces. Europe, for them, is not so much a business partner or business opportunity; for these forces, Europe is a weapon against Russia. Faraway Brussels is seen as a useful counterforce against the hated Russian neighbour. Unfortunately, this has mass appeal. It is a variety of the ancient mechanism: the enemy of my enemy is my friend. But the EU enemy is not a friend of poor people in Ukraine.
Europe as business partner/ opportunity; Europe as counterbalance against the hated Russian enemy... these can explain the attitude of politicians and business people who see power to be gained and profits to be made. But to explain the size and fury of the crowds in Kiev, more is needed. People are outraged and furious, not just because of a trade deal gone wrong, not just because Yanukovych and Putin are too close. Yes, hostility against Russia plays a strong part in the protests. But most venom is directed against the Ukrainian power holders themseves, Yanukovych and his co-rulers. Last week 's police attack on demonstrators added to the fury. It adds to the feeling that the elite is corrupt, power-hungry and will defend itself with the most brutal means if it sees fit. Here, Europe is used as a democratic myth: it is felt to be everything that the Yanukovych regime is not. Closer ties to the EU are seen as a way to get rid of the criminal system over which the president presides.
An interesting piece – to which my attention was drawn in a comment on my earlier blogpiece – may serve as an example. “The agreement with EU for Ukraine it's a sign that criminal system will be destroyed”. That is the name of the article, and it deserves to be widely read. The piece paints a picture of the horrible conditions in Ukraine: wages of 320 euro, already mentioned; prices of milk , cheese, a dress, hiogher than in respectively Poland, France, Berlin; a police cprrupt police force in which rape goes unpunished; Yanukovych hiomimself, living in luxury. “Ukraine – it s not a country for him”, the article says about the president. “It is a business-project”. Read it, and one can understand why hundreds of thousands of people want to get rid of him.
But why see the EU as an ally? The article asks: “are you still thinking that oud demonstrations it thats why why we want to join into EU. No. We know perfectly well about all difficulties in your copuntries. We know perfectly how dicfficult for as will be euro integration. But agreement with EU for us is not a visa-free regime, not high salary, not good medicine. It 's sign that criminal system will be destroyed. It's the first of all – control of European politicians over the band in government”. Now, first, EU politicians treat this “band in government”not at all as leaders of a “criminal system”, but as potential trading partners and allies. The EU is not at all opposed to crimninals in government, it has cooperated quite nicely with Berlusconi who treated, first a foortball team, then a TV network, and then the whole of Italy as a “business-project”. Only when Berlusconi failed to enforce austerity, the EU objected. No, the EU is no ally against state criminality. Time and again, it is a partner in crime
And no, the EU countries are not that different from Ukraine in many respects. Take police violence. “Today in the morning the government using the power, for what every policemen in Eyrope already have set in prison, attacked, dispersed a demonstration.” Policemen attacking peaceful demonstrations can be seen in EU country after EU country. Last week, cops attacked and beat up students holding a peaceful sit-in in an university building in London, and followed this up with another attack on an protest outside. People got hurt, police arrested at least three people. A few weeks ago, police in The Hague, the Netherlands, attacked peaceful demonstrators holding a noise protest near the parliament building against a meeting of far right wing leader Wilders with Front National leader Le Pen. Police attacked, arrested three people and beat several of the others. I don not think any of the cops, in Londen or in The Hague, will go to prison for attacking peaceful demonstrators. I think the chance that they get a promotion is bigger. Yes, the scale is much smaller than in Ukraine. But that is a difference in degree. The whole idea that police forces in EU countries are inherently less violent than in Ukraine, and that authorities are inherently less inclined to use them against protest, is ludicrous.
That does not mean that the anger against the police and the authorities in Ukraine is less justified. It only means that is is a mistake to see the EU as an ally against repression and against the criminal system of which police violence is only a part. EU politicians express support for the protests, and criticize police attacks – hypocritically. But what closer ties with the EU is offering Ukraine is not democracy, freedom, justice. Closer EU-Ukraine ties mean turning Ukraine in a low wage appendage of the EU, as a source of cheap labour, to be exploited there or as migrant labour in Western European countries, just like Polish workers are exploited in countries like The Netherlands already.. In that transition toward Ukrtaine as a EU reservoir of exploitable cheap labour, opposition politicians are prepare to become accomplices, while fascists and nationalists are not above using 'Europe' to back up their anti-Russian chauvinism. But there musr be many among the demonstrators who are mainly angry about police oppression, corruption, atrocious living standards. For them, Europe is a myth. The sooner they discard the myth ans see the EU for what is really is – an enemy, not an ally in the struggle for freedom and justice – the better. The EU is, not unlike the Yanukovych regime, a “business-project” - on a vastly bigger scale.
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Organizing Academic Research Papers: Evaluating Sources
Importance of Evaluating Sources
Evaluating the authority, usefulness, and reliability of resources is a crucial step in developing a literature review that effectively covers pertinent research as well as demonstrating to the reader that you know what you're talking about. The process of evaluating scholarly research also enhances your general skills and ability to:
Seek out alternate points of view and differing perspectives,
Identify possible bias in the work of others,
Distinguish between fact, fiction, and opinion,
Develop and strengthen your ability to distinguish between relevant and irrelevant content,
Draw cogent, well thought out conclusions, and
Synthesize information, extracting meaning through interpretation and analysis.
Strategies for Critically Evaluating Sources
The act of thinking critically about the validity and reliability of a research resource generally involves asking yourself a series of questions about the quality of both the item and the content of that item.
Evaluating the Source
Inquiring about the Author
What are the author's credentials--institutional affiliation (where he or she works), educational background, past writings, or experience? Is the book or article written on a topic in the author's area of expertise? Has your instructor mentioned this author? Have you seen the author's name cited in other sources or bibliographies? Is the author associated with a reputable institution or organization? What are the basic values or goals of the organization or institution?
Inquiring about the Date of Publication
When was the source published? Is the source current or out-of-date for your topic?
Inquiring about the Edition or Revision
Is this a first edition of this publication or not? Further editions indicate a source has been revised and updated to reflect changes in knowledge, include omissions, and harmonize with the intended needs of its readers. If you are using a Web source, do the pages indicate revision dates?
Inquiring about the Publisher
Note the publisher. If the source is published by a university press, it is likely to be scholarly. Although the fact that the publisher is reputable does not necessarily guarantee quality, it does show that the publisher may have high regard for the source being published.
Inquiring about the Title of Journal
Is this a scholarly or a popular journal? This distinction is important because it indicates different levels of complexity in conveying ideas.
Evaluating the Content
What type of audience is the author addressing? Is the publication aimed at a specialized or a general audience? Is this source too elementary, too technical, too advanced, or just right for your needs?
Is the information covered fact, opinion, or propaganda? It is not always easy to separate fact from opinion. Facts can usually be verified; opinions, though they may be based on factual information, evolve from the interpretation of facts. Does the information appear to be valid and well-researched, or is it questionable and unsupported by evidence? Note errors or omissions. Are the ideas and arguments advanced more or less in line with other works you have read on the same topic?
Does the work update other sources, substantiate other materials you have read, or add new information? Does it extensively or marginally cover your topic? You should explore enough sources to obtain a variety of viewpoints.
Is the publication organized logically? Are the main points clearly presented? Do you find the text easy to read, or is it stilted or choppy? Is the author's argument repetitive?
Evaluative Reviews
In the case of books, locate critical reviews of work in a database. Is the review positive? Is the book under review considered a valuable contribution to the field? Do the various reviewers agree on the value or attributes of the book or has are there strong differences of opinion? Does the reviewer mention other books that might be better? If so, locate these sources for more information on your topic.
Critical Thinking. Academic Skills Centre. University of Canberra; Evaluating Sources. Lakeland Library Research Guides. Lakeland Community College; Evaluating Sources. Writing@CSU. Colorado State University; Evaluating Print Sources. The Writing Center. University of North Carolina; Evaluation During Reading. The Writing Lab and The OWL. Purdue University.
Strategies for Critically Evaluating Web Content
Web Content Requires Additional Methods of Evaluation
The principles that guide your of evaluation books, journal articles, reports, and other print materials also applies to web resources. However, the interactive and multimedia dynamics of web-based content increases the level of assessment you must apply in order to ensure that you are viewing a valid source of information.
Additional things to look for when considering using a web-based resource include:
Source of the content is stated -- whether original or borrowed, quoted, or imported from elsewhere. Note that content imported from another source via RSS feed can be difficult to identify, as this material can blend in with other content on the page without being appropriately labeled.
Don't be fooled by an attractive, professional-looking presentation -- just because a site looks professional doesn't mean that it is. However, poorly organized or written web page designs are easy to recognize and can be a signal that you should carefully scrutinize the material.
Site is currently being maintained -- check for posting or editing dates.
Links are relevant and appropriate, and are in working order -- a site with a lot of broken links is an indication of neglect and out-of-date content.
The site includes contact information -- if a site is produced anonymously, you cannot verify the legitimacy of its creator.
Domain location in the site address (URL) is relevant to the focus of the material [e.g., .edu for educational or research materials; .org for profit or non-profit organizations; .gov for government sites]. Note that the domain is not necessarily a primary indicator of site content. For example, some authors post their content on blog or wiki platforms hosted by companies with .com addresses. Note as well that the tilde (~) usually indicates a personal page.
Evaluating Internet Information. Online Library Learning Center. University of Georgia; Evaluating Internet Sources: A Library Resource Guide. Olsen Library. Northern Michigan University; Evaluating Sources. Writing@CSU. Colorado State University; Writing from Sources: Evaluating Web Sources. The Reading/Writing Center. Hunter College.
Detecting Author Bias
Bias, whether done intentionally or not, is when a statement reflects a partiality, preference, or prejudice for or against an object, person, place, or idea. Listed below are issues to look for when determining if the source is biased in some way.
Distortion or Stretching the Facts -- making issues, problems, or arguments appear more extreme by using misinformation or exaggerated and/or imprecise language to describe research outcomes [e.g., “Everyone agreed the policy was a complete disaster.” Who's everyone? And, how does one specifically define something as a disaster? Is there sufficient evidence to support such a broad statement?].
Flawed Research Design -- bias can enter the narrative as a result of a poorly designed study; this may include a claim or generalization about the findings based upon too small a sample, manipulating statistics, or failing to report contrary conclusions from other studies.
Lack of Citations -- refers to broad, declarative statements or information presented as fact that does not include proper citation to a source or to sources that support the researcher's position, or that such statements are not explicitly framed as the author's opinion.
Misquoting a Source -- this is when an author rewords, paraphrases, or manipulates a statement, the information about a source is incomplete, or a quote is presented in such a way that it misleads or conveys a false impression.
Persuasive or Inflammatory Language -- using words and phrases intended to elicit a positive or negative response from the reader or that leads the reader to arrive at a specific conclusion [e.g., referring to one side in a conflict as “terrorists” and the other side as “peace-loving”].
Selective Facts -- taking information out of context or selectively data-picking only information that supports the argument while leaving the rest out.
NOTE: The act of determining bias in scholarly research is also an act of constant self-reflection. Everyone has biases. Therefore, it's important that you minimize the influence of your own biases by approaching the assessment of another person's research introspectively and with a degree of self-awareness.
Evaluating Sources. Lakeland Library Research Guides. Lakeland Community College; Stereotypes and Biased Language. The Writing Lab and The OWL. Purdue University.
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Neil Harbisson
ElizabethTechnology
What is he?
Neil Harbisson, born on July 27, 1982, in London, United Kingdom, is a contemporary artist and cyborg activist. Neil actually has this antenna implanted in his skull which makes him “officially” known as a cyborg.
Why did he implant this antenna?
Neil Harbisson was born with complete color blindness. When he was studying in a music composition in England, he somehow got interested in cybernetics which he read could help him to extend senses (Sisley). He started a project with Adam Montandon to make something that would help him to sense color. The first idea was to create this third eye which then led to a better idea into making an antenna which is also similar to how other animals and insects (like bees). From then on (eight years already), he has been hearing color. Now he came from greyscale to a whole new world of colors. He says that “Each color has its own vibration” and that each vibration is felt inside the bone then through your inners which allows you to hear colors.
What does he use it for?
Well, aside from hearing colors, he gets to use it for when he drafts art, symphonies and even his own ‘Cyborg’ foundation. Did you know that he is the first cyborg artist? He is currently working on the first cyborg-focused fashion line with a space concert.
What else can his antenna do?
Aside from hearing colors, his antenna can also perceive invisible colors like infrared and ultraviolet. What’s really cool is that from his antenna he can receive images, videos, music, phone calls or colors from space directly into his own head!
Would you want to be part cyborg?
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HB16-1351
Land Transfers For Veterans Housing
Concerning a requirement that the executive director of the department of human services convey real property at the Fitzsimons campus to the housing authority of the city of Aurora, Colorado, for the purpose of helping homeless veterans and veterans with disabilities by developing transitional housing for both groups of such veterans and housing with domiciliary care for veterans with disabilities.
The bill directs the executive director of the department of human services to convey 2 suitable and mutually agreed upon parcels of land of not more than 1.5 acres each on the Fitzsimons campus to the housing authority of the city of Aurora (AHA) subject to the condition that the AHA develop transitional housing, including short-, medium-, and long-term temporary housing provided to a veteran with a disability in combination with wraparound services in order to assist the veteran in developing stability in his or her life, for homeless veterans and veterans with disabilities on one parcel and housing with domiciliary care for veterans with disabilities and their spouses and legal dependents on the other parcel. The bill also clarifies that current state law that states that a new veterans center may only be built if existing veterans centers in the state have maintained an 80% occupancy rate over the 6-month period preceding the commencement of construction and that a new veterans center must include at least 120 beds does not apply to the projects.
(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
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State, Veterans, and Military Affairs
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Committee Actions
03/28/2016 | House State, Veterans, and Military Affairs (4 )
Committee ReportHearing Summary
Adopt amendment L.001 (Attachment D) to House Bill 16-1351.
The motion failed on a vote of 4-5.
Adopt amendment L.002 (Attachment E) to House Bill 16-1351.
The motion passed without objection.
Refer House Bill 16-1351, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole.
Postpone House Bill 16-1351 indefinitely.
The motion passed on a vote of 5-4.
03/28/2016 House House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
03/09/2016 House Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
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Rep. T. Carver, Rep. K. Conti, Rep. S. Humphrey, Rep. K. Priola
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Legal Resident Military Veteran Deportation
Statewide System For Advance Directives
OpiRescue, Rx Assurance, Presentation
2016 Final Report, Legislative Oversight Committee Concerning the Treatment of Persons with Mental Illness in the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Systems
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Trump Administration Attempts to Eviscerate the Endangered Species Act
Rather Than “Improve” ESA, Newly-Adopted Regulations Dramatically Erode Its Historic Protections
The Endangered Species Act, enacted in 1973, has for most of its history been the most controversial and politically-charged of all the foundational environmental laws adopted by Congress in the 1970’s. But despite its contentious history, opponents of the ESA have been unsuccessful in their efforts to weaken the law, either through significant Congressional amendments …
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Endangered Deference
The Supreme Court’s recent, misguided, Weyerhaeuser decision displays the Court majority’s hostility to agency expertise
Cross-posted from The Regulatory Review In Weyerhaeuser v. US Fish and Wildlife Service, a unanimous Supreme Court, with Justice Gorsuch not participating, indicated that it is not inclined to defer to agency expertise. Judicial power dominates this Court’s approach to administrative law, not just in the context of Chevron deference, and not just within the …
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When is unoccupied habitat “critical”?
The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the critical habitat designation for the dusky gopher frog
Controversy and litigation have been pervasive since adoption of the Endangered Species Act in 1973, but the Supreme Court has been a relatively minor player in the law’s development. By my count, the Court so far has only addressed the substantive merits of an ESA claim three times (in TVA v Hill, 437 US 153 …
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200 Days and Counting: Public Lands
The potential impact of a Trump Administration on our federal public lands.
The federal government owns almost one-third of the land in the United States, primarily concentrated in the Western states. In addition, the federal government is the primary manager of the oceans off the coast of the United States (with the exception of oceans within three miles of the coastline, which are primarily under state authority). …
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Ninth Circuit upholds gray wolf rider
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Guest Blogger Justin Pidot: The Gray Wolf Delisting Revisited
Last week, Holly posted an excellent discussion of the latest wranglings in the Fish & Wildlife Service’s ongoing effort to delist the gray wolf in the mountain west. I share her discomfort with Congress’s decision to reinstate the delisting decision through an appropriations rider. But stepping back from the arcane separation of powers questions dominant …
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A big news week for the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta
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Endangered listing for Delta smelt warranted but precluded
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Wolf woes
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This Band Goes Multi-Sensory with Interactive Lights and Beer
A typical day for Lisa includes: getting up to see the sunrise, bicycling, interning at Make:, reading and writing short stories, and listening to audiobooks and podcasts for hours while working on projects or chores.
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June 23, 2017, 5:00 am PST
When you see the music video for the latest song from The Lights Out , you’ll think this band is out of this world. This is fitting since their album, T.R.I.P. (short for “The Reckonings in Pandimensionality”), features songs that are styled as reports from alternate realities.
For the release of this album the band is taking a multisensory approach. They’re gearing up for performances with LED encrusted instruments and goggles for a DIY light show. They’ve even partnered with Aeronaut Brewing to create a beer inspired by their music, which then ties in with a social media campaign (when someone tweets the trigger from the beer label, the band will respond by telling that person what they’re doing in a parallel universe).
“You’ve got visual, touch, smell, taste, and sound all happening at once. Engaging every sense is an unforgettable way for someone to experience a new piece of music,” explains Adam Ritchie, guitarist for the Lights Out.
Watch the band’s music video for “Waves of Sound” here first, then read our interview with drummer and DIYer extraordinaire Jesse James Salucci to learn more about how he created “The Color Machine” to add animated LED lights to The Lights Out performances.
Jesse James Salucci is the drummer for The Lights Out and the creator of “The Color Machine”, an integrated system of wearable lights and LED integrated instruments that add an animated visual element to the band’s performances. We wanted to know what gave him the idea for the Color Machine and how he pulled it off to create such a killer visual effect.
How’d you get into music? DIY/Industrial design? (Is there an overlap in your interests here?)
My father is a professional musician and raised us in a very musical home. He’s also a drummer, so I get a lot of my drumming style from him. When I was a kid, he signed to Atlantic Records and sang TV commercial jingles for Coca Cola, AT&T, NERF, Pizza Hut and K’nex. I spent a lot of time with him in our small home recording studio and would often sneak in and “borrow” instruments to make my own recordings on my own little 4-track portastudio.
My DIY background comes from both of my parents, who always tried to make something rather than buy it, and fix things themselves rather than hire a repairman. Through them, I learned 92% of broken things can be fixed with rubbing alcohol, a can of WD40, a roll of duct tape or some combination of the above.
What gave you the idea for this project?
The band and I had been going to Burning Man for a few years, wearing sound-reactive EL wire luchador costumes I designed for our camp. Whenever we walked around at night, we’d be mobbed by people shouting compliments and wanting to take pictures with us. The same thing happened when we wore them on 6th Street in Austin, after playing South by Southwest. It dawned on us that we felt more like rock stars in those moments than we ever had on stage.
We saw indie bands putting significant thought into their music, but not as much into visually engaging their audience. People at shows were staring at their cell phones. The amazing LED-based attire I saw in Black Rock City gave me the spark of an idea to completely transform our live show and get those eyeballs and cameras aimed at us.
Did you make it just for the video or will you be taking it to live shows as well?
This music video for “Waves of Sound” is the worldwide debut of The Color Machine in action, but it’s become an integral part of our live experience. We use it for all of our performances.
Are the lights following a preset sequence or are they responding to input as your band plays?
I animate each song like a music video. With The Color Machine I can transform my drums into a rising sunrise to punctuate a poignant lyric, or coat Adam’s guitar in shooting stars as he races through the crowd to climb the highest object in the room and rip a guitar solo. I considered using sound reaction, but grew frustrated with the limitations of responding to inputs like volume or tempo, when I wanted the ability to set moods with specific colors and patterns.
What components did you use?
The brain of The Color Machine is an 8-channel SD card LED microcontroller I purchased from AliExpress.com. I hardwired each of the channels to an XLR audio jack that would serve as a more durable connector for each band member to quickly plug their light cable into on a dark stage. It uses a very basic PC-only software called LED Edit that allows you to map LED strips onto a canvas, and then capture video files or screen grabs and send them to the strips. I figured out a way to take this map, recreate it in Adobe After Effects and use it as a visual guide.
This guide allows me to animate with the knowledge that any colors in a specific spot will appear on the corresponding location of a guitar or drum. I animate each song to a version recorded at a specific tempo, which allows everything to sync up when we play live. It’s a byzantine system using things that were never supposed to be used together, but when they are, it creates unique visual effects onstage.
Were there any interesting challenges in making this?
There were plenty! For one, after I figured out how to create light shows that would appear on our bodies and instruments, I still had to figure out how to keep the band synced to the light show so everything lines up from moment to moment. I experimented with a series of blinking lights in my goggles to follow like a metronome, but I learned quickly that keeping time to a visual metronome while playing drums is much harder than synchronizing to an audio click.
I eventually settled on a hybrid approach where I start the metronome in time with a series of lights I see flashing across my toms. Another creative challenge I faced was in how to illuminate the front skin of my kick drum. I really wanted it to look like a tunnel of lights without having to actually fill my bass drum with LED strips. I solved this by creating the illusion of multiple strips with an infinity mirror. By floating a two-way plexiglass mirror in front of a mirrored drum skin and sandwiching an LED strip in between, I was able to give the illusion of an infinite series of LED rings inside the drum.
Next, I had to figure out how we could mic the drum when we play live, since the skin was now behind a plate of plexiglass and I didn’t want to cut a hole in it. I solved this by installing a permanent mic on a bungee system inside the kick drum. The entire project was full of unique challenges and a subsequent series of odd experiments to solve them.
Do you think you’ll keep making cool lighting setups or other stage pieces for the band in the future?
We plan to evolve the show through the addition of new elements and songs. I purposely bought an 8-channel controller because I knew we would only need to use four of them to start: one for each band member’s XLR light “umbilical cord.” We’re mulling over adding an LED stage curtain and projected elements. One recent addition is the ability for Adam, our lead guitarist, to untether and enter a Super Mario’esque blinking state when he runs into the crowd. Another new feature is the set of glowing UV-charged drumsticks I pull out to lightsaber my way through a song.
Follow The Lights Out
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The cumulative, intended effect of the ritual is to revive our belief in the good intentions of our entire political class, and of our own innocence. Just as they ensure that we won’t be disturbed by outliers, they assure us that innocent Eden is both safe and honorable. Together, they reaffirm our denial with the implied message that nothing is wrong, that our fear – which they exploit at every possible opportunity – is ungrounded. “Whomever you vote for, the King will be here,” they seem to tell us, “…Everything is under control.” Thus, they invite us to share the fiction that, despite our fears, democracy will survive, and there will be a peaceful, cooperative transition when the next king-figure is anointed.
Is the system broken or has it been working quite well? This is not an “either-or” choice; it’s both. However, the fact that fewer and fewer of us have been willing to expect anything more than flowery phrases from these con-men – only half of us vote at all, and many of the rest of us have been choosing the “lesser of two evils” our entire lives – is, I think, a source of concern to the kingmakers and gatekeepers. It indicates, in mythological terms, that the holes in the fabric of the myth of innocence are growing. All the more need, then, for them to create another opportunistic ritual: the next war to protect “freedom” in Iran or Venezuela.
Nicholas Maduro is only the latest in a long tradition of Third World leaders whom the U.S. has labeled as the face of evil. As I wrote in Chapter Eight of my book:
Around 1985, the Other became more personal when television identified many charismatic Third World villains. After the first generation (Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro) came Muammar Gadaffy, Idi Amin, Yasser Arafat, Ayatollah Khomeini, Manuel Noriega, Kim Il Sung, Slobodan Milosevic, Hugo Chavez, Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden…
Note three themes here. First, U.S. propaganda attacks were often timed to impact (or obscure) domestic issues. Second, only Milosevic was white (but Slavic). Third, several of these men had previously worked for the U.S. Back in 1932, Roosevelt had said of Nicaragua’s Anastacio Somoza, “He’s an S.O.B., but he’s our S.O.B.!” It is as if the U.S. keeps them on ice, allowing them to quietly do their work until it needs to reveal them as the Devil’s latest incarnation. Then they become expendable, or, as with Bin Laden, even more valuable as fugitives, hiding in caves and bazaars, plotting more evil.
None of this is to advise you to stay home on Election Day 2020. If you choose to support the Democratic nominee, go ahead, especially if you live in a contested state. But do so with eyes wide open, as a practical decision to support the centrist (regardless of how he or she defines himself) over the outright fascist.
Idealization says more about our own psychological projections than it does about the candidates. When, after one of these debates, you hear yourself say (about either candidate), “He seems like a nice enough guy; I just don’t agree with his positions,” know that the ritual has been successful. The “nice guy” has proven that he can play the role if called upon; he has passed the audition.
That audition has been primarily for the edification of that part of the population that still holds to the naïve, liberal view that the debates might actually provide some input into a system with authentic choices. The Republican base, however, is not – and for a long time has not been – so innocent. They know perfectly well what scoundrels their leaders are, and they don’t care, as long as such leaders play the game of tweaking the noses of the east coast intelligentsia who have been telling them how to live. That Trump – He’s no racist, but he says what he means!
In 2016, Trump effectively reversed the “nice guy” rule. Apparently, quite a few people of the evangelical persuasion perceived quite correctly – they weren’t stupid – that he was a liar, braggart, misogynist and serial marriage cheat, and concluded that “He’s a bastard, but I agree with his policies.” For them, he passed the same audition, which had been defined primarily by fear, racism and xenophobia.
After two years of unparalleled corruption, scandals, contempt for the Constitution, war threats, climate denial, permission to hate, tax cuts for the mega-rich – and normalization by the media – they still support him. Indeed, in a mass epidemic of cognitive dissonance, many are convinced that he has been sent by God.
Is there any other explanation for their willingness to tolerate such a blatantly insincere gesture as his hugging of the sacred totem fetish? I mean, really, even this accomplished con-man couldn’t keep from smirking. Don’t matter none. He is their Divine King, and because of him, they – not unlike their liberal opponents with their Russiagate meta-narrative – can proclaim their innocence.
On the other hand, as Chomsky has said, “If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.” Amanda Marcotte suggests another explanation for Trump’s enduring popularity among his base:
In truth, Republicans have been priming their voters for decades to accept, defend and even adore a shameless criminal in the White House…First, Republicans normalized the idea that all politicians are corrupt by electing a series of deeply corrupt politicians themselves. Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush have all been warm-up acts to Trump…Second, (they) trained their base to think of investigations as bad-faith political power grabs…They are now thoroughly primed to interpret the investigations into Trump’s very real corruption as nothing more than Democrats seeking revenge…
That’s why polls that measure whether Republican voters “believe” Trump is telling the truth are somewhat beside the point. The real problem is that they don’t believe it matters whether Trump is a criminal…if it helps their team win.
So: in 2019-2020 we have a Republican base that isn’t simply unashamed but proud of its criminal leadership. We have a Democratic base that still thinks everyone is playing by the same rules, that logical argument will convince others. We have a Democratic leadership that participates in these rituals of innocence as long as the corporate money flow lasts. And we have the other fifty percent of the population who, like those Honduran peasants, don’t vote because they see no reason to. Finally, we have media – print and social – that serve the same wealthy class who fund these two political parties by marginalizing progressive voices.
In the next round of presidential debates – our seasonal, contrived rituals – watch as most Democrats studiously avoid any mention of the military budget and our imperial wars, especially in Venezuela and Palestine. For the time being, it will still be the children of other nations who are sacrificed. But the group – we – will remain vigilant, prepared for those conditions when the next opportunistic rituals of sacrifice and regeneration become necessary. Then, once again, it will be our children (well, not really ours, unless we live in the crossover states or in urban ghettos) who will be asked to enter the fire to glorify their parents.
Perhaps I’m being too cynical; I hope so. Perhaps it serves no purpose to simply point out our failures without offering an alternative vision. Perhaps it does serve a deeper purpose to point out that these are not failures; that the system continues to run smoothly for the one percent. And certainly, there has been much good news since the 2018 election, especially in the fact that Republicans are obsessed with demonizing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. They just can’t stop talking about her, and the Green New Deal has become the kind of meme or positive frame that George Lakoff has been asking the Democrats to come up with for years.
But the fact that the Democratic leadership have dug in their heels to marginalize her, Bernie Sanders and other progressives indicates that the fix is still in, that the next election cycle will conclude with more rituals of denial and self-congratulation. In other words, the great shift in mythological thinking that is necessary for a transition to a sustainable world has yet to manifest.
What will it take to change things? Really change things? Certainly, the passing of the Mitch McConnells of the world – and the Diane Feinsteins – is absolutely necessary. Could this millionaire warmonger have stated the generational divide – not just that, but her absolute contempt for children – any more clearly? Let’s thank her for clarifying that, in case anyone thinks she has anything worthwhile to offer.
Significant demographic changes are right around the corner. America is getting darker and younger, less individualistic, more communitarian, more critical of this death culture. Death culture? Is that too strong a phrase? As I wrote in Chapter Eight, nearly fifty years ago the social critic Phillip Slater was appalled by the carnage Americans were inflicting upon the Vietnamese:
…obsession with the body count, rather than control of territory, became an end in itself. General Westmoreland set the tone when he smugly dismissed civilian casualties: “It does deprive the enemy of the population, doesn’t it?” With this kind of permission coming from the top, massacres became commonplace, as they had been in Korea and would continue to be, wherever the U.S. would oppose dark-skinned people. Phillip Slater argues, “This transfer of killing from a means to an end in itself constitutes a practical definition of genocide.” He asks, “Do Americans hate life? Has there ever been a people who have destroyed so many living things?”
The three great Athenian playwrights – Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides – were, after Homer, the storytellers of their culture. Sophocles said that he wrote about how people might be, while Euripides (author of The Bacchae) wrote about how people really are.
I don’t think that a culture can rebirth itself until it has fully acknowledged what has no longer been serving it, and what needs to die. We will not be fully able to imagine new stories until enough of us realize – like alcoholics – that we have hit bottom. This is why I must continue to write about who we are and leave the imagination of who we might be to more optimistic voices.
It may still be possible for significant change to occur through elections – may it be so. But without addressing a much more profound level, the causes of our condition – the vast well of grief and self-contempt at the core of the white American psyche – we condemn ourselves, and the Earth, to more of the same.
The new story of Who We Are is waiting for enough of us to call it forth. We are capable of creating new public rituals that affirm the values of community without sacrificing our children. The old knowledge is still in our bones. Our indigenous souls remember. At this point in history, perhaps only poets can write about who we might be. It might be about remembering who we once were:
The Ancient Ones
From the beginning, we have been with you.
We are the ancient ones and we remember.
We remember the time when there was only Love,
The time when all breathing was one.
We remember the seed of your being
Planted in the belly of the vast, black night.
We remember the red cave of deep slumber.
The time of forgetting,
The sound of your breath, the pulse of your heart.
We remember the force of your longing for life,
The cries of your birth bringing you forth.
We are the Ancient Ones and we have waited and watched.
You say that you cannot remember that time
That you have no memory of us.
You say that you cannot hear our voices
That our touch no longer moves you.
You say there can be no return,
That something is lost, that there is only silence.
We say the time of waiting is over.
We say the silence has been broken.
We say there can be no forgetting now.
We say listen.
We are the bones of your grandmother’s grandmothers.
We have returned now.
We say you cannot forget us now
We say we are with you and you are us.
Remember. Remember.
— Patricia Reis
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PlayDead’s Inside Makes Us Feel Weird
Firstly this game kind of just crept up on us. Our Inside imminent release senses didn’t tingle until we bumped into reviews of game. It is receiving many positive reviews and some even calling it a master piece. So we decided to buy the game and play it for ourselves.
The game doesn’t take any time to introduce the characters or what is going on in its world. Instead it asks the player to find out for themselves. You take control of a nimble pre-teen boy running from unknown forces that seem to want to kill us (we think). They are not afraid to shoot you or send their dogs on you. At this point we know that something is very very wrong in this world. The queue of what we think are humans being hurried into trucks to be taken somewhere is another reminder to the player to just keep running.
You do eventually escape your pursuers and are met with some quite nice puzzles that tickle your brain. Regardless though many questions arise. Why are we (humans) being shipped of somewhere. Who are these oppressors, why did they kill all our live stock ( well most ), who is this boy we are controlling, why is he on the run, why was he not captured like everyone else. There is also the matter of why all the other captured humans walk around like a bunch of zombies. We at one point actually control a few with a weird head device (shiver). Kind of reminds us of the parasite bugs from limbo. We are going to do posts on each episode we play through on our YouTube channel. Please do join us on this journey on what we think is going to one of the best games of this year. Here is part 1:
Keep being awesome
June 30, 2016 littlerocketinmypocket game, gamers, games, horror, inside, inside game, inside indie, inside playdead, playdead, playthrough, video games, xbox, xbox one Leave a comment
Quantum Break is AWESOME (opinion)
Yeah, yeah the game got mixed reviews. Some liked it, some disliked it and apparently not many loved it. I think a review said it perfectly by saying “There is nothing like it and there probably won’t be again”. Here is why:
The art direction is great but not because the characters and environments look detailed. It’s because of the effects that are applied to them. For example when a fracture happens (time literally breaks ) everything becomes well… broken. Lets just say the pictures do it no justice. In motion everything looks pretty crazy. We really wonder how Remedy managed to create this effect.
Now we think the sound design of this game greatly complements the art direction. The way the sound clipped and cracks when you use your dash power. The bass drops that accompany your time freeze bubble. There is this crazy scene where a massive broken ship comes down on the main character. A time fracture happens which creates a volatile environment of breaking metal that reverses back and forth on your path. The sounds you hear in this scene are just ear melting. Watch the scene here
Now leading up to the release we were confused on how they were going to tie a game and a tv show together. The show itself is actually pretty interesting. The style we feel has this modern feel like what you would expect from shows like person of interest. If you take it as seriously as it asks you to, we feel you would enjoy it.
These are just a few points we feel makes this game worth while to check out. You can find our playthrough here. Thanks for reading and keep being awesome
June 9, 2016 littlerocketinmypocket game, games, opinion, playthrough, quantum break, time, video games, xbox, xbox one Leave a comment
TGIF: This Game Is Fun
Well it is Friday so why not have a run down of what has been fun this week.
We start this week with an update on the Final Fantasy XV film titled ‘Kingsglaive.’ Square Enix have recently updated the Japanese site for the upcoming title with new character information and still photos; all looking a lush as the FFXV world has been so far.
The film is expected to release just before Final Fantasy XV’s launch date (30 September) and will set the pace of what is happening in Lucis whilst Noctis & friends are on their own main storyline journey.
-source: Square Enix–
“SOME ARE SOLDIERS, WE ARE GHOSTS. We operate far beyond legions and armies, following our own rules. We change the fate of nations from the shadows. We are legends. We are GHOSTS.”
Ubisoft this week revealed the new trailer with showing in game action alongside information on the 4 editions of ‘Ghost Recon: Wildlands’ that will be available; which are:
Ubisoft also advertised that any pre-orders will receive a bonus mission set in Bolivia.
On a rather nervous note, upcoming game title No Man’s Sky, has been rumoured to have been delayed. The game was set to be released on June 21st but this seems to have been pushed back. At this moment and time it is still speculation but until official information is released, we are all in limbo as to whether this ambitious game will be delayed.
–source: Kotaku–
Now to end it with some trailers. Deus Ex just released the “Mechanical Apartheid” video:
and Fall Out 4 releases Mod’s on Xbox One first today:
Deus Ex is much loved game on this team making it one of our upcoming games of the summer. However even more importantly, this is the first time Mods have ever been on a console system — What a time to be alive.
as @majornelson said “thanks for watching… see you in the wasteland”
and there’s some interesting stories from this week
keep an eye on littleRocket for more
May 27, 2016 cyrilmedia Deus Ex:Mankind Divided, Fall Out 4, games, Ghost Recon:Wildlands, littlerocket, media, No Man's Sky, pc, playstation, ubisoft, video games, xbox, xbox one Leave a comment
First on the list and really not a ‘game’ Star Trek is back with a new teaser trailer of their new series set to begin on CBS. The new series will be available on CBS’s on-demand/streaming platform and CBS All Access early next year. To be honest we’re not sure what to expect in terms of characters and story from the new series but it is set to have buzz around it when it airs on television.
Next up is Battleborn. They are kicking of the weekend vibes with a double XP weekend for all their players this weekend; as a bonus there is also the introduction of the latest DLC character: Alani.
Alani “the warrior-monk healer” releases officially on May 31st for all platforms and can be unlocked for 47,500 of in game credits. However, if you were lucky enough to be part of the early PS4 beta you get the character during this early access weekend and of course Digital Deluxe & Season Pass holders will be able to get Alani immediately by using a Hero Key. — Looks like they are getting set for summer with more free characters to come.
Ex Konami Game Director Hideo Kojima, creator of Metal Gear solid, revealed his new logo’s inspiration, the full EVA (extra-vehicular activity) suit wearing Ludens. In a series of three tweets, Kojima spelled out what Ludens, a Latin participle of the root word “ludo,” which translates in English to “play,” means to the team. “Ludens, the icon of Kojima Productions,” he tweeted alongside the full picture posted below. “We’ll deliver THE NEW PLAY in THE NEW FUTURE with the cutting-edge equipment, technology, & the frontier spirit. The gear he’s wearing is the extra-vehicular activity(EVA) creative suit.”
Another minor thing in the gaming world is the upcoming E3 2016, set to showcase some of the line-up that gamers can expect from companies the likes of EA, Bethesda, Microsoft, Sony, PC Gaming Show and Ubisoft. Of course there will be other companies/Devs showcasing new technology like Samsung
And there was a little snippet of the week’s news
Keep on littleRocket for more gaming news
Ciao-su ^_^
May 20, 2016 cyrilmedia games, Kojima Productions, media, pc, playstation, star trek, TVseries, video games, xbox Leave a comment
To Infinity and beyond?
Sad to see but the toys-to-life market seems to have cost Disney too much for their personal plans. $147 million to be exact; and with that have decided to cancel their Infinity series.
Disney’s game publishing arm, which appears to be defunct at this point, is part of the Consumer Products & Interactive Media division. That group saw a dip of 2% year-over-year for the quarter, but is up 4% at the half-year mark.
With this news they released a statement in which they said:
“After a thorough evaluation, we have modified our approach to console gaming and will transition exclusively to a licensing model,” says Disney consumer products and interactive media chairman Jimmy Pitaro. “This shift in strategy means we will cease production of Disney Infinity, where the lack of growth in the toys-to-life market, coupled with high development costs, has created a challenging business model. This means that we will be shutting down Avalanche, our internal studio that developed the game. This was a difficult decision that we did not take lightly given the quality of Disney Infinity and its many passionate fans.”
It is a shame that the Infinity series reached this point, thoughts go out to the employees affected by this situation with the CEO Bob Iger adding “..I give the developer a lot of credit for the product that they made. It was extremely well-received. But we knew going in that there would be a lot of risk with this product and the fact that we did so well initially gave us the confidence to continue with it. The truth of the matter is that the risks that we saw at the beginning when we started this caught up with us.”
Sad news but we hope the people affected move on to better opportunities.
May 11, 2016 cyrilmedia Disney, Disney Infinity, games, littlerocket, media, review, video games Leave a comment
Nintendo NX Cartridges!?
Nintendo has hit the rumour side of the web again with the current being it may be a hybrid system that might bring back the use of cartridges. Speculation has come from Macronix, Nintendo’s long time producer of ROM chips (think of 3DS game chips), seemingly saying they expect an increased order from Nintendo in the latter part of this year for their products.
Nintendo still hasn’t given substantial information on the actual NX system itself or what it actually is; however, promises of more information on the hardware after E3 2016 is something most gaming fans are looking forward to.
May 6, 2016 cyrilmedia games, littlerocket, nintendo, video games Leave a comment
Free the Oxen | LR Let’s Play Oxenfree #1&2
Now it has been awhile since we played a good mystery game. Oxenfree is not only a mystery game though. It has an excellent blend of walking simulator, horror and is at times just plain creepy.
The story follows Alex, her new brother in law(Jonas) and her friends as they spend sometime on an abandoned island for a party. Things start off pretty normal until Alex uses her radio to tune in to some weird frequencies.
Jonas decides to investigate the origin of the frequencies and enters a cave. We as Alex, follow him. The cave seems as though someone or something has been residing there.
We eventually find the source and tune into extra frequencies revealing these weird triangular shapes (illuminati cough cough). Something starts talking to us.
What follows has to be in our opinion one of the coolest and confusing conversations ever. Who the hell is ‘sleepy time girl’ and why are they asking if leave is possible, heck why do they talk the way they do.
The conversation leads us to getting some sort of underwater vision and we get teleported to a completely different part of the island. One thing is for sure. This game has a lot of good mystery.
Thank you as always for the support and
dont’t forget. Keep Being Awesome
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These Are the 5 Best Places to Live for People Passionate About Rock Climbing
These five cities are close to some of the best outdoor climbing in the country — and have a lot more to offer than access to crag.
By Mariko Zapf on June 10, 2019 07:00 AM
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Due to climbing’s soaring popularity, gyms have popped up in most metros with impressive facilities and loads of regular members. As fun as indoor climbing is, there is no substitute for getting out on real rock. Most cities, however, don't offer easy access to outdoor climbing spots.
Fortunately, there are a handful of charming, affordable locales in close proximity to enticing walls that have a whole lot more to offer in the way of culture and community. You just might find one of them the perfect next place to hang your rack...
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1. El Paso, TX
This gem of a city on the Mexican border is home to Hueco Tanks, known for its world-class bouldering. The volume of routes and quality of the rock are second to none. If you prefer to dabble in various types, Franklin Mountain State Park offers terrific trad and sport climbing, as well top roping. Yes, it is even possible to climb in nearby Chihuahua, Mexico.
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For most of us, however, climbing doesn’t pay the bills. Quality jobs are plentiful in El Paso in a variety of sectors, including construction, military and education. In addition, local government has put the infrastructure in place to help small businesses thrive. Beyond climbing, the city boasts a number of other wonderful reasons to live there, including rich cultural activities, hiking, delicious food, excellent healthcare and a bunch of hip neighborhoods. Could El Paso be your ideal city to put down roots — and climb to new heights?
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2. Las Vegas, NV
There is a reason Alex Honnold calls Las Vegas home, and it definitely isn’t the slot machines. With over 2,000 climbing routes at Red Rock alone, there is an adventure here for every type of climber. For the more ambitious sport climbers, Mount Charleston has impressive overhangs and relief from the intense desert — just an hour away from the Strip. A terrific way to access the tight-knit community is through the Red Rock Climbing Center.
With many of Nevada’s top employers located in the city, combined with median home prices well below $300,000, Las Vegas is also a terrific city to make a fresh start. Beyond the solid employment opportunities, there is so much to enjoy about Vegas that only the locals know about. No wonder it grabbed a spot on Livability's Top 100 Best Places Places to Live list for 2019.
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The biggest challenge when considering a move to Las Vegas is figuring out where to live. What outsiders may not realize is that there are a number of cities and towns surrounding Las Vegas with comparable access to Red Rock that might just strike your fancy, including Henderson, Paradise, Summerlin South, Spring Valley and Boulder City.
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3. Yucca Valley, CA
Yucca Valley borders one of the most sought-after climbing destinations on the West Coast, Joshua Tree. With over 5,000 routes set amid an incredibly unique landscape, it’s no wonder climbers flock here from all over the globe. You’ll also find superb bouldering at The Tramway in Palm Springs, just half an hour from Yucca Valley. Daily rates are pricey, but affordable season passes are available.
Business and employment opportunities in Yucca Valley are comparable to what you might expect of a small city. Palm Springs offers more work options (particularly to millennials) and might have all the cachet, but with wonderful restaurants, art and music, Yucca Valley is the more affordable and cooler place to live. Without question, you will be welcomed into the community with open arms and enjoy the laid back vibe a climber expects from life in Southern California.
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4. Chattanooga, TN
Chattanooga has so much to offer climbers, starting with Stone Fort. This bouldering site has over 300 climbs that challenge climbers — at every level — to practice a variety of technical skills from crimps to slopers. Just 30 minutes outside of the city, devotees can sneak in an hour or two after work.
Not only is Chattanooga home to incredible climbing, it is also one of Livability's Top 100 Best Places to Live. Far from just being an outdoor adventure hotspot, Chattanooga is also home to a number of tech startups and entrepreneurs. A multitude of craft breweries, outdoor adventure and affordable cost of living certainly add to the appeal of this bustling city.
A wonderful way to access the climbing community and outdoorsy types in Chattanooga is outfitter and hostel, The Crash Pad. Before you walk through their doors, study this quick guide on how to sound like a local.
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5. Lexington, KY
Climbers are smart to flock to Lexington for its easy access to the stunning Red River Gorge, just an hour outside of the city. The Red has evolved quite a bit over the many decades that pros and enthusiasts have been scrambling its walls. Sport climbing took off in the 90s and comprise more than half of the 2,000 routes open today. But climbers aren’t the only reason for the Red’s rich history.
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Aggressive shoes, crash pads and all the required gear do not pay for themselves. Luckily, living in Lexington also means access to a whole lot of high-quality employers and jobs in a wide range of industries. Between the affordability, walkability, restaurants and general livability of this great city, it is no wonder Lexington shows up year-after-year on Livability's Top 100 Best Places to Live list.
Mariko Zapf is a Brooklyn-based writer covering travel, parenting, running and wellness. She and her family love exploring other cultures, but are on a mission to get to know bette... more
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Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal
Emailinstrument@manipal.edu
Websitehttps://manipal.edu/mit/department-faculty/department-list/instrumentation-and-control-engineering.html
Design and performance evaluation of solar trickle down reactor for cypermethrin effluent treatment
Shanmuga Priya, S., Ratna, M., Shrivastava, R. & Thirunavukkarasu, I., 04-2013, In : International Journal of ChemTech Research. 5, 2, p. 629-633 5 p.
Effluent treatment
Biodegradability
Design and realization of MPC controller for type 1 diabetes system
Srinivasan, C. R., Meenatchi Sundaram, S. & George, V. I., 01-01-2018, In : Journal of Advanced Research in Dynamical and Control Systems. 10, 6 Special Issue, p. 1238-1244 7 p.
Design and simulation of Kalman Filter for the estimation of tray temperatures in a binary distillation column
Chopparapu, S. L., George, V. I., Thirunavukkarasu, I. & Bhat, V. S., 2017, In : International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics. 114, 9 Special Issue, p. 11-18 8 p.
Design of active and reactive power control of grid tied photovoltaics
Shinde, S., Nayak, D. & Nair, N., 2016, In : International Journal of Control Theory and Applications. 9, 39, p. 185-193 9 p.
Reactive power
Charging (batteries)
Design of adaptive PID controller based on maximum modulus theorem for inverted pendulum on a cart
George, J., Krishna, B., George, V. I. & Menon, M. K., 2012, Sensors and Transducers, 145, 10, p. 163-171 9 p.
Design of an Adaptive Calibration Technique Using Data Fusion for Pressure Measurement
Santhosh, K. V. & Navada, B. R., 01-01-2018, Advances in Communication, Devices and Networking - Proceedings of ICCDN 2017. Springer Verlag, p. 817-826 10 p. (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering; vol. 462).
Data fusion
Atmospheric humidity
Design of an adaptive calibration technique using Support Vector Machine for LVDT
Santhosh, K. V. & Roy, B. K., 2014, Advances in Signal Processing and Intelligent Recognition Systems. Springer Verlag, Vol. 264. p. 151-160 10 p. (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; vol. 264).
Displacement measurement
Design of an adaptive controller for level process for variation in temperature using multi-sensor data fusion
Santhosh, K. V., 10-03-2014, Proceedings of International Conference on Circuits, Communication, Control and Computing, I4C 2014. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 161-164 4 p. 7057781
Sensor data fusion
Design of an adaptive soft calibration circuit for LVDT
Santhosh, K. V. & Akanksha, 07-02-2018, International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Communication Computer Technologies and Optimization Techniques, ICEECCOT 2017. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., Vol. 2018-January. p. 524-528 5 p.
comparator circuits
Design of an adaptive soft sensor for measurement of liquid level independent of liquid
Santhosh, K. V. & Nayak, S., 01-01-2019, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Springer Verlag, p. 523-535 13 p. (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering; vol. 478).
Design of centralized robust pi controller for a multivariable process
Bhat, V. S., Thirunavukkarasu, I. & Priya, S. S., 01-05-2018, In : Journal of Engineering Science and Technology. 13, 5, p. 1253-1273 21 p.
Multivariable systems
Disturbance rejection
Design of H-Infinity loop shaping controller for an unmanned aerial vehicle
Hegde, N. T., George, V. I. & Nayak, C. G., 01-01-2018, In : Journal of Advanced Research in Dynamical and Control Systems. 10, 3 Special Issue, p. 65-74 10 p.
Design of hybrid model predictive controller for a hybrid three tank system
Joseph, C., George, V. I., Narayanan, N. & Saranya, T. S., 2015, In : International Journal of Control Theory and Applications. 8, 3, p. 1235-1242 8 p.
Design of intelligent controller for temperature process on FPGA
Paul, R., Shreesha, C., Prabhu, S. & Shinde, S., 01-01-2015, In : International Journal of Control Theory and Applications. 8, 3, p. 1113-1120 8 p.
Field programmable gate arrays (FPGA)
Computer hardware description languages
Design of Kalman observer for estimation of in-flow
Navada, B. R., Santhosh, K. V., Mazhar, A. & Singh, A. K., 19-04-2018, 2017 International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Instrumentation and Control Technologies, ICICICT 2017. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., Vol. 2018-January. p. 1010-1014 5 p.
flow velocity
Design of liquid level measurement system using multi sensor data fusion for improved characteristics and fault detection
Santhosh, K. V. & Kumar, S., 01-10-2016, In : Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. 9, 2, p. 67-72 6 p.
Fault detection
Design of mobile application for assisting color blind people to identify information on sign boards
Navada, B. R. & Venkata, S. K., 01-01-2017, In : Journal of Engineering and Technological Sciences. 49, 5, p. 671-688 18 p.
Color vision
Design of PID controller for non square MIMO system
Thirunavukkarasu, I., George, V. I., Priya, S. S. & Vardhan, Y., 2011, 2nd International Conference on Methods and Models in Science and Technology, ICM2ST-11. Vol. 1414. p. 39-42 4 p.
Design of robust PID controller for a CSTR plant with interval parametric uncertainty using Kharitonov theorem
Kumar, S. S. & Shreesha, C., 31-08-2016, 2016 International Conference on Computation of Power, Energy, Information and Communication, ICCPEIC 2016. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 430-433 4 p. 7557271
Kharitonov Theorem
Parametric Uncertainty
Directly proportional
Design of solar heat sheet for air heaters
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Design of Unconstrained DMC to Improve the Distillate Product Purity of the Distillation Column
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Detection of breast thermograms using ensemble classifiers
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Robot Navigation
Autonomous Robots
Path Planning
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Backpropagation
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Pole Placement
PI Controller
Experimental Validation
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MIMO Systems
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First-order
Control Algorithm
Predictive Control
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Pneumatic control
Stiction
Feature based reading skill analysis using electrooculogram signals
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Eye movements
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Petri nets
High level languages
FPGA implementation of oxygen level monitoring in oxygen cylinder
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Frequency-domain-based, control-relevant model reduction for nonlinear plants
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Model structures
Fusion of spatial gray level dependency and fractal texture features for the characterization of thyroid lesions
Raghavendra, U., Rajendra Acharya, U., Gudigar, A., Hong Tan, J., Fujita, H., Hagiwara, Y., Molinari, F., Kongmebhol, P. & Hoong Ng, K., 01-05-2017, In : Ultrasonics. 77, p. 110-120 11 p.
endocrine systems
Fuzzy based intelligent navigation for robots with trajectory control
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Fuzzy controller based grid integration of hybrid solar photovoltaic and DFIG wind energy system to improve power quality
Shenoy, K. L., Nayak, C. G. & Mandi, R. P., 01-01-2019, In : Applied Mathematics and Information Sciences. 13, Special Issue 1, p. 447-469 23 p.
Fuzzy Logic Controller
Asynchronous generators
Fuzzy logic-based disparity selection using multiple data costs for stereo correspondence
Shetty, A. A., George, V. I., Nayak, C. G. & Shetty, R., 01-01-2019, In : Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. 27, 1, p. 377-391 15 p.
Cost functions
Fuzzy logic based window blind controller maximizing visual comfort, thermal comfort and energy conservation suitable for tropical climate
Kurian, C. P., George, V. I., Aithal, R. S. & Bhat, J., 29-04-2008, In : Journal of the Institution of Engineers (India): Architectural Engineering Division. 89, APRIL, p. 14-22 9 p.
Thermal comfort
Fuzzy logic control for active ankle foot orthosis
Kanthi, M., Mruthyunjaya, H. S. & George, V. I., 2013, FUZZ-IEEE 2013 - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems. 6622320
Fuzzy Logic Control
Fuzzy logic for breast cancer diagnosis using medical thermogram images
Kamath, S., 18-07-2016, Medical Imaging: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. IGI Global Publishing, p. 354-389 36 p.
Kamath, S., 30-11-2014, Fuzzy Expert Systems for Disease Diagnosis. IGI Global Publishing, p. 168-199 32 p.
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Department of Urology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal
Kasturba Medical College, Manipal
Adrenal inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour
Chawla, A., Hameed, Z., Mishra, D. & Monappa, V., 24-07-2013, In : BMJ Case Reports. 010122.
Adrenal oncocytoma masquerading as a functional tumor
Goel, T., Thomas, J., Garg, S., Rao, A. C. K. & Reddy, S., 01-01-2007, In : Indian Journal of Urology. 23, 1, p. 77-78 2 p.
Oxyphilic Adenoma
Antihypertensive Agents
Bilateral cryptorchidism with bilateral synchronous abdominal testicular germ cell tumour
Seetharam, V., Hameed, Z. B. M., Talengala, S. B. & Thomas, J., 12-02-2014, In : BMJ Case Reports. 203085.
Urogenital System
Bladder paraganglioma - A report of two cases
Monappa, V., Jaiprakash, P., Thomas, J. & Hegde, P., 01-01-2018, (Accepted/In press) In : African Journal of Urology.
Blue nevus of the prostate
Kudva, R. & Hegde, P., 01-07-2010, In : Indian Journal of Urology. 26, 2, p. 301-302 2 p.
Botulinum toxin in high-risk BPH patients in retention
Reddy, S., Chawla, A. & Thomas, J., 01-07-2008, In : Indian Journal of Urology. 24, 2, 1 p.
Botulinum Toxins
Type A Botulinum Toxins
Can tissue PCR augment the diagnostic accuracy in genitourinary tract tuberculosis?
Chawla, A., Chawla, K., Reddy, S., Arora, N., Bairy, I., Rao, S., Hegde, P. & Thomas, J., 01-01-2012, In : Urologia Internationalis. 88, 1, p. 34-38 5 p.
Epididymis
Bacillus
Clear cell primary seminal vesicle carcinoma in a young male-a rare case report
Gaur, S., Pillai, S. B., Hegde, P., Chawla, A. K. & Kapadia, A., 01-02-2018, In : Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research. 12, 2, p. XD01-XD02
Clear Cell Adenocarcinoma
Combined dorsal plus ventral double buccal mucosa graft in bulbar urethral reconstruction
Chawla, A., Reddy, S. & Thomas, J., 01-07-2008, In : Indian Journal of Urology. 24, 2, 1 p.
Mouth Mucosa
Crossed fused ectopia of kidney – An account of tertiary healthcare center experience
Hameed, B. M. Z., Chawla, A., Hegde, P. & Vasa, T., 30-03-2018, In : Open Urology and Nephrology Journal. 11, p. 1-13 13 p.
Sigmoid Colon
Cytomegalovirus ureteritis - An unreported cause of hematuria in an immunocompetent individual
Goel, T., Reddy, S., Thomas, J., Kudva, R. & Garg, S., 01-10-2007, In : Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection. 40, 5, p. 450-451 2 p.
Inclusion Bodies
Duplicated rectum as interlabial mass
Chawla, A., Sasidharan, K., Rao, L. & Reddy, S., 01-02-2010, In : Journal of Pediatric Urology. 6, 1, p. 89-90 2 p.
Emphysematous pyelonephritis with calculus: Management strategies
Goel, T., Reddy, S. & Thomas, J., 01-07-2007, In : Indian Journal of Urology. 23, 3, p. 250-252 3 p.
Epididymal and prostatic histoplasmosis in a renal transplant recipient from southern India
Baig, W. W., Attur, R. P., Chawla, A., Reddy, S., Pillai, S., Rao, L., Rao, G., Ashok, K. & Yegneswaran, P., 01-10-2011, In : Transplant Infectious Disease. 13, 5, p. 489-491 3 p.
FNAC testes and cell indices in the evaluation of male infertility
Chetri, R., Bhat, S. & Thomas, J., 01-01-1998, In : Indian Journal of Urology. 14, 2, p. 105-108 4 p.
Genitourinary histoplasmosis in post-renal transplant patient: Diagnostic dilemma
Chawla, A., Chawla, K. & Thomas, J., 01-07-2012, In : Indian Journal of Urology. 28, 3, p. 359-361 3 p.
Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy-Raman: An effective complementary approach to analyze renal-calculi
Muhammed Shameem, K. M., Chawla, A., Mallya, M., Barik, B. K., Unnikrishnan, V. K., Kartha, V. B. & Santhosh, C., 01-06-2018, In : Journal of Biophotonics. 11, 6, e201700271.
renal calculi
Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy
laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy
Raman Spectrum Analysis
Less pain is no gain: Is minimal invasive tension-free vaginal tape-Secur effective in the treatment of women with stress urinary incontinence
Chawla, A., 01-01-2012, In : Indian Journal of Urology. 28, 1, p. 111-112 2 p.
Medical records and issues in negligence
Thomas, J., 01-07-2009, In : Indian Journal of Urology. 25, 3, p. 384-388 5 p.
Microlithiasis of the epididymis: A case report and review of literature
Mathew, M. & Thomas, J., 01-10-2008, In : Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology. 51, 4, p. 534-535 2 p.
Midureteric knotted stent removed by percutaneous access!
Bhirud, P., Giridhar, V. & Hegde, P., 01-05-2012, In : Urology Annals. 4, 2, p. 106-107 2 p.
Migration of forgotten stent into renal pelvis
Giridhar, V., Natarajan, K. & Hegde, P., 01-04-2011, In : Indian Journal of Urology. 27, 2, p. 282-283 2 p.
Mullerianosis of the urinary bladder
Posterior urethral valve associated with orthotopic ureterocele
Chawla, A., Reddy, S., Natarajan, K., Thomas, J. & Sasidharan, K., 01-10-2008, In : Indian Journal of Urology. 24, 4, p. 569-570 2 p.
Primary bladder neurofibroma: A rare case with clinical implications and diagnostic challenges
Umakanthan, S., Naik, R., Bukelo, M. M., Rai, S. & Prabhu, L., 01-09-2015, In : Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research. 9, 9, p. 5-6 2 p.
Primary localised amyloidosis of urethra presenting as a penile stricture
Jaiprakash, P., Shivmurthy, A., Valiathan, M. & Chawla, A., 01-12-2018, In : Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research. 12, 12, p. ED01-ED03
Urethra
Rare sites of delayed metastasis in renal cell carcinoma
Chawla, A., Mishra, D., Bansal, R. & Chundru, M., 21-06-2013, In : BMJ Case Reports.
Refluxing supernumerary kidney: Easy to overlook
Chawla, A., 06-10-2014, In : BMJ Case Reports. 2014, 201163.
Relevance of inflammatory pseudotumor associated with bladder tumor
Kurien, A., Thomas, J., Reddy, S. & Chawla, A., 01-10-2007, In : Indian Journal of Urology. 23, 4, p. 486-487 2 p.
Transitional Cell Carcinoma
Renal artery aneurysm with an ovarian vein thrombosis.
Chawla, A., Mishra, D. & Sharma, P., 01-12-2013, In : BMJ Case Reports. 2013
Role of bulb ureterogram before pyeloplasty in children
Thomas, J. M., Letchumanan, S. V., Ramgopal, K. S. & Sasidharan, K., 01-12-1997, In : Indian Journal of Urology. 14, 1, p. 21-23 3 p.
Safety and viability of totally tubeless ambulatory percutaneous nephrolithotomy (APCNL) in the fast paced world
Hameed, B. M. Z., Chawla, A., Hegde, P., Odugoudar, A. & Vasa, T., 30-03-2018, In : Open Urology and Nephrology Journal. 11, p. 14-21 8 p.
Skeletal metastasis as primary presentation of squamous cell carcinoma of renal pelvis
Chawla, A., Rao, M., Reddy, S., Philipraj, S. J. & Sasidharan, K., 01-03-2002, In : Indian Journal of Urology. 18, 2, p. 186-187 2 p.
Spontaneous rupture of a simple renal cyst
Rao, M., Natarajan, K., Chawla, A., Philipraj, S. J. & Sasidharan, K., 01-03-2002, In : Indian Journal of Urology. 18, 2, p. 184-185 2 p.
Spontaneous transvaginal bowel evisceration
Chhabra, S. & Hegde, P., 01-04-2013, In : Indian Journal of Urology. 29, 2, p. 139-141 3 p.
Squamous cell carcinoma of the renal pelvis presenting as sacral bone metastasis
Hameed, Z. B. M., Pillai, S. B., Hegde, P. & Talengala, B. S., 03-02-2014, In : BMJ Case Reports. 225.
Synchronous renal cell carcinoma in supernumerary and ipsilateral kidneys
Chawla, A., Rao, M., Ithawala, M., Philipraj, J. & Sasidharan, K., 01-12-2002, In : BJU International. 90, SUPPL. 4
Testicular leiomyosarcoma with metastasis
Giridhar, V., Kumar P.b, B., Natarajan, K. & Hegde, P., 01-04-2011, In : Indian Journal of Urology. 27, 2, p. 278-279 2 p.
Testosterone Congeners
Testicular non-Hodgkin's lymphoma presenting in a young adult
Ratkal, V., Chawla, A., Mishra, D. K. & Monappa, V., 20-03-2015, In : BMJ Case Reports. 2015, 432.
Tumor Biomarkers
Testosterone for aging men
Philipraj, S. J., Thomas, J., Hegde, P. M., Dorairajan, L. N. & Shah, R. S., 25-03-2014, In : Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2014, 3, CD006295.
Tubeless simultaneous bilateral percutaneous nephrolithotomy: Safety, feasibility and efficacy in an Indian setting
Pillai, S., Mishra, D., Sharma, P., Venkatesh, G., Chawla, A., Hegde, P. & Thomas, J., 01-01-2014, In : International Journal of Urology. 21, 5, p. 497-502 6 p.
Ureteral injury after posterior lumbar discectomy with interbody screw fixation
Pillai, S. B., Hegde, P., Venkatesh, G. & Iyyan, B., 08-10-2013, In : BMJ Case Reports.
Diskectomy
Ureteric avulsion following blind attempts at retrieval of intrauterine contraceptive device: A clinical lesson to primary care givers
Shrimal, D., Vasudeva, A., Hebbar, S. & Chawla, A., 01-10-2018, In : Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research. 12, 10, p. QD01-QD03
Intrauterine Devices
Contraceptive Agents
Vaginal evisceration following anterior pelvic exenteration
Giridhar, V., Barani Kumar, P. B., Natarajan, K. & Hegde, P., 08-07-2010, In : Internet Journal of Oncology. 7, 1
Pelvic Exenteration
Whitmore's disease: An uncommon urological presentation
Naganathan, K., Pillai, S. B., Kumar, P. & Hegde, P., 11-02-2014, In : BMJ Case Reports. 201978.
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Enemies in Super Mario Bros. 2, Birds
Pidgit
Pidgit's artwork from Super Mario Bros. 2.
Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic (1987)
Latest Game
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018)
Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic
Mario & Luigi: Partners In Time
Wario's Woods
Subcon
Swooping on its carpet.
Defeated by
Thrown off its carpet.
Pidgit is an enemy that appears in the Mario series.
Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic/Super Mario Bros. 2
Pidgit first appears in Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic and later in its western remake Super Mario Bros. 2. In these games, Pidgit appears as a common aerial enemy. Pidgit's first level appearance is in World 1-2.
In the game, Pidgit attacks the player by attempting to swoop right into him/her. As the Pidgit descends from the sky, the player must jump atop it or its carpet and throw Pidgit off to gain a 10 second control of the carpet until the carpet vanishes. This carpet is normally used to reach inaccessible areas in a level.
Pidgit reappears in the Super Mario Bros. 2 game as a part of Super Mario All-Stars and in Super Mario Advance. Instead of its black coloration, its color is changed to blue (purple as depicted in the art).
Pidgets appear in Super Mario World in the form of Pidget Bills. After Mario or Luigi complete all levels in the Special World, Pidget Bills replace Bullet Bills.
Mario & Luigi series
In Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, Pidgets appear as an enemy. Some Pidgets have sacks with them; these sacks contain coins.
Pidgit reappears in Wario's Woods under the name of Black Bat.
In the game, Pidgit appears as one of Wario's monsters who overcame Wanda when Wario replaced Birdo which often happens in gameplay. In the game, Pidgit acts the same as Wanda by dropping extra monsters on Toad. Unlike Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic and Super Mario Bros. 2, Pidgit appears to be able to fly. This means that Black Bat could possibly be a subspecies of Pidgit.
Non-canonical appearances
Non-canon warning: This article or section contains non-canonical information that is not considered to be an official part of the Mario series and/or isn't considered to be part of the series' overall storyline.
The Pidgit appears as a spirit in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate classified as 44. It was one of the spirits to be captured by Puppet Fighters. The spirit can be obtained in the Mysterious Dimension sub-area as the incorrect spirit for the quiz, that leads to Marx. The fighter must battle against the Puppet Fighter of Peach in her black costume.
Non-canon warning: Non-canonical information ends here.
Retrieved from "https://mario.fandom.com/wiki/Pidgit?oldid=266785"
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MECASOLAR opens a tracker manufacturing centre in Ontario (Canada)
MECASOLAR opens a tracker manufacturing…
The Spanish multinational has opened a new manufacturing facility located in Wallaceburg (Ontario), from which it will distribute 1 and 2-axes trackers both to Canadian customers and those in north-eastern USA (Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Illinois, among others).
The new plant in Wallaceburg, which is over 20,000 square feet with 2 acres outside for storage, will reach a production capacity of 8,000 solar trackers per year and already has orders to be delivered to its customers at the beginning of November.
The opening of the new MECASOLAR factory in Canada is due to the excellent prospects of the Canadian solar photovoltaic market and the good results obtained by its delegation and factory in California. In fact, the company plans to expand its facilities in Canada in 2011 to meet the demands of this market.
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MECASOLAR will be present at the ENERGAIA fair in Montpellier – FRANCE from the 8th to the 11th of December
MECASOLAR participates in the Conference Clean Energy from the Sun: Market and Research Supporting Photovoltaic
MECASOLAR participates in the Operation and Maintenance Conference for Photovoltaic Installations at INTERECONOMIA
Companies from Egypt and Australia were present at the MECASOLAR courses
MECASOLAR installs 42 MW of solar trackers in Italy in 2010
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MECASOLAR to supply 186 MW of solar trackers to the Cobra Group for a photovoltaic solar project located in Escatron (Zaragoza)
MECASOLAR will supply 500kwp of fixed bases in Katerini
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Foursquare Inks Deal With Reddit to Power Location-Based Posts
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“The front page of the internet” is getting a mobile remake that should make it easier for users to add additional information to their posts.
Foursquare is announcing today that its data will power a new feature within Reddit’s app that lets users tag posts with their location. In theory, the feature will allow users to mark their posts with additional “context and interest,” said Mike Harkey, vp of business development at Foursquare in a blog post. To tag a post with a location, a list of Foursquare’s mapped locations will pop up as an option when users compose a post or they can search for a specific location.
While it’s not clear whether Reddit’s core users—who are known for passionately revolting changes to the site—will embrace the location-based posts, Foursquare stressed in its blog posts that the feature is optional.
“Location tags are completely optional, making it possible for Redditors to keep their profile private, anonymous and detail-free,” wrote Harkey. “Users never have to select a location, and neither Reddit nor Foursquare will store or share that data.”
The feature is Reddit’s latest development in making content readable on smartphones. The site rolled out its own mobile app last year, which some saw as a slow move from desktop to mobile.
In addition to Reddit, Foursquare has similar partnerships with Snapchat, Twitter and Apple.
Facebook’s Side-by-Side Video View Could Open Up New Ad Inventory Outside the News Feed
As Facebook’s news feed increasingly moves from text to video, the social network is rolling out a new feature on desktop that makes clips more prominent.
In February, Facebook rolled out a mobile feature called watch and scroll that lets people keep watching organic videos and ads as they scroll through news feeds. Now, the feature is available to all desktop users, meaning consumers who use it can see two videos at once in a news feed, opening up potentially new ad inventory.
Watch and scroll pulls videos out of the news feed.
Here’s how it works: As users discover videos in their news feeds, they can click on icons that appear on videos or click to turn a clip’s sound on since videos automatically play silently. The side-by-side view then appears on the left side of the screen as users scroll past the clip in the news feed. Users can move the video across the screen. Once a clip is finished, a replay icon briefly appears on the page before the video disappears. Such a “sticky” or “pinned” video player is a tactic many publishers, including CNN and USA Today, have used on their websites to keep video content viewable as users read news articles.
As more users, brands and publishers upload video to the platform, Facebook has actively developed more video products and is reportedly in talks with publishers and creators to make TV-quality original programs specifically for the platform, though Re/code reports the time line for those efforts has been pushed back.
Facebook has also warned investors over the past year about ad load concerns as it begins to max out the ratio of organic posts to ads. Watch and scroll could open up new ad inventory as a way for Facebook to show two videos at once. In recent months, publishers have started adding ad breaks to their clips as a way to make money off of live videos.
Whether or not watch and scroll will significantly boost the view and engagement times with video will be worth watching in the coming months and could position Facebook as a go-to hub for digital video as it looks to compete with YouTube, Twitter and Snapchat for more digital and maybe even TV ad dollars.
“We are gathering feedback and may iterate on this experience in the future,” a Facebook rep said in a statement.
Why There’s No Yoga in Lululemon’s First Global Campaign
Advertising Trends , Best Practices
In Lululemon’s new video, the retailer highlights activities from surfing to singing and almost everything in-between. The new spot, which runs nearly two minutes in length, excludes the traditional yoga for which the 19-year-old brand is known. Instead, “This Is Yoga” emphasizes how the meditation, breadth and self-discipline learned from yoga translates into other pursuits.
“The irony is that it’s all about yoga,” said Duke Stump, exec-VP of brand and community at Lululemon. “One of our goals was to make it aspirational but both accessible and inclusive so people can see how yoga can be part of their everyday life.”
Rather than spend a lot on advertising, the Vancouver-based brand has traditionally relied on grassroots marketing and word-of-mouth by loyal fans. Such a strategy, of course, could also have the opposite effect as illustrated by Lululemon’s now notorious see-through-pants disaster of 2013. But now, Lululemon is flexing its dollars to include more of a marketing push as the athleisure market grows more crowded and consumers begin to spend less on apparel.
In 2016, for example, the brand spent $56,200 on measured media in the U.S.—more than double that of 2015, according to Kantar Media.
Stump said the new effort is Lululemon’s most-expensive, though he declined to specify how much the campaign will cost.
While Lululemon is doing well financially—the chain raked in $2.3 billion in revenue last year, a 14% rise over the prior year, and posted a same-store sales increase of 6%—it’s still competing in a stretched-out space.
“It will have to contend with the saturation of a slowing athleisure market,” wrote Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData Retail, in a recent research note, adding that the year ahead will be challenging for Lululemon. Under Armour recently suffered its first quarterly loss. In addition, Kit and Ace, a high-end line that was co-founded by Lululemon founder Chip Wilson only three years ago, recently said it will be closing all of its U.S. stores.
Lululemon’s new push includes digital and social, some over-the-top TV and global out-of-home.
This is the retailer’s first time working with Brooklyn-based Virtue Worldwide, Vice Media’s ad agency, and its first time working with a creative agency on a project of this scale. The relationship, which came about because Virtue’s global reach fit well with Lululemon’s hopes for expansion, is ongoing, Stump said, noting that Virtue is expected to handle Lululemon’s holiday work.
“When I first met the team from Lululemon, I barely knew what yoga was, but we gelled immediately and collaborated exhaustively,” said Virtue’s founder Spencer Baim.
The new push follows the retailer’s successful holiday campaign “The Air Out There,” which was primarily product-focused.
Facebook Is Using AI to Make Language Translation Nine Times Faster
Artificially intelligent systems are only getting better, and they’re likely to appear in our computers and on our phones more and more often over the next few years. Facebook has been using artificial intelligence and machine learning for various things — like its M digital assistant — but now the company is turning to AI for another purpose: translation.
Facebook’s research team has published a report on how artificial intelligence is a hefty nine times faster than traditional language translation software. Not only that, but the researchers have revealed that the source code for the translation software is open-source, so anyone can get their hands on it to verify the results.
The report highlights the use of convolutional neural networks (CNN) as opposed to recurrent neural networks (RNN), which translate sentences one word at a time in a linear order. The new architecture, however, can take words further down in the sentence into consideration during the translation process, which helps make the translation far more accurate. This actually marks the first time a CNN has managed to outperform an RNN in language translation, and Facebook now hopes to expand it to to cover more languages.
“Language translation is important to Facebook’s mission of making the world more open and connected, enabling everyone to consume posts or videos in their preferred language — all at the highest possible accuracy and speed,” said the company in a blog post.
Convolutional Neural Networks aren’t a totally new technology, but they haven’t really been applied to translation before. As a result of the new tech, Facebook can compute different aspects of a sentence at the same time, and as a result it can train its systems using a lot less computational power — which in turn results in faster translation. The system is also open source, meaning translation should get better across the web — not just in Facebook’s offerings.
Survey Shows Older and Younger Ad Execs Care About Different Digital Metrics
As it turns out, agency professionals under the age of 30 care far less about viewabililty and fraud and more about brand safety and performance. On the other hand, older execs also place more prominence on other issues like premium inventory and cross-channel attribution. Turn and Amobee conducted the survey, which asked 200 media agency professionals to get a better view of how digital natives approach digital media differently than more seasoned veterans.
Paul Alfieri, svp of marketing at Turn, explained some of the differences to how someone might buy a smartphone now compared to 10 years ago. He said it’s not that younger execs don’t care about viewability, they just see it as a mandatory, but less important part of modern-day marketing.
“In 2017, if you buy a smart phone, you’re not going to ask if it has Wi-Fi,” he said in an interview. “If it doesn’t, the manufacturer of that phone has violated the trust of the consumer. So in a similar way, while we have very savvy media execs coming up and saying ‘of course brand safety is going to be in there.’”
While 76 percent of younger execs say they’re not worried about fraud, they also trust current metrics at a far lesser rate. According to the results released today, 57 percent of those surveyed who said they don’t trust current metrics were under the age of 30, while 60 percent of that group said video can in some cases even be ineffective as a medium. However, across the board, 40 percent of all execs surveyed said they measured success by online conversions, while 39 percent cited clickthroughs.
The results show that older execs still often approach digital video in a way similar to how they’d treat traditional television. While 84 percent of execs over the age of 30 said video is still the most effective medium, 56 percent of younger respondents said there are more effective ways to advertise. That could impact how they view future budgets as well, with only 33 percent of younger execs expecting video budgets to increase, compared to 90 percent of older generations.
Getting execs to invest more in video could depend on access to newer formats such as vertical and 360-degree video, which are increasingly known for building engagement with viewers, rather than just showing them a short commercial. According to Turn, 51 percent said the ability to use emerging formats would get them to increase online video spend, while 50 percent cited better cross-channel attribution and 48 percent said proven unique reach could get them to also increase online video spend.
“I was traditionally taught that video equals branding and branding only,”Alfieri said. “But digital natives who grew up viewing video across devices are expecting more from video.”
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Each school’s emergency management plan is reviewed and revised annually and after each emergency. Board policy requires our schools to have emergency plans for many different types of emergencies. Below, you will find answers to some of the questions that parents frequently ask during and after a crisis.
HOW DOES TPS RESPOND IN THE CASE OF AN EMERGENCY?
What is the process for lockdowns and intruder alerts?
IF A SCHOOL IS EVACUATED, HOW WILL I KNOW WHERE TO PICK UP MY CHILD?
SHOULD I PICK UP MY CHILD AT SCHOOL DURING AN EMERGENCY?
WHERE WILL I GET ACCURATE INFORMATION DURING AN EMERGENCY?
WHAT CAN I DO TO BE BEST PREPARED FOR EMERGENCIES?
When the district determines an emergency has occurred, three possible plans of action occur:
1. Go home plan: students return to their homes as quickly and safely as possible. Each school maintains information for emergency contacts for each child.
It is critical that parents and legal guardians advise the school office staff every time emergency contact information changes.
2. Shelter-in-place plan: students stay in their buildings. Typically, inside sheltering is considered a short-term solution. Specific areas of each building are identified as safety zones.
Students in school buildings who are not in classrooms will be escorted by staff to a supervised area and remain there until otherwise notified. No one will be allowed to enter or leave the school for any reason.
3. Evacuation plan: requires that all building occupants exit the building and go to a previously-identified, safe alternate location. Evacuation may mean only going outside and away from the building until an all-clear signal is given. In some circumstances, students and staff may need to be transported and housed temporarily in another location.
What are the categories of lock-downs and intruder alerts?
Intruder alert: there is an active threat inside the school. It may or may not involve a weapon.
Lock-down (full): there is a direct threat to the school or to students or faculty outside the school.
Modified lock-down: there is an indirect threat in the vicinity of the school (e.g., reports of gunshots in area, or a police pursuit that is nearby or may be headed in the direction of the school). Modified lock-downs are by far the most common occurrence.
Who determines when a school goes on lock-down?
Any administrative personnel or law enforcement officer can put a school on intruder alert or lock-down if they believe there is a threat.
What area is affected by the lock-down?
The area of a lock-down is determined by the type of incident and its severity. The Tulsa Police Department or Campus Police will determine the possible area of threat and designate the area accordingly.
What are the immediate actions for each category taken by the school?
Modified lock-down: All students are brought inside, all exterior doors are locked and no one is allowed in or out of the building except at the discretion of law enforcement or the principal. Officers may be deployed to the site as a precaution.
Lock-down: All students are brought inside, all exterior doors are locked, no one is allowed in or out and all students in the building are moved away from windows or where they might be visible from the outside. Campus Police officers will be deployed to the school.
Intruder alert: Teachers may exercise several options to protect their students; these options are outlined in the Safe School Plan and in the Classroom Emergency Handbooks. Officers will take active response measures under standard law enforcement protocols.
Are parents notified when a lock-down or intruder alert is called?
Parent notifications are made at the discretion of the principal and will be made as soon as possible through the school's social media sites, SchoolWay feed, and by email. However, in most cases, a notification may not be made immediately during the event as school teams are focused on keeping children actively protected.
Please do not come to the school to pick your child up during a lock-down or intruder alert. We understand that you want to check on your child's safety, but coming to the school during a critical incident may interfere with our ability to respond to the threat and keep our campus secure.
Many lock-downs, especially modified lock-downs (the most common kind), may be over in minutes. The police may move out of the neighborhood or quickly determine there is no threat.
Most modified lock-downs are over within minutes. An intruder alert, on the other hand, is entirely dependent on the threat level. There are no guidelines as to the length of time.
In the event students must be moved to an alternate location, the school will use a number of communications tools including phone, email, social media, and news media to attempt to advise all parents of the alternate location.
Each school has several alternative locations that may be used depending upon the severity of the emergency and the number of school buildings involved. Police, fire, and county and state authorities are aware of the alternate locations for each school.
In the event of an emergency, schools will communicate with parents through the following channels:
Schools may contact you directly; this is why it is important for your school to have updated emergency contact information for your child.
It is every guardian’s natural instinct to go to the school during an emergency, but doing so may interfere with the school’s ability to effectively and efficiently respond to the situation. We strongly encourage parents to not come to the school during an emergency unless and until directed by the district to do so. In most cases, school district administration and district and local emergency responders are the only individuals allowed to enter or leave the school campus or building during emergencies.
The district will use every communications method available to keep parents up-to-date during an emergency. These include:
District smartphone app SchoolWay;
TPS web site (updates are posted on the home page);
Twitter;
SchoolConnects (a recorded phone message may be sent to each household if time allows);
Local news media (be sure to listen carefully for official announcements from TPS); or
Make sure your child's school has the most accurate emergency contact information on file.
Talk to your child about the importance of following directions and listening to school staff during an emergency.
Monitor the district communications methods mentioned above.
Make sure you and your family have a personal disaster plan. Visit the following links for additional resources on talking to your kids about disasters:
Ready: Plan Ahead for Disasters
Ready: for Kids
Tips for Talking With and Helping Children and Youth Cope After a Disaster or Traumatic Event
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Home News Breaking News The Forgotten Fast Day – 20 Sivan
The Forgotten Fast Day – 20 Sivan
Rav Shabsai Hakohen, more popularly known as the Shach, was the first rov to institute a fast day on the 20th of Sivan in commemoration of the “Gezeiros Tach V’Tat” (the terrible Chmielnicki massacres in Southern Poland and the Ukraine in 1648-1649). It would seem, however, from his own words, 22 that he had prescribed the fast day only for his family and descendants. This would explain why, in 1652, the Council of the Four Lands 23 also declared a fast on 20 Sivan; they were establishing one for the public at large.24
A very moving dirge commemorating the tragedy was also written by Rav Yom Tov Lipman Heller,25 which was published in Cracow, 1650, 26 where he had set up residence in 1644. In it, he lists by name twelve of the almost three-hundred communities that were totally decimated during the massacres. It begins with the standard “Keil Malei Rachamim,” but then becomes very original and deserves proper historical attention.
THE CAUSES OF THE TRAGEDY
The tragedy of the Gezeiros Tach V’Tat was so immense and shocking 27 that the rabbonim felt very strongly that only specific aveiros of the Jewish people could bring about such mass destruction.
In his work on Aggadic narratives, 28 Rav Berachia Berach, a leading rov of that generation, lists breeding of pigs, Shabbos desecration,29 davening without the proper focus and intentions, false interpretations of the Torah by “darshanim” (sermonizers), the sale of rabbinical positions even to those qualified, and luxurious (not immodest!) clothing, as some of the sins that were the “causes.” He calls for an immediate “tikkun” (fixing) of these “terrible sins” as he coins them.
THE MI SHEBEIRACH
The most popular institution as a consequence of the Gezeiros Tach V’Tat, and practiced in some kehillos to this very day, was the “Mi Shebeirach” written by Rav Yom Tov Lipman Heller. It is even possible that the Mi Shebeirach was first introduced by his rebbi, the Maharal of Prague, 30 but he certainly was the one who made it very popular. This tefillah should not be surprising, because the terrible problem of talking in shul, unfortunately, seems to have existed in Jewish society throughout the Middle Ages.31 Although the text that appears in most siddurim has:
“May Hashem….bless he who guards his mouth and tongue32 from talking during prayer…”
the more authentic version 33 adds and specifies: “from Boruch She’omar until the completion of the davening and during the reading of the Sefer Torah, even words of Torah and certainly idle chatter and the spreading of rumors….”
There is no question that Rav Yom Tov Lipman Heller was opposed to any type of idle chatter in a holy place like a shul.34 With this Mi Shebeirach prayer, however, he was not focusing on that particular issue but on the prohibition against speaking during one’s personal davening, the tefillah of the shliach tzibbur and the reading of the Torah. Perhaps, he felt the best way to attack this serious problem was a step by step approach; he, therefore, first focused specifically on these areas.
HAMAN AND CHMIELNICKI
In a previous article, 35 I attempted to explain a connection between the foiled plan of Haman to wipe out the Jewish people and its partial fulfillment during Chmielnicki’s massacres. In that article, I tried to explain this connection by demonstrating, at least, one similarity between the spiritual status of the Jewish people then, in 1648-1649, and whenever Amaleik had the upper-hand over them throughout Jewish history.
The connection pointed out in that discussion was that talking in shul during davening is an Amalekite lack of hakoras hatov – not acknowledging the “good” that Hashem does to us by permitting us to daven to him. It is also an act of leitzonus, the essence of Amaleik, in that talking in shul belittles the sanctity of the shul and is essentially a denial of Hashem’s presence there. The only proper retribution for such an Amalekite attitude was, unfortunately, destruction at the hands of Amaleik, as by Bogdan Chmielnicki, the 17th century Haman/Amalekite.
Recently, I came across a kabbalistic approach to explain another fascinating connection: The souls of the Jews in 1648 had “been around” during Haman’s lifetime in an earlier gilgul and had bowed down to the statue as the Gemara tells us.[35] That act constituted a violation of the commandment to sanctify Hashem’s name.[36] During the Gezeiros Tach V’Tat, when those souls which were reincarnated in new bodies sacrificed their lives en masse rather than convert to idolatry – in those days in the form of Greek Orthodox Christianity – they made the necessary tikkun for their souls.[37]
23 They were Great Poland, Little Poland, Ruthenia and Volhynia.
24 The Taz, quoted earlier in note 1, mentions “leaders of the three lands.” He was probably referring to Poland, Ruthenia, and Volhynia.
25 His name is alluded to in the last stanza.
26 It is simply called “Selichos for 20 Sivan.”
27 In a fascinating story (legend?) (Yalkut Ohaiv Yisroel, pg. 110), we are told that the holy saint of Apte studied all of Rav Dovid ben Shmuel’s commentary (Turei Zahav, see above note 1) “al pi kabbolah” and found everything completely correct except one statement! Rav Dovid ben Shmuel HaLevi then came to him in a dream and told the Apte not to be surprised since that statement was written during the 1648 massacres when he could not focus properly on the subject he was studying.
28 Zera Beirach, Amsterdam,1662, Volume 2, Introduction.
29 These first two sins were the expected and natural consequence of a bigger problem: living with and having too much contact with gentiles, which, according to Rav Berachia “led to other even more serious sins which cannot be written.” This problem was especially acute with isolated families living in the villages among the gentiles.
30 See “The Maharal of Prague” (Heb.), pg. 26.
31 See J. Katz, Tradition and Crisis, 1961, pg. 180.
32 Mishlei 21:26.
33 This is the earliest printed version found in the Selichos of 20 Sivan published in Cracow; see above.
34 See Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 151:1 and the meforshim there.
35 See Hakovetz,”Purim: New Historical and Hashkafa Insights,” Brooklyn, 2003.
[35] Megillah 12a. This statue of an idol was first erected by Nevuchadnetzar, see Daniel 3:6.
[35] See Rambam, Sefer Hamitzvos, mitzvah #9.
[37] Megillas Eiva, Yerushalayim, 5759, page 128.
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January 3, 2020 Maven DAILY DIGEST
In California water news today, December storms gave California a promising snowpack; Enough rain? Sufficient snow? Here’s how wet California, and Sacramento, got in 2019; How will California prevent more mega-wildfire disasters?; National water and climate outlook for January 2; 5 Biggest Weather Questions About 2020; Broad-ranging PFAS chemicals bill on House floor next week; Peter Moyle: Fly Fisherman’s 2020 Conservationist of the Year; Weed water war gets a win; Paso Robles approves groundwater sustainability plan; and more …
In the news today …
December storms gave California a promising snowpack: “December storms gave California a promising snowpack despite a slow start, state water authorities said Thursday after conducting measurements to determine how much vital runoff can be expected to flow into reservoirs this spring. Statewide, the amount of water contained in the snowpack — known as snow water equivalent — was 9.3 inches (23.6 centimeters), or 90% of the Jan. 2 average, the Department of Water Resources said. … ” Read more from the Associated Press here: December storms gave California a promising snowpack
Drought, what drought? Largest snowpack in 4 years, most stored water in Southern California history paint rosy picture: “With snowpack levels in the Sierra Nevada registering at 90% of normal Thursday and state reservoirs at record historic levels, the urban water supply picture for 2020 could hardly be any rosier. Southern California water managers are trying to restrain their joy, not because of a picture-postcard mountain top, but for the bounty that will come in spring when the snow melts, sending pristine water into state reservoirs and more importantly, southward via the State Water Project aqueduct, a source that supplies 30% of Southern California’s drinking water. … ” Read more from the OC Register here: Drought, what drought? Largest snowpack in 4 years, most stored water in Southern California history paint rosy picture
Up in the Sierra, nearly normal snowpack shows drought predictions wrong, from the San Francisco Chronicle
First snowpack of the year brings below average numbers, from Channel 23
Sierra snowpack augurs well for water outlook, from the Marin Independent Journal
Strong snowpack is good news for California’s water supply as storms hit the mark, from the LA Times
State to measure snowpack, recalculate water allocation, from the Santa Clarita Signal
Enough rain? Sufficient snow? Here’s how wet California, and Sacramento, got in 2019: “It’s a new year, and a time to take stock in California’s most precious commodity: water. While October marks the start of the new water year, state hydrology leaders opened the new year with the first measure of snowpack in the Sierra Nevada, east of Sacramento. Coupled with the rainfall totals for the calendar year, thanks to a series of storms in late November, Thursday’s measurement brought a hopeful start for the state’s biggest source of water. … ” Read more from the Sacramento Bee here: Enough rain? Sufficient snow? Here’s how wet California, and Sacramento, got in 2019
California’s disastrous wildfires pale in comparison to Australia’s catastrophic fires: “The scenes of wildfire devastation and smoke coming from Australia may appear familiar to many Californians, who have been dealing with a seemingly never ending string of wildfires in recent years. Bushfires have burned in all Australian states, and the major cities of Sydney and Melbourne have been impacted by think plumes of smoke. As of Thursday, a total of 14.6 million acres have burned in the country’s bushfires since September, CNN reported, an area larger than the countries of Belgium and Haiti combined. … ” Read more from CBS San Francisco here: California’s disastrous wildfires pale in comparison to Australia’s catastrophic fires
How will California prevent more mega-wildfire disasters? “Sasha Berleman walks through 10 acres of burned woods in a coastal forest about 26 miles north of San Francisco, California. A fire ecologist for the conservation organization Audubon Canyon Ranch, she and a crew of 40 firefighters and trained volunteers had set the area ablaze three weeks earlier. Now she’s looking for signs of regeneration. Berleman’s team was using low-intensity ground fire to remove a thick carpet of fallen pine needles and broken, sawed-off branches that littered the forest floor. … ” Read more from National Geographic here: How will California prevent more mega-wildfire disasters?
National water and climate outlook for January 2: “Winter arrived with snow covering the western mountains and northern tier states. Snowstorms across the country impacted travel in the parts of the West, northern Great Plains, Midwest, as well as the Northeast, during the busiest travel time of the year. Heavy snow blanketed the mountains and inland high desert near Los Angeles, closing a major interstate for 36 hours. Other impacts across the country included power outages and tree damage. The map above shows, as of January 2, 2020, 34.5% of coterminous US is covered by snow according to the National Weather Service.” Click here to read the report.
5 Biggest Weather Questions About 2020: “Now that we’ve entered the new year, you might be wondering if there’s anything we can say about 2020. While we can’t forecast key details such as how many hurricanes will make a U.S. landfall, there are some broad indicators we’ll be watching as 2020 unfolds that could influence, for instance, how cold the rest of winter will be and how much spring flooding may occur. Let’s walk through five of the key weather questions of 2020 and explain what some outlooks suggest might happen. … ” Read more from the Weather Channel here: 5 Biggest Weather Questions About 2020
New study links daily weather patterns to climate change for first time: “Scientists have for the first time linked human-induced climate change and global daily weather patterns in a new study. The report, released Thursday in Nature Climate Change, could mark a transformation in long-held beliefs about the separation between daily weather and long-term climate change. The study also suggests that measurements analyzing humankind’s role in producing incidents such as heat waves and floods could underestimate the contribution people make to such extreme weather events. … ” Read more from The Hill here: New study links daily weather patterns to climate change for first time
Broad-ranging PFAS chemicals bill on House floor next week: “A bill that would require the EPA to regulate PFAS, an emerging family of chemicals contaminating U.S. municipal and private water supplies, is slated to be the first major legislation that the House will take up in 2020. The House expects to begin considering a bill Jan. 9 (H.R.535) that would push the Environmental Protection Agency to create nationwide protective measures against poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances, and could vote on passage Jan. 10, according to an aide to House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.). … ” Read more from Bloomberg BNA here: Broad-Ranging PFAS chemicals bill on House floor next week
‘The salt they pump back in kills everything’: is the cost of Chile’s fresh water too high? “As Eduardo Muñoz drifts his ageing skiff into Antofagasta’s harbour, flecks of paint peeling from its prow, he looks disconsolate. “I used to get twice as many clams from every dive,” he mutters bitterly, hauling two large sacks of shellfish on to the dock and ruffling the salt from his hair. “Since desalination began a few years back I’ve hardly had any luck,” he says. “The salt they pump back into the sea kills everything, and there’s just a thick layer of sludge on the sea bed now.” … ” Read more from The Guardian here: ‘The salt they pump back in kills everything’: is the cost of Chile’s fresh water too high?
In people news today …
Peter Moyle: Fly Fisherman’s 2020 Conservationist of the Year: “For most modern-day fly fishers, the concept of catch-and-release is as familiar as the idea of hooking a fish on a fly rod. Back in the 1970s, though, it was an odd proposition. But a young fish biologist named Peter Moyle pushed the practice to balance conservation and recreation on a newly conserved stretch of California’s McCloud River. Needless to say, the idea stuck. The McCloud today is one of California’s most hallowed fly-fishing streams, and its best stretch of fly water is open to anglers thanks to the practical solution Moyle advocated. His solution also helped usher in a way of thinking about and handling native fish that today is second nature for nearly every fly angler out there. ... ” Read more from Fly Fisherman Magazine here: Peter Moyle: Fly Fisherman’s 2020 Conservationist of the Year
Valley Water CEO set to retire: “Norma Camacho, the chief executive of Silicon Valley’s largest water district, expects to retire by July 10, according to a letter obtained by San Jose Inside. The Valley Water boss announced her decision in a Nov. 25 letter to the agency’s seven-member governing board, saying she’ll take a six-week leave up through her final day. ... ” Read more from San Jose Inside here: Valley Water CEO set to retire
In regional news and commentary today …
Weed water war gets a win: “After two years of fighting over its water supply, the small northern California town of Weed is celebrating a small victory as Roseburg Forest Products has dropped its lawsuit against nine citizens and agreed to pay their legal fees. These individuals, who make up the group Water for Citizens of Weed, California (WCWC), were sued after speaking out against the Springfield-based timber company’s efforts to control their local water source. Although the free speech of Weed citizens is preserved, the war isn’t over yet. ... ” Read more from Eugene Weekly here: Weed water war gets a win
Facts about California’s water legislation and what it means for South Lake Tahoe: “No, you’re not going be fined for taking a shower and doing laundry on the same day. A news story by a Los Angeles area television station and carried through the internet on New Year’s Day wrongly stated just that as an effect of upcoming water efficiency laws. KTLA has since taken that story down (can be seen here), but not before people across the state shared it, stating each person in the state could only use 55 gallons of water a day before being fined starting January 1. ... ” Read more from South Tahoe Now here: Facts about California’s water legislation and what it means for South Lake Tahoe
SLO County leaders test cloud seeding to raise Lopez Lake Reservoir levels: “We might not be able to create weather, but there are ways to enhance it. The San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors recently approved a winter cloud seeding project that could add millions of gallons of water to the Lopez Lake Reservoir and supply thousands of homes. Cloud seeding has been used for decades around the world. … ” Read more from KSBY here: SLO County leaders test cloud seeding to raise Lopez Lake Reservoir levels
Paso Robles approves groundwater sustainability plan: “After almost two years of planning, public outreach and discussion, the City of Paso Robles approved the Groundwater Sustainability Plan for the Paso Robles Water Basin on Dec. 17. The GSP’s completion and approval is a vital step in keeping the power of water management in local hands and not controlled by the State of California. The City of Paso Robles Groundwater Sustainability Board, comprised of the City Council, passed the GSP in a majority vote of 3-0 with Mayor Steve Martin and Councilmember Maria Garcia absent. … ” Read more from The Paso Robles Press here: Paso Robles approves groundwater sustainability plan
L.A. Watershed management program falls short of EPA goals: “Scientists with Heal the Bay, a water quality nonprofit, measured the progress that local watershed areas made from 2012 to 2018 toward achieving storm water retention targets established by the U.S. EPA. Their research discovered seasonal fluctuations and difficulty with consistent water quality testing, reported the Argonaut. The watershed areas achieved 1.41 acre feet of additional storm water retention capacity since December 2012, out of a target of 671.69 acre feet, which includes flood control upgrades to Oxford Basin Lagoon. … ” Read more from Stormwater Solutions here: L.A. Watershed management program falls short of EPA goals
End of drought brings stocked trout back to Crystal Lake: “The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has once again stocked Crystal Lake in Los Angeles County with rainbow trout, restoring angling opportunities after several years. CDFW stopped stocking this popular fishing area because years of drought led to low lake levels and poor water quality. “It’s exciting to be able to bring back this opportunity for anglers in the San Gabriel Mountains,” said Inland Fisheries Environmental Scientist Jennifer Pareti. “Prior to the drought, Crystal Lake was stocked by CDFW for more than 70 years. People often share with me their memories of catching fish as kids at Crystal Lake.” … ” Read more from CDFW here: End of drought brings stocked trout back to Crystal Lake
The hidden tunnel in the San Jacinto Mountains: “Back in the mid-1990s, Huell Howser made his way into the San Jacinto wilderness to explore the wonders that many didn’t know existed. The American television personality who hosted “California’s Gold,” a human interest show produced by KCET in Los Angeles for California PBS stations, adventured through the Sunshine State to shed light on the amazing sites it has to offer. Howser took a trip on Jan. 8, 1997 through a 13-mile tunnel through the San Jacinto Mountains excavated by the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) during the 1930s as part of the 242-mile Colorado River Aqueduct, which brings water to Southern California. … ” Read more from the Idyllwild Town Crier here: The hidden tunnel in the San Jacinto Mountains
Aliso Creek estuary restoration closer to reality: “Currently filled with sludge, bacteria, fertilizers, run-off and other pollutants that severely limit a healthy diversity of native plants and wildlife, the Aliso Creek lagoon is another step closer to recovery as a burgeoning aquatic wetland. The mission to restore the Aliso Creek estuary, spearheaded by Laguna Ocean Foundation two years ago, received a second gift from the California Coastal Conservancy this holiday season, a $400,000 grant to implement the plan’s next phase. ... ” Read more from the Laguna Beach Independent here: Aliso Creek estuary restoration closer to reality:
Imperial Irrigation District files claim for access to stored water in Metropolitan’s system (Press release): “Since 2007, as a result of agreements associated with the 2007 Colorado River Interim Guidelines, the Imperial Irrigation District has had the ability to store conserved water with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. In 2015, both agencies executed a three-year amendment that allowed IID to extend and increase its right to store water within MWD’s system through 2017. … ” Continue reading at IID here: IID files claim for access to stored water in MWD’s system
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Is customer-based water conservation a drop in the bucket in Southern Nevada? “Reduced precipitation from climate change and disputes over Colorado River water rights loom over Nevada’s water supply, but the agency that oversees it says officials can manage the uncertainty with a boost from new conservation programs and legislative mandates. The Southern Nevada’s Water Authority’s (SNWA) Joint Water Conservation Plan was approved by the board’s seven member agencies in December, after significant updates to the conservation formula and strategies for 2019 through August 2024, when the five-year plan will be updated. … ” Read more from the Nevada Independent here: Is customer-based water conservation a drop in the bucket in Southern Nevada?
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Home News & Events State Gazette Publishes Article About MCC Fundraiser – “Don’t Let Your Song Fade Away”
State Gazette Publishes Article About MCC Fundraiser – “Don’t Let Your Song Fade Away”
RACHEL TOWNSEND
rtownsend@stategazette.com
Suicide awareness benefit to be held at RockHouse Live Sept. 14
On Saturday, September 14, RockHouse Live, StarrLynn Entertainment, Solemn Artist Management and the Memphis Crisis Center will be hosting an event in conjunction with “Don’t Let Your Song Fade Away”, a suicide awareness benefit held in memory of Zena Starr.
The event is has been coordinated in large part by local resident Christina Stephens, with the assistance of Paige Stephens of the Dyer County Humane Society.
“We hope this event will raise awareness toward suicide prevention,” said Paige. “The message we want to get out there is for those suffering from depression or other mental illness to reach out to somebody before making that final, irreversible decision that impacts so many.”
The event will kick off at RockHouse Live, located at 5709 Raleigh Lagrange Rd. in Memphis, with live music beginning at 1 p.m. The event will continue until 2 a.m.
Bands scheduled to perform for the event include: Affliction of the Absent, One Day West, Seeking Seven, The Red Mountain, Semantic Shift, Chris and Daphnie, Caging Elliott, A.M. Whiskey, Zach Bair Band, 5 Stories, Harsh and Atomic 75.
Additionally, the event will have an on-site mobile tattoo van.
The event is $10 per person with all proceeds to benefit the Memphis Crisis Center.
“I was at the Suicide Prevention Advisory Council retreat a few months ago when I got the call from Paige. It was kind of like synchronicity. She was putting together this amazing concert to raise awareness around suicide and wanted the event to benefit the Memphis Crisis Center. It was clear that she had been personally impacted by the loss of her friend, the performer Zena Starr,” said Mike Labonte, executive director of the Memphis Crisis Center.
“It seems like the local music scene has been hit hard by this issue. I attended John Kilzer’s memorial back in March after his death by suicide,” Labonte continued. “He was a local music icon that had also been heavily involved in the recovery movement. People need to know there is help.
“I’m so grateful that they chose to support the work of the Memphis Crisis Center! We are the local affiliate of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and have been operating crisis lines for nearly 50 years. I like to say we are a small agency with big impact.
“We are a full-service crisis-line. Along with the main hotline we also administer the Call4Kids Line, the Elder Lifeline, the HIV Care Line, and serve as a substation for the National Veterans Hotline. Everything we do is volunteer powered. We recruit and train volunteers who then answer the lines. I like to think we are changing the world one call at a time.
“We get around 20,000 crisis calls a year. About 2,000 of those deal with suicide. However, I look at all crisis calls as suicide prevention. Just by calming a difficult situation and providing help, you can keep crisis situations from becoming acute. I feel like our volunteers are saving lives every day just by providing a caring ear.
“If anyone wants to help, they can contact us at volunteers@crisis7.org or (901) 448-2805,” said Labonte. “And if anyone out there is struggling, I always tell people, your life is at least worth a phone call. People needing help can reach us at (901) CRISIS7 or toll free at 1-800-273-TALK.”
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Goblin Slayer Ep. 7: Flirting with death
But death is such a tease and never puts out.
— Despite having just rummaged around in the sewers, the only person who wants to bathe is Priestess. I find Elf Girl’s excuse particularly odd. She doesn’t like the idea of fire, water and air spirits being all mixed up? What? I’ll use that next excuse when my girlfriend tells me to shower.
— Then again, they’re standing in the rain right now, so hey, it’s kinda like taking a shower!
— Now, if you’re worried that naked Priestess is all that you’re gonna get — and a quick visit from the FBI to follow — don’t worry! You also get to see what she’ll become when she grows up! Er, minus the blindness. But we all saw this coming. Anime wouldn’t design a character like Sword Maiden and not find some excuse to get her naked.
— Ugh, we’re going to get Sword Maiden’s backstory, aren’t we? I’m kinda curious, but at the same time, I’m kinda not. I mean, if they’re totally and completely lazy, then the reason she’s blind is probably going to be like, “Oh no, goblins tortured me for however many days or weeks. But I still escaped and became a symbol of hope! Alas, I’m too scared of goblins so even though I slayed the Demon Lord, I must hire a buncha dorky adventurers to do this job!”
— Yep, Priestess notices scars all over the woman’s body. They’re faint, but they’re still there.
— Apparently, Priestess is the only person to ask Sword Maiden if she’s okay. They always ask, “Where’s Sword Maiden?” Nobody ever asks, “How’s Sword Maiden?”
— Sword Maiden then ominously states that although Goblin Slayer is dependable, he will disappear one day. Why? ‘Cause his obsession with goblins will eventually do him in?
— Live for thousands of years, but has never written a letter. Amazing. It’s not as if they live in the era of electronic communication.
— Elf Girl suspects that Goblin Slayer might have written back to Childhood Friend, so she teases him for finally caring about others. I’m told that the anime is being adapted out of order, so I’m going to have to disagree with the decision if this is truly the case. From my perspective, we haven’t seen anything to justify Goblin Slayer’s character development.
— In the middle of the conversation, Goblin Slayer finds it odd that there aren’t any quests on the board to tackle sewer rats. Uh, I guess? Maybe something else takes care of the sewer rats for Water Town. The giant alligator would be the prime suspect, so maybe the town has symbiotic relationship with the thing. I’m not sure why this would be a cause for concern, though.
— For their next excursion into the sewers, Goblin Slayer buys a cute canary. Kinda reminds me of coal miners dragging the same birds with them before going deep into the mines.
— Welp, he attributes this knowledge to miners, so same deal.
— This time around, the group is going to beeline for the leader of the goblins. Priestess then starts to worry that maybe they’ll run into something like the Ogre again. Then y’know, Sword Maiden’s words might be prophetic. Too bad as the viewers, we kinda know that the hero of the story won’t and can’t get killed.
— Something that would make the show kinda interesting is if these “names” acted as titles that would get handed down from generation to generation. As a result, this Goblin Slayer might get killed, but then the story would flash-forward a few decades and start following a new Goblin Slayer. Maybe even if his kid (if he wasn’t asexual). I’m just saying… the threat of death would make this show much, much more interesting. But alas, the storytelling looks to be as straightforward as possible, so although Priestess might fret over her friend’s mortality, we won’t have to. She and her friends have on serious plot armor.
— These are some fancy sewers.
— It’s kinda amazing that this universe would have the technology to construct such impressive architecture, but y’know, goblins are a huge issue.
— The group eventually stumbles across a spooky, scary skeleton. Then all of a sudden, the door closes behind them as goblins swarm to their location. Poison gas also starts seeping through the walls. They just stumbled into a trap. I would feel anxious, but that plot armor is real strong, yo.
— Poor bird, though. I feel bad for the animal.
— Sadly, I must admit that the air quality in this room is probably not as bad as it is in San Francisco right about now.
— The group plugs up the holes, then wait for the goblins to barge in. Eh, sounds like they have a decent choke point.
— After taking out a few boring goblins, a goblin champion finally crashes the party. I mean, it’s still the same boring goblin, but it’s bigger, I guess. I would be amused if they started palette-swapping the goblins just to keep things interesting.
— Look at these idiots break their noses against Priestess’s Protection barrier.
— That’s one sharp blade. It looks like even the hilt helped cleave that goblin in half.
— Then for some reason, the show indulges in a Matrix-like 3-D rotation of a scene. Instead of someone dodging bullets in a cool way, we just have Goblin Slayer surrounded by goblin body parts and blood. Seems gratuitous to me.
— Goblin Slayer eventually tries to attack the goblin champion when it has its back turned to him, but the leader manages to instantly turn around and land a pretty decent counterattack. The hero thus gets knocked to the side and starts coughing up blood. Kinda strange. He’s so meticulous and prepared for every situation, but it felt like he just charged the big, bad boss directly and paid the price as a result. Maybe he thought he could kill the champion in one move, but his gamble didn’t pay off.
— But no, I still don’t expect him to die.
— But Priestess doesn’t know any better, so she starts freaking out. And because she starts freaking out, her Protection Barrier starts to weaken. It starts to look bad as even Elf Girl gets swarmed and overpowered. But again, if this was a show where the good guys could die, that’d be one thing. But so far, only minor characters have bitten the dust.
— So the goblin champion walks right up to Priestess, and we might initially assume that he wants to have her for himself or something. Well, not to be flippant, but don’t you think it would be an evolutionary disadvantage to even get this large? The very species that you depend upon in order to procreate is now too small for you. Becoming a goblin champion means you just played yourself.
— Oh lord, that’s twice now that the story has made the poor kid piss her pants. The writer is so obsessed with girls and water sports.
— Because he can’t really do anything else to her, the champion instead takes a huge bite out of one of Priestess’s arms. Yeah, yeah, he’s toying with his victims, so he’s not killing her outright. He didn’t bite her head off. If this show really wanted to be metal, he could’ve just bitten off the whole arm. But since he didn’t, we know that she’ll be fine. She’ll just have a scar or whatever.
— Anyways, as Goblin Slayer hears his party members’ screams, visions of him failing to protect his sister floods his mind. He also hears some guy making fun of him. As a result, this somehow gives the hero the second wind that he needs to get up and fight back.
— So what does he do? He grabs the hair that had fallen off of that spooky, scary skeleton and starts choking the champion with it. Yeah… that’s how we’re going to win.
— I don’t get why he’s so chatty in the middle of a fight for his and his friends’ lives.
— Meanwhile, the goblins did manage to tear up Elf Girl’s clothes, but her plot armor remains intact along with those mega-durable shorts of hers. And don’t worry, ’cause nobody in anime has nipples.
— Goblin Slayer continues to be haunted by this voice. We then see what looks like some old goblin man staring down at him. Who was this guy? Was he the one who taught Goblin Slayer everything that he knows? Did he get trained by a goblin himself?
— Unfortunately, Goblin Slayer didn’t actually manage to kill the champion. He merely took out one of its eyes, so it retreats for now. The rest of the goblins follow suit, and just like that, the party is safe.
— And predictably enough, Lizard Man manages to save Priestess’s life. It never really felt like it was in danger anyways.
— Now here comes the fun part. They’re all worried about Priestess, but Goblin Slayer is in terrible shape. He was literally fueled by hatred to keep fighting. Otherwise, he would’ve stayed down and the party would’ve wiped. So now that everyone’s okay, Goblin Slayer falls to his side and it looks like he’s dying. But I mean, it’s episode 7. We know better.
— Best boi is also still alive! Yay!
— The show then lingers on the reflection in best boi’s eyes as sad, solemn music is playing. The anime really, really wants you to believe that Goblin Slayer will die! And look, I’ll give the story major props if he does bite it! I’ll be very pleasantly surprised if the story has the balls and moxy to pull that off. It just can’t happen, man. I know it can’t. In next week’s episode, the party will just drag his butt back to Sword Maiden or whomever, and he’ll just get healed up to tip-top shape. Then we’ll go back to the sewers and take out the champion for good.
— But to heal him, they’ll probably have to drag his body out of that armor. So eh, I guess we might get to see what he looks like.
CategoriesAnime, Goblin Slayer, Series TagsAnime, Goblin Slayer
2 Replies to “Goblin Slayer Ep. 7: Flirting with death”
BigFire says:
The voice taunting him is Goblin Slayer’s teacher in the art of Goblin Slaying. Think of Bilbo Baggins in this world who have many many years of killing goblin and passing on his knowledge to the next generation.
Johnathan Ochonueve (@JDogindy) says:
This show is what’s everything wrong about anime; the attempts at edginess, casual raping and molesting of women, lame storytelling, and so forth. It’s like everyone’s interpretation on an eroguro 21+ hentai… only without nipples and muffins.
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Deontological and altruistic guilt: Evidence for distinct neurobiological substrates
Barbara Basile, Francesco Mancini, Emiliano Macaluso, Carlo Caltagirone, Richard S J Frackowiak, Marco Bozzali
Fondazione Santa Lucia
The feeling of guilt is a complex mental state underlying several human behaviors in both private and social life. From a psychological and evolutionary viewpoint, guilt is an emotional and cognitive function, characterized by prosocial sentiments, entailing specific moral believes, which can be predominantly driven by inner values (deontological guilt) or by more interpersonal situations (altruistic guilt). The aim of this study was to investigate whether there is a distinct neurobiological substrate for these two expressions of guilt in healthy individuals. We first run two behavioral studies, recruiting a sample of 72 healthy volunteers, to validate a set of stimuli selectively evoking deontological and altruistic guilt, or basic control emotions (i.e., anger and sadness). Similar stimuli were reproduced in a event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) paradigm, to investigate the neural correlates of the same emotions, in a new sample of 22 healthy volunteers. We show that guilty emotions, compared to anger and sadness, activate specific brain areas (i.e., cingulate gyrus and medial frontal cortex) and that different neuronal networks are involved in each specific kind of guilt, with the insula selectively responding to deontological guilt stimuli. This study provides evidence for the existence of distinct neural circuits involved in different guilty feelings. This complex emotion might account for normal individual attitudes and deviant social behaviors. Moreover, an abnormal processing of specific guilt feelings might account for some psychopathological manifestation, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression. Hum Brain Mapp, 2011. © 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
Human Brain Mapping
https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.21009
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Anterior cingulate cortex
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Basile, B., Mancini, F., Macaluso, E., Caltagirone, C., Frackowiak, R. S. J., & Bozzali, M. (2011). Deontological and altruistic guilt: Evidence for distinct neurobiological substrates. Human Brain Mapping, 32(2), 229-239. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.21009
Deontological and altruistic guilt : Evidence for distinct neurobiological substrates. / Basile, Barbara; Mancini, Francesco; Macaluso, Emiliano; Caltagirone, Carlo; Frackowiak, Richard S J; Bozzali, Marco.
In: Human Brain Mapping, Vol. 32, No. 2, 02.2011, p. 229-239.
Basile, B, Mancini, F, Macaluso, E, Caltagirone, C, Frackowiak, RSJ & Bozzali, M 2011, 'Deontological and altruistic guilt: Evidence for distinct neurobiological substrates', Human Brain Mapping, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 229-239. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.21009
Basile B, Mancini F, Macaluso E, Caltagirone C, Frackowiak RSJ, Bozzali M. Deontological and altruistic guilt: Evidence for distinct neurobiological substrates. Human Brain Mapping. 2011 Feb;32(2):229-239. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.21009
Basile, Barbara ; Mancini, Francesco ; Macaluso, Emiliano ; Caltagirone, Carlo ; Frackowiak, Richard S J ; Bozzali, Marco. / Deontological and altruistic guilt : Evidence for distinct neurobiological substrates. In: Human Brain Mapping. 2011 ; Vol. 32, No. 2. pp. 229-239.
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Doug Liman joins list of directors linked to The Wolverine
Following the departure of Darren Aronofsky from the director’s chair due to personal reasons, the scramble continues to find someone to helm work-in-progress The Wolverine. Rumours swirl online about a possible shortlist of people the producers would be happy to work with. Names like James Mangold, Mark Romanek and Justin Lin, who is also attached to the likes of Terminator 5 and Fast and Furious 6, are all in the mix. The latest candidate to emerge is Jumper’s Doug Liman.
Whilst Jumper, starring the consistently awful Hayden Christensen, was pretty much universally panned by critics, Liman has proved himself capable of good action in the past with The Bourne Identity, the hard hitting opener to the Bourne franchise. Recently Liman’s suspenseful political thriller Fair Game, starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn, divided some critics but scored a healthy 80% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Whoever takes charge of the project will be aiming to surpass the disappointing X-Men Origins: Wolverine, in terms of quality. Opportunities were wasted to properly explore Wolverine’s background in this film, despite an abundance of source material to work with, leaving fans and critics alike feeling letdown. Nevertheless it was a reasonable box office hit, laying the foundations for a sequel and potentially lucrative spin-off franchise.
The plot for The Wolverine is known to be based on a substantial story from the comics set in Japan, during which our wild hero falls in love. The script is believed to have the potential to better the first film but it’s generally accepted that the new directors in the frame are inferior to Aronofsky, and what he would have brought to a mainstream picture. Liman’s mention in particular has sparked a far from positive reaction from fans.
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Option to add comment when flagging messages in chat
Of late I've noticed that multiple flags are waiting for me when I join the PHP chat room on SO. A bulk of these are flags of non English messages so I have no context on why it was flagged.
What would be good is an option to allow people to add a comment/message when flagging messages so that we have more context. It's very difficult to judge a flag by just looking at the single message. I usually have to click through and find out what the surrounding context is for flag. This isn't possible when you click through to a foreign language chat. This option would help not only with the foreign language problem, but also with the context less flag problem.
I realize that this itself can be taken advantage of (in the foreign language case) by adding a note that is essentially false. But someone's sure to pick up on it and eventually report it.
TLDR - I'm starting to see a lot of flags on non English messages(even though they aren't explicitly forbidden), I can ignore them forever or I can act on them if users are allowed to add a note as to why they are flagging them. Needs more context.
This just popped up when I was talking in the room about the issue. I've seen the flag count go as high as 8 or 9 flags.
feature-request chat flags
JohnPJohnP
+1 here. It happens more often than not that people join the chat just to ask why something was flagged. It's a lot of detective work that would maybe be avoided by allowing people to start their reasons like they can on main. – edorian Jan 3 '12 at 10:33
I'd also like to see some other alternatives – JohnP Jan 3 '12 at 10:33
There is already an option to add a message, if flagged for moderator attention... However, I don't disagree that this would be useful - but I think edorian's pre-canned reasons is a better option – Marc Gravell♦ Jan 3 '12 at 10:39
What do you mean with, "a lot of flags on non English flags"? – kiamlaluno Jan 3 '12 at 10:43
Yeah the note option doesn't exist for spam/offensive flags. Even the canned messages will work as long as we know why this message is supposed to be flagged. – JohnP Jan 3 '12 at 10:43
@MarcGravell I'm not aware of any option to add a message when flagging something in chat. Did I really miss that? I can only see one flag button that triggers a confirm() and thats it. – edorian Jan 3 '12 at 10:43
@kiamlaluno I meant messages, fixed that. – JohnP Jan 3 '12 at 10:44
@edorian it's only when you select the mod flag option. These don't show up for the 10Ks though. – JohnP Jan 3 '12 at 10:45
Oh. My bad. Thanks. The interface got the better of me there – edorian Jan 3 '12 at 10:47
I agree that more information about the flag would be very helpful when evaluating flags. A dialog similar to the main site flag dialog with pre-canned flag reasons and a free-form field would would make sense, in my opinion.
But on the topic of non-english flags which prompted you to propose this, I don't think that you should try to evaluate them if you don't speak that language. It doesn't make much sense to try and moderate if you can't understand what the whole thing is about.
With the notices you'll still not understand the post, you would be solely acting on the interpretation of that post by one random user. I don't think that's a good enough base to act on.
We have a pretty good coverage of common languages among the moderators, it usually doesn't take long to find a moderator that can understand the flagged post and that is able to act.
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Yes, one of the concerns I had was that I'd be acting on the note itself without knowing what it was about. – JohnP Jan 3 '12 at 11:33
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by M/Cpl. Michel Eckerd
UPDATE: ARREST MADE IN 2016 DARLEY WOODS HOMICIDE
Detectives from the New Castle County Division of Police Criminal Investigations Unit arrested 22-year-old Seth Kinderman for a 2016 homicide that occurred in the community of Darley Woods.
(Wilmington, Del.-19810) On December 20th, 2016 at approximately 5:50 p.m., Patrol Officers from the New Castle County Division of Police were dispatched to the 1000 block of Linda Road in Darley Woods after a witness called 9-1-1 to report an unconscious male on the sidewalk. Responding units arrived on scene and found the unidentified male deceased with a gunshot wound to his upper body.
Detectives from the New Castle County Division of Police Criminal Investigations Unit arrived on scene and assumed the investigation.
They were eventually able to identify the victim as Jakeith Latham, 34, from the unit block of Newkirk Street in Clayton, New Jersey.
Multiple investigative leads directed the detectives to 22-year-old Seth Kinderman. Today, the detectives apprehended Seth Kinderman and charged him with felony Murder 1st degree, felony Robbery 1st degree and 2 counts of Possession of a Firearm During the Commission of a Felony.
“Our thoughts and prayers remain with Mr. Latham’s family as they continue to cope with his passing.”, stated Colonel Vaughn M. Bond, Jr. “Mr. Latham was an upstanding young man with a promising future whose life ended in a senseless act of violence. I remain extremely grateful for the dedication, perseverance, and commitment that our officers have shown throughout this nearly two-year long investigation. I hope that the Latham family will find some sense of peace knowing that the person responsible for this crime has been apprehended.
“Unfortunately, not all of our homicide cases have been solved so we continue to ask the public to come forward with any information that they have on unsolved homicides so that other families will get the answers they rightfully deserve.”
Seth Kinderman was arraigned at Justice of the Peace Court 2 and held on $1,180,000 cash bail.
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Return Salmon to Upper Columbia River
October 27, 2013 by naiads 4 Comments
From the Sunday paper in Spokane . . .
Opinion: Include salmon, climate provisions in river treaty
John Osborn And Suzanne Skinner
These falls are that place where ghosts of salmon jump, where ghosts of women mourn their children who will never find their way back home.
From “The Place where the Ghosts of Salmon Jump,” by Sherman Alexie (inscribed at the Spokane Falls overlook).
Canada and the United States are preparing to renegotiate the Columbia River Treaty. The treaty, first signed in 1961, governs management of the Columbia, once the richest salmon river on Earth, but now converted by dams into the world’s largest integrated hydropower system.
Reconsideration of the treaty will profoundly impact the future economies, environment and quality of life of people on both sides of the border. That’s why last August, thousands of Pacific Northwest citizens wrote to urge the federal government to include ecosystem restoration as a core component of a renegotiated treaty. They also called for opening the Upper Columbia Basin to the salmon that once thrived above Grand Coulee Dam, including in the Spokane River.
The federal government listened.
The current U.S. position recommends the U.S. State Department make managing the health and environment of the Columbia watershed a central purpose of a modernized treaty – as important as power generation and flood control. This is a wise and farsighted recommendation that will not only enhance the lives and economies of future generations in the Columbia basin, but also provide some recompense to the Columbia River tribes whose economies, culture and spirituality remains intertwined with salmon despite terrible damage wrought by dams.
Managing the Columbia for its environmental health must mean more than current efforts to comply with the Endangered Species Act. Current recovery efforts fail to meet the life-cycle needs of the Northwest’s most iconic species. Most wild populations are maintaining or declining, despite coming under the protection of the act between 14 and 22 years ago. Present management of Columbia dams remains unsustainable for salmon and other native species.
Climate change is also aggravating existing river-management challenges. This summer, temperatures from McNary Dam to Bonneville Dam on the Columbia were 70 degrees or above for 41 straight days, and for 56 straight days in the middle and longest part of that reach. This previews coming years, when this year’s highest temperature, 73.2 degrees at John Day Dam on Sept. 11, will be a new norm that portends an unhealthy river pushing salmon to extinction.
Washington will suffer impacts of climate change more acutely than British Columbia. In the decades ahead, as much as 60 percent of summer flows in the Columbia will come from our neighbor to the north. We must renegotiate the treaty to include ecosystem restoration so that our two nations have a framework to respond effectively to climate changes already unfolding in the basin.
Northwest utilities currently oppose adding “ecosystem” and “environment” to the treaty, even seeking to terminate the treaty if they don’t get their way. We believe this position overlooks that, for today’s Northwest, ecosystem function is economic function. Both Northwest power production and flood risk management will improve with ecosystem function as the treaty’s third purpose. So will other river-based economic sectors, including salmon. All economic activities in the Columbia River Basin will be damaged by the hotter, unhealthier waters that climate change is creating. All will benefit by urgent, creative bilateral responses.
Indeed, a much-needed creative response that would benefit both the U.S. and Canada is to jointly plan how to open up miles of habitat now closed to salmon in British Columbia and the U.S., including the Spokane River.
We do not have to settle for ghost fish. Restoring the ecosystem of the Columbia holds the promise of healthy salmon returning to the headwaters and someday jumping once again at Spokane Falls.
Decisions made now will have an enormous impact on our region’s economy, environment, and quality of life for the next 50 years.
Help restore the Columbia to health.
Help bring the salmon home.
Help make restoring the Columbia’s ecosystem a core purpose of a modernized Columbia River Treaty.
John Osborn, M.D., Columbia River Future Project, Sierra Club
Suzanne Skinner, executive director of the Center for Environmental Law and Policy
Get more news and information at Spokesman.com
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Author: naiads
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4 thoughts on “Return Salmon to Upper Columbia River”
Don Barbieri
Great job John
Gerry Warner
The Columbia River Treaty brought a windfall of economic, agricultural and flood control benefits to the US and Canada, but it was also a crime against Nature and the environment on both sides olf the border, especially on the Canadian side where I grew up and reside again in my retirement. Short of tearing the Treaty dams down — and I’m not advocating that — there is one essential thing we could do to reverse some of the damage the dams did and that, of course, is to restore the ancient salmon runs to the upper Columbia River. We have the knowlege, expertise and financial resources to do this and bringing back the salmon should be the cornerstone of a renewed Columbia River Treaty in 2024. Anything less than that would be another crime against Nature perpetrated by Columbia River Treaty negotiators on both sides of the border.
norm hayward
I agree so how are you and i going to make this happen?
Send me an email and I’ll make some suggestions.
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Two Esquire political bloggers, Mark Warren and Richard Dorment, have posted a fabulous “Obama by the Numbers” article that tries to cut through some of the bluster and worse emanating from both of the presidential campaigns during this election cycle. All numbers are subject to interpretation based on source and method, but there’s a lot of enlightening quantitative stuff here that should intrigue nonprofits of all stripes. Here’s a sampling:
Total jobs lost from February 2009 through June 2012 – 4.62 million; total jobs created – 4.304 million; net job loss of 316,000.
Unemployment at the start of the stimulus in February 2009 – 8.3 percent; peak unemployment rate during Obama’s term – 10.0 percent in October 2009; unemployment rate in June 2012 – 8.2 percent;
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Regarding the auto companies’ bailout under Obama, $12.5 billion loaned to Chrysler, $11.2 billion paid back, $2.9 billion forgiven (including part of a $4 billion Bush Administration loan); $49.5 billion loaned to General Motors, $22.5 billion paid back so far, $27 billion still owed; Treasury’s 500 million shares of GM stock worth about $12 billion; 355,900 auto jobs (manufacturing and retail) lost in 2008, 102,600 lost from January through May 2009, 239,300 jobs added between June 2009 and June 2012;
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There is plenty more in the blog posting. The underlying question that the authors gingerly step over is whether these and other conditions they describe are actually better because of Obama’s policies or whether he has made conditions worse, and whether his Republican opponent would ameliorate or exacerbate them. –Rick Cohen
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In January, colleages and friends Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah went to the United States to finish filming “Bad Boys For Life”, the third part in the “Bad Boys” franchise. The movie’s first images have been released to the world. Famous actors Will Smith and Martin Lawrence play the lead roles as agents Mike and Marcus who decide to join forces one last time. “Bad boys, bad boys, what are you going to do?”
In the third “Bad Boys” movie, police officers Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) meet again when an Albanian mercenary, whose brother was murdered, promises them a big bonus for an assignment. Only their condition is a bit “different” than in the previous two films: Marcus is a police investigator and Mike is going through his midlife crisis. But just like in the previous films, you can expect exceptional action scenes, cool cars and lots of bad guys.
The film can be seen in theatres on January 19, 2020.
Adil El Arbi (30 years old) and Bilall Fallah (33 years old) are film and television directors from Beligum and both have a Moroccan background. Adil and Bilall went to film school together. The first project that they directed is a short film called: Broeders (2011). Their big debut was Image in 2014. After that they directed a movie based on a book of Dirk Bracke named Black (2015). Last year, they directed the spectacular movie Patser, which was a big hit in Belgium. All their movies discuss deeper societal problems, confronting the viewer with harsh realities. Black, for example, discussed the problem of gang formation and violence that young people in impoverished and marginalised areas in Brussels are confronted with. When one of the main characters, Mavela, a black girl who belongs to one of the gangs in Brussels, falls in love with a boy with a Moroccan background and belonging to a rivalry gang, she’s punished by her gang members with gang rape. The movie illustrates the intersectional nature of this kind of violence.
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Out of the American League, the New York Yankees and Houston Astros will play Saturday in a middle game of their three game series. The Yankees have struggled as of late, but picked up a blowout win Wednesday night over the White Sox. Heading into Thursday’s affair, the Yankees and Red Sox were tied at the top of the American League East.
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The Houston Astros have been winning, and leading the American League West all season. The Astros still hold the largest divisional lead in all of Major League Baseball. The Astros went into Thursday’s tilt with a 53-26 record, which was 12.5 games ahead of the Los Angeles Angels. The New York Yankees and Houston Astros are pretty even odds in this game.
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When: Saturday July 1, 2017; 6:15pm CT
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Radio: WFAN 660 (NY) / KBME 790 (Houston)
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MLB Odds: Houston Astros -110
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The New York Yankees have been battling inconsistency through the month of June. New York has split their last 8 games overall, which allowed the door to open for Boston. The Yankees have Aaron Judge, who is putting up Most Valuable Player type numbers. The slugger is hitting .333, with 27 homeruns and 62 runs batted in.
The rest of the offense for the Yankees has been pretty sporadic, and now Matt Holliday has hit the disabled list. The Yankees are hitting .269, which is still third in all of baseball. On the pitching side, New York has 38 quality starts, which is in the Top 10, and their team earned run average is 3.86 on the season.
Why Bet on Houston Astros?
The Houston Astros have held the best record in the American League most of the 2017 season. Houston is a rare team that has played better on the road than at home. Despite that, the Astros have still won 24 out of 41 home games. Houston comes into Thursday’s game as winners of three out of their last 4.
The Astros offense has been awfully good in the early going of the season. Houston holds a .283 batting average, which is the best in baseball. The Astros have also scored the second most runs in baseball as well. George Springer is putting together a solid season for Houston with 24 bombs, and 52 runs batted in.
NY Yankees at Houston Betting Pick & Prediction
As both teams head into the month of July, they both have major questions in their rotation. That shows in this game, as Jordan Montgomery goes for the Yankees, against Francis Martes of the Houston Astros. Both pitchers are in their rookie season of their MLB career.
Montgomery has thrown 81.2 innings this season, and is 6-4 on the season. He holds a 3.53 earned run average as well. Martes on the other side, has thrown just 16.1 innings, and despite being 2-0, holds a 5.51 earned run average. Look for Montgomery to out pitch Martes in this game, and the Yankees down the Astros. Bet the New York Yankees -110.
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Show Recap for Wednesday 1/21/15
Posted on January 22, 2015 by Wolfkisser
I’m sorry to report that the previous mid-week recap writer is no longer, umm…available. But you can relax because bitPimps has sent the Wolf…and I solve problems. As such, welcome to the inaugural edition of Wolfkisser Wednesday.
Now strip down and let me spray you with my hose so we can get started. (Spoiler Alert: That’s also how it will end) Continue reading →
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Show re-cap for Tuesday 11/25/2014
Posted on November 25, 2014 by jenni_mazky
Jason Ellis is him, not you, and he knows that because he is him and you may not be quite knowing of that because you are you and may kind of want to be him, and you know what, he can only be happy as he is him and as he is him in certain pants. Am I right, ladies and gentleman? Boom. Big Daddy Jayce Cakes knows the pants that he’s happy in and he knows there are people that are happy in pants that are unlike his happy pants but that’s because society and life shapes us all into the types of pants that we like and that become our happy pants. So you, over there, be happy in your constant sweatpants because those are your happy pants and I will be over hear in my skinny jeans because these are my happy pants. I am not a person who wears sweatpants in public…sweatpants are not my happy pants. My ass is not fabulous and lusciously defined in sweatpants like they are in skinny jeans. But, we’re not really gonna talk about me and my fucking amazing ass, because Ellis isn’t talking about my ass (no matter how much he should be). Tully is totally on board with what Ellis is saying about happy pants and extends it further to include hoodies because Tully Continue reading →
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Show Re-Cap for Tuesday 7/22/14
Posted on July 22, 2014 by shit_toboggan
YA MISS ME FUCKERS?!??!!?! CAUSE I DIDN’T SEE ANY MENTION THAT IT WAS MY BIRTHDAY LAST WEDNESDAY!!! OR THAT I SUCCESSFULLY LANDED AN OLLIE BEFORE I TURNED THIRTY CAUSE I’M A FUCKING AGING NEVER-WAS SKATEBOARDER!!! DID YOU FORGET I WORKED HERE TOO??!?!?! TAKE MY DICK OUT OF YOUR MOUTH AND ANSWER ME YOU FUCKING CUNTS!!!
Just kidding folks, you can keep talking with the dick in your mouth. I think it’s adorable.
Anyways, hello and thanks for visiting, I was off last week to spend some time with my family as a birthday present from my fantastic girlfriend who insisted I go on a fun trip before I come to Canada to spray my DNA all over her for the rest of time. I did a lot of walking around in Seattle and bought a fuckload of comics, and saw the new Planet of The Apes movie, which fully reinforces Jason Ellis’ belief that monkeys will one day conquer us, and if we treat them with a bit of dignity, they may not enslave us like that one time when Charlton Heston went to the future and found out that Soylent Green is made of humans. But enough about me, cause I’m here to recap the Jason Ellis show!!! Today kicked off with a whole lot of music cause I guess there was some fire that needed to be put out or that pesky sentient flying scrap of paper from the other day was back and required gawking or some such shit, but then the guys came on and started talking about how Jason was late cause he was coming from the Fighter and the Kid podcast with Bryan Callen and Brendan Schaub, and that was a fun start to the day. What wasn’t a fun start to the day was driving in early morning LA traffic and having to deal with Los Angeleans who think they’re more important than everyone else and are allowed by the State Of California to legally operate multiple tonnage of mechanical equipment in public. A FedEx truck side swiped the Wing and spun out his truck and kept on rolling cause FedEx is a shitty organization and I’ve gotten more shipments late, damaged or missing from them than any other company, so it would make sense that their truckers are also incompetent and have no common courtesy like stopping when you might have killed somebody. The truck is pretty fucked too, whole bed side, the way Ellis tells it. There’s lots of construction going on too, so that’s slowing down traffic and reducing motorist IQ points at a staggering rate, so you can’t hold Jason completely responsible for being a few minutes behind. On the plus side though, Los Angeles is so fucked up pavement-wise that the world of Mad Max may come true in Southern California very soon! Rude Jude stopped in to hang out for a bit and rehash his experience kneeing the punch pad and sucking at it. There was some talk of how Frank DeCaro may be a middle aged gay Italian, but the Romans were conquering all kinds of shit with folks like him leading the way generation after generation, just look at Catholicism!!! The boys did a bit of jaw-jacking about the trucker incident this morning and how the guy was probably so desperate to keep his job that he was hoping nobody got the license plate so he wouldn’t get reported. This got us into the topic of snitching cause sometimes it’s the right thing to do, but you can be a dick like Tully was in elementary school and snitched on a kid for eating Doritos in the bathroom. Ellis fired off some ideas at Jude about what to do with his now fucked up Dodge Ram, and most of them were just ghetto enough for a younger Jude to appreciate, but not so much for the new improved well-groomed designer drug aficionado Jude. One idea that Jude could get behind though, is the sprint-slow-down workout that Ellis suggested to him a little while ago, and it was some rough shit for McDuder, but he pulled it off. Jude has noticed that as he’s getting older it’s getting a bit harder to bust a nut, but he found some herbal cock pills that are doing the trick splendidly. The guys discussed frontier medicine for letting loose a shot of jizz and how when Tully’s old, he’s gonna relish having a load that takes forever so he can laugh maniacally at his wife for being done before he is. There were some stories about extreme/premature ejaculation and how grown up ladies in Australia have no qualms about banging high school boys and feeding them and letting six unchecked loads in a row from the same penis land in their ovaries. One time, Jason banged a lady and she started crying after the fact, but being the guy he was back then, he just left. Jude on the other hand, loves it when a girl starts crying and will fuck them again, or for the first time, depending on the situation. This led to talk about “what the fuck is it with you emotional bitches always crying about shit, it’s only some dick!” and there were a few phone calls and tweets from ladies who have taken part in this kind of stuff. Jude once made a girl start crying when they tried out some rough play but forgot to pick a safe word. One guy called in to tell the guys that every time his wife cums, she cries, and after a whole bunch of years, it’s not such a bad thing because he knows he got the job done. Another guy called in to say that he doesn’t know when he’s been taken off hold, but the next guy said his wife actually stops breathing when he fucks her proper, which is as close to fucking someone to death as you can legally get and still call it an achievement. Another guy called in with a crying girlfriend story about how he had her riding his hog and all of a sudden he felt her tears dripping down on his chest. Next caller said she only cries from anal, which is understandable when you do it too rough. You gotta romance that butthole way more than that vagina, boys, just remember that. The guys talked a while about how you’ve really gotta be a friend to the chili ring, or else it just turns back into the shit locker and it’s way less fun for everybody. Another guy said his girl started crying and had to go run for some medicine or something. A GIRL called in to let the guys know that sometimes it’s not cause women are insane, sometimes they just cry because sex can be a beautiful, intimate moment of deep connection between two people, sharing both body and soul in an amazingly pleasurable experience, and then she went on to explain that she’s had years of psychological problems and that pretty much killed her entire argument. Time to get some Lou Reed up ya, and not that Lou-Tallica crap, we’ll be back ya cunt satchels.
Have you sent in your crappy demo for unsigned bands yet? If you haven’t yet, you can still fire that off to submittoellis@gmail.com and watch your life’s work get shat on by Cassette Coast!!! There’s still time!!! The guys talked about some of the features of SiriusXM online, like on demand and how many people are listening to it and tweeting shit at them from too long ago for anybody on the show to remember. It’s looking like there’s a lot more people now who can’t catch the whole show so they listen to it when it’s more convenient, like after I get home from work where I’ve been inundated with telemarketers and other people’s problems all day and have had to keep pausing the show, so much so that I’ve got 2 hours of delay built up and I have to finish a recap, so the on demand works really well for me on Tuesday. Or when I’m on vacation and not near my computer and out doing stuff all day, I can on demand it while I’m sleeping on a shitty air mattress at my aunt’s house. But that’s not important, cause it’s AUSSIE NEWS TIME!!! But first, the guys wanted to take some calls from ladies who might be interested in dating Hot Dog the Intern, so that they could have a dating game type thing or just listen to ladies throw their snatch smack in his face and see how he would react to it. One lady called in thinking she would be dating an actual hot dog, not Hot Dog The Intern, and god dammit if she didn’t hang up before the guys could get her on the air for a few minutes of radio idiot shaming gold. But, Aussie News, some lady who got elected to some government office, was getting questioned during an interview and made a clear proclamation that she loves a huge cock and doesn’t shave that pussy. So, back to Hot Dog getting some stank on the hang low, Three ladies called in to play the dating game and Hot Donna almost sounded like she had a voice changer on, but it turns out she was just 50 years old. Hot Dog started off the questions by asking one lady if she would put his big ass up on her shoulders so that he could catch some free picks or drumsticks and she said she’d help, but couldn’t guarantee that her lower back would handle the load of all that Hot Dog, BUT SHE COULD HANDLE HIS LOAD ON HER GRILLE!!! AAOOOHH!!!!! Next, Hot Dog asked Hot Donna how stretchy her vagina is, because he’s hung like a black man in Alabama pre-civil war! And she said she could probably handle it, maybe with a bit of finesse and lubrication, but there shouldn’t be any real major issues. He asked one of the other ladies the same question and she declared that she’s got the elasticity of a teenager, so no matter how girthy the dong, she can slip it in as smooth and comfortable as a fresh pair of socks. Hot Dog’s next question for her was whether or not she’d be OK with a guy who can blow himself, and she said that if nothing else, it’s a show worth telling your friends about so no bad blood between them thus far. Next question was for the first lady, Hot Dog wanted to know her opinion on back hair and she gave a reasonable answer that in small doses it’s acceptable, but Sasquatch is gonna have to wait in the car, unless he wants a naked shaving from her, in which case she’s happy to help. Hot Dog followed this up by asking the same lady how she would take it if he made her eat a turd, then waited for her to shit it out, then vomited it, then shot a load on it, if she would still love him after the experience. Her answer was that she wouldn’t necessarily volunteer for the act, but if you really love someone and want the deepest connection possible, there’s not much closer two people can get then vomit shit cum vomit cum shit vomit shit. Hot Donna was a bit more open minded to the scenario, which warrants wondering how badly she needs companionship, but then again, she’s Hot Donna, and considering Hot Dog’s next question, she’s certainly man enough to strap on a strap-on and peg the bejeezus out of his panda-like rectum. She’d even wear her tool belt and hard hat, cause she is in fact a construction worker. Next question for the other lady, would she be willing to let a friend tag in to finish off Hebrew National if she needed to give the pussy a rest from his Sears Tower sized doom spigot? And just like slut magic, in her own words, “The more the merrier.” Next question, if she was stuck on a desert island with his fleshy Tower Of Babel, what would she do with it? After watching him blow it (of course), she said she would give it a quick rinse in the ocean to clear up some of the throat scum, then attempt to swallow it whole, come hell or asphyxiation from laryngeal blockage. The other lady answered that she would make it a point to DIE of an acute addiction to rubbing her nipples all over his dick, forsaking the need for food, fire or shelter. Hot Donna said she would basically treat it like a purse sized dog that occasionally wants to ejaculate in her mouth, but she lost the game when she stated that there would be no anal. So sorry, Hot Donna, but some chick named Jennifer is gonna be climbing the skyscraper that Hot Dog is swinging around between his thighs. Tully found a video (from BitPimps) of a guy who made a how-to series on anal breathing and massage, and it sounds like the terrorist manifesto of a pedophile fart hammer fundamentalist. Just the way he said asshole and spoke about the tranquility of a baby’s asshole, it would make any decent cop murder the mother fucker on sight, not even for the principle, just cause you can see it in his eyes. And there was some extreme farting as well, which sounded like some of the old sound drops the fans sent in a couple years ago, but with the way this guy was doing his anal breathing, it flowed pretty seamlessly with the show. Then Jason played SunnO))) and we all could tell that there may be some embellishment in the background noise we were hearing over the narrative of breathing through one’s own ass. Then he broke out some beads and we all got to wondering how Google hasn’t taken this down from YouTube, but apparently there was some loosely medical connotation to the whole thing, so I guess it flies. The guys took a few minutes to contemplate suicide or locking their children inside for the rest of their lives to protect them from this monster, and also to set up whatever they were gonna do in the next hour.
You might not have known this, but there was a tree planted in memory of George Harrison in Los Angeles. You know, the backup guitarist of the Beatles? Well, in a feat that can only be called the act of a vengeful god, the tree was killed by beetles. Real life honest to Satan beetles. I’m not a religious man, but this just smacks of some kind of cosmic malice to me. I don’t even like the Beatles all that much, but the only way it could be more ironic is if Yoko was the one who introduced them to that tree as a new habitat. That’s not the most horrible thing that’s gonna happen today though, cause if you hadn’t caught it on twitter, it’s Cumtard’s birthday!!! And as punishment for his failed attempt at getting a male stripper for Tully’s birthday, this time the guys set him up with a proper one to come and slap his whang all over the Tard’s cranium and butthole. And that is his cosmic punishment for going to see Motley Crue last night, cause as awesome as a lot of their music was, Vince Neil can’t reproduce the notes that made them stars, and also killed a kid while driving drunk, so he should not be paid any further from live performances. Plus, didn’t the band all sue each other and declare their retirement at the end of last year? After Cumtard was done being sodomized with extreme prejudice, Jason and Tully made sure to properly ridicule Cumtard for his previous attempt at male strippers being brought in to embarrass the birthday boy, and did a quick inventory of what may or may not have gotten damaged during the aggressive display of dick-spinning interpretive dance that was performed in the studio. The guys talked about getting old and how Cumtard better find his Yoko before too much longer, or else he’s gonna turn into that kid from Clerks 2, endlessly talking about Jesus and Lord Of The Rings and Pussy Trolls (Google it, I can’t explain it well enough in this format, it needs to be witnessed). Tard has gone on a few dates but hasn’t been particularly amazed by anyone just yet, so there’s still more stalking to be done to find that one girl you wouldn’t leave alone no matter how many yards the court tells you is the minimum distance allowable from their house or place of business. Jason has recently come to the realization that he doesn’t want the type of friends that want to see his dick, and vice versa, cause there needs to be a point in his relationships where nobody needs to set their dick on anyone’s shoulder at a party. The guys put the question out to the fans asking what they think Jason’s channel should be called, on the far outside chance that SiriusXM gives him his own channel. There were some great suggestions, such as Ellistronics, Valhalla, Wolfknife Radio, The Baby, Master Of Puppies, Narcoleptic Narwhal, Barter Town, EllisFam, The Wolf Pack (which is completely fucked by the Hangover movie franchise), The Pube, Your Mum’s Fishtank, The Farthole, Future41, The Cave, Hail Satan, The Cockodile, The Rocktopus, The Glory Hole, Awesome World, The Wing, The Toe Cutter, Fromunda 41, Outback Maniac, The Tard, Radio Fight Club, Splooge Mountain, Will’s a Racist, 41 Jump Street, Sum 41, Cum 41, Ellis Island, 6 Pounds Of Sound, The Rape Room, Skull Fuck, Butt Town, Red Dragin Radio (which would be a copyright issue, but a respectable effort nonetheless), EllisNation, Los EllisEs, The Schism, Facti-OFF, Black Guys Wear Black, Ellis The Red, Against The Grain, Sausage Party, Massive Poopies, Blitzkrieg 41, The Didjeridoo, The Gas Chamber, Muska Kills, Bogan Brigade, The Cocktagon, The Goat, The Woodsman, The Gape, Horse Force, Welcome To Hellis, and many others that didn’t get mentioned cause they were actually trying to take this a little bit seriously cause it is kinda big and permanent-ish, but I assure you, they were hilarious on twitter. Ellis’ contract officially expires tomorrow and he needs to sign the new one, but there may have been a mix-up in the most recent draft he was given and they’re trying to get it sorted out. The guys talked UFC for a bit after reading a quote from Dana White about how an insane Irish fighter reminds him of Ronda Rousey for some reason or another. Tim Silvia is a great friend of the show, and might be getting a shot at moving his way through the ranks of the UFC towards a title shot after fighting Dustin Porier. But that’s all speculation at this point, so let’s all drift away into Awesome World for a bit and regroup.
A Chinese art collector spent $39 million on an antique tea cup, cause I guess $20 grand for making potato salad on KickStarter wasn’t enough in the grand scheme of ridiculous spending at the hands of the public, but the real kicker is that this guy used his AmEx to make the purchase and it gained him a net profit of 422 million American Express Rewards points due to the overseas purchase and exchange rates and such, so basically he’s got airfare for life or enough food to balloon up to 7,500 pounds and starve an entire industrialized country to death, all on the rewards system from American Express. Don’t leave home without it!!! The guys played some clips of classic rock singers belting out their signature vocals, and the guys had to guess if they could still hit the notes live. First up was Robert Plant, and the guys unanimously agreed that there’s no way he’s still pumping out his signature high notes, and they were right, as demonstrated by a 2012 performance of Kashmir. After that was Meatloaf and hot patootie, bless my soul, he still has the pipes for rock and roll, despite the guys thinking he probably can’t cause of the testicular cancer and bitch tits thing we learned about in Fight Club. Next up we heard Loretta Lynn joining in with the Loaf, and she’s still got it as well. Next we got a taste of Vince Neil, who we’ve already confirmed can’t do it, but his public ridicule is still entertaining in small doses. After that was Roger Daltry and he can still bang it out, when he’s not high as fuck or phoning it in due to lack of interest. After that was David Lee Roth who refuses to give up the ghost on the tarnished legacy of Van Halen, post Van Hagar years. Then we heard one from the new lead singer of Journey, Stevie Engrish Superfan or whatever the fuck his name is, and if Steve Perry was dead, he’d be rocketing out of his grave towards the sun if he heard this. Next up was the ladies in Heart and despite growing up a bit, their voices have only matured like a fine whiskey, and if you had a bottle of some you could probably still get a dick spinning duet from the Wilson Sisters. After that we heard a selection from Axl Rose, still belting it out like his lungs are gonna fall out his rectum, but he doesn’t have the staying power to keep it going very long. Next we got a sampling of Fleetwood Mac and Stevie’s still got it, but everyone else in the band can fuck right off. Next down the line was Elton John and I guess the cure for every physical problem is gay sex cause as long as you don’t get the HIV you pretty much stay a champion forever. After that was A-Ha doing Take On Me and if this is how it sounded like in 2010, I’d say that jam is never gonna die. Finally, we got a taste of Steven Tyler doing dream on from 2013 and despite having throat surgery in 2007, when I saw them two weeks after, he was still pounding it out like it was 1976 all over again. The guys talked classic rock and rumors about our favorite stars for a bit, then brought the rest of the crew in to belt out some lines from their favorite classics. WILSON came in hot with a decent Meatloaf. Hot Dog dropped a fully terrifying rendition of Blink 182’s Mark Hoppus. Cumtard came in to fire off a bit of Fuel by Metallica, and basically live tarded the tune just with actual words instead of sound effects. Finally we heard Jetta’s best feeble attempt at giving us something from Thrice and since Thrice sucks I really can’t criticize his efforts on this one, but if he was covering any of the other songs it would have counted as a fail. Jason started giving Jetta shit for not being able to recite lyrics for good music the way the rest of the developed world can. Will got back on the microphone to show a true display of his singing abilities which he was holding back on before, and after some vocal pointers from the guys, he was like a younger Meatloaf incarnate, with his testicles still intact, just in the possession of his ex wife. There were some final calls and stuff and god dammit it’s close to show time and lunch time and I’ve been ignoring shit at work and we’re too busy for that this week, so when you’re done reading this go clean your room and cut me some firewood.
Red Dragons, Mother Fuckers ,,rr,
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Show recap for Thursday 7/10/2014
Posted on July 10, 2014 by jenni_mazky
Hey, you know that whole title that says this is the show recap?!?! Haha..fooled you!!!!
Seriously, though, I woke up this morning with every intention of listening to the show today and recapping as fabulously as I always sincerely try to. I started up my SiriusXM app about an hour before the show and it was like, ‘uh, no, fuck you’ and after trying everything that I could think of, it would still not work. So I put out the SOS to the other extremely wonderful people that write for this site and they offered some suggestions and made me laugh and I stopped worrying and had a plan in place for what I was going to do if my app did not decide to start working.
And then shit got real. How real? How about I literally almost died. I am completely serious. I feel like when I first posted about it on Instagram people were all ‘lol that sucks’ and it’s probably my fault since I’m not a dramatic person, and also I only got one picture of the whole thing at a bad angle after it was all pretty much over, so it sort of just looked like a popped radiator hose. But no…I legit had to bail out of an exploding truck. I don’t know how many of you out there are familiar with diesel engines or diesel trucks…but they do this thing when the oil get sucked into the engine and burnt as fuel and the engine keeps running no matter what you do to it…and yeah. That happened. Thank goodness it happened while we were pulled over in a parking lot because the truck had been really jerky and we were passing a strip mall with a NAPA in it. It was low on oil, cause, you know, that’s what the engine had been burning to keep going, so Joe got some oil to put in it. Put the oil in, I turn the truck on, and fucking boom motherfucker. The engine started screaming…holy fucknuts it was the loudest sound ever. Full rev plus. And Joe starts yelling for me to stop revving it and I tell him “My foot is on the brake!”
“What? Turn the truck off!!”
I turn the truck off. It gets worse. Louder, screechier, and smoke starts pouring out everywhere. I have the key in my motherfucking hand and the truck is still running out of control. So he starts yelling at me to get out of the truck but I literally could not move a muscle. Panicked. Because apparently my fight or flight response is stuck in the ‘stay and motherfucking die’ position. Smoke is pouring out of the engine and the exhaust and suddenly Joe is pulling on me, half tugging me out of the open window because I can’t move. I snapped out of it, opened the door and he pushed me into the auto store in front of him. Now..in the parking lot of this strip mall is a truck spewing smoke out of the engine and the exhaust and there is nothing that we can do about it. The smoke was so bad that you couldn’t see. Anything. We’re about three feet from the truck and the other cars in the parking lot and it’s a brick wall of smoke. Gone. At that point, Joe goes back outside and is yelling telling anyone in earshot (that we aren’t sure are even there) to get away from the truck because the guys in the auto store told us that it’s either going to fully catch fire and explode or the engine is going to seize. Fun fact. This is an HVAC truck filled with about 10 pressurized tanks of various highly flammable substances. So if the fire spread and the shit hit the fan for realsies…it was going to be a goddamn massacre. We set off the indoor fire alarms of the deli in the strip mall. There were then some very loud popping sounds and it stopped. The engine seized. The engine flames and smoke died out quickly thereafter and we didn’t kill a parking lot full of people.
I was shaking so hard I couldn’t speak and Joe called the boss. That was a fun interaction, but Joe/Bossman interactions are always that way. The police/fire people came, we talked to them, the owner of the deli got us some waters, and the rest of the afternoon was filled with tow trucks, me and Joe making each other laugh, and saying, “thank fucking god that didn’t happen while we were driving”. But the thing is, it started while we were driving. About 3 minutes before i pulled into the parking lot I was slowing down for a turn when the engine revved. Again, foot not on the accelerator, on the brake, and the engine was like ‘bbbbbbrrrrrrraaahhhhh’.
And then we were asked to go back to work. After the tow truck guy asked if I wanted to work for him cause he could use a girl like me. I did not listen to Ellis. I did not stalk out people’s twitter accounts for info on what was happening or happened and create a fanfiction to fill in the blanks. I didn’t, and I am sorry about that, because I know that’s basically my whole job and you’re prolly bummed out. I really could have used Ellis today, and I’m sure Joe could have used him too. I’m still freaked out. We got home, hugged the baby, and ate dinner that was enormously delicious because we’re both rattled. It was bad. I’m glad that I have Joe, who is cooler than any cucumber than I have ever encountered. Motherfucker should have been a firefighter. The entire time he didn’t even seem phased by what was going on. The only reason he even yelled about the revving at first and for me to get out of the truck was because he had to yell to be heard over the noise. But he did admit that he was scared to death. He was scared that Biz was gonna die (that’s me, btw, I’m his Bizzle Sticks), he was scared that other people were going to die, and he was scared that he had no idea what was going on. For Joe to say that he was scared is an amazing thing, and that in and of itself is a testament to how fucking brutal this afternoon was.
Again, I’m sorry that this was not the recap you were looking for. But, hey, look on the bright side…I didn’t die, which means that I will be back to properly recap for you again next week!! Also, if anyone is really all that bummed out about this epic fail of a recap, I was told that all inquiries can be directed to Joe on twitter @JoeyHoops. He has all the best pics of my boobs (you’ll never get vag, he says that’s all his).
Love you guys!!! Sorry!!
PS…I know I was wondering on here about Hotdog The Intern’s IG, and he found me!!! he’s hotdog_theintern and his instagram account is hotdog_theintern and it made me fall a little bit in love with how adorable he is! Check it out!!
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Posted on June 26, 2014 by jenni_mazky
Welcome to the best Thursday Recap on the Best Jason Ellis Show Recap Site that has ever existed!!!!! Woooooo!!!
Getting right into it, that sound that you hear at the end of the intro is a baby wold making sounds and it doesn’t sound too happy, but in the video he looks really happy when he’s making all those yelpy sounding sounds…so don’t worry about it too hard guys, it’s just sounds of a happy baby wolf puppy. Ellis gets right into talking about what would happen if he started capturing people and chopping off their arms and feet, and tying their feet together. Would they turn into snake people and start slithering on their bellies and then Ellis would go down in history as the Man who changed mankind by making snake people? Tully thinks probably not because if he did actually manage to keep it going long enough where people started evolving and adapting and having snake people babies, it would take like a million years, and for the world’s population to turn over into snake people (or aqua babies, which Ellis also brings up) it would probably be about 50 million years. And also, 50 million years down the line, if people did remember that the late, great Big Daddy J was the one who started the ball on snake people rolling, the person that would be praised or hated or whatever would not actually bear any resemblance to Jason Ellis and would be a much bastardized version of the person that we would all love to be best friends with. This conversation devolved, or evolved, or tangentially went on to include talk of what would happen if Ellis went the other way around and started attaching legs to snakes to make walking snakes (or, you know, lizards) and Ellis called bullshit on Tully calling them lizards because they would not be lizards, they would be different, duh, and there aren’t any lizards around who are better walking around on two feet than they are walking around on all four and his snakes with legs would walk like men. Dammit. Twitter answered the unasked call and started tweeting pictures and video links to the Jesus Lizard, aka the Basilisk lizard (yes, Basilisk, like Harry Potter, why do you think I knew the name of the Jesus Lizard in the first place without having to google it?) which is a lizard that can run across the top of water…which is kind of more badass than Jesus being able to walk on water. Just saying. They watched the video and talked about the Jesus Christ lizard for a while and that turned into them talking about pound for pound strength and if Chris Weidman would beat a Basilisk in an MMA fight. They came to the conclusion that the Basilisk would win on points, because those little fucks are really fast and Weidman wouldn’t be able to catch it to knock it out.
Speaking of animals and pound for pound and yesterday’s Eagles (if they were larger and able to kill humans, would humans kill them first?) Tully brings up a story of a woman who got shit-whipped by a goose. Like, landed in the hospital for 5 days kind of shit whipped. I think she just fell off her bike and that’s where most of the damage came from and she didn’t want to admit it. I mean, geese are nasty fucks, and I have personally been terrified of them up close because they WILL try and eat your fingers, but I don’t but that it broke her face. The ground broke her face. Ellis calls bullshit on the story for a while saying that he would totally take out a goose (he actually calls them ducks the whole time, ducks are quackie, geese are whacky) before it made a move on him, but Tully calls bullshit on his bullshit because Ellis goes through life considering every situation that could possibly lead to violence and is always ready for it and knows how to properly defend himself, and not everyone walks around life equipped in that way. Ellis admits that yeah, he’d probably be thrown for a few seconds if a goose actually attacked him, but he’s still pretty sure he could take that motherfucker out. Yako on Twitter made a comment about how every 3 year old Canadian is warned by their 3rd birthday about the ferocity of geese and both Tully and Ellis can see that because, as Tully says, “They weeble, they wobble, and yes, they do, in fact, fall down.” And they have a particularly hard time getting back up. I mean, they’re only 3 years into that body and only 2 years into walking around really, so when they go down, they go through some emotions before they even start to think about getting back up.
Don’t forget, California Ellisfam, the show is going to be live tomorrow from Racer’s Edge Go Karting in Burbank California, and the password to get in (because it’s an Ellisfam exclusive event at this point) is Yer Mum’s House. That’s right, you heard it here if you didn’t hear it there, the password is Yer Mum’s House. How appropriate. Ha…I just looked at the website and it even lists that it’s closed tomorrow from 12 to 4 for a private event. Boom. There’ll be tons of people there aside from the ones you hear from on the show on a daily basis and I wished I lived in California so that I could be there too, because I’m gonna be here, in New York, in my shitty life (shut up, I’m stressed to hell right now) not hanging out with TJES and racing go karts. Maybe I’ll pretend the truck is a go kart. We’ll see how that goes. There will be food, and drinks, and famous people, a radio show and a Dingo there. Why would you not go? Oh, but don’t bring your kids. Unless your kid is 16 or older. There will be cursing, Mike Catherwood’s wife has said her vagina may make an appearance, there could be nipples on Kenda Turn, and then, well, you know the show. Don’t make the guys feel weird about doing their show because you decided to bring your 8 year old. Be responsible so that no one else has to.
At this point they go through the button bar and Ellis says he’ll take phone calls about anything and people start calling about the geese and shit and they push a bunch of buttons and Ellis wants to prank call Katie but she doesn’t answer the phone. Hot Dog says that Ellis can prank call his mom, because his mom is around in town and wanted to come for a visit but she got told no. Tully or Ellis make a joke about how they meet the mom’s of all of the interns and Hot Dog goes, “Well, you already met my mom,” and proceeds to tell Ellis, and the rest of us, that he and his mom were at the Harley Davidson book signing event and met him and Hot Dog, back when he was just Nate, told Ellis that he wanted to intern for him and that he has his own college radio show that is on the AM airwaves and Ellis gave Nate numbers to call and people to bug about being an intern and voila!!! Hot Dog is an intern. And a reverend.
Back from the first break Tully comes at us with a news story where a man is suing a stripper to give him back his $2000 because no one ever told this guy that there is no such thing as a refund when you are dealing with strippers. Poor guy. What seems to be more of a story to Ellis and Tully is the reporting correspondent who is telling us about all of this because that guy looks like he does drugs and could have committed a murder or two. Allegedly. Randy Wallace is the name of the reporter and Tully and Ellis spend a good bit of time riffing on him, his various alleged habits, and finding him on twitter where he is quoted as saying, “I believe Cheesecake, Xanax, and Duct Tape fixes everything.” Yeah, it’s not a hard sell that that guy is tripping balls on all sorts of things all of the time.
Time for some Wolfknives names!!! But first, let’s talk about how Will may or may not be banging that girl Ericka, and okay, if he’s not, then is it cool if Tully and Ellis bang her out instead. Will does his flustered, angry, “We’re friends” thing and eventually Ellis deduces that Will friendzoned himself. But, other than that, welcome to the Wolfknives Death Vender, Body Glover, Huge Muffler, Storm Rapist, Cougar Shaft, Puppy Hitler, Poor Man’s Gary Coleman, Ball Sex, Hot Dog Enthusiast, Eagle Precum, Torellini, Elvis HorseDick, Cock Global, The Great Gaper, and Hot Dog (yes, the intern). Has anyone found Hot Dog’s instagram yet? I mean…he’s a self admitted virgin…he has to have one, right? I suck at finding shit like that, so if anyone knows what it is, hit me up on IG or twitter, I’m jennimazky ;)
Time for some long awaited teen advice, peppered with some other stuff, because this was the show of tangents. Seriously. So many tangents. To the first girl who has a crush on her male BFF who currently has a girlfriend and doesn’t want to be that girl, but kind of does want to be that girl, and to the second teen girl who’s wondering if she should do something to make her ex jealous…the answer is JUST DO IT! But also, honesty is a noble virtue to have, but keep shit like this on the down low as you get older, because, well, that just how bitches roll once they get grown. Stop being so honest. The third question is a girl asking if she will develop serious feelings for someone if she sleeps with them, and both Tully and Ellis seem to agree that yeah, probably. They seem to think that if this girl is thinking about sleeping with someone to begin with that she probably already has some sort of feelings for that person and that also, casual sex tends to come with age for women. I’m a woman, and I honestly don’t know. I mean, some people are wired for casual sex, some aren’t, and some people are really good at lying to themselves. I would advise, however, that if you are a teenager, don’t get into the casual sex game. You’re young and stupid and will probably get pregnant. To the girl asking if her friend is a lesbian, Ellis says that you should fingerbang your friend to find out. Then you’ll know. To the teen girl with a smelly dischargey vagina, please go to the doctor. Tully thinks there is no such thing as being a really religious person and a really fun person at least until the age of 30, so young teenager asking, if you’re really religious, people are probably going to be annoyed by you for like another decade and a half unless they too are really religious, sorry about that. And finally, yes, anonymous teen, ugly is a real thing. Ellis says that he’s gotten uglier as he’s gotten older and Tully informs us that there is nothing wrong with being born ugly because being ugly in the right subculture is kind of a thing that’s just embraced, and being ugly is nowhere near as bad as being fat. Ugly isn’t your fault, for the most part, being fat is. It’s halftime!!! Do your pushups, feel whatever round things exist on your body and check them for cancer, and take some time and go to this website run by recent guest of the show, Jack Osbourne about MS. I just went, and wow, Jack is looking good!
Christian is in the studio to do stripped vocals but first, they are going to talk about a lot of nothing for like, an hour. Sorry, guys, I tried really hard to pay attention and be a good sport and recapper and do my duty for all of you out there, but I basically was not feeling the entire show today. I don’t know what it was. There was a lot of dead. It was humid and gross out and I’m kind of cranky on top of it, so I kind of lost the thread around here a couple of times, but they did talk about Anahita who was on TJES last week and is on the Dr. Drew show on TV with Ellis a lot, and how she is going to be karting with them tomorrow and look forward to her boobies when they come around Kenda Turn. It seems like Kenda won’t be back to go around Kenda Turn, but she’s a busy lady, so she’s forgiven. Tully informs us that the Texting and Driving race got axed for various reasons that don’t make the most sense, but there are still going to be other cool races, like the Main Event, and the Vagisil 5000, and a relay race, as well as all of the racing that Ellisfam can do while the guys are you know, on air, doing the show. Tully has a list of famous figures in history who are alleged to have sexually transmitted diseases and the ones that got mentioned were: Al Capone who was suspected of dying from Syphilis while in prison for tax fraud, Hitler was also thought to have suffered from Syphilis due to his tendency to rant and rave and murder people for no good reason, Honest Abe Lincoln is also thought to be a Syphilis sufferer (though he didn’t murder tons of people because of it) and JFK apparently had the Clap. This turned into a discussion of if they guys got a sexually transmitted disease from Cher, would they tell anyone that it was from Cher, and yes, Tully and Christian would tell their doctors until their doctor believed them, but Ellis wasn’t too down to tell anyone about it. Then Ned Beaty who was a guy who got raped in Deliverance got brought up and they talked about him for a while, about random things that I managed to really not pay attention to, and thennnnnnn the got around to doing stripped vocals and songs and things. At this point I was driving and completely unable of taking notes, but I know that they covered Marvin Gaye, Amy Winehouse, Avenged Sevenfold, Soundgarden, Slayer, Nirvana, and Freddie Mercury and David Bowie, and they all blew Ellis’ mind.
Back from the break they were talking about plans for Fourth of July and Ellis doesn’t know what he’s doing but he doesn’t have the kids that night, and Christian doesn’t know what he and his girlfriend are doing so maybe they should figured out what to do for the holiday together with their girlfriends. There was also some talk about Polar Bears and how they are vicious and Katie doesn’t like them, but Ellis does, and it was because some guy’s 24 Million Dollar Yacht that was all on fire and destroyed was called the Polar Bear. Ellis mentioned that the guy who hit him the other week in his Porsche still hasn’t sent photos of his car to the insurance company, but Ellis has sent his in, and if the other guy doesn’t send pics in then it really really makes it look like it was definitely the other guy’s fault, but Ellis is still expecting something crazy to happen that will screw him over, but you know what, whatever. If he has to pay for the car to be fixed then he’ll pay for the car to be fixed, because he’s the one who bought a Porsche in the first place. Boom.
I’m outtie HomeSlizzles, I’ll see you when the show gets back from being on vacation next week!
Things we learned on TJES today:
Tully calls bullshit on evolution. Always.
Tully played basketball this morning
Ellis is going to be really serious and in the zone while go karting tomorrow, but no one can fault him for that cause people get serious about video games
If a goose approaches you, do the right thing, and take it out before it takes you out
There will be giveaways at Racers Edge tomorrow for the fans
Spongebob “Red Dragons” is done by the real voice of Spongebob
Will thinks Ellis and Tully are trying to tarnish Ericka’s honor
Tully is okay with his wife banging Brad Pitt but he wouldn’t want to watch the video
Tully is a rational motherfucker. For realsies.
Ugly people get the opportunity to connect with other people on a deeper level
Dingo is Kevin Bacon in a Monster hat
Ellis would go full romance with Cher
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Two Problems with SGR: First the Cost of Phase 1 and President Kenyatta cowardly blocking of Gov. Joho!
President Uhuru Kenyatta is a coward for not letting the Governor of Mombasa County, the Orange Democratic Movement leader Hassan Ali Joho attend the launch today of the Freight Train at the Port Reitz Station in Mombasa. It seems the Jubilee Party cannot handle opposition and has to freeze them out. Even as the launch of the SGR was happening, the Police escorted him away.
Maybe because the Chinese wrote this about the Kenyan Railway:
“Kiraithe added that the government, through the ministries of finance, transport and environment, hasbeen heavily involved in accelerating the completion of the SGR built by the China Road and Bridge Corporation.“But the infrastructure is for Kenyans and has been achieved to improve our living standards,” Kiraithe said. In 2013, President Xi Jinping and his Kenyan counterpart, Kenyatta, witnessed the signing of the memorandum of understanding on financing the Mombasa-Nairobi SGR. The Export Import Bank of China financed 80 percent of the project” (Morangi, 2017).
“I was among a group of people who wrote a letter to the president [Uhuru Kenyatta], specifically with regards to the value for money proposition,” political analyst Tom Mboya told RFI on Tuesday. At a staggering cost of nearly four billion euros–almost entirely funded by China’s Export Import bank– just for the first phase linking the capital Nairobi to the port city Mombasa, there is reason to be concerned, reckons economist Aly-Khan Satchu” (Okello, 2017).
The Presidency statement on it:
“President Kenyatta, who was flanked by Deputy President William Ruto and First Lady Margaret Kenyatta, said every Kenyan should be proud of the Standard Gauge Railway. “I call upon all Kenyans whatever their political beliefs to celebrate, today we should be together holding hands in celebrations,” said the President moments after the cargo train pulled alongside the Presidential Dias waiting for the flag off. It was song and dance as choirs played patriotic songs apt for the moment. “This is the Kenya we seek and this is the Kenya we want our children to inherit from us and their children to inherit from them,” said President Kenyatta amid applause, cheers and ululation. President Kenyatta said the SGR will make the port of Mombasa more efficient and will enhance the performance of the facility where the Jubilee Government has invested more than Sh60 billion in the last four years” (Presidency, 2017).
By the Statement made by the Presidency yesterday means that the Government spent: 60bn times 4 Shs. 240bn on the Standard Gauge Railway. Still, the East African reported differently earlier in the month: “So far, Sh327 billion has been spent on the first phase of the railway between Mombasa and Nairobi and Sh150 billion on the Nairobi-Naivasha section. With a national population of about 46 million, every Kenyan is set to owe China Sh18,413 in SGR debt once the deal is sealed” (…) “The SGR has been President Kenyatta’s pet project since he came to power” (Mutambo & Omondi, 2017). So if this is true, than the Presidency are dropping different numbers than the papers. Clearly the government trying to look more efficient, than what they are in reality. This should worry since most of the building of the SGR are based on development loans from the Exim Bank.
Is this why the words of and address to this from Joho is so striking:
“In the light of this, we hereby demand that
1. That the government release the terms of the contract with the Chinese Exim Bank, the details of disbursement and attendant relavant information
2. The Government of Kenya release all details of the Take or Pay contract between KPA and the financiers? What is the goods threshold and the responsibility of collection of the these fees.
3. Due to conflicting reports, the government clarify in details all charges related to goods and their destinations.
4. The government clarify the method of nomination of goods for rail and the point and implementation of charges.
5. The government clarify the extinction date of the Railway Development Levy on goods and come clean on the amounts collected since.
6. The government release the terms of the port concession, all monies paid and the details of the contract
7. The the Government clarify the details of site selection of Naivasha as a dry port. The feasibility study and the project appraisal report.
8. That the government release the “Willingness to Pay” survey of the goods for meant for railway and the feasibility report of the proposed Naivasha Special Economic Zone.
9. And that the Jubilee government show us their plan for Mombasa” (Hon. Ali Hassan Joho, 31.05.2017).
By all means the Governor of Mombasa wants to know the realities of the SGR, but that is something every single Kenyan deserves as this is the pet-project of Kenyatta. Kenyatta might be proud of Phase 1, but can the government carry the price of the trains and lines. Or is this is a stunt for development?
That the Governor was blocked from the Train Station that is opened in his county, as he was blocked from the relaunch of the ferries in March 2017. Shows that the Jubilee cannot handle opposition or their eyes on their projects. They are so initiated to represent the whole community, that if the community and citizens elects opposition. Than they are not allowed to enter public displays and their launching of projects. This has now been proven twice. That the Jubilee cannot handle NASA leadership or ODM party leaders. If they could than they would have entertained and made it possible for Governor Joho to be at the state functions as he is the local elected leadership of Mombasa county. Is that hard for the President and his deputy?
But the President and his Team is cowards who cannot even have the local government leadership at the launch of SGR at the Port Reitz Station. Peace.
Morangi, Lucie – ‘ Chinese-built SGR to improve Kenya’s global standing’ (30.05.2017) link:http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2017-05/30/content_29548836.htm
Mutambo, Aggrey & Omondi, George – ‘Uhuru seeks Sh370bn more to extend railway to Kisumu’ (16.05.2017) link: http://mobile.nation.co.ke/news/Kenya-requests-for-Sh370bn-for-SGR-third-phase/1950946-3928546-15jp48i/index.html
Okello, Christina – ‘Kenya’s ambitious new railway raises cost concerns’ (31.05.2017) link: http://en.rfi.fr/africa/20170530-kenya-4bn-railway-opens-amid-controversy-kenyatta-china
Presidency – ‘New dawn for Kenya as Standard Gauge Railway rolls out services’ (30.05.2017) link: http://www.president.go.ke/2017/05/30/new-dawn-for-kenya-as-standard-gauge-railway-rolls-out-services/
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Kenya: EACC investigation into Gov. Hassan Joho and Tom Mboya Primary School verifying his education!
Answer from the School to EACC:
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Opinion: Everybody hates Governor Joho!
The Presidency and Regime under Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto, must have some grand issues with Mombasa and Coast Region as they every week for the last month has attacked with all sorts of tricks against the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Deputy and Governor Hassan Ali Joho. That the Jubilee Alliance Party (JAP) and their cooperative measures to marginalize the opposition figure isn’t really working.
They have detained the man for wanting to see the first relaunch of the ferries as the Jubilee held rallies in his back yard as far back as the 13th March 2017. They have since then blamed his government for lacking accountability and transparency, like the Central Government haven’t had enough issues with corruption scandals.
So President Kenyatta should be cautious attacking fellow peers in midst of re-election rallies, but it isn’t like he cares. Since he feels like he is Teflon and cannot be touch. When they attack his educational background, as they have attacked him before his accountability as a Governor. Therefore, all we see is steady attacks on the character of Joho.
Also said he was meddling with drug-dealers and importers, as they we’re having drug cartels, like the sugar cartels supporting Jubilee and Kenyatta. But hey, not that anyone really looks into the donor funding to the Jubilee from the Sugar and Coffee Cartels to the Kenyatta government. Still, all problems of crime in Mombasa County is Joho’s fault. As the corruption of the Ports is Joho’s fault, not that this has been issue since the independence. That even Jomo Kenyatta was working against the corruption on the Ports of Mombasa, even President Daniel Arap Moi we’re complaining when needed about the graft at Mombasa.
So after decades upon end with independence and second generation Kenyatta, the problems are still there. If they seriously wanted it to change, than John Githongo would still have a job and not been kicked-out the door by former President Mwai Kibaki! But that is a story the ruling regime doesn’t want to eat, still they easily eats of state coffers and thinks side-stories of undressing leaders of opposition makes the world and Kenyan citizens forget that.
I am sure Cabinet Secretary for Interior Joseph Nkaissery is trying to find the next charge he can put on the ODM Governor, as he has tried to revoke his guns and take away his security guards. So, there aren’t that many tricks left in the basket of peddling nonsense into the public sphere. They have used all sorts of demagoguery and misused their place as key leadership. Instead of being noble and show character, they have gone straight for the heart and attacked the character instead of the polices.
So the Jubilee has misused their opportunity to gain and show that they are better than Governor Joho, they have lost on public display, they have used the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) looking into his tax-record, Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) looking into his educational history and also the added accountability, where the leadership of Jubilee claimed his county got 40bn shillings instead of the 16 billions shillings Joho claims the Mombasa County received from the Central Government.
The Jubilee under Kenyatta and Ruto have used all tools and tried to destroy the legitimacy of the leadership of Joho. Just like they fear him more than Raila Odinga, Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka or Musalia Mudavadi. Since they are all walking around like kings, while all of business of Joho is on the front pages.
That the state and their top leadership continues to pound on Joho, shows how little character themselves have, that they have to go after a governor when themselves going into National Elections. That they are going after a local politician, when they should go against the faces who could be Presidential Candidates. Since they are not touching the NASA/CORD leadership, instead they pick Joho as prey, but instead of clearing the flesh of the bones. They are instead creating their own wounds. Peace.
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Kenya: Re: Clarification on Disbursements to the County Government of Mombasa (13.03.2017)
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Opinion: Ruto and Kenyatta should have hiked on the Ferry from Mtongwe; They we’re lost at sea throwing shade at Joho in his backyard!
“Governor Joho and Governor Kingi are all about talk and no action. They have offered nothing new. They have nothing to show for all the money they have been given to invest on your behalf. Only talk” – Uhuru Kenyatta (GoK, 2017).
“It is a sad thing to have leaders who don’t understand…don’t play with me….Mombasa is for everyone,” (…) “Why follow me? Why should we follow each other? I am not his wife,” (…) “Clean the city. Do your job, don’t follow us. If he plays with us we will flog him” – Uhuru Kenyatta (Otieno, 2017).
Well, today the Jubilee Alliance Party leadership and the ruling regime with President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto had a rally in Mtongwe Ferry Launch. There also Orange Democratic Movement leader and Mombasa Governor Hassan Ali Joho. This was not accepted as they even had to attack him at the rally. This seem like the tactic from the Jubilee this go around. In Turkana County the Jubilee leaders personally attacked Josephat Nanok.
Now, they are trying to attack Honourable Governor Joho by all means was the key figure and the one they had prepared to make like fool. They even used his willingness to pop-by the rallies in his backyard. This is for now and has been his stronghold. This is the man who was elected with a grand majority in 2013 and the Jubilee wants to unsettle his position. That has been in the works for months as CS Joseph Nkaissery have tried to take his gun, bodyguards and detaining him because they could on the last go around.
Governor Joho has been in the spotlight in the same reasons as Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago in Kampala; he is an opposition leader in a big and important county. Lukwago is the elected leadership of Kampala; the same is Joho of Mombasa County. It seems like what the National Resistance Movement (NRM) does to Lukwago, the same is the Jubilee doing to Joho. It is like machoism without anything to win for the ruling regime.
That Kenyatta and Ruto need to show strength and leadership, that is natural as they want to be looked as saviours and statesmen. Still, the acts of Kenyatta in Turkana and now in Mombasa are differing for the vision or wished perception any civil leader wants. That Jubilee has the upper-hand before this election. However, these sort of attempts to benign them, instead they belittle themselves and their own achievements.
Kenyatta and Ruto, should be grown men who could show of their own achievements, Jubilee has nearly ended their first term. Therefore, they should have enough facts to not bend into fiction. Where the Jubilee government claims that none of the governors in the counties they are visiting is delivering. Still, the government themselves has grand corruption and big scandals in their years in office.
So it not like Jubilee government have delivered the policies or the service delivery they promised in office. Kenyatta and Ruto should have offered a token of goodwill to the governors in Turkana and in Mombasa; instead they act like big-men who stand above them. They are right now higher in the hierarchy, but still they should be able to cross political affiliation. That is something that is hard for the President and his Deputy. They are in the backyards of Nanok and Joho, but there they had to act with vile attempt glory. Instead of showing grace and being statesmen, that is too far and too much to wish for.
If they cannot show grace and some tact, what is to expect of the rest of months ahead, the Turkana and Mombasa rallies proves the reality of their visions of themselves. Where they are acting as they are above Joho and as previous rally above Nanok. Certainly this is not the impression the ruling regime wanted to give. Peace.
GoK – ‘President raps Coast ODM governors as “all talk and no action” as he wraps tour’ (13.03.2017) link: http://www.president.go.ke/2017/03/13/president-raps-up-coast-odm-governors-as-all-talk-and-no-action-as-he-wraps-tour/
Otieno, Brian – ‘[AUDIO] Stop following me like I’m your wife, Uhuru tells Joho at Mtongwe ferry launch’ (13.03.2017) link: http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2017/03/13/audio-stop-following-me-like-im-your-wife-uhuru-tells-joho-at-mtongwe_c1523952
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Opinion: Kenyatta’s outburst in Turkana County isn’t worthy of any President, Uhuru should apologize to the people of Turkana!
“My concern is not leadership… My concern is to initiate projects that will change the lives of Kenyans… If you think you can threaten me, look for someone else. I will seek votes from you like any other person… whether you vote for us or not. It will not be the end of the world” – Uhuru Kenyatta in Turkana in 8th March rally there!
That the current President of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta of the Jubilee Alliance Party who is starting the rallies for the General Election of August 2017. The President was in Turkana County as the man with the plan, but suddenly as the Governor Josephat Nanok addressed the government and their ways of taking funds from the County. This is county that has about a 1 million citizens, maybe not Kalenjin or Kikuyu, but still Kenyan citizens. So Kenyatta still represent these people if he likes it or not. The Elmoro and other pastoral tribes still deserve his service delivery.
As the press release after the visit of the county was even saying this:
“President Uhuru Kenyatta has criticised Turkana Governor Joseph Nanok, saying the arid county had little to show for more than Kshs 40 billion of devolved funds disbursed over the last four years. President Kenyatta said the ODM-led county was a shameful example of poor service delivery to Kenyans” (President.go.ke, 2017).
So that he in heated words to the public in Turkana had to even dismiss the governor and his opposition party. That shows that he forget his own place as his government hasn’t really showed that much acts or delivery to the Council of Governors who has even address the lack of funds. Therefore, that his address of Turkana Governor Nanok is weak tea.
That the Turkana people deserved better from their President, is without a doubt. It is the governors wish and will to get more for his county, as much the President wants more his nation when he do deals with foreign nations. Therefore, Kenyatta had to a few years back defended the sugar-agreement with Uganda. Surely, people have forgotten that trade and border trade with Uganda. Still, the Turkana County Governor is only defending his own record and his own county. The President is allowed to do the same, but for someone who is now rallying for his second term, these sort of words sounds out of bounds.
That President Kenyatta attacks a ODM Governor with this sorts of outburst and claims, as well as saying that the citizens and voters of Turkana doesn’t matter is special. Kenyatta saying he doesn’t need Turkana people and the Elmoro, is really disturbing, as he surely would need their resources and oil. The Kenyan government would and should support the county, not only for industry, but for their pastoralism and safety. These sorts of border communities have often been neglected, but now with the Tullow Oil fields. It suddenly matters.
Kenyatta should be on the market and prove his character, which he can provide and make sure the governance of the nation is at a better stat, but with the current fate of strikes in an election year, with the growing state debt and the corruption scandals, clearly is evident of mismanagement. So that Kenyatta feels attacked and under fire isn’t strange, but his baseless wounded soul would redeem himself if he actually took charge and fixed it. Since he is in the midst of the government that has created the environment it is in. Therefore, Turkana County Governor might hit a nerve, that went into his spine and therefore he retaliated.
Kenyatta doesn’t want to be weak, even has the turmoil and the election year isn’t going smoothly. President Kenyatta should take credit where it is due, but not scold governors as the peril and the issues of government is created from the top. If there issues with governance in Turkana, it could easily stem for the brazen disregard of governance from the Central Government, which means that Kenyatta and his administration has collectively created the problems.
Lodwar should be more important for Uhuru Kenyatta as his father Jomo Kenyatta was illegal detained there by the British Colonial Authorities, still he now doesn’t need the locals and the pastoral people. The other major town in the county is NGO capital of Loki or Lokichogio. The other important place in the county is Kakuma Refugee Camp, one of camps that the government plans to shut-down together with Dadaab.
So Kenyatta should act wiser and be more Statesman, instead he uses wild-words and allegations that could easily backfire, as I didn’t need much thinking before addressing him without force or write to anything personal about the honourable President. With that in mind, the President shouldn’t need to personally address the Turkana as unnecessary voters in coming elections, because of what their governor did say. The President should just dismiss the Governor, not dismiss a whole county and region. He should apologize about that and should also show that his emotions went running out of fashion. Then if he wants to say something about the governor and his speech, do that with honour of the elected he is in and with understanding the position the President puts him in.
President Kenyatta lost it and therefore it has been addressed. Time to man up and carry it as a man. Confess and deliver the truth, not play for the gallery, but be there for all the people. Turkana County and their people deserve it, so does the rest of Kenya. Peace.
President.go.ke – ‘President Kenyatta censures Turkana Governor for lack of development’ (08.03.2017) link: http://www.president.go.ke/2017/03/08/president-kenyatta-censures-turkana-governor-for-lack-of-development/
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Influence of a Research Question
Developing Your Research Question
2-Types of Sources
Categorizing Sources
Quantitative or Qualitative
Fact or Opinion
Primary, Secondary & Tertiary Sources
Popular, Professional, & Scholarly
Publication Formats and the Information Lifecycle
Scholarly Articles as Sources
News as a Source
Data as Sources
People as Sources
3-Sources and Information Needs
Sources and Information Needs
Sources to Meet Needs
Planning Your Sources
4-Precision Searching
Why Precision Searching?
Related and Alternative Terms
Search Statements
5-Search Tools
WorldCat@OSU
Specialized Databases
Tips for Common Search Tools
6-Evaluating Sources
Thinking Critically About Sources
Evaluating for Relevancy
Evaluating for Credibility
A Source's Neighborhood
Author and Publisher
Degree of Bias
Recognition from Others
Thoroughness
Combining the Factors
7-Ethical Use of Sources
Ethical Use and Citing Sources
Why Cite Sources?
Challenges in Citing Sources
8-How to Cite Sources
Citation and Citation Styles
Steps for Citing
Citation Software
When to Cite
9-Making an Argument
The Purpose of Academic Argument
Components of an Argument
Order of the Components
Where You Get the Components
10-Writing Tips
When to Quote, Paraphrase, or Summarize
Helping Others Follow
Synthesis of Your Own Ideas
11-Copyright Basics
What Copyright Covers
Rights Granted by Copyright
Respecting Copyright
Exceptions to Copyright
Creative Commons - An Alternative
Public Domain and Term of Copyright
12-Fair Use
What Is Fair Use?
The Four Factors
Evaluating Your Case for Fair Use
Common Examples of Fair Use
13-Roles of Research Sources
Thinking About Roles of Sources
BEAM: A Solution That Might Shine
Using BEAM: An Example
Practice with BEAM
Additional Book Formats
Choosing & Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research
Relevant sources are those that pertain to your research question. You’ll be able to figure that out fairly quickly by reading or skimming particular parts of sources and maybe jotting down little tables that help you keep track. We’ll show you how below, including where to look in specific kinds of sources and what questions to ask yourself as you do.
One thing to consider early on as you make inferences about relevancy is the effect that timeliness, or a source’s currency, should have on deciding whether a source is relevant. Your research question will determine that.
For instance, if your research question is about the life sciences, you probably should consider only the most recent sources relevant because the life sciences are changing so quickly. There is a good chance that anything but the most recent sources may be out of date. So aim for sources no more than 5 years old. (An example discipline that calls for even newer sources is computer security.)
But suppose your research question is about the Edo Period in Japan (1603-1868) or about Robert Falcon Scott, who explored the Antarctic from 1901-1913. In these cases, an item from 1918 might be just as useful as an item from 2018 (although new information may have been found in the 100 year gap). But something from 1899 about Antarctica or from 1597 about Japan would NOT be current enough for these research questions.
These example research questions also give you two more clues about how to treat the timeliness or currency of sources as you consider relevance:
Because of how long ago they lived or occurred, it would be unusual for many sources on Robert Scott or the Edo Period to have been published very recently. So, unlike sources for the life sciences, whether a source is very recent should probably not determine its relevancy to those research questions.
Primary sources might be considered especially relevant to all three research questions. Life science journal articles that provide research findings for the first time count as primary sources. And primary sources (such as Scott’s diaries and expedition photographs, as well as paintings, literature, clothing, and household items from the Edo Period) go a long way to explain faraway people and times. (See Primary, Secondary, & Tertiary Sources.)
EXAMPLE: Currency
Check out how currency is handled on TED. This site provides videos of speakers talking about new ideas in technology, entertainment, and design. (That’s what TED stands for.) Some videos are labeled “Newest Talks,” and TED tells when every video was recorded.
For your sources for which timeliness matters, see the section Where to Look, which includes where to look in websites, articles, and books for information about a source’s currency.
Time-Saving Tips
Instead of thinking you have to read all of every source in order to figure out whether it is relevant, read or skim only parts of each source. If you’re looking at the right parts, that should give you enough information to make an educated guess about relevancy.
But what should you be looking for as you do that reading and skimming? One way to figure that out is to first parse your research question so that you can figure out its main concepts. (This is like identifying main concepts in your research question in order to search precisely.)
For instance, suppose your research question is: How does having diverse members in a group increase the critical thinking of the group?
What are this question’s main concepts? Our answer is: group diversity and critical thinking.
So when trying to judge which sources are relevant to these main concepts, you would assess whether each source you’ve found pertains to at least one of these concepts. We recommend you jot down a little table like the one in the example below to keep track of which sources address each main concept.
To be considered relevant to your research question, a source wouldn’t necessarily have to cover all of your main concepts, but finding sources that do is the ideal. Otherwise, you just have to make do with what you’ve got. Don’t forget that each source would have to pass the currency test, too, if currency is important to your research question. So it’s wise to record your decisions about the sources’ currency on your tables, too.
EXAMPLE: Sources’ Main Concepts and Currency
Research question: How does having diverse members in a group increase the critical thinking of the group?
Currency Okay Group Diversity Critical Thinking
Source A title X X
Source B title X
Source C title X X X
The table in this hypothetical example indicates that both Sources A and C are relevant because each pertains to at least one main concept from the research question. Currency doesn’t seem to matter much to our research question, so all three sources were marked current. But since currency is all that Source B has to offer, it is not relevant for this project.
If you do make little tables for relevance, it’s probably a good idea to hang on to them. You might find them helpful later in your research process.
Where to Look in Websites, Articles, and Books
The information below tells where to look and what questions to ask yourself to assess three kinds of sources’ relevancy to your research question. Whatever you do, don’t stop evaluating a source after looking only a website’s name or the title of another source.
Save time by looking in particular places in sources for information that will help you figure out whether the source is relevant to your research project. Much of our advice below comes from “Speedy Reading” in The Craft of Research, second edition, by Wayne Booth, Gregory Colomb, and Joseph Williams, 2003, pp. 108-109.
On a website, check the name of the website and its articles for clues that they contain material relevant to your research question. Consider whether time should have an impact on what information can be considered relevant. If so, skim any dates, datelines, What’s New pages, and press releases to see whether any website content works with the time considerations you need. Page creation or revision dates that you find can also help.
Skim any site map and index on the website for key words related to your research question. Try the key words of your research question in the search box. Do you see enough content about your keywords to make you think parts of the website could be helpful?
For an article, think about the title. Does it have anything to do with your research question? Consider whether time should have an impact on what sources can be considered relevant. If so, is the publication date within your parameters? Also skim the abstract to see whether the article works with the time considerations you need. For instance, if there is a time period in your research question, does the article address the same time period or was it created in that time period?
Look at the abstract and section headings in the article to locate the problem or question that the article addresses, its solution, and the outline of the article’s argument for its main claim. Can those help answer your research question? Do they make it seem the article will give you information about what others have written about your research question? Do they offer a description of the situation surrounding your research question?
Do the article’s introduction and conclusion sections help you answer your research question and/or offer a description of the situation surrounding your question so you can explain in your final product why the question is important? Check whether the bibliography contains keywords related to your research question. Do the sources cited by the bibliography pertain to your research question?
For a book, check whether the title indicates the book could be about your research question. Consider whether time should have an impact on what sources can be considered relevant. If so, is the publication date or copyright date (usually listed in the library catalog or on the back of the book’s title page) too early or late for any time constraints in your research question? Maybe it is just right. Also skim some of the preface and introduction to see whether the book works with the time considerations you need.
For help answering your research question, skim the book’s table of contents and any summary chapters to locate the problem or question that the book addresses, its solution, and the broad outline of the book’s argument for its main claim. Do they also give you information about what others have written about your research question? Do they offer a description of the situation surrounding your research question? Look for your key words in the bibliography. Do the sources cited pertain to your research question? Skim the index for topics with the most page references. Do the topics with the most page references pertain to your research question?
ACTIVITY: Follow a Title’s Clues for Relevance
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ACTIVITY: Connecting the Dots beyond the Title
Connecting the Dots beyond the Title
Instructions: Now you can practice evaluating for relevance beyond the title. In the previous activity, you evaluated for currency and relevance the tittles of three sources for the research question: How does “prospect theory” in behavioral economics help explain medical doctors’ decisinos to favor surgery or radiation to cure cancer in patients?
Judging by the title, the most relevant source for that research question seemed to be a journal article called “Cancer Treatment Prescription–Advancing Prospect Theory beyond Economics,” in Journal of The American Medical Association Oncology, June, 2016.
Read the abstract of the article below. Then decide whether this source is relevant to your research questions above. That is, might the article help you meet any of your project’s information needs about the research questions? If there is at least one need it can help meet, then you should judge the article relevant.
Answer the question below the abstract to indicate the source is relevant. Then compare your answer with our feedback.
As usual, your information needs are:
To learn more background information.
To answer your research question.
To convince your audience that your answer is correct or, at least, the most reasonable answer.
To describe the situation surrounding your research question for your audience and explain why it’s important.
To report what others have said about question, including any different answers to your research question.
“Cancer Treatment Prescription–Advancing Prospect Theory beyond Economics,” in Journal of The American Medical Association Oncology, June, 2016 (Note to students: This article and abstract are fictitious.)
Importance Cancer Treatment is complex. We expect oncologists to make treatment decisions according to definitive standards of care. Finding out that prospect theory demonstrates that they react very much like most other people when deciding to recommend surgery or chemotherapy for their patients indicates that more self-reflection on oncologists’ part could help patients make better decisions. (Prospect theory describes how people choose between alternatives that have risk when the probability of different outcomes is unknown.)
Objective To show whether prospect theory applies to how oncologists framed their recommendations for surgery or chemotherapy for patients in good condition and bad condition.
Design, Settings, and Participants Records of 100 U.S. oncologists were examined for the years 2014 and 2015, which documented patient conditions and the way oncologists framed their recommendations regarding surgery or chemotherapy. Thus, a quasi-experimental ex post facto design was used for the study.
Main Outcomes and Measures This study explored the relationship between the way in which the oncologists “framed” the choice of surgery or chemotherapy as they made recommendations to patients, to patients’ conditions, and the choice actually made. Those results were compared to what prospect theory would predict for this situation.
Results Physicians seemed to present their recommendation of surgery or chemotherapy in a loss frame (e.g., “This is likely to happen to you if you don’t have this procedure”) when patients’ conditions were poor and in a gain frame (e.g., “By having this procedure, you can probably dramatically cut your chances of reoccurrence”) when their conditions were less poor. These results are what prospect theory would have predicted.
Conclusions and Relevance This study opens up the possibility that, as described by prospect theory, a person’s choice of framing behavior is not limited to how we naturally act for ourselves but includes how we act for other people, as the oncologists were acting on behalf of their patients. More research is necessary to confirm this line of evidence and determine whether oncologists’ decision making and framing is the most effective and entirely according to the best standards of care.
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Invest Ottawa expecting biggest AccelerateOTT turnout yet
Jun 7, 2018 2:50pm EDT
Invest Ottawa
Nick Quain
AccelerateOTT
Next week’s AccelerateOTT conference is shaping to be the most well-attended yet as organizer Invest Ottawa makes changes to deliver a more engaging entrepreneurship conference.
The local economic development agency expects 500 people to attend the annual conference at Lansdowne Park’s Horticulture Building. It’s the seventh year for AccelerateOTT, which aims to “fuel Ottawa’s entrepreneurial fire” by connecting students, startups, scaleups and investors in between a full-day of high-profile speakers and panels. Invest Ottawa says last year’s event sold 460 tickets.
One change from last year might help keep the networking and educational aspects of the event separate. The dedicated section for refreshments – where connections are often made over cookies and coffee – will be moved to an outdoor tent area. Also in the tent will be a returning favourite, the Startup Expo, which will see nine local companies on display showing off their solutions.
Nick Quain, Invest Ottawa’s vice-president of venture development, is stepping into his first year as an organizer at AccelerateOTT and says the decision to separate the networking area from the speakers allowed the organizers to fill the space with more seats.
The other benefit, he says, is reducing the “distraction” for speakers onstage. Invest Ottawa heard in feedback from previous years’ attendees that the energy and volume of networking could at times overpower the content onstage.
Scale or fail
This year’s theme, “scale or fail,” speaks to a common challenge facing both Ottawa-based startups and Canadian firms in general: an inability to take a strong start and grow it into a world-class company.
“The companies that get to $1 million or $2 million aren’t getting to $10 million, $20 million, $30 million,” Quain says.
There are plenty of reasons why companies such as Shopify are the exception rather than the standard in Ottawa, and AccelerateOTT hopes to address a few.
One of those reasons, Quain suggests, is lack of access to capital. This year’s conference will feature two investor panels: one aimed at early-stage financing, the other at female founders and funders.
Learning the ropes is one thing, but with so many investors in town to attend AccelerateOTT, the conference also opens up the door for a chance to pitch. The day after the conference, Invest Ottawa will be hosting a number of investors for a pitchfest at Bayview Yards. Some may even stick around for L-Spark’s Cottage Pitchfest next Friday.
Part of what’s keeping Quain busy lately is orchestrating these pitching opportunities, turning AccelerateOTT into a full-week event for local startups.
Emboldening entrepreneurs
The other side of the “scale or fail” coin is largely psychological. Quain says entrepreneurs working in the trenches often need to hit pause and find a little inspiration to continue the grind. He believes AccelerateOTT can be the boost Ottawa entrepreneurs need to carry on growing their startups. Speakers such as Assent Compliance CEO Andrew Waitman, who’s firmly in the midst of scaling his own company, can provide valuable insight and perspective to founders hoping to breakthrough to the next stage.
“It’s really meant to embolden our entrepreneurs to begin to think in this mindset,” Quain says.
Ticket sales and LinkedIn likes aside, many of Invest Ottawa’s measures of success for AccelerateOTT are anecdotal. Quain brings up the example of Ottawa-based FarmLead, which, after months of searching for someone to lead product development at the growing startup, found that person at a recent AccelerateOTT.
“Those are the types of things we look at,” Quain says.
This year’s AccelerateOTT conference takes place on Wednesday, June 13 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. with an afterparty following. Tickets are still available here.
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Students in Bengal allege attack by TMCP
Edited By IANS Published By IANS On Aug 28, 2018 - 10:07 AM
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Kolkata : Students of Jadavpur Presidency University and some other educational institutes on Monday alleged they were attacked by Trinamool Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) supporters outside a city-based college when they were campaigning for an upcoming joint convention on the educational policies passed by the Centre and purported corruption in college admissions in West Bengal.
A police official said they had received a complaint about some students being beaten and injured and said they were looking into the matter.
“We will talk about the Centre’s policies, TMCP’s mafia control during college admissions, etc in a joint convention on August 31. While distributing the leaflets outside Surendranath College, some people stopped us and started beating us. I was attacked with a brick,” one of the students said.
Another student said that he could not say if the attackers were students “but the way they were making their points, they were clearly the supporters of the ruling party”.
The students alleged they were stopped from distributing the leaflets ahead of the foundation day of the Trinamool Chhatra Parishad, scheduled on August 28.
“We were told we will have to bear the brunt for protesting against the TMC,” another student said.
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Risk Factors of Orofacial Pain: A Population-Based Study in West Java Province, Indonesia
Rasmi Rikmasari1, Gilang Yubiliana2, Tantry Maulina3, *
1 Prosthodontic Department, Faculty of Dentistry, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia
2 Community Dental Health Department, Faculty of Dentistry, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia
3 Oral Surgery Department, Faculty of Dentistry, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia
Publisher Id: TODENTJ-11-710
© 2017 Rikmasari et al.
* All correspondence to this author at the Oral Surgery Department, Faculty of Dentistry, Universitas Padjadjaran, Jl. Sekeloa Selatan no. 1, Bandung 40132, West Java – Indonesia; Tel: +(62)-82115513030; E-mails: tantry.maulina@fkg.unpad.ac.id, tmau4292@uni.sydney.edu.au
The management of orofacial pain in Indonesia has not been well performed, which consequently led to an increase in the orofacial pain occurrences and a decreased quality of life. One of the possible reasons for this particular matter is the lack of evaluation on the risk factors that might induce orofacial pain in some individuals.
The objective of the current study was to evaluate the risk factors of orofacial pain on productive age population in West Java province, Indonesia.
One thousand and fifty-six participants (522 males; 534 females) were recruited for the study. A questionnaire that consists of demographic questions and questions evaluating several assumed risk factors for orofacial pain was used in a single interview. All data was analyzed by using Chi Square test to test the significance, Odds Ratio (OR), as well as Relative Risk (RR) by using SPSS version 23 (IBM Statistic, USA).
The result of the current study revealed that bruxism (p<0.01), daytime clenching (p<0.01), and unilateral chewing (p<0.01) were significantly related to the occurrence of orofacial pain. It was also found that participants who performed multitude of heavy liftings at work have an increased risk (RR=1.19: 95% CI: 1.04 – 1.35) of having orofacial pain compared to those who do not.
Risk factors for the occurrence of orofacial pain on productive age population in Indonesian sample consisted of oral parafunctional habits and non-parafunctional habits, such as heavy lifting. Further study in this particular topic is of importance.
Keywords: Orofacial pain, Risk factors, Oral parafunctional habits, Indonesia, Temporomandibular Disorders (TMD), Unilateral chewing.
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Ibtisam Al-Hashimi
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Biography of Ibtisam Al-Hashimi
Dr. Al-Hashimi graduated with B.D.S and Diploma in Oral Surgery from the University of Bagdad. She received a Master degree and Ph.D. from State University of New York at Buffalo. Currently, Dr. Al-Hashimi is a Professor at the Department of Surgery, Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
Dr. Al-Hashimi has published over 160 scientific publications and she is the founding of Salivary Dysfunction Clinic in Dallas. She is the recipient of 2009 Salivary Researcher of the year and she is the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Dentistry Journal.
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Debates of Nov. 3rd, 2003
House of Commons Hansard #149 of the 37th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was c-46.
Specific Claims Resolution Act
Osteoporosis Month
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Bertram Brockhouse
Economic and Fiscal Update
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Yitzhak Rabin
Member for LaSalle-Émard
Raymond Schryer
Canada-U.S. Border
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Veterans AffairsOral Question Period
Winnipeg North—St. Paul Manitoba
Rey D. Pagtakhan LiberalMinister of Veterans Affairs and Secretary of State (Science
Mr. Speaker, we have been seized with this issue. In fact, as recently as last May, when we had $135 million, we decided to take half of that for other priorities of veterans and the other half for widows in the country. We started a new program, and we pledged that we would continue to work harder for others. The sensitivity of this government remains very high.
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Roy H. Bailey Canadian Alliance Souris—Moose Mountain, SK
Mr. Speaker, we have already had unanimous consent from the Veterans Affairs committee. We have had unanimous consent from this House, but still the government delays. To continue to deny these 23,000 widows is hypocrisy higher than the ceiling of this building.
Will this government commit to extending the VIP benefits to those widows and ensure that it is done before November 11, 2003?
Mr. Speaker, last May, when we had the situation, I consulted with the leadership of the veterans organizations and I asked them if we should proceed with what we had or should we wait. They advised me to proceed with what we had, and we pledged to continue to work harder for the others.
Minister of FinanceOral Question Period
Yvan Loubier Bloc Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot, QC
Mr. Speaker, last week, the Minister of Finance stated that he had paid for his trip to the Caribbean and his holiday aboard a sailboat with Sandy Morrison of the Brewers Association of Canada, whose counsel he had just followed in his budget at the expense of the microbreweries. The minister told the House that he had paid for his plane tickets.
Can the Minister of Finance tell the House how much it cost for him and his family to stay on this luxury boat, and in what amount the cheque in repayment was made out for?
Ottawa South Ontario
John Manley LiberalDeputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance
Mr. Speaker, that is none of his business. I can go on vacation with whomever I like, wherever I want, at my own expense. He has no right to ask such questions.
Mr. Speaker, does the Minister of Finance not find it odd that, in March, he was in the Caribbean aboard the same boat as a member of the Brewers Association of Canada, when just one week earlier, his budget supported its recommendation at the expense of the microbreweries?
All we are asking the minister is to tell us how much it cost for him and his family to stay on the boat, and to produce all the receipts.
Once again, this question does not concern government business.
Some hon. members
Oh, oh.
Order, please. The hon. member for Peace River.
Gasoline TaxesOral Question Period
Charlie Penson Canadian Alliance Peace River, AB
Mr. Speaker, last month members of this House passed a Canadian Alliance motion onthe federal gas tax. It called on the government to initiate immediate discussions with the provinces and to provide the municipalities with a portion to the gas tax.
Could the Minister of Finance tell us today when the federal government will start these negotiations with the provinces?
Mr. Speaker, the motion did not call for negotiations. I can tell him that the discussions commenced on October 10 when I met with the finance ministers from the provinces.
Mr. Speaker, it called for discussions that would hopefully lead to negotiations.
When he was the finance minister, the new Liberal leader had eight years to make this a priority and failed to do so. Given his track record, Canadians cannot count on him to follow through.
When will the present Minister of Finance correct this foot dragging and start these discussions with the provinces?
As I said, Mr. Speaker, we already discussed it. Certainly I did with several of the ministers when we met. I think the ability to put a formal arrangement together will require a great deal of work.
In the meantime, I remind the hon. member of the $3 billion of additional funding that was made available for infrastructure in the February budget. Much of this is flowing to Canada's municipalities to take care of important needs.
JusticeOral Question Period
November 3rd, 2003 / 2:50 p.m.
Randy White Canadian Alliance Langley—Abbotsford, BC
Mr. Speaker, Shawn Mackinaw killed his daughter Chassidy then buried her. He claimed he was drunk so the lawyers plea bargained the murder. They are saying that community service and an aboriginal sentencing circle should be adequate punishment.
Why does the justice minister not put limitations on plea bargaining so that such murderers cannot get away with just simply house arrest?
Outremont Québec
Martin Cauchon LiberalMinister of Justice
Mr. Speaker, the member refers to indeed a tragic event. He raises in his question many questions.
The first item that I would like to talk to is the sentencing circle. That has taken place in some provinces in western Canada and I would just like to say that so far what I have seen within the justice system it has proven to work properly, based on their culture.
Second, we know there is discretion existing in the criminal justice system. For example, they have raised the point of conditional sentencing, which is under review by the justice committee.
Mr. Speaker, this is exactly why the justice minister does not understand such situations, because the Sto:Lo nation does not have sentencing circles, yet it was plea bargained in. Chassidy's grandfather and other family members were never told this terrible crime was being plea bargained away.
Why has this government devalued the justice system to the point where the victim is a non-entity and children can be murdered without serious consequences?
Mr. Speaker, he has been to a sentencing circle himself. That is why I raised the point.
The second point, if the member would know exactly what is taking place at Justice Canada and in the justice system, he would know that at this very moment there is a national conference on victims taking place Ottawa. It is the very first one of its kind, sponsored by Justice Canada. I was there this morning to meet with those people, who will provide the justice department and our country with valuable comments that we will be using in our future legislation.
The EnvironmentOral Question Period
Jean-Yves Roy Bloc Matapédia—Matane, QC
Mr. Speaker, when questioned about Belledune, the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans twists our words by saying that we are asking him to intervene in provincial jurisdictions, which is completely untrue and he knows it.
I will read the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, section 35 of the act that he is in charge of administering:
No person shall carry on any work or undertaking that results in the harmful alteration, disruption or destruction of fish habitat.
If the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans refuses to use this section in Belledune, can he tell us when he does use it?
West Nova Nova Scotia
Robert Thibault LiberalMinister of Fisheries and Oceans
Mr. Speaker, we use this section when a project request is submitted and there is evidence that destruction could occur.
We are not going to use it for zoning at the provinces' expense for projects that we may or may not approve of.
Foreign AffairsOral Question Period
Svend Robinson NDP Burnaby—Douglas, BC
Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Last year a young Chinese student living in Burnaby, Amanda Zhao, was brutally murdered. Her boyfriend, Ang Li, fled to China and was charged in May of this year with her murder.
With no extradiction treaty in force with China, what action is the government taking to seek the return of Ang Li to stand trial in Canada for this terrible crime? The RCMP has done its job. When will the minister do his?
Malpeque P.E.I.
Wayne Easter LiberalSolicitor General of Canada
Mr. Speaker, the member knows that this is an operational matter of the RCMP. The investigation is in fact ongoing. The RCMP is continuing to work with the Department of Justice and with Department of Foreign Affairs on the matter to see what can be done.
Chuck Cadman Canadian Alliance Surrey North, BC
Mr. Speaker, the Greater Vancouver Regional District and other municipalities have expressed concerns about the government's proposed management plans for dissolved ammonia, among other substances, for the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. One primary concern is the potential for duplication.
Will the environment minister commit to harmonizing his proposals with provincial regulations, to ensure that municipalities have a so-called one window approach to waste water management?
Victoria B.C.
David Anderson LiberalMinister of the Environment
Mr. Speaker, I can certainly assure the member that our objective is always to harmonize our environmental regulations with the provincial regulations and also, where applicable, municipal. We will be looking at every opportunity to doing that.
That said, there is clearly an issue here that is being addressed on a nation-wide basis. There will be times when the nation-wide interests will supercede the municipal or provincial.
CinarOral Question Period
Richard Marceau Bloc Charlesbourg—Jacques-Cartier, QC
Mr. Speaker, in the CINAR affair, we know that the RCMP conducted an investigation and that a report may have been submitted to federal prosecutors or to the attorney general for Quebec, so that they could lay charges.
Since the RCMP report did not result in any legal action against CINAR, will the Solicitor General tell us if it was the federal prosecutors who received the RCMP report and decided not to prosecute CINAR?
Mr. Speaker, I cannot comment on this matter. I will take it under advisement and get back to the member.
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Independent Franchise Partners Selects Visible Alpha to Incorporate Unique Consensus Forecasts Into Its Research Models
Posted: Aug 07. 2018
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New York, August 7, 2018—Independent Franchise Partners (IFP), a leading global investment management firm, today announced it has selected Visible Alpha’s Insights platform to help streamline its research process and incorporate unique and timely consensus forecasts into its investment strategies.
Visible Alpha Insights captures the forecasts, assumptions and logic from thousands of sell-side working models and integrates them into comparable views across analysts. This enables portfolio managers and buy-side analysts to evaluate consensus at an unprecedented level of depth, instantly spot investment controversies among analysts and understand the unique insights these analysts have on companies. Currently there are over 70 brokers contributing their analysts’ raw working models and consensus information on over 2,700 companies.
“Visible Alpha helps us save time by providing access to and aggregating individual analyst models,” said Jayson Vowles, Partner and Portfolio Manager, Independent Franchise Partners. “The granularity and timeliness of the data is unique, and the Excel plug-in makes it easy for us to integrate the data into our own research models and to evaluate changes in detailed consensus estimates.”
“We’re delighted Independent Franchise Partners finds our Insights platform to be a valuable asset to their investment process,” said Emma Margetts, Head of European Operations. “Already a user of our Resource Tracking and Forward Calendar products, it’s great to expand our relationship with IFP to help improve another area of their business.”
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Independent Franchise Partners, LLP was established in 2009 to offer the Franchise investment approach to institutional investors through a dedicated, independent investment management partnership. The Franchise investment approach is based on the understanding that a concentrated portfolio of exceptionally high-quality companies, whose primary competitive advantage is supported by a dominant intangible asset, will earn attractive long-term returns with less than average volatility. This is particularly true when those investments are selected with an absolute value bias. For more information about Independent Franchise Partners, please visit www.franchisepartners.com.
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Being a Solo Founder: Pros, Cons, Tips and Tricks (2017) (baremetrics.com)
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superflit 5 days ago
I am the SOLO Tech/coder guy for a startup. The other part is the salespeople only.
The worst thing is not having anyone to bounce ideas and discuss.
"Should we do multi-tenant?" "Terraform + ansible, or Container?"
"Chef, puppet, ansible?"
Is my code good? or just "enough"? Am I good or lucky?
When you have a team it is easier to answer these questions.
kesor 5 days ago
Can always get a consultant for a few hours to hash ideas with
redis_mlc 5 days ago
None of those questions matter (aside from how to do multi-tenant.)
unlinked_dll 5 days ago
Sounds like y'all need to hire
Blake_Emigro 5 days ago
There are so many internal battles that you have; paralysis by analysis, over-optimization, learn/build versus buy, impostor syndrome, waiting too long to do xyz, and on and on. Then you have those days where you get stuck on something and wonder if anyone even cares about or notices what you do. But, would you have it any other way?
mrskitch 5 days ago
Loneliness is a big issue for sure. When I started browserless, it was very much that way. In all honesty when I open sourced the project it helped quite a bit, and it’s nice to hear both good and bad feedback versus wondering if folks like it.
That said, I think I’d make the same decision again. I like being the decision maker and feeling the weight of those decisions. And like Josh says, you can move so incredibly quick when an idea does surface.
throw03172019 5 days ago
Browserless is great! Thanks for a great product - Keep it up!
Disclosure: Paying customer :)
adventured 5 days ago
I've been an entrepreneur non-stop for about 20 years. 15 of those as a solo-founder, across a few different start-ups.
I'll echo the common ones: some loneliness (the sense of being in an exhausting fight against terrible odds by yourself); and not having a co-founder confidant to bounce ideas off of and to interrupt your bad ideas or occasional bouts of doubt & skepticism.
You can certainly find people to bounce ideas off of, however, two serious issues will routinely impede that: the occasional need for various degrees of privacy on internal development matters, and deep contextual knowledge of exactly what you're doing. Very few people on the outside are going to understand what you're doing well enough to provide super valuable opinions.
I've spent ~18 months working full-time on a new start-up alone. It was supposed to take half that time, of course. It's the most important work I've ever done by far and it's the last thing I intend to ever build as an entrepreneur. I would have enjoyed having a co-founder on this project, however, realistically few people would be able to go along with something this time consuming and risky (no salary for two years). Sometimes it's just going to be all on you and you have to want it badly enough to persevere.
It's a fascinating situation in the non-VC start-up land these days (that is to say, I'm intentionally not raising VC, I need max control to see it through long-term; a VC would fuck it up by prioritizing profit as the prime motive and their get-big-too-fast mantra). For a good engineer to join me for two years to do this, they might have to forsake $300,000 to $400,000 or more in total compensation. Or you have to take a dilution & control smack to the face up front and go raise a million dollars in VC. In my opinion, having watched the industry closely since the mid 1990s, the huge financial trade-off for engineers in doing non-VC start-ups is an epic problem that dissuades a lot of people (for good, sane reason). It's a simple equation: you're an engineer in a top five tech city, are you going to sacrifice a million dollars (possibly a lot more in SV) in total compensation across three to five years to do a thing, if that's what it takes? That's a monster risk to take, particularly if you're still in prime earnings years.
That equation also enables me and others to do things many other people won't or can't dare to try, they won't eat the shit necessary to do it, or can't rationally take on the risk. It weeds out some competition.
boris 5 days ago
> being in an exhausting fight against terrible odds by yourself [...] eat the shit necessary to do it
I think (from experience) that's a pretty accurate way to describe a software startup.
And so as you find yourself on the floor (continuing with the fight analogy) time after time, the question starts to creep in: "What's the purpose? Am I just wasting my life?" The usual answer is to enjoy the journey, the experience (maybe getting some flow), what you learn in the process (and you do learn a ton, no question there).
But the thing is, the further along you are, the less it is about learning or flow and the more it is about eating shit -- figuring out how to fix issue after issue after issue, often because of other people's poor decisions. In a sense, you become a lean and mean shit eating machine. And so the question starts to creep in again.
kayoone 5 days ago
You have all my respect for embarking on a journey that difficult and seeing it through. However, I am not sure it really weeds out the competition. Solo-self-financing founder competition for sure, but if somebody else with some money backing is pursuing a similar idea and can hire people, two years will get him pretty far ahead of what you can possibly do in the same time.
newman8r 5 days ago
I'm in the same boat, but doing it for 10 years not 20. I'm trying to put together a few small, tightly knit groups of solo bootstrappers like us to help support each other in our various endeavors over the coming years - feel free to email me.
alixanderwang 5 days ago
If you’re open to sharing, what are you building?
Sure. It's a new type of knowledge service (broadly in the Wikipedia, Quora, Britannica, Answers.com, wikiHow, Genius, et al. segment).
Like most people I strongly dislike what has happened to the Web. I love the Web, I grew up on the Web, I'll never stop being in love with it (particularly what it once was, and still can be - it's a choice that we get to make in how we build). This service is Web only. It's built to be super fast, so it uses no bloated frameworks. It uses no trackers. It uses no traditional analytics services. It doesn't require piles of personal info and I don't want to know who you are. It has no social media (no social login or buttons or trackers or accounts). The typical large content page weighs in at around 20-40kb in size and loads in 150-200ms with 8 requests, no cookies, 7kb of script, 4kb of css (I can push that further, but it's tight enough for now). There will be no images on the entire service (SEO punishment inbound) other than a small text logo. No ads. No pop-ups. No dark patterns like hiding content. It doesn't require users / readers to use JavaScript. All content is Creative Commons licensed.
The reason traditional VC can't be involved, is because they ultimately destroy all knowledge services they touch. I've been watching VCs (or private equity in the case of Answers.com; or giant corporations in the case of eg Verizon or IAC (eg about.com)) burn them to the ground for two decades now. To do it properly you have to prioritize what I call the knowledge motive, and absolutely minimize the profit motive. If you invert that value order, you'll destroy the service and you must inherently eventually betray the community that builds it up (this will happen to Stack Exchange; it has already happened to Quora). So this service is anti-commercialism; there is no business model going in; there will be no IPO; there is no exit plan; bare threads on expenses; it has to be run hyper thin, hyper optimized against cost and bloat. Doing that properly also helps keeps me independent. I have a ten year time frame allocated (including nearly two years into it so far), during which I'll push it forward and work on it no matter what happens, assuming I don't get hit by a bus or the equivalent. The ideal may or may not be to convert it to a charitable non-profit for long-lived purposes, assuming it works of course (I'm not assuming, I'm just doing it anyway because I want this thing to exist).
I've messed with building various knowledge services going back a decade. This hit me like a bolt of lightning back in April of 2018 and I began to flesh it out. It required a few revisions in concept before full build phase began. I had to take about three months in there to teach myself some new things I had to know to be able to build this to operate very inexpensively from day one and forward (I'm assuming it will never be flush via operations).
I'm probably going to do a Show HN this month or next for it and I'm going to begin showing it to some long-term Wikipedia editors that I know. Only a few people have seen it thus far, which breaks a good common rule - in this case I don't care, I'm not trying to find traditional product market fit, I don't have to desperately obey such concerns (it's solely my dime and my time), I built it because I wanted to, it will exist and persist because I want it to. There's a glorious freedom in that, and it might entirely fall flat initially or long-term - that's ok, I'm going in assuming the worst in terms of response; I'll see what kind of response it gets and decide on any adjustments.
I'm in this for the very long-term and plotted that way from the beginning. It's another reason typical VCs can't be involved, their horizon is short-term oriented. They'll destroy you trying to force you to get big fast, and it won't matter to them if they do it, even if the thing could have succeeded by growing slower. It's just one of many reasons why knowledge services are the anti-VC segment. If you ever see a knowledge service take on big VC, you already know the guaranteed outcome ahead of time: burned to the ground, forced liquidation for pennies on the dollar, or an exit sale before the VC runs out to continue funding the bloat taken on during the get-big-too-fast phase (and then the buyer runs it into the ground or shuts it down, hello Freebase).
So how will it stay afloat financially if it gains traction? Well, first, it's static cached text in the front, so it's dirt cheap to run at a very large scale. Beyond that I have some approaches that I think will work that I'll experiment with over time - it won't require much financially.
Unsimplified 5 days ago
I'm interested in hearing more about its general design. I've been thinking about knowledge theory since 2012 and my current solution is to attach a broad privately-curated knowledge base (ended up simplifying to a markdown-git repo for now) on top of a high-tech engineering business for results-driven credibility/cashflow.
Consider the modern landscape of information.
Wikipedias are exhaustive and generic. Therefore inefficient (full of low-value ideas, distorted learning curve). Anti-promotion policy against spam also disrupts linking to great resources. Best for basic descriptions and factual details.
Search engines are keyword-dependent and unfiltered. Therefore unfollowable (no idea progression map, ex. index) and requires active trust/relevance/value filtering (volatile, learning-rate-limited by current skill level). Best for targeted navigation (ex. find a local bus route) and first-step wide-index exploration (initial net thrown to catch better keywords/resources).
Forums/Q&A involve waiting for answers within a permitted-QA context. Therefore slow, not guaranteed, indexed chronologically not logically, usually brief/incomplete. Best for popcorn-community exploration and immediate needs for new info.
> Forums/Q&A involve waiting for answers within a permitted-QA context.
The question primes the brain for the answer. You can use that socratic lead structure without going with a traditional Q&A wait-and-pray approach (ala Stack Exchange, Answers.com, Yahoo Answers, and so on). It does require a specific system design though. You can induce and control the Q&As around a topic, you don't need to wait. Doing it intentionally and rigidly, in some cases leads to a far superior system, as opposed to the chaos and quality problems of junk filled Q&A sites like Yahoo Answers or Answers.com. In the history of the Web only one major traditional Q&A site has ever gotten it really right over time, that's Stack Exchange (and we'll see yet if their commercial interests don't erode what they accomplished, as the VCs demand their exit). The track record is abysmal because most Q&A sites are beholden to an inherently bad approach: relying heavily (and allowing) on large volumes of people with no specialization or passion for a subject to ask & answer questions (so you get a lot of low quality drive-by answers that have to be moderated away or tolerated). It's the equivalent of walking into McDonald's and expecting a five star experience, and then being surprised when it's not (when it was obvious all along exactly what was going to happen, only one outcome was possible). wikiHow, as one example, has persisted (while nearly all other how-to sites have died off in the age of Google Penguin/Panda/etc) at a modestly sound quality for so long, because they set the hows, rather than just waiting around for junk how-to questions to be asked and answered in a mediocre fashion by low quality drive-by contributors; and they accept a lower level of commercialism and volume. wikiHow worked because they do hows in a similar way conceptually to how Wikipedia does topic pages (it's all rather preordained down a strict funnel, instead of wild flailing). You can do the same thing in other ways in the Q&A segment.
Not to mention of course in most cases a site's desperation for ad clicks and page views causes them to intentionally allow volumes of low quality trash to populate their Q&A systems (what Quora turned to as it became obvious they couldn't fulfill their valuation otherwise), instead of aggressively pursuing only quality. Quality in the knowledge space is very slow, it takes enormous amounts of time and requires aggressive, consistent, persistent moderation. It takes a long time to build a high quality knowledge culture that self-reinforces, self-protects.
I don't personally believe all questions have merit, quite the opposite. This is another core flaw to the typical Q&A site. Few questions - in the grand scheme of all likely human-generated questions - have much wide merit. Numerous low value Q&A sites have overwhelmingly demonstrated that to be true over time. It's millions of people walking by, spitting on the sidewalk, and calling it art.
> Therefore slow, not guaranteed, indexed chronologically not logically
Slow is ok. Very few things of great value are built quickly, that's true today, and it has been true throughout history.
Guaranteed you can heavily influence, by adding source requirements and restricting contribution (stepped barriers to contribution, and site-culture acting as an enforcer). I use a system that adds more friction to contribution than Wikipedia for example (I don't directly compete with them, I'm not building another encyclopedia), however there are aspects to my system that play to that approach better than it would on Wikipedia, so it evens out. You also want to build a culture that regulates low quality contributions, including brief / incomplete; you can do some of that technically, however you ultimately need a human culture involved at the center, I believe it'll still be another few decades at least before AI can do it effectively enough top to bottom.
Indexing order can be influenced and dictated by editors into a logical structure, although this buckles under duress on the standard messy high volume Q&A sites with millions of people spitting on the sidewalk. Those are too disorganized, unstructured for that bottling / silo approach to work. The typical Q&A site is a landfill; landfills are mostly filled with high volumes of low value trash, you don't want to go in there and try to logically order it; it's a large amount of effort for a small payoff because the content isn't very valuable (does this rotten banana peel go before that one). You have to narrow the Q&As in topic, quality and volume, on the basis that not every question matters. If you believe every question & answer matters as a site, you end up as Yahoo Answers or Answers.com (ie worthless in the end).
Agreed. I wouldn't want to waste my time reading or organizing trash info. Focusing on high quality info makes sense. Time is limited so we better make and live using efficient systems. Without the clickbait adpalooza value inversion from typical VCs or a high burn rate.
I wonder how far you are in crafting the specific user experience. I create an account with my email/username/password then... I choose a topic to enter? Can anyone add a topic (reddit)? Or admin controlled topics (4chan)? No default topic isolation (hackernews)? Can questions be tagged with multiple topics (robotics, business)? How many sections do I see on the pretopic/posttopic pages (chrono index, logical-curated index, valuable-computed index)? Are normal questions excluded from primary sections (lesswrong)? What can curators/moderators do? How do I become a curator/moderator?
You are right about quality answers requiring passionate experts. And they like it when their great answers STICK. Data persistence (no "erasure after X days"). Higher positional visibility on the question page. Well formed question/tags complementing answer text for on-site/off-site SEO. Natural index that leads guidance-seeking novices/journeymen to learning-curved versatile-valuable answers without additional searching/questioning. Popularity of the infosite itself.
2 key points of consideration. 1. Learn from what existing platforms did right and wrong (stack exchange) and make sure you are sufficiently innovating. 2. Determine your platform design direction/niche by simulating concrete examples (agriculture, Q: tutorials for starting a smallscale commercial fruit/vegetable farm?). I would like to hear your thoughts on how you currently want the site/curation to process/organize that example question.
> I wonder how far you are in crafting the specific user experience.
In terms of launch to the public? 96% complete user experience. A few days of work at this point. In terms of the grand scheme of things, difficult to guess how user interaction & input will alter everything over the coming years.
> And they like it when their great answers STICK. Data persistence (no "erasure after X days").
Contributions are persistent based on their quality. They can be replaced by higher quality content, or removed based on spam / abuse and similar. Otherwise, quality contributions never expire and never lose their value (they don't vanish a billion pages deep, never to be seen again).
> Can questions be tagged with multiple topics (robotics, business)?
Tags are evil (in my opinion) outside of very specific platform types and should largely be avoided. It's an extra distraction, extra friction, extra layer of complexity, extra effort. All negative for the majority of contributors. It can work ok on a site like Stackoverflow, where you have a highly technical audience that will happily nerd out with tags. Less technical persons (most people) will hate dealing with tags. If you can do a thing without tags, it's almost always better to do it without.
> How many sections do I see on the pretopic/posttopic pages (chrono index, logical-curated index, valuable-computed index)?
Logical curated indexing. Sections (content sections or areas, like categories, I assume) are intentionally avoided for the same reason as tags. I've gone to great effort to avoid complexity. I probably put as much time into that as anything, it requires a constant vigilance to avoid bloat and unnecessary 'features.' It's beautiful in its simplicity, hopefully editors will just get it thanks to that, it functions mostly in an obvious fashion (in part by limiting what can be done to a very clear, small set of actions; small, simple actions producing potent combined outcomes over time, that's the ideal).
> What can curators/moderators do? How do I become a curator/moderator?
Almost anything, in stepped fashion. You join to begin contributing (you can do this thing initially, but can't do that thing yet), and you contribute to acquire granular influence over most everything on the site. As you prove you're not a spammer, a bot, a belligerent asshole, a low quality contributor, you acquire mod 'rank' that gives you permissions and greater influence on content. I can pretty easily change the granularity of the whole system, to adjust as I see how editors impact things, where abuse is happening, or where I need less friction on contribution.
Ranking up is not automatic, so it can't be gamed in automated fashion (which would unleash wild abuse). It works on a system from E0 (editor level zero; read-only punishment) to E5 (me), and starts at E1; editors max out at E4. Once you're high enough you can upgrade other editors in a limited way, which is where I begin to delegate outward to the community of editors. I start it, act as benevolent dictator, try to shepherd a proper self-sustaining culture, and then hand it off increasingly over time.
It has a discussion system built into to its backbone, that enables editors to effectively communicate and give feedback to eachother during content building. It should also further community broadly speaking, including system feedback. I'm debating whether to eventually add an inbox editor-to-editor messaging system, I think I might with enough usage (early on it would just be negative complexity layered on top, one more thing to get in the way); I like the idea of all communication being viewable by editors on the platform, so that goes against the inbox concept.
It has a community hub system that shows all activity, all content creation, occurring on the system at that time or in the past. You can scope in on any given activity and it's all basically permanent record (unless there's something particularly bad that has to be literally removed, doxing for example).
> and make sure you are sufficiently innovating
You know what's interesting about the knowledge space right now? These days it's so barren and filled with piles of rotting corpses (most of which have been rotting for a decade and barely qualify as functioning services now), that that issue (make sure you're innovating) isn't something I've spent much time worrying about. What were the last interesting knowledge platforms? Quora 11 years ago, Stackoverflow 12 years ago. Maybe Genius as well (but it has contracted back into itself, back to lyrics). Wikipedia is almost old enough to drink. Few are doing anything in the space. There's no money in it (better to chase enterprise SaaS or fintech), so VCs aren't very interested (every decade or so they collectively forget the past mistakes they made and fund a new round of knowledge landfills they'll run into the ground) - it's a wonderful time and opportunity because of all of that.
> 2. Determine your platform design direction/niche by simulating concrete examples (agriculture, Q: tutorials for starting a smallscale commercial fruit/vegetable farm?). I would like to hear your thoughts on how you currently want the site/curation to process/organize that example question.
It doesn't have sections (eg agriculture), it's not a niche service, and it doesn't do how-to questions or stand-alone question answering. This concept has never existed before at scale, it's unusual in its approach, and it'll immediately make sense. I don't know if editors will take to the knowledge format / approach, we'll see.
Let me frame it better: you don't ask questions on this service. You use questions.
Junk info removed, mediocre info replaced, tags avoided, logically indexed, curation anti-gaming power-tiered, simplicity focused. I like the principles a lot.
I assume that "using questions" means something like contributors post pre-answered questions, hearkening back to the "questions prime the reader for the knowledge" idea you mentioned earlier. Also was glad to hear you're keeping design elements flexible to upgrade to whatever works better.
Sounds a bit like hackernews for compact knowledge, and I am curious how you will handle the contribution rules without sectioning (what kind of info is allowed) and logical indexing design.
I'd love to take a look and offer my thoughts when you're ready for private review. It's hard to find people who share a proactive passion for the progression of knowledge systems. Couldn't find your email on your hackernews bio, so just email me instead!
adventured 1 day ago
Your assumption is on the right track. There are ways to use questions, in how they prepare the reader's brain to receive knowledge, that most services are entirely oblivious to. I won't pretend my system is a great advancement, it might fail entirely and accomplish nothing; however, it's absurd how little is actually being done in the space by the major players. I think it's because they largely don't care about knowledge and don't have a true knowledge mission; they're VC businesses playing pretend at it. Quora for example is a clone of a clone of a clone, there's nothing special about it other than it has very modest Silicon Valley refinement. It's the 427th Q&A site in terms of lineage. Their initial one-trick pony was elitism ala FB's Harvard.edu: getting elite people in tech to jump-start it, which pulled in the next tiers of contributors (and they all abandoned it accordingly as it went south, as the elites had no real personal stake in the health of the system; the elites that used to answer questions & interact moved on to posting selfies and stories on Instagram, never thinking about Quora again).
You have the traditional Answers.com Q&A format, which was quasi perfected (maybe as much as possible until AI systems get a lot better) by Stackoverflow. Little has been done with it, mostly what Stack did was aggressively fix moderation and focus on high quality content (and keep the focus there for a long time). You can build a great service just by doing some of those things right, and sticking to it, of course.
You have the knowledge segment technicians, that focus on obtuse, abstract, distant, disconnected technical solutions to structuring knowledge. The semantic Web bullshit (Freebase was a failed product of that) from 10-15 years ago was largely a stillborn spawn of that realm. You still have an army of obsessive knowledge technicians messing with similar semantic Web concepts, having entirely failed to understand the failure of that era and that the knowledge structure isn't even remotely the most important aspect to getting to the proper end goal of maximum knowledge distribution & access. Those hyper technical system efforts almost always die on the lab floor so to speak, and almost never actually impact or benefit the end users: the billions of readers out there on the Internet. It's like living in an ivory tower and never touching the end knowledge consumer. Wikipedia at its heart is a very dumb encyclopedia in terms of its technical structure, and it has done radically more for traditional knowledge access & distribution than just about any other modern service (save Google of course).
The next great knowledge service will probably not be great because it has a revolutionary technical underpinning like a more advanced Freebase or similar. Those efforts will continue to fall flat, because the end reader/consumer does not care about any of that, it's superfluous to what they want. It's like great engineers that can't build great products because they don't understand the user at all and that most people aren't interested in highly technical or complex solutions (tendency toward over-engineering, having no Steve Jobs-like taste or touch for product). Freebase and many technical knowledge solutions put a lot of the technical capabilities in the reader's face in presentation; the key to eg Google succeeding was that it hid all of its incredible complexity behind a single input box of ultimate simplicity. The next great knowledge service will be quasi-dumb in terms of advanced knowledge structure, more like Wikipedia (and or it will otherwise entirely hide its advanced technical structure from the reader and appear dumb / simple on the outside).
JeanMarcS 5 days ago
I’m 48, in the web business since 1997, and I agree with the way you feel.
3 years ago, I developed a small framework that spit pure HTML static website for my clients. Because 90% of the time it’s enough for small business that only want to be online.
Good luck on your project and I’ll sure be looking forward for your Show HN !
xorand 5 days ago
I'm interested to know more about it, especially if it can be used for Open Science. As a researcher, I look for the less bloated way to replace a scientific article with a corpus of work which can be independently used by other researchers.
kevinslin 4 days ago
sounds like a cool project. let me know if you want a beta tester :)
i too all a solo founder working on a better way to index knowledge bases so you can actually find information when you need it (alphacortex.io). always love to talk more about making sense of knowledge
lnsru 5 days ago
I am working alone, but at the end, there are many people with similar background around. I can discuss technical topics and applications easily. Of course, co-founder is nice to have. Another engineer at the very beginning and sales person with domain knowledge when rough prototype is on the table (I am in hardware business). The biggest issue with being alone is that nobody is funding single person ventures, bus factor is too high. Though I am not sure, if hardware ideas are easy to align with venture capital growth mantra in general. Maybe I will stay relatively small in small niche, that would satisfy me.
amirathi 5 days ago
I agree with everything except,
> Don’t add a co-founder after the fact
Late co-founder makes a lot of practical sense to me.
- It's less risky for the incoming person to join a small profitable company instead of joining an idea
- You broadly know the problem space you will be working in (market, customers etc.) and the vision/direction of the company. Less likely to have fallouts a year or two down the line
- More informed equity negotiation than just splitting it equally
sokoloff 5 days ago
While I'm not in the camp that says rigidly that a "founder" has to be there from the very first moment, I would struggle to think of someone as a co-founder who joined long after the company was formed and only after it was de-risked all the way to profitability.
That person would be an early employee in my book, not a co-founder.
hef19898 5 days ago
That article resonates a lot. Being a solo founder 3 months in, I can agree with basically all of it. Especially the over thinking and over analyzing part. You have the idea, got some initial positive market feedback, got a general direction and plan. But then you have to get out and actually do it. Which is a lot harder alone than I had thought. Not being in SV, there is less risk of a startup echo chamber so.
What did help a lot so far in my case was to get out and have concrete discussions with established people in my industry. Luckily I have some great people I can talk to, and bouncing ideas around with them on how to implement it and discuss concrete ways going forward to start a partnership really helped. It also forces you to get get moving.
And as some comment also stated, things tend to take a lot longer when you are alone than, at least I had, initially planned for.
ChrisMarshallNY 5 days ago
Good article. I like it when people share from personal experience, as opposed to theory.
In my case, I've been slowly building something up. It's been taking a lot of time. I'm fortunate, in not having to rush, and in not having to seek money from others.
I also have changed direction a few times. I started off, wanting to save the world, and have had to reduce my scope quite a bit.
I ran head-on into the ageism issue. No one wants to play with an old guy. Even though my particular mix of skills and experience are almost ideal for a startup, the grey hair outweighs it by a lot. It's been rather jarring.
So I just gave up trying to work with others, and am doing it myself. No matter. I have what it takes; it will just take longer.
It's not what I wanted, but it's what I got.
hbcondo714 5 days ago
Written in 2017 but certainly still relevant today, especially with his blog post from last month about almost selling for $5M:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22013700
paulie_a 5 days ago
If you are not a great salesperson you are doomed. 8 hours of your day should be selling. The rest of your day can be focused on tech
doctor_eval 5 days ago
On the contrary, the best sales person is the person who built it. They know what they’re talking about, they love the product, they can answer 100% of the questions with no bullshit, and customers can feel it.
Good customers love buying from founders. The most productive selling period of my life was when I downed tools for 5 years and went on the road with my sales manager.
As with all things the trick is to find the right balance, and the balance is different for every product.
Eikon 5 days ago
Ah yes, the myth of the 15+hours of work a day!
Not at all just that sales is more important than the shiny tech.
1hakr 4 days ago
I'm solo founder making microstartups. My recent one is https://visalist.io and it's making $7000 per month. I built all my microstartups startups to solve my own problems and that I think is the best indicator for successful product.
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Anambra 2017: Season of smear campaigns
Posted by Ifeoma Okafor, Awka | 17 November 2017 | 1,770 times
•Anambra State Government House Awka
Since the return to democracy in Nigeria, political campaigns in Anambra State had been one of ease lace, with a show of wealth and connection. The state witnessed a line-up of wealthy Anambra men who held sway in deciding who picks the baton, both for the Agu-Awka seat of power, national and state assembly tickets and appointments. The reason was because they had connection and enough money to buy people over to their side. The big guys who held sway then include Chief ABC Orjiakor, Sir Emeka Offor, Engr Authur Eze and some years later, emerged the Ubas from Aguata who took control from 2007. Those days witnessed campaigns that were issue-based, with money playing the major role.
Fast forward to the present political era, where an incumbent is fighting to retain his seat with an assumed political enemy on the other side of the bench, the dynamics have changed.
The change in dynamics was rebooted by the campaign-train and foot-soldiers of the incumbent governor, Chief Willie Obiano. Shortly before the campaigns kick-started, the internet was awash with name-calling and smear campaign targeted against the person of former governor Peter Obi. Though Obi is not in the race, but only supporting the candidate of his party Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the atmosphere appears to be so charged between him and his successor. Campaign on the side of the incumbent’s party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), is mostly directed at the person of Obi and the ills he did while holding sway. For example, at the party’s campaign in Njikoka, one of the speakers, Bianca Ojukwu, the wife of late Biafran war-lord, late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, took a swipe at Obi, saying that Obi left the vision and mission entrusted to him by her late husband and joined the umbrella party because of money.
Her words: “When Obi was re-elected, my husband, Eze Igbo, told him that upon him and APGA, we will build an infrastructure to take South-east to the Promised Land. But, Obi disappointed him.
“The rigorous campaign my husband embarked on in 2010 to re-elect Peter Obi made him to get sick, which finally led to his death. Obi left the vision and mission entrusted to him by my husband and joined the ‘Umbrella party’, the PDP, because of akpiri-ego (lure of money).
“He will not prosper politically in this journey and I ask Ndi-Njikoka to come out onNovember 18, vote APGA and protect their votes for the future of Ndigbo is in APGA. Nke a bu nke anyi (this one is our own).”
The campaigns – as currently obtained in the ongoing campaigneering of political parties – are bereft of issues, as candidates are busy criticising and digging up each other’s dirt. For example, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has overtly condemned the leadership style of Obiano. In one occasion, Nwoye accused the governor and his wife of stealing state money, saying that he had wasted all the money left in his care without doing much for the state.
The PDP, on their part, have continued to tow the line of presenting to the electorate the huge sums of money the incumbent governor have squandered as well as the debts already incurred but, even while condemning and criticising the government of Obiano, the PDP campaign train have in several occasions spelt what the central focus of PDP government steered by the combination of a retired Diplomat Oseloka Obaze and a lady of many portfolios, Chidi Onyemelukwe would be.
That include free education from primary level to JS3; placing the aged in the state on regular, monthly stipend; improving on the general well-being of Anambra people, etc. Obi had severally said that he was not supporting Obaze to slight Obiano, but only because, he is the candidate of the party he belongs to.
His words: “I don’t have any issues with Willie Obiano, he remains my friend. The person I have problem with is the Governor. I said it when we were campaigning for Willie Obiano that if he fails to do well, I will lead a campaign against him. That’s exactly what I am doing.”
In a recent interview, Obi had said that every statement he made to buttress the need for a change in the governance of Anambra State was the truth.
“All you hear me say about money I left, the accruals, total absence of projects, my savings are all verifiable. They sponsored people to make comments about N7 billion, but I have restricted myself to the truth, and I will continue to do so.”
The incumbent have also allegedly employed the services of some aggrieved members of the PDP, as well as the perceived enemies of Obi to work against PDP.
For example, a former governorship aspirant of the PDP, Dr Alex Obiogbolu – who came second in the party’s primary – recently claimed that Obi had opposed his candidature because he was from Onitsha, saying that he had hijacked the party and planted his man as the PDP candidate.
Also, the suspended former state chairman of PDP, Prince Ken Emeakayi, has been rumoured to be working for the return of APGA government, after allegedly being paid mouth-watering sums. Recently, a statement attributed to him accused the PDP candidate, Oseloka Obaze, of doctoring his PDP card.
There is also the fictional one month suspension of the duo of the Caretaker chairman of the party, Prof ABC Nwosu and the Secretary, Mrs Josephine Anenih, as claimed by the self-acclaimed chairman of PDP, Anambra State Caretaker Committee, Hon. Humphrey Nsofor. Though there is no official statement from the national working committee (NWC) of the party confirming the claim, Nsofor had explained that the duo got the hammer for breaching section 58(1) (a)(d)(h)(i) of the party’s constitution.
He also accused Nwosu of assisting the former governor to create a parallel party organ at the state level.
Another area of suppression is the defacing and knocking down of opponents’ billboards. The PDP standard-bearer, Mr Oseloka Obaze – who was the first to lament on the issue during an interaction with journalists in Awka – said that he was reliably informed that Obiano instructed the Anambra State Signage and Advertising Agency (ANSAA) to pull down billboards belonging to political opponents.
He said: “It is painful that after paying the required fee to ANSAA, the state government still directed them to pull down our billboards in Awka, Onitsha and other locations
“My supporters had brought reports of numerous destruction of PDP billboards and my campaign posters by the officials of state Signage agency who move around with official vehicles with the inscription – ‘Willie is working’ – and accompanied by security officers to damage billboards belonging to my party.
“On September 27, I paid the agency with receipt No: 0003951. And, in spite of the proof of payment, government chooses to damage the billboards they collected money for.”
On his part, Dr Chira Obiora, Director-General of the Campaign Organisation of Mr Godwin Ezeemo - the governorship candidate of Progressive People’s Alliance (PPA) – also lamented the destruction of PPA candidate’s billboards, which he claimed were being destroyed by persons suspected to be supporters of Obiano.
“We have been recording this problem of our billboards being destroyed by government officials, in spite of collecting monies from us; and the problem is getting more intense as we close in on the November 18 election date,” he said.
Also, the Tony Nwoye’s campaign organisation had expressed sadness over what it described as the wanton destruction of APC candidate’s billboards and posters across the state.
Though, it urged its supporters not to retaliate, the campaign committee chairman, Sir Azuka Okwuosa – who addressed journalists at the party’s secretariat in Awka – described the party’s candidate as a lover of peace, saying: “We know what to do. We will not be distracted. We are hundred per cent focused.”
Meanwhile, Mr Jude Emecheta, the Managing Director of Anambra State Signage and Advertisement Agency, said the reason for the poster fee was for the clean-up of defaced environment after the elections. He denied that the agency was responsible for the destruction of billboards, saying that only candidates who defaulted in payment have had their billboards removed.
He noted: “Our outdoor Advertising workers are officially saddled with the duties of pulling down any billboard that is indebted to the agency. In order not to be seen to be supporting the government in power, we reduced the signage fee from N9 million to N1million in each zone.”
The smear campaign employed by APGA against Peter Obi – who incidentally is not a candidate of any political party but only a supporter – took a hyper dimension when a leaflet defaming Obi was circulated at the party’s rally in Orumba north and south.
The leaflet with the inscription – ‘Obi’s self-inflicted Injuries’ – alleged that “religiously, Obi belonged to the Olumba, Olumba Obu moon and star church, with headquarters in Calabar by marriage, then a Catholic by birth, while being a strong cultist of different powerful orders.”
Neither Obi or the candidate of PDP have taken to name-dropping in retaliation but, while other political parties are busy canvassing for votes from the electorate, the three major contenders – PDP, APC, and APGA – are in fierce competition to woo voters to their side with smear campaigns.
One wonders where issue-based campaigns have gone, and if it will ever get any better. According to a political analyst, Echezona Eruchalu, “The dimension political campaigns have taken in Anambra State really gives me cause to worry. I don’t know how we got to this point, is it desperation or having the wrong bunch on the track? I expected this campaign to be an issue-based campaign; that way, voters will be well directed on who they line up behind. I have not seen any candidate that has impressed me: they are busy abusing themselves. I must say, it’s not the way to go; we need to grow, not retard.”
Given the foregoing trend, one wonders if voters will have enough armour to be able to decide on whom they should vote for, come November 18.
•Ifeoma Okafor is News Express’ Awka Correspondent.
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The House Backs Down on the Payroll Tax Cut
December 23, 2011 RSS FEEDLeave a Comment on The House Backs Down on the Payroll Tax Cut
The House Republicans’ stubborn opposition to the extension “may not have been politically the smartest thing in the world,” Speaker John Boehner said, in the understatement of the week. He still called it “a good fight.”
If the deal goes through on Friday — and even one angry lawmaker could stall it — the paychecks of 160 million workers will not shrink for at least eight weeks and three million jobless workers will keep their benefits. That will be paid for largely by mortgage fees, and negotiations will resume on paying for the remaining 10 months.
A Republican demand that President Obama make a decision on the Keystone XL oil pipeline will remain in the measure, as negotiated by the Senate last week. Republicans also won some minor adjustments to prevent small businesses from being harmed by the extension.
The struggle to reach an agreement, which was a clear victory for President Obama, exposed voters in the starkest way to the real temperament of the House that Americans elected a year ago. If the president wants it, they’re against it. If it might assist the middle class, as opposed to the rich, they will concoct an economic argument to oppose it. (“The payroll tax cut isn’t really that effective.”) And if it absolutely has to pass, they will throw in stray ideas — an oil pipeline, air pollution regulations — to win some part of their agenda, or kill the bill trying.
The Republican wounds this time were entirely self-inflicted. The crisis over the two-month extension wasn’t really about the payroll tax at all; it was about the hurt feelings of bumptious House members having to accede to a deal driven by the Senate and the White House. The real confrontation, over paying for the tax cut, is yet to come.
The only reason the Senate approved a two-month extension is that the two parties could not agree on how to pay for a full year. Before the House’s tantrum, Democrats had proposed an income-tax surcharge on millionaires, which would have been an eminently fair trade to help the middle class and the economy, but Republicans rejected it. The Republicans wanted to cut social spending more than the deal reached earlier this year, and make health insurance exchanges more expensive to undermine health care reform. Democrats were right to balk at that.
When the next battle comes, Democrats will presumably be facing a more cohesive group of Republican negotiators. Having already given in on the millionaires’ tax and the pipeline, they will have to push hard to prevent further damage to the economy. Still, this narrow victory showed the limits to Republican brinkmanship. Popular opinion was clearly on the side of the Democrats, as members heard from their constituents, and that momentum may produce a better long-term agreement.
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Nationalism's days are numbered, says Bruce Kent
It is now well over a hundred years since czar Nicholas II of Russia invited other states to come to The Hague, in the Netherlands, in 1899, to discuss possibilities for world peace. It is almost 20 years since thousands of individuals and peace groups came also to The Hague, in 1999, for an event to plan progress in the direction that the first Hague pointed to. I still have the booklet with ideas that came from that centenary meeting.
In 1999, we believed that we could challenge an anachronistic mindset and move towards a new understanding of human security. I used the term ‘castles and boarding houses’ to describe two very different points of view about the organisation of world society.
The castle is the old model of security. Of course, we liked to live at peace with our neighbours, but, just in case they turned nasty, we all had our separate castles. We kept the chains of the drawbridge well-greased; the cannonballs were stacked up neatly under the ramparts; the boiling oil was kept simmering on the fire.
That castle image has lasted for a long time. In some heads, it is still a positive fixation. But now there are new notions about security. They are not yet strong enough to change government policy in the most powerful states but they are influential nevertheless. For want of a better word, I describe this new view of security in terms of the boardinghouse image.
“Nationalism may still be the dominant world religion, but its days are numbered.”
Far from living in our separate castles, we, the seven-and-a-half billion inhabitants of this fragile planet, are actually living together in a rather run-down boarding house.
Inside the boarding house, there are different standards of comfort. We who happen to live in the west wing enjoy all sorts of privileges, from lighting and central heating to regular meals and a resident doctor. For the most part, conditions in the rest of the boarding house are deplorable.
Nevertheless, all of us live under the same dilapidated roof, all rely on electrical wiring which is highly defective, all use sanitary systems which are cracked and leaking, and all of us know that the floorboards are riddled with dry rot. There are, of course, no fire escapes. Granted that image, the idea that residents of the west wing can improve their security by being prepared to attack other residents in their east wing rooms makes no sense at all.
I was brought up in the castle tradition. My childhood was one of First World War memories from my father; of total silence and the booming of the guns on 11 November, and of cigarette cards glorious with pictures of our wonderful regiments and magnificent battleships.
At school, solemn portraits of old boys who had become military heroes looked down on us in the dining room. The cadet corps was compulsory but it did not need to be. National Service [conscription of young men for more than one year, lasted in Britain until 1963 – ed] was an honourable duty. Conscientious objection meant cowardice. For us, the war ended too soon in 1945. Well-trained in Christian ethics as I was, there was never a suggestion that the dropping of atomic bombs on 6 and 9 August 1945 was anything but an entirely legitimate use of force against an entirely ruthless enemy.
Cultures do change and it is our business to move them in the right – and peaceful – direction. We created the Movement for the Abolition of War to focus specifically on the mechanisms for abolishing war: international law, strengthening the UN, abolishing the arms trade and nuclear weapons, public peace education, mediation and peacekeeping, abolishing war by establishing justice and human rights, citizens’ action and campaigning, and so on. None of this will be strange to Peace News readers, but I’m afraid we still have a lot of work to get this understanding across.
Nationalism may still be the dominant world religion, but its days are numbered. People can see that the hurricanes brought by climate change do not respect national borders. Another more international and just world society is perfectly possible. This was The Hague dream and we still need to make it a reality.
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Cybersecurity – 6 Tips To Safeguard Your Information Online
by Rohit Shetty August 30, 2019 Software
Cybersecurity has been one of the most talked-about issues in recent times. It has been troubling big and small firms alike. If you are looking for a one-stop shop for securing your website and other online information, you’ve come to the right place. While it is great to be an expert in ethical hacking, knowing first the basic steps on how to safeguard confidential data is essential – may it be a personal or business information.
Whether you are an average internet user, or a personnel working for a business organization, or an employer at a huge firm, data security is to be taken seriously. If you don’t, you are making yourself and/or your company vulnerable to potential outside threats. With a number of methods at the disposal of hackers, you may end up getting your private data compromised before you know it.
CSO online details in its post, some of the recent most high-profile data breaches of the century. The most devastating of all was the breach of Yahoo. It resulted in the compromise of the data of all its 3 billion user accounts, including passwords. Later, Verizon acquired Yahoo and now the company is called Altaba Inc. Yahoo aside, eBay, Uber, JP Morgan Chase, Adobe and quite a few other companies have been victims of data breaches.
Hackers follow different ways to steal passwords and other sensitive information. Some of them are:
Brute Force Attacks: Where different possible password combinations are tried by using scripts or computer programs.
Phishing Attacks: Phishing is a method of stealing sensitive information; like username, password and credit card details. Mostly through an electronic medium like email. The attackers send an email to the recipient; that disguising as a trustworthy entity.
Server Root Exploitations: Where the server itself is targeted.
Dictionary Attacks: Where most likely and possible dictionary words used; in cyclic combinations to defeat a cipher or authentication mechanism.
Key Logger Attack: This is the most dangerous of all. A computer program is used to track the user’s keystrokes.
When such potent threats exist in the realm of the internet, the question arises. “What can one do to keep his/her website(s) and online activity hack-proof?” Well, let me get you started on that.
Access Only Secure Websites
Every time you are on the internet, make sure you are only accessing websites that are secured with the most essential features. This includes an SSL certificate. EV SSL (Extended Validation SSL) is the highest form of SSL types. You can see if a website has an EV SSL qualification, by checking for the following:
Green Padlock Icon
You can find the Green padlock on the extreme left of the URL bar indicates an SSL certification.
Next on the URL bar will be either the attribute HTTP or HTTPS (in green). HTTPS encrypts your information while it is in transit between your browser and server, and keeps your data within your bounds.
Company Authenticity
An EV SSL certificate displays the organization name and country code, again in green color. To obtaining an EV SSL certificate, a business need to follow a strict verification process. It entails added cost and time, and a process where the owner of the website has to go through a thoroughly and globally standardized identity verification process. This goes to say that you can feel perfectly safe if the website is EV SSL certified. You can buy cheapest EV SSL Certificate at just $79 per year price from here www.cheapsslshop.com/ev-ssl-certificates.
2. Conform to a Strict Password Policy
Many internet users overlook the significance of a good, strong password. That is probably because they don’t know how easy it actually is for hackers to gain access to your personal data. Once they have your basic personal data, for example, your nickname, pet’s name, hometown, favorite number, color etc, how long do you think it’s gonna take for them to put two and two together and find out your password?
You should use hard-to-guess passwords, which are long (at least 8 characters). Use a clever combination of letters, numbers and special characters. Avoid using real dictionary words.
You should also change your passwords on a regular basis.
3. Use a Password Manager Application
A password manager is a software application used to store and manage a user’s passwords. For someone who has a multitude of accounts across various websites, it will be difficult to remember the passwords used for each one of them. Not only do password managers solve this complication, they encrypt and store the login information, and enter them directly into forms. This way, hackers cannot use keystroke logging to purloin your passwords.
Most password managers also provide the additional feature of automatic password generation. It creates a good, strong and unique password that is hard to guess even with the help of the latest software. All you need to remember is a master password to unlock your password manager.
4. Social network privacy
Nowadays, the average Tom, Dick and Harry have accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and a slew of other social networks that have made a foray into our lives in the last decade. But not a lot of people have privacy concerns. Privacy is important because there’s no point in having data security if you can end up losing your rights to it.
Facebook and other social media pages ask for your explicit consent to share stuff you post online. Review your privacy settings on Facebook and other social media pages and make sure you are sharing your data only with the people you intend to.
On Facebook, for instance, you have tweakable privacy options broken down into categories. You can choose for friends only/ friends of friends/public to see your posts. Furthermore, you can also choose which apps to allow access to your Facebook account to.
5. Use an SSL VPN
SSL VPN is a form of VPN (Virtual Private Network). VPN is a technology that lets you create a private network within a public network. Using this private network, you can access your website or your company website and work freely, without having to worry about your data being stolen. So, if you access the internet on public networks frequently, download a VPN today.
6. Use 2FA
When conducting financial transactions online, make sure that the website you access provides 2 Factor Authentication. With 2FA, the user has not only to provide a password, but also a second security factor, such as an instantly generated OTP. A network that enforces 2FA is impenetrable to outside sources.
With the advent of IoT enabled devices coming into play, cyber security is only growing in importance. It’s time we realized the part that cyber security plays in our digital lives, and gave it the requisite attention.
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