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Leica’s SL2 Is a Mirrorless Marvel with a 4K Cine Mode
By Bryant Frazer / November 7, 2019
At the Paris Photo exhibition this week, Leica announced the Leica SL2, a new mirrorless camera with a 47 megapixel (8368 x 5584) full-frame CMOS sensor, five-axis image stabilization, and 4K video recording capability.
The CMOS has a sensitivity of up to ISO 50,000, Leica said, and is built with a suspended-sensor design that compensates for camera shake. It can also be used, when tripod-mounted, in a multishot mode that records eight consecutive half-pixel-shifted frames that can be combined to a single image with apparent resolution of “around 187 megapixels.”
Autofocus has been tuned up, too, with the introduction of an object-detection AF system. Leica said the camera can detect whether a subject is stationary or moving and switch between motion and focus priority.
Leica SL2 mirrorless camera
Leica stressed that, while the SL2’s L bayonet lens mount is compatible with SL-System lenses, it can also be adapted to use TL-System lenses, which are designed for image sensors in the APS-C image format. Cropped to APS-C size, the SL2’s sensor still delivers a 20 megapixel image, Leica said.
The SL2 weighs about 835g without a battery, Leica said.
Leica SL2: Pre-order it from Adorama.
Leica SL2 rear view
So the SL2 looks to be a magnificent beast for high-res still photography, but video is not just an afterthought. It supports 10-bit 4:2:2 4K (4096 x 2160) and UHD (3840 x 2160) output at up to 50p and 59.97p via HDMI out, or recording to internal SD cards at up to 29.97p. (UHS-II cards are recommended.) And it can shoot 8-bit 4:2:0 1080p HD at up to 180fps, making it a natural for fashion photographers and others looking to deliver moving images alongside stills.
There’s even a 5K .MOV mode with frame rates of 23.98, 25 and 29.97. According to a report in Jon Fauer’s Film and Digital Times, those recordings take place in an APS-C/Super 35 crop mode and at a 4:3 aspect ratio — which opens up some possibilities for anamorphic recording — but are limited to 10-bit 4:2:0 internal recordings.
The SL2 will be switchable into Cine mode, which disables automatic exposure modes, expresses shutter speed in degrees, and replaces f-stop indications with T-stops. That’s meant to help make the camera easier to integrate into traditional cinema-style production. The camera features 3.5mm jacks for headphone and mic, along with a full-size HDMI connection.
Leica’s specs show that the camera also supports Rec. 2020 (HLG) color space and L-Log gamma in addition to Rec. 709.
The Leica SL2 is expected to go on sale beginning November 21 at an MSRP of $5,995.
Leica SL2: us.leica-camera.com
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History of Roasted Whole Soy Flour (Kinako), Soy Coffee, Coffee Alternatives, Problems with Coffee, and Soy Chocolate (1540-2012)
Publication Date: 2012 Nov. 25
Three beans roasted:
Coffee beans, cocoa beans and soybeans. When they are roasted, their flavors become much more similar. After the Boston Tea Party, British colonists, accustomed to drinking tea, abandoned it as a protest in favor of coffee. Imported from distant lands, coffee is high in caffeine and historically high in price. So, starting in the 1800s, alternatives that were caffeine free and much lower in price started to be developed. Health reformers were quick to point out the many problems with drinking coffee; some developed commercial soy coffee as alternatives.
Names and popularity of roasted soy flour in East Asia:
In Japan, kinako (formerly called mame no ko) is widely used, although in small amounts, in a host of traditional Japanese confections – especially those relying on mochi (pounded rice cakes). It is called for in many Japanese cookbooks. In Indonesia, bubuk kedele (also called bubuk kedelai) is a minor food, often made at home. In China, doufu fen, is even less widely used than in Indonesia, and there it is also generally made at home – except in big cities. In Korea, where there is presently no standard system of Romanization / transliteration, roasted soy flour (and soy flour) can be written as k’onggaru (McCune-Reischauer system), konggaru, k’ongaru, k’ong karu. kong ka ru, k’onggomul and konggomul). K’ong means “bean” and gomul means “the flour of a grain.” Although all of these words literally mean “bean flour,” they usually refer to roasted soy flour, but they may also (confusingly) refer to unroasted soy flour. K’onggaru has a history dating back to at least 1827; today it is an important ingredient in misugaru, a traditional Korean summer drink.
Brief chronology of roasted whole soy flour (kinako), soy coffee, coffee alternatives, problems with coffee, and soy chocolate.
1540? – Mame no ko, the early Japanese word for roasted soy flour, first appears in the Nyōbō Shitsukegaki [Women’s Book of Manners] – according to the Nihon Kokugo Daijiten.
1542 Jan. 1 – Mame no ko appears again in the Tamon-in Nikki [Tamon-in Diary]
1587 June 19 – Kinako, the modern Japanese word for roasted whole soy flour, first appears in the Sotan Chakai Kondate Nikki [Master Sotan’s Tea Ceremony Cookery Menu Diary] – in the morning menu.
1690 – Daizu no ko, which probably refers to roasted whole soy flour, first appears in the Jinrin Kinmô Zui.
1690 – Matsuo Basho mentions mame no ko in a haiku poem.
1809 – The earliest known reference to problems caused by coffee consumption appears in a review of the book A View of the Nervous Temperament, by Thomas Trotter, M.D. He suggests that the nervous temperament may have been caused by consuming coffee or tea.
1838 – In The Young House-Keeper, William A. Alcott advocates a life of simplicity and temperance. One chapter, "How to begin reformation" (p. 389) states: "And as to drinks, in the case of those who, though they are willing to relinquish tea and coffee, are determined to drink something or other which is hot, we leave them chocolate, cocoa, (or shells,) corn coffee, bread coffee, wheat coffee, rye coffee, chestnut coffee, and a multitude of other drinks of the same general class. Multitudes, when they first began to abandon narcotic drink, have substituted, for a time, simple warm water, with milk and sugar in it;…”
1858 Jan. 9 – In an inquiry to Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, W.H.S. of Phoenix, New York, asks for “information respecting the Coffee plant, a few seeds of which I obtained from the East this spring, and planted in my garden. They grew exceedingly well, and promised a good yield. But owing to a heavy hail storm that occurred the 31st of July, it was badly injured.” Answer: This plant is actually the Japan Pea (an early name of the soybean). This is the earliest document seen that uses the word "coffee" in the name of the soybean or in connection with soybeans.
1867 – The word “kinako” is first used in English in A Japanese and English Dictionary, by James C. Hepburn. After the two Chinese characters (kanji) meaning “yellow flour” he writes: “A kind of food made of beans.” The context shows he does not realize kinako is made from soybeans.
1869 – Die Gartenbohnen. Ihre Verbreitung, Cultur und Benuetzung. Zweite vermehrte Ausgabe [Garden beans. Their distribution, culture, and utilization. 2nd expanded edition], by George Martens is published in German. This is the earliest document seen which states clearly that soybeans have been (or can be) used as a coffee substitute (als Kaffeesurrogat). It is also the earliest German-language document seen that mentions soy coffee.
1873 – Les plantes alimentaires [Edible plants. 2 vols.]. by Gustave Heuzé is published in French. It says that one of the many names of the soybean in French is Dolic à café (the coffee bean). This is the earliest French-language document seen that uses the term Dolic à café to refer to the soybean. This is also the earliest French-language document seen that refers to the soybean in connection with coffee.
1876 March 15 – The Health Food Company of New York City advertises in the New York Medical Eclectic that it will soon be selling “Cereal Coffee, designed to supersede coffee and tea, for the use of those with whom these substances disagree, and who yet require a warm beverage. This Cereal Coffee contains all the nutritive matter of the grain,…”
1877 Jan. – Prof. Friedrich Haberlandt, the famous soybean researcher in Vienna, Austria, in an article about soybean cultivation in the Landwirthschaftlichen Versuchs-Stationen states (in German, p. 270-71): Soybeans roasted at 160°F taste delicious and surpass all other plants that have heretofore been used as coffee substitutes.
1877 – The father of A.A. Horvath markets the world’s earliest known commercial soy coffee in Russia (Horvath 1927).
1878 – In his classic German-language book Die Sojabohne, Friedrich Haberlandt of Vienna first mentions soy chocolate. He writes (p. 87-110): Soy coffee is already produced in South Tirol [Austria] and Istria [now a peninsula in Croatia and Slovenia]. Mr. Franz Mark of Budapest [Hungary] pointed out the possibility of using soybeans as a chocolate substitute, for which it would undoubtedly serve better than the peanut, which, in Marseilles [port in southern France], is mixed with sugar to make an inexpensive chocolate substitute.
1885 Feb. – In a letter to the editor of Good Health (Battle Creek, Michigan), L.B.P. asks how to make “caramel coffee.” Answer: “This preparation, sometimes known as cereal coffee, is made by roasting in the oven a mixture of molasses and [wheat] bran, or coarse middlings” [of wheat].
1888 April 27 – A classified ad in the Brisbane Courier (Queensland, Australia) states: "Drink Caramel-Cereal! Elegant, fragrant, harmless, and perfect substitute for coffee. Sanitarium Health Food and Supply Agency,…” This is the earliest known use of the term “Caramel-Cereal” to refer to a coffee substitute.
1892 Oct. – An unnumbered page at the end of Georgia Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin No. 18 bears the large, bold title "Caution to farmers." It states: "Farmers are advised to beware of a man in Missouri who is attempting to sell seeds of what he calls the 'Domestic Coffee Berry,' at the fabulous price of twenty-five cents per hundred seeds, in 'small quantities,' and at 'wholesale rates of $3.50 per pound.' He claims that 'parched and ground' it is almost equal to 'store coffee.' It is, in truth, a fair substitute for coffee, but the plant is nothing more than the Soja Bean or Japan Pea, which was distributed throughout the South twenty years ago and is now abundant and can be had for two or three dollars a bushel.” Note: In Nov. 1892 the plant is first called “Cole’s Domestic Coffee Berry.”
1892 – The term “coffee substitute” is first used in English in an article titled “Foods and food adulterants” by H.W. Wiley. Adulterants (such as chicory, dandelion roots, grains and beans) were widely used in coffee in the 1800s and early 1900s.
1894 May – The term “soy coffee” is first used in English in an article titled “A substitute for coffee” by Charles S. Plumb of Lafayette, Indiana.
1897 – Father Sebastian Kneipp of Bavaria, the pioneer of hydrotherapy in Europe, in his book Care of Children in Sickness and Health, writes (p. 165): "Malt coffee is an excellent nourishment for little children. I am convinced that children who, for a whole year, have consumed milk with malt coffee as their only food must prosper splendidly."
1910 – Frank N. Meyer (in the Republic of Georgia), in a letter to David Fairchild of the USDA, reports (p. 949-50) that he discovered a commercial “soy coffee” made by a firm called “Argot” at the Sta. Quirili on the railroad from Batoum [probably Batumi, formerly Batum, a city and seaport on the Black Sea] to Tiflis [Tbilisi or T'bilisi, capital of the Republic of Georgia]. This is one of the the world’s earliest known commercial soy coffees.
In 1912 Li Yu-ying of Usine de la Caseo-Sojaine at Valles, Colombes (near Asnieres, Seine), northwest of Paris, France, is making and selling roasted soy flour, soy chocolate (Chocolat de Soja), and soy coffee (Le soja comme café).
1912 March 3 – The term “powder” is first used instead of “flour” to refer to roasted whole soy flour – by Nestor Bergey in a British patent.
1918 March – In the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin No 182, Arao Itano, a Japanese researcher living in Amherst, Mass., gives the first recipe for making roasted soybean coffee at home. He grinds the roasted soybeans in a coffee mill.
1918 April 17 – Two entries in the USDA Bureau of Plant Industry, Inventory No. 42 (40019. No. 14 and 40120, No. 15) state that light green soybeans and green soybeans are used to make kinako (roasted whole soy flour).
1921 – T.H. Van Gundy of La Sierra Industries, Arlington, California, introduces La Sierra Smoein (Bacon Flavored Smoked Soy Powder Seasoning), made from roasted soy flour) – as a commercial product.
1923 – The term “soybean coffee” is first used in English by Piper and Morse in their classic The Soybean. It is the title of a section.
1927 Jan. – A.A. Horvath gives an interesting early history of “soybean coffee” in an article titled “The soybean as human food.” He writes (p. 30-31): "During the period of the Civil War in America, the soybean was extensively used in the southern states as a coffee substitute. For a considerable time seedmen sold the Ito San variety under the name of Coffee Berry and Coffee Bean (Piper & Morse [1923]). Soybean coffee has been used in Western Europe, in Switzerland, and in the Alpine Provinces of former Austria since the introduction of the soybean to Europe. Horvath [probably the writer’s father], 50 years ago [i.e., about 1877] was the first to prepare soybean coffee for the market in South Russia. In 1913 Marschner (Bohemia) put on the market a soybean 'coffee without caffein' [caffeine] under the trade mark 'Santosa.' In Germany, Fischer and Follmann (Dresden) also manufactured soybean coffee for the market... In China an 'artificial bean coffee' is prepared by the Kai Cheng Bean Products Company, Peking. (Note: Li Yu-ying is connected with this company).
Note 2. So far as we know, no one has been able to document the claim that the soybean was widely used during the Civil War in American as a coffee substitute.
1928 Aug. – The term “roasted soybean flour” is first used in English in a letter from W.J. Morse in Tokyo, Japan, to be read before the 1929 convention of the American Soybean Association at Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
1929-1930 – P.H. Dorsett and W.J. Morse, in the log of their expedition to East Asia, provide detailed information, with photographs, about kinako and kinako products in Japan.
1930 – P.H. Dorsett and W.J. Morse, in the log of their expedition, provide detailed information about roasted soybeans and commercial soy coffee in Manchuria.
1930 – P.H. Dorsett and W.J. Morse, in the log of their expedition, provide the first detailed information, with photographs and product names, of roasted soybean flour and its products in China.
1929 – T.H. Van Gundy of La Sierra Industries, Arlington, California, introduces La Sierra Mamenoka (Roasted Soy Flour) – as a commercial product. Note that the word "Mamenoka" bears a close resemblance to "Mamenoko," the early Japanese word for "roasted soy flour."
In November of the same year, La Sierra Soy-Co (Soy Coffee) [Coarse, or Fine Grind] is launched.
1931 – In Vegetables of the Dutch East Indies, J.J. Ochse notes – concerning the soybean: "The seeds can also be roasted and afterwards pounded. The boobook, boobook delé or boobookan (Jav.) is eaten in the shape of powder, usually with the addition of lombok and other ingredients." This is the earliest English-language document seen that mentions Indonesian roasted soy flour. Today this roasted soy flour is usually called bubuk kedele or bubuk kedelai.
1934 April – Loma Linda Food Co. of Loma Linda, California, launches Loma Linda Breakfast Cup – a coffee substitute. By 1944 the main ingredient was roasted soybeans.
1936 – Madison Foods of Madison, Tennessee (at a Seventh-day Adventist school) introduces Soy-Koff (Alkaline Coffee Substitute. Renamed Zoy-Koff in about 1939) in Regular, or Fine Grinds.
1964 – Kinako (Roasted Soy Flour) is made at the Kanai Nissei Shokai (Later called Kanai Tofu Factory) in Honolulu, Hawaii. It is the first kinako made in the United States.
1965 – In his unpublished book Soybean Utilization in Japan, William Brandemuhl has an excellent section on “Kinako” (p. 360-66) in which he describes (with photos) how it is made commercially and gives the earliest known market statistics and trends for roasted whole soy flour in any geographical region of the world.
A separate and independent description and market analysis is given by Tokuji Watanabe in 1969. He says about 12,000 metric tons of soybeans are used per year in making kinako in Japan.
1971 Nov. – Eden Foods of Ann Arbor, Michigan launches Kokoh, a macrobiotic grain coffee that includes roasted soy flour.
1976 – In An Inventory of Information on the Utilization of Unprocessed and Simply Processed Soybeans as Human Food (197 pages), H.L. Wang et al. state in their section on “parched or roasted soybeans” in Korea: "Soybeans are first roasted and then ground to a flour. The flour is extensively used as an ingredient in various food preparations." This is the earliest document seen that mentions roasted whole soy flour in Korea – however no Korean name for this flour is given.
1977 Sept. – As coffee prices skyrocket, Shirbroun’s Best Brew: 100% natural Soybean Brew (a coffee alternative) developed by Darrell Shirbroun of Iowa, is launched.
1978 Sept. – Arrowhead Mills of Hereford, Texas, launches “Soy Flour, Roasted” in 30 lb bulk bags.
1982 May – The term “roasted whole soy flour” is first used in English by Shurtleff & Aoyagi in an unpublished book chapter titled “History of roasted soy flour, soy coffee, and soy chocolate.” That chapter is now on their website www.soyinfocenter.com.
1983 Sept. 11 – H.L. Wang (in a letter to Wm. Shurtleff at Soyfoods Center) says that in China, roasted whole soy flour is called huang dou fen.
Dr. Wang ate this product during her college years in China in Szechwan and Jiangsu provinces during the 1930s. It is generally made at home.
1987 – Cabino: The Coffee Alternative, is launched by Cabino Inc. of Sherman Oaks, California. It is made from 100% roasted soybeans.
1991 May – Incognito: The Coffee Alternative (Original, or Mocha Traces) is launched by Incognito of Santa Monica, California. It is made from 100% roasted soybeans.
1995 – The term “roasted whole soybean flour” is first used in English by Lester A. Wilson of Iowa State University.
1998 – Soyfee's Choice: Hazelnut, French Vanilla, Mocha, Almond-Amaretto, Original, Dark Roast, Breakfast Blend (half real coffee + half roasted soy) is introduced by Soy Coffee Roasters of New York City.
1999 April – Well-Bean Coffee (Blend of Equal Parts Roasted Soybeans {Soy Coffee} and Real Coffee) in Regular: Swiss Chocolate, Hazelnut, or Traditional; or Decaf: Swiss Chocolate, Hazelnut, or Traditional – is launched by Well-Bean Coffee Co. Inc. of Rochester, New York.
2001 Nov. – Rocamojo: Roasted Soy Coffee (Regular, or Rocamojo Blend – Soy & Coffee) is introduced by Rocamojo LLC of Studio City, California.
2002 March – Café de Soya is launched by Jamasuto Inc. of Sherman Oaks, California.
2005 March – JavaSoy (Original and Decaf: Breakfast Blend, French Vanilla, Vanilla Hazelnut, Caramel Cream) is introduced by Adler Foods, Sharpsville, Indiana.
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“TCL is thrilled to team up with The Ellen DeGeneres Show and allow her fans a chance to get to know the TCL brand and TCL’s Roku TVs for the sixth straight season. With stunning picture quality and endless streaming content, our televisions are the perfect way to watch the show every day of the week,” said Chris Larson, senior vice president, TCL. “We bring a premium viewing experience into living rooms nationwide through our award-winning TCL TVs so a hit talk show that delivers award-winning entertainment to homes across America is the perfect fit for our brand.”
TCL entered North America with its award-winning TCL Roku TV models five years ago, changing the consumer electronics industry with its explosive success and solidifying the company as a leader in the smart TV space. The TCL Roku TV lineup has been awarded industry accolades from top product reviewers, helped facilitate the cord-cutting movement and provided a premium smart television experience unlike any other. TCL Roku TV customers have access to America’s #1 TV streaming platform where they can easily access 500,000+ movies, shows and more across both free and paid channels.
Recently, TCL announced its most powerful television lineup since its introduction to the North American market. The 2019 portfolio continues to raise the bar for home entertainment solutions, delivering pure and rich colors in a variety of screen sizes. Throughout the show’s new season, TCL will be giving away 65” smart TVs that offer crisp 4K HDR picture performance for precise clarity and detail.
“As America’s fastest-growing TV brand and one of the world’s best-selling electronics brands, we can attribute that incredible growth to TCL’s innovative products, vertical integration and longstanding partnerships like our collaboration with The Ellen DeGeneres Show so we look forward to another exciting season together,” said Larson. “Helping us win the hearts of so many consumers has been critical to our success in securing the #2 market position just five years after teaming up and has also led to our successful expansion into other categories. We’ve added high quality sound bars and headphones to the TCL portfolio and trust that The Ellen DeGeneres Show’s enthusiastic fan base will embrace these new offerings as well.”
For more information on TCL please visit http://www.tclusa.com/ or follow TCL on Twitter (@TCL_USA), Instagram (TCL_USA) and Facebook (@TCLUSA).
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Tori Stafford murder trial: Terri-Lynne McClintic describes killing little girl
By Rosie DiMannoStar Columnist
Wed., March 14, 2012timer7 min. read
Yes, hide her face so you can’t see what’s being destroyed.
I can’t begin in the middle, with an accused killer in the back seat of a Honda Civic with the little girl, allegedly raping her repeatedly.
I can’t even begin at the beginning, with Tori Stafford trustingly putting her small hand into the palm of the teenager who’s admitted to abduction: Come see my Shih Tzu puppy, sweetheart.
There is no soft place to land in any of the ghastly testimony that Terri-Lynne McClintic delivered in a quiet, halting voice from the witness stand Tuesday, entire minutes of silence passing between questions and answers.
It is a wrenching narrative that can’t be told with dignity for the victim or sensitivity for her parents, both of whom listened with expressions of horror and excruciating pain.
Tara McDonald buried her head in her fists, a curtain of dark hair obstructing the view of a mother’s grief. Rodney Stafford wiped tears away with his shirt sleeve. They came to bear witness to a beloved daughter defiled and slain. These are the images they will carry to their graves, and Tori’s voice in McClintic’s mouth.
“Don’t let him do it to me again,” the child had begged.
“Stay with me,” she’d pleaded.
McClintic ignored Tori’s screams, walked away from the torture being inflicted on a child, turned her back on the youngster she’d procured.
And then, says McClintic, she killed her.
Stopped gazing mutely, stupidly, at the horizon from where she’d been standing at the edge of a field.
“I went back to the vehicle and I savagely murdered that little girl.”
She was the one, McClintic told court, and not Michael Rafferty, who’s on trial for first-degree murder, sexual assault and kidnapping. And though McClintic had pleaded guilty to first-degree murder two years ago, is serving a life sentence for it, the raw statement, the claim, stunned everyone in the packed courtroom.
It just hung there, the inhumanity of so beastly a crime.
The witness doesn’t look much like she did in a Woodstock courtroom on April 30, 2010. Her hair has been lopped off, cut to chin-length and stylishly framing a round face that still carries pudgy baby fat. McClintic is 21 now. In the defendant’s dock, 31-year-old Rafferty has shorn his hair from a week ago, shaved now into a military cut, like a jarhead.
He keeps his head down mostly, scribbling on a note pad.
Under direct examination from Crown Attorney Kevin Gowdey, McClintic described what she says happened late on the afternoon of April 8, 2009, a few hours after Tori had been lured away while leaving Oliver Stephens elementary school in Woodstock.
She’d stared at a silo in the distance, trying to block out the sounds of assault coming from the car parked about 12 metres away from where she stood.
“I kept having flashbacks. Sometimes it was like I wasn’t even there. I realized I needed to do something so I turned back to the vehicle and . . . when I saw what was going on, all I saw was myself when I was that age and all the anger and hate and rage that I’d had and blame that I still feel towards myself came boiling up out of me.”
It was all about her rage, you see, not what Tori was suffering; Tori who was still alive at that moment, lying on the ground alongside the Honda, as McClintic recalled it. “I . . . I . . . I started kicking her.”
A garbage bag — one of those McClintic had bought earlier — was placed over Tori’s face. Who put it on her, Gowdey asked? “I believe it was me.”
Then, in the passive voice: “She was struck with a hammer.”
Gowdey: “Who struck her with a hammer?”
McClintic: “Me.”
This is the Crown’s witness, their key witness against the accused.
Then Rafferty, McClintic testified, began “putting the rest of her” in more garbage bags.
“He yelled at me to help him . . . that I was in just as far as him now. So I helped him.”
Together, court heard, they buried Tori under a pile of rocks beneath a tree. The child’s remains would be found 103 days later.
Yet McClintic knew how it would end for Tori, realized it when the couple was driving away from the school, with the child sitting on the floor in the back seat, Rafferty’s pea jacket thrown over her, and certainly knew when they turned down a rural laneway north of Guelph.
“We can’t keep her and we can’t take her back,” McClintic says Rafferty told her.
It could have halted there, if McClintic had done . . . something, anything. Instead, she chose not to challenge Rafferty. So she made small talk with Tori, convinced Rafferty to at least allow the child to sit up.
“There was a little bit of conversation with Tori. That was me trying to reassure her, tell her everything was going to be okay. I guess reassure myself at the same time.”
Stop it here, McClintic’s account of what happened to that frightened yet preternaturally brave youngster. Go back to the start, a few hours earlier, a few months earlier.
McClintic fatefully crossed paths with Rafferty in February 2009, while picking up a pizza. She was a teenager of low self-esteem, born to a mother who’d given her away to “a fellow dancer” at birth, raised by this woman who was both an alcoholic and drug addict. By her late teens, McClintic — who only finished Grade 8 — was also a heavy user of OxyContin and other drugs, with six arrests on her record, charges ranging from robbery to assault.
On the day McClintic met Rafferty she had sex with him in his car.
They dated, though Rafferty could be cruel, “like he was so much better than me, making me feel real down on myself.”
That April 8, McClintic, after signing in at a local employment centre, returned home and found Rafferty waiting in the driveway. Rafferty said he was going to Guelph and would she like to come? Instead, he parked beside Oliver Stephens school. “So, are you gonna do it?” he asked McClintic, she told court. “I said, ‘do what?’ He said, ‘I knew it. I knew you were all talk, no action.’ ” She understood what he meant. Earlier in their relationship, Rafferty had casually asked: “Would you think it was weird if I asked you to kidnap somebody?”
McClintic told court she became defensive when Rafferty accused her of being all talk and no action, ready to prove herself game. “He said I just want you to grab someone. He said it’ll be easy. ‘All you have to do is talk about dogs or candy or something like that.’
“He told me he wanted a younger female because the younger they were, the easier they were to manipulate.”
She got out of the car. “My plan was to say I couldn’t find anybody.” As she walked toward the school, Rafferty pulled up closer, parking at a nearby retirement home. Kids were just getting out of school. McClintic spotted Tori, a little girl walking by herself. McClintic fell in alongside. “I remember asking her name and if she wanted me to walk with her. I remember her telling me her name was Victoria but everybody called her Tori.”
They chatted about dogs. Tori said she had a Shih Tzu. McClintic said she had one too, a puppy in the car, inviting the child to come have a look. As they crossed the road “she grabbed on to my hand.”
When Tori peeked into the back seat of the Honda, McClintic pushed her in and they took off.
From the back seat, a frightened Tori asked where they were going. McClintic said she tried to calm the child by asking her favourite colour (purple), favourite time of year (Halloween) and favourite TV character (Hannah Montana).
They drove to a Tim Hortons where McClintic stayed with Tori while Rafferty went inside. They stopped to buy Percocet at a dealer’s house. When they made another pit stop so Rafferty could withdraw money from an ATM, Tori told McClintic not to leave her with the man. In Guelph, they pulled into a Home Depot where, as instructed, McClintic purchased garbage bags and a claw hammer.
Tori demanded to know “when could I go home?”
“I said I’d make sure she got home, that I wouldn’t let anything happen to her.”
She lied.
Coming off the highway, bumping over country roads, Rafferty began masturbating as he drove. That’s when he said they couldn’t keep Tori.
In a secluded copse, with McClintic allegedly out of the vehicle, Rafferty clambered into the back seat. “I knew what was going to happen and I didn’t want to be there when it happened,” she testified. “I believed he was going to rape Tori.”
He did.
“I could hear voices, yells. I heard Tori scream.”
McClintic said Rafferty summoned her because Tori needed to go to the bathroom. “She grabbed on to my hand.” The child was naked except for her Hannah Montana T-shirt. As the child urinated near the car, McClintic noticed “blood in the snow.”
“I told her I was sorry. She said, ‘Just don’t let him do it again.’ I told her she was a very strong girl.”
When McClintic returned Tori to the car, “she still had a hold of my hand. She didn’t want to let go. She asked me to stay with her. So I got in the front seat and I tried to hold on to her hand. But I knew what was about to happen and that I couldn’t be there for that.”
Again, McClintic left Tori to her terrible ordeal.
And then this woman — who professes such tender feelings for Tori, who couldn’t bear to watch a rape — kicked her, bludgeoned her, killed her.
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Student Government Notes
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O’Hara lands role with MAC committee
Courtesy of gowilkesu.com
Junior Sarah O'Hara
Luke Modrovsky, Asst. Sports Editor
For Sarah O’Hara, she competes on the women’s basketball team, fighting for every victory. But on Feb. 3, she scored a victory off the court by being elected as President of the Middle Atlantic Conference Student-Athlete Advisory Committee for the 2017-18 academic year.
She was able to defeat her two opponents, one hailing from Eastern University and the other from well, the school on the north side of Wilkes-Barre.
According to a press release on GoWilkesU.com, the official website of Wilkes University Athletics, O’Hara will take over for current SAAC President, Eastern’s Nick Jinks.
O’Hara plans to focus her term on the importance of community service among MAC athletes.
We may compete against each other, but at the end of the day, we’re all student-athletes. We just wear different colors.”
— Sarah O'Hara
“I know we sponsor some of the same things in each individual SAAC, but I think coming together on the same day, and perhaps in the same location when possible, would be a great way to promote the MAC in a positive way.”
Although there is fierce competition on their respective playing fields, O’Hara said he goal is to bring the conference together during these activities.
Head Soccer Coach John Sumoski, who serves as the advisor to the local Wilkes SAAC, said that his goal is to let the leadership handle most items and only intervene when necessary. For the most part, he said this group has been one of the best during his time as the advisor.
“Sarah has been outstanding with our local group her and I can only imagine she will do well at the conference level,” Sumoski said.
Some of the Wilkes SAAC’s projects include: Project Standing Room only (Wilkes vs. King’s Basketball), Girls in Sport clinics and a faculty appreciation luncheon.
After graduation, O’Hara plans to continue her education and pursue a career as a high school history teacher. When there, she hopes to inspire her students to take on more leadership roles and become future leaders in America.
“I think that holding this leadership position will be great to transfer into the classroom,” O’Hara said. “(I) will also try to use my experiences to teach leadership and instill those ideas in my future students.”
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Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury
The Chancellor of the Exchequer was asked—
Uncollected Tax
What recent estimate Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs has made of the amount of uncollected tax in the UK.
What proportion of recipients of tax credits are in employment.
What steps he is taking to invest in infrastructure.
NHS Funding Pressures
What recent representations he has received on fiscal steps to address funding pressures in the NHS.
Wine Duty
If he will make a comparative assessment of the level of duty on wine paid in the UK and in other EU member states.
Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion Schemes
What plans he has to introduce penalties for financial advisers who promote aggressive tax avoidance and tax evasion schemes.
Local Authority Borrowing (Home Building)
What recent representations he has received on caps on local authority borrowing for building homes.
Tax Devolution
What recent discussions he has with the Finance Secretary of the Scottish Government on devolution of taxes.
Fiscal Support for Businesses
What fiscal steps he has taken to support businesses.
What assessment he has made of recent trends in the level of youth employment.
Marriage Tax Allowances
What his policy is on the future of tax allowances related to marriage.
North Sea Oil and Gas
What steps he is taking to support jobs in the north-east of Scotland by maximising the economic recovery of North sea oil and gas. [R]
If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
With permission, Mr Speaker, I wish to make a statement about this Government’s troubled families programme. In 2011, the Prime Minister set a bold ambition for this Government that by the...
Trade Union Reform (Civil Service)
With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement on trade unions in the civil service. Trade unions can play an important role in the modern workplace. Some important reforms...
On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I am a new Member of Parliament, but I understand that it is a convention in the House for a Minister, or any other MP, who is to visit a constituency to inform...
Mesothelioma (Amendment)
Motion for leave to bring in a Bill ( Standing Order No. 23)
Deregulation Bill (Programme) (No.3)
Motion made, and Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 83A(7)), That the following provisions shall apply to the Deregulation Bill for the purpose of supplementing the Order of 3 February...
Deregulation Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments.
Clause 60 — TV licensing: alternatives to criminal sanctions
I beg to move, That this House disagrees with Lords amendment 38.
Clause 1 — Health and safety at work: general duty of self-employed persons
I beg to move, That this House agrees with Lords amendment 1.
Counter-Terrorism (Statutory Instruments)
I beg to move, That the draft Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 (Authority to Carry Scheme) Regulations 2015, which were laid before this House on 2 March, be approved.
Resolved, That the draft Passenger, Crew and Service Information (Civil Penalties) Regulations 2015, which were laid before this House on 2 March, be approved.—(James Brokenshire.)
Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism
Resolved, That the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 (Code of Practice for Officers exercising functions under Schedule 1) Regulations 2015 (S.I., 2015, No 217), dated 12 February 2015, a...
Resolved, That the draft Aviation Security Act 1982 (Civil Penalties) Regulations 2015, which were laid before this House on 2 March, be approved.—(James Brokenshire.)
European Commission: National Parliaments
I beg to move, That this House takes note of European Union Documents No. 12425/14, the 2013 Annual Report from the Commission on relations between the Commission and national parliaments, and...
Backbench Business — School Funding Formula
I beg to move, That this House believes that, given the continued fiscal pressure on the schools budget in the next Parliament, the speedy implementation of a fair and transparent school funding...
Business without Debate — Governance Committee Standing Order Changes
Motion made, and Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 9(6)), That the following amendments to Standing Orders be made with effect from the start of the next Parliament: Standing Order No....
Motion made, and Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 118(6),
That the draft Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Order 2015, which was laid before this House on 16 January, be approved.—(Harriett Baldwin.) Question agreed to....
That the draft Immigration (Health Charge) Order 2015, which was laid before this House on 2 February, be approved.—(Harriett Baldwin.) Question agreed to. Motion made, and Question put...
That the draft Groceries Code Adjudicator (Permitted Maximum Financial Penalty) Order 2015, which was laid before this House on 28 January, be approved.—(Harriett Baldwin.) Question agreed to.
European Union Documents
Motion made, and Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 119(11),
EU Development Assistance: EuropeAid’s Evaluation and Results-oriented Monitoring Systems
That this House takes note of unnumbered European Union Document, the European Court of Auditors’ Special Report No. 18/2014: EuropeAid’s evaluation and results-orientated monitoring...
That the draft Standardised Packaging of Tobacco Products Regulations 2015, which were laid before this House on 23 February, be approved.—(Harriett Baldwin.) The Deputy Speaker’s...
Ordered, That at the sitting on Monday 16 March— (1) the provisions of Standing Orders No. 16 (Proceedings under an Act or on European Union documents) and No. 41A (Deferred divisions)...
Radiotherapy facility at Lister Hospital
This is one of three linked petitions. The other two are from the Stevenage and the Hitchin and Harpenden constituencies. My hon. Friend the Member for Stevenage (Stephen McPartland) has placed...
Compulsory CPR and Public Access Defibrillator education
Following this afternoon’s Westminster Hall debate, during which the Labour Front Bencher committed to the introduction of mandatory life-saving skills in schools, but the Minister would...
Following on from the hon. Member for Bolton West (Julie Hilling), I rise to present this petition on behalf of my constituents and the 83,500 people across the country who want every child to...
Closure of Dudley Police Station to the public
I rise to present a petition opposing the closure of Dudley police station to the public. West Midlands police announced last year that Dudley police station is one of 27 across the region that...
Trading Relationships with Europe
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Thomas Funeral Home P.A.
Send Flowers for Patricia
Patricia T. (Todd) Hurley
March 19, 1939 ~ June 23, 2019 (age 80)
Patricia Burke Todd Hurley (80) passed away at her East New Market home on Sunday morning, June 23rd. Mrs. Hurley, or Pat, was the daughter of Lizzie and Charles Todd of Cambridge, Maryland. She was married to her loving husband Charles F. Hurley Jr. (Chuck) of East New Market, for nearly 61 years and she was the proud parent of two sons, three grandchildren, and one great-grandson. She is survived by her husband C of East New Market; her son Patrick T. Hurley and his wife Sibel Sayili-Hurley of Limerick, PA; her granddaughter Samantha Merritt of Salem, OR; grandson Chad Hurley, wife Amber Hurley, and great-grandson Osiris of Salisbury; and grandson Chris Hurley of Greensboro as well as numerous nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by daughter Traci Marie, daughter Teena Marie, and son Charles F. Hurley III as well as her brother Insley Todd of Oxford, sister Josephine (Sissie) Brinsfield of Ellicott City, sister Frances Wrightson of Preston, brother Charles Todd of Cambridge, sister Maryann Foxwell of Crapo, sister Dorothy (Dot) Dunnock of Cambridge, sister Elizabeth (Bee) Lyons of Cambridge, sister Betty Jean (Betsy) Jones of Cambridge, and sister Isabell (Bell) Phillips of Salem.
After graduating from Cambridge High School in 1957, Pat was married to Chuck in Columbia, SC in 1958 and soon joined her new husband outside of Stuttgart, Germany, where he served in the Army, they explored western Europe in their VW Beetle, and she developed a lifelong love of brötchen (rolls). Over the coming decades, they would establish homes in Clarksville, TN; East New Market, MD; Raleigh, NC; and for two decades in the Bel Air area, before returning to the Eastern Shore in 1993. During her long life, Pat held a number of jobs, such as hospital admissions clerk at Dorchester General, operator for Southern Bell in Tennessee, permit secretary for the North Carolina Wildlife Agency in Raleigh, NC; and secretary at Bel Air Middle School in Bel Air. Following ten years of service, she retired from the State of Maryland as a clerk for the Department of Juvenile Services.
Pat was known for her love for and devotion to her three grandchildren, including singing “Nearly Gone” to get them to sleep, the support for and love of her siblings and their children, and the ability to dance the night away (particularly to Elvis) in her younger years. Although she never learned to swim, she loved to accompany her watermen father on the Choptank and spend time at the beach in Assateague. Pat also will be remembered for a joy of all things Christmas, her penchant for making snow cream at any opportunity (and freezing some for some lucky soul to enjoy during a summer visit), a decades-long friendship with high-school classmates (the Crevas), her enjoyment of Saturday morning yard sale trips with a visiting sister, and a fondness for Smith Island layer-cakes. Some also may remember her as the person who left a “Citizen’s Parking Violation” slip on their car windshield when she got annoyed with their sloppy parking.
Funeral services will be held on Sunday, June 30th at 2:00 pm at Thomas Funeral Home in Cambridge, MD. A visitation will be held beginning one hour prior to the service. Interment will be at the East New Market cemetery on Maryland Route 16. The Hurley family extends its sincere thanks to the many family, friends, and community members who have reached out with offerings of love and support. We are especially thankful for the support and assistance of Coastal Hospice in recent months and caregivers April Hardesty, Karen Sampson, Davette Askins, and Frances Sharp, who all helped make Pat’s transition less painful and more peaceful. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Coastal Hospice or to Dorchester County Women’s Shelters and Services.
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Court overturns decision to clear former top cop of sexual harassment
District Court convicts Nissan Shaham of the original charges, including breach of trust; tells lower court to re-sentence him
By TOI staff 23 September 2019, 5:01 pm 0 Edit
Former Jerusalem District Commander, Nissan 'Niso' Shaham, at the district court in Tel Aviv on December 10, 2018 (Flash90)
The Tel Aviv District Court on Monday overturned a lower court’s decision to clear a former Jerusalem police chief of sexual assault, fraud and breach of trust charges.
Nissan Shaham was convicted of indecent conduct in April 2018 for kissing a junior officer, but was acquitted of one count of sexual harassment, five counts of breach of trust and another count of indecent behavior filed against him over alleged sexual relationships with numerous female officers under his command.
Prosecutors claimed to the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court that on multiple occasions Shaham had coerced policewomen into sleeping with him, and later made decisions about their careers.
In December, Shaham was sentenced to 240 hours of community service and six months of probation.
The District Court accepted the state’s appeal and convicted him of the original charges. It kicked the case back down to the lower court for sentencing.
Shaham’s parallel appeal against his conviction of the lesser offense was rejected. He is expected to appeal the current decision to the Supreme Court.
Former Jerusalem police chief Nissan ‘Niso’ Shaham at the Western Wall plaza in Jerusalem’s Old City in 2012. (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)
Prosecution attorney Naomi Granot hailed the decision, saying the court had “set a moral ruling that a senior officer who has sexual relations with subordinate police officers, knowing that he may be making decisions regarding them, is committing a criminal offense of fraud and breach of trust, severely harming the public’s trust in the police force and the entire law enforcement system. That, regardless of whether he committed a sexual crime or not.”
Orit Suliteanu, director general of the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel (ARCCI), also welcomed the ruling as a “worthy and important decision.”
In his original ruling, Justice Benny Sagi said “the actions of the defendant cannot be seen as ‘just a kiss.'”
Sagi ruled in his decision at the time that other than in one instance, Shaham’s encounters with the junior officers were consensual and did not constitute a criminal offense.
“Despite the conflict of interests, his decisions regarding the police officers he was involved with… were justified,” he wrote in his decision.
Throughout the investigation and trial, Shaham repeatedly refused to sign a plea deal that would have seen him plead guilty to the breach of trust charges.
After his April conviction Shaham called the accusations against him “delusional” and untrue, and said the entire investigation was “much ado about nothing.”
Nissan 'Niso' Shaham
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Here's Your Best Look Yet at the Galaxy Note 8
Samsung's 6.3-inch flagship looks slick in this latest render.
A casemaker with an outstanding track record for tipping what Samsung has planned in its flagship phones is at it again with the Galaxy Note 8.
(Image credit: Forbes/Ghostek)
The casemaker, called Ghostek, sent a series of Galaxy Note 8 renderings to Forbes on Sunday (July 30) showcasing one of its case designs for what it says will be the Galaxy Note 8. And the smartphone in the picture seems to follow all of the reports we've been hearing about the Samsung handset.
First up, the Galaxy Note 8 in the Ghostek rendering comes with a big screen that curves on either side. It also has small bezels at the top and bottom, leaving no room for a physical home button. The Galaxy Note 8 in the render looks like the Galaxy S8+ but with a bigger screen.
On the rear, Ghostek shows a dual-lens camera array. The cameras are arranged horizontally and, unfortunately, there's a fingerprint sensor to their right. The chances of smudging the camera are fairly high, but at least this render has the flash in between the lens and fingerprint reader.
MORE: Galaxy Note 8 Rumors: Features, Price, Release Date and More
Ghostek's rendering suggests the Galaxy Note 8 will have a USB-C port and a 3.5mm headphone jack on the bottom. It'll be flanked by a single speaker grille and a place for the S Pen to be housed. And like the Galaxy S8 that came before it, the Galaxy Note 8 will have four buttons around its sides for volume, power, and Bixby activation.
Samsung has confirmed that it will unveil a new device at a press event on August 23, which is believe to be the Galaxy Note 8.
Ghostek didn't tell Forbes what the Galaxy Note 8 might have inside, but several reports say it'll come with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835. And when it launches, the Galaxy Note 8 could cost north of $1,000.
It's impossible to know whether the Ghostek rendering is real, but as Forbes points out, the casemaker released Galaxy S8 renderings ahead of that smartphone's launch and they were accurate.
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IPPR thinktank rapped by charity watchdog for appearing to be close to Labour
The Charity Commission found the Institute for Public Policy Research – once dubbed 'Tony Blair’s favourite thinktank' - had 'exposed itself to the perception that it supported the development of Labour Party policy'.
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By Christopher Hope, Senior Political Correspondent
11:30PM GMT 02 Jan 2015
A leading left of centre think-tank has been criticised by the charity watchdog for appearing to be close to the Labour party.
The Charity Commission found the Institute for Public Policy Research – once dubbed “Tony Blair’s favourite thinktank” - had “exposed itself to the perception that it supported the development of Labour Party policy”.
The Commission started its inquiry after a complaint from Charlie Elphicke, a Tory MP, about the IPPR’s close links with Labour last year.
The IPPR, like many other political thinktanks, is a charity which by law has to remain neutral.
Labour leader Ed Miliband had spoken at the launch of the think tank’s Condition of Britain report last June, which the IPPR said contained “30 costed policy recommendations”.
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Speaking at the event Mr Miliband repeatedly praised the report, stressing: “The IPPR has done brilliant work to help us respond to the challenges Britain faces. And they have done it again with this important report.”
Charity law states that “a charity must not give support or funding to a political party, nor to a candidate or politician”.
In its ruling, the Commission found that “given the extent of the media exposure, the public perception of the charity’s independence could have been adversely affected.
“It could therefore look further at the procedures it has in place for safeguarding its independence”.
The Commission found that the IPPR report was “independently commissioned by the charity and was not funded by or carried out at the request of a political party”.
But it said that “there had been close involvement with the Labour Party and its representatives throughout the project - the preliminary roadshow events for the Report featured one or more speakers from the Labour Party and Mr Miliband spoke at the high profile launch event”.
It added that “the emerging findings of the research were only made available to the Labour Party on request - although the charity would have made them available to any political party had they made similar a request”.
It added that “whilst the charity naturally wanted a high profile figure to launch the policy to gain maximum publicity, the final launch event was used as an opportunity and platform for Labour Party policies to be announced”.
Mr Elphicke told The Daily Telegraph: “This report shows that the IPPR thought of themselves as a policy production line for the Labour Party.
"Ed Miliband needs all the help he can get, but the IPPR should have known better.
“Within only a few months Britain votes on the clearest choice in a generation, it’s vital that charities, broadcasters and civil servants demonstrate complete impartiality.”
An IPPR spokesman said: "We welcome the finding by the Charity Commission that our work is editorially independent and advances charitable purposes, and the recognition that we work with all political parties.
“We will take forward their advice to ourselves and other think tanks on how to ensure the perception of political independence in future.”
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North of Ireland sees flooding after battering by heavy rain
Downpours sweep in from Atlantic causing at least 60 incidents of flooding in the northern half of the island
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Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service issued a warning to drivers. Photograph: NIFRS
The north of Ireland has been battered by heavy rain as violent storms caused flooding.
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The downpours swept in from the Atlantic, hitting Co Donegal before moving across Northern Ireland during Tuesday evening. Met Éireann – the Irish weather service – and the Met Office issued yellow rain warnings for the northern half of the island.
Between 7pm and 11pm firefighters in Northern Ireland responded to 60 flooding incidents.
A number of people were rescued from cars caught in the sudden floods and police issued a warning to all road users to exercise caution in the hazardous conditions.
Late on Tuesday night a Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service (NIFRS) spokesman said: “NIFRS are continuing to deal with a large number of flood-related incidents across the province as a result of localised heavy rainfall.
“A considerable number of these incidents have occurred in the west of the province. NIFRS has carried out a number of rescues of persons trapped in vehicles in flood water and we would advise all road users to exercise extreme caution overnight.”
Across the border on the Inishowen peninsula in north Donegal, roads turned into rivers as rain battered the area.
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New Triumph Bonneville series launched at 2016 Auto Expo
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The new Triumph Bonneville series comprising Street Twin, T120 and Thruxton R have been launched in India at the ongoing 2016 Auto Expo. The next gen...
Delhi: The new Triumph Bonneville series comprising Street Twin, T120 and Thruxton R have been launched in India at the ongoing 2016 Auto Expo. The next gen models offer huge improvements compared to the previous iterations but they continue to retain the nameplate’s classic appeal.
Triumph Bonneville Street Twin
New Triumph Bonneville Street Twin at 2016 Auto Expo (5). The Bonneville Street Twin is priced at INR 6.9 lakhs (ex-showroom). At INR 6.9 lakhs (ex-showroom), the StreetTwin is the most affordable variant of the new Bonneville. It is powered by an all-new 900 cc twin-cylinder liquid-cooled engine which is good for 80 Nm of torque (18% more than its predecessor).
The motorcycle comes with standard ABS, ride-by-wire, slip assist clutch and traction control. Deliveries in India will commence from March 2016.
New Triumph Bonneville T120 at 2016 Auto Expo (1). The T120 will retail at INR 8.7 lakhs (ex-showroom). Replacing the T100, the new T120 retains the DNA but gets a bigger and improved powertrain. The 1,200 cc liquid-cooled twin cylinder engine produces 105 Nm of torque which is a good 54% more than what the T100 had in store.
Like the Street Twin, the T120 offers ABS, TC, ride-by-wire and slip assist clutch in addition to Rain and Road riding modes. The T120 is priced at INR 8.7 lakhs (ex-showroom) and will be available from April 2016.
Triumph Bonneville Thruxton R
New Triumph Bonneville Thruxton R at 2016 Auto Expo (2). Prices of Thurxton R are yet to be unveiled. The top-of-the-line Thruxton R adopts a striking cafe racer body style with aerodynamic headlamp fairing. The motorcycle is powered by a more potent version of the T120’s 1,200 cc mill. At 112 Nm, the torque output is 62% higher than its predecessor.
The equipment level is same as T120 but the Thruxton R gets an additional Sport riding mode. Prices for the new Thruxton R will be announced soon and the deliveries are set to commence from July 2016.
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Home » Judge orders Trump to pay $2M for charity foundation misuse
Judge orders Trump to pay $2M for charity foundation misuse
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A New York judge on Thursday ordered President Donald Trump to pay $2 million to an array of charities to resolve a lawsuit alleging he misused his own charitable foundation to further his political and business interests.
Judge Saliann Scarpulla said Trump breached his fiduciary duty to the Trump Foundation by allowing his campaign staff to plan a fundraiser for veterans’ charities in the run-up to the 2016 Iowa caucuses.
The event, which passed money through Trump’s nonprofit, was designed “to further Mr. Trump’s political campaign,” Scarpulla said.
The judge also signed off on agreements reached last month between Trump’s lawyers and the New York attorney general’s office to close the Trump Foundation and distribute about $1.7 million in remaining funds to other nonprofits.
In the agreements, Trump admitted to personally misusing Trump Foundation funds and agreed to pay back $11,525 in the organization’s funds he spent on sports memorabilia and champagne at a charity gala. He also agreed to restrictions on his involvement in other charitable organizations.
New York Attorney General Letitia James heralded the resolution of the case as a “major victory in our efforts to protect charitable assets and hold accountable those who would abuse charities for personal gain.”
“No one is above the law — not a businessman, not a candidate for office, and not even the President of the United States,” said James, a Democrat.
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PM Modi inaugurates Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Institute of Archaeology in Noida
Bishakha Nihalani
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Institute of Archaeology in Noida on Saturday, March 9, 2019. While inaugurating PM Modi said, “The institute will provide modern amenities for research scholars and students from India and all over the world.”
Addressing the event, Prime Minister appreciates the transformation of Noida and the efforts of offering employment opportunities for the youth. He also informed that Noida is being developed as the Make in India hub of the nation and mentioned the presence of various electronic companies in Noida.
He also informed about the construction of the biggest airport in motion in Jewar, in Uttar Pradesh. It will be economically beneficial to Uttar Pradesh.
The Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Institute of Archaeology is an institute worth Rs. 289 crore spread over 25 acres. The campus has been equipped with the latest technologies.
The Institute will be equipped with an auditorium, open-air theatre, and an Archaeological Museum. The Institute will be running under the Ministry of Culture.
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Councils take €311 million hit as commercial rates are written off
Figures published by Phil Hogan reveal the extent of the financial hit taken by councils as local enterprise goes under.
By Gavan Reilly Friday 21 Jun 2013, 7:15 AM
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The mushrooming presence of empty retail units has left many councils writing off millions in expected income from commercial rates.
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IRELAND’S CITY, COUNTY and Town Councils lost €311 million over a five-year period due to a major increase in the amount of commercial rates written off.
The rates are a valuable source of income for local councils, charging a tax on shops, factories, offices and land put to commercial use.
Figures published by the environment minister Phil Hogan show that between 2006 and 2010, councils wrote off nearly €311 million in rates – admitting they were unlikely to collect their dues from struggling businesses.
The rates written off in 2008 – the year in which the property bubble peaked, and the global financial crisis began to take hold – stood at €47.7 million.
Just two years later, however, councils were forced to write off €88.9 million as local enterprises began to shut up shop.
Dublin City Council has taken the biggest hit, writing off €58.5 million in rates – though the 2010 figure, of just over €9 million, was less than half of the €19.9 million written off in 2006 when the local enterprise scene was far healthier.
Cork County Council has lost €21.8 million, including €6.7 million in 2010 – the year for which the most recent figures are available – while Galway county council lost €13.1 million and Galway City Council €12.6 million.
At the other end of the scale, however, six councils have not written off any commercial rates. They are the county councils of Kildare and Meath, as well as the town councils in Athy, Kells, Trim and Cashel.
€1.246 billion in commercial rates was collected by the 88 county, city and town councils in 2010, a figure which had decreased slowly since 2008.
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by Quentin Sprague
‘Civilization: The Way We Live Now’
The beautiful photographs of often grim subjects in NGV Australia’s exhibition raise questions over the medium’s power to critique
Wild River, Florida (2005). © Reiner Riedler. Type C photograph; 100 x 120 x 4cm
Recent years have seen an ever-increasing flood of images wash over us that can’t help but symbolise the treacherous fragility of systems – political, environmental, planetary – we have previously accepted as inviolable. Cast your mind back, even over recent months: picture the plumes of smoke over the Amazon rainforest, the destruction left in Hurricane Dorian’s wake, the bigoted pageantry of any number of Trump rallies. Even the most optimistic among us would surely agree that such images, to put it mildly, speak of an uncertain future.
Consciously or not, Civilization: The Way We Live Now, an international survey of contemporary photography at NGV Australia, conjures such images as a kind of shadow narrative to what is actually presented on the gallery wall. Even the more apparently innocuous photographs, which include (as two examples among many) the German photographer Thomas Struth’s image of a museum interior (Pergamon Museum 1, Berlin, 2001), or Australian Simon Terrill’s image of a swarming crowd (Huddle, 2007), are threaded through with the very real anxieties that attend our moment. The exhibition’s curators play into this – a section titled “Escape”, for instance, is used to contrast the notion of play (escape for a holiday) with that of fear (flee for your life) – but at times it comes across as too even-handed an approach. Sure, the exhibition seems to tell us, civilisation is wrought with problems, but it is a thing of awesome achievement.
For this reviewer, it suggests a bind inherent to contemporary photography: the medium’s ability to render even the mundane or the sinister formally beautiful can at times defuse its power to critique its subject. An image by the Canadian Edward Burtynsky of a chicken processing plant in the Chinese city of Dehui clearly points to the problems of industrial food production, but in light of this its beauty is unsettling. This might of course be the point, but is it enough? Andreas Gursky, another German photographer, and a figure emblematic of the medium’s surge on the world art stage during the 1990s and 2000s, is not included in Civilization, but his work nonetheless echoes throughout. Gursky’s digitally doctored photographs famously reach for the awe of the sublime that artists once sought in nature, but replace it with the work of humans: large-scale factories, immense housing towers, ribboning highways. Similar images appear throughout Civilization, but it’s the human-scale counterpoints that often carry the most power: Katy Grannan’s anonymous portraits, for example, or a small selection from Trent Parke’s 2006 The Christmas Tree Bucket series. They betray something more personal and fragile. In doing so, they suggest that any examination of civilisation now, at this moment in human history, unavoidably evokes the spectre of its demise.
Quentin Sprague
Quentin Sprague is a writer and curator based in Geelong.
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Instagram Without ‘Like’ Button? Here’s What Millennials Think
Priyanka Bansal
Updated: 26.07.19
Cameraperson: Sumit Badola
Editor: Kunal Mehra
Instagram is rolling out a test feature where the ‘Likes’ on a particular post will be visible only to the profile owner, and not their followers or the general public (in case of public accounts).
Why are they doing so, you ask?
Instagram claims that this will help its users worry less about the success or popularity of their posts and help them focus more on their content.
The feature is already being tested in seven countries as of 23 July 2019, namely Canada, Australia, Brazil, Ireland, New Zealand, Italy and Japan.
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What do Millennials Think?
Instagram’s latest experiment has left people divided about whether it is a good move or not.
At The Quint as well, we had our discussion on this. While some felt it is a good move to get rid of the ‘Like’ button, others wanted it to stay.
Cyrus John, The Quint’s in-house tech expert, felt that it is just a move from Instagram to clean itself of the fake accounts that give paid likes. While Yagya felt that if Instagram needs to make an actual impact on ‘mental health’, then they have to maybe hide ‘Likes’ from everyone, including the one who uploads the content. Others, however, think that a little validation does no harm.
Watch the entire discussion in the video above.
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On Twitter, as well, people brought their opinions about Instagram’s new move to the yard.
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Mental Health or Money?
Instagram officials, while announcing the test, mentioned that the feature is being introduced to reduce the “competition” on the platform, and will help users to focus on the posts and their engagement.
However, those opposing say that it is a move by Instagram to “control the e-commerce that happens on the platform”.
It shall be interesting to see what happens if and when the feature comes to India!
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Pete McCutchen: A Return to Roots
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Pete McCutchen’s photographs have a peace about them, as if they were taken in an untouched world by a photographer who wasn’t meant to be there. Rolling sand dunes etched by the wind, craggy rocks crystallized by ice, hills sliced by an unseen force—each lead the eye to the strange patterns and textures of nature. The photographs, captured at Jockey’s Ridge State Park in North Carolina, The Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado, and the Alaskan wilderness capture the drama of nature in abstracted monochrome.
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Pete has been a regular in the gallery for many years, and The Art League checked in with him about his current exhibit, what inspires his work, and what he’s looking forward to next!
Why the choice to move to black and white, from your previous color photography?
“The short answer is that I think that this particular group of images looks better in black and white. In this case, what caught my eye was pattern and texture – hence the title of the show. The longer answer has to do with my own artistic journey, which is intertwined with the birth of digital photography technology. You could say that I’m returning to my roots – I began as a kid, working in the black and white darkroom.”
“My Yellowstone Thermal Zone series combined my bold abstract vision with traditional photographic virtue, and the Pattern + Texture series is an extension of that project.”
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How did you make the decision to display your photographs on metallic paper? Can you tell us more about the process you use to display in this way?
“Today, however, with digital capture, there is a lot more fluidity. I shoot everything with a digital camera, in color, and then I can convert the color image to black and white. It means you can just shoot, and decide later what works best for a particular image or particular series. Most images want to be in black and white, or they want to be in color.”
Continuance by Pete McCutchen
What photographers inspire your work?
“I think it’s important to take inspiration in all places. Not just photographers, but visual artists in general, from music, from nature. You short change yourself as a photographer if all you do is look to other photographers. It’s OK to emulate other people, but you should never imitate. I could try to become a junior varsity Ansel Adams, but I would never be more than a junior varsity version of a master. I try to express my own distinctive vision, even as I draw on and am inspired by other photographers.”
“I was interviewed back in 2016, and I named a number of photographers, including quite a few associated with The Art League Gallery, The Torpedo Factory, and Multiple Exposures Gallery: Jim Steele, Fred Zafran, Soomin Ham, Min Enghauser, and Amanda Harner.
Capillary by Pete McCutchen
What are you working on next?
“Right now, I kind of feel like my Pattern + Texture idea is still running strong. Having shot for two years in Alaska, Death Valley, the Petrified Forest, The Great Sand Dunes National Park, etc., I produced a pretty big body of work. I’m doing a show at the Touchstone Gallery in March, and my current plan is to do Pattern + Texture II – and it will be all new images. I’m also exploring the Pattern + Texture idea on a smaller scale – the patterns and textures found in plants and leaves. I think that will birth another series. One of the early images exploring that idea, Capillary, is in this month’s All-Media show. I suspect that will turn into its own collection.”
Pete McCutchen “Pattern+Texture”
Visit the Art League Gallery TONIGHT for our November Opening Reception 6:30–8:00 pm in The Art League Gallery inside the Torpedo Factory (105 N. Union Street). Also, join us as we learn more about “Pattern+Texture” and explore Pete McCutchen’s work in “Drawn In: Taking a Closer Look” on November 29, 6:00–8:00 pm.
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Bishops set plan to expand ministries with children, poor
By Linda Green*April, 27 2004 | PITTSBURGH (UMNS)
Bishop Donald A. Ott
The United Methodist Church’s bishops want to expand efforts to help children and the poor.
During the denomination’s 2004 General Conference, the bishops said they may merge the critical points of the Episcopal Address with “Our Shared Dream: The Beloved Community,” a paper the body adopted last November. The Council of Bishops anticipates that merging these two documents would create a new episcopal initiative for 2005-08.
The convergence of the two papers could provide the council with “marching orders” for the next four years, according to Bishop Donald A. Ott, coordinator of the Bishops’ Initiative on Children and Poverty. The bishops anticipate selecting a new initiative during their November council meeting, with contributions from the 20 new bishops who will be elected this July.
The episcopal initiative seeks to “reshape the United Methodist Church” with a focus on Jesus and the “least of these,” Ott said. “God has a bias for the poor,” and through evangelism and theological reflection, the bishops must enlighten the church about “this critical and urgent matter for our time,” he said.
Meeting before General Conference, the bishops urged a task force to present a way in which the council’s paper on the “beloved community” could become an evolving initiative that could be affirmed as an initiative for the next four years.
The council does not want to relinquish its work with children and the poor during the past eight years, explained Ott. The council wants to continue and enlarge its efforts because of the belief that “this is where God is calling us.”
The “Beloved Community” document notes that the plight of children is tied to economics, politics, globalization, war, family breakdown, the AIDS epidemic and other problems. It also states that the root causes of poverty and the neglect and abandonment of children “lie in a society in which people live in fear.”
Ott said the proposed new initiative would reclaim the bishops’ responsibility to be teachers of the church, which is focused on blending the Wesleyan principles of acts of piety and acts of mercy.
“We should not be a people who cultivate our own spirit, but we must act on it and care for the poor,” he said. He lamented that the church and many congregations today are inwardly focused on other concerns and must be taught about caring for children and the poor.
“We must turn the eyes of the church and its leaders to the world around it and to where God would give attention.” Except for the church in Africa and in the Philippines, the United Methodist Church is not a church of the poor, he said. “We need to turn our eyes toward Jesus, (and) the way to do that is to turn our eyes to the poor and see that they are not a burden, but they are God’s gift.”
According to the “Beloved Community,” the church must broaden its understanding of local mission because too many congregations and individuals are satisfied with being involved in direct-service ministries with the poor without the faith-sharing and congregational inclusion essential to Christian community
A “beloved community” is one where all people are valued for the gifts they are and the gifts they bring, Ott said. The important gifts include mutuality, diversity and inclusiveness.
*Green is a staff writer for United Methodist News Service.
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United Methodist leaders from Africa, Europe and the Philippines are offering a “Christmas Covenant” and inviting others to sign on.
Church future under negotiation before GC2020
United Methodist leaders of varied perspectives on LGBTQ status struck an optimistic note about conversations that aim to find consensus before the next General Conference.
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Inland Transport Committee
Annual Sessions
72nd Annual Session
ITC Structure
Transport and the Sustainable Development Goals
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75th Jubilee Session
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ITC Bureau [restricted]
72nd Annual Session of the Inland Transport Committee
Palais des Nations, Geneva - 23-25 February 2010
Presentations ¦ Photos ¦ Policy Segment on Inland Water Transport
ITC homepage ¦ Agenda ¦ ITC Working documents ¦ ITC Informal documents ¦ ITC Flyer | Informative documents
On 23-25 February 2010 the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Inland Transport Committee (ITC) convened for its 72nd annual session. The Committee reviewed the Transport Division’s body of work and decided on the steps ahead.
While we wait for the miracle that will solve the transport sector’s carbon footprint, transport experts agree that by implementing a combination of existing measures real progress can be made in the fight against global warming.
During the annual session of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Inland Transport Committee (ITC), delegates recognized that better infrastructure planning; efficient border-crossing and transit procedures; technologically progressive vehicle construction norms and a greater role for environmentally friendly modes such as rail and inland navigation are all necessary steps to improve current and future transportation systems in the pan-European region.
The 72nd annual session of the ITC (23-25 February 2010) gathered high-level officials from the 56 UNECE member States, the European Union, international and European transport organizations and non-governmental organizations.
Transport on inland waterways was in particular focus this year as the session included a roundtable dedicated to inland navigation which has the potential to relieve congested roads and provide better value for money, with less pollution. Participants representing the industry emphasized the need for strategic investment and regulatory reforms and integration of the very fragmented market to unlock the potential economic and environmental benefits of inland water transport.
Discussions on another key transport mode, namely rail, were kicked off by an address from Vladimir Yakunin, President of Russian Railways. In his speech, Mr. Yakunin outlined how his company plans to develop efficient rail transport corridors between Europe and Asia. According to Mr. Yakunin, "the basis of transit flows in the near future should be the transportation of containerized cargo on key international transport corridors, primarily in the transcontinental direction East-West, based on the Trans-Siberian railway". The Russian Railways is committed to reducing transit time through Russia along this corridor from 11 to 7 days.
When it comes to road transport, the UNECE’s World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations develops regulations which contribute to reducing gaseous emissions and improve the safety of motor vehicles. The ITC was informed that the World Forum will start developing a new global technical regulation on emissions of pollutants, as well as CO2 emissions.
Another key aspect of the road industry is the issue of driving and rest times of professional drivers which is regulated by the European Agreement concerning the Work of Crews of Vehicles engaged in International Road Transport (AETR). The deadline to implement the digital tachograph by 16 June 2010 still poses major challenges to several Contracting Parties. A special ad-hoc group met therefore on 26 February 2010 to take stock of the level of preparedness and seek practical solutions.
Some of the other issues addressed at the 72nd session of the Committee include inland transport security; developing Euro-Asian transport links; road traffic safety; transport of dangerous goods and operational assistance to countries with economies in transition.
The Inland Transport Committee is the highest political body of the UNECE in the field of transport. Together with its subsidiary bodies, it has provided a pan-European intergovernmental forum over the last 60 years, where UNECE member countries negotiate the international legal instruments on inland transport. These legal instruments are considered indispensable for developing efficient, safe and sustainable pan-European and Euro-Asian transport systems.
Challenges and Opportunities for Inland Water Transport in a Pan-European Context
Mr. Vladimir Yakunin
President, Russian Railways
Euroasian transport link development by RZD
Mr. Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos
Secretary General,
Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC), Permanent International Secretariat (PERMIS) PDF
Mr. Jaromir Cekota
UNECE, Transport Division
Hinterland connections of seaports PDF
Mr. Robert Nowak
Euroasian transport linkages - phase II PDF
Mr. Ould Khou Sid'Ahmed
E-road and E-rail cesuses PDF
Mr. Miodrag Pesut
Capturing the new role of transport: supply chain challenges for national competitiveness for transport PDF
Mr. Jaromi Cekota
Review of the transport situation and emerging trends in the UNECE region PDF
See the photo album here
Sixty-third session of the Economic Commission for Europe - Annual Report, 28 April 2007-1 April 2009 (E/ECE/1453)
Economic Commission for Europe - Work Plan on ECE Reform (E/ECE/1434/Rev.1)
Moscow Declaration - First Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety: Time for Action, Moscow, 19-20 November 2009 (English, French, Russian)
Note verbal - Azerbaijan on EATL
ECE official Communication on EATL
ITC Flyer
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New Releases: 1/12/16
January 12, 2016 August 5, 2016 torforge
Here’s what went on sale today!
Carbide Tipped Pens by Ben Bova and Eric Chol
In Carbide Tipped Pens, over a dozen of today’s most creative imaginations explore these frontiers, carrying on the grand tradition of such legendary masters as Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and John W. Campbell, while bringing hard science fiction into the 21st century by extrapolating from the latest scientific developments and discoveries. Ranging from ancient China to the outer reaches of the solar system, this outstanding collection of original stories, written by an international roster of authors, finds wonder, terror, and gripping human drama in topics as diverse as space exploration, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, climate change, alternate history, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, interplanetary war, and even the future of baseball.
Explorers Who Got Lost by Diane Sansevere-Dreher
During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, almost every explorer who sailed beyond the horizon in search of new lands thought they knew where they were going. In fact, most got terribly lost and stumbled onto places unknown. Their discoveries may have been unintentional, but they changed the course of human history.
Fast-paced and exciting, Explorers Who Got Lost provides detailed information about the most influential explorers of the Age of Discovery: Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco Da Gama, Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Ferdinand Magellan, Giovanni Da Verrazano, Jacques Cartier, and Henry Hudson.
Hurt Go Happy by Ginny Rorby
Thirteen-year-old Joey Willis is used to being left out of conversations. Though she’s been deaf since the age of six, Joey’s mother has never allowed her to learn sign language. She strains to read the lips of those around her and often fails.
Everything changes when Joey meets Dr. Charles Mansell and his baby chimpanzee, Sukari. Her new friends use sign language to communicate, and Joey secretly begins to learn to sign. Spending time with Charlie and Sukari, Joey has never been happier. But as Joey’s world blooms with possibilities, Charlie’s and Sukari’s choices begin to narrow—until Sukari’s very survival is in doubt.
Inside a Silver Box by Walter Mosley
Walter Mosley’s talent knows no bounds. Inside a Silver Box continues to explore the cosmic questions entertainingly discussed in his Crosstown to Oblivion. From life’s meaning to the nature of good and evil, Mosley takes readers on a speculative journey beyond reality.
In Inside a Silver Box, two people brought together by a horrific act are united in a common cause by the powers of the Silver Box. The two join to protect humanity from destruction by an alien race, the Laz, hell-bent on regaining control over the Silver Box, the most destructive and powerful tool in the universe. The Silver Box will stop at nothing to prevent its former master from returning to being, even if it means finishing the earth itself.
Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear
Set in the late nineteenth century-in a city a lot like what we now call Seattle Underground-when airships plied the trade routes, would-be gold miners were heading to the gold fields of Alaska, and steam-powered mechanicals stalked the waterfront, Karen is a young woman on her own, is making the best of her orphaned state by working in Madame Damnable’s high-quality bordello. Through Karen’s eyes we get to know the other girls in the house-a resourceful group-and the poor and the powerful of the town.
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision.
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The Drowning Eyes by Emily Foster
When the Dragon Ships began to tear through the trade lanes and ravage coastal towns, the hopes of the archipelago turned to the Windspeakers on Tash. The solemn weather-shapers with their eyes of stone can steal the breeze from raiders’ sails and save the islands from their wrath. But the Windspeakers’ magic has been stolen, and only their young apprentice Shina can bring their power back and save her people.
Tazir has seen more than her share of storms and pirates in her many years as captain, and she’s not much interested in getting involved in the affairs of Windspeakers and Dragon Ships. Shina’s caught her eye, but that might not be enough to convince the grizzled sailor to risk her ship, her crew, and her neck.
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Arpeggio of Blue Steel Vol. 6 by Ark Performance
My Monster Secret Vol. 1 by Eiji Masuda
Pandora in the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn Vol. 3 by Masmune Shirow and Ridukou Koushi
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Ark Performance, Arpeggio of Blue Steel Vol. 6, Ben Bova, Carbide Tipped Pens, Cixin Liu, Diane Sansevere-Dreher, Eiji Masuda, Elizabeth Bear, Emily Foster, Eric Chol, Explorers Who Got Lost, Ginny Rorby, Hurt Go Happy, Inside a Silver Box, Karen Memory, Ken Liu, Masmune Shirow, My Monster Secret Vol. 1, Pandora in the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn Vol. 3, Ridukou Koushi, The Drowning Eyes, The Three-Body Problem, Walter Mosley
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July 31, 2018 /1 Comment/in For Employees, For Employers, Sexual Harassment, The Basics: Employment Law 101 /by Justin W. Anisman
Sexual harassment at work have severe consequences for the victim, accused, and employer and contribute to a hostile, intimidating, and offensive working environment which can affect the quality of work and productivity. It is incumbent of all employees, managers, leadership, and owners to prevent, punish, report and discourage such workplace conduct.
What is Sexual Harassment?
Sexual harassment is verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature which can effect another person’s dignity and interfere with their work. It refers to a form of discrimination that comprises of any unsolicited comments, conduct, or behavior concerning sex, gender, or sexual orientation. It typically encompasses objectionable and offensive behavior which may occur once or repeatedly.
Harassment can be expressed directly in face-to-face interactions, indirectly behind the targets back (such as spreading sexual rumors), or via electronic messages sent to the victim. Anyone, male or female, can be a victim. However, women are much more likely to be victims of sexual harassment than men, according to the Ontario Human Rights Commission.
Further, sexual harassment can occur no matter one’s seniority. Those people in leadership positions are just as capable of being harassed as more junior employees. By way of example, allegations that a woman in a position of authority slept her way to the top are too common and always inappropriate. Such allegations, even when baseless, tend to lessen the victim’s authority, dignity, and reputation.
While sexual harassment in the workplace is a widespread problem across all industries, some sectors are more prone to sexual harassment than others. Per the Ontario Human Rights Commission, jobs with a higher proclivity to sexual harassment include:
Heavily male-dominated occupations such as military, construction, policing, manufacturing, etc.
Jobs that involve a great deal of subservient activity such as nursing, waitressing, secretary jobs, flight attendant jobs, etc.
Occupations that require working in isolation such as live-in caregiver jobs.
What Kinds of Behavior Constitute Sexual Harassment?
The kinds of behavior that could constitute sexual harassment can vary depending on the circumstances and people involved. According to the Ontario Human Rights Code, some of the conducts that could be considered sexual harassment include:
A person bragging about how good they are in bed
Displays of explicit material
Making sexual jokes
Making unwelcome sexual comments about a person’s appearance, body parts, or clothing
Demanding hugs
Repeated requests for a date with a subordinate, boss, or co-worker
Sharing sexually inappropriate content, images, or videos with co-workers
Displaying sexual posters or pictures in the office
Making offensive comments that are sex-specific
Staring at a co-worker in a sexually suggestive or offensive way
Touching a co-worker in inappropriate places
After hours unwanted interactions by a supervisor
Impacts of Sexual Harassment on Workers and the Work Environment
Sexual harassment at work can have many consequences both for the victim who is facing harassment and for an employee who is indirectly but negatively affected by the bad behavior. This is because the workers who experience sexual harassment secondhand can become demoralized or intimidated at work.
Impact on Victims
In some cases, a victim of sexual harassment risks:
Emotional and physical impact: Sometimes, a victim of sexual harassment become so traumatized by the harassment that they suffer serious emotional consequences such as emotional and mental stress, as well as anxiety. Acts of sexual harassment can undermine a person’s sense of personal dignity and can prevent them from being able to perform their job properly.
Job loss: A worker who refuses to go along with the sexual demands of a superior or co-worker risks being fired even though the organization might use some other excuse. For instance, an employee who is temporarily unable to work or fail to give their best due to harassment might be fired on the grounds of unsatisfactory performance even though it’s still clearly related to bullying.
Loss of wages and other benefits: Victims who resist sexual advances from their supervisor suffer unfavorable job-related consequences such as demotion, not getting promoted, and loss of economic benefits like medical benefits, pension contributions, sick pay, etc.
Constructive dismissal: Sexual harassment may be considered constructive dismissal. It is important to speak with an employment lawyer if you are being sexually harassed at work.
Impacts of Sexual Harassment to Organization
Sexual harassment can impact a company negatively through:
Decreased productivity: Hostile working environment often leads to low employee morale, absenteeism, animosity, stress, and anxiety. These reduce performance and ultimately result in low productivity.
The unwelcome behavior of sexual predators in the workplace can negatively affect the work setting by creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment. Such a situation can put pressure on a victim to leave the job.
High employee turnover: Workers who are targets of sexual harassment and witnesses of sexual harassment may have to quit to get away from threatening settings. This lead to high employee turnover, which may result in increased hiring and training costs.
Litigation costs: The Ontario Human Rights Commission and the Ontario Courts regularly litigate complains of sexual harassment. Defending these claims is often time consuming and expensive.
Public Image Costs: With the #MeToo movement at its height. Employees, no longer ashamed or embarrassed, often take to social media or the court of public opinion to attack employers who condone poorconduct.
How Employers Can Prevent and Respond to Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Employers are encouraged to undertake all necessary measures to eliminate sexual harassment from the workplace and create a healthy positive work environment. The Ontario Human Right Commission recommends having anti-harassment programs that help create a work environment where every employee will feel welcomed.
Defining what constitutes harassment and stating that harassment is not tolerated
Communicating the punitive consequences of harassment in the workplace
Revealing the harassment reporting system with an appointed HR staff for reporting claims
Making all employees aware that retaliation against employees reporting bullying is not allowed
Outlining the investigation and redress process
Employers should hold workers, and themselves, to high standards. Doing so will help create a positive and inclusive work setting.
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Inhalant Use
Inhalants are substances that produce chemical vapors that, when inhaled, result in mind-altering effects. The term inhalant is used because these substances are rarely, if ever, used by any other means. These substances are common household, industrial, or medical products. But most people do not think of them as drugs, because they are not meant to be used in that way.
Inhalants commonly used include:
Solvents (such as paint thinners and degreasers), gasoline, glues, and office supplies (such as correction fluids, felt-tip markers, and electronics cleaners).
Gases (such as household products including aerosol computer cleaners, butane lighters, whipping cream aerosols (whippets), spray paints, hair or deodorant sprays, vegetable oil sprays, and fabric protector sprays).
Nitrites (such as a prescription medicine called amyl nitrite). An illegal form of amyl nitrite, called poppers or snappers, is often packaged and sold in small bottles. Common room odorizers also contain nitrites that can be inhaled.
When inhalants are breathed, they cause alcohol-like effects: slurred speech, lack of coordination, and dizziness. The person can become lightheaded and may have hallucinations and delusions. The effects last only a few minutes. After heavy use of an inhalant, the person may have a headache and feel drowsy for several hours. The person who inhales repeatedly over several hours can lose consciousness and die.
Aerosols can be sprayed directly into the nose or mouth. Nitrous oxide can be inhaled directly from balloons. Several terms are used for the way inhalants are breathed into the lungs, including:
Sniffing or snorting, when fumes are inhaled from a container.
Bagging, when fumes are inhaled from substances sprayed or deposited inside a plastic bag.
Huffing, when a soaked rag is placed in the mouth or held to the face for inhalation.
Long-term health problems, such as brain, liver, kidney, blood, or bone marrow damage, can occur from inhaling some substances. Long-term use of inhalants also causes:
Muscle weakness and lack of coordination.
Disorientation and inattentiveness.
Irritability and depression.
Inhalants are often not detected with urine or blood drug screening tests, because they have usually been eliminated from the body by the time the test is done.
Signs of use
Chemical odors on clothing or breath
Empty containers or discarded soaked rags or clothing hidden in the trash
Red eyes, irritability, frequent headaches, drunk appearance, and slurred speech
Nausea or loss of appetite
Sores around the mouth
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Los Angeles hit by 4.4 earthquake
A 4.4 temblor shook awake Southern California Monday morning.
Gabrielle Levy
(USGS)
Los Angeles was shaken awake Monday morning by an earthquake that struck just a few miles from downtown.
The U.S. Geographical Survey first reported the temblor at a 4.7 on the Richter scale, and moments later downgraded it to a 4.4.
The quake, which began just before 6:25 a.m., was primarily felt in Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Pacific Palisades, and West Los Angeles. It is the largest to hit Southern California so far this year.
A 6.9-magnitude quake hit off the coast of Northern California last week, but caused no significant damage or injuries.
Here’s the seismograph. pic.twitter.com/jfX3raw4GW
— Marc Ambinder (@marcambinder) March 17, 2014
[USGS]
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Destiny 2 The Dawning Event - End Date, New Weapons, Dawning Engrams - Everything we Know
The Dawning is returning to Destiny 2 in 2018, and here you can find information on the start date, new weapons, new quests, and more.
Guide by Hirun Cryer, Staff Writer
The Dawning event has now returned to Destiny 2 to close out 2018 in style, and will be here until the very beginning of 2019. In this complete Destiny 2 Dawning guide, we'll be walking you through everything there is to know about the ongoing event for Bungie's FPS sequel, including the eventual Destiny 2 Dawning end date, and more.
But the Dawning is far from the only event that's coming to Destiny 2 through the Season of the Forge. For a complete overview of the seasonal event, including various Exotic quests and other new weapons, head over to our Destiny 2 DLC guide.
Destiny 2 Dawning 2018 End Date
Back in the months following Destiny 2 releasing in September 2018, the Dawning kicked off in November. This year in 2018 however, the festival to mark the holiday season will be beginning at the slightly later date of December 11, and will be drawing to a close right as the new year comes around, on January 1, 2019.
As for the time that the Dawning event should kick off, there's nothing official from Bungie as of right now. However, based on past trends for the game, the Dawning should be kicking off at the following times on December 11:
12 pm ET
5 pm BST
6 pm CEST
Destiny 2 Eva Levante
You might remember that in early December, a Reddit post claimed that none other than Eva Levante would be featuring in the upcoming Dawning event. The tweet below from the official Destiny Twitter account confirmed as much in the following days, revealing that Eva would be making her first appearance since the original game.
The Dawning returns next Tuesday.
Our dear Eva Levante-who was instrumental in bringing the traditions of the Dawning to the Tower-returns with it. And she's bringing cookies!
https://t.co/YG4XBJEPjj pic.twitter.com/GANI9XTdH9
Bungie (@Bungie) December 6, 2018
The main form of currency in the Dawning event for Destiny 2 is going to be cookies, of all things. You can then take all the cookies you've earned and trade them in for various items, including the brand new Avalanche weapon that you can see just below. One of the main bonuses of this new weapon is that it features random perks, a rarity for the majority of weapons in Destiny 2.
Destiny 2 Mayhem PvP Mode
Back when the Dawning event debuted in Destiny 2, it arrived with the Mayhem PvP mode. This was a special Crucible mode in which all Super Ability cooldowns were drastically reduced, and resulted in a chaotic brawl of PvP.
At the current time, it's unknown whether the Mayhem mode will be returning as part of the Dawning 2018 event in Destiny 2. We'll keep an ear out for information from Bungie, and update this guide whenever any new information for the Dawning event is announced.
More about Destiny 2
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Hirun Cryer is by far the most juvenile member of USgamer. He's so juvenile, that this is his first full-time job in the industry, unlike literally every other person featured on this page. He's written for The Guardian, Paste Magazine, and Kotaku, and he likes waking up when the sun rises and roaming the nearby woods with the bears and the wolves.
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What Does Custom Wood Building Mean?
Custom wood building is an art that has been around for about as long as humans. Many of the same terms we see today were used thousands of years ago. On Raymond McInnis’s site, A History of Woodworking, he shares a piece from an article written on Stonehenge:
“…The largest weighs as much as 50 tons. Unique today, Stonehenge was probably also unique in its own time, some 4,500 years ago – a stone monument modeled on timber precedents. Indeed, its massive lintels are bound to their uprights by mortise-and-tenon joints taken straight from carpentry.”
Modern Wood-Building
With the progress in modern technology and industrial demands, Woodworking as a field has changed. For example, the development of (CNC) or Computer Numeric Controlled Machines in 1949 made it possible to mass-produce and reproduce products faster—not only faster but with less waste and the ability to produce more complex designs. Along with CNCs, the emergence of rechargeable power tools sped up the creation of many projects. They also required much less body strength and endurance than in the past. Despite the increase with technological advances, the quality and craftsmanship of custom wood-building remains unmatched.
What Does Custom-Built Mean?
According to the Merriam Webster, custom built simply means, “Built to individual specifications.” Sounds pretty straightforward, however there are many intricate details involved. Custom wood building is more than making a window or door. It requires more than just the right tools and space. These are essential, yes, but custom building also requires a lot of skill. At Versatile Wood Products every project, both big and small, modern or historical, is performed with the utmost quality and dedication.
“Versatile provides historically accurate custom wood sash, cabinetry, doors and millwork using techniques originated by 18th and 19th century craftsmen. We are committed to creating spaces that honor and make history. By preserving traditional ways of building and blending them with modern technologies and performance standards, we design and build solutions that harmonize aesthetics and temperament with function and utility.”
Versatile’s experienced team specializes in balancing period appropriate architectural design specifications with modern performance standards, combining historic techniques and modern technologies.
What does manufactured mean?
Wood is manufactured in a few types, Plywood, particleboard, fiberboard, medium density fiberboard (MDF), and veneer. In addition to the CNC machine, another reason for the increased popularity of mass-produced wood products was the invention of manufactured wood. Manufactured wood products have become a popular choice because they are less expensive to produce. Manufactured wood products are also more readily available at Big Box stores.
Understanding what custom wood building and manufactured wood are is important when starting a project. For example, determining the exact specifications for choosing the right window or door is important. Having the exact build for a particular project is crucial. Not just for the aesthetics, but for long-term quality.
“By hand-selecting tight grain wood patterns and using time-honored techniques our products will last for many years to come.”
How Versatile produces lasting quality
To better understand the separation between custom wood building and manufactured wood, the following Versatile projects will highlight the distinction. In this first custom case study, the restoration of a historical landmark highlights the stunning craftsmanship Versatile (and Arciform) demonstrate. The agility and flexibility accompanied by the great care required shows why custom wood building is essential.
Restoring First Congregational Church
The First Congregational Church turned to Versatile and Arciform to stabilize and restore the wood elements of this feature. Constructed in 1895, the First Congregational Church of Portland is a dominant Venetian Gothic icon. The church is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Portland Landmark. This historic structure towers with its 175’ bell tower at the Southwest corner.
Restoring the Gothic tracery was more than just “replacing parts.” The goal was to retain as much of the original fabric as possible. However, what appeared to be repetitive details in the columns and tracery were in fact unique. This prohibited the efficiency of replicating one element to be reused as a template throughout the entire tracery at similar locations. After meticulous documentation, all parts were mapped and translated into CAD files. Having these otherwise inaccessible components in-house provided the unique opportunity to prepare a custom library of details for First Congregational Church.
All new pieces were made of Western Red Cedar, the same wood species as the original elements. This was to ensure historic accuracy and material performance. Replacement parts were then fit in place for sizing and routed with the cove detailing ensuring the tracery appeared seamless. The final product was delivered in sections for ease of hoisting and installation by Arciform.
Modern Buildings
In these three short project highlights, the breadth and skill level of Versatile is apparent. These again demonstrate custom wood building as an art that surpasses manufactured wood products both in ingenuity and workmanship.
For The Zipper, Versatile and designer Guerrilla Development used simple solid wood frames and sills. They also used direct glazed windows in solid clear vertical grain fir. This helped to create a truly innovative modern design.
The Evo Building challenges were to create custom casements in Douglas fir to match historic photos of the building. It was nearly impossible to replicate a two-toned color scheme in aluminum but was easily accomplished in wood. The hinged casements on the upper floors were a fall-hazard. Versatile used a sash limiter that would open by 3″ to prevent the potential for someone to fall out.
The Albina Yard (which can also be seen on Think Wood) had extraordinarily high flush exterior doors: 142” tall and 108” tall full lite doors. In this project Versatile utilized offset pivot hinges to give massive doors smooth operation and an uninterrupted modern look. The project called for building flush doors in a continuous fir veneer with a matching 34” fir transom panel above. The design challenge was that both the flush exterior doors and full lite doors were extraordinarily high in addition to being about 40” wide.
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Custom Wood Building Is Good For The Environment
A report by Green Building Elements provides a wealth of researched information that supports the value of custom wood building. A study conducted by Architecture and Design reports that 16% of all the fossil fuel consumed annually is converted into concrete, steel, aluminum and brick building materials. On the opposite end, wood reduces its carbon footprint.
“When trees are made into building materials, that carbon dioxide remains sequestered in the finished products. When wooden building materials reach the end of their useful life, they are often repurposed or recycled into new products. All that stored carbon dioxide is kept out of the atmosphere virtually forever.”
Green Building Elements also reports a cooperative program between a company called Whole Trees in Madison, Wisconsin and the USDA Forest Service. Entire trees that the Forest Service harvests during routine thinning efforts and discards are used. They are turned into beams, trusses and joists to use in building construction.
Custom Wood Building is good for your Health
Custom wood building is not just beautiful and unique in each design but is also good for your health. Another study by Architecture and Design finds that, “the feelings of natural warmth and comfort that wood elicits in people has the effect of lowering blood pressure and heart rates, reducing stress and anxiety and increasing positive social interactions.” Wood products within a room have been shown to improve indoor air quality by moderating humidity. The study also finds that being surrounded by wood at home, work or school has positive effects. Not just on the body and brain, but also on the environment. It can even shorten hospital stays through reduced recovery times.
Truly, Custom Wood-Building Is an Art Of Craftsmanship
From the use of mortise and tenon joinery dating back thousands of years to our state-of-the-art CNC router, Versatile Wood Products’ custom wood projects are built to last.
Author MerryPosted on January 21, 2018 February 28, 2018 Categories About Versatile, Custom Cabinets, Custom Case Studies, Custom Design, Custom Doors, Custom Windows, Design Challenges, First Congregational Church Bell Tower, Historic Preservation, Modern Building Design, Natural Wood, Tips & Best PracticesLeave a comment on What Does Custom Wood Building Mean?
Creative Window Solutions, Sleek Designs
From modern buildings that include simple lines to historic churches with grand curves, when it comes to creative window design we will use any opportunity to fire up our imagination.
First Congregational Church Creative Window Solutions
We have been honored to design and install windows for buildings all around Portland, including the First Congregational Church. This was an opportunity to restore and recreate the magnificent tower that once was the tallest structure in Oregon at 185 feet! Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, the church is a rare example of Venetian Gothic architecture—few others exist in America.
Albina Yard Window Solutions
Since we wanted to offer a modern appearance to the Albina Yard building, we went with glass walls and flush awning windows. An awning window is much like a casement window. It is mechanically operated with a crank, hinged at the top so that the sash pivots in lieu of swinging.
Unlike the casement, though, an awning window can be open when it’s raining, making it appropriate for this office space.
Evo Building Creative Window Solutions
A fixed window can be found in designs from traditional to contemporary. Allowing sunlight into a room, fixed windows offer a decorative view of the outside in hard to open spaces. This window is a single sash that’s attached to the frame. Fixed windows are also the most energy efficient type. We chose this style for the Evo building, providing custom Douglas fir. The upper floors feature custom windows that were a match to historic photos that the architect had obtained.
Loyal Legion Creative Window Solutions
Keeping classic architecture intact, we went with the popular Eclipse system for folding windows for the Loyal Legion building in Portland. This window provides a large opening with no vertical element to split the opening when the window is open. These windows can be grouped together so that all of the panes of glass are in one plane. This gives a cleaner and more contemporary look to these windows, even when styled with traditional trim and pane patterns.
Author Snow BlackwoodPosted on October 3, 2017 February 23, 2018 Categories Custom Design, Custom Windows, First Congregational Church Bell Tower, Historic Preservation, Tips & Best PracticesLeave a comment on Creative Window Solutions, Sleek Designs
Restoring First Congregational Church — Custom Case Study
Constructed in 1895, the First Congregational Church of Portland is a dominant Venetian Gothic icon along the city’s South Park Blocks. The church is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Portland Landmark. This historic structure towers above its neighbors quite literally, with its 175′ bell tower at the southwest corner. This tower was once accompanied by two others on adjacent corners, which were removed in 1940 following significant storm damage. Existing conditions prior to the summer 2015 restoration included extreme deterioration of the wood Gothic tracery arches at the belfry. As the last remaining tower on the building, the restoration of these elements was a crucial component in retaining the architectural integrity of this historic church.
What was the scope of the project for the First Congregational Church and what were the design goals?
With its severe level of deterioration, the restoration of the Gothic tracery was not just an aesthetic decision. It was also a safety precaution after a loose piece fell onto the sidewalk below. The First Congregational Church turned to Versatile and Arciform to stabilize and restore the wood elements of this feature. As with any preservation project, the goal was to retain as much of the original fabric as possible. Equally important is the goal to maintain the character defining features of the original design. The four tower faces all required work, but the south elevation suffered the most significant damage. This was due to exposure and UV damage. The tracery at this location was removed and restored in-house at Versatile. The other elevations were in fair enough condition to be restored on-site by the Arciform team.
What challenges did the project face?
The location of the architectural details proved to be the biggest challenge. Nearly 175′ up in the air and surrounded by scaffolding, the south elevation tracery was cut into sections and lowered to the ground for transportation to Versatile’s shop.
It quickly became apparent that not only were the face-applied details of the tracery loose and deteriorating, but the backerboard holding the element together was also unstable. It arrived to the shop in pieces, like an oversized puzzle of fragile history. Another challenge was in the design itself. What appeared to be repetitive details in the columns and tracery were in fact unique, prohibiting the efficiency of replicating one element to be reused as a template throughout the entire tracery at similar locations.
What were the Uniquely Versatile solutions?
Once in the shop, each element was laid out and assessed to determine which pieces were salvageable and which required replacement. After meticulous documentation, all parts were mapped and translated into CAD files. Having these otherwise inaccessible components in-house provided the unique opportunity to prepare a custom library of details for First Congregational Church in anticipation of future restoration needs and part replacement.
Intact elements were cleaned and prepped for refinishing. Substantial details such as the monolithic Corinthian columns appeared unimpaired from the surface, but experienced wood rot at their core. With the use of consolidants, these items were also saved.
Other details were reproduced using templates created on our CNC machine. All new pieces were made of Western Red Cedar, the same wood species as the original elements to ensure historic accuracy and material performance. Replacement parts were then fit in place for sizing and routed with the cove detailing to ensure the tracery appeared seamless. Keeping the site conditions in mind, the final product was delivered in sections for ease of hoisting and installation by Arciform.
The First Congregational Church restoration marked the final project of our former shop foreman, Eric Voss. The success of this project can be credited to his skilled craftsmanship and attention to detail. Many thanks go out to him and his multiple years of service on Versatile’s team of talented woodworkers.
This project was named one of Restore Oregon‘s Most Endangered Places in 2015. You can check out the whole list of Endangered Places here. The 2016 list will be announced at the Restoration Celebration (sponsored by Versatile Wood Products) on November 13th. Get the details and RSVP for that event here.
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Author versatilePosted on October 22, 2015 February 23, 2018 Categories Custom Case Studies, Design Challenges, First Congregational Church Bell Tower, Historic Preservation, Tips & Best PracticesTags first congregational church, historic preservation, restoration, woodworking2 Comments on Restoring First Congregational Church — Custom Case Study
First Congregational Church Progress Photos
Restoration of the First Congregational Church bell tower is underway
Here are our First Congregational Church Progress Photos. Pieces that are unable to be salvaged are being replaced with replicas…Salvageable pieces are being touched up with a light sanding and wood putty. Stay tuned for more updates!
So we thought we’d share some progress photos…
Pieces that are unable to be salvaged are being replaced with replicas…
Salvageable pieces are being touched up with a light sanding and wood putty…
Modifications are being made to the partially salvageable parts…
The scaffolding is up and our team is ready to start some site work.
Click here to contribute to the restoration fund.
Stay tuned for more updates!
Author versatilePosted on June 12, 2015 May 24, 2018 Categories First Congregational Church Bell Tower, Historic PreservationTags first congregational church, historic bell tower, restoration, salvageLeave a comment on First Congregational Church Progress Photos
What’s Happening in the Shop!
You may have heard that the bell tower of the First Congregational Church of Portland is being restored.
The south portion of the tower was disassembled by Pioneer Waterproofing and delivered to our shop in a few pieces…
Our shop crew carefully laid the pieces out…
…and our shop manager puzzled the pieces back together…
Our team of restoration experts will assess each piece and deem it salvageable for restoration, or will create replica pieces.
Author versatilePosted on April 23, 2015 September 5, 2017 Categories First Congregational Church Bell Tower, Historic PreservationTags bell tower, first congregational church, restorationLeave a comment on What’s Happening in the Shop!
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Only half of recent graduates say their career has matched expectations
August 18, 2015 /2 Comments/in News /by VF Press Office
Only half of veterinary surgeons who graduated within the last eight years say their career has matched their expectations, according to a survey that the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) and the British Veterinary Association (BVA) are dubbing a “wake up call” to the profession.
The results form the latest output from Vet Futures, a joint RCVS and BVA initiative that aims to help the veterinary profession prepare for and shape its future.
The online survey gathered views from 892 veterinary students (via the Association of Veterinary Students) and 1,973 veterinary surgeons who had graduated within the last eight years, during May and June this year.
Although 37% of graduates reported that their working lives had met their expectations, and a further 13% said it had exceeded them, this left 50% partly or wholly unsatisfied. Furthermore, 10% said they were considering leaving the profession entirely.
Vets who have been qualified for five years or more were least optimistic about the future, rating their opportunities for career progression less positively than more recent graduates, and were also least likely to feel that their degree had prepared them for their current work. Meanwhile, only 34% of students felt that their degree was preparing them ‘very well’ for the work they wanted to do.
Almost three-quarters (73%) of students intended to work in the UK, with most aspiring to work in small animal/exotic or mixed practice, although one in 10 was as yet undecided. Of students, 45% said they wanted to become practice owners or partners, yet this aspiration dropped to 25% among graduates. In addition, nearly double the amount of graduates said they wanted to work outside clinical practice (18%), compared to students.
When seeking a role, the three factors that both graduates and students agreed would have the greatest influence on their choice of career were intellectual satisfaction, location and a supportive environment.
This last requirement chimes with the fact that among the most popular suggestions for improvement to the veterinary degree were compulsory modules on managing stress, personal development and work-life balance, alongside more teaching of business and finance skills, and extra-mural studies (EMS) placements in a wider range of settings, such as industry.
The results are “a wake up call to the profession”, according to BVA President, John Blackwell, who adds: “The drop off in career satisfaction for vets during this crucial first eight years in practice is something we can’t afford to ignore. It points to frustration over career development opportunities and dissatisfaction with support available in practice. For the veterinary profession to remain sustainable, and an attractive career choice for the best and brightest, we need to address these issues with some urgency.”
RCVS President, Dr Bradley Viner, commented: “We clearly need to address the disconnect between expectation and reality for many recent graduates. Reviewing the educational foundation of the profession is a thread that runs through many of the proposed actions that will be outlined in the Vet Futures report due this autumn. The teaching and assessment of non-clinical skills – both as part of the undergraduate curriculum and within postgraduate education – will be important, as will be the promotion of non-clinical career pathways.”
The survey also covered issues such as students’ aspirations in terms of the type (size, ownership, sector) of practice in which they would like to work, and graduates’ future career plans. It also considers attitudes from both groups with respect to new technology.
The full research report “Voices from the future of the profession,” can be found here.
The Vet Futures report and action plan will be launched at the London Vet Show on Friday 20 November, at 1.20pm, in the Pillar Hall of Olympia London, as part of BVA Congress.
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Paul Carwardine says:
Response to Vet’s Survey.
My comments will no doubt be regarded as heresy coming from vet well past his sell by date (1961 graduate).
The findings in the survey that a large proportion of younger members of our profession were dissatisfied with their careers came as no surprise – having been informed by a member of staff at my old college ( The Dick) when attending a ‘year reunion’ there some five years ago, that a large percentage of graduates left the profession within 5 years.
My feelings are that the problem lies with the selection of students to enter veterinary schools. This appears to be based purely on academic ability – A level grades – with little consideration of vocational attitude or the ‘practical aspects’ of clinical practice.
A farmer’s or veterinary surgeon’s son or daughter with poorer A level grades might make a better practitioner than one from an unrelated background with 4A*’s.
It seems to be accepted that girls tend to gain superior grades to boys in A levels which results in a gender imbalance of graduates – the converse of my generation of veterinary surgeons.
Family commitments experienced by female graduates during their careers conflicts with their jobs – leading to divided loyalties between their profession and their family.
Intellectual ‘high fliers’ find it hard to come to terms with the real world of general practice. Finding that time and costs and the lack of the state of the art facilities they have been accustomed to at university, preclude their ability to ‘work up’ cases in the manner in which they have been taught leads to frustration and disillusionment with their chosen career coupled with the fear of litigation when things go wrong.
It seems to me that today’s graduates may be ‘over trained’ for life in general practice and are more suited to careers in research and commerce. Reports that practices find it difficult to find candidates to fill vacancies would support this hypothesis. Friends still in practice tell me that the main concerns of potential employees are time off, hours worked and CPD allowance.
The sense of vocation, which allowed my generation to work long hours with limited ‘time off’ because we regarded our profession as a ‘way of life’ rather than a ‘job’ seems to have long gone.
Perhaps we should consider a ‘two tier’ form of veterinary education. One addressing the requirements of practitioners and the other for the more academic students.
I was fortunate that before obtaining a place at veterinary school my local practice afforded me the opportunity to experience the less glamorous aspects of veterinary medicine so that I was under no disillusion of what the work entailed.
Perhaps insisting that potential students gained similar experience before being granted a university place might weed out unsuitable candidates.
I enjoyed almost 50 years of a very varied and enjoyable career within our profession and I am saddened that it would appear many of those starting out today will not.
Paul Carwardine.
Richard Brown says:
I am with you. Your analysis is robust. I wrote a letter which the VR published last year which suggested that Vet Schools only take on students who have worked for a total of six months in a service industry or similar so that they understand the concepts of serving others. The note of hope I can give you is that vets are now highly intelligent. Thus the penny will finally drop and we will in due time get a very strong “inner college” or “specialty” of bread and butter intelligent practicing vets. Give it a decade or two. Finally my own opinion is that in fact the all round mixed practitioner is the “heptathlete” of our profession and he/she deserves far more kudos than the specialties. Who else can in less than 24 hours, Caesar a cow, vaccinate a horse, spay a cat , lamb a ewe and then still do some consults……………
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January 23, 2019 by Jamie Parmenter
Brave return with new full-length record the calm | the storm, and with it bring an album playing on both the heavy and the serene, with an impressive mix of genres.
Sometimes, when a band has an extended break from releasing music, they lose that special something. Life happens, interests wane and priorities change. This isn’t the case for Brave, however. New record the calm | the storm follows the band ethos of not adhering to current trends, and instead they write the music for themselves, first and foremost. This tends to bring out the best in any band, and with their rock/metal sound as the basis for the new record, it makes for an interesting record as other genres find their way in.
I Will Wait starts off with enticing piano leading into heavily distorted guitars and feedback; this is showing you exactly what this band are all about right from the start: heavy rock. Think Evanescence meets The Gathering. Bass then enters to play around Schrotz’s vocals, as the deep lyrics deal with love, loss and death: “ I will wait until I fall, there is no other way”.
Mystery kicks in with a riff-laden intro, and you can immediately hear the band having fun. With silky solo’s, raucous guitar slides, and tight playing, they even add in a few subtle synths. Once again, this all fades out once the vocals kick in, with the bass mercilessly keeping pace. It’s a very dexterous track that throws itself around and changes up the melody often, allowing Schrotz to test her vocal range in style.
No Gravity touches on a lighter sound with acoustic guitar forming the basic structure. Its country-tinged vibe is something akin to First Aid Kit, and the lack of vocals gives it a breath of fresh air amongst the other tracks.
Summertime sounds exactly like a track about summer should be – fast, loose and fun. The lyrics touch on coming of age themes and a rose-tinted look at the sunniest time of the year. Owing debts to late 90s rock, the tracks pulses on forwards with even gentle nods to Bon Jovi in structure and sound. Race To The End is edgier and darker in comparison, sounding like Queens of The Stone Age vs Black Sabbath with a bit of Pink Floyd thrown in for good measure – good company to be around. Guitarist Scott Loose is enjoying himself as he bends his guitar sound around the track to push it forward and fill in the atmosphere where necessary. It’s a pretty epic track and an album highlight.
Electric Ravens once again plays heavily on the bass, before everything comes to a fray in a crescendo of sound. The track switches between soft and heavy in equal measure, allowing the track to breath where necessary before letting off steam in a strong chorus. The record ends with the 6 minute long slow burner Feel The Rain, as singer Michelle Schrotz sings of regrets and headache: “The rain falls steadily, it won’t go away, I have to live with my choices, I have to learn from my mistakes”. The track changes to a folk vibe about half way through which is an interesting choice, but somehow works. It’s a gutsy move for the final track, but shows the mindset of a band happy to try new things and see what happens.
the calm | the storm is an interestingly diverse record that bites when needed, but is also happy to lay back and rest on its laurels. Big guitar riffs lead into intrepid acoustic sections and vice versa, as the songs too and fro between the heavy and the forlorn. Singer Michelle Schrotz does well to coax hidden meanings and layers within the lyrics, with her vocals working overtime in places to keep up with the battling solos and riffs. She also knows when to just sit back and let the music play centre-stage. Brave have created a coherent and fun record in the calm | the storm, and the long wait for the release has been well worth waiting for.
Score: 4/5
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Redundancy Advice for Employers: The Top Five Questions We Always Get Asked
Redundancy can be a head-scratcher; the process throws out many burning questions for HR teams whilst they are managing a period of business change.
Vista’s employment lawyers provide redundancy advice to our clients regularly, so, we spent an afternoon on the sofa with Tim Cross, Vista’s Director of Employment and Legal Affairs, and asked him the top five redundancy questions which always come our way. He answers them below:
1. Does an employer have to accept volunteers?
Legally, the answer is no. Although, employers need to think carefully about the effect that turning people away then making compulsory redundancies might have. If employers do go down this route, they risk being left with demotivated and disengaged employees that wanted to leave.
2. Can absence be used for the purposes of redundancy selection?
Absolutely, yes. There are a few qualifications that employers need to think about here. Firstly, understand the reason behind any absences that may have occurred. Any absence that comes underneath the heading of family related absence, pregnancy related sickness, other forms of family leave and time off for dependants will need to be stripped out.
Employers will also need to make any adjustments that might be required following any disability related absences to comply with their obligations under The Equality Act.
3. How do you deal with a change in business circumstances?
So, an employee that has been made redundant is now claiming unfair dismissal because the business circumstances have changed since the dismissal.
There is a famous case that can help to illustrate the answer to this question, Atkinson (Octavius) and Sons Ltd v Morris 1989.
As a very short summary of the case, Mr Morris was selected for redundancy, but was transferred with a colleague to another site where it was hoped there would be work to keep them in employment. At lunch time, two days later, however, Mr Morris was told that there was no further work and his employment was terminated without notice. On this day, 29th August, Mr Morris left the site at about 2pm. At approximately 4pm the company received an urgent call for work to be carried out on the following Monday. The company didn’t contact Mr Morris to offer him the work and so he claimed unfair dismissal.
As Mr Morris’s contract was terminated at lunch time on the 29th, before the company knew of the alternative employment, the Court of Appeal upheld the employer’s appeal and ruled that the dismissal was fair.
What’s important to note here is that an employment tribunal is looking at the circumstances relevant to the dismissal at the time of dismissal not what happened afterwards.
So, if business circumstances do change (genuinely) unexpectedly, it doesn’t change the fact that at the time of dismissal it was fair based on the facts.
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July 18th, 2012 #61
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Two Buses With 40 Israeli Tourists Blown Up At Bulgarian Airport
Update 2: Blame it on Iran: ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER SAYS SIGNS THAT IRAN BEHIND BURGAS BOMBING -RTRS
Update: According to BurgasInfo.com not one but two buses were blown up. Unclear if the second one was also carrying Israeli tourists.
According to Bulgarian press Sega.bg, and confirmed by other wire sources, a bus with 40 Israeli tourists was "blown up" at 5:30 pm local time at the local airport of the seaside town of Bourgas. Sega says that according to BTV "it is an assassination attempt." The bomb was located in the trunk of a white bus with Israel tourists from Israel who were en route to the seaside town of Sunny Beach according to an airport source.
The mayor of the city, Dimitar Nikolov confirmed the news according to Sega. Furthermore, according to the airport's website, an Air Via flight from Tel Aviv landed at 4:50 pm local time. The shock wave was so large it also exploded two neighboringing buses located in the arrival area of the airport. The number of casualties is currently unknown, but at least three people are dead according to the local police, with dozens wounded. Sega adds "the flames are huge with three firetrucks on the scene and seven ambulances driving out charred people
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/bus-40...garian-airport
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October 23rd, 2012 #62
Roma Woman Wins Case against Bulgaria at Strasbourg
Society | October 23, 2012, Tuesday| 236 views
Bulgaria has been found guilty of failing to protect the right to life and of discrimination against a female Roma citizen, who filed a case at the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights.
The European Court of Human Rights has determined that Bulgarian authorities failed to properly investigate a violent assault against the woman that left her disabled.
Back in 1999, Yolanda Yotova was shot in the chest by attackers who have yet not been identified, much less put to trial.
At the same time, the European Court has found that Bulgarian authorities possessed information about simmering ethnic tensions in Yotova's village of Aglen near Lukovit in northwestern Bulgaria.
Although preliminary investigations started right away after the attack, investigators stopped proceedings multiple times and performed a number of actions with unmotivated delay, said the court.
In addition the Human Rights Court has found that there are grounds to believe that the crime has been performed on racial grounds, something that investigators failed to properly consider, in spite of the fact they were aware of recent Bulgarian-Roma clashes in the area.
Bulgaria is to pay Yotova indemnities worth EUR 12,000, as well as to cover expenses for the proceedings at Strasbourg.
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=144425
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January 21st, 2013 #63
Bulgaria ethnic Turkish party wants to trace attack "mastermind"
SOFIA | Sun Jan 20, 2013 7:32pm GMT
Reuters) - Bulgaria's ethnic Turkish party, whose leader escaped unhurt when a man pointed a gun to his head on stage at a party congress, said on Sunday it wanted police to investigate who was the "political mastermind" behind the attack.
The Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) accused the police and security services of failing to protect Ahmed Dogan from the man who tried on Saturday to shoot him twice before being wrestled to the ground by security guards.
"The main goal of the investigation would be to focus on finding out who was the political mastermind of this attack," said Lyutvi Mestan, who replaced Dogan as MRF party leader as previously expected on Saturday.
"The authorities are working on the lead that this was an individual action of a criminal .... this is a huge stain on Bulgaria's image," he told a news conference.
The party called for an international investigation into the assault by the 25-year-old man, who police identified as Oktay Enimehmedov, an ethnic Turk from the Black Sea town of Burgas.
Police said the gun used during the attack was a non-lethal gas pistol and deputy chief prosecutor Borislav Sarafov told reporters Enimehmedov faces up to five years in prison for hooliganism and up to six years for making a death threat.
Political parties in Bulgaria strongly condemned the attack against Dogan, one the most influential political figures in the European Union's poorest member.
"The attack against Dogan is not a hooliganism. This is an assault against the national security. I categorically reject any claims that the incident was staged," said Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Sergei Stanishev.
Prime Minister Boiko Borisov told reporters: "This is a very disturbing event and should not happen in today's Bulgaria."
The liberal MRF party represents ethnic Turks and other Muslims who make up about 12 percent of the Balkan country's population of 7.3 million. Dogan was named honorary chairman on Saturday of the party he has led for 23 years.
Most Muslims in Bulgaria are not recent immigrants but are a centuries-old community, mostly ethnic Turkish descendants of Ottoman rule.
The MRF was a junior partner in the previous Socialist-led cabinet in Bulgaria, which is due to hold parliamentary elections in July.
(Reporting by Angel Krasimirov; Editing by Sophie Hares)
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/0...90J0GB20130120
January 23rd, 2013 #64
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Failed assassination on Ahmed Dogan (National Palace of Culture in Sofia) Live TV - YouTube
February 6th, 2013 #65
Dimitar
Location: Bulgarian NS activist
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts - The Bulgarian government on Tuesday made a mockery of its political independence by publicly implicating Lebanon's Hezbollah in last year's attack on an Israeli bus in the resort city of Burgas, despite the fact that its "official investigation is still going on", Sofia has yet to make an official announcement and there is an absence of trustworthy evidence to back the claim.
Under pressure for months by Washington and Tel Aviv to name Hezbollah as the culprit for the attack that killed five Israelis and a Bulgarian bus driver, as well as the terrorist carrying the bomb, Sofia has appeased Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who within half hour of the bombing last July publicly pointed the finger at Hezbollah and Iran.
Unsurprisingly, Netanyahu was extremely gratified by the news
from Sofia and wasted no time in calling on Europeans to put Hezbollah on their list of terrorist organizations, a significant move that would likely exacerbate the present civil rights of Muslims in Europe, particularly those who are involved in charitable fund raising for Hezbollah's plethora of social welfare services in Lebanon.
The US government likewise conveniently interpreted as "conclusive" the preliminary finding in the Burgas investigation that the "military formation of Hezbollah might be involved" in that attack, to paraphrase carefully chosen words from Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov.
According to a Bulgarian expert, Professor Vladimir Chukov, Tsvetanov made a "hybrid statement" that "like Britain" makes the distinction between Hezbollah as a group and its "military wing". "This is a hybrid situation that goes on to suggest that there is little chance that Bulgaria will name Hezbollah and Iran as culprits," Professor Chukov has told the Bulgarian media.
Tell that to the mainstream media that wasted no time in its avalanche of reports that Bulgaria has implicated Hezbollah in the Burgas bombing. Case in point, in the various reports in the Wall Street Journal, London's Guardian, BBC, etc, there is virtually no mention of the fact that there is no official position of the Bulgarian government as of yet, and that the investigation is still on-going. According to Professor Chukov, the interior ministry's news leak was meant simply as "a test". Yet by all indications this is a poor and politically motivated move by an official of the Bulgarian government.
Opposition's stern warning
"It is obvious that Bulgaria's government has chosen a political approach and is only repeating the interpretation alleged by Israel on the very next day following the attack, when the investigation had not even started," said Sergey Stanishev, the head of Bulgarian Socialist Party, who is also the Chair of Party of European Socialists. "The investigation is currently under way and there is no way one can be talking about decisive evidence regarding the direct perpetrators, much less regarding the organization that is behind this tragic event ... This is absolutely unjustified in view of national security and the risks that are taken with respect to people in Bulgaria."
There is no dearth of suspicion in Bulgaria and beyond that the government official's statement that the bombing "was most likely" the work of Hezbollah militants and that there are "obvious links" to Hezbollah is based less on hard facts and more on external political pressure. According to Minister Tsvetanov, two individuals - one Canadian and the other Australian - who have lived in Lebanon since 2006 and 2010 respectively, have been linked to the attack and "there is data showing" their "obvious links to Lebanon."
Tsvetanov's statements are backed by Rob Wainwright, the director of Europol, claiming that there is "reasonable assumption" based on "forensic evidence, intelligence sources and patterns in past attacks" that "point to Hezbollah's involvement." Not so according to Stanishev, who has labeled as "poor evidence" the data cited by officials to point accusatory fingers at Hezbollah. In fact, there is a great deal of contrary evidence to suggest the attack was a carefully orchestrated Israeli "false flag" operation aimed at smearing Hezbollah and Iran and pressuring the European Union to brand Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.
False flag evidence ignored
The distinct possibility of an Israeli 'false flag' operation can be garnered by a careful and methodical examination of the public information, including the photographs, amateur videos and instant reports on the bus attack that occurred at exactly 5:30 pm last July 18, on the anniversary of the 1994 bombing in Argentina that Israel insists was the work of Iran and Hezbollah. That was perfect timing for Israel's propaganda machine.
As stated in this author's investigative article written immediately after the bus attack, there are at least 10 valid reasons to question the official story that a busload of Israeli tourists was the target of a terrorist bombing. [1] Lest we forget, the autopsy results in Sofia have shown that the dead terrorist was "white and had light eyes" and initially was identified as a member of al-Qaeda, much to the chagrin of Israelis who have shown zero interest in any suspect other than Hezbollah-Iran. [2]
To reiterate the gist of this author's own probe of this matter, a good deal of evidence exists that suggest the targeted bus was empty and the only passengers hurt were inside the adjacent bus and received light injuries.
This author has carefully examined dozens upon dozens of photographs of the Israeli tourists in question, who no doubt would have received much worse facial and other bodily injuries if they were inside the targeted bus. After all, the severed head of the bomber had been discovered some 60 meters away from the bus and an instant video shows the bus in full flames, ie, impossible for the majority of 42 purported passengers, especially the elderly females seen on stretchers en route to the hospital in various photos, to escape with little or no bodily harm, thus warranting the following 10 questions:
1. Why the amateur video of the bus taken within seconds of the explosion doesn't show anyone jumping down the bus?
2. Why so many passengers survived with only light hand and foot injuries in an explosion involving (according to the Bulgarian officials) three kilograms of TNT in front of the bus?
3. Why did the Israeli group known as Zakar appear immediately on the site and collected the bodies of the dead, per several images, when this should have been done by Bulgarians? Why was this group at the airport at that time? And where were the Bulgarian security officials during the whole time monopolized by the Zakar individuals (in yellow uniforms)? Indeed, the fact that the Bulgarians allowed the Zakar all over the crime scene and move the dead victims (who were then frisked quickly to Israel) speaks volumes about the travesty of police investigation in Bulgaria.
4. Why did the bomb kill the Israelis sitting in the back of the bus (per reports in the Israeli media) while simultaneously killing the bus driver in the front and leaving the vast majority of bus passengers only lightly harmed?
5. Why have some bus witnesses told the media that they tried to get out through the front door but found it locked and managed to get out through a "hole on the side" when both the videos and reports indicate an instant fire following the explosion engulfing the bus?
6. Why is there no report of any injuries to the bus driver in the next bus, which sustained major damage especially on the driver's side? Could the bus driver killed be the one in the second bus?
7. Why was there no extra security precaution even though according to the Israeli media prior to the landing of Israeli passengers the tour company had received a call that they would be "greeted with two bombs"?
8. Why was the trunk of the targeted bus empty and no sign of any luggage (per numerous images that also show the inside of the bus and the absence of any section for luggage contrary to the claim of one of the Israeli passengers who is quoted widely)?
9. Why did the passport and license of purported terrorist remain intact despite the raging fire in the bus?
10. Why did Israel rush all the passengers back to Israel early next morning instead of allowing the Bulgarian investigators to interview them? After all, Israel made no similar attempt to protect the lives of thousands of other Israeli tourists vacationing in Burgas, bottom line since it had no real worries about any terrorist attack against them after having pulled off its spectacular 'false flag' that must surely be a source of current pride among its Mossad intelligence officials.
Mossad agents must be patting themselves on the shoulder now for a job well-done, but then again their script perhaps was too neatly executed, given Netanyahu's instant finger toward Hezbollah and Iran, or the widespread use of a replica bus on full flame, which on closer examination shows to be different from the actual targeted bus.
The Israelis have now mastered the art of political manipulation and their latest victory in Bulgaria simply educates us about why they are ahead of the game and keep winning the battle for the world public opinion.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/OB07Ak01.html
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February 11th, 2013 #66
Iran to pull envoy from Bulgaria following attack accusations
(JTA) -- In the wake of accusations that it was involved in the Burgas terror attack, Iran will recall its ambassador to Bulgaria.
Iran also reportedly will downgrade its relations with Bulgaria, according to reports.
The Bulgarian government last week implicated two men with links to the Iranian-backed Hezbollah in the July attack on a bus full of Israeli tourists. Bulgaria's interior minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, also said that Hezbollah financed the bomb attack, which killed five Israeli tourists and their Bulgarian driver.
Last Friday, Iran's ambassador to Bulgaria denied Iranian involvement in the attack.
"This has nothing to do with Iran," Gholamreza Bageri told reporters. "We are against any form of terrorism and strongly condemn such actions."
Iran has accused Israel of staging the attack. Israel has blamed Hezbollah and Iran.
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2013...ck-accusations
Bulgaria orders Hamas deputies out of the country
Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:58 GMT
Source: reuters // Reuters
SOFIA, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Bulgaria ordered three visiting Palestinian lawmakers from the Islamist movement Hamas to leave the country on Friday, saying they posed a security risk to the EU member state.
The expulsion came a week after Bulgaria blamed Hezbollah, a Lebanese Islamist group, for a bomb attack in the Black Sea city of Burgas last July that killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian driver, fuelling an EU debate over whether it should be blacklisted alongside Hamas.
The European Union, like the United States, has branded Hamas a terrorist group for suicide bombings and other attacks on Israelis since the mid-1990s. Bulgaria's National Security Service said Friday's move was a "preventive measure".
"During their stay in Bulgaria we obtained information that their presence was creating a serious threat to national security," it said in a statement, without elaborating.
The three Hamas lawmakers were hosted by Bulgaria's Centre for Middle East Studies. Its director, Mohd Abuasi, said police officers showed up at their hotel early on Friday and took them to the airport.
"There was great pressure on them to leave," Abuasi said.
In Gaza, a Hamas statement said Bulgarian police had stormed in to deport lawmakers Salah al-Bardaweel, Ismail al-Ashqar and Mushir al-Masri, who flew to Istanbul.
Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said the Bulgarian government had "no connection whatsoever" to the surprise visit by the Hamas lawmakers, which began on Wednesday and was meant to have lasted into next week.
"They were invited by a non-governmental organisation as Palestinians. Once they arrived, they started to demonstrate their political affiliation," Tsvetanov told TV7 television, saying they only started to say they were Hamas deputies once they were in the country.
Bardaweel told Reuters on Wednesday that the Bulgaria trip was the first time Hamas officials had been admitted to an EU country.
The group won a Palestinian legislative election in 2006 and, after a brief government alliance with secular rivals, carried out an armed takeover of the territory of Gaza in 2007. (Reporting by Tsvetelia Tsolova in Sofia and Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza; Editing by Eva Kuehnen and Jon Boyle)
Bulgaria presses EU to toughen stance on Hezbollah
Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:17 GMT
* Bulgaria wants EU solidarity over Burgas attack
* Says strong message crucial for EU security
* Sidesteps issue of blacklisting Hezbollah (Adds interview with Mladenov)
By Justyna Pawlak
BRUSSELS, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Bulgaria urged European governments on Monday to take a harder stance towards Hezbollah after blaming the Lebanese Islamist movement for a bus bombing that killed five Israelis at a Bulgarian Black Sea resort last year.
But the country's Foreign Minister Nikolai Mladenov cautioned European states not to be in a rush to brand the Lebanese group as a terrorist organisation, saying careful consideration was needed of potential consequences in Beirut.
Bulgaria's implication of Hezbollah in the attack in the city of Burgas has reignited a debate over Europe's approach to the Shi'ite Muslim group.
The European Union has resisted pressure from the United States and Israel to blacklist Hezbollah, arguing this could destabilise a fragile government in Lebanon and contribute to instability in the Middle East.
Hezbollah is a major player in Lebanese politics and its support is vital to the authority of Prime Minister Najib Mikati.
"It is very important for us in Europe to understand that when faced with the threat of terrorism, we need to stand up to it firmly ... and collectively," Mladenov told Reuters in Brussels, where he presented findings of an investigation into the July 2012 Burgas attack to EU foreign ministers.
On his way into the meeting, Mladenov told reporters Europe should take collective measures against Hezbollah.
Asked whether that meant the EU should blacklist the movement, he replied: "Given the fact that we've already made quite firm statements about where we believe the responsibility for that attack lies, I think the answer is quite obvious."
But he said it could take weeks or months before Bulgaria completes its investigation of the attack and shares all necessary information with other EU capitals to build the case for any moves against Hezbollah.
"I don't think we need to rush into this debate, before all the information we have is shared," he told Reuters.
CHOOSING DIRECTION
Other European officials have said there are steps that could be taken short of blacklisting Hezbollah. These could include asking the EU policing agency Europol to coordinate investigations into the group's presence in Europe.
Mladenov said some governments wanted sanctions, such as travel bans and asset freezes, imposed on individual members of Hezbollah implicated in the Burgas attack. "We should look at the whole spectrum (of options)," he said.
Much will depend on evidence provided by Bulgaria linking Hezbollah to the attack, EU diplomats say.
Officials have said, for example, that France appears to have softened its traditionally staunch opposition to blacklisting the group, saying "all options" were on the table, provided the evidence is sufficiently strong.
The U.S. government said this month that Hezbollah must be held to account for the Bulgaria attack, and urged Europe and others to pursue an investigation into the incident.
But many European diplomats are wary that punishing Hezbollah would further radicalise the group and foment tensions.
"They see (Hezbollah) as a movement with a political and social base," said Julien Barnes-Dacey of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
"The fear is that sanctions...may push them into a position when it is no longer in their interest to hold back. It could isolate Hezbollah and therefore potentially empower the hardline elements." (Reporting by Justyna Pawlak; Editing by Michael Roddy)
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/b...e-on-hezbollah
April 11th, 2013 #69
Statement of Bulgarian Komite and their leader Zivko Ivanov regarding the turko-shiptar threats in south Serbia. He says they are ready to go with weapons in hand to help Serbs.
Сопштење Бугарских комита и њиховог команданта Живка Иванова, поводом претњи шиптарских терориста на југу Србије:
Живко Иванов военно-полеви командир на българските доброволци от “ПРАВОСЛАВНА ЗОРА” България до нашите братя от “ЧЕТНИЧКИ ПОКРЕТ” Р.Сърбия
Драги братя,
във връзка с последните събития в Южна Сърбия и заплахата от шиптърските терористи, ние българските доброволци от “ПРАВОСЛАВНА ЗОРА” България обявяваме най официално че готови и с оръжие в ръка да помогнем на нашите братя от “ЧЕТНИЧКИ ПОКРЕТ” в борбата им срещу шиптърските терористи. Борбата срещу ислямските екстремисти в православните страни е наше задължение.
Готови сме да умрем за православието и нашия изпит сега е Косово и Метохия. Така че шиптърските терористи трябва да знаят, че срещу тях освен нашите братя четници ще се изправят и срещу дулата на българските доброволци от “ПРАВОСЛАВНА ЗОРА”.
Полеви-командир Живко Иванов
политически отдел Павел Чернев
Живко Иванов војни командант бугарских добровољаца “ПРАВОСЛАВНА ЗОРА” Бугарска, нашој браћи из “ЧЕТНИЧКОГ ПОКРЕТА”
Драга браћо,
у односу на последња дешавања на југу Србије и претњи шиптарских терориста, ми Бугарски добровољци “ПРАВОСЛАВНЕ ЗОРЕ” и званично објављујемо да смо спремни и са оружјем у рукама да помогнемо нашој браћи из “ЧЕТНИЧКОГ ПОКРЕТА” у борби против шиптарских терориста. Борба против исламских екстремиста у православним земљама је наша обавеза.
Спремни смо да умремо за православље и наш испит је Косово и Метохију. Зато шиптарски терористи треба да знају, да се неће борити само против наше браће четника већ ће имати и за противнике бугарске добровољце “ПРАВОСЛАВНЕ ЗОРЕ”.
командант Живко Иванов
политичког дела Павела Чернева
Подсећања ради, Четици и Комите су на иницијативу Павела Чернева, бугарског посланика који је у свом парламенту јавно поцепао заставу такозване државе Косово, оформили Православно братство са циљем одбране свих православних земаља или становништва од исламских терориста или њихових тежњи. Поводом тога формирана је СРПСКО-БУГАРСКА ДИВИЗИЈА “БРАЋА” (БЪЛГАРО-СРБСКА ДИВИЗИЯ “БРАТЯ”) која је већ деловала.
Brave Bulgarian volunteer Evgeni Vasilev who came from Sofia to Bosnia, (while some local Serbian cowards fled to the safety of Belgrade ), to fight with Serbs against NATO's proxies. Unfortunately he lost his life when he was captured by mujahideen vermin and beheaded.
Херој Православља - Бугарски добровољац
Евгениј Василев (1973-1995)
Добровољац из Бугарске Евгениј Василев,погинуо у Босни 1995. године, бранећи Православље и Србски народ. Буквално положио своју главу на Олтар Православља, коју су му кукавички муџахедини одсекли.
Bulgaria Reacts with Disdain to Turkish Daily's Scandalous Map
Society | April 24, 2013, Wednesday| 1685 views
The map appears to “occupy” large territories of Bulgaria, among others.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Marin Raykov has strongly criticized the Turkish Milliyet daily for publishing an improvised map that appears to “occupy” large territories of Bulgaria, among others.
Milliyet recently published a map of what it described as “New Turkey”, with the territories going far beyond the actual borders of the country.
The Turkish paper’s article argued in favor of the establishment of a powerful new state within the former Ottoman Empire, according to Bulgarian media. The map includes much of Bulgaria and parts of Greece, Cyprus, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Syria and Iraq.
“I find the map published in the Milliyet paper to be absolutely scandalous,” Raykov told reporters on Wednesday.
“The map is so scandalous that it does not deserve a comment from a Prime Minister, but only his disdain,” he added.
Raykov pointed out that Turkey should not be held responsible for the publication.
“A country should not react to the writings of some newspaper,” he noted.
Raykov pointed out that similar provocations have been also made by media in other countries.
May 14th, 2013 #72
Dangerous far-right party regains political strength in Bulgaria
Ataka ('Attack' in Bulgarian), a Bulgarian nationalist party - which has openly protested against the Roma minority, and wants to nationalize foreign-owned firms - has emerged as a kingmaker following parliamentary elections in Bulgaria last Sunday. The far-right party captured some 7% of the popular vote, putting it in a position to dictate terms for the formation of Bulgaria’s next ruling coalition as the winning party, GERB, didn’t gain enough seats in the Parliament to form a government on its own. GERB, Bulgaria’s last ruling party stepped down at the height of February protests against unemployment and poor government. The party had implemented tight fiscal policy and austerity measures.
Over the years Ataka's leader, Volen Siderov, has vilified Bulgaria’s large Roma minority, calling for destruction of Roma ghettoes, many of which have no running water or electricity, and obligatory school attendance for Roma children, and obligatory employment for Roma adults. Some Ataka party members wear shirts with swastikas and make Nazi salutes at rallies. In recent years the party was also involved in a fight, which drew international attention, in front of Sofia’s only mosque. Bulgaria also has a big Turkish minority. The Roma and Turkish minorities combined account for over 10% of Bulgaria’s population. According to some reports there are around 1 million Muslims in Bulgaria, a country of 7.5 million. DPS, a political party representing in large extent the Muslim minority, came in third in the elections with 10% of the vote.
Ataka’s appeal has been greatest with Bulgaria’s poor and disenfranchised, who are frustrated with the country’s weak economy, seemingly rampant corruption, and an entrenched national elite unable to change the situation. He has said Bulgaria should leave the EU because Brussels wants to exploit the country as a source of cheap labour. Prior to the most recent elections the party was gradually losing votes and importance, but the current political situation in Bulgaria made it possible for Ataka to reemerge as a strong political party, receiving the vote of those who wouldn’t trust the two major political parties - GERB and the Bulgarian Socialist Party. At the start of the year Ataka had only 1% popular support, but Sidorov’s appeals to national pride and his calls for an end to foreign concessions and nationalizations have drawn increasing support, but worried international investors.
Ataka’s success follows the rise of the Golden Dawn neo-Nazi party in neighboring Greece, and Jobbik in Hungary, which pushes an ideology of racial purity and national pride. Commenting on the results Siderov said that one day he will be Bulgaria's Prime Minister.
http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/e...th_in_bulgaria
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September 23rd, 2013 #73
Bulgarian Nationalists 'Block' Border with Turkey over Refugee Wave
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True to their pledge, Bulgarian activists and followers of the nationalist VMRO party "blocked" Sunday one of the country's border checkpoints with Turkey as a sign of protest against the increasing Syrian refugee influx.
The nationalists have "blockaded" the Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint with Turkey.
The Deputy Chairman of VMRO Angel Dzambazki is quoted as saying Turkey was deliberately transferring illegal immigrants to Bulgaria. He has stressed that 90 illegal immigrants cross the border daily, while security is provided by only 45 border police officers.
According to VMRO, people crossing the border are not Syrian asylum seekers, but criminals that would cause a new crime wave.
"Maritsa" highway is now blocked and a line of tractor trailers has begun to form. When asked how long this will last, the nationalists have replied: "Until the police arrive."
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What I find even more revolting is what the Greeks didn't do for their people, in Cyprus, while they had the opportunity to cleanse the island for good
Care to discuss your point here and elaborate?
What is exactly in your mind Greeks did not do for their people and which is the greeks you referring to?
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October 25th, 2013 #75
Preparing our Afghan "refugee wave"
October 23, 2013, Wednesday | Posted by Magdalena Tasheva
20,000 Taliban waiting in Istanbul command to storm the Bulgarian border as seekers. "
Two committees discussed in closed session topic for Refugees - Internal Security and Public Order and Foreign Policy. Lawmakers on the situation of refugee flows reported our first diplomat Vigenin and Deputy Interior Minister Vasil Marinov.
"At present there are 7356 refugees. To this number must be added that nearly 500 persons in custody for 24 hours to the border police. " That said Deputy Interior Minister Vasil Marinov. So nearly 8,000 foreigners seeking protection of our territory.
The meeting of the two committees, it became clear something else - that the next wave of refugees that can flood is Afghanistan. About 20,000 Afghan refugees 'waiting' in Istanbul to go to the West.
Every day there are refugees trying to escape to the west of Bulgaria, it was clear from the words of Marinov. This morning were arrested 9 people on the Bulgarian-Serbian border, he said.
12 are those who came to our territory, are found to be a threat to our national security.
One of them is found to be involved in combat, whose side however Marinov refused to clarify. There are people crossing the border with Turkey, which are purely criminal behavior, but they are not Syrian citizens.
It became clear that he would expel those who are not eligible to receive refugee protection. MIA no data on persons related to terrorist organizations that have crossed our border.
Foreign Minister Vigenin, in turn, said that the country will put the question for Turkey to strengthen controls at the border. The question is why now, after 10 months of strong increases imigranstkoto invasion and 3 months after "wave Syrian" government "Oresharsky" did not do it and did not ask help from FRONNTEKS and EASO. Vigenin said that Bulgaria would still try to activate a provision in an agreement with Turkey since 1967, which has established a joint commission on border issues.
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November 12th, 2013 #76
Bulgaria, Israel ready to collaborate for establishing Regional Task Croup for Emergency Situation and Crisis Respond
12 November 2013 | 11:22 | FOCUS News Agency
Tel Aviv. Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Tsvetlin Yovchev and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel Avigdor Liberman confirmed their willingness to work together for the establishment of a Regional Task Croup for Emergency Situation and Crisis Respond, press centre of the Ministry of Interior announced.
Interior Minister Tsvetlin Yovchev talked with his Israeli counterpart and the two top officials gathered around the strategic nature of the bilateral relations. They evaluated the planned for the first half 2014 third intergovernmental meeting as opportunity for a new impulse for further development of the political relations after the previous two successful intergovernmental meetings in 2011 and 2012.
The security field was pointed as key priority of the bilateral cooperation. Minister Yovchev expressed gratitude to Israel for the pro-active cooperation in the investigation of the terrorist attack in coastal Burgas. The two ministers expressed readiness to work for establishment of a Regional Task Croup for Emergency Situation and Crisis Respond. Israeli Minister Liberman backed the necessity for building capacity in the fight against terrorism, crisis management, fighting organized crime, stating willingness and commitment to render political and expert-technical support in connection with the increased migration pressure towards the Bulgarian territory.
Another important topic of the discussion between the two top officials was joint actions in the fight against xenophobia and anti-Semitism.
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A total of 112 respected Bulgarian intellectuals have written a letter to Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov, alerting him about the newly formed neo-Nazi party in the country.
Bulgarian extremists established Saturday a new party with the name "Nationalist Party of Bulgaria." It includes the formations National Resistance, the Bulgarian National-Radical Party, the local branch of neo-Nazi organization "Blood and Honor," and a number of informal groups.
In their letter to Tsatsarov, the intellectuals have pointed out that the new party has described its most important task as “cleansing Bulgaria from the foreign and alien immigrant scum that has been flooding the towns of Bulgaria.”
Noting that the new party is unconstitutional, the authors of the letter have urged Tsatsarov to do anything possible to stop its registration in court.
Bulgaria has seen a surge of xenophobic sentiments over the past few months, with ultranationalist groups frequently assaulting refugees, immigrants and people from the ethnic minorities on the streets of the capital Sofia.
- See more at: http://www.novinite.com/articles/155....Q26wZkq5.dpuf
I will later post the names of those 112 intellectuals, about 1/2 of the names end "Berg" aka Jewish.
But they are right, they have right to fear, because their time will come.
An 18-year-old man from the Republic of Mali has been assaulted and stabbed in Bulgaria's capital Sofia, police said.
The victim has been identified as A.K.
He has been rushed to hospital, but there was no immediate information about how critical his condition is and how the bloody conflict erupted.
- See more at: http://www.novinite.com/view_news.ph....Dyxj17rc.dpuf
Two people have been injured in the Bulgarian capital Sofia overnight after being severely beaten near a large shopping center.
bTV reported Wednesday morning that the incidents happened around 9 pm on Alexander Stamboliyski boulevard near Mall of Sofia.
A man from Iraq with Bulgarian citizenship is one of the victims. The police are still searching for the perpetrators.
The man sustained head injuries. Passerby called an ambulance.
Just meters away and some minutes later, a young man was attacked. According to eyewitnesses, the attackers were the same and the second victim was Roma. The Interior Ministry has confirmed the incidents.
"They came from the tram. They were skinheads. Skinheads beat people," a witness told bTV reporters.
- See more at: http://www.novinite.com/view_news.ph....eC3zxPUM.dpuf
November 21st, 2013 #79
On 20 November 2013, late in the evening at 22:58 hours, the National Centre for the Development of Roma in Bulgaria, spreading a message, which means that the center began the creation of paramilitary or maybe - parapolitseysko force in the country. According to the announcement on 19 November 2013 in Sofia, the National Centre for the Development of Roma in Bulgaria called an emergency meeting of the members of the NGO "in relation to the tension in the capital and the country of Boyan organization of race."
President of the organization Petko Asenov told those present that "the Roma from the country he calls troubled by the fact that the organization of race functioned as the police." In connection with this statement, the National Centre for the Development of Roma in Bulgaria has decided to organize and create a movement "Organization minority Defense of violence'' (OMON). Organization with a specific name should be" counterpoint launched by former leader of the Bulgarian National Union Boyan race. "
In the press release about the initiative for the creation of OMON, giving a definite answer from the emerging issue yourself, who would fund such an effort: "Rich Roma families are invited to finance the equipment of the commandos and commandos candidate. Will draft a oganizatsiyata uniforms - black clothes, black headscarf with white lettering "OMON". OMON squads will protect Roma neighborhoods and where prejudice civil order.
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Bulgarian police detain 120 after mosque attack
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarian police detained more than 120 people on Friday after hundreds of nationalists and soccer fans attacked a mosque in the country's second city Plovdiv, smashing its windows with stones.
Over 2,000 people had gathered outside a Plovdiv court as it heard an appeal case dealing with the return of an ancient mosque in the central city of Karlovo, taken over by the state more than 100 years ago, to Bulgaria's Chief Mufti, the Muslim religious authority.
The rally then marched through the city and some protesters, chanting racist slogans, approached a Plovdiv mosque cordoned off by police, police said in a statement.
"Firecrackers, torches and stones were thrown at the mosque. One policeman was injured. Some 120 people were detained," it said.
Sofia prosecutors said they had charged eight people with hooliganism, crimes against religion and xenophobia.
TV footage of national BNT television showed several protesters who appeared to have suffered head injuries in clashes with police.
The Chief Mufti condemned the attack on the mosque and said the attempt to pressure the court put democracy at risk in the European Union country.
Muslims make up about 13 percent of Bulgaria's 7.3 million people.
The Chief Mufti has launched some 26 court cases to try to restore Muslim ownership of 29 mosques and other property across the Balkan state, prompting some public opposition in the predominantly Orthodox Christian population.
(Reporting by Tsvetelia Tsolova; editing by Andrew Roche)
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Wausau duplex fire ignited by improperly disposed cigarette
Wausau fire and police departments were called to the scene of a duplex fire in the 600 block of Humboldt Avenue just after 11 p.m. Tuesday night.
Wausau duplex fire ignited by improperly disposed cigarette Wausau fire and police departments were called to the scene of a duplex fire in the 600 block of Humboldt Avenue just after 11 p.m. Tuesday night. Check out this story on wausaudailyherald.com: https://wdhne.ws/2LaVLxU
Trent Tetzlaff, Wausau Daily Herald Published 6:33 a.m. CT July 11, 2018 | Updated 1:00 p.m. CT July 11, 2018
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WAUSAU - The Wausau Fire Department was called to the scene of a duplex fire in the 600 block of Humboldt Avenue just after 11 p.m. Tuesday night.
Paul Czarapata, Wausau fire battalion chief, said most of the damage was limited to the balcony and the exterior of the upper apartment. One person was in the unit at the time and was able to escape safely.
The blaze was under control in 13 minutes and was completely put out by 11:40 p.m., according to Czarapata.
Czarapata said the fire started due to improper disposal of a cigarette on the balcony.
No damage was done to the first floor apartment and the occupants of the unit were not home at the time.
Czarapata said he estimated the damages of the apartment to be around $25,000.
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Lincoln City and Lincoln Minster School Unveil New Partnership
Lincoln City are proud to announce a new ground-breaking partnership between the Football Club and Lincoln Minster School.
This new partnership sees a new cohort of Academy Scholars boarding at Lincoln Minster School whilst undertaking academic studies, in addition to their LFE course, giving them the best possible options for both their educational and sporting futures.
The students will utilise the expertise and fantastic facilities on offer at Lincoln Minster School in a top-class, high achieving educational environment alongside their sporting development in a collaboration in what is the first of its kind for the Imps and rare amongst clubs, even at a much higher level. Four Scholars will be taking A-Levels in English and Maths as well as one student completing his Irish Leaving Certificate, with the others taking an EPQ (Extended Project Qualification), which is the equivalent of half an A level, whilst staying on campus.
Simon Grocutt, Deputy Head in charge of Curriculum at Lincoln Minster said that the partnership is an important one for the school going forward.
“It’s a huge partnership for Lincoln Minster, it helps our community links and to be able to put this partnership together with Lincoln City is really exciting. A big part of it is really the fact we’re offering those students a real opportunity that they won’t get elsewhere.
“Lincoln City have recruited some of the students off the back of the A-Level offer that we’re able to provide, rather than just taking the traditional, triple BTEC that all of the students get offered at this level.”
Ian McGowan, Assistant Head for Co-Curricular and External Relations at Lincoln Minster is also excited to work with the new Scholars and to see them develop over the coming years as they live at the School and work with the Football Club.
“It’s exciting for the footballers to have a nice, stable base to be able to concentrate on studies as while pursuing a potential successful career. The 16-18 scholars will be predominantly based in one of our boarding houses and they will be studying an A-level or another qualification within the school alongside trying to become a professional footballer.”
There have already been notable sporting alumni from Lincoln Minster School, Bassingham based Indy Car racer Jack Harvey, Rugby Union stars, Jordan and Ryan Olowefela as well as world level swimmer Elizabeth Simmonds all completed their studies at the school.
Simon Grocott is now looking forward to potentially adding footballers to the list of sporting achievers as they help nurture them over the coming years.
“The sporting alumni that we’ve had in the past have had an adapted curriculum and thanks to that we’ve been really able to help those progress in their chosen sports. So, we’re definitely hoping the same can happen with Lincoln City and we’re wishing them all the best.”
Jez George, Head of Football at Lincoln City, said this could just be the tip of the iceberg of what promises to be a long and fruitful relationship.
“This is a fantastic opportunity for us to develop a partnership that can be hugely beneficial to both parties, with such a high achieving, top class educational establishment as Lincoln Minster School.” Jez said.
“Soon after I arrived at the Club, Liam (Scully, CEO) and Danny (Cowley, Manager) told me about the school and introduced me to their Headmaster, Mark Wallace. I could not have been more impressed and I knew immediately that we had to find a way to partner with them. Twelve months on, and many meetings later, we are so delighted to have developed this relationship to such an extent that we will now have our Scholars living on their site and being educated by their staff.”
Jez continued: “We are always searching for ways in which we can differentiate ourselves from our competitors and this is achieved by our partnership with Lincoln Minster School. This partnership now enables us to offer a unique and bespoke education provision for every Scholar, alongside their BTEC National Diploma, to ensure that boys with the appropriate academic profile and capabilities can take A levels.
“Moreover, our Scholars will benefit from the environment created for their students and allow Lincoln City’s Academy to become associated with a top-class establishment, with a fantastic national and international reputation, which is what we want to emulate.
“Without doubt, this partnership and the provision of A levels and boarding has been instrumental in being able to sign a number of our Scholars, and the way in which they have accommodated our need to deliver the Irish Leaving Certificate for one Scholar has been amazing.
“There are several other potential projects which we have discussed with Mark and Ian, which can be ground breaking for Lincoln City, and will further strengthen our partnership in the future.”
ACADEMY BACK IN ACTION THIS WEEKEND
The young Imps will face Chesterfield United this Saturday in EFL Youth Alliance Under 18 North East action, the two sides are currently separated by just three points.
HONOURS EVEN IN U18 LINCOLNSHIRE DERBY
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Caught on video: Two deputies in Alabama injured after being dragged by suspect
2 deputies hurt in accident with wanted man
By WBRC Staff | December 6, 2019 at 12:06 PM EST - Updated December 9 at 12:21 PM
TUSCALOOSA COUNTY, Ala. (WBRC) - Two Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s deputies were injured during a Friday morning traffic stop that involved one of Tuscaloosa’s Most Wanted.
This is dashcam video from the patrol car before and after the man took off, dragging one of the deputies.
It happened on North Hagler Road just north of Hembree Road in the Samantha Community. The deputies were making a traffic stop and trying to serve a warrant on Hunter James Waldrop.
Hunter James Waldrop arrested after dragging a deputy after a traffic stop. (Source: Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Office)
Waldrop is in custody. He is charged with Theft of Property 1st degree, Escape 3rd degree, Resisting Arrest, and two counts Assault 3rd degree.
The deputies were taken by ambulance to the hospital. Both have since been treated for their injuries and released.
Public Information Officer Jason Powell says the deputies were dragged by the suspect’s vehicle before it went off the road and crashed into a ditch.
Waldrop couldn’t get away because his driver side door was pinned against a tree.
Tuscaloosa County Sheriff Ron Abernathy said these type of cases have to stop. He said people charged with several felonies should remain in jail and not easily get bond.
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Student fatally shot at Texas high school; suspect arrested
Teen arrested on accusations of fatally shooting friend at Texas high school
January 14, 2020 at 8:08 PM EST - Updated January 16 at 4:33 AM
BELLAIRE, Texas (AP) - School officials say a 16-year-old student has been shot to death at a Texas high school, and a suspect and another person police said was connected to the case were arrested hours later.
Grenita Latham, interim superintendent of the Houston Independent School District, confirmed the victim of the Tuesday afternoon shooting at Bellaire High School had died.
The district later issued a statement that Wednesday classes at the school were canceled.
President Donald Trump faces charges of abuse of power and obstructing Congress, stemming from his pressure on Ukraine to investigate Democratic rivals as he was withholding military aid.
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Columbus restaurant donates portion of Wednesday sales to David Pollard Fund
By WTVM Web Team | April 27, 2016 at 8:29 PM EDT - Updated July 9 at 6:08 PM
COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM) - A Columbus business is working to help the family of the Carver High baseball coach killed in a hit and run car accident last week.
Skippers Seafood on Buena Vista Road is donating 10 percent of its sales Wednesday to the David Pollard Fund.
Pollard, 36, died Monday, April 18 after a suspect driving a stolen car ran a red light and crashed into his vehicle.
Skippers closes at 8 p.m.
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filed: April 23, 2016 • New York
Yates plans wind power law as activists blast developer
Credit: By Thomas J. Prohaska, News Niagara Reporter | The Buffalo News | April 22, 2016 | www.buffalonews.com ~~
The Yates Town Board is likely to pass a law restricting construction of wind power projects, as the battle over the project near the Lake Ontario shore continues.
Apex Clean Energy of Charlottesville, Va., operating under the name Lighthouse Wind, is proposing to erect as many as 70 wind turbines, each up to 620 feet high, at still-undisclosed locations in the Niagara County Town of Somerset and the neighboring Orleans County Town of Yates.
Mail-in surveys of the towns’ property owners have shown solid opposition to the project, but some landowners have signed leases with Apex, which has promised to pay them $15,000 a year for each turbine erected on their land.
In Yates, where anti-Apex candidates swept the town election last November, a public hearing was held Thursday on a restrictive wind law and a moratorium on wind projects. Councilman John Riggi said Friday the Town Board will vote on the measures May 12.
The law is modeled on one passed in Somerset two months ago. It prohibits wind power development in the waterfront revitalization area near the lakeshore and requires developers to reimburse property owners who sell their homes because of the wind project if they can’t obtain a sale price equal to the value set by an appraiser.
The moratorium bans all wind projects for six months. During that time, Riggi said, the town intends to complete a comprehensive plan for western Yates and a regional waterfront revitalization plan.
The decision on where a wind project will be built lies with a state-controlled siting board, but the local laws are a step in a bureaucratic fight against the Apex project.
Also Friday, Save Ontario Shores, or SOS, a citizen group opposing the project, released a letter to state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman complaining about anti-SOS statements allegedly made by an Apex consultant at a March 7 meeting of the Sierra Club of Buffalo.
The letter, signed by SOS president Pamela Atwater, who was present at the meeting, charged that Bo Shuff of Five Corners Strategies, a public outreach firm, said that the wind opponents haven’t lived in Somerset and Yates as long as the farmers who have signed land leases.
Shuff allegedly said that SOS is part of a national anti-wind power movement backed by people “whose name begins with K and ends with H,” an apparent reference to the billionaire Koch brothers, who have funded groups opposed to legislation to fight climate change.
“As the president of SOS, I know all of these claims to be false,” Atwater wrote, adding that hers is a group of local residents, many of whose families have lived in the towns for generations.
Apex spokeswoman Cat Mosley said, “We are not surprised that SOS feels the need to release a press announcement such as this one, as it follows closely with their consistent and established history of spreading misinformation about Apex Clean Energy and Lighthouse Wind in order to distract residents and stall our ability to present all the required project information for final judgment.”
Meanwhile, the Niagara USA Chamber has come out against the project. A statement Thursday from Kory Schuler, the business group’s director of government affairs, said the state law overriding local authority to regulate wind projects is unfair. “Limited input from local stakeholders is wrong,” Schuler wrote.
Source: By Thomas J. Prohaska, News Niagara Reporter | The Buffalo News | April 22, 2016 | www.buffalonews.com
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December 14, 2019 at 1:28 AM CST - Updated December 14 at 4:23 PM
IMMIGRATION-FOOD PLANT RAIDS
Guatemalan cardinal to visit Mississippi after migrant raids
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Guatemalan cardinal who advocates for migrants will visit Mississippi following immigration raids last summer that prompted 680 arrests. The Rev. Roberto Mena announced the visit Saturday. Pope Francis raised Alvaro Ramazzini to the rank of cardinal in October. Ramazzini has spoken out for decades against exploitation of poor rural people in regions he has ministered to. A majority of those arrested in the raids of seven Mississippi chicken processing plants in August was Guatemalan. Some speak Mayan dialects instead of Spanish. Mena says Ramazzini is “coming to be present” with affected families.
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Mississippi vows further appeal after loss on abortion ban
Mississippi's governor says he will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold Mississippi's ban on abortion at 15 weeks. Republican Phil Bryant made the announcement on Twitter. The vow comes Saturday, a day after a federal appeals court ruled the ban was unconstitutional. But Mississippi has been aiming for the Supreme Court all along. Leaders hope conservative justices will spur the high court to overturn its 1973 ruling legalizing abortion rights nationwide. Mississippi's ban at 15 weeks of pregnancy has never taken effect. It was blocked by a lower court judge.
DUAL OFFICES
Mississippi man seeks advice on holding 2 offices at once
SUMMIT, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man is requesting legal advice on holding two elected offices at once. The state attorney general's office has previously said it's OK if both are in the same branch of government. Daryl Porter Jr. is a second-term town councilman in Summit. He says he wants to remain on the council after he's sworn in to the Mississippi House next month. David Jordan serves on the Greenwood City Council and in the Mississippi Senate. However, David Myers could not serve in both the Mississippi House and as a McComb selectman because the city job was considered to be part of the executive branch.
MISSISSIPPI STATE-KANSAS STATE
Carter leads Mississippi State 67-61 over Kansas State
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Tyson Carter led four teammates in double figures with 14 points and Mississippi State beat Kansas State 67-61 in the first game of the Never Forget Tribute Classic. Abdul Ado scored 13 points for Mississippi State (7-2), Robert Woodard II had 12 and D.J. Stewart Jr. added 10. Cartier Diarra scored 20 points and Mike McGuirl added 14 for Kansas State (6-4).
AP-US-ABORTION-MISSISSIPPI
Mississippi 15-week abortion ban is blocked by appeals court
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal appeals court says Mississippi's ban on abortion at 15 weeks is unconstitutional. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued the ruling Friday. It says a lower court judge ruled correctly when he blocked the state law from taking effect in 2018. The only abortion clinic in Mississippi sued the state after Republican Gov. Phil Bryant signed the law. Mississippi legislators came back in 2019 and passed a more restrictive law to ban most abortions at about six weeks. The same federal district judge blocked that, too, and a legal fight over it continues.
CONSTABLE KILLED
2 teens charged in crash that kills Mississippi constable
BATESVILLE, Miss. (AP) — A prosecutor says two teenagers have been charged with murder in a wreck that killed a Mississippi law enforcement officer. Panola County Constable Raye Hawkins died Thursday when a pickup truck smashed into the vehicle he was driving in Batesville. Hawkins was responding to help officers from another county who were chasing what was believed to be a stolen truck. District Attorney John Champion says the truck crushed Hawkins' vehicle, killing him instantly. Champion says the 15-year-old and the 16-year-old in the truck are charged as adults. They were being held Friday in a juvenile detention center in DeSoto County.
Amtrak pitches adding Nashville to Atlanta passenger train
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North Carolina Republicans May Have Committed A Wee Spot Of Perjury, OOPSIE!
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Okay, POP QUIZ! Ready?
If documentary evidence emerges to prove that your client lied to the court, should you:
A. Attempt to amend your testimony and throw yourself on the mercy of the court?
B. Loudly insist that those documents are PRIVILEGED and accuse your opponent of professional misconduct?
Pencils down! If you are a sane person, the answer is A. But if you and your clients are Republicans, the answer is B, any day of the week and twice on Sundays. And so we find ourselves in yet another day of legal batshittery in the Trump era. TGIF!
As Slate's Mark Joseph Stern reported, the continuing fallout from deceased GOP ratfucker Thomas Hofeller's hard drives has now produced evidence that Republican legislators in North Carolina may have told one or two wee fibbies to the federal judge in North Carolina back in 2017. After a unanimous Supreme Court tossed 28 of North Carolina's districts for being illegal gerrymanders in Covington v. North Carolina -- how racist do you have to be for Thomas and Alito to be like NAH BRAH? -- the defendants told the judge in August 2017 that they could not possibly make a new, not-racist map in time for a special election for the state legislature that year, because these things take time, and, like, they'd been too busy to even think about getting started. In fact, David Lewis, the North Carolina representative responsible for redistricting, specifically told the court, "I have not yet drawn maps nor have I directed that maps be drawn, nor am I aware of any other entity operating in conjunction with the leadership that has drawn maps." And North Carolina State Senator Ralph Hise, Jr., even promised the court that "Race was not part of the database. It could not be calculated on the system[.]"
Except then Thomas Hofeller died in July 2018, and his daughter Stephanie dug up the digital proof that literally none of that was true. In reality, Hofeller had been working on the maps for months, they were substantially complete by June 2017 so that a new special election could have occurred, and Hofeller had the race data and used it to draw the new North Carolina legislative maps.
Mistakes, it seems, were made. Particularly by Messrs. Lewis and Hise, two of the named defendants in this lawsuit.
Luckily these Republican legislators have a very cogent explanation and it is ... all these documents are legally privileged! And if they are not legally privileged, then they contain Mr. Hofeller's sensitive financial information. And if they don't contain sensitive financial information, then Stephanie Hofeller is not the rightful owner of the documents. And if she is the rightful owner, then she conned her mother into giving them to her. And if she didn't con her mother into giving them to her, then her mother is demented and didn't have the capacity to give them away. And if her mother is not demented, then Stephanie Hofeller herself was conned by the voting rights group Common Cause into turning her father's files over to them for the purposes of this litigation. And if Hofeller was not conned, then Common Cause's lawyers did something or other that was unethical, and so they must now destroy all the files. OR ELSE.
(The defendants left out the really ugly part about how Stephanie Hofeller and her parents came to be estranged, but we stumbled upon it after thirty seconds of googling, so it's a safe bet the wingers are going to bring this up by Monday at the latest.)
If you want to see a really good lawyer just kick the other guy in the dick via memo, skip to page 107 of the exhibits. Arnold & Porter's R. Stanton Jones, counsel for Common Cause, points out that the privilege belongs to the party producing the documents, which would be Ms. Hofeller, and not the defendants. And if any documents are privileged, the defendants have to say which ones, not just gesture vaguely with their magic privilege wand over the whole lot. And even if there are some privileged documents among Hofeller's files, the defendants waived it by waiting this long to assert the privilege. And even if they hadn't waited too long, they waived it by insisting that the plaintiffs share the documents with all the parties, including those who are not in a privileged relationship with the named defendants. And even if the privilege wasn't waived by sharing with those parties, it's waived because it's evidence of the defendant's perjurious statements to the court. And even if it wasn't evidence of perjury, these documents were commissioned by a state legislator and are thus public records. And, oh by the way, destroying the files would be illegal since they are EVIDENCE OF A CRIME BY THE DEFENDANTS and also, too GFYS with your nonsense about protecting the Hofellers' privacy.
Go off, R. Stanton Jones!
The good news is the Republicans lost their supermajority in the North Carolina legislature with fairer maps in 2018. The bad news is they got 49 percent of the vote and took 55 percent of the seats. This shit never goes away. But occasionally it does get its comeuppance. We look forward to GOP Rep. Lewis and GOP Sen. Hise 'splaining to the federal judge why they got so confused in their prior testimony. This should be goooooood.
[Slate / Common Cause v. Lewis, exhibits]
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Fugue forward for Samsung Galaxy S11: 108 MP camera, 8K video and many creative modes
While technology enthusiasts around the world are focused on the great promotions of Black Friday, to ensure the best products of this 2019 at bargain prices, manufacturers are already fully projected to 2020, especially with regard to the next generation of smartphone top range.
Among the first series to debut in the new year there will be Samsung's Galaxy S11, which aims to amaze the audience, especially in photography.
The colleagues of XDA Developers have in fact put their hands on the apk of the Samsung camera app, included in the beta 4 of the new One UI 2.0, discovering many clues about unpublished functions and hardware details, in all probability attributable precisely to the Galaxy S11.
What stands out is the umpteenth reference to the 108 megapixel camera, which would also be necessary to make a video feature out of the ordinary: shooting in 8K at 30 fps, a possible killer feature of the Galaxy S11, but there are those who even imagine the ability to shoot videos in 4K at 120 fps.
Among the code of the One UI 2.0 camera app, there are also many new modes, such as Director's View, which would allow you to hook a subject while shooting video and switch from one photographic lens to another to create surprising dynamic effects.
Then there is Night Hyperlapse, a time-lapse mode specifically dedicated to night shots, Single Take Photo, which allows you to take pictures and shoot videos of the surrounding environment within 15 seconds by slowly moving the device to get results creative, Vertical Panoramas, for vertical panoramic shots and Custom Filter, that is to turn our shot into a filter applicable to other photos.
Finally, the Samsung camera app will offer in the future the possibility of taking pictures at a ratio of 20: 9, evidently to cover the entire surface of the display of a smartphone characterized by these proportions.
And, as it happens, it has been rumored for some time that the Galaxy S11 will have its own display in a 20: 9 ratio.
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Home > Publications > Guide for Responsible Corporate Engagement in Climate Policy
Guide for Responsible Corporate Engagement in Climate Policy
A Caring for Climate Report
by Eliot Metzger, Yamide Dagnet, Samantha Putt del Pino, Jennifer Morgan, Lila Karbassi, Heidi Huusko, Fernando Castellanos Silveira, Merlyn VanVoore, Seraphine Haeussling, Ben Watson, Tom Carnac, Alberto Carillo Pineda, Lance Pierce, Anne Kelly, Jim Walker and Damian Ryan - November 2013
This guide provides practical insights on why and how companies can provide constructive influences on climate policy. It is the output of a review and consultation on responsible corporate engagement, undertaken by the UN Global Compact in cooperation with UNEP, UNFCCC, WRI, UNGC, CDP, WWF, Ceres and The Climate Group.
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Responsible Corporate Engagement in Climate Policy: Over 100 Companies Committed to Action
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This report is not designed to make the case that climate change—or global warming—is the greatest threat facing the world today. Climate scientists from across the globe, as well as military and economic analysts, have already established the severity of the issue and the scale of the challenge.
And neither is this report designed to make the case that policy responses are needed, or what those policies should look like. More than 190 countries have already agreed—starting back in 1992—that a response to climate change is urgently needed. In 2009, countries further agreed to “take action” to limit warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius.
Instead, this report is designed to help companies inform and accelerate the policies most urgently needed to support a stable global economy. And it is designed to help businesses engage in national and international debates, with a view to contribute to political progress on reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and adapt to disruptions in the global climate system.
Business support and policy endorsements are powerful. They provide trusted perspectives on the economic costs and benefits of policy options. They can also influence others within their industry, supply chain, or customer base.
In the 20 years since countries first recognized the need to act on climate change, many companies and industry groups have engaged in subsequent national and international policy debates. Some have taken defensive positions, protecting business-as-usual. Others have been constructive, looking ahead to the future of their industry and working with policymakers to create the policies needed to support a strong, low-carbon economy. Some have done a mix of both and many others have avoided political debates altogether, choosing to observe silently.
Among signatories to the UN Global Compact, a platform which brings companies together to ensure they align with ten universal principles , there is a mixed record on public policy engagement. Of the 1,700 companies that responded to the UN Global Compact’s Annual Implementation Survey, an annual online survey of Global Impact participants to identify developments related to corporate sustainability, approximately 60 per cent said they publicly advocate for action in relation to the Global Compact principles and/or other UN goals. However, only 30 per cent align traditional government affairs activities, such as lobbying, with their corporate responsibility commitments, such as reducing GHG emissions.
However, as part of their engagement in the UN Global Compact Caring for Climate initiative, a subset of 350 Global Compact signatories have made an important commitment, which the Caring for Climate Progress Report 2013 indicates 62 per cent of companies now fulfill. The commitment is to:
“Engage more actively with own national governments, intergovernmental organizations and civil society to develop policies and measures to provide an enabling framework for business to contribute effectively to building a low-carbon and climate-resilient economy.”
Business is doing more. And as countries debate domestic climate change policies and work towards a new international agreement in 2015, this report presents timely guidance for companies to weigh in constructively to the discussions. It draws on an extensive review of existing studies and guidelines, as well as candid interviews and consultation with experts from more than 60 organizations, including companies, academia, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), think tanks and government.
Guidelines for Responsible Engagement in Climate Policy
This report finds there are five core elements of responsible policy engagement in climate policy: legitimacy, opportunity, accountability, consistency, and transparency (see Figure 1). These five elements translate to three practical actions responsible companies can undertake around climate policy, which are:
1) Identify implications, influences and opportunities to engage.
Create an inventory—together with internal decision makers and external experts—of the company’s direct and indirect influences on climate policy.
2) Align words with actions, ambitions and influences (both direct and indirect).
Complete an internal review using a ten question checklist to ensure consistency and accountability in the company’s approach.
3) Report on policy positions, influences and outcomes.
Follow a simple three-tiered framework to report progress on the above actions for investors and other interested stakeholders.
Responsible companies are already acting to advance climate change policies. Others can build new capacity or find a safe space to engage in this type of debate. Companies lending their voice to solving one of today’s most pressing global problems can set an example to others, demonstrating their leadership by following the actions outlined in this report.
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Business and Government Must Come Together for Strong Climate Action
by Andrew Steer - November 20, 2013
It’s time for businesses and governments to step up to the climate challenge and match words to actions.
This week at the annual international climate talks in Warsaw, companies, policymakers, and civil society participated in an event to deepen business engagement on climate policy. Such interaction could not have come at a more critical time.
Global emissions are on the rise. And last year, climate and extreme weather events alone cost $200 billion.
The world clearly needs to accelerate its response to the climate challenge. Businesses and governments need to work together constructively to raise the level of action and ambition. That means policymakers step up to provide a strong market signal and support, while companies come to the table with clear, public, constructive input.
Greater Expectations: 3 Actions for Companies to Take on Climate Policy
by Kirsty Jenkinson and Eliot Metzger - November 14, 2013
As the risks that climate change poses to business becoming ever clearer, corporate executives are increasingly recognizing that policy action is essential. The Guide to Responsible Corporate Engagement in Climate Policy—from the U.N. Global Compact, U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, U.N. Environment Programme, World Resources Institute, CDP, WWF, Ceres, and The Climate Group—for the first time establishes a shared, practical definition of responsible corporate engagement. The new guide details three essential steps businesses can take to effectively engage in climate policy.
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US Refuses To Withdraw Diplomats From Venezuela, "Will Take Appropriate Actions" If Harmed
In what may shape up to be a major international incident over the next 48 hours, the United States has refused to withdraw diplomats from Venezuela, saying in a Wednesday evening statement that the US "stands with interim President Juan Guaido," adding "The United States does not recognize the Maduro regime as the government of Venezuela. Accordingly the United States does not consider former president Nicolas Maduro to have the legal authority to break diplomatic relations with the United States or to declare our diplomats persona non grata.
U.S. will conduct diplomatic relations with #Venezuela through the government of interim President Guaido. U.S. does not recognize the #Maduro regime. U.S. does not consider former president Maduro to have the legal authority to break diplomatic relations. https://t.co/DBS4GiGEWI pic.twitter.com/gQZJuS1xfn
— Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) January 24, 2019
Earlier Wednesday, Maduro broke diplomatic relations with the US, giving American diplomats 72 hours to leave Caracas after President Trump declared Maduro's political opponent, Venezuelan National Assembly President Juan Guaido, the Interim President of Venezuela.
Guaido responded with a tweet of appreciation.
14 other countries have similarly recognized Guaido.
Recognising Juan Guaido as president of Venezuela:
- Chile
- Kosovo
— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) January 23, 2019
Cuba and Bolivia, meanwhile, have expressed support for Maduro - while Mexico remains on the fence, supporting the empanada-eating Maduro "for now."
Guaido - who swore himself in as acting president of Venezuela earlier Wednesday, asked all embassies to "maintain their diplomatic presence in the country."
"Through the powers that the Constitution grants me, I would like to communicate to all leaders of diplomatic missions and their accredited staff in Venezuela — the state of Venezuela firmly wants you to maintain your diplomatic presence in our country. Any messages to the contrary lack any validity, since they come from people or entities that have been characterized as usurpers. They have no legitimate authority to make any statements on this." -Juan Guaido
The United Nations is monitoring the situation according to UN Deputy Spokesman Farhan Haq during a Wednesday briefing.
"The United Nations firmly rejects any kind of political violence. We underline the urgent need for all relevant actors to commit to inclusive and credible political negotiations to address the challenges facing the country, with full respect for the rule of law and human rights," said Haq in a statement.
Venezuelans, meanwhile, took to the streets en masse during a day of unrest in which pro-Maduro forces fired live rounds into the crowds killing several people.
Venezuela’s opposition filling streets nationwide today in protests against President Maduro and his socialist government. pic.twitter.com/IjzXdd6aOh
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 23, 2019
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#Breaking: Heavy clashes right now between Pro-Maduro security forces and opposition protesters in central Caracas in #Venezuela. pic.twitter.com/JZdsaQM9OP
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No More Rules
Graphic Design and Postmodernisn
Rick Poynor
192 pages, 8 1/2 x 11
15 b/w + 160 color illus.
A spectacularly illustrated survey of the changing face of graphic design at the end of the twentieth century
The past twenty years have seen profound changes in the field of graphic communication. As the computer has become a ubiquitous tool, there has been an explosion of creativity in graphic design; designers and typographers have jettisoned existing rules and forged experimental new approaches. No More Rules isthe first critical survey to offer a complete overview of the graphic revolution during the postmodern period. Design critic Rick Poynor tells this story in detail, breaking down a broad, multifaceted field of graphic design activity into key developments and themes: the origins of postmodern design; deconstructionist design and theory; issues of appropriation; the revolution in digital type; questions of authorship; and critiques of postmodern graphic design. Each theme is illustrated by spectacular and significant examples of work produced between 1980 and 2000 that have changed the way in which designers and their audiences think about graphic communication. This generously illustrated book is a vital reference for design professionals and educators as well as for students of graphic design, image-making, advertising, and the visual arts.
Rick Poynor founded Eye, the international review of graphic design, and was its editor from 1990 to 1997. His books include Typography Now (1991), Typographica (2001), and the essay collections Design Without Boundaries (1998) and Obey the Giant: Life in the Image World (2001).
“Indispensable. . . . Beautifully printed and bound, lavishly illustrated, comprehensive, and important. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice
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The Latest and Greatest in Insulin Pumps and Sensor Technology
I love pumps and sensors!
As a certified diabetes educator (or as I prefer to say, type 1 coach), I have started literally hundreds of patients on insulin pumps over the last few decades. I have a disclaimer: I do not wear a pump and do not have type 1 diabetes. But I have worked in the field from clinics to ski and summer camps, as a dog sled driver for little munchkins with our team of sled dogs, to backpacking and canoe trips – all with people who do have type 1 diabetes. Sometimes I grunt and groan when I get up to start an adventure, but then I meet up with the group and see someone taking shots! My emotions turn to glee when someone has a pump and a sensor…I realize it sometimes feels like being the bionic man or woman with all this technology but hey, what’s wrong with being such a diabetes stud or studdette?
So what is so cool about pump and sensor technology?
Well, if you’re like me and you like to participate in group sports or activities, the technology is amazing. Let’s say you are just starting off on an adventure (whatever that may be) with a group and you note on your sensor that your blood glucose (BG) is 50 mg/dL.
Who wants to stop the whole team from proceeding? But then you realize you can take in some carbohydrates, lower your basal rate temporarily, and watch your sensor to see if you are coming up and are not only good to go, but where you will be in 5, 10, 15, 20 minutes…you get the idea.
What are the options available right now to help you manage your diabetes?
The Omnipod insulin pump is the only full functioning patch pump, meaning it is programmable with insulin-to-carb ratios, target BG, correction factors, etc. so your math is done for you. At this time, the Omnipod pump does not integrate with a sensor but you can certainly use the Dexcom sensor independently.
There are also two patch pumps that are not programmable and have a bolus only option (OneTouch Via) and basal/bolus option (V-Go). These are more likely options for those with type 2 diabetes.
The Tandem insulin pump does have a tube that most folks find a minor inconvenience. Its great new claim to fame is that, as the software is updated (and technology is changing so fast!), you can update your pump via the cloud. How cool is that! Your pump does not get outdated since the pump software is updated. This includes future changes, such as Dexcom sensor data on the screen, auto-suspend as needed with hypoglycemia, and the eventual goal of a fully integrated sensor and pump where the pump responds to the data from the sensor and alters insulin delivery.
The Medtronic insulin pump company has led the charge not only with a sensor integrated pump where the sensor data is seen on the pump screen, but where the pump responds to low blood glucose values and impending lows, and adjusts basal rates as needed based on your basal history. Be warned, this is not a cure and still requires diligence on your part or the system will fail. Fasting blood glucose values have been shown to be excellent – generally close to the pump set target range of 120 mg/dL.
You can always choose to continue with injections and utilize one of two sensors. Dexcom (glucose readings every 5 minutes on a receiver or your cell phone) or the new Freestyle Libre that allows you to scan your sensor patch and see your glucose on a receiver.
And where is all of this going?
Oh – it is so exciting! I am confident that in the next five years a fully automated system will be available with minimal input from the user. Tandem, Omnipod and Medtronic are all working on fully integrated pumps as responsibly fast as they can. In addition, other options are coming too, including a dual hormone system that has reservoirs for insulin and glucagon to keep you safe. And with the new insulin from Novo Nordisk that is reputed to start absorption in 2.5 minutes (wow!) one of the big barriers to insulin delivery may have just been resolved.
Although a cure is what we are all hoping for, technology is the next best thing.
Embrace it and stay tuned!
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Tagged Dexcom, freestyle, insulin, Insulin Pumps, libre, low blood glucose/sugar (hypoglycemia), Medtronic, Novo Nordisk, Omnipod, sensor technology, Tandem
Automated Insulin Delivery (Artificial Pancreas, Closed Loop)
The development of automated insulin delivery has many names – artificial pancreas, hybrid closed loop, Bionic Pancreas, predictive low glucose suspend – but all share the same goal: using continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) and smart algorithms that decide how much insulin to deliver via pump. The goal of these products is to reduce/eliminate hypoglycemia, improve time-in-range, and reduce hyperglycemia – especially overnight.
See below for an overview of the automated insulin delivery field, focused on companies working to get products approved. Do-it-yourself automated insulin delivery systems like OpenAPS and Loop are not included here, though they are currently available and used by a growing number of motivated, curious users.
We’ve also included helpful links to articles on specific product and research updates, as well as some key questions.
Who is Closing the Loop and How Fast Are They Moving?
Below we include a list of organizations working to bring automated insulin delivery products to market – this includes their most recently announced public plans for pivotal studies, FDA submissions, and commercial launch. The organizations are ordered from shortest to longest time to a pivotal study, though these are subject to change. This list excludes those without a commercial path to market (e.g., academic groups). The first table focuses on the US, with European-only systems listed in the second table.
Latest Timing in the US
Medtronic MiniMed 670G/Guardian Sensor 3 – hybrid closed loop that automates basal insulin delivery (still requires meal boluses) FDA-approved and currently launching this fall to ~35,000 Priority Access Program participants in the US. Pump shipments to non-Priority Access customers will start in October, with sensors and transmitters to ship by the end of 2017 or early 2018. Medtronic is experiencing a global CGM sensor shortage that won’t resolve until spring 2018.
Tandem t:slim X2 pump with built-in predictive low glucose suspend (PLGS) algorithm; Dexcom G5 CGM
t:slim X2 pump with built-in Hypoglycemia-Hyperglycemia Minimizer algorithm; Dexcom G6 CGM (including automatic correction boluses) Launch expected in summer 2018. Pivotal trial now underway, with FDA submission expected in early 2018.
Launch expected in the first half of 2019. Pivotal trial to begin in the first half of 2018.
Insulet OmniPod Horizon: pod with built-in Bluetooth and embedded hybrid closed loop algorithm, Dash touchscreen handheld, and Dexcom G6 CGM
User will remain in closed loop even when Dash handheld is out of range Launch by end of 2019 or early 2020, with a pivotal study in 2018
Bigfoot Biomedical Smartphone app, insulin pump (acquired from Asante), and a next-gen version of Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre CGM sensor (continuous communication)
The smartphone is expected to serve as the window to the system and complete user interface Launch possible in 2020, with a pivotal trial expected in 2018
Beta Bionics Bionic Pancreas iLet device: dual chambered pump with built-in algorithm; hybrid or fully closed loop; insulin-only or insulin+glucagon; custom infusion set, Dexcom CGM
Likely to launch as insulin-only product, with glucagon to be optionally added later
Currently using Zealand’s pumpable glucagon analog Insulin-only: possible US launch in the first half of 2020, with a pivotal trial to start in the beginning of 2019.
Insulin+glucagon (bihormonal) pivotal trial expected to start in the beginning of 2019. Timing of FDA submission and launch depend on a stable glucagon, among other things.
Latest Timing in Europe
Medtronic MiniMed 640G/Enlite Enhanced – predictive low glucose management
MiniMed 670G/Guardian Sensor 3 – hybrid closed loop that automates basal insulin delivery (still requires meal boluses) Currently available in Europe
No timing recently shared. Approval was previously expected in summer 2017
Diabeloop Diabeloop algorithm running on a wireless handheld, Cellnovo patch pump, Dexcom CGM Pivotal trial expected to complete in February/March 2018. Possible European launch in 2018
Roche, Sensonics, TypeZero Will use Senseonics’ 180-day CGM sensor, Roche pump and TypeZero algorithm Pivotal trial expected to begin in Europe in early 2018
Cellnovo, TypeZero Cellnovo patch pump with integrated TypeZero algorithm; presumably a Dexcom CGM Aims for a 2018 European launch. No pivotal trial details shared
Medtronic: MiniMed 670G
FDA Approval and Frequently Asked Questions
1,500 person study recruiting
diaTribe dialogue – Medtronic’s MiniMed 670G Hybrid-Closed Loop – Exclusive Interview with 17-Year-Old Trial Participant.
Pivotal Trial for Tandem’s Predictive Low Glucose Suspend (PLGS) System
Insulet
Insulet’s Omnipod Dash System to Add Touchscreen and Bluetooth
Bigfoot & Abbott to Automate Insulin Delivery Without Fingersticks
Beta Bionics
Novo Nordisk Partners with Beta Bionics and Invests $5 Million
Test Drives:
test drive – UVA’s Overnight Closed-Loop Makes for Great Dreams. Kelly participates in UVA’s overnight closed loop trial and reports back on an incredible opportunity for the field to move fast, reduce anxiety, and beat timelines.
test drive – Kelly and Adam take UVA’s DiAs artificial pancreas system home 24/7 for a three-month study. Their key takeaways, surprises, and next steps.
Key Questions for the Artificial Pancreas
Are patient expectations too high? If we expect too much out of first-generation artificial pancreas systems – e.g., “I don’t have to do anything to get a 6.5% A1c with no hypoglycemia” – we might be disappointed. Like any new product, early versions of the artificial pancreas are going to have their glitches and shortcomings. Undoubtedly, things will improve markedly over time as algorithms advance, devices get more accurate and smaller, insulin gets faster, infusion sets improve, and we all get more experience with automated insulin delivery. But it takes patience and persistence to weather the early generations to get to the truly breakthrough products. We would not have today’s small insulin pumps without the first backpack-sized insulin pump; we would not have today’s CGM without the Dexcom STS, Medtronic Gold, and GlucoWatch; we would not be walking around with smartphones were it not for the first brick-sized cellphones. Our research trial experience with automated insulin delivery recalibrated our expectations a bit – these systems are going to be an absolutely terrific advance for many patients, but they will not replace everything out of the gate. Let’s all remember that devices need to walk first, then run, and it’s okay if the first systems are more conservative from a safety perspective.
What fraction of patients will be willing to wear some type of automated insulin delivery system? Right now, many estimate that ~30% of US type 1’s wear a pump, and about 15% to 20% wear CGM. There are a lot of reasons why that may be the case, including cost, hassle, no perceived benefit, no desire to switch from current therapy, wearing a device on the body, alarm fatigue, etc. Will automated insulin delivery address enough of these challenges to expand the market?
Will healthcare providers embrace automated insulin delivery? Today, healthcare providers lose money when they prescribe pumps and CGM – they are very time consuming to train, prescribe, and obtain reimbursement for. We need to make sure that automated insulin delivery systems make providers’ lives easier, not more complicated.
Will there be a thriving commercial environment and reimbursement? It’s extremely expensive to develop and test closed-loop systems, and companies will only develop them if there is a commercial environment that supports a reasonable business. Reimbursement is a major part of that, and it’s hard to know if insurance companies will pay for closed-loop systems for a wide population of patients. We are optimistic that reimbursement will be there, especially if systems can simultaneously lower A1c, reduce hypoglycemia, and improve time-in-range.
What’s the right balance between automation and human manual input? The holy grail is a fully-automated, reactive closed loop that requires no meal or exercise input. But insulin needs to get faster to make that a reality. For now, daytime systems need to deal with balancing human input with automation, and there’s an associated patient learning curve. How much should automated insulin delivery systems ask patients to do? How do we ensure patients do not forget how to manage their diabetes (“de-skilling”) as systems grow in their automation abilities?
Insulin-only or insulin+glucagon? Ultimately, we believe that the question is partially one of patient preferences. There will be some patients who may want the extra glycemic control offered by the dual-hormone approach and will be willing to accept a bit more risk or a more aggressive algorithm. An insulin+glucagon system could be helpful for those with hypoglycemia unawareness, and if such a system makes it to the market, some patients will certainly want to give it a try. We believe a range of options is a good thing for people with diabetes, since all systems and products have pros and cons. Ultimately, cost considerations may present the largest factor in adoption. An insulin+glucagon system certainly brings multiple cost elements to consider – a second hormone, a dual-chambered pump, custom infusion sets, potentially higher training, etc. It’s hard to know at this point how the relative costs/benefits will exactly compare to insulin-only systems.
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Drugs with dual-hormone action gain attention in diabetes field.
Engineered peptide drugs that simultaneously target two hormone receptors have historically attracted interest among scientists hoping to create new treatments for diabetes. Now, many in the field seem buoyed by new data from a class of diabetes medicines designed to mimic gastrointestinal hormones called incretins, which stimulate insulin release from pancreatic beta cells.
The ‘incretin mimetics’ currently on the market modulate only one receptor. For example, Byetta (exenatide) from California’s Amylin Pharmaceuticals and Victoza (liraglutide) from Denmark’s Novo Nordisk trigger the glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP-1). To adequately control blood glucose, these drugs are often used at high doses, commonly causing vomiting and nausea. Long-term effects could include increased risk for pancreatitis, pancreatic cancer and thyroid cancer.
The problem is that GLP-1 receptors aren’t confined just to the gut. They’re also found in other tissues, especially the thyroid, pancreas, meninges, kidney and bone. In March, the US Food and Drug Administration began reviewing research linking GLP-1 agonists to increased risk of pancreatitis and precancerous cellular changes associated with pancreatic cancer. And this September, France’s Sanofi withdrew a new drug application in the US for its once-daily injectable GLP-1 agonist lixisenatide owing to concerns over cardiovascular safety.
According to drug developers, drugs that target two receptors simultaneously could provide a solution by more closely approximating the normal physiology lost when type 2 diabetes develops. The hope is to use these drugs at lower doses, decreasing the likelihood for adverse reactions.
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Dual fuel: Two-hormone drugs help treat diabetes.
In addition to GLP-1, another endogenous gut hormone is glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide (GIP), which stimulates postprandial insulin release. Activity of GLP-1 and GIP is thought by some to be impaired in type 2 diabetes. A paper published in late October detailed the effects in humans of a new compound—originally called MAR701 by Indiana’s Marcadia Biotech, which contributed to early development of the compound—that binds and triggers receptors for both GLP-1 and GIP1. It offered data from a phase 2 trial done in collaboration with Roche, the Swiss drug giant, that included 53 patients with inadequately controlled type 2 diabetes.
The trial found a dose-dependent decrease in hemoglobin A1C (HbA1c) in the experimental group, ranging from a decrease of 0.53% to as much as a 1.11% drop; by comparison, the placebo group had an average drop of 0.16%. No participants experienced vomiting, a common side effect of incretin mimetics on the market, and few had nausea. The study also reported that this type of dual agonist lowers blood glucose levels and weight more effectively than single agonists in animal models.
Incredible incretin?
According to study author Matthias Tschöp, scientific director of the Helmholtz Diabetes Center in Munich, the pace of research on engineered peptides for dual-agonist incretin-based therapy has picked up in recent years. Tschöp and his collaborator Richard DiMarchi, a chemist at the University of Indiana in Bloomington, have worked previously on a GLP-1 and glucagon receptor co-agonist, in collaboration with New Jersey–based Merck, and a GLP-1 and estrogen receptor co-agonist, the latter of which showed potential for reversing the metabolic syndrome in rodents2.
Other researchers are in hot pursuit of similar drugs. Scientists at Amylin Pharmaceuticals, which was acquired last year by New York’s Bristol-Myers Squibb, are working on peptide hybrids made of an analog of Byetta linked to davalintide, which mimics amylin, a hormone released from pancreatic beta cells that helps regulate blood glucose levels after a meal3. “The exendin-amylin mimetic peptide hybrids . . . improve glucose tolerance and reduce HbA1c levels in diabetic rodents, coupled with body weight loss that is greater than that achieved by the parent peptides,” says Soumitra Ghosh, senior director of research programs and collaborations at Amylin.
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Alberta, in Canada, in collaboration with Denmark’s Zealand Pharma and Germany’s Boehringer Ingelheim, are working on a single molecule that mimics the gut hormone oxyntmodulin, an endogenous peptide hormone with dual GLP-1 and glucagon receptor agonist activity4. The team is in competition with Merck, which has explored oxyntmodulin mimetics, including one called DualAg5.
Some teams are even looking into triple-receptor agonists. Nigel Irwin, a pharmacologist at the Diabetes Research Group at the University of Ulster in Ireland, works with a group focused on preclinical drug discovery of novel peptides for treating metabolic disease and obesity. Irwin’s team published results in late October showing that a hybrid triple agonist, combining the effects of GLP-1, GIP and glucagon, decreased body weight and significantly improved glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity in mice fed high-fat diets, as compared to conventional antidiabetic agents6. “We also believe that concurrent activation of three receptors will minimize any potential side effects that can occur through over stimulation of a single regulatory peptide receptor,” Irwin explains.
Tagged Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gastric inhibitory polypeptide, GLP-1, Glucagon-like peptide-1, Marcadia Biotech, Novo Nordisk, Richard DiMarchi, Zealand Pharma
Noninjectable Insulin Developers Make Progress
Diabetes sufferers may soon be able to avoid the needle.
Lessons from past failures are being applied by drug developers pursuing clinical development of new oral and inhalable insulin products. [AndrzejTokarski/Fotolia]
Whether famous like Tom Hanks or not, millions of people with diabetes for generations have had to take insulin by injection, just as a 14-year-old diabetic named Leonard Thompson did when he became the first patient successfully treated with the peptide hormone in 1922.
Nearly a century later, drug developers remain unable to market a noninjectable therapeutic. But of late, lessons from past failures are being applied by drug developers pursuing clinical development of new oral and inhalable insulin products. The companies see a growing market: An estimated 552 million people are expected to develop diabetes by 2030, up from 371 million in 2012, according to the International Diabetes Federation.
No Needles Required
MannKind earlier this month resubmitted to FDA its new drug application for Afrezza® (insulin human [rDNA origin]) Inhalation Powder for adults with type 1 or type 2 diabetes)—two years after the agency required two additional clinical studies comparing its current inhaler to its first-generation MedTone inhaler.
In August, MannKind released promising results from two Phase III trials. One study in type 1 patients compared Afrezza to insulin aspart; the other measured inhalable insulin in type 2 patients with inadequate diabetes control following metformin treatment, with or without a second or third oral medication. The type 2 study showed a drop in mean A1c levels of 0.82% in patients using Afrezza, compared to a 0.42% decrease in the comparator group. The type 1 study met its primary endpoint of noninferiority to insulin aspart.
Afrezza combines an inhalation powder with an inhaler called Dreamboat™ designed for use by diabetics at the start of meals. The powder dissolves immediately when inhaled to the deep lung and delivers insulin quickly to the bloodstream. According to MannKind, peak insulin levels occur within 12 to 15 minutes of administration, compared with 45 to 90 minutes for injected rapid acting insulin analogs, and 90–150 minutes for injected regular human insulin.
Joseph Kocinsky, MannKind’s svp, pharmaceutical technology development, told GEN Afrezza’s Technosphere® pulmonary drug delivery platform offers competitive advantages. In addition to ultra-fast delivery, insulin administered via Technosphere formulation avoids the hepatic first-pass metabolism that reduces drug bioavailability.
“The Technosphere technology is applicable to a wide variety of drugs (small molecules, peptides, proteins, monoclonal antibodies) and a wide variety of clinical indications like diabetes, pain, osteoporosis, and respiratory disease,” Kocinsky said.
Perhaps Afrezza’s best advantage is the same one offered by the oral insulin products—it doesn’t require a needle. Injection remains no small hurdle to insulin use among people with diabetes, despite improvements over the past generation such as shorter and sharper disposable needles, notes Robert E. Ratner, M.D., FACP, FACE, chief scientific and medical officer for the American Diabetes Association.
Dr. Ratner’s previously work as an investigator included studying Novo Nordisk’s insulin degludec, a long-acting injectable insulin analog. He said injection has one important advantage: Doses can be titrated and adjusted.
“When you’re giving oral or inhaled insulin, that level of precision in terms of dosing is probably going to be considerably harder,” Dr. Ratner told GEN. “We don’t yet know all of the details about the pharmacokinetics of these [noninjectable] agents—how quickly they’ll get absorbed, what percentage will get absorbed, are we going to be able to change the doses to meet the biologic needs of the individual? Those all remain unknowns. Those are the hurdles the companies need to overcome before we have a viable product.”
Road to Success Paved with Failure
Drug developers have long struggled to develop noninjectable diabetes treatments. In 2007, Pfizer stopped marketing Exubera® after 13 months following disappointing sales, took $2.8 billion in pre-tax charges, and returned product rights to partner Nektar Therapeutics.
One key factor in Exubera’s failure was its delivery system: Its inhaler was about a foot long, more conspicuous and clumsier than even the needle. Afrezza can be inhaled through a smaller inhaler requiring no maintenance because it is discarded and replaced every 15 days. Also unlike Exubera, Afrezza is dosed in traditional insulin units that are linear; two three-unit cartridges equal a six-unit cartridge.
Within months of Exubera’s exit, both Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly ended programs to develop new inhalable insulin products that had advanced to Phase III trials, insisting they had not acted from safety concerns. Lilly brought insulin to market in 1923, and 60 years later launched the first insulin analogs.
Today, Novo Nordisk and another drug developer, Oramed, are well into clinical studies of oral insulin products, with years to go: “We won’t be looking at oral insulin for the next five to six years at the very least.”
Future Possibilities
Also working on noninjectable insulin is Biocon, which last year landed Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) as its partner to partially fund Phase II trials of its IN-105 outside India for two years. After that, BMS has the option to assume full responsibility for IN-105, including all development and commercialization activities outside India—in return for BMS paying Biocon a license fee, milestone payments, and royalties on IN-105 sales outside India.
Oramed in July enrolled its first patient in a Phase IIa trial assessing the safety of ORMD-0801, an orally ingestible insulin capsule on patients with type 2 diabetes. A total 30 patients will be enrolled.
“Results of the trial are anticipated by the end of the calendar year,” Aviva Sherman, an Oramed spokeswoman, told GEN.
ORMD-0801 is also under study in a clinical trial in Israel in August that began recruiting patients with type 1 diabetes, for which -0801 is envisioned as a complement to injections, allowing fewer daily injections.
In September, Oramed submitted a pre-IND package to FDA for its ORMD-0901 (oral exenatide), a GLP-1 analog for type 2 diabetes. “By acting on multiple fronts, i.e., stimulation of insulin release and suppression of glucagon release, as well as other actions, GLP-1 addresses diabetes-related glycemia issues on a broader level than does exogenously administered insulin,” Sherman said.
Oramed said its oral insulin mimics insulin’s natural location and gradients in the body by traveling through the gastrointestinal tract encapsulated, then releasing the insulin in the small intestine, from which it is ferried to the liver via the portal vein. The first-pass metabolism significantly reduces the risk of hypoglycemia, the most common side effect of injected insulins.
Novo Nordisk’s candidate OI362GT or NN1954, an oral basal insulin analog intended as a tablet treatment, generated successful results from a single-dose Phase I trial earlier this year. Peter Kurtzhals, svp in diabetes research at Novo Nordisk, told GEN NN1954 is delivered through enteric coated tablets targeting the duodenum, facilitated by the rise in pH that occurs when a substance passes from the acidic milieu in the stomach into the intestine.
“The delivery in duodenum is not more porous, but contents of the gall fluid secreted here may play a role in facilitating absorption of some substances from this part of the gut,” Kurtzhals said.
NN1954 absorption is enabled via partner Merrion Pharmaceuticals’ GIPET® technology. GIPET uses specifically designed oral formulations of patented absorption enhancers designed to activate micelle formation, facilitating transport of drug and increasing absorption.
The drug and enhancer are not bound to each other chemically, but are both ingredients of the tablet, with no interaction between active pharmaceutical ingredient and absorption enhancer. Co-release of the drug and absorption enhancer occurs following dissolution of the coating and a general disintegration of the tablet.
“The oral insulin project is currently in Phase I clinical development. Contingent on successful outcome of these trials, Phase II will be initiated within 1–2 years,” Kurtzhals said.
By the time Novo Nordisk and Oramed complete their required additional trials, followed by formal regulatory reviews, MannKind may have already delivered the first noninjectable insulin to grateful diabetics. Or not. FDA can be expected to show particular caution with noninjectable insulin candidates, given the problems inhalables have had in recent years. To win approvals, companies will have to show not only the usual safety and efficacy, but that their products are better than past noninjectable candidates—drugs young Leonard Thompson could only dream about when he took insulin by needle and made history nearly a century ago.
Tagged Bristol-Myers Squibb, Food & Drug Administration, Inhalable insulin, insulin, International Diabetes Federation, MannKind Corporation, Noninjectable Insulin, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer
Liraglutide-metformin combo superior to either treatment alone for weight loss in PCOS.
Short-term combination liraglutide and metformin yielded significant weight loss among obese women with polycystic ovary syndrome,Mojca Jensterle Sever, MD, PhD, of the University Medical Center in Ljubljana, Slovenia, told Endocrine Today here at ENDO 2013.
“Obesity is a great problem in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and we do not have a conventional satisfactory treatment for it. The most widely used drug is metformin for women with PCOS and metabolic disturbances, but it’s somehow not successful enough to curb obesity. That’s why we tried to use our experience with diabetes to test long-acting GLP-1 agonists for any effect on the PCOS population,” Jenterle Sever said in an interview.
She and colleagues conducted a 12-week open, metformin-controlled trial by randomly assigning 36 obese women with PCOS aged 31.3 years (BMI 37.1 kg/m2) to one of the following treatment arms: metformin 1,000 mg twice daily (n=14), liraglutide (Victoza, Novo Nordisk) 1.2-mg administered daily subcutaneously (n=11) or combined therapy (n=11).
Jensterle Sever said that 38% of patients lost ≥5% body weight (22% in the combination group, 16% in the liraglutide group and zero in the metformin group). Patients assigned to combination therapy lost an average of 6.5 kg vs. 3.8 kg among those in the liraglutide group and 1.2 kg in the metformin group (P<.001), according to data.
Patients in the combination group also demonstrated a greater decrease in BMI and waist circumference compared with the other two treatment groups, according to data.
“We found that this combined arm was more successful in reducing weight, BMI and waist circumference as compared with liraglutide and metformin treatment arm alone.”
Adverse events included nausea during liraglutide treatment. However, this effect gradually declined over time and was not correlated with weight loss, Jensterle Sever said.
These findings suggest that short-term combined treatment of liraglutide and metformin led to statistically significant weight loss in obese women with PCOS. – by Samantha Costa
Source: Endocrine today
Posted in MEDICINE
Tagged BMI, Body mass index, Liraglutide, Ljubljana, Novo Nordisk, obesity, Polycystic ovary syndrome, Weight loss
Has pancreatic damage from glucagon suppressing diabetes drugs been underplayed?.
Incretin mimetics have been called “the darlings of diabetes treatment” and they may soon also be licensed for treating obesity. But a BMJ investigation has found growing safety concerns linked to the drugs’ mechanism of action. Deborah Cohen asks why patients and doctors have not been told.
They’ve been touted as the “new darlings of diabetes treatment”—the biggest breakthrough since the discovery of insulin nearly a hundred years before. The so called incretin therapies—glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonists and dipeptidylpeptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors—looked as if they might change the face of type 2 diabetes. Their dual action of switching on insulin and suppressing glucagon to help control blood glucose was the ultimate in diabetes care.
The promise of a Nobel prize for the investigators loomed large. Scientists had discovered a treatment that could potentially modify disease progression. Studies in experimental animals showed that GLP-1 caused a proliferation in new insulin producing β cells. The hope was that these new cells might be able to replace those that died off in the course of human diabetes.
Nor did the promise end there. GLP-1 acts on the brain to makes people feel less hungry and the more powerful drugs aid weight loss—rather than weight gain like many antidiabetic drugs before them.
It’s an effect companies are seeking to market in its own right. Spurred on by the US Food and Drug Administration’s willingness to license new obesity treatment, Novo Nordisk’s chief science officer Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen said last year that the “political establishment in the US now knows that behaviour change alone is not enough.”1
His company’s drug, liraglutide, is in the process of late stage clinical tests, which Thomsen says show promising results.
But an investigation by the BMJ suggests Thomsen’s confidence might be optimistic. Concerns held by some specialists about the potential side effects of GLP-1 drugs have emerged into the mainstream after both the FDA and the European Medicines Agency announced in March that they would launch a review into whether the drugs may cause or contribute to the development of pancreatic cancer.
As yet neither agency has reached any conclusions, but they are meeting to discuss the matter later this month. And, as this investigation has found, for the regulators it is not a new concern. Over the years, drug assessors have become increasingly concerned that the incretin drugs have the potential for unwanted proliferative effects.
Expert concerns
Concerns long held by some experts about the potential side effects of incretin mimetics have gathered momentum with three publications this year. An independent analysis of health insurance data published in February found that people taking exenatide and sitagliptin were at twice the risk of hospital admission for acute pancreatitis compared with people taking other antidiabetic drugs2—the absolute risk 0.6%. And in April an analysis of data from the US Food and Drug Administration’s adverse event reporting system showed an increase in reports for pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer in people taking incretin mimetics compared with those taking other antidiabetic drugs.3
The FDA and EMA have both confirmed to the BMJ that their own analyses also show increased reporting or signals of pancreatic cancer with incretin mimetics. But they emphasise that this does not mean the relation is causal.
Both agencies announced in March that they will review data from a study just published showing pre-cancerous and dysplastic changes to the pancreas in organ donors exposed to incretin mimetics.4
The evidence is fiercely contested, with manufacturers stoutly defending the safety of their products. Merck, for example, told the BMJ that independent observational studies and a meta-analysis of clinical trials involving 33 881 patients found no association between DPP-4 inhibitors and pancreatic cancer. Bristol-Myers Squibb says that “post-marketing data does not confirm a causal relationship between saxagliptin or exenatide and pancreatitis and/or pancreatic cancer” (see bmj.com for full questions and answers with manufacturers).
But a “Dear Doctor” letter from Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca on the UK Medicine and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency’s website says: “A review of reports of pancreatitis from post-marketing experience revealed that signs of pancreatitis occurred after the start of saxaglitpin treatment and resolved after discontinuation, which is suggestive of a causal relationship. Moreover, pancreatitis has been recognized as an adverse event for other DPP-4 inhibitors.”5 A spokeswoman for Boehringer Ingelheim told the BMJ: “Pancreatitis has been reported in clinical trials and spontaneous post marketing sources. Guidelines for the use of linagliptin in patients with suspected pancreatitis are included in the prescribing information of the treatment.”
The increasingly fractious debate among scientists and doctors was played out last month in the specialty journal Diabetes Care.
Experienced GLP-1 investigator, Professor Michael Nauck, head of the Diabeteszentrum in Bad Lauterberg, Germany, and a consultant to many of the manufacturers, argued that the published evidence against the drugs is weak. “The potential harms and risks typically refer to rare events and are discussed in a controversial manner,” he wrote.6 But a team of four academics from the US and UK (one an expert witness in litigation against one of the manufacturers) suggested that neither the safety nor the effectiveness of the class can be assumed. “The story is familiar. A new class of antidiabetic agents is rushed to market and widely promoted in the absence of any evidence of long-term beneficial outcomes. Evidence of harm accumulates, but is vigorously discounted,” they wrote in their response. 7
In the course of this investigation, the BMJ has reviewed thousands of pages of regulatory documents obtained under freedom of information and found unpublished data pointing to unwanted proliferative or inflammatory pancreatic effects.
The BMJ has also found that, despite published reports that indicated safety concerns, companies have not done critical safety studies; nor have regulators requested them. And access to raw data that would have helped resolve doubts about the safety of these drugs has been denied.
On their own, the individual pieces of unpublished evidence may seem inconclusive — increases in size and abnormal changes in animal pancreases, raised pancreatic enzyme concentrations in humans, reports of thyroid neoplasms, and pancreatitis in early clinical trials.
But when considered alongside other emerging and long standing evidence—such as concerns about the effect of GLP-1agonists on α cells first published in 19998; the presence of the GLP-1 receptor on cells other than the target pancreatic β cell; and increasing signals from regulatory databases2 9—a more coherent and worrying picture emerges, posing serious questions about the safety of this class of drug.
What’s going on in the pancreas?
In a world where the prevalence of type 2 diabetes is increasing rapidly, finding new targets for therapy is a high priority for drug companies. The discovery by scientists in the 1970s and the then publication in 1993 by Michael Nauck of the double action of GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1) provided just such a target.
GLP-1 is a hormone-like peptide released by the intestine in response to a meal; its functions include regulating insulin and blood glucose and slowing gastric emptying. In his study, Nauck found that GLP-1 both increased the insulin made in the pancreas and, by inhibiting the secretion of glucagon, reduced the glucose released by the liver. Excessive glucose release by the liver underpins the high circulating glucose that defines type 2 diabetes. Following secretion, GLP-1 is quickly inactivated by an enzyme, dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4). The GLP-1 drugs are either analogues that are not inactivated by DPP-4, taken by injection (exenatide, liraglutide) or oral drugs that inhibit DPP-4 (sitagliptin, saxagliptin, and linagliptin).
The saliva of the desert dwelling Gila monster was the source for the first GLP-1 analogue on the market, exenatide. A heavy slow moving lizard, it eats once or twice a year, and uses the secretion of its salivary hormone exendin-4—which displays similar properties to GLP-1—to induce proliferation of its pancreas and gut to assimilate a meal. Some say this should have provided a valuable clue to the unwanted effects of raised circulating levels of a hormone that usually lasts for only minutes before it is broken down.
But now that most of the other treatments for type 2 diabetes are off patent, these are valuable drugs. Merck’s market leading drug sitagliptin generated about $4.1bn (£2.6bn; €3bn) in sales in 2012 with liraglutide’s 2012 sales of $1.7bn coming in behind. The profit margins mean there is much at stake for the companies and the organisations and doctors who depend on their support.
However, serious doubts about the wisdom of basing treatments on GLP-1 agonists have existed since the beginning. And the companies and regulators have, on reflection, had in their hands ample warning signs—and chance to resolve some of the emerging controversies.
In 2005, the New England Journal of Medicine published a study that showed pancreatic changes in patients who had a type of gastric bypass surgery called Roux-en-Y. The authors noted hypertrophy and hyperplasia of the islet cells, also affecting the cells in the pancreatic ducts. They thought this might be due to raised levels of the hormone GLP-1, which were known to occur after this type of procedure.21 (A later study on this type of surgery also showed a “pronounced” increase in α cell mass22).
Senior executives from Amylin and Lilly wrote to the New England Journal to distance their drug from the paper and to stress the lack of evidence of a pathological effect on the islets in animal studies. “A study of nine months’ duration in healthy cynomolgus monkeys at doses of more than 400 times those used in humans showed minimal-to-mild islet hypercellularity with no increase in islet size (data on file, Amylin Pharmaceuticals),” they said.
The suppression of glucagon by incretin mimetics was highlighted by companies in their drug licensing applications and was noted by regulators. Billions of dollars of sales later, after concerns have been raised about the safety of glucagon suppression and its effect on glucagon producing α cells, the extent to which they do this is being contested.
Butler and colleagues’ finding of α cell hyperplasia in humans taking GLP1 based drugs4 was not the first. In 1999 GLP-1 researcher Joel Habener and a team at Harvard found that exendin-4 (exenatide) induced an increase in α cells in rats.8
But evidence of α cell hyperplasia has come from multiple models and sources—including the companies themselves. Whether this is applicable to GLP-1 based treatments is subject to fierce debate.
Only last October, Professor Dan Drucker, a long standing consultant to many of the companies, gave a keynote lecture at European Association for the Study of Diabetes conference. “The therapeutic window for reduction of glucagon action to manifest beneficial effects for glucose control while avoiding enhancement of hepatic lipid storage, dyslipidemia, hepatocyte injury, and α-cell proliferation in diabetic subjects is unclear,” the official conference journal reported.23
Others in industry have previously highlighted the important role of glucagon suppression in the control of diabetes. In 2005 at a session entitled “GLP-1s: the new darlings of diabetes treatment” Jens Holst, scientific director of the Novo Nordisk Foundation for Metabolic Research at Copenhagen University and a long standing consultant to the company, told the American Diabetes Association annual conference that GLP-1 agonists were a powerful inhibitor of glucagon secretion, adding that he thought this would be “a very important action to diabetes patients.”
A spokesperson for Novo Nordisk acknowledged an effect on α cells but only from full not partial glucagon suppression. She told the BMJ: “Complete removal or blocking of the glucagon receptor, or important signalling components, have caused α cell hyperplasia. This is separate from the relatively modest lowering of glucagon secretion induced by GLP-1.”
The BMJ asked Drucker about this. In response he sent a copy of an article he had written in Cell Metabolism, but this did not describe α cell effects.24 Yet the BMJhas found that the companies were aware of the unwanted effects of the full and partial suppression of glucagon before the incretin mimetics came onto the market.
At the turn of the century, Holst, working with scientists from Novo Nordisk, reported that glucagon suppression in mice resulted in massive enlargement of the pancreas and the proliferation of α cells (α cell hyperplasia).25 They concluded that α cells appear not just in the islets but in the pancreatic ductal epithelium—something that Butler and colleagues found. Importantly, this effect did not require complete blocking of glucagon receptors or the stopping of glucagon production. Even a partial reduction in the hormone signalling resulted in α cell hyperplasia, as shown by Eli Lilly in 2004.26 The Lilly team acknowledged that they hadn’t seen any neoplasia; the studies up until that point had been short—only four months long. They suggested that both glucagon and its receptor must be functional in order to maintain a feedback loop that restrains α cell growth “but the exact nature of this feedback loop is unclear.”26
Over the years, evidence of the effects of modifying glucagon signalling has mounted. In 2009 Run Yu, codirector of the carcinoid and neuroendocrine tumour programme at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, published a report in patients with a rare condition causing deficiencies in glucagon signalling.27 He found α cell hyperplasia and neuroendocrine tumours.
“In type 2 diabetes glucagon plays a role but there is a price to pay with reducing it,” he told the BMJ.
Yu said that he had shared his view with certain companies after the study came out. Because of agreements with the companies, he was unable to say which they were.
He then did a study in mice with decreased glucagon signalling that was far longer than any conducted by the companies. He found that neuroendocrine tumours invariably developed after formation of α cell hyperplasia and eventually led to death. Yu concluded that glucagon suppression was not a safe way to treat diabetes.28But whether this applies to GLP-1based therapies is still uncertain.
In the course of this investigation, the BMJ has looked at thousands of pages of regulatory documents from both the FDA and the EMA. There seems to be little discussion about the potential adverse effects of interfering with glucagon signalling on the α cell, even though the manufacturers spelt out —and the regulators noted—that glucagon suppression was one of the effects of the drugs. Michael Elashoff, a former FDA reviewer who has analysed the safety of the drugs, believes the regulators should have been more cautious in approving them.
“If some of the side effects can be anticipated in advance, then it seems incumbent upon the FDA to really force the companies to do real significant investigation of these potential side effects before the drug goes on the market and not leave it to experiment with actual patients taking the drug,” he said.
The FDA maintains that: “Long-term studies of incretin mimetics in rodents, dogs, and monkeys failed to demonstrate adverse pancreatic pathology or other toxicology reflective of a glucagon deficit that could be interpreted as a clear risk to human subjects.”
The BMJ asked the five companies who market incretin mimetics if they have ever studied the effects of glucagon suppression on the proliferation of α cells. Only Novo Nordisk responded to the question. It stressed that it had never seen α cell hyperplasia in any of its studies.29 30 31 “Alpha-cell hyperplasia is not mediated by the GLP-1 receptor,” a spokeswoman said. Behind the scenes, concerns also started to emerge about the potential inflammatory effects on the pancreas. Effects on pancreatic enzymes: Internal industry documents show that in 2005, one industry key opinion leader reported “extremely high” lipase levels in a patient taking exenatide. He was concerned that the company had missed signs of potential inflammation in its clinical trials.
Dennis Kim, then executive director at Amylin, wrote in an email that the doctor’s report was a “bit concerning” and confirmed that pancreatic amylase and lipase were not measured systematically in the company’s clinical trials.
The BMJ has found that companies have measured these enzymes for “safety issues,” but in many cases the data have not been reported in the published studies.
For example, in one Lilly funded trial comparing weekly exenatide with sitagliptin and two other diabetes treatments—insulin and pioglitazone—enzyme levels increased in a higher percentage of people taking incretin mimetics after 26 weeks of treatment.
Regulatory documents show the mean (SD) lipase concentration in the exenatide group increased from 42.0 (23.77) U/L on day 1 to 60.8 (38.39) U/L at week 26. Sitagliptin also increased lipase from 40.3 (21.3) U/L to 48.7 (30.7) U/L. The levels in the pioglitazone control dropped. However, when the trial was published in theLancet, these data did not make the final cut.32 The company did not say why when the BMJ put it to them. Neither did lead author, Richard Bergenstahl, answer theBMJ’s queries.
Earlier this year, the Lancet published another study funded by Eli Lilly and Amylin in which enzyme levels were measured but not reported.33 “Routinely measured concentrations of pancreatic lipase and total amylase varied in both groups and were not predictive of gastrointestinal symptoms,” the paper said.
The FDA says that the clinical value of routine amylase and lipase monitoring in asymptomatic patients is not clear. But pancreatologists, have told the BMJ that reporting enzyme levels is important because they may reflect a subclinical effect of the drug.
“Many large phase III trials report findings of significant biochemical abnormalities, even though the clinical significance may be uncertain at the time, and in this case where the drug is known to exert effects on the pancreas, I would find such information of value,” Thor Halfdanarson, a pancreatic surgeon, at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona said.
Indeed, writing in support of incretin mimetics in Diabetes Care last month, Michael Nauck said that the effect on pancreatic enzymes may be important.6 “Effects of GLP-1 receptor stimulation on pancreatic enzyme synthesis, potential leakage into the circulation rather than direct secretion into pancreatic digestive juice, and a potential induction if a chronic inflammatory response need to be studied,” he said.
Source: BMJ
Posted in JOURNALS
Tagged Anti-diabetic medication, bmj, Bristol-Myers Squibb, European Medicines Agency, Food and Drug Administration, Glucagon-like peptide-1, Novo Nordisk, United States
Will we ever… eliminate animal experimentation?.
Arguably one of the most heated debates in science, efforts to reduce the number of animals used in studies face many barriers, says Alla Katsnelson.
One of the most, if not the most, contentious issues in science is the use of animals in research. Scientists experiment on animals for a host of different reasons, including basic research to explore how organisms function, investigating potential treatments for human disease, and safety and quality control testing of drugs, devices and other products. Its proponents point to the long list of medical advances made possible with the help of animal research. Opponents believe it is cruel and meaningless, as observations in animals often do not translate directly to humans.
In 1959, William Russell and Rex Burch proposed their “3Rs” guidelinesfor making the use of animals in scientific research more humane: restrict the use of animals; refine experiments to minimise distress; and replace tests with alternative techniques. Over the course of five decades their guidelines have become widely accepted worldwide, and while the reliability of published reports on the numbers used varies, they do at least provide a snapshot of historical trends. Around 29 million animals per year are currently used in experiments in the US and European Union countries. (Rats and mice make up around 80% of the total.) This is less than half the total in the mid-1970s – a significant drop, but one that has plateaued in the last decade.
“In the late 1980s, people thought animal research was singing its swan song,” says Larry Carbone, a senior veterinarian at the University of California in San Francisco. Fresh out of veterinary school in 1987, Carbone landed a job as an animal vet at Cornell University, in New York State. At that time the numbers of animals being used in experiments and testing was on the decline: the campus was building a new multi-storey biotechnology facility, with just three rooms containing animal breeding and living facilities.
But then came the development of tools that could selectively modify individual genes in mice. This proved to be such a powerful and popular technique that the decreasing trend in animal use ground to a halt.
Now, a raft of novel experimental techniques may help to push numbers down again. Improvements in imaging methods that offer a peek inside the bodies of animals allow scientists to get more and better data from each experiment than before. For example, researchers previously had to cull multiple mice at different stages of tumour development, but now they can non-invasively watch the disease unfold in a single living animal using a fluorescent dye. Similarly, as brain-imaging techniques become more advanced, some questions that are now addressed with experiments in monkeys might be better answered by peering into the human brain. “My prediction is that human volunteers will be able to replace monkeys more and more in the next 10-20 years,” says Carbone.
Meanwhile in vitro advances are also pointing towards reliable alternative methods. One such advance is the ability to re-program human skin cells into a primordial, stem cell-like state. These “induced pluripotent cells” could be converted into any specialised cell in the body, like liver or kidney cells, and these could be generated from people with a particular illness, giving researchers a potent and patient-specific model of that disease in a dish. Lab-on-a-chip technologies – and perhaps one day,lab-grown organs – could also provide increasingly sophisticated ways to identify disease mechanisms or test prospective medicines.
Finding alternatives
Trends also show that some sectors are doing more than others to reduce animal use. Some believe technological advances will one day make animal studies unnecessary, while others argue that “non-living” models will never be capable of reliably replicating all of the uses of laboratory mice and other creatures.
When many people think about animal testing, they imagine rows of rodent cages in a pharmaceutical company lab. But according to data from European Union countries, the pharmaceutical sector uses almost half the number of animals that academic labs do, and animal use in drug development dropped significantly between 2005 and 2008 – the most recent statistics available. There are two reasons for this, says Thomas Hartung, Director of the Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, Maryland. First, drugs are increasingly designed to target specific molecular mechanisms, and these are best identified in culture dishes rather than live animals. Second, conducting experiments in 1,536-well cell culture dishes is vastly less expensive than in animals, so companies are motivated to use alternatives whenever they are available.
In the US and the EU, a drug’s efficacy and safety must be tested in animals before it enters human testing, though a 2010 directive from the EU calls for alternatives to be used when possible. Jan Ottesen, vice president of lab animal science at Danish company Novo Nordisk, which makes insulin and other drugs for diabetes and haemophilia, says his company actively seeks out tests that can replace animal use without compromising patient safety. Novo Nordisk decided 15 years ago to replace animal tests with cell cultures to verify the quality of each batch of drugs before it goes to market. The company had to provide the authorities with data proving that other tests worked just as well. It took until 2011 for the company to complete the switch.
However, for some types of experiments there are no equivalent non-animal options, says Ottesen. For example, in searching for new drugs that decrease joint pain due to arthritis, you need a model that mimics the human condition. The important thing, he stressed, is to set up the experiment so as to avoid unnecessary pain. For safety and toxicological testing of drugs, he adds, “I cannot see for the foreseeable future how we can completely avoid it. Having said that, all the replacements that can be implemented should be implemented.”
Safety testing of substances other than human and veterinary drugs, such as cosmetics, toiletries, household cleaning products and industrial chemicals might be a different story. Currently, says Hartung, such tests are outdated and inaccurate, with toxicity in rodents predicting problems in humans just 43% of the time. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of these substances have undergone no toxicity testing at all.
Addressing this gap with animal studies alone would be expensive and impractical. An overhaul of chemical safety regulations in the EU calledREACH and a toxicology modernisation initiative led by the US National Institutes of Health, are driving the search for alternatives.
Hartung believes that with enough investment and coordination, animal tests on products in this category can be replaced completely. He is leading the Human Toxome Project, an initiative that aims to map the ways substances disrupt hormones and endanger health, as well as to develop advanced, non-animal lab tests for toxicity testing. It’s slow going, Hartung concedes. “We don’t have human data to compare with, or really high-quality animal data,” he says, adding that this makes it tough to evaluate the quality of the tests.
Meanwhile, almost four in ten animals are used in basic, as opposed to applied, biological research – and this proportion is growing. Sarah Wolfensohn, a veterinary surgeon who heads Seventeen Eighty Nine, a consultancy advising researchers on animal welfare, based in Swindon, UK, says this is in part because a lot of this type of work is carried out in academia where the financial and performance pressures that motivate interest in non-animal-based techniques are weaker than in the commercial sector.
Other factors play a role too, she says. “For example, if a senior professor in academia has spent his entire career developing experimental techniques on monkeys’ brains and young researchers now tell him ‘actually we don’t need to do this, we can do it on a computer’, it undermines his approach.”
But just as important as reducing the numbers of animals used, adds Wolfensohn, is “to make sure they are being used in the best way and that their welfare is maximised, so as to get the best quality results, to make sure they are not wasted.”
Overall, pressure to limit the use of animals in research – either for financial, scientific or moral reasons – is rising. Meanwhile, the use of animals in many areas of life-science research is on the decline, experts note, even if genetic work in mice is still keeping numbers up. “I think this is temporary,” says Andrew Rowan, President and Chief Executive Officer of animal protection group Humane Society International. “I think it is going to start going down again as we improve our technologies.” How soon this might happen is too difficult to tell.
Tagged Animal testing, Animal welfare, Baltimore, European Union, Johns Hopkins University, Novo Nordisk, San Francisco, United States
Obesity treatment paradigms should target those at risk for diabetes.
Lifestyle modifications, weight-loss medications and bariatric surgery are the three major modalities that will have clinical implications on the prevention and treatment of obesity, according to data presented here.
“With effective options in all of these three treatment modalities, we can now evolve rational data-driven models of care that treat obesity as a medical illness,” W. TimothyGarvey, MD, professor and chair in the department of nutrition sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and senior scientist at the Nutrition Obesity Research Center, told Endocrine Today.
W. Timothy Garvey
Emerging therapies
During a presentation on emerging obesity therapies, Garvey reported recent data on phentermine-topiramate (Qsymia, Vivus) and lorcaserin (Belviq, Eisai), both of which gained approval in adults with an initial BMI of at least 30 or in those with a BMI of at least 27 and at least one weight-related condition, such as hypertension, type 2 diabetes or dyslipidemia.
“We’re in an exciting phase of drug development for obesity, with two drugs approved in the summer of 2012 that appear to be safe and effective for the treatment of obesity,” Garvey said.
“In addition, we have two other drugs that have finished or will soon finish phase 3 trials.”
One of these is bupropion/naltrexone (Contrave, Orexigen), an experimental agent now finished with phase 3 clinical trials. According to Garvey, a cardiovascular outcomes study is currently ongoing as requested by the FDA before approval. “The BP did not increase with the drug, but it didn’t go down to the extent that you’d predict with the weight loss achieved,” he said. “This will be the first cardiovascular outcomes study with a weight-loss drug where the data will be available in, perhaps, 2014.”
About an 8% weight loss was demonstrated and sustained during 1 year compared with 2% with placebo, Garvey said.
Furthermore, he referenced recent data from a 56-week, double blind, phase 3a clinical trial investigating higher-dose liraglutide (Victoza, Novo Nordisk) as a potential treatment for maintained weight loss in overweight or obese patients with type 2 diabetes. The manufacturer recently released the second phase 3a trial results from the clinical development program for liraglutide 3 mg as an obesity treatment.
“About 4 kg were lost on lifestyle intervention alone, and up to 9 kg were lost with high-dose liraglutide. There are 2-year data indicating that its efficacy for sustaining this weight loss is evident,” Garvey said.
However, Garvey said medical and surgical interventions provide the best outcomes in obese patients with complications, and optimal benefit–risk occurs when weight loss is used as a tool to treat these complications of obesity.
As an adjunct to lifestyle modification, the aforementioned new medical therapies can result in a 10% loss of body weight, but if a patient begins with a BMI of 38, he will likely be obese when therapies are complete, Garvey said.
“However, that 10% loss of body weight is sufficient to improve insulin sensitivity, glucose homeostasis, lipid levels, BP, diabetes prevention, CVD risk factors and better control of both glucose and BP in patients with type 2 diabetes. We’re achieving an amount of weight loss here that’s in fact beneficial in terms of cardiometabolic disease,” he said.
Garvey concluded with the economic burden of diabetes and obesity on the United States health care system. He told Endocrine Today that for the clinical research community to address the diabetes and obesity epidemics, the progression from prediabetes to diabetes should first be considered.
“A rational and effective obesity treatment paradigm that targets resources to patients who are at highest risk will be cost-effective in preventing diabetes,” he said. “The numbers vary, but it costs much more per year to take care of a patient with diabetes than it does to take care of a patient without diabetes.”
Tagged Birmingham, Body mass index, FDA, Novo Nordisk, obesity, United States, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Weight loss
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When Zelo Street noted reports that international development secretary Priti Patel “held undisclosed meetings in Israel without telling the Foreign Office while accompanied by an influential pro-Israeli Conservative lobbyist” and that she “met the leader of one of Israel's main political parties and made visits to several organisations where official departmental business was reportedly discussed”, it looked bad. Very bad.
There was more: “British diplomats in Israel were not informed about Ms Patel's plans … Ministers are by convention supposed to tell the Foreign Office when they are conducting official business overseas … the meetings could have broken the ministerial code of conduct”. The word “could” was superfluous: Ms Patel’s meetings were not only more extensive than feared, she did break that code of conduct. Seriously.
Now has come a “clarification” from Ms Patel, from which we can see that she was blatantly and shamelessly conducting her own off-the-cuff foreign policy, not telling the Foreign Office, or even her boss, London’s formerly very occasional Mayor Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, who has his own problems right now.
As the BBC’s Nick Robinson put it, “That’s some clarification from Priti Patel. When said Boris knew about freelance trip to meet Israeli PM she meant Boris did not know”. In other words, she has taken on board Bozza’s signature response to problematic questions, otherwise known as lying. And it gets worse. A lot worse.
Even the Beeb’s political editor Laura Kuenssberg called Ms Patel’s press release “clarifying” what she had been up to in Israel last August a “classic”. And I suspect this was not meant as some kind of praise. Ian Birrell added the ominous “It gets worse: Priti Patel suggested British aid should be given to the Israeli army in the Occupied Territories”. And what will Theresa May do about this latest horrendous lapse from her ministers?
As if you need to ask. “Theresa May wants the ministerial code of conduct to be tightened - after it was revealed Priti Patel held secret meetings with Israeli officials … She was ‘reminded of her obligations’ as a cabinet minister, Mrs May said”. Yeah, right. Two things here: one, the code of conduct does not need “tightening”, just applying properly. And two, it’s clear Ms Patel got away with not even a slap on the wrist. That’s not good enough.
After all, “The international development secretary apologised for holding 12 meetings, including one with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, while on a private holiday … No diplomats were present at the meetings, at which the minister was accompanied by an influential pro-Israeli Conservative peer and lobbyist, Lord Polak”.
Even the most diplomatic comments showed Ms Patel got it badly wrong: “Lord Ricketts, former head of the Diplomatic Service, said her actions were unprecedented”. And the idea she had a holiday in Israel in August, when the temperature climbs into the 40s, is not merely eyebrow-raising - it’s well on implausible.
Yet Priti Patel is still in post. And no-one is surprised. What a total and absolute shower.
Labels: Politics, World
Arnold said...
One business meeting on holiday. Just possible. But twelve? No way.
So Patel held "12 meetings" did she?
Hmmmm......
If true, (a) Who attended, (b) What was said, and (c) Who put the agenda together and why?
Nor does the Israeli Army need "aid" from its Brit equivalent to commit the war crimes inflicted on the Palestinian people. Or to illegally occupy Palestinian lands. Might need "secret" funding, though.
And despite the usual slimey denials does anybody REALLY believe she did this all off her own bat?
This latest tory soap opera episode has the look and sound of somebody being trained for further activities. Only to score a comical own goal from the half way line.
Patel has all the trustworthiness of an MI5/MI6 shill. One look at that rictus-grinning kipper - the female equivalent of Jeremy Hunt - should tell alert citizens all they need to know.
This appears to have gone in exactly the way she planned it. She also remembered to always have the excuse ready before committing the 'crime'.
No way she could have done this with approval of Government. So she booked a 'holiday', paid for it herself and then arranged the meetings. Once found out the line is 'it was a holiday, I paid for it myself'.
And unlike Scooby Doo, despite those pesky kids she did actually get away with it (for now)!
"It is easier to seek forgiveness than it is to get permission."
Roy Gillett said...
I think what this shows, Tim, is that Theresa May has, in soccer parlance, "Lost the dressing room." She hs not the slightest semblance of authority and her minsters are just doing what they damn well please.
She should have a long knife night and sack a few but she's got no reliable replacements. She is "in office, but not in power"
This won't end well.
Just like the rest of this shower - no idea of what they are doing (other than feathering their own nest) but determined to do it anyway and then lie about it after they're found out.
Good job they don't have a real job to do.
"No diplomats were present at the meetings, at which the minister was accompanied by an influential pro-Israeli Conservative peer and lobbyist, Lord Polak”.
Was he on holiday too?
Was it Conservative Friends of Israel paid for May's visit to Israel? Look at all the Tories who are taken for tours. If May can get a smear in about Labour and so called 'anti semitism' she will. So, why are all these Tories keen to suck up to Israel, hmmm? If anyone suggested they were looking for wealthy Tory donors from the Jewish community, that would be deemed anti semitic no doubt. So I won't do that.
Much of this in her speech to @CFoI is sheer propaganda. Perhaps May (not the brightest bulb on the tree) fell for it, she is certainly guilty of disseminating it. Yes nods to 'two state solution' etc but she didn't really mean it, did she?
https://www.conservativehome.com/parliament/2016/12/mays-speech-to-the-conservative-friends-of-israel-full-text.html
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UX working a Sprint ahead is full of FAIL. Work as a single team instead.
It usually happens this way. Adoption of agile methods begins with developers. This is because, according to the Agile Manifesto, agile work values “working software over comprehensive documentation”. The rest of project teams are then asked to work around the development effort. In this model, popularised by Lynn Miller and Desiree Sy in 2007, Jeff Patton notes that user experience (UX) people working on Agile teams become “masters of development time travel nimbly moving back and forth through past, present, and future development work”.
This way of working has a number of benefits for those adopting agile methods like Scrum:
Change management: It’s not greatly different to how the team currently works. UX people do design and then “throw it over the wall” to the developers who then implement it.
Autonomy: Developers enjoy the autonomy and self-management that Scrum brings them.
Time saving: Where previous projects would take many months before tangible products are seen, management, stakeholders and users can see something in a few months.
Problems with UX work being done a Sprint ahead
Working a Sprint ahead, though, has significant problems:
Sprints become out of sync: What is simple to design can often be complex to develop, and vice versa. Designing a Sprint ahead doesn’t ensure that the UX team can stay a Sprint ahead. It’s very easy in this method for Sprints to get out of sync.
Iteration without agility: Engaging users, and then designing a Sprint ahead, then coding, then testing usability, and then deploying, is essentially a mini-Waterfall approach. It means users have to wait for 5 Sprints before they see anything. If there are defects that have to be addressed then it takes even longer.
Lack of ownership of the UX amongst developers: Where UX work occurs a Sprint ahead an “over the wall” mentality evolves. Because developers are not involved in engaging users directly in design they lack the implicit knowledge of users needs gained by the UX people. A lack of knowledge often results in a misalignment between what user need and value and what developers feel is important to deliver.
Groupthink: A homogeneous skill set amongst separate UX and dev teams results in opposing opinions about value. This leads to the type of conflict between the teams and individuals known as groupthink.
Waste: In Waterfall projects, up to 50% of what is designed is not developed, and up to 50% of what is developed is never used. Where working a Sprint ahead results lack of ownership and groupthink in similar levels of waste occur because (through “over the wall” behaviours and groupthink) developers can feel they are under no obligation to code what has been designed.
Like Luke Walter, of CollabNet, though, I’m baffled as to why people feel these processes represent an agile best practice. It is even more incredulous that these recommendations — that UX work (e.g. user-research, UX design, UI wireframing, etc) should be developed in sprints prior to development, or even generated in backlog refinement/sprint planning meetings outside of sprints — are often recommended by seasoned Scrum practitioners. Luke notes:
“While these folks no doubt would argue that system architecture (high-level software design) can and should be done incrementally and iteratively in regular sprints along with the rest of the development work, they express the opposite opinion on UI design without any sense of irony. “
Is this an issue with agile maturity?
When the processes and attitudes of working a Sprint ahead are viewed in light of agile maturity, however, there is increasing anecdotal evidence coming out of conferences like those run by the Agile Alliance in the USA, that more mature Scrum teams feel it is more valuable for the whole team, developers and UX people, to work collaboratively on a piece of work. This means the whole team exploring design issues, doing wireframes and prototypes together, as well as engaging users to discover requirements and assessing usability, rather than only part of the team working almost exclusively on this effort a Sprint ahead. It is certainly my experience that when a good agile coach has had experience with UX work that this way of working is the one that is recommended.
Benefits with a single scrum team approach
After many failed projects where working a sprint ahead was seen as the process to adopt, I only use a single scrum team approach. As a result after 5 years has been a significant improvement in my project’s risk profiles and the following benefits to clients and stakeholders. The benefits of a single scrum team approach has been:
Improved vision and knowledge of users’ needs: the whole team are involved in progressively understanding what users value and creating the solution.
Improved time to delivery: Features can be designed, developed, tested and deployed in a single sprint.
Less re-work: As usability is assessed in the same Sprint, it can also be corrected earlier if problems arise.
Improved team cohesiveness: Because the team collaborates on all aspects of the solution the whole team owns the end products, not just the developers.
Improved Definition of Done: Design – like architecture and testing – is simply work that needs to be done to construct a potentially shippable increment of Product. And most of this work can happen during a sprint with everything else. Where products are estimated as complex, design and analysis work as part of Backlog Refinement helps to improve the clarity of the Definition of Done for upcoming Products.
Less waste: Only what is designed in the current sprint is developed, and this means less waste.
Transcendence: With multiple view points and perspectives, a diverse and multidisciplinary team are able to approach complex issues from different angles. This challenges the team to come up with smarter, more effective ways of implementing solutions.
While Scrum is agnostic about how the Product Backlog is formed, it is rather prescriptive about using a single, diverse team. This requirement goes all the way back to the original Scrum concept posited in the New New Product Development Game. It’s often easier, though, to stick with what you know and only adopt Scrum in a very minor way with the assumption that it’s only about software development. But there is a fatal irony that comes from this way of working that runs counter to the basis of Scrum itself. For me, the benefits of having a single Scrum team far outweigh the costs. The trick is, though, to have a coach who understands both design and development to help you achieve that outcome.
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How to Show a Mortgage Loan on a Not for Profit Balance ...
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Assets are liquidated if the single member LLC is forced to dissolve the firm by filing a Chapter 7 bankruptcy and are used to pay creditors at least a portion of what they are owed. A single member properly loaning money to her LLC can be considered a creditor and be eligible to receive at least some funds back from a liquidation provided the sale of assets covers at least a portion of the LLC’s debt. However, a single member loaning money to her LLC could also be viewed as an investor and will only be able to recover any money once all the other creditors are paid first. The special relationship a single member LLC has with its owner tends to be scrutinized closely by bankruptcy courts and the IRS.
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The loan documentation should be completed as if the arrangements were being made with a commercial bank. There should be a verifiable business purpose such as purchasing equipment, inventory, or meeting cash flow needs for a person to lend her single member LLC money. Receipts and financial statements should be put together to show that the money was used as intended. All documents should be properly signed and initialed by the sole proprietor acting on behalf of herself and the LLC.
Part of a loan agreement includes payment terms and the rate of interest, to be determined by current market rates for similar loan arrangements, which will be charged. A sole proprietor lending money to her single member LLC cannot leave these arrangements open-ended if she wants the funds to be treated as a loan rather than an investment. The LLC must also pay back the loan under the agreed-upon terms to remain in good standing.
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Bonus vs. Payroll Tax
Pretax payroll deductions are employer-sponsored benefits that give employees a tax advantage. These deductions are optional for employees, but selecting them impacts an employee's net, or take-home, pay. Pretax plans may include qualified health and accident benefits, dependent and adoption assistance, group-term life insurance, health savings accounts, retirement contributions, and transportation benefits.
General Effect
Pretax deductions are taken out of an employee’s wages before mandatory taxes are withheld; this process leads to a reduction in his taxable wages, and ultimately, his tax-withholding amount. Specifically, mandatory tax withholding is based on taxable wages, so when you subtract the pretax deductions from gross wages, it causes a decrease in wages that are subject to taxation: The lower the amount of an employee’s taxable wages, the less tax he pays. In the end, the employee receives more take-home pay than if the pretax deduction for the benefit wasn’t pretax.
Cafeteria Plan Impact
Some plans offering a choice of benefits, colloquially known as "cafeteria plans," enable employers to provide benefits to employees on a pretax basis. To qualify as pretax, the plan must satisfy section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code. Examples of cafeteria plans include pretax medical, vision, and dental insurance, and flexible spending accounts. Pretax deductions for a cafeteria plan are not subject to federal income tax, Medicare tax or Social Security tax. If an employee has a cafeteria plan, to arrive at taxable wages, subtract the premium from his gross wages. Then, calculate all three federal taxes individually. For example, at the time of publication, Medicare is taxed at 1.45 percent of taxable wages. Assume that an employee earns $450 weekly and pays $60 toward his Section 125 health plan. Only $390 of his pay would be subject to weekly Medicare tax of $5.66. If he didn’t have a pretax plan, the entire $450 would be subject to weekly Medicare tax of $6.53.
401(k) Effect
401(k) plans are pretax only for federal income tax purposes. They are not excluded from Medicare and Social Security taxes. If an employee’s only pretax deduction is a pretax 401(k) plan, he saves money only on federal income tax. Assume that he earns $450 weekly and elects $50 toward his 401(k) plan. Only $400 would be subject to federal income tax, which would result in less withholding than if the entire $450 were taxable. For Medicare and Social Security withholding purposes, the entire $450 would still be subject to taxation.
State and Local Criteria
State tax laws vary, so contact your state’s revenue agency for its rules on pretax deductions for state income tax withholding, if applicable. While many states apply federal guidelines, a few don’t. For example, in Pennsylvania, all 401(k) contributions, whether pretax or not, are included in employees’ taxable wages for state income tax purposes. Also, if local income tax applies, your local tax assessor might have its own rules for calculating pretax deductions. For example, the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, regards 401(k) contributions as taxable for local income tax purposes.
The requirements for establishing pretax plans vary. For example, qualified transportation benefits, such as payments for bus fares and parking, are offered under Section 132 of the Internal Revenue Code instead of under Section 125, which covers cafeteria plans.
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IRS.gov: 401(k) Resource Guide - Plan Sponsors - 401(k) Plan Overview
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Core Documents: IRS Section 132(f)
Grace Ferguson has been writing professionally since 2009. With 10 years of experience in employee benefits and payroll administration, Ferguson has written extensively on topics relating to employment and finance. A research writer as well, she has been published in The Sage Encyclopedia and Mission Bell Media.
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August 16th, 2009 by Esther Inglis-Arkell | Tags: DC comics, titan books
Solicit for the November issue of Titans under the cut:
Written by J.T. Krul
Art by Angel Unzueta & Wayne Faucher
Cover by Angel Unzueta
It’s not easy being a dad in the DCU – just ask Roy Harper, who never wants to leave his daughter Lian an orphan. Unfortunately, that choice may not be his to make…Hot off his BLACKEST NIGHT: TITANS miniseries, J.T. Krul returns for another issue!
On sale November 11 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US
Well, what can I say, except I’ve found another reason I don’t like deaths. They are no longer surprises, are they? Was anyone surprised that Batman died? Will anybody be surprised if Roy Harper dies?
No. I don’t think so. People will have seen this solicit, and their reaction will be either, “Yep, he died,” or “Oh, so they didn’t kill him after all.” Companies have to play their cards a lot closer to the chest if they want deaths to have an impact.
As it is, all I can see this as is the most predictable of Event conventions. Someone has to die. Throw a dart at a picture of a minor team and go ahead.
Mostly I dislike minor character death because it never evokes a positive response. The people who like the character are naturally saddened at their death. The people who were indifferent to the character feel nothing. I don’t see the benefit.
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9 comments to “Well, crap.”
I hope that if he does die, he comes back in the next issue with a better codename.
by david brothers August 16th, 2009 at 08:48 --reply
Since Titans is supposed to have several issues centered on a single member of the team, this could just be a deeper exploration of Roy’s perspective and relationship with his daughter. Unless this is actually a Blackest Night tie-in, I doubt he’s going to be killed off here. May get a good scare, though.
by heffison August 16th, 2009 at 08:56 --reply
@david brothers: You speak wisely.
by Esther Inglis-Arkell August 16th, 2009 at 09:52 --reply
How does Roy’s death make Lian an orphan? Even if Simone tends to use her as a punching bag, Cheshire was still alive last I heard…
by LurkerWithout August 16th, 2009 at 11:51 --reply
To be fair, old comics did this, too. Heck, Death of Gwen Stacy said ‘one of these characters dies’ or some such on the cover and the next issue had Spidey holding Gwens dead body. In all honesty, a lot of comics show the heroes dead on it and it’s never true. Most should be shocked that they actually kill someone in a comic in comparison to the number of ‘dead hero’ covers there are.
by Kirk Warren August 16th, 2009 at 17:25 --reply
@Kirk Warren: Gwen Stacy died before people had the internet and previews order forms, so it was absolutely a surprise. No one knew it was going to happen before it happened, so that’s a poor example.
Also, is it just me, or is that a really innapropriate tone for the ‘teasing’ of a storyline where a young father is (presumably) murdered, leaving a toddler behind?
by Valhallahan August 17th, 2009 at 02:44 --reply
@david brothers: He will come back as Dead Arrow. Or possibly Black Lantern/Black Arrow: Hard Traveling Horrors.
(Sorry, not only is that terrible, it took me five minutes to come up with.)
With as far out as companies feel they have to tease these days, this isn’t very surprising. It’s not the first time suspense has been killed by solicits either. The worst part is DC just ignores this phenomenon, Marvel at least will classify solicits when they’ve got something major in the pipes. I suppose this ties into a point the FBB guys made about Blackest Night, how the whole prophecy angle made the whole thing seem like plot beats being churned out with no finesse, and ultimately it’s something that makes it hard not to be ambivalent to the story itself.
by Hitthetargets August 17th, 2009 at 11:15 --reply
@LurkerWithout I agree, everybody should just relax. She’ll be way better off with her mass-murdering psychotic mother. Hell, she’ll even have a little half-brother to play with, thanks to Catman! Say it with me now: Awwwwwwwwwww!
In seriousness, I can’t even muster the enthusiasm to get upset about this, even though I did like Roy back in his Arsenal days. After Zombie Sue Dibny eating hearts and Cry For Justice #2, I think my “outrage at tasteless things from DC” meter just hit TILT and got stuck there.
by KDBryan August 23rd, 2009 at 23:33 --reply
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Top Scots and Heroin
William Jardine
Why have large numbers of top people in Scotland apparently tried to cover up the links between the Lockerbie Bomb and heroin? (Lockerbie, Dr Hans Kochler, the SCCRC, Oliver Reve... )
Lockerbie is in Dumfries and Galloway which has had strong links to the drugs trade since the 19th century. There are large mansions in Dumfries and Galloway which were built by people linked to 'the China trade'.
William Jardine (1784-1843) was born, near Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire, not so far from Lockerbie. Jardine, together with James Matheson, went into the opium business in China.
Jardine helped to start the First Opium War. Britain was smuggling opium from India into China, and when China tried to stop this, there was war. China was defeated and forced to allow the opium trade.
Some top Scots still seem to have links to people allegedly involved in the drugs trade?
'Drug baron Justin McAlroy was gunned down on his driveway in Glasgow's Cambuslang only six days after wining and dining Labour VIPs Jack McConnell and John Reid at a dinner to raise funds for the party in 2002.' - ( http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.1089961.0.0.php )
'Police have found cannabis resin in the home of the British Defence Secretary, John Reid, but the minister says he has no idea where it came from.' - Sunday Mail 30 April 2006
According to the Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland) 9/4/2005:
'GRIM-FACED Defence Secretary John Reid shared centre stage at his son's wedding yesterday - with a villain wanted by police. Tony Blair's most trusted minister and fugitive Ronnie Campbell - the father of the bride - stood side by side on the steps of Westminster Cathedral.' Reportedly, Campbell's name has been linked to drugs.
Juval Aviv, the owner of Interfor Inc, a private investigation company based in New York, was asked by PanAm to investigate Lockerbie. Aviv made some discoveries about heroin.
According to The Scotsman: ( Http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=184&id=101478200 )
"THE CIA is alleged to have set up a protected drug route from Europe to the United States - called Operation Corea - which allowed Syrian drug dealers to ship heroin to the US using Pan Am flights... The American intelligence officers on Pan Am 103 - Matthew Gannon and Major Charles McKee - had found out about it, and were on their way to Washington to tell their superiors... Aviv was never interviewed by either the Scottish police or the FBI."
Reportedly, a number of important people were warned not to fly on the PanAm 103 flight which came down over Lockerbie.
According to The Scotsman ( Http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=184&id=1014782007 )
"A 23-strong South African delegation, headed by foreign minister, Pik Botha, cancelled a booking on the flight at short notice. There was also a last-minute change of travel plan by the UN Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson."
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"Washington knew enough to put up notices in its Moscow embassy warning personnel not to travel on Pan Am flights, to withdraw the South African general staff - Generals Van Tonder and Malan, Rusty Evans and Pik Botha - and advise personnel from the American army of the Rhine not to travel..."
Presumably, the CIA did not warn Major Charles McKee.
The CIA seemed to know approximately when and where PanAm Flight 103 was going to come down.
Tam Dalyell wrote in The Scotsman:
'Within an hour of Pan Am 103 crashing on Lockerbie, on a point of order, I interrupted House of Commons routine business to ask for a statement. Simultaneously, by helicopter, American personnel were arriving on the scene, and were soon to take over..."
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Sakhalin Rope Access Services
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All work is carried out in a strict adherence to international quality guidelines, health and safety standards. By making vast investments into providing extensive training for staff members, purchasing new equipment and inspecting existing equipment, the company fully meets worldwide recognized industry standards.
SRAS primary aim is to offer the most effective solutions and services, i.e. alternative rope access methods within the industry which are alternative and innovative for Sakhalin region.
SRAS primary mission is to offer high quality services in the maintenance of production facilities by meeting international quality guidelines, health and safety standards when carrying out all work.
SRAS Customers are largest Russian and foreign operators of the oil and gas industry, productions plants and associated facilities.
We are a dedicated team being committed to carry out all works safely and efficiently meeting the established goals and deadlines.
Our capabilities and high quality of services have been evaluated by and received positive feedbacks from major operators of the leading oil and gas projects on Sakhalin and in Khabarovsk region including «Exxon Neftegas Limited» – Sakhalin-1 project, «Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd» – Sakhalin-2 project, «Gazprom» – Sakhalin as well as other contractors, subcontractors and largest construction companies in the region. Having completed over 225 000 man hours up-to-date since establishment, SRAS has a 100% accident-free exemplary health & safety record.
Our experienced and highly skilled personnel comprise a united team of industrial abseiling technicians who possess various technical trade backgrounds and different expertise in their fields. To maintain sustainable mobilizations, SRAS only hires staff that is verified and approved by the Customers. Each employee possesses relevant Russian and international qualifications and certification authorizing them to carry out works at height. Each employee completes regular medical checks to be proven fit for work in extreme north conditions. Refresher trainings and re-certification / examinations on industrial abseiling courses are delivered by “Professional” Training Centre which is a state educational organization based in Moscow. The vocational trainings we organize for our expert team are delivered by the leading Russian training centers such as “Prometei” state scientific center, “Scientific training center: Welding and control at Moscow State Technical University named after N.A. Bauman, NDT assessment regional center, city of Tomsk, etc. Results from all examinations, trainings, courses or medical checks are recorded into specialist working at height log books.
In our quality and safety management system for working at height we are dedicated to strictly adhere to the standards of and guided by the international governing body of IRATA (Industrial Rope Access Trade Association), the website of which is www.irata.org. All our technicians are fully trained and certified to required IRATA standards. Training and certification is delivered by Effective Offshore LTD Training Centre - IRATA TMC 5036/T www.effectiveoffshore.ie. All works at height are carried out in a strict adherence to the current requirements of ICOP IRATA and nationwide Russian working at height regulations (Health and safety regulations for working at height # 155 n). At least one IRATA Level 3 Supervisor is present on site at all times on every job which is a must-be requirement at all times when carrying out any works at height.
From 2017 onwards the company is member operator of the IRATA association, with personal number 6028/O, which acknowledges high level of safety, professionalism and strong commitment to safety standards height.
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Patton Invades!
Patton Rocks!
Patton eats 2 dozen Oysters Rockefeller
Antoine's New Orleans, LA
George S. Patton Jr. has been called the "American God of War". Certainly Patton was a remarkable leader who was a genius in the military science. He was also a man who lived large. On my recent visit to New Orleans I noticed that in 1942, Patton visited Antoine's (www.antoines.com/) , the restaurant that invented Oysters Rockefeller, and consumed two dozen of the baked bivalves.
Here are five surprising things (in addition to his love of Oysters Rockefeller) that Americans should know about Patton...
Patton Museum
Fort Knox, KY
1) Patton the Poet
He was dyslexic and a terrible speller. Nevertheless, he wrote some decent poetry...
"Perhaps I stabbed our Savior
In His sacred helpless side.
Yet I've called His name in blessing
When in after times I died.
Through the travail of the ages
Midst the pomp and toil of war
Have I fought and strove and perished
Countless times upon this star.
I have sinned and I have suffered
Played the hero and the knave
Fought for belly, shame or country
And for each have found a grave.
So as through a glass and darkly
The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names - but always me.
So forever in the future
Shall I battle as of yore,
Dying to be born a fighter
But to die again once more."
2) Patton the Athlete
He competed in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics in the Modern Pentathlon (riding, swimming, shooting, fencing and running).
Patton's Ivory handled Pistols
3) Patton the Prophet
"Patton authored a 1937 report in which he prophesied, 'the unheralded arrival during a period of profound peace of a Japanese expeditionary force within 200 miles of Oahu during darkness; this force to be preceded by submarines who will be in the immediate vicinity of Pearl Harbor.... An air attack by [ Japanese] navy fighters and carrier borne bombers on air stations and the submarine base using either gas or incendiary bombs.'" (www.americainvaded.com)
4) Patton & Islam
Patton studied the Koran while on board ship prior to landing on the coast of Morocco on November 9, 1942. "Patton also turned out to be a surprisingly successful diplomat when he served as the putative viceroy of Morocco. He wrote to the sultan of Morocco assuring him they came as friends, not as conquerors, and did not intend to stay after the war. Patton frequently entertained the sultan (whom he referred to as Sa Majesté) and escorted him on inspection trips." (www.americainvades.com)
5) Patton & Horses
Patton was a keen horseman who saved Vienna's Lipizzaner stallions at the conclusion of World War II making them briefly "wards of the US Army".
Finally we must remember and indeed celebrate Patton's genius because his aggressive tactics sped the Allies to victory on the western front saving many lives.
Patton Statue
Church of Our Saviour
Patton definitely invaded and his invasions saved many lives. His invasions liberated vast swathes of Nazi- occupied Europe.
In America Invades (www.americainvades.com) we noted...
Patton's Car
"As commander of the US Third Army after D-Day, General Patton, led an army that advanced farther and faster than just about any army in military history, crossing twenty-four major rivers and capturing 81,500 square miles of territory, including more than twelve thousand cities and towns. Patton loved to quote Danton who said, “De l’audace, et encore de l’audace, toujours de l’audace!” (“Audacity, more audacity, always audacity”)."
At Patton's Grave
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Travel Notes: The Patton Museum in Fort Knox Kentucky is a must-see for Patton fans (www.generalpatton.org/). Also the Luxembourg American cemetery where he is buried (www.abmc.gov/cemeteries-memorials/europe/luxembourg-american-cemetery). His church near Pasadena (www.churchofoursaviour.org/) is also remarkable. Antoine's Restaurant in New Orleans was founded in 1840 and is still going strong (www.antoines.com/). Love those Rocks!
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Abducted Ashley Gonis Still Can’t See Her Father
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Never in the history of the world has there been a situation so bad that the government can’t make it worse. — Unknown author
Ashley Gonis
Frank Gonis of Montreal, Canada, hasn’t seen his 10 year old daughter Ashley in two years. His ex, Araceli Bravo, illegally abducted her in January 2007 and took her to British Columbia to keep her from seeing her father despite court orders that required her to share custody of their daughter. An arrest warrant was issued for her in Quebec, but she wasn’t found until Ashley dialed 911 from a train station pay phone to get help after running away from her mother.
Daughter Alleges Child Abuse Against Mother
According to one media report from TheStar.com, Ashley told the police that she was fleeing from an abusive situation. Vancouver police investigated and claim the allegations are “unsubstantiated.” Given that the girl is so young and has not seen her father in two years, it is implausible that she was making up abuse allegations at her father’s bidding. Parental alienation is child abuse, and parental abduction is one of the extreme methods of parental alienation. Apparently Vancouver police find it difficult to understand what child abuse really means, despite the widespread understanding in many other areas that what Bravo did is considered child abuse.
Mother Abducted Child Due to Impending Child Custody Decision
Bravo abducted Ashley apparently because she couldn’t accept the reality of having to share custody of the girl with her father.
(from Long road ahead for Quebec dad, estranged daughter)
Gonis said “I love her, and I can’t wait to hold her again” but admitted there is “a lot of work to be done with Ashley.”
He told Canada AM he has been locked in a custody battle with Ashley’s mother since their split in 2001.
When the battle was finally coming to an end two years ago, and it looked as though Gonis was to receive custody, Ashley and her mother disappeared.
Gonis said he realizes it will take time and hard work to develop trust and renew a relationship with his daughter.
“I haven’t seen her so it’s hard to say, but the comment I got was her mother has done a real number on her. I know there’s parental alienation. She’s scared to talk to me. There are a lot of things we have to go through,” he said.
Pina Arcamone of the Missing Children’s Network Canada, said Gonis’ situation is common among estranged parents.
British Columbia Government Prevents Father/Daughter Contact
Although it has been a month since police showed up to help Ashley, she still hasn’t been able to see her father. Canadian media reports contradict each other, with some claiming she has not even been able to speak with her father on the phone. (It would be nice if journalists could at least get a simple fact like this straight and consistent.)
The lack of contact is not because her father doesn’t care. He traveled to Vancouver in April 2009 shortly after Ashley was found by the police in a train station. He spent 10 days there trying to contact his daughter. But the B.C. government won’t permit him a visit or by most accounts even a phone call.
Consequently, Ashley was put into protective foster care in Vancouver rather than being returned to her father. This is despite the facts that on March 12, 2009, Quebec courts awarded sole legal custody to Gonis because of Bravo’s child abduction and refusal to cooperate with shared custody and that Montreal police issued an arrest warrant for her.
The British Columbia government has as its excuse that the arrest warrant was not an “all Canada” warrant and is only valid in Quebec. Perfecting the arrest warrant to be applicable to British Columbia still hasn’t been done, even though Montreal police applied to get the warrant extended to British Columbia on April 15, 2009. The custody order from a Quebec court won’t be recognized by B.C. until approved by B.C.’s Supreme Court. Bravo is contesting it, claiming she wasn’t “properly notified” of the order. And Bravo is now seeking custody in British Columbia.
Putting on my “judge’s gown,” here’s how I’d see this. Mother runs away with child for years in violation of a court order with intent to deprive her of a father, then she claims the resulting change in custody is invalid because she wasn’t notified. Applying this thinking to other types of crime, the results look like Bernie Madoff claiming “But judge, I should be immune from prosecution and be able to keep the billions I took because I wasn’t properly notified to return the money after I took it.” Apparently that drivel passes for legal reasoning in Canada. Sadly, it probably would pass for legal reasoning in many Western nations (US, UK, etc.) with their sexist laws and two-faced legal standards.
British Columbia Government is Irresponsible and Negligent
What the B.C. government is really doing is legitimizing parental abduction and parental alienation. Further, it is sending a very clear message to women that in British Columbia, females who break the law and hurt children and fathers can get away with it. B.C. is inviting a surge of cases like this one by making it appear mothers from other Canadian provinces will be let off the hook for their crimes if they flee to B.C.
The B.C. government will not even allow Ashley any contact with her father, despite him being clearly awarded legal custody and the her displeasure with her mother’s treatment of her as indicated by running away from her mother.
This Canadian child and her father are being put through a foolish and abusive court system that deals with inter-province child abduction in Canada even more slowly and ineptly than if an international child abduction had occurred. Had Bravo taken her to the United States or another signatory nation of the Hague Convention on International Parental Child Abduction, Ashley might have been reunited with her father by now.
(from Montreal father of missing girl found in B.C. still fighting to see her)
Edward Kruk, a University of British Columbia social work professor, said the B.C. government has been negligent in not helping Gonis reunite with his daughter.
“This is really the priority here,” said Kruk, a child custody expert.
“They should be doing a lot more in terms of family support, family reunification and preservation.”
Child Custody Fight Being Reignited
Gonis has spent $15,000 on the situation so far, but is growing frustrated as the Canadian “family law” system shows how it is dysfunctional in dealing with child abduction across provincial borders. He may have to fight for custody all over again in British Columbia with an ex who broke the law yet hasn’t been arrested and could get away with it due to Canada’s defective national child abduction laws.
B.C.’s Legal Fees May Be Unconstitutional
Part of the problem for Frank Gonis is that British Columbia charges extortionary court fees. These impede access to the courts and justice for anybody who is not wealthy. Similar egregiously large court fees were ruled unconstitutional in Nova Scotia.
Gonis already fought a legal battle in Quebec lasting years and costing in excess of $30,000. But apparently B.C. wants its “cut of the money” in this case. By allowing the legal games of Bravo, B.C. will get revenue by allowing a whole new round of expensive legal battles for which it can collect large court fees.
B.C.’s Commitment to Applying Laws to Abusive Women is Questionable
This latest B.C. debacle is coming on the heels of another recent domestic dispute being mishandled by B.C. law enforcement and courts, the death of Surrey, B.C. resident Adam Cunningham after his assault at the hands of his wife Ellie Cunningham. British Columbia residents should be wondering whether their government has any real interest in protecting men and children from abusive women or in prosecuting women when they break the law.
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Canuck-Lover
May 20th, 2009 at 18:59 | #1
It’s sad to see that Canada is just as screwed up as the United States, maybe more so in some ways. All the Canadians I’ve met are bright and reasonable people. Too bad their government doesn’t seem the same.
May 23rd, 2009 at 00:09 | #2
did someone check the criminal past of the father?
BC police have finally arrested Araceli Bravo for child abduction. Hopefully this will mean Ashley is returned to her father immediately rather than BC screwing over the family further.
Mother of “missing” 10-year-old girl arrested in B.C.
June 1st, 2009 at 17:52 | #4
father is a well known criminal. The mother of Ashley stayed with her daughter in women shelter for conjugal violence because of him for years in montreal. Please check your info !!
None of the several newspaper and TV stories we reviewed about this case mention anything about a criminal record regarding Mr. Gonis. If you can point out specific information that says otherwise, then please do so.
Considering what we’ve seen of false accusations by parents who alienate and abduct children, it would not surprise us if Araceli Bravo were to claim that Mr. Gonis is a criminal who has abused her and Ashley by means ranging all the way from yelling and screaming to physical assault with chainsaws and holy water, dissecting and then resurrecting them multiple times, and gang rapes involving the population of a local prison led by Mr. Gonis. A person like this alleging crimes and abuse doesn’t mean it is true.
In short, people like Araceli Bravo, Melinda Stratton, and Ann-Louise Valette have zero credibility. Their cases have been litigated in the courts for years, they appear to have engaged in parental alienation behaviors for years, and then they ran away with children for whom they do not have sole legal custody. If applying the term “criminal” to anybody in these cases is warranted, it certainly seems it would apply to these alienating abductors.
Licia
July 7th, 2009 at 02:13 | #6
My son and I were Araceli & Ashleys neighbor for a year at a womens shelter in Vancouver. I had many indepth conversations with both Araceli and Ashley about their experiences with her father (a well-known criminal I should add)and his parents. This did not just come from Araceli but on several occasions from Ashley. Please everyone get your facts straight before painting a halo over Frank Gonis head. You are going to be surprised when the truth comes out about this man and his father(the grandfather
Where’s the proof that Frank Gonis is a criminal? Please cite a case number, newspaper article, or something else that provides information to back this claim up. Otherwise, it looks like you are defaming the man and assisting a person who appears to be a parental alienator (Araceli Bravo) at causing more damage.
What it appears Araceli Bravo has done with false accusations, violating custody orders, and fleeing has earned her an arrest warrant and charges for parental abduction. That’s a fact reported in many newspapers in Canada.
It seems the Canadian legal system allows alienating parents to pull these stunts and harm their children and their other parent with alarming frequency. For instance, here’s another similar-sounding case.
Andrade, Franklin, Montreal, QU: Falsely accused father, abductions of my children to Winnipeg from Montreal
Because he was able to show his wife’s allegations were false in Quebec, she fled to Manitoba and filed for a protection order there. The father went to court to get rid of the “protection order” that was issued in another province without providing a chance to defend himself as he had already successfully done in Quebec. He claims the court won’t even allow him to contest the order blocking him from seeing his children because there is no address on file to contact his wife.
That’s truly outrageous to deprive somebody of fundamental civil and legal rights because there’s not an address for the accuser on file.
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Posts Tagged ‘judicial child abuse’
New Evidence Stephen Doyne Violated Child Custody Evaluation Laws
March 16th, 2011 13 comments
We’ve recently received a FL-325 document for a San Diego family law case involving ill-reputed custody evaluator Stephen Doyne. The source, Dr. Emad Tadros of the California Coalition for Families and Children, states that he has verified the authenticity of this document. Apparently the party who provided him this document does not want the names of the family members disclosed at this time.
According to the family law rules for custody evaluation as expressed on this form, Doyne was to have signed and filed the FL-325 form no more than 10 days after appointment and before beginning work on the case. He was appointed to this case on August 27, 2008, but the information on the form indicates he did not sign it until more than a year later on September 30, 2009. If this document is legitimate as is claimed, it appears to be further evidence of misconduct by Doyne and the San Diego family law court system.
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American Judicial Terrorism May Lead to Widespread Violence
August 4th, 2010 8 comments
Many American judges believe they are above the law. They are a large part of what is wrong with the United States today as American governments from federal to local levels continue to violate civil and human rights and institute police state measures to marginalize any serious opposition. The growing abusive corruption of the government and its use of threats, illegal actions, intimidation, and harassment amounts to government-sponsored terrorism against American families. The end of America has arrived and the abusive power-hungry bastards in government are its pallbearers.
Crime Pays When You’re A Judge
Corrupt and abusive judges like Sacramento’s Peter McBrien and Pennsylvania’s infamous duo of Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan are directly responsible for much of the government’s terrorism against citizens. They benefit from it directly via more workload and therefore job security plus campaign contributions from attorneys and others who benefit from it. Others, like the Pennsylvania couple, benefit via outright bribes. The mess they have made of the courts is the means to enslaving and pillaging families for their own ends. It ensures job security, lax oversight, and plenty of opportunity to exchange favors between judges and lawyers such as campaign contributions, minor’s counsel appointments, fee awards, and raiding family estates into bankruptcy to reward attorneys who cooperate with abusive and crooked judges.
There is no way that Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conohan could have gotten away with many years of denying legal representation and throwing kids in private prisons for kickbacks without the complicity of the lawyers appearing in their courtrooms. These crimes continued on the public records with “officers of the court” in full awareness of them for several years to the tune of $2.6 million in accumulated bribes.
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April 1st, 2010 17 comments
Eric Moelter has started to speak up a bit about what has happened in the false sexual abuse and child custody abduction case of Cindy Dumas v. Eric Moelter now that all three boys are living with him once again. He believes their mother Cindy Dumas suffers from Borderline Personality Disorder and has been waging a distortion campaign against him for years.
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Judge Lorna Alksne in Cindy Dumas v. Eric Moelter
January 12th, 2010 3 comments
Update on March 31, 2010:
Eric Moelter has started to speak up a bit about what has happened in the false sexual abuse and child custody abduction case of Cindy Dumas v. Eric Moelter. He believes Cindy Dumas suffers from Borderline Personality Disorder and has been waging a distortion campaign against him for years. Please see our update in Eric Moelter Speaks Against Cindy Dumas Distortion Campaign.
Cindy Dumas
On January 15, 2010, there will be yet another hearing in the long-running and highly destructive San Diego family law case of Cindy Dumas v. Eric Moelter that started in 2003. In this case, Dumas has alleged for years that Moelter sexually abused their children. The children corroborated some of these claims, but were viewed as potentially repeating misinformation and opinions programmed into them by their mother. Despite investigations that don’t agree with Dumas, she would not change her opinion or reach some resolution that would allow the children safe contact with both of their parents.
This article lays out many of the reported facts and statements and observable events and artifacts such as flyers and websites. Later I’ll be writing about my interpretation of the case and some of the problems with the manner in which the courts and law enforcement are handling this case and others like it.
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1 And Josias kept a phase to the Lord in Jerusalem, and it was sacrificed on the fourteenth day of the first month.
2 And he set the priests in their offices, and exhorted them to minister in the house of the Lord.
3 And he spoke to the Levites, by whose instruction all Israel was sanctified to the Lord, saying: Put the ark in the sanctuary of the temple, which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built : for you shall carry it no more: but minister now to the Lord your God, and to his people Israel.
4 And prepare yourselves by your houses, and families according to your courses, as David king of Israel commanded, and Solomon his son hath written.
5 And serve ye in the sanctuary by the families and companies of Levi.
6 And being sanctified kill the phase, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the words which the Lord spoke by the hand of Moses.
7 And Josias gave to all the people that were found there in the solemnity of the phase, of lambs and of kids of the flocks, and of other small cattle thirty thousand, and of oxen three thousand, all these were of the king's substance.
8 And his princes willingly offered what they had vowed, both to the people and to the priests and the Levites. Moreover Helcias, and Zacharias, and Jahiel rulers of the house of the Lord, gave to the priests to keep the phase two thousand six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen.
9 And Chonenias, and Semeias and Nathanael, his brethren, and Hasabias, and Jehiel, and Jozabad princes of the Levites, gave to the rest of the Levites to celebrate the phase five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen.
10 And the ministry was prepared, and the priests stood in their office: the Levites also in their companies, according to the king's commandment.
11 And the phase was immolated: and the priests sprinkled the blood with their hand, and the Levites flayed the holocausts:
12 And they separated them to give them by the houses and families of every one, and to be offered to the Lord, as it is written in the book of Moses, and with the oxen they did in like manner.
13 And they roasted the phase with fire, according to that which is written in the law: but the victims of peace offerings they boiled in caldrons, and kettles, and pots, and they distributed them speedily among all the people.
14 And afterwards they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: for the priests were busied in offering of holocausts and the fat until night: wherefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron last.
15 And the singers the sons of Asaph stood in their order, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Idithun the prophets of the king: and the porters kept guard at every gate, so as not to depart one moment from their service: and therefore their brethren the Levites prepared meats for them.
16 So all the service of the Lord was duly accomplished that day, both in keeping the phase, and offering holocausts upon the altar of the Lord, according to the commandment of king Josias.
17 And the children of Israel that were found there, kept the phase at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.
18 There was no phase like to this in Israel, from the days of Samuel the prophet: neither did any of all the kings of Israel keep such a phase as Josias kept, with the priests, and the Levites, and all Juda, and Israel that were found, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josias was this phase celebrated.
20 After that Josias had repaired the temple, Nechao king of Egypt came up to fight in Charcamis by the Euphrates: and Josias went out to meet him.
21 But he sent messengers to him, saying: What have I to do with thee, O king of Juda? I come not against thee this day, but I fight against another house, to which God hath commanded me to go in haste : forbear to do against God, who is with me, lest he kill thee.
22 Josias would not return, but prepared to fight against him, and hearkened not to the words of Nechao from the mouth of God, I but went to fight in the field of Mageddo.
23 And there he was wounded by the archers, and he said to his servants: Carry me out of the battle, for I am grievously wounded.
24 And they removed him from the chariot into another, that followed him after the manner of kings, and they carried him away to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in the monument of his fathers, and all Juda and Jerusalem mourned for him,
25 Particularly Jeremias: whose lamentations for Josias all the singing men and singing women repeat unto this day, and it became like a law in Israel: Behold it is found written in the Lamentations.
26 Now the rest of the acts of Josias and of his mercies, according to what was commanded by the law of the Lord:
27 And his works first and last, are written in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel.
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Spain’s Primavera Sound is ringing in its 20th anniversary in style, backed by a lineup that’s bursting at the seams with genre-crossing talent. This year’s billing includes performances from Tyler, The Creator, Disclosure, Massive Attack, Beck, Squarepusher, Young Thug, Brockhampton, The Strokes, Floating Points, Caribou, and so many more.
The festival runs June 3 – 7 at Barcelona’s Parc Del Forum. Organizers are also eyeing plans for an international expansion, planting a flag in Los Angeles for a fall edition slated for September 19 – 20. Additional star power on the 2020 lineup comes by way of scheduled performances by Black Coffee, BLOND:ISH, Bad Bunny, 100 Gecs, Lana Del Rey, Ben UFO, Kacey Musgraves, and others. Tickets for Primavera Sound go on sale on January 16 at 10:00 a.m. local time.
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Primavera Sound Announces Barcelona 2020 Lineup
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The lineup for this year’s Primavera Sound in Barcelona has been announced! We already knew Pavement would be there, but they’ll be joined by big headliners like Tyler the Creator, Lana Del Rey, The National, Beck and Bauhaus.
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Rare is an accurate title for a Selena Gomez album. Gomez, the former Disney Channel teen actress turned pop superstar and tabloid fixation, is part of the class of big-time pop singers who haven’t released a full-length project since the middle of last decade — a group that includes Adele, Rihanna, and her former boyfriends … More »
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Sources report Flume, My Chemical Romance, Thom Yorke slated for Coachella 2020 performances
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Coachella‘s official lineup typically lands in January every year in conjunction with ticket sales, though this year, fans have been too eager to get their hands on the 2020 talent roster. Earlier this month the festival’s headliners reportedly leaked—Travis Scott, Rage Against The Machine, and Frank Ocean are expected to top the bill. Now, new reports by Consequence of Sound suggest Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, the newly reunited My Chemical Romance, Lana Del Rey, and Flume are expected to join those ranks.
After a monumental 2019, which brought the debut of a new live show at Lollpalooza, Flume isn’t exactly a surprise on Coachella’s 2020 lineup. Lana Del Rey and Thom Yorke both released solo projects this year, and My Chemical Romance’s Coachella debut gives the festival another opportunity to put on a beloved reunion act as they’ve done in years past, a la OutKast, AC/DC, LCD Soundsystem and more. Coachella returns to Indio’s Empire Polo Club on April 10 -12 for weekend one and April 17 – 19, 2020 for weekend two.
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Stereogum’s 100 Favorite Songs Of 2019
Within the macro tradition that is year-end list season, we at Stereogum have carved out our own micro tradition: Every December, instead of publishing a staff list of the year’s best tracks, we present a bunch of personally selected top-10 lists from our staffers and contributors. So although our rundown of 2019’s best … More »
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Hangout Fest delivers impeccably curated 2020 lineup topped by Red Hot Chili Peppers, Illenium, Post Malone
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Alabama’s Hangout Fest is gearing up for a massive 2020 edition, backed by one of the festival’s strongest lineups to date. The roster for Hangout’s 2020 run is topped by Post Malone, Lana Del Rey, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Billie Eilish, with a slew of electronic, indie, and hip-hop offerings rounding out the rest of the billing. Illenium, RL Grime, Madeon, T-Pain, Tove Lo, Oliver Tree and more are also expected to perform across May 15 – 17 on the beaches of Gulf Shores.
Hangout has also secured performances by Juice WRLD, Big Wild, Megan Thee Stallion, Getter, Jai Wolf, Snakehips, and WHIPPED CREAM, among many others, offering an exceptionally well-rounded programming slate for the event’s upcoming iteration. Tickets officially go on sale on December 9 at 10:00 a.m. CT. See the full lineup below.
This is how you make a splash!
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Lana Del Rey Talks To Grimes For Interview
Lana Del Rey has interviewed Grimes. (Our SEO is screaming!) The two pop stars have some history together — they toured with each other back in 2015 — and Interview got them to talk to each other for their latest artist-on-artist chat. Del Rey — we just named her album, Norman … More »
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Meet Mary Lee (A to Z Challenge, Letter M)
By S. Lincecum 15 April
This is Mary Lee Renfus. Isn't she the cutest?
Census records suggest Mary was born in Georgia. Her granite tombstone provides the year of 1895. About or before 1916, Mary Lee married a farmer named James Renfus. They had at least six children. In the Spring of 1935, Mary and James were living in Dooly County, Georgia. Five years later, they were in Peach County.
Mary lost James in December of 1960.
According to the Social Security Death Index, Mary died in Bibb County, Georgia at the age of 90 years. Her remains were returned to Dooly County and now rest beside those of her husband at Evergreen Cemetery in Pinehurst.
Are you wondering what's up with all the "letter" posts? I am participating in the Blogging from A to Z Challenge (links to official page). This challenge lasts through the month of April, with Sundays off. Each day follows a different letter prompt, in order, from A to Z. Click here to see all my letter posts on one page (in reverse order). This blog as a whole is one of my themes – telling the tales of tombstones, primarily from those found in the Southern United States and usually the State of Georgia. You may follow along with me by email and other social media platforms listed at the top of the sidebar. I and other bloggers in the challenge on Twitter will also be using #atozchallenge.
Though this is my second year in the challenge, it's my first with two blogs. I am also participating with Lincecum Lineage. Though it is a one name study blog, my theme there is "kinfolk direct." These genealogy and family history posts all involve a direct relative.
Are you participating in the challenge, too? Please leave a link to your blog in the comments, I'd love to pay you a visit. Good luck to all involved!
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Sara C. Snider said…
Mary Lee is adorable. It's sweet she was able to be buried next to her husband.
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Click said…
It's probably kind of weird to say it, but I really like their gravestones. :-)
Cait @ Click's Clan
Janet said…
Love her picture. How nice that they brought her back to be buried with her husband.
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Rocks, Rocks, and More Rocks
By S. Lincecum 12 October
Why do people put rocks on grave stones? Some time ago, I learned that the rocks signified a visitor. That is true enough, but I decided to learn a little more about the custom and share my findings with you.
Putting rocks on tombstones is most often described as a Jewish custom. There are many "Ask a Rabbi" columns out there, but I did not find one that knew for sure where the custom originated. They all agreed, however, that a rock symbolized a visitor and when put on a tombstone said, "I remember you." I also read that some people pick up a rock wherever they are when they think of a person that has passed. Then, the next time they visit the grave, they place the rock to say, "I wish you were here."
Rabbi Shraga Simmons offers a deeper meaning: "We are taught that it is an act of ultimate kindness and respect to bury someone and place a marker at the site. After a person is buried, of course, we can no longer participate in burying them. Howe…
Southern Cross of Honor
By S. Lincecum 30 December
I'm late to this discussion, but it's one I'd like to join. :-) Terry Thornton at The Graveyard Rabbit of the Hill Country started with Grave Marker Symbols: The Southern Cross of Honor and UCV (link no longer available). Judith Shubert at The Graveyard Rabbit of the Covered Bridges continued with Hood County Texas: C.S.A. Veterans & Southern Cross of Honor Symbol. [UPDATE, 1 June 2009: Judith has moved this post to the blog, Cemeteries with Texas Ties. The link has been corrected to reflect this move. You may also link to her article via her nice comment on this post.]
Wikipedia states:
The Southern Cross of Honor was a military decoration meant to honor the officers, noncommissioned officers, and privates for their valor in the armed forces of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. It was formally approved by the Congress of the Confederate States on October 13, 1862, and was originally intended to be on par with the Union Army's Me…
Thursday Link Love: EyeWitness To History
By S. Lincecum 25 June
Yesterday, a link was added to the Genealogy Research Resources Group at Diigo. The link was to the website titled EyeWitness to History.com: History through the eyes of those who lived it. It's a great site, and I encourage all to visit it.
Here are several items I found while snooping around.
- Inside a Nazi Death Camp, 1944: "Hitler established the first concentration camp soon after he came to power in 1933. The system grew to include about 100 camps divided into two types: concentration camps for slave labor in nearby factories and death camps for the systematic extermination of "undesirables" including Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally retarded and others."
- Crash of the Hindenburg, 1937: "Radio reporter Herbert Morrison, sent to cover the airship's arrival, watched in horror. His eye witness description of the disaster was the first coast-to-coast radio broadcast and has become a classic piece of audio history." [You can really …
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The hand of the Lord came upon me and brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones. Then He caused me to pass by them all around, and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and indeed they were very dry. And He said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?"
So I answered, "O Lord God, You know."
Again He said to me, "Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, 'O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord!' Thus says the Lord God to these bones: 'Surely I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live...'" (Ezekiel 37:1-5, NKJV)
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Hadean Lands greenlit! It turns out
A few days ago my idle twitter-browsing was upended:
Huh. I just checked the Greenlight page for @zarfeblong's Hadean Lands... I somehow missed the news that Valve had started the GL process (@andetkaihetera)
Really? I, um, missed the news too. But a quick glance at the HL Greenlight page showed:
This game has been Greenlit by the Community!
The community has shown their interest in this game. Valve has reached out to this developer to start moving things toward release on Steam.
I was off at Balticon, so I couldn't dig into the matter right then. (Which is why everybody else announced the news before me.) But now I'm back and more or less caught up on life. So here's what I know.
If Valve reached out to me, I missed it. The Greenlight page says "Updated: May 12 @ 7:24pm", and the voting stats stop on May 11. So I guess the game was officially greenlit two weeks ago and nobody noticed until this weekend? O the embarrassment.
The site now offers me a link to "become a Steamworks partner". So I have begun that process. I have filled out a great many forms' worth of tax and banking info, the usual excitement. (And the usual confusion about whether I should use Zarfhome LLC's EIN or my personal SSN, a question which I will never, ever get right on the first try.)
Bureaucracy aside, what does this mean for Hadean Lands? I wish I could just push a button and launch the thing onto Steam. But no -- not that simple.
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Javascript wonkery
Here I will take a break from the ever-burbling stream of IF and Myst news, and talk about Javascript optimization.
You could say it's relevant because it came up in a Quixe bug report. ("I tried loading Emily Short's Counterfeit Monkey.... Load time dropped from 29.4 seconds to 10.4 seconds...") IF interpreter improvements are a high priority for me -- particularly if they could be big speed improvements for a fairly small code change. Double-particularly if they imply I've had crappy Javascript code out there for years.
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Myst TV series acquired by Hulu
We noted last fall that Cyan had started developing a Myst TV series with Legendary Television. Yesterday this jumped forwards a notch:
Hulu Lands 'Myst' Drama From Legendary TV (Deadline)
After decades of efforts, Myst TV live-action show to debut on Hulu (VentureBeat)
(confirmed by Cyan's Twitter account, with a cute photo of the Cyan and Hulu people yanking the big Riven lever)
The show is not yet greenlit. The deal seems to be that Hulu looks over the script, and if they like it, they'll start production on a season of TV (not just a pilot episode). The script is by Evan Daugherty, who is best known for the screenplays of Divergent and Snow White and the Huntsman.
(I've said snarky things about SWatH, but it was memorable and visually striking, at least...)
The producer will be Matt Tolmach; executive producers will include Larry Shapiro as well as Cyan's Rand Miller and Blake Lewin.
We still don't know anything about the script itself. The Deadline article says "It will explore the origins of the island of Myst from the game where a man wakes up on a mystery island..." But it's not clear if that represents any sourced information or if the journalist is just googling.
As a footnote: don't read the comments. I was half-amused, half-disgusted to find that there's a television equivalent of the "what about Android?" guy. It's the "what about Netflix?" guy. Since these articles are about games and TV, both species show up.
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Hadean Lands on the Humble Store
I am happy to announce that Hadean Lands can now be purchased directly from the Humble Store. (It's currently listed under New Releases, though of course it will scroll off that page pretty soon.)
This is the same version that's been available all along. (No, I have not done a bug-fix release. I know, it's getting to be time...)
The Humble Store is fixed-price, not pay-what-you-want. The win is that 10% of proceeds go to charity.
You can still buy HL through the pay-what-you-want widgets on my web site. It's still in the Adventure Gamers Store. And of course the iOS version is still available from Apple.
(Have you voted for Hadean Lands on Steam Greenlight?)
Labels: greenlight, hadean lands, humble store, if, interactive fiction, steam, zarf, zarfplan
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Being There: How Rolling Stone's UVA 'Rape Culture' Fiasco Makes The Case For Shoe Leather Reporting
As Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s Rolling Stone campus rape story began its collapse in early December, critics and commentators sought to place blame for what could go down as one of American magazine journalism’s greatest train wrecks.
Citing the “leading questions” that a UVA rape “survivor’ had described being asked by the Rolling Stone reporter, Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple said that Erdely had pursued her story with an “agenda.” Her bias was also communicated through a “proclivity to stereotype,” in this case, about what Rubin Erdely labelled “elitist fraternity culture.”
Likewise the blame assigned to “confirmation bias,” by former TNR science editor Judith Shulevtiz who described it in CJR, referencing the philosopher Karl Popper, who originated the term.
“Confirmation bias,” Shulevitz explained, was the result of “our innate urge to see only evidence that confirms beliefs we hold to be self-evident, and dismiss facts that challenge those convictions.” Noting an early December Slate podcast interview conducted by Hannah Rosin that became critical to the story’s unraveling, Shulevitz continued:
Erdely told Rosin she’d gone all around the country looking for rape survivors and was delighted when she stumbled on Jackie. She was obviously traumatized, and her story illustrated everything Erdely knew to be true—that frat boys rape girls and universities are indifferent to rape survivors.
(She) based her story solely on Jackie’s version because she found her “credible.” Erdely’s editors found her “credible” too, so much so that they let Erdely waive the usual journalistic protocols, such as getting more than one source on a story about a horrible crime. And readers found Jackie credible because everyone knows that there’s an epidemic of rape on campuses around the country and women hardly ever level false rape charges, because why would they put themselves through that?
As someone who has written quite extensively about media bias (two books, out of three) I’m quite open to these arguments, having documented the way that an overdetermined deference to the pieties of organized feminism has encouraged miscoverage of what turn out to be bogus allegations of sexual assault. Some of the examples I wrote about have a lot in common with the Rolling Stone campus rape disaster, such as the Duke lacrosse team rape case of 2006 as well as “The Women’s War," a 2007 Times Magazine report on sexual assault in the post 9-11 military. In that latter case, one of the alleged victims, a Navy seabee, claimed to have been raped while serving in Iraq when in fact she never even deployed there.
Still, as much as media bias is part of what brought the Rolling Stone piece low, the fundamental trouble with Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s reporting actually starts a bit closer to the ground. In fact, it stems to a large degree from the minimal amount of time she spent in Charlottesville itself conducting good-old fashioned, beat-the-bricks, knock-on-doors, face-to-face, shoe leather reporting. Legwork we used to call it.
Although it took months for her to establish UVA as her focus, Rubin Erdley spent exactly one weekend there---maybe as few as two nights in total---to put together a major investigative piece immersing us in UVA’s “culture of rape,” meeting her centerpiece source, Jackie, for the first and for the only time on that single weekend visit. Instead, Rubin Erdely relied on internet searches, telephone interviews, Skype, text, instant messaging, chat rooms, social media and other forms of “remote,” even “virtual” reporting with which we are all now so digitally smitten, especially those attracted to “Big Data” reporting, as Rubin Erdley admitted at a Temple University media studies event.
No doubt these tools are essential for a magazine reporter, especially in a time of meager travel budgets. You certainly want to use them to maximum advantage, improving journalistic reach, access and penetration. But on overreliance on these reporting tools can open the door more readily to “confirmation bias” in a way that they wouldn’t if they had been balanced by face-to-face interaction. They also can make a reporter vulnerable to exaggeration and manipulation on the part of sources, and might encourage on-the ground efforts to become perfunctory or decorative.
Stories like this one---a complicated story where the human factor is so important, where trust and credibility between reporter and source plays such a critical role and is best established face-to-face, and where “place” has the power to shape a journalistic understanding of cultural context and to reveal human truths that you just can’t get electronically, cry out for "being there.” It's just too easy to get snowed, lied to or spun at a distance--- too easy for the "story line" to take over from the facts and for someone’s BS detector, even a “finely tuned” BS detector, as Rubin Erdely claims to have, to malfunction.
If Rubin Erdely was hamstrung by an overbearing deadline or a tight travel allowance, then Rolling Stone needs to think about being more generous, at least if it wants to stay in the business of serious investigative reporting. Stories like this need a real presence on the ground to get right.
The timeline Rubin Erdely describes in the Rolling Stone piece itself, cross referenced with her Twitter feed (inactive since November 30 when controversy broke out) as well as the emails UVA released through Freedom of Information requests and some interviewing I did show that she flew from Philadelphia to Charlottesville on Thursday September 11. Among other things she met with some of her student sources at a popular Charlottesville coffee shop, went to a monthly meeting of the Board of Visitors that Friday, took a tour of frat row with a group of sexual assault “survivors,” later that Friday night. She also met in person with Jackie and another UVA rape survivor at a restaurant on the Corner, just outside off the university grounds, although it’s unclear whether that restaurant meeting was before or after the frat row tour.
According to Emily Renda, a young UVA administrator and rape "survivor" who introduced Rubin Erdely to Jackie and served as a fixer of sorts for the overall article, Renda met Erdely at a parking facility after she landed in Charlottesville and gave her directions to the coffee house. Renda told me Rubin Erdely stayed no longer than Sunday, and perhaps even left as early as Saturday. Renda also said that Rubin Erdely had not yet met her primary source for the piece, Jackie, until that point.
In the emails UVA released, Rubin Erdely seems to have planned another reporting trip but had to cancel it, informing the UVA PR rep on Monday September 15 that she would be “unable to return to campus this week” and would therefore have to conduct an interview with UVA president Theresa Sullivan by phone. The last scene in the piece references events occurring in “the third week of September,” in such a way as to suggest that Rubin Erdely was there for them herself. But at least one of those events---a report of the disappearance of the UVA student Hannah Graham who was later found slain---did not occur in that time frame but on the Saturday of the writer’s weekend visit (September 11th-13th or September 14th). This suggests that she either wanted to create the impression of being in Charlottesville longer than she actually was or that her magazine made a fact-checking error. Given the overall slipshod way it checked the story’s other supposed “facts,” the latter is more likely.
What this means is that for a major 9000 word investigative piece about UVA’s “culture of rape,” Rubin Erdely spent no more than 72 hours on the ground, maybe even as little as 48, during which she met her main source for the very first time, at least in the usual, pre-digital sense of “meeting” someone. Not exactly cultural immersion, whether it’s a “culture of rape” or any other subcultural phenomenon.
It actually seems to be a magazine writers’ version of the old New York Times “toe-touch,” which was banned in the wake of Jayson Blair’s abuse of it. In the “toe touch,” a harried national correspondent would do all his or her reporting from a newsroom or a bureau desk then fly off to wherever he or she needed to be to be able to slap a “dateline” on the story. This gave the impression of “being there” in the place where news was happening when in reality the correspondent had spent only as much time on the ground that it took to get a return flight home, often never even leaving the airport. Rubin Erdley’s remote reporting methods stand in contrast to the legwork conducted by the team that Washington Post sent into the field. Among other acts of basic, elementary journalism, the Post, led by reporter Taylor Shapiro (T. Rees) actually interviewed the three student “friends of Jackie’s” who allegedly saw her right after Jackie’s 2012 rape but who Rubin Erdley never actually located or spoke with.
In an interview she did with the Washington Post, Rubin Erdely has said she first “met” Jackie over the phone. Jackie, she said
Was absolutely bursting to [her] story. I could not believe how it poured out of her in one long narrative. She spoke so fast, I hardly had a chance to ask her a question. She was dying to share it.
Rubin Erdely says she then spent a long time putting Jackie’s story through the ringer, presumably by phone and by email, with Jackie and with other knowledgeable sources. According to Rubin Erdley, the story checked out. Since she only met Jackie for the first time on her one and only visit to Charlottesville, it’s safe to deduce that shortly after speaking with Jackie on the phone that first time, she did not hop a plane or drive to follow up in the flesh, as a more careful reporter might.
Judging the veracity of rape victim testimony is more than scrutinizing the facts of "the story;” it’s body language, narrative progression, pacing, consistency, and a host of other subtle, subliminal cues that combine into what we call instinct or intuition. This is one reason why sex-crimes detectives don’t take reports from rape victims over the phone, beyond basic courtesy and sensitivity. As neuroscience has it, the face transmits far more data than the human voice; you are more certain to make a dependable decision on someone’s credibility if you can see and hear them instead of just the latter.
As many commentators and critics have noted, the forensic details of Jackie’s three-hour ordeal during which she said seven men raped her over the course of three hours, simply don’t pass “the straight face test,” in the words of one UVA law professor. If anything the torrential way in which Jackie first told the story would have made me suspicious, suggesting a certain exhibitionism (would you tell a stranger about your rape over the phone?) and of being overly practiced.
If Rubin Erdely had actually had the chance to sit down with Jackie face to face to go over these details before she committed to using Jackie's story as her centerpiece, she might been more skeptical and found another case to lead her piece. She also might have been less reliant on Jackie in the backend of the piece as a central witness against UVA’s “institutional indifference.” So much of this supposed fecklessness is seen through Jackie’s point of view and rendered in her voice that once Jackie loses personal credibility on her own story, she loses credibility on the other stuff too, despite Rubin Erdley’s insistence that questions about Jackie’s story shouldn’t “sidetrack” the article’s “overarching point.” In fact the real point is that if Rubin Erdely had had a “sit down” with the girl at the front end of her reporting before her trust in her had solidified and before it became too complicated to find another touchstone, Rubin Erdley and Rolling Stone might have been spared a lot of pain.
Another thing to think about is that had Rubin Erdley spent more time on the ground engaged with the physicality of her story, she might have actually walked into the Phi Kappa Psi house itself and looked the frat’s composite photo, usually hanging in foyer or entry hallway of most fraternity houses in order to see whether the names Jackie provided her of her attackers matched up with names of members of the frat at the time Jackie said she was assaulted there. (These composites usually go back for several years, so finding a 2012 composite in the fall of 2014 isn't so difficult to imagine and could have given her the information that she could not find from the frat’s “outdated” contact sheet.”) It’s hard to say whether the composite photo would have had photographs of “Armpit” and “Blanket”---alleged frat members mentioned by nickname in the gang rape sequence--- but you never know. These frats don’t have security desks; if Rubin Erdely was uncomfortable identifying herself as a reporter, she could have walked in and pretended to be someone’s mother or hired a local male stringer. There are ways. And what better way for a writer to involve his or her reader than a description of journeying into the very belly of the beast?
Beyond helping to verify names of the Jackie's attackers, presumably within the bounds of the agreement that Rubin Erdely had made with Jackie not to rile them against her, time actually inside Phi Psi might have given her a more informed and less pejorative sense of fraternity culture. As described in the Slate podcast Rubin Erdely did, her understanding of frat dynamics is quite distant, cloistered really, making it easy for her to imagine a conspiracy of knowing silence among the brothers. Said Rubin Erdely in her Slate podcast:
I would speculate that life inside a frat house is a probably, you know, you have this kind of communal life where everybody is sort of sharing information…People are living lives closely with one another and it seems impossible to imagine that people didn't know about this.
More time on the ground, especially on a weekday, might have allowed Rubin Erdely to check the registrar’s office for proof that Jackie dropped out of an anthropology class she said she had shared with the attacker who experienced impotence and had to resort to a coke bottle. (My experience tells me you can get lucky with a clerk in person trying to get this information, but rarely so on the phone.) Also the time to actually attend a weekly meeting of UVA’s sexual assault survivor’s group, One Less, instead of reconstructing what those meeting are like courtesy of descriptions she received secondhand and doing so in such a way as to encourage the false notion that She Was There. (Carefully re-read this section; while it’s skillfully written to affect the impression she was there, in fact you can discern she was not.) Being at one of those meetings, which Erdely characterized as UVA’s “true secret society,” would have certainly been good for the “color and quotes” magazine writers live for as a way to establish immediacy. But it also could have opened Rubin Erdely's ears to the possibility that some of the victims in the UVA rape survivor network might be embellishing their stories, in the unavoidable way that groups of undergraduates engage in story-topping no matter what experiences they are sharing, and that these stories represented a recursive information loop that could have thrown Rubin Erdely’s efforts to confirm Jackie’ story off course. (Renda told me the group meets every Monday; would it have been that hard for Rubin Erdely to extend her stay beyond the weekend?)
Additional ground time might have allowed her to get a better sense of “Stacy,” who the reporter seems to have been connected to courtesy of that “survivor” network. According to Rubin Erdley, Stacy had brought a complaint to the university sexual misconduct board in the spring of 2014 against a male student who was allowed to remain on campus despite a guilty verdict and “pattern evidence” from two other women who said he had attacked them too. In Stacy’s account, the alleged assailant's wealthy family had threatened to sue her as well as individual UVA deans if they went forward with the complaint.
I found Rubin Erdely’s description of Stacy’s case suspect for a couple of reasons. The description of the assault Stacy said she experienced did not involve anywhere near the kind of vicious rape Jackie had endured but instead involved drunken groping, albeit with “digital penetration,” in a semiconscious haze of “too much whiskey,” which the Charlottesville DA’s office declined to prosecute. More significantly, the writer references a nine-hour formal hearing into Stacy’s charges, but the hearing is rendered in a secondhand way, probably through Stacy, without specificity. Rubin Erdley also cites Stacy’s claims that the family of the accused interfered with the proceeding against him and threatened legal action against the accuser and the school’s deans without anybody else aside from Stacy confirming that this family harassment actually happened in the way Stacy said it did.
Any nine-hour formal hearing is going to generate a hearing transcript, a copy of which the complainant and her representative would most likely have received. Would more time on the ground have offered Rubin Erdely the chance to obtain it? Passing such a document to a reporter is often fraught for a victim given the legal and administrative restrictions governing these procedures; at UVA it might actually represent an Honor Code violation. But if she actually met "Stacy" in person and spent enough time to gain her trust, Rubin Erdely might have gotten at least a peek at it. This would have at the very least put her and Rolling Stone’s fact checkers in a more informed position to absorb a very unambiguous email warning from UVA’s press rep that they had their facts wrong on Stacy's case, which they apparently simply dismissed.
More time in situ might also have helped the reporter find material to corobborate Stacy's allegation of the accused family’s interference---letters, email, phone logs. As it stands in the piece, we only have Stacy alluding to the family interference and lawsuit threats with no other attribution or documentation to back her up. How did Rubin Erdely confirm what Stacy had alleged?
To be sure, Rubin Erdley sees herself as someone who has high regard the value of first person reporting and for experience. Her website explains that
For the sake of her articles Erdely has trekked thorough Tibet, watched an autopsy, joined a religious cult, visited maximum security prisons and once tried out to be a Philadelphia Eagles cheerleader.
But the UVA regent who accused Rubin Erdely of an act of “drive by journalism” was actually being more literal than he might have imagined. Even the scenes she actually did experience first hand, the frat row tour for example, as well as the scene where she is having a meal with Jackie at a restaurant on The Corner, have a generic, guidebook feel to them. Until I started putting questions to people in the position to know whether she was actually there that night, I had suspicions she might have cribbed some of the on-scene details from YouTube videos, and had "been there" herself via Skype or FaceTime on a tablet or a smartphone but not in person. Maybe these scenes are rendered so superficially because she was just tired, packing too much in for what was, in effect, a pit stop. Parachute journalism--- the whole “get in, get what you came for and get out” involved in it---isn’t easy.
We’re all waiting now for the Columbia Journalism School to issue its report on the UVA rape fiasco, the J School having been given that assignment when Rolling Stone owner Jann Wenner gave up on his own “internal review” for reasons still undisclosed. According to a release from the office of J- School dean Steve Coll, Rolling Stone had asked Columbia to “conduct an independent review of the reporting and editorial decision making that led to the publication of its recent story on sexual violence at the University of Virginia.” Coll later told the New York Times that he had been promised unfettered access to Rolling Stone’s staff and materials. “We are focusing on the editorial process but have the freedom to move in any direction along the way that we believe would be germane and of public interest,” Coll said.
This gives the impression that Rolling Stone will be opening its editorial books so to speak, and that Columbia will have access to all reportorial materials associated with the story. This presumably means all internal editorial communications, such as emails and memos between the writer and her editors and fact-checkers, as well as traffic between those editors and fact- checkers themselves bearing on what the writer was up to and whether or not they had a sense something might be wrong.
It’ll be interesting to find out how much Rolling Stone has actually shared with Columbia, whether it is doing so in the spirit of legal “discovery” or whether it set protective limits, a likelihood given the defamation and libel suits that will surely follow. It also will be interesting to learn what Columbia learns of the decision-making involved in the construction of the story itself, which we’re told we will be able to read in articles Steve Coll and his teams will publish in Rolling Stone itself and on the magazine’s website. Even more intriguing, given the importance face-to-face interrogatories play in this kind of reporting, is the question of whether Rubin Erdely is a cooperating witness and whether Coll will be have direct access to her. Such face-to-face access will help move the inquiry beyond the paper and digital trail, which will make it easier to tell whether her journalistic malfeasance stemmed from simple negligence or active wrongdoing---i.e lying to her editors, misleading fact-checkers or somesuch. Now that's a deposition I'd pay money to watch.
For now though I think it’s safe to say that if Columbia does get access to the tapes and transcripts of the interviews that Rubin Erdley conducted in the process of her reporting, most of those interviews will have been conducted on the phone or by email and not face-to-face. Let’s hope Columbia notices the crucial difference between these two different modes of assessing credibility and determining truth, as well as the role that this difference might have played in this particular journalistic debacle. If the rest of the journalism world takes it as a cautionary tale for the Internet age, so much the better. Tech-savvy reporters, especially those in the iPhone generation, have come to take some new reporting tools for granted. We've forgotten that while they may extend our reach, it's what they actually grasp that is what's most important. They may make reporting easier, more convenient and less costly, but an overreliance on them at the expense of actually "being there" can make for an awful, and awfully expensive mess. Sometimes you have to reinvent the wheel.
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This initial public offering for the U.S. Government crossed my desk and I thought it worth sharing.
An apparently confidential IPO found its way to me and I reckoned it was worth sharing: it's an IPO for the U.S. Government, underwritten by Goldman Sachs:
THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION TO PURCHASE OFFERED SECURITIES, BUT YOU'D BEEN A COMPLETE MORON IF YOU PASSED UP THIS GOLDMAN, OOPS, GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY.
In conjunction with its junior underwriting partners (international banks), Goldman Sachs is pleased to offer shares in a unique initial public offering: the Federal Government of the United States of America.
As proxy owner of the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury, Goldman Sachs is in a unique position to realize the full value of owning shares in the U.S. Government, as Goldman Sach's proxy ownership has yielded astounding profits.
The U.S. Government (USAG) has a number of features which offer investors extraordinarily unique long-term opportunities. As the sole global empire, the USAG has an unmatched ability to obtain, borrow, connive, plunder, discount or otherwise control key assets such as the largest remaining reserves of fossil fuels (Mideast) and surplus capital (China's foreign reserves).
The USAG does have substantial liabilities which carry significant risks to investors. However, Goldman Sachs believes these unfunded liabilities in the approximate range of $50 to $75 trillion can be set aside in favor of the $23 trillion in profits to the banking and investment sectors which are flowing from the TARP and other bailout programs designed and managed by Goldman Sach proxies in the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury.
As the most significant unfunded liabilities, Social Security and Medicare, are sliding irrevocably into insolvency, Goldman Sachs believes these liabilities can be jettisoned by legislative actions taken by its proxies in Congress and regulatory actions taken by its proxies in the Executive, Treasury and Judicial branches of the USAG. This will free the revenues streams generated by taxation to flow directly into the owners of the USAG, Goldman Sachs, its international bank partners and shareholders in this IPO.
Although the underwriters (Goldman Sachs and partners) anticipate a steady flow of profits from the $23 trillion being funneled into bailouts and backstops, other significant if unlikely risks include thermonuclear war due to Imperial over-reach, the financial destruction of middle class taxpayers, and insurrection of the debt-serfs who constitute the majority of citizens living under the control of the USAG.
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The Q – Ali Jones
Mark Bland and Gary Weed return with a hot episode of The Q, cooked up just the way you like it. This week’s episode welcomes friend of the show Ali Jones of the legendary hip hop group the St. Lunatics. Ali has been to the top of the music business with is crew since 1999. Winning multiple Grammy Awards and music awards for their contributions, Ali along with his childhood friends have racked up quite the reputation. Whether it’s Country Grammar, Free City, Heavy Starch or the multitude of other albums and features, Ali has set himself along with Nelly, Murphy Lee, Kyjuan, City Spud and Slo Down as the dominate midwest hip hop group of the early 2000s through today.
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Ulster County Chamber President and CEO Ward Todd and David Laks
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by Robert Mitchell as appeared in the “Ulster County Chamber News” November 2015
David Laks was an elementary music teacher with a brilliant idea. He would use video to recruit students into the school band in the Onteora Central School District.
He didn’t know it at the time, but his second career was about to come into focus.
“I created special effects videos with students to encourage others to join,” Laks says. “The response was overwhelmingly successful.”
“Soon after, teachers invited me to partner with them to design academic video projects to enhance the learning environment. This culminated in several state and national awards for our efforts.”
Laks followed that up with instructional and informational videos for the school district. During the summer, he would facilitate film programs at the Dutchess Arts Camp in Poughkeepsie.
He next earned a master’s degree in “Video Design and Technology” and a New York State Teaching certification as a “Technology Integration Specialist.”
“Upon retiring from 30 years of teaching, I began‘David Laks Videography in 2014,” Laks says.
Laks now works out of a studio in Saugerties. “I listen to my clients and develop compelling video content that matches their needs and budget,” he said. “My turnaround time and availability is surprisingly fast and second to none.”
Laks said his company can create video and audio content for: Business Promotion, Performance Groups, Education, Special Events, Weddings/Anniversaries, Legal Video, Day-in-the-Life, Political Campaigns, Client Testimonials, Product Demonstrations, Seminars and Workshops, Instructional Video, Fund Raisers, Celebrations-of-Life, Non-Profits, Crowdfunding, and the Arts.
When it comes to business promotion, one of Laks’ latest clients is J&J Tree Service and the video shoot involves a bucket truck.
“There’s always something interesting going on,” he said. Laks has also done some legal videography, showing a “Day in the Life” of accident victims. “We show what their life was like before and after,” he said.
He has also videotaped bands, dance and theatre groups and even before-and -after road surfaces. Laks has also produced a television commercial on cleaning guns that has been seen on the Outdoor Channel.
“That’s what I love,” he said. “All of my projects are radically different.”
Laks said his videography style involves listening to what his clients want to express and finding an innovative way to present it.
“I’m adaptive,” he said. “I’m eclectic. I connect with my clients.”
“I make sure I am clear on what they want,” Laks said. “I offer clear and competitive pricing and exceed my clients’ expectations both in my service and final product. I also share with my prospective clients the testimonials other clients have written about me.”
Laks’ website (www.davidlaksvideo.com) includes several testimonials from satisfied customers.
One testimonial called Laks “incredibly clever and creative.” Another said he was “an absolute pleasure to work with.”
“He adapts well to different industries and has always been a dedicated, goal- driven professional,” the testimonial read.
“He is a great editor and works hard to execute projects efficiently and on time. David is a true creative asset to any project.”
Another testimonial read, “David, your unbiased ability to really listen and enter the mind of someone with a vision is a rare talent.”
Laks said he joined the Chamber to “network and learn.”
“Through the mixers, seminars, breakfasts, and other programs offered by the Chamber, I have grown as an upstart business,” Laks said. “Everyone at the Chamber has gone out of their way to assist me in my growth.”
David Laks Videography, in Saugerties, can be reached at
(845) 853-3385 or www.davidlaksvideo.com.
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Observations and ideas about race, ethnicity and mixing.
#Wakanda Forever!
March 18, 2018 / umutonik / 8 Comments
Over spring break I was asked by a random stranger where I was from, I told him Rwanda and he immediately thought I meant Wakanda. I thought that was funny and then I proceeded to explain to him how Wakanda was fictional and how Rwanda is very much real. But on then I started thinking about the movie and what it means for me as an African and a black person in America. I realized the significance of the movie and how represented different black identities; with Killmonger having grown in the US and the people of Wakanda as Africans who had never left the continent. One of the most powerful moments in the movie was towards the end when Eric utters the words “bury me in the ocean with my ancestors that jumped from the ships. Because they knew death was better than bondage.” This immediately reminded me of the middle passage and what form of resistances Africans were showing even before they got to the New world. Additionally, the fact that Wakanda was never colonized presents the idea of what Africa might have become without colonization. It also challenges the idea that colonial powers did Africans a favor by colonizing them. Furthermore, the move brings together Black people all over the Global because it celebrates African culture and encourages people to learn more about said culture. For example, days after the movie came out posts on social media were trending that explained the origins of some of the attires in the movie. Different African tribes inspired all of the clothes in the movie. As a black person, this movie literally changed my life!
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mcnealc
That movie was amazing and so was that particular scene, it made me not even view him as the “villain” anymore. He was so powerful in his declaration to be buried in the ocean with his ancestors, and speaks so much to our class.
burkeozk
The Black Panther made me think about what a hyphenated identity does to a person. The villain in the movie is an African-American man, a man denied from both his African ancestry and American nationality. What does this mean for Killmonger? What does this mean for all African-Americans in our country?
In Harlem, I see a clear distinction between the African immigrant community and the black American community. It ties in clearly to the concepts of assimilation or westernization on the part often of black Americans, as they’ve had many years of negotiating their sense of worth through a white standard.
suessn
Black Panther was an excellent and impactful film. One of the most amusing parts of the movie for me was when a character thinks that Wakanda has no resources to offer the world, yet they have virtually unlimited resources and some of the most powerful weapons and technology. It’s empowering and, like you said, goes against the idea that colonization is helpful.
To start, this blog post was really written well. I love how you structured your post, using a personal anecdote, then discussing a form of media in relation to it, and implying some real life applications. I haven’t seen the movie Black Panther, but I was very surprised when you mentioned that a random stranger thought you meant Wakanda when you told him you were from Rwanda. To me, that sounds like he corrected you and assumed you were saying the name of place which literally does not exist. This shows that a lot of people in the United States do not know much about cultures other than their own, and it is exciting that the movie is inspiring people to learn about different cultures.
jimminkc
I think this movie was extremely interesting in understanding the relationship between Africans born in Africa and African Americans. A lot of people (Black Americans) say that they would love to go to Africa. In my African Studies class we talked about how Black Americans are so removed from the actual continent itself that it would very hard to take Black Americans back to Africa.
Eve Giordano
Hello! I loved this post. Your response to the film was raw and real. I have regrettably not seen the film yet, but have every intention to. I think it is really interesting how you asked the question of what Africa would be like if it weren’t colonized. I have thought about that too. If the rest of us were the outsiders and the African American people were the colonizers, would that make the rest of the world “assimilators” or “creolizers”? Any thoughts?
heronca
I also enjoyed this movie and admired how impactful it was for Black people all over the world.
warrickj
I agree. ‘Black Panther’ is amazingly groundbreaking. I’ve never realized how much I’ve needed to see Africa and people of African descent depicted in such an empowering way. I’ve seen this movie four times, in theater, since its release. This film was definitely something that not only black people needed, but the world.
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Ed Ruth all time
By rodneydeeeee, December 26, 2013 in College Wrestling
smittyfan 42
No sir, I am not saying anything of the sort. What I am saying is that Taylor losing to Dake is comparable to Dick losing to Verne in one manner, which is exactly pertinent to the conversation. No one will ever ear mark any of Ruth's losses as historically significant, or that his last collegiate loss was to a historically significant wrestler. Kyle Dake was a 1 point winner over the defending Hodge Award winner. Both opponents were of historical significance. There are very, very few losses in the history of the NCAA, which would not exclude you from the All Time list. In my honest opinion, those are two great examples of that very thing. ( Both the Gagne Judges Decision over Hutton, and Dake's one point victory over Taylor) While I'm getting pretty darned old, I was close enough to run into old timers that would tell you of men you just frankly would not be able to fathom in this day and time. The difference is, that my generation accepted that the link to the past was different, but well worn with the same time and energy devoted to becoming great as is the case today. I dare say, you have 500 # bench press guys that would squeal like a pig stuck in a gate if Danny Hodge grabbed them in his prime. They were as great as the rules and techniques of their time made them. Doug Blubaugh, who was a great inspiration to Dan Gable for instance...ah, never mind. I'm just babbling on.
jchapman 774
Would you consider Kemp's split referee decision loss in the NCAA finals his freshman year to be another one of those losses that do not exclude one from the all-time great list?
My opinion is not the Gold Standard. Chuck was good, but the historical significance of Lee Roy Kemp is determined by many events. The Kemp/Yagla/Schultz/Gable careers are all kind of intertwined. I suppose in answer to your question it was more a matter of a freshman losing by referees decision in his first of four consecutive finals that would indeed be the type of loss that is over looked. Chuck was a tough son of a gun, but to be clear, Chuck, as tough as he was, would never be compared to Gagne, Hutton, Taylor, Dake.
Interesting to me at least. Lee Kemp beat Dan Gable, when Kemp was a freshman at Wisconsin. The following season after Chuck had defeated Lee in the NCAA finals, he was defeated by a high school senior named Dave Schultz. I know Dave/Chuck was freestyle, but I can't remember where the Kemp/Gable match was. That's a great example of how complex it gets when trying to figure out the best of all time. Every season there are a ton of guys that are 6 moves away from being one of the best, but many on here have no idea what that list actually looks like. It's a marvelous sport with amazing history. If you are quick to say todays guys are better, it's because you don't know your ass from a hole in the ground. The guys from the 50's that were the best of the best, would not wrestle in black and white if they competed today. They would be the innovators, and the most well trained using today's training knowledge. If you don't think Blubaugh training with Jack Dempsey running 20 miles and training all day in between the two 10 mile mountain runs would have been a guy that would be well trained today, you are fooling yourself. He would have been as tough as anyone competing before/during/after today's guys.
TBar1977 3,442
Keep posting smitty. I enjoy hearing about the old timers.
Zelph 0
So many tough guys who were so good.
Given time and distance I'll take John Smith, Yojo Uetake, Bruce Barnbaum and Dan Gable as my top guys, with Uetake and Smith at the very top.
and remember, Bobby Douglas is the only guy to beat Dan Gable five times.
NJWC 305
I'm sure I'll get ripped for this, but every time I see Ruth wrestle, I can't help but think his skill level doesn't approach a guy like Taylor's.
That floating on top/looking for nothing but a cradle style works because he has freakishly long arms, and he's able to physically overwhelm college kids. He gets thumped in freestyle because his skill level isn't nearly as high as many others, and he's wrestling guys that have the same horsepower.
He'll never win a world medal at the senior level.
scribe 1,655
I wouldn't say never. He does seem to have some discipline issue when it comes to alcohol. I don't think he'll beat world level wrestlers with that proclivity during training.
Alwayswrestling 150
Not going to rip on you but have to disagree I think Ruth looks very good not sloppy with his takedowns or riding. I have watched him at the Open and I did not think he got thumped just needs to focus 100% of the time.
superold 34
Ruth hasn't really impressed in freestyle, that's true. I think he should get a little less harsh treatment though. After his freshman and sophomore years, at 174, he had to wrestle at 185 pounds. He didn't have a freestyle weight close to his collegiate weight like Taylor. 74 kgs is great for Taylor, he was both the weight and height to compete at that weight class. His length is something that other top guys need to watch out for. Ruth at 185, after his sophomore year, was both small and had his length advantage watered down.
When Ruth competed at 185, after competing at 184 in college, he seemed to do a lot better. He qualified for university worlds, although he didn't medal. He lost to a tough Iranian who took bronze. That was the only match he wrestled there so it's hard to tell how many of those guys were better than him. Ruth also took 4th at the U.S Open. Ruth's not great, but he's also not horrible. Earlier this year was the first time that Ruth wrestled a class closer to his weight. We'll see what the future holds.
Right now, I don't see either Taylor or Ruth as a threat to win worlds. As far as each of their skill levels go, I put them both at about the same level. In the future we may even see the square off at 185, Taylor definitely has the height for that weight class.
This is far from a perfect measure, but my sources tell me that Ruth has always beaten Taylor in the room. He said Taylor doesn't have an answer for Ruth, and this was when they were only one weight class apart (Taylor at 165, Ruth at 174).
If we are grading on a world class level scale, then Ruth's wrestling from his feet is often times sloppy. Again, talking about grading on a world class scale. Same goes for Taylor when he's in any sort of tieup. Look again closely at the Iowa dual and you'll see.
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He's awfully good! In the top 50 list put out for the 80th anniversary team, I have a hard time seeing who he replaces.
He should replace about 47 or so. The biggest problem/argument used in the GOAT argument is 4 years wrestling vs. 3. A lot of people bring up 3 year wrestlers when comparing and I think this argument would actually HELP Ruth. He, in all likelihood will finish UNDEFEATED his final 3 years. Since the 3 year wrestlers only wrestled 3 because they couldn't wrestle Varsity as freshman Ruth fits right in. As far as 4 year guys go his career record will be better than EVERYONE not named Sanderson. If he finishes this year undefeated, and more importantly, as dominant as the last 2 years he has a GREAT argument to be a TOP5 guy.
Would you place him ahead of this man?
• Bill Koll: Some present-day fans may be familiar with Koll's rough, tough image; reportedly the "slam" rule was instituted because of him. While wrestling at what is now Northern Iowa, Koll earned three college titles (1946-47 at 145 lbs; 1948 at 147.5 lbs) and Outstanding Wrestler honors two years in a row (the first to do so). Even more impressive than Koll's perfect 72-0 record: in his entire college career, he was taken down only once, reversed just twice … and pinned all five opponents at the 1948 NCAAs.
I think it is next to impossible to compare wrestlers from 70 years ago with those of today. They wrestled considerably less matches and had inferior training facilities and equipment compared to today. I would not argue with you that the talent of yesteryear COULD be just as good with today's access to training through internet, camps, facilities, nutrition, etc. The problem is they did NOT have access to them. I simply do not see them competing, EXACTLY as they were then, with today's rigorous season and competition level. You would see this in every sport. Football, Basketball, and keep going down the list.
Ruth plays with his opponents like no one I have seen. His Finals match with Amuchestegui convinced me he is levels ahead of anyone over the last 3 years. With the amount of matches current DI guys wrestle, I cannot put more than the 4 timers, and MAYBE Kemp ahead of someone with 2 freshman losses, one of which I am now convinced was injury related. I have no issue with your arguments. The greats of the past COULD be as great today with the same access but since they did NOT have that access I simply cannot compare them.
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Ed Ruth is a freakish athlete by any standard. He's on a different level than even D1 wrestlers.
What looks like "lazy" wrestling is anything but that. He's very coordinated, flexible, strong, and long limbed, and he has impeccable timing. When you put these thing together, you get a guy who looks loose and almost playful most of the time, and who scores in short bursts here and there. Before you know it, you're majored, teched, or pinned. Honestly, I think it's phenomenal.
He's so exceptionally gifted he can turn wrestling into something that looks rhythmic and artful, sort of like Muhammad Ali did with boxing, or Anderson Silva is doing with MMA.
If he decides to pursue freestyle full time, I think he has an excellent shot at a world medal. If he decides to train MMA, I think you'll see him in the UFC. He's from the same part of PA as Phil Davis, and they know each other, so don't rule out MMA.
How are you convinced Ruth is levels beyond Dake? If Taylor hadn't ran into Dake, he'd be toying with the vast majority just like Ruth. Taylor likely would have less losses with better ncaa placements, but Dake came along.
I think we get carried away with the top wresters killing lesser competition, especially since the majority of the competition isn't very good.
I wouldn't put Ruth ahead of Dake due to Dake's career accomplishments, but I do think over his last 3 years Ruth's style and length makes him the best DI wrestler I have seen since Cael(Burroughs in his senior year has an argument).
In my opinion, Burroughs as a senior was better than Sanderson as a senior. Burroughs's improvement every year was stratospheric, and that included his improvement from his undefeated junior year to his undefeated senior year. I think Burroughs was the best college wrestler since Smith.
Where does Ruth fit into all this? It's hard to tell. Ruth only has two losses, and it's clear he was better than both guys he lost to. The only question mark is how he would have done against Reader during Ruth's freshman year. Many of us were shocked when he beat studs like Lewnes and Henrich with relative ease.
My best guess is Ruth is up there with Taylor, Dake, Askren, etc. If someone thinks Ruth is the best since Cael, I'd say that's fair. It's just tough to say with different opponents, weight classes, styles, and chance occurrences.
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One FS issue Ruth has is he just stands too high (like Askren used to). Even non-elite wrestlers are able to blast in and take him down. Not sure if this is because he is used to scrambling out of those same situations on folkstyle, or what.
He is also pretty akward in back exposure situations. This is where Taylor has made huge strides, to the point where he is lighting up grear wrestlers on the mat (Howe, the admittedly smaller Russian bronze medallist) but Ruth still looks akward.
The plus side is, par terre was not an area which came too naturally to Sanderson either, but he became Olympic champion with hard work and dedication. I think Ruth has sa similar celing if he can harness it the way CS did and at the very least be solid defensiely on the mat. The lat few 84 kg world champions have been exceptional ground wrestlers.
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Last night's events certainly puts this thread in perspective.
If Dean and Ruth get the 2 and 3 seeds in the NCAA tourney. Ruth could go down as only a two time finalist.
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Ruth will be back in the finals and will win his 3rd title in March. This probably lit a fire under him that he hasn't had in sometime. It was certainly a big upset, but if Dean continues to progress and wins a couple of titles himself...it won't look like such a big upset a few years from now.
Ruth will more than likely finish as a 3x champ with only 3 losses. How many guys have fewer losses over a 4 year period than him? Cael and Gable?
That could happen.
He could also go down as a 2x finalist with only 4 losses.
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I'm not even sure Burroughs was one of the top 2 165 lbers of the past 4 years. There is no doubt in my mind that Senior Dake beats Senior Burroughs in a folkstyle match. I also have a feeling Taylor could turn Burroughs from top.
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Dake is NOT in there, sorry- he and Ruth, M Scultz , P Smith will be on the 2nd tier.
Shows how little you know, pal.
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I have watched a number of Ruth’s matches and all time? I can’t put him in that elite group. Do you really think he would beat Herbert, Pendleton or Askren?
I'd take him over Herbert.
I definitely think Askren would pick him apart though.
Ed is a stud, that's for sure. In this day of video taping and scouting being so much more available, it's a wonder any of these guys can go undefeated. I know everyone thinks of John Smith's Low Single as changing the wrestling world forever, and it did, but there have been a few College Wrestlers, that have had dominant techniques, that I was surprised no one could stop. About 90% of high school coaches would have laughed at Johnny Thompsons Snake (advanced Cow Catcher) and tell you that it wouldn't work at the college level. Before Kendall Cross, I thought it was crazy to step over a whizzer. Cael, and his single that looked a little bit like a head and heel just shocked me that no one, and I mean no one until he hit international level, could stop that thing. All of those guys had many other techniques to go to, like Johnny's double leg, Caels, everything, but Ruth really has shocked me more than anyone else. He seems pretty fair in all positions, but with a cradle that makes you want to see if he has a big S on his chest. That does, seem to be the one thing you have to stop to defeat him...now that someone has done it, I wonder if it will require an adjustment on his part to keep the magic alive?
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Listen Pal,
It is just my opinion. Dake, P Smith, Ruth, M schultz do NOT belong on the same tier as Gable, Sanderson or Hodge but they belong in the argument sure-I just don't think they are GOAT finalists. 4 titles does not automatically get you in the GOAT conversation. Dake and P smith had 5 or 6 loses. What Gable did with two titles with dominance for three years going 118-1 is a greater feat, in my opinion. The only way to top the GOAT ie Sanderson is to be dominant all 4 years and start as a true freshmen. Almost impossible. Sanderson's feat was amazing and he even had three world medalist to go against in Eggum, Cormier and Vering. No one competing the last 10 years is worthy to be in the GOAT conversation-alright maybe Dake but he had 6 loses and a lot of 1 point wins. Again, my opinion.
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The Daily Les, 9/9
Topic: The Daily Les
Today, Les Kinsolving did his best to play interference for Scott McClellan, attmpting to cut off another reporter's Katrina-related question with a Gannonesque query about same-sex marriage.
That's not the way Kinsolving tells it, of course:
WorldNetDaily unintentionally got in the middle of a verbal match today between White House press secretary Scott McClellan and ABC reporter Jessica Yellin, persistently trying to ask a question after being called on by the Bush spokesman.
Yellin, not satisfied with a response to her last question, badgered McClellan for more information about federal debit cards for Katrina evacuees as he tried to listen to WND's question, which had to be started repeatedly, each time at a higher volume to be heard.
Posted by Terry K. at 10:50 PM EDT
Good Wages Are Racist?
Topic: CNSNews.com
A Sept. 9 CNSNews.com article by Susan Jones plays the race card to support President Bush's executive order to rescind the Davis-Bacon Act, which requires the government to pay prevailing local wages to construction workers, in hurricane-damaged areas.
After quoting House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi saying that the Davis-Bacon Act sprang from the Great Depression - "at a time when scurrilous employers were taking advantage of the desperation of American workers to care for their families," Jones writes:
But according to a report by the Cato Institute, Congress passed the Davis-Bacon Act in 1931 to benefit white-only unions at the expense of non-unionized black workers.
According to the Cato report, "Davis-Bacon was designed explicitly to keep black construction workers from working on Depression-era public works projects."
Those discriminatory effects continue today, the report says - "by favoring disproportionately white, skilled and unionized construction workers over disproportionately black, unskilled and non-unionized construction workers."
Here is the report Jones is quoting.
Posted by Terry K. at 3:37 PM EDT
WorldNetDaily's Aaron Klein has penned another article about Yasser Arafat's purported homosexuality, joining the other two he has written this week.
Is an obsession with homosexual behavior a prerequisite for employment at WND?
Defending Michael Brown
Topic: Media Research Center
Most conservatives, even as they have rushed to the defense of President Bush, have been loath to defend Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) director Michael Brown for his slow response to Hurricane Katrina. Until now.
NewsBusters has rushed in to fill the void. A Sept. 9 post by Dustin Hawkins takes issue with a Time magazine piece on Brown:
While accusing Brown of both padding his resume and having no emergency management expience prior to becoming FEMA head, TIME simply doesn't acknowledge his work as having "served as FEMA's Deputy Director and the agency's General Counsel. Shortly after the September 11th terrorist attacks, Mr. Brown served on the President's Consequence Management Principal's Committee, which acted as the White House's policy coordination group for the federal domestic response to the attacks." Nor does TIME mention his handling of some 150+ handling of other declared disasters and emergencies prior to Hurricane Katrina and the job he did.
Les Kinsolving uses this day's White House press briefing to recite conservative talking points about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who will be visiting the U.S. next week. In his polemic-slash-question, Kinsolving claimed that Ahmadinejad "was identified by five former U.S. hostages as one of their captors and interrogators in '79, and there's the assassination of a Kurdish leader in Austria in 1989 as well as recruitment of suicide bombers."
But that may be more speculation than hard fact. Both CNN and the BBC point out that known leaders of the 1979 taking of hostages at the American embassy in Tehran claim that Ahmadinejad wasn't involved.
Presidential Threat Double Standard Alert
Topic: Newsmax
In a Sept. 8 NewsMax piece noting that the Secret Service is declining to say whether it's investigating Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu's threat to punch President Bush, NewsMax references Jesse Helms:
The agency took a tougher stance on Senatorial threats in 1994, when then-North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms joked that President Clinton "had better watch out if he comes down here. He better have a bodyguard."
But NewsMax leaves out the context of what else was going on in 1994, or why "some pundits" were "complaining that Helms had committed treason." (Actually, it was only one pundit, The Baltimore Sun's Roger Simon.)
At the same time he made that remark, Helms had also reaffirmed an earlier statement that everyone in the armed forces believed that Clinton was unfit to be commander in chief, undermining respect for authority and, Simon claimed, giving aid and comfort to our enemies. (Imagine the conservative firestorm if anyone said that about President Bush today.) A man had recently sprayed the White House with semi-automatic bullets. And the nation was marking the 31st anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
NewsMax apparently wasn't bothered by Helms' statement -- if not secretly wished for something to happen to Clinton that would required bodyguards -- but it's worried that a female senator might pop Bush in the kisser (which NewsMax called a "much more explicit threat" than Helms') is worthy of a full-on investigation.
And, as an added bonus, the article references a incident in which, during a visit to hurricane-stricken Louisiana by Vice President Dick Cheney, a man said "Go f - - k yourself, Mr. Vice President." NewsMax called it an example of the "rising tide of hostility towards the Bush White House where normal boundaries of criticism have fallen by the wayside." But NewsMax failed to note that 1) the heckler was using the very same expletive that Cheney himself used against Sen. Patrick Leahy (an insult NewsMax had no apparent problem with) and 2) NewsMax helped obliterate some of those boundaries on criticism of the executive branch with its continuous attacks on the Clinton White House.
Updated: Friday, September 9, 2005 12:31 PM EDT
New Article: WorldNetDaily's Junk Journalism
Its founder and editor is a thief. Its reporters obediently do the bidding of conservative groups. Is this any way to run a news organization? Read more.
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WND Finally Gets It Right
It took a good year, but WorldNetDaily finally wrote an article about Sandy Berger and the classified documents that got almost all of the facts right.
For once, WND notes that Berger took copies of classified documents, not originals (though the headline still claims that he was "stealing classified documents"), and there's no mention of the unproven claim that Berger stuffed documents in his socks.
WND's Man in Jerusalem
WorldNetDaily's Jerusalem bureau chief, Aaron Klein, has served a helping of articles in recent days that showcase his own strangely biased viewpoint:
-- Two articles on claims that Hurricane Katrina was a punishment from God for President Bush's support of the evacuation of Jews from Gaza.
-- Two articles on speculation that Yasser Arafat died of AIDS.
UPDATE: The idea that Arafat died of AIDS has been a minor obssesion of Klein's; he was reporting on it last November, as ConWebWatch noted. Meanwhile, the New York Times reports that the medical report on Arafat's death "dispels a rumor that he may have died of AIDS."
Updated: Thursday, September 8, 2005 4:47 PM EDT
Shocker: Les Kinsolving asks a somewhat normal question, about two Navy helicopter pilots who rescued 110 people, including two who are blind, were reprimanded by a Navy commander because they were supposed to devote themselves entirely to supply.
But Kinsolving leads his WorldNetDaily article with the question he apparently wished he had asked, about "the homosexual parade held on New Orleans' Bourbon Street last week" and "plans to hold the annual Southern Decadence festival in New Orleans despite the city's trauma."
Factually Deficient Clinton-Bashing at NewsMax
As much as NewsMax has written about the Clintons, you'd think it would be able to get basic facts correct. But no -- a Sept. 6 article contains several factual errors and unsupported assertions.
NewsMax's troubles begin with the first five words of the article: "2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton." While Hillary is certinly a possible, if not likely, candidate, she is not a declared candidate, which makes NewsMax's assertion factually incorrect.
NewsMax then botches the name of the FEMA director in the Clinton administration; it's James Lee Witt, not James D. Witt. To be fair, it was wrong in the Village Voice article NewsMax is basing its item on, but 30 seconds on Google would have provided a quick fact-check. (NewsMax did get the name right in a Sept. 7 piece bashing Witt.)
Having screwed up basic facts, NewsMax moves right along to baseless assertions:
Though Sen. Clinton touted former FEMA director Witt's experience, she made no mention of Raymond 'Buddy' Young, whom her husband appointed to the post of Southwest Regional FEMA Director in 1993.
Mr. Young, a former Arkansas state trooper, won the promotion after heading up efforts to discredit other state troopers whose allegations fueled the Troopergate scandal.
NewsMax offers no evidence to back up this assertion; in fact, this is the first time NewsMax has made this accusation. Young's name appears in only one previous story in NewsMax's archive, a passing mention in a September 1999 article attempting to prove the existence of Bill Clinton's purported black love child.
Additionally, the Arkansas state troopers pushing "Troopergate" were discredited not only by Young -- according to Conason and Lyons' "The Hunting of the President," the lead "Troopergate" troopers, L.D. Brown and Larry Patterson, were mad that Young got a federal job and they didn't -- but by the troopers themselves. As ConWebWatch (and the Conason-Lyons book) noted, the troopers backpedaled from many of their salacious allegations about Clinton when placed under oath.
Meaningless Poll Alert
NewsMax is begging people to take part in yet another meaningless, biased opt-in poll.
'Terri's Story'
WorldNetDaily is publishing a book on the Terri Schiavo case, written by WND news editor Diana Lynne. A Sept. 7 promo piece quotes WND's Joseph Farah calling the book "the powerful, insightful and definitive story" about the case. Somehow we doubt that, especially the "definitive" part.
Reason #1 to doubt it: The promo piece calls her "Terri Schindler-Schiavo," the name Terri's parents insisted on using and which WND used in much of its coverage.
Reason #2 to doubt it: Lynne and WND have a documented history of heavily biased reporting on the Schiavo case, playing up the allegations of Terri's parents and demonizing Terri's husband, Michael Schiavo, while not giving him a chance to respond to those charges. And WND was so eager to smear Michael Schiavo that it eagerly promoted a bogus story that made him look bad.
Reason #3 to doubt it: Lynne's "whole Terri Schiavo story" was a lot less whole before ConWebWatch insisted on a little fairness.
Lynne might surprise us by offering a balanced account in her book; she did make an attempt at fairness in her WND "whole story" after ConWebWatch's letter. But somehow, sadly, we suspect it will be as distorted and slanted as the rest of WND's Schiavo coverage.
UPDATE: The detailed blurb at the WND Books website seems to confirm those suspicions; it appears that anyone who didn't support Terri's parents in keeping Terri alive will be targeted. Lynne also purports to answer the question, "What would Terri have told us if she could speak?"
Updated: Wednesday, September 7, 2005 12:37 PM EDT
More Junk Journalism At WND
In yet another example of gross journalistic imbalance at WorldNetDaily, Ron Strom has penned a fourth article on the man who is accusing Allstate Insurance of firing him for writing an anti-gay column. Strom's Sept. 6 article touts a letter written on behalf of the man by several congressmen.
The article, like the three preceding ones also written by Strom, follow the Terri Schiavo template, playing up the man's accusations through cozy connections with his attorney -- who also served as a attorney for Schaivo's parents -- while downplaying or ignoring completely anything Allstate has to say.
To continue the count we began with Strom's first story: Of the 91 paragraphs Strom has written over four articles about this case, only six are devoted to Allstate's response, and all of them are buried at the end of their respective articles. The rest all advance the man's case.
If you wonder why ConWebWatch exists, this is why: to expose junk journalism like this.
Updated: Tuesday, September 6, 2005 10:35 PM EDT
Today's White House briefing question from Les Kinsolving regards a suggestion by Sen. Mary Landrieu that she might punch President Bush if he criticized local response efforts to Hurricane Katrina:
KINSOLVING: Since both punching and threatening to punch the president is a felony, might Landrieu's qualifying words likely saved her from arrest and prosecution? And what was the president's reaction?
No word on whether Kinsolving supports prosecuting Ann Coulter on the same charge for writing in 1998 that the debate over the Monica Lewinsky scandal should have focused on "whether to impeach or assassinate" President Clinton. After all, assassination trumps punching, doesn't it?
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The argument to partition Iraq
Thread: The argument to partition Iraq
Tom Odom
DeRidder LA
Originally Posted by SteveMetz
Baghdad is currently self partitioning. Perhaps it could be an independent free city under international administration. Mosul is actually more of a problem than Kirkuk. If there was a program to share oil revenues, who actually administers Kirkuk becomes fairly unimportant. I think they US would have to retain a major presence in Kurdistan, particularly along its borders. Other pipelines could be built. Iraq's access to the sea is pretty limited anyway. This really struck me while standing on the docks at Um Qasr in 2003.
I see Steve as closest to the mark with the point that Baghdad has self-partioned. That was our assessment on 1990: that a fragmented Iraq was the most likely outcome of any march on Baghdad. I feared as much in 2003 and said so. Now I would say to you is that it matters not what we as Western outsiders want to happen. What does matter is what the "Iraqis" want to happen. In the circumstances of today, inaction on their part is action, meaning that a neutral stance toward survival of the state is not really neutral. It is pro-fragmentation. I also see culture playing a strong role in that regard; Arab and Muslim cultures are fatalistic in accepting what happens as fate. The tendency to talk about about as it happens versus actively influence what does happen is strong. None of this in any case implies a nice, neat solution--which is where I see the proponents of partition going astray. It has not been pretty so far and it is not likely to get in prettier in the near to mid-term.
SteveMetz
Originally Posted by Tom Odom
I think we need to get on board and support the idea of reestablishing the "caliphate." But we need to tell the militants that it will not be the Abbasid one, but the more historically terminous one: the Ottoman caliphate. Then let them chew on that.
ali_ababa
Reasonable in a perfect world where one is free to draw new lines on maps without care for the people or the politics on the ground.
Sorry this is more of Ralph Peter's semi-polyannish behavior played out; what looks like a deft solution is only more crap sown on the same old fields. The Brits were quite good at drawing maps, followed closely by the other colonial powers. You might as well refer to this map as "Peter's Hiccup" as the 90 degree bend in Jordan's current border is referred to as "Winston's Hiccup."
The US Sec Def had to apologize to the Turks because Peters pulled this map out at a US govenrnment sponsored speaking engagement at the NATO defense college since Peters was essentially saying that the Yurks should give into the PKK.
The British and French after WW1 simply got 'mandates' over the middle east after the ottoman empire was defeated and drew the borders as they wished.
When the borders were drawn no thought went into the people living within the regions. Iraq was drawn up to include the three main oil producing areas which were Mosul, Baghdad and Basra. Also Kuwait was not included in the Basra province as it was before since the British had signed a contract for protection with the ruling Al-Sabah family in 1899.
I remember reading in a book about the creation of Jordan and a quote Winston Churchill said - it went something like this: 'I came up with Jordan in one afternoon'.
If the people were taken into account then the Kurdish people would have been given a state instead of being the largest group of stateless people in the world suffering prejudice from Syria, Iran and Turkey (Also Iraq during previous governments).
This map i believe would stop all fighting as every person would be within their own sect meaning there are no excuses to cause trouble. However the ethnic minorities is a problem which would be more difficult to deal with.
If the map did go through as proposed the largest oil producing countries would be the Arab Shia State and Kurdistan - the two most opressed groups with their countries.
Last edited by ali_ababa; 10-24-2007 at 08:47 PM.
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Baghdad being self-partitioned doesn't change the issue. You can't allocate non-continguous neighborhoods to two neighboring states likely to be rivals, so that's out. The idea of making Baghdad a self-governing city state doesn't solve the issue -- you're still left with a huge population of angry Shia who are being cut off from the state they'd identify with. al-Sadr, or any Shia leader in Baghdad for that matter, will not allow his constituency to be cut off from the financial support provided by pilgrim revenue in Najaf and Karbala. After oil, this is probably the single biggest economic factor at work in Iraq. That's why Hakim's proposed 9 province Shia equivalent to Kurdistan didn't gain traction beyond the SCIRI leadership -- he wanted to go as far north as Najaf and Karbala, and other Shia leaders saw this as a blatant power-play on the Badr's part for the pilgrimage revenue.
The issue I was trying to get at was that either you take the Shia state so far north to include Karbala and Najaf, sticking a huge Sunni population in Shia-land and leaving Sunni-land with wonky, narrow borders; or you don't and leave a huge Shia population and Shia Islam's traditional cultural center of gravity in Sunni-land -- a situation likely to be unacceptable. Either way, it's unworkable.
Kirkuk becomes a much bigger issue if we partition. Right now, there seems to be general acceptance on both sides of the fact that oil revenue will somehow be partitioned, some Kurds are going to come back but not all, etc. Everyone sort of figures there will be a relatively amiable compromise down the road. If you partition, then suddenly there are no such assurances. Kirkuk will have to fall on one side of the line or the other -- when you place it, you give that state ultimate control over the oil regardless of written agreements or anything of the sort. It's a flashpoint, and it seems un-resolvable.
Ali, the Peters map is unworkable. Just to start, the day the Turks give up Dyarbakir is the day I voluntarily join the Eunuch corps -- pretty confident I'll be keeping my balls.
26 Oct 07 update of the CSIS report originally posted near the beginning of this thread:
Pandora’s Box: Iraqi Federalism, Separatism, “Hard” Partitioning and US Policy
The attached report provides a major revision of the previous draft report on the prospects for federalism, separation, and partition in Iraq, and is virtually a new document. It has no simple bottom line, and all of the options present agonizing trade-offs and are almost certain to resul in some degree of added separation and displacement.
At the same time, the analysis indicates that the vast majority of Iraqis -- other than Kurds – do not want a weak central government or any form of division of the country. It shows that violence is serious in the areas dominated by the Kurds, Sunnis, and Shi’ite as well as in mixed areas, and that any form of federalism or partition that divided Iraq’s economy, infrastructure, and petroleum sector would be almost impossible to achieve on anything close to an equitable basis or using Iraq’s present governorates and divisions by sect and ethnicity.....
Foreign Service Journal, Mar 08: After the Surge: Toward an 18-State Federation
....We should not perpetuate the fiction that there are military, regional or economic solutions to a problem that is fundamentally one of internal Iraqi political structure and identification. Nor should we assume that an Iraq consisting of a Shiite-dominated core with a semi-independent Kurdistan and a marginalized Sunnistan will eventually be stable. The current political program for Iraq is to attempt to garner concessions from the Shiite government on behalf of Sunnis. The very nature of this process perpetuates and hardens the ethnic divisions that are at the heart of the dysfunction in the Iraqi state.
The only viable prospect for a unified and stable Iraq at present is to change the political framework so that the basic organizing principle is 18-state federalism. Thisironically, is where Amb. Bremer was headed with his caucus system in the fall of 2003, before the plan was aborted. It is not clear whether it would have worked then, but it is doubtful that anything else will work now. The structure of the Iraqi state must change fundamentally in order to break up ethnicity as the country’s core organizing concept......
Rex Brynen
Debating Devolution in Iraq
Reidar Visser, Debating Devolution in Iraq, Middle East Report Online,
Arguably, though, the greatest problem for the Iraqi centrists is what may be termed “Bush’s Biden policy.” While Washington speaks an admirable language of fidelity to strong central government, in practice it consistently extends material and moral support to the opposite camp, the ethno-federalists that share Biden’s vision for Iraq.
Conversely, Washington maintains little or no contact with representatives of the centrist trend whose vision for the future is far more compatible with the long-standing stated objective of US policy: a unified, multi-ethnic Iraq.
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DRC-Congo-Ebola OUTBREAK-UPDATE
De FaaktoOctober 5, 2018Comments Off on DRC-Congo-Ebola OUTBREAK-UPDATE81.8k
DE FAAKTO OUTBREAK INTELLIGENCE
SITUATION UPDATE-DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
Update-The World Health Organization
There is a continued increase in the number of Ebola virus disease (EVD) cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, it remains confined to a limited geographical area
The recent up trend is due to security issues, unrest within certain local populations, and lingering community mistrust towards outbreak response teams
Improved case detection and response activities have been observed in previously inaccessible hotspots
87 healthcare workers have been infected
31 healthcare worker deaths
During the reporting period of 16 April 2019
1290 Ebola Virus Disease cases
833 deaths (overall case fatality ratio: 65%)
87 (7% overall cases) healthcare workers have been infected to date
31 healthcare workers deaths
91 286 persons have been vaccinated with rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine, manufactured by the pharmaceutical group Merck
World Health Organization-RISK ASSESSMENT
National and regional risk levels remain very high, while global risk levels remain low
Weekly increases in the number of new cases has been ongoing since late February 2019
A general deterioration of the security situation, and the persistence of pockets of community reluctance, refusal, and resistance due to mistrust exacerbated by political tensions and insecurity, have resulted in recurrent temporary suspension and delays of case investigation and response activities in affected areas, reducing the overall effectiveness of interventions
Recent community dialogue, outreach initiatives, and restoration of access to certain hotspot areas have resulted in some improvements
De Faakto intelligence forecast on 12 October 2018, noted the security situation would directly impact the response of authorities and the procedures required to counter the Ebola Virus. Inadequate infection control continues to be a challenge. Key mitigation strategies include, improved security, surveillance, screening and infection control.
Without implementation of these strategies and quality assurance the risk of transmission to other immediate regions remains high.
About Ebola
Ebola virus disease (EVD), formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever, is a severe, often fatal illness in humans
The virus is transmitted to people from wild animals and spreads in the human population through human-to-human transmission
The average EVD case fatality rate is around 50%. Case fatality rates have varied from 25% to 90% in past outbreaks
The first EVD outbreaks occurred in remote villages in Central Africa, near tropical rainforests. The 2014–2016 outbreak in West Africa involved major urban areas as well as rural ones
Community engagement is key to successfully controlling outbreaks. Good outbreak control relies on applying a package of interventions, namely case management, infection prevention and control practices, surveillance and contact tracing, a good laboratory service, safe and dignified burials and social mobilization
Early supportive care with re-hydration, symptomatic treatment improves survival. There is as yet no licensed treatment proven to neutralize the virus but a range of blood, immunological and drug therapies are under development (WHO)
WHO https://www.who.int/csr/don/18-april-2019-ebola-drc/en/
There is a marked increase in the number of Ebola virus disease (EVD) cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Attacks on Ebola Treatment Centers, represented the first large-scale and organized attacks targeted directly at the Ebola response, and were of a different order of magnitude to episodes of mistrust in communities or dangers of being caught in crossfire between fighting parties
The persistence of pockets of community mistrust, exacerbated by political tensions and insecurity, have resulted in recurrent temporary suspension and delays of case investigation and response activities in affected areas; reducing the overall effectiveness of interventions
The high proportion of community deaths reported among confirmed cases, persistent delays in detection and isolation in ETCs, challenges in the timely reporting and response to probable cases, collectively increase the likelihood of further chains of transmission in affected communities and increased risk of geographical spread within the Democratic Republic of the Congo and to neighbouring countries (WHO)
https://www.who.int/csr/don/11-april-2019-ebola-drc/en/
SITUATION UPDATE-DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO
240 cases of suspected Ebola Virus Disease cases under investigation
944 confirmed cases
65 probable cases
Attacks on ETCs in Katwa and Butembo represented the first large-scale and organized attacks targeted directly at the Ebola response, and were of a different order of magnitude to episodes of mistrust in communities or dangers of being caught in crossfire between fighting parties
The high proportion of community deaths reported among confirmed cases, persistent delays in detection and isolation in ETCs, challenges in the timely reporting and response to probable cases, collectively increase the likelihood of further chains of transmission in affected communities and increased risk of geographical spread within the Democratic Republic of the Congo and to neighbouring countries
There is risk of increased population movement anticipated during periods of heightened insecurity, increasing the possibilities of disease transmission
De Faakto intelligence assessment on 12 October 2018, noted the security situation would directly impact the response of authorities and the procedures required to counter the Ebola Virus. Inadequate infection control continues to be a challenge. Key mitigation strategies include, improved security, surveillance, screening and infection control.
Ministere de la Sante Republique Democratique du Congo
DRC MINISTRY of HEALTH-EBOLA UPDATE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO
Update-The World Health Organization &U.S. Center for Disease Control
During the reporting period of 26 March 2019
68 healthcare workers have been infected to date
Reuters News-Key Points
DRCongo is the world’s second worst ever Ebola outbreak
Health workers have been better prepared than ever for this latest epidemic
New technologies like a trial vaccine, experimental treatments and futuristic cube-shaped mobile units for treating patients have helped curb the spread of the virus
Public mistrust and rampant insecurity in the parts of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where Ebola has struck have hampered the response, complicating the fight against it
Last Wednesday, authorities confirmed a case of Ebola in Bunia, another city of close to 1 million people
Five Ebola centres have been attacked since last month, sometimes by armed assailants. The violence led French medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) to suspend its activities at the epicentre of the outbreak last month
DR. ROBERT REDFIELD OF THE U.S. CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL WARNS,
Controlling the difficult and dangerous Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo may take another year or more
It would be a mistake not to plan for a more prolonged outbreak, given the evident complexity of stopping transmission of the virus in north eastern DRC.
We cannot underestimate this outbreak
We need a long-term strategy (CDC)
WHO Risk Assessment
National and regional risk levels remain very high, though global risk levels remain low
Attacks on Ebola Treatment Centers represented the first large-scale and organized attacks targeted directly at the Ebola response
Persistence of pockets of community resistance and mistrust, exacerbated by political tensions and insecurity, have resulted in recurrent temporary suspension and delays of case investigation and response activities in affected areas; reducing the overall effectiveness of interventions
Community engagement is key to successfully controlling outbreaks. Good outbreak control relies on applying a package of interventions, namely case management, infection prevention and control practices, surveillance and contact tracing, a good laboratory service, safe and dignified burials and social mobilisation
Early supportive care with rehydration, symptomatic treatment improves survival. There is as yet no licensed treatment proven to neutralize the virus but a range of blood, immunological and drug therapies are under development (WHO)
Ministere de la Sante Republique Democratique du Congo https://us13.campaign-archive.com/?u=89e5755d2cca4840b1af93176&id=20dee366c5
Reuters https://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKCN1R61O6-OZATP
Unknown number of suspected Ebola Virus Disease cases under investigation
980 Ebola Virus Disease cases
88, 360 persons have been vaccinated with rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine, manufactured by the pharmaceutical group Merck
Eastern DR Congo city of Bunia-21 March 2019
A six-month-old baby has died of Ebola
This is the first fatality of the disease in a provincial capital
Bunia, has a population of 300,000
This death places the city at significant risk for the spread of the Ebola Virus
Ministere de la Sante Republique Democratique du Congo https://us13.campaign-archive.com/?u=89e5755d2cca4840b1af93176&id=bddce164c4
WHO https://www.who.int/csr/don/21-march-2019-ebola-drc/en/
Stat News https://www.statnews.com/2019/03/15/redfield-projection-ebola-drc/
Modern Ghana https://www.modernghana.com/news/922333/ebola-death-confirmed-in-eastern-dr-congo-provincial-capital.html
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION IS REPORTING,
227 suspected Ebola Virus Disease cases under investigation
84,361 persons have been vaccinated with rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine, manufactured by the pharmaceutical group Merck
There is a potential risk for transmission of EVD at the national and regional levels due to extensive travel between the affected areas, the rest of the country, and neighbouring countries for economic and personal reasons, as well as due to insecurity
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION https://www.who.int/csr/don/7-march-2019-ebola-drc/en/
DE FAAKTO EBOLA-SITREP-ANALYSIS-DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO http://defaakto.com/2019/02/02/ebola-sitrep-analysis-democratic-republic-congo/
During the reporting period of 27 FEBRUARY 2019
Ministere de la Sante Republique Democratique du Congo https://us13.campaign-archive.com/?u=89e5755d2cca4840b1af93176&id=ec0e947de0
WHO https://www.who.int/csr/don/28-february-2019-ebola-drc/en/
EBOLA CENTER ATTACKED
148 new cases Ebola Virus Disease
1 new healthcare workers infected
EBOLA TREATMENT CENTER ATTACKED-25 February 2019
Ebola Treatment Center (ETC) in Katwa
Ransacked and set on fire
This fire resulted in the death of nurse who was trying to escape
Butembo’s mayor is urging the people of the country to work with Ebola response teams to stop the spread of the disease
The mayor also denounced the incivists whose intention is the destabilization of health experts
Ministere de la Sante Republique Democratique du Congo https://us13.campaign-archive.com/?u=89e5755d2cca4840b1af93176&id=237227191e
SITUATION EBOLA UPDATE
The Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak is continuing with moderate intensity
Small clusters of Ebola Virus Disease continue to occur in various geographically dispersed locations
79 new cases Ebola Virus Disease
No new healthcare worker(s) infected
DE FAAKTO OUTBREAK INTELLIGENCE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO
1 new healthcare worker infected
The last review conducted on 7 February 2019, outlines the high risk the EVD outbreak poses at the national and regional levels, though global risk levels remain low
There is a potential risk for transmission of EVD at the national and regional levels due to extensive travel between the affected areas, the rest of the country, and neighbouring countries
WHO reviewed its risk assessment on 9 January 2019 for the outbreak and the risk remains very high at the national and regional levels; the global risk level remains low
There is a potential risk for transmission of Ebola virus at the national and regional levels due to extensive travel between the affected areas, the rest of the country, and neighbouring countries for economic and personal reasons as well as due to insecurity
As the risk of national and regional spread is very high, it is important for neighbouring provinces and countries to enhance surveillance and preparedness activities (WHO)
EBOLA RESPONSE UNDERMINED BY SECURITY IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
The lack of security is impacting Ebola Virus Disease response activities and increasing the risk that the virus will continue to spread.
DRC MINISTRY of HEALTH https://us13.campaign-archive.com/?u=89e5755d2cca4840b1af93176&id=8de649dc78
OUTBREAK INTELLIGENCE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO
World Health Organization EBOLA UPDATE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO
Total of 789 Ebola Virus Disease cases
Democratic Republic of Congo Ministry of Health-Epidemiological Situation Report
459 deaths from Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) cases (405 confirmed and 54 probable)
733 cumulative cases of EVD
679 confirmed cases of EVD
54 probable cases of EVD
165 suspected cases under investigation
https://us13.campaign-archive.com/?u=89e5755d2cca4840b1af93176&id=cfa1f4d690
World Health Organization EBOLA UPDATE-Democratic Republic of the Congo
WHO risk assessment-25 January 2019
WHO reviewed its risk assessment for the outbreak and the risk remains very high at the national and regional levels; the global risk level remains low. This outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease is affecting north-eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo bordering Uganda, Rwanda and South Sudan. There is a potential risk for transmission of EVD at the national and regional levels due to extensive travel between the affected areas, the rest of the country, and neighbouring countries for economic and personal reasons as well as due to insecurity
WHO https://www.who.int/csr/don/24-january-2019-ebola-drc/en/
During the reporting period of 22 January 2019
Sixty-one healthcare workers have been infected to date
Outbreak Intelligence
Security in Democratic Republic of Congo remains unsettled due to recent elections & concurrent violence
The United Nations Human Rights Office & the Times Live-South Africa reports,
Clashes between the Banunu and Batende communities
890 people are believed to have been killed in ethnic violence in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo
465 houses and buildings, including schools, a health center, market and office of the national electoral commission, had been burned or pillaged
The lack of security is impacting Ebola Virus Disease response activities and increasing the risk that the virus will continue to spread
The Times Live https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/africa/2019-01-16-nearly-900-killed-in-ethnic-violence-in-drc-in-mid-december-says-un/
During the reporting period of 8 January 2019
WHO’s risk assessment for the outbreak is currently very high at the national and regional levels; the global risk level remains low
There is a potential risk for transmission of Ebola at the national and regional levels due to extensive travel between the affected areas
Security in Democratic Republic of Congo remains unsettled due to questionable election results
From the BBC
The Catholic Church, which posted 40,000 election observers, says the result does not match its findings
The runner-up, opposition candidate Martin Fayulu, has told the BBC he will mount a legal challenge against the official vote count
“The result is a coup and not the truth from the ballot,” he said on Thursday. “The Congolese want change.”
He accused Mr Tshisekedi of reaching a power-sharing deal with the ruling party, a claim the veteran figure has denied
There are fears the result could trigger unrest
De Faakto intelligence assessment on 12 October 2018, noted the security situation would directly impact the response of authorities and the procedures required to counter the Ebola Virus. Inadequate infection control continues to be a challenge for health care workers as indicated by reports of the numbers of health care workers being infected. Key mitigation strategies include, improved security, surveillance, screening and infection control.
During the reporting period (27 December 2018 – 2 January 2019)
16 newly confirmed cases were reported
Total of 609 EVD cases (561 confirmed and 48 probable)
370 deaths
No new cases in healthcare workers
There have been a total of 55 EVD cases involving healthcare workers, of which 18 have died 36%
Security in Democratic Republic of Congo remains unsettled due to delayed election results
From Reuters,
U.S. military personnel had deployed to Gabon in response to possible violent demonstrations in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a presidential election there
From the BBC,
UN: DR Congo violence drives 16,000 to Brazzaville
The UN says people fled to the neighbouring Republic of Congo after violence broke out in Yumbi, in the DR Congo province of Mai-Ndombe
UN refugee agency is saying that the violence did not have anything to do with the presidential election on Sunday, but are the result of inter-communal clashes between Banunus and Batende
Dozens have been killed in the clashes
As of 26 December 2018, a total of 591 EVD cases, including 543 confirmed and 48 probable cases
54 were healthcare workers, of which 18 died
Overall, 357 cases have died (case fatality ratio 60%)
On 27 December 2018, protests at government buildings in Beni spilled over to an Ebola transit centre, frightening people waiting for Ebola test results and the staff who were caring for them. Staff at the centre temporarily withdrew and most suspected cases were transferred to a nearby treatment centre. WHO is concerned about the negative effects that the current insecurity is having on efforts to control the outbreak
As the risk of national and regional spread is very high, it is important for neighbouring provinces and countries to enhance surveillance and preparedness activities
De Faakto Intelligence Assessment
WHO Ebola Information,
https://www.who.int/csr/don/28-december-2018-ebola-drc/en/
Elections in DRC-Congo may lead to heightened political tension, a deterioration of the overall security situation and violent civil unrest; presenting an indirect threat to the Ebola response operations
As of 18 December, 549 EVD cases (501 confirmed and 48 probable), including 326 deaths (case fatality ratio 59%)
35 new cases reported each week since mid-October
In the past week, two new infections of health workers have been reported – 55 (53 confirmed and two probable) health workers have been infected to date, of whom 19 have died
WHO’s risk assessment for the outbreak is currently very high at the national and regional levels; the global risk level remains low. WHO continues to advice against any restriction of travel to, and trade with, the Democratic Republic of the Congo based on currently available information
As of 11 December, 505 EVD cases (457 confirmed and 48 probable), including 296 deaths
The Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is occurring in an unforgiving context. Non-engagement from communities and conflict continue to hamper response activities in some affected areas. Moreover, poor infection prevention and control (IPC) practices across numerous private and public health centers remain a major source of amplification of the outbreak and risk to health and other frontline workers.
Despite these challenges, substantial progress has been made on multiple fronts to address the situation, and daily successes are being observed in the implementation of proven public health measures alongside newer tools, such as vaccination and novel therapeutics.
WHO’s risk assessment for the outbreak is currently very high at the national and regional levels; the global risk level remains low.
Report From Outbreak News Today,
UNICEF reported this week that children now account for more than one third of the Ebola cases in affected regions of the eastern DRC.
The UN children’s agency also reported that one in ten Ebola cases is under five-years-old, while children who contract the Ebola virus are at higher risk of dying from the disease than adults.
World Health Organization,
Outbreak News Today,
http://outbreaknewstoday.com/dr-congo-ebola-outbreak-tops-500-cases-children-severely-affected-93147/
As of 4 December, 458 EVD cases (410 confirmed and 48 probable), including 271 deaths, have been reported in 11 health zones
During the reporting period (28 November – 4 December 2018), 35 new cases were reported
Public and private health centres with inadequate infection prevention and control (IPC) practices continue to be major source of amplification of the outbreak. During the reporting period, two new infections were reported in health workers, and at least one new case likely acquired EVD from an infected health worker during a routine visit
Altogether, 44 health workers (41 nurses and three doctors) have been infected to date
WHO Ebola Outbreak News,
Outbreak News Today Vaccination Report
Vaccination : With more than 40,000 vaccinated people, vaccination teams have prevented tens of thousands of cases and deaths. Without the intervention of the agents of the response, the country would probably have already reached more than 10,000 Ebola cases in 4 months, or nearly half of the balance sheet of the epidemic in West Africa that lasted 2 years.
http://outbreaknewstoday.com/ebola-outbreak-drc-health-minister-holds-press-conference-36527/
As of 27 November, 422 EVD cases (375 confirmed and 47 probable)1, including 242 deaths, have been reported in 11 health zones in North Kivu Province and three health zones in Ituri Province
The risk of the outbreak spreading to other provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as to neighbouring countries, remains very high.
During the reporting period (21—27 November 2018), 36 new cases were reported: 13 in Beni, nine in Katwa, six in Kalungunta, six in Butembo, one in Kyondo and one in Oicha. Two health workers from Katwa and Kyondo were among the newly infected; 42 health workers have been infected to date. Twelve additional survivors were discharged from Ebola treatment centres (ETCs) in Beni (six) and Butembo (six), and reintegrated into their communities; 125 patients have recovered to date.
More information about Ebola from the WHO,
http://www.who.int/csr/don/29-november-2018-ebola-drc/en/
Outbreak News Today is reporting,
Ebola update: 5 family members in Katwa infected as outbreak total mounts
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Ministry of Health (MOH) recorded 13 more new cases of Ebola bringing the cumulative number of cases is 386
Of this total, 339 are confirmed and 47 are probable. In total, there were 219 deaths (172 confirmed and 47 probable)
Of the new cases in the Katwa Health Zone, five are family members living in the Rughenda health area. They were registered as contacts of a confirmed case of Katwa who died in early November. They had refused vaccination and follow-up. They finally agreed to be treated at Butembo CTE
http://outbreaknewstoday.com/ebola-update-5-family-members-katwa-infected-outbreak-total-mounts-30439/
From World Health Organization-UPDATE EBOLA OUTBREAK DRC
Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo
Disease outbreak news: Update
FDA authorizes emergency use of first Ebola fingerstick test with portable reader
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that an emergency use authorization (EUA) has been issued for a rapid, single-use test for the detection of Ebola virus (Zaire ebolavirus). This is the second Ebola rapid antigen fingerstick test available under EUA, but the first that uses a portable battery-operated reader, which can help provide clear diagnostic results outside of laboratories and in areas where patients are likely to be treated.
The test, called the DPP Ebola Antigen System, is used with blood specimens, including capillary “fingerstick” whole blood, from individuals with signs and symptoms of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in addition to other risk factors, such as living in an area with large numbers of EVD cases and/or having contact with other individuals exhibiting signs and symptoms of EVD.
FDA,
https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm625502.htm?utm_campaign=20181114%20MCMi&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua
As of 6 November, 308 EVD cases (273 confirmed and 35 probable), including 189 deaths (154 confirmed and 35 probable)1, have been reported in eight health zones in North Kivu Province and three health zones in Ituri Province
The risk of the outbreak spreading to other provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as to neighbouring countries, remains very high. Over the course of the past week, alerts have been reported from the South Sudan, Uganda and Yemen; EVD has been ruled out for all alerts to date. Uganda (geographically closest to outbreak affected areas), continues to intensify preparedness activities, and this week began to vaccinate health and frontline workers at priority health facilities.
As the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak enters the fourth month since declaration, and case numbers surpass 300, substantial progress has been achieved in all aspects of the response. Nevertheless, there remains a challenging road ahead to control intense transmission in the city of Beni and emerging hotspots in villages around Beni and Butembo. Security incidents and pockets of community resistance continue to impact civilians and frontline workers, requiring the response to continually adapt to the situation.
For full details see WHO,
As of 30 October 2018, 279 EVD cases (244 confirmed and 35 probable), including 179 deaths (144 confirmed and 35 probable)1, have been reported in eight health zones in North Kivu Province and three health zones in Ituri Province (Figure 2). Over the past week, 14 additional surivors were discharged from Ebola treatment centres (ETCs) and reintegrated into their communities; 81 patients have recovered to date.
With ongoing transmission in communities in North Kivu, the risk of the outbreak spreading to other provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as to neighbouring countries, remains very high. Over the course of the past week, alerts have been reported from the Tanganyika Province, Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, Uganda and Yemen. To date, EVD has been ruled out for all alerts from neighbouring provinces and countries.
See FDA,
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Security incidents over the past week, ranging from clashes between rebel and government forces resulting in civilian deaths to response vehicles being pelted with stones, continued to cause community distress and severely impede response activities for the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. These incidents are occurring amidst intense EVD transmission in communities in the city of Beni. In spite of these challenges, the Ministry of Health (MoH), WHO and partners are reinforcing efforts to contain the outbreak; WHO does not currently plan to reduce the response team comprised of over 250 WHO staff.
Since the last Disease Outbreak News (i.e. during 16–23 October),
–27 new confirmed cases were reported: 24 from Beni (including one resident of Mandima who was hospitalized in Beni), and three from Butembo
–Newly reported cases, eight were known contacts of previously confirmed cases at the time of reporting, two were linked retrospectively to transmission chains, and 17 remain under investigation
–A health worker from a community health post in Beni was among the newly infected; 21 health workers have been infected to date, of whom three have died
As of 23 October 2018,
–247 EVD cases (212 confirmed and 35 probable)
-Including 159 deaths (124 confirmed and 35 probable)1, have been reported in seven health zones in North Kivu Province and three health zones in Ituri Province
-Sixty-five cases have recovered, been discharged from Ebola treatment centres (ETCs) and reintegrated into their communities
–Risk of the outbreak spreading to other provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as to neighbouring countries, remains very high with ongoing transmission in communities in North Kivu
-Enhanced efforts are needed to ensure areas beyond the main affected health zones are prepared and operationally ready to rapidly detect, investigate and respond to any such exportations of the virus
-Over the course of the past week, alerts have been reported from Mauritania, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda, and the United Republic of Tanzania
-To date, EVD has been ruled out in all these alerts from neighbouring provinces and countries
WHO Ebola
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Agenda and draft minutes
Meeting administered by Gravesham Borough Council, South Thames Gateway Building Control Joint Committee - Thursday, 5 December 2019 10.00 am
Agenda reports pack PDF 391 KB
Venue: Usually held at the Civic Centre in Gravesend
An apology of absence was received from Cllr Ian Thomas (Canterbury).
Minutes PDF 75 KB
The minutes of the meeting held on Thursday, 19 September 2019 was agreed as a correct record and signed by the Chairman.
No declarations of interest.
Monitoring Report - September 2019 to November 2019 PDF 137 KB
The Director of the STGBCP introduced the report which updated the Committee on the current forecast for the 2019/20 financial year and gave details of the progress against the objectives of the Business Plan 2019/2020.
The Director of the STGBCP further briefed the Committee on the additional training undertaken by staff, performance statistics and other key information from the report.
The Committee noted the information provided and raised the following comments:
The report indicated that it was the correct decision to ensure the staff were given high levels of training and it was vital to retain those trained up staff members to maintain the workload of the Partnership
The public needed to understand that there was a cost implication involved for carrying out the work
The Director of the STGBCP advised that the public pay a regularisation fee based on the type of work that was being done, i.e. a specific fee for a two story building compared to a single storey. The fees were set as part of the charges legislation in accordance with the CIPFA guide and in line with the charges across Kent so that STG did not price itself out of the market. At the previous meeting it was agreed that the Partnerships fees would increase by 2% in January 2020.
The Director of the STGBCP updated Members on an email that had been circulated to customers asking them to pay an additional £150 to receive extra information on their premises. The email was from the liquidators and following the Local Authority Building Control (LABC) body carrying out a review, they found that the records that the customers would receive upon payment were no different to the information that could be easily accessed by an FOI request, at no charge, from the Partnership. The fact that customers did not need to pay that additional £150 fee couldn’t be broadcasted on STG’s website due to legal issues however the administration team were instructed to inform customers that they didn’t believe they would receive any new information from that payment.
The Chair questioned whether or not the truth could be told to customers without any legal repercussions. An example being: ‘the LABC had carried out trials of paying the additional payment and had received no new records or information in addition to what was already available’.
Following further discussion, it was agreed that it would be better if the message regarding the irrelevant payment was broadcasted through the four Councils’ Communication teams. The Chair advised that he would ask Gravesham’s Communications Manager to contact the Director of the STG Building Control Partnership to agree the specific wording regarding the additional payment being irrelevant and then circulate the response to the four local authorities. Once a common theme and wording was agreed then it could be pushed out to the public to make them aware.
In response to a query regarding the Reserves, the Director of the STGBCP explained that £40,000 had been contributed to the Reserves as currently ... view the full minutes text for item 18.
To move, if required, that pursuant to Section 100A (4) of the Local Government Act 1972 that the public be excluded from any items included in Part B of the agenda because it is likely in view of the nature of business to be transacted that if members of the public are present during those items, there would be disclosure to them of exempt information as defined in Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act.
South Thames Gateway Building Control Business Plan & Delivery Plan 2020-2023
The Director of the STGBCP sought the Committee’s agreement to the South Thames Gateway Building Control Partnership’s Business Plan and Delivery Plan for 2020-2023 (dated 01 October 2019, Version 2).
Following presentation of the draft Business Plan at Joint Committee on 19 September 2019 the Plan has now been circulated for comments and Members were asked to agree any revisions.
The Director of the STGBCP outlined key points from the report and directed Members’ attention to the Business Plan and Delivery Plan attached at appendices 1 and 2 respectively.
The Chair questioned if it was still the intention of the Director of the STGBCP to attend Overview Scrutiny Committee’s at the four local authorities to further explain her report to Members.
The following points were made in relation to scrutiny:
The Director of the STG Building Control Partnership advised that she had only attended the Overview Scrutiny Committee at Gravesham
The Director (Planning & Development) added that the report was going to Chief Executive’s Briefing on 16 December 2019 and then would be submitted to the Cabinet meeting in January 2020. It is currently planned that it would then go to Overview Scrutiny. The Chair, in his Role as Gravesham Leader, advised it should not automatically go toe Overview Scrutiny but it should remain subject to call in. Cllr Chitty explained that she would also take the report to her Cabinet after which it could be subject to call in by the Overview Scrutiny Committee
The Director of Finance and Procurement, Canterbury City Council stated that the report had been approved by her internal management team; CCC had transitioned back to the Committee System governance arrangement which meant there was no scrutiny structure available
The Chair queried how much the STGBCP charged for their pre-application information and how STG could be promoted more, especially with all of the changes that were going to be made with building and fire regulations
The Director of the STGBCP explained that:
Customers could not be charged for the first hour, any time spent after the first hour was charged a set hourly rate. The usual practice was to inform the customer that they will be charged a certain amount and the amount they paid upfront will be reflected in their submitted application cost
The fire regulations were very important and the intention was to encourage more of the partnerships’ senior building control surveyors to become qualified as LABC level 6 building control surveyors. Currently the partnership and one other authority in Kent has a surveyor trained at this level for fire
Staff at the STGBCP would need to be incentivised to go for their higher level qualification at level 6 in the future as there is a lower pass rate at this level (70%) and it requires significant work
The new Customer Facing Strategy looked at making it more efficient for customers to contact the STGBCP; an online chat facility was being investigated for customers to be able to contact officers more easily but ... view the full minutes text for item 20.
The Chair felt that a smaller room was much better for the South Thames Gateway Building Control Joint Committee meetings and it was agreed that the remaining meetings to be held at Gravesham for the financial year would be held in CS1.
In conclusion, the Chair wished officers and Members a Merry Christmas.
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Laura Martocci
Narrated by Colleen Patrick
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Book published by Temple University Press
In her forceful social history, Bullying, Laura Martocci explores the “bully culture” that has claimed national attention since the late 1990s.
Moving beyond the identification of aggressive behaviors to an analysis of how and why we have arrived at a culture that thrives on humiliation, she critiques the social forces that gave rise to, and help maintain, bullying. Martocci’s analysis of gossip, laughter, stereotyping, and competition—dynamics that foment bullying and prompt responses of shame, violence, and depression—is positioned within a larger social narrative: the means by which we negotiate damaged social bonds and the role that bystanders play in the possibility of atonement, forgiveness, and redemption.
Martocci’s fresh perspective on bullying positions shame as pivotal. She urges us to acknowledge the pain and confusion caused by social disgrace; to understand its social, psychological, and neurological nature; and to address it through narratives of loss, grief, and redemption—cultural supports that are already in place.
Laura Martocci is a Sociologist and the Founder and Director of the S.A.R.A. Project® (Students Against Relational Aggression). Most recently, she was a faculty member and an Associate Dean at Wagner College.
“Martocci’s book offers a new and exciting interdisciplinary and sociocultural approach to the serious and complex issue of bullying. Her approach focuses on the psychosocial dynamics of humiliation and shame—how to understand this relational process and how to change the behaviors that restore people’s relations and identities. Bullying is complex and multifaceted work. I am greatly impressed by Martocci’s analysis and framework, which draw from social science and social theory, social psychology, and psychoanalysis. I am certain that Bullying will have a wide appeal to both academics working in cultural studies and educators, practitioners, and clinicians working on this social problem.”
—E. Doyle McCarthy, Professor of Sociology at Fordham University
“Martocci’s book is both compassionate and impartial, balancing the emotion surrounding bulling with the integrity of her research.... Martocci uses her expertise in sociology to deconstruct the cultural, social, and historical factors that drive bullying—and give those who’ve been bullied a means to shun shame and reconstruct their identities. Bullying delves into the origins of bullying and identifies the path to healing. Martocci doesn’t brush off the problem or resort to pep talks; she proves that the best solutions dig to the root of the problem. By offering deep study and research into the many facets of bullying, she provides hope, showing how narrative writing allows people who’ve been bullied to structure their experiences and define themselves. For those whose sense of identity has been forced on them by others and whose day-to-day lives are run by shame and avoidance, this approach is powerful and life-giving.... Her tone is compassionate yet impartial, balancing the emotion of the subject and the integrity of research. Her interviews with people who have been bullied are insightful and heart-wrenching.”
—Foreword Reviews
“Martocci offers a thought-provoking argument about the cross-sectional impact of humiliation, shame, and bullying. She critiques the very underpinnings of bullying as it relates to humiliation and shame by going beyond the typical discourse in which most bullying discussions exist within society and academia. In doing so, Martocci posits that individuals need to recognize the power of social exclusion and how it perpetuates bullying behaviors. Through a thoughtful and well-developed argument, she attempts to shift the way in which we view bullying in our society.... Martocci does a masterful job at framing a new lens through which to view the bullying problem in our society and schools.”
—Teachers College Record
“Martocci analyzes the modes by which people fall victim to bullying; actions that are the social norm but when taken too far, or when motives are cruel, can lead to great harm for victims.... This investigation into bullying was effective in helping the reader understand the societal and historical causes that have fostered a bullying society as well as explain the social aspects of bullying.... Martocci provides a well-written analysis of social factors and emotions that play a role [in bullying]. In this regard, she helps place important research in a broader context.”
—The Journal of Youth and Adolescence
“A very useful and up-to-date discussion of the social-emotional origins of bullying.”
—Thomas Scheff, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Looking to the Blues as record of Black folks’ loss and longing
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What the Blues is seems to have been co opted by white fetishists of Black expression, and its many forms.
-@donnie_morelamd
by Donnie Moreland
This essay mentions domestic violence.
August Wilson once noted, “The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they find themselves in.” I believe this to be true, in so far as the Blues may no longer be misappropriated and mythologized by folks who’d rather use it as ahistorical American pageantry than a record of their crimes. And in contemporary discourse of what we are, we need it back—and other fixtures of our ethos—to understand our becoming.
What the Blues is seems to have been co opted by white fetishists of Black expression, and its many forms. There seems to have been a mythologizing of the Blues, and its actors, as a distant world comprised of the heroics of anti-heroes, whose conditions were merely symptoms of bad luck.
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In the article, Blues Expressiveness and the Blues Ethos, written by Adam Gussow, the Blues is referred to almost theologically. The goal of research being not to investigate the conditions by which the Blues came to be, but to further preserve the right to reverence by pronouncing the Blues as such a grand spectacle that it exists solely for consumption. How Gussow speaks of his notion of the Blues ethos would have one believe the actors apart of the Blues creation were emotionally immovable objects of implicit stoicism.
According to Gussow, “The blues ethos, as a concept, is multipronged, not unitary. It is a handful of attitudes and strategies for coping gracefully with the worst that life can throw at you.” My concern with Gussow’s position is that it ignores a pivotal truth about the blues ethos: Slavery and Post-Slavery legacies. As Amiri Baraka (formerly Leroi Jones) author of Blues People: The Negro Experience in White America and The Music that Developed from it, suggests, “But if the Blues was a music that developed because of the negroes adaptation to, and adoption of, America, it was also a music that developed because of the Negroes peculiar position in this country.”
If we consider the position of Black folk in America, it is a position of concession. A position of finding calm in a state of constant calamity. But this is not some ideal by which to celebrate with a type of spectatorial admiration. It is a mechanism by which we must entertain in order to live with some manner of dignity. Thus, the “grace” which Gussow speaks of, is not some magic trait of our interior, but a dire measure of surviving white violence, or as Gussow minimizes as, “the worst life can throw at you.”
If anything, this type of stoicism-as-survival serves as record. Record of cultural oppression, which we can observe the Blues as, if the stories by which the Blues are founded exist as part of a narrative of response to ethnic genocide. Looking to the Blues as record, destigmatizes it as something all-together religious in the white imagination and allows us to explore, in a kind of culturally anthropological way, as a means of inquiring what was done to us and how we were shaped as a consequence.
If we can look to the Blues as record, what we come to understand is how a people under persistent duress come to understand life and its meanings. How do a people whose priority should be navigating the conditions of self-making, but instead are caught up in parrying the implicit strategies of state sponsored genocide, determine a moral value system by which to negotiate the lived experience. For Black folk, it was through a type of warped moral rigor, wherein because we’ve lost so much, losing more was a greater terror to life than the terror of what could be sustained.
It is this kind of unconditional affirmation of acceptance which sets up the ethically inconsequential messaging of Blues artists like Robert Johnson, Howling Wolf and Muddy Waters, or the undercurrent of unconditional absolution in certain records from artists, such as Billie Holiday. Whatever the abuse, what exists on the other side of losing someone is always worse. Thus, goodness and badness become oppressive in how they influence the act of separation, so in many cases it was best to just throw them away and deal with the abuse, more as a consequence of circumstance and not a means of intervention, dissociation or repair.
It is what exists beneath the ethos of Gayl Jones’ Corregidora . According to Jones, In a 1978 interview with the Massachusetts Review, in which she speaks about the influence of the Blues and the Blues poem, Deep Song, on the interpersonal dimensions of the character relationships in the novel:
“Blues talks about the simultaneity of good and bad, as feeling, as something felt. In the poem, ‘Deep Song,’ how do people react to the words ‘good’ and ‘bad?’ I think people have the same attraction to the line ‘Sometimes he is a bad dark man’ as they do the line ‘Sometimes he is a good dark man.’ It has to do with meanings and things having a lot of different meanings at once. The last line is ‘I love him.’ It isn’t ‘But I love him.’ I think that’s important because it has to do with being, and it doesn’t set up any territories. It doesn’t set feelings off into a corner… It acknowledges both things… That’s what interests me. Ambiguity.”
It is this ambiguity which links records such as Robert Johnson’s, Me and The Devil Blues and Billie Holiday’s, My Man, by a thread of moral inconsequentialism related to the subject of domestic violence. Though Johnson’s character in the song seems to receive his comeuppance for “beating his woman” in some portrait of death as retribution, there is no tangible consequence for his abuse as a result of his existential ire.
The same applies with Holiday’s My Man. In Blues Legacies and Black Feminism, scholar Angela Davis argues that Holiday’s transformative performance of the song, “warns against a facile, literal interpretation” of lyrics such as, “He isn’t true. He beats me too.” Davis asserts that, “the ambivalent posture” by which Holiday may be navigating her relationship (and abuse) in performing the song, “highlights the contradictions and ambiguities of women’s love relationships and creates a space within which female subjectivity can move toward self-consciousness.”
And while there is great significance in the transmutative properties of expression and how expression influences interpretation, the question becomes what do we do with the abuse, and the abuser, for which Holiday was subject even after her metaphysically reconstructive arc? If the answer to violence has primarily been how the survivor manages in the aftermath, then where are we to navigate preemptive intervention in the contemporary.
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If we examine the Blues as record, then we are left with a legacy of the Blues and the morality from which informs it. A legacy of, again, rigged inconsequentialism. A moral inconsequentialism which partially informs how we’ve arrived at a place of moral dismay related to matters of gendered oriented violence, gender equity and accountability. A moral inconsequentialism which conflates how things are (and were) to how they should be.
In reclaiming ownership of an ethnic fixture, such as Blues, and the bodies which made/make it up, we can discover something about our arrival into being. We can discover something about holding accountability, in retrospect. We discover how to illustrate the memories of our elders, our ancestors, and our ethos, and figure how to more properly navigate what it is we are becoming.
Donnie Denkins Moreland Jr is a Minnesota based youth violence prevention educator and writer. Donnie holds a Master’s Degree, in Film Studies, from National University and a Bachelor’s Degree, in Sociology, from Prairie View A&M University. Donnie has contributed to Black Youth Project, A Gathering of the Tribes and Sage Group Publishing.
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1925 Geo. B. Stone & Son Master-Model Drum
More than 800 Master-Model drums were produced by Boston's George B. Stone & Son between 1922 and the late 1930s. A wide variety of finishes were offered from black lacquer to white lacquer, and natural maple to marine pearl and sparkling pyralin wrap. But the most commonly seen configuration is the ever classy black lacquer with nickel plated hardware.
Not every surviving drum can be a gem. The one featured here is a weathered example having sustained its share of bumps and bruises over the decades yet its three ply shell is no less strong and in round despite the obvious cosmetic flaws. The typical Master-Model badge is affixed to the top counterhoop positioned just above the air vent adorned with a ridged synthetic grommet.
The paper label applied inside of the shell is stamped with a four digit serial number per usual but lacks a detectable date stamp. Curiously, a second label hides underneath. The second label, mostly obscured from view, does bear a date stamp though it is not completely legible. But by referencing other dated examples, this drum can be pinpointed to the early months of 1925.
Workers at the Stone factory were keeping a running tally of each Master-Model produced. Pencil markings found inside of the shell and underneath the counterhoops identify this drum as the 334th Master-Model to be produced.
Do you have a Stone Master-Model? I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to send Lee an email at lee@vinson.net. And for more on George B. Stone & Son and the other early 20th century drum manufacturers of Boston, Massachusetts, please visit BostonDrumBuilders.com.
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Genders: Romance, Comedy
Director: David Dobkin
Writer: Steve Faber, Bob Fisher
Actors: Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Rachel McAdams, Christopher Walken
IMDB score: 7
Movie name: Wedding Crashers
Company: New Line Cinema
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Witty, raunchy and sure to become a 'classic'
10/10 Saw a advance screening of this on Friday night. Hilarious doesn't do the film justice. You know how in most films you remember the funniest parts and bring them up as you leave the theater? This one, it's hard to remember the best parts because there's so many of them.
Unlike his previous films, where Vince Vaughn is usually reduced to the role of 'scene stealer', here we get a full dose of Babaganush, and he's in his finest form since 'Swingers'. If you liked him in his Swingers/Made persona, you'll love him here. Some of the riffs that he has literally will have you holding your sides with laughter.
Owen Wilson is Owen Wilson. You either like him or you don't. He's more of the straight man in this film, although he does have some pretty good lines too, and he has great chemistry with Vaughn, especially in the scenes where they're fighting. He's the ying to Vaughn's yang.
The movie certainly 'earns' it's R rating. There's a healthy dose of nudity, sex related hijinks, and f-bombs. But it's not 'gross out' humor a la American Pie. It pushes boundaries, but not just in a 'shock value' way. It's genuinely funny.
I saw the movie with a bunch of critics, who usually the jaded type, were laughing their asses of as well. Guys will love this movie and will be quoting it for the rest of the year. Girls will love it too though, and there is a romantic subplot (cheesy at times, but forgivable given how funny the movie is), with Rachael McAdams doing a great job as Owen Wilson's love interest. Isla Fischer plays the role of 'scene stealer' in this one, serving as Vince Vaughn's psycho love interest. And Chris Walken is Chris Walken.
So overall..inappropriate, hilarious and glorious. Better than Oldschool. Way better than Anchorman. Best comedy of the year, maybe the last couple of years.
Excellent summer movie
8/10 This movie will never win an Oscar, but it still surprised me and became my favorite summer movie this year. The plot, as in all good summer comedies, is simple. Two guys who crash weddings to pick up woman have zany adventures and learn a little something along the way. The real fun of this movie is in the actors, who deliver their performances perfectly. Owen Wilson is the aging California surfer type who may be ready to move on with his life. Vince Vaughn is his best friend who frequently acts like a spoiled, horny child but is actually a good guy. Christopher Walken is the slightly scary father of the love interest. So if you have seen Wilson in Shanghai Noon and Vaughn in Swingers and Walken in, well almost anything he has ever made, then you have seen these characters before. But still, they just work well together here. The movie contains just enough real emotion to keep you caring and enough absurdity and broad physical comedy to keep you laughing. This isn't Shakespeare, but it is funny. Highly recommend.
Wilson and Vaughn: The Perfect Couple?
8/10 The Frat-Pack, are surely the hardest working collective in Hollywood. Hardly a month goes by without a movie featuring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jack Black, Will Ferrell, or those Wilson boys Luke and Owen being released.
When Starsky and Hutch paired Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller it was good, when Dodgeball put Vince Vaughn with Ben Stiller it was better, but "Wedding Crashers" could well be the finest Frat-Pack pairing to date.
Although Wilson and Vaughn have appeared in four movies together so far, this is the first where they've both taken star billing. In "Wedding Crashers", John Beckwith (Wilson) and Jeremy Klein (Vaughn), are a pair of divorce mediators whose passion in life is sneaking into weddings to take advantage of the free food.. and of course score with girls.
They have a strict 'crashers rulebook', which dictates the etiquette of the pick-up, such as 'never use your real name'. It also suggests, by behaving raucously, loudly and generally being the life-and-soul, people will think you're so obnoxious, you can't not have been invited.
The pair eventually find themselves at odds with each other when John meets and falls for a bridesmaid at the Washington society wedding of the year.
Although "Wedding Crashers" is at times formulaic, the comic performances raise this movie above par and in lesser hands the main characters could have descended into Rom-Com cliche. The fast-talking machine-gun delivery of Vaughn is the perfect accompaniment to Wilson's laconic style. Their single-guy banter's often painfully accurate, as is the acknowledgement they're both a little too old to be acting so carelessly. There are also some great comic set-pieces too, notably the divorce meeting, the weddings montage, the cringe-worthy football game and the hunting trip.
The supporting cast are also an asset, Christopher Walken expertly walks the tightrope of being both broodingly intimidating and likable, while Rachel McAdams' 'Claire' has a charming vulnerability and an easy-to-fall-in love with quality. Former "Home and Away" pin-up Isla Fisher however, is less convincing.
I admit "Wedding Crashers" is far from perfect, at time situations seem too contrived, the nudity is laughably gratuitous, and Claire's evil fiancee Sack (Bradley Cooper) is an almost too heavy-handed device to make Wilson look good.
But if you can look past all that, and simply accept it for what it is, you're left with a very funny film. 8/10
This movie was hilarious
8/10 An excellent comedy, Vince Vaughn is a gifted comedian. He kept "Old School" going, was the only light in a dismal "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", and had a terrific debut lead in "Swingers". I highly recommend people considering this movie, to watch the extras on the DVD; there is a karaoke scene at an Asian wedding which will have you rolling. It is a shame it was cut from the movie, but as the director's comments stated, "They just couldn't find a place where it would fit." I was very pleasantly surprised at the number of times I laughed out loud, a rarity for me while watching comedies. The lines were witty, the delivery was crisp, and the jokes were mostly new and fresh. Rachel McAdams was stunning, an excellent casting choice to play the object of Owen Wilson's desire. Despite the more or less rehashed plot (two guys lie about themselves to meet women, only to find that they now have a dilemma when they find 2 they really like), the film is nonetheless novel and original. There are a number of obviously stereotypical characters, (drunken grandmother, artistic introverted son, psychotic cheating boyfriend, immoral mother, powerful father), but they work in this film. Particularly the grandmother, who is prone to drunken scatological exclamations, had me laughing my head off. It was quite unexpected.
Although many of the situations could come off as contrived, they were secondary to the excellent repartee between Wilson and Vaughn. Their comic pairing worked to a T.
I laughed so much, I cried too. Fun buddy movie of two friends who crash weddings to meet girls.
9/10 This could have been a shocking buddy movie, but the writing, the comedic performances and the simple concept, make this my favourite comedy of the year.
Divorce mediators John Beckwith (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy Grey (Vince Vaughn) are business partners and longtime friends who share a strange hobby, crashing weddings.
With intricate planning of back stories, the pair crash Jewish, Itaian, Irish, Chinese, even Hindu weddings, always with an answer for that question of "And you are".?
Wedding crashing has rules, handed down from one generation to the next :
"Invites are for losers", "Make sure she's single", "Never use your real name", "Dance like you mean it", "Free drinks, why not?", "If you can't cry, fake it!" and the most important; "Never leave a fellow crasher behind"
Though a kaleidescope of parties, we glimpse the whirlwind nature of wedding crashing. John and Jeremy aren't just out on the make, though the girls are their ultimate goal. They are sympathetic characters. Being the life of the party attracts the women, but these guys really do love the food, the bands, entertaining the kids and dressing up in their suits. Not only are they Wedding Crashers, they are Wedding experts.
The ultimate crashing challenge comes when the daughter of the Treasury Secretary (Christopher Walken) and he wife (Jane Seymor) is getting married in what is sure to be the social event of the year.
Of course, our friends find that this might just be a wedding too far, especially when they are invited to an extended weekend celebration at the Secretarys' home.
The fun really begins and I shall stop telling you what is going on as the ins and outs of this film are delightful. Jane Seymor has a marvellous scene with Owen Wilson and there are many moments you want to berry your head in the shoulder of the person next to you to stop laughing too loudly.
This is my favourite comedy of the year so far.
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Psychobilly, Horror-Punk, Rock'n Roll
CREEPSHOW, THE : Sell Your Soul
The Long Awaited Re-Release of the CREEPSHOW classic debut „Sell Your Soul“…. Enter if you dare(!) into the world of Canada's psycho punk sensation THE CREEPSHOW. A group whose fiendish mix of 1950's influenced rockabilly, and punk rock energy will have you shaking your hips, singing along and quite possibly howling at the next full moon! From the spine-tingling opening of "The Sermon" and the one-two punch of "Creatures Of The Night", on through the almost pop-like hooks of "Cherry Hill" and "Candy Kiss", the band's debut album SELL YOUR SOUL is as much fun as getting hopped up on massive amounts of sugar with your best ghoulfriend and watching a 3-D, sci-fi, horror b-movie, late on a dark and stormy Saturday night.
Let us warn you though, it's the back half of SELL YOUR SOUL where the real dangers lay... When "Zombie's Ate Her Brain" blasts out of your speakers, you'll want to run for cover! And when lead singer Hellcat goes toe-to-toe with The Matadors lead singer Hooch on the "done-me-wrong" anthem "Doghouse", you'll be left in stitches by the song's hilarious conclusion. But, the real surprise on SELL YOUR SOUL can be found buried on the back end of the album where the listener is hit with the hauntingly beautiful hooks and melody of "The Garden". Even those without souls (and even some who've had 1/2 their brains eaten by zombies!) have been known to shed a tear during the songs final chorus and stunning ending. Then, as quickly as "Psycho Ball & Chain" closes out the album, we guarantee that you'll immediately be back in line to ride this horrifying rollercoaster of fiendish anthems and mournful tunes again and again!
01. The Sermont
02. Creatures Of The Night
03. Shake
04. Sell Your Soul
05. Cherry Hill
01. Candy Kiss
02. Grave Diggers
03. Zombies Ate Her Brain
04. Garden, The
05. Doghouse
06. Psycho Ball & Chain
CREEPSHOW, THE : Death At My Door
Genre : Psychobilly
Format : Vinyl 12'' LP + Digital download
CREEPSHOW, THE : LIFE AFTER DEATH
Genre : Psychobilly, Punk-a-billy, Horror Rock n Roll
Genre : Psychobilly, Punk-a-billy, Horror Bop
CREEPSHOW, THE : Run For Your Life
Genre : Psychobilly, Rock'n Roll, Horrorbilly, Garage
Format : CD + Bonus DVD
Genre : Psychobilly, Horror-Punk, Rock'n Roll
Genre : Psychobilly, Horrorbilly injected with 50's Rockabilly
CREEPSHOW,THE : They All Fall Down
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Radio simulcasts streams slowly breaking into PPM ratings
Submitted by Paul Maloney on November 30, 2011 - 11:30am
RAIN 11/30: New customizable web radio service Senzari launches in U.S., Brazil
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Paragon Media's Larry Johnson blogged this week about Internet streams of broadcast radio stations increasingly appearing in Arbitron PPM ratings.
To be listed in the PPM ratings report, a "station or combo must have received at least one quarter-hour of listening credit from at least one In-Tab panelist and a Metro Cume rating of 0.495 or greater."
It's that second part, the cume rating, that's the greatest challenge for Internet streams being listed, he says. Paragon did an analysis of October ratings in four PPM markets, and found 18 station streams with enough listening to register in PPM. "However, only 22% of those listed stations posted 6+ Shares in October 2011 (Persons 6+ Monday-Sunday 6a-Midnight)." Obviously, any stream that made it in the listing had some listening. But the measurements are subject to rounding error, and those small audiences rounded down to zero.
"It would be great if all Internet, time-shifted archives/podcasts, mobile, and satellite radio were coded and accessible in the local market reports so we could get a comprehensive view of the audio listening landscape," Johnson wrote. "Now that the listing hurdle has been cleared, look for your station’s Internet stream to be an even more important part of your ratings profile."
Read the Paragon Media blog here.
Inside Radio: Arbitron plans to eventually use PPM to measure web radio
Submitted by Michael Schmitt on November 9, 2011 - 12:06pm
Inside Radio
RAIN 11/9: Gartner expects fivefold growth in what consumers spend for on-demand and premium Net radio by 2015
D Story
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 12:55pm
Arbitron hopes to launch a Total Audience Measurement service next year, which will include web radio listening via server-side data (more RAIN coverage here and here).
Today Inside Radio reports that "server-side data will only be a short-term scenario, necessitated by limitations PPM panels run into when measuring small slivers of how people consume content."
“As digital consumption increases, the panel that we have in place becomes a more effective tool in measuring [streaming],” said Arbitron EVP/COO Sean Creamer.
You can read more by subscribing to Inside Radio here.
To compete with over-the-air radio, Pandora says it needs the same audience metrics
Submitted by Paul Maloney on November 7, 2011 - 11:02am
AdsWizz
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Monday, November 7, 2011 - 12:00pm
Pandora founder Tim Westergren, speaking to advertising executives last week, stressed the need for a "universal metric" to measure listening to both traditional, broadcast radio and Internet radio services like his own.
"It's really absurd there's not an apples-to-apples" comparison, he told a group of advertising professionals at agency Horizon Media.
Pandora reported $176 million in ad revenues for its fiscal year ending July 31. Advertisers spent $17 billion on AM/FM radio advertising last year; and as Pandora says it now owns 4% of radio listening in the U.S., the webcaster obviously feels a bigger slice of that pie.
In fact, this sounds like exactly what audience metrics firm Arbitron is working towards now. Over the past few months, Arbitron has revealed some of its plans for an integrated over-the-air and Internet radio measurement system (in RAIN here and also here). Towards these efforts, the company acquired Finnish mobile audience measurement and analytics firm Zokem Oy (see RAIN here) in July, then partnered with Belgian ad tech firm AdSwizz last month (in RAIN here). Arbitron EVP/COO Sean Creamer explained AdSwizz will, in fact, convert server-based streaming radio data (such as from webcasters) into traditional broadcast radio metrics like Average Quarter Hour, Time Spent Listening, and Cumulative Audience.
Without a platform-agnostic metric, Chief Revenue Officer John Trimble explained Pandora sales efforts involve "doing manual calculations to turn unique visitors and time spent into traditional-radio metrics such as average quarterly hour," reports. Read more here.
Informal Arbitron survey shows radio not yet effectively "engaging" listeners via social media
Submitted by Paul Maloney on October 28, 2011 - 10:49am
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Friday, October 28, 2011 - 11:30am
Arbitron released the results of an informal study it conducted on radio stations' use of social media and stations' social media engagement with listeners. The bottom line: radio largely approaches social media -- which should be a platform for "engagement" and genuine "back-and-forth" between station and listeners -- as another form of "broadcasting" (the "we talk, you listen" model).
For the study, Arbitron randomly chose 15 stations (6 in markets 1-50, 5 in 51-149, 4 in 150+) of various formats and monitored their activities on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and blogs (apparently, radio's abandoned MySpace) over a recent Thursday-Saturday. As it turns out, almost all stations in every format are on Facebook, but not necessarily Twitter, YouTube and MySpace. Interestingly, the study found the average station has a Facebook audience equal to roughly 7% of its cume (this does vary, however, by genre... small cume stations often have highly-engaged and loyal listeners, e.g. sports talk). [See the chart below-left. We're not sure of the difference between the "7% of cume" figure cited in the study's text, and the "11%" average that appears in the chart.]
The study revealed that nearly three-quarters of stations surveyed didn’t post a single Twitter or Facebook update over the weekend. More than half the stations didn’t manage to elicit a listener response on their Facebook wall for the entire three-day survey period. And for what engagement with listeners there was, almost 80% of those exchanges originated with the station.
More than 1 in every 4 radio station Facebook posts were plugs for contests and giveaways, but those posts generated only 10% of the comments stations got from listeners. "The lack of comments is indicative that these types of post are not actually stirring people’s interests or engaging them," says Arbitron. "To click on the 'like' button takes little effort and is a short term strategy, after all who doesn’t 'like' free stuff?"
Better for actually eliciting listener response were "question" posts ("Who are you rooting for in the World Series?" or "Do you support or oppose the 'Occupy' movement?"). While only 1 in 5 station Facebook posts asked listeners for their opinion, more than half of listener posts on station Facebook pages were in response to these questions. Arbitron does offer the caution, however, "Stations need to ensure they aren’t just pushing out questions though and that they are actually engaging in the conversation."
Arbitron concludes, "Stations must engage their listener. Engage doesn’t mean to push out a message from a social media platform and then count the responses. Engage means to share stories, build community and create deeper relationships. Most stations are not engaging consistently. It appears most stations have not adjusted their communication style from broadcasting to engaging."
Read the summary of Arbitron's study summary here.
Arbitron partners with AdsWizz to measure streaming radio
Submitted by Michael Schmitt on October 26, 2011 - 9:33am
RAIN 10/26: Pandora juggernaut marches on in September Webcast Metrics
Total Audience Measurement
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 11:35am
Arbitron has taken another step towards its Total Audience Measurement service -- which will measure both over-the-air and Internet radio -- with a partnership with Belgium-based tech firm AdsWizz.
Arbitron EVP/COO Sean Creamer says AdsWizz will convert server-based streaming radio data into AQH, TSL and cume. Arbitron will then combine those metrics with its over-the-air audience data to create what the company hopes will be the "standard reporting metrics for over-the-air and digital streaming audiences," said Creamer. (Read more about Arbitron's planned all-in-one measurement service in RAIN here.)
“We are currently working with both our radio station clients and the digital service providers to develop the first report deliverables,” Creamer told analysts yesterday.
Currently, the major Internet radio measurement firm is Triton Digital, which owns Ando Media and releases monthly Webcast Metrics reports. Inside Radio comments that "now the stage is set for what’s likely to be a heated battle for measurement dollars in a quickly evolving space. While ad agencies have expressed a desire for single source measurement that follows a listener as they move from broadcast to web to mobile listening, it’s unclear if using conventional AQH metrics for a digital medium will fly at digital shops."
Just last week AdsWizz announced its debut in the U.S. with 60 new clients and a partnership with Liquid Compass (RAIN coverage here).
Read more in today's issue of Inside Radio by subscribing here.
IAB REPORT: WEB RADIO AD REVENUE UP 21% OVER LAST YEAR
Submitted by Michael Schmitt on September 19, 2011 - 8:34am
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Monday, September 19, 2011 - 12:00pm
A report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) states that online radio advertising in Q1 of 2011 was up 21% from Q1 2010. The report also shows that Internet radio users are more likely to act on advertising, with 18% visiting an advertisers' website (compared to 11% of overall Internet users).
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Impact of model errors in convective transport on CO source estimates inferred from MOPITT CO retrievals
Authors: Jiang, Z.; Jones, D. B. A.; Worden, H. M.; Deeter, M. N.; Henze, D. K.; Worden, J.; Bowman, K. W.; Brenninkmeijer, C. A. M.; Schuck, T. J.
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Tunable diode laser in-situ CH4 measurements aboard the CARIBIC passenger aircraft: instrument performance assessment
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Distribution of methane in the tropical upper troposphere measured by CARIBIC and CONTRAIL aircraft
Authors: Schuck, T. J.; Ishijima, K.; Patra, P. K.; Baker, A. K.; Machida, T.; Matsueda, H.; Sawa, Y.; Umezawa, T.; Brenninkmeijer, C. A. M.; Lelieveld, J.
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Imposing strong constraints on tropical terrestrial CO2 fluxes using passenger aircraft based measurements
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Estimating the contribution of monsoon-related biogenic production to methane emissions from South Asia using CARIBIC observations
Authors: Baker, A. K.; Schuck, T. J.; Brenninkmeijer, C. A. M.; Rauthe-Schöch, A.; Slemr, F.; van Velthoven, P. F. J.; Lelieveld, J.
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Emissions halted of the potent greenhouse gas SF5CF3
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The stable isotopic composition of molecular hydrogen in the tropopause region probed by the CARIBIC aircraft
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Characterization and source regions of 51 high-CO events observed during Civil Aircraft for the Regular Investigation of the Atmosphere Based on an Instrument Container (CARIBIC) flights between south China and the Philippines, 2005-2008
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Investigation of chlorine radical chemistry in the Eyjafjallajökull volcanic plume using observed depletions in non-methane hydrocarbons
Authors: Baker, A. K.; Rauthe-Schöch, A.; Schuck, T. J.; Brenninkmeijer, C. A. M.; van Velthoven, P. F. J.; Wisher, A.; Oram, D. E.
Carbon balance of South Asia constrained by passenger aircraft CO2 measurements
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The cost of Middle East wars, $11 trillion and rising
By Shehab Al-Makahleh Friday, 27 July 2018
Military conflicts have caused huge death toll and enormous economic, military, environmental, social and political losses for Arabs since 1948.
With more than 2 million death toll, Arab economies, mainly Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Lebanon, Jordan and North Africa countries have lost up to $11 trillion since 1948. The first losses were a result of Arab-Israeli wars, the second was the eight-year Iran-Iraq war and the third was the Arab Spring.
Such conflicts have affected not only the countries per se but rather they have extended to neighboring countries, turning the entire region into a flaming ball, destructing trade, industry, tourism, and investment. This has led to massive exodus of citizens from rural areas to cities, resulting in ecological predicaments, desertification and drought.
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For many years, the Middle East has been the scene of conflict, the worst conflicts in the world. This has been accompanied by arms race to purchase weapons.
That has been the case with the Middle East, where many countries sought to acquire the state-of-the art weaponry. Some recent studies estimated military spending in the Middle East for 2017 at $120 billion, an increase of 6 percent over 2016. Such papers indicate that the region accounts for an increase in the volume of military spending by 6 percent.
The balance of power in international politics is a highly complex and multifaceted concept, but there is an agreement on the broad lines theoretically and practically in the course of events. At present, the world has generally complex or multipolar balances; simple or binary poises.
The composite balance depends on multiple poles in each party, including states and blocs as it is dominated by the logic of competition and deterrence, and often avoids war, leading to stagnation and stability.
The current international conflict, although oriented toward a bilateral balance, is flexible due to absence of argumentative ideological factors
Shehab Al-Makahleh
The simple balance is the most precarious as the blocs and alliances clash sharply leading to war and the period of stability is an impermanent period, which is the preparation for war and a test of how powerful such an alliance is.
Since the conflict is between two main blocs, each of which is controlled by a major nucleus state that makes the conflict look like an encounter between two major states. The same applies to regional balances but a regional power plays a dual role: an internal in the region and an external in international conflicts, where international engagements and developments depend on regional wars and balances.
Regional conflict for international wars
Given the gravity of major world wars because of nuclear deterrence, regional confrontations are the direct alternative, with each bloc supporting its allies in the region to gain a foothold and increase balance internationally.
The characteristics and nature of equilibrium are divided into rigid and elastic, where the rigid expresses a balance between heterogeneous and contradictory blocs while the flexible expresses a balance between relatively homogenous clusters of civilization, culture and ideology.
This explains why the Middle East and poor countries are witnessing non-stop wars since early 20th century. Given the current international and regional situation, one can say that since the collapse of the Berlin Wall as a sign of the end of the Cold War and the transformation of the world into unipolarity, balances have been constantly being shaped to counterbalance this imbalanced status. International and regional alliances have been formed to counter the Western bloc led by the US.
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Due to multiple factors, coalitions have until recently formed balances of pluralistic, flexible and resilient types. Despite US President Donald Trump’s policies against many countries, including his allies in the West, power balance is flexible because Russia tends to be a nucleus power as well at the international level within its own bloc, using regional allies.
The source of flexibility is that the ideological factors are no longer the same as before, and a war like the Second World War which broke out in 1939 was to counter Nazism-Fascism ideologies. The demise of the Soviet Union and the offense against the USSR have broken out because of communist ideologies.
Bilateral balance
Thus, the current international conflict, although oriented toward a bilateral balance, is flexible due to absence of argumentative ideological factors. The two camps: Russia and its orbit on one hand and the US and its orbit on the other are pragmatic, and this will avert the two blocs from getting involved in another world war. Thus, a regional war is much more likely to happen.
However, the risks for the Middle East region are quite vibrant. Unlike the international community which is pragmatic, the Mideast regional balance comes from furthering ideological cognitive calculations into existential, which would lead to war anytime where each of the two blocs tests its policies, diplomacy and weaponry.
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For Israel to launch a war, this is impossible to target any country except Syria, Lebanon and Iran. However, this necessitates that Tel Aviv seizes a rare regional moment that the whole region is undergoing to act. This cannot be achieved without a political and media cover. Right now, we are witnessing these two covers for Israel more than before.
Any future war could sweep through the entire region and undermine regional and international interests for years to come. Besides, countless implications on the people of the Middle East are projected. However, the Mideast is still an area where the major international blocs are testing their policies and state-of-the-art weaponry regardless of any Middle Easterners’ reaps that meet their aspirations and ambitions.
Shehab Al-Makahleh is Director of Geostrategic Media Center, senior media and political analyst in the Middle East, adviser to many international consultancies. He can be reached at: @shehabmakahleh and @Geostrat_ME.
Last Update: Friday, 27 July 2018 KSA 10:46 - GMT 07:46
Disclaimer: Views expressed by writers in this section are their own and do not reflect Al Arabiya English's point-of-view.
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By Radio Tamazuj: The SPLA-IO faction allied to former vice president Riek Machar says that it has withdrawn from Morobo and Kaya areas in South Sudan’s Yei River State, after attempting to take the two…
Yei Cabinet Shoulders Payment of Tuition Fees for Students in India
By Radio Tamazuj: The council of ministers in Yei River state has resolved to pay tuition fees and the cost of accommodation for 45 students pursuing various courses in Indian universities. The payment will be…
Juba Citizens Complain of Rising Prices of Commodities at Market
By Radio Tamazuj: Citizens in South Sudan’s capital Juba have complained of the sharp rise in the price of consumer goods at the market. Speaking to Radio Tamazuj, many citizens expressed their concern about the…
Morobo Citizens Slam Communications Network Blackout
By Radio Tamazuj: Citizens in South Sudan’s border town of Morobo in Central Equatoria region have protested a shutdown in telephone communications network, effectively affecting communication services in the area. Multiple residents and local officials…
Opinion October 1, 2016
Time to Pack Our Rags and Swim As Refugees
In this article, originally published in his column in Juba Monitor in November 2014, Opoka Christopher challenges the Equatoria community to respond following the brutal murder of the former Mayor of Yei Municipality, Cecilia Oba….
SPLA-IO Rebels Claim Capture of Morobo Town
By Radio Tamazuj: South Sudanese rebels loyal to former vice president Riek Machar announced that they captured Morobo town in Yei River State on Thursday. Kiri Bennett, military spokesman of the SPLA-IO forces in Central…
An Estimated 100,000 Civilians Trapped in Yei
By Catholic Radio Network: Refugee agency or UNHCR reports that the ongoing military operations in Yei have trapped an estimated 100,000 people with no means to escape. In a statement forwarded to CRN, UNHCR condemns…
One Killed, Several Others Wounded On Magwi-Torit Road Attack
By Radio Emmanuel: Police in Torit says one person has been killed and several others wounded when armed group attacked a car on Torit Kapoeta road yesterday in Ido, an area located between Imurok and…
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Tribute from the Gainesville Bromeliad Society Web Site
Albert E. Muzzell, aged 69, passed away on December 11, 2011 after a brief battle with cancer. He served in Naval Signals Intelligence during the Vietnam War, was a civilian pilot, a truck driver, a landscaper and ran for local office in Gainesville. Always politically active, Al served as Chairman of the Gainesville Plan Board from 1976 through 1978. Al was best known however, for his lifelong passion for bromeliads.
A South Florida native, Al developed an interest in bromeliads as a young man. He interned at Mulford and Racine Foster’s "Bromel-La", where he acquired much of his expertise about early bromeliad selections and hybrids. Al’s enthusiasm for learning about his plants gave him a great fund of information about their pedigrees and idiosyncrasies. Always willing to share his knowledge, a casual comment on a plant might lead him to a précis on the hybridizer or collector, when it was introduced and any problems growing it here in Florida.
After completing his degree in Horticulture from UF, Al eventually opened his own mail-order nursery, New World Bromeliads. He also became an accredited bromeliad judge and was very involved in the formation of the Jacksonville and Gainesville Bromeliad societies. He was also an ardent supporter of the FCBS project to find a biological control for the “Evil Weevil”, Metamasius callizona. Plantsman, instigator and character, Al will certainly be missed.
Al Muzzell
This tribute is from the February 2012 FCBS Newsletter
Al Muzzell, 69, long time bromeliad grower, seller and speaker at many of our bromeliad societies, passed away Sunday, December 11, 2011. He died at the Gainesville VA Hospital after suffering from cancer and other complications.
Al was a founding member of the Gainesville Bromeliad Society and served as its president many times. He also served as chairman of the Florida Council of Bromeliad Societies and was instrumental during the early years of the Evil Weevil research in aiding Dr. Howard Frank in locating weevils and their pupa from the Central American forests to be used in the University of Florida research labs.
Dr. Frank reminisced about the early days of the evil weevil research and how Al drove him to the quarterly FCBS meetings so they could spread the word about the invasive weevil. They even traveled to Panama in the early 1990s to chase the weevil. "Al's enthusiasm was boundless, as much for the bromeliads we encountered there as for weevils," Dr. Frank remembered.
Ed and Nancy Hall, who knew Al for about 30 years, remembered spending hours talking bromeliads. When they moved to Macon, Georgia, Al stored their collection and returned it to them in their new greenhouse. "It was always interesting to visit Al's greenhouses," Ed said. "There were always interesting plants to see. During our last visit in spring of 2011, Al and a friend were creating new Dykia hybrids."
Al's interment was conducted by the Veteran's Administration at the Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Bushnell, Florida, on December l4, 2011.
Editor's note: Thank you to Tom Wolf, Howard Frank and Ed and Nancy Hall for their assistance in writing this memorial.
Memorial Gardens Honor Al Muzzell
by Peggy Mixson
Gainesville Bromeliad Society
Wishing to honor our friend and mentor, Al Muzzell, who died in December 2011, Gainesville Bromeliad Society has created a memorial at Wilmot Gardens on the University of Florida campus, where Al received his degree in Horticulture. A memorial plaque will complete the installation of bromeliads from Al's nursery.
GBS has also arranged for a memorial marker and additional plants to join an existing collection at Kanapaha Gardens, also in Gainesville. Several years ago Al guided GBS in providing bromeliads and planting the original bed there, from which a taxonomy collection began.
Al was instrumental in the formation of the Jacksonville/Gainesville Bromeliad Societies and was president of the Gainesville Bromeliad Society for many years. He eagerly shared his vast knowledge in many ways throughout the Florida Council Affiliates and his generosity and unique presence are missed.
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IT and Related Security News Update from Centre for Research and Prevention of Computer Crimes, India (www.crpcc.in) Courtesy - Sysman Computers Private Limited, Mumbai
WISH YOU A HAPPY AND SECURE YEAR 2009
Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down into the quicksand of smugness and self-satisfaction.
Sydney Harris
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Short for dark Internet, in file sharing terminology, a darknet is a Internet or private network, where information and content are shared by darknet participants anonymously. Darknets are popular with users who share copy protected files as the service will let users send and receive files anonymously — that is, users cannot be traced, tracked or personally identified. Usually, darknets are not easily accessible via regular Web browsers.
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ATTACK : Attackers Took Shots at Wi-Fi Network at Black Hat
by Brian Prince
It should come as no surprise that at a security conference called 'Black Hat' there would be a fair amount of shenanigans going on over the WLAN network.
According to Aruba Networks, which provided the Wi-Fi network at the conference last month in Las Vegas, attackers were up to their usual tricks. The company tracked and analyzed all attempted attacks throughout the event.
Here is what they found:
BLACKHAT 2009 STATS:
Security stats:
9 suspected rogue access points were detected.
175 attempts by a wireless user to access the Aruba mobility controller were blocked by the Aruba firewall.
23 impersonation attacks were detected.
71 non-Blackhat access points were detected.
154 denial-of-service attacks were detected.
In some ways, the numbers were an improvement from 2008; in some ways not. For example, fewer rogue access points were detected this year. On the other hand, there were 130 more denial-of-service attacks detected in 2009. Check out these numbers:
Each day there were between 10-15 rogue APs detected (rogue defined as an AP that was advertising the conference SSID of "BlackHat").
49 users attempted to connect to rogue APs and were blocked by RFprotect, which generated 709 shielding actions
221 attempts by a wireless user to ARP poison the default gateway were blocked by the Aruba firewall.
140 port scans (nmap or similar) from wireless users to other wireless users were detected and blocked by the Aruba firewall.
57 non-Blackhat APs were detected
24 denial of service attacks were detected. The average duration of each attack was 24 seconds.
The stats are a reminder that whether you are at a security conference or at a local Starbucks, it is best to keep your guard up.
CHINA : Hacker Schools Become Big Business
By Matthew Harwood
http://www.securitymanagement.com/news/china-hacker-schools-become-big-business-006017
Long known as a prominent source of cyberattacks worldwide, China has seen the emergence of online training schools that teach students the skills necessary to either be a network defender or a cybercriminal.
These "hacker schools," as they're known, are also big business, generating $34.8 million last year, reports China Daily.
Students can enroll in online classes for as little as a few hundred yuan.
While some schools advertise themselves as training the next generation of security experts, many worry a percentage of the students will use their skills to commit various cybercrimes, such as identity theft or stealing trade secrets.
Wang Xianbing—a security consultant for a prominent online hacking school, Hackbase.com—likens the training provided by the Web site to that of the locksmith trade.
"It's like teaching lock picking," he told Beijing Today. "No one can guarantee the student will become a professional locksmith rather than a future thief."
Rather it's up to the individual and his conscience whether to use his knowledge for good or evil, Wang said. Interviewed by China Daily, he said that the company's students are explicitly told not to use their knowledge for illegal activities.
"Lots of hacker schools only teach students how to hack into unprotected computers and steal personal information," said Wang. "They then make a profit by selling users' information."
Imparting such knowledge, even with caveats, runs obvious risks. Last year alone, according to China Daily, hacking cost the Chinese economy approximately $1 billion. Globally, Symantec estimates cybercrime cost firms a total of $1 trillion in 2008, reported CNet.com in January.
But money isn't the only motivation, reports China Daily.
A 25-year-old hacker school student from Shanghai surnamed Wang, said most of his "classmates" simply enroll in hacker school for personal reasons, such as spying on relatives, showing off their computer-savvy skills or taking revenge on a rival's Websites, rather than making money.
Wang described the Catch-22 of teaching a new generation of security experts the tools of the trade: "They have to learn how to attack a Web site before they can learn how to defend it."
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CONTROL : Malaysia considering internet filter
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MALAYSIA is considering the establishment of an Internet filter, similar to China's abandoned 'Green Dam' project, a source familiar with the process told Reuters on Thursday.
News of the proposal emerged within days of police arresting nearly 600 opposition supporters at a weekend rally denouncing a government that has ruled this Southeast Asian country for 51 years.
A vibrant Internet culture has contributed to political challenges facing the government, which tightly controls mainstream media and has used sedition laws and imprisonment without trial to prosecute a blogger.
'They (the government) are looking to tweak the technical and legal details of implementing this Internet filter, setting the stage for its implementation late this year or next year,' said the source, who declined to be identified.
No one from the government was available for comment.
Malaysia plans to double home Internet penetration to 50 per cent by the end of next year with a new broadband project.
New Information, Communication and Culture Minister Rais Yatim, whose ministry issued the tender, also plans to secure control over the content and monitoring division of Malaysia's Internet regulator, a second source said.
'The minister wants to focus more on enforcement in the coming year,' the source said.
Malaysia, with a population of 27 million, attracted foreign technology companies such as Microsoft Corp and Cisco Systems to invest and guaranteed that the government would not impose controls on the Internet.
Ms Rais said last month that wider broadband access required more regulation.
'With the good comes the bad through the broadband over the Internet,' he said. 'We will introduce certain measures to overcome the bad.'
THREAT : Cyber security threat to India is real
Vicky Nanjappa
http://news.rediff.com/special/2009/aug/05/cyber-security-threat-to-india-is-real.htm
The demand for better methods to enforce cyber security has grown stronger since the November 26 attacks in Mumbai
India has a dedicated organisation, CERT-In -- which operates under the auspices of the department of communication and information technology -- to tackle cyber crimes. However, the agency is not a prosecuting body.
An officer at CERT-In told rediff.com over the telephone from New Delhi that although the agency does not have the legal power to examine cyber crimes, it can probe cases referred to the organisation.
CERT-In, which covers both government and military areas, says the threats relating to cyber security are on the rise. Common targets include critical infrastructure like telecommunication, transportation, energy and finance.
The attackers are not confined to information infrastructures and geographical boundaries. They exploit network interconnections and navigate easily through the infrastructure. More worryingly, these cyber criminals are becoming more skilled at masking their behaviour.
CERT-In consists a group of professionals headed by a director who investigate cases referred to the agency. It submits a report to the police station that has sought the agency's help following which a chargesheet is filed.
Why not a single agency?
Senior police officers say it is difficult to have a single agency looking at such cases.
If a crime is committed in a particular state, it is easier for police officers of that state to probe the case. At present, one police officer adds, no one person has complete charge of cyber security.
Although the Union government drafts all cyber laws and CERT-In assists in investigations, the final call can be taken by the cyber crime wings based in the states.
The only other national agency which can probe cyber crime cases is the Central Bureau of Investigation.
The prosecuting agency
The ministry for communication and information technology governs the system pertaining to cyber security. While the ministry is largely involved in drafting laws, the actual job on the ground is handled by the cyber-crime wings in the states.
The law is clear that a complaint pertaining to a cyber crime or threat can be assigned only to the jurisdictional cyber crime wing in each state. An inspector general of police heads each cyber crime wing; a superintendent of police, inspectors and sub inspectors report to her/him. Only this department can file a chargesheet and prosecute individuals involved in cyber criminal activity.
The inspector general of police reports to the state police chief.
An officer in the Karnataka cyber crime wing said it is often difficult to crack a case as the cell does not have enough IT professionals. In such cases, CERT-In's assistance is sought.
Experts feel the process of investigating a cyber crime is cumbersome under the present set-up. It is difficult to have a national level agency which takes a final call since Indian law clearly states that cases will be probed on a jurisdictional basis for all practical purposes.
R Srikumar, a former Karnataka police chief and chairman of the Cyber Society of India (Karnataka chapter), says that trained personnel could be inducted into cyber crime cells so that the procedure of referring the matter to another agency and then waiting for a report to proceed with the prosecution can be avoided.
Professor Chandrashekar, a forensics expert and a member of the CSI, believes dedicated teams of IT professionals should be appointed by respective state governments to work with the cyber crime wings.
Former CBI Director R Raghavan launched the first cyber society in Tamil Nadu. Professor Chandrashekar explains that the society's role is to train professionals in cracking cyber crimes.
He says the society will sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Law School, Bengaluru, to introduce a course in cyber security. The course will issue a certificate to certified cyber crime investigators.
Cyber crime wings in the states could then employ such certified investigators.
Although private security agencies investigate cyber crimes, the Union government has not made full use of their services as is the case in some countries.
Sources say the government may seek the skills of private agencies in select cases, but would prefer to improve official cyber crime wings since such cases often involve national security.
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26 Nov 2019 News "I Sit On Acid", Aesthetic Perfection, Deep Chills, deviant sex, Drugs, first single, hedonism, Lords of Acid, LUST, MAKE ACID GREAT AGAIN 2020 Tour, MXMS, Praga Khan, Sextreme Disco 0
LORDS OF ACID Announce MAKE ACID GREAT AGAIN 2020 Tour with AESTHETIC PERFECTION, PRAGA KHAN, & MXMS!
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Sextreme Disco band LORDS OF ACID has announced that they will be returning stateside with their MAKE ACID GREAT AGAIN TOUR. The legendary act will be joined by AESTHETIC PERFECTION, PRAGA KHAN, and MXMS March 13th in Los Angeles, CA, with the tour circling through the US, wrapping up April 15th in San Francisco, CA.
MAKE ACID GREAT AGAIN Tour Dates: 03/13 @ EchoPlex – Los Angeles, CA 03/14 @ Hard Rock Live – Las Vegas, NV 03/15 @ Brick By Brick – San Diego, CA 03/17 @ Club Red – Mesa, AZ 03/18 @ Sunshine Theatre – Albuquerque, NM 03/19 @ Rockhouse – El Paso, TX 03/20 @ Trees – Dallas, TX 03/21 @ Scout Bar – Houston, TX 03/22 @ Paper Tiger – San Antonio, TX 03/23 @ House of Blues – New Orleans, LA 03/25 @ Culture Room – Ft. Lauderdale, FL 03/26 @ The Orpheum – Tampa, FL 03/27 @ Music Farm – Charleston, SC 03/28 @ The Fillmore – Charlotte, NC 03/29 @ The Broadberry – Richmond, VA 03/31 @ Theatre Of Living Arts -Philadelphia, PA 04/01 @ Brighton Music Hall – Boston, MA 04/02 @ The Rapids Theatre – Niagara Falls, NY 04/03 @ Gramercy Theatre – New York, NY 04/04 @ Baltimore Soundstage – Baltimore, MD 04/05 @ Crafthouse – Pittsburgh, PA 04/06 @ Bottom Lounge – Chicago, IL 04/07 @ The Waiting Room – Omaha, NE 04/08 @ The Oriental Theater – Denver, CO 04/09 @ The Complex – Vertigo – Salt Lake City, UT 04/10 @ The Bluebird – Reno, NV 04/11 @ Dante’s – Portland, OR 04/13 @ The Crocodile – Seattle, WA 04/14 @ Ashland Armory – Ashland, OR 04/15 @ Slim’s – San Francisco, CA
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From his first single, “I Sit On Acid”, released in 1988, to the present, Belgium’s Praga Khan remains one of the most innovative acid house musicians in circulation. Thanks to extensive experimentation with drugs, Crowley-ian sex magic, and esoteric paths of self-deprivation and mutilation known only to himself, this orgiastic orchestrator created the LORDS OF ACID to further encapsulate the seductive messages and raw sex of his ever-evolving musical vision. From the raw carnality of their 1991 release Lust to the electro-thrash of 2012’s Deep Chills, Lords of Acid has re-defined the pure pleasures of drugs, hedonism, and deviant sex for thirty years. Now, despite numerous lineup changes, world tours, over 2.5 million album sales, and every possible point of crisis and conflict a band can face, Lords of Acid is returning to the unsuspecting again, this time with a new crew of deviants, dilettantes, and sonically transmitted diseases.
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LORDS OF ACID Announce PRETTY IN KINK TOUR 2019 with ORGY, GENITORTURERS, LITTLE MISS NASTY, & GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE
Legendary Industrial band LORDS OF ACID has announced dates for their highly anticipates PRETTY IN KINK TOUR 2019 with special guests ORGY, GENITORTURERS, LITTLE MISS NASTY, and GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE. Launching February 21st in Phoenix, AZ, the tour winds throughout the United States before wrapping up March 27 in Las Vegas, NV. VIP Ticket Packages are available now with General Admission Tickets on sale FRIDAY 12/7/2018 at 10:00 am local time!
Pretty In Kink 2019 Tour Dates:
02/21 @ Club Red – Phoenix, AZ *
02/22 @ The Regent Theatre – Los Angeles, CA *
02/23 @ Brick By Brick– San Diego, CA *
02/24 @ UC Theatre – Berkeley, CA *
02/26 @ Dante’s – Portland, OR
02/27 @ Showbox SODO – Seattle, WA
03/01 @ The Complex – Salt Lake City, UT
03/02 @ Gothic Theatre – Denver, CO
03/03 @ Granada Theater – Lawrence, KS
03/05 @ Cabooze – Minneapolis MN
03/06 @ Miramar Theater – Milwaukee, WI
03/07 @ Bottom Lounge – Chicago, IL
03/08 @ Agora Theatre – Cleveland, OH
03/09 @ Buick City Events Center – Flint, MI
03/10 @ Rex Theatre – Pittsburgh, PA
03/11 @ Theatre Of Living Arts – Philadelphia, PA
03/12 @ Gramercy Theatre – New York, NY
03/13 @ Brighton Music Hall – Boston, MA
03/15 @ Soundstage – Baltimore, MD
03/16 @ Underground at The Fillmore – Charlotte, NC
03/17 @ Masquerade – Atlanta, GA
03/18 @ Culture Room – Ft Lauderdale, FL
03/19 @ The Orpheum – Tampa, FL
03/21 @ House of Blues – New Orleans, LA
03/22 @ Scout Bar – Houston, TX
03/23 @ Trees – Dallas, TX
03/24 @ Come and Take it Live – Austin, TX
03/26 @ Sunshine Theater – Albuquerque, NM
03/27 @ Hard Rock Live – Las Vegas, NV
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1. Break Me
2. Ma Fille De Joie
3. Sex Cam Girl
4. Flow Juice
5. Like Pablo Escobar
6. Before the Night is Over
7. Androgyny
8. Goldfinger
9. What the Fuck!
10. So Goddamn Good
11. My Demons Are Inside
12. We Are The Freaks
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Industrial Legends LORDS OF ACID Release Highly Anticipated LP, ‘Pretty In Kink’!
After great anticipation and a handful of eye opening sneak peaks, iconic electronic band LORDS OF ACID has released their highly anticipated first LP in 6 years, Pretty in Kink! The fan driven and committed album, out now via Metropolis Records, is a refreshing throwback to the group’s legendary dance roots while continuing their reputation for creative innovation and polished showmanship.
Advance Praise for Pretty in Kink
“Wrapping up on a positive note of knowing one’s own self-worth and accepting individuality as the spice of life, Praga Khan has found yet another entertaining band of misfit toys to take his vision to fruition in a modern yet true-to-their-roots body of work. Pretty In Kink can be listened to in any order and still reeks of success as an album, plus it can hold its own next to the greatest hits from the late ‘80s into the ‘90s.” Cryptic Rock
“Lords of Acid are back with a highly anticipated new album on May 18. Clever as always, the title Pretty in Kink is a subversive take on a pop culture institution, chock full of the hardcore techno that the Belgian group has been pumping out for decades.” – Matt Matasci – mxdwn
“Pretty in Kink is an amazing album that mixes all your favorite elements of Lords of Acid and adds a few more into the mix. The album has newcomer vocalist Marieke Bresseleers. Pretty in Kink starts off with ‘Break Me,’ which for me is a perfect way to start the album. The music in this one is like a very dark gothic industrial sound and the vocals just add to it. ‘Sex Cam Girl’ and ‘Flow Juice’ bring back the nasty side of Lords of Acid, and that’s exactly how we like it. No filters and straight to the point sexual advancements. One of my other favorite tracks is ‘What the Fuck.’ It’s got that more rap/hip hop flow to it but still has that Lords of Acid sound. This one makes me want to bang my head and makes everyone else look and ask “What the fuck are you listening to” and I just turn it up louder and flip the bird. The album ends with ‘We are the Freaks,’ it’s got the a rap feel to it as well and slow nice flow with it. The vocals are in Spanish but still kills.” – Empire Extreme
“There’s been a void in rave music and EDM over the past decade. There aren’t as many acts as there used to be who, in addition to having rock star status and pop cache, cover more than one genre at a time and bring together entire scenes with their music. With Pretty In Kink, Lords of Acid is poised to fill that void and show younger EDM’ers just exactly “What the Fuck!” is up.” – Layla Marino – Your EDM
“A full-length hardon has been created and will be released on May 18th to LOA fans. Electronic dance music has never tasted this good. What is even more thrilling is that this album seriously offers up something for everyone’s tastes. As pioneers in the world of electronic dance music Lords Of Acid’s longevity and survival of the contorted bits of drugs, sex, and rock n roll have continued to survive. How often can you take twenty years of deviant behaviors and raise a glass to the skies and still create some of the most complex electronic music found?” – Lolana Deetwick – RockAllPhotography
“Their mind-bending attitude fits well with their music, certainly with regard to this exciting sexual creation. If you’re feeling frisky, mentally undress yourself and get busy with the latest from Lords Of Acid.” – Tyler Trew – The Music Ninja
“Sex. Drugs. Danceable beats. Lords of Acid have been making sweet love to our ears since 1988’s “I Sit On Acid,” and clubs the world over haven’t stopped cumming. While they have experimented with various sounds over the decades, at the core of every track is rhythmic sensuality and ferocious energy, just waiting to splash across the dance floor. Most songs feature multiple sound bytes and samples, and the live stage shows often feature graphic sexual imagery, and even simulated sexual acts, to the delight of many a concert-goer. It should come as no surprise, then, that the latest album rekindles the passion and lust we felt all those years ago…Overall, the album is a welcome advance into the next chapter of the band’s career. The album has deeply penetrated my psyche, and I hope it is as good for you as it was for me. That IS what she said.” – ZTP Magazine
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Home 1970s 08/21/1972 Edwardsville, Illinois
Monday, August 21, 1972 (47 years, 4 months and 28 days ago)
Edwardsville, Illinois, United States Of America
Mississippi River Festival (14,500 capacity)
Rick Wakeman (Keyboards)
I've Seen All Good People (The Yes Album)
Siberian Khatru (Close To The Edge)
Heart Of The Sunrise (Fragile)
Wakeman Solo
Yours Is No Disgrace (The Yes Album)
Geoff:
I remember this show well as it was the first concert I ever went to. My sister's boyfriend who had gotten the tickets couldn't go for some reason so I was pressed into service with the caveat that I couldn't tell mom and dad that we went some place that people were smoking dope, oh and by the way if you see anyone smoking don't stare. Didn't complain much because I was only nine and loved the band already. It rained like hell that day and the field in front of the stage was pretty soggy but it cleared up and we found a light stand to sit under right between the main speakers of the sound system so we had good sight and sound. It was festival seating so as soon as they opened the gates there was this mad rush to find a place to put your blanket. Chris wore his blue jump suit with the cape and Rick was in all silver. They did all the songs I wanted to hear, Seen All Good People, Roundabout, Mood for a Day, and I'm pretty sure they did Siberian Khatru and Close to the Edge, but since I was entirely unaware of that album those songs were new to me. My sister did buy CTTE shortly after that and I suspect the show was inspiration. Chris was real active during the show, I believe I described him later to my sister's boyfriend as having ants in his pants, and though I really wanted to see Bill Bruford and didn't understand why he wasn't there, Alan White did so well that I soon got over my disappointment. All in all it was one of the best times I ever had and I still remember it as vividly as any 40 something year old can remember something 34 years in the past.
I'm not sure which concert the preceding posts are referring to, perhaps, Kiel Aud six month later, but this concert was outdoors at the Mississippi River Festival in Edwardsville, IL. It was rescheduled from a month earlier. A group of us wannabe prog rocksters drove from Columbia, MO to see YES on short notice. It was excellent.
The Eagles didn't open and according to Steve Kerber, archivist at SIU-E, Jackson Browne and David Lindley did. The crowd was polite, but clearly there for YES. There were about 14,500 people there for the last concert of the season. We were surprised Bruford was not there, but after just a song or two, could tell that Alan White had the chops and realized perpetual change happens. Set list is accurate, except, CTTE was played. CTTE left us all stunned, sitting on the ground totally in awe of what had just happened. The musicianship was phenomenal.
Afterwards, we waited and wandered backstage, it was all very casual, no security and asked both Chris Squire and Steve Howe a few questions. Chris pointed out that regardless of the written credits, the music is the music of YES. After all of that, we floated on their music back to Columbia, MO...roundabout 3 am.
JSKAWAKEN:
I was totally blown away. The best I can remember, they didn't even play CTTE at that show, I do remember &U&I, Long Distance, Siberian Khatru, and I think Perpetual Change and of course Roundabout. During Roundabout my friends and I got right up to the stage, and I was standing in front of Rick. When they finished the show and came to take a bow, Rick came to the edge of the stage to shake hands with fans, I grabbed his cape and wouldn't let go.(I was a goofy 14 yo) He looked at me like he was going to kick me in the head and I let go. From that moment on I was known in my school as the guy who grabbed Wakeman's cape.
Scott Bennett:
That was my first Yes concert (actually my first concert). It was held at the old Kiel Auditorium (since torn down and replaced by the new Kiel Auditorium). Best of my recollection the concert started at 7:00 p.m. The opening act was a solo singer/acoustic guitarist named Charlie Starr. Now the only reason I remember Mr. Starr is he had on this dark outfit and he evidently had ripped out the inseam of his pants. So his white underwear was showing through this 2 inch rip in his pants. Felt sorry for the guy because everyone in the place was restless for Yes to come out.
Yes played about 2 hours and 30 plus minutes that night. Great concert. I'd always liked the music, but after that concert I was hooked for life.
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Fall From Grace - bands that went straight from 5 fists to 1
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Re: Fall From Grace - bands that went straight from 5 fists
It was actually Stuart Adamson, the guitarist. RIP. Jobson is a pretty good film-maker, though.
Vim Fuego
Location: On top of the Trans-Alpine faultline
blacklorre wrote:
U2. Boy was a good punk album, October bordered on metal but from War they started going downhill but with the occaisional good song.
No, just no, no, no, cunts, cunts, fucking fuck!! There's no excuse ever for mentioning or listening or looking or referring to cunting fucking U-fuckwitted-2 ever! No musical, social or cultural redeeming features to those four fuckwits whatsoever!
I am Deth!!! Fukk You!!! 我死了！你他媽的！나는 죽음 이다! 엿 먹어 !私は死です！あなたをファック！أنا الموت! اللعنة عليك !Я - смерть! Пошел на хуй !איך בין טויט! באַרען איר!میں موت ہوں! تم بھاڑ میں جاؤ !Olen kuolema ! Haista vittu !Είμαι ο θάνατος ! Γαμήσου !Yr wyf marwolaeth ! Ffyc chi!Ek is die dood! Fok jou !मैं मृत्यु हूं! फक यू!
"Anyone who says a bad fuck is better than a good wank has obviously never had either." - my mate Anthony
Metalcore- parting morons from their money since ages ago.
As for Ross Robinson, he is still working, but mostly with bands that I've never heard a note of. e.g Red Fang
Check this out then. Brilliant video.
Hah! I listened to a few of their songs the other night. They aren't bad.
robitusson
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Vim Fuego wrote:
The budget sound of that album is proof that the label didn't really know what they had. If they did, they would have invested a lot more money in them in 1994. I still recall a review of their debut in Hot Metal which basically accused Korn of being a Frankenstein like creation without an original sound of its own. i.e a bit of Helmet here, a bit of Cypress Hill there etc. It would be impossible to argue that about Life Is Peachy though. They had a truly definitive sound at that point, for better or worse.
The reason Follow The Leader sounded like a million dollars in 1998 is because Korn were already a proven commodity and the label saw the potential for them to grow further. From a business of view it was a great decision, but musically they just went downhill shortly after.
As for Ross Robinson, he is still working, but mostly with bands that I've never heard a note of. e.g Red Fang, The Contortionist etc. His best work was done after the nu-metal period anyway. e.g ATDI Relationship of Command and Glassjaw's Worship and Tribute. They sound amazing. I liked that Amen album today, We have Come For Your Parents. With those records he proved that he was a real bonafide producer and not just a one trick pony.
Robinson probably gets a bit of a raised eyebrow these days for his work in that nu-metal area and it's proliferation (Sepultura's 'Roots', to Machine Head's 'Burning Red', to the Limp Bizkit and Korn albums) than he does for, say, 'Relationship of Command' - which is stellar and without that production job we probably wouldn't be talking about that album and the energy that explodes from it like we do now. Never realised he produced 'Worship & Tribute' as well - I lose in musical nerdom clearly - but that is another great record. He definitely knew how to bring the best out of groups.
Chinese Whispers wrote:
Robinson probably gets a bit of a raised eyebrow these days for his work in that nu-metal area and it's proliferation (Sepultura's 'Roots', to Machine Head's 'Burning Red', to the Limp Bizkit and Korn albums) than he does for, say, 'Relationship of Command' - which is stellar and without that production job we probably wouldn't be talking about that album and the energy that explodes from it like we do now
Yet Omar Rodriguez doesn't like the sound of that album, or at least he didn't like the mix anyway, which Robinson wasn't responsible for. More info:
"In a heartbeat I could tell you, one of my only regrets out of everything I've ever done is the way that record was mixed. People think that was a raw and energetic record, but what they're hearing is nothing compared to what it truly was before it was glossed over and sent through the mixing mill that was Andy Wallace, who is a wonderful person and a very talented mixing engineer and has done great albums – I'm not trying to offend him....and I understand he had the pressure of the label and all the people who had dreams of it being this grandiose thing, and being played on the radio, which it was, (but) that record is ruined by the mix. I just find it the most passive, plastic....It's the one record I still to this day cannot listen to.
That 2nd Glassjaw album was the sound of a band that had become comfortable in their sound and were going places. It's a shame they stalled so early.
That sounds like something he'd say. I'd have to respectfully disagree with his assessment though.
Yeah he is full of it, but the material did sound better live. I liked Relationship of Command when I bought it on release, but it wasn't until I saw them live at the Big Day Out in January 2001 that they really clicked. I fully got what they were about watching them live. That doesn't happen to me often, but in the case of ATDI seeing them perform was the key to appreciating them fully.
Well, their gig in Sydney that year was certainly interesting.
The Police. I really liked the first 2 albums but then there was that Doo Doo Doo shit & that was the end except for the occasional good song.
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Duckstyle
RED FANG are quite good. In full agreeance about those AMEN records. He captured Casey's...errr...Chaos pretty well there. Also he did that AT THE DRIVE in album, the name of which escapes me.
Technique only exists to do justice to your potential
Can't be arsed with reading 9 pages but Death Angel "The Ultra-Violence" to "Frolic...." is a definite contender for me.
Duckstyle wrote:
Relationship of Command is the title mate
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Pod of Funk
blog of funk
Blessed be the funky. And the unfunky, they too shall be blessed, just less funky.
Tag: Oursler
David Bowie’s Birthday
DW on 24 January, 2013
I still can’t believe what David Bowie did on the 8th January 2013. Take a decade off for good behaviour, then show up unexpectedly and place the question “Where are we now?” into everyone’s consciousness. After so long a silence it is quite a remarkable achievement. Shut up for ten years, record a secret album, release new song on 66th birthday suprising everyone and entering top ten charts everywhere. Classy.
It wasn’t just the audacity and the coolness of the carefully maintained anti-hype which made it such a great event. It’s a very intelligent choice, to come in quietly. A nostalgic, observational song it’s a surprising choice of comeback but a good one, which catches the seriousness of these entropic times perfectly.
That Bowie scored a hit is no surprise. An intelligent man who has known and worked with highly creative people in many fields all his life, his early success could have been a one-hit wonder – he worked hard to get the audience he has. Tony Oursler’s video is a huge part of this. But by producing a complex meditative piece, a personal retrospective with a plaintive, questioning chorus, a lyric full of Berlin place-names sung in a sometimes frail voice, he makes an artistic statement which is typical Bowie, pleases fans everywhere and adds a few million more, no doubt.
If Bowie has genius it’s as much in his reading of the times we inhabit. The new song’s observant, nostalgic mood is a perfect foil for all the noisy self-assertion out there. Bang on for this historical moment, unrest everywhere, civil wars, bullets and bombs, it’s sympathetic to the mood of now. Berlin was a city under siege when Bowie lived there, with a free and bomenian culture. In the din of the endless regurgitated pop music machine, it stands out as an original as it catches a general mood. There’s a brand new dance, but I don’t know it’s name.
Having heard the question I can’t wait for the album, which is supposed to be full of variety and quite rocky. Perhaps that’s another subterfuge. Anyway, he got everyone’s attention most beautifully.
To quote another English poet from south London, the artist William Blake,
“The imagination is not a State: it is the Human existence itself.”
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String Trio for George Crumb
for violin, viola and cello in three movements
Also available in an arrangement for string orchestra
Duration: ca. 10 minutes
You will enjoy this work immensely and want to hear more by this 'youthful' (50 years old!) composer.
— Paul Shoemaker reviewing the Langroise Trio CD Volante, Music Web International, Feb. 2009
Performance History · Purchase Sheet Music · Buy the CD
The String Trio for George Crumb was commissioned by the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium in honor of American composer George Crumb on the occasion of his 75th birthday.
The work is in three movements. The first movement is constructed almost exclusively from the four pitches corresponding to the initial and final letters in Crumb's name: G, E, C and B. The second movement is based on the Sarabanda theme from Crumb's well-known work for electric string quartet, Black Angels, which is quoted in the middle of that movement. Both the second and third movements each fill 75 measures, marking Crumb's 75 years. The pitches G, E, C and B recur as a motif in the final movement (this time as G# and C#), as the piece concludes with a bit of fun.
The String Trio for George Crumb was recorded by the Langroise Trio in December 2007 for their CD, Volante. You may buy the CD here. The videos below are from the October 5, 2014, performance by Lucia Conrad, Marissa Winship and Diane Chaplin.
1st Movement:
2nd Movement:
3rd Movement:
Sheet music for the String Trio for George Crumb is available from Art of Sound Music.
Sheet music for the Suite for String Orchestra is available from J.W.Pepper and Sheet Music Plus.
Premiered July 3, 2004, by the Third Angle New Music Ensemble, Eugene, Oregon
April 10, 2005, by the Accessible Contemporary Music Ensemble, Chicago, Illinois
March 8, 2007, by the Langroise Trio, Esther Simplot Performing Arts Academy, Boise, Idaho
March 10, 2007, by the Langroise Trio, Langroise Recital Hall, Caldwell, Idaho
February 8, 2008, by Teo Benson, violin, Sarah Bass, viola, & Brendan Kellogg, cello, Seattle
January 15, 2010, by the Langroise Trio, Esther Simplot Performing Arts Academy, Boise, Idaho
January 16, 2010, by the Langroise Trio, Langroise Recital Hall, Caldwell, Idaho
October 5, 2014, by Lucia Conrad, Marissa Winship and Diane Chaplin on the Celebration Works Concert Series at the First Presbyterian Church of Portland, Oregon
October 2, 2015, by the Langroise Trio, Esther Simplot Performing Arts Academy, Boise, Idaho
October 3, 2015, by the Langroise Trio, Langroise Recital Hall, Caldwell, Idaho
October 21, 2015, by the Langroise Trio, Port Angeles, Washington
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FAC 51 Easter With Erick Morillo, Graeme Park, Mike Pickering, Ralph Lawson and Marshall
FAC 51 The Hacienda & Soak return to Leeds for a very special show Easter Saturday 31st March.
Erick Morillo headlines alongside the best of The Hacienda’s and Leeds talent, Graeme Park, Mike Pickering, Ralph Lawson and Marshall.
The night is the second Hacienda Soak at Church following last year’s fully sold out event with Derrick Carter and Francois Kevorkian which saw tickets go well in advance of the date for what many was a highlight of the year in Leeds.
For this Easter’s return Soak and The Hacienda have brought one of the world’s leading and most respected DJ’s Erick Morillo to perform a special set at the top of the bill. As a producer on Strictly Rhythm who’s “Reel 2 Reel” outfit scored numerous worldwide hits in the early Nineties including “I Like To Move It”, Erick has also spent the last two decades running Subliminal Records, considered one of the very best house labels in history.
For his DJ performances, Erick leans on his background, bringing in new and upfront material for tightly constructed sets that have become legendary. His clubs and residencies include his “Sessions” New York weekly and the Miami and Ibiza “Subliminal Sessions” events. Erick also remains the only US DJ to hold a residency at the Ministry Of Sound so brings a wealth of experience to one of the very best events to be announced so far this year.
Joining him is The Hacienda’s original seminal DJ partnerships who have sound tracked numerous Leeds events over the years including many of the original Soaks, Mike Pickering and Graeme Park. Having played back to back last year for the Hacienda and Soak at Church to rave reviews for their dynamic modern set, the duo revisit Church for an eagerly awaited return.
Having played the original Hacienda, as well as making his name at Back To Basics, it’s also a great pleasure to welcome Leeds’ own Ralph Lawson. Ralph honed his craft weekly at Basics, playing with world class DJs such as Daft Punk, Danny Tenaglia, DJ Harvey, Derrick May amongst others before striking out on his own to become a world famous DJ across the worlds best clubs and as a much admired producer with his own 2020 Recordings imprint.
Soak’s original resident and mainstay Marshall completes the line up for the second Hacienda Soak at Church.
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“Flowers deliver happiness to our end consumers but the presence of flowers on the farm also triggers happy emotions, heightened feeling of life satisfaction and affects the behavior of our employees in a positive manner ” says Christine Joy Karambu, Carzan Flowers Operations Manager.
When Justus Metho received a call one afternoon, while working in Arusha, informing him that Zaine Manji wanted him to come back to Kenya to work for him again, he was delighted. After living outside the country, Justus wanted to come back home, and that call gave him the opportunity that he needed. “Having worked before for Carzan, returning to the farm was like a homecoming,” he says.
Carzan is a combination of Carol and Zaine, the couple behind this unique flower business. Zain Manji, the managing director, had had a love for biology since his school days. He talks about this with incredible passion and his enthusiasm has spread to his family and the farm. He says the love of his life, Carol, is behind the success of Carzan. The farm specializes in summer flowers grown in choice places with microclimates for best harvest.
For a man who fell in love with agriculture, and flower farming in particular, at the age of 21, Zaine beams with flourishing enthusiasm when he talks about the business. When growing up, he wanted to be a pharmacist, but later changed his mind when it dawned on him how boring it would be to every day interact with capsules, tablets and syrups.
Kipipiri with its high altitude allows for slower growth resulting in very high quality standard carnations with big flower heads. Rongai, in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley produce intense colors of Hypericum, Solidago and Statice. “The wide spread of flowers mixed in all colors add that to the friendly and happy faces of the workers as they cut the flowers in the fields, the Carzan farms are a place you would want to spend all your day.”
Specialization in summer flowers has given the farm an advantage at the auctions in Europe, where all the flowers are sent because of the growing need for fillers. Zaine says, “the farm has built a reputation for this specialty because of the quality of its flowers, reliability in delivering, and diversity of products. I was elated during one of the trade fairs in Europe when I walked into a flower shop and realized quite a good number of flowers on their display were from Carzan and they were still in our sleeves!” Zaine says joyously.
The Rongai farm has a unique setup, being in a rural area where it has had a tremendous impact on the community from which a majority of its workforce is tapped. The transformation of the lives of both the 1,400 workers and the community is easily visible, exemplified by the fast commercial growth of Salgaa town on the main Nakuru-Eldoret highway.
The farm supports the surrounding communities by building classrooms, supplying piped water, and environmental cleaning programs.
Recently To mark the World AIDS Day 2013, Carzan Flowers (K) Ltd, together with other companies in Rongai-Nakuru sponsored and organized this day’s events which included relay races, tug of war and other games. By sponsoring this day, Carzan has successfully raised HIV AIDS awareness in its staff and in the neighboring community and also raised its staffs team spirit and moral in the process. We are proud of our employees who won the race and endeavor to support similar events in the future, says Zaine Manji.
In addition, Carzan fully supports our working new mothers by allowing them to nurse for one hour during their workday up until the child is 10 months old.
Our workers are happy and committed to ensuring our flowers are of the best quality as we believe that if it is not good for us, it is not good for others,” Christine explains.
She further adds that the farm is compliant with regards to audits from the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS), National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) and other certifying institutions.
For further information please visit Carzan’s website www.carzankenya.com
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Distributed Event-based State Estimation
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, November 2015 (techreport)
An event-based state estimation approach for reducing communication in a networked control system is proposed. Multiple distributed sensor-actuator-agents observe a dynamic process and sporadically exchange their measurements and inputs over a bus network. Based on these data, each agent estimates the full state of the dynamic system, which may exhibit arbitrary inter-agent couplings. Local event-based protocols ensure that data is transmitted only when necessary to meet a desired estimation accuracy. This event-based scheme is shown to mimic a centralized Luenberger observer design up to guaranteed bounds, and stability is proven in the sense of bounded estimation errors for bounded disturbances. The stability result extends to the distributed control system that results when the local state estimates are used for distributed feedback control. Simulation results highlight the benefit of the event-based approach over classical periodic ones in reducing communication requirements.
am ics Trimpe, S. Distributed Event-based State Estimation Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, November 2015 (techreport)
The SL simulation and real-time control software package
Schaal, S.
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2009, clmc (techreport)
SL was originally developed as a Simulation Laboratory software package to allow creating complex rigid-body dynamics simulations with minimal development times. It was meant to complement a real-time robotics setup such that robot programs could first be debugged in simulation before trying them on the actual robot. For this purpose, the motor control setup of SL was copied from our experience with real-time robot setups with vxWorks (Windriver Systems, Inc.)Ñindeed, more than 90% of the code is identical to the actual robot software, as will be explained later in detail. As a result, SL is divided into three software components: 1) the generic code that is shared by the actual robot and the simulation, 2) the robot specific code, and 3) the simulation specific code. The robot specific code is tailored to the robotic environments that we have experienced over the years, in particular towards VME-based multi-processor real-time operating systems. The simulation specific code has all the components for OpenGL graphics simulations and mimics the robot multi-processor environment in simple C-code. Importantly, SL can be used stand-alone for creating graphics an-imationsÑthe heritage from real-time robotics does not restrict the complexity of possible simulations. This technical report describes SL in detail and can serve as a manual for new users of SL.
am Schaal, S. The SL simulation and real-time control software package University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2009, clmc (techreport)
SL was originally developed as a Simulation Laboratory software package to allow creating complex rigid-body dynamics simulations with minimal development times. It was meant to complement a real-time robotics setup such that robot programs could first be debugged in simulation before trying them on the actual robot. For this purpose, the motor control setup of SL was copied from our experience with real-time robot setups with vxWorks (Windriver Systems, Inc.)â??indeed, more than 90% of the code is identical to the actual robot software, as will be explained later in detail. As a result, SL is divided into three software components: 1) the generic code that is shared by the actual robot and the simulation, 2) the robot specific code, and 3) the simulation specific code. The robot specific code is tailored to the robotic environments that we have experienced over the years, in particular towards VME-based multi-processor real-time operating systems. The simulation specific code has all the components for OpenGL graphics simulations and mimics the robot multi-processor environment in simple C-code. Importantly, SL can be used stand-alone for creating graphics an-imationsâ??the heritage from real-time robotics does not restrict the complexity of possible simulations. This technical report describes SL in detail and can serve as a manual for new users of SL.
Relative Entropy Policy Search
Peters, J.
CLMC Technical Report: TR-CLMC-2007-2, Computational Learning and Motor Control Lab, Los Angeles, CA, 2007, clmc (techreport)
This technical report describes a cute idea of how to create new policy search approaches. It directly relates to the Natural Actor-Critic methods but allows the derivation of one shot solutions. Future work may include the application to interesting problems.
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Learning an Outlier-Robust Kalman Filter
Ting, J., Theodorou, E., Schaal, S.
CLMC Technical Report: TR-CLMC-2007-1, Los Angeles, CA, 2007, clmc (techreport)
We introduce a modified Kalman filter that performs robust, real-time outlier detection, without the need for manual parameter tuning by the user. Systems that rely on high quality sensory data (for instance, robotic systems) can be sensitive to data containing outliers. The standard Kalman filter is not robust to outliers, and other variations of the Kalman filter have been proposed to overcome this issue. However, these methods may require manual parameter tuning, use of heuristics or complicated parameter estimation procedures. Our Kalman filter uses a weighted least squares-like approach by introducing weights for each data sample. A data sample with a smaller weight has a weaker contribution when estimating the current time step?s state. Using an incremental variational Expectation-Maximization framework, we learn the weights and system dynamics. We evaluate our Kalman filter algorithm on data from a robotic dog.
am Ting, J., Theodorou, E., Schaal, S. Learning an Outlier-Robust Kalman Filter CLMC Technical Report: TR-CLMC-2007-1, Los Angeles, CA, 2007, clmc (techreport)
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ONCOLOGY CORNER
Oncology News / Literature Review / 2018
Alexandros Tzovaras Medical Oncologist, phD, 1st Department of Medical Oncology, “Agios Savvas” Anticancer Hospital of Athens, Greece
Press release in Oncology:
A.Tzovaras ,Medical Oncologist, phD.
1) Nivolumab plus Ipilimumab versus Sunitinib in Advanced Renal-Cell Carcinoma
Nivolumab plus ipilimumab produced objective responses in patients with advanced renal-cell carcinoma in a pilot study. This phase 3 trial compared nivolumab plus ipilimumab with sunitinib for previously untreated clear-cell advanced renal-cell carcinoma
We randomly assigned adults in a 1:1 ratio to receive either nivolumab (3 mg per kilogram of body weight) plus ipilimumab (1 mg per kilogram) intravenously every 3 weeks for four doses, followed by nivolumab (3 mg per kilogram) every 2 weeks, or sunitinib (50 mg) orally once daily for 4 weeks (6-week cycle). The coprimary end points were overall survival (alpha level, 0.04), objective response rate (alpha level, 0.001), and progression-free survival (alpha level, 0.009) among patients with intermediate or poor prognostic risk
A total of 1096 patients were assigned to receive nivolumab plus ipilimumab (550 patients) or sunitinib (546 patients); 425 and 422, respectively, had intermediate or poor risk. At a median follow-up of 25.2 months in intermediate- and poor-risk patients, the 18-month overall survival rate was 75% (95% confidence interval [CI], 70 to 78) with nivolumab plus ipilimumab and 60% (95% CI, 55 to 65) with sunitinib; the median overall survival was not reached with nivolumab plus ipilimumab versus 26.0 months with sunitinib (hazard ratio for death, 0.63; P<0.001). The objective response rate was 42% versus 27% (P<0.001), and the complete response rate was 9% versus 1%. The median progression-free survival was 11.6 months and 8.4 months, respectively (hazard ratio for disease progression or death, 0.82; P=0.03, not significant per the prespecified 0.009 threshold). Treatment-related adverse events occurred in 509 of 547 patients (93%) in the nivolumab-plus-ipilimumab group and 521 of 535 patients (97%) in the sunitinib group; grade 3 or 4 events occurred in 250 patients (46%) and 335 patients (63%), respectively. Treatment-related adverse events leading to discontinuation occurred in 22% and 12% of the patients in the respective groups. The recommended schedule and dose for this combination is nivolumab, 3 mg/kg, followed by ipilimumab, 1 mg/kg, on the same day every 3 weeks for 4 doses, then nivolumab, 240 mg, every 2 weeks or 480 mg every 4 weeks. Overall survival and objective response rates were significantly higher with nivolumab plus ipilimumab than with sunitinib among intermediate- and poor-risk patients with previously untreated advanced renal-cell carcinoma.
On 16 April 2018, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted approvals to nivolumab and ipilimumab (Opdivo and Yervoy, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.) in combination for the treatment of intermediate or poor risk, previously untreated advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC).
2)Cabozantinib versus sunitinib as initial therapy for metastatic renal cell carcinoma of intermediate or poor risk (Alliance A031203 CABOSUN randomised trial): Progression-free survival by independent review and overall survival update.
The randomised phase 2 CABOSUN trial comparing cabozantinib with sunitinib as initial therapy for advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) of intermediate or poor risk met the primary end-point of improving progression-free survival (PFS) as assessed by investigator. Previously untreated patients with advanced RCC of intermediate or poor risk by IMDC criteria were randomised 1:1 to cabozantinib 60 mg daily or sunitinib 50 mg daily (4 weeks on/2 weeks off).
A total of 157 patients were randomised 1:1 to cabozantinib (n = 79) or sunitinib (n = 78). Median PFS per IRC was 8.6 months (95% confidence interval [CI] 6.8-14.0) versus 5.3 months (95% CI 3.0-8.2) for cabozantinib versus sunitinib (hazard ratio [HR] 0.48 [95% CI 0.31-0.74]; two-sided p = 0.0008), and ORR per IRC was 20% (95% CI 12.0-30.8) versus 9% (95% CI 3.7-17.6), respectively. Subgroup analyses of PFS by stratification factors and MET tumour expression were consistent with results for the overall population. With a median follow-up of 34.5 months, median OS was 26.6 months (95% CI 14.6-not estimable) with cabozantinib and 21.2 months (95% CI 16.3-27.4) with sunitinib (HR 0.80 [95% CI 0.53-1.21]. The incidence of grade 3 or 4 adverse events was 68% for cabozantinib and 65% for sunitinib.
In this phase 2 trial, cabozantinib treatment significantly prolonged PFS per IRC compared with sunitinib as initial systemic therapy for advanced RCC of poor or intermediate risk.
3) Survival with Durvalumab after Chemoradiotherapy in Stage III NSCLC.
An earlier analysis in this phase 3 trial showed that durvalumab significantly prolonged progression-free survival, as compared with placebo, among patients with stage III, unresectable non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who did not have disease progression after concurrent chemoradiotherapy. Here we report the results for the second primary end point of overall survival.
We randomly assigned patients, in a 2:1 ratio, to receive durvalumab intravenously, at a dose of 10 mg per kilogram of body weight, or matching placebo every 2 weeks for up to 12 months. Randomization occurred 1 to 42 days after the patients had received chemoradiotherapy and was stratified according to age, sex, and smoking history. The primary end points were progression-free survival (as assessed by blinded independent central review) and overall survival. Secondary end points included the time to death or distant metastasis, the time to second progression, and safety.
Of the 713 patients who underwent randomization, 709 received the assigned intervention (473 patients received durvalumab and 236 received placebo). As of March 22, 2018, the median follow-up was 25.2 months. The 24-month overall survival rate was 66.3% (95% confidence interval [CI], 61.7 to 70.4) in the durvalumab group, as compared with 55.6% (95% CI, 48.9 to 61.8) in the placebo group (two-sided P=0.005). Durvalumab significantly prolonged overall survival, as compared with placebo (stratified hazard ratio for death, 0.68; 99.73% CI, 0.47 to 0.997; P=0.0025). Updated analyses regarding progression-free survival were similar to those previously reported, with a median duration of 17.2 months in the durvalumab group and 5.6 months in the placebo group (stratified hazard ratio for disease progression or death, 0.51; 95% CI, 0.41 to 0.63). The median time to death or distant metastasis was 28.3 months in the durvalumab group and 16.2 months in the placebo group (stratified hazard ratio, 0.53; 95% CI, 0.41 to 0.68). A total of 30.5% of the patients in the durvalumab group and 26.1% of those in the placebo group had grade 3 or 4 adverse events of any cause; 15.4% and 9.8% of the patients, respectively, discontinued the trial regimen because of adverse events.
Durvalumab therapy resulted in significantly longer overall survival than placebo. No new safety signals were identified.
4)Cancer Risks for PMS2-Associated Lynch Syndrome.
Lynch syndrome due to pathogenic variants in the DNA mismatch repair genes MLH1, MSH2, and MSH6 is predominantly associated with colorectal and endometrial cancer, although extracolonic cancers have been described within the Lynch tumor spectrum. However, the age-specific cumulative risk (penetrance) of these cancers is still poorly defined for PMS2-associated Lynch syndrome. Using a large data set from a worldwide collaboration, our aim was to determine accurate penetrance measures of cancers for carriers of heterozygous pathogenic PMS2 variants.
In total, 284 families consisting of 4,878 first- and second-degree family members were included in the analysis. PMS2 mutation carriers were at increased risk for colorectal cancer (cumulative risk to age 80 years of 13% [95% CI, 7.9% to 22%] for males and 12% [95% CI, 6.7% to 21%] for females) and endometrial cancer (13% [95% CI, 7.0%-24%]), compared with the general population (6.6%, 4.7%, and 2.4%, respectively). There was no clear evidence of an increased risk of ovarian, gastric, hepatobiliary, bladder, renal, brain, breast, prostate, or small bowel cancer.
Heterozygous PMS2 mutation carriers were at small increased risk for colorectal and endometrial cancer but not for any other Lynch syndrome-associated cancer. This finding justifies that PMS2-specific screening protocols could be restricted to colonoscopies. The role of risk-reducing hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy for PMS2 mutation carriers needs further discussion.
5)First-Line Atezolizumab plus Chemotherapy in Extensive-Stage Small-Cell Lung Cancer.
Enhancing tumor-specific T-cell immunity by inhibiting programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1)-programmed death 1 (PD-1) signaling has shown promise in the treatment of extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer. Combining checkpoint inhibition with cytotoxic chemotherapy may have a synergistic effect and improve efficacy.
We conducted this double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial to evaluate atezolizumab plus carboplatin and etoposide in patients with extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer who had not previously received treatment. Patients were randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to receive carboplatin and etoposide with either atezolizumab or placebo for four 21-day cycles (induction phase), followed by a maintenance phase during which they received either atezolizumab or placebo.The two primary end points were investigator-assessed progression-free survival and overall survival in the intention-to-treat population.
A total of 201 patients randomly assigned to the atezolizumab group, and 202 patients to the placebo group. were At ea mdian follow-up of 13.9 months, the median overall survival was 12.3 months in the atezolizumab group and 10.3 months in the placebo group (hazard ratio for death, 0.70; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.54 to 0.91; P=0.007). The median progression-free survival was 5.2 months and 4.3 months, respectively (hazard ratio for disease progression or death, 0.77; 95% CI, 0.62 to 0.96; P=0.02). The safety profile of atezolizumab plus carboplatin and etoposide was consistent with the previously reported safety profile of the individual agents, with no new findings observed. The addition of atezolizumab to chemotherapy in the first-line treatment of extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer resulted in significantly longer overall survival and progression-free survival than chemotherapy alone.
6) Osimertinib versus standard-of-care EGFR-TKI as first-line treatment in patients with EGFRm advanced NSCLC: FLAURA Asian subset.
FLAURA a multicentre, international, randomised, double-blind, active-controlled trial conducted in 556 patients with EGFR exon 19 deletion or exon 21 L858R mutation-positive, unresectable or metastatic NSCLC who had not received previous systemic treatment for advanced disease. Patients were randomised (1:1) to receive osimertinib 80 mg orally once daily or standard-of-care (SoC) treatment of gefitinib 250 mg or erlotinib 150 mg orally once daily. Of those randomised to SoC, 20% received osimertinib as the next line of antineoplastic therapy.
The estimated median progression-free survival (PFS) was 18.9 months (95% CI: 15.2, 21.4) in the osimertinib arm and 10.2 months (95% CI: 9.6, 11.1) in the SoC arm (hazard ratio 0.46 (95% CI: 0.37, 0.57), p < 0.0001). The confirmed overall response rate was 77% for the osimertinib arm and 69% for the SoC arm. The estimated median response durations for the osimertinib and SoC arms were 17.6 and 9.6 months, respectively. At the time of the primary PFS analysis, there were too few deaths to estimate or compare overall survival.
The most common adverse reactions (occurring in at least 20% of patients treated with osimertinib) were diarrhoea, rash, dry skin, nail toxicity, stomatitis, and decreased appetite. Serious adverse reactions were reported in 4% of patients treated with osimertinib. The most common serious adverse reactions (≥1%) were pneumonia (2.9%), interstitial lung disease/pneumonitis (2.1%), and pulmonary embolism (1.8%).The recommended dose of osimertinib is 80 mg orally once daily, with or without food.
On 18 April 2018, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved osimertinib (Tagrisso, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP) for the first-line treatment of patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumours have epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) exon 19 deletions or exon 21 L858R mutations, as detected by an FDA-approved test.
7) Dacomitinib versus gefitinib as first-line treatment for patients with EGFR-mutation-positive non-small-cell lung cancer (ARCHER 1050): a randomised, open-label, phase 3 trial.
The FDA approved the kinase inhibitor dacomitinib (Vizimpro, Pfizer) for the first-line treatment of patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) exon 19 deletion or exon 21 L858R substitution mutations as detected by an FDA-approved test. The approval was based on a randomized, multicenter, open-label, active-controlled trial (ARCHER 1050) comparing the safety and efficacy of dacomitinib with gefitinib (Iressa, AstraZeneca) in 452 patients with unresectable, metastatic NSCLC. Patients were required to have no prior therapy for metastatic disease or recurrent disease, with a 12-month minimum of disease-free status after completion of systemic non-EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor–containing therapy; an ECOG status of 0 or 1 and EGFR exon 19 deletion or exon 21 L858R substitution mutations.
Patients were randomly assigned (1:1) to receive either 45 mg of dacomitinib orally once daily or 250 mg of gefitinib orally once daily until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.The researchers were looking for a significant improvement in progression-free survival (PFS), no improvement in overall response rate or overall survival. The median PFS, as determined by an independent review committee, was 14.7 and 9.2 months in the dacomitinib and gefitinib arms, respectively (hazard ratio, 0.59; 95% CI, 0.47-0.74; P<0.0001).
Of 394 patients who received dacomitinib, serious adverse reactions occurred in 27%. The most common adverse reactions resulting in discontinuation of dacomitinib were diarrhea and ILD. The most common adverse reactions of dacomitinib were diarrhea, rash, paronychia, stomatitis, decreased appetite, dry skin, decreased weight, alopecia, cough and pruritus. “The findings from ARCHER 1050 suggest that Vizimpro should be considered as a new first-line treatment option for patients with EGFR-mutated non-small cell lung cancer exon 19 deletion or exon 21 L858R substitution mutations.”
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