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05.10.14 Swieqi sparkle in the pouring rain
Swieqi United 2 Zejtun Corinthians 0 (Kurt Pisani 5', Jeremy Gatt Coleiro 77') In atrocious conditions, Swieqi United sqaured up to Zejtun Corinthians at the Luxol Stadium. With Matthew Sapiano injured, it was time for Matthew Mulholland (on loan from Msida) to make his division debut for Swieqi United. Swieqi instantly applied... Read More
15.10.14 San Gwann edge Swieqi in first ever encounter
BOV 2nd Division: San Gwann 1 Swieqi United 0. A goal scored in the 82nd minute by 15 year old Jan Tanti gave the 3 points to San Gwann in the first derby played between these two clubs. With Matthew Mulholland starting once again as... Read More
19.10.14 All level between Swieqi and Sirens
BOV 2nd Division Swieqi United 1 Sirens 1 The Orange were left frustrated by a plucky Sirens side at the Luxol Stadium this evening. The game never really got going but both sides had good chances to win the game. After a rather drab first half, Swieqi United opened the scoring after Leontiev Konda finished after latching onto a true... Read More
21.10.14 U17s win their competitive debut match
U17s Swieqi vs B'Buga: 2 - 0 (39" 66" Ferry) The game began just a little after 1pm at the Melita FC football pitch. The first 5 mins were characterised by a highly contested midfield battle. Jon Ferry took the first shot of the game after some good midfield play. Birzebbuga reacted in somewhat similar fashion. Martin,... Read More
22.10.14 Women get their 1st Point against Sliema
Swieqi 2 – Sliema 2 Swieqi United womens team had to content with a draw against Sliema during yesterdays third match of the season. Swieqi got off to a great start and played a solid first half, which saw them score the first goal of the game and go into the half time leading 1-0. The second half started equally well, with... Read More
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A frock with a mind of its own
A dress with animated flowers on its neckline, shirt sleeves that make sounds in tune with your body language, and a hemline with a mind of its own have been developed by a Canadian researcher. Professor Joanna Berzowska and international colleagues will discuss these and other examples of ‘wearable technology’ at a workshop in Australia next year called reSkin.
Berzowska’s flowery dress, named Kukkia, has a neckline with felt and silk flowers that open and close according to a special electronics embedded in the dress. “I really wanted to make these dresses that have personalities, that move and behave almost like animals,” says Berzowska, who teaches computation art at Concordia University in Montreal.
The flower petals are made of silk and felt, and contain thin wires of Nitinol, an alloy of nickel and titanium. Nitinol is a Â’shape memory alloyÂ’, which can be programmed to have different shapes at different temperatures.
When the wire heats it shrinks and pulls the petals together, closing the flower. As it cools down, the wire relaxes and the petals open. A custom electronics board is connected by embroidered conductive thread to the flowers and makes each one open and close every 15 seconds. The system is run on rechargeable lithium polymer batteries, originally designed for use in model aeroplanes, which are embedded in pouches in the dress.
Another dress with a mind of its own is Vilkas, which has a hemline that goes up and down on its own. We tend to think of consumer electronics as something we can control. But Berzowska says once you turn on the microcontroller in these dresses, you have to surrender control.
“I like how perverse it is to have a piece of wearable electronics that you can’t control,” she says.
“Perhaps they don’t do what you want them to do and they behave in unexpected ways on your body. Maybe they move at inappropriate times.”
Musical pants and sound sleeves
Berzowska also has musical clothes including musical pants that make a sound every time you take a step. “As you’re walking through public space you can leave a whole trail of sounds behind you based on how you’re walking,” she says. She also has ’sound sleeves’ that produce different sounds to reflect the wearer’s body language.
The sleeves produce a higher frequency sound the harder you squeeze your arms together. If someone is feeling angry or threatened they cross their arms causing the sleeves to generated an almost painfully high pitch. “But when you relax your arms the pitch goes down,” says Berzowska. “It almost sounds like a cat purring.”
Intimate memories
Berzowska has another outfit called Intimate Memory that record acts of physical intimacy using a microphone and a series of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) stitched in a curved line across the front.
The LEDs light up when someone touches the skirt, whispers something in the ear of the wearer, or blows on their neck. “The number of lights represents the intensity of the intimacy event similar to the volume indicator on a stereo,” says Berzowska. “Over time, the lights turn off, one by one, to show time elapsed since the event took place.” [posted by regine on twenty1f]
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West St. Paul resident awarded by YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities
Submitted by admin on Mon, 05/28/2018 - 7:00am
Celestine Rodriguez
Celestine Rodriguez of West St. Paul earned a Youth Thrive aware through the YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities. The award recognizes her impact on the community while demonstrating the Y’s core values.
Mendota Heights Wireless Zone owner recognized
submitted photo • Matt Fun, middle, was recognized by Wireless Zone for his work with the company in the last five years. Funk and his team find ways to give back to local organizations like Minnesota Outdoor Adventure Foundation.
Matt Funk, owner of Wireless Zone in Mendota Heights, was recently recognized at the brand’s annual convention for his outstanding performance at his five locations and 10 years with the brand.
Head football coach and program head hired at St. Thomas Academy
Dan O’Brien
St. Thomas Academy has hired Dan O’Brien as the Cadets’ head football coach and program head.
Visitation School team made it to state tournament for Mock Trial teams
March Madness isn’t all athletics. The Minnesota State High School League also hosts a state tournament for Mock Trial teams, where the Visitation School team made it to state this year.
St. Thomas Academy teacher named 2018 Space Educator of the Year
Mark Westlake
St. Thomas Academy Innovation Center Director, Founder and Co-moderator of the Experimental Vehicle Team Mark Westlake has been named the 2018 Space Educator of the Year by the National Space Club and Foundation.
Cretin-Derham Hall Raider junior scored her 1,000th point on Feb. 28
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courtesy of Brock Beithon Photography • Frannie Hottinger
Frannie Hottinger of Inver Grove Heights scored her 1,000th point as Cretin-Derham Hall junior on Feb. 28, when the Raiders defeated the North St. Paul Polars by a score of 93 to 33 in the first round of Section 4AAAA play.
South St. Paul resident Emmanuel “Manny” Bonilla Galvez from St. Agnes School awarded the WGA’s Chick Evans Scholarship
Submitted by admin on Sun, 03/11/2018 - 11:42pm
Twelve Minnesota high school seniors were awarded the WGA’s Chick Evans Scholarship, a full, four-year housing and tuition scholarship and the nation’s largest privately funded scholarship programs, including South St.
River Heights area Chamber awards Rep. Rick Hansen Excellence Award
submitted photo • Rep Rick Hansen was awarded Forrest Glewwe Visions of Excellence
The River Heights area Chamber of Commerce recently awarded Rep. Rick Hansen its 2017 Forrest Glewwe Visions of Excellence Award.
Visitation fifth-graders attend annual Hubb’s Children’s Literature Conference
submitted photo • Left to right from back: fifth-grade teacher Steve Wright and author Matt de la Pena, Liam Edel, Ian Lloyd, Charlie Schubert. Gabi Leon, Marin Kinsella, and Eleanor
Visitation fifth-graders Liam Edel, Ian Lloyd, Charlie Schubert, Gabi Leon, Marin Kinsella, and Eleanor DuBois attended the 26th annual Hubb’s Ch
Seventh-grader Gregory Dina’s photos earned him first place in annual photo contest
Inver Grove Heights resident and Minnesota Connections Academy seventh-grader Gregory Dina can add award-winning photography to his list of accomplishments, having taken first place in two categories in the Friends of Whitewater S
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Mr. Andrew Olson
Email: aolson@stphilipsmilwaukee.com
Mr. Andrew Olson is our 1st grade teacher. He came to St. Philip’s in 2011.
Mr. Olson is married to Mrs. Bethany Olson. Mrs. Olson is also a former Kindergarten teacher here at St. Philip’s. They have a one year old daughter, Chloe.
Mr. Olson was born and raised in sunny California. He attended Escondido Lutheran grade school and California Lutheran High School.
Mr. Olson graduated from Martin Luther College in 2008. Since graduation, Mr. Olson has had the opportunity to teach in various multi-cultural schools. Mr. Olson’s former schools include:
Peridot Lutheran, Peridot, AZ 2008-2009
Garden Homes, Milwaukee, WI 2010-2011
St. Philip’s Lutheran, Milwaukee, WI 2011-present
When asked why he became an educator, Mr. Olson said: “Early on I knew I wanted to work with and help kids. After much encouragement from both my parents, I decided to pursue teaching.”
Favorite Movie: Lord of the Rings
Favorite Hobbies: Playing tennis, collecting bobbleheads
Favorite Bible Passage: Romans 8:37 “In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.”
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Tribute marks 50th anniversary of deadly tornado in north-central Minnesota
By Kyrie Wagner 9th August 2019
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OUTING, Minn. — Exactly 50 years to the day that a deadly tornado swept through northern Minnesota, many of the survivors and first responders were among the more than 250 people who gathered at Luscher’s Park in downtown Outing on Tuesday, Aug. 6, to reflect on the tragedy that changed their lives forever.
A “Winds of Remembrance” tribute at the park marked the 50th anniversary of the F4 tornado that killed 12 people near that small community about 42 miles north of Brainerd. It was part of a series of tornadoes that took a total of 15 lives across northern Minnesota that day.
The event, which included a dedication of two granite park benches with plaques featuring the names of the Outing tornado victims, was a day for survivors to finally meet with the first responders and area residents who helped out after the storm hit around 5 p.m. on Aug. 6, 1969.
One survivor, Priscilla Dugan, spoke at the gathering and thanked the community for their generosity — especially law enforcement, the hospital staff in Crosby and the many volunteers.
“Many of the survivors didn’t have anything — just the clothes on our backs,” she said, “but the people of Outing took us in. They fed us and helped us find clothing. They took care of us.”
Dugan and her niece, Sue Moline, were among a handful of survivors who returned for the anniversary tribute.
“This has been a beautiful day, and the support has been incredible,” Moline said. “We were visitors here, and we all went home. But the people in this community continued to work around the clock to rebuild. Many people didn’t understand the impact that (the storm) had on this part of the state.”
A total of 11 people died near Roosevelt Lake, and another victim, 2-year-old Susan Marko, died at nearby Reservoir Lake.
“There’s been a hole in our lives for 50 years,” said survivor Jeanne Marko, Susan’s older sister.
For decades, many of the survivors didn’t talk about that tragic day. But that began to change in the past year when Moline solicited discussion from survivors and witnesses through news media coverage.
“I’ve had responses from 130 people,” said Moline, who shared some of the stories of survival. “We’ve learned a lot, but my research still leaves a lot of questions about that day. I figured that if I didn’t start asking people questions, there will be no one left to ask.”
Moline even talked with the National Weather Service staff in Duluth.
“I also wanted to know what they knew about the storm,” she said. “And they said they haven’t studied too many F4 tornadoes that cut across water. I could never figure out how we ended up in the lake, but ending up in the water probably saved our lives.”
One of the most amazing stories told at the tribute referred to witnesses seeing the bottom of Roosevelt Lake appear as the tornado crossed over the water. After the storm, there were reports of fish being carried as much as 35 feet up the hill around the lake.
The movement of water also sucked the lakeside cabin that Dugan and Moline had taken cover in. The cabin, owned by Bethany Fellowship of Bloomington, was lifted off its foundation and carried into the lake, and four of the 17 people in the cabin did not survive.
“We had no warning,” Moline said. “I remember looking out the (cabin) window that faced the lake when a neighbor came running in, and told us that a tornado was coming.”
A few seconds later, the tornado picked up the one-level cabin and carried it into the lake.
“It lifted our cabin right off the foundation,” she said. “It was like the rug was pulled out from under us and we were in a washing machine. I was underwater and unable to breathe. I thought I was going to die. I was gasping for air when I surfaced in 5-foot waves about 300 feet from shore. I didn’t see another person at first, but then people started popping up.”
Moline eventually made it back to shore, but three members of her family drowned, including her 19-year old sister, her grandma and her 5-year-old cousin.
“A total of seven people that I knew had died,” Moline said. “Other people that we knew from (Bethany Fellowship) were there that day, plus my two uncles’ families were there. It was like a Dugan family reunion.”
Five days after the storm, Moline and her family returned to Bloomington for a seven-casket funeral.
One of the people who Moline was especially appreciative of was Brainerd scuba diver Bill Matthies, who recovered the bodies of two of Moline’s family members from Roosevelt Lake. After initial efforts to locate the victims failed, Matthies was called in two days later to locate the final two bodies — 13-year-old Paul Brokke and Dugan’s 5-year-old daughter Sharon — who were swept into the lake by the storm.
“How could we have gone back to our (South Dakota) home if we didn’t know where our daughter was?” Dugan said. “(Matthies) was an angel for us.”
One of the storm workers who attended Tuesday’s tribute was George Carleton, who currently lives in Merrifield. Carleton recalls being near Crosslake in 1969 when he first spotted the storm passing through the Outing area.
“That was the biggest thunderhead I’ve ever seen,” he said. “The fire trucks were flying through Emily, so I knew it was bad. I grabbed my chainsaw and gas and drove to Outing. A deputy stopped me, and I told him that I had a chainsaw. He told me to get to Hilltop (road) and help clear room so the ambulance could get to (the Bethany Fellowship property). We slept for about an hour that night, and then went across (Roosevelt Lake) to cut up cabins and help look for two missing people at (the former) Simmons Resort.”
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Photo: Eliza MuirheadThe Japanese whaling fleet has abandoned its plans to out-run the Sea Shepherd Fleet, with its factory vessel, the Nisshin Maru, slowing down to 12 knots after a 36 hour chase at full speed.
At approximately 1300 AEDT today, the Nisshin Maru, flanked by the harpoon vessels, Yushin Maru and Yushin Maru No. 2, reduced its speed and changed course for due west. The Sea Shepherd Fleet now surrounds the whale poachers, with The Bob Barker six nautical miles ahead of the whalers, The Steve Irwin six nautical miles to the eastern side of the poachers, and The Sam Simon approaching from the south.
Captain of The Bob Barker, Peter Hammarstedt, said, “The Nisshin Maru has resigned itself as unable to outrun the determination of the Sea Shepherd Fleet. We will shadow them wherever they try to run and if they attempt to kill any more whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, the Sea Shepherd ships are in position to stand fast.”
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1. Nike Breaks Barriers
On International Women’s Day, Nike released 3 powerful films as part of a new local-global campaign strategy. The ads — shot in Russia, Turkey, and the Middle East — illustrate challenges and stereotypes that female athletes face. Although the films are based on cultural barriers, unique to those regions, the response to the global rollout was one of worldwide solidarity among female athletes. Despite the culture-specific content, the challenges of gender discrimination and stereotypes resonated with women all over the world showing us that, despite where we come from, we face very similar barriers. The ads seek to unite and encourage women to keep breaking down these barriers “in order to clear the way for women to play sport”.
2. Brawny’s Women’s Day Play
For those of you who would typically consider yourselves more of a ‘Target person’, Brawny may make you a Walmart-convert — well, for the month of March, at least… In honor of Women’s History Month, the paper towel company has upgraded swapped its iconic ‘Brawny Man’ for a flannel-clad female because #StrengthHasNoGender. The limited-edition packaging will be sold exclusively at Walmart for the rest of the month, and you better believe that I will be stocking up on paper towels for the rest of the year this weekend. Well done, Brawny, you killed the Women’s Day game!
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Just in time for International Women’s Day, Manhattan received a new city statue in the wee hours of Tuesday morning as the Financial District’s iconic ‘Charging Bull’ statue was officially given a counterpart. At just 4 feet tall, the new figure portrays a defiant young girl, bravely staring down the menacing bull and aptly named “Fearless Girl”. Manhattanites flocked to the scene and images of the statue soon went viral as Americans from coast to coast embraced the new bronze badass that New York City bestowed upon us as an International Women’s Day gift.
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As part of our recognition of exceptional women this month, we turn to the legendary Marie Curie for her pioneering in physics research, receiving two Nobel Prizes, and envisioning a future for of leading female scientists. Curie’s admirable achievements, while unfortunately minimized or misconstrued by pop culture – as seen with this week’s backlash against Snapchat’s superficial filter of the Nobel Laureate – demonstrate the significant role women have played and continue to play in redefining boundaries.
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The politics of mobile hospitals..
A scathing attack by Lusaka Gossip on GRZ's latest plans for mobile hospitals :
"The idea for Mobile Hospitals is ill-conceived and will lead to wastage of tax payers money. As a matter of fact, the idea has all the hallmarks of someone intending to profit from whichever deal will come out of the eventual procurement of Mobile Hospitals. History has shown that rarely have Zambian politicians made decisions with the poor as the intended genuine beneficiaries. But who stands to make personal gain from the proposal? Fifty three million dollars is such a huge amount of money, for Zambian standards, that Zambians must not allow the Government to waste on cheap and transitory Mobile Hospital structures. The idea must be rescinded and all the discussions on the proposed plan to import Mobile Hospitals from China must stop with immediate effect. It is important for the leadership to start planning and constructing infrastructure that will stand the test of time."
I don't fully share the skepticism over "mobile hospitals" because we know so little about how these hospitals will work. One of the things we have discussed in the past is that Zambia is full of isolated settlements that make it difficult to provide services. One can certainly see the rationale for providing mobile resources (in an internet and telephone age) as way of harnessing the economies of scale. I would be interested to hear from others where such "hospitals" have been employed. The government needs to set out a full comprehensive case for taking this project forward. It appears the government's communication skills have not improved since I wrote Governing in difficult times.
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Kafue001 6 May 2009 at 21:54
And then there were the famous Chinese "Barefoot Doctors" who brought health care to rural areas:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barefoot_doctor
Chola Mukanga 6 May 2009 at 23:36
The thing is it is all about cost benefit analysis.
And in CBA what you need is to define the "counterfactual" or comparator.
I can see many ways in which "mobile hospitals" would be good initiatives and equally where they would be poor value for money.
Someone surely must have done the sums. All we need to see is the evidence.
I have dug into one or two papers that demonstrate that the concept can deliver significant savings - but until we see the detail of Zambian plan, its fumbling in the dark!
Lusaka Gossip 7 May 2009 at 16:40
Those of us that have travelled extensively to rural areas in Zambia can attest to the fact that the standard of existing rural health centers is dismal. The majority of these health centers, if not all, appear to have been exposed to the ravages of war and yet they were constructed during peace time. The only rural health center that truly bears the ravages of war, situated in Nyimba District in the Eastern Province of Zambia,was damaged by the Renamo guerrilla fighters during the struggle for independence in Mozambique. That said, the argument by the Lusaka Gossip is that Zambia's rural areas will not develop by merely importing temporary Mobile Hospitals. Infesting rural areas with mobile hospital structures will not translate into overnight and meaningful development. The question is "Should Zambia be a country of temporary structures?" Economic sense dictates that any planning authority carries out cost benefit analysis and other project selection criteria before project implementation to determine the best option. To make this idea more convincing, however, one has to make a comparison between the two options, stationary civil structures against mobile structures. In the analysis one would need to account for the quality of rural roads, the durability of both structures, operation and maintenance costs to name a few. The other argument is that mobile structures will not by themselves solve the problem of lack of development in the rural areas. What the government needs do is to put in place a phased development plan for rural areas by priorities the kind of infrastructures to be developed first. With careful planning, the US$53 million can be used to construct a good number of high quality rural health centers that will effectively give rural areas a better image than the current image of shacks.
Rural settlements in Zambia are more scattered than clustered but the masses still commute to the existing poor quality rural health centers. The rural masses, like their counterparts in urban areas, deserve quality infrastructure. They cannot be perpetually condemned to a life of makeshift hospitals. Therefore, scattered settlements in the rural areas cannot be used as argument and justification to deny our rural people quality infrastructures.
Zedian 7 May 2009 at 21:24
Yet another polarising issue that demands public consultation.
The idea of mobile hospitals itself is actually good, in my opinion, if the sums add up and efficiency can be maximised. The whole concept is about sharing scarce medical resources in terms of equipment and specialist personnel, and making sure usage is kept above a certain pre-calculated optimum level.
Otherwise, you will end up with mobile units being stuck in one place (due to vehicle maintenance problems, bad roads, etc), and in the process defeating the original idea.
So it has to be thought out; no shortcuts am afraid.
It looks like the government does not know how these mobile clinics will otherwise the would be on the offensive on how this clinics will add value. What we need is for the government to respond comprehensively why it thinks this a better way to use our resources than building permanent structures. If we keep talking to each without putting pressure on the government we will soon have the containers called Mobile Hospitals on our doors.
It looks like the does not have an idea how these mobile clinic will work. Otherwise it would be on the offensive giving a comprehensive report on why this is a better deal than building permenant building.
MrK 8 May 2009 at 19:21
Lusaka Gossip, Lawrence,
That said, the argument by the Lusaka Gossip is that Zambia's rural areas will not develop by merely importing temporary Mobile Hospitals. Infesting rural areas with mobile hospital structures will not translate into overnight and meaningful development.
These are a all stopgap measures. Mobile hospitals, NGOs, etc. are all doing what local government should be doing.
And the reason local government is not doing them, is because they are unfunded by the national government.
Please check out my Manifesto for Economic Transformation. It is a bit rusty, but it spells out an alternative model, to the present highly centralized form of government, which is a remnant of the One Party State, which itself was created in response to an external threat that no longer exists (apartheid in South Africa and Rhodesia), and an internal threat (national disintegration) that can be sidestepped by complete localisation and subsidiarity of government.
According to my model, local council budgets would be doubled or tripled, and they would be held accountable for education, healthcare, policing, public utilities and administrative matters. Because those services would be directly provided and funded by local government, they would become available to every citizen in the country, no matter where they lived, or who gets elected to State House. In other words, they are taken out of the hands of political parties.
This would take some capacity building on local government, but the result would be a government that is well funded, service oriented, and responsive to people's ideas and interests, because it would be literally located where the people live, and not in the capital.
At the core of my idea, is that Zambia has 29 ministries, and collects 1.1 billion in revenues (plus 0.6 billion in 'donor aid', which I ignore for the sake of sustainability - in case all donor aid stopped, the plan still has to work). If half of that 1.1 billion, 550 million was directly paid out to 350 local councils of 30,000 people per council, each would receive 1.57 million in direct funding.
(Example, the Solwezi Council, population 38,000 in 2000, has a budget of K2.1 billion or $375,000 at K5600/$. Under my model, it would receive $1.98 million ($1.57 million x [38,000/30,000]) directly from central government on top of that - allowing them to reduce local taxes while they fund services.
The CDC (Citizens Democratic Party) and prof. Kyambalesa's Agenda For Change already have a similar interest in decentralisation, and from comments on Lusaka Times, the concept seems very popular.
It might be too late for 2011 to create a new party and get it known nationwide, but these ideas could be adopted by an existing party, for everyone's mutual benefit.
in 1999 I wrote a feature in the Daily Mail/Sunday Mail of how villagers in Chief Mpezeni's area were being trained to provide basic medical services. Unfortunately, at that time the papers were not on the internet, so one has to go to the physical archives. The point though is that the concept of Chinese barefoot doctors has been trialed in Zambia before.
Yakima 17 May 2009 at 13:25
I have been attempting to understand the reasoning behind the creation and maintenance of mobile hospital units in the Zambian context. Certainly there can be no doubt that many Zambian communities currently lack access to adequate health care facilities, and often must travel economically difficult and medically dangerous distances to receive care. It is tempting to draw the conclusion that if the patient cannot go to the hospital, then perhaps the hospital can go to the patient. However it would seem common sense that the outfitting of a mobile hospital would be more expensive than an equivalent stationary facility. I would be curious to see a cost comparison between deployment of mobile hospitals versus augmentation and expansion of existing clinics to greater capacity.
There seem to be some other possible assumptions involved with the decision to deploy mobile hospitals. The first that occurs to me is that there are skilled medical professionals who are otherwise idle when deployed to stationary facilities, and thus require mobility in order to have access to enough patients that they can achieve cost effective rates of productivity. Given the current ratios of health care professionals within the general population, this strikes me as unlikely, especially given the time and expense of actually moving the facility, during which it and its personnel are presumably idle.
Another possibility is that there are patients requiring surgery or other medical procedures who cannot safely be moved by ambulance to a stationary facility and thus will not receive proper treatment unless availed of a mobile facility. This reasoning strikes me as also unlikely, since patients in such remote locations are unlikely to be reachable by the quality of road a mobile hospital would require. It seems common sense that an ambulance service would be able to more rapidly reach and transport patients than waiting for the provincial mobile hospital to arrive from its last destination.
A third possibility is that the services provided by a mobile facility will be specific enough, infrequent enough, and demand for them clustered enough both geographically and temporally to enable such a facility to effectively rotate through a province providing services and moving on according to a set schedule. Certainly there have been positive experiences in many countries using mobile facilities for provision of non-emergency primary procedures such as immunizations, dental care or screenings for pre-existing conditions such as cancer or HIV/AIDS. However such procedures generally do not require the full services of a hospital per se, and are usually quite adequate when provided at a properly outfitted primary care clinic (whether mobile or stationary). Fully equipped mobile surgeries (complete with x-ray rooms, blood warmers, oxygen generators, etc.) on the other hand are generally only deployed in disaster or war zones where there has been an overwhelming volume of emergency cases and/or interruption in the normal functions of the civilian health care infrastructure. Thus it is likely that these specific mobile facilities would be better termed "clinics" rather than "hospitals" in public discourse to avoid confusion as to their capabilities.
This last impression is defied however by the reputed price tag associated with the deployment of these nine mobile facilities (US$53M for all is approx. US$5.9M per unit). My review of costs for clinic-sized mobile units appears to be significantly lower (e.g. US$250,000 to US$300,000 each based on f.y. 2009 prices for a variety of US and German made dental clinic "trailer" models, excluding costs for actual dental equipment (US$25,000-60,000 depending on single or double occupancy, x-ray equipment, etc.), electric generators, or towing vehicles). This leads me to think that these nine proposed units must in fact be more along the lines of 20-50 bed "transportable hospitals" intended for medium to long term deployment in any given location, which seems to defy the need for mobility outside of disaster or war zones.
This 2004 article from china.org indicates that central government contributions to investment in the deployment of thousands of mobile primary care clinics to rural areas amounts to only tens of thousands of US$/unit rather than millions, however no specifics are given on the level of investment being contributed by local authorities or individual patients. http://www.china.org.cn/archive/2004-08/02/content_1102747.htmThus I remain confused as to the exact nature and intent of the "mobile hospital" plan currently producing controversy in Zambian media, and would welcome any clarifications if anyone can provide some.
Kafue001 26 July 2009 at 20:59
http://www.daily-mail.co.zm/sundaymail/press/news/viewnews.cgi?category=3&id=1234349268
Mike N. 26 June 2010 at 16:24
I personally think that the Mobile Hospital Units are important to the people of the republic of Zambia.
Specialized medical facilities tend to be concentrated in medical centers in metropolitan areas, which results in unavailability of adequate medical care to large portions of our population.
I would wish to introduce to you readily available Field Medical Units from CueMed Consultants Ltd.
CueMED Mobile Field Hospital is envisioned as a unit capable of assisting a damaged hospital or adding capacity to a functioning hospital, following a dieses outbreak, natural disaster or act of terrorism.
The units are designed and equipped to provide a wide range of healthcare services, including emergency surgery, orthopedic stabilization, wound repair, burn treatment, cardiovascular and pulmonary care, invasive and noninvasive advanced life support for cardiac arrest, comprehensive asthma care, and dental procedures.
The Vehicle Hospital Units has total body dimensions of up to 8.0 meters, exterior width 2.5 meters and interior height 2.0 meters of space.
The Medical Tents have up to a capacity of 12 beds. They are designed with an air-conditioning system, drainage outlets and are well ventilated.
For more information please visit; http://www.cuemed.com/field
Mike N.
CueMed Ltd
Chola Mukanga 2 July 2010 at 10:30
MikeN,
Thanks for this info about mobile hospitals.
How much is the outfit you linked to cost?
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Shack presents: Ranking all the top 100 #1s of this decade
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Re: Shack presents: Ranking all the top 100 #1s of this deca
Can't wait to hijack this thread with my own ranking soon!
So much has happened to me that I don’t understand
Top 10 time
10. Katy Perry - Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) (Aug. 27-Sept. 3 2011, 2 weeks)
My favorite of her Teenage Dream #1s, Last Friday Night is as catchy as imaginable, and even has time for a cool sax part. The way the exploits escalade until she casually mentions she also had a menage a trois is hilarious.
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Woof Shackster. But I will forgive you since I know Red-era is your favorite. I think #1 overall will be Not Afraid.
9. Sia feat. Sean Paul - Cheap Thrills (Aug 6-27 2016, 4 weeks)
I like the message for this song and shows the real reason people go out to have fun. The "I love Cheap Thrills" chorus adds to the song and Sean Paul's addition somehow works perfectly
8. Wiz Khalifa feat. Charlie Puth - See You Again (Apr 25-May 30 and June 13-July 18 2015, 12 weeks)
A great emotional rap song about brotherhood/family, and works whether you picture it as about either an alive person and passage of time or a dead person you'll see again one day. Charlie Puth really crushes his verses.
Why is This Is America in your top 7? And Not Afraid?
Crap, I forgot This Is America, it would be like bottom 10. I knew I would miss one
7. Adele - Someone Like You (Sept 17 and Oct-15-Nov 5 2011, 5 weeks)
Adele at her best with her and her subject separated by time and memories, and a nice piano score. Some of her best lyrics as most of the words are memorable in their way.
6. Gotye feat. Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know (April 28-June 16 2012, 8 weeks)
One of the truest one hit wonders of this era (Came out of nowhere, disappeared after the face of the earth afterwards), I always enjoyed the instrumental vibe of this song and Gotye's vocal performance showing the subject's hurt mopeyness over the relationship is key. I also generally like songs where a male and female singer both sing.
5. Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (Sept 1-18 and Sept 22 2012, 3 weeks)
A very fun anthem to kick off one of her best era’s, with the snarky verses equally enjoyable. Even the phone call feels like an integral part of the song. As many times as she says never ever, subtly it feels like she might want to get back together.
4. Bruno Mars - Grenade (Jan 8., Jan 22., and Feb 5.-12. 2011, 4 weeks)
My favorite Bruno song by miles, what separates it is having an edge with its subject's desperation and anger. The imagery is great between catching a grenade, bullet to the brain, etc. The video with him pulling the piano is also terrific.
3. P!nk feat. Nate Ruess - Just Give Me A Reason (Apr 27-May 11 2013, 4 weeks)
Pink's best song, this is a beautiful relationship song about one that is going downhill and is in trouble, but maintains hope they can save it. Nate's verse is my favorite and the interplay between the two singers is great throughout the song.
2. Eminem - Not Afraid (May 29-June 12 2010, 3 weeks)
1. Eminem feat. Rihanna - Love the Way You Lie (July 31-Sept. 11 2010, 8 weeks)
Ultimately I decided the two Eminem #1s meant the most to me, his Recovery era was awesome and the end of his prime, like Lebron's last season on the Cavs before he goes to be washed on the Lakers. Both tremendous in their own ways, Not Afraid inspiring and personal (and admittedly overused by trailers) and Love the Way You Lie a fiery relationship song with Rihanna at her best as a feature artist showing her subject's intoxication in the relationship as well. It's close to a tie I went with the titanic Love the Way You Lie collab as number 1
1. Katy Perry “Roar”
2.Katy Perry “Teenage Dream”
3. Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris “We Found Love”
4. Miley Cyrus “Wrecking Ball”
5. Katy Perry feat. Kanye West “E.T.”
6. The Chainsmokers feat. Halsey “Closer”
7. Maroon 5 “One More Night”
8. Adele “Set Fire to the Rain”
9. Katy Perry feat. Juicy J “Dark Horse”
10. Taylor Swift “Blank Space”
11. Bruno Mars “Grenade”
12. John Legend “All of Me”
13. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis feat. Wanz “Thrift Shop”
14. Bruno Mars “When I Was Your Man”
15. Bruno Mars “Just the Way You Are”
16. ZAYN “PILLOWTALK”
17. Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars “Uptown Funk!”
18. Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg “California Gurls”
19. Rihanna “Diamonds”
20. Justin Timberlake “CAN’T STOP THE FEELING!”
21. The Weeknd “Can’t Feel My Face”
22. Lorde “Royals”
23. Eminem feat. Rihanna “Love the Way You Lie”
24. Katy Perry “Firework”
25. P!nk feat. Nate Ruess “Just Give Me a Reason”
26. Kesha “Tik Tok”
27. Taylor Swift “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”
28. Adele “Someone Like You”
29. Camila Cabello feat. Young Thug “Havana”
30. Rihanna “Rude Boy”
31. Rihanna “S&M”
32. Bruno Mars “Locked Out of Heaven”
33. P!nk “Raise Your Glass”
34. Rihanna feat. Drake “Work”
35. Adele “Hello”
36. Ed Sheeran “Shape of You”
37. Eminem feat. Rihanna “The Monster”
38. Pitbull feat. Ne-Yo, Afrojack and Nayer “Give Me Everything”
39. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis feat. Ray Dalton “Can’t Hold Us”
40. Taio Cruz feat. Ludacris “Break Your Heart”
41. Rihanna “Only Girl (In the World)”
42. Bruno Mars “That’s What I Like”
43. The Weeknd feat. Daft Punk “Starboy”
44. Meghan Trainor “All About That Bass”
45. Kesha “We R Who We R”
46. B.o.B. feat. Bruno Mars “Nothin’ on You”
47. Katy Perry “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)”
48. Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera “Moves Like Jagger”
49. Gotye feat. Kimbra “Somebody That I Used to Know”
50. Carly Rae Jepsen “Call Me Maybe”
51. Ed Sheeran “Perfect”
52. Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee feat. Justin Bieber “Despacito”
53. Katy Perry “Part of Me”
54. Rihanna feat. Drake “What’s My Name?”
55. Flo Rida “Whistle”
56. The Weeknd “The Hills”
57. Taylor Swift “Shake It Off”
58. Wiz Khalifa feat. Charlie Puth “See You Again”
59. F.u.n. Feat. Janelle Monae “We Are Young”
60. Eminem “Not Afraid”
61. Kelly Clarkson “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)”
62. Taylor Swift feat. Kendrick Lamar “Bad Blood”
63. Justin Bieber “What Do You Mean?”
64. Sia feat. Sean Paul “Cheap Thrills”
65. Post Malone feat. Ty Dolla Sign “Psycho”
66. Pitbull feat. Kesha “Timber”
67. Usher feat. will.i.am “OMG”
68. The Black Eyed Peas “Imma Be”
69. DJ Khaled feat. Justin Bieber, Chance the Rapper, Quavo and Lil Wayne “I’m the One”
70. Lady Gaga “Born This Way”
71. LMFAO “Sexy and I Know It”
72. MAGIC! “Rude”
73. LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett and GoonRock “Party Rock Anthem”
74. Robin Thicke feat. T.I. and Pharrell “Blurred Lines”
75. Justin Bieber “Sorry”
76. Britney Spears “Hold It Against Me”
77. Drake feat. WizKid and Kyla “One Dance”
78. Justin Bieber “Love Yourself”
79. Drake “God’s Plan”
80. Pharrell Williams “Happy”
81. Drake “Nice for What”
82. Iggy Azalea feat. Charli XCX “Fancy”
83. Taylor Swift “Look What You Made Me Do”
84. Cardi B, Bad Bunny and J Balvin “I Like It”
85. OMI “Cheerleader”
86. Wiz Khalifa “Black and Yellow”
87. Drake “In My Feelings”
88. Childish Gambino “This Is America”
89. Desiigner “Panda”
90. Far East Movement featuring The Cataracs and Dev
91. Post Malone feat. 21 Savage “rockstar”
92. Kendrick Lamar “Humble.”
93. Cardi B “Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)”
94. Migos feat. Lil Uzi Vert “Bad and Boujee”
95. XXXTentacion “Sad!”
96. Baauer “Harlem Shake”
97. Rae Sremmurd feat. Gucci Mane “Black Beatles”
My full list. This Is America comes in 94, cool video but not a good song at all to me. Thanks for reading anyone, it was nice to revisit some old songs and I gained an appreciation for some of them.
11. Taylor Swift - Blank Space (Nov 29-Jan 10, 7 weeks)
12. Pitbull feat. Ke$ha - Timber (Jan 18-Feb 1 2014, 4 weeks)
13. Kelly Clarkson - Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) (Feb 18-24 and March 10 2012, 3 weeks)
14. Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball (Sept 28-Oct 5 and Dec 14 2013, 3 weeks)
15. Adele - Set Fire to the Rain (Feb 4-11 2012, 2 weeks)
16. Taylor Swift - Shake It Off (Sept 6-Sept 13, Nov 15-22 2014, 4 weeks)
17. Katy Perry - Teenage Dream (Sept 18-23 2010, 2 weeks)
18. Katy Perry - California Gurls (June 19-July 24 2010, 6 weeks)
19. Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera - Moves Like Jagger (Sept 10 and Sept 24-Oct 8 2011, 3 weeks)
20. Katy Perry - Roar (Sept 14-21, 2 weeks)
21. Carly Rae Jepson - Call Me Maybe (June 23rd-Aug 18 2012, 9 weeks)
22. Cardi B feat. Bad Bunny, J. Balvin - I Like It (July 1st 2018, 1 week)
23. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Ray Dalton - Can't Hold Us (May 18-June 15 2013, 5 weeks)
24. The Weeknd feat. Daft Punk - Starboy (Jan 7, 1 week)
25. Camilla Cabello feat. Young Thug - Havana (Jan. 27 2018, 1 week)
26. Drake - Nice for What (Apr 21-May 12, Jun 2-9, June 23, July 14 2018, 8 weeks)
27. Adele - Rolling in the Deep (May 21-July 2 2011, 6 weeks)
28. Ke$ha - TiK ToK (Jan 2-Feb 27 2010, 9 weeks)
29. Iggy Azalea feat. Charli XCX - Fancy
30. Taylor Swift - Look What You Made Me Do (Sept 16-30 2017, 3 weeks)
31. DJ Khaled feat. Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper, Lil Wayne - I'm the One (May 20 2017, 1 week)
32. The Chainsmokers feat. Halsey - Closer (Sept 3-Nov 19 2016, 12 weeks)
33. Luis Fonsi feat. Daddy Yankee, Justin Bieber - Despacito (May 27-Sept 9 2017, 16 weeks)
34. Pharrell - Happy (Mar 8-May 1 2014, 10 weeks)
35. Ed Sheeran - Shape of You (Jan 28, Feb 18-Apr 29 2017, 12 weeks)
36. Justin Bieber - Love Yourself (Feb 13, Feb 27 2016, 2 weeks)
37. Lady Gaga - Born This Way (Feb. 26-Apr. 2 2011, 6 weeks)
38. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Wanz - Thrift Shop (Feb 2-23 and April 6-13 2013, 6 weeks)
39. P!nk - Raise Your Glass (Dec 11 2010, 1 week)
40. John Legend - All of Me (May 17-May 31 2014, 3 weeks)
41. MAGIC! - Rude (July 26-Aug 30 2014, 6 weeks)
42. Fun. - We Are Young feat Janelle Monae (March 17th, April 21st 2012, 6 weeks)
43. Lorde - Royals (October 12-Dec 7 2013, 9 weeks)
44. OMI - Cheerleader (July 25-Aug 15, Aug 29-Sept 5 2015, 6 weeks)
45. B.o.B. feat Bruno Mars - Nothin on You (B.o.B. feat Bruno Mars - Nothin’ on You - May 1-8, 2 weeks)
46. Ed Sheeran feat. Beyonce - Perfect (Dec 23 2017-Jan 20 2018, 6 weeks)
47. Kendrick Lamar - HUMBLE (May 6, 1 week)
48. Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass (Sept 20-Nov 8 2014, 8 weeks)
49. Cardi B - Bodak Yellow (Oct 7-21 2017, 3 weeks)
50. LMFAO feat Lauren Bennett, GoonRock - Party Rock Anthem (July 16-August 20, 6 weeks)
51. Rihanna feat. Drake - What's My Name? (Nov. 2 2010, 1 week)
52. Taylor Swift feat. Kendrick Lamar - Bad Blood (June 6 2015, 1 week)
53. Katy Perry - Firework (Dec 18-Jan 1 and Jan 15 2010, 4 weeks)
54. Bruno Mars - Just the Way You Are (Oct 2-23 2010, 4 weeks)
55. Adele - Hello (Nov 14-Jan 16 2015, 10 weeks)
56. Rihanna - We Found Love (Nov 12-Dec 31 and Jan 21-14 2011, 10 weeks)
57. Ke$ha - We R Who We R (Nov 13 2010, 1 week)
58. Eminem feat. Rihanna - The Monster (Dec. 21 2013-Jan. 11 2014, 4 weeks)
59. Robin Thicke feat. T.I., Pharrell - Blurred Lines (June 22-Sept 7 2013, 12 weeks)
60. Justin Timberlake - Can't Stop the Feeling (May 28 2016, 1 week)
61. Bruno Mars - That's What I Like (May 13 2017, 1 week)
62. Bruno Mars - Locked Out of Heaven (Dec 22-Jan 26 2012, 6 weeks)
63. The Weeknd - Can't Feel My Face (Aug 22, Sept 12, Sept 26 2015, 3 weeks)
64. Rihanna - Only Girl in the World (Dec. 4-11 2010, 2 weeks)
65. Katy Perry feat. Kanye West - E.T. (Apr. 9-23 and May 7-14 2011, 5 weeks)
66. Rihanna - Diamonds (Dec. 1-Dec 15 2012, 3 weeks)
67. Rihanna - S&M (April 30 2011, 1 week)
68. Flo Rida - Whistle (Aug 25 and Sept 15 2012, 2 weeks)
69. Drake feat. WizKid, Kyla - One Dance (May 21, June 4-July 30 2016, 10 weeks)
70. Justin Bieber - What Do You Mean? (Sept. 19 2015, 1 week)
71. Justin Bieber - Sorry (Jan. 23-Feb. 6 2016, 3 weeks)
72. Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk (Jan 17-Apr 18 2015, 14 weeks)
73. Maroon 5 - One More Night (Sept 29-Nov 24 2012, 9 weeks)
74. Katy Perry - Dark Horse (Feb 8-Mar 1 2014, 4 weeks)
75. Far East Movement feat. The Cataracs, Dev - Like a G6 (Oct 30-Nov 6 and Nov 27 2010, 3 weeks)
76. Wiz Khalifa - Black and Yellow (Feb. 19 2011, 1 week)
77. Taio Cruz feat. Ludacris - Break Your Heart (March 20 2010, 1 week)
78. Pitbull feat Ne-Yo, Afrojack, Nayer - Give Me Everything (July 9 2011, 1 week)
79. LMFAO - Sexy and I Know It (Jan 7-14 2012, 2 weeks)
80. The Weeknd - The Hills (Oct. 3rd-Nov. 7th 2015, 6 weeks)
81. Rihanna - Rude Boy (March 27-April 24 2010, 5 weeks)
82. XXXTentaction - Sad! (June 30 2018, 1 week)
83. Black Eyed Peas - Imma Be (Mar 6-13 2010, 2 weeks)
84. Usher feat. will.i.am - OMG (May 15 2010, 1 week)
85. Post Malone - Psycho (June 16 2018, 1 week)
86. Bruno Mars - When I Was Your Man (April 20th 2013, 1 week)
87. Katy Perry - Part of Me (March 3rd 2012, 1 week)
88. Rihanna feat. Drake - Work (March 5-April 30th 2016, 9 weeks)
89. ZAYN - Pillowtalk (Feb. 20 2016, 1 week)
90. Britney Spears - Hold It Against Me (Jan. 29th 2011, 1 week)
91. Desiigner - Panda (May 7-14 2016, 2 weeks)
92. Post Malone feat. 21 savage - rockstar (Oct. 28-Dec 16 2017, 8 weeks)
93. Drake - In My Feelings (July 21-Aug 18 2018, 5 weeks and counting)
94. Childish Gambino - This Is America (May 19-26 2018, 2 weeks)
95. Migos feat. Lil Uzi Vert - Bad and Boujee (Jan. 21 and Feb. 4-11 2017, 3 weeks)
96. Rae Sremmurd feat. Gucci Mane - Black Beatles (Nov. 26-Dec. 31 2016 and Jan. 14 2017, 7 weeks)
97. Baauer - Harlem Shake (Mar. 2-Mar. 30th 2013, 5 weeks)
98. Drake - God's Plan (Feb. 3-Apr. 14 2018, 11 weeks)
Not bad zwacks, nice to see someone else who likes Grenade a lot. I thought All About That Bass would be more of a zwackerm song.
We Found Love made it by far the farthest of 2010s songs in a #1s tournament on Awardswatch right now. I think it's good but I am surprised at how strong the passion for it is sometimes
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That's a pretty good top 15, all songs I pretty much enjoy too. The list finished better than it start which is how it should be. Ultimately it was more interesting than I expected to follow, curious to your updates at the end.
Of all these though, there's just a few, maybe 5 I'd really love and are fond to remember, but mostly it just decent radio tunes only for me. In that regard it doesn't help I loved abroad without any real exposure to music updates for the last 10 years, so pretty much none if the songs came to me in the environment when they were the thing for a moment around me.
Close! I figured you’d favor the more motivational workout track. Love The Way is definitely better though.
I’m not gonna rank them, but even though I had Katy Perry ranked above them all, I’d still put Taylor at #1. Cause I like it like that.
We Found Love is definitely a song that will be played at clubs forever. You can dance to it, sing to it, it’s romantic and good for weddings. Easily the best song by an EDM artist ever.
Closer has grown on me so much since it was first popular. I used to hate it because it was overplayed, but it’s iconic now.
I know you couldn’t have planned it, but it’s kinda cool that you gave Em the top two spots on the same day he stealth releases his new album.
My top 10 of the bunch:
1. Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball
2. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Ray Dalton - Can't Hold Us
3. Rihanna - We Found Love
4. Pitbull feat. Ke$ha - Timber
5. Lady Gaga - Born This Way
6. Bruno Mars - Grenade
7. Childish Gambino - This Is America
8. Camilla Cabello feat. Young Thug - Havana
9. John Legend - All of Me
10. MAGIC! - Rude
For 2018:
1. SICKO MODE
2. Perfect (without Beyoncé)
3. Havana
^Actual good songs
4. Thank U Next
5. Nice For What
^Decent
6. This Is America
7. In My Feelings
8. God's Plan
9. I Like It
^Extra meh
10. Girls Like You
11. Sad!
12. Psycho
^Gross
In the theme of this project or favorite songs lists, 10 songs I like: http://wokj.worldofkj.com/10-songs-i-like/
Ghost is playing Sonic Temple this year. I don't love them but I think they will be very fun live.
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"Israel’s image takes another hit with the ‘Prisoner X’ scandal":
"But what makes this international intrigue all the more fascinating is not what most of the commentary is obsessing over — the details of Zygier’s life and how he ended up in a high security prison — but the ways in which young Jews are groomed by an Israeli intelligence service to commit acts of terrorism and subterfuge across the world under the guise of protecting national security. It is done with the consent of Western governments and intelligence services, including Australia’s."
"The complicity of silence around Zygier’s actions within the Zionist establishment — witness the "see no evil, hear no evil" stonewalling by Philip Chester, President of the Zionist Council of Australia, on ABC Radio National Breakfast last Friday — is symptomatic of a mainstream Australian, Jewish community that encourages and facilitates young Jews to visit Israel and idealise its identity. Palestinians are largely absent in this worldview. The occupation is virtually non-existent. Iran, Hamas and Hizbollah are the new Nazis. Building a ghettoised, Zionist state, after centuries of Jews often living in isolation across the world, is an irony lost on far too many people.
What the Zionist lobby and its political and media courtiers don’t want to discuss is their complicity in this affair. They all believe that young Jews have the right to move, fight or spy for Israel, including during wars against Lebanon and Gaza, while Muslims who want to join their brethren in Syria, Lebanon or Palestine are labelled terrorists for doing the same thing."
"Rabbi Aviner: I was sent by Mossad to Iran"
"How Neocons Messed Up the Mideast" Jewish violent group supremacism and Zionist colonialism are still invisible to most people, and even mentioning them makes you an automatic 'anti-Semite', but just think how much better the world would be in every way if people were hip to their tricks decades ago and stopped them in their tracks.
"Racism and the hypocrisy of Israel's advocates" The use of the 'anti-Semite' slur is an excellent way to identify violent group supremacists.
""Friends of Hamas": The Scary-Sounding Pro-Hagel Group That Doesn't Actually Exist" After getting over the ridiculousness of somebody like Hagel being a friend of Hamas, you have to get over the ridiculousness of Hagel leaving a paper trail linking himself to a group called 'Friends of Hamas', not to mention the ridiculousness of a group of friends of Hamas calling themselves the 'Friends of Hamas'.
"Julian Assange and Tilted Scales of Justice" ""We’re Losing Our Civic Courage.” Julian Assange" It is not a bad measure of somebody to look at the quality of his or her critics. The critics of Assange are scum of the earth, lower than whale shit, people whose very names cause an involuntary vomit reflex in all moral and decent people.
"Anti-Semite is among papal candidates" Fresh from his first loss (which, he tells us, was really all about him), Dersh picks my new favorite candidate.
"LGBT Center of NY Bars Author on Palestine Book from Speaking" The world is in desperate need of the use of the term 'Jew-money' becoming common.
"The five stages of climate change acceptance" After Sandy, Americans plan to fix the 'problem' by building big levees around New York City.
Canada news: "Why the Right's 'defence lobby' wants another war" The F-35, on all accounts, is a complete piece of shit. Note how the military contractors pay off the 'journalists' and 'experts'.
"The Rich See a Different Internet Than the Poor" You are directed in such a way that points of view you are not supposed to see are inaccessible. At the same time, you are led to believe that you can see everything.
False-flag nation
The 'Friends of Hamas' and the Friends of Kahane
Heavier lies the Crown
Heavy lies the Crown
What you can't read
Another magic passport
More Crown links
JFK/Crown/Barry
Atzmon and his critics
Gérard de Villiers
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Texas Tech Coasts to Game 1 Win in Lubbock Regional
Paul Roberts, KKAM.com
The Texas Tech Red Raiders scored early and often against Army in game one of the Lubbock Regional beating the Army Black Knights 11-2.
Texas Tech scored three in the 1st, two in the 2nd and one in the 3rd to jump out to a 6-0 lead after three innings. Nobody scored in the 4th before Texas Tech would tack on two more in the bottom of the 5th. In fact, not only was Army shutout through the first 5 innings. They didn't get their first hit until the 5th inning.
The Texas Tech starter Micah Dallas would have a perfect game through three innings before beaning the lead off hitter in the 4th and issuing a walk in the same inning before giving up his first hit in the fifth. After a Josh Jung error and a ball hit over Kurt Wilson's head the Army squad would being their first run in of the game before Dallas could get out of the game. Micah Dallas would finish with 7 complete innings giving up three hits, one walk, one run and striking out seven.
Ryan Sublette would pitch the 8th and Caleb Freeman would struggle through the 9th but get through it saving the top arms in the bullpen for the rest of the weekend in the process.
Offensively there were several stars but no one had quite that freshman Tanner O'Tremba had. Getting an unusual start sliding into right field in place of Gabe Holt who was in center field replacing Dylan Neuse who was out with an injured wrist. O'Tremba made the most of his time in the line up though going 3 for 4 with two runs, three RBI and a sac fly to notch the first run in the game. Cam Warren got his 14th home run of the season to get to three RBI as well.
Every Texas Tech starter in the lineup had a hit in the game and the RBI came from five different Red Raiders.
Texas Tech will now face the winner between DBU and Florida on Saturday at 6:00 o'clock.
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Game One Lubbock Regional 2019: Texas Tech vs Army
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Investigation Into Human Remains Found
Found in Seneca
On Monday afternoon, June 17th, Seneca Police Department personnel responded to 110 Asbury Drive in Seneca to the report of anatomical material found in the yard at this address.
The Oconee County Coroner Office was called to the incident location; on exam this material appeared to be consistent with being human.
These remains were examined by a forensic pathologist and forensic anthropologist on Tuesday afternoon at the Oconee County Coroner Office. The examination confirmed the remains discovered are those of a female.
The remains found on Monday afternoon were the right pelvic bone and right femur.
Preliminary studies have indicated these remains are those of a Caucasian female; death of this individual most likely occurred within the last few months up to approximately one year.
This individual has a height estimated to be 5’ 1” up to 5’ 7”; the estimate age range is 25 to 45 years.
On Wednesday afternoon, June 19th, additional skeletal remains were recovered in a nearby creek close to the Asbury Drive address.
Additional examinations and studies on these remains will be performed as soon as possible.
A specimen will be submitted to the SLED laboratory in an attempt to collect DNA to be used for identification and to compare to known missing persons, including the two recently reported missing women from Oconee County.
Oconee County Coroner Office
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Five Dallas Police Officers Killed by Sniper During Protest
5 police officers killed, and 6 wounded by sniper in downtown Dallas, after a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest.
'Tha Wire' with Gina Cook
That's a rap, Mariah chunks tha deuces to American Idol after judging one season.
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A Louisiana judge has issued an arrest warrant for Lil Flip. According to a report from TMZ, the H-Town rapper didn’t show up to a scheduled court hearing and was held in contempt of court.
Pretty much throughout Jada Pinkett and Will Smith’s 16 year marriage there have always been rumors that the famous couple were swingers. Following Jada's recent interview with Huffpost Live, those rumors have resurfaced.
Gucci Mane Indicted In Atlanta On Assault– Tha Wire
Gucci Mane, was in court this week to deal with charges of assault involving a soldier after a show.
Miguel Plans To Drop New Music And Introduce Limited-Edition Apparel This Summer – Tha Wir…
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Halle Berry Is Pregnant!
Congratulations to Halle Berry and her fiance' Oliver Martinez as TMZ reports the happy couple is expecting their first child together.
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Master P Drops His First Official Release In Seven Years — Tha Wire
Not that is really went anywhere, but No Limit is back!
Tasia is working her way back on the music scene with a brand new slimmer physic too. The former American Idol is looking good and ready to show the N.O. what she's working with.
Man Found Dead In Lake Charles Parking Lot
KPLC-TV is reporting a man has been found in a parking lot in Lake Charles. The mans body was found Tuesday morning off Broad Street and Lakeshore Drive.
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Editor << letters;
Overload Journal #42 - Apr 2001 + Programming Topics + Letters to the Editor Author: Dave Midgly
It's not often I feel like I've fallen down a hole in the language definition, but this one puzzled me so I thought I'd throw it at the Overload readership.
I have a class X with no default constructor (maybe I don't even have the source), and I want to declare an array of Xs as a member of class Y. How do I do it? With no default constructor the Xs must be initialised in the constructor initialiser list of Y:Y(), but there doesn't seem to be a way of initialising an array (any sort of array, in fact, even of a base type) in a constructor initialiser list. I've searched The ARM and several other books, and I can't find anyone who specifically says that you can't do it, but also no one who says you can.
Logically I would expect to be able to do this, I can see no reason why the language shouldn't allow it, or, if there were a reason, I would expect the ARM to specifically mention why it is excluded. (Obviously there are get-around - e.g. declare an array of pointers and dynamically create new objects).
Did I miss something obvious?
Overload Journal #42 - Apr 2001 + Programming Topics + Letters to the Editor
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Trail of a medical school candidate
Hisashi T Fujinaka
“And you thought you have rejection letters. See what Hisashi received in less than five years and over sixty attempts. His bio should inspire you not to loose heart. Try, Try and Try again son.”
Before you ask questions, do some homework. Click on some of my other links. Just because my first name is “Hisashi” doesn’t mean I wasn’t born in Portland, Oregon (I was), that I’m not a U.S. Citizen (I am), and that I’m not an Eagle Scout (I am, even though I no longer support the Boy Scouts of America.)
Just because they’ve always told you that hard work will get you your heart’s desires doesn’t mean it’s true. There’s a lot of luck involved in life and I’m kind of tapped out right now.
I can’t tell you to avoid applying to medical school. I will tell you that it, in part, had left me without a job, bitter, and without much confidence. Maybe when you’re approaching 40, you won’t be living with your parents or applying for jobs tutoring beginning computer students with a degree from MIT. But my problems are my own and anti-depressants didn’t do much to help me with it.
Some of the rejection letters are missing because I didn’t complete all the secondaries.
Select a year to see the letter
UCLA CA
UCSD CA
UCSF CA
USC CA
George Washington University DC
Georgetown University DC
Howard University DC
Emory University GA
Morehouse University GA
Chicago Medical School IL
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine IL
Northwestern University IL
Rush University IL
Tulane University LA
Boston University MA
Harvard University MA
Tufts University MA
University of Maryland MD
USUHS MD
St. Louis University MO
Washington University in St. Louis MO
University of North Carolina NC
Creighton University NE
Dartmouth College NH
Albert Einstein NY
Columbia University NY
Cornell University NY
Mt. Sinai NY
NYMC NY
University of Rochester NY
Case Western Reserve University OH
Medical College of Ohio OH
Oregon Health Sciences University OR
Jefferson PA
MCP/Hahnemann PA
University of Pennsylvania PA
Meharry Medical College TN
Vanderbilt University TN
Eastern Virginia Medical School VA
Medical College of Virginia VA
University of Vermont VT
University of Washington WA
Medical College of Wisconsin WI
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San Antonio Missions National Historical Park: Mission Concepción
March 7, 2018 April 29, 2014 by Mel Lockcuff
Mission Concepción, yet another Mission along the San Antonio River, still stands in all of its regal beauty in San Antonio Missions National Historical Park.
While having aged and lost decorative geometric designs on the outer wall, Mission Concepción has not lost its roof or walls, mainly because it was built on bedrock. A few original paintings, or frescos, still remain inside to this day. In fact, Mission Concepción is the oldest unrestored stone church in America (source: National Park Service).
Hopping off the trolley once again, we made our way up the sidewalk to the old Mission. A congregation made their way out of the Mission, as a service had just ended. Being an active Catholic parish, services are held every Sunday. I found it interesting that many of the church members today can trace their ancestry back to residents of the Mission who may have helped to build this church. So interesting.
The old limestone gives a building like Mission Concepción such character. Moved to East Texas in 1731, the Mission took 20 years to build. It was dedicated for service in 1755. Twin bell towers and a cross in between only serve to add more character and charm. Spanish architecture is absolutely beautiful; I think I fell more in love with all of the old-world architectural details even more while visiting. One of my favorite parts of Mission Concepción was walking through the Convento Cloister, an outdoor, arched hallway that seemed like something right out of the movies.
In writing about Mission San José, I discovered what purpose the Missions served. Since the Missions were financed by the Spanish government, the purpose of the Missions was two-fold: 1) The church used the Missions to convert Native Americans; 2) The Missions were a way for the Spanish to push northward.
In the case of Mission Concepción, it was very much used to convert the Native Americans to Christianity. The Native Americans were taught to replace their traditions and beliefs with those of Christianity.
While there, we walked through a garden that was filled with plants native to the hot, Texas climate. We also sat on a bench and chatted with a Park Ranger for just a bit. She was a hoot to talk to and had many interesting stories to tell. Of course, we also took advantage of the small Visitor's Center, filling up our water bottles.
Details for Your Visit to San Antonio Missions National Historical Park
Planning to visit San Antonio? The Visitor Center and Missions are open daily, except major holidays. I definitely recommend purchasing trolley tickets through City Tours; their tour guides narrated as we drove along, telling us all kinds of interesting things about the city, the areas we were in, even the vegetation that thrives in San Antonio neighborhoods. It was a wonderful experience, as we were able to get on and off where we pleased. Tickets were affordable for our family of four, as well, costing less than $60 altogether. There is no fee for the National Park. You can also take advantage of the 8 mile Mission Hike and Bike Trail, which will take you to all four Missions.
If planning to visit all of the San Antonio Missions, I would recommend planning an entire day around this, so you can fully explore and enjoy your time.
Have you been to San Antonio Missions National Historical Park? Which Mission was your favorite?
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12 thoughts on “San Antonio Missions National Historical Park: Mission Concepción”
This sounds like so much fun! I totally want to do this!
You would love it, Sarah! I think it’s the history that gets me, that and the beautiful architecture.
Nicky @ Little Family Adventure
This looks like a great trip. I have toured missions in Southern California. I haven’t toured them in Texas. I need to add this to my must see list next time I go home to Texas.
Nicky, thank you! I’d love to tour missions in Southern California. See, we lived out there for awhile but never visited them. lol Definitely adding to our list of places to explore.
Rachel Kathyg @ onlinesisterhood
That looks soo fun. I love history and visiting historical sites. These old missions would be such a fin family trip for us someday. Very cool. Thanks for sharing:)
Thank you, Rachel! The Missions are so beautiful and such history surrounding them. Can’t wait to go back some day.
Jenna @ Green Global Reviews
I love visiting historic spots like this! The architecture looks beautiful and the Convento Cloister area looks like a great place to wander around. Great find!
Thanks so much, Jenna! We love historic places too. This place was just chock full of history and stories to tell. The Convento Cloister area almost looked like something you’d see in a movie.
Tonya {The Traveling Praters}
We’ll be heading to San Antonio next month to watch my son graduate from boot camp. I’m hoping that we can visit at least one mission on this trip. Last time we only made it to the Alamo. So much to see in San Antonio!
Tonya, congratulations to your son! You will love San Antonio. We’ve been talking about taking a weekend and making a quick road trip down there, we loved it so much. So much history and so much to see and do.
Dagmar ~ Dagmar's Home
Mel, these pictures are amazing! They look like paintings! I adore old buildings and would love to visit there one day.
Thank you so much, Dagmar! We want to go back, just so much history there. Everything about old buildings is a photo opp…. it’s like they have a story to tell. Or several stories. You’d love it there.
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Un groupe d’étudiants du Cégep de Trois-Rivières lance une collecte de fonds au profit de la Fondation Movember Canada
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Le Cégep André-Laurendeau offre une trentaine de ressources d’aide social aux personnes immigrantes
Cégep André-Laurendeau
La Formation continue du Cégep André-Laurendeau et le Centre social d’aide aux immigrants (CSAI) ont reçu environ 250 visiteurs lors de l’événement Bienvenue aux personnes immigrantes, le jeudi 19 octobre dernier, au Cégep André-Laurendeau. L’événement a permis à la population de toute origine d’avoir accès gratuitement à plus d’une trentaine de ressources (employabilité, études, orientation scolaire et professionnelle, familles, intégration…). De plus, une dizaine d’ateliers-conférences ont eu…
Le Cégep de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue lance une Semaine pour la diversité sexuelle
Cégep de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Pour souligner la Journée internationale contre l’homophobie du 17 mai prochain (soit à trois jours de la fin de la session), le Cégep de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue, campus de Rouyn-Noranda, a décidé de devancer cet événement d’un mois afin de rejoindre davantage ses étudiants avant la fin des classes. « Nous croyons qu’il est primordial que notre milieu s’affiche comme une…
Des étudiants en Techniques d’intervention en délinquance organisent une série d’activités pour les adolescents vulnérables
Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Iles
Campus de Carleton-sur-Mer ont récemment accompli, avec beaucoup de fierté, différentes activités leur fournissant des expériences de formation et d’animation préventives concrètes. S’affirmer, c’est s’apprécier! Dans le cadre du cours Approches et mesures préventives en délinquance, des étudiants de deuxième année ont organisé un atelier de prévention portant sur le thème de l’affirmation de soi.…
Le CCNB, fier partenaire de l’Arbre de l’espoir!
CCNB
Au moins neuf programmes du CCNB : Campus de Dieppe contribueront dans un cadre pédagogique à l’organisation du Radiothon de l’Arbre de l’espoir qui se déroulera le vendredi 24 novembre à ce campus. Le Radiothon, qui est la grande finale de la campagne annuelle de l’Arbre de l’espoir, est présenté au CCNB – Campus de Dieppe…
Many Hands marks two decades of community impact
from Niagara This Week: A lot has changed over the years but, then again, much has stayed the same. Since its inception 20 years ago, Niagara College’s Many Hands Project has grown immensely in scope from a humble build of a few sheds and gardens at All People’s Daycare in Welland with a budget of…
Le CIRADD, centre collégial de transfert de technologie en pratiques sociales novatrices
LE CIRADD EN BREF Le CIRADD est un centre collégial de transfert de technologie en pratiques sociales novatrices (CCTT-PSN) œuvrant dans le domaine du développement durable territorial. Offrant des services de recherche (études, analyses) et des activités de transfert (conférences, colloques, formation), il répond aux besoins des organismes, des entreprises et des collectivités, tout en…
Selkirk College nursing students help community members dealing with issues of housing insecurity, addiction, and untreated mental illness
Third-year nursing students at Selkirk College have a unique opportunity to develop their nursing skills and knowledge of the social factors that shape health on the streets of Nelson. They work with local agencies to help people in the community who may be dealing with issues of housing insecurity, addictions and untreated mental illness. It’s…
New Okanagan College program help support workers better serve Indigenous people and communities
Okanagan College
A new program developed by Okanagan College in collaboration with local First Nations communities and regional Aboriginal organizations will prepare learners to step into community support work assisting Aboriginal individuals and families. The Aboriginal Community Support Worker Certificate program launches on November 28 at the College’s Salmon Arm campus. It will include a practicum with…
North Island College campaign highlights student impact in the community
North Island College
North Island College’s Office of Global Engagement is spearheading a new social media campaign to highlight students in the community. The stories are loosely based on the successful Humans of New York campaign, which profiled New Yorkers. Students of NIC initially profiles international students at NIC, showcasing their journey, passion and activities in the community.…
Durham College carpentry students support Habitat for Humanity volunteers
from DurhamRegion.com: The next phase of Habitat for Humanity’s Centre Town project is underway and the organization is hoping to see lots of hands on deck for the newest phase. A group of 911 responders recently spent a hot August day putting in the floor joists for four homes that represent phase 3A of Habitat…
Olds College collaborates with Mountain View Food Bank on community beef donation program
Olds College and the Mountain View Food Bank have partnered in a collaboration designed to address the growing demand for food in our community. Using our expertise and program facilities, Olds College will be giving back to the community that has supported us for many years. The goal of this initiative is to support the…
NBCC’s Robertson Institute for Community Leadership
from NBCC: Launched in 2014, NBCC’s award-winning Robertson Institute for Community Leadership is mobilizing students, staff, alumni and Board members College-wide to transform lives and communities. Built upon NBCC’s tradition of giving back, our Signature Learning Experience (community leadership) is at the heart of the NBCC experience. Our commitment through the Robertson Institute for Community…
Yukon College orientation week activities immerse students in community stories
Everyone has a story to tell, and as part of this year’s Orientation Week activities Yukon College is inviting a few Yukoners to share their stories to help strengthen the connection between College students and the local community. The story-sharing event, which will take place on Tuesday, September 5, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. in…
Durham College art instructor’s unique project invites the community to take part
from The Oshawa Express: A single person’s life is filled with countless stories. Some of them happy, some of them sad, some exciting and other times tragic; for one local artist, those stories can be the gateway to something bigger, and she’s looking to channel that idea into her latest project. Dani Crosby, an Oshawa…
New program from KPU addresses cultural knowledge and justice issues within Indigenous communities
A first-of-its-kind Indigenous studies program launching this fall at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) will focus on community and justice. KPU aptly announced its new minor in Indigenous community justice program on National Aboriginal Day. “My hope is that this minor will play a role in honouring, acknowledging, and respecting Indigenous peoples,” said criminology instructor Dr.…
Conestoga College launches new training and education partnership with ONE CARE
Conestoga has launched a new community-based supportive care fast-track training and education opportunity in partnership with ONE CARE Home & Community Support Services. Students who successfully complete the training will have the necessary skills and knowledge to provide personal care to clients in home and community settings throughout Stratford and Huron Perth. “We turned to…
NSCC “Difference Dollars for Service Learning” initiative encourages students to give back to the community
Nova Scotia Community College
from The Chronicle Herald: During the winter and spring of 2017, students at the Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) are being invited to submit ideas for projects that will not only apply the knowledge they are learning at the NSCC, but which will also better life in the province. “Difference Dollars for Service Learning is…
Confederation College students and employees raise 55K for the United Way
Confederation College
from TB News Watch: Through donations, product sales and department competitions, the students and employees at Confederation College have raised $55,315 in support of its students, the United Way and “Stock the Bank”, an internal campaign in support of the Emergency Student Food Bank at the College. “I am consistently amazed, but never surprised at…
Okanagan College nursing students gather warm-clothing donations for Kelowna’s disadvantaged
Boxes of donated warm clothing that have been jamming the halls where Okanagan College’s Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program lives are on their way to making a difference for Kelowna’s disadvantaged. The first- and second-year students who sit on the BSN’s Global Health committee – a civically-minded, student-led initiative for social equity –…
Yukon College Carpentry students helps expand community thrift store
The Anglican Church Thrift Store in Watson Lake will be one-half larger when it reopens this spring. The 780-square foot store has a 480 square foot addition. The construction was done entirely by students in the Skills for Employment Carpentry program run by the town’s Yukon College community campus. “We are extremely happy with the…
Selkirk College partners with Nelson CARES on annual Coldest Night of the Year fundraising event
On February 25, people will take to the streets of downtown Nelson to increase awareness about homelessness in the community and raise funds to help continue renovations at Ward Street Place. There are two, five and 10 kilometre walks which give participants the opportunity to experience a few hours outside in the cold, a hint…
CNA graduates volunteer at annual two-day food festival, Eat the Hill
A dozen graduates from College of the North Atlantic (CNA) volunteered at the annual Eat the Hill event in Clarenville, working side-by-side with professional chefs to serve hundreds of people at the two-day food festival. Eat the Hill, which is organized by CNA culinary arts instructor Chris Sheppard and former instructor Roger Dewling, incorporates winter…
Fleming College accounting students host free tax-preparation clinics
from the Peterborough Examiner: The tax clinics began on Tuesday and will continue March 21 and 28 and April 4 from noon to 4 p.m. They will be located in the Galleria (B3200) at Sutherland Campus, 599 Brealey Dr., Peterborough. To be eligible for the free clinics, individuals must have a simple tax situation and…
Holland College tourism students learn while giving back to the community
from CBC: Giving back to the community has become a part of the work in Holland College’s Travel and Tourism Management class. Instructor Jennifer Lawton says students who specialize in events coordination learn how to plan an event from start to finish with a focus on fundraising for local non-profits. “That is where they start planning an event, in…
Community paramedics fulfill proactive role in the community
from the Prince Albert Daily Herald: A new program is seeing paramedics get out of the ambulance and into the community. Saskatchewan Polytechnic recently graduated the first class of Saskatchewan community paramedics. One of those first graduates is Sheldon Hirschfeld, an advanced care paramedic with Parkland Ambulance. He’s already out in the community, hoping his…
Selkirk College and Columbia Power partnership provides jobs and growth for the local economy
Since Selkirk College alumni began transitioning into the regional workforce in the late-1960s, individuals educated close to home have helped build and grow the economy of the West Kootenay and Boundary region. As the college embarks on a celebration of its first 50 years and looks towards the next half-century, an exploration of the relationship…
Selkirk College students showcase projects aimed at promoting peace in their communities
Selkirk College Students taking the Leadership for Peace course recently showcased their learning projects aimed at promoting peace directly in their communities. From idea to implementation, students learned about the trials and triumphs of working toward social transformation. A group of eight Selkirk College students recently showcased their Peace Studies service learning projects that took them from…
Lambton College receives national recognition for community work from Big Brothers and Big Sisters Canada
from Blackburn News: Lambton College has received national recognition from Big Brothers and Big Sisters Canada. President Judith Morris accepted the post-secondary partnership award at the Lambton College Event Centre Thursday morning. “Our agency right here in Sarnia-Lambton nominated us for this award,” says Morris. “I think it’s because of 30 years of great partnership. The…
Douglas College Institute for Urban Ecology involves community volunteers in insect research projects
from Maclean’s: People aren’t usually fans of bugs—not in their houses, not in their rooms and certainly not in their beds. So it stands to reason they don’t want them scurrying under their feet in their gardens, either. The User Network for Insects in the Urban Garden, or UNIBUG, is trying to convince you otherwise.…
All aboard with updated zoo train
The Kinsmen Express Train at the Saskatoon Forestry Farm & Zoo has been given a new lease on life thanks to several students in the Auto Body Technician and Automotive Service Technician programs. “These students got to make some lasting memories, and help other people make lasting memories as well,” says Scott Kucharyshen, Auto body…
Have Whisk, Will Travel: Culinary Arts in the Community
Saskatchewan Polytechnic is home to an important training ground for the next generation of Saskatchewan’s culinary masters. The Culinary Arts program, offered at the Saskatoon campus, is led by program head and long-time chef Derek Cotton and teaches students ‘a little bit of everything’ in the culinary world. “Our program is designed to prepare students…
Camosun Hospitality Students bring fine dining to community shelter Our Place
A dynamic team of sharply dressed hospitality students from Camosun College prepared a delicious dinner of herb encrusted pork loin with autumn squash puree, green beans and roasted potatoes for over 600 diners at Our Place Society last Monday evening. Our Place provides vital services to our region’s most vulnerable citizens, including regular meals—over 745,000…
SGI Salvage and Saskatchewan Polytechnic mark unique 15-year partnership
Students Train for Automotive Service and Auto Body Technician Careers by Fixing Total Loss Vehicles It all started with a Pontiac Sunfire in 2002. Since then, nearly 250 vehicles have been repaired by Saskatchewan Polytechnic Automotive Service and Auto Body Technician certificate students. Today, a long-running but little-known partnership between Saskatchewan Government Insurance (SGI) Salvage…
Street Smart Chefs: Culinary Arts in the Community
Saskatchewan’s national notoriety for good eats has been steadily growing over the past few years. With master chefs looking to call the prairie province home, it seems appropriate that Saskatchewan Polytechnic is home to an important training ground for the next generation culinary masters. The Culinary Arts program is led by long-time chef Derek Cotton…
Empowering women to follow their passion
Penny Jean Wohlberg is a journeyperson carpenter and owner of Renovation Jeannie. She is also a strong supporter of Saskatchewan Polytechnic’s Women in Trades & Technology (WITT) program. “For me it all started with WITT,” says Penny. “WITT is all about empowering women and giving them confidence. WITT was the catalyst that kick-started my career…
Saskatchewan Polytechnic collaborative research puts patients first
Patient-oriented research is becoming the norm for health-related research, and for good reasons. It focuses on patient priorities and outcomes and includes patients as active collaborators throughout the research process. “Patient-oriented research engages patients as partners and improves patient outcomes,” says Dr. Susan Blum, associate vice-president, Applied Research and Innovation. “This innovative, applied approach aims…
Photographer Kelly Baker: Telling Untold Stories
What do an anthropologist and a photographer have in common? A pure obsession with storytelling. Little wonder that Kelly Baker was drawn to pursue both career paths. In fact, before entering the photography program, she had already completed a PhD in Anthropology: “I went to school for a lot of years to become an anthropologist,…
The Queen Street Billboard Project
The new billboards on display in downtown Fredericton are designed to intrigue your sense of thought – they reframe the concept of how a typical billboard is used and showcase colourful eye-catching designs that each have a story to tell. This project flips the marketing norms to use billboards as exhibition space, and to give…
Dare to Achieve, by Gavin MacDougall
To mark Centennial College’s 50th anniversary as well as Canada’s 150th birthday, the college commissioned an outdoor mural at the new Centennial Residence and Culinary Arts Centre (CRCA) at Progress Campus. The winning design, entitled ‘Dare to Achieve’ by artist Gavin MacDougall, a graduate from Centennial’s Fine Arts Studio program, was unveiled on June 22. “Art that’s in the…
Selkirk College Distinguished Alumna is Courageous and Compassionate Nurse
Selkirk College recently awarded family nurse practitioner Patrice Gordon with the Distinguished Alumna honour at the Graduation 2017 ceremony held at the Castlegar Campus. The earnest professional provides compassionate care to isolated First Nations communities in British Columbia’s Chilcotin region while responding to crises world-wide as part of the Canadian Red Cross Emergency Response Unit.…
Monsters Rule at Selkirk College’s Tenth Street Campus
Building on an educational foundation for both elementary and college students, the Selkirk College Digital Arts & New Media Program joined forces with Hume Elementary School for a spirited project that brought to life some wonderful creatures. From the minds of Hume Elementary School students to the computer screens of Selkirk College Digital Arts & New…
Selkirk College Adopts Sexual Violence Policy
Selkirk College now has a Sexual Violence Policy in place making a clear commitment to creating and maintaining a safe and respectful learning, working and living environment. “The safety and well-being of our students and staff is of vital importance,” says Selkirk College President Angus Graeme. “This is an important step in letting everyone know that…
Second SaskPolytech Habitat for Humanity home is moved to permanent location
In December 2016, the second Habitat for Humanity home was moved to its permanent location in Prince Albert. This is the second house Saskatchewan Polytechnic carpentry students have built for Habitat for Humanity. In February 2015, Saskatchewan Polytechnic and Habitat for Humanity, Prince Albert, signed a memorandum of agreement for carpentry students to build five…
Langara students pen the memoirs of local Holocaust survivors
In Fall 2016, Langara launched Writing Lives: the Holocaust Survivor Memoir Project. Writing Lives is a one-time two-semester project at Langara College, coordinated by English instructor Dr. Rachel Mines, in which second-year students are connected with local Holocaust survivors to interview them and write memoirs of their lives before, during and after the Holocaust. An interdisciplinary initiative, the…
Selkirk College Heavy Mechanical program students overcomes and gives back
Overcoming obstacles on the way to a successful educational pathway is something the majority of post-secondary students can understand. A recent graduate on Nelson’s Silver King Campus knows what it’s like to stare into the face of adversity and triumph. As a residential school survivor, Selkirk College student Running Wolf has dealt with numerous challenges…
Entrepreneurship Takes Off with the Lean LaunchPad program at Algonquin College
A world-renowned pre-accelerator program, Lean LaunchPad is taught at over 200 universities worldwide, and back in February the team at Algonquin launched their very own version of the class. Although the AC version differed, in various ways, from the original, they both had at their core, the idea that participants ‘get out of the building’…
NB Heart Truth: Featured Fashion Designer Chavah Lindsay
Chavah Lindsay of Chavah Designs has the honour this year of being the only designer showcased in both of the premiere New Brunswick Fashion events this spring: The New Brunswick College of Craft & Design (NBCCD) Annual Fashion Show in Fredericton and the NB Heart Truth Red Dress Event in Moncton. Chavah is creating two…
NBCCD Support the Creation of Mawi’art: Wabanaki Artist Collective
from Charles Gaffney, Department Head, NBCCD: In 2013, I had a vision regarding our graduating students of the Aboriginal Visual Arts (AVA) Program at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design (NBCCD). How great would it be for them to transition from college to a supporting entrepreneurial environment that would enable them to refine their business…
Amy Sullivan & Rachel Greenwood: Making Space for Clay
Good partnerships don’t grow on trees. You find them buried in the mud. Amy Sullivan and Rachel Greenwood are mud goddesses. Both have been making a living with their work since graduating from the NBCCD Ceramics Diploma in 2006. Both of their respective businesses, Amy Laloon Pottery & Greenwood Pottery, are well known in the Maritimes. Now they have partnered…
Algonquin College student research tackles environmental issues affecting Muskrat Lake Watershed
from the Daily Observer: On Dec. 6, Algonquin College’s Waterfront Campus in Pembroke held an Applied Research Day to give students in the Environmental Technician (E-Tech) Program the opportunity to showcase their work. The E-Tech Program, which was founded five years ago, is a compressed diploma that can be completed in 18 months whereas other…
Algonquin College graphic design students and grads participate in digital comic book project to raise awareness about the immune system and vaccinations
from Metro Ottawa: “A prominent Ottawa doctor has teamed up with graphic-design prodigies to convince children to get vaccinated. Immunization Warriors is a digital comic book that aims to get children thinking differently about needles and go over the heads of reluctant parents. Comparing viruses to invading extra-terrestrials, the comic aims to explain the role of white…
Future Ways of Living Cultural Celebration and Pop-Up Lab
The unique George Brown College Institute without Boundaries (IwB), a Toronto-based educational program and design studio, works to achieve social, ecological, and economic innovation through design collaboration. from George Brown College: “The Institute without Boundaries (IwB) was founded in 2003 by the School of Design at George Brown College, in consultation with Bruce Mau. The…
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Bay Area mini
Eleven Bay Area classmates gathered at Ellen Varmus Bloch’s house in Berkeley on September 11 for a potluck lunch and conversation.
Barbara Eldon Scavullo reported, "We were delighted to greet Joanne dePhillips, who transferred after freshman year. Others in attendance were (in no particular order): Marion Brenner, Carol White, Browyn Hughes Hall, Linda Gruber, Holly Smith, Janet Bogardus, Jennie Gerard, Barbara Bywater Creed and Barbara Elden Scavullo. It was a special treat to enjoy Ellen’s home which was designed by Ernest Coxhead, an important early 20th century Bay Area architect.
"We host two-three mini reunions each year, moving around the Bay Area - East Bay, San Francisco, Peninsula. Our next will be hosted by Barbara Creed on Ja nuary 22 at or near her home in Portola Valley. For the second year, she will lead us in a discussion of three upcoming Supreme Court cases. Last year’s discussion was lively and intellectually challenging. Please join us! Detailed information will be sent later."
No one took a picture of the group, but here are some of Ellen's house. The blue and white plates on the plate rack near the ceiling of the dining room are scenes of Wellesley. These plates belonged to Ellen's mother. The front porch, with the view of the front yard through the arch, is where the group had cheese and crackers before lunch.
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Ben Denzer, 2011–present
And what’s amazing — when Lincoln was standing there, there were light waves shooting out at 186,000 miles per second, hitting that collodion plate — that emulsion was made directly from him. I mean, that’s incredible.
— Keya Morgan, “The Interminable, Everlasting Lincolns (Part 2)”
And just listen to yourself, as usual, as you speak.
— Paul Muldoon
Good architecture should always be applauded.
— Kracklite, The Belly of an Architect
White must be whiter than white, and to achieve that, colour must be added.
— David Batchelor, Chromophobia
How’s that bricklayin’ comin’?
— The Head And The Heart, “Lost in My Mind”
to accept
the becoming
— A.R. Ammons, “Corsons Inlet”
When my big toe hits the roof of my shoe I’m used to it. If it missed anyone, it misses the dog.
— GHB
Still speak to us 100 years later. We’re moved by them, we’re, we’re stirred by them, we see pictures of our own life, and our own loves, in them. Human life isn’t meaningless because it ends.
— Adam Gopnik, “Darwinvaganza,” Radiolab
There’s no writing it down. There’s no putting it into order. Memory is part of a social group.
— Christine Boyer
Nothing distinguishes memories from ordinary moments.
— La Jetée
If there is no such thing as the cosmic point of view, the idea of absolute importance in the scheme of things is an illusion, a relic of a world not yet thoroughly disenchanted, and there is no other point of view except ours in which our activities can have or lack a significance.
— Bernard Williams, The Human Prejudice
It’s not a problem for us. It’s a problem for history.
— Adi Zulkadry, The Act of Killing
There is no takeaway.
— Blond Interpreter at Tino Sehgal’s This situation
To have a fever and blackended fingers from the newspaper, to be excited not only by the mind but, at last, by a meal, by the line of a neck, by an ear. To lie! Through one’s teeth. As you’re walking, to feel your bones moving along. At last to guess.
— Damiel, Wings of Desire
Reminds me of a sea anemone.
— Jessie
Man is the measure of all things.
— Protagoras via Paul Muldoon
Adding that he also gets 138,000 emails a year that require a response, by way of explaining why he ought to keep his budget and staff.
— Ennifer Steinhauer and Ian Austen, "His Honor? Toronto’s Mayor Rampages On, to City’s Shame,“ The New York Times
At least I will die free.
— Mumford and Sons, “Wagon Wheel”
Everything that I’m experiencing already happened. You know how like you look out at the stars and you think oh that light’s been traveling for thousands, millions, of years to get to me and what’s happening on that star or on that planet around that star right now? Does it even still exist? Um, you can say that about everything around you. Because, I mean, by the time that you become aware of something in front of you it’s been sitting there for a while, relatively speaking.
— Carl Zimmer, “Speed," Radiolab
Forgive no error you recognize,
it will repeat itself, increase,
and afterwards our pupils
will not forgive in us what we forgave.
— Yevtushenko, “Lies”
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Home / Alberta Politics / Brian Jean’s Wildrose Party leadership is now unquestioned: the fall of Derek Fildebrandt explained
Brian Jean’s Wildrose Party leadership is now unquestioned: the fall of Derek Fildebrandt explained
PHOTOS: Brian Jean will be in the background no more … Back in 2015, Derek Fildebrandt was dominating the conversation, refusing to answer questions from a Globe and Mail reporter who had annoyed him, as his former party leader looked on, apparently bemused (CBC photo). Below: Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, from her Twitter page, and a very cool Lyndon B. Johnson, who, astonishingly, didn’t even have a web page when he became president of the United States!
The Wildrose Party’s Legislative caucus has without doubt homophobes in its ranks. Derek Fildebrandt, notwithstanding many flaws, is not one of them.
But it was an injudicious social media message unintentionally implying the Wildrose finance critic endorsed a homophobic view that brought him down.
This is a genuinely ironic climax to a situation in which Mr. Fildebrandt behaved abominably – although not in that particular way – and which demonstrates at least three profound truths about politics, and perhaps life:
Profound Truth No. 1: He who challenges the leader risks everything
Profound Truth No. 2: We are all potentially just one Tweet or Facebook message from oblivion, or at least unemployment
Profound Truth No. 3: They who take up the sword shall perish by the sword
Just before midnight Friday, Mr. Fildebrandt was banished from the Wildrose Party by its leader, Brian Jean – a fate from which there is no codified process of appeal.
The proximate cause of his harsh dismissal by Mr. Jean – who, tellingly, was at the time in Vancouver in the company of his ruthless former bench mates in the defeated government of Stephen Harper dealing with the issue of gay marriage only a decade too late – was the notorious Facebook message. One of Mr. Fildebrandt’s constituents had taken a homophobic shot at Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, who is gay, and an inattentive Mr. Fildebrandt thoughtlessly seemed to endorse it.
The original message also praised Mr. Fildebrant for the insults he had hurled at Ms. Wynne during her visit to the Legislature the day before. When Mr. Fildebrandt realized his error, he quickly tried to take it back. Alas for him, it was too late.
Mr. Jean, who of late the high-profile Mr. Fildebrandt by turns seemed to challenge and ignore, took the opportunity to strike while the iron was hot, and he struck hard.
A terse news release from the Wildrose Party appeared: “This evening, Mr. Fildebrandt made an unacceptable comment on social media that does not represent the values of the Wildrose Caucus. He has been suspended from our Caucus effective immediately.”
Chop! The next bump you hear – probably tomorrow morning, when the Legislature resumes sitting – will not be the sound of another shoe dropping!
The Wildrose Party now says there will be no further comment on this matter. Still, it’s hard to believe Mr. Fildebrandt’s apparent unwillingness to acknowledge the authority of Mr. Jean and the anger stirred up by Thursday’s ruckus in the Legislature didn’t play a role.
As of now, Mr. Jean is the unquestioned leader of the party. Anyone who challenges him knows what fate awaits.
There is nothing for Mr. Fildebrandt to do but beg for forgiveness. Whether it is too late remains to be seen. No one here is privy to what has been said or done in the Wildrose Caucus chamber, but surely nothing like this would have happened if there wasn’t more to it than an inattentive and arrogant MLA mistaking a “Mr.” for a “Ms.” on his smartphone, something that could have happened to almost anyone.
Mr. Fildebrandt was immediately contrite. He was too late. In a statement on his Facebook page, he expressed surprise and pleaded to be taken back.
“I receive on average of 800 comments on my public Facebook page daily and I do my best to respond personally,” he tried to explain. “I did not read a comment posted to my page by a constituent as carefully as I should have. If anyone felt that I shared those sentiments, I do not, and I apologize.”
“My colleagues know that those views do not reflect my own opinion and they recognize that I made an honest mistake. …” Perhaps, one wonders, some of them know this because the original comment reflects their views.
“I accept this decision. …I look forward to rejoining my Wildrose colleagues in holding the government to account. …”
Realistically, Mr. Fildebrandt doesn’t have much choice but to grovel. As an Independent MLA he will have no power. Any dreams he had of leading the party in Mr. Jean’s wooden but determined stead are dashed. Lyndon B. Johnson’s famous dictum is right, even when you reverse it to fit the facts: “Son, in politics you’ve got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.”
After Thursday, no other party in the Legislature would touch Mr. Fildebrandt with the proverbial bargepole, even if they might once have been inclined to do so. He is not chicken salad!
Forgiveness is Mr. Fildebrandt’s only hope – and forgiveness, if it comes, will come with conditions. One will be the political equivalent of a peace bond. Another is almost certain to be demotion from the high-profile finance critic’s shadow portfolio.
What else can he contemplate? Founding the political wing of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, whence he sprang? If he goes into the next general election without a political party, he is done for.
This is what happens in politics when you “live by the sword.”
Mr. Fildebrandt gave no quarter to any political enemy. He goaded opponents to foolish anger, then ridiculed and attacked their response, a technique he honed as an operative of the CTF. He refused to answer questions from a prominent journalist who offended him. He showed no mercy or empathy to those like NDP MLA Deborah Drever also caught posting foolish things on social media. He mocked her to promote his hobbyhorse, recall legislation. As he demonstrated with his attack in the House on visiting Premier Wynne, he never knew when to quit.
Now the decision to quit has been made for him by, of all people, Brian Jean.
As an astute Alberta political observer of my acquaintance put it, Mr. Fildebrandt may not be a homophobe, but he is “a blindly partisan nincompoop and it was bound to catch up to him.” In other words, he is the victim of hubris.
Luckily for him, there is no recall legislation in this province.
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11 Comments to: Brian Jean’s Wildrose Party leadership is now unquestioned: the fall of Derek Fildebrandt explained
Tom in Ontario
Unfotunately for Mr. Fildebrandt, he took no heed from the aforementioned Lyndon Johnson. Had he displayed to Mr. Jean the fealty required by LBJ, he would still be a front bench member of the Wildrose caucus.
President Johnson speaks. “I don’t want loyalty, I want LOYALTY. I want him to kiss my ass in Macy’s window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses. I want his pecker in my pocket.”
Alberta Politics has become quite interesting in the Last year or so…
Calgary Observer
Indeed. I’m hoping the Wild Bros Party is comic relief to bad Cable over the dog days of summer.
Too bad it happened now. Would have been better if this all went down closer to election. As society struggles with bullying/intolerance it is nice to see this one get called down to the principal’s office!
so it took a little over 1 year for the blowhard to blow himself up.
Not sure a recall would be effective given Fildebrandt’s overwhelming support during the general election last May, and that the riding has historically elected those with a rightward idiotology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Fildebrandt#Electoral_history
Marti d'Entremont
LOL, David. Hubris indeed.
I wish the media would emphasize that Fildebrandt is a very recent Albertan. We (long-time Albertans) are all getting a nasty reputation due to imports like Harper and Fildebrandt. Since Fildebrandt has a history with conservative politics in Ontario, it makes sense he relished the opportunity to bash Wynne, a home-town liberal, in a public legislature setting. He was showing off to his old friends and enemies back in Ontario. I think Brian Jean and the party brass set him up for that spectacle so they could knock him down. He’s a loose canon, a show-off, and much too ambitious . I don’t think there will be any forgiveness offered because the party leadership wants him out. Fildebrant will realize it sooner, rather than later, and move on. Unfortunately, as I already mentioned, our province looks bad because the majority of Canadians in other provinces won’t distinguish between the Wildrose crazies, the PC corrupt, and the NDP.
Perhaps Mr Fildebrandt was set up, but so too could a pyromaniac argue that it was someone else’s fault for leaving matches lying around.
As I see it,he has two choices. He can try to be a martyr – he will get support from some in the Wildrose who agree with what he has said and done, but not the party leadership and he will learn about being in the political wilderness. The second option is he can accept full responsibility for what he has done and eat some humble pie. If he appears to have learned something from this and seems willing to be more of a team player, perhaps they might eventually let him back in. However, I suspect they are no hurry to do so, it might take some time for the lessons to sink in and a few attempts before the humility seems genuine.
So , Kathleen Wynne,the premier of Ontario, who is one of the key people to negotiate a pipeline agreement through Ontario native lands and rural communities is mercilessly slagged by Mr. Fildebrandt, Wild Rose finance critic. The Wild Rose caucus endorsed his plan of attack beforehand. Brian Jean is culpable.
One must conclude that the Wild Rose party has a latent anti pipeline stance and possibly are closet environmentalists.
My support for the Wildrose Party is done. I thought Mr Jean did a great job in Ft. McMurray but all that work is irrelevant now. I think the words were unfortunate in the house but they had been approved by Brian Jean himself. It isn’t about a mistake on Facebook. It isn’t like Mr. Jean has never made a mistake? Guess only he is perfect.
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Emperor Hanzei
Predecessor Richū
Successor Emperor Ingyō
Parents Emperor Nintoku
Royal line Imperial House of Japan
Reign 406 – 410 (traditional)
Burial Mozu no Mimihara no naka no misasagi (Osaka)
Died 12 February 410 AD, Matsubara, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Grandparents Emperor Ōjin, Nakatsuhime no Mikoto
Similar Emperor Ingyō, Emperor Nintoku, Emperor Go‑Fushimi, Emperor Ōjin, Emperor Taishō
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Emperor Hanzei (反正天皇, Hanzei-tennō), also known as Emperor Hanshō, was the 18th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.
Legendary narrative
Consorts and children
No firm dates can be assigned to this emperor's life or reign, but he is conventionally considered to have reigned from 406 CE to 410 CE.
Hanzei is regarded by historians as a "legendary emperor" of the 5th century. The reign of Emperor Kinmei (c. 509 – 571 AD), the 29th emperor, is the first for which contemporary historiography is able to assign verifiable dates; however, the conventionally accepted names and dates of the early emperors were not to be confirmed as "traditional" until the reign of Emperor Kanmu (737–806), the 50th sovereign of the Yamato dynasty.
Hanzei was the son of Emperor Nintoku and Iwanohime. He was the brother of Emperor Richū; and this succession effectively by-passed Richū's two sons. No other details have survived.
Hanzei's contemporary title would not have been tennō, as most historians believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and Empress Jitō. Rather, it was presumably Sumeramikoto or Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi (治天下大王), meaning "the great king who rules all under heaven". Alternatively, Hanzei might have been referred to as (ヤマト大王/大君) or the "Great King of Yamato".
The Nihongi records that the country enjoyed peace during this emperor's reign.
The description of Hanzei in the Kojiki is daunting as he is described as standing over nine feet tall and have enormous teeth all the same size. He is said to have ruled from the palace of Shibagaki at Tajihi in Kawachi (present-day Matsubara, Osaka); and he is said to have died peacefully in his palace.
The actual site of Hanzei's grave is not known. This emperor is traditionally venerated at a memorial Shinto shrine (misasagi) in Sakai, Osaka.
The Imperial Household Agency designates the Tadeiyama kofun (田出井山古墳) in Sakai as Hanzei's official mausoleum. It is formally named Mozu no mimihara no kita no misasagi (百舌鳥耳原北陵).
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Ensuring Robust Cybersecurity Requires Both Man and Machine
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By Ajay Sarangam On Sep 16, 2019
Throughout May and June 2017, a cyberattack originating outside India hit 48,000 systems nationwide, exposing the lack of cybersecurity readiness of critical installations and facilities in the country. More importantly, the ransomware attack affected the services of a government portal, while also crippling operations at one of the three terminals of India’s largest container shipping port. How prepared are we to tackle evolving cybersecurity threats? Does India have the skilled human resources to improve the cybersecurity posture of organisations?
Kaspersky Labs states that the growing digital sector makes India increasingly vulnerable to ransomware attacks with banks leading the vulnerability quotient. Yet, according to the 2017 Global Information Security Workforce Study, there will be a shortage of 1.8 million cybersecurity workers worldwide, by 2022. How can you address the paucity of skilled cybersecurity specialists?
Hands-on experience and industry inputs critical to cybersecurity training programmes
Acting on the need for skilled cybersecurity resources, the Data Security Council of India (DSCI), Sector Skills Council National Association of Software and Services Companies (SSC NASSCOM), and the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) joined forces last year to build a long term roadmap to address the cybersecurity skills shortage. To train a qualified cybersecurity workforce, the industry has to leverage the services of the academia as well as edtech training organisations. By leveraging the services of industry experts and global resources, universities can address challenges such as quality of training, capability limitations, and availability of specialist trainers. Industry inputs and ongoing industry-academia knowledge exchanges are critical to ensuring the relevance of the programmes that the universities and research centres develop.
While industry bodies such as the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and NASSCOM are best placed to set the broad contours of the training programmes, the infrastructure of specialised professional training companies, edtech startups, and security consulting companies are needed to execute the training programmes and effectively deliver the training.
A model that training organisations, the industry, and government bodies in India can emulate is the cybersecurity apprenticeship model of the Department of Labor in the US. This is because hands-on training with up to date curricula is essential to tackling evolving threats such as autonomous malware. The US Department of Labor’s (DOL) apprenticeship framework in cybersecurity encompasses eight primary job functions, and a wide array of job-related competencies and technical skills. In the US, apprenticeships qualify people for specific, employer-defined jobs through training in real-world settings – faster than a traditional four-year college path does. 90% of the apprentices are ultimately absorbed by the industry.
In April 2017, Manipal Global Education Services (MaGE) and Deakin University of Australia announced a strategic alliance to start education and training programs in the cyber security space and established a Data Science and Cyber Security Centre of Excellence. This is a key step toward building a workforce of skilled cybersecurity professionals in India.
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Can AI and machine learning replace humans in cybersecurity processes?
Autonomous malware, which is built using machine learning (ML) can infiltrate a system, collect and communicate data about that system, and remain undetected for days. Since most cybersecurity attacks are caused by human errors, can Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine learning replace humans in cybersecurity processes to deliver fool proof systems? Or does a robust cybersecurity process need both man and machine to work together?
An ideal combination of man and machine is the key to providing a better security posture and easing the shortage of skilled cyber personnel. This approach is expected to create cybersecurity processes that are capable of identifying both known and unknown threats and stop them in real time. The man-machine combination addresses two key cybersecurity concerns:
Organisations can prioritise a prevention-based approach by which a majority of the decision-making process is automated and integrated in the security platform. The outcome: security teams are only engaged after the malicious activity has been terminated.
Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) are often reluctant to automate high-skill, high-stakes functions like vulnerability remediation or firewall change provisioning. If automation is left to run without proper checks and balances, it can potentially compound operational issues and compromise security.
In essence, AI automated tasks and workflows not only reduce initial resource burdens but they also produce downstream time-savings by avoiding rework due to human error or unforeseen security issues. Supplementing them with human supervision ensures robust security.
Evolving threats demand a modern approach to cybersecurity training
The demand for cybersecurity talent is high in sectors such as consulting, retail, government, BFSI and IT. Cybersecurity training institutions that provide education not only in technology but also in proactive techniques of cyber security and investigation offer a distinct advantage to learners. What’s the advantage? They are equipped to offer next-gen cybersecurity training that is agile enough to adapt to emerging threats. With complex technology stacks being the norm today, a realistic environment is critical to training security teams. Such a training engages users through repetitive active learning principles while using AI and machine learning to enhance the training content. The future of cybersecurity training involves working with real-life tools against actual malware in high-fidelity environments. Training as a team in realistic environment helps you increase the effectiveness of the training for your organisation. What’s more, a team-based training approach helps you develop cybersecurity leaders who can tackle cybersecurity needs holistically.
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Apple's mini connector set to be part of DisplayPort standard
By Aidan Malley
Tuesday, January 13, 2009, 04:50 pm PT (07:50 pm ET)
After taking a gamble on the acceptance of Mini DisplayPort as a connection for computer screens, Apple is about to be rewarded as its technology is now expected to become part of an industry-wide format that also includes extremely high resolutions and multiple displays on a single link.
The Video Electronics Standards Association, or VESA, said last week as CES began that DisplayPort 1.2 should include Mini DisplayPort as part of the DisplayPort 1.2 specification.
Before this, Apple has had to license its technology itself and made the standard free as an incentive for rapid adoption from vendors constrained by the regular DisplayPort connector.
It's not known whether the officially approved Mini DisplayPort will involve the full range of features from 1.2, but it will let any company building a computer or graphics card adopt the port with the blessing of the standards group and know that it will work with other 1.2-supporting hardware.
In the meantime, those who use at least the full-size standard will have options that previously haven't existed in computer displays without special tricks. By offering twice as much bandwidth between the graphics hardware and the display, 1.2 will up the maximum resolution for a single computer display from the 2560x1600 found in the 30-inch Cinema Display and most other large monitors to a much larger 3840x2160, even with 30-bit depth that allows one billion colors.
Mini DisplayPort versus DVI; regular DisplayPort is significantly larger than Apple's offering.
Depending on the color and frame rate, the DisplayPort refresh will also permit two 2560x1600 displays to run from just a single connection or as many as four 1920x1200 displays; a sufficiently fast video chipset could drive multiple views from one port as a result.
Expanding further still, the standard enables a single display to run at a much faster 120Hz frame rate or else to create a stereoscopic 3D effect, usually viewable through special glasses.
Whether Apple embraces these aspects or not, its actual implementation will take some time: VESA doesn't publish its final DisplayPort 1.2 specifications until the middle of this year and thus makes it the earliest practical time that third parties can start making their own compatible hardware, even if Mini DisplayPort by itself is available early and should be present on all future Macs.
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Coexistence Challenged In Israel
” WE NEVER TRUST AN ARAB EVER AFTER 40 YEARS DEAD IN HIS TOMB” (Point of view in Jewish net forum)
Following multiple, unexpected, terror attacks committed by mainstream Israeli-Arabs, some ethnic tensions are rising inside Israel. Some cities are distancing Israeli-Arabs from Jewish schoolchildren. The cities of Tel Aviv, Ness Tziona and Givatayim on Sunday joined the list of Israeli cities which have decided to block Arab employees from entering schools during school hours, for security reasons. According to Israel Radio, the mayors of Rehovot and Hod Hasharon last week prevented maintenance and cleaning Arab employees from doing their work during school hours due to the security situation and pressure from parents’ organizations.
The Givatayim municipality has stopped maintenance work at one of the city’s schools, and has demanded that contracting companies employing cleaning workers replace employees coming from East Jerusalem, reports Haaretz . According trade union representatives “such instructions from the local authorities are clearly illegal and contravene the attorney general’s instructions of 1985, the Equal Employment Opportunity Law, and a series of laws forbidding racial discrimination.”
If business in general seems to be suffering the consequences of the public’s fear, the Arab sector’s businesses are experiencing a virtual crash, with some registering a 80-90 percent decline in clientele and income. According YNet this is especially true in towns with mixed Arab-Jewish populations. Sources in the association of renovation contractors claim that most Palestinians who are employed by their members haven’t been coming to work these days, and the same goes for a large portion of the Israeli Arab workers. They claim that the reason for this is a fear of the Israeli clients. “Many contractors spoke with us, saying they were at the checkpoints in order to take workers through, but they were almost empty,“ they say. According to association figures, 80 percent of the 37,000 Palestinian workers in the field were absent at the start of the week. Other sources in the renovations field claimed that while the phenomenon exists, the figures are significantly exaggerated. “Renovation contractors are faced with many customers’ demands that they not let Arabs into their apartment,” they say, “It’s especially true for apartments in which the people continue to live while they’re being renovated.”(Source: YNet )
Nazareth is the largest city in the North District of Israel and it is known as “the Arab capital of Israel”. The population is made up predominantly of Arab citizens of Israel, almost all of whom are either Muslim or Christian. Jewish Press reports that Nazareth Mayor Ali Salem is still furious. “Every Saturday we get our 20 thousand guests—Jews, tourists and Israelis from across the country, this Saturday [17th Oct. 2015] we barely reached 1,000 people from out of town.” However Salem prefers to maintain his optimism. “For three days we had complete quiet, no politicians arrived and they didn’t riot or strike or demonstrate. Therefore I believe, as early as next Saturday, if the quiet will be maintained, everyone will return. Businessmen I spoke to today were pleased, not because no one visited them for a month, but because they manage to rebuild the ruins they (the politicians) left us in the city… Everyone knows that if the quiet continues, everything will fall into place. We are built to absorb every Saturday 20 thousand and sometimes 30 and even 50 thousand, just come, Jews, Arabs and Christians.”
On the other hand some 1500 of Israeli Jews and Arabs gathered in Jerusalem on Saturday night [17th – 18th Oct. 2015], calling for an end to the weeks of violence and a resumption of peace negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Also, according The Times of Israel , in Beersheba, about 150 Arab and Jewish activists gathered to form a human chain in support of peace.
Jewish Press reports that MK Dov Hanin (Joint Arab List) demanded that the Knesset Interior Committee hold an emergency session. According to MK Hanin, under the guise of anxiety some are promoting dangerous moves of racial segregation. MK Issawi Frej (Meretz) said that the education system, instead of acting to calm the situation is spearheading the creation of discrimination and exclusion. Last November, Ashkelon Mayor Itamar Shimoni faced nation-wide criticism when he decided, following sporadic Arab attacks on Jews in his city, to bar Arab employees from doing construction work in three kindergartens in the city during school hours. At the time, the Interior Ministry ordered the mayor to rescind his order.
Related to schools but more outside threads the Israel Defence Force (IDF) is making preparations on the border between Israel and Gaza Strip. The worst scenario is that suddenly, dozens of terrorists emerge from of a terror tunnel dug right next to the school. The terrorists take over the school and capture all of the students, holding them hostage. Recently, the Southern Gaza Regional Brigade, along with soldiers of the Paratroopers Reconnaissance Battalion drilled their rescuing skills to prepare for such a situation. (Source: IDF )
The current wave of violence rocking Israel has nothing to do with West Bank settlement building, Israel’s Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer said Saturday night [17th Oct. 2015], taking a veiled jab at US Secretary of State John Kerry, who recently linked the two. “The powder keg that this match ignited is decades of incitement by Palestinian leaders against Israel,” he argued. “Since Oslo, the Palestinian leadership has been poisoning an entire generation to hate Israel and hate Jews… A generation of Palestinians have grown up in a society that glorifies the murder of Jews.”
At UN Israel’s new Ambassador Danny Danon accused Abbas and the Palestinian leadership of “brainwashing children with incitement and hate.” As example he gave an instruction guide of ‘How to Stab a Jew’ and cause the most damage.
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Appendix:
Terror in Israel – Israeli View
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Lifebox Masterclasses offer global perspectives, and a word from Resident Challenge winner
Lifebox Masterclass Series
Saturday-Tuesday
Lifebox Booth, BCEC, Level 1, North Lobby
For the fourth year in a row, Lifebox will present its increasingly popular Masterclass series on global anesthesia at its booth in the ASA Resource Center, in the North Lobby of Level 1 in the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.
The Lifebox Masterclass series will be presented at the ASA Resource Center, in the North Lobby of Level 1.
Though designed to be brief and informal, the Masterclasses are always impactful as they feature experienced individuals who have undertaken challenging projects that advance surgical safety around the world.
Twenty-one talks are scheduled during ANESTHESIOLOGY 2017, covering topics as wide-ranging as pediatric anesthesia challenges in the Pacific to anesthesia delivery in Zimbabwe.
The Lifebox website offers a complete list of speakers, their lecture titles and the date and time of each presentation. Details can also be found on the conference app.
Masters of their class: University of Miami wins Resident Challenge
On Sunday morning, from 1:30-3 p.m., Chad Parvus-Telchman, M.D., will represent the University of Miami in the Masterclass “There’s an App for That: Leveraging Technology to Supercharge Fundraising, Collaboration, and Project Management.”
The University of Miami won the 2017 Lifebox Resident Challenge in both the “Contributions per Resident” and “Total Contributions” categories. A total of 85 residents at Miami raised $7,554, or $88.87 per resident.
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The Resident Challenge is one part of an overall Lifebox/ASA Charitable Foundation mission to make surgery and anesthesia safer by equipping all operating rooms worldwide with pulse oximeters and training in oximetry.
Congratulations to the University of Miami residents for their achievement in 2017. And special thanks to every resident program that took the Lifebox Resident Challenge this year.
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WeChat has launched sponsored moments
A small group of brands in China have been selected to test sponsored ads on WeChat’s Moments platform, showcasing new advertising opportunities for marketers on what has traditionally been a closed social networking platform.
BMW’s short and simple ad appears in the WeChat Moments feed – similar to the way ads are displayed in Facebook’s mobile news feed. The sponsored moment includes the BMW logo and a one-line statement inviting users to click on a link for more information on a new product.
“Tencent’s crown jewel product, the WeChat app has addicted China’s best demographic much like Facebook, but unlike Facebook, WeChat has delayed launching ads in an effort to protect their user experience,” said Rob Norman, chief digital officer at Group M, in a LinkedIn blog post.
Currently, only a handful of brands have been invited to take part in the initial WeChat ad testing stage – these include BMW, Coca-Cola, Cadillac, Oppo, Vivo, Ford, and Omo.
“Starting out with a niche group is a clever strategy to do it in a tasteful way and give a premium feel to the platform,” says Craig Watts, general manager of digital intelligence at GroupM Interaction China.
WeChat, and its Chinese version, Weixin, boast 468 million monthly active users (MAU), according to Tencent’s 2014 third quarter results, the majority of whom are located in Mainland China. WeChat is attractive to brands, more so than platforms like China’s Twitter-like Sina Weibo, in large part because its closed environment and lack of advertising channels have attracted scores of users.
“It’s always challenging to acquire followers… and capturing attention within a news feed can be a very good way to do this,” says Elisa Harca, global client partner and regional director Asia for Red Ant.
“A paid-for model can help the planning of your follower acquisition strategy, which can help brands that need to meet targets and cannot wait for organic growth,” she adds.
BMW’s advertisement cost a minimum of RMB 5 million (US$800,000), according to a leaked Tencent email. It uses a cost-per-mile (CPM) sales model, which varies according to Chinese cities. Users receive different ads depending on past user behavior, and are invited to “like” and post comments.
“User comments have been more positive than expected – that there is a place for ads in the feed and their users are comfortable with it,” says Watts.
The testing phase remains a work in progress, but a key priority for Tencent has been ensuring the WeChat/Weixin user experience remains protected.
According to a recent Tencent Tech study, more than 50 percent of Weixin users were not surprised by the introduction of ads to their feeds.
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Writer Mitchell Layton’s Desert Island Album: The Chariot, Long Live
November 24, 2018 /in Awesome, Dropping, Music /by Mitchell Layton
The first time I saw the Chariot play, it was more like witnessing a natural disaster than watching a band play music. There was something so beautiful and frightening about it, so wild and uninhibited. They were feral. They played music like a tornado, and the crowd responded like one. The level of energy they had was unlike anything I’d ever seen before and was much more than I could have prepared or hoped for. Within the first seconds of their set, half the band was in the crowd and half the crowd was scrambling to stay afoot. I remember watching someone on stage throw one of the floor toms into the crowd, it hitting someone in the head, and them stumbling to the back of the venue in a dizzied and bloody state. A quick YouTube search will show you more than I could ever write. Their music was more cathartic release than melody, and their performance was more acrobatic than articulate. It was all so new and so confusing, but when witnessing them I felt something primal rise up in me. By the end of the show, one thing was clear: I wanted to chase that feeling.
To say that The Chariot revolutionized heavy music for me would be a severe understatement. For me, they embodied everything chaotic and artistic in the worlds of punk, hardcore, and metal. They were a freight train of sound and creativity, and they really did change what I thought could and couldn’t be done in music. They were heavy, yes, but it was art. Real art. They used guitar feedback in a way I’d never heard before. They used sound clips in almost comically contrasted ways. They stripped song structures down to nothing and scrambled them around to create tracks that were as spontaneous as they were jarring. It was hard to follow, and harder to replicate. No one could do it the way they did. It was music that was meant to be performed live, and preformed with intensity that no one else could match. I didn’t understand the Chariot until I saw them live, and after that I could never forget them. The music wasn’t about comfort, it was about breaking boundaries. At the risk of sounding cliché and possibly corny, it really represented freedom.
Growing up, I was shy and reserved. There was much more going on in my head than I let on, and for a long time the same applied to my creative endeavors. I had been dabbling in metal-core and hard rock, and expanding my music taste to the realms of angry music, but nothing I’d consider a real transformation. There was something I liked about heavy music, but I never understood quite what it was until I listened to The Chariot. It was then that I figured it out: It was cutting loose to the fullest extent, letting out pent up emotions and creating art with the most animalistic intentions. It was so far away from my shy self, but so much of what I was feeling and what I hoped to be. In a way, it seemed like being my truest self. Their music was confident and free, without the ropes of structure and genre norms holding it down. When I saw/listened to them for the first time, I remember thinking, “Whatever I do, I want to do it with that intensity.”
Long Live was the first album I bought from them, and is still my favorite to this day. I remember walking into an F.Y.E in my local New Jersey mall and talking ten bucks I had from my terrible retail job to buy their CD, but it was worth every penny. It stretched my music taste into new territories, and changed how I thought about music in general. It influenced me with my own music, my own writing, my style, my friends, and even my perspective on life. It definitely pushed me to take more risks and cut loose, to get rid of the stuff that’s bogging me down and to let it out in some form of expression. The Chariot was also one of the first bands I got to talk to and have several in depth conversations with, and they were the nicest guys. There was something so light-hearted to them that defied all the chaos in their music and in their performance. I felt important when they talked to me, not like a scared little kid who wasn’t cool enough to fit in at a punk show. In many ways, they were my role models for most of my high school and college years and I honestly don’t think I’d be who I am today without them.
There will never be another band like them. Long live The Chariot.
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Six-year-old Lindsey Morris was disappointed again this year after receiving a Birthday gift of record albums from her hipster uncle, Connor Butler.
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ATA Reviews and Revisits Gorillaz’ Self Titled Debut
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Liberia: Journalist Sam Van Kesselly Dies
The Founding Editor-In-Chief of The Inquirer, Liberia's first post-war independent newspaper, Sam Van Kesselly, is dead. He died on Tuesday, December 3, 2019, at his Barnesville residence, outside Monrovia. He was 65.
Mr. Kesselly, who was Daily Observer newspaper's first type-setter, later became a full-fledged journalist until he became president of the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) during the late 1990s.
According to family sources, Mr. Kesselly has been ill over the past years reportedly from Rheumatoid Arthritis. The deceased, who was sometimes referred to as the 'Fissibu Boy' from Lofa County, worked for several other Liberian newspapers.
He joined mainstream journalism in the 80s with the Daily Observer, Liberia's first independent daily newspaper, being the starting point, and later became one of its senior reporters.
During one of the transitional periods, he left mainstream journalism and served as press secretary to Councilman Alhaji G. V. Kromah, then a faction leader representing the rebel United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy (ULIMO).
ULIMO-K was relatively united under Kromah with approximately 12,000 predominately Mandingo fighters.
Kesselly once worked in the office of River Cess Senator Francis Paye.
Those who interacted with Mr. Kesselly in the media prior to his death have described him as a "versatile media practitioner" in all aspects of print journalism.
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They said his death is a blow to the media profession, as he was an active member and a good trainer.
He also taught at the then Liberia Institute of Journalism along with Frank Sainwola, Frank A. Smart and the late Michael Kumah.
The late Kesselly attended many international fora, including Zimbabwe, Ghana, and the United States. Upon his return from Zimbabwe, he wrote a series of articles about the gathering under the title, "The Harare Notebook."
He and the present managing editor of The Inquirer, Philip N. Wesseh, attended the International Visitor's Program in the United States in March 1994.
A few years later, both of them were joined by journalists Hassan Kiawu and J. N. Elliot (Late) at a forum in Accra, Ghana, sponsored by the World Bank.
In a statement, the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) said it is saddened by the death of "Sam Van", as he was fondly called by his media colleagues.
His remains have been deposited at the Abraham Robert Funeral Home, pending funeral arrangements.
Meanwhile, the PUL has been informed of the first family meeting being scheduled for Friday, December 6, 2019, at 4:p.m. at House #T-28, Barnesville Estate, outside Monrovia.
PUL has, therefore, requested all former presidents of the Union and media executives to meet on Friday, at 11:a.m. at the Union's Headquarters to formally inform the journalism community's participation in the first family meeting of the Kessellys in Barnesville Estate.
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Doctor Who/Recap/S1 E3 The Edge of Destruction
Trope, Love Tropes, Harem Genre,
Romantic Resolutions
Harem Genre/Sandbox
First Girl Wins
"Life is so crazy
And love is unkind
Because she came first, darling
Will she hang on your mind?"
—Gladys Knight & The Pips, "If I Were Your Woman"
In works featuring a male protagonist, the first girl introduced -- either overall or as a potential love interest -- has a very good chance of ending up with him.
There are all sorts of explanations as to why this is. Things ending up the same place they started is a very old narrative technique. The First Girl "winning" has a Because Destiny Says So kind of a appeal -- she metaphorically "called dibs" on the hero and tied a string to his heart. This might actually strike a chord with readers because of its Truth in Television overtones; recent psychological studies suggest that the first people someone meets in a new or unfamiliar social situation have a greater chance at becoming their close friends later on.
From a Doylist point of view, actually introducing the First Girl early is a solid writing tactic. The girl who is going to "win" needs an early introduction for a lot of reasons-- to get the audience interested in her and rooting for her, to gain characterisation, to give her relationship with the hero time to develop. And with all that said, it's such a common device that in all likelihood, it sometimes gets played for its own sake. It telegraphs, "lookie here, a serious Love Interest contender". From this perspective, it's not so much that the First Girl wins because she comes first as much as she comes first because she wins.
As weird as it may sound, sometimes it isn't that obvious which girl is the First. Is it the first girl the protagonist meets according to In-Universe chronology, even if we first see her halfway through the show's run? The first one to show romantic feelings? The first new girl the protagonist meets? If we have different adaptations, by which of them are we going? If you're suspecting some girl is supposed to be the First Girl, a good idea would be to take a look at how the writer has played her up. Is she a major character? Is her "first" interaction with the hero led up to, emphasized, treated as a big deal? All other things being equal, is she a strong contender for being the hero's Love Interest? These things may be the difference between the First Girl and a girl who happened to be first. Most writers will take care to put some effort into building a would-be triumphant First Girl as a romantic option in her own right, so as not to get the hero Strangled by the Red String.
The First Girl will rarely be the first one to confess her feelings, admit them, or sometimes even develop them. In fact, she's much likelier to be the one who does it last- maybe near the end of the series when she and the main character become the Official Couple. The logic behind this is that she's the one who the main character loves (even if he doesn't want to admit it or doesn't realize it himself); if she showed him romantic affection, then he would immediately choose her. That's tantamount to throwing the Romance Arc (or in some genres, the whole plot) out the window, and we can't have that.
Of course, a writer can't outright admit that's what they're doing, which is why you can expect an in-universe justification for how these two people met so early and took so long to figure out they belong together. Their first impression of each other will be that of immense dislike. Complications will abound, Romantic False Leads will show up, misunderstandings will arise between them, pride and denial will keep them apart. In extreme cases, it may turn out her apparent lack of interest in him was a major turn-on. Paradoxically enough, nothing screams "major romance incoming" like this sort of thing. A more subtle tactic is to get the First Girl "off the radar" somehow- Demoted to Extra, Put on a Bus and similar tactics- though writing her transition from a nobody to a love interest in a believable way can be a problem.
Inevitably, most shippers will already have their own idea of who the "right" girl is, so if she might conceivably have any sort of claim to being the First Girl they will gleefully reach out to put this feather in their Ship's cap. Given the above ambiguity of what exactly it means for a girl to be the "First", it's not a surprise that the question of which girl was first tends to become yet another front of Ship-to-Ship Combat.
Be warned before you proceed. "Winning", in this sense, tends to be very spoilerific.
See also Victorious Childhood Friend. Contrast Second Love and Last Girl Wins.
Be wary of adding Beta Couple examples. Their lack of screen-time means the "introduce the relationship early to get space for development" consideration becomes crucial, and as a result meeting "first" is all but a staple of the Beta Couple. They will sometimes have obvious C-List Fodder Romantic False Leads in orbit that we're not supposed to take seriously, but that's pretty much it. For those, list aversions, or instances where more than one possible relationship involving a cast regular gets seriously played up but the "first" one ends up winning anyway.
Examples of First Girl Wins include:
In Ai Kora, Sakurako is the first girl introduced as Maeda comes to Tokyo, and they are arguably the closest couple. Though, Maeda actually wants all the girls (for a special reason) and quite a few of the other girls want him too. In the end, Sakurako is the one he falls for.
It's made very clear early on in Ai Yori Aoshi that Aoi has already "won" Kaoru, and vice-versa. The fact that they are forced to hide the relationship amongst the Unwanted Harem is when Hilarity Ensues.
Like its sister manga, Ayashi no Ceres does this with Aya and Tooya: Tooya is the first guy Aya kisses, and Aya in turn is the first girl Tooya meets. Yup, even in childhood.
Captain Tsubasa loved to play around with this at the beginning. The first girl shown is NOT the female lead Sanae but Tsubasa's old friend Yayoi Aoba, who's seen when he is moving to Shizuoka and she barely manages to say goodbye to him. This is brought up later when Yayoi reappears with a crush on Tsubasa, much to Sanae's despair... but several years later, Yayoi hangs out more with Jun Misugi than Tsubasa himself. He later comes to aknowledge and return Sanae's feelings for him.
Subverted in Code Geass when Shirley reveals that she has feelings for Lelouch (to Rolo), and is promptly killed.
Miyako from ef: A Tale Of Memories may not technically be the first girl Hiro meets, but she is the first girl introduced to him in the anime.
In Elfen Lied, the first main character shown is Lucy (aka. Nyu), who Kohta does not actually end up with. He instead ends up with the first one he meets - his cousin Yuka (Note that's NOT as Squick in Japan as it is in many other parts of the world). Although Yuka's insecurity and paranoia could lead her to believe otherwise, The other girls who boarded with them (Mayu, Nana and Nozomi) never really had a chance in the Unwanted Harem, and most of them simply didn't really like Kohta in that way.
In the anime the outcome is different. Kohta briefly reciprocates Yuka's feelings with a kiss, but almost immediantly after forgets he ever kissed and it's never mentioned again. At the end of the anime he appears to have gotten with no-one, but it is hinted Lucy returned to him. I suppose, however, this depends on if you prefer Kohta with Lucy or Yuka, if you believe the anime exists, or your interperetation of the ending.
Excel Saga pays Homage to this -- the designer of a pair of Ridiculously-Human Robots gave them "imprinting" so they would love the first things they see. "Like," he explains, "a dating simulation game."
Flame of Recca: Sakoshita Yanagi and Kirisawa Fuuko both like Hanabishi Recca, but Yanagi is guaranteed to win since she is introduced first. However, as the story goes on, Fuuko's interest shifts from Recca to Ishijima Domon, giving her a happier end than most later-introduced love interests.
Fruits Basket has the trope and a Gender Flipped subversion: The main female character, Honda Tohru, meets Sohma Yuki before Sohma Kyo but develops mutual romantic feelings for Kyo. Later, Yuki starts a relationship with the first student council girl introduced, Kuragi Machi.
Played with, however, in the manga: when discussing the various Zodiac signs, Tohru makes reference to the Cat first, which turns out to be the animal Kyo is cursed with. In the flashback which introduces the story, Tohru's mother tells her the story of the zodiac and how the Cat was tricked by the Rat; Tohru insists that from that moment on, she is going to "be" a Cat. It also may be relevant that Tohru's Mom knew Kyo well before Tohru did.
Fullmetal Alchemist- Winry wins. Duh. It probably helps that A. Ed really has more important things to do than be in a relationship, and B. he seems to be Winry-Sexual.
In Full Metal Panic, although Sousuke knew Tessa before Kaname, the first girl who is introduced is Kaname. She's also the first girl to show (at least to the audience - obviously, Tessa had already been romantically interested in him offscreen) romantic interest in Sousuke. And she's also one of the last girls to admit her feelings for him. This makes Tessa something of a sort of Unlucky Childhood Friend (although she didn't know him since childhood - just much earlier than Kaname did). Interestingly enough, it's been speculated by quite a few fans that if he had actually met Nami (from the novels) before Kaname, he would have fallen for her (seeing as how, after spending a little time with her, and even after having already fallen in love with Kaname, he started developing feelings for her and even considered settling down with her).
Gender Flipped on Fushigi Yuugi: Hotohori, Tamahome, Nuriko (maybe) and Tasuki all like Yuuki Miaka. Tamahome was the first guy introduced. Draw your own conclusions.
Fushigi Yuugi plays this straight and subverts it with Miaka (first girl introduced in the series) and Tamahome (first Seishi whom Miaka meets). And no, we're not counting the fact that Yui and Tamahome met at the same time.
In Gun X Sword, the first girl Van encounters in series is Wendy. The first girl he met chronologically would be Elena, assuming that dead women count. His devotion to Elena keeps him a Celibate Hero throughout the series, but the finale hints that Van and Wendy will end up as a couple, albeit after a delay of a few years.
Hanaukyo Maid Tai
Subverted in season 1. While Mariel "won", the first girl Taro met was Sango, who was also his first kiss, and by the end of the first episode she and her sisters had all slept with him.
Played straight in La Verite. Taro met Mariel first and fell in love with her.
Gender-flipped in Howls Moving Castle, where the first guy Sophie met was Howl. Howl on the other hand has met several other women.
Inuyasha: Played with. In both the manga and anime, Kikyou is the first girl introduced. She is also the first girl we see with Inuyasha (despite the fact they're fighting), and we later find out the two had a prior relationship established before Naraku tricked them. Even at the very end, Inuyasha still declares his love for Kikyou. The back and forth manner of Rumiko Takahashi could honestly lead a person to be unsure of whom Inuyasha will pick, if he picks at all. Inuyasha's feelings for Kagome and the fact Kikyou is essentially undead works against Kikyou, but Inuyasha doesn't seem to care that she is made of bones and dirt. Kagome ultimately wins, but kind of by default; since Kikyou ends up dying for real. I don't believe it qualifies for Last Girl Wins because for awhile we're lead to believe that Kikyou remains dead after the opening sequence. She doesn't, ultimately becoming both a rival in love and a major character.
In the first Kara no Kyoukai movie, Shiki invokes this during her second fight with Fujyou about Mikiya.
Subverted in the manga of Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl. In the anime she wins at first, but this gets "corrected" in the OVA--in a way most fans found quite contrived.
Kimagure Orange Road: Kyosuke meets Madoka long before Hikaru's in the picture.
A couple of days max. Now Madoka meeting Kyosuke.. time travel is fun!
In Koko ni Iru yo!, it's played with, as both contenders are "first guys." Hinata was the first person who "noticed" Hikage, the first to confess to her, and the first love interest introduced. But Black Rabbit -- revealed to be Teru -- is Hikage's first friend, the first to support her, and knew her first. And while Hinata was introduced before Black Rabbit, Hinata and Teru were introduced into the series at the same time. In the end, Hikage chooses to be with Hinata instead of Teru.
Love Hina; Narusegawa Naru is the first girl introduced, and despite Aoyama Motoko, Maehara Shinobu, Otohime Mutsumi and even his adopted sister Kanako also liking Urashima Keitaro, the pairing of Naru and Keitaro is inevitable.
Additionally, Keitaro met Naru long before any of the others (except Mutsumi) as a child. She is the girl he made the Tokyo U promise with long ago.
Actually, this trope is inverted on Love Hina. The first girl Keitaro met was Mutsumi, and then both befriended a sick, bed-ridden and lonely Naru. The three of them made the Tokyo U promise and years later, Mutsumi politely stepped aside for Naru's sake.
Macross - Hikaru first had his butt handed to him (verbally) by a fairly cross "old lady" before he ever came to Lynn Minmay's rescue. And that "old lady" turns out to be Misa Hayase.
Macross Frontier second movie came with Kawamori's promise to end the triangle. Alto confesses his love to Sheryl Nome. They first met when they were very young, in Galaxy.
Macross Zero is yet another case in Macross. Shin met Sara first, if only by thirty seconds.
Mahou Sensei Negima. There are three, count 'em, three "First Girls." Chronologically, Anya is the very first, being a childhood friend and appearing in the first page of the manga--but she then disappeared for a hundred chapters. Then we've got Asuna, a standard Tsundere type who seems like the traditional love interest. However, from the beginning, its unclear whether she cares for Negi as a brother-type figure or something else. And finally Nodoka (the Covert Pervert bookworm). She is the first girl to show an interest in Negi. She's also the first to confess to Negi. However, none of them has "won" yet.
Well now that the manga has ended it seems that none of them "win". Negi tells Asuna the girl he likes and it isn't her (not that she cares), Anya wasn't around when Asuna told Negi to confess to the girl he liked right away, and the epilogue explicitly states that it wasn't Nodoka.
Mamoru and Usagi take the trope to the extreme, as they met in their previous life.
In Martian Successor Nadesico, after Akito both ran into Yurika before anyone else and later bring up their shared childhood on Mars, all of the other girls lost right there and then.
Although this turns out to be a half-subversion in the last episode, when you consider Akito met Hot Scientist Inez Fressange way back in the prologue as a little girl, Ai-chan. His childhood friendship with Yurika probably still counts, though. Still lampshaded, when Yurika was briefly shown as willing to let go of Akito for Inez's sake when she learnt the truth, but Inez herself talked Yurika out of it.
It's not a subversion at all, he still met Yurika first. Shortly after Akito meets her, Ai Boson Jumps 20 or so years into the past and becomes the the woman we see today through The Slow Path.
In Midori Days, although Seiji had asked out another girl earlier, the first girl who was properly introduced was Midori, who of course (as this trope goes) wins out against the various other girls introduced later. Midori also had the advantage of being the title character.
Naruto due to the ambiguity of the claim to the title of the first girl, has two main contenders; Sakura and Hinata. With Sakura being both the first to be introduced to the audiance and the first for the protagonist to show a romantic interest in, while Hinata is the first to show romantic feelings for the protagonist and the first to confess them as well. The Naruto the Last movie states that Naruto met Hinata before meeting Sakura, and then makes her his Love Interest.
At least three possible interpretations in Omamori Himari - Kuesu was the first girl Yuuto kissed (when they were children), Rinko was the first girl Yuuto met when he moved out to live on his own, and Himari was the first girl to appear in the series. Right now it seems that the series is going in the direction of having Yuuto and Himari be the Official Couple.
Please Teacher: Kazami Mizuho is introduced to the audience before Herikawa Koishi is, leading to her inevitable romantic pairing with Kusanagi Kei.
Yeah, but Koishi was already Kei's classmate by the time the story starts. Should that count as a subversion then?
Onegai Twins: Miyafuji Miina meets the main male character, Kamishiro Maiku, before Onodera Karen does, and Miina also shows up at Maiku's house before Karen. Then, in the end, it turns out that Karen is Maiku's twin sister while Miina is unrelated to them, thus allowing her to end up in a romantic relationship with Maiku.
In Ouran High School Host Club, Haruhi falls for the first Host guy she meets, Tamaki.
Averted in the manga Outanders (the much-abriged OVA manages to avoid the subject altogether by paring down the cast and storyline considerably). The first girl that we're introduced to is Aki Okizawa, the coworker and boss of protagonist Tetsuya Wakatsuki, but he winds up marrying alien princess Kham--who tries to kill him when first they meet, later kidnaps him, and is finally won over by him...before being brainwashed into trying to once again kill him, by the most overprotective father in the universe. But even then Tetsuya remains faithful to her, rather than turning to another, less abusive member of his modestly-sized harem.
Ranma ½, Follows this trope pretty straight, Akane is the first fiancee introduced in the series, and serves as the primary love interest, and takes up the most screentime of any of the fiancee brigade. Ukyo, while introduced earlier in the series timeline-wise shows up pretty late story-wise, and is relegated to being the Unlucky Childhood Friend. Shampoo shows up earlier in the backstory (though later than Akane) and winds up acting more like a Stalker with a Crush than an actual fiancee. Although Ranma never ends with him outright choosing anyone, it ends with his wedding to Akane being crashed by his other fiancees/stalkers.
Of course that wedding was forced on him when Soun Tendo bribed him into it by promising him Jusenkyo water if he married Akane so their planned wedding doesn't mean much.
In Pokémon Special, Misty is the first girl Red meets on his journey and the first girl who develops a crush on him. Unfortunately, this trope is subverted as she never gets the chance to properly confess to him.
While there's no real confirmation of this in the show itself, it sure seems as though Lime wins out at the end of Saber Marionette J, given that she seems to get the most attention from Otaru. Now... J to X, that's another story.
Played with in School Days. The first girl the audience sees is Kotonoha Katsura (better said, her photo in Makoto's cellphone), Sekai Saionji is the first girl we see him interact with, and Otome Katou is the first of all his possible love interests that he ever met (during junior high times; he only met the others in highschool).
Well Katsura ends up 'with' the guy in the end. Assuming cuddling the decapitated head of the protagonist while drifting off into the sunset on a nice boat counts as 'with'.
School Rumble: By the end, it's obvious that Tenma's endless devotion to Karasuma has paid off, even if he lost his memories.
Seto no Hanayome: it's obvious from about the second episode that Nagasumi is dedicated to San.
In Sorcerer Hunters, Carrot met both Misu sisters at the same time, but Tira was the first sister introduced in the manga and the one Carrot marries at the end. This doesn't stop Chocolat, as she can be seen having snuck into their bed to be with Carrot after the marriage since she wants him to live up to his promise to let her bear his first child.
Steel Angel Kurumi: both Kurumi and Karinka like Kagura Nakaito, but Kurumi is introduced first (and has the extra advantage of being the title character).
Somewhat averted in the Tenchi Muyo! OVA. While many fans remain firm in their insistence that Ryoko should--as the first girl that Tenchi meets (both in spirit and later physical form)--be the obvious "winner", we learn that Juraian marriage customs allow for the Emperor, at least (and possibly lesser nobles and even commoners), to legally take two or more wives. As Tenchi is the male Heir Apparent to the throne, it would seem that he is not limited to just one member of his harem. The first girl he's engaged to however is Aeka when Katsuhito passes his engagement to her over to Tenchi before the fight with Kagato. See also Tenchi Solution.
Played straight in the Tenchi Universe continuity: Ryoko does "win" this time around. She's strongly hinted to be the one to end up with him near the series' climax, and does concretely end up with him by the end of Tenchi Forever.
Tenchi Muyo! GXP takes this to new extremes.
See also Halfbreed.
There are two possible interpretations of first girl wins in To Love Ru. Haruna or Lala. The former was the first girl that Rito was shown to have known, while Lala is the first girl that the audience is shown, as well as the first to confess her feelings. In the end he falls in love with both and can't choose between them. Then Lala suggests the Tenchi Solution...
Toradora! is another prominent example for this trope as it seems obvious from the beginning that the main characters Ryuuji and Taiga, who are are introduced simultaneously in the first scenes of the show, later become a couple. Nevertheless, the way to that outcome is executed in such a wonderful and lovely manner that the show still won't be boring for anyone who does see it coming.
True Tears has the main character choosing Hiromi at the end, who is the first girl introduced and the first girl he crosses paths with.
Umi no Misaki, by the same mangaka as Ai Yori Aoshi, is still up in the air as to who "wins," and is doing its best to manipulate this trope for all it's worth. Each girl can count as a different "first" for Nagi: Shizuku is the first girl he meets, Karin is the first who realizes and confesses her feelings to him, and Soyogi is his First Kiss (not counting Shizuku giving him CPR) as well as the first to make further overtures towards gaining his "favor" in the same night. Each girl has roughly equal potential to win, at this point.
This was lampshaded when Karin and Soyogi realize that Shizuku may have had a leg up on them because he met her first.
In Urusei Yatsura, the first girl introduced is Shinobu, but Ataru ends up with Lum, which seems like a subversion... but Lum's popularity took the author by surprise and at the start of the series Shinobu was intended to be the girl Ataru ended up with.
Not necessarily a subversion since Ataru and Lum's first meeting occurs during the Pilot and Ataru first met Shinobu before the series started.
Bunny Drop: Daikichi ends up marrying Rin in the end. Yes, that Rin. The 6 year old he adopts at the beginning of the series.
In Vandread, Dita Liebely is the first female with whom Hibiki has personal contact. In the end she gets to hop on the space ship home with him.
She's probably the first girl anyone from his planet (outside of spies) has seen. In about a hundred years. What an surprising act of diplomacy.
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: Fa ends up with Kamille, by virture of being the only love interest left alive. And only after he recovered from his Mind Rape at the end of the series in the sequel.
Played straight in Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple. Ma Renka tells Miu: "He only saw you first. That's all there is!".
In Mai-HiME, this is played straight for Mai, as Yuuichi s the first boy she meets in the series besides her brother. In the manga, in which Yuuichi is the main character instead, he meets Mai first, although he has known Shiho in the past (who averts this trope).
Louise is the first person Saito sees upon being summoned in Zero no Tsukaima.
Bleach plays around with this: the First Girl the audience meets is Rukia, while technically speaking he met Tatsuki and then Orihime years before. Rukia plays this straight with her First Boy aka Renji, but Ichigo averts it since he marries Orihime aka the second non-related-to-him girl the audience sees.
The Patterson children in For Better or Worse all seem destined to end up with the first person of the opposite sex they met in pre-school, which is a more extreme example of this trope. All but April. She gets a line or two in the finale strip that says she ends up with some nameless guy she meets when she moves far, far away from the rest of the family.
Either played straight or averted for Superman, depending on your point of view: Lois Lane appeared in Action Comics #1, so she was the first potential love interest for Clark introduced in the series, but it was later established that Clark had in his youth had Lana Lang as a potential love interest, before he met Lois.
Played straight in Captain Atom: Plastique appears in the second issue, before Cap meets Nightshade, Catherine Cobert, or the Crimson Fox.
Played straight in Nexus, since Horatio meets Sundra first; it didn't hurt that her only real competition, Ursula, is one of the villains. Also sort of averted though, in a manner similar to what happened with Superman, since it was revealed in Nexus: Liberator that Horatio had had another love interest, Juyl, before he met Sundra.
In the movie adaptation of Spider-Man, Peter has a crush on Mary Jane since long before boys are even supposed to like girls, and only ever looks at any other girl when he suddenly had the urge to hurt her (and even then only when he's been corrupted by an alien.)
Played straight in the Ultimate comics where Peter and Mary Jane are childhood friends and fellow book worms.
Jean was Scott's first love... until she died. And then she came back. And then, later, they got married. For a few years, anyway, before Emma Frost showed up... but they are STILL Happily Married to a lot of fans.
You can say she lost though, since she was actually his second wife. Even if his first wife was an identical clone of her...
In Archie, Betty was intended to be this, but usually on a day to day basis Veronica is his girlfriend and Betty just wants to be, and the days when Betty was Archie's sole love interest and Veronica hadn't yet come to town are unknown to modern readerships.
Tales of the Frog Princess fanfiction Confessions of a Vampire Prince. Garrid's two best friends are Andrea ("Andy") and Ben. Ben dates a girl named Miranda, oblivious to Andy's love for him. In the second-to-last chapter, Miranda dumps him. Guess who he ends up with.
In Unicorn City Marsha is quite obvious from her first interaction with Voss.
Indiana Jones - Jones has just managed this, also with a childhood friend. Well, anyway he knew her before we meet her.
In Disney's Hercules the first girl he meets after becoming a hero will be his love interest. Bonus points for a Meet Cute. Pretty much every Disney movie is this way.
Averted in Scaramouche, where Andre Moreau ends up married to the woman he met half an hour into the movie over the woman he was engaged to at the beginning. Interestingly, in the book the woman he married was a childhood friend while he was engaged to the other one for about six chapters (in a 50+ chapter work) somewhere in the middle.
This trope is a staple of teen movies where the main character will spend the whole movie going after one girl because All Guys Want Cheerleaders, but ends up realizing his Hollywood Homely best friend is the girl for him. There are too many examples to list here.
In The New Guy, at the end the main character and his female friend have a close moment, complete with poetic music... Then she reaches over and snogs another of their group instead. Then the cheerleader comes back to him.
Subverted several times in the James Bond franchise. The major love interest can sometimes be the first woman (besides Miss Moneypenny or Judi Dench's "M") that Bond meets in the film, but because James is a such a womanizer, the first girl he meets will often be either a quick fling, or a quick fling that ends in the woman's untimely and bizarre death, ala Casino Royale, Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, You Only Live Twice, and so on.
In fact, this happens often enough that one might say that the Bond films tend to follow the Last Girl Wins trope rather faithfully.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Averted as the original ending to the movie was Scott getting back together with Knives, but test audiences didn't approve.
Averted in Ed Wood, if only because it was a biopic. May be an example of Reality Is Unrealistic,
In Definitely Maybe, the mother of Maya is Emily, getting together again with Will after spending years apart. Subverted in that the two of them are divorced in the present.
Arguably, this is a convention of just about any story which revolves around romance. During the opening chapter, the first character of preferred gender our protagonist meets and is attracted to is almost guaranteed to be the character s/he ends up with. (This might be First Boy Wins if the viewpoint character is female.)
Harry Potter: Despite Harry's notable Just Friends relationship with Hermione, his crush on and disastrous date with Cho Chang, his other disastrous not-date with Parvati Patil, and a school full of devoted fangirls, fans will note that Ginny Weasley, whom he ultimately fell in love with in The Half-Blood Prince, and married, according to Deathly Hallows, was the first Wizarding girl Harry ever crossed paths with in the series.
Similarly, the first girl we see Ron meet outside his family is Hermione, and by the end, in spite of Ron's misconceptions about her and Harry's aforementioned Just Friends relationship, they're married, too.
In Robin Hobb's Assassin cycle, Fitz and Molly, though only after the Fools trilogy, not after the initial three books.
In Anahita's Woven Riddle, the prince Arash is established as the first of Anahita's potential suitors even before he and Anahita actually meet. Schoolteacher Reza and Unlucky Childhood Friend Dariyoush have no chance because their introductions come after Arash's (Dariyoush may have known Anahita for a long time, but we don't hear about him until after Arash's introductory chapter), not to mention that it's obviously Love At First Sight for Arash when he does meet Anahita.
Gender-flipped in Song of the Lioness, George is the first boy Alanna meets. Similar with her daughter Aly and Nawat.
Another male example in Jane Gardam's Bilgewater, although this is toyed with. You're led to believe that Terrapin will get together with the heroine, since he's the first boy her age to have a meaningful encounter with her and displays elements of Beautiful All Along... but a careful reader would see the first boy mentioned by name is Boakes, who she ends up marrying.
Reconstructed for Kelson in the Deryni novels.
He first marries Sidana, daughter of the Mearan Pretender and a human, in an effort to resolve the conflict with the Mearan sepratists. The effort fails, and her brother kills her at the altar.
Later, Kelson meets Rothana nur Hallaj, a Deryni princess who is also a novice at a convent sacked by Mearans. Rothana is the first Deryni woman of his own age he's ever met, and she shares a rape victim's memory with him, which, as Morgan points out afterward, is an intensely intimate experience. Morgan and others suggest to both of them that they would make a suitable couple, and they make plans to wed, but Kelson and Dhugal are washed away in a mudslide and presumed dead. Kelson's cousin Conall plays upon Rothana's sense of duty and her sympathies, persuading her to marry him instead shortly before Kelson and Dhugal return.
Although Rothana is free to marry after Conall's execution, she plays Cupid for Kelson and his cousin Araxie Haldane, and we learn that Kelson had met Araxie and played with her when they were children. Thus, Araxie is the First Girl all along.
In Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Annabeth is the first demigod female that Percy comes into contact with and they eventually get together at the end of the fifth book, after a long Just Friends relationship.
Scrubs: JD and Elliot met at the beginning of the series, and while technically both have dated other people before, Elliot is the first girl JD falls for and dated in the series. But it didn't work out so they moved on to other people. Until JD fell for Elliot again. So they hooked up again. Then JD realized he didn't love Elliot so they broke up again! Then two seasons later, oh wait, JD likes her again! So they start dating again! Now that the show's coming to a close the show has ended, it looks like this one will actually stick so maybe, just maybe First Girl Wins after all. Yay!
On a much smaller scale, it also happened with Dr Cox: the first woman he's seen with is his ex-wife, then he dates another one and a crush on Carla's revealed, but at the end (although it's still very early in the series) he picks Jordan (even though she was pregnant and he thought the kid wasn't his).
Ross and Rachel in Friends.
The Monica and Richard case is a grey area: he was her first serious boyfriend in the series, but it would be later ret-conned that she'd liked Chandler when they first met (it wasn't requited back then, though).
Quite obviously Grey's Anatomy with Derek and Meredith.
Ephram and Amy in Everwood. Also Andy and Nina for some extent, although at first there was no clear sign of UST between them.
Beverly Hills, 90210 subverted it most of the time: Dylan picked Kelly over Brenda (several times), Brandon never actually got together with Andrea, neither Steve nor David ended up with Kelly (both, especially the latter, became a brother figure to her in later seasons).
ER with Doug and Carol... sort of. Subverted with Mark and Susan when she left the show, and when she came back he'd moved on and married.
I don't know if there's a separate trope for the opposite, in which case I'll remove this comment, but there's a bit of a "First Boy Wins" concerning Abby Lockhart: the first man she kisses (in the series) is Luka, and that's the one she ends up with.
Gilmore Girls also has a "first boy wins" situation with Luke and Lorelai. But it's averted with Rory, Lane and Paris, as neither Dean nor Dave nor Tristan stick to the end.
Both of the Fisher sons in Six Feet Under eventually end up with the partners they are shown with in the pilot 'til death do they part. The Fisher women, not so much: Claire and Ruth both end up in relationships with men not introduced until much later in the series.
Played with in Glee. Will's first girlfriend was his wife Terri. However, it isn't portrayed as a good thing, as they are in an unhappy marriage. However, Emma was the first romantic interest of Will seen.
Lost this can be seen to an extent with Kate/Jack, he ended up with her in the sense that they embraced death together. They were portrayed as soulmates. However, this is subverted when Juliet is proven to be Sawyer's soulmate.
Played with in Holly Oaks: Craig was John Paul's first love, but not his first boyfriend. But after a break-up, a long period apart, and a fiance who got a bridge dropped on him, they ended up together.
Josh and Donna of The West Wing are this trope to each other, finally getting together after a bunch of other relationships or potential relationships and seven seasons of buildup.
In Sabrina the Teenage Witch, it's a First Boy Wins -- despite dating other guys, literally creating room in her heart for her fiance, and nearly getting married, Sabrina winds up with Harvey, her first love.
In Farscape, Aeryn Sun is the first Human-like female that John Crichton meets after his travel through the wormhole in the premiere. Naturally, they end up together.
Marshall and Lily in How I Met Your Mother. They are each other's first and only sexual partner (may be a technicality for Lily), a point of pride for the couple. However, it was averted with Robin and Ted.
A rather interesting gender-flipped subversion occurred in the Filipino series My Binondo Girl. Onyx, the protagonist Jade's childhood friend, was the first to be introduced. Word of God also stated that the original plan was indeed to have them end together. However, as the actor playing Onyx was sidelined by sickness, the writers chose to focus instead on the Jade-Andy (the second guy to be introduced) pairing. Eventually, the Jade-Andy pairing was declared as the Official Couple, and Onyx was turned into the Unlucky Childhood Friend and dies in the end.
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Although any specific examples would probably best be left to Troper Tales, most roleplaying communities tend to fall to this for different reasons. Players are excited to get their characters involved in as many ways as possible, so they tend to fall for the first reasonably aged, unattached person of the opposite (or in some cases same) gender they see. Since breakups rarely happen in these games unless preplanned, they tend to last the long haul.
Taken to an extreme in The Tempest: Ferdinand is the first male (not counting the monster Caliban or her father) Miranda has ever seen. She instantly falls madly in love with him.
In Two Gentlemen of Verona, Proteus ends up returning to his first love Julia, after having spent most of the play pursuing Sylvia.
Milfeulle and Apricot in the Galaxy Angel games.
In the Quest for Glory series, Elsa von Spielberg is the first of four eligible bachelorettes the player character meets, which plays this trope straight if she's wooed in the last game.
Princess Lilina of Ostia in Fire Emblem: Sword of Seals, if you get Roy's ending with her; she was his childhood best friend and classmate. In Fire Emblem Blazing Blade, if Lyn goes off with her bodyguard Kent, it's first guy wins. (Though if you count all her possible endings, she knew Florina before she knew any of the males.)
Additionally, Florina is First Girl for Hector, and Ninian (whom he rescued from the Black Fang before meeting Lyn) is First Girl for Eliwood, whereas Serra is First Girl for Erk, Wil is First Guy for Rebecca and Jaffar is First Guy for Nino.
Played with in Fire Emblem The Sacred Stones. Seth the Silver Knight is the first of Eirika's love interests we see, but technically she has known Prince Innes since they were kids, so both can be seen as First Guy. Of course, she can also end up with the mage Saleh and that would be Last Guy Wins situation, huh.
In the case of Ephraim, Tana is undeniably the First Girl, unless you count Eirika as a love interest as well.
Out of Lute's love interests, Artur is first boy since they're childhood friends. In Amelia's case, Franz is one of the charas who can recruit her for your side, so he is her first boy. And finally, Natasha is the first girl for Joshua.
In Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, Lewyn only has three potential wives whose children can bring his holy weapon into the next generation: Erinys, Silvia, and Tailtiu. Silvia can be this since she's the first one seen in the game, but Erinys plays the trope straight as she knew Lewyn long before the others did.
And of course, there is the original Fire Emblem where Caeda is the First Girl for Marth.
In Fire Emblem Awakening, the Female Avatar's First Boy will be Chrom and the Male Avatar's First Girl will be Lissa (Unless Aversa is recruited and romanced by him, since they met as kids but he's amnesiac and can't recall her). for Chrom, it can be either of his Childhood Friends Sully or Maribelle, while Lissa can have either her First Love Frederick of Chrom's Friendly Rival Vaike.
In Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer, the love interest for male characters is the first NPC to show up on screen. The main campaign has the 'first girl' die and deleted the romance arc with the second, leaving the third female party member as the only romance for male characters.
Jade Empire, if a male character sticks with Dawn Star.
Harvest Moon - The first potential love interest in most games, the one that lives closest to your ranch, is usually the easiest to win over. They're relatively low-maintenance and will accept most inexpensive gifts from you.
The Mineral Town games: Elli
A Wonderful Life: Celia
Another Wonderful Life: Rock.
Rune Factory games all have a "main heroine" that is the first girl the protagonist meets after losing his memory. That's Mist in Rune Factory (and Rune Factory Frontier), Mana in Rune Factory 2, and Shara in Rune Factory 3.
One exception is Rune Factory Oceans, in which neither player character has amnesia and there's no one main heroine (instead, having three "main heroines"; none of them are the First Girl, and there's no Official Couple). Sonja, the female protagonist, is the first girl Aden meets and the first girl the audience sees, and that they both get jealous when the other starts forming a relationship with other candidates (along with the trope's prevalence in the series) makes it seem as though this was the intended outcome.
Rune Factory 4 also averts this. Clorica is the First Girl for the male player character and Arthur is the First Boy the female PC meets, but the game doesn't treat any prospect spouses as the "canon choice."
Star Ocean uses this trope in at least three games.
In The First Departure, Milly is the easiest character to gain relationship points with, and she is a childhood friend of Roddick.
In The Second Story, while it is logical that Claude would have met other girls in his past, they are never mentioned and Rena, the first girl you meet, is the intended love interest.
In Till The End of Time, Fayt starts the game with a girlfriend who later becomes a party member and remains the easiest to woo.
Final Fantasy VII - You see Aerith first, but Cloud knew Tifa long before this. Tifa also joins your team first. Word of God has confirmed in the meantime that Tifa is the official love interest.
Aerith is herself officially paired with her first boy, Zack. He just happens to already be dead when the game starts. In fact, she confesses at on the Gondola Ride that the attraction between her and Cloud initially was largely based on his (unintentional and unaware) mimicry of Zack's personality and demeanor.
Uncharted: Nate and Elena at the end of Among Thieves.
In Jak and Daxter, Jak and Keira. So much so that after Keira got Darrined and Naughty Dog shipped Jak with Ashelin, the fans got so pissed that Naughty Dog put them back together in Jak X.
Dragon Age Origins - A female PC can be this for Allistair. Subverted for characters who fall for Morrigan; she doesn't want to win, even if she develops feelings for the PC.
Averted in Dragon Age 2, in which the potential Love Interests are the last four party members you meet, after your siblings, Aveline, and Varric. Though it might still apply as the order in which you recruit potential Love Interests is flexible, so you could go to Sundermount before anything else and then pursue a relationship with Merrill, for instance.
Tsundere Becky Fox of MLB Power Pros is the first girl introduced in the Sucess Mode. Although the possibility to woo her is based on luck, she's still the easiest girl to win if you play as a pitcher and good at it.
In Overlord, Rose is the first mistress that the Overlord gets to "liberate". While the game allows you to eventually dump her for her "saucy" sister Velvet, the sequel proceeds as if you had stuck with Rose, for she becomes the mother of the Fourth Overlord.
In the Shadow Broker DLC of Mass Effect 2, Liara T'Soni can be this for Shepard, depending on the player's choices during Mass Effect 1 and 2.
Ashley can also be this for Shepard assuming you carry the romance through the 3 games, as Ashley was the first female character introduced in ME 1 that isn't the middle aged non love interest doctor, or Shepard herself if you're playing Femshep.
Kaidan Alenko is the first potential love interest that you meet in ME 1, having been on the Normandy already before Shepard became XO and before even meeting Ashley on Eden Prime. You can play this trope straight with Femshep or become celibate as Broshep until the third game where you can have a Relationship Upgrade with him.
In the Dark Parables games, Prince James (a.k.a. The Frog Prince) is immortal, and marries five princesses. But Princess Ivy, his first wife, remains his very obvious favorite.
In Fate/stay night, there are three potential winners, each of whom can be seen as the First Girl. Sakura is the first girl introduced in the main storyline and also the first girl to show obvious interest in Shirou (who is, of course, completely oblivious to it), Rin is the first female character introduced and the first we get to see interact with Shirou because the prologue is from her point of view, and Saber is the first girl seen on-screen and heard as the second image in the Novel is of her.
Sakura is the girl Shirou first met as well (in the backstory). She's also the one Nasu always supported as his main love interest (even if Saber is more popular).
Kanon: Nayuki, the Unlucky Childhood Friend and cousin, seems to be the first girl introduced, because she's the first girl that Yuuichi meets upon his return. But if you remember the beginning of the series, with the first "dream" prologue... It had a narrator. (In the 2006 version, though, the prologue is moved, making it Last Girl Wins instead.)
Key Visual Arts did the same thing in AIR, except the first girl Yukito meets does turn out to be the same girl that the prologue talks about. (Not the narrator, though, considering she's a) his mother, b) the reincarnation of his ancestor, c) dead.)
It's quite ironic to talk about "winning" in this case though, considering how the story unfolds.
It's played anviliciously straight in Clannad with Nagisa, however.
Tsukihime: Quite a few female characters could possibly qualify as the "first girl" by some definition, but this title officially goes to Arcueid, who is the first girl whose story you see and Shiki meeting her starts the first plot.
In Frozen Essence, the first attainable character Mina meets is Rune, whose path is the only one that has a possible "True End", so he appears to fit this trope as well as a Dating Sim character can. ...Unless you remember that Mina actually met the Oracle before Rune, and find out how to unlock his path which reveals that he's actually Mina's childhood friend who met her long before any other character in the game did.
In Katawa Shoujo, one can make cases for both Shizune and Hanako as this for Hisao. On one hand, Shizune is the first of the five choose-able girls that addresses the player directly (sorta, she's deaf/mute). On the other, when Hisao comes into the classroom, the first of the girls that he pays attention to is Hanako, due to the scars on her body.
Several guys can potentially fit into this trope in Shall We Date?: Ninja Shadow. One: Ritsu is the first man to appear onscreen in the (initially mandatory, later skippable) Prologue. Two: the first "route" batch had Ukyo, Eduard and Asagi as the initial love interests. Three: it's eventually revealed that Yoshiyuki is the only prospect lover that the Player Character knew before the story started.
Misfile is approaching this trope with all the subtlety of a berserk elephant.
Coga Suro: Yeah, Steve and Jane end up married with kids. Who saw that coming?
Dan Shive of El Goonish Shive is rather fond of this, all of the major relationships at the moment are examples of the first girl winning if you count Ellen's birth taking Susan out of the picture.
Used twice in Megatokyo: the first major female character introduced is Erika, who Largo tries to grope to find out if her boobs are real and gets another broken arm in return. The second, Kimiko, almost immediately accidentally hits Piro in the head with a coffee pot. Insert joke about winning girls injuring their future boyfriends here.
And then, Yuki went and fell onto Kobayashi-kun from the top of a power pole, leaving him in hospital with concussion and fractured ribs. I guessit goes to show - the quickest way to a man's heart is through his ribcage.
Kevin and Kell: Fiona and Rudy knew each other when they went to the same day care, but never got along. Then Fiona moved away, then back, and then they fell in love. Note that they didn't even remember being in the same day care until a former teacher told them about it.
In Girl Genius, it's pretty clear that Agatha is going to end up with first love interest, Gil. At this point, the only question is whether Tarvek will be included as well. That question will probably be answered when we figure out whose side he's on.
In General Protection Fault, Nick, who has never been in a relationship before, meets Ki early on in his time at GPF, and they get married in spite of Trudy's attempts to get Nick for himself (and the fact that he seriously considers her for a time).
Dubious Company's Tiren would have realized she was this, had she not been preoccupied by Mary and Sue goading her into a catfight with Sakura. The result lead her and Walter back to UST territory.
Stefan 'Twoflower' Gagne's "Unreal Estate" uses this: the first girl's house falls on him while he's still on Grunwald. Nevertheless, possibly to obfuscate the first girl winning, the main character manages to run into each of the girls before finding himself in the 'harem', a la Ai Kora. Though it's technically not a harem comdedy towards the end.
Danny Phantom had interests in Paulina and Valerie, but Sam was the first girl.
American Dragon Jake Long: The girl in question was brought back in the Grand Finale, and is implied to rekindle her relationship with Jake.
Teen Titans: Robin falls for Starfire, the first girl he encounters in the series, though it requires a Flash Back to let the viewers know that.
It probably helps that their first conversation ended with her kissing him. While in the middle of tearing up a city.
Throughout the series, Kim Possible and her Sidekick Ron date or crush on a few other people, but in the end choose their oldest friend and partner in villain-fighting. It also works in relation to their Backstory: (they were each other's first friend in pre-school) and the series itself (Kim tears into school and Ron is the first person she stops to talk to).
In Codename: Kids Next Door, Numbuh 3 and Numbuh 4 each end up with their first person which results in them being married to each other. Numbuh 1, however, does not end up with Lizzie, Numbuh 362, or with anyone at all.
All three Official Couples of Avatar: The Last Airbender:
Suki is virtually the first non-related girl of a correct age Sokka ever meets, and they eventually end up together, even though he also has a brief romance with Princess Yue (who dies and becomes the Moon Spirit) and Ty Lee from the Quirky Miniboss Squad has a crush on him.
Meanwhile, Zuko and Mai used to be friends since they were children, and despite Zuko's one date with one another girl while in exile, they become a couple again as soon as he's un-exiled, are separated when Mai gets herself imprisoned for treason while saving Zuko's life, and happily reunite in the series finale.
And then of course there's the two main characters Aang and Katara. She had never met a boy her own age before who wasn't her brother, while her face was actually the first thing he saw after being frozen for a century, and they likewise hook up by the end of the show (despite the many, many.....MANY other boys vying for Katara's affection, in canon or Fanon).
It was revealed by the creator of Hey Arnold that, had the planned second movie (The Jungle Movie) been made, Arnold would have finally recognized his feelings for Helga and they would have dated for years before he moved away in the also-planned Spin-Off The Patakis. It's worth noting that Helga was the first girl from their class that Arnold met when they were 3 years old. (During the series, he crushed on Ruth, then Lila and Summer. He lost his crushes on all three sometime during the course of the series.)
... The Jungle Movie was Uncanceled and ultimately released in 2017. It ends with Helga and Arnold more or less together.
In Futurama, Leela is the first girl Fry meets after defrosting in the future.
Batman Beyond: Despite a couple of flings with Melanie/Ten, a few Girls Of The Week, and a questionable Just Friends relationship with his Secret Keeper/Sidekick Wannabe Max, The Fully-Absorbed Finale confirmed that Terry seals the deal with Dana, his first girlfriend, who he's implied to have dated since they were fourteen.
The Fairly Odd Parents: Tootie was the first of Timmy's love interests to be introduced. The plot of the Live Action Adaptation A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner! and some of Butch Hartman's posts/tweets/dialogue regarding the movie suggest that Timmy was destined to fall in love with her.
In Voltron: Legendary Defender, the first person that Princess Allura sees after waking up from suspended animation is Lance. Right after she collapses into his arms. Unsurprisingly, Lance is one of the biggest candidates to be Allura's official Love Interest. They get together in the last season, though they become Star-Crossed Lovers at the end.
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The adventures of Kwai Chang Caine, a half-white/half-Chinese Shaolin monk wandering throughout the Wild West, helping people along the way with sage wisdom for the good people and devastating expertise in martial arts for the bad ones.
When it premiered, it was a unique Western series with an Asian lead character (albeit played by an actor with no Asian ancestry) who refused to use a gun and looked out for the innocent, especially the minority groups that the genre typically ignored. The emphasis of the series was very much on philosophy, particularly Eastern philosophy, rather than gunplay.
While it has elements of a Stern Chase (given that he is wanted for killing the Chinese Emperor's nephew after he fatally shot his beloved master in cold blood), it was usually not a pressing matter for the character outside the occasional bounty hunter. Caine is also a stern chaser, looking for his half brother. He often enters a town only a few days after his brother has left it.
It has since become seen as the archetypical Walking the Earth show with a wandering adventurer who has higher spiritual aspirations, but is still ready to get tough when called for. Some of its dialogue became cliches in their own right (calling students "Grasshopper", and "When you can take the pebble from my hand, it will be time for you to leave" are two of the best known of these).
A Sequel Series, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, featured Caine's Identical Grandson and his own estranged son, a modern day cop. It lasted longer than its namesake, though it failed to gain nearly so much attention. Kung Fu 3D was a series of 12 Webisodes hosted on the Warner Brothers website in 1999; while it featured a character named Kwai Chang Caine voiced by David Carradine, it deviated from the show's canon. Caine is left on the temple's steps by his mother as a baby, and he is in search of his father instead of his brother. The web series had No Ending.
Either invented or introduced the concept of a kung-fu Western to...well, Western audiences.
If you're looking for martial arts tropes, see This Index Knows Kung Fu.
Tropes used in Kung Fu include:
Adventure Towns
Annoying Arrows: In one episode, one of Caine's enemies (a rogue Shaolin monk) attempts to assassinate Caine (before a commercial break, of course), by shooting him in the back with an arrow while he is meditating. In a later scene after the commercial break, Caine pulls what is probably one of his finer moments by confronting his assailant, reaching around, pulling the arrow out of his back, and then contemptuously throwing the arrow at his enemy's feet.
Arbitrary Skepticism: In The Legend Continues, Peter often frowned on the idea of supernatural phenomenon being the cause of the episode's case. Even after they had often faced various such phenomena up close.
Asians Speaking English/Translation Convention
Badass Family: The Caines, naturally.
By-The-Book Cop: In the first season of The Legend Continues, Peter often disapproved of his father's interference in police investigations. By the time he himself re-learned his own childhood martial arts training, he began to value Caine's assistance more.
Catch Phrase: "Grasshopper" among others.
Does Not Like Shoes: One of the only times Caine wears footwear is to attend a wedding.
Fighting Series
Flashback Echo
Friend on the Force: Several of the cops in The Legend Continues, although most of them simply couldn't figure out the senior Caine at all. Peter himself was this for his father.
Handicapped Badass: The blind Master Po.
Humble Goal
I Am Not My Father: Peter cites this trope in The Legend Continues, during the first season's opening sequence:
Peter: Look, I'm not my father. I don't do kung fu. I'm a cop. That's who I am; that's what I do.
Identical Grandson: Kwai Chang Caine from The Legend Continues, grandson of Kwai Chang from the original series. Both played by David Carradine.
David Carradine also played Matthew Caine, Kwai Chang's son & Kwai Chang II's father, in an episode or two of TLC.
Koan. Well yes, naturally.
Subverted in the Pilot Movie for Kung Fu: The Legend Continues when Peter quotes his father back to him.
Peter: "Ah yes. Darkness shall overcome the light," as you would say. "But splinters of black will easily be crushed. The illumination of one candle shall forever touch mankind's luminous spirit."
Kwai Chang: I never said anything like that. That means absolutely nothing.
Peter: I know. Sounded great though, didn't it?
Levitating Lotus Position: Kwai Chang Caine did this sometimes while meditating in The Legend Continues.
Magical Asian: Masters Po and Kan to Caine and Caine himself to most white people he meets.
The Magnificent Seven Samurai: The Legend Continues had an episode called "Dragonswing", where Caine and Peter assemble a team of Shao Lin alumni to help a friend rescue his girlfriend from the thugs who've taken over his Northwestern town. Robert Vaughn guest-starred as Rykker, a mercenary very similar to his Magnificent Seven character.
The Man They Couldn't Hang: In "The Nature of Evil"
Martial Pacifist: Caine never wants trouble, but woe be anyone who forces him to fight.
Punishment Box: Caine finds himself in a two-man Box, and teaches the other man in the box to meditate so as to avoid the torturous aspects of being in the box. The guards & other prisoners are amazed that they're able to leave under their own power instead of being carried out.
Stern Chase
Strictly Formula: In each episode Caine basically goes to a town, townspeople don't like him, finds open-minded ally, finds enemy, must fight, makes monk-ly decision concerning friend and enemy, flashback to the power of five, win fight, credits roll.
Sword Over Head: Inevitable when Caine's lifestyle and abilities cross over with the show's genre. When he had to make the decision about a Ninja, this was one of his old teachers' quotes on the matter:
When you must choose between one good and another, or one evil and another, remember this: If men would contend with you, seek not their death, but choose your own life.
Took a Level In Badass: In one of the early episodes of The Legend Continues, Peter's in a bind against the Villain of the Week, who's beating the crap out of him like nobody's business. Then he instinctively taps into his forgotten kung fu skills via Groin Attack. The next season would focus on him gradually re-learning everything he'd been taught as a child.
Walking the Earth - Trope Namer; well, indirectly.
Warrior Poet
The Western
What Could Have Been: The series was pitched to the TV studios by Bruce Lee, who originally intended to star in it.
When You Snatch the Pebble: This is the Trope Namer.
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Ranking the college football coaching class of 2018: the good, the bad and the ugly
By J. Brady McCollough Los Angeles Times
After three miserable years watching Jim McElwain’s offenses further lay ruin to Florida’s “Fun ‘n’ Gun” culture, the Gators faithful desperately wanted an offensive wizard to save them late in the fall of 2017.
Who would be more perfect for college football’s biggest coaching vacancy than Chip Kelly, the understated and quirky genius who turned Oregon into a national title contender and flamed out at a couple of NFL stops?
The Florida private jet with an envoy of school representatives reportedly flew to New Hampshire to court Kelly, but there was also a sense that he could be a better personality fit for UCLA, which had fired Jim Mora Jr.
The Florida job was set up to win sooner than the Bruins’ position, but frequent College Football Playoff visits were in no way a gimme with the Gators, who have to contend with a resurgent Georgia in the Southeastern Conference East Division and Alabama, Auburn and Louisiana State coming out of the West each year.
Kelly ultimately chose the path of lesser competitive resistance — and lesser fan intensity — with UCLA and the struggling Pac-12 Conference. Florida moved on quickly, the next day scooping up Mississippi State’s Dan Mullen, a former Gators offensive coordinator under Urban Meyer.
One of the most thrilling and treacherous things about hiring season in college football is that you never know how it’s going to turn out, no matter what the data says beforehand.
Mullen’s then-No. 10 Florida team beat No.7 Auburn 24-13 on Saturday in Gainesville, Fla., in a battle of undefeated teams trying to stay in the hunt for the College Football Playoff. It wasn’t exactly “Fun ‘n’ Gun,” but being 6-0 is fun enough in Gainesville.
Later, across the country in a somber Rose Bowl, UCLA lost to Oregon State 48-31, moving the Bruins to 1-5 this season and 4-14 overall under Kelly.
It’s easy to look at where Florida and UCLA are right now and say the Gators really dodged a bullet. Frankly, halfway into Year2, it’s a risk to make any judgment, no matter how good or bad it looks.
There were 12 new coaches hired in the Power Five conferences in the winter of 2017, and some of them — Kelly included — appear to be in trouble.
Here’s a look at where things stand for this highly pressurized dozen, the coaching class of 2018.
Dan Mullen, Florida
There have been some rocky aspects to Mullen’s start at Florida — player behavior off the field has been a consistent issue. But the Gators’ 16-3 overall record, led by a talented defense, has allowed the offense to lag behind and continue to figure itself out.
Herm Edwards, Arizona State
In Edwards’ first season, the Sun Devils finished 7-6 and contended for the Pac-12 South title. In Year2, it’s even more clear this was a terrific move for Arizona State as the Sun Devils (4-1) have won road games against Michigan State and California.
Mario Cristobal, Oregon
The Ducks blew a chance at a big victory in their opening loss to Auburn. Because of a muddled Pac-12, Oregon (4-1) won’t have another shot at a nationally relevant win until its bowl game, but regionally, going to Seattle and beating Washington on Oct.19 would register a resounding note.
Holding steady
Jimbo Fisher, Texas A&M
Fisher left Florida State, where he won a national title, for the riches of Texas A&M — he signed a 10-year contract worth $75million. Texas A&M is playing the long game with Fisher, and the Aggies (3-2) are one of the youngest Power Five teams. On Saturday, they host No.1 Alabama.
Scott Frost, Nebraska
Cornhuskers fans aren’t feeling as overjoyed to have Frost back in Lincoln as they were when the season started with hopes of a Big Ten West Division crown. Nebraska (4-2) choked the game away at Colorado and was blasted by Ohio State 48-7. But the program still feels as if it has momentum with Frost and is building a new identity. It’s just clear that this is not going to be an overnight rebuild.
Joe Moorhead, Mississippi State
In Moorhead’s first season as a head coach, the former Penn State offensive coordinator had a dependable senior quarterback in Nick Fitzgerald and three first-round NFL draft picks on defense. The Bulldogs finished 8-5. Now comes the hard part. The Bulldogs are 3-2 in a rebuilding season. Even a 6-6 finish would be viewed as acceptable.
Kevin Sumlin, Arizona
Sumlin’s first year in Tucson was pretty hard to watch. With quarterback Khalil Tate nursing a lingering ankle injury, the Wildcats limped to a 5-7 finish. Sumlin’s job this offseason was to rejuvenate Tate. The returns are positive enough with Arizona at 4-1 and coming off a win at Colorado to say that Sumlin has the Wildcats where they should be in his second season.
Too early in rebuild
Jonathan Smith, Oregon State
The former Beavers quarterback has built a competent offense in Corvallis around sixth-year senior Jake Luton and wide receiver Isaiah Hodgins. At a minimum, if Oregon State (2-3) can be exciting and fun to watch, then Smith has accomplished something big.
Chad Morris, Arkansas
The Razorbacks went 2-10 overall and winless in the SEC in 2018, and it doesn’t look much better in Year2 at 2-3. Morris could be in trouble with Razorbacks fans sooner rather than later, but for now he deserves a forgiving leash.
Patience is fading
Chip Kelly, UCLA
How could it really be this bad for Kelly and the Bruins? UCLA has no buzz in recruiting and now plays in front of a near-empty Rose Bowl. A new athletic director will take over in Westwood with the No.1 priority of deciding whether Kelly is the guy to get this done.
Willie Taggart, Florida State
In Taggart’s first season, the Seminoles did the unthinkable, missing a bowl game at 5-7. Taggart, who succeeded at South Florida and went 7-5 in his one season coaching Oregon, appears as if he might be overmatched. If Clemson blows out a 3-2 Florida State team Saturday, Taggart better watch out.
Jeremy Pruitt, Tennessee
No program has been more embarrassed by 2019 than Tennessee, which lost to Georgia State and followed that up with another home loss to Brigham Young. At 1-4, there aren’t many potential wins in sight, but for Pruitt, getting to four or five could buy him a third season.
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Sapper Fred Reynolds – The First to Fall at Gallipoli
March 31, 2015 April 21, 2017 aussiesappers 1st Field Field Company Engineers AIF, ANZAC, ANZACS, Gallipoli, Sappers - 1st FCE AIF, Sappers AIF, World War 1 191 Frederick Reynolds AIF, 1st Field Company Engineers, ANZAC, First Field Company Australian Engineers, Gallipoli, Gallipoli Landing, Sapper, Sapper 191 Reynolds, Sappers AIF
191 Spr. Frederick Austin Reynolds – MID
For the newspapers it wasn’t necessary to print the order in which our gallant young men had died, the news was devastating enough, however on the 25th April 1915 it is considered that sapper 191 Frederick Austin Reynolds was in fact the first official casualty at Gallipoli – KIA (killed in action).
Like so many of the ANZACS, the full depth of Fred’s story has been quietly forgotten. His story is brief and glorious and the fact that he was the first official casualty and the heroic circumstances of his death make him a very significant ANZAC , and yet there is very little documented about him up to now.
One of the most poignant photos of ANZAC war history is of a poor lonely figure lying dead, face down on the beach of Anzac Cove while in the foreground officers watch on as troops behind this sad and lonely figure are unloaded from the landing boats.
That lonely figure in the picture ( left of centre) has been identified as Sapper Fred Reynolds, laying motionless and isolated, his tragic and solitary presence is screaming to everyone surrounding his lifeless body that the so called great adventure is suddenly over.
The Landing – it is acknowledged that 191 Spr. Fred Austin Reynolds is the figure laying on the beach – left of centre of picture.
191 Frederick Austin Reynolds, was aged 21, working as an electrical engineer at the Submarine Mining Station, Chowder Bay, from Queenscliff Manly Beach , Sydney…….Fred was also a young lifesaver with the Manly Seagull Club.
It is sadly ironic that this young man, a lifesaver, died assisting his fellow soldiers from the water while landing on the beach under what was described as heavy gun fire. He returned to the water three times to help wounded men ashore only to be fatally shot in the head on his last assist.
Lance Corp. 84 William Turnley witnessed Fred’s final moments…… ” some get ashore safely, some are hit slightly, others drowned in only a couple of feet of water because in the excitement no one noticed their plight…………many are the courageuos and daring acts performed during these few hours….One of our fellows goes out three times to bring in wounded comrades. The third time, hard luck, he is shot through the head and pitches forward on his face within a few feet of his goal.”
Reported by O.C of the 1st Field Company and Mentioned in Orders “Three times he went to the assistance of men who were in difficulty or wounded when getting out of the boats on the 25th April. sapper Reynolds was killed in assisting the third man ashore”
Fred was an amazing young man, brave in the face of danger and clearly prepared to die if need be, his own words testimony to his commitment as a soldier.
Fred’s last letter to his parents was published in the Australian Press in July 1915 – source: NAA
Dear Dad & Mother,
“ Just a hurried line to let you know where I am. We are on the flagship. There are 24 of us attached to the 8th Battalion as a demolition party. I will be on the first boat ashore. Quite an honour. You will know by the time this letter reaches you whether I’ve been unlucky or not. Of course we know we will not all come back, but what of that ? We are soldiers and British, and quite prepared to take our chance………”
Fred also stated in his letter “we are soldiers and British”. Fred was actually born in Wellington, New Zealand, and raised in Australia, but like many men born pre-Federation were British Subjects.
A letter from Fred’s father, Arthur , to the Department of Defence in July 1915 shortly after his notification of Fred’s death explains the families difficult financial circumstances at the time and also Fred’s last words to his father.
Will you kindly tell us what course we have to follow………………. he was in the Royal Engineers for two years at Middle Head as an electrician before he joined for the war and he would have been our main stay if he lived. We have three other sons all married , bricklayers the same as myself, and we cannot expect help from them, for although I am well and able to work thank God, I have only earned 4 pound 18 – this year. So you will see it was Fred’s money and every week that kept us going, now since he got killed we have not heard from the government.
Now will you please tell us what to do in reference to the following. The last words that Fred said to me was.”Remember dad if anything happens to me I am insured.
How am I to find out where he is insured and for what amount”.
Trusting to hear from you. I am a proud to be a father of one of the heroes.”
Signed F.A Reynolds
Lt. Colonel Richard John Dyer D.S.O the company commander for a large part of the war was to mention in a letter to 241 James Johnson many years later in 1934 ………………..“Its a pity the company didn’t get a VC, it was earned often enough by some of the boys many times over”..……………. but Lt. Colonel Dyer especially “felt poor old Reynolds on landing day” deserved a VC.
66 Lance Corporal Norman Masters writes to his father : — “ One of our boys, Sapper Reynolds, swam back to the boat, and brought ashore two boxes of gun cotton and machine gun and a wounded man, and was shot dead on landing with the man. He would have got the V C. had he lived. I should like Harry to tell the boys at Chowder how poor Reynolds died. “ – Extract from “The Sun” July 14 1915
Fred was buried at Shrapnel Valley Cemetery (Plot I, Row C, Grave No. 17), Gallipoli, Turkey and his name is honoured on the memorial cross featured on this site. Fred received a special mention after his death and received a 154 complimentary honour for conspicuous gallantry and was also Mentioned in Despatches.
The Sydney Morning Herald published its Roll of Honour on Saturday 5th June 1915, and its possible Frederick had a sweetheart back home.
The entry reads “In Loving memory of my dear and sincere friend. Frederick Reynolds, who was killed in action at the Dardanelles” – Alice Stronlund
Sources: AWM, NAA, NLA
Story Copyright © Vance Kelly 2015
Shrapnel Valley Cemetery (Plot I, Row C, Grave No. 17),
Manly Memorial “The Corso” Manly NSW
Rank: Sapper
Unit: 1st Field Company, Australian Engineers
Service: Army
Conflict: First World War, 1914-1918
Award: Mention in despatches
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 28 October 1915
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 2736, position 13
Date of London Gazette: 5 August 1915
Location in London Gazette: Page 7668, position 11
The Men on the Cross – “Where Heroes Lie”
March 29, 2015 August 10, 2015 aussiesappers 1st Field Field Company Engineers AIF, ANZAC, ANZACS, Gallipoli, Sappers - 1st FCE AIF, Sappers AIF, Uncategorized, World War 1 1st Field Company Engineers, AIF, Gallipol, sappers, World War 1
A similar picture of this cross, now a well known Anzac image was originally on the front page of the Sydney Mail and was published on December 1st 1915….. below
The following story accompanied the photo…
“Where Heroes Lie
This cross, fittingly decorated with a wreath of victory , marks the resting-place of 14 gallant Australians. They were all members of the First Field Company of Engineers, which was the only Sydney unit with the first party that landed near Gaba Tepe on the historic morning of April 25th. The Engineers did admirable work on that fateful day, and ever since have carried out their dangerous and difficult duties in a manner which has elicited warm commendation from the General staff.”
The men whose names are cut on the cross are:
132 Cpl. Alexander Joseph McDonald
122 Second Cpl. John Joseph Gough
54 Spr. Henry Harnam Fairnham
55 Spr. Walter Freebairn
60 Spr. Cecil William Robert Howlett
15 Second Corp. George Harrington Bird
212 Spr. Charles “Jack”Carrington Fowle
344 Spr. Edward Moore Carter – not an “original” however equally remembered.
According to an article on 7th October 1916 in The Globe and Sunday Times War Pictorial this cross was erected and the names cut on it by Sapper 149 Charles Akins, an original member who also made the wreath and left it on the cross before he left Gallipoli.
It also mentions ……………………………
“Relatives of these soldiers may secure a copy of the photo by communicating with Mrs. Akins, of 30 Burton-street, Darlinghurst, East Sydney”.
Not all the men named on the cross were actually buried here and as each of their stories unfold it also explains their final day at Gallipoli.
The cross was later considered a memorial cross and this famous Gallipoli image of the cross was later replaced by a new cross and amended to read… “ Unknown Australian Soldier”.
Sources: – NLA, AWM, NAA,
Cleveland Page photo – Courtesy Catherine Job , Page family collection.
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Home All the News Columnists Larry Canning: In defence of long putters
Larry Canning: In defence of long putters
Tim Clark has used a long putter since his teens “out of necessity”.
By Larry Canning
WATCHING Tim Clark make the winning putt in the Canadian Open, with his Odyssey White Hot 2-Ball Broom Stick Putter, has prompted not only me, but a bunch of other disillusioned golfers to throw more verbal darts in the general direction of the Clubhouse at St Andrews.
Clark, who happens to be one of the nicest blokes playing the game, was one of the more vocal players arguing to prevent the R&A and its trans-Atlantic doyen’s of wisdom, the USGA from outlawing the anchored stroke back in 2012. The rule change will come into effect on January 1st 2016.
The 38-year-old South African has used a long putter since he was in his teens because as he describes It, “It’s out of necessity”. This bloke simply has no other choice due to a congenital problem with his arms which prevents him from supinating his wrists and causes discomfort when he tries to use a short putter. [See: Tim Clark struggles back into the winners circle]
Coincidentally, on the same day, another long term broom stick wielder Bernard Langer made absolute mincemeat of the field during the Senior British Open when he took the title by a record 13 strokes. Bernie may not have a congenital issue with his arms but his famous battle with the dreaded yips, which nearly forced him off the tour, is clearly a medical issue as well.
For those of you who think “it’s all in the head”, just ask any chronic sufferer, but for your own safety, make sure your standing outside a broom-putter length away from that person.
I have a friend at Mount Broughton Golf Club who plays golf because he loves it. He also has a medical problem preventing him for using the normal length putter. With the date of this destructive new rule looming, my mate is trying everything from head weighted, shaft weighted, butt weighted, to buying a heavier golf bag and putting on weight himself….but sadly with no result.
He is now wondering how he will be able to continue playing the game he loves and constantly asks me if there’s is any good news coming down from the R&A regarding Amateurs having to change.
Adam Scott is another pro who will no doubt be affected by the new no anchoring rule
The only chance we had of being heard by the R&A and the USGA, was a submission by the President of the US Professional Golf Association, Ted Bishop to the Amateur governing body asking for an extension on the date for amateur golfers. Bishop, who has been against the ban since it was first mooted, referred to his proposal as a “Grand Father Period” to allow amateurs some more time to find another way to overcome their issues and teaching professionals a longer period to find ways to help prevent their pupils from taking up tennis.
Bishop said during the Masters in April, when he told R&A Chief Executive Peter Dawson, that the PGA of America was looking after the best interests of the amateur golfer, Dawson pointed a finger at him and said, “That’s not your role.” Incidentally, Dawson has announced his retirement on September 2015… three months before the carnage begins.
Needless to say The US PGA’s submission was refused and the date for all long putter golfers to find another sport remains 1st Jan 2016.
Who do the R&A talk to when a decision like this are made? Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer? Or the people who work bloody hard all week so they can afford to have a hit on the weekend with their mates without humiliating themselves?
Then you read where the R&A proclaim to being committed to promoting and sustaining golf all over the world. What about this mission statement from the USGA on their website?- “The United States Golf Association promotes and conserves the true spirit of the game of golf as embodied in its ancient and honorable traditions. It acts in the best interests of the game for the continued enjoyment of those who love and play it.”
Maybe they need to listen to “those who love and play the game”!
Clearly they haven’t spoken to my mate at Mount Broughton Golf Club.
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Posted by: austronesia | December 29, 2008
PUBLISHED ON December 20, 2008 AT 4:30 PM
In his uggayam, or traditional chant, Ama Julio Longan, 68, of the Taloctoc sub-tribe of Kalinga urged his audience in a human rights rally to join mabtad, where Cordillera communities and groups are urged to collectively act in searching for James Balao, an activist missing since September 17.
BY ARTHUR ALLAD-IW
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES WATCH
Northern Dispatch
Posted by Bulatlat
BAGUIO CITY (246 kms. north of Manila) – In his uggayam, or traditional chant, Ama Julio Longan, 68, of the Taloctoc sub-tribe of Kalinga urged his audience in a human rights rally to join mabtad, where Cordillera communities and groups are urged to collectively act in searching for James Balao, an activist missing since September 17.
Mabtad is a traditional call and practice in Kalinga and Mountain Province, particularly in binodngan or bodong (peace pact) practicing areas. Members of communities are mobilized during calamities or in times of dire need – whether it is due to man made acts or natural ones, explained Longan, a veteran of restoring broken peace pacts in Kalinga.
“If a community member who went to hunt failed to return, mabtad is used to call the people to look for the missing person. The same when someone is allegedly taken by their enemy tribe, the able-bodied men in the community are called to conduct war with their enemy,” he explained in Ilocano.
Mabtad is characterized by sadness. Hence in the gathering, gongs, which reflect happiness, are not used. Instead, people used kalasag (shields), pakipak (bamboo instruments), and gayang (spear) in producing sounds, Longan pointed out.
Mabtad is being adopted in the case of James Balao, whose mother hails from Mountain Province, he said. It is not only in the case of Balao, a founding member of the Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA), that mabtad was used.
Earlier in October 1987, Ama Daniel Ngayaan, of Tanglag was abducted by members of the late Conrado Balweg’s Cordillera People’s Liberation Army (CPLA), a para-military group, at the Cagaluan Gate in Lubuagan, related Ama Longan.
Ngayaan’s tribe mates, members of the peace pact holders’ organization Cordillera Bodong Association (CBA), and the CPA were called for a mabtad, to look for Ngayaan, then CBA chairman and CPA vice-chairperson.
“We went to look for Ngayaan in different places, including forests, rivers, military camps, among others,” explained Longan, present president of the Cordillera Elders Association (CEA).
The family of Ngayaan filed a habeas corpus petition, a legal remedy filed with the court to ask it to order the person or group holding him to produce his person. The petition was filed after Balweg admitted in an interview that his group abducted Ngayaan. The court however denied the said petition.
Balao’s family and friends filed a petition for a writ of amparo to compel the military to resurface the abducted Balao. The writ of amparo has been adopted by the Supreme Court to compel a person or entity to produce a missing person, and if the person is not in their custody, to exert efforts to seek information on the whereabouts of the missing person.
The Regional Trial Court of Benguet is expected to issue its decision on the Balao family’s petition for a writ of amparo. Balao’s case is the first writ of amparo filed in the region.
Unselfish indigenous rights advocate
Longan said he knew James since the time they were lobbying for the inclusion of indigenous peoples’ rights in the 1987 Constitution, which was then being drafted by members of a Constitutional Commission appointed by President Corazon Aquino in 1986.
“He was a staff of Commissioner Ponciano Bennagen, who was endorsed by indigenous peoples,” Longan added.
Longan said Balao, who was already a staff of the CPA then, helped Bennagen in introducing provisions in the 1987 Constitution that recognizes indigenous peoples’ rights to their culture, tradition and ancestral lands. He clarified though that those were outputs of indigenous peoples’ and their technical know-how.
Under Section 22, Article II of the 1987 Constitution, the State is mandated to recognize and promote the rights of indigenous cultural communities while Section 1, Article X mandates the creation of autonomous regions in Muslim Mindanao and the Cordilleras.
Longan claimed that these provisions on indigenous peoples were not at all included in past constitutions.
“Here is an unselfish person who served the people without expecting anything in return. It is high time for us to pay in return by joining the mabtad,” Longan said.
His uggayam reverberates: “Uggayam, o gayaman, bareng no maawatan, turay a kadakdaksan, tapno miruar ida no ayanat nangipupukan, ta saan met a masida wenno makan (I hope it will be understood, by this worst administration, to tell us where they had imprisoned (James), as he (James) is not a viand or a food.) Northern Dispatch/ Posted byBulatlat.com
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Lizard Behavior
There are many species of lizards. Some of the more popular domestically kept species include iguanas, bearded dragons, chameleons, and geckos. The specific behavior of lizards varies depending on species. Some species, such as iguanas, are active during the day, while others, like the leopard gecko, are active at night. Some species of lizards, such as similarly-sized bearded dragons, may do well in groups, while others, such as chameleons, should be housed individually.
In general, lizards should be handled gently under the body and never caught or picked up by their tails, as their tails can sometimes break off. Certain lizards, such as young iguanas, are quick and jumpy. Older iguanas, which can reach several feet in length, can be aggressive and dangerous, whipping their tails and biting, especially when they reach sexual maturity. Other lizards, such as bearded dragons, tend to be gentler and more amenable to handling. Regardless of species, all lizards can carry Salmonella bacteria; thus, their cages and feeding bowls should be kept away from human food, and any surface they have contact with outside of their enclosures should be disinfected. Care should be taken to wash hands after handling any lizard.
Housing Lizards
Specific housing requirements vary according to species. Smaller lizards, such as geckos, may be housed in well-ventilated aquariums protected by screens on top, so that other predatory pets, such as cats and dogs, don’t have access to them. Larger lizards, such as bearded dragons and iguanas, need enclosures at least 2’x4’ and should be large enough to enable climbing. Chameleons generally do better in wire enclosures with a minimum size of 2’x2’x3’. Chameleons need to climb, so enclosures should be taller rather than wider. Acceptable substrates for the tank bottom include paper towel, newspaper, recycled paper products, or rabbit pellets.
Particulate matter bedding, such as sand, soil, gravel, corncob, walnut shells, and wood shavings/chips are not recommended, as they are indigestible if eaten, can encourage bacterial/fungal growth, and can sometimes be irritating. All lizards should have hide boxes, large rocks on which to rub off shedding skin, and open water bowls in which to bathe. Many lizards also need to be misted with water daily to keep hydrated. Iguanas, in particular, need high environmental humidity, while bearded dragons do better with a much lower moisture level. Chameleons will not drink standing water but require a drip system (commercially available).
Chameleons and iguanas, especially, must be provided with branches for climbing. All lizards require supplemental heat (provided by an over-the-tank bulb), so that a temperature gradient is established, with a hot/basking zone and a cooler/shade zone, the temperatures of which vary depending on species. Generally, lizards also require 10-12 hours a day of exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light in the UV-B wavelength; UV bulbs must be charged every six months to ensure adequate UV-B exposure. Mercury vapor bulbs that provide both heat and UV light are also available. Commercially available “hot rocks” are not recommended, as they can cause burns.
Lizard Nutrition
Some lizards, such as iguanas, are herbivores (eat plant matter only), while other lizards, such as chameleons and bearded dragons, are omnivores (eat both plant matter and animal matter). Still others, such as some geckos, are carnivores (eat animal/insect matter only). Depending on the type of lizard, species-specific pellets are commercially available that should form the basis of the lizard’s diet. In addition, every day, iguanas can be fed calcium-rich greens such as collards, turnip and dandelion greens, bok choi, romaine, kale, Swiss chard, spinach, cilantro, and escarole. They may also be offered alfalfa hay and grass, and lesser amounts of other vegetables (carrot, squash, pepper, broccoli, peas, beans, okra, sprouts), plus occasional fruits (banana, apple, melon, papaya, kiwi, plum).
Bearded dragons may be fed mealworms, crickets, superworms, wax worms, and pinkie mice. These food items should be dusted with a calcium supplement (without vitamin D) every day for young growing dragons and every other day for adults. Growing dragons also should be supplemented with a vitamin D3 supplement dusted on food twice a week. They should be fed greens, similar to those fed to iguanas, smaller amounts of other vegetables (like iguanas), and even lesser amounts of fruits.
Young growing dragons eat insects daily with lesser amounts of greens; adults tend to consume more greens and fewer insects. Chameleons predominantly eat insects (mealworms, crickets) and may also eat roaches, snails, and silkworms. Care must be taken not to overwhelm chameleons with insects, as insects can chew on chameleons and injure them. Young chameleons should be fed daily; adults should be fed 3-4 times a week. Chopped greens, vegetables, and small amounts of fruit also may be offered.
Chameleons also should receive supplemental calcium dusted on prey. Leopard geckos live mainly on insects dusted with calcium powder (every other day for adults). Juvenile geckos are fed daily, while adults are fed 3-4 times per week. Crickets should not be longer than the length of the gecko’s head and generally should not be fed in excess of 4-6 per feeding.
Most lizards also need a general multi-vitamin supplement. Your reptile veterinarian can best advise you about your pet’s specific requirements, but in general, most lizards should get a general multi-vitamin supplement once every 1-2 weeks.
Healthcare For Lizards
All lizards should be examined by an exotic animal veterinarian initially after purchase and annually after that. They should receive a complete physical examination, as well as a check of the feces for parasites. Dietary and environmental requirements should be reviewed, and every lizard should be dewormed when purchased.
All new lizards should be kept separate from other reptiles for at least a month. Many reptiles should not be housed together. Your veterinarian can best advise you about housing. In general, different species of lizards should be housed separately. Good preventative medicine helps ensure a long, healthy life for your pet lizard.
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How Much Can My Landlord Bill Me for Trash Pickup?
August 2, 2019 Mark Elliot refuse pass-through
The principle behind rent is that a tenant pays for housing with the understanding that the operating costs of rental housing from everyday grounds-keeping to the new roof is borne by the landlord. But not always! Beverly Hills allows a landlord to pass through to his tenants each month certain charges like the entirety of the city’s bill for refuse collection and alley maintenance. How can a tenant be sure she is paying the correct refuse charge?
Before we go into details about the refuse pass-through let’s cut to the chase. Beverly Hills allows a landlord to pass through to all rent-stabilized tenants his cost for alley maintenance and refuse collection, which is $29.19 per unit when billed monthly. Some landlords choose not to pass through the refuse charge and, arguably, trash service should be covered by rent. But some landlords pass on the cost and that is perfectly allowable as long as: 1) the charge is no more than the landlord is billed by the city; and 2) so long as the tenant is properly notified at the outset. This explainer shows how it works.
How Alley and Refuse Fees Get Passed-Through
Passing-through the cost of alley maintenance and refuse collection seems straightforward enough. The city bills the landlord which then turns around and adds that cost (no more, no less) to the tenant’s rent. That’s how the city’s rent stabilization program website presents it:
Refuse fee surcharge and water service penalty surcharges may be passed through to tenants in addition to the permitted annual adjustment (B.H.M.C. §§ 4–6–7, 4–6–8, 4–5–307, 4–5–308).*
But those 21 words don’t identify the refuse fee. How much is it? And why call it a surcharge? Nor does does the Municipal Code identify the fee. Here is section 4–6–8 (REFUSE FEE SURCHARGE) from the rent stabilization ordinance:
A. In addition to the rent otherwise permitted by this chapter, the landlord may pass through to the tenant of an apartment unit regulated by this chapter the cost of any refuse fee imposed by the City pursuant to a resolution or ordinance of the City Council.
B. In order to qualify for the pass through authorized by subsection A of this section, the landlord shall:
(1) Provide written notice, by registered or certified mail, to all tenants thirty (30) days in advance of the imposition of the pass through, of the provisions of this section, that the pass through is not part of the base rent, that the refuse fee may be increased by the City, and any other information required to be given by the Rent Stabilization Office.
(2) Provide all tenants with a copy of the landlord’s utility bill which sets forth the appropriate refuse fee and the basis for the calculation of the pass through.
Incidentally, both chapters 5 and 6 of the rent stabilization ordinance allow for the refuse pass-through (the respective code sections feature identical language).
While a tenant may be surprised to learn that a refuse charge will be added to the rent, she will be as surprised at how difficult it is to verify as correct the monthly charge that is added. The city’s utilities webpage and solid waste webpage says nothing about it. And a call to the city’s billing department will leave a tenant scratching her head. The city’s Rent Stabilization Program website is silent on the amount of the refuse fee. (Even locating that brief explanation included above is a challenge.)
But if a tenant knows precisely where to look she can find the refuse fee buried in the city’s Schedule of Taxes and Fees. And it happens that fee it’s not a single fee but actually two fees: alley maintenance and refuse collection.
The fees for alley maintenance and solid waste pickup are buried in the city’s schedule of taxes and fees. Just where a tenant with a question about the pass-through charge can’t find them.
The alley and refuse fees are assessed on a per-unit basis which should make calculating the refuse pass-through easy: add them together to get a total per-unit charge of $58.38. But the city bills these costs bimonthly. That means the landlord must divide that total per-unit fee in half for a monthly pass-through. That would be $29.19 per unit.
The $29.19 per-unit figure should appear on the landlord’s notice to pass-through the refuse charge. But that was not the figure on the notice received by one tenant.
Where did that $58.38 figure come from? Is it even the correct amount? The bill offers no explanation and the landlord did not (as required by the ordinance) explain the calculation.
The city’s utility bill enumerates (provided with the notice) makes it no easier. It shows two fees as $219.72 for refuse $130.56 for the alley. These total $350.28.
The city bills landlords bimonthly for trash pickup. It should be simple arithmetic to divide that by two to get the correct monthly pass-through charge. But it is not so simple when the utility bill is for the entire property.
But how does $350.28 translate into a monthly pass-through charge? Because the landlord didn’t explain his $58.38 charge we don’t know.
First, we went back to the schedule of taxes and fees to fiddle with some figures. We totaled the bimonthly fees for alley and refuse ($21.76 and $36.62 respectively) and then multiplied by six to arrive at an annual total for refuse and then divided by 12 to arrive at a monthly ‘surcharge’: $29.19.
(($21.76 + $36.62) x 6 bill cycles) / 12 months = $29.19 per month
But the bill shows a pass-through refuse charge of double that: $58.38. It is a mistake of arithmetic because the landlord overlooked the city’s bimonthly billing cycle?
Second, where did the $350.28 total for refuse on the city’s bill come from? Again with the schedule of taxes and fees in hand we can take that bimonthly refuse total of $58.38 and divide it into the bimonthly refuse bill of $350.28. We wind up with 6 because this is a 6-unit property. The $350.28 total for the refuse and alley fees is the bimonthly billing for six units in the building:
$350.28 / (($21.76 + $36.62) = 6 (apartments)
That’s a long way to go to arrive at an accurate per-unit monthly refuse charge and to figure out the bill forwarded by the landlord. Wouldn’t it be easier if a tenant could simply verify the per-unit allowed refuse charge by, say, checking the city’s website?
Is your landlord passing-through a substantially higher charge? Contact the city’s Rent Stabilization office at (310) 285–1031 and get in touch with Renters Alliance too because are interested to hear from tenants who have been overcharged for utilities.
It’s Not Just the Money: It’s the Notice!
Some landlords don’t pass through a refuse charge at all. But those that do should pass it through to tenants lawfully. And that includes proper notice.
Let’s turn back to the rent stabilization ordinance. Subsection 4–6–6(B) is very specific about how the landlord must notice the new pass-through charge:
If your landlord has not properly notified you of a refuse charge according to those two conditions you should contact the city’s Rent Stabilization office at (310) 285–1031. There may even be tenants who have long been paying the refuse charge but were never properly notified. We will be interested to know what the Rent Stabilization office has to say about that!
Some Observations
First, it took quite a bit of time to identify the proper per-unit refuse and alley fees. They are buried n the city’s Schedule of Taxes and fees. And it was more trouble than it should be to find the phone number for the city’s utility billing office (310-285–2436). When we reached billing, those folks could only say is that the utilities are billed bimonthly and that the figure (for all the units) was correct. They were no help to the tenant who questions the per-month fee added to the rent.
Next contacted the Rent Stabilization office to ask, Are we on the right track with our $29.10 figure? Staff there would simply not confirm it. It should not be so difficult to asses whether the landlord’s refuse pass-through charge is correct!
Second, looking more closely at the refuse and alley fees suggests shows are regressive: the same per-unit fee will apply to a single-person household that generates far less trash than a large household. Each pays the same charge when it is passed-through by the landlord. Why not index the refuse charge to number of bedrooms, say? Then the city would be sending the right message: those who generate more solid waste will shoulder their proportional share of the cost to dispose of it.
Third, having tenants pay for an alley maintenance fee begs a question: Are we getting our money’s worth? Multifamily alleys service many more households than do single-family alleys. And they are very much worse for the additional usage. Often our alleys are a shambles. Take a look at the 200 block Reeves-Canon alley: are we getting our money’s worth?
The 200 block of reeves alley was a shambles for a full week after this trash truck plowed through in January.
*The rent stabilization program website points out that the refuse charge may be passed-through “in addition” to the rent. That is correct: the base rent for each unit is the contract rent at the inception of tenancy plus any lawful increases since. Any pass-through charge(s) is not included in the base rent and a rent increase will not apply to the pass-through charge. However the city’s website incorrectly identifies the Chapter 5 rent stabilization ordinance sections that apply to the refuse pass-through. The correct section is 4-5-309 (not 4-5-307 and 4-5-308) and for a tenant’s convenience we actually link it!
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Are Ads on Google Ads Longer Now? – Yes and Here’s Why
Knowledge Level Intermediate Pay Per Click
Yes that’s right. Ads on Google Ads are now longer and better than ever. Win for the advertiser and win for the searcher. But what has changed exactly? And why have these changes come about?
For years, anyone who has created ads to appear on Google search will have encountered, what we like to call, ‘the 60 character conundrum’. Users of Google AdWords/Google Ads will know what we are referring to here. But for anyone else – Advertisers were only allowed two headlines in any text ad they created for Google Search advertising campaigns. Each headline could only have a maximum of 30 characters. As reasonable as that may initially sound; by the time you have promoted your product, included a call-to-action and told the searcher what makes your business unique… You soon find that 60 could do with being 90 (or just 61 – it always seems to be 1 pesky character too long!). But now, it can!
How Have Ads on Google Ads Changed?
The changes are quite simple really; you can basically have more of everything.
3rd Headline
As we touched on above, you can now have 3 headlines instead of just 2. Just like before, each headline will be separated by a pipe (“|”). This provides advertisers with the opportunity to make their ad that extra bit more compelling.
Although, it’s important to note that the third headline won’t always be displayed. So when you are going through your PPC campaign and updating your text ads, make sure that your ad doesn’t need the third headline to make sense. Otherwise if it is left off, you will be left with a silly looking ad and consequently, a low Click-Through-Rate.
2nd Description
Google has stuck with the theme of adding extras and has doubled up the descriptions on text ads as well. You can now add two descriptions for any text ads on Google Ads Search advertising campaigns. However, just like with the extra headline, it may not always be displayed.
Here’s what Google say regarding the displaying of the extra headline/description;
Your headlines/descriptions and other parts of your ad (including extensions) may show in different configurations based on the device that a potential customer is using, or when Google Ads predicts that it may improve your performance.
We read this as – The combination of the device the ad is appearing on and the Ad Rank will determine whether the 3rd headline is shown, the 2nd description is shown, both or neither.
We believe that the new headlines and descriptions will have more chance of appearing on desktops. With there being a lot more space on the screen, it’s likely that Google will display extra content for the ads that appear in the first 3 or 4 positions on page 1. Whereas, because there is less screen space to work with on mobile devices, we believe Google will make the extra headlines and descriptions exclusive to the top 1 or 2 positions.
Extended Descriptions
The extra ad content doesn’t stop coming! As well as an extra description, Google has also extended the maximum character length of Descriptions to 90. Granted, this is only an increase of 10 characters. But whilst it may not seem like much, it can certainly make a big difference.
Why Have Google Made Their Ads Longer?
Earlier this year, Google introduced a new feature on (what was then) AdWords, called ‘Responsive search ads‘. This feature provided a revolutionary way to create ads for all advertisers on Google. Without going into too much unnecessary detail about them, responsive ads involved creating a bank of headlines and descriptions. Google then tests ad variants using these headlines and descriptions to find out which combinations perform the best. ‘How is this relevant to the recent changes they have made to their ads?’ Well…
As a kind of reward for trying out this new type of text ad, your ad could show up to 3 headlines and 2 descriptions (of up to 90 characters in length). Unsurprisingly, the ads that displayed more content would typically outperform those that looked like standard expanded text ads.
So it was only a matter of time before the extra headline and bigger descriptions would become standard practice. After all, it just adds another level for advertisers to compete on; and that’s exactly what Google wants.
There you have it; that’s how and why ads on Google Ads are longer now. For all of you that are running a Google PPC campaign – make sure you take the time to go through it and start updating your ads as soon as possible!
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Transient Rental Tax Rolled Back for Shore Homeowners
Privately Booked Rentals No Longer Subject to 11.6 Percent Levy
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Trenton — Private homeowners no longer face paying the so-called Airbnb tax for renting out their accommodations, under a fix that was signed by Gov. Murphy on Friday, Aug. 9. The tax law enacted last October has been tacking on an 11.6 percent tax to short-term rentals done through private owners and online marketplaces – 6.625 percent sales and use tax and 5 percent hotel and motel occupancy fee.
Now, as of Aug. 8, that fee no longer applies to the private homeowners renting out accommodations, which is a victory for a homeowners coalition that fought for its repeal.
“It was wrong; it should never have happened in the first place,” said Duane Watlington, vice president of the New Jersey Shore Rentals Coalition, which fought for repeal of the section that taxed private homeowners. “The original intent of the law was not to tax the shore; it’s way too important an economy. The shore tourism economy has been estimated at $43 billion a year.”
Said state Sen. Bob Andrzejczak, one of the rollback bill sponsors, “The law was originally intended to apply to major commercial companies such as Airbnb, but it ended up hurting private renters up and down the shore. Folks that have been renting their shore homes to the same families for years aren’t doing it to make a fortune, but more so to offset the cost of home ownership. The original law was never meant to hurt independent renters, and luckily this legislation will correct things so that it no longer does.”
The amendment bill (A4814) had been on the governor’s desk since June 27.
Murphy’s statement Aug. 9 was “Our shore economy adds tremendous vitality and dynamism to New Jersey. Access to affordable rental properties for visitors and income on rentals for homeowners are the backbone of that economy.”
The shore rentals coalition hired a banner plane to spread the word across the beach Sunday that the tax no longer applies to space rented by private homeowners.
“If you book direct with an owner or through a Realtor, your vacation rental is free of the tax,” said Watlington. “But if a third party collects the payment and issues the contract – a third party such as Airbnb or VRBO or a travel agent – the transaction is taxable.”
Incidentally, the firm VRLBI (Vacation Rentals LBI) that Watlington founded does not do bookings, so its listings were not taxed directly. The company is a classified listings website of rentals that are booked with the owner. That is unlike Airbnb, for instance, whose listings are booked online.
The tax bill signed by the governor last October had required homeowners who rented their accommodations out privately to collect the tax, keep records, and remit the tax to the New Jersey Division of Taxation. That ended after Aug. 8 with the signing Aug. 9 of the rollback bill, but the tax had started to deter some renters of those homes from re-booking, according to news reports and word on area social media.
“We started seeing a lot of that once July came around and our owners were not getting their bookings renewed,” Watlington told The SandPaper. “Normally they say they’re coming back, but this year they said, ‘We don’t know about next year because of this tax.’”
Watlington said the call for repeal originated last Chowderfest weekend in October. Homeowners who stopped by the VRLBI table at the Merchants Mart started talking about a need to oppose the tax levy, he said.
“They were homeowners who said we need to organize, and one of the homeowners had done this previously, helped move legislation through the state with the help of a public policy advocate,” Watlington said. “We exchanged phone numbers, and we met for coffee a week later and we interviewed public policy firms and hired one to represent us in Trenton. First we had formed a nonprofit 501(c)(6), like a business league, that can raise money and lobby. Also, a lot of the owners on LBI met with their local (state) Assembly people.”
Primary sponsors of the legislation included Assembly members Joann Downey, John McKeon, John Armato, Bruce Land, Wayne DeAngelo, Eric Houghtaling, Vincent Mazzeo, Nancy Pinkin, Matthew Milam, Valerie Vainieri Huttle, and Senators Vin Gopal and Bob Andrzejczak. Watlington also credited Assemblywoman Dianne C. Gove (R-9th) for helping the movement.
“Over the past several months, we’ve listened to Jersey Shore homeowners – many of whom are still recovering from Hurricane Sandy – who are worried they’ll see far less summer guests this season as a result of the short term rental tax. Summer tourism is the heartbeat of the shore, and this law was never intended to hurt the private homeowners who help it grow and thrive,” said Assembly bill sponsors in a joint statement.
Advocates for the private rental community also praised the legislation.
“The NJ Shore Rentals Coalition is deeply gratified for the governor’s decision to keep vacations at the shore affordable,” said Denise Payne, president of the NJ Shore Rentals Coalition. “By signing this bill into law the governor is both proving New Jersey is a tourism friendly state and protecting the integrity of the business economy along the shore. The coalition applauds the efforts of lawmakers throughout the state who recognized that this tax law needed to be corrected and worked together to make it happen.”
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The El Paso Marathon Foundation mission is to organize a first class marathon that promotes health and fitness in the community, bring tourism to the region of El Paso and provides support to local and national non-profit organizations. The El Paso Marathon currently hosts a marathon, half marathon, and a 5K race. The El Paso Marathon is a Boston Marathon qualifier.
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The El Paso Marathon has grown leaps and bounds and Barracuda has enjoyed being a part of their team from 2009 to 2012. With a strong and active Facebook following, registrations for 2012 marathon doubled in size and the 2013 marathon was pacing even stronger. From the kick-off party to news coverage, Barracuda has worked with the organization to increase fans, sponsorships and participants. Work on the 2012 El Paso Marathon paid off in big numbers.
Overall, the race increased in participants by 20%. The full marathon grew by 40% and the 5k saw a 35% increase due to a promotion Barracuda arranged with the El Paso Times encouraging El Pasoans to run in their first 5k. Its Facebook page is very active and serves as the daily home base for runners looking for motivation, training tips and information about race day. On race week, the Marathon Facebook page reached over 14,360 individuals.
Barracuda also launched Twitter and Instagram accounts for the El Paso Marathon. Barracuda enjoyed working with the El Paso Marathon to relay their mission of a creating a signature event for El Paso that revolves around wellness and active living. With our help, the El Paso Marathon is becoming a nationally known and recognized race.
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ComplexCon Makes its Debut in Chicago — Presenting the Latest in Popular Streetwear
Figure 3: Man plays with life-size game of Operation redesigned by Earl Mack. Photo courtesy of 83 FuturesFigure 3: Man plays with life-size game of Operation redesigned by Earl Mack. Photo courtesy of 83 Futures
Written by: Niani Scott (@NianiScott)
ComplexCon is an entertainment industry and pop culture convention that attracts artists, designers, performers, and streetwear fashion enthusiasts alike.
Complex is a digital media platform founded by Marc Ecko, who also founded fashion label, Ecko Unlimited. The Complex company focuses on current style trends, hip hop culture and visual art, which is reflected in the conventions elaborate set up.
Hundreds rushed in to buy exclusive and limited merchandise from some of the most popular streetwear designers in the nation, at 9am, when the doors of Chicago’s McCormick Place opened.
Figure 1: ComplexCon goers waiting for the doors to open. Photo courtesy of 83 Futures
83 Futures, a brand that focuses on encouraging organ donation registration in multi-cultural societies, has a different focus than most other brands at the convention. Their goal is to encourage people from multi-cultural communities to register to become organ donors by requiring organ donor registration, before purchasing their exclusive merchandise.
Figure 2: Merchandise bag at 83 Futures booth. Photo courtesy of 83 Futures
“ComplexCon is so much about getting stuff, but our message is different. Don’t just get stuff; give,” Jonathan Richman, Creative Director of 83 Futures said. “20 people die every day waiting (on an organ donation), so if we sign up some people, we can cut that number down.”
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “the number of organ transplants performed on Black Americans in 2015 was only 17% of the number of Black Americans currently waiting for a transplant. The number of transplants performed on white Americans was 31% of the number currently waiting.”
ComplexCon, which is normally hosted in Long Beach, California made its Chicago debut this year. 83 Futures also made its debut at the convention.
Artist collaborations are a huge focus at the convention. Brands such as Converse, collaborated with streetwear brand Chinatown Market, and designed a “UV Chuck,” a classic Converse shoe, whose coloring intensifies when exposed to UV light.
“Organ donation is the ultimate collab. If you donated a heart to somebody else, that’s a collaboration, you kept them alive,” Richman said.
83 Futures collaborated with Richmond artist, Earl Mack, to design a life-size game of Operation that is displayed in their booth, the face is a little more melanated than the original, and a t-shirt. The shirt states, when I die, you can take my organs. Just don’t take my shoes.
“We wanted to do an updated version of this classic game,” Richman said.
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Figure 3: Man plays with life-size game of Operation redesigned by Earl Mack. Photo courtesy of 83 Futures
“In a lot of urban areas, the need for organs is very high but the amount of people who are registered to be organ donors is very low,” Richman said. “One organ donor can save eight lives with organs and heal 75 more with tissue, so that’s 83 Futures, that’s what we stand for.”
New England Donor Services spoke about some of the myths and facts of organ donation with attendees, including recording artist, BJ The Chicago Kid, who visited the booth and agreed to use his platform to talk about the issue.
According to Richman, BJ The Chicago Kid was initially uncertain of his involvement with the brand.
“At first he said, “I don’t know if I’m the right guy’ and we said, you are exactly the right guy, because you are exactly the type of person that we’re trying to reach, someone who doesn’t understand it, isn’t signed up yet, doesn’t know if they want to do it, but they’re willing to listen and willing to hear us out.”
83 Futures also collaborates with Diamond Supply Co., Naturel and Staple, who supply promotional products for the brand. “It’s almost an untapped group of artists who are hungry to do something meaningful with their art (for 83 Futures),” Richman said. “We had a phone call with Jeff Staple (of Staple) a year ago and he was into it immediately.”
Organ transplant recipients also visited 83 Futures booth, which Richman said was really encouraging.
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« What if Christians were seen like Muslims?
Stupid Things White People Say »
Thu Dec 10th 2015 by abagond
Donald Trump (1946- ), also called The Donald, is a billionaire blowhard and American television actor. He is running for US president in 2016, making naked appeals to White racism. He has been leading in opinion polls among Republican voters for the past five months, since July 2015.
His supporters are mostly Whites without university degrees. They say they like him because he tells it like it is – meaning that, instead of racist dog whistles, he makes naked appeals to their racism:
Mexican Americans:
He sees Mexicans as bringing in crime when, in fact, the first generation is less criminal than the US as a whole.
He will build a wall between the US and Mexico and kick out 11 million undocumented immigrants – along with their US-born children.
He will overturn the Fourteenth Amendment’s constitutional right to birthright citizenship.
Muslims and Muslim Americans:
He said he saw thousands and thousands of Muslim Americans in Jersey City, New Jersey cheer the fall of the Twin Towers on 9/11. Not true – but most of his supporters believe him.
Muslim Americans will be put on a government list.
He will keep an eye on certain mosques and might shut down some of them.
He will not allow any Muslims into the US, except for citizens, until, presumably, he can tell who is a terrorist and who is not.
Black Americans:
As a Birther, he demanded that President Obama produce his long-form birth certificate to prove he was born in the US. Trump has refused to provide his own long-form birth certificate.
He said 81% of Whites murdered are killed by Blacks. In fact, the FBI says it is only 14%.
When his supporters beat up Mercutio Southall, who had been shouting “Black lives matter!” at his rally in Birmingham, Alabama, Trump said:
“Maybe he should have been roughed up because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.”
No doubt worse is to come: just when you think he cannot get any worse, he gets worse.
The mainstream US press is now openly comparing him to Hitler. But they have also been giving him centre stage for months on end. It is sickening. MSNBC is almost becoming a Trump infomercial.
From the way they cover him, you would never know that Trump represents less than 10% of US voters.
His numbers, on average in national opinion polls, have been bumping between 20% and 30% of Republican voters since August. In 2014, only 26% of voters were Republican. That means Trump supporters make up 5% to 8% of all US voters. He has pulled into first place by being the most extreme of a fractured field of 14 candidates. In absolute terms, he is doing no better than Bernie Sanders on the Democratic side. The press sees Sanders as a long shot.
Trump’s views have always been present among Whites. The last person who ran for president who made such a naked appeal to their racism was George Wallace in 1968. He got only 13.5% of the vote. That is why the other candidates do not tell it like it is.
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on Thu Dec 10th 2015 at 06:45:10 Benjamin
Do you think that Trump will win the Republican nomination?
on Thu Dec 10th 2015 at 07:07:18 abagond
@ Benjamin
No. I do not see him consistently getting above 50% in the state primaries. Unless he can do that, the party establishment will be able unite behind one of their own.
on Thu Dec 10th 2015 at 08:54:23 darqbeauty
If he wins, the Republican nomination, I’m packing my bags. If he wins the presidency, I’m jumping on a plane with said bags. This miserable florid toupeed mangy blow harding cur makes me queasy.
on Thu Dec 10th 2015 at 09:19:45 Kartoffel
I don’t think the numbers add up for him. He consistently ranks low in second-choice polls, which make sense. He is such a polarizing figure, that whoever would consider voting for him is already on his side. There is nobody left for him to win over.
My money is on Ted Cruz.
on Thu Dec 10th 2015 at 09:35:59 lkeke35
I agree. Everyone who is going to vote for him is already there. He’s not winning over new voters with this rhetoric.
As far as I’m concerned he’s a perfect example of the Republican Party. He’s the grand culmination of all the racist rhetoric they’ve been dog-whistling for the past thirty years. He just has no filter on what he says and is in it for the ratings.
on Thu Dec 10th 2015 at 12:32:09 leigh204
Hate this turd with a passion.
on Thu Dec 10th 2015 at 13:59:38 Open Minded Observer
Trump is a narcissist. He wants to be president to feed his ego. He doesn’t care about the United State, you, me, or anyone else in the world… not even a little bit. He says he’s not racist. You know what? I believe him. A racist would see something inherently different in various humans based on their race. I believe he sees all of humanity as equally irrelevant “things” that at best are “necessary evils” with something to offer him and at worst are impediments to his success.
I believe he is playing the character of a polarizing candidate because that’s where the vacuum was. Nobody else was appealing strongly to the racist and nationalist views of what is now his “base”. These are people that are afraid, ignorant, tired and desperately in need of someone to blame. I feel he has deliberately chosen and is carefully crafting his character because he believes that, at our core, humans are irrational enough to believe his rhetoric and elect him. Why wouldn’t he think that. How many stories have been done on “the media” and how people blindly believe and react to what they’re told. (There’s irony there somewhere.)
I truly hope that he is not elected. I have mixed feelings about fleeing the country if he is. On the one hand, I wouldn’t want to be associated with a country that would elect him. On the other hand, if we all flee, there’d be nobody left to provide checks & balances. He could toss out the constitution and declare himself “king of the world” (or whatever).
The only silver lining I can see coming from his candidacy is that closet racists will self-identify with “Trump 2016” bumper stickers and yard signage. If he loses, maybe we can round them all up and send them to… I’m kidding… that would be too ironic… even for me.
on Thu Dec 10th 2015 at 14:12:30 lifelearner
Nice mirror it is showing to the Republican party. One bad apple spoils the bunch. You are as strong as your weakest link…and on and on…with the clichés!
on Thu Dec 10th 2015 at 14:25:11 Blanc2
Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” reaching fruition
on Thu Dec 10th 2015 at 14:26:44 squawk
Honestly, Trump is and has always been a narcicisstic bastard who only gives a damn about himself,period. All the fame he’s had all these years has gone to his head, and he’s actually delusional enough to think he can get anywhere near the White house talking all the BS he’s talking. He’s always been a loudmouth racist blowhard that’s full of s***. Most of the garbage that comes out of his mouth is just plain disgusting—especially when he claimed that brother should have gotten beat up just for opposing him at a rally. What the hell kind of candidate endorses that BS? I can’t wait for people to get sick of him so he can drop the hell on out of the race—he’s isn’t anywhere near qualified to be President of anything, besides his own company. The fact that there are some people who are taking him at all seriously is just plain darn sad and pathetic, and so is Trump himself.
on Thu Dec 10th 2015 at 14:30:05 TeddyBearDaddy
Let’s say Trump wouldn’t let any of his “average” supporters walk on the front carpet of the entrance to one of his many residencies if you catch my drift.
“He will overturn the Fourteenth Amendment’s constitutional right to birthright citizenship”
Did he say that? If so, it shows a lack of understanding about presidential powers since the US President cannot overturn any part of the Constitution.
@squawk
“he’s actually delusional enough to think he can get anywhere near the White house talking all the BS he’s talking”
But it is getting him closer to the Republican nomination. I wouldn’t rule him out yet. All it takes is a more crises involving immigrants like the San Bernadino shooting for him to say “I told you so” (just like the phony terrorist attack in Paris propelled the Front National to the top of the polls).
Fear mongering does work…
When I say, “He will do x”, I do not mean he will rule by personal edict. It is just a way of stating his intentions, the policies he favours. In practice, not all of them are workable. He shoots from the hip and does not carefully think through what he says.
on Thu Dec 10th 2015 at 15:27:15 Uglyblackjohn
I know he’s getting a bit too full of himself when even O’Reilly has to advise him to reign it in.
But in all honesty, I like that he’s running and even the way he is running.
Not that I agree with him only that it makes it easier to see who and what we are fighting against.
on Thu Dec 10th 2015 at 16:01:11 dorisjean23
I believe Trump was planted by the Dems to screw up the Republicans.
@ raimanet
Comment deleted for using untranslated French.
Good point: he could win if there is a bad terrorist attack on US soil by ISIS or al-Qaeda.
In a best case scenario Trump does not get the Repub nomination and then decides to go Ross Perot and splits the Repub vote in the next election. Keep in mind that behind Trump we have the likes of Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, Carly, and even Ted Cruz. Cognitive dissonance of the day: I heard a radio interview with Ted Cruz in which Ted used Trump to make himself (Cruz) sound moderate.
…also called The Donald Seriously?
on Thu Dec 10th 2015 at 18:16:15 somaliprince
Le français est bel et bien en vie. Peut être moins au Canada qu’autre part, mais en Afrique et en Europe, le français est toujours aussi important.
(French is still alive. Maybe less so in Canada, but in Africa and Europe, it is still as important.)
OFF TOPIC: French.
This is not French Club. I already have a post on French.
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/french/
on Fri Dec 11th 2015 at 00:26:32 blakksage
Donald Trump is simply more proof that Amerika still have an affinity for loud mouthed, vile, un-refined, actively ignorant, totalitarian leaning men like Trump. My personal proposal for him is to read Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave.” Perhaps this reading will assist him with the necessary and proper exposure to the benefits of change, where thinking or cognition is limited and idiocy is the direct result thereof.
on Fri Dec 11th 2015 at 00:50:25 somaliprince
Trump has taken a leaf out of Hitler’s book.
Rule 1: find a minority to scapegoat and use that to rally support
Rule 2: Always attack. Attack, attack and attack. Never back down, never show a weakness. Never apologise.
A lot people think apologising is the right way to go. But in politics, according to Machiavelli, it is a sign of weakness.
Trump never backs down from any of his claims and instead just moves on to make another outrageous claim.
People have short memories and eventually forget his previous claims.
He, on the other hand, keeps grabbing the headlines in order to stay on top of the polls.
As soon as his poll numbers start dipping, he makes another outrageous claim,
He is a demagogue, par excellence.
Demogagues are one of the major flaws of democratic systems.
Regardless, I don’t think he’ll win. Simply because America’s economy is not as bad as Nazi Germany’s was.
According to betfair, Hillary Clinton has odds of 1.84 to become the next president. Marco Rubio is at 5.5 and Donald Trump is at 10.5. (decimal odds).
In other words, Hillary Clinton has a 54.35% change of winning. Marco Rubio has a 18.18% chance.
Donald Trump has a 9.52%.chance of winning.
Unless something drastic happens between now and election day, Hillary Clinton will be America’s next president.
And Trump will probably just go back to making reality TV shows.
on Fri Dec 11th 2015 at 01:46:27 Linda
I hope Trump wins
this will severely crack the Republican party
and I will enjoy watching Trump get waxed by Hilary Clinton because the Latino community is waiting for him
and sorry folks, as much as most people dislike Hilary, Bernie Sanders cannot beat a Republican candidate such as Chris “Krispy Cream” Christie.
Bernie doesn’t have enough “it” power to persuade Independent voters
on Fri Dec 11th 2015 at 02:04:38 King
We need to come up with another candidate.
Abagond, Trump is not the only loud mouth a’hole with the potential to damage the USA.
have you heard what Supreme Court Judge Scalia said about black students:
“The Supreme Court was hearing arguments in Fisher v. the University of Texas at Austin.
Abigail Fisher, a white woman, sued the university after she was denied admissions, suggesting that the school’s consideration of race during the admissions process violates the 14th Amendment.
Scalia:
“There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a less — a slower-track school where they do well,” Scalia said, according to the court transcript. “One of the briefs pointed out that most of the black scientists in this country don’t come from schools like the University of Texas.”
The brief Scalia referred to said, “Students with an interest in science who are admitted to a very competitive school via a large preference tend to drop out of the sciences at a much higher rate than do otherwise similar students who attend somewhat less competitive programs.”
Now, this b’ch Abigail Fisher, go upset because she got rejected by UT and because 47 other students with lower grades than her got in.
here is the breakdown of those 47 other students:
42 white people
4 Hispanic people
1 black person
but: 168 black and Hispanic students with higher grades than Abby were not admitted
So, 42 white kids with grades lower than hers gets into Univ. of Texas but somehow, this pasty chick manages to blame
1 black and 4 Hispanic kids for her being Rejected by a top-tier University because she couldn’t cut it academically.
Abagond, this sh’t has got to stop – white Americans are officially Off the rails with their blame game!
I think it’s time black people in America took off the gloves and started hitting back hard
White America needs to be reminded why their APARTHEID laws were made illegal in the first place.
According to the latest market data, Marco Rubio has a 40% chance of being the next Republican nominee.
Trump is second, slightly edging out Ted Cruz, with 20%.
This is interesting because the polls show Donald Trump as being the clear front runner.
The Huffington Post poll for instance, last conducted on the 10th of December, shows Donald Trump as having 35.8% support among Republican voters. Marco Rubio is on 12.3%.
In other words, the markets believe that Marco Rubio will win whilst Opinion Polls place Donald Trump first.
I presume this is because people expect that ‘Trump Mania’ will eventually die down before the Iowa caucus in February and that Marco Rubio will return to the lead.
Trump basically has to make sure he keeps grabbing the headlines until February if he is to have any chance of dislodging Marco Rubio.
On the other hand, Marco Rubio, I suspect, is patiently waiting it out and will come out strong sometime next month.
Until then, we can expect to hear a lot more from Trump.
I think it’s time that affirmative action was made about income and economic inequality.
Affirmative action is precisely about that.
Parents who have gone to university tend to raise children who will themselves go to university.
A university education is one of the strongest indicators of lifetime income.
Getting a historically disadvantaged group, like African Americans, into universities raises the probability that they will themselves have children who will go to university.
This directly reduces economic inequality.
A lot of white kids end up at university simply because they had a rich parents and a private school education that a lot of African American parents can not afford.
Affirmative action is meant to correct an imbalance, not create one.
on Fri Dec 11th 2015 at 16:37:08 Mary Burrell
He is crying really? He is not sorry for what he did, he’s sorry he got caught.
^ Mary I think you might have meant to post this to the Holtzclaw thread?
on Fri Dec 11th 2015 at 22:52:43 Jacque
If Trump is nominated I will be tickled pink. I will watch Democratic s**t all over his orange face during the debates. he will be eating crow and everything else.
If he is elected , I plan to stay in the country MY ancestors built with their souls, lives and backs. …..AND I WILL OPPOSE THAT CREEP AT EVERY TURN.
Democracy…yeah.
on Sun Dec 13th 2015 at 05:53:45 Mira
Trump is seen as an embarrassing joke by many, which is one of his greatest strengths. People keep laughing at him and giving him exposure. I admit I am guilty of it myself sometimes. But it’s dangerous because it gives him exposure and treats him as a joke while he keeps earning points and spreading his venom left and right.
On Trump’s idea of registering all Muslims:
Something very much like this has already been tried. From 2002 to 2011 the US government required people coming from 24 Muslim-majority countries to register their whereabouts with the government.
It did not uncover a single terrorist.
In reference to Affirmative Action and Abigail Fischer I love what the black students at University of Texas in Austin did when they created the hashtag #StayMadAbby. I screamed like a banshee it was too funny.
Trump is thriving off the fear that’s been in the climate and he is using this to his advantage.
on Wed Dec 16th 2015 at 07:17:49 abagond
“ABC World News Tonight” has spent 81 minutes so far this year covering Trump and only 1 minute covering Sanders – even though their poll numbers, and crowd sizes are roughly the same.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/12/11/abc-world-news-tonight-has-devoted-less-than-on/207428
on Wed Dec 16th 2015 at 10:19:39 jefe
So, somehow ABC finds Sanders that boring?
Still, he should have figured somewhere into the Black Lives Matter issue, at least as much as Trump did.
At least Abagond has one on each.
on Wed Jan 6th 2016 at 12:49:35 JDLC
Hate attacks against Muslims in the US have tripled recently.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nBViG6b4xg&spfreload=10)
on Thu Jan 7th 2016 at 11:03:10 Kartoffel
I think Trumpism has to be seen in the context of similar developments in some parts of Europe. Of course there are national differences, but overall the conservative establishment in the West seems to be in crisis.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/17/central-park-five-donald-trump-jogger-rape-case-new-york?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H&utm_term=157322&subid=17864057&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
A country that can kill Dr Martin Luther King, Jr is a country that can elect Donald Trump president.
on Fri Feb 26th 2016 at 00:23:32 Jabari Jones
They keep saying he won the Latino vote in Nevada, but statistically, he only got about 7% of it. Funny huh?
[…] Donald Trump […]
on Sun Feb 28th 2016 at 23:18:11 J. Jones
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-david-duke_us_56d31097e4b0871f60ebbd35?m4bcsor
on Wed Mar 2nd 2016 at 03:50:02 King
Say Whaaaaaat?
Farrakhan liking Donald Trump???
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-03-01/louis-farrakhan-on-donald-trump-i-like-what-im-looking-at
on Wed Mar 2nd 2016 at 04:33:23 Mary Burrell
@King: I am convinced more than ever that Farrakhan may have dementia.
I’m … well, I’m shocked! It’s like a bad joke that somebody made up.
on Wed Mar 2nd 2016 at 11:07:50 JDLC
Don Trump Jr. said he would happily pay for some of his father’s black critics to leave the United States.
The Republican presidential candidate’s son appeared Monday morning with his brother, Eric Trump, on “Fox and Friends” to discuss the “Super Tuesday” primary elections and the concerted attacks on their father by his GOP rivals.
“You know, it’s sad to see,” Eric Trump said of the attacks. “We love our father. He’s an amazing guy — he would do such an unbelievable job for this country. He’s an amazing businessman, he’s an amazing negotiator. He’s funding himself, right?”
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KWgnzq2-Q8)
on Thu Mar 3rd 2016 at 17:01:28 taotesan
Orange is the new black.
Trevor Noah on Donald Trump.
This might be a tad old.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FPrJxTvgdQ)
on Sat Mar 5th 2016 at 02:25:00 Mary Burrell
I have noticed that it’s mostly poor uneducated white people who support him. Lots of them are white supremacist like David Duke who Trump said he knew nothing about and everyone knows Trump lies when he says he knows nothing about David Duke. I was watching the news and Trump was talking about the size of his hands and his sex organ, that’s so disgusting. He is just deplorable. And his toupee is ridiculos and he’s orange. Why does he always look jaundiced?
on Sat Mar 5th 2016 at 03:41:13 jabari jones
Trump is also on record saying he’ll take those votes(ie the votes of white supremacists)
It is the stupid fools such as myself when thinking about the USA, that at least in this day and age, that some of most important imperatives in the world today would be addressed and righted: restoration of ALL rights and amends to the Original People of America and reparations for African Americans.
But, no. America could possibly have this monstrosity as President. Very,very frightening – for the people of America and for the rest of the world.
I can’t bear to look at his hideous face, that face reflecting the ugliness of the racial attitudes of white America. Not that much different from his female opposition, though. Devil in drag with a better hairdo and filter.
on Sat Mar 5th 2016 at 16:30:17 michaeljonbarker
This Salon article takes a look at the economics behind race in America and the rise of Trump.
http://www.salon.com/2016/03/05/some_of_trumps_strongest_supporters_are_registered_democrats_heres_why/
My sense is that Trump is going to get the Republican nomination. He has openly embraced the bigotry that lay mostly hidden within the white pooulation. Even the “Christian right” have chosen Trump over Cruz who is one of their own. It’s like the Christian right has become the Christian white.
The Republican establishment would normally not have a problem with this but I think they are worried about Trump’s economic populism which is aimed at going after the “free traiders” and Wall Street. While Bernie wants to tax them more Trump wants to renegotiate free trade agreements which will cause some economic calamity within the stock market.
I think at this point the Republican establishment would rather have Hillary as president over Trump because it’s about preserving the economic power base that both the Democrats and Republicans rely on.
on Sat Mar 12th 2016 at 23:52:22 Mary Burrell
Well Trump’s stop and go in Chicago let those miscreants know what time it was. Those folks wasn’t having none of b.s. I personally couldn’t put myself in harms way trying to protest that vermin Trump but to each his own. Trump is a cancer that needs to be eradicated he is poison and will drag this country to hell.
on Sun Mar 13th 2016 at 01:58:39 Mary Burrell
The supporters of this vermin called Donald Trump is an indication that a good part of this nation is insane.
Donald trump got run out of Chicago so glad those black folks stood up to those vermin and miscreants.
jeb was the only ‘name brand’ between trump and the primary, rubio? cruz? yeah right.
http://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2016/03/04/mad-exclusive-trump-universitys-diploma-revealed
http://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2016/03/03/tale-of-the-tape-donald-trump-vs-mitt-romney
http://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2016/02/29/hats-off-to-trump-for-denouncing-the-kkk
http://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2016/01/27/9-things-donald-trump-will-be-doing-during-tomorrows-debate
on Thu Mar 17th 2016 at 03:26:12 Origin
I wrote a post here long ago, I don’t remember which thread, talking about the cyclic nature of the manifestations of American racism and how apparent gains by marginalized groups are usually followed by the intensification of overt racism. For example, political and economic gains by blacks during Reconstruction, was followed by a resurgence of the KKK.
With that in mind, I am not at all surprised by the visibility of Trump in this election cycle. We saw the narrative becoming more overtly racist during Obama’s presidency. Trump is just the Tea Party with all pretense dropped. He is explicitly saying things that others thought but would only utter in coded language, if at all. He has eschewed “political correctness” and became a hero for many who bristled at the notion that certain statements had become taboo.
Despite how extreme he seems, he has merely exposed the racist pandering of the Republican Party by stripping it of all dainty clothing and, by doing so, he threatens to win the nomination. The delegates prefer bare flesh over the excessively clad strumpet though some hypocrites protest her public immodesty even as they disrobe her in private.
President Trump would certainly be wake-up-call for those who might have read more into Obama’s Presidency than they should have.
on Thu Mar 17th 2016 at 05:45:53 Afrofem
@Origin
“…he has merely exposed the racist pandering of the Republican Party by stripping it of all dainty clothing…The delegates [and the Republican base] prefer bare flesh over the excessively clad strumpet though some hypocrites protest her public immodesty even as they disrobe her in private.”
I’m sure that explains the orgiastic displays at Trump rallies. The breaking of taboo. The adreneline jolt of naked White Supremacy. The intoxicating belief that they shall reign supreme über alles.
Yet, the base is too deep in their drugged stupor to notice that the people who point and yell, negro, negro or immigrant, immigrant are the same people who shipped their jobs overseas, destroyed local small town economies and saddled their children with crushing student loan debt.
Wealthy Whites have been looting their poor relations (and everyone else) for decades and laughing all the way to the bank. That won’t change no matter what the rightwing base does to the hated “others”.
I half-jokingly say he is a Democratic plant infiltrating the Republican party in order to destroy it. A Trojan Horse if you will.
on Thu Mar 17th 2016 at 16:25:02 resw
Those were eloquent words, and certainly Trump has racist supporters just like everyone else, but I fail to see how he’s any more racist than any other candidate in the race.
The media and the Democrat establishment are up to their same old tricks of trying to label him as racist to scare away black and Latino voters. It has worked well since his support among these groups has dropped since last year.
But I believe the real reason Trump remains popular is because he is anti-establishment and unlike all the other career politicians who are running, not because he’s racist.
And when he exposes Hillary for the phony progressive she is currently pretending to be and reminds voters how she and Slick Willy actually implemented a lot of racist policies that are responsible for the high incarceration rate of blacks today, I am confident people will see that the Clintons are the real racists and Trump has been unfairly demonized by the media.
What about the actual infiltration of Democrats at Trump rallies?
Moveon.org/George Soros and Media Matters for America are huge supporters of Democrats and have paid people to disrupt Trump events. The result is the media frames it to appear that Trump people are violently attacking minorities for no reason. How much do they report the attempted attacks on Trump and others by these disruptors at these rallies?
Even though Hilary is no angel he makes her look good in comparison.
It’s easy to attack others’ record esp. when you’re relatively immune. Trump has a rather limited political record for others to criticize while Clinton has been in politics for a while so he clearly has an advantage in that department. Being anti-establishment is of little merit in itself unless what you’re promising to establish is both practical and best for the country.
I consider Trump to be a demagogue. I dont’ consider him to be the only racist; I even metaphorically suggested that the others are too. However, their appeals to the racism of the base isn’t as naked as Trump’s. This “birther” can’t really be sanitized IMO. He’s such a loose canon that he mouthed off against Latin Americans while having a pageant that is popular in those countries. He might seem “cool” for his lack of a filter, but I doubt he’d make a good president.
Trump may not have a record in politics, but the media has taken him to task for just about every questionable remark he’s ever made.
If anyone is immune, it’s Hillary Clinton. The media refuses to pick apart her questionable comments of the past or check on her blatant lies.
“Being anti-establishment is of little merit in itself unless what you’re promising to establish is both practical and best for the country”
Sure it is when the establishment has done nothing but 1) rack up deficit, 2) add to the national debt, 3) enter unfair trade agreements and 4) have not controlled illegal immigration and the drug trafficking. What Trump is promising is to address those things, and his supporters believe that would be both “practical and best for the country.”
“He’s such a loose canon that he mouthed off against Latin Americans ”
That kind of statement lets me know how just powerful the media is. I’ve never heard him say anything disparaging about Latin Americans, but I have heard the media and liberals tell me that Trump is racist against Mexicans and Latinos. I’m still waiting to see the quote.
“He might seem “cool” for his lack of a filter, but I doubt he’d make a good president”
So Americans should keep electing the same career politicians who have reduced America’s middle class, given them all a huge debt burden that can never be repaid, shipped jobs overseas, made it hard to do business, avoided investment in infrastructure and continuously entered costly wars that have destabilized the world.
Earlier this week, Chauncy DeVega posted a detailed account of the scene of Donald Trump’s rally in Chicago. What stood out to me is his description of Trump’s African American supporters and their possible motivations:
“In every crowd of Republicans there is almost always a black person who is auditioning for a role as “best black friend” and human chaff for the GOP. These professional contrarians are desperate for their five minutes of fame on Fox News; they yearn to be a 21st century version of Stephen in the movie “Django Unchained,” for it is very lucrative work if one can get it.
I saw several black conservatives at Trump’s event. One sat near me and cheered wildly at any mention of Il Duce Trump’s name. He seemed very pleased when the Black Lives Matter and other protesters were escorted out by the police.
There was a young professional black conservative in training who led one of the most spirited moments of near fisticuffs inside the UIC Pavilion. He was the black chieftain for a group of white college-age Trumpeteers who tried to pick a fight with a group of anti-Trump protesters.
The third black conservative was the most enthusiastic and dangerous one. He was outside of the UIC Pavilion. A former Marine, he chased away two high-school-age Black Lives Matter protesters and threatened to teach them a lesson via the thrashing he promised they would receive for being “disrespectful.”
I asked him about what had just transpired. I was also curious as to why he supported Donald Trump.
This well-trained black conservative responded with disinformation talking points from Fox News about a military that is weaker than it was before World War II, how Democrat-controlled cities are horrible and full of death, that Black Lives Matter does not care about “black on black crime,” young people are out of control, and no one respects the police anymore”.
http://www.chaunceydevega.com/2016/03/my-detailed-first-person-account-of.html
“…no one respects the police anymore.” That was a real kicker in the same city (Chicago) where the police and their allies in city government have sanctioned and covered up numerous cases of police torture and murder.
It seem those Black “conservatives” are little more that White Supremacists with a deep genetic suntan.
on Fri Mar 18th 2016 at 18:47:28 Origin
Trump has the ability to APPEAR antiestablishment because he is not been as involved in politics (except possibly as a lobbyist/briber) compared to Clinton, who was even First Lady. However Trump is quite a wealthy man, (and Clinton is a wealthy woman). I doubt he’s going to push policies that limit Wall Steet or his own wealth. The idea that he has a a lot in common with ordinary Americans compared to other candidates tickles me. He’s just a skilled demagogue. Businesses associated with him have also been accused of hiring undoccumented immigrants for cheap labor while he adopts the stance of being tough on immigration on the campaign trail. He has shown an inability to be diplomatic by alienating people who support one of his products (the pageant). I don’t think he has the proper temperament to be President.
I don’t like Trump (as a potential president…though his willingness to curse/fire back can be entertaining). I think he presents as divisive and irascible. I’ll own that opinion even if it happens to coincide with that of the so-called mainstream or establishment. I really don’t care about the latter point. I don’t watch much TV or consume much mainstream media.
on Sat Mar 19th 2016 at 03:00:59 Paige
Fox News has released a statement condemning Trump for his “crude and sexist verbal assaults” against Megyn Kelly. What an election season this is turning out to be!
on Sat Mar 19th 2016 at 14:01:29 resw
White disrupters get ejected from Trump rallies too. The media is so good because most anti-Trump folks I talk to only know about the black Black Lives Matter people and a couple of Muslims (who also were disrupting). Well many white Bernie Sanders infiltraters have been thrown out. Probably more than black BLM protesters.
“Trump has the ability to APPEAR antiestablishment because he is not been as involved in politics…However Trump is quite a wealthy man”
That is completely irrelevant. He is not running on his political experience like every other candidate, he is clearly running on his business acumen and telling supporters that career politicians are bad for America. That is the epitome of anti-establishment.
“The idea that he has a a lot in common with ordinary Americans compared to other candidates tickles me”
Please tell me when Trump said he has a lot in common with “ordinary Americans,” whatever that’s supposed to mean. Maybe he did, but my guess is he never said that.
And what poll shows his supporters think he has a lot in common with ordinary Americans?
Most of his supporters are probably well aware that he’s a billionaire and his father was a millionaire.
“He has shown an inability to be diplomatic by alienating people who support one of his products”
Not sure what you mean exactly, but before he decided to run, let’s not forget politicians on both sides of the aisle liked Trump.
But if you think Trump’s bad, Hillary Clinton called Republicans her enemies. How’s that for diplomacy?
on Sat Mar 19th 2016 at 16:37:40 Fan ...
“What an election season this is turning out to be!”
I doubt this (s)election season will entertain as much as the SCOTUS did when they met (12 years ago?) over the inconclusive popular vote count regarding:
hanging chads, dimpled chads, pregnant chads, unemployed chads, unregistered chads, pickled chads, shot chads, welfare chads, poked chads, tired chads, salty chads and chads with college degrees! Not to mention all those quirky voting booth machines with irregular counts.
Talk about stealing an election (for W Bush) in plain view.
Big Brother’s productions are nothing if not entertaining.
Gonna go watch some MARCH college tournament basketball madness, now… like a good little cog.
(and enjoy some pot popped popped-corn!)
on Sat Mar 19th 2016 at 21:53:00 Afrofem
I’m sure anyone who dissents from Trump and his base are subject to removal from his rallies. That in itself is extremely disturbing.
When America was a democratic society, simple dissent was expected. Politicians knew they had to face public criticism and dealt with it—-not any more. Now the political class believe they are above criticism and the law. All politicians tend to surround themselves with yes people and expect rigid obedience from the general public.
My primary focus in this comment:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2015/12/10/donald-trump/#comment-311671
was the types of African Americans who support Trump, based on DeVega’s observations at the Chicago Trump rally.
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/open-letter-trump-voters-his-top-strategist-turned-defector?akid=14118.1929437.2arXyw&rd=1&src=newsletter1053515&t=8
on Fri Apr 1st 2016 at 15:21:37 Herneith
http://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2016/03/30/the-startling-similarities-and-differences-between-donald-trump-and-burger-kings
on Tue Apr 5th 2016 at 12:51:12 Herneith
“I’m sure anyone who dissents from Trump and his base are subject to removal from his rallies. That in itself is extremely disturbing”
Same thing happens at Clinton rallies:
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2015/11/17/man-holding-protest-sign-removed-from-clinton-event-in-dallas/
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/258704-black-lives-matter-protesters-interrupt-hillary-rally
Are you equally disturbed?
“My primary focus in this comment…was the types of African Americans who support Trump, based on DeVega’s observations at the Chicago Trump rally”
Well that’s one opinion based on a stereotype. There are other blacks who vote for Trump for different reasons:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPC4DDW_LSw)
on Tue Apr 5th 2016 at 21:56:51 Afrofem
Clinton and Trump are equally disturbing and disturbed.
DeVega’s depiction of Black Trump supporters was based on his witnessing the words and actions of people he describes as:
“…black conservatives… the human mascots and pets for a racist political organization called the Republican Party… professional “best black friends” and human racism deflecting chaff.”
http://www.chaunceydevega.com/2016/04/fun-with-right-wing-hate-emails.html#disqus_thread
Medgar Evers rightwing brother certainly fits the description. The video showed a person who seemed coerced. The closed body language, a hat obscuring his face and the mindless recitation of rightwing talking points was not a very convincing performance.
As DeVega said in the article: “Priceless. Comedy. Gold.”
I forgot to add: LOL!!!
“DeVega’s depiction of Black Trump supporters…”
We all have opinions.
I’m sure the same can be said about black Clinton supporters and black Democrats in general.
“Medgar Evers rightwing brother certainly fits the description. ”
Right, he’s so right wing he supported Obama.
Here’s what he once said about his party affiliation:
“I’m a Republican, because we don’t all need to be in the Democratic party. Thirty years ago, there was not a black person in the Democratic party. The Republicans ignore us, and the Democrats take us for granted…Most blacks are conservative whether you know it or not. We believe in prayer in school and we’re against abortion. We should be in both parties and make them what we want them to be. We can’t get anywhere pointing fingers, we have to get inside the organization and make it what we want it to be.”
LOL@ “The video showed a person who seemed coerced”
Should I assume you are a psychiatrist and it’s proper to diagnose people online?
“the mindless recitation of rightwing talking points”
You do realise that the “rightwing talking points” are decidedly anti-Trump.
“we have to get inside the organization and make it what we want it to be.”
Something I would expect a professional “best black friend” to say.
Limited thinking = Limited results
Neither Dems nor Repubs are worth the effort. Black people need their own party with an independent agenda and no allegiance to any outside group.
Trump is a rightwing zombie. The Repubs keep shooting him down and he keeps popping back up, bloody mouth and all. It would be high comedy if his supporters were not so dangerous.
on Wed Apr 6th 2016 at 12:53:00 resw
So I guess 90% of black voters who vote Democrat are “professional best black friends” too. Otherwise they wouldn’t be members of the Democrat party which is and has always been dominated by whites (and has historically been pro racist policies).
“Black people need their own party with an independent agenda and no allegiance to any outside group.”
We finally agree on something. However, unlike you, I don’t think black Republicans (or black Trump supporters) are any worse than black Democrats (or black Clinton/Sanders supporters).
“Trump is a rightwing zombie. The Repubs keep shooting him down and he keeps popping back up, bloody mouth and all. ”
If he were so “rightwing” the “Repubs” wouldn’t need to “keep shooting him down.”
My prediction back in December was spot on.
“It would be high comedy if his supporters were not so dangerous.”
They are no more dangerous than violent anti-Trump protesters.
on Sun May 1st 2016 at 16:23:16 Herneith
http://townhall.com/columnists/stevechapman/2016/05/01/trumps-feast-of-incoherence-n2155520
Even conservatives don’t like him! Not that means anything!
on Sun May 1st 2016 at 17:19:14 michaeljonbarker
Trump’s foreign policy is a bundle of contradictions.
He is against the neocon/neolibetal idea of nation building. So it is more like a scorched earth policy where we secure oil resources and the rest of the affected area be dammed.
Neocon’s both on the left (Hillary) and right belive in pre-emptive strikes which is why we are stuck in low intensity conflicts and perpetual war. It keeps the oil and other resources flowing while justifying spending trillions in the military budget.
His idea that we need to build a “stronger defense”
and that Obama has done nothing to strengthen the military aren’t factual. Apparently the Philippines has agreed to allow the U.S. to set up five new military bases their. Obama has expanded military bases in both Africa and Asia so he has been shoring up American Imperialism.
I also think Trump will do well in the general election. Hillaries disapproval ratings are higher the 50% and Americans themselves are for more bigoted then the polls show. Trump is also bringing out a whole new group of voters, some Republican, some Democrat and 100,000’s of new voters that have never voted before.
In Costa Mesa he filled a 7000 seat auditorium and their were 2000 people outside that couldn’t get in. This is in liberal California. He has found a market and knows how to sell it.
I also think this is the year the Green Party will become somewhat relevant. That is where the Bernie supporters are going to end up. The young people in this country have rejected the historical attachments their parents have always clung on too. This year they will our preform the Libertarians.
*out perform
on Sun May 1st 2016 at 20:00:15 Afrofem
“This is in liberal California”
To me, California is not liberal. It is rumored to be “liberal” by foaming at the mouth White Supremacists in the South and Midwest, but California does not make the “liberal” cut.
First and foremost is California’s expansion and maintenance of a massive prison system. Ruth Wilson Gilmore, in her book, Golden Gulag describes the origins and maintenance of this destructive system.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111975.Golden_Gulag
According to the Prison Policy Initiative, only Louisiana and Alabama imprison more of their population (per hundred thousand residents) than California.
http://static.prisonpolicy.org/images/50_state_rates_and_select_states.jpg?
v=1
State prisons and local jails are a big part of the expansion:
http://static.prisonpolicy.org/images/state_driver_rates_1925-2012.jpg?v=1
Another clue is the concentration of White hate groups in California. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hate Map, California has a large number of hate groups for a western state:
https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map
Surprise, surprise! Most of the hate groups are clustered in the same areas of California that have large communities of non-European descent people: the Bay Area, the Central Valley and the Los Angeles to San Diego Corridor.
California is a state where the Whitopia Fortress mentality is particularly strong. Large numbers of White residents in California have developed a modern version of the “sundown town” —with or without gates—to escape areas that have burgeoning populations of:
❍ Latinos of any ethnicity
❍ Asian Americans (including West Asians from Afghanistan, South Asians from India and Pakistan and South East Asians from Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand)
❍ Any Black people including groups such as the Garifuna.
http://www.npr.org/2015/11/20/455909004/what-is-a-whitopia-and-what-might-it-mean-to-live-there/
Whitopia author, Richard Benjamin recounts that at one of the Whitopias he lived in, he attended a White Supremacist retreat which prompted this reaction from another attendee:
“…Abe, an Aryan, sidled up next to me,”… ‘He said, ‘Hey, Rich, I just want you to know one thing. We are not white supremacists. We are white separatists. We don’t think we’re better than you, we just want to be away from you.’
The prison system, the hate groups and the Whitopia fortress towns are all linked together in a system of oppression, control, violence, privilege and profit-making at the expense of California’s non-White population.
Nothing “liberal” about that.
on Tue May 10th 2016 at 04:04:39 michaeljonbarker
I’ve decided that no politicale ideology guided Trump beyond his own narcissism. Whatever pops into his head is his political position for the day.
on Tue May 10th 2016 at 05:45:09 Fan ...
Props to Brother Benjamin for taking residence (via the phone!) in modern Sundown Towns (Whitetopias).
I’m glad he didn’t get the idea of bringing 6 – 12 other Black men with him to conduct his research. Especially while he was in Idaho.
(( I think Mr. Benjamin said: one Black man is a dinner guest. Fifty Black men are [perceived as] a ghetto.))
This is the Neo-liberal!
Maybe I should have put “liberal” in quotes when I wrote “liberal California”. Most of the country views California as liberal.
It is more statist then anything else. It does a great job driving business out of the State.
The California prison guard and police unions wield a lot political power and influence here.
Do you have a link for California sundown towns that function today? I was born in one (Glendale, ca) but eventually all the whites moved out.
I don’t have a link, but Simi Valley comes to mind.
“I’m glad he didn’t get the idea of bringing 6 – 12 other Black men with him to conduct his research.”
Or a Black wife and four teenaged sons. That would be enough to freak out a gaggle of White Supremacists in a Whitopia town.
on Fri Jun 3rd 2016 at 06:01:01 jefe
Is it possible that Trump’s attitudes towards China stem from a deal with 2 businessmen from HK during the British Colonial period?
The Hong Kong deal that turned Donald Trump into a China basher
(http://www.ejinsight.com/20160602-the-hong-kong-deal-that-turned-donald-trump-into-a-china-basher/)
on Thu Jun 16th 2016 at 15:19:32 Herneith
Folks, you can’t make this stuff up. It reads like something out of a comedy show:
Donald Trump on Wednesday said he’d invite North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to the U.S. for a meeting. He dismissed criticism over his willingness to negotiate with the North Korean dictator, who is known for lashing out against the West, threatening to use nuclear weapons, and repressing his own citizens. According to Trump, there is nothing wrong with having a conversation with the tyrant—though he shouldn’t be expecting dinner. “If he came here, I’d accept him. But I wouldn’t give him a state dinner like we do for China and all these other people that rip us off,” Trump said at a campaign event in Atlanta. He also took the opportunity to praise Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying the Russian military is “much stronger” than its U.S. counterpart. “Our nuclear is old and tired and his nuclear is tippy-top from what I hear. Better be careful, folks, OK? You better be careful,” he said.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/06/16/trump-says-would-invite-kim-jong-un-to-u-s.html?via=newsletter&source=CSAMedition
Breathtaking in it’s stupidity.
on Thu Jun 16th 2016 at 15:53:17 gro jo
What’s so stupid about trying to end the war of aggression the USA launched against North Korea in the 1950’s? Where’s the wisdom in trying to start a war with Russia? This, to me, is the one proposal Trump makes that I approve of.
on Fri Jun 17th 2016 at 02:26:19 Herneith
Oh, I agree there’s nothing stupid about ending this longstanding war of aggression against North Korea or starting one with another country such as Russia or China. The comedy derives from the promulgator of these ideas. He’d try to sell you swamp land if he could. I don’t believe him or other politicians. Once they attain office, it’s a different story. They spout off what they think their potential constituents want to hear in order to get elected. Trump is particularly goofy though.
on Fri Jun 17th 2016 at 03:32:23 Afrofem
“He’d try to sell you swamp land if he could.”
LOL! Swamp land is exactly what he selling his angry, addled supporters. They don’t notice those hungry ‘gators gliding toward them….
(I think Obama is a much smoother and more effective swamp salesman.)
on Thu Jul 21st 2016 at 03:11:08 Michael Jon Barker
Trump is a Fascist. Their is no other way to describe it. He has tapped into this ugly Nativist undertow that’s xenophobic, racist and Islamophobic. Large swaths of the American public crave for an Authoritarian leader who will rule by executive order. This is a partial list but highlights actions that point to Fascism.
1. Trump wants to deport 11 million humans and create a special deportation force to knock down doors and check papers. He will bypass courts and Congress through executive order.
2. Trump want to force American businesses like Apple to make their products here. He wants to add special taxes and regulate companies like Amazon to break them up. He wants to punish entrepreneurship to “create jobs”.
3. Trump will crack down on the Free Press. He already banned the Washington Post by revoking their press credentials. He will use the FCC to fine his critic, Rich Lowry. He will open up libel laws to silence his critics.
4. Trump’s xenophobic descriptions of Mexican immigrants as rapists and murders collectives all Hispanics.
5. Trump has no idea what Black Lives Matters stands for nor is he interested.
6. Trump says the police are just “misunderstood” and has no empathy for the victims of police violence.
7. Trump says he opposes Hillary’s foreign policy yet he will expand it in the “war on terror” and use the military no differently then neo liberals or neo cons. Wants to send more troops to the Middle East. Somehow its O.K. if he does it.
8. Trump will bring back water boarding and torture as well as kill the family members of suspected terrorists.
9. Trump wants all Muslims to register in a national registry and will put all Mosques under surveillance.
10. Trump wants to restart warrentless searches and allow drones to spy on American citizens.
11. Trump encourages violence against protesters and has a personal business history of discriminating against Blacks.
on Fri Jul 22nd 2016 at 17:38:45 abagond
Politifact has Trump’s acceptance speech fact-checked and annotated:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/jul/21/donald-trumps-gop-acceptance-speech-annotated/
Some of his wilder-sounding statements are true, yet some of his more plausible-sounding ones are false or the truth is stretched and misleading.
In general, he seems to strip context, cherry pick and, worst of all, make dangerous trends out of one year’s or one city’s data. A good example of that is the Ferguson Effect, which he seems to believe in:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2015/10/29/the-ferguson-effect/
Like many a racist troll on this blog, Trump twists and cherry picks facts to fit his racist paranoia.
on Tue Jul 26th 2016 at 19:27:38 michaeljonbarker
“We’re going to put an end to that,” Trump said during a post-convention interview with The New York Times. “We’re going to federalize every police department in this country. We’re going to eliminate the red tape and it’s going to give police the ability to do their jobs effectively and, believe me, this is something that’s going to happen within my first one hundred days in office.” -Donald Trump neo facist
on Tue Jul 26th 2016 at 19:37:11 abagond
Many of Donald Trump’s views have changed, but even in 1989 during the Central Park Jogger case he was very pro-cop and pro death penalty.
on Wed Jul 27th 2016 at 23:06:54 Afrofem
Read this article for another perspective on the Trump “Russian Connection”:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/07/nsa-whistleblower-not-so-fast-on-claims-russia-behind-dnc-email-hack.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+NakedCapitalism+(naked+capitalism)
on Thu Jul 28th 2016 at 03:58:15 Afrofem
The situation in Russia and the Ukraine is extremely complex and murky. There are a lot of international players meddling in that region. Ukraine has a strategic geopolitical position and assets that certain wolves are eager to strip from the people.
The article about ties between Putin and the European Far Right shows that there are many ways to destabilize enemies. Thanks for the link.
on Sat Jul 30th 2016 at 13:45:50 Herneith
Another Trump gem:
http://www.burrardstreetjournal.com/trump-canada-independence-was-mistake/
http://www.burrardstreetjournal.com/donald-trump-claims-he-will-buy-canada/
http://www.burrardstreetjournal.com/donald-trump-on-us-womens-national-team-its-great-revenge-for-pearl-harbour/
Trump has just announced that he now wants to ban Filipinos from entering the USA.
(https://www.facebook.com/regieparulan/videos/10154320036206501/)
on Thu Aug 18th 2016 at 03:09:09 Afrofem
Just read this Guardian article about Trump supporters. It talks about how his supporters want respect and feels Trump understands their pain.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/30/what-do-donald-trump-voters-want-respect
This passage shows the delusional aspects of being a Trump supporter:
“Country is falling apart, from the bottom up. We got these lazy people freeloading off the government. Meanwhile the rich just keep getting richer, and working guys are getting screwed. We just got to break the system.”
When it came to race, he jumps to explain: “My ex-wife is black. I have hired plenty of blacks to work for me. I am not a racist. Trump is not the racist. Hillary is the racist, only standing up for women and blacks.”
So, the wealthy are sucking their lifeblood, growing obese on government subsidies and tax breaks… and they blame people three times poorer and less powerful than them for making the “country fall apart, from the bottom up”.
They are so mired in their “kiss up, kick down” politics that they can’t see that HRClinton doesn’t care any more for women or Black people than she does them. Being ignored and disrespected is such a new feeling for the White working class that it is driving them bonkers.
They need to take a ticket and get in line. They still have further to fall and Trump will only grease the skids on the way down. But they will probably enjoy the fall more if “… the N-word is thrown around with ease, and racial jokes are par for the course”.
on Thu Aug 18th 2016 at 06:34:33 Fan ...
“Country is falling apart, from the bottom up. We got these lazy people freeloading off the government. Meanwhile the rich just keep getting richer, and working guys are getting screwed.”
These so-called lazy people (code for negroes) feeding off the government didn’t sign off on political trade agreements and policies that sent American manufacturing jobs overseas to increase corporate profits.
That’s called aligning yourselves against your own interests, white folks. Could the rich get richer if they weren’t sucking the life-blood out of the common people? The country isn’t in this predicament because of lazy people. It’s because of the insatiable greed of those in power.
Idiots like this person quoted above somehow cannot see the divide and conquer tactic at work, yet they believe that they’re supposedly endowed with higher brain function and more intelligence than those they call “lazy.” Unbelievable!
@Fan
The illogical statement, “the country is falling apart from the bottom up” shows just how Orwellian their thought processes are.
Countries fall apart from the top down, not the bottom up. When you are too cowardly to deal with the people at the top, kicking the people at the bottom seems mighty empowering.
When you are too cowardly to deal with the people at the top, kicking the people at the bottom seems mighty empowering.
It’s safer too.
on Thu Aug 18th 2016 at 19:53:09 Origin
Trump appeals to white resentment. Hillary appeals to liberal sanctimony. Both only care about themselves.
@ Origin
“Liberal sanctimony” or naked fear?
on Mon Aug 29th 2016 at 03:27:51 Afrofem
The election is still Trump’s to lose. It’s not like he is running against an honorable opponent. Clinton is a crook.
on Wed Aug 31st 2016 at 19:39:20 resw
Lord of Mirkwood
“He argues that the Republicans of 1860 and those of 2016 are basically the same thing, and ditto for the Democrats.”
That the Democrat platform is different does not change the fact that it is the same party that supported slavery and Jim Crow. And yes, the party and the Democratic National Committee that governs it, are the same legal entities. As you may know, there is no statute of limitations on crimes against humanity.
Both the Democrat party and DNC have never been punished for supporting crimes against humanity. They have never recompensed their victims. They have never even brought themselves to apologise to minorities because they’ve conned the public into believing that because they’re “progressive” the their past crimes against humanity are somehow absolved. Of course you’re all sadly mistaken.
on Thu Sep 1st 2016 at 07:21:34 michaeljonbarker
Tweet by David Duke after Trump’s speech on immigration.
“Excellent speech by Donald Trump tonight. Deport criminal aliens, end catch and release, enforce immagration laws & America first.”
I heard parts of Trump’s speech today. Nothing changed, it’s still fascism.
on Thu Sep 1st 2016 at 12:36:36 abagond
What a horrifying speech! Not just that he gave it, but that so many people seemed to LIKE it. But part of me is glad because, barring the unforseen, he pretty much sank his campaign for good.
on Thu Sep 1st 2016 at 17:04:08 resw
What is fascist about deporting people who go to the US illegally? It may be very nationalist or populist but I don’t see what’s fascist about it.
“But part of me is glad because, barring the unforseen, he pretty much sank his campaign for good.”
I wouldn’t count him out. This is far from over. All we need now is another major atrocity committed by an “illegal alien” or Muslim, and Trump will benefit “bigly” in the polls. You saw what happened last year. Trump’s poll numbers increased a lot after the Paris and San Bernadino attacks.
“What is fascist about deporting people who go to the US illegally? ”
Because it requires an expansion of State power. Trump himself says he will federalize all police departments across the U.S. within his first 100 days in office. That means locale police and sheriffs will have the jurisdiction to profile people who look “illegal”. It will require Hispanics and all immigrants to carry papers to “prove” they have a right to be here. Due process will not be adhered too which violates civil liberties laid out in the Constitution.
The “red tape” that Trump wants to eliminate to “free the police to do there jobs” are in fact constitutional stops to illegal search and seizure and false arrest. The Constitution is meant to protect individuals from harassment both from groups and State agents.
My friend Anthony Gregory writes that “The Constitution empowers Congress to regulate naturalization; the process by which the government determines who is a citizen. It emphatically does not empower Congress to regulate immigration; the process by which individuals freely choose to move from one country to another. There is nothing in the Constitution that allows for border checkpoints and an INS and a cumbersome process to determine whether someone can merely reside here legally. Legal residency is a natural right, not a civil privilege like citizenship and voting rights. Many people live legally within the US without being citizens. Under the Constitution—and more important, under libertarianism as well as under natural law morality—anyone who can physically get to the territory currently ruled by the US government has the right to be here without being harassed by the state. That doesn’t mean the right to vote or receive welfare. But it does mean the right to live here, get a job, and pursue happiness. Under the Constitution and moral law, someone born in Mexico or Norway has just as much right to move to California and peacefully acquire a job and place to rent as does someone who was born in Nebraska.”
“Trump himself says he will federalize all police departments across the U.S. within his first 100 days in office.”
Centralizing government functions like policing is not fascist per se. Many liberal countries have nationalized police forces. But the US President doesn’t really have the power to do that unilaterally.
“That means locale police and sheriffs will have the jurisdiction to profile people who look “illegal””
That’s a different issue than centralizing police. But as a matter of fact police already profile. They do it everyday. They’re trained to do it.
I’m not convinced local police departments are going to change their existing practices as a result of a Trump presidency.
“The “red tape” that Trump wants to eliminate to “free the police to do there jobs” are in fact constitutional stops to illegal search and seizure and false arrest”
He may think there’s red tape, but police already perform illegal searches, seizures and false arrests. And even murder. They get away with it every day. Even in the bastion of liberals, New York (city), where they overwhelmingly supported the unconstitutional racial profiling and illegal searches of blacks and browns, and where cops who murder unarmed blacks go unpunished.
And let’s not forget “progressive” President Obama’s National Defense Authorization Act which permits the indefinite detention of any suspected terrorist.
“It emphatically does not empower Congress to regulate immigration”
I tend to agree in theory, except some would say this power is derived under Article 1, Section 8, Clause 10.
on Sun Sep 4th 2016 at 02:41:46 michaeljonbarker
Donald Trump stars in Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” lol
(https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=UiPKV4sGK64&feature=share)
on Mon Sep 5th 2016 at 04:14:24 Michael Jon Barker
“But Donald Trump is for the little guy” Clueless Trump supporter.
“The War on Street Food been going on for more than 100 years.”
“When Marco Gutierrez, a founder and spokesman for the little-known and sparsely populated advocacy group “Latinos for Trump” recently tried to warn America of the grave dangers of open borders and free migration with the image of “taco trucks on every corner,” most views, Latino and Anglo alike, seem to have experienced a vision of a possible new utopia. The tag immediately trended on Twitter, not in panic but in near-universal celebration of the possibility.”
This article exposes more then that. One of the obstacles that keep immigrants and those who are not white from starting small businesses and upward mobility are city and state license fees that often times are their to favor white populations and developers.
https://fee.org/articles/why-are-there-not-taco-trucks-on-every-corner/
Trumps intent on deporting over 11 million “illegal aliens”. There is a president for this that was started under the Hoover administration and carried into FDR term over a seven year period. It is estimated that upwards of 2 million people were detained and deported without due process and about half of them American born U.S. citizens.
Funny the things that get left out of history books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Repatriation
on Wed Sep 14th 2016 at 19:37:45 Mary Burrell
Colin Kaepernick draws ire from white Americans because he calls attention to America’s denial of white privilege, police brutality against black people and people of color, and the lack of opportunity for those same people and get demonized for protesting injustice. Meanwhile Trump can tell his crowds that America is in decline, Mexicans are sexual predators and all black people are disadvantaged living in ghettos and he gets applauded, what’s wrong with this picture?
on Wed Sep 14th 2016 at 22:02:44 resw
America was built on the double standard.
http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_630_noupscale/57c7589a1700001a1fc76d55.gif?cache=ohgbobx3ej
on Wed Sep 14th 2016 at 22:19:56 Fan ...
” Meanwhile Trump can tell his crowds that America is in decline, Mexicans are sexual predators and all black people are disadvantaged living in ghettos and he gets applauded, what’s wrong with this picture?”
@Mary
I’ll take a stab at this: Never underestimate the power of stupidity of certain people in large groups!
Trump’s chances of being elected are looking more and more possible every day.
I heard a rumor that the DNC is thinking about substituting Michelle Obama for Clinton if Clinton’s health disqualifies her from continuing.
@resw: Precisely, that cartoon is circulating the Internet and there is much truth in it.
@Fan: I agree with that statement about the stupidity of certain people in large groups. Trump rallies are definitely where the “stupid ” happens.
on Sat Oct 1st 2016 at 02:18:21 Michael Jon Barker
Donald Trump has yet to pick up any Newspaper endorsements for president.
Gary Johnson has six, four from papers that endorsed Romney and two from papers that endorsed Obama.
Hillary has thirteen endorsements, Six from papers that endorsed Romney and seven from papers that endorsed Obama.
on Sat Oct 1st 2016 at 03:15:30 Afrofem
@Michael Jon Barker
“It is estimated that upwards of 2 million people were detained and deported without due process and about half of them American born U.S. citizens. “
True. I never knew about those mass deportations until I saw a movie called Mi Familia. It starred Edward James Olmos and Jimmy Smits.
Armed soldiers basically rampaged through Mexican American neighborhoods, grabbed people on the streets and stuffed them on buses and trains bound for Mexico.
A movie trailer can be found here:
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2930573593
The movie also depicts the “Zoot Suit Riots” in Los Angeles in 1943. White soldiers and sailors attacked Chicano men who dressed in distinctive “Zoot Suits”. According to History.com:
“..the jazz-inspired outfits were particularly popular among the city’s Mexican American population. Latino youths known as “Pachucos” caused a sensation by donning zoot suits, pork pie hats and dangling watch chains, and it wasn’t long before their eye-catching garb earned them an overblown reputation as street thugs and juvenile delinquents. Tensions grew especially high between zoot-suiters and the large contingent of white sailors and Marines stationed in Los Angeles. Mexican Americans were serving in the military in high numbers, but many servicemen viewed the zoot-suit wearers as World War II draft dodgers. Since wool and other textiles were subject to wartime rationing, they also considered the oversized suits an unpatriotic waste of resources.
The racially charged atmosphere finally led to full-scale riots in early June 1943. Following a series of bloody street brawls between zoot-suiters and white soldiers, a mob of U.S. servicemen took to the streets in taxicabs and began attacking Latinos and stripping them of their suits. Thousands more servicemen and civilians joined the fray over the next several days, often marching into cafes and movie theaters and beating anyone wearing Pachuco clothing or hairstyles. Blacks and Filipinos—even those not clad in zoot suits—were also targeted. Local papers framed the racial attacks as a vigilante response to an immigrant crime wave, and police generally restricted their arrests to the Latinos who fought back. The mayhem didn’t die down until June 8, when U.S. military personnel were finally barred from leaving their barracks. The Los Angeles City Council issued a ban on zoot suits the following day. Amazingly, no one was killed during the weeklong riot, but it wasn’t the last outburst of zoot suit-related racial violence. Similar incidents took place that same year in cities such as Philadelphia, Chicago and Detroit. “
http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/what-were-the-zoot-suit-riots
on Mon Oct 3rd 2016 at 13:39:14 Herneith
https://www.icij.org/blog/2016/09/trumps-organization-did-business-iranian-bank-later-linked-terrorism?utm_content=buffer8f75a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
on Thu Oct 13th 2016 at 05:01:07 michaeljonbarker
Some Republican women have had enough of Trump and his supporters.
“So let me get this straight: I, a conservative female, have spent years defending the Republican Party against claims of sexism. When I saw Republican men getting attacked I stood up for them. I came to their defense. I fought on their behalf. I fought on behalf of a movement I believed in.
I fought on behalf of my principles while other women told me I hated my own sex. Not only charges of sexism, but I defended @marcorubio during Go8, I fought in my state to stop the @ScottWalker recall, etc… Now some Trojan horse nationalist sexual predator invades the @GOP, eating it alive, and you cowards sit this one out? He treats women like dogs, and you go against everything I – and other female conservatives – said you were & back down like cowards.
Get this straight: We don’t need you to stand up for us, YOU needed to stand up for us for YOU. For YOUR dignity. For YOUR reputation. Jeff Sessions says that he wouldn’t “characterize” Trump’s unauthorized groping of women as “assault.”
Are you kidding me?!
Others try to rebuke his comments, yet STILL choose to vote for a sexual predator – because let’s be honest, that’s what he is. “What he said is wrong, and the way he treats women is wrong, but it’s not wrong enough for me to not vote for him.”
Thanks, cowards.
Various men in the movement are writing it off as normal, confirming every stereotype the left has thrown at them. So I’m done. I’m sooo done.
If you can’t stand up for women & unendorse this piece of human garbage, you deserve every charge of sexism thrown at you. I’m just one woman, you won’t even notice my lack of presence at rallies, fair booths, etc. You won’t really care that I’m offended by your silence, and your inability to take a stand. But one by one you’ll watch more women like me go, & you’ll watch men of ACTUAL character follow us out the door.
And what you’ll be left with are the corrupt masses that foam at the mouth every time you step outside the lines. Men who truly see women as lesser beings, & women without self-respect. And your “guiding faith” & “principles” will be attached to them as well. And when it’s all said and done, all you’ll have left is the party The Left always accused you of being.
Scum.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/the-tweet-storm-that-should-terrify-the-republican-party/503771/
on Thu Oct 13th 2016 at 07:17:08 Fan ...
Oh please … cry me a river!!!
Too few tears, and way too late!
The Amerikan political system had an opportunity to redeem itself during Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial. The senate decided to look the other way despite all of the evidence pointing to Clinton’s guilt. The Amerikan people also agreed with the senate’s decision.
Any (systemic) rot/cancer left remaining (untreated) within a body will eventually infect/overtake/spread into the rest of the body.
The untreated diseased body then cannot recover from its overwhelming multiple cancers. Rot can’t be permitted to remain and fester, whether it starts in the foot – or the head.
on Mon Oct 17th 2016 at 15:47:43 Herneith
https://scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p417x417/14695412_1246415125378927_2142578183932071144_n.jpg?oh=325d5a75295a823f225ff6e0560385e9&oe=58A0ABBF
on Sat Oct 22nd 2016 at 00:50:48 michaeljonbarker
Here is more about Donald Trump’s “Morman Problem”.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-clinton-mormons-20161019-snap-story.html
on Wed Oct 26th 2016 at 16:03:41 Herneith
Qu qu’est fcuk?
on Sat Oct 29th 2016 at 15:40:46 Herneith
http://www.burrardstreetjournal.com/trump-v-mcgregor-confirmed-for-wwe-battleground/
http://www.burrardstreetjournal.com/trump-obama-founded-better-terrorist-group/
on Tue Nov 1st 2016 at 14:41:08 Herneith
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/politics/donald-trump-tax.html?emc=edit_na_20161031&nlid=59850509&ref=cta
That Trump v. McGregor story is hilarious! Thanks for sharing.
Ever wonder how Donald Trump has his hair coiffed?:
https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/trump_0425.jpg?quality=85&w=950
Separated at birth?:
on Wed Nov 16th 2016 at 06:43:49 Fan ...
^^^^^^^ lol
These lesser hairstyles (or snafus) reminds of boxing promoter Don King’s original classic look!
The trolls sexier and better looking in a manly, rugged way!
on Wed Nov 16th 2016 at 13:55:27 v8driver
lordie lordie lordie
Is that pic on the right an image of “Oh nooooooooooooooooooooooo…” the always accident prone, Mr. Bill of Saturday Night Live??
No, it’s a Troll doll:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_doll
I used to take them to BINGO. I couldn’t help noticing the resemblance between the two. Here’s Donald with a new hairdo:
fat bastid from austin powers!
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS5kt-visduX-Gl_O3MSGejzsP8ho2FoVUjSPKkGcXbuCyTwrKFhw
There is a little resemblance between the troll and Mr Bill.
At least Mr Bill believes in personal grooming.
The Donald looks as if his melanin deficiency might make him a candidate for some serious skin issues…and be aware of the Sun’s effect …
Mr. Bill is a hundred times better looking.
A profound question, can Donald Trump keep his hair in place on inauguration day?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/17/can-trump-s-hair-survive-inauguration-day.html?via=newsletter&source=DDAfternoon
on Thu Nov 17th 2016 at 17:31:42 Fan ...
” can Donald Trump keep his hair in place on inauguration day?”
Highly doubtful. That’s like asking Mr Potato Head if he can make any sense, or answer a simple question!
Maybe.. if he uses the most super-fortified can of hair spray known to mankind (Aquanet) and the wind is nowhere to be found!
He should probably buy a blond hair WEAVE and just be done with it!
Or sport a new look… an Issac Hayes, Steve Harvey, Mike Tyson hair (less) do. I do think he needs a tan (some coloring to offset that ghastly Eddie Muster pale …) a lot more than he needs to keep his hair in place.
on Wed Dec 21st 2016 at 01:42:14 Herneith
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbLZZ5zLwnA)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjUDK4GqiXo)
on Wed Feb 1st 2017 at 08:41:01 Trump's Muslim ban - Bible Prophecy In The Daily Headlines
http://herneith.d.pr/l8NdK
on Fri Jul 7th 2017 at 02:31:23 michaeljonbarker
“The Racial and Religious Paranoia of Trump’s Warsaw Speech.”
It seems Trump is taking his white speak to Europe.
It got him elelcted in the U.S. so why not reach out to whites in Europe.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/07/trump-speech-poland/532866/?utm_source=fbia
on Mon Jul 24th 2017 at 00:32:13 michaeljonbarker
So Trump wanys to bring the hammer down on pot smokers. Supposedly there is a “report” that links marijuana users to violent crime. Any report that makes such a claim is schewd towards law enforcement.
Expect everybody but whites to experience the blunt of this. (No pun intended)
Edit: I forgot the link
http://thehill.com/regulation/administration/343218-trumps-doj-gears-up-for-crackdown-on-marijuana
on Wed Aug 9th 2017 at 03:46:27 michaeljonbarker
Trump gets updates twice a day about how great he is. lol
https://news.vice.com/story/trump-folder-positive-news-white-house?utm_source=vicetwitterus
on Sat Aug 19th 2017 at 04:39:45 michaeljonbarker
Impeach tbe President.
https://cohen.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/ranking-member-cohen-introduce-articles-impeachment-against-president
on Tue Sep 5th 2017 at 04:24:34 michaeljonbarker
This is a good. How Trump is producing a propaganda state.
https://newrepublic.com/article/144592/trump-creating-propaganda-state
on Sat Sep 23rd 2017 at 02:44:14 Mary Burrell
Kim Jong Un calls Trump a “dotard.” Dotard: An old senile man. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
on Mon Oct 23rd 2017 at 02:13:15 michaeljonbarker
“According to research from the nonprofit monitoring group Airwars, the first seven months of the Trump administration have already resulted in more civilian deaths than under the entirety of the Obama administration. Airwars reports that under Obama’s leadership, the fight against IS led to approximately 2,300 to 3,400 civilian deaths. Through the first seven months of the Trump administration, they estimate that coalition air strikes have killed between 2,800 and 4,500 civilians.”
“Researchers also point to another stunning trend – the “frequent killing of entire families in likely coalition airstrikes.” In May, for example, such actions led to the deaths of at least 57 women and 52 children in Iraq and Syria.”
http://www.allgov.com/news/top-stories/in-9-months-trump-has-bombed-to-death-more-civilians-than-obama-did-in-8-years-171017?news=860336
on Wed Jun 26th 2019 at 23:25:51 Mary Burrell
Watching the CBS Evening News and they showed a horrific photo of a Salvadoran and his young child face down in the Rio Grande. These are “human beings “ seeking asylum trying to escape horrendous conditions found in their country, whose problems have been exacerbated by Western polices. This is a humanitarian crisis that one person in the White House has grown with his xenophobic rhetoric plus his lack of empathy.
No President has lost as many cabinet members as Trump.
on Wed Sep 11th 2019 at 15:45:23 Open Minded Observer
That may be true, and you know I’m no Trump apologist, but that’s just one of many side effects of him being the most unqualified president ever.
People opposed to him like to point to stuff like that because they think being unqualified is something that should get him replaced whereas being unqualified is part of what got him elected in the first place. Certainly not the only thing, but it’s also not seen as detrimental to his supporters. They see him rapidly replacing staff as a form of learning and adapting. In fact, not being bogged down with the optics of replacing staff is seen as taking the kinds of quick and decisive actions that they assume business leaders take. That’s what they elected… a businessman instead of a politician. He’s free to make mistakes as long as he doesn’t allow them to linger. In marketing terms, his administration is “nimble” because it can react and change rapidly. They love that.
on Tue Sep 24th 2019 at 21:04:39 Mary Burrell
Today Speaker of The House Nancy Pelosi delivers Statement of Impeachment. We shall see what the outcome will be.
And Trump’s little orange hands are tweeting away.
on Wed Sep 25th 2019 at 10:52:40 Alberto Monteiro
We are all a bunch of idiots, they point it to us all the time, and we don’t believe.
Trump is orange. The Simpsons are orange.
Isn’t it obvious that we live in a simulation?
Even with the threat of impeachment it probably won’t make a difference with Trump’s sycophantic cult following. And I am thinking the Republicans in the Senate are not going to support an impeachment. Just like the Mueller Report it probably won’t have an effect on the election in 2020. I hope I am wrong about all of this. I would like nothing more than to see him in an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs.
I’d say there’s a zero percent chance the Senate has any plans to vote in favor of impeachment unless and until we start seeing the Republican establishment promoting an alternative… i.e. Fox News suddenly running all kinds of “Hey, this guy might give Trump a run for his money” stories. They will most likely will do everything they can to delay the vote until after the 2020 elections. After 2020, whether they retain control of the Senate or not, the outcome of the election will have been determined and if Trump wins, the Republicans keep the presidency.
In other words, they’ll stick with him until he’s so toxic that many republicans start indicating that they’ll switch sides or abstain. Until then, they’ve got nothing to lose, they want a republican in the White house and they probably don’t care if it’s Pence after the election. He just doesn’t have the draw to run on his own, so they’ll stick with Trump and hope for the win.
I’ve said it before though, I think once Trump is out, the establishment, most of his base and the country in general will pile on him. His rise to power was such a media spectacle that his fall will be equally spectacular. His base will blame him for ruining their party, making a mockery of their agenda, bankrupting the economy, costing them all 3 branches of government and pretty much every other thing that goes wrong in the wake of his presidency. They will feel like they took a chance on him and he squandered it. They will have lost friendships, permanently damaged family relationships and will only have a MAGA hat to show for it. They will want revenge.
I could be wrong on that, but if I know one thing, it’s that Americans love drama and watching bad things happen to entitled rich people. I envision the finale of his reality TV presidency to be epic.
on Sun Sep 29th 2019 at 16:48:42 Mary Burrell
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” —James Baldwin
“The tot of the fish starts at the head down.” This ancient proverb is so apropos to this corrupt administration. We have a lawless president that commits crimes with impunity.
rot ^^^^
on Thu Oct 10th 2019 at 11:28:32 Mary Burrell
Today i learned Trump betrayed the Kurds. This beast needs to be impeached and removed from office.
on Thu Oct 10th 2019 at 11:39:24 Solitaire
The U.S. has betrayed the Kurds at least three times since the Gulf War in 1990. They shouldn’t trust us at all.
on Thu Oct 10th 2019 at 12:12:16 abagond
“Betrayed” is a strong word. It implies he understands what loyalty is.
I suppose you have a point about the word betrayal implying that he understands what loyalty means. Although he demands “loyalty “ from his subordinates. He has no moral compass and I suppose that is one of the symptoms of his narcissistic personality.
on Thu Oct 10th 2019 at 13:39:30 Open Minded Observer
Wasn’t betraying the Kurds inevitable? I’ll admit ignorance here, but was there ever a time that we didn’t abandon locals we’ve enlisted to assist us in whatever proxy war or destabilization effort or regime change agenda we’ve embarked upon?
2nd thought: Trump may not really have the stomach for fighting someone else’s war, but it seems to me that his actions have set the stage for us to wind up fighting a battle of his own making (one of his hallmarks is creating problems and then claiming victory when he solves them). What’s the history on re-electing presidents when actively engaged in a war? (Hint: http://www.theprogressiveprofessor.com/?p=19187)
on Thu Oct 10th 2019 at 23:38:01 v8driver
Well he’s gone up against NATO leadership with his sanctioningyenabling the Turkish push into Syria now, imnsho.
on Fri Oct 11th 2019 at 03:47:29 iamvistinginstructoreric
Tonight at 7:00 pm Trump and the MAGA maggots are infesting the city.🤢🤬😡
on Wed Oct 23rd 2019 at 01:57:19 Mary Burrell
Trump used the word “lynching” I wonder if this was some type of dog whistle to get his zombie sycophant supporters to act out. Like much of his rhetoric he’s very irresponsible and evil. With these impeachment hearings pending, perhaps this is way to distract. I suppose this is no different from all the other irresponsible, dangerous rhetoric with.
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Jimmy Kimmel Live Schedule for the Week of 11/18/2019
Watch #Kimmel Clips:
Interviews | Music Performances | Unnecessary Censorship | Lie Witness News | Mean Tweets
Jimmy Kimmel Live airs every weeknight at 11:35 p.m. EDT and features a diverse lineup of guests that include celebrities, athletes, musical acts, comedians and human-interest subjects, along with comedy bits and a house band.
Following are the episodes scheduled to air the week of November 18–November 22 (subject to change):
Monday, Nov. 18
Martin Scorsese (The Irishman), Jharrel Jerome (When They See Us), Musical Guest The Black Keys
Tuesday, Nov. 19
Michael Douglas (Green Eggs and Ham), Victoria Beckham (Victoria Beckham Beauty), Musical Guest DJ Shadow feat. De La Soul
Wednesday, Nov. 20
Garth Brooks (Garth Brooks: The Legacy Collection and Musical Guest), Mike Birbiglia (The New One)
Thursday, Nov. 21
Billie Eilish (When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?), Taylor Kitsch (21 Bridges), Musical Guest Jessie Reyez
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French scientist says he uncovered mystery behind Mona Lisa painting
This undated image shows Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa painting. (KGO-TV)
French scientist Pascal Cotte is making a bold claim about the Mona Lisa. He says he discovered a portrait of another woman lurking beneath the top layer of the world's most famous painting.
Cotte says he made the discovery by shining intense light onto the painting, then measuring the bounced-back reflections to gauge what's underneath.
Not everyone's convinced. Some art historians say the newly uncovered portrait was not a completely different woman, but simply an evolution of the final Mona Lisa.
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An armadillo the size of a golf ball
Posted By mongabay on Sep 26, 2014 in Environment, Photography, Photos, Wildlife
Rica just after birth. She was born the mere size of a golf ball. Photo courtesy of the Edinburgh Zoo.
Meet Rica, the baby three-banded armadillo. Rica is a tiny new arrival at the Edinburgh Zoo born on August 24th and weighing in at just 81g or roughly the size of a golf ball. She was born to proud parents Rio and Rodar who only arrived at the zoo in March of 2014.
“This is the first birth of any armadillo species at Edinburgh Zoo and it is amazing how quickly little Rica is growing up! She is just amazing to watch; always full of energy and scurrying about her surroundings like a perfectly formed miniature of a fully grown three banded armadillo,” Gareth Bennett, Senior Presentations Keeper at Edinburgh Zoo, said in a statement. “For her first few weeks she could not quite roll up into a perfect ball because of her huge claws and softer, smaller shell, but she has now grown into her shell and can quickly pack herself into the tightly sealed ball which adult three banded armadillos are known for.”
Little Rica, along with her parents, is certainly an ambassador for some very noble conservation work supported by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland in the Brazilian Pantanal. The Giant Armadillo Project, lead by conservation biologist Dr Arnaud Desbiez, aims to establish the first long-term ecological study of giant armadillos in the Brazilian Pantanal wetland. Mongabay has covered the work of Dr. Desbiez and The Giant Armadillo Project in the past, including a touching piece on the caring maternal nature of the species and the first photos of a baby giant armadillo.
Both the three-banded and giant armadillo are listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN Red List, with ongoing exploitation and habitat loss and degradation as reasons for their decline.
Showing her true size. Photo courtesy of the Edinburgh Zoo.
Getting closer on her roll. Photo courtesy of the Edinburgh Zoo.
Rica and her mom. Photo courtesy of the Edinburgh Zoo.
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How to think about what you're selling
Fredrik Holm
https://blog.freelancersunion.org/2018/11/07/how-to-think-about-what-youre-selling/
This is a post from a member of the Freelancers Union community. If you’re interested in sharing your expertise, your story, or some advice you think will help a fellow freelancer out, feel free to send your blog post to us here.
"What do you do for a living?"
For many years, my answer to that question was that "I am a developer." Later, this evolved into "I am a solution architect" and "I am an application development strategist."
On a side note, I must–very shamefully–admit that these little title upgrades made the ancient, primitive, status-hungry part of my brain very happy. Whenever I received or gave myself a promotion, the needle on my status-o-meter went up, and I felt special. And in another dark corner of my mind, my inner child fantasized about how clients now would beat a path to my door for sure.
Anyway. While all the titles I've had were perfectly accurate, I can't really say that any of them got me any new clients.
Nor were they a great catalyst for further conversation at parties. At best, they resulted in the follow-up question "Oh, so you're in IT?" Often captioned with "That's so boring."
And I don't blame these people for judging me:
Most job titles and skillsets can sound pretty dry if you just lay them out plainly.
One guy that knew this well already is Dave, an anesthetic specialist doctor whom I met on a mountaineering trip to Chamonix. He introduced himself with "Hi, I'm Dave. I put people to sleep." To which I, to my surprise, found myself saying, "oh, so you're a hitman?"
We bonded immediately, and even though I haven't seen him in 17 years, this little wordplay made me remember that situation as if it happened yesterday.
It's all about outcomes
As freelancers and entrepreneurs, we should continuously be selling and marketing ourselves. Consider the feast/famine cycle; no lucky streak lasts forever.
And what is the essence of selling?
It's all about creating a connection with another human being.
Which, in turn, implies that:
Every encounter with another person is an opportunity to invest in a potential, future sale.
However–people, in general, don't care much about your CV or your job title at this stage in the process.
Instead, they tend to be more interested in what you can actually bring to the table. Either for themselves or for someone else they would like to help.
In other words: focus on conveying what outcome you can contribute to.
Sure, things like skill set, CV and title matter. But they are just qualifiers to get you through the door–your figurative entry ticket to the party.
But here's the catch:
To even be considered to be qualified, you must first make a lasting positive impression on the potential client.
How do we make a lasting impression on someone?
Some people try, just like Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory, to impress you to death with their achievements.
Others, like Dave, make a joke.
Perception is, of course, individual, but in my book, EQ trumps IQ at this stage. And a good joke definitely trumps tooting your own horn, especially if you have enough confidence to make jokes on your behalf.
I don't have enough of a comedian in me to pull off witty word game stunts, but there are other ways.
Care genuinely about your craft
Consider the story about the English medieval stone cutters:
A traveler arrives at a work site in a village and asks one of the workers, "May I ask what you are doing?"
The worker raised an eyebrow and kept chipping away at the rock. "I'm cutting stones to feed my family."
The traveler moved on to another worker and asked the same question.
The worker put down his tools, stood up proudly and looked the traveler in the eye. With a warm smile he said:
"I am building a cathedral. The stone I am working on here will go near the front door where people will enter for shelter and kinship. I will probably not see the final product, but I know my work is part of something very important."
That level of commitment is always memorable, regardless of what the person does for a living.
Keep in mind, though, that this can't be faked–it's gotta be the real deal.
Focus on business outcomes, not your abilities
In terms of enticing interest from a listener and potential client, it is far more compelling to talk about outcomes and contributions rather than the skills and tools used to get there.
Instead of saying describing myself as a JavaScript developer, I could say that I am contributing to the online payment solution for one of Sweden's largest train operators, making life easier for thousands of train commuters.
When I talk about Lancelog, my time tracking and invoicing solution, I like to emphasize the insights you get from tracking time and expenses over an extended period of time; or how much time an invoicing tool can save you.
I could go about describing all the features in detail–or tell people about the architecture of the application–and nobody would care.
People rarely care about the abilities and inner workings of the thing you are selling.
They want to know what's in it for them.
If you can't make a connection between your abilities and a desired outcome, it will be very hard to get noticed.
Uncover the emotion behind the need
While the products and services we provide should cater to specific, tangible outcomes, there is always an additional dimension to every purchase that we can use to our advantage.
Behind every business decision is a human being.
And–at the deepest level–we are all driven by emotions.
Roughly simplified, there are only two kinds of motivation: approach vs. avoidance.
If you can peel of enough layers of logic and reasoning to get to the core emotions of the buyer, you have an advantage over your competitors.
That said–keep in mind that there is an important ethical difference between manipulating a buyer using emotions, vs. understanding the buyer's ultimate motivations for making a purchase.
People will buy on emotion, but justify their decision intellectually.
Above all else, be honest and authentic
I would go so far as to say that every time we interact with someone else, we are positioning ourselves for a potential future sale.
A word of caution, though: I'm not saying that you should be pitching relentlessly to everybody you meet. In the game of making lasting impressions, you don't want to be that guy that tries too hard.
Believe in what you do, focus on outcomes over abilities, and be the catalyst for positive feelings.
Fredrik consults as a solution architect, development strategist and agile coach in his own company Infolyzer. He is also the architect and lead developer behind the time tracking and invoicing solution Lancelog.
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Nancy Coco | Exclusive Excerpt: FUDGE BITES
“You look amazing, Allie,” Frances said to me. “Like the scariest of the walking dead.”
I laughed. I could feel the makeup cracking, and so I tried really hard to get it together. “At least I don’t look like a real dead person. I’ve got skin flapping off my cheek.” I pushed on the latex flap that concealed the gory makeup underneath. “Thankfully, zombies aren’t real.”
“I love the idea of the zombie walk,” Frances said. “The fact that the profits all go to the Red Dress Foundation is fantastic.”
“I like the idea that all the bars and restaurants pitched in to supply food for the hungry masses,” I said.
“Fudge isn’t exactly food,” she pointed out.
“I bet there are a lot of people who would argue with you on that,” I teased.
Frances was my hotel manager. She’d worked at the Historic McMurphy Hotel and Fudge Shop since before she retired from teaching. Thankfully, she had stayed as an employee after my papa Liam McMurphy died and I inherited the family business.
At this very moment, I was putting the finishing touches on my zombie pinup girl costume. I didn’t usually participate in late night events because I was a fudge maker, and I had to get up very early in the morning to make said fudge. But October was off-season, and I sold most of the fudge online. That meant I didn’t have to have fudge ready for when the tourists came in the morning. Yes, sometimes I even got to sleep in as late as 8 A.M. if I wanted.
This event was extra special and benefited a charity close to my heart, the American Heart Association. It was to remind everyone that heart disease is the number one killer of women. The senior center put together the event, called the “Night of the Walking Red.” Mrs. Tunisian—one of my favorite seniors—was the head of the committee, and she’d insisted I come to the event and enter the costume contest.
I had made pumpkin chocolate chip fudge for the occasion. “You and Mr. Devaney should come out for the walk,” I said to Frances. “You would make great zombies. I know you like to play with makeup.”
“Well,” she stood in front of me and adjusted the collar on my cardigan. “I did sell Mary Kay for twenty years, so I am trained in makeup application.”
“I have a lot of leftover stage makeup upstairs. You can use it. You and Mr. Devaney would look great as a married couple of zombies.”
“I don’t think Douglas is into that kind of silliness,” she said.
“What kind of silliness?” I turned to see Mr. Devaney walking through the door from the basement. He paused when he saw me. “Have you been in a car accident?”
“There are no cars on Mackinac Island,” I said. Mackinac Island, Michigan, was known as the fudge capital of the world. We were a small island in the straits between the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of Michigan. The entire island had been combustion engine-free for over a hundred years. That meant the only way to get around was walk, bike, or take a horse-drawn carriage. I loved the traditions of the island. Things were slower here, and the sights and sounds of modern life were left behind.
Huge Victorian cottages with their turrets and gingerbread trim lined the streets. For centuries, the wealthy from Chicago and Detroit would escape the hustle and bustle of the big city to spend the summer season on the island. They usually came by ferries, although some came by private jet these days. My friend Sophie was a private pilot. She worked for the Grander Hotel during the season, but she also had regulars who asked her to fly them on and off the island when the ferries quit running.
Sophie Allison was meeting me for the Walking Red event. My best friend, Jenn Christensen, had left the island for an important job in Chicago. Sophie and Liz McElroy, the editor and lead reporter for the Mackinac Island Town Crier newspaper, had stepped in to keep me from moping too much about the loss. Jenn was an excellent event planner, and when she had come to Mackinac to help me through my first season, she’d connected with the islanders like a pro. Me, on the other hand? Not so much. Even though my family had owned the McMurphy for over one hundred years, I had grown up in Detroit and gone to school in Chicago. I kept trying to fit in, but I knew I still wasn’t quite accepted as a true local. I was slowly getting there, but there had been a few bumps in the road.
Things had been going smoothly since Jenn left several weeks ago. But it was the off-season, it hadn’t been that long, and Jenn had left me with strict instructions on how to make friends. I followed them as closely as possible, but I didn’t have the same knack with people that Jenn had. Even with Sophie and Liz, I missed Jenn.
I got a bump on my leg and looked down to see my bichon poo puppy, Marshmallow—Mal for short—nudging me with her nose. She jumped up, and I scratched her behind the ears. “What do you think of my zombie look?” I asked the dog.
She seemed unfazed by the red and white makeup.
“I think I’ll skip the zombie look,” Mr. Devaney said, pouring himself a cup of coffee from the coffee bar at the far side of the lobby. “But you go ahead and do it if you want to, Frances,” he said with a warm look in his eye. “I’d love to see you have some fun.”
“Oh, pooh,” she said. “I’ve got to watch the front desk. We have a couple of families coming in for the weekend.”
I glanced at my watch. It was getting dark already at 5 P.M. “Did they say if they expected to arrive late?”
“Sophie is bringing them in the next few minutes,” Frances said. “I know it’s close to Halloween, but I don’t want to give them the impression that we aren’t a warm and welcoming place.”
“What’s not warm and welcoming about zombies?” I asked with a laugh, raising my hands like claws. “We only want to eat your brains.”
The door to the McMurphy opened and Liz walked in. She was dressed like a ballerina with zombie makeup. Her dark, curly hair was pulled up in a tight bun, and she had fake bite marks created with makeup on her neck. Her leotard was dirty and torn, and her tutu was a bit ragged.
“Oh, my goodness, what happened to you?” Frances asked her.
“Nothing,” Liz said with a smile. “I’m a zombie and a prima ballerina. Two things I always wanted to grow up to be. Thanks for sponsoring us.”
“It was my pleasure,” Frances said. “Douglas pitched in half.”
“Thanks, Mr. Devaney,” I said. Mr. Devaney was a retired schoolteacher who I had brought on as the new handyman for the McMurphy. It hadn’t taken long before Mr. Devaney and Frances had started secretly dating. In a whirlwind courtship, the two seventy-year-olds had gotten engaged, and last month they’d gotten married. You could see the joy on their faces every time they were in the room together. It made my heart fill with hope that someday I, too, might find the love of my life.
Right now, I was sort of single. My ex-boyfriend, Trent Jessop, was in Chicago for the next few months. And my attraction to Mackinac Island’s top investigator, Officer Rex Manning, was progressing slowly. The problem with having two handsome men competing for your attention was sometimes they both backed off. I think they were giving me room to decide. Maybe I needed the room.
“Mal can go,” Liz said, her eyes lighting up. “They have zombie dog costumes.”
“That’s creative,” Frances said.
“I don’t have any doggy costumes,” I said with a frown. I could feel the latex on my face crinkle again, so I smoothed out my expression.
“We can give her a black tee shirt with white bones panted on it.”
“A black tee shirt?” I said. “We’d need a very small one. Mal only weighs twelve pounds.”
“Oh, a onesie will do,” Liz said with glee. “I’m going to run over to Doud’s and see if they have anything on the shelf.”
“I’ll go with you,” I said. We headed out the door. The McMurphy was on Main Street and only a block or so from Doud’s Market, the oldest market on the island. It was almost fully dark outside now, and the air smelled of falling leaves, horses, and the lingering scents of fudge and popcorn. People were beginning to gather. The costumes were equal parts terrifying and funny.
We pushed into Doud’s with the doorbells ringing behind us. Mary Emry stood at the cash register dressed as a zombified Minnie Mouse. She was waiting on a burly trucker guy with a cleaver buried in his skull. It almost looked realistic.
“This way,” Liz said, drawing me toward the back where they kept a few items of clothing.
“Maybe we should have checked out one of the tee shirt places,” I said as I eyed the sparse selection.
“No, this is perfect.” Liz pulled a tiny black sundress out of the racks. “Now we need a little blood . . .”
“I have extra makeup.” I followed Liz through the store.
“This will do,” she said, grabbing some red decorator frosting. “Come on.” We approached Mary.
Mary was a regular cashier at Doud’s. She wasn’t much for talking, at least not to me. “What’s this for?”
“We’re going to dress up Allie’s dog, Mal,” Liz said, rubbing her hands together. “With any luck, the red frosting will stain the dress, and the dog will lick it and get red on her face.”
“Disgusting,” Mary said.
“But effective,” I said. “Are you going to be in the Walking Red zombie walk?”
“Sure,” Mary said. “It’s for a good cause.”
I paid for the purchases, and we walked out of Doud’s and into the now crowded street. “I didn’t know there would be so many people here,” I said.
“It’s the cause,” Liz said. “People care. My mom died of a heart attack.”
“I’m sorry, I didn’t know that,” I said.
Liz blinked back tears, looking away. “This crowd is crazy, let’s go around and through the alley.” We turned down the side street. It, too, was filling up with zombies and humans alike. People not in costume carried blankets and came out to watch all the craziness.
When we were a half a block away from the McMurphy, in the alley just behind the Old Tyme Photo Shop, I noticed the stray calico who I had named Carmella walking ahead of us.
Carmella had adopted me and the McMurphy when I first came to Mackinac. She wasn’t a fan of Mal, who was a bit rambunctious at only six months old, but Mella escaped puppy shenanigans by jumping up on the countertops. My cat was an indoor/outdoor cat. She loved to wander the back alleyways for an hour or so and then return to the McMurphy to receive treats from Frances and attention from the guests.
“Mella,” I called to her. “Here, kitty.” She walked over to me, and I leaned down to pick her up.
“Wow, looks like you already have a costume started for Mella,” Liz said.
I looked at the cat. Her paws were wet and covered with a distinct brownish-red color. Her face had remnants of the same damp substance. “What did you get into?” I asked her. She wiped her feet on my sweater. “Is that blood?”
“Eww,” Liz said. “She’s coated with it.”
I glanced around. It was too dark to see anything in the half-lit alley. We got closer to the McMurphy, and the sensor lights I had installed came on. “It certainly looks like blood,” I said, holding her up to the light. “Are you okay, Mella?” I asked. “Did you get hurt?”
She meowed at me as if indignant that I might think she wouldn’t win in a fight.
“I don’t see any obvious puncture wounds,” Liz said.
“That means someone else is hurt,” I said. I glanced back down the alley. It was darker now that the lights were on behind the McMurphy. “Let’s take her in and have Frances give her a bath and make sure she’s not hurt.”
“And while she’s doing that?” Liz asked.
“I’ll get a flashlight, and we can check the alley. Whatever Mella got into has lost a lot of blood. We need to see if we can help it.”
Just then, there was a scream from the dark alley. I hugged Mella tight and turned toward the sound.
“Oh, my gosh!” It was Sophie. “Thank goodness you’re out here.”
“Are you alright?” I asked.
“No,” Sophie said with trembling hands. She was dressed as a biker babe zombie. “I think I found a dead man.”
“Where?” Liz asked, pulling out her phone.
“Just over there,” Sophie said and pointed toward the dark corner of the building that backed up against the alley. We all hurried over to where she pointed. “I was coming around this way to avoid the crowd when I stumbled over something. I got out my flashlight, and there was a crumpled body.”
“Are you sure it’s real?” Liz asked.
“There’s a lot of blood, and paw tracks from Mella,” I said, looking at the ground as I walked. “I don’t think this is fake.”
“But look at us, we’re dressed like the walking dead.” Liz waved a hand over her costumed self. “What if it’s fake blood?”
Sophie paused. “Do you think it might be a decoration? It’s pretty gruesome.”
We stopped in front of a dark lump. Liz and I pulled out our phones and shone the flashlight apps to get a better look. The lump looked like a man. The head was obscured by a large hat. He wore an old suit coat with patched elbows, and one of his shoes was off. His limbs were at odd angles. A large, dark pool seeped from under his jacket. There were kitty tracks in the blood. It looked like this was the mess Mella had found, after all.
“He looks real,” I said. I hunkered down.
“Are you going to touch him?” Sophie asked.
“Should you touch him?” Liz asked.
“It’s the only way to know if he’s real,” I said. “It’s what they tell you to do with first aid.” I touched his shoulder and gently shook it. “Sir, are you okay?”
His head rolled to the side. His jaw opened, and his tongue flopped out. I jerked back. Mella squirmed in my arms. I held her tight and put my fingers on his neck to feel for a pulse. The body was stone cold, and the blood was dark.
“He’s either dead, or he’s a very good Halloween effect.” I stood and looked at my friend. “But . . . if he is a Halloween effect, why hide him in a back alley?”
“I’m calling 9-1-1,” Liz said.
I petted a squirming Mella, who seemed only to want one thing—to leave. The blood she had gotten on her was currently getting all over me, but I didn’t want to let her down. She might make things worse. Especially if this poor man was dead—it was clear she had already walked through the crime scene.
“Hi, Charlene, it’s Liz McElroy,” Liz said. “I’m in the alley behind Doud’s and the McMurphy, and I think we might have stumbled across a crime scene.” She paused. “Yes, I know that the whole island is full of the walking dead right now, but we think this one might actually be dead.”
Sophie shivered and hugged herself. I rubbed her arm to comfort her.
“Who is ‘we’?” Liz said. “Sophie and Allie and me.” She looked at us. “Yes, Allie McMurphy.”
“I’ll call Rex,” I said.
“No, don’t call him,” Liz said. “Charlene is contacting him now. She started calling him the minute I said I was with you.” Liz covered the phone with her hand. “She said you’re the Grim Reaper.”
“Oh, for goodness sakes,” I said and rolled my eyes. “I am not the Grim Reaper. Besides, Sophie found him.”
“I think Mella found him first.” Liz pointed to the dirty paws of my cat. Mella had given up on her struggle and sort of hung there, indignant.
I sighed. “My pets seem to have good noses for dead men.”
After what felt like an hour but was more like ten minutes, Rex and Officer Charles Brown walked into the alley carrying flashlights. They were an imposing pair. Officer Brown was tall and square with green eyes, while Rex was about five foot ten with an action-hero physique and a shaved head that was currently covered by a hat. I knew from memory that he had killer blue eyes ringed with black lashes, and that his kiss could curl my toes.
I let out a breath. It was somehow reassuring to have them there.
“Charlene said you had a situation,” Rex said.
Liz shone her flashlight on the dead man. “Sophie found him.”
Rex squatted down to feel for a pulse.
“We thought maybe it was fake,” I said. “But I followed first aid protocol and shook his shoulder and called out. Then I felt his neck, and he was cold as ice.”
“What’s up with the cat?” Office Brown asked.
“I think she walked through the blood,” I said, waving her dirty paw. “I didn’t see her do it.”
“There are tracks through the blood,” Rex said.
“Is he dead?” Sophie asked, biting her nails. There was nervous hope in her voice. “It’s probably just a fake, right? You know, put here to scare people. For the zombie walk.”
Rex frowned and stood. “I think some of this is makeup, but this man is clearly dead. I’ll call Shane out here.” He reached for the walkie-talkie on his shoulder.
“Let’s step away from the scene,” Officer Brown. He motioned us across the alley.
The door on the building behind us opened, and Margaret Vanderbilt stepped out. Maggs was Frances’s best friend, and she worked at the drugstore next to Doud’s. Maggs had long, curly gray hair, incredible skin, and wide blue eyes. “What’s going on?” She asked, looking at us in our zombie makeup. “Are you going to the Walking Red walk? It’s starting in a few minutes.”
“We were,” Liz said, “but something more important has come up.”
“What’s more fun than raising money for heart disease awareness?” Maggs joked, then turned serious when she saw Officer Brown and Rex. “This doesn’t look good.” Her gaze went to the crumpled heap on the ground at Rex’s feet. “Anthony?”
“Who?” Officer Brown asked.
Maggs pushed through us, but Charles held her. “Anthony? Anthony!”
“Who’s Anthony?” I asked.
“My son,” she said and covered her mouth with her hands. “Please, tell me—tell me it’s not Anthony.”
Rex stepped across to hide the body from her. Thankfully, the man’s hat still covered his face. “We don’t know who it is, Maggs.” He touched her trembling arm. “Why do you think it’s Anthony?”
“He was supposed to meet me here. He was going to dress as a business zombie. I think that’s his suit coat. The one with the patches.” She started trembling hard.
“You need to sit down,” I said, handing Mella to Liz. I took Maggs by the shoulder and helped her sit on the edge of the brick flower bed beside the door. “Does anyone have a blanket?”
The ambulance rolled up to the mouth of the alley. Ambulances were the only type of motor vehicle allowed on the island. EMT George Marron came out. He was a handsome man with high cheekbones and coppery skin. He wore his hair long in a traditional braid down his back. “Charlene called,” he said.
“We need a blanket,” I said. “I think Maggs might be in shock.”
“Got it,” George said. He reached into the ambulance, grabbed a blanket, and came over to tuck it around Maggs’s shoulders. “Are you hurt?” He asked her quietly and calmly.
“No,” she said, gasping for air, “No, I’m okay.”
“Are you sure?” He studied her with his dark eyes. His handsome face and copper skin gleamed in the light over the door to the drugstore.
“It can’t be Anthony,” she said, tears welling in her eyes. “Please, tell me it’s not Anthony.”
George looked up at Rex. I noticed Rex shake his head subtly and my stomach tumbled. From the look on his face, he was sure it was Anthony. I sat down and put my arm around Maggs’s shoulders. She rested her head on my shoulder. I looked at Sophie. “Call Frances.”
Sophie nodded. She turned her back to us and got out her phone.
“We’re going to find out what happened,” I said. Scooching in closer and closing ranks, Liz and I stayed with Maggs, chatting aimlessly until Frances arrived.
Rex cleared his throat. “Margaret, Frances is here. Go with her, please. You shouldn’t be here, and we need to work this crime scene and find out what exactly happened.”
I helped Maggs to her feet as Frances came over. “I’ve got her,” Frances said. She put her arm around Maggs, carefully and quietly speaking to her as they walked the short distance to the McMurphy.
Shane walked into the alley with his crime scene investigator jacket on and his kit in hand. In addition to being the crime scene tech, Shane was Jenn’s boyfriend, so I had become friends with him over the past few months. “What do we have?” he asked.
“A crime scene less than a block away from a crowd of zombies,” Rex said grimly. “What’s worse, the man’s in costume, so it’s hard to tell what’s real and what’s fake.”
Shane glanced at Mella in Liz’s arms. “Is that fake blood on the cat?”
“I’m afraid not,” I said. “Do you need to bag her feet?”
“I need you to put her in a crate and take her to the vet clinic,” Shane said with a serious tone. “I need to process the scene, and I need evidence collected off of her before she cleans herself.”
“Right,” I said, lifting Mella out of Liz’s arms. I glanced at Rex. “Do you need me to stay?”
“No, go,” he said. “I’ll come around later for a debriefing interview. Whatever you do, don’t change clothes. It looks like the cat smeared evidence on you, as well.”
“Right.” I looked down at the bloody paw prints on my pinup girl outfit. “What about chain of evidence? Do I need a policeman to go with me to ensure there isn’t contamination?”
“Shane?” Rex asked.
“Probably a good idea until I’m sure I have all the evidence,” Shane said from his position beside the body.
“Fine,” Rex said. “Officer Brown, escort Miss McMurphy and her cat to the vet clinic, and ensure the chain of custody isn’t broken.”
“Will do,” Charles said. “Shall we?” He pointed toward the McMurphy.
“Okay. Liz?”
“I’m going to stay. I’ve got a story to write.” She started texting on her phone. As the town reporter, Liz took her job seriously.
That left me and Officer Brown to circumvent the crowds and wake the island’s only veterinarian. I blew out a long breath. This was a fine kettle of fish. I was becoming an expert in crime scene investigation . . . and so were my pets.
(C) Nancy Coco, Kensington, 2019
FUDGE BITES by Nancy Coco
A Candy-Coated Mystery
Halloween on Mackinac Island is a season of fun tricks, but finding a corpse is no treat for fudge shop owner Allie McMurphy . . .
NIGHT OF THE REALLY DEAD
It’s late October, off-season for tourists, but locals are up and lurching for the annual zombie walk charity event. Though everyone’s living it up, trouble is just a few pawprints away. Allie follows the bloody tracks of her calico cat, Carmella, to a body in the alley behind the Historic McMurphy Hotel and Fudge Shop. Unlike the island’s other walking dead, this one’s flatlined for good. It seems that someone is using the zombie fest as the perfect backdrop for murder. Now amateur sleuth Allie and dreamboat officer Rex Manning must use every trick in their treat bag to unmask a killer in disguise.
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Without presenting it to the US Senate, as required by the Constitution, President Obama has signed the Paris climate treaty. He is already using it to further obligate the United States to slash its fossil fuel use, carbon dioxide emissions and economic growth … control our lives, livelihoods, living standards and liberties … and redistribute our wealth. Poor, minority and working class families will suffer most.
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Financially speaking, Merchants of Doubt, which purports to debunk global warming skeptics by revealing their nefarious sources of funding, is a dud. Three box office sales reporting sites, The Numbers, Box Office Mojo, and Pro Box Office all show ticket sales of barely over $190,000 from its March 6 opening date through the first weekend of April. It is still showing in a handful of theaters through June 20th, but my inquiry to The Numbers site yielded a response from Nash Information Services, LLC in Beverly Hills that “Sony Pictures Classics hasn’t reported any box office for this film since the weekend of April 3.”
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I reviewed the excellent Dinesh D’Souza movie 2012: Obama’s America the other day on this blog. Raking in about $26 million so far, the film is the second-highest-grossing political documentary of all time,…
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Dinesh D’Souza’s new documentary film, 2012: Obama’s America, which tracks his outstanding book The Roots of Obama’s Rage, makes it clear through Barack Obama’s own words and writings and those…
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The story told So far
I wrote this refresher to summarize what has happened so far for anyone who has read the first novel.
Do you need to read any of the stories to follow Edict?
It’s recommended especially to understand what’s going on with some of the characters. And as I said, these summaries aren’t detailed at all. There are a number of things I don’t mention in them. If I did, this summary would be ten pages long and I just wanted to devote a couple paragraphs to Hy’Ruh-Ha and the follow-up novellas.
Hy’Ruh-Ha: novel one
Hy-Ruh-Ha is a story that follows Warder Soletus’Sheldmartin. A tod(male teenage elf) and him trying to help a troubled minor noble boy by the name of Mientheoderic’Cyan or for Mien for short. He’s a budding chanter and thus the Brotherhood intervened in his trial after he is charged with attempted murder.
Soletus’s job is to get him talking again and calm him from being the anxious nervous mess that he is so he can face the Arbiter in several months. However, Soletus has his own issues with his father, Master First Warden Oeric’Sheldmartin who is the son of the Arch Monk Solgard’Sheldmartin. Oeric is being to protective of his son and keeping him from becoming a warden for The Dias Brotherhood.
After many weeks of hard work along with the help of Soletus’s cousin Lyndon and Kiao the chanter priest, Mien is called earlier in front of the Arbiter and everything is going poorly until the call Soletus to speak. The tod saves his life and Mien’s custody is handed over to the Brotherhood.
Soletus still need to deal with his father who’s actions have frustrated the young tod to the point that he challenges him to a Hy’Ruh-Ha to prove himself. His father is very hesitant but accept the challenge after Soletus’s pushing. The fight goes poorly and his father win injuring him badly as his father was being overly aggressive for such a contest. Turns out his father has been keeping the fact that he used to be a blood sports fighter from him and it still affects. Soletus relationship with his father hits rock bottom. Oeric’s being sent away and Soletus is allowed to continue his progress in the order unimpeded.
Wolf: novella one
Wolf takes place several months after Hy’Ruh-Ha and follows Oeric who spends a lot of time reflecting on who he is as an individual and if he deserves everything he has been given. Not to mention he needs to talk to his son about everything that’s happened as well as share a bit more about himself.
However, before he gets a chance to see where they stand with each other, a person from his past shows up. His old handler, Clincher threatens the new life he’s made. Oeric, terrified, goes out to try to “deal” with the problem only to realize he isn’t thinking straight and tries to fix it. Then Soletus comes to his rescue and gets in trouble himself causing Oeric to lose himself and nearly kills Clincher. Soletus stops him and Clincher is taken in custody, and Oeric reveals how terrible his days as blood sports fighter was.
Basically, the story is a character study, J. Ander isn’t sorry for it she enjoyed writing this story a whole lot.
Mask: novella two
Takes place 4 years after the events of Hy’Ruh-Ha. Mien has adjusted very nicely in the priesthood and works in the infirmary as junior apothecary. All isn’t peaceful there as the infirmary is dealing with break-ins of someone taking their blighter. A powerful painkiller but also a very addictive substance.
A blighter addict is brought into the infirmary and starts fighting them and draws a boot knife on them all. Kiao is cut and Mien takes care of him. He then finds out that Kiao isn’t a young man but a young woman disguised as a male so she could help the order. Not only does the entire infirmary staff know, but Brother Hickory was the one who brought her into the all-male order..
Kiao becomes concerned with an influx of townsfolk, mostly children, who are being are being taken to them with blighter in them. He decides to help her figure out who is distributing blighter. Mien ends up finding out where it’s being made and Soletus, Lyndon, and Kiao join him in investigating. They find the peaceguard responsible for the blighter and a drass beast. Kiao is injured and is taken to the Sheldmartin home so she can heal her back. She asks Mien to dual heal with her and during the progress, Mien opens up a timber bond between him and Kiao. He’s not comfortable with it but Kiao wants to see what happens.
Unmasked: novella three
Story is about Kiao and her dealing with being Kiao. Takes place a couple of months after mask and Kiao is uncertain about a lot of things. She worried her experiences in the Sisterhood would repeat themselves in the Women’s Society. She’s not sure how to deal with her bond with Mien as she questions her decision because she’s a huge crush on Soletus and it isn’t going away.
However, she needs to learn to get over it after Soletus confides to her that he believes he’s neth(a elf who is asexual in nature.) Being neth is more acceptable if your female elf and Soletus fears the repercussions from it mainly his parents. Kiao, forever the priestess, puts asides her personal feeling for him and ressures him she doesn’t care. Soletus is internally grateful.
Kiao continues working with the women’s society and gets called out to help Edithlyn, the wisewoman with a birth. The birth ends in death of the mother and baby. The family isn’t happy about it and the Patriarch, Lord Kharis’Gyrafalcon, steps in and ends the feud. However, he talks to Kiao alone about a letter he received after pleading to the Sisterhood for a priestess to help the Women’s Society months ago. The letter names her as a priestess they already have. Unable to get he way out of it, Kiao admits to being a young woman.
The Patriarch wishes for her to reveal herself instead of being outed. He wants the Brother and Sisterhood to become one again. For that, he needs women in the order. He gives her a set amount of time to do so. Kiao lets Lyndon talk her into showing herself during morning breakfast. The three heads get called, everyone is explained why her presence is there and the Arch Priest has known since he met her that she was a girl and never said a word until the time came. He allows her to stay, Mien and her bond is revealed and the other priests don’t care for it. However it is what is and Kiao and Mien move a step-forward in their relationship.
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M’sian gets jail for not paying fine
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A MALAYSIAN man was ordered to serve three months in prison after indicating he was unable to pay a fine for drug consumption.
The defendant, Samsul Jenin, 28, and another person were arrested by Reserve Unit ‘C’ and Marine Base Police in the vicinity of Perairan Kg Menunggol on August 27, 2015, over suspicion of drug abuse.
Following an investigation, Samsul later tested positive for the presence of the Class A drug methamphetamine in his system.
Samsul is currently serving one year in prison after pleading guilty last September to the charge of illegally re-entering and living in Brunei after being barred from entering the country.
He was a prohibited immigrant since December 19, 2013, as he was convicted of voluntarily causing hurt with a weapon.
Samsul admitted that despite knowing he was barred from entering Brunei, he had used a boat to enter the sultanate from Limbang, Sarawak via the Brunei River on August 27 which subsequently led to his arrest.
During the proceedings, after Samsul indicated that he was unable to pay the $1,500 fine, the court ordered him to serve three months in prison for drug consumption after he serves the prison term for the immigration offence.
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About that whole dysfunctional staff thing…
Mike Ekeler doesn’t exactly look back on last season in Athens fondly. (h/t)
Despite a powerhouse pedigree featuring some of the most renowned football programs in the nation, one thing mattered above all else to Ekeler.
“I’ve worked at some of the greatest schools history-wise in the game,” Ekeler said. “But what it boils down to is people. You can be at the University of Georgia and be miserable if you’re working with shitty people. I really enjoy my work environment and the players here.” [Emphasis added.]
I’ve said it before — when they write the book about Mark Richt’s last year at Georgia, it’s gonna be something else to read.
UPDATE: A carefully worded retraction…
Miss quoted. I said, you can work at Georgia, USC, Nebraska, LSU etc and if you work with bad people it stinks. Loved working for CMR.
— Mike Ekeler (@CoachEkelerUNT) October 13, 2016
83 responses to “About that whole dysfunctional staff thing…”
parrishwalton
It doesn’t need to be a book. There should be a long-form piece by Dawgnation or someone. There’s so much there, it seems.
No One Knows You're a Dawg
Call it “. . . And Everyone Hated Jeremy”
or How Richt takes the fire out of DCs.
I’d say JP was pretty fired up when he called out Richt in his house on the Sunday meeting after GA/FL.
Rumored…..but the rumor was he called out Schotty, not Richt. Richt was supposedly the one who interfered. He should have let them go at it imo… : > )
as opposed to what we have now????….compare and contrast.
How about a lyric poem on the order of The Odyssey?
Aunt Edna
Mike Ekeler. Putting the “mean” in Mean Green.
Guy is rightfully salty I guess. A quick throwback to his comment from earlier this year: “I’m pretty proud of the new record I set,” said Ekeler, speaking by phone during a short return to Athens this week. “I’m the only coach in the history of the NCAA to be part of two staffs that get fired after winning 10 games and finishing with a top-10 defense. I’m pretty sure that’s never happened. I’d be willing to bet it hasn’t.”
Wait till Jack writes his.
So many career assistant coaches are so used to stuff like what happened at UGA last year that they are numb to it. That vagabond life has to get old but they accept it. Ekeler ain’t on his last stop you can bet.
If you’re arguing that last year was same old, same old in Athens, it wasn’t.
AugustaDawg
Jeremy Pruitt wouldn’t know tactfulness if it sat full weight on his face. The bull in the china shop was appalled at his behavior. The cameras caught him getting chippy with Saban on the sideline two weeks ago. Laner just takes that shit.
I noticed that when it happened. Saban yelled at him and he yelled back at Saban. I think Saban is such a strong coach that he doesn’t get his fi fi hurt by his Coordinators expressing their opinions. It not like he didn’t know Pruitt and his personality. The guy can coach and to Saban that’s the bottom line. Mark would have been better served if he had had a no assistant can speak to the media. Pruitt’s bomb throwing would have been less public. We will see if Pruitt is all we imagined over the next 3 – 4 weeks. Kiffin has certainly earned his pay check under Saban. If he had started his career under him he would have been much better at his HC jobs.
For guys like Ekeler it is. He admitted to being on staffs that got fired 2X after winning 10. It may not have been the norm for 15 years under Richt but it sure wasn’t peaches and cream for the staffs between Dooley and Richt.
I never get enough of the juicy gossip (as in, really, I don’t hear it). Who were the bad apples?
rpcpisme
My thoughts as well. I dont need to know the issue(s). However, I would like to know who caused them.
Well, we could assume that Mark Richt was really an asshole despite outward appearance. Or we could go with the gadfly in the system, Jeremy Pruitt. My money is on the latter.
I don’t see Richt as an asshole, he has more of a passive aggressive streak. On a football team, I’ll take the asshole.
SO!!!…you knew what went on behind closed doors??
Just as much as those blaming Pruitt for being an A-hole
since you put it that way, I see him more of a guy who does not like to throw people “under the bus”. Nor does he yell and scream at them on the sidelines. My guess is, he handles that stuff behind closed doors without the yelling and screaming. Treats them with respect, I do not see that as “passive aggressive” at all. The biggest fault that he had imo…was maybe his loyalty (see WM)….and that is not always a bad thing. I appreciate what he did in Athens, it will be hard to duplicate it.
I’m beginning to get the sense that not everyone liked Jeremy Pruitt.
Couple this with Rocker’s mutiny quote last year, the noise after the Florida game, and the one negotiating issue that was a 100% nonstarter for McG….I think you can pretty well piece together what happened last year.
yeah, but there is more to it. There has to be.
How did the O staff come up with our game plan for the Florida game with a bye week to prepare? It was basically “let’s keep doing what isn’t working, but with a less skilled QB”.
Why did Richt change philosophies after the Florida game? Seems like he should have done that two weeks earlier.
I could go on and on and on.
My feeling is that Richt stepped in at Florida once he realized BS was in over his head.
Two new coordinators were coming to town, no matter what.
But I have no reason to believe BS was the one making things miserable around the program. Once some guys on the team are a couple of years removed, the story will come out.
I have a theory, but like everyone else’s, it’s pure speculation.
down island way
Hold on now…….the HC hires who he wants, hitches his star to those coaches….overall staff hirings and raises given to those hirings at our beloved institution in the past 3-4 years had serious questions arise, before, during and after said hirings.
Oh agreed. Ultimately it looked like Richt didn’t have control of his own ship. Thus, he’s not here anymore.
I don’t KNOW anything. Just my impression from reading the tea leaves: Pruitt made a back channel run at Richt’s job post-Florida. While the powers that be squashed it, the optics were that Richt didn’t have his own staff in line. Just my thoughts, mostly likely 100% off base.
This is from a Dawgnation interview with Ekeler 9 months ago
“I learned a valuable lesson watching Brian Schottenheimer. He came into a situation where he tried to run an offense that was already in place and didn’t run his offense, so to speak. I didn’t want get into a situation like that after watching the difficulties that he had. When you do that – and I watched it happen – as a coordinator, and it’s not really your stamp but it’s your name, that’s not a good gig. That’s why I chose to go to North Texas with a guy I think is a rising star as a head coach and a great friend of mine.”
That makes it sound like Schottenheimer was told to run the Richt/Bobo offense and he had trouble doing it. Why Schottenheimer’s running of something other than his own offense wasn’t better discussed before he got the job idk.
Ekeler also thanked Richt for the opportunity Richt gave him (so did Richt hire him?) but pointedly said nothing about Pruitt and instead offered this when asked why he took the DC job at N. Texas:
“I had a chance to go to another SEC school, a couple of Big Ten schools, the Pac-12. But it wasn’t as sole coordinator. I want to get out front and lead and do it the way I want to do it and treat kids the way I want to do it, and I want to work with people I want to work with. I don’t want to be in rooms with people I don’t enjoy and don’t have much in common with.”
So Ekeler seems to have disliked Pruitt, but liked Richt and Schottenheimer, even though Richt and Schottenheimer didn’t seem to see eye to eye.
I wonder what would have happened with the coaching staff if Richt hadn’t been fired.
I remember that interview and my confusion then as well. the BS(initials and description) offense never looked like an attempt to run the legacy Richt/Bobo offense. I don’t doubt that Richt gave guidance to BS on things. He’s the head coach. that’s his job. But it just did not look like BS calling the Richt/Bobo offense. it looked fundamentally different while still being a pro style, multiple offense.
of course, ekeler doesn’t have a reason to lie about it, so I’ve continued to be confused by his statements.
I suspect the playbook and terminology went unchanged but BS was calling plays.
But let’s be candid…the offense was a hopeless mess b/c of the QB play. If AM had come back and played last year, I’ve no doubt we’d have performed better against UT and UF (Bama,not so much)
AM was out of eligibility after his senior season in 2013. He wasn’t eligible last year or the year before.
There was a halftime interview with Aaron Murray last season and he called it a different offense. As I recall, some the blocking schemes changed going from Friend to Sale.
I find it hard to believe that a guy with Mark Richt’s experience spent two weeks brain storming and trotted out Bauta to run a pro style offense. Richt seems fine at Miami, so I doubt he has lost his faculties. Who thought that would work? Now, if they had gone to Bauta, changed the offense to suit him, and it was a disaster, then it would make sense.
But then after the WLOCP it gets really ugly behind the scenes, so Richt takes control and we go to an ugly field position offense that eeks out wins. Heck, that’s what McEllwain did at Florida after he lost Greir and his offense started to be a shit show.
To put this in perspective, if Bobo was there I bet we see Bauta with a lot of wild dawg and trickery. We see Ramsey running some option on 3rd and 4th and short to keep the punt return team off the field. We see some new shit from a team that had 2 weeks off.
I’m waiting for the tell all book, because this is only one chapter. 😉
I think that he florida game plan might have been something, but it was going to be a lot more wild dawg with Sony. Sony breaks a long run on the first play, he breaks his wrist and then the play gets called back. Train immediately derails and we didnt really have a plan B.
Also from that earlier interview with Chip Towers after he was let go:
“I want people to know I really, really enjoyed the University of Georgia and really appreciate the opportunity Mark Richt gave me. I did not know those other guys before I stepped in,” he said. “… I knew no one when I came here. I’d never met Jeremy Pruitt; I’d never met Tracy Rocker; I’d never met Kevin Sherrer. Coach Richt gave me the opportunity and I’ll forever be grateful for that. Everywhere I’ve ever been, I’ve learned things, and I learned some valuable lessons (at Georgia). I’ll take away some things that I’ll value.”
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“The Jeremy Pruitt Indoor Practice Facility” isn’t going to happen? Without that press conference the administration probably would still be saying stuff like ‘at the spring meeting we are planning to discuss forming a committee to determine if we should form a working group to explore the possibility of putting together a panel of experts to determine the feasibility of exploring the issues involved in this major step going forward and tentatively preparing a report to be delivered at next years Board meeting, or possibly the year after that if more time is needed. Yadda, yadda, yadda.
JP was an asshole. That doesn’t mean he lit a fire in Athens and said fire had some positive consequences.
garbled that…he did light the fire that made some positive contributions, though he was disliked.
That press statement is spot on.
Look at it this way: Todd Grantham twice publicly embarrassed the program, plus played footsie with the NFL every year, plus had a horrible unit in 2013, and yet by all accounts, was coming back in 2014 until Petrino plucked him.
Pruitt was much better at his job IMO, yet regardless of who the coach was in 2016, was almost certainly not coming back. That should tell everyone how bad it was: they could stomach Grantham, but not Pruitt.
Pruitt made everyone uncomfortable right down to the janitors. He wanted the Bama Way as opposed to the Richt/Georgia Way but he wasn’t the head guy. Perhaps he woke everybody from their slumber and we ended up with a new head coach. After 15 years Richt was on borrowed time under any circumstances.
Maybe the locker room talk bothered Ekeler.
Jack Klompus
For all the positive results we saw on defense, JP was a negative energy, vampire that was divisive as an employee. Many organizations have highly skilled people who are cancers that cause bigger problems than they are worth. If it is a large corporation with strong resources, you can isolate them and still benefit from their skills. In a group as small, and interactive, as as a college coaching staff, there is no avoiding the problem. For Ekeler’s strong, public statement it must have been really bad inside the foxhole.
I have a buddy who works at BM. Not going to reveal his job title or the details that would give away his job, but he told me Pruitt tried to fire him on 3 different occasions. And by try, he’d say ‘GD it. This again? Johnny, you’re fired’… in a room full of people after something completely out of his control went awry. He said he learned to ignore him when he did it since Pruitt wasn’t his boss. Dude was a straight up horse’s behind.
FWIW. He told me in the spring that he really enjoyed working for Richt, but he’s a better person than he is a coach. He readily admitted it was time for him to go and that thus far he was really enjoying working for Kirby. ‘Great guy, best not to make him repeat himself.’
Thanks for sharing, and this is almost identical to the information I’ve heard as well (sans the firing part — obviously our sources are different). Unfortunately I heard the same re: Richt for quite a few years from insiders — great man, fair to pretty good coach, and yes it was time for a change, as the overall program itself was quite stale.
As for CKS, from what I understand he generally is liked, but he too can be abrasive at times and basically can wear on you quite a bit, as he’s demanding of pretty much everyone. Basically, if CMR is on one extreme, Pruitt the other, Smart is somewhere in the middle though slightly towards the Pruitt end of the spectrum. Speaking of Pruitt, I said last year at this time that he absolutely would not be retained under any circumstances (I believe I put the odds at 1-2%.) That dude was totally out of control.
Sounds about right RE: Smart’s demeanor. Same guy also told me that the Richt/Pruitt blowup at Richt’s house was VERY real. And that Thomas Brown was ready to take him down.
Yep, indeed. CMR, BMac, and TB were all very close, while Pruitt was close with Sherrer and, well, that’s pretty much it. As mentioned below, Schotty and Ekeler had their own little clique going on. So yea TB would certainly have his back, and IMO would have utterly destroyed Pruitt in a fight (if it had come to that).
Yet people still want to complain that Richt got shown the door? If even half of this stuff is true; coaches fighting, coaches firing support staff without authority, cliques forming, it represents a complete lack of leadership and failure of management.
“TB ….. IMO would have utterly destroyed Pruitt in a fight”
Ehhh, I don’t know. I saw TB in person once while he was still in school showing a recruit around the Ramsey Center, and I was stunned by how small he actually is. At the time, I was amazed that he could do what he did on the football field at that size. Admittedly, someone that size who plays football well is surely tough. But in my experience, winning fights has a lot to do with attitude, and I think Pruitt’s attitude would match TB’s and Pruitt has a decided size advantage as well. I am glad it didn’t come to that; I really don’t need to find out.
He is small height wise — I believe around 5-9. But TB is strong as heck, and I think he benched 400+ and squatted 600+ during his heyday. Also a tough dude as well with a mean streak in him if needed. Maybe you’re right, but my money would be on TB.
Not just strong, the strongest player, pound-for-pound, in UGA history. At least as of 2006.
5’8″ 190lbs. 470 bench, 610 squat.
http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2006/08/31/uga_94757.shtml#.V__YauArKhc
I stood right next to him. He might be 5′ 7″. There’s no way he was 190 pounds. But don’t get me wrong – I admired what he could do and he is in the top 25 of my favorite Dawgs – I just don’t think that is the same thing as ‘taking somebody out’. Those weights he was lifting weren’t fighting back. It’s just not the same thing.
Let’s remember who you are comparing him to — Jeremy Pruitt. JP is a rather short guy himself. Dude is quite dumpy looking (sadly like most middle aged American men), and basically just looks soft. Not exactly someone who you would be all that nervous about if he challenged you to a fight.
TB is short, maybe, but he ain’t little. Fighting with him would be like fighting with a barrel of cement, if the barrel of cement was also quick as a hiccup. I’m taking TB and laying the points in that matchup. Pruitt would have found out pretty quickly the difference between being a mouthy redneck and being an actual badass pretty fast, I suspect.
I’ll always be grateful to Pruitt for what he did for our program. I don’t care one bit whether Richt, Schottenheimer, Ekeler, McGarity, etc. are mad at him. The Butts-Mehre Country Club needed to be burned to the ground and he was just the man to do it.
Mostly agree, though he could have employed a lot more tact overall. He needs to be thanked for moving the construction of the IPF up at least 3-4 years — something CMR failed to accomplish — but again he was way over the top too. It would be akin to a new COO coming in and calling out the terrible structure currently in place while recommending a litany of really smart solutions…then abrasively approaching you/your colleagues privately and calling you a pathetic loser, lazy, idiotic, and basically a worthless employee (whether accurate or not).
I agree. I didn’t say I wanted to work with or for the guy, just that I was grateful to him for what he did. And I don’t know that I would ever hire him either.
Although, if he’s such a cancer, you have to wonder why Saban brought him back for round 2 of having him on staff. My guess is that there isn’t as much incompetence for Pruitt to rage against in Tuscaloosa, so it’s not as much of an issue there.
Can’t imagine where we’d have been in 2014 and 2015 without CJP.
– He was easily the top recruiter during his stint.
– He turned an awful D around in a very short time.
– We’re getting an IPF because of Pruitt. Nobody else even deserves more than a slight mention when credit for the IPF is discussed.
Trash CJP all you want. But when his career is over he’ll have far, far more championship rings than CMR or anyone else on the ’14 and ’15 staffs.
Oops, should have said ‘people can trash Pruitt all they want’. Obviously, I agree with ATL Dawg’s post.
This is all very true. BTW, let’s not forget that Schotty and Ekeler were very close and are basically good friends, so no surprise that he was generally miserable last year as well.
If all of these accounts of the assholeishness of JP are correct, then you have to wonder and possibly admire that Saban either has a way to negate the ill effects JP brings to the program or actually uses it in some positive way. Since the prospects of JP undermining Saban and “the process” are non-existent, one has to wonder if Pruitt’s way fits “the process” to a T and as thus was anathema ( yes I’ve been waiting to use that word) to CMR’s patchwork staff’s un-melded methods and philosophies.
Perhaps JP detected a sense of lack of focus..or slight confusion..in the program and either tried to fix it with unseemly actions, or execute a coup against CMR. Either way he was out of place, even though he may have been right about the failing tendencies of the status quo.
Regardless, JP has to know that he is now at his pinnacle job, unless he aspires to succeed Saban one day. I’d say he’s a lot more like NS than Junior is.
Bama is a well oiled machine with an extremely strong, omnipotent leader; so its only natural that CJP would fall right in line and behave accordingly. However, when things are in disarray and you have a weak leader at the helm, guys like CJP are going to basically run wild and try to rule the ship themselves. Saban knows this, thus he had little qualms about bringing Pruitt onboard.
From the linked article:
“With a resume that has coaching gigs at the University of Southern California, Oklahoma University, Louisiana State University, Indiana University, Nebraska University, and most recently, the University of Georgia, there is little doubt Ekeler could have landed just about anywhere in the country he wanted to go.”
“I’ve worked at some of the greatest schools history-wise in the game,” Ekeler said. “But what it boils down to is people. You can be at the University of Georgia and be miserable if you’re working with shitty people. I really enjoy my work environment and the players here.”
Paraphrasing the great Tim Wilson:
“Hell, if you’ve been fired 9 times, maybe it’s you.”
I think this Ekelar guy is probably a bigger asshole than Pruitt.
tonyqbr
This guy is Captain dipshit.
His comment about being the only guy who got fired after fielding a top 10 defense.
It’s all about ranked teams:
In 2015, record 0-3
Defensive scoring ranking in 2015 vs ranked teams- 12th in conference, 49th nationally
Average points given up vs ranked teams in 2015:
That will get your ass fired every time.
Correct, and well said. This also is what ultimately got CMR fired — his rather pathetic record vs. ranked opponents, which was something like 13-27 over his final 5 years. Yet, even today people continue to trot out the tired line of how pathetic is was to fire a 10 win coach…all while conveniently leaving out that, of those 10 wins, exactly zero of them came against teams with a winning record.
right on, and you can see a jersey change did Mark Richt no good, still gets his ass kicked vs ranked teams.
Yea but he won his first 4 games at The U by an average margin of 30 points! See?…we made a mistake firing him! Not just our own fans, even Colin Cowherd jumped on that train last week and was espousing such B.S. — conveniently leaving out that they beat app state, FAU, GT, and Fl. A&M. Not exactly a brutal schedule.
It always comes down to your record in big games and/or your record vs. ranked opponents; padding your record on the UK’s, Vandy’s (most years), and Troy’s of the world means nothing.
Richt can’t outcoach ranked teams, that’s not ever going to change.
He will lose to V Tech (the only other ranked team on his schedule) and
very possibly 1-2 more losses to unranked teams (NC, Notre Dame, NC St).
His Qb and Rb’s both struggled vs FSU, Miami’s only ranked matchup so far,
so Mark Richt being the OC didn’t change anything. Glad we didn’t buy that lie.
Well I’m not quite as pessimistic on CMR as you, and let’s give him a year or two at UM before judging him. I personally wish him well, though I don’t think his stint at UM will go as smoothly as others have predicted.
With that said, if I had to briefly sum up the difference between CMR and Smart, and why I strongly feel that UGA will be a consistent, major power sooner than later (with a natl championship coming our way by 2020), it would simply be this:
Olddawg 55
I watched the game, fellows, and while both struggled to impose their will equally, let’s not forget it took a blocked extra point to win the game. Additionally, CMR is a first year coach, too! Did you see the Nichols St game??
Dude, really? CMR is 56 and has been a HC for 16 years. Smart is 39 and has been a HC for 4 games. Trying to compare these two as relative equals is utterly absurd.
FSU did play 1/3 of the game without their starting QB too. Manny Diaz had his defense ready to play. Miami’s offense looked meh at best.
Miami offense looked pretty bad with Mark Richt as OC vs FSU.
Rushing:
2.2 ypc
Passing:
Kaaya’s qbr dropped from the 90’s in the previous 2 games to 63.
And Kaaya was sacked 3 times for 15 yards.
Also, you don’t expect an experienced Qb like Kaaya to be ranked 7th in the ACC in qbr.
http://www.espn.com/ncf/qbr/_/group/1
North Texas has only played 1 team that’s currently ranked in the top 25, Florida, and they lost 32-0.
Same ole shit from Ekeler. A new jersey/team can’t change the coach.
You have one guy that is a million dollar mistake.
You have another guy that is pissing everyone off, not a little, a lot.
And you have the rest of guys saying all kinds of cra cra.
Not the best recipe for job keeping.
Ekeler thinks most of us value a good defensive performance vs Southern U or Ky,
more than how you play in the big games like Bama, Tenn, and UF in 2015.
Of course you can modify your stats by beating up on the little guys, but true
colors come out when you play the ranked teams.
2012, 2013, and 2015 have sucked royally there.
2014 was the only year we ranked #1 in def scoring vs ranked teams, and Ekeler wasn’t here.
Misspelled misquoted
Meanwhile the J. Reid Parker Director of Atheletics is still hanging on somehow.
I know it’s meant to be funny, but I’d encourage people to not use “J.Reid Parker” as a punchline.
He was an esteemed faculty member in Forestry for decades and survived the sinking of the Leopoldville during WWII.
Even more to the point that McGarity is in over his head. Has not matched the hires and sucess than none other than Mr Panties himself and wears that title. And I’m sure lakedawg in no way disrespected that esteemed faculty member.
Omd.
I’m just glad that shit is over.
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← A patriotic stab
A simple Monday question →
“We don’t want the game to move, but don’t give us a reason to move it.”
Good assessment of the Cocktail Party’s future from a Jacksonville beat writer’s perspective here.
If there’s any legitimate threat to the game leaving Jacksonville, it’d be a combination of two things: not acquiescing to the schools’ contractual demand of the Georgia-Florida game capacity remaining 82,917, along with any future push from Georgia to maybe bring Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium into the equation on a biennial basis.
It’s no secret the replacement venue for the demolished Georgia Dome has become a huge neutral-site player on the college football landscape. With an expanded capacity of 75,000, though it’s almost 8,000 less seats than TIAA Bank Field, the only way Atlanta can significantly outspend Jacksonville for the Georgia-Florida game in terms of payout would be to charge at least double for club seats.
“The biggest threat [for Jacksonville] is somebody comes along and offers $5 million per team,” said TaxSlayer Gator Bowl president Rick Catlett. “But to get that, you have to set the same price as Atlanta and Dallas gets for neutral-site games. So those club seats that are $125 [at TIAA Bank Field] might have to go as high as $300. I know Georgia won’t want to do that to its fan base.”
In other words, the game isn’t coming to Atlanta. But you knew that, right?
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78 responses to ““We don’t want the game to move, but don’t give us a reason to move it.””
Georgia won’t want to do that to it’s fan base? Somebody hasn’t been paying attention.
With that said; either leave it alone or just go to a ‘home and home’ and be done with all of this. I’m guessing that is where Kirby is as well.
Playing the game in the dome would be fun; but what makes Jax – Jax is the weekly build up to the game, getting there early for your favorite tail gating spot.
You can’t really do any of that in Atlanta. I’m find with leaving it in Jax (tradition – all that good stuff); but there is a side of me that would like to see Kirby go into the swamp and thump the Gators much like they did when Spurrier came into Sanford Stadium the same year the Braves won the World Series.
Corch Irvin Meyers New USC Trojans Corch (2020)
We’re going to find out sooner than most people think about who has the juice inside B-M.
I’ll put my money on Kirby Smart. This is the last contract in which Jacksonville will own the totality of the Georgia-Floria Game. I think we’ll move to a cycle of 4 years on campuses and 1 year in Jacksonville as a kind of compromise. You can’t do campus-campus-Jax, because it doesn’t divide evenly into a decade. You can do campus-campus-campus-campus-Jax, because that does divide evenly into a decade.
Kirby is going to get his way. As much as the boosters who pull feckless McGarity’s strings want to stay in Jax, they want to keep Kirby happy more.
I really don’t think Kirby cares. He wins either way. The AA gets more money from Jacksonville to fund his Death Star construction projects and the Cocktail Party keeps its unique tradition for recruiting purposes, or he gets an extra recruiting weekend every other year while losing the recruiting value associated with the neutral site game.
I still don’t understand why he has decided to push his goodwill chips into the middle of the table on this issue.
The net gain of keeping it home vs. going to Jacksonville is about 4 million dollars. Georgia makes about $2M a home game. They get $3M per game from Jax, but in 2 years, they’d only have one home game vs. two paydays from Jax.
Now, $4M seems like a lot of money to you and me. But with SEC paydays increasing every year, and the fact that Georgia is the most solvent program in the conference and one of the most profitable in the entire country, $4M doesn’t mean as much as it would to say, the NATS.
If you don’t think Kirby cares, you’d be 100% wrong. Kirby doesn’t talk about, especially to the media, anything he doesn’t care about for real. He’s as calculating as his old boss in that way. If he’s talking about it, he cares about it. He wants this game on campus. That’s why I said we’re about to find out who has the real juice in Athens.
UGA also gets travel expenses covered by Jax, on top of the straight payout.
The idea that a couple of million dollars a year doesn’t mean as much to B-M cuts against everything we’ve ever seen from the athletic department.
It’s what it means for Kirby, if we are to believe the words reportedly as from his mouth. Yeah, it’s worth a couple of mil that will go towards his recruiting needs and against some other kinda’ B-M needs. He gets to play on an even SEC recruiting field with that extra recruiting game not at a neutral site; at least in his mind. Maybe his by-now-claimed couple of mil will help him attain Zenith Recruitment for UGA. Who would deny him at that stage?
That it’s being shaped up by the sports media as a test of Kirby’s strength within B-M’s GOBs is just the media ramping up to this story and playing Rushin’ the Rulin’ (recruitment at a neutral site SEC game) in the process.
No doubt Kirby would be happier hosting Florida’s recruits in Athens. 😉
If Kirby wants to ratchet up the “natty or bust” talk, end the Jacksonville game by all means. He’ll find out how quickly the fan base will turn on him if he ends the Cocktail Party and doesn’t deliver a national championship to Athens.
If he expects everyone to fall in line behind him on this, he better accept and meet the expectations that would come with it.
Here’s the thing, you’re assuming ALL of DawgNation is against the idea of moving the game from Jacksonville. Every poll or survey I’ve seen shows it’s split pretty much down the middle. So before Kirby began speak about what he wants, he already had half of all Georgia fans on his side.
I have seen those reports, too.
My guess is that respondents fit into one of three groups.
1. The group that actually buys tickets to the game and attends;
2. The group that gives to Magill or Hartman, buys season tickets to home games but does not buy tickets to the Florida game; and
3. The group in Dawgnation that does not contribute and does not buy season tickets or tickets to the Florida game.
Obviously the third group is the largest (the stadium capacities put a hard limit on the number of people who can buy tickets through UGA.)
The second group would be larger than the first.
I wonder how the vote breaks down within each group. My guess (and yes, it is just a guess) is that the third group would have big majority saying, “Move it to home and away,” and the first group would have big majority saying, “keep it in Jacksonville.”
The most interesting question, to me, is how the second group (the folks financially supporting the team who do not buy UF game tickets) voted. Another guess of mine is that since the numbers of potential voters in the third group are so much larger than the potential voters in the first group, then in order to make the final tally about 50% to 50% the second group would probably be in favor of keeping it in Jacksonville.
I could be totally wrong; it is possible that the only respondents were the membranes of the Dawgnation who contribute and buy UF tickets, and half of those want it moved. That would surprise me, but I cannot disprove it.
I also cannot prove my next hypothesis, which is that the voters in the first two groups will carry more weight with McGarity and Morehead than the voters in the 3rd group. UGA gets no money from those people, so losing their support over the issue doesn’t cost anything.
This is a long way of saying that the poll results showing 50%-50% split by respondents may not show the influence behind each side of the vote.
The fact that McGarity cites it, though, without explaining the breakdowns, so smell like a PR campaign to justify the move to the paying customers.
I’m a season ticket holder. I know of many like me who want the game moved to Athens because I’m tired of paying for home tickets with one less game every other year, and not being able to see the best rivalry game we have without shelling out a ton of extra money for the tickets, hotel, gas, food, etc.
If Bama-Auburn can move on campus, so can Georgia-Floriduh.
Are in in group 1 or group 2? How about the “many like me” you canvassed?
In any event, I never said or though that there vote in any of the three groups would be unanimous.
WordPress, we need an edit function. That last sentence was supposed to be, “In any event, I never said or thought that the vote in any of the three groups would be unanimous.”
Corch, the problem is, as soon as you move it to home and home it ceases to be the best rivalry game we have. The location is literally the DNA of the game. If it doesn’t take place in Jacksonville it ceases to be the WLOCP. People won’t be coming to Athens on Wednesday and Thursday to stay for three or four days, tailgate, play golf and hang out at the beach because you can’t do those things in Athens. It simply will not be the same game.
I’m in group 2, Gaskill, and I want the game in Jacksonville until the Gators beg to have it moved like they did before 1990.
I am in Group 1. I really have no strong feelings either way but if forced to vote I would keep it in Jacksonville. The “recruiting disadvantage” argument is not persuasive to me. I do understand the value of taking care of Hartman Fund contributors from SE Georgia for whom round trip to Athens is inconvenient and the Jacksonville game is “their game.” I also believe that, at least now, we have the advantage on the field every year, while going every other year to Gainesville would reduce our advantage we have every odd numbered year.
Also, if we make less money over a two year period McGarity will try to squeeze the deficit from you and me.
Staying in JAX equally funds FU’s AA and whatever projects, recruiting, etc. FU wants too. Just sayin.’
No, it doesn’t. The funding is literally not what Kirby is talking about, because funding will never a problem for UGA. He’s talking about the ability to host recruits at home in the best gameday atmosphere there is. Bama can do that with Auburn, and vice versa. We can’t do that with going to Jacksonville.
Kirby is telling you what he wants. If giving him what he wants helps us win a national title because we hosted a group of recruits who help us cover the backend on on a 2nd and 26 to win that title, then YOU GIVE HIM WHAT HE WANTS!
Oh, ALL CAPS. That changes everything.
He wants to make sure you hear him..
Jacksonville is to blame for why Malkom Parrish got run by and Dominick Sanders got fooled by Tua. I’ve heard it all now.
I don’t worship at the high altar of Kirby as you do, so a couple of details are a bit murky to me. What’s Kirby’s leverage here — is he going to threaten to leave over Jax? And if he’s that motivated to move the game because of recruiting, why will UGA play any games at all in Jax if he gets his way?
JCDawg83
I’m with you on the Kirby thing. I like what he appears to be doing but, so far, he has achieved Richt’s results with better talent. Recruiting is better but the win total is identical, as is the championship total. I think Kirby’s upside is higher but I’m not ready to turn control of every aspect of the football program over to him just yet. Kirby has opinions on everything related to the program but, like everyone, he has to decide which issue he is really willing to go all in on. Honestly, I don’t see the game in Jacksonville being a hill Kirby is willing to die on.
This old chestnut, “He’s just done exactly what Richt did.”
No. Not even close.
Richt NEVER went undefeated vs. the East in all 15 years here. Kirby is 12-0 vs. the East the last two years.
Richt’s teams never averaged a double-digit points differential of the East in a season. Kirby’s done it two years in a row.
Richt NEVER made it to the championship round. Kirby’s done so, winning the Rose Bowl.
Richt’s team NEVER attained a number 1 ranking at any point after a season began. They started a season number 1 in 2008, but didn’t earn it on the field. Kirby’s team was ranked number 1 at some point in 2017 and 2018.
During the CMR era, I heard over and over that Championships were what mattered and were the bottom line.
Now the goalposts have drastically changed apparently
And the “never made a championship round” stuff just further invalidates almost any argument you can make
LOL. Okay. No goalposts have moved, though you seem quite butthurt about the idea of it. It’s been said Kirby just accomplished what Richt has. I’m correctly stating though the records are coincidentally the same, Kirby’s teams are accomplishing what Richt’s teams NEVER DID in 15 years.
Take the butthurt elsewhere.
Jeez, Mary Beth, don’t the kids have a soccer game or swim meet to get to? Get off the internet.
Like I said… the butthurt is strong.
Totally absurd comparison. Absolutely ridiculous. Their records are essentially the same. Both won an SEC title and both lost in the same game. Kirby advanced to the final simply because there were 4 slots. Richt would have done the same in 02 had there been a 4 team playoff. Richt also never had a season where he went 1-3 against Tech, Auburn, Tennessee and Florida. Never. I agree that Kirby is in better position if no other reason than his recruiting advantage. But he has made enough bone headed coaching moves in big games that I am not ready to cede everything.
Bob, the name is Bob, right? You are an absurdly, ridiculous person.
Firstly, to claim that Richt “would’ve done” the same thing had the rules been the same in 2002 is absurd. For all we know of Richt’s history at UGA, like with other huge games, he would’ve been blown out like became his calling card.
Secondly, Kirby’s Georgia team is DESTROYING the SEC Eastern Division unlike any Georgia team has ever done. What this team has done the last two years is HISTORICAL. You could say it’s absurdly ridiculous.
Your butthurt is registered, Bob. Thank you.
His calling card in 2002 wasn’t getting blown out in big games. We were 12-1 after SEC championship game with a single digit loss in Jacksonville (still shouldn’t have lost that game). I don’t know if we would have won the title in 2002, but I do know if the current system were in place that year, we would have been playing Ohio State instead of Florida State on New Year’s Day for a shot.
The records are similar the first 3 years of Smart vs. Richt. You can cherrypick every stat you want, but the won-loss records are similar. Has Kirby over the last 2 years been better than Richt’s last 2 years in Athens? No doubt about it.
Don’t throw facts, however obvious, at him ee. His butt might not be hurting, but his ass is certainly showing in this thread. It isn’t that he is illogical in his take on history, many have mistaken takes every day on any blog, but he is adamant that everyone else should take their brain out of gear so he can be right. And if you don’t see it his way, he will defend it as long as there is bandwidth on the interwebs. Anyone not got it yet? Good, maybe he will move along until time for the next sermon. Perhaps we don’t have to see him repeat his points a full dozen times.
What facts? He’s literally just stating their records and saying they’re the same. I’m the one providing context to show that while the records are similar, the teams Kirby has built and coached are far beyond anything Richt ever did, thus his accomplishments are not “the same.”
But keep on with the ad hominem, Macallan. It’s all you have.
All true but the bottom line is the same. If Kirby can give Saban like results for 5-10 years in a row I’ll be more likely to defer to what he wants. Until then, I don’t like the idea of doing away with close to a century of tradition because a coach who has almost won a national championship wants one more recruiting weekend every other year.
Kirby works for the AA and should answer to them and the fans, not the other way around.
This is classic Georgia Way. Demand results first, then give the HC what he says he needs to get the results.
Bingo. These people are beaten-down wretches that McGarity can keep on bilking at will and they think they have minds of their own. To end the Georgia Way, you have to smash it forever.
If that means sacrificing Jacksonville is the last step of doing that, I want it to happen. It needs to happen.
I did not know that recruiting has been a problem for Kirby the past 4 years.
The reason Kirby is our coach is because the AD and a large enough percentage of the fanbase concluded we had recruited talent that was good enough to win a national championship but the coaching staff was unable to turn that talent into champions.
I remember those Getthepicture debates vividly.
Tony Barnfart
I vehemently disagree that the prior coach had the talent to win the natty.
PTC DAWG
Kirby’s first 3 years compared to Richt’s last 3 years makes more sense to me.
That said, I would hate to see the game moved from Jax..
Kirby’s not an idiot, but at the same time, of course he’d 100% want all games on campus. I’m telling you what I’d do. Move 8 of 10 games every decade on campus, return to Jax 2 times every 10 years.
It’s not about worshipping at any high altar, Senator. It’s simply seeing which way the wind blows. If Kirby doesn’t get his way on this, will he leave Georgia? No, or at the very least, most likely not. But if he doesn’t get his way on this, if and when he does win a national title, I think he’d be much more apt to throw his weight around. If McGarity pushes back on this, and then Kirby goes out and wins it all, the changes he’ll enact in B-M will make Greg’s head spin, beginning with who occupies the AD office.
Kirby has a one track mind, as all great football coaches should. If anyone else isn’t rolling in his direction, then they’re in his way. I’m betting on Kirby, because I’m betting on us winning a title or two in the next five years.
“He’d 100% want all games on campus.”
If playing on campus was so damn important to him, why are we playing in Atlanta 3 times in the next 5 years?
I have no doubt Kirby is the better fundraiser and negotiator. McGarity will crunch the numbers on the proposals and get UF’s input. Morehead will make the final recommendation for UGA.
I’m confident they’re on the same team for this one.
Jacksonville wants the game and will make concessions, unlike Atlanta and the Braves. It will come down to how much more $$ both schools will squeeze out of the deal.
Again, if Kirby says he wants this game home and home because of recruiting, you best listen to what he’s saying and not what you think he’s saying. Kirby is not McGarity. He doesn’t speak out of both sides of his mouth. When he says something, he means it. He’s not negotiating. He’s not trying to leverage for more money. He knows Georgia makes enough money to do everything he wants to do. He’s telling you exactly what he wants. He wants this game to move home and home, because he wants to wring every ounce he can from recruiting opportunities.
Does he tell you where to set your knee pads too ?
Frenette was always the voice of reason in the Florida Times-Union compared to that idiot that now writes in Orlando. He hits every argument for moving the game right between the eyes and boils it down to 3 million reasons the game isn’t going to move.
The administrations know the payouts are practically 100% profit. Ticket holders aren’t going to be happy about the move to a smaller venue (MBS). Of course, he didn’t say Georgia people don’t want to travel to Hogtown every other year.
If the City of Jacksonville takes care of both sides with a good deal, there’s no reason to move the game.
55 DAYZ…..
I doubt CBS would be pleased with an end to Jax. And despite what anyone may think of Greg Mediocrity’s, or Morehead’s, or even Kirby’s, influence on changing the series, I believe the TV honchos are gonna have the final say. So I deem the whole Jax discussion as just empty talk.
I guess its all a negotiating strategy. Although I’m not sure how effective complaining about one recruiting weekend every other year will be. We don’t hear much yapping from the other characters involved: fu, Jax, and CBS.
I agree about CBS. The TV guys aren’t going to just say, “We love this idea. Throw in that ESPN and the SEC Network want to do their shows from Jacksonville whenever possible.
Faltering Memory
This is the biggest vote in the room, always. CBS promotes this game for weeks in advance. They will weigh in when it comes to the nut cutting.
I’ll never understand how ATL gets into this discussion. Florida wouldn’t go for that would they?
Most Georgia people don’t want the game to move to Atlanta.
Atlanta is another negotiating chip, just like home and home.
What I think too. Kirby is too much of a traditionalist to make this crazy move, unless JAX is dumb enough to not up the ante. $3MM doesn’t have the same weight as it was last time around, and both recipients are stronger financially. Only logical they have to raise the rates to keep UGA and FU happy, and they don’t want to answer to angry business constituents.
Jacksonville has a lot of taxpayers to spread higher payouts over, and would be smart to hit other tax jurisdictions up for money because they benefit as well. I think it is 80+% certain this gets done and the tradition is preserved. Neither party has a decent argument to tear it down, both sides benefit and there is no disadvantage to either. Seems like a lot blustering to establish better negotiating position. Kirby has things going his way, doubt he wants to get the blame for ripping apart such a great 85 year old tradition and tarnishing his legacy. Why would he go out on that limb? If anything, Mullen should be the one advancing the recruiting disadvantage, Kirby doesn’t sound too smart firing from this particular angle. But then, it doesn’t seem that Mullen really understands the whole recruiting thing anyway.
Mac, good comments all especially why would this be the tradition for Kirby to take on.
Richt: 32-8, 2 SEC East titles, 1 SECCG win, 1 AP top 5 finish, 2 AP top 10 finishes
Kirby: 32-10, 2 SEC East titles, 1 SECCG win, 1 AP top 5 finish, 2 AP top 10 finishes
Kirby 4-5 against West
Richt 8 -3 versus West
To me, titles is what matters (just countering the 15 & 0 East record of Smart’s).
The title game that Richt has never reached that you mentioned should not be a comparison at all. Different format then.
Too early to tell, agree with JC.
Again, you’re pointing to the final record results as if the teams they have are the same. They’re not even close. Richt never went undefeated in the division. Not once. Kirby’s done it two years in a row. Richt never had a double digit point differential in the division. Not even once. Kirby’s done it twice in a row. Kirby’s also brought in talent Richt never did, which is the reason why he’s won like he has.
And I like how you say Kirby making it as far as he did shouldn’t count, just because Richt never could get there in all the chances he had.
2 teams chosen back then versus 4 today. Never said it should not have counted, I said it should not be compared…..also too hard to compare teams, subjective.
Things look pretty damn even to me, too early to tell who the better coach is. But I certainly hope you are right, it certainly feels more promising. We just don’t know yet.
How do things look fairly even? They’re not even close.
Richt’s teams won games in the division mostly by an average of one score, and he never went undefeated against the East. Kirby’s teams are dominating the division at a historical pace, going unbeaten the last two years.
It’s not close to being even.
LOL!!…..unbelievable. To me, ”a win is a win, they all count the same”. If you can’t see how even it is from what I posted, I can’t help you.
If you are down now to only score differential, you win.
Smart is clearly the better coach, no doubt….SMH.
Just to put some apples with your “apples”…Kirby wasn’t coaching against Spurrier or Meyer (who both won Nattys from the East BTW). In fact, when he has faced coaches who have actually won a Natty (Saban and Malzahn) his record is 3-3. So if you’re gonna compare records against the East, you may wanna also factor in the level of coaching there as well. Not even close to the same caliber now as then. Dominating the East has been impressive. But that’s not the goal, is it? And before you reply with the “butthurt,” I am not a Richt apologist. I see the potential upside with Kirby. I’m Just saying you are doing some cherry picking as well sir.
Thinks the only one “butthurt” is him, he doesn’t like that some do not agree with him. I haven’t seen one “apologist” in this thread yet….
Still too early to tell, but I certainly hope that Kirby is better. I would think that is what we all would want.
See my comment above..
(Comparing the first three years)
0-2 vs Ron Zook
That’s the difference for me and it’s a huge one.
I’m hitting shit or get off the pot on this issue, regardless of my preferences. Which means it will continue indefinitely.
Salty Dawg
“So those club seats that are $125 [at TIAA Bank Field] might have to go as high as $300. I know Georgia won’t want to do that to its fan base.”
HA! As if McScroogy wouldn’t jump at the chance to rub his paws together and cackle at the thought of ripping off the fan base for mo money, mo money, mo money!
I have heard Kirby wants to movie because of recruiting, didn’t the ncaa pass a rule that teams can recruit at neutral sight games if both teams agree? I thought it was a few years ago but Richt and the uf coach at the time side they didn’t want to? Maybe it was only the home team able to have visitors, is Kirby going to revisit this with Mullen?
Reipar
If you host a recruit for a neutral site game it counts as the official visit. That is definitely not an ideal situation.
Exactly, Reipar. Plus, because the team returns to Athens Saturday night, the coaches lose the Sunday visit time in Athens with the recruits. When the visit is in Athens the coaches have face time Friday evening, too, and if the recruits are in Jacksonville and UGA is traveling Friday we lose some Friday face time opportunity, too.
Plus, every ticket UGA gets to TIAA Bank Field that does not go to the band and students go to contributors at the following levels. Only folks with Hartman Fund scores of $60,000.00 or above get club level seats, and only Hartman Fund contributors at the $10,000.00 or higher level got them.
I do not know how many recruits we would host at the UF game, but figure, since the recruit and family are invited, maybe 4 tickets per recruit. The recruiting hosts and hostesses would likewise need tickets. All of those tickets would come from tickets formally sold to 5 digit contributors. That is a problem, too.
Gas, with the maths. Valid
Don T Oquinn
leave the game in Jacksonville
Interesting I never hear all this over the red river rivalry. At least not on this level. So few traditions left. Btw _ the swamp sucks. Horrible arena. So much talk about our home game without talking about their home game.
These people who want the game home and home completely ignore this. I don’t want that fan base in Athens ever again. I also don’t think a game in Hogtown every other year sounds very good either.
But Kirby is going to bring a national championship to Athens if only we didn’t have to play a game in Jacksonville for recruiting. That excuse is as bad as the weather, the bus to Atlanta for the plane to Jacksonville, or the game is in Florida excuses we heard for years before that. Give me a break.
Thank you brother.
It’s almost as if people forgot why we hate Florida so fucken much
All this for Kirby stating about what he feels is a deficit to those recruiting heights that he can obtain (his way of thinking, being a HC and all…). He is trying to up his recruiting game and if you can’t coldly look at it his way, no harm – no foul.
You want him to recruit and coach big enough to give you that NC you covet for the team, right? Pony up, beginning with your emotional attachments to this one.
Give me a break, Cojones. We’re recruiting at a level we’ve never experienced.
Have you thought about the side of the story that guys see the Cocktail Party and say, “I want to be a part of that”?
If we leave Jax, we leave with our tails between our legs and will deserve every bit of grief thrown our way.
If UGA leaves Jax, it’ll be because of the money and B-M won’t care what anybody thinks about it.
I agree. I also think all of this is just bluster for the next round of negotiations. I go back to my original comment. Kirby wins either way by getting more money for the program or by getting his coveted one recruiting weekend. If this were happening, we would already be saying we weren’t signing the next deal regardless of the financial offer.
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Volume 6 Supplement 1
Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'11)
Detecting differentially methylated loci for Illumina Array methylation data based on human ovarian cancer data
Zhongxue Chen1,
Hanwen Huang2,
Jianzhong Liu3,
Hon Keung Tony Ng4,
Saralees Nadarajah5,
Xudong Huang6 &
Youping Deng7
BMC Medical Genomics volume 6, Article number: S9 (2013) Cite this article
It is well known that DNA methylation, as an epigenetic factor, has an important effect on gene expression and disease development. Detecting differentially methylated loci under different conditions, such as cancer types or treatments, is of great interest in current research as it is important in cancer diagnosis and classification. However, inappropriate testing approaches can result in large false positives and/or false negatives. Appropriate and powerful statistical methods are desirable but very limited in the literature.
In this paper, we propose a nonparametric method to detect differentially methylated loci under multiple conditions for Illumina Array Methylation data. We compare the new method with other methods using simulated and real data. Our study shows that the proposed one outperforms other methods considered in this paper.
Due to the unique feature of the Illumina Array Methylation data, commonly used statistical tests will lose power or give misleading results. Therefore, appropriate statistical methods are crucial for this type of data. Powerful statistical approaches remain to be developed.
R codes are available upon request.
It is well known that DNA methylation has important effects on transcriptional regulation, chromosomal stability, genomic imprinting, and X-inactivation [1, 2]. It has been also shown to be associated with many human diseases, such as various types of cancer [3–11].
With the advances of BeadArray technology, genome-wide high-throughput methylation data can be easily generated by Illumina GoldenGate and Infinium Methylation Assays. After preprocessing steps, such as background correction and normalization, are applied to the raw fluorescent intensities, for each locus, from about 30 replicates in the same array a summarized β-value is generated as follows: max M , 0 max M , 0 + max U , 0 + 100 , where M is the average signal from a methylated allele while U is that from unmethylated allele. The β -values are continuous numbers between 0 and 1, with 0 stands for totally unmethylated and 1 for completely methylated.
It has been shown that the β -value is rarely normally distributed [9, 12, 13]. Therefore the commonly used t-test for case control designs or ANOVA for multiple conditions are not the most powerful approaches when detecting differentially methylated loci. Observing this, Wang has proposed a model-based likelihood ratio test to detect differentially methylated loci for case and control data under the assumption that the β -value follows a three-component normal-uniform distribution [9]. Wang showed that for some situations, their proposed test was better than the simple t-test based on simulation studies.
However, in their method, Wang did not consider the effect of age, which has been shown highly associated with methylation [14, 15]. Noticing the importance of age effect, one may use a linear regression with age included as a covariate when analyze methylation data with multiple conditions, such as cancer types. However, the underlying assumption of equal variances may not be satisfied [12]. Therefore the commonly used linear regression method may not be appropriate.
In this paper, we consider methylation data with multiple conditions and propose a nonparametric method which incorporates the age effect in a way through the idea of combining p-values from independent tests [12, 16, 17]. More specifically, we first group subjects into several age groups based on their age; then for each age group, a nonparametric Kruskal-Wallis test is conducted for the given locus and the p-value is recorded. An overall p-value for that locus will be estimated through combining the p-values from all age groups. Using a real methylation data with three conditions and a simulation study, we show that the proposed test is more powerful than other methods, including linear regression.
Proposed method
Assume there are K conditions and G age groups. For each age group g (g = 1,2,...,G), we apply the nonparametric Kruskal-Wallis test and obtain a p-value p g K W , then the overall p-value can be estimated by Fisher test [18]:
p K W = χ d f = 2 G 2 ( χ 2 > - 2 ∑ g = 1 G log ( p g K W ) )
Combined ANOVA test
Similarly, we can use ANOVA to replace KW test for each age group and obtain an overall p-value with p g K W being replaced by the p-value p g A N O V A from ANOVA test:
p A N O V A = χ d f = 2 G 2 ( χ 2 > - 2 ∑ g = 1 G log ( p g A N O V A ) )
Combined median test
Another nonparametric test is median test using the following statistic for each age group:
M=4 ∑ k = 1 K ( A k - n k / 2 ) 2 n k , where A k is the number of times that the ranks of individual observations from group k which excess the median from the pooled data, and n k is the sample size of group k. When the sample sizes are large, under the null hypothesis that all samples have the same median, the statistic M has a chi-square distribution with K-1 degrees of freedom. The overall p-value from the combined median test can be calculated:
p M e d i a n = χ d f = 2 G 2 ( χ 2 > - 2 ∑ g = 1 G log ( p g M e d i a n ) )
Combined welch test
We also consider the nonparametric Welch test. For each age group, we have the test statistic [19]:
W= ∑ k = 1 K w k ( x ¯ ̄ k - μ ^ ) 2 / ( K - 1 ) 1 + [ 2 ( K - 2 ) / ( K 2 - 2 ) ] ∑ k = 1 K h k ,
where w k = n k / s k 2 , μ ^ = ∑ k = 1 K w k x ̄ k /w, w = ∑ k = 1 K w k , h k = ( 1 - w k / w 2 ) / ( n k - 1 ) .
Under the null hypothesis, the statistic W is asymptotically distributed as F-distribution with K-1 and f = ( K 2 - 1)/(3 ∑ k = 1 K h k ) degrees of freedom. Welch test is an improvement of the Cochran test [20] which usually has inflated type I error rate especially for small sample sizes [19, 21]. The overall p-value from the combined Welch test is:
p W e l c h = χ d f = 2 G 2 ( χ 2 > - 2 ∑ g = 1 G log ( p g W e l c h ) )
Methods for combining p-values
Besides the Fisher method mentioned above, we also consider Z-test to combine p-values from independent tests. First we calculated the weighted Z statistic using individual p-values from each age group: Z= ∑ g = 1 G n g Φ - 1 ( 1 - p g ) / ∑ g = 1 G n g 2 , where n g is the total sample size in age group g and Φ is the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the standard normal distribution. It is easy to see that this statistic has standard normal distribution under the null hypothesis. The overall p-value is calculated by 1- Φ(Z). Note that here we use one-sided test to obtain the overall p-value.
Simulation settings
To compare each method applied to an individual age group, we simulate β -value for three treatment groups based on beta distribution with parameters a and b, beta (a,b), and truncated normal distribution on (0,1) with parameters μ, σ2, TN(μ, σ2). We assume the sample sizes (denoted as s in Tables 1, 2 for the simulation results) for the three treatments are either balanced: s = 30 for each, or non-balanced: s = 20, 30, and 40. First we compare the estimated type I error rates with the given significance level of 0.05 under the null hypothesis of no differences among treatment groups. Then we compare the empirical powers from each method under various situations. The empirical power is the proportion of rejected null hypothesis to the number of replicates.
Table 1 Estimated type I error rates at significance level 0.05 with 10000 replicates.
Table 2 Empirical power at significance level 0.05 with 10000 replicates.
A real data set
We will use a real methylation data set, the United Kingdom Ovarian Cancer Population Study (UKOPS) [15] with 274 controls, 131 pre-treatment cases, and 135 post treatment cases, to compare the performance of the proposed test with others. Those methylation data were generated by the Illumina Infinium Huamn Methylaytion27 BeadChip and can be downloaded under accession number GSE19711 from the NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo).
For this data set, there are 27578 loci. After data quality control process, we removed some subjects with BS values less than 4000 or the coverage rates less than 95%. We also separate subjects into 6 age groups (50-55, 55-60, 60-65, 65-70, 70-75, and 75 and over). Table 3 gives the numbers of subjects in each age by treatment groups. For each locus, we perform the above mentioned approaches.
Table 3 Number of samples in age group by treatment group used in the paper after removing subjects with bs <4000 or coverage rate <95% or age >80.
Simulation results
Table 1 reports the estimated type I error rates from each method under different conditions. For most of the time, the estimated type I error rates are close to the nominal significance level as expected. Table 2 gives the empirical powers from each method. It can be seen that the non-parametric method of Mood's median test usually has the lowest powers in the simulations. None of the ANOVA, Welch and KW tests is uniformly most powerful. In words, their performances depend on the distributions from which the data are generated. From our simulation study, the KW test is usually as powerful as or more powerful than the ANOVA test. The true distributions of the β -value may vary from locus to locus; it is impossible to simulate all possible distributions. However, based on the observation of the real data, we know that the distributions of the β -value are far from the normal distribution, under which ANOVA is the best test. Therefore, we prefer nonparametric tests which are more robust.
Results from real data set
For the real data set, we applied the above mentioned methods to get the overall p-values (either using Fisher or Z test to combine p-values from individual age groups) for each locus. Then we use various cutoff p-values, 0.001, 0.0001, 0.00001, and 0.000001, to count how many loci have smaller p-values for each method. Table 4 reports the results. We can see that the KW method usually finds more significant loci than other methods. It also shows that the two combining p-value methods, Fisher and Z test have similar performances, although Z test usually give a little bit more significant loci expect for the Median test. Figure 1 plots the negative log10 p-values from pairs of the methods. It shows that the KW method gives smaller p-values especially when the differences among the three treatment groups are not large (e.g., the negative log10 p-values between 3 and 6). From Figure 1 we can see that for a given cutoff p-value, most of the loci identified by ANOVA test or Median were also detected by the Welch test; in turn, most of the loci identified by Welch test were also detected by the KW test. This indicates the KW test is more powerful than other methods compared.
Table 4 Number of significant differentially methylated loci detected for given cutoff p-value based on the real data.
Negative log10(p-value) from pair of methods. Negative log10 p-values from pair of methods. (a) Combined ANOVA test vs. combined median test both using Fisher methods to combine p-values. (b) Combined ANOVA test vs. combined Welch test both using Fisher methods to combine p-values. (c) Combined ANOVA test vs. combined Kruskal-Willas test both using Fisher methods to combine p-values. (d) Combined KW test using Z test vs. combined KW test using Fisher to combine p-values.
Due to the unique feature of the β -value of methylation data, traditional statistical methods, such as linear regression and ANOVA test may not be appropriate. It has been shown that methylation is highly correlated with age; ignoring age effect may cause many false positives and/or false negatives. The effect of age may also not be linear; therefore we need a better way to account for this effect. In this paper, we use p-value combination method to deal with age effect. For each age group, we use nonparametric method to compare the treatment groups. It is important to find powerful and robust nonparametric methods for this sort of data. Although we found that KW method is more powerful than some other nonparametric methods for methylation data, it is desirable to find more powerful tests in this area. Furthermore, we want to point out that there are many other methods can be used to combine p-values [22, 23]; it may also be possible to find a more powerful method to combine p-values for Illumina Array Methylation data. However, based on our experiences, Fisher test is more robust and can be used in situations when a small portion of the p-values are very small; while the Z test is more powerful when the effect sizes are similar (e.g., the p-values don't differ much) for all of the age groups. Finally, although in this paper we use different cutoff p-values to compare the performance of tests, one may want to control the false positive rate. Several multiple comparison methods have been proposed for large scale data set to deal with the situations where the variables (loci) are not independent [24–28]. However, it remains to study which approach is more appropriate for the methylation data.
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This article has been published as part of BMC Medical Genomics Volume 6 Supplement 1, 2013: Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'11). The full contents of the supplement are available online at http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcmedgenomics/supplements/6/S1. Publication of this supplement has been supported by the International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine.
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Indiana University Bloomington, 1025 E. 7th Street, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA
Zhongxue Chen
Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
Hanwen Huang
Chem21 Group, Inc, 1780 Wilson Drive, Lake Forest, IL, 60045, USA
Jianzhong Liu
Department of Statistical Science, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, 75275, USA
Hon Keung Tony Ng
School of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
Saralees Nadarajah
Neurochemistry Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, 02129, USA
Xudong Huang
Rush University Cancer Center, Department of Internal Medicine and Biochemistry, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA
Youping Deng
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ZC devised the basic idea of the new method and drafted the manuscript; HH, JL participated in study design data analysis; HKTN, SN, XH and YD assisted the study and co-wrote the manuscript. All authors read and approve the final manuscript.
Chen, Z., Huang, H., Liu, J. et al. Detecting differentially methylated loci for Illumina Array methylation data based on human ovarian cancer data. BMC Med Genomics 6, S9 (2013) doi:10.1186/1755-8794-6-S1-S9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1755-8794-6-S1-S9
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Series: The Love Interest Paperback Cale Dietrich 9781250158642 $14.50 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 13 - 18 Apr 10, 2018
A thrilling YA debut about teen spies disguised as "love interests"—whoever gets the girl lives; but the one she rejects, dies.There is a secret organization that cultivates teenage spies. The agents are called Love Interests because getting close to people destined for great power means getting valuable secrets. Caden is a Nice: The boy next door, sculpted to physical perfection.Dylan is a Bad: The brooding, dark-souled guy, and dangerously handsome.The girl they are competing for is important to the organization, and each boy will pursue her.... + Read More
Series: 50 Queer Music Icons Who Changed the World A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Legends Hardcover Will Larnach-Jones 9781784881504 $21.99 HISTORY May 15, 2018
Featuring beautifully illustrated portraits and profiles,50 Queer Musicians Who Changed the World is a tribute to queer ground breakers who changed the face of music and popular culture.LGBTQ musicians have been pushing for change since the 1920s, with singers such as Bessie Smith crooning about same-sex liaisons almost 100 years ago – long before Frankie Goes to Hollywood were telling everyone to 'Relax'. This book is a celebration of artists who became icons, and broke new ground through song. From legendary figures such as Freddie Mercury, L... + Read More
Series: Girl Made of Stars Hardcover Ashley Herring Blake 9781328778239 $25.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14 - 99 May 15, 2018
For readers ofGirl in Pieces andThe Way I Used to Be comes an emotionally gripping story about facing hard truths in the aftermath of sexual assault. Mara and Owen are as close as twins can get, so when Mara’s friend Hannah accuses Owen of rape, Mara doesn't know what to think. Can her brother really be guilty of such a violent act? Torn between her family and her sense of right and wrong, Mara feels lost, and it doesn’t help that things are strained with her ex-girlfriend, Charlie. As Mara, Hannah, and Charlie come together in the aftermath of... + Read More
Series: White Rabbit Hardcover Caleb Roehrig 9781250085658 $23.50 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 18 Apr 24, 2018
Caleb Roehrig, author ofLast Seen Leaving, delivers another spellbinding YA murder mystery inWhite Rabbit.Rufus Holt is having the worst night of his life. It begins with the reappearance of his ex-boyfriend, Sebastian—the guy who stomped his heart out like a spent cigarette. Just as Rufus is getting ready to move on, Sebastian turns up out of the blue, saying they need to "talk." Things couldn’t get worse, right?Then Rufus gets a call from his sister April, begging for help. He and Sebastian find her, drenched in blood and holding a knife besi... + Read More
Series: Last Seen Leaving Paperback Caleb Roehrig 9781250129673 $12.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 13 - 18 Apr 24, 2018
In this young adult debut, a teen must try to uncover his missing girlfriend's secrets without revealing his own.Flynn's girlfriend, January, is missing. The cops are asking questions he can't answer, and her friends are telling stories that don't add up. All eyes are on Flynn—as January's boyfriend, he must know something.But Flynn is harboring a secret of his own. As he struggles to find out what happened to January, he must also come to terms with his own truth.Caleb Roehrig's debut is a complex and winding tale of tragedy, discovery, and se... + Read More
Series: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel Essays Paperback Alexander Chee 9781328764522 $22.99 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Apr 17, 2018
Named a Best Book by:TIME, Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, NPR,Wired, Esquire, Buzzfeed, New York Public Library,Boston Globe, The Paris Review, Mother Jones,The A.V. Club, Out Magazine, Book Riot,Electric Literature, PopSugar,The Rumpus,My Republica,Paste,Bitch, Library Journal, Flavorwire,Bustle,Christian Science Monitor, Shelf Awareness,Tor.com,Entertainment Cheat Sheet,Roads and Kingdoms, Chicago Public Library,Hyphen Magazine,Entropy Magazine,The Chicago Review of Books, The Coil, iBooks, andWashington Independent Review of Books Wi... + Read More
Series: Meg & Linus Paperback Hanna Nowinski 9781250145833 $14.50 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 13 - 18 Jan 01, 2022
Can friendship, Star Trek, drama club, and a whole lot of coffee get two nerdy best friends through the beginning of their senior year of high school? Find out in this debut YA novel from Swoon Reads author, Hanna Nowinski.Meg and Linus are best friends bound by a shared love of school, a coffee obsession, and being queer. It’s not always easy to be the nerdy lesbian or gay kid in a suburban town. But they have each other. And a few Star Trek boxed sets. They're pretty happy. But then Sophia, Meg’s longtime girlfriend, breaks up with Meg. Linus... + Read More
Series: Sympathy Paperback Olivia Sudjic 9781328916204 $21.99 FICTION Apr 17, 2018
“Packed with tension, pathos, and vitality . . . This is a potent first novel from a formidable talent.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune “The best fictional account I’ve read of the way the internet has shaped our inner lives.”—Guardian(UK) At twenty-three Alice Hare, a loner, arrives in New York with only the vaguest of plans: to find a city to call home. Instead she discovers the online profile of a Japanese writer called Mizuko Himura, whose stories blur the line between autobiography and fiction. Alice becomes infatuated with Mizuko from afar... + Read More
Series: Harp and Ring Sequence Fire Dance The Harp and Ring Sequence #2 Hardcover Ilana C. Myer 9780765378323 $36.50 FICTION Apr 10, 2018
Palace intrigue, dark magic, and terrifying secrets drive the beautifully written standalone novelFire Dance, set in the world ofLast Song Before Night.Espionage, diplomacy, conspiracy, passion, and power are the sensuously choreographed steps of the soaring new high fantasy novel by Ilana C. Myer, one woman's epic mission to stop a magical conflagration.Lin, newly initiated in the art of otherwordly enchantments, is sent to aid her homeland's allies against vicious attacks from the Fire Dancers: mysterious practitioners of strange and deadly m... + Read More
Series: The Art of Being Normal A Novel Paperback Lisa Williamson 9781250144270 $12.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14 - 18 Apr 10, 2018
A young adult novel about two transgender teens who figure out how to navigate life with help from each other."A life-changing and life-saving book."—Philip PullmanOn the first day at his new school, Leo Denton has one goal: to be invisible. Attracting the attention of the most beautiful girl in his class is definitely not part of that plan--especially because Leo is a trans guy and isn't out at his new school.Then Leo stands up for a classmate in a fight and they become friends. With Leo's help and support, the classmate, who is a trans girl, ... + Read More
Series: Marco Impossible Paperback Hannah Moskowitz 9781250143921 $14.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 - 14 Jan 09, 2018
In this middle-grade novel, Marco's in love with Benji, but winning his heart may be mission impossible.Best friends Stephen and Marco attempt a go-for-broke heist to break into the high school prom and get Marco onstage to confess his love for (and hopefully steal the heart of) Benji, the adorable exchange student and bass player of the prom band. Of course, things don't always go according to plan, and every heist comes with its fair share of hijinks.Marco Impossible by Hannah Moskowitz is a fun middle-grade book by the author of the young ad... + Read More
Series: Posters for Change Tear, Paste, Protest: 50 Removable Posters Paperback Princeton Architectural Press 9781616896928 $36.00 ART Mar 20, 2018
"Posters for Change is the kind of project that the world needs right now." – Shepard FaireyMake your voice heard with this collection of 50 tear-out posters created by designers from around the globe! This collection of posters is made for—and by—people who want to make their voices heard in a time of unprecedented political activism and resistance.Stand up for:• Animal Rights• Child Labor• Civil Rights• Climate Change and the Environment• Gun Control• Health Care Access• Immigration• LGBTQ and Gender Rights• Mass Incarceration• Public Arts• V... + Read More
Series: Miles Away from You Hardcover A.B. Rutledge 9781328852335 $25.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14 - 99 Mar 20, 2018
From debut voice A.B. Rutledge comes a quirky and completely fresh story of young love, loss, and the drastic distances we sometimes have to travel in order to move on, perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Jandy Nelson. Explores gender nonconformity and the spectrum of sexual preference in an authentic way. It's been three years since Miles fell for Vivian, a talented and dazzling transgender girl. Eighteen months since a suicide attempt left Vivian on life support. Now Miles isn't sure who he is without her, but knows it’s time to figure ou... + Read More
Series: P.S. I Miss You Hardcover Jen Petro-Roy 9781250123480 $22.50 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Mar 06, 2018
A heartbreaking—yet ultimately uplifting—epistolary novel about family, religion, and having the courage to be yourself."P.S. I Miss You is so moving! Evie'squiet strength and fierce determinationare an inspiration. " —Ann M. Martin, author ofRain Reign and the Baby-Sitters Club"Jen Petro-Roy has created a character with the potential to beas iconic as Judy Blume's Margaret." —Erin Dionne, author ofNotes from an Accidental Band GeekEvie is heartbroken when her strict Catholic parents send her pregnant sister, Cilla, away to stay with a distant ... + Read More
Series: The World Only Spins Forward The Ascent of Angels in America Hardcover Isaac Butler 9781635571769 $40.00 PERFORMING ARTS Feb 13, 2018
"Marvelous . . . A vital book about how to make political art that offers lasting solace in times of great trouble, and wisdom to audiences in the years that follow."—Washington PostNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPRThe oral history ofAngels in America, as told by the artists who created it and the audiences forever changed by it--a moving account of the AIDS era, essential queer history, and an exuberant backstage tale.When Tony Kushner'sAngels in America hit Broadway in 1993, it won the Pulitzer Prize, swept the Tonys, launched a ... + Read More
Series: Amberlough Dossier Amberlough Book 1 in the Amberlough Dossier Paperback Lara Elena Donnelly 9780765383822 $22.99 FICTION Feb 13, 2018
A double-agent sacrifices all his ideals in order to save his smuggler lover before a government coup takes over their decadent city in Lara Elena Donnelly’s glam spy thriller debut, now a Nebula finalist for Best Novel!“Exploring the roots of hatred, nationalism, and fascism, while at the same time celebrating the diversity, love, romance, fashion, and joy the world is capable of producing.” —BookriotIn Amberlough, amidst rising political tensions, three lives become intertwined with the fate of the city itself.The Smuggler: By day, Aristide M... + Read More
Series: When the Moon Was Ours A Novel Paperback Anna-Marie McLemore 9781250160102 $14.50 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 18 Feb 13, 2018
From the author ofThe Weight of Feathers comes a young adult novel about a girl hiding the truth, a boy with secrets from his past, and four sisters who could ruin them both.Recipient of a Stonewall Honor and longlisted for the National Book Award, McLemore delivers a second stunning and utterly romantic novel, again tinged with magic.To everyone who knows them, best friends Miel and Sam are as strange as they are inseparable. Roses grow out of Miel’s wrist, and rumors say that she spilled out of a water tower when she was five. Sam is known fo... + Read More
Series: The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook Skills for Navigating Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression Paperback Anneliese A. Singh PhD, LPC 9781626259461 $31.95 SELF-HELP Feb 02, 2018
How can you build unshakable confidence and resilience in a world still filled with ignorance, inequality, and discrimination? The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook will teach you how to challenge internalized negative messages, handle stress, build a community of support, and embrace your true self.Resilience is a key ingredient for psychological health and wellness. It’s what gives people the psychological strength to cope with everyday stress, as well as major setbacks. For many people, stressful events may include job loss, financia... + Read More
Series: This Is How It Always Is A Novel Paperback Laurie Frankel 9781250088567 $22.50 FICTION Jan 23, 2018
New York Times BestsellerThe Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick“Every once in a while, I read a book that opens my eyes in a way I never expected.”—Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club x Hello Sunshine book pick)People Magazine’s Top 10 Books of 2017Amazon’s Best Books of 2017: Top 20Amazon’s Best Literature and Fiction of 2017Bustle’s 17 Books Every Woman Should Read From 2017PopSugar’s Our Favorite Books of the Year (So Far)Refinery29's Best Books of the Year So FarBookBrowse’s The 20 Best Books of 2017Pacific Northwest Book Aw... + Read More
Series: Let's Talk About Love Hardcover Claire Kann 9781250136121 $22.50 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 13 - 18 Jan 23, 2018
Striking a perfect balance between heartfelt emotions and spot-on humor, this debut features a pop-culture enthusiast protagonist with an unforgettable voice sure to resonate with readers.Alice had her whole summer planned. Nonstop all-you-can-eat buffets while marathoning her favorite TV shows (best friends totally included) with the smallest dash of adulting—working at the library to pay her share of the rent. The only thing missing from her perfect plan? Her girlfriend (who ended things when Alice confessed she's asexual). Alice is done with... + Read More
Series: Before I Let Go Hardcover Marieke Nijkamp 9781492642282 $25.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14 - 17 Jan 02, 2018
A New York Times Bestseller!From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller This Is Where It Ends comes another unforgettable story of loss, hope, betrayal, and the quest for truth Best friends Corey and Kyra were inseparable in theirsnow-covered town of Lost Creek, Alaska. When Corey moves away, she makes Kyra promise to stay strong during the long, dark winter, and wait for her return. Just days before Corey is to return home to visit, Kyra dies. Corey is devastated—and confused. The entire Lost community speaks in hushed tones about th... + Read More
Series: Before I Let Go Paperback Marieke Nijkamp 9781492661504 $14.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Jan 23, 2018
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller This Is Where It Ends! Days before Corey is to return home to the snow and ice of Lost Creek, Alaska, to visit her best friend, Kyra dies. Corey is devastated-and confused. The entire Lost community speaks in hushed tones about the town's lost daughter, saying her death was meant to be. And they push Corey away like she's a stranger. Corey knows something is wrong. Lost is keeping secrets-chilling secrets. But piecing together the truth about what happened to her best friend may prove as di... + Read More
Series: Desert Boys Fiction Paperback Chris McCormick 9781250141019 $22.50 FICTION Jan 09, 2018
Winner of the Stonewall Book Award/Barbara Gittings Literature AwardFinalist for the Binghamton University’s John Gardner Fiction Book AwardFinalist for the Saroyan Prize for FictionLonglisted for the Chautauqua Prize"Hilarious, Devious, Original, and Unforgettable."—Karen RussellThis series of powerful, intertwining stories illuminates Daley Kushner’s world—the family, friends, and community that have both formed and constrained him, and his new life in San Francisco. Back home, the desert preys on those who cannot conform: an alfalfa farmer o... + Read More
Series: Wild Is the Wind Poems Hardcover Carl Phillips 9780374290269 $30.00 POETRY Jan 23, 2018
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeA powerful, inventive collection from one of America's most critically admired poets“What has restlessness been for?”InWild Is the Wind, Carl Phillips reflects on love as depicted in the jazz standard for which the book is named—love at once restless, reckless, and yet desired for its potential to bring stability. In the process, he pitches estrangement against communion, examines the past as history versus the past as memory, and reflects on the past’s capacity both to teach and to mislead us—also to ... + Read More
Series: Meet Cute Some people are destined to meet. Hardcover Jennifer L. Armentrout 9781328759870 $25.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14 - 99 Jan 02, 2018
Whether or not you believe in fate, or luck, or love at first sight, every romance has to start somewhere. MEET CUTE is an anthology of original short stories featuring tales of “how they first met” from some of today's most popular YA authors. Readers will experience Nina LaCour's beautifully written piece about two Bay Area girls meeting via a cranky customer service Tweet, Sara Shepard's glossy tale about a magazine intern and a young rock star, Nicola Yoon's imaginative take on break-ups and make-ups, Katie Cotugno's story of t... + Read More
Series: The Wicker King Hardcover K. Ancrum 9781250101549 $23.50 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 15 - 18 Oct 31, 2017
The Wicker King is a psychological young adult thriller that follows two friends struggling as one spirals into madness.Jack once saved August's life…now can August savehim?August is a misfit with a pyro streak and Jack is a golden boy on the varsity rugby team—but their intense friendship goes way back. Jack begins to see increasingly vivid hallucinations that take the form of an elaborate fantasy kingdom creeping into the edges of the real world. With their parents’ unreliable behavior, August decides to help Jack the way he always has—on ... + Read More
Series: The 57 Bus A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives Hardcover Dashka Slater 9780374303235 $24.99 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Age (years) from 12 - 18 Oct 17, 2017
A New York TimesBestsellerStonewall Book Award Winner—Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature AwardYALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults FinalistOne teenager in a skirt.One teenager with a lighter.One moment that changes both of their lives forever.If it weren’t for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class ... + Read More
Series: Ascendant The Tiger's Daughter Paperback K Arsenault Rivera 9780765392534 $23.50 FICTION Oct 03, 2017
K Arsenault Rivera's debut,The Tiger's Daughter,the beginning of a new epic fantasy trilogy"Rich, expansive, and grounded in human truth...simply exquisite.”—V. E. Schwab,New York Times bestselling author of the Shades of Magic seriesIndie Next List October 2017 PickPaste Magazine's 10 Most Anticipated Books in October 2017io9's Best Books Coming in 2017The Verge's SF/F Books to Read in October 2017BookRiot's Most Anticipated Titles of 2017Medium's Most Anticipated Books of 2017Bookish's Fall 2017's Hottest SF/F BooksEven gods can be slain The ... + Read More
Series: Six Months, Three Days, Five Others Hardcover Charlie Jane Anders 9780765394897 $21.99 FICTION Oct 17, 2017
"A master absurdist...Highly recommended." —The New York TimesBefore the success of her debut SF-and-fantasy novelAll the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders was a rising star in SF and fantasy short fiction. Collected in a mini-book format, here—for the first time in print—are six of her quirky, wry, engaging best: In "The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model," aliens reveal the terrible truth about how humans were created—and why we'll never discover aliens."As Good as New" is a brilliant twist on the tale of three wishes, set after the end ... + Read More
Series: Nasty Women Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America Paperback Samhita Mukhopadhyay 9781250155504 $22.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 03, 2017
Twenty-Three Leading Feminist Writers on Protest and SolidarityWhen 53 percent of white women voted for Donald Trump and 94 percent of black women voted for Hillary Clinton, how can women unite in Trump’s America? Nasty Women includes inspiring essays from a diverse group of talented women writers who seek to provide a broad look at how we got here and what we need to do to move forward.Featuring essays byREBECCA SOLNIT on Trump and his “misogyny army,”CHERYL STRAYED on grappling with the aftermath of Hillary Clinton’s loss,SARAH HEPOLA on resi... + Read More
Series: Foolish Hearts Hardcover Emma Mills 9781627799379 $23.50 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14 - 18 Dec 05, 2017
When Claudia accidentally eavesdrops on the epic breakup of Paige and Iris,theit-couple at her school, she finds herself in hot water with prickly, difficult Iris. Thrown together against their will in the class production ofA Midsummer Night's Dream,along with the goofiest, cutest boy Claudia has ever known, Iris and Claudia are in for an eye-opening senior year.Smart, funny, and thoroughly, wonderfully flawed, Claudia navigates a world of intense friendships and tentative romance in Emma Mills'sFollish Hearts, a young adult novel about expand... + Read More
Series: Dracula Marries Frankenstein An Anne of Green Bagels Story Paperback Susan Schade 9781629918150 $17.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 13 Oct 10, 2017
Suburban Megatown doesn't seem like the ideal location for a bunch of kids to make a horror movie. But Anne and her friends luck into a deal with Augusta Herringbone and begin filming Dracula Marries Frankenstein! at Augusta's creepy castle-like home. Unfortunately Augusta flips her homophobic lid and then a fire destroys the whole film set. Out of the ashes come forgiveness and understanding, a finished film, an underwater dream fulfilled, and a location for the kids' next movie.
Series: Nightside Saga 27 Hours Hardcover Tristina Wright 9781633758209 $24.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Oct 03, 2017
Rumor Mora fears two things: hellhounds too strong for him to kill, and failure. Jude Welton has two dreams: for humans to stop killing monsters, and for his strange abilities to vanish.But in no reality should a boy raised to love monsters fall for a boy raised to kill them.Nyx Llorca keeps two secrets: the moon speaks to her, and she's in love with her best friend, Dahlia. Braeden Tennant wants two things: to get out from his mother's shadow, and to unlearn his colony’s darkest secret.To save everyone they love, they'll both have to commit tr... + Read More
Series: 50 Queers Who Changed the World A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Icons Hardcover Dan Jones 9781784881344 $21.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 03, 2017
LGBT people are some of the coolest in history – Freddie Mercury, Divine, Virginia Woolf, Marlene Dietrich, Andy Warhol... the list goes on. Queer subculture has had an enormous impact on style, music, science, art and literature. From Oscar Wilde, who defended his homosexual relationships in court, to Rupaul acting as an ambassador for drag on network television, queer people have fought to express their identities and make a difference. This book will celebrate the lives, work,and unique perspectives of the icons who changed the world. Featur... + Read More
Series: Spinning Hardcover Tillie Walden 9781626727724 $32.50 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Age (years) from 14 - 18 Sep 12, 2017
Tillie Walden's Eisner Award winning graphic memoirSpinningcaptures what it’s like to come of age, come out, and come to terms with leaving behind everything you used to know.It was the same every morning. Wake up, grab the ice skates, and head to the rink while the world was still dark.Weekends were spent in glitter and tights at competitions. Perform. Smile. And do it again.She was good. She won. And she hated it.For ten years, figure skating was Tillie Walden’s life. She woke before dawn for morning lessons, went straight to group practice a... + Read More
Series: Spinning Paperback Tillie Walden 9781626729407 $24.99 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Age (years) from 14 - 18 Sep 12, 2017
Series: I Hate Everyone But You A Novel Hardcover Gaby Dunn 9781250129321 $26.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14 - 19 Sep 05, 2017
INSTANTNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!A POPSUGAR "Best Young Adult Book of 2017" PickAn Autumn 2017 Indie Next Pick!Named by Bustle as one of the "16 Books The Internet Is Going To Be Obsessed With This Year"A Barnes & Noble Pick for “Most Anticipated LGBTQIAP YA Books of the Second Half of 2017”"Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin have captured everything about the pain and excitement of that first terrifying, fabulous, confusing year on your own in college… In this epistolary novel, you live day by day with Ava and Gen, deep inside that friendship, so de... + Read More
Series: Mask of Shadows Mask of Shadows Hardcover Linsey Miller 9781492647492 $25.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14 - 17 Aug 29, 2017
"I love every aspect of this amazing book—a genderfluid hero, a deadly contest, and vicious courtly intrigue. Get! Read! Now!" —Tamora Pierce, #1 New York Times bestselling authorI Needed to Win. They Needed to Die.Sallot Leon is a thief, and a good one at that. But gender fluid Sal wants nothing more than to escape the drudgery of life as a highway robber and get closer to the upper-class—and the nobles who destroyed their home. When Sal steals a flyer for an audition to become a member of The Left Hand—the Queen's personal assassins, named af... + Read More
Series: Mask of Shadows Paperback Linsey Miller 9781492665397 $15.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Aug 29, 2017
I love every aspect of this amazing book-a genderfluid hero, a deadly contest, and vicious courtly intrigue. Get! Read! Now!" -Tamora Pierce, #1 New York Times bestselling author I Needed to Win. They Needed to Die. Sallot Leon is a thief, and a good one at that. But gender fluid Sal wants nothing more than to escape the drudgery of life as a highway robber and get closer to the upper-class-and the nobles who destroyed their home. When Sal steals a flyer for an audition to become a member of The Left Hand-the Queen's personal assassins, name... + Read More
Series: All the Dirty Parts Hardcover Daniel Handler 9781632868046 $29.00 FICTION Aug 29, 2017
From bestselling, award-winning author Daniel Handler, a gutsy, exciting novel that looks honestly at the erotic impulses of an all-too-typical young man.Cole is a boy in high school. He runs cross country, he sketches, he jokes around with friends. But none of this quite matters next to the allure of sex. "Let me put it this way," he says. "Draw a number line, with zero is you never think about sex and ten is, it’s all you think about, and while you are drawing the line, I am thinking about sex."Cole fantasizes about whomever he’s looking at. ... + Read More
Series: Danielle Cain The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion Paperback Margaret Killjoy 9780765397362 $19.50 FICTION Aug 15, 2017
The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy pits utopian anarchists against rogue demon deer in this dropkick-in-the-mouth punk fantasy that Alan Moore calls "scary and energetic."Searching for clues about her best friend’s mysterious suicide, Danielle ventures to the squatter, utopian town of Freedom, Iowa, and witnesses a protector spirit — in the form of a blood-red, three-antlered deer — begin to turn on its summoners. She and her new friends have to act fast if they’re going to save the town — or get out alive. “Intelligent and fi... + Read More
Series: Moonstone The Boy Who Never Was: A Novel Paperback Sjon 9780374536923 $20.50 FICTION Aug 01, 2017
The mind-bending miniature historical epic is Sjón's specialty, andMoonstone: The Boy Who Never Wasis no exception. But it is also Sjón's most realistic, accessible, and heartfelt work yet. It is the story of a young man on the fringes of a society that is itself at the fringes of the world--at what seems like history's most tumultuous, perhaps ultimate moment.Máni Steinn is queer in a society in which the idea of homosexuality is beyond the furthest extreme. His city, Reykjavik in 1918, is homogeneous and isolated and seems entirely defense... + Read More
Series: Whatever. or how junior year became totally f$@cked Paperback S. J. Goslee 9781250115140 $13.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14 - 18 Aug 01, 2017
It's like the apocalypse came, only instead of nuclear bombs and zombies, Mike gets school participation, gay thoughts, and mother-effin' cheerleaders.Junior year is about to start. Here's what Mike Tate knows: His friends are awesome and their crappy garage band is a great excuse to drink cheap beer. Rook Wallace is the devil. The Lemonheads rock. And his girlfriend Lisa is the coolest. Then Lisa breaks up with him, which makes Mike only a little sad, because they'll stay friends and he never knew what to do with her boobs anyway. But when M... + Read More
Series: Empire Made My Search for an Outlaw Uncle Who Vanished in British India Hardcover Kief Hillsbery 9780547443317 $36.00 HISTORY Jul 25, 2017
Lost in time for generations, the story of a 19th-century English gentleman in British India—a family mystery of love found and loyalties abandoned, finally brought to light In 1841, twenty-year-old Nigel Halleck set out for Calcutta as a clerk in the East India Company. He went on to serve in the colonial administration for eight years before abruptly leaving the company under a cloud and disappearing in the mountain kingdom of Nepal, never to be heard from again. While most traces of his life were destroyed in the bombing of his hometown duri... + Read More
Series: Fetch How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home Paperback Nicole J. Georges 9780544577831 $25.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jul 18, 2017
From an award-winning artist, a memoir of life with a difficult, beloved dog that will resonate with anybody who has ever had a less than perfectly behaved pet When Nicole Georges was sixteen she adopted Beija, a dysfunctional shar-pei/corgi mix—a troublesome combination of tiny and attack, just like teenaged Nicole herself. For the next fifteen years, Beija would be the one constant in her life. Through depression, relationships gone awry, and an unmoored young adulthood played out against the backdrop of the Portland punk scene, Beija ... + Read More
Series: Not So Good a Gay Man A Memoir Hardcover Frank M. Robinson 9780765382092 $47.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 06, 2017
Not So Good a Gay Man is the compelling memoir of author, screenwriter, and activist Frank M. Robinson.Locus2017 Recommended Reading ListLocus Award Finalist 2018 - Non-FictionFrank M. Robinson (1926-2014) accomplished a great deal in his long life, working in magazine publishing, including a stint forPlayboy, and writing science fiction such asThe Power,The Dark Beyond the Stars, and thrillers such asThe Glass Inferno (filmed asThe Towering Inferno). Robinson also passionately engaged in politics, fighting for gay rights, and most famously wri... + Read More
Series: This Is Where It Ends Paperback Marieke Nijkamp 9781492661511 $15.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Jun 06, 2017
The #1 New York Times Bestseller! Everyone has a reason to fear the boy with the gun. 10:00 a.m. The principal of Opportunity, Alabama's high school finishes her speech, welcoming the entire student body to a new semester and encouraging them to excel and achieve. 10:02 a.m. The students get up to leave the auditorium for their next class. 10:03 The auditorium doors won't open. 10:05 Someone starts shooting. Told from four perspectives over the span of 54 harrowing minutes, terror reigns as one student's calculated revenge turns into the ... + Read More
Series: Our Young Man Paperback Edmund White 9781632860088 $24.00 FICTION Jun 06, 2017
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scsutommyboy
Yeah Lasch may have to earn it back.
I didn't mind that he called out guys, some of them needed to be at the end of last year.
I agree, but sometimes it's how you say things not what you say...
First Time, Long Time
Oh no doubt, throwing guys under the bus (even if not directly by name) may not be the best thing for a young team like they were last year.
To me it shows how badly he wants to win and it's likely it was just an emotional reaction at the end of the year.
We obviously don't know the whole story as none of us know anything that happens behind closed doors.
I don't think it will hurt if it isn't wearing a letter as he's still a leader of this team regardless of what's on his shoulder.
Happy Husky Friday Everybody!!! Here's hoping for a Great year and seeing the Huskies finally get over the hump!:)
Since the Twins are basically going to be on the same time as the Huskies I think I am going to watch the twins with the sound down and listen to Don Lyons call a Husky win.:) If anybody watches the game online please let us know how the team looked. Don Lyons is such a homer most of the time it is hard to tell how they really played. Then when he does rag on them he turns around at the coaches show and says they didn't look that bad.:D I plan on watching the game online saturday night.
startthebus
Well I work, then I am going clubbing, I'll have someone text me the score later. Andrew and Chris, this is your que..
Husky4Life
TB ripping Don Lyons . . . That means only one thing . . . ITS HOCKEY SEASON!!
Not happy the team took a bus. :o
Clubbing in St. Cloud?:confused: You mean you are going downtown ho hunting?:D
brianvf
Well I work, then I am going clubbing, I'll have someone text me the score later.
You're a true fan.
not to stick up for the kid, but the game starts at 6:00. Since he is a waiter I would guess by the time he gets off the game will be over. Ok, what the hell he is aband wagon fan! :)
Gotta make time for hockey.
When I used to always have to work on Friday nights during college, my co-worker and I would have the game on tv at work, then once we were done with work at 9pm, we would drive to REA and sneak in the smokers entrance to watch the last 1/2 period.
bigpopskie
Greetings ya'll...just wondering if anyone knows a website to catch the game for free? I know that Miami has a pay per view service but you guys are the ones usually up on all this...and if you dont like don lyons (insert shameless self promotion) you can listen to the huskies (most of the games) on kvsc.org and 88.1fm...
Take it easy ya'll
Sorry, The video stream for all games online cost money.
Well I work, then I am going clubbing...
Don’t forget to wear your collar up.
I think the sad thing about this weekend is this team hasn't learned a damm thing from last year. They lost the game last night because they couldn't do a simple clear in OT after playing one hell of a game. Their power play was brutal all weekend and they gave up a cheap goal tonight right after a face off because the team was sleeping. I know it is only the first weekend, but why should I believe this team has learned one thing? The only thing missing this year from last year would be them laying a huge egg next friday and play like they don't even care.:( Again I know it is only the first weekend and Miami is one hell of a team, but making the same stupid mistakes game after game doesn't leave me with much faith that this team is going to be any different this year than last year.:(
Recruit Update
Milan: 17 pts (9G 8A) 5PIM in 11 games for Penticton (BCHL)
Dowd: 3 points (0G 3A) 4PIM +3 in 3 games for Indiana (USHL)
Oliver: 0 points 9PIM E in 3 games for Fargo (USHL)
Ravndalen: 0 points +1 in 3 games for Waterloo (USHL)
Benik: 5 points (2G 3A) in 2 games for Minnesota (MNJHL) (injured)
Jensen: 1 point (0G, 1A) 2PIM +3 in 3 games for Green Bay (USHL)
Gravel: 0 points -2 in 3 games for Sioux City (USHL)
Benik: St. Francis
Prochno: Minnetonka
Prochno: 4 points (1G 3A) in 11 games for Team Southwest (Elite League)
I went to Minneapolis Thursday and St. Paul Friday..The St. Cloud nightlife is dead to me.
Because I have better things to do then sit around a radio on my Friday and Saturday nights?
I did work during the game Friday yeah,
If the game was on tv we probably would have had it on at Red Lobster..
Exactly. :p :)
Meaning you can't even get laid in St. Cloud!:eek: :p So let me guess you have to go down to the cities and hit on white trash chics who are to stupid to go to college?;)
SCSU Euro
I think Brian's premise that sitting around a radio on Fri and Sat nights is having more to do than clubbing in the Cities.
Meaning the cities have been funner this year as far as nightlife, and I can get laid in both places, with a less chance of catching something down south!
Sitting around a radio on a weekend night means you have no life. I don't care who you are, if you're under 30, don't do this to yourself.
From your signature, it sounds like you feel that the Cities is much safer than going West. Something you wanna tell us? Not that we wanna hear, just curious.
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Live from the 2019 Grand South America and Antarctica Voyage
By Scrapnana, January 3, 2019 in Holland America Line
puppycanducruise
near Lake Huron, Canada
That trivia is too hard for me.
Thanks for the wonderful pictures.
Krazy Kruizers
100,000+ Club
10 hours ago, Scrapnana said:
I have just posted some videos on my blog. There is a portion of the tooting between Veendam and Prinsendam (especially for my "sail-away" friends). Also, Ann (Vict0riann) had a great seat at the Boi Bumba show and allowed me to use some of her video clips. Many thanks for her generosity.
Loved the video of the Veendam and Prinsendam tooting back and forth. We did that one time from the Westerdam each time we saw the Zaandam -- which was several times on the Pacific coast.
Thanks Ann for the great videos of the Boi Bumba show -- they were great.
Scrapnana
Today was a really lazy day most of it spent knitting starting with Knitters and Stitchers. We had 12 present.
Patty, Sherita, and I had lunch in the Lido before afternoon trivia.
Our losing streak continued with 14.5 out of 20.5. Winners had 16.5.
1) Who starred as Trev the elephant seal in Happy Feet.
2) What essential kitchen utensil was patented by Ezra Warner in 1848?
3) How many main islands in the state of Hawaii?
4) What color are cranberries before they turn red?
5) What is trypanophobia?
After trivia I checked out the Explorer's Lounge where they were having a silent auction to benefit the Nightingale Children's Home in Barbados. Items being auctioned included Grand Voyage rugs, charts, etc. (Later I heard a rumor that the dinner with the Captain in his quarters went for $1000.) The ship has also been raising money by raffling off the penguins. $5 for a chance to take home one of them.
In arts and crafts they made a St. Patrick’s Day card so Pat and I decided to work on our knitting instead.
We had 14 out of 18 in evening trivia with the winning team getting 17.
1) In what decade was the leaf blower invented?
2) What color is the bottom stripe on the Egyptian flag?
3) Which clothing designer’s logo is a stylized Medusa head?
4) What is another word for lexicon?
5) What O. Henry story involves an ironic gift swap?
Tonight was our next to the last Gala Night. Our pillow gift was the Grand Voyage plate.
Tom from the jewelry store hosted our table. Norvin, our wine steward, was nice enough to bring me Muscato instead of the regular wine. I had French onion soup, land and sea, and a Bananas Foster sundae for dessert.
The show was a Vegas style entertainer. I skipped it.
Afternoon trivia
1) Steve Irwin
2) Can opener
4) White
5) Fear of needles
Evening trivia
1) 1950s
2) Black
3) Versace
4) Dictionary
5) The Gift of the Magi
Smooth sailing until next time!
Edited March 16, 2019 by Scrapnana
I used to knit and crochet a lot but for as many hours as you do. Now with bent fingers from arthritis, can't do any of that.
Our yard man also takes care of our snow. He has a powerful leaf blower that he uses to blow away the snow when we have even up to 2 inches.
Hope somebody buys those penguins -- cute reminder of the cruise.
Nice looking buffet complete with carvings -- love it when the crew does that.
Some nice looking items at the auction.
Plate is very nice looking as a reminder of the ports you visited.
Thanks for the trivia.
It would be wonderful to win the penguins, but I don't think I would have enough room in my suitcase for them.
Wonderful pictures, thanks.
Devil’s Island (not really), French Guiana
From 1852 until 1953 the Salvation Islands (about 7 miles off the coast of French Guiana) were used as a penal colony. Ile Royale was the general camp, Devil’s Island (Ile du Diable) was for political prisoners, and Ile Saint Joseph was for solitary confinement. Probably the two most famous prisoners held on the islands were Alfred Dreyfus (accused of treason) and Henri Charriere who wrote the book Papillon (although there is some question as to whether he was ever really on Devil’s Island) which later became a movie starring Steve McQueen. Today, you cannot visit Devil’s Island but you can visit the other two. Our visit was to Ile Royale.
Pat, Patty, and I boarded the tender just after 9:00 and reached the island at about 9:20. The walking was up and down steps and the sides of the hills. To be honest, if I had gone alone I would have gone quickly back to the ship.
We walked for about an hour in the heat, checking out various buildings, and finally arrived at the hotel at the top of the hill. We stopped for some expensive soft drinks ($16 for three Cokes) and then visited the equally expensive gift shop.
We finished up our look at the buildings by seeing some of the guard’s homes (which are now rented out by the hotel), the church, and the children’s cemetery (these were the guard’s children). We found a way through the palm fronds to get on the path that led down to the water without having to use the uneven stone steps. Along the way we saw some beautiful flowers as well as many animals.
We were back on the ship shortly after 12:30 and made our way to the Lido for lunch (and two Cokes for me!). Patty had to go to practice for the Choir which performs tomorrow but Pat and I stayed and knitted (she also took a bit of a snooze).
Afternoon trivia was one of our worst with 7 out of 17. Three teams tied with 11.
1) Which Jane Austen novel has a main character named Fanny Price?
2) What mental illness was the subject of A Beautiful Mind?
3) Which country won the 2006 soccer World Cup?
4) What are “neos” to a concerned astronomer?
5) What pop star claims to be a descendant of Herman Melville?
I was really tired after our walk (over a mile and a quarter on uneven terrain) so I decided to eat early with my other table. I had chicken brochette, beef tip stroganoff, and a butterscotch sundae.
Finally we made a comeback in trivia winning with 14 out of 20.
1) What role gave Tom Hanks a chance to star opposite Elvis and John Lennon?
2) Which has had the longest TV run – Hockey Night in Canada, Wide World of Sports, or Monday Night Football?
3) Which sporty car company, based in Northern Ireland, ran out of gas in 1982?
4) What backpack company failed to patent their igloo shaped tent?
5) Which Hogwarts professor sports a left knee scar that looks like the London Underground?
We all went to the show which was another good performance by Graffiti Classics.
Tonight was a theme night – Prisoners Party. The dining rooms were decorated and the waiters had on striped uniforms. At 9 pm there was a dance party in the Ocean Bar.
1) Mansfield Park
2) Schizophrenia
3) Italy
4) Near Earth objects
5) Moby
1) Forrest Gump
2) Hockey Night in Canada (debuting on TV in 1952)
3) De Lorean
4) Jansport
5) Dumbledore
We toured Devil's Island many year ago. Very hot and humid day -- especially for the walk uphill.
We also had cokes -- weren't as expensive back in the 90's. Also paid $5 each to get our certificates indicating that we had been there.
Glad you won the evening trivia after that bad loss in the afternoon.
Definitely some restorations have been done since we were there.
Love it that another monkey took the nut.
Great pictures - love the flowers.
We are on baby watch so I will post tomorrow.
Will be watching for the baby report and other news.
rafinmd
Does your cell phone work in Barbados? Are you going to stay close to wifi. Hope the event happens soon.
Not my typical sea day although it did start with Knitters and Stitchers. We had a good-sized group with 13 present.
We left just before 11 to go to the Sunday Brunch. This brunch was different from the last one because you ordered what you wanted rather than getting a sampling of everything. Pat and Ann, Pat, Patty, Sherita, and I enjoyed ourselves.
We had 17.5 out of 21 while the winners had 18.5 in afternoon trivia.
1) What was wrong with the Oscar given to Spencer Tracy for Boy’s Town?
2) Which is lighter – helium or hydrogen?
3) What lake, partly in Uganda, was named as the source of the Nile in the 1800s?
4) Which country does not have a coastline on the Arabian Sea – Oman, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, or India?
5) What are the top four rated breeds of dog for sense of smell?
We left trivia to get a seat for the talent show which took place at 3 pm. There were six individual performers and then the choir performed selections from Les Mis and then Hallelujah. Patty was in the choir.
The show was an hour so I returned to my cabin to get ready for dinner since I was eating early. On my way to dinner I had to pick up my passport – there were lots of new stamps in it.
We had a special St. Patrick’s Day menu which I did not care for very much. I had a Caesar salad, corned beef brisket (which was delicious), and plain ice cream for dessert.
We won again in evening trivia with 16 out of 20. It was an Irish themed trivia and it helped that Pat is from Ireland and Patty is currently working there.
1) Why is St. Patrick’s Day celebrated on March 17?
2) In what year did New York City have its first St. Patrick’s Day parade – 1856, 1762, or 1715?
3) What is traditionally done to a loaf of Irish soda bread to ward off the devil?
4) In what century was the first recorded Irish Parliament?
5) How many pints of Guinness are consumed worldwide on St. Patrick’s Day (hint – it is more than the average daily consumption of 5 million but less than 15 million)?
As soon as trivia was over Pat and I went to the Ocean Bar to grab seats for the six of us. While we were waiting for the festivities, Pat received notice that her daughter-in-law was in the hospital and in labor. I logged into her phone so she could stay on-line in case word came in (but it has not yet).
Sherita and Patty came back from the drawing for the penguins and Patty had won one! He is named Friday and is from Robinson Crusoe Island. She really wanted to win so we were happy for her.
Stevie played a number of Irish songs and Graffiti Classics joined in. There was a large crowd and it was good we were there early.
We gain an hour of sleep tonight.
1) It was inscribed to “Dick Tracy”
2) Hydrogen
3) Lake Victoria
4) Afghanistan
5) Bloodhound, basset hound, beagle, German shepherd
1) The day he dies
3) A cross is cut into it
4) 13th
5) 13 million
Sounds like you had a busy day yesterday.
Congratulations at winning at evening trivia again.
Glad someone in your group won one of the penguins. They are a cute reminder of the cruise.
I like that you could order what you wanted at the Sunday brunch. Wonder if too many left too much food behind at the other Sunday brunch.
The monkeys look cute for St Patrick's day.
At 2:32 a.m. I received the call from Pat that her grandchild had been born in Norway (where her son and daughter-in-law live). His name is William James and he weighed in at 8 lbs, 8.5 ounces. She was ecstatic!
After getting the information that half the ship had been waiting for, I went back to sleep and got up again a few minutes after 7 as we were just getting ready to dock.
The tour I took was called “Relaxing Barbados” and it was sponsored by my travel agency. We were supposed to leave at 8:30 but HAL had set it up for 9:30. We had to wait awhile before the second bus arrived but were finally off just before 9:00.
Our guide, Mona, gave us lots of information about the island as we first traveled along the west side of the island and then across the higher area (1100 feet is the highest point) and then along the Atlantic coast. Prince Charles is visiting the island tomorrow since Barbados is part of the British Commonwealth even though it became independent in 1966.
Our first stop was at Bathsheba on the Atlantic known as the “Soup Bowl” to surfers. We had time to take pictures before getting back on the bus to go to St. John’s Church. The current church dates from 1836 but is the fifth one on this site.
The final stop was at Sunbury Plantation House. Sugar Cane has been an important part of the economy since the 1600s and this house was built around 1660. We had a nice light lunch before touring the house.
We returned to the port just before 2 pm. There are lots of stores in the terminal and I looked around and returned to the ship just before 3.
We had 15 out of 19 in afternoon trivia. We tied one other team for the win. About half of the questions were making an encore presentation.
1) In 1970, which woman won all four Grand Slam tennis tournaments?
2) Who played Cole Porter in the 1944 movie, “Night and Day “?
3) Brothers Sam, Jack, Harry, and Albert did what in 1923?
4) What came to an end in the U.S. in December 1933?
5) What are the names of Popeye’s four nephews?
At 5 pm I had an appointment to meet with Sheryll, the Future Cruise Consultant. I booked back to back cruises in late summer of 2020.
We only had three of our regular team for evening trivia (the rest were at the Cellar Master’s Dinner). Shiraj (arts and crafts instructor) played with us. We had 14 out of 19 while the winners had 16.
1) What Film Noire actress starred in movies such as “I Married A Witch”, “The Glass Key”, and “Sullivan’s Travels”?
2) Other than Abraham Lincoln which president or presidents on Mount Rushmore had facial hair?
3) Which animal has the longest lifespan in captivity?
4) What game is played on a lawn called a “crown green”?
5) How many crocus flowers does it take to make a pound of saffron?
Only four of us present for dinner. I had the chilled berry soup, crostini, prime rib, and a blueberry sundae for dessert.
I was planning on going to the show (comedian Martin Beaumont) but we finished before 9:30 and I was already tired and still needed to do the blog so I didn’t go.
1) Margaret Court
2) Cary Grant
3) Warner Brothers Studio
4) Prohibition
5) Poopeye, Pipeye, Pupeye, and Peepeye (Who knew he even had nephews???)
1) Veronica Lake
2) Teddy Roosevelt
3) Tortoise
4) Bowls
5) 75,000
Wonderful news from your group.
A new grandson for one, and a penguin for another.
Thanks for sharing the trivia.
Congratulations to Pat, her son and daughter-in-law on the new grandson.
Barbados is a nice island -- have done so many different tours there including Harrison's Caves a couple of times.
Good job on the trivia questions.
Lunch looks good as well.
Love all the flowers.
Oh -- I remember those old wringer washing machines.
Port Elizabeth, Bequia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Pat, Patty, Sherita, and I met at 10 to take the tender over to the island. We walked down along the main street which is right on the harbor until we got to the first beach. We waded in the beautiful, clear water before heading back into town. On the way we ran into Pat (Ann had already returned to the ship) and decided to have a cold drink. We picked one of the many restaurants and ordered drinks – 4 of us ordering a rum punch and one a twist on a pina colada. As we were drinking we decided to have lunch and everyone tried a different type of roti. I had a meat and potatoes roti which was seasoned with curry (rotis originated in India). We all had a second drink before heading off to do some shopping.
We returned to the ship and I showered and changed because we were having a busy afternoon.
Trivia was held at 3:30 and ended with us in a tie with another team with 13 out of 20 for the win.
1) Who was the famous mother of Mia Farrow?
2) Name the four countries with a “Q” in their name?
3) In what century did Chaucer write “The Canterbury Tales”?
4) For what movie did Denzel Washington win a best actor Oscar?
5) In what decade was the golf tee patented?
Instead of coming to trivia, Ann went up to the Lido pool deck to save us a table for our last sail-away party. Ann and Pat, Pat and Tom, Sherita, Patty, and I sat together and took advantage of the free drinks. The Ocean Quartet played and the weather was perfect.
Evening trivia was held in the Showroom because my travel agency was having a cocktail party in the Crow’s Nest. We did not do well and we are blaming it on the amount of alcohol consumed today. The winners had 9 and we only had 6 out of 17.
1) Which was the first rock group to play for nine nights at Madison Square Garden in 1988?
2) Which Yankees legend was known as the “Commerce Comet”?
3) Which actress had four Oscar nominations between 1998 and 2002?
4) Which continent was the first to grow oranges and bananas?
5) Which city is homebase for the “Knights of Malta”?
Sherita, Patty, and I went up to the cocktail party after trivia. Since I had already imbibed about as much alcohol as I do in five years of non-cruising days, I had a Coke.
Once again there were only four of us for dinner. I had “Treasure Chest Celebration of Fruit Cocktail”, “Pirates of the Caribbean Petite Beef Tender”, and Jack Sparrow Chocolate Red Velvet Cake” for dessert. The dining room was decorated for the Pirate Night and the servers were all dressed accordingly.
I then met Pat and Patty and sat at the Pirate Party. A number of people had dressed for the theme.
There was a singer in the Showroom at Sea but I did not go.
1) Maureen O’Sullivan
2) Mozambique, Iraq, Equatorial Guinea, and Qatar
4) Training Day
1) The Grateful Dead
2) Mickey Mantle
3) Judi Dench
4) Asia
5) Rome
Great day for all of you except for trivia. Seems like no one did well on evening trivia.
Love the names of the various dinner dishes.
Great pictures of Bequia and the Pirate sail away party.
It has been years since we were in St Vincent.
Barbados looks beautiful, thanks for the pictures.
The Pirate Party and dinner sounds like fun!
I awoke at the very early (for me) hour of 8:06. I wanted to see the deck sale that started at 9. They advertised “Grand Voyage Souvenirs” but the only things I saw specific to this cruise were tote bags. Everything seemed really over priced so I did not buy anything. I was slightly hungry so I stopped by the Lido for juice and a roll before heading upstairs for Knitters and Stitchers. We had about 12 present.
Sherita, Patty, and I had lunch in the Lido. They had three different cold soups for the first time I’ve seen in the Lido. I tried the peach and ginger soup and the blueberry. Both were very good.
We had 13 out of 18 correct in afternoon trivia but the winning team had 16.
1) The legendary fragrance Chanel #5 came out in what year?
2) How old was Loretta Lynn when she became a grandmother?
3) In what novel does most of the story take place at Thornfield Hall?
4) What do you do when you “nictate”?
5) Henry David Thoreau said, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet ____.”
I heard the end of the EXC guide’s (Heather) talk about our last two ports, Willemstad and Oranjestad while waiting for the Indonesian Crew Show. It was a very short show (just over 30 minutes) but the performers put their heart into putting on a great show.
I had my afternoon ice cream before heading back to my cabin for the inevitable --- packing! I spent an hour filling one suitcase to the brim and was very pleased with how much I got in it. Then I looked around my cabin and there is still a ton of stuff to pack ☹.
Evening trivia was in the Showroom again although nobody knew why. We had 16 out of 19 but the winners had a perfect score.
1) What is a “UFO” in needlework terms?
2) The Pyrenees separate which European countries?
3) What element has the atomic number of 26?
4) Fidel Castro became the leader of Cuba in what year?
5) What is the animal symbol of Thailand?
Ann and Pat, Sherita, Patty, Pat, and I had another wonderful dinner in the Pinnacle Grill. I had shrimp cocktail, filet mignon, and the lemon brulee tart for dessert.
I have an early morning excursion tomorrow so I skipped the show.
3) Jane Eyre
4) Wink or blink
5) Desperation
1) Unfinished object
2) France and Spain
3) Iron
5) Elephant
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2019 NFL Season: PLAYOFFS?!
By PittsburghSucks, July 2, 2019 in Sports In General
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33 minutes ago, Wings said:
Doesn't he have an engineering degree from Stanford?
Curious why you brought this up. Don't think he's retiring to pursue his engineering career!
DEAD! 860
Here we are... architectural design
https://engineering.stanford.edu/news/andrew-luck-architectural-design-class-2012
Who knows, maybe he can be GM one day and build a championship team.
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It's a shame to see Luck retire this way; but it's honestly better to be in control of your decisions then be forced into making one. (You can sort of say he was forced into retirement, but reports were out there that this decision had been stewing for a while; quite possibly, years.)
GDAWG 1,042
Seeing the amount of times he's gotten decked because of his horrible offensive line, I wouldn't have been surprised if he was contemplating retirement in the last few years. What actually surprises me is how sudden he made the decision. I thought he would've lasted at least ten years total.
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Just now, GDAWG said:
Basically his nice as possible way of saying the Colts killed his career.
Imagine the potential he could have on just about any other team.
First Peyton, Now Luck. Colts have destroyed 2 HoF caliber QBs. At least Peyton was able to GTFO before the injuries got to him.
1 hour ago, Bucfan56 said:
Umm, Andrew Luck just retired.
Good. He should save himself and he did.
Two things about this that I’ve been thinking.
Im pretty much the ultimate the NFL, get paid guy, and I feel all players should retire whenever the hell they want to. Even with that, I can’t say the timing of this is good. If he’s really that hurt, which I’m sure he is, then he probably doesn’t have much choice. But to retire two weeks before the start of the season because you’re not into it anymore? He’s going to take an absolute truckload of for that. Frankly, he probably should. I have a hard time holding it against people who are mad about this simply for how awful the timing is.
This pretty much sums up something I’ve always felt. The Colts have ALWAYS been an abysmally run organization. I think the Manning years sort of masked people a bit from just how bad Irsay and his people are at this. Even with Peyton, they really did underachieve by only winning one title. Before Peyton, they had issues with Marshall Faulk and his contract, and he turned around to be one of the best running backs ever for the Rams while the Colts were trash. Luck just up and retiring like this so close to the season makes me feel that there had to be some very serious issues with the Colts front office. I don’t find that to be surprising at all, because they never were able to build anything around him. Sort of how they always seemed to struggle with building a championship winning organization around Manning. Luck probably just got sick of it and decided that it’s worth the garbage he’ll have to take from fans and teammates to not risk his health and well-being any longer.
I don’t always agree with @AustinFomBoston, but I think he’s sort of onto something with his last post.
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Colts fans booed him as he walked off the field so that pretty much shows you how much they really cared about their heir apparent franchise QB.
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4 minutes ago, DNAsports said:
He didn't want to retire. He retired because injuries accumulated so much, it took a toll on him. Whoever booed him were disrespectful.
The timing is bad for the Colts who could sure use ... Josh McCown
23 minutes ago, Bucfan56 said:
I'm sorry, but anyone that blames Luck is just being a dick.
At least he didn't retire with 1 week before the start of the season, or even during the middle of the season.
They still have a good 2 weeks to prepare without him now.
No matter how you spin it, all fingers should be pointed at Irsay & Grigson. They killed his Career, honestly before it even really started.
I literally said all that about Irsay in the part of my post you removed.
I’m not blaming Luck. I’m just saying he’s gonna get a good amount of flak for this due to the timing.
If they finish out of the top five in the draft, what would it take for them to move into the top 5 to try and see if they can take Tua?
You said he deserves it. He absolutely does not. Considering how the Colts treated him.
Need I remind you that Vontae Davis retired in the middle a game last year.
He's given them 2 weeks to prepare without him. That's more than enough time for a guy like Brisset whom is already acclimatized to the system.
The way the Colts are run though, this hasn't been surprising. It's been like this since Bob Irsay bought the team in 1972.
Look, the news of him retiring came out of nowhere and broke right in the middle of a pre season game the Colts were playing in. You can blame fans for getting overly emotional about that if you’d like. But, in this one particular instance? I’m having a hard time really being outraged about that.
It’ll all settle down eventually, but you sort of have to give people a bit of time to process this one.
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1 hour ago, DEAD! said:
Now we're talking. Josh McCown - the Official QB of Basically a Sports Show™. (end silly cheap plug.)
On topic, it's a shame that we never got to see what a full career of a healthy Andrew Luck would have been, but after all the injuries (and I'm sure concussions) I can't blame the guy at all for shutting it down. He's made plenty of money. Get out while you still know your own name.
I really like Jacoby Brissett. I think the Colts will be OK with him at QB. They won't be as good without Andrew Luck as they would have been with him, but I think they have a pretty capable QB in Brissett who is ready to take the reins. (No Colts pun intended)
On 8/22/2019 at 6:17 PM, the admiral said:
Raiders playing a preseason game in "Winnipeg, Alberta"
Dear Winnipeg (and Alberta, I guess?)
Once a Raider, always a Raider.
A fan from Toledo, Colorado
52 minutes ago, GDAWG said:
Elway knew exactly what he was doing when he told the team to go pound sand when they drafted him.
Having his own home crowd Booing him off the field is a dick move, period.
He could have chosen far worse times to retire (as other players have)
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Effectively Handling the Ups & Downs of Running a Business – Episode 6
On this 6th Episode of BusinessWise TV, host Arte Maren interviews entrepreneur Patrick Clouden about a key business tool that he’s been using in his companies to eliminate the Ups and Downs of running any activity, with examples of how he has been employing these simple yet powerful tools not only in his businesses, but in all areas of his life.
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Pat Clouden is an eager entrepreneur. His main three companies are Accelerated Training Solutions, Consumer Energy Solutions and Customer Acquisition Specialist of America. “I started Accelerated Training Solutions a number of years ago with my son, Sean Clouden.” Consumer Energy Solutions was founded in 1999 and has enrolled over 2 million residential and 200,00 commercial customers across the United States and Canada. Customer Acquisition Specialists of America was founded in 1999 and offers customer acquisition programs and services for residential, commercial and industrial customers.
Accelerated Training Solutions was started as Consumer Energy Solutions was transitioning from selling mainly to residential customers to selling to commercial customers. The training needed to rapidly take someone who knew little or nothing about energy or sales to someone who had sufficient product and sales knowledge to handle shrewd, skeptical businessmen. Sean worked for six months building and testing sales training that relied heavily on clarifying industry and sales basics and drilling the already-successful techniques used by top salespeople. “Our goal was to systematically clone our best salespeople. We tested many different learning methods, and after six months of testing and revising, we had perfected the training machine. The project was a screaming success, exceeding all expectations.”
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Tech User Responsibility
By Robin K. Hill
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Some years of experience with faculty assistance has led me to speculate that the well-known frustrations of IT user support hide even deeper problems. Many of us with such experience know the chronic difficulty suffered by both client and consultant in the support scenario. Each day promises, and delivers, repeated problems, trivial issues, and deep misunderstandings attendant on the use of applications and devices. Users ask the same questions, individually and severally, over and over, requesting help when what they really want is someone who will do it for them. In my own experience providing technical support to faculty and also to members of a volunteer civic organization, I deal with well-educated and competent people. Whereas most clients are cooperative and grateful, some are brusque and demanding, some are apologetic and jocular, many are just not listening.
On the tech support side, malfeasance includes over-explanation, under-explanation, incorrect explanation, and impatience, all transgressions of which I have been guilty from time to time. Why is this all so hard? As the perceived burdens of technology build up on users, cheerful cooperation gives way to weary resignation and then to foot-dragging resentment. And this against an activity that is for their own good! Users resist reading manuals, or even short instructions, let alone working through a checklist, though learning the fundamentals would help them immensely. I have offered the briefest possible explanations of the client-server environment ("where your programs run"), HTML and URLs ("how to reach websites"), and cloud storage ("where your files are stored"), to no avail. Direct orders, such as, "Read this" or "Practice this," even to people who are sincerely motivated (no matter their intelligence, job satisfaction, rank, or personality), have no effect. I have gradually come to the unsettling belief that this is not just exasperating, but revealing. (We acknowledge without comment the obvious possibility that I, and my fellow user support professionals, are just lousy instructors or repellent individuals.)
On the happy assumption that the average reader thinks that the philosophy of computer science deals with lofty issues, this subject may seem pedestrian for the philosophy of computer science. Yet a problem so perplexing and intractable is ripe for a bit of philosophy. We might learn something about education or training from its apparent failure in such cases and thereby something about intelligence. We might learn something about the acceptance of responsibility from its apparent failure in such cases and thereby something about ethical duty.
As we look more closely (at naive users, at technically competent users, and even at us experts when we are faced with new technology), we see a reluctance to learn definitions, commands, good practices, and workflow. The hapless user does not built the cognitive scaffolding necessary to organize the concepts, so does not grasp which feature is relevant to what; that context is then even farther out of reach for the consultant. Subsequently we see attenuation of commitment, where the followup tasks are put aside until a better time, the initial momentum fades away, and the skills necessary for effective participation decay. This leads ultimately to an adversarial stance, where frustration morphs into resentment. Whose fault is this?
Although there is plenty of research and commentary on the responsibility of the vendor, there appears to be no inquiry into the responsibility of the consumer with respect to technology selection, mastery, and use. Should there be? Let's interrogate some analogies: We impose a minimal degree of responsibility on someone for checking a book out of a library—he or she should return it. The reading of it may a norm, but not an obligation. We do impose a high degree of responsibility for driving a car, but that's because it can kill people. We expect some degree of responsibility in the use of natural resources, because the effects are broadly dispersed. In domestic finances and budgeting, we assume that the agent will eventually achieve independence, making unaided decisions and taking appropriate actions, out of self-interest. It's not clear that any of those inform our view of the products of technology. Indeed, the very idea that software and hardware users have any responsibility toward their technology appears to stand in direct conflict to pervasive expectations on their part, as expressed thus:
This is a nuisance.
My duties involve real things, whereas this is just management of those things, not what I signed up for. Record-keeping and bean-counting should not take time from the job.
This is clerical.
These tools are complex, sure, and they require skill, the kind of skill embodied in a good secretary, who can handle tedium, the quirks, and the exceptions. But I deliberately avoided that career.
This is supposed to be easy.
These products are supposed to magically improve my life—vocational, social, and intellectual—immediately and painlessly. (This attitude, of course, is cultivated by technology vendors and promoters.) Because the product is fabulous, and intended explicitly for me, the trouble must lie with IT.
There's not much in those expectations that can be corrected by user support staff. So where does responsibility lie? Garrath Williams's philosophical treatment of the notion of responsibility [Williams 2008] notes the emergence of that notion only in the last two or three centuries, a brevity consistent with the lack of scholarship on client responsibility (also, to be fair, raising the question whether there really is any such thing). He locates responsibility not in the person, but in the multifarious modern world. "What is central is the moral division of labour created by our institutional fabric. This scheme of cooperation delimits the normative demands upon each of us, by defining particular spheres of responsibility. Given the fluidity, plurality and disagreement associated with normative demands in modern societies, this limitation is crucial."
If there is indeed a limit on each sphere of responsibility, then there should be a boundary on user support. Right now, no one understands the proper extent of support; no limiting structure is defined for the benefit of either user or support staff. To define such a limit is to grant support staff authority to demur. Unthinkable as it may seem, modern technological society needs to consider, define, and sanction a point at which consultants can say "no." Better yet, they won't need to, because everyone will understand the limits; everyone will know where user support ends and user responsibility begins. Everyone will know that the manual should be read (and should be written in the first place), and they will know from accepted and ingrained cultural mores rather than from simply being told so by pesky IT people.
But we can't work that out here and now! In the best case, the tribulation of tech help is a temporary issue, reflecting ordinary workplace stress in the face of upheaval, similar to legal and safety compliance demands. The problem will resolve as society grasps tech more firmly; that, however, will take some time. We wait for the emergence of norms of responsibility in this and other aspects of technology.
Williams, Garrath. 2008. Responsibility as a Virtue. Ethic Theory and Moral Practice. 11:4, 455-–470. DOI:10.1007/s10677-008-9109-7.
Robin K. Hill is a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and an affiliate of both the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies and the Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research at the University of Wyoming. She has been a member of ACM since 1978.
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This comprehensive archive offers authentically detailed, copyright-free illustrations of hundreds of plants and flowers from around the world. Ideal for graphic artists, designers, and others in the arts and crafts, it will also serve both serious and casual botanists as a convenient reference and key to identification of a broad range of botanical species.
Each illustration has been carefully selected from botanical archives for its scientific accuracy, artistic style, and suitability for reproduction. The plants and flowers are grouped by kind, uses, and habitats into seventeen categories, among them aquatic plants, carnivorous plants, grasses, rushes and sedges, orchids, ornamental plants, plants of commerce, mushrooms, molds and lichens, ferns, mosses, trees, shrubs, weeds, wildflowers, and vines. For easy and accurate reference, both common and botanical Latin names are given for each species whenever possible. All names have been compiled into two convenient indexes.
Alan E. Bessette, Professor of Biology at Utica College of Syracuse University, is a well-known naturalist, botanical photographer, and author of numerous books and field guides on botanical subjects. William K. Chapman, a biology teacher and member of the adjunct faculty at Utica College, is a well-known speaker and writer on the gathering of wild foods, and the author of field guides to plants and animals of the Adirondacks.
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Amazon, Apple, Google, Zigbee Alliance and Board Members Form Working Group to Develop Open Standard for Smart Home Devices – AiThority
Project Connected Home over IP Intends to Simplify Development for Device Manufacturers and Increase Compatibility for Consumers
Seattle and Cupertino, Mountain View and Davis, California — Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance announced a new working group that plans to develop and promote the adoption of a new, royalty-free connectivity standard to increase compatibility among smart home products, with security as a fundamental design tenet. Zigbee Alliance board member companies such as IKEA, Legrand, NXP Semiconductors, Resideo, Samsung SmartThings, Schneider Electric, Signify (formerly Philips Lighting), Silicon Labs, Somfy, and Wulian are also onboard to join the working group and contribute to the project.
The goal of the Connected Home over IP project is to simplify development for manufacturers and increase compatibility for consumers. The project is built around a shared belief that smart home devices should be secure, reliable, and seamless to use. By building upon Internet Protocol (IP), the project aims to enable communication across smart home devices, mobile apps, and cloud services and to define a specific set of IP-based networking technologies for device certification.
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The industry working group will take an open-source approach for the development and implementation of a new, unified connectivity protocol. The project intends to use contributions from market-tested smart home technologies from Amazon, Apple, Google, Zigbee Alliance, and others. The decision to leverage these technologies is expected to accelerate the development of the protocol, and deliver benefits to manufacturers and consumers faster.
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The project aims to make it easier for device manufacturers to build devices that are compatible with smart home and voice services such as Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, Google’s Assistant, and others. The planned protocol will complement existing technologies, and working group members encourage device manufacturers to continue innovating using technologies available today.
Project Connected Home over IP welcomes device manufacturers, silicon providers, and other developers from across the smart home industry to participate in and contribute to the standard.
Facebook is building an operating system so it can ditch Android – TechCrunch
Facebook is making its own operating system to free itself from Google's shackles – TechRadar India
Mozilla isn’t the only one grappling with a serious web browser security flaw. Microsoft has confirmed to TechCrunch that it will fix an Internet Explorer security exploit already being used for “limited targeted attacks.” The vulnerability lets attackers corrupt memory used for the scripting engine in IE9, IE10 and IE11 in a way that would let the intruder run arbitrary code with the same permissions as the user, letting them hijack a PC. It’s believed to be similar to the Firefox issue disclosed a week earlier.
The issue is significant enough that Homeland Security issued an advisory encouraging people to both be aware of the flaw and consider implementing workarounds, including temporarily restricting access to jscript.dll.
Unlike the Firefox bug, though, you’ll have to wait a while for a patch. Microsoft said it wasn’t likely to provide its fix until its next monthly security release, slated for February 11th. Until then, you’ll either have to consider workarounds or be cautious about clicking links to visit unfamiliar sites.
The risks might not be extremely high given the modern browser market. Microsoft has largely showed Internet Explorer to the side in favor of Edge, which just got a major Chromium-based revamp on January 15th, and you’re statistically more likely to use a third-party browser like Chrome. Nonetheless, it’s a headache — Microsoft’s past is coming back to haunt its present.
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NSA alerted Microsoft to major Windows 10 security flaw – CNN
Microsoft (MSFT) issued a software update on Tuesday to fix the vulnerability, as part of its normal schedule for releasing software patches.
News of the vulnerability and patch were first reported by independent journalist Brian Krebs, who said Microsoft provided its software fix to the military and key infrastructure companies ahead of Tuesday’s public release.
Microsoft said in a statement Monday night that it provides advance versions of its updates to some users under a special testing program. Jeff Jones, a senior director at Microsoft, declined to discuss specifics of the flaw “to prevent unnecessary risk to customers.”
The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.
The NSA’s rare announcement of the flaw, along with its decision to warn Microsoft rather than exploit the bug for intelligence purposes, underscores the magnitude of the threat it could pose to businesses, consumers and government agencies worldwide.
The NSA said that, while it has shared vulnerability information with the private sector in the past, this marks the first time that it has come forward publicly to do so. The agency said the decision reflects an effort to build trust with cybersecurity researchers.
“Part of building trust is showing the data,” Anne Neuberger, the NSA’s director of cybersecurity, told reporters on a conference call Tuesday. Because the NSA has never allowed itself to be linked to a vulnerability disclosure, she said, “it’s hard for entities to trust that we take this seriously. And ensuring vulnerabilities can be mitigated is an absolute priority.”
The NSA did not use the vulnerability to exploit adversaries, and the bug was turned over to Microsoft as soon as it was discovered, Neuberger added. She said the NSA has not detected any other entities using the bug.
The Department of Homeland Security said on the call that it would issue a bulletin to federal agencies advising them to install the Microsoft patches immediately.
The flaw concerns a core Windows function that verifies the legitimacy of apps and programs, a feature known as CryptoAPI.
“It’s the equivalent of a building security desk checking IDs before permitting a contractor to come up and install new equipment,” said Ashkan Soltani, a security expert and former chief technologist for the Federal Trade Commission.
By compromising that validation feature, hackers could easily impersonate “good” software companies to install bad software, Soltani said, potentially allowing them to spy on computer users or hold their devices hostage for ransom.
Leaked Galaxy S20 spec sheet details huge screens, big batteries, Android 10, more – 9to5Google
Samsung’s Galaxy S20 series is going official in just a few short weeks and this week we’ve learned pretty much all there is to learn about the entire collection. Today, another Galaxy S20 leak details the full specs on all three main models.
Courtesy of Ishan Agarwal and MySmartPrice, the full Galaxy S20 spec sheet has hit the web. This fills in some of the gaps from past leaks of the device.
What’s familiar with all three variants? Samsung is using a centered punch-hole design with a 20:9, 3200x1440p 120Hz AMOLED panel of varying sizes. All three variants also share Android 10 pre-installed, IP68 water resistance, 128GB of base storage with microSD, and, at least with these variants, an Exynos 990 chipset. In most regions, though, we’re expecting a Snapdragon 865. This spec sheet doesn’t mention RAM, but previous rumors place the Ultra with up to 16GB.
What’s different? Let’s talk about the standard Galaxy S20 first. The smallest of the three, this device still packs a 6.2-inch display, a slight jump up from the S10’s 6.1-inch panel. The S20 carries dimensions of 152x68x7.8mm, not too different from the S10. There’s also a 12MP main camera, 64MP telephoto camera with 3x optical zoom, and 12MP ultra-wide camera. Samsung is apparently using these sensors to craft up to 30x digital zoom and offering 8K video recording. There’s also a 10MP front camera with 4K video. A 4,000 mAh battery rounds out the spec sheet.
The Galaxy S20+ carries a similar spec sheet. It has the same set of cameras but adds a ToF sensor to the mix as well. There’s also a larger 4,500 mAh battery to power the 6.7-inch display. As pictured below, the S20+ is quite a bit larger than the S10+ with dimensions of 162x74x7.8mm. By comparison, S10+ measured in at 157.6×74.1×7.8mm.
Finally, there’s the S20 Ultra which is, as previously detailed, is absolutely ridiculous. It has a 6.9-inch display, 167x76x8.8mm body, and a much more elaborate camera array. There’s a 40MP front-facing camera and, on the back, a 108MP primary camera, 48MP telephoto camera with 10x optical zoom, 12MP ultra-wide and a ToF sensor too. Samsung is using this array to create 100x digital zoom. Rounding things out is a 5,000 mAh battery which is, again, pretty ridiculous.
What do you think of the Galaxy S20’s leak specs? Drop a comment below and let us know! The Galaxy S20 goes official on February 11th.
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Crude Oil Weekly Forecast: Oil Price Needs Support, Eyes US-China Trade Deal – DailyFX
Crude Oil Fundamental Forecast: Neutral
Oil bulls rattled after US-Iran risk turns lower.
US-China trade signing may provide support after recent bear run.
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My crude oil forecast for next week is neutral with a possible partial retrace of this week’s sell-off back to trend.
Oil is now trading near its lowest level in one-month as risk-adverse assets slumped after the US and Iran backed away from further military action in the Middle East. With supply fears eased, oil lost its recent bid and now looks for the next driver of price action. A potential flare-up in Middle East tension however remains on the cards, leaving bearish oil sentiment at risk.
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The long-running US-China trade war has hit global economies hard and weighed heavily on the price of oil. OPEC supply cuts have tempered further losses but an end to the near two-year trade spat is needed to help reboot global growth. This Wednesday both sides have committed to signing phase one of a trade deal which would see tariffs rolled back, markets re-opened and a pledge by China to buy an additional $80 billion of US agricultural products over the next two years. While the market already knows the basic make-up of the deal, any deviation from these knowns, or any additional measures, will move risk markets and the price of oil.
The US Senate could also ratify the Unites States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) next week, with the new deal succeeding the current North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This ratification should also bring a degree of stability to markets, although the impact of any signing is likely to be limited.
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The daily chart shows that the recent sell-off has seen oil fall through its supportive trend started off the October 3 low just below $51.0/bbl. This trend line will now act as resistance until crude oil breaks and closes above. The CCI indicator does indicate that oil is currently oversold.
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TSX expected to shatter records in 2020 – CTV News
TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index is expected to shatter records in 2020 after starting the year up nearly three per cent to date, says an investment expert.
The S&P/TSX composite index should gain at least 10 per cent for the year, pushing it to about 19,000 points while outpacing U.S. markets, says Macan Nia, senior investment strategist at Manulife Investment Management.
“That is our base case and there’s potential risk to the upside,” he said in an interview after the market capped a strong week by hitting another record high.
Nia said markets are being propelled by stabilization in the global economy and low interest rates which central banks are unlikely to increase in the face of little inflation.
“There’s nothing in near sight that would suggest that the party can’t continue.”
A catalyst for a correction or pullback could be disappointing earnings results, he said, noting that when valuations get high it only takes something minor to get a pullback.
Another could be the result of the Democratic primaries if Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren win the party’s nomination to take on U.S. President Donald Trump.
Either one would provide a “headwind for capital markets” Nia said, noting their calls to break up big tech companies that have driven stock market gains.
Former New York City mayor and businessman Michael Bloomberg and former U.S. vice-president Joe Biden are viewed as the most pro-business among leading candidates.
For now, there’s a lot of optimism as the Phase 1 trade agreement between China and the U.S. has tamed investor anxiety.
The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 74.25 points at 17,559.02 after trading at a record high of 17,572.15.
In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was 50.46 points at 29,348.10. The S&P 500 index was up 12.81 points at 3,329.62, while the Nasdaq composite was up 31.81 points at 9,388.94.
The TSX gained 1.9 per cent last week and 2.9 per cent year-to-date after gaining more than 19 per cent in 2019.
“A good end to a great week to a great start to the year followed by a great 2019,” Nia said.
Markets were propelled by strong U.S. housing starts that were at the highest level since 2006 and factory output improving 0.2 per cent in December.
Although Chinese economic growth slowed to a 29-year low of 6.1 per cent last year amid a trade war with the U.S., the weakness seems to be normalizing, he said.
“That’s providing optimism for markets that we’re towards the end of this weakening and that we might be seeing an inflection point.”
The Canadian dollar traded for 76.56 cents US compared with an average of 76.66 cents US on Thursday.
The key energy sector was the only one of 11 major sectors on the TSX to fall on Friday, led by a 4.1 per cent decrease in shares of Encana Corp. as natural gas plunged to a near four-year low.
The March crude contract was up five cents at US$58.58 per barrel and the February natural gas contract was down 7.4 cents at US$2.00 per mmBTU.
Materials was part of a broad-based rally, ending the day higher led by First Quantum Minerals Ltd. and Teck Resources Ltd. They climbed on higher gold prices as oil rigs increased in the U.S. for the first time in a couple of weeks and the possibility that 20-year U.S. bonds could weaken the U.S. dollar.
The February gold contract was up US$9.80 at US$1,560.30 an ounce and the March copper contract was down 0.15 of a cent at US$2.85 a pound.
“It just shows the general positive animal spirits for the markets at this point that’s just a continuation of what we saw last year where you’re seeing all sectors rise together.”
Ontario ticket takes Friday night's $50 million Lotto Max jackpot – CTV News
A single winning ticket was sold in Ontario for the $50 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw.
The draw also offered two Maxmillion prizes of $1 million each, but neither were won.
The jackpot for the next Lotto max draw on Jan. 21 will be approximately $12 million.
Bombardier's future in question, seeks debt-reduction – Business News – Castanet.net
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After exiting the commercial aircraft business, selling its aerostructures unit and unloading a large tract of land in Toronto, the company said it is working to reduce debt and “solve its capital structure.” Bombardier’s long-term debt stood at more than US$9 billion as of Dec. 31, 2018.
“We are actively pursuing alternatives that would allow us to accelerate our debt paydown. The objective is to position the business for long-term success with greater operating and financial flexibility,” it said in a news release Thursday that warned about weaker financial results for 2019.
What that means is unclear, says Walter Spracklin of RBC Capital Markets.
“The company’s rather opaque language about accelerating its strategic review to ‘solve’ its capital structure will require further clarity,” he wrote in a report.
The language suggests some urgency and not just pushing out debt maturities, added Seth Seifman of JP Morgan.
“This suggests to us the potential to pursue strategic options, including a breakup and sale of all or part of the company,” he wrote. “It may include one or both of Bombardier’s two major businesses: bizjets and trains.”
Bombardier’s shares plunged more than 30 per cent to their lowest level in nearly four years following its release which pointed to a possible withdrawal from a partnership with Airbus in the commercial aircraft previously called the C Series.
The company said its financial miss is mainly due to actions taken to resolve challenging rail projects, the timing of milestone payments and new orders and the delivery of four business jets slipping into the first quarter of 2020.
The stock was down 54 cents at $1.25 in afternoon trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
The Montreal-based company said it is reassessing its ongoing participation in the Airbus partnership about two years after giving up a controlling stake in the program to Europe-based Airbus SE.
Airbus owns 50.06 per cent of the joint venture, Bombardier 33.58 per cent and Quebec 16.36 per cent after injecting US$1 billion in 2016.
While the A220 program is gaining orders as it proves its value, additional cash will be required to support the ramp-up of production, a delay in reaching break-even and lower returns over the life of the program, it said in a preliminary announcement of its fourth-quarter and 2019 results set to be released Feb. 13.
“This may significantly impact the joint venture value,” Bombardier said, adding it will disclose any writedown next month.
Bombardier said it expects consolidated revenue for 2019 to total about US$15.8 billion and consolidated adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of about US$830 million.
A total of 58 aircraft were delivered in the fourth quarter and 175 for the full year, including 11 Global 7500s.
Industry analysts called the financial warning negative with some cutting their price target for Bombardier’s shares.
“The key question is how much closer is the company to solving these issues, and what comfort can we get that new issues of similar scope and magnitude will not recur,” added Spracklin.
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SpaceX's Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort Test Will Now Launch No Earlier Than Jan. 11 – Space.com
SpaceX will now launch a major in-flight abort system test of its Crew Dragon spacecraft for astronauts no earlier than Jan. 11, a week later than previously announced.
The uncrewed test flight, called an In-Flight Abort Test, will test a vital safety system designed to protect astronauts during a launch emergency. It was initially expected to liftoff sometime this month, but NASA announced last week that the mission would launch no earlier than Jan. 4. That target has since slipped another week.
“NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than Jan. 11, 2020, for a critical In-Flight Abort Test of the Crew Dragon spacecraft from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, pending U.S. Air Force Eastern Range approval,” NASA officials wrote in an update Wednesday (Jan. 18). NASA did not give a reason for the date change.
Video: Watch SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Abort System in Close-Up Action
SpaceX fired a Crew Dragon’s escape engines in preparation for a milestone test. (Image credit: SpaceX)
SpaceX’s In-Flight Abort test flight, called IFA for short, will launch a Crew Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket and intentionally trigger the spacecraft’s launch abort system in mid-flight. That system, a network of eight SuperDraco abort engines, will pull the Crew Dragon free of its Falcon 9 booster to simulate an emergency escape and parachute back to Earth.
The abort system is vital to safeguard astronauts during launch. In October 2018, the launch abort system on a Russian Soyuz rocket carried NASA astronaut Nick Hague and cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin to safety when their booster failed during flight.
“The demonstration of Crew Dragon’s launch escape system is part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program and is one of the final major tests for the company before NASA astronauts will fly aboard the spacecraft,” NASA officials wrote.
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During the upcoming test, SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 rocket carrying an uncrewed Crew Dragon, then activate the capsule’s launch abort system in mid-flight. If all goes well, the Crew Dragon will fire its SuperDraco engines to rip the capsule free of the Falcon 9, deploy parachutes and splash down in the Atlantic Ocean.
“The In-Flight Abort Test follows a series of static fire engine tests of the spacecraft conducted Nov. 13 near SpaceX’s Landing Zone 1 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida,” NASA officials wrote. “SpaceX will also conduct a static fire test of its Falcon 9 rocket ahead of the In-Flight Abort Test.”
SpaceX is one of two commercial companies (Boeing is the other) building private space taxis to fly NASA astronauts to and from the space station. The company launched its first uncrewed Crew Dragon test flight to the station in March of this year, but the spacecraft used on that flight was destroyed during a failed ground-based abort system test in April.
SpaceX has since identified the cause of that failure and made corrections that led to a series of successful abort system ground tests in recent months.
Boeing, meanwhile, is making progress on its own spacecraft, a capsule called Starliner that launches on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Last month, the company successfully performed a pad abort test of its Starliner capsule.
Today (Dec. 20), Boeing launched its first uncrewed Starliner flight to the International Space Station. However, about 15 minutes after liftoff, the spacecraft experienced an “anomaly” that prevented it from entering the correct orbit. Rather than spending a week at the space station as planned, Starliner will spend about 48 hours in orbit before returning to Earth via a parachute-assisted landing at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The mishap could delay Boeing’s plans to launch a crewed flight test, which is currently scheduled to take place in mid-2020.
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On Sunday, SpaceX is launching one of its last big flight tests for NASA, one that could ultimately pave the way for the company to fly people to space later this year. For this flight, SpaceX will test out the emergency escape system on its new passenger spacecraft — and will probably destroy a Falcon 9 rocket in the process.
The vehicle that SpaceX is testing is its new Crew Dragon capsule, a passenger spacecraft the company has been developing for NASA as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew program. Before NASA will let its astronauts fly on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, the agency wants to know that the vehicle can keep people safe in the unlikely event of an emergency. That’s what this weekend’s test, known as an in-flight abort test, is all about. SpaceX plans to mimic a failed rocket launch and show that its Crew Dragon can survive and protect its precious inhabitants inside. “We want to practice, practice, practice,” Benji Reed, director of crew mission management at SpaceX, said during a press conference on Frida. “We test like we fly, and we want to practice like we fly.”
Embedded in the hull of the Crew Dragon are eight SuperDraco engines, designed to fire if the Falcon 9 rocket carrying the capsule starts to suffer some major failure. The SuperDracos can propel the spacecraft up and away from the decaying rocket. Once the Crew Dragon is at a safe distance, the capsule would then deploy its parachutes and lower itself gently into the Atlantic Ocean. A recovery boat would then meet up with the capsule and rescue the crew inside.
SpaceX has tested out this escape system before, but only when the Crew Dragon was on the ground. The company and NASA want to see this process in action while the capsule is zooming into the sky on top of a rocket. That’s when the system will be needed most if a worst-case scenario happens in the future. So this weekend, SpaceX will launch one of its used Falcon 9 rockets — which has been to space and back three times before — with a Crew Dragon on top. At 84 seconds after launch, when the rocket and capsule are feeling the most stress during flight, the SuperDracos will fire and the rocket’s main engines will cut off. The Crew Dragon will then go through the entire escape routine.
SpaceX definitely expects to lose its Falcon 9 rocket during this test. The vehicle should break apart on the way back down to Earth thanks to the speed it’s going and the weather conditions. As for how it will be destroyed, that’s unclear. But the rocket will be fully fueled, which means some of that propellant might light up. “We expect there to be some sort of ignition and probably a fireball of some kind,” said Reed.
No people will be on board this flight, though SpaceX will have two smart dummies inside the Crew Dragon to gather data about how the maneuver would affect future crew members. Both the dummies and vehicle will be recovered by boat after the test.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is scheduled to take off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral Florida on Sunday, during a six-hour launch window between 8AM and 2PM ET. SpaceX will wait to launch until they see good weather at both the launch site and the place in the Atlantic Ocean the Crew Dragon is expected to fall. Having those weather conditions line up may take some time. “Y’all may be waiting for a while, while we’re trying to find the perfect time for us to be able to conduct this test,” Kathy Lueders, the program manager for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, said during the press conference. SpaceX was originally supposed to launch on Saturday but had to stand down due to bad weather at both locations.
If this test goes well, then the next big flight of the Crew Dragon will have people on board. The date for that highly anticipated trip is still very much an open question. The Crew Dragon that will be used for that test is slated to arrive in Florida by the end of this month, according to SpaceX. And after the in-flight abort, SpaceX and NASA will need to review all the data and do additional paperwork, and SpaceX still has to do some more tests of its parachutes, which it upgraded last year. “We are really human certifying these Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9,” said Lueders, adding that “making sure we’ve dotted all the “I”s and crossed the “T”s before our crewed demonstration mission is very important.”
SpaceX’s coverage will begin 20 minutes prior to takeoff, while NASA’s coverage is set to begin 15 minutes beforehand. Since liftoff time could change a lot, be sure to check both SpaceX and NASA’s twitter feed for updates.
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Welcome to your weekend! The first week back after CES has been a long one, but now it’s time to relax. Below there are some highlighted stories from Friday and the rest of the week, but the news I needed to see is that a rumored “Pro Mode” for MacBooks could bring back the illicit thrill of a Turbo Button that’s been missing since the days of the 486.
This weekend we might see a dramatic test from SpaceX, however the in-flight abort test requires conditions that are right both for its landing and the Crew Dragon’s return to Earth in the Atlantic Ocean. SpaceX is currently targeting a six-hour window on Sunday morning for the test, but also has a backup window on Monday if necessary.
Otherwise, sit back, catch up on a few highlight stories from this week and maybe check out Avenue 5 on HBO.
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Bad weather forces delay of SpaceX simulated rocket failure test – CNBC
Bad weather forced Elon Musk’s SpaceX to delay until Sunday a test in which it will destroy one of its own rockets in atrial of a crucial emergency abort system on an unmanned astronaut capsule.
The test, the company’s final milestone test before flying NASA astronauts from U.S. soil, had been planned to take place on Saturday.
SpaceX said in a Twitter post it was standing down from the Crew Dragon capsule test because of high winds and rough seas in the recovery area.
It was now looking at carrying out the test on Sunday, with a six-hour test window starting at 8 a.m. ET (1300 GMT).
Less than two minutes after liftoff from a launchpad in Florida, the Crew Dragon will fire on-board thrusters to eject itself off a Falcon 9 rocket mid-air, simulating an emergency abort scenario that will prove it can return astronauts to safety.
The test is crucial to qualify SpaceX’s astronaut capsule to fly humans to the International Space Station, which the National Aeronautics and Space Administration expects to come as soon as mid-2020. It follows years of development and delays as the United States has sought to revive its human spaceflight program through private partnerships.
NASA awarded $4.2 billion to Boeing and $2.5 billion to SpaceX in 2014 to develop separate capsule systems capable of ferrying astronauts to the space station from U.S. soil for the first time since NASA’s space shuttle program ended in 2011.
The space agency has since relied on Russian spacecraft to hitch rides to the space station.
In the test, the Falcon 9 rocket’s boosters will shut down roughly 12 miles (19 km) above the ocean, a mock failure that will trigger Crew Dragon’s so-called SuperDraco thrusters to jet itself away at supersonic speeds of up to 1,500 miles per hour (2,400 kph).
The capsule will deploy three parachutes to slow its descent to water, carrying aboard two human-shaped test dummies dressed in motion sensors to collect valuable data on the immense g-force – the effect of acceleration on the body – imposed during abort.
The booster will free-fall and tumble back uncontrollably toward the ocean, SpaceX’s Crew Mission Management director Benji Reed said. “At some point we expect that the Falcon will start to break up.”
“Our Falcon 9 recovery forces will be standing by ready to go and recover as much of the Falcon as we can as safely as possible,” Reed said.
The in-flight abort test was originally scheduled to take place in mid-2019, but the timeline was delayed by nine months after one of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsules exploded in April on a test stand just before firing its launch abort thrusters, triggering a lengthy investigation.
SpaceX zeroed in on a previously unknown explosive reaction between a titanium valve and the capsule’s rocket fuel. Reed told Reuters SpaceX had completed the investigation within the last week.
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The Week Ahead…. And News from the Past Week
Sean Ruppert (standing) of Opal LLC, hosts meeting on development of E Street Residential Project
By Larry Janezich
Details Emerge on Development of 46 Units Near SE Safeway – Opal LLC Meets with Community
On Monday, March 23, developer Sean Ruppert, Opal LLC principal, held the first community meeting regarding the planned construction of 46 residential units at 1309-1323 E Street, SE, near the SE Safeway.
The purpose of the meeting was to get input from the community regarding community benefits and amenities Opal will provide to ameliorate the impact of the increased density for the site which will be sought through the Planned Unit Development (PUD) process. The PUD process provides a way for a developer to change the zoning of a construction site to allow greater height and density for a project than would be allowed under the site’s current zoning. The process provides that the developer gives something back to the community – in the form of “benefits and amenities.”
New details of the project emerged during the meeting. The project anticipates 46 units – most will be three and four bedroom townhouses – which will be for sale, not rentals. The developer said some of the units would be multi-family, two over two, and there could be 8 of those units. Under inclusionary zoning, 10 percent of the units will have to be “affordable”– some at 80% of Average Median Income (AMI) and some at 50% AMI. Since the plans have not been finalized, the developer could not give an exact number (for more on “affordable” see CHC posting here: http://bit.ly/1FT5TCb). There will be 46 below grade parking spaces, one per unit.
Former councilmember Sharon Ambrose, who attended, voiced the sentiments of many in the crowd, saying she was “so happy to see a development of other that micro units – the trend is for housing for the most transient members of the community.”
Time line: Ruppert said they could break ground six months to a year after the PUD application is filed. It appears that the project will go up in stages, with a final completion date depending on how fast the units sell. According to the developer, if three units are sold per month, the project will be built out in two years.
Opal LLC will file a PUD application in the next few weeks. Ruppert asked those attending Monday’s meeting for suggestions as to what benefits and amenities might be suitable. A number of suggestions – including those Opal had received from Watkins School – concerned items that properly falls under the city government and the DC school system. Some of these included: A crossing guard for the school, bike racks, upgrade street lighting, upgrade street scape, trees, upgrade Watkin’s gardens, street striping, year round bathrooms for Watkin’s field, upgrade park near Peter Bug’s Shoe Academy, and making units senior friendly.
Ambrose urged residents and the developer to avoid recommending benefits that city agencies are responsible for before checking to see if items have been provided for in the city’s budget process. There is a lengthy period between filing the PUD and the Zoning Commission’s “Set Down” hearing, where the plans are finalized; there is no urgency to compile a list of benefits and amenities in the next few weeks.
Once a list of benefits is compiled as the process continues to unfold, ANC6B will conduct the negotiations with the developer on behalf of the community.
Construction of CAG HQ at 15th and Independence, SE, To Begin
Community Action Group (CAG) planners held a community meeting on Thursday, March 26 to update residents on plans for construction of CAG HQ at 15th and Independence, SE. Bureaucratic issues have stalled the project and neighbors have complained that the neglected construction site and the huge empty pit on 15th Street has been a nuisance. The CAG flyer offering details on the construction plan and contact information, previously distributed by ANC Commissioner Denise Krepp is here: CAG+neighborhood+report+03272015-2
ANC6B Revamps Website with Useful Information for Residents of ANC6B
In 2010, a group of reformers challenged and took control of ANC6B which, to many observers, had become insular, secretive and opaque (ANC6D take note). One of the campaign issues for reformers was increased transparency, and one of the remedies proposed was to make the ANC’s website a useful tool to bring information to the community. That project, spearheaded by then-Commissioner Brian Pate and his Community Outreach Committee, and current Commissioner Brian Flahaven is becoming a reality. Pate and his committee made the website functional. Flahaven has undertaken the task of posting relevant information to the site. For any resident
Among the information available on the site is the following:
Map of ANC6B, list of Commissioners and their contact info; ANC6B Bylaws, ANC6B Standing Rules, List of Committees and Taskforces, List of Resident Members of Committees and Taskforces, reports of committee meetings, details of settlement agreements with bars and restaurants, ANC6B letters and resolutions, financial statements, minutes of ANC6B meetings, and commissioner’s testimony before government agencies. Also, one can find here the meeting materials for ANC6B meetings, which are posted prior to the monthly meeting. The link to the website is here: http://www.anc6b.org/
ANC6B Executive Committee Meets at 7:00pm in Hill Center to set the agenda for the April regular meeting of the ANC, on Monday, April 20 (note change in date).
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Pound The Hill Reopens
Pound the Hill reopened just after noon today. John Karl of Pound told CHC: “There was confusion with DC over taxes and we quickly resolved it. Unfortunate that they closed us without notice but fortunately it was only for half a day that we were closed!”
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Pound The Hill Coffee Shop Is Closed by DC Tax Office of Tax and Revenue – Reopens Tomorrow
Pound Is Closed by DC Tax Office of Tax and Revenue
Update: Pound has posted a comment to this story, saying they will be open by mid day tomorrow.
An alert Hill resident forwarded the photo above and the information that Pound is closed.
DC Code provides that if a person is liable to DC for tax and doesn’t pay within 10 days after notice, the Mayor may collect the tax plus penalties by levy upon all property of the person who owes the tax. If the person is a business entity, this supposedly would entail seizing the assets of the business. Capitol Hill coffee shop patrons may recall that a similar fate befell Murky’s coffee shop – the last in the list of Peregrine predecessors.
The Week Ahead – Community Meeting on 45 Mixed Unit Project Near SE Safeway
And so it begins…..
Opal LLC hosts community outreach meeting on 45 unit mixed residential project comprised of townhouses, condos, flats and a carriage house for the site at 1309-1323 E Street, SE, currently occupied by an Jerry’s Custom Automotive Center and its associated warehouse. The meeting will be at 7:00pm in Hill Center. See CHC posting here: http://bit.ly/14qcnLZ
Eastern Market Community Advisory Committee meets at 7:00pm in Eastern Market’s North Hall. Among items on the agenda: Update on Hine Construction Planns
Councilmember Charles Allen Community Office Hours, 8:00am – 9:30am, Curbside Café, 257 15th Street, SE
ANC Committee Says No to Shipping Container Housing in Rosedale
Travis Price Architect’s Shipping Container Residential Units
Last night, ANC6A’s Zoning and Economic Development Committee said “no, thanks” to the Neighborhood Development Company and Architect Travis Price’s bid to construct 22 shipping container housing units in Rosedale. The DC Housing Development Agency is making the site at 1600 Kramer Street available to developers who will construct mixed income residential units, 35% of which must be “affordable.”
Last night, three developers presented their ideas for the site to the Committee.
Price’s concept featured “high performance, low energy housing” – which was the subject of an article in the WaPo yesterday, see here: http://wapo.st/1F8oYUi His proposal, in association with The Neighborhood Development Company, would provide 12 affordable units, 8 at 50% Area Median Income (AMI) and 4 at 80% AMI. (AMI in DC is $107,500 for a family of four) on the site in the Rosedale neighborhood adjacent to Miner Elementary School, just south of Hechinger Mall. The plan anticipates 8 parking spaces.
The Committee gave nods of approval to two other developers, Manna, Inc. and Mi Casa, both of whom put forth more traditional town house concepts.
Manna, Inc. proposes ten units – five 2 bedroom and five 3 bedroom. One 2 bedroom and one 3 bedroom would be marketed at 60% AMI, and one 2 bedroom and one three bedroom would be marketed at 50% AMI. Six units would be sold at market rate. The proposal includes six parking spaces.
Mi Casa proposes 12 townhouses – eleven 3 bedroom units and one fully accessible 2 bedroom unit. Five would be marketed at below 80%, five below 50 percent and two at market rate. They propose 12 parking spaces.
Both of the latter proposals would be financed by a combination of private equity and city subsidy. Both would be subsidized by DCHD providing the land at no cost. Manna would be further subsidized by a city write down – essentially a city held second mortgage which is passed on to subsequent owners and ultimately returned to the city.
At the end, Committee Chair Dan Golden summed up the consensus of the Committee and the community: Manna is the best architectural fit, Mi Casa the best commitment to affordability, and Neighborhood Development Company was “really cool but in terms of aesthetics and density” not the best fit for the neighborhood.
The committee voted 6 – 0 to send a letter in support of Manna, Inc. and Mi Casa to the full ANC which meets next Thursday at Miner Elementary School. The full ANC is expected to endorse the committee recommendation and forward that to DCHD.
The Week Ahead….And Photos of the Leaders at Lincoln Park in the R&R Marathon
Circa 8:35am, Saturday morning, the leader in the Rock and Roll Marathon rounds Lincoln Park
At circa 8:55am, the first woman rounded the park
Spiderman was about midway between them
The Week Ahead….
ANC 6A Transportation & Public Space Committee Meets at 7:00pm, Capitol Hill Towers (900 G Street, NE)
Among items on the agenda:
Request for conversion of 2-way stop to 4-way stop at 15th Street NE and A Street, NE
Request from residents for Residential Parking Protection on south side of 1200 block of Florida Avenue, NE
ANC 6A Community Outreach Committee, meets at 7:00pm, Maury Elementary School, Multi-Purpose Room, 1250 Constitution Avenue, NE (Enter from 13th Street)
Grant Application Update
ANC 6A Website Update
ANC 6A Alcoholic Beverage Licensing Committee meets at 7:00pm, at Sherwood Recreation Center (10th and G Streets, NE)
Report on status of Halftime Sports Bar.
License renewal for Naomi’s Ladder, LLC t/a Touche at 1123 H Street NE
Capitol Hill Restoration Society Board of Directors meets at 6:30pm, Capitol Hill Townhomes, 750 6th Street, SE
ANC6A Economic Development & Zoning Committee meets at 7:00pm at Sherwood Recreation Center, 10th and G Streets, NE
Resolution of previously heard BZA/HPRB cases
1204 H Street, NE: Informational presentation regarding planned by-right redevelopment of this property.
1600 Block of Kramer Street, NE: DHCD has received offers for the development of multiple adjoining vacant lots located on this block, including with mixed-income housing. Three organizations that have submitted offers to develop the property will be providing separate informational presentations regarding their proposals and seeking ANC support: Mi Casa, Inc.
Manna, Inc., Neighborhood Development Co.
Preservation Café, presented by the Capitol Hill Restoration Society, 7:00pm at the Kaiser Permanente building, at 700 2nd St. NE. “How to Spot a Cheap Flip” with Capitol Hill craftsman and contractor, Gary Barnhart.
PSA 108 meets at 7:00pm at Liberty Baptist Church, 527 Kentucky Avenue, SE, with MPD Lt. JB Dykes.
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ANC6B Asks DGS For Longer Lease on Boys and Girls Club to Permit Mixed Income Housing
The City Pushes For 100% Affordable Housing in the Former Boys and Girls Club Over ANC and Neighborhood Objections…
While the Building Continues to Deteriorate Owing to the City’s Neglect
ANC6B voted 10 – 0 last Tuesday night to send a strongly worded letter to the Department of General Services (DGS) expressing its unhappiness with a Request for Proposals (RFP) process which left the community with a choice of only one redevelopment option for the Hill East Boys and Girls Club Building. That option, unnamed in the letter, is the proposal for 49 units of
Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) housing for seniors put forward by Dantes Partners/Menkiti Group. The only other proposal DGS received appears to be disqualified for not meeting the terms of the RFP – even though that proposal has much more support from the surrounding residents.
Most residents would like to see a mix of larger affordable and market rate units in the building and oppose the proposed additional two stories and many more tiny units proposed by the Dantes/Menkiti plan.
The letter also cites the ANC’s frustration by DGS’ decision to withhold significant information from the commission and the public. Commissioners Flahaven and Krepp requested information on the project regarding eligibility for tax abatement, financing structure, how advertised services would be paid for, protection for residents in case of economic failure, and loan programs the developers’ are proposing to use. The ANC found DGS to be lacking in its response to the commission.
In addition, DGS ignored an ANC6B request to lengthen 25 year lease for the site when it asked developers for their best and final offers. The final insult was a letter from Melissa Millar, DGS Management Analyst, which chided the ANC, telling them to limit its concerns to areas under its purview and asserting DGS’ right to make the most informed decisions that are in the District’s best interests.
Further, to date the community has received no explanation as to why the assertion by Michelle Chin of DGS to the community on January 20th that its RFP had met with “considerable interest” from developers had resulted in only two proposals.
The letter to DGS, largely drafted by Commissioner Denise Krepp, concludes:
“DGS should have recognized that the RFP was flawed when it received only two responses to redevelop the building. The Boys and Girls Club sold the Eastern Branch Building to the District because of financial difficulties. Since that time, the building has remained vacant and continues to deteriorate. While ANC6B and our constituents appreciate and support the city’s efforts to quickly redevelop the building, it must be done in a proper manner. Moving forward with one proposal based on an unnecessarily restrictive RFP is not in the best interests of the neighborhood and the city.”
Commissioner Flahaven stated previously that the decision on the Boys and Girls Club would be a “political” one. Mayor Bowser has made a commitment to provide more affordable housing in the city and DGS is looking for ways to carry out the Mayor’s wishes. The terms of the RFP virtually require the developer to use LIHTC funding – a process that accomplishes the Mayor’s goal and simultaneously provides a low risk high-return for the developer.
For more on the city’s push for 100% affordable housing at the Boys and Girls Club, see here: http://bit.ly/1DvMw1W
For more on how LIHLTC works, see here: http://bit.ly/1FT5TCb
Details Emerge on CAS Riegler Plan for NY Pizza Site on Pennsylvania Ave SE
Schematic showing massing of proposed mixed use project for 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE
The developers of the NY Pizza Site at 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, met with some 20 nearby residents Thursday night to discuss plans for development of the site and to get initial feedback from the community.
The developer is CAS Riegler, a DC focused development company with some 18 developments under its belt, many in DC Historic Districts. CAS Riegler principal Kevin Riegler told attendees that the company wants to build a quality project that they will “own forever.”
Although the building is not yet in the design stage, Riegler said they are committed to respecting the character of the neighborhood, even though the site lies outside the Historic District.
The company will seek a Planned Unit Development (PUD) for the project, meaning they will seek a change in zoning to increase the density and height beyond what would otherwise be permitted in exchange for community amenities. The amenities will be negotiated by ANC6B after consultation with and on behalf of the community. Currently, 50 feet is the maximum building height for the site.
Other details of the project revealed Thursday night are as follows:
70 feet high
180,000 square feet
6 floors of 150 – 180 apartments – the mix of 1 and 2 or more bedrooms has not been determined
3 – 5 first floor retail spaces designed to appeal to local retailers – “hopefully food and beverage”
50 parking spaces
It will be 15 – 24 months before ground is broken
Construction will take 18 – 24 months.
The developers say they are “acutely aware” of what happened in the Hine PUD, and want to avoid that. To that end, they have offered to meet residents “in a coffee shop or at your kitchen table” to address their concerns.
According to the developer, Thursday night’s power point presentation will be available shortly on the firm’s website, here: Those who cannot attend may comment on the project at the firm’s website, here: http://casriegler.com/projects/1401penn
Interested parties may also comment on the project at this site.
ANC6B Takes WMATA To Task – Urges More City Oversight
Says Failure to Conduct Security Exercises Puts Riders at Risk
Last Tuesday night, ANC6B approved testimony critical of WMATA written by Commissioner Denise Krepp and subsequently delivered by Krepp before the City Council Committee on Finance and Revenue. The thrust of the testimony was that WMATA had put and continues to put Capitol Hill Metro riders at risk by its failure to conduct regularly scheduled exercises with the participation of law enforcement personnel and emergency response providers. Krepp’s testimony also urged the Mayor and the committee to take a greater oversight role in the day to day operations of the agency, saying, “On January 12th, one individual died and over 80 more were injured as a result of the electrical arcing incident at L’Enfant metro stop. WMATA personnel were not properly prepared to respond to this incident and I am not confident they are prepared to do so today.”
The message seemed reasonable enough, but it was not an easy sell to some of the commissioners. ANC Chair Kirsten Oldenburg said she objected “in several ways” to the testimony as representing the position of the ANC. She said she had no problem if Krepp wanted to deliver the testimony as an individual commissioner representing her own single member district. Commissioner Nick Burger echoed Oldenburg’s concerns, saying he didn’t think the testimony reflected the kind of feedback the ANC should be giving and that the remarks would better serve as being Krepp’s own view.
Krepp responded that she knew where of she speaks, since she had written the language requiring security exercises when she had served as Senior Counsel on the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee. “Are you telling me not to be concerned that WMATA has not done appropriate oversight?” she asked Oldenburg and Burger.
Tension in the room was broken when Commissioner Brian Flahaven, former ANC Chair and current Vice Chair stepped in to endorse the testimony, saying he didn’t see why it hurts to speak out on this issue and that he felt it was important to weigh in on the serious problems in WMATA which had resulted in the January 12 tragedy at L’Enfant Plaza. “There’s no down side, he said, and “I am perfectly willing to support the testimony.”
Krepp accepted the suggestions of several Commissioners including Oldenburg to tone down the testimony which was then approved by a vote of 8 – 0 – 2, with Commissioners Flahaven, Krepp, Samolyk, Hoskins, Loots, Hagedorn, Chao and Jayaraman voting in support. Commissioners Oldenburg and Burger abstained.
Krepp delivered the testimony – which concludes as follows – to Committee on Finance and Revenue yesterday.
“Everyday, thousands of DC residents, Congressmembers, and other high level officials enter the WMATA system via Capital South, Eastern Market, Potomac Avenue, and Stadium Armory metro stops. The WMATA personnel demonstrated on January 12th that they were not prepared to respond to an incident at these stations and they are not prepared to do so now.
I strongly encourage the Committee and the Mayor to conduct more oversight over WMATA to make sure they are prepared. Proper preparedness prevents death and injury – surely a goal WMATA can accomplish.”
She delivered the same testimony today, before DC Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency.
Ugly Mug Retractable Roof Issue Settled as ANC Withdraws Protest
Tensions Still Simmer Between Restaurants and Nearby Neighbors
Last night, ANC6B voted to withdraw its complaint against the Ugly Mug expansion with retractable roof, contingent upon owner Gaynor Jablonski signing an agreement the ANC had negotiated between him and nearby neighbors. A last minute snafu – attributed by ANC6B Commissioner James Loots to his own carelessness – animated Commissioner Diane Hoskins to attempt to coax Jablonski to commit to an earlier closing of his glass roof on Friday night.
Loots had distributed the draft agreement to residential neighbors which lead some of them to believe that the Ugly Mug had agreed to close its roof at 10:30 pm on Friday nights. That version was presented at the ANC meeting on Tuesday and Loots characterized the 10:30 pm reference as a typo, saying that it had always been the intent to treat Friday and Saturday the same with a 12 midnight closing time for the roof .
Commissioner Diane Hoskins from the adjoining single member district on Barracks Row seized the moment to ask Jablonski if he would close his roof at the earlier hour.
Jablonski said, “I can’t do that,” and explained the extra time on Friday night accounted for a lot of revenue and given the other concessions he’d made, including closing the roof during any live entertainment or karaoke, the later closing time on Friday was fair and reasonable.
Barbara Charles, one of the 20 nearby residents on Barracks Row itself, expressed her concerns to the ANC in a letter, which she read aloud to the Commission. She stated what she believed to be the sentiment of the other neighbors that adding the retractable roof and the expanded seating would add considerable noise, as well as refuse to the alley. She also expressed her disappointment to find that – despite Jablonski’s earlier agreement that all of the nearby second story residents on 8th Street would receive the noise protection accorded to nearby residents on 7th, I, and G Streets, the final draft Settlement Agreement excluded the residences with addresses on 8th Street. She also told the ANC, that the Settlement Agreement allows the Ugly Mug to begin operations a half hour earlier than the opening time specified on its alcohol beverage license.
The second story of the Ugly Mug used to house residents, as did the second floor of an adjacent building at 725 8th Street, SE. Intolerable quality of life issues forced both of those residential occupants to move, opening up space over the Ugly Mug for expansion, and opening up commercial space on the second floor next door for the offices of Capitol Hill Village. The latter has expressed concern about the impact of the bar’s expansion on their ability to conduct business in their rented space.
7th Street resident Linda Elliot asked the ANC to explain to residents why they would double the size of a (bar/restaurant) which had had numerous violations of the health code and a violation of the fire code. DC law calls these transgressions “primary violations.”
Charles also pointed to recent changes in DC law which she said should concern the ANC (and all residents who unite to protest a liquor license to the Alcohol Beverage Regulatory Agency – ABRA). That change provides that if an ANC withdraws its protest before ABRA regarding a liquor license, then any other protest lodged against a liquor license (except those of an adjacent neighbor) falls with it. The dis-empowerment of residents by empowering the ANC works against the interests of residents since ANC’s – which are weak to begin with – are seldom willing to expose that weakness by going toe to toe with government agencies to back community concerns.
Charles commended Commissioner Brian Flahaven for addressing the Council Committee on Business, Consumer and Regulatory Affairs about the unequal status that ABRA has created for the ANCs. She noted that the group protest currently pending against the Ugly Mug would fall if the ANC signed off on the proposed settlement agreement and said ANC6B may be the first ANC to use this power and in doing so, set a precedent for other ANC’s.
The final vote was 6 – 1 – 3, with Commissioners Samolyk, Jayaraman, Burger, Oldernburg, Chao, and Flahaven voting to approve. Commissioner Hoskins voted to oppose, and Commissioners Krepp, Loots, and Hagedorn abstained.
Jablonski comes back before ANC6B next month to try to satisfy resident’s concerns about trash and rodent issues.
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Rauner urges political unity to save the future of Illinois
By Hoang Tran | Jun 21, 2017
Gov. Bruce Rauner urged Democratic and Republican lawmakers on Tuesday to unite and pass a balanced budget that will fund Illinois and get it back on its feet.
“Right now, our state is in real crisis, and the actions we take in the days ahead will determine how history remembers us," Rauner said. "We can all do better. We must all do better for the citizens of Illinois. We’ve asked the General Assembly to come together in a special session for the next 10 days, not as Democrats and Republicans but as leaders who share bipartisan concern for our state’s future.”
Lawmakers are heading into a special legislative session on Wednesday to work on a budget before the fiscal year ends on June 30. The spring session ended without a budget on May 31. Without a budget, the General Assembly held a continuous session through June. Rauner called for the special session on June 15 to sort out the budget.
“We must agree on a balanced budget plan and get it to my desk before the end of the state’s fiscal year – one week from Friday,” Rauner said.
The state is nearing 700 days without a budget, which has had severe effects on some of its most vital services.
Illinois currently has $15 billion in unpaid bills, a running deficit of $6 billion and an estimated $130 billion in pension debt.
During the regular session, Senate Democrats passed a plan to generate $5.4 billion through an income tax hike and other taxes to fund a $37.3 billion budget plan. Republicans opposed the plan.
Republican lawmakers recently presented a package of proposals that address funding and include a version of a balanced budget as well as reforms on key issues. Rauner has said he would sign the package if it passes the General Assembly.
The Republican plan introduced would raise $5 billion in taxes to pay overdue bills and fund services, while imposing a hard spending cap of $36 billion. The plan also includes a four-year property tax freeze.
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“It moves us to middle ground on key issues,” Rauner said. “It is truly balanced. It funds schools, higher education and human services. It provides a real path to property tax reduction. The plan also stands tall for fundamentals. Spending reductions. Limits on expenses. Debt reduction. And term limits on legislative leaders and statewide officeholders, including the governor.”
However, John Tillman, CEO of Illinois Policy Institute, called the compromises too much in favor of lawmakers.
“While this was done in the spirit of compromise, it is a mistake,” Tillman said. “This compromise means your [taxpayers'] paycheck will get smaller, and the state will continue to spend far beyond its means. That is not a compromise. That is a failure.”
Tillman asserted that Illinois needs to focus on true reforms hand-in-hand with a balanced budget that changes the system. Having a balanced budget alone won’t automatically fix the state’s problems, Tillman argued.
“It’s time to stand up and demand loud and clear what we want: a budget that dramatically changes our state government, turns our whole state system upside-down,” Tillman said. “We need a balanced budget without a tax hike that makes spending for the poor and disadvantaged … its No. 1 priority.”
Closing his speech, Rauner again implored lawmakers to come together.
"We’re asking the General Assembly to do what those who came before us did that changed the course of history: Have the courage to dare to do what is right ... to act for the people,” Rauner said. “And together, we will create a brighter future for every family across Illinois.”
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When ENGIE was contracted to replace the cladding at Eyot House in Bermondsey, our commitment to be at the forefront of environmentally conscientious construction methods demanded a creative approach to recycling and repurposing the old expanded polystyrene (EPS) removed from the building.
The existing EWI system comprised an insulation layer of expanded polystyrene (EPS) board, for which it was important to fully consider responsible disposal. Waste (particularly plastic waste) is one of the most prevalent environmental factors in the construction industry, and as there was a significant volume of EPS at Eyot House, the team were keen to divert this from landfill. Polystyrene is one of the least efficient materials to recycle, meaning that it often ends up in landfill where it can take more than a million years to decompose.
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Ryan Gosling Completely Loses it on SNL
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Jeopardy of the Day: A Contestant Actually Got Alex Trebek to Say 'Turd Ferguson' on Air
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It finally happened.
One brave (or stumped) Jeopardy contestant got Alex Trebek to say "Turd Ferguson" during Sept. 16's final round.
This is one for the ages folks.
Of course, she got the idea from none other than Burt Reynolds and his mastery of comedic timing and poise.
"It's a funny name."
You can watch that whole classic Saturday Night Live skit here:
Return of the Day: Tracy Morgan, Recovered From a Fatal Crash, Will Return to Host Saturday Night Live
After suffering a life-threatening car crash in June of 2014, Tracy Morgan will return to television by hosting Saturday Night LIve Oct. 17.
Last year, a truck driver, who had been awake for 28 hours crashed into Morgan's limo, killing James McNair and leaving Morgan with a very serious brain injury.
His recovery has been a long process and it has remained unknown when he would return to comedy, as he repeatedly said he wish to do. That is until Saturday Night Live tweeted out the first few hosts for the next season of the show Aug. 17:
We're excited to announce our first three hosts of Season 41: @MileyCyrus, @amyschumer, and @RealTracyMorgan! #SNL pic.twitter.com/cVOrHZKPBk
— Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) August 17, 2015
The comedy community around Tracy Morgan has continued to be very supportive through his recovery. Longtime co-worker Tina Fey even said she would hold a role for him on her new Netflix show Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
To prepare for Morgan's return, how about rewatching one of his great SNL skits:
Dwayne Johnson's Embarrassment Finally Sees the Light of Day in Cut Saturday Night Live Sketch
Saturday Night Live has done sketches exactly like this before, which is maybe why this particular one was cut for time, and just was uploaded recently.
However, there's just always something slightly magical about seeing Dwayne Johnson have a debased sense of humor about himself. Like when he honored his fanny pack past.
It's definitely a reason to watch The Dance of the Daisies.
Check Out This Unaired SNL Short Featuring Louis C.K.
This skit, which is pretty much better than every other skit that happened during Louis C.K.'s hosting, was cut for time.
Great. I'm glad they left this out and kept in the terrible sketch of a shoemaker's helper elves trying to goad him into sexual domination. Come on, SNL. Keep it together.
"Let me get that closure off you?"
Louis C.K. Realizes He's Stolen Everything from Bruce
Louis C.K. hosted Saturday Night Live May 16 and apparently all his material was stolen from a fellow comedian named Bruce.
Watch the whole story here in this digital exclusive that didn't air during the live show.
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Empire Star Taraji P. Henson Prepares to Host SNL this Weekend
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SNL Begs the Batman Out of Michael Keaton
His half-hearted "I'm Batman" line, hardly satisfies.
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7 Reasons Nasim Pedrad Deserves This Fox Show
Variety reported March 25 that Saturday Night Live Alumni Nasim Pedrad is in the process of developing her own show with the FOX network.
This hopefully is great news.
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NBC Wants to Put Saturday Night Live in Your Face
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Prepare your peepers. According to a March 16 NBC press release, the studio recorded last month's 40th anniversary special for virtual reality platforms as well as these old-fashioned televisions people still use sometimes.
"The 'Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special' Virtual Reality segments will be available on the VRSE app for iOS and Android for Google Cardboard and in the Oculus VR Store for Samsung Gear™ VR.
'Saturday Night Live' and NBC Entertainment partnered with filmmaker Chris Milk and his virtual reality production company VRSE.works to capture the 40th anniversary special in the new and emerging virtual reality format. This will allow the content and the night to live for years onward in a format that will bring people as close to being in the studio as they ever could have imagined.
VRSE.works captured nearly the entire anniversary special from inside the studio using their custom built VR camera mounted on top of Camera One, the main studio pedestal camera covering the majority of the special for broadcast television."
NBC said it would release the special in different segments. The first, showing Jerry Seinfeld's Q&A session, is already available for iOS and Android for Google Cardboard and in the Oculus VR Store for Samsung Gear™ VR.
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1 '"Tropomyosin-receptor-Kinase (Trk)"'
2 Maintenance and Proliferation of undifferentiated Cell Lines
3.1 PLC-y1 Pathway
4.3 The interplay between miRNA and Trks (tropomyosine-receptor-kinases)
'"Tropomyosin-receptor-Kinase (Trk)"'
The tropomyosin-receptor kinase (trk) belongs to the family of tyrosine-protein kinase receptors (TK), which was discovered as a proto-oncogene that consisted of seven exons of ‘non-muscle tropomyosin’ gene fused to the cytoplasmic domains of a novel ‘tyrosine-kinase’ gene. Trks are commonly associated with cell survival, proliferation, neurite growth including axons & dendrites as well as regulatory function of ion channels and neurotransmitter receptors in immature neural cells. In addition, binding of ligands to trks can affect growth, plasticity and synaptic strength of neuronal junctions in the adult nervous system (ref), although it is notable that Ligand binding does not itself illicit an action potential event. Three trk genes have been identified in mammals: trkA (proto-oncogene), which serves as an NGF receptor, trkB and trkC, that each was subsequently identified due to their high homology to trkA(ref).
Trk receptors are made of an extracellular segment that binds polypeptide ligands, transmembrane helix, and cytoplasmic segment where the tyrosine kinase catalytic activity takes place.[1]
Further NGF binding site affinity is generated through collaboration with the p75 protein/neurotrophin receptor (p75NTR). Furthermore, p75NTR regulates NT-3-TrkA and NT-4/5-TrkB mediated receptor activation by blocking Neurotropin ligation by circumnavigating the prequisite of these neurotropins for receptor activation.
Trk B also known as Neurotrophic tyrosine kinase, receptor, type 3 is a high affinity receptor for neurotrophin-3 (NT3). Binding of NT3 on Trk C triggers the neuronal growth from neural stem cells in a process known as neurogenesis. NT3 is particularly important in proprioceptive neuron growth.[3]
Maintenance and Proliferation of undifferentiated Cell Lines
NGF binding to ligation region facilitates dimerisation of Trk Receptor monomers into the signal tranductive unit- activating the kinase unit. Phosphorylation of the autoregulatory loop tyrosines of the cytoplasmic domain further activates the kinase. Phosphorylation of an additional seven tyrosines within this region promotes signalling by providing docking sides for adaptor proteins which regulate signalling-cascade couples.
*Incomplete* Trk dynamics
Tropomyosine receptor kinases (Trk) enhance neuronal cell growth and differentiation of neurites via the activation of various signalling pathways. PKC, PLCy1, Ras/MAPK and PI3 are the four well known pathways, which exhibit this activity. The latter process involves the activation of transcription factors that will bind onto a specific target gene, thus trigerring neuronal cell division and/ differentiation via production of specific proteins that inhibit apoptosis.
PLC-y1 Pathway
Simplified PLC γ1 Pathway. Full sized animation
Phospholipase C, comes in many forms and plays and important role in the signal transduction for many processes, including, proliferation, differentiation and motility. Its main function is to hydrolyze phosphatidylinositoldi phosphate (PIP2) into diacylglycerol (DAG) and inositoltriphosphate (IP3). [4] This occurs by the activation of the membrane bound receptor by a number of growth factors, cytokines and immunoglobins. [5]
DAG is necessary for the further activation of the PKC and it remains bound to the cell membrane. IP3, a water soluble protein , in turn is released into the cytoplasm and leads to the release of Ca2+ reserves from the endoplasmic reticulum. This increase of calcium ions actives the classic isoforms of [Protein Kinase C|Protein kinase C]. [6]
Protein Kinase C (PKC) is a family of nucleotide-independent, Ca2+-dependent serine kinases. [7]. At least 11 isozymes have been identified, [8] most PKC isozymes are ubiquitous and multiple members of the family can be coexpressed within the same cell leading to complex pathways. However, the basic signal transduction pathway involves the allosteric activation of PKC by the intracellular messengers diacylglycerol and Calcium ions. The inactive PKC is mainly found in the cytosol. Upon stimulation the PKC proteins translocate to the cell membrane. This translocation is the result of a cascade initiated by the binding of a number of extracellular ligands, such as, growth factors, hormones, and neurotransmitters to a G protein-coupled receptor (GPRC) found on the plasma membrane. This in turn activates a stimulating G protein which in turn activates phospholipase C (PLC). [9] A G protein is then activated, which then activates phospholipase C (PLC). The PLC cleaves phosphoinositol-4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) into 1,2-diacylglycerol (DAG) and inositol-1.,4,5-triphosphate (IP3). [10] The IP3, couples to Ca2+ channels found on the endoplasmic reticulum releasing Ca2+ reserves. The increased concentration of calcium ions bind to inactive PKC molecules and then translocates to the plasma membrane. Here is binds to DAG giving rise to the active PKC enzyme. [7] The PKC family plays a major role in cellular signal transduction. [11]Their main roles consist in the regulation of cell proliferation, differentiation, survival and apoptosis. [12]
Activation of Ras-MAPK signalling pathway is predominantly essential for promoting neuronal cell growth and differentiation. Several pathways derive from Trk receptors for activation of Ras molecules, which begin by formation of ligand-bound mitogen (BDNF or NGF) at an extracellular domain of the trk, causing receptor dimerization. This subsequently will lead to phosphorylation of the intracellular parts of the receptors, which activates Guanine Exchange factors (GEFs), such as sos, Grb2 and Shc. GEFs trigger the exchange of GDP bound to inactive Ras to GTP, resulting Ras to activate. The presence of activated Ras molecules, stimulate signaling via a major downstream pathway known as MAP kinase (mitogen-activated protein kinase)-although activated Ras, would be also capable of triggering several other downstream pathways such as PLC-y1 and PI3-kinases. (Figure..)
Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway involves a series of signalling cascade. Raf is the first component of MAPK, activated by Ras-GTP on the plasma membrane. Raf then phosphorylates MEK1/2,which in turn activates the ERK1/2 by phosphorylation. ERK1/2 kinase would further phosphorylate a variety of downstream targets. These pathways may include phosphorylation of MAP 2-kinase by MAP 3-kinase on its serine and threonine amino-acid residues. Further phosphorylation of MAP- kinase by MAP 2-kinase on its serine and tyrosine amino-acid residues subsequently yields activated MAP-kinase. This results in activation of transcription factors that will lead to changes in gene expression. (Click here for well illustration of MAP-kinase pathway on You-tube) Nonetheless, aberrant Ras-MAPK signaling has been identified to be a possible factor responsible for the uncontrolled proliferation and malignancy (See “Cancer Biotherapy”, current research).
PI3K are a family of intracellular transducer enzymes, and are involved in different signaling pathways and the control of key functions of the cells.[13] PI3K is also involved in motor neuronal diseases due to its role in tyropomyosine kinase receptors.PI3Ks have three subclasses based on their structure and substrate specificity. They are all composed of 85 kd and 110 kd subunits. The ability of PI3K to activate a number of signal proteins including some oncoproteins determines its significance in regulation of cell functions such as growth and survival, aging and malignant transformation.[13] Pl3K is also involved in the control of both malignant cell resistance to mutating agents and the sensitivity of malignant tumors to chemotherapy and radiotherapy.[14] PI3K has an array of main effectors which include the mitogen-transducing signal proteins such as protein kinase C, phosphoinositide-dependent kinases and mitogen activated protein kinases. They are activated either via their interaction with lipid products of PI3K or through PI3K-dependent phosphorylation of proteins.[15] PI3K is activated by number of growth factor receptors with intrinsic and tyrosine kinase activity. Nerve growth factor (NGF) activates PI3K in TRK to regulate cell functions.[16]
Recent studies have hypothesized that receptors responsible for Ras activation would be effective target for treating human cancers (ref). Based on this hypothesis, since 1995, therapies utilizing the inhibition of Ras activation have aroused a major interest. Farnesylation is a process by which small G-proteins like Ras are activated and adhered to the cell membrane. In a recent paper (Sebti & Hamilton 2000), farnesyl transferase inhibitors were used in order to block the farnesylation of Ras proteins. The results revealed promising hopes in animal models but unfortunately have not been effective in human cancer treatment. The major downstream target of Ras-MAP-Kinase (MAPK) has also been taken as a subject for drug design. Sebolt and his colleagues showed that MAPK-inhibitors are effective in cancer therapy using mouse models (ref). It has been also suggested that Inhibition of the Ras-MAPK signaling pathway can serve as a potential therapy for NF1 in humans (ref).
In a recent publication, a hypothesized model was explained in which active Trk receptors are internalised into signaling endosomes during signalling transduction process (ref). The experiment that led to this understanding involved local application of NGF to axons and soma (cell bodies) of neuronal cells. It was shown that both ERK1/2 and ERK5 signaling cascades were activated. Surprisingly, application of NGF to neuronal cells at distance resulted only in activation of ERK5 pathway and NOT ERK1/2. It was then understood that activation of ERK5 in the cells somas required receptor internalisation due to inhibition by thermo-sensitive dynamin. Further investigation was conducted by local application of specific Trk-inhibitor (K252a) at either the distal axon or cell body, which blockaded the activation of ERK5 in the cell soma in the presence of NGF. Therefore, the hypothesized model in which active Trk receptors are internalised into signalling endosomes is inevitable. Nonetheless, the mechanism through which distance affects the specificity of signalling would be the future topic of investigation.
The interplay between miRNA and Trks (tropomyosine-receptor-kinases)
MicroRNAs are tissue specific, small non-coding RNAs, which are involved in post-trancriptional-silencing mechanism (See also: miRNA Science Overview). In non-mammals, miRNAs have been discovered to be involved in developmental process of the nervous system. For instance, in Caenorhabditis elegans, miR-273 participate in a regulatory mechanism in which ensures for the morphgenesis and differentiation of receptor neurons. Likewise, in mammalian brain tissue, recent studies show that certain miRNAs have been identified, in which suggest an important role of these small molecules in modulating Trk receptors and development of nervous system. In addition, functional regulation of these miRNAs are also linked to tumorgenesis of nervous system. For instance, three neuronal miRNAs (9,125a and 125b) are found to be involved in human neuroblastoma cell proliferation by down-modulating TrkC isoform.
NGF-Nerve growth Factor.
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NAMM 2020: Introducing AXE I/O SOLO, Z-TONE Buffer Boost & Z-TONE DI
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Probably, but this is the first time we’ve driven the latest Rolls-Royce convertible on UK roads. After all, Britain loves an open-top car, despite the meteorological issues one is likely to suffer driving one with the roof stowed.
But if any car can eradicate the unpleasantness of this country’s unreliable climate, it ought to be the Dawn. Especially with prices starting at a not inconsiderable £264,000.
Yikes. You must get a lot for your money…
Most certainly. There’s rather a lot of car here – the Dawn is 5.3 metres long, 1.9 metres wide.
You notice how large the Dawn is merely by how long it takes to walk from one end to the other, while the wonderfully over-engineered, rear-hinged doors demand a lot of room as they swing open to nearly 90-degree angles from the car.
You can use a slimmer opening, of course, but ingress and egress will be so much more glamorous when you caddishly stroll up, step into the interior, and swing the door electronically shut with the touch of a button.
Most certainly. There’s rather a lot of car here – the Dawn is 5.3 metres long, 1.9 metres wide, and it tips the scales at 2.5 tonnes. That makes it heavier than a seven-seat Audi SQ7.
Lord no, but nor is anything the Dawn does. And that’s what so utterly beguiling about it. The engine is a 6.6-litre V12, mounted surprisingly far back under that front bonnet. It’s shared with the Ghost saloon and Wraith coupe, but uses the former car’s lower output.
‘Lower’ still translates into 563bhp and 575lb ft of torque, mind, enough to propel the Dawn from 0-62mph in five seconds. The top speed is an electronically limited 155mph.
Yes and no. Push the accelerator all the way down – the pedal travel is “are you sure you want drive so uncouthly quickly?” long – and with all 575lb ft available from just 1,500rpm, you’ll be fired along exceedingly rapidly.
But so desensitised is the Dawn that it’s all bewilderingly drama-free. There’s barely a muster of engine noise, no sense that turbochargers are boosting its output, and no tangible evidence of its automatic gearbox containing eight entire speeds.
Electric doors. Are they necessary?
Does it feel fast?
But so desensitised is the Dawn that it’s all bewilderingly drama-free. There’s barely a muster of engine noise, no sense that turbochargers are boosting its output
In fact, every element of the Dawn smoothly irons out anything one might consider “feedback”. The overly large steering wheel contains barely a jot of feel, while the biggest bumps you can find will all be smothered entirely by the suspension. My first few hours guiding the ginormous feeling Dawn around are pretty tentative, then.
Yes and no. Push the accelerator all the way down – the pedal travel is “are you sure you want drive so uncouthly quickly?” long – and with all 575lb ft available from just 1,500rpm, you’ll be fired along exceedingly rapidly.But get accustomed to the Dawn’s size – its large wing mirrors mean you can point them down to show where the lane markings are, while still seeing everything behind you – and it’s a fun car to build speed and confidence in.
Can you actually have fun in it?
Surprising amounts. At first, it feels like Rolls is doing everything it can to throw keen drivers off the scent: the steering is super slow, there’s no option to manually control the gears, and there’s barely any engine braking when you lift off the throttle, so you heave on the hard-working brakes more than you’d like.
Yet once you realise there’s plenty of grip hiding beneath all those cocooning layers of comfort, you can have a go at driving this thing quickly. The trick is not taking lots of speed into a bend – there’s simply too much mass for that – but to carefully turn in and, once the car has obliged, use an indulgent amount of throttle so that the rear squats down and you ride that wave of luxurious speed out of the corner. Get the hang of it and you can carry some serious pace across country roads.
Equally, of course, you can settle down, using the smallest smidgen of its ‘Power Reserve’ gauge possible (rev counters are so unclassy) and enjoy what a masterfully refined car this is. Roof up, the silence is zen-like, and full-size adults will still be comfy in the back.
Above 50mph and things can get a little cold and blustery if the soft top is folded, however. But let’s blame Britain’s wintry weather for that rather than the car. If it all gets a bit much, the roof can be operated at up to 30mph, though given the sheer size of it, the mechanism does take a little while.
Any other demerits?
If we’re nitpicking, yes. There’s only one USB port, and it’s located very unhelpfully if you wish keep your phone charged while using a sat nav app. And the Dawn isn’t much fun to park.
Otherwise, though, it’s as supreme as you’d hope. Perhaps more so. The materials are almost beyond description: only a few rogue buttons and the media screen layout highlight any BMW parts sharing, and everything from the copious swathes of wood to the thickly piled carpets (I’ve never had anything as plush in my house) will make you feel so, so good. As does driving with the Spirit of Ecstasy in the middle of your view forwards.
Rolls-Royce unashamedly goes its own way, even if that does make its cars ergonomically odd. The heating controls demand a degree of guesswork and the doors take some getting used to. But there’s so much class and character here. It’s an inspirational and irresistable car. The ultimate compliment? This one is specced to £331,500, and I don’t think I’d feel short-changed if I’d actually paid that.
That tells us it’s an Audi Q5, BMW X3, Mercedes GLC and Porsche Macan rival. It looks nicely sharp and chiseled, in a way the car it replaces – did you know you can currently buy an Infiniti QX50? – isn’t. The new one looks decent, no?
It will ‘delegate’ more onerous driving tasks to the car.
It’s a concept for now, and that means little technical detail but much styling chatter. The design language is called ‘Powerful Elegance’, while the interior, when we see it, will be “driver-centric, passenger-minded”. So expect some nods to sportiness in the dials, and the key dashboard controls to be angled towards the driver’s seat, a la BMW.
Perhaps unexpectedly for a car that’s “driver-centric”, though, there is plentiful talk of autonomous-ness. “Infiniti’s autonomous drive technologies will act as a ‘co-pilot’ for the driver, empowering rather than replacing them,” says the Japanese company.
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Bitcoin Rewards App Accuses Alibaba of Breaking Contract, Alibaba Denies Partnership
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On November 17, CEO of the rewards app Lolli Alex Adelman replied to Alibaba’s denial of having a partnership with his company, insisting that the partnership took place and “generated significant revenue,” blaming Chinese global shopping giant Alibaba for misinforming the media and their customers.
On November 11, on China’s Singles’ Day, Bitcoin rewards application Lolli announced a partnership with Alibaba. The campaign reportedly allowed users to earn up to 5% bitcoin back by shopping with the e-commerce giant. The event got a lot of media attention, with all the implications of a major Chinese company working with Bitcoin despite the government ban.
On November 15, a representative from Alibaba denied this partnership, explaining that the affiliate marketing program with Lolli was brokered by a subcontractor that was hired “without the knowledge of Alibaba.com,” and that Lolli “never had the right to claim a partnership with Alibaba.com or imply one with Alibaba Group.”
In his statement, Lolli’s CEO Adelman insists that they did have a partnership with the Alibaba Group, “since May through AliExpress” and have generated “significant revenue” for the company during the campaign. He detailed that Alibaba used the Lolli services for 24 hours, which could not be done without integration from the Alibaba side, but later the company abruptly stopped the partnership, “breaking the contract.”
Adelman maintains that the use of the Alibaba brand was “approved by a contractual agreement,” but despite his regrets about “miscommunication on Alibaba’s end” and its negative consequences for the Lolli brand, the company remains open for potential new collaborations.
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Dove Cameron remembers Descendants co-star Cameron Boyce (video)
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Dealing with loss is a difficult subject — it’s not something that everyone can tackle the same way, given that it is something that is so personal and specific. While the public knew Cameron Boyce, at the same time Dove Cameron knew a different version of him. She knew Cameron for the person that he was as opposed to some of what was out there in the press are on TV.
Dove and Cameron knew each other for a number of different reasons, and of course, a big part of it is the two of them working together on Descendants. The Disney Channel movies became an overnight sensation from the moment that they first came on the air. This is a project that led to the cast and crew traveling all over the world doing press together and making memories. They were a family and that is what makes losing someone like Cameron so tough.
If you look below, you can see Dove give her first emotional statement on the loss of Cameron and you can see just how difficult it is for her. She admits that it is difficult in order to reconcile the private nature of losing him to the public demands that go along with stardom. This is one of the challenges that comes along with fame, where there is unfair pressure to say something even though you’re probably struggling to say anything in your life away from the camera. Dove even admits in her video that she is posting this after spending some time in therapy.
The healing process is a long, difficult one, and we can only hope that everyone out there does give Dove some of the time she needs in order to heal and mend. She may speak more about it later, but it has to be on her own terms.
What did you think about Dove’s message about Cameron? Be sure to share now in the comments. Our thoughts go out to all of Cameron Boyce’s friends and loved ones during this difficult time. (Photo: Disney Channel.)
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Cardi B Charged With Assault Following Strip Club Altercation
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Cardi B was all smiles this afternoon (Oct. 1) as she walked out of a Queens police precinct after turning herself in to NYPD in connection to an assault of two bartenders back in August.
A spokesperson for the NYPD told CNN that in addition to the misdemeanor count of assault, the burgeoning rap star has been charged with two misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment for her alleged involvement in a brawl at Angels Strip Club on Aug. 29.
According to bartenders Baddie Gi and Jade, Cardi ordered her crew to beat up the women after rumors spread that Jade had been sexually involved with the "Taki Taki" rhymer's husband, Offset.
The Bronx native was reportedly "throwing chairs, bottles and hookahs [smoking pipes] in the club at 3 a.m.," said the rep.
Jade claims she was hit with an ashtray by an associate of Cardi B two weeks prior to the club incident. She also says the rhymer accused her of having an affair with Offset in June when they crossed each other's paths in Atlanta.
"We're aware of no evidence that she caused anybody any harm on that night," Jeff Kern, an attorney representing Cardi B, told press outside the police precinct. "We expect that the matter is going to be resolved expeditiously."
Jade and Gi's lawyer Joe Tacopina issued a statement to TMZ about Cardi today. "She continues to threaten them and clearly thinks her celebrity status is going to get her out of this. But it doesn't matter if her name is Cardi B or Carl B ... if she commits violent assaults she will be brought to justice."
Nicki Minaj spoke on the incident after her and Cardi's violent bout during New York Fashion Week in September. "A woman cannot give your man pussy if he does not stick his dick in there," she rattled off. "Who are you mad at, sweetheart?"
Cardi's next court date is scheduled for Oct. 29.
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What is ZBrush: How It Works & What It’s Used For
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ZBrush is the most advanced 3D sculpting program out there. What separates it from other 3D tools is that ZBrush mimics traditional sculpting techniques all done digitally on a computer.
Sculpting in ZBrush is akin to working with a digital ball of clay, shaping it as if you were working by hand.
The sculpting tools from ZBrush allow a wide degree of creative freedom. Not only can artists create more organic and detailed models using ZBrush, they can often arrive at the finished product much faster than with other programs like Maya or 3ds Max.
Developed by Pixologic, Inc., ZBrush was first presented in 1999 and officially released for PC and Mac in 2009.
Today it is recognized as the most advanced 3D sculpting software on the market. With a large toolset and a wide variety of applications, it’s easy to see why ZBrush has become such a success.
Intro To ZBrush
ZBrush is primarily a tool for sculpting high-resolution 3D models.
Before tools like ZBrush came along, artists had to painstakingly create detailed objects using complex software and methods that made the task cumbersome, maybe even impossible.
With ZBrush artists were introduced to sculpting using a paradigm borrowed from traditional sculpting: a ball of clay.
Inside ZBrush artists can pull, push, squash, scrape, or otherwise manipulate the digital clay just like they were working with the real thing.
The earliest versions of ZBrush came with 30 brush tools that allowed for a variety of different processes and more control. Using these brushes an artist can sculpt a digital version of almost anything they desire.
By manipulating a virtual surface in this way, the 3D artist can create detailed features like the scales on a dragon or the wrinkles in a person’s face.
Such fine details are very difficult to emulate without tools like ZBrush.
Thankfully this tool makes it easy to create highly detailed models for any kind of digital media.
Talented designers can even mock up their characters directly in ZBrush, saving precious development time.
The software allows artists to build all kinds of models ready for rigging or final production. While known primarily for the creation of organic figures with lots of surface detail, ZBrush is well suited for creating other objects such as vehicles or weapons too.
Unlike traditional modelling software, there’s no need to manipulate individual polygons with ZBrush since it takes a whole different approach.
ZBrush has revolutionized the 3D animation pipeline too.
In the past, 3D animators would often need to create a low-resolution version of their characters in another 3D package. This low-resolution model is known as the ‘base mesh.’ This basic model would be used for animation due to restraints in hardware.
But ZBrush changed all that by allowing artists to create their character designs with the full power of 3D sculpting start-to-finish.
Now the artists can sculpt their ideal character in one program and work from there.
Back years ago sculpting was once mostly used for fine-tuning a low-resolution model. ZBrush has reversed the trend and now artists are free to experiment with a high level of detail right from the start.
Then later on artists can create another version of their sculpted model for animating.
ZBrush prides itself on having a non-linear workflow. This means artists have more flexibility when it comes to how they approach their work.
Other 3D software can be very restricting, requiring the artist to follow exact procedures to complete an end result.
For instance, with some 3D packages artists must finish their models before creating a texture(the “paint” or surface coloring of the model). Changing the model would often mean losing a paint job.
ZBrush allows artists to move freely between work modes without losing any information.
What Is ZBrush Used For?
Because ZBrush is used to create high-resolution 3D models for movies, video games, and special effects, the chances are very high that you’ve seen something that features art made in the program.
ZBrush is a common tool for professional film and video game studios all over the world.
ZBrush artists are also employed in higher education, marketing, and wherever there is a demand for high-level 3D animation and effects.
Most AAA games on PC and next-gen consoles are using ZBrush in their animation pipeline. By using ZBrush today’s game studios can put more detail into secondary characters and create elaborate worlds without adding to the development time.
Games like “God of War” and “Assassins Creed” have benefited from these feature of ZBrush.
One of the best concept art schools in the world, FZD School of Design, only has 2 required programs for studying concept art: Photoshop and ZBrush. You can see this in their enrollment section under the “equipment fees”.
Those who study concept art and graduate from FZD with an entertainment art degree use only those two programs. That really says a lot about this software’s influence in the gaming world.
But ZBrush is also popular among film studios and it even received an academy award for revolutionizing special effects.
The ease-of-use allows artists to bring a director’s vision to life in days or even hours, reducing development time and improving results.
Because it contains a state-of-the-art blend of 2D painting and 3D sculpting tools, ZBrush is a perfect match for concept artists.
With built-in brushes that mimic real world media and dynamic modeling tools that let you shape objects in real time, it’s not hard to understand why ZBrush is so popular.
Artists can achieve insane levels of surface detail on their models making this a great program for the finishing touches on a game or movie. Details like skin pores or crow’s feet can be brushed into the surface of the 3D object with relative ease.
Movies like Star Trek, The Lord of The Rings, Rango, and the Pirates of the Caribbean have all made use of ZBrush to meld live action with virtual effects into a seamless experience.
Despite its massive popularity ZBrush is affordable enough for small studios and independent artists too.
Since arriving on the scene over a decade ago, ZBrush has firmly cemented itself as a major piece of software in the 3D animation universe.
Easily the most advanced sculpting software on the market and really the industry standard.
Artists pursing a career in animation, game design, 3D modeling, or special effects would be wise to develop their sculpting skills early.
A great way to start on the cheap is by downloading Sculptris, a free alternative developed by the makers of ZBrush.
Or if you really wanna dive into ZBrush have a look at our collection of tutorials tailored for all skill levels.
With a low learning curve and a powerful set of 2D and 3D tools it’s easy to see why ZBrush has become the digital sculpting program of choice for everyone from art enthusiasts to major film & video game studios.
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Josh is an artist and game developer who specializes in sci-fi, fantasy, and abstract art. His work employs vibrant colors and combines elements of glitch art, outrun, retro-gamming, neo-geo, and conceptual art. He trained as an oil painter before picking up 3D modeling, animation, and programming. He now runs Brain Jar, a small game development studio that focuses on experimental, narrative-driven content. You can learn more on the website or on Twitter @brainjargames.
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19 Best [Easy-To-Play] Violin Songs for Beginners
by Consordini Staff Last Updated January 3, 2020
Being a beginner violinist is challenging.
You have to maintain correct positioning, proper playing form, execution, and sound quality at the same time.
Aside from these points to consider, if you are not skilled in sight reading, playing music on the violin gets even more harder.
If you are just new to playing, chances are, you find some song difficult to play.
In this article we take a look at some of the best violin songs that are pretty easy to learn and play, even for a beginner.
Most of the time, it feels like it takes forever before you can actually play a good-sounding piece and show off with your new instrument.
But hey, don’t feel upset or discouraged!
Learning how to play the violin (or any kind of instrument) takes time and a lot of practice!
Until then, you may find these songs listed below useful, and fun to practice with.
Like other skills, we believe that one day, you’ll look back at this and smile because once in your life, you started playing easy songs to play on your new violin.
1. Ode to Joy
Classical music can be very difficult.
However, this song by Beethoven is an easy song to play that will demonstrate your classical prowess and your newly acquired technique in fingering and bowing skills.
You can even play up to the first eight bars and show off with the simple arpeggio using quarter and half notes.
If you want to show off a little bit more, practice the next eight measures and create a more complete classical piece of music with a couple of eight notes in the bridge.
2. William Tell Overture
Another well known classic composed by Rossini.
This song is a rousing song that includes a theme of toe-tapping, upbeat kind of music that can make people smile and feel like dancing.
You might find this fun to play with but, beware, because the bowings are tricky.
If you master this piece, with all those eights and ties, you’ll definitely sound incredible!
3. Au Clair De La Lune
A song written in D major, Au Claire De La Lune is a classic composition that needs relatively little skill to be played on the violin.
This is usually taught by some violin instructors to improve simple key changes and at the same time encourage a new learner to start with non-demanding, popular songs to play.
1. La Bamba
This a Mexican folk song arranged by Christian Morris.
It has a lively, upbeat tune that features tuplet groupings and tenuto (dramatic emphasis) that will allow you to improve your technique and show off your violin playing skill!
2. Wabash Cannonball
This is a traditional folk song by Johnny Cash.
It is written to describe a fictional train and is one of the easy violin songs that you may be able to play with your violin.
Try to master this piece and sound like a pro!
3. The Midnight Special
The Midnight Special is a popular violin song which rose to fame after being recorded by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
It is a folk song that is easy to play on the violin and it can be beautifully played with a fellow beginner violinist.
1. Amazing Grace
If you are looking for an easy violin song to play for a church gathering or service, this is the perfect piece for you!
This song is composed by an English poet, by the name of John Newton, in 1779.
Although it started as a poem which was developed to a song after 70 years, it is a lovely tune.
It is also the most popular violin song among Christians and is beloved by many.
The tune, on the other hand is quite tougher that other songs in this list but once you have mastered to play this song in G major, you will sound terrific!
2. When the Saints Go Marching
This is a Christian jazz composition, and a traditional gospel music.
It features half and quarter notes and will really maximize your bowing skills.
Its tempo can be adjusted to any level without affecting the song’s meaning.
If you can play ‘Amazing Grace’, try to learn this piece as well, because you may be asked by the church members for an encore.
1. All of Me
This is a popular song by American singer John Legend.
It became a number 1 hit and peaked on top at the Billboard Hot 100 on May 2014.
It is a power ballad written in in the key of A♭ major with a tempo of 63 beats per minute.
If you want to play on a wedding gig or wants to learn one of the best modern violin song, start practicing this now!
2. Wedding March
What to play for a wedding? Of course, the best would be the Wedding March!
Sounds obvious right? But seriously speaking, this is an easy song to play on the violin.
Played with only two sharps, this composition by Mendelssohn is a good addition to your repertoire!
Nursery Rhymes and Disney Songs
1. For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow
If you are looking for a famous violin song that is appropriate for kids, you should try to learn this song written in D major.
It features a lively tune that is very good to practice and learn.
You can even let your listeners sing along while you play!
2. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
You might find it funny, but this bedtime favorite is played in a lot of music schools around the world.
If you buy a Suzuki book, you’ll find it there in different variations.
You can choose to play it with an accompaniment or play solo in your room.
3. A Whole New World
This song may be confusing and very challenging to play at first due to the syncopated and triplet note rhythms.
But, if you try to play it along with the original song with lyrics through your speakers, you may be able to master and recognize how the rhythms are played.
1. Li’l Liza Jane
A cool violin song for those who want to excel in the bluegrass genre.
This music is great for beginner violinists as it gives an excellent part to play upon.
Many artists, such as Bill Monroe and Joe Stuart were made popular by playing this all-time excellent song.
Jazz violin music isn’t complete without George Gershwin’s ‘Summertime’.
Written in 1934 for an opera entitled “Porgy and Bess”, Summertime became the most recorded jazz standard.
It is one of the finest songs that mixes the elements of jazz and song styles of Americans in the early 20th century.
Currently, there are over 25,000 recordings of this song all over the world.
1. Jingle Bells
This is no doubt, the most sung Christmas carol around the world.
It is composed in 1857 and was written by James Lord Pierpont.
At first, it might seem challenging to play but after a couple of practice, you’ll laugh all the way and make your listener’s spirits bright!
Declared as an intangible cultural heritage in March 2011 by the UNESCO, the song “Stille Nacht heilige Nacht”, German for ‘Silent Night Holy Night’, is a popular Christmas song.
It is composed by Franz Xaver Gruber and is written in D major by Joseph Mohr in the town of Obendorf bei Salzburg, Austria.
Movie Themes and Film Music
1. Game of Thrones Theme
Well, who doesn’t know this popular tune?
Maybe there are some but, almost every living creature on the planet who watches TV series know this music!
The Game of Thrones Theme is one of the most played, most loved, and covered song in the violin on YouTube and everywhere on the internet.
It is a cool, inspiring music to learn and to encourage you a bit more, did you know that you only need G and D strings of your violin to play this?
So, if you don’t want to try other popular songs that need an awful-lot-of-left-hand-finger-gymnastics, play this!
2. Star Wars Theme
“Duuh Duuh da da da Duuh Duuh da da da Duuh Duuh dun-dun-dun-duuuuh”.
Ooops, sorry but it kinda stuck on my head.
Call me weird but this theme is the most hummed, most played, most popular, and most loved by sci-fi people all over the world.
Believe it or not, this is one of the songs that can be learnt by beginner violinists.
It is quite repetitive and fun to play.
Once you’ve mastered this piece, maybe you can drive to John William’s lawn and play it there like the two musicians who stood and played on his front yard.
You’ll never know but maybe, just maybe, he’ll open the door and hum it while you play!
Aside from showing off, it is kind of cool and beneficial to play songs such as listed above because playing something you like may help in solidifying your desire to practice and master violin playing.
Regardless of your age, ability, technique, and level in violin playing, these songs will surely delight you and your listeners.
Remember, it is never too late to learn the violin!
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Fox’s Outnumbered Blasts Omar For Snapping at CNN Reporter
Conservatives are working hard to keep the story of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) perceived anti-Semitic tweets alive. On Thursday, Fox News’s Outnumbered took up the baton.
Before we get to that, a quick recap. On Sunday night, Omar sent out a couple of glib tweets about the Israeli lobby and its influence in Congress. The tweets seemed to buy into some old anti-Semitic tropes about Jewish people controlling governments with their vast wealth. The incendiary nature of such rhetoric was enough to obscure the point she was trying to make about the heavy influence of lobbyists in American politics.
On Monday, the leaders of Omar’s own caucus condemned her comments. Omar issued an apology, promised to speak more carefully in the future, and reiterated her central point about lobbying. There, done, let’s move on.
Republicans would love to keep Omar front and center so that they don’t have to answer questions about anti-Semitism in their own ranks, or why Steve King has had such a long career in Congress. The media has helped them by spending the last few days asking her at every opportunity about the controversy, despite the fact that virtually the entire Democratic leadership in the House has said the issue is in the past. The constant questioning seems to have gotten to Omar, who snapped at a CNN reporter, on camera, in a congressional hallway on Wednesday.
That was all Outnumbered needed for Thursday’s show, when Harris Faulkner and Kat Timpf pronounced themselves shocked, shocked I tell you, that Omar has not spent the entire week flogging herself in public, on camera, with a wet noodle:
| Faulkner: “So when I see a woman walking down the hall and snapping at a reporter after putting out pretty incendiary things on Twitter, it does beg the question of accountability with her.” […]
Timpf: “The thing she tweeted, she’s alluding to these anti-Semitic tropes and she think that’s gonna be fine? I kind of wonder how she would feel if it was reversed and there was some Republican politician tweeting offensive things about her religion?” |
It’s fascinating to watch them also demand that Omar sit down and explain herself thoroughly, until they are satisfied, as if she owes them any more than the apology she already put out on Monday.
And we don’t need to wonder how she would feel about anti-Muslim bias from Republicans. Just yesterday she reminded Donald Trump that he has trafficked in such bigotry for years. Seems clear she doesn’t like it:
Hi @realDonaldTrump–
You have trafficked in hate your whole life—against Jews, Muslims, Indigenous, immigrants, black people and more. I learned from people impacted by my words. When will you? https://t.co/EqqTyjkiNE
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) February 13, 2019
The Republican Party over the years has embraced and elevated some of the worst anti-Muslim bigotry in society. The women of Outnumbered could figure this out with some simple Google searches, if they cared to do so.
Watch the segment at the top of the post.
Anti-SemitismHarris FaulknerIlhan OmarKat TimpfOutnumbered
Gary Legum has written about politics and culture for Independent Journal Review, Salon, The Daily Beast, Wonkette, AlterNet and McSweeney's, among others. He currently lives in his native state of Virginia.
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Role of Social Media In Promoting Syrian Rebels
Posted on October 31, 2012 by chainsoff.
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Intelligence Study
The Syrian rebels and their support networks use social media for a variety of purposes including self-promotion, fundraising, directing attacks, and exchanging tactics. While the rebels would still be able to operate in the absence of social media, their financing and combat capabilities would be diminished, as would the influence of some high-profile rebel leaders.
Social media plays a central role in the fundraising efforts of both rebel groups and of Gulf-based private funders such as the Kuwaiti Haia al-Shaabiya l-Daam al-Shaab al-Suri (The Popular Commission to Support the Syrian People). This financial network is run by two young Kuwaiti religious sheikhs, named Hajaj al-Ajmi and Irshid al-Hajri. During a late-May 2012 interview, al-Ajmi discussed his efforts to arm and fund Syrian rebel groups, both in the Free Syrian Army and the Salafist Ahrar al-Sham network. Al-Ajmi emphasized the power of Twitter where, at the time, he had over 42,000 followers, many of whom retweet his religious guidance and appeals for funds.[1] Today, al-Aljmi boasts over 120,000 Twitter followers who receive his tweets encouraging donations.[2]
Twitter also gives al-Ajmi the ability to target potential donors in Saudi Arabia where the government has shut down similar private networks. In late-May, a group of Saudi sheikhs established al-Lajnah al-Ulama l-Nusra Suriyah (The Committee of Clerics to Support Syria) to raise funds for the Syrian rebels. They created a Facebook page and posted the contact information of several sheikhs that were collecting donations.[3] The following day, the Committee announced on their Facebook page that they were no longer accepting donations at the request of the Saudi government.[4] Saudi Arabia’s efforts to limit private involvement with the Syrian rebels has left a large pool of potential donors without a direct connection to private organizations sending funds to Syria. Al-Ajmi’s use of social media allows him to reach this valuable population through tweets that call on his “brothers in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar to support the battalions struggling in Syria,” followed by a phone number where he can be reached. One such tweet, sent on September 30, was retweeted 1,509 times.[5]
The Commission has also used social media to reach Kuwaitis sympathetic to the cause of the Syrian rebels, who are outside of the sheikhs’ traditional social network. In early June, al-Ajmi uploaded a YouTube video featuring prominent Kuwaiti artists, athletes, and religious figures making heartfelt appeals for donations to the Commission.[6]
As part of the fundraising effort, rebel groups that receive support from the Commission use their social media outlets to thank the Commission, confirming to donors that their money is reaching active rebel groups. Ahrar al-Sham, a network of Salafist rebel groups, tweeted a thank you to the sheikhs on July 1st.[7] The Umma Brigade, a Libyan led rebel group based in southern Idlib Province, posted a thank you on its Facebook page on June 30th for funds that were likely transferred to the Brigade during a June 29th meeting in Turkey between Sheikhs al-Ajmi and al-Hajri and the Brigade’s leader, Mahdi al-Harati. A photo this meeting was promptly tweeted by the Commission’s twitter account.[8] Other rebel groups have posted thank you videos on YouTube. The leader of the Rastan-based Hamza Battalion, Ibrahim Ayoub, publicly thanked the Commission for sending $10,000 in a video dated August 1st.[9]
Rebel groups most commonly use social media to promote their brand, establishing themselves as powerful players, and in some cases, defenders of the people. Suqour al-Sham, a rebel group based in the Jebel al-Zawiyah village of Sarjeh, uses social media particularly effectively. As is the case with most rebel groups, Suqour al-Sham has dedicated staff managing its social media outlets. Ahmad al-Assi leads this effort, managing the Brigade’s website which features reports and interviews in French, English, and Arabic. In mid-September, Suqour al-Sham’s media team gathered in a conference room for media training in an effort to improve their use of YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook.[10] In recent weeks, Suqour al-Sham videos have become more professional, featuring a member of the group playing the role of a reporter, followed by interviews with leading members of the group and clips of their work helping the community. In one recent example, the reporter delivered a report on Suqour al-Sham members repairing a school damaged by regime shelling.[11]
Rebel groups use social media to shape public opinion, establishing themselves as providers of the people and important military leaders. During Ramadan, Suqour al-Sham distributed food to needy families and publicized the effort through YouTube videos, featuring interviews with commanders involved in the endeavor.[12] The Umma Brigade made a similar effort to promote their establishment of a civilian hospital in southern Idlib with medical supplies donated from Libya.[13]
Many of the individuals who are considered important rebel leaders use social media to cement their reputations. Jamal Maaruf ofShuhada Suriya established himself as one of the top leaders in southern Idlib when he appeared in a YouTube video standing next to the ruins of a MiG fighter jet during his group’s September attack on the Abu Dhuhur airbase. Ahmed Abu Issa of Suqour al-Shamreceived attention on Islamist web forums after his group posted a YouTube video of Abu Issa delivering a sermon extolling the virtues of Jihad, likely giving his group access to new sources of funding.[14] The Farouq Brigade’s commander, Abdul Razzaq Tlass’ youth, charisma, and brash confidence made his YouTube videos an instant sensation, earning him an international following. Members of rebel media offices regularly produce montages of rebel operations, often with inspiring background music that prominently feature the rebel group’s logo. Publicizing joint operations, however, has led to tensions between rebel groups. One example of this was the August 14th car bombing of a regime checkpoint in Idlib city carried out jointly by the Tawhid Brigade and the Shuhada Idlib Brigade. The YouTube video of the attack, produced by the Tawhid Brigade’s media team, featured only Tawhid’s symbol.[15] A post on Shuhada Idlib’s Facebook page dated August 18th, accused the Tawhid Brigade’s media office of an “injustice,” asserting that is was also their right to be proud of their accomplishments.[16]
Armed Operations
Syrian rebels also use social media during combat operations. This phenomenon can be seen in the role played by Local Coordination Committees (LCC) Facebook pages during the early September rebel attack on the regime-held town of Harem near Syria’s northwestern border with Turkey. As the operation began, area LCC pages posted a Google Maps image with pins marking regime positions in and around Harem.[17] When a unit from the Uthman Dhu Nurain Battalion got pinned down by regime machine guns positioned on the town’s citadel, the LCC Salqin Facebook page posted a call for rebel groups to relieve the trapped unit. The post read: “Urgent: Important, for immediate dissemination and wide publication: …A Free Syrian Army battalion is trapped in Harem by Assad’s military… to all battalions in the area, provide cover to get them out.”[18] The following day, the trapped rebels posted a detailed description of their escape on Facebook. Although the post criticized the rebel groups that thought the call for help was a deception and did not respond, it established that the rebels were monitoring social media during the battle.[19]
As the battle continued for a second day, the LCC pages announced that a regime convoy was travelling north on Route 56 toward Harem to provide support for the regime troops. The post ended with the instruction “for wide publication and circulation in order to cut off supplies to Assad’s army in the battle to liberate Harem.”[20] Interestingly, IED attacks on the regime convoy were reported that day in the area of Salqin.[21] In other instances, rebels have circulated diagrams explaining how to defeat the Syrian regime’s Russian made T-72 tanks and Hind attack helicopters using the small arms found in rebel arsenals, as well as videos detailing the production of advanced IEDs.[22]
Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube are strategic communication tools deployed by the rebels to raise funds, trade tactics, direct attacks, and publicize their individual roles in fighting the Syrian regime. In the absence of these tools, the rebels would still be carrying out operations albeit with diminished fundraising and operational capabilities. Social media has, however, enabled certain rebel groups and commanders to gain a popular following beyond their immediate area of operations. This accounts for some rebel groups’ ability, such as Suqour al-Sham and the Farouq Brigade, to establish nationwide networks that could become important bases of support in post-Assad Syria.
1. ^ “الشيخ حجاج العجمي مطمئنا المتبرعين: أشرف بنفسي على تسليم السلاح للثوار,” متدياب الثورة السورية, May 31, 2012, accessed October 11, 2012,http://www.syria2011.net/t33021-topic.
2. ^ Hajaj bin Fahid al-Ajmi, Twitter, October 10, 2012, https://twitter.com/hajjajalajmi.
3. ^ Al-Lajnah al-Ulama l-Nusra Suriyah’s Facebook page, May 27, 2012, accessed October 10, 2012
4. ^ Ibid.
5. ^ Hajaj bin Fahid al-Ajmi, Twitter post, September 30, 2012, 11:57am,https://twitter.com/hajjajalajmi/status/252482339488296960.
6. ^ “الهيئة الشعبية لدعم الثورة السورية,” YouTube video, 6:33, posted by “الهيئة الشعبية,” June 10, 2012, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjvwcWUo42I.
7. ^ Al-Haia l-Daam al-Shaab al-Suri, Twitter post, July 1, 2012, 1:05pm,https://twitter.com/alhayahalshabyh/status/219522141614374912/photo/1.
8. ^ Al-Haia l-Daam al-Shaab al-Suri, Twitter post, June 29, 2012, 2:28pm,https://twitter.com/alhayahalshabyh/status/218818256612507649/photo/1.
9. ^ “كتائب الحمزة فيديو شكر للشيخ حجاج العجمي من الكويت | أموي سوريا لطرد الاحتلال النصيري الشيعي,” YouTube video, 0:30, posted by “OmawiLive,” August 1, 2012, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDD2sG3jVzk.
10. ^ The Suqour al-Sham Brigades, Twitter post, September 18, 2012, 6:37am,https://twitter.com/SQORALSHAM/status/248053168913653760/photo/1; The Suqour al-Sham Brigades, Twitter post, September 24, 2012, 1:41am, https://twitter.com/SQORALSHAM/status/250152904491692033/photo/1.
11. ^ “الوية صقور الشام تقوم باعادة تاهيل المدارس,” YouTube video, 1:46, posted by “sqoralsham,” October 5, 2012,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1YXa1S4mWI.
12. ^ “ثوار ألوية صقور الشام يوزعون زكاة الفطر,” YouTube video, 2:26, posted by “sqoralsham,” August 20, 2012,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82ok_DA5RjM&feature=plcp.
13. ^ “لواء الأمة | مشروع إنشاء مشفى ميداني,” YouTube Video, 2:54, posted by “liwa alummah,” August 22, 2012,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBK_R8z6a1Q&feature=youtu.be.
14. ^ http://www.Muslm.net, accessed October 11, 2012, posted April 21, 2012, http://www.muslm.net/vb/showthread.php?478398-خطبة-الجمعة-لقائد-لواء-صقور-الشام-في-ريف-إدلب
15. ^ “لواء التوحيد تدمير حاجز كازية الفلاحين,” YouTube video, 5:36, posted by “zaher2w,” August 15, 2012, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUqB2hbMYk0&feature=youtu.be.
16. ^ Shuhada Idlib Brigade Facebook Page, August 18, 2012, accessed October 10, 2012,http://www.facebook.com/Brigade.idlib?ref=ts&fref=ts.
17. ^ Local Coordination Committee Salqin’s Facebook page, September 1, 2012, accessed October 10, 2012,https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=268673023250293&set=a.255380841246178.57266.255239994593596&type=1&relevant_count=1.
18. ^ Ibid.
19. ^ Local Coordination Committee Isqat’s Facebook page, September 2, 2012, accessed October 11, 2012.
20. ^ Local Coordination Committee Kafertachrim’s Facebook page, September 2, 2012, accessed October 10, 2012http://www.facebook.com/Tkafartakharim?ref=ts&fref=ts.
21. ^ Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Facebook Page, September 2, 2012, accessed October 10, 2012,https://www.facebook.com/syriaohr.
22. ^ Ahfad al-Sahaba fi Ghouta Sharqiya’s Facebook Page, September 8, 2012, accessed October 10, 2012,http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=474698669220417&set=a.431425953547689.100273.423379597685658&type=1&theater; “هام وخطير/ كتيبة أتباع الرسول/ طريقة تصنيع المتفجرات,” YouTube video, 6:37, posted by “sleimand4x,” July 4, 2012, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00YZhtOG-Gk.
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R,S Convention
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Contributed by Gamini Gunawardena
Associate Professor (Chemistry) at Utah Valley University
R,S convention, also known as Cahn-Ingold-Prelog convention or, more conveniently, CIP convention, is the universally recognized method used to specify absolute configuration at chiral centers in organic molecules. According to R,S convention, the absolute configuration at a chiral center is designated either R or S. The corresponding chiral centers in enantiomers have opposite absolute configuration. eg:
To determine whether the absolute configuration at a chiral center is R or S, a three-step procedure is used.
Assign priority numbers to the four ligands on the chiral center, using the following rules.
Rule 1:
The priority number of a ligand is based on the atomic number of the element in the ligand that bonds the ligand to the chiral center. The higher the atomic number, the higher the priority. eg:
atomic number: Br > O > C > H
priority: Br > O > C > H
If two or more ligands are bonded to the chiral center by atoms that are isotopes, use the mass number of the isotopes to determine the priority numbers of those ligands. eg:
atomic number: O > C > H, D
mass number: D > H
priority: O > C > D > H
If two or more ligands are bonded to the chiral center by the same isotope of the same element, use outward exploration (Eliel, E.L.; Wilen, S.H. Stereochemistry of Organic Compounds; Wiley: NY, 1994, Chapter 5) to deteremine their priority number. eg. 1:
atomic number: O > C > H
priority: O > C > H
To apply outward exploration to methyl and ethyl groups, draw them fully expanded and divide them into “spheres” as follows.
Compare the atoms in each sphere of the methyl group with those in the corresponding sphere in the ethyl group, starting with sphere 1.
Sphere 1 of the methyl group is identical to that of the ethyl group; a decision can not be made by comparing them.
Sphere 2 of the methyl group is different from that of the ethyl group; a decision must be made by comparing them.
In Sphere 2 of the methyl group, the three atoms are all hydrogen atoms. Choose one of them randomly for comparison. In Sphere 2 of the ethyl group, there are two types of atoms: hydrogen and carbon. Since the atomic number of carbon is higher than that of hydrogen, carbon has priority over hydrogen; choose the carbon atom for comparison.
Compare the chosen atoms in the two ligands.
atomic number: C > H
priority: C > H
priority: CH3CH2 > CH3
Outward exploration is similar to alphabetizing a series of words. The basic rule of alphabetizing is a decision must be made at the first letter of difference (eg: Johns and Jones); that of outward exploration is a decision must be made at the first sphere of difference. eg. 2:
Before applying outward exploration to a ligand containing one ore more pi bonds, such as the vinyl group (—CH=CH2), each pi bond must be replaced with two sigma bonds. To replace the pi bond in the vinyl group with sigma bonds, first draw is fully expanded omitting the pi bond (1).
Apply outward exploration to the ethyl group and the hypothetical ligand 2.
Since the chosen atoms in the two ligands are identical, namely, carbon atoms, a decision can not be made by comparing them. However, since the Sphere 2 of ethyl group and that of 2 are not identical, a decision must be made by comparing them. To do so, follow the procedure, ignoring the carbon atoms already compared.
priority: CH=CH2 > CH2CH3
View the molecule from the side opposite to that of the lowest-priority ligand. eg:
In this molecule, the lowest-priority ligand, hydrogen, is pointing into the plane of the paper, away from the viewer. Therefore, the viewer is looking at the molecule from the side opposite to that of hydrogen.
If the viewer is not looking at the molecule from the vantage point, rotate and redraw the molecule so that the viewer is.eg:
Trace the three highest-priority ligands starting at the highest-priority ligand (① → ② → ③):
see also Fisher projection, D,L convention
Gamini Gunawardena from the OChemPal site (Utah Valley University)
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The Story behind the famous “Saigon Execution” Photo
South Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, chief of the national police, fires his pistol into the head of suspected Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem, also known as Bay Lop, on a Saigon street, early in the Tet Offensive on Feb. 1, 1968. (AP Photo/Eddie Adams)
Date: August 3, 2015Author: pdoggbiker 106 Comments
Perhaps one of the most iconic images to come out of the Vietnam War this photo depicts a uniformed South Vietnamese officer shooting a prisoner in the head. When you look into it, however, there is much more to this photograph than first meets the eye. There is an undeniable brutality to this photo, but even Eddie Adams – who won a Pulitzer Prize for capturing this shot – later admitted that it didn’t tell the whole story and he stated that he wished he hadn’t taken it at all.
Looking at this image out of context, it appears as though an officer is gunning down an innocent prisoner, perhaps even a civilian. You are apparently witnessing a savage war crime. That is the reason this image was adopted by anti-war protesters as an indictment against the Vietnam War. Without understanding the background, there is no reason to think that is not the case. It seems like yet another image showing someone acting horrifically and immorally during war time. But, when you learn the story behind the man who is being executed in this photo, the image and the reasoning behind the execution becomes a little bit clearer.
This man’s name was Nguyen Van Lem, but he was also known as Captain Bay Lop. Lem was no civilian; he was a member of the Viet Cong. Not just any member, either, he was an assassin and the leader of a Viet Cong death squad who had been targeting and killing South Vietnamese National Police officers and their families.
Lem’s team was attempting to take down a number of South Vietnamese officials. They may have even been plotting to kill the shooter himself, Major General Nguyen Ngoc Loan. It is said that Lem had recently been responsible for the murder of one of Loan’s most senior officers, as well as the murder of the officer’s family.
According to accounts at the time, when South Vietnamese officers captured Lem, he was more or less caught in the act, at the site of a mass grave. This grave contained the bodies of no less than seven South Vietnamese police officers, as well as their families, around 34 bound and shot bodies in total. Eddie Adams, the photojournalist who took the shot, backs up this story. Lem’s widow also confirmed that her husband was a member of the National Liberation Front (Viet Cong), and that he disappeared before the beginning of the Tet Offensive.
After being captured with the bodies during the Tet Offensive, Nguyen Van Lem was taken to Major General Ngoc Loan. In a street in Saigon, Loan executed Lem with his .38 caliber Smith & Wesson.
The photographer, Eddie Adams, had this to say of capturing the photo:
I just followed the three of them as they walked towards us, making an occasional picture. When they were close – maybe five feet away – the soldiers stopped and backed away. I saw a man walk into my camera viewfinder from the left. He took a pistol out of his holster and raised it. I had no idea he would shoot. It was common to hold a pistol to the head of prisoners during questioning. So I prepared to make that picture – the threat, the interrogation. But it didn’t happen. The man just pulled a pistol out of his holster, raised it to the VC’s head and shot him in the temple. I made a picture at the same time…
The General then walked up to Adams and said, “They killed many of my people, and yours, too,” then walked away.
Was this the right thing to do? As with so many things connected to war, the answer to that question is murky at best. Military lawyers have not yet decided with complete certainty whether or not Loan’s actions violated the Geneva Conventions relating to the treatment of prisoners of war, so there is no official decision on the matter. From Loan’s perspective, the man before him was a cold blooded killer who not only killed some of his friends and colleagues, but their families and other innocent people. This was a dangerous man, who in the name of patriotism nonetheless believed his political stance justified his actions, as presumably did General Loan himself concerning the execution. The question is- how would you have reacted, on both sides of the coin?
This may have been the end of Lem’s life, but it was not the end of the story. The image of Lem’s execution, and public reaction to it, played a small role in bringing the Vietnam War to an end. Although that is no bad thing, it also demonized General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, which was something Eddie Adams was extremely sorry for. He was quoted as saying,
The General killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them; but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths. What the photograph didn’t say was, “What would you do if you were the General at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew away one, two or three American soldiers?”
Adams felt that, by taking the photo, he had ruined Loan’s life. He felt Loan was a good man, in a bad situation, and he deeply regretted the negative impact that the photo had on him. In fact, Major General Loan later moved to the United States. When he arrived, the Immigration and Nationalization Services wanted to deport him partially because of the photo taken by Adams. They approached Adams to testify against Loan, but Adams instead testified in his favor and Loan was allowed to stay. When Loan died of cancer in 1998, Adams stated, “The guy was a hero. America should be crying. I just hate to see him go this way, without people knowing anything about him.”
Additional Facts:
A few months after the execution picture was taken, Loan was seriously wounded by machine gun fire that led to the amputation of his leg. Following the war, he was reviled where ever he went. After an Australian hospital refused to treat him, he was transferred to the United States, where he was met with a massive (though unsuccessful) campaign to deport him. In 1975, the former General, Nguyen Loan, opened a pizza parlor, which he ran until 1991, when his identity was discovered and he was forced to retire after receiving many threats.
Loan and his wife at the pizza restaurant they opened in the D.C. suburb of Burke, Virginia at Rolling Valley Mall called “Les Trois Continents.”
Widow Nguyen Thi Lop holding mementos of VC husband identified in picture
Nguyen Van Lem’s secret Viet Cong name, Captain Bay Lop, came from his wife, whose first name was Lop. Nguyen Thi Lop knew her husband, Van Lem, was a Viet Cong officer. But until she picked up a newspaper in February 1968, she didn’t know he had been arrested—or that he was dead, until she saw Eddie Adams’ photo of her 36-year-old husband being executed three days before by Saigon’s police chief, Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan.
Newly pregnant and fearful of the South Vietnamese authorities, Lop took her two daughters, then 13 and 3, from their house near Saigon’s airport and moved in with relatives nearby. She struggled, working a multitude of odd jobs, until the war ended. After the war she was given a monthly pension, a “gratitude house” and a scholarship for her son who was born eight months after his father’s death.
Verification that the above story is true can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Ng%E1%BB%8Dc_Loan#cite_note-6
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106 thoughts on “The Story behind the famous “Saigon Execution” Photo”
Kathleen Brady says:
I think I would have done the same thing. This guy was as MURDERER and had no regard for human life. It was hard enough for our soldiers to fight this war and even harder for them because they didn’t always know who the enemy was…one day a friend, the next day a killer.
Brad Harbuck says:
It is too bad it took so long for the complete story to come out plus that before the facts came out that the photo was used political purposes. There were plenty of reasons to question the conduct of the war, on both sides, but falsifying the facts behind a photo does not help anyone and in fact like Eddie Adams said, it becomes a powerful weapon.
Jacques Gendron says:
Happy to know the real story….
Terry K Penkert says:
Nothing new myself and many others have known about it fir 42 years. There is also a video before, during and after he was shot. Amazing how long it takes some people to get their head out of the sand.
Chris Schultz says:
Shame no one believes the pics and stories of how our POW’s where treated by the VC ..
JohnEHarrison says:
Good write up. It was posted by a friend of mine. I am a lawyer and have studied the legal issues of the case. General Loan was a courageous man and deserved better.
Lance Trimmer says:
We should be doing this same thing today to those ISIS and Al Queda terrorist murdering slime.
Robert Williams says:
I was in Saigon during TET. I missed the execution, heard about it and only wished I would have been able to kill him. He got off to easy.
I should have said that it was this write up was posted on his Facebook Wall by a friend of mine. While I do not know the author I do know a bit about the story and based on that I must compliment the author again. This is a throughly researched, well written rendition of the story as I understand it, except for the legal part. The legal status of General Loan’s act was clear at the time.
Like spies and pirates, a “franc tireurs”, that is, a person caught under arms in a civil insurrection but without any identification as a combatant was treated differently from a soldier under the Geneva Convention at the time. They are not lawful combatants and therefore cannot claim protection of law.
Under both international law, i. e., the Geneva Convention, and the law of the Republic of South Vietnam, a franc tireurs was a terrorist and subject to summary execution on the battlefield. What General Loan did, however brutal, was legal which was why he was never charged with a crime, much less prosecuted.
While some will say today that International Law no longer allows such summary executions, this is more a statement of the speaker’s aspirations for International Law rather than an accurate assessment of the state of the law even today. The law has not substantially changed. From a historical perspective it is worth noting that the British wanted to summarily execute the NAZI high command at the end of WW II but were overruled by their allies, even the Soviet Union. It is not as unusual as one might think.
As is noted in the article, after the war General Loan owned a pizza parlor in the suburbs of Washington, D. C. He was a courageous, honest man, badly wounded by the war and badly treated by people who should have known better.
There is no indication whatsoever that General Loan was corrupt. He certainly took no money out of Vietnam. If you have information otherwise mywartoo, then you should bring it forward. If you cannot, then you should be ashamed because this man bled for his cause while you merely lied for yours.
mywartoo says:
Loan was as corrupt as the government he worked for. No honor among thieves, as they saying goes.
leonard thomas says:
I am Vietnam vet and if you weren’t there you just don’t know what frame of mine you would have been in things happen so fast you just have do thing right then are soldiers die
How many Vietnamese people (South and North, soldiers, men , women and children) did we-Americans killed during this infamous war of ours? 3.8 millions by Reuters, and 4 more are dying and waiting to die from Agent Orange. Nothing can justify the atrocity shown through this picture.
How about the law of war which says it was legal.
Mien nang lanh says:
in a war zone , war time …If I was in the general’s situation , I would have done exactly what he did , those commies were (are still now) murderers . The best way to help the south vietnamese people at that time was to kill the fucking VC bastard. General Loan was the best .
Nguyễn Hoàng Cầm says:
atrocity ? the man murdered a whole family of 4 including the wife of an army man and 2 children . It’s just so sad that you were manipulated by the media.
oh yea how do i know ? cause im a vietnamese who’s living under the communist regime and shit’s fubar over here
Cowards are the kinds that killed innocent people, and children. pretending fighting for freedom and democracy__things that they have no clues about.
Viet Tran says:
John, it’s likely you had listened or read too much Vietcong’s propaganda. If you had lived in Vietnam, you would know how many innocent kids, and defenseless elders were executed ‘en-mass’ by those coward VC terrorists simply because they were accused of being traitors by living under the territory controlled by South Vietnam Army or/and by American troop.
JOHNH says:
And where have you been, Viet Tran? What have you learned in school? What have you read? But that doesn’t matter though. Nothing can enlighten you. You’d probably won’t be able to see the difference between black and white anyway. You are a Vietnamese by the name, but I wonder what kinda of Vietnamese person you are. Backstabber? Throughout the Vietnamese history there were many people like you, unfortunately for them and luckily for the people in VN, Viet Nam is one unified country now as it is supposed to be.
You have just made subjective assumption, man! You sound very confused in your comment. Do you yourself know the difference between back and white, John?
Vietnam is currently a “heaven-on-earth” but only for the “in-power” party members , their family, and their relatives. They are corrupted and become extremely rich. They are enjoying a luxury life, while the majority of people have to live from hand to mouth .
Human right abuse in Vietnam is as serious as in North Korea. Wake up and look at the bloody reality around you.
cachmangmauvang says:
JOHNH is the freaking VC
I was in Saigon during the Tet offensive. I witnessed by my own eyes the brutal killings of civilians. The those Communist terrorists like Nguyen Van Lem did shoot innocent people those who were family members of soldiers of South Vietnam Army. They accused them as traitors to the country.
In City Hue , Viet Cong killed ten thousands of people and buried is shallow mass graves.
Christina T Nguyen says:
Cachmangmauvang..I think you’re right about that.. & Mr. Viet Tran is right ..this JohnH person is ignorant, blind & deaf not to recognize human right abuse in Vietnam is as serious as in N Korea.. JohnH goes on the personal offensive against people who has the courage to express their views to help others understanding what has happened to our country. Everybody entitled to their own opinions .. you are a lunatic when you go on the attack of others who go against your ideology. Cachmangmauvang & Mr. Viet Tran.. I salute you for standing up for your belief. 02/01/18 marks the 50th anniversary of the execution of Nguyen Van Lem.. I mourn for his victims & not his death.
Is there any point to cry and mourn for the death of this heartless terrorist -not the deaths of his victims?
I was in Saigon during TET. What the VC did to America that were caught out in town was Unbeleaveable. This VC got off easy.
Tom Henneman says:
I was never bothered by the photo. I didn’t know the circumstances of what happened and this article only serves to reinforce my feelings that he got what he deserved and the general did nothing wrong.
How did this picture become famous? Wasn’t it because it reflected and supported by the anti-war sentiment of Americans at that time? And how is it an iconic image? Isn’t it because it represents the very ugly substance of that war that Americans with right conscience were sick of? The photographer did enjoy that anti-war sentiment that has made his photo a Viet Nam war iconic image for a long, long while. It was a trendy thing. Now, it is a trendy thing to say it’s ok to kill commies and he’s feeling sorry for taking that picture and ruining the life of the general — a “good man” and “a hero” to the photographer, with sweet words like “The General killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera.”! Flip-floppers deserve no respect. Is this a “half-truth”? What is “half-truth” anyway?
War are not pretty the General did what he had to.
JOHNNH says:
Had to? No he didn’t. A general without brains. That’s what he was. Dead men don’t talk. In the end, this kinda of picture has helped stir up the anti-American+theSVN sentiment and and the war in VN in general among the American and the US lost the war.
Ray Brown says:
I think the act is murder or some degree of murder. Regardless of circumstances, the act of shooting a prisoner is wrong. Street justice may save lives, but once you commit it, your no better than the thugs and killers.
I guess the General didn’t want to waste any bullets. Me, I would have shot that sucker in the lower gut and when he hit the asphalt I would have stood on his neck and ground his face in the road real good. Then I would have told him, “guess where the next bullet is going?” Then shot him in the base of his skull. But then again, I saw to many good American men killed by slime like him. Co. C 3/47th, Mobile Riverine Force.
scoutingtheend says:
Me, I wouldn’t have gut shot him- first, anyway. Naw. Kneecap, then when he was down, the other. Then the balls- after having kicked them to mush first. THEN the gut shot. Then I’d have pissed in his face, and if he was still conscious and I had diesel handy, I’d have burnt the POS. Worked in Central Asia! 11B1P 10th Mtn
I should add that people ahould remember this commie coward was a murderer of bound women and children.
Mark Bond says:
Reblogged this on e-Roll Call Magazine.
To the photographer and sadly, to many Americans like the photographer, the VC deserved to be shot at the way he was shot at, and they found the picture totally OK to look at. If the pic didn’t suggest any atrocity of that war, how did it become famous? How is it an icon representing that shameful war that our nation once couldn’t bear to even mention it until today?
To the VC and most people in Viet Nam, except for some people like the general who worked for the South VN government as an American puppet, the Americans were invaders. The VC killed to protect his mother land. He’s a hero to his people.
Icorps 1970 says:
People who talk about “invaders” need to understand that a great many of the VC were actually NVA that had taken off their uniforms after arriving in the south. They were traveling south in regimental sized groups by at least 1960. The only reason the Australians, the Americans and South Koreans were there was because the Northern Communists, backed and supplied by all the Asian and European Communist countries, were invading the South to “liberate” them. We were treaty bound to support the South. Saying they did not ask us to be there is simply commie propaganda. I would also point out that Stalinist style “liberation” (Uncle Ho was trained in Russia after all) is not something people will willingly experience. Thus the boat people after the fell after the US pulled out and even refused to send ammo to the south…. The North of course had all the Soviet Bloc equipment it needed….. So don’t tell me that I was an invader in VN. We were simply there to try to protect a tiny country from the full weight of world wide communism. An ideology that murdered (really murdered not killed on the battlefield) something around 200 million of their own innocent civilians over the course of the 20th C. If you think communism is so wonderful look at the Bolshevik Revolution, look at Stalin’s way of thinning the population in the Ukraine, his role in the invasion of Poland and what the Reds did the the Polish Army officer corps, then look at Hungary after the war, then look at the Gulags, then look at Mao and his 75+- million dead in time of peace. The South Vietnamese boat people which was the result of the South being “liberated”. Pol Pot in Cambodia. Then look at North Korea. Now tell me we were wrong to confront this evil. People that take the communist side are truly sick…..Or simply deluded by communist teachers and professors.
According to some comments posted here, It’s ok for Americans to go to VN and kill. Why is it wrong for people in VN to kill to protect their families and their homeland? Why do Americans complaint about how bad they were treated as prisoners of war by the VC? American soldiers weren’t five year old girls going on a field trip with Mother Theresa in VN. They B52 bombed the hell out of the country, they bulldozered villages, they burned homes with Napalm bombs, and chemical weapons – Agent Orange, they raped and killed women and children, and yet they expected the Viet-Namese people bowed their heads to accept the fate. How did the USA become the USA? By bowing to the Brits and accept the fate imposed by Her Majesty of England? The people in VN didn’t invite American soldiers to come to their country to massacre their people. Also there wasn’t one single bullet from the people in VN ever touch the soil of the USA.
Jim Cadd says:
John , you are the ultimate NIMBY (not in my back yard). Some these comments here have a lot of repressed hatred in them but,,, The americans who fought in VN were mostly good people and heroic.
Tell the mothers that lost their sons that bullets never touched the soil of the USA. Those bullets pierced the hearts of many mothers.
You would have Killed LEM and never regretted doing so
Wow! how pitiful. You weren’t invited to come to VN. Let alone coming there to kill babies and women and burn their land. You came with guns and bombs and chemicals and you did the atrocities such as My Lai as one of the many, and now you cry victim. That’s heroic. Your mom should feel proud. I don’t need to say to the mothers that you murdered. They know more about you than me. The irony is that they all forgive you and people like you, yet to just give you a sense of entitlement and superiority instead of remorse and humility. Keep crying and justifying yourself to your conscience, Cadd, if you have one. It’s all irrelevant now. You and I will pass through this world and the truth remains itself the only relevance. The world needs no self-claimed heroes like you. I am sure.
JOHNH have you ever look what VC did in the war to their own people? Are you just being stupid VC JOHNH ?
pdoggbiker says:
Jim Cadd: NIMBY – I don’t know if it’s an insult or praise???
Mark Dietzler says:
North Viet Nam and their puppets the Viet Cong were seeking to install a murderous and brutal Communist regime, as the actions of the Viet Cong demonstrated to anyone paying attention at the time. I would, and will, support anyone standing against that sort of tyranny. Those of you who see both sides as morally equivalent can all fsck off.
Richard Barnhill says:
John, what rock have you been hiding under? Some of what you are saying needs to be proven. What you read on the internet is often not the truth.
The same question for you, too, Richard. I need to prove what I say, and you don’t. Why? What makes you believe I “read on the internet”? Are you implying you and this website are phony, too?
Right, Mark. Your neighbor is a commie and he /she is probably installing a tyranny (according to Richard Barnhill here on the comment board, this needs to be proven), so you are entitled to just burn his house and kill his family, feeling righteously proud as a human being. I assume those commies aren’t supposed to react, retaliate, and/or even complain. And when you are caught burning their houses and kill their wives and kids, you would expect them to treat you like a five year old girl lost in Wonderland. What a sense of entitlement and superiority
One of the reasons Americans didn’t win this war is because they believe VCs are puppets of NVN. The fact is they are one.
Walt Craig says:
just another shining example of how the liberal press twists the truth….they did then, they do now…..thank god we had real reporters in WWII
Stephen Cox says:
To Ramakrisna Gunturu and all the other naysayers who blame America, There are always two sides to any War so why is there no blame attached to Communist China, North Vietnam or even the Soviet Union all of whom were engaged in this war.
The Vietnamese in the South many of whom fled the North did not want Communist Marxist rule which is noppressive and when all said and done evil.
Do some research and find out about the 20,000 foolish Americans who volunteered to fight in the Russian Revolution who after their usefullness was exploited were murdered by the Marxists never to return to America.
Then read about how the Agrarian revolution in Communist North Vietnam resulted in the murder of tens of thousands of “Landowners” so the pesants could all be given a single small block of land to farm, Problem was most were not big landowners but had maybe an acre or two and just like in Zimbabwe they were murdered or driven of their land under a Marxist regime variation of an Islamic fatwa.
No Marxism is the most dangerous political threat to mankind even more so than Islam because they work by stealth with traitors in your midst and control that most insidious of organisations the United Nations.
Communism or more correctly termed Marxism will always be something to be alert to and opposed at every opportunity for many are the deeds of evil done in it’s name and the hundreds of millions put to death by followers of it’s idealogy.
The VC death squads sent out to kill the South Vietnamese Police and their Families are amongst the most despicable perpetrators of evil and while there is corruption world wide that is undeniable those who wish to enslave and kill by the Millions outweigh those who are corrupt in the stakes of evildoers.
In that time and that place the General was honorable in avenging for the murders of the innocent family members killed by that terrorist, For if he did not avenge them who would have some soft headed lefty judge, I think not.
Why did Poland, USSR, Hungary, Red China, and every other Communist Country in the world with the financial means fund the North? Supply troops (Red China was calling for volunteers in the 1960s to fight in VN), advisors and aircraft mechanics? Supply them with tanks and planes and ammo, everything they needed to invade the South. Why is this OK and the US and other allies of the south wrong? EVERY death as a result of the Vietnam War was the result of COMMUNIST AGGRESSION. ALL OF THEM. The South would have been peaceful, if the Communists were not invading and killing people. If they had not invaded the South the US would have never been there. Thus no war. The South did not invade the North. The North was the invader, I KNOW I served in an infantryman in VN and I never saw a single
“VC” everyone we fought was an NVA regular with a uniform and often newer equipment than i had. Brand new European communist made AK 47s for example. Anyone who believes the Communists were blameless is just a communist dupe who has not bothered to educate himself about the war and the evils of Communism. By far the most murderous ideology of the 20th C. Hundreds of millions killed by their own communist Gov’ts.
Ramakrishna Gunturu says:
@Kathleen Brady: Why the US and the Americans waged a war against the tiny Vietnam? That little peaceful country was on the other side of globe for US.
In the final analysis, US had to return back with tons of insult and shame of not being able to win the war; which also stands an an example for the cruelty of the US Government(s) in doing whatever they feel like doing.
My sympathies the US soldiers that died on the soil of other country. But the responsibility is of the US Government.
Josh Clapp says:
References PLEASE, goddamn unsubstantiated article.
xophertm says:
@Josh Clap. At the bottom of the above article, just above the comments section where you have posted, references are linked. I have copied and pasted them for you since you cannot read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Ng%E1%BB%8Dc_Loan#References References
James S. Robbins (2010). This Time We Win: Revisiting the Tet Offensive. Encounter Books. pp. 94–104.
Thiếu tướng Nguyễn Ngọc Loan (Vietnamese) Archived 6 April 2005 at the Wayback Machine.
“Nguyen Ngoc Loan, 67, Dies; Executed Viet Cong Prisoner”. New York Times. 16 July 1998. Retrieved 5 July 2009. “But when Brig. Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan raised his pistol on 1 February 1968, extended his arm and fired a bullet through the head of the prisoner, who stood with his hands tied behind his back, the general did so in full view of an NBC cameraman and an Associated Press photographer.”
Robbins, pp. 94–104
Robbins, pp. 105–106
Stanley Karnow (1983). Vietnam: A History. Viking Press. pp. 181–239.
Tran, Bai An (February 2008). “After 40 Years of the Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War: Half of the Truth Deciphered”. LZ Center 3rd Battalion 82nd Artillery B Battery 196th Light Infantry Brigade Americal Division.
Richard Botkin (2009). Ride The Thunder. WorldNetDaily. p. 143.
Buckley, Tom. “Portrait of an Aging Despot”, Harper’s magazine April 1972, Page 69
Adams, Eddie (27 July 1998). “Eulogy”. Time. Retrieved 5 July 2009.
Image Canon – Historic Images
Adams, Eddie (27 July 1998). “Eulogy: General Nguyen Ngoc Loan”. Time.
Lucas, Dean (17 February 2007). “Famous Pictures Magazine – Vietnam Execution”. Famous Pictures Magazine. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
‘”There Are Tears in My Eyes”, Eddie Adams & the Most Famous Photo of the Vietnam War’, Jonah Goldberg, National Review. August 26, 1999
Tiede, Tom (26 March 1998). “Ex-Viet cop: I want to live a quiet life”. Ludington Daily News. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
Friedman, Andrew (2013). “Nguyen Ngoc Loan’s Pizza Parlor”. Covert Capital: Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. Empire in the Suburbs of Northern Virginia. University of California Press. pp. 196–219. ISBN 9780520956681. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
Adams, in the documentary An Unlikely Weapon (2009), directed by Susan Morgan Cooper
McG. Thomas Jr., Robert (16 July 1998). “Nguyen Ngoc Loan, 67, Dies; Executed Viet Cong Prisoner”. New York Times. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/16/world/nguyen-ngoc-loan-67-dies-executed-viet-cong-prisoner.html
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greg1leg says:
I grew up in Springfield,VA, and my mother worked for a time at a flower shop in Rolling Valley Mall (“Petal Peddlers”). I was in high school at the time (class of ’90). It was a tiny mall, just a handful of stores, Gen. Loan’s pizza place was just a couple of shops over. I ate there a few times, the pizza was okay, but the steak sandwiches were stupendous! The restaurant seemed to never have customers, it was always (in my mind, mysteriously) empty. There was much discussion/ gossip over how they could stay open with such little business.
I knew the owner was the man in the infamous photo, which I learned from my mother. I don’t know how common the knowledge was, but certainly his identity was known to the other people that worked at the mall. This was a few years before 1991, and I was off at college during the time he left, so I do not know what transpired. I do not even recall hearing about it.
I remember one interaction with him, at the mall. I had a bad knee (and like Gen. Loan, I later became an amputee) and used a cane to walk, and that day I had one of the more fancy canes from my collection. Loan was standing in front of his (empty) restaurant, noticed me, and was apparently taken with my cane. He pointed to it (his English was, as far as I know, limited at best) and in a jovial/jocular (and possibly a bit inebriated) manner, pantomimed me pulling a hidden sword out from within it! He grinned and made some gestures to my cane, and I gathered he was impressed by how fancy it was and was trying to let me know (I assume he meant it looked like the walking sticks that wealthy people used to conceal swords for protection during the 18th century or whenever it was). Granted, a teenager using an old fashioned and ornate cane was a bit anachronistic looking, if not plain odd, so I understood why he reacted.
Anyway, I enjoyed the article, it brought back many memories. At least my post is a bit lighter in tone than many of the others in the comment section!
From a military brat, to all vets, thank you for your service!
E. A. Morgan says:
One fact that easily visible in the film of General Loan’s street corner execution of Bay Lop from which the still photo emerged is that when the National Police officers who captured Lop brought him up to Loan, Loan said something to Lop. Lop casually responded, and Loan shot him. I think it would be of interest to know what the two said to each other, but I have always thought that in addition to murdering some of Loan’s men, Lop’s flip response to Loan’s comment or may have helped initiate his demise. No matter what was said, the killing of National Police officers was merely a part of the Viet Cong/North Vietnamese program of killing anyone (including village chiefs, city officials, Buddhist Monks, Catholic priests, school teachers, etc., etc., etc.) who posed even a slight potential threat to the accession to and maintenance of power by Communist North Viet Nam in South Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia. Ho Chi Minh’s plan was to establish a Union of Indochinese Socialist Republics based on Moscow’s model, with Hanoi as the ‘Moscow’ of Southeast Asia. Yes, GIs did burn some ‘houses’ in cases where they evacuated villagers to ‘strategic hamlets’ and did not want the VC/NVA to use those structures for shelter or for storing war materials. People like Ramakrishna Gunturu love to characterize the Viet Cong and their North Vietnamese buddies as just poor villagers who wanted to be left alone by the American Imperialists. I got to Viet Nam rather late in the war, but by the time I got there, just in time for the Nguyen Hue or Easter Offensive of 1972, the ‘villagers’ were attacking South Viet Nam with full-blown infantry regiments supported by armor units equipped with T-54, T-62, and PT-76 amphibious tanks and by artillery units equipped with 130-millimeter (mm) and 152-mm field guns. Had Lop not been killed by Loan, he would have continued his mission throughout the war. Nothing exemplifies the existence of their murder program better than the NVA behavior in the old Imperial City of Hue during the 1968 Tet Offensive, when after they had taken the city they went around arresting people from lists they had already made up, and then killed those people, burying some of them alive. Communism and Nazi Socialism remain the great Murder Machine evils of the 20th Century. The Viet Nam war was lost in part because the enemies of democracy used the freedoms of democracy to fight against democracy, freedoms guaranteed by those who put on the uniform and put it all on the line for the country they love so much. Those who supported the VC/NVA during the Viet Nam war got just what they deserved — absolutely nothing.
Greg Campos says:
I have a patient that was a logistics guy, that happened to be there when this photo was taken, 10 fwet from it he said. He said this guy was a sniper and had been shooting at firefighters earlier.
He also said the vc spit in the generals face right b4 he got tapped. He made the comment that the picture told way less than half the story
Benecya says:
My perspective is changed. But take it then further; WHY was the murderer’s family honorably given a home when her husband allegedly killed dozens of innocent family members in their homes? Why was the man who likely saved countless lives by killing one forced from his home and when adopting a new one, was again made to feel alien? Why was the response to an act perceived to be horrendously violent met with threats of violence? Even without knowing the context, whatever assisted in ending the war was an act of God. His awards are eternal.
careyrowland says:
Thanks, pddog, for posting this very informative article. I have wondered for a long time about the story surrounding this photo. The comments that follow are also instructive.
Apollo Q. Arellano says:
I was working in a commercial television station as a production assistant when the fall of Saigon happens. I was ask by the News Manager to assist American journalist to transmit via satellite their war footages from Saigon. We used the news studio for the live introduction of the reporters then run the supporting video with live annotation from the reporter. I cannot remember all of them but there is one American/Japanese I remember his name, Ken Kashiwahara. I can still remember those videos of American helicopter taking off on the roof deck of US embassy in Saigon, the US aircraft carrier discarding the helicopters to the sea and many more.
I am not against the war in Vietnam, what I don’t like is violence. War means death. I thank you for this very enlightening information. Thank you very much.
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Arch says:
I’ve always believed that if someone…soldier or civilian is “caught in the act” of committing the serious crime of murder and there are witnesses, then immediate execution is called for. No arrest; no jail; no hearing; no prosecution; no defense; just immediate and swift death.
It is more swift than here. Don’t feel sorry for the suspect what about the victims.
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Wendel Parrish says:
Very interesting article as always John. When I was in RVN from Nov. ’65 – Dec. ’66, there were many Public Executions in Cholon of the VC by ARVN Soldiers! Nothing much was ever said about those. Keep up the good work and Welcome Home Brother!
War is hell. Yea… if a head of an assassin squad was caught red handed, then summary execution would be the indicated response in wartime. Tough buns.
Martin kelly says:
Thanks for pulling this story together.
It’s tragic for all concerned.
War creates its own dynamic.
It can bring the best out in the worst and the worst out in the best.
The stress begotten by fear of imminent death cannot be understood except by those who go through it, I would think.
War of course grants the psychopath unfettered indulgence in his perversion.
But few of those who go to war have this perversion but yet their new reality is perverted all around.
To be judgemental and vengeful is the easy part but to be so requires one to be blind to the effect of terror on the human being.
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Interesting story and probably true, but you quote Wikipedia as the source of the truth. Wikipedia is not a proven source in any way whatsoever. It is the most manipulate media on the web, and nothing in it can be considered accurate or reliable.
Do your own research then. Wikipedia is just one source, one quick reference..
I am a Vietnamese refugee and I saw this picture when I was growing up in America. My father was working for the American Embassy in Vietnam & I came from a family with strong South Vietnam military ties. My great uncle was a five star general . I can attest to the fact that the VC has ruthlessly killed many innocent civilians. They have killed & buried many people who was still very much alive. My family was extremely fortunate to be able to come to the USA. I am sure that we would have been killed if we had stayed. I would like to thank all the American soldiers who helped us fight the VC. My family believe in paying it forward. My brother has served in the US Coast Guard for 30 years. As for the picture, I believe that VC should have died a few thousand more times for the crimes that he has committed to those innocent families.
Sure, a lot of innocent South-Vietnamese people were killed by VC. But how many innocent South and North Vietnamese people were killed during the VN war by American soldiers and their bombs, and their chemical weapon such as Agent Orange? How many women and children were killed by SVN soldiers and their generals, your uncle included? Based on your comment and your personality shown through the comment, I guess you belong to some kind of brutal, heartless, violence- loving family. Back then, rumor said that every time a SVN general went on a field trip, the local officials have to provide young girls, goodies etc to him. Hope this is just VC propaganda. But your personality revealed through your comment somehow made me believe that there’s some sense of truth in the rumor. Anyway, do a research on how many innocent people have been killed during that stupid war. Just remember N or S Vietnamese people are still Vietnamese. Also, the world doesn’t revolve around you and your family only.
Mr.JOHNH.. Everyone is entitled to their opinion & I have been raised by my parents to respect others. I only pointed out how cruel and brutal the VCs were to the innocent civilians. You tell people to do their research but do you really know the whole stories?? the general’s subordinate’s families were hiding in the bomb shelter from the VCs and were all killed by that VC & his men when they found the shelter. Did you know that they killed those people by cutting their throats ( even small children ?? ) and when the general’s men came back to the shelter, the blood was ankle deep inside the shelter.. And another instance of how brutal & sadistic the VCs .. After the Tet offensive in 1968 .. The VCs took over Hue for 1 month & during that time they rounded up soldiers & educators & their families & government employees & executed them by binding their hands & told them to dig the ground ( their graves ) .. Thousands died.. Yes.. There are casualties of war & there are bad & good people. I’ve only pointed out the brutality of the VCs & explained myself as to where I was coming from.. So.. Until you have lived in a war… Please do not judge people.
Speak for yourself. You are judging people too. Don’t want to get judged?Don’t even get on here, but then that’s out of the context. Sure it’s cruel the war. Your story is very one-sided. SVN and American soldiers weren’t Mother Theresas either. Get on the internet and find out yourself. One of the reasons they didn’t win that war is because they were very bad. How bad? Find out yourself and the featuring picture of this story is just one example out of thousands of those atrocities committed by SVN and Am. soldiers. If you don’t like to read, then go watch some movies / documentaries or so. Then again, with the kind of mentality of yours, nothing can prove you otherwise. Please don’t go here and tell people about your family filled of hateful past anymore. By the way, did the general of your family fought till the last drop of blood, or did he run away before everyone else and enjoy a good life in America.? Has he and your family gone back to VN to show off how well off he and your family are to local people in VN? Well, I am wasting my time. Keep the questions for yourself. Talk to one-sided mind kind of people is hopeless. Bye.
I think that you are the one that being hateful & judgemental .. My uncle was served under president Ngo Dinh Diem so he was already dead by the time the war ended. As for me and my family.. We’ve done no such things as what you threw out at me.. I was the only one who have gone back & only to support the charity foundation that I’m involved in. I thank God for America , where I am able to work & help others..As for your statement of how bad the SVN and American soldiers … That proved that I’m not the one who’s one -sided mind. I say thank you for their service to every SVN soldier & American soldier that I come across everyday. As for the questions.. I posed only 1 and that was asking if you know the whole stories.
jamachado2014 says:
Thanks for keeping the true story about this photograph alive and available to the public. Scanning the comments, it’s clear that some don’t want to accept the truth. The detail behind the simple brutal graphic image of a battlefield death…and the streets of Saigon were the battlefield…during Tet in 1968…is where the truth can be found. An armchair warrior can’t comprehend or acknowledge or change the truth and more than those that deny the Holocaust of World War II.
Very difficult. The bastard deserved it. It helped end VietNam thus American troops wouldn’t be killed. I dont think the General was wrong and though I’m a left Democrat, hey, karma is karma. I’m sorry the General had to close his place. I hope they had a semblance of peace in the US.
George Rivera says:
I was in Vietnam at the time this story appeared in the Army Times Magazine. The version in 1968 was that this took place in Hue, which is far north of Saigon. This fellow was an NVA Artillery Officer dressed as a civilian who had been directing fire onto American and ARVN positions. He was captured and executed for the mass murder the NVA were guilty of having committed of ARVN, and SVN civilians. You can look that up in the army Times of that date. If he had been in uniform, he would have been treated differently. but he chose to dress out of uniform and mingle among civilians he subsequently murdered.
That’s my version. Army Times Magazine will state that. Geneva Convention has no place in an Asian war. Asians do not adhere to it to any degree, so if they do not observe it, they cannot expect Americans to observe it either.
You have no idea how brutal and hellacious war is until you have been in it and I do not mean cooks or drivers. I refer to Grunts in enemy held territory. We were surrounded by over 200 NVA. Over 200 NVA against 14 Americans. I don’t know the exact number but there were hundreds of them. Night time is good because they were just as afraid as we were so although they had a numerical advantage, they did not know it. The NVA knew we were in front of them but not exactly where and they did not know our ammo status.
I was in a unit that was inserted on a Sunday morning at ~1020. By ~1045, we were fully engaged in day and night fighting. We were low in everything and almost out of ammo. Slicks flew over to air drop small arms ammo, cases of claymores and frags, food, medical supplies, and water but due to intense enemy AA small arms fire, they flew overhead so fast that when they kicked out the supplies, they landed over the NVA and we only got the water.
A repo came in who had not been in the field an hour before he was killed by a salvo of four grenades thrown by NVA hiding in elephant grass near us. My friend Mike Moran was severely wounded but survived.
We were attacked on Thursday evening at ~1800. Myself and a 13 man squad of infantry with 12 grunts and a squad leader were separated from the main unit who were themselves depleted. We were down on ammo and night was closing in. The squad leader came to me and asked, “What are we going to do?”
I answered, what are we going to do? You’re the squad leader.
“But I don’t know what to do.”
I answered, ‘Well, if it were me, I would do an ammo count to see what you’ve got.’
He said, “Good idea, I’ll be right back,” he told me. He returned and said, “We’ve got two magazines each plus yours.” Two magazines was about 36 rounds per man. I had over 500 rounds because I was a LRRP AFO who was sent out as an Artillery Observer with the Infantry companies when they were short an AFO.
Field Artillery Observer was my primary duty but there was a shortage of Artillery Officers and I was Artillery Officer Qualified although not an officer. I had graduated First in Class from the First Field Force Vietnam Advanced Artillery Officer’s Course.
I answered, No, not mine. You guys need to practice fire discipline. Stop shooting at shadows and bushes. Do not fire anything unless you have a target you can see and you’re sure you can hit it with one round. They were quick to listen. ‘
I told them, ‘Thegooks are going to be firing probing fires as soon as it gets dark. Do not return fire because they will target your muzzle flashes and where you are standing is where you will die. Remember, you’re their squad leader, not me. They are depending on you. Go tell them what I said in your own words. The squad leader nodded yes and left. The night was just beginning and it is a long story but just believe what I said.
Sgt George Rivera
Co A 2D Battalion, 503RD Parachute Infantry Regiment, 173RD Airborne Brigade. This Company was nicknamed “No DEROS Alpha;” Think about why.
Captain Ahern was Commanding Officer.
Gerry Murphy says:
Informative. Never really knew the story but somewhat guessed it was something like actually happened. You could smell the Generals anger.
Daven says:
How about sourcing where you copied this article from? http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/03/the-story-behind-the-man-who-was-killed-in-the-famous-saigon-execution-photo/ Thanks!
Daven, the sources are listed in the article.
On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Cherries – A Vietnam War Novel wrote:
BobF says:
I was in-country during that event. I was out in the bush about 2 clicks from the Cambodia border with a unit of the 25ID, Tropic Lightning. A few days later, I was wounded, February 18, 1968, and sent to Japan for 45 days to recoup. They gave me a Purple Heart. It was the hottest year of the war, 1968… lots of enemy contact. We killed 1.2M of the enemy and lost 58K of our guys. Our losses were all hero’s, each and ever one. The enemy’s goal was to inflict as many US losses as possible so public opinion back home would oppose the war and force our President to pullout. It worked.
Matildap says:
To be honest i think the “enemy” was more concerned with survival than public opinion..
doglegblog says:
Thank you for the interesting article.
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valentine says:
America invaded Vietnam just few days before the general elections in Vietnam…..
keep on believing in your insanity. Trump is right what you deserve
Valentine, I have absolutely no idea what your rant is about and the point you are trying to make. ..
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It’s time for article like this to be gone. Move on. A lot of comments show how ignorant people are about the war. Let them live and die carrying their ignorance and hatred. That’s the only good thing about keeping this article.
Asian Cowboy says:
Johnnh,
I read all your comments and obviously you failed to understand a few things.
1. Lem was a murderer or a terrorist if you will and he had murdered many innocent people, including children. Obviously, he didn’t value life, therefore, he didn’t deserved to live. Who knows how many innocent people he had killed prior to being caught.
2. The general, under the chaos of war, had no choice but to put Lem down. The general has not resources to keep him captive, letting him go would mean more innocent people die; sending him off to the after life would mean no more innocent people die by Lem or Bay Lop. It’s a matter of math at that point. If I were the general, I wouldn’t have put him down in plain site, I would have taken him to the woodshed and quietly show him the way to hell. By the way, I was a Vietnamese all my life, I never come across a name LEM before, where the hell did the Viet Cong find that terrorist? He must have been one of the ChiCOM incorporated.
In any case, after 40 something years of Communists rule, South Vietnam, once a model country for Southeast Asia, has become what our President lovingly called, ” A Sh*t Hole”, as in all communist countries. And yes, I did go back to Vietnam, not to show off, but to witness the sad state that country after many years under communism. And, yes, my father fought to the last second and he was captured and forced into “Re-educational Camp” as the Viet Cong called it. It was more like a hell to put it mildly.
Johnnh, you called others in this blog ignorant, but I think it is you, who are what you call others. The North Vietnamese Communists said they want to free South Vietnamese, but we didn’t want to be freed. We were doing just fine, we had freedom, we had prosperity, we were happy until we were forced to be united with the less free, less happy and less prosperous North Vietnam and less educated! You get the point? Communism sounds good until you grow up in that sh*t. I apologize for using some colorful language here but I am trying hard to drive home the point for Mr. JOHNNH’s benefit.
Finally, I just want to take this opportunity to THANK all our American soldiers who have given so much to try to preserve the free South Vietnam. You did not let us down. You did put the stop to the spread of communism to other southeast countries. I also want to offer a prayer for all our fallen soldiers, Americans as well as the South Vietnamese soldiers. Their sacrifices will not go in vain because there will also be people who will continue to fight for freedom throughout the world, myself included, no matter how small contribution, to honor their sacrifices.
Thank you, America. Thank you, Canada. Thank you, Australia. Thank you, France. Thank you, South Korea and all freedom lovers around the world. Thank you!
Ignorant? yes, my thoughts exactly and you are the living proof. Murderer? like My Lai and such? Boys and girls and babies, cows and pigs and chicken and rice fileds are communists, too? Well, I am wasting my time here. Bye.
JOHNNH, I had to agreed, most of us VietnAmericans and the free world are ignorant, according to you, and we don’t know anything about My Lai.
But as ignorant as we are, we know that a few bad American soldiers committed a massacre; but we also know that the good American soldiers put a stop to it when they found out it. You see, Americans will acknowledge when they are wrong and seek to correct it. Americans are not perfect people but that doesn’t mean they don’t seek to be better.
However, we need to give credit where credit is due. Even with all her defects, America has done more good for the world than all communist countries combine at any given time.
So tell us then, when was there a time the communists anywhere in the world seek to correct their wrong doings? The common knowledge is, communists never admit their wrong doings; if anything, they hide it and double down on it. It is proven that communism and mass killing goes hand in hand, even a blind man can see it. You, JOHNNH, seem to be ok with it, you seem to defend it, you seem to find excuses for it. We don’t understand you. We are not as educated as you. So educate us then about communist crimes, in the past and the present…we like to know more. You see, you are not wasting your time because we are eager to learn more about communists mass killing or lives destroyed by communism around the world – at least 100 millions from what I have learned. Damn, that’s a lot of people. But yea, tell us more about communism.
So how about you start teaching us about the Viet Cong strapping bombs to live, innocent Vietnamese babies and set those babies up as booby traps…
You see, Viet Cong are cowards, they don’t have the balls to fight heads on against American and South Vietnamese soldiers in the open battle fields. They hid behind women and children and innocent people and used them as human shields. They don’t play by the rules and they don’t honor their promises or agreements they enter into. They got no morals.
It’s difficult to fight an enemy, who constantly and purposely hid behind innocent people, villagers, women and children, with the intention to confuse their enemies of who is who. Thus, My Lai.
It is difficult indeed.
Johnnh, you said that the American and South Vietnamese soldiers lost the war because they were bad. Let’s be very clear about one thing. The South Vietnamese lost their country because they trusted the North Vietnamese communists to abide by the Paris Peace agreement of 1972. It was the communists who violated their own agreement to end the war and bring peace to Vietnam.
The American defeated the powerful Japanese Empire, which was way more powerful than the Viet Cong, what make you think they can’t defeat the Viet Cong if they want to?
The Americans didn’t want to hurt the innocent people in North of Vietnam; that was the reason why they stay their hand. On the contrary, the Viet Cong seek to use and get the innocent people kill to score a meaningless victory. There lies the difference between good people vs bad people. And with my limited knowledge, I think the Viet Cong or communists in general, are the bad people.
JOHNH, I have no idea of your age, where you are from, or if you have ever served in any military (much less the U. S.) military. My guess is you have not, much less served under any sort of combat.
I was in the U. S. Army Signal Corp stationed in Can Tho, RVN (Republic Of Vietnam). My MOS was 36H-20 (Dial Central Office Repair) which means I was trained to repair a telephone exchange when a problem arises. This is only part of the job because maintenance had to be performed and certain monthly routines performed and logged with the results. This was not my job, though, because my MOS carried a J-6 modifier meaning I was trained as a Tandem Switch Repairman, we maintained the equipment and trunk lines in and out of the Delta at Can Tho Tandem. I arrived in country on Apr. 18, 1970 and came home on Jun. 24, 1971. We worked 12 hours a day 7 days a week and pulled guard duty at night once every two weeks. We received enemy fire maybe once a month, quite unlike many other places in country. One night (the one I can never forget) started the same as most any other night, did routine testing and monitored the trunk lines to one of the other sites. The Army had 2 sites in VN Can Tho, Gung Chua Mtn., and one in Bangkok Thailand. The A.F. had sites at Tan Son Nhut, Cam Rahn Bay and after 48 years I do not remember if I forgot any. Back to that night, it was early morning I believe when the first round came in. I don’t know when the 42nd and finally round hit.we started monitoring trunk lines to Tan Son Nhut because that was at Saigon. We finally found a circuit that was very interesting. There was a Colonel that called Saigon and he was livid. There were 2 Huey Cobras in the air that night and they spotted the tube and requested permission to fire. 2 GI’s died as a result of the incomming rounds. The Col. wanted to know why permission to destroy the tube was denied. The response was “the tube was set up in the school yard of a “PACIFIED” village. In order to destroy the tube, they would have to destroy the school and they couldn’t take the chanch of the American press getting that information.” None of the men I was stationed with were out to kill anyone. Our M-16′ were kept in a locked locker in our office. The only time we removed them was to clean them in prep for guard duty. In the morning the weapon was again cleaned and returned.
So, JOHNH, as I stated I don’t have any idea where you live, the only thing I can tell is you hate the United States and you know absolutely nothing about the Vietnam Conflict. That is what we were told for years since a state of war was not declared. If you care to check the facts you will see that President Eisenhower sent advisors to Vietnam after the French defeat at Dien Bin Phu. Pres. Kennedy sent in the Green Berets to assist. Both groups at that time were mainly advisory but would fire if their base were to be attacked. On the other hand, Johnson sent in a large increase in 1968. One other thing Johnson and his Sec. Of Defense McNamara is to impose unreasonable restrictions on the U. S. Forces he sent. These were called “Rules of Engagement” which stated depending where you were stationed, if you received fire you had to:
A) Request permission to return fire which went to Bn. maybe Bgde.
B) Request permission from Co., Bn., Bgde., Pentagon. So you ducked below the sandbags and waited, the trouble being you were over run or the bad guys went home.
See the problem is that allows the bad guys to keep coming back to kill more of your friends. And you mentioned the massacre at Me La I. I am in total agreement with you. It was terrible. The difference between you and me is you have no understanding of war. Myself, however, can understand how that could occur. When you are attacked almost every night and while your friends die you can do nothing, something is going to break. Also do not forget not every soldier on that patrol participated in the shootings.
I know you have learned all of the evils we committed, that is why we received the welcome we got upon our return. We were drunks, junkies, rapists, baby burners (my favorite). The best I was called was “no good motherf*****g baby burner.”
I know the smell of burning flesh, thank you VC. I know what it is like to watch body parts pulled from wreckage also thanks to the VC.
Please get an unbiased research on the atrocities committed by the communists in South Vietnam, which was to be an independent nation that was non communists. Most of the fighting done in the name of communism was by NVA in VC uniforms.
May you look at the complete war.
P. S. I don’t hate anyone now, not even Jane Fonda. I haven’t forgiven, I may never do that even though my God tells me I must, but I let go of the hate years ago.
Christina Nguyen says:
Bravo Asian cowboy!!! Good riddance johnnh…
Thank you, Christina Nguyen. I have more where that come from. I haven’t begun unload yet.
Glad to know freedom loving people like you out there.
Communism sucks!! For some reasons, every country who is friend of America seem to do well. Any country touched by communist turn into hell hole. Not sure why…maybe JOHNNH can enlighten us all why that is.
Pathetic!
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gafltc says:
I disagree, because I look up everything I do not know on Wikipedia. It tells a story that matches up with my perception of reality, as well, whether it is a story about the Civil War, or about the Vietnam War, Wikipedia gathers verifiable information as best they can. [They do not allow posts like Alex Jones: “there’s a secret child sex ring at Comet Pizza, Washington, D.C.] Jones’ completely just made up out of whole cloth story caused a guy who lives in Salisbury, NC to do four years in prison, and Jones doesn’t take any responsibility–he doesn’t even send commissary money. I live off Old Salisbury Rd about 20 miles from the North Carolinian who, unfortunately, believed everything he heard on right wing bullshit radio, now he’s doing the time for his “investigation”. Do you have a similar story of the danger of information from Wikipedia?
Gary Schoo says:
This is a message to all. You have to do things that are not cool looking to make a point.
I hated to see our guys get shot I know it is war but justice is what it is. Our special teams were delt with also.
G. Joe says:
Some of the guys I knew the things they went through this guy got it easy.
Minh An says:
the photo after the lens of a camera is a photo. but the picture after the lens of our eyes has a lot more than just a picture. It all depends on the person behind the lens, then it is interpreted. Don’t blame on yourself Eddie. Nobody should be blamed here. All were forced to do what they thought was the most correct one at that moment. Thank you for sharing the stories. With the war, there is no winner. Both are losers.
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In our latest blog series, we are introducing you to the CRäKN team. Meet Senior Developer Matthew Howes, Senior Developer Kris Van Houten and business solutions architect Scott McLachlan. Learn more about how they “Get CRäKN” in their roles.
Q: Can you share your role on the CRäKN team?
Scott McLachlan: My relationship with CRäKN is as a consultant but if I had to summarize it, I’d say that I am a business solutions architect who wears a number of different hats. Much of my focus is on supporting the strategic big picture; such as ensuring alignment of tools/technology with business objectives, providing insight into architecture design/best practices, supporting sales & marketing strategies, vetting new product/feature ideas, basically anything that helps differentiate CRäKN and be successful. Early on I was brought in to assess the initial app development work and help get the product development moving in the right direction to where it is today. Getting to this point, getting to this point has really been the result of the great collaboration and diverse skill sets that exist within the team that Scott Mindrum has assembled. I feel lucky to be a part of this group.
Matthew Howes: I’m a senior developer and, as such, I’m mainly responsible for doing everything on the server side. Essentially, I make sure everything stays up and running. I’m the “man behind the curtain”. I also handle special one-off projects. Though I’m one of CRäKN’s more recent full-time hires, I’ve been doing contracting work with them practically since the beginning, so I’ve been involved with a lot of different things.
Kris Van Houten: As a senior developer at CRäKN, my specific role tends to primarily be focused on front-end development. That is, building out the client facing portion of the application and always looking for methods to improve how the user interacts with it. I’ve been with the company since July of 2015 and thoroughly enjoy being on the team as well as having the opportunity and encouragement to learn and grow in my knowledge.
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Scott McLachlan: A supporting spouse! As an entrepreneur it can be very demanding in a number of ways and sometimes discouraging. I give her a lot of credit – she has always been supportive. If I ever needed a kick in the butt or bit of encouragement she has been there, having that support has been great.
From a tool (or app) standpoint it has to be my iPhone: It’s in my pocket (or near by) all the time. Many of the apps that I access on my Mac I can also access from my phone…this makes life so much easier, though it is nice to completely disconnect now and again.
Matthew Howes: I work heavily in Linux. I’ve gotten so used to it that working in anything else is sort of a distraction, so I’d say that’s the most crucial tool involved in my routine. Other than that, I use Pandora radio a lot—I just kind of go “heads down” and start working. I like to keep up on the technology world by listening to pod-casts; I think the app I use is Podcast Addict.
Kris Van Houten: I love learning, so the Kindle is my go to reading device for books. When it comes to my phone, Feedly is the app I use to keep up to date with a number of business, development, and Christian blogs. To stay current with world news, I have a subscription to The Week, and Overcast feeds me a steady dose from an arsenal of podcasts including The Tim Ferriss Show, Ember Weekend, JavaScript Jabber, Stuff You Should Know, Reformed Pubcast, and many more. When one of those apps isn’t open on my phone, you will likely find me dancing at my desk to something on Spotify.
Q: What’s your advice for listening to customers and incorporating their feedback into the product you’re building?
Scott McLachlan: Listening to customers and understanding what is valuable to them, and using that information in your product feature prioritization. Customers should help drive what it is you provide as a service or build as a product. If you are taking their feedback and then turning around and delivering what they’re asking for, or what they’re requesting, then you are more apt to build a loyal customer base. The challenge is balancing that feedback with the overall product vision…maintaining alignment between both.
With our agile approach to product development I feel it helps us to better integrate feedback from customers. Especially as we prioritize features for future iterations of the product. I think working this way means we will also build a loyal customer base who becomes more engaged with your product. In turn we hope they become advocates of CRäKN.
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Cuyamaca College is one of 20 California community colleges chosen to take part in the California Guided Pathways Project (CAGP). Colleges selected for the three-year program are sending teams comprised of their President, a team facilitator, and three to five other stakeholders to six institutes designed to help campuses implement a fully-scaled guided pathway model. Each college taking part in the program has committed to implementing guided pathways for all incoming students by 2019.
Here are some questions and answers regarding the California Guided Pathways Project.
For more information about Guided Pathways, see this report by Dr. Rob Johnstone of the National Center for Inquiry & Improvement.
How can I find out more about the fundamentals of Guided Pathways?
Drawing on research conducted by the Community College Research Center as well as the experience of several national organizations, the national Guided Pathways initiative led by the American Association of Community Colleges grouped the essential, evidence-based practices of Guided Pathways into four dimensions or “Four Pillars”: (1) Clarify the Path, (2) Enter the Path, (3) Stay on the Path, and (4) Ensure Learning. These pillars serve as a foundation for the Demonstration Project and an adaptable and informational framework for the Guided Pathways Award Program.
Who is leading the California Guided Pathways Project that Cuyamaca College is involved with?
The project is a broad-based collaboration designed to adapt the national AACC Pathways model to California. Under the fiscal agency of the Foundation for California Community Colleges, the project draws on the expertise of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), Bakersfield College, Center for Community College Student Engagement (CCCSE), Community College Research Center (CCRC), National Center for Inquiry & Improvement (NCII), and WestEd. Additional support will be provided by the Aspen Institute, Achieving the Dream, Jobs for the Future, and Public Agenda.
The work is supported by a California-based advisory committee that includes college representatives, Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, Achieving the Dream, California Acceleration Project, California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, California State Universities System Office, Campaign for College Opportunity, Career Ladders Project, Chief Student Services Administrators Association, Education Results Partnership, Success Center for California Community Colleges, Institute for Evidence-Based Change, Institutional Effectiveness Partnership Initiative, Legislative Analyst’s Office, and RP Group.
Who is funding the California Guided Pathways Project?
The project is funded through generous support by College Futures Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, and the Teagle Foundation, in addition to fees paid by participating colleges.
What is the difference between the $150 million for the Guided Pathways Award Program announced in the 2017-18 State Budget and the California Guided Pathways Project that the Foundation for California Community Colleges is sponsoring and that Cuyamaca is taking part in? How are the two efforts united?
The California Guided Pathways Project (CAGP) is a competitive program consisting of 20 California community colleges who were selected (based on specific criteria) to participate in a pilot program to implement an integrated, institution-wide approach to student achievement by creating structured educational experiences that support each student from point of entry to attainment of high-quality postsecondary credentials and careers.
CAGP has a clearly-defined model, timeframe, and terms of participation, and is being managed by national experts and informed by a California-based advisory committee.
The $150 million provided in the state budget for Guided Pathways will support one-time awards (allocated over five years) to colleges to implement the Guided Pathways framework. Sufficient funding is available to support awards for all 114 California community colleges.
Participating colleges will integrate recent state investments and redesign academic pathways in ways that promote better course-taking decisions, minimize achievement gaps, and increase the number of students who earn a certificate or degree. The Chancellor’s Office and the Board of Governors will be responsible for statewide implementation of the California Guided Pathways Award Program.
Our college is part of the California Guided Pathways Project (CAGP). Does this participation impact whether we can participate in the Guided Pathways Award Program?
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Community Media Cyprus Policy Conference Invitation
Esteemed colleagues and friends:
You are cordially invited to the Cyprus Community Media Center (CCMC) for the Community Media Cyprus Policy Conference on Tuesday,13 October, from 9:40 until 14:50.
You may find the Agenda at the end of this article.
CCMC has been working with Civil Society Organizations, Experts and Stakeholders who will be present and participate in the presentation of a feasibility study and a policy paper that aims to promote Community Media in Cyprus.
You may access both papers via this link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-Shc_iNyOXcd3lOY1pRZnlidGc , examining the Social, Technical and Legal dimensions.
The conference aims to discuss the policy with the community and stress the importance of community media and of having a proper policy in place for community media.
The conference will go on from 9:40 to 14:50 on Tuesday the 13th. A light lunch and drinks will be provided.
We look forward to seeing you at the Community Media Policy Conference.
Directions to reach CCMC: CCMC is situated next to Goethe Institute / Fulbright, right before Ledra Palace hotel, opposite Chateau Status. Contact CCMC / RSVP: +357 22662269 / info@cypruscommunitymedia.eu .
Many thanks and kind regards,
Orestis Tringides
Project Coordinator (CCMC)
The conference is part of the “Your Voice in Europe” project with the support of the European Commission Representation in Cyprus and implemented by CCMC. The opinions expressed do not necessary reflect those of the Representation, nor of the EC.
9:40 – 10:00 – Registration and Coffee
10:00 – 10:15 – Welcome / Opening remarks (on behalf of CCMC Board – speaker TBA).
10:15 – 10:30 – The European Commission Representation in Cyprus and the role of Community Media (Short speech by the Representation – speaker TBA).
10:30 – 10:45 – Your Voice in Europe project: Presentation of Aims, Activities and Results (Mr. Orestis Tringides, YVIE Project Coordinator)
10:45 – 11:15 – Presentation of Community Media Feasibility Study for Cyprus (Legal, Social, Technical) (Venetia (Venia) Papa)
11:15 – 11:25 – Break 10’
11:25 – 11:55 – Presentation of Community Media Policy Paper (Legal, Social, Technical) (Dr. Christophoros Christophorou).
11:55 – 12:25 – Discussion
12:25 – 12:55 – BREAK WITH COFFEE, SNACKS AND LIGHT LUNCH
12:55 – 13:25 – Media Literacy and Community Radio (MYCYradio) Activities Presentation (CCMC Team, and/or OT).
13:25 – 13:50 – Presentation of activities and results of “Demystifying Europe” Radio Show (Rosie Charalambous, journalist)
13:50 – 14:20 – “What’s in for me?” Volunteer MYCYradio Broadcasters talking about their Community Radio experiences (Open for all MYCYradio Volunteer Broadcasters)
Espen Barth Eide interview on MYCYradio.eu (6 Aug 2015 – recording and transcription)
Radio show: Cyprus 360 – on MYCYradio.eu / https://www.facebook.com/MYCYradio
Interview with Espen Barth Eide
Listen / download the audio recording, here: http://listenagain.mycyradio.eu/index.php?id=5129
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2nd half: Divina Meigs
Yiorgos Kakouris (YK): So good afternoon everyone, we are here for a special edition of Cyprus 360, we are here with Espen Barth Eide, the special advisor of the Secretary General of the UN regarding the Cyprus Problem. We are gonna have a talk not only for the negotiations but everything else, Beran is here, good afternoon Espen.
Espen Barth Eide (EBE): Good afternoon, I am very happy to be here with you this afternoon
YK: So how was your day?
EBE: Well it has been a very intense day, for the last few days I have been travelling around, I’ve been everywhere else but in Nicosia so I have just come back here and what I have been spending these days on is going to see villages, meeting people from both sides, with civil society organisations and I am going to see some monasteries, all kinds of things in order to reach out to people beyond the people I am speaking to on a daily basis at the negotiations and I find that very worthwhile effort in trying to build the best possible understanding, of you know what people care about and wonder about and what people of Cyprus actually want to see in a possible settlement.
YK: So how do you find the people, on a personal level on a reaction as yourself rather than your from your position I mean how
Beran Djemal (BD): Can I make it more specific
YK: Yeah
BD: In the sense that it is very important to take the discussion outside the capital I mean all of us or most of us who have been working on bicommunal initiatives and the people who are aiming reconciliation to happen in this island we find that it’s harder to reach people outside Nicosia and the people in the capital are more you know used to the bicommunal discussions and in their daily lives as well it’s more the traffic from north to south I mean it’s more normal for them but the people outside Nicosia in Famagusta and Lefka or Paphos don’t have the same reactions they do you find that to be true?
EBE: First I would like to say that just like in my own country Norway most people don’t live in the capital that’s true for Oslo and Norway and that’s true for Nicosia and Cyprus, it’s very important for people who are spending most of their days in the capital in this case Nicosia to remember that at the end of the day this is a question that will be decided by all Cypriots and you know when the leaders will eventually have found a solution which I think they will they will present it to referendums of both communities Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot community and then everybody will have a vote everybody who is a Cypriot and I am not a Cypriot so I will have zero vote but everybody who is a citizen of Cyprus will have one vote hence we have to meet people where they are to understand and feel and think and learn about their experiences to get the best possible starting point for the discussion and one thing I don’t want to do is to generalise people, I meet all kind of people with all kind of views and the more people I meet the more interesting it gets because I get the richness of the Cypriot experience in the broad sense and through that I meet people who tell me this might be the best chance ever or some people who are saying this might seem to be the last chance and there are also people who are deeply sceptical and I am trying to talk to everyone in order to get the best possible understanding. What I can say about all the people I meet is that welcoming attitude and people are generally happy when they see that my colleagues reach out to them and that’s true for people who are really positive and people who are more sceptical and they at least they are people who generally like being listened to so this is not only talking to people this is also listening to people.
YK: Do you thing that sceptical people are ready to be convinced, that there is space for them to move towards accepting things changing?
EBE: Well what I can tell you is that I have been speaking lately to some people who are known sceptical people um I don’t wanna mention names right now with people who are on the record for now and for living memory has been very critical of a solution who after our conversation tell me that maybe there might be something in this and that they will give it the benefit of the doubt. And that’s something I think is very positive, because I actually whether people trust me or not is up to them. The question is what people think of the final solution but people might be faced sooner than they think with the question and then it’s the responsibility for everyone in Cyprus to make up their mind and to give a vote on this thing and then I think it’s incredibly important to start talking about it sooner rather than later.
YK: Just before we go into the more uh specific questions and things such as what are viewers or listeners as I have mentioned. We would like to know you a little bit better I mean to talk a little bit more about your background, your personal view of things about how you see the region for example or Cyprus specifically if you like, let’s talk a little bit about your background before Cyprus, before being a minister. What’s your academic background?
BD: When did you start getting involved politically?
EBE: Em first I am er I am 51 years old which means I am exactly as old as the UN presence in Cyprus we were born more or less on the same day ,spring of 1964 and while I think 51 is not much of an age for a human being it’s quite an age for a peace keeping operation so of course one of our tasks is to see if we can help find a solution so we can overcome this anomaly that we have for so long time an international presence in this country that should be able to reunify and run its own businesses. I became involved in society and politics at the age of 15 when I joined the young social democratic movement because I was recruited by people I knew, one long haired young man whom I met at the rock n roll concert who convinced me that this was the right political affiliation for me and his name was Jens Stoltenberg. He is currently the secretary general of NATO but neither he nor anybody else would think so at that time. But I was also engaged in international solidarity work so one of my first political posts was in the anti-Apartheid movement you know working for the end to Apartheid in Southern Africa and throughout my political life first as a volunteer and later on as somebody more professionally engaged in politics, I was always related to international issues, and issues involving solidarity and global togetherness to put it that way. And then I went on to study and I thought that I was looking for an academic area and l was for many years in academia as a researcher and teacher and for several years I at the Norwegian institute of international affairs and international relations and one of the things I was specializing in was UN peace keeping operations. But then one day I was called to become deputy foreign Minister which position I didn’t seek nor did I expected to get from then on I gradually realised that I was becoming a politician more than an academic so sometimes I refer to myself as former intellectual.
BD & YK : Yeah you could be, that’s what we are gonna ask
YK: Starting out as an academic does you think it gives another perspective when it comes to practising policy or to acting out as a the young representative in the negotiation do you feel like there is something from your academic years that’s giving an edge perhaps?
EBE: Yes, I think so and I think its eh at least in my case again uhm I am careful about generalising cause everybody’s life experience is different but in my case I found it very useful when I was for many years in politics and at the end becoming defence minister and then foreign minister that I had spent many years thinking about issues writing about issues working academically in international issues. And in the meantime between 2 governments that I was involved in I was actually back in academia and then I felt that it was also very good being in academia that you had the opportunity to practice because there are assumptions you make in theory that may or may not be correct when it comes to real political life so there is an experience that goes in both directions and if you know from the American system it is actually quite common that people go between universities or research institutes or think tanks and politics and back and forth and there are some merit in that. Because rather than having a class of politicians who are always politicians and always somewhat different from everyone else and once in parliament always in parliament I think it’s more healthy to be a little bit in and out but in my life this has been useful.
YK: So from what you say I am sure you have studied the Cyprus problem a little bit before perhaps and you probably met a lot of academic style of research when you were appointed here.
EBE: Yes, it’s a famous problem! So in the literature of peace keeping and peace resolution Cyprus figures centrally because it’s in the academic world it is seen as so called first generation peace keeping into positioning between 2 sides, it’s a classical, the quintessential classical of peace keeping operation where I think it was fair to say and his is something I completely agree with uh my very good friend and colleague Lisa Buttenheim who runs UNFICYP office, that the UN presence here is both part of the solution and part of the problem and we know that and I think it’s fair to say that it’s probably good for the Cypriots that you had the UN presence because it’s avoided a continuation of violence and for many many years now without any political violence to speak about in Cyprus and this is good news. But a static presence might also help preserve an issue that would otherwise have been solved in one way or the other. So the current set up is that we as the UN think that the peace keeping presence is necessary for the moment but the purpose of the good offices is to help the leaders, the elected leaders and the representatives of the Cypriot society all this inclination to find a solution so that eventually it can be faced down and you can reunify and we can go and help somebody else. And I’m saying that although your question was academic in the first phase of peace keeping in which UNFICYP belongs to because it was a mandated back in the early 60’s and they actually came here as we mentioned in 1964, it was very much about trying to restore status quo ante, sort of the previous situation. Later peace keeping missions have had more dynamic and maybe also more robust type of presence and the jury still out after all these years about what is the softer approach better or the robust approach is better but yes indeed Cyprus always there as something we referred to as a specific category of piece keeping operation as an academic.
YK: How do you see this situation in the context of the region now? The interconnections with the Middle Eastern problems?
EBE: Thank you for it …
BD: I just want to add something to that question because I mean to put it also in a different context because in Cyprus maybe you have also noticed, maybe it’s normal for a small country, and in small communities like ours to be so much involved in our own problems and we have this Cyprus Problem that is going on for so many decades but we tend to forget which region we are in, I mean if we ask everyday Cypriot what’s going on in the Middle East uhm they might not really be aware of what’s going on and for us Turkish Cypriots specifically there is not many Turkish Cypriots who are really aware of Turkish politics and what really means when something happens in Turkey and how it will influence us in that sense. So it’s a big missing part for our communities in our opinion I guess that we don’t have the tools to read what is going on and we tend to think that “oh it’s the super powers business and it doesn’t really concern us we are here in Cyprus, in our small island and it doesn’t affect us”.
YK: Being that we’re an island, we don’t have land borders with any of these countries and we tend to think that perhaps the sea somehow separates us we do so we do not have that perspective as much as we should have.
BD: Somehow we’re immune for some reason, maybe the UN presence for so many years and us being on the agenda of international organisation gave us the impression that “oh we’re immune we kind of live in a bubble somehow and it doesn’t affect us”
YK: What’s your take on these interconnections?
EBE: I am glad you asked because I think this is a very very crucial point I am I since you already said it with all possible respect to Cypriots there is a certain truth to what you have just said, many, many Cypriots and again I will never say all because not all people think the same thing but many Cypriots I have met seem to have this perception of being completely isolated from the surrounding world, maybe with the exception of guarantor powers what’s happening in Turkey and so on but the broader Middle Eastern issue is not principally Turkey, it’s principally, we are witnessing a historic, dramatic historic transition where a system of states that were put in place around the first World War at the end of the Ottoman Empire and the end of the first Great War that worked of sorts for this hundred year are now breaking apart fundamentally. This is not the normal trouble in the middle east which we always read about the Israelis and the Palestinians and so on, this is really major it’s very dramatic and it’s getting worse in my view we see entire countries basically collapsing as we speak and we see the rise of very dramatic extreme movements, several, including the DAESH or the so called self- proclaimed Islamic State which in my view has very little to do with Islam but still has cached that name. This is of a magnitude which means … which dwarves any other issue hundreds of thousands have been killed millions have been fleeing only in the last years, in Syria of course, in Iraq and the surrounding region as well as in Northern Africa. So this is very dramatic. I think for Cyprus it is imperative to understand that this is a very bad time to maintain a non-solution because a non- solution as the current state of affairs is, may seem stable here now and it might be stable still for a while even if there is no solution but you never know how long that kind of stability will last so if there was ever a geopolitical argument for trying to overcome the after all relatively limited differences that are between Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots compared to the conflicts I talked about around the place, it is now. And I think it would be very helpful if Cypriots took this more into account and I must say I really want to commend the 2 leaders mr.Anastasiades and mr. Akinci because they are really focusing on what I would call the big picture rather than the miniscule detail. And all of miniscule detail has been impediment to a solution in Cyprus for so many years but trying to lift to a more strategic analysis of actually agreeing that a solution would be good and then say “how do we get there?” is helpful. So em to the region matters you actually over the recent decades you’ve actually been quite lucky and believe it or not it remains dramatic to say so and I am saying so fully aware and cognisant of all the pain and suffering and bad memories and tragedy that exist in every Cypriot family involved in the past so we are talking about the recent past after the events of the 60’s and the 70’s it’s been quite peaceful after all. But let us not just assume that this relative calm will be maintained if we don’t deal with this issue which means I think it’s very important to understand this regional context.
YK: Speaking of the leaders and the things that they are realising and the bigger picture, there is a bigger picture that we are weary on whether putting it in the negotiations is there increasing discussion on the new state being environmentally viable on respecting minority rights beyond Greek and Turkish Cypriots on respecting individual liberties and ensuring those, ensuring transparency as well is a question we had from our listeners, it’s a growing concern among the citizens of both sides that the political leaders are not necessarily as open minded as progressive as if and uh transparent as they should be. Do you feel the leaders are catching on to that concern and are trying to build on something different in the future?
EBE: Well that’s a very good question, let me break the question into 2 parts, because on the latter part of your question about liberal values personal rights yes. This time I think you will see and I think I can safely say that now, that the 2 leaders and the negotiating teams and the 2 excellent negotiators mr.Nami and mr.Mavrogiannis they are really in full agreement that we are looking into individual rights this is not collected this is people and people are individuals. And we are trying to break down this traditional focus of my group versus your group as in everybody are equal. So on that front I think there has been major progress into a modern, in the right sense of the word, liberal not as in a political direction, but of human rights oriented law abiding, basically saying that the citizen is about a state when it comes to rights the state is there to protect the rights of the individual I think we are making significant progress or more precisely they are making progress because we’re there to help them but it’s the leaders who lead us. When then were a number of questions on when the jury is out on whether they are being environmentally friendly, or not I have no reason to say that they are not I’m just honestly saying that has not been so far a key ingredient of the talks. But I hope that it will be because as one of the things I have been speaking about and discussing and engaging with the civil society about this is that Cypriots and I use Cypriots for everybody living, all the citizens of this island, either Turkish Cypriots or Greek Cypriots should remember that there are so many issues that has absolutely nothing to do with whether you speak Turkish or Greek or hail from a Greek Cypriot or a Turkish Cypriot family. I mean it’s questions about all young women and men, and old and young, and urban and rural and more environmental and less environmental friendly and so on and all these issues matter in the broad sense in the Cyprus solution and in any issue, this is not unique to your case in any issue where you have defined the issue as either a conflict between or a solution between 2 groups you may overlook all the other groups. That means all the minorities, my next visit by the way is to a Maronite village which is part of the answer that yes we do engage with people you know from all the minorities, but there are old minorities and new minorities and so on and I think that it’s important that in the settlement or at least around in the surrounding discussions around the settlement it’s very important to introduce also the ecological and environmental issues. Em there are parts of this island which has been relatively dramatically developed for mass tourism for instance and there are other parts which are pristine and beautiful and which has a tremendous potential for becoming anything between a natural park or have a more a different type of development but if you just leave it to individual choice you may not necessarily have that insured so I think some kind of grand planning on what you want your united island to look like and how to manage its energy needs and these issues, should not be forgotten just because we discuss the percentages of memberships in certain committees between Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots. So this is an encouragement from my side to everyone, the leaders and everybody else included to think of all the other issues too. And I think you may be, you the Cypriots, you may be on the verge of writing a new constitution relatively soon. This is not something countries do all the time, last time we did it in my country was in 1814, in United States it was 1776. Those constitutions they work. There have been small adaptations but they basically work. But they work because the people who wrote them wrote the constitution about the future. If your trying to write a constitution about the past it won’t last very long I can assure you that. So if you create a vision for how this country will be rather than what it was, I think that’s extremely important that’s not to say that you should not be aware of history and what happened, the good and the bad, but that the vision is future oriented and that is a constitution written in 2015 or 2016 must look like it was written in 21st century and not like it was written in 1960, 77 or 2004.
YK: This brings us to something else, there is this impression that we are fixing a constitution and that we are fixing it into a new situation of bi-zonal bi-communal federation and there is a concern perhaps, that societies change, populations change things that people want change all the time. Is there any understanding on the fact that this constitution is to be dynamic in nature that the state of affairs that we are gonna build needs to be able to change and not ossified into another challenging situation?
EBE: Yes. I think I am happy to say and I am very happy to say my sense is this is something the 2 leaders and their negotiating teams are fully aware of, that there must be you know, you need to build bridges in order to have a solution because the solution, what I can say for certain is that there is only a solution if the majority on both sides endorses it and if there is less than 50% on either side, as we know from before, there is no solution. So a solution must have the understanding from both communities and more than a bare majority. And that means that some issues that has been important based on tradition and where you come from has to be tackled otherwise you won’t get there. But to build the opportunity to keep modernising to keep updating, to assist you as you move into, you know, a fully integrated country within the European Union and the whole island in a 21st century modern democracy is imperative and I think that this is respected. I hear people at the negotiating table saying exactly that you know over time assumption is that people won’t principally think of their identity as Greek Cypriots or Turkish Cypriots but increasingly as Cypriot and Europeans and citizens of the world I would hope and that things will change. I wanna insert here an observation I made from having worked on many other conflicts some of which have eventually being overcome is that this preoccupation with the past is something very normal, it’s not unique to Cyprus it is perfectly normal and it lasts more or less until the solution and a few years more and then it’s radically changed because when, if, when or if we will be on a situation where there is settlements where both communities feel safe and secure not only for their physical survival but also for their community, integrity and community survival then you will be amazed about how much easier it will be to talk about history. That has been the case almost everywhere else and I think it will be the case also here but this difficult to envision before you are there because it’s a surprise to people to discover that you can really look together at what happened eh and look at it as a shared past rather than a past that broke you apart.
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BD: Do you think there’s a possibility for us to have a truth and reconciliation commission established in Cyprus? For that to actually initiate the process Annan plan period because what’s been discussed in Cyprus is that people feel like if justice hasn’t been done, they’re not going to be able to understand the terms and the positive things that the solution will bring, and they will be sceptic again. One criticism for the Annan period was the people were not informed, maybe true maybe not true, but maybe there would have been different innovative ways of approaching people, or giving them the feeling that the justice will be restored, somehow. People will feel that justice is done. And through that reconciliation commission might be a way of giving that feeling to people. Do you think there’s a possibility for it to happen?
EBE: I think I will restrict myself to say that it has worked in some societies, who have done it, and who felt afterwards that while it was painful, it was also useful. But you need to know that it’s painful, because if anyone believes that all the evil was done by the others, any truth and reconciliation committee will tell you that actually there was a little bit of everything. And while you may not be personally responsible, there were people acting in your name, that did things that you were not told about in school. That can be a painful process. But the outcome of the process is hopefully more understanding that if your own life experience is having lost your parents at a young age from violence, that experience is actually quite similar to somebody on the other side who lost their parents at a young age due to violence. You can understand each other on the human nature. But I’m not the one to say whether that’s correct for Cypriots, because that’s a decision that Cypriots should make. As of now it has not been introduced into the talks, and I will simply follow the advice of the Cypriots on what is correct in your case. But there are important institutions like the comity of missing persons which is not the same thing, but which helps at least bringing closure on private histories. “What happened to my family? What happened to my friends?” And it’s extremely important that everybody works with them as much as they can. Their leaders Akinci and Anastasiades have issued early in this process a very important appeal, first time ever joint appeal, saying that everyone, and really that means everyone that sits on any insights that have not been shared should do it now, because time runs by and so on… of course there’s another dimension on that which is the property work, where I think that the individual justice that will follow from, what I would call the “ breakthrough recognition” that individual rights to property shall be respected. It’s important for this feeling of justice. I personally am sympathetic to truth commissions but I don’t want to have an opinion on behalf of the Cypriots, because this is a legal aid process.
BD: Yes but the main reason I was asking that is actually something more general. We discussed before the program, the main fear the pro-peace people have in Cyprus is based on the stories, and probably most of them based on true stories, that Cyprus Republic in the first place was actually destroyed because of spoilers, and planned spoiling attempts, and provocations. We know that the situation is very fragile, and even if we reach a settlement, we feel like their needs to be a mechanism to ensure that people learn from, that it’s something definitely not acceptable to target someone because they are coming from a different community and especially in our case, that everything has people waiting for a trigger, let’s say, some groups unfortunately. Is there room for discussion for something like this how to actually manage these provocations if they happen? Because they’re, I think, very very important before the referendum as well.
EBE: Yes. One key feature or premise for the discussion we’re having is this idea of a European solution. and that has many… it is much more than becoming a member, being a member of the EU. It also means that European values and principles. And in most modern European states there is ones that move to outlaw hate speech for instance. They actually prohibit it. It’s very strict criteria, what it is, because it must be allowed and we want freedom of speech and it’s not all love and harmony. But there are certain types of incitement to violence which are actually illegal, and that’s something that I think it would be useful to think about in the process here. Because it’s not, remember, it’s not only to get towards a political agreement between two leaders, and it’s not only to have that endorsed, it’s also to implement. And since we know for a fact that there will be some people who are against a settlement, and there will be people on both sides, you need to think about how to manage that transitional phase. And it would be simply wrong to assume that that will go by itself. To think about these things is important. Politically the two sides are working systematically and hard on introducing resolving mechanisms into the political set-ups, because of course we want a system that is representative in a federal sense. Meaning that it both represents majority voting and the rights of the … we don’t say minorities, but of the smallest of the two communities at the same time. But that simultaneously is able to make decisions and move on. That you do not create opportunities for just locking the system so that the system can collapse by non action. I think there are some very creative and constructive ideas on how to ensure the balance between representation and avoiding deadlocks in the system. And the system is not only a fair weather system, but also one for rainy days.
YK: In the negotiations towards getting to that system and that discussion, it’s important from what you said, and from what some listeners have asked us on our website, on how to get civil society involved not only in voicing an opinion, but also contributing answers to these questions. Has there been any movement to that end? Or is it just a theoretical inclusion at this point that is completely dependent on the leaders to open up an avenue?
EBE: First, let me preface any answer I give now and the rest of the program by saying this process is leader lead, it’s not lead by the leader of UN, I am facilitating, which means that the real addressee of the question is Mr. Akıncı, Mr. Anastasiades. What I can say is that there is… both of these leaders have an open and transparent attitude that their part, is my sense. I think we all need to recognise that at the current state where some major strategic alignments are being made, it’s difficult for them to speak of everything that happens, because unfortunately experience is that both opposition politicians, or other political forces or media, may take elements of what actually makes perfect sense in the whole solution, but maybe looks strange on it’s own, and take it out and discuss it, and ask for red lines and demand modifications and so on. So there is a phase in which we are still in where certain care has to be taken about protecting the integrity of the whole process but I think that is increasingly achieved. I mean we are more and more moving from that phase, to a phase that can safely be more open. Because some of these parameters will be established. That’s the time when the broader discussion has to happen. So I would be happy to see more of that. But I also want to say that I feel, you know, I see the people I work with, the two leaders, the two negotiators, increasingly out there with people, and meeting with people, and negotiating, and I would also say that what would really enrich the proposals is that all the… there’s a myriad of very interesting civil society organisations, I meet many of them, as many as I can, but that they, again, not only discuss this as yes or no. I mean there may be people who are perfectly in favour of a solution who still have different views on the inside of that settlement which is not whether yes or no,” maybe there’s a way we will work, yes we are in favour, we want to solve the problem, but I want to introduce let’s say the gender perspective, the environmental perspective…” and that’s not an argument pro and against. It’s an argument for having a political voice on an aspect of this, and I really hope that in the months to come that there will be more opportunities to do that.
YK: I remember asking about when do we get to transparency a few weeks ago, and recently after the latest meeting by the leaders, you had said “that we are going to start informing people in September”. So we’re looking toward getting more and more information in a few weeks?
EBE: That’s my sense, but the point is that we’re talking more about a point in the process than a date. And I would, again, it’s up to the leaders, I take their advice so I never say more than what we agree to say with them, but if they agree to say more, I’m happy to contribute. But I think that they feel that we may be at a stage sometime in September where it will be possible to open much more. But rather than saying this happens on X date in September, it happens at a point where this is responsible, in a sense. But of course, at the end of the day this will be a perfectly democratic process, because it will be inevitably presented at the referendum but the point is that before between… Between the point where it basically seems that yes there will be a settlement, and the final spelling out of that settlement of course is an important phase in which to get all these new ideas, and all the ideas into the picture. That’s why we hope that also through the surrounding work, you know there’s a number of working groups on economy, on EU matters, on gender issues, on cultural issues and so on… and these groups are again in contact with a plethora of other people, so there are ways to feed in ideas into the process already, via these groups, and that’s one of the ways. But I think a lot about this, and I really agree with the gist of the question that it is important to have a more open and transparent process when the timing is right, when it’s not going to undermine the process.
YK: Do you see any point in the process now, within the process itself and the negotiations, that might lead to a sort of deadlock? And what’s the mechanism for breaking that deadlock when it comes to a point where the two sides can just not simply agree in a common position of a certain aspect?
EBE: Well the history of the negotiations process has taught me to be very careful about saying things, you know, to be too sure of anything, but I must say that given the amount of progress made, and the climate developed between the leaders, it’s at least hard to see a specific remaining issue that is of such a nature that it will break apart inside the talks. So if you want to be concerned about something, I would be more concerned about some kind of external shock, something that happens that, I don’t know, I really honestly do not have anything in particular in mind, but that something nobody thought about outside of the talks that happens and just resets the parameters of the whole thing. The good news, seen from those people who believe in the settlement is a good idea, is that the leaders know this. So there’s a sense that this is a momentum, it’s a wind of opportunity, and as we know about windows they can open and close, and for the moment it’s open you never know when a side wind comes and you have to close it again, and hence we’re trying to get as much done, as much critical mass of strategical element. Because at the time there’s a broad agreement about the main issues then there will be complicated and cumbersome and surely at times difficult process of writing all this up into more a more constitutional form, but I really do not think it’ll break down as long as the surrounding environment allows the process to continue.
YK: One of the specific external factors that we can talk about for now is the stance of the Turkish government.
EBE: Yes.
YK: And you know that in the Greek Cypriot community we’re a bit … not clear on what happens within the Turkish government. I would always think that Turkish Cypriots would be, but from what Beran tells me these past few years, they’re not really clear themselves. Do you think that any way that the Turkish government might go to is manageable towards finding a solution? Would the Turkish government be able to throw a spanner in the works if something goes wrong inside the country? Or if they need to show a harder stance because of internal considerations?
EBE: What I can say is that Turkey follows closely what is happening, they know all the broad parameters in development and they are supportive of it. And they are explicitly supportive of it. They tell me and a number of other people engaged in this, including key countries in the Security Council that they are supportive, but they also say that publicly. The latest in connection of that was President Erdoğan visit to the Turkish Cypriot community, where he gave a speech which was a clear endorsement to what was going on and actually also praised Mr.Anastasiades and his commitment to this and of course also of Mr.Akıncı, the same line of argument has been heard both from Prime minister Davutoğlu and the Foreign minister Çavuşoğlu. I’m in quite frequent contact with Turkey, and I know Turkey well, from my past political jobs, where we in many cases engaged closely with Turkey. So I feel quite confident, I must say, that the Turkish government wants to see this problem closed, which would also be good news to them. It’s good news for them on their quest for improving relations to Europe. It reduces the long list of challenges that Turkey faces in it’s neighbourhood by at least one. And it would also improve general relations in the Eastern Mediterranean sea, for instance over hydrocarbons issue which they have expressly said that they would like to see as well. So I think the answer is yes, that the Turkey will remain supportive, but again, as on the talks themselves, we’ll know at the end of the day, but we’re doing what we can and I haven’t detected anything to suggest otherwise so far. What you need to know however is that early June there were parliamentary elections in Turkey that changed the political landscape, and there have been attempts to form a coalition government since then. And the jury is still out on whether they will actually have that or there will be a call for new elections, and see if the AK party can have a majority again, even if most likely not constitutional majority, but maybe a simple majority. And I think that those conversations are ongoing as we speak in Turkey. This is not necessarily of very big importance to the Cyprus issue, but it’s something to follow.
BD: There’s always a risk. I mean my personal view, and personal interest in Turkish politics and in Cyprus has always been used as an ideological tool. One might think that Turkey approaches Cyprus as a strategic location but more than that I think it’s been official for many governments, doesn’t matter which ideological background they came from most of the political parties use Cyprus as a tool for their own internal politics. And there is always a risk for us if the unrest goes on in Turkey, and if one of the major actors there feel like they can use Cyprus as a tool they will. So we can’t really comment on that. But another question I had, when it comes on energy, is there another parallel negotiation to ours, to outside Cyprus in the corporate world among the energy firms, coming from France, Italy, Turkey, Israel… is there a negotiation going on there, parallel that concerns us as well, or maybe can contribute to an agreement somehow if they agree on how to have their share in this?
EBE: Well a parallel negotiation I think I can safely say there is no parallel negotiation going on in the corporate world. I do know that the key energy companies are, all of them, would be very happy with a solution, because Eastern Mediterranean is an interesting energy region, maybe not as much as people thought a few years ago because the finds have been relatively limited. But there are still expectations that there will be future finds, particularly of natural gas, and all those companies I’ve talked to, and I know them because of my second at the world economic forum, there members of ours, so I know them from that side, they believe that life in this region would be much easier if the geopolitical tension over Cyprus is taken away, and you had normalised relationships between all the states that border on the Mediterranean, obviously minus Syria, which is a case in itself, but for the other states if they could also have some common understanding, it would be much easier to operate. My sense for instance is that Israel would be happy to see a settlement also, because that could also make, open up new routes for their exports, and I know for a fact that energy companies follow this closely. But they do not have a role in the political process. And I think just reflecting on something we talked about earlier about some companies or the big powers, I think there is a certain tendency in Cyprus, which again is not unique to Cyprus we see it in many places particularly when you live in a difficult region with an old conflict, and you wonder why things are like they are, that there’s a certain tendency to believe that there is a grand plan, there’s somebody faraway who makes big decisions that we don’t really see, but we can sort of see the light of that, having been at the foreign policy and defence policy at the high level for many years, I can tell you that the world is actually more chaotic, and byzantine than that. That these grand schemes, either for good or bad, normally aren’t there. And international relations is generally one thing after another much more than a big plan, and I think sometimes you may create this sense that somebody, the great powers, some call Anglo-americans, or some would say Russians, kind of are designing the world around us. But no, I think most of them are actually trying to keep some influence in a very complicated world which is exactly as complicated for them as it is for smaller countries like yours and mine.
BD: Thinking like that would be an insult on human beings anyway, that we don’t have control on anything, and some people can control all of us. Of course it doesn’t work that way.
EBE: I think that’s the traditional defeatism, that kind of there’s this idea that “I can’t do anything anyway because of the big powers”. And maybe I’m disappointing people, but there isn’t really a war room, a secret war room, deciding moving the checker board on Cyprus somewhere that you haven’t seen. I tell you that it doesn’t exist. What I can say is that the Security Council in which all the greatest powers in the world are united are all behind the Cyprus solution, and I can say that very formally and without any doubt because I was just briefing the council just a few weeks ago, and every single member, all the 15 members, meaning the permanent 5 and the 10 rotating members, every single one explicitly took the floor, and expressed praise for the two leaders, and for the process and for the work that we are doing here as the UN and gave full support for this, and also saying that it’s in everybody’s interest that this problem is solved. So if there is a place where you are actually not subject to a game between the great powers right now, it’s Cyprus. I mean if you’re in Ukraine, or Syria, or northern Africa, then you are unfortunately, but Cyprus is now a place where the great powers are in alignment.
YK: That’s what I was going to ask. The impressions from people in difficult regions that there’s a grand plan, usually stems from the fact that there are great powers competing in their interest for specific areas and that usually marginalizes the wills of the people themselves. So the truth is somewhere in between. There’s more influence by some countries than others, that’s a fact. The question is as we move from a point of contention among powers to an area where all major powers agree on the things that need to be normalised as we come back into the fold as Cypriots as a player in the region, how do you see as an academic as well, our foreign policy. Evolution and perspective that we could have toward countries in the region, are we positioned to have influence ourselves? We’ve been taught so long, Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, to be victims, and to feel as victims of foreign powers that we might not be ready…
BD: Yeah, always receiving guidance
YK: Yes that we might not be ready to start acting as international relations actors.
EBE: Yeah. Remember I also come from a small country and a small country that bordered the Soviet Union, and Russia and alliance with the US… so I have sympathy for this sense that some people might have that “what can I do in the big world where the big powers play?”, but a former colleague of mine who was at the time foreign minister of Australia, I’m not talking about Alexander Downer but the one before him, Gareth Evans, he said when he was minister and his civil servant said that “you know we’re not that important and we can’t really do this” he (Gareth Evans) said “Come on guys we’ve got nothing to lose but our insignificance”. Which I think is something for small countries to do, and other …
BD: We should use it as a slogan during the referendum propaganda actually.
[Laughter]
EBE: And another good reference is the current Prime minister and foreign minister of Luxembourg who on their trip to China embraced the Chinese foreign minister and said this “incredible, between us we represent one quarter of the world population” so you don’t need to feel small, even if you’re small. I must say that the foreign policy of the Republic of Cyprus, over the last years have been quite impressive, strengthening its position in Europe, and at the same time building strong bonds to the Arab world and Israel. Well done. And thanks to Ioannis Kasoulides, and good friend, and a very strong and highly respected foreign minister. If you add normalised relations to Turkey to that mix, which you will do immediately after a solution, because one of the first things that will happen, WILL HAPPEN, is a mutual recognition between united Cyprus and Turkey. You will be perfectly positioned for being a small but active player in a very important region, with strong bonds to Turkey, Israel, the Arab states, Europe, and North America. What else can you ask for if you are here? I think there’s the potential for being relevant in many contexts as Cypriots between Europe and the Middle East, I mean you have the unique feature of being politically in Europe, geographically in the Middle East, and that’s where you are. Sometimes you’d probably like to sail away and move somewhere else, but you can’t. So your foreign policy has to be based on reality and the fact that Turkey is forty miles away will never change, and the best thing you can do is to have a foreign policy that incorporates that as a united Cyprus. I think it’s great potential, and I have had the pleasure of discussing that with your excellent current foreign minister in the Republic of Cyprus, and also with people who have been thinking about this issue in the Turkish Cypriot community.
YK: Or perhaps a foreign policy and an attitude relation that can help Turkey itself move to further democratisation and stability. That’s what we need.
BD: That’s my positive thinking. I want to believe we can positively influence.
EBE: Cyprus, now listen, Cyprus [ everyone talking at the same time]I can safely say as both a former defence minister and foreign minister and having been engaged in security and defence policy for many many years, is that a solution in Cyprus would unlock a lot of other questions. I cannot tell you to which extent, but I can tell you the direction which is to the better. It will make relations between Europe and Turkey better. How much better? I don’t know. But the directional change is positive. It will improve relations between the EU and NATO, in a positive direction. It will probably improve, help improve, Turkish-Israeli and Turkish-Arab relations. How much? I don’t know but the direction will be positive. We’re not doing it however for the rest of us, this is for the Cypriots. And I would like to, if since it looks like the end, I’d like to also say that this may be the best opportunity you had to take this issue in your own hands. Simply because most of the world is preoccupied with other issues. I’m sorry to say, but there are other issues out there which are also problems. I mean North Africa is a problem. Syria is a problem. Iraq is a problem. Ukraine is a problem. The East Asia is a problem. So actually now this may actually be the moment where strong leaders in Cyprus can take this into their own hands, and make a Cypriot solution to Cyprus. And the fact that that will help the rest of the world is a bi-product, but the purpose of being here is to help the Cypriots.
YK: So as we wrap up this program, apologies to any of our listeners that couldn’t get their question weaved into the discussion. Thank you very much for listening and being here. We wanted to ask you before, we didn’t get a chance, but we’re asking now, we would like to lead out with a song that you personally like. It doesn’t have to be anything with a grand standing message, something of your request.
EBE: Well the first that comes to mind is Led Zeppelins Stairway to Heaven.
[Laughter and Typing]
YK : That’s some really quick typing there.
BD: Before we go out, thank you again.
YK: We’re going to click it again before you go out. Thank you very much for joining us here for this show and a very interesting discussion. Good luck to everything else.
EBE: Thank you very much.
BD: We’re also optimistic.
YK: Thanks to your team to help us build this up. You’re team has been here watching, and they also need to be acknowledged.
EBE: And thanks to listeners for listening.
BD: Yes definitely.
YK: That too. Good luck with everything
[end of recording]
Opinion: Once we discover who we are, we will be free
Thoughts of a young Cypriot, on the 9/7 Public discussion with Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on Cyprus, Espen Barth Eide
Photo Credit: Kadir Kaba / CVAR. Used by kind permission.
Marita Anastasi is a student at English School and an editor at KYPRIS news, a bicommunal news portal in Cyprus, ran by youth. Her interests include media and politics and is currently an intern at the Cyprus Community Media Centre – CCMC. The views expressed in this guest article are her own and do not necessarily reflect those of CCMC.
Nicosia, 9th of July, CVAR/Severis Foundation. People started gathering in the main conference room, most of them middle aged, almost no sign of people under 25. By 18:35 Espen Barth Eide, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on Cyprus, had already started his speech on the negotiation process regarding the Cyprus Problem.
The people of Cyprus need to ‘overcome their grievances’ that was one of his first statements. He further expanded on his point by expressing the view that everyone has suffered in different ways. According to mr. Eide this is something that Cypriots should let go and instead focus on rebuilding what has been lost. He continued by asking the audience to consider ‘what solution do they want’, his lower tone this time indicating the importance of the question. As he continued he suggested that once this is decided, a long lasting solution will be closer than ever. It is such an irony though to notice on how firm his is on this argument, how essential he –as a UN envoy- believes that this is, whilst the Cypriot society completely lacks the infrastructure for such things to be implemented.
Starting from the education system on both sides, it shares just one thing in common and that is its one-sided arguments. When it comes to history it is interesting to notice how Turkish Cypriots put so much emphasis on the 1963 events whereas they describe July 1974 as merely a ‘peace-making’ operation. On the other hand Greek Cypriots are oblivious to the crimes committed against Turkish Cypriots before 1974. At least in the Greek Cypriot-based education system for which I can comment, there is always a focus on how much this side has been wronged whilst most of the students will never experience a time where they will have to recollect on the wrongs that have been done by their own side. As a result, oblivious citizens are being produced. People who not only ignore but are actively refusing to recognise their own mistakes.
He further highlighted that ‘the federation should work in a European context’ so that the solution will follow some regulations expected by every other country-member of the E.U. With an enigmatic smile he pointed out that in the possible scenario of a solution, Cyprus will technically have the most modern constitution in Europe. ‘So do we want a constitution that truly reflects the period it was written, or one that reflects ideas back from 1950’s or 60’s?’ he asked the audience. Another interesting point since it was just a couple of weeks ago that Turkish officials clearly stated that in their opinion, the negotiation process should continue with the involvement of guarantor countries –Greece, Britain & Turkey herself- and that the so long expected solution should continue to give rights to the guarantors. They are clearly missing the fact that Greece is simply exhausted in every way possible; politically, economically as well as socially and it is highly unlikely that it could play the role it was expected to, back in 1960. However it is more frustrating to witness the absence of mere commenting, on such ideas which have been officially stated, clearly indicated and are nothing less but a huge contrast to all that mr. Eide had described that evening as ‘European Context’. Which developed, European country of the 21st century needs guarantors after all.
‘Having one economy rather than two’, he added, will make our island realistically competent and will give actual prospects to everyone but especially to the younger generations. With his tone becoming lighter and sometimes even playful, as the talk proceeded mr. Eide concluded by expressing his enthusiasm for the strikingly positive atmosphere that has been created by the two leaders at the negotiations so far. However he highlighted that despite the good will that exists, ‘we are not there yet’.
As soon as he ended, the most interesting part of the evening, which was of course the questions directed to mr. Eide by the audience, began. One of the first questions was about the role of Turkey in the process. His answer was along the lines that Turkey wants a solution and that he as an envoy is continuously in touch with Turkish officials, with the ultimate goal being a high quality communication. Generally he avoided giving out information regarding the crucial issues of property and demographic changes. Taking advantage of a question regarding the effect of a possible solution in the broader geographical are of Cyprus, mr. Eida said in an even more friendly tone that ‘the neighbourhood you’re (Cypriots) living in doesn’t look very nice!’. Having this in mind, he said that a solution to the Cyprus problem is not only the desire of its own people but also that of people from Middle East as well as Europe and the US.
As the talk was developing, the issue of creating a Cypriot identity arose from two different questions among the audience. The first question was raising concerns on a possible correlation between the indifference of the youth, regarding the problem with the absence of a unique Cypriot identity. The second question was more about on whether there should be a focus on creating bonds between the two communities before or after a solution. Mr. Eide along with other UN officials present at the event pointed out that confidence has been built up to an extent, thus what is left now is head towards a solution. The construction of an identity and the creation of close bonds is something that can occur during the process according to them. As a question arose from an Irish member of the audience, mr. Eide made a comparison of the Cyprus problem to that of Northern Ireland, noting that everything was created during the process of achieving a solution and in fact the greatest part of peace building took place after both sides reached an agreement.
It sounds more or less as the infinite question of what came first, the chicken or the egg. Undoubtedly, UN officials know their job and they certainly have a point. However in a country where 48% of Greek Cypriots and 88% of Turkish Cypriots are identifying themselves first as Cypriots and with the term ‘Cypriot’ being identified with ethno-national characteristics, something is missing. First of all, even the statistics presented belong to one of the very few surveys that have been held over the years. This shows clear lack of understanding of the nature of the problem from all the sides. Of course this brings us to an even deeper issue of who is responsible to define what a ‘Cypriot’ is, however in the case of our island, working on the construction of a common identity is essential to make a possible solution work. Although it is our leaders who are going to create a solution, if people are not firm about it, it will simply collapse.
Lastly mr. Eide referred to the process of certain confidence building measures such as common telecommunication and electricity system which will be implemented very soon after some technical issues are solved. In general the impression that was left in the room by mr. Eide was a very positive one that gave inspiration to all of us present in the room to look towards the future with hope. It wouldn’t be right to finish this article without acknowledging that indeed great progress has been done. However it is important for everyone to realise that important parameters were always missing from the negotiation process and they need to be implemented if a solution is to be agreed soon. These are first making ourselves –especially the youth- to recognise that everyone has suffered, that both sides have done mistakes and we should do nothing less than get over it. Secondly, for the first time there should be a serious effort made not only by the people but by the authorities themselves to establish a common Cypriot identity, because this will be the basis of any kind of solution. Ralph Elison, an American novelist ‘when I discover who I am, I’ll be free’. Let’s hope that that shall be the faith of Cypriots.
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You really need Community Media, and this is why
It is universally acknowledged, at least within western liberal democracies, that freedom of expression is an essential component of the society. Every kind of opinion is welcomed as far as it does not violate the rights of third parties. As democracy is all about dialogue and debating and involving the whole of the society in decision-making, what people think is the most important part of all. And whether we like it or not, the media shape the way we think.
We live in a world where people constantly comment on the fact that the media in our days have been more influencing than they have ever been before. It is said that their importance is so great, that it actually breaks the trias politica principle and emerges as the 4th power. We get to know what is going on around the world through the media, whereas this could be a magazine, newspaper, radio, television or the newest version of getting informed; the web. If one considers the fact that a happening can be delivered in so many different ways, through so many different points of view, simply because our world is not just black and white, then the role of the media is crucial. What we are actually reading, watching or listening to is in one way or another news through somebody else’s point of view.
So it seems like the media have a lot or even too much power in their hands. Especially when someone considers that the opinion of a whole society is shaped by entities that have never been democratically elected, and there was never a debate on whether they are indeed capable of delivering news, then the whole issue becomes even more complicated. What I am trying to point out here is that more often and most easily than we think, citizens are influenced by media which in their turn might serve interests of third parties even if such interests are conflicting those of the citizens. This doesn’t mean that all media are like this of course and most importantly we should not confuse bias with serving someone else’s interest. Every opinion is biased simply because it’s personal. What my point is that we cannot control the extend to which this occurs. But it’s happening, I know it, you know it, but quite frankly there isn’t much we can do about it.
Or there might be something. This is listening and generally getting yourselves involved to community media. Community media serve as a platform of exchange of ideas and opinions between the citizens of the community. It should be highlighted that nowadays, thanks to the internet, a community cannot only be defined by geographical means but by others such as ethnic, political and so on. The nature of community media is clearly one of non-profit, thus eliminating further the danger of having the interests of third parties prioritized over to the interests of the citizens. Community media are operated in the community, for the community about and most importantly by the community. Thus it is a clear reflection of the needs of the community that it operates to.
Now, as far as Cyprus is concerned, Community Media are present in our littler island thanks to MYCY Radio which is managed by the NGO Cyprus Community Media Centre and is the only web multilingual radio in Cyprus. Being an example of community media, it gives the chance to people from all different backgrounds, amateurs and professionals to raise their voice on issues that concern not only themselves but also fellow citizens. MYCY Radio is a place where you know that what you’re listening to, represents merely the opinion of the person involved. Transparency is something that the Cypriot society desperately needs as we are now for good into the 21st century and MYCY Radio can offer that. It is a place where everyone can get him/herself involved in a dialogue which will serve as a mean for improvement in our community.
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Marita is 18 years old and will graduate from high school in June 2016. She is interested in current affairs, debate, journalism as well as dance and music. She is currently an intern at Cyprus Community Media Centre.
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Tagged ALT-Phabet, ccmc, cyprus, EIMP, media, media freedom, media pluralism
CCMC, Media, NGO, Nicosia, Peace it Together, Training, UNDP-ACT
Media Buffer Zone Project – Raising Capacities of Civil Society for the Production of Multimedia in Cyprus, the Middle East and South East Europe
As a follow up to winning the audience award for best project idea at the Power of One Conference held in Nicosia, Cyprus in October 2012, the Media Buffer Zone Project team was invited to present and workshop their innovative project at the “POINT2013 – Political Accountability and New Technologies Conference” held in Sarajevo 23-26 May 2013.
Now you may be asking yourself what does this prestigious “unconference” featuring many fascinating speakers such as UZROK from Serbia, Milica Begović of UNDP-Montenegro, “The Facebook Girl of Egypt”, Esraa Abdel Fattah and the famed Amira Yahyaoui of Al Bawsala from Tunisia have to do with a group of committed activists from the MENA region, Cyprus and Central Europe who want to provide media skills trainings to NGOs and develop an Internet platform linking media talent to civil society have to do with this group of incredible entrepreneurs? Well, more than you’d think!
It seems our unique idea formulated during long days and coffee-fueled brainstorming sessions, but whose birth was really a product of the group’s years of passion and experience working for their respective communities, is something that many innovative people relate to and are inspired by. So, it was a natural fit in this turbo-charged and “change the world for the better” atmosphere.
The crowd response to our informative workshop session included people from Egypt, Libya and across Europe and was overwhelming positive. We all wish we could have started the trainings on the spot! However, we agreed to settle for stimulating idea creation, exchanging the needs of various communities in a more in-depth fashion and creating a space for a better understanding amongst the regions.
In-between the conference sessions members of the Media Buffer Zone Project team gathered in hotel lobbies, coffee shops and Labor Union halls (yes really, we met at the headquarters of the “Confederation of Independent Trade Unions of Bosnia and Herzegovina”, thanks labour leaders!) to discuss how best to implement the project to satisfy the needs of all.
The first order of business we thought of was to gauge the pulse of the people by conducting an in-depth needs analysis of what NGOs from our regions really need. So naturally we turned to our trusted partners from Palestine, Near East Consulting, who have years of experience in just this type of data mining. Next we thought to design the trainings from the actual research and turn that info into training materials civil society can use in their efforts to build their capacity in media skills.
Then we planned to use these tools to train “trainers” in media skills to multiply across the regions with media skills trainings in both Cyprus and Egypt to better equip our target audiences from the vast experience of both media partners CCMC and Qabila. From there we decided to develop a web-based platform which will link interested media professionals to active NGOS in the region to better serve the needs of the people these organizations serve. Whew! From an idea to being productive is an exciting and challenging proposition.
In order to make this all work we realized we need the vast networks of our partners Universal Patient’s Rights Organisation (Cyprus) and Zašto ne? (Bosnia and Herzegovina) to activate their networks to communicate, inform, and motivate the participants. Only in times of true inspiration due the stars align and such partnerships are formed!
So, here we go on our journey from a loose confederation of NGOS scattered throughout the Middle-East, Mediterranean and Central Europe to a tight-knit group of dedicated civil society leaders working for an innovative inter-regional knowledge exchange to strengthen the role of citizens and civil society in stimulating positive social change. Follow our adventures on twitter at @MediaBufferZone.
CCMC, Development
‘MY World’ Survey half a million citizens tell the United Nations their priorities
Over 560,000 citizens from 194 countries have already voted for the issues that would make the most difference to their lives, providing, for the first time ever, real-time and real-world intelligence on what people think about the biggest challenges facing them and their families.
MY World, the United Nations global survey for a better world is a groundbreaking initiative inviting citizens to virtually take their seat at the UN and participate in the global conversation on the next development agenda by voting in an option-based survey.
Initial results from this survey have been released this week as the UN Secretary-General’s High Level Panel for the post-2015 dialogue meets in New York to submit their recommendations on the future international development agenda. To date, 57% of the votes have been collected offline, 35% though the website and around the 8% have come through mobile phone.
“We are using mobile phone and web technology as well as conducting surveys face to face to directly connect with people. This is allowing us for the first time to see in real time who is voting, from where, and what their priorities are”- highlighted Corinne Woods, Global Director of the UN Millennium Campaign – “MY World is a powerful tool for national as well as global decision making. These half a million votes are just a start – we have until 2015 and beyond to continue gathering people´s views and maintain this conversation flow between policy makers and citizens around the world.”
‘Crowdsourcing’ the future development agenda.
MY World demonstrates the UN’s commitment to an open and inclusive dialogue on the post-2015 agenda and harnessing the full power of technology and social media. MY World is supported by over 400 civil society organizations, youth groups, faith organizations, corporations and global personalities.
“We are getting a rich mix of data that is generating important information not only on global priorities, but also how these differ by characteristics: gender, age, location and education level. So far there seems to be a strong overlap of priorities among regions. Education, health, water, food, “an honest and responsive government” and “protection against crime and violence” feature amongst the top ten for every region of the world”– said Claire Melamed, from the Overseas Development Institute.
What are global citizens saying?
Participants in MY World are asked to select which six out of sixteen issues are most important for them and their families. Results to date reveal that voters’ top three priorities are “a good education”, “better healthcare” and “an honest and responsive government”. “Access to water and sanitation” and “nutritious and affordable food” are also perceived by people as being of key importance to improving their lives.
Citizens voting predominantly for health and education reveal the continuing relevance of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which recently observed the 1000 day milestone to their 2015 target date. MY World represents an entry point for people to build on MDG achievements and help define an ambitious development agenda after 2015 that has poverty eradication and sustainable development at its core.
However, results also indicate that people are pointing to new issues to be addressed, such as “an honest and responsive government”, “better job opportunities” and “protection against crime and violence”, which also rank within the top seven priorities.
MY World has generated extremely positive and powerful responses across the world, as demonstrated by Oyebola Folajimi Kehinde, one of the thousands who participated in the offline representative survey in Nigeria: “The final statements most of the grassroots people kept hammering on was that “let’s all hope they do something tangible with the newly collated data.”
Until 2015, the UN and partners continue to invite men and women everywhere to vote in MY World and contribute to shaping a better world together.
You can view the results to date as well as the raw open data. For more information, please contact Amalia Navarro, amalia.navarro@undp.org +34 91 788 53 77, Anna Ortubia, anna.ortubia@undp.org +34 609108176 or Stanislav Saling stanislav.saling@undp.org +1 646 781 4077.
Tagged better health care, good education, honest and responsive government, MY World Survey, post-2015, UN Millenium Development Goals
The Role of Mass Media in the Settlement of the Cyprus Problem
By Orestis Tringides
This is a short version of an article included in the publication “Managing Intractable Conflicts: Lessons from Moldova and Cyprus” available here.
If it is agreed that in order for the mass media to be able to play a positive role in the peace-building process and cooperation in a conflict region they first have to ensure impartiality in both the way they present the news and in the way they operate, then the media in Cyprus cannot fulfill that role. Some of the problems regarding the media in Cyprus playing an effective role in peace- and trust-building between the two communities (Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots), are; the tendency of advocacy journalism (the kind of journalism that deliberately and transparently employs a non-objective perspective for political or social intentions) and the reliance on external (official).
As a percentage of the population, the readership of newspapers is relatively low – the broadcast media is a preferred source of news and opinion. News programs frequently feature developments regarding the Cyprus problem, although due to a limited number of sources, and heavily politically influence, they often resort to advocacy journalism with a dramatized and sensationalized delivery of news about a political development. In many cases there is lack of investigative journalism, with the news falling short of informing the audience as they lack crucial, or background information required to understand and present the issue thoroughly. Very frequently party-centric (male-dominated) and heated debates take place, thus diminishing (and sometimes, deliberately undermining) the role of those who can provide technocratic expertise, or a non-partisan view.
Civil society events that work to bring the two communities together have been largely excluded in the “traditional” media outlets – although in recent years civil society organizations (CSOs) have started employing and increasing their skills capacity in the new media (social media) that indirectly tend to attract more attention by the mainstream media. Exemplar cases of cooperation in the media across the divide (Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot) have largely taken place “outside” of the established administrative structures; mainly by individuals’ initiatives.
Problems and obstacles in the media having an effective role in peace- and trust-building between the two communities are:
Financial Dependencies and Political Influence. Media’s susceptibility to either commercial or political influence and pressure is in large part the result of the difficulties encountered in establishing an independent economic base upon which any non-state media enterprise depends on.
Practical and Legal Obstacles; Press Freedom and Access to Information. Journalists on both sides of the island are not (entirely) free to deviate from the agreed political modus operandi between their editors/outlet management and political party/ies, or other poles of political influence. Also, journalists on both sides are being hindered to perform their duties due to a lack of an effective access to information legal framework.
Cooperation Obstacles Due to Non-Recognition. The fear of “implied” recognition has developed obstacles on basic issues, such as how to address and acknowledge the other side; journalists have employed a terminology when referring to the other side (e.g. “pseudo-state”; the “Greek Cypriot Administration” etc.) that is plainly offensive for the other side.
The Barriers of Language and Information. Media outlets communicate in two different languages, Greek and Turkish; therefore, it is difficult for journalists from the opposite side of the dividing line to follow the news on the other side and to have a clear picture of the prevailing opinions on the other side of the dividing line.
Mass Media being part of the problem by emphasizing the hardships and obstacles to a settlement, and almost no mention of any prospects for a solution.
Neutral or negative Portrayal of Bi-communal, Collaborative and Reconciliatory Civil Society Efforts by the Mass Media.
The Portrayal of the “Other” Community by the Mass Media reinforcing a common public perception that one community does not want a peaceful solution with the other by giving disproportional coverage to the few extremist voices of the other side, rather than of those who wish for a solution.
During the Annan Plan era, most of the Greek Cypriot media favored its rejection, attacking those in favor, emphasizing the negatives and dismissing, or not mentioning, the positives.
There are various examples of cooperation/communication and flow of Information from and to Each Side. In 2003, when, for the first time since the war of 1974, the moving restrictions from one side to the other were eased, journalists from both sides had the opportunity to meet and cooperate with each other. Currently, this cooperation is mostly conducted in an un-strategic manner via the formal structures of the media outlets; most of the times it is e.g. based on a journalist’s personal connections with another journalist on the other side. Nevertheless, since 2003, some media organizations have established forms of direct cooperation between journalists and media organizations on the other side thus helping each other not only to get access to primary information on the news, but also helping their colleagues to understand the background of a story; this included featuring articles of journalists from the other community.
Because most attempts at collaboration remain hidden below the surface and informal, collaboration at the institutional level remains low. Also, the Internet remains an underutilized forum for media and information exchange. The civil society sector, engaged in cross-community issues, has used social media to promote dialogue and debate on issues of common concern.
For these abovementioned reasons, as an alternative to the established traditional media, joint initiatives in the Community Media (an umbrella term that also includes Social Media) have recently been taken by CSOs and individuals from both sides. As a result, the established Cyprus Community Media Centre (CCMC) acts as a “transcommunal” CSO (by this term emphasizing that its scope goes beyond the “exclusivity” of Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities) that aims to increase civil society’s capacity in providing CSOs with the skills and tools to both communicate their message in the wider public and also to find ways to communicate with the traditional media. CCMC was established as a result of the identified “media gap” that the CSOs were facing and to counteract the disregard that the CSOs have been treated with by the traditional media and, as a result, the broader society. Community Media has been identified as an (alternative) means for building cooperation in the media sector – a sector that is very important for the peace process.
Tagged ccmc, community media, cyprus, cyprus community media center, Cyprus Community Media Centre, Cyprus problem, Orestis Tringides, peace media, role of mass media
Advocacy, CCMC, CMI, Cyprus, Media, Nicosia
CCMC Editorial: Why World Press Freedom Day is important for Cyprus
3 May is marked around the world as a day of celebration of press freedom.
Since the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed this date as World Press Freedom Day in 1993, it has become a day to reflect on and evaluate the state of press freedom in our own countries and around the world, as well as to remind ourselves of the need to defend journalists and media professionals from attacks on their work and independence.
In Cyprus the rights of journalists to exercise their profession freely are still not fully guaranteed. Back in February 2011, the Turkish-language Afrika newspaper – which maintains a highly critical stance of affairs in the northern part of Cyprus – and its editor-in-chief Sener Levent were threatened by an armed gunman at the newspaper’s premises. In July that year Levent’s colleague Ali Osman was also attacked at gunpoint. In fact 2011 was a particularly difficult year for Turkish Cypriot journalists. Mutlu Esendemir, the news editor of the Kanal T and a reporter for Kibris newspaper, was injured following the explosion of a bomb placed under his car, while Cenk Mutluyakali, the editor-in-chief of Yeniduzen newspaper, was also threatened. These are the last recorded incidents of direct threats against the lives of Cypriot journalists, but they remain a chilling reminder that in our divided country threats to the freedom of the press continue to exist.
At the time of the attack on Levent his Greek Cypriot colleagues from the Union of Cyprus Journalists (UCJ) crossed the Green Line to show their support and solidarity. The UCJ has mobilised support for Levent on several occasions before the opening of the crossing-points when he was imprisoned for his and his newspaper’s writings. As welcome as this move was, it remains one of the few public gestures of good will between journalists across the divide in Cyprus. Unfortunately professional solidarity and collaboration between journalists remains politicised along the faultlines of the Cyprus Problem.
Event co-organised by CCMC with the Turkish Cypriot Jounalists’ Association (April 2011)
It is clear that more needs to be done to strengthen the links between the media across the Cyprus divide. Over the last few years the UCJ has maintained sporadic contact with the Association of Turkish Cypriot Journalists, while dialogue with Basin Sen – their trade union counterpart – is limited to interaction within the frameworks established by the European Federation of Journalists, and remains tainted from past confrontations within the EFJ General Assembly.
UNESCO sees 3 May as an occasion around which initiatives can be encouraged and developed in support of press freedom. At CCMC we also believe that World Press Freedom Day offers an ideal starting point for journalists across the divide to start to build an understanding and common framework of action around shared principles and values. It is also an opportunity to sensitise all Cypriots about the need for the rights of journalists to be guaranteed, and to inform them that in Cyprus those rights will not be fully safeguarded until a just and lasting settlement is agreed, and a demilitarisation of the island takes place.
With the aim of kickstarting the dialogue to establish a framework for media collaboration in Cyprus, CCMC calls on all journalists’ organisations in Cyprus to attend the first meeting of the MEDIANE – Media in Europe for Diversity Inclusiveness programme, which will take place in Nicosia from 10-12 June, and to utilise this opportunity to build an action plan for the future.
CCMC, CCMC Event, Photography
Photos from our photo exhibition at Bandabulya 28 February 2013
Organised by CCMC with support from the European Union and in partnership with UNDP-PFF.
Tagged bandabuliya, bandabulya, ccmc, cyprus, European Union, events, market, photo exhibition, UNDP PFF
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Unveiling Nature’s Mysteries: Mutant Sea Stars, Junk Jellyfish, and Duck Sex
Confront nature’s mysteries, scientists find mutant sea stars surviving in warming waters and that sexual competition forces ducks to grow longer penises.
By: Lina Zeldovich
No matter how far science progresses, nature’s mysteries abound, and never fail to surprise us. Just this week alone, scientists discovered that jellyfish may change how we think of the carbon cycle; mutant sea stars can take the heat and survive in warming waters; and sexual competition forces some ducks to grow longer penises while others barely sprout one at all. Here’s to Mother Nature’s endless wonders.
Mutant Sea Stars Can Take the Heat (Hakai Magazine)
Like Mother Nature’s X-Men characters, sea stars can regrow their bodies from a severed limb. But a new sea star generation on the west coast of North America developed another unique ability—they have evolved to survive the warming sea temperatures by mutating a protein associated with cellular housekeeping activities. In 2013, when a huge warm water blob receded into the North American west coast, 20 species of sea stars began to melt into goo, a phenomenon dubbed the sea star wasting disease. The plague, linked to a densovirus, caused the creatures to deflate, develop lesions, and eventually fall apart. Four years later, the epidemic is finally waning. Scientists think that the mutated proteins may have helped sea stars survive.
Who’s Eating Jellyfish? Penguins, That’s Who (The New York Times)
Jellyfish aren’t exactly ocean darlings. They have a painful and potentially dangerous sting—certain jellyfish species carry some of nature’s most potent venom. Their blooms are viewed as a nuisance that can negatively affect human and marine creatures alike. Made primarily of water, jellies aren’t considered an appetizing meal in the marine food webs. In fact, scientists thought most jellies weren’t eaten, but rather died and sank to the seafloor, transporting carbon from the ocean surface into its depth. But when researchers strapped video cameras on a bunch of penguins, they saw the birds happily feeding on floating jellyfish packs, even when there was plenty more nutritious prey around. The study’s impact was two-fold. First, it showed that animals often have more complicated hunting behavior than humans imagine. Second, it changed how climate scientists think of the global carbon cycle. If jellyfish are eaten in greater numbers than we expected, scientists figure the “estimates of carbon fluxes need to be reassessed.”
Sexual Competition Among Ducks Wreaks Havoc on Penis Size (Nature)
Human males are born with one set of genitals, but male ducks grow them anew every mating season. Moreover, if the competition is intense, they spout prodigious penises—up to 18 cm in length. In a recent study, scientists fenced off habitats so that ducks would live either in male-female pairs, or in groups where males significantly outnumbered females. The scientists kept that configuration for two breeding seasons and monitored mating among the ducks. Males in the “couples” arrangements grew smaller penises than the males who had to complete for females. But when rivalry was particularly fierce, some males barely developed any genitals at all. Apparently, they just don’t bother investing in tissue that’s not going to pay off.
adaptationcarbonsustainabilityMarine Ecology Progress SeriesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of AmericaScience News
Densovirus associated with sea-star wasting disease and mass mortality
By: Ian Hewson, Jason B. Button, Brent M. Gudenkauf, Benjamin Miner, Alisa L. Newton, Joseph K. Gaydos, Janna Wynne, Cathy L. Groves, Gordon Hendler, Michael Murray, Steven Fradkin, Mya Breitbart, Elizabeth Fahsbender, Kevin D. Lafferty, A. Marm Kilpatrick, C. Melissa Miner, Peter Raimondi, Lesanna Lahner, Carolyn S. Friedman, Stephen Daniels, Martin Haulena, Jeffrey Marliave, Colleen A. Burge, Morgan E. Eisenlord and C. Drew Harvell
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 111, No. 48 (December 2, 2014), pp. 17278-17283
Sea star wasting
By: Mark Schrope
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 111, No. 19 (May 13, 2014), p. 6855
Zinc may treat box jellyfish stings
By: Nathan Seppa
Science News, Vol. 183, No. 2 (JANUARY 26, 2013), p. 12
Society for Science & the Public
Anthropogenic causes of jellyfish blooms and their direct consequences for humans: a review
By: Jennifer E. Purcell, Shin-ichi Uye and Wen-Tseng Lo
Marine Ecology Progress Series, Vol. 350 (November 22 2007), pp. 153-174
Inter-Research Science Center
Natural male enhancement: Ducks' penises grow longer with increased competition
By: Susan Milius
Science News, Vol. 178, No. 5 (AUGUST 28, 2010), p. 11
Why Do We Sleep?
A growing consensus among those who hold this view is that sleep is needed for maintaining a healthy nervous system, not necessarily a brain.
The Thick-Billed Parrot Is Not Extinct–Not Yet
But one hasn't been seen in the U.S. since 1995, not long after the end of the last reintroduction program.
Plant of the Month: Agave
The international popularity of tequila threatens the quantity, health, and biodiversity of all species of agave.
How Medieval Surgeons Shaped Sex and Gender
Our ideas about surgically “correcting” intersex conditions go back to a shift in the profession of surgery seven centuries ago.
Stuck in the Midden with You
A midden is, among other things, a refuse site outside an octopus' home. (Release the Køkkenmødding!)
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Walkathon is an episode of Beavis and Butt-head which aired on December 10, 1994.
At Highland High, Clark Cobb of the Christian Businessmen's Association is here with his "good friend" Socko (a sock puppet) to talk to the bored youths; only Daria and Stewart welcome him with applause, her sarcastically and him genuinely. Cobb tells the class about the Businessmen's charity walkathon, and informs them and Socko how Jesus Himself invented the walkathon when he walked across water. Stewart claps in awe, remarking "Socko's great!", while Butt-head raises the valid point that "Socko's got a hand up his butt".
Later on, Beavis and Butt-head have completely forgotten the walkathon exists and are instead drinking ice-cold slurpies - Beavis getting brain-freeze and calling for an uncaring Butt-head to make it stop. As he screams in pain, an amused Daria arrives:
Daria: Hello, boys. Ah, learning how to drink from a cup, Beavis?
Beavis: Errrrr...rrrr... shut up! Diarrhea, heheheheheh.
Daria: How come you guys aren't out collecting pledges for the walkathon?
Butt-head: Uhhhhh... pledges?
Daria: *sighs* The way you raise money in a walkathon is you get people to pledge money for every mile you walk.
Beavis and Butt-head: [blank stares]
Daria explains the plot.
Daria: People give you x amount of money if you walk y number of miles.
Daria: You get people to pay you to walk.
Butt-head: Cool! Huh huh. Why didn't you just say so?
Daria: So, will you guys pledge for me?
Butt-head: Uhhhh, okay. Like, how much? Huh huh huh...
Daria: How's a quarter a mile sound?
Butt-head: Uhhhh... two quarters a mile?
Beavis: Seventy five cents! Heheheh.
Butt-head: Uhh! *smacks Beavis*
Beavis: AAAA!
Butt-head: I just said that, dumbass! Okay, uh, a dollar!
Beavis: Ten! Heh heh!
Daria: *writing* Beavis and Butt-head, ten dollars a mile... each.
Butt-head: Hey! Uh, don't you have to, like, do something for us now?
Daria: *evil look* Okay, fair's fair! For every mile you walk, I'll pledge a nickle for you guys to split.
Butt-head: Uhuhuhuh. Okay. Huh huh huh!
Daria: Great. See you at the walkathon. *walks off*
Beavis and Butt-head: Huh huh huh / heh heh heh
Beavis: Ummmm, what's so funny?
Butt-head: We just totally ripped her off.
At the walkathon, Cobb tells everyone that, by walking, they're kicking Satan "in the keister" and has Socko give everyone the command to go. Beavis and Butt-head remark, quite correctly, that the speech sucked and there wasn't even a gun firing. On the plus side (or so they think as they didn't quite understand the point of the walkathon), after walking they'll be rich! "Charity is cool!" remarks Beavis, until they realise there's too many other people walking and decide to take a less crowded path... a path that wasn't closed off for the walkathon, causing them to walk through traffic, down a railway line, and generally go in completely the wrong direction and get lost. Walking, Beavis remarks, "sucks".
Finally, late at night and long past the time everyone else has finished, the buttmunches stagger to the finish line in a dreadful state. Cobb cheerfully tells them that "your friend Daria" has already finished and dropped off the fifty cents she pledged them, so now they just need to drop off the two hundred dollars they pledged her. Butt-head, confused, asks if they can have their money now. When an outraged Cobb hopes they weren't planning to skip paying, it dawns on Beavis that maybe they didn't rip off Daria after all. As Cobb's a Christian, he can't strike them - but as a businessmen, he intends to get them to walk off the debt five cents a mile.
Later into the night, Cobb driving behind them, Beavis and Butt-head continue to walk, half-dead, with Beavis threatening to kick the ass of the guy who invented the walkathon if he ever finds him. "Charity sucks!"
Daria's motive[edit]
"You guys are screwed, muh-ha-ha-ha-ha!"
In "Walkathon", it looks like Daria has volunteered for something. This would be out of character in Daria, but in several Beavis and Butt-head episodes and comics she would sometimes be seen doing voluntary work; the character's apathetic nature hadn't been conceived of yet. From what we'd later learn of her parents, we can assume they forced her into some of it.
In this case, however, Daria is not just taking part, she's actively trying to get Beavis and Butt-head to do it - and as she has to know the dimwits can't pay $200, which suggests that she's trying to screw them over for a laugh.
The way she screws them over also causes problems from Clark Cobb. Based on her behaviour in Daria episodes like "Esteemsters" and "Cafe Disaffecto", we can read into this and say that Daria was forced into this and she's deliberately trying to undermine the walkathon in retaliation.
Daria's voice is higher and more expressive in this episode than usual.
This is the first Beavis and Butt-head episode with a significant appearance from Daria to appear on the Mike Judge Collection DVDs - everything before "Butt is it Art?" hasn't been collected.
Cobb appears a few more times in the show but only with minor roles. He makes four appearances in the comics - two of them in stories where Daria appears, one which links to a Daria-featured story - each one having a large part of the plot.
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The day of (rare) sicks
Today is the World Day of Rare Diseases. This year’s theme is “Rare Diseases Without Borders.” In many countries there are no possibilities or knowledge for the correct diagnosis or treatments. According to experts, international cooperation is the only way that you can get to wherever a high level of access to care and medications.
What’s about Italy?
According to a recent report by the National Bioethics Committee rare diseases involve situations very burdensome for one million Italians who is officially affected, with perhaps two million people that are still waiting for a diagnosis.
All this happens not because of the disease itself, but for the decay of Italian NHS, fragmented in our Regional Health System, and the profound disinterest of politicians, institutions and medical associations.
According to the report, in fact, the problems of individuals and families of patients mainly concern:
1. difficulty or impossibility to access the correct diagnosis – due to the failure to identify a clinical reference center specialized in the disease in question – with the worsening state of health of the patient;
2. delay in diagnosis that adversely affects prognosis;
3. lack of scientific knowledge and information about both the disease, both on existing laws and rights;
4. lack of adequate medical care and rehabilitative or psychological therapy if necessary, taking into account the nature of most chronic and disabling of rare diseases and the disruption and destabilization that the experience of the disease involves the patient and family;
5. difficulty of access to treatment and care, which affects both the availability of new drug-availability, of high or very high cost, specific to a particular rare disease already on the market in Europe and, when there are no specific aetiological therapies , access to other possible treatments;
6. strong inequalities – at regional and local level – to access to diagnosis, treatment and innovative, more generally, health care and social services;
7. high costs of treatment, overall, and the lack of support measures that meet the needs of daily supervision and continuous determined by pathology, the contents of which falls almost entirely on the family, causing impoverishment and often expulsion from the world of work;
8. precarious conditions, often perceived as serious or very serious people with, even after getting the diagnosis;
9. heavy social consequences for the patient (stigmatization, isolation in school and in work activities, difficulties to build a network of social relations).
With all the money that Italy spent for rare diseases, this ‘bulletin of horrors’ ‘should ‘attract’ the attention, by time, of the Court of Auditors and the Order of Physicians, as well as civil society as a whole.
If we look to politial responsabilities, the game is won easily, because Rosy Bindi, actual president of the Democratic Party and former Minister of Health, was the one person that issued the disastrous laws we have on mental health, the health service, disability, disease rare. A planetary goal.
But it does not end now, it’s just the tip of the iceberg.
In fact, the report of the National Bioethics Committee does not tell that:
1. rare diseases included in the list of disabling diseases are only five, compared with more than 3,000 classified. It is crazy and uncorrect;
2. Italian State has accepted just formally the guidelines set by the World Health Organization, issued in 1992, about work and disability, which are based on the principle of the functional limitations and not on the classification of the diseases or the irreversible biological damages;
3. a lot of regional centers for rare diseases have not been established or have been outsourced on private facilities, usually Catholic;
4. orphan drugs are available only in some hospitals and are forbidden in private clinics;
5. coordination for biological samples or networking is non-existent but it was heavy financed;
6. management of any other disease does not occur as a function of the rare disease that the primary pathology and the law do not previde a coordination function for the centers;
7. a lot od patient, maybe all, have to undergo continuous therapy and routinely travels dozens of miles just for an infusion.
Even worse if we look at the situation of the Italian non-profit organization.
A reality estremely fragmented, often loyal just to a medical or research center, so that gets donations and means regardless of the effective qualitaty, but only on the basis of visibility that the association is able to obtain. Just get a sick who is a celebrity or influent member of the community to exalt a mediocre center and vice versa.
In addition, some of these associations absorb most of the donations to exist and the rest ends up ‘for search’ or ‘health center’ or ‘departments’. Excepted certain types of diseases for which is expected to accompany by public contribution, many organizations normally do not provide direct services to the sick: you are alone in the hospital, at home, in taxis or ambulances.
Indeed, some spread incorrect health informations, even among those ‘validate’ or publicized by the principal Italian Health Organizations.
Italy spent millions of euro for the information through physicians, associations and charities, but will perhaps thousands, at least, those spent to count the sicks and whether and why are not met.
Really inexplicable why this happens, if you do not want to count that we are in the Italian Cleptocracy.
A problem confirmed by the ‘Dossier on the subject of rare diseases of 2008-2010, edited by Cittadinanzattiva Tribunal for Patients’ Rights, National Coordination associations chronically ill, which indicates:
1. ‘difficulties’ to enjoy the benefits provided by law
2. strong differences that exist from region to region,
3. more than 40% of patients do not often have access to essential drugs.
A Dossier, by Cittadinanzattiva and the Court for the rights of the Sick, that forgets to tell us how many cases of medical malpractice are happened or the number of disputes initiated by patients. As it does not explain why these powerful associations do not give legal assistance to victims of medical malpractice nor protest for laws and in the courts, which take decades to sentence and repair the damage suffered by the patient, if alive …
Class Actions, allowed by law, not even to hear about it, while medical malpractice cases – registered by the companies that provide doctors and hospitals – would amount to one hundred thousand a year, let alone how many are those, minimum or glamorous, so there is resignation and they are not complaint.
According to Sole 24 ore “Health Focus” of 11 to 17 November 2008, inadequate health care and lack of access to rights, or ‘cost and inconvenience, would lead to the abandonment of care by 1 patient 4 to which must be added a 37% who abandons for bureaucratic obstacles’, which obviously are posed by different hospitals and local health authorities.
Other studies have found that:
1. 57.9% of patients are forced to bear the costs of personal care at an annual cost ranging from a minimum of 800 to a maximum of € 7,000 (2008 study of the Court of patients’ rights);
2. for many parents to meet the care needs means worse off work, if you do not stop (Pilot Study ISFOL13)
3. among families participating in the study many live in conditions very low income and almost 20% have been forced to resort to loans, to deal with the management of the disease.
Important to know that in Italy we all are obliged to the ‘right to compulsory the NHS’ – words used by the Ministry of Health, which does not specify how much it costs to each of us this ‘obligatory right’ and why, payed taxes for social security, workers can not contract insurances with the money that remains them. Supplementary insurances exist, but in private clinics orphan drugs are not allowed by the state. In a nutshell a sick rare Italian is forced to go to a public hospital. He has no choice.
It is therefore a euphemism about Medical malpractice when it has to do with a sick rare Italian. Should we talk about martyrs.
Questions those add other questions. As a pair, addressed to our physicians:
1. how can the Order of Doctors do not expect a clean sweep and when will do justice for the sicks, if 370,000 of the rare patients (37% of those known) does not want cares, owed for free, but unobtainable, because of the rules are inconclusive, inappropriate, inadequate? How can the Judiciary and the National Institute of Health not to intervent?
2. which is the degree of awareness of rare diseases, procedures and laws regarding health, by our doctors? Because they do not arise in defense of their patients because the Machine will make adequate laws and procedures? Are they the Machine?
As for the rest, it is useless to ask how much money we’ve thrown in the past ten years and in which pockets are finished.
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Wells-Barnett, Ida B
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'Socialistic Belief' in the 'Chicago Tribune, 29 December 1885'
'Woman's Sphere' in the 'Kansas Famer, 9 February 1887'
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'The Socialist Demonstration' in the 'Chicago Tribune, 30 April 1885'
'President Lincoln's Last Speech in Springfield -- Affecting Reminiscence' in the 'Daily Illinois State Journal'
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Information Contact: Rod Dingman, Ventura City Firefighters Association Vice-President
For the fourth year in a row the Ventura City Fire Department will again join forces with Firefighters across the country to help promote Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Ventura City Firefighters will wear Pink Embossed T-shirts from Oct. 1st to Oct. 15th in support of this cause.
The Ventura City Fire Department, and the Ventura Fire Foundation, will again be partnering with the Downtown Ventura Organization in promoting and distributing Ventura City Fire Department Pink Embossed T-Shirts to raise money for helping women diagnosed with breast cancer.
Every Fire Apparatus will have a flyer available that lists all downtown businesses where shirts are available to the public. The businesses joining our efforts are as follows:
Red Brick Gallery, 315 E. Main St. 643-6400 redbrickart.com
Trufflehounds Fine Chocolates, 607 E. Main St. 648-5870 trufflehoundsfinechocolates.com
Fox Fine Jewelry, 210 E. Main St. 652-1800 foxfinejewelry.com
Sea Things, 500 E. Santa Clara St. 648-1954 seathings.net
Bank of Books, 748 E. Main St. 643-3154 bankofbooks.com
Beautiful Disaster, 518 E. Main St. 641-2343 bdrocks.com
Coastal Skincare, 428 Poli St. 641-2345 coastalskincare.net
Architexture, 25 S Ventura Ave (805) 641-3900 architexturesalon.com
WetSand Surf Shop, 446 E Main St. (800) 750-7501 wetsandsurfshop.com
Very Ventura, 79 S. California St. (805) 628-3540 very-ventura.com
Abednego Book Shoppe, 2682 E Main St. (805) 643-9350 abednegobookshoppe.com
T-Shirts will be available at the above locations for the month of October, as long as supplies last. T-Shirts are $20 each. Cash or check, checks payable to the Ventura Fire Foundation.
Unfortunately, there will be no shirts available at Fire Stations for sale.
Dedicated proceeds will go to fund the Ribbons of Life Breast Cancer Foundation located in Ventura that specifically serves women and families in Ventura County. This has been a huge success in past years and we are hoping for the same this year. The images included with this press release are not copyrighted and may be used by any media outlet. http://www.ribbonsventura.org
Distilling The Essence of A Town
Related Document: 2014.Downtown.Logo
Distilling The Essence of A Town: Ventura’s Visual Identity
Downtown Ventura Partners and Ventura Visitors and Convention Bureau collaborated with The DuPuis Group to refresh the positioning and visual identity of Ventura.
VENTURA, CALIF. – January 27, 2014 – Downtown Ventura Partners and Ventura Visitors & Convention Bureau collaborated with The DuPuis Group to develop an ownable strategic positioning and visual identity for Ventura. The goal of the campaign was to bring new focus and energy to the town, and inspire a more unified vision.
“Residents are already familiar with what Ventura has to offer,” Marlyss Auster, Executive Director at Ventura Visitors and Convention Bureau, said “but as leaders in the community we wanted to find the best way to showcase its laid-back, yet dynamic spirit”
The collaborative team conducted an audit and surveys to uncover the inherent qualities that Ventura exudes. The perspectives of stakeholders throughout the Ventura community revealed the town’s eclectic culture of human expression and unapologetic character. It also highlighted the importance of local art, music and food trends.
“Once we understood how people felt about Ventura we turned those emotions into something tangible,” Auster said. “Ventura’s visual identity allows everyone to relate to the town from their own unique perspective.”
The visual identity’s organic texture, muted color palette, and crafted typography generate an emotional connection to the town. It is also an ambigram, which means it can be enjoyed right side up or upside down. This symbolizes the complexity of Ventura, and implies that there is more to the town than meets the eye.
“To develop the visual identity we drew on our incredible base of local talent who really know and love this town,” David Armstrong, president of Downtown Ventura Partners board of directors said. “There’s no catchy tag line or wishful thinking about what Ventura should be – just an authentic expression of who we are today.”
Downtown Ventura Partners and the Ventura Visitors and Convention Bureau are making the city’s identity campaign interactive by inviting residents and tourists to participate in its “We Are Ventura” video project. Participants can upload videos that illustrate their unique view of Ventura to the campaign’s YouTube page. The videos will be used to make a Ventura montage. For more information including rules and guidelines visit http://www.youtube.com/weareventura
The rebrand process concluded in December 2013. Ventura residents and tourists can expect to see the new visual identity being used starting this month.
The Ventura Visitors & Convention Bureau
Ventura Visitors & Convention Bureau works to promote Ventura as a coastal destination that provides contemporary amenities in an historic and cultural setting for the benefit of the community.
Downtown Ventura Partners
Downtown Ventura Partners brings merchants, property owners, residents, developers and city staff together to foster a vibrant commercial and cultural district in Downtown Ventura.
The DuPuis Group
The DuPuis Group is an international design innovation firm that translates business challenges into commercial successes. Their west coast office moved to Ventura in February of 2012.
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– three APNU ministers who resigned to renounce foreign citizenship
Georgetown, Guyana – (April 3, 2019) President David Granger, this morning, stated that while he has accepted the resignation of the four-coalition government Members of Parliament, their resignations will not take effect immediately as there are several processes which have to be applied.
The Head of State made it clear that the replacement of Members of Parliament (MPs) can be done only when those MPs submit their letters of resignation to the Speaker of the National Assembly as is prescribed by the Constitution of Guyana.
Article 156 (1) (A) of the Constitution states that “A member of the National Assembly shall vacate his or her seat therein – if he or she resigns it by writing under his or her own hand addressed to the Speaker or, if the Office of the Speaker if vacant or the Speaker is absent from Guyana, to the Deputy Speaker.”
Further, Article 156 (3) says a member of the National Assembly elected on a List shall cease to be a member of the Assembly, if:
He or she declares in writing to the Speaker or to the Representative of the List from which his or her name was extracted that he or she will not support the List from which his or her name was extracted;
He or she declares in writing to the Speaker or to the Representative of the List from which his or her name was extracted, his or her support for another List;
The Representative of List from which his or her name was extracted indicates in writing to the Speaker that after meaningful consultation with the Party or Parties that make up the List that the Party or Parties have lost confidence in that member and the representative of the List issues a written notice of recall to that member and forwards a copy of that notice to the Speaker.
Additionally, Article 156 (4) (a) says, “The Speaker shall declare the seat of a Member of the National Assembly vacant where –
the Speaker receives a written declaration of the Member of the National Assembly as provided for in paragraph 3 (a) or (b);
the Representative of the List issues a notice of recall as provided for in paragraph 3 (c).
The President reminded that the nomination of new members can be done only after the extraction of names from the National Top-Up list is approved by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).
As such, the four ministers, Mr. Carl Greenidge, Mr. Joseph Harmon, Mr. Dominic Gaskin and Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine will remain ministers until the aforementioned processes are completed.
The President, moreover, has not approved replacements at this time.
On Tuesday, April 2, 2019, Government announced that the President received and accepted the resignation of all coalition MPs who are the holders of dual citizenship.
The resignation of the ministers is in keeping with the Constitution of Guyana as well as the March 22, 2019 ruling of the Court of Appeal relative to the validity of the no-confidence motion passed on December 21, 2018.
Meanwhile, the three A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Ministers of Government who have since resigned from the National Assembly have indicated that they will renounce their foreign citizenship.
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End of 2012 Review Clearance Sale
So one of those social analyzer apps for Facebook took my feed and decided that 57% of my posts were about photography. This was news to me, until I realized that it looked at all the posts from a period when I was very active on my Tumblr, putting up movie posters. If you’re familiar at all with Tumblr, each of the Twitter/Facebook posts starts with “Photo:”. So this is a fabulously gullible piece of analysis software. And that makes its further judgement of me, that I am “organized”, even more suspect.
I came to that decision when gazing at that result on my home computer, which, honestly, sits on a desk that looks like a 10 year-old boy’s room. It resembles a bear’s warren, more than anything else. Infrequent organizing binges only push the entropy back to the edges. But there are portions of my life that bear the marks of some sort of order, and the fact that I published my List of Must-See Movies for 2013 a mere day ago, and I’d really like to start on that, but I feel I can’t bears that out. I still need to write about stuff from last year.
Wait. I guess that’s some strange sort of honor, not organization.
Anyway, let’s get that out of the way.
The day after Christmas most of the Crapfest gang had a gaming session that finally wrapped up a storyline we’d been trapped in for several months, and once that was over, Dave had received from Netflix The Amazing Spider-Man, so I got to see it without paying for it, yay.
I’m not a big Spider-Man fan, but it was impossible to be a comics fan and not have some spider-knowledge. The character is a lynchpin of the Marvel mythos, and back in the day when comics cost less than a dollar – hell, I can even remember when they were ten cents – I, or my friends, would pick up those Marvel Tales reprints of the early run of his stories. I read friends’ copies of the comic, and they read my X-Men. I have the Marvel Essential phonebooks. But I was not inclined to rush out and see the second reboot of the character in a decade.
Turns out I knew quite a bit more than I credited myself, because the deviations from the paper canon were glaringly obvious to all of us, and we confirmed each others’ misgivings. Spider-Man’s origin was retconned to fit some sort of over-arching storyline about Peter Parker’s parents (unresolved by movie’s end – talk about being confident of a sequel!). J. Jonah Jameson is nowhere in sight. We’ve got Gwen and Captain Stacy, but Gwen is in on Peter’s secret (hell, half of Manhattan seems to be by movie’s end), and the Captain only catches on late in the game – the opposite of the comics. Well, maybe not the Ultimate line of comics, which seems to be informing all of Marvel’s movie properties, but aaaaaaaaaa this is one of the reasons I don’t really regret giving up on new comics from Marvel and DC.
My major problem with the movie – besides the largely unnecessary, time-wasting reboot – is that Peter Parker is already a cool skateboarding dude who wears hipster glasses. Andrew Garfield does well playing the dork, but the starmaker machinery is trying really hard to layer the Twilight gloss over the character. The movie does absolutely nail the smart-ass Spider-Man, though. And it’s more than a little refreshing to have the bad guy actually go to jail at the end of one of these things. Overall, didn’t hate it, kind of enjoyed it, really. Even if it did have more endings than Return of the King.
On the other end of that reboot spectrum is Dredd, which feels remarkably faithful to its source material. The British comic book superstar had been done on film once before – we all remember Judge Dredd (95) with Sylvester Stallone, right? Even though we took drills to our brains like James Lorenz in Frankenhooker to purge the memory, right?
Casting Karl Urban as Judge Dredd was a good first move. Reading a news report that Urban confirmed the helmet never came off was even better (Urban’s chin acting was exceptional). There was a lot of Dredd being republished in trades in the 80’s, and I had a good supply of them. Even when Dredd was cracking rocks on the prison planet, he still had that damned helmet on. Olivia Thirlby as Psi-Judge Anderson? Cool.
The temptation to do one of 2000 AD’s major arcs must have been overwhelming – there are stories that director Pete Travis was prepping Judge Death and Cursed Earth adaptations – but the decision was made – rightly- to go with a smaller concept for the first movie. Over-complication was one of the things that killed the Stallone Dredd (Well, that and Rob Schneider. And taking off the helmet. And Dredd smiling. And…). Dredd takes Anderson on a field test that turns out to be a much bigger job than the first call implied when the drug lord who’s basically taken over the massive apartment tower (ex- Sarah Connor Lena Headey) locks down the entire building and commands the many gangs calling it home to kill the Judges.
Wait… wait a minute. Isn’t that the plot for The Raid: Redemption? Well, yes it is, but looking at the amount of post-production that had to be done on Dredd, it can only be bizarre coincidence. I think it speaks more to the elegant simplicity of the plot, a sort of ramped-up Die Hard motif. But there are times that the convergence between the two movies is positively uncanny. Needless to say, Dredd has far less martial arts – as in next-to-none – and a whole lot more firearms making bloody messes of bad guys. The macguffin of the piece – a new aerosol drug called “slo-mo” that seems to make time almost stop – provides a lot of chances to use a super high-speed camera to often beautiful (and more often extremely bloody) effect. I liked Dredd.
I’m also going to be an absolute stick-in-the-mud and mention what a pleasure it was to watch a movie that clocked in at only 95 minutes, a definite rarity this holiday season.
By which you can assume I also saw The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and Django Unchained. I loved them both, haters can get stuffed. I tend to shy away from reviewing movies still in theatrical runs, and this time is going to be no different. No need to add to the ocean of digital ink being spilled on both of those.
But for my last two movies on The List, I had reserved two I had heard universally good things about, and the first was Jackie Brown, the Quentin Tarantino movie I had managed to avoid watching for fifteen years. I am a Tarantino fan, so exactly why this happened is confusing. Anyway, that little anomaly is taken care of now.
Just in case you’ve forgotten (1997 was a long time ago, I know) the title character (Pam Grier!) is a stewardess so down on her luck she’s become a money courier for an up-and-coming gun runner (Samuel L. Jackson). She winds up waging a battle of wits with him, the Federal agent after him (Michael Keaton) and the gun runner’s less-than-college material lackeys (Bridget Fonda, Robert DeNiro), aided by an honorable bail bondsman (Robert Forster), who is understandably smitten by Jackie because, after all, she’s Pam Grier. Great cast, great movie. I love that, when we get to the final, complicated phase of Jackie’s plan, Tarantino does the same thing Kubrick caught so much shit for doing in The Killing, fracturing time and repeating the scene over and over from different characters’ viewpoints.
Jackie Brown is based an an Elmore Leonard novel, Rum Punch. Leonard writes novels like Tarantino makes movies: good solid stories with an amazing cast of vivid characters. It seems almost inevitable that a combination of the two should pay off big. Folks that have soured on Tarantino often point to this as the last of his films that they liked; they wanted Kill Bill et al to be Jackie Brown II or another Leonard novel. That would have been cool, admittedly, but Brown was Tarantino’s third crime movie. I don’t blame him for moving on. I haven’t bought any Peter Gabriel albums since So because I wanted every album to be Security. Selfish of me, I know. Artists must grow.
The worst thing about seeing Django one day and Jackie Brown the next was I wanted to just spend the rest of the year watching Tarantino movies, but I still had to watch The Hurt Locker.
I don’t follow the Academy Awards with any consistency, and I rarely have a dog to hunt in the competition, but the trailers for Hurt Locker had grabbed me, although not enough to put down ten bucks and my aversion to theater audiences to see it. I was happy to hear it won, and won big. I’ve liked Kathryn Bigelow since Near Dark.
James Cameron, Bigelow’s ex-husband, said that Hurt Locker is this generation’s Platoon, and that’s a comparison that sort of holds up. Platoon is a story, about two sides vying for Charlie Sheen’s soul, while Hurt Locker tries for a more documentary feel. Far more episodic, where Hurt Locker really succeeds is in keying the viewer in to the paranoid worldview necessary to survive in a occupation where every bystander may be the enemy and any normal-looking item a bomb. I like it better than Platoon because I don’t care for Charlie Sheen, and could care less what happens to his soul.
Locker follows an Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit just after the Iraq War. Losing their team leader in the first ten minutes, they find the replacement (Jeremy Renner) to be an adrenalin junkie who eschews the use of their remote-controlled robot to check out the bombs in person. The unit has less than a month left in their deployment, and are only too aware that Renner’s antics put them increasingly in harm’s way.
There is an attempt to inject a story into the movie about three-quarters of the way through, which goes nowhere, probably a metaphor for the war itself. Otherwise the movie is simply a record of the various screwed-up situations our three soldiers find themselves in, day after day. It’s a remarkably tense experience, aided by little tricks like giving you Guy Pearce and Ralph Fiennes and then killing them within ten minutes. Yet the most remarkable image remains Renner, back home after his tour, standing bewildered at the boggling kaleidoscope of choice in the cereal aisle of a supermarket.
There. Now I can start watching movies again.
Categories: Movies That Do Not Suck . Tags: amazing spider-man, dredd, hurt locker, jackie brown, judge dredd, pam grier, quentin tarantino, spider-man . Author: drfreex . Comments: 3 Comments
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Don Julio has retained its crown as the bestselling tequila brand in the world’s best bars.
The immense distribution power of Diageo, combined with Don Julio’s position within the company’s Reserve range, makes it the most recognised premium tequila brand in the bar world. The results show that Don Julio is the bestselling brand in around 20% of participating bars, which represents a huge portion of the premium tequila market, now thriving in Europe.
Sitting in second is Patrón which, since Bacardi acquired the brand in 2018, has had significant investment in on-trade activations, such as its Perfectionist bartender competition. Although Patrón was fifirst pick in just a third the number of bars as Don Julio, it had greater representation as a second or third-pick tequila.
Brands Report veteran Ocho has dropped to fifth in the list of bestsellers, which may be a surprise to many bartenders given its cult following in the industry, as well as the fact it was the top trending brand last year.
However, it's good news for Fortaleza, which has taken the 10th-place spot away from Espolon as it completes a list dominated by premium tequila brands. The inevitable curiosity around George Clooney's Casamigos after its industry-shocking acquiition by Diageo has put it right in the mix of the top trending brands.
Keywords: drinks international, tequila, Don Julio, Brands Report
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"The Simpsons: The Complete 20th Season" (2010)
The Simpsons: The Complete Twentieth Season
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The longest-running comedy in television history, The Simpsons exploded into a cultural phenomenon in 1990 and has remained one of the most groundbreaking and innovative entertainment franchises, recognizable throughout the world. Matt Groening created the infamous Simpson family: Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpsons - all now identifiable by their silhouettes alone. Currently celebrating their 20th Anniversary, The Simpsons will air their 450th episode in January 2010. The show has received a Star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame, enjoyed the successful release of their first feature film, The Simpsons, opened The Simpsons Ride at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida and Hollywood, CA. and been honored with five U.S. postal stamps personally designed by Matt Groening.
A show that has remained culturally significant and hugely popular with audiences for over 20 years, the latest DVD collection features every outrageous episode from the 2008-09 season, including the family's hilarious trip to Ireland, Homer and Ned's turn as bounty hunters and Bart trading lives with a multi-millionaire lookalike of himself. The show's impressive who's who of guest stars continues with the likes of Denis Leary, Joe Montana, Marv Albert, Mark Cuban, Emily Blunt, Anne Hathaway, Ellen Page, Jodie Foster and Kelsey Grammer, returning for his 11th time as Bart's nemesis, Sideshow Bob.
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Graphics power of the new MacBooks Pro is quantified; Will we see Apple making its own graphics cards?
One thing has not changed with the introduction of the new MacBooks Pro: While 13-inch models continue with the Intel Iris platform's integrated graphics option only, the 15-inch models offer dedicated video cards for more competent graphics performance.
In this new generation, the cards offered are from the new AMD Radeon Pro 400 series and the company last week published a post on its official website detailing some numbers and offering a detailed analysis of what we can expect in terms of graphics performance in the new models. Larger MBPs.
One of the details provided by the company involves the thickness of the new boards, which are, according to their own, the "finest graphics processors" existing thanks to a thinning process of the wafers of silicon, now reaching 380 microns (0.38mm). This makes it possible to incorporate the plates into the ultra-slim body of the new MBP without any problems.
Regarding the processing numbers, the three boards 450, 455 and 460, depending on the MBP model do not ugly, with the most powerful having a maximum performance of 1.85 teraflops and all three holding a transfer rate of 80GB / s.
The image below ranks better the main numbers of the three models:
AMD's new Radeon Pro 400 series numbers
Really speaking, the three boards are beautiful companies for creative professionals who will engage their MBPs in tasks involving image and video editing, sound mixing, illustration and production of CAD files and others and will certainly not ugly about these activities.
Regarding games, however, the thing is already more controversial: the first two cards (450 and 455), with 2GB of memory, will have difficulty processing games to anything equal to or greater than Full HD 1080p with a reasonable frame rate. after all, remember, they are discrete video cards in devices that are not dedicated to this purpose; Apple always prefers low power consumption for maximum performance.
If you are still looking to buy the new MBP with the intention of playing Mafia III with the maximum settings and a framerate Acceptable, only the most powerful of the three plates, the 460, may theoretically be able to do so with any skill. The problem is that it is only available in custom laptop configurations and well, will it cost a note like the computer itself, in it?
Anyway, it is good to hope that these beautiful machines will start to appear in society for us to analyze the first benchmarks From your graphic performances in this way, we can get a better idea of ??your aspirations and qualities.
Still on the same subject, Apple made clear on the official page of the new MacBooks Pro crucial information for those who like to connect their laptops to external monitors, and at the same time proved that the new 15-inch machine is a true processing beast in this. sense.
15 ? MBP can be connected to at four external 4K monitors or two 5K monitors, like the glorious LG ones featured in Thursday's keynote that once and for all symbolized the demise of Cinema Display. It is important to note that all these connections will be made at full resolution and at 60Hz, ie none of the choppy and irregular transmission of the MacBooks (not the Pro here).
Meanwhile, the 13-inch version, while not reaching the multi-monitor Olympus as its biggest brother, also definitely doesn't make it ugly: it supports two 4K monitors simultaneously or one 5K monitor. All of these connections, of course, are made by the new Thunderbolt 3 ports that are causing quite a stir in the computer world.
Still in the field of graphics processing, but moving to even smaller and thinner devices: Apple has apparently designed its own graphics chips for iPhones somewhere in the past and no one has noticed.
Who says David Kanter of RealWorldTech. According to him, just take a look at the differences between Apple's Metal Graphics API architecture manuals and Imagination Technologies graphics processing chips, the company whose technology was licensed by Apple in the early days of producing its own chips (starting with the A4).
Apparently, starting with the A8 chip in the iPhone 6, Apple has now designed its own graphics chip solutions, with new and more powerful iterations present in its successors, the A9 and A10 Fusion. The advantages to such a change are clear: cost savings, greater control over the design and operation of components within your devices, and even better integration between hardware and software.
The question now is when or if the same change will ever occur within their computers. Can anyone imagine a MacBook running an ?A15? chip with Ma's own graphics processing? I can. ?
(via AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors)
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