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WhizKids: Code with ScratchJr (Ages 5-6)
2019-12-27 15:30:00 2019-12-27 16:30:00 America/New_York WhizKids: Code with ScratchJr (Ages 5-6) Animate your world with code. Create custom characters and backgrounds, then write programs to move characters around the world. Learn the basics of computer science with the ScratchJr app. Eatonville Branch
Add to Calendar 2019-12-27 15:30:00 2019-12-27 16:30:00 America/New_York WhizKids: Code with ScratchJr (Ages 5-6) Animate your world with code. Create custom characters and backgrounds, then write programs to move characters around the world. Learn the basics of computer science with the ScratchJr app. Eatonville Branch
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Animate your world with code. Create custom characters and backgrounds, then write programs to move characters around the world. Learn the basics of computer science with the ScratchJr app.
Class Duration: 1 hour
Age Requirements: 5-6*
Recommended Prerequisite: None
Required Skills: None
Materials Fee: None
Out of District Fee: $10 (includes class and materials fees)
*For the safety and comfort of children, a responsible adult or caregiver must accompany children 10 years of age or younger while they are using the Library.
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The Eatonville Library is located in the Town of Eatonville's Zora Neale Hurston Square. Eatonville is known as the oldest incorporated African American municipality in the United States.
The Eatonville Branch is a children's library featuring material and programming for children through the sixth grade. The branch serves the residents that make up the four residential quadrants of Eatonville - Calhoun, Catalina Park, Eaton Pointe, and Lake Lovely Estates. The collection, programs, and services are also available to all Orange County residents including residents of the City of Maitland and Winter Park through reciprocal borrowing.
A Grimm Escape
Sat, Jan 18, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Eatonville - Ask at Desk
Channel the cleverness of Rumpelstiltskin, the kindness of Snow White and the determination of the Evil Queen to puzzle your way out of a fairytale-themed escape room. Recommended for tweens & teens.
Registration is now closed
Open Lab: Ask A Tech
Tue, Jan 21, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Are you stuck on a software-related project or simply need constructive ideas to get you started? Let us help! A technology trainer will be available to assist you in this open lab.
Seeing 20/20 in 2020
Don’t be blindsided in the new year! Create a clear picture for where you want to go with a vision board. Recommended for tweens and teens.
WhizKids: Loom Knit Bracelets (Ages 6-8)
Wed, Jan 22, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Loom knit colorful bracelets. Learn how to create a cardboard loom and knit a unique bracelet.
Positive Flow Foundation
Join Positive Flow for free tutoring services in all subjects from grades K-12.
Zero to Five Storytime
Thu, Jan 23, 10:15am - 11:00am
From the rhythm and repetition of nursery rhymes to the use of picture books, songs and flannel board stories, your child will be encouraged to develop early literacy skills.
Roller Coaster Engineers
Thu, Jan 23, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Hang on, it's going to be a wild ride! Twist and turn paper materials to create your very own roller coaster. Recommended for tweens and teens.
Fun Activities and Craft
Thursday evenings @ Eatonville riddled with fun activities and crafts.
Eatonville Branch 15th Birthday Celebration
Sat, Jan 25, All day
Happy Birthday Eatonville! 15th Birthday Bash Eatonville Branch Saturday, January 25, 2020 10:00 a.m. -2:00 p.m.
Music in the Library: Ravon Rhoden
Sat, Jan 25, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Enjoy a live performance by steel pan musician Ravon Rhoden. Ravon is an energetic pannist with an extensive musical repertoire. To learn more about Ravon visit ravonrhoden.com.
Rescue Patrol
Tue, Jan 28, 10:30am - 11:30am
All paws on deck! No job is too big; no kid is too small. We are off on a mission to learn, laugh and play with stories and activities inspired by Nick Jr.'s TV Series, Paw Patrol.
Learn some chill skills with self calming techniques, tips and tricks. Recommended for lower and upper elementary.
Fuel, Fun, Fitness
What are the best foods to eat to fuel your body before a fun workout? Get ready, eat a snack and get active! Recommended for lower and upper elementary.
Meet the Author: Nic Stone at ZORA Festival
Fri, Jan 31, 10:30am - 11:30am
Meet New York Times best-selling author of young adult fiction, Nic Stone! Book sale and signing to follow. Register
I Love You to the Moon and Back - Celebrate Valentine's Day
Tue, Feb 04, 10:30am - 11:30am
Share a story and create activities and crafts dedicated to love, family and friendship. Recommended for toddlers and preschoolers
WhizKids: Bring Your Art to Life with AR (Ages 7-9)
Wed, Feb 05, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Fill in a magic coloring page and watch your picture come to life. Use an awesome app called Quiver to interact with the page and even play games using a smart device - that's augmented reality!
Thu, Feb 06, 10:15am - 11:00am
Harlem Renaissance Music Hour - Celebrate Black History Month
Thu, Feb 06, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Relive the intellectual, social and artistic movement through music, poetry, art and more! Recommended for tweens and teens.
Scoop! - Celebrate Black History Month
Tue, Feb 11, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Get the scoop on African American inventors and discover common household items invented to make our lives easier, including Alfred L. Cralle's ice cream scoop!
J is for Jazz - Celebrate Black History Month
Wed, Feb 12, 10:30am - 11:30am
Learn about the lively rhythms and improv sound of jazz music through melodic stories, instrument play and more. Recommended for preschoolers.
WhizKids: Finger Knit Jewelry (Ages 7-9)
Create trendy accessories with upcycled fabric and your fingers.
Science of Love - Celebrate Valentine's Day
We may not be making love potions, but this event is sure to get your heart beating with fun science experiments and STEAM challenges. Recommended for lower and upper elementary.
Any person requiring special accommodations to participate in any class or event due to a disability may arrange for accommodations by contacting the location at which the event is held at least seven days prior to the event.
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Donna Andrews: Gone Gull Thursday, Aug 31 2017
Award winning novelist and Continued series winner and great read and mystery to die for Auntie M Writes Crime 12:34 am
With it’s clever twist on the title, Donna Andrews’ newest Meg Langslow cozy, Gone Gull, keeps up the promise of this long-running series with her trademark delightful humor. Meg has the honor of being a blacksmith; her Michael runs the children’s drama class, and their twin sons are along for the ride.
Classes are off to a good start, until vandals interrupt what should be a summer idyll. Grandmother Cordelia worries the students will demand their money back.
Meg worries there are almost too many suspects for her to follow: a rival craft center could be the culprit; so could the resort developers who want to push Cordelia into selling so they can keep to their plans for Biscuit Mountain?
And then there’s Meg’s grandfather, who is convinced the non-greenies have it in for him. Dr. Blake’s ornithology background has him searching for a rare gull.
Meg keeps watch on the studios to be certain they are locked against intruders, and its on one her rounds that she finds the body of the most difficult artist she’s encountered, Edward Prine.
Prine has insisted he has seen a species of gull thought to be extinct. What’s the truth of the situation? While staff and students alike might agree the womanizing artist wasn’t everyone’s favorite, it’s hardly grounds for murder.
And then a second body is found. . .
Meg’s eccentric family are front and center in this charming outing, which has a light, breezy pacing and interesting story.
Jane Casey: Let the Dead Speak Wednesday, Aug 30 2017
Jane Casey’s newest Maeve Kerrigan mystery, Let the Dead Speak, brings the homicide detective her strangest case yet.
Maeve is saddled with a new detective constable who rubs her wrong, whilst trying to navigate things between the DC and her unpredictable DI, Josh Derwent, and as always, trying to appease her prickly DCI, Una Burt. On a quiet residential street in Putney, a horrific crime scene–blood splatters walls and stairs and is dotted on the ceiling–is missing one key component: the victim.
Chloe Emery is the 18-yr-old daughter of the owner, Kate Emery, who hasn’t been seen in a few days. With Chloe off visitng her father and his new family, she’s returned early from this visit to find the grissly scene.
Chloe is bundled off to a friend’s house to stay. Chloe staunchly refuses to return to her father’s house, with stories of abuse at the hands of her stepbrother.The religious Norris family act suspiciously to Maeve, but Chloe is being taken care of by them and her friend, Bethany.
In the neighborhood lives a charismatic youth, who is believed to have gotten away with stabbing a schoolfriend, and attracts and befriends both of the girls. There is the cleric of the Norris’ church, who sets off warning bells in Maeve’s intuition, too.
It’s a complicated situation as Maeve and her team investigate Kate Emory’s life. It’s obvious that people are lying to them, but who and why? The complex plot unspools gradually through dedicated police work and Maeve’s keen insights. And always, she is trying to balance juggling Derwent who remains exasperating and yet Maeve’s biggest supporter knows her all too well.
Auntie M is a huge fan of this character-driven series, with just the right amount of eccentricity mixing with reality. Casey has done a grand job of giving readers a story they will have to figure out as she does–there’s plenty of twists and surprises. The strong development of the players will leave readers flipping pages as the suspense builds to the surprising ending. Highly recommended.
Louise Penny: Glass Houses Tuesday, Aug 29 2017
Louise Penny’s 13th Inspector Gamache novel takes readers back to Three Pines in a most creative way.
Readers are introduced to a trial in process with Gamache as a prime witness. But who the defendant and the victim are is parsed out in a way that heightens the suspense in the first part of the book.
But that’s not the only challenge that Penny has up her sleeve. By going back to the beginning of this crime, Gamache and the other Three Pines residents tell the story of a dark figure who suddenly appears on the village’s green. Cloaked in black and with its face hidden behind a mask, the figure causes a disruption in the town, but since it has done nothing illegal, Gamache is powerless to do anything.
Readers learn the unusual history behind this kind of figure, and not long after it disappears is when the victim’s body is found.
Gamache almost appears on trial, as the animosity between him and the prosecutor on the case is quite evident. His every move and action is questioned. It’s a tense standoff, and there’s more at the bottom of this than meets the eye.
It’s difficult to explain more without giving away the plot, but it involves old friends in a reunion, the bounding drug culture, drugs being transferred, and the feel that Quebec is losing its footing against the drug barons. How these disparate things tie in to Three Pines is once again the genuis that is Penny’s, and the difficult decisions she visits on Gamache.
There will be real threat and pain to those he loves before it’s over, and even then the outcome will be devastating on several levels. Absorbing and complex, the richly layered plot is highlighted by Penny’s trademark details and the wry humor that creeps in, despite the enormity of the situation.
It’s a fine balance that tackles a real life issue with an insprired and controversial solution. Highly recommended.
Bruce Coffin: Beneath the Depths Sunday, Aug 27 2017
Beneath the Depths is Bruce Coffin’s sequel to Among the Shadows, his debut featuring Portland detective John Byron, and it’s a solid sophmore offering.
Juggling his sobriety along with his romance with Detective Diane Joyner that must be kept hidden, Byron doesn’t hide his feelings when a lawyer he dislikes is found dead by a lobsterman in a stretch called Floater Alley. A possible suicide or accidental drowning is ruled out once a slug is removed from the victim’s head.
Paul Ramsey’s recent loss of a huge case is one point that interests Bryon, but there soon seem to be no shortage of suspects in the growing list of people who would want the obnoxious lawyer dead. This is a man whose vanity plate reads: I WIN.
There are past clients, a drug connections, mistresses and a grieving widow, and that’s just the start. Complicating their investigation is a reporter who seems to have inside information on the case. And it doesn’t help when Diane is offered a position that might solve their problem with keeping their relationshop under the table but keeps the offer to herself.
With the Portland PD having its own issues, Byron is often caught between a rock and a hard place, which intensifies when the Chief makes it clear that Ramsey’s law office makes huge donations to his pet projects.
Coffin draws on his own experience and knowledge as a former homicide detective to make this a solid police procedural. The Portland setting is well drawn and provides a strong backdrop to the action. This is a great read with a tight plot and believeable characters.
Mandy Morton: The Michaelmas Murders Friday, Aug 25 2017
Continued series winner and great read and mystery to die for Auntie M Writes Crime 12:07 am
Mandy Morton’s highly original No. 2 Feline Detective Agency is back with The Michaelmas Murders, with the detecting team of Hettie Bagshot and her assistant Tilly Jenkins being handed their strangest case yet.
Back from their late summer holiday, the cats are in need of funds, so when Fluff Wither-Fork of Wither-Fork Hall asks them to come around immediately, they are hopeful of adding to their coffers.
The new case is that of a bludgeoned cat found on the allotments that Fluff owns, across the road from Wither-Fork Hall. A stranger to the area, the male cat’s coat and fine clothing are drenched from the overnight rain and his body found right on Bonny Grubb’s onion patch.
None of the other cats on the allotments can identify the body, and are soon busy as preparations gear up for the Michaelmas Festival, and the Flower and Vegetable Show on the following day, as Hettie and Tilly try to interview the various cats.
This is where the real fun comes in. Morton’s world of cats is divine and the felines who people the allotments stand out as distinct personalities, with different families, appearances, backgrounds, and eccentricites. Many have heartaches in their pasts, too–could any of those incidents have triggered this murder?
Then a second cat is found dead in her bed, savagely stabbed, and Hettie and Tilly ramp up their efforts and their investigation to find the culprit.
This charming series, set in a world without humans, nevertheless examines foibles that affect us all. There are sly references to human deeds and fun names for the cats residing alongside this irresistible world where happiness can often be a warm bed and full, purring belly.
Not just for cat fanciers, Morton delivers a fine cozy mystery readers everywhere will enjoy.
Jorn Lier Horst: Ordeal Thursday, Aug 24 2017
Award winning novelist and complex mystery and Continued series winner and great read and mystery to die for Auntie M Writes Crime 12:11 am
Chief Inspector William Wisting heads this solid Norwegian police procedural, one of a series being translated into English. Ordeal begins with a thoughtful two-page summary of Wisting’s life up to this stage, as this book is fifth in a series of ten.
Once a senior investigating officer himself, Horst gets those details just right, but it’s the interplay of the man’s detective nose with his sensibilities and his own emotions that make this a great read.
Wisting’s daughter, Line, has moved near him to await the birth of the child that will make him a grandfather and his daughter a single mother. She becomes friends with a young mother nearby, living in an inherited house with her little girl.
It’s a good fit for the two women, one pregnant and the other alone and new to the area. The house Sofie Lund has inherited belonged to her grandfather, a man who thwarted police efforts to tie him to several criminal activities.
There is also a missing mand, a taxi driver, whose case appears to have grown cold with leads. Then a locked safe in the basement of her grandfather’s house reveals secrets that put everyone connected in danger.
It’s a dance Wisting must make with his bosses as he fights the bureaucracy and the media while trying to protect his daughter.
Horst writes fully realized characters and well-plotted book that doesn’t race along but rather meanders in a totally realistic way as most police investigations do. Readers will be looking for the next translation to appear, even as the series is developed for Danish television.
J. D. Tafford: Little Boy Lost Wednesday, Aug 23 2017
Award winning novelist and complex mystery and great read and mystery to die for and Uncategorized Auntie M Writes Crime 12:29 am
J. D. Tafford departs from his Michael Collins series to introduce Justin Glass, a mixed-race lawyer trying to get out from the depression that has plagues him since his young wife’s death. Raising his daughter alone, he’s also under the shadow of his political family. His black senator father, a civil rights proponet, and state congressman brother are pressuring him to run for office. His law practice suffered greatly after his wife’s death, and Justin is squeaking by as a public defender, while he and his daughter live in the carriage house of his white mother’s family home with her judge father.
Into his sweltering St. Louise office on a hot summer day comes an 8 yr-old girl with a jar full of change. Tanisha Walker wants to hire him to find her missing brother. With racial tensions high in the area between the African-American and the mostly white police department, Glass reluctantly takes her case and soon finds himself on the receiving end of police mistreatment. It’s a rude awakening, but doesn’t prepare him for when the brother’s body is found buried in the woods, along with over a dozen other teens.
Soon Justin finds many missing teens’ families lined up outside his offic asking for help for locating the “Lost Boys,” the media’s name for the missing boys. The common thread at first is that all had been troubled youths. As he juggles issues with his daughter at school and tries to make decisions about his future, he hires an assistant who smartens his office and gets him organized. And then his searching turns up another commonality that will leave Justin in jeopardy, and all bets are off.
Tafford covers topical issues without over-preaching. His own legal background makes the court system echo with reality. St. Louis simmers in the hot summer and readers will feel they are immersed in the city and in a great mystery.
Linda Castillo: Down a Dark Road Monday, Aug 21 2017
The character of former Amish Ohio Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is one who consistently garners attention. Linda Castillo brings Kate back in Down a Dark Road, where Kate’s point of view allows readers an inside glimpse to her mind and the heavy burdens she carries.
Kate is trying to catch a convicted murderer, a fallen Amish man with a drug problem who killed his wife and was to serve a life sentence. But Joseph King has escaped and is headed to Painters Mill.
King reaches his children and takes them hostage, but at least one person believes he is not violent and never killed his wife. And Kate’s feelings are torn, because growing up, she and Joseph were the best of friends.
There is a tense standoff and Joseph agrees to let Kate go to prove his innocence. A sudden turn of events dramatically change the situation, but not Kate’s determination to find the truth.
A tense and tight mystery that belies its idyllic setting
John Burley: The Quiet Child Sunday, Aug 20 2017
Readers will think they know what’s happening in John Burley’s thriller, The Quiet Child–but they are most likely to be wrong.
It’s a distubing story of the McCray family in small-town California of 1954. Already hanging on by a thread, teacher Michael McCray is struggling to handle his wife’s illness. The vibrant woman he loves has been struck by ALS, a ‘new’ disease with not a lot known about it at this time.
Danny, who doens’t speak, and his older brother, Sean, are both affected by the changes in their lives.Their situation is worsened by town gossip that Danny’s inability to speak is somehow responsible for illnesses in the town, even his own mother’s.
The two accompany their dad to pick up ice cream at the local grocery. Michael leaves Danny in the back seat of the car when the unthinkable happens: a man comes out of nowhere and tries to enter the car. Sean sees what’s happening and tries to stop the man and ends up being kidnapped, too, as the car roars off.
Sheriff Jim Kent has seen the situation before the kidnapping and worried someone in town would take drastic measures against Danny. Now he’s invovled with the two lead detectives in tryiing to find the boys.
It’s a horrendous situation all around with both boys missing. Everyone is suspicious of the parents, who are devastated. It will be difficult to discuss more of the plot without giving too much away. Suffice it to say that the ending is not what anyone is expecting on many levels.
With attention to little details that bring the setting into sharp relief, Burley’s latest is a haunting tale.
Hollie Overton: The Walls Thursday, Aug 17 2017
great read and mystery to die for Auntie M Writes Crime 12:34 am
The Walls is Hollie Overton’s second thriller, and introduces us to single mom Kristy Tucker, juggling her teenaged son and her ill father who lives with them. Her work as a public information officer for the Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice makes her the mediator between the inmates, the prison system and the media. Part of her job is to conduct interviews and develop relationships with inmates awaiting execution on Death Row, and to be present as a witness when that execution takes place.
It’s an interesting setup that makes her vulnerable to the emotions of so many others, and to their violent sides. We see her develop a relationship with an inmate, Clifton Harris, accused of murdering his two children, who stoically maintains his insistence on his innocence.
This is a smart woman helping others, including her teenaged son, managing her father’s illness and holding down the fort alone. She craves adult companionship and someone she can lean on.
When her son’s mentor Lance Dobson enters her life, she marries him believing his stosries of his love and dedication to her and her family. But things change radically in just a few short months when Lance’s dedication becomes stifling and his insistence on how she dresses and acts soon becomes physically abusive.
Just as she gathers the strength to admit she’s made a mistake and tells him she wants a divorce, Lance threatens to murder her son and father if she leaves him. It is Clifton Harris who gives her the idea that haunts Kristy.
You may think you know this story, but you would be wrong on many counts. This is a woman at the end of her rope with not only her future but that of her son and her father hanging in the balance. How she decides to handle the situation, and how that affects her, form the second half of this absorbing look at how far someone may have to go to protect their family.
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Types of Engines
How the Wave Disk Generator Works
by Christopher Neiger
The wave disk generator was built by a group of researchers at Michigan State University.
Mark A. Cunningham/Getty Images
Despite its name, the wave disk generator (WDG) won't help you catch any actual waves and it doesn't even generate disks. Surfers and Discobolus-lovers everywhere are now crying. But what it does do, in theory at least, is generate power for your car.
The WDG (no relation to WMDs), is a newly designed generator that uses battery power, oxygen and good old-fashioned gasoline to spin an internal disk extremely fast to produce power for a car. OK, so let's get this out of the way first. Yes, this new idea for propelling a vehicle sill requires the use of gasoline. Although we have computers in our pockets and landing on the moon is beyond old news, gasoline is still pretty effective. Why? Well, gasoline is very good at exploding, and when explosions happen, things tend to move.
What's great about the WDG is that the amount of gasoline it needs is far less than an internal combustion engine (ICE). An ICE engine uses only about 15 percent of its fuel for propulsion [source: Boyle]. Fifteen percent! That means that 85 percent is being spent-up and basically going to waste. To put it in perspective, think of fuel as the money you bring home from work. If the government took 85 percent of your income, you'd be working really hard for almost nothing. True, an ICE engine is an amazing invention -- but efficient it is not.
So why is the WDG the anti-engine? Probably because it doesn't have any internal moving parts. Pistons? Don't need 'em. Crankshaft? Nope. Transmission? Forget about it! Ok, you get the idea. Oh, and you don't need any cooling system or lubricants either. It's the anti-engine in part because it's not actually an engine but also because this propulsion system could revolutionize the way we move our vehicles. But we've all heard that before, so what makes this one so special? To figure that out, we need to know how the WDG actually works.
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Jack Black-Jack White Collaboration Is Here on Tenacious D’s ‘Don’t Blow It, Kage’
Alexandre Schneider / Kevin Winter, Getty Images
The holidays are a great time for presents, and the collaboration fans have been asking for has finally come to fruition. Jack Black and Jack White have come together on record, though it's Black's Tenacious D bandmate Kyle Gass in the spotlight on the new track, "Don't Blow It, Kage."
Back in June of this year, fans finally got their "Jack Gray" photo opp when Tenacious D crossed paths with the Raconteurs at London's Heathrow Airport. Members of both bands posed for photos, but the Internet had its fun when Black and White appeared in a shot with KG, with White being teased as the band's new merch guy.
Flash forward to August and the comedy acoustic metal outfit accepted an invite from White to record at his Third Man Studios in Nashville. The pair documented their visit in a video that can be viewed below.
"Don't Blow It, Kage" fits right in Tenacious D's wheelhouse as Kage strums along while Black puts the pressure on him not to mess up while Jack White's hanging around. Black gets critical of KG's solo until White steps in midway through the song to offer him some praise. Check out the song in the player below.
Tenacious D With Jack White, "Don't Blow It, Kage"
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Source: Jack Black-Jack White Collaboration Is Here on Tenacious D’s ‘Don’t Blow It, Kage’
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Business Latest News | UMaine College GOP | Bangor Metro | Susan Collins | Today's Paper
Latest bid to revive shuttered Katahdin mill promises 100 jobs
Nick Sambides Jr. | BDN
Nick Holgorsen and Ralf Meier, co-founding partners of LignaTerra Global, LLC., chat with Millinocket Town Council member Michael Madore [second from right] and another man at Husson University on Tuesday.
By Nick Sambides Jr., BDN Staff • February 13, 2018 10:31 am
A North Carolina manufacturer plans to create more than 100 jobs by becoming Maine’s first producer of a composite wood strong enough to replace concrete and steel in high-rise buildings.
LignaTerra Global LLC of Charlotte announced plans at Bangor’s Husson University on Tuesday to build a $30 million, 300,000-square-foot factory to produce cross-laminated timber. Planning to build on a 35-acre portion of Millinocket’s 1,400-acre former Katahdin Paper Co. LLC site, the company hopes to break ground in July and start production in 12 months, said Nick Holgorsen, CEO and co-founding partner of LignaTerra.
One of two cross-laminated timber manufacturers in the country, LignaTerra aims to be the first investor to revitalize the site since parent company Brookfield Asset Management closed Katahdin Paper in 2008, laying off 208 workers and crippling a Katahdin region economy that had been home to world-class papermaking for more than a century.
The failure of a more recent effort — Cate Street Capital’s proposed pellet mill — left current site owner Our Katahdin, a nonprofit economic development group, about $1.5 million in inherited tax debt.
[How the Bangor region could manufacture a new type of timber to replace steel and cement]
LignaTerra leaders declined to say how much of the $30 million they will provide. The project’s private investors will be announced in several weeks and the company is working to secure tax breaks, said Brien Walton, director of the Center for Family Business at Husson University, who helped broker the deal.
“The bottom line is that if they wanted to do it all cash, right now, that is something that could be done, but we are trying to get the right parties and the right partners and to aggregate something that will be beneficial to the region and also sustainable to the long term,” Walton said during Tuesday’s news conference.
LignaTerra leaders said they believe there’s a strong future for the timber, used in Europe for decades and more recently on the West Coast for buildings that are typically three to 12 stories tall. LignaTerra has used the wood to build an elementary school in West Virginia and a warehouse in Colorado, according to its website.
Other composite structures being built include a 12-story building in Newark, New Jersey, and a five-story building in Brooklyn.
[Katahdin group buys former Great Northern Paper mill site in Millinocket]
Besides being environmentally friendlier than concrete and steel, the composite woods are also easy to assemble — like Lincoln logs. Use of the wood can decrease construction time by a third, and the buildings can be disassembled and reused far more easily than can concrete or steel structures, Holgorsen said.
The 100 jobs will come gradually over five years. The Millinocket facility would act primarily as an assembly area for wood cut in area sawmills. The workers the company will be hiring will include machine operators, engineers, forklift operators and salespeople, said Ralf Meier, a founding partner of LignaTerra Global.
The plant will generate 10 million board feet of the timber the first year, 2019, and 50 million feet by the fifth, if production goes as projected. By the time the mill is ready to begin producing wood, the buildings in Newark, Brooklyn and other projects underway around the country will have helped prepare the market for LignaTerra products, Holgorsen said.
The factory will use low-grade softwoods, largely spruce, to make the composite — a good fit for Maine, as many of the state’s defunct paper mills used those trees for pulp, said Patrick Strauch, executive director of the Maine Forest Products Council.
The wood supply alone will create hundreds more jobs indirectly in forestry and affiliated industries, Walton said. Economic studies show that most manufacturing facilities create at least four jobs indirectly for every job directly created.
LignaTerra’s Maine corporation, LignaCLT Maine, decided to locate in Millinocket after months of negotiations with Husson, Eastern Maine Development Corp., and Our Katahdin leaders, according to Michael Aube, president of EMDC.
EMDC and other economic development agencies around the state had identified cross-laminated timber as a fledgling but good end product that Maine forests could sustain, Aube said.
A marketing study commissioned by the New England Forestry Foundation that evaluated the engineered wood product investment opportunities in New England concluded that CLT had the best potential in terms of market demand. A one or two-percent penetration into the mid-rise residential and commercial building markets would support at least one such factory, the study concluded.
Millinocket leaders who attended Tuesday’s news conference spoke with guarded optimism about the project. The Cate Street failure left many residents already suspicious of outsiders especially wary of potential investors, said Rick Angotti, a former Millinocket Town Council chairman who attended the news conference.
Angotti said he was most impressed by LignaTerra’s promise to break ground in six months. It reminded him, he said, of how the original founders of Millinocket built its first paper mill seemingly overnight.
“There’s the magic coming back to the Magic City,” Angotti said. “We have waited a long time for this to happen and this will be the anchor for a lot of things to come.”
A Rockland area eyed for redevelopment had a rowdy reputation. It might not be true.
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Seven Essential Ingredients for Change Management
An Example Of How 2 Organisations Facing Almost Identical Circumstances (Ames and Walmart)
An example of how 2 organisations facing almost identical circumstances and trajectories but had 2 completely different outcomes involves Wal-Mart and Ames. Wal-Mart has become the No. 1 company in the world, while Ames has "disappeared". But in the early 1970s Wal-Mart and Ames Department stores had a similar business model for rural discount retailing and regularly copied each other. The main difference was that Ames of started in Northeast America, while Wal-Mart moved in concentric circles from Arkansas. Both organisations delivered exceptional results from 1972 to 1986, beating the market by more than 10 times. Then Ames fell and has never recovered.
"...both Ames and Wal-Mart had strong entrepreneurial founders who guided their early growth, but whereas Sam Walton passed the company to a home-grown insider, Ames replaced its entrepreneurial leader with an outsider. Both Ames and Wal-Mart had vast, untapped opportunity with a basic strategy of low-price rural discounting, but while Wal-Mart maintained steady organic growth consistent with that strategy, Ames deviated from the strategy in favor of wild growth. In 1988, it acquired Zayne, aiming to double the size of the company in a single year. Wal-Mart retained focus on small towns before making an evolution into urban sites; Ames revolutionized itself over night into urban retailing and catapulted itself into decline. Wal-Mart created its own success, and Ames caused its own death..."
Jim Collins, 2008
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Home Community Homeless 8-year-old Chess Champion Tanitoluwa Adewumi Gets a new home, scholarships and...
Homeless 8-year-old Chess Champion Tanitoluwa Adewumi Gets a new home, scholarships and Movie Offers
Tanitoluwa Adewumi
Just a week ago, 8-year old Tanitoluwa Adewumi was living in a New York City homeless shelter. But a story in the New York Times about his success at the NY State Scholastic Chess Championship launched the boy to international prominence and prompted a GoFundMe campaign which has raised nearly $250,000 dollars. | Photo: “Just Tani” GoFundMe page
‘Tani’ has a home, and a bright future
It all started with a Sunday opinion column in the March 16th edition of the New York Times. A story about an 8-year-old Nigerian refugee who was living with his family in a homeless shelter and just returned from the New York State Scholastic Chess Championship, in Saratoga Springs, NY, with a trophy “almost as big as he is”. Tanitoluwa Adewumi (‘Tani’ for short) is a third grader who won the “Primary Championship” with a score of 5½/6.
What’s most remarkable about this result is that he learned to play chess and played his first rated tournament just one year ago. The Adewumi family fled Nigeria fearing attacks on Christians by members of the Boko Haram terrorist group and sought asylum in New York in 2017. While living in the homeless shelger, Tani enrolled in a local public school where a part-time chess teacher taught him how to play. Since then, by playing almost a tournament per week (on average), his USCF rating has climbed from 105 — after his first outing in the “Under 300” section — to 1534 as of last week. That puts him among the top 20 players age 8 or belowin the USA.
He told The Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, “I want to be the youngest grandmaster“.
The Adewumi family | Photo: “Just Tani” GoFundMe page
What happened next is truly extraordinary. A GoFundMe campaign was set up for the family by Russel Makofsky, who oversaw the chess program at Tani’s elementary school, and it was linked by The Times with an initial goal meeting the family’s immediate housing needs. Within two days the campaign’s goal was increased to $50,000 following the overwhelming response from the public. Then the story really took off.
It even got the attention of former US President Bill Clinton:
Then came an appearance on the Today Show:
https://youtu.be/prF-hSeq9Qo
One donor who heard his story offered the family a rent-free apartment for a year near Tani’s school, reports Kristof in a follow up column for The Times.
Currently the GoFundMe campaign is nearing $250,000 and growing at a steady clip. But the family is not planning to keep the money, according to the paper:
The Adewumis have decided that they will not spend a cent of the $200,000 GoFundMe money on themselves. They will take out a 10 percent tithe and donate it to their church, which helped them while they were homeless, and the rest will be channeled through a new Tanitoluwa Adewumi Foundation to help African immigrants who are struggling in the United States the way they were a week ago.
Below is one (partial) game from the NY State tournament. At his current rate of progress we should be hearing more about this boy soon!
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What is the feasibility of solar powered drones?
What is the feasibility of solar powered drones? From my understanding, solar panels are becoming more and more efficient, in terms of weight vs energy captured, and in terms of surface area vs energy captured.
What I am interested in is whether solar panels could be placed on different sized drones (small civilian quadcopter and MQ-9 Reaper), and provide enough solar power to keep the aircraft aloft indefinitely (under a theoretical condition of an "endless sunny day").
If this is not possible, are there are realistic changes that can be made to make it possible, while still keeping the core functionality of these two different drones intact?
For the purposes of this question, instead of focusing on a 100% solar powered drone, we can assume that fuel can be carried for takeoff/climb to loitering altitude, at which point is can switch to 100% loiter.
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$\begingroup$ I am aware of the following similar question, but I'm not interested in all the "contributing factors", such as maintenance, fluids, etc - I'm interested in whether efficient solar power can provide enough energy. aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/13673/… $\endgroup$ – M28 Oct 19 '18 at 14:05
$\begingroup$ Possible, but unwieldy, currently: newatlas.com/solar-powered-quadcopter/55993 --- Also, please alter your question to be clearly about quadcopter drones (if that is what you want to know) because solar crawlers have been real for years. $\endgroup$ – bukwyrm Oct 19 '18 at 14:11
$\begingroup$ @bukwyrm I'm interested in both fixed wing drones, and quadcopters. Presumably, fixed wing drones would be easier to implement this on, as they have more surface area, and less energy required to produce lift at loitering altitude. $\endgroup$ – M28 Oct 19 '18 at 14:15
$\begingroup$ what are the 'three different drones' you are talking about in the question? civvy quadcopter and MQ-9 and ...? -- Please alter your question to reflect your general interest in flying drones, regardless of type. $\endgroup$ – bukwyrm Oct 19 '18 at 14:23
$\begingroup$ Without making the MQ9 much, much bigger it isn't possible and won't be. There just isn't enough surface area to generate the required energy. Certainly not possible for quad-copters because of how much energy they use to fly (it is all electric, whereas aircraft has lift from wings) $\endgroup$ – Ron Beyer Oct 19 '18 at 15:05
Let's take the MQ-9 as an example...
The MQ-9 is powered by a 900 HP Honeywell TPE331-10GD engine. In order to generate 900 HP, it will take 2100 kVA (assuming 3-phase electric AC motor). 2100 kVA is about 1680 kW. That is 1.68 million watts.
Now, the sun delivers (if you could get 100% of the energy sent to Earth) about 4.8kW per square meter (depends on Latitude, which can range from about 6kW to less than 1kW). This would mean you need about 350 square meters of 100% efficient solar panels.
The problem is that the current "world record" for solar efficiency is 46%, let's round up to 50% for easy math sake. So we have to double our solar panel area to 700 square meters.
Now the wingspan of an MQ-9 is 66 feet (about 20 meters), and a length of 36 feet (11 meters). If the MQ-9 was box shaped, it has a surface area of 220 square meters. Lets assume that 20% of that is real "upward facing" surface area so in reality, if you covered the MQ-9 with the most efficient solar panels in the world, you would only generate (220 * .2 * (4.8 * .46)) about 97kW or about 6% of the power actually required to run the aircraft.
This is also assuming that the extra weight of the batteries/wiring/charge controllers don't make the aircraft heavier or require a larger power plant, and assuming that the 3-ph 2100kVA motor is the same weight as the TPE331-10GD.
This gets even worse for quad-copters because they just don't have the surface area, and don't benefit from aerodynamic lift to reduce the amount of power required to fly.
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$\begingroup$ Thanks for the answer, it's really interesting. Seeing as a Reaper doesn't operate at 100% thrust in any normal situation outside of takeoff, I wonder how much energy it takes to stay at cruising altitude... certainly not 6% though! Looks like a complete redesign would have to be in order to accomplish that. $\endgroup$ – M28 Oct 19 '18 at 20:33
$\begingroup$ Just for another data point, the Solar Impulse has a wingspan of 236 feet (72m), surface area of 269.5sq-m and generates 66kW peak. It uses 57kW motors (4x13kW) and max Take-off weight of 4400lbs and cruises at 43mph. Reaper can take off at up to 10,000lbs and fly 230mph. The Solar impulse also has to carry almost 1400lbs of batteries for night/reduced lighting flying. $\endgroup$ – Ron Beyer Oct 19 '18 at 21:16
Check out the solar powered drones used to provide cell coverage in Puerto Rico
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/17/564879549/faa-approves-drone-as-cell-phone-tower-in-the-sky-for-puerto-rico
The solar panels were land based and the drone tethered in place. Seems a great compromise - keep the heavy stuff on the ground, but get the antenna/electronics up in the air for line of sight & range.
Free flying solar powered drones are apparently quite feasible per this article https://www.iflscience.com/technology/solar-powered-drone-could-fly-nonstop-five-years/
Titan Aerospace is currently developing a drone named Solara 50 that is being hailed as an “atmospheric satellite” and has quite a lot to offer in terms of gathering scientific data. The drone will fly at an altitude of over 19,000 meters (65,000 feet) where there is little air traffic and above most weather that could impede its travels. Flying at that height will also give it unobstructed access to the sun, which will power the 3,000 solar cells that cover its 50-meter-long (164 feet) wings. The solar cells will also charge lithium ion batteries stored inside the wing so it can fly at night, which means that this drone can fly uninterrupted for up to 5 years all while producing zero emissions.
The body of the drone is durable carbon fiber, and the 5-kilowatt electric motor will allow the aircraft to cruise at about 96 km/h (60 mph). Though the aircraft itself weighs only 160 kg (350 lbs), it will be able to carry 32 kg (70 lbs) worth of payload up into the stratosphere.
Solara 50 is completely self-piloted; able to take off, cruise, and land on its own. It will function much the same way as a satellite, though it will cost much less to launch. From the air, it would be able to track developing storms, migrating wildlife, vegetation patterns, and it would also have data communications capabilities; a feature that has caught the eye of the social media giant, Facebook.
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$\begingroup$ Yes, I have seen that type of technology at drone conferences. While it's very interesting, it doesn't answer my question. $\endgroup$ – M28 Oct 19 '18 at 14:14
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If the the body and it's wing is mostly covered with solar panels and flies with electric motors, is it possible for that aircraft to fly?
Why don't solar powered aircraft use wings with more surface area
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CPH’s ‘Operation F.U.N.’ serves 850 area children
Paula Schlueter Ross
Concordia Publishing House (CPH) provided backpacks filled with school supplies to 850 children at its 20th annual “Operation F.U.N.” (For a United Neighborhood) event on Aug. 6.
A young guest at Concordia Publishing House’s Aug. 6 “Operation F.U.N.” event tries on his new backpack. He was one of 850 area children who received the free backpacks filled with school supplies at CPH’s 20th annual neighborhood-outreach party. (Amanda Lansche)
Each year, the publisher invites families from its South St. Louis neighborhood to its parking lot for the free back-to-school giveaway and a hot-dog lunch.
“We are committed to our community,” said CPH President and CEO Dr. Bruce G. Kintz. “Operation F.U.N. is a terrific opportunity to share the Gospel while we help our neighbors.”
Guests began lining up for Operation F.U.N. about three hours before its 3 p.m. start. In all, some 1,300 people attended this year’s community-outreach event.
School supplies for the backpacks were donated by CPH employees, many of whom volunteered at Operation F.U.N.
Four “K-9 Comfort Dogs” from Lutheran Church Charities — Noah, Jackson, Tabitha and Louie — were on hand to greet visitors, as were representatives of the St. Louis Police Department, St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis Health Department, Safe Kids St. Louis and Educational Enterprises.
Also contributing to this year’s Operation F.U.N. by donating bags were the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League and the Clear Bag Store.
Posted Aug. 11, 2015 / Updated Aug. 14, 2015
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Paula Schlueter Ross is managing editor of the monthly Reporter newspaper. A magna cum laude graduate of Webster University, with a BA in Journalism, Ross has won 17 national writing awards from the Associated Church Press since 1997. She and her husband have two grown children and a famous granddog, "sawyer.in.seattle," with more than 55,000 Instagram followers!
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Wine, Seriously
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Viniculture in LI, Part II: background.
In exploring vinicultural practices in Long Island, I intend to particularly examine the practice of sustainable farming, which includes organic and Biodynamic® agriculture. My original, first posting on 15 June 2010, Can 100% Organic Grapes be Grown in Long Island?, provoked some interesting and even useful responses. I have since renamed it The Challenge of Growing Certified Organic Grapes in Long Island, given the developments at Shinn Estate and The Farrm that have taken place since that 2010 posting. The series now continues with this posting (now updated to April 2015 to include new developments and information, particularly with the Long Island Sustainable Winegrowing [LISW] program established in 2012).
This Part II post serves as an introduction to the Part III articles devoted to the individual vineyards and wineries of Long Island.
To put things in perspective, one should bear in mind that New York State is the 3rd-largest producer of grapes by volume in the United States, after California and Washington. Admittedly, most NY vineyards grow table grapes, but as of 2014 there were, according to the NY Wine & Grape Foundation (NYWGF), 373 wineries in the State, of which of which one in six are in Long Island. Of all the wine regions of the State, Long Island is the one that is most committed to growing Vitis vinifera varieties, with very little planting of French-American hybrid vines and no Native American grapes at all.
I want to point out some factors that I believe appertain to most of the vineyards that I’ll be writing about—which is to say, all of the ones in Long Island, of which there are sixty-six bonded wineries, all but a handful of which are on the North Fork, as well as seven vineyards that sell their fruit to others. They comprise, by my own calculation, about 2,565 acres of planted vines (the NYGWF calculates 2,041 acres.)
Geology & Soils
Geologically, Long Island is extensively formed by two glacial moraine spines, with a large, sandy outwash plain extending south to the Atlantic Ocean. These moraines consist largely of gravel and loose rock that would become part of the island’s soils during the two most recent extensions of Wisconsin glaciation during the Ice Age some 21,000 years ago (19,000 BCE). The northern, or Harbor Hill, moraine, directly runs along the North Shore of Long Island at points. The more southerly moraine, called the Ronkonkoma moraine, forms the “backbone” of Long Island; it runs primarily through the very center of Long Island. The land to the south of the Ronkonkoma, running to the South Shore, is the outwash plain of the last glacier. When the glaciers melted and receded northward around 11,000 BCE, their moraines and outwash produced the differences between the North Shore and the South Shore soils and beaches.
A General Soil Map (below), devised by the USDA Soil Conservation Service and the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station in 1972, shows the different kinds of soils that dominate the East End of Suffolk County, the part of Long Island that is home to most of the vineyards there.
The soil associations (or types) for Suffolk County as listed in the General Soil Map (and relevant to viniculture) are as follows:
“Carver-Plymouth-Riverhead association [N. shore of the North Fork, extending across the Fork at Mattituck and then running East along the S. shore of Great Peconic Bay to Southold]: Deep, rolling, excessively drained and well-drained, coarse-textured and moderately coarse-textured soils on moraines
“Haven-Riverhead association [running from Brookhaven along the southern edge of 1 (above). With an interruption at Mattituck, then extending as far as Orient Point; this is the dominant soil of the North Fork]: Deep, nearly level to gently sloping, well-drained, medium-textured and moderately coarse-textured soils on outwash plains
“Plymouth-Carver association [runs across the middle of the West-East axis of the county, encompassing Riverhead just south of 2. It then extends into the Hamptons or South Fork as far as East Hampton but at no point touches the south shore.] rolling and hilly: Deep, excessively-drained, coarse-textured soils on moraines [the Ronkonkoma Moraine].
“Bridgehampton-Haven association [actually runs immediately adjacent to, and south of, 3.]: Deep, nearly level to gently sloping, well-drained to moderately well-drained, medium-textured soils on outwash plains”
“Textures refer to surface layer in major soils of each association.” [A caveat regarding the use of the map says,] “The map is . . . meant for general planning rather than a basis for decisions on the use of specific tracts.”
(There are ten soil types shown on the map, but we list only the four that form part of the terroir of the vineyards of the East End.)
With respect to the soil types in the North Fork and Hamptons AVAs, Louisa Thomas Hargrave wrote an article, “The Dirt Below Our Feet,” in the Spring 2011 issue of Edible East End, in which she made some important observations:
Every discussion of a wine region’s quality begins with the soil. Going back to ancient Roman times, around ad 50, Lucius Columella advised, in his treatise on viticulture, De Re Rustica (“On Agriculture”), “Before you plant a piece of ground with vines, you should examine what sort of flavor it has; for it will give the wine a similar taste. The flavor can be ascertained…if you soak the earth in water and taste the water when the earth has [g]one to the bottom. Sandy soil under which there is sweet moisture is the most suitable for vines…any soil which is split during the summer is useless for vines and trees.”
The “useless” soil that splits is clay, a colloidal suspension of particles similar to Jell-O. Clay retains too much moisture when it rains, making the tender roots of wine grapevines rot; it withholds nutrients from the vine when the weather is dry.
There is little clay on the East End of Long Island, except in specific and easily identified veins. We have remarkably uniform sandy soils here that vary in available topsoil (loamy organic matter), but all contain the same fundamental yet complex mixture of minerals. These soils are ranked by the U.S. Soils Conservation Service as “1-1,” the most auspicious rating for agriculture. Any single handful of Long Island soil will show the reflective glint of mica; the dull gray of granite; the mellow pink, salmon and white of quartz; the red and ochre of sandstone; and black bits of volcanic matter. To describe them simply as “sandy loam” fails to acknowledge the profound effect that having this mixture of minerals must have on the vibrancy and dynamic quality of Long Island’s wines.
Richard Olsen-Harbich, the author of the two AVA applications for the Hamptons and the North Fork, published a two-part series on the soils of Long Island for Bedell Cellars, where he is winemaker: the first, The Soil of Long Island. Part 1 – Ice Age: The Meltdown, published on April 12, 2011, and the second, more recent piece, The Soil of Long Island. Part 2 – There’s No Place Like Loam, published Sept. 6, 2013, which are useful and lucid explanations of how the glaciers of the Ice Age left Long Island with the soils that grow the vines today.
It should also be pointed out that Long Island soil, regardless of its composition, tends to have a rather low pH, which is to say too acidic for Vitis vinifera vines to grow well as it weakens the vines’ ability to assimilate nutrients from the soil. The vines need the addition of lime to balance the pH and is something that nearly every vineyard must do to get itself established for vinifera. It can take years—Paumanok Vineyards was adding lime to its vineyards every year for twenty years before it was able to relax the practice. It nevertheless has to be done again every few years when the pH gets too low again, as it appears that the added lime may get leached out of the soil over time.
Overall, Long Island displays a cool maritime climate. The brutal summer heat seen in the Iberian Peninsula, which is at the same latitude, is tempered in the Hamptons AVA by the Labrador Current which moves up the eastern Atlantic Ocean. Summer temperatures are also moderated by Little Peconic Bay to its north. The North Fork enjoys the moderating influences of Long Island Sound. These same bodies of water help to temper the effects of the Canadian air masses that move in during the winter. The influence of these waters helps prevent late spring frosts which can kill young grape buds. The cumulative effect is a lengthening of the growing season to approximately 210-220 days. Wine-grape varieties can thrive here, as they can grow better and ripen further than just about anywhere in the U.S. outside of California. The North Fork is such a narrow band of farmland, situated between the bay and the sound that virtually all of the vineyards or near or on the water. According to the Appellation American Website:
Despite being next door to each other, there are notable differences between the South Fork and the warmer North Fork. The South Fork is more exposed to onshore Atlantic breezes, delaying bud-break by as much as three weeks. Even after bud-break, the area is frequently foggy, keeping early season temperatures and sunshine hours lower than on the North Fork. By the end of the growing season, the seemingly subtle weather differences between the Forks add up to quite different overall climates. The Hamptons are generally very cold to moderately cool, while the North Fork is moderately cool to relatively warm. The damper silt and loam soils of The Hamptons, along with climactic differences, create a unique style, with wines from The Hamptons generally being more restrained and less fruit-forward than wines from the North Fork.
By my own count, as of March 2015, there are a total of 76 wine production entities in Long Island, of which:
21 are wineries with vineyards, though they may also buy fruit from others
3 are wineries without vineyards that buy their fruit from growers
11 are wine producers that have neither a winery nor a vineyard, but outsource their production, having their wine made to their specifications from purchased grapes
33 are vineyards without a winery, but use an outside facility to make wine to their specifications from their grapes
1 is a crush facility that makes wine from fruit, provided by others, to the providers’ specifications
7 are vineyards that sell their fruit to wine producers
In all, there are 58 tasting rooms in Long Island
Vinicultural Practices
Regardless of the different terroirs of either Fork, the first point that I’d like to make is that, based on my visits, so far–to Wölffer Estate and Channing Daughters in the Hamptons AVA, and to Bedell Cellars, Castello Borghese, Diliberty, Gramercy, Jamesport, Lieb, Lenz, Macari, Martha Clara, McCalls, Mudd Vineyard, The Old Field Vineyards, Osprey’s Dominion, Palmer, Paumanok, Peconic Bay, Raphael, Kontakosta Winery, Sherwood House, and Shinn Estate in the North Fork AVA–the standards of vineyard management are of a very high order. The neatness of the rows of vines, their careful pruning and training (most, if not all, are using Double Cordon trained on two wires with Vertical Shoot Positioning, or VSP, and cane pruning), the use of cover crops between rows, and much else besides, attest to the high standards and sustainable practices to which the vineyard managers aspire.
A handful of vineyards are endeavoring to farm organically and/or Biodynamically, though only a single vineyard, Shinn Estate, is actually working to obtain actual certification for both. Then there is The Farrm, in Calverton, run by fruit and vegetable grower Rex Farr, who obtained full organic certification in 1990 and planted vinifera vines in 2005–thus harvesting the first certified-organic grapes on LI in 2012. It is expected that the first wine to be made from its fruit will be produced in 2013 by a newly-established winery on the North Fork. None of this is to say that a vineyard that does not seek to grow organic or Biodynamic grapes is the lesser for it, though all should seek to farm sustainably. Excellent, even great wines have been and shall continue to be produced whether farmed organically or not. Indeed, as I pointed out at the beginning of my first post, there is no proven correlation of quality of a wine because it is made with organic or Biodynamic grapes. (A case in point is the famous and incredibly expensive wine of the Domaine de la Romanée Conti, in Burgundy. It has been long acknowledged as the source of some of the greatest red and white wines of all of France, and this was the case before it was converted to Biodynamic farming, and continues to be the case today.) Part of what makes it so difficult to quantify the quality of a wine made by either method is that fact that there is vintage variation every year, due primarily to factors of weather and climate. Thus, there is no objective way of being sure that viticultural practice was the dominant reason for the quality of a particular vintage, rather than the weather of a particular season. Nevertheless, those who practice organic/Biodynamic viniculture do aver that it is reflected in the wine and there are consumers who do think that they can detect the difference.
By now virtually all of the vineyards on the two forks are attempting some form of sustainable farming, though the kind of sustainable work can vary considerably across the gamut of over sixty vineyards. Along these lines, an important development took place when a new accreditation authority was created in May 2012: Long Island Sustainable Winegrowing, Inc., with the intent of setting out the guidelines for sustainable viticultural practices for all wineries in the region. Membership is voluntary, but already, as of April 2015, there are sixteen vineyards that have joined, with thirteen already certified and three in transition. Others are giving membership serious consideration. A post devoted to the LI Sustainable Winegrowing authority was published on this blog in April 2012 (since updated as of 21 June 2013).
Another important factor to keep in mind is the role of clone selection for the vineyards. A very useful article about the significance of clones was posted by Richard Olsen-Harbich of Bedell Cellars on March 19, 2013: Revenge of the Clones. The piece is well worth reading in its entirety, but there are two salient paragraphs that are worth quoting:
Over the past 10 years, grapevine clones have shown themselves to be of increasing importance in our vineyards. Simply put, clones are a genetic variant of a particular variety. The Chardonnay grown on Long Island decades ago is not the same vine we have today. Plantings since that time – especially in the past 10-15 years, have benefited from a wider selection of available plant material. Back in 1990, if you wanted to plant Chardonnay, you had one choice. Today there are more than 70 registered clones of this noble white grape being grown throughout the world and they all have their particular nuances and characteristics. Many of these clones are already in existence in Long Island vineyards – from the tropical and aromatic Musqué to the classic and alluring Dijon clones from Burgundy. Although these are all Chardonnays, each exhibits their own distinctive character.
This fact is also true of grapes like Merlot and Cabernet Franc, where profound differences in wine quality can be seen between clones grown in the same vineyard, on the same soils. Over 50 clones of Merlot have been identified in Bordeaux. Pomerol alone has over 35 clones of Cabernet Franc. Newer French clones, long kept overseas as tightly held trade secrets, are finding their way into the United States. In most cases these new clones are better suited to our maritime climate. Often these clones will ripen earlier than the older selections we used to have. Some are more resistant to disease. The ultimate result is higher quality wines. I’ve seen clones so different from each other that you would think the wines were made from another variety entirely.
In other words, when the first vinifera vines were planted in the 70s and 80s most of the clones came from California. Many of these clones had been developed at the University of California at Davis (UCD) but of course were created with California vineyards in mind. This meant that the clones were less suitable for the very different, maritime climate of Long Island. For example, the Sauvignon Blanc clone 1 (the ‘Wente clone’) was very vigorous and produced large clusters but it was also very susceptible to rot in LI. Only in the 90s were new clones planted to replace clone 1, and all of these came not from California but France (primarily from Bordeaux, in the case of the Sauvignon Blanc.) This process was true for several other varieties. In other words, the new clones are part of what makes Long Island the most ‘European’ of the wine-growing regions of the United States.
As a matter of fact, the Long Island Wine Region, which includes both the North Fork and the Hamptons AVAs, in 2010 became signatory to the Declaration to Protect Wine Place and Origin that was first enacted in 2005 in Napa (it is also known as the Napa Declaration on Place). The original signers included not only the Napa AVA but also Washington and Oregon State AVAs, and Champagne, Jerez/Sherry, and Oporto/Port in the EU, among others. (The point of this, of course, is to control the use of place names and prevent the misuse of the name ‘Champagne’ for example, on any sparkling wine that is not from there. Chablis, Port, and Burgundy were also place names that were widely abused around the world.)
There is no intention whatsoever in my series to judge a vineyard because it does or does not grow or intend to grow organically or Biodynamically. (Indeed, wineries that are technically organic can still choose not to be certified. Among the many reasons for this, for example, are that a winery may not want the added costs and the bureaucracy entailed in registering, or a winery may disagree with the government standards. Whatever the case, such wineries are not allowed to use the term organic on their labels.)
In any event, the point of this series is to understand the reasons for choosing a particular approach to grape production over another. We want to understand why Long Island vineyards do what they do before we go on to explore their methods of vinification, for between what is done in the vineyard and what happens in the winery is what determines the quality of the wine that is produced. The wines from Long Island have long been improving since those first, tentative years going back to 1973 (when the Hargraves planted the first vinifera vines in LI) and in recent years are receiving their due recognition in the form of positive reviews, awards, and high scores for individual bottlings.
Important Terms Defined
AVA or American Viticultural Area: An area defined by a unique geology and climate that is distinctive from other vine-growing areas and hence that produces wines of a distinctive overall character. There are none of the restrictions as to varieties planted, vine density, allowable harvest per acre, or any of the other limitations that exist in European appellations, such as the French Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée (AOC). Long Island has three AVAs, all applied for to the TTB (Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau) which administers the program, in the mid-1980s: The Hamptons (South Fork), the North Fork AVA, and the Long Island AVA.
Biodynamic®, or Demeter USA, certification; also, Demeter USA, FAQ, Biodynamic wine (PDF file). Also, see an excellent discussion in a 5-part series beginning with New York Cork Report, Biodynamics, Part I, by Tom Mansell, along with the ensuing debate in the comments that follow each of the postings. There is also a controversial series against Biodynamics by Stuart Smith, a winemaker in California, called Biodynamics is a Hoax, a polemic that is worth reading, along with the comments in response.
Bordeaux Mix: A widely-used type of fungicide that mixes copper sulfate and lime, first used in Bordeaux in the 1880s; see Univ. of Calif., Davis, Pesticide notes
Compost Tea: A type of natural compost mixed with water for distribution in liquid form (it may be seen as agricultural homeopathy); see National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service, Compost Tea Notes
Copper Sulfate: A widely-used industrial pesticide, allowed in both organic and Biodynamic farming within specified limits: see Cornell Extension Toxicology Network (ExToxNet), Pesticide Information Profile, copper sulfate
Cover crops: Vegetation that is either deliberately planted between vineyard rows (e.g., clover, to replenish nitrogen in the soil) or weeds that are naturally allowed to grow between and into rows (the Biodynamic approach); see UC Davis, Cover Crop Selection and Management for Vineyards
Integrated Pest Management (IPM): A major component of sustainable agriculture, it is labor-intensive but effectively reduces the need for certain kinds of pesticides; pheronome ties are a typical method of disrupting the reproduction cycle of some insect; see EPA, Factsheet on IPM
Macroclimate: The climate of a large area or region, such as that of all of Long Island, or perhaps just the East End of LI.
Mesoclimate: The distinct climate of a smaller area, such as that of a single vineyard or a parcel thereof.
Microclimate: The climate of a very small area; it could be as small as a single vine or a distinctive climate of a tiny part of a vineyard, such as a depression in a row of vines. (NOTE: These terms are often used interchangeably, but most often microclimate may be used to refer to the mesoclimate of a vineyard.)
Organic Certification: USDA, National Organic Program, Organic Certification
Regalia: A biologically-based pesticide; see Marrone Bio-Innovations, Products, Regalia
Serenade: A biologically-based pesticide; see PAN Pesticide Database, Products–Serenade
Stylet oil: defined in the industry as a Technical Grade White Mineral Oil, it is used as a biodegradable fungicide and insecticide in integrated pest management programs. It also serves as as a substitute for sulfur, reducing or eliminating the need for that application, according to Steve Mudd, a LI vineyard owner and consultant.
Sustainable agriculture: according to Mary V. Gold, on the USDA Website, “Some terms defy definition. ‘Sustainable agriculture’ has become one of them. In such a quickly changing world, can anything be sustainable? What do we want to sustain? How can we implement such a nebulous goal? . . . If nothing else, the term ‘sustainable agriculture’ has provided talking points, a sense of direction, and an urgency, that has sparked much excitement and innovative thinking in the agricultural world.” Follow this interesting, full explanation of the term at USDA, Sustainable Agriculture definition. Another excellent source for information about sustainable agriculture is to be found on the NY State VineBalance Program website, which is dedicated to sustainable practices in NY State vineyards, and as mentioned above, the Long Island Sustainable Winegrowing certification program, with sixteen vineyards already committed to its regulations and guidelines.
Variety vs. Varietal: not to be pedantic (though I can be), Variety is the term applied to a particular kind of vine and its grape; e.g., Cabernet Franc or Riesling; Varietal is the wine made from a variety or a blend of different varieties. The terms are often used interchangeably but shouldn’t be.
Vertical Shoot Positioning: is a training system used with single or double Guyot, cane-pruned training, or with a Cordon, spur-pruned system. VSP is very common in cool and/or humid climate regions with low to moderate vigorous growth, as it encourages better air flow through the vine. This is accomplished by making all the shoots grow vertically, with no vegetative vine growth allowed below the cordon/cane. The increase in air flow helps prevent problems associated with disease and also allows the fruit to dry out more quickly after it rains.
Both cluster thinning and harvesting are generally made easier using VSP, given that there is better access to the fruit. The objective is to train the shoots so as to create a narrow layer that provides good sunlight exposure and air flow in the fruiting zone of the canopy. Each shoot is thus trained to grow vertically by attaching it to movable catch wires. The shoot’s length can easily be controlled by pruning any growth above the top catch wire. The fruiting zone is generally kept at waist height, which makes it more convenient for the vineyard workers, given that the vineyard rows are worked throughout the season.)
For a full explanation of VSP, see Cornell Univ. Agriculture Extension, Training, and Trellising Vinifera Vines.
Viticulture vs. Viniculture: again my pedantic side will out–Viticulture is the general term for the growing of any kind of grape vine, whether intended for the table or for wine; Viniculture refers to the raising of wine grapes in particular.
The vineyards that I intend to write about are listed below in alphabetical order (those wineries that have no vineyard but purchase their grapes from others will not be part of the vinicultural survey– these are shown in gray; the ones that have already had articles posted on this blog are shown in purple; those that have been ‘indirectly interviewed’ are shown in light purple. If the vineyard has been certified by the Long Island Sustainable Winegrowing Group (LISW), that is indicated:
Ackerly Ponds, North Fork AVA (85 acres) is now part of Sannino’s Bella Vita Vineyards (which see)
Anthony Nappa (no vineyard) posted 6/14
Baiting Hollow Farm Vineyard, North Fork AVA (11 acres)
Bedell Cellars, North Fork AVA (78 acres, LISW sustainable-certified); Rich Olsen-Harbich interviewed on May 12, 2011; posted June 2, 2011
Bouké Wines (no vineyard)
Castello di Borghese Vineyard & Winery [formerly Hargrave Vineyard], North Fork AVA (85 acres); Giovanni & Allegra Borghese interviewed on Nov. 18, 2014 and Mar. 27, 2015, to be posted
Channing Daughters Winery, Hamptons AVA (25 acres, LISW sustainable-certified); Larry Perrine interviewed on April 30 & May 21, 2012; posted January 22, 2013
Clovis Point, North Fork AVA (20 acres); see Bill Ackerman interview
Coffee Pot Cellars (no vineyard)
Corey Creek Vineyards, North Fork AVA (30 acres, LISW sustainable-certified), owned by Bedell Cellars; posted June 2, 2011
Corwith Vineyards, Hamptons AVA (3 acres; LISW sustainable-certified); Dave Corwith interviewed May 20, 2014 and Nov. 16, 2015; posted Oct. 15, 2014, updated Nov. 19, 2015.
Croteaux Vineyards, North Fork AVA (10.5 acres); see Steve Mudd interview
Deseo de Michael, North Fork AVA (.3 acres)
Diliberto Winery, North Fork AVA (4 acres); Sal Diliberto interviewed Mar. 28, 2015, to be posted
Duck Walk Vineyards, Hamptons AVA, and Duck Walk Vineyards North, North Fork AVA (130 acres; LISW candidate); Ed Lovaas, winemaker, on Nov. 16, 2015. to be posted.
Gramercy Vineyards, North Fork AVA (3.5 acres); Carol Sullivan, owner, interviewed October 2, 2012; posted; as of June 2015 the vineyard is leased out; no longer making wine
The Grapes of Roth (no vineyard)
Harbes Family Farm & Vineyard, North Fork AVA (5 acres, LISW sustainable-certified)
Harmony Vineyards, LI AVA (7 acres); see Steve Mudd interview
Influence Wines (no vineyard); Erik Bilka interviewed 6/15; to be posted
Jamesport Vineyards, North Fork AVA (60 acres); Ron Goerler, Jr. interviewed on April 14, 2014; posted Sept. 9, 2014.
Jason’s Vineyard, North Fork AVA (20 acres)
Kings Mile, North Fork AVA (leased vineyard); Rob Hansult interviewed on Sept. 26, 2013; posted same day
Kontokosta Winery (23 acres, LISW sustainable-in transition); Michael K. interviewed Nov. 18, 2014, Gilles Martin interviewed Mar. 28, 2015; to be posted
Laurel Lake Vineyards, North Fork AVA (21 acres); Juan Sepúlveda interviewed Sep. 26, 2015
Lenz Winery, North Fork AVA (65 acres); Sam McCullough interviewed April 20 & 27, 2011; posted May 16, 2011; Eric Fry interviewed Mar. 27, 2015, to be added to original Lenz post
Leo Family Wines; John Leo interviewed for PWG on October 3, 2012; posted February 11, 2013
Lieb Family Cellars, North Fork AVA (50 acres, LISW sustainable-in transition); Logan Kingston, Sarah Kane, & Jildo Vázquez interviewed June 6, 2013; posted October 4, 2013
Loughlin Vineyards, Long Island AVA (6 acres)
Macari Vineyards & Winery, North Fork AVA (200 acres); Joe Macari, Jr. interviewed July 9, 2009 & June 17 2010; posted June 30, 2010
Martha Clara Vineyards, North Fork AVA (101 acres, LISW sustainable-certified); Jim Thompson & Juan Micieli-Diaz interviewed Feb. 3 & March 27, 2012; posted May 3, 2012
Mattebella Vineyards, North Fork AVA (22 acres, LISW sustainable-in transition)
McCall Vineyards, North Fork AVA (22 acres); see Steve Mudd interview
Mudd Vineyards, North Fork AVA (50 acres, LISW sustainable-certified); Steve Mudd interviewed; posted September 18, 2012
The Old Field Vineyards, North Fork AVA (12 acres); Ros & Christian Baiz & Perry Weiss interviewed on May 12, 2011; posted on June 7, 2011
Onabay Vineyard, North Fork AVA (180 acres total, not all with vines): see Bill Ackerman interview
One Woman Vineyards, North Fork AVA (12 acres, LISW sustainable-certified)
Osprey’s Dominion Vineyards, North Fork AVA (90 acres); Adam Suprenant interviewed April 23 & May 8, 2012; posted February 3, 2013
Palmer Vineyards, North Fork AVA (100 acres, LISW sustainable-certified); Miguel Martín interviewed October 12 & 22, 2010; posted November 13, 2010
Paumanok Vineyards, North Fork AVA (72 acres planted, LISW sustanble-certified); Kareem Massoud interviewed May 3, 2011; posted May 23, 2011
Peconic Bay Winery, North Fork AVA (58 acres); Jim Silver & Charles Hargrave interviewed; posted May 9, 2011; winery is now closed but see interviews with Steve Mudd & Bill Ackerman, since Peconic Bay’s vineyards have been turned over to Lieb Cellars as of January 2013
Pellegrini Vineyards, North Fork AVA (72 acres); see Steve Mudd interview
Pindar Vineyards, North Fork AVA (500 acres; LISW candidate); Pindar Damianos interviewed Sept. 26, Ed Lovaas on Nov. 16, 2015. to be posted.
Pugliese Vineyards, North Fork AVA (45 acres); Pat Pugliese interviewed Jan. 19, 2015
Raphael, North Fork AVA (55 acres, LISW sustainable-certified); Leslie Howard & Steve Mudd interviewed May 21 & June 13; posted September 17, 2012; Anthony Nappa interviewed
Roanoke Vineyards, North Fork AVA (10 acres, LISW sustainable-certified); interviewed Richard Pisacano, owner; posted July 10, 2013
Sannino’s Bella Vita Vineyard (5.25 acres, LISW sustainable-certified); interviewed Jan. 30, 2015; to be posted
Sherwood House Vineyards, North Fork AVA (36 acres); interviewed Bill Ackerman on September 26, 2012; posted
Shinn Estate Vineyard, North Fork AVA (20 acres, LISW sustainable-certified); Barbara Shinn & David Paige interviewed June 18, 2010; posted July 12, 2010
Southold Farm+Cellar, North Fork AVA (9 acres; as of Sept. 2014 just entering production); Regan Meador interviewed Jan. 30 & Nov. 16, 2015; to be posted
Sparkling Pointe (29 acres, LISW sustainable-certified)
Suhru Wines (no vineyard); Russell Hearn, owner, interviewed for PWG on October 3, 2012
Surrey Lane Vineyards, North Fork AVA (25 acres, LISW sustainable-in transition); see Steve Mudd interview
T’Jara Vineyard, North Fork AVA (14 acres); Russell Hearn , owner, interviewed for PWG
Vineyard 48, North Fork AVA (28 acres planted)
Waters Crest Winery (no vineyard); interviewed Nov. 17, 2014, to be posted
Whisper Vineyards, Long Island AVA (17 acres); interviewed Steve Gallagher on Mar. 27, 2015, to be posted.
Wölffer Estate, Hamptons AVA (174 acres, LISW sustainable-certified); interviewed Roman Roth & Rich Pisacano on April 30, 2012 & June 20, 2013, updated and posted on July 10, 2013
Three very useful links that serve as portals to most of these vineyards are 1) Long Island Wine Country which lists only those wineries and vineyards that are members of the LI Wine Council; 2) Uncork New York! (aka the New York Wine and Grape Foundation) which provides links to all wineries and wine vineyards in New York State. Also indispensable for New York State wines is the New York Cork Report by Lenn Thompson, with its many interviews, coverage of wine tastings, reviews, and more.
A framable 24 by 36-inch map of the wineries and vineyards of the East End of Long Island, by Steve De Long, can be purchased on Amazon:
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2013 Assessment of Long Island Winery Websites
As of July 2016, despite a much-needed reassessment, as so many of the sites have been significantly updated and improved, I have had no time to do a full re-evaluation. My book, The Wines of Long Island, 3rd edition, has just been turned in to my publisher, SUNY Press. After a period of decompression, I shall revisit all the Websites and update this post.
In an article published in Wines & Vines, “What Visitors Want from Wine Sites” (June 2011), Kent Benson explained what information he thought serious visitors to wine sites (specifically winery and vineyard ones) should provide. I thought that his ideas were worth serious consideration and decided to try and apply those criteria to the websites of the region that I am most familiar with: Long Island. Benson’s original article is accessible at Wines & Vines 6/11.
The Criteria
In order to assess the quality of the Long Island winery/vineyard websites, I have chosen to evaluate them on the basis of both the historical and technical information that they provide. Below is my adaptation (mostly a reorganization) of Kent Bensons’ wish list for wine websites:
Identify type of operation up front: Winery &/or Vineyard &/or Tasting Room
History: frank and honest, including founder, subsequent owners and corporate owners: (don’t pretend you’re a “family” winery when you’re not)
Winemaker, vineyard manager, and owner: names, pictures and bios
Technical information (viniculture)
Vineyard information: acreage, vine density, vinicultural practices, yields, maps
Wine grape source locations, soil types, vine ages
List of all grape varieties in the vineyard with acreage
Technical information (vinification)
Forthright, step-by-step, detailed description of the winemaking process: (tell all); e.g., details of aging regimen: proportion aged in wood, proportions of French & American oak, proportions of new, one-year, two-year, etc., oak alternatives employed
b. Technical data: degrees Brix at harvest, actual ABV, TA, pH, RS, dry extract, disgorgement date: (for sparkling wine) [this set data is for wine geeks; most others may not care]
Estimated drinkability range from vintage date
Purchase information (Online/Wine Club)
Available current releases and at least two previous vintages
Pairing and serving temperature suggestions
Bottle and label shots: (keep them current, show front & back labels)
Pictures of estate or controlled vineyards and of winery
In addition, I would like to see Winery websites that are easy to navigate and do not require that a visitor need dig for information or other data. All features should be easily accessible, which means that navigation options should not be embedded more than a level or two down from the main menu or home page.Blogs are very nice to have and can be extremely informative: Bedell Cellars, Channing Daughters, and Shinn Estate have particularly useful ones. However, they are not scored for this assessment, as most sites have no blogs.
Events and event calendars are an essential part of nearly any retail winery, but these are not scored individually in the assessments that follow, as they are mostly about entertainment and social matters, and information on winegrowing and winemaking is our real concern.
Consequently, I have also added a new criterion, for ‘general’ features. These are scored by the number of features listed above that appear on the Website, thus 10 ‘yes’ answers (features present) is complete. If a feature is not applicable (n/a) the score is not reduced. Furthermore, if a newsletter is available, I score the newsletter for quality of its information—if no newsletter is offered, it is not scored.
About the Assessments
NOTE: The assessments on the following pages are based on my version of Benson’s wish list. They are my own, and therefore subjective. Poor scores may sometimes reflect a deliberate desire on the part of the winery not to provide the kind of information that is being looked for here, possibly due to the time and cost of including it on the Web. In no case do these scores reflect on the wines offered on these sites.
The purpose of this assessment is both informational for visitors and, hopefully, a prod to the web designers and the site owners to add or improve features, if possible. Naturally, many of the wineries are very small and may not have the wherewithal to spend money on a better website than they already have. Some don’t appear to have the means to keep their sites up-to-date, or at least certain features such as blogs, which are time-consuming to maintain. It would be helpful if all sites provided a ‘last time updated’ on their home pages.
It shall be updated from time-to-time as enough changes to the websites so warrant. Assigning scores to the websites
Listed alphabetically, the assessments of the websites carry no imputations regarding a winery’s products. Major features are graded on a scale of 1 to 5:
1 = inadequate/little or no information
2 = fair/some information, albeit cursory
3 = adequate/basic relevant information, but lacking depth
4 = very good/most relevant information
5 = excellent/all relevant information
n/a = not applicable (e.g., no viniculture information because no vineyard)
The highest score possible for a website is 5.0 points out of 5. Nominally, the lowest score should be 1.0 point out of 5, but there is one site that has a blog about money and dogs and nothing about wine—an aberration, to be sure, but listed nevertheless for the sake of completeness.
The Sixty-two Websites (as of 11 June 2013)
NOTE: In May 2012 there were fifty-five Websites that were evaluated. As of July 2016 there are over seventy sites to be assessed.
Anthony Nappa Wines / Winemakers Studio: (3.9 out of 5)
Vineyard: No; no grape source info either
Winery: No (uses Raphael facilities)
Winemaker: Anthony Nappa
Tasting Room: The Winemaker Studio, Peconic (see Web assessment below)
History / background: (4/5) Very good
About / Biographies: (5/5) Excellent bios on both sites
Vineyard / viniculture information: (n/a)
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (3/5) No notes, but adequate descriptions with food pairing suggestions on both sites
Technical wine data: No
Purchase online: (3/5) No; brief descriptions of wines, but purchase can only be made by phone at Winemakers Studio; there is also a resellers listing
Wine Club: Anthony Nappa: No; The Winemaker Studio: Yes, but the membership form must be printed and mailed in—a tad inconvenient.
Contact: phone, snail mail, or e-mail for both Nappa & the Studio
Directions: Yes, for Winemaker Studio, with map
News/reviews link: Yes, and up to date.
Newsletter / Mailing List: No
Wine Blog: No
Events / calendar: No
Tours: n/a
Photo gallery: No
Website design: (4/5) Elegant, easy to navigate, but link to The Winemaker Studio takes you to a very different style and layout (see assessment below)
General feature set: 5 out of 10 (2.5/5)
Additional features: Resellers option; link to Anthony Nappa Wine’s Facebook page.
Up-to-date: Nappa: Mostly, but there is no mention of Anthony’s hire by Raphael to be its winemaker; Studio: OK.
Anthony Nappa Wines
Comment: Two linked websites, one for Anthony Nappa Wines, another for the tasting room at The Winemaker Studio; information about the vineyards that source the grapes would be very welcome (and so interesting to the geeks among us).
NOTE: The Winemaker Studio features and sells wines by Anthony Nappa, Roman Roth (Grapes of Roth), Russell Hearn (Suhru Wines & T’Jara Vineyards), Erik Bilka (Influence Wines), John Leo (Leo Family Wines), and Adam Suprenant (Coffeepot Wines)
Baiting Hollow Farm Vineyards: (3.6 out of 5)
Vineyard: Yes
Winery: No (PWG)
Winemaker: Tom Drozd using PWG facilities
History / background: (4/5) Personal, family focused
About / Biographies: (4/5) Personal, no staff biographies
Vineyard /viniculture information: (3/5) Succinct, no maps, no mention of terroir; focus on sustainability, but few specifics
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (4/5) very good, but not all wines are fully commented
Purchase online: (3/5) Many choices, brief descriptions, food pairing suggestions; gift baskets
Wine Club: Yes
Contact: e-mail & phone
Directions: Yes, with map
News/reviews link: No
Newsletter / Mailing List: Yes
Events / calendar: Yes; focus on Rock & Roll and Bluegrass performances; weddings
Tours: Virtual (online)
Photo gallery: Yes, and video of horses and games as well
Website design: (4/5) Attractive if a bit busy-looking, with many options
General feature set: 7 of 10 (3.5/5)
Additional features: Virtual tour, rescue-horse farm & pony rides, corporate ideas, entertainment schedule
Up-to-date: Yes
Baiting Hollow Farm Vineyard
Comment: Greeted by a picture of a child with a horse, one knows immediately that this is a family-oriented; the vineyard and its wines itself needs more attention. The BHFV Horse Rescue operation, by the way, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit corporation, devoted to the rescue of horses.
Bedell Cellars: (5.0 out of 5)
As of January 2016 it has been substantially updated, but not yet reassessed.
Winery: Yes
Winemaker: Yes, Richard Harbich-Olsen
History / background: (5/5) Excellent account of sustainability & its practice
About / Biographies: (5/5) Excellent, full biographies of all staff
Vineyard / viniculture information: (5/5) Excellent, full description and parcel maps, discussion of terroir, sustainable practices (member of Long Island Sustainable Winegrowers [henceforth LISW])
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (5/5) Excellent, complete notes: (PDFs)
Technical wine data: Yes, in PDFs
Purchase online: (5/5) Very good descriptions, many choices, including sets
Contact: e-mail, phone & fax
News/reviews link: Yes, many links to reviews in NYT
Newsletter / Mailing List: (5/5) Yes, by far the most informative and interesting newsletter of all, with keen and thoughtful observations about wine, viniculture, terroir, and so on. Issued from time to time.
Wine Blog: Yes, highly informative with both wit and humor.
Events / calendar: Yes
Tours: Yes, by prior arrangement
Photo gallery: Yes, and video as well
Website design / usability: (5/5) Excellent, elegant design (by Cro2), art is featured
General feature set: 10 of 10 (5/5)
Additional features: Excellent explanation of sustainable farming; art gallery; various wedding options
Comment: An elegant site, easy to navigate, many useful options, thoughtful design, exceptionally informative and complete. A plausible standard for winery websites with respect to the content that they could provide. Elegant design helps too, of course. The newsletter is a model as well—every issue is worth reading (though they do come out irregularly).
Bouké Wines: (4.2 4.6 out of 5)
Vineyard: No; purchases fruit from N. Fork & Finger Lakes vineyards
Winemaker: No; Gilles Martin, consultant
Tasting Room: Tasting Room, Peconic
History / background: (5/5) Full & complete, well-organized
About / Biographies: (5/5) Excellent bios
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (5/5) Excellent, good technical info, PDFs
Technical wine data: Yes
Purchase online: (5/5) Good, brief descriptions, but dig down for full wine notes
Wine Club: No
Directions: No
News/reviews link: Yes, including a list of awards
Wine Blog: Yes, via a small icon at the bottom of the page
Website design: (5/5) Attractive, clean design, unusual navigation in places
General feature set: 4 of 10 (2/5)
Additional features: Links to responsible drinking sites (AIM & Century); Jazz recommended listening; boutique for wine accessories; the blog is really just a series of links; blogroll is a set of links to blogs by others
Bouké Wines
Comment: Attractive and easy to use, it reflects well on the products offered; much improved design with excellent navigation; it could mention the vineyards sourcing the grapes; the list of NYC retailers selling the wines is confined to Brooklyn.
Brooklyn Oenology (3.7 out of 5)
Vineyard: No
Winery: No; PWG makes the wine
Winemaker: Yes, Alie Shaper
Tasting Room: Yes, offers BOE wines and a selection of other LI and Finger Lakes wines
History / background: (5/5) Complete
About / Biographies: (1/5) None
Vineyard/viniculture information: (n/a)
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (5/5) Succinct but complete and clearly presented
Technical wine data: Spotty
Purchase online: (4/5) Yes, now BOE’s own online system
Contact: Yes
Directions: Yes
News/reviews link: Eventually
Wine Blog: Yes, but the last post was in Sept. 2012
Events / calendar: Yes; but no functional links to some events that could use them
Photo gallery: Mostly of the artist labels; art an emphasis of site
Website design: (4/5) Slick, sophisticated, but home page is rather busy in consequence
Additional features: Artists’ labels a focus
Brooklyn Oenology
Comment: Site functions like a work in progress; the wine links don’t work properly if you select, for example, White Wines, as it takes you to an empty page. You must select a particular white wine, but it means that making comparisons a bit more difficult.
Brooklyn Winery (4.2 out of 5)
Winemaker: Yes; Conor McCormack
About / Biographies: (5/5) Interesting and amusing
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (5/5) Complete and clearly presented
Purchase online: (n/a) Online sales are apparently pending; for now, purchase at retail or at the winery
News/reviews link: Presently there are no complete reviews; PDFs are awkward to use
Wine Blog: Yes
Events / calendar: Yes; but no links to some events that could use them
Website design: (4/5) Slick, sophisticated
Brooklyn Winery
Comment: Site may still be a work in progress, given that though it shows a shopping cart and checkout, in fact online purchases cannot be made.
Castello di Borghese: (2.2 2.6 out of 5)
Winemaker: Yes, Erik Bilka
History / background: (3/5) Adequate, but one has to read the press releases to learn that this was originally Hargrave Vineyard, the first on LI, which the Borgheses purchased in 1999.
About / Biographies: (3/5) ) Adequate, with emphasis on aristocratic Italian heritage, but if one digs deeply there is a press article that provides some
Vineyard / viniculture information: (1/5) Inadequate, with nothing about viniculture
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (2/5) Adequate, praiseful adjectives
Purchase online: (3/5) Good, but too much navigation is required
Contact: by phone, snail mail, and email via info@castellodiborghese.com
Directions: Yes, text.
News/reviews link: Yes
Newsletter / Mailing List: (1/5) Yes; the newsletter, issued regularly, is largely confined to events at the winery and various links; there is no news about winemaking or viniculture
Tours: Yes, including a vineyard tour
Photo gallery: Yes
Website design /usability: (3/5) busy-looking, keeps viewer jumping around, awkward navigation in places
Additional features: Olive oil for sale; local beer on offer; Tour: ‘Winemaker’s Walk’ by appointment
Castello di Borghese
Comment: Web focus is on winery’s prestige and social events as well as its wine; no staff bios, not even of the owners, unless you find the press releases—so the info is available, albeit in a desultory way.
Channing Daughters: (4.8 out of 5)
Winemaker: Yes, Christopher Tracy
History / background: (5/5) Excellent, especially with regard to its philosophy
About / Biographies: (5/5) Excellent, with full biographies
Vineyard / viniculture information: (4/5) Excellent, lacking only parcel maps, sustainable practices (member LISW)
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (5/5) Excellent: detailed and complete
Technical wine data: Embedded in the description/notes
Purchase online: (5/5) Excellent, wines are full described
Wine Blog: Yes, articles posted on East End by Christopher Tracy (not updated since 9/2011).
Events / calendar: Yes, but no entertainment or weddings, but rather for tasting classes.
Tours: No
Website design /usability: (5/5) Excellent, elegant, easy to use (by Cro2)
Additional features: Art gallery featuring Walter Channing’s wood sculpture
Up-to-date: Yes, ‘Where to buy’ option shows the wines are offered in many states and are available in some of the best restaurants in the country, including Daniel in NYC, The French Laundry in Napa, as well as eateries in Montreal and Quebec City.
Comment: Elegant and very well-designed, easy to navigate; unusual range of wines, a Website by a very serious winery
Clovis Point: (3.2 3.7 out of 5)
Winery: No
Winemaker: Yes; John Leo at PWG
About / Biographies: (1/5) Just names and contact info
Vineyard / viniculture information: (1/5) practically none
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (4/5) Very good: detailed
Technical wine data: Not much
Purchase online: (4/5) Very good, abbreviated tasting notes accompany the wine list
Contact: phone, e-mail, snail mail
Directions: Yes, with map option
Events / calendar: Yes, for entertainment events
Photo gallery: Yes, of the tasting room for those interested in holding a party there
Website design /usability: (5/5) Excellent, easy to use (by EG Creative Group)
Additional features: Vintage notes for 2004-2011, by John Leo. Book a party
Up-to-date: Yes; last vintage notes are for 2011, latest vintage for sale, 2011.
Clovis Point Wines
Comment: Lacks staff bio details, offers nothing about the vineyard or its vinicultural practices, but the vintage notes shine.
Coffee Pot Cellars: (4.2 out of 5)
Vineyard: No, but sources are identified
Winery: No; uses Osprey’s Dominion facilities
Winemaker: Yes, Adam Suprenant
Tasting Room: Yes, just opened in 2013
History / background: (4/5) Succinct and to the point
About / Biographies: (4/5) part of History / background, more can be found under Press
Vineyard / viniculture information: (n/a) Sam McCullough supplies the fruit from his premium vineyard
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (4/5) Provides the most vital information
Technical wine data: Some
Purchase online: (5/5) Easy to use, with complete descriptions available under “Read more . . .”
Wine Club: Yes, with 3 categories
Directions: Yes, to the new tasting room (as of 2013)
Newsletter / Mailing List: Not yet functional
Website design /usability: (5/5) Simple, direct, easy to use (by Janet Esquirol)
Additional features: No
Coffee Pot Cellars
Comment: Straightforward website, no frills, it’s all about the wine.
Croteaux Rosé Vineyards (3.0 out of 5)
Winemaker: No; consulting winemaker is Gilles Martin, using PWG facilities
History / background: (2/5) Barely adequate
About / Biographies: (0/5) No information
Vineyard / viniculture information: (4/5) Good but brief; includes aerial photo; no mention of sustainable practices
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (4/5) A very good explanation of winegrowing Rosé wines; good descriptions
Purchase online: (5/5) Excellent, wines are well-described for purchaser
Contact: phone, e-mail, snail-mail
Directions: text & map
Website design /usability: (5/5) Excellent, very clean design, but limited options
Additional features: Farmhouse Kitchen, a linked website, offers cooking lessons
Croteaux Vineyards
Comment: Attractive and easy to use, but lacks Background and About info, no bios
Diliberto Winery: (2.3 out of 5)
Winemaker: Sal Diliberto
History / background: (4/5) Very good, on the personal side, but must read reviews by others to get most of the information
About / Biographies: (3/5) Good, focus on Italian background; for fuller info one needs to go to the Newsroom option and read an interview in the LI Wine Press link
Vineyard / viniculture information: (n/a) No info about outsourced vineyard
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (2/5) Adequate
Purchase online: (0/5) Nothing; though not indicated, wines can be purchased by e-mail or by phone or at the tasting room.
Directions: text & Google map
Website design /usability: (3/5) Good, easy to use, but must “dig” for some info
Additional features: Weddings; tasting menu (in lieu of a wine list); winery apartment on offer
Up-to-date: Press info up to Jan. 2012; most recent wine listed is 2009.
Diliberto Winery
Comment: A very basic website; no online purchasing
Duckwalk Vineyards / Duckwalk North: (3.4 out of 5)
Winemaker: Yes
Tasting Room: Yes, at both sites
About / Biographies: (4/5) Very good, focus on Italian background
Vineyard / viniculture information: (2/5) Sustainable practices claimed, but little detail
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (3/5) Good, but little about vinification
Purchase online: (4/5) Good, but prices don’t show with wine choices
Contact: Phone, fax, e-mail, snail mail
Directions: No, just the address
News/reviews link: Not yet
Events / calendar: Yes, devoted to entertainment
Tours: Yes, according to LI Wine Country, but it doesn’t appear to be the case according to the winery Website
Photo gallery: No, but a slide show of ten images includes one of goldfish (?). A picture of a duck would make more sense for Duckwalk, one would think.
Website design /usability: (4/5) Very easy to use; home page is dominated by pictures of its scheduled entertainers
Additional features: About Duck Walk’s supported causes; there used to be an option to choose any of four languages other than English: French German, Italian, and Spanish, but that appears to have been removed since the site was reviewed last year (2012)
Comment: What? No directions on how to get there? No newsletter? A rather basic site, it could also use more information about viniculture, especially given the claim to sustainable practices, and more about the wines, as well.
Grapes of Roth by Wölffer Estate: (4.4 out of 5)
Vineyard: No; grape sources are identified—incidentally—in a review
Winery: No, uses Wölffer’s facilities, as he’s its winemaker
Winemaker: Yes, Roman Roth
Tasting Room: Wölffer Estate and The Winemaker Studio, Peconic
About / Biographies: (5/5) Excellent: full biography, in chapters
Vineyard / viniculture information: (3/5) Good, about outsourced vineyard
Technical wine data: Yes, very detailed and complete
Contact: in small print at bottom of Home page: e-mail, snail mail, and phone
Directions: n/a
News/reviews link: Yes, but it isn’t up-to-date.
Events / calendar: External events are listed and are up-to-date, but no calendar
Photo gallery: Yes, in connection with Roth’s bio in chapters
Website design /usability: (5/5) Elegant and straightforward design (in a glass), very easy to navigate (by ZGDG)
Additional features: No, but you may need to get used to the puns.
Up-to-date: Events, yes, but the reviews page has nothing later than 2010
The Grapes of Roth
Comment: Elegant design, if a tad idiosyncratic, very complete info about wines and Roth.
NOTE: Now that Roth has been named a partner in Wölffer Estate, where he has been winemaker for over 20 years, Grapes of Roth will be part of the Wölffer brand.
Harbes Farm & Vineyard: (3.2 out of 5)
Winemaker: Edward Harbes IV
History / Background: (2/5) Adequate, focused on family & farm
About / Biographies: (2/5) Adequate, but no biographies
Vineyard / viniculture information: (3/5) Good, though brief; sustainable practices (member LISW)
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (3/5) brief, offers food pairing suggestions
Purchase online: (3/5) Easy to use, wine descriptions brief but to the point
Directions: text and map
Newsletter / Mailing List: Yes, but it appears not to be functional as of 5/16/12
Website design / usability: (4/5) Newly redesigned, attractive, easy to navigate
Additional features: Other farms, Farm Market, Family fun, Maze adventures, Groups & Parties, Weddings
Harbes Farm & Vineyard
Comment: A wine website with a split personality: fun & games for kids; wine for adults, even a farm market; there are three different farms, only the one in Mattituck has a vineyard
Harmony Vineyards (1.8 2.2 out of 5)
Winemaker: No; uses Eric Fry of Lenz
Tasting Room: No
History / background: (1/5)
About / Biographies: (1/5)
Vineyard / Viniculture information: ( 2/5) little is said in text, but some pictures are worth a few more words
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (2/5) actually, all wines are commented on by quoting reviews, but there are further notes when one goes to purchase online.
Purchase online: (3/5) easy to use, adequate wine notes
Directions: address and map
Website design: (3/5) Attractive and straightforward
Additional features: Art gallery (text, no images!), We Support (list of causes & charities); video of house moved to new site, accompanied by music; promotions
Up-to-date: wines of the 2010 vintage are on offer
Harmony Vineyards
Comment: Very limited options, focus is on worthy causes and charities
Influence Wines (4.3 out of 5)
Winery: PWG
Winemaker: Eric Bilka at PWG
About / Biographies: (5/5) Minimal
Vineyard / Viniculture information: (5/5) Excellent
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (5/5) Excellent, very complete
Purchase online: No
Website design: (5/5) Minimalist; though not slick or pretty, it is clean, clear, and easy to navigate
General feature set: 2 of 5 (1/5)
Additional features: None
Up-to-date: 2010 is last vintage mentioned
Influence Wines
Comment: Production winemaker at PWG makes but one wine: Riesling, sourced from the Finger Lakes. As straightforward a website as one can find
Jamesport Vineyards (4.3 4.6 out of 5)
Winemaker: Yes, Dean Barbiar
History / background: (5/5) Excellent, very thorough
About / Biographies: (5/5) Excellent, though the biographies could be given more flesh
Vineyard / viniculture information: (4/5) Good description; sustainable claims, but lacks detail
Winemaker’s notes / wine description (4/5) Very good, little about vinification
Purchase online: (5/5) Excellent; labels, full wine description, easy to use
Wine Club / Subscription: Yes
Contact: Phone/fax, e-mail, snail mail
Directions: Google map
News/reviews link: List of awards, but no links to articles or reviews
Photo gallery: A combination photo gallery and video with musical accompaniment which provides some interesting and useful information
Website design: (5/5) Excellent, attractive, easy to navigate (by Cro2)
Additional features: Wine bottles recycling rewards program; Wholesale inquiries; Futures purchases
Up-to-date: Events, Retail & restaurants list needs updating
Jamesport-Vineyards
Comment: An informative and attractive website that needs a real News/Reviews link; it supports the Southold Project in Aquaculture Training (SPAT), for sustainable fishing.
Jason’s Vineyard (2.8 out of 5)
Winemaker: Yes, Jason Damianos
Vineyard / Viniculture information: (2/5) Just adequate, but little about sustainability
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (2/5) Adequate, but barely
Purchase online: (n/a) Wines are listed and briefly described, but cannot be purchased online.
Events / calendar: TBA, according to the Website
Photo gallery: Yes, but limited
Website design: (4/5) Pleasant design with a Greek theme, easy to navigate and use.
Jason’s Vineyard
Comment: A basic website.
Kontokosta Winery (under construction)
Laurel Lake Vineyard: (3.0 out of 5)
Winemaker: Yes, Juan Sepúlveda
History / Background: (2/5) Very brief
About / Biographies: (1/5) Inadequate, no biographies
Vineyard / viniculture information: (3/5) Succinct
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (3/5) Very good for some wines, but spotty
Purchase online: (5/5) Excellent
Directions: Yes, with Google map
Website design / usability: (5/5) Excellent
Up-to-date: Yes for the wines, but reviews only go up to 2007.
Laurel Lake Wines
Comment: An attractive site lacking important information, including bios
Lenz Winery: (3.3 3.4 out of 5)
Winemaker: Yes, Eric Fry
History / Background / About / Biographies: (2/5) Adequate, no bios
Vineyard / viniculture information: (3/5) Succinct; no parcel maps
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (4/5) Complete description, no notes
Wine Club: Yes; 3-level club program
Directions: Yes, address and map
Events / calendar: Yes, and not just parties, but serious tastings of wines from around the world; Weddings (however, as of May 2013 the link to the events page is broken).
Website design / usability: (5/5) Sophisticated, minimalist look and functionality
General feature set: 7 of 10 (3.5)
Additional features: Tours; “Petrus tasting” notes to emphasize quality by comparison to French equivalents; prior tasting results yet to be posted; Lenz cottage stays available for wine club subscribers
Up-to-date: hard to tell; latest wines offered date to 2009; the latest reviews were in 2006
Lenz Winery
Comment: An attractive, useful, and interesting site lacking some basic information, including bios
Lieb Cellars / Bridge Lane Wines: (4.0 out of 5)
Winery: No, uses PWG
Winemaker: Yes, Russell Hearn is an owner and a winemaker/owner at Premium Wine Group
Tasting Room: Yes, at PWG
History / Background (4/5) Good, found under the rubric Our Vineyard.
About / Biographies: (3/5) Good, limited bio about owners
Vineyard / viniculture information: (3/5) Good, but incidental to the overall story; no maps; sustainable practices (member LISW)
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (4/5) Very good; inconsistent from wine to wine
Technical wine data: Though indicated as available, trying to open the wine spec sheets and tasting note PDFs produces a “Error 404 Page not found.”
Directions: Yes, from different directions and a map to boot
Website design / usability: (5/5) Excellent and very attractively designed.
Additional features: Featured restaurants that offer Lieb Cellars wine, particularly a link to Craft Restaurant, given that Lieb makes a sparkling wine for Craft’s private label as well as a link for Lieb’s Summer Rosé for Park Ave. Restaurant’s private label. (Both restaurants are in NYC.)
Lieb Cellars
Comment: An attractive and largely well-designed site that is mostly easy to get around; though there are two separate labels—Lieb Cellars and Bridge Lane, the distinction between them is not made clear. The inability for users of opening the wine tasting notes and spec sheets is frustrating; apart from the error message, clicking on the Continue button simply takes one back to the wines page—in other words, a circular routing.
Macari Vineyards: (4.0 4.4 out of 5)
Winemaker: Yes, Kelly Urbanik, also Helmut Gangl, consultant
History / background: (4/5) Sufficient history & background
About / Biographies: (5/5) Excellent, especially on the backgrounds of the winemakers
Vineyard / viniculture information 4/5: Useful information about vinicultural practices; no parcel maps
Winemaker’s notes / wine description 4/5: Professionally-written descriptions, no notes
Purchase online: (4/5) Easy to use
Directions: Addresses with maps
News/reviews link: Yes, including many recent reviews for 2013
Tours: Virtual (online), tells much of the story of the winery and vineyards
Website design: (5/5) Very attractive and easy to navigate
Additional features: Weddings, Private parties
Up-to-date: Yes, includes 2012 wines on offer and up-to-date reviews
Macari Wines
Comment: The virtual tour that I so highly recommended in 2012 is, alas, no more.
Martha Clara Vineyards (3.5 3.9 out of 5)
Winery: No, uses Premium Wine Group
Winemaker: Yes, Juan Micieli-Martinez uses PWG
History / background: (3/5) Brief, focuses on family
About / Biographies: (5/5) Full bios of owners & winemaker/manager
Vineyard / viniculture information: (1/5) Virtually no information, but uses sustainable practices (member LISW)
Winemaker’s notes / wine description (5/5) Full, rich descriptions; click on bottle illustration for more information, including . . .
Technical wine data: Yes, also via downloadable PDF.
Purchase online: (5/5) Store is a catchall for wine, gifts, and events; minimal descriptions of wines with food-pairing notes; full wine information is found under ‘Wines’
Contact: phone & e-mail. Also Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and BlogSpot.
Directions: Yes, text and Google map.
Wine Blog: No, it has been eliminated.
Events / calendar: Yes; encourages large parties, weddings, meetings, etc. Calendar shows upcoming events through Sept. 2013, including concerts, dinners, other. Does not mention special viniculture class led by vineyard manager, Jim Thompson, held once a year.
Photo gallery: Ample, nicely presented; videos offered, but apparently disabled as of 4/9/2012
Website design: (4/5) Front page busy & unattractive, the rest of the pages use a minimalist design & are easy on the eyes; navigation is mostly straightforward; home page uses functional Table of Contents (with fake page numbers—a tad confusing)
Additional features: Strong emphasis on community involvement & charity support; also offers horse & carriage rides. Videos offered, but no longer accessible. Small zoo for children.Up-to-date: Yes
Martha Clara Vineyards
Comment: Other than the opening page, an attractive site; however, to read about the wines involves using a display of pictures of wine bottles—to select click on the image to read about the wine; the media feature is, quirkily, not quotations or links from the press or reviewers, but rather, videos that are no longer accessible.
Mattebella Vineyards (3.3 3.6 out of 5)
Winery: No, PWG
Winemaker: No, PWG
History / background: (1/5) No real information
About / Biographies: (2/5) Just adequate
Vineyard / viniculture information: (5/5) Good, with emphasis on sustainability (member LISW)
Winemaker’s notes / wine description (5/5) Good, clear expression of philosophy
Purchase online: (5/5) Excellent, with adequate wine descriptions and an interesting variety of purchase option
Contact: Phone, e-mail
Directions: Option is not functional as of 5/4/13
News/reviews link: Yes, but usually cited without dates
Wine Blog: Yes, but not updated since 2009
Events / calendar: No, you can request information via a Gmail link.
Photo gallery: Yes, with many family pictures in all categories; e.g., Vineyard
Website design: (4/5) Attractive and easy to navigate, but a few too many mouse clicks needed here and there; some features are not yet active, such as a list of retailers and restaurants that offer the wines
Additional features: You can view the front & back labels of the wines, the only site that provides this
Up-to-date: The blog and some other sections seem to be spottily up to date.
Mattebella Vineyards
Comment: In most respects a good winery site, but lack of detail, particularly the About and Background features, frustrates
McCall Vineyards (3.7 out of 5)
Winemaker: No: Gilles Martin for Merlot @ PWG; Millbrook Winery for Pinot Noir
About / Biographies: (4/5) Bios are limited to McCall family members, no staff
Vineyard / viniculture information: (3/5) No parcel maps; general, brief notes on sustainability
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (3/5) Tasting notes
Purchase online: (4/5) Simple, direct, with tasting notes
Wine Club: Yes, 3 levels
News/reviews links: Yes; not all links work but otherwise it is up to date.
Photo gallery: Yes; embedded in the page headers and then streamed
Website design: (4/5) Simple, attractive, easy to navigate
Additional features: Ranch: Charolais cattle; Conservation
McCall Wines
Comment: A very attractive site to visit, but it could offer more information
Medolla Vineyards (2.0 2.2 out of 5)
Winery: No, use Lenz
Winemaker: Yes, John Medolla with Eric Fry at Lenz
Tasting Room: No; Winemakers Studio; Empire State Cellars
History / background: (3/5) Family history, little else
About / Biographies: (1/5) Practically nothing
Vineyard / viniculture information: (1/5) Insignificant about either
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (2/5) Minimal
Technical wine data: None
Purchase online: (n/a)
News/reviews links: Yes; best source for further background on Medolla, but the most recent reviews date to
Website design: (3/5) Basic, clean pages, little offered, the home page greets one with mandolin music
Up-to-date: Unclear; was the 2007 the last wine Medolla made?
Medolla Vineyards
Comment: Very basic website
Old Field Vineyards (2.5 2.8 out of 5)
Winery: No, use Lenz Winery
Winemaker: Roz Baiz, with Eric Fry at Lenz Winery
History / background: (4/5) Quite a bit of family/farm history
About / Biographies: (1/5) Very general information
Vineyard / viniculture information: (1/5) No details; though sustainable practices are used, no information is given
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (4/5) No notes, but decent descriptions
Purchase online: (4/5) Easy to use, notes are interesting but could provide more information
Directions: Yes; can use Google or Yahoo! maps
Newsletter / Mailing List: Yes, but last newsletter dates to October 2010
News/reviews link: Yes, includes a few videos
Photo gallery: Yes, as part of each option; especially large for weddings section
Website design: (4/5) Attractive, easy to navigate
Additional features: Weddings; Newsletter (2005-2010)
The Old Field
Comment: An attractively-designed site that could use more information about the vineyard and the winemaking; fuller biographies would be welcome too.
Onabay Vineyards (3.5 out of 5)
Winemaker: No; consulting winemaker John Leo at PWG
About / Biographies: (2/5) Some information, no biographies
Vineyard / viniculture information: (3/5) no vinicultural info; aerial photo
Winemaker’s notes / wine description (5/5) Very useful and complete
Technical wine data: Yes, can be downloaded
Purchase online: n/a; the wines are available from restaurants and retailers, for which there is a list
Wine Club / Subscription: No
Contact: Phone, e-mail via Gmail, snail mail
Directions: No, without a street address either
Newsletter / Mailing List: Yes to both, though I’ve not received a newsletter since I signed up months ago
Website design: (5/5) Elegant, easy to use, conveys the seriousness of the owners
Up-to-date: Yes, but a reverence to Steve Mudd as vineyard manager is no long valid; since 2012 it has been Bill Ackerman
Onabay Vineyards
Comment: Beautiful website, needs to provide more information
One Woman’s Wines: (2.0 2.1 out of 5)
Winemaker: Yes, Claudia Purita
History / background: (2/5) Some personal background.
About / Biographies: (2/5) Some personal background
Vineyard / viniculture information: (1/5) passing mention
Winemaker’s notes / wine description (3/5) Adequate description, no notes
Purchase online: (4/5) Yes, but one must first create an online account.
Directions: Text
Newsletter / Mailing List: Yes, the newsletter is limited to visitor’s information and upcoming events
News/reviews link: Yes, but no dates are shown with the links; however, the most recent review was published in 2011
Events / calendar: Yes, but limited info
Website design: (4/5) Attractive and straightforward; navigation is easy.
Up-to-date: probably, but not entirely clear if it is.
One Woman’s Wines
Comment: Basic website, but then, Claudia is a one-woman operation (plus her daughter who works in the office).
Osprey’s Dominion: (1.8/5)
History / background: (0/5) Completely ignored.
About / Biographies: (0/5) Completely ignored
Vineyard / viniculture information: (0/5) none
Winemaker’s notes / wine description 2/5 Sometimes uses quotations from critics, but no notes
Purchase online: (5/5) Excellent, the site’s major focus, to the detriment of other options
Newsletter / Mailing List: Yes, but I’ve received nothing since signing up a year ago
News/reviews link: Yes, as part of the blog, Fishhawk News
Wine Blog: Yes, but little about viniculture or winemaking, not updated since April 2012
Events / calendar: Yes, focused on entertainment at the winery
Website design: (3/5) Good, functional but not attractive; navigation is OK. (by Cro2)
Additional features: List of wine competition awards
Up-to-date: Up to 2012.
Ospreys Dominion
Comment: It’s apparent that this website was designed for other than informational purposes.
Palmer Vineyards: (3.0 1.0 out of 5)
Winemaker: Yes, Miguel Martín
History / background: (0/5) No longer, though it used to tell about the founder, Bob Palmer
About / Biographies: (0/5) No staff bios, but pictures of the staff
Vineyard / viniculture information: (0/5) Nothing
Winemaker’s notes / wine description 5/5 Excellent; some notes very complete
Technical wine data: For some wines
Purchase online: (4/5) With the new makeover it is not presently functional (but it had been very good, easy to use, brief descriptions of wines). Let’s hope that it will be as good as the former version (212)
Directions: Yes, via MapQuest
Photo gallery: Yes; also a video promo
Website design: (3/5) OK, easy to use and navigate, but many useful features and options have been eliminated [the site was created using Vistaprint, a do-it-yourself Website application; previously it had been done by Cro2, a professional site designer
Up-to-date: Apparently, given that it’s a new design, but there is no datable information, though this should be corrected once the online-purchase feature is enabled.
Comment: A brand-new look and feel, with the home page emphasizing “Live Music Every Weekend”; the site that feels incomplete and lacks the most basic information on the winery, vineyard, or staff. A shame, but the site will be regularly revisited to see what it will become once completed.
Paumanok Vineyards: (4.6 out of 5)
Winemaker: Yes, Kareem Massoud
About / Biographies: (4/5) Very Good, no complete bios
Winemaker’s notes / wine description 5/5 Excellent; complete notes
Technical wine data: Yes, but only for their top red wines
Purchase online: (5/5) Excellent, full wine notes and reviews are quoted
Directions: Yes, with GPS coordinates & MapQuest
Newsletter / Mailing List: Yes, issued regularly to announce wine dinners, reviews of their wines, and the occasional entertainment event
Wine Blog: Yes, many interesting posts and links to articles, and it’s up to date.
Website design: (5/5) An attractive and well-organized site, easy to use (by Cro2)
Additional features: Quotes Walt Whitman on Paumanok’s name; lists all the restaurants and wine stores at which their wines can be found, as well as a full selection of lodgings in the East End, plus a helpful list of related wine Web sites
Paumanok
Comment: An excellent site that needs just a little improvement in the History & About sections, including staff bios
Pellegrini Vineyards (4.2 4.3 out of 5)
Tasting Room: Yes, Zander Hargrave
About / Biographies: (3/5) Lacks biographical information
Vineyard / viniculture information: (5/5) Full description of the vineyards; no parcel maps; useful notes on viniculture
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (5/5) Adequate on the Tasting Notes option, but much more complete if one goes to the Trade Support option (2001 through 2008)
Technical wine data: Yes, but one has to use the Trade Support option to get to them.
Purchase online: (4/5) No wine descriptions accompany purchase options, so one has to go the Tasting Notes option to read them
News/reviews link: Yes, excerpts only
Newsletter / Mailing List: Yes, but since signing up 13 months ago, I’ve not received a single newsletter
Website design: (5/5) Very attractive, straightforward to use, though one has to dig through some options; Tasting Notes aren’t also viewable in Purchase section; full wine notes are accessible through Trade Support option
General feature set:6 of 10 (3/5)
Additional features: In Trade Support there are images of both the front and back labels of the wines.
Up-to-date: Yes, for events and tasting notes (up to the 2011 vintage); Trade Support info only goes up to the 2008 vintage, as was the case when the Web site was reviewed in May 2012. There is no mention of the fact that Russell Hearn, the winemaker, recently left the winery.
Pellegrini Vineyards
Comment: An attractive and interesting site to use, but lack of biographies and unusual options can frustrate
Pindar Vineyards (3.2 out of 5)
Winery: Yes, Edward Lovaas
History / background: (4/5) No history about the site pre-Pindar
About / Biographies: (5/5) Includes biographies of all staff, including the dog
Vineyard information: (1/5) Very little other than the background history
Viniculture: (3/5) Info included in the Green section, including sustainable practices; general, not just about the vineyard
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (3/5) No notes, just description
Purchase online: (4/5) Many choices besides wine; no additional wine descriptions
News/reviews link: Yes, but media all dates to 2005-2007; no updates since.
Website design: (3/5) Attractive, but retrieving info can be complicated by unusual options, can require some digging around
General feature set:5 of 10 (2.5/5)
Additional features: Green, Making Wine with Wind, Pindar Giving
Up-to-date: Yes, but not news/reviews; Mother’s Day notice still up on 5/18/12
Pindar.net
Comment: Excellent background and history, but could use more information about viniculture and winemaking philosophies.
Pugliese Vineyards (1.7 out of 5)
Winemaker: Yes, Peter Pugliese
History / background: (1/5) Almost no information
About / Biographies: (1/5) Almost no information
Vineyard information: (1/5) Virtually no information
Viniculture: (0/5) No information
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (2/5) Brief descriptions, food-pairing suggestions
Purchase online: (4/5) Straightforward, suggests food pairings
News/reviews link: Awards list only
Website design: (4/5) Easy to use but limited features
Additional features: Painted glassware
Up-to-date: Recent wines are listed up to 2011, but awards listed date back to 2001-2002
Pugliese Vineyards
Comment: The site is strictly devoted to selling the wine; otherwise there is little or no info.
Queens County Farm Museum Vineyard (1.8 out of 5)
Winery: No, PWG makes their wines
Winemaker: No, Russell Hearn @ PWG
History / background: (3) A long history, briefly dispatched; no mention of vineyard
About / Biographies: (3) No bios
Vineyard / Viniculture information: (0) Nothing at all.
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (0) Nada.
Directions: Yes, text only
Events / calendar: Yes, up-to-date and covers 2013-14
Website design: (3) Easy navigation but run-of-the-mill.
Additional features: map of farm PDF, but vineyard is not apparent from the layout.
Queens County Vineyard
Comment: Vines and wines are an afterthought on the website of this museum-farm operation.
Raphael Wine (4.1 out of 5 points)
Winemaker: Yes, Anthony Nappa
About / Biographies: (3/5) No bios
Vineyard / viniculture information: (3/5) Minimal on vineyard, no maps; viniculture is mentioned under several options
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (5/5) Complete with vintage information for each wine, though the comments are a bit self-promoting
Purchase online: (5/5) Easy to use, full information on each wine by clicking its label
Website design: (5/5) Elegant, easy to use and navigate
Additional features: None noted
Raphael Wine
Comment: A nice, clean design featuring an elevation drawing of the façade of the Raphael winery, it is notable in part for what it doesn’t have as well as what it does: No quotations or links from the news media or reviewers. It also lacks any biographical information on staff, and tells a visitor little about the vineyard. One the other hand, it offers excellent wine notes.
Red Fern Cellars (1.8 out of 5)
Winemaker: Yes, Aaron Munk
History / background: (0/5) No
About / Biographies: (0/5) No
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (4/5) No notes, ample descriptions
Purchase online: (n/a) e-mail or phone orders only
Contact: only by snail mail or e-mail; no phone listed
Directions: No; visits must be arranged in advance
News/reviews link: ; link to WineLoversPage.com; Jewish Week (2008, though it reviews 2005 wines)
Website design: (3/5) Adequate and straightforward, but few options
Additional features: LI Wine links; option for custom labeling
Up-to-date: No; it doesn’t appear to have been updated since 2008; latest wines listed are 2005; it hasn’t changed since last year’s assessment (2012)
Red Fern Cellars
Comment: Functional, but with minimal information; is it even up-to-date?
Red Hook Winery (1.4 out of 5)
Winemaker: Yes, Abe Schoener, Robert Foley
Tasting Room:Yes
History / background: (1/5) Bare minimum to be useful
About / Biographies: (0/5) Minimal info, no bios
Vineyard / Viniculture information: (n/a) buy grapes from many sources
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (0/5) No notes, descriptions
Purchase online: (3/5) OK, but no information on the wines
Contact: by phone, snail mail or e-mail
Directions: Address only
Red Hook Winery
Comment: Functional, but with minimal information
Roanoke Vineyard (4.4 out of 5) [updated 11-16-13]
Winemaker: Roman Roth at Wölffer Estate
Tasting Room: Yes, both at the vineyard and on Love Lane in Mattituck
About / Biographies: (5/5) Good info and full bios of all staff
Vineyard / Viniculture information: (3/5) Little vineyard info or maps; though an adequate, brief note on viniculture (strange, given that the Owner, Rich Pisacano is a “vineyardist” and his father, Gabby, is the vineyard manager.)
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (4/5) Brief, sometimes more complete, often less, and just a tad tongue-in-cheek in the self-promoting phrases; e.g., a ‘wild fermentation’ Chardonnay “Quite simply . . . leaps out of your glass!”’
Technical wine data: Yes, but some more, some less
Purchase online: (n/a) Order by phone, then arrange for pickup or delivery on one’s own.
Contact: Yes, phone, e-mail, snail mail
Directions: Yes, uses Google Maps
News/reviews link: Yes, via the option, ‘Judgment of Riverhead’
Newsletter / Mailing List: Yes, they are mostly about wines and tastings, often in cahoots with restaurants, some with themes, such as “how to be a Wine Snob”; issued weekly
Wine Blog: Of sorts (‘Judgment of Riverhead’ again) but informative, amusing, and well worth reading.
Events / calendar: Yes, and it’s all about wine, like the Smackdown tastings
Photo gallery: Not as such, but many pages are well-illustrated
Website design: (4/5) The opening page looks crowded but as a whole the site is easy to use and very functional. Some features require a bit of clicking around.
Additional features: Wine library, Winemakers’ Smackdowns
Roanoke Vineyards
Comment: A website that doesn’t take itself too seriously, but provides a good deal of serious information in a sometimes light-hearted way. It is, in its way, rather endearing. However, it’s a vineyard, so why is there not more information about the vineyard proper?
Sannino-Bella Vita Vineyard (2.5 3.4 out of 5 points)
Winemaker: Anthony Sannino; also with his vine-to-wine students
Tasting Room: Yes, at Ackerly Pond’s barn
History / background: (3/5) Adequate
About / Biographies: (5/5) Full bios
Vineyard / Viniculture information: (2/5) Little information, as a member of the LISW, it practices sustainable viniculture, but a nice video of the vineyard with pleasant musical accompaniment
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (3/5) Descriptions with food-pairing suggestions
Purchase online: (3/5) Yes, with brief wine descriptions
Wine Club: Yes, through vine-to-wine program
News/reviews link: Yes, this is where one can find more information about the wines.
Newsletter / Mailing List: Yes, but I’ve received none since I signed up a year ago
Wine Blog: Option is not functional
Events / calendar: Yes, including music, tours, and classes
Photo gallery: Yes, several that are thematically based
Website design: (3/5) Not unattractive but busy yet functional, though to find the video one needs to select the B&B option
Additional features: Bed-and-Breakfast (reservations can be made online); Vine-to-Wine experience; virtual tour of the vineyard and slide presentation of the Tuscan Suite guest house.
Sannino Vineyard/Bella-Vita-Vineyard
Comment: website with focus on the Vine-to-Wine program; several interesting options but little about the vineyard; considerably improved over the version assessed last year.
Scarola Vineyards (3.6 3.9 points out of 5)
Winemaker: No; uses Roman Roth at Wölffer Estate
Tasting Room: No, planned but not yet open to public
About / Biographies: (5/5) Complete, with brief bio sketches of all the staff
Vineyard / Viniculture information: (1/5)
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (5/5) Full notes and description at Trade option
Technical wine data: Yes, via For the Trade option
Purchase online: (4/5) Limited wine descriptions, with no direct link to the Trade option; order by phone, e-mail, or online
Directions: No, only the street address
Website design: (4/5) Attractive enough, but there are some navigational challenges
Additional features: link to Cedar House on Sound B&B, owned by Scarola family
Scarola Vineyards
Comment: Strongly family-oriented and emphatically Italian. Given that the Scarolas have a vineyard and no winery, it is frustrating to find that the site scrimps on vinicultural information yet has plenty to say about its wines (made Roman Roth).
Sherwood House Vineyards (3.6 points out of 5)
Winemaker: No; Gilles Martin is the contract winemaker
About / Biographies: (5/5), full biographies of the owners and Gilles Martin
Vineyard / Viniculture information: (1/5) Very little mentioned
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (3/5) no notes, pairing suggestions
Purchase online: (4/5) Very easy to use, but limited wine information; wines sold online are available in a minimum of 2-bottle lots (or 4, 6, or 12)
Directions: Yes, with MapQuest to the vineyards, tasting stand, and tasting room
Newsletter / Mailing List: Yes, sent monthly
Events / calendar: Yes, and up to date.
Website design: (4/5) Elegant, very easy to navigate
Additional features: Private events information
Sherwood House Vineyards
Comment: Very attractive site that tells too little about the vineyard or viniculture
Shinn Estate: (3.7 4.1 out of 5)
Winemaker: Yes, Patrick Caserta
History / background: (4/5) Yes, and blog fills some gaps
About / Biographies: (4/5) Bios of the owners
Vineyard / viniculture information: (4/5) Very good, but no maps, block info
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (3/5) Adequate description with food-pairing suggestions
Purchase online: (4/5) Yes, good wine descriptions, easy to use
Directions: Yes, and a Google photo map
Wine Blog: Yes, fun and informative, regularly updated
Events / calendar: Yes; mostly about wine, but also features palm readings on Friday; dinners on occasional Saturdays
Website design: (5/5) Excellent, very easy to navigate and use.
Additional features: B&B, Distillery
Shinn Estate Vineyards
Comment: Newly redesigned website, much improved and easier to navigate than the old one; much useful information but short on tasting notes, which used to be much more complete and included technical notes as well. That’s a loss.
Southold Farm + Cellar:
Winery: uses Raphael Winery facilities
Winemaker: not yet
Tasting Room: not yet
History / background: (2/5) At present a brief story, with much hope for the future
About / Biographies: (2/5) owners don’t even mention their surnames
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (n/a)
Technical wine data: n/a
Newsletter / Mailing List: Yes, but a newsletter may be a while off
Wine Blog: n/a
Events / calendar: n/a
Website design: (n/a) Under development.
Southold Farm + Cellar
Comment: Brand-new site still under development., but it does tell the story of the renovation the farm building that will become its tasting room
Sparkling Pointe: Méthode Champenoise (3.7 3.9 out of 5)
Winemaker: No; Gilles Martin is the exclusive contract winemaker
History / background: (5/5) told as a charming story
About / Biographies: (5/5) bios for owners and winemaker
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (5/5) Excellent
Purchase online: (5/5) Well-designed, with direct access to wine info
Wine Club: Yes, but how to join is not clear as it is not available as an option
Contact: Phone, snail mail (can’t find e-mail option)
Newsletter / Mailing List: Yes, issued weekly
Tours: Yes, but virtual tour feature doesn’t work
Photo gallery: Virtual tour of the VIP space isn’t functional
Website design: (3/5) Home page is rather busy; but generally is easy to navigate. Somewhat improved over version of 2012
Additional features: Weddings
Sparkling Pointe
Comment: I find the design too forward and distracting. Still, it has its good points: detailed information about important things such as its history, the biographies, notes; bad point: almost nothing about the vineyard or viniculture.
Suhru Wines (4.6 out of 5)
Winery: No; uses PWG, of which owner Russell Hearn is a partner
Winemaker: Yes, Russell Hearn
Tasting Room: Winemakers Studio
History / background: (5/5) Excellent
About / Biographies: (5/5) Bios of the owners and the sales manager
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (5/5)
Technical wine data: Yes, if one clicks on the Wine for the Trade option
Purchase online: (4/5) with full descriptions, but one must go to the Trade option to see the notes & tech information before purchasing
News/reviews link: Yes, though not up to date
Website design: (4/5) Well-designed and attractive, if rather busy, but mostly easy to navigate
Suhru Wines
Comment: A really serious website. The focus is entirely on the wine. Premises are not open to the public.
T’Jara Vineyards (4.1 out of 5)
Winemaker: Yes, Russell Hearn in cahoots with Jed Beitler, co-owner
History / background: (5/5) Excellent, via a 12-page PDF
About / Biographies: (5/5) Very complete with a curious omission: the owner’s last names aren’t mentioned, but they can be found in the contact information.
Vineyard / Viniculture information: (2/5) Some excellent description, including a parcel map, but no mention of practices
Purchase online: (4/5) It would be nice if it would allow one to click and see the notes & tech information before purchasing; 3-bottle minimum
Directions: No, but there is an address
Website design: (5/5) Well-designed and attractive, easy to navigate
Up-to-date: Yes, for the wines, but the last news entry dates to 2012
T’Jara Vineyards
Comment: A serious but engaging website. The focus is on the history and the wine. Premises are not open to the public.
Purchase online: (3/5)
Directions: Phone, e-mail, snail mail
Events / calendar: Yes, all music
Website design: (2/5) Some navigation choices are in very small text at the bottom of the page; not intuitive or easy to figure out
Additional features: Row of Vines Dedication, Weddings and Private parties
Up-to-date:
Comment: There are links for reviews if one does a search for it. (It had been a minimalist approach to providing access—the focus was strongly centered on purchases and events. Little information, even about the wine.) NOTE: online reviews tend to trash the place as a party venue out of control; other reviews extoll it as a party venue
Waters Crest (2.0 points out of 5)
Winemaker: Yes, Jim Waters
History / background: (2/5) No history, a little background in About section
About / Biographies: (3/5) Good overview, but no bios per se
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (4/5) Good description but no notes
Purchase online: (1/5) Apparently not, but perhaps through wine club; not clear; one has to fill out a PDF application and send it in
Directions: Only the street address
News/reviews link: Yes, but very limited
Newsletter / Mailing List: follow on Facebook
Website design: (4/5) Attractive, mostly straightforward to use.
Additional features: Link to LI Wine Country Places to eat & stay.
Up-to-date: Yes, clearly indicated on each page.
Waters Crest Winery
Comment: In some ways its functions can be frustrating, but this is the only website in this survey that gives a page’s most recent update
Winemakers Studio
Comment: see Anthony Nappa Wines, for they share a Website.
Wölffer Estate (4.7 4.9 out of 5)
About / Biographies: (5/5) Good biographies of all the staff
Vineyard / Viniculture information: (5/5) Mostly general observations, with focus on terroir; for viniculture info one needs to dig into the News feature, but as of 2013 there is now a link to the LISW Web site, which details the sustainable practices followed by Wölffer.
Winemaker’s notes / wine description: (5/5) Very complete and full
Technical wine data: Yes, very complete, one could not ask for more
Purchase online: (5/5) Full notes and descriptions immediately accessible to buyer, but not all wines are provided with notes &/or descriptions—an odd inconsistency; they also offer verjus and vinegar
Directions: Yes, text with a painted map (not Google or MapQuest)
News/reviews link: Yes, though a 2013 review by Howard G. Goldberg has no link.
Tours: None appear to be offered
Photo gallery: Yes, on Flcker
Website design: (5/5) Newly updated, clean and attractive, mostly straightforward navigation, but why should one have to dig for the vinicultural information?
Additional features: Weddings & Private events, Wölffer Estate Stables
Wölffer
Comment: One needs to dig a bit for some features. Very complete information in many areas, but strangely lacking in details about the vineyard—no map, mention of acreage, etc.; read Wine & Vineyard and you then have a link to another page, The Vineyard & Winemaking, where one can find out about viniculture. Some inconsistencies with regard to wine notes (very full for some wines, no information at all for others).
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Viniculture in LI, Part III: Osprey’s Dominion
From the Osprey’s Dominion website:
Bud Koehler was among the first vintners to settle on the North Fork.
After retiring from a job in construction in 1983, the Farmingdale native headed out east with his wife and 11 children and purchased a 24-acre plot of land in Peconic. He planted grapes and founded a vineyard that would be in the company of just three others: Hargrave Vineyard, Pindar Vineyards and Paumanok.
“I’ve always been building and making,” he said. “I wanted to make something with my hands.”
He called the vineyard Osprey’s Dominion Vineyards after the brown and grey bird ubiquitous in the North Fork’s skies. The osprey is a “great, courageous bird,” he said, explaining that it dives into waters to snatch fish to eat even though it can’t swim. He likes to think the large raptors watch over his many rows of vines.
In the early years, Mr. Koehler only grew grapes and sold them to surrounding wineries. His entire family, 11 kids and all, hit the grapevines each October, forming their own harvesting crew. He soon expanded the operation by purchasing 16 additional acres near Locust Avenue in Mattituck and teaming up with a good friend, Bill Tyree. Mr. Koehler and Mr. Tyree together purchased 50 more acres in Peconic and decided that adding a winery would make for a more prosperous business.
They had a production facility installed in a building on the newest Peconic property and bottled their first wine in 1991. They restored a farmhouse on Main Road in Peconic, just in front of the largest vineyard, into a tasting room.
Interviews with Adam Suprenant,Winemaker, 23 April & 8 May 2012, updated on 2 February 2013
photo by Wonny Lervisit
Adam Suprenant, winemaker for Osprey’s Dominion, in Peconic, NY, met with me for an interview near Union Square, in New York City, having just been in the company of Peter M.F. Sichel—the influential and well-known wine executive who, among his many achievements, created the popular Blue Nun wine brand—and whom Adam regards as his mentor in the wine world, having known him for many years.
Adam describes himself as a “champion of what goes into the bottle.”
He had earned a BS degree in Agriculture, from Cornell in 1985. At the time, there was but a single one-semester course on viticulture. His first job as a viticulturalist, in 1986, was with the Banfi vineyard operation in Old Brookville, NY, where he worked under Fred Frank. During the Holiday Season of that year he worked as a salesman for Sherry-Lehmann. For the next two years Adam worked for the wine distributor Joseph Victori (now JV Wines) wearing a Brooks Brothers suit while canvassing the liquor stores in the South Bronx, where the product and the clerks worked behind thick bullet-proof Plexiglas. How it was that he was never mugged and robbed he thinks may be explained by the fact that as a man who was apparently Irish, wearing such mufti, must have suggested to the street thugs that he was a plain-clothes policeman or perhaps a Mafioso. They didn’t dare touch him.
After he left Victori, Adam needed time to work out what direction his career would take next, so he worked as a waiter at well-known New York City restaurants such as La Petite Ferme, Tavern on the Green, and Bruxelles. However, by 1992 he realized that he really wanted to make a career in the production end of the wine trade, so he went to California and earned an MS in Enology with a concentration in sensory science from UC Davis in 1996. His Master’s Thesis was a cork quality-control manual.*
While studying for his MS, he applied for an internship to work at the Château Lafite, the great Premier Cru vineyard and winery in Bordeaux. At the time, Lafite had an agreement with the Agricultural School at Davis to take on one intern a year to work for the harvest season. To get in he went on a “charm offensive, in which I overcame myself.”
While there for the ’95 harvest, he was assigned to perform the task of pumpovers (or remontage) in Frenchin the fermentation vats. (As that kind of work wasn’t deemed suitable for women, female interns were assigned to the lab.) Thirty-five days of this work, without a break, left his hands became so deeply stained that months later the stains still showed, for they couldn’t just be washed away. He also served as an intern at Trefethen Winery, a comparatively small enterprise, where he got to do everything—a real hands-on experience.
Post-graduation, Adam then spent two years working for Franciscan Estate in Napa. It was a very large operation, and in such an operation winemakers don’t exactly get to work hands-on. Rather, it is a large-scale commercial, computerized affair, a kind of agricultural factory. The labor costs for such a vast operation would simply be too high and it can be a challenge to maintain consistent quality, though it’s possible to be managed even when the production is greater than 100,000 cases a year. Given all that, Adam says, “My point isn’t that they can’t make high quality wines, which Franciscan did and still does, rather that there is less of a connection between the winemaker, vineyard and the winery cellar than there is in a hands-on small winery like Osprey’s Dominion.”
He returned East in ’98 and worked as winemaker at Gristina Vineyards, in Long Island until 2001. As he explained, “At Gristina I felt it necessary to deconstruct California winemaking because in New York State full grape maturity happens at lower sugar levels due to climatic factors.”
When he arrived in Long Island it was just in time to see the great transition in viticulture that was taking place. As he puts it: “Old School practices were: no irrigation, no deer fence, no leaf removal, no crop thinning, no spray after the nets went on, earlier harvest, widespread virus and trunk disease in some plantings and inadequate vine maintenance due to cost cutting.” Furthermore, they often harvested before the grapes were fully mature.
It took a realignment of the industry that began “in the early aughts”, as the vineyard owners came to understand the need to bring about the changes that had to take place in standard practice: Leaf removal, green harvesting to thin the crop, reduced use of inputs—especially the high-impact versions—ending their use weeks before the harvest to eliminate toxicity on the fruit before harvest, and allowing longer hang time for the fruit to achieve full mature if possible, weather and climate permitting. (This meant that sometimes the fruit would hang in temperatures as low as 51°F, the point at which ripening would slow down and nearly stop.)
Again, in Adam’s words, “The philosophy is to do the ‘right thing’ vis-a-vis the environment, to be a steward of the land in order to perpetuate its use for generations to come.” However, he goes on to say, “The New School [of viticulture] is the opposite of Old School plus widespread planting or replanting of vineyards with better grape clonal selections/varieties, and higher density plantings. [In other words,] the New School means higher inputs because of more hand labor to remove leaves to thin the crop; more vines per acre equals more rows to spray per acre, more deer fence, etc. The irony is that the Old School was actually more sustainable than now because there were less inputs because of lower planting density, less frequent sprays, etc. Now there is an industry-wide focus on high quality, which can only be achieved with more inputs, not less.”
Weather and climate have always been a challenge along the Eastern seaboard, what with storms and hurricanes, high humidity, and a general unpredictability of weather. (Indeed, Adam points out that the hardest climate for viticulture in America is East of the Mississippi.) In October of 2005, for example, the Merlot was just ripe and ready to be picked. Fortunately, there was just enough warning from weather reports to call in crews to take in the grapes, and they managed to pick 80% of the fruit before one week straight of rain arrived, dropping over 15 inches. After the rain we lost between 30-60 percent of the grapes not picked such as Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc. In 2011, a hurricane hit LI in late August, again resulting in very difficult conditions, such that some vineyards lost a great deal of fruit—California certainly doesn’t have this problem.
With respect to sustainable farming, Adam wrote this in an e-mail:
“Osprey has been a pioneer since 2002 in incorporating green practices into our farm and winery operations. These include:
Biodiesel – We began using 100% Biodiesel in 2004 or 2005 and continue to use it but as a blend of 20% Biodiesel with 80% diesel.
Wind Energy – We were approved for a LIPA pilot wind project in 2003 but could not get zoning approval. Eventually the politics and the zoning regulations at the Town changed and we erected a wind generator in 2011.
Nitrogen Fertilizer – We began using pelletized chicken manure in 2005 to supplement our conventional fertilizers. We also produce nitrogen from our cover crop rotation of clover which captures nitrogen from the air and turn it into plant-available nitrogen. This reduces our total need for nitrogen fertilizer.
Pesticides – Our spray program utilizes between 35-45 percent organic materials. The remainder are classified as “reduced risk” or are not “restricted use” pesticides
Alternative Transportation – I am an avid cyclist and regularly bike commute to work 2-3 times a week.”
As indicated in Adam’s list, true sustainability is more than just the reduction of toxic inputs to the vineyard. The carbon footprint of the machinery used in the field is of major concern, so Osprey’s Dominion was an early adopter of bio-diesel fuel (1. above), which is made from vegetative matter. It turned out, however, that the fuel was rather gummy and began clogging the fuel lines, leading to expensive maintenance of the equipment. They now use B20 fuel, which has a 20% biological component—not as ecologically friendly, but a necessary compromise if the equipment was to function effectively.
According to Adam, from a holistic point of view, “True sustainability is where we need to go.” But for him, the term “sustainable” is terribly plastic and can be used to mean almost anything. As he says, “Sustainable is too broadly defined; for example, the use of fossil fuel is not sustainable, yet is allowed under the program.” Hence a certain skepticism on his part about the Long Island Sustainable Winegrowing program, so he isn’t yet ready to commit to involvement in the LISW. But, he points out, “I have not read the LISW plan so I am not directly commenting on their manifesto but my knowledge of sustainable programs in other wine regions.” For him, what is lacking in other programs includes:
Requiring suppliers to be sustainable as well
Employees/owners incorporating sustainability into their lifestyles
Paying a sustainable living wage to all farm employees
With respect to participation in the LISW project, Adam is taking a wait-and-see position. As far as he’s concerned Osprey’s already qualifies as a sustainable operation given its long commitment to sustainable and organic practices. He’s not sure that the certification will mean that much or be worth the trouble.
Apart from the issue of the meaning of “sustainability”, also troubling to him is the overzealous use of the term “organic.” Given that even factory farms claim that their produce is “organic” it raises the question of just what it means when they use it.
However, the reality is that one of the most effective controls for some infestations, such as mildew, is copper, a toxic metal to which eventual resistance is not possible. Less toxic to the general environment is mined copper as opposed to the industrial product. However, it should be borne in mind that organic copper has same toxicity as non-organic. Its use is allowed in sustainable, organic, and even biodynamic agriculture and it is nearly impossible to avoid applying it in all aspects of agriculture, including home gardening, given its irreplaceable long-term effectiveness.
Osprey’s vines are typically planted in rows 9 feet apart with 4 to 10-foot spacing between the vines. They rotate cover crops every three to five years, alternating between fescue and clover. Since 2004 they’ve also been using pelletized chicken manure from Maryland. They prefer to use organic inputs but when necessary will resort to industrial ones.
When he joined Osprey’s Dominion as winemaker in 2001, he at first worked with Tom Stevenson, whom he regards as one of the finest vineyard managers he’d ever known. When Tom retired so that he could spend more time with his family, Wojtek Majeski took over the vineyard, and the two of them now have an excellent, even symbiotic relationship, for Adam walks the vineyard nearly as much as does Wojtek, conferring with him on when to spray, when to green harvest, how much the foliage should be cut back, and especially, as harvest time nears, when to pick the fruit. It was during Adam’s walks in the vineyard that, over time, he discovered that one of the worst pests is the common raccoon, which comes into the vineyard as the grapes are ripening. The animals don’t just go after the low-hanging fruit, for they are capable of climbing the vines. Bird nets, to ward off avian grape predators, are no impediment to the raccoon, which can easily rip them open to get at the grapes. These creatures can only be control by the use of traps.
Adam and Tom Stevenson worked to incorporate greener growing practices. Wojtek has continued on the path that Tom and he started. From the beginning of Adam and Wojtek’s relationship they worked closely together to maintain the sustainability standards of the vineyard.
For example, Osprey’s was among the very first vineyards to use pheromone ties to help control one of the scourges of a vineyard, the Grape Berry Moth (GBM). (Adam explains that “pheromones are mating disruptors, which can only be effective if there is industry-wide application in the vineyard as part of an IPM program supported by the Cornell Extension Program.) But these are expensive, especially given the amount of labor needed to tie the bait in the vicinity of the vines. However, it eliminates spraying insecticide and is therefore a truly sustainable practice. A less costly alternative to the ties is the use of BT, or Bacillus thuringiensis, a rudimentary neurotoxin that is an effective biological pest control, but the moth can and will eventually develop resistance to it. Thus, “We currently control Grape Berry Moth using organic insecticides. An industry-wide program to use pheromone disruption could theoretically negate the need for any insecticide use.”
GBM have been a growing problem since 2007, and the only way to effectively control them is with pheromone ties, which are expensive. The vines need continual scouting since the moths produce several generations in the span of a growing season. In other words, calendric spraying doesn’t work under these circumstances. One consequence of the moth problem has been an increase in botrytis due to the nature of the damage made by them.
What is further needed, then, is a trapping and monitoring system with support and help from the Cornell Agricultural Program. Vineyards can’t afford to deal with this on their own.
So Adam sees himself as an “extra set of eyes and knowledge base; Wjotek and I confer on important vineyard decisions to utilize our over 50 years of combined experience growing grapes. [We] are continuing the work that was largely implemented by Tom Stevenson (who retired from Osprey’s and now owns and operates a no-spray, naturally-grown berry farm in Orient, NY, called Oysterponds Farm).”
Some of Osprey’s property was originally part of Alan Barr’s Le Rêve vineyard. When it was first planted with Chardonnay and Pinot Noir in the 1980s, the rows were 9 feet apart and the vines were at 8-foot intervals in the rows, with posts set 6 feet high. However, in terms of solar exposure the ideal height should be equal to the width of the rows, or a one-to-one ratio. Consequently, in 2000, trellis extenders were added (see picture above) so that the post heights are now 7 ½ feet, and hedging the foliage at the top wire means that the vine heights are now 8 ½ feet, nearly the ideal ratio and means that the more northerly rows are still not shaded until the late summer sunsets. In other words, the height was increased to maximize sunlight capture by the vines, theoretically leading to better quality. The difference may not huge but it might be enough to capture that elusive last 5-10% of maximum quality potential.
100% of the original La Rêve vines were replanted by us between 2003-2007.
The Le Rêve Chardonnay vines were not clonally selected, or as Adam put it, they were the “give me anything” clones. Since Osprey’s purchased the property additional Chardonnay plantings were done using Davis clone 4 and Dijon 95. Although most of the original Pinot Noir vines were pulled to make way for other red varieties, there are still 1 ¾ acres left, made up of four different clones, but the winery only makes red wine in warm years. If, by the third week in September the Pinot has reached 22º Brix then it is made as a red wine; if it only reaches 19º, then it will become a sparkling wine.
There are three acres of Gewürztraminer and an additional three of Carmenere, the latter having been made into a varietal for the first time on Long Island. There is also some Petite Verdot, as well as one hundred vines of Tannat (a red variety native to SW France and widely planted in Uruguay) that are being grown as an experiment.
Adam also has his own wine label, Coffee Pot Cellars, which he started in 2008, since, he said, “I thrive on challenge.” He buys the fruit from Osprey’s, while his Chardonnay comes from Sam McCullough’s vineyard; the wine is made at Osprey’s. Coffee Pot is an “in-the-know” kind of brand. About 750 cases per year are currently being produced and are divided among four wines, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Merlot, and a Meritage blend. Regardless of whatever comes in the future, as far as Adam is concerned, he will always have a relationship with Osprey’s Dominion.
Bud Koehler, Bill Tyree, owners, and Adam. Photo from Adam’s FB page
Indeed, according to the Osprey’s website, Bud “praises his winemaker, Adam Suprenant, and vineyard manager, Wojtek Majewski, for producing quality wines. A recent success was the 2007 Reserve Merlot, which was named best Merlot at the 2011 New York Wine and Food Classic.” As a matter of fact, in 2010 Wine Spectator gave the 2007 Merlot a high mark, 90 and described it thus:
This red is balanced and dense, with ripe plum and black cherry framed by smoke and mineral notes. Sleek, focused and expressive.
Also, the 2009 Pinot Noir was named the “Best Pinot Noir” at the 2012 New York Food and Wine Classic competition. In fact, the awards list is a pretty long one. After all, they grow thirteen varieties and make twenty-three different wines. Visit the website and see for yourself.
44075 Main Rd. • Peconic Long Island, NY 11958 • Toll Free: (888) 295-6188 • Local: (631) 765-6188 • Fax: (631) 765-1903
http://www.ospreysdominion.com/
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Ladies and gentlemen, the proof is right before your very eyes! →
October 2, 2013 · 8:18 PM
Get a room, you two.
Nick Saban calls Paul Finebaum “… a good friend for a long time.”
Filed under Nick Saban Rules, PAWWWLLL!!!
26 responses to “Get a room, you two.”
I never figured out how Pawwl can get his head so far up Sabans ass with those big ol’ ears of his.
There is Paul’s official coronation as Nick Saban’s mouthpiece. I’m sure Paul is being interviewed somewhere right now bad mouthing another SEC program. If anybody has heard him talk about Georgia and Richt on local talk radio, he has done a hell of a job crapping on the program. The man could not have any more contempt for Richt and Georgia.
His work on Gameday this Saturday was especially awkward and poorly delivered, but he does give voice to the lunatic fringe fan base– makes Chuck Oliver blush with envy.
Man I hope we can continue to deliver this year.
A lot of Alabama fans have “Georgia on their minds” right now. They are making snide remarks which are indicative of their not so hidden fear of having a rematch of last years SECCG. They also know that the resurgent UGA program is going to be a lot more successful recruiting than they would like to imagine..In a nutshell, that’s their problem..they only want to imagine Alabama as college football champs forever, and and when their imaginations take them to the shadowy, coming truth…they recoil with dumb criticisms and remarks. PF’s a dummy.
Tried to listen to Finebaum once and just couldn’t stomach it. No idea how people like him continue to find work with pay raises. Kind of like Junior I guess.
Saban:
“I like Paul. He is the only reporter with whom I can see eye to eye.”
I think he is confusing “reporter” with “pundit”
I think Joe, vis a vis Finebaum and Saban was speaking “vertically.”
Zing! 🙂
The look on his face on the WWL the other morning when danny kanell didn’t just say Bama isn’t the best team in the country (he said Oregon), he said they’re not the best in the SEC. Paul could barely contain himself when danny said UGA lol. Oregon would have beaten Bama last weekend, the way they were trying to give the ball away. But unlike Oregon, I expect for Bama, particularly on offense, and UGA’s defensive backfield to both get much stronger as the season progresses.
Peteydawg
Love me some
What would you expect Saban to say? Finebaum is a wholly-owned mouthpiece for Saban and the Tide.
Mayor, you are wrong about that. When Finebaum was gaining attention, it was long ago. He creates this kind of talk and has since he was writing for the B’Ham News back in 1993. Ya’ll are eating right out of his hand. Why are we discussing him? Over coffee every Monday Morning, we would come up with ideas on how we could make him disappear like he never existed. He will go away, because ATOM ANT gets it in the end.
americusdawg
I think Finebaum was hired at the WWL to do exactly what he’s gonna do … stir the pot. I also think that in a couple of years when the tide turns (no pun intended), the powers that be will send Finebaum on his way … ala Craig James style maybe.
This just makes so much sense to me, two of the more unlikeable people in sports, add Junior, and perhaps Suh, for the quartet. Actually, Saban would be Mr. Congeniality in a group like that….good for his image.
Russman7459
Saban has lost control of his Dix.
And it’s no laughing matter.
…until the Georgia State game is over. Then it’s Haha, the joke’s on us.
Satan’s … I mean, Saban’s transparency is so meaningful.
“When guys get suspended, I never ever say what it’s for, so I’m not going there, so don’t ask me. It’s the way I’ve always handled this — every guy. They do right, they wouldn’t be getting suspended. And I don’t know for how long this will be, so don’t ask me that either.”
Sounds a lot like his denial of becoming the HC @ Bamer while coaching the Miami Dolphins.
“I don’t have time for shit like this!”
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/9761124/ha-ha-clinton-dix-alabama-crimson-tide-suspended-indefinitely-violation-team-rules
“And I don’t know for how long this will be, so don’t ask me that either.”
I think that’s not the case. He knows everything
Yep … Saban dreams to be the Bill Belichick of college football …
Until then, he can only be like Bill without the awesome sense of humor
“We haven’t practiced today. We’ve just been sitting in a meeting. He looks great sitting in a meeting,” Belichick said.
http://espn.go.com/blog/new-england-patriots/post/_/id/4749091/belichick-on-gronk-looks-great-in-meeting
Both appear to be built from the same cloth … boiled wool … looks OK on the outside but tends to get irritating on the inside after a while.
Finebaum was called CMR “a woman” on the radio. Stay classy, Paul.
Some say the story is that Mick first introduced them to each other at a Stones concert at the University of Auburn in November of ’69. Nick and Paul became fast friends. They were going cross-country to the last show of that tour in Altamonte but the Trailways blew some rear tires in Jackson. Stranded in Jackson, they tried to pick up some girls at Millsaps but were thrown off campus for being underage because they were so short and had to hitch a ride back on a watermelon truck. Since then they’ve been practically inseparable
I heard Paul Finebaum listens to Nickleback.
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'It Was Never Just About Obstruction': 'BradCast' 5/1/2018
Guest: NatSec journalist Marcy Wheeler on leaked Mueller questions, Cohen tossed under the bus, and Trump stealing his own medical records; Also: GOP photo ID voting restriction law blocked in AR, allowed in TX...
On today's BradCast: The chaos that is the Trump Administration continues to move faster than anyone can possibly keep up with. But we try. [Audio link to show follows below]
First up today: Late last week a judge in Arkansas found the state's second try at a Photo ID voting restriction law to be as unconstitutional as the one struck down by the state Supreme Court four years ago. The new measure, adopted by Arkansas' Republican-majority legislature, has now been blocked in advance of the state's mid-term primaries coming up later this month. Leslie Rutledge, the state Attorney General who unsuccessfully defended the law, failed to demonstrate any evidence of voter fraud in court. The state is now appealing the lower court ruling. But, as we reported back in 2014, Rutledge herself committed actual voter fraud when she voted by mail in Arkansas even after registering to vote in Washington D.C.!
News out of Texas on this front is not as encouraging, as a split decision by a three-judge panel on the conservative 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided to allow that state's new version of its voter-suppressing Photo ID law to be used in the 2018 mid-terms, though opponents are likely to appeal. Lower courts --- and even a unanimous panel on the 5th Circuit itself --- have repeatedly found both versions of the state's GOP-adopted state statute to be unlawful and/or in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
Then, we're joined today by national security journalist MARCY WHEELER of Emptywheel to try and make sense of, among other things, the nearly four dozen questions said to be from Robert Mueller's Special Counsel probe for Donald Trump, as published by the New York Times on Monday night after apparently being leaked by someone on Team Trump. Those questions include queries on Trump's alleged obstruction of justice, as well as Team Trump's so-called "collusion" with Russia before and after the 2016 election.
Wheeler explains why she believes the information was leaked and how its being desperately used by Trump to (falsely) suggest the Special Counsel has found no evidence of "collusion", despite the many published questions in the list which cite issues related to a conspiracy between Russians and members of the Trump Campaign.
"These guys are incompetent at governing and most every other thing, but they are very competent at playing the press. And they have played the press for the last six months, making it seem as if the only risk to Trump has to do with obstruction," Wheeler argues. "More than a third of these questions go to the conspiracy. It was never just about just obstruction."
We also try to make sense of the bizarre, late-breaking story regarding Trump's infamous gastroenterologist, Dr. Harold Borenstein, who is now charging that Trump's longtime personal bodyguard Keith Schiller and a Trump Organization lawyer "raided" his office last year to take Trump's medical records without the required legal forms, shortly after Borenstein told the media that Trump uses a hair-loss drug.
Wheeler also offers her insights into the new evidence suggesting that Trump is now tossing his old business partner and personal lawyer Michael Cohen under the bus in the wake of the recent FBI raids on Cohen's office and residences. "There are so many weird things about the Cohen thing that I hesitate to settle on an explanation for what's going on there, aside from the fact that I think that yeah, Trump is worried about him flipping."
All of it is perhaps best summed up by Wheeler's comment today: "It's a mess. Trump is in trouble."
Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for the latest Green News Report as an EPA whistleblower (and Trump supporter) charges that embattled EPA chief Scott Pruitt lied to Congress during recent testimony, and the Trump Administration is trying again to rollback fuel efficiency standards for vehicles. Both of those stories also have late updates today, as we now learn that two top (and controversial) EPA officials have recently resigned amid the mountain of Pruitt-related scandals, and as California and 17 other states sue the Trump Administration over its new attempt to rollback fuel efficiency...
Article Categories: Arkansas, California, Election Reform, Texas, BRAD BLOG Media Appearance, Election Fraud, Rights And Freedoms, U.S. Constitution, Photo ID Laws, Impeachment, Accountability, Environment, Republicans, EPA, KPFK, Donald Trump, Russia, Oil, Australia, James Comey, BradCast, Michael Flynn, Scott Pruitt, Election 2018, Mike Pompeo, Rod Rosenstein, Robert Mueller, Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen, Leslie Rutledge, Keith Schiller, Howard Borenstein
GOP Furious That Arkansas' Republican AG Candidate Removed From Voting Rolls After Confirmation of Multi-State Registration, Voting
WARNING: Amount of irony in this story may lead to head explosion...
UC Irvine law professor Rick Hasen says this development, which he describes as coming from the "Irony Dept", is just "too delicious".
Leslie Rutledge, the Republican candidate for Attorney General in Arkansas, has been discovered to have been registered to vote in multiple states in addition to Arkansas, and even voted by absentee ballot in Arkansas' general election in November of 2008 --- after she had registered to vote in Washington D.C. [PDF] in July of the same year.
According to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Rutledge has now been removed from Arkansas' voting rolls by the Pulaski County Clerk, after he confirmed that she was registered to vote in D.C., and possibly Virginia. The removal from the rolls may also lead to her ineligibility to be elected to office.
Rutledge's Arkansas absentee ballot request form for the 2008 general election is here [PDF]. And, indeed, her subsequent voter registration form from Virginia is here [PDF].
"For the AG candidate of the party who likes to scream about voter fraud to be registered in two (or three) places at once is ironic and amusing on its own," writes Matt Campbell of Arkansas' "Blue Hog Report", which was on this story from the jump.
"However, the bigger implication is Article 19, section 3, of the Arkansas Constitution," he adds, which states: "No persons shall be elected to, or appointed to fill a vacancy in, any office who does not possess the qualifications of an elector." If Rutledge is not registered in Arkansas, she no longer "possess[es] the qualifications of an elector."
But, believe it or not, none of that is the actual ironic part that Hasen was referring to in his piece on this today. Yes, it gets even more ironic!...
Article Categories: Election Irregularities, Arkansas, Karl Rove, Election Fraud, Election 2008, Rights And Freedoms, Accountability, Voter Registration, Vote Caging, Republicans, Bush Legacy, Election 2014, NVRA, Leslie Rutledge
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Apostrophe catastrophes — 04/28/2010
Apostrophe catastrophes
04/28/2010 /robbiehyman
I just visited the website of an independent film director I know. His About Us section had this tab:
The Exec’s
I thought, The Exec’s what? Did he mean “The Exec’s Background” or “The Exec’s Bio,” and did he just forget to include that extra word?
When I clicked that link, though, I realized he meant “The Execs” — plural, not possessive. But his mistake confused me in two ways — it made me assume there was a missing word, and it suggested the section was about a single exec’s… bio, background, or something else.
Turns out, the section included information on the company’s two executives.
This is a very common mistake that you’ve probably seen many times. Someone writes, “We have several solution’s” or “In the 1980’s….”
If you’re referring to a plural that is not possessive — “several solutions,” “the 1980s” — don’t use an apostrophe.
Related tip: Not sure whether or not to include the apostrophe? Google the word or phrase. Then, in the search results, look for the most reputable source that has your phrase or something similar — a dictionary entry, an article in a major newspaper or magazine. Follow their lead. If they don’t use the apostrophe, then you shouldn’t use it either.
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IEM Oakland
NChang / November 16, 2016
Photo Credit: Oracle Arena *note: picture dates are playoff dates*
Intel Extreme Masters are a prestigious series of esports tournaments held around the world, sponsored by Intel. Their latest tournament brings them to Oakland in Northern California at the Oracle Arena. The tournament will feature a CS:GO and League of Legends tournament running alongside one another. Both tournaments have teams from around the world such as Natus Vincere from the CIS region, Tyloo from China, Flash Wolves from Taiwan, and many more teams. The tournament begins today with group stages and will conclude on the weekend with playoff games.
A total of twelve teams were invited or qualified for the CS:GO tournament. Cloud9, Liquid, SK Gaming and Immortals are the hometown favorites with their origins coming from North and South America. The rest of the teams come from all around the world, with the previously mentioned, Na’Vi and Tyloo, as well as NiP from Sweden, mousesports from Germany, G2 Esports from France, Heroic and Astralis from Denmark, as well as the international super-team, FaZe Clan. The teams were split into two groups and the top three teams from each group will advance to the playoffs. The first place team from each group also get a bye and move directly to the semifinals. The total prize pool for the CS:GO tournament is $300,000 and the winner will take away $125,000 of that.
Natus Vincere SK
G2 Cloud9
Liquid NiP
Immortals mousesports
Astralis FaZe
TyLoo Heroic
League of Legends Tournament
Photo Credit: IEM Oakland
The League of Legends tournament has one team from each major region, and also one team from Brazil. The participants are Flash Wolves from Taiwan, Unicorns of Love from Europe, INTZ Gaming from Brazil, Chiefs Esports from Australia, TSM from the US, and LongZhu Gaming from Korea. The teams will be placed into a playoff bracket with TSM and Flash Wolves getting a bye due to their performance at MSI and making it to Worlds. The total prize for League will be $100,000 with the winner getting half of that amount.
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Yanni, Get Your Gun
United States v. Desinor, No. 05-4500-cr (2d Cir. May 8, 2008) (Walker, Straub, Hall, CJJ)
This prosecution arose from a murderous rivalry between two drug gangs. One, the “Cream Team” (footnote 1 of the opinion, which explains the derivation of this name, is a must-read), was populated largely by the defendants on trial. The rival gang sold drugs out of a neighboring building, and was run by a dealer named Yanni. The appeal raised two issues of first impression relating to jury instructions in homicide cases. The court affirmed on those issues, but one defendant won a partial resentencing.
The Homicide
The trial evidence revealed that members of the Cream Team shot and killed Yanni’s cousin, and that this shooting was the culmination of a period of escalating acts of violence between the two groups. On the day of the shooting, heavily armed Cream Team members were looking for Yanni …
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Kumail Nanjiani’s Little America Apple series to look at immigrant life
During Apple’s livestreamed event on Monday, the company revealed a series of new services and products, including the TV Plus streaming service, which will present a slate of new shows including The Big Sick actor Kumail Nanjiani‘s new series Little America.
At the Apple event, Nanjiani revealed that he and his wife Emily V. Gordon are writing and executive producing the new show about immigrants in America. Little America will have episodes based on true stories featured in Epic Magazine, which are described on the site as “a small, collective portrait of America’s immigrants — and thereby a portrait of America itself,” according to Deadline. More about Apple’s announcement on cNet
Kumail Nanjiani is a Pakistani-American stand-up comedian, actor, podcast host, and writer best known for being a main cast member on HBO’s Emmy Award-nominated series Silicon Valley, as well as for providing the voice of Prismo on the Emmy Award-winning animated series Adventure Time. He starred on the TNT series Franklin & Bash and the Adult Swim series Newsreaders. Nanjiani also co-hosted the Comedy Central show The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail. In addition to his television and film work, he hosted two podcasts: The Indoor Kids and The X-Files Files. In 2018, Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Author garamchaicomPosted on March 31, 2019 Categories culture, entertainmentTags bollywood, culture, indian american, Kumail Nanjiani, TVLeave a comment on Kumail Nanjiani’s Little America Apple series to look at immigrant life
Navaratri and Durga Puja
This weekend culminates the nine-day festival of Navaratri, Dasara and Durga Puja, celebrated by Indians around the world.
Vijayadashami also known as Dasahara, Dusshera, Dasara, Dussehra or Dashain is a major Hindu festival celebrated at the end of Navratri every year. It is observed on the tenth day in the Hindu calendar month of Ashvin, the seventh month of the Hindu Luni-Solar Calendar, which typically falls in the Gregorian months of September and October. While the basis of the festival is similar – the worship of Godess Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswati, the mode of celebration varies across communities.
Gujaratis – Gujaratis are known for their large dance parties known as ‘garbas’. Many grounds in the city play host to these garba celebrations. “We wear a traditional garment called the ‘chaniya choli,’ which is similar to a ‘lehenga’ but made with cotton fabric.” Performances include songs in praise of goddess Durga. The highlight of their festival is the dancing and singing.
Students at an American university campus celebrating Garba
Marwaris – The Marwaris celebrate the festival of Navratri by worshipping goddess Shakti. The nine different forms of the goddess are worshipped on the rest nine days. “On the ninth day, there is a ceremony known as ‘Kanya Pujan’ where girl children are given traditional delicacies as a sign of respect to the goddess,” says Ekta Poddar, a student. Another ceremony called ‘havan’ is performed to mark the power and grace of Durga. The tenth day is ‘Vijayadasami’, the victory of good over evil, where idols of Ravan are burnt.
Ram-Lila in Delhi
Tamilians – The Tamil community focuses on the ‘golu’ arrangement, or the doll display, during this time.The dolls are arranged on an odd number of steps and depict scenes from the Ramayana or even daily life. People are invited to the houses to view the dolls. The celebrations include singing and dancing.
Golu, Bombe habba
Kannadigas – In Karnataka, Dasara or Vijayadashami is celebrated to commemorate the defeat of Ravana and Durga’s triumph over the demon ‘Mahishasur’. “We also have the practice of doll arrangement, called ‘Bombe habba’. We pay obeisance to goddess Saraswati and do ‘Ayudha Puja’ where we worship machines and other things that make our lives easier,” says Kavya, a resident on KR Puram.
Telugus – The community celebrates the Gombe Habba, the practice of setting up doll displays and distributes sweets to visitors. ‘Ayudha Puja’ and worship of the goddess Chamundeshwari on Dashami is also a part of their celebrations.
Bengalis – The Bengalis celebrate the festival for five days. On the sixth day, they conduct a ‘visarjan,’ the immersing of goddess Durga in water. The five days are celebrated with multiple pujas in the morning, followed by a community ‘bhog’ (lunch). Cultural programs are organised in the evenings.
Assamese – The Assamese people celebrate the festival of Durga Puja as a community. They set up statues of goddess Durga in large grounds, which also have food and gift stalls. Shivankar, a member of the Assam Association says, “On the last four days of the festival, we feast on homemade preparations. The maize crop that we grow is offered to the goddess.”
Author garamchaicomPosted on October 18, 2018 Categories culture, entertainmentTags culture, dussera, festival, foodLeave a comment on Navaratri and Durga Puja
Book Review: Bollywood Kitchen
Bollywood and Indian food are perennial topics of conversation among desis in pardes. The Indian diaspora in the North America, Europe especially in the US and UK has done a great job of ‘importing’ wholesome doses of both.
Indian entrepreneurs regularly take over movie theaters across US and Canadian cities to screen latest bollywood hits. This continues to be popular despite the pervasiveness of Youtube, digital streaming and to some extent torrents and (illegal) movie file sharing. Watching a movie on the big screen and enjoying a nice dinner at a local Indian restaurant is a common pastime.
Extract from the book
A recent program ‘Getting to know Bollywood, one meal at a time’ in the popular NPR program, Marketplace, features the new book “Bollywood Kitchen: Home-Cooked Indian Meals Paired with Unforgettable Bollywood Films.” In the interesting interview, the host Kai Ryssdal interviews the author Sri Rao. The Indian-American author talks about working between two film industries, being part of the first generation of American-born Indian-Americans and what his mom said when he told her he was writing a cookbook.
Rao describes his background and the reason for bringing Bollywood and Food together in the book
Yeah, so I’m from a small town in central Pennsylvania, and I was one of very few nonwhite kids in my community growing up. Every day after dinner, my parents would pop a tape into VCR and we would watch these fantastic Bollywood movies, and that’s how I learned the language. That’s how I learned about the music and the culture and so many of the traditions of where my parents came from.
The Indian food in America is now its own thing. And as people like me are starting to come of age now — you know, I’m one of the oldest American-born Indians in the country. Immigration from India was only legalized in 1965. At that time in 1965 when immigration was opened up from India, there were only 10,000 Indians in the entire country, my dad being one of them. And now there are over 4 million I believe, something like that. And so you’re starting to see us as a group come up and sort of find our voice in various fields. So people like, you know, Mindy Kaling and Aziz Ansari in entertainment or Kamala Harris and Nikki Haley in politics. And then in the world of food, this is one of the first or one of a few cookbooks that have been written by someone born in America who is of Indian descent.
Check out the book, Bollywood Kitchen: Home-Cooked Indian Meals Paired with Unforgettable Bollywood Films, on Amazon:
Image from the book
The reviews thus far have been quite flattering
publishersweekly.com
Readers expecting wildly complex preparations and nothing but showy musicals will be pleasantly surprised on both fronts, as Rao offers a refreshingly diverse set of movies as well as recipes that are easily sourced without sacrificing flavor or requiring too much time to prepare.
In “Bollywood Kitchen,” Rao gives new meaning to “dinner and a movie” by creating menus inspired by classic Indian films. Example: Keema (ground beef curry), rajma (kidney bean stew) and naan crisps that are evocative of the lavish melodrama “Devdas.” Masala-crusted salmon, rice and lentils, grilled asparagus and mustard seeds, and mint/cilantro chutney drawn from the Oscar-nominated “Lagaan.” Pan-seared cod with curry leaves and lemon rice with lentils, peanuts and chile for “Guru,” the rags-to-riches story of a self-made billionaire and the woman he loves.
Our editor, Mohan, posts on Amazon Just what a desi mom ordered!
Sri’s new book touches on the heart of two things that keep desis in pardes going: Bollywood and desi food. For those like me of Indian origin, who grew up on a steady diet of desi movies and food, the book is a walk down the memory lane.
The illustrated book has brief movie reviews and recipes interspersed with glossy photographs from bollywood movies. If you are looking for an Informative and entertaining primer on Bollywood and some Indian-American recipes, this is the book for you.
Author garamchaicomPosted on November 29, 2017 Categories bookreview, entertainmentTags book review, books, culture, movie bollywoodLeave a comment on Book Review: Bollywood Kitchen
India has Public Toilets for Transgenders #LGBT
India is a country of contradictions and diversity. The title of a Washington Post article sums it up best: India has outlawed homosexuality. But it’s better to be transgender there than in the U.S. (link)
Picture of the day: Public Toilets for Transgenders #LGBT
Picture of Toilet for Transgenders in a Public Bus stand in Bangalore
Author garamchaicomPosted on October 7, 2017 November 9, 2018 Categories culture, indian american, InNewsTags culture, gay, india, indian, lgbt, social1 Comment on India has Public Toilets for Transgenders #LGBT
Newton: Is India’s Oscar movie entry
‘Newton’ will be India’s official entry to the Best Foreign Film catgory at the Oscars next year, says a Film Federation of India official.
The Amit Masurkar movie, starring Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi, Raghubir Yadav and Anjali Patil, tells the story of polling officer Newton Kumar, who is bent on conducting free and fair elections in the conflict-ridden jungles of Chhattisgarh.
What’s the movie Newton about?
According to IMDB “A government clerk on election duty in the conflict ridden jungle of Central India tries his best to conduct free and fair voting despite the apathy of security forces and the looming fear of guerrilla attacks by communist rebels.”
Some reviewers are declaring Newton to be “one of the finest political satires we have seen in the last couple of years. It refrains from taking sides and offers a humorous take on state versus the Maoists bloody battle.” (HT)
A bit of controversy about the movie:
By Saturday, some people on social media started talking about the similarities between Newton and Iranian film “Secret Ballot”.
Both the films have a protagonist who wants to conduct a free and fair election. It’s Rajkummar Rao in Newton and a female election officer in Secret Ballot. They both are accompanied by a soldier rather a military personnel who doesn’t have much faith in the electoral system.
Author garamchaicomPosted on September 24, 2017 Categories culture, InNews, nri socialTags award, cinema, culture, movie, oscarLeave a comment on Newton: Is India’s Oscar movie entry
Yoga for Kids in America
Yoga is being promoted for holistic, well being. People in India are taking to Yoga in a big way for a number of reasons: to beat the stress of daily life and grind.
The concept of Yoga is also being promoted for holistic healing in the West. You may be interested in checking out GaramChai.com Yoga section. Here is a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) of interest:
Why should kids do yoga?
Yoga is a technology and technology is for everyone & anyone. Scientific research & evidence is rising daily for what many have long said: that a practice like meditation and yoga can help us address many issues that our society is facing. It’s a technology whose benefits are innumerable when applied and learnt from an authentic source.
A few of several benefits for kids to do yoga:
Concentration: Kids learn to focus on their breath during meditation. They learn to
tune into what’s happening on the inside rather than focusing on what’s happening
on the outside. This tremendously helps them in reading, taking tests, completing
homework, and gets them ready for tasks that are required both at school and at
home. And enables them to tap into their creativity.
It’s FUN: A kid’s body is more open and receptive. Children who are introduced to
yoga at an earlier age have access to some distinct advantages as they grow up and
move through life. Yoga helps them to become more joyful. They learn that
everyone falls and everyone gets up. There is no competition.
Enhances flexibility: Yoga promotes physical strength as kids learn to use their
muscles in new ways. It helps the kids to become more aware of their body and
helps them build a deeper understanding of knowing how it functions.
Self-acceptance: Kids will learn to cherish and accept themselves as they are. We all live in a society which is becoming extremely competitive, so it has become very
common to send messages of inadequacy, yoga teaches kids to stay with stable
foundation and have the clarity and energy to be competitive & yet not stress over
its outcome.
All this understanding & more, automatically comes to them from their own experience while doing the practice. If given an opportunity for them to learn the scientifically proven ancient yogic practices & meditation – kids will naturally have the tools to fight the increasing feelings of self-doubt, inadequacy that come during the years and beyond.
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Hatha Yoga stems from a deep understanding of the mechanics of the body, and uses
yogic postures, or yogasanas, to enable the system to sustain higher dimensions of
energy. By practicing this profound science, one can change and enhance the way they
think, feel, and experience life. Hatha Yoga is about creating a body that is not a hurdle
in your life. The body becomes a stepping-stone in the progress towards blossoming
into your ultimate possibility. Developed by globally-renowned yogi, humanitarian and enlightened master, Sadhguru, the Isha™ Hatha School of Yoga has been established to revive the ancient science of Hatha Yoga, with programs taught to millions worldwide.
“Hatha Yoga is about creating a body which is not a hurdle in one’s life. The
body becomes a stepping stone … in one’s progress of blossoming into his
ultimate possibility.” – Sadhguru
Author garamchaicomPosted on August 27, 2017 Categories culture, indian americanTags art, culture, music, technology, yogaLeave a comment on Yoga for Kids in America
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Tax Withholding
What Is a W-9 Tax Form?
by Jeffrey Joyner
The W-9 is another way for the IRS to follow the money.
W-9, W-4, W-2 -- you would think the Internal Revenue Service would run out of form numbers it can use to mystify taxpayers. It hasn’t yet and probably won’t any time soon. The Form W-9, however, is unfamiliar to many taxpayers. If you've been asked to complete one, it means you're among a special group of people. After all, not everyone gets money from someone besides a traditional employer.
The IRS likes to get paid in advance. All year, your employer withholds taxes from your earnings and sends the money to the government. This works well for most people who have regular jobs. The issues arise when you have income that isn't subject to payroll taxes. That’s where a little thing called backup withholding comes in. Under certain conditions, the IRS can require people who owe you money to retain a percentage from every payment as backup withholding. Your W-9 verifies you are not subject to this kind of tax.
What Triggers Requests
If you get any type of income for which you'll need a 1099 at the end of the year, you may be asked for a W-9. For example, if you work as an independent contractor designing websites from your home, every customer who pays you more than $600 during a calendar year may want you to complete the form. If a broker mails you dividend checks, or you have an interest-bearing bank account, prepare for a W-9 request. Individuals involved in bartering or receive royalties may also need to fill one out.
If You Refuse
If you're asked to complete a W-9 and you don’t comply, whoever is paying you must, by law, immediately begin withholding the percentage specified by the IRS. At the time of publication, the rate was 28 percent. Once the backup withholding starts, it won’t stop until you send in a valid W-9. The company that withheld the money isn’t going to return it, either. You only recover the money when you file your annual income tax return.
Don’t think you can circumvent the system by omitting your Social Security number or providing a bogus number. If the taxpayer identification number is missing from the W-9, backup withholding kicks in automatically. A phony number might buy you a little time -- in more ways than one, incidentally -- but the company will be notified, and the backup withholding will go into effect.
Using a fake taxpayer identification number leaves the door open for the IRS to file charges against you. That can cost you money, or earn you a stint in jail. If you refuse to supply the form at all, the most you will normally face is a $50 fine per refusal. If you get 10 or 20 requests a year, like some contractors do, that can still add up to a nice chunk of change.
Internal Revenue Service: Form W-9, Request for Taxpayer Identification Number and Certification
IRS.gov: Topic 307 — Backup Withholding
Internal Revenue Service: Publication 1281, Backup Withholding for Missing and Incorrect Name/TIN(S)
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by Douglas E. Richards
"A keep-you-up-all-night thriller. Intense action, mind-blowing concepts, and breathtaking twists. Enjoy the ride." —Boyd Morrison, bestselling author of The Vault.
Kira Miller is a brilliant genetic engineer who discovers how to temporarily achieve savant-like capabilities in all areas of thought and creativity. But what if this transcendent level of intelligence brings with it a ruthless megalomania? David Desh left the special forces after his team was brutally butchered in Iran. Now he has been reactivated for one last mission: find Kira Miller, the enigmatic genius behind a bioterror plot that threatens millions. But when Desh learns that the bioterror plot is just the tip of the iceberg, he is thrust into a byzantine maze of deception and intrigue, and he becomes a key player in a deadly game he can't begin to understand. A game that is certain to have a dramatic impact on the future course of human history...
Wired is a smart thriller crammed with breakneck action, mind-expanding science, and intriguing concepts readers will be contemplating long after they've read the last page.
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Jersey City, New Jersey — January 8, 2020 —AvePoint, the leading provider of data governance, protection and migration solutions for Office 365 and SharePoint, today announced approximately $200 million in commitments from new minority equity investors to fuel its global growth and expansion, as well as partially recapitalize long-term shareholders. The capital raise was led by a substantial Series C Preferred Equity investment from TPG Sixth Street Partners with additional participation from both new and existing investors, including Goldman Sachs.
AvePoint continues to experience outstanding growth driven by the rise in adoption of Office 365 and other cloud office solutions. AvePoint’s most popular solution, Cloud Governance, helps organizations better govern and secure Microsoft Teams, the fastest growing business application in Microsoft’s history. The company is also the only scaled vendor that provides Microsoft Teams backup solutions as well as Slack to Teams migration solutions and services.
Today, more than 7 million cloud users and 16,000 large enterprises across all seven continents trust AvePoint software and services for their data management, protection and migration, needs.
AvePoint plans to use its latest round of funding to accelerate its growth and investment into its channel offerings that provide managed service providers (MSPs) the tools to better migrate, manage and protect the Office 365 environments of their small and medium business clients. AvePoint aims to add more than 40,000 customers through the channel in the next two years.
MSPs can currently purchase AvePoint solutions from a wide variety of distribution partners including Synnex, TechData, and Intcomex. In July 2019, global distributor Ingram Micro announced AvePoint as its exclusive migration and backup solution provider as part of its Modern Workplace Accelerate program.
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The senior management team, including co-founders and co-CEOs Kai Gong and Tianyi Jiang, will continue to lead the company. Michael McGinn, Partner and Co-Head of Capital Solutions at TPG Sixth Street Partners, will join AvePoint’s board of directors.
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Random Gallery - Cruiser
Random Butterfly Gallery
The Cruiser (Vindula dejone erotella)
Last Sunday was scorching hot out in the field, and ButterflyCircle member EC Goh managed to nail an excellent shot of this puddling male Cruiser (Vindula dejone erotella) within the Central Catchment Area nature reserves. The Cruiser is a common forest butterfly that makes rare forays into urban areas. The species is dimorphic, in that the male and female are different in appearance.
This shot was taken under direct sun, and EC did well in maintaining the exposure of the underside of the butterfly without blowing out the details. The added bonus that makes this shot special, are the extended legs of the butterfly, that makes it look like a ballerina on tip-toe.
Butterfly of the Month - October 2012
The Orange Emigrant (Catopsilia scylla cornelia)
"The falling leaves drift by the window... The autumn leaves of red and gold", so goes the lyrics of an oldie, Autumn Leaves. This version of the Autumn Leaves is in tribute to Andy Williams, who passed away at the age of 85 last month. This crooner was very much a part of my growing up years as he entertained my family with many of his golden sentimental hits of yesteryear. As the colours of autumn begin to paint the landscapes of the northern hemisphere, we are now almost at the end of October 2012.
A heavily-marked female Orange Emigrant feeding on the flowers of Lantana
A couple of months back in my August 2012 article, I mentioned how social media has pervaded many aspects of our lives, and how we interact and relate to the community at large. Whilst social media platforms like Facebook has its positive side of bringing people and communities together to share information, a grim reminder of the 'dark side' of being too open and vocal with one's thoughts was played out in Singapore recently.
An Assistant Director of the Singapore National Trades Union Congress, probably irritated at the noise from activities at the void deck of her residential block, posted rather inflammatory and racist comments on her Facebook wall. She was summarily terminated from her employment in all of 24 hours, and the cyberworld was aflame with comments from all and sundry.
A "multi-tasking male Orange Emigrant feeds as it remains mated to the female
A grim reminder indeed, at the seriousness with which racist comments can be dealt with, in multi-racial Singapore, where its delicate racial harmony cannot be taken for granted. And also a timely reminder that in social media platforms like Facebook, one cannot be too careful about saying something and assume that it is only for private viewing. The speed at which socially unacceptable comments can go viral is quite literally, at the speed of light!
Coming back to our world of nature, a definitely more benign and peaceful world, the month of October is associated with the Calendula or Marigold. It belongs to a genus of about 20 perennial or herbaceous plants belonging to the daisy family Asteraceae. The Calendula normally has layered petals that are oval in shape and can grow to be 3-7cm across. The colours range through various shades of yellow and orange.
Also featuring a rich orange-yellow colour, is our butterfly of the month, the Orange Emigrant (Catopsilia scylla cornelia). A predominantly urban butterfly, the Orange Emigrant is often observed in the company of other Pierids, flying powerfully and restlessly in parks and gardens in Singapore. It has a strong and erratic flight, and is skittish.
A rare upperside shot of a male Orange Emigrant
The Orange Emigrant has white forewings with black borders and deep orange-yellow hindwings on the upperside. On the underside, both the fore and hindwings are orange-yellow with dark brownish spots and markings. The female has a series of irregular sub-marginal spots on the forewing above and a broad black marginal border on the hindwing. The underside markings of the female are more prominent and often of a deeper orange than the male.
The butterfly is often found fluttering around the bushes of its preferred caterpillar host plant, Senna surattensis (Scrambled Egg Bush or Glaucous Cassia). This roadside plant is common in Singapore, and is cultivated as a popular landscaping bush with its green foliage and bright yellow flowers.
A puddling male Orange Emigrant
The Orange Emigrant is relatively common although the species cannot be said to be abundant or as common as its relative, the Lemon Emigrant. Unlike the Lemon Emigrant, which has many male and female forms, the Orange Emigrant occurs in only a single consistent physical appearance. It is most active on hot sunny days, and flies at treetops as well as coming down frequently to feed on flowers of its favourite nectaring plants. Occasionally, males of the species are observed to puddle on damp forest paths.
Text by Khew SK : Photos by Sunny Chir, Khew SK, Nelson Ong, Anthony Wong & Benjamin Yam
A New Taxon for Singapore!
Discovery of the Banded Lineblue (Prosotas lutea sivoka)
Our new addition to the Singapore Checklist, Prosotas lutea sivoka
It's rather intriguing that when we least expect it, a species that may have been hiding in certain localised patches of forests in Singapore suddenly turns up out of the blue. In this particular instance, a very small butterfly at that! Last weekend, ButterflyCircle member Federick Ho was out exploring the relatively urban forested area of Bukit Brown cemetery when he came across something that looked strange fluttering amongst the bushes. He managed to take a relatively good shot of it that sufficed to identify it as the Banded Lineblue (Prosotas lutea sivoka)
According to the two tomes about butterflies of Malaysia and Singapore - Corbet & Pendlebury's "Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula (C&P4) and W.A. Fleming's "Butterflies of West Malaysia and Singapore", this species is normally found in primary forest below 2,500 ft. It has not been recorded from Singapore before.
Another shot of a Prosotas lutea sivoka taken at Fraser's Hill in Malaysia for comparison
Another recce trip a couple of days later by ButterflyCircle member Horace Tan also yielded a further sighting of this species at the same location, validating Federick's earlier find. We now add this diminutive Lycaenidae to the Singapore Butterfly Checklist as species #304. Whilst a number of new species to be added to the checklist are still under investigation by various experts, this little Prosotas, that is so distinctly marked as to eliminate any doubt as to its identity, will be henceforth included in the checklist.
A heavily cropped shot of another individual of the new find shot by Horace Tan on a different day
The hindwing subapical spot in space 6 and sometimes in space 5 as well as the two tornal spots, one in space 2 and a much smaller one in space 1b, puts it beyond doubt that this is Prosotas lutea sivoka. It is a new find for Singapore, and more importantly first found in the 0.86 km2 Bukit Brown cemetery - an area that had sparked off some controversy when the Land Transport Authority announced plans to construct a new road across the site.
Why is it that after all these years, this species eluded all the butterfly watchers in Singapore? Did it just recently appear, or was it hiding in the Bukit Brown area, just waiting for someone to discover it? We cannot say for sure. We only hope that with the adjusted alignment of the proposed road at Bukit Brown, this species will still continue to survive at its current habitat, and perhaps other parts of Singapore.
Text by Khew SK : Photos by Federick Ho, Lemon Tea & Horace Tan
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Life History of the Yellow Vein Lancer
Life History of the Yellow Vein Lancer (Pyroneura latoia latoia)
Genus: Pyroneura Eliot, 1978
Species: latoia, Hewitson, 1868
Sub-species: latoia, Hewitson, 1868
Caterpillar Local Host Plant: Oncosperma horridum (Arecaceae, common name: Mountain Nibung Palm).
Above, both sexes are dark brown with the forewing having a number of hyaline spots: two small sub-apical spots in spaces 6 and 7; four decreasing-size pale yellow spots in spaces 2-5; and two elongated cell spots with lower one larger and closer to the wing base There is a yellow streak running from wing base to the costal margin, and a broader one in space 1b. In the hindwing, there is a post -discal series of hyaline spots in spaces 2-5. A streak runs from this post-discal band to the cell-base and another runs to the base of space 1a. Underneath, the wings are marked in spots as per the upperside and in a brown base colour. The veins are marked broadly in yellow with opalescent spots and streaks between them. The cilia are orange in both wings. The antennae are coloured yellow in both the shaft and apiculus in the male, and only the apiculus in the female.
This species occurs mainly in the nature reserves where it is relatively common. Adults are typically found taking nectar from the inflorescence of the forest plant Leea indica. It is not uncommon to observe several individuals on the same inflorescence. The adults are fast flyers and prefer to perch on the upperside of a leaf to rest.
Local host plant: A partial view of a leaf of Oncosperma horridum.
Local host plant: Oncosperma horridum.
The local host plant, Oncosperma horridum, is a tall clustering palm with pinnate leaves, and with its stem covered in black and downward pointing spines. This palm can be found growing in the Central Catchment Reserve in relative abundance at certain localities. The caterpillars of the Yellow Vein Lancer feed on leaves of this plant, and live in shelters made by joining edges of leaf fragments together with silk threads.
A mother Yellow Vein Lancer laying an egg on the upperside of a leaflet of the host plant.
The eggs are laid singly on the upperside of a leaflet of the host plant. Each dome-shaped egg has a thickened whitish rim surrounding a circular polar region which houses the micropylar. A number (18 and 19 in the two eggs observed) of radial whitish ridges run from the rim to the base. The base diameter is about 1.5-1.6mm. When freshly laid, the egg is pinky red to salmon red. The colour changes to pale yellow or greyish white as the egg matures over the new few days.
Two views of an egg of the Yellow Vein Lancer.
A mature egg with the young caterpillar already nibbled away the polar part of the egg shell.
It takes about 4 days for the egg to hatch. The young caterpillar eats just enough of the shell to emerge, and has a length of about 4mm. Its body is mainly yellowish orange and its head black in colour. There is a black collar on the prothorax. The newly hatched proceeds to consume the rest of its egg shell soon after emergence. With its first meal consumed, it will then build its first leaf shelter by cutting a leaf fragment, folding it over and securing it to the opposing leaf lamina with silk threads.
A sequence of three pictures showing the construction of the first leaf shelter.
Two views of a 1st instar caterpillar, length: 3mm.
The body color changes to pale yellowish green after a few feeding sessions on the leaf. Between feedings, the caterpillar retreats to its shelter for rest and security. The 1st instar takes about 3 days to complete with the body length reaching up to 5.5-6mm.
1st instar caterpillar, late in this stage, dormant prior to its moult, length: 5mm.
The 2nd instar caterpillar is yellowish green in body colour. A touch of reddish orange on its dorsum can be seen in the early part of this instar. A colour change in the head results in it being dark yellowish brown with a broad black band lining its periphery. The black collar on the prothorax seen in the 1st instar is no longer present. This instar lasts about 4 days with the body length reaching about 7.5mm-8mm.
Two views of a 2nd instar caterpillar, early in this stage, length: 4.5mm.
Two views of a 2nd instar caterpillar, late in this stage, length: 7.5mm.
Two views of a 2nd instar caterpillar, dormant prior to its moult.
The 3nd instar caterpillar resembles the 2nd instar caterpillar closely in body markings and coloration. The only visible change is in the lightening of the shade of yellowish brown colouration of the head capsule. This instar lasts about 4 days with the body length reaching about 11-12mm.
Two views of a newly moulted 3nd instar caterpillar, eating its exuvia.
Two views of a 3nd instar caterpillar, later in this stage. length: 9.5mm.
The 4th instar caterpillar is pale yellowish white in body color with a green undertone. The head capsule has a faint black stripe along the front cleavage line. The base colour of the head capsule is paler than in the earlier instar. Two elongated whitish marks, rather faint in this instar, appear in the area between the mouth and the stemmata (eyes) on each side. This instar lasts 4 days with the body length reaching up to about 16-17mm.
A newly moulted 3nd instar caterpillar, eating its exuvia.
Two views of a 4th instar caterpillar, female, length: 17mm.
The 5th (and penultimate) instar caterpillar resembles the 4th instar caterpillar closely with the only change occurring in the head. The black stripe lining the front cleavage line is now broader, and in some specimens, two small black "cheek" marks appear. The two elongated marks lying between the mouth and the stemmata (eyes) on each side, which first appear in the previous instar, are now more prominent. A dorso-lateral white band, faint in appearance, one on each side of the body, runs lengthwise from the prothorax to the anal plate. This instar takes about 4-6 days to complete with the body length reaching up to 24-25mm.
A newly moulted 5th instar caterpillar.
The 6th (and final) instar caterpillar resembles the 5th instar caterpillar closely with the body colour lightened to a pale shade of yellow. In the head capsule, the "cheek" marks become a fixture, and all black markings are now bolder and prominent. Likewise, the two dorso-lateral whitish bands spanning the body length are now more eye-catching. This instar takes about 8-9 days to complete with the body length reaching up to 35-37mm.
A 6th instar caterpillar, length: 31mm.
Towards the end of the 6th instar, the body of the caterpillar shortens and its coloration changes to a very dark shade of yellowish green with a strong purplish undertone. Colour darkening is also seen in the head capsule. Soon it becomes dormant in its leaf shelter and enters the prepupatory phase, during which it secretes a white waxy substance and spins a silk pad and a silk girdle to ready itself for the pupation event.
A 6th instar caterpillar, late in this intar, length: 36mm.
A 6th instar caterpillar, with colour changes taken place, and after cessation of food intake, length: 30.5mm.
A pre-pupa of the Yellow Vein Lancer.
After a pre-pupal period of about 2 days, pupation takes place within the leaf shelter. The pupa secures itself with a (weak) silk girdle and cremastral attachment to transverse silk bands on the substrate. It is dark brown in the anterior end (including the head, thorax and the wing case), and pale yellowish brown in the abdomen. Length of pupae: 20-21mm.
Two views of a pupa of the Yellow Vein Lancer.
On the last day of the pupal period, the pupa becomes mostly dark brown with yellow markings (on the forewing upperside) visible in the wing cases. Finally after a pupal phase of about 9.5-10 days, eclosion takes place with the adult emerging from the pupal case.
Three views of a mature pupa of the Yellow Vein Lancer.
A newly eclosed Yellow Vein Lancer.
A Field Guide to the Butterflies of SIngapore, Khew S K, Ink on Paper Comm. Pte. Ltd, 2010.
Text by Horace Tan, Photos by C K Chng, Anthony Wong, Khew SK and Horace Tan
Random Gallery - Black Veined Tiger
The Black Veined Tiger (Danaus melanippus hegesippus)
Canon 5D MkIII : ISO 1250 ; 1/2500s ; f/9 ; Tamron 180mm ; fill flashed
The Butterfly Hill on Pulau Ubin is a good place to do butterfly watching and photography. The hill has been planted with butterfly-attracting plants by NParks, and on most sunny days, a visitor will be able to see many species of butterflies fluttering amongst the flowers of the various nectaring plants at the hill. ButterflyCircle members had an outing at the Butterfly Hill last weekend and were greeted with many butterflies on the hot and humid morning.
The Black Veined Tiger (Danaus melanippus hegesippus) were out in numbers and we spotted at least 3-4 individuals flying around the flowers of Bidens alba. This shot, captured by Simon Sng, portrays the subject in a well-balanced composition where the gentle arch of the flower complements the butterfly perched comfortably as it extends its proboscis to feed.
Featuring ButterflyCircle's Jonathan Soong
Butterfly watching has been catching on in Singapore and many countries in the region. In particular, countries like Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and India stand out, especially where the number of enthusiasts and books written on their butterfly fauna are concerned. There are several groups in social media and formal societies dedicated to butterfly watching, education and conservation that have sprung up in these countries, and making their presence felt in the scientific and amateur hobbyist communities.
In Singapore, the groups dedicated to butterfly watching are slowly growing, but generally with not as many members as compared to those in our neighbouring Asian countries. However, there is a number of young and enthusiastic members who show great potential for the future of butterfly conservation and education in Singapore.
An example of such a young and talented member of the butterfly watching community in Singapore is ButterflyCircle's own Jonathan Soong. Starting at the very young age of only 11 when he first came on to the butterfly watching scene, Jonathan has learnt fast and has accumulated a good knowledge of local butterfly species.
Taking a look at some of the photos that Jonathan has taken in recent months, one would be amazed to discover that this is the work of a 13-year old Secondary 1 student in a premier school in Singapore! His eye for detail and aesthetics gives him an edge when it comes to butterfly photography, and his work is very much on par with many of the more experienced and older photographers in the group.
But Jonathan's talent and determination to improve both his knowledge of butterflies and photography cannot have been realised without the outstanding support from his family. There have been many outings that ButterflyCircle members have had, where Jonathan's mom, dad and sister have accompanied the group on long walks in the scorching sun and humid weather in Singapore.
Jonathan's unbridled enthusiasm for butterflies would have all been in vain without parental support. Especially in Singapore where 'kiasu' (overseas readers please google this colloqial Singapore term) parents are more concerned with good academic grades and going for extra curricular activities like music, swimming and so on, which would be more relevant to giving their children a leg up in the adult world's rat race. So kudos to Jonathan's mom and dad for the support that they have given to him to further his interest in this hobby.
A sample of his works are featured throughout this blog article, and one can be forgiven if one assumes that all these excellent photographs of butterflies are of the work of someone much older, using more sophisticated equipment. But no, these are Jonathan's personal efforts, using his humble entry-level Canon DSLR coupled with a Tamron 180mm macro lens.
Jonathan is also game to "rough it out" in the field, often in wild places where young urbanised kids would scream in terror at a cockroach or a lizard. But not this young talented boy. Given his age and size, there are times when I know that Jonathan wished that he were taller and sturdier when holding his heavy photographic equipment in the forests of Singapore whilst chasing after an elusive rarity! But his determination and tenacious focus often make up for these temporary physical disadvantages.
Beyond his above-average intellect, Jonathan is also a well-mannered boy with respect for those older than him. But his other talent in art, particularly in nature paintings done in oils, stand out. When he has the time away from his books, Jonathan does amazing oil paintings of birds and butterflies that would put many of us to shame! His remarkable skill in portraying nature subjects, particularly birds, in his oil paintings is something that not many can match. I am quite certain that his works would have a decent commercial value amongst nature art collectors!
Given his young tender age and exceptional talent, there is definitely a bright future for this teenager. Besides his academic achievements, there is certainly hope for the future of butterfly conservation in Singapore and beyond, if there are more of our younger generation kids like Jonathan who are willing to take up the hobby of butterfly watching and conservation, and becoming a future leader in the protection of our nature and environmental heritage in Singapore.
Young Jonathan (right) at the launch of ButterflyCircle's Caterpillar book, with another young member, Brian Goh
Text by Khew SK : Artwork pieces by Jonathan Soong ; Photos by Jonathan Soong, Sunny Chir, Anthony Wong & Khew SK
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Premiere: VUT Indie Days Köln
In 2020 the VUT Indie Days will take place for the first time in Cologne, as part of the c/o pop Convention. For the last four years the VUT West has been our co-organizer for the New Talent workshops. Now, for the first time, the entire, nationwide operating VUT – Verband unabhängiger Musikunternehmer*innen e.V. will be taking part as our partner, with the VUT Indie Days Cologne. On Friday, April 24, 2020 there will be diverse panels and on Saturday, April 25, 2020 CUT will present several New Talent workshops and expert sessions.
The first confirmed speakers of the VUT Indie Days are Kerri Pollard (Patreon, USA), Frank Spilker (Die Sterne), David Möllerstedt (teenage engineering, SE), Mag. DI Dr. Christine Bauer (Johannes Kepler University Linz, AT), Volker Rieck (FDS File Defense Service UG) and Ronny Krieger (VUT e.V.).
The following topics will be part of the program of the VUT Indie Days Cologne:
The Power of Creative Communities – „Gemeinsam sind wir stark!“ (Together We are Strong!) The creative community and its connection to the individual creativity and the social purpose of a creative network.
Forever Young – We pursue the question how artists remain creative, fit and relevant lifelong.
Gender biases and discrimination in AI – Artificial intelligence can not be objective since it is based on the traditional patterns of regulation. How can we rectify discrimination with AI?
Where‘s the revolution? – New instruments and technological achievements have contributed to the development of new musical genres in the last decades. We will analyze which equipment will create new forms of music today and in the future.
Practical check of the new copyright – The panel takes a look at the former practice of licensing music as well as the chances and risks that will result from the new EU copyright directive, especially in article 17.
Music Industry Women presents: Intersectionality and music business – If you look closely you can tell that not only women are under-represented in the music business and that well-established music industry practices unearth racism, trans- and homophobia as well as other isms. How important is intersectionality in the popular culture?
Jörg Heidemann the managing director of VUT says about the premiere in Cologne:
"The music industry is constantly changing and requires from our members to stay up-to-date on current problems, solution approaches and innovative developments. To further strengthen the exchange with one another we are expanding our yearly industry meeting during Reeperbahn Festival on the c/o pop Convention and are happy to also be in Cologne with the Indie Days next year!"
Ralph H. Christoph, Head of the c/o pop Convention, adds:
"It has always been a central objective of the c/o pop Convention to strengthen the independent music scene as a talent pool and driver of innovations, thanks to the cooperation with the VUT we are able to offer even more concrete input and chances to network at the VUT Indie Days Köln for people who work in the independent music business, so they can strengthen the position of the musicians in a changing market."
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Category: Injunction against caveating
26. Four disparate cases – (1) Injunction against caveat – (2) Residuary beneficiary and prospective testator's family maintenance claimant with no caveatable interest – (3) Offer of caveat not sufficient security for costs – (4) Failure to remove caveat as breach of mortgage.
This blog deals with 4 cases not warranting a blog in their own right, at times however dealing with arcane points. They are –
R.G. Murch Nominees Pty Ltd v Paul David Annesley & Ors [2019] VSC 107 (26 February 2019) Sloss J. – A further contribution by Mr Annesley, the subject of Blog 4, to the law on injunctions against caveats, he succeeding in this instance.
In the matter of the Will of Dorothea Agnes Baird [2019] VSC 59 (13 February 2019) Keogh J. – A reminder that a residuary beneficiary of an estate does not have a proprietary interest in a specific asset during administration, nor does a prospective testator’s family maintenance claimant have an interest in land in the estate.
Brooklyn Landfill & Waste Recycling Pty Ltd v Commonwealth Golf Club Inc [2019] VSC 52 (6 February 2019) Hetyey JR. – which in short held that the offer by the plaintiff’s director to consent to lodgment of a caveat over her property was insufficient security for costs. [40], [42]
S Pty Ltd v B V [2019] VSC 125 (4 March 2019) Lansdowne AsJ. – which in short, in the course of a much wider dispute, noted that a registered proprietor, who commenced a proceeding for caveat removal but by orders agreed that the proceeding be stayed, was in breach of his obligation under a mortgage to cause a caveat lodged without the consent of the mortgagee to be removed. [34]
R.G. Murch Nominees Pty Ltd v Paul David Annesley & Ors [2019] VSC 107 (26 February 2019) Sloss J.
The facts were:
The first defendant (Annesley) was director of a company which owned a rural property mortgaged to a bank. There had been lengthy litigation between the bank and the company. In August 2018 the bank conducted a mortgagee’s sale at which the plaintiff, whose sole director was Mr Murch (Murch), entered a contract to purchase the property. The contract was settled, the plaintiff became registered proprietor and a mortgage by it was registered.
After settlement of the sale there were altercations between Murch and Annesley, allegations of violence by Murch, intervention orders, and the execution by the defendants of a document whereby certain defendants were purportedly appointed to take control of property of the plaintiff for the purpose of enforcing a security interest.
The plaintiff brought this proceeding in substance to prevent the defendants interfering with the plaintiff or what it purchased, including seeking an injunction against registering or attempting to register any caveat over the land and certain other land of which the plaintiff was registered proprietor. It relied on the body of past conduct of Annesley in the improperly lodging caveats and similar documents, recorded in judgments of various courts, as manifesting his modus operandi.
As to caveats her Honour found or held –
1. The plaintiff was in substance applying for a quia timet injunction and so was required to demonstrate a threatened infringement of the plaintiff’s rights sufficiently clearly to justify the court’s intervention. This application did not arise from previous caveat lodgment over the land but from the defendants’ history. [79]
2. Authorities related to quia timet injunctive relief established the following principles –
(a) the plaintiff must show that what the defendant intended or was likely to do would cause immediate (or imminent) and substantial damage to its property or business. However, no fixed or absolute standard of proof was required;
(b) the court would have regard to the degree of probability of apprehended injury, the degree of the seriousness of the injury, and the requirements of justice between the parties. [79]
3. There being no evidence of the relevant defendants threatening or intending to lodge caveats over the plaintiff’s land, the plaintiff’s apprehension that they may do so did not qualify as an ‘imminent’ threat, and accordingly no injunction would issue. [87]
In the matter of the Will of Dorothea Agnes Baird [2019] VSC 59 (13 February 2019) Keogh J.
The facts were –
· Dorothea Baird, who had two sons Peter and Michael, was registered proprietor of a property at Rhyll and was also registered as a one third proprietor of a property at Wonthaggi.
· On her death Peter obtained probate of her will under which she left her interest in the Wonthaggi property to him, made dispositions of property other than of land, and left the net residue of her estate to both sons equally as tenants in common.
· Michael foreshadowed a testator’s family maintenance proceeding. He also lodged caveats against both properties stating as the grounds of his claim
that he was a beneficiary under the will.
· Peter brought this proceeding inter alia under the TLA s. 90(3) to remove the caveats.
His Honour held –
1. That the caveator had not raised a serious question to be tried that he had an interest in the properties. In particular –
(a) as a residuary beneficiary he did not have a legal or equitable interest in a specific asset of the estate during the course of administration, only a chose in action, or personal right, to compel proper administration of the estate by the executor. Further, the residue did not come into existence until administration of the estate was complete;
(b) the proposed testator’s family maintenance gave him no interest in the property. [21]-[22]
2. The balance of convenience also favoured caveat removal. [23]
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21. Options – Indemnity costs – Injunction against caveating
Pollard v Pollard [2019] VSC 21 (8 February 2019) Daly AsJ.
Kuipers v Harrington (No 2) [2019] VSC 190 (25 March 2019) Derham AsJ.
These two cases are in contrast. Pollard illustrates that a well drawn option to purchase creates a caveatable interest. Kuipers illustrates a badly drawn option clause, no caveatable interest, and consequential award of indemnity costs and enjoining of the caveator.
Pollard v Pollard [2019] VSC 21 (8 February 2019) Daly AsJ. This was not a case under the TLA s. 90(3) but was a trial in which, if the defendant succeeded (as she did), she would have a caveatable interest. The facts were –
· In 2004 the parties entered into a deed inter alia concerning a property owned by a company and later by the plaintiff which included (cl. 5.7) that if the plaintiff wished to sell it he must first give the defendant the option to purchase it: at a value calculated by multiplying the annual gross rent paid by the tenants at such time by 10 times; but if it was untenanted, then at current market value established by sworn valuation; and the defendant was to be given at least 30 days’ prior notice in writing of such intention to sell, with her then to exercise her option to purchase within 21 days of receipt of such notice;
· In 2009 the defendant lodged a caveat on the grounds of “As beneficiary of an option to purchase pursuant to a written agreement” then describing the agreement;
· In February 2018 the plaintiff informed the defendant that the property was going on the market, stated its market value according to a real estate agent, and asked her intentions. At that time the property was leased to a tenant;
· Initially the defendant stated that she was not interested in purchasing the property and that the caveat would only be lifted at settlement of a sale. Subsequently she confirmed that she wished to exercise her right to purchase at 10 times the current annual rent;
· The plaintiff commenced proceedings seeking removal of the caveat.
Daly AsJ found or held –
1. The plaintiff was obliged to give the defendant the option to purchase the property at the price calculated in accordance with the Deed, ie to give 30 days’ notice of intention to sell and concurrently to give the option to purchase the property at ten times the annual rental receivable at the time of the notice. The obligation to offer the property to the defendant for sale at market value only arose if the property was untenanted. [32]
2. The defendant was only obliged to respond to an offer made in accordance with the Deed. No such offer was ever made. She was not required to enquire whether the property was tenanted. [35]
3. The defendant was entitled to an order for specific performance of the plaintiff’s obligations. [34], [37]-[46]
The chronology was –
· The plaintiffs owned a 38.38 ha. property at West Rosebud. On 4 April 2014 they and the first defendant executed a “Heads of Agreement” and a “Deed of Agreement”. Under the Deed the first defendant was to facilitate development of the property by subdividing it into ten acre lots, in return for transfer to him of one such lot. Clause 7 of the Deed purported to give the first defendant the plaintiffs’ consent to the lodgement of a caveat over the land to ‘better secure the opportunity’ for the first defendant to develop it;
· The Heads, described by his Honour as “an ill drawn document” ([14]) –
· Recited that:
· the seller has agreed to grant to the option holder a three-year call option for “the properties” to either purchase the properties, source a joint venture partner or investor, source a funder to develop them or to source an ultimate buyer/buyers. This was the only reference in the document to a period of three years for exercise of the call option;
· if the option holder exercised the call option, the seller and the ultimate buyer and/or their nominees must enter into an unconditional contract of sale;
· the option holder was entitled to earn the profit margin between the seller and buyer less any relevant costs, fees, and commissions due to third parties.
· Defined:
· “Expiry Date” of the Heads as “three years from the commencement date” (but the term “Expiry Date” was not subsequently used in the document);
· “Option Call” as an irrevocable offer to enter into a REIV sale contract with an ultimate buyer.
· Provided, in a “Payment Agreement”, that for facilitating the subdivision the first defendant would receive a ten acre parcel;
· Provided that “the seller grants to the option holder an irrevocable right and option: (a) to require the seller to enter into a contract of sale with either the option holder or the ultimate buyer (cl. 2.1(a)); (b) to nominate a person or entity as selected buy (sic) the option holder to enter into a contract as the ultimate buyer, to purchase the property or properties listed on this agreement and on the terms contained in this agreement”; (cl. 2.1(b));
· Provided: that the “call option” may be exercised during the term of the agreement by notice (cl. 2.2); the option holder, the first defendant, must pay the seller (the plaintiffs) $1 which is “deemed to be a holding deposit towards the purchase of the properties” (cl. 2.8); “This agreement can only be terminated by either of; the expiry of this agreement, or by mutual consent of both parties” (cl 2.11);
· Provided that (cl. 4):
“The seller consents and grants to the option holder and the ultimate buyer, an interest in the property for the purpose of securing the development approval, and when a Contract is offered, the option holder and/or the ultimate buyer are authorised to lodge a caveat on the title of the property, a) but the caveat shall be discharged in favour of mortgages to be lodged for a contract of purchase, b) the caveat will protect any equitable interest of the option holders until settlement of the contract by the ultimate buyer; c) cost of removal will be paid by the lodger of the caveat”.
· Nothing then occurred until 2018 when, after the plaintiffs had entered into a contract to sell the land to someone else, the first defendant lodged a caveat claiming a freehold estate in the land pursuant to an agreement dated 4 April 2014;
· On an application by the plaintiffs to remove this caveat Daly AsJ found that the caveator’s prospects of maintaining a claim for an interest in the land were modest at best and on the balance of convenience the caveat should be removed;
· A month after this removal the first defendant lodged a second caveat claiming an interest as chargee apparently on the ground that the Heads created a charge;
· The plaintiffs applied under the Transfer of Land Act s. 90(3) to remove the caveat. Before filing the summons the plaintiffs’ solicitors wrote foreshadowing an application for indemnity costs.
Derham AsJ held –
1. On its proper construction, the option right, if any, conferred by the Heads was limited to three years from the date of the agreement. [20]
2. However the Heads were uncertain, and therefore void and unenforceable, because
(a) it was unclear who was responsible to pay the option holder the ‘profit margin’, how it was to be calculated or what if any costs were to be taken into account;
(b) the price at which the land was to be sold was to be determined by later agreement;
(c) many terms of the subsequent REIV sale contract were unknown;
(d) the nomination provision was uncertain in its reference to “on the terms contained in this agreement” which were unidentified; and
(e) it was unclear whether the contract of sale to be entered into was to be between the plaintiffs, the option holder and the ultimate buyer under which the option holder was to be paid some unidentified profit margin. [21]
3. The wording of clause 4 (consent to caveat) was unclear as to what interest in the property was purportedly granted and it appeared that the right to lodge a caveat did not arise until a contract was offered to the sellers. [23]
4. There was accordingly no serious question to be tried that the Heads gave the caveator a caveatable interest because:
(f) there was no charging clause;
(g) the call option was void for uncertainty;
(h) the time for exercise of the call option had expired; and
(i) the sellers’ consent to caveat was little better than a contractual consent to lodge a caveat in certain circumstances, which had not arisen and, if they had, would not give rise to an interest in the land. [24]
5. The balance of convenience also favoured removal of the caveat. [26]
6. Indemnity costs were awarded against the caveator. His Honour comprehensively recited the principles governing an award of indemnity costs. An order for indemnity costs warranted by: the nominated basis for lodging the caveat, ie a charge, was untenable; the pre-summons warning; the caveator was attempting to use the caveat as a bargaining chip. [33]-[35]
7. The first defendant would be enjoined against lodging any further caveat on the basis of the Heads or the Deed because the lodgement of the second caveat was frivolous, vexatious and an abuse of process. The caveator had shown a profound disregard of the absence of any underlying basis for the second caveat and displayed that he was ready, willing and able to continue to disrupt any sale. There was accordingly a prima facie case that he would continue to lodge caveats if not restrained. The balance of convenience also favoured the grant of an injunction. [36]-[37]
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16. Injunction against future caveating
Lendlease Communities (Australia) Ltd v Juric & Anor [2018] VSC 107
(8 March 2018) T Forrest J.
The Registrar was directed to remove a caveat lodged by the first defendant who had no possible interest in or connection with the land, but claimed an interest as “adverse possession by exclusive occupation” – he had lodged the caveat because of a long-standing grudge against the plaintiff and others. In 2015 a court had ordered that a previous caveat lodged by him over land owned by entities in the Lendlease group, on the same untenable ground as the current caveat, be removed. The plaintiff also obtained an injunction restraining the defendant for 5 years from lodging any further caveat over the land, over any titles derived from its titles and over any other land of the plaintiff. The Judge observed that “the impugned caveat was lodged as some type of pre-emptive bargaining strike in his claim for one trillion dollars plus prime city real estate”.
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4. Antidotes to repeat caveats: enjoining the caveator and Registrar of Titles.
Andrews Family Holdings Pty Ltd v Yellow Tractor Pty Ltd [2017] VSC 682 (8 November 2017); Andrews Family Holdings Pty Ltd v Yellow Tractor Pty Ltd (No 2) [2017] VSC 695 (14 November 2017). Ginnane J.
Mr Annesley entered a contract to purchase land from the plaintiff (“Andrews”). In purported payment of the balance of price he tendered a document entitled ‘Promissory Note’ which was neither a permitted method of payment nor indeed in law a promissory note. Andrews rescinded the contract. The defendant (“the company”), of which Annesley was a director and which he had intended to nominate as purchaser, subsequently caveated, the caveatable interest being based on the rescinded contract. The company was subsequently deregistered. Andrews applied to remove this caveat under the TLA s. 90(3). Ginnane J:
Found no serious question to be tried that the company, even if still registered, had a caveatable interest: it was not a party to the contract and had no legal or equitable interest in the property.
Also enjoined Annesley from lodging further caveats in respect of the land without leave. He noted that there was both authority for this course in the caveat context, ie Maryvell Investments Pty Ltd v Velissaris [2008] VSC 19, and the general curial power to grant injunctions given by the Supreme Court Act 1986 s. 37. This case merited an injunction because Annesley had already lodged two caveats and did not foreswear lodging more.
Undaunted, on the day after this decision Annesley caveated in his own name claiming a purchaser’s lien. The Titles Office had a copy of the court order but accepted the caveat albeit apparently issuing a requisition requiring Annesley to establish within 14 days that he had the court’s leave. On an application for removal if this caveat Land Use Victoria argued that it had justifiably given Annesley ‘the benefit of the doubt’, the Registrar having a duty to accept a caveat for lodgment. Ginnane J:
Held this practice of giving the benefit of the doubt inappropriate for caveators whose previous caveats had been removed or had lapsed or were now subject to injunction. The Registrar’s statutory obligations included giving effect to directions of the Supreme Court (TLA s. 103).
Permanently enjoined Annesley from lodging caveats in respect of the property, with indemnity costs.
Enjoined the Registrar of Titles so that must forthwith reject and not record any caveat by Annesley over the property.
Commentary: This case is a rare case of the Registrar registering a caveat after an injunction was granted. Otherwise, it succeeds previous cases such as where: the court orders the Registrar not to register any caveat without its leave or further order (Westpac Banking Corporation v Chilver [2008] VSC 587), or any caveat by any person other than a purchaser from the successful plaintiff without its leave for a certain period (Lettieri v Gajic [2008] VSC 378) or enjoins the lodging of further caveats (Marchesi v Vasiliou [2009] VSC 213; Wells v Rouse & Ors [2015] VSC 533).
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3. Principles applicable to application to remove caveat under s. 90(3) of TLA
Absolute prohibition
Circumstances in which entitlement to payment for work on land caveatable
Injunction against future caveat
Amendment of caveat
Interest claimed being “implied, resulting or constructive trust”
Yamine v Mazloum [2017] VSC 601 (3 October 2017) John Dixon J.
The timeline was –
Undated Plaintiff registered proprietor asks caveator to assist him to prepare property for sale. Caveator subsequently alleges that in substance: the plaintiff asked him to work to finish his house and prepare it for auction; the caveator replied that a tremendous amount of work was involved which he could not even put a figure on, asked how he would be paid, and said that he would not help unless assured he could be paid; the plaintiff replied that he would be paid for his work from the proceeds of sale.
March – 23 June 2017 Caveator moves into the property and allegedly fixes it for sale.
8 July Property sold, settlement date 6 September, rescission notice served in September.
26 July Caveat lodged, grounds of claim “implied, resulting or constructive trust”, estate or
interest claimed is a “freehold estate”, all dealings prohibited.
18 September Following provision of information by caveator’s solicitors and inconclusive negotiations plaintiff foreshadows application to remove caveat, caveator offers withdrawal in return for $45,000 to be held in caveator’s solicitor’s trust account pending resolution of the dispute.
The plaintiff applied for removal of the caveat under the Transfer of Land Act 1958 s. 90(3). John Dixon J ordered removal of the caveat with costs. His Honour reasoned –
1. His Honour first recited certain standard principles, namely –
(1) The power under s. 90(3) was discretionary.
(2) Section 90(3) was in the nature of a summary procedure and analogous to the determination of interlocutory injunctions.
(3) The caveator bore the onus of establishing a serious question to be tried that the caveator had the estate or interest claimed. The caveator must show at least some probability on the evidence of being found to have the equitable rights or interest asserted in the caveat.
(4) The caveator must further establish that the balance of convenience favoured maintenance of the caveat until trial.
(5) As to the balance of convenience generally the court should take the course appearing to carry the lower risk of injustice if the court should turn out to have been wrong in the sense of declining to order summary removal where the caveator fails to establish its right at trial or in failing to order summary removal where the registered proprietor succeeds at trial.
(6) The stronger the case that there was a serious question to be tried, the more readily the balance of convenience might be satisfied. It was sufficient that the caveator showed a sufficient likelihood of success that in the circumstances justified the practical effect of the caveat on the registered proprietor’s ability to exercise normal proprietary rights. [15]
2. His Honour also noted authority for the proposition that “a caveat may only be lodged in a form commensurate to the interest it is designed to protect”. [16]
3. The argument that the caveator’s entitlement to be paid for his work on a quantum meruit was enforceable in equity by a constructive trust was invalid. The plaintiff did not accept any intention to charge or secure the land with the obligation to repay the cost of the work or to create any beneficial interest in it. The concept of salvage, deriving from Re Universal Distributing Co Ltd (1933) 48 CLR 171 at 174 – 5 per Dixon J, was inapplicable: the current case concerned property rights, not rights in insolvency and the property was preexisting and not converted into a fund for the benefit of claimants. There was only an oral agreement for services on a quantum meruit. [19], [24], [26] – [32]
4. If the caveator now evinced an intention to lodge a further caveat claiming an interest as chargee, an injunction would likely lie. [33]
5. No application to amend the caveat was made, and the discretion to amend would not have been exercised because:
(1) The application would have been to amend the interest claimed ie to chargee or equitable lienee, an amendment of interest claimed “not usually be[ing] permitted”, not merely to amend the grounds of claim or scope of protection. [35]
(2) The circumstances the grounds or interest claimed were erroneously stated was were relevant: the caveat was lodged not by an unrepresented person but by a solicitor certifying that he had taken reasonable steps to verify the identity of the caveator and had retained the evidence supporting the claim. [36]
(3) The court should not encourage the belief that caveats could be imprecisely formulated and then fixed up later: a caveat was in effect an interlocutory injunction by administrative act with possible serious consequences. Wrongly formulated caveats should not easily be tolerated. Caveats should not be used as bargaining chips. [37]-[38]
(4) The court should have regard to all of the considerations that arise on applying for removal of the caveat in the terms of the amendment sought. If this caveat was amended the caveatable interest claimed would still lack merit because even if the caveator’s version of the oral agreement was proved it would not create a charge or an equitable lien. [39] – [40]
6. His Honour not merely awarded costs but also reserved liberty to the plaintiff to make any application pursuant to r 63.23 as it may be advised against the first defendant’s solicitors. [44]
7. His Honour noted in passing that use of the phrase “implied, resulting or constructive trust”, which identified three different forms of trust, was “usually evidence of a degree of loose thinking”. [20]
Commentary –
1. His Honour deals with the principles applicable to s. 90(3) and amendment of caveats at length and touches on other interesting points now expanded on.
2. The stress on a caveat not imposing an absolute prohibition if inappropriate is expanded on in Lawrence & Hanson Group Pty Ltd v Young [2017] VSCA 172 to be the subject of a future Blog.
3. Other cases related to whether works on land will create a caveatable interest are –
• Walter v Registrar of Titles [2003] VSCA 122 at [18] – mere work and labour done not caveatable;
• Depas Pty Ltd v Dimitriou [2006] VSC 281 – a builder was found to have at most a contractual right to, and perhaps even an equitable interest in, half a joint venture’s net profit, but not a half interest in the land;
• An equitable lien will give rise to a proprietary and so caveatable interest, a foundational statement on equitable liens being that of Deane J in Hewett v Court (1983) 149 CLR 639 at 668. Caveat cases where no lien was established are: Western Pacific Developments Pty Ltd (in liq) v Murray [2000] VSC 436 and HG & R Nominees Pty Ltd v Caulson Pty Ltd [2000] VSC 126;
• In Popescu v A & B Castle Pty Ltd [2016] VSC 175 Ginnane J held that the only Romalpa clause conferring an equitable interest in land was one entitling the holder to enter upon the land to sever and remove the fixtures, and accordingly removed a caveat based on a clause simply providing that all materials used in a contract remained the supplier’s property until paid in full.
4. As to injunctions against future caveats, or the similar order that the Registrar not register any caveat without its leave or further order see also Westpac Banking Corporation v Chilver [2008] VSC 587, Lettieri v Gajic [2008] VSC 378, Marchesi v Vasiliou [2009] VSC 213; Wells v Rouse & Ors [2015] VSC 533.
5. The reservation of liberty to apply for costs against the solicitors ties in with an increasing judicial tendency to so order, eg Gatto Corporate Solutions Pty Ltd v Mountney [2016] VSC 752.
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I really wish the enforcer thing next to our star players would die already.
I get why it happens. It's an emotional response based on the fact that enforcers are entertaining, underdogs, have a thankless job, fight for their team, etc. It's the whole core of that Goon movie with Stiffler. So, people have an emotional attachment to enforcers and try to elevate them to roles to which they're not suited.
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Richie Daggers Crime said: ↑
Except in this case our goon is currently a better forward option than Dal Colle or Martin.
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The problem with having an ‘enforcer’ with some hockey skill that you want to see fight is that he does no good sitting in the box for 5 minutes.
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RJ next to Barzal sure as **** isn't permanent. But it did work that game. And I want the Boss in every game vs the Knights. He's a nuclear deterrent and has his role. I think he gets scratched next game for Dal Colle.
But it worked this game and I'm happy he had chances and helped the team get the W.
Do wish we saw him get his dance with Reaves.
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I’m not suggesting that Ross Johnston is like Tom Wilson. It’s just that I think Johnston is a better skater than I and many others give him credit for. When he’s been in the lineup he hasn’t really hurt us, he has been part of some decent scoring opportunities with Bardreau and Wahlstrom. I think it’s fair to say Johnston is a better option than Matt Martin, who I think has really been poor since coming back from injury, and MDC who is basically an empty jersey out there.
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Kevin27nyi said: ↑
I’m sure that was a one shot for Trotz, but it served it’s purpose.
MJF said: ↑
Why do you say that? It doesn't seem particularly true.
What has Dal Colle done to make you think otherwise? He doesn’t skate, shoot or pass particularly well. Do you keep playing him because he was a first round pick 5 years ago and he might get better?
Has Matt Martin looked good to you since he came back from injury? I don’t see it.
Maybe you need to concede a hard truth, that Ross Johnston is better than you think he is.
I don't think Ross Johnston does those things particularly well either. I do think that expectations are different as personified by your last quoted sentence.
Ross Johnston serves as a blunt instrument when one is needed. It's not needed very often.
I think you’re wrong. He’s a better skater and has better hands than Dal Colle. Watch him with Wahlstrom and Bardreau last month. That line was good for zone time and a scoring chance. But then again you didn’t think too much of Bardreau either.
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#28| New York Islanders @ Dallas Stars | December 7th | 8:00 PM | F/TBD
Game Preview: Islanders AT Stars
NEW YORK ISLANDERS (19-6-2) AT DALLAS STARS (16-11-3)
9 PM | AMERICAN AIRLINES CENTER
WATCH: MSG+2 | MSG GO
LISTEN: 88.7 FM | 103.9 FM
After a rousing 3-2 OT win over the Vegas on Thursday, the New York Islanders are embarking on a tough three-game road trip through Texas and Florida, starting on Saturday night against the Dallas Stars.
The Islanders and Stars own the distinction of being two teams who have posted lengthy point streaks early this season. The Islanders franchise-record 17-game point streak was the longest in the NHL this season, while the Stars rattled of a 12-game point streak of their own from Oct. 29 to Nov. 25.
Each team has a chance to begin a new streak, as both teams are coming in off a win in their previous game.
ISLES VS. STARS:
The Isles split their season series with the Stars last season, with the road team taking each contest.
The Islanders rallied from a 1-0 deficit to take a 3-1 decision against the Stars on Dec. 23 at American Airlines Center. Anders Lee scored on the power play while Casey Cizikas and Leo Komarov also found the back of the net. Devon Toews made his NHL debut in the contest.
Dallas beat the Islanders 6-2 on Nov. 18, 2018 at Barclays Center. The Radulov-Benn-Seguin line combined for three goals and nine points in the win.
The Islanders are 4-2-1 in their last seven trips to Dallas.
ISLES NOTES:
- The Isles returned to NYCB Live Nassau Coliseum for the first time since Nov. 13 on Thursday and defeated the Vegas Golden Knights 3-2 in overtime. Cal Clutterbuck and Brock Nelson scored in regulation, while Ryan Pulock potted the overtime-winner on a power play with 1:40 remaining. Semyon Varlamov turned away 31 shots to claim his ninth win of the season.
- Clutterbuck scored his third goal of the season. Clutterbuck suffered a cross check to the mouth against Montreal on Tuesday night and did not return after the first period, but said he felt better ahead of Thursday's game against Vegas. Clutterbuck logged 12:31 time on ice, threw five hits, and had one shot.
- Nelson scored his ninth goal of the season. Nelson has 21 points through 27 games this season and is second on the Isles leaderboard in goals and points behind Mathew Barzal who has a team-high 24 points (11G, 13A).
- Pulock scored his fourth goal of the season and second game-winning goal. The overtime conversion was Pulock's second OT marker of his career. Through 27 games this season, Pulock leads all Isles blueliners with 14 points (4G, 10A).
- The power-play goal in overtime was just the 16th in Isles history and first since Josh Bailey did so against Carolina during Coach Trotz's first game as Islander head coach on Oct. 4, 2018.
- Josh Bailey assisted on Pulock's OT goal and advanced his point streak to four games (0G, 5A). In the process, Bailey passed Bob Bourne for 10th place on the all-time Isles assist list. Bailey has 19 points (7G, 12A) through 27 games this season.
- Varlamov improved his record to 9-3-2. Varlamov has a goals against average of 2.35 and a save percentage of .923.
- The Islanders are first team since the Sharks in 2006-07 to alternate starting goalies for each of the first 27 games of the season. Thomas Greiss has split the pipes with Varlamov. Greiss has a record 10-3-0, a 2.18 goals against average and a save percentage of .931.
- The Isles are 5-2-0 in overtime this season - or as Trotz says, comfortable in uncomfortable situations.
- The Isles have won seven-straight games at the Coliseum and are 8-2-0 overall at the Coli this season.
- Tom Kuhnhackl was placed on LTIR on Thursday, as he is recovering from a lower-body injury that he sustained on Oct. 25 against Ottawa. Kuhnhackl will join the Bridgeport Sound Tigers for games on Dec. 6 against Utica on Dec. 7 against Syracuse.
- Otto Koivula was returned to Bridgeport on Friday. Koivula was recalled on Nov. 12 and appeared in six games - including his NHL debut on Nov. 16 - during his recall.
STARS NOTES:
- The Stars open a four-game homestand against the Islanders on Saturday night. Dallas is coming off of a 3-2 overtime win over Winnipeg on Thursday. Jamie Benn and Denis Gurianov scored in regulation, while Joe Pavelski scored the overtime winner on the power play at 2:02. Ben Bishop made 36 saves.
- Benn scored his sixth goal of the season. Through 30 games this season, Benn has 15 points (6G, 9A).
- Gurianov scored his fifth goal of the season. Through 25 games this season Gurianov has nine points (5G, 4A).
- Pavelski scored his sixth goal of the season to break a nine-game scoreless drought. The goal was his second game-winning goal of the season. Through 30 games with his new club, Pavelski has 13 points. Pavelski played the previous 13 seasons with the San Jose Sharks.
- Miro Heiskanen recorded two assists against Winnipeg. Through 30 games this season, the sophomore blueliner has 20 points (7G, 13A). Heiskanen has three points (1G, 2A) in his last two games.
- Tyler Seguin recorded two assists against Winnipeg. Seguin leads the Stars in assists (17) and points (23) through 30 games played.
- Bishop earned his 10th win of the season to improve his record to 10-6-2. Bishop, who was nominated for the Vezina Trophy last year, has a goals against average of 2.19 and a save percentage of .929.
- Stars forward Alexander Radulov was scratched for Thursday's win. Radulov has 15 points (8G, 7A) in 29 games this season.
- After winning seven games straight, the Stars fell into a four-game skid, up until edging Winnipeg in OT on Thursday. The Stars are ranked fourth in the Central Division with 35 points, just won point behind Winnipeg (36) and have posted a record of 16-11-3.
Possible Starting Goalies:
Thomas Greiss
Thomas Greiss 14 13 10 3 0 0 403 28 2.18 375 .931 0 772
Semyon Varlamov 16 14 9 3 0 2 444 34 2.35 410 .923 1 869
Ben Bishop 20 20 10 6 0 2 579 41 2.19 538 .929 0 1,125
Anton Khudobin 12 10 6 5 0 1 348 27 2.39 321 .922 0 678
Player Stats:
Mathew Barzal 27 11 13 24 12 10 2 4 0 0 1 0 56 19.6 42.6
Brock Nelson 27 9 12 21 -3 14 2 4 0 0 4 3 86 10.5 52.35
Josh Bailey 27 7 12 19 -2 4 1 4 0 0 1 0 27 25.9 50
Anthony Beauvillier 27 9 9 18 6 6 2 4 1 1 1 0 55 16.4 83.33
Derick Brassard 27 7 10 17 2 8 1 4 0 0 1 0 47 14.9 51.75
Anders Lee 27 7 7 14 5 14 0 2 0 0 2 0 63 11.1 44.29
Ryan Pulock 27 4 10 14 0 4 1 4 0 0 2 1 58 6.9 0
Devon Toews 27 2 9 11 7 8 0 2 0 0 1 1 46 4.3 0
Nick Leddy 22 2 9 11 5 6 1 2 0 0 0 0 26 7.7 0
Scott Mayfield 27 4 4 8 5 13 0 0 0 1 1 0 42 9.5 0
Jordan Eberle 17 2 6 8 -2 4 1 3 0 0 0 0 37 5.4 0
Casey Cizikas 22 4 3 7 7 16 0 0 1 2 1 0 36 11.1 57.4
Cal Clutterbuck 27 3 4 7 10 18 0 0 1 2 0 0 29 10.3 50
Adam Pelech 27 1 6 7 2 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 34 2.9 0
Johnny Boychuk 26 1 6 7 1 8 1 1 0 0 0 0 38 2.6 0
Leo Komarov 14 0 4 4 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 11 0 28.57
Matt Martin 15 2 1 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 12 16.7 33.33
Michael Dal Colle 23 1 2 3 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 6.3 75
Noah Dobson 7 0 2 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0
Ross Johnston 13 1 0 1 0 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 20 100
Tom Kuhnhackl 6 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0
Tyler Seguin 30 6 17 23 2 14 0 5 0 0 2 1 109 5.5 57.96
Miro Heiskanen 30 7 13 20 8 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 75 9.3 0
Alexander Radulov 29 8 7 15 7 30 3 4 0 0 1 0 77 10.4 25
Jamie Benn 30 6 9 15 -2 10 3 5 0 0 3 1 72 8.3 59.34
Roope Hintz 23 11 2 13 -1 4 1 3 1 1 1 0 46 23.9 45.31
Joe Pavelski 30 6 7 13 -1 16 3 5 0 0 2 1 59 10.2 52.65
Radek Faksa 30 6 6 12 -5 14 1 1 0 0 1 0 54 11.1 48.98
Mattias Janmark 25 3 7 10 2 4 0 1 1 2 0 0 26 11.5 56.25
Corey Perry 23 3 7 10 3 11 0 2 0 0 0 0 30 10 100
Denis Gurianov 25 5 4 9 3 9 1 3 0 0 2 0 58 8.6 0
Jason Dickinson 26 4 5 9 6 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 32 12.5 47.46
John Klingberg 24 2 7 9 -11 14 1 5 0 0 0 0 52 3.8 0
Esa Lindell 30 2 6 8 8 4 1 3 0 0 1 0 40 5 0
Taylor Fedun 21 1 7 8 3 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 3.3 0
Blake Comeau 16 3 2 5 -3 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 27 11.1 54.55
Justin Dowling 21 3 1 4 0 8 0 0 0 0 1 0 23 13 44.29
Jamie Oleksiak 30 0 4 4 -2 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 29 0 0
Andrew Cogliano 29 0 4 4 -1 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 22 0 41.18
Andrej Sekera 26 0 3 3 4 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 0 0
Roman Polak 11 0 2 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0
Think you meant to make this its own thread didn't you?
LeapOnOver, Dec 7, 2019
MattMartin Killer Instinct™
LeapOnOver said: ↑
No, I can't make a thread at the moment, so I will need someone to copy paste this to a GDT. Everything is up and ready.
I will need this done for the foreseeable future.
MattMartin, Dec 7, 2019
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I understand your point of view. I disagree with it, but I recognize its validity. Appreciate the exchange.
It appears we aren't going to have a meeting of the minds on Johnston.
crasherino Registered User
Ya think Ross gets scratched tonight? I wouldn’t mind having him on Barzals line to start. If it doesn’t work, Trotz can easily move them around. But they looked pretty good across the board last game (from the parts I saw), might as well run with it.
crasherino, Dec 7, 2019
crasherino said: ↑
Maybe scratched, maybe not, but I wonder if he'll play on a different line. Either way I didn't think 32-13-12 generated a lot of chances against VGK. I wouldn't be so quick to put Ross back there.
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9 police officers on trial for Gharbeya murder - Daily News Egypt
Egypt 9 police officers on trial for Gharbeya murder
9 police officers on trial for Gharbeya murder
Event dates back to 2013, when police shot a family while chasing wanted suspects
Amira El-Fekki August 25, 2015 Be the first to comment
A criminal court in the city of Mahalla in Gharbeya resumed, Tuesday, the trial of nine police officers charged with murder, state-run newspaper Al-Ahram reported. In March 2013, four family members were shot dead by security forces at a security checkpoint, as officers were chasing wanted suspects in Mahalla.
According to a published copy of the official decision to transfer the suspects to court in April, the officers come from different departments and police institutions in the governorate.
The police said family were killed by mistake amidst an exchange of fire between security forces and armed suspects who had allegedly fired first. However, the court charged the police officers with first degree murder, adding that they planned and prepared for the crime using automatic rifles and guns.
Their first trial session was held in May, more than two years after the incident. The victims included a married couple and their child. They had other children, one of whom spoke to the media, demanding retribution for his family’s “unjust deaths”.
The court is charging the defendants according to articles of the Penal Code related to “prior intention and planning to kill”, which could incur death penalties and life prison terms.
Nonetheless, the case brings back the issue of “extra-judicial” killings by police and military forces, under the pretext of countering terrorism. The army announces on an almost daily basis the “execution” of “dangerous terrorist elements”, often displaying aerial pictures of their bombing operations.
This also applies to the police, who usually claim suspects were killed in fire exchanges. This statement was used in the controversial killing of Aim Shams University student Islam Ateeto, who was taken from in front of his university and was allegedly “killed in the chase” later on.
Furthermore, two similar incidents of “group killings” took place in Cairo and Fayoum, where security forces reportedly conducted a raid on the suspects’ houses. A new terrorism law was passed which allows security men the use of force against “suspects” without facing criminal charges.
Topics: Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi Armed Forces court Egypt extra judicial killing Gharbeya human rights Islam Ateeto Ministry of Interior police brutality victim
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A Prospective Study of the Transient Decrease in Ovarian Cancer Risk Following Childbirth
Qin Liu, Mats Lambe, Inkyung Baik, Sven Cnattingius, Tomas Riman, Anders Ekbom, Hans-Olov Adami and Chung-Cheng Hsieh
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Mats Lambe
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Anders Ekbom
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DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-06-0242 Published December 2006
Epidemiologic evidence shows that the risk of ovarian cancer is decreased following childbirth. We examined the time points when the decreased risk of postpartum maternal ovarian cancer reaches the lowest point and whether the protective effect diminishes over time. A case-control study nested within the Swedish Fertility Register included 10,086 cases of epithelial ovarian cancer recorded in the Swedish Cancer Register from 1961 to 2001. From the Fertility Register, 49,249 eligible subjects matched to the cases by age were selected as controls. The analysis contrasted risk between adjacent parities through logistic regression models that included indicator variables representing each year of age, age at delivery, and time since delivery. Compared with nulliparous women, uniparous women had a transient decrease in maternal ovarian cancer risk at 2 years after delivery (spline-derived odds ratio, 0.71; 95% confidence interval, 0.53-0.95, for those delivered at age 25 years) and maintained a lower risk for 4 years postpartum. Similar transient decreases were observed in biparous women compared with uniparous women and in women with three parities compared with biparous women. The protective effect of childbearing seemed to diminish with time. The transient decrease in postpartum ovarian cancer risk may define the latent period required for pregnancy hormones in clearing out ovarian cells that have undergone early stages of malignant transformation. The period before the risk increases again could indicate the period required for ovarian cancer induction. (Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2006;15(12):2508–13)
Increasing parity has consistently been shown to reduce risk of ovarian cancer (1-8). There is also epidemiologic evidence that the risk of ovarian cancer is lower in women who have an older age at first birth (8-10). With conflicting results, several investigators have examined the association between time since last birth and the risk of ovarian cancer (8, 9, 11). Two studies (8, 9) found evidence of a significantly increased risk of ovarian cancer along with longer time since last birth, whereas others have failed to detect such a temporal trend (11). Whiteman et al. (9) reported a lower risk of ovarian cancer in the category of <10 years since last birth. However, due to sample size limitations and linear extrapolation from models using continuous (1) or wide intervals for time-related variables (8-11) in previous studies, it remains unclear whether there are specific time points following birth when the risk of ovarian cancer is at the lowest.
A recent hypothesis suggests that a pregnancy clears from the ovaries cells that have already undergone malignant transformation (1). The likelihood that such transformed cells exist should increase with age, as does the incidence of clinical disease. The effect associated with pregnancy clearance may be mediated by placental or ovarian hormones associated with childbirth (3). The mechanism of clearance would accommodate the observation that a pregnancy at older age seems to provide a greater reduction in risk than a pregnancy at younger age. Elimination of the initiated cells itself should have an effect that diminishes with increased time since a delivery. To examine this hypothesis in more details, we applied a single-year categorical modeling approach (12) in a nested case-control study based on information from Swedish nationwide population registers.
Members of the study cohort were identified in the nationwide Swedish Fertility Register, which includes all female resident citizens of Sweden born from 1925 and thereafter. The database contains fertility information on number (including nulliparity), gender, and dates of live births, if any, for >3.4 million women. Information on dates of birth for biological and adopted children born between 1943 and 1960 was collected retrospectively at the 1960 Census. From 1961, only biological children were included, with all new births added annually from vital statistics records. The quality of information on reproductive history (i.e., number and dates of births) is generally high, with the exception of the oldest cohorts (mainly women born on 1925-1929) for whom individual fertility levels may be both underestimated and overestimated. Use of the unique national registration number assigned to all individuals at birth or time of first residency permits record linkage and retrieval of information from other population-based registers (13). Vital statistics for women in the Fertility Register is updated annually based on information obtained from the National Population Register.
Since 1958, the Swedish National Cancer Register receives reports about all newly diagnosed malignant tumors from both the physician who made the diagnosis and the pathologist/cytologist who confirmed the diagnosis (14). Each histopathologically confirmed cancer case is assigned a pathologic code. The Cancer Register also contains information about residence at the time of diagnosis as well as the hospital and pathology department where the diagnosis was made. The completeness of cancer registration is considered to be close to 100% (14).
Thus, members of the study cohort were all women who were born on and after 1925 and listed in the Fertility Register. We adopted a nested case-control sampling design to allow more efficient analyses. Case subjects were cohort members diagnosed from 1961 to 2001 with incident invasive epithelial ovarian cancer (ICD-7: 175.0 with a pathology code of 096 for adenocarcinoma, 196 for undifferentiated carcinoma, or 146 for squamous cell cancer; ref. 1), as ascertained from the records of the Swedish National Cancer Register. For each woman with ovarian cancer, five comparison control subjects were randomly selected from cohort members listed in the Fertility Register. These women were individually matched by birth year with the index case, were residents of Sweden at the time when the case was diagnosed, were alive at least to the date of the diagnosis for the index case, and had not been previously diagnosed with ovarian cancer. For both cases and controls, only live births before the index case's date of diagnosis were included in the analyses.
To detect whether the relative rate of ovarian cancer varies over time after a delivery and whether there is a nadir in ovarian cancer risk after giving birth, our analyses focused on the exposure contrast between adjacent parities, assuming that, without childbirth and with comparable other risk factors, uniparous women would have the same age-specific rates of ovarian cancer as nulliparous women (15). Similarly, biparous women, given the same age at first birth but without the second birth, would have had the same age-specific rates as uniparous women, and so on. Odds ratio (OR) was used as an estimate of relative risk in our study. To obtain OR estimates associated with single-year time variables, we further refined the logistic regression model with categorical predictor variables as suggested by Heuch et al. (16). We generated indicator variables for each individual year of subject's age (attained age, i.e., case subject's age at diagnosis or control subject's age at identification), age at each delivery, and time since last delivery (12). Age was a matching variable and was adjusted for in the analyses using single-year indicator variable representation. For time since delivery, the first category (<1 year since delivery) served as the reference category. For age at first, second, and third delivery, the category with the largest number of subjects was chosen as the reference category for stability of effect estimate. Conceptually, our model can be partitioned into two parts: the first is a model with age (baseline effect) using the data of women with one less parity (e.g., nulliparous); the second is a model with age and age at delivery for women with one additional parity (e.g., uniparous). Assuming that, without childbirth, uniparous women would have the same baseline age effect as nulliparous women, relative risk comparing uniparous with nulliparous women could be estimated by subtracting the first from the second model. The residual effect of age (after removing the baseline effect of age) for uniparous women could then be further decomposed into age at delivery and year since delivery (12). For the purpose of graphic presentation, we first fit a six-degree polynomial function to the categorical-specific relative risk point estimates to identify inflexion points in trend over years since delivery (17). We then fit a power (quadratic or cubic) spline model to the original data using as knots the corresponding inflexion points identified from the fitted polynomial functions (18). Usually, a quadratic spline is flexible enough for modeling a nonlinear trend for epidemiologic purposes (18), whereas a cubic model will be used if likelihood ratio test shows that the cubic spline model is significantly better than the quadratic spline model. The graph presents the relative risk since last delivery for women who gave last birth at a particular year compared with women with one less parity, at the same age.
This nested case-control study included subjects who were 13 years or older and consisted of a total of 10,086 epithelial ovarian cancer patients that had matching information in the Fertility Register and 49,249 control subjects.
The first analysis focused on the comparison between uniparous and nulliparous women; 2,534 cases and 10,675 controls were nulliparous, whereas 2,103 cases and 8,796 controls were uniparous. Table 1 shows the distribution of these subjects according to age at diagnosis and age at delivery. Most cases were in the age range 40 to 59 years (55% for nulliparous and 59% for uniparous). Table 2 shows relative risk estimates and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) associated with each year of age at delivery and each postpartum year since delivery, adjusting for attained age, from the categorical model using single-year indicator variable representation for all three variables. Compared with <1 year since delivery, relative risk estimates were the lowest around 2 years after delivery, and were generally increased from 5 years postpartum and onward (Table 2). However, none of these estimates were significantly different from unity.
Distribution of nulliparous and uniparous epithelial ovarian cancer cases and controls by age at delivery and age at diagnosis
ORs and 95% CIs of developing epithelial ovarian cancer in uniparous women, based on single-year categorical model with separate terms for age at first delivery and time since delivery
Figure 1 displays relative risk estimates associated with each postpartum year since delivery comparing uniparous women who had an age at first delivery of 25, 30, or 35 years with nulliparous women. The solid lines were cubic spline-smoothed lines (compared with quadratic spline model, likelihood ratio test: χ2 = 12.62 with 1 degrees of freedom, P = 0.0004) to summarize general trends of postpartum risk of ovarian cancer. The spline model fit closely to the model using single-year indicator variables (likelihood ratio test: χ2 = 50.43 with 53 degrees of freedom, P = 0.57). The spline model had a significantly better fit comparing with the model using year since delivery as a continuous variable (likelihood ratio test: χ2 = 10.22 with 4 degrees of freedom, P = 0.04), indicating departure from linearity. Relative risks of developing ovarian cancer for uniparous women who gave birth at an older age were generally lower than those who gave birth at younger ages (Table 2). Interaction between age at delivery (as a continuous variable) and the terms for year since delivery in cubic spline regression was not statistically significant (P = 0.52). Figure 1 shows that the relative risk of developing ovarian cancer for uniparous women was the lowest around 2 years after delivery: spline model–derived OR (95% CI) was 0.71 (0.53-0.95) for those with an age of 25 years at delivery, 0.62 (0.45-0.85) for age 30 years at delivery, and 0.63 (0.43-0.93) for age 35 years at delivery. Uniparous women who gave birth at 30 or 35 years of age had a relative risk of ovarian cancer that was always lower than nulliparous women. For those who gave birth at 25 years of age, the OR was >1.0 during the 13 to 28 years postpartum (spline model-derived OR, 1.01; 95% CI, 0.47-2.16, for 13 years postpartum; Fig. 1).
OR estimates associated with each year since delivery for uniparous women with age at delivery of 25 years (◊), 30 years (△), or 35 years (ж) compared with nulliparous women. Solid lines, fitted results from power spline logistic regression. The power spline logistic regression core model is β0 + βp (parity) + βa (age) + βaafd (age at first delivery) + β1χ1 + β2χ21 + β3χ31 + β4χ22 + β5χ23, where age and age at first delivery are one-year categorical time variables. χ1 is the continuous variable of years since first delivery. χ2 = χ1 − 3 if χ1 > 3, otherwise χ2 = 0. χ3 = χ1 − 38 if χ1 > 38, otherwise χ3 = 0. β1 = −0.0706, β2 = 0.0204, β3 = 0.000032, β4 = −0.0231, β5 = −0.0021.
We next compared biparous (3,373 cases and 16,880 controls) with uniparous women (2,103 cases and 8,796 controls) to estimate relative risk associated with each year since the second delivery. Age at second delivery was not associated with ovarian cancer risk among biparous women after adjusting for age, age at first delivery, and year since the second delivery. Figure 2 displays graphically the findings on time since the last delivery from quadratic spline regression. Biparous women had a transient decrease in risk with a nadir at 3 years after the second delivery: spline model-derived OR (95% CI) was 0.58 (0.45-0.74) for those with an age of 25 years at the second delivery, 0.60 (0.48-0.76) for age 30 years at delivery, and 0.65 (0.49-0.86) for age 35 years at delivery, and the risk gradually increased after that.
OR estimates associated with each year since second delivery for biparous women with age at second delivery of 25 years (◊), 30 years (△), or 35 years (ж) compared with uniparous women. Solid lines, fitted results from quadratic spline logistic regression. The quadratic spline logistic regression core model is β0 + βp (parity) + βa (age) + βaafd (age at first delivery) + βaasd (age at second delivery) + β1χ1 + β2χ21 + β3χ22 + β4χ32, where age, age at first delivery, and age at second delivery are one-year categorical time variables. χ1 is the continuous variable of years since second delivery. χ2 = χ1 − 4 if χ1 > 4, otherwise χ2 = 0. χ3 = χ1 − 25 if χ1 > 25, otherwise χ3 = 0. β1 = −0.1520, β2 = 0.0231, β3 = −0.0237, β4 = 0.0003.
Finally, we compared women with three parities (1,455 cases and 8,658 controls) with biparous women (3,373 cases and 16,880 controls) to estimate relative risk associated with each year since the third delivery. Age at the third delivery was not associated with ovarian cancer risk among women with three parities after adjusting for age, age at the first and the second delivery, and year since the third delivery. Relative risk estimates associated with time since delivery from the spline model indicated that, compared with <1 year since delivery, statistically significant transient decrease in risk at 3 years after the third delivery was observed for women with age 30 years at the third delivery (OR, 0.58; 95% CI, 0.41-0.83), whereas a borderline statistically significant transient decrease in risk at 3 years after the third delivery was observed for those with ages 25 years (OR, 0.66; 95% CI, 0.44-1.00) and 35 years (OR, 0.74; 95% CI, 0.51-1.06) at the third delivery. The relative risk then gradually increased toward unity until 13 years after giving the third birth (Fig. 3 ).
OR estimates associated with each year since third delivery for women who have three parities with age at third delivery of 25 years (◊), 30 years (△), or 35 years (ж) compared with biparous women. Solid lines, fitted results from quadratic spline logistic regression. The quadratic spline logistic regression core model is β0 + βp (parity) + βa (age) + βaafd (age at first delivery) + βaasd (age at second delivery) + βaatd (age at third delivery) + β1χ1 + β2χ21 + β3χ22 + β4χ23, where age, age at first delivery, and age at second delivery are one-year categorical time variables. χ1 is the continuous variable of years since second delivery. χ2 = χ1 − 3 if χ1 > 3, otherwise χ2 = 0. χ3 = χ1 − 14 if χ1 > 14, otherwise χ3 = 0. β1 = −0.3159, β2 = 0.0628, β3 = −0.0660, β4 = 0.0035.
Our results indicate that there is a time window of 2 to 3 years after giving birth when maternal ovarian cancer risk reaches its lowest. Models using continuous variable representations, which assume linearity of effect for time since delivery, are likely to miss this nadir in risk. The results of lower risk within 10 years since last birth are compatible with that observed by Titus-Ernstoff et al. (8) and Whiteman et al. (9). Biparous women and women with three parities in turn had a similarly lower risk of ovarian cancer than that in women with one less parity. Pike et al.'s study (10) has also shown that the additional births further reduce the risk of ovarian cancer.
This study is among the largest epidemiologic analyses of ovarian cancer. Selection and information biases are minimized since the case-control sampling was nested within a well-defined cohort and the exposure information was recorded independent of outcome. The Fertility Register contains no information on stillbirths, and recorded parity status is based on number of live births. However, stillbirths represented only a small proportion of all births in Sweden with a decrease from 1.67% in 1955 to 0.39% in 1985 (19). Potential residual bias from excluding stillbirths and misclassification of parity from adopted children for a small number of subjects in the oldest birth cohorts are likely to be negligible and nondifferential.
We could not examine and control for confounding by age at menarche, age at menopause, oral-contraceptive use, and anthropometric factors. A study on mathematical models of ovarian cancer incidence showed that age at menarche and age at menopause were related to cumulative risk of ovarian cancer (20), whereas other studies observed that the association between risk of ovarian cancer and age at menarche or age at menopause was almost null (8, 10, 21). The magnitude of collective confounding by anthropometric factors is likely to be small (22-25). Inability to control for oral contraceptive use is a major limitation in our analysis, as oral contraceptive use has been found in most studies to be inversely associated with ovarian cancer risk and such use also leads to delayed childbirth. However, our results were essentially unaltered when the analyses were restricted to the oldest birth cohort (1925-1935) in which the likelihood of exposure to oral contraceptives or fertility drugs was considered to be small (data not shown). Confounding by age, parity, and age at first delivery is potentially more substantial and was accounted for in the analyses.
Due to sample size limitation, most previous studies on the time-varying effects of childbirth on maternal ovarian cancer risk fit models using continuous forms or broad intervals for age, age at delivery, and year since last delivery (8-11, 20, 21). Consequently, effect estimates for extreme categories were derived from linearly extrapolated values in such models and yearly variations in postpartum risk could not be adequately examined. Thus far, no study has investigated change in ovarian cancer risk associated with time since last delivery while taking into account the effect of age and age at delivery.
In the statistical model using categorical variables as suggested by Heuch et al. (16), relative risk associated with different time periods since childbirth could be estimated while taking age and age at delivery into consideration. The validity of that model depends on the tenability of at least two assumptions: (a) the effects of age are the same between women of different parities (e.g., uniparous versus nulliparous; biparous versus uniparous) and (b) the effect of age at delivery was homogeneous over age (not modified by age; ref. 26). The two assumptions were, however, judged to impose no restriction on the interpretation of the effect of time since delivery (27). As originally proposed in the model of Heuch et al. (16), categories of age, time since delivery, and age at delivery were set in broad ranges, necessitating additional assumption of homogeneity in relative risk estimates within levels of each variable (26). With the use of single-year indicator representation for age, age at delivery, and years since delivery, the refined model in our analysis did not impose a functional form for the effect of year since delivery and allowed the estimation of nonlinear effects of time since delivery. With the large quantity of data, we were able to estimate relative risk associated with each individual year after delivery while controlling for current age and age at first birth also in single-year-indicator representation.
Incessant ovulation (28) and high serum concentration of gonadotropins (29) have been the two major hypotheses for explaining the biological mechanism behind the development of ovarian cancer. Neither hypothesis, however, can fully explain the protective effect of pregnancy. The incessant ovulation hypothesis is consistent with the observed protective effect of interrupted ovulation due to childbearing or oral contraceptive use, but it cannot explain why oral contraceptive use for longer periods does not provide further protection (1, 2). Also, it cannot explain why the protective effect of interrupted ovulation seems unequal for different parities (1, 2). The effect of ovulation suppression from a pregnancy should be equal among women of different ages, but seems to be stronger in older parous women (1). The hypothesis would also predict a reduced risk with early age at menopause, which has not been convincingly shown (2). The gonadotropin hypothesis fits also with the established effects of parity and oral contraceptive use and would also accommodate a possible association with fertility drugs. However, owing to its effects on gonadotropin concentrations, early menopause should increase the risk, but no such effect has been documented (8). It has been suggested that gonadotropins, while involved in the feedback regulations of ovarian steroid hormones, may not in themselves be responsible for changes in ovarian cancer risk (3). Recently, studies that examined the association between twinning and maternal risk of epithelial ovarian cancer have yielded findings that are in direct conflict with the predictions of these two hypotheses. Mothers of dizygotic twins seem to be exposed to higher levels of follicle-stimulating hormone and may also double ovulate more frequently (30). Based on the two main hypotheses, risk of ovarian cancer in mothers of twins would be predicted to be elevated not only by excessive hormonal stimulation of ovarian cells, but also due to lifelong patterns of ovulation that predispose to malignant change. However, an excess risk of ovarian cancer in mothers with multiple births has not been shown (8, 30-32). Thus, although many findings from epidemiologic studies are consistent with these two principal hypotheses, alternative hypotheses need to be proposed to accommodate observations that could not be readily inferred from them (1, 3). Findings based on the analyses of earlier experience of the present study cohort have prompted the formulation of a third hypothesis suggesting that the protective effect of childbearing can be explained by pregnancy-induced clearance of malignantly transformed cells from the ovaries (1). Such a mechanism would dictate that elimination of the initiated cells itself should have an effect that diminishes with increased time since a delivery. Study subjects in the previous analysis (1) had a maximum age at diagnosis of 59 years and thus had a limited power to evaluate whether the protective effect may diminish with increased time since pregnancy. In our study, compared with nulliparous women, uniparous women with older age at delivery had a more pronounced reduction in risk. The findings on pattern of relative risk for ages 25 and 35 years at delivery are consistent with the results in Pike et al.'s study (10). Increasing parity has consistently been shown to reduce ovarian cancer risk in epidemiologic studies (1-8), an association that was also confirmed in the current study (data not shown). More importantly, we were able to show that the risk of ovarian cancer is reduced soon after a birth and the protective effect diminished with time, consistent with the hypothesis of a pregnancy-induced clearance effect. Rostgaard et al.'s study (33) using a mathematical model based on the cell clearance hypothesis also showed that a decreased age-specific invasive ovarian cancer incidence rate ratios in the first few years after an pregnancy for women who have been pregnant only once in younger ages (20 or 25 years) compared with nulligravid women.
Our observations have given further support to the pregnancy clearance hypothesis (1). The effect associated with pregnancy clearance may be mediated by placental or ovarian hormones associated with childbirth and is supported by findings in both animal and human studies suggesting that elevated levels of progesterone increase apoptosis in macaque's ovarian epithelial cells (34, 35) and that the combination oral contraceptive formulations with high-progestin potency seem to be associated with a greater reduction in ovarian cancer risk than those with low progestin potency (36). In addition, the period of 12 or more years observed in our analysis before the protective effect of a childbirth diminishes might provide further etiologic insight into the latent period for the induction of ovarian cancer. Assuming that pregnancy-dependent clearance effect clears from the ovaries the transformed cells, leading to the observed transient decrease in risk, the period that is required for the risk to return to the reference level can reasonably be considered as the time window required for a newly transformed cell to become clinically manifested. If the latency between ovarian cancer initiation and clinical manifestation can be determined, it may lead to development of effective strategies for early detection and intervention of ovarian cancer.
Grant support: NIH-USPHS grant R01CA95112.
Accepted September 20, 2006.
Received March 28, 2006.
Revision received August 17, 2006.
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Repeating myths in the North about Brexit July 12, 2019
The IT had a good piece interviewing four representatives of loyalism about Brexit and the current political chaos.
All articulate spokespeople for their community, though sadly not entirely representative of it given the dominance of the DUP, they were both flexible and oddly retrospective. For example, they confused the position of the ROI government entirely arguing that:
“There’s a feeling that 20 years of goodwill is being lost by aggressive statements by the Irish Government. That is a danger,” said Williamson. He points out the Belfast Agreement covers a million Protestants but feels the Government does not recognise the whole population the agreement protects by “making all these green statements”.
For these four men, it does not follow that because a majority (56 per cent) of people in Northern Ireland voted to remain in the EU that a majority would want to stay in the EU by being in a united Ireland.
“Moving the constitutional tectonic plates is very dangerous and very irresponsible,” Irvine warned. He said that “most right-thinking people” in their communities would not want a return to “the dark days of the past” but he is worried about how younger loyalists who have no memory of the Troubles might react to the constitutional position of Northern Ireland within the UK being eroded in a post-Brexit world.
But the ROI government has been studious in saying it does not think a Border Poll is appropriate in the near future or that a united Ireland should or is an option at this point. Indeed it has been exemplary in arguing only for the GFA/BA and the current status quo.
Worse again they suggest the following:
These loyalists see the repeated warnings from Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Tánaiste Simon Coveney about the threat of a return to violence, the importance of the backstop provision in the Brexit deal and the risk of a hard border – all raised as part of the Government’s objections to the pro-Brexit British positions – as undermining good neighbourly relations with the Republic.
But this is to ignore who else has been making precisely that argument, that being the security forces on both sides of the Border including current and former PSNI members. And also the NI civil service, as recently as this week.
I find it depressing that we are hearing from loyalism the same incorrect tropes as put around by pro-Brexit commentators and proponents and it does offer an insight into how rapidly those tropes have been adopted and amplified.
It’s odd too some of the contradictions expressed. For example…
…he recognises there is a “sea change” among moderate nationalists and that post-Brexit they would vote in a referendum “for some sort of agreed Ireland”. While he believes there will never be a united Ireland, he is concerned about what Brexit might throw up. “The representatives of UDA, UVF and the Red Hand [paramilitary group] all signed up to decommissioning because the union was safe. You go into the whole Brexit situation, nobody knows what is going to happen.”
But… also:
He thinks it “very likely” that English and Scottish nationalism could break up the United Kingdom and is concerned about what the coming years and wider political disruption across the UK might bring.
So that would suggest that some sort of united Ireland might well be a plausible (if not inevitable) outcome, no?
Interestingly though there is this:
Williamson said Sinn Féin and others who want a Border poll in Northern Ireland on Irish unification “haven’t told people what a united Ireland even entails”. He said that, post-Brexit, other options should be considered: a Northern Ireland-Scotland confederation, Northern Ireland and Scotland going “semi-independent” or the Republic “coming within the British Isles” or rejoining the Commonwealth.
That’s a lot of options, and some are clearly non-starters. But… there may be space in there which would provide a path forward.
1. Jim Monaghan - July 12, 2019
I read it and found is very soft focussed. No mention of provocations such as statues of the Virgin Mary to be burnt. As well as many other symbols and pictures of nationalist figures. If nationalist had say effigies of the royal family on a similar fire, there would be outrage..
2. EWI - July 12, 2019
It’s very representative of the proud ignorance about the ROI (and wider history and relations within these islands off the European mainland). I’ve met Northern loyalists who genuinely believe that the ROI’s army is the IRA.
Aonrud ⚘ - July 12, 2019
Whereas we all know it’s Óglaigh na hÉireann!
3. Joe - July 12, 2019
We’re from and on totally different planets – the loyalists/unionists and us – even though we live on the same island.
This is brought home by the likes of that IT article. I suppose it’s brought home at this time of every year. And by the flags and allegiances and all.
It struck me forcefully too at the time of Willie Frazer’s death and funeral. The totally different takes that nationalists and unionists had on him and all that he and his wider family were involved in.
This “United” Ireland which may or may not happen in my lifetime, will be a sight to behold.
WorldbyStorm - July 12, 2019
True and consider how remarkably different loyalist/unionists are from the English.
Joe - July 12, 2019
Yep. As different as we are from the English but in different ways :). Let’s hope this United Ireland will be a great celebration of difference and diversity. If it works, we could look at expanding it to a United West European Isles. What do you think, comrades?
Daniel Rayner O'Connor - July 12, 2019
Nice, but we should a/ broaden the territory to bring Britain back into Europe and b/ turn Europe into a confederation of workers’ republics. As yet I’m easy about the order in which this is done.
EWI - July 12, 2019
Why yes. This was, after all, the very purpose for which they were imported and planted here. Dublin two centuries ago wasn’t all that different – removing the blank cheque of colonial supremacy induces needed change.
4. roddy - July 13, 2019
Speaking of colonial supremacy,the twelfth has passed again and I generally adopt a live and let live attitude to it.However the thing that really annoys me is the semi official blessing it gets up here.Two days public holiday ,massive benevolent TV coverage(live and “highlights”) and even fawning southern politicians being interviewed watching parades.In contrast my tradition and hundreds of thousands like me is still treated as an “outsider”,tradition,not to be touched with a forty foot pole.The centenary of 1916 for instance would never have got any recognition as a legitimate celebration belonging to a section of the population which is now on a par population wise as the orange – unionist section.
5. Logan - July 13, 2019
What two days public holiday?
The 12th and what other day?
Liberius - July 13, 2019
When the usual date falls on a Saturday or Sunday, the ‘substitute day’ is normally the following Monday. For example in 2018, St Patrick’s Day was on Saturday 17 March, so the substitute bank holiday was Monday 19 March.
The above applies to the 12th of July as well I understand, though not this year as the 12th was a Friday.
https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/bank-holidays
Both the 12th and 13th are public holidays ,Monday next will be the substitute day for the 13th.
Holidays 2018 2019
New Year’s Day 1 January 1 January
St Patrick’s Day 17 March 17 March
Good Friday 30 March 19 April
Easter Monday 2 April 22 April
Early May Bank Holiday 7 May 06 May
Spring Bank Holiday 28 May 27 May
Battle of the Boyne / Orangemen’s Day 12 July 12 July
Summer Bank Holiday 27 August 26 August
Christmas Day 25 December 25 December
Boxing Day 26 December 26 December
All the public holidays are listed above, do you see the 13th ’cause I don’t. Roddy give up, you’re wrong, again, as always.
I live here.The North closes down on the 12th and 13th.I have just been on the phone to a civil servant who confirmed to me neither he or any other civil servant will be working on mon 13 ,and never have done.I defy you to contact a govt department on 13th July.
The dates I quoted are from the nidirect.gov.uk website, these are the public holidays of Northern Ireland whatever your probably fictitious civil servant might say. Your inability to admit to being wrong is always hilarious incidentally.
Contact any civil servant or indeed union member in the North that you know and ask them.Better still there are other northern contributors to this site who will confirm I am right.
How many Northern Ireland civil servants do you think random Dubliners know Roddy?
10. roddy - July 13, 2019
Ok then contact any government dept up here on Monday and see how you get on.
What’s the point, I’ve already given you the list of public holiday dates, that should be an end of it, you were wrong, there is only one public holiday date. Waste your own time if you want, I’m not putting more into this than quoting the official government website.
The entire civil service will be closed on Monday as it always did on 13th july .I,m sure you have contacts in the union movement who will confirm this.
Today at 10 am mon july15 ,I have just phoned DVA ,county hall Coleraine to enquire about my driving licence renewal.I got an answering machine which told me “we are closed today due to a bank holiday”It seems I am not “always wrong”!
13. Miguel - July 15, 2019
Roddy is right on this one. Today is a sort of unofficial bank holiday in the occupied northern territories. Not an official public holiday, true enough, but most businesses and public offices are closed. Bit like Good Friday down here, not a public holiday but most places are closed.
Fair enough, I do note that bin collections and recycling centres in Belfast and Lisburn and a few other places are operating (amongst other things), I can live with only being partly correct.
14. Joe - July 15, 2019
We just need to be careful, us public servants, when the UI thing is being worked out. The owner class will see it as an opportunity to row back on terms and conditions.
So bottom line: No UI unless we keep Good Friday off and get July 12 and 13 too.
Thanks Roddy and Liberius for highlighting this one.
I thought that was reserved for office moves, name changes and so-called ‘austerity’?
Bin collections are council operated and any bin man who works today will get a day off in lieu.However all government offices are closed.
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Cloud Controls Matrix is Released
Controls framework aligned with CSA guidance, assists both cloud providers and customers in assessing security risks
London, UK – April 27, 2010 (Infosecurity Europe Conference) – The Cloud Security Alliance today has announced the availability of version 1.0 of the CSA Cloud Controls Matrix, a catalog of cloud security controls aligned with key information security regulations, standards and frameworks. The matrix, which is based upon the CSA Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing, can be downloaded at https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/projects/cloud-controls-matrix-ccm/. "The CSA Cloud Controls Matrix is a key part of our promise to assist the industry in operationalizing the best practices we began articulating at the launch of our organization", said Jim Reavis, Cloud Security Alliance executive director, "I would like to thank our Controls Matrix Working Group for their tireless effort in producing this work, especially our leaders Becky Swain, Phil Agcacoili and Marlin Pohlman." A full list of contributors is available here. The CSA Cloud Controls Matrix contains 98 controls, identified as being applicable to cloud providers, customers or both, and mapped against several well known standards and regulations, including ISO/IEC 27002, PCI/DSS and HIPAA. The matrix has already garnered key industry support, including adoption by CloudAudit.org. "CloudAudit's goal is to provide an interface and namespace to allow both cloud providers and customers to automate substantial portions of the assurance lifecycle in a transparent manner", said Christofer Hoff, founder of CloudAudit, as well as a founding member of Cloud Security Alliance, "The CSA Cloud Controls Matrix aligns very well with the CloudAudit namespace, and we are mapping our namespace directly to it to take advantage of its cloud-specific controls and mappings to other key frameworks." "The Controls Matrix creates an objective structure organizations can use to help satisfy compliance concerns and measure risks", said Nils Puhlmann, Zynga CSO and CSA board member, "We welcome industry feedback to this release and encourage experts to get involved in producing version 2." Available free of charge, the CSA Cloud Controls Matrix is intended to help a wide range of IT practitioners bridge the gap between traditional security frameworks and guidance specific to cloud computing. Initially available in spreadsheet form, future versions will be delivered using formats such as XML to ease solution integration. See https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/projects/cloud-controls-matrix-ccm/ for more information.
About Cloud Security Alliance The Cloud Security Alliance is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and to provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing. The Cloud Security Alliance is led by a broad coalition of industry practitioners, corporations, associations and other key stakeholders. For further information, the Cloud Security Alliance Web site is
www.cloudsecurityalliance.org.
Press Contacts Robert Nachbar ZAG Communications for the Cloud Security Alliance 206.427.0389 [email protected]
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About Cloud Security Alliance
The Cloud Security Alliance is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and to provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing. The Cloud Security Alliance is led by a broad coalition of industry practitioners, corporations, associations and other key stakeholders. For further information, follow us on Twitter @cloudsa.
For press inquiries, email Zenobia Godschalk of ZAG Communications or reach her by phone at 650.269.8315.
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December 6, 2019 10:00 am | Published by ColdClimate Admin | Comment now
No Jokes About Climate Change
The headlines read, ‘America Braces for Possible French Fry Shortage After Poor Potato Harvest.” This is not a joke. Potato processors are rushing to buy supplies and ship them across North America in order to keep French fries on the menu after cold, wet weather damaged crops in key producers in the U.S. and Canada. Cool conditions started to hit growing regions in October, lashing potatoes with frost. Notice it does not say heat conditions its cool conditions. Its cold climate change not heat will end us all.
Easily 100 million Americans have gotten or are still getting some cold snowy lessons in climate change. Winter came in Summer this year, starting at the end of September in certain places and then in October. In early fall huge parts of the country got walloped by snow storms that are continuing one after the other in November, setting cold and snow records all over the country. Instead of getting warmer its getting colder.
Snow now covers nearly one half – one half! – of the continental United States. That’s the most snow cover on December 2 since records began. One really needs to be an imbecile to believe the crowd that said snow would be a thing of the past and all those who have said repeatedly that we are living through the warmest error in history are naked before us all as liars. Global warmers have huffed and puffed and tried to blow the influence of the sun down and away from human awareness but the last laugh is on them but as the title suggests this is no joking matter.
As it gets colder and the snow deepens, even in parts of the world where it is almost summer, as the sun sleeps and the growing season shortens and agricultural losses mount, there are still people and organizations, including the almost broke United Nations, which are still crying, shouting and getting hysterical about global warming end of world scenarios.
NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) project has revealed Greenland’s Jakobshavn Glacier, the island’s biggest, is actually growing and now we read in early November that Greenland’s SMB gained 14 Gigatons over the past 2 Days alone, pushing this Season above the 1981-2010 average. Must be global warming, that type that is supposed to melt the world into oblivion in 12 years.
On September 20 of this year, sea ice surrounding Antarctica covered 7.78 million sq miles (20.14 million sq km), according to NASA. That’s more than twice as big as the continental United States (3.11 million sq miles). Sea ice surrounding Antarctica reached a new record high extent this year, covering more of the southern oceans than it has since scientists began a long-term satellite record to map sea ice extent in the late 1970s. Yes all this because its a warming world and the earth is flat and if you have a good excuse for hate then its OK.
The greatest rip off in history is still in progress and the worst thing about it is there actually are end of the world scenarios going on that are well hidden behind the scam of global warming. It is not warming, no matter how much they say, over and over and over again, that it is. Just because they say it is does not make it true. But what is true is that we are poisoning the world with heavy metals, chemicals and radiation. What is true is that life forms are disappearing at an alarming rate, sperm counts are crashing, insanity, suicide and mass killings are increasing; and we have extreme psychopaths in the halls of power lusting after war even if it does us all in via nuclear exchange.
The problem with coal is not CO2, its mercury, which is the most neuro-toxic agent; but the government and the medical establishment does not want it talked about because they are still injecting mercury (thimerosal) into babies and yes the FDA and dental organizations still support planting highly neuro-toxic mercury in people’s mouths inches from their brains.
To lie about one of the most essential gases (CO2) that plants love and people need, and to hide all of the most dangerous substances, is the essence of the biggest mind f–k imaginable. I am using appropriate language here to describe what the constant barrage of lies do to hundreds of millions of minds around the world; and this past year they have targeted the children.
What makes exercise such a wonderful thing? We create more carbon dioxide and thus our arteries and veins dilate and we get more oxygen delivered to the cells. What makes bicarbonate such a wonderful and useful medicine? It turns into CO2 when it hits our stomach acid or if we squeeze a lemon into the glass before we drink it.
Astrophysicist Piers Corbyn, has on numerous occasions said, “This climate crisis is not about the environment, it’s about money, power and control over you…” Still weeks before winter, as thousands, of miles of roads and highways, including major interstate highways across the U.S. are closed or buried in snow yet we still read of global warming hysterics.
A Grand Solar Minimum, and the prospect of a mini ice age is a climate emergency. It will not end the world in 12 years but it will have hundreds of millions starving and freezing. If we don’t adapt our food and energy systems to cold changing conditions, even those of us who know the truth will be dragged down with the majority that have been brainwashed into believing something that has no scientific backing.
Everyone knows, or at least they should, that most of what is being said about climate comes from climate models, not from reality. It is the sun not scientist’s computer models that will rule over our climate. But ninety seven percent of scientists believe that the sun does not warm the earth and ninety seven percent of dermatologists will warn you to stay out of the sun so you can become vitamin D deficient and get cancer. Its a wonderful world we live in. We have wonderful governments and marvelous brave and truthful politicians and scientists who think they can spit in the eye of Nature and get away with it.
AUSTRALIA JUST SUFFERED ITS COLDEST SUMMER
DAY ON RECORD — MAINSTREAM MEDIA SILENT
A brutal Antarctica air-mass blasted southeastern Australia during the opening days of summer, pumping deep snow into parts of Tasmania, Victoria and NSW, as well as limiting temperatures to as much as 15C below the seasonal average.
On Tuesday, December 03, Thredbo Top Station‘s highest recording was a mere -1.0C (30.2F) — this was Australia’s lowest summer daily maximum temperature of all time.
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Justin Bean Men's basketball Men's sports Sports Basketball College basketball College sports Men's college basketball Sam Merrill Kameron Langley Webster Filmore Abel Porter Diogo Brito Fred Cleveland Ronald Jackson Alphonso Anderson Devin Haygood Trevin Dorius Tyrone Lyons Brock Miller Tyler Maye Andre Jackson
Utah State Mountain West North Carolina A&T MEAC
North Carolina A&T Aggies at Utah State Aggies 11/15/2019
Utah State forward Justin Bean, top, drives to the basket as North Carolina A&T forward Tyrone Lyons (35) defends during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Logan, Utah. (AP Photo/Eli Lucero)
North Carolina A&T guard Kameron Langley, left, and Utah State guard Sam Merrill scramble for a the ball during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Logan, Utah. (AP Photo/Eli Lucero)
Utah State guard Abel Porter (15) drives to the basket as North Carolina A&T forward Webster Filmore defends during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Logan, Utah. (AP Photo/Eli Lucero)
North Carolina A&T guard Andre Jackson (0) brings the ball downcourt as Utah State guard Diogo Brito (24) and guard Abel Porter (15) defend during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Logan, Utah. (AP Photo/Eli Lucero)
North Carolina A&T guard Andre Jackson (0) prepares to make a three-point basket against Utah State during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Logan, Utah. (AP Photo/Eli Lucero)
Utah State forward Alphonso Anderson (10) looks to pass the ball as North Carolina A&T forward Ronald Jackson, left, and guard Fred Cleveland Jr. defend during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Logan, Utah. (AP Photo/Eli Lucero)
North Carolina A&T forward Devin Haygood (23) shoots as Utah State forward Justin Bean (34) and center Trevin Dorius defend during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Logan, Utah. (AP Photo/Eli Lucero)
North Carolina A&T forward Tyrone Lyons (35) passes the ball as Utah State guard Abel Porter (15) defends during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Logan, Utah. (AP Photo/Eli Lucero)
Utah State guard Brock Miller (22) brings the ball downcourt as North Carolina A&T forward Ronald Jackson (21) defends during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Logan, Utah. (AP Photo/Eli Lucero)
Utah State forward Justin Bean (34) shoots as North Carolina A&T forward Ronald Jackson (21) defends during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Logan, Utah. (AP Photo/Eli Lucero)
North Carolina A&T guard Fred Cleveland Jr. (2) looks to pass the ball as Utah State guard Abel Porter defends during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Logan, Utah. (AP Photo/Eli Lucero)
Utah State guard Sam Merrill (5) shoots as North Carolina A&T forward Webster Filmore (25) and guard Tyler Maye defend during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Logan, Utah. (AP Photo/Eli Lucero)
Utah State guard Diogo Brito (24) shoots as North Carolina A&T guard Andre Jackson (0) defends during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Logan, Utah. (AP Photo/Eli Lucero)
Utah State head coach Craig Smith talks to players during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against North Carolina A&T on Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Logan, Utah. (AP Photo/Eli Lucero)
Utah State head coach Craig Smith, right, talks to his players on the bench during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against North Carolina A&T on Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Logan, Utah. (AP Photo/Eli Lucero)
Utah State forward Alphonso Anderson (10) drives to the basket as North Carolina A&T forwards Webster Filmore (25) and Tyrone Lyons (35) defend during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Logan, Utah. (AP Photo/Eli Lucero)
Utah State forward Justin Bean (34) passes the ball as North Carolina A&T guard Andre Jackson (0) defends during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Logan, Utah. (AP Photo/Eli Lucero)
Utah State guard Abel Porter, center, is fouled by North Carolina A&T guard Kameron Langley (13) as guard Fred Cleveland Jr. helps defend during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Logan, Utah. (AP Photo/Eli Lucero)
Utah State guard Sam Merrill (5) shoots as North Carolina A&T forward Webster Filmore (25) defends during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Logan, Utah. (AP Photo/Eli Lucero)
Utah State guard Sam Merrill (5) dribbles as North Carolina A&T guard Kameron Langley, center, and forward Webster Filmore defend during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Logan, Utah. (AP Photo/Eli Lucero)
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Is Architecture as Fractured as Our Politics?
By Duo Dickinson
Despite signs of an emerging pluralism, there is still a clearly defined separation between the Blue Academic Elite and Red Building Architects.
Never Built New York: Grand Architectural Visions, Dashed Dreams, and Good, Old-Fashioned Hubris
By Jack Crager
A new book looks at some of Gotham’s most daring and, in some cases, insane unbuilt projects.
Who Owns the View?
By Martin C. Pedersen
Looking at 432 Park Avenue, while jogging around the reservoir in Central Park.
New Orleans’ Music Box Village Magically Blends Architecture and Sound
By Steven Bingler
A wildly creative team of designers, artists and fabricators create a fantastic series of “playable” installations.
Learning from Stockholm’s Eco-City of the Future
By Dennis Pieprz
It’s a model for both sustainable development and urbane living.
Whatever Happened to “The Architects’ Architect”?
By Graham McKay
The definition of this once-revered term has shifted to something a lot less about buildings.
Life During Trump: Progress on Climate Change Will Come From the Bottom Up
By Edward Mazria
Regardless of last week’s election, the growth of sustainable building will continue to accelerate.
George Lucas Takes a Play Out of the NFL Owners Playbook
Pitting one city against another is an effective way of getting what you need from the powers that be.
The BIM Moment: What We’re Losing in the Robot-Age of Architecture
For most architects today, Building Information Modeling is the elephant in the room.
Landscape Architecture Can Help Save the World
In praise of a profession uniquely qualified to tackle the problems of our time.
How an Architect “Reads” a Building (Non-Architects Edition)
By Ben Willis
A how-to for people who want to talk and look at buildings like architects.
The Woman in the Room: Getting a F-ing Word in Edgewise
By Eva Hagberg
Speaking up in the roomful of male architects is not easy.
The Ethics of Rendering: Permissible Lies When Anything is Possible
As architectural images become more real, their content becomes more fictional.
Contemplating the Unthinkable: A World Without Venice
Salvatore Settis’ book is not about climate change, but it’s still hard not to think about it while reading it.
Swimming in the Driving Lane: Sao Paulo Takes Over an Urban Highway
At night and on Sundays and holidays, this Brazilian city turns a roaring overpass into a people’s park.
The Lessons of Indigenous Cultures Can Help Us Adapt to Climate Change
Planners will have to begin redefine their methods of community engagement for the challenges ahead.
Confessions of a Young Architect, Upon Taking the Licensing Exam
The terror that confronts every young newbie in the profession.
How Designing With All of Our Senses Creates a More Inclusive World
Visually obsessed architects and designers need to include the full range of human sensibilities.
Notes on New York, My Old Neighborhood, and the G-Word
Some observations about returning to Yorkville after five years away.
Unspoken Communications: A How-To for Young Architects
Some career advice on the fine art of communicating with clients.
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Mike's Top Ten Films of 2018
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Will Get Your Spidey Senses TinglingSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a fresh, well-animated, and bitingly clever take on Marvel’s most popular—and most overplayed—superhero.
'Mary Poppins Returns' Will Leave You Singing and SmilingThe sequel to the childhood classic doesn’t diminish the specialness of the original, and most importantly, Emily Blunt’s performance pays homage to Julie Andrews, the original M.P.
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Needs a Dose of Magical Action
Melissa McCarthy Delivers in Can You Ever Forgive Me?McCarthy abandons the over-the-top persona that made her famous and instead opts for a more serious role. While Can You Ever Forgive Me? is forgettable, credit must be given to McCarthy for transforming a prickly historical biographer turned felon into the kind of person for whom I could root.
'Venom' Movie ReviewI went into this film with minimum expectations, and all I knew about the Venom character was from the horrible Spiderman 3. That being said, I enjoyed this film. It was very different than what I was expecting.
Lady Gaga is Reborn in A Star is BornLady Gaga's performance is raw, vulnerable and heartbreaking. Bradley Cooper, too, gives a surprising and passionate performance. In the end, you'll leave the movie reassessing the music industry and how we as a celebrity-obsessed culture treat, and ultimately dispose of, artists.
'Life Itself' Packs An Emotional, Yet Boring PunchThis ambitious movie wears its bleeding heart on its sleeve. Unfortunately, it’s too preoccupied with its big idea that it forgets to excite you.
The Predator is a Silly, Forgettable But Still Enjoyable Addition To The Predator SeriesWhat 'The Predator' lacks in substance, it makes up for using the kind of outlandish gore and crude, yet funny jokes seen in movies like Deadpool.
A Simple Favor is Simply ThrillingPeople will compare A Simple Favor to other thrillers like Gone Girl and A Girl on the Train. While there are similarities, A Simple Favor is much more outrageous and offbeat than its predecessors.
'Mile 22' Movie ReviewI hated how this film ended with a very confusing and puzzling conclusion. If you are a fan of Iko Uwais, it might be worth your money, but for me, this fight sequences just don’t make up for the stupid plot. My Rating: Cable
Crazy Rich Asians is Crazy FunCrazy Rich Asians is as good as it is lavish and provides a much-needed jolt to the romantic comedy genre.
The Meg is a Lousy Monster MovieThe Meg is a lousy monster movie featuring a bloated plotline and one-dimensional characters
Interview with John David Washington, star of 'BlacKkKlansman'Interview with John David Washington (son of two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington) about his role as Ron Stallworth in this amazing, true story.
Interview with 'Blindspotting' co-writers/stars Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal
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Computer-based chaos: Major computer problems reported in state testing | The Daily Gazette
Schenectady News
Computer-based chaos: Major computer problems reported in state testing
Company also came under fire for breach of information earlier this year.
Zachary Matson
@zacharydmatson
Photographer: Shutterstock
Computer testing around the state, including in a handful of Capital Region districts, went off the rails Wednesday as problems sourced to the state's testing vendor kept some students from logging into or finishing their English Language Arts tests.
Delays, false-starts and problems submitting answers threw a wrench into the annual exams -- just as the state rolled out a computerized upgrade it hopes to expand to all students by 2021. In some districts, just a fraction of students were able to start the tests at all; in other districts, problems persisted as officials tried to upload finished tests; and across the state, teachers reported "system crashes, log-in failures and nonsensical answers," according to a state teachers union.
"In my mind, we've had a test that's had a breach of security statewide... Are the results really going to be valid results?" said Karen Swain, Scotia-Glenville assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction. "In my mind, this is no longer a standardized testing situation."
In Scotia-Glenville schools, where the first day of computer testing Tuesday went off as planned, the problems started almost immediately as they attempted to test fourth graders districtwide on computers. Administrators were unable to access an admin portal, and students weren't capable of logging in to their test page. For over an hour, administrators and teachers struggled to make the tests work.
Swain said she went as far as reporting a security breach - on herself. The tests are supposed to be delivered to an entire grade at a time - so that students aren't waiting to take a test that their friends down the street may have already taken - but on Wednesday just one of Scotia-Glenville's four elementary schools, Lincoln Elementary, was able to get in and take the tests. The other three schools will try again Thursday, Swain said.
By 10:15 a.m., after nearly 90 minutes of trying to get the tests up and running, and working to keep students calm and engaged, Swain decided to call it for the day and resume regular classwork. She said the students, who were given small tasks to keep them busy while the adults worked to get the tests going, were patient as the technical difficulties disrupted their morning.
"'Boy, we're real problem solvers today,'" one of the fourth graders told Swain.
Technical problems were also reported in Shenendehowa, Mohonasen, Schenectady, Cobleskill-Richmondville, Wheelerville on Wednesday. Even if the schools and students unable to finish tests Wednesday resume testing without problems on Thursday, the statewide glitch is sure to raise questions about the state and its testing vendor's preparedness for expanding computer testing to more and more students in the coming years.
"It's clear there are some technology and infrastructure issues that will need to be further developed before this goes statewide," said Cobleskill-Richmondville Superintendent Carl Mummenthey. He said two out of the district's six fourth-grade classes - about 40 students - were unable to login to take the tests Wednesday. They will try again Thursday.
Mummenthey said the first-year kinks were worst than he had expected - though he said the district's internal plans worked out - but that he still thinks computer testing is the direction schools are headed in.
"It is going to be the future of testing in New York, and we will be patient as they work through and troubleshoot some of these issues," he said. "If Amazon can stay online during the holidays, we should be able to test grades three through eight in New York."
Mumenthey, Swain and other local administrators said computer testing went as planned on Tuesday - the first day of annual testing of students in third through eighth grades - but that the problems started almost immediately Wednesday morning.
Around 60 students at Draper Middle School in Mohonasen School District were unable to take the tests as scheduled, according to a letter posted on the district's website. Pinewood Elementary students experienced delays of up to 40 minutes before they were able to get their testing underway. Shenendehowa promised to make accommodations for students unable to finish their tests Wednesday. Wheelerville Superintendent Richard Ruberti said the district experienced some delays in submitting test results Wednesday morning. He said the issue was resolved for all but one student.
The state's major teachers union, New York State United Teachers, in a statement that called Wednesday a "computer testing disaster" and said that "widespread technology failures raise serious questions about the speed - and wisdom - of the state Education Department's rush into computer-based testing."
In Yonkers, according to the union statement, students were presented with multiple choice questions where all the answers were the same: "System error."
Delays were blamed on the company hired to develop and deliver the state's annual English and math tests, Questar Assessment, according to a statement from the state Education Department on Wednesday. Questar Assessment did not immediately return a request for comment Wednesday evening.
In a statement, department spokeswoman Emily DeSantis said Questar "experienced delays in the delivery of computer-based tests to students in some schools across the state" and that the company "resolved the matter as quickly as possible with the delay times varying."
Across the state, 291 districts participated in computer-based testing this week - a big increase after a small group of districts were the first to adopt computer testing last year. Around 15 districts in the Capital Region, including Schenectady, Ballston Spa, Saratoga Springs, Mohonasen and Scotia-Glenville, are administering at least a portion of the tests on computers this week, according to the state Education Department.
DeSantis said state officials reminded districts that there was flexibility built into the testing schedule and that they could postpone testing as needed but that "testing will continue." DeSantis also said Questar reported that nearly 50,000 students were able to complete computer-based tests on Wednesday.
"We thank the districts for partnering with us on the phased and thoughtful implementation of computer-based testing," DeSantis said in the statement.
Some advocacy groups that point to annual testing as key indicators of student progress and achievement, as well a tool for indetifiying disparities among student groups, released statements Wednesday afternoon arguing it was important not to overreact to the day's computer issues.
"Most importantly, we hope that opponents do not use this as an excuse to attack the state assessments, which are essential to improving equity and supporting all students," said Ian Rosenblum, executive director of Education Trust-New York. He said he trusted the Education Department would hold Questar accountable and resolve the computer problems.
Questar also came under fire in January after reporting that student testing data in a handful of districts had been breached; the company told state officials they believed a former employee improperly viewed the student data. In February, after details of the breach emerged, NYSUT submitted a letter to the Board of Regents and Education Department, raising a litany of concerns over computer testing.
"The recent testing data break offers an opportunity to thoroughly review computer based testing and its impact on students," NYSUT Executive Vice President Jolene DiBrango wrote in the letter. On Wednesday, DiBrango reiterated the concerns and added a message to state official on behalf of teachers: "SED must slow down and get it right."
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New Canaan Daily Voice serves New Canaan, CT
Man Faces DUI Charge After Crashing Into Utility Pole In Greenwich, Police Say
An allegedly drunk driver struck a utility pole outside 38 Weaver St. in Greenwich. Photo Credit: Google Maps
A man who drove into a utility pole in Greenwich was reportedly driving under the influence of alcohol, police said.
Officers from the Greenwich Police Department were dispatched to Weaver Street shortly before 1 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 8, where there was a report of a driver who had struck a utility pole in the area.
According to police, upon arrival, the vehicle was unoccupied, and they found the driver, Greenwich resident Mariusz Mosiej, 38, walking alone West Putnam Avenue. After being approached, Mosiej admitted to being involved in the one-car crash.
Police said that Mosiej displayed signs of alcohol impairment, and he later failed standardized field sobriety tests, which he was unable to perform to standards.
Mosiej was arrested and charged with failure to drive in the proper lane, illegal operation of a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol and evading responsibility in a crash involving property damage.
Following his processing, Mosiej was released on $250 cash bond and scheduled to return to Stamford Superior Court on Monday, Dec. 23 to respond to the charges.
New Canaan Daily Voice!
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The Real and Raw Truth about Success, Growth, Failure and Leaving a Legacy
Today, we continue our conversation with John James, the CEO of Engine. In the previous episode, John shared the incredible story about how he went from medical school to selling over $100m/year in cowboy boots online with his business, Country Outfitter. In this episode, John dives into many of the how-to’s and “wish I would have knowns” from his deep experience.
He candidly shares about the health scare that led to his resignation at Country Outfitter, how he thinks about his legacy and the principles he’s taken with him to his newest venture, Engine.
He also provides the powerful and simple advice Alex Dillard, the President of Dillard’s Department Stores, gave him that totally changed the way he viewed being a leader – both at home and the office. Don’t miss this episode:
The simple advice he gives startup founders
How John views the role of a CEO and what we’ve seen talking to thousands of other leaders and CEOs
The two ways CEOs can work around their weaknesses
The unique role the right COO can play for CEOs
How to move from “Chief Doing Officer” to CEO
The right time to hire more senior leaders
How John manages remote workers and different office locations, even in a small company
The most important question for John at this stage in his career
The simple advice Dillard’s CEO gave John around work-life balance
The one promise John made to his wife about work
How to set your priorities to build your legacy
Make sure to subscribe to the For You Leaders Podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Patriots’ Blowout Win In ‘Sunday Night Football’ Opener Delivers Almost Exact Same Viewership As 2018 – Update
September 9, 2019 1:35pm
The new NFL season saw its first slaughter as the Super Bowl champs took Pittsburgh apart last night- yet the ratings were not so impressive. AP
UPDATED, 1: 35 PM: In what was the most lopsided Sunday Night Football score ever for the NBC and NFL show, the New England Patriots’ 33-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers last night has delivered its final numbers. And they are a lot like the 2018 SNF season opener and last week’s 100th-season opener between the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears.
Sunday’s primetime matchup between the current Super Bowl champs and the Steelers snared 22.2 million viewers on the Comcast-owned net. That’s just a touch over the 22.12 million pulled in by last year’s SNF debut, a Packers-Bears game. Last night’s blowout is also up just 0.9% compared with NBC’s regular-season kickoff game Thursday.
The full set of eyeballs goes up to 22.7 million for the Pats victory when you add in viewership for NBC Sports Digital and NFL Digital platforms, Nielsen and Adobe Analytics say.
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Let’s see what the action is tonight on the start of Monday Night Football on ESPN.
PREVIOUSLY, 6:23 AM: A day after signing ex-Pittsburgh Steelers superstar Antonio Brown, the New England Patriots proceeded to bury the AFC’s oldest franchise in the official NFL season opener of NBC’s Sunday Night Football.
Roaring to a 33-3 win at home, Tom Brady and the defending Super Bowl champions may have even let the Steelers have their lone field goal almost as a courtesy in what was the most lopsided SNF opener ever. Certainly, the numbers underneath the final score tell the deeper story with the Patriots’ QB nailing a trio of touchdowns, completing 24 of his 36 throws and racking up 341 yards passing.
Or put it another way, and without Brown playing last night, New England on and off the field this weekend made its case for back-to-back Super Bowls clear – just like the team did in 2003 and 2004. Hell, there was even a very untraditional shout-out to Marvel and Black Panther’s Wakanda from the Pats’ Michael Bennett on NBC on Sunday:
“Wakanda Forever!” 🤣#PITvsNE (via @thecheckdown)pic.twitter.com/BMYcqDAttB
— ESPN (@espn) September 9, 2019
However, Patriots Fatigue might finally be settling in with America’s football fans – at least when it comes to the ratings. Coming off a 100th season opener on September 5 that was up double digits from 2018, last night’s SNF clinched a 14.8/26 in metered markets, according to Nielsen.
Basically unmoved from the opener from 2018, last night’s blowout was up a tiny 2.7% in the early metrics from the hobbled SNF season debut of September 9 last year.
That dramatic 24-23 comeback win for the Green Bay Packers over longtime rivals the Chicago Bears ended up with a total viewership of 22.12 million and a 7.5/29 rating among adults 18-49 on the Comcast-owned network. That marked drops of 9% and 18%, respectively, compared with the 2017 season SNF kickoff, when the big-market Dallas Cowboys beat the big-market New York Giants 19-3.
Additionally and perhaps telling of more than a rout impacting viewer’s interest, Sunday’s game also had the distinction of being down from Thursday’s official season kickoff. Ultimately snagging 22.0 million for NBC, that well-hyped 199th battle that saw the Packers beat the host Bears was up almost 4% in the metered markets over last night’s SNF‘s Patriots-Steelers clash.
We’ll update with more NFL and NBC numbers as we get them, as well as final ratings for Big Brother and The $100,00 Pyramid (see the chart below). Of course, tonight is also the debut of the 50th anniversary season of Monday Night Football. The commemoration will see the Houston Texans taking on the New Orleans Saints on ESPN in the opener and Denver at Oakland in the nightcap.
With that, here are the Top 10 local metered market for last night’s game:
1. Pittsburgh 42.3/60
2. Providence 37.4/57
3. Boston 36.3/58
4. New Orleans 22.7/31
5. Denver 19.6/33
6. Baltimore 19.1/30
7. Norfolk 18.8/31
8. Kansas City 18.3/30
9. Dayton 18.2/29
10. Buffalo 18.0/29
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Kashmir’s Bleeding Economy! | Mohammad Ashraf
in Kashmir — by Mohammad Ashraf — May 2, 2019
(The uncertain situation for last few years is making already fragile Kashmir economy to bleed without any redressal in sight!)
The founder of the Ziraat Times, Arjimand Hussain Talib in a recent post on the Facebook while highlighting the problems faced by the trade in Kashmir has observed, “Kashmir’s economy is dying silently, with far-reaching long term negative impacts.It is high time regional political parties, business groups and civil society initiate a coordinated and effective action. Strikes will only inflict self-harm. A collective response has to be politically sophisticated and result oriented too”. But the moot point is why is Kashmir economy dying? Because it has been slowly made to bleed to death! The bleeding started immediately after Kashmir’s first Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah was unceremoniously removed and imprisoned in 1953 to enable Kashmir’s total merger and integration. The subsidy culture of fifties introduced by Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad was the first wound given to the local self-sufficient economy at least in food related items.
There are no two opinions that the agriculture has always been the real backbone of Kashmiris economy for centuries. Even at present the 80% of the population consists of cultivators. Unfortunately, over the years instead of progressing this sector has been rather dwindling and we are at a juncture when we depend on imports for most of our agriculture based products!While on one hand most of the agricultural products and the people engaged in producing these have been declining over a period of time, on the other the only thing which has grown geometrically are the government employees! A sizeable chunk of the State budget goes into the salaries of these employees. Unfortunately, over a period of time we have depleted slowly the dignity of manual labour and created a mind-set of white collar jobs among our youth. According to some estimates almost a million youth are educated but unemployed. Most are waiting for the white-collar government jobs even at the lowest level. This is the greatest disservice that has been done to our society by our rulers for last 70 years or so! This mentality has to change.
The other unproductive expenditure specially incurred by NRIs (Non-resident Kashmiris) is the construction boom in bungalows and villas. Over past few years a hundred thousand posh houses worth thousands of crores must have been constructed by our Non-resident fellow Kashmiris spread all over the world in the entire valley with Srinagar topping the list. This is totally dead investment. Those people hardly use these villas and houses. May be they use these at the most for a month or so when they visit Kashmir if it is peaceful. Almost eleven months in a year these are occupied by watchmen looking after these! The same money could have been invested in various local enterprises especially in agriculture based industries.
Tourism has been wrongly propagated as the backbone of the economy even though it forms not more than 7% of the GDP! Yes, if things were peaceful and Kashmir had year round direct international air access, Kashmir would have become another Switzerland. Again the massive investment in this sector has become dead investment due to uncertain and disturbed situation which does not appear to improve in the near future. Moreover, because of total dependence on imports regarding various inputs in the sector, Tourism does not have a multiplier effect in Kashmir. It is estimated that the multiplier effect in Indian conditions is about 3.5 which means a single rupee invested in Tourism is equivalent to 3.5 rupees invested in other sectors. But this does not hold in Kashmir as most of the inputs in this sector are imported from outside the state which makes tourism earnings to have a quick exit providing only seasonal jobs to the locals.
Another sheepish mentality is construction of shopping complexes everywhere. Instead of investing money in making goods which could be locally used and could lessen imports of these, people have virtually gone crazy in making shopping complexes to sell goods from all over the world. Totally consumer based economy without any attempt to produce these goods especially in the food chain locally.
Above everything else, the local economy faces another serious handicap and that is the most undependable highway which incidentally is the only exit for the valley, the main historical one through Jhelum Valley Road having been blocked since 1947. If the state economy is to stabilise and grow, two things are most essential. First is the return to agriculture based economy for which the Ziraat Times has taken an initiative and the other is a dependable access to the valley from the outside world.The State Governments of all the political parties are least interested in creating an independent economy. They have mostly been busy in improving their own and their family’s economic well-being at the cost of the common people. If the economy is to survive and progress then a private and enterprising initiative taken by Ziraat Times has to be encouraged and multiplied manifold. The civil society has to wake up and take an initiative in this regard. Let us hope and pray this happens soon. In the alternative, Kashmir’s economy is destined to bleed to death!
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Norwegian Makes a Risky Choice to Serve New York City Through Stewart International Airport
CF on Dec 19, 2016 Dec 19, 2016 - 90 Comments on Norwegian Makes a Risky Choice to Serve New York City Through Stewart International Airport
Norwegian, SWF - Newburgh/Stewart
Are you watching what Norwegian is up to these days? You should be. The airline seems to be throwing darts all over a world map, hoping something is going to stick. Oh sure, there’s the hare-brained scheme to start flying within Argentina, but today I want to talk about something closer to home. Norwegian is making a risky bet that it can serve New York via a little-used airport more than 60 miles north of Manhattan. (It’s also planning the same alternate airport strategy in Boston, likely with Providence.) You might assume I’d be skeptical that this would work. You’d be right.
On the heels of Norwegian getting its Irish subsidiary approved, it has decided the time is ripe to expand in the US. In the middle of next year, it gets its first 737MAX aircraft, and those airplanes will be able to quite capably fly from the Northeast US over to Western Europe. It appears that the first base for this operation in the US will be Stewart International Airport. Chances are you’ve never heard of Stewart, because for 99 percent of the people flying to/from New York City, that’s not even in the consideration set.
At right, you can see a map of most the airports that try to serve New York City. For those not familiar with the geography, Manhattan
is that piece of land just to the left of LaGuardia, wedged between the Hudson and East Rivers. Of course you know the big 3 airports in the region – Newark, LaGuardia, and JFK. They surround Manhattan well and serve New Jersey, Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island respectively. But as we all know, these are overcrowded airports and there’s not much room for new entry.
So where is an airline with grand plans supposed to go? There is Islip way out east on Long Island (and not on this map). Southwest gave that airport a brief renaissance, but the airline cut back as it gained access to the main airports in town. Westchester up to the north is in a fantastic spot to serve the wealthy Westchester County area, but it’s highly-restricted with a relatively short runway. Looking at this landscape, Norwegian has apparently decided that Stewart is the answer.
Stewart has been run by the Port Authority for the last decade, the group that (tries) to run JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark. (It also runs Atlantic City and Teterboro, in case you were interested.) The airport itself has very little service today with American running three a day to Philly, Delta sending two a day to Detroit, JetBlue putting one a day each into Ft Lauderdale and Orlando, and Allegiant throwing a couple airplanes a week down south as well. That’s it.
This very limited amount of service is probably because it’s really not located very well. It lies just to the west of the Hudson River, near the intersection of Interstates 84 and 87. The primary catchment is likely to be northern New Jersey, parts of New York north of New York City, and likely some of Connecticut, but it’s the first choice for very few people. From Manhattan, it’s over 60 miles away, and that involves tolls and bridges.
As if that’s not bad enough, there’s the public transit problem. There are a couple of Metro-North lines that run sort-of-close to the airport. The Port Jervis line goes down to Hoboken, just across from Manhattan, but a) Hoboken is NOT Manhattan (neither is Secaucus right before it) and b) you still need to take a cab for a few miles to get from Stewart to the station. The Hudson line goes right into Grand Central in Manhattan, but it not only takes an hour and a half, it’s a 20 minute taxi ride (or longer bus ride) to get from Stewart to the station. Options are terrible.
With this information, why on Earth does Norwegian think this is a good place from which to launch Transatlantic service? I can think of three things it has going for it.
The runway is nearly 12,000 feet long. It’s shorter for landings, but it’s still long enough for Europe runs.
Customs and immigration already exists at the airport, though the terminal expansion to properly house it permanently is still not done.
It’s cheap for the airline to operate there.
Ok, so that’s something. And it sounds a lot like why, say, Ryanair decided to pretend Hahn Airport was in Frankfurt despite it being very far away. At Hahn, Ryanair was able to bring in low fares and pull people from Frankfurt (and elsewhere) to use the airport. Norwegian probably thinks it can do the same thing, but the dynamics are different here.
Frankfurt had no low-cost service, so it was an easy price-based sell for Ryanair to come in and pull people away. The same can’t be said for NYC airports. Over the Atlantic, there isn’t a ton of low cost competition in general, but New York has a presence from nearly all the ones that exist (Aer Lingus, Air Berlin, Air Europa, Icelandair, Meridiana, Thomnas Cook, XL Airways France, etc.)
On top of that, the legacy airlines very often provide low fare transportation, especially outside of the summer peak. Over the weekend, I looked at JFK to London in March and saw fares just over $500 roundtrip with taxes making up about $200 of that. Now, Norwegian says it can operate its flights for $300 to $350 roundtrip all-in. Presumably that won’t include a bag or food or much else. It’ll have a shuttle bus service to get people between New York City and Stewart, but I assume that’ll cost extra as well. In the end, is there enough meat on the bone to get people to schlep out to Stewart? Can people save enough money to make it worth it?
Maybe there is just enough, barring competitive response, but do you really think the legacy airlines are going to take this lying down? Norwegian is said to be planning 21 flights a week from Stewart to the British Isles and Norway. British Airways has already decided to aggressively compete with Norwegian over the Atlantic by adding flights on unlikely routes like London to Oakland. So might BA go to Stewart and sit on top of Norwegian? I doubt it. I don’t think it’s necessary.
BA, or any other traditional airline, just needs to be willing to keep prices low enough from JFK or Newark to prevent anyone from needing to head up to Stewart to get a deal. Outside of summer, there’s no reason to think airlines couldn’t easily be competitive if they so chose. I imagine they will. (Get ready for a low fare party, New York.) That would leave only those people who actually find Stewart to be more convenient to want to stick with BA Norwegian. That’s not likely a huge number of people…unless no other airline flies the route nonstop.
Norwegian does have smaller airplanes, so it can go to smaller places. Maybe an Allegiant-style play is what we’re going to see. The person in Sioux Falls, SD might not like flying Allegiant, but sure enough Allegiant is the only airline flying nonstop to Vegas and the price is good. If Norwegian does fly to places like Cork, which it has said, then those people flying to Cork are going to drive to Stewart and fly Norwegian since no other nonstop is available.
I’m not sure how many small-city Europe routes can support even a 737 out of New York City, but this might help at least something to work… unless Aer Lingus opens up that Cork hub.
Stewart has a lot going against it, so creativity is going to be extremely important to find a niche that works. I’m not sure one exists, but I’m happy to be proven wrong. Let’s see it, Norwegian.
90 comments on “Norwegian Makes a Risky Choice to Serve New York City Through Stewart International Airport”
Maybe the 737 would work in Stewart, since it is a bit smaller.
Do you think PVD could work more since the airport has a train direct to BOS (and many stops in the middle? Also, will they move the 787 services to PVD from BOS?
Joe – I think PVD is a very interesting place, much more so than Stewart. Because from Providence you can draw locally as well as from Hartford and up into Boston. Boston has fewer Transatlantic flight destinations so there is more opportunity for smaller cities to gain service with a 737. Now, I don’t know if it’ll actually work. Condor’s failure in Providence isn’t a good sign. But that was a bigger airplane as well.
I live in Providence and I am continually shocked by how little service we have (domestic nothing farther west than Chicago) yes we’re a small city but we can easily draw people from Boston, I even think PVD can be preferrable to BOS for the people who live in the southwest suburbs of Boston (Norwood, Dedham, Canton, Foxborough) since it’s a lot easier to drive down 95 than fight traffic to Logan. I’m really hoping that Norwegian will choose PVD over PSM!
Marshall says:
Condor didn’t invest sufficiently to make PVD worthwhile. Norwegian should thrive.
Richie Weldon says:
It’s been years since I’ve flown into SWF so it might no longer be the case, but the airport used to be great for military plane spotting C-5s, C-17s, and the like.
Maybe Norwegian is into that sort of thing?
Traffic is so heinous, crowds and delays are so bad at New York’s big three airports, that the travel time to/from Stewart might be less of an issue if Norwegian can sell it as a better experience that isn’t that much of a sacrifice.
But a transportation issue you haven’t discussed is the overwhelming dependence on cabs and livery car services to/from the airports in New York. New Yorkers don’t have cars. Taxis and black cars (and now Uber, et al) are a primary way of going between Manhattan (and the other boroughs) and the airports. A car service from Manhattan to JFK is $50-75 plus tolls and tip. The other airports are about the same. But a car service to Stewart is likely to be significantly more, and yellow cabs won’t even consider the trip. A bus shuttle might sound like a good idea, but it’s a lot to pin a plan on. Norwegian will have a hard time selling a flight that’s a hundred dollars less if the transportation to get there wipes out the savings.
New Yorkers may not have cars, but commuters from New Jersey or Connecticut do, and it might be a lot more convenient (faster, cheaper, …) for them to go there than to reach JFK, where, unless it has really picked up in Newark recently, most of the Transatlantic service is located !
Cranky,
Frankly, what’s 60 miles away when you’ve flown (or are going to fly) for 7-8 hours ?
You’ve chosen Hahn airport, but their numbers suggest (pax have decreased by almost 40% in a few years) that it’s not a success.
In France, Beauvais (85 km (53 mi)) from Paris, or a 75 minutes by bus from Porte Maillot (hardly the city center but someplace where you can take the metro), is in a similar situation, yet Ryanair, Wizzair and a few small others still attracted 4,3 Millions passengers in 2015, with a spectacular growth rate year after year (doubling in 8 years).
The mix of cheap leisure destinations for locals and visitors, point to point services (mostly to eastern Europe), very affordable long term parking and a coach link to Paris operated by the airport have done the trick.
So I wouldn’t bet against Norwegian on that one if :
– they can market a reliable coach transportation option to NYC for tourists (or, even more original, make it a fast boat ride on the Hudson and include the Statue in the loop !)
– they can offer a good mix of leisure and point to point destination at a reasonnable price.
After all, if Icelandair can lure passengers with a one stop option and cheaper prices, why couldn’t Norwegian succeed here ? After all, they only need 500 persons per day to fill their 3 planes !!!…
Chris – Right, because as low cost carriers grow up and realize they can serve the big city airports, they do it. The revenue bump is generally always worth it, despite increased costs. Southwest has done the same thing in the US. The reason to go to a secondary airport is because you can’t get into a primary. That’s been a problem in places like Paris and Frankfurt, and it’ll be a problem in NYC airports.
The Icelandair example is a bit different in that 1) some people want to stop in Iceland, 2) it has different flight times available than legacy airlines, and 3) it connects people into many destinations in Europe. Norwegian wouldn’t have any of that, it would be doing nonstops in markets where others will probably not give an inch.
Chicago Chris says:
As a former NY-er I would never give Stewart consideration. I was very surprised to hear it’s under consideration. PANYNJ and Norwegian will have to come up with something to make the trek easier with public transit.
I would need to save at least $200 to make it worth avoiding JFK and Norwegian is already offering $139 fares from there.
I have to think there are more attractive cities that would come with attractive packages to lure a European carrier before Stewart. Maybe along the lines of San Diego, St Louis, Austin, Kansas City or Mesa (a la Allegiant)?
I believe all your options are out of the range of Norwegians 737s
Could they use the 787s? I also wonder why they don’t go in on MSP. Tons of people here travel to Norway and Sweden, seems like it would be a decent route. Iceland air has added year round service to MSP this winter.
Correct. I was referencing Norwegian’s 787s for these routes, which would theoretically put 737s on existing east coast routes.
thisworldtraveler says:
The catchment is larger than you might think. Albany is only 90 minutes away from Stewart and convenient to get to for them. Also Scranton/Wilkes Barre is 90 minutes away as well. These areas are used to traveling between 2 and 3 hours to get to an international flight. That would put its catchment probably close to a million people or so. It’s worth seeing if this could be successful. Especially when its not my money. Lots of people do inconvenient things to save a couple hundred bucks. I could see this seasonally successful in the summer, especially if they are able to lock in some wholesaler contracts with tour groups.
Reine says:
I’m from the Albany area and if I had an alternative to the three Metro airports, I’d leap at it. If it were a little more expensive, I’d still leap at it. Anything to avoid driving to Newark or JFK.
First off, I am surprised that Brett didn’t make a Godzilla-style map illustration for this one. Because if Narita involves going past the home of Godzilla, this is far, far worse. Also, you forgot to include Islip.
Seriously though, I just don’t see this working. The distance is just too far for all but the most dedicated travelers from the NYC metro area, especially with relatively cheap fares from JFK.
If Norwegian offers cheap coach buses from, say, Manhattan, Westchester County, Fairfield County, and Northern NJ, that will help, but it still won’t overcome the, “Where the F!@& is Newburgh?” issue without heavy marketing.
If Norwegian were flying into, say, HPN, Islip, New Haven, or Teterboro (ignoring how feasible it would be), I could see this working, but IMHO SWF is just too far from the city. Heck, even Hartford might be a better option, as that would put most of CT in a reasonable catchment area.
Kilroy – I really missed that opportunity, didn’t I? Not sure what the monster would be. Maybe a dirty, smelly Elmo venturing out from his perch in Times Square to scare people going north to Stewart.
I didn’t forget Islip. It’s not on the map, but it’s in the post.
King Kong?
No need to invent anything : it already exists. Don’t you have to pass by Sleepy Hollow and its Headless Horseman on the way to Stewart??? !!! :-)
If you really wanted an image of a monster that would resonate with the NYC suburban crowd, you could have just put a picture of an ultra-Orthodox Hasidic man about halfway between EWR and SWF, a dozen miles inland from the west bank of the Hudson.
There are some people who are very concerned about the Hasidim getting enough of a voting bloc to control their villages and to gut the local schools, as happened in Monsey. One town passed an ordinance forbidding businesses from being open on Sundays (because Saturday = Sabbath) to try to keep the Hasidim out… When the conflict between cultures gets written up more than once in the New York Times, it’s pretty bad.
Peter in Boulder, CO. says:
Godzilla… ??
For those of us who missed it, but still laugh at it…
What is the ‘back story’ on Godzilla at Narita, Haneda, etc. ??
First off, I am surprised that Brett didn’t make a Godzilla-style map illustration for this one. Because if Narita involves going past the home of Godzilla, this is far, far worse.
Peter – I don’t think there’s much of a backstory. I was just trying to explain how Narita was much further from Tokyo than Haneda and I thought I’d exaggerate it by putting godzilla in between. For some reason, it just kept making me laugh, so I use the graphic every time.
and now we know the real reason why NW hubbed in Narita. They just tell us its about some pesky airport rules.
Go GO GODZILLA!
To add to what Cranky says below, search for Narita in this blog and the image will show up in most of the relevant posts. Of all of Cranky’s photo illustrations, the “Home of Godzilla” one is pretty iconic for the blog, and has become a bit of a recurring inside joke among long time readers of the blog.
I feel like once or twice a year there is a discussion about the NYC area airports and some grand scheme to fix it with some far flung airport and some type of ground transportation to access it. It’ll never work, even with low fares, and for an example one just needs to look north to Montreal. Mirabel was built way north of the city and was supposed to resolve all the issues of Dorval. Instead the public balked at the distance and never embraced it. Now it’s a cargo only airport. Norwegian can try to force something here but I’m guessing the public will vote with their loyalty to the nearby airports. Now if the PANYNJ were to shut down the nearby airports and fully embrace a mega-hub in the sticks….now that could be interesting, but it’ll never happen.
As a resident of Westchester, something like this is a long time coming. I’ve been thinking about expansion at Stewart for years, since even the metro area north of NYC has a desire for another airport serving other cities. HPN just doesn’t get it done since expansion there isn’t possible. I hope this works because maybe it brings more airlines and routes to Stewart in the future. The thing that will make this work is a proper extension of Metro North to Stewart, but who thinks that will ever happen?
Ben – I don’t know where you live in Westchester, but from Westchester airport itself, it’s 65 miles and just over an hour to Stewart. From there to JFK it’s 35 miles and probably no worse time-wise even if there’s traffic. So if JFK has a lot more nonstops to a lot more places for the same price, would you really go to Stewart?
I tend to take the tolls into account and the horrendous traffic. If Stewart offers something I can use then I will use it, otherwise into the city and suffer the tolls and traffic. I like the choice.
Good luck to them. But like Allegiant does, once passenger loads start to drop, they’ll will move on.
I would rather drive 60 miles to a non busy airport (or take an UBER) than wait in long immigration lines, wait for my bags for an hour, and then get stuck in city traffic leaving the airport. This is why Oakland is better than SFO, Munich is better than Frankfort, etc. And, as much as I hate to say this, I am sick of union pilots in the EU staging one day strikes that wreck havoc with plans made in advance for meetings. Give me a regional airport, a non stop flight, extra leg room and no crowds at arrival and I could try it.
My perspective as a former Noo Yawker is that Stewart would not have worked for me personally since I lived on 30th Street in Midtown without a car. But if you live in the northern suburbs on either side of the Hudson, or near ALB, Stewart is worth considering. So this might work, just not for City residents.
Wandering Aramean says:
The super-long runway shouldn’t really be a factor. PVD is way shorter and it is still in consideration (arguably in the lead) for the other location.
SWF is a mess for most of the potential passengers for all the reasons you’ve noted. Which is not to say I won’t give it a try when service starts. But that’s really just for the sake of doing it, not because I think it is a good idea.
Wandering Aramean – Fair enough. I was thinking more as opposed to Islip which is even a bit shorter than Providence, but they can still probably launch the flights they need. As you can see, I was digging deep to find positives.
SWF is out in the middle of the trees. It’s a great place to fly in if you want to visit Dutchess County, NY, the northwestern corner of NJ, or the Delaware Water Gap, but it really has no utility for NYC or any other really populated area except for northern Westchester County, NY or northern Fairfield County, CT (Danbury).
Disagree. I lived in the highly populated Rockland County and later Ulster County and flew out of Stewart on domestic flights many times. I actually think it is a brilliant choice to gather up all the travelers in the Hudson Valley/Catskill region, many of whom are from the city and have second homes in the area and would prefer Stewart to JFK or Newark.
You sure do make things about which I could not care less so interesting and worth my time reading. You do this day-in, day-out , and I give a big tip of the hat to you! Keep up the good work!
As to the subject here, whether something works or not, should we get too concerned. Skeptical, OK.
I have to admit that I am become much, much more laissez-faire on these aviation matters. If Norwegian wants to operate from Trondheim to Teterboro, I don’t care, well, except for:
Are they qualified to run an airline? [Like we do about Presidents, whatever!]
Are they qualified to run it safely? [Our call, not the Norwegians.]
Will they meet our labor laws? [Like this is simple, I know.]
Let them pick whatever airport(s) they want but if there isn’t adequate infrastructure there, that’s their problem. Perrsuade the locals to put it in and pay for It, or do it all yourself. [Simple, huh?]
And, the US-flag competition, they can do whateve they want to, and we know they will do whatever the can–legally, we-hope–to kill you off (economically, I mean). [Luv you, US guys and gals, and I know, U.S national defense contingency considerations, but, with code-share everywhere, is this really an issue anymore?]
Wonder how all of this is going to work out/change beginning a month from tomorrow! DOT Secretary F. Smith? Kelleher? Branson? Maybe even Bob Crandall? But, think of all the CF posts that will be there for us to read!
Stewart is not exactly in the middle of nowhere. Many travelers live in the Hudson Valley/Catskill region and would prefer going there rather than into the city or up to Albany.
John C says:
SWF doesn’t even come up if you use the ‘NYC’ all New York airports code. That only matches JFK/LGA/EWR/HPN.
Yet !… like BVA wasn’t considered a Paris airport a few years back !…
To add to this, Islip and New Haven would be closer to NYC than SWF as well. Really, I think the only reason SWF gets any mention at all is because every couple years an intern or consultant at the Port Authority decides to make noise about SWF being a decent reliever airport, albeit one that so far has had little demand.
Whatever airport Norwegian uses in the NE has to pull enough people to make flights work but they must have destinations in Europe that generate enough local demand. Cork and the rest of Ireland might be fine in the summer but Norwegian or any other transatlantic low fare airline has to have a very large market on one end or the other (or both) or feed for connections on one end or the other (which most European LCCs do not do). Narrowbody transatlantic ops will work in the summer when fares are high but it is not hard to find airfares in the winter well below levels that Norwegian can offer.
The advantage with narrowbody transatlantic operations is that they can move plans back and forth between transatlantic and intra-European routes. Thus, Norwegian can make Stewart work for a few months a year based on their present network. Year round operations more than a few flights per week to all destinations a 737MAX can fly seem like more than a stretch.
The competitive implications impact carriers like JetBlue which has said they want to build transatlantic narrowbody operations from Boston. Not only will existing legacy carriers that have large hubs and widebody aircraft be already geared up to maintain their own share against Norwegian but legacy carriers will also have larger hubs on both sides of the Atlantic that can deliver more passengers to their own flights – the model JetBlue intends to use.
Norwegian will be competing for point to point passengers from secondary airports while JetBlue will be trying to compete with a more hub-like model from hubs where legacy carriers are plentiful – but both will be competing against legacy carriers that are capable of adding lots of additional widebody capacity across the Atlantic now if that is what they believe is necessary to maintain share.
I’m just not so sure that Norwegian’s model will be as successful in the US as it has been in Europe, in large part because US airports have been more open to competition and US carriers are much more accustomed to a highly competitive environment.
einsteinium2564 says:
Islip way out east. Lol!
British Isles? Really? That phrase hasn’t been true in almost 100 years.
“The term British Isles is controversial in Ireland, where there are objections to its usage due to the association of the word British with Ireland. The Government of Ireland does not recognise or use the term and its embassy in London discourages its use. As a result, Britain and Ireland is used as an alternative description,” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles
“British” in this phrase is a geographical term, rather that a political one. So Eire’s independence doesn’t alter its utility, even if it’s understandably sensitive due to the overlapping geographic and political meanings. And it’s still used by the UK part of the Isles’ population (i.e. the vast majority)
I guess this is great for the residents of Poughkeepsie–all 300 of them that go to the UK each year. Personally I can’t wait until BA/AA decides to dump more capacity into JFK and EWR to ensure this is a total failure. My expectation is that BA will size up (or “upguage” as they say these days) a few non-peak departures to Y-heavier 747 (as opposed to the other two versions with less than 300 seats) and fire sell some seats. Even if you live in Westchester or Fairfield County, Conn, going to JFK provides better options; never mind asking someone from the City to schlep up to Stewart. If the price is in the ballpark, forget about it.
Have you actually flown out of Stewart airport? It’s a fantastic airport. Extremely convenient for the Hudson Valley, Albany, northern New Jersey and Westchester. The customer service is second to none, the parking is the cheapest I’ve ever seen at an airport and it’s two minutes to walk from parking to the terminal. As a flyer from Glasgow to New York your options are horrible. I’d rather fly to SWF from Glasgow than EWR. My friends in Scotland are excited for this service to begin. Oh and did you know one of the biggest tourist attractions for New York is Woodbury Commons outlets? It’s 12 miles from Stewart airport and Legoland being built is 14 miles. Stop being so cranky and give Stewart a try.
Waiting time and security check for a flight will be a lot shorter. Great amount of time savings. As someone who has often flown internationally out of the NYC airports and often domestically out of Stewart, I’m thrilled that there will be an international flight from Stewart. Parking, as mentioned, is convenient and costs less than NYC airports, close access to major highways including NYS Thruway, calmer airport environment. Not far to get to bus station and take bus to NYC and other locations or take bus to Beacon to catch train to NYC and other locations.
Need to give it all chance. If it doesn’t work out for Norwegian, they will make decision about the future.
Because it is TINY … Stewart is so damn convenient! I do NOT think NYC is the actual target market. As others have indicated.. The market is probably a 80 mile radius around Albany, The joke is, it is WAY easier for someone from Northern NJ to drive to Stewart (a traffic-free hour) with close to no parking costs than to battle the LIE to JFK.
I agree that a shuttle service might be needed to enhance. I agree a river ferry would be fabulous. Ironically, they could schedule all their flights to allow them to launch a ferry service to the City and capture a chuck of the Metro North commuters going in the opposite direction. There might be enough of them to make the ferry service a profit center (possibly almost free for NAL passengers).
There are a lot of opportunities here if NAL plays the cards right.
I think this service will do very well. The European low cost market is very used to long distance airports from the center. All it needs for transit is a well run coach service.
The journey time is only likely to be 30-45min longer to many places than from JFK or EWR. Considering I’ve queued in immigration at JFK and EWR for >2hrs, this is a total no brainer to switch to using this, even if it was not a huge deal cheaper.
This definitely won’t replace the EWR or JFK, but I think it will be able to establish a niche no problem. There is huge demand nyceurope and some of these customers will be extremely price sensitive.
David G says:
I think it’s a great idea, and I can’t wait to try it! Most of the comments here are NYC-centric — if I lived in Manhattan I wouldn’t consider Stewart either. This is presumably aimed at the Hudson Valley counties, western Connecticut, northern Pennsylvania. Big population, huge (too much) development. I fly every other month, for business and leisure. I will do anything to avoid JFK and LGA, which for me is two bridges, nightmarish traffic, exorbitant parking, long TSA lines, etc. Most current flights from SWF require a stop at a hub — I find that more convenient than hiking out to Queens. Newark isn’t quite as bad, but it’s no great pleasure either. White Plains isn’t an option; the runways are short and the neighbors won’t allow any additional service. Islip? Laughable! There are already two of the largest airports on Long Island. As for SWF, true, the public transport is pathetic. But if you rent a car, you’re already on top of two interstate highways. It might work.
kelty says:
Flying Norwegian from Stewart Field in Newburgh, NY, could make sense since there is a large service area north of New York City without international flights. People from Westchester County might find it easier to zip up the NYS Thruway to Newburgh than struggle to get to Kennedy or Newark Liberty. Even folks from Albany can get there in just over an hour. There are several colleges from Vassar to Cornell with students eager to travel. The interstate highway system can also draw people from western Connecticut. The Hudson Valley is not just apple orchards. There are many corporations such as IBM. Norwegian just has to match the number of flights to the demand.
Howard Miller says:
Legoland is still awaiting approvals from various government agencies, and additional funding/incentives from NY State, before moving from proposed to being built. If Legoland NY happens, the earliest it will open is 2019, so that leaves at least two (2) years before that would impact Norwegian’s operations at Stewart International Airport if they begin in 2017. However, if Legoland NY gets built, then Stewart Airport would likely benefit from having a popular tourist attraction nearby.
Allyson Crawford says:
Can it work for Norwegian at SWF? Most certainly. If you do a 90 mile (1 hour 30 minute) catchment area and with the major roads crisscrossing north-south/east-west then you have a large market. It all depends on the airline marketing and if they get that right, then SWF will prove a very profitable route. Early indications are for Cork (Ireland) and Edinburgh (Scotland) to be introductory routes and the Irish/Scots will not consider flying to/from secondary airports a factor.
Don’t be surprised if one of the major airlines offer a “seasonal summer service” from SWF to try and drive out Norwegian.. if that is the case then I hope DOT take note of “predatory behaviour”.
This could be a massive boost to the region…so lets see what transpires.
Not sure if it will appeal to those downstate, but it sure does appeal to those of us in the greater capital district. Flights out of Albany are horrendous, both in travel time and expense, forcing the majority of us to make the 3+hour trek to NYC or Boston just to get a decent flight. Frankly, we’re hoping this Norwegian venture takes off (pun intented!)
Hudson Valley Flyer says:
If you live in Manhattan, you can take the Metro North Hudson Line to Beacon, where most of the time there is a dedicated shuttle that meets trains and goes to Newburgh and stops at Stewart – the shuttle fare is $1.00 (yes, one buck). Right now the service is unavailable late nights and weekends, but I expect that if and when Norwegian service starts, it will be adjusted to coordinate with flight schedules .
Stewart is a compact, modern facility with inexpensive ample parking, easy highway access, short security lines, and comfortable clean waiting areas.
Anticompetitive behavior in recent years by the airline oligopoly has kept prices high, but believe me I fly SWF whenever possible. At one point we had American, US Airways, AirTran, Northwest, and Delta; prices were lower, but consolidation in the US airline industry has resulted in exactly what economists would predict- less supply, higher prices.
Lets hope this service succeeds
Jon Dowe says:
I have family in Europe and the drive from the Capital region that is chronically underserved by overly expensive Albany International to Stewart will be very welcome compared to going to JFK, Newark, or Boston. The drive is a few hours rather than wasting a full day with the other options.
The only real long term solution is to put high speed rail in that connects JFK, Newark, Stewart, Bradley, and Albany. That way craptastic LaGuardia can be closed entirely by moving especially national flights to the smaller airports. Transit from one airport to another should be 2 hours or less with full luggage service. That way the southern Northeast can check in at a local airport and get to any place in the world with ease.
Give Norwegian Air a chance . Cork airport is beautiful and easy stop for people in the South of Ireland . Aer Iingus is going from bad to worse . There aircraft are a discarded . I have been a customer of them for 50years and have seen the deteration of what once was a wonderful airline . My experience last November was terrible ,toilet out of use and seats ripper and torn . The pride I once felt for this airline is no more . Good luck to Norwegian Air .
Interesting read of the critique of SWF. I always saw it as a fantastically convient airport. I also had the benefit of growing up 20 miles away (in the town they are proposing to build Legoland in).
I would rather go to a smaller airport and take advantage of the little traffic, convent parking, short security lines and fewer delays any day.
I live in NW Pennsylvania now so my local airport is ERI. On a recent trip to Westchester for business I flew into SWF via DTW. Fantastic experience. On the return, for some dumb reason I decided to leave from EWR. Terrible experience. Waited 45 minutes to go through security, the flight was delayed by almost two hours and I missed my connection and had to stay overnight in DTW. If I left out of SWF I would have made my connection and been home to ERI that night.
Similar thing happened a few years ago going to EWR when the connection out of DTW was delayed for equipment problems. I had them rebook me to SWF and I got there two hours before I could have made it to EWR.
So for the reasons mentioned above, I wouldn’t so easily overlook less crowded airports like SWF. For those who live reasonably closeby it’s the hands down best choice. If they could just solve the public transportation gaps it could become the first option for even more.
This is a great perspective if Manhattanites were the only people that fly to Europe. Manhattan is a speck on the map with at least 3 major airports already at their feet. Last I checked NY is a fairly large state with the majority of the state being outside “The Big Apple”. This is a win win for all New Yorkers!
lol. Just realized your handle “cranky flier”..now it makes sense!
Just booked Edinburgh to Stewart in December. Would anyone like to recommend a stopover between Stewart and Manhattan. (Family of 4 kids late teens).
I live in Greenwich CT (1 hour and 15 mins to Stewart) and am originally from Cork with many family over there. It takes me 50+ minutes to JFK plus parking and long TSA lines etc etc there and I used to have to drive from Shannon or go Heathrow and then Cork. This is a no-brainer for me (and the Irish in Yonkers and Westchester) who are from that part of Ireland. My mother lives 15 minutes from the Cork airport. I’m expecting to see many of my family in the coming year (esp when they come over to do their Xmas shopping at Woodbury Common).
Ignore the above – they are flying from PVD to Cork not from Stewart!!
NYC airports are a mess! Stewart is a convenient option for those that don’t have to rely on mass transit. Let’s hope this is a success. More airlines should follow to help alleviate the NYC congestion.
Kaydee says:
I don’t know why NYC is even entering into this conversation. The target flyer for Stewart isn’t an NYC resident. They’re from Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Orange, the Albany area, and possibly Fairfield and Litchfield Counties in CT, though some of the CT residents will no doubt go to Hartford. That is a heavily populated area with lots of disposable income, although the wonderful thing about what Norwegian is doing is that they’re bringing us affordable airfare, so you don’t have to be wealthy to fly with them. Getting down to NYC or Northern Jersey is a huge hassle for most suburbanites. Finding and paying for transportation and planning for travel time in the high-traffic metro region discourages many people outside the city from flying frequently. But a quick, easy trip up I-84? You can probably get a friend to drive you as a favor and just pay for their gas. Seriously, I think these flights are going to be very, very popular. I hear their introductory $65 flights are already mostly booked, and I couldn’t be happier! It’s about time Hudson Valley residents got a convenient, low-cost choice that doesn’t require a long haul down to the city!
miguel de la o says:
I live in New Orleans, am 66 and have flown in and out of New York airports many times both domestically and internationally, AND have NO Intention of ever flying out of any of them ever again BUT read this
ENTIRE thread!!!!! And am waiting with bated breath to find out what happens. The ability to use an invention which gets us to the other side of the world in hours as opposed to weeks and months and years as it was for so many thousands of years is still magic!!! Best of luck to all who journey from Stewart.
Ive just read on BBC that Norwegian intend to fly from Belfast, NI to NY Stewart and TF Green Boston. The Belfast airport thinks its great following United pulling out of its route to NY, but as you say I dont think its going to work out. Why would you choose to have to travel another 70 miles by land just to get to NY, or Boston? That would probably take 2 hours by coach. After a long flight, I wouldnt want to do that! I would rather spend a couple of hours going to Dublin at the start of the journey, and then fly direct to NY or Boston.
That misses the point. There are about a million people who live within an hour or two of Newburgh. Those living in Albany, Schenectady, Poughkeepsie, White Plains, and similar communities will not have to go to NYC to get direct service to Europe — at a low price.
George L. says:
It seems the writer is actually very unfamiliar with the NYC area.
Manhattan is a transit hub, but most New Yorkers don’t live in Manhattan. For most NYC residents, the trek to either EWR or JFK is over an hour long due to congestion on the Belt Parkway, Van Wyck Expressway, Atlantic Ave for JFK and the SI Expressway, NJ Tpke and 1/9 to Newark. Most Long Island, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and NJ residents will NEVER go to Newburgh, but that leaves the Bronx, Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Dutchess and Orange counties’ residents in New York as well as all of southern CT residents, Albany-Capitol area residents and possibly some from northern PA that would certainly prefer Stewart.
I live in central Brooklyn and last night drove from Washingtonville, about 5 minutes south of Stewart Airport to my house in 1 hour and 20 minutes. Stewart has incredibly cheap long-term parking and no immigration/customs lines. There are no waits for take-offs or delays on landing. You may literally save hours traveling through there. I am the biggest reason for why it will work. I live in central Brooklyn and even I would go up to Newburgh to fly non-stop.
By the way, most New Yorkers do own cars. Most New Yorkers don’t live in Manhattan.
There is a lot of People who want to travel around the North east USA, and they are so glad to not have to travel thru NY, and their airports!!!!!!!!!
paul dijkman says:
am planning on flying there from scotland later this year … as i am planning on visiting upstate new york and vermont primarily, it is nice to not have to fly thru boston, and frankly jfk and ewr are simply airports to avoid at almost any cost imho …
Bill Clogston says:
Who owns Norwegian Airlines. Just curious. I read somewhere it was Asian owned. Nothing wrong with that.
Bill – I’ve never heard that one. It’s a Norwegian company that’s publicly owned. Not sure who the largest shareholders are but you can dig through this: https://www.norwegian.com/us/about/company/investor-relations/
I’ve been reading through the thread. My question is what are the methods of transport to get from Newburgh to Manhattan or preferably Brooklyn? What does is cost?
Through Norweigan I can get a round trip from Edinburgh for £265 which is about £300 cheaper than anywhere else so i dont mind a little inconvenienve. I do want to confirm if there is an option of a Bus or train before I book though as I’d end up spending just as much in an uber to an from the airport as i originally saved.
Any thoughts/advice would be greatly appreciated.
I actually put my money where my mouth is and booked a return flight from Stewart to Shannon in December for $300 return. Incredible. Another $30 each way to get the front row and a few bucks for baggage but that’s a great fare. Stewart is about 1.15 from Greenwich CT so it’s an easier commute than JFK or EWR.
its owned by shareholders….mostly from Norway… The CEO Bjørn Kjos have a large stake.
For anyone who comes across this article:
Starting June 15, 2017 Coach USA’s Stewart Airport Express will offer fast, easy, convenient express bus service between Stewart International Airport and New York City. Tickets must be purchased in advance from Coach USA and are exclusively available on their website. Visit http://www.stewartairportexpress.com
Hey. Super off topic, but does anyone knowing SWF airport surrounding well have any suggestions for crew to live? Which neighborhoods are close to public transportation to and from airport and that are safe areas to live?
I think the price is a big seller. I just bought a return with them from the UK for £200. ?
That’s supposed to be a smiley face not a question mark :)
Jouster says:
I think many of the possible pitfalls you raise make sense, but I’m still happy about this! I live in CT about equidistant from the New York airports, Boston and Stewart. But Stewart would be a nice easy drive compared to the others, and the price is right. White Plains is never going to go to Europe, and as for Tweed, my closest airport, well…
So I’m crossing my fingers this works.
People who are outside the NYC are praying to have other possibility to travel outside the USA than using JFK. that’s all in the topic. this Stewart is a great option for people from NY, PA, CT. Depends if unions allow for that. Hope they will be not able to block it.
Frode says:
Seems some of you are forgetting the traffic the other way? Coming to Stewart from Europe with the intention of spending a week in Catskills seems fantastic. No need to drive the long distance from Newark :-) Personally I have been in New York lots of times and have no need to go there on vacation anymore. Catskills so close to the airport is simply awesome. The US needs all possible income from European tourists.
Bjørn says:
A lot of People traveling the noth east of USA, a glad they dont have to travel thru one of New Yorks bigger airports.! Not to many is thinking about this!
You may be unaware but the term “British Isles” is insulting to Irish citizens. Alternatives are the Atlantic Archipelago”,] “Anglo-Celtic Isles”, the “British-Irish Isles] and the Islands of the North Atlantic. Below is an article which will give you an insight into this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles_naming_dispute
FrankFurt Hahn airport is owned by Fraport which owns FrankFurt airport.Fraport developed Hahn to reduce the amount of traffic using Frankfurt. Ryanair didn’t “pull people away’ but rather FraPort and the Germany government made a conscious decision.
A bit of research instead of speculation and half thoughts would be a welcome addition to your entertaining posts.
Ksenia McSomething says:
British Airways got f…ed up with USA airport taxes. BA was forced to pay highest taxes in USA airports, compare to all industry,- worldwide. Many years ago BA tried to fix it in USA courts, but they lost.
Norwegian arranged Stewart Airport Express bus service, for $20 from NY. My one way flight from Stewart airport, to Edinburgh cost me only about $50.
i booked it for summer, and im norwegian… Good price, and there is a bus service from the termianl to nyc port authority…20 dollar….
Its more than a year since you wrote this post. Since then, Norwegian has substantially increased the number of flights to Stewart. (There will be two a day to Dublin starting in April 2018.) I am curious when you will be acknowledging your skepticism about Stewart was unwarranted.
There are a few factors that will cause airlines to seek more direct flights to smaller airports. The amount of people traveling keeps increasing, while the very largest passenger planes, such as the Boeing 747 and Airbus A380 are not selling. Thus, the major airports, which are often already overcrowded, are being pushed to their capacity limits.
Separately, the airlines keep replacing their smaller planes with a new generation, that have a much longer range than the airplanes that they are replacing. As airlines modern their fleet with the Boeing 737MAX, Bombardier CSeries and Airbus A320neo, they will be able to connect smaller markets that are further away. A place like Stewart might be in too small a market for the Boeing 767. But the Bombardier CS100 has at most 133 passengers, and it has the range to cross the Atlantic Ocean. There are probably a dozen cities in Europe that you fill a plane that size for daily flights.
Guest – Norwegian’s decisions around Stewart don’t mean it’s working by any stretch. This is an airline that lost money in 2017 with a massive -11% margin in Q4. I don’t take any decisions it makes seriously at this point. I’m writing about this more next week.
Getting from Stewart to NYC actually isn’t that bad. The bus takes around 1.5-2 hours, and only costs $20. It’s a comfy ride, you’ll get a nice seat, wifi, and there’s also an onboard bathroom. Comfort-wise, beats taking the city bus to LGA or even the subway to JFK.
You can also take an Uber, which will cost $100-$150 (for an UberX car).
A full guide and explanations of available options (including an additional train option) is available here:
https://www.planetotrain.com/Get-From-SWF-To-New%20York.html
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As Dorian nears, hurricane warning issued for parts of Florida; evacuations ordered on South Carolina coast
A Hurricane warning has been issued for a stretch of Florida’s Atlantic coast and a mandatory evacuation of South Carolina’s entire coast was ordered Sunday as powerful Hurricane Dorian threatens the United States.
Around 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, the National Hurricane Center issued its first hurricane warning for parts of Florida related to Dorian.
The warning affected areas from Juniper Inlet, in Palm Beach County — stretching from the state’s Atlantic coast into its rural center — to the Volusia-Brevard County line. A hurricane watch also was issued from the Volusia-Brevard County line to the Flagler-Volusia County line.
The storm was about 175 miles east of Palm Beach and moving to the west at 5 mph on Sunday evening.
In a news conference on Sunday, after the Hurricane warning had been issued, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said, “We are continuing to make all necessary precautions in urging people out in the state of Florida to make their preparations, heed evacuation orders. This storm has tracked further west, slightly, but still further west than we had hoped.”
DeSantis said Dorian was expected to approach closer to the Florida coast.
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“The storm has slowed down but we do need it to slow down just a little bit more to ensure when it turns north that it’s not impacting directly the Florida coast. And, we cannot say that that is not a possibility, and so I think it’s important that we prepare for this to potentially make landfall here,” DeSantis said.
In a Facebook post on Sunday, Naval Station Mayport, in Jacksonville, announced it would be evacuated by Monday morning.
South Carolina’s Gov. Henry McMaster’s evacuation order, which covered about 830,000 people, is set to go into effect at noon on Monday. That’s when state troopers are expected to start reversing lanes so people could head inland on major coastal highways.
The governor also ordered the mandatory medical evacuation for health care facilities licensed by the state’s Department of Health and Environmental Control. Beginning Tuesday, all schools and government offices in Jasper, Beaufort, Colleton, Charleston, Dorchester, Berkeley, Georgetown, and Horry counties will be forced to stay closed, officials said.
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The order will mark the fourth time in four years that hundreds of thousands will be forced to evacuate.
McMaster said he realized some people won’t be happy having to evacuate, but added, “we believe we can keep everyone alive.
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has declared a state of emergency for Brantley, Bryan, Camden, Charlton, Chatham, Effingham, Glynn, Liberty, Long, McIntosh, Pierce and Wayne counties.
In an effort to make sure there enough petroleum products, emergency supplies, and food, Kemp also issued an executive order temporarily suspending federal rules and regulations which otherwise would limit the hours that operators of commercial vehicles could drive.
The Category 5 hurricane battered parts of the Bahamas Sunday with its 185 mph winds, making it the second-strongest storm in the Atlantic Ocean since 1950.
Homes missing parts of their roofs, cars overturned and downed power lines have been reported on the Abaco Islands. One video showed floodwaters rushing through the streets of one town.
Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said, “you cannot tell the difference as to the beginning of the street versus where the ocean begins” on parts of Abaco. No deaths initially were reported.
The National Hurricane Center has predicted the center of Dorian will stay off shore near the South Carolina coast starting Wednesday afternoon. However, a small error in the forecast could send the eye and strongest winds into the state.
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A stunning reversal
by Charles Cameron | Apr 13, 2016 | Monitor |
[ by Charles Cameron — Dabiq vs the Qur’an — again, it’s the formal precision of the reversal that inrerests me ]
It is not the fact that the Islamic State delights in killing infidels that surprises me, it’s the utter reversal of the Qur’an’s own emphasis on the value of a single life that catches my eye.
For the Qur’an, a single human life is worth the world, unless that life is subject to the death penalty for murder or mayhem; for IS, the lives of a world of infidels are worth less than a single Muslim life.
The one and the many, an individual and the whole world — how differently they are regarded in these two texts.
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THE SOCIALIST MILLIONAIRE: Financial Scandals Trail the Loathsome Hypocrite Bernie Sanders
By Cliff Kincaid
Responding to one of Anderson Cooper’s softball questions, socialist Bernie Sanders (I-VT) told the CNN Town Hall on Wednesday night that he lives a frugal life and indicated that he doesn’t care about money or status. “I have a small Chevrolet,” he said. “It is one of the smallest Chevys that they make.” He said it was about five years old.
But James O’Brien, a political consultant and former publisher of Campaigns & Elections magazine, says the career politician, who has been a mayor, member of Congress and U.S. senator, has achieved the financial status of a millionaire.
O’Brien has analyzed the financial status of Sanders and his wife, including their financial disclosure report, and has concluded they have a net worth in the range of $1.2 to $1.5 million, not the $700,000 or less that is usually reported by the media.
Rather than “Feel the Bern,” the phrase associated with popular support for the self-declared “democratic socialist,” O’Brien says that Sanders is personally “Feelin’ the Wealth.”
Equally significant, his wife, Jane O’Meara Sanders, left her position as president of Burlington College under controversial circumstances and is now being accused of federal bank fraud. She left her position at the college and was given a severance package known as a “golden parachute” that also benefited Senator Sanders’ personal wealth.
Brady C. Toensing, a partner with the law firm of diGenova & Toensing, has filed a legal complaint with federal authorities requesting an investigation into apparent federal bank fraud committed by Ms. Sanders. His complaint was sent to Eric S. Miller, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont, and Fred W. Gibson, Jr., Acting Inspector General with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
A Sanders spokesman told the Burlington Free Press that the complaint was an effort to throw mud at the presidential candidate.
O’Brien says that Sanders’ financial disclosure forms are incomplete. “For someone who doesn’t care about money, he goes a long way to cover up his true net worth,” he says. “Bernie does not disclose the value of real estate holdings. He can. He is not required to, but he could if he chose. It is known that he and/or his wife own at least two homes—one with rental income in Vermont and one near Capitol Hill where the median home value is $722,000.”
O’Brien bases his conclusions about Sanders’ millionaire status on what is known and can be estimated about his salary, the income of his wife, joint income, investments, pension, and value of his real estate properties.
On top of this, O’Brien notes that Sanders benefits from a multi-million dollar U.S. Senate staff and a multi-million dollar U.S. presidential campaign staff.
In addition to the questions about his real net worth, Jane Sanders’ exit from Burlington College continues to generate controversy, even scandal. She was president of the college from 2004 until 2011.
Federal officials have acknowledged the complaint about Jane Sanders from attorney Brady C. Toensing, but they won’t say whether they are going forward with an investigation.
Although Senator Sanders frequently complains about the “corporate media” that are supposed to have a bias against his candidacy, the necessary task of digging into the finances of his wife has been left to the conservative media and some local Vermont news organizations.
At the very least—as noted by Bruce Parker, a Vermont reporter for Watchdog.org—Senator Sanders should be asked to explain how his opposition to severance packages for corporation executives squares with his wife getting a cushy severance of $200,000.
In a story headlined, “Bernie Sanders’ Wife May Have Defrauded State Agency, Bank,” reporters Blake Neff and Peter Fricke of the conservative Daily Caller News Foundation reported the essential facts of the case, noting that she nearly bankrupted Burlington College when she took on $10 million in debt to finance the purchase of a new, far more expansive campus. “The move backfired massively, leading to Sanders’ departure from the college and the near-collapse of the institution,” Neff and Fricke report.
By any standard of fair and objective news reporting, a candidate who promises “free college” to America’s young people should be asked to address the issue of his wife’s financial shenanigans almost bankrupting an institution of higher learning. But it hasn’t been raised in the debates.
At one point it was reported that Burlington College was fighting for its very survival. “As a result of its financial woes, Burlington College is on academic probation from the New England Association of Schools and Colleges,” reported VTDigger.org, a statewide news website, in 2014.
VT Digger confirmed the nefarious role played by Jane Sanders, noting that she “overstated donation amounts in a bank application for a $6.7 million loan that was used by the college to purchase a prime 33-acre property on Lake Champlain in 2010.” Jane Sanders “resigned under pressure from the Burlington College board of trustees nearly a year after obtaining the multi-million dollar loan,” the site reported. “After both sides lawyered up, the board gave Sanders the title of president emeritus and a $200,000 severance package.”
A Republican activist named Skip Vallee produced a 60-second television advertisement entitled, “Bernie’s Golden Parachute,” describing the nature of the $200,000 severance package and making the point that while Sanders was planning a presidential run “on a theme of railing against golden parachutes and excesses” on Wall Street, he took “his own golden parachute” through his wife’s curious dealings with the cash-strapped college.
The ad features the “S” in Sanders in the shape of a dollar sign and shows Sanders saying the rich in America “manipulate a rigged system” and benefit from “golden parachutes.”
On top of this scandal, The Washington Free Beacon has reported that Senator Sanders used campaign money to benefit members of his family, and that Jane Sanders directed six-figure sums from Burlington College to her daughter and the son of a family friend.
“Getting money out of politics” is one of the planks in Sanders’ presidential campaign platform.
Read more at AIM.org.
Labels: Crime, Democrats, Economy, Hillary, Obama, Sanders
Doug Sterling said...
Almost every upper-middle class couple in their 60's or 70's has a net worth of $1 million or more, unless they are poverty stricken due to bad luck or bad health.
I don't like Bernie Sanders politics at all, but you have just provided more proof that he is an honest man. Less than $2 million? That's real proof. How much are Bill and Hillary worth?
He has $1.2 to $1.5 million in the bank your are berating him on wealth that's laughable. The Hillary Clinton has a net worth of $11 million to $53 million and that's not taking Bill into account. Yea, money buys influence do I need me to specify the corrupt one this scenario or can you figure it out yet?
Barbara F. McMillen said...
This is a sad article. Sorry. We're all aware of Bernie's 'wealth' As for Jane, ever work at a university? You're talking about real people here. People we know. We've, the rest of us, shared their lives. Nothing to see here. Moving along.
directorblue said...
Seth, will all due respect, "Sanders and Wife Steered Campaign, Nonprofit Money to Family and Friends."
'Nothing to see here.Move along'?Sure,right after the hypocracy of the Sanders family has been revealed for everybody to make up their minds about the virulent old phony.
You folks are missimg the point...no surprise.
He rallies and runs on a platform against taking Golden Parachutes then he/his wife do just that. Bernie is a hypocrit and his wife is a crook.
My understanding is that the church who does a lot of charity and poverty work for the community suffered what is est. to be $1 Million Loss(they nor the bank will speak of it, who knows there may be other Federal Investigations not known,but it is in the Exhibits of the financials of the legal documents)and most important question I have is the Federally Insured Bank took a Loss,since it's a Federally Insured Bank are Tax Payers on the Hook for that Loss? That would be no different than the Wall Street banking Loans crisis Sanders yells about. Regardless the legal papers have been filed,now we wait.I assume they will slow ball any action since Sanders is now in a campaign and it sure wouldn't sit well for any bad media for Vermont.
This matter should be addressed "Now" if Sanders wins the Nomination and his wife/him face Legal issues of Bank Fraud / Loan Fraud games over GOP wins, and takes control of Presidency,Senate,House and Possibly the Supreme Court.
Alessandro Machi said...
University people, people we know? What does that even mean? Looks like the Sanders were making well over 300,000 dollars a year for many years and to have accumulated so little wealth is suspicious.
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David Meredith: Not Equality in All Things
The Rev. David Meredith
Organization: Clifton United Methodist Church, Cincinnati, OH
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13th Sunday after Pentecost - Year C
Philemon and Galatians 3:25-28
In Tony Kushner's script and Steven Spielberg's movie, Lincoln, Congressional Representative Thaddeus Stevens, played by Tommy Lee Jones, was part of a concerted radical strategy to get the Thirteenth Amendment passed and thus abolish slavery in the United States in 1865. The radicals of the day were afraid of losing moderate votes, so they strategized to avoid inflammatory questions about complete racial equality (namely the full-enfranchisement of voting rights for African-Americans). To secure those much needed moderate and conservative voters, they withheld that position from the public discussion. With the poetic license of the movie's author and director, they key moment from the Congressional Record was captured on film.
Stevens is challenged on the floor of the House of Representatives to answer the accusation of Representative George Pendleton. Pendleton claims that supporters of the Thirteenth Amendment actually believe in equality of African-Americans, slaves and free, in all things, including voting. Stevens responds with sarcastic vigor and thunders at his accuser, "Even you, Mr. Pendleton, deserve quality under the law." And then he turns to the entire House, "Therefore, again, and again, and again I say, 'I do not hold in equality in all things, only equality under the law.'" The House erupts with cheers and jeers. But the betrayal of the compromise was clear. It fell short of equality.
Disciples of Jesus in all denominations cheer and jeer as well, when friends and allies stop short of full inclusion and fall short of justice for queer persons, their families, congregations, and pastors. My denomination, The United Methodist Church, is fighting about whether LGBTQ+ people should have full rights, responsibilities and respect in our congregations. As long as homosexuality is defined in our United Methodist Church law as incompatible with Christian teaching, elected church representatives will concoct demeaning definitions of same-gender loving people, establish harmful, unjust policies, and develop practices of enforcement to sustain them. There is no equality as long as it remains.
Into this long and protracted struggle, especially in our unique historical context in the United States, ancient and biblical Philemon has given me vision and courage. Despite the book's brevity, twenty-five verses on a single page in most Bibles, this letter is a profoundly human gift of scripture.
When Paul is imprisoned in Ephesus, he is held in custody with Onesimus who becomes more than just another prisoner to Paul. He becomes Paul's spiritual companion during their shared incarceration which shapes and forms them both. After Onesimus is released from jail, he elects to stay with Paul in prison. After his incarceration is fulfilled, Paul sends Onesimus home to Philemon.
Now, Philemon was the former master of enslaved Onesimus. When Onesimus ran away from him, Philemon angrily just moved on. It's no surprise that upon release from prison, Onesimus was afraid to return to that environment. It was safer for him to stay in prison with Paul. So, Paul writes a letter to be carried, delivered, and presented to Philemon as a means of re-introduction between Onesimus, the early Christian community in Colossae, and most importantly, Philemon.
This original letter is relevant today because it brings to the center one who has been marginalized. Disenfranchised and erased Onesimus stands bravely, freely, and willingly before Philemon and the Colossian congregation as Timothy reads the letter in public meeting. Onesimus stands as emissary with the letter. He watches the faces in the congregation who are cheering or jeering his return, his life, his faith. This is not Joseph of the Multi-colored Coat standing alone in prison, sensing the presence of the Holy in quiet, lonely isolation. This is not Paul and Silas in jail in Philippi, energized by their activism, arrest, and singing. No, this is Onesimus, the former prisoner, the x-runaway, the disciple of Jesus Christ, lead character in his own proclamation of the gospel.
Here, my friends, is the Gospel in Paul's answer to inequality. Onesimus is the answer. Onesimus in the flesh. "No longer a slave, but brother." That's the Christian answer to inequality. Onesimus. Once in Christ no longer invisible, separated, second-class, diminished, or criminalized!
In Christ, each one of us becomes a sibling of Christ in the household of God. In baptism, we are named as Beloved Children of God, siblings to one another. In conversion and confirmation, we claim Christ as our own and are claimed as Christ's very own. Not equality in all things, equality in this! Equality in Christ! Freedom and liberation in this Beloved Community!
Once again, the letter to Philemon is instructive. You see, equality in Christ is not about the charity, patronage or inclusiveness of Paul. Equality in Christ is not about the transformation, conversion, repentance of Philemon. Equality in Christ is about the mutual participation of the particular person, gifts, graces, call, mission, and ministry of Onesimus. When we see Christ in ourselves, we rise. When we see Christ in ourselves, we stand not just for our lives and loves, but freely, boldly for Christ, for the Gospel.
As Galatians 3:28 interprets, "In Christ there is no division, Jew and non-Jew, slave nor free, male nor female, among us all are equal." With, in, and through baptism in Christ, you, my friends, are equal to one another within this Christian community. We are no longer under a custodian or a disciplinarian, we're equal.
Such radical equality and recognition of it, demands much of everyone in the church. Philemon again, the person, is a perfect test case. As we have seen, Paul sent Onesimus back to Philemon so that Philemon might freely recognize Onesimus by voluntarily fulfilling his own baptismal commitment. Christians cannot be equal and unequal to one another at the same time. Philemon is directed by Paul to live in a completely new kind of relationship with Onesimus in all aspects of their lives. The former habits of their relationship, the power imbalances of it, must now change in the house - yeah, who makes coffee; in the congregation - where do they sit; in the economics of the market, and in the politics of the square. Philemon may no longer treat Onesimus like a slave - ever - anywhere.
That's the challenge for the church of the twenty-first century with its LGBTQ+ disciples and members and family. It's the challenge for my United Methodist denomination. Will the people called Methodist freely recognize the equality granted by Christ to LGBTQ+ disciples and voluntarily fulfill their baptismal covenant to them? Will they remove the "incompatibility clause"? Not equality in all things, but equality in the gospel.
As of old, it is still today, with this radical good news. This gospel, it's so radical that the church at large has yet refused to truly pay it attention. What about you? May the Gospel lead you to equality with your LGBTQ+ siblings in the church. May equality of relationship with Christ lead you in your congregation and denomination to equality in church law for LGBTQ+ persons. You see, that's what makes the church whole. That's the mission of the church, and that's the witness of the church. Because it's the Gospel. Equality in this.
Would you pray with me as I sing these words from the Iona Community in Scotland?
Take, O take me as I am. Summon out what I shall be.
Set your seal upon my heart and live in me.
Take, O take us as we are. Summon out what we shall be.
Set your seal upon our hearts and live in us.
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In this highly popular BBC sitcom, cantankerous Victor Meldrew (Richard Wilson) -- who is absolutely convinced the world has gone crazy and he is its only sane inhabitant -- is forced into early retirement when the company replaces him with a computer. But his newfound life of leisure seems to draw all the nuts out of the woodwork. Annette Crosbie co-stars as Victor's long-suffering wife, Margaret.
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Summary of Season 1 (1990) - 1 disc
In the first season of this BBC sitcom, the newly retired and irritable Victor Meldrew (Richard Wilson), 60, tries to get used to his life of leisure, but the world has gone mad, according to him. Meanwhile, his suffering wife, Margaret (Annette Crosbie), can never dodge his moods. Victor must contend with a noisy neighbor, forms a crime-prevention group, attends an atheist funeral, gets mugged and babysits.
It's not easy being the last sane man on the planet -- just ask cranky retiree Victor Meldrew (Richard Wilson), who returns for a third season of the BBC series focusing on his comic misadventures. In the episodes here, Victor heads to the pub for some "mood improvement" after badly fitted doors ruin his day; Victor and Margaret (Annette Crosbie) attempt to survive life without a TV after their home is burgled; Victor gets a job; and more.
Cranky retiree Victor Meldrew (Richard Wilson) continues to turn a jaundiced eye on his surroundings in the fourth season of this popular BBC sitcom. In the episodes featured here, Victor's long-suffering wife, Margaret (Annette Crosbie), discovers that home is the last place she's likely to find peace and quiet after a nervous collapse; Victor tries to liberate a group of ill-treated seniors from the abusive staff at their care home; and more.
Summary of Season 4 (2000) - 2 discs
Richard Wilson stars in this popular British sitcom as Victor Meldrew, a retired grouch who is most happy when he is driving his saintly wife (Annette Crosbie) bonkers or crabbing about the latest outrage that fate -- or his quirky friends -- has handed him. In this fifth season, Meldrew contends with an incompetent locksmith, refrigerator thieves, a vain neighbor who has her likeness cast in wax and more.
The sixth season of this British television comedy finds idle retiree Victor Meldrew (Richard Wilson) still complaining about the mildest perceived slight, while his wife, Margaret (Annette Crosbie), waits patiently by his side. This time around, Meldrew suffers through a heap of indignities, including a bloody health scare, a fly fishing accident, a series of mishaps during a blackout -- and much worse.
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Staying in the ‘sweet spot’ for personal performance is harder than ever, but complexity theory and neuroscience can help. Bill Duane explains
The scope of transformation in business is already broad and it is increasing exponentially. Success in these turbulent times means responding to rapidly shifting dynamics and working differently. There’s just one problem: our nervous system responds to complexity and the unknown with a primal ‘fight or flight’ tool-set which, in the modern world, can lead us to make things worse.
Leading in complexity calls for a level head, a willingness to let go of what previously made you successful, and a firm set of values that provide an anchor. Happily, these behaviours are eminently trainable. My experience working on these issues during 12 years at Google and a decade consulting is that the disciplines of complexity theory and neuroscience help point out the path ahead.
Cause and effect ain’t what it used to be
One of the signature features of the complexity we face today is the relationship between cause and effect. The Cynefin framework, developed by Dave Snowden of Cognitive Edge, divides systems into four ‘domains’:
Systems are simple when cause and effect are readily observable
Systems are complicated when causality is there, but expert analysis is required
Systems are complex when causality is an emergent quality of what’s happening now
Systems are chaotic when cause and effect are nowhere to be found.
To make things interesting, systems slip in and out of these conditions, sometimes quickly; and the sheer level of change around us, in technology, markets, political institutions and culture, means that the relationship between cause and effect changes more often than it used to. This is the world that the US Army describes as VUCA: volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. Many types of work that were simple or complicated are now complex and sometimes chaotic.
Unfortunately, established ways of managing systems assume a steady state of causality, where we can measure the past to predict the future and make adjustments to optimize results. But managing a complex system as if it were a simple or complicated system will fail. Instead, our approach has to be nimble and constantly recreated, as we assess emerging causality, rally around it and then let it go for the next round. Managing complexity involves trying out many new ideas and quickly culling the ones that don’t work, constantly moving on to what’s next. That is easier said than done, however: we can all become deeply attached to our preferred ways of doing things. They become our professional identities – and when you start messing with issues of identity, work gets stressful.
Neuroscience and stress: your job is not a bear attack
Stress is the nervous system’s reaction to perceived challenges, including rapid environmental change. When an animal encounters stimuli that may be a threat, the sympathetic nervous system is activated, producing the fight-or-flight response. The same system has survived in humans: we have a nervous system optimized for bear attacks. The eyes widen, the heat beats faster, energy is made available for action and the senses sharpen.
There are a lot of benefits from this, including enhanced physical and cognitive performance, strong motivation, and focus. In moderate amounts, this is the feeling of being on your toes, ready for what comes next and excited about the challenge ahead.
However, the effects can turn negative in two ways. First, the stress response is best suited to simple tasks, like escaping physical danger. Our performance on complex tasks can be improved by moderate stress, but only up to a point (see Figure 1), beyond which performance suffers: focus becomes tunnel vision, cognitive performance becomes reflexive panic, physical sensations of anxiety become inhibiting, and our social information-processing tilts towards attributing hostility to ambiguous actions. All of these work against innovation.
The second problem is that the biochemical stress triggers – cortisol, adrenaline, norepinephrine – cause problems when they are present for long periods of time. The stress response is literally poisonous over the long haul. This is called allostatic load. Humans, being the resilient and adaptable creatures that we are, can learn to live with high amounts of long-term allostatic load, but not without experiencing physical, emotional and cognitive downsides.
There is clearly a place that provides the benefits of challenge without the downsides of nervous system shutdown. This sweet spot prepares us for managing complex systems: we are best positioned to manage the unknown skilfully when we are neither complacent nor panicked. Larry Page, Google’s co-founder and Alphabet’s chief executive, calls this “uncomfortably excited”. It is also known as ‘flow’. In my experience, there are three particular skills that can help you stay in that state.
Skill 1 Cultivate a different kind of executive information system
Every leader is familiar with the business truism that you can’t manage what you don’t measure, but how do you assess your physiological and mental responses to change and complexity? Many of us have fallen into the ‘boiling frog’ trap, where continual change and challenge gradually ratchet up our nervous system without us noticing. To become more cognizant of our status, we need to focus on a different suite of executive information – the signals provided by our bodies – and develop ways of assessing our level of fight-or-flight activation.
Our body is constantly giving us data. Each emotional state creates a corresponding sensation in the body. For example, when I’m angry, I feel heat in my cheeks, a tightness at the top of my throat and pressure in my chest. Researchers have mapped where people feel activation in their bodies, as Figure 2 shows (‘Bodily maps of emotions’, Nummenmaa, Glerean, Hari, and Hietanen, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 2014). Learning these signals is a powerful way of bringing awareness to your emotional state, which is critical, because the parts of the brain responsible for emotional body awareness are also the parts that work on emotional regulation.
So, the next time you’re feeling anxious or tightly wound, write down what sensations are appearing in your body. A dropping stomach or butterflies in the chest? That’s good data. When your ideas are flowing again and you feel connected to your team, note how this feels as well. Over time you will fine-tune your awareness of the information provided by your body. The sensations associated with stress are generally unpleasant, so it is natural to subconsciously train yourself to ignore and suppress them, living only from the ‘shoulders up’ – and men in particular have had deep cultural training in suppressing emotion, particularly in the workplace – but the first step in managing these feelings is to build awareness.
Self-awareness has limits, though. We can have blind spots, so it’s useful to develop external methods of checking your emotional state, by using relationships. Friends and family are a good early warning system. Peer groups, coaches and mentors can play a pivotal role too. Sharing your internal state can make you feel very vulnerable, so you may wish to consider peers either inside or outside your team, depending on your comfort level. Remember though, sharing can be liberating, bringing the realization that we’re not alone. Plus, nurturing these types of relationships creates deep trust and psychological safety – the most important aspects of team performance, according to Google research.
Skill 2 Regulate your stress response
When it comes to managing our stress response, it is a case of ‘manager, manager thyself’. There are many ways to reduce stress. At Google, high performers who reported managing stress well credited their time with friends and family, exercise, sleep and meditation. The important thing is to choose the one that works for you – in that you note a decrease in perceived stress when you do it – and, most crucially, the one that you actually do. A meditation app that’s never opened, or a treadmill acting as an auxiliary wardrobe does not suffice! Experiment to see what works. And remember, although detaching from work may feel counterintuitive when you’re feeling ‘crunched’ by deadlines, regulating your stress or allostatic load is not ‘goofing off’. You are increasing your capacity and ability to manage complexity.
As with self-awareness, self-regulation can be supported by the power of group and community. As a way of improving my consistency with meditation, I volunteered to lead a small sitting group at Google in meditating together. My skills were modest – little more than the ability to play a guided meditation and ring a bell – but I knew that if people were depending on me, I would keep up my intention to practise.
Time is always a constraint, so a successful strategy is to build stress-reduction into your routine. Try parking a little further from work to get in a walk and create time to reflect on your intentions for the day; or, do things as small as mindful walking while on the way to the bathroom, or using elevator time to meditate.
Skill 3 Be clear about your values
The world is complicated and getting more so by the minute. Values – our most important overarching priorities – provide a critical anchor. If we are unclear about what they are, we can make decisions we regret or that later trap us in difficult situations. One of the most difficult aspects of complexity is needing to make decisions that have multiple effects: some positive, and some potentially negative and hard to foresee. Our values provide a stable foundation for making those difficult choices.
As David Brooks noted in his 2015 New York Times piece ‘The Moral Bucket List’, there are two types of virtues, or values: resume and eulogy values. Resume values can lead to short-term career achievement; eulogy values are those that we look back on and see as indicators of a life well lived. Developing eulogy values is truly the work of a lifetime, but it is trainable, and your daily job can be an avenue into this work. Look for workshops that provide a framework to think through your individual and group values, or simply block out time to reflect.
Your values can also be explored with a coach, peer groups, reading, and faith traditions. Developing values is a deeply personal process, and it is not simple – in complexity, you can expect there to be trade-offs between different values – but making time to articulate your values is essential.
We work in a world of constant, rapid and complex change. We need leaders with a calm, yet energetic response; who are ready to let go of the past, but remain rooted in strong values. Cultivating better self-awareness and the skills to regulate your stress response are critical steps towards being ready to lead in complexity.
— Bill Duane is a former engineering executive at Google. He is now principal at Bill Duane and Associates
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West Bank Village Steps Up Protests Against Israel’s Thefts of Land
copied from my Electronic Intifada article here
Palestinians in Kufr Qaddoum demand access to their farmland, October 2011.
(Wagdi Eshtayah / APAimages )
For approximately five months, the residents of Kufr Qaddoum have united to demonstrate against the illegal Israeli settlement of Kedumim and the Israeli military’s closure of their village’s main road. Kufr Qaddoum, a West Bank village so old that, according to legend, Abraham was circumcised there with an axe, has since 1976 been plagued by Kedumim, a 3,000-inhabitant Israeli settlement that now surrounds the village on five hilltops. Kufr Qaddoum’s main road, which passes through Kedumim to link the village to Nablus, was closed by the Israeli military in 2003.
“The people of Kufr Qaddoum used this road long before the settlements came,” said Murad Shttaiwa, spokesman for the demonstrators. “Before 2003, we could drive through the settlement with no problems. Between 2004 and 2005, after the road was closed to cars, we walked through the settlement with no problems.”
In 2005, the road became closed to foot traffic as well. Before the new, indirect route to Nablus was constructed in 2008, “we used to walk and drive down unpaved dirt roads around Kedumim, but the settlers would still throw stones at cars and people,” Shttaiwa explained. “We would not react to it … for three years, we used to travel on a road made for animals.”
Now that Kufr Qaddoum’s main road is closed to villagers, a 13-kilometer straight journey to Nablus has turned into a 26-kilometer detour through a busy West Bank artery. “Three people have actually died trying to get through the main road,” Shttaiwa said, “because they were ill in ambulances, and the soldiers wouldn’t let the ambulance through.”
Taking the closures to court
When the road was first closed in 2003, villagers organized a single demonstration. “It was very peaceful,” Shttaiwa said. “The people left work and came, took their cars to where the barrier is [on the road], and then just sat and talked. We spoke with the soldiers and the soldiers stated to us that the road will eventually be opened.”
When the soldiers’ promise failed to materialize, however, villagers took the issue to court in 2004. After five years of waiting, in November 2010 Kufr Qaddoum finally received a positive response from the Israeli court system, authorizing its Palestinian villagers to use the road again. At that time, however, the Israeli military groundlessly claimed that the road is “unsuitable” and “unsafe” for human traffic. After all legal appeals failed, villagers decided to organize weekly demonstrations in July 2011.
Since then, Kufr Qaddoum has consistently held one of the most tight-knit, well-organized and well-attended Palestinian-led demonstrations against the Israeli occupation in the West Bank.
Hundreds of villagers, united with international activists and flanked by gas-masked media teams, walk down the main road towards Kedumim week after week, demanding the right to movement. “I’m very happy that a lot of people from the village are coming out for the demonstrations,” said Shttaiwa. “Even during Ramadan we thought people would fall back from protesting, but they still came out in numbers. Even during harvesting, they did not fall back, they still came out in numbers — after the harvest, they would put away their equipment and come out for the demonstrations.”
Funeral for the occupation
At the front line of the demonstration, villagers often stage a telling spectacle. A week before Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority’s president, gave a speech to the UNin September, villagers held a mock funeral for the occupation on 16 September, carrying a coffin draped with an Israeli flag.
A video of the demonstration, produced by the International Solidarity Movement, shows villagers setting the coffin ablaze moments before a phalanx of Israeli soldiers opened fire with tear gas (“Kafr Qaddoum September 16 2011,” 16 September 2011).
Later in September, villagers burnt an effigy of Benjamin Netanyahu after holding a mock trial condemning the Israeli prime minister for war crimes (“Kufr Qaddoum demands access,” International Solidarity Movement, 30 September 2011).
Demonstrations in Kufr Qaddoum have been accompanied by everything from a donkey painted with an Israeli flag to a live band from the Netherlands.
As demonstrations show no signs of losing steam, the Israeli military has escalated its attacks on Kufr Qaddoum. A recent report by the Palestinian news agency WAFAindicated that 12 persons — including five Palestinian children — were attacked with heavy tear gas and stun grenades during a weekly demonstration (“Israeli soldiers suppress Kufr Qaddoum weekly anti-settlements march,” 4 November 2011).
“Even though the demonstrations and the barriers are 500 meters away” from the village, explained Shttaiwa, “the soldiers will get closer and closer … [on 11 November], the soldiers got so close they were right outside my house, and the tear gas got inside the house, so my two-year-old son smelled it, and came up to me and said ‘Daddy, my eyes hurt!’”
Aggression gets worse
The military enters the village, in Shttaiwa’s words, because “the protests are getting stronger and stronger, and they want to stop the protests, so they are becoming more violent and more aggressive.” The Israeli military is also conducting frequent night raids into the village. Four days before a protest on 21 October, the army entered the village at night and arrested nine people (“Permission to enter their own lands: Kufr Qaddoum rampaged again by military,” International Solidarity Movement, 21 October 2011).
Though protests focus on the closure of their main road, the villagers of Kufr Qaddoum resist an occupation which touches on all aspects of their lives. More than half of the village’s land, approximately 11,800 dunams (one dunam equals 1,000 square meters), is situated in Area C of the West Bank — an area under the full administration of the Israeli army. Under the carve-up of the West Bank made by the 1993 Oslo accords, Area C includes all Israeli settlements and most of the Jordan Valley.
That means villagers need permission to access their own land from the Israeli District Coordinating Office. Olive harvesters, therefore, are unable to prepare their trees for the harvest throughout the year, and are only given a few days to complete the harvest itself.
Eyal Ha-Leuveni, a researcher with Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem, told The Electronic Intifada that it is “very difficult” for Palestinians who own land around the Kedumim settlement to go through the permit process. “First you have to prove your ownership of the land, and this depends on your family history — if one family member was involved in a crime, likely no family member will get a permit,” Ha-Leuveni said. “The permit process can take years, and in the meantime you get a temporary permit, which is very insecure.”
In addition, Palestinian farmlands in Area C are often stolen by settlers. In March 2008, a legal battle, waged by lawyers from Israeli human rights organization Yesh Din on behalf of Kufr Qaddoum residents, helped expose the method of land takeover characteristic of Kedumim and other settlements across the West Bank (“Court case reveals how settlers illegally grab West Bank lands,” Haaretz, 17 March 2008).
Kedumim’s local council members would map the “abandoned lands” around the settlements, even if they were outside the council’s jurisdiction, with the aim of taking them over. The council would “allocate” the lands to settlers, who would sign an official form stating that they have no ownership claim; and that the council is entitled to evict them whenever it sees fit, in return for compensating them solely for their investment in cultivating the land.
Kedumim’s former security chief, Michael Bar-Neder, testified that the land “allocation” was followed by an effort to expand the settlement. Bar-Neder said that once the settlers seized the lands, an application would be made to the military commander to declare them as owned by the State of Israel, since under an Israeli “law” covering the West Bank, anyone who does not cultivate his land for three years forfeits ownership of it (“Court case reveals how settlers illegally grab West Bank lands,” Haaretz, 17 March 2008).
It is important to emphasize that Israel’s “laws” regarding the West Bank lack any legitimacy as all Israeli settlements are illegal under the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949. In violation of international law, Israel has seized West Bank land, in the words of Ha-Leuveni, “first by military orders, then by state land, then by private acquisition.”
The area where Kedumim now sits, said Ha-Leuveni, “is land that was first taken by military orders, where the army claimed the land was needed for military needs. Israel abandoned this justification in the 1980s, but it did not return any of this land to Palestinian owners.”
In a process that accelerated throughout the 1980s, West Bank land transferred from military to state ownership. “All the policy of declaring state land,” added Ha-Nuevi, “is an Israeli invention. There are large parts of the ‘state land’ of Qedumim that were owned or at least cultivated by Palestinians before Israel called it state land.”
According to a July 2010 report on Kedumim by B’Tselem, “construction of approximately 59 [Kedumim] units deviated from the ‘state lands’ allotted to the settlement; two permanent structures and 12 caravans were erected on private Palestinian land; and a new neighborhood, comprising some 30 caravans, was built west of the settlement, deviating from the allotted ‘state land.’” (“By Hook and By Crook: Israeli Settlement Policy in the West Bank,” B’Tselem, July 2010).
In addition, Israel plans to erect a wall between Kedumim and Kufr Qaddoum, which, according to a 2005 report by The Economist, would grab another 5,000 dunams more than the 5,000 Kufr Qaddoum has already lost (“Life in the armpits of Palestine,” 7 April 2005).
Shttaiwa estimated that Kufr Qaddoum has already lost 58 percent of its land to Kedumim, and will lose 80 percent upon completion of the wall. Contrary to the Kedumim security officer’s statement, quoted in The Economist, that “not one centimeter of Qedumim is built on land known for sure to be private,” a 2009 B’Tselem map details that much of Qedumim is built entirely on privately-owned Palestinian land (“Private Palestinian land in the built-up and municipal area of Kedumim,” B’Tselem, 2009).
Illegal appropriation of Kufr Qaddoum land to the settlement
This process of illegal appropriation has plagued Kufr Qaddoum since the establishment of Kedumim in 1976. “Every year the settlement has expanded,” Shttaiwa told The Electronic Intifada. “Since the settlement came it has been expanding, as well as stealing more and more land. Over the years they have also attacked people harvesting their olives, thrown stones at them, and stolen their olives. It has gotten worse in recent years.”
Settler violence, Shttaiwa explained, increased after the first intifada, in which Kufr Qaddoum played a minimal role. “At the beginning we had no problems … [but] now these settlers are known to be pretty violent,” he said. “In the first intifada they killed a male from here and injured another one as well. After the second intifada, they began attacking olive trees.”
Two years ago, settlers spray-painted “This is Israel” and other graffiti upon the burial stones of a Kufr Qaddoum cemetery.
In testimony given to B’Tselem last year, farmer ‘Abd a-Latif ‘Obeid said that over the years, Kedumim settlers have intentionally sabotaged his olive harvest, dumped burning refuse onto his land, and stolen more than fifty dunams to build greenhouses and a park (“Testimony: Israel seizes land and hampers access for farmers near the Kedumim settlement,” B’Tselem, 21 June 2010).
“We’ve been suffering from this situation since 1984,” he states in the report. “All the land seizures, the settler attacks, and the need to coordinate entry are aimed at expanding the Kedumim settlement, which already has a large amount of land, and at taking, little by little, the rest of our land. They force us to neglect our land so it will be easier for them to annex it to the settlement.”
In addition, Kufr Qaddoum suffers from the socio-economic effects of occupation. A 2007 report by the Jerusalem-based Land Research Center estimates that, since 2002, 75 percent of Kufr Qaddoum’s residents became unemployed after construction ofIsrael’s wall in the West Bank and closure of Kufr Qaddoum’s main road shut out many possibilities for income generation in Israel and Nablus (“Closing of Israeli roads in Kafr Qaddum village,” Land Research Center, 7 February 2007).
Now, almost half of Kufr Qaddoum’s residents depend on foreign aid for living, and emigration has reached a record high of 10-15 percent of the total population.
“Everyone is affected”
The demonstrations in Kufr Qaddoum are a long-overdue response to the suffering the village has endured for decades. The whole village comes out to demonstrate — college students who are tired of paying 20 shekels ($5) a day to get to take an extended detour to school in Nablus; farmers who are tired of living in fear, tired of seeing their olive trees burnt, their land stolen, their livelihoods ruined; villagers who demand the right to move freely down a road that is their own.
“In Kufr Qaddoum and throughout Palestine,” Shttaiwa explained, “we do not have demonstrations for the sake of the demonstration itself. None of us likes to be dead, or likes to smell tear gas, or likes to damage his house. We only want our rights. We always say to the Israeli army, ‘give us our rights and we will not go for demonstrations. Leave our land and we will not go to demonstrations.’ That is our message in Palestine.”
Author Ben LorberPosted on December 13, 2011 Categories Israel-Palestine conflictTags demonstrations, freedom of movement, Kufr Qaddoum, Murad Shttaiwa, Qedumim, Yesh Din
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New Obsidian RPG Revealed To Be The Outer Worlds (VIDEO)
by Eric Garrett
Obsidian Entertainment recently implemented a tease into their website. When going to the main page, a pop-up appeared that showed off some rather BioShock-esque visuals. You can read more about that right here. However, the Obsidian RPG that they were teasing has officially been revealed at The Game Awards, and it looks amazing… but it’s not BioShock.
During the big event, many announcements were made. Some were predicted, others were already known, but there was plenty revealed that wasn’t on anyone’s radar. The new RPG, The Outer Worlds, seems to blend many aspects we’ve seen in titles over the years, particularly from the likes of Fallout, Borderlands, etc. Check it out for yourself in the trailer below:
According to the description accompanying the video above:
“In The Outer Worlds, you awake from hibernation on a colonist ship that was lost in transit to Halcyon, the furthest colony from Earth located at the edge of the galaxy, only to find yourself in the midst of a deep conspiracy threatening to destroy it. As you explore the furthest reaches of space and encounter various factions, all vying for power, the character you decide to become will determine how this player-driven story unfolds. In the corporate equation for the colony, you are the unplanned variable.”
No release date was announced, but The Outer Worlds will be arriving in 2019 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Keep it tuned to Don’t Feed the Gamers as this story develops, and for other gaming goodness going on right now, check out the following:
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Retaining Good Teachers: What Keeps High-Quality Teachers in a School?
By The Room 241 Team • August 28, 2013
By Monica Fuglei
Last week’s piece “Why They Leave” covered many reasons that teachers leave the classroom and highlighted how retaining qualified teachers influences student performance. Because teacher retention is linked to student achievement, it is essential that those in the educational community work toward a goal of retaining the best teachers during their difficult first five years.
How to Keep Good Teachers: Give Them Good Bosses, a Supportive Culture and the Tools to Succeed
Educational policy researcher Robert Reichardt notes that one key factor in retaining teachers is the same as retaining any employee in any career: Be a good boss. While Reichardt acknowledges that principals are already tasked with a number of jobs, teacher retention in many ways boils down to leadership.
In a personal interview, one former teacher, now a successful businesswoman, spoke of the importance of a high-quality working environment, saying that her time spent teaching in a school with a dearth of good leadership had a significant impact on her and a lack of professionalism in her school led to her abandonment of teaching altogether. One change in the move toward teacher retention could be simply introducing teachers to a school culture of supportive and well-trained bosses.
Teacher Induction Programs: Keys to Surviving the First Year
In addition to the notion that teachers need good bosses, Reichardt points out that teachers must, as with employees in any other career, be given the tools to succeed. Many believe that high-quality teacher induction programs are a key component of conveying the tools of success to future teachers.
The U.S. Department of Education recognizes this and attempts to convey these tools to new teachers with its New Teacher Survival Guide. This survival guide covers several changes to teacher induction that could prove helpful to retaining qualified teachers. It highlights the work of Texas A&M’s induction program, which boasts a 100 percent retention rate for first-year teachers, which might be linked to their focus on key tools like classroom management, discipline, or communication and has a significant built-in mentor relationship. Because not every teacher enjoys access to these teacher induction programs, the Department of Education’s survival guide provides some very basic tools which can be helpful.
How Teacher Mentoring Benefits Novices and Veterans
While packed with helpful information, even the Ed.gov survival guide notes that it is no replacement for mentorship. Mentors and teacher coaching may have a significant effect on teacher retention. The article “Why Do New Teachers Leave? How Could They Stay?” by Elaine Simos notes that Professional Learning Communities — PLCs for short — have been a “boon to novice educators.”
The intense focus on mentorship in these communities allows new teachers to discuss best practices with seasoned veterans and encourages all involved to improve their teaching over time. Simos cautions that certain qualities are essential for mentors and that these communities require significant buy-in, both in time and philosophy, but that they may be the key to retaining high-quality teachers and improving veteran teaching practices as well.
Because teacher attrition is significantly higher in high-poverty districts, preparing teachers for the students they have, rather than the class they imagined, can also be essential to helping them stay in the field. A mentoring system like the Professional Learning Community or other mentorship program could allow for honest dialogue about the challenges of working in underserved districts and help new teachers thrive.
Creating a Community of Teachers
In districts without PLCs or mentoring programs, Ed.gov encourages teachers to reach out to their veteran colleagues. The New Teacher Survivor Guide highlights several individuals’ experiences that led to increased success and excitement about the career. Ed.gov warns that one drawback of discussions with veteran colleagues could be dealing with negative attitudes about the job or career exhaustion, but it highlights the overall benefits of such relationships, citing Luann Brazill’s experience working in a vacuum in her early career before realizing the vast content experience among her colleagues:
“I was fortunate to have chosen a career where I am surrounded by excellent veterans [and] professional mentors with a variety of resources and experiences,” Brazill writes. “I realized that it was time to ask questions, put my time and energy to better use for my students and myself. Today, I wouldn’t dream of beginning a new unit without inquiring about resources and possible models.”
Whether through a great leadership, supportive induction, PLCs and mentorships, or by seeking positive relationships with colleagues, it is clear that a key factor in teacher retention lies in recognizing that no teacher is an island, and that the teaching community is and should be just that — a community.
Monica Fuglei is a graduate of the University of Nebraska-Omaha and a current adjunct faculty member of Arapahoe Community College in Colorado, where she teaches composition and creative writing.
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FoResight and Modelling for European HEalth Policy and Regulation
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FRESHER brings together ten research groups, including leaders in the management of large European Foresight projects and highly experienced health policy modelers, in an interdisciplinary team engaged in FoResight and Modelling for European Health policy and Regulation. The overall project objective is the representation of alternative futures where the detection of emerging health scenarios will be used to test future policies to effectively tackle the burden of non communicable diseases (NCDs). The project will produce quantitative estimates of the future global burden of NCDs in the EU and its impact on health care expenditures and delivery, population well-being, health and socio-economic inequalities, and potential changes in these impacts according to alternative health and non-health policy options. The added value of FRESHER lies in the fact that these estimates: - will not only be based on extrapolation of past health trends but also on foresight techniques (mapping of risk factors, horizon scanning and identification of key drivers for change, scenarios building) giving credit to the interdependencies of structural long-term trends in demography, gender relations, technological, economic, environmental, and societal factors at 2050. - will be produced through the development of an empirically-based micro-simulation model (starting from the Chronic Disease Policy Model of OECD), allowing to quantify the current and future health and economic impacts of NCDs and testing “what if” policy options according to alternative foresight scenarios, as well as potential new policies and policy combinations. FRESHER heavily relies on an interactive process with key stakeholders, at all stages of the project, in elaborating the framework, and giving inputs for the qualitative foresight scenarios and the quantitative micro-simulation model, and in deriving recommendations for future policies affecting population health and well-being.
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• Futari no Jikan (Two People's Time)
Eri hangs out with her childhood friend, who she hasn't seen in four years. They've changed over the years, but certain feeling have stayed the same.
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TV Review – Community – Digital Exploration of Interior Design
March 31, 2012 by ne11ie
‘Troy and Abed decide to build a pillow fort to rival their old blanket fort, while Jeff finds out he has a locker and Pierce and Shirley send Britta undercover to get dirt on Greendale’s new Subway.‘
Three episodes back into the second half of Community’s run, and it still feels so good to have it back.
The three stories are given pretty equal screen time in this episode, with most of them playing off well-worn aspects of the characters.
Jeff finds out he has a locker, and it’s filled with fliers from the past few years – and a hate letter. Annie is his investigative, judgemental sidekick as he goes on a journey to keep his ego pristine. Some good gags in this story, and a nice turn from an incidental character, but fairly standard fare.
The new Subway has opened in Greendale, and Pierce and Shirley are still angry about losing out. To make matters worse/weirder, ‘Subway’ (as made necessary by a Greendale by-law) appears as a corporate humanoid, an entity representing the company’s humanity at the college. Pierce and Shirley send Britta undercover to get dirt on ‘Subway’. The gentle satire on corporate big-bads turns on Britta, when she is sucked into the romanticism of ‘Subway’s repressed humanity. The two connect over the novel 1984 (“teenagers should be forced to read it”), and Britta is torn.
Meanwhile, Troy and Abed decide to build a pillow fort, to rival their old blanket fort. Well, Abed decides, and Troy reluctantly follows. John Goodman (I can’t ever remember his character’s name, because it’s John Goodman) turns up and skilfully plays the two friends against each other. Troy and Abed descend into a full on fight, with their respective pillow and blanket armies behind them. Shockingly, this isn’t resolved by the end of the ep; Abed utters a foreboding “To Be Continued”. How long are mummy and daddy going to fight? I hate this. But it’s also a great development for these characters, and a necessary part of Troy’s journey to, or away, from Air Conditioning Repair School Destiny.
Troy vs. Abed is the only real development in this episode, but it’s still played out in a very comfortable, genre-referential way. While these formerly inseparable friends are changing, it’s against a familiar backdrop from Season Two. The other two storylines rehash familiar themes, and we learn nothing new of substance. Apart from the cold open when the gang sits in the cafeteria, all three stories are completely independent of each other; a little more cohesiveness could have made this for me. Perhaps the great break-up of Troy and Abed is so jarring, the writers hoped to soften the blow by couching the episode in familiarity.
I sound very down on this episode, but I’m still reeling from Troy and Abed fighting. It’s a cold, frightening world! Lots of good throwaway gags, a real sense of warmth in the Subway storyline [or I’m just a sucker for Forbidden Lurve] and some solid standard sitcom. Sometimes I just want a little more from Community, when so many of its episodes set the bar so high; but, as Dan Harmon might say, it’s pizza*.
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 (Enjoyable)
John Goodman… in a onesie?
Is Dean Pelton familiar with the Greendale College by-laws? “I am not”.
Lots of Garrett this episode. Bless him. Save Garrett!
Britta’s newspaper column in highschool – “Britta Unfiltered”. I get it.
Things I Didn’t Like:
“Are you drinking ink?” – what the hell is going on with Pierce?! Is he hooked on painkillers again? I want to know.
Go away, Magnitude. Your time is done here.
*[Source] “Neil [Goldman] has this expression that he introduced me to in the first season after a 70 percenter. He says, “It’s pizza,” meaning, “Bad slice? Good slice?” Like, [Nasal voice.] “Ehh, pizza’s good food. We make pizza.” And that’s a good way of looking at it. Community is pizza, as compared to having to eat shit, you know? That’s a different meal entirely; that’s bad. And you can have a bad slice of pizza, and you can have a really good slice of pizza, but it’s important to fall back on the comfort of going, “We make pizza. People like pizza. It’s greasy, and it’s gooey, and it’s crispy, and we do it right.” Sometimes, we don’t redefine fucking television with every slice.”
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3 thoughts on “TV Review – Community – Digital Exploration of Interior Design”
Mitchell Hall (@thefountain73) says:
I checked out Community after after a fantastic article about Mark Harmon a few months ago in WIRED magazine. So i was so exited to check out Community. I borrowed Season 1 on DVD.
For my taste. I couldn’t stand the show and i followed the rule of watching three episodes. The characters are just too neurotic and i found the female characters the most annoying in TV history.
I’ll stick to animated shows and The Wire on DVD.
Correction. Dan Harmon and here is a Chevy Chase update. Hollywood renowned for being ahem…. Difficult. http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/chevy-chase-in-feud-with-community-creator-dan-harmon/#utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
ne11ie says:
Try Season 2 – the characters are well-worn by then, and the whole show gets a bit more ‘experimental’. But it sounds like it’s just not your thing.
ps. Charmin’ Harmon!
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Another predator who should’ve been stopped: Was it homophobia?
Gays were preyed on by the Handcuff Man for two decades and still the police didn’t act. So the paper did. Then they asked themselves whether the cops were the only ones with the attitude problem . . .
By Richard Greer
Richard Greer is a reporter with the Atlanta (GA) Journal-Constitution.
FineLine: The Newsletter On Journalism Ethics, vol. 3, no. 8 (September 1991), pp. 1, 8.
It seems unbelievable. The cops walked into Jeffrey Dahmer’s foul-smelling apartment, returned a bloodied victim to the now-confessed serial killer and left telling homophobic, racist jokes.
But months earlier, far from Milwaukee, an equally fantastic story was unfolding in Atlanta. Gay hustlers said a sadist they called the Handcuff Man was drugging, handcuffing, beating and sometimes burning male prostitutes, or men he thought were prostitutes. They told me dumped victims were turning up in Tampa and Atlanta, unconscious and maimed. And he’d been doing it, they insisted — virtually unhindered by police — for more than 20 years.
The grisly discoveries in Milwaukee forced police to act. In Atlanta, however, gay activists believe police would have continued ignoring the Handcuff Man had the Journal-Constitution not pressured them into acting.
After heated newsroom debate, we decided to profile the Handcuff Man’s alleged activities. And then we broke with tradition by naming the person we suspected in print — before he was even arrested.
Police officers admitted privately later it was our stories identifying a wealthy local attorney named Robert Lee Bennett, Jr. that led to his indictment.
Ironically, my first attempt at doing a story on the Handcuff Man had been rejected. A 21-year-old was found unconscious, burned and beaten after he accepted money from a stranger for drinking vodka apparently laced with drugs. I wrote a story on the attack, but couldn’t yet make a connection between this crime and the two decades of similar assaults.
Eight days later, a call from a source paved the way for me to interview gay hustlers who talked fearfully about a shadowy figure they called the Handcuff Man. A bartender recalled seeing him and hearing about his attacks as far back as 1968. And my informants were convinced this latest crime was his doing.
It seemed preposterous that anything of this enormity could have gone on for so long. But detectives told me during a late-night, mostly off-the- record, conversation that the Handcuff Man was apparently very real and they had no idea why there wasn’t an active investigation.
I still didn’t have enough for a story. But the next day brought a tip about an Atlanta cop who had a run-in with the Handcuff Man while moonlighting as a security guard at a gay bar in 1983. When the officer gave me the man’s name and date of birth, I had my story.
The result: a page-one piece detailing the Handcuff Man’s activities and stating that at least one police officer knew about him and had attempted to gather evidence years earlier.
But the story didn’t run without lengthy, incredulous discussions of what seemed to be an outrageous case of homophobia, of police simply ignoring attacks on gays. We considered actually naming our suspect at that point, but decided not to. In fact, we deleted some personal information, fearing it might identify him.
Why? Because we had no official documents linking Bennett with the Handcuff Man or with the latest attacker. Maybe they weren’t all the same person. Nonetheless, a vital question was beginning to form: When does a newspaper’s responsibility to public safety outweigh a private individual’s right to privacy and the standard practice of withholding the names of suspects who haven’t been charged?
While we agonized about our duty, the police held a news conference defending themselves and promising a full investigation. Meanwhile, I combed court records on Bennett. They were strewn with tantalizing but unsubstantiated references. He’d been arrested for allegedly kidnapping an undercover Atlanta cop in 1974. His wife, her attorney and several gays had accused him of being the Handcuff Man during his 1984 divorce trial.
Again, newsroom staffers debated naming Bennett. Again, we held off. I spent another day searching records in a 1982 murder case in which Bennett was charged but not convicted. This time, I hit the jackpot. State archives contained more than 400 pages of documents providing solid links between Bennett and the sadistic acts of the Handcuff Man.
Now did we have enough to justify naming him? No. Editors wanted a current link. We got it when the most recent victim chose Bennett’s picture from a photo lineup. Now, except for a formal criminal charge, there was nothing to prevent telling the public the name of the likely suspect — nothing except journalistic tradition.
The next day, the Journal-Constitution defied that tradition by prominently playing a story naming and profiling Bennett. He had not yet been charged and no other news media had used his name.
Did we do the right thing? I still wasn’t absolutely sure. The initial identification had come from the streets, not police work. Unlike, say, William Kennedy Smith, Bennett’s name was meaningless to most Atlantans and his right to privacy as great as any other little-known person’s.
Some editors shared my hindsight doubts, asking repeatedly: “Why are we doing this?” One angrily remarked that he hoped he was never an uncharged suspect in Atlanta. But others, including metro editor Pam Fine, saw this as an exception to the rule and a matter of practicalities and responsibilities.
“The court records were the first public documents we saw that linked Bennett to the Handcuff Man,” Fine reasoned. “They confirmed that his name had been linked to cases many years before.” Also, public safety was at issue, as gay hustlers continued reporting sightings of a car associated with the Handcuff Man.
“If we got his name out,” Fine added, we would be telling the police and the public we know who the suspect is. We felt . . . heinous crimes were involved and we decided to name him because we [knew who he was] and we recognized that police had waited two decades to actively pursue the case.”
In retrospect, I have no doubts. Considering the information we had by the time we printed Bennett’s name, our natural fears should have been allayed. Our prime concern should have been prodding the police to enhance the safety of the young men who were at risk. (Thankfully, there were no attacks between the time I discovered the story and Bennett’s arrest.)
As it was, within a day, the publicity prompted Tampa police to request information from Atlanta that led to charging Bennett with the attempted murder of a Florida man burned so severely he lost both legs. Atlanta police followed with grand jury indictments two weeks later. The first trial starts next month.
But there are still questions I and many at my paper are asking ourselves: While pointing a finger at police for possible neglect, what about us? How did we miss the story for so long?
Maybe reporters actually knew about the Handcuff Man while his victims piled up, as happened in Milwaukee. But turnover and poor communication at newspapers — just like at police departments — deplete collective knowledge.
The toughest question of all: Were we homophobic ourselves? After all, the editor who first rejected the story had callously quipped, “I guess you have to be careful who you drink with.”
The questions linger. But the Handcuff Man’s gruesome story taught me something. Reporters must cultivate all sorts of unofficial sources, not just to get information, but to reinforce the understanding that every person — even if he’s “only” a gay hustler — is still a member of the public we serve.
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After PolyMet released its latest plans on December 6, an estimated 3,650 people attended public hearings in Duluth, St. Paul, and Aurora, to comment on the 2,200–page Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS).
The Canadian–owned company produced the SDEIS with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR), the US Army Corps of Engineers, and the US Forest Service, after the Environmental Protection Agency rejected the first plan in 2010 for unsatisfactory water quality, wetlands impact, and failure to address clean–up costs once the mine closes.
The company is seeking permits to build a mine with three open pits, the deepest reaching 696 feet, on 16,700 acres at the former LTV site near Hoyt Lakes. The project includes refurbishing LTV’s processing plant and building a “hydrometallurgical facility” for extracting nickel, cobalt, and other precious metals.
PolyMet would process 73,068 tons of rock per day—225 million tons of ore and 308 million tons of waste rock over the life of the project. “Tailings,” a slurry of fine–particle waste suspended in water, would be deposited on top of LTV’s old tailings basin.
A coalition of the Bois Forte, Grand Portage, and Fond du Lac Chippewa Bands, the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, and the 1854 Treaty Authority was invited to be a cooperating agency in the preparation of the SDEIS.
In their response, included as Appendix C, the Bands address 18 areas of concern and reiterate their rights under the 1854 Treaty of La Pointe to access ceded land for hunting, fishing, and ricing.
The Bands questioned predictive models for the amount of pollutants to be released, because the models were based on data from other sites, not on current water data from the project site and surrounding area.
The interaction of water flow between the mine and wetlands was also a concern. The company commissioned an aboveground survey, but didn’t study the type of rock or structure beneath the wetlands.
In the SDEIS, the Canisteo pit on the Mesabi Range is used as an “analogous model,” but the Bands pointed out that PolyMet’s pits would be twice as deep. “Thus the effect on surrounding aquifer would be greater” because the pits will reach twice as far into the bedrock, increasing the potential for groundwater pollution.
Then a DNR internal memo surfaced, dated December 13, suggesting the DNR knew all along that the modeling data were inaccurate and many of the mine’s water quality projections are tied to this data.
“This validates tribal science. Their concerns deserve a second look,” says Paula Maccabee, an environmental lawyer who first obtained the DNR memo and has been one of PolyMet’s most vocal critics. “What’s going to win here, science or politics?”
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s (MPCA) impaired waters list includes streams within the PolyMet drainage area and identifies mercury in fish as the problem. In 2009, this became the subject of a “TMDL,” or “Total Maximum Daily Load,” which involves studying an impaired body of water, setting goals to remediate it, and then setting the maximum contaminants allowable to meet the goal.
The Fond du Lac Band, one of the TMDL participants, has accused the MPCA of effectively withdrawing from the study and “grinding it to a halt.” The MPCA maintains that the TMDL is “on hold,” because “modeling used was not sufficient to give the right answer” as to which contaminants are contributing to the high levels of mercury in fish tissue. Regarding the TMDL, the SDEIS says further study needs to be completed before “consideration can be given to permit conditions for individual projects.”
PolyMet’s potential contaminants include arsenic, manganese, sulfate, and heavy metals, such as lead. Contamination could continue for as long as 200 years at the mine site and 500 years at the plant site.
During operations, mine pit water will be treated with chemical precipitation, which involves introducing a chemical specific to each contaminant that causes it to drop out of the solution, or “precipitate.” The water will then be piped to the tailings basin, which will serve as a source of water for production along with water drawn from Colby Lake.
Process water will be recirculated and finally go through reverse osmosis, which uses a combination of electricity and a semi–permeable membrane to filter the water before it is discharged into nearby creeks.
The waste from water treatment will be hauled offsite to a landfill. Hydrometallurgical residue will be deposited on–site. When the mine closes, the residue will be covered with tailings, soil, and “if necessary” with a clay barrier and polyethylene liner. The words “if necessary” appear often in the SDEIS.
The tailings basin and pit lake will have a containment system of dikes, dams, ditches, pumps, and pipes to collect water and return it to the tailings basin, one side of which is in bedrock that PolyMet maintains will not fracture because of the rock type.
Twenty years after closure, the west pit is predicted to overflow. Overflow water will be redirected back into the west pit and—”if necessary”—the mine site’s wastewater treatment facility would be upgraded to a reverse osmosis system.
Another form of on–site water treatment will be constructed wetlands, which remove heavy metals, but require monitoring indefinitely. Who will perform this monitoring is not addressed in the SDEIS.
Jennifer Saran, Director of Environmental Permitting and Compliance for PolyMet, says they can contract with a company that specializes in long–term monitoring. Details will be included in the reclamation plan submitted for closure.
Funding for long–term maintenance will be addressed in the “financial assurances”—PolyMet’s plan to pay for ongoing expenses after closure—but this, too, may not be addressed until closure nears.
According to the SDEIS, water treatment will continue “as long as…monitoring shows treatment is required.” Saran says the company hopes to transfer to a “passive, non–mechanical” system, in which mine site water will be directed by gravity to a permanent filtering system and then into the Partridge River.
Costs for closure and maintenance are $320 million for the first 20 years and $3.5 to $6 million per year for the next two to five centuries, equaling several billion dollars. Even if costs decrease and there is no inflation, PolyMet is making a long–term promise.
Glencore, a Swiss commodities company with a controlling stock interest in PolyMet, is the major financer of the mining company, which has no current income. If PolyMet goes out of business, it’s unclear whether Glencore would have any legal responsibility for long–term pollution control costs.
According to Paula Maccabee, “It’s an open question whether Glencore’s strategic partnership would be enough to create legal responsibility.”
While it makes sense to build a new mine at the site of a defunct one, PolyMet’s tailings will be deposited on top of the old LTV tailings basin, which has been leaking for years. In 2010, the site owner, Cliffs Erie, was ordered to collect and discharge the water.
PolyMet would incorporate the current discharge into its own containment and treatment system. Once Cliffs Erie’s discharge permits are transferred to PolyMet, PolyMet becomes responsible for the site.
However, PolyMet doesn’t yet own the land it wants to mine. PolyMet owns the underlying mineral leases, but the US Forest Service owns the surface rights. A land exchange between PolyMet and the Forest Service is crucial for the project to become a reality.
Some of the land PolyMet plans to exchange was purchased by PolyMet with mortgages from the Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board, an agency created by the legislature to diversify the Iron Range economy and make it less dependent on mining.
The primary purpose of this land exchange, rather than a direct sale, is explicitly to sidestep the Weeks Act, which was enacted in 1911 to preserve waterways and prohibits the use or sale of land purchased under the Act for surface mining.
The land exchange trades 6,650 acres of Forest Service land for 6,722.5 acres from PolyMet. The largest parcel the Forest Service would receive is 4615.5 acres at Hay Lake near Biwabic. The rest are smaller tracts in the Superior National Forest.
The SDEIS describes these parcels as having low potential for minerals, although one of the tracts in Lake County is “subject to mineral reservation that includes the right to sink, cave, disturb or remove surface material.” All but one parcel has the mineral rights severed from the surface rights.
The land PolyMet would receive in exchange encompasses 53 percent of the “One Hundred Mile Swamp,” approximately 3,028 acres rated by the DNR as high in biodiversity.
When asked if the Weeks Act prohibition on mining will transfer to the acquired properties, Liz Schleif of the US Forest Service said yes, but titles still needed to be examined. Like much of the SDEIS, final details have not yet been determined.
In 2012, the Labovitz School of Business and Economics at the University of Minnesota Duluth conducted a study of “The Economic Impact of Ferrous and Non–Ferrous Mining on the State of Minnesota and the Arrowhead Region, including Douglas County, Wisconsin.”
Funded in large part by the mining industry, the results showed entirely positive economic outcomes from 20 years of mining jobs and associated economic activity. The study did not address potential effects on logging, recreation, tourism, or independent manufacturers and businesses.
It’s even possible that PolyMet will continue operations beyond the 20 years posited in the SDEIS. Future proposals now in the planning stages, such as Twin Metals and Tech Cominco, could eventually take over PolyMet’s processing plant, or PolyMet might identify and mine other locations itself.
Additional concerns noted in the SDEIS and/or among the comments of many participants in the Duluth, Aurora, and St. Paul public hearings include:
•Mining and other development have left only 18 narrow wildlife corridors on the Iron Range. The loss of a wetland corridor makes it particularly hard for aquatic species to migrate.
•Draw–down and reduction in water quality of Colby Lake, which is Hoyt Lakes’ source of drinking water.
•Contamination of nearby wells.
•The impact of sulfate discharge on wild rice.
•Mercury levels in humans and wildlife.
•Tailings basin failure due to unforeseen weather events, human error, or simply giving out due to age.
•”Amphibole fibers,” similar to asbestos and causes similar health concerns. Worker safety is not addressed in the SDEIS.
•Migrating waterfowl feeding in the pit lake, which will have a high acid content.
If the SDEIS is approved, PolyMet will then apply to various agencies for 15 or more permits, including the right to withdraw water from Colby Lake and a permit to mine (DNR); for the management, treatment, and/or discharge of water and air emissions (MPCA); and for on–site sewage disposal and an on–site water supply (Minnesota Department of Health).
The SDEIS process includes a public comment period, which is currently open until 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 13. Anyone may comment, but agency representatives ask that comments be specific to the SDEIS. The best approach is to select one area and provide specific, relevant experiences or data. Opinions without specific reference to the issues raised in the SDEIS will not be given serious weight.
The SDEIS can be viewed online or downloaded at www.dnr.state.mn.us/input/environmentalreview/polymet/index.html.
Comments may be emailed to NorthMetSDEIS.dnr@state.mn.us. Email submissions should include a full name and mailing address. Written comments may also be submitted to:
Lisa Fay, EIS Project Manager
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Division of Ecological and Water Resources
Environmental Review Unit
500 Lafayette Road, Box 25
St. Paul, MN 55155–4025
Anne Stewart is a freelance writer who lives near Ely. Canoeing, camping, and snowshoeing are high on her activity list. She has, in the past, given testimony questioning the wisdom of non–ferrous mining in northeastern Minnesota. Her writing has appeared in Boundary Waters Journal, Ely Summer & Winter Times, www.elyminnesota.com/blog and other local venues. In 2007, she published a children’s book, I Saw a Moose Today. Her website is AnneStewart.info.
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In the past, there were only others who asked him what to do. Now, though, he was the one asking others what he should do, and nobody was able to give him an answer.
Suddenly, Wei WuXian felt a faint pain at the side of his neck, as if he’d been stabbed by a sharp needle. He felt his body grow numb all over. Having been caught off guard due to the momentary absent-mindedness, he only realized what was happening after a few moments had passed. Involuntarily, he had already collapsed onto the rock bed. At first, he could still raise his arm, but soon, even his arm crashed onto the bed. He could no longer move.
With red eyes, Wen Qing slowly removed her right hand, “… I’m sorry.”
She shouldn’t have been able to land an attack on Wei WuXian with her speed, but Wei WuXian wasn’t on the alert at all. With the pain, Wei WuXian felt his mind calm down a bit as well. His Adam’s apple bobbed before he opened his mouth, “What are you doing?”
Wen Qing and Wen Ning exchanged a glance. Standing before him, in unison, they granted him a solemn salutation.
Seeing this, a restless sense of foreboding rose within Wei WuXian, “What are you going to do? Just what are you doing?”
Wen Qing, “When you woke up, we were in the middle of discussing it. I think we’ve come to a conclusion.”
Wei WuXian, “Discussing what? Stop talking nonsense. Take out the needle—let me go!”
Wen Ning slowly got up from the ground. His head still hung low, “Sister and I have come to a conclusion. We’ll be going to Koi Tower to give ourselves up.”
“Give yourselves up?” Wei WuXian was shocked, “How are you going to do that? Apologize? Surrender?”
Wen Qing rubbed her eyes, her expression appearing to be calm, “Yes, more or less. In the days you were down, the LanlingJin Sect sent people to give a few words at Burial Mound.”
Wei WuXian, “Give a few words about what? Don’t talk one word at a time. Say it all at once! Finish your explanation!”
Wen Qing, “The LanlingJin Sect wanted you to give them an answer. The answer would be to hand over the two leaders of the remaining Wen Sect members, especially the Ghost General.”
“…” Wei WuXian, “I’m warning you two. Get this needle out of me right now.”
Wen Qing continued on, “The leaders of the remaining Wen Sect members—that’s us. According to them, if you hand us over, this incident would temporarily be considered over as well. Then, we might have you on the bed for a couple more days. The effects of the needle inside of you would cease in three days’ time. I’ve talked to Uncle Four about it already. He’ll watch over you and let you out if an emergency happens within the three days.”
Wei WuXian raged, “You can shut the fuck up! It’s already pandemonium the way things are right now! You two can stop adding more trouble onto my platter. Give yourselves in my ass. Did I tell you to do this? Take it out!”
Wen Qing and Wen Ning stood still, arms limp. Their silence was the same. Wei WuXian had no strength in his body. His struggles were of no use, and nobody listened to him either. All at once, there seemed to be no strength in his heart either.
He could neither shout nor move, rasping, “Why are you going to Koi Tower? I wasn’t the one who cursed him with Hundred Holes at all…”
Wen Qing, “But they have set their minds that it was you.”
Wei WuXian tried his best to think of ways to deal with this. Suddenly, he thought of something, “Then find the real person who set the curse! Jin ZiXun’s definitely gone to experts of cursing. The most common way to deal with these curses is to hit them back, let the effects rebound back to the one who placed the curse. Even if not all of the power could be rebounded, a large portion can. We can just look for someone who has the same curse marks on them!”
Wen Qing, “There’s no use.”
Wei WuXian, “Why not?”
Wen Qing, “There are so many people—where could we look for them? Set up a checkpoint on every street of every city and make everyone take off their clothes so that we can check?”
Wei WuXian protested, “Why not?”
Wen Qing, “Who’d be willing to set up these checkpoints for you? And for how long do you intend to search? We could perhaps find them after eight or ten years, but would those people be willing to wait?”
Wei WuXian, “But there are no rebounded curse marks on me!”
Wen Qing, “During today’s incident, did they ask you?”
Wei WuXian, “No.”
Wen Qing, “That’s right. They didn’t ask. They straight-up prepared to kill you. Do you understand now? They don’t need any proof. They don’t need you to find the truth either. Whether or not you have curse marks on your body doesn’t matter at all. You’re the YiLing Patriarch, the King of the Demonic Path. You specialize in dark curses, so it wouldn’t even be strange if you didn’t have curse marks on you. On top of that, you didn’t have to do it yourself. You could’ve gotten Wen-dogs, your slaves, to do it for you. It’s you no matter what. You won’t be able to deny it.”
Wei WuXian cursed.
Wen Qing waited quietly for him to finish cursing, “And so, you see? There’s no use. With the way things are, the identity of the one who placed the curse of Hundred Holes is no longer important. What’s important is the fact that the hundreds of people at Qiongqi path and… Jin ZiXuan were indeed killed by A-Ning.”
Wei WuXian, “… But, but…”
But what? He himself didn’t even know what to put after ‘but’. He couldn’t think of a reason to give, an excuse to use.
He spoke, “… But even then, I should be the one going. I was the one who made the corpses kill the people. Why would the knife go instead of the murderer?”
Wen Qing, “Isn’t it better this way?”
Wei WuXian, “Better as in what?!”
Wen Qing’s voice was calm, “Wei Ying, we both know. Wen Ning is a knife, a knife that scares them, but also a knife that they use as an excuse to attack you. If we go, without the knife, they’d no longer have an excuse. This entire thing might finally be over.”
Wei WuXian stared at her in shock. He suddenly let out a meaningless roar.
He finally understood why Jiang Cheng would always express extreme anger toward certain things he did, why he’d always say that he had a hero complex, why he’d always seem as if he’d like to beat him up. Watching others take the responsibility onto their shoulders no matter what, insist on bearing all of the negative consequences, unable to be stopped at all—the feeling was the utmost detestable!
Wei WuXian, “Do you two understand or not? By giving yourselves in at Koi Tower—what would happen to you two, especially Wen Ning? Aren’t you the one who loves this brother of yours the most?”
Wen Qing, “Whatever that happens to him would be what he deserves.”
No. Wen Ning didn’t deserve it at all. He was the one who deserved it.
Wen Qing, “Anyhow, we should’ve been dead since a long time ago. These days have been a strike of luck for us.”
Wen Ning nodded.
He was always like this, nodding at whatever others said, agreeing and never objecting. Wei WuXian had never abhorred his nod and his docility so much.
Wen Qing squatted by the bed. Gazing at his face, she suddenly reached out and flicked her finger against Wei WuXian’s forehead.
She put quite some strength into her flick. Wei WuXian frowned from the pain. Seeing this, Wen Qing seemed to be in a much better mood, “I’ve said what I had to say, explained things, said farewell. Then, good-bye.”
Wei WuXian, “No…”
Wen Qing interrupted him, “I’ve never really said such things to you before. But now that it’s today, there are indeed a few things I should say. I really won’t get a chance to say them after this.”
Wei WuXian whispered, “… Shut up… Let me go…”
Wen Qing, “I’m sorry. And, thank you.”
Wei WuXian was lying for the entire three days.
Wen Qing’s calculations were indeed correct. Three days. Not a moment earlier, not a moment too late. He was able to move right after the three days had passed.
First his fingers, then his limbs, his neck… When the almost frozen blood began to flow inside of him once more, Wei WuXian leaped up from the stairs and rushed outside the Demon-Slaughtering Cave.
The Wen Sect’s people seemed like they hadn’t had any shut-eye within the three days either. In silence, they sat within the large shack, around the tables. Wei WuXian didn’t even spare them a single glance. Sprinting as fast as he could, he dashed down Burial Mound.
After he got down the mountain, he stood amid the bushes, catching his breath. Bent down, he propped his hands against his knees for a long while before he stood up straight again. Yet, looking at the wild grasses that covered many of the mountain paths, he didn’t know where to go.
Burial Mound—he’d just gone down from there.
Lotus Pier—he hadn’t been back in over a year.
Koi Tower? Three days had passed already. If he went now, it was likely that Wen Qing’s corpse and Wen Ning’s ashes were the only things left.
He stood blankly. Suddenly, he felt that the world had no place for him, despite how large it was. He didn’t know what to do either.
Out of the blue, a frightening thought emerged from the depths of his heart. Within the three days, he had denied this thought over and over again, but it kept on appearing, unable to be wiped away.
Wen Qing and Wen Ning left on their own. Perhaps, he was glad, somewhere deep inside of him. Because of this, he wouldn’t have to be caught between what choice to make. They had already made the choice for him and dealt with the difficulty.
Wei WuXian raised his hand and slapped himself on the face. In a low voice, he scolded, “What are you thinking?!”
His cheek burned. He was finally able to suppress the frightening thought. Instead, he thought to himself that no matter what, at least he had to bring back the Wen sibling’s ashes.
And so, in the end, he still ran toward the direction of Koi Tower.
It wasn’t difficult for Wei WuXian to sneak into a place if he wanted to. It was very quiet on Koi Tower. Surprisingly, there weren’t any of the heavy lines of defense that he imagined there to be. Searching everywhere, he didn’t find anything he deemed suspicious.
Like a ghost, he roamed about the palaces within Koi Tower. He hid when there were people; he walked when there weren’t. He didn’t know what he was searching for either, or even how to search for it. However, when the sounds of an infant’s cries came over, his footsteps suddenly froze. Inside of him was a voice that urged his body to walk toward where the sound came from.
The cries were from a large, lightless palace.
Wei WuXian snuck to the main doors without making a noise. He looked through the delicate carvings of the wooden windows.
A black coffin rested within the hall. Before the coffin kneeled two women in white.
The woman on the left had a slightly smaller frame. It was a figure he’d never mistake. Throughout his childhood, he’d been carried by this figure for many, many times.
It was Jiang YanLi.
Kneeling on a futon, Jiang YanLi stared blankly at the coffin so black that it seemed to glow. The infant was inside of her arms, still crying softly.
The woman on the right whispered, “… A-Li, you can stop sitting here. Go take a break.”
Jiang YanLi shook her head. Madam Jin sighed.
It was a woman who had a similar personality to that of her best friend, Madam Yu’s. She was extremely assertive, her voice always high. Yet, the few words that she had just spoken sounded so low and so coarse, making her appear to have aged drastically.
Madam Jin insisted, “I’ll stay here. You shouldn’t sit any longer. You won’t be able to hold up.”
Jiang YanLi spoke softly, “Mother, I’m fine. I’d like to sit for a while longer.”
A moment later, Madam Jin stood up slowly, “You won’t be able to hold up if you continue. I’ll get you something to eat.”
She’d probably been sitting here for a long time as well. Legs numb, her body wavered slightly while she was getting up, but she quickly steadied herself. She turned around. It was indeed those somewhat hardened features.
In Wei WuXian’s memories, Madam Jin had always been vigorous and resolute. She always wore on her face an arrogant expression, surrounded by golden splendor. She maintained her youth quite well and seemed quite young, likely able to pass for twenty. But right now, in front of Wei WuXian was a middle-aged woman clothed in white, her temples frosted. She wore no cosmetics. Over her ashen face was a pair of chapped lips.
When she approached and was about to exit, Wei WuXian immediately darted. With a light dip of his foot, he leaped onto the roof of the hallway just as Madam Jin walked out. She shut the door behind her. With a cold expression, she took in a deep breath and adjusted the positioning of her facial muscles, as if she wanted to put on her usual stately expression again.
Yet, before she even finished drawing the breath, her eyes had reddened. Back then, in front of Jiang YanLi, she never displayed any sign of grief. Just as she stepped out, however, the corners of her lips collapsed at once. Her features crumples, and she began to tremble.
It was the second time that Wei WuXian saw such an unsightly, yet despairing expression on a woman’s face.
He really didn’t want to see such an expression once more.
Unconsciously, Wei WuXian clenched his fists, but his knuckles gave out a crisp crunch. Hearing this, Madam Jin glared, “Who’s there?!”
Just as she looked up, she saw Wei WuXian, hiding behind one of the rooftop decorations. Madam Jin had good sight. She saw the features submerged in the darkness, and her face twisted at once. She yelled in a shrill voice, “Everyone! Come, everyone! Wei Ying—he’s here! He crept into Koi Tower!”
Wei WuXian leaped down the roof. Suddenly, he heard a series of hastened footsteps. Somebody hurried out of the palace. He could only make a run for it.
At this point in time, he didn’t dare look at Jiang YanLi, not even a single expression, and not even a single word!
After he fled Koi Tower and left Lanling City, Wei WuXian lost his direction yet again. He roamed around in a blur, his mind clouded. He didn’t make a single stop. He didn’t know how many cities he’d passed when he suddenly saw a group of people crowd around a city gate. They were holding a heated, passionate discussion.
Wei WuXian intended on ignoring these people, but as he walked past, he happened to have heard the words ‘Ghost General’. He immediately stopped in his track, focused on the conversation.
“The Ghost General really is fierce… Said he was there to give himself in, but then he suddenly flipped out. He slaughtered again, this time in Koi Tower.”
“Good thing I didn’t go that day!”
“He was a dog trained by Wei WuXian. No wonder he bites everyone in his path.”
“Wei Ying, though, he shouldn’t have made him if he can’t control it. Created a mad dog and he didn’t leash it. Sooner or later, he’s gonna be faced with a qi deviation. With the way things have been, I doubt the day is that far away.”
Wei WuXian listened quietly. The muscles on his face and fingers twitched slightly.
“How unfortunate for the LanlingJin Sect.”
“Things were even worse for the GusuLan Sect! Over half of the thirty-or-so people were from their sect. They were clearly only there to help calm things down.”
“Good thing the Ghost General was finally burned. Or else, just thinking about how such a thing was roaming around outside, flipping out now and then, would be enough for me to have nightmares.”
Someone spat, “That’s the end all Wen-dogs should meet!”
“The Ghost-General was almost burned to crumbs. This time, Wei WuXian should know what’s up, huh? I heard many of the sect leaders going to the pledge conference have spoken already. How terrific!”
The longer Wei WuXian listened, the colder his expression grew.
He should’ve understood long ago. No matter what he did, not a single good word would come out of these people’s mouths. When he won, others feared; when he lost, others rejoiced.
He was cultivating the crooked path either way, so what exactly did the years of persistence mean? What exactly were they for?”
However, the colder his eyes were, the brighter the raging fire within his heart burned.
One of the group gloated, as though he had made a great contribution to this, “Yeah, terrific! It’ll be fine if only he obediently huddles inside of that damn mountain from now on. If he dares show his face outside again? Ha, as soon as he’s out, I’ll…”
“You’ll do what?”
The people, in the middle of their heated conversation, paused in unison. They all turned around.
The saw a pale, black-robed youth standing behind them, two dark circles below his eyes, his voice cold, “If he dares come out, you’ll do what?”
Those with sharp eyes saw the flute with the bright red tassel hanging by the youth’s waist. They immediately jolted, exclaiming, “Chenqing, it’s Chenqing!”
The YiLing Patriarch, Wei WuXian, had really come out!
Within the instant, a large circle had formed with Wei WuXian in the center. The people fled everywhere. As Wei WuXian let out a shrill whistle, the people suddenly felt their bodies sink. They all collapsed onto the ground. As they shakily turned around, they realized that everyone, including themselves, had on their backs various dark, bloody spirits!
Among the scattered, disabled crowd, Wei WuXian walked patiently, talking as he walked, “Huh, what’s wrong? Weren’t you all quite the cultivators when you were talking about me behind my back? Why is it that, now that you’re in front of me, you can do nothing but lie on the ground?”
He walked beside the person whose words were the harshest and ground his foot against the person’s face, laughing, “Talk. Why aren’t you talking anymore? Mr. Hero, just what are you going to do to me?!”
The person’s nasal bones had broken from the force, bleeding and screaming uncontrollably. Many cultivators were watching from on top of the city gate. They wanted to help, but they didn’t dare approach the scene.
One of them shouted from afar, “Wei… Wei Ying! If you’re really that strong, why don’t you go find those sect leaders participating in the pledge conference? What could you prove by picking on us low-level cultivators with no power to fight back?”
Wei WuXian let out another short whistle. The cultivator who shouted felt as a hand suddenly tugged him down. He fell off the city gate, breaking both of his legs, and began to scream.
Amid the wails, Wei WuXian’s expression didn’t change at all, “Low-level cultivators? Do I have to tolerate you, just because you’re low-level cultivators? If you dared say those things, you had to dare shoulder the consequences. If you knew that you were insignificant pieces of scum as filthy as ants, how come you didn’t know to think before you speak?!”
Everyone was as pale as ash, making not a single noise. A moment later, when Wei WuXian didn’t hear any more chatter, he continued in satisfaction, “Yes, that’s the spirit.”
Just as he finished, he kicked again, knocking out half a mouthful of teeth from the person who was spreading the made-up tales the most!
Blood splattered all over the ground. Everyone shuddered as they watched, while the person had already passed out from the pain. Wei WuXian looked down and pressed his foot against the ground, leaving behind a few bloody footsteps.
He thought for a while before speaking up again, his voice emotionless, “But, you scums were right about one thing. There’s not really much meaning in wasting time with you people. You wanted me to find those bigger sects? Fine. I’ll be on my way right now, to clear up a few things with them.”
He looked up and saw the large announcement stuck over the city gate. The crowd had been chatting around this announcement.
At the top of the announcement was the words ‘Pledge Conference’. The contents told that the four leading sects—the LanlingJin Sect, the QingheNie Sect, the YunmengJiang Sect, and the GusuLan Sect—were going to scatter the ashes of the Wen Sect’s remnants atop the ruins of the QishanWen Sect’s abandoned residence—the Nightless City. At the same time, they’d take the pledge that they’d be forever opposing the YiLing Patriarch, who had occupied Burial Mound.
A pledge conference at the Nightless City?
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My soul is screaming because if this
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mood. my entire being screamed as I read this
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There’re so many kinds of love in this story. First and foremost is of course the devotion Lan WangJi had and will forever have for Wei WuXian. Then there is love between other couples, sworn brotherly love, sibling love, love between a parent and child, love for a mentor or leader and the list just goes on and on. We’ve been reading about all the wonderful, shining examples of these kinds of love and I’m in just so much awe of the author of this story. Wen Qing and Wen Ning, how sad yet how dignified and loyal they are!… Read more »
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WuXian :'(
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Stan Cohen | Article about Stan Cohen by The Free Dictionary
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Cohen, Stanley,
1922–, American biochemist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Univ. of Michigan, 1948. Cohen did his most important work at Washington Univ. with Rita Levi-MontalciniLevi-Montalcini, Rita
, 1909–2012, Italian-American neurologist, b. Turin, Italy, M.D. Univ. of Turin, 1936. A dual citizen of Italy and the United States, Levi-Montalcini did her most important work with Stanley Cohen at Washington Univ.
..... Click the link for more information. in the 1950s. Studying mouse tumors implanted in chicken embryos, the pair isolated a nerve growth factor, the first of many cell growth factors found in animals; some of these were also first described by Cohen and by Levi-Montalcini. Their discovery of nerve growth factor radically changed the study of cell growth and development. For this discovery Levi-Montalcini and Cohen were awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In 1959 Cohen moved to Vanderbilt Univ., where he became a professor.
Cohen, Stanley
(1922– ) cell biologist; born in New York City. He taught at the Universities of Michigan (1946–48) and Colorado (1948–52) before joining Rita Levi-Montalcini's laboratory at Washington University (St. Louis, Mo.) (1953–59). He discovered the epidermal growth factor from mouse tissue extract, which accelerated the maturation of newborn mice. He continued his studies of this substance at Vanderbilt University (1959–86), determining its amino acid sequence and action on cells and wound healing. In 1986, he and Levi-Montalcini received the Nobel Prize in physiology for their fundamental contributions to cell and organ development.
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Yet according to sociologist Stan Cohen in his book, 'Folk Devils and Moral Panics', the violence was greatly over-exaggerated.
Youth culture over the years
Also in attendance were Barbara Olendzki, RD, MPH, from the University of Massachusetts Medical Center who presented the first paper cited below, and Stan Cohen, MD, who presented the paper on capsule endoscopy and SCD.
The specific carbohydrate diet: transforming primary care for inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
And so, when Stan Cohen was recently awarded an honorary doctorate at his old stomping ground, the University of Essex, it was not too surprising to find that his proposer, Ken Plummer, used most of the time outlining Stan's major academic achievements: his early work on Mods and Rockers, which introduced the now ubiquitous and much misused concept of "moral panic"; his Foucauldian exploration of modern systems of social control, which appeared as Visions of Social Control, and his most recent work, States of Denial: Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering, which won the British Academy Book Prize in 2002.
"So it is with Stan Cohen. It is not just through the big books he has published over the years that change has been effected; it is also in the small acts of kindness, and the little refusals to go along with the crowd's inhumanities."
It is a well-expressed sentiment even if the phrase "little refusals" hardly does sufficient justice to the times, particularly during his long stay in Israel, when Stan Cohen risked ostracism from even his most liberal colleagues and friends because of his big refusal to go along with what he saw as their fatally compromised vision.
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'When I was inside for the train robbery I met the academic Stan Cohen and Lawrie Taylor of the BBC and for the first time in my life I was shown a lot of kindness, which hitherto I hadn't found.
Thieves board the gravy train; It's 40 years since the ultimate scam saw 15 robbers make off with more than pounds 2.5 million. But they paid the price, writes Emma Pomfret
By transferring the DNA from one species to another, Herb Boyer and Stan Cohen became the first genetic engineers.
Clones encounter; Identical twins may look the same, but they differ in many ways, according to a new BBC investigation, reports PAUL ENGLISH
I do no more than list some of the best known 'moral panic' studies: Stan Cohen, Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers (London, 1972); Erich Goode and Nachman Ben-Yehuda, Moral Panics: The Social Construction of Deviance (Oxford, 1994).
Anxiety and social explanation: some anxieties about anxiety
The work of Michel Foucault, Stan Cohen, or an interpreter like David Garland, is not to be found in Professor Glaser's voluminous bibliography.
Profitable Penalties: How to Cut Both Crime Rates and Costs
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Energy Stew - ReGina Concotelli - 01.27.17
The Human Design System's intriguing predictions for 2017
Each year, the Human Design System provides a chart of the year ahead. It usually gets activated later in January (this year the 21st) closer to the Chinese New Year.
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Non-derogatory word for shill?
There are situations where it would be helpful to have people buzzing around enthusiastically. Examples would be an open house or a book signing. What would you call people hired to attend such events? Shill seems too harsh.
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Extras? – Lawrence Jan 15 '18 at 11:57
Shill, plant, astroturfing... all the words that come to mind are negative (probably because the act deliberately creates a false impression, and people don’t like to be made fools of). – Dan Bron Jan 15 '18 at 11:58
A claque used to be hired to applaud opera or theatrical performances — or to boo a rival soprano — but the word now is used to suggest a crowd of sycophants. – KarlG Jan 15 '18 at 12:53
In duck hunting, they're called decoys. – Al Maki Jan 15 '18 at 16:21
I've heard the term "party pumpers" used for the paid dancers who try to get more people out on the dance floor, for example. Slang/joke term is "fluffers" but that's derogatory. – Rocky Jan 15 '18 at 17:18
In psychological experiments, where you have actual subjects and people who the subject is meant to think are also subjects but are secretly working with the experimenters to influence them, I have seen the word "confederate" used.
https://www.alleydog.com/glossary/definition.php?term=Confederate
There are plenty of words that could generally be a positive version of "shill" (like "advocate"), but in the specific context you suggest I'm not sure there are that many, since it's a scenario of deliberate deception. Which is usually considered a bad thing.
OosakaOosaka
It's possible some parts of American culture would find this word to be more negative than "shill", but other than that it's a good word. – Todd Wilcox Jan 16 '18 at 17:37
Rent-a-crowd [plural rent-a-crowds]
A group of people who are paid to attend an event to increase attendance figures, rather than attending of their own volition.
The term is derived from a fictional company, Rentacrowd Ltd., mentioned in the Peter Simple (Michael Wharton) columns in the UK Daily Telegraph newspaper.
rent-a-crowd (also rent-a-mob) NOUN British informal
A group of people regarded as regularly or instantly available for an expedient purpose, especially a public demonstration.
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While rent-a-mob is obviously pejorative, rent-a-crowd can come across as being more humorous.
Edwin AshworthEdwin Ashworth
I've never heard this in AmEng, but given the existence of "rent-a-cop" it would be readily understood, I think. Of course, rent-a-cop is a bit demeaning as well (eg they're not real cops, just mall cops)... – Roddy of the Frozen Peas Jan 15 '18 at 16:40
If you don't mind using two words, "Paid Attendee" is probably the clearest neutral way to convey the concept.
LaibOlmaiLaibOlmai
Consider "compensated" instead of paid. – jiggunjer Jan 16 '18 at 6:19
Claqueur.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/claqueur
Originally a person who was hired to applaud at a theatre performance. More generally, a person hired to create "enthusiastic buzz" at an event, as you put it.
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Welcome to EL&U. Thank you for including a reference in your answer. – Rupert Morrish Jan 16 '18 at 1:37
Collectively they are a claque. – Anton Sherwood Jan 16 '18 at 3:49
Promoter, one who is paid to promote an event or company.
Welcome to EL&U. Thanks for your answer. Please consider adding references to support the word you're suggesting. – Rupert Morrish Jan 15 '18 at 19:24
Promoting an event and being paid to attend an event are two completely different things. – JeffC Jan 16 '18 at 17:50
The first word that springs to mind is 'compatriots'.
In science, any person who aids in the endeavor or experiment is called a compatriot.
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You have a link to back up your claim about this? I've never heard this in terms of science (or any field for that matter). Compatriot is Somebody from one's own country. wiktionary – JeffC Jan 15 '18 at 16:28
@JeffC it can also just mean "friend or colleague." – stannius Jan 16 '18 at 17:44
@stannius According to what source? Any word can be misused but I linked the definition above and it doesn't mean friend or colleague. – JeffC Jan 16 '18 at 17:48
@JeffC merriam-webster.com/dictionary/compatriot – stannius Jan 16 '18 at 18:26
Most of the following related terms are similarly pejorative, except the last: stooges stool pigeons flunkeys flim-flams dupes snitches chisellers grifters welchers warm-ups (as in a warm-up act before the main act, often used before live comedy shows on TV to get the audience in the mood)
Alternatively, you could make up your own term based on a related concept, but the manipulative nature of the objective means it will be difficult to avoid the implication of deception. Some examples (gratis): Fob-mob foxers stingers wringers diddlers
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In some political activitiy (or commercial ?) you can hire a truckload of slogan shouters for a certain party in the morning and and the same gang shouts out orchestrated support for the opponent party in the evening. Only the flag on the truck needs to be changed. I dont know the right word. Maybe vshout4u? – Narasimham Jan 16 '18 at 12:41
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By Rob Baker on April 17, 2018
1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Cars history london market shopping Soho West End
Pictures and Films of Berwick Street Market in London’s Soho
Where Noel Coward bought smart socks and Gertrude Lawrence smart stockings at bargain prices in their early days...
Berwick Street Market in Soho in June 1966. (Richard Friedman)
In 1937 the Manchester Guardian complained that London’s open-air markets, including Berwick Street market, had lost some of their character and picturesqueness ever since the oil flares were replaced by electric lights over the stalls. They went on to describe Berwick Street as where Noel Coward bought smart socks and Gertrude Lawrence smart stockings at bargain prices in their early days. Corsets, face cream, glassware, and cheap antiques are also there and in the overflow markets in the little neighbouring alleys.
Berwick Street itself was built probably just short of 1700 and probably named after the Duke of Berwick, an illegitimate son of James II. The market began at some point in the 18th century when shop keepers started to display their wares on the pavement but it wasn’t officially recognised until 1892. Berwick Street market is still running today but perhaps not as thriving as it once was with much re-development going on around the area.
Mid-70s – photo by Jimmy James
1979, by MC Morgan
circa 1930: Berwick street market in Soho, London, with stalls selling fruit and vegetables and fur coats and stoles.
1970, actually Rupert Street which in a continuation of the market past Walker’s Court which can be seen in the background.
1978, Ed Sijmons
Berwick St/Broadwick Street, April 1960 – CW Cushman
1955 Cas Oorthuys
1967 JR James Archive
by Ida Kar, 1960-1961
Ian Hendry and Patrick Macnee , 5th December 1960
1976, photo by Klaus Hiltscher
A view of Berwick Street, London, on Sept. 8, 1941, near to Berwick Market.
Greengrocers produce a showcase for suggestive films in Berwick Street market area of Soho 1977
Berwick Street market c.1967
Berwick Street market 1973
With One Elbow Resting On A Hand-trolly Noel Coward Chats With Michael Wilding In Soho’s Berwick Market
The famous Berwick Market in Soho, London, on Nov. 19, 1928, which will be closed shortly for the construction of two garages.
“Scotland for the Holidays” – Gorgeous Railway Brochures and Posters From the 1930s
Snapshots of Staff at a London Westminster Bank c.1960
Christine Keeler, Georgie Fame and the Flamingo All-Nighter in Wardour Street
‘Adverts of Britain’s Yesteryear’ – The 1950s
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Jeannot Mersch was born on October 1949 in Wiltz, Luxemburg. After secondary school at the Lycée Classique in Diekirch, Luxemburg, he got a diploma as an engineer for sound and video at the Robert Schumann Highschool in Duesseldorf, Germany.
On 5.2 1993 a tragic event changed his and his family lives when he lost his 12 years old daughter on her way to school on the zebra crossing close to the bus stop by a speeding hit and run driver.
He immediately joined Luxemburg’s Road Victim Association AVR in 1993, where he has been president from 1999-2014. Being FEVR delegate for many years he joined their board in 2004 and followed Brigitte Chaudhry as president of FEVR in October 2010 at the AGM in Rome. He was reelected for a second mandate September 2014 in Ljubljana.
In October 2009 he chooses to retire from his professional job to have so more time as a volunteer for road safety and victim advocate.
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Robert Štaba is the initiator, founder, and president of the Safe Journey Institute in Slovenia (Zavod Varna pot). Traffic safety is an important element of his professional work and life.
For many years, he has been working in AMZS (national automobile association) as the Secretary-General. The red thread of his work is interwoven with road safety - his beginnings in the traffic police, as well as the continuation of his professional work as the Secretary of the Council for the road traffic prevention and education of the Republic Slovenia and later working in AMZS (national automobile association).
He is the author of professional contributions and a lecturer at many international and domestic congresses related to safe mobility. We can meet him with teachers in kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, with relatives, in media discussions as well as in expert discussions at the highest world level.
In Slovenia, he was the leader of many European and other international projects, among which is also the EuroRAP program, where he is also a member of the board of directors.
Koen Van Wonterghem is FEVR Treasurer and Managing Director at Parents d'Enfants Victimes de la Route - PEVR.
Yolanda Domenech Moral has a degree in Psychology from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Master in Analytical Psychology and Psychotherapy by the University of Barcelona. She is a part of to the Working Group of Grief and Loss of the Professional Association of Psychology of Catalonia and she is an expert in First Aid Psychology.
She is currently the Director of P(A)T Association (Prevention of Traffic Accidents) a Spanish NGO founded in 1968. Working there since 2004, she is responsible for post-crash response programs, attention to victims and leads the group of bereavements.
Eleni Karidi is a FEVR Board member and President of Ellenic Association for Road Traffic Victims – EFTHITA Rhodes.
Marcel HAEGI was described as a “great person”, an experienced diplomat. He did the work for FEVR with dynamism and ability.
He had established a lot of international contacts, which he used in our fight for justice for road victims. He attended meetings of the United Nations, the European Commission, the World Health Organization, and many others, and was appreciated and respected by everyone.
“He was for me inspiring and an ideal who influenced me so much also for later activities and the decision to be a candidate for president in 2010. In respect for Marcel I also joined the board in 2004 to help that all his work should be continued.” Jeannot MERSCH
When Brigitte’s only son, Mansoor aged 26, was horrifically killed in October 1990 by a van driver who had ploughed into him whilst driving through a junction with lights already red for a long time, she was shocked at the shabby treatment of his innocent death. Brigitte quickly learnt that the response to a road death, however blameless the victim and reckless the offender, was worlds apart from the response to a violent death caused by someone in other circumstances. She protested through legal actions in the High Court – eventually three judicial reviews over five years. She found other people who were bereaved through letters in newspapers and approaches to Compassionate Friends, and she documented their experiences.
These experiences made it clear that a grave injustice was being perpetrated and suffered. Together with some of the people she met, Brigitte decided that to challenge the casual attitude to road casualties and offer support to the victims, a dedicated organisation needed to be set up, since none existed and no-one spoke up for road victims. RoadPeace's first meeting was held around Brigitte's dining table in 1991 and the organisation began in 1992 with the first-ever helpline for road crash victims, which she manned at the same time as developing the organisation.
As National Secretary, Brigitte has been involved with the day-to-day work of RoadPeace for 16 years, stepping down at the 7th conference in April 2008, which celebrated RoadPeace’s 15 years of pioneering work since its public launch in 1993. Brigitte’s engagement with RoadPeace continues in her role as president, but she is also working at international level for road crash victims: from 2004 until 2010 she has been President of FEVR (European Federation of Road Traffic Victims) and in collaboration with the World Health Organisation she continues to develop and promote the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.
While finishing her studies in Ljubljana, Slovenia she works as a student in the Slovenian member association Zavod Varna pot (Safe Journey Institute).
Kaja lost her father in 2007 at age 12 in a road crash and is also a member of the team of FEVR Young, a group of young road victim ambassador.
Banita has a master degree in Law and worked with the Greens/EFA in the European Parliament.
She was Secretary General at Bulgarian Association for injured in road crashes.
Banita is passionate about advocating road safety, civic participation and rule of law.
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Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP Announces the Filing of a Securities Class Action on Behalf of Trulieve Cannabis Corp. Investors
Business Wire January 3, 2020
Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP ("GPM"), a national investors rights law firm, announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of investors that purchased Trulieve Cannabis Corp. ("Trulieve" or the "Company") (OTC: TCNNF) securities between September 25, 2018 and December 17, 2019, inclusive (the "Class Period"). Trulieve investors have until February 28, 2020 to file a lead plaintiff motion.
If you are a shareholder who suffered a loss, click here to participate.
If you wish to learn more about this action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to these matters, please contact Charles Linehan, Esquire, at 310-201-9150, Toll-Free at 888-773-9224, or by email to shareholders@glancylaw.com, or visit our website at www.glancylaw.com.
On December 17, 2019, Grizzly Research published a report alleging that most of the Company’s cultivation space comes from "hoop houses that produce low quality output," that there were extensive ties between Trulieve and ongoing FBI investigations into corruption, that the Company’s initial license approval "stinks of corruption," and that the Company engaged in undisclosed related party transactions.
On this news, Trulieve’s share price fell $1.51, or more than 12%, to close at $10.40 per share on December 17, 2019, thereby injuring investors.
The complaint filed in this class action alleges that throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and/or misleading statements, as well as failed to disclose material adverse facts about the Company’s business, operations, and prospects. Specifically, Defendants failed to disclose to investors: (1) that Trulieve overstated its mark-up on its biological assets; (2) that Trulieve's reported gross profit was inflated; (3) that Trulieve engaged in an undisclosed related party real estate sale with Defendant Rivers' husband; and (4) that as a result, defendants' statements about its business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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If you purchased Trulieve securities during the Class Period, you may move the Court no later than February 28, 2020 to ask the Court to appoint you as lead plaintiff. To be a member of the Class you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the Class. If you wish to learn more about this action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to these matters, please contact Charles Linehan, Esquire, of GPM, 1925 Century Park East, Suite 2100, Los Angeles California 90067 at 310-201-9150, Toll-Free at 888-773-9224, by email to shareholders@glancylaw.com, or visit our website at www.glancylaw.com. If you inquire by email please include your mailing address, telephone number and number of shares purchased.
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2015 #footballpeople photo competition (37 photos)
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Football People - Fare action weeks 2015 (8 photos)
The Football People action weeks are Europe's largest campaign against discrimination in football. During the period supporters, community groups, footballers, clubs, leagues and FAs take a united stand against to spread the message of inclusion and diversity in the game. Join the Action Weeks in 2015, 08-22 October.
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Football People - Fare Action Weeks 2014 (85 photos)
The Football People action weeks unites supporters, clubs, ethnic minorities and communities affected by other forms of discrimination across the continent in a concerted effort to make discrimination a thing of the past. The Football People weeks bring people together. Get involved. The Football People weeks challenge discrimination and celebrate the contribution we all make to football, wherever we live, whatever our connection to the game, whatever our background. The Football People Action Weeks aim to: • Increase public awareness of the discrimination in football • Create a united front by bringing together everyone in football • Develop ideas and new practices that challenge exclusion A key part of the activities are the events that further social inclusion by bringing people of different communities together through sport. What started as a minor campaign in nine countries in 2001 has now become the largest series of anti-discrimination activities in sport. In 2013, over 1,500 activities took place in 46 countries with some of Europe’s top stars lending support to the campaign. Over 40 UEFA Europa League and Champions League matches took part in the campaign, reaching fans directly at the matches and millions more through television. In 2013, 18 professional leagues participated in the Action Weeks and 17 European FA’s actively supported the initiative. Fare offers financial support for different types of activities. We are able to provide Small grants for up to 250 groups and offer larger Events grants to support nationwide activities. Every year groups including fan groups, ethnic minority organisations, football clubs and a variety of NGOs from all over Europe organise activities and launch initiatives to challenge racism and discrimination. Fare’s long-term focus on the situation in Eastern and Central Europe has led to an increasing involvement of groups in the Balkans, the former Soviet republics and the new EU members such as Croatia. Find out which activities took place in 2013 here. The Football People weeks will take place 9 – 23 October 2014.
Football People - Fare Action Weeks 2013 (128 photos)
The Action Weeks bring people together. Get involved. The idea behind the Action Weeks is that a wide range of initiatives and activities that address local problems take place within clubs or communities and across the continent to present a unified stand against discrimination in the game. The Action Weeks aim to: • Increase public awareness of the discrimination in football • Create a united front by bringing together everyone in football • Develop ideas and new practices that challenge exclusion A key part of the activities are the events that further social inclusion by bringing people of different communities together through sport. What started as a minor campaign in nine countries in 2001 has now become the largest series of anti-discrimination activities in sport. In 2012, over 500 activities took place in 44 countries with some of Europe’s top stars lending support to the campaign. Over 40 UEFA Europa League and Champions League matches took part in the campaign, reaching fans directly at the matches and millions more through television. In 2012, 13 professional leagues participated in the Action Weeks and eight European FA’s actively supported the initiative. Fare offers financial support for different types of activities. We are able to provide Small-scale support for up to 250 groups and this year, for the first time, Fare will offer larger Event grants to support nationwide activities. Every year groups including fan clubs, ethnic minority organisations, football clubs and a variety of NGOs from all over Europe submit creative proposals. With the backing of UEFA, Fare has offered Small grants to grassroots initiatives and provides campaign materials for free. Many more fan groups are organising themselves to challenge racism and discrimination. Fare’s long-term focus on the situation in Eastern and Central Europe has led to an increasing numbers of applications in the Balkans, the former Soviet republics and the new EU members such as Poland, Hungary or Romania. Get involved – join the FARE Action Weeks.
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The anti-racist world cup is a football festival in Italy that brings together thousands of players, ethnic minorities, refugees and anti-racist activists in a unified stand against discrimination.
Football People FARE Action Weeks 2012 (736 photos)
The FARE Action Weeks unites supporters, clubs, ethnic minorities and communities affected by other forms of discrimination across the continent in a concerted effort to make discrimination a thing of the past. The idea behind the Action Weeks is that a wide range of initiatives and activities that address local problems within their club or community and join groups across the continent to present a unified stand against discrimination in the game. The Action Weeks aim to: • Increase public awareness of the discrimination in football • Create a united front by bringing together everyone in football • Develop ideas and new practices that challenge exclusion A key part of the activities are the events that further social inclusion by bringing people of different communities together through sport. What started as a minor campaign in nine countries in 2001 has now become the largest series of anti-discrimination activities in sport. In 2011 we expect to see activities take place in 41 countries with some of Europe‘s top stars lending support to the campaign.
FARE Action Weeks 2011 - Football People (426 photos)
The FARE Action Week unites supporters, clubs and those targeted by racism across the continent in a concerted effort to make discrimination a thing of the past. The Action Week of the Football Against Racism in Europe network aims to boost public awareness of the problems of racism and exclusion and to create a united front in dealing with this malign influence on Europe‘s number one sport. The idea behind the FARE Action Week is that a wide range of initiatives and activities address local problems within their club or community, while also joining groups across the continent to present a unified stand against racism in the game.
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An introduction to Australia’s RDCs
Knowledge level: Introductory
In Australia, there are 15 Research & Development Corporations
LEARN ABOUT THEM HERE!
An introduction to the RDCs
There are 15 Rural RDCs that work across the industry, which work on a joint model of government and industry funding. The RDCs commission research on behalf of primary producers, some processors and the Government.
“Most of the current RDCs derive the bulk of their funding from statutory or voluntary levies on primary producers, and in some cases processors, and matching funding contributions from the Australian Government — generally up to a ceiling of 0.5 per cent of an industry’s gross value of production.” (Productivity Commission, 2011)
There are a mixed of statutory bodies and industry-owned companies:
Cotton Research and Development Corporation
Grains Research and Development Corporation
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
AgriFutures Australia (previously trading as Rural Industries Research & Development Corporation)
Sugar Research and Development Corporation (now Sugar Research Australia and is industry-owned)
Australian Grape and Wine Authority (now Wine Australia)
Industry-owned
Forest and Wood Products Australia
Dairy Australia Limited
Australian Wool Innovation Limited
Meat and Livestock Australia
Australian Egg Corporation Limited
Horticulture Innovation Australia
Australian Pork Limited
Australian Meat Processor Corporation
Livecorp Limited
“A key difference is between the statutory corporations and the IOCs. The former are solely responsible for funding R&D and related extension activity, and operate under the Primary Industries and Energy Research and Development Act 1989 (the PIERD Act). In contrast, the IOCs also have marketing and, in some cases, industry representation functions. Moreover, they are subject to the Corporations Act 2001, with the requirements of the PIERD Act replicated through ‘Statutory Funding Agreements’. (Productivity Commission, 2011)
COTTON RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (CRDC)
History: Statutory authority established by the Australian Government in 1990. The CRDC is based in Narrabri, NSW.
Key responsibilities: support the performance of the cotton industry by investing in RD&E.
Funding: Partnership of co-investment between Australian cotton growers and the Australian Government. The cotton industry R&D levy (excluding GST) is $2.25 per 227 kilogram bale of cotton. Cotton levy revenue is collected at the point of ginning, that is, when cotton has been picked and delivered to cotton gins. The Australian Government contributes matching funds up to a limit of 0.5 per cent of industry Gross Value of Production (Annual Report, 2014)
Why would you access this site?: Access tools available to growers, myBMP, CottonInfo and CottASSIST.
GRAINS RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (GRDC)
History: Statutory corporation founded in 1990.
Key responsibilities: “Drive the discovery, development and delivery of world-class innovation to enhance the productivity, profitability and sustainability of Australian grain growers and benefit the industry and the wider community” (GRDC website).
Funding: “GRDC is principally funded by a grower levy and Australian Government contributions. The levy is based on the net farm gate value of the annual production of 25 crops. The Australian Government’s contribution is determined annually, based on the three-year rolling average of the gross value of production of the 25 leviable crops (GRDC website).
Why would you access this site?: Access the wide range of GRDC-funded R&D projects through their search tool.
FISHERIES RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (FRDC)
History: Based in Canberra, the FRDC was formed as a statutory corporation on 2nd July 1991.
Key responsibilities: “Plan and invest in fisheries research, development and extension (RD&E) activities in Australia. This includes providing leadership and coordination of the monitoring, evaluating and reporting on RD&E activities, facilitating dissemination, extension and commercialisation” (FRDC website).
Membership: Free to over 47,500 livestock levy-paying producers of cattle, sheepmeat and/or goats.
Funding: Australian Government and contributions revenue from the Commonwealth and state-based fisheries.
Why would you access this site?: Browse the FRDC final research reports and learn about more about our aquatic environment.
AGRIFUTURES AUSTRALIA (Previously RURAL INDUSTRIES RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (RIRDC))
History: Statutory authority established in 1989, now based in Wagga Wagga, NSW.
Key responsibilities: “AgriFutures Australia is a new beginning for the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC). We are an organisation that proudly focuses on the future of Australian agriculture. We live and work in the regions and represent the interests and aspirations of farmers and rural communities.” (AgriFutures website) Their goals, focused on rural Australia, are to promote leadership and innovation, increase profit and productivity and ensure sector sustainability.
Funding: Australian Government and a number of levy funded industries (including rice, chicken meat, honeybee and small animal industries), which are managed as stand alone programs.
Why would you access this site?: Access what can I farm in my region? Farm Diversity information and a wealth of research publications.
SUGAR RESEARCH AUSTRALIA (SRA)
History: In 2011, the Sugar Research and Development Corporation (SRDC) and BSES Limited will be wound-up and their assets and R&D functions, along with the research coordination activities of Sugar Research Limited, transferred to the industry owned company, Sugar Research Australia Limited (SRA)(Commonwealth of Australia Explanatory Memoranda). The SRA is now an industry-owned company.
Key responsibilities: “To ensure the best possible outcomes at an industry, regional and individual level. We’ll be doing this by conducting and funding research as well as by providing our members with resources, tools and information that will assist in each step of the sugarcane growing and milling process” (SRA website).
Funding: Based on a statutory levy paid by grower and milling businesses, the Commonwealth government matching funds and grants from the Queensland Government and other bodies. The statutory levy, which came into force on 1 July 2013, is 70 cents per tonne of cane, with both grower and milling businesses each contributing 35 cents per tonne of cane.
Why would you access this site?: Access the SRA e-library and the SRA Trial Tracker to find out about research projects and trials.
AUSTRALIAN GRAPE & WINE AUTHORITY RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT (AGWA) – now
WINE AUSTRALIA
History: Commonwealth statutory authority established under the Australian Grape and Wine Authority Act 2013 that commenced on 1 July 2014. The Australian Grape and Wine Authority (AGWA), trading as Wine Australia, is the single Australian Government statutory service body for the Australian grape and wine community.
Key responsibilities: “Supports a competitive wine sector by investing in research, development and extension (RD&E), growing global demand and protecting the reputation of Australian wine”
Funding: Funded by grape growers and winemakers through levies and user-pays charges, and by the Australian Government, which provides matching funding for RD&E investments. We have four primary sources of funding.
Why would you access this site?: Access WineFacts — “an online resource for the Australian wine community to access global wine sector intelligence” — and reports on their completed projects.
History: The Forest and Wood Products Council was formed in November 2000. The company, FWPA, was declared in 2007 to be the industry services body.
Key responsibilities: “Committed to helping the forest and wood products industry to be collaborative, innovative, sustainable and competitive against other industries and products available in the marketplace” (FWPA website).
Funding: Statutory funding agreement under which it receives industry levies (food processors, forest growers, and Australian importers of forest products) and matching funds from the Australian Government.
Why would you access this site?: Access their resources, processing and market access reports, and industry statistics.
DAIRY AUSTRALIA
History: Dairy Australia was declared as the industry-owned body that invests in marketing, research and development on behalf of the dairy industry on 1 July 2003.
Key responsibilities: Dairy Australia acts “as the ‘investment arm’ of the industry, investing in projects that can’t be done efficiently by individual farmers or companies” (DA website).
Funding: A “combination of levy, government and leveraged funds: $34 million – Dairy Services Levy, paid by farmers based on milk production; $19 million – the Government supports dairy by matching payments for eligible R&D. Dairy Australia also attracts funding at project level from state governments, universities, research organisations and other dairy support organisations: $20-30 million annually.” (DA website).
Why would you access this site?: Where do we start?! Access animal management, pastures and feeding and business/financial resources, as well as a broad range of industry and market information.
AUSTRALIAN WOOL INNOVATION LIMITED (AWI)
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Key responsibilities: invest in research, development, marketing and promotion of wool.
Funding: Not-for-profit company owned by over 29,000 wool levy payers who have registered as AWI shareholders.
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Key responsibilities: market access, growing demand, increasing productivity across supply chain, supporting industry integrity and sustainability.
Funding: A proportion of transaction levies paid on livestock sales by producers. Australian Government matches dollar for dollar MLA spending on R&D.
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History: The AECL commenced operations on 1 February 2003 as a public, non-listed company.
Key responsibilities: “Is an Industry Services Body (ISB) or provider of marketing and Research & Development (R&D) services for the benefit of all stakeholders, principally egg producers.” “AECL is not an industry representative body.” (AECL website)
Funding: Funded predominately through statutory levies, collected under the Egg Industry Service Provision Act 2002, and Australian government funds
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History: Established in 2014 followed an independent review of Horticulture Australia Limited (HAL) in 2014. It is a not-for-profit, grower-owned RDC.
Key responsibilities: “HIA strives to increase the productivity, farm gate profitability and global competitiveness of Australia’s horticulture industries.” (HIA website)
Funding: HIA currently has an interim funding model that sets out two pools of co-investment with Commonwealth funding. The first is industry statutory and voluntary levies and the second is strategic funds.
Why would you access this site?: Access published final reports.
History: Australian Pork Limited (APL) brings together three legacy organisations: the Australian Pork Corporation; the Pig Research and Development Corporation; and the Pork Council of Australia. Following industry consultation, APL was formally registered as a company on 23 May 2000.
Key responsibilities: “Aims to enhance opportunities for the sustainable growth of the Australian pork industry by delivering integrated marketing, innovation and policy services along the pork industry supply chain.” (APL website)
Funding: APL is primarily through statutory pig slaughter levies, with additional research specific funds provided by the Australian Government. The current levies are $1.95 Marketing levy, $1.00 per carcase Research & Development (R&D) levy; and $0.175 National Residue Survey (NRS) (APL website).
Why would you access this site?: Understand the different types of pig farming production, facts and figures relating to the industry, completed research reports, and much more!
History: The Australian Meat Processor Corporation was declared to be the Red Meat Processor Marketing and Research body the Australian Meat and Livestock Industry Act 1997 in 2007.
Key responsibilities: “AMPC’s mandate is to provide research, development and extension (RD&E) services that improve the sustainability and efficiency of the sector.” (AMPC website)
Funding: Red meat slaughter levies on beef and livestock (cattle, bobby calf, sheep, lambs and goats) slaughter are payable by processors for each animal slaughtered at an abattoir for human consumption. (AMPC website)
Why would you access this site?: Access the reports library, and a number of online resources for members (including webinar and yard design)
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Key responsibilities: animal health and welfare, supply chain efficiency, market access, RD&E.
Funding: Statutory levies collected from livestock exporters.
Why would you access this site?: Access research information and results related to exporting livestock.
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Ian David Hickson
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Background The chromosomes in all living organisms are under constant attack from reactive chemical species that can damage the structural integrity of the DNA. All cells, therefore, devote considerable energy to both preventing and repairing DNA structural abnormalities. Despite this, thousands of DNA lesions still arise daily in each human cell. The majority of these lesions pose no threat to cell viability, but their cumulative effect in a long-lived species influences lifespan and the incidence of age-related diseases such as cancer and neurodegeneration.
Our laboratory investigates the biochemical, molecular and cell biological functions of DNA repair factors in eukaryotic cells and how these factors act to maintain chromosome stability. In particular, we focus on those genes that, when defective, give rise to disorders in humans associated with the premature onset of aging and/or age-associated diseases such as cancer.
In recent years, a major focus has been on characterization of BLM, the protein defective in Bloom's syndrome, a disorder associated with an elevated incidence of cancers of all types. The BLM gene encodes a DNA helicase of the RecQ family, which has important roles in DNA replication and repair via the homologous recombination pathway. We combine analysis of the biochemical properties of BLM with both studies in human cells lacking BLM and studies of SGS1, the budding yeast ortholog of BLM.
Following our recent move from the University of Oxford to the Center for Healthy Aging in the ICMM, we have re-aligned many of our studies to focus on the aging process in humans. Fortunately, chromosome maintenance pathways, including those involving RecQ helicases, are known to impact directly on the rate of human aging. This can be seen most strikingly in human disorders associated with accelerated aging, such as Werner's syndrome (WS). In WS, loss of the RecQ helicase encoded by the WRN gene leads to early onset, multi-organ aging.
(i) Biochemical analysis of RecQ helicases We use purified recombinant proteins and defined DNA substrates to investigate the functions of RecQ helicases and their partner proteins in DNA replication and homologous recombination repair. For example, we discovered and re-constituted biochemically a pathway for processing recombination intermediates that requires BLM. This is a process called Holliday junction dissolution.
Model for the role of BLM in the dissolution of double Holliday junctions
ii) Factors required for the regulation of homologous recombination We are using molecular genetics and biochemistry to characterize factors, such as FBH1, that regulate the efficiency of homologous recombination repair.
(iii) Cellular responses to DNA damage We are analyzing the role of selected post-translational modifications of proteins in regulating the cellular response to DNA damage and other stresses occurring during DNA replication.
An example of a late anaphase cell with a long anaphase bridge stained with BLM (red). DNA is in blue.
(iv) Characterization of a novel class of anaphase bridge structure. Through analyzing the localization of BLM, we identified a class of ultra-fine anaphase bridges that link sister chromatids at either centromeres or fragile site loci. This latter class (see photo) have foci for the FANCD2 protein at their termini. FANCD2 is a protein required for the so-called Fanconi anaemia pathway for DNA repair. We are investigating the source of these bridges, and how BLM helps to resolve them. BLM acts alongside a SNF2 family protein called PICH, which we are analyzing biochemically and functionally through the use of PICH-depleted human cells and chicken DT-40 cell knock-out mutants. We are also investigating how phosphorylation of BLM and PICH in mitosis regulates their function.
(v) Use of yeast to study chromosome maintenance pathways Because the pathways we analyze are highly conserved, we can use budding yeast as a model organism to conduct detailed genetic characterization of the BLM ortholog, Sgs1. These studies also enable the use of techniques, such as 2-dimensional DNA replication gel analysis and genome-wide screens to be conducted. For example, we have created a system for site-specific blockade of DNA replication, and are analyzing proteins recruited to the site of blockade and the mechanism by which the blockade is overcome.
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Drs Guillermo Montoya and Niels Mailand, Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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A novel TPR-BEN domain interaction mediates PICH-BEND3 association
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Recuva Suggestions
Going Open Source
By angros47, November 14, 2009 in Recuva Suggestions
angros47 0
Recuva is a very useful tool; also, as far as I know, it's the only free recovery tool for windows: all competitors offer only crippled trialwares, and it is a nightmere when you have a not working system, and need to download quickly a recovery tool.
My suggestion is: since Recuva is already free, why not releasing source code, too? It will have many advantages, IMHO:
- some users feel that a freeware is less powerful than a commercial software: instead, an open source tool is perceived as a tool for nerds, really powerful.
- an open source Recuva would allow third-party developers to write plugins and extensions: i.e. a plugin to identify and reconstruct a specific file format, or a plugin to work on special devices (like magneto-optical drives)
- an open source program would be easily ported on other platforms (Mac, Linux)
- with a GPL license, all improvements added by third-party developers have to be GPL, too, so Piriform would be able to integrate the best new features in the official version
- An open source Recuva would be listed on all sites promotin free software (and it would be easier to find, since it would be the only easy-to-use recovery tool in its category): that would bring more users to Piriform.
- The availability of source code would help many programmers to understand better how file systems and drives work, and that would help all software development
In that way, I think that Recuva could become THE recovery tool, and overcome all competitors.
All very good points and I always prefer open source software myself. That and if it were to go that route it could possibly get funding from companies that financially support OSS. However in the end it's all up to Piriform.
Aethec 0
Location:Lausanne, Switzerland
Only problem : backspaceware.
http://blog.getpaint.net/2007/12/04/freewa...eware%E2%80%9D/
I understand, this is the most common objecton against open source. Anyway:
- most, if not all, open source licenses state that you have to keep intact the credits: backspaceware is illegal, and Piriform could sue who does it
- If the "thief" leaves the program open sourced, even without credits, for Piriform would be easy to recognize the code anyway, and sue him; if the "thief" closes the program and try to sell it, he won't be able to compete with the original, that has the same features, but is free.
- actually, backspaceware can be done even witho no source codes, by an hex editor or a program like "resource hacker"
- who would be really interested in doing backspaceware? It's not like cracking a trialware, to unlock crippled features. You can already download the full-working program for free, you can use it, you can redistribute it ... what advantage would you gain by removing the credits? Only a lamer could try to steal it, and if he is such a lamer won't go anywhere.
There are people doing backspaceware because they want other people to think they did the program, and then have credit for it.
As I've said, it can be done even without source code (maybe it's even easier than recompile the program), so where is the problem?
It's waay easier to do backspaceware if you have the source code (because you need to change all names and images)
Ok: let's say that someone has done backspaceware, and released an "unofficial" version, with fake credits; what could happen? Either:
-he won't be able to widely spread the software: he gives it to a few people, and no more; so, he won't harm anyone, and soon he will be forgotten.
-he succeeds, and release a program similar to Recuva: soon, someone will notice it, and will tell to Piriform: since the compiled code is nearly identical, Piriform could sue the thief (that will have to pay). The thief, maybe, will try to say that he wrote the program (he has the source code), but Piriform will be able to prove that he lies, because only Piriform has ALL the old versions, the unreleased alpha codes, the discarded pieces....
Yes. But I don't think Piriform has lots of money to pay lawyers.
This is not a real problem of open source, imho; even if a lamer changes only the installer of the current program, and starts selling it claiming that it's his work (even if in the executable code there are still references to Piriform), to sue him a lawyer would be needed.
I understand your doubts, but I think that a closed source wouldn't be a big defense; maybe it could slow down backspaceware, but nothing more; think about shareware/trialware programs: they are closed, and cracking them is harder than simply changing credits; anyway, most of them have been cracked few weeks after the release. Instead, most of the open source projects do not suffer of backspaceware, even if it's easier to do than cracking a shareware.
mr don 0
The real issue here are mainly these, from what I can see.
Going open source sounds nice, but here are some worries:
- Donations may be more limited. Although free, isn't it nice to donate to people who spend time fixing things?
- There may be less control over what goes on in the programs they produce.
- Global developers may contribute quality coding, but it may increase time to review these codes for possible malware style behavior before approval.
It is definitely interesting, & it would be so neat to see where an "open source" clone could go with this, if they were granted permission. It would be really interesting to see who had the superior product in the end, Piriform, or Open Source developers.
marmite 0
Relax, it's only ones and zeros!
Open source doesn't have to mean distributed development. But it does give visibility to what's there and as angros47 said originally it does allow people to develop add-ons and extensions.
- Donations may be more limited.
I don't see why.
Not if the development of the core product is kept to the current team.
Here are two very good examples of open source products: TrueCrypt file encryption and Free Download Manager.
Lot of very good programs are Open Source and gone so far that any backshit would not even survive 2 days!
Must i quote them? Gimp, MPC - HC, FileZilla, FFDshow, Mumble, Open Office... etc..
Piriform is very famous with CCleaner, and going open source is a good way to be even more known!
Recuva is great, but recuva is not complete.
Going open source would increase the amount of work done every day for it, and would speed up his growing.
Going open source would increase the amount of donations for it, as people who like freewares, LOVE opensource AND free softwares.
I prefer donate for "la cause" than for a private group that may switch to selling products (a lot already done this)!
If you are always looking darkness, you'll never see the light behind.
http://sourceforge.net <<< Here is the light!
fireryone 0
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(another post resurrection, a few of these recently)
Open Source is a nice idea and +1 to every company that does, but I don't see piriform doing this.
Piriform is currently known to have a collection of comparably safe utilities, they will want to keep this view an not let unsafe addons or mods mar this view.
I'm not against Recuva or the other programs going Open Source but understand why they may want to keep a tight hold on their hard work and programming.
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Discussion in 'Off-Topic' started by Orange Seeds, Jun 29, 2010.
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Orange Seeds said: ↑
How are those two statements compatible?
I think you'll find many statements by the anti-gun group don't make sense once you look at them.
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Colonel, Jul 2, 2010
Colonel said: ↑
Considering that private individuals owning a gun is a Constitutional right repeatedly upheld by the courts and supported by a large majority of Americans, would you agree to firearms training being available to all high school students as an elective/required class? How else will the general population receive the training to own and use something they are Constitutionally allowed to?
Supreme Court decision in DC v Heller; "The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.."
There is an alarming history between countries that restrict gun ownership to police, federal officers, and the military and genocide. Ottoman Armenian massacre, Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Khmer Rouge, Rwanda, Darfur, etc. Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
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Ziggy Stardust said: ↑
How woudl a store that sells guns know that the person buying the gun hasn't committed a felony?
Would you agree that they have some sort of document which says: "This guy hasn't done anything that would prevent him from buying guns"?
Technically we already have a system that FFL dealers use called NICS but despite what American gun control advocates say it doesn't do a single thing to keep felons or criminals from obtaining guns. It just means they can't buy them from an FFL (or at least FFLs who adhere to the law)
Constitutional issues aside, "Licenses" or "permits" simply won't work in the US and will be a waste of money, time and resources because there is no real way to stop private sales and transfers of the hundreds of millions of guns already in circulation. Anyone who wants a gun but can't pass a background check or whatever will find another source.
Bugfatty300, Jul 3, 2010
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High above the ice
I was merely examining Domination's proposal for argument's sake.
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Traitorfish The Tighnahulish Kid
taper said: ↑
And you are lynching negroes, yes.
Moderator Action: Let's not go there please.
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Traitorfish, Jul 3, 2010
nonconformist Miserable
This is an absolutely ******** argument on so many levels; first, th presence of frearms would not have helped either Nazi Germany (where the widespread ownership of private firearms had a significant impact on installing the Nazi Regime, e.g Freikorps, Spartakists, Sturmabteilung etc.), and not a single person would have resisted anyways.
In fact, the only real opposition in Nazi Germany was the Warsaw Uprising, where the Germans crushed the armed Poles successfully, and ruthlessly.
The installation of the Communist Soviet regime was as a result of non-state weapons being used by mutineers, politicos, civvies, and such.
Rwanda and Darfur have never banned firearms, as they are impractical and rites of passages in those countries, and there is no centralised government to ban them.
The whole concept of this comes from a stupid partisan organisation called Jews for Guns or something who selectively reqrite history mentally.
The deprivation of the civilian population of firearms has never been the reason for dictatorships succeeding; the population is kept in check with patriotism, propaganda, fear, love, and the red-tape system, not a gun to the head.
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nonconformist, Jul 3, 2010
Also, gun ownership was largely legal in oligarchical Britain, and largely illegal in democratic Britain, so it's clearly not a solid correlation.
Oh, and the Nazis liberalised Germany's gun laws, rather than tightening them, replacing the Weimar Republic's 1928 Law on Firearms & Ammunition with their own 1938 Weapons Law, reducing regulation and lowering the legal age of ownership from 20 to 18. The only example of increased restriction was the prevention of ownership, production and sale of firearms by Jews, which I don't recall being proposed by anyone recently.
Also, I imagine having a significant proportion of the male population in armed forces with guns, not all of which are perticularly loyal, as not being effective gun control.
Certainly didn't help the Tsar, that's for sure.
Also, the countries with the most stifling gun laws, the UK (not nearly as strict as people think), Australia and Japan are perfectly democratic.
Disgustipated Deity
I own a glock 17. I'm not entirely sure why I bought it. One reason is because my brother got a gun, so I felt the need to compete in a way.
the gun has a couple utilities.
If I ever need to kill myself, it offers a fairly reliable method. Although not completely reliable. Sometimes the bullet misses critical areas of the brain. If I ever get some nasty immoblizing injury, I may want to do this (assuming I'm still capable)
guns also provide a means of killing intruders. You have to be careful here, if they aren't threatening bodily harm you could go to jail. The problem with this, is it causes hesitation, which gives the criminals the advantage. This is why owning a gun is more dangerous sometimes, as they can use your gun to kill you. You can't freeze up or hesitate, or you're dead.
guns can also kill zombies or other things that may invade your home like in movies.
It's not the best choice, it's Spacer's Choice
"Human behavior is economic behavior. The particulars may vary, but competition for limited resources remains a constant. Need as well as greed have followed us to the stars, and the rewards of wealth still await those wise enough to recognize this deep thrumming of our common pulse."
Disgustipated, Jul 3, 2010
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Disgustipated said: ↑
Zombies are a critical factor in my decision. Hence why I'm going after a bolt-action rifle: maximum utility from each (scarce) round.
Orange Seeds, Jul 3, 2010
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Roma confirm interest in a permanent deal for Chris Smalling
Zachary Oguda
Italian giants AS Roma want to sign Manchester United defender Chris Smalling on a permanent deal.
Smalling moved to Rome over last summer on a loan deal after falling below the pecking order at United and the England defender has impressed in his first months in Italy.
According to Roma’s team manager Morgan De Sanctis while speaking to Sky Italia they will be relying on Smalling stance that he was enjoying himself in Italy.
"It is well known we are trying to find a solution that makes everyone happy. We are in no rush, we want to get this right, and can also rely on the player, who said he is happy at Roma," he said.
United decided to acquire the services of Harry Maguire over the summer; a move that narrowed Smalling’s chances in the first team. Apart from Maguire, United have Victor Lindelof and Axel Tuanzebe fighting for a position at center back.
The 30-year-old has made a total of 14 appearances for Roma in all competitions this season and has been hailed as one of their best business.
Read More: Here’s why De Ligt cannot join Barcelona until 2021
⚽🌎 Transfer round up: Ashley Young joins Inter Milan from Man United, Ross Barkley set to stay at Chelsea
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MechWarrior 3 – Second Opinion
By Dale Weir on September 25, 1999 in Reviews
I've been aware of the MechWarrior series since it's inception. I was sans-PC at the time, but I lived a bit of that world through Chi. I was also a huge fan of giant robots, especially Voltron. Controlling a giant robot and taking on giant monsters was a dream of mine always and I was thrilled to hear that that was essentially what I would be doing in MechWarrior. Sure I was disappointed to learn that there was no blazing-sword nor any lion-head attacks available, but the concept of giant robots was still intact. Alas, what I saw when I actually started playing MechWarrior was anything but what was promised. The graphics were primitive and never played at a reasonable level on anyone's PC. All I was doing was trying to pilot big clunky blocks from point A to point B. I say "trying" because like all mech games following it, MechWarrior's controls were far too complex for me to get any sense of actual control out of playing. It was a total disappointment and I must say, this is one of the games that furnished my hatred of PC games. Looking back on it now, it's ironic that while the first game of the series turned me off from the mech genre, the third in the series has brought me back.
Things have changed since the release of the original MechWarrior. Powerful 3D video cards can be found in most gamers' PC's so graphics appear onscreen just as the original creators of the game envisioned them. Mechs come complete with realistic camouflage "skins" and they maneuver around ultra-realistic environments. Also, PC game controllers have evolved past the simple flightstick we used to have to contend with. Now we have gamepads that come with more than enough buttons to replace the keyboard as the control device of choice. In my opinion, this puts some dents in the genre's reputation for being too cumbersome for the casual gamer to get into.
I figure that that was Zipper Interactive's intention from the beginning. As a sort of running thread, I felt that they never wanted to overwhelm me. Linear by PC standards, MechWarrior 3 delivers a tight, evolving story. I didn't like the opening premise at first, it came off like the old lone-soldier-trapped-behind-enemy-lines-left-to-shoot-his-way-out gimmick. But after playing for a while, I too learned that this "plot device" serves a dual purpose. Not only did I learn to better control my mech on my own, but also by the time I ran into (literally, in my case) a lancemate, I was familiar with the mech and the new story elements. Mission briefings are also an example of this philosophy. While they look and sound authentic and are packed with information, it's all delivered in a way that is simple and quite entertaining. If I was ever confused about my objectives, an onscreen objective display showed me what I was supposed to be doing.
Chi brought up the AI in this game and I'd like to just say that it is about time. I have long wanted to see my CPU opponents and CPU controlled allies have the same problems that I did. In the past, battles were always skewed towards the CPU because of built-in cheats. In MechWarrior 3, however, it was normal during a battle to hear my ally shut down his mech because he was overheated, and just as normal for the enemy to do the same thing. It was hilarious watching the enemy mechs try to chase after me or run away on gimpy legs. It's a touch of realism that is greatly appreciated. And I hope this translates onto other games in other genres.
All the great games immerse the player in a digital world from the get-go and let the player play through the game thinking he or she is control. Alas MechWarrior 3 fails here, but that's not a major fault because the playing experience is so engrossing. The battles feel real, the mechs feel real, and the missions feel real. MechWarrior 3 does come out on top of all of them because it was fun to play. I was not concerned with control schemes (thanks to the Gravis Xterminator joypad) and the graphics were top-notched bar none. All of this comes together better than any mech game I've played with the exception of Heavy Gear. Add all this to the Battletech universe, and MechWarrior 3 is certainly the best all-around mech experience on the market. Rating: 9.5 out of 10
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Chinese Hackers Win $382,500 For Hacking KVM On Ubuntu, Edge, Adobe Reader
In 2018, the Chinese government barred Chinese security researchers from participating in hacking contests in foreign countries in a bid to keep the knowledge of disclosing software vulnerabilities in China itself. The decision affected popular hacking contests like Pwn2Own that were mostly dominated by Chinese participants.
As a response to the ban, the Chinese government started organizing TianfuCup, for local security researchers.
On the first day of the ongoing TianfuCup, Chinese security researchers have managed to successfully discover zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Edge (based on EdgeHTML), Google Chrome, Safari, Office365, D-Link DIR-878 Router, Adobe PDF Reader, and quemu-kvm + Ubuntu.
Team 360Vulcan, which won the Pwn2Own in 2016 by hacking Google Chrome within 11 minutes, is leading the TianfuCup 2019.
I’m not at all surprised to see 360Vulcan has an exploit in every category. They are a large team with a lot of skilled people. Also, they always dominate by quantity in pwn contests, they go after everything. (The router bugs don’t pay out enough, I guess, to attract 360) https://t.co/bvn41vIK16
— thaddeus e. grugq (@thegrugq) November 16, 2019
On Day 2, Chinese hackers exposed the vulnerabilities in D-Link DIR-878 router, Adobe PDF Reader, and VMWare Workstation. Team 360Vulcan was expected to exploit iOS in their much-anticipated session, but the team gave up before it happened.
Nonetheless, Team 360Vulcan won the competition bagging prize money of $382,500 for hacking Microsoft Office 365, VMWare Workstation, Microsoft Edge, qemu+Ubuntu, and Adobe PDF Reader.
A major chunk of the prize money won by Team 360Vulcan came from the exploits of VMWare and qemu+Ubuntu that were valued at $200,000 and $80,000, respectively.
Many companies, including Google, sent their representatives to the competition for picking up the exploits’ reports and issue a patch as soon as possible.
Also Read: Top Programming Languages For IoT Development In 2019
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Wall-Less Hall Thrusters Will Take Us to Mars Without Refueling
Aashish Sharma
Short Bytes: French physicists have figured out a way to optimize the hall thrusters to make the journey to Mars with 100 million times less fuel than required conventionally. The scientists have developed a wall-less hall thruster design which could bolster a deep space manned mission.
In the new space age, scientists are giving their best to create engines that would take humans to interplanetary voyages and return back as heroes, cinema style. After the confirmation of the ‘Impossible’ EM Drive Propulsion which can zoom us to Mars in 70 days, physicists now have given another breaking news to the world.
The researchers in France are working on the plasma engine known as “hall thruster” which they claim would take humans to Mars with 100 million times less fuel compared to the current conventional chemical rockets. Hall Thrusters are advanced electric rocket propellers that use a high-energy plasma stream (72,420 km/h) to drive the spacecraft into orbit.
The Hall Thrusters have been in use since 1971 but never been taken into account for a manned mission. The reason being the lifespan of these thrusters, which is just about 10,000 operation hours. The shortest space mission requires more than 50,000 operational hours.
Now, hall thrusters provide very efficient spaceflight, so the physicists at French National Center for Scientific Research had focussed towards increasing the lifespan of these propellers and finally figured out a way – wall-less thrusters.
But, before getting into wall-less hall thrusters let us know the gist of how regular hall thrusters work. The hall thrusters propel a rocket by creating a repulsion effect between the ions in the low-pressure plasma inside high-energy magnetic and electric fields.
The thrusters trap the high-speed electrons (blasted through the hollow cathode) in their strong magnetic field and then inject a small amount of propellant, usually xenon gas into the field. Now in the magnetic field, xenon gets ionized and is repelled outwards by experiencing a positive electric force, thus, creating an ion beam. As the xenon ions come out, they impart a thrust to the electron cloud which is still inside the magnetic field (Newton’s third law). This force by electrons is then transferred to the magnetic circuit of the thruster which then propels the spaceship.
The thruster works great, but the reason for its short lifespan lies in the discharge channel wall which continuously gets bombarded with high energy ions causing the engine to depreciate faster than normal.
The Wall-Less concept of the French scientists removes the root cause of the problem, the discharge channel wall. Lead researcher Julien Vaudolon says,
An effective approach to avoid the interaction between the plasma and the discharge channel wall is to move the ionization and acceleration regions outside the cavity, which is an unconventional design named a Wall-Less Hall Thruster.
After creating the first standard Wall-Less thruster which was a total failure due to its design problems, the researchers have figured out a new optimized Wall-less hall thrusters configuration.
The red anode should be lined up on the wall emitting xenon. Instead, it’s in the magnetic field, allowing electrons to glom onto it, reducing performance, as explained on Gizmodo.
As the new technique evolves, the need for fuel will reduce drastically and space for important cargo or maybe humans would suffice. The new Wall-less hall thrusters could revolutionize the space missions and would make the interplanetary trips more like a subway!!
Source: Optimization of Wall-Less Hall Thruster
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[ January 18, 2020 ] LSU title parade draws massive crowds Collegiate
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Houston drops Texas A&M 4-1
April 16, 2019 admin Collegiate, Sports, Texas A&M 0
By Thomas D. Dick
HOUSTON, Texas – The No. 9 Texas A&M Aggies lost to the Houston Cougars, 4-1, Tuesday evening at Schroeder Park.
Chandler Jozwiak (3-4) was saddled with the loss for the Aggies. He labored through 2.0 innings, yielding three runs, two earned, on four hits and two walks while striking out two. Chris Weber was stellar in 3.0 blank frames, retiring nine of the 10 batters he faced with one hit and five strikeouts. Dustin Saenz worked around a hit in a scoreless sixth inning.
Zach DeLoach paced the A&M offense with a double and a run scored.
Texas A&M dropped to 27-11-1 on the year while Houston improved to 22-15.
B1 | Jared Triolo bounced the first pitch of the inning up the middle for a single and came around to score on Blake Way’s double to right-center. With one out, Way moved to third on a groundout by Tyler Bielamowicz and scored on a single by Derrick Cherry. UH 2, A&M 0.
B2 | Brad Burckel was hit by the first pitch of the inning. Kyle Lovelace singled off the glove of Jozwiak on the mound and Burckel scored when Jozwiak’s ill-advised through to first sailed high. UH 3, A&M 0.
T6 | Zach DeLoach started the inning with a hustle double to the gap in left-center. Brett Brown was robbed of a single as he blasted a ball back off the pitcher, but the carom went to the second baseman, but DeLoach moved to third on the groundout. DeLoach would come around to score when Hunter Watson grounded out to second. UH 3, A&M 1.
B7 | Kyle Lovelace started the inning with a single down the rightfield line and Triolo drew a five-pitch walk. Lovelace moved to third on a nifty 4-6-3 double play turned by the Aggies and scored on a wild pitch. UH 4, A&M 1.
The Aggies head to Columbia for a three-game, Thursday-Saturday series against the South Carolina Gamecocks. Game times are 6 p.m., 6 p.m. and 3 p.m.
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UT-Arlington tops TCU 6-3
No. 10 Texas Tech splits series with UTRGV 19-11
May 1, 2019 admin Collegiate, Sports 0
By Ty Parker LUBBOCK, Texas – No. 10 Texas Tech baseball climbed out of a 9-0 hole behind seven runs in the fourth and nine more in the sixth to earn a split of the midweek […]
Bassey 16 points helps Harvard beat Texas A&M 62-51
November 28, 2019 admin Collegiate, Sports, Texas A&M 0
By FRED GOODALL AP Sports Writer LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Justin Bassey scored 16 points and Harvard made all 22 of its free throws en route to a 62-51 victory over cold-shooting Texas […]
Cornhuskers out-duel Baylor pitchers
March 10, 2019 Mark Lane Collegiate, Sports 0
WACO — The Nebraska Cornhuskers won the pitcher’s duel with the Baylor Bears 2-0 Saturday at Baylor Ballpark to win the three-game series. Bears starting pitcher Paul Dickens threw a career-high five innings while fanning […]
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CI Games unveils brand new Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts gameplay trailer
By Holly Hudspeth
Today at E3, CI Games hosted a world-exclusive debut game-play trailer of their upcoming title Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts on the IGN stage. It showed off brand new features and further innovations on the series’ trademark sniping. CI games is poised to launch the title late 2019 on PC, PS4, and XBOX one.
Here is the latest, straight from CI Games:
As the latest game in the acclaimed tactical shooter series, Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts drops players into the middle of the unforgiving Siberian wilderness, forcing them to contend with their toughest challenges yet – both natural and contractual. In addition to getting a first look at its contract-based mission structure, a wide range of locales and the flexibility with which players can approach mission engagements, the debut gameplay shines a spotlight on the brand new Rivals system.
Put simply, players will never truly be alone as they take on contracts, as they encounter rival contract killers. While players will need to carefully plan out and execute the perfect kill and ex-filtration from a given encounter, they must also contend with the tension of an AI-controlled taking on the same contract in tandem. Whether this involved removing a rival from the equation or being quick enough to beat them to the punch, players will have more variables to consider than ever before, ensuring that no two missions go down the same, all the while ratcheting up the tension.
From its in-depth single-player campaign and range of multiplayer options, to its return-to-form, intense mission-based contracts system, Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts seeks to perfect the feeling of staring down a scope and planning your approach. Get ready to tackle the Siberian wilderness and all the unique environmental obstacles it brings with it, because Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts is taking aim.
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New Senate Bill Includes Jail Time for Executives Who Conceal Data Breaches
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Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) asks a question during the confirmation hearing of Wilbur Ross, picked by President-elect Donald Trump to serve as his commerce secretary, in front of the Senate Commerce Committee on Capitol Hill on January 18, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Getty)
Top Democrats on the Senate Commerce Committee are renewing efforts to pass a law requiring companies to quickly notify consumers in the wake of a data breach, citing recent news that Uber suffered a breach more than a year ago and responded by paying the hackers responsible $100,000 in exchange for their silence.
The bill, known as the Data Security and Breach Notification Act, seeks to implement nationwide breach notification standards and replace the confusing patchwork of state laws currently in place. If signed into law, the bill as is would impose new penalties on anyone convicted of “intentionally and willfully” concealing a data breach, including fines and up to five years imprisonment, or both.
The act is sponsored by Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida, the commerce committee’s ranking Democrat, as well as Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Tammy Baldwin, Democrats of Connecticut and Wisconsin, respectively.
Congress Pressures Uber for New Details On the Data Breach It Kept Secret For Over a Year
Uber is now facing tough questions from Congress over a data breach last year that affected as many
In a statement, Nelson said a nationwide law was necessary to safeguard consumer data and protect it from being stolen from hackers. “Congress can either take action now to pass this long overdue bill or continue to kowtow to special interests who stand in the way of this commonsense proposal. When it comes to doing what’s best for consumers, the choice is clear,” he said.
Blumenthal, who regards Uber’s handling of its data breach, which impacted as many as 57 million consumers, as “yet another example of corporate carelessness in the face of a cyber intrusions,” remarked that for any notification law to have teeth, it must come backed with “stiffer enforcement and stringent penalties.”
Citing the incident at Equifax this year, in which executives waited 41 days to notify the public after learning of a breach, Bray urged Congress to take immediate action. The Equifax breach is said to have affected as many as 145.5 million US consumers. More than 200,000 of those people had their credit card information stolen, the credit-reporting agency previously said.
The bill, a copy of which can be read below, directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to develop new security standards for the purpose of aiding businesses that handle consumers’ personal and financial data. The FTC would also be tasked with providing “incentives” to businesses for the adoption of technology that makes consumer data “unusable or unreadable if stolen during a breach.”
Under the act, companies would be required to create procedures for assessing “reasonably foreseeable” vulnerabilities in their systems, as well as implement a process for destroying sensitive consumer data no longer in use—or else render it “permanently unreadable or indecipherable.”
The Democrats’ bill is but one of a handful to be introduced this year concerning data breaches and specifically the issue of public notification. During a hearing with current and former Equifax and Yahoo executives this year, both Democrats and Republicans were adamant that such protections are needed.
But as for whether Republicans lawmakers will line up behind the Data Security and Breach Notification Act, we’ll have to wait and see.
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B.C. municipal election 2018: Trail results
BC Municipal Election 2018
By Richard Zussman Global News
Posted June 29, 2018 2:00 pm
Updated October 20, 2018 10:49 pm
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Lisa Pasin has been elected mayor in Trail. She won with 1,487 votes, beating out Bryan Deferro and Casey Lemoel, who had 706 votes and 69 votes respectively.
Incumbent councillors Robert Cacchioni, Carole Dobie, Eleanor Gattafoni Robinson and Sandy Santori were acclaimed along with newcomers Ronald Joseph, Paul Butler and Colleen Jones.
Below is the full list of mayoral and councillor candidates for Trail.
Bryan DeFerro
Casey LeMoel
Lisa Pasin
Council:
Robert Cacchioni (incumbent)
Carole Dobie (incumbent)
Eleanor Gattafoni Robinson (incumbent)
Ronald Joseph
Sandy Santori (incumbent)
Referendum questions
Do you assent to the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary disposing of those portions of the sewer service infrastructure that are located within the City of Trail to the City of Trail?
Do you assent to the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary disposing of those portions of the sewer service infrastructure that are located within the City of Rossland and that portion of the sewer service infrastructure located between the boundary of the City of Rossland and the boundary of the Village of Warfield, to the City of Rossland?
COMMENTARY: B.C’s loss at the Supreme Court is a win for Canada
Trail is located along the Columbia River in B.C.’s Kootenay region. It’s about 30 kilometres from Castlegar.
Like so many B.C. communities, Trail sprung up with the discovery of minerals.
Joe Moris and Joe Bourgeois found gold/copper ore on the face of Red Mountain and staked five claims that year — their establishment helped to make Rossland a centre of mining activity, and it also helped to spawn Trail.
Eugene Sayre Topping supplied land to establish a smelter in 1895. As it succeeded, so did Trail, incorporating as a city in 1901.
The smelter would join with three mines to form the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada Limited (CM&S), and Trail prospered with a new school, a bridge across the Columbia River and more construction in its downtown.
CM&S would be depended upon to produce lead and zinc during the First World War, and in the 1920s, it would increase operations, expanding Trail’s prosperity.
It would expand to the east side of the Columbia River in 1922, and the smelter would be depended upon even further during the Second World war — CM&S helped to develop the atomic bomb.
Median total income of couple economic families with children (2015)/B.C. median
$114,432/$111,736
Crime Severity Index (CSI) — 2016
RCMP — municipal/B.C.
88.27(+22.29)/93.63 (-0.71)
RCMP — Trail and Greater District, rural/B.C.
28.18 (-30.37)/93.63 (-0.71)
Violent Crime Severity Index (VCSI) — 2016
64.83 (-+24.82)/74.86 (-9.81)
Richard Cannings (NDP)
Katrine Conroy (BC NDP)
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Political prisoner Torres to give birth soon
Posted by poldet on November 19, 2014
Posted in: Press Release. Tagged: Armed Forces of the Philippines, BJMP, Camp Bagong Diwa, Camp Gen. Guillermo Nakar, Camp Gen. Guillermo Nakar Station Hospital, CIDG, Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, Dr. Jaime Claveria Jr., Dr. Melissa Amosco, Gabriela, Ilayang Iyam, Infanta Regional Trial Court, Jail Warden Jundelina Jagunap, Judge Arnelo Mesa, Maria Miradel Torres, New People’s Army, Philippine General Hospital, Philippine National Police, SOLCOM, Southern Luzon Command, Special Weapons and Tactics, Taguig City Jail. Leave a comment
Press Release | Karapatan.org
Pregnant political prisoner Maria Miradel Torres
Political prisoner Maria Miradel Torres, 26, is expected to deliver her baby today, November 19, 2014. She was brought to the Philippine General Hospital yesterday for a check-up but she was immediately admitted after undergoing medical examination.
Torres, a member of Gabriela in Mauban, Quezon, was four-months pregnant when she was illegally arrested on June 20, 2014 in Lucena by joint elements of the Philippine National Police Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) and Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, and Southern Luzon Command (SoLCOM) of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. She is charged with murder and frustrated murder at the Infanta Regional Trial Court, Quezon province. The alias warrant of arrest used to “capture” Torres was issued by the court only on June 20, 2014, on the day of her arrest.
“Torres should be immediately released for just and humanitarian reasons. Aside from the utterly baseless charges against her, the BS Aquino government is committing further injustice by depriving her and her baby a healthy and nurturing environment in keeping her detained,” said Cristina Palabay, Karapatan Secretary General.
According to Torres, she was not examined by BJMP Doctor Dr. Jaime Claveria Jr. since she was transferred to the Taguig City Jail-Female Dorm on June 25. Despite doctor’s order for complete bed rest due to threatened abortion, Torres was transferred to Taguig City Jail in Camp Bagong Diwa from Camp Gen. Guillermo Nakar Station Hospital at the Solcom headquarters in Lucena City.
At the TCJ-FD, Torres shares the detention cell with three other inmates. One of the inmates reportedly has tuberculosis. Torres was assigned to sleep on the third deck of the bed. BJMP personnel confiscated her medicine and supplements for pregnancy upon admission at the Taguig City Jail.
On November 7, Judge Arnelo Mesa of the Regional Trial Court Branch 65 in Infanta issued a joint order directing Jail Warden Jundelina Jagunap to “bring the person of the accused detainee Maria Miradel Torres to her alleged OB Gyne Dr. Melissa Amosco for her medical check-up and likewise said warden is ordered also to bring the person of the accused to said hospital (PGH) whenever her due date for the delivery of her baby will arrive to be properly provided with appropriate number of jail guards/escorts and to stay at the said hospital for one week including her delivery date and thereafter to immediately return her to her detention facility.”
Said court order however was only received on November 17. Torres has been suffering from cough and fever since November 15.
On November 18, Torres was brought to the PGH along with 10 jail guards. She underwent ultrasound procedure for the first time since her arrest. Torres is expecting a baby boy.
Torres is among the 487 political prisoners in the country to date, 53 of them are ailing and 40 are elderly. More than 200 of them were illegally arrested under the BS Aquino administration.
On the evening of June 20, 2014, elements from the PNP and Solcom forcibly entered the house in Ilayang Ilam, Lucena City, Quezon province where Torres stayed. A policeman said Torres was under arrest for being a member of the New People’s Army (NPA) using the aliases “Alex,” and “Sydney.” Torres insisted to see the warrant of arrest but she was not shown any.
Torres, who was then four-months pregnant, was confined at a hospital in Quezon province from June 11 to 18 due to profuse bleeding. During her stay at the hospital, several men inquired about Torres. A female who introduced herself as “Flor” and who claimed to be the provincial governor’s aide offered assistance. On June 18, Torres was discharged from the hospital and went home to Ilayang Iyam. While traveling home, she and her companion noticed men following them.
While at the TCJ-FD, Torres was brought to Taguig Hospital due to continuous heavy bleeding. She was hospitalized from July 3 to August 11. She was brought back to the hospital for a follow-up check-up twice after her confinement but she did not undergo ultrasound procedure.
“The Aquino administration should release Torres and all political prisoners, especially those who are sick and elderly. The charges against them should be withdrawn or dismissed. The filing of trumped up charges as a policy of the BS Aquino government is an attack against the fundamental right of individuals and peoples to liberty and the people’s exercise of political and civil rights, as it is a desperate tactic to quell the people’s rising discontent against his administration,” Palabay ended. ###
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Monterrey vs. Club America
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Rayados of Monterrey are the reigning champions of Concacaf and celebrated that by traveling to Doha for the Club World Cup in between the Liga MX semifinals and final. There, they were heartbroken to lose to eventual winners Liverpool due to a last second goal in second-half stoppage time. Now they must refocus their energy onto this final against Club America.
So far, they’ve breezed through the playoffs, making quick work of top seeded Santos Laguna and then dispatching Necaxa in the semifinals. Former Tottenham Hotspur striker Vincent Janssen has led the way for Monterrey, scoring three goals in four playoff games. Winning the competition would be a nice prize to make up for the team’s devastating exit in the Club World Cup.
For Club America, its path to the final has been a bit more tumultuous. The team squeaked by Pumas in the quarterfinals and then got extremely lucky against Morelia in the semifinals, advancing via the unorthodox tiebreaker of being the higher seed in a 6 vs. 7 matchup.
America has one big injury doubt heading into the final, as Colombian midfielder Nicolás Benedetti is a huge question mark after suffering an injury in the semifinals. He would be a big loss if he were unavailable for any length of time in this final.
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The Guardian launches US non-profit to support independent journalism
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The Guardian has publicly launched theguardian.org in the US, a nonprofit created to support independent journalism.
Set up by the Scott Trust, which owns Guardian Media Group, theguardian.org will raise funds from individuals and foundations, and has already secured over $1m in grants. It will direct funds raised towards projects covering issues such as climate change, human rights, global development and inequality.
According to The Guardian, in addition to ‘providing grants to support powerful story-telling and independent journalism, the new organization will work to advance freedom of expression and freedom of the press, and explore opportunities for partnerships across academia, think tanks, non-profits, and other organizations.’
Money raised so far includes funding from Skoll Foundation for a solutions-oriented series on climate change in America; support from Humanity United to continue an in-depth look at modern day slavery; and grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation to support journalism on the subject of early childhood development.
The nonprofit is chaired by John Paton, founder and former CEO of Digital First Media and a member of the Guardian Media Group Board of Directors. Paton is joined by two independent members, Asha Curran and Lenny Mendonca. It is run by Rachel White, president of theguardian.org, who is also The Guardian’s global EVP of philanthropic and strategic partnerships.
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“The connection between powerful story-telling and social cause has never been more vital. Across the past six years, philanthropy has played an increasingly significant role in supporting Guardian journalism on issues that critically inform the public–climate change, inequality, women’s rights, and more. The creation of theguardian.org makes it possible for us to forge key strategic partnerships, and engage a wider range of individuals and philanthropic organizations in supporting our global ground-breaking storytelling and reporting.”
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Golowan, Cornish identity and the heritage of mid-Summer festivals
Since we are getting close to the northern hemisphere Midsummer, I thought I would have a look at some aspects of Midsummer Heritage:
The Cornish language word for ‘Midsummer’ is Golowan. This was a time of celebrations and festivals in Cornwall, particularly connected to St John’s Eve (23rd June) and St Peter’s Eve (28th June); corresponding to a period marked by rejoicing, street fairs and festivals, particularly of bonfires, fireworks and processions.
If you follow some internet links, you soon discover that Golowan is a distinctly ‘Cornish’ activity. It is certainly used today to celebrate and re-inforce a sense of Cornish cultural identity. Golowan is a Cornish word; the festival and outdoor performance activities that are associated with it (such as Mazey Day in Penzance), are portrayed as distinctly ‘Cornish’; a day to wave the black and white flags of St Piran; a day to do the Trelawny Shout; steeped in a distinctly Cornish and Celtic heritage.
But just how useful is it to describe this event as ‘Cornish’? Afterall, the calendar dates are those of Christian saints (John and Peter), who have an international standing: While fishing has long been a prominent industry in Cornwall (and one very important to the self-image of many people who describe themselves as ‘Cornish’), St Peter is celebrated by many fishermen across Europe and beyond; while St John’s Eve is also prominently celebrated with bonfires in many countries, with a particular public face in Scandinavia. These are international Christian festivals, not ‘Cornish’ in essential detail.
While these events were not essentially ‘Cornish’, however, it can be argued that, first: the continued to be celebrated for longer in Cornwall than elsewhere, with an (at times, perhaps) intermittent cultural memory of celebratory practice that stretches back many centuries. Secondly, of course, although these festivals are ostensibly ‘Christian’, they could also be marking the vestiges of a pre-Christian midsummer festival, which might not be ‘Cornish’ as such, but would seem to have the sort of ‘Celtic’ roots that is customarily assigned to ‘Cornishness’.
Golowan, therefore, has been revived and celebrated as an item of (Celtic and Cornish) ‘folk tradition’. It is an item of non-elite identity performance, group cohesion and communal heritage. This sounds very positive, and perhaps also points towards a wider tradition of carnivals and fairs – vernacular events that blur the boundaries of official and non-official; participant and audience, and which are celebrated as ‘authentic’, local and inclusive. Within Cornwall, such activities were noted in the 18th century by the local antiquarian, Dr William Borlase, as being of ‘Druid’ origin, hinting at a William Stukeley-style ‘British’ aboriginal Druid being conjoured up. But while for William Stukeley, the ‘British Druid’ represented a fairly elite aboriginal bulwark against continental Catholicism, more recent Druidic narratives have tended to suggest an anti-Establishment Pagan-Celtic folksiness that is very much locally embedded. Basically, there is a strong argument that such activities might genuinely possess quite ancient roots, and the very being of these sorts of activity often seems to (proverbially) stick two fingers up at the Establishment, akin to practices such as ‘rough music’, of masquerade, and a history of folk resistance. This line of thinking, to my mind at least, certainly broadens out the ‘Cornish essentialism’ that is often trotted out in the commentary of these events. Rather than being essentially ‘Cornish’, it rather suggests Cornwall as a place where these once-widely celebrated traditions lived on and survived. But how does this sit with other ‘Cornish’ traditions?
As a spiritual movement that seems to be strongly rooted in Cornwall, the Methodist Church is sometimes referred to as the ‘national church of Cornwall’. The strength of Methodism on Cornwall was certainly recognised in the earlier 20th century Cornish revival movement – as being anti-established Church (of England). But Methodism and non-conformity also has a slightly ‘severe’ image when it comes to interpreting the ancient remains of aboriginal ‘Druids’. This is often recounted in the naming of stone circles and megaliths: as ‘maidens’ (either numbered or ‘merry’) who were turned to stone for dancing (to the tune of ‘piper’ stones) on a Sabbath. More recently, the Cornish agenda seems to have shifted, from identifying with Methodism and Nonconformity, to a stronger association with Earth Mysteries and Pagan spirituality. Some scholars have even invoked the term ‘Cardiac Celts’, for these earth mysteries enthusiasts, many of whom they characterise as middle class metropolitan ‘blow-ins’. Resonant with Stukeley’s Druids, this line of thinking sits very comfortably with the activities of Golowan and Mazey Day – but is an alignment of a fairly exclusive ‘ethnic’ sense of Celtic-Cornishness with a supposedly middle class set of earth mysteries enthusiasts really ‘anti-Establishment? Perhaps it can be said to ‘blur the boundaries’ between a vernacular and spontaneous sense of subversive revelry and a more sober expression of a desire to find a ‘sense of place’.
In some ways, this blurring also has resonance with another distinct practice of ‘Methodist’ tradition in Cornwall – that of parading and street procession. Every Chapel in Cornwall would have been involved in street processions, on auspicious days such as May Day or Chapel anniversaries. In towns such as Penzance or Redruth, the streetscape would be dominated by Methodist parades on certain days – as Chapel groups processed through the streets to converge on a park or field for a ‘tea treat’. Rather than hedonistic revelry, these events were concerned with showing a sober and upright sense of civic pride – but they would have attracted many of the accoutrements of fairs and fetes. In the 19th century, the Methodist Chapel at Morvah, in west Penwith, had an annual parade that ended with a march to the top of the local beacon ‘Watch Croft’. Prayers would be recited and hymns sung, during an event that actually has a striking resemblance to the bonfires and beacon gatherings of Golowan!
Methodist Parade (late 1950s)
Maybe what we can pick out amongst this array of marches, carnivals, gatherings and parades, therefore, is that they all reflect the activities of a largely non-elite population in ‘claiming the street’ in a variety of guises. More recently, through Heritage Lottery and Arts Council funding, there has been a good deal of State support for what can be termed ‘outdoor public arts performance’. Perhaps this state-sanctioned support of such spectacle corresponds to an ‘Establishment’ co-option of an essentially non-elite practice, where the ‘vernacular’ is ‘tamed’? I hope not – but we must therefore ensure that the ‘vernacular’ is never cast as a stable and time honoured practice. Rather than being an ‘essential’ and unchanging practice that never existed, we must invoke a sense of the vernacular as a critical, spontaneous event that is always sensitive to power relations and never exclusive.
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interview with Oblivious Signal
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What´s the name off band? Oblivious Signal - Jason Talley Drums, Nick Orisino guitars, Cristina Feliciano Vocalist, Greg Andrews Bass
Who started the band? Nick and Jason started the band. Jason worked with Nick's dad which informed Nick plays guitar, and they jammed and have been together ever since.
Tell us a brief introduction of who you are? Oblivious Signal is a Female fronted hard rock band from Fort Lauderdale, FL. What was the plan when you started the band? Fullfill the dream of being on MTV at the time. To be more like the artists we listened to and play in front of big crowds and have them rock out to our music.
Who writes the songs? / Who does the music? Jason, Nick and Greg work on the compositions, and then Cristina comes in and works on lyrics and melodies. We then work on minor changes through the composition.
Who has the best humor? Jason aka The Talleywhacker.
Good and bad sides of the band? Good thing is everyone is like a family, you fight but love each other at the end of the day. The bad thing about being in a band is coordinating everyone's schedules and dealing with different personalities.
What you drive for music style? We wanted to do something different that is different that can't be compared too much to other artists or genres. We wanted to create our own niche.
What are the main themes or topics for most of your songs? Life experiences and situations people can relate to. We want to be able to reach out to different lifestyles and different situations in people's lives.
Do you own songs or covers? We are an original project.
Have you released any album or single? We released a self titled demo in 2008, a full album "Into the Night" in 2010 and singles all throughout 2013.
Have you done any music videos? We have our music video for our release "Inflicted shame" and are in the process of filming our second video for our release of the single "Crash"
How old were you when you started with music? We have all done music since we were in our mid teens.
When did you decide to focus on the music? We all got serious about it about 6 years ago with this project Oblivious Signal.
How has your music evolved since you began playing music together? We used to be very metal now we have shifted to a hard rock approach that can be more relatable.
What record do you work with? We are self managed and work under the OS Records label name. Describe your show , visual and musically: You would have to check us out, it's hard to describe. It's just a lot of energy and head banging.
What are your two big favorite songs you done? We all have different opinions of that as a band, but we do like The Nameless from our album "Into the Night" and our new single "Crash".
Have you had any previous bands? We all came from different projects in the past. Jason was in a metal band called Furax, Nick was in a metal band Borderline Pathetic, Greg was in a reggae band and Cristina was in a melodic progressive metal band called Altered Wills. What do you do besides the band and the music? We work, go to the gym, play video games, go to the beach and hang out.
How important are your fans? Without fans there would be no music. We would have no where to play. So our fans are very important to us. What is the funniest thing a fan did for you? Fall of the stage while we were playing.
How old were you at your first concert you saw? We were all different ages but pretty young...maybe mid teens.
How old were you at your first gig? We were all in high school.
Besides your music style you play what do you like the music still enjoy listening to? Nick likes classic rock and metal. Jason and Cristina both have an eclectic taste, and like mostly everything...Jason with the exception of country and of course his love of hardcore. Greg listens to pretty much everything as well. We are pretty versatile.
What is the biggest fear when you go onstage? Messing up and forgetting parts to a song. Which has happened before.
What drives a band that is not very well known and live on it to continue to play? Every time we play an awesome show with all the local fans and they have all that energy...that is what motivates us to keep playing.
Do you always the same songs live or vary it? We always try to mix our set around to keep things exciting.
What countries have you played in? USA
What is your pre-show ritual? Shots and drinks.
Best / worst performed gig? Worst performed gigs include any gig that has had bad sound or did not have capabilities for all our equipment.
Have you toured somewhat over the years 2007 to 2013? Yes, we have gone to California and back to Florida.
Where do you sleep when you're going on tour? Motels, or any place that will take us.
Where do you plan to play the rest of the year? Regionally and nationally in the USA.
What do you think of that they go to download music from the internet instead of buying records? Well think about it this way...it costs minimum $10,000 to do an album...then someone steals it...it's not much of a gain for the artist who also spends a lot of money on instruments and practice.
How would you describe your sound in one sentence? Hard Rock with catchy riffs and melodies.
What is the first step to a new song? recording ideas for riffs.
What image do you think your music conveys? Hopeful
What are your web pages? www.ObliviousSignal.com
What inspires you? Other major bands and the desire to play across the world and share our music like they do.
Is it easier to draw inspiration from older bands than the bands that are active today? Yes. Old bands were the pioneers of some of the genres we are influenced by...they dared to be different.
What advice would you give to other bands? Keep doing what you love to do and don't let anyone tell you different.
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THE RISING COST OF FOOD: A NATIONAL FOOD POLICY SHOULD FOCUS ON HEALTH AND SUSTAINABILITY
Posted on Saturday, January 23rd, 2016 at 10:53 am.
Reblogged from: Food Secure Canada (http://foodsecurecanada.org/)
The fall of the Canadian dollar below the 70-cents-US mark is expected to leave Canadians with higher grocery bills. This situation is particularly critical considering that the vast majority of fruits and vegetables eaten by Canadians are imported and that the rate of inflation on food products hit 4.1% today. This puts Canadians in an unparalleled position among industrialised countries.
The goal of zero hunger in Canada
Increased food prices will impact all Canadians, but it is the most vulnerable who will be hit hardest. Food Secure Canada maintains that it is unthinkable that anyone should suffer from food insecurity in a country as rich as Canada.
The International Covenant on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights, ratified by Canada, gives all Canadians the right to food. Nonetheless, 4 millions Canadians, including 1.15 million children, have trouble putting food on the table.
Diana Bronson, Executive Director of Food Secure Canada, highlighted in media reports that rising food prices will be particularly burdensome for the lower and middle classes, many of whom “can’t find a job that will pay them enough to ensure that they can afford a healthy diet for their families. It’s students. It’s senior citizens. It’s the working poor. It’s new immigrants.”
Indigenous peoples and visible minorities are disproportionately impacted by rising food costs. In Canada’s north, communities face a food security crisis that affects health and wellbeing.
The overwhelming cause of food insecurity is poverty. Strong political will is necessary to eradicate poverty and provide all Canadians with the ability to feed themselves adequate diets.
Sixty-eight percent of households whose main source of income comes from social assistance live in food insecurity. However, the majority of food insecure households (61.1 percent) rely on wages or salaries from employment.
During the Eat Think Vote election campaign, Food Secure Canada, in partnership with Community Food Centres Canada, recommended that the Government of Canada undertake a feasibility study on the implementation of a basic income in order to ensure all Canadians access to sufficient, safe, healthy, culturally appropriate food. Such a measure would guarantee all Canadians the ability to put food on the table by providing an income floor beneath which none could fall.
The price of a healthy diet climbs with the loonie
The price of fruits and vegetables will be especially impacted by the low dollar. Worryingly, these foods are essential for combating diabetes and hypertension, diseases that affect a growing number of Canadians.
Six in ten adults and one-third of children in Canada are overweight or obese, largely due to unhealthy diets. Instilling healthy food behaviours is necessary to reduce hypertension, diabetes, obesity, high cholesterol, certain cancers, and other food-related health problems.
Canadians find themselves in a paradoxical situation in which healthy foods that ought to be accessible to all, such as fruits and vegetables, are out of economic reach for many, while those that are damaging to their health are cheap. Inaction in the face of this issue will only exacerbate the current health crisis and lead to higher healthcare costs.
A national food policy as a shield against food insecurity
To give all Canadians access to healthy, affordable and sustainable food, the federal government must develop a comprehensive national food policy.
The election of the new Liberal government has opened up new possibilities around food policy. Prime Minister Trudeau has tasked Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Lawrence MacAulay with developing “a food policy that promotes healthy living and safe food by putting more healthy, high-quality food, produced by Canadian ranchers and farmers, on the tables of families across the country.”
“It’s not something that the minister of agriculture can fix by itself,” says Bronson. “We need all the different departments and all the different stakeholders: industry and NGO’s. And people who are living in food insecurity need to be at the table where the decisions are made.”
The new government must recognize that food policy is intimately related to the fight against climate change, better health, sustainable fisheries, fair trade, the rights of Indigenous and northern people and poverty elimination, among many other important issues.
Food Secure Canada calls on MP @L_MacAulay to tackle hunger crisis: https://t.co/nYUz4ykIDT via @CBCNews #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/tNzE1TdRmK
— Food Secure Canada (@FoodSecureCAN) January 14, 2016
Food Secure Canada has been working for this commitment since the publication of Resetting the Table in 2011. Five years later, there are good reasons to be optimistic about the future of our food system and a Canadian food policy. However, there remains much to do to ensure that this new food policy guides us toward food sovereignty, zero hunger and a healthy and sustainable food system.
There’s also a renewed sense of collaboration, and the new federal government seems more willing than the previous one to work with a variety of food system stakeholders.
We need to ensure that our key values – zero hunger, healthy and safe food, and sustainable food systems – are the bedrock of the new policy. We need to ensure that food sovereignty, healthy kids, support for sustainable farms and ending the epidemic of hunger in Northern and remote communities are national priorities.
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Young Ideas launches Cooking With
Posted on Tuesday, January 19th, 2016 at 5:36 pm.
By David Cutting
Malaysian Curry Chicken, Barley Risotto, Root Vegetable Slaw, Blueberry Buckle Cake. Yes it was as delicious as it sounds. On Monday January 18th Gordon Neighbourhood House’s Chef Peter Nguyen lead a group of 9 at Cooking with, a monthly community kitchen that supports young adults in growing their culinary ability.
Out of the nine in attendance, four were new to Gordon Neighbourhood House. One of the participants was quick to share that the experience of participating in Cooking With has equipped him with new skills and confidence in the kitchen.
Since this program launched in October it has seen over 30 participants, all incredibly eager to learn new cooking skills and meet new people. The program costs a mere $2 a person.
This month the recipes came from Goodness: Recipes and Stories, a book that celebrates Canada’s food fighters and features Gordon Neighbourhood House’s Executive Director Paul M. Taylor and Chef Peter. You can purchase a copy of Goodness at Gordon Neighbourhood House for $30, a portion of the proceeds support the work of Gordon Neighbourhood House
Young Ideas is an awesome initiative that is having incredible success in building community for the vast number of young adults (20-39 years old) that call the West End home. According to the 2011 Census 48% of West Enders are between the ages of 20 and 39. I personally met 5 new people while participating in Cooking With and I am excited to go to other events organized by Young Ideas.
If you would like to reserve your spot for the next Cooking With (Date: February TBA) call us at 604-683-2554, or email us at youngideas@gordonhouse.org
If you would like to stay informed about upcoming events and programs hosted by Young Ideas, sign up for event notifications on Facebook HERE
Upcoming Young Ideas Events:
Get Smart: Intro to Coding
January 21st at 7pm Cost: FREE
Ever wondered what all those hackers and web designers are up to when they’re tapping away on their computer? While this class may not make you the next Mark Zuckerberg, you’ll definitely leave feeling like those ones and zeros make a little more sense.
Facebook Event: HERE
Game On:
January 28th at 7pm Cost: FREE
Who doesn’t love board games? Here at Young Ideas we love them so much that we are hosting a monthly games night at Gordon Neighbourhood House. Here you can go from making millions in Monopoly to building a vast empire in Risk.
All you need to do is bring yourself (and friends if you’d like, but I’m sure they’ll have some here for you too), something comfy, and prepare yourself for a ton of fun!
Humans of the West End: Linda
Humans of the West End: Abdol
Humans of the West End: Stephanie
Humans of the West End: Bonnie
The 2nd Annual Community GBQ
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Prime Minister’s New Year Message
My fellow compatriots, I wish all of you a Happy New Year! I wish each and every one of you, and your families, happiness and success.
Face-to-face meeting with the President of Armenia
Prime Minister of Georgia Giorgi Kvirikashvili held a face-to-face meeting with President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, who is on an official visit to Georgia.
Prime Minister and His Spouse Congratulate Patriarch on the 40th Anniversary of His Enthronization
"Your Holiness, The 40th anniversary of your enthronization is a great feast for all of us. I congratulate you from the bottom of my heart on this important day.
Anaklia Deep-Sea Port Construction Launches
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili, who participated today in the launch of construction work for the Anaklia Deep-Sea Port, characterized this project as Georgia's biggest project in the 21st century, which marks the beginning of Georgia's transformation from a transit country into a logistics and industrial development hub.
Prime Minister’s Comment
Two-day procedures have been completed, and our Cabinet, with its new composition, has been granted a vote of confidence by the Parliament.
Meeting with Parliamentary Majority
"We must succeed in lowering the level of politicization in our society, and we must be able to speak casually with youths and citizens from all walks of life about issues pertaining to our country's future to encourage a sense of belonging in them," Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili stated during his meeting with the parliamentary majority.
Meeting with Patriots of Georgia
Georgian Prime Minister answered questions from the MPs for the Patriots of Georgia parliamentary faction.
Prime Minister’s Comment on the incident in Parliament
At the beginning of his meeting with the Patriots of Georgia faction, Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili commented on the recent incident with members of the United National Movement.
Meeting with National Movement Faction
During today's meeting with the National Movement faction, Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili described in detail the implemented and planned projects and introduced the MPs to the key priorities of the governmental reforms.
Meeting with Parliamentary Minority
It is very important to me to introduce you to our future plans and discuss with you the activities we have already carried out. Equally importantly is to hear your questions and recommendations.
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NASA Astronaut Accused of World’s First ‘Space Crime’ Denies Allegations
August 26, 2019 administrator Bigelow Aerospace, Boeing, Dragon2, Extreme, international space station, ISS, McClain, NASA, Space, space crime, space tourism, SpaceX, Starliner, Worden
Decorated US astronaut Anne McClain had been accused of committing the first crimes in space. McClain is going through an acrimonious divorce and her spouse, Summer Worden, has alleged that McClain committed financial improprieties by accessing financial records while serving aboard the ISS (International Space Station) and has filed a complaint with the FTC and NASA’s Office of Inspector General, accusing McClain of identity theft and improperly accessing records.
The claims of financial harm are now being investigated by NASA, but McClain is strongly denying any intent or wrongdoing:
There’s unequivocally no truth to these claims. We’ve been going through a painful, personal separation that’s now unfortunately in the media. I appreciate the outpouring of support and will reserve comment until after the investigation. I have total confidence in the IG process.
— Anne McClain (@AstroAnnimal) August 24, 2019
The question of jurisdiction in space is a complex one. The five space agencies that operate the space station — US, Russia, Japan, China, and Europe — have agreements in place to hammer out issues that might occur while aboard, but to the best of anyone’s knowledge, this is the first time there have been allegations of any kind of illegal activity occurring in space (at least, as far as something an astronaut might personally do). The New York Times points out that with the advent of space tourism, these kinds of questions are going to be raised on a more regular basis. What does legal discovery look like, for example, when it impacts a NASA network? In any kind of scenario in which individuals from more than one nation are involved in a dispute, how should said dispute be adjudicated, and under what auspices?
These sorts of questions are esoteric at the moment because we have no serious space-tourism industry. At present, seven space tourists have made eight spaceflights. From 2001-2009, the Russian Space Agency provided space flights, but they ceased doing so after 2009 because the expanded crew capabilities of the ISS require the Soyuz to carry more passengers to and from the station. On June 7, 2019, NASA announced that it would allow private astronauts to return to the ISS using either SpaceX’s Dragon2 module or Boeing’s Starliner. Bigelow Aerospace wants to launch an inflatable space habitat, the BA 330, into LEO by 2022.
McClain was scheduled to take part in the first all-female spacewalk earlier this year, but she had to back out due to a spacesuit sizing issue (NASA has two medium-size spacesuit available on the ISS, but only one was properly outfitted for spacewalking and it was already scheduled to be in-use by her astronaut partner). NASA opted to change the spacewalk roster rather than spend hours fitting the other suit for simultaneous operation. The complaint filed against McClain accuses her of identity theft but acknowledges that funds had not been moved out of the account.
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Jossy’s Giant Festive Discount
Posted on December 9, 2017 by mikeysilv
It’s very rare that we mention a programme other than Grange Hill on GHG, but as it’s Christmas, and this has some GH links, we’ll make an exception…….. AND we have a special festive gift for our readers!
As part of our work to persuade DVD companies to release Grange Hill on DVD, we were delighted to discover that another contemporary children’s drama was being released; Jossy’s Giants!
Broadcast in 1986/7, the show is fondly remembered by a generation of football mad kids that grew up in the ’80s. Directed by Edward Pugh (Grange Hill / Byker Grove) and written by much-loved TV personality and darts commentator Sid Waddell.
As a special offer for GHG Readers you can receive a 10% discount when you order Jossy’s Giants on DVD from Simply Home Entertainment. Following the link will automatically take 10% off your order when you visit, or alternatively enter the code GRANGE10 at the checkout.
PROMOTION PROVIDED BY SIMPLY HOME ENTERTAINMENT
More Paula!
As if our interview with Paula Ann Bland wasn’t enough for you, you can hear more from Paula in her recent interview with Mad Wasp Radio’s ‘My 80s Show’. Originally broadcast on 30th November 2017, the show can be listened to on Mixcloud.
As well as picking her Favourite Five 80s Tracks, Paula talks about playing Claire, her love for Duran Duran and her own singing career! The interview starts around 17 minutes in.
Pointless?
Next year, Grange Hill celebrates its 40th anniversary and as part of those celebrations the BBC has gathered together some of the former cast for a special edition of Celebrity Pointless.
Michelle Gayle (Fiona Wilson), Gwyneth Powell (Mrs McClusky), Paula Ann Bland (Claire Scott), Lee Macdonald (Zammo Maguire), Erkan Mustafa (Roland Browning), Francessa Martinez (Rachel Burns), Stuart Organ (Mr Robson), Alison Bettles (Fay Lucas) and Todd Carty (Tucker Jenkins) gathered back at Television Centre in late November to film the special episode. Whilst Erkan, Lee, Gwyneth and Michelle have all appeared before, this was a new experience for the rest.
As well as celebrating Grange Hill’s anniversary, each cast member was aiming to win money for a cause close to their heart. Paula Ann Bland was representing her former co-star Linda Slater’s (Susi McMahon) charity The Good Grief Trust (Keep visiting GHG for a feature on this charity soon). As a result Linda Slater joined her co stars backstage!
A great time was had by all, and whilst we can’t reveal the result, we can reveal that one cast member gave another a pointless answer, whilst another was accused of cheating!
Celebrity Pointless – Grange Hill is set to be broadcast on BBC 1 in 2018.
John Alford’s Back On Screen!
John Alford (who played Robbie Wright) has always been one of Grange Hill’s most popular cast members. GH fans were delighted when last year’s ‘Fake Sheikh’ investigation saw allegations that had sent John to jail, thrown into doubt. John had always proclaimed his innocence and that his conviction was part of a newspaper sting, and last year’s trial involving Tulisa Contostavlos proved this to be the case.
Since then, John has been supporting the Hacked Off organisation which campaigns for a free and accountable press. Hacked Off is supported by a range of well known people including phone hacking victim, actor, Hugh Grant.
In October 2017, John took part in the filming of a promotional video for the campaign, alongside some screen legends. The short film itself is based on ‘ The Class Sketch’ a satirical sketch from the 1960s, that originally starred John Cleese, Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker and looked at class divisions.
This new version stars John Alford alongside John Cleese and uses the ‘Class Sketch’ concept to explain the proposed ‘Section 40’ and why it is essential for victims of the press.
It’s great to see John Alford back on screen, particularly with the legendary John Cleese. Lets hope this is just the beginning of plenty more screen time for John.
You can find out more about Hacked Off here.
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Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Investigating the effect of oil spills on the environment and public health.
Home » Request for Proposals » RFP-I – Closed » RFP-I: Peer Review
The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) will select awards for funding by merit review based on peer evaluation, modeled after the National Science Foundation’s Peer Evaluation Process for Science and Technology Centers. An administrative review will take place to ensure that each proposal follows the proposal submission instructions, formatting guidelines, and includes all required sections. A panel of experts will evaluate the proposals according to the review criteria listed in RFP-I :
Scientific Merit (40%)
What are the scope, quality, and potential for fundamentally significant results of the proposed research?
Do the organizations involved have a demonstrated record of scientific achievement in the relevant science?
Is there a clear enunciation of how the research will address the goals of improving the environmental robustness of the Gulf of Mexico and/or the related issues of public health?
Capability (18%)
What is the expertise of the members of the proposed Research Consortium in the relevant research domains?
Can the proposed Research Consortium access key personnel and supporting infrastructure to launch their activities in a timely manner?
Have the participating Consortium members been chosen appropriately to ensure that the infrastructure (sampling systems, research vessels, analyzers, modeling capability and computational facilities, data management systems, long-term monitoring sites, personnel with substantial local expertise where applicable, etc.) is already in place or able to be lined up in short order to support the planned work?
Does the proposed Research Consortium have all the relevant competencies to undertake the work contemplated in this proposal? Will the work be sufficiently integrated across the collaborating institutions to deliver the research objectives?
Experience (18%)
What is the track record of the members of the proposed Research Consortium in the delivery of focused, cooperative research?
Has the proposed Research Consortium been effective in recruiting world-class talent into their Consortium of participating researchers?
Have faculty members or key researchers been recruited recently, or are positions now contemplated in the participating institutions, to expand expertise in the relevant research domains?
Public Education and Outreach (6%)
What are the scope, quality, and potential for the proposed public education and outreach activities?
What is the track record of the members of the Research Consortium in the delivery of public education and outreach activities that are effectively coordinated with professional scientific research activities?
Management (18%)
Will the governance structure proposed in the Research Consortium support delivery of the GoMRI objectives including adherence to all, provisions specified in the GoMRI MRA.
What limitations (e.g., Research Consortium’s policies, rules, or regulations) will affect the operation of the GoMRI as contemplated in this proposal?
Is there sufficient administrative support for co-PIs and associated research staff at collaborating institutions, and for coordination with the Research Consortium?
Will the research agreement provisions executed with the proposed Research Consortium be able to cascade down to the subgrants for the collaborating institutions to simplify the contract terms and administrative requirements?
What is the value of the anticipated research outcomes to advancing knowledge within the major research themes of the GoMRI from a cost-effectiveness perspective? How will the specific research projects undertaken be centralized within the Research Consortium or alternately distributed among various universities or various departments within a university? How will the governance structure maintain the required balance of effort and resources?
Is the research timeline realistic and are appropriate facilities available for the duration of the project?
Are the overhead charges reasonable for the proposed Research Consortium and for work performed at collaborative institutions?
After administrative and merit review, the GoMRI Research Board will make the final selection of funded proposals based on evaluations and recommendations of the peer review panel(s). Decisions regarding allocation of funding will be made by the GoMRI Research Board.
(Click to enlarge) The proposal review and award process illustration.
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Signs & Symptoms of Dementia in Elderly people
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Causes of Emotional Immaturity
by Anna Green Updated September 30, 2017
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Emotional immaturity can be caused by a number of environmental, medical and psychological factors. With therapy and ongoing support from teachers and family, the emotionally immature can develop coping skills and successfully function at work and school. When mental illness is at play, medication can make a marked difference in a person’s ability to maturely cope with difficult situations and interact productively with others.
People who were physically, sexually and/or emotionally abused often exhibit emotional immaturity.
Fetal alcohol syndrome is directly linked to emotional immaturity in children and adults.
Emotional immaturity can be caused by autism, Asperger’s syndrome, cognitive problems, brain damage, learning disabilities, depression and anxiety disorders.
Individuals who suffer traumas as children and teens—including rape and serious illnesses—often display emotional immaturity later in life.
Children who were not given many freedoms and responsibilities, as well as people whose parents were too controlling, often show signs of emotional immaturity later in life.
Anna Green has been published in the "Journal of Counselor Education and Supervision" and has been featured regularly in "Counseling News and Notes," Keys Weekly newspapers, "Travel Host Magazine" and "Travel South." After earning degrees in political science and English, she attended law school, then earned her master's of science in mental health counseling. She is the founder of a nonprofit mental health group and personal coaching service.
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