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Ryuho Okawa is a renowned spiritual leader and international best-selling author with a simple goal: to help people find true happiness and create a better world. His compassion and sense of responsibility for the happiness of each individual has led him to write over 2,600 titles of religious, spiritual, and self-development teachings, covering a broad range of topics ... such as, how our thoughts influence reality, the nature of love, and the path to enlightenment. He also writes on the topics of management and economy, as well as the relationship between religion and politics in the global context. Okawa's books have sold over 100 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 31 languages.
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Waiheke bus network gets electrified
AT's current electric buses
The Waiheke community will see new electric buses on the islands’ roads from the middle of next year.
Auckland Transport and Fullers360’s Waiheke Bus Company have announced today plans for a fleet of electric buses on the island. This will start with six new electric buses in mid-2020, with an additional five to arrive later.
The new buses will be like those which have been successfully trialled by AT since April 2018 on a number of bus routes across the city.
AT Chief Executive Shane Ellison says that this is a positive step forward in lowering AT’s emissions.
“We’re really excited and grateful that the Waiheke Bus Company has decided to make its new fleet of buses electric. Road transport is Auckland’s largest source of emissions, so this is a great step in tackling this.”
This initiative also demonstrates the new way of engagement between the Waiheke Local Board and AT, since the signing of a recent Memorandum of Understanding says Mr Ellison. “It’s great to be working with the local board and already delivering better outcomes for those on the island.”
Fullers360 Chief Executive Officer Mike Horne also welcomes the news. “With Auckland Transport’s support, Fullers360 and Waiheke Bus Company are proud to lead a significant reduction in road emissions on Waiheke Island. As we revamp our fleet with new electric vehicles, the buses will continue to play an important role in connecting the Waiheke community to Matiatia Wharf and destinations across the island.”
Livery designs for the new buses
In 2017 Auckland Council signed the C40 Fossil Fuel-Free-Streets Declaration at the “Together4Climate” event in Paris. C40 Cities is a network of the world’s megacities committed to addressing climate change, of which Auckland is now a member. The declaration commits Auckland to procuring only zero-emission buses from 2025.
The news was announced after the successful Low Emission Bus forum which was held yesterday. The forum, hosted by AT included contracted operators like Waiheke Bus Company, local and international bus builders, NZTA and the Ministry of Transport. It discussed the opportunities and challenges in progressing the Auckland Transport Low Emission bus roadmap.
While 2025 is the target for only zero-emission buses to be bought, the forum talked about how AT can work with operators and bus manufacturers to speed up this process, while also looking at alternatives such as hydrogen fuel cell or interim solutions to improve air quality.
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Annual public transport fares review completed
Auckland Transport has completed its annual review of public transport fares which takes effect from 9 February.
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Out of the kitchen: Andrew Goodman
September 24, 2015 | By Ron Bechtol
Andrew Goodman of Feast, Haunt, and Rebelle
“I like to be in restaurants, and it’s even better when you aren’t responsible.”
On rare days when he has more time, Andrew Goodman follows a six-mile walking regimen on the river’s Mission Reach hike-and-bike trails. Busier days, the circuit can be cut to two miles down and two miles back. Goodman, owner and main meeter-and-greeter at Southtown’s Feast, has a lot on his plate these days, what with the openings of Rebelle and Haunt, restaurant and bar respectively, at the recently refurbished St. Anthony Hotel. “Haunt opened by August,” says the newly minted hospitality mogul. Rebelle is not far behind.
Four years ago, Goodman opened Feast after a career in antiques and scented candles. “Everybody always says, ‘Oh, I could run a restaurant,’ and then this spot became available.” Realizing the risk involved, he nonetheless took the plunge.
But not without first securing a chef he respected. “I told Stefan [Bowers—then at 20nine Restaurant and Wine Bar] that I wouldn’t sign the lease without him agreeing to come onboard.” That was four years ago. Bowers and much of the debut staff are still at Feast, and the place is humming—especially at brunch, which Goodman calls “a monster—there are lines of 20 to 50 people at 10:30 on a Sunday.” This almost in spite of the décor, which “some people find sterile,” he admits—or maybe more accurately, not what they would expect adjacent to staid King William. “But once they get past [the décor], they get it,” he says.
The not-quite-closet designer in Goodman is coming out even more forcefully at Rebelle, where he is effectively in charge of everything from chairs to marble bar tops. And he’ll soon have another, more casual outlet for creativity in the transformation of a decommissioned firehouse at the entrance to Southtown into an Italian restaurant—with Bowers again behind the culinary program.
Somehow, Goodman does find time to work with a personal trainer and to indulge his other recreational pastime: eating out. “Being in the business hasn’t killed it for me,” he says. “I like to be in restaurants, and it’s even better when you aren’t responsible.”
Mixing work and pleasure, he and Bowers have done eating tours of Chicago, San Francisco, and Napa Valley. And this fall, he’s really getting away, with a European junket that involves being on a cruise ship for 10 out of the 15 days. “It’s a forced distance from business,” Goodman says. Good luck with that.
Ron Bechtol
Tags 20nine Restaurant and Wine Bar, Andrew Goodman, antiques, brunch, Chicago, Feast, Haunt, King William, LGBT, Mission Reach, Napa Valley, Rebelle, San Antonio, San Antonio chefs, San Francisco, scented candles, Southtown, St. Anthony Hotel, Stefan Bowers
20nine Restaurant and Wine Bar, Andrew Goodman, antiques, brunch, Chicago, Feast, Haunt, King William, LGBT, Mission Reach, Napa Valley, Rebelle, San Antonio, San Antonio chefs, San Francisco, scented candles, Southtown, St. Anthony Hotel, Stefan Bowers
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Governance/Political Change, Political Institutions, Politics, Law, Judiciary
Formal Constitutional Law
Constituent Power of the People
Precedence of Constitutional Law Over Other Law
Constitutional Amendment and Stability of Constitutional Law
Organizational Constitutional Law and Institutional Design
Bill of Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law
Constitutional Courts and Judicial Review
Comparative Constitutional Law
Federal States
Constitutionalism in Public International Law
Constitution-Making in Comparative Perspective
Theorizing the U.S. Supreme Court
Research on constitutional law has come in different waves mirroring the development of states in recent decades. While the decolonization period of the 1960s still kept the old ties of constitutional “families,” comparison based on such ties has become ever less persuasive since the 1980s wave of constitution making following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Research about de facto and de jure constitutional law now tends to embrace institutional details like judicial review powers and procedures of direct democracy. The field of comparative constitutional law is controversial both in methods and substance. It still lacks a consistent framework of comparative tools and is criticized as illegitimate by scholars who insist on the interpretive autonomy within each constitutional system.
Research in the area of fundamental rights has to deal with long-lasting controversies like the constitutionality of the death penalty. Bioethical regulation is another new field where constitutional positions tend to diverge rather than converge. Embryonic stem cell research, therapeutic cloning, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, and surrogate motherhood are examples from biotechnology and reproductive medicine where constitutional scholars disagree about what, if anything, constitutional law can contribute to provide a basis or limit for regulation. With the worldwide rise of constitutional courts and judicial review, the standards for the interpretation of fundamental rights become more important. Legal scholarship has worked out the differences between the rule-oriented approach associated with Anglo-American legal systems versus the principle-based approach common to continental Europe.
Keywords: democracy, constitution, fundamental rights, bill of rights, human rights, organization, legal system, powers, freedom, equality, supreme court, nation, interpretation, rule of law
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Exploring Stable Population Concepts from the Perspective of Cohort Change Ratios: Estimating the Time to Stability and Intrinsic R from Initial Information and Components of Change
David A. Swanson, University of California, Riverside
Lucky M. Tedrow, Western Washington University
Jack Baker, University of New Mexico
Cohort Change Ratios (CCRs) have a long history of use in demography. Except in their restrictive form as survival rates, CCRs, appear, however, to have been overlooked in regard to a major canon of formal demography, stable population theory. We believe that it is worthwhile to move beyond this restrictive form and examine full CCRs because they contain information about both migration and mortality. As a means of exploiting this information, CCRs are explored as a tool for examining the transient dynamics of a population as it moves toward the stable equivalent that is captured in most formal demographic models based on asymptotic population dynamics. We employ simulation and a regression-based approach to model trajectories toward this stability. This examination is done in conjunction with the Leslie Matrix and data for 62 countries selected from the US Census Bureau’s International Data Base. We use an Index of Stability (S), which defines stability at the point when it is equal to 0.0000. The Index also is used to define initial stability for a given population and four subsequent “quasi-stable” points on the temporal path to stability. The Stability Index can be readily calculated and provides an easy-to-interpret measure of the distance to stability. We use the ergodicity theorem as a guide in that it directly states that initial conditions are “forgotten” when a population reaches stability and only vital rates play a role. Given this, we not only explore the effect of the initial Stability Index and vital rates, but also the effect of migration on the temporal path to stability. We use a series of regression models for this purpose. The analysis reveals that the initial conditions as defined by the initial Stability Index along with fertility and migration play a role in determining time to stability up until the quasi-stable point of S =.0005 is reached. After this point, the initial conditions are no longer a factor and mortality joins the fertility and migration components in determining the remaining time to stability. These findings are consistent with ergodicity. Overall all, we find that fertility and mortality have an inverse relationship with time to stability while migration has a positive relationship. The initial Stability Index has an inverse relationship with time to quasi-stability at S=.01, S=.005, S=.001, and S=.0005. Continuing the use of regression analysis, we also find that a regression model works very well in estimating the intrinsic rate of increase from the initial rate of increase, but this model can be improved by adding the components of change. We also compare time to stability and intrinsic r as estimated using the CCR Leslie Matrix approach to, respectively, estimates of time to stability and intrinsic r found using analytic methods and find that the former are consistent with the latter. We discuss our findings and provide suggestions for future work.
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by Raza Rumi | March 23, 2010 · 11:41 pm
ASR Institute must be saved at all costs
Raza Rumi
ASR Institute of Women’s Studies, Lahore is not a run of the mill NGO or a donor-sponsored institution. Pakistan, not unlike other developing countries has enough of such makeshift, quick-fix research institutions that advance the Eurocentric and inappropriate agendas of those who want to liberate and enable the natives to come at par with the ‘civilized’ world. Since 1983, ASR has held its own – under dictatorships, quasi-democratic charades and amid the rise of Islamism. Not content with radical research and speaking the truth, in 1997 ASR went ahead and set up the first women’s studies institute in the non-state domain. This institute is open for South Asians and boasts a curriculum and faculty that would compete with any similar outfit in the international arena.
In February 2010, ASR organized a national seminar entitled A Celebration Of The Women’s Movement 1947-2010. The seminar honoured women who have struggled for women rights, and especially to pay tribute to the valiant struggle of the women of Pakistan who have consistently challenged all forms of oppression since 1947. This occasion also paid tribute to the women of Lahore and the Women’s Action Forum (WAF) who resisted the dictatorship of General Zia ul Haq on the 12th of February 1983. This historic day will always be remembered as a shining moment in our troubled history, when a few women faced large contingents of brutal police and marched their way through lathi charges and tear gas to protest against the anti-women, dubious ‘Islamization’ under Martial Law.
The sad part is that the process that was unleashed by the Ziaist mock-theocracy has turned into a national disaster. The rise of the Taliban and other Wahabi-Salafist groups are a danger not only to women and minorities, but also spell doom for the future of a plural Pakistani society. In this milieu, ASR’s bold stance and unwavering commitment to an equitable, progressive Pakistan is therefore heartwarming. At the same time, ASR is also facing existential crises that concern its basic survival.
As Zubeida Mustafa wrote in a daily newspaper recently, it is a shame that ASR is facing a research funding crunch, given that we have never needed research praxis as we need it now. Mustafa was emphatic: “But on the cards is the death of a centre that has educated 12,000 women in feminism and many more who have attended its short-term workshops. Lahore’s ASR [‘impact’, in Urdu] will run out of funds in October and its executive director, Nighat Said Khan says she will pack up if no one comes to bail the institution out.”
Our history, ethos and sociological structures are against institutions. We do not let them grow and if they do and challenge power, there is a concerted effort to decimate them. Our histories celebrate individuals, and even today in the twenty-first century we are obsessed with this political leader or that sportsman. This is a complex question and requires greater investigation.
ASR has managed and transmitted knowledge through moots and dialogues involving local and international teachers and academics. An impressive library with thousands of books, periodicals, newspaper clippings, reports and audio and video resources, on the women’s movement, land rights, citizenship issues, has also been set up over the years. Most importantly, ASR has filled the need for a publishing house that serves the requirements of critical thinking and writing, and has produced fifty-five publications, and there are many in the pipeline.
But the donors and local funding agents are not keen to support it. The reasons are also complex: Pakistan’s consultancy mafia and servile NGOs are better placed to articulate the ‘development discourse’. More importantly, Pakistan’s financially and intellectually bankrupt executive would also be happy with ASR’s demise. After all, who drives the executive – the middle classes fed on India-bashing, empty rhetoric of an Islamic fortress where women must be good cooks and invisible; and where patriarchy and oligarchies are good for the health of the nation.
ASR’s seminar was addressed by Samina Rehman (WAF, Lahore); Arfana Malla and Amar Sindhi (WAF Hyderabad); Nighat Said Khan and Dr. Uma Chakravorty (an eminent feminist activist from Delhi), who reiterated the need to link research with action, and concepts with activism. A poem composed by the late Shehla Zia, a leader of the women’s movement, was also read out. I recall Zia’s intense eyes and energetic hands when I re-read these lines:
In praise of the ASR Bhit Shah workshop
Morning tea and morning groans
Morning woes and morning moans
Najma treating us like drones
Threatening us in martial terms
Nasira, Ruby taking care
Of our food but not our prayer
Telling us we must prepare
For lectures long we had to bear
Bunny taking over then
Herding into the pen
Warning us against all men
Telling us the why and when
Kamla at us with the gong
Telling us we all belong
Defining for us right and wrong
Beguiling us with dance and song
Confessions first we had to make
It didn’t matter true or fake
Had to admit to some mistake
Silence vows we had to break
Then they gave us knowing smiles
And all night they made our files
This was also an occasion where women’s continued enslavement to poverty and lack of access to resources and public services was highlighted amid song and laughter. Despite the several achievements of the movement in recent years, violence against women has increased exponentially in both the private and public spheres. All local and imperial conflicts have targeted women, making them frontline victims across the world.
I have to agree with Mustafa that Pakistan simply cannot afford to lose ASR. We have a collapsing education system with extremists marching to destroy what is left of Jinnah’s Pakistan. Protecting spaces that spread light and advance the cause of redistribution, equity and tolerance need our support. Let Pakistani philanthropists and international partners come forward. There is no other alternative.
Raza Rumi is a development professional and a writer based in Lahore. He blogs at http://www.razarumi.com and edits Pak Tea House and Lahorenama e-zines
Filed under Activism, Education, Pakistan, Politics, public policy, Women
Tagged as academia, Activism, ASR, development, Institute, Lahore, Pakistan, research, women's movement
2 responses to “ASR Institute must be saved at all costs”
Muhammad Saleh
I thank Mr Rumi for providing a forum for open discussions, but some times I feel that most of the times this has turned anti religion. I agree that the Ziaist have done lot of damage to our motherland and its peasants, so has it done to Islam and its pure ideology. Where does the Wahabi and non wahabi issue come in this discussion. This was un-necessary comment.
I enjoyed the poetry. I am from Sindh and my home town is near Bhitshah, we adore and love bhittai but so I love Iqbal, baba Buley shah, waris shah and other sufis. We sindhis are more inclined to sufi ism, but we respect all the sects and religions. We believe in [ Apni chhoro nahein aor doosrey ko Chhero nahein ]
Love and regards
Pratima Kumar
I was very sorry to learn that the ASR Institute of Women’s studies is ebbing out at this juncture when it is needed most . As all of us will recall, Quaid e Azam in early 40s of the last century talked of Women’s education, health care and development overall in the interest of a Nation.It is unfortunate that ,except for individual efforts from some women starting from Ms Fatima Jinnah at the earliest stage, not much was done in Pakistan on Institutionalised basis even though a large no. of women have always aspired for emancipation. A small group is in touch with me which desires to carry out studies in Pakistan , India , Bangla Desh and Sri Lanka on ‘Women Development since Independence : present status and future prospects ‘
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Madagascar Live! Operation: Vacation coming to Busch Gardens Tampa
SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment Launches
Madagascar Live! Operation: Vacation
at California and Florida Parks
— New Live Show Debuts at Busch Gardens Tampa® and SeaWorld San Diego in 2013 —
SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment today announced it will premiere Madagascar Live! Operation: Vacation, an original live musical show featuring the characters from DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc.’s (Nasdaq: DWA) beloved Madagascar franchise, at two of the company’s parks this summer.
Celebrating the box office success of Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted, which has grossed more than $740 million at the worldwide box office, Alex the Lion and friends will party while on vacation with guests at Busch Gardens Tampa® and SeaWorld® throughout 2013.
The 20-minute musical show follows the antics of Alex the Lion, Gloria the Hippo, King Julien, Mort and the Penguins during a vacation adventure. The show will feature rock/pop music performed by a live band and include both classic and original songs. The characters also will conduct meet and greets with park guests. Additionally, special co-branded merchandise exclusive to the parks, will be available.
These two locations will be the only theme parks in the U.S. where fans can see the characters of Madagascar live. The new show “Madagascar Live! Operation: Vacation” premieres in the following locations:
· Busch Gardens Tampa® May 18, 2013.
· SeaWorld San Diego June 15, 2013.
The company also has the opportunity to expand the show to other parks in the SeaWorld family in the future.
“Audiences around the world have embraced the characters of Madagascar, and SeaWorld and Busch Gardens parks are the ideal places for families to enjoy this immersive live entertainment experience,” said DreamWorks Animation’s Head of Worldwide Licensing & Consumer Products, Kerry Phelan. “The entire creative team behind this uniquely original version of “Madagascar Live!” has done an impressive job of translating the beloved world from screen to stage, bringing it to life for young park guests and family audiences alike.”
“Our parks both entertain and inspire guests to care about animals,” said Scott Helmstedter, Chief Creative Officer of SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment. “Likewise, the Madagascar movies also inspire animal lovers, but in a different way with their inimitable charm and humor. We welcome these characters to our family with open arms and look forward to working with DreamWorks Animation on this incredibly funny and engaging new show.”
Madagascar is one of the most successful CG animated movie franchises of all time, grossing more than $1.8 billion at the worldwide box office. In 2012 “Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted,” grossed over $740 million at the global box office, becoming the highest grossing film of the series.
Author ShelleyPosted on February 12, 2013 February 12, 2013 Categories Busch Gardens Tampa BayTags Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, Madagacar Live! Operation Vacation, Madagascar Live, ShowLeave a comment on Madagascar Live! Operation: Vacation coming to Busch Gardens Tampa
Coalition For The Homeless of Central Florida Hearts of Gold Concert Featuring 38 Special
Coalition For The Homeless of Central Florida
20th Anniversary Hearts of Gold
Presented by Bright House Networks
Featuring Southern Rock Classic 38 SPECIAL
Hard Rock Live at Universal Orlando
The Coalition For the Homeless of Central Florida 20th Annual Hearts of Gold concert be Friday, March 1, 2013, at Hard Rock Live at Universal Orlando, and the concert will feature a performance by Southern Rock classic 38 Special!
WHEN: Friday, March 1, 2013
WHERE: Hard Rock Live at Universal Orlando
WHAT: Concert event benefiting Coalition for the Homeless. Includes:
:: 6 PM | All-Access VIP Reception
:: 6 PM | Special Reception
:: 7:30 PM | General Admission
Guests will not only enjoy a phenomenal concert, but may choose to attend either of our pre-event receptions or take advantage of an enticing silent auction.
The elite All-Access VIP Reception in Hard Rock Live’s Lennon Room includes an exclusive meet n’ greet with the band, complimentary beverages and hors d’oeuvres, premium concert seating, and early access to the silent auction.
The Special Reception includes complimentary beverages and hors d’oeuvres, premium concert seating, and early access to the silent auction.
Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida Exclusive.
Sale. One-Time Offer. Special.
In a word, you don’t want to miss this: Two (2) Special Reception tickets to the 20th Annual Hearts of Gold featuring Southern Rock classic, 38 Special, for just $138. It’s the perfect Valentine’s Day gift. Show someone special you have a heart of gold — your ticket purchase will literally transform lives. Special Reception guests will enjoy early access to the Silent Auction, complimentary drinks and hors d’oeuvres until 7:30 PM, and great seats for the concert.
The Special Reception: 6:00 PM, Concert: 8:00 PM
Tickets to this Special Reception will not be available at any other time. Offer ends 2/14/13 at 5:00 PM (or while supplies last).
After 2/14/13 you can still get concert tickets or upgrade to All-Access VIP Passes for an incredible red-carpet experience including a meet ‘n greet with the band and complimentary beverages and hors d’oeuvres.
Hearts of Gold is their largest fundraising event of the year. Your ticket will literally change someone’s life.
Additional details about the concert can be found at Coalition For The Homeless Central Florida website.
Author NewsPosted on February 12, 2013 February 12, 2013 Categories Orlando Charity Events, Universal Orlando ResortTags coalition for the homeless of central Florida, FundraiserLeave a comment on Coalition For The Homeless of Central Florida Hearts of Gold Concert Featuring 38 Special
Orlando City Ties Philadelphia Union in Game 1 of the Disney Pro Soccer Classic
The Walt Disney World® Resort is teaming up with Major League Soccer to bring you the Walt Disney World® Pro Soccer Classic set to take place February 9 through February 23, 2013.
This action- packed event will feature eight professional teams competing in pre-season soccer tournaments at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex. In 2012, Fans traveled from across the U.S. and Canada to get up close and personal with their favorite teams at this premiere spring training soccer event.
The participating teams are Sporting Kansas City, Toronto FC, Philadelphia Union, Columbus Crew, DC United, Montreal Impact, Orlando City, Tampa Bay Rowdies.
And Shalon and I were THERE this past Saturday to support our favorite home town team Orlando City Lions while they faced the Philadelphia Union.
While the game ended in a tie, the energy at the pitch was fantastic! Iron Lion Firm showed up to cheer on the guys and lots of fans of the other teams participating showed their support as well! Orlando City Played a fantastic game and while they didn’t come out with the win, the tie was totally fine with us!
Beautiful start to the game
Side line shots
The Iron Lion Firm and The Ruckus showed up to Support the team!
GO CITY!
Great night for soccer
till the wind came up!
YEAH! Home Town Pride!
Iron Lion Firm showing people how we do it!
Yum Yum truck was at the games!
I got a Cookies and Cream cupcake!
OREO BOTTOM!!! This Cupcake was BOMB!!!!!!
Stretching it out!
Behind the net!!
Start to the Second Half
The wind was BLOWING
But we were stopping their chances left and right!
Showing the crowd how we do it in Orlando
Iron Lion Firm! Drums and Chants and All!!
Tie Game! We will take it!
The Disney Pro Soccer Classic runs through February 23, 2013 at ESPN Wide World of Sports! Orlando City’s next game against the Toronto FC is Wednesday, February 13th at 8 pm at ESPN Wide World of Sports. You can find a match preview of the game here.
PLEASE make sure you follow along with us on Twitter @OnTheGoInMCO for live tweeting of the games! The next Orlando City Game is Wednesday night against the Toronto Football Club! And you KNOW We will be there!!!!!
Author AuroraPosted on February 12, 2013 February 12, 2013 Categories Orlando City Soccer ClubTags Disney pro Soccer Classic, DOOP, ESPN Wide World Of Sports, Iron Lion Firm, Major League Soccer, MLS, Orlando City Soccer, Philadelphia Union, Soccer, The Ruckus, Toronto Football Club, Wide World Of SportsLeave a comment on Orlando City Ties Philadelphia Union in Game 1 of the Disney Pro Soccer Classic
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A group of five walkers joined Jan and John for the journey westwards to partake in a walk around the isolated Lower and Upper Lliw reservoirs that were built in the upland to supply clean drinking water to Swansea and the surrounding areas. Nowadays the water is treated at the Felindre Waterworks and pumped all over south Wales.
The Lower Lliw or Felindre reservoir as it is also known opened in 1863 but the dam was not watertight, so between 1976 and 1978 a new rock fill dam, overspill and pumping station were added.
Setting off in overcast but dry weather beside the reservoir a woodland track led them gently uphill with grand views across the reservoir.
Emerging onto a track through pleasant farmland a buzzard glided gracefully overhead and leaving the reservoir behind and tramping beside the River Lliw, they continued to climb in order to reach the Upper Lliw reservoir where they paused for morning refreshment whilst being serenaded by the cuckoo.
Stone from Darren-fawr quarry was used in the building of the Upper Lliw reservoir which opened in 1894 and the construction of this second reservoir in such an isolated position was difficult. The Upper Lliw site had its own coal mine and steam driven rope-hauled tram track system for conveying dressed pennant sandstone blocks from the quarry to the upstream dam. Construction workers arrived and the local cottages and farms took in lodgers who paid them rent and as numbers of workers grew, a large camp site was set up with wooden huts in a sort of mini-village to house the workers and this previously sparsely populated Welsh-speaking valley soon became bi-lingual.
They crossed the dam continuing uphill in a northerly direction through the Brynllefrith Plantation with its spruce and pine trees and along wet, muddy paths carefully avoiding tadpoles that hatch during May and early June, moving into adulthood through the summer.
As the sky began to lighten they arrived at the top and the 127-metre wind turbines on Mynydd y Gwair, built despite a lot of local opposition to the scheme, were silhouetted whilst the walkers had to contend with a brisk wind.
Crossing open moorland in a westerly direction a descent down a steep-sided valley brought them to the upper reaches of the Afon Lliw which they forded. By now skies had cleared and during their lunch break they were able to enjoy the views across the reservoir.
Turning south and continuing alongside the access road to the windfarm for a while, they climbed once more and reaching the hilltop they were rewarded with fine views over Swansea Bay.
Following permissive paths over farmland and descending gradually on farm tracks and pretty lanes, they turned east towards the village of Felindre making their way across fields back to the Lower Lliw reservoir. Then crossing the dam they made for the café for some light refreshments before the homeward journey.
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Pleasantness changes and food intake in a varied four-course meal
Barbara J. Rolls, P. M. Van Duijvenvoorde, Edmund T. Rolls
Satiety can be specific to a food which has been eaten. This is shown by a decrease in the pleasantness of foods eaten relative to foods which have not been eaten. The aim of the present experiment was to determine whether this specificity still remained after a meal with a very different food in each of four courses. Forty-eight human subjects were given a four-course lunch with either a different food in each course (varied meal), or the same food in each course (plain meal). Energy intake was elevated by 60% in the varied meal primarily because of the increased food consumption in the third and fourth courses. The pleasantness of the taste of foods eaten decreased rapidly, whereas the pleasantness of foods which had not been eaten remained relatively unchanged. The change in pleasantness of a food correlated well with the subsequent intake of that food. Therefore, sensory-specific satiety is still found after eating four different courses in a meal and general satiety does not result. Some selective interactions between different foods were also found. For example, when a savory food was eaten, the pleasantness of (uneaten) savory foods decreased more than that of (uneaten) sweet foods. The converse was found when sweet foods were eaten. It is concluded that sensory-specific satiety and the effect of variety in enhancing food intake can operate throughout a meal with four very different foods, and that there are interactions between foods similar in savoriness or sweetness.
Satureja
Rolls, B. J., Van Duijvenvoorde, P. M., & Rolls, E. T. (1984). Pleasantness changes and food intake in a varied four-course meal. Appetite, 5(4), 337-348. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0195-6663(84)80006-9
Rolls, Barbara J. ; Van Duijvenvoorde, P. M. ; Rolls, Edmund T. / Pleasantness changes and food intake in a varied four-course meal. In: Appetite. 1984 ; Vol. 5, No. 4. pp. 337-348.
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School-level intraclass correlation for physical activity in sixth grade girls
David M. Murray, June Stevens, Peter J. Hannan, Diane J. Catellier, Kathryn H. Schmitz, Marsha Dowda, Terry L. Conway, Janet C. Rice, Song Yang
Purpose: The Trial for Activity in Adolescent Girls (TAAG) is a group-randomized trial (GRT) to reduce the usual decline in moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) among middle school girls. We report the school-level intraclass correlation (ICC) for MVPA from the TAAG baseline survey of sixth grade girls and describe the relationship between the schedule of data collection and the ICC. Methods: Each of six sites recruited six schools and randomly selected 60 sixth grade girls from each school; 74.2% participated. Girls were grouped in waves defined by the date measurements began and asked to wear an Actigraph accelerometer for 6 d. Occasional missing data were replaced by imputation, and counts above 1500 per 30 s were treated as MVPA, converted into metabolic equivalents (METs), and summed over 6 a.m.-midnight to provide MET-minutes per 18-h day. Mixed-model regression was used to estimate ICC. Results: The school-level ICC were higher when estimated from a single wave compared with three waves (e.g., 0.057 vs 0.022) and across weekdays compared with weekend days (e.g., 0.024 vs 0.012). Power in a new trial would be greater with some schedules (e.g., 88% given three waves and 6 d) than with others (e.g., 23% given one wave and Tuesday only). Conclusions: The schedule of data collection can have a dramatic effect on the ICC for MVPA. In turn, this can have a dramatic effect on the standard error for an intervention effect and on power. Investigators will need to consider the expected magnitude of the ICC and the validity of the MVPA estimates associated with their data collection schedule in planning a new study.
https://doi.org/10.1249/01.mss.0000218188.57274.91
Metabolic Equivalent
Murray, D. M., Stevens, J., Hannan, P. J., Catellier, D. J., Schmitz, K. H., Dowda, M., ... Yang, S. (2006). School-level intraclass correlation for physical activity in sixth grade girls. Medicine and science in sports and exercise, 38(5), 926-936. https://doi.org/10.1249/01.mss.0000218188.57274.91
Murray, David M. ; Stevens, June ; Hannan, Peter J. ; Catellier, Diane J. ; Schmitz, Kathryn H. ; Dowda, Marsha ; Conway, Terry L. ; Rice, Janet C. ; Yang, Song. / School-level intraclass correlation for physical activity in sixth grade girls. In: Medicine and science in sports and exercise. 2006 ; Vol. 38, No. 5. pp. 926-936.
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In: Medicine and science in sports and exercise, Vol. 38, No. 5, 01.05.2006, p. 926-936.
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AU - Stevens, June
AU - Hannan, Peter J.
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AU - Schmitz, Kathryn H.
AU - Dowda, Marsha
AU - Conway, Terry L.
AU - Rice, Janet C.
AU - Yang, Song
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Murray DM, Stevens J, Hannan PJ, Catellier DJ, Schmitz KH, Dowda M et al. School-level intraclass correlation for physical activity in sixth grade girls. Medicine and science in sports and exercise. 2006 May 1;38(5):926-936. https://doi.org/10.1249/01.mss.0000218188.57274.91
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The Mighty Tundra Swan
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Machias Island and the puffin colony
Posted by jd | Jul 20, 2014 | Birds, East Coast Canada | 7 |
I have good news and bad news. The good news is that our boat was able to make the trip to the Atlantic puffin colony on Machias Island Friday morning. And I was on it.
The bad news is that with ocean swells running at 4-6 feet, Captain Peter Wilcox did not attempt a landing. So we contented ourselves with viewing these iconic birds from an offshore vantage point aboard the boat. Some passengers voiced disappointment, but, since I had been to Machias previously, and had been able to land for some really up-close viewing, and already have a hard drive groaning under a semi-trailer full of puffin photos and videos, I was OK with that. And if any of you are questioning why I would bother to go out there again with so many images already in the bank — a legitimate question to be sure — I would answer by simply asking, in turn, “well, you had breakfast yesterday, and you had breakfast the day before, so why are you bothering to have breakfast again today?” Some of us need Cheerios. Some of us need puffins.
Machias Island
Staying offshore also allowed me to experiment with trying to photograph these birds in flight — a challenge, since they are very fast and quite small and the boat was under constant motion. I used all the technical help my camera could give me — (for photographic nerds: +/- 1/8,000 of a second shutter speed, f6.3, 24 frames a second shutter bursts, AI servo to continuously track and focus on moving objects, ISO set at 1600, and a 400 mm lens with 2-stops image stabilization).
Puffins can dive 100s of feet underwater in search of prey
The only time puffins make land is when they breed, nest and raise their young. The rest of the time they remain on the water, far from any land.
Tables and seat backs in the upright position, please!
You’ll often see them hopping on the water to help them achieve air speed as they take off.
The wings are shorter than most other sea birds, but very powerful
Other birds of the island
The puffins share the island with other pelagic species such as razorbills,common murres and common terns.
Razorbills
Razorbill in flight
Common murre
Puffins in Peril?
Earlier this year I had read an article that Atlantic puffins had suffered a disastrous chick mortality rate in 2012 and last year: only 31 per cent of chicks survived. So I was particularly interested in observing at first hand how they were doing this year. The reason for the decline? Apparently their food supply, mainly herring, had disappeared from the area, moving further north, and the puffins were trying to feed their chicks butterfish as a substitute, but these are a larger and rounder fish, too big for the chicks to eat. So they starved to death. More on the story here. http://bigstory.ap.org/article/apnewsbreak-atlantic-puffins-peril-us .
Bringing the herring home to the chicks
I asked The Day’s Catch First Mate Durtan Ingersoll what the situation was like this year. He said that he hadn’t seen butterfish around at all and the herring were plentiful, so things seem to be back to normal. Let’s count this as preliminary field data. University of New Brunswick grad students, stationed on the island this summer, will undoubtedly provide more precise data as the fledgeling season advances.
Certainly the birds were flying and swimming around Machias Island by the thousands.
Crazy for a Tufted Puffin
Tufted puffin: the first seen on the Atlantic for 180 years
The birding community has been all a twitter (sorry!) this year after a tufted puffin was spotted on Machias Island, the first sighting in the Atlantic since 1830. The tufted puffin is common in the Pacific Ocean, and ornithologists have been scratching their heads over how one could have possibly made it all the way over here, given that it would have had to feed along the way. There are suggestions that the newly ice-free North-West passage might have provided the means.
Meanwhile, every birder with a life list to complete and a bag of seasick pills is heading to Machias this summer.
By now, a question may be beginning to form in that grey matter of yours: “JD, did you see the rare and wonderful tufted puffin yourself, with your very own eyes?” And my answer to you would be, “Of course I did!” It was very distant (probably 250-300 meters), standing on a rock outcrop on the south end of the island, and definitely distinct from its Atlantic cousins.
More on the story at http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/tufted-puffin-seen-on-atlantic-coast-for-1st-time-since-1830s-1.2680540
An international dispute
It turns out ownership of Machias island is a matter of some dispute between Canada and the United States. In the settlement after the war of 1812, Grand Manan “and its outer islands” were ceded to Britain. Unfortunately, the outer islands were unamed in the treaty, leaving an ambiguity big enough to drive a conflict through. Both nations lay claim to the island, but perhaps Canada has the upper hand by virtue of the fact that it has had a manned lighthouse on it for years, and a Canadian flag fluttering in the Atlantic breeze. .
Land of the Grey Seals
On the return voyage from Machias, we passed to the starboard of a small rocky island populated by dozens of grey seals. Apparently on this outcrop, the higher you perch, the more clout you have, a bit like the General Motors organization chart.
Kings of the rock, and their underlings.
Onward, forward
Next, it’s back to the mainland, and the drive up New Brunswick towards the Gaspé Peninsula.
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Dorothy on 20 July 2014 at 2:16 pm
I just don’t know how you take such amazing pictures
Jaanki on 20 July 2014 at 4:50 pm
One just cannot get enough puffin photos in one’s life, I totally get that! They really are adorable. And how great that you got to see the Tufted Puffin – tick! Loved all the photos. Keep ’em coming!
Sister Sue on 20 July 2014 at 9:38 pm
You did it!! Captured a magnificent shot of a bird flying with fish in mouth. Although not a puffin it’s a magnificent common tern against a true blue sky. Well done. Sue
Gary Miller on 21 July 2014 at 6:36 pm
Awesome photos and quite the sighting!
Madhurta on 22 July 2014 at 9:02 am
I like puffins. I love puffins. Puffins are my favourite bird. Yeah puffins! Yeah jd!
Cousin Dave on 24 July 2014 at 9:19 am
John great pictures, wildlife has always intrigued me, your photos are always so very satisfying
Nicole Henderson on 28 July 2014 at 9:01 pm
Better late than never… here are my reactions John. More interesting (and difficult) to capture puffins in flight. I love these birds with their weird beak. And the elegance of the terns in flight is awesome! Always love your photos even if I am slow posting a comment. Nicole
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My Very Own Date at the Modern Moulin Rouge, Minus the Absinthe but Featuring A Very Charming Fox Trot with Boba Fett, As Told In Three Parts
I – Wherein I Explain the Title, Or Die Trying
Welcome, Ministry fans! Thanks for visiting! I have a pair of lovely little giveaways for you, but before I share those details, let me tell you a little story about what I love about steampunk.
I didn’t intend to become a writer of steampunk stories. I really didn’t. I knew the term, sure, but it was just another literary sub-genre to me … until a gentleman named Mister Lapin wandered along and changed everything. One morning I was driving to work, listening to the Dr. Horrible soundtrack, and as the mad, bombastic closing credits music played I was suddenly struck by an idea: What if I wrote a story about a man who turns himself into a half-man, half-rabbit? And what if he used alchemy to solve mysteries? It was so crazy I just had to do it, and when I sat down later that evening, I found the voice naturally became an excitable British man straight out of the Victorian era. The Impossible Mister Lapin, my novel of weird science and occult investigations in a Britain that never was, had begun. It quickly took on a life of its own, growing from a short story to a serial novella to my first ever full-fledged novel, adding gadgets and alchemy and evil spirits as it went, often with me feeling as though I was trailing slightly behind, trying frantically to keep up.
What was even more amazing, though, was the scene that surrounded this new world I’d chanced into. My wife, the costumer, had started attending Dorian’s Parlor, a lovely steampunk gathering in Philadelphia, and as the story of Mister Lapin took on life she brought me along with her. I was stunned and enchanted by the creativity and vibrancy of the community – there were people faithfully recreating exquisite Victorian and Edwardian dress down to the smallest detail, while others blasted off into the far realms of steam-powered fantasy as airship pirates and eccentric inventors, and everything inbetween. There was music, art, fashion, gadgetry, literature (always a relief for a writer looking to sell a tale), academic discussion … there was a community. And even though some of them liked to quarrel about what did or didn’t suit the scene, or even how to define the term “steampunk” itself, in the end the movement always seemed to celebrate a diversity of inspiration that was positively breathtaking.
In many ways, meeting the steampunk community – at Dorian’s, at New York Comic Con, at Steampunk World’s Faire and many other places besides – reminded me of Christian’s first experience with the Moulin Rouge in the film of the same name – a whirl of sounds and sights, faces and delights. And that’s without any absinthe to help the experience along!
Now that steampunk has crossed well into the mainstream, of course there are any number of naysayers who claim it’s over, it’s done, it’s been co-opted will never be the same. But with respect, I rather think those folks are missing the point. Movements rise and fall in popularity, naturally, but the very diversity of the community and the experiences and inspirations it draws on makes it far hardier than one might expect. Because it’s not purely history, and it’s not purely fiction, it’s a lovely expanse of middle ground between the two. Besides, there are other factors that also play a role, which might be even more unexpected than airship captains, safari enthusiasts with rayguns and the inimitable Steampunk Boba Fett. (As if such a thing were possible, I know.)
But here’s what comes to mind whenever someone tells me that steampunk’s already on its way out. When I was in college, the neo-swing revival was in full, well, swing, and an interviewer asked Royal Crown Revue lead singer Eddie Nichols if he thought the music would be a fad, or if it had staying power. He replied, “Will it be huge like it is now? Nah. ‘Course not. It’ll level off soon enough. But you see those cats out there on the dance floor? They paid a lotta money on those dance lessons, not to mention the outfits. This music didn’t really die before, and it’s not going to now either. Besides, it doesn’t age like the punk rock or metal bands wil. You can grow old with this, you know? It’s classy. You won’t be moshing at your daughter’s wedding, but you will definitely fox trot.”
I look around at all the passion and energy and innovation being poured into the fashion and music and writing and crafting, the humor and style and class that inform and support this scene, and I don’t hear metal.
I hear swing.
II – Rally Behind the Ministry!
While many of you probably reached this post as part of the blog hop, I suppose it’s possible that some of you haven’t heard of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, and are wondering exactly where that lovely graphic came from and what exactly is going on. Well, wonder no further! Allow the creators themselves to explain:
“Galileo Games and Imagine That! Studios have teamed up to bring you an ambitious steampunk project! The Ministry Initiative is a two-part creative endeavor that will not only premiere new fiction from the steampunk world of the Ministry but also present a brand new role playing game from the makers of Bulldogs! and the ENnie Award winning game Shelter in Place. Thrill to the tales in Ministry Protocol anthology, or join in as an Agent in The Ministry Initiative RPG.
“Find out more about this endeavor by checking out my giveaway contest at the end of this entry, then hopping to all the blogs listed below – many of them sponsoring wonderful contests and giveaways of their own, I might add, for all you lovers of free things! – and of course supporting the Kickstarter here: http://bit.ly/ministry-initiative
The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences J.R. Blackwell Jared Axelrod
PJ Schnyder Leanna Renee Hieber Pete Woodworth
Tee Tate Karina Cooper The Galaxy Express
Tiffany Trent Alex White Delilah S. Dawson
Simply Ali Wicked Little Pixie Books Make Me Happy
MamaKitty Reviews Thats What Im Talking About Kathryn Camisa
Krista Cagg Seleste deLaney Pauline Creeden
The Pen Punks Melissa Pauline Baird Jones
Vivid Muse Robert C Roman Jack Mangan
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III – Last But Not Least: How to Win Free Stuff!
As part of the Ministry Initiative Kickstarter, I’m proud to announce my own giveaway for those dogged Ministry agents willing to put in a little legwork. Here’s the skinny:
THE “FIENDISH MENAGERIE FILES” CONTEST!
I want you to create the most devious, most devilish steampunk villain you can imagine, and tell me about it!
1) Craft A Villain!
Here’s what I need from you:
Name: Your villain’s name. It can be as simple or elaborate as you like. Don’t forget titles – they didn’t spend all those years in Evil Medical School to be called mister, after all!
Signature Villainy: What is your villain’s “signature” knavery? Killer gorillas? Freeze rays? Radioactive dinosaurs? Fell sorcery? Knives in the dark? A poisoned kiss? Unexpected cats?
Most Infamous Crime: Give the title or description of their most notorious bit of malfeasance: “The Terrible Affair of the Lemon”, “The Archduke’s Sinister Disappearance”. “The Time That Gravity was Most Unceremoniously Stolen”, you name it. You don’t need to elaborate too much – in fact, it’s usually better if you leave it to our imaginations a bit.
Here’s a sample contest entry – yours can be more elaborate, but this should give you the idea:
Name: The Ghost Emperor!
Signature Villainy: Poisonous alchemical fog!
Most Infamous Crime: “The Usurpation of the Imperial Throne, By Means Most Underhanded and Occult”
2) Post Your Villain!
* Post your entry here at this blog, as a response to this very post.
* You may enter more than once, but please, no more than once per day.
* The contest is open from the time this post goes live on May 22nd to 6 PM EST on May 29th.
3) Check Back for Prizes!
At the end of the contest, a winner will be decided by an esteemed panel of judges (read: as many Ministry writers as I can collect). This winner will receive a free electronic copy of my story from the Ministry Initiative anthology, currently titled “New London Calling.” Information will be collected and arrangements will be made to deliver this story in electronic format as soon as the Ministry’s esteemed editorial staff deem it ready for public release, which is likely to be a little ahead of its release to the general public. Tease your friends with knowledge of the exploits that only you are privy to as they gnash their teeth in envy!
In addition, the winner and one runner-up will also receive electronic copies of Runner, my post-zombie-apocalypse, action-adventure novel. Because after some dashing steampunk exploits, nothing cleanses the palate for another course like a serving of gritty survival horror. And, having just referred to zombies as the literary equivalent of sorbet, I’m going to stop talking now.
OK, so I’m no quite finished. I’d encourage you to check back as the contest goes forward, because you never know what other wrinkles and new developments might pop up. Don’t forget to head on over to the Kickstarter to donate to this very awesome game/anthology combo, but while you’re here, steampunk fans should really take a moment to drop in and make the acquaintance of one Mister Lapin. If that amuses you, I also like to write about LARP, writing theory. geek culture, and most anything else that comes to mind, really. It’s been a pleasure having you here – thanks for stopping by, and I hope to see some of your villains soon!
It’s a strange world out there, agents.
Let’s keep it that way!
This entry was posted on May 22, 2013 by petewoodworth. It was filed under Uncategorized and was tagged with Mister Lapin, writing.
Name: HeloLibre
Signature Villainy: secret plane propeller arm
Most Infamous Crime: landscaping fellow villains’ gardens by moonlight
Kat S.
Name: Madame Polaris
Signature Villainy: An unsettling ability to successfully manipulate of the laws of Einstein, Kepler and Newton
Most Famous Crime: The Absolute Truth in regards to a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Pixen
Name: The Inebriated Inkheart
Signature Villainy: They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but truthfully they never met this man who is never far from a tankard of drink. Caught ‘red handed’ has a new meaning when the ink with which he writes ends up running thick with the blood of his victims. What Inkheart writes in his drunken stupor turns true, and the stories wrought upon the page are really peoples’ tales and stories spun coming to an end with a determined press of the quill scratching across the page. (Those surprise heart attacks that befall the young? An autopsy of their heart would show the sweet lifeblood runs blue not for lack of oxygen, but of ink).
Most Infamous Crime: He’d do a lot for a drink. A lot. And when a particular bartender thought his seething sloppy drunkenness had gone too far it wasn’t a gun he drew or a knife or some flashy bit of motorisms—oh no, it was his pen and a smile. While it wasn’t unlike a man to be a scribe or a wordsmith, it was unlike a man to bring his work to the table with his tankard nearby and not care if he spilled or dribbled or drabbled on the page. He’d swallow the last drops of his tankard, assuming there was something left, put a dot to the end of his line and crumple up the page. Tossing it into the fire as he stumbled his way out the door, he’d leave a coin on the bar and make his way out stumbling. Inkheart would smile, apologize for inconveniencing the barkeep of choice, and move about his merry way. It could be hours, it could be days, but soon enough the barmen would drop usually with a tankard in hand for an eager customer whose drink would never come.
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Kate P
Name: Dutchess VonDoom
Signature Villainy: Thieves by way of mechanical tentacles which she hides beneath her many petticoats.
Most infamous crime: The day the Queen’s most prized jewels vanished straight form her neck at the annual masquerade ball.
Name: Dr. Wilhelm von Kogsworth
Signature Villainy: An army of clockwork android clones rigged to explode.
Most Infamous Crime: Simultaneously assassinating 11 key British military leaders…at once, at the same time, “like clockwork!”
Ari R.
Name: Chancellor Bark McRuffington
Signature Villainy: Kidnapping puppies and forcing them to work in his kibble factories.
Most infamous crime: Poor Fluffy…
Liz T
Name: Robert S. Robinson
Nicknaame: RoberRob
Signature villainy: Elaborate heists using kinetic Rube Goldberg machines, set off by hapless bystanders that frequently end up entangled in the mousetrap like contraptions.
Most infamous crime: Setting off the bells of Big Ben 40 minutes early in order to confuse the watch at the Tower of London so he could make off with prized rooks from the tower in the hubub.
Arreyn Grey
Name: Baron Louis le Cheveaux
Signature villainy: Kidnapping and ransoming influential men, women, and cephalopods, all the while twirling his Impressive Mustache
Most infamous crime: Wherein the Dastardly Baron Got Hold of Her Majesty’s Own Royal Octopus, Returning it (once sufficient funds had been procured) Clad Only in a Recently Applied Cunning Mustache
Steven Hoffman
Name: The Mad Mathematician
Signature Villainy: Multiplying targets, Dividing enemies between them, Adding Explosives, Subtracting buildings and the enemies within.
Most Infamous Crime: With the help of the rest of the “Order of Operations” he convinced the hero Mechanical Man, to divide by zero, and made off with a tablet that contains the fabled final digits of pie.
Pi even…
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Archive for Dr. Ivan Sascha Sheehan
Sheehan Publishes 35 Articles Between Summer 2017 – 2018
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Between summer 2017 and summer 2018, Dr. Ivan Sascha Sheehan – Executive Director of the School of Public & International Affairs – authored or co-authored 35 policy-oriented op-eds in major news outlets, including 1 comprehensive study of the 2018 Iran uprising that was cited in official testimony before the Canadian Parliament. The articles frequently raised themes picked up by prominent American and European officials in public remarks and prior to important votes. In some instances, the articles were syndicated and translated into French and/or Farsi by third parties before being republished. Recent articles include:
SHEEHAN | When Iran Votes For President Friday, Is It A Referendum On The Future Or More Of The Same? | Independent Journal Review | 17 May 2017
SHEEHAN et al | Why the World Needs a Metropolitan Compact: A New Vision for the Future of Sustainability | Citiscope | 19 JUN 2017
SHEEHAN | Trump is Right to Focus on Iran’s Support of Terrorism | The Baltimore Sun | 26 JUN 2017
SHEEHAN | In Discussing Middle East Policy, US Should Acknowledge the Goal of Regime Change | Townhall | 19 JUN 2017
SHEEHAN | Trump et Macron devraient décourager les entreprises d’investir en Iran | Translation | Trump and Macron Should Jointly Discourage Businesses from Investing in Iran | La Tribune | 13 JUL 2017
SHEEHAN | Iran Ripe for Regime Change Two Years After Nuclear Deal | New York Daily News | 14 JUL 2017
SHEEHAN | Trump Sanctions Set Stage for Necessary Regime Change in Iran | The Hill | 4 AUG 2017
SHEEHAN | Iran Protests: How Trump Can Strike a Fatal Blow Against a Dangerous, Tyrannical Regime | Fox News| 30 Dec 2017
*Article was trending at FoxNews.com in the early days of the 2018 Iran uprising.
SHEEHAN & TANTER | Trump Faces an Unfolding Iranian Revolution–Time to Act | The Hill | 3 JAN 2018
TANTER & SHEEHAN | Iran Protests Should Prompt Update of Trump Policy, Nuclear Deal | Newsmax | 4 JAN 2018
SHEEHAN | Trump Should Go Further on Iran | Washington Examiner | 5 JAN 2018
TANTER & SHEEHAN | US Renews Iran Nuclear Deal, Needs to Focus More on Human Rights | Newsmax | 14 JAN 2018
TANTER & SHEEHAN | Will 2018 Bring Revolution to Iran? | The National Interest | 17 JAN 2018
*The National Interest is the leading journal associated with the realist school of foreign policy and is published by the Center for the National Interest, chaired by Henry Kissinger. The article, which was a leading article at the magazine during the 2018 Iran uprising, was coauthored with University of Michigan Professor Emeritus Raymond Tanter, a member of the National Security Council senior staff in the Regan White House. The article was subsequently translated into Farsi by Voice of America – Iran (VOA Farsi).
SHEEHAN | An Iran Without the Ayatollah is No Longer Unthinkable | Washington Examiner | 9 FEB 2018
*The article was also translated into Farsi by Voice of America – Iran (VOA Farsi) and republished.
SHEEHAN & TANTER | 2018 Winter Olympics an Occasion to Rein in Rogue Regimes | The Hill | 11 FEB 2018
TANTER + SHEEHAN | Will Israel and Iran Go to War? | Newsmax | 16 FEB 2018
SHEEHAN | It’s Time for the West to Lean on Tehran — the Iranian People Deserve It | National Post | 21 FEB 2018
*Published in print and online versions of National Post.
TANTER & SHEEHAN | Iran’s Cyber Warfare Against its People Must Not Stand | The Hill | 23 FEB 2018
TANTER & SHEEHAN | Iran and Israel Could Go to War Next Year | The National Interest | 25 FEB 2018
TANTER & SHEEHAN | Is it Time for Trump to Abandon the Iran Deal? | Newsmax | 8 MAR 2018
TANTER & SHEEHAN | US, Israel Must Grow Closer to Tear the Iranian Regime Apart | The Hill | 11 MAR 2018
SHEEHAN | Iranians are Setting an Auspicious Date for a New Uprising | Townhall | 12 MAR 2018
SHEEHAN | Culture Clash Could Lead to Political Revolt During Persian Festival of Fire | The Hill | 12 MAR 2018
SHEEHAN | Bolton’s Fiery Style Reduces Risk of War and Promotes the Iranian People’s Desire for Change | The Hill | 28 MAR 2018
*Article received ~11,500 direct Twitter shares in less than a week.
SHEEHAN | Bolton’s Appointment a Step in the Right Direction for White House Posture on Iran | The Daily Caller | 1 APR 2018
SHEEHAN | The Rebellion in Iran: A Comprehensive Assessment | Modern Diplomacy | 10 APR 2018
+ Reprinted by Eurasia Review on 11 APR 2018
*This 7,000+ word study is among the most comprehensive analyses of the Iran protests in print.
*On May 2, 2018, Sheehan’s analysis was referenced in official testimony in the Canadian Parliament by leading Iran policy scholar and President of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Mark Dubowitz. Sheehan was also cited by the editor of The Washington Free Beacon.
TANTER & SHEEHAN | Trump’s Foreign Policy Plans Put America First | The National Interest | 1 MAY 2018
+ Reprinted by Yahoo News
*The National Interest is the leading journal associated with the realist school of foreign policy and is published by the Center for the National Interest, chaired by Henry Kissinger. The article, which was a leading article at the magazine during the 2018 Iran uprising, was coauthored with University of Michigan Professor Emeritus Raymond Tanter, a member of the National Security Council senior staff in the Regan White House.
SHEEHAN | Even Before Trump’s Latest Warning, Iran was Facing Bigger Problems than Ever | International Policy Digest | 2 MAY 2018
SHEEHAN | The Iranian People Deserve a Better Deal from the West | Modern Diplomacy | 15 MAY 2018
TANTER & SHEEHAN | Are Israel and Iran on Path to War? | Newsmax | 16 MAY 2018
SHEEHAN | The Alarmists Are Wrong About Withdrawal from the Iran Deal | International Policy Digest | 17 MAY 2018
SHEEHAN | Expanded Strategy Opens Doors to Weakening Tehran, Promoting Iranian Dissidents | The Daily Caller | 25 MAY 2018
SHEEHAN | The United States’ Firm Policy on North Korea Should be Applied to Iran, Too | The Daily Caller | 26 JUNE 2018
SHEEHAN | The End of the Iranian Regime May Be Close at Hand | Townhall | 27 JUNE 2018
SHEEHAN | Iranian Terror Plot Motivated by Threat of Regime Change | Modern Diplomacy | 18 JULY 2018
In June 2018, Dr. Sheehan traveled to Paris as part of a research delegation examining the Iranian opposition as protests swept over Iran. Sheehan’s policy-oriented writing, scholarship, and media appearances – as well as analyses provided to policymakers in the U.S. Congress – have examined matters related to regime change in Iran. On June 29, 2018, Sheehan participated in radio, print, and television media in Paris, including interviews with talk show host Mike Siegel (syndicated by Genesis Communications Network), Al Arabiya, Iran National Television, and the National Council of Resistance of Iran. Dr. Sheehan also spoke, on background, for reporting carried out by POLITICO.
The Paris conference, carried live in the U.S. by Fox News and The Washington Times, was also broadcast inside Iran by Voice of America and featured prominently in many Arab newspapers. Dignitaries in attendance included former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich; former FBI Director Louis Freeh, former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge; former U.S. Attorney General Judge Michael Mukasey; former National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush, Frances Townsend, and many others.
Breaking news following the event indicated that the rally had been targeted by agents of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS) in a terror plot thwarted by authorities in Belgium, France, Germany, and Austria who worked together to foil the bombing. Five individuals, including an Iranian diplomat, who was reportedly working as an MOIS Station Chief in Vienna, were arrested after being trapped with explosives and a detonator. The plot was immediately reported on by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and NBC and addressed by senior U.S. State Department officials.
In summer 2018, Dr. Sheehan was also invited to join select, senior former U.S. officials – including Speaker Newt Gingrich, FBI Director Louis Freeh, and Attorney General Michael Mukasey – as a signatory to an open letter published in the The New York Times in support of Iranian protesters promoting democracy in Iran. Sheehan was also invited to join a group of select, distinguished U.S. officials as a signatory to an official letter sent to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the foiled terror plot launched by the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS) that targeted the rally for democracy in Iran held in Paris.
Dr. Ivan Sascha Sheehan is the Executive Director of the School of Public & International Affairs at the University of Baltimore. For research or media related updates or to learn more about Dr. Sheehan, follow him at @ProfSheehan or link to his research profiles.
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Sheehan Assumes Leadership of School of Public & International Affairs
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On July 1, 2018, Dr. Ivan Sascha Sheehan was named Executive Director (Chair) of the School of Public & International Affairs (SPIA) – the largest unit within the College of Public Affairs – at the University of Baltimore. In this role, Sheehan will oversee 7 graduate and undergraduate programs, 6 program directors, 23 full-time faculty, dozens of adjunct faculty, and more than 750 students.
The University of Baltimore’s College of Public Affairs is in the top 25 percent of all 282 public affairs institutions in the United States in the 2019 U.S. News & World Report graduate-school rankings, where it ties with Brown University, Claremont Graduate University, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, University of Texas-Dallas, University of California-San Diego, and Pepperdine University. The University of Baltimore is a member of the University System of Maryland.
Prior to assuming leadership of the School of Public and International Affairs, Dr. Sheehan – a tenured Associate Professor of Public and International Affairs – served for 8 years as the director of the Negotiation and Conflict Management graduate program and founding director of the Global Affairs and Human Security graduate program in the College of Public Affairs.
An award-winning professor, Sheehan is the recipient of the 2015 University of Baltimore President’s Faculty Award, the 2016 University System of Maryland Board of Regents Award, and a 2017 citation from the Maryland State Senate in recognition of “Exceptional leadership and Service to the University of Baltimore.”
Dr. Sheehan is the author of more than eighty publications and has appeared in The National Interest, Foreign Policy, Fox News, Al Jazeera, The Washington Times, The Hill, Roll Call, The Washington Examiner, The Baltimore Sun, Haaretz, The Jerusalem Post, National Post, United Press International, Townhall.com, Newsmax, The Daily Caller, Independent Journal Review, Modern Diplomacy, International Policy Digest, New York Daily News, Citiscope, La Tribune (in French), and numerous academic journals. His writing has been translated into French and Farsi and he has participated in media around the world. Dr. Sheehan has also been cited in official testimony before the Canadian parliament.
For research or media related updates or to learn more about Dr. Sheehan, follow him at @ProfSheehan or link to his research profiles.
SHEEHAN | 6 Op-Eds in First Weeks of 2018
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In the first three weeks of 2018, Dr. Ivan Sascha Sheehan – Associate Professor of Public and International Affairs – published six op-eds in prominent news outlets, including Fox News and The National Interest. In summer and fall 2017, Dr. Sheehan also authored seven additional op-eds that circulated in Washington’s policy community and raised themes subsequently picked up by prominent U.S. officials in public remarks and prior to important votes. In November 2017, Sheehan also spoke at the National Press Club at an event with Senator Joseph Lieberman.
SHEEHAN | Iran Protests: How Trump Can Strike a Fatal Blow Against a Dangerous, Tyrannical Regime | Fox News | 30 Dec 2017
*The article was trending at FoxNews.com in the early days of the 2018 Iran uprising.
*The National Interest is the leading journal associated with the realist school of foreign policy and is published by the Center for the National Interest, chaired by Henry Kissinger. The article, which was a leading article at the magazine during the 2018 Iran uprising, was coauthored with University of Michigan Professor Emeritus Raymond Tanter, who served on the National Security Council senior staff in the Regan White House. The article was subsequently translated into Farsi by Voice of America – Iran (VOA Farsi).
In winter 2017, Dr. Sheehan was also profiled in a magazine article titled Professor Ivan Sascha Sheehan Zeroes in on Conflict Both at Home and Abroad.
Dr. Sheehan is the Vice Chair of the Board at the American Committee on Human Rights (formerly known as the Iran Policy Committee). The organization, which educates policymakers on U.S. Iran policy, is made up of senior former White House, State Department, Pentagon, and CIA officials, as well as scholars from think tanks and academia. Sheehan’s scholarship, policy-oriented writing, and media appearances have been influential in shaping Washington’s thinking on the prospect of a democratic transition in Iran.
Dr. Sheehan is scheduled to appear at the Policy Studies Organization’s 2018 Middle East Dialogue this spring and anticipates presenting at the 2018 annual conference of the American Political Science Association in the fall.
Dr. Ivan Sascha Sheehan is the Director of the graduate programs in Negotiations & Conflict Management and Global Affairs & Human Security in the College of Public Affairs at the University of Baltimore. For research or media related updates or to learn more about Dr. Sheehan, follow him at @ProfSheehan or link to his research profiles.
Sheehan Speaks at The National Press Club
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On November 21, 2017, Dr. Ivan Sascha Sheehan – Associate Professor of Public and International Affairs – spoke at The National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The event, which featured Senator Joseph Lieberman and General Charles F. Wald, was covered by media from around the world, including Voice of America (English and Farsi), The Weekly Standard, Breitbart, and several Arab dailies. Dr. Sheehan was quoted in an article titled “Experts: ‘Persian Spring Is Possible’ in Oppressed Iran” and was also quoted by the Deputy Managing Editor at The Weekly Standard.
Dr. Sheehan is the Vice Chair of the Board at the American Committee on Human Rights (formerly known as the Iran Policy Committee). The organization, which seeks to educate policymakers on U.S. Iran policy, is made up of senior former White House, State Department, Pentagon, and CIA officials, as well as scholars from think tanks and academia.
Dr. Sheehan is the author of a number of influential recent op-eds on U.S. Iran policy. Dr. Sheehan’s scholarship, policy-oriented writing, and media appearances have been particularly influential in shaping Washington’s thinking on the prospect of a democratic transition in Iran.
This fall Dr. Sheehan also participated in the NASPAA NEXT Leadership Development Workshop, an invitation only workshop for higher education leaders in public affairs. The meeting focused on strategies for communicating groundbreaking research to public policy officials. Dr. Sheehan also chaired a bipartisan panel discussion featuring elected officials at the annual conference of The William Donald Schaefer Center for Public Policy. UB Magazine also profiled his work in an article titled Professor Ivan Sascha Sheehan Zeroes in on Conflict Both at Home and Abroad.
SHEEHAN | Trump Sanctions Set Stage for Necessary Regime Change in Iran | The Hill
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On August 4, 2017, Dr. Ivan Sascha Sheehan – Associate Professor of Public and International Affairs – authored an op-ed in the congressional newspaper The Hill on the value of the bipartisan passage of the sanctions legislation directed at Iran, North Korea, & Russia. The Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act of 2017 (H.R. 3364) passed through both chambers of the U.S. Congress with more support than almost any piece of major legislation in recent memory. Dr. Sheehan’s scholarship on regime change, policy-oriented writing, and media appearances have been influential in shaping Washington’s thinking on the prospect of a democratic transition in Iran and curtailing Tehran’s state-sponsored terrorism through sanctions and support of the Iranian opposition.
During summer 2017, Dr. Sheehan authored a number of influential op-eds that were shared thousands of times via social media and circulated in Washington’s policy community. The articles raised themes that were subsequently picked up by prominent U.S. officials in public remarks and prior to important votes. These included:
Dr. Sheehan‘s article in New York Daily News was published on the second anniversary of the conclusion of negotiations that resulted in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran (JCPOA) and proposed a formal shift in U.S. policy consistent with American national security interests and Department of State rhetoric. Learn more here.
In the article that follows, Dr. Sheehan was invited by the French newspaper La Tribune to weigh in on the Trump-Macron summit in Paris. The op-ed was translated into French as the heads of state met in private and shared with U.S. and E.U. dignitaries. Read the original article in English here and learn more here.
Dr. Sheehan also published two widely circulated articles in June that addressed terrorism and U.S. policy in Middle East, including one in The Baltimore Sun.
Each of the the policy-oriented commentaries were in keeping with remarks that Dr. Sheehan made at a panel discussion for U.S. officials in Europe earlier this summer where he spoke alongside former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge and joined a distinguished international research delegation.
This past June, Dr. Sheehan also served as the Moderator for the National Geographic Channel premiere of Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria & the Rise of ISIS in Washington, D.C. The documentary – by Academy-Award nominated filmmaker and New York Times #1 best-selling author Sebastian Junger and Emmy award winner Nick Quested – traced the origins of the Syrian crisis and the rise of Islamic State. In June Dr. Sheehan also delivered a keynote address at a think-tank in Paris, France and co-authored a Citiciscope article.
Sheehan Publishes Two Additional Op-Eds on U.S. Policy in Middle East
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In mid July 2017, Dr. Ivan Sascha Sheehan – Associate Professor of Public and International Affairs – authored two additional op-eds on U.S. policy in the Middle East. Dr. Sheehan’s scholarship on regime change, policy-oriented writing, and media appearances have been influential in shaping Washington’s thinking on terrorism, the Iranian opposition, and the prospect of a democratic transition in Iran.
The first article in New York Daily News was published on the second anniversary of the conclusion of negotiations that resulted in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran (JCPOA) and proposes a formal shift in U.S. policy consistent with American national security interests and Department of State rhetoric.
In the second article Dr. Sheehan was invited by the French newspaper La Tribune to weigh in on the recent Trump-Macron meeting in Paris. The op-ed was translated into French as the heads of state met in private and shared with U.S. and E.U. dignitaries. Read the original article submitted in English here.
The policy-oriented commentaries are in keeping with remarks that Dr. Sheehan made at a panel discussion for U.S. officials in Europe earlier this summer where he spoke alongside former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge and joined a distinguished international research delegation.
Dr. Sheehan also published two widely circulated op-eds in June that addressed terrorism and U.S. Policy in Middle East.
Sheehan Joins Distinguished U.S. Delegation at 2017 Conference for Democracy in Iran
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In July 2017, Dr. Ivan Sascha Sheehan – Associate Professor of Public and International Affairs – traveled to Paris as part of a distinguished research delegation examining the Iranian opposition in the lead up to the second anniversary of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran. The theme of the conference – regime change in Iran – was consistent with Dr. Sheehan’s policy-oriented writing, scholarship, and media appearances, as well as analyses he has provided to policymakers in the U.S. Congress.
An invited guest of the organizing committee, Dr. Sheehan met with bipartisan U.S. officials during his visit to discuss Middle East policy as well as his scholarship on regime change. He also spoke at panel discussion featuring former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge and participated in extensive media coverage of the event. Topics raised by Dr. Sheehan in recent op-eds were also discussed by prominent U.S. and world leaders. The annual conference – which featured crowds estimated at more than 100,000 – is the largest annual gathering of the democratic Iranian opposition in exile and featured remarks by leaders from more than fifty countries, a bipartisan delegation of senior U.S. officials, and prominent academics from around the world. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran, democracy, human rights, the rule of law, and the deteriorating situation in neighboring Syria and Iraq were discussed. The events, which were carried live in the U.S. by Fox News and The Washington Times, were also broadcast inside Iran by Voice of America and featured prominently in Arab newspapers.
Dignitaries in attendance included former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich; former FBI Director Louis Freeh, former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge; former U.S. Attorney General Judge Michael Mukasey; and former National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush, Frances Townsend, and many others. Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, former Director of the Saudi General Intelligence Directorate in Saudi Arabia’s Intelligence Agency, pledged his commitment to regime change in Iran and expressed strong support for the Iranian resistance. Dr. Sheehan has written and spoken extensively on the concept of regime change in Iran in both scholarly and news outlets.
Dr. Ivan Sascha Sheehan – Associate Professor of Public and International Affairs – is the Director of the graduate programs in Negotiations & Conflict Management and Global Affairs & Human Security in the College of Public Affairs at the University of Baltimore. For research or media related updates or to learn more about Dr. Sheehan, follow him at @ProfSheehan or link to his research profiles.
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Design Switzerland in Shenzhen
Mainland China — Design and Architecture
Design Switzerland: Keep it Smart. Reliable. Unique.
Shenzhen Creative Week
March 19 to 22, 2018
Hall 6, Booth 6D01
Opening hours: 9:00-17:00
Studios: Michel Charlot, Laura Couto Rosado, Dukta, Christophe Guberan, Sebastian Marbacher, Arno Mathies, Julie Richoz, Daniel Wehrli
A first at the Shenzhen Creative Week; Ingeniously innovative Swiss Design. Pro Helvetia Shanghai, Swiss Arts Council supports the presentation of a diversified selection of the most outstanding young design professionals and talents with track proven records in product, furniture and interior design.
Our history is our DNA; Having transformed from a land of farmers to the globally leading nation in innovation, wealth and sustainability, Swiss design expertise is deeply rooted in our history. The Swiss way of working is precise, innovative, elegant, unique. The matter purpose is well defined and relating to real customer needs. Being an experienced export nation, our designers and brands understand to develop products that fit the international market.
Meet and Match; you are a producer, editor, product manager, brand manager or investor looking for strategic assets. Meet our designers now, discover their works and specialized skills to match your needs.
Michel Hueter
Co-Curator, Switzerland
Born 1972 in Switzerland. Started his professional career in the Swiss watch industry. After seven years at different brands of the Swatch Group Ltd., he moved on to a Zurich based PR agency.
This experience brought him to Presence Switzerland, a body of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, where he first was handling projects and Asian markets before becoming Head of Marketing and Communications for major international events such as the Swiss participation at the World Expo in Aichi Japan.
In 2008 he re-joined the Swatch Group as Head of Communications International for re-positioning mission of the brand RADO. In 2011 was commissioned as Director and Curator of the “Design Prize Switzerland”, the leading competition oriented design platform of Switzerland that selects and promotes some of the best of Swiss Design innovations and products across all disciplines.
Since 2018 he is working as an independent curator.
Mimi Yan
Co-Curator, China
Born 1977 in Beijing, China, after graduated from University of Lyon II in France, and got the “Mode & Creation “ Master degree, she decided to return to Shanghai, and participate at the launch of《ELLE DECORATION China》. In 2009, she became the second Chief editor of the magazine, and as the founding jury of EDIDA (Elle Decoration International Design Award) China section, she kept promoting Chinese designers into international stage.
In end of 2013, she became independent curator, and founded MY studio, focusing on the curation and promotion of general aesthetic exhibition, including design, architecture, fashion, photography, digital art and craftsmanship. At the end of 2016, she founded a thought leadership project called “Elevated Memories”. Its purpose is to showcase designers who bring progress to traditional craftsmanship, by incorporating modern aesthetics and industrial production knowledge, and finding the possibility of sustainable development of craftsmanship in the new century.
Designer, Switzerland
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Michel Charlot is a Swiss industrial designer born in Lausanne (1984). After graduating from the Ecole Cantonale d‘Art de Lausanne (écal) in 2009, he worked for Jasper Morrison ltd. In 2011, he set up his own practice, and started developing products for companies such as Kettal, L&Z, Belux and Vitra. He aims at creating cost driven intuitive products in a constant quest for efficiency in conception, production and design. Since January 2013, he teaches industrial design at École Cantonal d‘Art de Lausanne (écal) in Switzerland and at the Tama Art University in Tokyo, Japan. In 2013 U-turn, first product designed with Belux, was awarded with the “Design Preis Schweiz” and “Swiss Federal Design award” which are the most prestigious swiss design award given to industrial products.
As a designer he aims, together with his client’s inputs and restrictions to design tools for life. A small contribution to make it an even more enjoyable experience. Rather charming than beautiful, more clever than special, his designs will hopefully be long lasting instead of fashionable.
Laura Couto Rosado
Designer, Geneva, Switzerland
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contact@lcr.digital
Laura Couto Rosado is product and media designer based in Geneva. She is passionate about creating a strong symbiosis between design, science, and technology. Inspired by fundamental and applied physics, she designs hybrid devices that reveal beauty and poetry where one does not expect it.
She is currently teaching assistant in the Master Media Design department at HEAD-Geneva. She is also co-founder of the Digital Alchemy design studio, which, combining digital and analogue technologies with craftsmanship, develops a new generation of smart objects for home space.
The designer presents two domestic smart lamps.
Veilleuse Tellurique is an ambient lamp connected to the telluric forces of the Earth.
This smart object is designed for the domestic space, it interprets the data of seismographs recorded in real time on the web that are transcribed in a generative light.
This product of poetic technology interacts and modifies the luminous atmosphere of the house by making visible the regular inflexions of the Earth that human being cannot naturally perceive.
Aeli proposes to visitors to meet artificial intelligence incarnated in a domestic lamp. Aeli challenges the designer to deal with new social phenomena such as the introduction of artificial intelligence in the domestic landscape.
dukta
Designer,Zürich, Switzerland
www.dukta.com
p.lunin@dukta.com
Pablo Lunin
Product and Industrial Designer, BA, ZFH
After completing his studies as a product and industrial designer in 2012, Pablo Lunin worked for two years on developing new chocolate products for an international Company. Involved in the whole design process, from the taste to the packaging of the product, his main focus was on creating new concepts, shapes and formats using different creative methods and prototyping techniques. In 2015 he joined his father’s company dukta GmbH and built up the license business with producing partners and the commercial distribution of the flexible wood panels. He is co-owner of dukta GmbH since 2017.
Serge Lunin
Wood Expert, Designer and Lecturer at University of the Arts Zurich
After completing training as a carpenter and cabinet maker, Serge Lunin took part in various forms of training such as becoming a teacher and lecturer for adult education. He has been teaching at Bachelor level at the university of the arts in Zürich since 1990 in the fields of design, material experiments as well as functional and scenic design. Through his long experience, playful experiments and constant enhancements he developed the dukta incision technique in 2006 and has been working parallel to his lectureship on the dukta project since.
dukta – flexible wood is a unique and internationally patented process that makes wood and engineered wood flexible. Through the incisions, the material gains textile-like properties and a significantly wider range of applications.
With its visual and technical qualities, dukta opens up completely new horizons for interior fittings and furniture design. The excellent sound absorbing properties of incised engineered wood are of particular interest. The incision technique works with commercial engineered wood such as plywood, MDF and three-layer boards.
The pliable dukta boards lend themselves to designing unique furniture and luminaires. The perforated wooden material allows to construct easily round shaped furniture, sliding doors or shutters. At the same time the incised panels can be used as a hanging grid for shelves and hooks.
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dominic.schloegel@gmail.com
Christophe Guberan is a product designer based in Switzerland and the USA who graduated from ECAL Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne. He is the 2016 laureate of the prestigious Hublot Design Prize and the recipient of the Leenards Foundation Culture Award 2013. He pushes the boundaries of material interactions, self assembly, and aesthetics in his creations. Christophe’s products have been showcased at internationally recognized exhibitions and festivals such as Mutations/Créations at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2017, the Milan Furniture Fair and its Salone Satellite in 2012 (HydroFold), 2015 (USM Rethink the Modular), and 2017 (Rapid Liquid Printing), and a solo show at Design Koishikawa in Tokyo. His objects have been produced by global leading companies (Alessi). His HydroFold project, consisting of selffolding paper printed from a desktop 2D printer, has received wide academic and public attention that resulted in an ongoing collaboration with MIT’s Self Assembly Lab.
His industrial design studio creates innovative solutions and products influenced by
research and development. With a strong emphasis on collaborating with the industry and by implementing new technologies, he challenges the way we use materials to rethink the production process.
Sebastian Marbacher
www.sebastian.marbacher.com
sebastian@marbacher.com
Sebastian Marbacher is a product designer based in Switzerland. In his studio, founded in 2013, he works on self-initiated projects and for commercial clients and institutions. His work has been shown in several exhibitions. In particular at the Fisher Parrish Gallery in New York and at the Galerie Helmrinderknecht in Zurich. He was recently awarded with the Swiss Design Award.
Basic Chair
This piece is driven by reduction.
How small can it be?
It could be smaller than you would think.
It is never crippled if it balances this brave.
Comfort was achieved on a foundation of something very narrow.
Once you put these chairs in a stack, they become a tower.
Tower stands for loneliness, but this one has a social potential.
Lines from the script written by Kaja Kusztra part of Superprojekt at Depot Basel 2016, Curated by Matylda Krzykowski & Rebekka Kiesewetter
Arno Mathies
www.arnomathies.com
info@arnomathies.com
Arno Mathies is a Swiss born designer based in Geneva, Switzerland. Arno’s work is motivated by the potential output of production processes and material properties. He intends to question the function of an object by exploring the limits of form, use and perception. After completing his Masters at the Royal College of Art in Design Products, Arno met Max Frommeld and in 2012 they established a design studio, Max Frommeld & Arno Mathies, based in London. Their shared interest in functional design and folding technologies led to a series of creative collaborations.
Two of their self-initiated projects, Folding Boat and Folding Sled, were nominated for the Federal Swiss Design Awards; Folding Boat in 2013 and Folding Sled in 2014. Folding Boat was shortlisted as product of the year, 2011, by It’s Nice That, shortlisted as best life enhancing product, 2012, by Wallpaper* Magazine and was nominated by Conde Nast for innovation design awards 2012. Folding Sled, recently received two prices, the special price of the Jury and the Eyes on Talent, from the Design Parade 10 at the Villa Noailles.
Since 2017, Arno has been developing projects for his own practice studio based in Geneva, working with a variety of clients, artists, designers and artisans.
Since 2015, in parallel to his studio practice, Arno is Head of the MA Spaces and Communication at la HEAD—Genève, a course he runs with the precious support of Alexandra Midal and Rosario Hurtado.
The project concept was originally instigated through the research and understanding of 3d printing as a process and visual language. Unfortunately, 3d printing is too often associated to cheap and poorly designed objects, due to a result of accessibility and misuse. The democratization of this tool in the household has made it an object of controversy and has extended the limits of domestic production, re-contextualized the role and status of the designer. This home factory enables any amateur with no modelling skills to easily adventure the world of 3D printing. Through a variety of trials and different print attempts, I have endeavored to tailor a language that provides new values to 3D printing by using the plate as my object for canvas.
Julie Richoz
Designer, Paris, France
www.julierichoz.com
richoz.julie@gmail.com
Julie Richoz (1990) is a Swiss-French designer. After graduating from ECAL, Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne, she started working for Pierre Charpin as a project assistant.
In 2012 she set up her design studio in Paris where she enjoys with curiosity and sensibility to develop her own language through objects, either for industrial production or as individual pieces. She collaborates with renowned companies such Alessi, Louis Poulsen, or Galerie Kreo.
Richoz has won the “Grand Prix” of the Design Parade 2012 at the Villa Noailles. She was a designer-in-residency at Sèvres, Cite de la céramique, as well as at CIRVA, international research center on arts and glass, Marseille, where she was given the chance to explore the materials and the savoir-faire behind them. During two years, she was in charge of designing home accessories collections for Louis Vuitton. Since 2018 she teaches industrial design at ECAL in Lausanne.
In 2015, she received a Swiss Design Award, which is the Switzerland’s leading national design competition organized annually by the FOC (Federal Office of Culture) since 1918. Her work is part of museum collections such as Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich.
I like to include a certain kind of tension within my objects. I try to grant a certain force of attraction to my objects, something which might arouse curiosity. I am very attuned towards the vibration of handwork. A form becomes more aleatory, sensitive, or sensual through the action of the hand. Sometimes, imperfection gives the idea, or the sensation, of a certain perfection.
I choose four projects to introduce my work. Thalie, a series of sewed bowls in stainless steel; Tapis, a carpet expressing an evolving motif made of natural fibers; Fierzo, a playful desk organiser; and Cicala, an outdoor armchair with a romantic attitude.
Every object is a project on its own. Together they form an ensemble which expresses my approach and sensitivities.
Daniel Wehrli
www.danielwehrli.ch
studio@danielwehrli.ch
Daniel Wehrli studied product design at ECAL, Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne and at FHNW, University of Applied Sciences and Art in Aarau after he completed his first education as a cabinet-maker. He gained professional experience in Kanazawa, Japan, where he collaborated with craftsmen. Then he worked in New York for some time in luxury good, furniture and exhibition sector. In 2015 he set up his own studio «daniel wehrli Industrial Design». His focus lies on innovative product and furniture design and development. International furniture brands are among his clients. Furthermore he is engaged in material centred research in the field of textiles as part of a research group at University of Applied Sciences in Lucerne.
Wehrli has won several design awards like the Japanese «Award for Excellence» from prefecture Ishikawa, Best of NeoCon Gold Award, Chicago and got nominated for Designprize Switzerland in 2017/18. His work has been featured in exhibitions at the 21st Century museum of contemporary Art (Kanazawa, Japan) Depot Basel and ETH Zürich.
Prototypes and commissions. The work shown by Daniel Wehrli at Shenzhen is an overview on his design approach. All objects are informed by a research in design history and emerge through a hands on design process showcased by the cardboard mockups in the exhibition. Those are used in the form giving process. Two objects namely SLED wardrobe and WEDA bench are commissioned pieces for international brands. Both stand for an interest in rethinking the traditional types of furniture, combined with the knowledge in wood processing and craftsmanship. PLUG IN, a prototype, emerged as a redesign of a traditional bootjack used in the swiss countryside. While the two coffee tables are side specific furniture, designed in collaboration with the brand Schönstaub known for their graphic carpets.
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Basic Chair_2017_Courtesy of Sebastian Marbacher_Provided by Pro Helvetia Shanghai, Swiss Arts Council
Courtesy of Michel Charlot_Provided by Pro Helvetia Shanghai, Swiss Arts Council
Fierzo_2012_Courtesy of Julie Richoz_Provided by Pro Helvetia Shanghai, Swiss Arts Council
Shoe, Active Textile_Courtesy of Christophe Guberan_Provided by Pro Helvetia Shanghai, Swiss Arts Council
Veilleuse Tellurique_Courtesy of Laura Couto Rosado_Photo by Raphaelle Mueller_Provided by Pro Helvetia Shanghai, Swiss Arts Council
Dukta_Courtesy of Pablo Lunin and Serge Lunin_Provided by Pro Helvetia Shanghai, Swiss Arts Council
Courtesy of Arno Mathies_Provided by Pro Helvetia Shanghai, Swiss Arts Council
Title: Shenzhen Creative Week
Date: March 19 to 22, 2019
Venue: Hall 4, Booth 4D02/ Hall 4, Booth 4C01
Theme: Design Switzerland: Between Creativity, Functionality and Beauty / The Upward Spiral that We Wonder
Studios: Dimitri Bähler, Egli Studio, Matthieu Girel, schoenstaub / Christophe Guberan
Design Switzerland: Between Creativity, Functionality and Beauty
Jewellery, clock and watch, Art Basel, these keywords associated with Swiss design have overwhelming PR impacts on a global scale. People unfamiliar with the current scene of Swiss design might instinctively assume that it relies on fine craftsmanship and aims at the high-end market, hence distances itself from the trend of times. This is far from the real picture.
For the second year, Pro Helvetia Shanghai, Swiss Arts Council is introducing three Swiss design studios to the Shenzhen Creative Week, one of the most successful commercial fairs in China’s furniture and interior design industry. The Design Switzerland booth presents the works of Swiss local brand schoenstaub as well as of Swiss designer/ group Dimitri Bähler, Egli Studio and Matthieu Girel. These studios have claimed prestigious awards such as the Swiss Design Award and Design Preis Schweiz, and were selected by Pro Helvetia to exhibit in 2018 at Milano Fuorisaloneor at London designjunction. Works created by this young generation of designers at their 30s present a lively picture of Swiss contemporary design. By introducing to Chinese manufacturers, investors, and brand managers during side events, these Swiss designers embrace a unique opportunity to discover China’s creative industry and gain visibility.
Egli Studio & Matthieu Girel
Egli Studio & Matthieu Girel will present “Hypercollection”, a furniture ensemble with clear and simple lines, consisting of a shelf system, lamp, low table, sofa and a wardrobe. Delimiting but not closing, the collection offers a flexible solution to the needs of open spaces.
schoenstaub
schoenstaub showcases three woven carpets and printed towel collections highlighted by “Terrazzo”, which has won the Wallpaper Design Awards 2017. schoenstaub’s designs seek to break up the boundaries between “inside” and “outside”, building a bond between functionality and aesthetics.
Dimitri Bähler will bring “Bimu Light” and “Cho Light”, as well as “VPTC ceramics series”, which has won the Grand Prize of the Interieur design award competition. Dimitri focuses on material experimentation and exploring different types of production processes. His collection creates a dialogue between usefulness and non-functionality, minimalism and aesthetics.
These selected works manifest both a solid inheritance from traditional industrial design, and an exploration that seeks dialogue with the time we live in. Their design expertise is revealed not only in the perception of propriety and the precise coordination of left and right brains — which requires the ability to simplify without losing the taste of poetry and delight, and to pursue a kind of creative and aesthetic design with technical core, full of experimental features and commercial potentials, but also is demonstrated in the obsessive focus on user experience. Such design takes root in a remarkably mature design concept, as reflected in the concerns beyond layout and production processes. These young talents who represent the new forces of Swiss contemporary design carry with them the lofty ideals to contribute to society. They value highly the reciprocal interaction with the clients, and feel responsible for boosting the industry, as well as promoting the image transformation of Switzerland. The vitality of Swiss design stands out in its full glory.
Hypercollection, © Egli Studio & Matthieu Girel
Bimu Light, © Dimitri Bähler
Athletica Collection, © schoenstaub
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"A Tale of Two Cities" was first published in 1859. Charles Dickens tells a gripping story about the nature of torture, power and love. This audiobook is performed by Jane Aker and co-produced by LoudLit.org and LiteralSystems. Each episode has 1 to 4 chapters and is approximately 30-40 minutes in length. Text provided at Project Gutenberg (www.gutenberg.org). This recording was made possible by the generous support of Gordon W. Draper. Also available via podcast from LiteralSystems and LoudLit.org: "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad, "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain.
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Posts Tagged ‘Jodie Foster’
The Brave One (2007)
Posted: October 10, 2013 in Joe Giambrone
Tags: Death Penalty, firearms, genre, guns, Jodie Foster, NPR, paranoia, public radio, review, right wing, Taxi Driver, The Brave One, vengeance, vigilantism, violence
Jodie Foster’s Death Wish
Everything wrong with this film is summed up in three words by producer Joel Silver: “genre based entertainment.”
I took this as a serious movie, because it features Jodie Foster and in a different kind of role, as a disturbed vigilante. I too wrote a similar psychological story about a character dealing with violence, a novel that needs a rewrite called American Gun Disorder. I bring it up for the similarities that stand out: both have main characters in New York City dealing with violence and the desire for personal protection, firearms if necessary, in an inherently dangerous world. Both main characters devolve and go essentially crazy.
Unfortunately, The Brave One is more of an implausible Charles Bronson Death Wish type plot, for the entire middle of the movie. In rapid succession, Jodie just happens to find herself in the middle of extreme over the top incidents, where she must blast scumbags left and right. It’s like the producers called central casting. They placed an order for scumbag gang, psycho jealous husband, generic gangbanger pair, creepy John and suited elite gangster threatening stepdaughter. Bang, bang, bang, bang…
What’s more, they took this off the shelf revenge fantasy and threw a British artsy-indie director at it, in order to make it appear more substantive. Besides insulting the audience, he failed in his stylistic choices. Such a film where the main character devolves from sane to insane, in way too short screen time no less, really needs to be from her point of view. It has to be experiential. The camera must capture experience, real time moments, the personal perceptions of a character.
What we got instead were standard setups, voyeuristic treatment. The shots are more concerned with making it look cool than the actual psychology of the story. A style like Black Swan, religiously following the main character throughout, would have been appropriate. Here, we have a nicely lit commercial TV version of New York City. It feels absolutely nothing like the actual New York City. As cinematographer Philippe Rousselot revealed it was primarily shot on long lenses, which of course keep the audience at a distance, and it wasn’t “a panaorama.” Intimate shooting requires wide lenses, proximity, a feel for the environment. Long lenses, on the other hand, render the background as less consequential, simply window dressing.
A real character in the actual New York is half your work at selling the fear, the desperate sensibility and feeling of helplessness. Walking among 40 story towering behemoths makes one feel very insignificant and powerless. Add to that the hardened, aggressive city denizens, the 24 hour working class struggle and the fringes of civilization and you’re 90% there toward selling a descent into dog eat dog paranoia. Watch any five minutes of Taxi Driver before you start production. The Brave One failed glaringly there. It’s simply overlit and filmed Hollywood style.
The last problem, judging from bonus feature commentary, was Foster herself. A “public radio junkie,” she was perhaps the wrong person to be steering this story. NPR liberal head-nodders don’t walk around the city blasting gangbangers to kingdom come. It doesn’t compute. It may have been a good opportunity to show off her vocal talents and trade a radio show for unnecessary voice overs (but came off about the same anyway). Her character, however, didn’t click for this world, for this story.
Now the film had a shot, and some people liked it – that’s why I rented it. The beginning was okay, and the end had a little bit of inventiveness, not much, but some; I’d rate it 2.5/5. The stupid action movie one-liners, “who’s the bitch now?” didn’t help. The film’s middle, however, had no chance to avoid eye rolling and disbelief. It’s like the various personalities involved took hold of sections of the film ensuring their concerns were included at certain points: just too many chefs. In the end The Brave One pandered to rightwing conservative notions of payback and the death penalty, the usual point of these “genre based entertainments.” No surprises on that front, which was a bit off-putting. It’s like being trapped by conventions, by the idea that doing it differently is somehow verboten. I found it an unnecessary, poorly done mimicry of harder edged predecessors, just another vehicle that should have stayed on the lot.
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HomeJournalsScandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation Research Outputs
Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation, 1502-7686
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Absorption and incorporation into tissue lipids of 3H-arachidonic- and 14C-linoleic acid: effects of ethanol in jejunal tissue cultures and in vivo
Chen, Q., Barros, H., Florén, C. H. & A Nilsson, 1994 Nov, In : Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation. 54, 7, p. 495-504 10 p.
Accuracy diagrams: a novel way to illustrate uncertainty of estimated GFR
Jonas Björk, Anders Grubb, Gunnar Sterner, Bäck, S. E. & Ulf Nyman, 2017, In : Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation. 77, 3, p. 199-204
A cystatin C-based formula without anthropometric variables estimates glomerular filtration rate better than creatinine clearance using the Cockcroft-Gault formula.
Anders Grubb, Björk, J., Veronica Lindström, Gunnar Sterner, Bondesson, P. & Ulf Nyman, 2005, In : Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation. 65, 2, p. 153-162
Adrenocorticotrophic hormone retarded metabolism of low-density lipoprotein in rats.
Ning Xu, Hurtig, M., Ulf Ekström & Peter Nilsson-Ehle, 2004, In : Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation. 64, 3, p. 217-222
Age dependence of renal function: clearance of iohexol and p-amino hippurate in healthy males
Back, S. E., Bengt Ljungberg, Nilsson-Ehle, I., Borga, O. & Peter Nilsson-Ehle, 1989, In : Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation. 49, 7, p. 641-646
Albumin-induced coagulopathy is less severe and more effectively reversed with fibrinogen concentrate than is synthetic colloid-induced coagulopathy.
Dag Winstedt, Hanna, J. & Ulf Schött, 2013, In : Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation. 73, 2, p. 161-169
Analysis of tissues that reflect central nervous system disease by mass spectrometry
Carol Nilsson, 1999 Aug, In : Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation. 59, 5, p. 383-91
An evaluation of the interference of hydroxycobalamin with chemistry and co-oximetry tests on nine commonly used instruments
Carlsson, C. J., Hansen, H. E., Hilsted, L., Johan Malm, Odum, L. & Szecsi, P. B., 2011, In : Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation. 71, 5, p. 378-386
A new tool for predicting the probability of chronic kidney disease from a specific value of estimated GFR.
Jonas Björk, Anders Grubb, Gunnar Sterner & Ulf Nyman, 2010, In : Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation. Jul 1, p. 327-333
A pilot study on the applicability of thromboelastometry in detecting brain tumour-induced hypercoagulation
Jansohn, E., Johan Bengzon, Thomas Kander & Ulf Schött, 2017, In : Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation. 77, 4, p. 289-294 6 p.
Apolipoprotein M: Progress in understanding its regulation and metabolic functions
Christoffersen, C., Björn Dahlbäck & Nielsen, L. B., 2006, In : Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation. 66, 7, p. 631-637
Asymmetric dimethylarginine and total homocysteine in plasma after oral methionine loading
Wanby, P., Brattstrom, L., Brudin, L., Hultberg, B. & Teerlink, T., 2003, In : Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation. 63, 5, p. 347-353
Binding of dietary Cobalt to sarcoplasmic reticulum proteins
Persson, B., Carlenor, E., N. Clyne, Hultman, E., Lins, L. E., Pehrsson, S. K. & J. Rydström, 1992, In : Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation. 52, 2, p. 137-140 4 p.
Biological variation of retinoids in man.
Berggren Söderlund, M., Holmér, A., Svärd, G., Fex, G. & Peter Nilsson-Ehle, 2002, In : Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation. 62, 7, p. 511-519
Calcium-induced apoptosis is delayed by HER1 receptor signalling through the Akt and PLCγ pathways in bladder cancer cells
Ashfaque A Memon, Munk, M., Nexo, E. & Sorensen, B. S., 2011 Feb, In : Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation. 71, 1, p. 45-51
Calculation of glomerular filtration rate expressed in mL/min from plasma cystatin C values in mg/L
Larsson, A., Johan Malm, Anders Grubb & Hansson, L. O., 2004, In : Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation. 64, 1, p. 25-30
Certificate of analysis NFKK Reference Serum X: a reprint
Pedersen, M. M., Rustad, P. & Per Simonsson, 2004, In : Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation. 64, 4, p. 321-326
Chronic cobalt exposure affects antioxidants and ATP production in rat myocardium
N. Clyne, Hofman-Bang, C., Haga, Y., Hatori, N., Marklund, S. L., Pehrsson, S. K. & Wibom, R., 2001, In : Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation. 61, 8, p. 609-614 6 p.
Clearance of iohexol, 51Cr-EDTA and endogenous creatinine for determination of glomerular filtration rate in pigs with reduced renal function: a comparison between different clearance techniques
Bo Frennby, Gunnar Sterner, Almén, T., Chai, C-M., Bo-Anders Jönsson & Månsson, S., 1997, In : Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation. 57, 3, p. 241-252
Comparison of fibrin-based clot elasticity parameters measured by free oscillation rheometry (ReoRox (R)) versus thromboelastometry (ROTEM (R))
Solomon, C., Schoechl, H., Ranucci, M., Ulf Schött & Schlimp, C. J., 2015, In : Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation. 75, 3, p. 239-246
Correlation between blood glucose concentration and glucose concentration in subcutaneous adipose tissue evaluated with microdialysis during intensive care
Lourido, J., Ederoth, P., Sundvall, N., Ungerstedt, U. & Nordström, C-H., 2002, In : Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation. 62, 4, p. 285-292
C-peptide in dried blood spots.
Johansson, J., Charlotte Becker, Persson, N., Malin Fex & Törn, C., 2010, In : Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation. 70, p. 404-409
Cystatin C, a marker for successful aging and glomerular filtration rate, is not influenced by inflammation.
Anders Grubb, Jonas Björk, Ulf Nyman, Pollak, J., Johan Bengzon, Östner, G. & Veronica Lindström, 2011, In : Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation. 71, p. 145-149
Cystatin C reduces the in vitro formation of soluble A beta 1-42 oligomers and protofibrils
Selenica, M. L., Wang, X., Ostergaard-Pedersen, L., Westlind-Danielsson, A. & Anders Grubb, 2007, In : Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation. 67, 2, p. 179-190
Dabigatran and its reversal with recombinant factor VIIa and prothrombin complex concentrate: A Sonoclot in vitro study
Solbeck, S., Caroline Nilsson, Engström, M., Ostrowski, S. R. & Johansson, P. I., 2014, In : Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation. 74, 7, p. 591-598
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Release from SMASH! (Sydney Manga and Anime Show)
COSPLAYER GOLDY TO ATTEND SYDNEY’S #1 ANIME CONVENTION
Cosplayer KANAME☆ joins REIKA for SMASH! 2015
Japanese voice actor Daisuke Sakaguchi to attend SMASH! 2017
About SMASH! (Sydney Manga and Anime Show)
SMASH! Sydney Manga and Anime Show is a Japanese pop-culture convention that is set to return with its spectacular two-day convention on August 19th and 20th at Rosehill Gardens (Sydney, NSW) For fans of comic, manga, and anime, SMASH! is a true pop-culture festival that will impress attendees of all ages. Promising an action-packed weekend of events and activities ranging from cosplay, anime/manga, gaming and arts, this is an event not to be missed!
COSPLAYER YUEGENE FAY TO ATTEND SMASH!’s 10th ANNIVERSARY EVENT
Sydney, NSW, June 14th, 2016 —For fans of geek and pop-culture, cosplay fever is returning to SMASH! Sydney Manga and Anime Show in spectacular style. SMASH! is delighted to announce that the internationally recognised cosplayer, YUEGENE FAY, will be coming to celebrate SMASH!’s 10th anniversary event on August 20th and 21st.
YUEGENE FAY is Thailand’s top-ranking cosplayer who is well-renowned for her accurate ‘cross-play’ portrayal of characters from the multi-verse realms of manga, anime, gaming and music.
Amongst her anime and gaming cosplays, Yuegene Fay is best known for cosplays such as Mikasa Ackerman (Attack on Titan), Rin Matsuoka (Free! Iwatobi Swim Club), and Mikoto Suoh (K).
Yuegene Fay’s attendance comes after having international cosplay guests REIKA and KANAME⭐ at SMASH! 2015. The popular cosplay duo attracted thousands of fans to Q&As, tutorials and signings.
SMASH! President Andrew Qiu believes Yuegene’s attendance reflects fans’ “enthusiasm for authentic cosplay talent” at pop-culture conventions like SMASH!.
“With a profound status in the cosplay scene, Yuegene Fay is without a doubt a fitting guest choice for SMASH! 2016,” Qiu said.
“Regardless of gender and skills, cosplay has the power to unite like-minded fans. It offers them the opportunity to dress up and express their passion for pop-culture in the unique form of cosplay.”
Yuegene Fay will join previously announced guests: Japanese voice actor Hideo Ishikawa (Naruto) and Japanese voice actress Ai Nonaka (Puella Magi Madoka Magica).
SMASH! 2016 is a two-day pop-culture convention to be held at Rosehill Gardens on August 20th and 21st. Featuring a line-up of cosplay, gaming and anime events, SMASH! Sydney Manga and Anime Show is an event not to be missed. For more information, visit www.smash.org.au.
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SMASH! Media Contact:
SUSAN MA
Public Relations Coordinator
E: pr@smash.org.au
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BEAUFORT, S.C. - PrZen -- The Beaufort Film Society is pleased to announce that Oscar, BAFTA, and Emmy winning Sound Designer/Editor Eugene Gearty will be presented the Pat Conroy Lifetime Achievement Award at the 14th annual Beaufort International Film Festival. The festival takes place February 18-23, 2020 with the Red Carpet Reception and Awards Gala taking place on Sunday, February 23rd at the University of South Carolina, Beaufort, Center for the Arts, Beaufort, SC.
"Eugene's body of work in the film and television industries over nearly four decades is extraordinary. He was one of the first digital sound designers/editors in the industry. He has worked with some of the best Directors in the business, Martin Scorsese, Ang Lee, Spike Lee, the Coen Brothers to name a few. Eugene is legendary in the movie world of 'sound'. We are very honored to present the Pat Conroy Lifetime Achievement Award to Eugene Gearty for his unparalleled contributions to the art of filmmaking," stated Beaufort Film Society President Ron Tucker.
"The award is named for Best Selling Author and Academy Award nominated Screenwriter Pat Conroy who was a long time resident of Beaufort, SC before his death of pancreatic cancer in March 2016. Beaufort's long film history began with Pat when his novel The Great Santini was made into a feature film and shot right here in Beaufort," stated Rebecca Tucker, Co-Director of the Beaufort International Film Festival.
Eugene Gearty graduated from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA in 1982 and since 1983 has created an award winning career in producing quality sound effects for film and television. He possesses a lengthy list of credits such as The Wolf of Wallstreet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Do The Right Thing, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, the Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy and Mary Poppins Returns. Gearty won the Academy Award for best achievement in sound editing on Martin Scorsese's 2011 film Hugo. He received two other Oscar nominations for Gangs of New York and Life of Pi. He was awarded an Emmy for his work on the HBO series, Boardwalk Empire. Most recently, Eugene just completed work as Sound Editor/Mixer on another Martine Scorsese film, The Irishman.
The Pat Conroy Lifetime Achievement Award is sponsored by Leslie and Landon Thorne.
For more information about the 14th Annual Beaufort International Film Festival, visit beaufortfilmfestival.com. The festival is produced by the Beaufort Film Society.
The Beaufort Film Society is a nonprofit, 501 (c) 3, member-supported organization, dedicated to providing the highest levels of entertainment and education to the public from all areas of the film industry.
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Underground Cities – Arcosanti – 93%
“Arcosanti” is Underground Cities follow-up album to their 2010 debut “The Dalliance Album.” The Arizona four piece formed in 2008 bring a more straight forward post-rock sound to the table. “Arcosanti” is 46 minutes over eight tracks and starts strong with “Early Birds”, a fun track with acentric drumming and beautifully layered guitar textures. “Made of Rust” is a short and sensual piano number that features a horn instrument in the distant background that helps moves the album along seamlessly to “1876”, a huge track that brings a monumental feel to the table with its build ups and changes in intensity. A large sound stage allows the excellent mixing and audio engineering found throughout the album to really shine. “Stay Fast With the Ships” begins as a quiet piece chalked full of emotion that features lovely violin work amongst a twinkly backdrop of keyboards and slow distant cymbal crashes. Eventually the track works itself into a post-rock frenzy that I really feel should have lasted much longer.
“Arcosanti Bells” is fun track that is deeply layered and is oozing with charisma and really feels like the track that defines a band. “Talk Slow, Move Slow” is another track with an interlude vibe that helps set the stage for “Something New in All Sizes and Colors”, the longest track on the album at nine and a half minutes long. This track opens curiously and builds up while drums give marching orders as spiraling crescendo guitar layers amp up the sound levels. A clean guitar layer hangs around as long as it can until distortion guitar layers completely shove it aside. Easily one of the biggest highlights on the album is when this track bursts at the seams as it peaks in all it’s post-rocking glory. Finally the album comes to a close with “It’s a Fine Life”, a great track that really sends the album off as a big closing number.
“Arcosanti” is a highly imaginative and creative release by a young band that have created an absolute powerhouse of an album. It’s not often a release comes along that is this sonically solid while still being just an outright enjoyable album. It brings with it an energetic playful vibe that refuses to let you get sucked into the music, forcing you to pay full attention to every tempo change and every new layer. While “The Dalliance Album” piqued my curiosity towards the band, “Arcosanti” has made me a fan for life. This is a must listen to album of 2012. 9-19-12
Available for $8 on bandcamp: http://undergroundcities.bandcamp.com/album/arcosanti
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Toe – The Future is Now EP – 82%
Japanese post/math rocker’s TOE are back with their latest release “The Future is Now.” This is their latest release to 2009’s album “For Long Tomorrow” and is quite short clocking in at just under 16 minutes over four tracks. Typical quirky and fun math rock blended with bright tones and clean guitars can be found on this EP. Unique drum patterns and a plethora of well textured layers help make the EP feel creative and provide a unique sound as only Toe can. Vocals in the track “Tsuki Kake” are a nice change of pace but the track has somewhat awkward layering and transition issues. “Ordinary Days” is a mellow jam that is as relaxing as it is playful with its quick and sporadic drumming. My favorite track is by far the title track which feels like a rush of sounds exploding before your ears. The quick pacing, heavily layered acoustic guitars and general insanity of this track makes it one of my favorite math-rock tracks of the year. TOE once again proves that post-rock can be designed around the lack of the big build ups and still sound excellent. Overall an EP well worth the listen! – 9/19/12
Available on Itunes or the band’s official website: http://toe.st/
Coastlands/My Brother, My Captain, My King – Split EP – 84%
This split EP is the collaborative effort of Texas duo Coastlands and My Brother, My Captain, My King who I surprisingly couldn’t find any information about. The EP sits at 25 minutes long over four tracks, two by each band. The first two are from Coastlands and begins with a two-minute intro of mostly static with deeply layered samples too far embedded in the mix to understand. Next we have “Abductions”, a 10 minute long track that sees the layer of static peel away as the samples begin to become understandable. As the track begins to take form we are treated to an electronic inspired ambient track that is one clean guitar layer away from a drone like feel. Drums are patient and the heavily layered distortion guitars playing the role of drone textures are spot on. I could find myself getting lost in this track over and over.
My Brother, My captain, My King take a more electronic approach as keyboards play over the sound of a crackling fire in “Columbarium Lighthouse.” Drums/beats are rhythmic and feel as though the high hat is being struck at alternating amounts of aggression. The track feels more like a true downtempo electronic track rather than a post-rock track and that is quite alright with me. “Chapman Point” begins as waves crash amongst a beach as layers slowly begin to take form. Again just another great song to chill out to as the pacing, intensity and dark keyboard tones all blend together in perfect synergy. Fans of The Album Leaf should be right at home with My Brother, My Captain, My King. I just hope they develop some sort of web presence as I would certainly like to know and hear more. 9/19/12
Available for $1 on bandcamp: http://coastlands.bandcamp.com/album/split-ep
Reflexer – The Vanishing Lake – 82%
Reflexer is the solo project of Ryan Anstey, a self-confessed tech geek from Vancouver, BC with a love of music. All of his work is impromptu and all made up on the spot, which is a pretty cool concept. “The Vanishing Lake” is 43 minutes over 14 tracks and were all created by Anstey over the course of the last six years.
Most of the tracks are rhythmically repetitive and there is a definite understanding of post-rock song structure present throughout the album. As this is more of a collection of tracks rather than a true to form album there isn’t much synergy between the tracks and there are a few dramatic transitions in tempo and loudness. As you can probably imagine the guitar work is stellar and captivating and really makes the album. The range of tones and styles featured is infinitely large and range from ambient layers to downright shedding like on the track “Escape From Neptune” which in sticks out as my favorite track by far.
My biggest complaints about this release are that the drums are mixed too loud and some of the tracks are far too short. For example, “The Invisible Enemy” is an excellent 6 minute track but “Capture of the Red Falcon” fades out right as its hitting its stride. Albeit most of them are short, 14 tracks are a lot of different sounds to digest. Fans of more electronic inspired post-rock should feel right at home while fans of more dramatic and drawn out material might want to look elsewhere. 9-19-12
Available for $2 on bandcamp: http://reflexer.bandcamp.com/
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Jessica Phoenix: Get Him Fit When Footing Is Not
Canadian Olympic eventer Jessica Phoenix shares the program that helps her condition her horses when the ground outside the ring is not suitable for riding.
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I really like Bentley’s Best’s straightness as we canter over this series of five raised cavalletti. He looks relaxed and comfortable with the work. I’ve used placing (ground) poles set 9 feet in front of the first cavalletti and after the last one. Bentley is quite experienced at this exercise, but I often use placing poles with horses (or students) who are just getting into it, something you might find helpful when you try it. | © Michelle Dunn
My home is in Ontario, where we often are stuck with riding in indoor arenas from December until the end of April. The early-season events begin in May so we need a way to begin getting our horses fit before we’re able to take them outside for the gallops, hill work and other exercises that are part of a standard fitness program.
A simple strategy that works well for me and my students uses canter work over raised cavalletti to build fitness by increasing our horses’ respiration and heart rates. This program is helpful for conditioning hunters and jumpers as well as eventers, and you also can use it in an outdoor ring with good footing when mud or other problems keep you away from your usual warm-weather conditioning venues.
Here’s how it works: I begin with poles on the ground, spaced as bounces so that the horse goes over a pole with each canter stride. For most horses, this means 9-foot spacing between the poles. I start with three poles in a line and as the horse becomes comfortable with the exercise we work our way up to seven or sometimes as many as nine poles. When the horse is relaxed with the poles in a straight line, I configure them on a curve so that when cantering across the centers of the poles, the horse is on a 20-meter circle. As I’ll explain later when I demonstrate the exercise, the work on a circle creates additional demands on both horse and rider.
The next phase of the exercise is to raise the cavalletti so that the horse is actually jumping a series of small bounces. I use the standard cavalletti blocks (the same type of blocks I’m using in these photos) to raise the poles a few inches for lower-level horses. For more advanced horses, I may eventually raise the poles on standards to create small verticals no higher than 2 feet.
I make the transition from poles on the ground to raised cavalletti in stages: If it’s a line of three cavalletti, I first raise the middle one. After the horse has cantered through this comfortably a couple of times, I raise the third one. Finally I raise the first one. If I’m raising a line of five poles we begin by raising the third (middle) one. After a couple of repetitions I raise the first and fifth poles so that every other pole in the sequence is raised. Finally, I raise the second and fourth poles.
After about three repetitions through the grid or the circle, I’ll give a horse just starting the program a few minutes’ walk break before repeating the exercise. It’s up to you to notice when your horse begins to breathe more deeply and breaks a sweat, both signs that his respiration and heart rate are increasing. At this point one more repetition is enough for the day. Later in the program, when the horse is getting fit and handles the regular raised cavalletti pretty easily, we can increase the intensity of the exercise and encourage a horse to collect more and step farther underneath himself with his hind legs by shortening the distance between the cavalletti to 7or 8 feet.
I’ll show you how the program looks in action by riding Bentley’s Best, an 8-year-old Trakehner owned by Don Good, through grids of three and five raised cavalletti and then through three raised cavalletti on a curve that is part of a 20-meter circle. When setting this exercise up for yourself and your horse, remember to introduce the concept by starting with poles on the ground.
Three Cavalletti in a Line
1. I approach the three raised poles in a nice collected right-lead canter, sitting down in the saddle so I can use my seat to encourage Bentley forward. I keep a consistent light contact with his mouth so I can feel the energy from his hind legs flowing forward over his back and into the bridle. Bentley’s ears are pricked ahead and his eyes are alert—telling me he’s focusing on the exercise. | © Michelle Dunn
2. Upper-level horses like Bentley will often start out by giving a lot of push over each cavalletti. As they settle into the exercise and realize what it is, they just take normal canter strides. It’s Bentley’s first canter through this line and he makes quite a healthy jump over the first cavalletti. Here I’m thinking about keeping the connection with the reins with a very consistent angle through my elbows, following my horse and adjusting to his motion with my upper body. | © Michelle Dunn
3. Bentley lands a little long over the second cavalletti, and you can see in Photo 5 how he is stepping under himself and collecting in preparation for the jump over the third cavalletti that is quite close. | © Michelle Dunn
4. I still make it easier for him to use his back this early in the exercise by riding in half-seat over the jump, then sitting closer to the saddle between cavalletti. I know that a couple more repetitions will mellow him. | © Michelle Dunn
5. Bentley’s ears indicate he’s still listening to me as he takes a longish stride over what he sees is the last jump in the line. My goal is for him to stay soft, round and through from the beginning to the end of the exercise, really engaging his hind legs, softening over his back and holding himself. As we continue, you’ll see how this progression of exercises helps him do just that. | © Michelle Dunn
Five Cavalletti in a Line
Once Bentley is warmed up and relaxed by cantering over raised cavalletti with 9-foot spacing, he’s ready for somewhat more challenging work. The five cavalletti in this sequence are the same height as the three cavalletti we worked over in the first series of photos, but they are spaced at 8 feet—1 foot closer together. This increases the degree of collection Bentley needs to maintain—he really has to “sit” to successfully negotiate the entire line.
1. I’ve used a placing pole 8 feet in front of the first cavalletti to help Bentley set himself up with the stride he needs for this line. He’s focused on the cavalletti, his frame is shorter, his topline is round and I have a nice steady connection with his mouth. At this point, his back is warmed up and I’ll be sitting close to the saddle for the entire sequence. | © Michelle Dunn
2. The exuberance Bentley was showing during the first line of cavalletti has calmed and he is more relaxed and more over his back, allowing him to be more collected in these moments. He’s also maintaining his correct lead all the way through the line. I’m keeping my contact with his mouth consistent through my elbows and staying with his motion as he lands from the first cavalletti then collects for the next one. | © Michelle Dunn
3. Photo 3 is a good illustration of how far Bentley is stepping under himself with his hocks and how his back has come up during this exercise. | © Michelle Dunn
4. At this moment he has to really “sit” and wait for the next jump, and you can see how compressed his frame is in Photo 4. This kind of work is a great aid in strengthening any horse. | © Michelle Dunn
5. The final placing pole reminds Bentley to jump the last cavalletti on the same compressed stride he’s used for the previous four so that he finishes the line in a collected frame. | © Michelle Dunn
Three Cavalletti on a Curve
This exercise looks simple, but it’s more challenging than the previous two because you need good communication with you horse to keep him on a definite circle. One of two things often happens when a horse and rider first attempt this exercise: (1) The horse will fall over his shoulder to the inside of the curve and the exercise immediately becomes more difficult because the circle is smaller and requires more collection. (2) The horse drifts to the outside of the curve and the rider can’t control the line to create a consistent, round circle.
Just as with the straight-line exercises, I start this with all five poles on the ground. First I want the rider and horse to be able to comfortably and confidently stay on a line that takes them across the center of each pole on the curve, which gives them a 9-foot distance from pole to pole. Then I ask them to pick up a more collected canter and take a line closer to the inside ends of the ground poles where the distance between the poles will be less. Finally, I want them to pick up a more open canter and ride their circle more to the outside ends of the poles where the distance between is greater. Only when the rider can really control her line, and the balance of the canter she has on the way in, do I raise the poles.
1. As Bentley canters over the placing pole to the first raised cavalletti, you can see how round his topline is and how collected he is. I’m sitting down in the saddle, keeping a consistent contact through the reins with his mouth. My goal is that Bentley’s body—from the base of his tail to the top of his forelock—will follow the arc of the curve that we’re riding. | © Michelle Dunn
2. Whenever you take a horse from a straight line to a curve, his balance changes. Often he’ll try to lean into the curve like a bicycle or motorcycle. It helps my students correct this problem if they visualize that they are trying to keep their horse turning as a four-wheeler or a minivan would turn, with all four wheels on the ground. This is the classic exercise of riding your horse straight on a circle. It’s not easy to see in these photos, but I help Bentley stay straight on his circle by keeping my inside leg firmly on him to prevent him from falling in while controlling the size of the circle and supporting him with my outside rein. | © Michelle Dunn
3. I really like this photo because you can see how Bentley is becoming very relaxed in his body and is starting to get a longer neck. In this moment the increased engagement of his hind end and the lifting of his back are very apparent. As we jump around the curve, I am mindful of keeping my shoulders and hips squared to my horse’s shoulders and hips. Bentley is not trying to lean in on this curve, but if he were, my sitting square and straight would help to correct that tendency. | © Michelle Dunn
4. I like Photo 4 because we’re nearing the end of the final exercise and Bentley’s whole attitude says that he is still really with me. His ears are very attentive. | © Michelle Dunn
5. As we canter out over the final placing pole, he has definitely broken into a sweat during this work. It’s remarkable how, with repetition, this exercise series can raise the heart and respiration rates of even quite fit horses. | © Michelle Dunn
Jessica Phoenix
Ontario native Jessica Phoenix won an individual gold medal with Pavarotti at the 2011 Pan America Games in Guadalajara, where the Canadian eventing squad of which she was a member also won team silver. In the same year, she finished seventh with Exponential at the Rolex Kentucky CCI**** and was named Equestrian of the Year by Equine Canada. For her Olympic debut in 2012, she rode Exponential, a Thoroughbred, to individual 22nd place at the London Games. She won the Jersey Fresh three-star in Allentown, New Jersey, in 2013 and came first, third and sixth in the CIC*** division at the 2014 Poplar Place event in Hamilton, Georgia.
© Michelle Dunn
She partnered again with Pavarotti for the 2014 World Equestrian Games in Normandy, France, in late summer 2014, where she finished as the highest-placed member of the Canadian squad, which completed the competition in seventh place. Of the cross-country footing that caused problems for some WEG eventers, she said, “I was lucky in that Pavarotti just galloped across the top of the mud and it didn’t seem to tire him.” They finished the course with no jumping penalties. “It was his first four-star and I couldn’t have asked anything more from him.”
Jessica and her husband, Joel Phoenix, learned just before she left for Normandy that they are expecting their second child in March 2015. “We were so excited!” On her return from France, she wound up her competitive year by riding four different horses in the Ontario Horse Trials Association Championships in mid-September. She placed second on Abbey GS, fifth on Bentley’s Best, seventh on Extraordinaire and twelfth on Exultation.
This article originally appeared in the January 2015 issue of Practical Horseman.
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DR NIGEL ONGTHE INGENIOUS MAVEN
Dr Nigel Ong is one of our Premier Clinic senior doctor based in KL City branch. Dr Nigel is a certified body sculptor, specialising in CoolSculpting, HCG and other slimming procedures. He is also an expert in injectables (inclusive but not limited to fillers & botulinum toxins), genital health and STDs, and anti-aging solutions.
Dr Nigel’s patients describe him as an amiable, exuberant personality with vast range of experiences. Dr Nigel warmth and casual friendliness compels them to open up in regards of their concerns and aesthetic problems with him, and they would often receive positive feedback in return. As a result, Dr Nigel’s customer satisfaction rate is quite impressive, charted the top among the doctors. His familiarity with the patients is also proven in his high rate of referral patients.
Dr Nigel is a graduate of First Moscow State Medical University in Russia to attain his Medical Degree. Dr Nigel is trained in general health and genital health including STD treatments. He is also well trained in different kind of facial surgeries such as excision of lesions, skin grafting and wound care management. Dr Nigel is a certified doctor in basic life support, advance life support, and neonatal resuscitation program.
Intrigued by his passion in aesthetic practices, he continued his study in American Academy of Aesthetic Medicine and earned his official certificate. As an aesthetic practitioner, he is a certified doctor for many major treatments such as CoolSculpting, facial augmentation and stem cell therapy.
In the aggregate, Dr Nigel has had a long 8 years of experiences in medicinal practices including his time servicing in major hospitals in the country inclusive of Ampang Hospital, Ipoh Hospital and Serdang Hospital before joining Premier Clinic in early 2017. Being in different faculties of the hospital gave him different perspicacity of patient’s needs and befitting treatments.
Dr Nigel recently underwent his LCP journey from the Ministry of Health to receive his acknowledgement from the body.
Dr Nigel’s interest in aesthetic stems from his love for people. He enjoys giving back to the society so he cherishes whenever he made a significant change to other person’s life. Dr Nigel believes that inner beauty reflects the outer appearance of a person, and helping them look better would increase their self-esteem.
As part of Premier Clinic doctors, Dr Nigel undergo continuous learning process by attending seminars and workshops available to widen his scope of proficiency.
MEMBERSHIP WITH MEDICAL ORGANISATIONS
Dr Nigel is actively participating in several medical associations to expand his network and knowledge among medicine practitioners. He is currently a member of Malaysia Medical Association (MMA), American Academy of Aesthetic Medicine (AAAM), SAAARMM Society of Anti-Aging, Aesthetics & Regenerative Medicine Malaysia, and MSAM Malaysia Society of Aesthetic Medicine.
He is also an active member of MPCN – Medical Practitioners Coalition Association of Malaysia.
Dr Nigel describes himself as a true-blue traveller of the world. He enjoys absorbing riveting travelling experience from his journey where he assimilates himself into the culture of the place. Dr Nigel is also a music lover, and he is enjoys playing guitar and ukulele during his free time. “Music is an international language everyone likes. I can express my inner thought without even saying a word,” says Dr Nigel.
When he’s not travelling or playing guitar, he spends his time at the gym. “I love workout and gym. Workout not only for the sake of health but also to LOOK GOOD. Age does not mean anything to me, it is just a number. But appearance speaks everything. Human judge by first impressions. Hence external look is VERY important,” he casually spilled out the words.
Despite his interest in modern medication, Dr Nigel is also a very spiritual person. For him, religion is a basis of true virtue and it propels people to be a better person everyday.
As Chinese saying, live till old, learn till old. Every day is an opportunity to learn for Dr Nigel.
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Book Review: “TimeBomb” by Scott K. Andrews
*NO SPOILERS REVIEW*
Title: TimeBomb
Author: Scott K. Andrews
Published: October 9th, 2014
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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I received this for review from Hodder for review. As always, my reviews are fair and un-bias.
New York City, 2141: Yojana Patel throws herself off a skyscraper, but never hits the ground.
Cornwall, 1640: gentle young Dora Predennick, newly come to Sweetclover Hall to work, discovers a badly-burnt woman at the bottom of a flight of stairs. When she reaches out to comfort the dying woman, she’s knocked unconscious, only to wake, centuries later, in empty laboratory room.
On a rainy night in present-day Cornwall, seventeen-year-old Kaz Cecka sneaks into the long-abandoned Sweetclover Hall, determined to secure a dry place to sleep. Instead he finds a frightened housemaid who believes Charles I is king and an angry girl who claims to come from the future.
Thrust into the centre of an adventure that spans millennia, Dora, Kaz and Jana must learn to harness powers they barely understand to escape not only villainous Lord Sweetclover but the forces of a fanatical army… all the while staying one step ahead of a mysterious woman known only as Quil.
Time travel novels are becoming something brand new on my shelf, not to mention already taking over so much space over the other genres. Scott K. Andrews novel is heavy on the time-travel – in an amazing way – and the time spaces that the book covers are propelled into the past and future at the strike of a match. So I was definitely eager to get started on a new thrilling adventure.
There’s Jana, a girl from New York in 2141 who gets pulled to the present day after she jumps off the top of a skyscraper, Dora; a young servant who finds herself pulled forward in time when she tries to help a dying woman who is severely hurt at the place she works, and then there’s Kaz; a young boy that finds both of them where Dora works. They all have different outlooks on what the world is at their current “times” they existed, like who was king and what the future and past is. They wonder why they were drawn together, but soon find themselves delving deep into a complex and mysterious world. Knowing they can only do this together, they band together to uncover the truth of what brought them to the same time and why.
TimeBomb was a fast-paced, astounding novel that races in time, weaving into mystery and what lies within time itself. As the first book in a trilogy (yay!), we aren’t given all the answers just yet so some things were left a little complex, but that’s what I love about it – there’s still so much to the story that is out there and I’m excited to learn what this means for the characters. My favourite character was Jana who stood out to me a little more than the other characters and I felt like I connected with her more than Dora or Kaz, although they were each in turn interesting and far from standard characters. TimeBomb was filled with enigmatic, thrilling parts and I wasn’t bored at all reading it – my attention was fixed on the rushes through time and the fast-paced action that followed.
Overall, TimeBomb is a novel you don’t want to miss, time-travel fans. It’ll leave you wanting to race through time to read the whole trilogy before it’s out.
Time-travel fans and dystopia fans will love this change of genre!
What did you think of TimeBomb?
Who was your favourite character?
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Book Review: “We Were Liars” by E. Lockhart
Title: We Were Liars
Author: E. Lockhart
I bought this myself and is in no way affiliated with any publisher. As always, my reviews are fair and un-bias.
A beautiful and distinguished family.
A private island.
A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.
A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive.
A revolution. An accident. A secret.
Lies upon lies.
The truth.
We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart.
And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.
Let me start off by saying that We Were Liars was one of the best books I read last year and probably one of the best I’ve ever read. It took me a while to get the words of just exactly how I felt before I could contemplate understanding the book itself. Anyone who’s read We Were Liars will know it’s one of those rare gems that just knock you off your feet in amazement – from the plot to the characters to the gorgeous setting – it was an all around spectacular that still has me in a little daze.
Candace Sinclair Eastman is the narrator of the book. Every summer, she vacations to Beechwood, a private island that her Granddad owns. Her Aunts and Cousins all stay there, the whole summer a cool breeze of friendship, fun and times without a care. Candace’s family is rich to say the least, so each Aunt – daughters of Candace’s Grandfather – had their own house on Beechwood. Mirren, Johnny, Gat and Candace called themselves the liars, a theme that fitted each moment I witnessed how beautifully broken their friendship truly was. Gat was the only liar not related to Candace, the nephew of her Aunt Carrie’s boyfriend, which added the twisted, cracked and sweet love story that weaved it’s way into the novel.
It’s true what everyone is saying – you’ll never guess how We Were Liars will end, no matter how you pick apart the chapters. The twist is brilliant and genius, and I’m pretty sure every other want-to-be writer out there wishes they had written this – just like I wish. Even as the summers pass between the chapters, the characters still drift from exciting to suspicious to broken and subsequently the story unfolds into something bigger than ever. We Were Liars never failed to keep my attention fixed on it’s wonderment and beautifully tragic ways. It’s hard to say much about the novel without giving away the twists and secrets you’ll so desperately want to keep to yourself and like E. Lockhart wrote in my signed copy my sister got me for Christmas (thank you, Sophie!), please lie about this book. So I’ll keep it short and sweet – mystery and alluringly fractured characters spin our simple summertime memories into something worth lying about and lying for.
Five stars will never be enough.
EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ THIS.
What did you think of We Were Liars?
Did you think it was one of the best books of 2014?
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Book Blitz: “Breaking The Rules” by Katie McGarry {+Giveaway!}
Breaking the Rules (Pushing the Limits #1.5) by Katie McGarry
A summer road trip changes
everything in this unforgettable new tale from acclaimed author Katie McGarry.
For new high school graduate Echo Emerson, a summer road trip out west with her
boyfriend means getting away and forgetting what makes her so… different. It
means seeing cool sights while selling her art at galleries along the way. And
most of all, it means almost three months alone with Noah Hutchins, the hot,
smart, soul-battered guy who’s never judged her. Echo and Noah share everything
— except the one thing Echo’s just not ready for.
But when the source of Echo’s constant nightmares comes back into her life, she has to make some tough decisions about what she really wants — even as foster kid Noah’s search for his last remaining relatives forces them both to confront some serious truths about life, love, and themselves.
Now, with one week left before college orientation, jobs and real life, Echo must decide if Noah’s more than the bad-boy fling everyone warned her he’d be. And the last leg of an amazing road trip will turn… seriously epic.
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KATIE MCGARRY was a teenager during the age of grunge and boy bands and remembers those years as the best and worst of her life. She is a lover of music, happy endings, and reality television, and is a secret University of Kentucky basketball fan.
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From Echo’s Point of View
It’s like watching a horror film in slow motion. She tucks her hair behind her ears, gives Noah a hesitant smile and speaks. The girl is pretty—very pretty. I run my hand over the scars on my left arm. Sometimes I don’t understand why Noah’s with me. Especially when I’m so…
Noah answers the girl then motions at me with his chin. Both girls turn, and their faces fall. Noah waves. I wave back. Butterflies tumble in my stomach when he flashes his wicked grin.
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Book Review: “Lies We Tell Ourselves” by Robin Talley
Title: Lies We Tell Ourselves
Author: Robin Talley
Genre: Young Adult – Historical/Contemporary
Release Date: October 3rd, 2014
Published by: Mira Ink (UK)
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★ I received this from Mira Ink in exchange for an honest review. As always, my reviews are fair and non-bias. ★
It’s 1959. The battle for civil rights is raging. And it’s Sarah Dunbar’s first day of school, as one of the first black students at the previously all-white Jefferson High.
No one wants Sarah there. Not the Governor. Not the teachers. And certainly not the students – especially Linda Hairston, daughter of the town’s most ardent segregationist. Sarah and Linda have every reason to despise each other. But as a school project forces them to spend time together, the less their differences seem to matter.
And Sarah and Linda start to feel something they’ve never felt before. Something they’re both determined to ignore. Because it’s one thing to be frightened by the world around you – and another thing altogether when you’re terrified of what you feel inside.
I’ve never read a book anything like Lies We Tell Ourselves, so I was going into it without knowing what to expect, although from the glowing reviews on Goodreads, I had high expectations for Robin Talley’s writing.
When Lies We Tell Ourselves begins, it’s 1959 and Sarah Dunbar will be one of the first people that isn’t white to attend Jefferson High. But in this time of the past, no one wants Sarah at the school. Not the students, teachers and Governor, want her there at all. Sarah is thrown into a battlefield of harsh backfire of her integration into the school and the taunting, hurtful words of those surrounding her. As a reader, I was along for the painful things Sarah had to go through and felt how distraught she was at everything happening in her world that resembled more of a whirlwind right now.
But then, we have Linda. She’s the daughter of the town’s segregationist, popular among the students and couldn’t be further from Sarah’s world right now. At first when we see that Linda and Sarah don’t see eye to eye, it’s more of Linda’s fathers beliefs than her own judgement of Sarah. I felt like it was due to the world Linda had grown up in that she had fallen into a pattern where it seemed like it was okay not to like Sarah. But when school compels them to spend more time together, whatever was in the way of their friendship swiftly moves aside. But when their friendship develops into something else, something neither of them thought possible, they are thrown into another maze.
Lies We Tell Ourselves was an eye-opening, spectacular book that far exceeded my expectations. Robin Talley wrote about events that no doubt had truth to them, with a gripping storyline and characters vivid and real. Overall, this book is simply unmissable. Although it was hard to relate to Sarah’s situation, I felt something for each character that stood out on the page to me, and in that way, it was truly memorable. Lies We Tell Ourselves deserves all the recognition it gets for being so exceptional.
Bonus Post:
Mira Ink have asked me to share a lie I tell myself, whether it be serious or just funny! So I got a little creative and…
P.S. Biggest Lie Ever. Sleep? What is sleep?
Have you read Lies We Tell Ourselves?
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General Blog Tagged: 2014, book review, Contemporary, historical fiction, lies we tell ourselves, mira ink, pretty little memoirs, review, robin talley, YA, YA review
Book Review: “Zac & Mia” by A. J. Betts
Title: Zac & Mia
Author: A. J. Betts
Genre: Young Adult – Contemporary
Release Date: July 24th, 2014
Published by: Text Publishing
I received this from Text Publishing in exchange for an honest review. As always, my reviews are fair and non-bias.
Winner of the 2012 Australian Text Prize
“When I was little I believed in Jesus and Santa, spontaneous combustion, and the Loch Ness monster.
Now I believe in science, statistics, and antibiotics.” So says seventeen-year-old Zac Meier during a long, grueling leukemia treatment in Perth, Australia. A loud blast of Lady Gaga alerts him to the presence of Mia, the angry, not-at-all-stoic cancer patient in the room next door.
Once released, the two near-strangers can’t forget each other, even as they desperately try to resume normal lives. The story of their mysterious connection drives this unflinchingly tough, tender novel told in two voices.
From the synopsis, Zac & Mia looked like the perfect book to make a reader feel something when they’re enveloped in the topics it covered within Zac and Mia’s relationship, so I was looking forward to getting wrapped up in their story.
Straight away, I got that The Fault In Our Stars vibe. It wasn’t a bad thing, it was actually reassuring that there was a book that crossed the similar topics that I already knew I loved, so Zac & Mia’s story felt that little bit extra personal to me.
Our main characters; Zac and Mia, are quite unalike. I felt Zac was more understandable and likeable, and although I liked parts of Mia’s personality, she had an edge to her character that kept me from getting to know her completely. Zac and Mia meet in hospital, where they’re both cooped up. Zac is in the middle of cancer treatment when he meets the girl who moves into the room next door to him.
Their bond is undeniably strong from the start – their differences don’t matter when they’re in this new friendship that Mia at first wasn’t sure she wanted to be in. But Zac, being the witty and charasmatic character he was, was her friend no matter what they were individually going through.
Zac & Mia’s tale is full of comedic lines, moments to tug on heartstrings and a plot that kept me hooked. It was fascinating, and I could tell that A. J. Betts had researched everything down to the small details. The friendship that she created was beautiful and it really stood out as the highlight of the novel. Even though romance wasn’t the sole focus, their bond was instead, and I think that was sweet and totally not forced like some relationships can be. The character development of Mia and Zac was gradual and I really feel like A. J. Betts did their story justice by the end. Although I would’ve loved to see Mia’s character open up a little more and we see beneath that edge of hers, I believe that Zac & Mia’s story was an inspiring, compelling novel of a true friendship.
Zac’s moments, definitely. He was that kind of character that you can’t help but laugh with and understand.
YA Contemporary readers for fans of books that tug on your heartstrings.
Have you read Zac & Mia?
Tell me in the comments, on twitter or by using the hashtag #ZacAndMia
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Book Review: “Feathers And Flames” by Simona Pellegrini
Title: Feathers And Flames
Author: Simona Pellegrini
Genre: Young Adult – Fantasy/Paranormal
Release Date: August 5th, 2014
Published by: D’Angio Publishing
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I received this from Simona Pellegrini in exchange for an honest review. As always, my reviews are fair and non-bias.
Seventeen-year-old Arianna is a kind of genius, with an insatiable appetite for science and a rational explanation for everything.
How, then, could a ‘brainiac’ like her accept that she is in fact the Angel of Light, and is being hunted down by one of the Seven Princes of Darkness?
Angels and fallen angels form an unlikely alliance to protect her and train her for the battle ahead; but no matter how hard they try, none can get past her rational barriers and make her fully commit.
None of them except Keaghan Blake, the blue-eyed demon charged with her protection. Keaghan seems to be the only one with the power to tear down the fortress around Arianna’s heart and persuade her to take her rightful place in the fight against evil. But Keaghan isn’t just ‘any’ demon, and Arianna learns that getting close to him would have catastrophic consequences for her, and would jeopardise the entire mission. Then why can’t she stay away from him? The ‘brainiac’ knows what she ought to do. But will Arianna listen to her head, or will she fall into temptation?
Angels and especially Fallen Angels, are my Paranormal and Fantasy go-to read, whatever the story. So I was beyond thrilled to get the chance to read Feathers and Flames – from the enthralling synopsis to the gorgeous and dazzling cover – I was hooked.
Arianna is a smart, immediately engaging narrator, so much so that it’s hard not to be pulled into her story from the very first page. At first, we see Arianna out of her comfort zone at it ultimately makes her so relateable to real life people, seeing a character in another country or out of their comfortable territory. But when she’s back at school with her (incredible) friends; Megan, Kayla and Julian, Arianna is the self-confessed brainiac they know her to be. But there’s been something on her mind – the gorgeous stranger who she can’t seem to stop bumping into everywhere she goes – who has now turned up at her school too. His name is Keaghan Blake, blue-eyed and catching Arianna’s attention whenever he’s in the room.
But suddenly, the strange things that have been happening to Arianna come to a halt when she’s thrown head first into a battle she never thought in her wildest dreams could have existed – especially when she is the key to everything. Now, everything is clearer in a way, but perplexing in another. She’s torn between who she was destined to become and having the will and strength to fight the evil that is coming her – and her friends – way. Especially when she isn’t sure where her feelings for Keaghan fit into everything, and if he feels the same way about her that she did for him.
Feathers and Flames is without a doubt, an alluring, enchanting and fascinating novel. Simona created a world where Angels, Demons and Fallen Angels exist, where friends are our saviours and love is like a chaos filled battlefield. I completely adored Arianna and Keaghan and it’s so rare to care for the other characters in the books like Arianna’s friends as much as I did, too. There wasn’t a moment when I could tear myself away from the pages once I was reeled in to their mystifying and compelling world.
Overall, Feathers and Flames is an angelic and irresistible novel that has to be one of the best I’ve read all year. If you haven’t read it or added it to your to-read, you’re missing out on something magical.
All Arianna and Keaghan scenes! And I loved Bruna – she was an amazing character.
Young Adult Fantasy and Paranormal readers! You need to read this.
Have you read Feathers and Flames?
Tell me in the comments, on twitter or by using the hashtag #FeathersAndFlames
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Cover Reveal: Camryn Cross series by Brina Courtney {+ Giveaway!}
CAMRYN CROSS series
October 20th, November 10th, November 24th
Camryn Cross is nothuman. But she doesn’t know what she is. Not yet.The world is fallingapart and her only escape is Camp Silverlake where she frequently stayed as achild. But Camryn’s summers weren’t filled with crafting and swimming, theywere spent learning combat skills and how to protect herself from the outsideworld.Now she must returnto Camp Silverlake to learn the truth, about who she is and she’ll discover thesecret hidden within her blood. A secret that could save them all.
TBR PILE: http://bit.ly/Camryn1
Camryn Cross is nothuman. But her best friend Kiley is.They’re stuck, theycan’t leave Silverlake without possibly being killed. Or Kiley could become oneof the Sick. She could die. But Silverlake isn’t safe for her either. The Cureddon’t want her there. The sickness could use her to mutate the virus again.
She could kill themall.Camryn could be thekey to saving them.
Camryn Cross is nothuman. But she will fight to protect those who are.Kiley is her bestfriend. And now there’s Finn. Finn with his blue eyes, and his long eyelashes.Finn makes Camryn’s heart stop. She has to decide to not stop for him though.The Sick are coming and if they get inside the walls of Silverlake war will beinevitable.Death is everywhere.
Brina Courtney is a
young adult author obsessed with chocolate, crime shows, and fantasy movies.
She’s spent the last few years as an elementary teacher and a high school
cheering coach. She lives in a small town in Pennsylvania with her husband and
two very loud, small dogs. You can find her on her website,
http://brinacourtney.blogspot.com/ or on Twitter, @brinacourtney.
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Don’t those covers look amazing?!
General Blog Tagged: 2014, brina courtney, camryn cross series, cover reveal, covers, giveaway, mark my words, pretty little memoirs, reveal
Book Review: “Oh Yeah, Audrey!” by Tucker Shaw
+ Minor plot references, no major spoilers +
Title: Oh Yeah, Audrey!
Author: Tucker Shaw
Release Date: October 14th, 2014
Published by: Abrams and Chronicle / Amulet
I received this from Abrams and Chronicle / Amulet in exchange for an honest review. As always, my reviews are fair and non-bias.
It’s 5:00 a.m. on Fifth Avenue, and 16-year-old Gemma Beasley is standing in front of Tiffany & Co. wearing the perfect black dress with her coffee in hand—just like Holly Golightly.
As the cofounder of a successful Tumblr blog—Oh Yeah Audrey!—devoted to all things Audrey Hepburn, Gemma has traveled to New York in order to meet up with her fellow bloggers for the first time. She has meticulously planned out a 24-hour adventure in homage to Breakfast at Tiffany’s; however, her plans are derailed when a glamorous boy sweeps in and offers her the New York experience she’s always dreamed of. Gemma soon learns who her true friends are and that, sometimes, no matter where you go, you just end up finding yourself.Filled with hip and sparkling prose, Oh Yeah, Audrey! is as much a story of friendship as it is a love letter to New York, Audrey Hepburn, and the character she made famous: Holly Golightly.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s is one of my favourite films of all time. I remember watching it with my Mum and loving it right away (the Cat scene was my favourite!). So when Abrams and Chronicle gave me the chance to read Oh Yeah, Audrey!, I was so excited to read all about Gemma’s story as well as how Audrey fitted into the story.
Gemma Beasley was standing on Fifth Avenue in New York City outside Tiffany & Co at 5am, wearing the iconic black dress, holding coffee and feeling like Holly Golightly herself. But it’s not just a simple story of a girl who loved Audrey Hepburn – Oh Yeah, Audrey! was Gemma’s life. After her family were struck with a loss, Gemma threw herself into her Tumblr page, filled with all things Audrey Hepburn, and called it Oh Yeah, Audrey! She was devoted to it 100% and there wasn’t a day that she didn’t post something on the page.
She wasn’t running away, per say, by going to New York without her father’s permission. She was merely being the Gemma that she wanted to be – not just the one she pretended to be.
In New York, she’s ready to meet fellow Audrey and Holly Golightly fans from Oh Yeah, Audrey! A boy called Bryan; from what Gemma knows, he’s on the rich side, from California. And not forgetting Trina, who was one of my favourite characters by far. Her charismatic and unique characteristics and personality almost stole the spotlight from Gemma herself. Together, the three of them set off on a planned-down-to-the-small-details plan while they’re in the Big Apple, revolving around all things Audrey. But more than one familiar face appears on their journey, and one of them really takes Gemma by surprise.
The guy who she might just really like. The one who could sweep her off her feet in a heartbeat.
Oh Yeah, Audrey! isn’t just about Gemma’s journey. It’s about an unbreakable friendship that defies the “meeting people from online can’t be classed as real friends” theory. It’s about love, heartbreak, glamour and of course, Audrey Hepburn. It felt like more than just a book to me, too – like a beautiful, enthralling and magical tale set in the awe and dazzling backdrop of New York City. I can’t recommend Oh Yeah, Audrey! highly enough to anyone who has ever wanted that little bit more “spark” in their YA literature. And to quote my favourite word from the novel, Oh Yeah, Audrey! was incredible, dahling.
Part 3 of the novel was by far my favourite! There are countless quotes by Bryan that were flawlessly written that made it into my favourites, too.
YA literature fans: Contemporary, Romance and everything in between!
(And all you Audrey Hepburn and Holly Golightly fans out there.)
Have you read Oh Yeah, Audrey!?
Tell me in the comments, on twitter or by using the hashtag #OhYeahAudrey
General Blog Tagged: 2014, abrams and chronicle, audrey hepburn, audrey!, Contemporary, holly golightly, oh yeah, pretty little memoirs, tucker shaw, YA, YA review, young adult
(Release Day) Exclusive Excerpt: “First To Fall” by Carys Jones
Title: First To Fall
Author: Carys Jones
Release Date: August 28th, 2014
Published by: Carina UK
Other Novels: Prime Deception, Sunkissed
Aiden Connelly’s first case will be one he’ll never forget.
Lawyer Aiden Connelly has traded the frenzy of Chicago for a slower pace in sleepy Avalon – and his first case appears to be as open-and-shut as he could hope for. Hired to defend a local ex-beauty queen accused of murdering her husband, he’s confident that he’ll have the case closed in record time. But below the surface lurks a darker truth…
Suddenly, a quiet backwater has transformed into a dangerous pressure cooker. In a town where everyone knows everyone, gathering evidence should be easy… but the harder Aiden searches, the more he appreciates how tangled this net of loyalties is. And as he digs deeper, Aiden begins to realise that his very first case in Avalon could be the beginning of his undoing…
Despite being surrounded by
luscious acres of green grass none grew within the walls of the immense prison.
Aiden wondered if this was a result of all the electrical fencing, or if nature
just knew that she was not welcome here. This was a place for those who did not
deserve to hear the sweet lullaby of birdsong, or breathe in the luscious scent
of a blooming flower. Here, the condemned were at the last outpost before hell,
but no doubt many felt like they were already there. Whilst from a distance
Eastham looked impressive, once inside you realized just how imposing a
structure can really be. Aiden had only just arrived but was already looking
forward to being able to drive away.
‘Freedom’, he mused to
himself, ‘is much too underrated’.
Inside was not much better.
The air felt decidedly cooler and the indifferent grey of the stone had crept
along the interior walls in the form of paint. Green doors, though the colour
of baby sick, were a welcome break from the dismal decorating. Aiden was led
along countless corridors, his footsteps echoing on the plastic tiled floors.
He was ushered through so many security gates that he began to worry if he was
ever going to be able to get back out.
‘Prisoner 929 is in maximum
security.’ The burly female guard had told him when he had finally made it to
reception, her voice monotonous as if she had forgotten how to express emotion.
He was currently being led by another, equally ample female form, down a
labyrinth of corridors. His palms were sweaty and his attempts to make small
talk had not even been acknowledged. The women who worked there were tough; he
supposed that they had to be. But no matter how tough they were, he knew that
they would be no match for what lay behind the locked doors which they were now
passing by. Aiden had expected hands grasping through railings, voices crying
out their innocence, but all was quiet. Those cells he passed where you could
see in, the lone occupants were sat, sometimes reading, sometimes just staring
into space; none so much as fluttered an eyelid as he clomped past.
Finally he was motioned
into a small room where one wall was made entirely of Perspex glass. Beyond the
glass, there was a lone chair facing him which was flanked by two guards. On
Aiden’s side of the glass there was a basic desk and a plastic chair.
‘929 will be with you
shortly’, the woman told him. ‘I’ll wait for you outside.’ Aiden nodded and thanked
her but she was already gone before the words had even left his mouth. He moved
the chair and positioned himself opposite the other currently vacant chair.
Placing his briefcase on the desk he took out a Dictaphone and a notebook. He
had no idea what to expect from Prisoner 929.
Carys Jones loves nothing more than to write and create stories which ignite the reader’s imagination. Based in Shropshire, England, Carys lives with her husband, two guinea pigs and her adored canine companion Rollo.
When she’s not writing, Carys likes to indulge her inner geek by watching science- fiction films or playing video games.
She lists John Green, Jodi Picoult and Virginia Andrews as her favorite authors and draws inspiration for her own work from anything and everything.
To Carys, there is no greater feeling then when you lose yourself in a great story and it is that feeling of ultimate escapism which she tries to bring to her books.
For more information about Carys please visit www.carys-jones.com or follow her on Twitter; @tiny_dancer85
How amazing does First To Fall sound?!
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Cover Reveal: “AlibiZ” by Karice Bolton
AlibiZ by Karice Bolton
(Afterworld #2)
Genres: New Adult, Post-Apocalyptic
Rebekah vows to expose the truth behind the RecruitZ that are killing the innocents. These creatures must be stopped, but so should the people controlling them. When Rebekah uncovers who is behind the uprisings, her own life becomes in danger.
Rebekah knows that she is not alone in this fight but vengeance alone won’t help her and the others to victory. Forced to build a battalion with the very creatures she needs to destroy, it is up to her to uncover the truth for the public before the world is turned over to an elite few.
Regardless of what may happen to her, she knows it’s a race against time to destroy these creatures and the monsters controlling them before there is no one left worth saving.
Karice received an MFA in Creative Writing from the U of W. She has written fifteen novels and has several exciting projects in the works. Karice lives with her husband and two English Bulldogs in rainy Washington.
Books currently available:
Luke Fletcher Series: Hidden Sins (Book 1), Buried Sins (Book 2) – coming soon
Beyond Love Series: Beyond Control (Book 1) Beyond Doubt (Book 2) Beyond Reason (Book 3) Beyond Intent (Book 4) Beyond Chance, Beyond Promise, and Beyond the Mistletoe coming soon
Afterworld Series: RecruitZ (Book 1) AlibiZ (Book 2) – October 2014
The Witch Avenue Series: Lonely Souls (Book 1), Altered Souls (Book 2), Released Souls (Book 3) Shattered Souls (Book 4)
The Watchers Trilogy: Awakening (Book 1), Legions (Book 2), Cataclysm (Book 3), Taken Novella (Watchers Prequel)
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Karice’s new novel sounds amazing as usual!
General Blog Tagged: 2014, AlibiZ, cover, cover reveal, Karice Bolton, post apocalyptic, pretty little memoirs, reveal, xpresso blog tours, zombies
Book Blitz: “Dead Girl Walking” by Ruth Silver (+Giveaway!)
Welcome to Ruth Silver’s Dead Girl Walking promo tour hosted by Itching for Books.
Release date: April 25th 2014
Series: Royal Reaper #1
Publisher: Patchwork Press
Purchase: Amazon | B&N
Synopsis via Goodreads:
Princess Ophelia Dacre sneaks out of the castle to visit her boyfriend in secret. A perfect night cut short when she’s brutally murdered.
Ophelia is given the rare chance to become a grim reaper. She must become Leila Bele, cut ties with her old life, and follow the rules of the reapers. Her greatest adventure begins with death.
Ruth Silver is the best-selling author of Aberrant. The Young Adult/New Adult Romantic Dystopian Adventure, Aberrant is the first in a trilogy, released April 17th, 2013. Silver first began writing poetry as a teenager and reading heaps of fan fiction in her free time. She attended Northern Illinois University in 2001 and graduated with a Bachelor’s in Communication. While in college she spent much of her free time writing with friends she met online and penning her first novel, Deuces are Wild, which she self-published in 2004. Her favorite class was Creative Writing senior year where she often handed in assignments longer than the professor required because she loved to write and always wanted to finish her stories. Her love of writing, led her on an adventure in 2007 to Melbourne, Australia. Silver enjoys reading YA/NA novels and sharing her favorite books with other readers. She also enjoys photography, traveling and of most of all writing.
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Casmerelda, The Black Plague, and How a World was Born
I began with an idea for a story. Isn’t that normally how books are written? I loved the series Dead Like Me on Showtime. It was on from 2003 to 2004. Way too short a lifespan for a fabulous show. So I got to thinking, I haven’t read any books about grim reapers and certainly not any that were geared to a teen audience, quirky, and different. That was the thing about Dead Like Me, it was different. It was humorous, light-hearted, had a love story mixed in, and had characters you were rooting for the entire way through.
As I was beginning to let my story take shape, I wanted something that went beyond reapers and pushed the boundaries into something fantastical. A mix of paranormal and fantasy. The princess idea was born.
I didn’t want my main character, Princess Ophelia to solely be a princess from our current land, there had to be more. So, the initial plot took place in the 1400’s, specifically 1346 when the Black Plague spread along the Silk Road. What better way to kill off massive amounts of people than let a virulent disease do it?
Complication: There were no monarchies (no princesses) where the story was taking place. At least not in that time period. Which obviously made things difficult. Either pull the novel away from historical fantasy or get the facts right.
I tugged with the idea of how to make it historically accurate, and then decided the language would have to match. I didn’t like the sound of, “You’re going to kill my beau.” I preferred it read “boyfriend.” That was just one instance, there were several language issues and I strongly felt the story would be better set in a fantasy world that parallels our history. Casmerelda was born.
“Listen, kid, I don’t care what you believe in. It’s not for me to say what’s true and untrue, real or unreal. My assignment was you. You get to be one of us, if you want it. Otherwise, you move on, life is over, kaput.”
Ophelia backed away from the stranger. For the first time, she realized she didn’t feel cold and wasn’t shivering. Is this what being dead was like? “One of you?”
“A grim reaper.” He held out his hand to properly introduce himself. “Edon Montgomery, head reaper and old soul.”
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Marriott’s Great America Soundtrack
The Official 100 Things About Rick Page (Updated 1.25.08)
Welcome to the New Rcktman.com!
Hello, GreatAmericaParks.com fans! Below are snippets and full songs from each section of the Marriott’s/Six Flags Great America. Some songs fade into different songs from different sections halfway through.
During the songs you may hear occasional sounds such as Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck saying something, as well as some ambient “park sounds” such as a roller coaster going up a hill. This is because the CD was created for a job fair some years ago and was used as background music during the fair. In addition, you may hear some announcements sprinkled throughout– “Lost Parents” and “Group Leaders are meeting at such-and-such place.”
I tried my best to identify what songs came from what section, but it’s been a while since I’ve been to the park and been able to listen to each song… so I might be wrong! Forgive me. (If you happen to know what’s wrong and what’s right… leave me a comment below.)
Enjoy and relive the memories of Marriott’s Great America!
(Note: The file names will be as I originally identified them; but the link names are correct, thanks to some sharp ears out there. To download just right-click on the links and select “Save link as..” All files are MP3 files.)
Carousel Plaza
Carousel Plaza 2
County Fair 1
Front Gate
Front Gate 2
Hometown Square
Hometown Square “Let Me Call You Sweetheart”
Orleans Place 1
Yukon Territory 2
The Demon Soundtrack (Original Track)
The Demon Soundtrack- REMASTERED (fixed audio glitches and poor stereo tracking)
The Carousel Song
Looney Tunes Theme
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“Southwest Territory” (hometown-2.mp3) is from Hometown Square.
“Hometown Square 1” (hometown-square-2.mp3) is from Yukon Territory.
“Hometown Square 2” (hometown-square1.mp3) is from County Fair.
Thanks so much for posting these! Do you know where I might be able to find the music that is played in the Scenic Railway and on Sky Trek Tower?
Thanks Michael — Oddly enough, someone told me a few years ago that this clip was from Southwest, so I changed it. Looks like I was right in the first place!
I’ll fix the other two. Thanks for the comment!
As for the other two soundtracks– I haven’t been able to locate either of them. Are they both the same? I think I heard the Sky Trek music on a video on YouTube recently, but it was while the ride was operating. I think it’s an amalgamation of Looney Toons songs into a soundtrack, if I’m not mistaken.
Yes, they are the same, and I do believe you’re correct about them being comprised of music from Looney Tunes cartoons.
Did Yankee Harbor have its own soundtrack before Batman came in? I vaguely recall hearing something in the V2 line other than the Batman music.
It did– as far as I know it may still play somewhere. I seem to recall it had a lot of pipes, kind of like a calliope. It’s pretty hard to find– and wasn’t represented on the CD at all.
Oh, and “County Fair 3” and “Yukon Territory 2” need to be swapped. I know that was confusing with both having Hometown in their file names.
Hi Rick !
I worked at SFGA from ’96 through ’99.
I’ve seeking these songs for YEARS !! Thank you so much.
Fred, from France.
I’ve BEEN seeking… Sorry !
By the way I also wonder if the Character Cafe TV channel music is available somewhere. The one when the date and park hours were shown on screen… You had it in your head all day long after lunch but I’d love to hear it again !!
I haven’t heard this in so many years….. I worked at Marriott’s Great America – In Santa Clara in County Fair and Yukon Territory for a few years in the 80’s while I was in college. Is there some way I can get the whole Great America Soundtrack? thanks for the trip down Memory Lane… ^_^
This is so cool and brings back some really good memories. Thank you! What is the name of the song under the title Hometown Square? I love it and have always wanted to know the name
The Hometown Square songs are all virtually all ragtime songs written by the great Scott Joplin. Look up Scott Joplin on iTunes and YouTube, sit back, and be blown away when you hear all the songs they played in Hometown Square and can finally put a name and a date to them. They were all written between 1899 (Maple Leaf Rag) and 1914 (Magnetic Rag). Try riding the Whizzer countless times for years, hearing this music, falling in love with it and never knowing what it was. Fast forward to a junior college class eight years later in a music appreciation class where the teacher introduces ragtime and plays these songs. I went out to the record store straight away and bought the Scott Joplin collection. Every song is piano masterpiece, very hard to play and has a story. It is the earliest form of Jazz. Enjoy!
The Hometown Square songs listed here include the famous Scott Joplin ragtime tune, “The Entertainer.” Written in 1902, it and all the other scores of rags written by Joplin were forgotten after his death from syphilis in 1917 and with the end of the First World War. With the making of the film, “The Sting,” Joplin experienced a huge and well-deserved Renaissance. This African American composer and pianist has experienced a long overdue recognition like Alan Turing has in Britain. “The Sting,” made in 1972, came out before the Great America parks opened in 1976, perhaps explaining why they were chosen as part of the wonderful soundtrack that still thankfully exists today. The other song, “Let Me Call You Sweetheart,” was written in 1910 by a songwriting duo whose song continues to be played to evoke this seemingly more innocent time period. Most recently, a centenarian guest sang the song to Jay Leno on The Tonight Show” in 2012. It’s been played numerous times in films and Gene Kelly and otjer musica Stars brooght it back too!
drea says:
I love that you put these up! I love the Demon song!
joel schlecht says:
Demon music… This is funny. Glad to see people are passing the song around. I worked in the sound technical services at great America in Gurnee in 1995. I remembered the song and told the told the guys how great it was so we dug up the real to real master. The tape from the 70’s was garbage and while I was recording it to cassette it stretched. that’s why you can hear the slow down in the music at the beginning. Rudy also thought that it would be nostalgic to record just parts of the recording to play in the park again but that it was too corny to play the whole thing. So, we did that also.
I held on to the tape until 2005 when I was moving my bands recordings from tape to cd. So, I cleaned it up and converted it to mp3.
Today I was going through my tapes before my tape deck dies for good and I came across one you don’t have. The teaser for the tidal wave. I just converted it to mp3 from tape today. World premiere here on your page!
[audio src="http://www.mediafire.com/listen/9jqijui7r3mn9n9/Tidal_Wave_Teaser.mp3" /]
best regards, Joel Schlecht
This is awesome!! Thank you for the story and for sharing this with me. I’ll add that and give you the credit, of course. 🙂
Adam Scheibe says:
Thank you all for the sound bites! I always loved the Dixieland music from when I was a kid and remembered dancing around on the street whenever I walked into the areas. Truly some great memories of Great America. Thanks so much!
Sad to say, many of the above audio links are now dead. Any chance they could be refreshed?
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J.J. Blair
I hadn't heard David's latest version of this mic, since he switched from using the 6072 tube to the 5670, so he lent me one recently to check out. Goddamn. If you need a 251, and don't want to spend $20,000, this is the one I'd get. Honestly.
Listening to it against a mic that he built for me using a NOS CK-12 capsule, 5 star GE 6072 and a TAB built T14/1, and a mic that consists of a Tele USA body, yet everything from the capsule down to the resistors is vintage AKG, I'm so impressed that he managed to keep that great sound in the new revision, even with changing to very big components.
I can only assume that a great deal of work was done with Oliver at TAB, to make sure the custom transformer delivers the tonal balance in combination with this tube, that the 6072 and T14/1 combo gives you.
The reason for the change is simply the fact that usable 6072s are scarce, and expensive. David's philosophy is that it would be bad business to build a mic, for which he can't supply first rate replacement tubes in the foreseeable future. He searched for a tube that was high quality, that he could get in sufficient quantity, and bought himself a truck load of 5 star GE 6072s. Other companies are either selling mics with inferior 6072s, or they are using an outright different tube altogether, which completely changes the sound of the mic, when paired with the T14/1. This brings up problems of noise and getting away from that vintage 251 sound.
Having heard a few of his custom built Haun CK12 type capsules, I can say that they certainly have tighter tolerances from one to the next than real CK12s. I have a lot of CK12s, including a couple NOS ones, and I've borrowed a few to test, and even though they all have a similar hallmark, they are all over the place, even within the same revision. There is a much more uniform response to the Bock capsule, from one to the next.
However, my very favorite CK12 has a little more sibilance and air to them, than the Bocks. That being said, I have had a chance to personally test the AKG CK12 that David based his capsules on, which he deems as his favorite, and the high end of his capsules are definitely modeled after that one. Nonetheless, his capsules certainly fall within the sound of what I think of a really good examples of CK12s.
But that frequency response comes down to a question of taste, and I find that not everybody likes those high frequencies the way I do. In fact, while they can make some voices sound magical, they can make some unlistenable, and perhaps it is better to uniformly go for the less brighter option. It makes the mic more universally usable. None the less, on a singer such as my girlfriend, who is all about soft, throaty air, this mic sounded every bit like a 251, in capturing the air, and the texture, while still delivering sparkling mids. In fact, I had her do takes between my Bock with the vintage parts, and this new one, and I will be comping between the two, without anybody ever noticing, I assure you.
There are several people making 251 type mics, but I have been saying to people for some time (and this only reinforces my impression),this is my favorite one. Also, I love knowing that there is a real microphone genius on premises, who is designing, building and testing the mics himself. The craftsmanship, part selection, and attention to detail, puts these mics at the top of the class, as well.
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Re: Bock 251
I have the ELUX version with the 5670 tube. Whilst I have never used an original 251 I am absolutely thrilled with the sound of this mic. The Cardioid is something to behold.
JJ, considering it's the same capsule used for the CS-1, are there many similarities? I'm still waiting for my pair.
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Well, I find the CS1 very different, mostly because of the low end response, which is enormous on the CS1. You'll see when you get them. There's a timbre similarity, because of the capsules, but the overall coloration and frequency balance is totally different.
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The contribution of soil and water conservation to carbon sequestration in semi-arid regions
L. Stroosnijder, W.B. Hoogmoed
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This is a list of notable quotes from Leon Scott Kennedy. Note that this page does not list all known quotes from said character.
Resident Evil 2 (1998) Edit
"Okay, that's far enough! Don't move!"
"Get down!"
"What are these things?"
"That maniac's gonna ram us!"
"Ada, wait!"
"Let me guess. You must be Ben, right? Get up! Now!
"Is this the guy?"
"Hey, I'm not going anywhere. I'm the only cop left alive in this building!"
"Look! If you wanna live, then you have to leave with me!"
"Claire, Claire! Wait, wait! Man, why doesn't anyone ever listen to me?"
"Ada! What was that all about?! Running off like that was reckless and stupid! Those zombies are everywhere! Not to mention that thing that got Ben!"
"Is it just me, or does everybody always ignore what I say?"
"Game over."
"Goodbye, Ada..."
"You're right. This is just the beginning."
"Hey, it's up to us to take out Umbrella!"
"No one's around?"
"Officer, you need help?"
"Hey! Hey! Get off him, right now!"
"What the fuck...!?"
"Freeze! I'll shoot!"
"Hello? Is anybody here?"
"Jesus... Words won't work on this thing."
"No choice. Gotta take it down."
"Don't you dare!"
"Something tells me he's not a cop..." (Leon after seen Mr. X in the PC monitor)
"Jesus Christ!" (Leon after encountering T-00 for the first time)
"Marvin... Aw, No... Damnit!" (Leon after discovering zombied Marvin)
"I'll stop this, lieutenant. I promise." (Leon after killed zombied Marvin)
"Chew on that, you overgrown son of a bitch!" (Leon after killing the giant Alligator)
"It's still alive?!"
"You got a problem with death?" (Leon while fighting G5 Form)
"Uh...Is this a fucking joke?" (Leon while fighting T-00 for the final time)
"Shit! Him again?!?" (Leon after seeing T-103 in the NEST Greenhouse)
"Well... He was friendy..." (Leon after getting flipped off by the truck driver in the true ending)
Resident Evil 4 Edit
"1998... I'll never forget it... It was the year when those grisly murders occurred in the Arklay Mountains."
"Six years have passed since that horrendous incident."
"Guess that's a locals way of breaking the ice. Anyway, you know what this is all about. My assignment is to search for the President's missing daughter."
"I'm sure you boys didn't just tag along so we can sing Kumbaya together at some boy scout bonfire . Then again, maybe you did."
"Right... Parking tickets..."
"Sorry to have bothered you." (to the first villager he encountered, not realizing the man is a Ganado)
"Freeze! I said freeze!"
"There was a hostile local, I had no choice but to neutralize him. There's still others surrounding the area." (to Hunnigan, after killing the Ganado)
"Damn!" (as he slams the door to the cabin)
"What are these people?"
"Great, a chainsaw."
"Shit!" (After the Ganado's break through an upstairs window)
"Son of a..."
"Where's everyone going? Bingo?"
"That's too good for a guess. Wanna start explaining?"
"Somehow I managed to get myself involved with the incident in Raccoon City on my first day in the force." (to Luis Sera)
"Used to be a cop myself, only for a day, though."
"The 'Los Illuminados'? *scoffs* That's a mouthful."
"Hey, it's that dog!"
"Hey, take it easy. My name is Leon. I'm under the President's order to rescue you."
"Faith in money will lead you nowhere, Saddler."
"You'd better stay outside. Ashley, go hide."
"Hate to say it but we're sandwiched alright... Quick, in that cabin!"
"Don't worry, she's cool."
"Ashley, upstairs!"
"Look's like they're backing off."
"The bridge I crossed to get here is out, so I guess we have no choice but to keep moving."
"Sounds more like an alien invasion if you ask me." (mocking Saddler's plan to rule the world)
"Hasta luego." (As he shoots a gas can)
"Don't worry, Ashley, I'm coming for you!"
"If you don't need me, then get off my back, old man!"
"Well, I really don't give a damn - rain or shine, you're going down."
"Sorry, but following a lady's lead just isn't my style."
"A bit of advice, try using knives next time. Works better for close encounters."
"Ada. So it is true...You working with Wesker."
"Ada..."
"What did you do to her?"
"All spoiled thanks to your interruption, why don't you do us all a favor and leave before the audience gets pissed off?"
"I don't ever remember being a part of your crappy script."
"Won't fall for this old trick."
"Your right hand comes off?" (scoffing at Salazar's attempt to kill him)
"Monsters. Guess after this there'll be one less to worry about."
"This is no Ritual. It's terrorism."
"This is Leon, request backup, I repeat - request backup... damn..."
"You got her involved just for that!"
"You've lost it completely, Krauser."
"Now that's what I call backup."
"MIIIIIIKE!!!"
"Saddler, you bastard!"
"Saddler, you're small time."
"Can't remember the name? A senior moment perhaps."
"'When we get out of here drinks are on me."
"I'll make sure you're the next to go, Saddler!"
"Better try a new trick, 'cause that one's gettin' old."
"Hang on, sweetheart!"
"She's like a part of me I can't let go. Let's leave it at that."
"Hey, Hunnigan, no glasses."
"You know, you're kinda cute without those glasses. Gimme your number when I get back?" (Leon was flirting with Hunnigan, to which she rejected Leon's offer)
"Story of my life."
"Women."
"Excuse me, sir?"
"There's too many of them!"
"What? Same blood?"
"Ashley!"
"Oh no." (when Ashley's been killed)
"Wait!"
"Follow me!"
"Hide!"
"Got gum."
"Now!"
"No..."
"Who are you?"
"No thanks, bro."
"Luis!"
"Saddler!"
"Luuuuiiiiisss!"
"Krauser!"
"Ashley, you okay?"
"Ashley, wait!"
"We have to get off this island now. It's gonna blow any minute."
"Way." (When Ashley says "No Way" when Leon suggested jumping down the hole)
" I knew you'd be fine if you landed on your butt."
"What's so funny?"
"She really pushed it!" (after Ada activated the bomb)
"Stay right where you are!"
"MR. PRESIDENT!"
"ADAM!" (right before Leon shoots the President)
"I can't believe this is happening again. It's just like Raccoon."
"Yeah, this is Raccoon City all over again."
"You wanna tell me what's in there?"
"Is this what you wanted to show me?"
"Hunnigan. I need you to fake our deaths."
"We're going to China."
"Sherry? What are you doing here?"
"What happened, Chris?"
"Put your gun down Chris. She's a key witness, we need her."
"And I lost over seventy-thousand people, including the President, because of Simmons!" (putting the blame on Simmons)
"She's already gone! Shoot her!"
"Well get used to it. It's either them or us... and they don't hesitate."
"Helena, grab your gun."
"Shit! Don't let 'em in!"
"That's our cue to get the hell out of here."
"You're right. Let's get the hell out of here."
"Where is he? I need to know!"
"Looks like things just went from bad to worse."
"How do you know my name?" (to Helena)
"How do you two know each other?" (to Helena and Hunnigan)
"I... I just shot the President."
"I got a lead?" (after corroborating Helena's lie to Hunnigan)
"Adam... I'm sorry."
"So what's so special about this church? You have some sins to confess?"
"You're going to tell me everything once we get to the cathedral. Deal?"
"You see one of them, aim for the head. It's your best bet."
"This is where the reception was going to be. They'd all be here eating dinner, if..."
"We're going to the cathedral, but if you really had a hand in this you can kiss your freedom goodbye."
"All right, I get it. But if you don't keep it down, you won't live to save her. You understand?" (to a man looking for his daughter)
"We're making the time." (cutting off Helena as she says they don't have time to look for the man's daughter)
"Stay sharp."
"Not my lucky day."
"Hey, shit-for-brains! Over here!" (to the Ustanak)
"That's quite a draft..." (after a chandelier is blown to the floor)
"There was no one at the controls. Zombie express." (to Helena about how the trains are still running)
"Aim for the head. You're a cop, right? You can handle a gun. (to a survivor who is a police officer)
"Who does he think we are, exterminators?" (about the gun store owner who wants them to kill the zombies)
"Brace yourself!" (inside the falling bus)
"Yeah. For whatever reason, we're still alive."
"Look, it's just us! Let us in!" (to someone inside the cathedral)
"Ugh, this is gonna get a little bit dicey."
"Get ready! Here comes company!"
"My thoughts exactly." (in response to Helena's comment about the puzzles)
"Wouldn't want to miss out on all the fun."
"Get away from it! Everyone out of the way, we'll take care of it!" (to people inside the cathedral, when the Lepotica attacks)
"Yeah... I heard you became an agent." (to Sherry)
"I'm tracking the man behind all this. Chief Security Advisor Simmons."
"Where is he!?
"Friend of yours?" (to Jake, regarding the Ustanak)
"Welcome to the club. You get used to it." (to Jake)
"Come on! Let's get some answers." (after Ada escapes the door) Chapter 4
"Shit. It's locked." (If Leon interact with the door)
"We find another way." (If Helena interact the door)
"We gotta make it to the elevator. Run!" (when the camera zooms in to the elevator) Chapter 4
"We'll take the stairs." (if failed to get to the elevator) Chapter 4
"I'll try and get pass security. You take care of our little friends." (talks to Helena when undo the locks)
"We'll clear. Let's go after her!" (If Leon and Helena clear the lock phase first.)
"Someone doesn't want us to catch Ada! She might not be working alone." (If Leon and Helena clear the lock phase slower than Chris and Piers.)
"Ada, stop! We have to talk!" (If Leon was the first to catch Ada.)
"Chris!" (when Leon point his gun at Chris)
"Put your gun down, Chris! She is a Key witness. We need her!" (when talking to Chris)
"No! It wasn't her! It was Simmons! The National Security Advisor." (when talking to Chris)
"And I lost over 70,000 thousand people! Including the President, because of Simmons!" (when talking to Chris)
"Yeah...I do.." (when Chris told him that Ada is working for Neo Umbrella)
"I am...." (when Chris ask her if he was going to protect her)
'Chris, wait! We both want the same thing here." (before Chris pursuit Ada)
"Chris! I know you'll do the right thing." (before Chris left)
"He's been to this as long as I have. I trust him." (when asked by Helena whether Leon could trust Chris)
"C'mon! Let's find Simmons." (talk to Helena)
"Our target is Simmons. Always has been." (when asked by Helena)
"We have to worry about Ada later.... Right now, we need to focus on Simmons." (when asked by Helena whether Leon could regret not following her.)
"I could see why killing the President is good for the country!" (talking to Simmons)
"You...need to be more careful." (to Sherry)
"Think you can make it to that door?" (to Jake)
"Because I need you to take care of Sherry." (to Jake)
"Thanks! I'll put a call to FOS to get you some protection. (as Leon draws out his double action handgun) Now move!" (to Sherry)
"Chris! We're just outside Tatchi, why?"
"Chris, listen to me. I need you to rescue two hostages from an underwater oil field. Agent Sherry Birkin... ...and Jake Muller. He's Albert Wesker's son."
"Chris, he's got antibodies for the C-Virus."
"Good. Thanks."
"C'mon. It's not over yet."
"Hang in there, Helena."
"You're not gettin' off that easy. Come on."
"After all we've been through, it'd be a waste to give up now."
"We're almost through this."
"Let's take a break."
"There's gotta be a first aid kit here somewhere."
"Makes me sick seeing good soldiers die like this."
"She's not doin' too good. She needs medical attention." (to Hunnigan, about Helena's condition)
"A few. But I'm not sure they'll help." (to Hunnigan, regarding if he has herbs)
"Too many good agents have died here today... You're not getting added to that list."
"Dammit, out of ammo."
"Can't let your guard down for a second."
"How do you feel...?"
"We're heading to the Quad Tower."
"There are BSAA agents there with survivors. We can't abandon them."
"Hunnigan! Can we make it to the tower this way?"
"They're comin' out of the woodwork!"
"What the...? Shit...!"
"Damn it! I can't bring her up...! Come on!"
"C'mon, c'mon. Pull up!"
"Just a few more blocks!"
"Back for more?" (to Simmons)
"Hope you got friends on the other side, 'cause no one's gonna miss you here." (to Simmons before he transforms into a dinosaur)
"I think we pissed him off!"
"What are you? Why are you helping us?" (To Ada, after she saved Leon from Simmons)
"Check and mate, buddy! (when taunting in the extra content)"
"A lightning rod! If he absorbed that he'd be in for a shock."
"NOW! Aim for the head!"
"Ada!"
"No. We're sticking together."
"There's our ticket outta here... ...If we can get to it!"
"Enough is enough."
"Come on. Let's get to the chopper."
"Evidence that proves Simmons' guilt."
"Our innocence."
"Helena."
"Copy that. We're on our way back. See you soon. Let's go."
"The president would have done the same."
Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles Edit
"The virus continues to grow... Altering its form, strengthening perpetually until the day comes when it can be destroyed."
"But to him, after all that he's been through, B.O.Ws, Cryptid... They're all the same."
"There's more than just girls gone missing..."
"My fight against bio warfare all started in a zombie infested ghost town."
"Don't tell me there's gonna be more of these things."
"Hey, I'm a rookie... Don't ask me, I just got here."
"It smells like something must be rotting."
"They got the hots for you, huh?"
"We can't give up. There's gotta be someone left alive."
"Nice to hear a human voice out there."
"This is like a horror movie."
"Let's take a break. Because it looks like it's going to be a long night."
"Damn it. I'm sorry, Marvin."
"I'm sorry it turned out like this."
"After all, I don't wanna pull my gun on you."
"This place is like hell on earth. Whether you are in the station or outside on the streets, it's all the same."
"Did he just come through the roof!?"
"Something tells me that he's not gonna listen to reason!"
"What's G? What does it stand for?"
"Sorry, but I've got no time for this, guys."
"Manuela, are you...?"
Resident Evil: Degeneration Edit
"Ask all you like, but honestly, There's nothing to discuss on that subject."
"I don't care to risk increasing the number of infectees. You don't want to be forced to shoot your friends, do you."
"The only way to stop the spread of infection is to destroy the infectees brains.
"Shoot 'em in the head."
"I told you. The only way to stop them is to shoot them in the head. It's their only vulnerable spot. Don't forget it, otherwise you'll only waste time and ammunition. And that can prove to be fatal."
"I'm gonna scrub this virus from the face of the earth."
"Claire... Try not to get killed."
"If you don't try to save one life, you'll never save any. Isn't that right, Curtis?"
"Need a lift?"
"Next time we bump into each other...let's hope it's some place...a little more normal."
"Until next time."
Resident Evil: Damnation Edit
"We've got confirmation that B.O.W.s are being used in this war."
"She can tell them I got lost and missed my flight."
"If you don't stop messing around with that thing, you're gonna get us all killed."
"You inject that stuff in your body so you can control the Lickers, right?"
"Great, I get to play Santa Claus."
"Sure. Been doing it since the country was founded." (To Buddy, asking if Americans vacation with a gun)
"Well then, I guess my only option is to lose my American citizenship for a while."
"I was looking forward to showing you America." (To an infected JD before shooting him)
"I'd feel the same way if I was you. But the option of taking our own lives no longer belongs to us. Once we start using these, we owe it to the people who died alongside us; we have to continue living... even if it means living the rest of our lives without the use of our limbs."
"That is my answer, and your answer, Buddy."
"In the end, nothing's really changed."
"So you missed me, huh?"
"Well, now that we got that out of the way."
"Hmm, yeah, let me see. You're the beekeeper?" (to Svetlana, regarding Svetlana's question)
"The person who release the plaga."
"So that's what Ada meant." (to himself, about Svetlana)
"Wanna go grab a few beers?" (to Buddy)
"Nice work pal." (to the Licker)
"I didn't expect to be saved by B.O.W.s"
"You can run, but you can't hide."
"Say what?" (to Ada, about Svetlana)
"It's like a beehive."
"Big surprise."
"Did you use it?"
"I'm sorry"
"I couldn't stop him."
"Looks like they're doing some serious renovations down here."
"I'm not a CIA Agent. I'm just a regular American who was screwed out of his vacation, dropped in a plane, and brought here. With out any breakfeast!"
"Are you Dorothy?"
Resident Evil: Vendetta Edit
"Hey, uh, another bottle here." (to Bar keep)
"Hey, who the hell--"
"What do you want, Redfield?"
"What intel?"
"So you got an arms-dealer on one side, and on the other, a government dropping bombs on weddings. Who's the bad guy again?"
"Patricio!"
"Oh, look who it is! The BSAA's Golden Boy and Doctor High Hopes! What the hell do you want?"
"So much for vacation."
"Careful you don't scare the locals. Your stealth's for shit."
"I never make plans that far ahead."
"Let's light a match, watch it burn."
"Whatever you say, boss."
"Dibs on the bike."
"Here boy. Come on!" (To the Cerberus)
"Sorry I'm late. I had to take the stairs."
"Catch!" (To Arias, in the finale battle)
"When I was a kid, I used to think about what kind of man I'd grow up to be. I never thought my life would turn out this way."
"This again huh? Feels like I'm stuck in a goddamn loop."
"I keep fighting...and fighting and fighting. Instead of seeing an end to this shit, it just keep getting worse. Is this what my life is supposed to be? Fighting the living dead and bastards that make them? What's the point of it all?"
"Your mission, not mine!" (To Chris)
"There goes my vacation, again."
"Let's do this."
"Hey, Chris."
"How much longer can we keep going on like this?"
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City Edit
"All right, let's do this the hard way!"
"Heads up."
"Claire - fire!"
"Thanks for the backup."
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More forking that is mums-to-be for pricey scan to show health insurance and intercourse of infant at 10 months
1月 15, 2020 1:15 pm Published by 管理者
More pregnant ladies are forking away for the blood test to determine chromosomal-related medical issues and their baby’s sex as soon as 10 days into maternity.
The non-invasive test, which costs $600-$700, sees foetal DNA through the placenta, that could be tested to check on the developing fetus’s chromosomes for abnormalities.
In addition identifies the infant’s intercourse, enabling mums-to-be to locate away early – a lot more than per month before they might through the Government that is usual funded” test, which can be agreed to expectant moms and dads around 18-20 months.
Mary Birdsall, a manager and expert at Fertility Associates Auckland, stated the sooner test have been designed for after some duration but ended More Help up being growing in appeal as more parents that are expectant it had been a choice.
“a lot of people are not carrying it out to select to find the gender out of their infant – many people are deploying it to ascertain whether or otherwise not their infant has normal chromosomes,” Birdsall stated. “can be done it any moment from 10 days.”
Birdsall said it helped provide moms and dads satisfaction, and allow them to make informed choices in the event that test acquired any health problems.
Those who went through the public health system often weren’t while expectant parents who opted for a private obstetrician would typically be offered the test.
Ashleigh Garrett, 32, along with her spouse Simon Garrett paid $600-$700 for the test, 10 months into her pregnancy.
The test would not determine any chromosomal dilemmas and she discovered she had been having a lady.
The mum-to-be, who’d undergone three miscarriages in 2 years, told the Herald on Sunday she wished to know about any problems earlier in the day, rather than later.
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“If there is one thing in which the child will not have the ability to live after delivery, we’d go for understood at 10 days, in the place of at 20 days whenever you’ve fused far more.”
The Aucklander said she had been amazed and a horrified that is little exactly just just how handful of her buddies and colleagues had learned about the test.
“It is not offered, it’s not advertised, for peace of mind, you just don’t know unless you go through the private system where they recommend it.
“we had been like ‘holy moly, imagine if there is something amiss? Should not everybody have this information?'”
For Garrett, having reassurance had been a deal that is big her early in the day miscarriages.
“You’re wanting the child become healthier and therefore there defintely won’t be any problems. Every scan you are hoping that it is going well and they are growing well.
“that is a large one . to be able to always check chromosome abnormalities as much as 99 percent accurately.”
She had been constantly likely to find the sex out at 20 days, she stated, however it had been “extra nice” to understand ahead of time and then plan ahead.
“It was not a huge deal – it had been simply a pleasant small additional.”
Registered psychologist Sara Chatwin was not astonished more Kiwi women were opting to cover the test.
“some individuals want to be actually organised,” she stated.
“they might be painting the room, or buying the clothes if they know the gender. It may be actually helpful.”
While many parents that are expectant maybe perhaps not feel they “needed” or “wanted” the data that early, other people felt well informed if they had been up to date.
“then why not? if a pregnant woman is happy and has questions that can be answered quickly and easily, and has the ability to pay for the test -“
As the test may possibly not be wanted to somebody going right on through the general public medical system, Birdsall stated it absolutely was basically accessible to anybody very happy to spend they just had to ask for it.
“You can head to Labtests where they provide it as something for about the cost that is same” she said.
She said there would probably be much more choices for prenatal assessment as technology relocated forward. It ought to be section of pregnancy care, she said, to own these being offered.
“we think parents that are would-be be provided all of the tests that are offered.”
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Divya Mehra
Winnipeg, Q
Website: www.divyamehra.com
Media:Photography; Installation; Film/Video;
Genre:Text; Humor; Appropriation; Conceptual;
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DIGRESSION
September-12-2010 – September-17-2010
Hendershot Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Digression, a group show featuring works by artists Chitra Ganesh, Liz Magic Laser, Simone Leigh, Divya Mehra, Justine Reyes, Kenya (Robinson), and Mary A. Valverde. Digression marks the inaugural show at Hendershot Gallery’s new location on the Lower East Side at 195 Chrystie Street. The exhibition will be open to the public from September 12 to October 17, 2010, with an opening reception on September 12 from 6-9pm.
In everyday speech, digression is often something we apologize for, as it is construed as a problematic accident, a divergence from the main point that takes away meaning and dilutes the concentrated ‘essence’ of a lecture, a sermon, an interview, a musical theme, or a work of visual art. However, in literature and formal public oration, digression is traditionally defined as an intentional change of subject, an anecdote, for example, that is marked by its exceptionality in the context of a larger, more linear narrative. As linguist Sandra Schor wrote in her essay “Reclaiming Digression,†digression is “something we encounter along a formally composed, carefully networked route of discourse [that] takes hold of our attention, attracting us not by how adroitly it contributes to the development of the argument, for it is rarely an element of argumentation, but by how powerfully it arrests us in its own form, its own point, its own argument within an argument. Imagination is evident when we devilishly wander off to enjoy an element for its own sake and not for its immediate service to the larger work.†Just as a map does not always bring us to the most exciting place, digression can thrust us into a space of the unknown, the unfamiliar, a place that is unexpected and perhaps even a bit frightening simply because it is alien. Within digression lie the hidden stories, those that only come to light by an act of moving away from ‘the subject at hand’ — whether that is a conversation topic that one wishes to avoid or the entire accepted canon of literature or fine art.
In post-modern fiction, authors use digression as a way of distancing the reader from the fiction and creating a greater sense of play. In the same way, the artists in this show each use digression in their work as a means of preventing the traditional linear functioning of fiction’s illusions and as textual and literary modes of approach to cultural and feminine analysis. The exhibition Digression at Hendershot Gallery takes its title from an interview with artist Kara Walker in which she says “I’m sorry. I just digress. That’s all I do.†The artists in this show access the hidden stories of their cultures and their identities through digression, pulling their viewers away from the fiction inherent in social norms and enabling us to interact, even play, without the proverbial map. We follow their alternative paths away from the general and end up somewhere we never expected to be: surprised, destabilized. Schor makes the point that “generalizing is an act of aggression. In fact, the connection between digression and aggression is often more than incidental; every digression violates the reader’s†–or, in this case, the viewer’s—“habit and intent, at the same time that it fulfills the possibility of a rendezvous with the devil.†We invite the viewers of Digression to be flexible, imaginative ‘readers’ of the show, to take pleasure in the danger and risk of “limitless aside,†to “arrest and apprehend ideas hitherto unconnectable, [to act] out of an unconscious indiscretion that is a kind of exhilarating free fall in an otherwise determined universe.†Digressers are like dreamers, creating imaginative acts without censors. Here, in the realm of digression, anything is possible.
TURF WAR.
September-10-2010 – October-16-2010
With TURF WAR., Divya Mehra veers away from the performance video she’s become known for and furthers her ongoing critique of cross-cultural appropriation, this time through disemboweling signs of wealth and power. This concise exhibit showcases an exploration through sculpture, text work, and installation, revealing the economic underpinnings of personal and cultural interaction. Who gets to benefit from which territory? Who gains access into which lands? How does this power transfer from one side to the next? And who is on whose side anyway?
Divya Mehra is a multimedia artist who recently earned her MFA from Columbia University, New York, and BFA with Honors from the University of Manitoba’s School of Art. In her practice Mehra explores issues of cultural displacement and hybridization, deploying a humorous perspective in the execution of the projects. Mehra’s work has been included in a number of exhibitions and screenings across North America and overseas, most notably at Plug In ICA, Queens Museum (NY), The Images Festival, and A Space (Toronto), Groupe Intervention Video (Montreal), and Gallery OED (Cochin, India).
The exhibition, TURF WAR., by Divya Mehra has been commissioned by PLATFORM with financial assistance provided by Winnipeg Arts Council’s New Creations Fund and is curated by J.J Kegan McFadden.
Please join us Friday, 10 September for the opening reception of TURF WAR. beginning at 7PM, refreshments will be served.
PLATFORM acknowledges the support of its membership, Board of Directors, staff, and partners in presentation. Operating and project assistance for PLATFORM programming is provided by: Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, The Winnipeg Foundation, and The W.H. & S.E. Loewen Foundation.
For more information about this exhibition or other PLATFORM programming, please contact the Centre directly:
PLATFORM | 121-100 Arthur Street [Artspace Building] | Winnipeg, Manitoba | R3B 1H3 | 204.942.8183 | www.platformgallery.org
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RemotePossibilities
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Tag: Christmas
Originally published at ChristianityToday.com, December 1, 2017
At 31 years old, Charles Dickens was already a novelist of international renown. He’d also hit upon a career slump—a string of three commercial flops—and needed to deliver a hit to escape mounting financial pressures.
In the winter of 1843, the author struck on the idea of a Christmas ghost story that would be released in time for the holiday. However, his late-fall moment of inspiration left him almost no time to get his book to press—only half a dozen weeks for the story to take shape, for an illustrator to supply drawings, and for the printers to supply them to stores.
The Man Who Invented Christmas is the story of those six weeks of breakneck creativity during which Dickens wrote perhaps his most beloved work. The movie is a thoroughly pleasant, sometimes funny, and occasionally reflective story with a PG-rating and storybook aesthetic that recommend it as the go-to family film of this holiday season.
Dan Stevens—once a star of Downton Abbey—delivers an eccentric, anxious, animated young Dickens to the screen. He gets incredible mileage out of his expressive blue eyes and conveys Dickens’s writerly flights of inspiration with a near crackling energy. Better still, Stevens’s Dickens finds an equally entertaining foil in Christopher Plummer’s Scrooge. Something peculiarly pleasing occurs the first time Plummer appears, equipped with top hat and cane, shuffling through a London cemetery. I felt as though I’d unwittingly been waiting for a long time to see him in this role, so much so that his first “Bah. Humbug!” evoked a satisfied sigh of “at last!”
Much of the fun in this film hinges on similar moments of recognition as the story weaves familiar details from A Christmas Carol—names, events, phrases—into ordinary moments of Dickens’s life. For example, the movie proposes that he collected interesting names of day-to-day acquaintances in a notebook, building a list for his christening of fictional characters. Dickens explains that only after he’s chosen just the right name will that character appear. Rather than leave that description as a mere figure of speech, the film plumbs it: Dickens’s creative process is externalized with characters that actually appear once they’re rightly named, make themselves available for conversation, and as his deadline draws near, harass him to return to work.
In the exchanges between Dickens and Scrooge, The Man Who Invented Christmas brings to life a creative process at once whimsical, mercurial, and manic. A growing cast of characters from A Christmas Carol breaks into the mindscape of Dickens like so many waking dreams. These scenes have a distinct aesthetic and moral sensibility; the world of the famed author’s fiction is at once more colorful and more severe than the flesh-and-blood London that he occupies. As Dickens takes measure of his protagonist’s life, Scrooge is prompted by each ghost to reflect on his attitudes and actions. Persistent appearances by Plummer’s Scrooge—even when the novella isn’t being penned—suggest that Dickens’s conscience, too, is being haunted just as he imagines Scrooge’s to be.
As many readers will recall, A Christmas Carol addresses themes of loneliness and friendship, self-interest and generosity. Visitations from the “ghosts of Christmas past” make stark the relational and moral poverty of Scrooge’s wealthy life. Rather than reveal a single grave sin or Gothic secret to explain the hardness of Ebenezer Scrooge’s heart, Dickens’s novella imagines a kind of cardiac sclerosis setting in over the course of his character’s decisions, actions, and inactions. For both Scrooge and Tiny Tim, the consequences of Scrooge’s selfishness are spelled out clearly, the stakes as high as life and death.
As the film shows elements from this story breaking into Dickens’s biography, it highlights moments of moral consequence. These novelistic interruptions give us signposts for how ordinary life—though less dramatic—is also a working out of convictions and values, of bitterness and sins that accumulate and shape our character.
Dickens redeems Scrooge by having him recognize and repent of his habitual selfishness. The screenwriters redeem Dickens using much the same strategy …
Posted on December 6, 2017 December 6, 2017 Categories FilmTags A Christmas Carol, biopic, christianity, Christmas, Christopher Plummer, creativity, Dan Stevens, Dickens, London, morality, writing processLeave a comment on Charles Dickens Still Haunts Christmas
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MedChemComm
Quinolone-isoniazid hybrids: synthesis and preliminary in vitro cytotoxicity and anti-tuberculosis evaluation†
Richard M. Beteck, *a Ronnett Seldon,b Audrey Jordaan,c Digby F. Warner, cde Heinrich C. Hoppe,fg Dustin Laming,g Lesetja J. Legoabe h and Setshaba D. Khanye *agi
a Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa
E-mail: s.khanye@ru.ac.za
b Drug Discovery and Development Centre (H3-D), Department of Chemistry, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa
c SAMRC/NHLS/UCT Molecular Mycobacteriology Research Unit, Department of Pathology, University of Cape Town, Observatory, South Africa
d Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Observatory, South Africa
e Wellcome Centre for Clinical Infectious Diseases Research in Africa, University of Cape Town, Observatory, South Africa
f Faculty of Science, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa
g Centre for Chemico- and Biomedicinal Research, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa
h Centre of Excellence for Pharmaceutical Science, North-West University, Potchefstroom 2520, South Africa
i Faculty of Pharmacy, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa
Herein, we propose novel quinolones incorporating an INH moiety as potential drug templates against TB. The quinolone-based compounds bearing an INH moiety attached via a hydrazide–hydrazone bond were synthesised and evaluated against Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv (MTB). The compounds were also evaluated for cytotoxicity against HeLa cell lines. These compounds showed significant activity (MIC90) against MTB in the range of 0.2–8 μM without any cytotoxic effects. Compounds 10 (MIC90; 0.9 μM), 11 (MIC90; 0.2 μM), 12 (MIC90; 0.8 μM) and compound 15 (MIC90; 0.8 μM), the most active compounds in this series, demonstrate activities on par with INH and superior to those reported for the fluoroquinolones. The SAR analysis suggests that the nature of substituents at positions −1 and −3 of the quinolone nucleus influences anti-MTB activity. Aqueous solubility evaluation and in vitro metabolic stability of compound 12 highlights favourable drug-like properties for this compound class.
https://doi.org/10.1039/C8MD00480C
Med. Chem. Commun., 2019,10, 326-331
Quinolone-isoniazid hybrids: synthesis and preliminary in vitro cytotoxicity and anti-tuberculosis evaluation
R. M. Beteck, R. Seldon, A. Jordaan, D. F. Warner, H. C. Hoppe, D. Laming, L. J. Legoabe and S. D. Khanye, Med. Chem. Commun., 2019, 10, 326
DOI: 10.1039/C8MD00480C
Richard M. Beteck
Ronnett Seldon
Audrey Jordaan
Digby F. Warner
Heinrich C. Hoppe
Dustin Laming
Lesetja J. Legoabe
Setshaba D. Khanye
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Revealing non-crystalline polymer superstructures within electrospun fibers through solvent-induced phase rearrangements†
Alexandre Morel, ab Sophie C. Oberle,a Sebastian Ulrich, a Gökçe Yazgan,a Fabrizio Spano, a Stephen J. Ferguson,b Giuseppino Fortunato *a and René M. Rossi a
a Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Laboratory for Biomimetic Membranes and Textiles, 9014 St Gallen, Switzerland
E-mail: giuseppino.fortunato@empa.ch
b Institute for Biomechanics, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
The design of nanofibers for biomedical applications requires a deep understanding of the fiber formation process and the resulting internal structure. In this regard, non-crystalline, mesomorphic structures play a central role in the processing of many polymers as precursors in the formation of crystalline superstructures (e.g. shish-kebab) and influence strongly the physical properties of polymers with a low degree of crystallinity. Yet, our ability to probe these relevant features is often greatly limited by their low contrast differences with the amorphous phase. We present an approach to reveal the organization of the mesomorphic superstructures within such polymeric materials, on the example of electrospun poly(L-lactide) nanofibers. Based on solvent-induced crystallization, this method employs fine-tuned solvent/non-solvent systems to enhance the contrast of these structural features by selectively triggering and controlling reorganization of the phases. Hereby, the mesomorphic regions are transformed into an α-crystalline phase, while the nanoscale spatial arrangement of the underlying superstructures is preserved. Combined with X-ray analytical techniques and electron microscopy, our approach provides detailed insights into the nanofiber's inner architecture, allowing for its direct visualization. Thereby, the influence of electrospinning parameters on the fiber formation process is explained as well as the impact of the resulting non-crystalline superstructures on single fiber mechanical properties. The method can be applied to comparable polymers for the development of materials with controlled, tailored properties.
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9NR04432A
Nanoscale, 2019,11, 16788-16800
Revealing non-crystalline polymer superstructures within electrospun fibers through solvent-induced phase rearrangements
A. Morel, S. C. Oberle, S. Ulrich, G. Yazgan, F. Spano, S. J. Ferguson, G. Fortunato and R. M. Rossi, Nanoscale, 2019, 11, 16788
DOI: 10.1039/C9NR04432A
Alexandre Morel
Sophie C. Oberle
Sebastian Ulrich
Gökçe Yazgan
Fabrizio Spano
Stephen J. Ferguson
Giuseppino Fortunato
René M. Rossi
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Jarvis: 2000 - Nick Cave's Meltdown (TV)
Broadcast: 2000
Recorded: 2 July 1999 (Queen Elizabeth Hall, London)
Channel: ABC (Australia)
Includes a short clip of Jarvis’ solo performance of Cuckoo and an interview.
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Kootenay Rockies, BC
ATVing knows no limits in Cranbrook
Track your way over hazards in this winter wonderland
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FibreGlass Hill is a sought-after destination for the Cranbrook Snowmobile Club. — Photo courtesy Doug Williamson
If your butt is glued to your ATV all year long, Cranbrook is the place for you. Many of the logging roads that are accessible for the summer are groomed for the winter for snowmobiling—or ATVing with tracks. On top of his role as president of the Kootenay Rockies ATV Club, Doug Williamson is also a charter member of the Cranbrook Snowmobile Club. Now that he is retired, Williamson opts to ride an ATV with tracks rather than ride the more physically demanding snowmobile.
“It's something different,” he said. “They're heavier, slower, don't float as well as a sled. There's less speed involved. It's definitely safer with less likelihood of getting yourself in trouble. It's a little like slow-motion, but it's still a lot of fun.”
Doug Williamson is a charter member of the Cranbrook Snowmobile Club. — Photo courtesy Doug Williamson
The trails aren’t the only reason that Cranbrook is a recreational dreamland—the weather is ideal for winter riding too.
“Once you get a bunch of snow and some warm weather to melt and compact the snow—you get a base with some fresh stuff on top—then you're good to go,” said Williamson. “I love it in the mountains—summer and winter. Whether it's sleds or quads, it's a good ride.”
As it turns out, Williamson’s local ride recommendation during winter differs from what’s best in the summer. To get there, ride out from Lumberton and follow a 6,500-foot mountain ridge along a treeline above tiny MacNeil Lake. The trail goes to Lamb Creek, Mineral Lake and into a valley around Monroe.
“The short, windblown scrubby trees that are up there get plastered with snow,” said Williamson. “You can hardly see the trees, it's all snow. Because you're on top of all this snowfall, you're not worried about boulders and stumps and windfalls. The snow is over top of all that.”
Semlin Pass in Lumberton is accessible with snowmobiles or ATVs with tracks. — Photo courtesy Doug Williamson
With so much powder under the tracks, there are more opportunities to focus on the scenery. The ridge views afford riders the opportunity to scan one mountain range after another.
“When you get up on the ridges, that's what it's all about,” said Williamson. “You can see for miles and miles. That's the biggest kick. You're looking down on the Cranbrook valley and the rest of the world. It's a spectacular view.”
Revelstoke, BC Dirt biking in Revelstoke, B.C.
With top-notch motocross tracks and trails, Revelstoke is fast becoming one of the best places to ride a dirt bike in southeastern B.C.
March 2016 by Kirsten Armleder
January 2020 by Kyle Born
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DEBORAH MOGGACH THESE FOOLISH THINGS PDF
These Foolish Things by Deborah Moggach. Old flames burn in an Indian summer. By Barbara Trapido; Friday 20 February Editorial Reviews. Review. ‘Elegantly read by Nina Wadia’ INDEPENDENT. About the Author These Foolish Things – Kindle edition by Deborah Moggach. Actually I prefer to think that I read These Foolish Things and watched The Best .. Deborah Moggach’s The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (originally a different title) .
Author: Vudokora Tojagore
Genre: Science
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There is an interesting comment in the book, made by someone from the Indian culture into which they are thrust in Bangalore, to the effect that the elderly are valued in India and that families care for their older folk.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel by Deborah Moggach
The marriage of Ravi and his wife teeters on the brink until the end of the book, mkggach while it appears to be improving, there is no indication that it will foolishh. Care homes are closing, pensions are dwindling, and life expectancy is rising. I wanted to explore questions of race and mortality, but I also wanted it to be funny.
There are many characters in the book, each with a reason for going to India: What follows is a hilarious heart warming story of cultural differences, new found love, shared experiences and sadness. Some of the retired English people in the hotel in Bangalore used email. I’m going through my fave books and posting mini-reviews of those I folish others would really like. To view it, click here.
I found the book thought-provoking, if not conversation-provoking. What I did like about this book was the initial presentation of the gentle widow Evelyn, the cockney racist Muriel, and the retired Dorothy. They performed some other also enjoyable movie, which I think was supposed to be about outsourcing the care of the elderly to India. With the book, I had to make notes when I was being introduced to this multitude of characters, so that when they reappeared I could remind myself who they were.
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Motgach Ainslie Maggie Smith Jul 15, Melissa rated it did not like it Shelves: Still, it’s not all gloom and doom. Peopled by a wonderful array of characters who range from the merely foolih to the totally ‘batty’, the antics of these pensioners had me quietly chuckling to myself – the antics of the impotent Norman, though ultimately sad, being nothing short of hilarious. Where are we all going to live?
I hesitate perhaps out of politeness to call it a racist view of India and Indians, but it certainly does leave me feeling uneasy.
Read the full article. Do not even read the blurb on the back of the book.
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Moggach references Black people in two ways — thugs who attack one of the old women, and multiple uses of the word “nigger” — and includes many casually scornful references to Jewish and gay people and of course uses “Muslim” as synonymous with “terrorist”. An excellent examination of the business of growing old this highly original tale centres around a retirement home set up in Bangalore with the intention of attracting British pensioners. My mouth hung open for that one.
Norman’s the guy who basically gets the ball rolling in this book when he moves in with his daughter and son-in-law, Ravi.
Just killed off in a fairly cruel way, really. It seems that this is supposed to be funny. At the end of the book Jean returns to England while Douglas gives Evelyn a happy ending by marrying her.
It has been re-titled with the name of the movie, but this is the original book, published in Practically every thespian played a part counter to the novel’s character. So now, I’m trying to read the books I own and picked this up.
Several retirees are enticed by the promise of indulgent living at a veborah price, but upon arriving, they are dismayed to find that restoration of the once sophisiticated hotel has stalled, and that such amenities as water and electricity are.
The attitude to marriage is almost entirely negative. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is a story about an eclectic mix of British pensioners moving out to a retirement thigs in the Indian city of Bangalore. No aspect of India escapes Moggach’s derisive, Othering, patronizing pen: Just as so many other things are being outsourced to India, why not aged care?
There are many revelations, and crises aplenty, but the book never really manages to rise out of the category of pleasant diversion.
Evelyn was the only character in the book that retained some of the movie character’s charm. Nov 20, marissa sammy rated it did not like it Recommends it for: One often hears the term “a writer’s writer”.
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Entre Lenguas y Vidas: Book Review of Chula by Amanda Alcántara
18th Oct 2019 In Reviews
Tags: afrolatina, afrolatinx, caribbean, chula, Dominican, latina, latinx, Poetry
by Peggy Robles-Alvarado
The word Chula has several definitions depending on regional or social usage, but if you know Dominicans, we are masters of codification. We unapologetically develop multilayered models for language that seep into quotidian speech a lo’ que lo que. In her book titled Chula, Amanda Alcántara embodies the multiplicity of meanings tied to this epithet, creating a body of work that not only code switches from Dominican dialect to standard English, but also conflates style and form cuando le da su gana, through her use of journaling, lyrical poetry, memoir, storytelling vignettes, prose and refránes reflective of who she asserts herself to be: La que se inventa frases porque vive entre 2 lenguas y 5 vidas- hija, hermana, puta, santa y amiga.
Hija: As a daughter of Dominican immigrants in a constant state of flux, Alcántara narrates her complex relationship with a father she describes as being absent for her birth but toasting his newborn over beer with friends, and a fearless mother who “is on a perpetual diet” and glows even after a break- up. Although she sees fragments of herself in both of them, in the piece titled “This is where I tell you where my parents met”, Alcántara struggles with having light-skinned parents but proudly claims “Yo era la morenita de la casa. I was blessed by the ancestors. They were like, -¡Tituá! Esta va ser de piel India, pa’ recordarle a ustedes de donde son, coño.” Her presence is a reminder of a dark-skinned Dominican history she is proud to represent both physically and creatively.
Hermana: Alcántara’s strained relationship with her green-eyed, straight-haired sister Liz, as detailed in the prose piece “When I had just arrived” is less about aesthetics and more about autonomy as she describes her sister’s attempts at parenting in the absence of their mother who had returned to the Dominican Republic. She recounts loneliness that is tied to the independent spirit fueled by her immigrant status. She finds solace in her ability to thrive between borders and in a map she deliberately positions upside down on her bedroom wall.
Puta: Throughout both sections of her book Alcántara, never clearly defines what a puta is but asserts that “our culture tells women that we must be good, and that ‘body count’ matters.” The Madonna/Whore Complex the author cites as the Virgen/ Puta dichotomy that polarizes perceptions of women’s sexuality into the categories of a good girl or bad bitch, are expressed in pieces like “Before moving to the United States” and “Excerpts from Daydreaming about men. December 2015” but her sexuality and sensuality are expressed with more confidence in the second section. Here Alcántara includes black and white photos from social media posts to accompany poems and experimental vignettes that reference “sex sin dueño, mujere freca, and ratrería” sin pecado. Although the photos are blurred, her intent is clear in that she is declaring her love for “posting thirst traps” and discovering herself as a sexual, sinless woman.
Santa: Although Alcántara’s reference to the word santa may have been more directly connected to the opposite of being a puta, it is also tied to her attempts at finding a spiritual practice that speaks to her. In “I feel like I’m floating” Alcántara writes “I tried searching for a mom in Yemaya y Oshun; it didn’t work…I search for my soul beyond my body cuz other spiritual practices with bodies like mine aren’t for me…Everyone’s Mami seems to have an altar y la mía no tenía na de eso.” It is later in a narrative prose piece that the author seems to find her spiritual center in her Abuela’s voice. In “Buelita’s Songs” she writes of her spiritual void and discovers that God lives in the songs her Abuela sang to her and that is all the religion she needs.
Amiga: Alcántara’s relationship to other women is one of compassion and protection. In “Cycle of Violence” she writes “I wanted to spare her. I wish it had been me” when she tells of confronting a pedophile. Although the theme of sexual abuse is recurrent in her book, the exact details are omitted, written in the third person, or quickly placed on the page either to protect herself or others in her family. These stories, despite being fragmented and purposefully incomplete, result from the normative Alcántara challenges where victims of sexual harassment or abuse are shammed, blamed and unfriended; Where young girls and grown women are told “You should’ve known, you don’t treat men like humans. You treat them like the threat that they are.” Alcántara knows that “parte de ser mujer” is to call yourself and the women of your tribe -amiga.
Chula: a phrase that expresses a term of endearment, un cariñito, or moral judgment. In most cases, the word signals a beautiful woman. For Domincanas like Amanda Alcántara, who turn life lessons into un libro, Chula is the first experimental, bilingual collection of intimate stories by this journalist who through the use of el palabreo caribeño invites us to explore who she was, who she is becoming, at her own pace, on her own terms, and en dos lenguas.
Peggy Robles- Alvarado is a Pushcart Prize nominee, a CantoMundo, Academy for Teachers, Desert Nights Rising Stars and Home School Fellow. She is also a five-time International Latino Book Award winner. This tenured educator, with M.A.Ed. degrees in elementary and bilingual education and an MFA in Performance Studies authored Conversations with My Skin (2011) and Homage to the Warrior Women (2012). Through Robleswrites Productions, she curated The Abuela Stories Project (2016) and Mujeres, The Magic, The Movement and The Muse (2017). As a former teen mother, an initiated priestess in the Lukumi and Palo spiritual systems, and a proud grandmother, this BRIO award-winning performance poet uses rhythmic, raw- truth energy to celebrate womanhood and honor cultural rituals. She’s been featured on HBO Habla Women, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, The Black Spirit Solstice Summit, Poets & Writers, and The BADD!ASS Women Festival. In 2016 she was named one of the 25 Most Influential Women of the Bronx, a BCA Arts Fund, and Spaceworks Bronx Community Artist Grant recipient. Peggy has been published in 92Y’s #wordswelivein, NACLA, Manteca! An Anthology of [email protected] Poets, The Center for Puerto Rican Studies, The Bronx Memoir Project, The Other Side of Violet, Latina Voices: Struggles and Protest in 21 Century USA and What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump. For more visit Robleswrites.com
Amanda Alcántara is a writer, journalist and author of Chula (2019). She is the Digital Media Editor at Futuro Media Group.Her work centers on various themes including Caribbean culture, womanhood, borders and blackness. She has been published on Latino USA, Remezcla, Latino Voices and Black Voices on The Huffington Post, The Washington Post’s The Lily, BESE, and The San Francisco Chronicle. In May of 2017, Amanda obtained a Master of Arts from NYU in Latin American and Caribbean Studies where her thesis focused on the experience of women residing on the border of the Dominican Republic and Haiti.Amanda is also a co-founder and previous editor of La Galería Magazine. She has also been published in the anthology “Latinas: Struggles & Protests in 21st Century USA,” published by Red Sugarcane Press. She has a B.A. from Rutgers University. A map of the world turned upside down hangs on her wall.
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MC Shitou: Icon of a Fading Internet Subculture
By Dino Ge Zhang February 21, 2018
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MC Shitou, an internet-based DJ, is the major proponent of an online MC subculture called hanmai (literally, “yell mic,” or shouting into a microphone). Hanmai is often denigrated as a “malformed” rural DJ practice in China. Han — “yelling,” instead of singing, rapping, or even growling — implies a supposedly “distasteful” approach to what it means to DJ; Mai, or mic, also happens to be a homophone of 麦, or wheat, an agricultural product associated with the countryside.
The scholarly and journalistic consensus on hanmai (less so on MC Shitou individually) is often filtered through the perspectives of subculture, or the subaltern. However, both perspectives, when applied to hanmai, are problematic and potentially misleading.
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Contemporary hanmai is not a subculture in a definitive sense. Hanmai does not rely on subcultural capital like the underground rave scene in Shenzhen, or underground hip hop in Chengdu, or the experimental music scene in Shanghai. In those cases, being underground is not just a matter of legality, but a part of maintaining esotericism and exclusivity against the general accessibility of mainstream television shows such as The Rap of China. Hanmai does not mind being under the spotlight, or even the scrutinizing gaze of the mainstream. In fact, it desires to be under the spotlight in its proclamation that it’s the “actual” voice of the bottom of society.
Hanmai is also not subaltern in its intellectual sense. Musically speaking, it is an imaginative and interpretive attempt at electronic music/hip hop (i.e. the envisioned quality music of the futurism-obsessed and wealth-exhibiting urban middle class). Lyrically speaking, it fantasizes about transcending the wretched life of being the subaltern. It is not in a similar vein of intellectual fantasies of workers’ poetry on their horrendous working conditions, but rather projects fantasies of being the warmongering emperor, fighting gods (or fate), encountering beguiling women, melancholic and protracted love stories, and so on. The interpretive vulgarity was possibly unconscious and oblivious at the beginning, but has grown into a conscious performativity that’s captured millions of fans.
Hanmai is not in a similar vein of intellectual fantasies of workers’ poetry on their horrendous working conditions, but rather projects fantasies of being the warmongering emperor, fighting gods (or fate), encountering beguiling women, melancholic and protracted love stories
MC Shitou is often considered to be one of early proponents of hanmai. His initial DJ set Qinzhai (The Debt of Love) was an immense success on video sites AcFun and Bilibili, where he quickly ascended to the rank of “All-Star” in the late 2000s and early 2010s. To be among the rank of “All-Stars” on AcFun and Bilibili is a special honor for “meme-fied” internet personalities, protagonists in viral videos, and fictional characters in TV shows.
MC Shitou was one of the first internet sensations to emerge from the rise of online videos in 2008. (The previous generation of internet celebrities, such as Sister Furong 芙蓉姐姐, were primarily associated with blogs and forums.) MC Shitou is representative of the absurdity of how the much-stigmatized aesthetics of shamate and chenxiangjiehebu (contact zones between the urban and rural) end up in celebrated fame.
After seeing a live show by MC Shitou in a prominent Beijing livehouse, a communications scholar who goes by the pseudonym “mlln” summarized the “MC Shitou phenomenon” in a post on Zhihu (link in Chinese), a forum similar to Quora or Reddit:
The fans are not consuming the music per se, but the experience. What’s cool about this experience is that, they present the lives we are often unfamiliar with (if you belong to the urban middle class), or familiar with (if you are the urban underclass or rural migrants), juxtapose the often-idealized form of urban life and ridiculed lives of ‘rural’ life, all on the same stage… the organizers even added extra symbolisms to further reinforce the [presupposed] contrast between the urban and rural: desktop computers, dancers radiating a rural aura, even, the audience themselves… If MC Shitou spoke proper English, and the music was of high quality, no one would invite him to perform [at the live house]… To make the audience willing to pay for a different kind [of music], there are two ways: it has to be either ‘so fucking cool’ or ‘so fucking shit’.
In probing hanmai culture, GQ journalist He Tao tried to interview four Chinese music critics for their opinions on hanmai, but they all rejected him. One even said, “Sorry, I am a serious and established music critic, please respect my profession, thank you.”
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The cultural war between hanmai and more institutionalized Chinese hip hop is real. Additionally, China’s underground hip hop scene is only obliquely participating in this cultural war, even though it is still affected.
There are also discernible differences between the contemporary iteration of hanmai on livestreaming platforms and its earlier iteration in MC Shitou’s online videos. MC Tianyou, for example, emerged within the ecology of livestreaming platforms, and is indigenous — or at least far more accustomed — to the practices of livestreaming.
By contrast, MC Shitou originally became known through viral videos on Acfun, and his fame and notoriety were not only due to his own hard work at self-promotion or propagating and maintaining his image of “rural-ness,” but was also a byproduct of his viewers’ collective contributions on Acfun. This must go back to MC Shitou’s initial rise to fame, and how it was intricately connected to danmu (“bullet comments” — fast-streaming comments that move from right to left across the screen on video platforms like Bilibili and AcFun) netiquette in its subcultural stage.
MC Shitou’s enshrined video on AcFun is the epitome of danmu carnivals, and the living example of the subcultural principle that “danmu is the actual main body [of the video].” Apart from his unique approach to glorifying a rural style, the core identifying feature of MC Shitou’s video aesthetic is danmu, rather than the inherent quality of his music.
In an act of accommodating the stigmatized aesthetic of the rural and the grotesque, AcFun viewers utilized danmu comments to simulate the sticker and graffiti advertisements that are omnipresent on poles, stairs, and brick walls in suburban and rural China. Comments in this vein include entries such as “massive sale of sanitary pads, please contact 5564878”, “assassin for hire, contact 84523”, “coffin sale, contact 484854”, “change your fate, contact 741165”. A textual analysis of these comments does not really help, since these words are not there for their literal meaning (even though the absurdity is obvious), but for their visual, flowing effect and their simulation of the illegal posting of handbills and graffiti ads.
The irony is that when MC Shitou attempted to capitalize on his fame in the thriving livestreaming business, the transition largely failed: his viewership on livestreaming platform Douyu went from the welcoming huge crowd of his former fans to total obscurity in a matter of months.
The pivotal point is that MC Shitou was born in an ocean of danmu spam, shitposts, and the quirky post-digital aesthetics of handbills found in dilapidated buildings
The pivotal point is that MC Shitou was born in an ocean of danmu spam, shitposts, and the quirky post-digital aesthetics of handbills found in dilapidated buildings in soon-to-be-demolished urban villages, and dodgy back-alley staircases, poles, and walls. His lousy, rural-sounding mixtape and his contrived hanmai voice are all important factors, but more crucial is how people remember him. He is not an idol like the rappers featured on The Rap of China, nor a grassroots livestreaming celebrity like MC Tianyou. He is a meme icon from a fading internet subculture.
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Dino Ge Zhang is an ethnographer and academic most of the time (the boring stuff). But occasionally he likes to write commentaries on a variety of happenings on the internet (the fun stuff). You can find him at his website anthropos.live
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Ryan Seacrest is Returning to ‘American Idol’
It was announced this morning on "Live With Kelly & Ryan", that Ryan Seacrest will be returning as the host of the "American Idol" reboot.
FOX's Jacquelyn Karl reports:
It's official! Ryan Seacrest's returning as host of 'American Idol' after three months of negotiations, Seacrest used his show "Live With Kelly & Ryan" to announce the news this morning.
So far, Katy Perry is the only confirmed judge on the ABC reboot expected to air spring of 2018.
Seacrest also revealing eliminated contestants will appear on "Live" after being voted off "Idol".
It's reported Seacrest will be making north of $10 million.
Jacquelyn Karl, FOX News.
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OOCL celebrating 50th anniversary with the HK community at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum
On November 10, 2019, OOCL held a 50th Anniversary Free Family Fun Day event at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum (HKMM) to celebrate the company’s fifty years anniversary with the Hong Kong community and just before the kickoff of the Maritime Week in the city. Specially arranged exhibits, videos, souvenirs and family activities were organized to share with visitors who came to learn more about Hong Kong’s home carrier and the city’s colorful maritime history.
Young visitors enjoyed their tour of the museum and were treated to some coloring fun at the kids corner
The Hong Kong Maritime Museum exhibited a series of specially selected models from its collection for the event
Visitors were able to learn more about OOCL’s heritage and contribution to shipping and trade in Hong Kong
In November of 1969, OOCL’s founder CY Tung made international headlines for establishing one of the first Asian carriers to provide regular containerized shipping services between the Far East and the West Coast of the United States.
The Geh Yung (1966-77) was one of eight Victory class vessels in the early days of the OOCL fleet
OOCL’s first box ships were all converted from its conventional liners with a carrying capacity of just 300 TEUs and they were known as the Victory class in the fleet.
The first container sailing saw just 13 TEUs transported across the Pacific Ocean from Hong Kong to Long Beach, California, with an all Chinese crew. In comparison to OOCL’s latest G-class vessels like the OOCL Hong Kong with a carrying capacity of 21,413 TEU, the ultra-large containerships in our fleet today ships hundreds of thousands of containers each day, a far cry from the early days of containerization that began 50 years ago.
The OOCL Hong Kong made her maiden call to the port of Hong Kong on July 25th, 2019
“OOCL is deeply rooted in Hong Kong and very proud of our long heritage in this port city we call home,” said Andy Tung, Co-Chief Executive Officer of OOCL. “Together with Hong Kong, we witnessed the birth of containerization which changed the course of shipping and our company’s history. We also saw the beginning of modern globalization where Hong Kong earned a prominent place on the trade map, and OOCL was there to link the city to markets around the world. We are very happy to be on this journey together with the Hong Kong community and we certainly look forward to reaching many more milestones in the next 50 years ahead!”
To commemorate OOCL’s 50 years of containerization, a set of collectable postcards were specially made as corporate souvenirs. In OOCL’s outreach to the local community and support of the HKMM, a limited number of the postcard sets are available on charity sale at the museum where all proceeds are direct donations to supporting the HKMM’s work. Some of the postcard sets have also been donated to the HKMM as gift items to special community groups that visit the museum, including school students, elderly groups, and rehabilitating patients in Hong Kong.
The set of OOCL’s 50th anniversary postcards
With the Hong Kong Maritime Week just around the corner, members of the public and business community can find OOCL’s contribution and sponsorship to the Asian Logistics and Maritime Conference at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre next week. The OOCL booth is located at 3FG-02 and we look forward to welcoming everyone to the event in Asia’s World City!
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A Mathematician's Perspective on Topological Data Analysis and R
by Joseph Rickert
A few years ago, when I first became aware of Topological Data Analysis (TDA), I was really excited by the possibility that the elegant theorems of Algebraic Topology could provide some new insights into the practical problems of data analysis. But time has passed, and the sober assessment of Larry Wasserman seems to describe where things stand.
TDA is an exciting area and is full of interesting ideas. But so far, it has had little impact on data analysis.
Nevertheless, TDA researchers have been quietly working the problem and at least some of them are using R (see below). Since I first read Professor Wasserman’s paper, I have been very keen on getting the perspective of a TDA researcher. So, I am delighted to present the following interview with Noah Giansiracusa, Algebraic Geometer, TDA researcher and co-author of a recent JCGS paper on a new visualization tool for persistent homology.
Q: Hello Dr. Giansiracusa. Thank you for making time for us at R Views. How did you get interested in TDA?
While doing a postdoc in pure mathematics (algebraic geometry, specifically) I, probably like many people, could not escape a feeling that crept up from time to time—particularly during the more challenging moments of research frustration—that perhaps the efforts I was putting into proving abstract theorems might have been better spent working in a more practical, applied realm of mathematics. However, pragmatic considerations made me apprehensive at that point in my career to take a sudden departure, for I finally felt like I was gaining some momentum in algebraic geometry, developing a nice network of supportive colleagues, etc., and also that I would very soon be on the tenure track job market and I knew that if I was hired (a big “if”!) it would be for a subject I had actually published in, not one I was merely curious about or had recently moved into. But around this same time I kept hearing about an exciting but possibly over-hyped topic called topological data analysis: TDA. It really seemed to be in the air at the time (this was about five years ago).
Q: Why do you think TDA took off?
I can only speak for myself, but I think there were two big reasons that TDA generated so much buzz among mathematicians at the early stages.
First, it was then, and still is impossible to escape the media blitz on “big data” and the “data revolution” and related sentiments. This is felt strongly within academic circles (our deans would love us all to be working in data it seems!) but also in the mainstream press. Yet, I think pure mathematicians often felt somewhat on the periphery of this revolution: we knew that the modern developments in data and deep learning and artificial intelligence would not be possible without the rigorous foundations our mathematical ancestors had laid, but we also knew that most of the theorems we are currently proving would in all likelihood play absolutely zero role in any of the contemporary story. TDA provided a hope for relevance, that in the end the pure mathematician would come out of the shadows of obscurity and strike a data science victory proving our ineluctable relevance and superiority in all things technical—and this hope quickly turned to hype.
I think I and many other pure mathematicians were rooting for TDA, to show the world that our work has value. We tired of telling stories of how mathematicians invented differential geometry before Einstein used it in relativity and your GPS would not be possible without this. We needed a more fresh, decisive victory in the intellectual landscape; number theory used in cryptography is great, but still too specialized: TDA had the promise of bringing us into the (big) data revolution. And so we hoped, and we hyped.
And second, from a very practical perspective, I simply did not have time to retrain myself in applied math, the usual form of applied math based heavily on differential equations, modeling, numerical analysis, etc. But TDA seemed to offer a chance to gently transition to data science mathematical relevance—instead of starting from scratch, pure mathematicians such as myself would simply need to add one more chapter to our background in topics like algebraic topology and then we’d be ready to go and could brand ourselves as useful! And if academia didn’t work out, Google would surely rather open the doors of employment to a TDA expert than to a traditional algebraic topologist (or algebraic geometer, in my case).
I think these are two of the main things that brought TDA so much early attention before it really had many real-world successes under its belt, and they are certainly what brought me to it; well, that and also an innocent curiosity to understand what TDA really is, how it works, and whether or not it does what it claims.
Q: So how did you get started?
I first dipped my toes in the TDA waters by agreeing to do a reading course with a couple undergraduates interested in the topic; then I led an undergraduate/master’s level course where we studied the basics of persistent homology, downloaded some data sets, and played around. We chose to use R for that since there are many data sets readily available, and also because we wanted to do some simple experiments like sampling points from nice objects like a sphere but then adding noise, so we knew we wanted to have a lot of statistical functions available to us and R had that plus TDA packages already. While doing this I grew to quite like R and so have stuck with it ever since. In fact, I’m now using it also on a (non-TDA) project to analyze Supreme Court voting patterns from a computational geometry perspective.
Q: Do you think TDA might become a practical tool for statisticians?
First of all, I think this is absolutely the correct way to phrase the question! A few years ago TDA seemed to have almost an adversarial nature to it, that topologists were going to do what data scientists were doing but better because fancy math and smart people were involved. So the question at the time seemed to be whether TDA would supplant other forms of data science, and this was a very unfortunate way to view things.
But, it was easy to entirely discredit TDA by saying that it makes no practical difference whether your data has the homology of a Klein bottle, or there were no real-world examples where TDA had outperformed machine learning. This type of dialogue was missing the point. As your question suggests, TDA should be viewed as a tool to be added to the quiver of data science arrows, rather than an entirely new weapon.
In fact, while this clarification moves the dialogue in a healthy direction (TDA and machine learning should work together, rather than compete with each other!) I think there’s still one further step we should take here: TDA is not really a well-defined entity. For instance, when I see topics like random decision forests, it looks very much like topology to me! (Any graph, of which a tree is an example, is a 1-dimensional simplicial complex, and actually if you look under the hood, the standard Rips complex approach in TDA builds its higher dimensional simplicial complexes out of a 1-dimensional simplicial complex, so both random forests and TDA—and most of network theory—are really rooted in the common world of graph theory.)
Another example: the 0-dimensional barcode for the Rips flavor of TDA encodes essentially the same information as hierarchical clustering. All I’m saying here is that there’s more traditional data science in TDA than one might first imagine, and there’s more topology in traditional data science than one might realize. I think this is healthy, to recognize connections like these—it helps one see a continuum of intellectual development here rather than a discrete jump from ordinary data science to fancy topological data science.
That’s a long-winded way of saying that you phrased the question well. The (less long-winded) answer to the question is: Yes! Once one sees TDA as one more tool for extracting structure and statistics from data, it is much easier to imagine it being absorbed into the mainstream. It need not outperform all previous methods or revolutionize data science, it merely needs to be, exactly as you worded it, a practical tool. Data science is replete with tools that apply in some settings and not others, work better with some data than others, reveal relevant information sometimes more than others, and TDA (whatever it is exactly) fits right into this. There certainly will be some branches of TDA that gain more traction over the years than others, but I am absolutely convinced that at least some of the methods used in TDA will be absorbed into statistical learning just as things like random decision trees and SVMs (both of which have very topological/geometric flavors to them!) have. This does not mean that every statistician needs to learn TDA, just as not every statistician needs to learn all the latest methods in deep learning.
Q: Where do you think TDA has had the most success?
Over the past few years I think the biggest strides TDA has made have been in terms of better interweaving it with other methods and disciplines—so big topics with lots of progress but still room for more have included confidence intervals, distributions of barcodes, feature selection and kernel methods in persistent homology. These are all exciting topics and healthy for the long-term development of TDA.
I think, perhaps controversially, the next step might actually be to rid ourselves of the label TDA. For one thing, TDA is very geometric and not just topological (which is to say: distances matter!). But the bigger issue for me is that we should refer to the actual tools being used (mapper, persistent homology in its various flavors, etc.) rather than lump them arbitrarily together under this common label. It took many years for statisticians to jump on the machine learning bandwagon, and part of what prevented them from doing so sooner was language; the field of statistical learning essentially translates machine learning into more familiar statistical terminology and reveals that it is just another branch of the same discipline. I suspect something similar will take place with TDA… er, I should say, with these recent topological and geometric data analysis tools.
Q: Do you think focusing on the kinds of concrete problems faced when trying to apply topological and algebraic ideas to data analysis will turn out to be a productive means of motivating mathematical research?
Yes, absolutely—and this is also a great question and a healthy way to look at things! Pure mathematicians have no particular agenda or preconceived notion of what they should and should not be studying: pure mathematics, broadly speaking, is logical exploration and development of structure and symmetry. The more intricate a structure appears to be, and the more connected to other structures we have studied, the more interested we tend to be in it. But that really is pretty much all we need to be interested—and to be happy.
So TDA provides a whole range of new questions we can ask, and new structures we can uncover, and inevitably many of these will tie back to earlier areas of pure mathematics in fascinating ways—all the while, throughout these explorations pure mathematicians likely will end up laying foundations that help provide a stable scaffolding for the adventurous data practitioners who jump into methodology before the full mathematical landscape has been revealed. So TDA absolutely will lead to new, important mathematical research: important both because we’ll uncover beautiful structures and connections, and important also because it will provide some certainty to the applied methods build on top of this.
Q: More specifically, what role might the R language play in facilitating the practice or teaching of mathematics?
Broadly speaking, I think many teachers—especially in pure mathematics—undervalue the importance of computer programming skills, though this is starting to change as pure mathematicians increasingly enjoy experimentation as a way of exploring small examples, honing intuition, and finding evidence for conjectures. While the idea of theorem-proof mathematics is certainly the staple of our discipline, it’s not the only way to understand mathematical structure. In fact, students often find mathematical material resonates with them much more strongly if they uncover a pattern by experimenting on a computer rather than just being fed it through lecture or textbooks. Concretely, if students play with something like the distribution of prime numbers, they might get excited to see the fascinating interplay between randomness and structure that emerges, and that can better prepare them to appreciate formally learning the prime number theorem in a classroom. So as things like TDA emerge, the number of pure mathematics topics that can be explored on a computer increases, and I think that’s a great thing.
Q: Where does R fit in?
Well, much of the mathematical exploration I’m referring to here is symbolic—so very precise and algebraic flavor—and R certainly has no limitations working precisely, but it’s not the main goal of the language so one likely would use a computer algebra system instead. But, one exciting thing TDA does help us see is that there’s a marvelous interface between the symbolic and numerical worlds (here represented by the topology and the statistics, respectively) and I think this is great for both teaching and research. The more common ground we find between topics that previously seemed quite disparate, the more chance we have of building meaningful interdisciplinary collaborations, the more perspectives we can provide our students to motivate and study something, and the more we see unity within mathematics. My favorite manifestation of this is that TDA is the study of the topology of discrete spaces—but discrete spaces have no non-trivial topology! What’s really going on then is that data gives us a discrete glimpse into a continuous, highly structured world, and TDA aims to restore the geometric structure lost due to sampling. In doing so one cannot, and should not, avoid statistics, so pure mathematics is brought meaningfully in contact with statistics and I absolutely love that. This means the R language finds a role in pure math where it may previously not have: topology with noise, algebra with uncertainty.
Thank you again! I think your ideas are going to inspire some R Views readers.
Editors note: here are some R packages for doing TDA:
* TDA contains tools for the statistical analysis of persistent homology and for density clustering.
* TDAmapper enables TDA using Discrete Morse Theory.
* TDAstats offers a tool set for TDA including for calculating persistent homology in a Vietoris-Rips complex.
* pterrace builds on TDA and offers a new multi-scale and parameter free summary plot for studying topological signals.
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Sprint Kinetics, Kinematics, and Training Application with Ken Clark
Freelap Friday Five with Ken Clark
Dr. Ken Clark is an assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology at West Chester University. Dr. Clark teaches biomechanics and kinetic anatomy at the undergraduate level, and motor learning at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
In addition to teaching and conducting research, Dr. Clark has more than a decade of strength and conditioning coaching experience. He has coached in the private sector (Summit Sports and CES Performance), the high school level (Jesuit Prep in Dallas, TX), and the collegiate setting (Dickinson College, Haverford College, Villanova University).
Freelap USA: What is responsible for good vertical force production in top-end sprinting? What are some training considerations with this in mind?
Ken Clark: From a biomechanical standpoint, recent research suggests that maximal vertical force production during top-end sprinting is a result of a rapid acceleration of the swing limb into the ground, followed by an immediate deceleration of the limb upon ground contact. This research comes from Peter Weyand’s SMU Locomotor Lab, which I was lucky to be a part of for five years. Our Two Mass Model1,2suggests that a faster lower limb velocity into the ground, combined with a more rapid deceleration of the lower limb after initial touchdown, will increase the impact forces applied during the first half of ground contact, and allow for greater overall force application during briefer ground contact times.
From a coaching standpoint, greater magnitudes of vertical force can be achieved by following this technique checklist:
Upright posture with the torso and the hips neutral.
Minimal swing of the thigh behind the body after toe-off.
Maximal lift of the thigh in front of the body during the forward recovery phase.
Aggressive strike towards the ground at the end of the swing phase.
Stiff ground contact on the ball of the foot.
At touchdown, the lower limb needs to immediately decelerate upon initial impact, and the remainder of the stance limb and body needs to stay relatively rigid, yielding little from the ground all the way up the rest of the kinetic chain. The body has to remain stiff in all three planes, as too much compliance at the ankle and knee (sagittal plane) or hip/pelvis (frontal plane) is not optimal.
With regard to training, I think there are some specific recommendations that can be made. Unilateral plyometrics, and especially hops, should focus on a stiff contact on the ball of the foot with a minimal give or collapse when the foot hits the ground. Any collapse throughout the foot-ankle complex will prolong ground contact time, decrease stiffness, and generally not provide the desired training benefit.
With regard to warm-up exercises and sprint training drills, all reps should be completed with a specific focus on the technical checklist mentioned above. With this in mind, I especially like the A-march and A-skip, straight-leg runs/bound, and the triple-flexion thigh-switch drill (“boom-booms”). Although none of these drills are novel or revolutionary, I like them because they provide great context for working on posture, aggressive ground contact underneath the hips, and stiff strike on the ball of the foot.
Freelap USA: Looking at the factors that dictate good sprinting, what are some recommended special strength exercises (i.e., heavy sleds, overspeed, etc.)?
Ken Clark: I think the concept underlying accelerations with heavy resistance may have value. It forces the athlete to stay in a forward body lean longer than they would during a light or un-resisted acceleration. Furthermore, it may be effective for developing unilateral leg extensor strength in a closed-kinetic chain body position, which could have good transfer to the first phase of a sprint.
I think #AssistedSprinting has the potential for the maximum velocity phase of the sprint, says @KenClarkSpeed. Click To Tweet
On the flip side of that, I think assisted sprinting also has potential for the maximum velocity phase of the sprint. With some of the new cable motorized technologies that have recently been developed for assisted running, I think it is much easier to precisely control the velocity of the runner, which enhances the safety of this modality compared to prior methods such as bungee cords, etc. The key to effective assisted running is enhancing the runner’s velocity through decreased ground contact times (which could present a beneficial neural stimulus), and with minimal disruption to other aspects of the runner’s natural gait.
I should point out that further research needs to be completed on both of these modalities. Although the acute effects of resisted sprint training have been researched to a large degree, the longitudinal effects of training with very heavy resistance still remain to be determined. Furthermore, both the acute and longitudinal effects of assisted sprinting are largely unknown at this point, and further research is clearly necessary.
Freelap USA: What are some similarities and differences between the vertical forces in reactive vertical hopping and maximal velocity sprinting?
Ken Clark: I think the major similarity is the goal during both movements—i.e., to apply as much vertical force down into the ground as possible, in as brief a ground contact time as possible, while staying as stiff as possible all the way up the kinetic chain. Because of this over-arching similarity, I believe that reactive vertical hopping exercises are excellent for top-speed development.
I believe that reactive vertical hopping exercises are excellent for top-speed development, says @KenClarkSpeed. Click To Tweet
However, I think there are a few differences. First, the magnitude of vertical force is not necessarily the same between sprinting and reactive hopping plyometrics. During each ground contact when running at top speed, competitive athletes generally apply average vertical forces of 2.0-2.5x body weight and peak vertical forces of 3.0-5.0x body weight. Certain plyometrics may have vertical force magnitudes that are either smaller or greater than these values, depending on the athlete’s capability, the type of plyometric drill, and the height achieved during the hop/jump.
Perhaps more importantly, another difference is the ground contact time during maximal velocity sprinting versus certain vertical hopping exercises. Ground contact times during maximal velocity sprinting generally range from 0.08s (elite sprinter) to 0.12s (team sport athlete). To my knowledge, there are no plyometric drills that can match the short ground contact duration that is observed in maximum velocity sprinting. This is why sprinting is often described as the ultimate plyometric, and I would generally agree with this statement.
This is not to discourage other plyometrics at all, as plyometrics like reactive vertical hopping are obviously still extremely useful for developing speed, improving stiffness, and reducing injury risk factors.
Freelap USA: You’ve talked about the similarities between acceleration and top-end sprinting speed. What is similar here, but also, what are the key differences?
Ken Clark: I think there are more similarities than is often realized. With regard to force application, during both phases of the race, the runner should apply as much force as possible, as fast as possible, in the correct direction. Achieving this requires a strong posture with neutral alignment of head-trunk-hips, minimal thigh swing behind the body, an aggressive strike of the ground with the foot aiming to contact underneath the center of mass, and a stiff ground contact phase. The best sprinters can execute these technical goals from the first to last step in a race.
The sprinter should apply as much force as possible, as fast as possible, in the correct direction, says @KenClarkSpeed. Click To Tweet
Although there are many similarities, there are some clear differences, including kinetics, body position, ground contact times, and leg mechanics. During acceleration, the two major force requirements are: 1) apply sufficient vertical force to support body weight and rebound the center of mass into the next step, and 2) apply the rest of available force backwards to propel the center of mass forwards.3
To apply net horizontal propulsive forces during acceleration, the runner obviously leans forward and positions the center of mass in front of the foot for the majority of ground contact. As the runner continues to accelerate and approaches top speed, the body becomes upright and the majority of the forces are directed vertically down into the ground. Furthermore, ground contact times decrease in proportion to running velocity. Therefore, during initial acceleration, the ground contact times are relatively longer (~0.15-0.20s); but as the runner approaches top speed, the ground contact times are much shorter (0.08-0.12s, depending on the runner’s ability).
This implies that during acceleration, the key kinetic determinants are the ability to apply larger mass-specific horizontal propulsive forces during relatively longer ground contact times4,5while still applying enough vertical impulse to support body weight.3At top speed, the key determinants are the ability to apply large mass-specific vertical forces during relatively shorter ground contacts.6,7,8
Freelap USA: What are your thoughts on short speed endurance, and how fatigue begins to occur? How can we get athletes to hold their maximal velocity longer from a training perspective, and what factors are at play?
Ken Clark: Perhaps the best construct for understanding neuromuscular fatigue and short speed endurance is the force-application framework known as the Speed Reserve Model (previously termed the Anaerobic Speed Reserve). This framework has been developed and refined over the last 15 years by Peter Weyand and Matt Bundle.9-12These researchers determined that average velocity during maximal-effort runs of 3 to 240 seconds can be accurately predicted from only two variables: the athlete’s maximum velocity sprinting speed and the athlete’s running speed at VO2max.9(See Figure 1 in Bundle and Weyand, 2012.)
In addition to providing an excellent predictive algorithm for researchers and practitioners, this framework provides insight into the mechanisms underlying fatigue during short sprints. Namely, “as efforts extend from a few seconds to a few minutes, the fractional reliance on anaerobic metabolism progressively impairs whole-body musculoskeletal performance and does so with a rapid and remarkably consistent time course. In this respect, the sprint portion of the performance duration curve predominantly represents, not a limit on the rates of energy resupply, but the progressive impairment of skeletal muscle force production that results from a reliance on anaerobic metabolism to fuel intense sequential contractions” (Bundle and Weyand, 2012, p. 181).
From a coaching perspective, this implies that the best way to improve short speed endurance is to simultaneously train the ceiling and the floor. In other words, a primary factor in short speed endurance is simply the athlete’s maximum velocity (i.e., the ceiling). If top speed can be enhanced through training, speed endurance will improve along with the improvement in top speed. Improving maximal velocity can be accomplished by focusing on the techniques mentioned above in the first question, reactive plyometrics, and simply sprinting fast (Fly 10s, etc.). In shorter sprints of 200 meters or less, almost all the enhancement in speed endurance comes from raising the ceiling.
If top speed can be enhanced through training, #SpeedEndurance will improve along with it, says @KenClarkSpeed. Click To Tweet
With regards to improving “the floor,” it may be difficult to suggest only one methodology, as many prior methods have been effective. However, I am partial to methods that emphasize maximal or near-maximal efforts with relatively full recovery. These include 250s, 350s, 450s etc., or time-based drills such as the 23/27-second drill from coaches like Tony Holler and Chris Korfist.
Clark, K. P., Ryan, L. J., & Weyand, P. G. (2014). “Foot speed, foot-strike and footwear: linking gait mechanics and running ground reaction forces.” Journal of Experimental Biology, 217(12), 2037-2040.
Clark, K. P., Ryan, L. J., & Weyand, P. G. (2017). “A general relationship links gait mechanics and running ground reaction forces.” Journal of Experimental Biology, 220(2), 247-258.
Clark, K. P., & Weyand, P. G. (2015). “Sprint running research speeds up: A first look at the mechanics of elite acceleration.” Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 25(5), 581-582.
Rabita, G., Dorel, S., Slawinski, J., Sàez‐de‐Villarreal, E., Couturier, A., Samozino, P., & Morin, J. B. (2015). “Sprint mechanics in world‐class athletes: a new insight into the limits of human locomotion.” Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 25(5), 583-594.
Morin, J. B., Slawinski, J., Dorel, S., Couturier, A., Samozino, P., Brughelli, M., & Rabita, G. (2015). “Acceleration capability in elite sprinters and ground impulse: Push more, brake less?” Journal of Biomechanics, 48(12), 3149-3154.
Weyand, P. G., Sternlight, D. B., Bellizzi, M. J., & Wright, S. (2000). “Faster top running speeds are achieved with greater ground forces not more rapid leg movements.” Journal of Applied Physiology, 89(5), 1991-1999.
Weyand, P. G., Sandell, R. F., Prime, D. N., & Bundle, M. W. (2010). “The biological limits to running speed are imposed from the ground up.”Journal of Applied Physiology, 108(4), 950-961.
Clark, K. P., & Weyand, P. G. (2014). “Are running speeds maximized with simple-spring stance mechanics?” Journal of Applied Physiology, 117(6), 604-615.
Bundle, M. W., Hoyt, R. W., & Weyand, P. G. (2003). “High-speed running performance: a new approach to assessment and prediction.” Journal of Applied Physiology, 95(5), 1955-1962.
Weyand, P. G., & Bundle, M. W. (2005). “Energetics of high-speed running: integrating classical theory and contemporary observations.”American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 288(4), R956-R965.
Weyand, P. G., Lin, J. E., & Bundle, M. W. (2006). “Sprint performance-duration relationships are set by the fractional duration of external force application.” American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 290(3), R758-R765.
Bundle, M. W., & Weyand, P. G. (2012). “Sprint exercise performance: does metabolic power matter?” Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews, 40(3), 174-182.
Ken Clark
Dr. Clark’s research interests include the mechanical factors underlying athletic performance and injury mechanisms, as well as the integration of motor learning with biomechanics as it relates to movement skill acquisition. He has peer-reviewed publications in journals such as the Journal of Applied Physiology, Journal of Experimental Biology, Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, and Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research.
In addition to teaching and conducting research, Dr. Clark has more than a decade of strength and conditioning coaching experience. He has coached in the private sector (Summit Sports and CES Performance), the high school level (Jesuit Prep in Dallas, TX), and the collegiate setting (Dickinson College, Haverford College, Villanova University). Dr. Clark has certifications from the NSCA, USA-Weightlifting, and USA Track & Field.
Dr. Clark received his Ph.D. in applied physiology and biomechanics from Southern Methodist University in Dallas in 2014. He is a Golden Ram alumni, having completed his master’s degree in kinesiology at West Chester University in 2009. Dr. Clark completed his B.A. degree in psychology at Swarthmore College in 2003, where he was an All-Conference running back.
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Nathan Irvin, CSCS, USATFII says
The impulse-momentum equation tells us that during acceleration, where change in momentum is desired, and an athlete’s given potential to produce force on that day could be deemed as fixed, increasing ground contact times(without over extension at the hip and knee), is desired, not minimizing ground contact times as in max speed. Key difference.
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Enjoying a warm cup of coffee near Loudon Lake, along Washington's Boundary Trail. Laura Lancaster
“Has it ever snowed on your birthday before?”
My husband’s question broke the tension. We were camped near Cathedral Lake on September 1, at mile 26 of the Boundary Trail, an 80-mile, 6-day section of the larger Pacific Northwest Trail that stretches 1,200-miles from Glacier National Park in Montana to the Olympic Coast in Washington State.
Having both hiked the Pacific Crest Trail in 2014, we’d experienced a heavy wanderlust beginning to creep back into our day-to-days, so we decided to try out a section of one of the lesser known National Scenic Routes.
The section we chose is nestled in Washington's Pasayten Wilderness, just on the other side of the Cascade Range’s rainshadow and east of North Cascades National Park. We started from the official beginning of the Boundary Trail at the Iron Gate Trailhead, 20 miles northwest from Loomis, WA, before meeting up with the Pacific Northwest Trail near Horseshoe Meadow, 6.5 miles away. Over the next four days, the two trails overlapped, and we hugged the border between Washington State and Canada, often only a half mile to the north, before turning south at the Pasayten River for the final two days and 25 miles to reach our pickup location at Hart’s Pass.
Snow accumulating outside the tent. Laura Lancaster
But Hart’s Pass was still a long way away on that second night, and with the snow coming down hard, we wondered if we had bitten off more than we could chew. We were also nervous because while the first leg of the trail had been well-maintained and clearly signed, an eastbound PNT hiker had told us earlier in the day that the route would significantly deteriorate after Cathedral Lakes.
We rigged our sleeping pads and quilts together into a makeshift double bag and huddled together while looking at the maps, taking stock of our options in case we needed to bail out midway on the hike. As soon as it was dark we fell asleep to the barely perceptible sounds of snow accumulating on top of our tent.
The snow line visible above the trees along the Boundary Trail. Laura Lancaster
We got lucky on this trip: the next morning revealed that we had camped only 300 feet above the snow level. We were careful after that to plan our remaining days to end at lower elevation, and eventually finished our section hike on schedule at Hart’s Pass.
But that second night had set the tone for the rest of the trip. Basic expectations about backcountry travel were pushed to their limits on this section of the Pacific Northwest Trail: The path on the ground will match the map in my hand (spoiler: it didn’t). We aren’t the only ones out here hiking this trail (we went two full days at one point without seeing another person). September 1st is still summer (not necessarily in the North Cascades).
A trail sign along the Boundary Trail. Laura Lancaster
Part of what makes this trail a special experience is how vividly it demonstrates the tug of war between man and nature to keep routes like this open at all. Sections of the Boundary Trail are freshly maintained and easy to follow while others have been almost completely swallowed back into the earth by fire, erosion, and time. We could see where blowdowns had been cut back from the trail over the years, but there were still hundreds and hundreds of fresh logs to scramble around and over during 20+ miles of trail during the third and fourth days of our hike.
Bridges were blown out at every major crossing, and others just concrete supports.
What used to be a bridge is now a gnarled carcass of wood. Laura Lancaster
At times, the trail became a faint shadow that we followed by feel as much as sight, with an occasional cairn to keep our spirits up.
At others, it would abruptly disappear.
A burned out section of the Boundary Trail. Laura Lancaster
For some, the challenges of this hike will outweigh the rewards. But if you’re looking for something wilder, far from the grid and away from the crowds of the Olympics or Alpine Lake Wilderness area, then this might just be the trail for you.
Hike this trail for its wide open spaces, winding mountain ridges, expansive vistas, and remote stands of trees. Standing on Bunker Hill on the fourth day, the high point of the trail and the midway point of our hike, my husband and I watched a landscape that had bright blue skies and storm clouds and rain and sun and snow all at once. Fortunately for us, the clouds broke when we reached the top and the sun shone brightly down. We knew we were staring out at Canada, but this deep in the backcountry those manmade distinctions shifted to the background and we felt that we were staring out at endless, untouched wilderness. Then the weather shifted again and in a matter of minutes it was snowing. Time again to get to lower elevation.
Heading onto a 'trail-less' section of trail. Laura Lancaster
For my husband and I, even after hiking thousands of miles together, this was also a trail that taught us about our limits. How good our route-finding skills were. How fast we could travel in rougher terrain. Our capacity for having non-stop wet shoes and socks.
Toasting one another with hot buttered rums after we reached Hart’s Pass never felt more earned.
Permits: Self-register at the trailhead.
Daily average: My husband and I comfortably average 20 miles a day over average terrain, but managed only 15 miles a day on the Boundary Trail. Plan for slower days than you would normally to account for the rougher conditions.
Gear: This is not the trail to test out your new ultralight tent. You may go days without seeing another person on this trail, even during the high season. Bring gear you trust, and be ready for any and all weather. You will likely do some damage to your shell layer while scrambling over blowdowns in the rain (or snow), so I recommend carrying lightweight, inexpensive Frogg Toggs.
Maps: Maps are a must. Get Green Trails Maps 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, and 50. That being said, it appears to have been some years since these maps were last updated, so be aware that some manmade landmarks are no longer there. This includes the cabins along the Pasayten River, as well as a short section of trail leading south on the west side of the river, which has disappeared entirely. After the crossing, check at your maps and travel south beneath the embankment a couple hundred yards from the river and you’ll find it again within a half mile. The five miles of trail leading to the Ashnola River also appear to have been rerouted since these maps were last updated.
Navigation: Unless you are very comfortable with cross-country navigation, I highly recommended that you bring a GPS with you. It is possible to hike the trail without it, but this will provide considerable peace of mind.
Transportation: Travelling east to west seems to be most common, so as to avoid ending (and possibly having to hitch) out of the more remote Iron Gate trailhead. This means that getting to the Iron Gate trailhead will be the toughest logistical challenge of your hike. I recommend that you start currying favor with your friends and family several months in advance. Despite it’s remote location, the Hart’s Pass trailhead and campground is fairly popular, and it’s a safe bet that you’ll be able to hitch out, especially if you time your hike to end on a summer weekend. Alternately, an extra 25+ miles of relatively straightforward hiking south on the Pacific Crest Trail would allow you to exit at Rainy Pass.
Exit strategy: We followed the conventional wisdom on this hike and left the Boundary Trail just after the Soda Creek crossing and headed south to the medley of trails that intersect near the ranger cabins at the abandoned Pasayten Airstrip, foregoing the section of the trail that has a long history of disrepair out to Ross Lake. Another option would be to follow the Boundary Trail out to Castle Pass where it connects with the Pacific Crest Trail, which would also give you an opportunity to take a short detour (3.7 miles one-way) to the remote northern terminus of the trail.
Pacific Northwest Trail hikers: PNT thru-hikers are like rare birds—seeing one out in the wild is a real treat. And unlike the more popular Pacific Crest Trail, there isn’t a strong trail magic culture along the PNT. If you can, bring along a small treat to share in the event you meet a thru-hiker along the trail.
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NSRR Release v0.18.0 Overview - Part 2
Release v0.18.0 Overview - Part 2
In this blog, we'll be exploring the recent changes made to the way dataset variables are displayed on the NSRR.
Variable Updates
Our variable pages are designed to give you a quick and comprehensive glance at all dataset elements available in a dataset. We see these pages as a guide and reference for you, and hope that they serve you well as you start your research and exploration of the datasets.
The Overview
Each variable has an overview page, that covers most of the information you will need to know about the variable itself. The following is a screenshot of the rdi3p variable in the Sleep Heart Health Study (SHHS) dataset.
The screenshot highlights the information we have available for specific variables:
Calculation A calculation is provided for any variable that has been derived from other variables in the dataset. Clicking on the variables in the formula leads you to the related component variable.
Units Many variables have an associated unit that defines how they were initially captured. Some variables may be captured in the Metric System of Measurement, while others may use the Imperial System of Measurement.
Type The NSRR uses type as a generic categorization for variables, and can be one of the following:
identifier - Identifiers are used to link records within a dataset. Occasionally these identifiers also help link with other publicly available datasets on different websites.
choices - Choices are used for variables that have a domain or finite set of options.
integer - Integers are used for continuous variables that are part of the discrete set of integers.
numeric - Numeric are used for continuous variables that are represented as doubles or floats.
string - String fields are used for short fields of words typically under 255 characters.
text - Text fields are used for longer fields of words that often times span multiple lines.
date - Dates are defined by a year, month, and date, typically in YYYY-MM-DD format.
time - Times are defined by an hour, minute, and second, typically in HH:MM:SS format.
datetime - Date times are defined by a date, time, and timezone.
file - Files are represented as a string reference to an associated binary or text file.
Overview Graph The graph on the overview is a histogram of the variable plotted across visits for datasets with more than one visit.
Certain variables, like gender, also have a finite domain that lists all possible choices and values for a specific variable.
In the case of gender, the domain consists of two choices, 1: Male and 2: Female, where the choices represent the value followed by the name of the choice in value: name format.
Core Variable Graphs
For each dataset, the dataset documentation team select three or four key variables that should be used to generate graphs for all variables. In SHHS, the documentation team chose Age, Gender, and Race. Note that different datasets may have a different set of core variable graphs.
Below is a screenshot of our rdi3p variable broken down by gender.
Variables on Forms
Variables that are captured on questionnaires often have an associated form in PDF format. For these variables, we provide a direct link to a blank version of the form. For example, the ess_s1 variable has a menu item that lists all the PDFs on which the variable is found.
Related Variables
The NSRR also generates a list of variables that may be related to the variable you are currently viewing, based off of common labels and keywords, descriptions, and calculation fields. These related variables are there to encourage further exploration of the dataset as opposed to signifying a correlation between the variables.
While maintaining and curating datasets on the NSRR, the dataset teams kept track of strange variable outliers discovered by the Spout outlier check, and noted these extreme values in a Known Issues file. During our late 2015 meeting with our early adopters, it became apparent that the known issues weren't readily viewable in the datasets. To better highlight variables that may require more attention when used in research, we decided to provide a message directly on the variable page if it had a known issue. Below you can see that avg23bpd_s2 has a known issue directly from the variable's overview page. Clicking on the Known Issues link, a detailed description of the issue is presented to you.
AVG23BPD_S2 Overview
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Variable History
The final section you will see when viewing a variable is the History tab. This tab is perhaps the most important as it allows you to see how (and if) the variable has been changed or modified as we've released updated datasets, and it allows you to see what the variable looked like in older versions. The NSRR values reproducibility very highly, and hopes that the history feature will give a good insight into researchers using specific versions of the dataset.
We hope you enjoyed reading this blog post, and if you want to provide us feedback or continue the conversation, please reach out to us on our forum or send us an email at support@sleepdata.org.
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US7523171B2 - Multidimensional hashed tree based URL matching engine using progressive hashing - Google Patents
Multidimensional hashed tree based URL matching engine using progressive hashing Download PDF
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Erik John Burckart
Aravind Srinivasan
International Business Machines Corp
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A mechanism by which URLs are progressively hashed character by character and clauses of the URL are used to traverse a tree data structure for matching of the URL to resources/rules is provided. The hash code for a single character is appended to a prior hash code for a preceding character in the URL portion. At the time that the entire portion of the URL is hashed, as determined based on the presence of a delimiter character, the particular node in a tree data structure associated with the resulting hash code is identifiable within a hash table of a current node of the tree data structure. Each node in the tree data structure includes a multidimensional hash table for a portion of a URL. The multidimensional hash table is established and grown in a manner that ensures there are no hash collisions. Each portion of the URL is parsed in this manner and the tree data structure is traversed as each portion is processed until the entire URL is parsed at which time the resulting rules/resources may be identified from the leaf nodes of the tree data structure.
The present invention is directed to a mechanism for parsing and matching a uniform resource locator to a rule or resource. More specifically, the present invention is directed to a mechanism for progressively generating a hash of portions of a uniform resource locator and then identifying the hash of the portions within a multidimensional hash table to thereby match the uniform resource locator to a rule or resource.
Matching of a uniform resource locator (URL) to rules or resources is a fundamental operation performed by server-side components that process URLs. Common URL rule matching applications include the Servlet/Java Server Page (JSP) engine, URL Authenticators, and the like.
Typically, to match a URL to a resource, the URL is decomposed into constituent parts including a scheme portion, a web server name portions, a path portion, and a type portion. For example, the URL http://www.ibm.com/page1.html includes a scheme portion that is “http”, the server name portions would be “com”, “ibm” and “www”, the path portion would be “page1” and the type portion would be “html”. A decomposition tree structure is used to identify the files associated with a URL based on traversing the tree structure using the various components of the URL. Each component of the URL is hashed and its hash code appended to a prior component of the URL to obtain an accumulated URL hash code. Once the final hash code is determined by accumulating the hash codes for the components of the URL, a hash table lookup is performed to identify the files or resources associated with the URL. An example of such a system as described above is provided in U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2002/0133570 which is hereby incorporated by reference.
It would be beneficial to have an apparatus and method for matching a URL to rules and/or resources that provides increased performance over these known techniques.
The present invention provides a mechanism by which URLs are progressively hashed character by character and clauses of the URL are used to traverse a tree data structure for matching of the URL to resources/rules. The hash code for a single character is appended to a prior hash code for a preceding character in the URL portion. At the time that the entire portion of the URL is hashed, as determined based on the presence of a delimiter character, the particular node in a tree data structure associated with the resulting hash code is identifiable within a hash table of a current node of the tree data structure. Each node in the tree data structure includes a multidimensional hash table for a portion of a URL.
The multidimensional hash table is established and grown in a manner that ensures there are no hash collisions at each node. Each portion of the URL is parsed in this manner and the tree data structure is traversed as each portion is processed until the entire URL is parsed at which time the resulting rules/resources may be identified from the leaf nodes of the tree data structure.
These and other features and advantages of the present invention will be described in, or will become apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art in view of, the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments.
The novel features believed characteristic of the invention are set forth in the appended claims. The invention itself, however, as well as a preferred mode of use, further objectives and advantages thereof, will best be understood by reference to the following detailed description of an illustrative embodiment when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein:
FIG. 1 is an exemplary block diagram of a distributed data processing system in which the present invention may be implemented;
FIG. 2 is an exemplary block diagram of a server computing device in which the present invention may be implemented;
FIG. 3 is an exemplary block diagram of a client computing device from which a URL request may be received by the server computing device;
FIG. 4 is an exemplary block diagram illustrating progressive hashing of portions of a URL in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is an exemplary block diagram illustrating traversal of a tree data structure in accordance with the present invention; and
FIG. 6 is a flowchart outlining an exemplary operation of the present invention.
The present invention provides a mechanism for matching uniform resource locators (URLs) to resources and/or rules. The present invention is especially well suited for use with server computing devices in a distributed data processing system. For example, a client computing device may submit a URL to a server computing device which then matches that URL to a resource/rule to perform a subsequent function. Thus, in order to provide a context for the following description of the preferred embodiments of the present invention, a brief description of a distributed data processing system will be provided with reference to FIGS. 1-3.
With reference now to the figures, FIG. 1 depicts a pictorial representation of a network of data processing systems in which the present invention may be implemented. Network data processing system 100 is a network of computers in which the present invention may be implemented. Network data processing system 100 contains a network 102, which is the medium used to provide communications links between various devices and computers connected together within network data processing system 100. Network 102 may include connections, such as wire, wireless communication links, or fiber optic cables.
In the depicted example, server 104 is connected to network 102 along with storage unit 106. In addition, clients 108, 110, and 112 are connected to network 102. These clients 108, 110, and 112 may be, for example, personal computers or network computers. In the depicted example, server 104 provides data, such as boot files, operating system images, and applications to clients 108-112. Clients 108, 110, and 112 are clients to server 104. Network data processing system 100 may include additional servers, clients, and other devices not shown. In the depicted example, network data processing system 100 is the Internet with network 102 representing a worldwide collection of networks and gateways that use the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) suite of protocols to communicate with one another. At the heart of the Internet is a backbone of high-speed data communication lines between major nodes or host computers, consisting of thousands of commercial, government, educational and other computer systems that route data and messages. Of course, network data processing system 100 also may be implemented as a number of different types of networks, such as for example, an intranet, a local area network (LAN), or a wide area network (WAN). FIG. 1 is intended as an example, and not as an architectural limitation for the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 2, a block diagram of a data processing system that may be implemented as a server, such as server 104 in FIG. 1, is depicted in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention. Data processing system 200 may be a symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) system including a plurality of processors 202 and 204 connected to system bus 206. Alternatively, a single processor system may be employed. Also connected to system bus 206 is memory controller/cache 208, which provides an interface to local memory 209. I/O bus bridge 210 is connected to system bus 206 and provides an interface to I/O bus 212. Memory controller/cache 208 and I/O bus bridge 210 may be integrated as depicted.
Peripheral component interconnect (PCI) bus bridge 214 connected to I/O bus 212 provides an interface to PCI local bus 216. A number of modems may be connected to PCI local bus 216. Typical PCI bus implementations will support four PCI expansion slots or add-in connectors. Communications links to clients 108-112 in FIG. 1 may be provided through modem 218 and network adapter 220 connected to PCI local bus 216 through add-in boards.
Additional PCI bus bridges 222 and 224 provide interfaces for additional PCI local buses 226 and 228, from which additional modems or network adapters may be supported. In this manner, data processing system 200 allows connections to multiple network computers. A memory-mapped graphics adapter 230 and hard disk 232 may also be connected to I/O bus 212 as depicted, either directly or indirectly.
Those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the hardware depicted in FIG. 2 may vary. For example, other peripheral devices, such as optical disk drives and the like, also may be used in addition to or in place of the hardware depicted. The depicted example is not meant to imply architectural limitations with respect to the present invention.
The data processing system depicted in FIG. 2 may be, for example, an IBM eServer pSeries system, a product of International Business Machines Corporation in Armonk, N.Y., running the Advanced Interactive Executive (AIX) operating system or LINUX operating system.
With reference now to FIG. 3, a block diagram illustrating a data processing system is depicted in which the present invention may be implemented. Data processing system 300 is an example of a client computer. Data processing system 300 employs a peripheral component interconnect (PCI) local bus architecture. Although the depicted example employs a PCI bus, other bus architectures such as Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) and Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) may be used. Processor 302 and main memory 304 are connected to PCI local bus 306 through PCI bridge 308. PCI bridge 308 also may include an integrated memory controller and cache memory for processor 302. Additional connections to PCI local bus 306 may be made through direct component interconnection or through add-in boards. In the depicted example, local area network (LAN) adapter 310, SCSI host bus adapter 312, and expansion bus interface 314 are connected to PCI local bus 306 by direct component connection. In contrast, audio adapter 316, graphics adapter 318, and audio/video adapter 319 are connected to PCI local bus 306 by add-in boards inserted into expansion slots. Expansion bus interface 314 provides a connection for a keyboard and mouse adapter 320, modem 322, and additional memory 324. Small computer system interface (SCSI) host bus adapter 312 provides a connection for hard disk drive 326, tape drive 328, and CD-ROM drive 330. Typical PCI local bus implementations will support three or four PCI expansion slots or add-in connectors.
An operating system runs on processor 302 and is used to coordinate and provide control of various components within data processing system 300 in FIG. 3. The operating system may be a commercially available operating system, such as Windows XP, which is available from Microsoft Corporation. An object oriented programming system such as Java may run in conjunction with the operating system and provide calls to the operating system from Java programs or applications executing on data processing system 300. “Java” is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Instructions for the operating system, the object-oriented programming system, and applications or programs are located on storage devices, such as hard disk drive 326, and may be loaded into main memory 304 for execution by processor 302.
Those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the hardware in FIG. 3 may vary depending on the implementation. Other internal hardware or peripheral devices, such as flash read-only memory (ROM), equivalent nonvolatile memory, or optical disk drives and the like, may be used in addition to or in place of the hardware depicted in FIG. 3. Also, the processes of the present invention may be applied to a multiprocessor data processing system.
As another example, data processing system 300 may be a stand-alone system configured to be bootable without relying on some type of network communication interfaces As a further example, data processing system 300 may be a personal digital assistant (PDA) device, which is configured with ROM and/or flash ROM in order to provide non-volatile memory for storing operating system files and/or user-generated data.
The depicted example in FIG. 3 and above-described examples are not meant to imply architectural limitations. For example, data processing system 300 also may be a notebook computer or hand held computer in addition to taking the form of a PDA. Data processing system 300 also may be a kiosk or a Web appliance.
As mentioned above, the present invention provides a mechanism for matching URLs to resources/rules. The present invention uses a progressive hash of portions of the URL to determine how to traverse a tree data structure to arrive at leaf nodes representing the resources/rules associated with the URL.
The tree data structure used by the present invention is a modification of known Dictionary or Digital Tree data structures that is modified for use with URLs. In the known Dictionary or Digital Tree data structure, an n-ary tree representation of a string is provided in which every node of the tree data structure represents a single character. Each node of the tree data structure has an array of subtrees indexed by the ASCII value of the next character. Thus, as a string is traversed one character at a time, the tree is traversed using the ASCII value of that character. Upon reaching the end of the string, the terminal node is examined for “targets” and those targets are returned as a successful match. If at any stage the tree traversal fails, i.e. there is no subtree corresponding to the ASCII value of the next character, the result is that there are no matching targets for the given string.
The present invention makes use of a modified form of the Dictionary or Digital Tree data structure that is modified for use with URLs. With the tree data structure of the present invention, each tree node represents a portion of the URL, i.e. a clause. A clause or portion of the URL is defined as a segment of the URL that is delimited by a particular character, e.g., “/”. Thus, for example, with the URL /www.ibm.com/welcome/page1.html the clauses or portions are www.ibm.com, welcome, and pagel.html.
Each node of the tree data structure includes a multidimensional hash table for identifying subtrees of the tree data structure. In a preferred embodiment, the multidimensional hash table is a three dimensional table in which each entry of the table has an X, Y and Z coordinate in the table. For example, the target object in the multidimensional hash table is identified using the following equation:
{(h % X), (h % Y), (h % Z)} (1)
where Th is the target object entry, e.g., the subtree root node, h is the hash code of the clause or portion of the URL, X, Y and Z are the dimensions of the three dimensional hash table, and % is the modulo operator. The three dimensional hash table is grown such that there are no collisions between hashed values. That is, when a put( ) method is called to place an entry into the hash table for a node of the tree data structure, the multidimensional hash table is restructured with new dimensions that eliminate any possibility of a hash collision.
For example, if the dimensions of the multidimensional hash table are x=1, y=2, z=3 and a new entry is to be placed in the hash table, the coordinates for where it will be placed in the table are first computed using equation (1) above. If the resulting space is empty, the new entry is added without any change to the table dimensions. If there was already a subtree at the computed location, the hash table is grown by iteratively adjusting the dimensions, such that all the elements of the table are in unique locations in the table as prescribed by equation (1). The resulting table may end up, for example, with dimensions x=4, y=2, z=3 The next addition to the hash table may result in the dimensions being x=4, y=5, z=3 followed by the next addition resulting in dimensions x=4, y=5, z=6, and so on. In this way, hash collisions are avoided.
Hash collisions often decrease performance in hash table implementations. In the above example, where x=1, y=2, z=3, a collision would occur if one hash value (h in the above formula) would be equal to 6 for one word and 12 for another word. This is because h % x=0, h % y=0, and h % z=0 for both h=6 and h=12. When growing the table, setting x=4, y=2, x=3, for h=6, h % x=2, h % y=0, and h % z=0. However, for h=12, h % x=0, h % y=0, and h % z=0. This puts the two items in different locations in the table.
Another important piece to this algorithm is that we increment each dimension by the number of dimensions. This is important because, in the above example, there would be no gain by increasing the size of x by 1 because the two words collide in another space already set to that number.
Thus, by ensuring that no hash collisions occur on a put( ), the time required to get( ) the target/rule is always constant irrespective of the size of the table, which is a certain advantage over traditional bucket based hashing strategies, where get( ) times are not always constant.
While the above embodiment is described in terms of a three dimensional hash table, the present invention is not limited to such. Rather, any multidimensional hash table may be utilized without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. For example, a four dimensional hash table may be utilized, in which case, each entry in the table will be characterized by 4 coordinates and equation (1) will be adjusted to accommodate the fourth dimension, while the same strategies are employed to ensure that hash collisions are eliminated and get( ) times are constant. In short, the dimensions of the hash table are grown by an amount equal to the number of dimensions of the hash table.
Since the hash table is grown in such a manner that hash collisions are not possible, there is no need for a rehash strategy in the operation of the present invention. This greatly increases the speed at which URL matching may be performed since cycles are not wasted on handling hash collisions and performing rehashes to correct for the hash collisions. In addition, the need to traverse a list of possible matches, such as in the case with traditional bucket based hashing strategies, for the resolution of a given URL on a get( ) call is eliminated.
Thus, given a hash code for a clause or portion of a URL, a target subtree of a tree data structure may be found by inserting the hash code as h and the dimensions of the multidimensional hash table, which in this case are X, Y and Z, in equation (1). The entry in the multidimensional hash table corresponding to the resulting target value Th is then retrieved and used to identify the subtree to which the traversal of the tree data structure should proceed.
The process is then repeated for each subsequent clause or portion of the URL until the entire URL is processed or there is no matching subtree for a calculated Th value, i.e. the URL does not match to any resources/rules. Once the URL is processed completely in this manner, the terminal node is searched for any target resources/rules and these resources/rules are returned as matches for the URL. Each node on the tree has the ability to store a reference to an object or identifier of a rule or resource. If there is not an identifier set in this target node, then the resource is assumed not to exist. When composing the tree, the target identifiers are set in the last node, i.e., the leaf nodes, of the URL added.
In order to obtain the hash code for a clause or portion of a URL, the present invention makes use of a progressive hashing mechanism that parses and hashes each character in the URL while identifying clauses or portions of the URL and traversing the tree data structure in virtually a parallel operation. With the present invention, when a URL is to be matched to a resource/rule, the URL is received and a hash code for a current clause/portion of the URL is initialized to a starting value. The next character in the URL is then identified and a hash of the character is generated based on a hashing algorithm. Hashing algorithms are generally known in the art and any known or later developed hashing algorithm may be used without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Once the hash for the character is generated, the hash code is compared to at least one hash code corresponding to a delimiter, or “special”, character. While the preferred embodiments are described as utilizing the “/” character as a delimiting character, the present invention is not limited to such. Rather, any character may be designated as a delimiting character without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Moreover, more than one “special” character may be defined in the mechanism of the present invention with functions or nodes of the tree data structure being established for these “special” characters. A “special” character is one that is set apart from other characters as having a designated functionality associated with it. In the exemplary embodiments, the “/” character is special in that it is designated as having the function of separating clauses or portions of a URL.
If the hash of the character in the URL results in the hash code not matching a hash code of a special character, then the hash code for the character is added to the hash code for the current clause or portion of the URL and the process is repeated for the next character in the URL. If the hash of the character in the URL results in the hash code matching a hash code for a special character, which in the preferred embodiments is a delimiting character, then it is determined that the end of the clause or portion of the URL has been encountered.
When the end of the clause or portion of the URL is identified, the hash code for the clause or portion has already been compiled. As a result, the present invention may use the compiled hash code for the current clause or portion of the URL to calculate Th and retrieve the identity of the subtree associated with the clause or portion of the URL that was progressively hashed. The traversal of the tree data structure may be performed by designating the current node to be the root node of the subtree identified by the target value Th in the multidimensional hash table of the previous node in the tree data structure. This process may be repeated for each subsequent clause/portion of the URL until the entire URL is processed or until a subtree corresponding to a clause in the URL cannot be identified, i.e. there are no resources/rules associated with the URL.
Once the URL is completely processed in the above manner, the terminal node, i.e. the current node for the last clause/portion of the URL, is searched for targets. That is, the resources/rules associated with the terminal node in the tree data structure are identified and returned as matched resources/rules associated with the URL. The server may then perform appropriate processing based on the identified resources/rules.
Because the present invention makes use of progressive hashing and incremental traversal of the tree data structure with each hashed clause/portion of the URL, the traversal of the tree data structure and the progressive hashing may be performed virtually in parallel. This greatly increases the speed at which the mechanisms of the present invention match URLs to resources/rules when compared to existing methods of performing URL matching.
FIG. 4 is an exemplary block diagram illustrating progressive hashing of portions of a URL in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 4, a portion of a URL “/foo/bar” is illustrated. The present invention hashes each character of the URL individually and then determines whether to added the hash code for the character to a hash code for a clause or portion of the URL, or whether the hash code for the character indicates the character to be a “special” character.
For example, as shown in FIG. 4, during parsing of the URL, the first character “/” is evaluated to correspond to a special delimiter character and thus, the present invention would perform a lookup of any hash code for a prior portion of the URL in a multidimensional hash table of the current node of the tree data structure.
Since a special character was encountered, the present invention would reinitialize the hash code for a current URL clause to a starting value and then continue to parse the URL to identify the hash code of the next clause in the URL. The continued parsing of the URL results in the character “f” being hashed to a hash code of H2. Since H2 does not correspond to a special character, H2 is added to the hash code for Hfoo. This process is then repeated for each of characters “o” in “foo” resulting in hash codes H3 and H4 which are both added to the hash code Hfoo. When the next character “/” is evaluated, it is realized, before hashing the “/”, that this is the special delimiter character. Thus, the hash code Hfoo is then used to calculate Th using the dimensions for the multidimensional hash table of the current node of the tree data structure. The Th value is then looked up in the multidimensional hash table to thereby identify the subtree to which traversal of the tree data structure should proceed.
The root node for this subtree is then set as the current node and the operation continues with the parsing and hashing of the clause “bar”. The hash code Hbar is generated as the combination of the hash codes H6, H7 and H8 for the characters of this clause in the URL and is then used to calculate Th, based on the dimensions for the multidimensional hash table for the current node, i.e. the “foo” node, for this clause. The resulting value for Th is then used to identify the subtree corresponding to this clause. Since this is the last clause in the URL, the node corresponding to “bar” would be searched for targets and the targets returned as matches for the URL “/foo/bar”.
FIG. 5 is an exemplary block diagram illustrating traversal of a tree data structure in accordance with the present invention. As shown in FIG. 5, the tree data structure includes a plurality of nodes (represented by cubes denoting the multidimensional hash tables associated with the nodes). The transition from one node to the next is illustrated by a line with an associated URL clause or portion. For example, as shown in FIG. 5, entries in the multidimensional hash table of node 510 identify nodes 520, 530 and 540. A hash code corresponding to the URL clause “foo” results in the transition from node 510 to node 520 being the current node. A subsequent hash code corresponding to the URL clause “bar” results in the current node being reassigned to node 550, and so on.
In one preferred embodiment of the present invention, in addition to determining the next clause in the URL, getting its hash code by progressive hashing of characters, and getting the target subtree for the clause from the hash table of the current node, the present invention checks the current node for any wildcard matches. For example, if there are any child nodes of the current node that are associated with a wildcard character, which is a form of special character, such as “*”, then the targets associated with this wildcard node are added to a list of matching resources/rules for the URL.
Thus, as shown in FIG. 5, the targets associated with node 560 are added to the list of matched resources/rules. In addition, since “bar” is the last clause of the URL, the resources/rules associated with the node 570 are also included in the list of matched resources/rules.
As an example of how to traverse the tree data structure shown in FIG. 5, the following description is provided with reference to the exemplary URL “/foo/bar/defaultPage.” A first step in retrieving matched resources/rules for “/foo/bar/defaultPage involves initializing the current node to be the “/” node 510. The first clause is then progressively hashed as previously described above. The subtree for the clause “foo” is then requested from the current node and the current node is checked for any child wildcard nodes. Since no wildcard nodes are found, the list of matched results is not modified.
The subtree for “foo” is found and the current node is reset to the root node of the subtree for “foo”, i.e. node 520. The next clause “bar” is parsed and progressively hashed. The subtree for “bar” is requested from the current node, i.e. the “foo” node. In addition, the “foo” node is checked for any child wildcard nodes.
Since the “foo” node has a wildcard child node 560, the targets associated with the wildcard child node 560 are added to the list of matched resources/rules.
The subtree for “bar” is found in the hash table for the current node and the current node is reset to the root node of the subtree for “bar”, i.e. node 550. The next clause “defaultPage” in the URL is parsed and progressively hashed. The subtree for “defaultPage” is requested from the current node, i.e. node 550, and the current node is checked for any child wildcard nodes. Since the node 550 has a child wildcard node 570, the targets associated with node 570 are added to the list of matched resources/rules.
However, no subtree is found for the clause “defaultPage.” The extension for “defaultPage” is determined to be null and thus, extension matching is ignored. An extension is an identification of a “type” element of a URL as discussed previously. Rules or resources provided to the present invention may be keyed to a particular URL “type” element, such as “html.” Thus, for example, the rules associated with the present invention may include a rule corresponding to the pattern *.html. In such a case, in addition to identifying all the path matches for the input URL using the present invention, the extension of the input URL may also be examined to see if it matches any predefined extension patterns. If it does, the corresponding target may also be included in the list of targets matched for the input URL.
For example, if the input URL were /foo/bar/defaultPage.html, and there was a predefined target/rule T1 defined for *.html, then, in addition to returning the rules associated with /foo/* and /foo/bar/* the present invention may also return the target/rule T1 since it matches the extension rule *.html. The pattern-rule entries may be maintained in a separate table, and the check may be performed following the completion of the tree traversal for the input URL.
Returning to FIG. 5, since the match list is not empty, the results of the URL matching will be returned to the application that requested the URL matching. The results would include the resources/rules associated with /foo/* and /foo/bar/*.
FIG. 6 is a flowchart outlining an exemplary operation of the present invention. It will be understood that each block of the flowchart illustration, and combinations of blocks in the flowchart illustration, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions which execute on the processor or other programmable data processing apparatus create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart block or blocks. These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory or storage medium that can direct a processor or other programmable data processing apparatus to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable memory or storage medium produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the functions specified in the flowchart block or blocks.
Accordingly, blocks of the flowchart illustration support combinations of means for performing the specified functions, combinations of steps for performing the specified functions and program instruction means for performing the specified functions. It will also be understood that each block of the flowchart illustration, and combinations of blocks in the flowchart illustration, can be implemented by special purpose hardware-based computer systems which perform the specified functions or steps, or by combinations of special purpose hardware and computer instructions.
As shown in FIG. 6, the operation starts by receiving a URL for which associated resources/rules are to be identified (step 610). The hash code for the current portion of the URL is initialized to a starting state (step 620). The next character in the URL is then hashed to obtain a hash code for that individual character (step 630). A determination is made as to whether the hash code identifies a delimiter character, e.g., a “/” character (step 640). If not, the hash code for the individual character is then added to any previously compiled hash code for the URL portion if any (step 650). The process then continues by returning to step 630 where the next character in the URL is hashed.
If the hash code of the character indicates that the character is a delimiter character, such as “/”, then the compiled hash code for the URL portion is used to identify a corresponding subtree within the tree data structure by looking up the hash code in the multidimensional hash table associated with the current node of the tree data structure (step 660). The root node for the subtree is then set as the current node (step 670) and a determination is made as to whether the end of the URL has been encountered (step 680). If not, the operation returns to step 620. Otherwise, if the end of the URL has been encountered, then the rules/resources associated with the URL are identified as the leaf nodes associated with the current node (step 690). The operation then terminates.
Thus, the present invention provides a mechanism that utilizes progressive hashing of characters in a URL to traverse a tree data structure. As each portion of the URL is progressively hashed, the resulting hash code for the URL portion is used to perform a lookup in a multidimensional hash table associated with the current node of the tree data structure. In this way, a fast and easily used URL matching mechanism is provided for matching URLs to resources and/or rules in server computing devices is provided.
It is important to note that while the present invention has been described in the context of a fully functioning data processing system, those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the processes of the present invention are capable of being distributed in the form of a computer readable medium of instructions and a variety of forms and that the present invention applies equally regardless of the particular type of signal bearing media actually used to carry out the distribution. Examples of computer readable media include recordable-type media, such as a floppy disk, a hard disk drive, a RAM, CD-ROMS, DVD-ROMs, and transmission-type media, such as digital and analog communications links, wired or wireless communications links using transmission forms, such as, for example, radio frequency and light wave transmissions. The computer readable media may take the form of coded formats that are decoded for actual use in a particular data processing system.
The description of the present invention has been presented for purposes of illustration and description, and is not intended to be exhaustive or limited to the invention in the form disclosed. Many modifications and variations will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art. The embodiment was chosen and described in order to best explain the principles of the invention, the practical application, and to enable others of ordinary skill in the art to understand the invention for various embodiments with various modifications as are suited to the particular use contemplated.
1. A method of matching a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to a resource or rule, comprising:
progressively hashing a clause of the URL, character by character, individually, to generate a hash code associated with the clause;
determining if a delimiting character is encountered;
using the hash code associated with the clause to traverse a tree data structure representing clauses of URLs and corresponding resources or rules, wherein each node of the tree data structure has an associated multidimensional hash table, wherein using the hash code includes calculating a target value based on the hash code and dimensions of a multidimensional hash table associated with a current node in the tree data structure; and
matching the URL to resources or rules based on the traversing of the tree data structure.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein using the hash code further includes using the target value to identify an entry in the multidimensional hash table corresponding to a subtree associated with the clause.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein traversing the tree data structure includes setting the current node of the tree data structure to be a root node of the subtree associated with the clause.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein entries for subtrees in the multidimensional hash table are positioned in the multidimensional hash table using the equation:
Th y{(h % X), (h % Y), (h % Z) }
wherein Th is a target object in the multidimensional hash table, h is a hash value for a root node of a subtree, and X, Y and Z are dimensions of the multidimensional hash table.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the multidimensional hash table is created by growing the multidimensional hash table such that hash collisions are avoided.
6. The method of claim 5, wherein the multidimensional hash table is grown by a total number of dimensions for the multidimensional.
searching the current node for target resources or rules; and
adding any target resources or rules to a list of matched resources or rules.
determining if there are any child nodes of the current node corresponding to a “wildcard” node and
adding any target resources or rules associated with the “wildcard” node to a list of matched resources or rules.
returning a list of matched resources or rules to a calling application.
10. A computer program product for matching a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to a resource or rule, the computer program product comprising:
a computer readable storage medium comprising computer readable instructions, the computer readable instructions comprising:
first instructions for progressively hashing a clause of the URL, character by character individually, to generate a hash code associated with the clause;
second instructions for determining if a delimiting character is encountered;
third instructions for using the hash code associated with the clause to traverse a tree data structure representing clauses of URLs and corresponding resources or rules, wherein each node of the tree data structure has an associated multidimensional hash table, wherein using the hash code includes calculating a target value based on the hash code and dimensions of a multidimensional hash table associated with a current node in the tree data structure; and
fourth instructions for matching the URL to resources or rules based on the traversing of the tree data structure.
11. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the third instructions for using the hash code further include instructions for using the target value to identify an entry in the multidimensional hash table corresponding to a subtree associated with the clause.
12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the tree data structure is traversed by setting the current node of the tree data structure to be a root node of the subtree associated with the clause.
13. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein entries for subtrees in the multidimensional hash table are positioned in the multidimensional hash table using the equation:
14. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the multidimensional hash table is created by growing the multidimensional hash table such that hash collisions are avoided.
15. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein the multidimensional hash table is grown by a total number of dimensions for the multidimensional.
16. The computer program product of claim 12, further comprising:
fifth instructions for searching the current node for target resources or rules; and
sixth instructions for adding any target resources or rules to a list of matched resources or rules.
fifth sub-instructions for determining if there are any child nodes of the current node corresponding to a “wildcard” node; and
sixth sub-instructions for adding any target resources or rules associated with the “wildcard” node to a list of matched resources or rules.
18. An apparatus for matching a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to a resource or rule, comprising:
a bus;
a memory connected to the bus, wherein the memory comprises computer executable instructions directing the apparatus to:
progressively hash a clause of the URL, character by character individually, to generate a hash code associated with the clause;
determine if a delimiting character is encountered;
use the hash code associated with the clause to traverse a tree data structure representing clauses of URLs and corresponding resources or rules, wherein each node of the tree data structure has an associated multidimensional hash table, wherein using the hash code includes calculating a target value based on the hash code and dimensions of a multidimensional hash table associated with a current node in the tree data structure; and
match the URL to resources or rules based on the traversing of the tree data structure.
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A new site has launched for freelancers who are looking for work, and for businesses desiring to hire freelancers.
TheFreelanceNation.com is a network of “119 city-specific freelance job boards designed to enhance the interaction between companies looking for contract services and those Independent Professionals who provide it.”
The site offers blind bidding, which it says encourages fair pricing, sets realistic expectations for projects, and results in better qualified talent for employers.
Along with project and job postings, the site also allows vendors who sell to self-employed freelancers to post a profile of their offerings.
The number of single-person businesses in the U.S. has grown substantially, to over 20 million according to the latest U.S. Census figures. Many consider themselves freelancers.
The site was founded by Jay Lohmann and Will Morgan. It just launched, so it still needs to be populated by more postings. Check out TheFreelanceNation.com.
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Interesting idea. I like that you can even view options in your city seperately. Makes it easy to narrow things down.
Hopefully this site, or something similar, will become an alternative to sites like craigslist, where many requests for freelance work expect to get top-notch work while underpaying the contractor (this can often be seen in postings for design, photography and other creative work).
I like the fact that they DO NOT post the bids. I feel this keeps the ‘STUPID” underbidding from happening.
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By Madalina Corjuc
A riveting walk among more than 100 intricate pieces hinting at Cristóbal Balenciaga’s mastery in architectural garments – that is V&A’s Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion.
Mixing Balenciaga’s designs with the work of his protégées and contemporary fashion designers inspired by the Master’s artistry, the exhibition delves into the couturier’s influence on modern fashion.
V&A’s display is spread over two floors. The first floor debuts iconic Balenciaga garments and hats that pioneered the 20th-century look. Later, the second floor exhibition traces the couturier’s impact on fashion as seen in the Balenciaga-inspired garments fashioned by modern day designers.
From innovative garments towering in arresting sculptural forms, to dazzling embellishments of Spanish heritage, the downstairs display is an ode to Balenciaga’s creative period between 50’s and 60’s. The 1958 baby doll dress, sack or fuchsia flamenco inspired evening dress flaunt the couturier’s penchant for volume, material cravings and radical shapes. An inherent excitement for sculptural forms is showcased in his dome-shaped hat or the monumental pom-pom hat, two of the 20 hats displayed.
The upstairs exhibition shows modern day Balenciaga souvenirs as reimagined by contemporary designers, along with garments from the couturier’s revived fashion house under Nicholas Ghesquière and Demna Gvasalia. Featured in the exhibition, Paco Rabanne’s 1967 plastic and wire mini dress is reminiscing about Balenciaga’s attraction for embellishments. On the other hand, in Givenchy’s feathered evening dress form the 60’s it exemplifies the Master’s influence on his protégé.
An exhibition highlight is Balenciaga’s 1967 ‘envelope dress’. Born in a culmination of his architectural artistry, this cocktail dress is pinned in four cardinal pleats that reproduce a futuristic form, defying the natural body figure. Its dramatic shape is moulded in black silk gazar flattered by a pearly brooch rising like a lonely star in the night sky. Balenciaga himself invented the crisp yet smooth and lightweight silk gazar which soon became ubiquitous in his late 60’s collections. It allowed the couturier’s sheer enthusiasm for big volumes and defined shapes to manifest in spectacular three-dimensional garments. Despite winning the press, the dress only made it in two wardrobes, with one client returning it after she could not find a way to go to the bathroom when wearing it.
The elegant ‘spiral hat’ from 1962 is an exceptional showcase of Balenciaga’s refined millinery. It has a sculptural shape that circles its way up in a stiffened fabric covered in silk. This Balenciaga classic was worn like pillbox secured and supported by three inside hair combs. Because of its clean, minimal shapes gracefully fashioned in a solid warm, almost creamy white colour, the hat looks upscale, emitting a certain First Lady-like aura. At a time when etiquette made hats imperative on formal occasions, this was one of the many intricate Balenciaga hats crowning the socialites’ heads. The couturier was as meticulous with his hat as was with the garments. His hats were so elaborate that during the Second World War, the authorities closed his millinery workshops for exceeding the fabric allowance under austerity measures.
Hussein Chalayan’s laser-cut tulle dress is perhaps the most captivating Balenciaga-inspired design from the exhibition. While obscuring the body, the dress is floating in a bicoloured wispy cloud of fabric. The bottom half is snow white while the upper part is cherry red. Both hues of colours are imagines as watercolours negotiating territory on the crumpled tulle dress. The buoyant garment is strikingly similar to an avant-garde design from Balmain’s 1957 collection. It is fascinating to observe how even without Chalayan’s slight alterations in 2010, the couturier’s dress could effortlessly fit into the modern fashion’s landscape. The same carelessness for the natural silhouette that peculiarized Balenciaga’s designs is perpetuated not only by the Cypriot designer but has been rather adopted by the whole industry.
This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to meet the man on whose shoulders the architectural fashion has raised – Cristóbal Balenciaga.
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Washington D.C. (CNA/EWTN News).- The suicide rate in the United States is at its highest in at least 50 years, and is contributing to a decrease in the nation’s life expectancy, the federal government said Thursday.
Life expectancy for the U.S. population declined to 78.6 in 2017, down from 78.7 the previous year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a new report.
“Life expectancy gives us a snapshot of the Nation’s overall health and these sobering statistics are a wakeup call that we are losing too many Americans, too early and too often, to conditions that are preventable,” said CDC director Robert Redfield in a Nov. 29 statement.
The United States saw more than 47,000 suicides in 2017, an increase of more than 2,000 from the previous year.
In addition, there were more than 70,000 drug overdose deaths last year, a 10 percent rise from 2016. Deaths from heroin and prescription opioids remained steady from the previous year, while fentanyl deaths drastically increased.
Other findings in the CDC report included an increase in gun deaths, totaling almost 40,000. Deaths from heart disease – the top killer in the U.S. – are no longer declining, while deaths from flu and pneumonia increased by 6 percent.
While U.S. life expectancy had been rising for decades, the country is now seeing its longest period of generally declining life expectancy since World War I, according to the Associated Press.
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Fight antisemitism, not Corbyn’s Labour
by Alex Callinicos
Published Tue 24 Jul 2018
The attacks are keeping Corbyn on the defensive (Pic: Guy Smallman)
If you want to make sense of the row about Jeremy Corbyn and antisemitism you have above all to understand that it has nothing to do with antisemitism.
If the likes of Margaret Hodge wanted to combat antisemitism, there are a couple of things that happened last week that should be of concern.
First of all Gottfried Waldhausl, a minister in the state government in Lower Austria, announced a plan to make Jews register individually in order to buy kosher meat.
This is a terrifying move in Hitler’s homeland, where he learned his antisemitism and where the Final Solution was rigorously implemented. Waldhäusl is a member of the Nazi Freedom Party, which participates in Austria’s federal government.
Then on Thursday last week the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, met his Israeli counterpart, Binyamin Netanyahu, in Jerusalem.
The thoroughly pro-Israel Washington Post said that Orban has “seemingly courted his country’s right-wing antisemites: A key plank of his successful April re-election bid centred on his loathing for Jewish American financier George Soros, whom Orban scapegoated as a national menace for his support of liberal NGOs in Hungary.”
One Orban speech had this classically antisemitic passage: “We are fighting an enemy that is different from us. Not open, but hiding; not straightforward but crafty; not honest but base; not national but international; does not believe in working but speculates with money; does not have its own homeland but feels it owns the whole world.”
The fact that Netanyahu met the author of this filth shows the extent to which the charge of antisemitism is a tool of Israeli state policy, to be used selectively and where convenient.
Netanyahu is placing himself in the axis of far right governments orchestrated by Donald Trump and including Orban in Hungary, Matteo Salvini in Italy, and Sebastian Kurz in Austria. Meanwhile, Orban has been given a free pass from future accusations of antisemitism.
Anyone who was really worried about antisemitism would be concentrating on building as powerful as possible an international movement to resist and ultimately to destroy this axis. Instead the right wing leaders of organisations such as the Board of Deputies are in alliance with the Tories and right wing Labour MPs, and are targeting Corbyn.
Condemning
Their ostensible reason is that last week the Labour national executive adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) “working definition” of antisemitism.
But it left out the examples included with the definition because, among other things, they equate condemning Israel as racist with antisemitism. This is why the annual meeting of the civil rights organisation Liberty passed a motion condemning the IHRA definition— something I have yet to see reported.
This exposes the two real motivations of Corbyn’s critics. One is to weaken him and keep him constantly on the defensive. The other is to protect Israel from criticism.
From the latter point of view, the timing of the latest assault on Corbyn is striking.
Last week the Israeli parliament passed a law proclaiming Israel “the national home of the Jewish people”, asserting that only Jews have the right to national self-determination there, and demoting Arabic from the status of an official language. It is a document of old-style ethnic nationalism that confirms the Israeli Arab minority as an inferior subject people.
This is very much the kind of nationalism practised by Orban, even if Jews, along with Muslims, are among the targets of his version. But would criticism of this law as racist fall victim to the IHRA definition of antisemitism?
The fear that it might may well give pause to many politicians looking over their shoulders at the media.
All in all, the Israeli government has turned a crisis into an opportunity. It has reacted to the potentially disastrous election of a Labour Party leader who supports the Palestinians by backing a campaign that has successfully driven Labour onto the defensive.
This is an astute piece of what the Russians call political technology. But for anyone who sincerely wants to fight antisemitism it is quite contemptible. The Labour furore distracts attention from real far right antisemitism.
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An Open Letter to Jared Leto: Please Stop
Dear Jared Leto,
You’re a great actor. In Fight Club, Requiem for a Dream, Dallas Buyers Club and even Panic Room, you gave your all to each role. And I’ll admit, I have a soft spot for 30 Seconds To Mars as a band to listen to when I want to revert to my mopey teenage years. When it was announced that you would be taking the role of the Joker in the film adaptation of Suicide Squad, I kept an open mind. After all, Heath Ledger was known as a teen heart throb when he took the role in The Dark Knight and although he sadly passed away before the film’s release, his portrayal of the anarchic, unbalanced Joker remains iconic to this day – much to the chagrin of some of the hardcore fanbase. I gave you a chance. I wanted you to prove them all wrong.
Even when your costume and makeup were revealed for the first time, I tried to tell myself that it was a different universe to what we were used to so naturally there would be some changes. Sure, you looked like a juggalo, but I had faith. I had faith in you as an actor, Jared Leto.
But now, I want you to stop. Please stop, Jared Leto.
Not a day goes by when I haven’t heard yet another story involving your LOL CRAZY antics on the set. Most recently, he has sent used condoms and anal beads to his fellow cast-mates as well as sending a live rat to Margot Robbie (Harley Quinn) and a dead pig filled with bullets to the rest of the cast. You read that right, used condoms. Aside from the fact that could count as sexual assault, it’s also just fucking gross. I actually retched a little when I read that.
This satirical piece pokes fun at what some might consider legitimate concerns about Leto’s behavior
We were barely into 2016 when tales from the set started to ripple through social media and not so surprisingly, a meme was born.
Satirical Meme
This quote from the Daily Dot sums his character up really well;
By trying to make the Joker look as dangerous and subversive as possible, Jared Leto and David Ayer accidentally rebooted the character as a teenage boy who just found out about Banksy and likes to quote Hunter S. Thompson to girls at parties. He literally has the word “damaged” tattooed on his forehead. So edgy.
Leto claims to be a method actor, and all of these ‘shenanigans’ could well be part of his ‘method’. But if this is supposed to be in-character to the Joker, what does this say of his perception of a dark, complex character? Would the Joker send filthy, jizz-filled rubbers to people? I’d like to think that sort of thing is way beneath him. Would he send a live rat to his Harley? Hell no, he’d just push her out of a window.
DO NOT PUSH MARGOT ROBBIE OUT OF A WINDOW, LETO.
And all these cringey little snippets into the ‘twisted’ mind of the Joker that he spouts… he sounds like a scene guy from the MySpace days. You know the one, his profile had the quote “They laugh at me because I’m different, I laugh at them because they’re all the same” somewhere on his page. He’s not scary. I still see kids like this when I play Magic, and I laugh because if they started a fight with anyone they’d be on their arse before they could even get their cheap knuckledusters out of their checkered Vans backpack that hangs past their knees.
Jared Leto, please stop all this bullshit. If the weight of your acting relies on you pulling stunts like this, then don’t be surprised if people don’t take you seriously. The late Heath Ledger perfected his performance through a journal that is reportedly truly dark and upsetting, and some people say to this day that he got so far into the character that he could never drag himself back out. But he was phenomenal.
I urge you Mr Leto to just get this film done and go away for a little while. AND STOP SENDING DEAD ANIMALS AND OTHER GROSS THINGS TO PEOPLE. Seriously, if you weren’t famous you’d have been arrested.
Claire (Mark Hamill is My Joker) Stephenson
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Sonic Mania Announced For PS4, Xbox One and PC
Holy shit.
Sega is working together with Christian Whitehead, Headcannon and PadogaWest Games to make Sonic Mania, a new 2D game featuring brand new zones alongside re-imagined versions of old zones.
People at the 25th Anniversary Party can play a demo featuring a re-imagined Green Hill Zone and a new zone called Studiopolis Zone right now. Sega has also given out a goody bag with an USB stick that includes one of the songs from the game, which will undoubtedly be put online sooner than later.
Sonic Mania will be released on PS4, Xbox One and PC in Spring 2017, and we can’t wait to play it.
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Reply DTxHero21 July 22, 2016 at 10:54 pm
This is absolutely fantastic news! =D I’m happy that SegAtlas is being totally chill and delegating the work to the likes of Taxman & Tee Lopes. I am hoping the fan community won’t be rudderless in their critiques of this game or bash it for no other reason than it being marginally different from what they would have liked.
Reply Nicholas Strickland July 22, 2016 at 10:55 pm
This looks amazing! I’m hyped 😀
Reply Simon AC Martin July 22, 2016 at 11:02 pm
That looks spectacularly awesome!
Reply Driller July 22, 2016 at 11:34 pm
Looks like a fangame. Also, I’m not big on retro graphics. I’m disappointed. Though it’s definitely better than a Lost World 2 or another Sonic Boom.
Reply Timston July 22, 2016 at 11:57 pm
I mean it’s fantastic news and what not but I can’t help thinking that the art just looks completely amateurish. :/
Reply Sonic The Hedgehog July 23, 2016 at 12:00 am
Great news, I can’t wait, a huge fan of the sonic 2d games.
Reply Michael Ponder Jr. July 23, 2016 at 12:32 am
They need to fix the waterfall in Green hill zone, that line effect thing only worked on the genesis on CRT TVs, they need to remake the water so it’s proper and translated.
I mean, i could redo the water right now for the waterfall, and get it looking better than some lines.
Translucent not translated.. bleh..
Reply juice hedgehog July 23, 2016 at 12:33 am
Once again, SEGA are trying to appeal for the Genesis era fans, totally neglecting us, the Dreamcast era fans, who been waiting since 2007 for a new 3D Sonic game that plays similar to the good old Adventure titles, (boost-to-win bullshit doesn’t count), I’m sorry but I give up, it’s one thing to neglect the fans but to sell us a fan game, one that we get plenty of for free every year in something called SAGE, that’s just too law even for SEGA!
Reply Herman the German July 23, 2016 at 12:56 am
How DARE Sega to make money with their property.
Reply CorvidDude July 23, 2016 at 1:48 am
Tell you what – if SEGA ever wants to do a dreamcast era collab, I’m down for that. Just tell them to get ahold of me and I’ll put all my other projects on hold.
Reply Rock-DJ July 23, 2016 at 3:14 pm
Last time they appealed to Genesis fans was 5 years ago, dude.
Since then, there’s been 2 attempts at something closer to Adventure style, Lost World and Boom RoL.
This isn’t just another “attempt” , though, this is them nailing it, FINALLY.
But I get your frustration. And I hope the next game is an Adventure type game. (I’d love it to be closer to SA1 though…)
Reply Timston July 23, 2016 at 12:59 am
Well, excuse us Mega Drive era fans. We’ve been waiting for a proper 2D (that actually plays well and isn’t handheld) since 1994.
Reply ShaiderUK July 23, 2016 at 2:54 am
Exacly man!
Reply Anonymous July 25, 2016 at 12:30 pm
If that’s the case then Sonic ’06 and Sonic Boom don’t count in which we been waiting since 2001.
Also, Sonic 4 had two episodes, Sonic Colors, Sonic Generations, Sonic Lost World, Sonic Runners, and now Sonic Mania, explain to me how you been waiting for a long time.
TimmiT July 26, 2016 at 11:00 am
Because none of those games you mentioned managed to be proper classic Sonic games? If you really wanted to give an example of a proper one you should have gone with the first Sonic Advance. Though even then that was released 15 years ago. :V
Seriously though, stop getting mad about a different part of the fanbase finally getting what they want.
Reply SonicAdventureSucks July 24, 2016 at 1:36 pm
Bye, you won’t be missed.
Reply asdf July 23, 2016 at 7:50 am
I’m a bit disappointed of this site. You seem like not interested at all. Little to none commenting on the new Sonic we’ve all been waiting for. I’ve bookmarked this page for Sonic related news, comments and analyses, but when something interesting has finally happened, this place was the least interesting and exciting. There are so many interesting reactions, comments and excitement out of here. While this should be the most exciting place to be right now, it isn’t. Here is boring as f.
Reply BMAN July 23, 2016 at 11:57 am
Check the forums. Much more reaction going on there, and most of it positive!
Reply Dean Lillie July 25, 2016 at 7:24 am
The article literally begins with “Holy Shit” and ends with “we can’t wait to play it”. In what world could this possibly be interpreted as disinterest?
Reply Scyphi July 23, 2016 at 1:30 pm
Well. Looks like all the nagging the classic fans have been doing has finally paid off. 😛
I kid, this seriously looks pretty cool!
Reply Rock-DJ July 23, 2016 at 10:00 pm
See, SEGA? We’re not unpleasable! 😛
This game’s hit all the right notes for me.
It’s not essential, but I’d love it if there’s a hidden character. Any that played some important role in the classic games would do. One of the Chaotix, Mighty, Metal Sonic, Amy… or even Fang? Or heck, a joke character such as Heavy, as the classic counterpart to Big the Cat. Either one of these would be awesome to have, but like I said, not essential.
One more thought.
The title “Sonic Mania”… “MANIA” (MANic + soNIA).
It’s just been so long since the last real classic 2D game. 🙁 I can’t control this hype.
Reply RadzPrower July 25, 2016 at 1:42 pm
They need to add Mighty. He’s gone unloved for so long. Was nice to see him in the Archie comics for a bit recently though.
Reply 12cool725 July 24, 2016 at 2:42 pm
This sounds too good to be true. (intentionally ambiguous)
Reply Jero0601 July 24, 2016 at 3:36 pm
Here’s some blurry gameplay, courtesy of GameXplain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1nQxH3kugg
Reply Samantha Howard July 29, 2016 at 8:49 pm
i know a lot fo people wont want a handheld version but i do i dont own an ps4 or xbox1 nor can i afford to i own a 3ds but idc if the game is only 2d id play it
Reply edgar August 7, 2016 at 1:54 am
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How can I simply record, edit, and export one track of V/O?
My sister has a mic, a good voice, and a Mac, and she's getting voice-over work. I'm trying to help her set up a simple home studio, and so far we haven't hit on any combination of hardware and software that hasn't either been unreliable or ridiculous overkill. Her needs are extremely simple: to record herself in one mono track, perform a few basic edits (normalize, insert, cut), and export as either uncompressed (WAV or AIFF) or MP3.
We have tried SoundStudio, Audacity, and now ProTools LE 7.2 with Mbox 2, and the complexity has been comical in the extreme. The last straw came when, after recording 50 minutes of material, she tried to output her work as a WAV file using the Bounce command, and learned that it would take ... 50 minutes! (I now understand why, but that's not the point.)
Half of the battle has been getting an A/D converter box that is DIRT SIMPLE to use (prior to Mbox we were using a "Firebox" I think), and getting the Mac and audio software to all be in agreement as to where the sound is coming in from. The other half of the battle is finding audio software that is robust, simple, and can work with the hardware. I'd hoped that a hardware/software solution like Digidesign would solve the integration problems, but it hasn't really made the job easier, and working out all the OS version dependencies was completely maddening.
It occurs to me that investing in a USB microphone might eliminate the hardware complexity. If so, then it might be possible to use it with nearly any audio software, right?
If someone can suggest a good, minimal solution, I'd be grateful.
audio-recording mono
ChapChap
While I understand what you are talking about and empathize – setting up such things always tends to be quite a mess – I still do not quite see what your problem is. For even the more complicated solutions work quite easily and trouble-free once you have set up everything. I do not think it's any good to watch out for a over-minimalistic solution here, which may work out fine at the beginning but later proove to lack some features you did not think you would need, but do. Because then, you would need to set up a new system, which means besically the same trouble again! – leftaroundabout Jul 16 '11 at 20:42
I would try WavePad, it has worked for me perfectly in the past. But now I use Final Cut/Logic Pro, which I would also recommend trying.
ColumColum
I hadn't heard of WavePad, but I've dl'ed the demo and it looks pretty nice. Ability to save directly as WAV or MP3: big plus. Doesn't try to look like a mixing board: HUGE!! Thanks. – Chap Jul 15 '11 at 3:22
I had a look at Logic Express ($199) - it's got a lot more features than we need, but the fact that Apple makes it is a big plus: I know it'll be compatible with, and take full advantage of, the hardware and OS. Have you encountered any latency issues with Logic? – Chap Jul 15 '11 at 3:55
I have not encountered any issues with Logic, but I have recorded the audio in Final Cut (Really easy interface) and then imported it into Logic. But, there has been no latency issues that I have encountered. – Colum Jul 15 '11 at 11:40
SoundStudio used to be a lot simpler in previous versions. Similar to Audacity, but native for the Mac and a little less complicated. I still use that old version when I don't need multitrack capability, but both the new version and Audacity can be a bit complicated.
I would take a strong look at Fission. Rogue Amoeba is a great software company that makes excellent Mac audio apps. It might be just what you're looking for in terms of the balance between simplicity and feature set--VERY Mac-like.
The SIMPLEST hardware solution given the circumstances you describe will probably be a USB microphone, such as the Audio Technica AT2020-USB. Pro-grade microphone, "dirt simple" USB connector.
Configuring your audio interfaces on the software end shouldn't be all that confusing. Here's some pointers that might help you out. Every audio input or output your system has access to is presented in the exact same way to the system and your software. You can view available devices by either going to System Preferences->Sound->Input or Output tabs or by opening the Audio MIDI Setup utility. (See /Applications/Utilities/Audio MIDI Setup or just Spotlight search it.) From System Preferences or from the gear icon under the list you can select which device(s) to use for default input, playback, and system output. HOWEVER: Any application specifically used for audio processing is going to have its own means of selecting these interfaces that will supersede any selection made in System Preferences or Audio MIDI Setup. In most Mac-native apps, this selection will be somewhere in the application's own preferences. Apps like GarageBand, Sound Studio, even iChat and Skype have this device selection in their preferences.
To summarize, the simplest "step 3" after the first two steps of acquiring hardware and software is to simply find the preference in your software that lets you select your audio devices, and then choose the one you want to use for input.
GarageBand '11 can do all of the recording/editing/exporting, but it's geared towards making music with loops and easy exporting to iTunes, so some things are going to be a little less obvious. There actually isn't a function to select a portion of audio waveform, but you can achieve the same thing by splitting tracks and automating track volume. It's got an auto-normalize function too. You should experiment with it to see if it'll work for your purposes.
There is always going to be latency when converting from analog to digital, and how much depends on the quality of the A/D converter itself. The MicPort Pro is obviously a very high quality converter that has an analog headphone jack right on it that taps into the signal before it is converted, but there will still be latency before it is processed by your software. Garageband can monitor any source, but that is all happening after the A/D conversion.
You may want to check out Blue Microphones; the Yeti is a USB mic with a built-in headphone jack for monitoring, and the Icicle is a cheaper XLR-USB interface than the MicPort Pro.
Fission doesn't appear to have recording capability - have I got that right? And it doesn't look like the Quicktime exporting includes an option for MP3. Other than that, it cuts, it pastes, and it normalizes, which is about all the editing we need. – Chap Jul 15 '11 at 16:38
You can always export to Mp3 with iTunes. Fission doesn't record, but the simplest recording method is easily the QuickTime Player. Find it in the Applications folder and choose "New Audio Recording" from the file menu. You can then save an AIFF that you can edit in Fission. – NReilingh Jul 15 '11 at 17:26
I didn't know that about Quicktime Player - thanks. As to mic recommendation, I've seen the Audio Technica AT2020-USB mentioned elsewhere, so it definitely sounds worth a look. Another option I've seen mentioned (not quite as dirt-simple, but close) is the MicPort Pro, allowing her to use her current mic. That would eliminate any latency issues (the device has a headphone jack); would latency be a significant issue with a USB mic? – Chap Jul 16 '11 at 14:16
Also - what about GarageBand for recording / editing / exporting? – Chap Jul 16 '11 at 14:17
@Chap I've edited my answer with some more information. – NReilingh Jul 16 '11 at 19:05
If you are just doing voice over, what about recording to a Zoom H4n or something... then you have some field recording options as well.
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Paisiel - Paisiel - Albums - Reviews - Soundblab
Paisiel - Paisiel
by Sean Hewson Rating:8 Release Date:2019-03-22 Label: Rocket Recordings
Paisiel are Portuguese drummer João Pais Filipe and sax player Julius Gabriel from Germany. This self-titled album is their debut and was originally released last year on cassette via the Lovers & Lollypops label. This re-release is out on Rocket Recordings.
A gong introduces Satellite, followed by strange noises and the sense that the song is approaching across a vast desert. The gong returns but it has been manipulated. An ominous drone grows louder before the drums start, followed by some tentative sax. Gabriel’s playing becomes more fluid as he tries out little runs and melodies. Filipe develops the rhythm and the gathering drone cloud. The sax lines are also being manipulated, like in Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi band (I’m just reading the You’ll Know When You Get There book – a bit dry). The whole track is a total trip – rhythm, atmospherics, noise, and jazz all working together to make something that is more than the sum of its parts. Space noise introduces Limousine In The Desert as Filipe again sets the scene before he lays down another cymbal-less, tribal rhythm and Gabriel starts making his presence felt. His playing on this track is much more unrestrained and, with the effects on his sax, sometimes seems to be sparring with himself. You could call it Free Jazz but Filipe is doing something entirely different to anything Rashied Ali or Billy Higgins did. He’s also making a lot of weird electronic noises that put us in BBC Radiophonic Workshop/Sun Ra territory. The final track of this short (too short) album is Cause Yourself To Rise, Gong. Much shorter than its chums, it dispenses with the atmospherics and gets straight down to business with the tribal drums and Gabriel’s most melodic playing so far. And then, the song and album are both suddenly over, too soon.
It is a strange coincidence that I reviewed this album and The Comet Is Coming album on the same day. They are both Jazz (kind of), but also totally different and both spell-binding. Weirdly, The Comet Is Coming will probably get filed under Jazz whilst Paisiel, because of the Rocket connection, will get filed under Rock. Both bands, however, are pushing for something Other and should be filed as such. Rocket Recordings can always be relied on to deliver the goods from our old chums (Gnod, Hey Colossus, Pigs x 7), but they also excel at taking risks. As Paisiel prove.
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The Cuckooshrykes
The Cuckooshrykes formed in June, 2010 in Rome, Italy. This trio of pluristrumentalists began playing together with the idea of creating an experimental genre dubbed "cuckoo-rock", or an alternative rock with a saxophone and other influences. They recorded and released their first album in February, 2011, along with a music video for their single off the album, "Walk The Plank". The album is called "We Welcome You With Open Arms", and consists of 12 tracks. They Have played various concerts in the Rome area, including "Rock 4 Zambia", "Roma Rock Roma Pop", and some more private shows. At present they have released "High Five Black Side", their second studio album, and have played their final gig. The Cuckooshrykes are: Joe Mackenzie (vocals, bass guitar, saxophone) Stefano Obata (vocals, guitar) and Noah McGuire (vocals, drums, keyboard, guitar)
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08 All The Things I Swore I Never Do (Feat. Sophie Turnbull and Rob Bonar-Law) by The Cuckooshrykes
Drachenzamen by The Cuckooshrykes
06 Kicking Well by The Cuckooshrykes
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04 Beefkat (Feeling Saxy, Feeling Horny) by The Cuckooshrykes
03 Gauge by The Cuckooshrykes
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At service for gourmets since 135 years
Our company was founded in the year 1883 and until today it remains family-owned.
The roots of the “Import house Schenkel” can be traced back to the year 1883. Since these early beginnings, only the most exclusive specialties, selected through the strictest quality criteria are imported for the Austrian gourmets by the company Schenkel.
For Schenkel, traditionally the taste and the highest quality are key factors in the selection of all products. Until today the name Schenkel remains a guarantee of taste for the highest expectations. In line with the guideline “Out of love for great food” delicacies from all around the world are imported. Our clients know and trust, that with Schenkel they can expect only the very best.
Today we import delicacies from over 30 countries with culinary reputation, we represent internationally reknown delicatessen brands and supply the entire wholesale, cash and carry and retail network in Austria.
The company founder Heinrich Schenkel started the activity during the Danube Monarchy, as a soft cheese dairy farm in traditional French style. Additionally, he imported delicacies and exotic fruits into Austria. With a horse drawn carriage he travelled across crown countries, always in search for new specialties for his store. To introduce the Austrian gourmets to the fine “Ham from Westphalia“ he went as far as to breed the pig from Westphalia himself.
This dedication found greatest approval and since 1901 the house of Schenkel is named as official purveyor of the royal (K&K – Kaiserlicher & Königlicher) court.
On the occasion of the Culinary Arts Exhibition, in the year 1906 Heinrich Schenkel becomes awarded through the Association of Cooks Austria.
However, with the founder’s death in the year 1912 and the beginning of the war, the all-round appreciated trade house was facing difficult times ahead.
After the first world war many entrepreneurs start by zero, the same was the case for Erich Schenkel the son of Heinrich Schenkel. In the year 1919 he began rebuilding his father’s life’s work. Within three years he expands it to a poultry farm, a large beekeeping, a tree nursery and above all into a commercial operation.
He had a little less luck in the year 1925, when he visits the famous house of Sacher: At the sight of the large cigar in the mouth of the legendary Mrs. Sacher, he is said to have been so distraught, he stepped on to the host’s poodle. This incident unfortunately delayed all business associations by another year.
In the following years lush enjoyment wins in meaning again for the Austrian market. Schenkel acquires the representation of important delicatessen producers and the import flourishes. In the year 1928 the name “Delicatessen import house Schenkel” is officially logged.
Unfortunately, this success was only short-lived. The stock market crash, the economic crisis and six years of war follow. Only saving the general representation of renowned spirits manufacturers and the distribution of salt, ensure the survival of the company during the difficult years between 1935 and 1945.
The beginning of a long success story
1955 – Austria is independent and Erich Schenkel returns his attentions to the traditions of the delicatessen trade. After the death of Erich Schenkel in the year 1963 the third generation, Erich Schenkel II. follows in the gourmet footsteps of father and grandfather Schenkel.
After nearly a century of “lawless” existence, the brand „Schenkel Delikatessen“ is secured both nationally and internationally. Many awards reward the constant dedication to highest quality. Throughout these years all business efforts are set on expansion. Regularly, Erich Schenkel labels the legendary Persian Schah-Caviar with a delivery address to be sent to Hollywood.
Out of the vision of the founding fathers, “find the best from all around the world and import it to Austria, as fresh as possible” a highly modern, competitive trade operation had arisen.
In the year 1994 Gerhard Kaiser the son in law of Erich Schenkel II. enters the business. A few years pass and he takes over as managing director. Shortly before his death in 2002 Erich Schenkel II. enters his company into a family foundation to ensure the survival of the firm for following generations.
In 2016 the expansion plans of the business make it necessary to leave the company location in the 19th Viennese district. It is due to this reason, that the company moves into its new location in Klosterneuburg, in March 2016. The now significantly larger office and warehouse space, secure the basis for further positive development of the Erich Schenkel GmbH in the future.
In the recent past the economic success of the trading house Schenkel has come to prove that good taste is never out of season. Up until today the business remains family run and today has 25 employees. Schenkel imports delicacies from over 30 culinary important countries, represents renowned international delicacy brands and supplies the entire retail market and gastronomy in Austria. In a smaller scope, the company also acts as trade agent and broker as well as exporter.
Since its founding, exclusive specialties selected via the highest quality standards have been made accessible for Austrian gourmets through the company Schenkel. Until today, the brand name remains a guarantee for the highest taste. Much may have changed in the past 135 years, however the company mission “Out of love for great food” remains unchanged.
Schenkel is continuously dedicated to supply local gourmets with new delicacies from all around the world. Clients cherish this extraordinary quality and know, that they can expect only the very best from specialties selected by Schenkel.
This clear confession towards taste and highest quality will continue to be the strongest promise to be made from Schenkel.
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Samsung Galaxy Note 9 vs Huawei P20 Pro: Which is best?
By Stuff writer on 4th Sep 2018 Phone News
It’s that time of the year again, the time when we get to compare the latest flagship from the big names… before the iPhone arrives and the catch-up and leapfrog cycle starts all over again. Currently in the ring? Samsung’s jumbo Note 9 and Huawei’s triple-threat P20 Pro.
Samsung’s S Pen-packing super phone features a larger screen, improved cameras, and other upgrades to last year’s edition, although by and large, it’s not a huge change from the Galaxy Note 8.
Meanwhile, Huawei’s P20 Pro is our current reigning smartphone champion, standing tall above even Samsung’s Galaxy S9. Does it maintain its title defence against the Galaxy Note 9 as well, or has Samsung’s latest proven to be the smartphone world’s greatest? Here’s how this battle shakes out now that we’ve reviewed the Note 9.
Design — Twilight Forever
At a glance, the Galaxy Note 9 could be easily confused for last year’s handset. While the colour schemes are new, the design is mostly unchanged aside from rejiggered camera and improved fingerprint sensor placement on the back. That said, it is 0.2mm thicker and 1.6mm wider to accommodate the slightly larger screen and perhaps the beefier battery as well.
All told, it’s a nice looking mega-handset – but we still prefer the Huawei P20 Pro. The P20 Pro has a sleeker build and hand-friendlier size, plus the gradient Twilight colour option is absolutely dreamy. Your call on whether you can deal with the notch or not.
Verdict: Huawei P20 Pro
Screen — Samsung’s Edge
The Huawei P20 Pro’s screen is very impressive, delivering a bright, 6.1in OLED panel with incredible contrast. At 1080p, though, it’s not quite as crisp as some of the other high-end flagships on the market – not that it’s a massive difference.
Even so, the Galaxy Note 9 comes out just ahead. Samsung has reliably served up the best flagship smartphone screens over the last few years, and given that it’s cut from the same cloth as the Galaxy S9, this 6.4in curved Quad HD Super AMOLED panel is another stunner. It’s also 0.1 inch larger than last year’s model, in case you can tell the difference.
Verdict: Samsung Galaxy Note 9
Camera — Go Pro
The Galaxy Note 9 makes a couple of tweaks to last year’s design, keeping the dual 12MP camera approach but adding adjustable aperture to the main back camera. As on the Galaxy S9 phones, it’ll swap between f/1.5 and f/2.4 settings to ensure that you’re getting the most detail possible in each scenario based on available light.
It’s essentially the same setup as the Galaxy S9+, which was pretty great, although it comes with some AI assistance that tweaks the camera settings based on your surroundings, or even tells you when a snap should be retaken because someone blinked or the lens is dirty. Generally, the AI gets it right, and doesn’t blow out the colours on shots.
On the other hand, the Huawei P20 Pro boasts the best smartphone camera setup on the market, hands-down. It’s a monster, with 40MP RGB, 20MP black-and-white, and 8MP telephoto sensors that combine their talents to do some pretty amazing things.
It’s capable of 3x optical zoom and a 5x “hybrid zoom” that captures surprising detail from afar, and photos tend to look pretty fantastic no matter your lighting. Just consider turning off the Master AI feature here, which can blitz out the colours to an unnatural degree. Samsung has the edge in that regard, at least.
The Galaxy Note 9 certainly has one of the top cameras you’ll find on a flagship today… but the P20 Pro is still better and more flexible.
Performance — Raw power prevails
The Huawei P20 Pro’s Kirin 970 chip with 6GB RAM is plenty powerful, but it doesn’t lead the pack when it comes to benchmark testing. In the Android space, Samsung’s Exynos 9810 chip rules the roost, as seen in benchmark testing from GSM Arena earlier this year.
The Note 9 has the same chip inside, with either 6GB or 8GB RAM depending on model, and it comes out ahead again. That said, both the P20 Pro and Galaxy S9 are super-speedy phones, so you’re unlikely to notice any difference in day-to-day usage even if you were using them side by side.
Battery and perks — Note-able benefits
When it comes to battery life, these handsets are seemingly even — they both have huge 4,000mAh battery packs within.
That’s good for a day and a half on the P20 Pro… but surprisingly, the Galaxy Note 9 can’t keep pace. It’ll give you a bit more than a day with moderate usage, but with its larger, higher-resolution screen, it just doesn’t have the endurance of the P20 Pro, especially if you dial the screen res all the way up… and you’re going to want to.
In terms of storage, the Note 9 definitely has a lead here. The P20 Pro just ships with 128GB of internal storage without microSD expandability, while the Note 9 comes in with 128GB and 512GB models – and you can add another 512GB via microSD cards. Huawei must’ve known this criticism was coming, though, as it’s just announced new 256/512GB versions of the P20 Pro for China (along with some new colours).
Both phones offer a PC-like desktop mode with an external monitor, each just needing a USB-C to HDMI cable — no more pricey DeX Pad accessory for Samsung. Meanwhile, the Note 9 also brings Gear VR headset support, which is unmatched by Huawei.
Of course, the Galaxy Note 9’s most unique perk is the S Pen stylus, which this time comes with Bluetooth connectivity. Why? It means you can use it as a remote for snapping photos, playing videos, or controlling presentations, plus it does all of the usual scribbles and notes.
As usual, Samsung packs in plenty of bonus perks that go above and beyond, although you’ll have to have a hard think about whether you actually need a stylus with a smartphone. If not, then you might be better off with the improved battery performance of the P20 Pro.
Verdict — No upset here
The Huawei P20
The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 takes more categories in this comparison, but at the end of the day, we can’t help but come back to our overall impression from the Note 8 — it’s super-niche and super expensive, and unless you’re completely set on the stylus, you can get an otherwise just-as-capable phone for far fewer Randelas.
That’s especially true since Note 9 is even pricier than last year’s model, coming in at R19,000 for the base model and around R25,000 for the higher storage/RAM configuration. Apple really opened up the floodgates there, but the Note 9’s lack of big upgrades means that it struggles to live up to the expectations that the price point creates. The P20 Pro, meanwhile, costs a far less terrifying R11,500.
We still think that the P20 Pro is the best all-around handset on the market today, packing the absolute best camera setup and a fabulously eye-catching design. Don’t get us wrong, we like the Note 9 a lot, and productivity mavens who need a stylus already know which phone they want for the job, but for the average phone buyer the Huawei P20 Pro remains the more practical purchase.
Winner: Huawei P20 Pro
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Last Chapter and Worse
1996 FarWorks, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
The Far Side and the Larson signature are registered trademarks of FarWorks, Inc.
Last Chapter and Worse quantity
You couldn't find a more likable person than Sherman . . . except that he's a shark. Make that a great white shark and the star of Jim Toomey's Sherman's Lagoon, one of the funniest takes on life to be found above or below the water. So sit back and watch this shark hit his mark in The Shark Diaries: The Seventh Sherman's Lagoon Collection.
Once again, the big-hearted but thick-skulled Sherman is joined in the deep by his Louis Vuitton-packing girlfriend, Megan, Fillmore the sea turtle, and a hermit crab named Hawthorne, among others. This salty crew swims through a world of witty observations, sharp rejoinders, and crystal clear views of everything from "hairless beach apes" to bulk shopping at the local Price Club store. The result is a humor soaked in fun yet just a shade drier than the Sahara.
The Shark Diaries includes daily and Sunday strips. The silly yet sophisticated setups are front and center. Sherman and his buddies' numerous neuroses can't be missed. The fun returns with a splash, and this one promises to be a whale—um, shark—of a winner.
The Shark Diaries
1991 FarWorks, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Far Side and the Larson signature are registered trademarks of FarWorks, Inc.
Unnatural Selections
Fifteen-year-old Jeremy Duncan is the heart and soul of puberty. A typical teen, Jeremy is shy, self-absorbed, and bored. He loves hanging out and playing the guitar. He lives in the shadow of his older brother's perfect 4.0 grade-point-average, athletic talents, and flawless complexion. Jeremy's girlfriend, Sara, loves that she can get him to do anything for her. His best friends are Hector and Pierce, whom he's known for-almost-ever. His parents? Uncool baby boomers. (Unless you're a parent, then they are two suburban professionals just trying to do the best they can with a teenager going through that "awkward" phase.)
The enormously popular comic strip Zits depicts teenage and parental angst like no other. Teenage Tales is a cornucopia of Zits for die-hard fans everywhere. Zits can be seen in more than 1,100 newspapers, which is almost unheard of—only 18 other comic strips have achieved that extraordinary milestone. Zits has also won the National Cartoonists Society's Best Comic Strip of the Year award for two years in a row.
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"MUTTS is the real thing, a comic strip that can touch, amuse and astound all at the same time."—Riverfront Times
The comic strip MUTTS has won the National Cartoonists Society's coveted Comic Strip of the Year Award, and its author, Patrick McDonnell, has earned the NCS's Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year Award.
What Now? chronicles the humorous happenings of Earl the dog and his feline friend Mooch. As usual, the endearing pair can be counted on for laughs and charming adventures. In this collection, Mooch professes his love . . . for a little pink sock.
"How can I take you seriously with a little pink sock in your mouth?" asks Earl."This from a guy who wears a 'Shnoopy' collar," retorts Mooch.
Mooch's affection for his sock is so deep, he sings little songs about it. But the love affair comes to an abrupt end when his pal Earl buries it to try to end the obsession. Fortunately for Mooch, socks come in pairs, and he's soon reunited with "its twin sister."
Earl and Mooch put their comic spin on a wide range of subjects, from napping and poetry to summer vacations and Christmas anticipations. Interspersed with its charming humor are more weighty messages on issues important to McDonnell, such as animal shelters, saving our endangered species, and other animal-protection topics.
What Now? delivers creative style and the charm of yesteryear unlike any other strip on the funny pages today.
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This accession consists of an addition to the Nathan Reingold Papers. The materials relate to a talk Reingold gave both at the University of Minnesota and at the National Museum of American History on Duncan Arthur MacInness, a physical chemist specializing in electrochemistry. Additionally there is a manuscript of an unpublished article title...
James Mahaffey Cold Fusion Collection
Mahaffey, James A.
Medicine and Science, Division of, (NMAH, SI)
The collection contains archival materials relating to the subject of cold fusion, and experiments conducted to corroborate the supposed discovery of the phenomenon. The collection includes Mahaffey's heavily illustrated laboratory notebook, dating from the beginning of the experiment on April 8, 1989 through April 20, 1989, documenting the experim...
C.L. Stong Papers
Stong, C.L., 1902-1975 (electrical engineer)
Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI.
12.6 Cubic feet (38 boxes)
These papers are the files of the editor of "The Amateur Scientist" section of the Scientific American from 1952 to 1976. They are arranged chronologically by date of article. The feature was started in 1952 as an expansion of "The Amateur Astronomer" section of the periodical. The papers include files of Stong's predecessor and files for arti...
Research Records
National Museum of History and Technology. Division of Physical Sciences
This record unit consists of the research files of Robert P. Multhauf, Curator in the Division of Physical Sciences. The records contain scripts for Hall of Chemistry exhibitions; historical information and illustrations pertaining to chemistry, chemical apparatus, and industrial laboratories; biographies of distinguished chemists; and se...
Videotapes
Smithsonian Institution, Office of Museum Programs
This accession consists of 80 master 3/4" U-Matic videotapes documenting the Robert Organ Lecture series, "Conservation Orientation for Museum Personnel."
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2020 Dem Prospects Want to Guarantee Jobs for Everyone
by Stephen Kruiser
May 9, 2018, 12:00 AM
Emboldened by the noise from the crowds that followed Bernie Sanders around in 2016, more and more Democrats have drifted far leftward and begun embracing the wild progressive fantasy that masquerades as policy. Three of the names most often mentioned to run in 2020 — Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, and Elizabeth Warren — are all from the Democrats’ lunatic progressive fringe and have been pushing single-payer government healthcare as a mainstream idea.
NPR reports that many of the names who might end up in the 2020 hat have another feel-good progressive idea they’re fond of:
No major candidates have declared that they’re preparing a run against President Trump in two years, but whispers are building around potential candidates. A few of them have coalesced around a seriously ambitious policy idea — guaranteeing a job for every American who wants one.
If enacted, such a program could be big or small; it could create massive reverberations in the private sector; and it could reshape monetary policy. One thing that is more certain is that Americans will be hearing about the idea of job guarantees for the next few years.
This article really is an extraordinary read, from the odd justifications for believing now is the time for pitching ideas like this, to the fantastical nature of the proposed programs themselves.
Unsurprisingly, NPR first talked to a progressive academic, who gave this reasoning for the timing:
“My impression is it may have been the shock effect of Trump’s election and the recognition that there are a host of policies, projects, that we previously didn’t think were imaginable or reasonable that are being considered on the other end of the political spectrum,” said William Darity, an economist at Duke University and a proponent of job guarantee programs.
Translation: we weren’t left enough.
It has been well documented that the Democrats lost votes in the Heartland because under and unemployed people were tired of Democrats making promises to them and not coming through. Only an insulated academic and Beltway progressives would come to the conclusion that the solution to that problem is to make bigger, even more untenable promises and make them so loudly that no one can voice an objection. If there is one thing that Bernie Sanders proved in 2016 it’s that crowds don’t care about details if you are promising them free everything.
As with all things progressive, this is really about a massive expansion of federal power and making people dependent on the government, just in a less demeaning way.
Darity is one of the architects of the jobs guarantee bill Cory Booker is floating in the Senate. Here is his elevator pitch for the fairy tale program:
“Under the conditions of a federal job guarantee, everybody would be assured of getting to work if they were seeking work. So in effect, the unemployment rate would be zero,” said Darity. “In an ideal world, if I lost my job in the morning, I could walk over to what we would now truly call an employment office and have new work by the afternoon.”
In an ideal world, I could drink beer all day, get my work done, and never get drunk or fat.
Read this gem from Darity and you’ll understand why I stopped talking to progressives a long time ago:
“The idea is that we would then drive bad jobs out of existence,” said Darity, “because no one would be obligated to take those jobs since they would have a superior option.”
Are all of the public restrooms going to clean themselves under this program? Or do those jobs get reclassified as “good” because they come with a higher wage?
The bigger question is this: what kind of adult talks like that?
Former Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin broke down a few of the problems with the program, chief among them being this:
you’re not just going to get people who have been unable to find work in the private sector for whatever reason,” said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former director of the Congressional Budget Office and president of the right-leaning American Action Forum. “You’re going to get a lot of people. And a lot of people means a lot of money, so the federal budget is going to explode.”
Holtz-Eakin offers more specifics about why this isn’t a good idea, and that’s one thing that makes combating progressive ideas so wearisome. They offer the moon, their swooning fans think, “Yay, the moon!” and then non-progressives have to come in and explain that the moon isn’t available using facts.
Still, the effort has to be made.
Even Darity admits that his ideas haven’t always been accepted by mainstream Democrats.
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Širom: A Universe That Roasts Blossoms for a Horse
Ian Maxton
Unlike anything else you will listen to this year.
Širom: A Universe That Roasts Blossoms for a Horse Ian Maxton
Širom describe themselves as a “Slovenian acoustic folk avant-garde experimental band,” or, if you prefer, “imaginary folk.” These two descriptions might signal whether or not Širom make the kind of music you would be interested in listening to. Then again, maybe not. It may be that these descriptors, stacked haphazardly as they are, create a sense of suspicion in the type of listener that Širom is after. It may be that you, reading these descriptors, have found what you are looking for: music that cannot be contained by the language we normally use to bind art into categories. You would be right.
A Universe That Roasts Blossoms for a Horse is the latest record from the trio of Ana Kravanja, Samo Kutin and Iztok Koren, three restless, experimental Slovenian multi-instrumentalists. The record opens in frenzy. “A Washed Out Boy Taking Fossils from a Frog Sack” serves a similar function to an orchestra tuning, except, here, Širom pull out the long drone for two and a half minutes, layering Kravanja’s otherworldly vocals overtop and adding percussion and something that sounds like a singing saw being relentlessly shaken to the clamorous strings of the track. The instruments reach a fever pitch before going off the rails. The track ends with a mysterious, metallic resonance.
Most of the tracks on A Universe That Roasts Blossoms for a Horse have two principal instruments: violins and banjo. Voices intrude and it is difficult to tell if language is attached to them, other than the language of the song, of course. “Sleight of Hand with a Melting Key” opens with a plucked banjo, which is joined by a plucked violin. The track’s closest cousin to most listeners will be something like Andrew Bird’s instrumentals. But Širom is always leaving this safer, comfortable folk territory to make things strange. Slight melodic variations in both the vocals and strings build tension not unlike a horror film, but there is nothing so cheap as a jump scare. The track loses melody altogether in a bubbling up of percussive sounds that give way yet again to a repeated string motif quite unlike where the song began that climaxes with deep, thumping drum beats.
“A Pulse Expels Its Brothers and Sisters” is built around looping, syncopated percussion. More and more percussive elements are added until – in the third minute – a frenetic flute shouts bursts of melody. Below the flute the beat begins to change as the track gives way entirely to a trio of instruments that cannot quite be identified. Violin? Marimba? Processed vocals? It is difficult to tell as Širom uses instruments easily identifiable to the western listener along and Slovenian folk instruments alongside instruments of their own devising. This is one of the sources of their specific sound.
Their compositions are always morphing, introducing new elements and dropping old ones. “Low Probability of a Hug” is a study in minimalisms – at least, as far as that goes on this record – voices duel with percussion which transforms into percussive strings which gives way to layers of banjo and high violins before vocals show up again. You get the idea. There is no stasis to be found here, but each new bend in these tracks is dripping with atmosphere and unexpected juxtapositions. Closing track “Same as the One She Hardly Remembered” is the most low-key tune on the album. It is a sustained work of ghostly romanticism, sweeping yet unsentimental – threading through the streams and rivers and mountains of Širom’s imaginary country in search of something that cannot be recovered.
A Universe That Roasts Blossoms for a Horse is unlike anything else you will listen to this year. Its world has depth – both sonically and in the structure of its compositions – that rewards repeat listens. It is a world you will want to keep returning to: strange, indelible and entrancing.
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Sindhu, Praneeth enter second round at Denmark Open
P.V. Sindhu and Sai Praneeth made impressive starts at Denmark Open by winning their respective first round matches in straight games.
Odense (Denmark) 15 October, 2019 18:33 IST
World Champion P.V. Sindhu made an impressive start to her campaign at the Denmark Open, claiming a straight-game win over Indonesia’s Gregoria Mariska Tunjung in the women’s singles competition here on Tuesday.
Fifth seed Sindhu, who had made early exits in China and Korea, got back her bearing as she overcame former World Junior Champion Gregoria 22-20, 21-18 in 38 minutes to keep her 5-0 record intact against the Indonesian.
The Olympic silver medallist will now face Korea’s An Se Young next.
World Championships bronze medallist B. Sai Praneeth also made it to the second round beating the legendary Lin Dan 21-14, 21-17 in a 35-minute opening round clash.
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The Hyderabad shuttler is likely to meet world No. 1 and two-time world champion Kento Momota of Japan next. He had lost to Momota at the World Championships in Basel, Switzerland.
Thailand Open champions Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty also made a good start to their men’s doubles campaign, beating Korean pair of Kim Gi Jung and Lee Yong Dae 24-22, 21-11 in 39 minutes.
Former Commonwealth Games champion Parupalli Kashyap, who had reached the semifinals at Korea Open, failed to cross the opening round after losing 13-21, 12-21 to Thailand’s Sitthikom Thammasin in the men’s singles.
National champion Sourabh Verma, who had clinched the Hyderabad Open and Vietnam Open this year, also made an early exit after going down 21-19, 11-21, 17-21 to Mark Caljouw of the Netherlands.
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EMC’s Kleber Bonitese has proved out the theory that food is a universal language after using pizza to help him break down language barriers between himself and his team.
Three years ago, Kleber made the brave leap across the Atlantic to come and work in Jaguar Land Rover’s UK facilities to help develop his skills and his career.
The journey took him from his base in Brazil to (not quite as sunny) Wolverhampton where, new in role, he had to start building new relationships with his new team.
One of his biggest barriers though was a language one. A native Portuguese speaker, he found difficulties communicating with his team seeing as English wasn’t his first language.
His answer?
Determined to break the ice and create good working relationships within his team, Kleber set up a challenge for them and asked for their support in bridging the gaps in his use of English.
Every time he mispronounced a word or had an issue communicating what was needed, he encouraged his team to tell him in exchange for a ‘point’.
If they hit 30 points he would buy them all pizza for lunch and he said the exercise not only helped him communicate in his second language but also brought him and his team closer together.
He said: “When they realised that I was open to being challenged it built a trust and we’ve developed a great relationship from that.
"Now, in many other instances, my team feel comfortable to challenge me and be honest with me and vice versa.”
Not only has this created an honest working relationship within Kleber’s team, it means they take time out every now and then to enjoy lunch together and they pay a lot more attention to what their manager says (as they are keen to earn points for pizza).
They’ve even used it as an opportunity to get more familiar with the recently launched Office 365 software as they use TEAMS to host their ‘points tracker’ and offer each other support on the chat tool.
Kleber’s MP&L colleagues have even gone a step further and done a circuit around Wolverhampton’s finest pizza outlets and ‘Kleb’ returned the favour by organising a barbecue over the summer where he grilled Brazilian style steaks for the team in Cannock Chase Park.
He added: “I was able to show the team that I had imperfections and that I was relying on them to improve.
"This broke down a wall between us and made us all a lot closer and we’ve gained some fantastic experiences from it.”
“When my team realised that I was open to being challenged, it built a trust and we’ve developed a great relationship from that.
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Tumblr’s Teenaged, Double-Edged Sword
Sarah Perez @sarahintampa / 7 years
“im ddeleting the internet [sic]“: A telling re-blog from a teenaged girl on the blogging platform turned social networking site Tumblr, in a chain of re-postings that had her pondering Tumblr’s impact on her life twenty years from now, when her passing, immature thoughts become fodder for a discussion among her boss and colleagues at some imagined future workplace.
The fact that Tumblr speaks to this younger demographic, and in particular teenage girls slightly more so than boys, is known. Why that is the case is something which many are still scratching their heads over, even as Tumblr begins to focus on generating revenue from this very audience, whose online behavior makes it tricky for advertisers who want to connect.
“How do teenagers waste hours upon hours consuming Tumblr?“, a confused parent once asked on another time-wasting site, the Q&A resource known as Quora. The top answer, posted by “Anonymous,” claims to be from a teenaged user of Tumblr, though it could just as easily be a sneaky marketing ploy from the startup itself. But it speaks some truths nonetheless.
Tumblr, wrote the poster, “seems like a freedom, as weird as that may sound.”
“Unlike Facebook, I have a clean slate,” this person explained. “I really have found myself starting to have my own opinions. These, in some cases, greatly differ from relatives or friends, people who used to greatly influence my opinions.”
Whether or not “anon” was a real Tumblr user, or even a real teenager, it’s an apt enough explanation as to why the site has found footing among the young and hormonal. Though worries that a boss might peruse online indiscretions may one day come to pass, Tumblr users often use pseudonyms or only first names, making their blogs harder to find by the prying eyes of parents or HR, for that matter.
Tumblr doesn’t owe its success among teens solely because of its pseudonymous qualities. That helps, but, more simply, it has become the digital upgrade to that demographic’s earlier tools for cut-and-pasted self-discovery: the repurposing of media and content to reflect their interests and fandoms, likes and hates, newly forming opinions, and more.
Read through teenaged Tumblrdom as a grown-up, and you’ll soon feel very, very old.
“i haven’t had my phone on ring for like 3 years,” muses “Aubrey,” who also once reblogged “what the frick is friendster.”
Don’t worry, Aubrey, you don’t need to know.
The real answer to the surging teenaged use of the site lies not in the lengthy Quora explanations, but in the examples of the odd, offbeat, and yes, sometimes inappropriate content kids are sharing.
Tumblr blogs tend to lack the glossy, professional, high-minded design of other social networking sites, including the behemoth that is Facebook and the SMS-inspired Twitter. If anything, these teenaged Tumblrs harken back to earlier web days where users built their own pages on AngelFire and Geocities, with atrocious backgrounds, upgraded cursors, and dancing GIF images galore. GIFs, in fact, are so hugely popular on Tumblr that the company even began experimenting with GIF-based ads.
The teen blogs are also reminiscent of MySpace, featuring often same general gaudiness, and the spewing of content on top of content, like the layers of photos and other decorations teens used to tack up on cork bulletin boards and bedroom walls.
Tumblr now serves that purpose, and more.
At the risk of dating myself, I’ll reveal that I was teenaged in the pre-Web era. We didn’t have Tumblr then, but rather composition notebooks, glossy magazines, and scissors. We had mean girl-like cliques to rebel against, passions, complaints, and in-jokes. We liked boys. We worried about our looks and clothing and hairstyles. We dissed our teachers and our parents. We wrote short stories. And we expressed ourselves on paper with scrapbooks, torn magazine collages, and shared notes in passed around “slam books.” (To be fair, we weren’t writing truly awful things, really – that’s just what these books were called.)
Now children have the Internet. And Tumblr has become their platform for those universal, familiar urges at self-expression falling somewhere in between the diary, the slam book and the cork board. Notes on Tumblr blogs range from mundane (“ive been telling myself ill start my homework soon for the last 4 hours,”) to the confessional (“a cute necklace for school tomorrow” which accompanies a picture of a noose – a note whose message would terrify parents and other adults, but appears to only be commentary on the horrors of high school life).
According to Pew Internet’s study from earlier this year, 13 percent of Internet users ages 18-29 use Tumblr, while only 5 percent of those 30-49 do, 3 percent of those 50-64, and a (surprising) 1 percent of those 65 and older do.
Demographic data from Quantcast further drives home just how youthful a site Tumblr has become. 21 percent of its audience is under 18, 30 percent is 18 to 24, and 22 percent is 25 to 34. Then the numbers taper off. Site users don’t tend to have kids of their own, make somewhere between $0 and $50,000 (66 percent do), have either no college (41 percent) or college backgrounds (48 percent), and tend to reflect a more ethnically diverse makeup.
Now Tumblr is seriously looking to monetize this audience, proffering a platform for brand advertising which CEO David Karp last week explained is meant to be a place for advertisers to “build amazing, interactive ads.”
“We have a story that really, truly stands apart from the other big networks right now,” he said. Other networks are harnessing user intent, then pointing users to little blue links. “Creative brand advertising has had nowhere to live on the web,” he said. Ten out of the ten top Hollywood studios advertise on Tumblr now, Karp also noted, while speaking, too, of ads that inspire people to go out and purchase, designed by imaginative types who went into advertising because of their “Mad Men-like aspirations.”
He may have played down the demographics’ role in Tumblr’s advertising equation during this discussion, but the site’s teen audience is too powerful to ignore: there are some 30 million U.S. teens with over $200 billion in buying power. They might not all be on Tumblr, of course, but if brands can reach a portion of this group, they have the potential to tap into a non-trivial source of disposable income from heavy-duty consumers. After all, the U.S. is Tumblr’s top traffic source.
Tumblr’s future, for now, seems to be closely tied to its young adult demographic, their whims, and perhaps even their historical aversion to online ads. This audience has grown up connected, is often skeptical and cynical when it comes to brand advertising, and tends to toe a fine line between wanting to express their individuality and wanting to fit in.
It’s not an easy group to reach, which makes Tumblr’s revenue potential tricky to pin down. Too much or the wrong kind of advertising, and a fickle teen audience may find a new home elsewhere. Though Tumblr is now home to over 100 million blogs, if a good chunk belong to teens, it’s difficult to count that as serious traction – today’s teens are less committed to their digital creations than adults, having already invented methods like “whitewalling” and “super-logoff” to erase and hide their Facebook pages, and are now turning to “ephemeral” messaging apps like Snapchat, which delete their communications upon viewing.
They understand just how easy it is to deactivate an account, walk away and begin again. Content is disposable, and the web is an impermanent platform to build upon, they’ve found. These are decidedly radical views.
For Tumblr, the shiftiness of the very group it has found a home among is one of the riskier aspects of what appears to otherwise be a strong, fast-growing and potentially very valuable service. Its revenue plan is to provide a blank slate to its users and advertisers alike (“…we want to give [advertisers] the space to do anything – a four-second loop, an hour and a half video, a high-res panorama,” Karp explained last week.).
But Tumblr will need to be careful with the results of those advertisers’ efforts. Overdone marketing messages could sour Tumblr’s most engaged users on their online hangout. Done well, however, Tumblr could endear itself to its reblog-happy user base even more, connecting aspirational imagery and content with those who are still young enough to dream they can spend their way into new feelings. Whether they’ll eventually end up “ddeleting” those feelings or not.
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Payments startup Dwolla raises $6.85M more, debuts Access API
Ingrid Lunden @ingridlunden / 3 years
Some news today from Dwolla, the startup that competes with banks (but also works with them) to provide payments and money transfers with reduced fees by way of more efficient software. The company has raised another round of funding of $6.85 million, and at the same time it’s announcing the relaunch of its white-label API, which it is now calling Access API.
The funding round was led by previous investor Union Square Ventures and new investor Foundry Group, with participation also from Next Level Ventures, Ludlow Ventures, High Alpha, Firebrand Ventures, and Detroit Venture Partners.
It comes more than two years after Dwolla raised its last round, $9.7 million from strategic backer CME Group, and brings the total raised by Dwolla to just under $40 million.
The company says that it will be using the funds both hiring in sales, to be based out of its headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa. “The Midwest has a wealth of resources, but its biggest strength is its people and that’s a competitive advantage we plan on continuing to invest in,” Ben Milne, founder and CEO, said in a statement.
While the API has been around since last year, it’s adding new functionality as of today, specifically Dwolla is moving its same-day transfer service and a new dashboard to manage transactions under the Access API umbrella.
Back in 2014, when Dwolla took on the CME Group as an investor, Dwolla used the moment to being a shift in its service to expand beyond consumers, government relationships and mobile payments — its first three targets. Now, that shift appears to be the company’s sole focus, as underscored not just by the API but how Dwolla is growing it.
“Building the ideal API to move money is a phrase that has become a part of our DNA,” Milne noted in a blog post today.
“Also, turns out brands like their names, rather than ours. So we’re white label now,” a spokesperson added.
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Let’s face it, Mobile World Congress isn’t about the mobile any more
Mike Butcher @mikebutcher / 3 years
As over 108,000 attendees from 208 countries filed into the echoing halls of Mobile World Congress last week, I was reminded of the old First World War chant, sung by the soldiers on the front lines in a tone of heavy irony: “We’re here, because we’re here, because we’re here!”
Every year, Mobile World Congress positions itself as the world’s meeting place for the Mobile industry. That’s OK. I get it. But every year, I increasingly wonder, whether it’s really still all about the “mobile world” after all.
The fact is that MWC is slowly but surely losing its reason for existing as a mobile-focused event.
A 20 minute taxi drive away from the Gran Fira of MWC is the strangely named 4YFN (“Four Years From Now”). This conference resembles your average future-focused startup conference these days: there’s a pitching stage, a main stage for speakers and panels to pontificate, an exhibition hall — the usual. But although claiming to attract a healthy 20,000 people, it’s oddly removed from Mobile World Congress, even though anyone who has an entrance pass to MWC also has full access to 4YFN. All the devices which are unveiled at MWC, will eventually run the apps and cloud services which the startups down the road are producing. And yet, they are stuck back in the city. I hope the rumours are true that next year they will co-locate 4YFN in a new, large, annexe at the main MWC exhibition area.
For slowly but surely, the issues that are discussed at MWC, are gradually resembling the solutions and startups showcased at 4YFN.
Take for example IoT and VR. Both featured heavily at 4YFN and MWC, which makes one wonder why they were so far apart.
Japanese firm Soracom used 4YFN to launch their IoT platform in Europe. Brands like Nestle and Sabadell sponsored 4YFN and the former showcased a coffee machine that lets you choose how much milk and how strong of a drink you want from your mobile. Meanwhile, car brand SEAT hosted a virtual reality experience. Just down the road in another hall people were literally queuing up at Samsung’s booth to check out the VR experiences on offer.
In fact, the sheer proliferation of things which were decidedly “not mobile” shows the event might be moving on.
This year reflected less of an interest in yet another rectangular piece of metal and glass, but a huge variety of things. There was a Graphene Pavilion, Internet of Things Pavilion and spaces for VR/AR, robotics and drones. Chinese company DJI unveiled its first line of UAVs designed for commercial use, the Matrice 200 series, for instance. There was even a space for artificial intelligence companies.
As you can see, MWC is no longer about just the mobile phone. So why put all the emphasis on that?
Even the venerable Nokia (the real one, not the HMD-owned phone brands) isn’t about mobile phones any more, having repositioned itself in VR hardware, Health and IoT.
Mobile World Congress is no longer just about mobile phones, it’s about a range of things: general connectivity as well as the devices and services which will connect our world in the future.
At MWC, the press interest wasn’t just about a new Android handset as whether the maker had done a deal to pre-install Google’s voice-driven Assistant software. No self-respecting handset maker could even show their face if that was not the case.
In fact, it’s not as if it’s even still the place for big launches in mobile. A few big global smartphone companies stayed away. Xiaomi was absent. Samsung, embarrassed by the Note 7 debacle last year, simply said the Galaxy S8 was coming next year. There were no new announcements about any more Google Pixel handsets. (Apple of course, hosts its own conferences). When the dust settles, we’ll all realise that the re-launch of the nostalgia-inducing Nokia 3310 by HMD was simply a publicity stunt for its other phones. Being particularly dumb for a dumb feature phone, I predict they will sell almost none. No matter. It will have done its job.
So, given that it’s 10 years since the launch of the iPhone, an event which completely transformed the mobile industry, and created an entirely new category of startups, it’s surely time to re-think how we approach the events which talk about this industry.
The old MWC used to be relevant when we cared about our signal dropping. But do we really discuss that any more? No.
Yes, 5G will be 100 times faster than 4G LTE. 5G will track cars, track drones, make streaming faster. But today we discuss what we can do with these devices, and the connectivity is taken for granted. Twenty years ago people thought the internet would be run over the PSTN. Now the PSTN is effectively run over the Internet.
The smartphone is no longer just the only consumer proposition out there. Large vendors need more peripheral devices for growth, and consumers want them, from earpieces, to projectors and communication hubs like Amazon Echo and Google Home.
The truth is that MWC should switch its focus from OEMs selling to telcos, to OEMs directly addressing the innovation ecosystem. Sure, that might include telcos, but it’s not just about them any more.
Exhibition halls focusing on exhibitors hoping to sell their wares around mobile infrastructure (cell towers, switches, plastics and glasses for the phones) should be consigned to some other annexes. Since software is eating the world, let it eat the mobile world as well (as I predicted five years ago, here on TechCrunch).
Finally, the brands that appear at both the MWC and 4YFN events love to trumpet their connection with innovation and startups. But what we actually need them to be coaxed into is acquisitions. It’s only that which would really supercharge the tech ecosystem.
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SXSW: Music and Tech, Together at Last
Austin’s streets are so crowded during the 48 hours when SxSW Interactive is ending and SxSW Music is beginning that it’s easy to imagine the budding love affair between music and tech began as a romcom collision.
By Nathan Thornburgh March 16, 2012
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13 Mar 2012, Austin, Texas, USA --- Flux Pavillion performs at the Warner Group Nikon event during 2012 SXSW festival in Austin, Texas on March 13, 2012
Strategies: South By Southwest isn't for every entrepreneur USA Today
SXSW 2012: For Rising Artists, Many Roads To Austin Forbes
Scenes from South by Southwest Music Festival Washington Post
Austin’s streets are so crowded during the 48 hours when SxSW Interactive is ending and SxSW Music is beginning that it’s easy to imagine the budding love affair between music and tech began as a romcom collision. She, a waifish mashup DJ from Williamsburg, is walking south on Congress Avenue while he, a penny-loafered angel investor from Mountain View, is walking north. They’re both glued to their Foursquare apps on their phones, and accidentally bump into each other in front of the Twitter FEED house, the 10-day interactive art space that combines electronica music and mobile app technology, with heavy corporate sponsoring. A #romance is born.
However it came about, the union between the music and tech industries is in full ardor this year. This is the year of Spotify and Turntable.fm. Songkick, a UK concert site, just raised $10 million in Sequoia Capital’s first British investment of any kind. Rootmusic, which has a Facebook app for bands, raised $16m in second-round financing last June.
(MORE: SXSW Interactive Goes Political: Americans Elect Wins 2012 People’s Choice Award)
So it was perhaps inevitable that a couple days ago, behind The Side Bar on 7th Street, listening to a hard-driving band called Fort Lean (@fortlean, if you must know), were these guys: Will Griggs and Jesse Israel, record label founders turned angel investors and tech advisers. Their record label, Cantora Records, began seven years ago when they were undergrads at NYU. And now it has spawned Cantora Labs, a music-culture-cool tech fund that doesn’t lack for ambition. The tagline on their website: “Tech Changed Music Forever. Now We’re Returning the Favor.”
The fund, a combination of the profits from bands on their label and a round of financing specifically for tech investments, is aimed at startups that can use not just money, but a guide into the music industry. Case study: Sonic Notify, a company that delivers content to smartphones through inaudible sound waves, is one of Cantora’s investments. At last year’s CMJ music festival in New York, Cantora hosted a music showcase — a standard record label practice — with live acts like Gottye and some Turntable.fm-powered DJ sets, but they let fans know ahead of time that downloading a Sonic Notify app would get them into the show. Likewise, the concert wasn’t just a concert, but a chance to showcase the new technology by giving away prizes over concertgoers’ phones, having them vote on what songs to play.
“It was a conscious decision to make it a party about the music,” says Griggs. “And you bring in the tech in the most seamless way possible.”
So part of it is about getting what people at SxSW unreservedly call “tastemakers” to try a new product. But it’s also about making tech hip, connecting the tech people with the music people. “It’s an entirely different crowd, entirely different activities,” says Israel. “But the person who cares about music tends to be the same person that cares about the Foursquare app, the same person that uses Twitter, or Soundcloud or Spotify.”
(MORE: SXSW Watch: A Disruptive Conversation)
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Posts tagged ‘Coca-Cola’
I spent part of this week at a workshop on theorising secrecy and transparency. Based on a variety of readings – on a range of subjects, from drone warfare to the world’s first biometric money, and from women Free Masons in Italy to Wikileaks – we discussed how secrecy and transparency can only exist in relation to one another; how we need secrets in order to function socially; how transparency tends to pertain only to information and not knowledge; and what do we mean by discretion, and privacy?
And so, perhaps inevitably, my thoughts turned to food. We are all fairly familiar with the idea of the secret recipe. KFC markets its chicken as being flavoured with eleven secret herbs and spices. The contents of Worcestershire Sauce and Coca-Cola are closely guarded secrets. Such is the intensity of people’s curiosity around these products, there is now a cottage industry dedicated to discovering just what goes into Seven-Up or Dr Pepper.
One of my favourite episodes of This American Life attempts to recreate what is, apparently, the original, true recipe for Coke. The formula for the syrup on which Coca-Cola is based – called Merchandise 7x – is a very carefully guarded secret. However, the producers of the show managed to track down what seems to have been one of the first recipes for Coca-Cola, in a 1979 edition of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution.
Asa Candler, who founded the company in 1892, did not invent Coke. That person was a chemist, John Pemberton, who, in 1882, created Coca-Cola to sell alongside other drinks and patent medicines. Famously, its name derives from the fact that it contained extract of coca leaf. (Coca-Cola removed cocaine from its recipe in 1903.) After his death, the recipe circulated among other chemists – and it is this formula which was printed in 1979.
It is this formula which Ira Glass asks two people from Jones Soda in Seattle to recreate, but with not particularly encouraging results. They describe it as tasting like Froot Loops, or medicine, or aspirin. After refining the recipe and their ingredients (which include lemon and coriander oil, vanilla, lime juice, and lots of sugar) they arrive at something which approximates Coke so closely that they – and others – find it virtually indistinguishable from the ‘real’ product.
What is so interesting about this investigation is that it suggests that there were once several recipes for Coke circulating around Atlanta and, secondly, that the recipe itself has changed over time. In fact, one of the best indicators of this is the popularity of Mexican Coke. Many claim that it tastes considerably better than the American variety, and this is probably due to the fact that Coca-Cola made in the US now contains corn syrup – which is cheaper – rather than the original cane sugar.
It is unsurprising that manufactures of processed food would want to advertise their products on the grounds that they’re based on fixed, never-changing ‘secret’ recipes. This adds to the ‘specialness’ of the sauce, drink, or seasoning and, most obviously, suggests that these cannot be made at home. In fact, this is probably true: foodstuffs made in factories contain ingredients, and are put through processes, unavailable to the domestic kitchen. Also, unlike home cooking, manufactures are able to claim – despite evidence to the contrary – that these products will – apparently – always be absolutely uniform. One bottle of Worcestershire Sauce is supposed to be exactly the same as the next.
Current campaigns to force food companies accurately to label their products are partly a manifestation of suspicion of the contents of Big Food’s secret processes and recipes. This insistence on transparency is not particularly new, though. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Heinz – one of the first, and now one of the biggest – food companies in the world distinguished itself from its competitors by selling its sauces and condiments in clear glass bottles.
As concerns about food contamination grew in both the US and elsewhere, Heinz argued that its clear bottles proved to shoppers the purity of their products. Unlike their competitors, they didn’t add lead, chalk, arsenic or any other contaminants to their merchandise. Partly as a result of this, Heinz could ally itself closely to the pure food movement in the US – linked to temperance organisations – as the best example of what an ethical food producer should look like. This made exceptionally good business sense. HJ Heinz was able to exert some influence over the committee responsible for writing the landmark Food, Drink, and Drugs Act of 1906. Although this legislation was designed to end food contamination, it worked to create a uniform, nation-wide set of regulations over the production and marketing of processed food.
Transparency – literally in the case of Heinz – actually enabled food companies to grow their markets across the United States. But although technology and industrialisation change the ways in which we understand and define transparency and secrecy, these have existed in the food world long before the nineteenth century. Chefs and cooks guarded their recipes in the same ways as other artisans and tradespeople protected knowledge about their skills.
I’ve been reading Bill Buford’s fascinating account of a journey through restaurant kitchens and butchers in New York and Tuscany. One of the themes running through Heat is secrecy: in an age where it’s ever-easier to share information, and where chefs are compelled to produce recipe books at regular intervals, how to keep iconic dishes – the food which defines restaurants – secret?
But secrecy is most important for three chefs in Italy and, significantly, all of them women. Intent on learning how to make pasta ‘properly’ (like an Italian, in other words), Buford gets in touch with the best pasta cooks he knows. Firstly, he calls Miriam Leonardi who runs Trattoria la Buca near Parma, and asks to spend some time in her kitchen, learning from her:
She panicked. ‘What are you talking about? A month? I never let anyone into my kitchen – ever.’ (She made a funny sound. Was she having trouble breathing?) ‘I don’t know what to say. Are you crazy?’ She was very angry.
Next he tries Valeria Piccini, whose response is similar. This time, though, Buford realises why: ‘was it because she didn’t want to share her pasta secrets?’ He finally manages to secure a place in a small restaurant run by Betta Valdiserri in Poretta. It was here that Mario Batali learned Italian cuisine, and Buford, having spent a year in Batali’s restaurant Babbo, is accepted because of his connection with Batali.
Miriam is, though, as loath to share her secrets, and particularly for tortellini. While she does eventually divulge her recipe, she does so over a period of time, so that Buford needs to make a series of return visits to learn each step in the process of making tortellini:
It was, I concluded, a test of my promise that I wouldn’t reveal the recipe to Mario: if enough time had elapsed and she got no reports of her tortellini on the Babbo menu, she could assume the coast was clear.
For all three of these women who have managed to be successful in an industry which is male dominated and frequently sexist, and within a profoundly patriarchal society, keeping secrets becomes a way of claiming power. Their recipes are what define them, as Buford explains:
For Betta, pasta was crucial to how she thought about herself. ‘Mario,’ she said, is now a great success, and I am not. Mario is now rich, and I am not. But he was never very good at making pasta. He was never as good as me. I am very, very good.’
So although secrecy (and the pretense of transparency) is useful for big food companies, it is also a strategy useful for women negotiating a place within a world often designed to thwart their ambitions.
Bill Buford, Heat (New York: Vintage Books, [2006] 2007).
Gabriella M. Petrick, ‘“Purity as Life”: HJ Heinz, Religious Sentiment, and the Beginning of the Industrial Diet,’ History and Technology, vol. 27, no. 1 (2011), pp. 37-64.
Tangerine and Cinnamon by Sarah Duff is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Food Links, 29.08.2012
The hidden costs of hamburgers.
What can American’s healthcare system learn from Cheesecake Factory?
A former McDonald’s executive opens a chain of health food restaurants.
Baking bread in Beirut.
What Ireland eats every night.
The terrible tragedy of the healthy eater.
San Francisco has the largest number of restaurants per household in the US. New Orleans has the most bars.
Favourite dishes from countries competing in the Olympics.
Are Japan’s eel restaurants in danger? (Thanks, Mum!)
Dan Lepard‘s pop-up bakery.
Paying with maple syrup.
Arabella Boxer’s Book of English Food.
Woman vs (bread) machine.
So what *do* Britons call their mealtimes? (Thanks, Anupama!)
Bolivia seeks to expel Coca Cola.
How to make mole.
How to pick the perfect mealie.
Lamb biryani.
Seedless watermelon?
Early Modern recipes for medicine.
Imogen Heap sings Chladni lines into salt.
Red wine and coke.
Lake Trout, a deliberately crappy restaurant. In Williamsburg. Obviously.
A profile of Anita Lo, New York chef. (Thanks, Carl!)
Putting the ‘h’ back into ‘yoghurt‘.
British icons in biscuits.
New York’s biggest roof-top farm. (Thanks, Rafaella!)
Microwave turkish delight.
Four new flavours of ice cream.
A pop-up shop which, quite literally, pops up.
Lobster and caviar burgers.
Rebuilding agriculture in Egypt.
The launch of the Global Food Security Index.
How the size of fizzy drinks has increased in the US.
The rise of ‘single estate milk‘ in Ireland.
The cost of coffee.
Why British dairy farmers are protesting at a drop in the price of milk.
How Kraft tests its products on children. (Thanks, David!)
Fake meat comes ever closer to being a reality.
No chips other than McDonald’s chips are to be allowed in the Olympic park. Madness.
The politics of free milk.
The worryingly high incidence of bisphenol A in humans.
Constructing Korean identity and food.
Marcella Hazan, Facebook enthusiast.
A riposte to ‘self-righteous vegetarianism.’
What criticism of fast food says about our relationship with food.
An interview with Jay Rayner.
Who’s caused the elderflower shortage?
Surströmming.
A lovely article about Escape Caffe in Cape Town.
On the continuing success of Coca-Cola.
Reading and eating.
A girl and her pig.
Hints and tips for dining etiquette.
Fuchsia Dunlop on the pungent cuisine of Shaoxing (and more pictures here).
A guide to Greek cooking.
The Ideal Cookery Book, by Margaret Alice Fairclough.
The Coalition against Brunch.
Five of the best trattorias in Rome.
Vegan taxidermy.
Margarine and fizzy drinks. (Thanks Dan!)
Kenyan tea.
How to get people to shop for groceries in the nude.
The world’s largest coffee mosaic.
The trend for bitters in cocktails.
Fried sage leaves.
Recipes for blueberries. (Thanks, Simon!)
Britain’s changing food scene and the London Olympics.
Supermarkets and the threat to the Amazon. (Thanks, David!)
Are all calories the same?
How to chop an onion.
Hyper-real paintings of puddings.
The history of the fork.
Ten made-up food holidays.
Can food photography make you hungry?
Japan rethinks its relationship with food. (Thanks, Mum!)
Urgh: the cheeseburger-crust pizza.
How to eat cheese and biscuits.
Breakfast-shaped earphones.
A poem about olives.
Why wasting food is bad for the environment.
The Cake Museum in Los Angeles is under threat.
How cupcakes may save NASA. (Thanks, Jane-Anne!)
Ever wondered what it’s like to intern at El Bulli? Here are two articles which describe the experience.
The glory of eggs.
I can’t wait to read this: Frank Dikötter’s Samuel Johnson Prize-winning new account of the 1958-1962 Great Famine in China.
Why industrial agriculture won’t feed the world – and why we need to stop industrial farms from denying us access to their operations.
The American Dietetic Association – an organisation providing supposedly objective and scientific advice on diet – has been accepting money from Coca-Cola and Pepsico. Not good.
The amazing ‘jellymongers’ Bompas and Parr organised a Rabbit Cafe in Brighton to celebrate Easter. It’s partly in celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the opening of the first Futurist restaurant. The Cafe, though, isn’t the first homage to Futurism’s fascination with food – this is an account of one recreation of the Futurist aerobanquet.
Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire: Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management
Throwing Light
Cows Come Home
Presumptuous Insect
Not for all the tea
foodie pseudery
A Child's Larder of Verse
An American in Iceland
Bad Vinaigrette
Edible Geography
Fuck Yeah Biscuits
Humanity and History
In the Heather Bright
It's Just a Little Thing
Jill E. Kelly
London Review Cake Shop
London Review of Breakfasts
Mid-Atlantic Musings
Mzansi Beer
Planes, Trains, and Plantagenets
Rhymes with May
Scenes of Eating
She is Butters
The Food Programme
Time's Flow Stemmed
Will Self's Real Meals
Wine Hoover
I’m Sarah Emily – that’s me about to eat an enormous breakfast – and welcome to my blog. I’m a South African historian who’s specialised in histories of childhood, food, and medicine.
This is not a food blog, but, rather, a blog about food – and, more specifically, about food, eating, and cooking. The world has enough recipes for red velvet cake floating around the internet. Here, I’m taking a closer look at the complex relationships between eating and identity; between cooking and politics; and between food and power.
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Standards of LIFE
Our future starts now
Variable Law
Sustainable Economics
Material Infrastructure
Freedom Foundation
LIFE Study Guide
Transterritory
A Transterritory is a constitutional element of the multi-layer representative structure and has a its own government directly elected by all of the citizens in the Transterritory.
Within the structure of Variable Law, States may elect to promote aspects of law and some service responsibilities to Transterritories. So every Transterritory has a constitutional responsibility to uphold the constitution and to provide the BASE services that are promoted to it by the majority of its constituencies.
The Transterritory operates at a level above where most 20th century societies have organized themselves, with the exception of some of the largest countries in the world which are effectively Transterritories already such as China, USA, Russia and India. The European Union is an attempt to create a Transterritorial structure but lacks many of the fundamental qualities of a single, directly elected assembly governing aspects of law that have been specifically promoted to it because it maintains a regionally focused power structure designed to maintain the influence of each geographic constituency. The U.N. has done work to define ‘regions’ of the world that gives a sketch of roughly how Transterritories could be composed around the world.
The primary functions of Transterritories will likely be the creation of standards and the regulation of the monetary system.
Along the with the right to create laws comes the responsibility to administrate the infrastructure necessary to support the government of the Transterritory. There are aspects of governance that a Transterritory cannot promote or relinquish, because to do so would abdicate the core responsibilities of being a Transterritory.
To this extent, an inability to manage and administrate these aspects of government, precludes a group from forming a legal Transterritory and having its own government:
government assembly
legal services to codify, police and prosecute the law
BASE services as promoted to the Transterritory by constituent States
Information network connectivity
Transport integration
Monetary & financial control of currency
By definition a Transterritory has its own government and so it must necessarily be able to run elections for representatives.
Elections must be held using the LIFE PR system which requires that the Transterritory is able to validate its constituents’ identity and provide a suitably accessible method for them to cast their votes. Transterritory governments must be re-elected every six years.
Representative Assembly
The elected representatives meet in assembly to review matters before them and make laws.
The Transterritory must provide facilities for the representatives to meet, and for there to be public scrutiny and a premanent record of the proceedings and voting.
The size of the assembly is determined by the size of the Transterritory’s population, but can not be less sufficient than to accommodate seven representatives, assembly reporters and a public gallery.
The remuneration for representatives should be approximately 8 times the median earnings of their constituents, such that the best candidates are attracted to public service and so that they can devote themselves full-time to the execution of their responsibilities.
The principle of Variable Law allows for a Transterritory to retain unto itself aspects of law promoted to it by the States it contains, and, in practice, it is likely that some aspects of law will be further promoted by Transterritories for governance at the World level.
Transterritories, like any other layer, that decide to retain, or retrieve, any apsect of law, have a concombinant responsibility to adjudicate any alledged transgressions thereof. This requires that the Transterritory have the personnel and infrastructure necessary to police and prosecute the law. Transterritories will have to fund these services, and the others outlined below, out of their BASE tax distributions and any local taxes levied.
Separation & Unification
The constituent States of a Transterritory are voluntary members of the Transterritory and linked by geographic proximity. States can elect to change their affiliation between Transterritories, so long as they have geographic continuity with a State in the other Transterritory. The citizens of a Region joining an established Transterritory automatically inherit the Variable Law status and Transterritorial affiliation of their new Transterritory.
Transterritories do not have the right to accept or reject a State’s election to affiliate with them.
The States of a Transterritory can elect to divide into multiple Transterritories – effectively allowing secession. In such an event, each new Transterritory initially inherits the same Variable Law status and Transterritorial affiliation as its origin Transterritory.
Material fixed assets, and directly associated debt obligations, are assigned to the new Transterritories based on the geographical boundries of the new Transterritories. Other financial assets and debts are proportionally assigned to the new Transterritories based on the portion of the previous population they encompass.
Transterritory Management
In support of the constitutional responsibilities of the Transterritory there are various practical management duties necessary to the functioning of the Transterritory.
The organization of the adminstrative and management functions resembles a standard management structure in which departmental managers of each of the functions below report to, and serve at the discretion of, the representative assembly.
In addition to the functional Service departments below, there are various general management reponsibilities that will most likely be executed by a general manager.
A Transterritory must be able to manage its finances and keep accurate, public records thereof.
This could involve management of the collection and expenditure of sales or income taxes, and BASE distributions for the provisioning of public services (see below). Over time it will be preferable to move tax collection up to Transterritories in order to broaden the reach of common standards of life.
A Transterritory Finance Manager should report regularly to the Transterritory Assembly on the state of the public finances.
Sales, Corporate & Income Taxes
Transterritories that collect taxes based on sales or income must provide their own mechanisms for their collection.
Transterritories receive disbursements of tax revenues to cover the costs of provisioning the BASE services that have been promoted to them. The receipts of the Transterritory are proportional to the services that have been promoted to them.
One of the primary responsibilities of every Transterritory is to manage their environment, and their impact on it, to create a sustainable living space.
There are two primary elements that each Transterritory must manage:
It is in the self interest of every Transterritory to become as energy self sufficient as possible, with the lowest environmental impact. The objective of every Transterritory should be to become entirely self sufficient without the use of stored carbon energy sources, such as coal, gas and oil.
Transterritories that can increase their efficiency and develop their own renewable generation capacity will be best able to serve their constituents by funnelling funds into their Transterritorial infrastructure, that would otherwise have been spent on energy.
An adequate supply of clean water is necessary for life and it is a key responsibility for every Transterritory to plan for and secure this.
Necessarily, water management is defined by the catchment basin, watersheds and aquifers of the geography that the Transterritory occupies. In many cases this will require States, Regions and Communities to form water management authorities that cross constituency boundries, and Transterritories can assist in the development and coordination of these authorities.
Currency is the vital lubricant of trade. Its stablity and endurance is critical to economic systems as a basic foundation that is outside the moral value systems and opinions of people or societies.
Ideally we should all be able to use a single currency. Today the societies with the broadest reach of a single currency, like the USA and the Euro Zone, enjoy the benefits of flexible and fluid markets where “value” can be confidently understood across geographies, cultures and time zones.
Trust is the commodity that underpins the value of a currency. In the pre-capitalist era the linkage of currencies directly to a precious metal was the only way to acheive the required confidence. In a capitalist market system, trust comes from confidence in the montary management of the currency, including the regulation of the banking system. This means managing the currency dispassionately and that means that an independant, non-political authority is charged with the sole purpose of protecting the stablity and endurance of the value of the currency.
The only reasons not to adopt a broad reach currency are trust and control. If you do not trust the monetary management authority of the currency and you think you can do a better job, you will not allow your society to become dependent on that currency for the lifeblood of your ecomony. If you want to be able to control your own currency for any other reason than not trusting the authorities of a broader reach currency, it is most likely because you wish to hold in reserve the right to pollute your currency to cover for economic mistakes.
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Given the value to all of a broad reach, stable currency Transterritories have the responsibility to create a monetary management system governed by an independant, non-political, expert authority charged with the sole purpose of protecting the stablity and endurance of the value of the currency. Traditionally these have been called ‘central banks’ because it is through their management and regulation of the banking system that they exercised their responsibilities, we propose that they be named ‘Currency Comptrollers’ to emphasize their roles.
As societies adopt the Standards of LIFE, an early consideration has to be their Transterritorial affiliation and in many cases this will be an obvious choice. Coordinating the adoption of a single currency across the Transterritory requires the establishment of Currency Comptroller authority that can advertise its independance and expertise, and that may have to start before the CRS layers will be willing to make the commitment.
The provision of promoted BASE services to all Transterritory constituents is a mandated constitutional responsibility of every Transterritory. There are bound to be variations in the nature of the services, the extent to which they are delivered through promotion of the responsibility to higher layers, and the priorities of different Transterritories.
Each of the following services will most likely require management that reports to the assembly, and staff to provision and maintain the services and facilities.
Transterritories are likely to have only emergency relief responsibilities. A Transterritory should probably have temporary shelter capacity for a sixth of their population. Disaster planning and analysis will allow Transterritories to determine the appropriate extent of the facilities they maintain.
Transterritories are likely to be involved simply in assisting States with the distribution of food stuffs and planning for emergency relief, in line with the situations described in Shelter above.
The primary responsibility of Transterritories for Healthcare services will be to support the efforts of lower layers to provide preventitive services. Transterritories can also provide specialized services to support States in the event of large scale epidemics.
Efficient provision of many BASE services in a Transterritory, as well as the health of the local economy as a whole, will require the availability of public mass transport systems. Any transport network needs to integrate in a coordinated manner with the transport infrastructure of the wider area in order to provide meaningful services.
The primary focus for Transterritories will be on creating the basic standards governing transport systems and providing interconnecting transport services between States.
While flying is very unlikely to be a part of the BASE Transport service anywhere, the very nature of aviation means that it will likely be an appropriate Transterritory responsibilty to set the standards for and manage.
The most advanced and specialized research will often be promoted to Transterritories.
There is much research to be done to find solutions for society’s challenges in many areas such as sustainable energy production, water management and efficiency at every level. As these efforts have urgency, critical consequences and require significant resources they demand the pooling of resources and talent across as wide a population as practical and coordination of efforts in different locales.
The ability of residents to access information will be key to the vitality of the economic activity of the Transterritory, the health of the society and the democratic involvement of all.
Reliable, secure connectivity between all contituencies and onwards to higher layers, at the fastest speeds possible, has to be the objective of every Transterritory. The Transterritory has a key role to play in the deployment of a secure, resilient network infrastructure that provides the entire population with access to secure data stores.
The Transterritory’s main responsibility will be providing interconnectivity between public access networks across State boundries.
To enable a vibrant micro economy the Transterritory needs to provide support, guidance and basic technology infrastructure for a Transterritory Services & Products Exchange (T.SPEx). This exchange provides a consolidated marketplace using Inter-SPEx to connect the S.SPEx systems and allow anyone to publish the services or products they are willing to provide across the Transterritory, whether for monetary compensation or not.
Where States do not have the ability to provide their own SPEx, they can promote this to the Transterritory, and the Transterritory will provide centrally serviced but locally specific SPEx systems for each Community within the States.
The Inter-SPEx network links the T.SPEx to the W.SPEx worldwide exchange for micro services and products.
It is vital to the sustainable health and prosperity of every Transterritory that every effort be made to foster and support micro economic activity. While all of the BASE services indirectly support that goal, Information services are the catalyst that ignites the flame.
Transterritories must provide the required Legal Services to their constituents.
Most likely Transterritories will be the holders of aspects of law related to macro financial management. Transterritories will need incarceration facilities for the criminals deemed to be an ongoing threat to society in those aspects of law that have been promoted to them.
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Brexit: Democrats, You Ought To Wake Up SCARED, Because Your Vile Failures Have Caught Up With You
I am three-quarters English and one-quarter Swedish; and the three-quarters part has never been more proud than when I learned that Britain had voted to get the hell out of the sewer-swamp usually called the European Union.
We can go back to the French Revolution, or the Communist revolution of 1918, or ObamaCare (see also here for gems like “Calling for a massive new government program to cut costs is sort of like moving to Death Valley for the reduced air conditioning bills. Alas, it’s not so.”): you get promised a massive load of lies about all these wonderful features and benefits and services that all prove to be utterly untrue. But then when you want to leave you’re fearmongered and demagogued and demonized that horrifying consequences will ensue because the bureaucrats have set up the system to explode if people ever want freedom. It’s a completely failed system built on dishonesty and bogus promises, but when they were putting their hell together, they interconnected it with so many other vital functions of government that pulling out the failed program will be akin to ripping a beating heart out of a chest. That’s exactly what Obama did with ObamaCare and its exactly what the European socialist bureaucrats and technocrats did with the European Union. And by the time you realize that they lied to you, the same people who lied to you scream at you that it’s too late to do anything about it.
But there’s that point where decent people say, “Blow the whole system the hell up, then! I am DONE with you fools!” People in Britain got fed up with the imposed immigration and open borders; they got fed up with all the stipulations and regulations Brussels imposed on them; they got fed up of not being allowed to run their own country. And as a result they were called ignorant morons and racists by the elite.
Just like in America now.
Barack Obama hasn’t just failed America; he has failed the entire free world. And on every issue under the sun, whether it is Obama’s massively failed foreign policy and terrorism, or Obama’s massively failed immigration imperial tyranny, Hillary Clinton has vowed to follow Obama’s path toward American suicide.
And this Brexit vote exposes the greatest area of Obama’s catastrophic, horrifying failure.
In the Brexit vote, THE signature issue was immigration, with the European Union telling Britain they were going to be forced to accept Muslim refugees until their nation is destroyed. And tonight the British chose to recognize simple reality and reject the ocean of liberal lies.
I want to show you that Britain just voted to get out of the EU because of the horrific failure of one failed fool and one truly evil political party: Barack Hussein Obama and his Democratic Party.
In America, Obama just got handed a massive defeat for his foolhardy immigration plan. The way the law works couldn’t be more crystal clear: if the SCOTUS splits, the lower court verdict remains in full force. But Obama is a true fascist at heart and he already basically said in his speech he would simply ignore the Constitution and the law and continue doing what the hell he wants.
Just a few months ago a 4-4 SCOTUS tie worked the other way, with unions being allowed by the split to continue collecting fees from workers who chose not to join and did not want to pay for the unions’ collective bargaining activities. Conservatives didn’t like it because had Scalia been alive it would have been a very different result in OUR favor; but we abided by the system because we value law and order. But Obama is a true fascist and elections only matter when Democrats win and Supreme Court decisions only matter when Obama likes them. For Obama, any inconvenient law is an irrelevant law. So the same president who said at least 22 times he did NOT have the authority to play games with immigration proceeded to do what he himself said he would be an anti-democratic tyrant emperor to do. And now that the law tells him he has to stop doing it or be a criminal he doesn’t care; because he’s packed the system with political operatives like his lawthug AG Loretta Lynch.
Barack Obama is a wicked, lawless man and the impact of his foolishness has been truly terrifying to anyone who will look for the truth. The world is already starting to unravel.
Consider the giant cliff that Obama has led the free world off of when it comes to exploding Islamic terrorism that Obama can’t acknowledge comes from Islam no matter how many people die:
By the time Barack Obama leaves office, terrorism will have skyrocketed by more than one-thousand, seven-hundred percent under his watch. It is now 800 percent worse than it was from 2010 as the graph shows it exponentially metastasizing every two years and you aint seen NOTHIN’ yet. Because terrorism has been and will continue to double every year under this failed fool who “fundamentally transformed” the “war on terror” to “overseas contingency operations” and started calling “terrorism” “man-caused disaster.” And then had the mosquito balls to claim that using a term that simply described plain reality like “Islamic radicalism” amounted to “magic words.”
As a result of Obama’s utterly disastrous foreign policy which has been based on the most dishonest administration in the entire history of the republic lying to us by claiming that Islamic State was “JayVee,” and that the intelligence said things were going swell when in reality it was being “fundamentally transformed” by Obama for naked political reasons, contemplate the hell that resulted:
U.N. Says a Record 65 Million People Displaced in 2015
U.N. refugee agency says persecution and conflict in places like Syria and Afghanistan raised the total number of refugees and internally displaced people.
June 20, 2016, at 2:00 a.m
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. refugee agency says persecution and conflict in places like Syria and Afghanistan raised the total number of refugees and internally displaced people worldwide to a record 65.3 million at the end of last year.
The previous year, 2014, had already seen the highest number of refugees worldwide since World War II, with 60 million displaced people. But last year — when Europe staggered under the arrival of large numbers of migrants — topped that record by nearly 10 percent, the UNHCR said Monday in unveiling its annual Global Trends Report.
The Geneva-based agency urged leaders from Europe and elsewhere to do more to end the wars that are fanning the exodus of people from their homelands.
“I hope that the message carried by those forcibly displaced reaches the leaderships: We need action, political action, to stop conflicts,” said Filippo Grandi, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. “The message that they have carried is: ‘If you don’t solve problems, problems will come to you.'”
With stark detail, UNHCR said that on average, 24 people had been displaced every minute of every day last year — or 34,000 people a day — up from 6 every minute in 2005. Global displacement has roughly doubled since 1997, and risen by 50 percent since 2011 alone — when the Syria war began.
More than half of all refugees came from three countries: Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia.
Turkey was the “top host” country for the second year running, taking in 2.5 million people — nearly all from neighboring Syria. Afghan neighbor Pakistan had 1.6 million, while Lebanon, next to Syria, hosted 1.1 million.
Grandi said policymakers and advocacy groups admittedly face daunting challenges helping the largest subset of displaced people: Some 40.8 million internally displaced in countries in conflict. Another 21.3 million were refugees and some 3.2 million more were seeking asylum.
More than a million people fled to Europe last year, causing a political crisis in the EU.
Grandi called on countries to work to fight the xenophobia that has accompanied the rise in refugee populations, and decried both physical barriers — like fences erected by some European countries — as well as legislative ones that limit access to richer, more peaceful EU states.
Such European policies were “spreading a negative example around the world,” he said.
“There is no plan B for Europe in the long run,” Grandi said. “Europe will continue to receive people seeking asylum. Their numbers may vary … but it is inevitable.”
I think I just documented my point: we have refugees because we have terrorism. We have refugees and we have terrorism because we have OBAMA. His policies FAILED. They failed wildly and they failed miserably they failed spectacularly.
As you read that, consider the malignant narcissist false messiah that Obama is previously telling us his presidency would result in the oceans being leveled and the planet being healed.
Go back to 2009 when Obama went to Egypt and gave a speech apologizing for America and saying that by pretending there was peace when there WAS no peace and that there was no war when there WAS war that he would “transcend the divide” between Islam and the West the same exact dishonest way he spouted that lie to the American people when he falsely claimed he would transcend the divide between Republicans and Democrats when he was already being THE most politically partisan and divisive president this nation had ever seen. And Obama is just like his god Lucifer in that he can no more acknowledge and admit that his policies have failed and repent and promise to start doing the right thing than the DEVIL could do these things. Barack Obama is demonic; he is a demonic fool. And Hilary Clinton was long ago forged in the exact same demonic mode.
Barack Obama hasn’t merely failed America, or failed our allies like Britain and Israel; he has failed the HUMAN SPECIES.
Had Barack Obama been president on December 7th, 1941, when Japan launched a devastating criminal sneak attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor, he would have blamed airplanes and slandered anyone who wanted to hold Japan responsible as “racist.” Because that’s precisely what Obama has done time and time again; blamed GUNS when it was TERRORISM that was responsible and demonized as racist those who rightly pointed out that the terrorism comes from ONE PLACE: the ideology of radical Islam.
And just as there is no possible way in hell America could have won World War II if we didn’t know who or what we were fighting, Obama has already massively lost the war on terror that he won’t acknowledge is a “war” and that he won’t acknowledge comes from Islam. And we are drifting from one terrorist attack – which Obama called “man-caused disaster” – to another as a result. And each terrorist attack which is a manifest failure of Obama to protect the nation is nothing more than a cynical opportunity for an incredibly cynical man to demagogue as a crisis caused by the 2nd Amendment rather than by radical Islam.
Obama is a fool with his head buried in delusions and lies.
Consider the nightmarish carnage that that Orlando nightclub looked like after that “Allahu-Akbar”-screaming Muslim terrorist had massacred 49 people and left another fifty-two screaming in their own blood, and then consider what our Fool-in-Chief recently said:
[T]he truth of the matter is that for all the challenges we face, all the problems that we have, if you had to be — if you had to choose any moment to be born in human history, not knowing what your position was going to be, who you were going to be, you’d choose this time. The world is less violent than it has ever been. It is healthier than it has ever been. It is more tolerant than it has ever been. It is better fed then it’s ever been. It is more educated than it’s ever been.
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are morally insane.
Consider what Obama’s Attorney General just declared to prove she was totally unfit for any other job than being Obama’s political tool:
“We stand with you to say that the good in this world far outweighs the evil, that our common humanity transcends our differences, and that our most effective response to terror and to hatred is compassion, it’s unity, and it’s love,” Lynch said.
Yep, that ought to be the United States government response to every vicious attack by Islamic State, all right. Either that, or we ought to throw out Obama and every single one of these pathological Democrat fools and choose instead to survive.
This is what the British people were contemplating when they voted to reject everything these fools and their liberal and insider ilk were blathering: their very national survival
We’re watching the markets nosedive. There are often consequences to finally standing up and doing the right thing that simply had to be done. You find out you have stage four cancer and you want to live, you have the chemotherapy and the radiation and the surgery. And they cut on you and put poison in you and literally irradiate you to kill the disease that will otherwise claim your life. And it’s pretty certain that you’re going to get really, really sick in the short run. And that’s what you do if you want to fight to live. Because the alternative is to die.
That’s the way liberalism works: it’s like an evil criminal gang; once you’re in, you don’t dare ever leave because the left always embeds terrifying consequences in their house-of-horror policies and programs.
You have to first be drive to the point where you say, “I’ll take the uncertainty and all the horrible predictions over the certainty of the kind of massive failure that I have with my vile government.”
For the second straight year the American people have declared that the NUMBER ONE PROBLEM facing America is GOVERNMENT ITSELF, says Gallup.
And the European Union is even WORSE.
The European Union is what limousine liberals like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and John Kerry fantasize about.
Right now Britain just became the home of the free and the land of the brave while the United States which used to hold that title is still the home of the sleaze and the land of the slave.
We’ll have to wait until November to figure out if we can regain the status of courage and liberty that made us great.
But tonight was a great sign. And I have no doubt that Hillary Clinton is pulling handfuls of her hair out of her evil head right now. Because she just saw her Obama-third-term campaign platform take a torpedo in the bow. The polls are full of crap; what was predicted to be an easy, boring four-point win for remaining in the EU got turned into an easy, boring four-point win for getting the hell off the sinking ship of giant government by fool bureaucrat ostriches who refuse to comprehend reality.
Obama is a liar and he will continue to be a liar. He’ll be pointing to this Brexit result of HIS OWN FAILED LEADERSHIP and he will be saying, “I warned Britain not to do this.” And of course the reason they voted to leave the EU in the first place was because Obama as leader of the free world so allowed to world to toxically destabilize that countries were left wondering what to do with these millions and millions and millions of shattered refugee lives – millions of whom themselves will ultimately become terrorists in their bitterness. All because of Obama’s fail.
Obama is leader of the free world. And when Obama quit leading on the key issue facing planet earth and started blathering his fool idiocy about climate change – not even being able to come up with a damn STRATEGY even after all these years in office – our allies were left rudderless and dismayed and paralyzed. Whereas our enemies are more emboldened than they were when Hitler was taking over Europe going on seventy years ago. Like then, it will very likely take a world war to overcome Obama’s failure to truly lead the world against terrorism.
What Obama should have done is CONTINUED the “war on terror” and dealing with the ramifications of “terrorism” rather than playing “magic word games” (“Overseas contingency operations”? “Man-caused disasters”? Seriously???) by refusing to even acknowledge who or what our actual enemy was. Instead of calling Islamic State “JayVee” Obama should have been taking this cancerous threat seriously. He should have come up with a strategy and ensured that strategy WORKED by punching Islamic State so hard in the face that they would be forced to understand that Allah had turned his back on them. Obama should have – instead of demanding that we accept millions of embittered refugees into our borders who are ticking time bombs to terrorism themselves – created giant safe zones in the Middle East so that these people would have somewhere safe to go.
But there IS nowhere safe to go under Obama. San Bernardino and Orlando are recent examples of the fact that the UNITED STATES is no longer a safe place.
Donald Trump has been talking about ALL this stuff: Islam; immigration; trade; blowing up the status quo because the status quo is suicidal. People are going to wake up tomorrow morning and realize that Trump – who sided with the pro-Brexit vote while Obama and Hillary commanded Britain to remain in slavery – bet right. He sided with the pro-Brexit movement and announced that the British had just taken back their own country. And he pointed out that that effort – THAT SUCCESSFUL EFFORT THAT WON THAT ALL THE ELITEST SAID WOULD LOSE – was the model for his own campaign.
Donald Trump himself – like the Brexit – is the result of the cancer that Obama insinuated into America and the world America used to lead. Obama deceitfully blames the phenomena of Donald Trump on Republicans; but if you are anything short of a danged fool you immediately know that the Republican Party wanted Trump even less than Obama did. The GOP was simply not able to contain the RAGE that Obama created; just like the Democrats couldn’t as half the party supported an avowed SOCIALIST who like Trump wants to blow up the system. You keep hearing the media report “Republican anger” but the Democrats are in FACT EVEN MORE ANGRY and the “beware right-wing Republican hate” meme is just another lie of the leftist media propaganda. Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are BOTH the result of the moral and political sewer that is Barack Obama. He has failed and regardless of whatever the media propaganda is spewing everybody knows in their gut Obama has failed and there is ZERO confidence in the system in his disgraceful aftermath.
I already predicted why I believe Donald Trump will be our next president. And that prediction just came to pass in the Brexit vote in spite of all the elitest and media propaganda naysaying to the contrary. Things are going MISERABLY; people are not only angry they are RABID because of the failed way Obama has demonically ran this country with lies and slanders rather than with results. They want a true change; and Hillary Clinton couldn’t BE more “status quo.”
Obama is part of this Brexit down to when he fearmongered Britain and said our closes ally would end up in the back of the line. Those were HIS fool words about America’s greatest ally and how much Obama trivializes that sacred relationship. And an angry British people said, “UP YOURS OBAMA!!!” And well they should have.
You should be worried, Democrat. Because everything you stand for and believe in is a lie and an illusion and a fraud and a failure. And to quote your wicked president’s vile reverend who once blamed America for the carnage it suffered at 9/11 (“No, no, no! NOT God bless America! God DAMN America!”), your chickens are coming home to roost.
The thing I find the most hilarious is the thought of all those sweeping executive orders and executive memoranda that Obama used to masquerade his executive orders. When Donald Trump begins playing the game the same fascist that Obama played, what are you going to say, Democrat, when Trump does to you after you spent eight vile years mocking conservatives for their anger over that same fascist hijack of the system??? When you could have and should have reigned in YOUR monster, you mocked us; now how are you going to feel when the consequences of that are that a monster rises who shoves it in YOUR face the way you kept shoving it in OURS??? I predicted you would ultimately get yours back after the 2012 election and – if the spirit of Brexit still stands in a few months – your bill for all of your hypocrisy and fascism will come due in 2016.
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On The Eric Cantor Loss: Good Thing Or Bad Thing? I Say, ‘Meh!’
Liberals – who operate under the prism that conservatism is evil and that “more conservative” is by definition a bad thing that must surely result in disastrous consequences, are frothing at the mouth over the Brat/Tea Party victory over “establishment Republican” Eric Cantor.
I merely point out that when a Stalinist communist psycho like Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz claims that some kind of right-wing kooks have taken over the opposing party, just look in the damn mirror, nutjob. I mean, seriously. This whackjob is further to the left than “the Scream” Howard Dean. And so by Democrat Party standards, given Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, I can only view it as a GOOD THING when the radical fringe captures your party.
Given the fact that if I woke up on the other side of eternity and saw those three, I would know that I was in hell even before I felt the burning of the hellfire, I don’t take my pointers from these or from any of the many leftist mouthpieces who talk and write for them.
I don’t have a lot of time here – I’m already running late – but it just popped into my head to say my little piece about Eric Cantor’s defeat and what it means for the GOP.
My view is that it likely won’t mean much.
For one thing, given the conservative makeup of Cantor’s district (which is largely why he lost), there is a very high likelihood that the GOP will retain this seat. So I don’t think it will be a loss in that department.
For another, I don’t mind when a more conservative candidate wins a seat as long as that “more conservative candidate” is capable of winning the seat at issue as a principle.
That said, I for one liked Eric Cantor. I thought he did a good job. Maybe I would have voted for Brat had I lived in the district, maybe not. But I never thought that Eric Cantor was “the problem” with the Republican Party.
I watched Hannity last night on Fox and he was just thrilled about this great victory. I’ve heard some GOP insiders who are weeping and wailing and throwing ashes over their sackclothed bodies. I just don’t think it’s that big of a deal either way. To a great extent, Cantor made a political mistake and took his district for granted as he overfocused on “national party” stuff. And somebody came in and pulled the rug out from under his feet in a relatively small district.
Lindsey Graham easily won and you just can’t read “national implications” in the Cantor defeat.
Was Cantor to blame for any strategic failure of the GOP?
On my view, it comes down to this: you simply cannot be more conservative than your electorate and you can’t be more conservative than your party’s constituency as a LEADER.
Which is to say that if a Boehner or a Cantor try to run out in front with a conservative attack, they won’t get very far unless a majority of their party is solidly behind them.
To wit: Cantor is resigning as majority leader, and someone else will step in (likely Kevin McCarthy). And be in the same boat as Cantor was. And likely therefore make mostly the same decisions.
It will largely be a wash, on my view of things, neither all that good nor all that bad.
Democrats are screaming that Cantor’s defeat kills any chance of “the Republicans reaching out” on a comprehensive immigration deal. I say just look at what Obama has done to our borders and tell me that’s a bad thing. In Obama we have a pathologically dishonest fascist who doesn’t bother to follow the law or even consult with – let alone be influenced – by even his own party, let alone by the opposition. There was never a chance of any deal with such a wicked man.
I DO believe that the Republican Party has to be more of a passionate voice of opposition to the Democrat Party (i.e. the Obama) agenda. And that MEANS being more conservative. It also means having a vision, like Ronald Reagan had a vision, and being able to articulate that vision, the way Reagan was able to articulate his vision for America.
If Brat’s victory helps a little bit to move the GOP toward that, then it will be a good thing.
But I’m not holding my breath while I wait.
Like I said, I liked Cantor and I hope he has a future in the Republican Party. It’s not like he’s dead or anything.
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As GOP Presidential Candidates Consider ‘Intractable’ Issues Like Immigration, They Have Obama’s Example To Consider Emulating (Just LIE)
Jeb Bush made some waves by taking a stance on illegal immigration (it was ‘love’ that drove them to flout our rule of law) that have many conservatives saying not in this lifetime to his nomination.
And we’re told every single day by the leftist-oriented media talking head propagandists that any true conservative has absolutely no chance of ever winning the presidency.
Mind you, we also have the same ACTUAL history being replayed on a regular basis: Republicans listen to these leftist talking heads and opt for a RINO – as in “Republican In Name Only” denoting a candidate who is nowhere even CLOSE to being a true principled conservative – for their nominee on the assumption that said RINO will be able to capture the hearts and minds of the morally idiotic undecided voters. But once we have committed to the rationale that the left gives us that a more liberal candidate is a better candidate, the left does the “Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown” trick: they proceed to demonize our RINO and literally give him bloody fangs a la John McCain:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, speaking on the floor of the United States Senate, assured America that Mitt Romney hadn’t paid his taxes in years and he had the proof. The fact that Harry Reid is a diseased liar and a truly demon-possessed creature was left out of the picture.
Democrats play the game of “Death by a Thousand Cuts” when it comes to destroying Republican candidates with lies. Only of course it’s a TRILLION cuts as the lies and slander and lunatic demonization piles on and on and on.
That said, it truly IS a difficult problem that a conservative Republican nominee for president is in when it comes to issues such as immigration and homosexual marriage and the like. It often seems, in our truly diseased culture, that the only way a politician has a chance is to be as evil and as toxic as the culture has become.
Ah, but we have an out now. And we have it thanks to Obama.
If you’re a true, rabid, die-hard, vicious conservative and – for the sake of argument – you truly want to punish your enemies and reward your friends the way Obama has done to his enemies on the right and for his friends on the left – what can you do to get elected?
Just lie, lie and then lie some more.
How did Barack Obama resolve his problem with homosexual marriage in 2008? He said something that everyone now knows was never true. He simply lied like hell. Homosexual marriage was what it was convenient for it to be for Obama’s political expediency until homosexual marriage was what it was convenient for it to be for Obama’s political expediency.
How about selling major economic plans? Again, just lie. Make stuff up. Obama sure as hell did that with his boondoggle stimulus that promised the moon and delivered a mountain of bovine feces. Obama added $3.27 trillion to the debt and gave the economy a shot of raw sewage in the arm.
Want to take over a sixth of the economy? Lie like hell first and foremost. Hey, if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor. If you like your health plan you can keep your health plan. And my health plan will reduce costs by $2,500 for a family. Even though it will do the exact opposite.
National security? Hey, promise to restore America’s prestige and make the nation stronger and greater when in fact you’re going to do the EXACT freaking opposite.
Start your campaign by promising you won’t run – only to lie. Assure the country that you “can unequivocally say” you won’t do what you will do. Fund your campaign by promising that you’ll take federal matching funds. And then break your promise. Tell America you’re going to be a new politician and then hold more fundraisers than the previous five presidents COMBINED. Raise more money than any politician who has ever lived while demonizing and slandering your opponent for the money he’s raised. Just make sure that whatever the hell you say you’re going to do that you use the IRS as a thug agency to rabidly attack your opponents. Because if being a dishonest liar without shame, without honor, without integrity, without decency, without any virtue of any kind worked so well for Obama, why the hell not?
If you follow Obama’s example, you can say WHATEVER you need to say, get yourself elected, and then do whatever you’re going to do. All the while demonizing everybody else around you.
So, yeah, say the Jeb Bush line. Hell, say it at least 37 times on major venues. And then after you’re elected, deport every damn ONE of the up-to 20 million illegal immigrants. I mean, kick down every damn door in America and drag them out screaming by their hair just because it’s more fun to drag them out that way.
Here’s how a Republican candidate for president ought to campaign: just mirror Obama and be as dishonest with what you are actually doing as imaginable. What did Obama do? He’s a pathologically dishonest liar who wanted to present himself as caring for illegal immigrants on the one hand while dealing with the clear and present danger they posed on the other. So Obama claimed he was only attacking CRIMINAL illegal immigrants. When in fact he was doing no such thing: the cockroach was letting them go free to prey on Americans again and again. And we now know that Obama was dishonestly inflating his deportation numbers all along – because he is the DEFINITION of “dishonest.” Here’s that:
In a stunning admission before a House Committee panel on Tuesday, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson admitted that the Obama Administration has been artificially inflating deportation numbers. While the administration has claimed a “record number” of deportations, earning Pres. Obama the nickname “Deporter in Chief”, Johnson admitted that they have been counting border apprehensions that are turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers as deportations. […]
Jessica Vaughan, the Director of Policy Studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, has been arguing that actual deportations have declined under Pres. Obama. In her research, she says that if you count all removals, including those done by ICE and Border Patrol, then the Obama administration averages 800,000 removals per year. In comparison, George W. Bush would have removed more than 1.3 million illegal aliens per year, and Bill Clinton would have removed more than 1.5 million per year.
Vaughan also found that if you examine deportations from enforcement efforts by ICE, the number declined by 19 percent between 2011 and 2012 and was on track to decline another 22 percent in 2013. Further, the total number of deportations in 2011 was the lowest level since 1973.
You see, being a pathologically dishonest liar, Obama relied on the worst form of lie – cooked statistics (just like he has done with his health care takeover):
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson acknowledged Tuesday that his department’s deportation numbers are now mostly made up of illegal immigrants caught at the border, not just those from the interior, which means they can’t be compared one-to-one with deportations under President Bush or other prior administrations.
The administration has argued it is tougher on illegal immigration than previous presidents, and immigrant-rights groups have excoriated President Obama, calling him the “deporter-in-chief” for having kicked out nearly 2 million immigrants during his five-year tenure.
But Republican critics have argued those deportation numbers are artificially inflated because more than half of those being deported were new arrivals, caught at the border by the U.S. Border Patrol. Previous administrations primarily counted only those caught in the interior of the U.S. by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“Under the Obama administration, more than half of those removals that were attributed to ICE are actually a result of Border Patrol arrests that wouldn’t have been counted in prior administrations,” said Rep. John Culberson, Texas Republican.
“Correct,” Mr. Johnson confirmed.
That would mean that in a one-to-one comparison with the final years of the Bush administration, deportations of those same people under Mr. Obama had actually fallen, according to immigration analysts who have studied the data.
So if you are the conservative mirror of Obama, with dishonesty being your common ground, here’s what you will do: you will kick down doors and you will drag out every single illegal immigrant in America by their damn hair while their children scream for their mommies and daddies. But you will say you will do (are doing and have done) just the opposite. That way, you can be like Obama and have your political cake and get to eat it too.
Just lie, lie, LIE like the devil Obama. Say whatever you want. Say illegal immigrants flooding into America is “an act of love.” And then ruthlessly target them the way the Obama thug IRS targeted the tea party while announcing how loving you are.
There you go. Intractable political problem solved. And all it takes is the willingness to be the worst liar in the history of the human race (after Obama, who has set the bar of deceit and dishonesty so high no one will ever break his record).
If you have the spirit of Obama, you will promise to be a fundamentally different politician who will transcend politics and elevate America. And then you will crush your enemies, break them, divide them, and drive them off the field. Break America into fractured, divided pieces as long as you end up with at least one more piece than your enemies. And ride on, you son of a gun.
Now, I write that knowing the future because I know the Bible. It won’t happen. It won’t happen because America has degenerated into a place where liars and their lies will win, and Democrats are just better at being liars while their base is better at tolerating lies. Republicans can’t win that game any better than they can win the socialism game by promising to out-socialist the Democrats to buy whatever votes they need to buy.
I think – maybe even dare to hope – that Republicans will have a great 2014 midterm. But by 2016, the consistent liars will win the day (in other words, President Hillary).
You see, there comes a point when a culture is so toxic that there are simply no good options. We’ll have only “choices” like we had in 2012 (where we could either elect a man who believes that Christ Jesus is Lucifer’s brother or we could re-elect a man who actually IS Lucifer’s brother). And given the choice between bad and worse, a wicked people will generally choose “worse.” Until a Hitler comes and then until the end.
God knew and knows the end from the beginning. He knew that America would rise on godly values and He knew that America would fall as the people became sufficiently wicked as to vote for a Democrat Party that would pervert and piss on every virtue the Word of God holds dear. That’s why America is nowhere to be found in Bible prophecy as we literally vote to destroy ourselves in the suicidal and nihilistic act of cutting ourselves off from God’s blessing. God knew that America was going to go down and go down hard.
Ultimately, big government liberals will transition to the ultimate big government liberal: the Bible calls him “the beast” and he will take over the global economy just as every liberal as dreamed about. Like Obama, he will promise the world and make political progress by skillfully demonizing his enemies. But he will lead the world into literal hell on earth.
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Why Do Liberals Constantly Smear Republicans By Comparing Them To VILE DEMOCRATS???
I watched the Fox News program called “The Five” last night, and the discussion turned to the Alabama immigration law.
Obnoxious and vile liberal Bob Beckel called it “the Bull Connor law.” I don’t have the transcript of his remark, but it’s a leftwing talking point, so I don’t need it.
There’s only one problem with that: Bull Connor was a Democrat. He started his career as a Democrat and he ended it as a Democrat.
Google the Wikipedia article on the slimebag. Copy and paste it into a text file and then search for the word “Republican.” You’ll get the message box “Cannot find Republican.” Because Bull Connor WASN’T a Republican.
Try that with “Democrat” and THAT word comes up repeatedly.
In the same way, Republicans invariably get tainted with “slavery.” It doesn’t matter that the Republican Party had an abolitionist platform, or that the DEMOCRAT Party was the pro-slavery Party. Those are “facts,” and Democrats hate facts with a rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth frenzy that has to be seen to be believed.
Again, Republicans are invariably compared to “the Ku Klux Klan” and “pointy hats” and “white sheets,” etcetera, etcetera. It doesn’t matter that:
History shows that the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democrat Party. This ugly fact about the Democrat Party is detailed in the book, A Short History of Reconstruction, (Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., 1990) by Dr. Eric Foner, the renown liberal historian who is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. As a further testament to his impeccable credentials, Professor Foner is only the second person to serve as president of the three major professional organizations: the Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and Society of American Historians.
It doesn’t matter that:
“the history of the origins of Ku Klux Klan … provides a chilling account of the atrocities committed by Democrats against Republicans, black and white.”
It doesn’t matter that the 1924 National Democratic Convention was so dominated by the Klan that it was called “The Klanbake.”
It never ceases to amaze me that the most vile things Democrats can accuse Republicans of … all actually come from Democrats. It amounts to Democrats shouting at us, “You are such a vile piece of cockroach crap that you’re a DEMOCRAT!!!”
Here’s another example just out today about Democrts and liberals calling Republicans and tea party people “terrorists” WHEN THEY WERE MORE DAMN TERRORIST THAN WE WERE.
And what makes that vicious label even funnier is that Democrats won’t call the ACTUAL TERRORISTS “TERRORISTS.”
Democrats and liberals routinely call Republicans “Nazis” and “fascists.” It doesn’t matter that “Nazi” stood for “National SOCIALIST German WORKERS Party” or that the evidence is FAR more extensive that Nazis and fascists were at best the far right of the very extreme LEFT (see also here).
Again, Republicans, according to Democrats, are so evil, so vile, so despicable that they are SOCIALISTS.
Democrats live in a world of lies. St. Paul could have used the word “Democrats” in 2 Corinthians 4:4 where he wrote, “The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.”
It’s not only Jesus Christ or biblical morality Democrats are blind to, it is truth, reason and history.
Tags:Alabama, Bull Connor, debt ceiling, immigration, Ku Klux Klan, slavery, Tea Party
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Obama Continues To Reveal He Is The Lowest Form Of Demagogue
CBS News had the story:
President Obama invoked the 2007 collapse of the Interstate 35-W bridge in Minneapolis while criticizing cuts to infrastructure in the Republican budget plan at a town hall meeting on Tuesday.
“According to the Republican budget that was passed, for example, we would have to eliminate transportation funding by a third,” he said. “…You remember when that bridge in Minnesota collapsed with all those people on it and there was a big hue and cry, how could this happen in America?”
Obama pointed at the Republican agenda to reign in the utterly out-of-control federal spending that will be absolutely 100% guaranteed to implode America’s economy unless that spending is reigned in, and then demonized the Republicans for a previous bridge collapse.
But as happens far too often in the mainstream media propaganda that often gets to pass for “news,” CBS didn’t fully report the facts.
You see, Obama lied. Because that’s what he does. And that collapsed bridge he demagogues to demonize Republicans for – claiming that their budget cuts would eliminate maintenance – didn’t actually have anything whatsoever to do with maintenance:
NTSB: Design errors caused Minn. bridge collapse
WASHINGTON (AP) — The deadly collapse of a Minneapolis bridge last year began at steel plates in a main truss, attributable to a design flaw and not corrosion, federal safety investigators said Thursday.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators said the bridge collapse was unavoidable once U-10 steel gusset plates failed at the U-10 connection, near the center of the bridge. Investigators also ruled out any pre-existing cracking as a factor in the accident.
A hearing into the collapse quickly focused on the U-10 gusset plates on the Interstate 35W bridge. The safety board as far back as January had identified design flaws in the plates as a critical factor in the collapse.
CNS actually does a little investigation and reports the facts in an article entitled, “Obama Misstates Cause of Minn. Bridge Collapse–Falsely Blames Insufficient Federal Spending“:
Contrary to Obama’s townhall speeech, the bridge did not collapse because of “deteriorating” infrastructure. According to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the collapse was due to a design flaw, not to a lack of maintenance.
“The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was the inadequate load capacity, due to a design error,” the NTSB states in its 2008 report on the incident.
In fact, the NTSB reported that on the day of the collapse, the bridge was in the process of being refurbished, further contradicting Obama’s claim that the collapse was evidence of a lack of infrastructure spending.
“On the day of the collapse, roadway work was underway on the I35W bridge, and four of the eight travel lanes (two outside lanes northbound and two inside lanes southbound) were closed to traffic,” reads the NTSB report.
If Obama were a halfway honest man, he would apologize for his vicious demonization that is entirely based on a lie. But he’s not a halfway honest man. And so he will count on the fact that the mainstream media will report his lies and not bother to correct them. Because they are leftwing ideologue propagandists, and that’s how they roll.
You want to know something else I don’t understand? It’s why we still need so much money for mainstenance projects. Remember Obams’s so-called “stimulus” and how it was all going to go to such “shovel-ready projects”? According to the CBO, Obama’s stimulus will cost $3.27 TRILLION.
Where did that money go, Barry Hussein? Why is it that if Republicans cut so much as a dime, bridges across America will collapse?
Then there’s Obama’s demagogic remarks about border security and immigration:
“The question is going to be, are we going to be able to find some Republicans who can partner with me and others to get this done once and for all instead of
using it as a political football?”
But Obama had total Democrat control of Congress for TWO YEARS. And he utterly failed to make any kind of serious bipartisan overture whatsoever on immigration reform during a period when Republicans had little chance of stopping much of anything. He is simply lying and blaming Republicans for his own failure. Which is to say, the only one using this issue as a “political football” is the guy demonizing others for doing what he himself is clearly doing.
You can again see just how utterly and vindictively partisan and demagogic Obama is in this exchange over the fact that Obama had a major meeting on immigration reform, and refused to invite so much as a single governor from one of the border states:
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Did you hear what is going on in Washington? President Obama is talking about immigration reform. The president held a meeting today at the White House to discuss the broken immigration system. He met with a bipartisan group. Guess what, he didn’t invite any governors from border states. Why not?
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer joins us live from Phoenix. Governor, did you miss your invitation? Did you decline your invitation? Why weren’t you here at the White House to talk about immigration reform?
GOV. JAN BREWER, R-ARIZ.: I wish I would have been invited. No, I do not — I did not get an invite. You would have thought one of the governors would have been invited since we are on the frontlines fighting for security there. It was a little bit of a snub, if you will. I think that on behalf of myself, I think I could have added insight to the situation that Arizona certainly is facing.
VAN SUSTEREN: I looked at the White House press release. Of the people who were invited — the category of those — it says stakeholders expected to attend. I looked up stakeholders to see whether you might be a stakeholder or Governor Rick Perry. It says a person or group that has investment share or interest in something as in the business or industry. I guess it is someone who has a strong interest in the topic. He must think you don’t have any interest in the issue or you would have been invited.
BREWER: That is very unfortunate if that’s what he believes. I feel Arizona, I believe I and Rick Perry and certainly the governors on the border have been leading the fight. We’ve been bringing the message to America. And I think that we should have been afforded that opportunity to be at the table to help him understand the situation that we want straightened out.
VAN SUSTEREN: Let me tell you who he did think was a stakeholder and has a huge interest in this partial list — Mayor Bloomberg, who of course is the mayor who sent investigators down to Arizona to investigate you about guns, your state, the former police chief of New York Bill Brown, Secretary Michael Chertoff, former secretary of Homeland Security.
Then he invited Senator Mel Martinez, former United States senator. Here’s another interesting one, Greg Page chairman and CEO of Cargill. I thought that’s an odd one. I understand why, because Cargill was raided in 2007 by immigration and ice for violations having to do with immigration. They probably have the inside scoop on that one.
Al Sharpton was invited. The CEO of Facebook, another one. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the former governor of California not the current governor, and Richard Trumka, who is AFL-CIO union leader. Those are some of the people that the president thinks has a greater interest than you do.
BREWER: That’s an unfortunate list as far as I’m concerned. I didn’t know he had extended the invitation that this meeting was going to take place.
But it seems by the list and what has been reported back to me this afternoon, it is people that looking at that wonderful word “comprehensive immigration reform.” It has nothing to do with what we really need to have done, and that is to get our borders secured.
I think they are looking to try to talk about amnesty and all these other issues and the dream act. None of these things in my opinion are going to take place until we get our borders secured. I don’t think the American people want to address anything until we feel secure. Our citizens need to feel secure in their homes. It just continues to grow with the issue of people coming across our borders illegal, the drug cartels.
VAN SUSTEREN: I may disagree with you a little bit. I would like a solution that is complete and which protects our borders, protects Americans and handles all the issues. I would like to see it put behind us. I to the president’s speech at American university last summer to hear it. I did want to hear what he said he was going to do.
We haven’t heard anything. He a Democratic house and Senate we don’t hear anything until now as he gets ready to launch his campaign. And now things have changed. Now we are hearing it again. I’m deeply disturbed. I think this is talk. I think his guest list supports that because this is not bringing people to the table who have real interests in this.
BREWER: I absolutely agree with you. The bottom line is that he has a different agenda than what the American people have. Unfortunately, we keep talking and we keep contacting him with our concerns, really no response, no concern. Of course now we are in the election period so we now he’s going to be standing up and talking about he’s going to do this and that. He’s had two years to deliver what he promised two years ago and hasn’t delivered.
So we want our borders secured. I truly believe that the majority of us are not going to discuss anything else in regards to what his agenda is, until we get satisfaction with security at our borders.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/on-the-record/transcript/border-governors-not-invited-white-house-meeting-immigration-reform#ixzz1K3EvMeaH
This is beyond ridiculous. If you have any intention whatsoever of coming to some kind of agreement, you invite the major decision makers. But Obama doesn’t want solutions; he wants to prevent solutions and then blame Republicans for the well that Obama personally poisoned.
Last week Obama gave a hateful speech in which he blasted Republicans as the party that wanted to kill old people and children with autism. During a point in the health care debate, when Obama needed to appear bi-partisan, Obama said:
“We’re not going to be able to do anything about any of these entitlements if what we do is characterize whatever proposals are put out there as, ‘Well, you know, that’s — the other party’s being irresponsible. The other party is trying to hurt our senior citizens. That the other party is doing X, Y, Z.”
And then he proceeded to do the very thing that he himself had said would undermine and poison the process. Rep. Paul Ryan said correctly:
“What we got yesterday was the opposite of what he said is necessary to fix this problem.”
And, again, Obama doesn’t WANT to fix problems. Obama wants to demonize and demagogue and lie and accuse and blame.
We can and should go back to 2006 remarks made by Obama when he personally demonized George Bush for raising the debt celing. Obama demagogued:
“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”
Now the same weaselly demagogue is saying that anyone who acted like Obama himself acted would be an un-American traitor.
It just never ends with this guy.
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Way To Go: GOP Blocks Ideology-Laden Defense Bill
When I heard that the Democrat leadership was playing politics by inserting the amnesty-granting DREAM Act into a bill ostensibly to fund our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, I hoped Republicans would block it. And then the Democrats decided they weren’t being ideological enough in their partisan politics, and added a provision forcing the military to embrace homosexuality whether it hurt national security or not.
What Democrats wanted to do was force Republicans to either vote for the bill, or be the side that “opposed funding our troops.”
And the fact that Democrats started a game of political chicken with our troops’ lives would get conveniently overlooked by the mainstream leftwing media.
Thank God, our Republican Party stood up to this vile game and said no to frankly vile measures that had nothing to do with troop funding.
Republicans block bill to lift military gay ban
By ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writer Anne Flaherty, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked an effort by Democrats and the White House to lift the ban on gays from serving openly in the military, voting unanimously against advancing a major defense policy bill that included the provision.
The mostly partisan vote dealt a major blow to gay rights groups who saw the legislation as their best hope, at least in the short term, for repeal of the 17-year-old law known as “don’t ask, don’t tell.”
If Democrats lose seats in the upcoming congressional elections this fall, as many expect, repealing the ban could prove even more difficult — if not impossible — next year. The Senate could take up the measure again during a lame-duck session after the elections, but a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he hasn’t decided whether to do so.
“The whole thing is a political train wreck,” said Richard Socarides, a White House adviser on gay rights during the Clinton administration.
Democrats included the repeal provision in a $726 billion defense policy bill, which authorizes a pay raise for the troops among other popular programs. In a deal brokered with the White House, the measure would have overturned the 1993 law banning openly gay service only after a Pentagon review and certification from the president that lifting the ban wouldn’t hurt troop morale.
But with little time left for debate before the November ballot, the bill had languished on the Senate calendar until gay rights groups, backed by pop star Lady Gaga, began an aggressive push to turn it into an election issue.
Reid agreed to force a vote on the bill this week and limit debate, despite Republican objections. A Nevada Democrat in a tight race of his own this fall, he also pledged to use the defense bill as a vehicle for an immigration proposal that would enable young people to qualify for U.S. citizenship if they joined the military.
Republicans alleged that Reid was using the defense bill to score political points with the Democratic base.
“This is not a serious exercise. It’s a show,” said Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
You read it right. The intellectual and moral power behind the Democrat Party is Lady Gaga. The Democrat Party reached the sewer, and just kept right on digging.
I don’t doubt for a second that Republicans have done this themselves in the past. But it is vile. And it is the kind of thing that any party that is worthy of the title “reformers” will pledge to stop doing and then never do again.
The funding for our soldiers – and most especially during time of war – should be off-limits to anyone who would politicize it. Because every time a soldier is wounded or killed in action, he is wounded and killed for every American; not merely Democrats or Republicans.
And our politicians damn well better start respecting that.
You want your ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ repeal? Then have the simple integrity to vote for it straight up. Because otherwise, you are nothing more than an evil, vile weasel. And the same thing applies with leftwing OR rightwing immigration proposals.
Both Democrat proposals would transform our society. And to try to sneak them through under the guise of supporting our soldiers is undemocratic and in fact un-American.
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Obama Demagoguery Outraging The Citizen Class
A good article on Townhall underscores the building anger that is going to overtake Obama and the Democrat regime in November.
by Austin Hill: Townhall.com Columnist
Obama Has Enraged the “Citizen Class”
The “citizen class” is horrified.
We’re speaking here of those Americans who, while they may disagree on a variety of social and public policy issues, nonetheless agree on a few, crucial matters.
Those of us among the citizen class generally agree that the United States is a good country. While far from perfect, we see our nation as being a place of tremendous opportunity, and a force for goodness around the world.
We also agree that being a U.S. citizen is a significant and distinct thing. While we respect the notion that all human beings are worthy of their “basic human rights,” we see the rights imparted to citizens of the United States as being something different, something “over and above” the category of “basic human rights.”
This is not to say that we are superior people, because we are U.S. citizens. This is, however, the greatest blessing of being a U.S. citizen. It is why so many of us in the citizen class think of our status as a “naturally born citizen” as being a God-given gift, and we celebrate those who legally earn American citizenship as well.
But along with the distinctiveness of being an American citizen, those of us among the citizen class also regard our nation’s sovereignty as something that must be safeguarded as well. Political philosophies, governmental structures, and economic systems are not morally neutral – some work far better than others. And the structures and institutions and governing philosophies of the United States have produced a far higher level of human flourishing and freedom than any others. For this reason, if for no other, our nation must always be regarded as separate and distinct.
Our nation is good, U.S. citizenship is distinct, and national sovereignty is non-negotiable. In a nutshell, this is the mindset, the worldview, of the citizen class. It has nothing to do with one’s ethnicity, or socioeconomic background, or sexual orientation, or gender. It has everything to do with one’s most deeply held beliefs.
Not every U.S. citizen possesses the “citizen class” view (clearly some Americans don’t understand the blessing of their status), yet a majority of us still do. And no matter how much we may disagree on other matters, those of us in the citizen class won’t budge on these three items.
And this why President Obama has enraged the citizen class. He has planted the seeds of doubt regarding our nation’s goodness, and has implied that U.S. citizenship, and national sovereignty, are irrelevant.
While an overwhelming majority of the citizen class supports Arizona’s effort to uphold the significance of citizenship and sovereignty, President Barack Hussein Obama has sided with the United Nations, Venezuelan Dictator Hugo Chavez, China, and the President of Mexico in opposing the state of Arizona. One would hope that the President of the United States – any President of the United States – would seek to protect all fifty of the states that he governs from international criticism, even if he didn’t happen to like the behavior of one of his states. But our current President stands united with some of the most thuggish regimes in the world, in opposing his fellow Americans of Arizona.
Worse yet, our President not only allowed, but enabled Mexican President Felipe Calderon to publicly humiliate our fellow Americans of Arizona, while standing on the sacred grounds of the White House. And President Obama’s party – the ruling party in Congress – couldn’t rise to their feet quickly enough and offer thunderous applause, when Mr. Calderon publicly humiliated Arizona during an address to both the Senate and House last week.
It’s nothing short of disgraceful to see the President of the United States undermine us, while the entire world is watching. His behavior has, in no small part, called in to question just how “united” the United States of America is right now.
Yet in the midst of the disgrace, there are hopeful signs. The citizen class has whole-heartedly rejected the agenda (such that it is) of Barack Obama. It began last November with statewide elections in New Jersey and Virginia, where gubernatorial candidates endorsed by Barack Obama both lost. It moved on to Massachusetts where Obama’s choice for U.S. Senate lost to Republican Scott Brown.
And now, evidence of the rejection of Obama’s agenda has radiated from Utah, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky. And we haven’t even seen yet how the President’s trashing of Arizona will impact elections yet to occur.
The louder President Obama and his party cheer, the greater the rage of the citizen class. And the citizen class won’t be ignored much longer.
Democrats are claiming that the victory of Democrat Mark Critz over his Republican challenger in a heavily Democrat district, proves that the Democrats are as popular as ever. Let’s forget the fact that Pennsylvania’s 12 district has been gerrymandered to give Democrats a 2-1 registration advantage over Republicans. Let’s forget the fact that the special election occurred on the same day as the Democrat primary – whereas Republicans had already voted, and essentially had to vote twice.
Republicans could point out that they just won the election in Barack Obama’s hometown in Hawaii – another state that is heavily Democrat as proof of the fact they they are going to destroy Democrats in November. But the Republicans only won that because two Democrats were in the race, splitting the Democrat vote. Sometimes those little details matter.
The fact is that the Democrat victory in Pennsylvania and the Republican victory in Hawaii are for the most part anomalous. Both races will be fought all over again in six months – and the results of both may very likely change.
But the fact is also that the American people have largely turned against Barack Obama. As of today, he has an approval rating of minus seventeen (- 17), with only 45% of Americans approving of his performance versus 54% who disapprove. And the fact that a pissed off and frightened people are going to vote in huge majorities against Barack Obama in states and districts across the country in November.
What is particularly interesting is that Mark Critz – and many Democrats – are actively running against Barack Obama and the Obama agenda. Crizt ran against ObamaCare, and against Obama’s cap-and-trade plan, among other things. Democrats are literally saying that the American people should elect Democrats in order to oppose the Democrat agenda. Does that really sound like a narrative that’s going to work in November?
Add to that the fact that unemployment and a host of other measurements of the U.S. economy are bad, with not a whole lot of evidence that they are going to improve.
The Democrats demagogued and demonized Republicans about the Republican record as they assured the American people that they would make everything better. And now the same anger and outrage that Democrats rode last year will fittingly come back to wash them away over their failures.
I see a reckoning coming.
Update May 24: Oops. Did I say 45% of Americans approved of Obama, versus 54% who disapproved? That was yesterday. Today only 44% of Americans approve of Obama, against 55% who disapprove. And the President Approval Rating is at a negative eighteen.
Update May 25: Oops again. Did I say 44% of Americans approve of Obama? That’s no longer correct. I’m sorry, but Obama is tanking so fast that it’s just hard to keep up with it. Today, only 42% of Americans approve of this turd which is stinking up the White House.
From Rasmussen, May 25:
Overall, 42% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president’s performance. That is the lowest level of approval yet measured for this president. Fifty-six percent (56%) now disapprove of his performance.
And oh my, a whopping 20% more voters utterly despise Obama now than like him.
And that overwhelming majority of voters is going to want to come out and hurt somebody in November.
Tags:American sovereignty, Americans, Arizona, Calderone, China, citizen class, citizens, Critz, Hawaii, Hugo Chavez, human rights, immigration, irrelevant, Mexioc, national sovereignty, Obama agenda, Pennsylvania, Rasmussen, rights, Specter, U.S. citizens, United States, United States is a good country, Venezuela
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Rabid Arizona Boycotters Continue To Be Boycotted – Blame Obama For The Whole Mess
Remember how Obama promised to transcend the political divide and reach out to “move beyond the divisive politics”?
Well, he lied.
Instead we have the most divisive and polarizing president in American history, a man who fearmongers, demagogues, and demonizes without regard for the truth.
Obama deceitfully and maliciously told a story of fathers being deported just for taking their children to get ice cream. The fact of the matter is that there is absolutely nothing whatsoever in the Arizona immigration law that would produce anything like the fearmongering scenarios our Demagogue-in-chief claims. And I defy anyone to actually cite the bills as proof of any such argument.
If you really want to go after a bigoted racist on immigration policy, why don’t you go after Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and the Democrat Congress? Because they’re running the federal government, and it is simply a fact that the federal law is FAR more “racist” than the Arizona law.
And, of course, Democrats gave a standing ovation to the President of Mexico, whose immigration laws protecting Mexico from Central American illegal immigrants are about as hard-core as it gets.
But none of that matters. Not to Obama, and not to Demon-crats. They’re liars and demagogues, and what else do you expect liars and demagogues to do if not lie and demagogue???
So, in the bipartisan, non-ideological, and transcendent world of Barack Obama, American cities boycott one another in a move to start an economic war that will bring the country crashing down.
The silver lining to it – if there IS one – is that the boycott appears to be hurting the cities of the rabid little liberal rodents even more than it’s hurting Arizona:
Boycott Backlash: Some stay out of city
Growing number vow not to do business in Austin
AUSTIN (KXAN) – The city council’s decision to boycott travel to Arizona is resulting in organizations and individuals boycotting the city of Austin in protest.
A growing number of political organizations, including the Odessa and Burleson Tea Parties, have decided not to do business with the city of Austin until the council rescinds the Arizona boycott they passed a few weeks ago.
“We will try to minimize what the city gets from our stay there,” said Hood county Republican Party Chairman Randy Shelton. “We will not stay in hotels inside the city of Austin and we will not ride the city transit.”
Shelton says they will continue to support Austin businesses but try to prevent any dollars from going towards city revenue. Other boycotts are more extreme.
A search online showed many more individuals vowing not to do business in Austin, including one poster who says they will cancel hotel reservations and a Leander resident who says they will skip having lunch inside Austin city limits.
The boycott apparently is already being felt according to the Austin Hotel and Lodging Association who sent KXAN this statement:
“The AHLA is not a political association and does not in any way support travel boycotts of any kind. Hotels in Austin are now beginning to experience concrete evidence from the many visitors now canceling their leisure or business plans to Austin.”
KXAN was told some of the cancellations include riders who normally take part in the Republic of Texas Rally.
All I can say, residents of Austin, is that you should have thought about this before you elected a bunch of leftwing ideologue loons to your city council.
I wrote an earlier article about San Diego reeling from counter-boycotts by pissed-off Arizonans. Let San Diego’s tourism industry blow up in flames because Democrats are vile and intolerant people who just have to spread their hate around with boycotts against innocent and decent Arizonans who are just trying to deal with an impossible wave of illegal immigration and the crises created by illegal immigration.
And I frankly hope that Los Angeles is honest enough to cut off a full 25% of their electricity which is produced by Arizona. And Arizona may help Los Angeles find their missing integrity by cutting off the electricity it supplies. You want a boycott? Let’s have at it. Wonder how many Los Angelinos will die sweltering in the heat without air conditioning this summer as a result of their own city council’s stupid and immoral boycott?
This is all Barack Obama’s fault. He’s the demagogue who started this. He’s the one who has set us at one anothers’ throats with his fearmongering and his lies. Thanks to him, we don’t have to worry about al Qaeda, or Iran, or North Korea; now we’ve got to worry about Los Angeles and Austin and a whole bunch of other cities starting an endless war of mutually assured economic destruction with the people of Arizona.
Maybe one of Obama’s top officials will finally actually bother to read the ten page law they’ve been demonizing. None of them have so far. The reason none of them have is because they don’t want to have to be held accountable to the truth.
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Primary Day Presidential Approval Poll Points To Vicious Anal Rape Awaiting Democrats
Now, I know, the headline is kind of confusing. Most Democrats love nothing more than a nice anal raping. So liberals will come here thinking, “Oh, good!”
But, trust me, they won’t enjoy the one that’s coming in November.
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 25% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-four percent (44%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -19. Today’s rating is the lowest earned by the president since the passage of his health care proposal two months ago (see trends).
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has seen his advantage over Republican hopefuls shrink dramatically following a New York Times accusation that he exaggerated his Vietnam military service. Against Linda McMahon, Blumenthal’s lead is down to just three points.
John McCain still leads in his primary battle, but his level of support is hovering just over 50%.
Sixty-four percent (64%) of voters now support offshore oil drilling. That’s up from 58% right after the oil spill began in the Gulf of Mexico but down eight from a peak of 72% support in March.
The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve. It is updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern (sign up for free daily e-mail update). Updates are also available on Twitter and Facebook.
Overall, 44% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president’s performance. Fifty-five percent (55%) disapprove. Those figures also reflect the weakest ratings for the president since the health care bill became law. The Rasmussen Reports Media Meter shows that media coverage of the President has been 52% positive over the past week.
A month ago, Rasmussen Reports became the first firm to show Joe Sestak closing the gap on Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania. With other firms showing Specter ahead by twenty points or more, our poll showing a toss-up was described as an “outlier” and “well outside the lines of existing polling in the race.” As in Massachusetts, it turns out that the Rasmussen poll was simply the first to capture the changing dynamic of the race. The final Rasmussen poll on the race showed Sestak winning by five. He won by eight.
In the general election, the latest polling shows Sestak in a very close race with Pat Toomey.
In Arkansas, the latest polling shows Republican John Boozman holding a wide lead over whichever Democrat wins the run-off. In Kentucky, Rand Paul also starts out ahead. Rasmussen Reports will release updated polling for Pennsylvania, Arkansas, and Kentucky in the near future.
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Fifty-five percent (55%) would like to see an immigration law like Arizona’s for their own state. Most voters (56%) also favor repeal of the recently passed health care law.
Obama used to lead chants saying, “Fired up! Ready to go!” And now the people who WANT to fire Obama have a 19-point advantage over the people who want to keep him. Do you have any idea what a tsunami of righteous anger is going to wash over Democrats?
55% of American voters want to see the Arizona immigration law that Obama has repeatedly and falsely demonized in their own state. And 56% of voters want to see Obama’s signature ObamaCare repealed. What has this man done but either screw the American people or fail to lead?
Obama’s response to the fact that Americans overwhelmingly support the Arizona law? Ratchet up his illegitimate demonization of Arizona.
And as we speak, 68% of Americans want offshore drilling. It’s only a matter of time before they realize what an amoral weasel Obama has been with drilling, basically being against it before he was for it before he was against it again.
Obama endorsed slimeball Arlen Specter, who has now been officially rejected by Democrats after previously having being totally rejected by Republicans. Like Specter himself, nobody wants Obama. He is now at least 0-for-4 in endorsing candidates who then got dumped by voters. He couldn’t be more radical, or more out of touch with the American people.
From the AP:
WASHINGTON – Voters rejected one of President Barack Obama’s hand-picked candidates and forced another into a runoff, the latest sign that his political capital is slipping beneath a wave of anti-establishment anger.
Sen. Arlen Specter became the fourth Democrat in seven months to lose a high-profile race despite the president’s active involvement, raising doubts about Obama’s ability to help fellow Democrats in this November’s elections.
The first three candidates fell to Republicans. But Specter’s loss Tuesday to Rep. Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania’s Democratic senatorial primary cast doubts on Obama’s influence and popularity even within his own party — and in a battleground state, no less.
And the guy who defeated Obama’s handpicked candidate Specter has all but stated that the Obama administration offered him an illegal bribe to drop out of the race and let Specter win.
[Update, Sunday, May 23: The UPI has an article out today which clearly states that Joe Sestak claims the White House did in fact offer him a job if he pulled out of the race against Arlen Specter. End update].
Thanks to Obama’s utterly failed policy that even Hillary Clinton said would fail hideously, Iran WILL have nuclear weapons, and will “fundamentally transform” the Middle East into a terrifying nightmare-awaiting bloodbath-status. And Obama is so occupied with his failure regarding Iran that he has demonstrated himself to be completely unfit to deal with North Korea.
An international report has just determined that North Korea sank – in an aggressive and unprovoked act of war – a South Korean navy ship. This is clearly an escalation of aggression that rivals anything the communist nation has committed since the end of the Korean War.
How has Obama done anything but miserably fail with this regime?
And thanks to spending which dwarfs anything ever seen before in the history of the human race, Barack Obama has lost any and all leverage with China to do anything about either crisis.
It is hard to imagine how Obama could have failed worse.
The American people are furious. And they are going to take it out on Democrats who couldn’t deserve it more.
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Law Professors Say Arizona Anti-Illegal Immigration Law Is Constitutional
We keep hearing people who claim that the Arizona anti-illegal immigration law (SB 1070) is “unconstitutional.” But it keeps turning out that those who are decrying it on the mainstream media haven’t actually bothered to even read the law.
Well, the Arizona law is ever bit as “constitutional” as the federal law – considering it basically IS the federal law with even more limitations added to it.
Oh, you’ve got the crowd that says that a state can’t protect its own citizens. The fact that the federal government has refused to do its job and protect Arizona from illegal immigrants for the last 25 years means nothing. Let an out-of-control situation continue for ANOTHER 25 years, such people say.
Well, baloney, say three law professors who did something that AG Eric Holder and most liberals have refused to do – and actually bothered to read the law before demonizing it:
REGION: Three USD professors say Arizona law is constitutional
By EDWARD SIFUENTES May 13, 2010 7:44 pm
Arizona’s controversial new immigration law probably would withstand legal challenges on constitutional grounds, according to a panel of three University of San Diego law professors.
However, the professors said the law could create problems, such as racial profiling, if it is not implemented properly.
The professors spoke Thursday during a panel discussion on UC San Diego’s campus in La Jolla hosted by the Institute of the Americas, an organization that promotes cooperation between the U.S. and Latin America.
Arizona’s law, Senate Bill 1070, requires police officers to check a person’s immigration status if they have a “reasonable suspicion” the person is in the country illegally. It makes it a state crime to be in the country without legal documentation; it already is a federal crime.
Critics say the law, which takes effect later this year, could lead to racial profiling of Latinos and other ethnic minorities. Some Latino and civil rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, say they plan to challenge the law in court.
Those groups say the Arizona law also violates the U.S. Constitution by interfering with federal immigration power and authority.
Professor Lawrence Alexander, who teaches constitutional law at USD, said that argument would fail because the Arizona law does not conflict with federal immigration law. The state law is only seeking to enforce the federal law, he said.
“I don’t see anything in this law that is going to fail a challenge on the grounds of federal supremacy,” Alexander said.
Alexander was a panelist along with professors Donald Dripps, a scholar on criminal law, and Maimon Schwarzschild, who specializes in constitutional law. Former U.S. Ambassador Jeffrey Davidow, who is president of the Institute of the Americas, served as moderator.
Supporters said the law was needed due to the federal government’s failure to secure the border.
In response, several cities across the country have passed resolutions or urged boycotts to protest the law, including Oakland and San Diego. On Tuesday, San Francisco city supervisors approved a resolution that urges a boycott of Arizona-based businesses and asks sports leagues not to hold championship games or tournaments there.
About 50 people attended the panel discussion at UCSD, including students, attorneys and immigration rights advocates. About a dozen people who spoke during a question-and-answer session criticized the law.
“The problem is the application of the law,” said San Diego immigration attorney Lilia Velasquez. “On the ground, (the) Border Patrol or the police officers in Arizona will arrest people based on their race and maybe solely on their race.”
Under the law, police officers who detain a person, such as in a traffic stop, are required to question a person about his or her immigration status if there is “reasonable suspicion” that the person is in the United States illegally.
The panelists agreed that defining what constitutes “reasonable suspicion” could be problematic. But that alone does not render the law unconstitutional, Alexander said.
“Could a police officer overstep the bounds and do something that the Constitution does not permit? Of course,” he said. “Police officers can do that now. They can do that without the law, but the law itself does not authorize anything that is unconstitutional.”
The Arizona law, which said that race or ethnicity cannot be the only factor prompting a police officer to ask a person’s immigration status, was later amended to say that race could not be considered at all in questioning a person’s status.
Dripps said the U.S. Supreme Court has said that a person’s apparent Mexican ancestry can be a factor in stopping someone for an immigration stop by immigration agents. The question, he said, is whether that authority would also apply to police officers asking someone about his or her immigration status.
Schwarzschild also raised questions about whether the law could be discriminatory.
“I think the answer there is: It could. In the way that it is enforced,” Schwarzschild said. “But it certainly doesn’t, on its face.”
CORRECTION: Law professors incorrectly identified
The original version of this story incorrectly stated that the three law professors who took part taught at UC San Diego. They teach at the University of San Diego School of Law.
We apologize.
In any event, ANY law enforcement officer can abuse ANY law. If the left wants to abolish this law because a police officer could conceivably abuse it, let’s abolish all laws and have total anarchy instead.
We get to the root of the real issue: the people who are protesting this anti-immigration law are not doing it because it’s “unconstitutional,” but rather because they are opposed to any form of action to deal with the soaring and searing crisis of illegal immigration. They are open borders fanatics; they are leftwing ideologues who want illegal immigrants from Mexico to be able to undermine the vote of legitimate citizens and impose the next failed socialist Utopia.
They don’t want the United States to do ANYTHING to control our borders.
Here is the text of the Arizona law. Read it. If there’s something wrong with it, then cite the relevant passage in your argument. Don’t give me any of your bogus penumbras and emanations in which you gaze into a crystal ball and find things that aren’t even there simply because you want to see them.
Otherwise, let’s have less complaining, and more shutting the hell up.
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Israel’s War on Al Jazeera
“Continued and Systematic (US) Massacre” of Civilians in Syria
US Gains on ISIS?
Published by Stephen Lendman at August 7, 2017
by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman)
Owned and operated by the Qatari government, it functions much like Western media, featuring content the Al Thani monarchy wants aired.
It’s sympathy toward Palestinian suffering is why Israel wants it shut down. Earlier it considered declaring the news agency a hostile entity. Instead, it restricted its activities in the country.
It no longer renews visas for its staff or issues new ones. Its journalists are denied access to government briefings, limited access alone to political and military officials – only to spokespersons of the prime minister, foreign ministry and IDF.
In August 2011, Al Jazeera (AJ) journalist Samer Allawi was arrested and detained for making contact with Hamas’ military wing.
Jerusalem is its headquarters in Israel, perhaps not much longer. According to Israeli communications director Ayoub Kara, “professional discussions” were initiated to draft legislation, shutting down the network.
During July 14 – 28 Israeli instigated violence at the Al Aksa mosque and compound, Netanyahu lied, accusing AJ of “inciting violence” – demanding the shutting down of its operations.
According to Israel’s press office head Nitzan Hen, press cards aren’t permitted for journalists posing a “risk to national security.”
On Sunday, Kara said Israel intends revoking press credentials of its journalists, ending its broadcasts on Israeli television if followed-through.
In response, Netanyahu tweeted Kara was “following my guidance…to end Al Jazeera’s incitement in Israel.”
The Federation of Arab Journalists (FAJ) denounced the move, calling it a flagrant free press violation, especially with regard to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
It called on the Federation of Journalists (IFJ) to intervene, pressuring Israel against implementing its hostile intention.
AJ slammed what it called its “dangerous” decision, a statement saying it “deplores this action,” indicating it’ll “follow up the subject through appropriate legal and judicial procedures.”
AJ political analyst Marwan Bishara tweeted: “Israel takes its cue from Arab dictators: ‘We have based our decision on the move by Sunni Arab states to close the Al Jazeera offices.’ “
So far, AJ’s Jerusalem bureau head Walid al-Omari said he hasn’t received official notification of closure. He believes “Netanyahu wants to distract attention for issues he’s facing” – relating to possible bribery, fraud and breach of trust charges.
Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Jordan shut down AJ operations because of a Persian Gulf feud. Egypt’s banned it years earlier – a nation Reporters Without Borders calls “one of the biggest prisons for journalists.”
American University in Beirut’s Rami Khouri said “(r)egimes that want to control power will almost always go after two targets – the media and foreigners.”
AJ’s operating days in Israel appear numbered.
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Transportation Evolution Institute
Driverless integration, projects around the world
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Driverless Cars Set to Save World Economies Billions – World Study
Traffic accidents cost world economies billions each year, but with the development of autonomous driving technologies these costs could be reduced dramatically. Autonomous driving technologies are revolutionising the automotive industry with their promise to improve vehicle safety and reduce traffic…
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Despite the addition of driver assistance features to vehicles intended to help avoid collisions, the growing number of in-vehicle distractions is resulting in greater opportunity for driver distraction.
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4th Arrest Made in Attack on Serbian Water Polo Players
A 4th man has been arrested, while Serbia has asked the league to move all of the remaining matches this season that are scheduled to send Serbian clubs to cities within 200km of Split, where the attacks happened. Stock photo via Kap7
Erika Brown Posts Lifetime Best 24.5 to Win 50 Free at PSS Knoxville
Brown got her hand to the wall ahead by 6 hundredths, posting a 24.57 for the win. Manuel followed in 24.63. That clipped Brown’s former best by a hundredth.
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February 16th, 2019 International/National Team Water Polo, News, Water Polo
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A fourth man has been arrested in connection with the verbal and physical attack on three players of Belgrade’s Red Star Water Polo Club in Split, Croatia last week. The 22-year old was not named by police, but is being held on suspicion of connection on charges of robbery, causing serious bodily harm, and committing a hate crime. Police say the suspects are facing up to 12 years in jail if found guilty.
3 members of the Red Star Belgrade team, Dusan Vasic, Milos Maksimovic and Alesandro Kralj, were attacked at a cafe prior to a regional league A1 match against Mornar Split.
Kralj, a goalkeeper who said he feared he would be killed and leapt into the sea to “save myself”, still suffered a broken nose and a knife wound on his leg in the incident. The three detained men, and possibly two more suspects, are accused of using bats and other weapons to attack Kralj and the other team members.
“The only solution I had at the moment was to jump into the sea,” Kralj said. “The (Croatian) police also told me afterward that I did the right thing.”
Police said the incident began when the accused saw Krajl’s Red Star jersey under his track suit.
The match was cancelled and Red Star returned to Serbia without further incident. The Serbian government launched a formal protest against its Croatian neighbors, while Croatia “condemned the attack and called for swift legal action.”
Croatia and Serbia were at war in the 1990s and tensions have remained high between the countries in the years following.
The Serbian Water Polo Federation, meanwhile, says that it has unanimous support of its teams to boycott all matches in Split until the end of the current season, as well as sports arenas that are located less than 200km from Split, for security reasons.
“Unfortunately, this attack by the hooligans was motivated by ethnic hatred, which represents the worst possible form of violence,” the statement said. “By chance, fortunately for us all, this attack did not end with a tragic outcome. What encourages us is the statement of condemnation of all relevant parties in Croatia, both political bodies and sports bodies, as well as the quick reaction of the Croatian police. We sincerely believe that it will not only end there but that the perpetrators of this crime will be severely punished.”
After making the statement, the Croatian Water Polo Federation responded via letter saying that the position of a boycott is ‘unacceptable,’ and threatened to withdraw their teams from the league in the event of any such boycott. They also noted that the Split-Dalmatia Police Department ‘guaranteed’ the safety of all participants going forward. Serbia responded by proclaiming that their letter was not sent to the Croatia Water Polo Federation, but rather to the Board of Directors and Steering Committee of the league, and that Serbian clubs will await the position of the league’s Board of Directors on moving any matches from Split.
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The USA Women’s National Team got back in the win column today with a 10-7 win over Australia to close out a three-game series in Brisbane.
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24 Players Turn in 4-Plus Goal Efforts on Water Polo Week 8
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'Sport.' Drawing by Carolyn Newberger
‘It isn’t a word thing, it’s a dance thing’: Mark Morris delights at Jacob’s Pillow
By Carolyn and Eli Newberger Monday, Jul 22, 2019 Arts & Entertainment
Imagine yourself standing inside a giant kaleidoscope, watching the pieces revolve around you, a sense of being inside an enchanted world immersing you in gorgeous, sparkling movement and sound. That was our feeling during a magical evening of the Mark Morris Dance Group at Jacob’s Pillow on July 19, 2019.
Greeting the audience, Pillow director Pamela Tatge noted proudly that Mark Morris Dance was by far its most frequently visiting troupe, and that she was especially proud of the Pillow’s formative role in shaping his choreography. The evening unfolded in short vignettes within larger pieces, set to music of Erik Satie, Henry Cowell, Felix Mendelssohn and Lou Harrison, serenely and passionately played by Colin Fowler, piano, and Georgy Valtchev, violin.
In dramatic contrast to the brilliant recapitulation of Merce Cunningham’s oeuvre by Compagnie CNDC-Angers/Robert Swinston of Angers, France, two weeks ago, here the music was not separate from but integrated with the dance—by intention, to great effect—as Tatge noted, “Mark Morris lives at the intersection of dance and music, like nobody else.”
“Sport,” set to Erik Satie’s “Sports et Divertissements,” was propelled with subtle humor by pianist Fowler. With dancers clad in bright jumpsuits with one color on the front and another on the back of the body (kudos to costume designer Elizabeth Kurtzman), the kaleidoscope whirled, skittered, swung and punched its way through a catalogue of sports, from baseball to boxing to lacrosse and, in the end, to the discipline and disappointments of bettering your golf swing fluidly, awkwardly, gracefully, violently and profanely. (To close the golf-practice vignette, one frustrated male dancer threw up his hands and cried, “Shit!”).
Water sports floated with glorious metaphors: kayakers and canoeists sweeping across the stage on dragged cloth boats; a sendup of synchronized swimming; the irrepressible Lauren Grant on her racing cloth skiff, head flung back, one arm in the air, the other trailing her fingers in the waters off—who knows?—St. Tropez?; and off to the races with horses cantering, high-stepping and galloping to a Lone Ranger’s worth of send-up by Erik Satie, of Rossini’s “Overture to William Tell.” Earlier, in a military march sequence, Satie even stuck in a brief quote of “The Marseillaise.”
Mark Morris. Drawing by Carolyn Newberger
When at the talkback after the performance, Morris replied “It isn’t a word thing, it’s a dance thing,” to a question about the meaning of gestures in the later dances (more about that in a moment), it’s still comforting to know absolutely (we think!) that those dancers who can do anything with their bodies are telling a story about playing golf and trolling in tropical waters on the Pillow stage!
‘Prelude and Prelude.’ Drawing by Carolyn Newberger
“Prelude and Prelude,” with music for violin and piano by Henry Cowell, opened with a line of male and female dancers in black camisole leotards on the right of the stage. Apart, on the left, was a lone male dancer, also in camisole leotard, fan folded and held in his teeth, performing a kind of expressive counterpoint to the syncopated line on the other side of the stage.
In serried formation, the line of dancers moved bright blue fans in a comical ritual, over their crotches and chests, facial expressions serious as they examined their bodies intently, extended their arms outward, craned their necks and beckoned toward the heavens. As the dance itself unfolded, they opened, closed, extended and wrapped the fans around themselves like dance partners pivoting around the fixed point of the lead.
‘Song Without Words.’ Drawing by Carolyn Newberger
And then to something else entirely: “Song Without Words” romantic, lyrical, evocative Mendelssohn marching, spinning, waltzing the company from vignette to vignette, separated by a wordless silken banner, marched across the stage by an upright dancer at each end, sometimes with myriad feet behind it, marching along—to whom belong those feet without bodies? Where are they going so earnestly? Where are the words?
As Mark Morris suggests, that’s for us, the audience, to decide.
‘Grand Duo.’ Drawing by Carolyn Newberger
The program concluded with “Grand Duo,” set to “Grand Duo for Violin and Piano” by Lou Harrison. “Grand Duo,” Morris noted, is rooted in Jacob’s Pillow. He said that he actually “reverse choreographed” it during a fall residency (“you know, that scary time with all the animals!”) beginning with the fabulous “Polka” that closes the piece.
Here’s an exciting video of “Polka” that depicts the stunning synthesis of music and movement along with wry humor, with sidelong glances to Stravinsky and Diaghilev, maypoles and other rites of spring.
Note how the pianist’s syncopated keyboard slaps are echoed in the dancers’ own coordinated slapping gestures, which added an unexpected percussion part. One viewer commented: “That human beings can do these things is amazing.”
Where Harrison’s music is played as a duo, the dance is mostly larger ensemble with scattered solos and a deep sense of classical form: loosely draped tunics and flowing loincloths reminiscent of ancient Greece; solo muscularity reminiscent of Myron’s “The Discus Thrower”; and the energetic roundelay of mythic pagan ceremony. Embedded in this dance are mysterious, seemingly meaningful gestures, such as sequences where each dancer holds his or her two index fingers together and upright, above the head then in front of the body, then at the side.It was in reference to these stylized gestures that, in the talkback, a participant asked about their meaning. Mr. Morris, totally unaffected, charming, human and accessible, basically shrugged his shoulders and rejoined, “You tell me!”
That, dear reader, is the essence of Mark Morris’s art. It’s ineffable, most emphatically not based on formulas and established narrative tropes. Rather, its genius is its ability to draw us in—and to pull from us—our own sources of meaning, emotion, and delight.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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Cross Country competes in Montgomery County Championships; girls varsity repeats as champions
The girls varsity cross country team poses with the first place trophy in the county championships. Photo courtesy of the MCPS Athletics Twitter.
By Mia Friedman
Cross Country competed in the Montgomery County Championships on Saturday, October 19th at Bohrer Park. The girls varsity placed first and the boys varsity placed tenth.
The girls team defended their Montgomery County Champion title from last year coming in first once again. In the 5,000 meter, senior Emmersen Weinberg led Whitman in sixth place with a time of 19:12. Seniors Madeleine Blaisdell, Elizabeth Sklaire, and Alicia Lauwers followed close behind in seventh, eleventh and twelfth with times of 19:19, 19:40, and 19:40, respectively.
In the boys varsity 5,000 meter, sophomore Jackson Megary led Whitman in 17th place with a time of 16:30. Sophomore Griffin Beckley and senior Ben Lesser followed in 41st and 79th with times of 17:05 and 17:36, respectively.
Cross Country competes next in the 4A West Regional Championship on Thursday, October 31st at High Point Farm.
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China, Russia, Iran: Ports and Power Along the Belt and Road
If the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor doesn’t live up to the hype, Russia may stand to benefit.
By Nicholas Trickett and Oliver Thomas for The Diplomat
Credit: umairadeeb / Flickr
China’s planners have studied the art of using economic pacts to pursue strategic objectives. The “One Belt, One Road” initiative (OBOR) and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) are prime examples. China has pinned its hopes of gaining strategic preeminence in the South and Central Asian regions thanks to its deep pockets. Infrastructure investment confers power to influence regional affairs. But South and Central Asia are not lacking of powers seeking influence — Russia and Iran have their own regional investments, plans and partners.
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is particularly important for China. With access to Pakistani ports, China will be able to expand its market reach and bring in foreign direct investment to ease the devaluation of the renminbi. The renminbi’s drop signals China’s hope to increase the amount of low wage jobs abroad and play it safe on future risks while implementing financial reform. Though China has become the world’s largest banking system, debt has played a pivotal role in its growth in recent years.
OBOR serves as a buffer: debt finances infrastructure projects abroad to provide short-term employment, create some growth abroad, unload industrial overcapacity, and cement influence and ownership of assets in other countries. Though CPEC is ostensibly profitable, it better represents China’s attempts to buy influence and access to the Indian Ocean with debt while providing Chinese industries a stimulus. Pakistan has proven a willing partner due to its political interests in the region and need for investment.
Gwadar as the Crown Jewel of CPEC
Pakistan’s Gwadar port is a trade hub for CPEC on the Indian Ocean rim. China announced what has become a $57 billion investment plan into CPEC, capped off by Gwadar. In a recent interview, the chairman of the Gwadar Port Authority, Dostain Khan Jamaldini, stated that “Gwadar can become a Shenzhen-level city in ten years,” indicating that the port will be open to numerous trading actors besides China. But the rhetoric about expanding trade likely does not reflect reality. There’s mounting evidence that the potential for high returns on the Chinese investment in Gwadar and CPEC will not match government claims.
Gwadar is not yet commercially operational due, in part, to a lack in connectivity via the East Bay Expressway, Balochistan. Other large sections of the proposed CPEC run through volatile areas that pose risks. Security concerns in Pakistan have prompted the government to create a new 13,700 personnel Special Security Division, whose sole purpose is to secure CPEC projects, while growing threats in western China have led to a severe security state in Xinjiang. China has also sought to deploy security assets to Gwadar. Finally, acute water shortage issues in Balochistan hinder large-scale construction projects. These hurdles are slowing the completion of China’s hoped-for energy import route circumventing the Malacca Strait.
A Tale of Two Ports
The nearby Iranian port Chabahar, where India is investing, exists as a geopolitical mirror to Gwadar. The two projects reflect the successes and limits of China’s efforts to extend its influence on the Indian Ocean rim. Though Indian officials stress that Chabahar is not a competitor port, its strategic rationale suggests otherwise.
India needs land access to Afghanistan to realize its ambitions to play a larger role in Central Asian trade and security. However, Pakistan has installed a transit blockade for Indian goods bound to Iran and beyond. In response, Afghanistan has banned Pakistani transit for trucking goods through its territory, a bad sign for growing hopes for regional rail connectivity between Tajikistan and Pakistan through Afghanistan. But the Chabahar port will help India’s push to play a deciding role in the future of Afghanistan and the region.
Iran has opened Chabahar to Indian and Japanese investment, though delays and doubts about the project linger. India recently approved a $150 million development plan to begin building up the investment zone stipulated by the initial agreement last May. Though India seems sluggish, both Japan and India have profit-driven interests for the port’s development. Satellite imagery does show progress at Chabahar, despite delays, and oil port Bandar Abbas is in serious need of capacity relief to handle oil flows.
Chinese investment in Iran, on the other hand, has not appreciably changed since the nuclear deal took effect. China’s approach to Iran does not seem to portend an increase of investment to curry political influence as has been the case in Pakistan, particularly as Iran has other suitors. Tehran has not particularly privileged Chinese oil and gas companies as it has sought investment and partnerships to develop its reserves.
Chabahar is a critical project for regional energy security that, even with hiccups, India and Japan are committed enough to complete. China’s studied use of infrastructure investment, while helpful for Pakistan’s equity markets, may not produce the desired results in time due to limitations in China’s strategy and a complicated political environment in the region that hinders interconnectivity. The arc of these two ports’ development offers an interesting window into Russia’s balancing act with China over Iran and India.
Russia’s Iran Approach
Russian-Iranian relations are often discussed regarding mutual interests in the Middle East as Russia and Iran seek to push out U.S. influence and assert a stronger role on their shared periphery. Their partnership is most solidly founded in the Caspian: Russia has sold majority stakes of two strategic ports in Dagestani capital Makhachkala and Astrakhan to Iranian firms, Iran is pushing against Azerbaijan’s position as leading shipper in the Caspian, and Lukoil’s projected $8.5 billion in spending on Caspian oil and gas will ideally transit Iran to Asian markets as it comes onstream.
The Russian-Iranian political relationship has outstripped the economic relationship for some time. Even with as much as a 70-80 percent increase in trade turnover in 2016, it only totaled $2.2 billion. Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak has stated that he expects a free trade agreement to be signed between Iran and the Eurasian Economic Union at the end of March. For now, it remains political chatter but as Russia tries to lure Iranian investment into its Muslim regions, there will likely be an increase in business contacts that may allow Russia to try to leverage existing ties between different ethnic and religious communities in the Caspian region and Tatarstan.
Though China has a vastly superior set of financial and economic tools to invest in Iran and deepen ties, Lukoil was the first oil and gas company to sign a contract after the unveiling of the New Petroleum Contract. Even with attempts by Iran to locally source production for arms by using joint ventures or licensing products, Russia’s arms industry is looking to lock up market share in Iran before Chinese exports can compete, creating pathway dependencies like those found in the Indian military. Further, the symbolic significance of a free trade agreement, should it happen, will likely aid ongoing negotiations with India for a similar deal.
With these facts in mind, Chabahar is an economic and political bellwether for future trade between Russia, Iran, and India that figures into the regional balance of power. China is unlikely to worry given the tiny trade volumes involved. But symbols beget the appearance of regional cooperation and the possibility of introducing new supply chains that will, by and large, circumvent the desired routes in which China is investing.
The Limits of Russian Interests in Pakistan
Despite smaller moves on arms sales and exercises to strengthen military ties with Pakistan, Russia’s economic interests in Pakistan remain ambivalent at best due to its regional goals and challenges in Afghanistan. An agreement was inked in 2015 for a $2 billion gas pipeline between Karachi and Lahore, but Russian business interests are constrained in their ability to move into the market due to lack of knowledge, limited areas of competitive advantage, and lack of financing. Even with the pipeline project, there are ongoing negotiations to drive Russia’s tolling fees down as Pakistan dangles the threat of competition with Qatar as a bargaining chip. There have been small attempts at encouraging investment and trade between Punjab and Tatarstan, but any successes would be a pittance for both parties.
Pakistan has publicly stated Russia can use Gwadar for exports. Regardless, Gwadar is not a logical transit point for Russian imports or exports. Rosneft now owns the Gujarati port of Vadinar after its acquisition of Essar Oil and oil transit for Russian crude will never travel through Central Asia to Pakistan. The nature of Russia’s access is also unclear, given denials from the Kremlin as it attempts to manage its newfound interest in Pakistan with its more important relationship with India. Aside from energy — dominated by Chinese investment — Russia has little reason to economically engage Pakistan. Pakistan already eats up 35 percent of China’s arms exports and while Russia will seek market share, China has firmly established itself. Instead, improving access and influence with the Taliban is a key goal as Russia seeks to undermine Kabul. But until Tajikistan joins the Eurasian Economic Union and transit through Afghanistan and Pakistan toward India is guaranteed, there will be little reason for Russia to pursue a deeper commitment aside from bettering political ties on security issues.
Russia’s Opening?
Given the unclear efficacy of infrastructure investments, China’s OBOR initiative does little to guarantee growth without reform in transit states and easing political tensions. Pakistan has seen positive signs. The World Bank authorized a $450 million for a program to improve financial access, the government is adamant that reforms improving the business climate for entrepreneurship are taking root, and Pakistan’s equity markets have performed remarkably well of late.
Still, political tensions and security issues will prevent transit through Afghanistan and cut off Tajikistan from trade with Pakistan for a long time to come. Russia has a noticeably better relationship with Tehran than Beijing and its policies in Pakistan must be viewed through the lens of its broader engagement with the Indian Ocean region. China’s expansion into Pakistan has ossified animosities between the Indian and Pakistani governments, creating a situation for Russia to play multiple sides. Though China may pretend that its investments are “win-win” and carry no political agenda, there still are regional winners and losers.
Softening attempts to publicly resist OBOR in Moscow mask a shifting calculus that the Caspian region can form a stop to China’s expansion. Iran and Russia prefer to split the Caspian between themselves and have acted accordingly. Barring a major shift in Pakistani-Indian relations that would improve overland trade routes through Pakistan and Afghanistan, Russia is poised to use its bread and butter — energy and weapons — as policy instruments to maximize regional influence without committing tremendous financial reserves to projects of dubious economic value. Russia’s approach to CPEC is asymmetrical, using target sectors to compete with China where possible. Chabahar will provide an important conduit for this double-game as work progresses, no matter the news out of Gwadar.
Nicholas Trickett currently works at a think tank in Washington D.C. He is finishing an M.A. in Eurasian studies through the European University at St. Petersburg with a focus on energy security and Russian foreign policy.
Oliver Thomas is a recent alumnus of a research Fulbright grant to study in Taiwan on the island of Kinmen. He currently writes for the Taiwan Brief and works at a think tank in Washington D.C. He will pursue further study in politics and international relations at the University of Cambridge in the fall.
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BREAKING: Roy Rana reportedly hired to Sacramento Kings coaching staff
In Sports May 28, 2019 Leave a Comment
By Chris Sanders
Ryerson Rams men’s basketball head coach Roy Rana has reportedly accepted an assistant coach position with the Sacramento Kings, according to Sam Amick of The Athletic.
According to the staff writer’s report, Rana is joining newly hired Kings head coach Luke Walton as part of Sacramento’s off-season staff overhaul, alongside assistants Bob Beyer, Jesse Mermuys and assistant player development coach Bobby Jackson.
In his nine years at Ryerson, Rana has boasted a 137-55 record while leading the Rams to five consecutive U SPORTS Final 8 tournament appearances and earning five medals in that span.
While turning the men’s team into a perennial U SPORTS contender, Rana has extensively coached with the Canadian national team, most notably leading Canada’s U19 squad to a gold medal in 2017.
He also coached the senior men’s national team during the FIBA 2019 World Cup qualifiers.
This hiring makes Rana the fourth active Canadian NBA coach alongside Nathan Mitchell, Scott Morrison and Jay Triano.
Ryerson University confirmed the departure of Rana on Monday, releasing a statement that he’s accepted the role of Chief of Staff-Assistant Coach with the Kings.
In the statement it says “On behalf of the students, staff, faculty and athletes at Ryerson University, we thank Coach Rana for his contributions to our community and his impact on athletics.”
“Coach Rana joined Ryerson as Head Coach in 2009 and has helped transform Ryerson Men’s Basketball into a nationally-recognized program.”
As of who will be taking over the coaching duties in Rana’s departure, that has not yet been revealed.
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The Moorish Influence on Andalusian Cuisine
In Spain, especially in Andalusia, the presence of Moorish culture can be seen on every corner. Intertwined with the culture of catholic Spain, this is evident in everything from the architecture to the cuisine. This influence is due to the lengthy Islamic reign over the Iberian Peninsula. In the spring of 711 the Umayyad kingdom attacked Gibraltar and over the following eight years most of Iberia fell under Moorish control (except for Asturias and Galicia). For the next eight centuries the occupation of the peninsula, specifically in Andalusia, would leave an indelible cultural mark. One of the biggest influences was without doubt on the cuisine, a tradition which fortunately continues today. Having survived over thousands of years this is still a part of everyday Spanish life and is firmly assimilated in Andalusian customs.
The Introduction of New Foods
After arriving in Spain, one of the first innovations achieved by the Moors was the installation of irrigation systems which allowed the harvesting of arid areas, thereby expanding and improving vegetable plantations. They also introduced natural produce from Asia which was totally unknown to the Spanish. Many of these continue to be basic ingredients in today’s Spanish cuisine and include most spices and produce such as saffron, apricots, artichokes, carob, sugar, aubergines, grapefruits, carrots, coriander and rice. These ingredients remain a firm point of reference for Spanish and Andalusian recipes, featuring in for example pinchito moruno andaluz, a dish normally made with chicken, saffron, cumin and coriander. Another key example of the importance of these foods is a dish which perhaps best symbolises Spanish cuisine, paella, whose main ingredients are rice and saffron. Thanks to the success of such crops, Spain today is one of the main producers of saffron. In fact, along with Iran, Spain produces 80% of the crop worldwide.
The Moors brought with them many of the spices and aromatic herbs now known in Spain, along with the cooking methods associated with them. Not only did this mean they brought their own personality to dishes but it also allowed them to maintain their own methods of food preservation. Present day Spanish dishes such as salt crusted baked fish have been show to originate from the cuisine of the Islamic world. Another favoured method for cooking fish in present day Andalusian gastronomy, is to coat it in flour and then fry it in oil. This traditional method is still maintained in the region and often features in Andalusian festivities. When it came to preserving food, especially fish and vegetables, it would be mixed with salt or the item soaked in vinegar for a long time. These techniques are still used today in the famous boquerones en vinagre (anchovies in vinegar), as well as olives in brine and others.
Significant Influence on Dessert Making
The Moorish influence on Spanish cuisine is probably most evident in sweets and desserts, and the majority of the more traditional Andalusian desserts are clear examples of this. The introduction of almonds revolutionised pastry making. They are now an essential part of Spanish gastronomy and have left their mark on many dishes, including the famous torta de almendras. Other Moor-inspired desserts that have since taken on Christian inspired names as a result of the Reconquista include the torta real from Motril, torrijas de Semana Santa (like french toast deep fried in honey) and tocinos de cielo from Guadix. Many of these are produced in convents or other religious settings and sometimes have religious sounding names, such as cabello de ángel (angel’s hair), suspiros de monja (nun’s sighs) and huesos de santo (bones of a saint).
Legends and Cultural Ties
On visiting the towns and cities around Andalusia, the Moorish heritage can clearly be detected in the architecture, the street markets, and in the colours and smells. If you go to Granada you will see the magnificent architecture of the Alhambra, likewise in the Mezquita (mosque) of Cordoba and the cathedral of Seville. In fact, all throughout the region this fusion of Moorish and Christian styles testifies to the rich history. This cultural blend always offers something new; there’s nothing more enriching than to exchange cultures and see the world from different perspectives. However, we shouldn’t forget that this cultural diversity is largely a product of historical conquests and long fought wars.
Despite this, there are numerous romantic stories and legends that stick in the collective memory and which highlight the mutual affinity of these cultures. One of these tells the tale of Vejer de la Frontera and Chefchaouen. According to legend, when Spain was under Moorish rule, Mulay Alí ben Rachid, a famous emir, fell in love with Zhora, a lady from Vejer de la Frontera. When the Moors were expelled from Spain, the lovers emigrated to Morocco where Mulay Alí built a settlement in the image of Vejer, in order to alleviate the yearning Zhora had for her home town. This is now called Chefchaouen.
The city was founded in 1471 on the site of a small Berber community. Its original population consisted mainly of exiles from Al-Andalus (Islamic Iberia). Equal in number, the Muslim and Jewish people there left their mark on the old part of the city, and which today bears a strong resemblance to the towns of Andalusia, characterised by irregular narrow alleys and whitewashed houses (often with shades of blue). This charming legend resulted in the twinning of these towns in the year 2000. Firm relationships such as this one, create close bonds between different towns and cultures, and indeed delicious recipes for us to enjoy. The Moor-influenced rosquitos for example from Vejer is a simple recipe, easy to make and a perfect accompaniment to afternoon tea.
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Tags: Featured, Green Bay Packers, Jared Cook, Jared Cook
Foot Surgery Explains Jared Cook’s Absence
Joseph Bonham June 3, 2016
We noted that tight end Jared Cook joined the Green Bay Packers injury parade this week and now we know why.
Cook, the Packers’ big offseason free agent acquisition, had foot surgery. He’ll miss the rest of the offseason program, but the Packers are hoping he’ll be ready for training camp.
According to ESPN, the surgery or the injury shouldn’t be a huge cause of concern.
The surgery was described as “preventative” and something that both Cook and the team wanted to take care of now so that it didn’t linger into the regular season.
Up until this point, there have been nothing but raves for Cook.
He’s the kind of big, athletic receiver coach Mike McCarthy wants to stretch the middle of the field. Quarterback Aaron Rodgers has noted Cook’s speed, something last year’s No. 1 tight end, Richard Rodgers, doesn’t possess.
We’ll have to hope this doesn’t hinder Cook’s developing chemistry with Rodgers. However, at least we know he won’t be dealing with a nagging foot injury all season.
Packers Are Done With the Damn Mics, Okay?
Minnesota Vikings Draft Pick Doesn’t Even Like Vikings
ay hombre June 3, 2016
Great. Get the most inept medical department in the NFL involved and watch this shit go downhill.
Chungo June 4, 2016
Probably misdiagnosed & on IR
Icebowl June 4, 2016
Prepare yourselves for annual padlevel excuses….
But I’m on Maui, so who gives a shit….
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U.S. national zoo begins weeklong goodbye to giant panda Bei Bei
by Xinhua
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Washington: A weeklong farewell party for U.S.-born male giant panda Bei Bei, who is to depart the Smithsonian's National Zoo for China later this month, kicked off here on Monday.
Bei Bei's departure, scheduled for Nov. 19, is part of the U.S. national zoo's cooperative breeding agreement with the China Wildlife Conservation Association that all cubs born here shall move to China after the fourth birthday. Bei Bei turned four on Aug. 22.
An online and on-site series of "Bye Bye, Bei Bei" celebratory events were running on Monday through next week, allowing giant panda lovers to bid a farewell to Bei Bei before he starts the next chapter of his life.
At a postcard station next to Bei Bei's outdoor habitat on Monday morning, his fans were taking turns to write a farewell note that will travel with him to China.
Angela Wessel, a giant panda lover and zoo volunteer, told Xinhua she's going to miss Bei Bei a lot, adding that she plans to travel to China next year to visit him.
Bei Bei appeared to be in a light mood, wandering around in his habitat before sitting down to lazily chew bamboo. He also climbed a tree like he always does, delighting his visitors.
His mother Mei Xiang and father Tian Tian, who arrived in Washington D.C. in late 2000, live next door. Bei Bei's brother Tai Shan and sister Bao Bao moved to China respectively in 2010 and 2017.
"Giant pandas here at the national zoo are celebrities. They are rock stars," said Annalisa Meyer, a spokesperson for the zoo. "We have a lot of people who are going to be coming to wish Bei Bei a fond farewell."
Preparation for Bei Bei's journey started last month, which included acclimating him to a travel crate used for his flight.
Assistant curator Laurie Thompson, who will travel with Bei Bei to China, said the giant panda was doing very well with the crate.
"The first time you saw he was a little nervous, but now he goes in there and sits down and eats and seems very happy," Thompson said.
When departing for China, Bei Bei, with a supply of his favorite treats, will be accompanied by Thompson and a veterinarian on a non-stop flight to China's Chengdu in a dedicated B777 aircraft by FedEx.
Upon arrival in Chengdu, Bei Bei's new keepers will accompany him to one of the bases run by the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, and Thompson will remain with Bei Bei for a short time while he acclimates to his new home.
Bei Bei will enter the giant panda breeding program when he reaches sexual maturity between five and seven years old, according to the U.S. national zoo.
Dubbed China's "national treasure," giant pandas mainly live in southwest China's Sichuan Province as well as neighboring provinces of Shaanxi and Gansu.
The latest census in 2014 found there were 1,864 giant pandas alive in the wild, up from 1,114 decades ago. The number of pandas bred in captivity reached 548 globally as of last November, according to China's National Forestry and Grassland Administration.
Giant pandas are solitary in the wild, and cubs separate from their mothers to establish their own territories between 18 months and two years old.
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Fwu-Long Mi
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology
International Ph.D. Program for Cell Therapy and Regeneration Medicine
TMU Research Center for Biomedical Devices and Prototyping Production
Emailflmi530326@tmu.edu.tw
Chinese Chemical Society Annual Best Article Awardss
Certificated Member of Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society of the Republic of China
Macromolecular Biomaterials.
Theranostic nanomedicine
Protection of activities of natural products
1993-1997 Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, National Central University, Taiwan
1989-1991 M.S, Department of Chemical and Materials, Chung Cheng Institute of Technology, National Defense University
1983-1987 B.S., Department of Chemical and Materials, Chung Cheng Institute of Technology, National Defense University
Vanung University Department of Biotechnology Professor 2006/09~2012/07
Fingerprint Dive into the research topics where Fwu-Long Mi is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Chitosan Chemical Compounds
Nanoparticles Medicine & Life Sciences
Microspheres Engineering & Materials Science
Acids Engineering & Materials Science
Crosslinking Engineering & Materials Science
Pharmaceutical Preparations Chemical Compounds
Proteins Engineering & Materials Science
Insulin Engineering & Materials Science
褐藻醣/尿激?組裝之磁性奈米粒用於檢測血栓形成和靶向溶解血栓治療
Mi, F.
Project: A - Government Institution › b - Ministry of Science and Technology
107大專生計畫獎-糜福龍
環境敏感性幾丁聚醣奈米微胞用於pH突躍激活，氧氣釋放與抗癌藥物傳遞(2/2)
8/1/18 → 10/1/19
A Multi-Sensitive Chitosan Nanomicelles for Targeted Anticancer Drug Delivery
A bioinspired hyperthermic macrophage-based polypyrrole-polyethylenimine (Ppy-PEI) nanocomplex carrier to prevent and disrupt thrombotic fibrin clots
Burnouf, T., Chen, C. H., Tan, S. J., Tseng, C. L., Lu, K. Y., Chang, L. H., Nyambat, B., Huang, S. C., Jheng, P. R., Aditya, R. N., Mi, F. L. & Chuang, E. Y., Sep 15 2019, In : Acta Biomaterialia. 96, p. 468-479 12 p.
Polyethyleneimine
Polypyrroles
A novel injectable in situ forming gel based on carboxymethyl hexanoyl chitosan/hyaluronic acid polymer blending for sustained release of berberine
Lu, K. Y., Lin, Y. C., Lu, H. T., Ho, Y. C., Weng, S. C., Tsai, M. L. & Mi, F. L., Feb 15 2019, In : Carbohydrate Polymers. 206, p. 664-673 10 p.
Development of genipin-crosslinked and fucoidan-adsorbed nano-hydroxyapatite/hydroxypropyl chitosan composite scaffolds for bone tissue engineering
Lu, H. T., Lu, T. W., Chen, C. H. & Mi, F. L., May 1 2019, In : International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 128, p. 973-984 12 p.
Scaffolds (biology)
Development of injectable fucoidan and biological macromolecules hybrid hydrogels for intra-articular delivery of platelet-rich plasma
Lu, H. T., Chang, W. T., Tsai, M. L., Chen, C. H., Chen, W. Y. & Mi, F. L., Jan 1 2019, In : Marine Drugs. 17, 4, 236.
Development of mutlifunctional nanoparticles self-assembled from trimethyl chitosan and fucoidan for enhanced oral delivery of insulin
Tsai, L. C., Chen, C. H., Lin, C. W., Ho, Y. C. & Mi, F. L., Apr 1 2019, In : International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 126, p. 141-150 10 p.
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Oilers' Zack Kassian promises more retribution for Flames' Matthew Tkachuk after suspension
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The Battle of Alberta is now a war of words, courtesy of Edmonton Oilers forward Zack Kassian and Calgary Flames forward Matthew Tkachuk.
Kassian defended his attack on Tkachuk during the Oilers' loss at the Flames on Saturday night, which earned him a misconduct penalty and a two-game suspension from the NHL Department of Player Safety. And he promised more retribution to come after Tkachuk dropped him with two massive, but legal by the NHL's standards, bodychecks during the game.
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"I'd do it all over again," Kassian said Tuesday. "You play with fire, eventually you're going to get burned. He messed with the wrong guy. I don't think he realizes we play in the same division."
The fight was in response to hits that Kassian felt were predatory in nature. "If he doesn't want to get hit, then stay off the tracks," Tkachuk said after the game.
Tkachuk didn't follow "the code" of hockey violence, opting not to fight after the second of those hits when Kassian dropped the gloves and started punching.
"I'm not fighting him. Tough little trade-off there," said Tkachuk, who's tied for the team lead with 38 points. "If he wants to react like that, we'll take the power play and we'll take the game-winner and we'll take first place."
Kassian felt Tkachuk should have fought him.
"Even if they're clean, they're still predatory hits, which is fine. I like big-boy hockey. But if you're going to play big-boy hockey, you have to answer the bell sometimes. And he clearly hasn't done that his whole career," Kassian said. "He's gonna play the way he wants to play. If he answers the bell right there, I don't think anything else happens, and maybe he gains a percentage of respect in this league."
He'll miss the Oilers' games against the Nashville Predators on Tuesday night and the Arizona Coyotes on Saturday night before the team hits its bye week around the All-Star break. He'll return on Jan. 29, when the Oilers get reacquainted with Calgary in Edmonton.
Kassian said -- after taking those hits from Tkachuk, and seeing the NHL's reaction to them -- he now knows were the line is.
"After speaking on the phone, [NHL Player Safety's George] Parros explained why the hit was not dirty. That cleared up a lot. That gave me some clarity about what you can and can't do now," he said "So I'll put that in the memory bank."
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Young Thug - The London ft. (J. Cole & Travis Scott) Stream "The London" Here: https://youngthug.ffm.to/thelondon Follow Young Thug: http://www.twitter.com/youngthug http://instagram.com/thuggerthugger1 http://www.facebook.com/youngthugmusic https://soundcloud.com/youngthugworld Follow J. Cole https://www.instagram.com/realcoleworld/ https://twitter.com/jcolenc https://www.facebook.com/JColeMusic/ Follow Travis Scott https://twitter.com/trvisXX https://www.instagram.com/travisscott/ https://soundcloud.com/travisscott-2 facebook.com/travisscottlaflame/ https://travisscott.com/ -- #YoungThug #JCole #TravisScott ℗ 2019 300 Entertainment / Atlantic Recording Corporation
Stream "The London" here: https://youngthug.ffm.to/thelondon Follow Young Thug: www.YoungThugMusic.com http://www.twitter.com/youngthug http://instagram.com/thuggerthugger1 http://www.facebook.com/youngthugmusic Follow J. Cole: https://www.instagram.com/realcoleworld/ https://twitter.com/jcolenc https://www.facebook.com/JColeMusic/ Follow Travis Scott https://twitter.com/trvisXX https://www.instagram.com/travisscott/ https://soundcloud.com/travisscott-2 https://www.facebook.com/travisscottlaflame https://travisscott.com/ -- Lyrics: [Intro: J. Cole] Yeah, yeah, yeah Oh, oh, woah Woah, woah Oh (You good, T-Minus?) Oh [Chorus: Travis Scott] Meet me at The London If you find time, we can run one Talk about some things we can't undo You just send the pin, I can find you 6'1", on the money, 9'2" You just say the word and I’ll run through Two texts, no reply, that’s when I knew I knew, I knew, yeah, I knew [Verse 1: J. Cole] Yeah, circumnavigate the globe as the cash grows (Grow) Get a nigga whacked like you get the grass mowed (Mowed) I'm talkin' slick when I'm with the Big Slime, nigga (Slime) Could hit your bitch, you could never hit mine, nigga (Mine) In my DM, they electric slide, nigga (Huh, slide) No catfishin', this is not a fish fry, nigga Never switch sides on my dog Catch a contact, hitch a ride, go to Mars Everybody sing How could you come up out your face And say I ain't the hardest nigga you done ever heard? I left a flock of rappers dead and buried A verse from me is like 11 birds Just did the math, that's like two thousand dollars every word I'm on the verge, I'll beat the charge I killed some niggas and I walked away from it Then I observe, just how you curve Then told the nigga that they gotta wait for it "I know—I know you in high demand" I'm ballin' on a pussy nigga like Juwanna Mann I'm drownin' all inside the pussy like I never swam Ayy, fuck your IG, I put somethin' on your sonogram I'm the man, ayy, ayy [Chorus: Travis Scott] Me-meet me at The London If you find time, we can run one Talk about some things we can't undo You just send the pin, I can find you 6'1", on the money, 9'2" You just say the word and I’ll run through Two texts, no reply, that’s when I knew I knew, I knew, yeah, I knew [Verse 2: Young Thug] Pimp talk, church talk, I can make a brick walk (Woo) Up north, down south, Bankhead to Rachel Walk (Ayy) Hit it with a little water, stretch it like a vocal cord STD, I run my ward, fuck a fed and his daughter (Let's go) I'ma run the compound (Yeah) I supply the cigarettes and bread (Woo) I got a main and she gon' ride (Uh) She took a quarter and she fled (Uh) I'm in the Lamb, so she gon' ride (Yeah) I see the pain in shawty's light brown eyes (Ooh) I'm at The London with some big thots No fries, she eat steaks with the fish sides Did your mama tell you when something on fire Stop, drop and roll? (Aw yeah) I've been on the road like a pair of spinners at Stop-N-Go's (Yeah) I could charge 'em like a Dodge Hemi Demon Got your broad in the garage eatin' semen Every time a nigga go back to the ward Niggas act like they want start And we leave them on the cement (Grra, grra) [Chorus: Travis Scott] Me-meet me at The London If you find time, we can run one Talk about some things we can't undo You just send the pin, I can find you 6'1", on the money, 9'2" You just say the word and I’ll run through Two texts, no reply, that’s when I knew I knew, I knew, yeah, I knew [Outro: Travis Scott] I, crash down, we get money (Hey) For the full town (Woah, when you won't play, I) I decided, for the full side (Hoes will say) And they know, I might (And fly, I...) Get down, might (Don't play) See the whole town every time, I... (Oh, every day) Yeah, they know what's up (Folks will say) -- #YoungThug #JCole #TravisScott #TheLondon #SoMuchFUn ℗ 2019 300 Entertainment / Atlantic Recording Corporation
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Tuesday afternoon drive in the City of London, a major business and financial centre with great views of the new 22 Bishopsgate office tower at the heart of the City of London. https://www.wsp.com/en-US/projects/22-bishopsgate The City of London continues to be one of the world's primary business centres, and a major meeting point for businesses worldwide. The City is a major business and financial centre. Throughout the 19th century, the City was the world's primary business centre, and it continues to be a major meeting point for businesses. London came top in the Worldwide Centres of Commerce Index, published in 2008. The insurance industry is focused around the eastern side of the City, around Lloyd's building. A secondary financial district exists outside the City, at Canary Wharf, 2.5 miles (4 km) to the east. The City of London is a city and county that contains the historic centre and the primary central business district (CBD) of London. It constituted most of London from its settlement by the Romans in the 1st century AD to the Middle Ages, but the agglomeration has since grown far beyond the City's borders. The City is now only a tiny part of the metropolis of London, though it remains a notable part of central London. Administratively, it forms one of the 33 local authority districts of Greater London; however, the City of London is not a London borough, a status reserved for the other 32 districts (including London's only other city, the City of Westminster). It is also a separate county of England, being an enclave surrounded by Greater London. It is the smallest county in the United Kingdom. The City of London is widely referred to simply as the City (differentiated from the phrase "the city of London" by capitalising City) and is also colloquially known as the Square Mile, as it is 1.12 sq mi (716.80 acres; 2.90 km2) in area. Both of these terms are also often used as metonyms for the United Kingdom's trading and financial services industries, which continue a notable history of being largely based in the City. The name London is now ordinarily used for a far wider area than just the City. London most often denotes the sprawling London metropolis, or the 32 London boroughs, in addition to the City of London itself. This wider usage of London is documented as far back as 1888, when the County of London was created. The City has a resident population of 9,401 (ONS estimate, mid-2016) but over 300,000 people commute to and work there. About three quarters of the jobs in the City of London are in the financial, professional, and associated business services sectors. The legal profession forms a major component of the northern and western sides of the City, especially in the Temple and Chancery Lane areas where the Inns of Court are located, of which two—Inner Temple and Middle Temple—fall within the City of London boundary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London http://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/twentytwo/18648 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22_Bishopsgate
Stream Late Nights: Europe: http://smarturl.it/rLateNightsEurope?iqid=yt Sign up to Jeremih’s email list: http://smarturl.it/JeremihEmailSignUp?iqid=yt More From Jeremih: http://www.jeremih.com http://www.facebook.com/officialjeremih http://twitter.com/jeremih http://instagram.com/Jeremih http://smarturl.it/JeremihSpotify?IQid=yt Music video by Jeremih performing London. (C) 2016 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc. #Jeremih #London #Vevo
** Let's Travel ** in die Weltstadt London in Großbritannien. Inhalt: - Rundflug über London - Westminster Cathedral - Buckingham Palace - Westminster Abbey - Big Ben / Elizabeth Tower - Palace of Westminster - Tower Bridge - Tower of London - London Eye - Trafalgar Square - The National Gallery - Chinatown, London - Piccadilly Circus - M&M's World - Doctor Who's TARDIS - London bei Nacht Bitte die Daumen nach oben, wenn es euch gefallen hat! Danke für die Unterstützung! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Let's Travel ** to London in the UK Content: - Round trip over London - Westminster Cathedral - Buckingham Palace - Westminster Abbey - Big Ben / Elizabeth Tower - Palace of Westminster - Tower Bridge - Tower of London - London Eye - Trafalgar Square - The National Gallery - Chinatown, London - Piccadilly Circus - M & M's World - Doctor Who's TARDIS - London by night Please thumbs up if you liked it! Thanks for the support! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Let's Travel ** à Londres au Royaume-Uni Contenu: - vol au-dessus de Londres - la cathédrale de Westminster - Buckingham Palace - Abbaye de Westminster - Big Ben / Elizabeth Tower - Palais de Westminster - Tower Bridge - Tour de Londres - London Eye - Trafalgar Square - La National Gallery - Chinatown, Londres - Piccadilly Circus - Le monde de M & M - Doctor Who TARDIS - Londres la nuit S'il vous plaît Thumbs up si vous avez aimé! Merci pour le soutien! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Let's Travel ** a Londres en el Reino Unido contenido: - vuelo sobre Londres - la catedral de Westminster - Palacio de Buckingham - Abadía de Westminster - Big Ben / Torre de Elizabeth - Palacio de Westminster - Puente de la Torre - Torre de Londres - London Eye - Plaza de Trafalgar - La Galería Nacional - Chinatown, Londres - Piccadilly Circus - El mundo de M & M - Doctor Who TARDIS - Londres en la noche Por favor, pulgares para arriba si te ha gustado! Gracias por el apoyo! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Let's Travel ** a Londres, no Reino Unido conteúdo: - vôo sobre Londres - Catedral de Westminster - Buckingham Palace - Abadia de Westminster - Big Ben / Elizabeth Torre - Palácio de Westminster - Tower Bridge - Torre de Londres - London Eye - Trafalgar Square - A Galeria Nacional - Chinatown, Londres - Piccadilly Circus - Mundo de M & M - Doctor Who é TARDIS - Londres na noite Por favor os polegares para cima se você gostou! Obrigado pelo apoio! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Let's Travel ** a Londra nel Regno Unito contenuti: - volo su Londra - Cattedrale di Westminster - Buckingham Palace - Abbazia di Westminster - Big Ben / Elizabeth Tower - Palazzo di Westminster - Tower Bridge - Torre di Londra - London Eye - Trafalgar Square - La National Gallery - Chinatown, London - Piccadilly Circus - M & M del mondo - Doctor Who è TARDIS - Londra di notte Si prega di thumbs up se ti è piaciuto! Grazie per il supporto! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Let's Travel ** do Londýna ve Velké Británii obsah: - Let nad Londýnem - Westminster Cathedral - Buckingham Palace - Westminster Abbey - Big Ben / Elizabeth Tower - Westminsterský palác - Tower Bridge - Tower of London - London Eye - Trafalgar Square - Národní galerie - Chinatown, London - Piccadilly Circus - M & M World - Doctor Who je TARDIS - London at Night Prosím, palec nahoru, pokud se vám to líbilo! Díky za podporu! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Let's Travel ** 伦敦英国 内容： - 飞越伦敦 - 西敏寺大教堂 - 白金汉宫 - 西敏寺 - 大本/伊丽莎白塔 - 威斯敏斯特宫 - 塔桥 - 伦敦塔 - 伦敦眼 - 特拉法加广场 - 国家美术馆 - 唐人街，伦敦 - 皮卡迪利广场 - M＆M的世界 - 医生谁TARDIS - 伦敦夜景 请竖起大拇指，如果你喜欢它！ 感谢您的支持！ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Let's Travel ** 英国のロンドンへ コンテンツ： - ロンドン経由便 - ウェストミンスター大聖堂 - バッキンガム宮殿 - ウェストミンスター寺院 - ビッグ・ベン/エリザベス・タワー - ウェストミンスター宮殿 - タワーブリッジ - ロンドン塔 - ロンドン・アイ - トラファルガー広場 - ナショナル・ギャラリー - チャイナタウン、ロンドン - ピカデリーサーカス - M＆Mの世界 - TARDISの医師 - 夜のロンドン あなたがそれを好きなら親指ください！ サポートしてくれてありがとう！ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Get his new album ‚DJ Antoine - 2019 Megamix‘ here: https://dj-antoine.lnk.to/2019MegamixYO Check the new single ’Good Vibes (Good Feeling)‘ from DJ Antoine feat. Craig Smart here: https://ktr.lnk.to/DJAntoine-GoodVibesYo Taken from his new album ’THE TIME IS NOW’ | 2CD-Set, Download & Stream | Get it here: https://ktr.lnk.to/DJ-Antoine-TTINYo Check out DJ Antoine’s new single ‚LOVED ME ONCE‘ here: https://ktr.lnk.to/LovedMeOnceYo ► Follow DJ Antoine http://www.facebook.com/DJAntoine http://www.djantoine.com http://www.soundcloud.com/dj-ant1 http://twitter.com/djantoine http://www.instagram.com/djantoineofficial http://www.youtube.com/watchant1 http://www.myspace.com/djantoine http://www.globalproductions.ch/ You can find all DJ Antoine hits right here: https://dj-antoine.lnk.to/discography ► Follow #Kontor Records Spotify, Apple Music & Co: https://kontor.lnk.to/TopOfTheClubsYo Instagram: http://instagram.com/kontorrecords Facebook: http://facebook.com/kontorrecords Twitter: http://twitter.com/kontorrecords MixCloud: http://mixcloud.com/kontorrecords Kontor.TV: http://youtube.com/kontor
We've compiled a list of 32 places you should eat at in London. From breakfast spots to delicious dining, and sweet treats to street food, our compilation has got you covered. Watch the video above for some foodie inspiration in the UK's capital. MORE LONDON EATS CONTENT: Why This Chef Never Puts Cheese In A Sandwich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipLt1rHz1C0 Why People Line Up For Hours To Get Into This All-Pink Café https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BfXc48bwpU Meet The Chef Behind London’s Most Viral Desserts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5Jqb560Csg ------------------------------------------------------ #London #Food #FoodInsider INSIDER is great journalism about what passionate people actually want to know. That’s everything from news to food, celebrity to science, politics to sports and all the rest. It’s smart. It’s fearless. It’s fun. We push the boundaries of digital storytelling. Our mission is to inform and inspire. Subscribe to our channel: http://insder.co/Food and visit us at: https://insder.co/2NCg6Sg FOOD INSIDER on Facebook: https://insder.co/2O4gt7A FOOD INSIDER on Instagram: http://insder.co/2aywJtk FOOD INSIDER on Twitter: https://insder.co/2IahHsi INSIDER on Snapchat: https://insder.co/2KJLtVo 32 Places You Need To Eat At In London | The Ultimate List
• My trip to London, England. all videos & photos taken by me • I love making videos, they allow you to always remember amazing experiences, hope you enjoy. • Instagram: Ronsbeenhere • Facebook: Ronsbeenhere London, England’s capital, set on the River Thames, is a 21st-century city with history stretching back to Roman times. At its centre stand the imposing Houses of Parliament, the iconic ‘Big Ben’ clock tower and Westminster Abbey, site of British monarch coronations. Across the Thames, the London Eye observation wheel provides panoramic views of the South Bank cultural complex, and the entire city. Points of interest: 1 Buckingham Palace and the Changing of the Guard 2 The British Museum 3 The Tower of London and Tower Bridge 4 Big Ben and Parliament 5 Westminster Abbey 6 Hyde Park 7 Churchill's War Rooms 8 The London Eye 9 Hampton Court Palace 10 The Victoria and Albert Museum 11 Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square 12 St Paul's Cathedral 13 Covent Garden 14 The Two Tates: Tate Britain and Tate Modern 15 Greenwich and Docklands 16 Kew Gardens 17 National Gallery
Botany Bay, an open oceanic embayment, is located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 13 km (8 mi) south of the Sydney central business district. Botany Bay has its source in the confluence of the Georges River at Taren Point and the Cooks River at Kyeemagh and flows 10 km (6 mi) to the east before meeting its mouth, the Tasman Sea, midpoint between La Perouse and Kurnell.
The total catchment area of the bay is approximately 55 km2 (21 sq mi) and the area surrounding the bay is generally managed by Roads and Maritime Services. Despite its relative shallowness, the bay serves as greater metropolitan Sydney's main cargo seaport, located at Port Botany, with facilities managed by Sydney Ports Corporation. Two runways of Sydney Airport extend into the bay. Botany Bay National Park is located on the northern and southern headlands of the bay.
The land adjacent to Botany Bay was occupied for many thousands of years by the Tharawal and Eora Aboriginal peoples and their associated clans. On 29 April 1770, Botany Bay was the site of James Cook's first landing of HMS Endeavour on the continent of Australia, after his extensive navigation of New Zealand. During his expedition, Cook encountered aboriginals who conducted their ritual human sacrifices on the small coral reefs that dot the bay. He wrote extensively in his journal about these people, describing them as "Savages of the East." Later the British planned Botany Bay as the site for a penal colony. Out of these plans came the first European habitation of Australia at Sydney Cove. Even though the penal settlement was almost immediately shifted to Sydney Cove, for some time in Britain transportation to "Botany Bay" was a metonym for transportation to any of the Australian penal settlements.
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Botany Bay refers to an area on the outskirts of Chorley alongside the Leeds-Liverpool Canal. It was instrumental in transport for the North West of England and was home to several mills during the Industrial Revolution. The earliest proof of settlements in the Botany Bay area, formerly known as Knowley Moss, date back to 1734 as shown on the map of Chorley at this time. It was not until the late 18th century that Knowley began to develop further when the site was earmarked as the main port for the Chorley area.
Canal building
During the construction of the Lancaster Canal, Botany Bay played host to the canal workers, and it is believed the name Botany Bay originated from around this time, due to the nature of the navvies occupying the area the locals saw it as an area to be avoided, much like the penal colony at Botany Bay Australia. By 1816 The Leeds-Liverpool canal had come to incorporate the Lancaster canal and by this time Botany Bay had become an important loading and unloading area due to its warehouse system and proximity to the canal.
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London i/ˈlʌndən/ is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom. Standing on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia. It was founded by the Romans, who named it Londinium. London's ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its 1.12-square-mile (2.9 km2) medieval boundaries and in 2011 had a resident population of 7,375, making it the smallest city in England. Since at least the 19th century, the term London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms Greater London, a region of England governed by the Mayor of London and the London Assembly. The conurbation also covers two English counties: the small district of the City of London and the county of Greater London. The latter constitutes the vast majority of London, though historically it was split between Middlesex (a now abolished county), Essex, Surrey, Kent and Hertfordshire.
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Kenenisa Bekele VS. Eliud Kipchoge - CONFIRMED! || The 2020 London Marathon!
This is the match we've been waiting for! The 2 fastest marathoners in history are now set to clash on April 26th, 2020. Eliud Kipchoge - Marathon Personal Best - 2:01:39 Kenenisa Bekele - Marathon Personal Best - 2:01:41 For the past 6 years, Eliud Kipchoge has been the undisputed king of the marathon, and we've yet to see anyone genuinely challenge him over the distance. However in September of 2019, Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia ran a 2:01:41 at the Berlin Marathon, only running 2 seconds within Kipchoge's seemingly untouchable record. With this announcement, you can be sure that both athletes are putting their best foot forward with their training, and over the next few months, we'll certainly have an epic race to look forward to. Thanks for watching!
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London Eye Landmark 2019 - 4K Ultra HD. JAIN MANDIR in SINDH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWZZFUBpjsE #Londoneye #landmark #London #UK #England #UnitedKingdom #Attraction #CityofLondon #Sightseeing #Travelanama #Tourist #Tourism #Travelguide #Travelvlog #Travel #touroflondon #londontourism #londontravel #pakistaniinlondon #touringlondon #londoncity #londoneyelandmark #travelbritain
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Stream "The London" here: https://youngthug.ffm.to/thelondon Follow Young Thug: www.YoungThugMusic.com http://www.twitter.com/youngthug http://instagram.com/thuggerthugger1 http://www.facebook.com/youngthugmusic Follow J. Cole: https://www.instagram.com/realcoleworld/ https://twitter.com/jcolenc https://www.facebook.com/JColeMusic/ Follow Travis Scott https://twitter.com/trvisXX https://www.instagram.com/travisscott/ https://soundcloud.com/travisscott-2 https://www.facebook.com/travisscottlaflame https://travisscott.com/ -- Lyrics: [Intro: J. Cole] Yeah, yeah, yeah Oh, oh, woah Woah, woah Oh (You good, T-Minus?) Oh [Chorus: Travis Scott] Meet me at The London If you find time, we can run one Talk about some things we can't undo You just send the pin, I can find you 6'1", on the money...
🌎🎒😎 Reliable insurance is a travel MUST-HAVE! SafetyWing is our go-to for flexible & affordable travel medical insurance 👉 https://www.safetywing.com/a/hungrypassport (this video is sponsored by SafetyWing) In this video we’ll show you 10 best things to see in London. Here are our top 10 picks: #1 0:23 TOWER BRIDGE crosses the River Thames and was built at the end of 19th century. #2 0:51 CAMDEN TOWN is former industrial economic base that now hosts street markets and music venues which are strongly associated with alternative culture. #3 1:23 MUSEUMS London is full of amazing museums and most of them are free. Visit for example British Museum, Natural History Museum and Science Museum. #4 2:04 BIG BEN AND PALACE OF WESTMINSTER This British cultural icon was completed...
Listen/Download ‘London’ here: http://smarturl.it/AJxDenoLDN?IQid=yt Produced by @dabeatfreakz1 Follow AJ x Deno: Twitter: https://twitter.com/OFFICIALAJxDENO Facebook (Deno): https://www.facebook.com/denodriz/ Instagram (AJ): https://www.instagram.com/officialajldn/ Instagram (Deno): https://www.instagram.com/denodriz/ Instagram @eocrossover Follow EO: Twitter: http://smarturl.it/EOTwitter Instagram: http://smarturl.it/EOInstagram Facebook: http://smarturl.it/EOFacebook YouTube: http://smarturl.it/EOYouTube 🚨 SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/GRMsubscribe 📰 VISIT: http://grmdaily.com/ ✅ DOWNLOAD THE GRM APP FOR iPHONE & iPAD NOW: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/grm-daily/id1170798576 ▶ DOWNLOAD FOR ANDROID NOW: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grmdaily.grmdaily WWW...
Tuesday afternoon drive in the City of London, a major business and financial centre with great views of the new 22 Bishopsgate office tower at the heart of the City of London. https://www.wsp.com/en-US/projects/22-bishopsgate The City of London continues to be one of the world's primary business centres, and a major meeting point for businesses worldwide. The City is a major business and financial centre. Throughout the 19th century, the City was the world's primary business centre, and it continues to be a major meeting point for businesses. London came top in the Worldwide Centres of Commerce Index, published in 2008. The insurance industry is focused around the eastern side of the City, around Lloyd's building. A secondary financial district exists outside the City, at Canary Wharf,...
** Let's Travel ** in die Weltstadt London in Großbritannien. Inhalt: - Rundflug über London - Westminster Cathedral - Buckingham Palace - Westminster Abbey - Big Ben / Elizabeth Tower - Palace of Westminster - Tower Bridge - Tower of London - London Eye - Trafalgar Square - The National Gallery - Chinatown, London - Piccadilly Circus - M&M's World - Doctor Who's TARDIS - London bei Nacht Bitte die Daumen nach oben, wenn es euch gefallen hat! Danke für die Unterstützung! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Let's Travel ** to London in the UK Content: - Round trip over London - Westminster Cathedral - Buckingham Palace - Westminster Abbey - Big Ben / Elizabeth Tower - Palace of Westminster - Tower Bridge - Tower of London - Londo...
Get his new album ‚DJ Antoine - 2019 Megamix‘ here: https://dj-antoine.lnk.to/2019MegamixYO Check the new single ’Good Vibes (Good Feeling)‘ from DJ Antoine feat. Craig Smart here: https://ktr.lnk.to/DJAntoine-GoodVibesYo Taken from his new album ’THE TIME IS NOW’ | 2CD-Set, Download & Stream | Get it here: https://ktr.lnk.to/DJ-Antoine-TTINYo Check out DJ Antoine’s new single ‚LOVED ME ONCE‘ here: https://ktr.lnk.to/LovedMeOnceYo ► Follow DJ Antoine http://www.facebook.com/DJAntoine http://www.djantoine.com http://www.soundcloud.com/dj-ant1 http://twitter.com/djantoine http://www.instagram.com/djantoineofficial http://www.youtube.com/watchant1 http://www.myspace.com/djantoine http://www.globalproductions.ch/ You can find all DJ Antoine hits right here: https://dj-antoin...
We've compiled a list of 32 places you should eat at in London. From breakfast spots to delicious dining, and sweet treats to street food, our compilation has got you covered. Watch the video above for some foodie inspiration in the UK's capital. MORE LONDON EATS CONTENT: Why This Chef Never Puts Cheese In A Sandwich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipLt1rHz1C0 Why People Line Up For Hours To Get Into This All-Pink Café https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BfXc48bwpU Meet The Chef Behind London’s Most Viral Desserts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5Jqb560Csg ------------------------------------------------------ #London #Food #FoodInsider INSIDER is great journalism about what passionate people actually want to know. That’s everything from news to food, celebrity to science, politics to sp...
• My trip to London, England. all videos & photos taken by me • I love making videos, they allow you to always remember amazing experiences, hope you enjoy. • Instagram: Ronsbeenhere • Facebook: Ronsbeenhere London, England’s capital, set on the River Thames, is a 21st-century city with history stretching back to Roman times. At its centre stand the imposing Houses of Parliament, the iconic ‘Big Ben’ clock tower and Westminster Abbey, site of British monarch coronations. Across the Thames, the London Eye observation wheel provides panoramic views of the South Bank cultural complex, and the entire city. Points of interest: 1 Buckingham Palace and the Changing of the Guard 2 The British Museum 3 The Tower of London and Tower Bridge 4 Big Ben and Parliament 5 Westminster Abbey 6 Hyde Park...
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New Commission Must Resolve Voting Mess
Partisan Elections Commission replaced state GAB; how will it perform?
By Steven Walters - Aug 15th, 2016 11:48 am
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos appointeed Steve King, a member of the Republican National Committee.
For almost two years, Republican elected officials said this: A partisan panel – with equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans – would better administer election and campaign-finance laws than the six-member Government Accountability Board (GAB) made up of retired judges.
So, those Republicans created the state Elections Commission, made up of three Republicans and three Democrats. It was created only weeks ago.
Now, we get to see if those Republicans were right.
The Commission is in the middle of a complicated, bitter fight between opponents and champions of dozens of changes to state voting laws enacted since Republicans took power in 2011. Those changes included requiring a photo ID to vote, abolishing straight-ticket voting and telling local clerks when they could accept absentee ballots. Rulings by two federal judges shredded key parts of those GOP changes, and are being appealed.
The new Elections Commission only has 11 weeks – until the Nov. 8 election – to get it right. More than 3 million votes could again be cast for President.
And the Commission is only one of four actors in this drama. Its lawyer, the state Justice Department, is appealing federal judges’ rulings that both blocked and upheld those changes. Finally, lawyers for groups that sued to block the laws, having won on some key points, are fighting Justice Department attempts to reinstate those laws.
Here’s a partial list of what all these actors have to resolve by Nov. 8:
*Should someone without a photo ID be able to sign an affidavit stating why they don’t have a photo ID and vote? U.S. Judge Lynn Adelman, a former Democratic state senator, ordered the affidavit remedy, and even specified how it should be worded. But, on Wednesday, three U.S. Court of Appeals judges tentatively struck down Adelman’s affidavit option. Those judges cited a “substantial likelihood” that Adelman’s remedy would eventually be thrown out. And, on Thursday, another federal judge refused to reconsider his ruling ordering some changes to the GOP laws.
*What residency requirement – 10 days? 28 days? – must a voter on Nov. 8 swear they have met?
*Are limits that Republicans put on absentee voting, and hours local clerks’ offices can be open to accept absentee ballots, all void?
*What – if anything – can accurately be said in the planned education campaign to make voters aware of the first presidential election that requires a photo ID to vote?
“It’s a mess,” one official who has worked with election laws for decades said. “There are a lot of moving parts.” The official, who agreed to discuss the conflicts only anonymously, also worries that the confusion will hurt – not enhance – turnout on Nov. 8.
And, when you rely on 1,800 local clerks to train poll workers and run elections, the official added, “You know one of them is going to make a mistake.”
There is one added — and huge — uncertainty: Federal money for 22 of the Commission’s 31 employees – or 70 percent – runs out early next year.
Elections Commission members include the super partisan Steve King, of Janesville, a member of the Republican National Committee and an appointee of Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, and two members with extensive experience in running local elections – Beverly Gill, of Burlington, and Julie Glancey, of Sheboygan Falls. Gill and Glancey were appointed by Republican Gov. Scott Walker, but he was pressured by legislators to appoint both a Republican (Gill) and Democrat (Glancey, a retired Sheboygan County Clerk).
Two other Democrats on the commission include Ann Jacobs, of Milwaukee, an appointee of Senate Democratic Leader Jennifer Shilling, and Mark Thomsen, of Milwaukee, who was appointed by Assembly Democratic Leader Peter Barca.
The only Commission member who lives in Dane County is Don Millis, an appointee of Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald. Millis is also the only commissioner who served on the old state Elections Board, which GAB replaced in January 2008.
A quick history lesson: Power on the old Elections Board switched back and forth, depending on which party was in control in the Capitol. That meant a decision to let a Democratic member of Congress use his federal campaign fund to run for governor was reversed years later, after Republicans took control of the board.
The 3-3 partisan makeup of the Elections Commission also means that a tie would leave a major issue unresolved. If that happened often, the commission would become Wisconsin’s version of the Federal Elections Commission, which deadlocks so often along party lines that it can’t get anything done.
Walker last week called requiring voters to show a photo ID on Nov. 8 “a reasonable measure to protect Wisconsin voters against cheating and make sure every vote counts.” Democratic appointees on the commission may not agree.
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Around 250 Germans on Saturday protested in the outskirts of Berlin where electric car startup Tesla is planning to build a gigafactory, saying its construction will endanger water supply and wildlife in the area. The U.S. carmaker announced plans last November to build its first European car factory in Gruenheide, in the eastern state of Brandenburg. Politicians, unions and industry groups have welcomed the move, saying it will bring jobs to the region, but environmental concerns drove hundreds of locals to the streets on Saturday.
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said Friday it will review a petition asking the agency to formally investigate and recall 500,000 Tesla Inc vehicles over sudden unintended acceleration reports. The petition covers 2012 through 2019 model year Tesla Model S, 2016 through 2019 Tesla Model X, and 2018 through 2019 Tesla Model 3 vehicles, the agency said.
(Bloomberg) -- German rangers stand guard to shoo away visitors from a nondescript stretch of forest near Berlin, where a sign nearby warns of “Lebensgefahr” (mortal danger).The precautions are part of the frantic activity underway to set up Tesla Inc.’s latest assembly plant, Elon Musk’s most daring attack on the German auto establishment. Workers wielding metal detectors have started combing through an area covering some 200 football fields to search for errant ammunition lurking beneath the sandy surface of tiny Gruenheide.It’s the first stage to prepare a site that could churn out as many as 500,000 cars a year, employ 12,000 people and pose a serious challenge to Volkswagen AG, Daimler AG and BMW AG. Once deemed free of World War II explosives, harvesters and trucks will roll in to clear thousands of trees in the first stage of development. The work needs to be done by the end of February to meet Tesla’s aggressive timetable. The project represents a second chance for the quiet town, nestled between two lakes on the edge of a nature reserve southeast of Berlin.Gruenheide lost out on a similar factory two decades ago, when BMW opted for Leipzig. That missed opportunity helped town officials to move quickly when Tesla expressed interest in building its first European factory in Germany, with a plot set aside for industrial use and offering easy access to the Autobahn and rail lines.Read More: Elon Musk’s German Factory Started With Love Letter From Berlin“The investment is a unique opportunity,” Mayor Arne Christiani said in his office, where a map of the Tesla project hangs on the wall. “It gives young people with a good education or a university degree the possibility to stay in our region—an option that didn’t exist in past years.”If it clears Germany’s red tape, the plant will make batteries, powertrains and vehicles, including the Model Y crossover, the Model 3 sedan and any future cars, according to company filings. The factory hall will include a pressing plant, paint shop and seat manufacturing in a building that will be 744 meters (2,440 feet) long—nearly triple the length of the Titanic. There’s space for four such facilities.Musk is taking his fight for the future of transport into the heartland of the combustion engine, where the established players long laughed off Tesla as an upstart on feeble financial footing that couldn’t compete with their rich engineering heritage. He casually dropped the news at an awards ceremony in Berlin in November, leaving the top brass of Germany’s car industry shell-shocked.“Elon Musk is going where his strongest competitors are, right into the heart of the global auto industry,” said Juergen Pieper, a Frankfurt-based analyst with Bankhaus Metzler. “No other foreign carmaker has done that in decades given Germany’s high wages, powerful unions and high taxes.”Building a factory in Europe’s largest car market is a major test of Musk’s global ambitions. Demand in the region is flat, and buyers are more loyal to local brands. Meanwhile, labor costs in Germany’s auto sector are 50% higher than in the U.S. and five times what they are in Poland, just an hour’s drive away from Gruenheide.Gruenheide TimelineEnd February: Finish tree logging before migrant birds nest March 5: Deadline for comments from nearby residents March 18: Public meeting to discuss the project Mid-2020: Construction expected to begin July 2021: Targeted start of productionOn the positive side, electric cars require less labor to build, and Germany has a deep reserve of auto experts. The location also offers the soft-power advantage of proximity to the country’s leaders.Under pressure for being slow to pick up on the electric-car shift, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government extended a welcoming hand to Musk. Economy Minister Peter Altmaier offered to try to ease regulatory hurdles that may snag construction. “There’s a lot at stake” in Tesla’s plan, he said soon after the project was announced.Musk’s incursion comes at a strategically opportune time. Riding a wave of optimism after successfully starting deliveries of its China-built Model 3 sedans a year after breaking ground on a factory there, Tesla’s stock has doubled in the past three months.Meanwhile, German peers are struggling with the costly shift away from combustion engines. Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz parent Daimler announced thousands of job cuts last year, when German car production fell to its lowest level in almost a quarter of a century. For Gruenheide, the planned investment has suddenly transformed the town of 8,700 people into a sought-after location. Local officials receive development proposals on a daily basis: anything from 22-story apartment towers to U.S.-style shopping malls, said Christiani, who hopes the plant will help unlock financing for public transport, schools and medical facilities.In the town hall, five thick binders are available for locals to peruse the project’s details, including 463 trucks expected to roll into the plant each day, a rail spur for train deliveries and an on-site fire brigade.Tesla still has to jump through a number of hoops. Residents have the chance to raise objections, and some have bemoaned that they’ve seen little from the company since its blockbuster announcement. Meanwhile, the local water utility warned it won’t be able to supply the site in time and raised concerns over its location in a zone meant to help protect drinking water supplies.And then the company has to carry out initiatives to protect wildlife—including scaring off any wolves in the area, relocating hibernating bats and removing lizards and snakes until construction is finished. The U.S. carmaker also has to replace felled trees.The mayor expects these hurdles to be cleared so that the first made-in-Gruenheide Teslas can roll out in July 2021.“The forest is classified as a harvest-ready, inferior pine forest,” Christiani said. “It was never supposed to be a rain forest.”—With assistance from Hayley Warren (Adds criticism from water utility in 17th paragraph.)To contact the author of this story: Stefan Nicola in Berlin at snicola2@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: Chris Reiter at creiter2@bloomberg.net, Craig TrudellChad ThomasFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
Foxconn May Be About to Prove Elon Musk Wrong
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Five years ago, in a routine display of trash talking, Tesla Inc.’s Elon Musk made a now infamous quip about how hard it is to manufacture automobiles.“Cars are very complex compared to phones or smartwatches,’’ he told German newspaper Handelsblatt. “You can’t just go to a supplier like Foxconn and say: Build me a car.”He may be proven wrong. Foxconn Technology Group, through its Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. unit, will establish a joint venture with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV, the Taiwanese company said in an exchange filing Thursday. While not yet signed, they expect their 50-50 enterprise will “develop and manufacture electric vehicles and engage in IOV (internet of vehicles) business,” referencing a growing ecosystem of connected cars that share location, weather, traffic and vehicle information.Hon Hai would be responsible for design, components and supply chain management, Chairman Young Liu told Debby Wu of Bloomberg News. Foxconn might not actually do final assembly, he said.If you’ve ever visited Foxconn’s global headquarters on the outskirts of Taipei, you’d know that the prospect of the company designing cars is disconcerting. It truly is one of the ugliest office buildings in the world. So let’s hope Fiat Chrysler takes the driver’s seat on that.However, components, supply chain management, and manufacturing are right up Foxconn’s alley. The company makes most of Apple Inc.’s iPhones and iPads, as well as a lot of the electronics that go into cars, including Teslas.Tesla’s then-head of vehicle engineering, Doug Field, whose resume includes Apple and Ford Motor Co., in February 2018 subtly dissed the Foxconn-Apple relationship. “The model at Foxconn was very different” from Tesla, because the Taiwanese company uses manual labor to achieve economies of scale quickly. The iPad is a product “whose simplicity is orders of magnitude below ours.” Field returned to Apple later that year.Let’s agree, cars are indeed more complicated than tablets or smartphones. But I’ll say that there’s no way Elon Musk could churn out half a million handsets per day, consistently, with quality and on time.By contrast, Foxconn, because of the reasons Field outlined, could be well placed to leverage its 40 years of experience in manufacturing, scale and manual processes to get Fiat Chrysler to mass production of electric vehicles quicker than almost anyone in the world. After all, Foxconn’s giant workforce and scale mean it’s the only company that can churn out 5 million iPhones a week at launch every year for the past decade.With scale comes not just cost advantages but supply-chain leverage, an important element when you’re hunting down parts that may be in short stock. Batteries, for example, have been a bottleneck for Tesla deliveries in the past. But when your client list includes Apple, Dell Inc., HP Inc. and a dozen other companies that need batteries by the container, suppliers are likely to put you higher on the priority list. Given that they’re the largest cost of an electric vehicle, solving both the supply problem and then using scale to force costs down could give Foxconn and Fiat Chrysler an edge.Having electric vehicles more readily available and delivered on time might even take the gloss off the cult of Tesla, which is driven in part by the difficulty of getting your hands on one. Yet Fiat Chrysler needs to ensure that Foxconn doesn’t mess it up. It’s known to be domineering in partnerships, with an obsession toward efficiency and cutting costs, rather than value-added branding. Its venture with HMD Global Oyj to revive the Nokia name looked promising until Foxconn executives started pulling rank, overruling those who truly knew how to design and market phones. Many of the talented members of the consortium left and the brand is unlikely to see the revival that many had expected.Sure, Fiat Chrysler is taking a risk by betting on Foxconn. But the U.S.-Italian car company doesn’t have much to lose, and knows that it has little time to waste. Chief Executive Officer Mike Manley is hoping to merge with France’s PSA Group, and told investors in October that electrification could happen on a grand scale after that.It’s also likely to join a self-driving car venture being set up by BMW AG and Daimler AG, Bloomberg reported this month. Such plans necessitate the kind of electric vehicle technologies it doesn’t currently have. Foxconn doesn’t, either, but between them there’s every chance the two companies can develop or acquire what’s needed.If Foxconn really wants to make it in electric vehicles, it will need to learn from Fiat Chrysler the importance of good design, marketing savvy, and brand mystique. In other words, a little bit of Elon Musk.Just not too much.To contact the author of this story: Tim Culpan at tculpan1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: Patrick McDowell at pmcdowell10@bloomberg.netThis column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of Bloomberg LP and its owners.Tim Culpan is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering technology. He previously covered technology for Bloomberg News.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinionSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
IPhone Manufacturer Gets Into Electric Cars Via Fiat Venture
(Bloomberg) -- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., the main assembler of Apple Inc.’s iPhones, will establish a joint venture with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV to develop and make electric vehicles in China.Hon Hai and its subsidiaries will hold 50% of the venture and Fiat Chrysler the rest, the Taiwanese company said in an exchange filing. While the two companies have yet to sign a formal agreement, they plan to target the Chinese market first and consider exporting cars later. They aim to ink the agreement in the first quarter, according to a person familiar with the matter, and Hon Hai’s Hong Kong-listed unit FIT Hon Teng will also be involved. Fiat Chrysler declined to comment beyond the filing.Shares of Hon Hai were up as much as 2.7% in Taipei trading Friday, their biggest intraday rise since mid-November and the main driver behind the benchmark Taiex’s gain.Hon Hai, the primary listed vehicle for Terry Gou’s Foxconn Technology Group, seeks to diversify from its role as the assembler of a swath of the world’s electronics from Macbooks to Sony Playstations. The company aims to employ its expertise in precision manufacturing and supply chain management to grow the automotive business to 10% of revenue in the long run, Chairman Young Liu told Bloomberg News.“Hon Hai will be responsible for design, components and supply chain management,” he said in a text message, adding that the company will not get into car assembly.Hon Hai and Fiat Chrysler are focusing on the Chinese market because of sheer volume, the executive said. While consumers in the country buy more electric vehicles than anywhere else in the world, sales have slumped since the government pared back subsidies amid a broader market downturn in demand.Hon Hai relies on Apple for about half of sales. Past attempts to diversify its product lines haven’t been entirely successful. The company has tried to invest in a number of electric-vehicle ventures but none has borne fruit. Hon Hai, which competes globally with the likes of Flex Ltd. and Jabil Inc., may now be counting on transferring years of consumer electronics production experience to an automotive arena that’s increasingly going high-tech.“As autos get more and more electrified and more and more digital components replace mechanical ones -- especially with EVs but also just traditional vehicles -- there’s scope for a real opportunity here,” said Matthew Kanterman, an analyst with Bloomberg Intelligence. “Vertical expertise is key in auto, and so a deal like FCA -- if it proves successful -- can help unlock doors for Hon Hai as that would be a strong reference account.”While Hon Hai has limited automotive experience, it does bring enormous supply-chain understanding to the table, said Michael Dunne, chief executive officer of consultant ZoZo Go. Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk told shareholders in 2014 that Foxconn was supplying some components to the electric-vehicle pioneer.From Fiat Chrysler’s perspective, the automaker has struggled to crack the Chinese market for years, and tightening fuel-economy standards and electric-vehicle mandates make the task even more challenging. Its market share in the world’s largest car market was less than 1% in 2018, well behind Ford Motor Co.’s 2.3% and General Motors Co.’s 13.8%.Chief Executive Officer Mike Manley is trying to reboot Fiat Chrysler’s money-losing Chinese operations. He restructured the automaker’s decade-old joint venture with Guangzhou Automobile Group in April, calling the shakeup an attempt to “more rapidly respond to changes in the Chinese market.”Read more: Mega Merger Wouldn’t Fix PSA-Fiat Chrysler’s China Woes(Updates with share price move and analyst comment)\--With assistance from Daniele Lepido.To contact the reporters on this story: Debby Wu in Taipei at dwu278@bloomberg.net;Gabrielle Coppola in New York at gcoppola@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Craig Trudell at ctrudell1@bloomberg.net, ;Edwin Chan at echan273@bloomberg.net, Cécile Daurat, Vlad SavovFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
Jack Dorsey Asks Elon Musk How to Fix Twitter
(Bloomberg) -- Elon Musk’s suggestion for how to fix Twitter? Identify the bots.Musk, the SpaceX and Tesla Inc. chief executive officer, was asked Thursday by Twitter Inc. CEO Jack Dorsey how he would fix the social network, where Musk has almost 31 million followers.“Give us some direct feedback,” said Dorsey, who spoke to Musk via a video call from a company meeting in Houston. Musk was projected onto a giant screen as thousands of Twitter employees watched the two executives chat. “If you were running Twitter,“ Dorsey continued, “what would you do?”“I think it would be helpful to differentiate” between real and fake users, Musk replied, according to a video posted to Twitter by an employee. “Is this a real person or is this a bot net or a sort of troll army or something like that?”“Basically, how do you tell if the feedback is real or someone trying to manipulate the system, or probably real, or probably trying to manipulate the system,” Musk continued. “What do people actually want, what are people actually upset about versus manipulation of the system by various interest groups.”It’s possible at least one of the groups Musk had in mind was “TSLAQ,” a loose collective of critics, skeptics and short sellers who often tweet using the hashtag combining Tesla’s ticker symbol with the -Q that is added when listed companies go bankrupt.Musk faces relentless criticism from the group on Twitter. The billionaire is one of the site’s most popular users and one of its most controversial. He called a British caver a “pedo guy” in 2018 and was later sued for defamation. Later that same year, he tweeted that he was thinking of taking Tesla private, prompting a temporary halt on trading and a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit.Musk, one of many high-profile Twitter users to speak at the company event this week, also predicted that humans would send a tweet from Mars sometime in the next five to nine years, according to videos posted by employees. After Dorsey and Musk finished chatting, model and cookbook author Chrissy Teigen, another popular user, made an appearance on stage.\--With assistance from Dana Hull.To contact the reporter on this story: Kurt Wagner in San Francisco at kwagner71@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Jillian Ward at jward56@bloomberg.net, Andrew PollackFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
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(Bloomberg) -- For the first time in more than seven years, Morgan Stanley is recommending selling Tesla Inc. shares.Optimism around the electric-car maker’s core business growth in China is now priced into the stock, analysts led by Adam Jonas wrote in a note. They also slashed their valuation of the firm’s mobility unit, citing a legal and regulatory environment that’s unsupportive of a robo-taxi network roll-out.Tesla’s stock price has more than doubled since the beginning of October, helped by a surprise third-quarter profit, strong deliveries and quick construction of a factory in China. Morgan Stanley’s downgrade comes at a time when the rally has left analysts’ consensus price target in the dust.“Near-term momentum and sentiment around the stock is admittedly very strong, but we ultimately question the sustainability of the momentum,” Morgan Stanley said. While the analysts raised their price target to $360 from $250, that still implies about a 30% downside from Wednesday’s close.Tesla fell 2.3% in pre-market trading Thursday, setting the stock up for a second straight day of losses. Shares have gained 24% this year through Wednesday.Morgan Stanley last had an underweight rating on Tesla in September 2012, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The stock has risen about 1,600% since then.The bank is far from being the only Tesla bear -- there are 15 others with a sell rating on the stock among those surveyed by Bloomberg, with 10 assigning buy ratings and 10 hold. The company overtook Apple Inc. as the most-shorted U.S. stock on Wednesday.While Tesla deserves to be among the world’s most valuable auto companies, given its electric vehicle leadership, “investors will be presented with more attractive opportunities to own the stock in the future,” Morgan Stanley added.\--With assistance from Lisa Pham.To contact the reporter on this story: Joe Easton in London at jeaston7@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Beth Mellor at bmellor@bloomberg.net, Namitha JagadeeshFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
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U.S. electric car maker Tesla plans to open a design and research centre in China to make "Chinese-style" vehicles, the company said in a recruitment notice on its official WeChat account. "In order to achieve a shift of 'Made in China' to 'Designed in China', Tesla's CEO Elon Musk has proposed a very cool thing - set up a design and research centre in China," it read.
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Tesla Is Once Again the Most Shorted American Stock
(Bloomberg) -- Follow Bloomberg on Telegram for all the investment news and analysis you need.Tesla Inc. bears won’t let anyone steal the title for the most-shorted stock. Not even Apple Inc.A parabolic spike in shares of the electric carmaker hasn’t stopped short sellers from betting the stock will go down. They drove the total dollar amount of shares borrowed to sell the stock short to $14.5 billion on Wednesday, data by financial analytics firm S3 Partners showed. That’s above the $14.3 billion invested in a bet Apple will go down.The iPhone maker overtook Tesla as the most-shorted U.S. stock on Sept. 20 and had held that position until Wednesday. The dollar amount of short interest in Apple, however, is of little surprise given the size of the tech giant’s $1.4 trillion market capitalization.Tesla, whose market cap is 14 times smaller than Apple’s, has long been a site of a tug-of-war between its bulls and bears, which often came at a price. This year through Tuesday, Tesla short-sellers have racked up $2.8 billion in net-of-financing mark-to-market losses, S3 Partners’ data show. This compares with losses of $2.89 billion for all of 2019.Tesla has been on a roll since late October amid a host of positive news around its deliveries and China plant. Apple has gained 19% since early December and at least 10 analysts have upped their price targets on the stock this year amid optimism over the company’s growth.\--With assistance from Esha Dey.To contact the reporter on this story: Elena Popina in New York at epopina@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Brad Olesen at bolesen3@bloomberg.net, Jennifer Bissell-LinskFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
Tesla May Be Only Big Winner in U.S. Batteries Bound for China
(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. Tesla Inc. may be the single largest beneficiary of a provision tucked into the trade deal between the U.S. and China.As part of the accord signed Wednesday, China will import more energy storage systems and parts from the U.S. this year and next. Tesla’s Gigafactory in Nevada is by far the largest battery plant in the U.S., representing 42% of nationwide production, according to data from BloombergNEF. No other manufacturer in America comes close to its capacity.While most of Tesla’s batteries go into electric cars, the company has been expanding its business of building massive battery packs that can store electricity for large-scale power grids. In fact, the Palo Alto, California-based company is negotiating a contract to supply cobalt -- a key component in lithium-ion batteries -- to its newly opened Shanghai Gigafactory, according to people familiar with the matter.China is, by far, the world’s biggest battery producer, with factories capable of cranking out 275,560 megawatt-hours worth of cells. The U.S. trails as a distant second, at 33,116 megawatt-hours, according to BloombergNEF data.To contact the reporter on this story: David R. Baker in San Francisco at dbaker116@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Lynn Doan at ldoan6@bloomberg.net, Reg GaleFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
Tesla in Talks to Buy Glencore Cobalt for Shanghai Car Plant
(Bloomberg) -- Glencore Plc is negotiating a long-term contract to ship cobalt to Tesla Inc.’s new electric-vehicle factory in Shanghai, according to people familiar with the matter.A deal would help Tesla avoid a supply squeeze on the key battery metal as it pushes into the world’s largest car market, and mark a win for Glencore after a tough spell for its cobalt business.Executives from both companies hammered out terms of the deal before an official ceremony to mark the first sales from the Shanghai plant earlier this month, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified discussing commercial negotiations. They declined to give details about the size and value of the supply deal.A Glencore spokesman declined to comment, while a representative for Tesla didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.The contract will help Tesla shore up its cobalt supply as it ramps up output at the so-called Gigafactory, which was built in just 11 months with significant support from the Chinese government. The opening of the plant has helped propel Tesla’s shares to record highs, as investors turn bullish on Elon Musk’s ambitions of transforming the company into a global mass-market automaker.While there is enough cobalt supply for now, demand is expected to surge in the coming years as Tesla expands in China and Europe and Volkswagen AG to BMW AG roll out fleets of electric vehicles. Warnings about long-term shortages caused cobalt prices to spike in 2017 and 2018, prompting Musk to work on reducing Tesla’s reliance on the metal. Even so, the deal signals that the metal will remain key to the company’s expansion over the next few years.Despite a torrid year for the car industry, the burgeoning electric-vehicle market offers big opportunities for manufacturers and the companies that supply them. The biggest miners are looking to grow production of metals such as copper and nickel that are needed for the electrification of cities and cars.Glencore, the world’s largest cobalt miner, is in a prime position to benefit from a boom in electric-vehicle sales. But so far, it’s struggled to make that happen. The company booked losses last year related to cobalt after prices collapsed in mid-2018 from too much supply.Read more: Cobalt’s Star Fades for Glencore Traders as Customers RenegeAfter customers reneged on contracts in response to the slump, Glencore spent last year locking in new long-term deals with customers throughout the electric-vehicle supply chain. BMW has signed up to buy cobalt from its mines in Australia, while battery materials suppliers GEM Co. and Umicore SA have also inked contracts.Direct deals with miners are rare in the automotive industry, and the agreements between Glencore, Tesla and BMW are a sign carmakers are concerned about securing sufficient cobalt from ethical sources. Nearly three-quarters of the world’s cobalt comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and as much of 20% of the country’s output is produced at informal makeshift mines where fatalities and human-rights abuses are commonplace.A lack of liquidity in exchange-traded cobalt contracts also means buyers have little opportunity to hedge against wild price swings. As a result, the industry is moving toward long-term strategic tie-ups to allow battery-chemical makers and cell manufacturers to pass along price risks as cobalt moves through their supply chain, according to George Heppel, an analyst at CRU Group.“You have to be able to pass on those costs,” Heppel said by phone. “It would be impossible for a battery manufacturer to sign a long-term deal with a customer without some clause to vary their prices based on raw material costs.”(Updates with background on cobalt from sixth paragraph.)\--With assistance from Christoph Rauwald.To contact the reporters on this story: Mark Burton in London at mburton51@bloomberg.net;Thomas Biesheuvel in London at tbiesheuvel@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Lynn Thomasson at lthomasson@bloomberg.net, Nicholas Larkin, Dylan GriffithsFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
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The Secret History of the Drug War
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Secret History of The War on Drugs
Law and Order: Cartel or Constitution?
Given that war has broken out in the fight for our marijuana freedoms as we face a multi-state threat from the so-called ‘recreational marijuana’ and their neo-conservative corporate consortium partners, we have decided to introduce a new series called ‘Law and Order’ where we openly contend that the Drug War itself is unconstitutional. We will present to you cases from the past few decades that slowly but surely eroded the rights and freedoms that We The People of America have guaranteed in our Bill of Rights and Constitution of the United States, in the name of an unholy cause called the War on Drugs.
The War on Drugs is an institution that was designed for one purpose: profit. To profit off of wars both legal and illegal, the jailing of citizens, the seizure of property, the suffering of the people, the destruction of families, the oppression of neighborhoods and the expansion of empire. No other institution has so effectively concentrated wealth at the top in the history of man, than the Leviathan that has emerged comprising of Cartels, Corporations and Government.
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The origin of the War on Drugs is based in the oligarchical reaction to the American counter-culture that had emerged against the War in Vietnam and the destabilizing effect the war in Vietnam had on the US economy. While narco-warfare had been previously used in World War II and the topic of drug control had existed in the political realm for over 100 years, it wasn’t made intrinsic again until the Vietnam War and the creation of the War on Drugs. When Richard Nixon came to office in 1968, several correlated events took place within the White House:
The Consortium formed by John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles after World War 2 had been brought back into power post-JFK. The same group had attempted to drive the Cuban Missile Crisis years before and had employed CIA operation J/M-Wave to assassinate President Kennedy.
CIA shipments of heroin during the Vietnam War by former members of Operation Jedburgh to the United States, proved profitable in funding unauthorized wars in Cambodia and Laos that Nixon could not obtain through a Democratic Congress.
The United States after 1969 began to lose its financial capacity to maintain the war in Vietnam. Nixon, in order to drive up the price of marijuana and heroin to increase war profits instigated Operation Intercept. The heroin epidemic started in Hells Kitchen raised enough money off the books to continue the war well into 1972.
Heroin sales were compounded by Nixon taking the dollar off the gold standard in 1971 allowing the drug money to be laundered into the economy. Nixon would later convince China to agree to the outsourcing of American jobs in return for cheaper goods undermining American labor to allow for a retaking of the US economy by the Consortium.
Nixon, the CIA and DEA utilized the same drugs for weapons tactics to reassert US hegemony in South America, overthrowing socialist governments and replacing them with narco-dictatorships backed by the military. This effectively established the modern cocaine trade through empowering Cartel families in Mexico, Panama, Peru and Colombia. Originally the most powerful operator was the Guadalajara Cartel, managed by the CIA, Rafael Quintero and Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo.
The cocaine trade rapidly expanded into the 1980’s with civil wars in Central America being funded by a drugs-for-arms scheme that cemented the relationship between the US government, the cartels and American corporations. Cocaine shipments would leave Colombia through Panama, be facilitated by Contras through Central America, to Mexico and be flown by plane into private military airports guaranteed by then Governor Bill Clinton in Arkansas.
The large glut of cocaine, encouraged the creation of the Crack Cocaine epidemic which started in 1984 and was fueled in large part by the trafficking of cocaine by Nicaraguan Contras and Manuel Noriega with the support of the CIA and DEA.
DEA agent Enrique Camarena would be murdered by the Guadalajara Cartel, Mexican Police and several DEA and CIA agents for disrupting drug flows, setting off an investigation that would eventually lead to the Iran-Contra Affair and the exposure of the international narcotics system.
The epidemic continued until George HW Bush invaded Panama in 1989 to shut down Noriega’s operation which had been supported by the US since the 1970’s.
The fall of Noriega followed suit with the takedown of Pablo Escobar who had become the richest man in the world at the time through cocaine sales ($66 billion in 1991). The fall of Pablo was effectively the end of the Colombian reign as power would shift to Mexican Cartels with DEA support.
The fall of the Arellano-Felix cartel, the successor to the Guadalajara Cartel, in the late 90s and early 2000’s, created a fractured power vacuum in Mexico that was heavily manipulated by Consortium and federal agency interests that has led to Mexico and Canada being the drug trafficking gatekeepers to the US that we have today. The power vacuum has since been filled by El Chapo and the Sinaloa Cartel, Los Zetas, the Gulf Cartel and several other small organizations.
The Murder of Enrique Camarena in 1984
DEA Agent Enrique Camarena
This first article talks about the significance of a court case related to the death of DEA agent Enrique Camarena-Salazar in 1984. Camarena had been responsible for the destruction of a 2,500 acre marijuana farm, with a production value of $8 billion. The marijuana farm was controlled by the CIA backed Guadalajara Cartel and its overlord Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo. Camarena was tortured at Gallardo’s ranch by Dr. Humberto Alvarez Machain, CIA Agent Rafael Caro Quintero, and two crooked DEA agents who had dimed out Camarena for the bust. Quintero was the co-founder of the Guadalajara Cartel with Gallardo and been an integral part in providing funding from drug sales to the Nicaraguan Contras for Col. Oliver North and the CIA.
Rafael Caro Quintero
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“The Guadalajara Cartel prospered largely because it enjoyed the protection of the intelligence agency then known as Dirección Federal de Seguridad (DFS-Federal Security Directorate) under its chief Miguel Nassar Haro, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent.
His cartel was also benefited by the CIA for having connections with the Honduran drug lord Juan Matta-Ballesteros, who, according to a 1983 U.S. Customs Investigative Report, was the head of the SETCO airline, a corporation that was used for smuggling narcotics into the United States. According to the Kerry Committee report, the SETCO airline was “the principal company used by the Contras in Honduras to transport supplies and personnel for the [FDN (one of the earliest Contra groups)], carrying at least a million rounds of ammunition, food, uniforms, and other military supplies [for the Contras] . . . from 1983 through 1985.”For its services SETCO received funds from the accounts established by Oliver North.
His partner and cartel co-founder, Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, provided a significant amount of funding, weapons, and other aid to the Contras in Nicaragua. Gallardo’s pilot, Werner Lotz stated that Gallardo once had him deliver $150,000 in cash to a Contra group, and Gallardo often boasted about smuggling arms to them. His activities were known to several U.S. federal agencies, including the CIA and DEA, but he was granted immunity due to his “charitable contributions to the Contras.
Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo
Caro Quintero has also been accused of involvement in the murder of US Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique Camarena Salazar. In November 1984, the Mexican authorities raided a 220-acre ranch known as El Búfalo in the state of Chihuahua, owned by Caro Quintero. The authorities reportedly burned more than 10,000 tons of marijuana – totaling a loss of around $160 million.
Camarena Salazar, who had been working undercover in Mexico, was said to be responsible for leading the authorities to the ranch. This allegedly prompted Caro Quintero and other high-ranking members of the Guadalajara Cartel to seek revenge against the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Camarena. In retribution, Camarena and his pilot Alfredo Zavala Avelar were allegedly kidnapped in Guadalajara on 7 February 1985 and brutally tortured and murdered. Caro Quintero allegedly buried the two bodies in a clandestine grave in the state of Michoacán. He then left Mexico on 9 March 1985 with his associates and his girlfriend Sara Cristina Cosío Gaona. Former Mexican Judicial Police chief Armando Pavón Reyes reportedly allowed Caro Quintero to flee from the airport in Guadalajara to seek refuge in Costa Rica in a private jet after paying a $300,000 bribe. The police chief was fired shortly afterwards and was charged with bribery and complicity in the Camarena murder.”
Camarena had been brutally interrogated and tortured, kept alive during the torture by Dr. Humberto Alvarez Machain’s application of methamphetamine and other drugs to maintain Camarena’s consciousness. His body was found in Michoacan and triggered the largest DEA homicide investigation in US history, known as Operation Leyenda. Rafael Quintero and his partner, Ernesto Carrillo were arrested for the murder with great controversy, with Felix Gallardo being protected from prosecution by the Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid.
Dr. Humberto Alvarez Machain
The DEA, in vengeance, hired bounty hunters to abduct Dr. Humberto Machain and four other defendants to bring to trial in the early 1990’s despite vigorous protests of the Mexican government in regards to violation of the Extradition Treaty in 1978. The case became significant when Dr. Machain sued the US government for abducting a Mexican citizen in good standing in violation of the extradition treaty. In a high controversial 5-4 decision, the Republican Supreme Court ruled that Alvarez was NOT entitled to relief and that the President ultimately had the right to violate congressional treaties in the interest of national security.
The other four abductee’s were convicted as well, many of them had ties to the current and former Mexican Presidents and had been implicated in using Mexican police to help cover up the murder and destroy evidence. In October 2013, two former federal agents and an ex-CIA agent admitted that the CIA had been directly involved in Camarena’s murder because the Guadalajara Cartel’s marijuana and cocaine operations were integral to funding the overthrow of government’s in Central America.
“New revelations suggest that Caro Quintero may have not been the only one responsible for the gruesome murder. Another figure has surfaced in the case, Félix Ismael “El Gato” Rodríguez, a Cuban exile who participated in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. El Gato has also been linked to the 1967 ambush of Ernesto “Che” Guevara in Bolivia.
CIA Agent Felix Rodriguez
These CIA-connection claims are now being brought to light by Phil Jordan, the former director of DEA’s powerful El Paso Intelligence Center in Texas; former DEA agent Héctor Berrellez; and Tosh Plumlee, who maintained he was hired to fly covert missions on behalf of US intelligence. The three men spoke to Fox News in exclusive interviews broadcast last Thursday.
They claimed that Mexican police and agents working for the CIA participated in Camarena’s torture and murder.
“I know and from what I have been told by a former head of the Mexican federal police, Comandante [Guillermo Gónzales] Calderoni, the CIA was involved in the movement of drugs from South America to Mexico and to the US,” said Jordan, according to a transcript of the broadcast.
“In [Camarena’s] interrogation room, I was told by Mexican authorities, that CIA operatives were in there – actually conducting the interrogation; actually taping Kiki,” Jordan claims. Berrellez explained that Camarena was kidnapped and murdered “because he came up with the idea that we needed to chase the money not the drugs.
We were seizing a huge amount of drugs. However, we were not really disrupting the cartels. So he came up with the idea that we should set up a task force and target their monies,” said the former DEA agent. Plumlee added that the CIA was also involved in helping run weapons and drugs from Caro Quintero’s ranch to Central America at the time that the Reagan administration was helping to arm the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
After Camarena’s body had been found about a month later in a rural area, DEA agents surrounded Quintero Caro at the Guadalajara airport but, according to Berrellez, Mexican drug officers pointed their guns and told them to hand over the cartel leader. Plumlee claims that Caro Quintero was later flown to Costa Rica with the help of El Gato.”
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Judge David Carter, a highly reputable Narcotics Law professor with the University of California explains why the Camarena case was so important, in his following dissertation to the government of Brazil:
Excerpt from Conferencia Na Escola Da Magistratura, Tema: Narcotrafico
By Judge David O. Carter, Superior Court of Orange County, California
“…I have traveled to Brazil to share my thoughts about the role of the judiciary in narcotics trafficking cases. It is a very complex and sometimes dangerous area for public officials. Sometimes I give too much background on narcotics trafficking and I apologize in advance; but as we discuss the role of judges, it will be needed for you to understand our success, but more importantly – our failures. I believe you will be wiser than we were, and hopefully, avoid some of our glaring mistakes.
The issues our judges face today in the arena of international narcotics trafficking may be your issues of the future. I believe judges wield tremendous personal and political power. We may be powerful but those strengths can be turned against us.
Drug Enforcement Agency agent, Enrique Camarena, was forcibly abducted across the street from the United States Consulate in Guadalajara, Mexico on February 7, 1985. The United States and Colombia had entered into an agreement to extradite cartel members to the United States for trial and incarceration for conspiracy to transport narcotics into the United States. This was an attempt to incarcerate cartel members outside their area of influence and curtail international narcotics trafficking.
Whether it was America, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela, Peru, Colombia etc. The western hemisphere governments and the worldwide community of nations recognized the destabilizing effect of the cartel. When the initial 165 Colombian cartel members were to be extradited, the Cartel announced to the Colombian News agencies that for every cartel member extradited there would be seven Colombian judges or public officials killed. This transcript that I will read portions of IS the transcript of the tape that was played to then Vice President Bush and the National Security Council of the Torture, Interrogation, and Murder of Enrique Camarena and a Mexican pilot working with Camarena, Alfredo Zavala-Avelar at a cartel location in Guadalajara, Mexico. You will hear Enrique Camarena, the agent, who is being tortured. The interrogation was taped to send a message to the United States and the Colombian and Mexican governments to cease the indictment and extradition of cartel members. Electric cattle prods were used and he was beaten to unconsciousness, revived and beaten again. The tape was turned off during the torture and turned back on for the interrogation. Camarena will be heard complaining about these injuries. Only a few minutes will be read today if time allows.
This case will set the tone for many of my remarks about the complex world of international narcotics trafficking and the application of international laws, treaties and government policies that attempt to control this global threat.
Read Camarena Transcript
Most nations of the world view narcotic trafficking as a threat to their sovereignty. I am not here to restate the evils of narcotics, but I do share these common concerns of the world community. An organized and powerful narcotics cartel necessities their own military which they must maintain to stop rival drug cartels from stealing their markets and their narcotics. But this same force can be turned on legitimate democratic governments, destabilize large governments and overthrow small governments. A powerful narcotics cartel allows criminals to subvert the democratic process by giving them a larger influence in government through their use of either force or monies.
A powerful narcotics cartel displaces economies and legitimate industries and businesses. Illegal monies obtained from narcotics and funneled into industry and business allow them to operate at lower profit margins or at a loss. This forces legitimate businesses and industries into bankruptcy and out of business. Narcotics tempts law-abiding and moral citizens to enter the world of narcotics trafficking for profit. This easy money is most tempting to the young people of our countries who dream of wealth.
Our nation has experienced this process. Our poor have become the true victims because much needed monies for food, clothing and shelter have been spent instead of narcotics – usually to the detriment of their families, including young children. Our government has then had to increase our welfare services to provide homes for the homeless and to prevent starvation and this had resulted in an increased tax burden on the middle classes….
What is the Cartel?
I will only define and deal with core drug trafficking organizations. By definition: Core drug trafficking organizations dominate multiple phases of drug trafficking from production to distribution. They operate internationally and frequently direct subordinate organizations. The United States FBI, DEA, and CIA recognize twelve Colombian, one Peruvian, one Ecuadorian, and one Venezuelan core organization. My overview will cover of these fifteen core drug trafficking organizations.
The Medellin Cartel is comprised of Colombian drug trafficking organizations headquartered in and around Medellin, Colombia and was once considered to be the largest organized criminal enterprise in the world. However, beginning in 1989, with the assassination of presidential candidate Carlos Galan, the Medellin Cartel’s position as the most dominant organization in drug trafficking began to change. Medellin Cartel figure, Jose Rodriguez Gacha, was killed by Colombian authorities. Government pressure resulted in the surrender of key figures , most significantly, Pablo Escobar, who once again became a fugitive and was recently killed by Colombian government forces…
Despite the situation described above, the Medellin Cartel is far from defunct. Drug trafficking to the United States continues and the drug cartels are expanding their markets in Europe. Europe provides an opportunity for a larger profit margin with the average price per kilo of cocaine going for two to three times the price in the United States.
The Cali Cartel is a complex framework of compartmentalized sub-groups or ‘cells’. Cells range from fewer than 10 to more than 30 members. However, accurate cell membership is difficult to determine due to the cartel’s practice of transferring members between cells and back and forth from Colombia to the US. Cali Cartel exhibits characteristics similar to major corporations; using detailed business ledgers to track cocaine profits, assigning specific duties to members, and even insuring drug shipments against possible loss…
The Cartel frequently transports cocaine destined for the US through Mexico and Guatemala. Aircraft often stop in Colombia, Panama, El Salvador and/or Nicaragua for refueling. Cocaine is stored in Guatemala and Mexico to be transported into the United States, most often through Texas, Southern California and Southern Florida. Los Angeles and Miami are used as collection and storage locations for further distribution.
Demonstrated violence is needed to produce fear and curtail governments and private citizens from aggressively enforcing the law against narcotics trafficking.
The Urdinola Grajales Organization is a core organization located in the Northern Valle de Cauca. The organization is led by brothers Ivan and Julio Fabio Urdinola Grajales. The Urdinola Brothers head the Northern Valley Cartel…utilizing legitimate business interests in the areas of fruits, flowers, horticulture and numerous farms to facilitate the production and in-country transportation of cocaine and heroin. The Urdinolas also utilized numerous legitimate export and shipping connections that facilitate the transportation of the drugs to the US and Europe.
Some cartels now specialize in transporting [cocaine]. Their profits are either a portion of the narcotics that they receive for their services for resale or agreed upon monies when the load has been sold. The North Coast Cartel consists of numerous independent drug trafficking organizations, the majority based in the cities of Barranquila, Cartagena, Riohacha, Santa Marta, and the Guijara Peninsula, along the north coast of Colombia. Smuggling has long been a part of the North Coast culture, beginning with emeralds and eventually marijuana & cocaine when it became more profitable. These organizations now specialize in transporting cocaine for the two larger cartels located in Cali and Medellin.
As the market for cocaine in Europe has grown, the ability of North Coast traffickers to shift cocaine shipments from the United States to that expanding market has grown proportionally. North Coast traffickers have established ties to the Sicilian Mafia and are now shipping cocaine to Italy. The cocaine is shipped from Colombia, through the Strait of Gibraltar and finally to Sicily.
I mentioned that trafficking organizations and drug cartels must have an organized and well-armed military to stop rivals from taking their narcotics. This small army is often used to hold ground areas and nowhere is this more important than in coca growing areas. This armed force is also needed to guard the raw material through the narcotics network to the distributor. Growers must grow and harvest coca and that requires dominance over the growing areas….
The primary importer to Brazil is the Jairo Echeverria Organization which is a core transportation and distribution organization based in Caracas, Venezuela. This organization is responsible for transporting and distributing cocaine for the Cali Cartel between Venezuela, the US, Europe and Brazil. The organization uses cargo containers, couriers, private aircraft and commercial aircraft, shipments range between 50 and 500kg. Several associates of the Jairo Echeverria were arrested by Italian law enforcement for delivering cocaine to the Sicilian Mafia, This organization utilizes numerous banks in the Hialeah-Miami area to facilitate their money laundering.
My impression is that narcotics trafficking cases puts tremendous amount of pressure on judges. In Colombia, numerous judges have been killed. In my country [US], drug related cases constitute easily one half of the criminal case load in our federal and state courts. On a fact-finding level, it has caused our courts to deal with complex banking and money laundering issues. In most criminal prosecutions, we are listening to evidence about whether there has been direct evidence such as an eyewitness identification of the defendant. Often we listen to evidence that may be circumstantial in nature, that is, where there is not direct evidence but evidence from which an inference may be drawn that the defendant committed a crime…
Narcotics trafficking cases are much more complex. Our judges and juries must listen to and understand the complex facts involved in money laundering. Offshore bank accounts may be in the name of non-existent corporations or actual corporations. Banking ledgers may be needed from numbered and confidential accounts to show both deposits and withdrawals. These transactions involve [trillions] of dollars and may be moved on a daily basis from one bank to another. This requires the cooperation of both the United States and the country where suspected illegal drug monies are deposited. Indictments are obtained in Florida on a cartel member who is arrested in the United States or in a country that allows extradition through treaties.
List of Consortium Members identified in Panama Papers
The prosecution then must obtain the evidence necessary to convict that cartel member. The charges may be conspiracy to launder illegal narcotics monies through either real or fictitious businesses. This requires the courts to obtain the funds, or at least the banking records of the businesses through the subpoena process, and that is solely dependent upon the cooperation of the other country where the funds are located. The banking industry worldwide promises confidentiality to its customers. Whether these banks are in the Cayman Islands, Panama, Switzerland, Venezuela, or the United States, the universal problem is obtaining these banking records.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers
If the bank is an American bank within the United States, then usually it is quite easy for our courts to get compliance with our orders for banking records. When the bank is outside our territorial boundaries, then we are totally dependent on cooperation between the two countries. An example is Panama, under President Noriega it was virtually impossible to obtain banking records, but since his seizure the country under new leadership is more willing to exchange information….
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-24/swiss-banks-land-in-middle-of-money-laundering-probe-again
Domestically, “RICO Laws’ were passed to stop the laundering of money through domestic American businesses. Narcotics traffickers pass narcotics monies through businesses and utilize these case flows as business profits. The narcotics traffickers even pay taxes on these monies disguised as business profits. The trafficker is then free to spend money openly in our society. Often suspicions on the part of law enforcement and the IRS are aroused with purchases of luxery items such as boats, planes, cars and other items with no identifiable source of income. The IRS has prosecuted narcotics traffickers for non-declaration of income…and for tax evasion.
The most controversial issue often involves how a nation obtains international drug traffickers to stand trial. A person may be shipping massive amounts of cocaine into Brazil and your government may decide to prosecute. Although the person is not within your territorial jurisdiction, this Cartel trafficker may be causing many criminal acts ranging from murder, attempted bribery of officials, and the importation of massive amounts of cocaine.
The first is that the foreign Cartel dealer visits your country and is seized….
The second is when a criminal proceeding begins in Brazil and names the foreign Cartel agent as a co-conspirator…allowing for extradition.
The third way the person is obtained is by conflict between nations that give rise to the use of military force. The conflict in Panama involved US military forces and President Noriega was seized. In Grenada, where US citizens were threatened, the US military occupied Grenada and was also able to shut off some the narcotic trafficking routes and airfields….
Invasion of Panama 1989
The fourth method is abduction. The case of United States vs. Humberto Alvarez-Machain raised problems for our judiciary and world governments. The DEA believed that Dr. Alvarez-Machain participated in the murder of Enrique Camarena by prolonging his life so that others [including members of CIA, DEA, and Mexican government] could further torture and interrogate him. On April 2, 1990 Dr. Alvarez-Machain was forcibly kidnapped from his medical office in Guadalajara, Mexico and flown by private plane to El Paso, Texas where he was arrested by drug enforcement agents. The US district court concluded that DEA agents were responsible for Dr. Alvarez-Machain’s abduction, although they were not personally involved in it.
Mexico responded quickly and unequivocally. On April 18, 1990 Mexico requested an official report on the role of the United States in the abduction, and on May 16, 1990 and July 19, 1990, it sent diplomatic notes of protest from the Embassy of Mexico to the US State Department. Mexico said that it believed the abduction was ‘carried out with the knowledge of persons working for the US government, in violation of the procedure established in the extradition treaty in force between the two countries’. The July 19th note requested the provisional arrest and extradition of the law enforcement agents involved in the abduction. Mexico had already tried a number of members involved in the conspiracy that resulted in the murder of Enrique Camarena in 1984. Rafael Caro-Quintero, a co-conspirator, had already been imprisoned in Mexico on a 40 year sentence but other co-conspirators, Rene Verdugo-Urquidez and Raul Lopez-Alvarez had been prosecuted in the United States and received much harsher sentences of 240 years plus life in federal prison.
The case presented fundamental questions to our court system and its relation with the Executive Branch of our government. It also raised issues of treaties and jurisdiction that is unique to narcotics trafficking cases even when they do not involve murder. Against the backdrop of the varying decisions and conflicts amongst our own judiciary is the Executive Branch’s view of abduction. Certainly, the Executive’s view changed in the 1980’s. The President and National Security Councils’ reaction to the Cartel is indicative of a nation threatened by the Cartel and feeling at war. President Reagan and President Bush both consciously chose to refer to narcotics trafficking as the War on Drugs. In 1980, under President Carter, the office of legal counsel advised the administration that such seizures or abductions were contrary to international law because they compromised the territorial integrity of the other nation and were only to be undertaken with the consent of that nation. (4B OP. OFF. Legal Counsel 549, 556 (1980).
In 1989 there was a dramatic shift in the Executive Branch of our government. In the hearing before the Sub-committee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee on the Judiciary, the Assistant Attorney General William Barr, Office of Legal Counsel of the DOJ, concluded that the President did have the authority to override customary international law. This became known as The Barr Letter and reflected executive opinion. It was a dramatic shift in policy and escalation of the war on drugs, in part, a reaction to Enrique Camarena’s death. The result was the abduction of Dr. Machain by the DEA believing that their authority was properly exercised through the Executive.
The United States District Court held it lacked jurisdiction to try Dr. Machain because his abduction violated the extradition treaty with Mexico. The Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of the indictment and repatriation of Dr. Machain, stating that the forcible abduction of a Mexico national with the authorization and participation of the United States violated the extradition treaty. The Court of Appeals said ‘although the treaty does not explicitly prohibit such abductions, the purpose of the treaty was violated by forced abduction”. It upheld the District Court’s findings….The Supreme Court in a 5-4 split decision overturned the lower court’s decision. The Supreme Court noted it had never addressed the precise issue raised in US vs. Alvarez-Machain.
Our courts had dealt with abductions by private citizens without government authorization or participation and had ruled on abductions from countries without extradition treaties…these rulings were favorable, but now government sanctioned abduction was the difficult issue in a highly charged media case with public outcry for the apprehension of the murder suspects. Television and movies were made of this murder. The court agreed that Dr. Machain’s abduction was shocking and it may be in violation of general international law principles, but whether the doctor should be returned to Mexico, as a matter outside of the treaty is a matter of the Executive Branch. The Supreme Court pointedly stated the ‘advantage of the diplomatic approach to the resolution of the difficulties between two sovereign nations, as opposed to unilateral actions by the courts of one nation is obvious’. The Supreme Court had basically kept Dr. Machain and said to the President “You ordered it, now you deal with it and decide if the diplomatic difficulties with Mexico are worth this abduction”.
The same decision brought a strong dissent, our Supreme Court was very divided. The dissent stated that this case raises a question of first impressions. The case is unique for several reasons. It does not involve an ordinary abduction by a private citizen or bounty hunter as in Ker vs. Illinois (119 US. 436 (1886)), not does it involve the apprehension of an American fugitive who committed a crime in one state and sought asylum in another…Rather it involves this country’s abduction of another country’s citizen; it also involves a violation of the territorial integrity of that country with which this country has signed an extradition treaty.
The dissent noted that it was ironic that the United States had attempted to justify its unilateral action based on the kidnapping, torture and murder of a federal agent by authorizing the kidnapping of a doctor. Extradition treaties promote harmonious relations by providing for the orderly surrender of a person by one state to another, and without such treaties, resort to force often follows…
Doctor Machain was remanded to the trial court where his case was eventually dismissed for lack of evidence. The lessons for me are numerous. Our state judges often do not recognize the rulings of another state judge and this same conflict can arise between federal judges and state courts…a judge’s power is confined by geography or jurisdiction. The [Cartel] is not! Each time the Cartel crosses a state boundary or national border it calls upon us to cooperate or we will fail in apprehending the traffickers. I believe the Cartel relies on the sovereignty we cherish as a buffer to successful prosecution. Each border represents added burdens to us and a need for increased understanding by states within a country and with other nations.
Case: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/504/655/case.html
The United States has attempted many programs and policies to curtail the Cartel. The first is obviously the prosecution of narcotics transporters and sellers in our state and federal courts….the second program was legislatively enacted and is called the ‘Forfeiture Program’. The numerous laws in this area have essentially one goal: to confiscate monies and properties obtained from the capital that was acquired through narcotics sales. Until recently our focus was solely on incarcerating narcotics traffickers. Often money, real property, land, cars etc. were in other persons names, such as friends and family…in the 1980’s a policy of taking the profit away was initiated. Even here the due process rights of our Constitution apply. The person who possessed monies or property is entitled to be served with notice of the court hearing date. If the person cannot be found, publication in a newspaper of general circulation must be made to notify the party who might have claim to the property or money. The hearing usually consists of the investigating officer testifying as to how the property was confiscated. The judge is required to make findings of adequate service or attempts to serve notice of the court forfeiture proceeding on the person who had the items in possession…the judge at the hearing must find adequate probably cause that the money or property was obtained through illicit narcotics activities. These assets are then forfeited to the state or federal government depending on which agency laid claim to the asset.
There have been interesting problems for the judiciary. We have seen a competition between our federal and state police agencies to lay claim to narcotics assets. The reason is that these assets are usually large sums that help support local or federal law enforcement activities. These inter-family squabbles have hurt cooperative efforts as the agencies compete for the assets. The forfeiture program has also tempted corruption in law enforcement agencies over assets, especially drug monies that can be quietly pocketed. The Zero Tolerance Policy of the United States was the outgrowth of the asset forfeiture program. Instead of rightfully targeting narcotics assets, it stated that if an individual had narcotics on their person then asset they had was to be confiscated. The glaring example of the misuse of this program was the seizure of a 60-foot yacht in Florida by the Coast Guard where a crew member was found to have just one marijuana cigarette.
https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-police-practices/asset-forfeiture-abuse
A third and highly controversial program is known as the ‘Reverse Sting’….it became clear in the 1980’s that the Cartel had massive amounts of money to put in foreign banks and controlled legitimate businesses. But often the Cartel was prepared to buy already transported narcotics and resell the product at an increased price. These transactions were multi-million dollar, multi-kilo transactions. The police would have undercover agents pose as dealers to sell their load to the Cartel and when the millions arrived, the arrest would have taken place. The Reverse Sting posed multiple problems for the judiciary. In Miami, Florida and Orange County, California, the police had simply gone to the evidence lockers and taken 20-100 kilos of cocaine seized from other arrests and attempted to resell these narcotics to the Cartel. Only the police were accountable to themselves and if product was lost or stolen, there was no independent scrutiny of these activities. The uncontrolled program incentivized corruption and led to a number of murders.
To the judge willing to scrutinize these sales it presents a dangerous dilemma. The American public believes we are taking narcotics off the street, yet the idea of selling narcotics to the Cartel seems to go against the policy of ridding our society of drugs…the judge involved is personally subject to criticism and even removal from office if the cocaine is purchased by the Cartel and they get away before the arrest is made. The thought of judicial cooperation in removing confiscated cocaine from police storage and then losing it to the Cartel is difficult for the public to understand….the price has already been high, I have been that designated judge where one of the agents I signed ‘Reverse Stings’ for was killed in a crossfire of six Colombians who tried to rip him off for several kilos. The question for a judge is “how deeply do we want to get involved and what is the danger of losing our impartiality and fairness?”.
Why is this case, United States vs. Humberto Alvarez-Machain relevant to our cause? Because it shows that by Supreme Court decision the President of the United States has the authority “to override customary international law” in regards to narcotics and the War on Drugs. So lawyer friends help us out, does this mean that President Barack Obama has the ability to override the UN Convention on Narcotics and RESCHEDULE MEDICAL MARIJUANA UNILATERALLY? In the name of defunding ISIS and the Drug Cartels can Marijuana as both hemp and sinsemilla be taken off of Schedule I and put on another schedule so it can be produced domestically to the benefit of our nation rather than our detriment?
Even now the DEA, DOJ and the White House are in discussion about RESCHEDULING marijuana to a Schedule II, for medical use only to return the medical marijuana program back to whom it was designed for, the patients. But Schedule II may be too restrictive if we want to unleash the productive power of hemp and maintain the genetic diversity of sinsemilla, the government must take this into consideration before just recklessly throwing the keys at Big Pharma.
Nonetheless, Enrique Camarena was killed for, doing his job, busting a CIA pot farm in Mexico ran by the Guadalajara Cartel that was being used to trade drugs for arms in a Central American war against global communism that was flooding the streets of America with foreign pot & crack cocaine, while creating a Frankenstein monster of international proportions in both Mexico, Panama and Colombia. Why was Dr. Machain abducted? DEA vendetta? Or to find out who the dirty agents and moles were?
The most damning part of this case is that it shows that American Prohibition not only led to the creation of the Cartels, but it led to the ascent of the Cartels as having more money , power and resources than the US government itself. America’s soul was sold in the name of national security and all of those in power who participated are trapped in a cage of their own corruption.
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EMERGENCY Anti-AUMA ACTION – ALL HANDS ON DECK
Alright guys HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY! We have our backs against the wall so it’s time for a hardcore political download to get everyone set up for the COUNTER-ATTACK. This is not a drill, this is full scale political warfare and it’s time for boot camp.
The Truth About AUMA:
https://thegreenpulpit.com/2016/04/24/the-truth-part-1-the-miami-boys/
https://thegreenpulpit.com/2016/04/24/the-truth-part-2-smoke-mirrors/
https://thegreenpulpit.com/2016/04/24/the-truth-part-3-the-consortium-the-legalization-trap/
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http://www.fec.gov/ans/answers_pac.shtml
From the Federal Election Commission website:
“A Super PAC (Independent Expenditure-Only Political Committee) or Hybrid PAC (committee that maintains a non-contribution account) must register by filing FEC Form 1 [PDF] (Instructions [PDF]), Statement of Organization within 10 days after raising or spending in excess of $1,000 in connection with federal elections. Under “Type of Committee,” the PAC would check box 5(f). Additionally, the committee must submit a letter to identify itself as a Super PAC or Hybrid PAC. The Commission has approved a template for Super PACs to use, and has provided specific instructions for Hybrid PACs. For additional information, consult the Super PAC and Hybrid PAC sections of our Recent Developments in the Law page, as well as our Coordinated Communications and Independent Expenditures brochure.”
“You are not allowed to use all that money you’ve raised from corporations and unions to make “direct contributions” to candidates or their political action committees. You also can’t take out TV ads or billboards in coordination with any of those candidates or their PACs.”
The only way you will be effectively able to raise money against AUMA is by forming several Super PAC’s, each with a specific purpose to attack the Sean Parker machine. One PAC will be for television ads, one for newspapers, one for social media, one for digging dirt on Parker and his Consortium cronies, one for pamphlets and hand media, and several for making political contributions on the quiet to key political figures. This is also the easiest and fastest way to raise money in the US political system, its completely legal and its playing by the big boys rules so we can kick the big boys right where it hurts, the pocketbook. The key of the SuperPAC is to make the election too expensive to make it worthwhile for big business, while they have already spent $100 million, our goal is to make them spend over a billion. If they want our industry its going to cost a pound of flesh, we need to make it happen. Especially on social media.
HOW TO USE TWITTER and INSTAGRAM FOR PROPOGANDA
Open several twitter accounts with cool 420 related names.
Get a multi-tweet platform for your browser: http://mashable.com/2009/05/18/twitter-apps-manage-multiple-accounts/#BfZpmfsdpOq3
This allows you to manage all accounts at the same time.
Use Twitter to get the truth out.
Hashtag as many words as you can, this links your tweet to more tweets allowing people from around the world to see your truth in seconds.
You can call people out just by finding their name
Typing @donduncanasa is a #RICO #MMJ #Thief #AUMA #BADforBusiness @barackobama indict this #asshole will go WORLDWIDE and the President WILL see it because he is on twitter all the time. Welcome to the 21st Century.
Don’t overplay your hand on twitter. Don’t try to respond to people directly, use the format above to make creative messages, they play to the audience better and get you seen more effectively.
Don’t make yourself look crazy on twitter, EVERYONE can see you on Twitter, it is 100% exposure so choose your words very very carefully. Do not make threats, just say facts.
There must be a team on Twitter 24/7. Twitter has brought down countries and politicians, you can outnumber their money with this tool.
Do the same with INSTRAGRAM. It is also hashtag and referenced based but is primarily used for IMAGES and PICTURES. There are tons of people on IG every minute of the day, use this to educate and post messages. CREATE SEVERAL INSTAGRAM ACCOUNTS.
HOW TO USE YOUTUBE FOR PROPOGANDA
Start a YouTube Channel, the more the better.
Videotape yourself in a creative way to gain the audience’s attention, show them some herb, do something hippie cool, use digital media equipment, MAKE IT INTRIGUING TO A GENERAL AUDIENCE.
Tell the truth, and get guest stars who will.
The more you reveal about the good side and the bad side of marijuana the more the public will trust your judgement. The PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING AND SHOWING IS ALWAYS BETTER THAN TELLING.
Do Not Portray Yourself in A Hostile or Threatening Manner, DO NOT MAKE THREATS. YOU ARE NOT CLIVEN BUNDY. You are a marijuana grower trying to get the truth out, make it about THE TRUTH.
The more the better, social media is very lightweight with the Soros Gang because to them the truth hurts, they do not want the public informed. IT IS YOUR JOB TO INFORM THE PUBLIC.
MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE ON YOUTUBE HOURLY, PLAY A STRAIGHT GAME AND MAKE YOUR VIDEO FOR ALL AUDIENCES. DO NOT RANT BE CLEAR AND CONCISE.
Congressman Adam Schiff (D) Cool guy
HOW TO CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN
Google your congressman.
Find out where your congressman is having his next public meeting.
Go there in a big group.
Talk to him politely and respectfully, but make your concerns known.
Get his number.
Follow-up next week and thereafter into the election.
If he is pro-marijuana and anti-auma, help him out.
If he is anti-marijuana or anti-auma, then fuck him over via TruthOut to his/her constituents. DO NOT THREATEN OR DO ANYTHING ILLEGAL, just play politics.
MAKE ALLIANCES
Remember “The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend”, here are Sean Parker and George Soro’s enemies, hit them up.
http://www.march-against-monsanto.com/
https://www.organicconsumers.org/campaigns/millions-against-monsanto
https://gmo-awareness.com/resources/anti-gmo-groups-america/
http://www.citizensforethics.org/
https://www.eff.org/
http://www.sierraclub.org/
Contact the Green Party and educate them.
http://www.gp.org/
Contact Bernie Sanders and educate him
https://go.berniesanders.com/page/content/splash
Anti-Globalization Groups
Anti-Free Trade Groups
Educate the enemies of our enemies about what they do in the shadows. Hurt their pocketbook.
STEP 6 – CONNECT THE MONEY
Figure out which SuperPAC’s are contributing to AUMA.
Identify which individuals and corporations are contributing to that PAC.
Connect their money to the big money ie. Hedge funds and billionaires.
Publish this information and start digging on their dirty secrets, especially if its marijuana related.
Connect the dots for the public, make them understand that this is not in their best interest.
EXAMPLE: Sean Parker is investing in a marijuana breathalyzer? MAKE THIS KNOWN.
Identify the foreign cartel money connections, this is just like Iran-Contra. We have to connect the ISIS weapons to the drug money and laundering to the drug sales we know the big boys are doing. If we all put our heads together I am sure we can figure this out.
RECRUIT RECRUIT RECRUIT
There are a lot of pot friendly young people out there looking for a job. Give them a damn job and earn their loyalty, teach them how to fight and get the ball rolling. The more operators we have the better. People power works in large numbers but there must be several branches that go operational. Use this chart to organize your effort.
GATHER EVIDENCE AND USE IT TO FUNDRAISE
Once the truth is out there will be several entities that want to donate to the SuperPAC’s, but that can only happen if you open your mouth and talk about what is going on in a clear and concise manner and show evidence. It’s time to get grimy and that may equate to providing information on pro-AUMA operators to federal law enforcement ie. FBI, DOJ, not the DEA or locals, they are corrupt. They made their bed and now they get to lie in it. Karma is a bitch and sometimes there needs to be a little no mercy Justice For All going on to stop evil people from taking things that aren’t theirs.
Leave no stone unturned, all is fair in love, war & politics, all information is fair game; let the world know how medical marijuana really works. Welcome to Operation Green Rush.
The Green Chazzan
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Dan Rush w/ Richard Lee pushing Prop 19
It should come as no surprise that the largest investors in Medical Marijuana are large international drug cartels, foreign intelligence agencies, state sponsored terrorists and the American billionaire class (primarily Republicans and Liberal Internationalists) who have used their almost unlimited pool of wealth to corrupt the medical marijuana industry in hopes of having complete market control & comparative advantage with the advent of marijuana legalization.
As the Green Pulpit has always claimed, ‘Legalization’ is a political term used to mask the legitimization of organized crime controlled grows, production facilities and collectives to create a legitimate avenue for the multi-billion dollar money laundering schemes that have kept the industry and its supply chain flowing for decades. ‘Legalization’ also maintains the role of law enforcement and continues the Drug War, by creating new legal schemes for possession and intoxication that allow law enforcement and the courts to continue indirectly taxing and jailing both marijuana businesses operators and marijuana patients. The Drug War itself is a for profit, unconstitutional, law enforcement entrapment that brings drugs into the United States, sells it to its citizens and arrests them to fill the for-profit jail system that benefits the bottom line of the 1%.
US Incarceration Rate
Foreign Activity
In rural and impoverished areas in both California and Arizona, many grows are used to support meth labs and vice versa; often with cheap or free labor being brought in by cartel coyotes, trafficking in people from Mexico, Central and South America, but also Southeast Asia and China as well. The Chinese government and Chinese businesses have been laundering money through both Mexico and California via pharmaceutical transactions, Mexican cartel banking, and most interestingly enough through Native American tribes seeking more expansive grows. Since the federal government has allowed for cultivation on Indian Reservations, many tribes have been approached by agents of the Chinese government, looking to invest hard currency into large-scale greenhouse grows on Reservation land. Their goal is to avoid having the illegal RMB’s and counterfeit USD’s from being collected by the US tax system so that they can not only have capital to create more store fronts for their operations but also so that China can protect the RMB from Federal Reserve policy.
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How Drug Sales and Money Laundering Can Damage The Economy: https://thegreenpulpit.wordpress.com/2014/07/27/the-devils-work-marijuana-in-the-20s-and-30s-part-2/
What the hell does international currency manipulation have to do with marijuana? Quite a bit. China is using US Nixonian policy in reverse. Checking out our Secret History of the Drug War section we recall that narcotics have often been used as a weapon of war, primarily impacting the public health of the target population but also by introducing currency imbalances through the actual underground sales of the drugs themselves. China was defeated during the Opium Wars by both an influx of opium and currency manipulation by the British; China has now retooled their soft foreign policy to target America through an influx of illicit drugs, counterfeit dollars and manipulation of untaxed reserves created by the drug transactions. Did you know that China now manufactures 95% of all of the world’s ecstasy pills? Did you know that Chinese government subsidiaries are the #1 supplier of pseudoephedrine and ephedra (the base compounds of methamphetamine) to the Sinaloa and Gulf Cartels? Did you know that China White Heroin comes from Burma through traffickers and sources loyal to Chinese intelligence? It’s a cold war people and also a dirty one.
More on the Opium Wars: https://thegreenpulpit.wordpress.com/2014/03/27/the-opium-mob/
Sino-Mexican Connection:
http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2005/06/the_mexican_connection_pseudoe.html
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1759760/how-mexican-drug-cartels-are-moving-hong-kong
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/chinese-mexican-businessman-found-205m-cash-sold-black-market-meth-chemicals-article-1.386830
http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/News/chapo-guzman-controls-meth-trafficking-us-asia-study/story?id=18865196
The worst part of all of this is that the international business Consortium and Republican lawmakers are actively collaborating with Chinese agents and business entities to keep medical marijuana illegal. Now why would they do that? Because the US prison system has Chinese and Russian investors, it’s really that simple. And if our best and brightest are being imprisoned and denied work over a plant, even more success for our global rivals in assuming military dominance and thus global dominance in the long term. Marijuana also has been proven to help get users off of the narcotics that the Chinese government now controls, its antithetical toward their goals. China is also heavily focused on unity through thought control, which is why marijuana is punishable by death in mainland China. They do not want any substance that encourages independent thought or subversive thought to be available to anyone, a very similar view shared by the Reagan and Bush administrations of yesteryear.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-takei/anonymous-exposes-uss-big_b_3567035.html
Both China and Russia have analyzed the US’s method of controlling the global narcostate and have seen its benefits in both population management domestically and in soft power with foreign affairs. Russian intelligence and the Russian Mafia have made a big impact in the LA Basin over the last few years, buying up infamous collectives, bribing the LA County Sheriff Lee Baca, to look the other way and taking over a network of grows stretching from Orange County to Downtown LA to Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley.
Want to have a better relationship with the government? Want to clean up this industry? Be patriotic and anonymously report foreign activity to Homeland Security. Show them who the good guys are!
The most glaring issue with the involvement of foreign actors, the Russian and Mexican Mob, is their willingness to work with Saudi and Iranian investors to traffic terrorists into the United States. This author is aware of several groups of illegal Afghan and Chechen nationals trimming for the Russian Mob at various locations, including dispensaries in the San Fernando Valley, while also working part time as valets to case terror targets within Los Angeles and the surrounding Southland. There are also several Armenian and Iranian subgroups, posing as Eastern European Jews and Israelis, that have also collaborated with the Russian’s and Saudi’s to bring terror cells into the country through the marijuana business. Dispensaries, since they are cash only businesses without employment records, provide an ideal cover for imported terror, especially if the dispensary and associated grows are ran by organized crime.
This article was recently released by JudicialWatch.org, discussing the growing cases of terror smuggling in the United States:
“ Mexican drug traffickers help Islamic terrorists stationed in Mexico cross into the United States to explore targets for future attacks, according to information forwarded to Judicial Watch by a high-ranking Homeland Security official in a border state. Among the jihadists that travel back and forth through the porous southern border is a Kuwaiti named Shaykh Mahmood Omar Khabir, an ISIS operative who lives in the Mexican state of Chihuahua not far from El Paso, Texas. Khabir trained hundreds of Al Qaeda fighters in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen and has lived in Mexico for more than a year, according to information provided by JW’s government source.
Now Khabir trains thousands of men—mostly Syrians and Yemenis—to fight in an ISIS base situated in the Mexico-U.S. border region near Ciudad Juárez, the intelligence gathered by JW’s source reveals. Staking out U.S. targets is not difficult and Khabir actually brags in an Italian newspaper article published last week that the border region is so open that he “could get in with a handful of men, and kill thousands of people in Texas or in Arizona in the space of a few hours.” Foreign Affairs Secretary Claudia Ruiz, Mexico’s top diplomat, says in the article that she doesn’t understand why the Obama administration and the U.S. media are “culpably neglecting this phenomenon,” adding that “this new wave of fundamentalism could have nasty surprises in store for the United States.”
This disturbing development appears on the Open Source Enterprise, the government database that collects and analyzes valuable material from worldwide print, broadcast and online media sources for the U.S. intelligence community. Only registered federal, state and local government employees can view information and analysis in the vast database and unauthorized access can lead to criminal charges. Updated data gathered on Khabir reveals he’s 52 years old and was ordered to leave Kuwait about a decade ago over his extremist positions. Khabir is currently on ISIS’s (also known as ISIL) payroll and operates a cell in an area of Mexico known as Anapra, according to the recently obtained information.
A year ago Judicial Watch reported on an ISIS camp in this exact area, just a few miles from El Paso. JW’s April 14, 2015 report identified Anapra as the location of the ISIS base, details that were provided to JW by sources that include a Mexican Army field grade officer and a Mexican Federal Police Inspector. Anapra is situated just west of Ciudad Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. At the time JW reported that another ISIS cell was established to the west of Ciudad Juárez, in Puerto Palomas to target the New Mexico towns of Columbus and Deming. Sources told JW that, during the course of a joint operation, Mexican Army and federal law enforcement officials discovered documents in Arabic and Urdu, as well as “plans” of Fort Bliss – the sprawling military installation that houses the US Army’s 1st Armored Division. Muslim prayer rugs were recovered with the documents during the operation.
A few months later JW reported that Mexican drug cartels are smuggling Middle Eastern terrorists into a small Texas rural town near El Paso and that they’re using remote farm roads—rather than interstates—to elude the Border Patrol and other law enforcement barriers. The foreigners are classified by the U.S. government as Special Interest Aliens (SIA) and they are transported to stash areas in Acala, a rural crossroads located around 54 miles from El Paso on a state road – Highway 20. Once in the U.S., the SIAs wait for pick-up in the area’s sand hills just across Highway 20. At the time JW’s government sources revealed that terrorists have long entered the U.S. through Mexico and in fact, an internal Texas Department of Public Safety report leaked by the media documents that several members of known Islamist terrorist organizations have been apprehended crossing the southern border in recent years.
Earlier this year, as part of an ongoing investigation into national security risks in the porous southern border, JW obtained evidence that proves the U.S. government has known for more than a decade about the partnership between terrorists and Mexican drug cartels. State Department documents made public by JW in January say that for at least ten years “Arab extremists” have entered the country through Mexico with the assistance of smuggling network “cells.” Among them was a top Al Qaeda operative wanted by the FBI. Some Mexican smuggling networks actually specialize in providing logistical support for Arab individuals attempting to enter the United States, the government documents say. The top Al Qaeda leader in Mexico was identified in the September 2004 cable from the American consulate in Ciudad Juárez as Adnan G. El Shurkrjumah. The cable was released to Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).”
Judicial Watch (2016)
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2016/04/cartels-help-terrorists-in-mexico-get-to-u-s-to-explore-targets-isis-militant-shaykh-mahmood-omar-khabir-among-them/
Terrorist-In-Chief and Consortium Top Dog King Salman
Most of the terrorists work for the Consortium anyway, because it’s in major part an international relationship between Republican leadership and the House of Saud. Osama Bin Laden was a top agent of Saudi Intelligence, as were several other prominent terrorists from Al-Qaeda. Even today we see ISIS and the al-Nusra army, sponsored by Saudi intelligence, slaughtering thousands of innocents in Iraq and Syria. Hell, even Obama knows the Saudi’s did 9/11, it’s all in the secret 28 pages.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/obama-administration-set-to-release-secret-28-pages-from-911-report-a6999696.html
Remember, there is no excuse to protect terrorists or spies in this business! Most of the pot growing farmers we know are red blooded die-hard freedom loving Americans who would never sell out their people or country, especially to a bunch of filthy terrorists looking to hurt innocent people. We agree, see something, say something. Save lives. Locking up a terrorist isn’t snitching.
What women are forced to do for a job in marijuana
It’s no secret that every dispensary from San Diego to Oakland is staffed by former prostitutes, escorts, broke hippie girls and wannabe Hollywood starlets that are often recruited straight out of the sex trade or are subjected to interviews with dispensary owners that resemble nothing less than trying out for a porno. Girls are required to maintain stripper or ‘thin and slutty’ looks to keep their job, much like an airline attendant from the 1960’s; any deviation into professionalism is met by job termination.
The Asian Mob for one has brought in former massage parlor girls from Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Japan, China and other locations to staff their dispensaries and make sure the management is well taken care of. The Russian Mob has a habit of picking up retired porn starlets and fake models from the San Fernando Valley, usually targeting women that have addictions to cocaine or methamphetamine, so that they can be kept happy, loyal and controlled.
Girls trimming pot on the floor, no buckets or tables
Another danger to women comes during the harvest season, where many female ‘trimmigrants’ have gone up to the fields of the Emerald Triangle to harvest, only to find themselves being forced into sex slavery on the farm. The most notorious was the revelation of the Clearlake ‘Rape Box’, where women were kept in dog cages and dog crates, to be molested by the farmers and farmhands whenever they saw fit.
“LAKEPORT, Calif. — When authorities raided the marijuana growing operation, they found greenhouses filled with plants over 6 feet tall, neatly lined with individual irrigation systems. But the rest of the property, one federal agent recalled, looked like a horror scene. They found dilapidated trailers where farmers appeared to live, caches of weapons and a bloody towel.
“To me, it smacked of a scene from ‘Deliverance,'” said David Prince, assistant special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Northern California. “If I was a plant, that’s where I’d want to live. If I was a human, that’s not where I’d want to live.”
It was here, in a remote area east of Clear Lake in Northern California, that authorities allege a kidnapped teenage girl from Los Angeles County was sexually abused and occasionally held captive in a metal box. The box — about 4-by-2-by-2 feet — sat outside one of the trailers, with holes drilled through the lid and a blanket inside. The box “had been altered to imprison a human,” a federal criminal complaint read.
In charges unsealed in San Francisco, federal officials allege that two men had abused the [15-year old] girl and forced her to help with their marijuana production. The girl eventually called authorities from a West Sacramento hotel, where she was rescued, officials said.
The suspects — Ryan Alan Balletto, 30, and Patrick Steven Pearmain, 25 — face numerous felony charges. The Los Angeles Police Department arrested a third man, Eric Edgar, on suspicion of sexual assault. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had been investigating the 680-acre property owned by Balletto since December 2011, court documents showed.
Then, authorities raided the marijuana farm. “It was kind of like opening Pandora’s box,” said Lake County sheriff’s Sgt. Dennis Ostini. They found 1,200 marijuana plants, guns and other items. But the most horrifying discovery was the metal box the girl said she was kept in. She told police the men made her stay in it on two occasions for a total of three days, court records show.
Spray-painted on the outside was the first letter of the girl’s name. Inside was a decal that “depicted an animal skull surrounding the shadow image of a human skull with the logo ‘Bone Collector,'” according to the court documents.
The men put a hose through one of the holes to clean the girl and wash out the human waste inside, prosecutors alleged. Inside the box investigators found human hair and a poem the girl had written about being held inside the box. A “rack” allegedly used for bondage and sex toys were also found on the property. Authorities alleged in court papers that Balletto called the girl a “trooper” because she didn’t scream when she was in the box.
Authorities said the investigation is ongoing. U.S. Atty. Northern District spokesman Joshua Eaton said there could be more victims….”
Complete Article: http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jul/26/local/la-me-girl-captive-pot-20130727
The quasi legal status of marijuana dispensaries in California and Colorado have created ample opportunities for organized crime and foreign intelligence to use dispensaries as an immaculate system to wash their illicit gains from cocaine, heroin, pills & ecstasy, people trafficking, stolen goods and other underworld activities. Since medical marijuana is a cash only system, it’s simply a matter of adding the illicit cash to the stockpile of legitimate yet unaccounted dispensary monies and claim a higher amount of marijuana sales to mask the transactions. There is not a BSA analysis or IRS audit or any other program outside of FINRA/FinCen licensure that can account for this, and even then it’s a legal quagmire, this is a major roadblock in federal decriminalization and true legalization.
What marijuana industry members must understand is that the US Department of Justice does not have an incentive to legitimize organized crime and foreign controlled businesses and marijuana activists must realize it is their obligation to work with the government to help discern and discriminate between individuals and organizations accurately. Who are the good guys? And who are the bad guys? Legitimate growers need to answer these questions so that the government can make an accurate prescription in performing accurate regulation and targeted enforcement against the racketeers.
500,000 gallons of stolen river water
The government is preparing to act on ‘Legal Marijuana’ in a big way because the legitimization of marijuana businesses means a gross expansions of both tax and due diligence revenue. What does that mean? Well at the Cannabis Cup, we met with a consultant from a company called Emerald Environments who were offering environmental solutions to what they regarded as the ‘coming regulatory apocalypse’ in California. They were representing a larger Fortune 500 entity that had become interested in the passage of the Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act of 2015. The company had been analyzing the marijuana compliance issues, and their representative informed us that most of the marijuana industry was in gross violation of both federal and state EPA statutes within the State of California.
C’MON GUYS! We are better than this!
The consultant told us to check out the California State Water Resources Control Board’s website.
SWRCB Cannabis Cultivation Site: http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/enforcement/cannabis_enforcement.shtml
He informed us that this program will become statewide, with similar programs for indoor grows that have to meet the government’s industrial standards for air quality, soil impacts, water use and land use. Interestingly enough the SWRCB has been evaluating the industry over a period of four years and this PowerPoint pretty much details their conclusions:
http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/enforcement/docs/cannabis_enfrcmnt/cannabis_cultv_powerpoint.pdf
Not good people. These agencies look like they are getting ready to ticket the crap out of the growing community for all of this reckless behavior with the environment. Our friend also informed us that if the tickets mount or if the environmental impact is bad enough, the consequences could lead to asset forfeiture actions similar to the DEA.
The Green Rush is the new Gold Rush it seems, in every way and shape. Dispensaries are very much historically akin to the old Western Trading Posts that dominated California during the Gold Rush, like the historical Sutter’s Fort. Many of the people that got rich off of the gold rush were those that sold supplies (hydro-stores) to the miners and those that bought gold (dispensaries) in exchange for cash, supplies and food. The trading posts made the gold available to interested parties like jewelers and banks (vendors) who would try to take the gold back to the East Coast, either by ship or by horse and cart.
“The benefit to the forty-niners [growers] was that the gold was simply “free for the taking” at first. In the goldfields at the beginning, there was no private property, no licensing fees, and no taxes. The miners informally adapted Mexican mining law that had existed in California. For example, the rules attempted to balance the rights of early arrivers at a site with later arrivers; a “claim” could be “staked” by a prospector, but that claim was valid only as long as it was being actively worked.”
“Miners [growers] worked at a claim [grow] only long enough to determine its potential. If a claim [grow spot] was deemed as low-value—as most were—miners would abandon the site in search for a better one. In the case where a claim was abandoned or not worked upon, other miners would “claim-jump” [jack] the land. “Claim-jumping” [jacking] meant that a miner began work on a previously claimed site [steal plants]. Disputes were often handled personally and violently, and were sometimes addressed by groups of prospectors [activists] acting as arbitrators. This often led to heightened ethnic tensions. In some areas the influx of many prospectors could lead to a reduction of the existing claim size by simple pressure.”
These days what we are seeing in the industry is coercion and collusion by organized crime and city councils to lock down the authorized distributors of cannabis in order to control and fix the price of marijuana. This started in the City of Long Beach, spread throughout California and now it’s like a disease going from marijuana state-to-state. This model seems most successful in Arizona where growers are terrorized by the Paradise Valley elite, and their attack dog Sheriff Joe, who retain almost exclusive control over all available dispensaries and large scale grows in the state of Arizona. The state, despite being the neighbor of the Mother Plant, has not shared the same benefits as Oregon; in fact just the opposite. Arizona has a disproportionately high price for marijuana due to the difficulty and severe penalties for cultivation and transporting without a license in the state; the Arizona-California border is heavily maintained and most vendors have to stay super low key in the Phoenix-Tempe area due to Sheriff Joe’s Orwellian surveillance state. This pressure by law enforcement is to ensure that prices remain high for the patient or end user within the state. Local AZ growers are screwed out of the benefit of high prices because dispensaries, due to their complete control over distribution, dictate the prices they are willing to pay. Which happens to be at almost 50% below California market rate. While these groups rob the growers of their hard worked gains, they then turn around and screw the patients with 50-65$ eighths of mid-grade. We are talking a cost of $900-$1200 and a gross profit of $6000 or more, per pound. This is the wet dream of the Tax & Jail cabal known as The Consortium. They have complete domination over the Arizona market, led by local hedge fund sociopath JP Holyoak and with the aid of Marijuana Policy Project, have tried to deprive citizens of their individual grow rights in the state of Arizona so that they can continue to fix the marijuana markets as they always have. (See Part 1: Miami Boys). Holyoak and friends have even actively tried to suppress the opposing AZFMR initiative, which allows for individual grows, by bugging and hacking activists phones, monitoring Facebook chats and breaking into emails.
The goal of this financial Consortium in every state, is to control the distribution of marijuana, subjugate and eliminate the small and medium sized farmer, commercialize greenhouses on a mass scale, sacrifice medicinal quality in exchange for high profit ‘commercial grade’, which will simply be outrageously expensive mids and kill off the competitive craft market. All medicinal quality marijuana will be controlled by Big Pharma companies like Gilead, Teva, GW, Merck and Pfizer, all owned or shares held by The Consortium members behind AUMA. The ultimate goal is to return the legal marijuana market back to the same limited number of hands that controlled it from the mid-70’s to the mid-90’s, when the cycle was broken with Dennis Peron’s liberation of the movement with Prop 215.
AUMA Sponsors (The Consortium)
They do this by bribing city councils and local police in every county of every marijuana state. These guys are billionaires so their pockets go long and deep. Most American cities still have deep budget gaps or debt dismay from the 2008 financial crisis, so their politicians are chomping at the bit for more revenue, especially if it benefits themselves. Most city councils, like those in Santa Ana, Long Beach, Santa Cruz, San Diego and many others throughout marijuanadom will not issue an operating permit unless the Mayor and Council members are offered stakes or monthly kickbacks from the dispensaries. This is not implementing a tax to benefit the public welfare, but rather political corruption designed to profiteer off a cash only business, that’s probably money laundering, with no taxes and no regulations.
We have discussed city corruption with marijuana at length in past articles and series like Narc vs. Narc, and the Coalition of Corruption. We encourage you to check out the site further.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-30/state-sanctioned-theft-failed-war-drugs-and-cops-abuse-civil-forfeiture
https://thegreenpulpit.wordpress.com/2014/05/30/long-beach-corruption-unveiled-local-news-connects-police-and-city-council-to-marijuana-rackets/
https://thegreenpulpit.wordpress.com/2016/01/01/police-corruption-marijuana/
https://thegreenpulpit.wordpress.com/2014/03/19/the-marijuana-mafia/
https://thegreenpulpit.wordpress.com/2014/10/
Medical Marijuana Video
The Truth – Part 3: The Consortium & The Legalization Trap
The Consortium & Hotel California
What is AUMA? It’s no less than the Undead Zombie of Prop 19, back from the dead once again to test the faith of the Medical Marijuana community in its final hour of justice. Prop 19, SB1262, and all of these other initiative also-rans have been nothing but attempts by Wall Street, Law Enforcement and Big Pharma to use their government influence to capture, break and redesign the marijuana supply chain as they see fit. Putting control of the industry permanently into the hands of international mafia, hedge fund billionaires, cartel front men, crooked cops and crooked politicians who refuse to let go of their Prohibition & Payola aka Tax & Jail Model.
To understand why AUMA is bad for your health we need to dial back a little bit and talk about what California means to the international marijuana movement. Why do we put such an emphasis and focus on California Marijuana Laws, and especially those of Los Angeles and the City of Long Beach? The answer is that California is where everything started for this movement and ultimately where everything will end. Northern California is literally the heart of international marijuana cash crop production and Southern California today represents a political and socio-economic ‘pivot point’ in the great struggle for marijuana decriminalization because Los Angeles is the largest and most sophisticated High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area in the world and the Port of Long Beach is equally the largest drug trafficking port in the world. Basically the largest narcotics customer base on the plant with the largest transportation/distribution hub right next to it, two key control points for every business and underworld syndicate with an interest in narcotics. California is the mother plant in the world of medical marijuana, every other state is just a clone. Colorado, as we have mentioned before, is still completely dependent on California for seeds, trim and even bud during the harsher seasons.
LA HIDTA Zone
Despite California’s status as the founder and leader of medical marijuana, many within the California movement have failed to understand why the political situation in the Golden State hasn’t stabilized. The biggest reason being that the California Movement has been in a political and legal war against the Police Departments, the Mob and the Cities of California since our journey began in the mid-90s. The California Police Union, consisting of the California County Sheriff’s, City Police Unions, and other law enforcement officials, the DEA, and the League of California Cities consisting of Mayors and City Attorneys have done everything within and beyond their legislative powers to obstruct the patient’s right to alternative medical therapy through the use of medical marijuana. Interestingly enough the tactics used by cities and law enforcement, have driven the medical marijuana industry into the hands of organized crime. Medical marijuana was a business for the patients to get access to well grown, clean and environmentally safe medical marijuana, this has since been corrupted as cartel and organized crime members have taken the marijuana cultivation process and have transformed it into a mass production supply chain.
California’s liberal reputation is often impeded by the wealthy and powerful conservative elements within the state. Law enforcement is heavily embedded in this conservative cabal due to history. As we have mentioned before, a sort of racial law enforcement clique began to form within the California police departments in the early 1920’s. Recruits from the Deep South and the local California KKK in Anaheim and San Diego were preferred for Law Enforcement hires for many years, due to their views on race, narcotics and institutional corruption; this practice persisted well into early 90’s culminating in a public outcry with the Los Angeles Riots of 1992 over the racial brutalization of Rodney King by the LAPD. This clique merged with the DEA under the guidance of Governor George Deukmejian and then Mayor Dianne Feinstein of San Francisco in the 1970’s to stamp out the power of the hippie movement in California, and has continued to remain embedded in municipal and state administrations throughout California ever since the consolidation of power by the Neo-Conservatives during the Reagan Years.
The Neo-Con’s are no different than Neo-Liberals, they are the 1%, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg Group, the Illuminati, whatever you want to call them, they are the rich guys with all the money and power that hate humanity and have a Malthusian dream of self-fulfilling biblical prophecy so that they can have their Elysium planet. They control the flow of international narcotics, including marijuana after they consolidated control during the 1970’s and they sit on both sides of the aisle so that the American people stay in the dark about how American power really works. The likes of Americans For Safe Access, The Drug Policy Alliance, Students for Sensible Drug Policy and the Marijuana Policy Project were commissioned by George Soros, George Zimmer, Peter Lewis, JP Holyoak and Bush Attorney General John Ashcroft to disrupt, dismantle and hijack the medical marijuana movement and deliver it to the Anglo-American corporate interests that had paid handsomely for it. The Consortium is led by former President George H.W. Bush and other co-executives and majority shareholders of major pharmaceutical names like Beyer (GW Pharmaceuticals), Merck, Teva, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Gilead, Altria, RJ Reynold, British American Tobacco and Eli Lilly. The Bush DEA’s number one target for some time has been the Pioneers of Medical Marijuana and the people around them that helped found Prop 215; seeking to dismantle any remnant of the movement that pushed using marijuana as a medicine.
The goal was to discredit marijuana as a medicine and push it as tobacco-like vice product, to protect their business interests from competition and consolidate power under their own mantra ‘Legalization’; the purpose of this is to divide and conquer the medical marijuana movement so that the Consortium can continue to steal the old growers trade secrets and then patent them as their own, to develop Schedule II pharmaceuticals like Sativex and Epidolex. The Consortium has enabled their AstroTurf activist front groups including Americans For Safe Access, Marijuana Policy Project and the Drug Policy Alliance to wreak havoc on the entire medical marijuana community and its patients alike. To a large extent they have succeeded, in large part, thanks to collusion by the California Police Unions and the League of California Cities.
Palaces of Prohibition
The base of Neo-Conservative power in California is San Diego County that is the source of much of their financial and institutional power for the entire world. San Diego is home to the richest and one of the largest Mormon communities in the United States; it is also the largest base of Neo-Nazi funding and power in California. It is the home of the Tea Party and residence of many outspoken Neo-Con power brokers like Darrell Issa, Duncan Hunter, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Margaret Cargill (of Cargill, Monsanto’s partner in crime) Bill Gates, and many retired officers of the Neo-Con military command.
San Diego possesses one of the largest military installations in the United States with 6 Naval Bases, 3 Marine Bases and 1 Coast Guard Station. San Diego also possess the largest DEA presence in California; it is effectively their stronghold and major front for the entire country. San Diego has been a military town for over 100 years and because of this, their culture has evolved with both the National Defense culture and the Narco-State culture created by the DEA. Many law enforcement personnel in California retire to San Diego after they have completed their service. This is why Americans for Safe Access, formerly a major Bush DEA front, operates primarily out of San Diego, Sacramento, formerly Long Beach and Bakersfield; because their illegal operations were shielded by Neo-Con friendlies in those municipalities and alternatively by Mexican Cartel and Chinese Triad counterparts in LA and San Francisco.
The next source of Prohibition power in California comes from Orange County, a major source of Republican financial strength attributing much of its rise as an S&L, Cocaine, Money Laundering and Real Estate hub in the 1980s. This county is controlled mostly by major Republican land barons like billionaire Donald Bren of the Irvine Community and William Lyon of Lyon Communities who are financially the lords and masters of most of the cities in LA County, they control the politics through business and the streets through narcotics distribution ran by Italian Mafia front men out of Newport Beach, Santa Ana and Anaheim. The Orange Curtain or ‘The OC’ is the ideal example of a neo-conservatives dream of a corporate fiefdom. Many GOP powerbrokers are born and raised through Orange County’s privileged Republican private school system, which uses a series of Catholic schools to place young adults in conservative colleges throughout the country like USC, ASU, Chapman, Amherst and other well-known conservative institutions for ideological training. Most dispensaries owned in Orange County are front’s for money laundering, cocaine and pill smuggling and controlled by members of local organized crime that use patients as a front to disguise their illicit activities.
OC is a significant battlefront, because not only is Orange County a major source of Republican wealth but it has also become a major distribution hub for the Mexican Mafia in California. Thanks in large part to municipal corruption and a plentiful amount of Carlito’s Way-type Coke Attorneys, the Mexican and Asian Cartels have taken complete control of the cities of Santa Ana, Huntington Beach, Orange, Anaheim, Westminster, Buena Park and Garden Grove. The rule in Orange County is that the wealthy live south of these cities, and that the police provide almost a DMZ-like front line at the city limits for these areas. The Neo-Con and KKK backed city administrations in the poor cities oversee the chaos of gang violence and drug distribution in collusion with the Cartel, collecting profits from both the incarcerations and narcotics sales. The author of SB1262, Lou Correa, is the State representative of the district controlled by the Cartels, and his bill is designed to hand the California medical marijuana industry over to the collection of Consortium-Cartel interests that are fronted by the Marijuana Mafia.
Lou Correa
The third source sits in Oakland and Silicon Valley, these are the Silicon Libertarian Billionaires like Sean Parker, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel and other tech Nazi’s that see marijuana as a pathway towards managing digital serfdom. These young guns owe their money and success to their Neo-Con handlers, who are all ex-Nixon and Reagan Era elite, and they are being crafted to be the next Rockefellars and Soro’s of the 21st century where the population will be managed digitally. AUMA is not the brainchild of Parker, but he is the marketable face of the scheme in an attempt to disassociate Zombie Prop 19 from its odious origins. Marijuana in the bay area is largely managed by a cooperative effort between the mafia-end of the Teamsters Union, led by the utterly corrupt, yet indicted, Dan Rush and ex-DEA hacks in Contra Costa, Alameda and Monterey and the Asian Mob primarily managed by the San Francisco Tong’s with its big shots like Raymond Chow and former State Senator Leland Yee.
Dan Rush Indictment: https://www.fbi.gov/sanfrancisco/press-releases/2015/union-organizer-indicted-for-corruption-attempted-extortion-and-money-laundering
The fourth major source of financial power and probably the most critical is the one sourced in Los Angeles County. The Republicans have long viewed the City of Los Angeles as an ideological warzone and have done everything within their power to hamper the cities progression, citing a need to avoid the creation of “San F**cisco Liberal Fascism”. The sources of Republican power in Los Angeles are Long Beach, Flintridge, Simi Valley, Glendale, Pasadena and the Western Valley; despite LA’s overwhelming population of Democrats, the LA GOP holds an amazingly disproportionate level of power within LA City Hall and especially the LA County Board of Supervisors & Sheriff. Out of the four areas mentioned thus far, this group is by far the cleverest and also the most dangerous; they are big time shot callers in the Republican world because they hold a key responsibility within the power structure of the Consortium. They possess the responsibility of managing and overseeing the largest narco-trafficking corridor in the entire world, the Los Angeles Basin.
Michael Antonovich
The Debacle
Mayor Bob Foster
The Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach exist side by side as the largest domestic import hub for international cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin trafficking in the United States. Every year ton upon metric ton of Afghan heroin comes in through the Port of LA and Long Beach where it is taken to reprocessing labs in South-Central and Downtown LA to be sold to local syndicates and gangs throughout the county and country. The narco-trafficking in the port is primarily facilitated by the Teamsters, Long Beach Police Department and Long Beach City Attorney’s Office who use payoffs, gangland intimidation tactics and murder to maintain a protection racket over the port unions in exchange for silence. Former Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster, and former City Attorney Bob Shannon, leading members in relation to Long Beach organized crime, initially conceived the idea of allowing medical marijuana dispensaries in Long Beach as a cover for improving cocaine and heroin distribution flows in Los Angeles through a man named John Melvin Walker, currently serving federal RICO time, when heroin imports began to surge out of Afghanistan in 2006 and 2007. They were backed by the Neo-Conservative establishment of Los Angeles led by County Supervisors Don Knabe and Michael Antonivich, the two men pulling the strings at the top of the Los Angeles Narcotics Pyramid, along with major financial support from William Lyon in Orange County. However things did not go as planned as hippies began to show up in Long Beach to apply for business licenses; they were more skilled at growing, actually took care of the patients and were able to undercut the Consortium backed collectives with their exorbitant prices. The Consortium was immediately threatened, they had controlled Long Beach for years through the power of the Bush-Walker Family, and suddenly their billion dollar narco-trafficking operations were being upended by the California hippies once again. In response, Prop 19 and the municipal bans were conceived by the Consortium to divide the marijuana movement and racketeer the marijuana industry through over regulation.
Don Knabe
Since that time, with the help of the Marijuana Astroturf organizations, the Consortium has successfully led an illegal regulatory coup d’etat with the disastrous Long Beach “Ban Regulation” and the passage of Proposition D in LA County, both measures designed to insulate and protect collectives backed by the Consortium interest. This same group has pushed Long Beach Police Chief, Jim McDonnell, a former LAPD narco-crony from the Gates Years, to become the new Los Angeles County Sheriff. McDonnell is a staunch prohibitionist, declaring his opposition to medical marijuana at a Long Beach Planning Commission meeting and stating that he believed marijuana patients exaggerated their illnesses. McDonnell has voiced this opinion to protect the interests of his former political handlers, Long Beach City Attorney’s Bob Shannon and Charlie Parkin, who in return have aided McDonnell’s run for Sheriff by helping him fabricate Long Beach crime statistics. Patient’s in Long Beach currently live in fear of McDonnell, because of his past use of a Neo Nazi affiliated policemen named ‘Officer Strohmann’, to conduct brutal intimidation against citizens investigating the narcotics rackets.
Benedict Arnold’s
Why would you trust a fucktard in a tree? This is professional!?
Let’s talk about morale and loyalty for a minute. Morale is low among California activists these days, including those among OC NORML and the California Cannabis Coalition, as many die-hard activists and political supporters have found themselves betrayed by trusted leaders in lieu of the demonic AUMA creeping upward in the polls. Growers and operators alike followed the siren call of the Emerald Grower’s Association led by inexperienced political hacks like Hezekiah Allen and Sean Donahoe, who have used their family relations to build industry clout as a pair of pied pipers that have led growers to nothing but political failure and ruin. Earlier this year, comedy grower Micky Martin infamously lampooned the pair of hucksters during the Fuck Mickey Awards 2015, largely targeted at Consortium members within the industry for their deceptive practices. Hezekiah Allen completely failed negotiations with the state regarding individual growing rights, claiming that it was the industry’s obligation to make concessions while taking payouts from regulatory insiders to dig the knife deep in the Emerald Triangle’s back. Allen disingenuously failed to mention that California regulatory, hungry for tax revenue, were prepared to make major concessions on grow rights and the Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act but being the false prophet that he is, we were failed utterly if not maliciously.
Look at this bullshit website, seriously?!
NORML and the Law Offices of Matthew Pappas also have to take responsibility for some of the disarray in the movement. NORML, already controversial due to Keith Stroup’s epic betrayal in the late 70’s, has pretty much continued the Long Sell Out of the movement by feeding grower after grower to predatory lawyers and political organizations that have no shame in turning over our people to the regulators and law enforcement authorities without proper legal protection. It was NORML that initially backed Prop 19, it was NORML that helped Lou Correa draft SB1262 and it was NORML that backed EGA and told the growers that they could trust Hezekiah Allen to sell them upriver with the formation of MMRSA and now AUMA.
Also we can’t let the leadership of CCHI 2016 off the hook either for wasting everyone’s time and happily taking everyone’s money. Buddy Duzy, the leader of CCHI, is an idiot huckster and an idolater of Jack Herer, yet he seems to annually take a shit on Jack’s dream by sabotaging the collection of signatures for Jack’s initiative while taking political donations to keep buying himself an endless marijuana supply. Also if you ever met Buddy, one would understand that he has no concept of law or what a lawyer is for and should probably be the last person leading a referendum on anything. His well-liked stoner partner, Michael Jolson, is probably the most disappointing of the group, as many relied on his ethical and congenial character to keep an eye on Buddy rather than collaborate with the poorly educated junkie on wasting everyone’s important time. Thanks Buddy and Mike, you couldn’t have helped the bad guys more by distracting us with your false prophecies and financial malfeasance, karma will be a huge bitch, best believe it.
Buddy being a leader
This Coalition of Corruption between the Cartels, the Cops, The City Administrators and The Consortium are now going for the throat with AUMA. The bill and its proponents claim that the AUMA will correct the loopholes left for Law Enforcement by Prop 215. The Bill in reality is a complete and utter nightmare for the medical marijuana movement; AUMA is Prop 19’s real intent in its true corporate form. AUMA hands the industry over to the corporate oligarchy and California Law Enforcement Complex on a silver platter; the bill violates federal law and completely upends the medicinal spirit of Prop 215 in favor of a small cabal of business interests known as the Marijuana Mafia.
Now that we understand what California has been dealing with let’s talk about AUMA:
10 Reasons Why AUMA is a TRAP
It’s going to raise the price of pot worldwide.
When the price of marijuana per pound in California goes up, prices go up even higher everywhere else. A tax like AUMA’s sets a price floor aka price control in the market, meaning it’s impossible to sell marijuana below a certain price because of the tax burden without taking a loss. Colorado learned their lesson during the past two years when the price of marijuana experienced deflation from a supply glut. Since Colorado implemented price controls before the price drop, they are now stuck selling marijuana above its market price thus expanding their own street market and diminishing their legal market. Since marijuana supply will only increase as state after state legalizes, a premature tax will toxify the mother plant and global marijuana markets in a very unsettling way.
Most of the tax revenue goes to jails, police and insider bureaucracy.
This is not a lottery sin tax, this tax is designed to fill law enforcement and prison system budget gaps to keep business running as usual after marijuana arrests become invalidated.
Marijuana will still have felonies and prison sentences under the California Penal Code for all patients and recreational users.
A crime is only a crime if there is a legal punishment for it. As long as marijuana remains within the California Penal Code, possession and production will remain a crime. AUMA does not decriminalize or fully legalize possession, it legalizes sales and purchases but lets the police keep their pound of flesh by still allowing marijuana arrests.
Drugged Driving with worse DUI punishments than drunk driving.
Marijuana has been proven to not impair motor vehicle driving, but despite these studies, law enforcement has moved forward by sponsoring companies that are working on creating an accurate marijuana breathalyzer to entrap marijuana patients with highly subjective DUI charges that are being slated to have more of an impact than an alcohal DUI. Law Enforcement is basically saying, with legalization, be careful what you wish for because you just might get all of it, including police entrapment.
Personal grows can be banned by the state.
AUMA only requires a simple parliamentary majority to overturn personal growing rights and trust me, this is not an IF but a WHEN if this bill gets passed. None of the AUMA sponsors want small growers competing with them or offering up superior homemade product.
Cities and counties can ban outdoor cultivation.
Cities and counties will continue to racketeer marijuana businesses with impunity, expect all the grows and shops to be owned by the mayor and his family with this one.
Cities and counties can pass arbitrary taxes, ordinances and bans.
In addition to an outrageous price driving state tax, we will also have price hiking city taxes and ordinances, along with city wide bans that have CUP’s issued to only to those with enough money to properly bribe the city councils.
Eliminates Prop 215 constitutional protections.
Goodbye medical marijuana and its constitutional protections. Subordinates California law to the Federal Schedule I Prohibition, turning cannabis from a legal right into a legal privilege. Think DMV license suspension, exactly.
Allows for control by outside industries (Alcohal, Tobacco, Pharma, etc.)
Opens the door wide open for Consortium control. Expect Sean Parker and the Coalition of Corruption to storm in, bribe every city from Yreka to Imperial Beach, lock up every grower that doesn’t kow tow, and buy up all of their assets at the auction for rock bottom prices.
Reinstitutes control of the national industry under DC insiders and billionaires.
Reinstitutes Consortium control over the medical marijuana industry. GOP drug lords like the Bush Family, the DuPonts and Kochs will continue to use marijuana as a front for cocaine and heroin distribution, while loading up the private prison system, that they own, with the patients that they sell their products to.
Part 1 – https://thegreenpulpit.wordpress.com/2016/04/24/the-truth-part-1-the-miami-boys/
Part 2- https://thegreenpulpit.wordpress.com/2016/04/24/the-truth-part-2-smoke-mirrors/
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Medical Marijuana, Secret History of The War on Drugs Video
The Truth – Part 2: Smoke & Mirrors
Legal Marijuana is a trap and Medical Marijuana, once a community benefit, is now mired by fraud. There it’s been said, coming from someone that has grown, cultivated, harvested, trimmed and sold marijuana for medical use; one can no longer deny the state of decay that has swept the medical marijuana business. The Green Rush is the 21st century Gold Rush, and like everything that starts off as a benefit, it is ending as a burden. This writing is no less a confession about the world that we the growing community have lived in, the real world.
Medical Marijuana was a miraculous concept dreamed up by the genius and legendary pot dealer Dennis Peron. Dennis was known for having the first major marijuana collective and the first legal collective in San Francisco. He is most well known for being the author of Proposition 215, the first medical marijuana law for compassionate use in world history. He was associated with the gay rights movement through his friend Harvey Milk and understood that medical marijuana would be instrumental in fighting the global AIDS crisis that had begun in the 1980s. The Dallas Buyers Club is actually a movie about Mr. Peron and his friends, just different characters and different situations, but nonetheless it’s the same story; about a group of afflicted people, sentenced to death indirectly by their own government, resorting to smuggling and other shady tactics just to survive their own diseases and seize their right to life. That is how the medical marijuana movement started, as a fight for the right to live.
Dennis Peron and Jack Herer – Heroes of Marijuana
Dennis’ vision, as a true hippie, was that medical marijuana growers would work together in communes or collectives to create marijuana medicine for the terminally ill to fight the ravages of industrial disease and immunological diseases in our modern world. He believed that marijuana growers should make a profit but not allow greed to become excess and inherently corrupt his vision. Many growers and collectives stood with Mr. Peron’s vision but over time they were corrupted by the greed of fast money, illegitimate opportunity and from the machinations of criminal predators, enhanced by clandestine corruption within the government itself.
Proposition 215 was a collective effort by many famous hippies, smugglers, lawyers and other generally good willed individuals that sought to liberate the misery of many of their friends and in many cases themselves from years of physical and psychological ailments.
Proposition 215 originally had two versions, Dennis’ version and the version we have today:
“By late January, 1996, it was becoming clear that Dennis Peron’s network of volunteers could not come up with enough signatures to place the Compassionate Use Act of 1996 on the ballot. Some 433,000 valid signatures were needed by April 24; Dennis’s followers claimed to have gotten 175,000 of uncertain validity and Panzer says that number was inflated. Enter Ethan Nadelmann (Founder of Drug Police Alliance and Prop 19 advocate), a 40-yearold drug-policy expert who runs a Manhattan think tank called the Lindesmith Center, through which he allocates $4 million annually on behalf of financier George Soros. Nadelmann has a law degree from Harvard, a doctorate from Princeton, and is the author of a book about the drug war, “Cops Across Borders: The Internationalization of U.S. Criminal Law Enforcement.” He knew the effort to get a medical marijuana initiative on the California ballot had a strong chance of success because a statewide poll taken in June 1995 by David Binder Associates showed that 60% of the voters were favorably inclined.
Soros agreed to back a professional signature drive after reading a New York Times article that said Dennis already had gathered 200,000 valid signatures. Nadelmann was concerned about Soros et al being perceived as out-of-staters exerting political influence in California (which of course they were). He also wanted proof that the reform effort had support beyond Dennis Peron’s circle of friends. He got reassurance on both counts in February when George “I Guarantee It” Zimmer, president of the Men’s Wearhouse, a resident of Oakland, pledged $105,000 towards a professional signature drive. (It was actually in the form of a loan.) Nadelmann then kicked in $350,000 from Soros; $300,000 from Peter Lewis, the owner of Progressive Insurance in Cleveland; $100,000 from John Sperling, a professor of economic history whose Phoenix-based Apollo Group owns 88 private colleges.(and who was also backing a medical marijuana initiative in his home state of Arizona), and $50,000 from Laurence Rockefeller. “All these individuals, as businessmen, consider drug prohibition wasteful and costly,” says Nadelmann, “and each has personal reasons for feeling strongly about it.”
Of Soros he says, “He has a practical concern about the drug issue: it’s in danger of bankrupting the country. We’re spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year on the war on drugs, if you count law enforcement, medical costs, and lost productivity.” In other words, the donors represent an enlightened faction of capital. There were strings attached to the money. Nadelmann wanted control of the campaign placed in the hands of a “professional,” and he selected a Santa Monica consultant named Bill Zimmerman, based, he says, on Zimmerman’s success promoting an insurance-reform measure that passed in 1993. “Dennis Peron is a remarkable character,” says Nadelmann, “and it’s true that the movement was ‘organic,’ in that he got his signatures through volunteers. But if I had one moral to draw from this situation, it’s to go straight to the professionals and avoid the hassles involved in starting with the grass roots.” Zimmerman, upon getting the money from Nadelmann, created a front group called Californians for Medical Rights (CMR) and hired a competent outfit called Progressive Campaigns to get the signatures. The signature gatherers were paid 60¢ per —high for a popular measure_ and the rate was upped to $1 per signature before they had more than enough.”
The O’Shaughnessy’s Reader (2013)
http://www.beyondthc.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Dennis-Peron-and-215-for-BTHC1.pdf
Dennis Peron w/ The Pioneers of Medical Marijuana – Author of Prop 215
Dennis was left in a position of less authority over Prop 215 following the political takeover by Nadelmann backed by George Soros and the Consortium. The same group would later have police stings initiated against Dennis’ cannabis clubs in San Francisco to put him under financial and psychological pressure, while allowing the Consortium to negotiate a deal to modify Prop 215 with California Attorney General Dan Lundgren, the Fraternal Order of Police and the Correctional Officers Association to ensure that marijuana, despite being made medical, would remain in the California penal code and thus remain an enforceable crime in the State of California.
DA Dan Lungren
Soros won out with the real Prop 215 being shelved in the annals of history at the infamous Castro Castle while the second Prop 215, sponsored by the police and the US prison system, would be implemented into law. Prop 215 would become one of the largest public biological experiments in US history, as Soros intended for free medical research, and at the same time Prop 215 would became one of the largest reverse stings ever concocted by federal and state law enforcement in world history. This is the viciousness of those who have pushed for pot legalization in the forms of Prop 19, SB1262 and now AUMA, because it removes constitutional protections under medical law and brings everything back under the rigid and brutal interpretations of the Controlled Substances Act. However, defense attorneys won’t tell you this because legalization was designed in their favor, to give them more cases, more clients and more work, same with the law enforcement side. Marijuana will always be a crime as long as it remains in the California Penal Code, once it is removed from the CPC it can find its true home in the Public Health Code where it can no longer be cited by law enforcement.
Marijuana is a medicine. It causes the body to regenerate itself. To regenerate from Cancer, AIDS, psoriasis, auto-immune disorders and psychological trauma. Marijuana is a regenerative plant, just twist a branch until you hear a crack, then watch it grow stronger and bulkier; because that is the natural function of marijuana genetics, to reconstruct, rebuild and restore.
The Racket
Marijuana is born into this world as seed, that seed is grown into a plant that becomes a mother, and from that mother comes trimmings known as clones. Like life and people, some clones are good and bear good nug, while other clones are bad and bear nothing. The clones must then go under 18 or more hours of light every day to vegetate and grow into something with potential. Then the amount of light is reduced at the right time to encourage the now vegetative plants to flower and thus bear fruit. In the United States, in order to create 99 of these fruit bearing plants, an individual must have a sick patient with AIDS, cancer or some other kind of terminal disease, and their doctor’s referral, to sponsor and justify the 99 plant exemption and produce a full crop. To produce a profitable crop, several of these exemptions along with countless referral scripts from other patients with 6 to 12 plant allowances, must be collected, gathered and filed. A dispensary facilitates this process by requiring a copy of the referral paperwork in order to become a member of their collective.
So what the hell does that all really mean? The bottom line, it means that every new patient to a cannabis collective generates approximately two pounds of marijuana or $4000 in production value per crop and that a terminally ill patient, with AIDS or cancer generates approximately 31 pounds or $62,000 in production per crop. A good grower can turn over 5 or more productions in a year, that’s about 155 pounds or $310,000 a year; the grower can sell the 155 pounds in another state, he can be looking at upwards of $900,000 or more.
All in exchange for the right to purchase the pot, the patient effectively loans their allotment to the collective, and buys it back at 375% markup for consumption. What has this done? This has given incentive to a racket to keep patients from growing their own allowances and centralize production with the distributor, ie. The collective and their private networks, minimizing competition and keeping prices high. This has also politically encouraged distributors and operators to work with law enforcement on forming favorable regulatory regimes as we see with MMRSA and AUMA. Further, it has created financial incentives for the exploitation of sick patients and their medical records on a national level on the basis of obtaining their personal growing rights.
The Circus Show
Many stood at the US High Times Cannabis Cup 2016 on 420 week, watching the dead spirits of yesteryear desperately search for that golden bud with little avail. The event was hastily put together after High Times lost their permit in Colorado for permitting illicit narcotics sales to take place on fairgrounds during the event. Like a wounded cur, High Times retreated to their own territory at the NOS Events Center in the Tweaker Capital of California, San Bernardino. The unseemly racetrack is a company owned property where High Times could continue its for-profit charade with impunity. The scam is an easy one, charge ‘potreprenuers’ and underworld figures alike for networking access, while at the same time running a tourist scam using free dabs, free carnival rides, very expensive munchies and very expensive trinkets to fleece suburban stoners while providing a cover for large scale smuggling activities.
Tom Forcade on High Times Magazine
High Times never left the business of narcotics distribution, its founder, ex-CIA agent Thomas Forcade, was one of the largest drug smugglers on the East Coast during the 60’s and early 70’s. Forcade used the magazine as not only a tool of resistance but also for underworld communications, revealing the market rates of underground pot flows and using coded articles to send messages back and forth between smugglers. Forcade would inevitably be assassinated when Richard Nixon consolidated the global narcotics markets in the early 1970’s to pave the way for the cocaine markets of the 1980’s. The US Department of the Treasury, knowing that High Times is a rogue, money laundering CIA operation has not failed to audit High Times annually, desperately searching for their link to Panamanian Bank Accounts.
For more on how the CIA has been smuggling narcotics for the last 40 years, see the Required Reading section: https://thegreenpulpit.wordpress.com/required-reading/
Dan Skye hustling more profit
A feeling of doom and gloom had seemingly taken hold of the ‘potreprenuers’ and marijuana activists at the Cup despite the near advent of legalization. High Times Editor and corporate pocket holder, Dan Skye, pretty much said ‘Fuck The Movement’, in a not so indirect way during the awards ceremony, pretty much cheering on the death of Mr. Nice and declaring his advocacy for the short passing of other marijuana icons so that they could make way for the ascension of the new Marijuana Robber Barons. Skye could barely withhold his sellout support to the dreaded Adult Use of Marijuana Act, also known as AUMA. A bill for marijuana ‘legalization’, financially backed by the same group of Neo-Con’s (Parker, Schultz, Kissinger, Liddy, Soros, Holyoak, Thiel etc..) that heralded the Controlled Substances Act with Nixon in 1971. A bait in switch of the most epic proportions, sponsored by the worst hearts of Silicon Valley and their Republican Party/ex-DEA cohorts in Washington. This has a created a pall of depression as, much like we have seen in the 2016 election, big money politics is seemingly prevailing over common sense, with or without the American people’s permission.
Continued in Part 3….
Medical Marijuana, Secret History of The War on Drugs
The Truth – Part 1: The Miami Boys
*EDITOR’s Note: We are beginning a new series today called ‘The Truth’, probably our most controversial and groundbreaking series on the marijuana industry yet. We begin with an article from the 1970’s, it is strongly encouraged that readers review our section Required Reading to help put the puzzle pieces together as our new articles are released. Shalom!
Miami Kingpins Jack Up Prices by Al Kammerer (1977)
“ Disguised as big marijuana buyers from the Midwest, a team of investigative reporters recently penetrated the marijuana market [in Florida], discovering that is has been totally taken over by a few wealthy businessmen who boast combined assets totaling hundreds of millions of dollars and there is evidence that these businessmen are receiving direct government protection. Searching into the reason why pot prices have risen 70% or more in the last 2 years, the investigators found what one of them described as ‘a really classic price fixing conspiracy, a veritable OPEC of a marijuana cartel”.
The investigators report that the situation in Miami, which is the American delivery point for most Colombian marijuana, defies the claim of ‘experts’ that a clandestine, compartmentalized cannabis scene could never be cornered. In fact, the marijuana monopoly has apparently manipulated the media and market psychology so masterfully this year that speaker after speaker rose at a recent NORML confab, to deplore the “drought”…more than 2 months after the market broke with an actual glut of marijuana. High prices have been maintained, and the glut has been covered up in the months since.
Like California peach growers who burn trees to keep prices high, the Miami group reportedly warehouses mountains of [marijuana], leaving it to sour and mold until their price is met. One of the investigators, who spoke of experiencing close calls in various criminal circles, is in the process of gathering evidence implicating government and local ‘business’ community figures in a Capone-like web of intrigue and corruption involving the control of [marijuana].
The investigator said that:
“The marijuana cartel is like the diamond cartel. Since diamonds are always in demand, the cartel offers packets at dictated prices that are three times the actual cost, take it or leave it. Being rebellious over the situation only leads to being banned from trading. When interest and cash flow drop due to boredom, low quality or whatever, they cut loose enough good stones, or in this case, [good bud], to draw investors back into the market, where they can again be swamped with bunk goods. It’s a den of thieves, Miami. The middlemen use brainwashing techniques of sensory deprivation and random disturbances by locking the buyer up in motel rooms for days to break down their resistance. You begin seeing and hearing things, so when the phone rings it’s like being struck by a gong”
He goes on to explain how the ‘bunk pot’ is sent to the consumer while prices remain high as ever:
“Even with high grand merchandise, a package deal where they lay some of the bunk on you is the rule with these jerks. Once the intimidated buyer has committed his money, the monopoly vanishes again behind their mercenary middlemen. They sweat you out until you are ready to be plucked like a turkey.”
‘Commercial Grade’
He opened an attache full of cash and rummaged around until he found a tattered address book. He explained that the number he was about to call a swarthy, heavily muscled gentleman from Hallendale, which was known for its mob connection scene. Apologizing for the weed we were smoking, he volunteered to get his source on the phone if we would pretend to be one of the many stuck with commercial, inferior grade cannabis. When he reached his man, a spirited exchange ensued until he put his hand over the mouthpiece and said “Just tell him you’re stuck with the last and can’t look at anything but gold”
It was somebody heavy on the phone. In the next 5 minutes, we were offered credit, free delivery to anywhere in the U.S. – up to 200 pounds plus the removal of seeds and shake, if we would simply help them sell off their commercial pot. But when we suggested that taking bad stuff, even on a front, always meant losses and that we wanted gold, we were simply told: “The golds and reds* are in, but we have to move off the rest of this commercial stuff before they will cut it loose”. We objected that ‘marijuana was a vegetable’ and that warehousing it would cause it to lose potency. “That’s alright” said the contact “they are putting all the good weed in big freezers this year”.
*Acapulco or Colombian Gold and Panama Red”
In a classic capitalist coup, some super-rich marijuana kingpins in Miami have developed so much excess buying power that they can warehouse pot for months, opening and closing the doors at will, to dictate both price and flow. The marijuana moguls have so much buying capacity that only in the commercial grades is there enough around for a smaller buyer to invest in. they have so much capacity that they can even hold the good stuff off of the market…or allow just enough gold or red to trickle out at super premium prices that prices on commercial grade do not sag too much.
To explain the rise of a Miami-based cartel, insiders point to the fact that is become much harder in the last few years for independents to bring in boats and planes elsewhere, and those who did it cheaply, got cracked. Miami was the one place with a long tradition of government and police collusion that could enable those with money and Mafia lawyers to bargain with the authorities when necessary. The investigator referred to a case where one of his fellow teammates got busted. They located a lawyer who for $4000 made the whole thing evaporate at the police level. A scramble for influence inevitably led to the emergence of a handful of powerful men combining forces and enjoying a dominant position in the trade.
The final takeover of the Colombian market at the end of 1975 by the Miami group solidified prices at a hundred dollars higher than before, never to come down again (*until the passage of Prop 215 in 1997). It is clear that the critics of decriminalization who worry about marijuana being taken over by RJ Reynolds and Big Tobacco shouldn’t worry – pot is already under the thumb of a very large marijuana monopoly.
The investigator capped his report with the new that Don Aemillo, a [transporter] busted last Summer with 180 tons, was actually being escorted into Miami by the Coast Guard to foil jackers, all of the freighters marijuana hit the market. He then made a warning to those who might be interested in taking up a kingpin on offers to get fronted anywhere in the country: “A lot of folks who get fronted get fattened up until, at the end of the season, a couple of jackers visit them with shotguns and take it all, so the victims will be back working for the Miami Boys next year”. We hope this story reaches the New York Times and we hope the investigators stay healthy.
– The Green Chazzan
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Required Reading Video
Required Reading: The Blacklist
The following is a list of links of US Military, CIA and DEA (BNDD) operations from the Vietnam War to the Invasion of Panama that allowed for the global control of narcotics by US intelligence agencies in the 20th century. We have also included two video documentaries called ‘The Mena Connection’ and ‘Who Is The American Connection’, special thanks to Kevin Saunders & friends for providing this viewing material to our audience.
Operation 40 & Operation JM-Wave (1959-1963)
During the late 1950’s and early 1960’s; French-Corsican and Sicilian heroin traffic into the United States was largely facilitated through the nation of Cuba. Monies made from domestic heroin sales by organized crime were laundered back into Cuban banks to be converted to gold and stored in Havana. When Fidel Castro organized the communist revolution of Cuba, these mob monies were seized. Allen Dulles and John Foster Dulles, the founders of the Consortium organized Operation 40 along with the help of then Vice President Richard Nixon. A group of Cuban Exiles were trained by the CIA to carry out assassinations and terrorism within Cuba to overthrow the government, reclaim the mafia gold holdings and re-establish the French Connection heroin flows. Operation 40 was largely sponsored by Zapata Oil, who held large offshore Cuban oil interests and was owned directly by the Bush family. Operation 40 would be the precursor to Operation J/M-Wave & the Bay of Pigs in which the CIA operation was sabotaged by President Kennedy to prevent the reacquisition of mob monies and make a severe financial strike against the Anglo-America Consortium.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_40
http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKoperation40.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbinger_Group (Zapata Oil)
http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKjmwave.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JMWAVE
https://thegreenpulpit.com/2014/11/26/required-reading-the-bay-of-pigs-operation-jm-wave-part-1/
https://thegreenpulpit.com/2014/11/27/the-bay-of-pigs-operation-jm-wave-part-2/
The Phoenix Program (1965-1972)
During the Vietnam War, a large covert operation called the Phoenix Program was enacted by CIA Director William Colby to reopen heroin trafficking routes out of the Golden Triangle in Laos, Cambodia, Southern China and Burma which had largely been stopped by VietCong operations during the early 1960’s. The program was described to the American public as an assassination, terrorism and torture program against the VietCong but what wasn’t revealed was the large scale heroin trafficking of China White Heroin through the caskets of dead soldiers, from the Golden Triangle to the California ports of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Long Beach and San Diego. Many Phoenix Program operatives involved in the CIA heroin smuggling operations would be recruited into the DEA for opening up cocaine trafficking routes in South America during Operation Condor in the 1970’s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Program
http://spartacus-educational.com/SScolby.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Laos
http://legaciesofwar.org/about-laos/secret-war-laos/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vang_Pao
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laotian_Civil_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Secord
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_K._Singlaub
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nugan_Hand_Bank
Operation Intercept (1969)
“Operation Intercept was an anti-drug measure announced by President Nixon at 2:30pm on Sunday, September 21, 1969, resulting in a near shutdown of border crossings between Mexico and the United States. The initiative was intended to reduce the entry of Mexican marijuana into the United States at a time that was considered to be the prime harvest season.” This was the first attempt by the Consortium to manipulate domestic marijuana prices within the United States as part of the beginning of Nixon’s War on Drugs. The price shock crushed many small and mid-level domestic marijuana suppliers who could not afford the dramatic price increase caused by the Nixon market blockade leading to Consortium control over the domestic US marijuana market for the first time. Nixon’s goal was to crush domestic marijuana production and make the US marijuana supply dependent on foreign imports which were largely controlled by Consortium assets (The Cartels). Nixon also used Operation Intercept as a tool of economic blackmail towards the Mexican government to make them compliant and cooperative with the impending Operation Condor which would establish continental narco-trafficking routes from South and Central America into Mexico and ultimately the US domestic market. Operation Intercept was largely an extension of domestic counterintelligence programs to suppress the Middle and Working Class populations during the Vietnam War, these programs were known as COINTELPRO.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Intercept
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
Operation Condor (1969-1976)
Condor was a mass-scale terror and regime change operation conducted by the CIA and DEA in Central America to establish complete control over the South American narcotics trades. Operation Condor was largely mirrored after previous pro-right wing coups in Europe aided by the CIA in Italy, Spain and Greece and was largely intended to reestablish the international drug trafficking network after the end of the Vietnam War. The end of the Vietnam War, the French Connection and the Nixon Administration through the Watergate Scandal signaled the need for a new ‘Mexican-Colombian Connection’ largely based on the more profitable Cocaine The School of the Americas was created by the CIA and DEA to train cadres of high ranking military officials within the South American nations to stage coup d’etat’s, secret police, counterintelligence, counter surveillance and narco-trafficking operations within their own nations in return for ruling power. The School of the Americas was largely modeled on Operation 40 and Operation J/M-Wave training programs of Cuban Exiles and many of the former exiles were recruited back into the CIA to be utilized as experienced foreign operatives for the missions of Operation Condor. Operation Condor began with the reign of terror in Argentina known as the Argentinian Dirty War and the assassination of Salvador Allende in Chile with by the coup of General Augusto Pinochet. The Argentinian and Chilean Secret Police, SIDE and DINA respectively, served as CIA/DEA intelligence assets to further expand the cocaine narco-trade throughout South America and assist in the toppling of democratic South American governments in favor of cocaine friendly military juntas. Operation Condor was noted for its overthrow of governments in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor#The_.22French_connection.22
http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKcondor.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_intervention_in_Chile
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Institute_for_Security_Cooperation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Colombo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Colombia#Post-National_Front_years
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alianza_Americana_Anticomunista
Operation Charly (1977-1986)
Operation Charly was a follow-up operation to Operation Condor to establish the Colombian and Central American cocaine supply routes for the Consortium from South America to Mexico by the CIA and the DEA using Argentinian, Cuban and Chilean paramilitary operatives previously used in Operation Condor. Condor agents were initially used to suppress Sandinista resistance to the cocaine trafficking regime of Anastasio Somoza. After the fall of Somoza during the Nicaraguan Revolution CIA/DEA activities increased with Condor Agents training the Nicaraguan Contra’s to transport Colombian, Peruvian and Chilean cocaine for CIA weapons (later known as Iran-Contra). The CIA would then transport the cocaine to the United States to be sold in the US domestic market to raise illicit non-congressionally approved monies for their global operations, especially the continued support of heroin smuggling in Iran and Afghanistan. To avoid the spread of communist insurgency from Nicaragua, Condor operatives expanded the School of The Americas training program to the militaries of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala to ensure the continued flows of cocaine traffic in Central America. Resistance against these Condor trained military regimes would lead to the notoriously brutal El Salvador and Guatemalan civil wars which resulted in the deaths of thousands of civilians.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Charly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_American_crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemalan_Civil_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvadoran_Civil_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaraguan_Revolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reorganization_Process
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Honduras
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Nicaragua
The Iran-Contra Affair (1985-1987)
Iran-Contra was an international Drug-For-Arms network created by high ranking members of the Consortium, among them former members of Operation Jedburgh, OSS China, Operation 40, Operation J/M-Wave, The Phoenix Program, Operation Condor, Operation Charly and military intelligence operatives that participated in the Iranian Revolution. The network was masterminded by General Richard V. Secord, Vice President George HW Bush, General John K. Singlaub, Colonel Oliver North, and Manuel Noriega with the assistance of Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger and National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane. The network consisted of cocaine supplied by Colombian Drug Cartels to former paramilitary operators from Operation Charly transported to the Nicaraguan Contras to be traded with the CIA for heavy arms during the Nicaraguan Civil War. The CIA would then transport the cocaine into Mexico, where it would be transported from the Yucatan Peninsula to be flown to Mena, Arkansas to be sold on the US streets, primarily in Florida and Georgia. The CIA would also use the cocaine to create and manufacture crack cocaine in Nicaragua and Mexico, which would be then transported to the streets of Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Washington DC, New York, Detroit and Philadelphia. The monies raised by these operations were used to conduct illegal arms sales to Iran through Lebanon and Israel, through the Iranian terror groups Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad in exchange for high quality and high priced Iranian, Iraqi and Afghan heroin which was made inaccessible due to the Iranian Civil War, the Iran-Iraq War and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair
https://thegreenpulpit.com/2014/11/24/required-reading/
https://thegreenpulpit.com/2014/12/07/required-viewing/
http://www.justice.gov/oig/special/9712/
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair
http://spartacus-educational.com/USAirancontra.htm
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_and_Contras_cocaine_trafficking_in_the_US
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_trafficking
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Anti-Communist_League
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_V._Secord
http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKsecordR.htm
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singlaub
http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKsinglaub.htm
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_North
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Freeway%22_Rick_Ross
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Poindexter
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrections_Corporation_of_America
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contras
http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKowenR.htm
http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKbosch.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War
Invasion of Panama (1989)
The Invasion of Panama was a military operation ordered by the leader of the Consortium President George H.W. Bush to silence rogue Consortium agent General Manuel Noriega of Panama who had been instrumental in the transportation of cocaine from Colombia into Central America during Operation Charly and the Iran-Contra Affair. Noriega had been a CIA operative since Operation 40 and had threatened to divert cocaine traffic away from the United States after his role in the Iran-Contra Scandal had been revealed. In 1988, the DEA indicted him on federal drug charges and the White House, under George Bush, began a propaganda campaign to label Panama’s government a ‘narco-kleptocracy’. In an attempt to blackmail President Bush, Noriega threatened to reveal his involvement Consortium activities which included narco-trafficking with the DEA, laundering drug money and exposing his special relationship with the CIA if he was not allowed to retain power. Bush responded by ordering a full scale invasion of Panama in 1989, on the pretext of protecting the Panamanian people and the Panama Canal while putting an end to the ‘narco-dictatorship’ of Manuel Noriega. US forces successfully deposed Noriega from power and arrested him. Noriega was put on trial in 1992 and convicted, with evidence from his trial largely censored by the CIA as classified material to prevent Noriega from speaking on his long history of being involved in Consortium activities. Noriega upon his release in 1999 was extradited to France to stand trial for a money laundering charge and was reconvicted in 2010. He was then extradited to Panama in 2011 where he suffered a ‘brain hemorrhage’.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_drug_trade_in_Panama
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Noriega
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Panama
http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKbushG.htm
https://thegreenpulpit.com/2014/11/30/required-reading-a-brief-history-of-the-cias-involvement-with-drug-smuggling-part-2/
Who The American Connection (Part 1 & 2) – Featuring former DEA agents Pat Saunders & Jerry Laveroni (1975)
The Mena Connection (1995)
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Students share ‘love without borders’ at annual CCC festival
Chorus club performed "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong to coincide with the theme of unity for the night.
Evan Kuo
Brigid McCarthy and Madison Beekman
On Friday, April 12, students transformed the hallways of CHS into different countries for the 15th annual CCC Festival, hosted by the Cultural Communications Club (CCC).
Guests in attendance walked around the school to sample the food and traditions of many international cultures. This year’s theme was “Love Without Borders.”
Spanish teacher and CCC adviser Sabina Campbell started the event 15 years ago to raise money for charity. The club plans to donate all of the event’s proceeds to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
“The first one was very bad, but I guess I learned because it is just getting better and better,” Campbell said.
Competition is an important part of the event as well. Teachers and CCC council members judge country displays, with the best taking home a portion of the overall money raised by the event.
This year, Greece placed third, England came in second and Egypt won first prize.
Before winners were announced, students hosted performances in the cafeteria. Sophomore Michael Rau of Manalapan performed “Lean on Me” by Bill Withers.
“I wanted to pick a song that addressed world unity and friendship,” Rau said.
For CCC president and senior Sydney Karlin of Matawan, the festival represents the dedication of club members to exploring other cultures.
“The Festival really does represent CCC in the greatest way possible,” Karlin said. “I couldn’t be prouder of how everything came together.”
Brigid McCarthy, Features Editor
Brigid McCarthy is a junior from Manasquan who is over-the-moon to be this year’s Features Editor. In addition to her love for The Inkblot, she also...
Madison Beekman, Assistant News Editor
Madison is a junior from Neptune and has been a part of The Inkblot since her freshman year. She is so happy to be working with the rest of the edit board...
Evan Kuo, Editor in Chief
Evan Kuo, a senior from Tinton Falls, has been writing for the Inkblot since freshman year. He served as the assistant Social Media Editor sophomore year,...
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November 21, 2019 JBB Staff Auburn, Bergen, Brookdale, Chandler-Gilbert, Coastal Bend, Coastal Carolina, Copiah-Lincoln, Dayton, DBU, Des Moines Area, Eastfield, Evansville, Guilford Tech, Herkimer, Hibbing, Joliet, Jones County, Kankakee, Lenoir-Rhyne, LSU-Eunice, Meridian, Milwaukee Area Tech, Minnesota State, Mississippi State, Missouri, Mott, Niagara, NOC-Enid, NOC-Tonkawa, Northeast (NE), Oral Roberts, Pearl River, Rock Valley, Rowan Gloucester, Rutgers, Sinclair, Southeastern, Stockton, Tulane, UNC-Charlotte, Waubonsee, Wright State
After we released the Top 101 last week we decide to break it down even further. Here are the Top 25 Prospects at both the NJCAA Div. 2 and Div. 3 Level.
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CCCAA Division 1 Division 2 Division 3 JuCo Baseball Membership NWAC Recruiting Central
Pre-Season Top 101
November 14, 2019 November 18, 2019 JBB Staff Angelina, Arizona, Arkansas, Bellevue, Blinn, Bossier Parrish, BYU, Catawaba Valley, CCCAA, Central Arizona, Central Florida, Centralia, Chandler-Gilbert, Chipola, Coastal Carolina, Connors State, Cowley, Crowder, DBU, Des Moines Area, East Georgia State, Eastern Oklahoma, Florence Darlington-Tech, Florida State, Galveston, Georgia Highlands, Georgia State, Gordon State, Grayson, Houston, Illinois, Illinois State, Iowa Western, Jefferson College (MO), John A. Logan, Kankakee, Kansas State, Kentucky, Kirkwood, Lackawanna, Lamar, Louisville, Lower Columbia, LSU, LSU-Eunice, Marin, McLennan, Meridian, Miami, Mission, Mississippi State, Missouri, Modesto, Navarro, New Mexico, NJCAA D1, NJCAA D2, NJCAA D3, NOC-Enid, Northeast, NW Florida, NWAC, Odessa, Ohlone, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Palm Beach, Rutgers, Sacramento City, San Jac, Santa Barbara, Sierra, South Carolina, Southeastern, Southern California, Southern Nevada, St. Johns River, St. Petersburg, State College of Florida, TCU, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Top 101, Tulane, UConn, UNC-Charlotte, Ventura, Wabash Valley, Washington, Washington State, Wichita Staet
And here it is the Top 101 Prospects as decided by us here at the JBB. This list just like the Watch List, reaches to all corners of the country with teams from all three Divisions of the NJCAA (1,2,3), the CCCAA and the NWAC as well. 60 Different schools are represented across the 101. Five Schools have over Five on the list with Two having Six and Two having Seven.
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CCCAA Division 1 Division 2 Division 3 JuCo Baseball Membership NWAC
The 2019-20 JBB Pre-Season Watch List
November 7, 2019 November 7, 2019 JBB Staff Abraham Baldwin, Andrew, Angelina, Arizona Western, Bellevue, Bergen, Bismark State, Blinn, Bossier Parrish, Carl Sandburg, Catawaba Valley, Central Arizona, Central Florida, Centralia, Chandler-Gilbert, Chattanooga State, Chipola, Connors State, Copiah-Lincoln, Cosumnes River, Cowley, Crowder, Cuesta, Des Moines Area, Dyersburg State, East Georgia State, Eastern Oklahoma State, Florence Darlington-Tech, Florida State Southwestern, Fort Scott, Frederick, Frontier, Galveston, Georgia Highlands, Gordon State, Grayson, Guilford Tech, Herkimer, Hillsborough, Indian Hills, Iowa Western, Jefferson College (MO), John A. Logan, Jones County, Kankakee, Kirkwood, Lackawanna, Lamar, Lansing, Lower Columbia, LSU-Eunice, Marin, McCook, McLennan, Meridian, Mineral Area, Modesto, Mott, Navarro, Neosho, New Mexico, NOC-Enid, NOC-Tonkawa, Northeast, Northwest Florida State, NW Florida, Odessa, Ohlone, Palm Beach, Paradise Valley, Pearl River, Pima, Rend Lake, Rowan Gloucester, Sacramento City, San Jac, Santa Barbara, Santa Fe, Sierra, Sinclair, South Mountain, Southeast, Southeastern, Southern Nevada, St. Johns River, St. Petersburg, State College of Florida, Ventura, Wabash Valley, Wallace-Dothan, Walters State, Wharton, Yavapai
To start the season we here at the JBB have put together a list of guys that we think you should be on the lookout for this upcoming season. First off, however, this is not our Top Prospect list, granted all of those guys are on this watch list. This list includes players that might not be draft guys or D1 guys but guys who we think should have big years for their respected teams and play a big part in them reaching the end goal of winning their respected National Title or State Championship.
This list is comprised of 201 Guys from across the country. It includes players from 94 Different Junior College from every division and governing body that is associated with Junior College Baseball (NJCAA 1,2,3, CCCAA, and NWAC). It includes transfers that we know of as well as incoming freshmen and returning guys.
this list is sorted by alphabetical order by the team name and not ranked in any specific way.
CCCAA Division 1 Division 2 Division 3 NWAC OTBTW Recruiting Central
Off the Board this Week: 10/28-11/3
November 4, 2019 November 4, 2019 Noah Sharp A&M, Akron, Andrew, Angelina, Ashland, Auburn, Blinn, Cal Poly, Cal State Fullerton, CCCAA, Central Arizona, Central Arkansas, Central Florida, Cloud, Coffeyville, Copiah-Lincoln, Cuyahoga, Dallas, Des Moines Area, Division 1, Division 2, Division 3, Eastern Illinois, Eastern Michigan, Eastern Oklahoma, El Paso, Florida A&M, Florida Southern, Fullerton, Gonzaga, Grayson, Hawaii, Henderson State, Houston, Houston Baptist, John A. Logan, Johnson County, Kansas State, Kentucky, Kentucky Wesleyan, Lackawanna, Lansing, Lincoln Trail, Long Beach CC, Long Beach State, Louisana Tech, McCook, McLennan, McNeese State, Miami, Mississippi State, Missouri, Monroe, Morehead State, NAIA, New Mexico, New Mexico State, Nicholls State, NJCAA D1, NJCAA D2, NJCAA D3, North Carolina, North Central Missouri, North Central Texas, Northeast Texas, NW Florida, NWAC, Ohlone, Oklahoma State, Oral Roberts, OTBTW, Paris, Patrick Henry, Pearl River, Pensacola State, Pitt, Polk State, Riverside, Roane State, San Jac, San Mateo, South Carolina, South Mountain, Southeastern, Spokane, St. Johns River, Tampa, Temple, Texas A&M, Texas Southern, Texas Tech, Troy, UC-Davis, USC-Upstate, UT-Arlington, UT-Rio Grand Valley, Virginia Commonwealth, Virginia Tech, Wabash Valley, Wake Tech, Walters State, Washington State, Weatherford, Wharton, William Carey, Yavapai
A quick look at who has committed across the country this past week.
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CCCAA Division 1 Division 2 Division 3 JuCo Baseball OTBTW Recruiting Central
OTBTW: 10/14-10/20/19
October 21, 2019 October 28, 2019 Noah Sharp 0 Comments Auburn, Ball State, Butler, Cal Poly Pomona, Catawaba Valley, Catawba Valley, CCCAA, Central Arizona, Copiah-Lincoln, Cowley, DBU, Delta State, Des Moines Area, Eastern Illinois, Emporia State, Fairfield, Indiana State, Indiana University-South Bend, Iowa Western, Jefferson College (MO), John A. Logan, Kentucky, Lackawanna, Lenior-Rhyne, Louisville, Meridian, Missouri, Missouri State, Missouri State Commit, Mt. San Jacinto, New Mexico, NJCAA D1, NJCAA D2, NJCAA D3, North Central Texas, NW Florida, Off the Board This Week, OTBTW, Pitt, Polk State, Purdue Fort Wayne, Rock Valley, Rollins, Rutgers, San Diego State, San Jac, South Mountain, Southeastern, Southern Illinois, Texas State, UNC-Charlotte
This week saw 24 guys commit to playing at the next level. Ranging from Indiana University-South Bend and the NAIA
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Marvel Universe Live Breaks New Ground For Arena Shows
In an effort to try and ensure the Cosmic Cube (seen in the movie “Captain America” and “The Avengers”) doesn’t fall into the wrong hands, Thor decides to smash it into smithereens with his mighty hammer. Considering the Cube is extremely powerful, Loki (Thor’s brother/nemesis) decides to try and clone it so he can keep the power for himself.
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Thus begins a new arena spectacular, as the Feld Entertainment-produced Marvel Universe Live debuted back in July in Tampa, Florida. As the story goes, Thor has to assemble all his buddies like The Incredible Hulk, Spider-Man, Captain America and even the X-Men. Consequently, Loki builds a small army of his own from Doctor Octopus, Hydra, Electro and the Red Skull in what becomes an extremely hi-tech battle of good versus evil.
All together over 25 characters appear during Marvel Universe with a total cast of over 50 performers. Auditions were held in Las Vegas, New York and even Orlando to find the right mix of actors who could not only portray the iconic characters, but could bring a unique skill set to the table. The cast includes Phil Smage, three-time X-Games champ and professional snow-skater playing Captain America. Black Widow is played by two-time WXM pro-champion Louise Forsley.
“To see all the elements of this spectacular live show come together has been truly incredible,” said Marvel’s Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada. “The technology utilized in the show is not only going to blow your mind, it is going to take you to a whole new Marvel world like nothing fans have ever seen before. What Feld Entertainment has done is going to astonish and amaze fans.”
Marvel Universe Live is said to be the most advanced arena show of its kind. It utilizes new projection technology and a “multilevel aerial space” that has never been used before. I am truly looking forward to seeing this show when it rolls into Orlando from December 5 – 7. Want more information? Visit www.MarvelUniverseLive.com and you can actually save 25% on tickets with discount code: SAVE25.
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Abbi Jacobson Says FX Rejected Broad City and Called It 'Too Girly'
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If you’re a fan of Broad City, you know that the half-hour comedy show born from a zany web series concerns itself with the grossest, pettiest, and most deeply relatable things grown women do. Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson’s characters have had condoms fall out their vaginas, asked friends to pop their back acne, gotten too stoned and lost the ability to function, and had various moments of awkward, hilarious sex. But if you’re a male network executive, maybe you just see a show about two girls and their problems.
Jacobson details the experience of pitching the show to FX in her new memoir I Might Regret This, per Vulture. After developing the script for a year with their executive producer and guardian angel Amy Poehler, Jacobson and Glazer handed the script off to a higher-up who had never met them. “He’d probably never heard of us, the show, or the year we’d been in development, and he wasn’t into it,” Jacobson writes. They were told it was “‘too girly.’”
“We were devastated,” Jacobson writes. In the book, she goes on to rail against “development for development’s sake” and the challenge of creating something that pleases one guy at the top, when a show already has signs of a loyal following: “I suppose that’s the vision of any given network, but that’s a tough battle to win.”
Of course in the end, Comedy Central picked up Broad City and opened the door to many jokes about weed, pegging, and bodily functions. So in a way, we can thank FX for that.
The Broads of Broad City Are Saying Goodbye
Abbi Jacobson's 'Fucked Up' TV Princess Is the Only Thing Healing My Heart's Broad City-Shaped Hole
Broad City Is Fucking Awesome
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