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Targeting fraud in construction
Targeting employee fraud in construction
How can the construction industry be sure that workers have the skills and qualifications they claim they do?
Fraud by construction employees can be a matter of life and death – not merely financial dishonesty – which is why industry firms must be alive to the possibility that someone who works for them, or for a subcontractor, may not be what they seem.
In October 2015, the New York Daily News reported that 18 construction workers had died the previous year in the city.
Nine fell to their deaths; others were crushed by improperly braced walls.
With fewer building inspectors supervising a growing number of sites, safety enforcement became problematic – a situation worsened by those working with fake qualifications.
The newspaper reported that companies were prosecuted for paying ‘safety officers’, who turned out to be cooks, hotel bellhops and hairdressers.
In August 2016, the Construction Safety Advisory Committee of New York (CSACNY) said sales of fraudulent construction safety training cards had cost more than 30 lives in two years.
CSACNY president Jim Bifulco said: “On some job sites, up to 50 per cent of workers can have fraudulent training cards.”
A report on the issue called for the creation of an agency to register accredited trainers and list on its website those authorised to work.
False construction credentials
Another investigation found there was pressure on workers to obtain safety cards but the time off work required for the relevant training meant some bought forged cards instead.
Joe Charczenko, a Partner in New York- based Construction Risk Partners, a JLT Group Company says: “The area where we are dealing with major challenges today is around the falsification of credentials, particularly safety-related credentials such as Occupational Safety and Health Administration training and other required jurisdictional training.
“This is particularly concerning as the construction workforce becomes more and more diverse and tradespeople are not adequately trained.”
Methods by which employers can seek to minimise such frauds include making sure money, property and information are accessed only by those properly authorised, making background checks on job applicants and enabling anonymous reporting of suspected frauds.
Fraud across the board
It’s not just on site where employers must be alive to fraud, but also in senior management.
In a notable case in Australia, Andrew Flanagan was hired by retailer Myer on a AUD 400,000 salary as General Manager for strategic and business development, but was found on his first day to have falsified his curriculum vitae.
He was prosecuted and sentenced to perform unpaid community work.
To take another example, the UK has a similar problem to that seen in the US of workers equipping themselves with bogus credentials showing them to have qualifications they do not, in fact, possess.
To combat this, the country’s Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) maintains an anti-fraud team to find and remove fraudulent qualification cards from workers.
It has also acted against fraud in skills testing centres by accelerating the installation of CCTV in all of them.
But it has said that employers could do more, with only 43 per cent of workers reporting that their skills cards were properly checked before they started a job.
In February 2017, seven people were jailed following CITB investigations: five of them for running a ‘forgery factory’ creating bogus documents.
The other two cases involved facilitating illegal working in the UK and illegally entering the country to work in construction.
CITB fraud investigator Ian Sidney says: “Illegal working undermines legitimate employers, harms the reputation of the industry, drives down wages and denies employment opportunities to many others.”
Qualification check
Prospects, the UK universities combined careers service, has issued advice to employers of all kinds on how they can check qualifications carefully, including claims that applicants for managerial and professional roles have degrees.
Its Higher Education Degree Datacheck (HEDD) has identified more than 230 bogus providers who misuse the name ‘university’ or issue fake degrees and only 20 per cent of employers were found to verify applicants’ qualifications with the awarding body, as opposed to relying on potentially forged certificates and transcripts.
Danger signs to look out for include ‘universities’ that lack the appropriate suffix in their website addresses. For example, in the UK ‘ac.uk’ is restricted to genuine institutions.
Some bogus sites even use an Ascension Islands domain to give them a ‘.ac’ address to mimic genuine ones.
Incorrect spelling and grammar is also often a giveaway of a bogus institution, as is the use of a PO Box address.
While it’s impossible to catch all frauds in an industry such as construction, which by its nature has a very mobile workforce, some simple precautionary steps will help reduce the level of incidents reported.
It is also important to remember that fraud can happen at any level regardless of seniority.
For more information please contact Joe Charczenko, Construction Risk Partners on jcharczenko@constructionriskpartners.com
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"Now He was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart" (Luke 18:1).
Does the Lord's command about ceaseless prayer that men ought always to pray (Luke 18:1), apply only to monks or to all Christians in general?
If it applied only to monks, the Apostle Paul would not have written to the Christians in Thessalonica to "pray without ceasing" (I Thessalonians 5:17). The Apostle repeats the Lord's command, word for word, and issues it to all Christians without distinction, whether monks or laymen.
St. Gregory Palamas lived a life of asceticism for some time as a young hieromonk in a monastery in Beroea. The elder Job, a well-known ascetic whom everyone respected, lived in that monastery. It happened that, in Elder Job's presence, St. Gregory quoted the Apostle's words, asserting that ceaseless prayer is the obligation of every Christian and not just for monks. However, Elder Job replied that ceaseless prayer is the obligation of the monk only, and not for every Christian. Gregory, as the younger of the two, yielded and withdrew in silence. When Job returned to his cell and stood at prayer, an angel in great heavenly glory appeared to him and said: "O Elder, do not doubt the truthfulness of Gregory's words; he spoke correctly and you should think likewise and pass it on to others." Thus, both the Apostle and the angel confirmed the commandment that all Christians must pray to God without ceasing.
Not only without ceasing in church, but also without ceasing in every place and at all times, and especially in your heart. For if God does not for a moment tire of giving us good things, how can we tire of thanking Him for these good things? When He thinks of us without ceasing, why do we not think of Him without ceasing?
"… that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye [may be] rooted and grounded in love" (Ephesians 3:17).
With faith, Christ comes into the heart, and with Christ comes love. Thus man is rooted and grounded in love. First then, there is faith; then with faith comes Christ's presence in the heart; then with Christ's presence, the presence of love; and with love, all ineffable goodness.
In a few words, the Apostle delineates the whole ladder of perfection. The beginning is faith and the end is love; and faith and love are joined in a living, undivided unity by the Living Lord Jesus Christ's presence in the heart. By strengthening faith, we further abolish the distance between ourselves and the Lord Jesus Christ. The stronger one's faith, the closer one is to Christ.
Ultimately, one's heart is filled with Christ and cannot be separated from Christ, just as one's lung cannot be separated from the air. Then a man may, with tears of joy, communicate with Christ by the prayer of the heart - "Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me a sinner" - and the heart is imperceptibly filled with light and ardent love.
In this way, love is united with faith and hope; and when they are united, the boundaries between them are lost, so that man cannot even think of determining of how far faith goes, and where hope and love begin.
When the living Christ dwells in a man, then he no longer perceives faith, hope or love in himself, nor does he name them. Instead, he sees only Christ and names only Him. This is just like a fruit-grower in autumn who considers the ripe fruit on the tree, and speaks no more of blossoms and leaves but of fruit, ripe fruit.
O Lord Jesus Christ, supreme height of all our endeavors and the destination of all our travels, draw near to us and save us. To Thee be glory and praise forever. Amen.
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County Board declines to provide funds for Register of Deeds contract, citing ongoing investigation
"This, I think, is a terrifically dangerous vote, if we vote for this," Supervisor James "Luigi" Schmitt said.
County Board declines to provide funds for Register of Deeds contract, citing ongoing investigation "This, I think, is a terrifically dangerous vote, if we vote for this," Supervisor James "Luigi" Schmitt said. Check out this story on jsonline.com: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2019/11/07/county-board-declines-provide-funds-register-deeds-contract/2518761001/
Alison Dirr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 5:12 p.m. CT Nov. 7, 2019 | Updated 5:37 p.m. CT Nov. 7, 2019
The Milwaukee County Courthouse. (Photo: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
The Milwaukee County Register of Deeds won't have the funds to complete a contract with Fidlar Technologies after the County Board declined to release the money because of the ongoing criminal investigation into the dealings of the office's former leader.
"This, I think, is a terrifically dangerous vote, if we vote for this," said Supervisor James "Luigi" Schmitt, chair of the county finance committee, during Thursday's meeting of the County Board of Supervisors.
Schmitt cited the ongoing investigation and said the board has stopped contracts over much less serious matters.
New Register of Deeds Israel Ramón, who was appointed by Gov. Tony Evers after John La Fave abruptly left the position, had sought the board's approval to allocate $51,000 to finish the remaining 15% of the contract.
Ramón said in an interview that Fidlar is digitalizing county records from the 1880s to 1960s under a contract signed by La Fave. Ramón said he wanted the county funds released so he could pay Fidlar to finish converting the records to digital format.
The county agency is responsible for keeping everything from mortgage files to marriage certificates.
Ramón said it was his understanding that the federal probe is ongoing and that it is focused on La Fave, not Fidlar.
An FBI spokesman told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in September that the case remained open at that time. The spokesman did not respond to more detailed questions this week. Ramón said his office has not been contacted by federal authorities since he was appointed in May.
Federal records indicate that authorities are investigating La Fave's dealings with two county contractors, one of which is Iowa-based Fidlar.
Investigators say he and Brookfield-based internet service provider Superior Support Resources engaged in a $2.3 million-plus scheme to create fake invoices. He's also accused of designing another scheme, this one with Fidlar, to divert funds from the county to the register of deeds for its use, federal documents state.
Both firms previously told the Journal Sentinel they had not done anything improper.
Supervisor Supreme Moore Omokunde said he was concerned that the board might be setting a precedent by removing funds from an organization without it having been proven guilty of wrongdoing.
He moved to approve the release of the funds, but that effort failed by an 11-to-6 vote.
Comptroller salary sparks discussion
A proposal to raise the comptroller's salary by $15,000 a year, from $125,000 to $140,000, drew resistance from supervisors, who compared the office's salary to the average pay of Milwaukee's residents and of other county employees who make significantly less.
"We live in a society where people at the top seem to get more and more and more compensation while the average worker in an institution either gets little raise or none at all," Supervisor Steven Shea said.
He cited an email he said he received from a guard at the Milwaukee County Jail, where correctional officers make less than in some neighboring counties despite working in a larger institution and often under more challenging conditions.
Shea also said the comptroller is an elected position and that people who feel the compensation is inadequate shouldn't run for it.
"When everyone here is making enough money to pay their bills and take care of their families and when we're not constantly hearing about how Milwaukee is the worst place to raise a black child or is the worst place to be a black person ... when we're not having those discussions, then we can talk about ($15,000) raises for people that are already taking home $125,000 a year," Supervisor Marcelia Nicholson said.
Those in favor pointed out that the office hadn't had a raise since 2012.
Supervisor Anthony Staskunas struggled with the decision, saying the comptroller is an important position that requires certain credentials to run.
"Every job has value, and everybody's work has value, whether you are picking up the garbage or whether you are the comptroller," he said, adding that while others had received raises since then this office had received nothing.
Supervisor Eddie Cullen offered an amendment to raise the salary by $5,000 instead of $15,000.
Ultimately, the board approved the $5,000 annual pay increase for the office on an 8-to-7 vote.
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Spending $100,000 to bring in outside legal and fiscal experts to evaluate a contractor's plan to restore the Mitchell Park Domes and recommend a process moving forward.
Putting an advisory referendum on the April 7 ballot asking voters, "Should the Wisconsin Legislature create a nonpartisan procedure for the preparation of Legislative and Congressional district plans and maps?"
Daniel Bice of the Journal Sentinel staff contributed to this report.
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Everton v West Ham United
Kick Off 15:00
Nickname The Toffees
Founded 1878 as St Domingo's F.C
Ground Goodison Park,
Chairman Bill Kenwright
Manager David Moyes
2011–12 Premier League, 7th
The club has competed in the top division for a record 110 seasons and have won the League Championship nine times.
Formed in 1878, Everton were founding members of The Football League in 1888 and won their first league championship two seasons later. Following four league titles and two FA Cup wins, Everton experienced a lull in the immediate post World War Two period until a revival in the 1960s which saw the club win two league championships and an FA Cup.
The mid-1980s represented their most recent period of success, with two League Championship successes, an FA Cup, and the 1985 European Cup Winners' Cup. The club's most recent major trophy was the 1995 FA Cup. The club's supporters are known as Evertonians.
Everton have a rivalry with neighbours Liverpool F.C. and the two sides contest the Merseyside Derby. The club have been based at Goodison Park since 1892.
The club's home colours are royal blue and white. Everton player Dixie Dean scored a record 60 league goals in the 1927–28 season.
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What Is It Like For Visiting Supporters?
Away fans are located in one corner of the two tiered, Bullens Road Stand, which is at the side of the pitch, where just over 3,000 away fans can be accommodated. If a small following is expected, then only the lower tier is allocated, which holds 1,700. For larger followings the upper tier is also made available. If you can, try to avoid getting get tickets for the rear sections of both the upper and lower tiers, as the view can be quite poor. For example, in the rear of the lower tier there are a number of supporting pillars that can hinder your view, the seating is of the old wooden type and the gap between rows is tight. The front of the lower tier is a lot better having newer seats and no supporting pillars to contend with. The rear of the upper tier also has problems as Neil Theasby a visiting Hull City supporter informs me; 'Our seats were on the very back Row S and the view was awful! There were two obscuring pillars but worse than that the angle of the roof meant that you couldn't see the video screen and the view of the opposite touchline was also partly obscured'.
The facilities within the stand are basic and it is really showing its age (it was first opened in 1926). However, away fans can generate some noise from this area, making for a great atmosphere. The catering from the small concourse area, includes amongst other things; a Scouse Pie (£2.30), Steak Pie (£2.50), Cheese and Onion Pie (£2.30), plus Sausage Rolls (£2.30). They also offer a huge meat pie for £3, which is the size of a small plate, but I wasn't particularly impressed as it seemed to be more pastry than anything else. Lager is available from the sponsors Chang at £3.60 for a 600ml bottle, plus bitter at £3 for a 500ml bottle and even small bottles of white wine are on offer at £3.70. Please note though that the club stop serving alcohol 15 minutes before kick off and the queues at half time can get pretty horrendous.
I have enjoyed a number of good days out at Goodison. The atmosphere was relaxed and friendly, with both sets of fans mixing freely before the game. Neil Thompson a visiting Preston supporter adds; 'The stewards inside the ground were superb and the best I have seen at any ground. They just ran things with a sensible head and communicated with people, first class. There are lot of grounds that can learn from the Everton stewarding'. The Club have automatic turnstiles, meaning that you have to insert your ticket into a bar code reader to gain admittance.
On a poignant note, if you do happen to notice some flowers lying around the perimeter of the pitch, this is because the ashes of a number of supporters (over 800) have been interred around it.
Where To Drink?
About a 15 minute walk away from the visiting supporters entrance, is the Thomas Frost pub on Walton Road. This Wetherspoon outlet, is a fair sized pub, that had a good mixture of home and away supporters, when I last visited. Rob Elmour adds; 'We found the Thomas Frost on Walton Road packed out, so we tried the Bradleys Wine Bar, which is just further down and across the road. It was very good. not a wine bar at all but a proper family run local with a good selection of beers including some real ales. Good mix of fans all very friendly.' More information can be found on the Bradleys Wine Bar website. Peter Bennett suggests the following; 'Pubs on Walton Lane or The Spellow outside Goodison are recommended.'
Tom Hughes adds 'The city centre is usually the best bet for a pre-match drink, There are hundreds of pubs available ranging from designer types to real-ale and saw dust bars. Near Lime Street Station there is the big house (the Vines) next to the Adelphi which is worth a visit. Nearer Goodison 'The Hermitage' (a friendly pub, 5/10 minutes walk up Walton Lane and under the bridge) on Queens Drive is also okay'.
There is a Wetherspoons across the road from Lime Street Station, plus at the station itself, is the Head of Steam, which is listed in the CAMRA Good Beer Guide and also has a large screen showing sporting events. Also, the nearby Crown pub also recommended to me. Alcohol is served in the away section of the ground, including beer from the Club's sponsors Chang.
Follow the M62 until you reach the end of the motorway (beware of a 50mph speed camera about a 1/4 of a mile from the end of the motorway). Then follow the A5058 towards Liverpool. After three miles turn left at the traffic lights into Utting Avenue (there is a McDonalds on the corner of this junction). Proceed for one mile and then turn right at the corner of Stanley Park into Priory Road. Goodison is at the end of this road.
If you arrive early (around 1pm) then there is street parking to be found around Walton Lane. Otherwise park over towards Anfield or in Stanley Park itself (the entrance to the car park which costs £8, is in Priory Road). Randy Coldham adds; 'If you approach from the M57 (to join the M57, leave the M62 at Junction 6), and then leave the M57 at Junction 4. Take the A580 towards Liverpool, and on the the right you will reach the Walton Lifestyles Sports Centre (L4 9XP) where you can park for £5. It is then a 15 minute walk to the ground with a very good Chinese Chippy on the way. By parking there you are well away from the traffics jams that you tend to get at Stanley Park after the match and only a five minute drive from the motorway system.
Kirkdale station is the closest to the ground (just under a mile away). However, it may be more advisable to go to Sandhills Station as this has the benefit of a bus service to the ground, which runs for a couple of hours before the game and around 50 minutes after the final whistle. The bus drops you off within easy walking distance of Goodison.
Gary Beaumont adds; 'The best route for away fans from the city centre if they want to use public transport is definitely the Merseyrail Northern Line to Sandhills where they alight and catch the special Soccerbuses; trains can be caught from Liverpool Central. If fans are buying their train tickets in Liverpool, ask for a return to Goodison Park as opposed to Sandhills even though that's where you're getting off. The advantage of doing this is that the train ticket is valid also for the Soccerbus and the additional fare is only £1 return as opposed to £1.50 that you'd have to pay on the bus if you only bought your ticket to Sandhills.
Both Sandhills & Kirkdale stations and can be reached by first getting a train from Liverpool Lime Street to Liverpool Central and then changing there for Kirkdale. Patrick Burke adds; 'Although I would recommend using the Soccerbus to get to the ground, afterwards you may wish to look at alternatives, such as grabbing a taxi into Liverpool, or walking to Kirkdale railway station. This is because the Soccerbus is normally very cramped after the game, plus you may have to wait sometime to get on a bus (up to half an hour if there is a big queue) and it can then take 20 minutes or so for the bus to make its way from the ground'.
On exiting from Kirkdale Station turn right and then cross the railway bridge, you will see a pub opposite called the 'Melrose Abbey', which is a recommended watering hole. Walk up Westminster Road, alongside the pub, for about 400yds and you'll see the Elm Tree pub. Turn left at the pub into Goodall Street and walk up to end of the road, crossing the junction with Carisbrooke Road and into Harlech Street. At the end of Harlech Street you will reach the main County Road (A59). Cross over County Road at the traffic lights and then proceed down Andrew Street. At the top of Andrew Street you can see St Lukes Church sat in the corner of the ground.
The main railway station in Liverpool is Lime Street which is over three miles from the ground and is really too far to walk (although it is mostly downhill on the way back to the station), so either head for Kirkdale station or jump in a taxi (about £7). Otherwise you can catch various buses from the bus station which is seven minutes walk away from Lime Street and is well signposted. Either the 19, 19a, 20, 21 or 311 will drop you right outside the ground at a cost of about a £1. The buses are run by Arriva and the journey takes about 15 to 25 minutes dependant on traffic.
Last League Game
West Ham 0 - 0 Newcastle
Newcastle's Premier League status remains in the balance after they shared a goalless draw with West Ham.
The Hammers put Alan Pardew's side under pressure in the second half but Papiss Cisse came closest to scoring when his first-half shot was cleared off the line by Winston Reid.
Replays were inconclusive but Rob Elliot made a double save to deny Kevin Nolan, while Andy Carroll headed wide.
Newcastle are three points above third-bottom Wigan after they beat West Brom.
Liverpool 0 - 0 Everton
Sylvain Distin had a goal disallowed as Everton were denied a first league win over Liverpool at Anfield since 1999 in a fiercely contested Merseyside derby.
After a frenetic first half low on goalmouth drama, Distin thought he had broken the deadlock when he headed home a Leighton Baines corner, but referee Michael Oliver ruled that Victor Anichebe had impeded goalkeeper Pepe Reina.
Liverpool, who had earlier gone close through Daniel Sturridge, responded to the let-off with a spell of sustained pressure in which captain Steven Gerrard had an effort cleared off the line by 35-year-old defender Distin.
West Ham 1 - 2 Everton
Everton came from behind to beat West Ham United and move back into fourth place as both sides ended with 10 men at Upton Park.
Carlton Cole gave West Ham an early lead but was then shown a hotly-contested red card for a high challenge on Leighton Baines after the interval.
Victor Anichebe had already headed Everton level after 64 minutes and they cashed in on West Ham's numerical disadvantage when Steven Pienaar scrambled in what proved to be the winner shortly after Cole was sent off.
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Re: Everton v West Ham United: Match Thread
Post by sutts07 » Mon May 06, 2013 4:46 am
Two very similar styles of play. Man for man they have the extra quality though.
Can't see a West Ham win but have a funny little feeling we might come back with a point.
Post by Stepney » Mon May 06, 2013 7:53 am
The bogey ground of all bogey grounds! I'll go for a 1-0 loss but a valiant display from our boys. Followed by a 5-0 last day whooping of Reading. Happy days...
Post by brownout » Mon May 06, 2013 8:11 am
West Ham rarely win when there's nothing to play for.
Wet Ham rarely win at Everton.
Under Allardyce West Ham don't try to win away.
Hence I'm not wasting my time & money going to this one.
Stepney wrote: The bogey ground of all bogey grounds!
I would say the one on the other side of the park has that honour for us. Either way, we have an unbelievably poor record on Merseyside.
We have even failed to beat Tranmere away after four times of asking!
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Post by DaveWHU1964 » Mon May 06, 2013 8:36 am
brownout wrote: Under Allardyce West Ham don't try to win away.
If we were trying to not win away we made a pretty poor fist of it last season with a record amount of away victories.
And if we've tried to not win away this season we've failed at QPR, Stoke and Newcastle. We are cautious away from home- which I think is mostly down to us not yet having the personnel to regularly take the game to established sides on their own patch. That will get addressed in the Summer, budget permitting.
Post by 1966 » Mon May 06, 2013 9:00 am
I think our players should form a guard of honour for the Toffee Men as they take the pitch as recognition and appreciation for them finishing above Liverpool and putting the reds in their proper place.
Though we must not forget that LFC are the best 6th/7th placed team in the world.
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Post by Puff Daddy » Mon May 06, 2013 9:37 am
Next season may be our best chance to get a long overdue win there. They have an ageing squad and with no benefactor, or Sugar Daddy to inject funds, their future, in my opinion, does not look very bright. I also think Moyes could well be on his way in the summer too. With strict, financial constraints, for the moment he has taken them as far as he can take them and he may decide it is time to move onto better things. He would have no shotage of offers. With money, they would have been able to kick on from 6th / 8th spot, but without it, with an ageing squad, I think they will be looking at mid table at best, next year. As for this year, with neither side having anything left to play for, I see a lazy, no score, bore draw, snooze in the sun.
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Post by Cockneyboy311 » Mon May 06, 2013 10:03 am
I'd be more than happy with a point from this one.
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Post by bubbles1966 » Mon May 06, 2013 10:14 am
Their hopes of a European place are virtually dead now which must be dis-spiriting for them, but a win against us guarantees them a finish above Liverpool. They have Chelsea away to finish.
I think they'll be up for this precisely because of that. I can imagine Carroll being eager to do well in this game with the Liverpool connection.
I'd like to see this team - I know I won't - but I'd like to. Nolan is bound to start.
It might be nice to see one or two of our younger lads on the bench with the possibility of a short run out at the end.
Probably an Everton win - but a point is perfectly plausible.
FWIW, Everton were one of the most impressive teams I've seen this year when they came to ours.
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Post by RyanWHUFC » Mon May 06, 2013 10:24 am
----------------Jussi
Demel--Tomkins--Reid--Potts
---------Noble--Diame
Hall------Collison---------Jarvis
------------Carroll
Shake it up give a few young ones a game see what happens.
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Post by Paddy O'Hammer » Mon May 06, 2013 10:43 am
I have/had our last 3 matches down for draws. Lets nick a point here.
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Post by Muddy » Mon May 06, 2013 10:52 am
Going to this, hoping for a good performance. Where's everyone usually drink before the match up that way?
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Post by the pink palermo » Mon May 06, 2013 10:53 am
A big to Ricardo for his efforts creating an interesting & informative match thread .
Everton are a decent side :settled , few changes in personnel from week to week, hard working.....but , and you knew it was coming , a little dull .Moyes is worshiped in the media for "doing a good job" whilst Allardyce just plays hoofball ? Both , in my view, are pragmatists, skilled in the art of getting a result.
If anything , I believe Sam is softening as he ages , and is showing a willingness to entertain a touch more, whereas Moyes is hardening , sacrificing style for a place further up the table .
Serious question : if you ignore their league position, would you think an Everton fan would enjoy watching their football for the past 2 seasons ? School of science my arse .However, the name of the game is to finish as high up the league system as you can , and in that regard Moyes has fashioned a method that works .
Tactically I'm not as astute as most other posters on this board, but I would think Sams priorities would be to stop Baines and Coleman getting forward .
A nailed on 0-0 .
Osman ran rings around Noble and O'Neil at our place, while almost all their wide quality came from Baines and Pienaar. Jelavic had a shocker.
Carlton however, gave the centre halves a good going over - so it's surely reasonable to expect Carroll to do the same.
If Diame performs to the top end of his game, I think we'll get something. If he plays like he's sunning it in Acapulco it'll be a long afternoon. He was the vital component that was missing for us in the home game.
After Saturday's performance I think we could do with a couple of changes.
Definitely give Joe Cole a game, and it's perhaps time to get Noble back in.
I could move the midfield 5 around in my selection a little bit if needs be. Use Vaz and Nolan in the second half- maybe Carlton as well.
Those seniors who've been missing a run out should at least get 20-30 minutes in this game to give us a bit of zip and zest. A touch of freshness.
If we were to win this one I think we'd be a very solid bet for 9th, with the vaguest possibility of 8th.
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Post by e17 » Mon May 06, 2013 11:07 am
the pink palermo wrote: A big to Ricardo for his efforts creating an interesting & informative match thread.
Hear hear! Great informative read as always
Bubbles starting 11 would be absolutely spot on for me. I'd love to see that given a go.
& I'd take the same 11 against Reading, but with Carlton up front, as I have a feeling it will be his farewell for us
MD_HM
Post by MD_HM » Mon May 06, 2013 11:15 am
-------------------------Jussi------------------------
Demel--------Collins-------Reid---------O'Brien
-----------------Noble-------Diame----------------
J.Cole----------------Nolan----------------Jarvis
-----------------------Carroll-----------------------
Henderson, Spence, Collison, Moncur, Lletget Vaz Te, C.Cole
Never going to happen though
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Post by Rocketron » Mon May 06, 2013 12:14 pm
Does anyone know why this is at 3pm on a Sunday?
Post by Puff Daddy » Mon May 06, 2013 12:14 pm
I cannot think of any reason why players of either side will want to go out there full pelt and risk injury to win a totally meaningless match and **** up their summer holidays in the process. In my opinion, here is the best opportunity of all for Sam to blood some of the youth players. They will be the exception to this.
Post by bubbles1966 » Mon May 06, 2013 12:16 pm
Rocketron wrote: Does anyone know why this is at 3pm on a Sunday?
Saturday is FA Cup Final day, Ron.
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Are there any good stats for the cost of repairs beyond year five of ownership? $28,000 savings sounds great, unless you have to give it to Hans to keep your wagen on the strasse. I am guessing if the repair cost data were available you would have included it.
You’re right that there’s not as much comprehensive data out there on the repair and maintenance costs for older cars. I was able to find a recent Consumer Reports study of how much owners paid on average in the 10th year of ownership (i.e. for 2007 models being driven in 2017). The most was for BMWs, which set their owners back on average $1125 per year at the shop. That’s about a hundred bucks a month – or $5625 over the course of five years, which still nets you a savings of $22,375 vs. the average brand-new car.
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Thanks for sharing these additional data points. It’s great to hear that they are in line with the Consumer Reports study. I’ll take a hundred bucks a month in maintenance any day over the many hundreds each month that most new car buyers lose in depreciation alone.
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Tennessee must win the final two games of the series on Friday and Saturday to earn a berth in next week's SEC Tournament.
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Tennessee's Zach Linginfelter is brought in during the 7th inning against Florida at Lindsey Nelson Stadium on Sunday, April 8, 2018. (Photo: Saul Young/News Sentinel)
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Tennessee coach Tony Vitello kept it honest when describing the Vols' hitting performance against Missouri on Thursday night.
“It was embarrassing to be honest with you,” he said. “We looked like a non-well-coached team. They were more fundamental than we were on defense tonight and you see that in the errors. … We had more hits than they did, but we did not execute well at all.”
The Vols (28-26, 11-17 SEC) outhit Missouri by three (12-9) in Thursday’s crucial game, but it left 13 runners on base. That was the difference as the Vols fell to Missouri 3-2 in the bottom of the 12th inning and fell into a tie with the Tigers (33-20, 11-17) for the 12th best record in the SEC.
“When the times came to execute, our guys looked really tense and different than they have in other situations,” Vitello said.
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No inning was a better example than the top of the 11th. With the game tied at two, Nico Mascia ledoff with a double to right-center field. The Vols were in an ideal situation, but nobody could bring Mascia home.
With a 2-2 count, Brandon Chinea struck out on a bunt attempt. Jay Charleston grounded out and Justin Ammons followed with a fly out to right field.
“I think the right team won tonight, unfortunately for us,” Vitello said.
Tennessee was 2 for 15 with runners in scoring position and 4 for 23 with runners on base. Pete Derkay had a RBI single in the sixth inning and Brodie Leftridge had a RBI single in the eighth.
Missouri didn’t have much success at the plate either. The Tigers were 3 for 12 with runners in scoring position and 4 for 21 with runners on. They just got a big hit when they needed it.
Missouri senior Alex Samples stepped to the plate with a runner on first and second, in the bottom of the 12th. He sent a Garrett Stallings pitch up the middle and brought home Matt Berler to give the Tigers the win.
“He did exactly what he needed to do,” Vitello said of Stallings. “He threw the first punch and located on the second pitch, but kudos to their guy, he’s a good hitter and found a hole.”
For most of the game, though, the Vols pitchers found ways to stifle the Missouri hitters. The Tigers managed nine hits and struck out 21 times.
The 21 strikeouts set a new program record. Zach Linginfelter tallied 14 of those in seven innings. Garrett Crochet, who picked up the loss, struck out seven batters in 4 ⅔ innings.
“The pitching was phenomenal tonight,” Vitello said.
Linginfelter, the former Sevier County High star, made his first start in more than 14 appearances. The sophomore’s last start was on March 2 against ETSU
Vitello’s trust in Linginfelter paid off in the form of a strikeout-performance that Tennessee hasn’t seen since James Adkins had 14 against LSU on April 24, 2007.
“We kind of haven’t had a Game 1 starter, so we said the heck with it let’s go with (Linginfelter) and it was the right decision on the pitching side of things,” Vitello said.
It just didn’t go right on the hitting side of things.
The Vols knew they needed to win their first road series of the season to make the SEC Tournament. It just got tougher. Now, the Vols must win their first Saturday SEC game of the season to keep its hopes alive.
“We knew all along coming in here, we had to do something we haven’t done yet and that’s win a road series,” Vitello said. “Coach (Tim) Jamieson used to tell me all the time on this field. If you lose on Friday, your goal is still right in front of you. You still have a chance to achieve it, and that we do.”
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How Bill Masters Saved Lake Holiday $120,000
August 7, 2008 By LakeHolidayNews 2 Comments
At the April board meeting, LHCC directors discussed a serious problem: they pledged the clubhouse (LHCC common area) as collateral for a loan from Wachovia without first obtaining owner consent. Several board members referred to this as a breach of their fiduciary duty, since common area can’t be mortgaged without first obtaining more than two-thirds consent of Lake Holiday’s owners and that consent was never obtained. GM Ray Sohl introduced the solution to this problem: “the board of directors has expressed an interest in re-collateralizing the existing clubhouse loan.”
The board’s solution: ask owners to retroactively approve mortgaging common area, and if approval were not obtained, to refinance the Wachovia loan at a great expense. Doing so would require paying about $18,000 in refinancing costs, paying approximately $20,000 more in annual debt service over 5 years, pledging 91 LHCC-owned lots, and allowing Wachovia to put a bank hold on $150,000 to $200,000 of LHCC’s cash. Add that up and you get a cash savings of $120,000.
That initial discussion of the problem was lengthy. Our nine video clips cover over an hour and ten minutes in Clubhouse Loan Pts 1-9:
Clubhouse Loan Pt 1
By July, preparations were underway to put the re-financing to an owner vote. LHCC announced the upcoming vote on July 21st. At the July 28th board meeting VP Dave Buermeyer, guided by Wayne Poyer, proposed the specific language to describe the issue to owners. Right away he met with resistance from 2 board members, John Martel and Jo-anne Barnard. Martel claimed that the language gave the refinancing proposal an “air of legitimacy that it probably never really achieved.” Then, Martel did an abrupt about-face and retreated from that position when Poyer seemed to be bothered by his remark. Jo-anne Barnard called the referendum “meaningless” because despite the high cost, the board had already decided to do the refinancing even if owners didn’t approve it. Nevertheless, every other director was satisfied with the decision to proceed with the refinancing. Many felt no further discussion was necessary.
Barnard and Martel felt the significant cost of the refinancing did merit further discussion. Barnard corrected the cost estimate served up by Poyer and Buermeyer. She observed:
It doesn’t cost $20,000. It costs $20,000 and $18,000 in the near term every year at the same time that we have to do the dam.
Here’s the July discussion in clips Oct 08 Referenda Pts 1-5:
Oct 08 Referenda Pt 1
So what’s the biggest problem in refinancing the clubhouse balloon note to fix pledging the clubhouse without first obtaining owner approval? The clubhouse isn’t even pledged as collateral on that note. Either Poyer and Buermeyer weren’t being candid about their reasons for proposing the refinancing or they never even bothered to check the documents. If they had taken just a moment to read the collateral exhibit, they would have seen that it clearly contains a description of real estate that is not the clubhouse.
A cautionary word to the non-lawyers that try to comprehend an important legal document like the loan collateral exhibit: it’s a whopping 2 pages, and the description of the property used as collateral involves potentially hard-to-understand legal terms, such as “231 Redland Road.” Proceed carefully!
After watching the video of the July meeting, property owner Bill Masters did bother to check the documents, and the exhibit showing the collateral for the loan very clearly listed the collateral as 231 Redland Road, the location of Lake Holiday’s management office. Masters contacted GM Ray Sohl, and directors Barnard and Martel to understand how they missed this.
Sohl initially disputed Masters’ assessment and insisted the clubhouse was used as loan collateral. Masters had to show Sohl that the loan for which the clubhouse had been used as collateral was paid off and closed months ago. Keep in mind that Masters was making his argument to Sohl and several board members using documents he originally obtained from the Lake Holiday office in the first place.
Barnard and Martel were surprised by his claim but promised to investigate. To further support his contention, Masters supplied loan documents to Barnard and Martel and Frederick County tax maps, one of which appears nearby. In a few days, Sohl, Barnard, and Martel came to the same conclusion that Masters had: the clubhouse wasn’t pledged on the loan in the first place, so there’s no reason to spend all that money on the expensive refinancing supported by Poyer and Buermeyer.
The cash savings, as Barnard herself pointed out at the board meeting, is about $120,000 over 5 years. When Masters discussed with Barnard the significant cash savings, Barnard disputed her own number. Evidently, dollars that Masters saves don’t count as much as dollars that the board very nearly wasted. Beyond the cash savings, Lake Holiday retains clear title to its 91 lots and has unrestricted use of the $200,000 that it would have had to pledge to do the refinancing. Masters managed to accomplish all of this while holding down a full time job and not serving on the board.
Barnard’s attempt to discount the savings is just evidence of the board’s spin machine revving up. More evidence of that is Sohl’s email to Masters, thanking him for catching the “error,” but pointing the finger at Wachovia for not securing the loan with the right collateral. Maybe Wachovia’s Mike Wilkerson has a different opinion of who owns the “error.”
Much can be learned from this episode to improve Lake Holiday. LHCC directors voted to spend over $120,000 of the organization’s cash based on the erroneous belief that the clubhouse was pledged as collateral, a belief that reading the loan documents would have quickly corrected. While Barnard and Martel were against spending money on refinancing, at a minimum they and every other director are guilty of approving a significant expenditure without bothering to read the underlying documents. That’s wrong. If any director did read the collateral documents and recommended the refinancing based on a claim that he knew to be false, that would be far more troubling.
When Masters first called Ray Sohl, he encountered far too much resistance. Sohl spent too much time defending the position that the clubhouse was pledged as collateral, perhaps because the board had already invested so much time to approve the refinancing. If the clubhouse were not pledged, it would make all the resources devoted to the refinancing an embarrassing waste. Fortunately, Masters took the time to make the phone calls and send the emails to overcome Sohl’s resistance. Masters was in an exceptional position because he had previously requested the relevant documents and closely followed the board videos, two things for which he is often unjustly criticized. But it shouldn’t be that hard for owners to get the management office to reach an obvious conclusion. While this went from start to finish in about 3 days, that was too long because the loan collateral exhibit was so clear and unambiguous. The initial response involved too much defensive posturing. If Masters had not persisted after receiving Sohl’s initial response, the savings may have been lost.
Fortunately, Masters saved $120,000 of Lake Holiday’s cash. What the community learns from this affair may be even more valuable.
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Filed Under: Board Conduct, Board Meeting, Finances Tagged With: Buermeyer, Jo-anne-Barnard, Martel, Masters, Mike-Sweeney, Murphy, Noel-OBrien, Pat-Shields, Poyer, Ray-Sohl, Robin-Pedlar, Suzy-Marcus, Wachovia
This Has To Stop
June 15, 2008 By LakeHolidayNews 3 Comments
Whatever one may think of John Martel, he consistently manages to come up with great one-liners. Mind you, they’re not going to be heard on the big movie screen anytime soon. They’re just pithy observations on the problems at Lake Holiday. We took the title of this post from his remarks on the issue of ordering tote bags for new owners for the Welcoming Committee.
Too many bags were ordered at a price double what they should have cost because the wrong person ordered the bags.
Wayne Poyer described the mix-up:
A batch of bags was ordered which, based on the rate of people coming into the community, it’s going to last about 40 years.
As Martel said: “this has to stop, this has to stop.” We’ll go out on a limb and guess that the Welcoming Committee only welcomes new homeowners and not new membership lot owners with one of the too many totes ordered at an exorbitant cost.
The budget review was made a little more difficult when it was discovered that one of Mike Kilmer’s staff incorrectly coded an expense item as an income item. Robin Pedlar thought Kilmer’s firm was “overpaid.” According to Martel, the distribution of work between the LHCC office and Kilmer’s firm has created problems. His view:
It’s hard to sort out who’s doing what to whom.
Kilmer’s firm is paid $4250 per month (an annual rate of over $50,000), and the board was reviewing other cutbacks to balance the budget at the May 15th budget meeting. Despite that, Pat Shields didn’t think that meeting was the appropriate time to address the value of Kilmer’s services.
In the video of overpaying for too many tote bags, Robin Pedlar worried:
If this is indicative of how phony all the numbers could be, it scares me.
She was not alone in her concern about sloppy accounting. Wayne Poyer asked somewhat rhetorically:
How bad is our accounting?
Let’s look at one area, the relationship between delinquencies and receivables. In our videos 2008 1Q Delinquencies and How Bad Is Our Accounting, Treasurer John Martel gave the numbers on delinquencies: 114 homes (including trash assessments), 70 water/sewer lots, and 242 membership lots. Based on LHCC’s published assessment rates, this is a monthly delinquency of $30,748.08. Yet the difference between LHCC’s reported accounts receivable in March and April of 2008 is only $9,299.73. If the delinquency rate is actually that high, why didn’t accounts receivable go up by a larger amount? If it’s not that high, why is the board over-stating the delinquency rate and budgeting based on this over-statement? As Poyer himself remarked, the delinquency report “just doesn’t pass the nonsense test.”
Budget-related videos from this meeting also include a discussion of getting foreclosing banks to pay their dues and a brief review of Kilmer’s role (which includes a little spat between a frustrated Martel and Suzy Marcus). A few unrelated topics were addressed after the budget review: creating the nominating committee; handling road violations, in which directors acknowledged that the roving patrol is not authorized to stop alleged violators; and relisting lots for sale with Oakcrest.
Bank Foreclosures and Dues
Pedlar Says Kilmer Is Overpaid
2008 Nominating Committee
Road Violations Pt 1
List Lots With Oakcrest
How Bad Is Our Accounting
2008 1Q Delinquencies
If you find it odd that in all this budget talk, the name of Steve Locke doesn’t come up much, we do as well. Steve’s resume says he’s a certified financial planner and a former member of the Financial Management Task Force. He had little to say about changes to the budget, a topic that is very relevant to his background and experience. What is the point of serving on the board if you don’t have much to say on the topic most directly related to your background or work experience? Congratulations, Steve. You’re our Silent Sitter for the May budget meeting.
With all of the excitement about accounting and budgets (a subject that caused Robin Pedlar to comment a little past the half-way point of the budget meeting that “we’ve got to move faster or I’m going home”), we realized that we neglected to announce our Silent Sitter winner for the April 28th meeting. The most important topic covered at the April 28th meeting was a proposal to refinance the clubhouse balloon note. In a meeting where directors openly acknowledged they breached their fiduciary responsibility, Suzy Marcus sat in almost total silence. She neither objected to the characterization expressed by several board members that the board (of which she was a member) had in fact breached its fiduciary responsibility or raised any concern about the cost to fix that mistake. Important issues require the input of all board members. Congratulations, Suzy. You’re our Silent Sitter for the April meeting.
Filed Under: Board Conduct, Board Meeting, Finances, Silent Sitter Tagged With: Kilmer, Locke, Martel, Pat-Shields, Poyer, Robin-Pedlar, Suzy-Marcus
May 21, 2008 By LakeHolidayNews 8 Comments
A question. Were you, John Martel, ever asked to meet over a cup of coffee?
John Martel’s answer: “That’s not true.”
From March 8, 2007. Let’s have a cup of coffee.
A tickler 4 days later, after no response from Martel or Buermeyer.
…caught in a situation that limits our ability to have an open conversation with you…
Two months later, on video.
Filed Under: Board Conduct Tagged With: Buermeyer, Martel
Quick Takes on the April 28th Board Meeting
May 4, 2008 By LakeHolidayNews 1 Comment
The April 28th was long – over 3 1/2 hours, not counting an executive session. We’ve included all but about 15 minutes of that meeting, spread over 26 video clips.
Review of a new front gate contract took about 5 1/2 minutes, but review of a $1500 reimbursement for additional lifeguard open water rescue training took over 30 minutes. The latter issue apparently stemmed from roving patrol/lifeguard supervisor Zeb Brevard, rather than the board, authorizing an expenditure made by the parent of one of the lifeguards.
Just because review of the front gate contract took 5 1/2 minutes doesn’t mean there was serious review. The board rubber-stamped GM Ray Sohl’s recommendation of keeping the contract with Haines at a cost of $15 per hour rather than accept a much lower cost proposal from Spartan at a cost of $13.33 per hour. The potential savings from Spartan’s proposal? About $15,000. The board couldn’t spend a lot of time on this $130,000 contract because it had to have enough time to discuss a contract with the lifeguards requiring them to reimburse the $100 training cost if they failed to work the entire season. At one point, presumably just to shorten a ridiculously long (or was it just ridiculous?) discussion, an audience member volunteered that he would reimburse the $100 training cost if that event occurred.
For the monthly staples, Martel gave the Treasurer’s Report and GM Ray Sohl gave the Management Report. Martel also put forward a motion to fully expense rather than capitalize all of LHCC’s depreciable assets. No director asked whether that was GAAP-compliant. For that matter, no director asked what GAAP is.
Dave Buermeyer gathered up some projections from Miller & Smith and some boxes of old documents. He rolled them into his Vision 10, a plan for the next 10 years at Lake Holiday. It drew applause from the board, which is the only group that will pay any attention whatsoever. Buermeyer also brought back more modifications to a policy to fill board vacancies. Secretary Ken Murphy secured approval for a new Rules Tracking System. At least they’ll look pretty. Early topic of the video: picking the right font. We’ll state the obvious: when a simple community association has to have a rules tracking system, it has too many rules. The board also approved a motion to hire a new collection agency, Debt Recovery Bureau, to try to collect old LHEUC debts on a contingency basis. According to Ray Sohl, these debts are outside the 3 year statute of limitations, and 1 firm has already tried a similar approach and given up after about 2 months.
On a positive note, director Steve Locke brought up negative communications relating to architectural compliance during the Committee & Task Force Reports. He was critical of his own experience and said the board needed to find a “much more neighborly way of going about things.” He thought “a little conversation would have gone a long way.” Perhaps his wife Deborah is working with him to try to develop a “kindler, gentler” side rather than the pseudo-tough guy tactics he displayed in our Keep It Over Here Punk video. Imagine: one LHCC director thinks “a little conversation” with an adversary could go “a long way.” Believable? Enduring? Let’s wait and see.
In earlier meetings, the board concluded that LHCC lacked the money to install guard rails, a safety issue, but evidently the money is there for the GM to solicit proposals to improve the acoustics at the clubhouse. Safety, no. Better acoustics for board members to hear themselves talk, yes.
The biggest topic of the night: re-financing the clubhouse loan. GM Ray Sohl started the discussion by stating that the “Board of directors has expressed an interest in re-collateralizing the existing clubhouse loan.” Oddly, there’s no expression of such interest during open meetings. Since the board voted on a motion to direct the GM to get bids on changes to the clubhouse acoustics, why is there no approved motion to direct the GM to investigate refinancing the clubhouse? This is just more evidence of the backroom discussions that Wayne Poyer denied the existence of when questioned by Bill Masters at the February Round Table.
In a sometimes heated debate, the board decided what to do about the fact that it pledged common assets without first obtaining 67% approval of the membership. To those who say the board never violates LHCC’s governing documents, this is just 1 example. The board acknowledged it didn’t follow LHCC’s governing documents on one of the largest transactions in Lake Holiday’s history. Jo-anne Barnard expressed the view that had she been given a chance to vote to incur a big mortgage to remodel the clubhouse, she would have chosen not to do so.
According to some board members, to fix things would require:
pledging over 90 LHCC-owned lots
paying $18,000 in closing costs
paying an extra $1400 per month for 5 years
putting a bank hold on $150,000-$200,000 of LHCC deposits for 5 years
The hold would prevent LHCC from using the money. The board’s fix relies on an artificial distinction between “common area” and “common property.” Mortgaging the clubhouse without member approval was wrong because the clubhouse is “common area,” but mortgaging 91 lots without member approval is acceptable because these lots, according to the board, are something entirely different – “common property.” The extended debate is covered in a total of 9 parts, the first 8 of which include the discussion and the last of which includes the final vote.
Several directors expressed the view that the fix was expensive at a time when money is tight and the damage from violating LHCC’s governing documents can’t be undone. The decision: put the issue to retroactively approve pledging common assets to a member vote (which will almost certainly fail, as Poyer himself acknowledged), and if it fails, to enter into the refinancing, probably in early 2009. Martel asked that the record reflect that this decision to refinance is a breach of directors’ fiduciary responsibility, and when Poyer objected to the minutes reflecting Martel’s comments, he withdrew them. Not to worry, John Martel. The record of your inability or unwillingness to stick to your position is amply reflected on YouTube.
We extend our continued thanks to Bill Masters for his unflinching efforts to let property owners monitor the conduct of LHCC’s board. Despite the board’s talk of openness, they blocked Masters’ videographer from the boardroom on the grounds that he wasn’t an LHCC member. Property owners should be deeply troubled by a board that blocks openness and at the same time denies it is doing such blocking.
Filed Under: Board Conduct, Board Meeting, Finances Tagged With: Buermeyer, Haines, Jo-anne-Barnard, Locke, Martel, Masters, Miller-&-Smith, Murphy, Poyer, Ray-Sohl, Wachovia, Zeb-Brevard
Is There Any Hope?
April 3, 2008 By LakeHolidayNews 3 Comments
At the February 23rd Round Table, a Membership Lot owner expressed concern about his prospects for being able to build on his lot in the future. The future that he had in mind: the year 2020. He had a question that is probably on the minds of many Membership Lot owners: “Is there any hope for me?”
LHCC President Wayne Poyer didn’t offer any promises and didn’t offer a lot of hope, but what he did offer came down to Rule 20, Aqua Virginia’s line extension policy. If, as Wayne Poyer described, Rule 20 is the source of salvation for Membership Lot owners, we thought it would be enlightening to review some of the history of LHCC’s treatment of Membership Lot owners and how this rule took shape.
There are a few facts that are important to understand utilities at Lake Holiday: the role of the SCC and the relationship between LHCC and LHEUC. Utilities in Virginia are regulated by the SCC, and utilities have tariffs approved by that Commission. These tariffs include both rates and rules, such as line extension policies. The SCC issues a certificate of public convenience and necessity to a utility. This certificate covers a specified area (often called the certificated area) and carries with it the obligation to serve all potential customers in that service area, subject to the line extension policy in the tariff. For LHEUC (and now for Aqua Virginia), that is the entire Lake Holiday community. LHCC owned 100% of the stock of the utility LHEUC. Under its Articles of Incorporation, LHCC was formed “to promote the…welfare of the members….” Logically, LHCC would be required to operate LHEUC to promote the welfare of members, which includes Membership Lot owners.
Some Lake Holiday critics of a utility’s contribution to a line extension make 2 false claims: that line extension credits (e. g., the old Rule 16 and now Rule 20 credits) would result in a “run on the bank,” and that the cost of the line extension work would raise utility rates. These critics exploit a lack of understanding of accounting and utility regulation to create fear of draining capital out of the Utility and higher rates. The truth is exactly the opposite of what line extension critics claim.
Line extensions provide utilities with new capital and they serve to help lower utility rates for existing homeowners. The Rule 16 credit was capped at an amount less than $3,000 per lot, and it is provided as a credit against the tap fee paid by the owner making the extension. Taps fees typically far exceed the amount of a line extension credit because the tap fee is intended to return capital to the utility for the investment required to build the system to which a new owner connects. In 2006, the tap fee was $8,868 and the Rule 16 credit was $2,861. Thus, every new line extension in 2006 would provide the utility with over $6,000 of fresh capital, less its cost to install the meter and finalize the connection.
In accounting terms, tap fee payments that come with line extensions are accounted for as a return of capital. For LHEUC, the return of capital would have boosted its interest income or helped lower its borrowing costs. With lower net expenses, LHEUC would have needed lower rates to operate. For Aqua Virginia, whose rates are set on a rate of return basis, the return of capital from a tap fee accompanying a line extension serves to lower Aqua Virginia’s investment. With a lower investment, the maximum profit that Aqua Virginia can earn is lower, and it is spread over 1 more rate-paying customer. These forces combine to lower homeowner utility rates, all other things being equal.
Up until the end of 2006, LHEUC’s line extension policy was embodied in Rule 16 of its tariff. Despite the fact that Rule 16 had been in effect for many years, it had been largely hidden from Membership Lot owners. Dave Ingegneri, the former GM of Lake Holiday, testified in a deposition that Chris Allison:
felt it was in the community’s best interest to not publicly announce Rule 16, but certainly, if somebody would request the information we would release it and certainly, Rule 16 is a public document, so if anybody really wanted to find the information they could.
In other words, the burden was on Membership Lot owners to discover Rule 16 completely on their own. But Chris Allison wanted to make that burden even harder. According to Dave Ingegneri, Chris Allison authored a document entitled Membership Lots and Water and Sewer Lots that was included in a number of disclosure packages to prospective buyers. The document falsely claimed that “LHEUC, the utility company, is not empowered by the SCC (VA State Utility Regulating Agency) to expand the current water and sewer infrastructure.” The truth is the exact opposite. LHEUC (and now Aqua VA) was obligated to extend the utility infrastructure in its certificated area, subject to its tariff.
Chris Allison is not the only LHCC leader that has acted against the interests of Membership Lot owners. Frank Heisey made false promises to Membership Lot owners and repeatedly failed to mention LHEUC’s Rule 16 obligations. In the February 2004 President’s Report, Frank Heisey wrote:
LHCC is responsible for expansion of the water and sewer system.
In January 2002, Frank Heisey replied to an email from a concerned Membership Lot owner. He wrote:
The issue with the future of membership lots is an issue of when and where we should extend water and sewer lines. We do not have the capital reserve to do this now based on all of the other issues facing us with the infrastructure….
Note that Frank Heisey was writing as the President of LHCC, and that he wrote “…when and where we should extend…” rather than “…if we should extend….” He wrote that LHCC didn’t have the money “now” rather than “we will never do that.” Tellingly, he didn’t breathe a word about LHEUC’s obligations under Rule 16, something that would have benefited this particular Membership Lot owner. Membership Lot owners were not seeking out Rule 16 precisely because the President of LHCC was telling them that LHCC was responsible for expansion and that LHCC would resolve the “when and where [it] should extend” once its finances improved.
As we previously discussed, in the 3 year period from 2004-2006, Membership Lot owners contributed about $1.4 million to LHCC. Much of this money was contributed because of representations from leaders like Frank Heisey.
But in a 2006 deposition, Frank Heisey discussed extending utilities to Membership Lots: “We had no plans for doing that.” Would Membership Lot owners have paid $1.4 million to LHCC if he had said “we have no plan and no obligation?” Did Frank Heisey make those representations because the money paid by Membership Lot owners was almost exclusively used for pay for benefits to homeowners like himself? To the best of our knowledge, not a single Membership Lot owner has ever made and completed a Rule 16 line extension request over more than 30 years. At least 1 of these owners so desperate for utility service would have pulled this off if LHCC had not concealed Rule 16 from them.
Former LHCC President Chris Allison described just what Rule 16 could mean to a Membership Lot owner in 2006. For a Membership Lot owner just 1 lot away from the end of the utility line, Rule 16 would mean that the Membership Lot owner was “probably not going to have to pay very much….” But to benefit from Rule 16, Membership Lot owners needed honest information about LHCC’s plans and LHEUC’s obligations. They never got it.
Our references to representations from LHCC about its obligation to extend utilities are not isolated. In 2003, Frank Heisey wrote LHEUC President Jack Fastnaught and the entire LHEUC board that he had legal advice that “LHCC is responsible for new lines….” In 2004 LHCC President Heisey and LHEUC President Chuck Brewer jointly wrote to every property owner that “We must expand the water and sewer system to meet the on-going growth and development in our community.” Discussions in public meetings often went far beyond broad-brush, general statements. At a May 2005 joint LHCC Board and Master Planning Task Force meeting, engineers from Patton Harris Rust Associates (PHRA) presented a project to extend utilities to 70 lots in Section 8A near Dogwood Drive and Mill Court. The project had a specific per lot cost estimate of $13,000, and the LHCC Board approved a motion to “facilitate the Dogwood Project.” Today, those lots sit just as they did in 2005 – without utilities.
By the end of that same year, prospects for Membership Lot owners would take a bad turn. In September 2005, we filed a lawsuit against both LHCC and LHEUC that focused attention on the line extension issue. A little more than a month later, LHCC signed contracts to sell LHEUC’s assets to Aqua Virginia. The deal was never put to a member vote. When Lake Holiday was under a court-ordered building moratorium and the Circuit Court was overseeing LHEUC’s affairs, then LHCC President Frank Heisey wrote to members that “selling of the utility company would require a 2/3 majority vote of the eligible membership. This in itself would not be a quick or easy process, nor should it.” The sales contract with Aqua Virginia was hurriedly signed on the eve of LHCC’s 2005 annual election of directors, after which Heisey would no longer be on the board. One representation to members while the Circuit Court was involved; an opposite action when that oversight was gone.
Despite the fact that LHCC already had a deal in place to get out of the utility business, about 2 weeks after signing that deal, its subsidiary LHEUC filed a rate and rule change request in which it attempted to remove any obligation to extend utilities to Membership Lots. Why was LHCC rushing to eliminate the Rule 16 obligation when it would soon be out of the utility business? Were its directors concerned that line extension issues were now part of a lawsuit, and LHEUC’s Rule 16 line extension obligation would now come to light?
Had LHCC bothered to make one, a quick check with the SCC would have revealed that a utility is obligated to serve new customers in the service area covered by its certificate. When asked in a deposition about the SCC’s response to LHEUC’s effort to eliminate Rule 16, Dave Ingegneri testified that “it [the SCC] would in no way approve that, those tariff sheets without Rule 16.” Whose idea was it to eliminate Rule 16? According to Ingegneri: “Chris Allison’s.” Ingegneri went on to describe where LHEUC’s own board had problems with the proposed tariff changes, but Chris Allison went to a Utility board meeting to offer a dictate:
the outcome or the, the [sic] dictate was, if you guys [the LHEUC board] don’t approve it the Association board will.
We collected and filed with the SCC over 450 complaints to fight LHEUC’s effort to increase rates and eliminate its line extension obligations. In just 3 weeks, the SCC ruled that LHEUC’s changes were “defective and should be given no effect.” LHCC had concealed the existence of Rule 16 from Membership Lot owners for years. When it attempted to eliminate any obligation to extend utility lines, it didn’t even bother to provide notice of its plan to these same owners. Instead, LHEUC apparently hid behind the notion that no notice of utility rule changes needed to be sent to Membership Lot owners since they were not Utility customers at the time. All of this is old news to our regular blog readers. We’ve written about LHCC’s shabby treatment of Membership Lot owners during the tariff change effort, and the SCC’s initial rejection of LHEUC’s rate and rule change. LHCC made 2 efforts to undo the SCC’s initial ruling, but the Commission let its ruling stand.
In February 2006, at the same time that the SCC was reviewing LHEUC’s rate and rule change request, LHCC, LHEUC, and Aqua filed a Joint Petition with the SCC to sell LHEUC’s assets to Aqua. It took the parties about 3 1/2 months from signing the contract to file their petition with the SCC. That petition contained a new line extension policy, or the proposed Rule 20. This new proposal was materially different from the previous tariff. Under Rule 16, LHEUC contributed 3 1/2 times the estimated annual utility revenue per Membership Lot, or about $2861. Under the proposed Rule 20, that contribution would drop all the way to $0.
In March of that year, we joined the utility transfer case (PUE-2006-00013) as a Respondent in that proceeding. We were the only Respondent to join the proceeding. Many Membership Lot owners purchased their lots 30 years ago, expecting to have a second home at Lake Holiday. Most own 1 lot that is of little value. With the passage of time and the high cost involved to understand the facts and participate in a utility transfer case against one of the largest water utilities in the entire country, most have given up. Some twist the fact that we were the sole respondent into a characterization of us as trying to block the utility sale. The truth is that we urged the SCC to not approve the transfer as it was proposed, which is lawyer-speak for saying we wanted certain provisions of the original deal changed. That is exactly what happened. After our testimony, the original line extension deal was changed dramatically.
In June, we filed testimony, largely complaining about the line extension policy that LHCC and Aqua proposed. We encouraged adoption of a line extension policy where Aqua Virginia would contribute 3 1/2 times estimated annual utility revenue to the cost of line extensions. We argued simply for continuing the in-force Rule 16, a requirement for the utility to make an investment in line extensions that had been in place for more than 30 years. In July LHCC and LHEUC responded. Chis Allison on behalf of LHCC and Mark Kropilak on behalf of Aqua filed 30 pages of testimony to argue against our proposal. To the question of Aqua’s willingness to contribute 3 1/2 times revenue, Kropilak had an answer: “No.” Chris Allison was spending legal dollars to reduce Aqua Virginia’s contribution to line extensions. Why? Since Aqua Virginia is unrelated to Chris Allison, why was he spending LHCC’s money in this manner?
By August, the SCC staff had reviewed our testimony and LHCC’s rebuttal, and SCC staff members filed their own testimony on the line extension issue that we raised.
Here’s what the SCC had to say:
The proposed main extension rule also forms the main argument, or at least one that squarely falls within the jurisdiction of this Commission, by the Respondent [Ogunquit] in this proceeding.
All water and wastewater utilities currently contribute three and half times the annual revenue per customer to the cost of a main extension.
Staff is concerned that Aqua’s rule differs radically from all other water and wastewater utilities regulated by the Commission.
LHCC, its subsidiary LHEUC, and Aqua Virginia proposed a line extension policy that “differs radically” from the policy for “all other” water utilities regulated by the SCC. The policy proposed was different from just about every other water/wastewater utility in the entire state of Virginia. That’s the policy that LHCC put forward to the SCC to serve Membership Lot owners, whose interests LHCC was allegedly serving. We, quite reasonably, opposed that policy.
Less than a month later, Aqua Virginia filed new testimony, adopting the position that both we and the SCC recommended. Aqua wrote:
We have now moved to a position, consistent with the Staff testimony, for Aqua Lake Holiday (under the general provisions of its main extension rule) to invest in the applicant’s main extension in the amount of 3 1/2 times the estimated annual revenues anticipated to be generated by the home to be constructed on the applicant’s lot. In addition, regarding the payments for intervening lot connections, the payment of these refunds will be extended to ten years from the original five years that was proposed. These changes will cause an increase in the investment needed from Aqua.
We appreciated the opportunity to present our ideas in a public forum and play a role in persuading Aqua Virginia to improve its line extension policy. The changes for which we argued applied not just to us, but to all Membership Lot owners equally. The SCC and its staff played a central role in making Aqua Virginia’s line extension policy more typical of the policies in place for other utilities. What’s clear is that, despite its obligation to promote the welfare of Membership Lot owners, LHCC played no role in improving the line extension policy. Instead, LHCC spent Membership Lot owners’ own money to come up with a bad plan and then paid lawyers to block our efforts to improve it.
Even with all of our references to testimony, the resolution of the line extension issue was very swift. Most testimony in the case was filed in electronic form with follow-up paper copies. Once Aqua Virginia agreed to make its line extension policy more like every other water/wastewater utility in Virginia, we supported these changes, and our further participation was limited to expressing this support. We did not contest any element of the SCC staff testimony, and we did not even appear at the hearing in Richmond. If we were seeking to block the utility sale, we would have done both things.
It took just a couple of days to reach an agreement to stipulate into the record our pre-filed testimony, and we were “excused from participation…,” all of which is discussed in the SCC’s November 2006 order granting the transfer. LHCC’s directors have managed to spin our successful but limited involvement in the transfer case into the false notion that we fought hard to block the transfer itself and lost. Wayne Poyer repeats this worn-out lie in the April 2008 President’s Report, where he describes our involvement in the transfer case as “legal obstacles thrown up (unsuccessfully) by a Member of the Association.” The sale of LHEUC’s assets was not approved by the SCC on the terms proposed by LHCC; it was approved on terms very similar to the terms that we recommended. Wayne Poyer needs to recheck his definition of “unsuccessful.”
In the fall of 2006, the Utility sale was moving toward closing by the end of the year. But Chris Allison remained as unsympathetic to the plight of Membership Lot owners as ever. After working to conceal the Rule 16 obligation, Chris Allison responded via certified mail to a Rule 16 extension request from an owner in Section 6A. A summary of his response: LHEUC will contribute its required $2,861.46. You just need to send in your check for $1,499,713.59. The property owner in Section 6A had been waiting years for utilities, perhaps over 30 years, and probably only recently learned of LHEUC’s obligations under Rule 16. For Chris Allison, who worked to conceal and remove those Rule 16 obligations, to waste the postage to send a letter requesting a deposit check for nearly $1.5 million is far beyond mean-spirited. It’s petty and callous.
Under Chris Allison’s leadership, LHCC wasted thousands of dollars fighting our recommendations before the SCC. Chris Allison discussed just how much money LHCC spent at a board meeting in March 2007. In our video Allison Attacks Masters, Chris Allison said that LHCC spent $200,000 on the SCC proceeding, and that one half of that – or $100,000 – was to fight our recommendations. He claimed that our recommendations amounted to “only 2 lines” in the final SCC ruling. In a final stab at Membership Lot owners, Chris Allison wasted $100,000 fighting to make Aqua Virginia’s line extension policy unlike every other water/wastewater utility in the state. Unsurprisingly, he lost. Instead of recognizing his error of fighting black letter law, he tried to make us the scapegoat by suggesting that our actions triggered legal spending.
The following table summarizes LHEUC’s old Rule 16, the proposed Rule 20, and the Rule 20 actually adopted by the SCC:
Proposed & Adopted Rule 20 vs Old Rule 16
Old Rule 16
Proposed Rule 20
Adopted Rule 20
Credit to original applicant 3.5 X avg annual utility revenue $0 3.5 X avg annual utility revenue
Future credit for intervening lots that connect later 3.5 X avg annual utility revenue $1,000 $2,000
Expiration of credit for intervening lots 10 years 5 years 10 years
In the summer of 2007, LHCC made a hasty, ill-conceived effort to amend the deeds of dedication in 4 sections where most Membership Lots are located. That effort, called the Utility Extension Program (UEP) was a big flop. At the February 2008 Round Table Wayne Poyer told the concerned Membership Lot owner that:
the best minds in this community contributed to that and in fact authored it.
Really? We’re one of the largest owners of Membership Lots, and we were never contacted about helping to develop a utility extension plan. We’ve spoken to hundreds of other Membership Lot owners, and none of them were contacted either. It’s not credible that “the best minds in this community contributed” when most Membership Lot owners were never even contacted. In fact, the plan was crafted by LHCC’s Development Executive Committee (or DEC, discussed in our video Only 3 For The DEC, which at the time (and still, as of this writing) included no Membership Lot owners. It did, however, include Chris Allison.
During the debate over the UEP kickoff, Wayne Poyer said Membership Lots had “virtually no value” (predictably in our video clip Virtually No Value). LHCC concealed the existence of LHEUC’s Rule 16 from Membership Lot owners for years; it went so far as to deny its obligations. It tried to eliminate those obligations under that rule without sending any notice to these owners. When it came time to sell the Utility’s assets, LHCC jointly proposed a new line extension policy that required Aqua to make no contribution to the cost of line extensions, and then blocked our efforts to secure a larger contribution from Aqua. Five of LHCC’s current directors (Wayne Poyer, Dave Buermeyer, John Martel, Noel O’Brien, and Pat Shields) were on the board in 2006 that fought to block what became Rule 20. In fact, for all the importance Wayne Poyer now attaches to Rule 20, there’s no link to it anywhere on LHCC’s official website.
On February 23rd, Wayne Poyer described the plight of Membership Lot owners as a “sorry situation” and for the Section 6A owner on the video, he had a harsher outlook: “tough.” It’s time for LHCC to own up to its deplorable behavior of thoroughly obstructing Membership Lot owners’ efforts to get utilities.
LHCC’s directors have spent a lot of time and money to insure Membership Lots have “virtually no value.” They have drained hundreds of thousands of dollars from LHCC. Yet the hope for Membership Lot owners, according to Wayne Poyer, is in the Rule 20 protections that LHCC obstructed at every turn.
It’s time for Membership Lot owners to ask themselves a hard question: have LHCC’s directors lived up to their responsibilities to serve the interests of those property owners? The answer can be found in another question with a simple, objective answer: Does my lot, after more than 30 years, have utilities yet?
Filed Under: Board Conduct, Membership Lots, Utilities Tagged With: Allison, Aqua-Virginia, Brewer, Buermeyer, Fastnaught, Frank-Heisey, Ingegneri, Kropilak, Martel, Masters, Noel-OBrien, Pat-Shields, Poyer
Quick Takes on the March 27th Board Meeting
March 30, 2008 By LakeHolidayNews Leave a Comment
Here’s our quick take on the March 27th board meeting. We now include video thumbnails directly in posts. If you click on the thumbnail, a video player will pop up and begin playing the video. Look for this feature in future posts. If you have problems using this feature, make a comment on our Help page.
We’ve uploaded 15 videos from the March 27th meeting, representing over 1 1/2 hours of about a 2 hour meeting.
One of the first orders of business: fill the board seat vacated by Rick Bleck, who did not meet the 1 year ownership requirement for nomination set forth in LHCC’s bylaws and was invisible on the campaign trail but was elected anyway. There were 2 candidates: Bill Masters and Mike Sweeney, who is the husband of board member Robin Pedlar.
LHCC’s own Articles include the requirement that “A Lot shall not have more than one membership, but the single membership shall be shared by all owners of the lot.” Since Robin Pedlar is a director, she must be a member. If there’s only 1 membership for a lot, there’s no membership opportunity left for Mike Sweeney. LHCC’s directors get around that major roadblock by obtaining a legal opinion from Juan Cardenas of Rees Broome. That opinion starts out “Assuming Mike Sweeney is a member of LHCC….” As far back as Aristotle in 350 B. C., this con job has been understood to be a logical fallacy, often referred to as “circular reasoning.” Check it out: Assuming pigs can fly, then pigs can fly. Use it, like Wayne Poyer did, to impress passive directors and gullible neighbors. Just don’t actually try to fly, because that will expose the fallacy pretty quickly. Buermeyer gave a speech intended for the camera that encouraged diversity on the board yet offered Masters the hope of joining the board only if he became a clone of Buermeyer himself. Buermeyer and Pedlar abstained; Murphy and Marcus avoided controversy by skipping the meeting. Task #1: pass a resolution to make the vote on this charade an open vote. Watch LHCC’s rules trampled on and tossed away in these 2 clips, Breaking The Rules Pt 1 and Breaking The Rules Pt 2. This action shows the board will recklessly violate LHCC’s own governing documents to keep its grip on power.
GM Ray Sohl gave the management report, Mar 08 GM Rpt Pt 1 and Mar 08 GM Rpt Pt 2, in which the topic of the effectiveness of the Roving Patrol was raised. Is it effective? The board moved that question to Executive Session, so members will never know just what the roving patrol led by Zeb Brevard, the roving patrol supervisor, actually does all day. Treasurer John Martel, who sometimes struggles with accounting issues, offered a friendly health tip in his Treasurer’s Report. Wayne Poyer raised a concern that an owner/builder was possibly blocked from using white garage doors, which should automatically be approved, in our clip Garage Doors and asked Judy Platt about stocking the lake with non-native fish.
There have been 2 serious accidents on West Masters Drive, so the topic of guard rails (Guard Rails Again Pt 1 and Guard Rails Again Pt 2) came up again. We’ve heard reports that a driver was very seriously injured, perhaps paralyzed, in a recent accident on West Masters. If guard rails had been installed, the seriousness of these accidents may have been reduced. Steve Locke did offer a suggestion: put up caution tape. Action on the guard rail issue was “tabled” because of LHCC’s “serious financial headaches.” Estimates for dam culvert work (just 1 part of a much bigger project) came in at approximately $175,000 compared to a budget of $45,000. This $130,000 surprise didn’t find its way into Wayne Poyer’s April 2008 President’s Report, which discussed dam costs.
Changes were made to construction guidelines, apparently requiring a member to be in good standing for all properties owned, rather than the property for which construction approval is applied, before approving new construction permits. If allowed to stand, this will just about kill any new construction at Lake Holiday. The board also discussed taking more aggressive action against serious compliance violations. That could mean spending more money on lawyers at a time when money is in short supply. With her husband’s help, Robin Pedlar outlined the plans for 2008 social activities and suggested that LHCC in effect have a second set of books to get around the troubles created by accrual accounting. Directors seemed comfortable they could find a way to shift expenses from one time period to another to make everything work.
Dave Buermeyer led a discussion of changing LHCC’s water conservation rules, but most of that discussion focused on eliminating the single word “services” from a motion actually made by Jo-anne Barnard. Barnard was concerned about expressing positive comments about Aqua Virginia’s services when there have been so many complaints from Lake Holiday homeowners that Aqua Virginia’s service is “not at an acceptable level.” Buermeyer lost control of his own topic, and in the end, voted against the resolution he presented. John Martel seemed to have no idea what he just voted on, since he voted against Buermeyer’s resolution but said that he wanted the resolution to pass. Maybe that one word “services” was the glue that held everything together. Maybe some would pout and block their own ideas if they couldn’t have it their own way.
The Middleton story that we previously covered has recorded a new chapter, after he put “No Trespassing” signs on his property. Wayne Poyer vowed to “do it much more crisply than we did the last one.”
Serious Compl Violations
Construction Guidelines
Mar 08 FYI
Guard Rails Again Pt 1
Non-native Fish
Mar 08 Treas Rpt
Breaking The Rules Pt 1
Bd Vacancy The Sequel
Mar 08 GM Rpt Pt 1
We’ve also added a link on our sidebar to SchoolMatters, a Standard & Poors website with test scores, demographics, district finances, parent reviews, and other information on schools nationwide. It’s easy to compare schools. Our link is for Frederick County, VA schools. Check it out.
Filed Under: Board Conduct, Board Meeting Tagged With: Buermeyer, Juan-Cardenas, Martel, Masters, Middleton, Mike-Sweeney, Pat-Shields, Poyer, Ray-Sohl, Rees-Broome, Rick-Bleck, Robin-Pedlar, Zeb-Brevard
Silent Sitters Face The YouTube Era
March 12, 2008 By LakeHolidayNews 2 Comments
One of the hot issues at the February 25th board meeting was videotaping board meetings. In fact, the issue made it on to the agenda for that meeting. However, when the board reviewed changes to that agenda, the videotaping topic wasn’t changed or dropped. It was just silently skipped during the meeting.
If the board wasn’t prepared to discuss videotaping, homeowner John Platt certainly was. Platt gave a nearly 10 minute presentation on the perils of videotaping that ranged from behavioral control to breaching personal security and identity theft. We can sum up Platt’s message in 2 words: stop videotaping.
Videotaping open meetings fosters good governance. Governance at Lake Holiday extends to committees and task forces, which are the principal advisors to the board. Together, the board, committees, and task forces make decisions that affect about 2700 lots and approximately $210 million of property value (based on February 2008 Frederick County tax valuations). The board, along with committee and task force members, opted to take on the responsibility of governing their community. That authority comes – and should come – with scrutiny.
Videotaping also helps to address something that LHCC Treasurer John Martel acknowledged:
We also have a lot of baggage that we have to overcome.
Homeowner Bill Masters records the meetings. Both Wayne Poyer and GM Ray Sohl have publicly acknowledged that Masters has a right to make these recordings. In fact, at the December 27th meeting, LHCC’s directors briefly discussed recording board meetings on their own.
Getting videos on the web quickly takes some work. To further his goal of fostering open governance, Masters gives the raw video tapes to us to take the most relevant or interesting portions of these meetings and get them on the web as quickly as possible. In many instances, we have video clips of important discussions available on YouTube before LHCC releases a written synopsis of what took place at a meeting. Anyone, including LHCC itself, is free to embed the codes to display any of these videos on a website. The videos are provided at no cost.
Some LHCC directors complain that we edit videos or provide clips that are not representative of what took place. That’s trying to bundle an obviously true statement with a crazy one, hoping that people can’t tell the difference between the two. A typical board meeting takes place over several hours, and the clips we make are no more than 10 minutes long. We don’t set or control this limit; it’s set by third-party video sharing services. It’s self-evident that we edit them. That much is true. In every case where we make an edit, we insert a clearly visible transition effect. If you don’t see a clearly visible transition effect, the video you see is an unmodified video stream.
The claim that something is unrepresentative or taken out of context is the crazy part. Lake Holiday’s board meetings are divided into tabs, as the agenda for the 2/25 meeting demonstrates. These tabs are discrete topics that often have little to do with one another. For example, on the 2/25 agenda, Tab 14 involves a roughly 3 minute discussion about selling a 1991 Ford pickup for $150. The very next tab is a roughly 26 minute discussion of a policy to fill board vacancies. One does not need the context of the old truck sale to understand a policy on filling board vacancies.
The videos we present are clips from a larger meeting. Given that the videos are made available at no charge, technological and practical considerations make it impossible to deliver a 3 hour watch-on-demand meeting video in rural Virginia. YouTube, backed by the multi-billion dollar resources of Google, doesn’t do it. Hollywood movie studios don’t do it. Those that attribute sinister motives to Masters or us for failing to deliver community association videos in their entirety for free display their technical ignorance. Maybe their motives are on display as well.
Dividing meetings into clips allows a viewer to watch what he wants, when he wants. We are not extracting unrepresentative comments from the video when there were opposite or contradictory comments readily available. When we quote John Martel as saying that “we also have a lot of baggage that we have to overcome,” he did not contradict this assertion before or after making that remark. In fact, after Pat Shields expressed an opposing point of view, Martel repeated his position more firmly and succinctly: “Lake Holiday has baggage.”
There are a lot of benefits to providing videos on the web. The majority of Lake Holiday owners do not live at Lake Holiday, so internet-hosted videos enable more owners to observe how their community is governed. Very few owners actually attend meetings, and those that do typically do not stay for the entire meeting. We’ve uploaded more than 100 videos to YouTube, and these videos have been watched over 4000 times. That’s roughly the equivalent of 40 people attending 45 minutes or more of every board meeting for a year. Since board meetings frequently draw no attendees outside open forum, videos create community involvement.
Many of our videos are informative, such as our series on the dam or the maintenance building (Dam Pt 1, Dam Pt 2, Dam Pt 3, Maint Bldg Pt 1, Maint Bldg Pt 2, and Maint Bldg Pt 3) available by clicking the nearby thumbnail or visiting our Videos page). Most videos show LHCC’s directors conducting routine business, such as reviewing the Treasurer’s Report or the GM’s Management Report. Unfortunately, too many videos show the board engaging in what we believe is inappropriate behavior or making a bad decision. A dramatic example of this is the Keep It Over Here Punk video, featuring the antics of director Steve Locke and Bob Fraser. In all cases, owners get to watch their board in action and form their own opinions. If board members find that their conduct appears unflattering when watched on video, the proper course is not to try to pull the plug on videotaping; the proper course is to change that conduct.
As a result of watching board videos, we’ve observed too many board members sitting in silence and then unanimously rubber-stamping a motion or resolution. Typically, we’ve given our Silent Sitter award to a director that we thought was especially passive. During the February meeting, directors Noel O’Brien and Robin Pedlar said very little. However, Noel O’Brien made a strong statement in favor of installing guard rails on West Masters Drive without delay. In light of the recent serious accident on that road, O’Brien is on the right track. Pedlar also voted against the recently adopted policy on filing board vacancies, an unnecessarily cumbersome procedure. These are positive steps, but we think they need to do more. Perhaps some directors are realizing that passivity is not such a good thing after all. Sorry, Robin and Noel. No award for you this month.
We’ve never given an officer our Silent Sitter award. In award terms, LHCC’s officers get off easy, since several have regular responsibilities at monthly meetings that force them to speak up. Sometimes, in the course of that speaking up, officers say things that hurt Lake Holiday. At the February 25th meeting Wayne Poyer complimented John Platt on his “excellent presentation” focused on putting an end to videotaping. Poyer offered this praise despite Poyer’s numerous acknowledgements of Masters’ right to make those recordings. We certainly support Poyer’s allowing Platt the time to make his point. But fueling Platt’s views, especially since they are contrary to opinions that Poyer has expressed, only increases political divisions at Lake Holiday. Poyer should have firmly conveyed that open governance, however uncomfortable it may be at times, is a good thing, and that it is supported by the LHCC board.
For keeping silent on this point, Wayne Poyer is our Silent Sitter for the February 25th board meeting. Congratulations, Wayne! You’re a Silent Sitter!
Making videos of public meetings is an issue that has been closely analyzed outside of Lake Holiday. In March of 2007, the New Jersey Supreme Court decided a case that raised issues similar to those in the discussion of videotaping at Lake Holiday. In the NJ Supreme Court case, Robert Wayne Tarus, a 15 year resident of the Borough of Pine Hill, was blocked from videotaping public meetings. Tarus was a frequent critic of the Borough Council. The court decision referred to remarks the mayor made to a local paper about Tarus: “If he was a decent resident, we would have no problem.”
The court also discussed the Borough’s concerns about how Tarus would use or edit the videos he made:
Finally, during oral argument before this Court, defense counsel for the Borough explained that a primary concern expressed by Council members was that ‘this political opponent . . . was going to take tapes and take them back to his basement and edit them around and turn us all into monsters.’ Thus, by their own admissions, when they blocked plaintiff from videotaping the meetings, the Mayor and Council acted on an impetus that found its genesis, to some degree, in animus against the plaintiff. In that context, we find those actions to be arbitrary and unreasonable.
The concerns that the Borough expressed against Tarus are nearly identical to those that LHCC board members have expressed about Masters’ recording the meetings and our editing the videotapes.
Tarus won his case, and the NJ Supreme Court ruled:
The law has embraced the undeniable fact that modern electronic devices are silent observers of history. These legal foundations support a finding that there is a common law right to videotape.
The NJ case also addressed the concerns expressed by John Platt that videotaping has a negative impact on other meeting attendees:
Video cameras and recorders have become a commonplace item in our every day life. They are a common security device and confront us at the bank, in stores and even in apartment houses. Exposure to video recording of all of us is a normal occurrence on the streets and in public gatherings such as athletic contests and sporting events where participants and spectators are under constant television surveillance. Such exposure is actively sought by all those running for public office in order to place their image and their ideas before the voters. … Today, hand-held video cameras are everywhere — attached to our computers, a common feature in consumer still-shot cameras, and even built into recent generations of mobile telephones. The broad and pervasive use of video cameras at public events evidences a societal acceptance of their use in public fora. … So too, we are not persuaded by fears that the use of video cameras in non-judicial settings will generate intimidation and harassment. … Trepidation over the effect of video cameras in public meetings is overstated. The prevalence of video cameras in society and the open nature of public meetings militate against such hyperbolic concerns. Although some citizens may be fearful of video cameras, we find that consideration insufficient to deny the right to videotape. … The legal foundations described above, with roots wide and deep, offer a glimpse into our evolved understanding of the right of public access and support our finding that there is a common law right to videotape.
Writing for a unanimous NJ Supreme Court, Chief Justice Zazzali referred to the ideas of Jeremy Bentham, Patrick Henry, and James Madison, offering these powerful words:
In short, our civic forefathers have long recognized that spores of corruption cannot survive the light of public scrutiny. … Openness is a hallmark of democracy — a sacred maxim of our government — and video is but a modern instrument in that evolving pursuit. … Arbitrary rules that curb the openness of a public meeting are barricades against effective democracy. The use of modern technology to record and review the activities of public bodies should marshal pride in our open system of government, not muster suspicion against citizens who conduct the recording.
Perhaps Poyer was less than firm in sending that message because openness and hallmarks of democracy do not really enjoy the support of LHCC’s board. Perhaps the disappearing agenda item on videotaping will resurface, and LHCC will seek to block such recording by a policy resolution. We hope not. Whatever happens, watch it play out on YouTube.
Filed Under: Board Conduct, Board Meeting, Silent Sitter Tagged With: John Platt, Locke, Martel, Masters, Noel-OBrien, Pat-Shields, Poyer, Ray-Sohl, Robin-Pedlar
The Denial Game
March 2, 2008 By LakeHolidayNews Leave a Comment
We previously wrote about the near-scuffles at the February 23rd Round Table. There’s a discussion of these shouting matches on Bill Master’s website, The Summit Advisor. One of the multiple posters in that thread uses the anonymous ID Guest47.
Guest47’s posts aren’t accurate on the basic facts of what took place at the Round Table. Fraser was not “countering Master’s allegation that the board and committees engage in secret meetings” on the clip, as the poster contended. Fraser’s first outburst occurred after Steve Locke attempted to ask audience-member Masters a few questions in what looked like a scripted event. Fraser’s second outburst occurred after the meeting had concluded. Both of these facts are clear on the video. At one point, Masters did ask a question – not make an allegation – about his concerns that the board was having private discussions, but this question and the response concluded without incident – almost 1 hour after Fraser’s first outburst. Since Guest47 can’t even get basic facts straight, we’re not going to devote a lot of energy to unscrambling his post.
Bill Adams confessed to us that he regularly posted on Master’s website under this exact same anonymous ID, Guest47. The combination of these posts and Adams’ position in the community (he’s Chair of the Buildings and Grounds Committee and serves on the Activities Committee) prompted us to reflect on Adams’ conduct and prior writings.
There is a larger point in scrutinizing the opinions of these individuals, and it’s a point with which the Lake Holiday community desperately needs to come to grips. Lake Holiday has a widespread problem, and it is so damaging the community that if it’s not fixed, it will destroy it. What is it? A lot of people are playing a game of denial.
In his posts, Guest47 complained that Masters is a “constant nuisance” and has a website that serves “the lowest level of intellect whose purpose is to provoke others….” – and then he proceeded to praise Fraser’s conduct. Every reasonable person who watches the Keep It Over Here Punk video (also on our Videos page) will say that the behavior of Locke and Fraser was designed to provoke. But Guest47 denies this reality.
For a period of time Bill Masters allowed Bill Adams to serve as the editor of The Summit Advisor, and as Adams himself stated in October 2005, he wrote “most of the Advisors’ articles.” In that capacity Bill Adams often was highly critical of the conduct of LHCC’s board. Here are a few highlights.
In July 2006 Adams wrote:
Leadership at Lake Holiday has a history of bad decisions.
He went on to list a dozen bad decisions to support his point “in hopes of awaking some determination for improvement.” We calculate that the cost of these bad decisions exceeds millions of dollars.
Just a short time later, we distributed a petition for a special meeting to remove the majority of LHCC’s board, and Bill Adams signed this petition calling for the removal of then President Chris Allison. He added the notation on our form: “Regretably [sic], this action is necessary.” Regarding our petition Bill Adams wrote:
The petition itself does not seek to grant water & sewer expansion to Oqunquit lots at community expense as has been suggested. … The sentiment of the Board and its defendants is that the Ogunquit proposed replacements are pro-expansion and willing to commit community funds ($M’s) to that cause. We do not believe that to be an accurate assessment. While we cannot speak for the individuals (nor should the board) we believe their interest is more toward fixing some inherent problems with the board itself.
Adams supported fixing “inherent problems with board itself.” He saw residents facing a “disproportionate share” of expenses. He continued:
In any new development the Developer would incur the total costs of such amenities (along with roads and infrastructure) and would recover the expense via the sale of lots. Amenities are normally employed to attract buyers to the development. Instead, we the residents are contributing a disproportionate share to these capital improvements such as the clubhouse, gatehouse and bus stop. Ever get the feeling that…(never mind).
The unfinished thought from a person who otherwise has no problem expressing himself is denial taking over. Adams also took up the issue of the Utility sale. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of LHEUC’s assets was in the form of a contingent note stretching out 15 years. Of this contingent stream of payments from Aqua Virginia, Adams wrote:
…the 15 yearly payments of $78k are contingent on an aggressive new connection quota! In a declining housing market, we can probably kiss that $1.17M goodbye. We understand that interim hookup fees are also deducted from the $800k. At $8686* each, if 92 lots are connected, the utility company is a give-away. Free! Some deal!
Both we and Bill Masters have been critical of the collectibility of the contingent payment stream from Aqua and that LHEUC was sold too cheaply. As far back as August 2006, Adams expressed the same criticism – describing it sarcastically as “some deal!” Adams largely stopped his public efforts to foster change; we and Masters have not stopped such efforts because the governance problems that underlie these events remain unfixed. The fix for those unable to face reality: deny the validity of Masters’ points and label him a “constant nuisance.”
In October 2005, after the Court granted our petition to block LHCC from voting its own lots in elections, Adams wrote:
As hopes of passing the documents erodes, the board may be scrambling for ways to keep it alive. One hope may have been the 223 lot votes denied by the court. Was the board intending to use them to pass the documents? We may never know. Another hope might have been that a fair portion of the population would vote for the new documents. Receipt of mail-in votes may have dashed that hope as well. Nobody who I talked to is supporting the documents. With imminent failure at hand, the cancellation of the vote may have been to [sic] only alternative to a major embarrassment.
Adams’ statement that “we may never know” if the Board was intending to vote LHCC-owned lots is more of the denial game. LHCC’s board passed Resolution 2004-8 expressing its intentions in writing. We were not in Court on this issue based on speculation but rather on published statements. Hiding behind vague and inaccurate words is denial. Facing “imminent failure” LHCC canceled the September 2005 vote on new governing documents. Adams continued his criticism of these proposed documents, which he felt were:
…verbose and convoluted rules intended to keep lawyers employed. We could actually go out and enjoy the lake and amenities without worry that we would lose our rights. God forbid we ever need legal interpretation of existing rules like “no clotheslines”. Instead the misery lives on – Postponed until another angle can be contrived.
By May 2006 when substantially the same governing documents re-surfaced for a vote that June, Adams forgot about the “misery” and gave the documents back-handed praise, claiming they were:
more readable than earlier versions, with a nice cover page, uniform margins and paragraph numbering. … Many comparative reviews are possible, e.g.; with the existing documents, with the 40 “Recommended Changes”, and between versions on the revised documents. The feasibility and value of such comparisons is questionable, given the complexity and time frames.
Translation of Adams’ gibberish: The documents look pretty, they’re hard to understand, time is short, but I just can’t bring myself to tell you to approve them. When you have to resort to praising the deed to your property – perhaps your most valuable investment – because it has a nice cover page and uniform margins, you are in denial. Fortunately, thanks in large part to Bill Masters’ efforts to inform the community, approval of these new governing documents failed by a wide margin. To those denial gamers who claim that we are an unpopular lone wolf, pause and reflect: nearly 2 out of every 3 voters who voted against these documents joined with us and voted “No” by our proxy.
At the same time in a post entitled A Development Diary, Adams offered sharp criticism for recent board actions:
Adopting Goldberg’s rules, any unchallenged presidential motion automatically becomes a unanimous board resolution. Totalitarian Democracy is invented. Fearing litigation, the Board refunds all builder conformance fines imposed by the Architectural Committee. A revised Enforcement Guideline is created detailing every conceivable construction infraction and remedy. An ex-board president (who signed the Development Agreement) and a favored Builder are installed by the Board on the Architectural Committee without customary apprenticeship. The third Construction Supervisor and ArchComm liaison in a year quits along with a long standing ArchComm member.
”Totalitarian Democracy.” Those are very strong words to describe a community association. Despite those strong feelings, Adams could not muster the courage to explain that he was the “long standing ArchComm member” who quit over the problems he described. When you distance yourself from your own first-hand experiences, you are in denial.
Like Adams, we’ve been critical of the adoption of Goldberg’s Rules of order. But our website is labeled a “hate site.” People that play the denial game often lash out at those who challenge them to face reality.
Unfortunately, these examples of denial are not limited to Adams. In August 2006 Miller & Smith sent a letter to all property owners, stating in part, “Yes, we have special privileges….” (Our own reply has been posted here for everyone to see since that same time. For another twist on the denial game, review our comments on free water & sewer. As recently as the Saturday 2/23 Round Table, Wayne Poyer was still repeating the free water & sewer lie.) At around the same time former LHCC President Lou Einstman was allowed to post his own answer to Miller & Smith on the front page of The Summit Advisor:
When I left the Board in 2004, there was almost two million dollars in the bank. Today, the treasurer is predicting that we will be broke by September if we can’t get a loan or a line of credit. Where did all that money go? Maybe the changes that Heisey and Allison made in the way business is conducted weren’t so good for the community after all.
Einstman regularly attends board meetings, so he’s in a position to observe board conduct first-hand. On the responsibility of being a board member, Einstman wrote:
This isn’t a social position! Some of the present Board members seem to think that all they have to do is show up for the meetings. They don’t do their homework. They don’t understand the issues nor do they know how they want to vote on them. This irresponsible attitude is very discouraging.
Others have been similarly critical of board conduct. Former LHCC employee LeeAnn Stevens revealed that board members came to her asking for explanations of what went on in the boardroom or complaining that actions were taken without discussion. Both Einstman’s and Stevens’ sharp words parallel the criticism that both we and Masters have leveled at the board.
Our Silent Sitter award is certainly more colorful, but it is a legitimate attempt to draw attention to the very same problem that caught Einstman’s attention over 1 year earlier – but remains unaddressed. To those put off by our Silent Sitter award, take note: Einstman’s modest caution failed to correct the problem. In the spring of 2007, months before introducing the Silent Sitter award, we called Lou Einstman and asked to meet to discuss solutions to these and other problems. He declined our request. Instead of acknowledging our shared observation, Einstman’s response is to tell the critics to stop complaining and “get out.”
We’ve documented that Einstman supported the election of Rick Bleck, who did not meet the 1 year ownership requirement for nomination set forth in LHCC’s bylaws and was invisible on the campaign trail but was elected anyway. Bleck said very little while he was on the board, and what little he did say qualifies as T-shirt quote material. Promoting the election of people who “don’t understand the issues” when you’ve criticized that behavior as “irresponsible” is just part of the effort to conceal and deny legitimate problems.
Einstman was critical of the Heisey and Allison years but has supported Wayne Poyer’s leadership. Is it because Einstman was on the outside looking in during Allison’s tenure, and Poyer gives him special treatment? Watch the video below of audience member Einstman walking up to board member Robin Pedlar and carrying on a conversation while the board is conducting business. Watch the heads of most board members turn down to ignore Einstman’s inappropriate behavior, and Martel completely disregard what is taking place right next to him. Ask yourself if Wayne Poyer would have been that slow to react if Bill Masters had engaged in that conduct, or if Poyer would have responded in such a polite and restrained manner. Einstman plays the denial game for a simple reason: he’s now getting the insider perk of favorable treatment not afforded others.
Over and over again, it’s the same thing. At the January 26th board meeting, Treasurer John Martel was skeptical of spending $4650 for an automated device to measure the level of the lake. Our video Lake Level Pt 1 (also on our Videos page) makes this clear. At the February 23rd Round Table, a question from Bill Masters which expressed similar skepticism and proposed an alternative solution, was met with mocking giggles incited by Wayne Poyer and a sarcastic comment from Martel. We’re not aware of any proof to support Wayne Poyer’s claim that an automatic lake level monitoring system is required by the state for dam certification, and we doubt any board member had such proof before voting to approve this expenditure. We challenge them to produce such proof. Mocking Masters and others is the denial gamers trying to turn the tables on critics so they can continue playing their game.
In August 2006, “guest #47” offered these comments on The Summit Advisor:
In defense of Bill Masters; Bill is a persistent advocate of frugal spending and accountability. As many know, he is not afraid to publicly challenge those in authority if they are not perceived to be acting in the community interest. Admittedly, Bill can become cantankerous when his questions and comments are evaded or dismissed. What he lacks in tact he makes up for with determination. To directors and proselyte with provincial follow-the-leader mentality he is a nuisance to be discredited and avoided. For those unaware, the brief utility board tenure involved his criticism of the unnecessary and expensive planned replacement of manholes, and the awarding of contracts to a friend of the utility board president’s without a bidding process. He was disparaged and removed from the utility board. After he left, many of his alternative ideas were adopted with no credit given.
Note the use of the word “nuisance.” Masters is a good kind of nuisance in August 2006, but in February 2008 he’s the bad variety. In the October 2006 election, Masters sought a board seat, seeking to try to remedy the same problems the he and Adams had been describing for years. He lost the election, not because of a failure to capture votes from residents, but because Miller & Smith was allowed to vote about 100 lots in Section 10 that residents had been told could not be voted. In fact, Adams himself wrote about the deed changes Miller & Smith made in July 2006, at about the very same time they were made. Presumably, he knew about the Miller & Smith ballot box deluge that would catch the community by such surprise about 3 months later. Instead of flashing warning signs, he discussed the deed changes in relatively unremarkable terms.
By November 2006, Masters had had enough of Bill Adams’ playing the denial game. Despite being allowed to edit the front page of Masters’ popular website, Adams turned on his neighbor by posting that the 2006 election outcome (which included Masters’ loss) was a vote for the “continued positive agenda” and that following the Annual Meeting, “everyone left happy.” He called the outcome “truly resident driven.” Shortly thereafter, recognizing his role was about to be eliminated, Adams resigned, perhaps hiding out as Guest47 ever since.
The clubhouse renovation was underway by the spring of 2007, and Adams played an important role in reviewing the security system for that project. To his neighbor Masters, Adams privately criticized the handling of the clubhouse security contract but confided that he was unwilling to publicly address his complaints because he did not want to jeopardize his insider involvement. Putting the past behind him and praising Adams’ contributions, Masters tried to coax a public discussion of these issues on The Summit Advisor, but Adams in a rare post under his own name responded that the topic was “not open to public debate.”
Adams, like Einstman and others, could not be weaned from the insider perks, so the denial game continues. The biggest insider perk: playing a role in spending over $2 million of your neighbor’s money every year. Plain and simple, it’s a power trip. It’s empowering to have the power to make expenditures and meet with professionals (e. g., high-priced lawyers and accountants) one otherwise would not be able to make or meet on one’s own, and especially so for those without the every-day responsibility of a job (Adams, for example, is a retiree). Loss of involvement is one price to pay for speaking up, and that’s a big force driving the denial game. In our Maint Bldg Pt 1-3 videos (you guessed it, they’re also on our Videos page), director Pat Shields said he would consult with Adams and Bob Fraser, one of the stars of Keep It Over Here Punk video, on this project. He didn’t say a word about consulting with Bill Masters.
Maint Bldg Pt 1
Dr. Sanity, an MD and popular blogger who applies psychiatry to broader social observations, has written about people that are in denial:
When confronted, they become angry and usually contend that it is their confronter who has the REAL problem, not them.
Attacking us and Masters for making the exact same criticism that they have made is just the denial gamers attacking their confronter. We’ll anticipate one criticism to this post from the denial gamers, that it’s a personal attack. It’s not. All of our comments are focused on the political opinions and conduct of people engaged in governing their community or who are openly discussing their community’s governance. That makes their conduct and their opinions legitimate topics for public discussion and debate.
Guest47 criticized those who “anonymously attack and vilify people such as Poyer, Allison and Fraser.” Yet Guest47 hides behind an anonymous ID and attacks us and Masters. We make every post here, and make no secret of who we are and that the opinions expressed in these posts are ours. The absurdity of Guest47 criticizing anonymous attacks while he launches his own is self-evident. Guest47’s hypocrisy takes on a pathetic quality.
Dr. Sanity has also discussed denial as a “defense mechanism” that is “almost always pathological….” and set forth the factors that define a pathological defense:
the defense is used in a rigid, inflexible, and exclusive manner
the motivation for using the defense comes more from past needs than present or future reality
the defense severely distorts the present situation
use of the defense leads to significant problems in relationships, functioning, and enjoyment of life
use of the defense impedes or distorts emotions and feelings, instead of rechanneling them effectively
Judge for yourself how accurately the attack-the-confronter response and the characteristics of a pathological defense apply to Lake Holiday politics.
The denial game costs the Lake Holiday community dearly. Thousands of lives have been affected. Tens of millions of dollars of Membership Lot property values have been destroyed. People have been obstructed from enjoying their property for over 30 years. The obstruction has lasted so long that victims have died without ever getting a remedy. That these serious problems have been unaddressed for so long is a mark of shame for Frederick County and the state of Virginia. The governance problems that Adams and Einstman complained about are still unresolved. They’re the exact same problems that Masters has complained about and the exact same problems that we’ve complained about.
Instead of fixing these problems, the denial gamers say our blog is a “hate site” and Masters “cannot accept any ideas which are not his own.” The denial game continues, the problems thrive. As do the websites that seek to address the problems that have plagued Lake Holiday for decades.
Filed Under: 10/06 Election, 10/07 Election, Board Conduct, Board Meeting, Finances, Governing Docs, Silent Sitter Tagged With: Adams, Allison, Einstman, Fraser, LeeAnn-Stevens, Martel, Masters, Pat-Shields, Poyer, Rick-Bleck, Robin-Pedlar
Keep It Over Here Punk
February 28, 2008 By LakeHolidayNews Leave a Comment
Lake Holiday’s board held a Round Table on Saturday, February 23rd to give property owners a chance to ask questions and receive answers from board members and the GM. All but two board members (Jo-anne Barnard and Suzy Marcus) attended, along with GM Ray Sohl. Wayne Poyer answered most questions, including those questions posed to other directors. Steve Locke, Noel O’Brien, and Robin Pedlar didn’t answer a single question. One wonders why Wayne Poyer didn’t let these directors contribute at all during more than a 2 hour informal question-and-answer session. After all, every board member was asked to attend, and the purpose was to give owners the opportunity to ask questions of the entire board, not Wayne Poyer exclusively.
As he promised on his website, Bill Masters attended the meeting and waited his turn to ask questions of the board. On a number of occasions, Round Table audience members attempted to upend the purpose of the meeting and direct questions to Masters. At one point even board member Steve Locke engaged in this. The result: several fights nearly broke out.
Three of these near-fights are combined on the above clip. The first involved resident Bob Fraser yelling at an innocent and uninvolved camera operator to “keep it over here punk” to capture his rant. This was provoked by Locke’s turning the purpose of the meeting on its head and directing questions to Masters, who was the only audience member that either the board or other attendees wanted to question. Masters was singled out.
A short time later, the question-answer format got back on track. Masters directed a question to Treasurer John Martel, but, instead of getting an answer from Martel, Poyer decided to answer the question for him. Masters complained. Evidently, director Steve Locke was still fuming from his perception that Masters didn’t answer his questions. Locke moved so aggressively toward Masters that he had to be restrained by his wife and ordered by Wayne Poyer to return to his seat.
The third incident came as the meeting was breaking up. Fraser, apparently not content with one YouTube moment, wanted a little more camera time. After getting up and walking toward the exit, he reversed direction, moving aggressively toward the camera operator he previously called a “punk.” That forced Masters to put himself between an obviously irate Fraser and his target, if only to delay Fraser to give him a chance to cool down.
Fortunately, these almost-altercations remained just that, and no real fights broke out. We’ll state the obvious: violence and suggestions of violence, including the intimidation shown on the video, have no proper place, and certainly not at a Saturday morning community meeting over coffee and donuts. Steve Locke and Bob Fraser owe Masters, all attendees, and every owner an apology for their behavior. If you can’t behave in public, stay home.
Bob Fraser and threatening language have crossed paths before. In June of 2006, a homeowner circulated an email with information about a recent post on this website. Bob Fraser’s reply? He started with profanity and ended with “I’ll get even.” (Click on the image to read his exact words, which contains the profanity unedited.) Former LHCC President and current Architectural Committee Chair Lou Einstman, one of the email recipients, didn’t like Fraser’s tirade, and he told him just that.
Fraser wasn’t impressed by Einstman’s principled stand. Fraser’s response to Einstman: “You are a sanctimonious jerk.” At least he replaced the four letter words with longer ones that can be quoted here.
Is it believable that these former adversaries settled their differences and were working together on the oft-cited positive agenda of the board? In October 2007, both Einstman and Fraser put their names on the same Lake Holiday Owners Group postcard (which also bore Fraser’s return address), urging their neighbors to elect the same candidates. The postcard omits all mention of weak minds and sanctimonious jerks.
Was this mailing just an outsider’s attempt to try to create the illusion of political unity at Lake Holiday? Is it credible that Einstman and Fraser got together and chipped in their proportionate cost of this mailing, given the history we’ve reported? Or are people that label others as having weak minds and being sanctimonious jerks united in at least 1 thing – keeping control to themselves?
Filed Under: 10/07 Election, Board Conduct, Board Meeting Tagged With: Adams, Allison, Fraser, Martel, Masters, Poyer, Ray-Sohl, Robin-Pedlar, Suzy-Marcus
A Summit Prophesy
February 8, 2008 By LakeHolidayNews 1 Comment
At the January 26th board meeting, homeowners Terry & LeeAnn Stevens questioned whether board members actually receive communications from property owners. Based on their sharp words for the board and GM Ray Sohl, our use of the word “question” is a dramatic understatement. Judge for yourself in the following video, in which LeeAnn criticized Ray Sohl’s “half-assed responses:”
With the issue of communications to directors fresh in our minds, we decided to take a look back and thumb through a former director’s original board book. It was chock full of numerous goodies, the kind of things that some directors seem to want to hide from members. One document was a prophetic 2001 email from homeowner Bob Pumphrey to then LHCC President Frank Heisey. Pumphrey asked Heisey to “change the management” and stop condoning “violations of state and county laws….” He offered this cautionary warning:
…if these conditions continue, we will have another Summit war in less than five years. This one will be worse than the last as it will be neighbor against neighbor.
Reading Pumphrey’s email triggered another memory: a Frank Heisey soliloquy to the board in which he was critical of a handful of “uncivil property owners.” He claimed to have addressed those he criticized “personally.” We’ve never received any personal communication from Heisey. We checked with Bill Masters, someone we suspect Heisey might label “uncivil.” Nope, Heisey never personally addressed these issues with him either.
Maybe Heisey finally got back to Bob Pumphrey? It’s only been over 6 years.
Filed Under: Board Conduct, Board Meeting Tagged With: Allison, Frank-Heisey, LeeAnn-Stevens, Martel, Masters, Poyer, Ray-Sohl
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From the Archives: Bill Knapps
From the Archives: Bill Knapps From the Archives: Bill Knapps Check out this story on lansingstatejournal.com: http://on.lsj.com/1Lib9p0
Vickki Dozier, Lansing State Journal Published 5:44 p.m. ET June 18, 2015 | Updated 10:20 a.m. ET Aug. 25, 2015
Bill Knapp’s restaurant on US-16 near Frandor golf course on Grand River Avenue, June 15, 1955.(Photo: Lansing State Journal)Buy Photo
Bill Knapp's was the family restaurant that others dreamed of being.
They specialized in foods Americans liked best — steaks, chops, seafood, football lunch boxes, meals in a basket and good old-fashioned chicken and biscuits — at reasonable prices.
Favorites included ham croquettes, potatoes au gratin, bean soup and golden brown melt-in-your-mouth biscuits with honey, served with every meal. They even had lobster tail on the menu.
And then there was that cake. That six-inch, chocolate-on-chocolate celebration cake.
Birthdays were special at Bill Knapp's. You were treated to a chocolate cake while Bing Crosby sang Happy Birthday over the PA system.
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Interior of Bill Knapp's restaurant, June 15, 1955. Lansing State Journal
Exterior of Bill Knapp's restaurant, June 15, 1955. Lansing State Journal
The children's menu at Bill Knapp's. You would order by the animal. Lansing State Journal
The Bill Knapp's menu featured a number of meals in a basket and dinner plates. Lansing State Journal
Bill Knapp's at 3139 E. Grand River in 1957. Courtesy photo/FPLA/CADL
Katie Klein celebrates her ninth birthday in November of 1999 at Bill Knapp's restaurant on West Saginaw. Katie prepares to cut into the celebration cake everyone received on their birthday. Courtesy photo
A new Bill Knapp's restaurant under construction on South Cedar, near the I-96 interchange, Oct. 15, 1992. David Olds/Lansing State Journal
A Bill Knapp's 1948 to 1991 souvenir plate. Courtesy photo/Historical Society of Greater Lansing
They also offered birthday percentage discounts equal to the customer's age.
According to a Lansing State Journal article in 2001, Bill Knapp's customer Duane Hawkins went to the Delta Township location for dinner on his 101st birthday and ordered fish and potatoes - both fried. His bill came to about $7. That meant the meal was free, and the restaurant owed him money.
Knapp's manager Steven Bonham acknowledged that a payout to Hawkins would be forthcoming. They would send Hawkins a check for 1 percent of his bill - 7 cents.
Why a check, instead of a nickel and two pennies out of the register? "We thought he might want to frame it - that he'd get a tickle out of it," Bonham said.
The first Bill Knapp's restaurant in this area opened in June of 1955 on US-16 near Frandor golf course on Grand River Avenue. The New England-style establishment had "ultra modern" furnishings on the inside and seated 150 in three rooms.
Children would order by the animal from the Bill Knapp’s kids menu. (Photo: Lansing State Journal)
An East Lansing location opened in 1966 on East Grand River Avenue. The architecture for the restaurant followed the familiar style of all other Knapp's eateries, simulating a New England Town Hall with interior motif to match.
A third location opened on West Saginaw in May of 1968 and the fourth location opened on South Cedar Street in December of 1992.
Emmalene McConnell, 77, a retired teacher living in Hastings and Longboat Key, Fla., started working at Bill Knapp's after graduating from high school (Grand Ledge) and continued working there while a student at Michigan State University.
She recalls the yellow and white uniform worn by the waitresses and that the food was always great, especially the chocolate cake.
"The cook was Don and he always fixed up something delicious for my boyfriend (now husband) when he came to pick me up," McConnell said. "Also, I interviewed with Bill Knapp himself when I went to apply for the job. All the employees were so friendly and it was a pleasant place to work."
The restaurant was started by Clinton "Bill" Knapp, who had settled in Battle Creek to work at various bakeries, and decided he could produce quality food at good prices and sell it to an enthusiastic public.
He got four investors — Dr. Cliff Brainard, Dr. Richard Stiefel, Wellington Burt and Keith Schroder — to buy into his plan and Bill Knapp's was founded in 1948.
The first Bill Knapp's restaurant opened at Southwest Capital near Columbia in Battle Creek. At its height, there were 69 restaurants and three commissaries — in Battle Creek, Vandalia, Ohio and Sanford, Fla.
The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in May 2002 and closed all 29 of its remaining locations on Aug. 20, 2002. The restaurant had three locations in the Lansing area at that time.
In another LSJ article, Bill Knapp's cited low customer turnout, a failed revitalization effort and the absence of a buyer as reasons for the shutdown.
The chocolate cake still survives. The recipe was sold to Awrey's Bakery of Livonia and the cake, along with other Knapp baked products, can still be found at some local grocery stores
Contact Vickki Dozier at (517) 267-1342 or vdozier@lsj.com. Follow her on Twitter @vickkiD.
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Fire your law firm’s misfits within weeks - ex-John Lewis boss
By Eduardo Reyes
Efforts by law firms to stand out by defining their ‘values’ and purpose commonly fail through lack of management commitment, the former head of customer service at iconic department store chain John Lewis has said.
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Andrew McMillan, former head of customer service, John Lewis
Andrew McMillan, now an independent consultant, believes that ideally a law firm leader will spend up to half of their time on tasks such as looking after the interests of staff and checking clients are properly welcomed at the firm – all the while modelling the behaviour and values expected of fee-earners and staff.
McMillan was keynote speaker at today’s Law Society Law Management Section (LMS) annual conference at Chancery Lane.
He recognised that many LMS delegates had significant demands to meet from their own clients, but warned that ‘anything less than’ 20% of working time spent by leaders on this side of the firm’s activities ‘doesn’t work’. ‘You’ve got to find time to model and lead,’ he urged.
McMillan, whose clients include professional services firms, quoted the Ritz Carlton mantra: staff and guests should feel ‘welcomed, wanted, remembered, cared for’.
This poses a challenge for law firms, which should reassess the balance of traits and skills they look for when recruiting, he suggested. ‘Hire for attitude,’ McMillan advised, alluding to his own experience of customer service: ‘You can’t teach someone to be nice. You can teach them to sell a computer.’
Recruitment energies should therefore focus on bringing people with the right ‘personality’ into the business. If they provide a poor cultural fit for the firm’s values then they should be removed from the firm within six weeks, he said.
This was vital for firms seeking to differentiate themselves, he stressed, adding: ‘Done with enough conviction, a “halo effect” transfers from [your individuals] to the brand.’
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Home Exclusive ETX Capital returns to profit in 2017 with focus on HNW clients
ETX Capital returns to profit in 2017 with focus on HNW clients
Brokers Exclusive October 2, 2018 —by LeapRate Staff 0
LeapRate Exclusive… After posting a loss of £2.7 million in 2016 which was then followed by the departure of longtime CEO Andrew Edwards and the subsequent appointment of Arman Tahmassebi to the company’s top management spot, LeapRate has learned that FCA regulated broker ETX Capital was able to turn things around in 2017, posting a modest profit of £264,000 for the year.
Arman Tahmassebi, ETX Capital
The results, posted by ETX Capital parent company Monecor (London) Limited, indicate that Revenues actually declined by 8.5% from 2016, £31.3 million versus £34.3 million. However the decline was caused mainly by a change in strategy at ETX Capital, which included severe spending cuts and a renewed focus on high net worth clients, and clients with higher levels of trading activity.
The company, despite the drop in Revenues, saw a large jump in Client Assets held, up to £129.6 million as at year-end 2017 – more than double the £58.4 million ETX held at the beginning of the year.
ETX restructured its arrangements with non regulated introducers during the year, such that they no longer receive tail payments. These arrangements were altered to either an upfront payment for the customer introduction, or the IB relationship was simply terminated.
As a result of the company’s aforementioned focus on higher net worth clients, the number of active customers fell by 29% in 2017, but spread-per-customer rose by 24%. Spread revenue represented 67% of overall ETX revenues in 2017, down slightly from 70% in 2016.
Revenue from ‘professional’ customers rose by 28%, from £8.7 million in 2016 to £11.1 million in 2017. Revenues from customer equity trading represents over 50% of this income stream.
Revenue from retail CFD and spread bet customers fell by 23%, from £24.2 million in 2016 to £18.8 million in 2017.
On the expense side, total commission paid to introducing brokers fell 15% from £6.6 million in 2016 to £4.7 million in 2017. Marketing, affiliate and top up bonus expenditure fell 33% from £6.1 million in 2016 to £4.2 million in 2017, as marketing became more focused and promotional offers were scaled back, as we noted above.
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The Financial Services Commission, Mauritius (FSC) and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia) have announced that they have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 08th of June 2018.
The MoU was signed by Mr Harvesh Seegolam, Chief Executive of the FSC and Ms Ksenia Yudaeva, First Deputy Governor of the Bank of Russia at the Presidential Library in Saint Petersburg on the margin of the 27th Annual International Financial Congress which was attended by Governors of Central Banks, Chairmen and Chief Executives of leading regulatory bodies, as well as, key representatives of international standard-setting organisations and other global financial institutions.
The MoU signed between the FSC and the Bank of Russia establishes a mechanism for mutual assistance and facilitating exchange of information between both Authorities. This MoU will also contribute to further promote an efficient collaborative model between both jurisdictions, by inter alia enhancing the supervision of cross-border transactions in the fields of financial markets, insurance and pensions.
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Leading law firm Martineau LLP shortlisted for KnowList Award
Top 150 ranked independent law firm Martineau LLP has been shortlisted for the KnowList “Microsoft Based Project of the Year” award in recognition of its deployment of Windows 7 and Office 2007 supported by Legal Futures Associate Tikit’s award winning TMS and Restyler products.
Prior to this project, Martineau struggled with a mixed environment of Windows XP and Office applications ranging from Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2000 to Outlook 2007. This presented a real challenge when sharing and dealing with documents sent and received by others outside the firm.
In addition Word was locked down and made heavy use of macros for formatting documents, which led to the deskilling of staff and frustration when using the system. Any documents containing different styles or formatting were difficult to deal with and took the support staff longer than necessary when amending or updating.
“Given the challenges presented by our existing IT environment, we were searching for a solution which would ensure fast responsive desktops, allow easier management and updating of documents and provide support staff with necessary level of training so we were less reliant on macros,” said Dean Hill-Jowett, Martineau’s IT director.
“We choose Tikit’s TMS and Restyler products as they provided the tools that we needed to enable efficient deployment and conversion of documents. In addition they allow us to manage and maintain control throughout the document life cycle.”
As a result of the successful deployment, Martineau now enjoys a reliable, stable and flexible system for the production of documents.
“We are delighted Martineau has been shortlisted for this KnowList award,” said Liam Flanagan, innovations director at Tikit. “In undertaking this project, they have been able to embrace the benefits of Windows 7 and Office 2007 and we are pleased that Tikit TMS and Restyler – which also support Office 2010 migrations – have given them the document management and control they were looking for.”
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New Additives Discovered in Cocaine are Concerning, Experts Say
Sara E. Teller — August 6, 2019
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Experts are finding a multitude of dangerous toxins in cocaine that may increase overdose death rates.
While cocaine use is up 47% since its lowest point in 2011, with 2.2% of people over the age of 12 reporting they have snorted or smoked it in the last year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), analysts are warning that they’re discovered new harmful contaminants mixed in with the drug causing leaky blood vessels, organ shutdown, and even death. Cocaine and methamphetamine overdose fatalities in the United States have already tripled in the last five years, according to the CDC, and this may continue to increase given this newfound information.
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar recently said the nation not only has to worry about opioid deaths, which have taken center stage, but those from these two illicit drugs, which have more or less taken a back seat. He said, “We also face other emerging threats, like concerning trends in cocaine and methamphetamine overdoses.”
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Cocaine mixed with fentanyl has been the primary concern, because it has reportedly been linked to the most deaths. However, more obscure, toxic lab-made adulterants have been discovered that are infiltrating the illicit drug market, warn narcotics experts.
“The danger is that we may not see a hidden epidemic starting up until it is too late,” Thom Browne of the Colombo Plan Secretariat, an intergovernmental Asia-Pacific organization, said. “We aren’t testing for these cutting agents, and chronic health problems [they cause] by their nature only appear years later.”
Browne presented his position as part of the new testing data earlier this year at an April overdose meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. He believes that these other contaminants may be contributing – or may soon be contributing – to as many overdose deaths as fentanyl laced cocaine. At the meeting, Browne presented lab findings to show how toxic cutting agents are being more widely distributed in the market, suggesting they are showing up in many different varieties, more forms than even before.
“Samples of heroin and cocaine tested from Vermont, Nevada, and Kentucky in 2016 and 2017 showed traces of additives linked to erratic heartbeats, reduced immune system response, and organ failures,” Browne and drug testing consultant David Martin of JMJ Technologies reported. Brown and his colleagues also discovered “signs of multiple toxic adulterants in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Texas,” they said.
The United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has been issuing warnings regarding cocaine laced with levamisole, a veterinary drug for parasitic worms linked to severe infections, and phenacetin, a banned painkiller linked to cancer and kidney failure for the past decade. Brown believes it’s time to expand this to include the multitude of other toxins.
Michael Lynch, medical director of the Pittsburgh Poison Center, said, “Fentanyl is such an overriding concern right now, due to overdose deaths that looking for the long term signs of adulterants in cocaine that cause chronic illnesses will inevitably not loom as large a concern for understaffed and underbudgeted public health officials.”
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Sara is a credited freelance writer, editor, contributor, and essayist, as well as a novelist and poet with over sixteen years of experience. A seasoned publishing professional, she's worked for newspapers, magazines and book publishers in content digitization, editorial, acquisitions and intellectual property. Sara has been an invited speaker at a Careers in Publishing & Authorship event at Michigan State University and a Reading and Writing Instructor at Sylvan Learning Center. She has an MBA degree with a concentration in Marketing and is currently pursuing an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, concentrating in Substance Abuse and Addictions. Sara is also certified in children's book writing, HTML coding and social media marketing. Her fourth book, Narcissistic Abuse: A Survival Guide was released in December 2017 and is now available on Amazon. For more information, please visit sarateller.com.
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November 20, 2019 Article
Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy Probes Neurodegenerative Disease
Despite decades of research, the molecular mechanisms underlying some of the most severe neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s, remain poorly understood. The progression of these diseases often correlates with the appearance of abnormal aggregations of proteins and lipids in affected brain tissues. There is hope that detailed investigations of these pathological structures might yield new insights into the disease mechanisms. Hence, there is a strong demand for advanced analytical techniques that can probe these structures in intact tissues. Here, we show that stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) microscopy can provide label-free, high-resolution, chemically specific characterization of tissue pathologies associated with neurodegenerative diseases.
Volker Schweikhard , Dr.
Coherent Raman Scattering (CRS)
Brain Tissue
Stimulated Raman Scattering
Vibrational Contrast
Some of the most prevalent neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and Parkinson’s Disease, are characterized by the appearance of localized pathological structures in affected brain tissues and a corresponding progression of increasingly severe neurological symptoms. A common feauture of these tissue pathologies is that they typically involve complex aggregates of aberrantly folded proteins and associated lipid-rich structures [1–4]. Despite decades of intense research, however, the molecular mechanisms of the respective diseases remain incompletely understood and it remains unclear whether the observed tissue pathologies are a cause or consequence of the disease.
Therefore, methods that can provide increasingly detailed biochemical and biophysical characterizations of pathological structures in brain tissues are in high demand. In a recent preprint [4], we demonstrated the potential of Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS) microscopy to provide unique insights into the interplay between pathological Amyloid-β (Aβ) aggregates and relevant lipid species in affected brain tissues from a mouse model of AD. In particular, we demonstrated a two-color SRS procedure that enables a clean, label-free visualization of pathological Aβ aggregates amongst the vast healthy protein content of the brain. Furthermore, SRS spectroscopic imaging allowed a detailed spatially-resolved profiling of brain lipids and demonstrated a clear differential localization of several relevant classes of lipids in healthy and diseased brain structures.
In the following, we provide a concise summary of our results. For further details, feel free to refer to the complete manuscript [4] which is publicly available.
Unlabeled brain slices from mice carrying an amyloid precursor protein and a presenilin 1 mutation that exhibit AD-like pathology [5,6], as well as from healthy control mice, were provided by our collaborators at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, DZNE (Bonn Germany). Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy and stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) was performed using the SP8 CARS microscope from Leica Microsystems with SRS add-on. Additional nonlinear optical signals (2-photon autofluorescence, second-harmonic generation) were acquired in parallel. Figure 1 shows a large-area overview SRS image of the cortex and hippocampus areas and intertwining white matter regions. Here, the distribution of lipids is visualized by SRS signals from the CH2 stretch vibrations at 2850 cm-1. Hence, lipid-rich structures appear bright, such as the white matter bundles of the corpus callosum (CC) and the individual myelinated neurons that are found throughout the cortex (C), whereas structures devoid of lipids, such as neuronal cell nuclei, appear dark. In addition, Figure 1 also shows large numbers of localized lipid-rich structures in the cortex that are only seen in diseased brain slices. In the following, we show that these structures correspond to pathological lipid deposits associated with Amyloid-b plaques.
Figure 1: Label-free, large-scale overview image of a diseased mouse brain slice, acquired using stimulated Raman Scattering microscopy (SRS). SRS contrast at 2850 cm⁻1arises from CH₂ stretch vibrations predominantly found in lipids. Lipid-rich white matter regions (bright regions) and gray matter tissues (darker regions) are visible. C: Cortex; CC: Corpus Callosum; H: Hippocampus; CP: Caudate Putamen Region. Neuronal cell nuclei appear as dark, punctate structures. In addition, lipid-rich pathological structures (lipid deposits associated with Amyloid-β plaques) are seen in the cortex.
In order to study Alzheimer’s pathology without a need for fluorescent labeling, first we devised a two-color SRS prcedure to specifically visualize pathological Aβ aggregates amongst the healthy protein and lipid content of the brain (Figure 2). To do so, we exploited a frequency-shift of the Amide I mode that arises from the misfolding of peptides into a β-sheet configuration, as is the case for the aggregated forms of Aβ peptides. By taking the ratio of the SRS contrast at 1675 cm-1 (peak of the “misfolded” Amide I mode) and 1665 cm-1 (“regular” Amide I mode), we were able to obtain a clean signature of the Aβ aggregates in brain tissues (right panel of Figure 2).
Figure 2: (A) A two-color SRS procedure achieves a clean label-free visualization of pathological Aβ aggregates amongst the healthy protein and lipid content of the brain. (B) Line profile of Aβ signal intensity along the yellow line in the right image.
A combination of this ratiometric Amyloid-β signature with the known contrast from lipids at 2850cm-1 allowed us to study the co-localization behaviour of lipids with pathological Amyloid-β aggregates. As shown in Figure 3, we found that the cores of the Aβ aggregates were consistently surrounded by prominent halo-like arrangements of lipid-rich deposits. Healthy brain slices neither showed Aβ aggregates nor substantial localized lipid deposits throughout the cortex.
Figure 3: High-resolution images of healthy (A) and diseased (B, C) brain slices. Green: CARS, 2850 cm-1 (lipids). Red: SRS, 1675 cm-1 predominantly showing misfolded Aβ. Blue, two-photon-excited autofluorescence. Lipid-rich white-matter bundles from the Corpus Callosum region are seen at the top of the images with the tubular structure of individual myelinated axons resolved. The bottom of the image shows gray-matter tissue of the Cortex with neuronal cell nuclei appearing dark. Areas encircled in magenta show pathological Aβ plaques, surrounded by halo-like, lipid-rich structures (encircled in green).
The observed lipid deposits are morphologically complex, consisting of multiple distinct features ranging in size from a few to ten micrometers. Some of these structures show cell-like appearances, with convex shapes and a round central core containing lower lipid concentrations, resembling a nucleus. Interestingly, earlier studies using fluorescence microscopy have shown that microglia/macrophages can be recruited to Aβ plaques.
The observed association of lipid structures with Aβ aggregates is particularly intriguing, as recent hypotheses suggest that certain classes of lipids may play a role in the progression of AD by affecting the transport of neurotoxic Aβ species within the brain. Therefore, we decided to study the biochemical composition of these lipid deposits in more detail using SRS spectroscopic imaging, also known as hyperspectral SRS imaging. Representative SRS images and spectra are shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4: SRS spectroscopic imaging of brain tissues. Top: Representative images at the given vibrational frequencies. The origin of the respective biochemical contrast is indicated. Bottom: SRS spectra of the regions of interest shown in the 1665 cm-1 image.
The SRS spectra of pathological lipid deposits are shown in green in Figure 4. For comparison, spectra of lipid-rich healthy white matter, protein-rich gray matter, and neuronal nuclei are shown as well. In particular, the fingerprint region (1800-500 cm-1) provides rich spectral content enabling a detailed biochemical characterization of the tissues. Both white matter and pathological lipid structures show high concentrations of unsaturated lipids (1665 cm-1), but very little signs of lipid oxidation (signals from ester groups at 1750 cm-1 are largely absent). Further signatures in the 900-1400 cm-1 range would allow an even more detailed fingerprinting of the lipids, however, this analysis is complicated by the background from protein signals that is also present in this range. Surprisingly, the apparently weak signals in the region around 700 cm-1 again contain significant information on several highly relevant lipid species. This region is examined in detail in Figure 5.
Figure 5: SRS spectroscopic imaging shows a differential localization of certain lipid species to healthy and pathological brain structures. (A) Images of tissue areas featuring healthy white matter (top) and pathological Aβ aggregates (bottom). Images of total lipid content (2850 cm-1) and of the indicated lipid species are shown. (B) Spectra corresponding to the regions of interest highlighted in (A).
Zoomed-in spectra of the 650-790 cm-1 region, depicted in Figure 5, reveal a number of lipid-specific resonances: The sterol ring breathing mode, found at 705 cm-1, reveals that Cholesterol is present in high concentrations in healthy white matter (top of the images) as expected, but does not show much specific localization to Aβ plaque-associated lipid deposits (bottom of images). By contrast, membrane phospholipids, such as Phosphatidylcholine and Sphingomyelin (visualized through a vibration of the choline group at 725 cm-1), are found highly enriched in plaque-associated lipid deposits. Phosphatidylethanolamine (765 cm-1), another prominent lipid in the brain, is found more diffusely throughout the entire tissue region and does not appear to play an obvious role in AD pathology.
Interactions of lipids with pathological Aβ structures are under active investigation for their relevance to AD disease progression. The reason for this activity is because lipids are thought to have the capacity to extract small Aβ oligomers from larger aggregates in a detergent-like fashion, thereby promoting neurotoxicity which is thought to arise exclusively from small Aβ oligomers. Furthermore, an aberrant metabolism or transport of several major lipid classes, including cholesterol, is known to be associated with AD.
Our spectroscopic analysis of lipid deposits in the vicinity of Aβ-plaques reveals a clear differential localization of important lipid species in these pathological structures: Plaque-associated deposits are found to be rich in the membrane lipids phosphatidylcholine and sphingomyelin, but much lower in cholesterol than nearby healthy lipid-rich brain structures. These observations provide important clues as to the source of plaque-associated lipids, suggesting that the membranes of nearby neurites are a more likely source than potential alternative mechanisms associated with an aberrant cholesterol transport. Some of the lipid structures appear to bear a morphological resemblance to microglia/macrophages. Therefore, it will be an interesting future avenue of research to investigate whether the brain’s innate immune system could play a role in recruiting lipid species to sites of neurodegeneration and whether such mechanisms could be exploited to fight the disease.
Taken together, our results highlight the potential of SRS to contribute more broadly to a deeper understanding of neurodegenerative diseases [1–4,7,8]. In the future, we anticipate that the spectroscopic imaging capabilities of SRS will enable similar applications in many areas of the life sciences and medicine. These areas range from fundamental research in cell and tissue biology to preclinical research on disease mechanisms to applications in histopathology and diagnostic imaging as well as the identification of novel biomarkers for a wide range of diseases.
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This building was opened as the headquarters of the National Institute for the Deaf by His Majesty King George VI when HRH the Duke of York on the 11th day of June 1936.
Site: Royal National Institute for the Deaf (1 memorial)
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Vibration Analysis Pinpoints Inadequate Motor Bearing Lubrication
David Stevens, Shell
Tags: bearing lubrication, electric motor lubrication
Rolling element bearings are among the most important components in the vast majority of machines, and exacting demands are made upon their carrying capacity and reliability. The continued research and development of rolling bearing technology has enabled engineers to calculate the life of a bearing with considerable accuracy, thus enabling bearing life and machine service life to be accurately matched.
Unfortunately, it sometimes happens that a bearing does not attain its calculated rating life. There are many reasons for this - heavier loading than had been anticipated, inadequate or unsuitable lubrication, careless handling, ineffective sealing or fits that are too tight causing insufficient internal bearing clearances. Each of these factors produces its own type of damage and leaves its own special imprint on the bearing.
Vibration Analysis Detects Inadequate Lubrication in Fan Bearing
In some cases, it is possible to detect the effect of inadequate lubrication within a rolling element bearing by utilizing vibration analysis as a preventive maintenance tool. This ability to detect lubrication deficiencies with vibration analysis was proven at one facility when a noise was heard in an electric fan motor.
The electric motor is one of six fan motors installed on a cooling tower at a large refinery in England. All six are lubricated with Shell Nerita Grease HV semisynthetic high-speed bearing grease, and are included in the production unit lubrication program.
During the routine scheduled vibration monitoring activity, this electric motor was observed by the condition monitoring operative to be emitting an intermittent high-pitched noise from the nondrive-end (NDE) bearing location, albeit very low in amplitude. Routine overall vibration readings taken throughout the motor exhibited readings below 1 mm/sec rms and were consistent with previous values.
This prompted further “in-field” investigation to determine the location and/or cause of this noise. This investigation was carried out by setting the portable vibration data collector into “analyzer” mode. With the required collection set and frequency max selected, real-time data was obtained from both the NDE and drive-end (DE) motor bearing locations while the motor was at full speed; this data was taken in all three axis (where access permitted).
Examination of the vibration spectrum from the NDE bearing revealed, in the vertical direction, a “haystack” effect in a frequency band between 2 kHz and 3.5 kHz (Figure 1).
Figure 1. Single Spectrum Plot
Much has been written and many projects have been undertaken to determine where a haystack would be evident in terms of frequency band. While it is largely dependent on bearing type, speed, load, etc., this determination seems to be hit and miss, and experience in detection and resolution plays an important role.
Based on the author’s nearly 20 years of experience, this type of spectrum is normally attributed to a reduction in lubrication quality or lubrication effectiveness, resulting in some degree of metal-to-metal contact within the rolling element bearing. If this condition is not resolved, accelerated bearing wear occurs, leading to an increase in operating temperature and ultimately bearing failure.
Once the condition was determined, a given amount of lubricating grease was applied to this bearing. With the vibration data collector still set in analyzer mode, the analysts were able to visually monitor the immediate effect the lubricating grease had on the vibration and this haystack effect.
After the grease was added and had been distributed within the bearing, the live spectra indicated a very slight recurrence of the haystack. It was then decided that a few shots of grease should be applied. The effect was immediately noticeable with a considerable reduction in the vibration haystack (Figure 2), which, after some time, did not return.
Figure 2. Single Spectrum Plot with Reduced High Frequency Vibration
The reason this particular motor showed this symptom is unknown, and the actual severity of the bearing wear/damage is also unknown. Maintenance records show, however, that this motor continued in full service for another five years without the need for bearing replacement. Therefore, it is clear that by locating and correcting this lubrication deficiency, a motor bearing failure due to this condition was prevented.
Mr. Stevens started out in the condition monitoring field in the 1980s and has been fully involved in it ever since. He is a qualified mechanical engineer and a fellow member of the Institution of Diagnostic Engineers (FIDiagE). His past employment has included specialist companies such as AV Technology Ltd, Manchester, England. Mr. Stevens now works as the equipment condition monitoring (ECM) solutions manager for Shell Services, responsible for solution development and support to the European arm of the services business.
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Remains of the Day: Graphic content
By Dan Moren
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Apple’s brought on engineers to help its image(s), the Mac Pro appears to be heading towards the big tech graveyard, and might more targeted ads be in Cupertino’s (and our) future? Viewer discretion is advised for the remainders for Friday, May 31, 2013.
More Details on Apple’s New Orlando ‘GPU Design Center’ (MacRumors)
Apple has reportedly opened an office in Florida focused around developing graphic processors and staffed largely by engineers recruited from AMD (which bought graphics firm ATI in 2006). So much for my hope that we’d see a bigger focus on text adventures on Apple platforms!
Mac Pro Retail Supplies Drying Up Ahead of WWDC (MacTrast)
As we move into the home stretch before Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, supplies of the existing Mac Pro are limited or gone entirely at many major retailers. We have it on good authority that the remaining units will be piled on stage at WWDC so Tim Cook can smash them with a hammer.
RUMOR: Apple Is Considering Launching An Ad Exchange (BusinessInsider)
It’s a rumor, so take it with a grain of salt—oh, and it’s BusinessInsider, so might as well take the whole shaker. But Apple may be following in the footsteps of Facebook and Twitter by launching an advertising exchange, allowing advertisers to specifically target Apple ecosystem users. Now, I’m interested in exchanging my ads … but only for “no ads,” and somehow I think that’s not quite what this means.
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Dan has been writing about all things Apple since 2006, when he first started contributing to the MacUser blog. He's a prolific podcaster and the author of the upcoming sci-fi novel The Aleph Extraction, as well as The Bayern Agenda and The Caledonian Gambit.
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We Aussies love our gardens, whether they're tiny vertical gardens built into urban spaces or great sprawling properties on acres of Australian bushland.
We've found some of the best gardens in the country, from impeccably-designed city gardens to 64-hectare rural masterpieces.
Australian Garden, Cranbourne
Part of the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, the Australian Garden is located in Cranbourne, Victoria - just less than an hour's drive from Melbourne. Set across 15 hectares of land, visitors to this award-winning garden can explore the beauty and diversity of Australian flora in the garden’s arid landscape, dry riverbeds and sculptural elements across water features inspired by Australia’s wetlands. Visitors can also get inspiration for their own gardens here and learn how to use Australian plants in their backyards.
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Towers Road Residence, Melbourne
Designed by Taylor Cullity Leathlean and Wood Marsh Architecture, the gardens in this stunning private residence are a fine example of how to create a green and tranquil oasis within an urban environment. The lush gardens offer a stark contrast to the raw beauty of the house itself, and include a circular fernery, a rear garden filled with seasonal evergreen and deciduous trees, shrubs, perennials, stepping stones and arbours to help navigate your way through each area.
Image source: T.C.L
Wattle Glen, Victoria
Designed by Sam Cox to replicate and mimic the Australian bush landscape, the design of Wattle Garden adheres to principles of naturalism and is filled with traditional natives and indigenous plants. Built at the home of Sam Cox and Lisa Hatfield, this garden has been opened to the public in previous years as an example of how we can adapt our gardens to higher temperatures and reduced rainfall, which seem to have become the new normal.
Image source: Sam Cox
Pocket-sized garden, Surry Hills
Designed by landscape architects Growing Rooms, this living rooms melts into the pocket-sized courtyard through clever planting and natural materials like stone and hardwood timber. Designed for a private client, this garden offers a secluded city escape and plenty of opportunities for entertaining.
Image source: Growing Rooms
Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mt Coot-tha
Founded in 1970 and officially opened in 1976, the 56-hectare botanic gardens are open to the public every day of the year. Key attractions in this vast garden are the Bonsai House, Fern House, Fragrant Plants and Herb Garden and plenty of activities for kids along the Hide 'n' Seek Children's Trail.
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Mayfield, Blue Mountains
Spread across 64 hectares in the beautiful Blue Mountains are the Mayfield Gardens; the largest gardens on this list. Owned by the Hawkins family, the gardens have been opened to the public for everyone to enjoy and share in the family's vision. So large that there are minibuses operating on site, Mayfield hosts several events throughout the year, including a White Party (February 24), Autumn Fest, Spring Festival and a Garden Run.
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Camperdown Commons Urban Farm
Though not technically a garden, this urban farm - opened in 2016 by Pocket City Farms on the formerly abandoned Camperdown Bowling Club - brings a much-needed slice of green to Sydney's industrial inner west. The farm is a community project, where everyone is welcome to volunteer and get their hands dirty, or even take a yoga class. Acre Eatery is located right next door and sources much of its produce from the on-site farm.
Image source: Pocket City Farms
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Everything You Need to Know About the New iPhone
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How does the new iPhone SE stack up?
Apple just announced the launch of its "most powerful 4-inch phone ever", but some aren't so sure the iPhone SE will live up to the hype.
The new model is smaller with all the capabilities of an iPhone 6S, but are fans a bit fatigued by the constant launch of new models, without ironing out the same old creases. (Ahem, storage space and battery life!)
*buys iPhone SE 16GB*
*shoots 5 seconds of 4k video*
*OUT OF STORAGE*
— Owen Williams ?? (@ow) March 21, 2016
IPhone SE. SE stands for Still Expensive ????????????
— Colson Baker (@ahdips) March 21, 2016
So will you be queuing up to purchase the latest and greatest iPhone?
The screen is four inches long with retina display.
The return to a screen that is smaller than the iPhone 6 models (4.7 inches) may be because many of us don't want to cart around a small computer for a phone, including the large Chinese Market, Tech Radar reports.
The iPhone SE will aim to have faster 4G and wifi capabilities.
Storage size
The phone is available in 16GB and 64GB. Same as your iPhone 6.
The camera will be the same quality as the iPhone 6S - 12 megapixels at the back, and 1.2 megapixels on the front. I.e. Clear enough to use in place of a compact mirror while applying your make-up on the train.
The big question wasn't really touched on at the launch. However, TheVerge estimates a 13-hour battery life. This is probably assuming you don't use any of its functions or load it with apps...
It's the lightest iPhone yet at a tiny 113 grams (0.25 pounds).
The iPhone SE will set you back a teeny, tiny $679 (16GB) or $829 (64GB). Admittedly, it's significantly cheaper than the iPhone 6S which sets you back at least $1,079.
What it looks like...
Let's be honest, half of us are going to buy it for this reason anyway! All in all, it looks like an iPhone 5S but with extra colours.
The iPhone SE will come in "space grey", silver, gold and rose gold (pink).
When will it be available?
You can order your iPhone SE from Thursday, March 24.
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Kevin Lavallee has assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer for thyssenkrupp Elevator North America. Lavallee follows Interim CEO, Steve Wedge, who transitions back to his role as Chief Financial Officer.
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Accounting for more than one-third of the group’s total global revenue, North America and its 11,000 employees are a key pillar for thyssenkrupp Elevator.
Lavallee started working within thyssenkrupp Elevator in the early 1990s when he worked for Canada-based Northern Elevator, which was acquired by thyssenkrupp. Between 2000 and 2011, Lavallee served as President for thyssenkrupp Elevator in Canada, Australia and the United States (New England Region), respectively.
After pursuing an opportunity outside the elevator industry, Lavallee returned in 2019 as the Global Head of Field for thyssenkrupp Elevator, where he has field operations oversight over 50,000 employees in 65 countries. Lavallee will continue in this role in addition to his responsibilities as CEO North America.
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The tour departed from the well-known Larco Avenue in Miraflores in towards Mercado 1 of Surquillo. This market has become a point of interest as it is a pantry that has a vast variety of fruits from different regions of the country. We were greeted with natural juices of chirimoya and lúcuma, flavours to which our guest foreigners were strangers but to which they immediately enjoyed.
The tour continued to El Olivar forest in San Isidro and then to the pre-Columbian archaeological site of Huaca Pucllana, where we walked through its plazas and pyramids. While the sun was setting, we got back on our bicycles to go to the seafront from where we had a privileged view of the sunset over the Pacific Ocean while enjoying a coffee.
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The Katie Murrell Library, housed in the Holloway Building on the A.P. White Campus in Columbia, is a 24,000 square foot facility that serves the educational and other needs of the college community. Extensive library resources are available to all students via the Katie Murrell Library website. The library provides access to a multimedia collection of 600,000 cataloged titles. This includes 63,000 physical books and AV titles, nearly 500,000 ebooks, and numerous other online resources with literary, scientific, business, statistical, and reference information as well as streaming music and video titles. A juvenile and curriculum collection supports students in the teacher education programs, and a popular materials collection provides access to recreational reading.
The library has 44 public access terminals where students can do research, write papers, complete assignments, and use the Internet. Laser printers and scanners are available all hours the library is open. Students at the A.P. White Campus in Columbia receive a printing allowance each semester that can be used in the library. The library supports and maintains classroom technology at the A.P. White Campus in Columbia.
Library facilities include individual study carrels, group tables, a computer lab, the juvenile/ curriculum collection, a conference room, and group study rooms. Sofas and other casual seating can be found in the New Books and Periodicals areas and in the Thomas D. Clark Reading Room. A wireless network allows Internet access through laptops, tablets, or other mobile devices. Library staff members work to provide support and instruction to students on the use of the A.P. White Campus in Columbia library, its collections, and technology.
The Katie Murrell Library offers:
Periodicals, Magazines, and Full-Text Databases Students may access more than 59,000 magazines, newspapers, and journals in online and print formats. The library incorporates numerous full-text databases into its collection, both specialized and general, through the Kentucky Virtual Library and the Appalachian College Association. Students and faculty members have remote and 24-hour access to significant academic and learning resources. In addition to the databases, there are tailored library subjects guides, created by the library staff, for various areas of study. A full list of these guides can be found on the library's website.
Network, Consortia Affiliations, and Interlibrary Loan Services The library is a member of the Kentucky Library Network and participates in regional networks of libraries under the Kentucky Virtual Library, Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), the Appalachian College Association (ACA), the Association of Independent Kentucky Colleges & Universities (AIKCU), and the Federation of Kentucky Academic Libraries (FoKAL). Under these partnerships, patrons may borrow books and articles from libraries within Kentucky, in the larger region, and around the country. Using an online interlibrary loan system, students may search for and request items from libraries around the nation. A statewide courier system delivers books and articles from libraries within Kentucky twice a week.
Government Documents The Katie Murrell Library is a member of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). It receives selected government documents in print and electronic formats. Using the online catalog, students may access over 47,000 documents and government web sites. These include periodicals, statistics, census data, legislative information, consumer literature, agency directories, government spending data, and research summaries from all branches of the federal government. A guide to these materials can be found on the library's website.
Library Orientation and Instruction Entering students are oriented to the library and to other academic support services during the orientation week Information Fair. The library offers general and specialized instruction to all levels of students through individual assistance, instruction, class visits, and online tutorials. Instructional videos are also available through the library web page and from the online course management system. During their time at Lindsey Wilson College, students work with a professional, student-centered staff to develop their research, knowledge, and information literacy skills.
Community Campus Services The library provides library services to its faculty and students at all of its community campuses. These include substantial online collections, information packets, online training videos, delivery of books and articles, embedded email assistance, and phone access through a toll-free phone number. Library staff provide video conferencing for library instruction and individual consultations and create tutorials customized for distance and online students.
Area Resident Services The library provides measured access to library collections, including the juvenile/curriculum collection, databases, and services for area residents. Visitors may use library computers, printers, and the photocopier, and they may access the campus wireless network. To check items out, area residents must verify their address and also complete and sign an Area Resident Application form.
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For assistance with government documents and government information sources, contact Amelia Thomas at thomasa@lindsey.edu or 270-384-8255.
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) - Your one-stop search engine for government information.
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Audio Visual Media Services
Audio Visual (AV) Media Services offers a variety of technology equipment for academic use. audio visual equipmentThese include but are not limited to a variety of camcorders (flip-cam and hard drive), digital still cameras, LCD projectors, laptop computers, and digital voice recorders, a scanner, Media carts, and screens. We can convert most tape formats to DVDs and can provide delivery and set-up services if scheduled in advance. Limited laptop computers are available to students for in-house use only.
Request forms for AV equipment and services are available in the Murrell Library or through the following links. All requests should be made in a timely manner to allow for AV Media Services staff to process the request.
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For more information, contact AV Media Services at avmedia@lindsey.edu.
The Lindsey Wilson College Archives contains:
Materials on the history of the college (i.e., yearbooks, pictures, newspaper articles).
Materials on the history of The United Methodist Church.
A collection of old Bibles.
An oral history collection about Adair County and LWC.
Special Collections - This area holds an assortment of old and rare books, some of which date back to the 1860s.
The Thomas Clark Room, which was named after the late Kentucky historian, contains a non-circulating collection of books on Kentucky and the Appalachian region and by Kentucky authors.
Digital Library of Appalachia - A selection of items from the LWC Archives can be found on this Web site by searching for "Lindsey Wilson College."
If you have any questions regarding the materials available, please contact the us for more information at library@lindsey.edu or 270-384-8102.
When a professor places materials on reserve, they are located at the Circulation Desk. When asking for materials, please have your professor's last name ready to allow staff to find the material quickly. An LWC Student ID is required to check out reserves. Unless otherwise specified by the professor, materials on reserve ARE NOT allowed to leave the Katie Murrell Library. If a professor places materials on electronic reserve, they will be accessed through Blackboard.
Juvenile Literature and Curriculum Room
The Juvenile Literature and Curriculum Room is set aside for but not limited to education majors. It houses thousands of books that include Newberry and Caldecott winners, graphic novels, young adult novels, curriculum books, manipulatives, musical instruments, and educational games. The library receives books monthly from the Junior Library Guild to be added to this collection.
Books are checked out for a period of three weeks.
Video cassettes, DVDs and CDs are checked out for one week.
Items may be renewed after their due dates. Items DO NOT have to be brought to the Murrell Library to be renewed.
The Murrell Library does not charge a daily overdue fee. However, it bills the LWC Business Office each semester for items not returned by one week after Finals.
Drinks are permitted in secure containers -- i.e. screw-top bottles, sports bottles.
Food is not permitted in the Katie Murrell Library.
All patrons are asked to respect those around by keeping noise levels down. Cell phones should be turned to "Silent" and headphones are to be used at a low volume level.
The Katie Murrell Library is equipped to allow patrons to wirelessly connect to the network.
A limited number of laptops are available for in-house use by LWC students. Laptops may be checked out for four hours and should be returned 10 minutes prior to the library closing.
Study rooms are available on a first-come, first-served basis. (Students are asked not to reserve rooms.)
The Murrell Library does not routinely reserve rooms for groups except under special circumstances.
Preference is given to groups of students. Individuals may use the rooms, but they may be asked to leave if a group needs it.
Instructional Lab Policy
The lab is open for use by students as long as it is not reserved for a class or a training session.
All reservations are listed on the white board next to the door. Please check before you enter.
The printer for the lab is located at the circulation desk.
Computer Etiquette
Library computers are designated for research, learning, and classroom assignments. All uses must fall under the college's "Acceptable Use Policy" published in the LWC Student Handbook. ( Click here to read the LWC Student Handbook.)
If you are engaged in frivolous or excessive personal use of a library computer and another student needs one for research or class assignments, you may be asked to yield to that student.
When using headphones, keep the level down so only you can hear them.
When working at a library computer, please work quietly. Loud laughter, shouting, and even normal conversational levels may be disturbing to others who come to the library for a quiet study setting.
Juvenile & Curriculum Room/Closed Stacks
The Juvenile & Curriculum Room is a special collection, restricted to use by education majors. It contains children's books and curriculum materials. You must sign in when using the room.
Closed Stacks contains back issues of newspapers and magazines. It is restricted to Murrell Library staff. Should you need material from closed stacks, a staff member will retrieve them for you.
At the beginning of every semester, students have $20 in their printing account. Black and white prints cost $.10 per page and color prints are $.20 per page. If a student's account runs out, money can be added to the account by library staff or Students Accounts.
Citations and Plagiarism
Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)
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Information Literacy Tutorials
Online Reference Guides
These pages have been designed to help you get started on your research journey. We have created starting points for different subject areas that will show the best places to start your searching. All of our databases can be accessed off-campus through the proxy server. Log-in to myLWC and go to Library Resources, under Academic Resources, to authenicate.
Community Campuses
The Katie Murrell Library staff helps LWC students at the LWC-Scottsville Campus and at all Community Campuses with reference assistance, the research process and use of library databases.
Kim Hamlett can help locate books and articles for research needs. She can be reached at hamlettk@lindsey.edu or at 270-384-8102.
Scottsville Campus and Community Campus students can use online forms to request assistance or interlibrary loan services. Requested interlibrary loan materials will be mailed to students. More details are available in library information packets given to all new Scottsville Campus and Community Campus students. (Contact the Katie Murrell Library if additional packets are needed.) Details are also posted in the library resources section of Angel.
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Karl Whitney: Hans Jonathan, Runaway Slave
The Man Who Stole Himself: The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan
by Gisli Palsson, translated by Anna Yates.
Chicago, 288 pp., £19, October 2016, 978 0 226 31328 3Show More
“... In the spring of 1801 a young man called Hans Jonathan left the mansion in Copenhagen where he worked as a slave. Going for a walk was allowed: despite his status, he had a degree of autonomy within the walls of the city, then a thriving port with around one hundred thousand inhabitants. But this time he didn’t return. His owner, Henrietta Cathrina Schimmelmann, reported his escape to the police ...”
Kay Demarest’s War
The Other Garden
by Francis Wyndham.
Cape, 106 pp., £9.95, September 1987, 0 224 02475 2Show More
The Engine of Owl-Light
by Sebastian Barry.
Carcanet, 390 pp., £10.95, July 1987, 0 85635 704 9Show More
A Singular Attraction
by Ita Daly.
Cape, 144 pp., £10.95, August 1987, 0 224 02438 8Show More
by Richard Yates.
Methuen, 182 pp., £10.95, July 1987, 0 413 14420 8Show More
by Catharine Arnold.
Hodder, 223 pp., £9.95, July 1987, 0 340 40542 2Show More
“... chieftain, Oliver (the same Oliver, it seems, that the book is dedicated to, so I have to leave him to laugh this out with the author), and in this character he talks beguilingly and not unlike Anna Livia Plurabelle: ‘Moll, your hand is too cold for me shins. Your hand is too cold for all and aught.’ According to the book’s epigraph from Sir Thomas Browne, the considering man ‘may ...”
The First Hundred Years
James Buchan
John Buchan: The Presbyterian Cavalier
by Andrew Lownie.
Constable, 365 pp., £20, July 1995, 0 09 472500 4Show More
“... not, as the family piously hoped, in a Scots Valhalla with Scott and Stevenson (even if a long way downtable), but with two English writers of almost unbelievable crudity, ‘Sapper’ and Dornford Yates. Despite defences of John Buchan by Gertrude Himmelfarb in an essay in Encounter in 1960, and Janet Adam Smith in her biography of 1965, the mud stuck. By the end of the Sixties in England, John ...”
I just let him have his beer
Christopher Tayler: John Williams Made it Work
The Man who Wrote the Perfect Novel: John Williams, ‘Stoner’ and the Writing Life
by Charles Shields.
Texas, 305 pp., £23.99, October 2018, 978 1 4773 1736 5Show More
by John Williams.
NYRB, 144 pp., $14.95, February 2019, 978 1 68137 307 2Show More
“... attention to such things the novel became mildly famous for not being famous. Vintage reissued it in 2003 and NYRB Classics did the same three years later. Then, in 2011, a translation into French by Anna Gavalda, a popular novelist, became a bestseller. Spanish, German and Italian translations also did well, and for five weeks in 2013 Stoner was the bestselling novel in the Netherlands. Vintage’s ...”
For the Sake of the Dollars
Lynne Vallone: The original Siamese twins
Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
by Yunte Huang.
Liveright, 416 pp., £11.99, May, 978 1 63149 545 8Show More
“... chose a surname – Bunker – and set about finding wives. That the twins might marry seemed impossible to everyone apart from the brothers themselves and the local sisters, Sarah and Adelaide Yates, who accepted their proposals – much to the horror of their parents. The two couples were married in April 1843 and returned home, where an extra-wide bed awaited them. The newspapers were filled ...”
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Misdiagnosis of the 'big three' results in 'serious harm'
Written by Lauren Sharkey on July 22, 2019 - Fact checked by Jasmin Collier
Diagnostic mistakes are the most frequent medical error as well as the most serious, according to researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, MD.
New research identifies 15 conditions that doctors often misdiagnose.
It is not clear exactly how many people errors in diagnosis affect.
However, between 40,000 and 80,000 deaths in United States hospitals each year might be related to misdiagnosis, according to a new study.
Misdiagnosis may also play a role in 80,000–160,000 serious cases of harm to people's health each year.
To see which conditions doctors are most likely to misdiagnose and which may lead to death or disability, researchers analyzed over 11,000 cases from an extensive database of U.S. malpractice claims. The findings now appear in the journal Diagnosis.
"We know that diagnostic errors happen across all areas of medicine," explains first study author Dr. David Newman-Toker, Ph.D., director of the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute Center for Diagnostic Excellence.
"There are over 10,000 diseases," he goes on, "each of which can manifest with a variety of symptoms, so it can be daunting to think about how to even begin tackling diagnostic problems."
However, the team's technique aimed to do something different. They classified the conditions according to a standard system, yet the grouping that followed was a new strategy.
"There are dozens of different diagnosis 'codes' that all represent strokes. The same is true for heart attacks and some of the other conditions as well," says Dr. Newman-Toker. "These differences often matter more for treatment than diagnosis."
"To my knowledge," he explains, "grouping these codes together to identify the most common harms from diagnostic error had not been done before, but doing so gives us an 'apples to apples' comparison of the frequency of different diseases causing harms."
The 'big three'
The team saw that a "surprisingly small number of conditions" corresponded to the most significant diagnostic errors.
Three types of condition were responsible for nearly three-quarters of all "serious harm" related to misdiagnosis: infections, cancers, and vascular events. Combined, the researchers call these the "big three."
The scientists studied the severity and frequency of diagnostic errors in these conditions, along with where these faults took place.
Over one-third of the errors leading to death or permanent disability were linked to cancers. This figure reduced to 22% for vascular issues and 13.5% for infections.
Researchers broke down the "big three" into 15 specific conditions, the misdiagnosis of which often resulted in serious harm. Lung cancer, stroke, and sepsis came out on top.
The other 15 conditions included heart attacks, meningitis, pneumonia, blood clots in the legs and lungs, and cancers of the skin, prostate, and breast.
Most errors occurred during an emergency situation or in an outpatient setting. Cancer-related issues tended to occur in the latter location, while vascular and infection issues tended to occur in emergency departments.
"These findings give us a road map for thinking about what kind of problems we need to solve in which clinical settings," notes Dr. Newman-Toker.
The researchers' findings also showed the cause of most misdiagnoses: clinical judgment failures. There are a number of ways to combat this, according to the team, including improving teamwork skills and education, using technology to help with diagnosis, and giving people quicker access to medical specialists.
A funding fix
Dr. Newman-Toker says the findings will not provide "an easy or quick fix, but [they give] us both a place to start and real hope that the problem is fixable."
This fix, he says, will only become a reality if the government allocates enough funding.
"Our current annual federal investment to fix diagnostic errors is less than what we spend each year researching smallpox, a disease eradicated in the U.S. over half a century ago."
"If we devoted appropriate resources to tackling misdiagnosis of the 'big three' diseases we identified, we could potentially save half of the people who die or are permanently disabled from diagnostic errors."
Dr. David Newman-Toker, Ph.D.
Study limitations and future research
However, the analysis did have a few limitations. The researchers remedied two of them — one that suggested a bias toward malpractice claims that are easier to bring forward, such as cancer, and the other being a dismissal of long term conditions that also cause serious harm.
The team corrected these biases by further analyzing previous studies that used data unrelated to malpractice claims.
This strengthened the validity of the "big three" findings but turned the tables to make vascular events and infections the most prominent.
However, they could not fix some of the other limitations. They based their analysis on malpractice cases rather than original medical records, which may have reduced accuracy and may be difficult to apply to the real world, where not all misdiagnoses result in a legal claim.
Future research could rectify this. In fact, Dr. Newman-Toker and his colleagues are planning to continue focusing on misdiagnosis, eventually using a national dataset to estimate how many people in the U.S. diagnostic mistakes detrimentally affect.
Before that, there will be a deeper dive into the "big three." Specifically, the researchers wish to examine the 15 conditions identified in the three categories, as well as how often doctors misdiagnose them.
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MAP#33 – Blood Sisters: Author Sarah Gristwood interview
Written on 8 October 2012 by Archivist in Medieval Podcasts, Podcast
Sarah Gristwood, the acclaimed author, joins us for an interview about her new book Blood Sisters: The Hidden Lives of the Women Behind the Wars of the Roses. Most of the history of the Wars of the Roses is written through the eyes of the kings and men who fought the battles. In Blood Sisters,…
MAP#28 – Dan Snow Interview
Written on 26 March 2012 by Archivist in Podcast
Dan Snow, historian and award winning TV presenter takes a few minutes out of his busy schedule to talk to the Medieval Archives. Trained in the hallowed halls of Oxford University, Dan ventured into TV for a WWII Documentary and hasn’t looked back. His past medieval documentaries explored 1066 and The Battle of Hastings, Norman…
MAP#27 – Battle Castle Interview: Sean F. White
Battle Castle, the outstanding castle documentary series, explores the medieval history of six castles. Today we have an interview with Sean F. White, the Director of Photography for Battle Castle. I talk with Sean about filming the castles and the siege engines in action. We also cover how the re-enactments were filmed. In this episode…
MAP#26 – Battle Castle Interview: Nicole Tomlinson
Written on 5 March 2012 by Archivist in Podcast
Battle Castle, the outstanding castle documentary series, explores the medieval history of six castles. Today we have an interview with Nicole Tomlinson, writer for Battle Castle. I talk to Nicole about writing for the series and how she approached the research process. We also cover how the castles were picked, castles that were left out,…
MAP#24 – Christy English Interview
Written on 2 January 2012 by Archivist in Podcast
It’s 2012! I hope you all had a safe and happy new year. We are kicking off the new year with an interview with Historical Fiction author Christy English. Christy is a writer of historical fiction centering on Eleanor of Aquitaine, Alais of France, and the Plantagenets of the 12th Century. Her latest book is…
MAP#20 – Moat Jumper CD and Interview with Joe Matzzie
Written on 24 October 2011 by Archivist in Podcast
Today we have a review of the debut CD by Moat Jumper, Christmas At The Renaissance Fair. Moat Jumper is a group of World Class musicians that came together for a new collaboration of Medieval and Renaissance Christmas songs. We also talk to musician and producer Joe Matzzie about his background, the forming of the…
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Symptoms In Dementia Patients Negatively Correlates With The Characteristics Of Caregivers
by Medindia Content Team on May 24, 2006 at 2:02 PM Mental Health News
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - According to researchers from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues, symptoms like wandering, hallucinations and restlessness associated with dementia are found to increase if the patients' caregivers are young, less educated, over-burdened or depressed.
'These symptoms are part of the disease and the caregivers aren't causing them, but certain styles of caregiving may bring them out,' said lead author Kaycee Sink, M.D., assistant professor of gerontology at Wake Forest. 'Our study identified characteristics of caregivers that are linked to these difficult behaviors.'
Sink said understanding the link between caregiver characteristics and patient behaviors could lead to more effective treatment. Caregiver education and drug therapy have both proved to be only mildly effective at reducing the symptoms. About 7 million people in the United States have dementia and nearly 100 percent will develop the behavioral symptoms at some point in the illness.
'These results are consistent with the idea that caregiver characteristics, including their emotional state, could contribute to neuropsychiatric (behavioral) symptoms in dementia patients,' said Sink. 'For example, it is possible that caregivers who are burdened may be irritable and demonstrate less patience, which could provoke the symptoms.'
The study, reported in the May issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, involved almost 6,000 patients with dementia, who lived in the community, and their caregivers. Almost half of the caregivers were the patients' spouses, and 31 percent were daughters or daughters-in-law.
The symptoms assessed in the study were: constant restlessness, constant talkativeness, hallucinations, paranoia, episodes of unreasonable anger, combativeness, danger to self, danger to others, destruction of property, repetitive questions, wandering, and waking the caregiver. Behavioral symptoms are the No. 1 reason for nursing home placement among dementia patients, Sink said, because it becomes too difficult to provide care at home.
The researchers examined data on patients and caregivers from the Medicare Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration and Evaluation (MADDE) study, which was designed to reduce burden and depression in caregivers of patients with dementia. For the study, caregivers were interviewed to get information about their age, education, relationship to the patient, etc. Standard tests were used to assess caregiver depression and burden, and caregivers were asked about neuropsychiatric symptoms in the patients.
The researchers adjusted for variables that could have influenced the results - such as patient characteristics and severity of dementia. They also attempted to control for the possibility that caregivers' reports of neuropsychiatric symptoms didn't reflect the actual symptoms, but were influenced by the caregivers' depression, education or other characteristics.
The final analysis revealed that caregivers who were younger, less educated, more depressed, more burdened or who spent more hours per week giving care reported more of the behaviors in patients.
The youngest caregivers reported 50 percent more of the behaviors than the oldest caregivers. Each of the characteristics was independently linked to more behaviors in patients. For example, caregiver age alone, regardless of education or depression, affected the number of symptoms.
Sink said that understanding more about the caregiver-patient relationship may help researchers develop more effective education tools.
'We are not trying to blame caregivers, but to better understand the complex puzzle,' said Sink. 'If we focus only on the patient, we're not going to solve the problem. We need to develop better, non-drug treatments to handle these behaviors, and more tailored caregiver education may be one answer.'
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Five Big Wins for 2016
Last year saw YOUR voices heard after a series of AMAZING achievements by the community campaigns run out of Friends of the Earth Melbourne. These victories don't belong to the strategic outlook of a CEO or board of management, they are not the result of million dollar campaigns, but come from the genuine grassroots and largely volunteer run collectives housed with Friends of the Earth. Our model of equal pay (for our few paid staff), equal say and no bosses that challenges traditional power structures is working, but we need your help to keep it going! Scroll to the bottom to make a donation today!
Let's take a look at the top 5 Big Wins of 2016!!
1/ Six brown coal licences CANCELLED!
Rural locals are ecstatic as Mantle Mining has had 6 brown coal mining exploration licences in South Gippsland and the LaTrobe Valley cancelled.
“We really feel like Christmas has come early and we can now look forward to a coal and gasfield free future.” said south Gippsland beef farmer, Mr O’Connor.
A door to door study conducted in 2014 demonstrates that a staggering 96.7% agree with Mr O’Connor in their desire for a coal gasfield free future.
Gippsland and the LaTrobe Valley has some of the most crucial agricultural land in Victoria, so to no longer have this land threatened by coal mining conglomerates is a great relief, for farmers and Victorians alike.
We are continuing to work to stop destructive coal mining with communities, but also looking at how we can help communities change for the better when coal mining and power generation leaves their town.
2/South Australians nuclear waste dump DELAYED!
In an amazing outcome for South Australians, two-thirds of the 350 members of the citizens jury have come out strongly opposing the nuclear waste dump plan, putting an end to it and any further attempts at nuclear waste dumping in South Australia.
Premier Jay Weatherill initiated the citizens jury, claiming that he would not appeal any decisions made and was confident they would make a wise decision in relation to the plan, and it seems that they have. The dubious plan included 138,000 tonnes of high-level nuclear and 390,000 cubic metres of intermediate-level nuclear waste as money making scheme, now all banned.
Late last year SA Liberal Party and Nick Xenophon both announce that they would oppose the nuclear waste dump proposal in the lead up to the March 2018 election. Further to this, Taiwan, one potential client country, announced it would not dump on SA as a result of widespread public opposition.
FoE campaigners, Yankunytjatjara Native Title Aboriginal Corporation and the community have fought endlessly to overturn the plan, with over 3000 people protesting at Parliament. An incredible display of what grassroots movements can achieve!
3/College Creek in the Strzelecki Ranges Now PROTECTED from Logging!
After 20 years of hard work Friends of the Earth and Friends of the Gippsland Bush (FoGB) have had College Creek, comprising of 8,500ha in the Strzelecki Ranges, added to Victoria’s State Reserve System.
The College Creek handover will be the first package of land that will be gradually handed back over the next few years.
The Strzelecki Ranges is home to the endemic Strzelecki Koalas who are at great risk due to severe habitat loss as a result of logging in one of the already most depleted bioregions of Victoria.
However, adding College Creek to the protected area hugely increases protection of the koalas, who now have 23,500 ha of protected, diverse and beautiful rainforest.
This great community victory shows how staying around for the long haul can really yield results!
4/ Fracking BANNED in Victoria!
Fracking and coal seam gas banned in Victoria! The Andrews government has announced a permanent ban on the exploration and development of all onshore unconventional gas in Victoria, an incredible result of the Lock the Gate campaign and community efforts.
The devastation of fracking was being seen in the United States and in Queensland with cases of contaminated water, health problems in people and livestock, including complaints of headaches and nosebleeds, and farmers bores dropping by metres. Thankfully, over a million hectares of western Victoria and 87% of Gippsland that was previously licensed for fracking and coal seam gas is now permanently protected!
This land is some of the most important farming land in the state, providing both food and job security, and is now securely protected for farming.
5/ Renewable energy targets TRANSFORM Victoria's energy sector!
A strong step forward in the path to 100% renewable energy has been taken by the Andrews Labor government. They have listened to community opinion and committed to 25% renewable energy by 2020 and 40% by 2025. This not only means less climate destroying pollution, but also many more job opportunities for Victorians. Yes2Renewables has been supporting Victorians creating innovative techniques for renewable energy, with 6 Community Owned Renewable Energy (CORE) projects currently operating in Victoria and 26 under development.
The decision means at least $2.5 billion in investment, 10,000 new jobs and around a 12% reduction in Victoria's greenhouse gas emissions.
The Macedon Ranges Community Sustainability Group (MRSG) have installed a solar power system, thanks to a state government Renewable Energy Grant, producing 20 kW of clean energy from 160 solar panels. This outstanding achievement paves the way for more community run clean energy projects, and a 100% renewable energy future for Victoria.
Help us to continue to build community power and winning more great environmental and social justice outcomes by donating TODAY!
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Big score at Chase Center: Entrepreneur lands…
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Big score at Chase Center: Entrepreneur lands contract to sell tamales at Warriors’ new arena
It’s latest win for Berkeley woman, who also caters for Google and Facebook and is in talks with Whole Foods
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 15: Alicia Villanueva poses for a photo at Chase Center in San Francisco on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019. With the help of La Cocina and the Opportunity Fund, she landed a contract to sell her tamales at Chase Center. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 15: Alicia Villanueva, left, of Berkeley, and Opportunity Fund CEO Luz Urrutia walk inside Chase Center, where Villanueva has landed a contract to sell her tamales. The Opportunity Fund lends to small businesses like Villanueva's. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 15: Alicia Villanueva poses for a photo at Chase Center in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019. She has landed a contract to sell her tamales at the Warriors' new arena. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 15: Alicia Villanueva stands at the concession stand where her tamales are sold at Chase Center in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
HAYWARD,CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 17: Alicia Villanueva poses for a photograph at her company Alicia’s Tamales Los Mayas production facility in Hayward, Calif., on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. Villanueva started off selling homemade tamales door-to-door and now has a contract with Chase Center and more. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group)
HAYWARD,CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 17: Anna Gomez adds filling to tamales at Alicia’s Tamales Los Mayas' production facility in Hayward, Calif., on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group)
HAYWARD,CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 17: New packaging for tamales is displayed at Alicia’s Tamales Los Mayas production facility in Hayward, Calif., on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group)
HAYWARD,CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 17: Alicia Villanueva at her company Alicia’s Tamales Los Mayas' production facility in Hayward, Calif., on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group)
HAYWARD,CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 17: Employees assemble tamales at Alicia’s Tamales Los Mayas' production facility in Hayward, Calif., on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group)
HAYWARD,CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 17: Beatriz Vera prepares an order at Alicia’s Tamales Los Mayas' production facility in Hayward, Calif., on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group)
HAYWARD,CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 17: An order is prepared at Alicia’s Tamales Los Mayas' production facility in Hayward, Calif., on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group)
HAYWARD,CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 17: Alicia Villanueva points at her company's goals board at Alicia’s Tamales Los Mayas' production facility in Hayward, Calif., on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group)
By Levi Sumagaysay | lsumagaysay@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
It’s only the beginning of the Warriors’ season at the team’s new San Francisco arena, but one woman already feels like a champion. Alicia Villanueva just landed a contract to sell her tamales at Chase Center, nearly two decades after she immigrated from Mexico and started selling her goods door to door in Berkeley.
Villanueva used to make tamales at night, after cleaning houses or taking care of the disabled during the day. For almost a decade, she made about 100 tamales a day and sold them to neighbors and local job sites.
“I would knock on doors and introduce myself” after picking up one son from preschool and carrying her younger son on her back, she said. “Some of them became huge customers.”
Now, with the help of San Francisco-based kitchen incubator La Cocina — her partner in the contract with Chase Center — and loans from the Opportunity Fund, Villanueva has a 6,000-square-foot Hayward factory that makes about 40,000 tamales a month. Last week, Chase Center asked her to deliver 5,000 tamales to the new arena, a number that could change as the basketball season progresses.
Villanueva is in talks to sell her frozen tamales to Whole Foods, and her cooked tamales will be at the hot bar in some stores during the holiday season, she said. Her tamales are also sold at Berkeley Bowl and UC Berkeley. Plus she caters all over the Bay Area and has struck deals with companies that serve her tamales in the cafeterias of Google, Facebook and Twitter.
“I just can’t believe it,” Villanueva, 58, said as she showed off her industrial freezers, steamers and other kitchen equipment. “I’m living a beautiful dream.”
She remembers a time when buying just one of piece of equipment was a hardship, and she’s grateful that La Cocina helped lead her to the Opportunity Fund, a nonprofit that lends to entrepreneurs who might be turned down by banks.
“We have a moral obligation to say yes to people like Alicia,” said Luz Urrutia, CEO of San Jose-based Opportunity Fund, last week at Chase Center. “She embodies the American dream, the entrepreneurial spirit.” When people like Villanueva get loans, it creates jobs and helps local vendors, creating a “ripple effect in our communities,” Urrutia added.
Alicia’s Tamales Los Mayas buys its meat, vegetables and other supplies from nearby suppliers. The company now employs 24 people.
Imelda Noriega, a former restaurant worker, has been with ATLM for two years and is now in charge of quality control, inspecting shipments and making sure the food is at the correct temperatures. Lucy Gomez has been there three years — for as long as the facility has been open — and Villanueva considers her the operation’s sous chef. Gomez said she is muy feliz (very happy) about the company’s growth.
Villanueva hopes to do for her employees what making tamales has done for her: ensure their children get a good education. Her son Pedro Jr., who graduated from San Francisco State with a degree in environmental studies, now helps ensure the family business is green.
Nearly two decades after starting to make tamales in her Berkeley home, Villanueva has come a long way. She has had to make changes. As much as she wants to spend most of her time in the kitchen, she can only devote the first few hours of the day there before she turns to the goals she has written on a whiteboard in her office.
She wants her tamales sold at Safeway and served in area schools. She wants to provide medical insurance for her employees within the next year. Longer term, she want to go organic, have vegan offerings, become zero waste and start a free community garden.
But first, Villanueva and Chase Center are feeling their way around each other, especially as the arena prepares for the first regular-season Warriors home game Thursday night. The Warriors have boosted the number of food and drink offerings at the new arena: They have 39 food and beverage stands at Chase Center compared with 14 at Oracle Arena in Oakland, according to a spokesman. They have also doubled the number of full-service bars from 6 to 12.
The phone could ring at any time and Villanueva might need to fill another huge order. She’ll be ready.
Levi Sumagaysay
Levi Sumagaysay is a tech reporter and editor for the Mercury News. She has written or edited technology news since the first dot-com boom, and is a Good Morning Silicon Valley alum.
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Tag: WHITECHAPEL
And the Drummer on Whitechapel’s New Album is…
September 4th, 2018 at 12:09pm Vince Neilstein
Navene Koperweis (Entheos, ex-Animals as Leaders).
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Who Will Be the Biggest Metal Bands of the Future?
August 16th, 2018 at 11:40am Vince Neilstein
With the current generation of metal headliners retiring, who will step up to take their place?
Whitechapel Announces Ten Years of Exile Us Tour with Chelsea Grin, Oceano, and Slaughter to Prevail
August 14th, 2018 at 10:41am Axl Rosenberg
Whitechapel’s celebration of their album This is Exile‘s tenth anniversary will […]
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Whitechapel’s This is Exile Turns 10 Years Old
June 26th, 2018 at 4:34pm MetalSucks
What made Whitechapel stand apart from the deathcore pack when they first hit the scene with this album? What elements of their early sound portended how they’d evolve over time? Watch to find out.
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Shit That Comes Out Today: May 25, 2018
May 25th, 2018 at 9:47am Phil Boozeman
Your one-stop shop for all the week’s heaviest releases including Bleeding Through, Graveyard, Jonathan Davis, Candlemass, a reissue from Whitechapel and many more.
The Black Dahlia Murder and Whitechapel to Play Popular Albums in Full on Co-Headlining Tour
February 28th, 2018 at 1:15pm Axl Rosenberg
In the words of our pal Emperor Rhombus: Eeeeeennnnteresting. The Black […]
Whitechapel are Working on a New Album
September 27th, 2017 at 11:36am Vince Neilstein
It will be their seventh. Drummer still TBD.
Whitechapel Announces North American Tour with Carnifex, Rings of Saturn, Entheos, and So This is Suffering
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of their debut album, The Somatic Defilement.
The Dillinger Escape Plan Announce Their Final Show, Man Pees on Family at a Metallica Concert, and More Stories You May Have Missed This Week
August 11th, 2017 at 5:00pm Axl Rosenberg
Also includes Whitechapel, Arch Enemy, Danzig, and more.
Whitechapel Part Ways with Drummer Ben Harclerode
August 10th, 2017 at 12:25pm Vince Neilstein
He’d been in the band for six years and played on their past three albums.
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Here’s the Post-Dentist Recovery Video of a Slipknot/Whitechapel Fan That Everyone’s Talking About
May 4th, 2017 at 7:06am Axl Rosenberg
“OH MY GOD MY LIFE IS PERFECT!”
Metal Blade 35th Anniversary Tour to Feature Whitechapel, Cattle Decapitation, Goatwhore, and Allegaeon
Now THAT’s how you celebrate a big birthday!
Whitechapel’s New Video for “Bring Me Home” is a Tribute to Phil Bozeman’s Late Father
October 26th, 2016 at 12:30pm Vince Neilstein
Emotional video is very tough to watch.
Whitechapel + Suicide Silence Fall 2016 Tour Dates Announced in Full
August 18th, 2016 at 1:00pm Vince Neilstein
Despised Icon, Carnifex and Oceano will open.
Whitechapel Release First Round of Dates of U.S. Co-Headlining Tour With Suicide Silence
July 19th, 2016 at 10:00am Phil Boozeman
What’s deathcore may never die.
July 15th, 2016 at 5:28pm Vince Neilstein
Including Robb Flynn on Black Lives Matter, Corey Taylor swatting a fan’s cell phone away, a Suicide Silence + Whitechapel headline tour this fall and more.
Suicide Silence and Whitechapel to Co-Headline Fall Tour
July 11th, 2016 at 1:09pm Axl Rosenberg
Every deathcore fan’s wet dream!
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Video: Frost Giant from the Video Game Smite Moshes to Whitechapel
June 27th, 2016 at 3:00pm Phil Boozeman
Two-stepping never looked so cool.
Sh*t That Comes Out Today: June 24, 2016
June 24th, 2016 at 12:40pm David Lee Rothmund
Everybody’s working for the weekend. And to buy this week’s heavy new releases by Whitechapel, Forteresse, Comet Control, Kayo Dot, Be’lakor, Neige Et Noirceur, and more.
Album Review: Whitechapel’s Mark of the Blade Will Shred You into Pieces
June 23rd, 2016 at 5:00pm Phil Boozeman
Call the cops: Phil Bozeman’s clean vocals are really good.
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BOV Women's 1st Div
BOV Women's 2nd Div
UEFA EURO 2020 - EQ
U/21 Qualifiers
U21 - Friendlies
U19 - Qualifiers
U17 - UEFA European Under 17 Qualifiers
UEFA Women's EURO 2021 Qualifiers
Women's Friendlies
Women's U19 Friendlies
Women's U17 Qualifiers
Futsal Euro Qualifiers
Futsal Friendlies
Upbeat Malta girls eager to maintain progress in Italy clash
PHOTOS: Joe Borg/MFA
Malta will face Italy in their fifth UEFA Women’s EURO 2021 qualifier on Tuesday at the Teofilo Patini Stadium in Castel di Sangro with the game kicking off at 14.15.
Ranked 14th in the world, the Azzurre are currently top of Group B on 15 points with Denmark second on 12 but with a game less. Italy have won their opening five qualifiers, including a hard-fought 2-0 win over Malta at the Centenary Stadium last month and a 6-0 win over Georgia in Benevento last Friday.
The Malta girls are going into this difficult encounter in high spirits on the back of their bright display in the 1-1 draw against Israel at the Centenary Stadium. Coach Mark Gatt is looking to take the positives from the Israel game into the Italy encounter.
“We were very positive and looking forward to the Israel game and thankfully our hard work paid the desired dividends as we scored and earned our first point,” Gatt told www.mfa.com.mt.
“However, that game is in the past and it’s imperative that we focus on our task against Italy.”
Gatt stressed the importance of being tactically organised against such a strong team.
“It’s important that our team maintain their tactical organisation and that the girls are fully concentrated,” Gatt explained.
“We are fully aware that the Italy game will be a difficult one but we can take a lot positives from our home games against them and Israel. We need to exploit those situations while believing in our own abilities.”
STRONG OPPONENTS
Gatt believes it’s very important for his girls to emulate the solid performance in the home match against the Azzurre, particularly in the defensive phase. Attacking-wise, the Malta coach thinks the Israel game was a step forward as his team enjoyed a lot of possession in the final third.
“The Israel game can be beneficial for us because we are not accustomed to enjoying a lot of possession,” Gatt said.
“We managed to see more of the ball against Israel and that was important for our decision-making process as we also created a host of scoring chances.
“It is fundamental for us to be sharp and precise in our possession, especially in a game like this against a strong team like Italy.”
The Italy game will be the final qualifier for the Malta women’s team in 2019. Gatt’s team will then resume their qualifying campaign with a home double-header against Georgia (March 5, 2020) and Bosnia-Herzegovina (March 10, 2020).
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Michelle L. Mauermann, M.D.
Mauermann.Michelle@mayo.edu Clinical Profile
Michelle L. Mauermann, M.D., studies disorders that damage the peripheral nerve system through neoplastic (hematologic) or inflammatory mechanisms.
Peripheral neuropathies associated with plasma cell disorders. Peripheral neuropathies occur in many plasma cell disorders such as multiple myeloma, Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia, immunoglobulin M monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (IgM-MGUS), amyloidosis and POEMS syndrome. Dr. Mauermann is studying the clinical features of these various peripheral neuropathies, as well as the nerve pathology, to better understand the underlying mechanisms and develop disease biomarkers. She is also involved in human clinical trials.
Peripheral nerve tumors. Dr. Mauermann is studying the underlying genetic mechanisms for intraneural perineurioma, a benign nerve tumor that can lead to focal nerve damage.
Dr. Mauermann's research into peripheral nerve disease centers on human disease with significant disability, and she is involved in clinical trials.
Consultant, Department of Neurology
Associate Professor of Neurology
Fellow - Clinical Neurophysiology Fellow Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Fellow - Peripheral Nerve Fellow Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Resident - Neurology University of Virginia School of Medicine
Internship - Internal Medicine University of Virginia School of Medicine
MD Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa
BS Chemistry Department, University of Iowa, Iowa City
Neurology Research
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Jacob Sullivan's guilty plea hearing in Grace Packer murder case starts again...and he returns to hospital
By Laurie Mason Schroeder
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Jacob Sullivan pleaded guilty to 18 charges, including homicide, rape, kidnapping, and abuse of a corpse in the murder of 14-year-old Grace Packer, whose mother faces similar charges. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO CONTRIBUTED PHOTO (BUCKS COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY / / HANDOUT)
For a second time this week, a medical emergency on Thursday brought an abrupt halt to the guilty plea hearing of Jacob Sullivan, the Horsham man who admitted that he raped and murdered 14-year-old Grace Packer.
Sullivan, 46, was taken by ambulance to Doylestown Hospital about an hour after his plea hearing resumed in Bucks County Court in Doylestown. The proceeding, which began on Tuesday, was cut short that day when Sullivan complained of a headache and was found to have dangerously high blood pressure. It was supposed to start again Wednesday, but the courthouse was closed due to the snowstorm.
Sullivan will now return to court Friday to finish his plea.
Though Sullivan has already admitted that he raped and killed the former Allentown girl, Judge Diane Gibbons must complete the hearing and accept his plea before the penalty phase begins and a jury determines if Sullivan should face the death penalty or life in prison. Jury selection is on hold until Sullivan’s plea is complete.
Gibbons spent more than an hour Thursday questioning Sullivan about his appeal rights before taking a brief recess. During the recess, Sullivan complained of a headache and asked for aspirin. An ambulance was called and his blood pressure was found to be 220/140 — an extremely high reading, Gibbons said.
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The judge noted that Sullivan did take his prescribed high blood pressure medication Thursday before court. On Tuesday, his lawyers said jail staff had failed to give it to him.
Sullivan has a “lifelong” problem with his blood pressure and has family members who have died from blood pressure-related illness, the judge noted.
On Tuesday, Sullivan admitted that he and Sara Packer, the teen’s adoptive mother, conspired to kill Grace as part of a sexual fantasy, then carried out the crime in a rented Richland Township home in the summer of 2016.
The life and death of Grace Packer: A timeline
A timeline of events in the life of 14-year-old Grace Packer, who was raped, killed and dismembered in 2016.
Prosecutors revealed this week that Packer has been cooperating with them and has reached a plea deal to avoid the death penalty. Her attorney, Keith Williams, said he expects her to plead guilty after Sullivan’s case is complete and be sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole.
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Sullivan’s attorneys said they will tell the jury about Packer’s deal as part of their argument against a death sentence for Sullivan. Packer may also testify for the defense.
Sullivan is in the midst of pleading guilty to 18 crimes, including first-degree murder, rape of a child, kidnapping and abuse of a corpse. Prosecutors described Tuesday how Sullivan took Viagra to prepare for raping Grace, which he did while a visibly “sexually aroused” Sara Packer watched. Afterward, the couple forced Grace to take over-the-counter sleep medication, then bound her limbs with zip ties and gagged her.
They left Grace tied up in the home’s hot attic to die, Chief Deputy District Attorney Jennifer Schorn told the judge, and were surprised to find her alive and conscious nearly 24 hours later. Sullivan crouched behind Grace and strangled her, Schorn said, later admitting to detectives that he enjoyed the act, even though it was more work than he expected.
Prosecutors say Sullivan and Packer, a former Northampton County adoption supervisor, concealed Grace’s body in cat litter in their attic for four months, then sawed off her limbs before discarding her body in rural Luzerne County.
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In court Thursday, prosecutors revealed that security video from a Walmart captured Packer and Sullivan buying bleach and odor-fighting cleaning products on their way home from Luzerne County. Schorn told the judge that the couple used the chemicals to try to mask the smell that formed in their bathroom as they dismembered Grace’s body.
Gibbons said she was prepared to have Schorn recite the events again Thursday to make sure Sullivan understood what he was admitting to.
“Do you want to hear those facts again?” she asked Sullivan.
“No,” he replied.
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Hunters found Grace’s body on Halloween 2016. Packer and Sullivan were arrested in January 2017 following a failed suicide pact. They are both being held in the county jail without bail.
Sara Packer and her former husband David Packer adopted Grace and her younger brother in 2006. The couple also fostered more than 30 children in their Allentown home before David Packer pleaded guilty in 2010 to sexually assaulting Grace and another foster child. David Packer was sentenced to 18 months to five years behind bars.
Sara Packer started dating Jacob Sullivan after her husband went to prison, moving with him to Abington, then Richland Township.
Jurors are expected to be selected for Sullivan’s penalty phase during the next two to three weeks, then will return to the courthouse in Doylestown on March 14 to begin the hearing.
Gibbons must still rule on a defense motion for change of venue. The judge said she’ll consider the request to have a jury from a different county decide Sullivan’s fate if it becomes clear during jury selection that an impartial panel can’t be found in Bucks County.
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USA South Stats
Scots complete Chick-fil-A Invitational in Rome, Ga.
Maryville College wrapped up the Chick-fil-A Collegiate Invitational in Rome, Ga., as the Scots battled tough conditions on the final afternoon.
With wind gusts reaching 15-20 miles per hour at times, as scores proved tough on the men's side of play. In women's competition, MC's Katelyn Witucki continued her consistent scores.
The junior from Seymour, Tenn. shot just one stroke off her first-round tally, as she posted an eight-over 80 on the 5,851-yard course. Witucki birdied the par-five 13th of the Coosa Country Club, as she finished the two-day tournament with 15-over 159.
The score was good enough for a tie for 29th, as both she and sophomore Hannah Doherty played as individuals following injuries.
Doherty improved three strokes in the second round, tallying an 85. She finished the two-day tournament with a 173 mark.
On the men's side, scores struggled to stay low. Host Berry College carded the lowest mark of the day with an eight-over as a squad, as the next closest team came in at 16 over.
MC was 37-over for the second round, posting a 325 tally. The Scots finished in seventh place as a team. LaGrange College shot a 16-over 304 in the second round, as their three-under on the first day was enough for an eight-stroke victory. Berry ranked second at 21-over, while Birmingham-Southern placed third as a team at 31-over par.
MC's Brady Orr and Jake Duncan led the way on the final afternoon, as they both scored matching six-over 78s.
Orr had a birdie on the par-four second, before he Eagled the par-four, 367-yard 16th. He finished the tournament tied for 28th individually with a nine-over 153.
Duncan birdied both the par-four 13th and the par-five 17th to finish at six-over, as well. He was even on the back nine, matching Orr's tournament tally. Dunlap was 12-over on the final day to finish with a 13-over 157, while Garrett Compliment was 13-over. He finished the two-day event with a score of 163.
Individually, LaGrange College's Ben Womack and Emory University's Michael Rosenbloom tied for the tournament crown. The both had even-par 144s, while the Panthers' Sam Rogers was third at two-over. Berry's Jack Tegan and Birmingham-Southern's Blake Schambeau tied four fourth with four-over scores.
The Rome, Ga. tournament completes the men's fall schedule, as the women still have one tournament remaining. The Scots travel to Athens, Tenn., on Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 28 and 29 for the Tennessee Wesleyan Invitational.
Tue, 10/29 | Women's Golf Tennessee Wesleyan Invitational Cancelled
Mon, 10/28 | Women's Golf Tennessee Wesleyan Invitational Cancelled
Sun, 09/29 | Women's Golf Montgomery CC Women's Intercollegiate 10th of 12 RC | R
Sun, 09/08 | Women's Golf Rhodes Classic 3rd of 7 RC | RC | R
Tue, 04/02 | Women's Golf Piedmont Spring Invitational 7th of 7 RC | R
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Are you the master of your data?
Daphne Allen
Enterprise labeling systems can help medical device manufacturers manage data in some surprising ways.
Enterprise labeling software solutions have been helping medical device manufacturers manage label design, printing, and more for years. But in today's data-rich environment thanks to Unique Device Identification, pharma serialization, and wearable devices, are such systems delivering all the necessary functionality and cybersecurity? Qmed asked Ardi Batmanghelidj, President and CEO of Innovatum, a software and regulatory consulting company specializing in life science labeling and Unique Device Identification (UDI) compliance, for an update on labeling software for the medical device, pharma, and biotech industries.
Ardi Batmanghelidj, President and CEO of Innovatum
Qmed: How are enterprise labeling systems being used today by medical device companies?
Batmanghelidj: Enterprise labeling systems (ELS) have evolved past being merely a means of placing data on labels efficiently and complying with 21 CFR (title 21 of Code of Federal regulations). Such systems are capable of much more than they were in the past. An ELS can now serve as the glue that makes data reuse consistent across labeling, regulatory submissions, electronic IFU management, 100% print inspection, etc. The belief that printing data on the label is the end of the ELS story is now quickly ending. Multifunctionally applicable data can now be exploited across varied yet closely related labeling disciplines, thereby guaranteeing synchronization of data, data accuracy, and validity. Medical device companies have been seeking this level of optimization for quite some time, and now it is at hand.
Qmed: Are such systems being used for their full potential?
Batmanghelidj: The ability to use any system to its full potential over an extended period is ultimately determined by the flexibility that is inherent within that system. Software is unique in its ability to create opportunities to paint oneself into a corner. When a system is designed myopically with limited functional intentions, the usable life of the system makes itself evident over time as needs evolve. Use of a "COTS" (commercial off the shelf) labeling system provided by software specialists who benefit from a consortium of customer inputs and industry involvement ensures a living, growing, and adaptable system. Although many life sciences companies are using their enterprise labeling systems to their full potential, the potential of these systems is often limited in scope.
Qmed: Are there any features or functions that would surprise medtech professionals?
Batmanghelidj: An immediate focus upon the need to bail quickly often detracts from the thought of finding something to plug a leak. There are many breakthroughs in enterprise labeling that are rapidly creating paradigm shifts from traditional labeling approaches. These breakthroughs represent opportunities for significant reductions in risk and cost and greatly improved efficiency and productivity. Life sciences-specific master data management, mass label changes, automated eIFU hosting, automated 100% print inspection, and native integration with product life cycle management (PLM) systems like Agile constitute the most notable developments of late.
Qmed: What regulatory drivers are there for employing enterprise labeling software?
Batmanghelidj: Don Quixote fought windmills thinking they were real enemies. Similarly, medical device companies are finding themselves so focused upon satisfying current regulatory requirements that they are not developing sustainable strategies for the tsunami of regulatory complexity headed their way. The most significant drivers for the implementation of an enterprise labeling software system to date have been 21 CFR and the U.S. FDA's UDI. Future drivers include an onslaught of UDI variants that are coming from other regulatory bodies outside of the United States as well as pharmaceutical serialization in the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA). The key to complying with these regulatory challenges is masterful control of master data. Adaptive master data management is key to effective labeling and regulatory compliance.
Qmed: How can enterprise labeling software systems help with today's quality assurance management challenges?
Batmanghelidj: An ELS has the potential of playing an incredibly significant role in quality assurance management. Aside from quality assurance for the labeling process through the automation of manual SOPs, an ELS can serve as the hub for a quality system by consolidating data and data quality assurance. Labeling, regulatory, and virtually any other form of data can come together in an automated system of checks and balances to ensure several vital synchronizations. These include ensuring that only the most recent version of an approved template is used, that versions of IFUs or eIFUs match appropriate versions of items, and more. At the high end of the scale of automated quality assurance, 100% print inspection ensures that the right data is on the right labels for the right items. At the mid range of the scale, labeling and regulatory data submissions can be synchronized automatically though a shared database. Other significant opportunities for synchronized quality assurance include making sure that label template redline markups match template changes that are being made.
Qmed: How can enterprise labeling software help medical device companies address supply chain concerns?
Batmanghelidj: Supply-chain concerns can be resolved through accurate and complete communications of vetted data. There are two primary touch points for the interactions that medical device companies have with their supply chain--data in and data out. Production supply-chain partners must have controlled access to maintain the data that they are responsible for with a level of automated and task-dependent project management. Production-dependent variable information from manufacturing must also flow in an accurate and automated manner. On the "data out" side, the system needs to be flexible enough to be able to communicate via established data pools or through custom communications protocols that supply-chain partners sometimes will require. Secured data within the medical device company then can become a definitive store for vital information needed by manufacturers and supply-chain partners alike. Anti-counterfeiting controls, just in time manufacturing, and powerful track and trace for recall all can now finally become a reality.
Qmed: Why is data security a concern today for medical device companies? Does everyone need to take steps to ensure security?
Batmanghelidj: For as long as data remains digital, data security will continue to be a hot topic in the news. Threats caused by malware and ransomware are presently taking center stage. The newly recognized potential of malicious code wreaking havoc on the health and safety of patients through compromised pacemakers, monitoring machines, and other critical, software dependent devices is onerous. Aside from traditional data security concerns about data at rest, data in transit, and user access security, the difficulty is in maintaining data security throughout the supply chain. This is where an enterprise labeling system with a life sciences-specific master data management system and native integration to serialization engines comes sharply into play. Everyone still needs to take steps to ensure security, but an enterprise labeling system that automates most activity with controlled access to reduce risks can simplify security immensely.
An example of labeling system security management.
Qmed: What role does security play in enterprise labeling software?
Batmanghelidj: To minimize risk, security within enterprise labeling systems for the life sciences must be multifaceted. Traditional areas for software security consideration include protection for data at rest, data in transit, and user access security. But enterprise labeling systems can take things much further. Due to an opportunity to automate user access and permissions for 21 CFR compliance, enterprise labeling software includes a granular capability to grant and revoke software functionality by users or groups. Enterprise labeling software can control which plants, production lines, users, workstations, printers, etc. can print. It can control which label types, (pouch, carton, case, destination labels, etc.) can be printed and which label templates can be used. The potential to control and automate risky manual SOPs thereby reducing security risks is substantial.
Qmed: How is the changing state of data management, with increasing cloud storage options, influencing the utilization of enterprise labeling software?
Batmanghelidj: For the most part, data management with the advent of increasing cloud storage options is influencing the use of most enterprise labeling software systems in the same way. Separate integrations are being made between various cloud storage systems and enterprise labeling systems to deliver data. Most often, these integrations are separate and disconnected endeavors. While this may work, what is revolutionary in the industry is the concept of integrating a life sciences-specific adaptive master data management system.
Adapting a database through configuration, not programming.
Such a system adds a necessary level of flexibility and robustness to cloud integration. For instance, 21 CFR compliance capability can be built into a system that is validated for its capability to allow fields or schemas containing fields to be added on the fly. The system therefore doesn't need to be revalidated when changes are made. An auditable history for the changes in stored data values is automatically captured, and this affords a snapshot of where other systems were when their data was added or changed. When refreshing the data from entities such as contract manufacturers, this audit capability becomes indispensable. The system not only can serve as a pass through or as a repository for data that does not have a home elsewhere, it can also perform some surprising functions. Data values from different systems can be combined to create unique values and/or data transformation can take place. One of the most vital capabilities of a life sciences specific adaptive MDM is the automatic conversion to XML and SPL, the requisite data formats for data submissions in the life sciences.
Qmed: How do companies determine whether they use a cloud, a hosted service, or utilize on-premise data storage?
Batmanghelidj: Companies determine whether they use a cloud, hosted service or on-premise data storage for their data based upon the sensitivity of the data, their risk appetite, and their internal financial models. Most life sciences companies entertain the thought of storing less sensitive data in a multi-tenant environment in a pure cloud architecture. However, awareness of issues such as the comingling of data in a multi-tenant environment often complicates these decisions. Single tenancy in a hosted service offers a much safer solution, yet still provides the advantages of reduced IT overhead and the ability to fund labeling system costs as an operational expense. On-premise data storage is viable for companies that have available IT infrastructure and like the idea of making one-time licensing of an enterprise labeling system a capital expense. To understand the best option for a given company, it is necessary to delve more deeply into each of the data storage options for life sciences specific data.
A cloud-hosted Life Sciences labeling system.
Innovatum recently launched an online interoperable suite of solutions for enterprise labeling products, label design, management and printing, master data management, and communications technologies under the ROBAR product family.
[Images courtesy of Innovatum]
To learn more about all the health data being generated, attend BIOMEDevice Boston 2017 May 3-4 and hear these conferences and more:
A Doctor's Prescription for the Future of Connected Health Technology (Speaker: Joseph C. Kvedar, MD; Partners HealthCare)
Journey into the Future: The Road ahead for Medtech Wearables (Speaker: Mike Maczuzak; Smartshape)
Embedded Systems Safety & Security: Dangerous Flaws in Safety-Critical Device Design (Speaker: Michael Barr; Barr Group)
The Continued Rise of Wearable Technology Using Novel Biosensors (Speaker: Milan Raj; MC10)
A Connected Health Device Payers Love (Speaker: Hareesh Ganesan; TowerView Health)
Top Trends Impacting Medtech and IOT in 2017 (Speaker: Kevin Young; Continuum Innovation)
Daphne Allen is editor-in-chief of MD+DI. She previously served as executive editor of Pharmaceutical & Medical Packaging News, which serves as the pharmaceutical and medical device channel of Packaging Digest. Daphne has covered medical device manufacturing, packaging, labeling, and regulatory issues as well as pharmaceutical packaging and labeling for more than 20 years. She is also a member of the Institute of Packaging Professionals's Medical Device Packaging Technical Committee. Follow her on Twitter at @daphneallen.
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Custom-Built 3-D Printers Enabling Innovation
Chris Newmarker
3-D printing breakthroughs--such as the creation of implantable bioprinted tissues--are becoming increasingly possible because researchers are creating custom 3-D printers that are far more complex than what is presently commercially available.
Think custom-built 3-D printers that create with multiple materials from the nanoscale to the macroscale--enabling significant medical device innovation in the process. Pioneers in the field include Michael McAlpine, PhD, at the University of Minnesota, Jennifer Lewis, ScD, at Harvard University, and Anthony Atala, MD, at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
McAlpine, for example, was able to use a custom-built 3-D printer to improve a rat's walking ability. McAlpine and his research colleagues used a 3-D scanner to reverse engineer the structure of the rat's sciatic nerve, and then 3-D print a silicone regeneration guide (shown on the right) that also had 3D-printed chemical cues to promote both motor and sensory nerve regeneration. Implantation of the guide in the rat provided a proof-of-concept that such guides could promote nerve regeneration. McAlpine envisions such guides someday being made of bioabsorbable materials, enabling nerve regeneration that is usually rare among people suffering from nerve damage.
See Tim Lew of AxoGen discuss, "Advances in 3-D Printing Capabilities for Medical Device Development," at BIOMEDevice San Jose, December 7-8, 2016.
[Image of custom-built 3-D printer at the University of Minnesota taken by Chris Newmarker/Qmed. Nerve regeneration guide photo courtesy of Michael McAlpine/University of Minnesota]
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The 10 Best Memes Ever
Ben Stegner January 9, 2019 09-01-2019 6 minutes
It seems that new memes come and go every week on the internet. What’s everywhere today will be old news next month. With so many memes, how can you decide which are the best?
We’ve set out to do just that. Let’s look at 10 of the best memes to ever grace the internet. We chose these based on their longevity, cultural impact, or widespread appeal.
Meme Basics
In case you’re not familiar with memes, let’s first quickly summarize them. Essentially, a meme is any piece of content, typically something funny, that spreads virally across the internet.
Often these are image macros, which are simply images paired with some text. But a meme can be a certain phrase, exploitable trend, idea, or similar. Have a look at our introduction to memes What Is a Meme? 10 Meme Examples What Is a Meme? 10 Meme Examples Don't know what a meme is? We're here to give a meme definition. Plus, we survey popular memes of the past and recent meme examples. Read More for more background and some examples. In your internet culture journey, you may also be interesting in learning what TLDR means TLDR: Its Meaning, Correct Usage, and Examples TLDR: Its Meaning, Correct Usage, and Examples What is the meaning of TLDR? We look at the TLDR abbreviation and show examples so you understand how it works. Read More .
Of course, there are many more than 10 amazing memes, but the following are some of our favorites (in no particular order).
1. Rickroll
Originated in: 2007
Everyone who uses the internet has probably been Rickrolled at some point. This classic bait-and-switch meme tempts people to click on a link, promising a trailer for an upcoming movie or something similarly enticing. In actuality, they link to the music video for Rick Astley’s 1987 song “Never Gonna Give You Up”.
The song was widely popular before the meme and has become a household name since. It’s an internet classic that puts a smile on your face as soon as you hear those first few notes.
2. Press F to Pay Respects
Early in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’s campaign, your player attends the funeral of his best friend. During this cutscene, the game prompts you to “Press F to Pay Respects.” This was widely mocked due to its awkward placement during a somber time of memorial; many saw it as a ham-fisted way to make the player “feel emotion” instead of building it through tone and gameplay.
But since the meme’s inception, it’s actually become even more popular. In fact, you’ll often see people type a simple “F” to pay respects to someone’s death on forums like Reddit. We include it here as a great example of a gaming meme 20 Popular Gaming Memes Explained: Barrel Rolls and More 20 Popular Gaming Memes Explained: Barrel Rolls and More Gaming memes are a huge part of internet video game culture. Here are 20 of the most popular gaming memes, where they originated, and what they mean. Read More that didn’t fade out over time, and even evolved to stay relevant.
3. Distracted Boyfriend
This is a stock image depicting a guy walking with his girlfriend, but looking back at another girl suggestively. His girlfriend understandably has an upset look on her face, which led to labeling each person based on the setup.
Typically the girl in red represents something enticing, while the girlfriend shows the “responsible” or traditional choice.
While it’s one of the newest memes on this list, this one is notable for inspiring dozens of other object-labeling memes well into 2017 and beyond. The meme enjoyed a fair bit of longevity, too, since people discovered that there were more stock images featuring the same models in similar situations.
4. Arthur’s Fist
Arthur is a kid’s TV series that started in the 1990s and is still running today. It’s produced several memes, but the best is undoubtedly Arthur’s fist.
This image comes from an episode where Arthur gets mad at his sister for breaking his model airplane and punches her. Before he does, we see Arthur’s clenched fist ready to strike. People commented that the fist held a lot of emotions, and it became a meme.
You can use the picture of Arthur’s fist alongside anything that makes you rage with anger.
5. Futurama Fry / Not Sure If
This is one of the most popular image macro memes. It comes from the cartoon series Futurama, and shows the protagonist Philip J. Fry squinting his eyes. The top text starts with “Not sure if”, while the bottom starts with “Or…”. It compares two possible interpretations of a scenario that someone is evaluating.
You could use this meme to explain that you’re not sure if you’re rooting for one team, or just against the other, for example. It’s useful for a variety of internal monologues, leading to its popularity.
6. Conspiracy Keanu
Many of the most popular memes from long ago fall into the Advice Animals category. These are images of an animal or person that each revolve around some character stereotype.
One of the best is Conspiracy Keanu. It’s a shot of Keanu Reeves from the 1989 movie Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure where he has a frightened look on his face. This is paired with text about some ridiculous conspiracy theory or silly philosophical question.
The look on Keanu’s face, combined with the ludicrous theories people came up with for this meme, make it a winner among Advice Animals.
7. Expanding Brain
Expanding Brain is an exploitable meme template, meaning that it’s easy to modify and fill in your own value as you see fit. While large brains usually represent higher intelligence, this meme is typically used ironically.
A normal event or idea is paired with the smallest brain, while increasingly ridiculous versions of that event appear with larger brains. It’s a fun way to expand everyday scenarios to absurd heights, and you can add levels of the brain as needed.
8. What People Think I Do
Another customizable meme, this one takes an occupation or hobby and uses multiple images to depict how different people see that position. These usually end with an image showing the mundane reality of “What I really do.”
You can use this to depict pretty much any job, and the exact images you use are up to you. While this is an older meme, its broad appeal makes it a favorite.
9. Nyan Cat
This internet classic has a cute 8-bit cat and a catchy song, so it’s no surprise it became so popular.
An animator named Chris Torres combined a cat and a cherry Pop-Tart in the original GIF. A few days later, a YouTuber combined it with a Japanese song. This repeats “nya,” a Japanese onomatopoeia for the sound a cat makes, over and over.
This match proved a hit, as it spread across the internet quickly. Some people even created games based on the character. Even years later, it’s not a rarity to see Nyan Cat floating around the web.
10. Steamed Hams
We conclude with one of 2018’s top memes. Steamed Hams is the name of a skit in The Simpsons where Principal Skinner has his boss, Superintendent Chalmers, over for dinner. It’s a play on a common sitcom trope where everything goes wrong.
The scene is enjoyable on its own, but it turned into a meme when many people remixed it with different animation styles, added in elements from various video games, and more.
Unlike many memes that are simple variations on the same image, Steamed Hams is notable because people use it as a base to remix in so many ways. It’s a meme that really lets creativity shine.
The Best Memes Live On
With memes changing regularly, not all of them can rise to superstar status. But we think all these memes are special because they lasted a long time, inspired other memes, had endless variations, or similar reasons.
Nobody knows what memes will rise to prominence in the coming years. Some old favorites might even make a comeback. Until then, you can relive more nostalgia by rewatching some classic YouTube videos 10 Classic YouTube Videos Worth Watching One More Time 10 Classic YouTube Videos Worth Watching One More Time Are you yearning for the old days? Then you should watch these classic YouTube videos again to remind yourself of simpler times. Read More or catch up on the best memes doing the rounds currently, such as these Stranger Things memes 8 Stranger Things Memes You Need in Your Life 8 Stranger Things Memes You Need in Your Life Here are the best Stranger Things memes, plus how to use them and when you should use them. Read More .
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Marathon Las Vegas NASCAR Rally Review
March 1-4 brought many Marathon coach owners together for an adrenaline-boosting, heart pounding adventure: NASCAR’s Pennzoil 400. Camping at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, these race-loving friends experienced quite the exciting ride on and off the track at the Marathon Coach Las Vegas NASCAR Rally.
One of the things that sets NASCAR apart from other sports is how accessible these driving stars truly are, especially with this VIP experience. Marathon coach owner Jimmie Johnson, who began his NASCAR career in 2000 and is one of only three drivers in the history of the sport to win seven cup championships, provided an interview and Q&A session to the intimate crowd within the confines of Marathon’s base camp. Up and comer Chase Elliott did the same, answering questions not only about his career, but also about his new Marathon coach and his famous father, Bill Elliott. Other interviewees included Vice Chairman of NASCAR Mike Helton, EVP/Chief Racing Development Officer of NASCAR Steve O’Donnell and NASCAR Senior Vice President of Competition Scott Miller.
And then there’s “The King”: There’s a reason the moniker has stuck. Probably NASCAR’s all-time great is Marathon coach owner Richard Petty, who dominated NASCAR from the late fifties to the early nineties. People were drawn to him the moment he entered the tent Saturday evening, and he greeted each person warmly, wrapping an arm around him or her as if they’d been friends for decades. After a few photos and countless hugs and handshakes, the man in black – sporting his signature Stetson hat, dark sunglasses and logoed bomber jacket – slipped out the door as quietly as he slipped in.
Those who took advantage of the Neon Garage Tour were able to see and occasionally meet additional NASCAR drivers and crew members. Remarkably accessible, attendees were able to peruse the many powerful race cars up close and personal as the vehicles were prepped for inspection. Some rally goers bumped into drivers, scoring autographs in the process, while other reveled in views of the garages and more.
On any given day, when it came time to head to the track, whether it be for series practice, qualifying or the big race, everyone met in the luxury suites where the snacks were flavorful, drinks flowed freely and the view was unbeatable.
“I’m damaged goods now,” said Ryan Huta, son of coach owners Guy and Cathy Huta. “How can I go to a NASCAR Race again, unless it’s with Marathon Coach and Prevost? What a red carpet experience!”
The stakes got even higher as Marathon Owner and President Steve Schoellhorn circulated with a wager board and slips with driver information were randomly passed out, allowing both the NASCAR-knowledgeable and the novices alike to get in on the gambling action.
The third generation of Huta men, Dominic Huta and Max Andersson, grandchildren of Guy and Cathy, embraced all of the experiences that presented themselves.
When asked, Max knew exactly which were his favorite moments: “When our drivers from the draft won the race and we got all the swag, prize money and the ride in the pace car. What a fun weekend!”
“I loved when we won the race games and we got to drive on the racetrack in the pace car,” shared Dominic. “I also liked all the food!”
And he wasn’t the only one who enjoyed the food. With daily breakfast hot off the griddle, a barbecue dinner, steak and lobster and more, every day was a celebration of life, luxury, NASCAR and most importantly, friends.
Dubbed “Las Vegas Night,” Saturday evening was sponsored by IncredibleBank. “Since we started financing coaches a couple years ago, it has been important for me to get involved with my customers in their communities,” said IncredibleBank National Lender Brad Mason. “It just so happens their communities move from rally to rally so getting to experience these events firsthand is important. It doesn’t hurt that we have a lot of fun at the same time.”
Of course more than food was served up at dinnertime, so was entertainment. The Tony Marques Band was a hit, as was the music styling of Douglas “The Crooner” Roegiers.
“Wow, what a classy event,” said IncredibleBank National Market President Ellie Reineck. “From line dancing with a live band the first night to high kicking with Douglas Saturday night, the entertainment was fantastic. I really enjoyed getting to know the customers who have been loyal to the Marathon brand for years and years and learn from them what makes the RV lifestyle so special. I can give you one word…community!”
Although rally goers had revved their own engines during the highly competitive kart racing Friday at Pole Position Raceway, come Sunday’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series chase, everyone was in it together.
Feeling the excitement as one, hearing the motors race by, it was more than tires on asphalt – it was family. With Marathon coach owners Jimmie Johnson, Chase Elliott, Kevin Harvick, Denny Hamlin and Kurt Busch in it to win it, the race was quite the spectacle. And for many it was also brutal: Although Kevin led 214 of the 267 laps, Kyle Busch led laps 225-230. However, Kevin came back strong and led the rest of the way, successfully taking the checkered flag. After enjoying the “suite life,” and celebrating with a post-race barbecue, attendees put their own serious horsepower to work and headed out for the next adventure.
“What a fantastic experience with my son, grandkids and rally participants,” said Guy. “Team Marathon really pulled out all the stops!”
Special thanks to Prevost Car, IncredibleBank and rally attendees for their support.
Watch the recap videos below.
NASCAR Rally Recap Day 1
Marathon Coach NASCAR Recap Day 2
Marathon Show Coach #1281 prepares for NASCAR
May 24, 2018 Posted in: Hobbies and Adventure, Rallies, The Maratime Magazine, Uncategorized
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Home MMO News AirMech Arena Coming To Xbox One, PS4 In 2015
AirMech Arena Coming To Xbox One, PS4 In 2015
Watch live video from AirMechArena on Twitch
If you like your AirMech but also like your consoles, then today’s a good day for you. Ubisoft and Carbon Games have announced the upcoming launch of AirMech Arena on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in 2015.
The embedded video above is over an hour long, but the key statement comes just a few seconds in: “it’s really at home on the controller.” Anyone who’s played AirMech can tell that its fast action and omnidirectional movement seem like perfect fits for a d-pad, and it’s got the potential to be one of the better free-to-play games on consoles.
The game will be free-to-play, though that comes with the obvious caveat of requiring an Xbox LIVE subscription on the Xbox One. With all the F2P games Microsoft is snatching up for its console(s), maybe they’ll eventually figure that one out.
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Amcom update supports Cisco Cius
By Chris Gullo
Amcom announced this week an update to their Amcom Mobile Connect software, which now supports Cisco wireless IP phones and Cius tablets in addition to BlackBerry, iPhone, and Android smartphones. The mobile application allows clinicians and administrators to send encrypted messages of high importance, including code calls, to distinguish them from less-important SMS messages and calls.
New features include two-way messaging with full message traceability to Cisco Unified Wireless IP phones and the new Cisco Cius tablet, as well as multiple language support (Spanish, French, Italian, and German).
“We continue our development focus on this popular product and are evolving its capabilities based on new devices in the market and input from our growing list of customers,” stated Chris Heim, President, Amcom Software in a press release. “Adding Cisco wireless IP phone and tablet support broadens the ways this powerful system can be used in hospitals to support a variety of staff.” Amcom was acquired by USA Mobility last March for $163.3M.
Read the full press release below.
Amcom Software, Inc. today announced the release of Amcom Mobile Connect version 2.3, which now runs on Cisco wireless IP phones and Cius tablets. This encrypted smartphone and tablet messaging solution allows clinicians and administrators to use a single device for all their messaging needs, from notification of code calls and other critical messages to non-urgent communications. The Amcom Mobile Connect application separates critical messages from less important emails and SMS messages. It is also available for BlackBerry, iPhone, and Android smartphones. Other customer-requested features have also been incorporated in this version.
“Adding Cisco wireless IP phone and tablet support broadens the ways this powerful system can be used in hospitals to support a variety of staff.”
Amcom Mobile Connect version 2.3 highlights:
Cisco Wireless IP Phone and Cius Tablet Support
Amcom Mobile Connect now supports two-way messaging with full message traceability to Cisco Unified Wireless IP phones (7925G/7926G) and the new Cisco Cius tablet. The same active acknowledgment, separate inbox, and priority-based ring tones available on other popular smartphones and tablets are now available on these devices. Amcom continues to focus on enabling messages to be sent to an ever-broader array of devices to support the diversity of communications tools different staff members use in today’s hospitals.
Expanded Language Support
Amcom Mobile Connect has been translated to support Spanish, French, Italian, and German. The solution now automatically detects the language of the device and displays the menu and settings accordingly.
Amcom has been a member of the Cisco Developer Community since 2003. Amcom maintains certifications on a number of products which integrate with Cisco Unified Communications applications and devices. This latest release of Amcom Mobile Connect builds on this technology framework.
“We continue our development focus on this popular product and are evolving its capabilities based on new devices in the market and input from our growing list of customers,” said Chris Heim, President, Amcom Software. “Adding Cisco wireless IP phone and tablet support broadens the ways this powerful system can be used in hospitals to support a variety of staff.”
About Amcom Software
Amcom Software, a subsidiary of USA Mobility, Inc. (Nasdaq: USMO), connects people to each other and to the data they need. This helps organizations save lives with communications that are faster, more accurate, and more efficient. Amcom Software’s unified communications technologies include solutions for contact centers, emergency management, mobile event notification, and messaging. The company’s products are used by leading organizations in healthcare, hospitality, education, business, and government. By continually developing its industry-leading technologies, Amcom Software has rapidly grown and solidified its market leadership. For more information, call 800.852.8935 or go to http://www.amcomsoftware.com or find us on Twitter @AmcomSoftware.
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Maritime News - Jan 2012
This Day in Naval History - 31 January
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Boston Whaler Justices Support Counternarcotics Ops
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Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited
Credit Opinion: Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited: Update to credit analysis
Credit Opinion: Standard Chartered Bank: Update to credit analysis
Issuer Profile: Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited: Key Facts and Statistics - FYE Dec 2018
Announcement of Periodic Review: Moody's announces completion of a periodic review of ratings of Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited
Announcement of Periodic Review: Moody's announces completion of a periodic review of ratings of Standard Chartered Bank
Moody's Confirms Standard Chartered Bank (HK)'s Ratings; Outlook Negative
Hong Kong, March 07, 2016 -- Moody's Investors Service has confirmed the ratings of Standard Chartered Bank (HK) Limited. The outlook on the bank is negative.
This rating action concludes a review for downgrade which began on 9 November 2015, following the ratings review of its parent Standard Chartered Bank (SCB).
The following ratings were confirmed:
- Local- and foreign-currency long-term deposit ratings of Aa3
- Foreign currency senior unsecured MTN rating of (P)Aa3
- Foreign currency long-term issuer rating of Aa3
- Foreign currency subordinated rating of A2
- Foreign currency subordinated MTN program rating of (P)A2
- Long-term counterparty risk assessment of Aa2(cr)
- BCA and adjusted BCA of a1
The following ratings were affirmed:
- Local- and foreign-currency short-term deposit ratings of P-1
- Foreign currency other short term ratings of (P)P-1
- Short-term counterparty risk assessment of P-1(cr)
RATINGS RATIONALE
The confirmation of Standard Chartered Bank (HK)'s a1 BCA takes into account the bank's improving capitalization and resilient performance despite the asset quality and profitability pressures that weigh on the rest of the broader group.
Nevertheless, the bank's negative outlook takes into account expected more challenging conditions in Hong Kong as the Mainland economy continues to slow. Asset quality pressure could materialize if slowing economic growth in Mainland China spills over into Hong Kong. Elevated property prices also pose risks to operating environment and could lead to higher future problem loans.
Standard Chartered Bank (HK)'s negative outlook also takes into account asset quality and profitability pressures that weigh on the rest of the group, and uncertainties regarding the impact of group's strategic restructuring initiatives. The bank has close linkages with the broader Standard Chartered group, as it houses the group's regional staff and resources, and benefits from business referrals from its affiliates in the region. The bank's loans and total assets both fell by around 10% in 2015 due to lower commodity prices and lower client activities including international trade flows.
Standard Chartered Bank (HK)'s senior unsecured ratings factors in one notch of Hong Kong government support. Moody's expects the Hong Kong government to introduce a revised resolution regime which will subject senior unsecured creditors to potential bail-in. Moody's may adjust down the government support uplift for the bank given the prospect of lower government support going forward.
What Could Change the Rating Up/Down
The bank's current ratings are high and a rating upgrade is unlikely in the near term.
The bank's ratings and BCA could be downgraded if the parent bank's ratings are downgraded, given close linkages between the bank and its parent. The bank's ratings could also be downgraded if asset quality metrics deteriorate and capitalization weaken, with problem loan ratios above 1% and tangible common equity / risk weighted assets ratio falling below 14%.
The principal methodology used in these ratings was Banks published in January 2016. Please see the Ratings Methodologies page on www.moodys.com for a copy of this methodology.
Standard Chartered Bank (HK) Limited is headquartered in Hong Kong, with total assets of HKD959 billion (USD123 billion) as of December 2015.
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Time to buy gold?
Gold's been growing amidst the economic uncertainty - why, and should investors get in? We ask Hans Albrecht at Horizons ETFs
Ruth Saldanha 10 October, 2019 | 2:37AM
Ruth Saldanha: We took a look at the top performing mutual funds over the past year and found that the top performers hit over 50% in returns. Something interesting we noticed was that all of them were precious metal funds. Now, in general, we believe that retail investors don't have the expertise to invest in gold and don't really need to. But having said that, it makes sense to understand the factors behind gold's rise and understand what the expectations are going ahead. To discuss this Hans Albrecht, Portfolio Manager at Horizons ETFs is with us today.
Hans, thank you so much for being here.
Hans Albrecht: Thanks for having me, Ruth.
Saldanha: What has led to this rise in gold?
Albrecht: I think more recently we've seen some concerns surrounding global growth, economies around the world and a return to what is very much a lower rate environment. And so, gold – some people think of gold as a safe haven destination and I think it's very much benefited from some of the slowing growth, a lot of the negative yields that we're seeing around the world in Japan and Europe, that's created a sense of – created a lack of confidence in a sense. And that's benefited gold to a large extent.
Saldanha: At this late stage of the economic cycle, does it continue to make sense as a hedge?
Albrecht: I think it does. I think it provides some good diversification for portfolios. We've seen over time gold serves as a good diversifier. And in particularly, late in the cycle, we start to see higher levels of volatility in equity markets, and gold tends to benefit from that type of environment.
Saldanha: Gold has run up already pretty significantly. At this point, does it make sense at these high levels for retail investors to enter the market?
Albrecht: I think so. I think the fact is that retail investor holdings in gold are very, very low in gold as well as in mining stocks. And if you look at – I mean, Canadians have a little bit more exposure to the area. In the U.S., gold is almost unrepresented across some of the larger indices. So, we feel that there's a lot of room for people to add this as an asset.
Saldanha: You mentioned the mining companies. Now, some of the Canadian miners have risen almost over 100% over the past year or so. What makes most sense at this point? Gold itself or gold mining companies?
Albrecht: I think that comes down to the investor. You're going to get a little bit more beta, a little bit more leverage to the price of gold with miners. Typically, let's say, on average, you're going to benefit 3 to 4 times as much in the appreciation of gold versus – in the appreciation of miners versus the price of gold. So, it depends what your appetite for risk is. But in our view, the miners have really lagged the price of gold over the last four or five years. In late 2015, they all (but) threw them out the window. And so, we're seeing a resurgence in the miners. And I feel that there's quite a bit of reversion to go in terms of their performance versus gold itself.
Saldanha: You mentioned risk appetite. What kind of appetite should an investor have if they consider gold? Is it more for a conservative investor or more for an aggressive investor?
Albrecht: I think if you look at gold over time, it isn't that much more volatile than any other equity sector or asset class. So, I think it's something where you could consider 5% to 10% of your portfolio as it's proven itself as a nice diversifier over time. So, I think that kind of allocation does make sense.
Saldanha: Thank you so much for joining us today with your perspectives, Hans.
Albrecht: Thanks for having me.
Saldanha: We always say that past performance is no guarantee of future results, and investors should always consider their own financial goals and personal circumstances before making an investment.
For Morningstar, I'm Ruth Saldanha.
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Maserati plans 12,000 sales for 2011 with new models
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Fiat advisor Sergio Marchionne has made the bold objective that the Italian carmaker's subsidiary Maserati will deliver up to 12,000 units in 2011. Last year, it experienced a 3% rise in sales totaling 5,724 units sold worldwide. According to Automotive News, the company now hopes to more than double this tally in the following years with the introduction of new models and the expansion into new markets.
Following the recent release of its automatic Quattroporte sedan, Maserati is tipped to unveil its all-new Coupé at next month’s Geneva Motor Show. Also joining Maserati’s lineup will be an SUV model with styling similar to that seen on its Kubang concept displayed back in 2003. With the launch of these models, Maserati is expecting to realize sales of 7,500 units this year, a jump of 22%.
The Kubang concept was designed by the legendary Italian stylist Giorgetto Giugiaro and features a near-optimal 48/52% weight distribution and a centre of gravity 100mm lower than an average SUV. It’s powered by a 390bhp V8 engine and gives drivers a car-like feel thanks to its low and sporty driving position.
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Alumni Day features luncheon honoring Bishop Judith Craig
Alumni: Please share news of your work and your life
Reflections on teaching at Korea's Methodist Theological University
Freedom School scholars spend a day at Seminary Hill Farm
Mark your calendar: Sept. 28
Bishop Craig
Alumni Day 2015 will feature a new event and a new approach to a special MTSO tradition. Alumni, students, and current and former faculty and staff will come together Sept. 28 for a continental breakfast and fellowship before joining together in a service of thanksgiving, where this year’s recipients of the John and Ruth Mount Alumni Awards will be honored.
The day continues with a special luncheon honoring Bishop Judith Craig, MTSO’s bishop in residence and visiting professor in the Dickhaut Chair of Church Leadership. Over delicious cuisine prepared by staff of Seminary Hill Farm, the program will honor Bishop Craig’s remarkable ministry and launch the campaign for the Bishop Judith Craig Scholarship Endowment. Informal fellowship over dessert will bring the day to a close.
Alumni Day features events from 10 a.m. to mid-afternoon Sept. 28. Events are being presented at no cost to guests, though all who plan to attend are asked to complete a short online RSVP form. Guests also will be offered the opportunity to invest in the Bishop Judith Craig Scholarship Endowment.
Here is a schedule:
10 a.m.: Continental breakfast in the Gallery adjacent to the Alford Centrum.
10:30 a.m.: Service of thanksgiving honoring recipients of the John and Ruth Mount Alumni Awards for Distinguished Service in the Alford Centrum.
Noon: Luncheon honoring Bishop Judith Craig in Dunn Dining Hall.
Click here to RSVP for Alumni Day. See you on Sept. 28.
WHAT'S NEW WITH YOU?
A favorite feature in each issue of The Story Magazine and Annual Report is Alum News, where members of the MTSO extended community can catch up on the activities, adventures and milestones of our alumni. With the next issue due out soon, this is a perfect time to provide your former classmates, professors and friends with an update about your life.
It’s easy to share your news and update your contact information at www.mtso.edu/update. This year, we’ve added a new opportunity: You’re invited to share an optional photo to go with your news.
Thanks for considering what you might add to this ongoing record of the meaningful lives MTSO’s alumni are leading.
INTERRELIGIOUS AND INTERNATIONAL
Dr. Paul Numrich, MTSO professor in the Snowden Chair for the Study of Religion and Interreligious Relations, has spent a portion of this summer at Methodist Theological University in the Republic of Korea, teaching a class on Abrahamic faiths to students of varied nationalities and Methodist affiliations. (He is fourth from the left in the class photo above.) Here, he looks back on the experience.
My 2015 journey to the Republic of Korea began at England’s University of Oxford in 2013. President Jong-Chun Park of Seoul’s Methodist Theological University gave a talk at the Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies during which he invited seminary faculty to teach at his school.
I had visited Korea once and plan to co-lead the MTSO cross-cultural trip to Korea next summer with MTSO Professor of Hebrew Bible Paul Kim, so it seemed fitting that I should take President Park up on his offer. In June, I spent two weeks teaching the course Abrahamic Faiths to Methodist students from Fiji (Methodist Church in Fiji), Kenya (Methodist Church in Kenya), Liberia (UMC), Myanmar (UMC), the Philippines (UMC), and Togo (Korean Methodist Mission for Africa).
The experience was memorable and inspiring in so many ways. Dr. Kim, who was at MTU on a Fulbright grant, was my unofficial guide on many days. MTU’s president, faculty, administrators, staff and students all welcomed me warmly, graciously accommodating my clumsy American ways. (I have not mastered Korean chopsticks.)
My students were diligent and enthusiastic, and several brought experiences of Islam that differ greatly from those of most American students. To a person, they took to heart the course objective of learning how to engage both Jews and Muslims with Christian integrity and sensitivity, and they were well aware of the important role they play as Christian leaders in the complex and often contentious interreligious relations of our day.
Methodist Theological University has a striking campus in the heart of Seoul. The school operates a successful program called International Graduate Studies of Theology, in which my course was offered. MTSO and MTU have a rich relationship. Dr. Duck-kwan Koo and Dr. Pil-hyung Yum, former presidents of MTU, are MTSO alumni. In 2009, the schools initiated an exchange program; among those to benefit is MTSO student Clara Kwon, who will study at MTU this fall.
On the last day of class I taught, my students sang a song of appreciation for my teaching and presented me with a plaque quoting Philippians 4:6 in both Korean and English: “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.”
I recalled that the words “travel” and “travail” probably come from the same root. My journey to Korea this time had some travail about it – a long and difficult flight plus anxiety about Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. But in the end, I was blessed by my travels and by my students, whose gift continues to remind me: “Do not be anxious about anything….”
LEARNING ON THE LAND
Apiarist Dave Noble talks bees with the scholars
Seminary Hill Farm enjoyed an infusion of youthful energy July 17, when about 50 scholars entering first through 12th grades visited. The students are attending the Children’s Defense Fund University District Freedom School, an eight-week, full-day literacy enrichment program hosted by Summit on 16th United Methodist Church.
The scholars’ day on campus included a sting-free visit to our beehives, and a session creating their own arrangements of farm-grown flowers. Despite afternoon thunderstorms that interfered with their plans to pick and wash vegetables, it was a busy day.
“Part of our job as farmers is to be educators,” said Farm Supervisor Noel Deehr. “We enjoy sharing with others what we’re passionate about, which is food, and passing that on to future leaders.”
“We’re also a place for people to try new things,” she said. “We handed purple carrots to all the kids, and they said, ‘What are these?’ Then they all ate them, and they were excited about it. The farm is a learning place.”
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Dawson's Daughter: New Baby for James Van Der Beek
Juan Rico/Fame Pictures
James "He'll Always Be Dawson to us" Van Der Beek and wife Kimberly Brook have welcomed their daughter Olivia, Van Der Beek confirmed on Twitter.
Olivia, which has been in the top 500 since they started keeping the charts in 1880, has risen steadily since the 1980s and was the Name Number 3 in the US in 2009. Olivia is an international favorite, ranking in the top 10 in Austrailia, New Zealand, Canada, England, Scotland, Finland and Wales; it's also ranked highly in Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Ireland and Norway. Derived from Olive (like the tree), Olivia is also a Shakespeare name.
Like Ella, Olivia is an old lady name turned Celebrity Dude Favorite. Denzel Washington, Al Pacino, and Kirk Cameron all have daughters named Olivia, while Ben Stiller and Kelsey Grammar chose it as a middle name (for Ella Olivia and Mason Olivia respectively). Justine Bateman and Lori Loughlin have little Olivias, too.
Want to know what our readers suggested for Baby Van Der Beek? Here you go. What do you think of Olivia?
Tagged: celebrity baby name, celebrity dude favorite, dawson, Ella, james van der beek, James Van Der Beek Baby, Kimberly Brook, Olivia
09/28/2010, 7:24AM
By TM (not verified)
I love Olivia. In fact, we have been considering it for #2, but ultimately I think it's too popular for us to feel comfortable picking. :(
By Mom (not verified)
I like Olivia. If they ever have a boy, it should be Dawson Van Der Beek. I personally loved watching Dawson's creek, and will always think of James as Dawson. If they should have another daughter, she should be called Joey, like the female lead in Dawson's Creek.
By Essy (not verified)
not a big fan of the name Olivia, not sure why, it just doesn't flow well to me, the V is duplicated Oliv-vi-a maybe that's why. I like the name Olive better like Sasha Baron Cohen's daughter. It has a sweetness to it that Olivia doesn't. Olivia just sounds a bit harsh to me, and not as sweet and soft or cute as names like Ella or Sophia.
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History of Opera in Venice
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San Marco 2504, Venezia
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Palace Music
Aidan Leach
Simply amazing. We saw the Barber of Seville, and you become part of the opera in its intimate setting. The singing and music was excellent, the old palace rooms that each scene were set in were lovely. Be warned if you sit in the front row, you actually will be involved. Figaro combed my hair, the Count left me with his wine bottle and used me to fend off the attack from the Doctor, and then made stink eyes at me in an overstated comical way for the rest of the night. I have never laughed so hard at the opera!
Ed Zito
Outstanding performance and experience!Usually not a fan of opera but this is different. Up close and personal with great view and seating. You feel like part of the show.A must do!
Kasey Kilgore
An absolutely fantastic experience! An intimate Opera as might have been seen/heard a century ago in the private salon of a Venetian noble.
Frank Levy
Up to the first intermission was good. Then after the second intermission the chairs became way too uncomfortable and it was way too hot. Had to leave as we were very, very uncomfortable. The first section is also the most familiar to non-expert opera attendees. If it was 1/3 the length it would have been perfect. Or better chairs or air conditioning. It was nice and cool at the start but quickly warms up.
Darrell Thomas
This was the highlight of our trip to Venice. Such a great experience. The performers were very talented, and simply approaching the entrance to the building had a feeling of exclusivity that you may not get at other shows. It's a bit pricey if you don't think you'll be returning to Venice to use your membership for future shows, but it's still worth every penny.
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My Bob's Goof Proof Furniture Protection Plan
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Bob’s Discount Furniture and Guardian Protection Products provide an unbeatable protection plan. My Goof Proof Protection Plan covers most accidental stains and many accidental damages to your furniture for five full years. Additionally, you will receive a Bob’s Furniture Care Kit as part of the deal. The kit includes two 8oz bottles of furniture care products for those “life happens” moments.
Covered accidental stains and damages:
Fabric, Leather and Vinyl
All accidental stains (except caustic and corrosive materials):
Food & beverage stains (such as wine, juice, baby formula)
Cosmetics stains (such as makeup, nail polish, nail polish remover, lipstick and body lotions)
Bodily fluids from humans and pets
Ink, marker, and crayon stains
Grease, shoe polish, and grass & gum stains
Accidental rips, cuts, & burns, and motor breakage:
Rips, cuts, and punctures (unintentional damages from items such as pens, scissors, and knives)
Burns (such as cigarette, e-cigarette and irons)
Breakage of frames, springs, sleeper, reclining, inclining, heating & vibrating mechanisms after the manufacturer warranty has expired**
Breakdown or breakage of motors for motorized recliners and reclining furniture after the manufacturer warranty has expired limited to a single incident**
Wood & Hard Surface Furniture
All accidental stains (except caustic and corrosive substances)
Gouge, heat mark or any liquid ring
Chip, scratch, or breakage of glass, mirror components and loss of silvering on mirrors
Breakage of wood or other hard surface
Tears to lamp shades
Breakage of lamp
Damage to switch or cord (USB port not included)
Food & beverage stains
Cosmetic stains
Ink, marker, & crayon stains
Grease, shoe polish, grass, and gum stains
Bob’s Goof Proof Pricing (amounts based on subtotal)
Goof Proof Fee
Up to $299.99 $39.99
$300 - $399.99 $49.99
$1000 - $1299.99 $129.99
$5000 - $20000 $399.99
Here are a few exceptions that are not covered*
Certain stains, odors, and general wear & tear:
Stains from corrosive materials that erode or strip the finish or color
Stains that build up over time (such as dirt or general soiling)
Fading or discoloration that happens over time (such as from hair products)
Odors resulting from stains
Multiple pet stains
Issues caused by misuse or the manufacturer:
Damage from misuse (such as jumping on furniture)
Defects not covered by Bob’s 1 Year Guarantee
Damage covered by homeowners or renters insurance or contractors working on your home
Animal or pet damages (such as damage caused by beaks, claws, or jaws)
General dirt on rugs and burns on lamps
Accidental stains or damages?** Call Guardian Protection Products at 800-538-9500
Service requests must be reported within 30 days of accident. A specific cause of the accident must be reported.
You will recieve a copy of your protection plan documents via the email address that you provided to your purchase. You may also view your documents online by using GuardianProtects.com and clicking on the ‘My Plan Documents’ button. Please review the terms and conditions of your plan. If you have any questions, contact Guardian Customer Service at (800) 538 - 9500.
*Covered after the manufacturer’s warranty has expired.
**Some exclusions apply. All coverages are for accidental occurences from a single incident, not an accumulation or buildup of stains and damages. See protection plan terms and conditions for details. A copy of the plan is available for review at your furniture retail location.
Protection plans provided by CNA Warranty Service, Inc. or one of its a liates and administered by Guardian Protection Products Inc.
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Bob’s Discount Furniture y el Plan de Protección
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Bob’s Discount Furniture y el Plan de Protección Guardian proporcionan un plan de protección inmejorable. Mi Plan de Protección Goof Proof cubre la mayoría de manchas accidentales y muchos daños accidentales por cinco años completos. Kit de Cuidado de Muebles de Bob Discount Furniture es parte del trato. El kit incluye dos botellas de 8 oz de productos de cuidado de muebles que le ayudará a limpiar las cosas pequeñas.
Las manchas o daños accidentals cubiertos:
Tela, Cuero y Vinilo
Todas las manchas accidentales (excepto materiales cáusticos y corrosivos):
Manchas de alimentos y bebidas (como vino, jugo, fórmula para bebés)
Manchas de cosméticos (como maquillaje, esmalte de uñas, quitaesmalte, lápiz labial y lociones corporales)
Fluidos corporales de humanos y mascotas
Manchas de tinta, marcador y crayón
Grasa, esmalte de zapatos y manchas de hierba y goma de mascar
Roturas accidentales, cortes, y quemaduras y roturas del motor:
Roturas, cortes y pinchazos (daños no intencionales de artículos como bolígrafos, tijeras y cuchillos)
Quemaduras (como cigarrillos, cigarrillos electrónicos y planchas)
Rotura de marcos, resortes, durmiente, reclinable, mecanismos de inclinación, calentamiento y vibración después que la garantía del fabricante ha expirado**
Descompostura o rotura de motores para sillones reclinables motorizados y muebles reclinables después de que la garantía del fabricante haya expirado, limitada a un solo incidente **
Superfi cies Duras y Muebles de Madera
Todas las manchas accidentales (excepto las cáusticas y sustancias corrosivas)
Cavidad, marca de calor o cualquier marca de líquido
Marca, rasguño o rotura de vidrio, componentes de espejo y pérdida de plata en los espejos
Rotura de madera u otra superficie dura
Rasgones en la sombra de la lámpara
Rotura de la lámpara
Daños al interruptor o al cable (puerto USB no incluido)
Alfombras de Area
Manchas de alimentos y bebidas
Manchas cosméticas
Los precios de Goof Proof de Bob's (cantidades basado en total parcial)
Subtotal de Orden
Estas son algunas excepciones que no están cubiertas*
Ciertas manchas, olores y desgaste general:
Manchas de materiales corrosivos que erosionan o pelan el acabado del color
Manchas que se acumulan con el tiempo (como suciedad o ensuciamiento general)
Desvanecimiento o decoloración que ocurre con el tiempo (que son causados por los productos para el cabello)
Olores resultantes de manchas
Problemas causados por mal uso o por el fabricante:
Daños por mal uso (como saltar sobre los muebles)
Defectos no cubiertos por la garantía de 1 año de Bob
Daños cubiertos por el seguro de propietarios o inquilinos o contratistas que trabajan en su hogar
Rasguños
Daños de animales o mascotas (como daños causados por picos, garras o mandíbulas)
Suciedad general en alfombras y quemaduras en lámparas.
Manchas y daños accidentales?** Llame a Guardian Protection Products (800) 538-9500. Reclamaciones deben notificarse dentro de 30 días.
La causa específica del accidente debe ser reportada.
Usted recibirá una copia de los documentos de su plan de protección a través de la dirección de correo electrónico que usted proporcionó a su vendedor minorista al momento de la compra. También puede ver los documentos en línea en GuardianProducts.com. Para ello, haga clic en el botón “My Plan Documents” (Documentos de mi plan). Revise los términos y condiciones de su plan. Si tiene alguna pregunta, comuníquese con el Servicio de Atención al Cliente de Guardian.
* Cubierta después de que la garantía del fabricante haya caducado.
**Algunas exclusiones aplican. Todas las coverturas accidentales son solo para un incidente, no accumulaciones de manchas o daños. Consulte el Plan de
Protección Guardian para detalles de los terminos y condiciones de cobertura completa. Una copia del plan esta disponible para revisar en su muebleria local. Se aplican algunas exclusiones. Consulte los términos y condiciones del plan de protección para obtener todos los detalles. Los planes de protección son proporcionados por CNA Warranty Service, Inc. o una de sus afi liadas, y son administrados por Guardian Protection Products, Inc.
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Bob's Discount Furniture, LLC ("Bob's," "we," "us" or "our") has created this website and our related mobile applications to provide online shoppers with a convenient forum to view and purchase furniture and other products. We refer to our website and mobile applications in this Privacy Policy as the "Website" or "Site".
Bob's is committed to respecting your privacy. This privacy policy and agreement (the "Privacy Policy") covers how we collect, use, and treat personal information that you may provide either (i) through our Website, (ii) by contacting us directly by phone, email, or another communications channel, or (iii) while visiting one of our physical locations (collectively, the "Services").
Our Privacy Policy applies to any visitor to the Website (collectively, "you"), including (i) casual visitors to our Site who do not sign up for an account on the Website ("Site Visitors"), and (ii) users who have registered with Bob's through the Website (collectively, "Registered Users").
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully because it creates legal obligations on you and on Bob's. You show your consent to this Privacy Policy by using our Website or visiting one of our physical locations (as applicable). We may also request your express consent when you become a Registered User or complete a purchase with us. In either event, you are acknowledging that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy, and agree to be legally bound by it. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please refrain from using our Services.
2. Types of Information We Collect
We collect a few categories of information as described in this Section 2 (Types of Information We Collect). We may collect this information through different sources as described in Section 3 (How We Collect Personal information) below.
We use the term "Personal Information" to mean any information that identifies you as an individual, and any other information we associate with it. We may receive Personal Information from you directly, such as:
Your name, email address, and password;
Other contact information including a physical address and phone number;
Your payment and billing information;
Any information or feedback you provide in communications with us through our Website or via social media, email or our customer call center;
Your orders and transactions with us.
If you provide us with any Personal Information relating to another individual, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
2.2 Online Activity Information
We also collect technical and device-related information through our Website and third party analytics tools we use (collectively, the "Online Activity Information"). Sometimes Online Activity can be associated with your Personal Information (as described below), otherwise it is considered Anonymous Information as described below.
2.3 Anonymous Information
In addition to Personal Information, we may also have (i) information that does not identify you or your devices, and (ii) de-identified Personal Information that no longer identifies you (collectively, "Anonymous Information"). Information that meets either these criteria might include, for example, demographic information, statistical information (e.g., page views and hit counts), and general tracking information. We use Anonymous Information for our business operations, for example, to engage in marketing and other activities in a manner that protects our customers, since Anonymous Information does not include Personal Information and, as such, is outside the scope of this Privacy Policy.
3. How We Collect Personal Information
As described below, we may collect information from you when you visit our Website, when you call us, and when you visit our stores. In some instances, we may also receive information about you from third parties such as service providers.
3.1 Site Visitors
As a Site Visitor, you decide whether to provide us with your Personal Information. We allow you to visit our Site, browse our products, and review other information about our Services without revealing your identity or otherwise providing any Personal Information. In that case, the only information that we collect from your visit will be Online Activity Information or Anonymous Information.
3.2 Registered Users
In order to participate in our Services as a Registered User, we will direct you to complete a registration form. Our registration forms will require certain Personal Information such as: (i) name; (ii) email address; (iii) mailing address; and (iv) phone number. Our registration forms may also request information that you can choose to provide or withhold. The registration process provides Registered Users with an email username and password, which allows them to gain access to password-protected portions of the Website and to otherwise use certain functionality available on our Site. This information is used by Bob's in providing the Website and related Services, as further detailed below. The benefits of becoming a Registered User are set forth on our Website and in our Terms of Use.
3.3 Purchasing Products; Order Fulfillment and Payment; Financing and Protection
When you purchase products or other services from our Website (such as gift cards), or begin the checkout process, we typically collect contact and payment information (such as credit card number, expiration date, and security code). We may already have this information on file if you are a Registered User. This information is used for billing purposes, order fulfillment, contacting you about your order, and sending you other communications (including notifying you via email about an abandoned online shopping cart), all as described further in this Privacy Policy. You may also be able to complete purchases without providing us with payment information, such as by using PayPal.
We may also assist you in providing information necessary to apply for offers provided by financing partners we work with. For more information, please see https://www.mybobs.com/financing-options. Likewise, we may assist you when you apply for, or make claims in connection with Bob's Goof Proof Furniture Protection Plan. For more information, please see https://www.mybobs.com/goof-proof.
3.4 Photographs and Videos
We may provide the ability for you to submit photos to us through our Website (either directly or through a third party service) for marketing purposes or to process a request from you. For example, we may allow you to submit a photo of a product in connection with a review, or to report delivery damage in order to obtain an exchange. We will use the photo(s) that you submit for the purpose for which they were submitted. It is your responsibility to ensure that any photo you submit do not include images of any individuals or other identifying information.
We may also enable you to use a mobile device to scan a space where you might like to place certain furniture to visualize how the space might look with the furniture you select, for more information about this augmented reality (AR) feature, please see https://www.mybobs.com/app.
3.5 Emails; Live Chat; Customer Service Calls
You may contact us by phone, email, or through our Site's "live chat" service with your questions, comments, or feedback concerning our Site or Services. By communicating with us for these purposes, you may provide us with your email address or other Personal Information, and we will use this information in connection with responding to you and to improve our Services and offerings.
3.6 Questionnaires and Surveys
Our Website may allow you to participate in surveys and questionnaires, and we may post responses on the Site from time to time. You are free to choose whether you participate in a survey or questionnaire. We may ask that, in addition to providing your responses, you also provide Personal Information. In these instances, we use any information that you provide to us for the purposes for which you submit the information. We may also add your Personal Information to your customer profile so that we can provide you a more personalized shopping experience on the Website, as well as for advertising and marketing purposes. Survey and questionnaire information may be used for the purposes of monitoring or improving the use and appeal of this Site or improving our business.
3.7 Newsletters and Special Offers
You may choose to sign up to receive communications from us including, for example, emails with information on deals, news, store openings, and other events. In addition, if you are a Registered User or have previously provided Bob's with your email address, we may choose to send news, bulletins, marketing materials, or other information. We may use your Personal Information or expressed preferences to determine which communications may interest you, and to send such communications. You can opt out of receiving these communications as provided in Section 11 (Your Choices Regarding Your Personal Information; Opting Out) below.
3.8 User-Generated Content
We may give you the ability through the Website to engage with us and others in public exchanges, and this may include opportunities for you to provide comments, reviews, recommendations, and other input via the Website (collectively, "User-Generated Content"). Please understand that, if you include Personal Information in User-Generated Content, others may be able to read, collect, re-publish, and otherwise freely use the Personal Information. We are not responsible for Personal Information that you decide to include in User-Generated Content, and we are not obligated to take down, remove, or edit User-Generated Content, except as required by applicable law. If your User-Generated Content includes Personal Information relating to others, you represent that you have full permission and authority to do so.
3.9 Collection of Personal Information Offline
If you purchase a product or service from us in one of our physical stores or by phone, we may ask you to provide us with various information including, but not limited to, your contact information. For example, we may use your contact information to send communications as described in this Privacy Policy, to more efficiently complete deliveries, to administer our Goof Proof Protection Plan, and for other purposes set out on the sales receipt that you receive at checkout or as otherwise set out in a document provided to you by our sales staff. If you provide information to us at our request, then we will strive to provide you with either verbal and/or written notice of this Privacy Policy upon your request for a copy of the Privacy Policy. We treat any information that you provide to us as Personal Information under this Privacy Policy.
3.10 Personal Information Received from Third Parties
We may receive information from third parties such as advertising and marketing partners, public databases (e.g., National Change of Address records), and social media platforms, to supplement the information we receive from our customers. If we do so, this Privacy Policy governs how we can use that information.
4. How We Collect Online Activity Information and Anonymous Information
We collect Online Activity Information and Anonymous Information to analyze the effectiveness of our Site, to improve our Website and our Services, and for other similar purposes. In addition, from time to time, we may undertake or commission statistical and other summary analyses of the general behavior and characteristics of Website users and the use of our Website and Services, and we may share such information with third parties, including advertisers. We may collect Online Activity Information and Anonymous Information through features of the software that support our Website and our Services, through cookies and through other means described below.
4.1 IP Addresses; Logs
Bob's may automatically receive and record information in our server logs from your browser, including your IP address (the Internet address of your computer), your computer's name, the type and version of your web browser, referrer addresses, and other generally-accepted log information. We may also record page views (hit counts) and other general statistical and tracking information, which will be aggregated with that of other users in order to understand how our Website is being used, and for security and monitoring purposes.
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier, that is sent to your browser from a website's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive. Cookies can be used to provide you with a tailored user experience and to make it easier for you to use a website upon future visits. We may include cookies on our Website and use them to recognize you when you return to our Website. You may set your browser so that it does not accept cookies. Cookies must be enabled on your web browser, however, if you wish to access certain personalized features of our Services.
4.3 Tags
We may use so-called "pixel tags" – small graphic images (also known as "web beacons" or "single-pixel gifs") – to tell us what parts of our Website have been visited or to measure the effectiveness of searches customers perform on our Site. Pixel tags also enable us to send email messages in a format customers can read, and they inform us whether emails have been opened, to help ensure that our messages are of interest to our customers. You can "opt-out" of receiving these types of emails from us by following the directions provided in Section 11 (Changing or Removing Information; Opting Out). As noted above, any Personal Information collected using such tools will be subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
4.4 Click-Throughs
We may send email messages, which use a "click-through URL" linked to content on our Website. When you click one of these URLs, you pass through our web server before arriving at the destination web page. We track this click-through data to help determine interest in particular topics and to measure the effectiveness of our customer communications. If you prefer not to be tracked simply do not click text or graphic links in the email, or notify us in accordance with Section 11 (Changing or Removing Information; Opting Out).
4.5 Computer Configuration
We may collect certain Anonymous Information in order to determine whether your computer is supported by our system. This information includes, but may not be limited to, your operating system and browser, the presence of any software that our Website may require to operate with your computer, or other third party software on your computer. This information is kept strictly confidential and is not shared with third parties, except as provided for in this Privacy Policy.
We use the information we collect or process, including Personal Information, Online Activity Information and Anonymous Information, as permitted under applicable law and consistent with the terms of this Privacy Policy. More specifically, we use the information we collect for the following purposes:
To provide you with the Services you request (on the Website, by phone, in our stores or otherwise), including use of our Website, to complete purchases, order fulfillment, returns and other needs associated with a transaction, to create and manage Registered User accounts, and to communicate with you regarding our Services;
To allow you to post User-Generated Content, submit photographs for marketing or other purposes and to process your requests using such photographs, use AR features of our mobile applications, and participate in surveys and questionnaires;
To respond to your inquiries;
To customize and enhance your use of our Website and Services, such as by personalizing your experience with us;
To provide communications that might interest you, including marketing messages and to inform you of products and services that we think would be appealing to you, whether the products or services are provided by us or by others, and whether the products or services are available via our Site or via a third party;
To verify your identity and to securely process your purchases or other requests for Services;
To perform analytics, quality control, market research, and to determine the effectiveness of our Site, promotional campaigns, to improve our current products, Services, and Site, and develop new products and services;
To perform internal administration, auditing, operation, and troubleshooting for our Site and Services;
To share the information with third parties strictly as permitted in Section 8 (How We May Disclose Your Information) below;
In addition to the uses specifically identified above, there may be instances where you request information and Services from us that are not described in this Privacy Policy. In our discretion, we can use information that you submit in order to provide such information and Services.
6. Treatment of Combined Information
To enable us to better understand the characteristics of our customers and/or to provide Services tailored to your needs, we may link your Personal Information with Online Activity Information associated with you or other Anonymous Information. If Online Activity Information or other Anonymous Information is ever associated or combined with your Personal Information (such as a name or email address), we will treat it as your Personal Information subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
7. Other Essential or Internal Uses of Information
We may also use information we collect as we believe to be necessary or appropriate for certain essential purposes, including:
To comply with applicable law and legal process;
To respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities;
To detect, prevent, or investigate potential security incidents or fraud;
To facilitate the functionality of our mobile applications and websites;
To provide important product safety information and notice of product recalls;
To enforce our terms and conditions;
To protect our operations or those of our affiliates;
To protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, security and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and
To allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
8. How We May Disclose Your Information
We will not disclose your Personal Information to third parties without your express consent, except in the following limited circumstances:
8.1 Bob's Vendors
We may employ other companies to perform functions on our behalf, such as development, maintenance and hosting of our Website, data analysis, payment processing, order fulfillment, product deliveries, IT services, customer service, email delivery services, administering our Goof Proof Protection Plan, consumer financing, and other functions necessary to our business operations (collectively, "Vendors"). We may need to share your Personal Information with our Vendors. We will only provide Vendors with information so they can perform their required functions, and we will not allow them to use your Personal Information for any other purpose.
Online Activity Information may be shared with our online and email advertisers or other third parties that provide cookies, pixel tags, or other similar technologies for use on our Site to manage and improve our online Services and marketing activities.
8.2 Safety and Security
We may reveal Personal Information to attorneys, investigators, or law enforcement if we believe it is necessary to address a situation where someone was harmed or at risk of harm from another, or someone is violating or likely to violated (either intentionally or unintentionally) our Terms of Use or otherwise violating the legal rights of any individual or entity.
8.3 Legal Obligation
Bob's will reveal your Personal Information to the extent we reasonably believe that we are required to do so by applicable law. If we receive legal process calling for the disclosure of your Personal Information, we will attempt to notify you via the email address you supplied during registration within a reasonable amount of time before we respond to the request, unless such notification is not permitted.
8.4 Corporate Transaction
Bob's may transfer to a third party all of the information that we have collected, including any Personal Information, in connection with a reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets, or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings). In such circumstances, the acquiring party will be subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
8.5 Our Affiliates
We may share information we collect with our "Affiliates", which are any entity that is closely related to us, such as any entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with Bob's Discount Furniture, LLC. Our affiliates will be subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
9. Accuracy and Minimization of Data
We take reasonable steps (i) to maintain the accuracy of the Personal Information we process, and (ii) to limit the Personal Information that we process to that which is reasonably necessary for the purposes for which we obtain the information. We may retain your Personal Information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide services to you, unless you request that we delete certain information in accordance with Section 11.3 (Access, Deletion, and Do-Not-Sell Requests) below.
We participate in online advertising to keep our customers up to speed on product offerings, site promotions, and associated content. Like many companies, we utilize targeted Bob's banners and ads and may display these to you when you are on other websites and apps. We do this using a variety of digital marketing networks and ad exchanges in addition to using a range of advertising technologies like web beacons, pixels, ad tags, cookies, and mobile identifiers, as well as specific services offered by some sites and social networks. The banners and ads that you may see displayed will be based on information we hold about you, such as your previous use of our Site. This may include your Website search history, the content you read on the Site, or on Bob's banners or ads you have previously clicked on. Additionally, our Site may include the use of ad banner partners for the serving and/or targeting of ads, promotions, and other marketing messages. These ads may be provided, in some cases, by a third party ad service provider or advertiser (collectively, "Advertisers"). Additionally, Advertisers may place or utilize their own cookies on your browser and may use Online Activity Information or other Anonymous Information about your visit to our Site. If an Advertiser requests that you provide Personal Information to it or otherwise accept its cookie on your browser, please be aware that the Advertiser's use and collection of this information and use of any cookies will be governed by its privacy policy or other relevant agreement, and not our Privacy Policy. We recommend that you review the Advertiser's privacy policy before providing Personal Information. You may choose not to receive targeted advertising from certain ad networks, data exchanges, marketing analytics, and other service providers as indicated at: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
11. Your Choices Regarding Your Personal Information; Opting Out
11.1 Discretionary Account Information
To allow appropriate control over Personal Information, you can view, change, or update discretionary information that you have previously submitted either by contacting us as provided in Section 21 (Contact Us) below or by accessing your account on our Website if you are a Registered User.
11.2 Opt-Out of Marketing Communications
If we choose to send to you bulletins, updates, or other marketing-related materials, we will provide you with the ability to decline – or "opt out" – of receiving such communications. Instructions for opting-out will be provided if and when we determine to send you such a communication. For example, if you no longer wish to receive email messages from us, you can opt out of this Service by either (i) following the "unsubscribe" instructions located near the bottom of each email message, or (ii) contacting us as provided in Section 21 (Contact Us) below. Please understand that we may still communicate with you in connection with administrative notices concerning any transactions, operation of the Site and legal notices.
11.3 Access, Deletion, and Do-Not-Sell Requests
BOB'S IS CURRENTLY IMPLEMENTING INTERNAL CHANGES TO FULFILL REQUESTS SUBMITTED UNDER THIS SECTION 11.3 (Access, Deletion, and Do-Not-Sell Requests). UNTIL SUCH CHANGES ARE COMPLETED, BOB'S MAY NOT BE ABLE TO FULFILL CERTAIN REQUESTS. BOB'S WILL NOTIFY THOSE MAKING A REQUEST IF SUCH REQUEST IS IMPACTED BY ONGOING INTERNAL CHANGES. PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE REQUESTS MAY ONLY BE AVAILABLE FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS AT THIS TIME.
We provide the following additional rights with respect to your Personal Information:
You may request a copy of the following: (1) the categories of Personal Information we collected about you; (2) the categories of sources from which the Personal Information is collected; (3) the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling (if applicable) the Personal Information; (4) the categories of third parties with whom we share Personal Information; and (5) the specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you.
You may request that we delete your Personal Information. Note that deletion requests are subject to a number of limitations, for example, we may keep Personal Information as permitted by law, such as for tax or other record keeping purposes, to maintain an active account, to process transactions and facilitate customer requests, and for other internal business purposes consistent with the terms under which it was collected.
You may request that we do not share your Personal Information with third parties to be used for purposes not described in this Privacy Policy. The California Consumer Privacy Act refers to this as a "Do Not Sell" request. Bob's only shares Personal Information with Vendors and others described above for purposes identified in this Privacy Policy, but Online Activity Information or Anonymous Information collected by the Vendors providing pixels or other third party technologies on our Website could potentially be used by those Vendors for their own purposes, some of whom may be able to associate such information with you based on other information they have collected independently (not from Bob's). We will endeavor to block such sharing upon request.
You can submit any of these requests at www.mybobs.com/privacyrequest or by contacting us at (877) 378-0281. You may authorize another person (your "Agent") to submit a request on your behalf the same way. Shortly after you (or your Agent) submit a request, we will contact you (usually via email) with instructions on how to verify the submitted request before we fulfill it. Please be advised that these requests are unrelated to an opt-out of marketing communications, which can be done as provided in Section 11.2 (Opt-Out of Marketing Communications) above.
Please be advised that Bob's will fulfill these requests in its reasonable discretion or as otherwise required by applicable law. Likewise, we will aim to complete such requests as soon as reasonably practicable and consistent with any applicable law.
If you otherwise have concerns or objections with our processing of your Personal Information, please contact us as provided in Section 21 below.
We have implemented security measures and other safeguards designed to prevent unauthorized access to, or disclosure of, Personal Information that you provide to us. Our Site's password-protected portions require users to give us unique identifiers such as their email username and password. Bob's employees are directed to respect the confidentiality of individuals' Personal Information. Additionally, we direct Affiliates and Vendors to implement security measures and handle Personal Information consistent with this Privacy Policy. Access to Bob's databases containing Personal Information is restricted to a need-to-know basis. Our security measures and other safeguards are aimed at deterring and preventing hackers and others from unauthorized access to information that you provide to us. We also monitor network traffic for unauthorized attempts to access or change information, or otherwise cause damage to our systems or Personal Information we maintain. However, due to the nature of internet communications and information technology, we cannot provide, and expressly disclaim, assurance that the information you provide us will remain free from loss, misuse, or alteration by third parties who, despite our efforts, obtain unauthorized access.
13. Notice of Security Incident
If we detect unauthorized access to Personal Information (an "Intrusion"), we will: (i) notify affected users of the Intrusion if the information at issue is sensitive, in our discretion; (ii) deliver this notice by the means we deem most efficient under the circumstances; (iii) use contact information for each affected user that is current in our files; and (iv) use commercially reasonable efforts to accomplish these steps in a timely manner. To the extent applicable law requires steps in addition to those specified above, we will comply with applicable law.
14. Participation of Children and Teens; Advisory
WE DO NOT ALLOW INDIVIDUALS WHO WE KNOW OR BELIEVE ARE UNDER 13 TO PARTICIPATE IN OUR SITE OR SERVICES. YOU MUST BE AT LEAST 13 YEARS OLD TO USE OUR SITE AND SERVICES. IF YOU ARE BETWEEN 13 AND THE APPLICABLE AGE OF MAJORITY, PLEASE REVIEW THIS AGREEMENT WITH YOUR PARENT OR GUARDIAN. If you believe that we might have received Personal Information from an individual under 13 years old, please contact us as directed in Section 21 (Contact Us) below.
15. Notice of Privacy Rights to California Residents
California law requires certain businesses to respond to requests from California users who ask about business practices related to disclosing Personal Information to third parties for direct marketing purposes. The California "Shine the Light" law further requires us to allow California residents to opt out of certain disclosures of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.
With respect to the California Consumer Privacy Act:
Bob's does not provide a financial incentive or a price or service difference to customers in exchange for the retention or sale of their Personal Information. We may send promotions and other offers to those individuals subscribing to our marketing communications and, unless an individual has opted out of such communications, the individual will continue to receive such communications irrespective of whether a disclosure, deletion, or "Do Not Sell" request has been submitted. Bob's does not offer financial incentives to deter customers from making such requests. Bob's will not discriminate against any customer for exercising their privacy rights, including those provided by applicable law.
Bob's will endeavor to report customer request metrics when they become available.
If you are a job applicant submitting Personal Information to Bob's in connection with an application for employment, you will be provided with a privacy notice regarding how we handle such information as part of the application process.
If you have any questions about Bob's privacy practices, including in connection with the California Consumer Privacy Act, please contact us as directed in Section 21 (Contact Us) below.
16. Feedback, Concerns and Complaints
We want to hear from you. If you have feedback, suggestions on how we can improve our Services or complaints you would like us to address, please contact us as directed in Section 21 (Contact Us) below. If you are a California resident, you may report complaints to the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs. Other states may provide similar avenues for lodging complaints. Please check with your state's consumer protection authority.
17. Notification of Changes
Bob's may update its Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post a notice of the new Privacy Policy on our Website. Your subsequent use of our Site following any such change constitutes your agreement to follow and be bound by the Privacy Policy, as updated.
18. Our Affiliates
We may choose to rely on, and share information with our Affiliates for certain purposes under this Privacy Policy. You agree that Bob's Affiliates will be entitled to enjoy our rights under this Privacy Policy and, in exchange, our Affiliates adhere to this Privacy Policy.
19. Relationship to Terms of Use
This Privacy Policy must be read together with our Terms of Use, and the Terms of Use is incorporated therein. If Terms of Use conflict with this Privacy Policy, then this Privacy Policy shall control. If the terms of any other contract between you and Bob's conflict with the terms of this Privacy Policy, this Privacy Policy will control with respect to your Personal Information.
20. Third Party Sites; International Considerations
Our Site may link to (or be linked from) another website, mobile application, social media platform or other online service. We have no control over such third parties and are not responsible for the content, availability, or security of such linked third-party websites, so please read their privacy policies carefully. Third parties may use your information for their own purposes, including behavioral or advertising purposes. The inclusion of a link on our Site to a third party does not necessarily imply endorsement of the third-party website or its products or services, and is provided for your convenience only. If you decide to access any of the third-party websites linked to our Site, you do so subject to the terms and conditions of use for such third-party websites. Any Personal Information that you provide through a third-party website, mobile application, social media platform or other online service will be subject to the privacy policy of its operator and not this Privacy Policy.
Our Website and Services are primarily intended for use within the United States. While our primary data centers are in the United States, we may transfer information outside of the United States. In addition, we may employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. If we disclose personal information to a third party or to our employees outside of the United States, we will seek assurances that any information we may provide to them is safeguarded adequately and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. By providing your Personal Information, you consent to any transfer and processing in accordance with this Privacy Policy and understand that we operate under applicable laws within the United States.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this Site, or your dealings with this Site, please contact us using the methods provided on https://www.mybobs.com/contact-us page.
22. Do No Track Notice
Our Website does not change its behavior when receiving "Do Not Track" signals from browser software, and handles all Personal Information consistent with this Privacy Policy.
23. Effective Date
The effective date of this Privacy Policy is December 11, 2019.
24. COPYRIGHT AND LEGAL NOTICE
Copyright ©2019 Bob's Discount Furniture, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Bob's Discount Furniture, LLC
Our Website (available at www.mybobs.com) and our related mobile application (collectively, the "Website", or "Site") is provided to you by Bob's Discount Furniture, LLC ("Bob's," "we," "us" or "our").
To assist you in using our Website, and to explain the relationship arising from your use of our Site and the information, products, and services offered through it, we have created (i) these Terms of Use (the "Terms of Use" or "Terms"), and (ii) a Privacy Policy. Our Privacy Policy explains how we treat certain information that we have about you and our Terms govern your use of our Site and participation in our Website Services. Our Terms apply to any visitor to the Website (collectively, "you"), including (i) casual visitors to our Site who do not sign up for an account on the Website ("Site Visitors"), and (ii) users who have registered with Bob's through the Website ("Registered Users"). These Terms only apply to your use of the Website and receipt of information and services through the Site. These Terms do not apply to information, products, and services that you obtain from Bob's through other means.
PLEASE READ THIS DOCUMENT CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU USE OUR SITE. BY USING THE WEBSITE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS, PLEASE DO NOT USE OUR SITE.
1. Your Agreement. These Terms govern your use of the Website. Please read these Terms carefully as they impose legal obligations on you and us. By accessing and using our Website or downloading our mobile applications, you acknowledge and agree to be legally bound by these Terms. In addition, for certain activities on the Site, we may further confirm your consent by asking you to click an "I accept", or similar button. If you do not agree with these Terms, please refrain from using our Site (including our mobile applications).
2. Obtaining a Password Use of Your Password. Customers are allowed to create an account on the Website in order to move through the online checkout process faster, store multiple shipping addresses, view orders, and take advantage of other helpful services that we offer. Online accounts are accessible only to Registered Users that have a username and password. If you are a Registered User and obtain a username and password, please keep in mind that we will treat anyone who uses your username and password as "you". We will provide this user with all of the rights and privileges that we provide to you, and we will hold you responsible for user activities associated with your username and password. We therefore recommend that you maintain your username and password in confidence, and that you refrain from disclosing this information to anyone who might "pretend" to be you with respect to your use of our Website. Please notify us immediately if you suspect that someone is using your username and password in an inappropriate manner.
3. Grant of Rights to Users. Based on your agreement to comply with these Terms, we grant you a non-exclusive license to (1) access and use all publicly available and, if expressly authorized, password-protected areas of our Website, Website Content, and Website Services in order to: (i) learn more about Bob's and the products and services that we offer; (ii) provide information to us through our Website; (iii) purchase Bob's products; (iv) download and print pages from our Website; and (v) access other information that we make available through our Website; and (2) download and use the mobile application in compliance with its available features and functionality (collectively, the "General Permitted Purposes"). You agree that the Website, Website Content, and Website Services are made available solely for your personal, non-commercial use, and that the General Permitted Purposes allow only personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of the Website, Website Content, and Website Services is strictly prohibited.
4. Bob's Ownership; Reservation of Rights. All information, software, artwork, trademarks, text, video, audio, pictures, logos, and other content on the Website or embodied in our products and services, including all associated intellectual property rights (collectively, the "Website Content"), is the property of My Bob's and its licensors, are protected by U.S. and international copyright and other intellectual property laws, or are used under principles of fair use. Bob's and its licensors retain all rights with respect to the Website, Website Content, and Website Services except those expressly granted to you in these Terms. You agree not to duplicate, publish, display, distribute, modify, or create derivative works from the material available through the Website or Website Services unless specifically authorized in writing to do so by Bob's. The term "Website Content" expressly excludes Submitted Content.
5. Submitted Content. The term "Submitted Content" means information that you submit to our Site or otherwise make available via #mybobsfurniture, including, but not limited to: (i) feedback, comments, and suggestions you provide to us; (ii) questions or comments that you provide to us; (iii) images and audiovisual files that you provide to us; and (iv) any other information or materials you provide to us or post directly or indirectly on our Site or using the reference hashtag.
5.1 Grant of Rights in Submitted Content. By providing Submitted Content, and subject to your rights in Personal Information set out in our Privacy Policy, you authorize us to copy, modify, display, distribute, perform, use, and otherwise exploit the Submitted Content in any manner and in any location, channel, or medium, all without compensation to you and for so long as we deem warranted (collectively, the "Use Rights"). In addition, you authorize us to grant any third party some or all of the Use Rights. By way of example, and not limitation, the Use Rights include the right for us to publish Submitted Content on our Website in whole or in part, and whether cropped, adopted, altered, or otherwise manipulated, for as long as we choose.
5.2 Requisite Permission for Providing Submitted Content. By providing Submitted Content, you represent and warrant that you own such Submitted Content (including any copyright and other intellectual property rights therein), or that you have obtained sufficient authority and right in and to the Submitted Content in order to provide the Use Rights. For example, by emailing us a testimonial of your experience with our products along with a photo of that experience, you represent and warrant to us that you have obtained the necessary permission from anyone appearing in the photograph to grant us the Use Rights in the photograph.
5.3 Submitted Content Containing Personal Information. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, if you provide Submitted Content to the Website, by way of email or otherwise, we will treat such Submitted Content as non-confidential and non-proprietary to you. Submitted Content that you provide to us may, once published, be publicly available to anyone. Although we may review Submitted Content prior to using it, we make no representations or warranties regarding any Submitted Content or our review of such Submitted Content. In addition, any Personal Information that is included in Submitted Content may be posted on our Site or otherwise used and may be made publicly available. For example, you may include your name, mailing address, and email address in a product review. This information will be publicly available. As such, please use discretion when including Personal Information and other details in Submitted Content that you provide to us.
5.4 Right to Decline Submitted Content. We expressly reserve the right to refuse to use (or to disable or remove) Submitted Content that we conclude, in our sole discretion, violates these Terms or our Privacy Policy, or is incompatible with the purposes of our Website or operations.
6. Code of Conduct; Revocation or Suspension of Use Privileges. By using our Website, you agree to comply with these Terms, and to follow our Code of Conduct, which is set out below. Under this Code of Conduct, you shall not:
- Upload, email, or otherwise transmit any image or other content that is unlawful, obscene, harmful, hateful, invades the privacy of any third party, contains nudity or pornography, or is otherwise objectionable.
- Disseminate materials that impact or invade the privacy of others, such as photographs, video clips, sound recordings, Personal Information, or other materials that reveal personal, private, or sensitive information about another person, without that person's consent.
- Submit material that is intentionally false, defamatory, unlawfully threatening, or unlawfully harassing.
- Infringe any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy. Electronic materials – such as music, videos, images and text in electronic form – can easily be copied, modified, and sent over the internet. These electronic materials are thus extremely vulnerable to unauthorized distribution and copyright infringement. These materials may not be transmitted over the Website without the copyright owner's permission or without a legitimate "fair use" justification for the transmittal.
- Transmit materials that contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, or other computer-programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept, or expropriate any system, data, or Personal Information.
- Use the Website to artificially generate traffic or page links to a website or for any other purpose not expressly allowed under these Terms.
- Use the Website in a manner that could disable, overburden, or impair the Website or Website Services or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the Website and Website Services, such as through sending "spam."
- Use the Website to test or reverse engineer the Website in order to find limitations, vulnerabilities, or to evade filtering capabilities.
- Seek to obtain access to any materials or information through "hacking", "data harvesting", or through other means we have not intentionally made available to you through the Website.
- Use the Website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms. For example, you will not use the Website to violate any law, statute, or regulation (including, without limitation, those governing export control, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination, or false advertising.
We reserve the right at any time to terminate or suspend your use of some or all of the Website if you engage in activities that we conclude, in our sole discretion, breach our Code of Conduct or otherwise violate these Terms or our Privacy Policy.
7. Links to Third Party Sites. Our Website may contain links or references to other websites. We have no control over these other sites or their content and do not assume responsibility or liability for any content, opinions, or material available on them. We do not endorse the content of any third party site, nor do we warrant that a third party site will be free of computer viruses or other harmful code that can impact your computer or other web-access device. If you link to any third party site through the Website, Website Content, or Website Services, please be aware that you are doing so at your own risk. We encourage you to review any third party website's terms of use and privacy policy as those, and not our Terms and Privacy Policy, are applicable to your use of their site and any information that they collect.
8. Disclaimer of Endorsements; Information Accuracy. The information made available through the Website (including, but not limited to, Submitted Content provided by other users), Website Services, and Website Content is made without any endorsement of any kind by Bob's. In addition, while we may review information before it is posted on our Website, we do not undertake to validate the accuracy and timeliness of this information.
9. Website Terms of Purchase. Any purchases you make through our Website are governed by our Cancellations / Refunds Policy, which can be found at Returns and Exchanges.
10. California Prop 65. Bob's products contain chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer or birth defects or other reproductive harm.
11. Warranty Disclaimer. On our Website you are able to: (i) obtain information about our products and services; (ii) purchase our products; (iii) manage your contact and billing information if you have previously provided it through the Website; (iv) keep track of your orders; and (v) use other services that we may make available to you from time-to-time (collectively, "Website Services"). This Section 11 (Warranty Disclaimer) applies only to our Website Services. Our Cancellations / Refunds Policy, which can be found at Returns and Exchanges, cover warranties and warranty disclaimers for goods and services that you have purchased.
We do not promise that the Website, Website Services, or Website Content will be error-free, uninterrupted, or without inaccuracies. The Website, Website Services, and Website Content are all provided on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis. We do not represent or warrant that the Website, Website Services, Website Content or files you download from the Site will be free of viruses, inaccuracies, or other harmful features. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, BOB'S DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT USE OF THE WEBSITE, WEBSITE CONTENT, AND WEBSITE SERVICES IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK.
12. Limitation of Liability. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORT, OR NEGLIGENCE, WILL BOB'S BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING LOST PROFITS) THAT ARISE OUT OF, OR ARE RELATED TO, YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE, WEBSITE CONTENT, OR WEBSITE SERVICES. IN NO EVENT SHALL BOB'S AGGREGATE LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY LOSS, DAMAGE, OR CLAIM RELATED TO OR ARISING OUT OF THE WEBSITE, WEBSITE CONTENT, OR WEBSITE SERVICES RECEIVED FROM BOB'S EXCEED U.S. $250.00.
13. Indemnity. You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold Bob's and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, agents, and employees harmless from any liability to third parties, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising from or related to your breach of these Terms or a claim that Submitted Content or other material that you provide to us violates rights held by a third party.
14. Contact for Alleged Copyright Infringement. We respect the intellectual property rights of others and require that our users do the same. If you believe that any content available on our Site or any other activity taking place on the Site constitutes infringement of a work protected by copyright law, please notify our agent, designated under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512) (the "DMCA") to respond to such concerns, as follows:
Christian Ambrosio
Bob's Discount Furniture
428 Tolland Turnpike
Christian.Ambrosio@mybobs.com
Your notice must comply with the DMCA. Upon receipt of a proper notice, we will respond and proceed in accordance with the DMCA.
We have implemented a repeat infringer policy to address instances in which a particular user is subject to multiple DMCA notifications (the "Repeat Infringer Policy"). If we determine that a user has violated our Repeat Infringer Policy, then we may take in our sole discretion any number of steps including, but not limited to, issuing warnings to the applicable user, suspending or terminating that user's account, and/or any interim measures that we deem appropriate.
15. Monitoring Website Use. You agree that we have the right and discretion to monitor any activity and content associated with our Website, Website Content, and Website Services. We may investigate any reported violation of these Terms or complaints relating to the Website, Website Content, and Website Services, and may take any action that we believe is appropriate including, but not limited to, removing materials from the Website and terminating/suspending your access to the Website.
16. Modifications to these Terms. If we modify these Terms, then such modifications shall take effect proactively, upon your subsequent access to the Website. You may print out a copy of these Terms for your records.
17. Assignment. These Terms shall not be assignable by you, either in whole or in part. We reserve the right to assign the rights and obligations under these Terms for any reason and in our sole discretion.
18. Definitions.
18.1 Personal Information. The term "Personal Information" has the meaning set out in our Privacy Policy.
18.2 Submitted Content. The term "Submitted Content" has the meaning set out in Section 5 (Submitted Content) of these Terms of Use.
18.3 Website Content. The term "Website Content" has the meaning set out in Section 4 (Bob's Ownership; Reservation of Rights).
18.4 Website Services. The term "Website Services" has the meaning set out in Section 11 (Warranty Disclaimer). The Term "Website Services" expressly excludes those services that you may obtain from third parties through our Website, Website Content, and links available on our Website to third-party sites.
19. General. These Terms shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without giving effect to its conflicts of law provisions. Both parties submit to the personal jurisdiction of and venue in, the state and federal courts sitting in the judicial district that includes Boston, Massachusetts. The parties further agree that any cause of action arising under these Terms shall exclusively be brought in such courts. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be struck and the remaining provisions shall be enforced. Headings are for reference purposes only and in no way define, limit, construe, or describe the scope or extent of such section. Our failure to act with respect to a breach by you or others does not waive our right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches.
20. Claims Against Other Users. You agree that in the event that you have any right, claim, or action against visitors or other users of our Website arising out of that person's use of the Website, then you will pursue such right, claim, or action independently of and without recourse to us.
21. Translations. These Terms may be translated into languages other than English (collectively, "Translations"). Any communications sent by us to you shall be sent in English. Dispute resolution procedures arising out of either these Terms or the Translations shall be conducted in English, and the English version of these Terms shall control over the Translations.
22. Survival. In addition to any right or obligation that by its nature or intent is intended to survive any termination or expiration of these Terms, the following provisions shall survive the termination or expiration of these Terms and shall apply indefinitely: (i) Section 4 (Bob's Ownership; Reservation of Rights); (ii) Section 5 (Submitted Content); (iii) Section 8 (Disclaimer of Endorsements; Information Accuracy); (iv) Section 9 (Warranty Disclaimer); (v) Section 12 (Limitation of Liability); (vi) Section 13 (Indemnity); (vii) Section 19 (General); and (viii) Section 22 (Survival).
23. Contact Us. We welcome your feedback or suggestions. Please contact us at: Contact Us. Please refer to Section 14 (Contact for Alleged Copyright Infringement) above if you wish to contact our DMCA agent about matters related to possible copyright infringement.
24. Additional Terms. Certain portions of the Website and Website Services may be subject to additional or different terms and conditions. We will notify you if those portions of the Website or Website Services are subject to terms and conditions that differ from these Terms, and you will have the opportunity to decline to participate in those portions of the Website or applicable Website Services if you do not agree with the differing terms and conditions.
25. Duration of Rights. The license we grant to you in the mobile application portion of our Site will continue until the earlier of (i) your deletion of the mobile application from your applicable device; (ii) our cessation of support for, or offering of, the mobile application; and (iii) your failure to comply with these Terms.
26. Complete Agreement. These Terms of Use must be read in conjunction with our Privacy Policy, and our Cancellations / Refunds Policy, and the provisions of our Privacy Policy and our Cancellations / Refunds Policy are incorporated herein. To the extent that the Terms of Use conflict with the Privacy Policy, the terms of the Privacy Policy shall control. To the extent the Terms of Use conflict with the Cancellations / Refunds Policy, the Cancellations / Refunds Policy shall control. Please note that, except as expressly stated otherwise, these Terms of Use only apply to your use of our Website. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, and the Cancellations / Refunds Policy set forth the entire understanding and agreement between you and us with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede any prior or contemporaneous understanding, whether written or oral.
27. Effective Date. December 11, 2019.
28. COPYRIGHT AND LEGAL NOTICE. Copyright ©2019 Bob's Discount Furniture LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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Legislative branch: This entry contains information on the structure (unicameral, bicameral, tricameral), formal name, number of seats, and term of office. Elections includes the nature of election process or accession to power, date of the last election, and date of the next election. Election results includes the percent of vote and/or number of seats held by each party in the last election.
Political parties and leaders: Significant political organizations and their leaders.
Political pressure groups and leaders: Organizations with leaders involved in politics, but not standing for legislative election.
Suffrage: The age at enfranchisement and whether the right to vote is universal or restricted
Administrative divisions 80 provinces and 39 chartered cities
provinces: Abra, Agusan del Norte, Agusan del Sur, Aklan, Albay, Antique, Apayao, Aurora, Basilan, Bataan, Batanes, Batangas, Biliran, Benguet, Bohol, Bukidnon, Bulacan, Cagayan, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, Camiguin, Capiz, Catanduanes, Cavite, Cebu, Compostela, Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, Davao Oriental, Dinagat Islands, Eastern Samar, Guimaras, Ifugao, Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, Iloilo, Isabela, Kalinga, Laguna, Lanao del Norte, Lanao del Sur, La Union, Leyte, Maguindanao, Marinduque, Masbate, Mindoro Occidental, Mindoro Oriental, Misamis Occidental, Misamis Oriental, Mountain Province, Negros Occidental, Negros Oriental, North Cotabato, Northern Samar, Nueva Ecija, Nueva Vizcaya, Palawan, Pampanga, Pangasinan, Quezon, Quirino, Rizal, Romblon, Samar, Sarangani, Siquijor, Sorsogon, South Cotabato, Southern Leyte, Sultan Kudarat, Sulu, Surigao del Norte, Surigao del Sur, Tarlac, Tawi-Tawi, Zambales, Zamboanga del Norte, Zamboanga del Sur, Zamboanga Sibugay
chartered cities: Angeles, Antipolo, Bacolod, Baguio, Butuan, Cagayan de Oro, Caloocan, Cebu, Cotabato, Dagupan, Davao, General Santos, Iligan, Iloilo, Lapu-Lapu, Las Pinas, Lucena, Makati, Malabon, Mandaluyong, Mandaue, Manila, Marikina, Muntinlupa, Naga, Navotas, Olongapo, Ormoc, Paranaque, Pasay, Pasig, Puerto Princesa, Quezon, San Juan, Santiago, Tacloban, Taguig, Valenzuela, Zamboanga 2012
Capital city > Geographic coordinates 14 2009
Capital city > Name Manila 2011
Constitution several previous; latest ratified 2 February 1987, effective 11 February 1987 2013
Diplomatic representation from the US > Mailing address PSC 500, FPO AP 96515-1000 2013
Executive branch > Cabinet Cabinet appointed by the president with consent of Commission of Appointments 2013
Executive branch > Chief of state President Benigno AQUINO (since 30 June 2010); Vice President Jejomar BINAY (since 30 June 2010) 2013
Executive branch > Head of government President Benigno AQUINO (since 30 June 2010) 2013
Government type republic 2013
Judicial branch Supreme Court (15 justices are appointed by the president on the recommendation of the Judicial and Bar Council and serve until 70 years of age); Court of Appeals; Sandigan-bayan (special court for hearing corruption cases of government officials) 2012
Legal system mixed legal system of civil, common, Islamic, and customary law 2013
Legislative branch bicameral Congress or Kongreso consists of the Senate or Senado (24 seats - one-half elected every three years; members elected at large by popular vote to serve six-year terms) and the House of Representatives or Kapulungan Ng Nga Kinatawan; the House has 287 seats including 230 members in one tier representing districts and 57 sectoral party-list members in a second tier representing special minorities elected on the basis of one seat for every 2% of the total vote but with each party limited to three seats; a party represented in one tier may not hold seats in the other tier; all House members are elected by popular vote to serve three-year terms 2011
Political parties and leaders Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino (Struggle of Filipino Democrats) or LDP [Edgardo ANGARA]
Lakas ng EDSA-Christian Muslim Democrats or Lakas-CMD [Manuel "Mar" ROXAS]
Liberal Party or LP [Manuel ROXAS]
Nacionalista Party or NP [Manuel "Manny" VILLAR]
Nationalist People's Coalition or NPC [Frisco SAN JUAN]
PDP-Laban [Aquilino PIMENTEL]
People's Reform Party [Miriam Defensor SANTIAGO]
Puwersa ng Masang Pilipino (Force of the Philippine Masses) or PMP [Joseph ESTRADA]
Political pressure groups and leaders Black and White Movement [Vicente ROMANO]
Kilosbayan [Jovito SALONGA] 2013
Suffrage 18 years of age; universal 2013
SOURCES: CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011
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Diplomatic representation in the US 6 Red tape 22
Executive branch 5 Spending 13
Foreign relations 7 Start-up procedures to register a business 3
General government final 10 Trademarks 6
Key ministers 8 Transnational Issues 6
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Joisbel Castro Ramirez is a Materials Welding Technologist. Her dual-focused role is divided between developing the steel and welding technology for the Future Submarine Program, and working with the Technologist team to help source Australian suppliers for the materials for the build of the Attack class submarines.
What do you enjoy most about your role?
I really enjoy visiting the suppliers; it gives me an opportunity to head out of the office and breaks up the daily working routine. I enjoy meeting new people and learning about the processes that are used to manufacture the different materials our suppliers produce.
I enjoy seeing the development of different ideas, and it’s really interesting and rewarding to see brand new capabilities being developed in Australia.
How did you get to where you are today?
I’m originally from Venezuela, in South America. I’ve always had an interest in chemistry and science, and engineering covers a lot of that subject matter. I completed a Bachelor of Engineering and then I decided to move to Australia, which was a big change and a huge challenge for me.
I then studied in Adelaide at UniSA, and completed a Masters degree in Marketing. I feel my skills lie somewhere between being an Engineer and Marketer; I enjoy the technical aspects of engineering but also enjoy stakeholder engagement.
It’s been a long journey to get to where I am today, with a lot of study and hard work. It’s also challenging living so far away from my family, but I’m really happy to now be living in Adelaide and working on such an exciting and innovative program.
What has been the most surprising thing you have found about your role and working at Naval Group Australia?
I’ve been very surprised (and pleased) at how respected my input and professional opinion is as an engineer. As a female in a male dominated field, it can sometimes be intimidating but at Naval Group everyone is very open and listens to what you have to say. I really feel a part of the team, and that my input is valued.
Could you describe the two aspects of your current role in more detail?
My role is 50% developing the Australian steel for the program which includes plates and forgings for the pressure hull and structural steel to support the infrastructure. In this area the qualification of Australian suppliers has already started and my main activities are to witness different stages of the manufacturing process and ensure they are compliant with Naval Group standards.
In the other 50% of my time I work with the fluid technologist team looking after raw materials to be used in the common technology (products that are not specific to submarines, are used across other industries). In this area we are currently sourcing Australian manufacturers or resellers for the different requirements that the submarine has. The second stage will be to prepare qualification plans for these suppliers and finally begin the qualification process to select the ideal suppliers.
What are the stakes (for the overall program) of the steel qualification process?
The steel qualification process it is one of the critical pathways of the program. It is the first time that Australia is making this grade of steel from beginning to end to support the structure of our twelve submarines. Getting the quality of the steel right means improving the local manufacturing capacity of Australia steel makers and ensuring our program is supporting the local content. In addition, using local manufacturers could reduce the lead time of buying steel from overseas. Another important point is that the recipe for this steel grade is kept within our country and the risks or other countries knowing the exact material. If the qualification process is successful, Australian steel would be used from submarine 1 to 12 ensuring the sovereignty of the program.
What do you most look forward to in the next few months?
I look forward to witnessing all the tests involved in the steel qualification process. This involves different test such as bending the plates, performing tensile and charpy tests and explosion tests, which will ensure our steel is resistant enough for the worst possible scenarios. From my technologist role I look forward to start the qualification process and to support Australian manufacturers to achieve Naval Group standards.
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JJ Arcega-Whiteside and the art of pumping the brakes
By Dave Zangaro May 09, 2019 9:00 AM
Just a few months ago, Eagles second-round pick JJ Arcega-Whiteside had just one speed: Frenetic.
It was up to 17-year NFL veteran Ricky Proehl to teach him how to slow down with purpose, how to get smoother.
“It’s like a race car,” Proehl said to NBC Sports Philadelphia this week. “They don’t come in full throttle, pedal to the floor, on a turn. They downshift in and then accelerate out. That’s what you want to do in your routes and change of direction.”
There’s an art to this.
Proehl, 51, said when he first met Arcega-Whiteside in January, the soon-to-be draft pick, on a scale of 1-10, had his speed dial turned up to an 11. Proehl needed him to dial it back some, to an 8 or 9, to be a little smoother as he prepared for pre-draft testing.
Sure, this adjustment helped Arcega-Whiteside in his pre-draft testing drills, but it’s also a skill that’s helpful in game action. It should aid him in getting in and out of cuts with more efficiency.
Think about this example from Proehl: If you’re running a “come-backer” and a corner is with you, you wouldn’t run faster than him if your job is to get back inside of him. In that case, it’s all about patience. Arcega-Whiteside had a pretty good sense of that in game action, but he especially needed to pump the brakes in drills on air (without a defense).
“He taught me how to slow things down, how to make things easier on myself, coming in and out of breaks was the biggest thing,” Arcega-Whiteside said last week. “He thought that I was just going too fast, just trying to run too hard, so he slowed it down for me, just being smooth, in and out of cuts and all that good stuff.”
Proehl, who played for six franchises during his 17-year career as an NFL receiver, is the owner of Proehlific Park training in Greensboro, North Carolina. During the pre-draft process, the longtime NFL vet trains receivers and tight ends from Rep1 Sports agency. That’s how he and Arcega-Whiteside met. They’ve since become close.
A few years ago, Proehl had another student with similar problems — a prospect out of Ohio State named Michael Thomas. Like Arcega-Whiteside, Thomas (another second-round pick) looked stiff in his workouts but devoted himself to making adjustments. Thomas just finished his second straight Pro Bowl season and had a league-high 125 catches in 2018.
As far as problems go, having a mentee who is a little too gung-ho is a pretty fixable one.
“I think it’s easier to make that adjustment,” Proehl said. “You’d rather have kids with that problem than kids you gotta try to tell them every five minutes to turn it up, ‘Hey have some sense of urgency!’ JJ is not like that.”
No, he’s not like that at all. Arcega-Whiteside is a hard worker and extremely coachable, according to Proehl. He wants to get better. That’s why Arcega-Whiteside has spent most of the last two weeks at Proehl’s facility in North Carolina as he awaits his first practices as an Eagle. Those will happen this weekend at rookie minicamp.
Arcega-Whiteside was the 57th pick in the draft last month, but Proehl hasn’t sensed much of a change in him since hearing his name called. If anything, the rookie has amped up his training even more.
“Some guys shut it down; he’s the opposite,” Proehl said. “He has more to prove, ‘I have to turn it up now, they’re counting on me.’ That’s his whole mentality.”
Arcega-Whiteside might want to turn it up at rookie camp, but he’ll also know when he needs to turn it down. He can thank Proehl for teaching him how.
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Doug Pederson's ominous track record hiring coaches
By Reuben Frank January 18, 2020 10:00 AM
The Eagles this year will have their fifth wide receivers coach in five years under Doug Pederson and their third defensive line coach in three years.
They’ll have their third offensive coordinator in four years and a new secondary coach as well. And there could be more changes on the way.
It’s a lot of turnover for a team that’s reached the playoffs each of the last three seasons and won a Super Bowl just two years ago.
And it tells you two things:
1) Doug Pederson won’t hesitate to jettison coaches he feels aren’t getting the job done,
2) And Doug's track record of hiring coaches is bad.
Let’s go back a few years. When Doug replaced Chip Kelly four years ago today, he kept seven of Kelly’s assistant coaches and brought in 11 assistants of his own. A year later he brought in Mike Groh.
Out of those seven original Chip assistants? Six are still here, all but Cory Undlin, just hired as Lions defensive coordinator.
Of the 11 guys he brought in? Only four are still here — all defensive coaches: Jim Schwartz, Dino Vasso, Ken Flajole, Tim Hauck.
All seven assistant coaches he’s fired — Eugene Chung, Carson Walch, Greg Lewis, Gunter Brewer, Chris Wilson, Phillip Daniels and Groh - are his own hires.
Of the 10 coaches from 2016 who are still here, six – more than half – are Chip Kelly holdovers.
So the pattern keeps repeating itself. He keeps Chip's guys and fires his own guys.
And with four coaching openings at the moment, that doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence.
Some of the most highly respected coaches on Pederson's staff - Jeff Stoutland, Duce Staley, Dave Fipp, Press Taylor - are guys he didn’t even bring in. Duce, of course, pre-dates Chip and coached under Andy Reid.
Both his original coordinators, Frank Reich and Schwartz, were very good hires. Beyond that? His track record is kind of ominous.
Coaching is just a fancy word for teaching. And we keep seeing the Eagles’ draft picks - Sidney Jones, J.J. Arega-Whiteside, Derek Barnett, Rasul Douglas, Donnel Pumphrey, Mack Hollins – failing to develop the way they should.
If you can’t develop young players, you have no shot.
So many of the players at the heart of the Eagles’ recent success – Fletcher Cox, Brandon Graham, Malcolm Jenkins, Jason Kelce, Brandon Brooks, Zach Ertz, Nigel Bradham and Lane Johnson – will all be in their early 30s by opening day this fall and with most NFL players in that 30-to-33 range, you know you're going to get a gradual (or sometimes abrupt) decline.
So the challenge facing the Eagles isn’t just drafting talented players, it’s coaching them and developing them so they can become that next generation of Malcolms and Fletchers and Jasons. That next generation of guys who can lead this franchise to more deep playoff runs and maybe another championship.
That’s why it’s imperative that Pederson figures this coaching thing out.
We all remember what happened when Reid struggled to replace that brilliant initial staff he put together 20 years ago this month. As those guys left for head coaching jobs or coordinator positions – John Harbaugh, Ron Rivera, Leslie Frazier, Brad Childress, Pat Shurmur, Steve Spagnuolo – he replaced them with long-forgotten, over-matched assistants.
There are a lot of reasons the Eagles were essentially a .500 team in Reid’s last eight years here (66-61-1), but a huge one was the inability of that second wave of coaches to develop the young players who had replaced the nucleus that made the 2000 through 2004 team such a powerhouse.
Pederson was there for that decline as part of Reid’s staff, so nobody understands better than him just how critical it is to find people who can teach promising young players how to become pros, how to take their game to the next level.
The challenge now is finding an offensive coordinator with fresh ideas and a vision for the future, a wide receivers coach who’ll stay more than a year, a secondary coach who can salvage Sidney Jones’ career and a defensive line coach who can make Barnett more than just an average pass rusher.
It’s easy to fire coaches. It’s a lot harder to find bright, motivated, capable replacements who can mold young players into big-time pros.
Pederson needs to prove he can do that.
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Eagles Stay or Go: Breaking down the three specialists
By NBC Sports Philadelphia Staff January 18, 2020 7:00 AM
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Today, we’ll look at their specialists:
Jake Elliott
Roob: Elliott’s not going anywhere, but his late-season misses are a bit troubling. Elliott made his first 17 field goal attempts – only two longer than 43 yards – then missed four of his last nine (from 47, 49, 53 and 55 yards). They weren’t easy kicks, but league-wide in 2019 kickers were 54 percent from 53 to 55 yards. Elliott was 43 percent beyond 43 yards (3-for-7). The rest of the league was 66 percent beyond 43 yards. Elliott has been clutch, but his inconsistency is a tad concerning.
Verdict: Stays
Dave: In the regular season, Elliott was 22 of 26 and actually improved his career field goal percentage. And then in the playoffs, he made all all three of his field goal attempts in the loss to Seattle and is now 11-for-11 in his career in the playoffs. And the Eagles signed him to an extension during the season, so he's not going anywhere.
Kulp: Elliott probably doesn't get enough appreciation from the fan base, but he isn't exactly elite, either. He's made a lot of huge, clutch kicks in three seasons, more than making up for the occasional game that's hinged on his misses. It's moot anyway, unless the 25-year-old suddenly becomes completely unreliable, because he just signed an extension.
Roob: The dude can flat-out SNAP. Lovato made the Pro Bowl as a long snapper, joining Mike Bartrum and John Dorenbos as the Eagles’ third consecutive Pro Bowl long snapper. Hey, the Steelers have always had tremendous linebackers, the 49ers have a history of Hall of Fame quarterbacks, the Rams always have big-time receivers. The Eagles have great long snappers.
Dave: Good season for the long snapper. First, he signed a four-year extension and then he was named to the Pro Bowl. In the first year players voted on long-snappers, Lovato got the nod, which must mean he’s pretty good. I’ll defer to those guys.
Kulp: What can you really say about Lovato? No, I'm asking. The best compliment you can probably pay a long snapper is admitting you don't really notice his work -- it implies things are running smoothly. Anyway, he too signed an extension, and at 27, he could be around for awhile.
Cameron Johnston
Roob: Johnston had another big year, averaging 46.4 yards per punt with a net of 42.3, which is 2nd-best in franchise history (behind Johnston in 2018) and very good for an outdoor punter in the Northeast, where weather conditions are often challenging. Johnston is the Eagles’ career record holder in punting average (47.2) and net average (42.5). His net average would be 12th-highest in NFL history if he had more attempts.
Dave: He’s the only guy of the three specialists who didn’t get a contract extension. That might be coming. For now, he’s an exclusive rights free agents, which basically means as long as the Eagles want him back, he’ll be back. As far as his play, this season Johnson was ninth in the NFL in average (46.4), eighth in net average (42.3) and 13th in punts inside the 20 (28). He’s pretty good.
Kulp: Eagles fans may realize it, but Johnston is quietly one of the better punters in the league, even if it hasn't produced any trips to the Pro Bowl just yet. Not sure what the hold up is on getting a new deal done. He's an exclusive rights free agent, so he's not going anywhere or anything. Still, the team should just lock him up for the long haul already.
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HomeAll IndiaGive Water Or No Vote, Says Remote Village in Uttar Pradesh
Since the last 60 years, the village has never had piped water supply or even a single hand pump to draw water.
All IndiaReported by Alok Pandey, Edited by Deepshikha GhoshUpdated: April 10, 2019 08:18 IST
Bodra Dadh, a village of 700, alleges seven decades of neglect.
Lucknow:
A tiny village in Uttar Pradesh has refused to vote in the national election if they do not get permanent water supply. The village is in Sonbhadra, a district just 170 km from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi.
Sonbhadra is a thermal power hub, but Bodra Dadh, a village of 700, alleges six decades of neglect. Since the last 60 years, the village has never had piped water supply or even a single hand pump to draw water.
This means fetching water is a daily struggle for villagers, mainly for women, like 35-year-old Rambha Devi, who walks at least 8 km a day in the harsh sun. "When there is no water, what is the use of voting? You tell me? I won't vote," she says angrily when asked why the villagers did not want to vote.
The nearest water source, ironically, is the Rihand dam - India's largest by volume - a project for which hundreds of villagers were displaced. It provides water to coal-fired power plants in the area. Activists say the water in the dam has been poisonous for years because of the discharge from the power plants. In 2014, just after the elections, the national green tribunal directed the UP government and power plants in the area to supply clean drinking water to villages. Five years on, nothing has moved.
In 2014 , this constituency - the reserved Robertsganj Lok Sabha seat -- voted BJP after picking BSP and Samajwadi Party in the two previous elections. But no party or politician has been an answer to their problem. "I have lost count of the number of politicians and village pradhans who have come and gone. We asked each one of them to arrange water. Nothing happened. We want water at any cost," says Barti devi, 45.
In 2014, the government approved a World Bank funded rural water supply project for 10 eastern UP districts including Sonbhadra, but they constitute less than half of the inhabited villages in the district.
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Once you join a team, the Team Organiser will add your email address and contact details to the teams’ online profile. Please refer to the “Registration Process Guide – Part 2” on previous page. If you join as a permanent member of a team you will then be bound by the normal stipulations of a Netball Fun League Team playing in one of our social netball leagues. For more information on this please visit the “Members / Support” links in the main website navigation.
Be a Ringer
From time to time teams may struggle for players, sickness, unavailability etc. To assist with this Netball Fun League has dedicated “Ringers Groups” where teams can post an appeal for a player/which position/how much/venue etc. If you are playing for a team you can request to join our “Ringers Group” check out the “Finding Players” link in “Members / Support” links in the main website navigation.
YOUR COMMITMENT AS A REGISTERED TEAM IN A LEAGUE
1. Committing to the Whole Season
Registering a team and joining a Netball Fun League involves committing to the whole season. If you are unable to complete the season for whatever reason, you are still liable for the match fees until a replacement team is found.
2. Conceding Matches
If a team cannot find enough players for a particular match and have to concede, then they will be charged the match fees of £26.95 and the game is conceded 15 – 0. If a conceding team gives less than 24 hours’ notice, they will charged the oppositions match fees in addition to their own match fees. A team may only concede one match in any one season at Netball Fun League, and will incur a £30 fine if they concede more than one in a season. Don’t worry, we have some great ways to find substitute players if need be.
3. Cup Final Night
At the end of every season the final fixture is a Netball Fun League Cup Final Night. As a registered team, you are committed to attending and taking part in this. The Cup Final Night is like a mini-tournament in which all teams in your division play against each other for ‘The Cup’. It is also the time when League Winners, Runners Up and Player of the Season awards are given out. Read all about Cup Final nights here
A copy of the Netball Fun League Terms and Conditions can be found here
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9 things enterprise IT will like about Windows 8
Microsoft seeks to catch up in tablet market with Windows 8
Forget Windows 8: Give us Windows 7.8
Microsoft targets virtualization with Windows 8/Windows Server combo
Tight integration of desktop/server OS with Hyper-V and Active Directory gives Microsoft a leg up on competitors
By Tom Henderson
Much of the attention being paid to this week's Windows 8 launch focuses on the new Metro-style interface and the fact that Microsoft is extending its desktop OS to tablets and smartphones. But for enterprises, the real story is the way Microsoft has integrated Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 and the Hyper-V hypervisor to create an unmatched system for running virtualized environments.
Combined, Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 represent the biggest changes we've seen from Microsoft in a decade, with the company training its guns on virtualized Linux vendors such as Red Hat, as well as hypervisor market leader VMware.
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Both Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 sport the new Metro-style GUI, but we found that it's not as radical a change as has been reported. Indeed the bemoaned missing "Start" button and menus already have a dozen replacements being offered freely (or almost freely). If you know about Windows 7 or Windows Server, the menu makeovers are rapidly obvious, we found.
Although we have some minor reservations about Windows Server, both philosophically and in practice, we found the Windows Server/Windows 8 Enterprise combination to be far ahead of its peers for large enterprise deployments and management. And that's not even counting the additional management functionality available from Microsoft System Center 2012.
Inside the Windows Server 2012 platform is a shift towards the kind of programmability first envisioned by Bill Gates when he declared that Windows would run on BASIC as a programming environment. That was an allusion towards the Visual BASIC scripting that became popularized in inter-application/platform custom coding efforts.
These efforts allowed organizations to integrate custom code with Microsoft Office apps, and web development efforts then became centered around Microsoft SharePoint services. While these "departmental" and populist development efforts continue, Microsoft has now evolved its PowerShell "cmdlets" in a way that both mimics scripting and inter-platform communications, but in vastly more powerful ways.
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The goal is to give the Windows platform as much potential for programmability and customization as Linux distributions.
Pre-release criticisms have focused around a number of changes that appear to alter the character of Windows-as-we-know-it. We don't think so. Windows 8 has a new user-interface, but the changes are no more radical than those we've seen from Apple, Canonical, and others. Microsoft is trying to get unstuck from the success of Windows XP; and the new user interface -- once apps are built -- might just do it.
There are more differences than limitations, and there are just three different versions of Windows 8 to choose from, Home, Professional, and Enterprise. Each edition gradient has differing feature sets, and Enterprise is differentiated by its ability to be activated via Windows 2012 Key Management Services that can dole activation keys as needed.
Professional/Enterprise can be considered the analog to Windows 7 Ultimate; these replace up to nine different versions in Windows 7.
You get the Hyper-V hypervisor in Professional/Enterprise (we'll call it W8E) that's the same version shipped with Windows 2012 Server, and it replaces Windows Vista/Windows 7 Virtual PC to serve as a bare metal-type hypervisor.
Ostensibly, it's used to run a prior version that you upgraded from, like Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7. You can have your old apps in other ways, too. You can host Windows 8 instances as VMs on Windows 2012 Hyper-V, VMware, or other hypervisors, too.
Microsoft's application virtualizer, App-V, has been upgraded and now has a physical-to-virtual feature, although we didn't test it. App-V V5 allows, like prior versions, a Remote FX-based GUI connection to an application that's executing someplace else. It appears as though the application launching, manipulation, and execution are happening locally, but these are actually communication broker stubs that link to the application on a server somewhere else.
Installation and Options
Microsoft Windows 8 wants to own the master boot record (MBR) on a system's hard drive, which some have objected to, but solutions that allow an alternate boot have already become available. The controversy regarding whether to prevent boot-sector virus vectors through the use of a UEFI secure boot (a BIOS replacement scheme) initially riled people who like to host concurrent operating system or disk partition instances. And we found that Windows 8 at installation, indeed grabs and will not eagerly let go the disk master boot, securing it, and making it very difficult to place other operating systems on it.
Disk security methods already in place will be removed on installation, unless Windows 8 plainly refuses to use the disk because it can't partition it. We applaud Microsoft's attempts at boot security, and don't have the qualms that others find when a vendor tries to secure a system. Yes, it makes it a hassle to have other operating systems on the same system -- that's what virtual machines and workarounds are for. The security trade-off, we feel is worth it and is only small discomfort for hackers -- who have already suggested clever workarounds.
See how we conducted our test.
We ran into one case where a pre-release version of Windows 8 wouldn't install without removing older partitions, but all upgrades we tried from Windows 7 to Windows 8 worked flawlessly and without complaint or annoyance. Microsoft suggests that anywhere Windows 7 works, Windows 8 should install; the only limitations we've heard anecdotally are where drivers for advanced displays just aren't available yet; we didn't run into this problem in 11 installations.
The Windows 2012 Key Management Service allows instances of W8E to be installed, grabbing an activation key when initially installed. This works with Windows 7, too. The operating system payloads can also be modified to deploy both Microsoft and third-party software for automated updates, although Microsoft's System Center 2012: Configuration Manager handles this chore with better finesse than manual payload management.
Windows 8 opens with the Windows 8 UI (formerly known as Metro), which is also found on Windows Server 2012, Windows RT and Windows Mobile 7.5+. This cross-platform UI ideal has also been championed by Apple with iOS (even MacOS devices are starting to look like iOS), Canonical with Unity on Ubuntu (desktop, server, tablet, and beta smartphones), and is desirable as the proliferation of personal device learning curves and seeming inter-device family incompatibilities arise.
The UI isn't tough to maneuver at all, we found. A fast mouse-movement to the right of the main UI reveals options to change settings, and otherwise move around. Behavior of applications already installed shouldn't change. But there's a rub.
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There are apps currently compatible with Windows 7, and those should run OK. Apps that use the new Windows 8 UI are called Windows 8 apps, and can be obtained (ostensibly) only from the Microsoft Store. The store is currently starting to fill, but by no means has the quantity found in Apple, Google or Amazon app stores. The regimen used to vet applications in the store is also still largely unknown.
Other items we tested include: the Windows 8 User State Migration Tool, which allows user settings to be migrated to a new machine (similar to the older, Windows 7 version); Windows To Go, which makes a bootable (think USB Flash Drive or other externally connected drive) instance, system hardware-permitting; and we played with making customizable Windows 8 P/E images for distribution purposes.
By combining these tools, coupled to server-based key management tools, deploying Windows has been made almost as simple as an online Linux distro. It's still Windows, and uses a hallowed convention for file placement and licensing, but we found it easier than Windows 7 at image customizing.
The Windows 8 UI takes just a moment to understand; it's not quite an intelligence test. On our Lenovo T520 tablets -- on the same hardware -- Windows 8 boots in 16 seconds to usability in a fresh installation vs. Windows 7 (with updates) at 27 seconds. We could detect no real disk speed changes, but the UI is fast and has a "snappy" feel when we changed screens, or popped back to the Windows 8 UI with the Windows key on the Lenovos.
We were mystified that sleep, hibernate, and other control options were absent from the Windows 8 UI choices. These worked, but we like to choose them ourselves sometimes, rather than close the lid on our notebooks, or shutdown via hibernate switches on our desktop machine, but these are small grievances.
This is the first Microsoft client OS that hasn't been directly compared with Apple's MacOS in ages. With Windows 8, Microsoft deviates from the course of evolving their UI into stratifying their UI across the platform segments that it supports.
Windows 8 isn't quite as radical as Windows Server 2012, but the unified UI strategy is a departure from UI and iterative functionality improvements. Windows 8 is more distributable, more easily secured, and works hard to retain an enterprise presence. Old software works, new software installed without issue if it works with Windows 7. What's for sale here is cross-device unified behavior atop the gains made by Windows 7.
We still fear a dot-zero release, but with as much advance pounding as this release has seen -- it was in general beta for a year prior to our ability to obtain RTM code -- it seems (dare we say it?) safer.
Windows Server 2012 (Standard and Data Center)
Microsoft's plentiful work in 2012 was spent towards making Hyper-V more competitive with features of other virtual machine and cloud services vendors, but also in out-featuring its competition in management and enterprise-focused control-plane capabilities.
You don't have to deploy all of the options to get just traditional file-and-print, Active Directory Controls, and MS Exchange going -- the most popular basic combination.
What Microsoft has added is the ability to get to those extra features rapidly and with rational procedures for civilians, or modifiable-then-deployable payloads for larger organizations that must distribute customized server payloads. And it's all 64-bit, even 32-bit in-place upgrades aren't possible. Microsoft's website offers extensive detail on upgrade paths from current versions of Windows 2008.
There are two forms of the Windows Server 2012 -- "Standard" and "Data Center"; both can be optionally run over Hyper-V. Two user-limited versions, Windows 2012 Essentials (25 users, 50 devices, one server) and Windows Server 2012 Foundation (up to 15 users, but without Essentials application features that are much like Windows 2008 Small Business Server/SBS) are available but aren't covered in this review.
Each Windows Standard/Server license covers just two physical processors, which we found comparatively limiting, although somewhat inline with hypervisor competitor VMware -- where you'll pay for the hypervisor license and in addition, the Windows license. Standard edition allows two VMs; licenses can be stacked up to eight VMs for two licenses on the same server. Data Center licenses are essentially unlimited, subject to the two physical processor rule. CAL (Client Access Licenses) are roughly the same as before, and Remote Access (VDI) sessions also require additional-cost licensing support in many cases.
We could also choose to install in a GUI- or GUI-less version, "Server Core". Windows 2012 as an operating system on media, can be mounted, added-to, or modified within constraints for either the full-installation, or a sparse one, prior to installation. Although we couldn't find directions regarding putting the operating system on a diet, we know that the payload can be reduced dramatically. A lighter payload makes it non-standard for purposes of later adding software, but for organizations seeking sparse instances to virtualize -- it can be done.
In the Server Core installation, the initial server payload can be pre-configured to wake-up the first time and find resources as a package, or can be rapidly and subsequently built through the use of additional PowerShell commands (in the form of text-based scripts) to get the server initially configured. If you haven't preconfigured anything, you're dropped to a CMD box at the end of the Server Core installation, and will subsequently run administration and modification of that server from a different machine, or through the use of PowerShell cmdlets -- perhaps a favored set of scripts completes the provisioning process for the server.
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Barcelona legend Hernández now manager of Qatar club side Al Sadd
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Barcelona legend, Xavier Hernández has been appointed as the new manager of Qatari side Al Sadd.
The 39-year-old who made 86 appearances as a player for the Qatar Stars League club since 2015, announced his retirement from football earlier this month.
Hernández penned a two-year deal to take over as manager, and the deal will see him become the boss of his former La Liga rival Gabi, who moved to the Middle East from Atletico Madrid last summer.
Al Sadd confirmed Xavi will take charge of the pre-season training camp in Girona from July 14-29.
Hernández, who is still Barcelona’s all-time record appearance-holder across all competitions with 769 is also one of the world’s best midfielders.
He won eight La Liga titles and four Champions League crowns at the Spanish giants before leaving for the Middle East in 2015.
At the international level, Xavi was also key to Spain’s World Cup triumph in 2010 and won the European Championships…
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Lincoln City flirts with moratorium on Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
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Will Lincoln City fall in behind Newport and the Lincoln County Commission by enacting a moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries? Maybe. Maybe not. Either way, it may be a close vote.
Councilors Gary Ellingson, Henry Quandt and Roger Sprague all expressed reservations about the state’s legalization of medical marijuana but acknowledged that the outlets for card carrying marijuana patients are coming. All three said that as long as the state was giving local cities and counties the power to enact a temporary moratorium, in order to develop location regulations on them, they strongly lean toward a moratorium. According to state law the moratorium must be enacted by May 1st and be terminated no later than May 1st of next year. The three councilors said they would also like to see how this whole “marijuana thing” shakes out – especially after this November when voters are expected to follow Colorado and Washington State in legalizing recreational marijuana.
However councilors Wes Ryan, Chester Noreikis, Gordon Eggleston and Mayor Dick Anderson were cool to the idea of a moratorium. Several of them, perhaps reading the political tea leaves of November, were curious about developing not only basic regulations about where, when and how such dispensaries (perhaps even recreational sales) are run, but also whether local cities and counties can tax the plant. Reports from Colorado indicate that the Mile High State taxes the plant and that state and local governments are raking in very substantial revenues from its sale. The council directed the city attorney to come back with more information on what might be gained from enacting a moratorium and whether that would make any sense knowing state law prevents local jurisdictions from outlawing medical marijuana sales past May 1st of next year.
As the council vote symbolically lined up Monday night, all voted for more information from the city attorney. But had it come down to a vote on a moratorium itself, it would have likely been 4 to 3 to not enact a ban.
Yachats, Waldport, Toledo, Depoe Bay and Siletz have thus far not voted for a moratorium. Toledo, like Lincoln City, has demonstrated an interest in possibly taxing the plant.
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Neutron Analysis Yields Insight Into Bacteria for Solar Energy
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OAK RIDGE, Tenn, March, 23, 2011 -- Structural studies of some of nature’s most efficient light-harvesting systems are lighting the way for new generations of biologically inspired solar cell devices.
Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used small-angle neutron scattering to analyze the structure of chlorosomes in green photosynthetic bacteria. Chlorosomes are efficient at collecting sunlight for conversion to energy, even in low-light and extreme environments.
“It’s one of the most efficient light harvesting antenna complexes found in nature,” said co-author and research scientist Volker Urban of ORNL’s Center for Structural Molecular Biology, or CSMB.
Neutron analysis performed at the CSMB’s Bio-SANS instrument at the High Flux Isotope Reactor allowed the team to examine chlorosome structure under a range of thermal and ionic conditions.
“We found that their structure changed very little under all these conditions, which shows them to be very stable,” Urban said. “This is important for potential biohybrid applications – if you wanted to use them to harvest light in synthetic materials like a hybrid solar cell, for example.”
The size, shape and organization of light-harvesting complexes such as chlorosomes are critical factors in electron transfer to semiconductor electrodes in solar devices. Understanding how chlorosomes function in nature could help scientists mimic the chlorosome’s efficiency to create robust biohybrid or bio-inspired solar cells.
“What’s so amazing about the chlorosome is that this large and complicated assembly is able to capture light effectively across a large area and then funnel the light to the reaction center without losing it along the way,” Urban said. “Why this works so well in chlorosomes is not well understood at all.”
“We’re trying to find out general principles that are important for capturing, harvesting and transporting light efficiently and see how nature has solved that,” Urban said.
Small-angle neutron scattering enabled the team to clearly observe the complicated biological systems at a nanoscale level without damaging the samples.
“With neutrons, you have an advantage that you get a very sharp contrast between these two phases, the chlorosome and the deuterated buffer. This gives you something like a clear black and white image,” Urban said.
The team, led by Robert Blankenship of Washington University, published its findings in the journal Langmuir. The research was supported through the Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by DOE’s Office of Science. Both HFIR and the Bio-SANS facility at ORNL’s Center for Structural Molecular Biology are also supported by DOE’s Office of Science.
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Caption: Chlorosomes (shown in green) capture and transfer light energy to the reaction center for photosynthesis in bacteria. New research from Oak Ridge National Laboratory reveals that the chlorosomes maintain their structure even under extreme conditions.
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Author Topic: A Freewheeling Manifesto
« on: May 24, 2015 »
Is a freewheeling manifesto necessary? As the rider of an unfixed, some would mistakenly say broken singlespeed, I think so! The main problem with manifestos is they're often very wordy and people get bored before they know why they're supposed to be revolting.
Ever since Sheldon Brown described coasting as a "pernicious habit", a significant minority of cyclists have taken him seriously. These cyclists ride bikes which can't coast because they've had the fun removed. (The fun is located in the rear hub.) Everybody else, from the Flintstones to Ma Walton, knows that coasting is why bikes were invented; if early models couldn't coast, it's simply because technology was a bit slow to catch up with its promise.
Fixed gear riders will secretly acknowledge the truth of the following statement:
Pedalling is the lazy man's coasting.
Think about it. (Just not too hard, or it will make your head hurt.) When you're riding fixed there is no element of free will: you pedal or die, much like sharks. This is "fun" in the same way galley slaves regarded rowing as "a lark".
Also, it's easy. How can I say this when pedalling, especially non-stop-pedalling, especially non-stop-pedalling-at-150rpm-down-a-hill-like-there's-no-tomorrow because-indeed-there-may-not-be can seem so hard? Because you have no choice. Your legs are only doing what they must to keep the pedals from breaking your kneecaps. That's some fearsome fun!
What I mean when I say pedalling is the lazy man's coasting is that riding fixed in the above horrifying scenerio is accomplished by relaxing the legs in question and, in effect, ceding control of them to the bicycle. True fixe artistes soon learn to disconnect all motor control below their waist. Ergo their "laziness", which is not meant as a slur but merely as the most accurate descriptor of the state of locomotion without conscious effort. While it's true that theoretically they put in effort to climb the hill in the first place, everybody knows that the fixed drivetrain is the only true example of perpetual motion in the world, each turn of the cranks powering the next, again no effort required.
Freewheeling, on the other hand, requires a continuous series of decisions to do something rather than nothing, else progress eventually ceases. Not only is it very philosophical, it's far more zen than fixed could ever hope to be. Each and every pedal stroke is a command from the brain that the legs are free to disregard whenever it suits them – which could happen at any moment. Therefore coasting, which at first blush appears to be rather indolent (or pernicious as some would have it), is the always temporary state of repose between sweaty mental gymnastics. Think of that galley slave being whipped; that's the brain talking to the legs of a free man. Does that sound remotely lazy?
If none of the foregoing convinces you, ask yourself, do you really want this to be your end stage?
Tour de France originator Henri Desgrange
“I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur? We are getting soft. Come on, fellows. Let's say that the test was a fine demonstration--for our grandparents! As for me, give me a fixed gear!"
“Hope I die before I get old," he added.
It has just occurred to me that a manifesto is a declaration of policy and aims. The former is so easy it hardly requires a declaration: policy is freewheeling. As for aims:
• to educate the masses
• to gain political influence
• to force a referendum
• to destroy all copies of "can't stop, don't want to" Premium Rush
• if we're lucky, to be parodied by Armando Iannucci
Remember: fixed = broken
Don't break it like Beckham
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2017 »
It has belatedly come to my attention that Brooklyn Beckham rides fixed, and is therefore a potential recruit to the freewheeling cause. If only I can get his publicist, or better yet influential girlfriend, to pass this along; a celebrity endorsement could really get people to think.
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From the camera obscura to camera orientalis (Behdad, 2016), the camera has been used for many reasons: as means of capturing and documenting, for purposes of history, truths, and memory; as representational, to encode and decode meaning through image; and as the symbolic, embodying structures and power relations between the photographer and their subjects. Photography and the act of photographing has contributed much to the visual depositories of how bodies have been mapped and narrated, and how in some cases, these reside within sites and narratives of violence, especially for those deemed to possess marginalised bodies, minority identities.
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BOOM! Studios are really big fans of Clive Barker, one of the foremost creators when it comes to terror. That doesn't mean they can't dabble in some other horror creators and the publisher plans to offer a story that is just realistic enough to wonder if it can really happen. In June, the publisher will debut The Empty Man, a dystopic version of the world we know, where a terrifying disease has taken on almost deific connotations and has inspired a wave of murder cults. People are killing each other and themselves, and the same words keep popping up: “The Empty Man made me do it.” And the book offers up the talents of Cullen Bunn and Vanesa R. Del Rey.
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It’s been one year since the first reported case of the Empty Man disease, and no drug has been able to slow its progress. The cause is unknown, and the symptoms include fits of rage, hideous hallucinations, suicidal dementia, followed by death, or a near lifeless, "empty" state of catatonia. As murder cults rise nationwide, the FBI and CDC enter a joint investigation of the Empty Man, hoping to piece together clues to stop the cult and uncover a cure.
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May 14, 2014 - Los Angeles, CA - When you think of a good horror story, you might imagine some kind of monster, like the werewolves of CURSE or the nightmare fuel of CLIVE BARKER'S HELLRAISER. However, some of the scariest stories are the ones that hit home—stories that are just realistic enough to make you wonder if it really could happen. This June, BOOM! Studios plays on those fears with THE EMPTY MAN, a dystopic version of the world we know, where a terrifying disease has taken on almost deific connotations and has inspired a wave of murder cults. People are killing each other and themselves, and the same words keep popping up: “The Empty Man made me do it.” Writer Cullen Bunn (The Sixth Gun, Magneto) and artist Vanesa R. Del Rey(HIT) are two of the most exciting talents in the industry, and perfectly in sync on this haunting new crime procedural.
THE EMPTY MAN #1 arrives in comic shops on June 11th with a cover price of $3.99 under Diamond order code APR140958. The main cover is illustrated by series artist Vanesa R. Del Rey, with an incentive cover available in a limited quantity from Goñi Montes (CLIVE BARKER’S NEXT TESTAMENT). Not sure where to find your nearest comic retailer? Use comicshoplocator.com or findacomicshop.com to find one! It’s also available for order directly from boom-studios.com.
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Sri Lanka’s first ever Floating Restaurant launches at Beira Lake
Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma
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Sri Lanka’s first ever Floating Restaurant named “Pontoon North 8” launched at Beira Lake, Colombo-02 on 19 December. The grand opening of the Floating Restaurant took place under the patronage of President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
The 70 feet long Restaurant has been launched under the sponsorship of Cinnamon Lake Side Hotel. The primary cost of the restaurant is Rs.100 million and it can accommodate 100 guests. This new floating restaurant will be an impetus for the promotion of the booming tourism industry in Sri Lanka.
Civil Aviation Service Minister Priyankara Jayaratne, Parliamentarian Sajin Vas Gunawardena, Secretary to the President Lalith Weeratunga, Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and Chairman of John Keells, Susantha Ratnayake were among those who graced the occasion.
3 Responses to Sri Lanka’s first ever Floating Restaurant launches at Beira Lake
A.U.J says:
O ! What a beautiful sight to behold! Looks like a creation of Alladin’s Wonderful Lamp. Well Done KEELS.
Where is this floating and why is it named Pontoon North 8? Where is No.7?
Corniche says:
Its good to bring more visitors..like bangkok floating market and dubai floating bridge…..
Panitha says:
Can anyone please let me know a website which has the menu’s available or any contact number of the place.
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DOE PAGES Journal Article: Mitochondrial ADCK3 employs an atypical protein kinase-like fold to enable coenzyme Q biosynthesis
Title: Mitochondrial ADCK3 employs an atypical protein kinase-like fold to enable coenzyme Q biosynthesis
The ancient UbiB protein kinase-like family is involved in isoprenoid lipid biosynthesis and is implicated in human diseases, but demonstration of UbiB kinase activity has remained elusive for unknown reasons. In this paper, we quantitatively define UbiB-specific sequence motifs and reveal their positions within the crystal structure of a UbiB protein, ADCK3. We find that multiple UbiB-specific features are poised to inhibit protein kinase activity, including an N-terminal domain that occupies the typical substrate binding pocket and a unique A-rich loop that limits ATP binding by establishing an unusual selectivity for ADP. A single alanine-to-glycine mutation of this loop flips this coenzyme selectivity and enables autophosphorylation but inhibits coenzyme Q biosynthesis in vivo, demonstrating functional relevance for this unique feature. Finally, our work provides mechanistic insight into UbiB enzyme activity and establishes a molecular foundation for further investigation of how UbiB family proteins affect diseases and diverse biological pathways.
Stefely, Jonathan A. [1]; Reidenbach, Andrew G. [1]; Ulbrich, Arne [1]; Oruganty, Krishnadev [2]; Floyd, Brendan J. [1]; Jochem, Adam [1]; Saunders, Jaclyn M. [1]; Johnson, Isabel E. [1]; Minogue, Catherine E. [1]; Wrobel, Russell L. [1]; Barber, Grant E. [1]; Lee, David [3]; Li, Sheng [3]; Kannan, Natarajan [2]; Coon, Joshua J. [1]; Bingman, Craig A. [1]; Pagliarini, David J. [1]
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
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Journal Volume: 57; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 1097-2765
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Stefely, Jonathan A., Reidenbach, Andrew G., Ulbrich, Arne, Oruganty, Krishnadev, Floyd, Brendan J., Jochem, Adam, Saunders, Jaclyn M., Johnson, Isabel E., Minogue, Catherine E., Wrobel, Russell L., Barber, Grant E., Lee, David, Li, Sheng, Kannan, Natarajan, Coon, Joshua J., Bingman, Craig A., and Pagliarini, David J. Mitochondrial ADCK3 employs an atypical protein kinase-like fold to enable coenzyme Q biosynthesis. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2014.11.002.
Stefely, Jonathan A., Reidenbach, Andrew G., Ulbrich, Arne, Oruganty, Krishnadev, Floyd, Brendan J., Jochem, Adam, Saunders, Jaclyn M., Johnson, Isabel E., Minogue, Catherine E., Wrobel, Russell L., Barber, Grant E., Lee, David, Li, Sheng, Kannan, Natarajan, Coon, Joshua J., Bingman, Craig A., & Pagliarini, David J. Mitochondrial ADCK3 employs an atypical protein kinase-like fold to enable coenzyme Q biosynthesis. United States. doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2014.11.002.
Stefely, Jonathan A., Reidenbach, Andrew G., Ulbrich, Arne, Oruganty, Krishnadev, Floyd, Brendan J., Jochem, Adam, Saunders, Jaclyn M., Johnson, Isabel E., Minogue, Catherine E., Wrobel, Russell L., Barber, Grant E., Lee, David, Li, Sheng, Kannan, Natarajan, Coon, Joshua J., Bingman, Craig A., and Pagliarini, David J. Thu . "Mitochondrial ADCK3 employs an atypical protein kinase-like fold to enable coenzyme Q biosynthesis". United States. doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2014.11.002.
title = {Mitochondrial ADCK3 employs an atypical protein kinase-like fold to enable coenzyme Q biosynthesis},
author = {Stefely, Jonathan A. and Reidenbach, Andrew G. and Ulbrich, Arne and Oruganty, Krishnadev and Floyd, Brendan J. and Jochem, Adam and Saunders, Jaclyn M. and Johnson, Isabel E. and Minogue, Catherine E. and Wrobel, Russell L. and Barber, Grant E. and Lee, David and Li, Sheng and Kannan, Natarajan and Coon, Joshua J. and Bingman, Craig A. and Pagliarini, David J.},
abstractNote = {The ancient UbiB protein kinase-like family is involved in isoprenoid lipid biosynthesis and is implicated in human diseases, but demonstration of UbiB kinase activity has remained elusive for unknown reasons. In this paper, we quantitatively define UbiB-specific sequence motifs and reveal their positions within the crystal structure of a UbiB protein, ADCK3. We find that multiple UbiB-specific features are poised to inhibit protein kinase activity, including an N-terminal domain that occupies the typical substrate binding pocket and a unique A-rich loop that limits ATP binding by establishing an unusual selectivity for ADP. A single alanine-to-glycine mutation of this loop flips this coenzyme selectivity and enables autophosphorylation but inhibits coenzyme Q biosynthesis in vivo, demonstrating functional relevance for this unique feature. Finally, our work provides mechanistic insight into UbiB enzyme activity and establishes a molecular foundation for further investigation of how UbiB family proteins affect diseases and diverse biological pathways.},
doi = {10.1016/j.molcel.2014.11.002},
journal = {Molecular Cell},
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The ancient UbiB protein kinase-like family is involved in isoprenoid lipid biosynthesis and is implicated in human diseases, but demonstration of UbiB kinase activity has remained elusive for unknown reasons. In this paper, we quantitatively define UbiB-specific sequence motifs and reveal their positions within the crystal structure of a UbiB protein, ADCK3. We find that multiple UbiB-specific features are poised to inhibit protein kinase activity, including an N-terminal domain that occupies the typical substrate binding pocket and a unique A-rich loop that limits ATP binding by establishing an unusual selectivity for ADP. A single alanine-to-glycine mutation of this loop flipsmore » this coenzyme selectivity and enables autophosphorylation but inhibits coenzyme Q biosynthesis in vivo, demonstrating functional relevance for this unique feature. Finally, our work provides mechanistic insight into UbiB enzyme activity and establishes a molecular foundation for further investigation of how UbiB family proteins affect diseases and diverse biological pathways.« less
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Crystal Structure of (+)-[delta]-Cadinene Synthase from Gossypium arboreum and Evolutionary Divergence of Metal Binding Motifs for Catalysis
Journal Article Gennadios, Heather A. ; Gonzalez, Veronica ; Di Costanzo, Luigi ; ... - Biochemistry-US
(+)-{delta}-Cadinene synthase (DCS) from Gossypium arboreum (tree cotton) is a sesquiterpene cyclase that catalyzes the cyclization of farnesyl diphosphate in the first committed step of the biosynthesis of gossypol, a phytoalexin that defends the plant from bacterial and fungal pathogens. Here, we report the X-ray crystal structure of unliganded DCS at 2.4 {angstrom} resolution and the structure of its complex with three putative Mg{sup 2+} ions and the substrate analogue inhibitor 2-fluorofarnesyl diphosphate (2F-FPP) at 2.75 {angstrom} resolution. These structures illuminate unusual features that accommodate the trinuclear metal cluster required for substrate binding and catalysis. Like other terpenoid cyclases, DCSmore » contains a characteristic aspartate-rich D{sup 307}DTYD{sup 311} motif on helix D that interacts with Mg{sub A}{sup 2+} and Mg{sub C}{sup 2+}. However, DCS appears to be unique among terpenoid cyclases in that it does not contain the 'NSE/DTE' motif on helix H that specifically chelates Mg{sub B}{sup 2+}, which is usually found as the signature sequence (N,D)D(L,I,V)X(S,T)XXXE (boldface indicates Mg{sub B}{sup 2+} ligands). Instead, DCS contains a second aspartate-rich motif, D{sup 451}DVAE{sup 455}, that interacts with Mg{sub B}{sup 2+}. In this regard, DCS is more similar to the isoprenoid chain elongation enzyme farnesyl diphosphate synthase, which also contains two aspartate-rich motifs, rather than the greater family of terpenoid cyclases. Nevertheless, the structure of the DCS-2F-FPP complex shows that the structure of the trinuclear magnesium cluster is generally similar to that of other terpenoid cyclases despite the alternative Mg{sub B}{sup 2+} binding motif. Analyses of DCS mutants with alanine substitutions in the D{sup 307}DTYD{sup 311} and D{sup 451}DVAE{sup 455} segments reveal the contributions of these segments to catalysis.« less
DOI: 10.1021/bi900483b
The Crystal Structure of the Active Form of the C-Terminal Kinase Domain of Mitogen- and Stress-Activated Protein Kinase 1
Journal Article Malakhova, Margarita ; D'Angelo, Igor ; Kim, Hong-Gyum ; ... - J. Mol. Biol.
Mitogen- and stress-activated protein kinase 1 (MSK1) is a growth-factor-stimulated serine/threonine kinase that is involved in gene transcription regulation and proinflammatory cytokine stimulation. MSK1 is a dual kinase possessing two nonidentical protein kinase domains in one polypeptide. We present the active conformation of the crystal structures of its C-terminal kinase domain in apo form and in complex with a nonhydrolyzable ATP analogue at 2.0 {angstrom} and 2.5 {angstrom} resolutions, respectively. Structural analysis revealed substantial differences in the contacts formed by the C-terminal helix, which is responsible for the inactivity of other autoinhibited kinases. In the C-terminal kinase domain of MSK1,more » the C-terminal {alpha}L-helix is located in the surface groove, but forms no hydrogen bonds with the substrate-binding loop or nearby helices, and does not interfere with the protein's autophosphorylation activity. Mutational analysis confirmed that the {alpha}L-helix is inherently nonautoinhibitory. Overexpression of the single C-terminal kinase domain in JB6 cells resulted in tumor-promoter-induced neoplastic transformation in a manner similar to that induced by the full-length MSK1 protein. The overall results suggest that the C-terminal kinase domain of MSK1 is regulated by a novel {alpha}L-helix-independent mechanism, suggesting that a diverse mechanism of autoinhibition and activation might be adopted by members of a closely related protein kinase family.« less
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.03.064
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4 - Alyssa Mort
Hometown: Tucson, AZ
High School: University HS
Position: OPP/M
2012: Had 5 kills and a block against Grinnell (Sept. 8)...posted 8 kills, 2 service aces, 6 digs, and 2 blocks at Chapman (Sept. 14)...registered 4 kills and 7 services aces on Sept. 15 at Caltech...in a 3-0 sweep at Whitter (Sept. 21), posted 12 kills on 17 attemps, good for .647 kill percentage...finished with 12 kills against Cal Lutheran (Sept. 22)...tallied 10 kills on 20 attempts versus Pomona-Pitzer (Sept. 25)...registered 9 kills versus La Verne (Sept. 29)...had 13 kills and 2 block against CMS (Sept. 29)...posted 6 kills and a block at La Verne (Oct. 6)...posted nine kills (.500 hit percentage) and two blocks in a sweep over Whittier (Oct. 9)...had nine kills and three blocks at Cal Lutheran (Oct. 12)...registered 8 kills and 3 blocks vs. Chapman (Oct. 16)...notched 13 kills and two blocks vs. UC Santa Cruz (Oct. 20)...recorded nine kills on 12 attempts in a sweep of Mills College (Oct. 20)...registered two kills and two blocks vs. West Coast Baptist (Oct. 23)...
2011: Finished the season with 167 kills and 66 digs in 28 matches...Had a total of 39 blocks and 201.5 points...
High School: Alyssa played volleyball at Rincon/University High School in Tucson, Arizona for 4 years, 3 as a varsity starter. Her sophomore year Alyssa made Second Team in the 5A Southern Region and her junior and senior year she made First Team in the 5A Southern Region. Other honors her senior year include All-Southern Arizona first team and All-State Honorable Mention. Alyssa played middle blocker all 4 years and was also captain of her team.
Personal: Alyssa was born on January 15th, 1992 in Tucson, Arizona to Brad and Bonnie Mort. She has lived in Tucson her whole life along with her younger siblings, her sister and best friend, Alexis(17) and brothers Addison(10) and Anderson(9). Along with volleyball Alyssa participated in many other sports. She was a 4 year varsity starter in basketball and a 2 year varsity letter winner in track and field placing second in state in the 800m with a time of 2:21. Alyssa’s major is undecided but she wants to become an elementary school teacher. Her favorite TV shows include “Gilmore Girls” and “Law and Order:SVU” and her favorite food is ice cream.
Q & A with Alyssa Mort
Q: Why did you choose Occidental?
A: The challenging academics and competitive athletics
Q: Favorite Movies:
A: The Notebook, Glory Road, Remember the Titans and The Lion King
Q: Favorite Foods:
A: Ice cream, cornbread and english muffins
Q: Favorite Sport:
A: Basketball
Q: Favorite TV Shows:
A: 24 and Gilmore Girls
Q: Favorite Quotes:
A: "Whoever said 'it's not whether you win or lose that counts' probably lost."
Q: If you could visit anywehere, where would it be? Why?
A: Disneyland- it's the happiest place on earth
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India's Foreign Policy Continuity
For those who are anxious about India's foreign policy direction under its new PM, don't be. Narendra Modi will likely follow the same strategy as his predecessors, says Ramesh Thakur.
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By: Ramesh Thakur
Director of the Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University
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The world is anxious about the foreign policy implications of India’s dramatic election result. It should stop worrying. The elements of foreign policy continuity under the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress-led governments of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh are far more numerous and substantial than the readjustments on the margins. Vajpayee turned around the relationship with the US with sustained engagement after the setback of the 1998 nuclear tests. His diplomatic overtures to Pakistan and China successfully insulated foreign policy from domestic political pressures and delinked the two border disputes from engagement on other fronts.
Singh’s impulse and instincts were the same, but his far weaker position in the domestic structure left him no space to launch and sustain foreign policy initiatives. He outsourced Sri Lanka and Bangladesh policies to coalition allies in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. Even his signature civil nuclear cooperation deal with the US remains unconsummated because domestic opponents successfully hobbled it with a draconian nuclear liability law.
Vajpayee had injected a healthy dose of realism into India’s penchant for woolly thinking on international issues, bringing greater coherence and focus. Similarly, instead of the vague and nebulous “strategic autonomy” that has no operational meaning, Modi is likely to provide clear strategic direction and efficient policy execution. He is unlikely to abandon nuclear restraint or the pursuit of South Asian regional engagement and economic integration. He will need to reassure Pakistan and will have domestic political space to do a deal if he finds a partner for peace.
Modi and the United States: Unfortunate actions
Modi had his U.S. visa revoked and, gratuitously and insultingly, a prospective visa denied even though there had been no application, because of alleged complicity in Gujarat’s 2002 anti-Muslim riots. This from the Bush administration that endorsed torture as official policy and was responsible for an illegal war of aggression that caused the death of hundreds of thousands Iraqis. Modi was the elected head of government of a well-run state, was never charged with a crime, independent judicial probes exonerated him, and Gujarat has functioned within the national bandwidth in Hindu-Muslim relations since 2002.
Since his election, Washington has begun a diplomatic minuet of reaching out to the previously untouchable Modi. Indeed, President Barack Obama welcomed the democratic process as a vibrant demonstration of shared values of diversity and freedom and looks forward to working with Modi to make the coming years “transformative” for bilateral relations.
A ‘modicum’ of self-respect might suggest that, pace Groucho Marx, one would not want to visit a country that had ostracised one. But a PM is no longer a private person and must elevate collective interests above personal pique. India’s relationship with the United States is too important for the PM to refuse to visit. But maybe he could make it a point to wait and sweat a while. There are many irritants that have crept into the bilateral relationship and Washington is likely to find Delhi more self-confident and assertive than the docile Singh. With that said, India should rescind its damaging nuclear liability law and sign deals with Australia, Canada, the United States, and Russia.
Courtship: China, Japan or both?
Modi’s first overseas tour will probably be to China or Japan. Both have aggressively courted him over the past decade while the West treated him as a pariah. When the United States closed its shores to him in 2005, Modi went east to Japan instead in 2007 and opened new investment channels between Gujarat and Japan. During a high-profile four-day visit to Japan in July 2012, he was treated above his protocol status. When Shinzo Abe led his party to a landslide victory in Japan’s 2012 general election, he broke from protocol in taking a congratulatory call from Modi as a state leader. The mutual respect between the two strongly nationalist PMs could now pay handsome dividends for both countries.
As state premier Modi promoted business and trade cooperation between China and Gujarat and led a high-profile delegation to China on a five-day visit in November 2011. He was received in the Great Hall of People in Beijing, an honour normally reserved for heads of state/government. His known commitment to infrastructure development, courting investment and creating special economic zones might lead to more intensified interaction with China and overcoming the traditional reserve of Indians for consolidating and deepening ties with China in strategic sectors.
Multilateral Engagement
Only a strong leader can challenge U.S. economic and political dominance and the BRICS provides a ready-made forum to do so in partnership with other like-minded countries, including China. However, a nationalist leader might also pursue a policy of enmeshing India in a web of allies in the neighbourhood as a strategy of forging strategic links around China.
Modi might also consider investing more diplomatic capital in groupings like BRICS. The BRICS have been far more sympathetic to Russia than to Europe and the United States with regard to the Ukraine crisis. Will Modi take an interest in the planned BRICS development bank? What will be his personal chemistry with the other leaders in BRICS and, for that matter, the G20?
Finally, India’s bureaucratic set-up is out of date and out of tune with contemporary reality and needs. Modi should appoint a capable and powerful foreign minister who can initiate and oversee a drastic overhaul of the recruitment, training and promotion practices of a greatly enlarged foreign service. And merge India’s foreign policy and trade bureaucracies.
This piece was originally published by the Australian Institute for International Affairs on May 22, 2014.
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October 10, 2015 By Mike Rinder 458 Comments
Is scientology homophobic?
There has been considerable discussion about this. In today’s world, where it is no longer socially acceptable to be anti-gay, scientology has taken steps to attempt to portray itself as tolerant and welcoming of the LGBT community. But similar to scientology’s claims that disconnection “doesn’t exist” or is simply a “personal choice,” the PR smokescreen hides an ugly and unpleasant reality.
At its heart, scientology IS very homophobic.
Here is the truth as I experienced it, growing up in scientology and then being a senior official in the church for many years.
Let’s start at the beginning, where all else starts in scientology, with Hubbard’s Dianetics, the Modern Science of Mental Health.
This is perhaps the first statement by Hubbard about homosexuality:
The sexual pervert (and by this term dianetics, to be brief, includes any and all forms of deviation in Dynamic II such as homosexuality, lesbianism, sexual sadism, etc. and all down the catalogue of Ellis and Krafft-Ebing) is actually quite ill physically. Perversion as an illness has so many manifestations that it must be spread through the entire gamut of classes from (1) to (5) above.
But the concept of the sexual pervert was expanded in his next book, Science of Survival, where homosexuality (sexual perversion and deviation) was placed on his Tone Scale at 1.1 “Covert Hostility.”
1.1 people are the scourge of society according to SOS.
In the book is this infamous passage:
There are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the tone scale, neither one of which has anything to do with reasoning with them or listening to their justification of their acts. The first is to raise them on the tone scale by un-enturbulating some of their theta by any one of the three valid processes. The other is to dispose of them quietly and without sorrow. Adders are safe bedmates compared to people on the lower bands of the tone scale. Not all the beauty nor the handsomeness nor artificial social value nor property can atone for the vicious damage such people do to sane men and women. The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the tone scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered. It is not necessary to produce a world of clears in order to have a reasonable and worthwhile social order; it is only necessary to delete those individuals who range from 2.0 down, either by processing them enough to get their tone level above the 2.0 line — a task which, indeed, is not very great, since the amount of processing in many cases might be under fifty hours, although it might also in others be in excess of two hundred — or simply quarantining them from the society. A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country.
Though I don’t believe you should read this as a literal admonition to eradicate those “below 2.0” – it does inform scientologists in how to think about such people. According to Hubbard, they should be treated like lepers. They are certainly not “the able” which, according to Hubbard, is who scientology is for.
And let’s not forget that the words of L. Ron Hubbard in the eyes of scientologists may NOT be changed or even queried. Everything he says is accepted unthinkingly as truth. To doubt the veracity of his statements is to put yourself into a “lower condition” and be treated as an “enemy.”
He shortly thereafter published Handbook for Preclears in which he explained homosexuality thusly:
Homosexuality comes from this manifestation and from the manifestation of life continuation for others. A boy whose mother is dominant will try to continue her life from any failure she has. A girl whose father is dominant will try to continue his life from any failure he has. The mother or the father were cause in the child’s eyes. The child elected himself successor to cause. Break this life continuum concept by running sympathy and grief for the dominant parent and then run off the desires to be an effect and their failures and the homosexual is rehabilitated. Homosexuality is about 1.1 on the tone scale. So is general promiscuity.
This is the first reference to “auditing out” homosexuality and perhaps the only place where he specifically states homosexuality is about 1.1 on the Tone Scale.
This is the genus of the concept that homosexuality can be “handled in auditing.” It is no longer considered acceptable to say such a thing, but it is how scientologists view the world. Being below 2.0 on the Tone Scale is non-survival. Auditing will raise you on the Tone Scale and rid you of your “negative emotions” and “irrational behavior” — very specifically including your tendencies towards perversion. I am aware of more than one person who has been given an auditing program to “address their homosexuality.” (Some may argue that this is what the pc or pre-OT “wants handled” and it is not up to the auditor and C/S to determine the morality of such things, but the very fact that this is the “think” — that homosexuality CAN be addressed with auditing — demonstrates it is considered to be an “aberration.”)
For many years, scientology made little or no attempt to defend these fundamental beliefs — because they were not really an issue. But over the last two decades there has been a lot more pressure to accept homosexuality and afford gay people the same rights as everyone else.
Scientology, and scientologists, have sought to change their image on the subject to appear to be “gay friendly.” They will try to explain that it is natural that Hubbard put gays into the 1.1 band as back in the 50’s they could not be “overtly” gay — they had to be “covert” and hide their identities, and thus they were “covert.” But it does not actually explain the entire concept of 1.1 which is covert HOSTILITY and ‘sexual perversion” – rape, child molesting and other things. Homosexuality was labeled a 1.1 trait not because they were hiding, but because they were “perverts” engaged in sex for other reasons than procreation. Nor does it explain why the statements have not been removed from the books like some of his other things (marijuana is safer than alcohol for instance).
There are plenty more references to homosexuality in the scripture of scientology:
HCOB 25 FEB 1960 THE MODEL SESSION
To get the pc over any condition or aberration that he is agonizing to get rid of, find a terminal that adds up to it and run single confront on that terminal.
Example: If the pc is sick, the process would be “What about a sick person could you confront?”
If the person is homo, it’s “What about a homosexual could you confront?”
And of course, the infamous (and still very much used) “Joburg” sec check, including all questions about sexual activities to give a flavor of where homosexuality was placed in the pantheon of bad sex acts:
HCOB 7 APR 1961 JOHANNESBURG CONFESSIONAL
Have you ever raped anyone?
Have you ever been involved in an abortion?
Have you assisted in any abortion?
Have you ever committed adultery?
Have you ever practised Homosexuality?
Have you ever had intercourse with a member of your family?
Have you ever been sexually unfaithful? Have you ever practised Sodomy?
Have you ever consistently made a practice of sexual perversion?
Have you ever slept with a member of a race of another colour?
And the same with a standardized sec check that was published a decade late:
HCOB 24 DEC 72 THE BASIC INTEGRITY LIST
Have you ever practiced homosexuality?
Have you ever been sexually unfaithful?
Have you ever made a practice of sexual perversion?
Hubbard never changed his attitude towards homosexuality. Homosexuals were depicted as degenerate perverts in his last fiction writing Mission Earth.
His attitude about sex in general became even more strident and bizarre in virtually the last HCOB (26 August 1982) he wrote for scientologists which is entitled Pain and Sex. This writing is not presented as figurative, it is intended to be taken literally, and is based on L. Ron Hubbard’s vast knowledge of all things.
Destructive creatures who do not want people big or reaching—since they are terrified of punishment due to their crimes—invented pain and sex to shrink people and cut their alertness, knowingness, power and reach. Thus you see people who are «experiencing» either pain or sex introverting and not producing much.
Pain and sex were the INVENTED tools of degradation. Believe it or not, a being can be so overwhelmed by either, that he or she becomes an addict of it. Priests become flagellants and cut themselves to pieces with self-whipping. Torturers drool over pain. Lovers are very seldom happy. People do the most irrational things when overcharged with sex and prostitutes use it as a knowing stock-in-trade. Combined, pain and sex make up the insane JackThe-Rippers (who killed only prostitutes) and the whole strange body of sex—murder freaks, including Hinckley, and the devotees of late night horror movies.
Under the false data of the psychs (who have been on the track a long time and are the sole cause of decline in this universe) both pain and sex are gaining ground in this society and, coupled with robbery which is a hooded companion of both, may very soon make the land a true jungle of crime. Go into an asylum or a prison and look at the increasing institutional population and know what you are looking at. In the main, there are pain and sex addicts, decadent and degraded and no longer capable.
But, let’s turn to the practice of the church.
You probably recall the church’s support of Proposition 8 in California was the beginning of the end of Paul Haggis in scientology. That in turn led to a piece in the New Yorker, and thanks to Tommy Davis’ deft handling of the matter, to a book by Lawrence Wright and from there the film Going Clear. Paul Haggis discusses these events in the film, but in far more detail in the original Lawrence Wright piece in the New Yorker. It was all about his disgust that the church was supporting a proposition that discriminated against gays.
But what about what goes on behind the facade the church presents to the outside world?
Here, to borrow a favorite expression of an old friend, the cheese becomes more binding.
You are not qualified to join the Sea Org if you are gay. Period.
You are not qualified to join the Sea Org if you have an “extensive history” of “homosexual acts” even if you claim you are not “gay.”
In fact, this is so well known that people have blown off Sea Org recruiters by claiming they are gay. They are dropped like hot potatoes.
Actually, they are dropped if they have “gay thoughts.”
Used to be “I’ve taken LSD” was the instant Get Out Of Jail Free card with SO recruiters, but LSD has fallen out of favor and recruiters figured out how to ask a ton of questions and determine “that wasn’t really LSD you took” in their desperation to get people signed up and routed onto the EPF. Nothing you can do about someone who is gay “well, we have determined the other person was not really male/female”?
Lesbian/Gay (let alone Bi/Trans) are absolute SO non-starters (fortunate for them).
If you are IN the Sea Org and profess to be gay or have “homosexual tendencies” it is a one way ticket to the RPF (or out of the SO altogether). Nora Crest has told her story, there are dozens of similar ones. Again, the concept of sending someone to the RPF for “being gay” is based on the idea they can be “rehabilitated.”
But this is not limited to the Sea Org.
Executive and HCO qualifications in any scientology organization require that you have no history of “perverted 2D activities.” And that most definitely includes “homosexual activities.”
And finally, there is this.
The self-titled ecclesiastical leader of the scientology religion, and the biggest being and bestest scientologist in the whole universe, is viciously homophobic.
David Miscavige relishes denigrating gays, one of his favorite terms of hatred is “faggot.”
For at least 20 years he has accused senior scientology officials (most often Marc Yager and Guillaume Lesevre, but many others too) of being “butt fuckers” and “cocksuckers” and loves to regale his circle of sycophants with extremely graphic and lewd descriptions of the sexual activities they supposedly engage in. He delights in doing this especially when the people themselves are present, and he talks about them to the others gathered around “oohing” and “aahing” as if they were not present. One of his favorite things to say to Marc Yager when he stumbled or mumbled a response was “get Guilluame’s cum out of your mouth and you might be able to talk better.” And of course, there his now infamous “code” he texted me: YSCOHB.
You may wonder if I am exaggerating. Not in the slightest. In fact, in an effort to maintain some decorum, this is a VERY mild version. There are plenty of people who have witnessed this numerous times including Jeff Hawkins, Amy Scobee, Tom DeVocht, Dan Koon, Marc and Claire Headley and a LOT of others.
It is simply impossible for scientology to be tolerant when it’s undisputed leader is perhaps the worst homophobe I have ever met.
PS: I should add that though I grew up with the idea that you should always be wary of 1.1s and the easiest “1.1s” to spot were homosexuals, I have a very different view today . I have quite a number of LGBT friends and they are among the most creative, compassionate and genuinely nice people I know. And they are uniformly oh so NON judgmental about the personal choices of others. Discrimination is a pet peeve of mine I hate it in any form. I grew up in the 60s with the stigma of being a scientologist when it was about like being gay. Funny how I resented being treated differently but had the mindset that others “deserved” it….
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PeaceMaker says
There’s one very simple litmus test to reveal where Scientology really stands: show us the gays.
Where are the gay members, staff and executives?
Since there seem to be absolutely none, what does that tell us about Scientology’s actual policies and practices – and about the claims and statements they try to make?
Alex S. Gabor says
Gays are expelled for their “overts”. Just ask Billy Khan. He was a gay Jewish boy from NYC and a Top Sea Org recruiter for PAC circa 1976-79. He was Declared SP and expelled after being forced to write up all his O/Ws and in them he confessed to visiting hundreds of porn shops where he would give and receive thousands of blow jobs during his three years traveling around the country recruiting naive people by convincing them to sign billion year contracts. He was charged with using his position and church money for personal pleasures. Wonder how many lawyers have similar “high crimes”?
FG says
Unecessary? I admire you Mike for all what you do. Really, your revelations on Miscavige showed me really the scene and helped me to leave the Church. Miscavige is the target. I understand also that Hubbard had some serious flaws, but my God, how can somebody could say that Hubbard wanted to exterminate homosexual? It’s so bloody madly crazy statement.
It’s an opinion? It’s horrible slander based on absolutely no fact.
Ok, it seems that you don’t care, I don’t care too really. But I hate lies, and this is why I hate Miscavige, RTC and all. But to say such a lie on Hubbard give me exactly the same reaction.
Espiando says
It’s not a slander. It’s a fact based on his own words. He wrote it in Diarrhetics. He wrote it in Science of Survival. Didn’t you read Mike’s article?
You take insults to Hubbard personally (which, by the way, is a major psychological problem worthy of a full article). I take threats to eliminate, quietly and without sorrow, me and members of my tribe personally. Hubbard and his works need to be destroyed. Whether or not you join those works is up to you.
John Locke says
Espi, those that defend KNOWN violent criminal’s violent propensities usually have a mind that bends towards criminality…
thetaclear says
Dear FG, I wrote a very detailed and well researched comment about this, but no matter what I do and what I use (whether Android or a computer) , the comment/post never goes through. So, I just stopped bothering. It is a pitty ; it took me a lot of time to write it. It would have presented and explained many angles which were neglected here is this discussion. Perhaps another time.
RogerHornaday says
It is impossible to know what Hubbard WANTED, we can only know what he said.
FG, never mind the ones who fixate so rigidly to those quotes w/out properly evaluating the hostorical/cultural context on which they were created.
LRH is not exactly the saint of my devotion, and is guilty of many, many things, but not of personally mistreating others because of their sexual preferences. If ANYONE here including Mike has an actual instance where they personally witnessed LRH doing that, then I am all ears , and please provide the evidence for that.
The best way to know LRH the man as regards to that is by inspecting his personal C/Ses (Case Supervisor written instructions). I’ve studied them ALL ; the Psychotic Research Cases C/Ses, the Exp DNs C/Ses, and the class 8 course C/Ses. There isn’t not one single example of LRH on those C/Ses where he mistreated in any way, any PC with homosexual tendencies or acts, either by sending them to Ethics or by designing a program to get them “straight”. I know of no example where LRH ever did that.
I know many examples of “attacking the dissenters and critics of Scn, of attacking psychiatry, of using disconnection and fair gaming practices, of being totally authoritarian , of lying, of exaggerating what Scn can actually do for others, of being a self-righteous asshole. But I know of no example where LRH , either personally or through his instructions , attempted to suppress anyone or mistreat him just because he was different in his sexual preferences. In auditing others and C/Sing, LRH stuck to and followed his “Second Dynamic Rule” HCOB/PL , which I don’t know why was ommitted in the quotes presented in Mike’s article.
And I know of no example neither of LRH doing ANYTHING at all to “quietly dispose of” alleged “down-toned” individuals. Zero, nada, zip. That infamous and isolated SOS quote have been used so many times to make a case against LRH while totally neglecting others that contradict it , and while totally neglecting actual ACTIONS , that it is obvious to me that many individuals using it already had decided that LRH was guilty w/out a proper “trial”. I believe in fair trails, not in witch-hunts , not matter if LRH himself was guilty of witch-hunt. That he did it, is no justicication to do it to him if we are to be better than him, and want to became an example for others about what a fair trial consist of.
By 1950 and almost up to 2003 , homosexuality was considered a crime ; period. And probably 95% (or more) of the population (which include MOST of us here) saw it as an aberration and mental disorder. Homosexuality was even a capital offense in many countries around the world.The “Sodomy Laws” that the USA inherited from England since several centuries ago , considered annal sex and oral sex as a crime punishable by jail. The target of such laws was obviously, mainly the homosexual sector.
Homosexuality was considered a mental disorder by the World Health Organization up to 1990 , up to 1973 by the American Psychological. , Association, and up to 1975 by the American Psychiatric Association, but those changes were not brought about by actual research, but by political pressures from many gay activists which even used intimidation and threats towards many psychiatrists in order for them to agree to eliminate homosexuality as a mental disorder from the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). But secretly, most psychiatrists and psychologists believed firmly that homosexuality WAS a disorder of personality.
By the late 70s only 3 states had repealed their Sodomy Laws, and it was not until 2003 that all the states had already repealed such laws. But it was a rather slow and long process. It took several decades after the decision to declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder for the society to start having a different viewpoint about homosexuality. Many legal battles were fought, many protests (pacific and not quite pacific) by pro-gay activists ocurred around the globe , and a lot of clinical research was done in order to bring about this new perspective that many now have about homosexuals. WE were ourselves a product of that social evolution, as most of us were misguided in our own beliefs and attitude towards the LGTB community to the point of, specially by men, make a lot of bad jokes about them.
So let’s stop this pretense that we are so civilized now, and can’t possible understand how it is that a man (from the 1950-1980 period) thought about homosexuality as an aberration and perversion ; 95+ % of the population did. W/out trying to offend here, this is even a little hypocritical.
I don’t care if LRH thought that homosexuality was a perversion or an aberration , he was expected to by the indoctrination of his time. What I only care about is, are there specific HCOPLs where LRH classify homosexuality as a crime to be handled per the Justice codes and Ethics system? Is there ANY LRH issue that clearly states that an homosexual individual is to be denied auditing and/or processing until his “situation” is handled ? The answer to those Qs is “NO”. In auditing and C/Sing, “Second Dynamic Rules” HCOPL/HCOB applies and nothing else does.
I know about the SO qualification issue that Mike brought up, but I don’t know if those are based in actual FOs (Flag Orders). Regardless, let’s not forget the time where those issues originated from ; a period where homosexuality was considered a mental illness and was punishable by law through the sodomy laws. So disqualifying high ranking SO executives for homosexual tendencies is not that absurd around that time, and more so with Scn’s Church status. It was, back then, an Out-PR, out-security issue.
It is the same with Sec Checks. If homosexuality was considered an aberration and even a crime back then, then including it as a possible withhold was not that absurd neither. In fact, it was expected, as Sec Checks have NOTHING whatsoever with making anyone “moral” , it is basically about making someone auditable.
I judge others by their actions , not necessarily by what they write if they actually don’t follow it.
What we have here is the misguided “Standard Tech” concept getting in the way, and just plain robotic-fundamentalist Scientologists literally and misguidedly interpreting LRH’s issues. Scn got stuck in time, and never evolved ; never was changed to meet the modern needs and manners. It froze in time due to Standard Tech, and cult(ish) thinking. Any leader worth his name is expected to adapt to the changes /of the society , and to ajust the policies of his institution accordingly. But DM has never been a real leader.
Ann B Watson says
Hi thetaclear, I read your post to FG.Reading it from the viewpoint of facts only that can be proven,I see that I personally have no hard proof that Ron wanted any gays eliminated etc.Or that auditing was used to change their orientation.But I can say Sec Checking made me crazy and less auditable,it did nothing good for me.However on the emotional side which is totally subjective as my experience albeit short and sweet,what Quentin and then Mary Sue went through after Quentin passed was horrible.I do not think Ron cared about how he was perceived ever.He did and said what made sense to him only.He did have a cruel side, but one does not always show that 100% all the time.His policies on blowing The Sea Org and RPF and the Hole and GO/I showed all that side to me.
Love to you and your beautiful Princess.I read all your posts and learn.With Forever Love Peter,Ann.
Thanks for the comm, dear Ann ; I fully understand what you mean, dear. Please see my reply to FG about the subject of Confessionals.They became the tool of degradation for many GO individuals. Confessionals were originally about getting others auditable, but then began to get used to “roll back” alleged “enemy lines” locating who dared to criticize LRH and/or Scn. They also became an imposition from LRH about what ought to represent an overt act. It became (even if it is usually thought of as the opposite) an imposed morality instead of an action of spiritual liberation as it had been used for centuries by Christianity. I explain why in my reply to FG.
It is a pity that Quentin and Mary Sue had to pay the price of being emotionally attached to LRH. I regret that.
Take care dear.
Hi thetaclear, I want to thank you for your reply to me and your post to FG.Read both carefully and I am starting to get an understanding of what sec-checking is and is not.For me,learning this is like plunging into a million year old briar patch.All the tendrils wrap around and scratch my arms and legs,but if I keep going I start to see how I was part of this out-tech use of Tech regarding sec -checking and lists etc.It was used on me,no wonder I am messed up about auditing and meters!Anyway,I greatly appreciate the time you took to reply and if you need me for anything I’m there.Love Peter Always,Ann.
And Hitler never personally mistreated a Jew, TC. It doesn’t matter. Hubbard wrote what he wrote and never retracted or modified it, and his followers are following those words to this day, despite the social changes that have taken place in the last sixty years (it makes me proud to be by birth and residence a citizen of Illinois, which abolished its sodomy laws in 1962, five years before England and Wales and nine years before any other US state). When Hubbard’s language in DMSMH and SoS about LGBTs can be directly compared to what was said about Jews in Mein Kampf, which it can, you have a problem.
If it helps, I feel the same sort of passion about Scientology’s view of psychiatrists. I’m headed over to Mike’s article today on that subject to comment in order to keep this thread on topic.
I am jew and was a scientologist. And I feel offended that you can compare Hubbard and Hitler. Even if he was sometimes misguided Hubbard never advocate to exterminate anyone. Bring me one homosexual who was beaten because of Hubbard. Many members of my family were killed by the nazis, starting with my grand-parents.
But it’s true that Miscavige has something of Dr Goebbels!
If the comparison is apt, I will make the comparison. And it is apt.
Again, did you not read the actual article and the quotes from DMSMH and SoS? Hubbard stated straight out that if people below 2.0 on the Tone Scale cannot be raised up above 2.0 (and that includes LGBTs), they needed to be eliminated. That sure as hell sounds like advocacy of extermination to me, and what’s true for me is true, right?
As for homosexuals who were “beaten”, you’re choosing your words carefully, aren’t you? And “by Hubbard” rather than “because of Hubbard’s teachings”. You’re trying to get your way out of this semantically, and it’s not going to work. Your mental twisting can allow you to disregard the following:
Derek Bloch, who was tormented as a member of the Sea Org because he’s gay. He’s now trying to build a life with no support from family or the fake religion he grew up in.
Michael Pattinson, whose difficulty with being gay was preyed upon by the cult, with constant promises of Auditing The Gay Away all the way to OTVIII. He blew a half million dollars on Scientology’s promise of a Gay Cure. He’s now out and proud, and he’s got a book available, which you probably won’t read because “it’s entheta”.
John McMaster, Clear Number One, ostracized by Hubbard because of his sexuality and his popularity.
And, finally…
Quentin. Hubbard.
(drops the mic)
marildi says
“Hubbard stated straight out that if people below 2.0 on the Tone Scale cannot be raised up above 2.0 (and that includes LGBTs), they needed to be eliminated.”
That is an false statement, Espiando. He said that “it is only necessary to delete those individuals who range from 2.0 down, either by processing them enough to get their tone level above the 2.0 line — a task which, indeed, is not very great, since the amount of processing in many cases might be under fifty hours, although it might also in others be in excess of two hundred — or simply quarantining them from the society.”
Those were the only those two recommendations – process or quarantine. He never used the word “eliminate” – and as you can see from the above sentence, the word “delete” simply meant to quarantine.
Wrong FG. Hubbard DID advocate just that. Just because Hubbard advocates are unable to confront that fact doesn’t change that fact.
You being offended has ZERO bearing on reality.
” And Hitler never personally mistreated a Jew, TC. It doesn’t matter. Hubbard wrote what he wrote and never retracted or modified it, and his followers are following those words to this day, despite the social changes that have taken place in the last sixty years.”
Now, come on Espiando ; Jews were considered below animals by Hitler, and if he never personally interacted with none, it was because for him there were like nothing, and actually an insult to even direct a comm to any of them. These 2 men can’t be compared in any way, shape or form. And he DID retracted about it with his “Second Dynamic Rules” HCOPL where he clearly said that he wasn’t interested in the sexual life of anyone save that it were directly affecting others.
As I said before, there ISN’T any LRH issue in existence where homosexuality falls into any type of crime to be handled in Ethics. There is no such issue. Neither any special auditing or Rundown directed at specifically handling the homosexual to get him/her to change his/her sexual preference. Let’s talk about facts, actual actions, please, and let’s stop fixating on one single point.
And no, the change in perspective has NOT been happening since the last 60 years ; the World Health Organization had homosexuality as a mental disorder until 1990 , only 25 years ago. By the late 70s only 3 states of the Union had repealed their sodomy laws. The social change you refer to is actually quite new, more close to the last 2 decades, definitively not the last 60 years. By the time LRH wrote those misguided issues homosexuality WAS considered a mental disorder and perversion ; PERIOD. That’s a FACT, not my opinion, dear Espi. Judge LRH for his actual crimes. 95+% of the population, including most of us here, shared LRH’s view on homosexuality at that time period. It is not fair and balanced for him to stand trail on that ; we ALL would have to stand trail on that as well.
LRH was misguided and destructive at many things ; I totally agree with that. But what is happening with the Church today are a direct result of fundamentalism and an idiotic literal interpretation of Scn scriptures, made worse by a failure from want-to-be leaders to bring Scn up to modern times.
Thank you your post Theta Clear. It really exactly put the truth there.
Ann, sec check on the very beginning were used to take off the PC’s withold to make sure he can be “in session”.
If you withold something then you have a hard time to be in session.
But very unfortunatly if you take a false read then the PC doesn’t release the charge, he creates a new one.
Auditors, especialy sec checker don’t really want to understand it (while its clearly quoted in any course) But the punishement attitude of homo spiens is bent on the direction to find wrongness. I cannot give you a full course on class 2 technology but the sec checks you received were certainly madly out tech. And if it was on OT eligibility, the concept of OT eligibility itself is antiscientology. It’s inspection before the fact. I suspect that this bulletin in 1982 was not written by Hubbard as it is completely opposed to anything he ever said.
The tech as practiced under Miscavige is highly criminal, its actually black scientology.
You are most welcome, dear FG. I agree, Sec Checks wasn’t about punishment or about getting anyone to become “moral” ; they were about getting others auditable. But on the hands of Hubbard(tomized) , robotic and cult(ish) individuals, it can become a tool of suppression, violation of Human Rights, and even humiliation.
There is an inherent flaw in Confessionals in that their Qs are based on what one man, namely LRH, thinks what a possible transgresion against a moral code is, which is rather arbitrary for one man to decide. This can even act as a wrong indication and an enforcement of reality, as what an overt is or is not, is decided by other-determinism.
Per Standard Tech, if a Sec Check question reads, and the PC is protesty or bewildered about it , one is supposed to check for “False Reads”. But a False Read in this context is a “shouldn’t have read” because the PC wasn’t guilty of committing that specific overt act and yet it read anyway, or the PC might have already gotten off this w/h at previous sessions and it wasn’t acked or accepted in some way (provided that he got it off completely w/out anything having remained undisclosed). A false read doesn’t means in Standard Tech, “it shouldn’t have read because I don’t think that such a question represents an actual overt act, as to me, it is quite all right doing such an act”. This is NOT what a False Read is in Standard Confessional Procedure. If a PC originates the above, rest assure that that confessional question WILL BE taken up to clean it to
F/N.
A “Supress read” or a “”Invalidate read” is an alleged transferred read from the confessional question to that specific button. Once one gets the PC to say what he had to say about that, then the original confessional question is taken up REGARDLESS if what the PC had suppressed or invalidated was that he thought that such a question didn’t represent an actual over from his perspective. He WILL BE harassed by the Security Checker until he confess and own up to that overt by getting off his “justifications” on it with probably (even thought this is not part of the standard HCOB on it , but something that a class VIII might think in doing) ) , “Why wasn’t it an overt ?”.
If any Church auditor accepted as a false read the protest of this PC as to his disagreement with that Sec Check question being an overt, he would probably lose his certs. If anyone on the Field runs it like that, then he might be doing the right thing, but that isn’t covered as LRH’s Standard Tech. If LRH wrote it, then it must have been an overt ; that’s EXACTLY how this is interpreted by PCs in general.
So, we may end up enforcing a reality on the PC, with a wrong indication acting as a wrong item on the list, with its destructive consequences. That is my thesis as to why Confessional Tech became so dangerous for many, lowering their tone level and making them PTS.
For me, Confessional Tech is very useful, but also inherently flawed, capable of being a double sword , as it doesn’t take into account the reality level of the individual. It allegedly does take it into account, as , it is claimed that subjects beyond the reality level of the PC won’t read , but I think (actually KNOW) that a read can be gotten on “this is not an overt to me”. And, “this is not an overt to me” isn’t handled as a False Read. If you or any other auditor has any specific LRH ref that contradict this assertion , then please quote it (with exact date and name) , and I would stand corrected.
So, what do I think would have been the correct way to go about this ?
Well, as a totally untested handling, I would get the PC to list (this won’t be Listing And Nulling) what actions HE (not LRH) considers to be overt acts on a certain area or sector of his life, specifically those sectors or areas where he is currently having difficuly with or has had for a long time. And I would write down the reading items. Then I would work ONLY with such items by convering them to Confessional questions. I would f/n each question, and then I would list again in a new unit of time for what the PC now considers to be overt acts, as by now he might have others things that previously were not overts for him. And I would f/n again each reading items. Somewhere along the line this area of difficulty would be straighten out to a marked degree with a major cog and ability gain on the area. And that’s the time to stop the procedure.
This new approach would always be taking into consideration what the PC himself considers to be an overt act; not what LRH or the auditor, or C/S considers it is. Then the chances for enforced reality, and wrong indications would be minimal.
Anyway, that’s my perspective in this matter. Take care, dear FG.
Excellent developpement TC. You always amaze me with your sharpness, thorough knowledge of the tech, and ability to diffrentiate. Now, the idea that it is not an overt for the PC from his moral code, and that it reads on a protest, I have practiced it.
For exemple, a very classical one, I had a PC always having a wh on masturbation (not from a sec check, simple MWH). I did the false read handling, “Did anyone said you have a wh when you don’t have one?” Reading, Pc cheerful “yes myself !” Basically he himself didn’t see anything wrong with mastrubating… he was happy, it FNed. He actually got the consideration while himself auditing another PC on the WH of mastrubating.
I believe they are layers of moral codes plotted on the time track and on different entities surrounding or connected to the PC. So, to begin with the overt you audit maybe misown. Prior to scientology let say a girl experiment to be lesbian. It’s not she is a lesbian completely, but she tried. She is more or less bisexual. From the viewpoint of Kinsey all human are to a certain degree bisexual, homo tendencies exist at a more or less degree. That’s a “modern” viewpoint which tends to rid a person from guilt regarding sex. She will freely tell about her experience. She doesn’t have a ruin on the subject, more like a win, since she now can have beautiful clitoral orgasm, while with penetration she felt introverted not to have any pleasure, and that boy was a serious WH!
Now, she got in scientology. At some points, doing ruds, she find herself confessing her sex experience like if it was an overt. Because the moral code (especially after 1982) is very regressive. Now, it hit the viewpoint of some relatives, or the general viewpoint prior to Kinsey, or Master and Johnson, the conservative idea about sex.
She has gone into an earlier layer of moral code. It also might be shared at an hypnotic level by some entities. Entities don’t have self determinism. They tend to obey to enough “reality” especially low tone reality. On her folder a “CS” has written that she had homo experience, seen a couple of psychs, her eligibility will be questionnable. At this time, it will be safe to do a “plant check” to make sure she is not illegal PC. And of course, even if she didn’t read the notes of the “CS”, she is under a terrible wrong indication. Why? Because scientology never went to present time. And that is the illness plaguing it. They are stuck around 1960.
Because of this little punk. You have just to look at his hercut to see that little monster is stuck on the cold war. Up to to 1980, scientology was progressing with mainstream of it’s time (except the GO which was stuck on a James Bond and was looking like SPECTRE, with Jane Kember looking like number 2 (and Hubbard like Goldfinger!). But the tech itself was going forward and Not’s was not a tech for idiots.
From 1982, HCOPL about sec checking are reissued. We are back to 1962-1965. Overt given in session become actionnable. It’s the beginning of the end of scientology.
If you read “anatomy of thought” which is data serie 1 in fact, you understand that only basic law counts. But who read this, and who understand it? A subject like data serie evoluting with correct time stream require a certain IQ to be understood.
Like in any fascist state, after Miscavige took over, intelligent people were banned of scientology.
RTC just dig deep to get old tech and altered it for repressing anyone who would discover their coup. Being sec checked was no longer Hubbard tech but Stasi tech. Who could have a win with that?
richelieu jr says
Graceful return to your personal experience at the end, Mike.
You continue to impress.
mark marco says
“It’s what Scientology does with the concept that drives it into condemnation.”
-that’s another touchdown for the all-star player, E S P I
Maxim Zbitnoff says
I did not read all the replies but I was surprised no mention was made of 1967 policy on Second Dynamic Rules (I think that was the title) in which Hubbard said as much that it didn’t matter what your sexual practice was as long as it didn’t interfere with your progress in auditing. That said durring my tenure in the group there was certainly among some a disdain for gays though I think many were more accepting. I remember one event promoting religious freedom and along with speakers from other cults seeking legitimacy there was Paul of Peter, Paul and Mary. Not only was he for religioius freedom but freedom of sexuality for gays and lesbians which got a tepid response from the audience.
Funny that before I was in scientology it made no difference to me how sex was practiced.
Not long ago I was talking to someone who was in a different cult and I asked him why he left. He said he grew up. Bingo, that’s why I left: I had to grow up. As I did more sanity and humanity has been part of my life. The dreams of having the only answer to the dwindling spiral in all the eons no longer could be believed… though it was hard to let go. Nor could the real life playing out of the Emperor’s New Clothes by Clears, OTs and those running show…. they were as wacky as anyone else–some would say moreso.
Mike, I liked your post about charity and generousity in the wog world. I have been amazed at how caring and kind people can be without needing the turn it into a PR event.
Just recalling how when I left scientology in the mid 90s it was quite a shift to realize I did not have to look down on or distance myself from gays, pschiatrists, and “SP”s… that they were just as human and loveable as anybody, fellow travelers on life’s journey. A piece of growing up. Now I like to see the innocence in everyone… evil doers and all… without having to agree or condone.
Hi Maxim Zbitnoff, It is good to meet you.Thank you for your post.Made sense to me and I liked it.Always,Ann.
Chris Thompson says
The irony of studying Hubbard is that his psychosis let him say whatever sounded good to him at the moment. No one positive pronouncement of Hubbard’s corrects or cancels the countering negative things.
Hi Chris Thompson, I think your post about Ron is very true.He did have a knack for saying what would sound amazingly good at the moment.But as you wrote this does not negate or excuse the negative side.Always,Ann.
Chris, you’ve made a very relevant point. Much of scientology gospel is based on things Hubbard said while talking, and I don’t mean where he gave carefully prepared talks which I don’t think he ever did, but talks that could be described as employing a “conversational style”. Those of us less charitable in our judgements would call it, “yammering”. So, yes, he said whatever sounded good at the time and whatever popped into his head as evidenced by the baseless and contradictory products of his compulsion to wax authoritatively. Some of the things he said will not be quoted by his worshippers desirous to avoid “taking things out of context” as it were, wink wink.
Quite correct Roger. Now, I had access to EVERYTHING El Ron ever wrote or spoke because of my location. Unlike some others who keep screeching about taking stuff out of context. LRH’s context about gays is VERY simple and clear. He found through his “research” that they were 1.1 and thus dangerous perverts. He also wrote that they needed to be sidelined or, eliminated.
NOW, before others jump in; NO, he never gained enough power to implement that desire. Per his writings it is what he WANTED. If Herr Schicklgruber had never come to power I’m sure many would look back and defend Mein Kampf & he by stating that while he wrote that stuff, 1) He never actually tried to do it. 2) He was taken out of context.
Hi Roger Hornaday, I loved your post this morning.The way you put Ron into or out of context as it were resonated for me.Especially your point about his conversational style.He was an excellent off the cuff yarn spinner and hypnotist in my humble opinion.XO,Ann.
“He was an excellent off the cuff yarn spinner and hypnotist”
Hi Chris Thompson, Like all your posts,thank you.I remembered when I saw those old faded color Bell & Howell movies of Ron giving a talk at a shopping center in Phoenix,AZ I think.A Sea Org briefing at a house near Temple St,I saw these at least four times.Most interesting and yes he got me from the opening words.He was very skilled at that.Always,Ann.
BlindersOff says
Get ready for Dave’s new and improved RPF – Golden Age of Staff Purge (GASP). With this incredible breakthrough, the Sea Org member once and for all eliminates all sexual urges with the recently discovered FPRD 2D Form, just as LRH intended, unearthed where the Apollo was scrapped in 1984. It turns out the Mimeo Officer was a gay SP and hid these sacred writings in the aft well deck in a desperate attempt to cover up his hidden overts and evil intentions. That person has been removed from the scene (he died). The questions are designed to ferret out the last vestiges of abberant sexual behavior resulting in the guilty SO member cured and on fire to get back on post. The product is a totally neutered, distraction free Sea Org member, fully aligned with command intention and willing to die for Dave.
Hi BlindersOff, You are very good and made my evening.Thank you,Ann.
“GASP” LOL!
I’m very late to this thread and haven’t read the previous posts. That said, DM’s frequent focus on homosexuality tells me he’s intrigued by it, excited by it, and (very likely) involved in it.
Steve Crawford says
Yes, the thought has occurred to me also. Perhaps another reason why he refuses to be audited? That relationship with TC is very, very odd for grown men to have without intimacy
“That relationship with TC is very, very odd for grown men to have without intimacy”
Not true. Maybe you don’t experience this but “grown men” do experience non-sexual intimacy with our same sex friends – regardless of their sexuality. This is what good friendship is all about to me. If we were close friends, I’d be giving you a call “just to chat.”
Easy on the homosexuals, Robin.
Laura Ann says
Thank you for writing this, Mike. It needed to be said. Imo, probably the most evil thing that happens in Scientology, esp. with young S.O. members is the use of sex or lack of to introvert the poor guy or girl into their head so badly, they can’t see or think straight. It is used to control and make people feel like they are bad or deviant when they aren’t. I can’t think of anything worse, esp for young people.
Hi Laura Ann, Good to meet you. What you posted is true for me.Perceptive.I was not young young,but very sensitive and at 22 still innocent,when I joined SO.Because unlike a lot of my generation I wanted to make love not just jump on the pill to have sex and put notches on the bed post.So did Ron’s ambivalence regarding 2D and how that was applied mess me up? Yes very much so.Thank god I never got pregnant in SO.I really would have been in super hot water! So your post makes me hope the young young SO Members somehow see the light.Always,Ann.
Hi Ann, good to meet you too! I’m just seeing your reply and thank you for it. I’m with you on wishing the best for the young people in the SO now.
Hi Laura Ann, Thank you for your reply.I was just thinking all those years ago in Sea Org, if I had gotten pregnant there would have been no decision,I would never not had my child! More precious to me now because I could not have children this life.Did not know then.My reason for never letting my child go are not religious or political.That is my spirit talking.I would never have disconnected from that child.They would have blown with me.I still feel so sad for those still in.I cry for them all.Love,Ann.
Hi Laura Ann,I posted back to you but it went to the great beyond!Let me try again.Thank you for your reply to me and I agree with you.I was thinking all these years later if I had gotten pregnant in Sea Org I would never have had an abortion.That child would have meant the world to me.Having lost a baby in 91 and because of that I could never have children,I know even more strongly that back then,that child would have blown with me.I would never disconnect from him or her.So I feel sad for all the still ins.I cry for them all.Would they could see the light.Love,Ann.
BKmole says
Hot topic. And Helmuts rant made it hotter.
Mike to my knowledge has never negated anyone’s wins. Hubbard stole from the best and there is some very useful philosophy’s and processes that have helped people.
To hold those wins and philosophies ransom as the cherch does is criminal and exploitive.
Mike is a boon to those in, out and never in as he is letting all people know the machinations of this insane organization gone wild.
Perspective is so important. We can have our wins and at this point they have nothing to do with what is happening in Scientology now.
I’m happy I’m out. Without Mike and people like him I would be dead. And I’m hardly a victim. I was a total victim when I was in. That’s the product of Scientology. Self-determined victims.
In the cherch, Self-determinism=Ron and Davey-determinism.
Hi BKmole, Your post rang so true for me.Yes I was a victim of Sea Org goodness gone bad,and yes perhaps I stayed through abuse too long,but as you know it is so hard to let go even when I knew I was drowning.Mike has this innate ability to communicate and connect.And an unbelievably strong Will that keeps him knocking out this blog for all of us to have a safe home to post.Do I know his daily life and hopes and dreams,no those belong to Christie and him and their family always.But I will do my utmost to protect the freedom,from 24/7 slavery in the Cult that we all sharedDo I get under Mike’s skin? oh I am sure I do.Does he get under my skin at times? Hardly ever maybe once or twice.But my point is that is life,the world and I would be dead and my spirit flown if he had not given me the gift of comm on this blog.So he and his are part of me now and we are all”doing something about it here” Love your posts.Ann.
Mike. Things have to be seen through moral code of the time. When Hubbard wrote in 1951 that homosexual were 1,1, the whole fucking universe starting with medicine would consider homosexuality as an illness, and it was illegal, you would risk to be comitted in a psych asylum or put in jail. Turing (there was a movie about this guy who broke the german codes) was, after the war, obliged to be chimically castrated or put in jail for his homosexuality. He suicided. At this time psychiatrist, would emprisonned the hands of boys to make sure they don’t masturbate, and some did clitorisectomy on girls. Those psychs were the dirty son of a bitch that Hubbard described.
When Hubbard say that homosexuality could be audited he is bloody mild for his time, we are in 1951. Up to the 1960, the current treatment for homosexuality was electric shock. They had to withold homosexuality, like witholding to be jew in Europe during WW2.
And homosexual were ashame to be. I knew some guy who went for auditing with the ruin of being homosexual in the 1970. At this time they were treated nicely with auditor codes in and were given auditing (Life repair style with prepcheck). At this time scientology and Hubbard were not homophobic, some scientologist were homophobic being homosapiens of their time. I have known also scientologists racist with black and antisemitics.
In the UK, up to 1967 there was a law saying that you could go to jail if you are homosexual. I have known before 1982 a lot of homosexual in scientology, and there was no discrimination. After many of them were fired. I remember 2 lesbians girls, in 1982 they suddenly were debarred from the course room, if they continued to have an “aberrated 2D”.
Its like scientology was more modern than society before 1980. Then society became more liberal, and scientology regressed in time.
You speak of this little monster of Miscavige (thinking that he is not becoming history and still in power is almost unbearable) Of course he is homophobic like the worst of KKK. How come nobody hasn’t yet broke his little neck?
Scientology is frozen. So books with old codes, old sec check should be warned of.
At the time Hubbard wrote science of survival, homosexuality was considered by society like now pedophily.
But as they cannot think, they cannot revised the viewpoint.
Mike Rinder says
YEs, this is the exact problem. The “universal truths” that L. Ron Hubbard “discovered” are still held to be unalterable scripture. Scientology is frozen in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s.
McCarran says
Well, sure as shit, Miscavige will probably come out with what LRH said about not getting involved in sexuality. Same as masturbation. LRH said he didn’t care if you masturbated that he wanted real crimes, real overts. That bitch, DM, will start pushing what LRH said that is opposite to all you are talking about here. How all of this isn’t what he intended. It was you and Marty bla bla bla. Homophobe, Homo”hatred” no more. He always adjusts to public opinion and adjusts to you and Marty (that means just you now-a-days.
He’ll never adjust to Disconnection. That’s the only card to hold control that david miscavige has.
genetru says
Hubbard was not immune from cultural conditioning. The conditioning of his time said that homosexuals, who in my experience are almost always highly cultured and civilized, were bad whereas violent males were and are held up as role models.
To me, if you really want to make a better civilization, you should start by being more civilized than your surrounding culture. Civilizations are tolerant. CofS should stop harassing the hairdressers and interior designers – they make things nice! Instead, concentrate on the eradication of thugs and thuggery! Unfortunately, Hubbard appears to have enjoyed thugs and thuggery.
The homosexuals helped bring about civilization on Earth in Babylon, the most culturally and technically advanced society on Earth at the time. They can do so again if not abused and harassed their whole lives, as has happened with so many I know.
It’s the thugs and barbarians that you have to watch out for, they are violent and cause war etc and tend to kill the homos who in return talk smack about the barbarians lack of taste. One of the problems with barbarians is that they don’t understand that they are barbarians or that it’s bad to be one.
genetru the problem with generalities is that they are usually wrong. There were several high ranking homosexuals in Hitler’s team and they helped start a HUGE war. They were also thugs.
Best if you get further education before you make even more incorrect, sweeping statements.
Exactly John. Homosexuality has nothing to do with career choices – nothing.
Correct Chris. And, unlike what genetru asserts, sexual orientation has NO bearing on the good or evil propensities of a person.
Genetru-
I got your message about tolerance and thank you for the reminder,
that tolerance is a valid measure of the advance of civiization.
Why John can’t find his cork before popping off another invalidation of knowingness is just beyond me,
he just does that, most oftern when he doesn’t know the person well, and I hope you continue to post here whenever you get the notion.
1951 was only six to seven years after the concentration camps were freed. It wasn’t only Jews imprisoned in them. A half million homosexuals were killed by the Nazis in the camps. This was public knowledge. So what does Hubbard do? Acknowledge that the Nazi solution to the “gay problem” was perfectly acceptable. The cultural mores of the time do not matter in this instance and do not excuse Hubbard.
The operative word is “genocide”. He proscribed “convert or die”, just like the Inquisition. Countries in Europe and all of the United States had eliminated the death sentence for sodomy by the middle of the 19th Century; in France, sodomy was and has been legal since 1791 (except for the years they were under Nazi control). Hubbard wanted that reinstated in a Clear Planet.
There is no justification for this. There is no explaining it away as a relic of his time.
Dear Espiando,
What you say comparing Hubbard with nazis concerning homosexual show how ignorant you are of Hubbard writing. Hubbard wanted to audit homosxual in a time were they were electrick shoked, jailed for being homo. Hubbard was much more liberal than the rest of the society. He couldn’t say that it was ok to be homo. It would have been like now saying that after all pedophily is acceptable. So, with his education background, he would conclude it was an abarration and that it could be audited.
You could note that he wrote in the dianetics course in 1969 that it’s a crime to evaluate the aberration of the PC from what you see. Aberration of the PC is what the PC consider being an abarration from his own viewpoint.
Homophobia and many fascist viewpoints started in the church with RTC, and the little punk.
When Hubbard write the Joburg in 1959, he just write the principal trangression aginst the society in South Afrika at the time of Appartheid. “have you ever have sex with a somone of the wrong race?” He said that a withold is a trangression against a moral code in “what is a withold” lecture. He doesn’t mean that he agrees with the code. If you were to sec check an SS, you would ask “have you spared a jew’s life?” and if he did, he would have comitted an overt against his “command intention”.
Sec-check are a matter of code. Today you could ask : “Did you discriminate homosexual?” or “are you an antisemite?” those are clearly overts in our society.
Intelligent scientologists would have revised the Joburg since 30 years! I remember while auditing a grade 2 having done a Joburg. When I asked the question of “wrong race” to the PC he was quite puzzled. He actually had sex with a black girl. But he couldn’t see why it was an overt! But finally he “cogged” that it was probably not ok to have relations with black girls (returning to a probable grand parents viewpoint!) This is how scientologist after being kind of revolutionnary type of people become tuxedo and very very conservative style.
Because bulletins are frozen in time. Abd it is not because they are scientologist, it’s because they understand nothing to scientology. Never listened to class 2 lectures about overt and withold. And certainly never read the Data serie 1 : “Anatomy of thought” where Hubbard tell about the difference between a basic law and a rule. And that only basic law count.
“Command intention” followers of the “COB” and extreme antiscientologists who could compare Hubbard with a nazi share one thing : extreme stupidity.
“Hubbard wanted to audit homosxual in a time were they were electrick shoked, jailed for being homo. ”
FG, you begin your lengthy comment with a false argument which means I needn’t punish myself by reading further. Hubbard wanted to audit homosexuals according to you which made him open-minded, “liberal” as you put it. Yet in his own words which you CONVENIENTLY and blissfully choose to ignore, he called for exterminating them without remorse in case auditing and a few other measures failed to cure them. I can only imagine what further molestations of bad logic await the innocent reader who misguidedly elects to read your entire statement.
Roger, by not reading further, you missed the part where he claims that homophobia in the cult started with Miscavige. This is as hilarious a piece of writing as All About Radiation.
Roger, I assume you never read Hubbard… really never ever he called for exterminating anyone. Ask even to Mike Rinder he was there and studied scientology. What you say is pure non sense. You are a Hubbard hater. Actually you belong to the same specie than Miscavige. Extremists are there to make life horrible to good people.
Roger: “FG, you begin your lengthy comment with a false argument…”
It was clear to me that FG was making a comparison of relative truths, and that would not be a false argument.
In a lecture on one of the Academy levels, Hubbard was talking about the need for communication to be on the reality level of the receiver. One example he gave was how you might respond to an angry man who was ranting and raving – “Put them all up against the wall and shoot ’em!.” The idea was that now you could actually get through to the guy, just because of having acknowledged his feelings.
Perhaps the position Hubbard took in DMSMH was for the purpose of hitting the reality level of the reader – by first acknowledging what the prevalent think was in 1950. BUT he went on to say that processing would more easily handle the situation. I highly doubt he thought society would ever go to such extreme measures as extermination, but that they would agree that homosexuals needed to have their “aberrations” audited. I agree with the idea that Hubbard was a victim of cultural think at the time.
marildi, there isn’t a court in this country will convict me for writing a comment based on what is clear to me as opposed to what is clear to you.
Enough. Thanks.
word is John Locke owns a particle of source
-now that is cred,
credibility to beat the band.
FG: “Because bulletins are frozen in time. And it is not because they are scientologists, it’s because they understand nothing to [about] scientology. Never listened to class 2 lectures about overt and withhold. And certainly never read the Data series 1 : ‘Anatomy of thought’ where Hubbard tells about the difference between a basic law and a rule. And that only basic laws count.”
Precisely. This is probably the biggest reason that so many criticisms are absurd.
There is even policy for how to change policy that has become unworkable or inappropriate.
Correct marildi. HOWEVER, that is ONLY for PLs’ (green on white) NOT books, tapes, HCOB’s, (the tech of the mind, Tone scale, etc.) E.g.,the data on homosexuals vis-a-vis being 1.1 and criminal, needing to be eliminated, etc. is NOT HCO PL’s that can be changed or eliminated. See tech degrades for more on this.
Did you REALLY not know this or, are you just selectively editing your memory?
At this point, with what Mike said in the article, it’s more like grasping at straws for anything, anything, that might absolve L. Ron from ordering genocide of LGBTs if they can’t be converted to nice heteronormatives.
“…that is ONLY for PLs’ (green on white) NOT books, tapes, HCOB’s, (the tech of the mind, Tone scale, etc.)”
John, I guess you’ve forgotten this policy:
“HCO Policy Letters are senior in admin. HCO Bulletins are senior to all other orders in tech.” (from HCO PL 9 Aug 72 “Seniority of Orders”)
Please stop quoting L. Ron Hubbard to make points. Someone will respond with another quote that says the opposite. It’s an endless game. Hair splitting about whether it is acceptable practice in scientology to alter the writings of L. Ron Hubbard is like arguing how many angels fit on the head of a pin. THere isn’t a scientologist in the world that will tell you that it is OK to alter what Ron says. Other than those who have already been declared SP’s for being squirrels. That is the bottom line and you and everyone else here knows it. Please stop wasting bandwidth with this.
There is a lot of truth to what you are saying, Mike, but the fact is that if Miscavige were a social personality, the policies do exist which he could utilize to promote very different practices than what he has chosen to promote.
Observingsandiego says
Marildi – do you know of instances where the policies have been updated to change with the times? (this is a serious question, it could read as a smart ass comment) 😉
Observingsandiego – no, I can’t say that I know of actual policy letters specifically which have been updated to change with the times. But in effect this has been done with, for example, the attitude towards women. In “Science of Survival,” Hubbard projected the 1950’s attitude in the following:
“We have, in the woman who is an ambitious rival of the man in his own activities, a woman who is neglecting the most important mission she may have. A society which looks down upon this mission, and in which women are taught anything but the management of a family, the care of men, and the creation of the future generation, is a society which is on its way out.” (SOS)
Obviously, this “policy” was changed with regard to women on Scientology staff, as an example, who had equal rights with men to become execs, etc. (Note that they were also allowed to have children and a family. It was Miscavige who changed the policy on family time in the SO and eventually on having children at all.)
The same type of change could be made into policy as regards the 1950 statement about gays.
THis is the last comment on this topic. This dead horse hasn’t just been beaten, it’s turned to dust.
Observingsandiego, in the early ’80’s I got approved a change to a HCO PL. Can’t remember the title but I had added to it a line about making sure an exec giving an order had enough knowledge in the area he was ordering.
FG said, “Its like scientology was more modern than society before 1980. ”
Really? In the US, even in the 50’s, the gov didn’t advocate wiping out homosexuals like LRH did. Sounds like you need to read a LOT more on the subject.
In the seventies, I audited a lot. I had some PCs who were homosexual, never it was an problem, they were going through their grades. At this time it was forbidden to make trouble for a PC about his case. It was forbidden to say to anyone PC was homo, or whatever. The auditor code was sacred. There was actually no direct routing of a PC to ethics. And iron policy destroyed by Miscavige.
Mr Lock, Espiando, Roger H and all, I suppose that you never studied scientology. You speak about a subject you don’t know shit.
I’m amazed Mike that you don’t tell them yourself that Hubbard wanted to exterminate homo is just completely false, it’s a ridiculous statement. Hubbard couldn’t care less weather people were homo or not.
I’m not a fucking cultist. I have always hated them even when Mike and Marty were still in the cult. I have been an ennemy of the cultist aspect of scientology all the time. And I never liked sea org uniform, really never. I actually didn’t like them at all. 15 years ago Marty Rathbun would have declared me SP as IG ethics if I didn’t withold my opinion. I’m a natural born SP for robotic cultist, (and stupid hater).
Hubbard has had some flaws and wrote some bad issus on SP act and all. But never ever he claimed or intend to exterminate anyone. I’m sorry to say that in front the wise Mr Espiando, Lock and Roger H, but Hubbard wanted to help and he did.
I said what I had to say about this very clearly. You should vent in some other direction.
You are getting all worked up over this when it is unnecessary. If you believe others’ opinions are ill-founded and based upon ignorance, then take your own advice. Why be bothered by people who “know shit.”?
Artoo45 says
I don’t post here much, but I read Mike’s blog daily and have watched in awe as someone I once knee-jerk despised has morphed over the life of this blog into someone I genuinely respect and like. I cannot emphasize enough that it wasn’t just Mike who had to change for this to happen. But that’s another story. This long-ass post is about Hubbs and homosexuality.
I know we’ve been over this topic again and again in the critic community, but for me, I realized it was what got me into this battle with Hubbard’s con in the first place. As a young, gay man in 1978, freshly out to my very accepting family, I was dating a boy we’ll call Jim. He was my age (18) and my parents really liked him. He would hang out with us constantly and never really talked about his family in depth or asked me to come to his home (he still lived with his parents and sister). We dated for a few months and I wondered, as you do when you’re 18, if Jim was “the one.” I was taking a year off between high school and college to work and save money for a summer in Europe, so I came home from work one day and my parents were agitated. My dad asked me to listen to a phone message they’d received from “my little friend.” Whenever my dad referred to any of my friends thusly, they’d usually done something to earn his ire.
The phone message was so weird, I had to listen to it twice to make sure I heard it correctly. Here was my boyfriend, who had spent many a night at our place, telling my parents that I was “very sick,” that in fact our whole family was sick and that it was because I was a homosexual. He continued that only Scientology could help us and that it would “be a shame if this got into the media.”
Now, this was 1978. What was he going to do, put an ad in the Penny Saver? Needless to say, I felt like I’d been hit in the gut with a baseball bat. I tried calling him. No answer. No phone machine. Nada.
I tried for another week. Nothing. I tried our yoga class we went to. Gone. He wasn’t in my circle of high school and theater friends so they couldn’t be of any help. Now, in those days, Jim and I were very into metaphysics and spirituality, but there was never a mention of Hubbard or Scientology. So, being rather in the dark about the church, I bought a copy of Dianetics to see what the hell was going on. Besides being impenetrably dull word-salad, I found that it was impenetrably-dull, homophobic word salad (among other ridiculous things) and a life-long critic was born.
Fast-forward five years (1983), and I run into Jim and his date at a party. He looked like a deer in the car headlights when he saw me. As I approached, he hung his head. I couldn’t tell if he was laughing or crying. Long story short, he told me that his parents had found a letter I had written to him. He had been totally closeted to his Scientologist parents. They stood over him with the local mission holder in attendance, and told him what to say into the answering machine that day ten years before. I was gobsmacked and mostly felt sorry for him. He was never really in the church. He told me his father and mother divorced, she blew and the dad stayed in for a while and quietly left.
At the time I reconnected with Jim, I had moved back to my hometown of San Francisco and worked in a bookstore in the Castro district. Whenever anybody brought a copy of Dianetics up to the counter, I’d have them read a copy I kept below the register with all the crazy, homophobic crap highlighted and bookmarked. They’d stand to the side and I’d watch their faces as they read. In the two years I worked there the reactions varied from laughter to rage, but nobody ever bought a single copy after reading that cray-cray.
Thanks Mike, for all you do. It can’t have been an easy journey, even once you were free of the church. May you reconnect with your children someday soon. And to the rest of our far-flung, disparate community, every story matters. Keep talking.
Thanks for sharing your story with us, Artoo45 ; I am really sorry that you had to go through all that.
Cece says
Wow, what a story Artoo45! $ just H-A-S to mess with others lives even after the ‘think for yourself’ ‘what is true for you is true’ etc. baloney. Thank you for sharing.
Good People says
Mr Rinder, Two questions for you: 1. Do you think Scientology could be reformed if it had sane, compassionate leadership? 2. Do you think if Scientology continues to contract, Scientologists will try to remove DM from power?
1. I don’t think any organized “church” is ever going to succeed. I don’t think scientology needs to be (or can be) “reformed.” People can use what they find works and abandon that which doesn’t. They can practice the parts of scientology as long as isn’t abusing anyone and it works for them. But I do not believe any organization will ever really work, other than small localized “collective” where people get together to practice what they find workable.
2. No. He (and they) always have some other reason to explain failures (psychs, big pharma, SP, bitter defrocked apostates, the media). As long as he is around and they keep contributing to his campaigns, cause will always be assigned else and he will be the only hope for handling it.
I Yawnalot says
Not that it matters really but it’s that attitude of yours Mike that keeps me frequenting this site. I’d like to see a sane approach to understanding scientology. Trying to eliminate it will only cause problems that will never go away and create an angst against whatever concept of freedom we think we live under and vote for.
But as a large group scientology will forever develop people like miscavige to take it over, same as any organisation that creates a flow of ‘easy’ money. If the mind of man is ever going to understood, it will never come from mainstream either – far too many vested interests keeping the “common folk” in line for that.
Must be quite the time consumer for you to keep this site going – thanks.
You frequent this site all the time. I visit here daily and there’s almost always a comment from you. Maybe Mike understands, from his intimate, inside knowledge as a Scientology executive, that the sane approach is that Hubbs was a con man who cobbled together some things that worked, others that didn’t and still others that he just pulled out of his ass for convenience or maybe because he was simply high as a kite. Just because some aspects of psychology have been ineffective or harmful, it’s been self-correcting. That’s what science does. And because psychology is a soft science, it’s trial and error on the most complicated system in the universe: the human brain. One step at a time.
Scientology? Talk about a system designed to keep common folk in line.
True, what would I know? I was only a front line CL4 auditor and sup for over a decade, working 12 plus hours a day. Mere pittance compared to those who PR for a living.
Was a soldier too, what the hell do I know of about armies and armed conflict? I was only a mere corporal.
I’ve seen/known many executives and have known many officers, a few competent ones but many more who were grossly incompetent. Having rank doesn’t make you an expert no matter how much you’d like to think otherwise. What you do and the results you get are what define you. A negative opinion thrust forward carries the same weight as a positive one unless you have no idea of what you are talking about and then it’s just bs, no matter how it’s dressed.
And concerning bs, there’s no shortage of that concerning scientology, for both sides of the camp.
I think I’m allowed to comment when, where and how I choose, that is correct isn’t it? Or do I need your permission?
And one more point. The most glaring thing about the scientology organisation is that the rot began at the top of the organising board and flowed downhill.
Countless well intentioned people in the lower rank structure were abused, financially punished and ripped away from the families for many, many years before 2007.
I walked out in disgust around 1998 and severed all ties by early 2000.
Where was management when so many staff members were struggling just to keep food on the table? The luxuries of life like new clothes, cars that worked and medical/dental treatment were an impossible dream. We were blamed for not working hard enough and not being whatever the fuck “standard” means while the lies flowed thick and fast from your prised executive strata. I’ve earned the right to say what I like about that organisation and its tech, as many others who’ve paid the price also are free to say whatever they like.
I never fire the first shot in invalidating another of their scientology opinions but as sure as hell, I’ll fire the accurate ones.
I Yawn asked, “Where was management when so many staff members were struggling just to keep food on the table? ”
“Management” was standing around applying LRH pay policy on the matter. THUS, staff members starved.
Hi I Yawnalot,A true and accurate post!When I feel I’ve messed up here or start to falter,I read your posts. Lifts me up every time.Love,Ann.
Shot fired and received… 😉 great post I yawn.
Good people. I hope that your 2 questions could be positively answered but unless COB contract a cancer and die, I don’t see how they will get rid of him. If he was gone, it’s not impossible to think that the church would reform.
We shouldn’t take what Hubbard said so seriously. He would have been the first to admit he didn’t know what he was talking about.
(and the crowd rolls onto the floor in chaotic laughter)
Jose Chung says
Back on the day I audited a gay guy on Op Pro by Dup when it was the HQS course.
It blew his color blindness ( color blind since age 9) He went home to his gay partner
and told him the news and the gay partner freaked out that Scientology made his Gay partner better.
This destroyed the gay guy who came back to the mission caved in and crying.
After that this person never again came back.
What does being gay have to do with this story? As far as I can tell it is totally irrelevant, unless you are trying to make the point that all gay people “deestroy their partners” or they all hate scientology or what?
Maybe I’ve gave the short form but a true story.
I didnt say it wasn’t true, I just didnt follow the point you were trying to make?
Jose Chung, I don’t believe for one nano-second anybody’s color blindness was cured by auditing. It is my belief you are lying. I’m not saying you ARE lying, only that I BELIEVE you are and I’d be willing to bet a ruinous amount of money on it.
Really happened, true story.
Or the PC was lying and wrote a wonderful success story and the real reason he never returned is because of his outlandish lie about his color blindness being cured and he was afraid of being found out. Whatever it is, something smells funny about that story.
Old Surfer Dude says
Not sure you can “cure” color blindness with auditing. Outside of this one situation, I’ve never heard of ANYONE curing their color blindness.
Maybe they lost their sight entirely and hence the color part was ‘cured’.
Kemist says
No, it cannot be cured. But in certain cases, it can be corrected with special glasses :
http://www.enchroma.com/
Science. It works.
And it will cost you less than auditing.
thegman77 says
AnnB, thanks so much for your very sweet memories of both Quentin and John. They certainly match mine. Quentin gave me the most incredible review session I ever had in all my years. We both laughed like crazy guys all through it. No rote/remote auditing from that guy! I knew John in my NY days. He did a series of radio and tv interviews there which resulted in a LOT of good news for Scn at that time. Cab drivers recognized him as soon as he got in their cabs! He was utterly amazing, almost angelic when he was explaining something to the audience. As well, his output resulted in a wave of new people into the org and missions. Declared? Utter BS!
Hi thegman77, XO Always,Ann.
Hi thegman77, Two lasting memories I have of John’s letters and Quentin.What you posted about John’s angelic presence when explaining points came across very strongly in his letters to me.I really felt that.Quentin and I used to go hang out along the covered walkway that was facing the gardens at The Manor.We would be the only two sitting along the hall,and all he had to do was look at me directly and we both would laugh,it was totally amazing.Never any rote/remote auditing from him ever!Like stardust.Love,Ann.
Someone who is so extremely homophobe like Miscavige, might in fact be very much afraid of being gay himself. Or, maybe more so, fighting his own gay tendencies by exposing them in others very ostentatiously and by boasting about his own ‘performances’ with women, who are just used by him. He might be overcompensating his own ‘failure’.
Rusty says
This piece was incredible. Thorough and also personal. Thank you.
marie guerin says
A very dear friend of mine was a homosexual. His strict adherence to the Church and loyalty to LRH led him to accept trying to change , or that he had to change . Having to fight the impulse and giving in to the impulse , accepting to try to be changed but not wanting to change , observing that he couldn’t change in spite of believing the tech will make you free , this mad cycle made his life a living hell.
The arrogance of the ignorant can ruin a life and they did , in my views.
Unlike Sunny , he was not declared , but only because he agreed to the madness , and other factors.
What a very sad story. Completely dedicated to Hubbard’s dream and willing to try to turn himself into a heterosexual. marie, I’ll bet “…his life a living hell” was an understatement. From your post I assume he’s still in?
And, Herrrrrrrrrrrrreessssss Johnny! I’m back! You’re stuck with me. You hear that John Locke???
If the spam file had some great wave action and a six-pack on ice waiting for you, you would have never left, and you know that.
Oh, guilty as charged! You know me so well Espi….
Yey! Welcome back from spam land OSD!
Thanks OSD2! Good to be back!
For those missing OSD, it is my fault. I just found him sent to the spam file. Must have been my fat fingers trying to negotiate the iPhone to moderate comments. The little icons are so small and so close together…. (my excuse). You will see a bunch of old comments from OSD appear in a minute, though they may not all show up as “current” they may be buried back in the thread where he posted them. I also found two other inadvertent “spam” comment in there from John Locke and one other.
No need to apologize Mike. I’m just glad you have this blog.
( I thought OSD was just hitting the beach)
Steven Hassan (@CultExpert) says
Love to see more human rights groups get involved decrying the grim reality of Scientology’s denial of many basic human rights! Tax- exemption must be revoked!
Steven Hassan
Dr Hassan, I love your work. I would really love for you to comment on how do you think that this subject of homophobia relates to the subject of cults.
Keep up your excellent work.
Yep! Truer words were never spoken, Steve. People will be amazed, when this all falls apart for the cult, how much physical brutality was unleashed on their own members, not to mention the mental assault that they deal with daily.
Whatever is happening in your lives, and I know people are disconnected from families who post here. but, knowing what has, and will continue to occur inside this cult, causes me to give eternal thanks to the universe that it’s not happening in my life! I’m just so very thankful to have the incredible life that I have! Living a cult free life is truly a blessing…
Mike, thank you for this post and for your positive, accepting stance on the subject. While the US has made many positive strides in the right direction we are still a cultural backwater in regards to acceptance, far behind any other 1st world country (and even some 2nd and 3rd world countries). Sadly scientology’s views on this subject aren’t far off from not only the Catholic Church, but many Protestant churches as well. I firmly believe that if there is a god, or if you are in a religion that claims to help people – judging someone based on something that isn’t up to them and denying one their basic rights and needs is the real sin, no higher being would ever find fault with acceptance, tolerance and love.
If you believe the late John Boswell, condemnation of homosexuality as something apart from the general regard of non-procreative sexuality as sin didn’t take place until the late 12th Century, when there was a massive social movement toward conformity with the majority view that swept up a lot of minorities and non-empowered peoples, such as Jews and women, in its wake. Before this movement, it was rather live-and-let-live with gay people. St. Peter Damian’s condemnation of homosexuals was actually blown off by the Pope.
In his condemnation of homosexuality, Aquinas actually uses one of the weakest possible arguments available, and seems to be a little ambivalent about that. But society at the time required a population whose duty was to supply the necessary labor that kept feudalism going, and that meant sex had to be channeled to procreation, with clear lines toward the inheritance of property. That’s why the Church made marriage a sacrament in the 13th Century.
Boswell’s final work, his rediscovery to popular attention of Christian ceremonies which were undoubtedly for same-sex marriage, put same-sex marriage on the agenda of gay rights, albeit as a future target, in the 90s. He would have been proud to see some of those rediscovered ceremonies being adapted and used for their proper purpose today.
Agreed ESpi! I knew the ban on homosexuality came much later in the Catholic Church but not the exact details. The marriage ceremony bit is very interesting indeed, I’m glad we are gettin back around to it. 😉
Miss Ellie says
At my mission the “ethics” officer decided to “cure” a guy of being gay. He worked and worked with him to get him “straight” then “ordered” him to have sex with a female friend of his. He did.. she did… they did. He came in carried by two friends of his. He had a complete breakdown and the “ethics” officer could not figure out what went wrong. I have often wondered what happened to the poor guy… I never saw him again after he was carried in. This was in the 70s.
When he was carried in he was crying and physically ill. He looked like hell. I wish I had stood up for him but I was a kid of 14 or so and did not have what it took. None of the other adults did anything that I know of either.
What an evil organization can be created by people wanting to do the “right” things.
Hi Miss Ellie, Good to meet you.Thank you for your powerful post.Yes I saw some of what you posted in Sea Org,but I am so so sorry you had to be 14 and feel helpless in that situation.I really feel for you.Glad you are out now,you are very strong.Love,Ann.
@FBC says
I suspect Helmut’s comment is being misinterpreted. I used to work in Helmut’s business more than a decade ago, and he did not show any sign of homophobia. In fact, he had an openly homosexual office manager who went to the office parties with his same sex domestic partner, and Helmut talked cheerfully with both of them in the party.
Michael Winters says
As an aside, where did LRH say marijuana was safer than alcohol and what text or edition of the book was this deleted from? Curious.
I think it was in DMSMH, the original edition. Not sure how long before it was removed. He may also have said it in other places.
Jonathan Mark says
That may have been the only time Hubbard was ever right about anything.
Thanks, I have the 3rd or 4th printing of the first edition. I will have to check it out.
Easy: http://projectavalon.net/DMSMH.PDF
Right, Mike. It was in the original edition of DMSMH and is also in the newest (“basic books”) edition. I don’t know about the editions in between.
“…alcohol is apparently not physiological in its addictive effect. With the whole range of chemistry to choose stimulants and depressants from, why the government chooses a superiorly aberrative and inferiorly stimulative compound to legalize is a problem for the better mathematicians, possibly these who deal exclusively in tax income problems. Opium is less harmful, marijuana is not only less physically harmful but also better in the action of keeping a neurotic producing, phenobarbital does not dull the senses nearly as much and produces less after effect, ammonium chloride and a host of other stimulants are more productive of results and hardly less severe on the anatomy…Making one drug immoral and another one taxable is a sample of the alcohol engram in society.” (DMSMH)
SarahDB says
Is he speaking from personal experience?
Score one for LRH! That’s something verified he got right. Haha.
Michael, I believe I’ve proved that it is. And let me tell you, son! I put in massive amounts of research time to come to this conclusion. So…question answered.
sashiebgood says
“Not all the beauty nor the handsomeness nor artificial social value nor property can atone for the vicious damage such people do to sane men and women. The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the tone scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered.”
sounds a lot like David Miscavige should be suddenly and abruptly deleted.
Well said sashie. Well said.
Point #1 of Keeping Scientology Working is ‘Having the correct technology’. Since Hubbard’s writings on homosexuality would be considered the correct tech on the subject, I wish to add my comments to a small portion of this policy letter:
“We will not speculate here on why this was so or how I came to rise above the bank. (why not?)
“We are dealing only in facts (really?) and the above is a fact (if you say so) —the group left to its own devices would not have evolved Scientology but with wild dramatizations of the bank called “new ideas” would have wiped it out. (one man’s opinion). Supporting this is the fact that man has never before evolved workable mental technology (how does this support your claim?) and emphasizing it is the vicious technology he did evolve—psychiatry, psychology, surgery, shock treatment, whips, duress, punishment, etc., ad infinitum.” (How is all of psychiatry and psychology vicious? Wasn’t it you who said generalities won’t do?)
I’m heterosexual, and as far as I know, most of my friends are and yet none of us are as obsessed with the details of male homosexual activities as the homophobes I’ve noticed on other forums.
It’s almost a cliche, but the evil dwarf’s obsession with body building and near-constant ranting about homosexuality does make you wonder doesn’t it?
Chee Chalker says
The ‘lady’ doth protest too much
Or, as LRH would paraphrase ‘the overt doth squeal in delight when its tiny bottom is squeezed’
I’ve wondered that as well, with all of the books and articles written by people close to dm that speak to his constant degradation of people around him in very homophobic terms… Regardless, LRH set the tone and dm has taken it to another level. Its disgusting all the way around.
Oh, I wonder alright. I do wonder….
But, keep in mind that DLHDM has Tiny Man’s Syndrome. Small Man’s Syndrome would be a step for him.
Schorsch says
You give someone a want, a desire, an urge. Some burning desire to reach for something. Then you say that want is a sin, bad or not right to accomplish. Like eating. You give someone a body that needs food. Then you tell him that eating is bad. Currently they not only tell us that eating is bad, also breathing. CO2 you know. Same with sex. Religion tell us always that sex, eating, breathing whatever is necessary to let a body live is bad or is only acceptable if done right. The right way, at the right time or whatever else is told us to be right.
Ever wondered why especially Religions have so much attention on the right way to eat or not eat at times, have sex or not have sex, the right way to have sex or whatever. They know that one has to eat and do all the other things a body needs. So every one breaks the rules. There is no one on earth with a body existence that can follow all the rules exactly. Even if he tries.
Next step is then to find a way to pull the withholds. It is not so much the punishment that is the bad thing. It is an old formula to make a population OBEY. That is all what that game is about. Make you obey. They do not care of you are gay or hetero. They only want you to break the rules. Do not have too much attention on the different groups with different rules. The objective behind all those groups is to make you obey. Fall to you knees and follow their orders.
Now the sin is to not be tolerant. Then you are marked being bad. Next step is to control not only what you say. The final stage is to control your thoughts and not let yourself think other thoughts then the sanctioned ones. But it is not possible completely control the thoughts and then you may observe yourself having bad thoughts and then you punish yourself. That is the last level of the game. Controlling yourself.
Living in the Sea Org is the blueprint of the living on this planet in the future. I always tried to figure out the meaning of the statement that only Clears and Ots will survive this planet. In the 70ies I had no good reality about that. Now 2015 I have a very good reality about it.
Thank you Schorsch. I heard you Brother.
Oh no, no GP. C’mon now! It’s “I HEAR you Brother.” I mean, sup wit dat?
COSCUZ says
Very well said, Schorsch. Thank you.
Thank you as always mike. Powerful words to hear, and they need to be heard. Keep up the good work.
Cat Daddy says
http://time.com/3975630/pope-francis-lgbt-issues/
“1. Pope Francis said that God doesn’t condemn LGBT individuals — Sept. 30, 2013”
Hey, I thought Dave was the Pope.
In his trousers
“Dave’s really a sweetheart once you get to blow him.” – Unidentified Inch Wife
Oh shit! All this time I thought you guys were saying “Dave the Poop!” Man, do have toilet paper on my face or what?
doloras says
LRH himself was of course quite voraciously heterosexual – but then again, it’s rumored he did some forbidden things out in the desert with Jack Parsons, so maybe his behavior with women was “making up for” some deep feelings for men. So maybe he himself was “projecting his own case onto others” in this regard too.
P. O'Neil says
I think you are exactly right. If you’ve read Hubbard’s Affirmations*, you know that he is trying (for pages and pages) to convince himself that (1) Jack is a friend only (but it’s normal for Hubbard to enjoy looking at Jack’s body, because ART) and (2) Hubbard’s wife is very sexually attractive to him and sex with her is eminently satisfying for him. These points go hand-in-hand; it was clear (to me, anyway) that Hubbard was trying to make himself forget about what must have been an overwhelming sexual experience with Jack, and to push his continuing attraction to Jack to the bottom of his psyche by, in effect, “writing over” those feelings with the new “code” of “my only sexual desires are for women” and “my wife is a very desirable woman.” There are hints in the writings that episodic impotence compounded this problem.
Given the mores and morals of the day, it wasn’t unusual for Hubbard to feel guilty for having enjoyed sex with a man; but he reacted to that guilt with the overblown emotional response of a teenager, not a grown man. I think it was the guilty and scared teenager in Hubbard that so emphatically rejected a man’s (i.e., his) sexual attraction to another man and ultimately defined it as aberrant. Easy to see how that guilt was transposed into hatred of homosexuals. And because Hubbard was his “religion”, and vice-versa, hatred of homosexuality became a tenet of the faith of Scientology.
*I think that’s what he called these confessional writings.
I’m disappointed. I got to the end of these comments and no-one from Milestone Two stood up to defend Ron’s scientific understanding that homosexuals are creepy, warped, disgusting, and Scientology can and will cure them of their foul misdeeds. Can I ask: do the fundamentalist-Indies support LRH’s homophobia, or do they try to doublethink that away, too?
Theta Clear says
Most of them , a least the ones I know, don’t support homophobia , fair gaming , SP declares , nor disconnection. They tacitly disagree with all those items, even when they refuse to make public statements against LRH or Scn. Most of them, just want to audit, help others, and go up the Bridge. They are not interested in in anything else. That has been my experience with dozens of them, at least.
Thetaclear
They may not be homophobic, engage in fair gaming, SP declares or disconnection, but their continued SILENCE allows all this to continue.
I agree with you on that 100% , Chee Chalker.
Finally i get it, what an “Indie” is. Took me this long to figure that out- because first I hate lingo-talk, and second I get creeped out by Indies. That short list above? Fair-gaming, disconnection, etc, that is a fairly sinister list. In addition, I can’t help but see the Ethics Formula by LRH as the tool to keep you trapped wherever he feels like it on the Bridge. It is a trap. It is inherently dangerous. To use it, therefore, one must first sacrifice reason, itself, waging that danger for whatever therapy you can milk out of it?
Indies do adhere to this ethics policy, correct? Count me out.
Some do, some don’t. Millstone Two demands absolute adherence to everything Hubbard wrote, so they believe in Ethics. Other Indies don’t.
Ethics was the main reason why the Indie movement of the early 80s diaspora didn’t maintain any cohesion; Bill Robertson and David Mayo hooked up after their expulsions from the cult, but Robertson insisted on applying Ethics Tech and Mayo said absolutely not, so Robertson broke the alliance up. If that hadn’t happened, things would have probably been very different today.
So then maybe I’m confused- I thought that many ‘indies’ we’re just using the tech, i.e. The exercises to help them, not necessarily following everything LRH was saying.
Yes and no, Observingsandiego. Indies are mostly about “Standard Tech” as regards to auditing procedures and auditor training. They DO resent any criticism towards LRH and Scn, and many of them misguidedly think that such a criticism comes from having overts and withholds on LRH and/or Scn itself or things you don’t want others to find out about you. This is based on an article/HCOB (Hubbard Communication Bulletin) tittled “Critics of Scientology”. It is also based on others HCOBs on the subject of “Missed Withholds”. Here is the link for “Critics of Scientology” :
http://www.suppressiveperson.org/sp/archives/278
But even though they resent criticisms towards LRH and/or Scn , they don’t use “Fair Game” , “SP declares” , “Disconnection” , “Harsh Ethics” , or any of that shit. Their emphasis is on getting others up the Bridge and auditor trained w/out any alterations of LRH’s original writings.
Of course, there are always exceptions to the rules, and you also find out here many who are just plain assholes, but assholes are to be found at ANY practice or religion. Most Indies are totally harmless minding their own business. As I said, I know a lot, a lot of them so I have direct experience with them. They do not approve of all the suppressive stuff from the CofS or even from LRH even if they don’t publicly admit it.
Excellent sum up TC
That’s good TC.
It seems to be that you can’t use anything of scientology without being moulded into one camp or the other.
Not all Catholics have to view child abuse as an in-house problem.
I don’t think there will ever be an un-opinionated use of scientology ever allowed in the foreseeable future. Pity, people have such potential to be benevolent.
TC thank you so much for your thoughtful answer! You have become my little indie guide lol. And the world is not in short supply of assholes, anywhere and in every activity. 😉
I was in India once. I believe that’s why they’re known as indies, right?
Welcome back from the dark side OS Dude. What was the weather like where Mike sent you?
Indie 500 is my choice, love those gas fumes!
LMAO! Nice! Mike sent me to a place that was magical! All cults were banned from this place! The waves were tasty & the women? Well…we’ll leave that topic for another day…..
I will say, though, I Yawn, it’s good to be back!
They also believe in inplant station on Mars.
Hey me too, bro! Wow, never thought I’d meet someone who shared the same thoughts about implant stations that I have. I guess this proves that I’m not completely whacked….
Actually, no, they do not.
The Bridge is all kept neatly secret, first things first. The average and the the everyday hard-working scn-gist doesn’t have a clue what is next on The Bridge until he gets there, and that of course doesn’t happen until some (long) time after he or she has emptied his pockets.
Walk into your friendly neighborhood Org or mission and ask about Xenu and you will get genuinely blank faces, or poor souls who think Xenu is something the media made up.
Because what happens in auditing is kept expressly secret… the lie of OT III is also successfully kept under wraps and very distant from the eyes and ears of every Staff who might come into the view of public or media. Protect the Bridge and keep everyone on it. As far as I’m concerned, every word Hubbard ever wrote was meant for this, and only this, purpose.
(oops, ThetaClear comes in here next, but that response is from an earlier comment, and not in reply to what I just wrote above…-mm)
Not necessarily so, Marco. They use Ethics formulas to help themselves and others, but not in any authoritarian way as LRH did. And they mostly use it to help some PC to sort out some life situation so that his auditing runs better. The guys and gals at MS2, for example are quite sensible about Ethics , they tend to be quite balanced in ethics matters. I can’t honestly say that they are LRH-like on that even if they think they are ; they are not. One of them actually surprised me with his incredible willingness for rehabilitation and understanding. I got to confess that he showed more compasion than I did on a giving situation. I actually learned a lot from him.
At South Africa, for example, it was an Indie who changed me forever. It is incredible how a person who wasn’t even OT nor trained could influence in me so much. She saved my life and doesn’t even know it. Waked me up real hard. She cut the comm line, and I don’t even know why, but what she gave me will forever be with me and I am indebted to her for eternity.
Indies are good people, Marco ; many of them are extraordinary beings. Misguided about LRH and Scn, yes, but wasn’t so many of us Ex(es) as well and even for many decades ? I for one, am willing to allow them to see the light and be patient enough to them as that Lady who changed me was with me.
Their basic over of omission is their failure to publicly acknowledge the parts of Scn and LRH that are misguided, suppressive, and that demand a strict adherence to authoritarian dogmas. But they really don’t see it, most of them, as LRH’s hypnotic influence can be quite powerful. A cult is not an easy subject to let go of. I know ; I was there myself.
I hope that the above help you understand Indies better.
Thank you so very much everyone, Peter, you do seem to have a special quality for understanding, thank you.
My concern today revolves around this unavoidable perception of LRH and what his original intentions were beginning the first day after the release of Dianetics. Even with the book itself, which is written in such an orbital fashion, really, like the flight path of an electron around some complex element. Step back from that and ask yourself, could not all of his points have been made in a much simpler and straightforward fashion? Anyone would agree that Dianetics is not an easy read. I go the next step and say it is intentional guidance into the land of confusion, richly embellished with fictional enticements and then reinforced with coersion and forceful manipulation to then keep you trapped while thinking you the reciever of this priveledged technology are walking around on some kind of righteous, higher ground. Your mind goes floating around in the clouds, you feel so good about yourself when you see yourself as a “good” scientologist, the direct result of the founder’s intention, same as feeling bad for having any thought to break away or even just deviate from or so much as question the doctrine, also very much the result of that same, sinister and overtly hidden, intention of LRH.
Excuse me, but I need to talk to my therapist now. But, what I really mean is I need to steer completely clear of this “tech”, this construction of ethics, so-called. The intent to be controlled is far too evident and equally alarming is the intent to keep that intent out of the minds’ eye.
You are most welcome, dear Marco ; and thanks for the validation.
I fully understand your arguments ; I really do. Can’t say that I disagree with any of them.
Scn is very booby-trapped indeed. One needs to learn to filter the truths from the falsities, and that takes some doing and a very trained mind. Scn is definitively not for the weak-minded and cult(ish) individual. Only the real strong can survive it, modify it, and change it for the better. If you can see what you see about it, that can only means that you have already freed yourself from it and that you have a VERY trained mind.
My advice to you is to use it as you see fit (the workable parts) ,or don’t use it at all if you are too upset about it. Just move on. But moving on requires letting go of your past bad experience with it , because if not , it can slowly eat you up w/out you even noticing about it. Just let go, my friend ; relax and let go.
Let go and be free.
Yes, and you are quite right. By my own creed I have to let go, let the entire philosophy known as Scientology fly on by to its own pre-ordained destination, and let myself be free from it, in its entirety.
The attempt to mine the tech for anything valuable is not only fruitless, it is precisely the kind of activity that got me trapped in there in the first place. Those early days found me willing to take one leap of faith after another when encountering the fantastic and the farther-reaching claims Scientology and what it professes to be offering the world. Can truth be found in a pit of mud? To bury my head in the tech again means constantly sorting out what is valid vs what is not, when in the end I truly believe as I said before, the purpose of the Bridge and all the policy (‘tech”) supporting it is simply to keep you trapped.
-Peter-
May we all come to know the understanding you possess, thank you.
Thanks for the validation, dear Marco ; I understand you, I really do.
I had that exact response to the idea of studying LRH all over again when I realized how much I had been fooled by his exaggerated claims. Honestly, I even wanted to burn all my Scn books and lectures as it no longer represented what it once did. But then it hit me that in Science I had also found out how many alleged “discoveries” based on “standard” experimentation, were actually exaggerated claims by “scientists” only wanting to “be right” instead of discovering actual Truth. Quantum Mechanics and Relativity are two of such examples. It would take me a 15-20 pages essay to explain why. I am a student (self-taught) of the history of science and mathematics , a subject that fascinate me even more than philosophy and religion. You wouldn’t believe how many errors and false assumptions many classical experiments have.
So I thought, what the hell, I immersed myself in this field of science which is also booby-trapped and so far have been able to filter the actual laws and workable principles from the mere assumptions and false axioms ; so, I might as well do that with Scn then. What did I have to lose ? It wasn’t like I was going to give up on my dream at ending this birth-death cycle for me ; coming back to play the being human game again was never part of my options ; not if I could avoid it. And Scn has been the subject that has approached that goal the most, even if is very far still from reaching it. So I already had a path ; a very booby-trapped one, yes ; but so was science as well and other religions. I then decided to study that path all over again from a completely different viewpoint, totally free from strict dogmas, fundamentalism, and robotism. And it has worked just fine for me so far. I have modified and altered the Tech as I see fit, and has become the biggest squirrel in existence, even bigger than Mayo and CBR. :-)))
One of these days when I become bored enough , I’ll publish something about it in the Net ; “Squirrel 101 , by Theta Clear”. :-)))
For sure, it will raise the hair of a LOT of KSW supporters.
But I fully understand that Scn can be overwhelming for many that have low tolerance for all the bullshit that it DOES contain. So, find another acceptable path for you. There is always a new path to follow ; that’s what life is all about.
Good post, TC. And if you’re anything like the many students I word cleared, you’ll find that after you’ve studied the materials thoroughly, more of them make sense than you thought. 😉
Thanks Marildi ; I’ve actually throughly studied the materials , many of them 5-10x , for the last 12-15 years , and I have never ever in my track in Scn needed any help from the sup. Actually, it was me who had to be correcting many of them constantly and handling their misguided interference with an obvious F/Ning student. At the end, I just grew tired of it and studied outside of the academy. I was researching the Tech, not trying to accumulate student points. So , not trying to sound pretentious here, but I don’t think that I ever was like any of your students. :-)))
TC – so true about interference from Sups! I’ve observed Sups from missions to orgs to ASHO to Flag – and many of them simply don’t apply full study tech – ironic as that is. They overemphasize parts of it when they should be applying things like “evaluation of information,” etc. This particular area of the history of the organization has a large bearing on its downfall.
But anyway, if you run into difficulty, I could probably dig you out. 😀 :)))))
Peter, I’m not asking for that 15 to 20 page essay on how relativity and quantum mechanics theories are full of false discoveries and exaggerations by scientists using the standard scientific rigor. I only wish for you to give a couple examples of it. It’s the polite thing to do if you’re going to offer an argument that tarnishes the image of science methodology (calling it “booby-trapped”), that it may not shine too brightly in a comparison with scientology. 🙂
Peter as always you are very wise and thoughtful in your responses. We all learn from your experiences and appreciate you sharing your knowledge. 😉
Thanks, dear Observingsandiego ; It feels undeserved, but thanks anyway ; most kind.
RogerHornaday, you will get no real examples of fundamental nature. Because there are none. Hence, the reply you received.
Oh, but he WILL receive it and you as well. Be patient, I always acknowledge and reply to my communications, but some of us actually have fo work to support themselves and don’t have time to be posting at blogs all day. I am not yet in the “ready to receive a pension” bracket.
If they follow KSW then they regard the tone scale and the human evel tech (used in auditing & c/s’ing) as true and they follow the homophobic tech laid out by LRH. That is separate from ethics. It is integral to “programming a case”. That demands recognizing homosexuals as 1.1 and abberated.
“programming a case”
now that is a most interesting phrase. Did LRH use that wording?
Ballsie – to come right out and say that his church would “program” a person.
He was otherwise rather secretive then, about topics such as Scientology’s powers of hypnotizm, or how about tapping the sciences of mass mind control, manipulation and the like…he did use every trick in the book, invented a few new ones such as the eMeter.
I mean, the way I see it,
-LRH was de-programming his followers to get them first to abandon reason and then to adopt his newly fashioned reality. In other words, whether he called it as such or not, he would take an individual, remove his ability to rationalize and begin the process of Scientology, a process that could very well and aptly be described as:
programming a case.
Mark I think that sums it up nicely. Don’t forget to add on reprogramming the ability to rationalize after leaving cos to be able to operate in the real world and you have the whole cycle! 😉
Now hold on…
First, there is the scientific method of comparison.
Then there is the Scientology method of discarding comparison in order to accept only the single source of data, LRH.
Yes, thank goodness for the many paths to the truth.
But I can’t shut up there. I feel a need to scream. Instead I will try to speak concisely and then go quietly on my way, to say:
LRH was a wizard with the basics.
He was a master story-teller, and he could masterfully blur the line between truth and fiction. He loved to keep his audience engaged and before long became the master of mind manipulation and then the master of mind manipulation for larger and larger audiences. This was his life’s journey, defined.
Take a microscope to any part of tech and you will be able to find this connection.
That policy is there either to keep you trapped on the Bridge, or to protect the Bridge itself, as the primary order of business. That is the genius of LRH, that is the genius of his technology. Whatever benefits might be had from it are secondary but if you find them I sincerely hope you haven’t lost your family, your life’s pleasures and your money in the process.
Hey Johnny boy!!! I’m back!!!
Not necessarily, John. Even if they say that they follow KSW, the fact is that most of them don’t in that regard and in my other areas as well. As I said, I personally know a lot of them, and shunning others for their sexual preferences, or “handling” them in session to “modify” their “deviated behavior” , is something I have never seen any of them doing.
It is not true that Indies always stick to KSW ; believe me they do only as regards to auditing procedures and auditor training. Most of them leave Ethics alone unles a real PT situation is affecting a PC, and then they might use Ethics but not in any authoritarian way, but as a team activity with the agreement of the PC. I know the details, John. I know most of the delivery terminals and groups in the Indie field.
TC said, “Not necessarily, John. ”
Yes, ABSOLUTELY. To do otherwise would be to squirrel and be out KSW. LRH would have ordered your SP declare. FOR SURE.
Whatever John ; have it your way.
EX SO AOLA says
I’ll add to this. Yes my experience in the SO was that Ethics Officers and Execs hated gay people and god forbid it came up in auditing. The best you could expect was to be assigned confusion and a non stop harassment. Masturbation was also a massive button for them and you could expect lower conditions and severe loss of any privileges for doing that. I was force fed that fucking pain and sex policy letter over and over.
Scientology today reminds me of Prohibition – the more you try to stop the “offenders” the worse things get for you.
Robert Almblad says
Scientology has the dubious distinction of being the MOST homophobic organization on earth by requiring 100% of their staff to be homophobic and 99% of their public to do the same. The 1% not holding this view are eventually discovered and unceremoniously tossed out.
Before Scientology, I was a practicing Catholic and I had a strong opinion that there was nothing wrong with any homosexuality or sex or love of any type between consenting adults. This was in spite of the Catholic Church’s official position. And, there were many, many Catholics that shared my “liberal” view. Here is Wiki snippet about homophobia and the Catholic church:
“Despite the official position of the Catholic hierarchy on LGBT rights, in some locations, such as North America, Northern and Western Europe, support for LGBT rights (such as same-sex marriage, or protection against discrimination) is stronger among Catholics than among the general population.”
Scientology is never going to change their mind on this subject and they are being “outed” at every corner….
FOTF2012 says
It’s not the most homophobic. I’d grant that to fundamentalist Islam, wherein gays are openly executed, thrown off roofs, etc.
Great post Robert…
Karen#1 says
Top Notch essay Mike Rinder.
It is vital the world know how utterly and absolutely homophobic Scientology is, while welcoming Gay Money to COUNSEL (audit) the Gay, to *un-gay* him.
In all the time I case supervised this, I never *Ever* saw a gay become *UN-GAY* even after spending high six figures and being made to feel guilty for their sex.
It is the absolute LIES and hypocrisy on the subject of homosexuality that is par for the course of Scientology Inc.
Read their babble of lies and denial
“I don’t want any misunderstanding,” said Tommy Davis, a spokesperson for Scientology. “The church supports civil rights for everybody, regardless of sexual orientation, race, color or creed. We are a minority, too; we understand what it’s like to be persecuted, so to the extent that anything prohibits or inhibits on civil rights, we don’t agree with it.”
http://www.today.com/id/33498755/ns/today-entertainment/t/spokesman-scientologists-arent-anti-gay/#.VhlWVGs-02x
jgg2012 says
California (where many Scientologists live, including most of the celebrities) has outlawed gay cures, based on evidence that sexual orientation is inborn and cannot be “cured”. So, if anyone in Scientology tells someone that they can be cured through auditing, let the California Attorney General know.
Helmut Flasch says
“”” And let’s not forget that the words of L. Ron Hubbard in the eyes of scientologists may NOT be changed or even queried. Everything he says is accepted unthinkingly as truth. To doubt the veracity of his statements is to put yourself into a “lower condition” and be treated as an “enemy.” “”””
The above happens to be a church thing – a thing which week unable and low-tone staff members (just abut all of them including YOU as you are obviously STILL trying to portray that untruth ) ARE saying and using to BE SOMEONE !!!!
Shame on all the students and Pc’s who buy into that. – I never did which why I was an frequent OSA “visitor” since my very first days in Scientology . the phrase – “if he would NOT be so upstat we would declare him on the spot ” was used constantly from around 1990 by them and WSE ,and SMI and ….
just ask your old friend Kurt 🙂
LRH says the opposite and meant it : “if I see someone agreeing with me on everything I see a very sick person ” or ” i am source of the tech – you are source of using it ” or “whats true for you it true for you ”
or even ” I don’t want good boys ,…..
so, some of us actually GOT LRH – You and most of your people commenting just see words and significance and and LOVE to be victims -which happens to be lower than 1.1 and this is a good thing as it makes you only dangerous to yourself .
look, why , – why, are you trying so hard to make EVERYTHING bad ??
why is everyone with a win all of a sudden a sucker ??
well, it does NOT really matter – the only people you appeal to is victims :))
I assume your rambling diatribe is to express your view that you are homophobic? Or is it that you aren’t a homophobe? For a selhF proclaimed master of communication your Non sequitur babble doesn’t seem to have much point other than to call me a “victim”. Wow.
you got it :)))
So you are a proud homophobe?
Do you realize the incredible irony of using quotes from L. Ron Hubbard to explain how you don’t follow what he says?
I know a Scientologist in the arts, still, in who works with gays. She doesnt believe all gays are 1.1. There are probably plenty of others.
I agree with Helmut on this ““if I see someone agreeing with me on everything I see a very sick person ” and I would like to thank him for bringing it up. I have read other such references.
For me, this is one of those areas in Scn that needs to really be looked into, but with a nut at the helm that aint likely to happen.
Mike, what you are doing more and more, is getting on the bandwaggon with all the other haters and bringing up the contentious issues, and really, when looked at in proportion to what is very workable in Scientology, it is a minor thing.
Have another look at the Grades processes some time, just the questions, and the potential of what they can do for people who are suffering, is very clear.
In my opinion, this is what should be concentrated on, not this constant harping on the same old outpoints, but it is your blog, to take in whatever direction you desire!
Most humans can’t afford the grades, so your point is mute.
How about zombies? Oh, wait….never mind.
No, this is NOT a “minor thing”. What L. Ron Hubbard said is that “sexual perverts”, including all LGBTs, were either to be forced to conform to the heteronormative or be eliminated. This is part of your precious Tech, Penny.
Here’s a comparative statement, and, yeah, I’m going Full Godwin’s: the autobahns, the Me-109, and the Volkswagen Beetle were absolutely terrific, so let’s just ignore the whole Holocaust thing and recognize the Nazis for the good stuff.
Sieg Hubbard.
Penny are you Keeping Scientology working?
I was keeping scientology working for awhile. But I ran out of gas…
GTBO says
It’s also your choice to stay and contribute or troll elsewhere (an outpoint is an outpoint, or didn’t you do the data series? Enough said)
Mike and the others here do fantastic work exposing Scientology for what it truly is. I’ve experienced the worst of it up close and personal, and the sooner it doesn’t exist the better off the world will be.
To be human… what a dilemma?
I see what you are saying Jenny and on the threat of being accused of advocating KSW – I agree that there is some good in scn, especially the grade process but some idiot went out of their way to kill that off and now there are so many supporters from both sides of the fence that all the hard work in that direction is now complete and it can now be considered a done – the grades are not available.
This blog has developed a life of its own and the winds of change and the effort to create an affect makes it just like all the rest.
You are a brave girl for speaking your mind, but scientology in both its organisational mindset and those that oppose it will never agree that you have that right to view it with a positive attitude concerning its application without severe control or condemnation, especially in an open internet forum.
Penny, not “Jenny”, sorry about that.
You’re ‘senior moments’ are showing….
Penny, if I see a person agreeing with everything I say, I do NOT see a sick person. I see a very intelligent person who I definitely want to be friends with. I’m surprised you don’t feel the same way since you use the term, “hater” in reference to those who disagree with you.
And Penny called us all trolls a while back. LOL.
We are not Mike, Penny. We are us,
and I’d appreciate it if you would take what I say as my own origination and not something as something you have categorized in your mind as “what Mike has allowed past his moderation”.
Might I just suggest, just suggest that we stop
acking/replying anything more that this man Helmut comment about ? We are “giving attention” to someone not worth any.
Just my humble opinion for everybody.
Peter, let’s wait up on the Ignore 101 routine. Alanzo and Jane are dropping knowledge bombs on him, and there’s nothing I love more than some good fireworks and potential blackmail material. Let’s see who else knows him from their previous lives.
Yeah, sounds like fun !
Well said Mike, ESpi and TC. Honestly his statement speaks for itself.
Hey! What are you guys talking about?
i’m lost too OSD.
funny, i was under the impression i had just thrown a pretty good sized cherry bomb into the hornets’ nest. Smart buggers, did you see Espi?
Hm. I mean, hum.
-As long as miss penny gets me. But you know what? I take it back. If i could just take down my note to penny and let her say whatever she wants, i think i would just to delete… i think something ThetaClear said is getting under my skin…
Hi mark marco, When a siprit is as sensitive and sweet as you,running after throwing a cherry bomb in the hornets’ nest is most appropriate! As for Penny I am sure she has an answer for us always,but I may not pick up the thread.Stardust,Ann.
Lol well OSD and mark, my statement saying well said applys to way up at the top, helmet ranting his nonsense. The other comment mostly got added before me. But they are good as well, I can go with the flow. 😉
Yeah, but, Mark? You didn’t smoke what I did. I was dazed and confused. You always have your wits about you.
And OSD2? That’s what I love about you! Can go with the flow!
my stuff is only available by prescription
Haha thanks OSD, and mark, OSD is here in ca, it’s alllllllll by prescription…
Alanzo says
Hi Helmut!!
It’s Allen Stanfield, the guy who stopped you from attacking that dentist, your own client, for not wanting his staff to put their names on the OCA tests you’d handed out to them.
I’ll never forget you standing up during that meeting with the veins popping out of your neck, pointing at the dentist and screaming at him and his staff, “You VEELL not change the PROGRAHM!! You VEELL NOT CHANGE THE PROGRAHM!!!”
Shoo Doggy!! You sure were hot to apply KSW that day on people who had no idea what you were talking about!
You fired me that day for defying you in front of your client. But I had no choice, you were embarrassing me by being so crazy. I was new in LA at that time. I thought you were just an aberration in the level of cray-cray of LA Scientologists. Unfortunately, I was wrong.
You were actually one of the saner ones.
Good to see you posting here, Helmoot!
Thank you Allen, well said. 😉
basketballjane says
Helmut, SHAME on you. Shame. I remember you from my course room. I don’t know where you get off on being on a high horse about yourself or the tech. You could barely meter at all and were NOT a good auditor. Sorry to be harsh but it is true. Why don’t you try applying “LOOK DON’T LISTEN” and actually find out about LRH and the “tech” that you love so much. Also Being a bigot is SOOOOOOOO 1995. Trying coming up to present time.
Bartender I wanna buy this woman a drink.
Looks like Helmut might need a helmet.
Methinks he already has one… It’s made out of tinfoil.
He’d be right at home in Hemet.
Helmut is wearing a tinfoil helmet in Hemet.
Mike and Blinders….take this show on the road!
Hi BlindersOff,Thank you,your post is golden! Ann.
OTVIIIisGrrr8! says
basketballjane, COB can barely meter either — but he is an upstat and so this excuses all things.
As to Shelly Miscavige, COB barely meet her either.
“Never trust a religious leader in a tuxedo.” – Ancient Chinese saying
“Never trust a religious leader that talks about implant stations – OSD saying
“…of another person’s perspective against ourselves.”
-mm
hgc10 says
Helmut, let me get this straight. Hubbard talked out of both sides of his mouth so that you could plausibly deny that he meant what he meant. You can deny that Hubbard demands that you apply the tech exactly standardly has he laid it out just because he made seemingly contradictory statements about self-determination. You can deny that “what’s true is what’s true for you” means and always meant that what’s allowably true for you is only that which is in agreement with Hubbard.
You can do all the pathetic hand-waving you want about the motives of Hubbard’s detractors, but the plain words of the master are indelible to history. Address that, if you dare. Is homosexuality sexual deviancy? How about bigamy, while we’re at it?
Contradictory statements about self-determination are not a problem if they are true for you.
We in RTC can have, in fact we must have, contradictory statements about self-determination. We in RTC are the elite .00001% of beings on the planet and yet we live the Hole and poop in a bucket.
Living in a hole and shitting in a bucket is the next phase in the Paleo Diet, isn’t it?
Goodness ESpi, don’t give anyone any ideas. I do not need a bunch of crazy people running around telling me about their new ‘diet’!
statpush says
As you know, LRH wrote and said many, many things. And it is not unusual to find contradictions. What do you do when you encounter these contradictions?
It is all well and good to cherry-pick a quote from a lecture in the 50s, when LRH was feeling magnanimous, and say “See…this is Scientology.” It was only when the dust settled did we actually know what Scientology really was. Per LRH, standard tech is contained in HCO PLs and HCO Bs – period.
Whether you are card-carrying IAS member or an independent Scientologist, I think you’ll agree, that to call yourself a Scientologist you would be practising standard tech, no?
And per KSW #1, arguably the single most important policy letter written by Hubbard, you are expected to apply standard tech – exactly, without alteration. So, really there is no provisions for independent thought, or opportunities to reject pieces you don’t agree with – regardless if you are upstat or not.
So, what’s it going to be Helmut? Are you or are you not a Scientologist?
I am not a Scientologist. However, I was for 30 years.
I find it interesting that you chose to use the word victim, effectively a derogatory Scn term, to describe Mike and the posters on this blog. If you spent some time on this blog you would discover that most of the comments are expressions of viewpoints and opinions, and occasionally someone will recount some personal experience with the church where harm was done. If you label these folks as victims you are really missing the point.
That said, do not be discouraged in posting more often. “Being a victim” is not a prerequisite.
Thank you statpush, for so accurately describing what I encounter here, on this blog. And what I love about it.
Per LRH, standard tech is contained in HCO PLs and HCO Bs – period.
Also, the tapes, films and his books. And per references in THOSE items of standard tech everything Mike lists about LRH and his tech being homophobic is there. Why did you not list THOSE statpush? Is it because you lacked that data?
Not at all, John. Those references that Mike cited become part of standard tech, since they are directly referenced by HCOBs and PLs. If you recall, course checksheets are HCO PLs, which include specific books and lectures.
NOt really worth arguing over. Lectures are on courses too. And the briefing course, Class VIII course and Student Hat are just checksheets around lectures…. There is no distinction made between “tech” in lectures and “tech” in HCOB’s and books. Scientologists are just as convinced about the 3 barriers to study, described in those lectures as they are about anything described in HCOB’s.
But who cares really? It’s a dispute about nothing.
I certainly don’t care. ……what are we talking about again?
Haha, OSD we are all talking about YOU! 😉 😉 😉
Awwwwwwww…thanks, OSD2! You’re the best! Unless of course you’re making fun of me as my parents used to do…..
I would never make fun OSD! Shame on your parents!
Scientology is standard like Standard Oil.
You MUST be heterosexual, but you must not have sex that produces a child !
We are “pro-family” so long as Sea Org members do not have children !
If you do have a child, we demand that it get recruited for Sea Org Slave Labor.
And if you to whistle blow we will ensure your child disconnects from you and that a hate page full of lies is created about you !
This is how pro-family we are, we are the most pro-family Church on earth !
So, the only permitted sex is infertile intercourse? In other words…failed sex. 🙂
I only have two words to add to that thought …
“Fuck that!”
What are trying to say, statpush? I mean, what’s up wit dat? I’ve had lots of failed sex. You get use to it…..
Karen you always hit on all cylinders.
For proof of Thai very well written article you can see my blog for info on how I was treated I. The Sea Org and On the RPF for kissing another woman and liking it. This is one of the most evil aspects of Scientology. Their obsession with sex, who’s doing it, what are they doing and with whom. And their emphasis on “handling” gay people. 20 years later I am still figuring myself out.
Sorry terrible typos from my phone. This not Thai. In not I.
Gtsix says
Why wouldn’t we take Hubbard at his word? Dispose of them quietly without sorrow. Can’t really interpret that any other way than fix my kind or exterminate us. Seems absolutely clear to me. What a fucking humanitarian.
Well, as far as I know there has never been any instance of anyone taking this literally. So I guess that is pretty empirical evidence that nobody in 60 plus years has done so.
If I decide to get my pasty skin some sun and take a trip down to Barbados, I can get 25 years at hard labor if myself and another consenting gentleman decide to have some more private types of pleasure. They say that they don’t enforce the law, but it’s on the books and can be used. So I think it’s prudent of me to avoid Rhianna’s homeland until such time as change comes.
I can’t do anything about it since I’m not a citizen of Barbados. Nor can I do anything about the large Abrahamic religions, since changing their doctrine is the (no pun intended) moral equivalent of turning an filled-up oil tanker. But Scientology is something we can do something about, especially the Indies. Some of the Indies are aware that they’re on the wrong side of history and have changed (Dror Center, for instance). Some, though, are in the business of showing off how on-KSW they are compared to the cult. I have to assume that they’d want to slap a pink triangle on me and send me off to a concentration camp after they couldn’t Audit The Gay Away from me.
A Clear Planet has no colors of the rainbow.
Frodis73 says
I wish I could upvote this Espi!!
I reckon the use of ‘declares’ as they are performed by the Cof$ is a pretty damn good dramatization of getting rid of people, especially the finger pointing, no paperwork – “you’re declared!” It kills off families and other loyalties. In another time, this cult would degenerate to do the unthinkable without remorse.
I know of two SO who did take the “Pain and Sex” bulleting literally instead of figuratively. When the “Pain and Sex” bulletin came out, he took it to mean sex was bad and they shouldn’t be doing it. So he convinced his wife after she read the bulletin and they made a pact that they would not have sex any longer even though they were married. They wanted to “do what Ron said.” So he went so long without sex that he became impotent. He told me himself after he left the SO that he couldn’t get it up.
So he ended up leaving the SO and his wife stayed. HCO convinced her to disconnect from and divorce him, so she did. A few years after he was out of the SO he remarried. He convinced this woman that the “Pain and Sex” bulletin meant they would not be having sex. She agreed. After their wedding they went on a honeymoon. My friend asked me, “What do two celibates actually DO on a honeymoon?”
So if you couple that the no masturbating rule that the dwarf enforces, this guy had a real PTP.
That’s what happens when you allow another to be source in your life.
I had a source in my life once. But he kept everything for himself. He’s a selfish source.
Ketchup is my favourite, or maybe hollandaise, pends how I feel or what’s on the table. Shelfish sauce? – haven’t tried that one.
Mike, In response to your last comment. You can’t count on dogma being interpreted the same in the future. That’s part of the problem with dogma. Compounding the situation: Scientology has never been fully safe pointed, in order to implement all of its IDEALS.
Fair comment.
Excellent point and part of “why” for me. Thank Xenu they have never been able to gain that kind of power.
We in the Church of Scientology have isolated the “gay problem” to CC Int in Hollywood.
CC Int is the Rhodesia of Scientology so to speak.
While it is true that LGBT are 1.1’s we would of course never say this publicly. Our code word is “CC Int publics.”
If someone is LGBT outside of Hollywood, we in RTC prefer they remain closeted because, frankly, COB is squeamish about the whole… you know… the whole gay thing — except of course for the tight jeans and bicep-enhancing t-shirts he prefers to wear when hanging around with BFF Tom Cruise.
Finally, anyone making jokes about COB’s communicator Lou having short hair and looking like a boy will be beaten and sent to the RPF’s RPF’s RPF for all of eternity.
Lou isn’t a man?
You were warned about J&D on this topic! Off to the RPF’s RPF for all of eternity with you!
You promise?
Seriously? Lou IS NOT A MAN? Where’s that bottle of Jack….
Lou is doing a doubt formula on it.
I so very glad that she’s taking responsibility for not being a man. I was really worried there for awhile…..
SadStateofAffairs says
Yes, Scientology is deeply and severely homophobic, both in philosophy and practice. But it is worse still. From all I have seen and experienced, Miscavige is deeply anti-sexual, period. The only acceptable sex, really, is monogamous, heterosexual, missionary-position-only sex and then only minimally as required for procreation. Everything else has become “perverted”, 1.1, unethical and worthy of punishment and denunciation. SO members have become so paranoid that, even some years ago when I was in the SO, some would ask if it was OK to have oral sex (NO! – perverted!) or even if it was OK to have sex in the doggy position.
Once when I was in the RPF, I had to sec check, on video, with videos sent to Snr C/S Int office, a poor guy who was a network head in a PAC Org, and who was RPFed based on speculation that he might be gay and have some sort of gay attraction to his org’s ED, which thus caused him to be reasonable about alleged destructive post actions of the ED. This was all BS and he had no such thing going on, but still he had to stay in the RPF and do the whole program anyways.
whenever I meet or hear of anyone who’s *aggressively hetero* I really wonder about them. most people secure in their sexuality and who haven’t been twisted up inside by an upbringing that focused on sex (how to, who with, proper position etc) do not need to scream from the rooftops how straight they are (or gay they are or whatever iteration). I was raised no religion, and surrounded by people of all stripes and no real emphasis was placed on the specifics of sex aside from that I should be happy w who I was with, should be safe as far as diseases, and if i ever felt threatened or at risk of injury “kick ’em In the nuts” in the immortal words of my father. to me, this emphasis on proper sex, regarding position especially, is very weird and creepy. Particularly if it comes in the form of a religious leader or parent telling people this. EW!
whether or not DM is a very repressed homosexual or not is not really the issue. whatever his preference is, I’m sure it’s surrounded by the aura of power and domination and is probably uncomfortable as hell for his partner. and he probably likes it that way. gross.
Well, all I know is I would never sleep with Dave.
I would reckon that to be in bed with miscavige… (perish the thought) would result that sleeping would be the last thing you would consider doing.
How do you come up with such scenarios? Watch too much free to air TV perhaps?
From an episode of Desperate Inchwives.
LOL – very good!
What if Dave gave you a million dollars?
I may be a slut, but I’m not a whore, and I don’t do pity fucks. Not even for that kind of cash.
I’m with you there. But I bet part of the reason he won’t let Shelly out of whatever hole he has her in is because if she ever came to tell her story everyone would hear about his proclivities. And when Lou falls out of favor (not if, WHEN ) she’ll be locked up too. I bet he likes to do it on the old man’S desk in the offices they have set up for him when he comes back.
Haha sashie, under a pic of LRH? Horrible mental image.
Too funny, Espi!
My only other thought is that THANK GOD Miscavige has never had children. That’s the one saving grace of whatever his sex life is like, he’s followed the SO directive. It does make me wonder how many abortions Shelly/Lou were/are being forced to have. Or since he doesn’t seem to have a drop of human feeling, maybe he can’t even get it up. 😉
A die hard Kool – aid drinker will have more
chains to pull than Marley’s ghost.
David Miscavige is NO LEADER of any kind,
he is an example of the worst of the worst
in any category or subject.
Naturally he gets his cookies off on sex stories
of SCN celebrities and top management while guzzling scotch.
Leahs book is available in Hardcover on amazon—TROUBLEMAKER
I would read that to form an opinion, tell all your family, friends.
Crepuscule says
There seems no reason not to take L. Ron Hubbard literally when he talks about the disposal, without sorrow, of those deemed to be at 1.1 on his arbitrary Tone Scale. In the context of his wider Scientology writings, particularly those concerning the imposition of totalitarianism upon wog world, a literal interpretation seems the most accurate. And then there’s the whole “Word Clearing” aspect. Unless. a person agrees with each of Scientology’s “teachings”, they are required to go over and over the material, word-by-word (which is the very definition of “literal”) looking for their MUs until such time as agreement is reached.
For those with something of a grave-yard humour, there are plenty of lulz to be had when considering Dianetics and the “facts” contained therein. For example, lets not forget how L. Ron Hubbard’s “modern science” details how “sexual perverts”, including homosexuals, are created. According to Dr Hubbard . . .
. . . To make a pervert is, rather, something on the order of kicking a baby’s head in, running over him with a steamroller, cutting him in half with a rusty knife, boiling him in Lysol, and all the while with crazy people screaming the most horrifying and unprintable things at him . . .
. . . although it is, surprise surprise, I’m left a little confused. Is Dr Hubbard here referring to the person committing or receiving such abuse as the one more likely to become the “pervert’? Seems more likely that the author is the pervert, if you ask me.
Kuato Lives says
Exactly. Maybe it is bc I’ve never been a Scientologist but I have read Dianetics. Know your enemy. Anyway, the thing that immediately struck me about the book was how much it revealed about Hubbard and his sick, deranged mind.
Re your last question, it is the one who is receiving the abuse that is going to become the pervert. Because of all the engrams received during said abuse you see. Yes, makes total sense. smh
mwesten says
I was explaining OTIII to my MD earlier this week and he reckons he’s slept with Xenu. A five in a bed romp, no less. He was curious as what the Co$’ reaction would be if that ever came up in auditing?
Chuck Beatty says
Two levels of response. 1) From the “Case Supervisor” view, whatever the patient (PC or preclear) says in session about their “case” (false memories they dream up) is to be respected and allowed and NOT ivalidated. 2) Disgraceful admissions are filed in Office of Special Affairs for future legal and not to subtle blackmailing on the member to keep them from future speaking out in any way.
As an ex member, I urge the MD, to read the few sentences in Marty Rathbun’s 3rd book, where Rathbun tells of the Hubbard “Farsec” past space civilization race of psychiatrists from whom your MD obviously was one in that MD’s past lives!
Would the response be the same if someone said they were LRH in a past life during auditing?
If a man who invents the Fair Game policy, R2-45, a Chinese Communist style thought reform hard labor camp called the RPF, etc etc talks about the societal benefits of the sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the tone scale and eliminating them quietly and without sorrow then you’re God damn right I’m going to take him literally. Scientologists, indie and corporate would be wise to as well.
Can you imagine the hell Hubbard and his minions would of unleashed on S Africa had he been successful in his take over of that country? Just think about the suffering he managed to inflict on thousands all over the Western democratic world thanks to the religious protections he hid behind. Now imagine if Hubbard and his alter ego, Scientology, were completely unrestrained by civilized law and were answerable to no one. Chilling isn’t it?
Thanks anyway Mike, I will take Hubbard’s statements in SoS as literal admonitions. If I was a Scientologist, doing anything else would make me a squirrel wouldn’t it?
Lisa Tighe says
When people ask me if Scientologists are homophobic, I tell them no – they’re homo-hateful. I know it’s the same thing, but homo-hateful is a more truthful statement in my experience. And it’s not just the top management. His “leadership” has trickled down the ranks as demonstrated here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U67YN16v-po
The question asked is too simplistic. But, the answer lies in the technology. Per the Scientology technology, homosexuals are dangerous, covertly hostile criminal types that ideally, would be at LEAST segregated from pro survival people. At worst, liquidated.
THAT is what the technology and philosophy of Scientology demands.
One can decide from that if scn is homophobic…
ANYONE who has studied scn enough to comment who denies the above is an apologist for a criminal philosophy and the criminal LRH.
Church logic:
1. Homosexuality is about 1.1 on the tone scale
2. Tim Cook, CEO of Apple is gay
3. Don’t support this organization as their leader is a pervert
Scientology, the only game where everyone spins.
The hallmark of most of scientology is ‘judgmental’, making conclusions about someone based on something hubbard wrote and then taking it as a ‘that is the way it is’.
Now, if you strictly follow hubbard’s write ups you have also the criminal mind, which states you accuse others of what you are doing. So, why miscavige keeps accusing others of homosexuality? Maybe he should answer the question himself.
There were fads of Hubbard’s leniency, or Hubbard’s understanding “case supervision” “tech” (Hubbard’s pseudo-therapy/exorcism views and writings and techniques to rid people of their mental/spiritual faults) view of everyone, include the LBGT people who DID absolutely join as pc/patients/spiritual seekers and who even rose to high ranks, approved for their high positions even by Hubbard himself (John McMasters, and people’s whose names aren’t known but who held top jobs like Commodore’s Staff Captain, FSO Qual Sec, Class 12 FSO auditor are three high positions I later learned were all LBGT personnel that Hubbard knew and authorized for their high positions). Under Hubbard’s full “case supervisor” “tech” thinking, anyone’s “case” would be dealt with using Hubbard’s auditing (pseudo-therapy/exorcism) and he thus allowed people around him near the top, to possess even these LBGT “case” inclinations.
Gimpy says
Homophobia is endemic to scn, being in the local org was like being back at school with the constant references to fags and homos. Clearly the policy has filtered down through the entire organization. I wouldn’t say that all homosexuals I’ve met have been great people but there is certainly a balance just like the rest of society. One of my best friends at college was blatantly gay but also one of the most talented and fun people I have met.
It just isn’t funny.
In fact, it is very revealing how Hubbard categorizes the human form, to the point of being able to say very un-human things like, “the sudden and abrubt deletion of all individuals…”.
(how did I forget reading that, like 40 years ago?…really, I reccollect now, but, how did I forget?)
This church keeps on proving itself to be worse than the imaginable.
Seriously, indeed. No joke appropriate inserted here, instead I just gotta quote Mac:
What, extermination of individuals he doesn’t like??? What could be wrong with that? Stalin, hitler, pol pot, Etc, look how great it worked out for them… The are very well regarded figures in history.
Didn’t someone issue certain blankets infected with disease to the Indians. Plus after Custer got his… the Indian problem became a military issue rather than a political one, no more treaties. Settling problems down with eliminating the complainers is well practiced in history. The disappearance of the Tasmanian aboriginal for example is a particularly disgusting use of that kind of response to a problem.
Scientology didn’t invent it, he just wrote it down on paper.
Ooooh I did forget Andrew Jackson. Ever notice in the older history books (like up until 10 or so years ago) all battles the American military won were ‘battles’ and if the Indians won it was a ‘massacre’. That was some nice pr work. Thank god dm isn’t in charge of a military or a country.
Oh yeah! Andrew Jackson. The Indian Removal Act was passed under his presidency.
When one looks at what really happened in history and some of the solutions decided upon by “civilised” leaders, it makes one wonder just what the word civilised actually means. I think it means to be superiorly organised and/or better weapons. Same brutality goes on but also better at hiding it.
You’re right PR has many uses. But miscavige in charge of troops? Can’t think with that.
I shudder to imagine if was. Then we’d be discussing actual extermination and war crimes rather than crimes against humanity. Hey there’s something nice we can say about him – he hasn’t ordered any deaths. That we know of. Sheez.
There have been great Instagram posts re Columbus Day going around (speaking of IRA), my fav so far has been – since it’s Columbus Day does that mean I can go into someone’s house and tell them to leave, that it’s mine now? (Paraphrased) and ‘does that mean I can just walk into a store and take what I what?(also paraphrased). Hahaha!
I yawn I went back to check the source for the Columbus Day quotes and someecards Colombia say search turns up a ton of them. Almost as funny as you guys all are on this blog! http://www.someecards.com/ecards/columbus-day/
dankoon says
Oh, man, I hope this never gets back to John Travolta. What would he think? And, yes, I can corroborate Mike’s comments about DM’s homophobia.
Do you think there is any way that John Travolta could be influenced today, but any of his non Scientology friends, to help snap John out of John’s comfy celebrity berth cacooned still in the Scientology “star” celebrity ranks?
Mr Koon, You were a very influential terminal in my Scientology life(way above DM). I think you would do many people a great service by being a little more communicative. With all due reapect Sir.
Potpie says
“It is not necessary to produce a world of clears in order to have a reasonable and worthwhile social order; it is only necessary to delete those individuals who range from 2.0 down, either by processing them enough to get their tone level above the 2.0 line…….or simply quarantining them from the society”.
Is Hubbard saying the goal of clearing the planet is really not needed? Is he saying it would be much easier to kill off all those who are below the tone level of 2.0 than to try to clear every person on earth?
Or moving all below 2.0 to some god forsaken place on earth where they would never come close to society at large? Oh yes we could audit them….I wonder which avenue Hubbard would personally choose if no money was involved? After all he did seem to like the idea of killing off all the lepers.
He [Hubbard] did like that idea, didn’t he? He was like giving praise to the dictator rounding up the beggars and lepers…
– in order to do what, throw them all in a hole?
No, worse.
mreppen says
I pretty much agree with everything said here. However having been in the Sea Org for nearly 25 years there were from my experiences a fair amount of gays and lesbians that were SO members. Some of them even worked fairly closely with LRH, Mike I’m sure you can recall some of whom I’m referring to.
It was common knowledge that LRH’s steward at the base was gay. Who cared? He was devoted to LRH.
They were really some of the best, sadly most dedicated to Hubbard, and they were hopeful that the techniques (pseudo-therapy/exorcism) would relieve themselves, so that doubly stuck/sticks them hopefully to the techniques and wished for results.
There was a former “Commodore’s Staff Captain” old boss post of the Commodore’s Staff Aides 1-7 in the pre WDC pre Exec Strata top management setup, there was a former Class 12, former FSO Qual Sec, I knew of.
But I had no idea back when I was an underling that they were LGBT, and when I did hear of some public, like Michael Pattinson being gay, his book is online and well worth reading for the failure of Hubbard’s techniques to dent a person’s LGBTness, I always liked and respected all concerned simply on the strength of their personalities and behavior which I admired and respected for their playing by the then rules.
Outside LBGT strategist thinking people ought advise John Travolta, I think, on how to come out, and come out of Scientology, I think they’d likely be the best at helping the deeply stuck in LBGT Scientologists the best with advice, I think today.
People have been there done that more freely and their advice will always be better. I wonder what Haggis’ daughters think of how John Travolta ought to “come out” all the way out of Scientology.
beloved gay steward equals double-speak
Really? Damn! I always thought it was triple-speak! I learn something new everyday…
Toot TO OT says
Is Pat Parodi still in?
I remember he was “handled” (rumors were that he was gay, all because of the way he dressed in flamboyant colors).
That was in 1987-88, ASHO and AOLA.
It is nauseating how awful this group is. Way to go L. Ron Hubbard. Way to pick up the ball and run with it King Rat you big bully a-hole.
This type of reporting fuels my courage to tell people one-on-one about what happened to me, my sister, my family – to push people to read Going Clear, see the movie, ask me questions…I’m an open book to everyone that knows me about what happened just to little ol’ me. I was about as important as the copyright symbol at the bottom of the org board but I saw more than people realize from a completely different point of view. I’m no celebrity, I’m not famous and I did not hold an important post really.
HIP HIP HORRAY for exposing the facts. Thank you Mike.
Oh Yes Pat Parodi is still ding his Liabilir=ty for wearing a ponytail. But no he is not gay.
Private says
I once got a phone call from a Sea Org recruiter and she asked me a bunch of questions. One of them was if I was gay. I am gay but I said no and asked why and she kind of hesitated on what to say and then said “We… just want the best people… you understand?” I’m sure that was part of a list of requirements to joining the Sea Org that she was reading off of. The other questions were about psych drugs, SPs, things like that. So yeah, Scientology is definitely homophobic.
So much for present time and scientologists – those two things just don’t go together.
But the next paragraph below says it all for me – the one thing that is constant in life is change. If you can’t think with and adopt change with a piece of information as you get older, you have no right forcing it on another, well said Mike:
Interesting that I remember in a Nov 1952 tape Hubbard said about the Axioms and Logics, “I give you data for data’s sake and my opinion of the data is literally worthless to you…”
Is that right, well… WTF happened???
Martin Padfield says
I don’t think I’ve heard that tape but my guess would be that he was saying “It doesn’t matter what my opinion of this [data] is – it’s true, period.” This IS one of the key traps that keeps people “in”. He says over and over in different ways that he isn’t just inventing stuff or dreaming it up on the hoof (perish the thought), no, as “Source” – he is the conduit of divine truth and that therefore everything He says is sacrosanct, ergo it must be taken literally and applied precisely etc etc. Once you buy into that thought process, it’s hard to untangle yourself from it. All cults have this in common to some degree, although some are more overtly of the “because ____ Guru says it’s true, and since he is a derivative of God, therefore it’s true”. Hubbard didn’t claim to be God, (Buddha maybe) but he DID very cleverly position himself as some on who had a unique and unquestionable link to natural universal truth.
Once one realizes Ron’s positioning as source is a method of control to engender compliance, the whole thing starts to unravel.
If I recall correctly there were 4 tapes in that series called the Perception of Truth in the marketing of it. Just before he wrote Scn 8-8008 and then went to Philly to do the PDC (good God, how do I remember such things?)
I found the data “interesting and logical” I liked it but you are right, there’s a repeating trap in there throughout all the tech if you are not careful of “trust me,” I’m source. Around that time or just before on the Professional Course, you had to know the Logics & Axioms verbatim to make the grade and pass the course. That is some mighty potent ‘mind grooming.’
It just strikes me as amazing that as soon as that data got anywhere near group application it subtly changed character to something hypocritical to its own aims. I do think the SO was Hubbard’s biggest stuff up, or maybe it was intended to introduce a military type, yes sir, no sir scenario above, beyond and around the technology and its application.
Military think is a type of successful implant, very useful at times and increases your chance of surviving conflict. It’s proudly patriotic in the right circumstances but as to a religion, well… the proof is in the pudding – it resulted in a cult! run by a particularly nasty & moronic asshole.
Sex is a great example of how Hubbard took away the proper context of sex, and created another context, to thoroughly confuse the Scientologist and make them unable to understand and appreciate their own existence.
If we are thetans, and MAN IS NOT AN ANIMAL!!!, then engaging in any sexual activity is “aberrated” and a part of the “downward spiral”. This is the perverted context that Hubbard gave Scientologists to understand human sexuality with.
But if we are human beings, which are animals, then like every other multi-celled living thing on Earth, besides earthworms and a few other species, we engage in sexual reproduction. And why do we engage in sexual reproduction? For 4rth dynamic reasons – the furtherance of the species.
See? Hubbard couldn’t even get the proper dynamic right for “2nd dynamic activity”.
And just as every biological expression within any species, there are variations of sex and human sexuality – all very natural. And “good”. And human.
One way to make a person misunderstand themselves and unable to use good judgment, or just become a crazy fucking loon who can’t understand and confront their own existence and thus, much easier to control, is to hide or pervert the context in which that person actually exists.
On the subject of the species of human beings, L Ron Hubbard was one of the most perverted people I have ever come across.
If Hubbard knew the proper context of sexuality in human existence, then he was evil to change it on Scientologists and to use it against them.
If Hubbard truly believed the contradictory mess that he wrote about human sexuality in Scientology, then he was crazy.
Crazy or Evil: Take your pick.
Alanzo
I’ll go with: Hubbard had no idea what he was talking about regarding human biology, DC-8 engines or anything else AND he was crazy evil.
That’s another thing! Why did Xenu’s planes that carried, what, 13 trillion frozen aliens to earth, have wings on them?
They weren’t aliens! No more than the British convicts were to colonised America or Australia. Leaves me Quakering in my boots, all this alien talk!
Hey! You leave my quakering Quakers out of this!
When you say, “British convicts,” are you talking about the English? Because they rounded up massive amounts of Irish too.
Because without wings, his space-flying DC-8s would be giant flying penises. Talk about an engram.
I yawn they were aliens, ILLEGAL aliens. Problem solved!
Oh, those type of aliens! Pay ’em some welfare, give them free medical and welcome them on board.
Espi then what does that make the volcanoes? Haha.
A HUGE pimple waiting to be popped? Hey, I took a shot…
FOTFLMAO!!!! Now that’s some funny shit, Espi!
Giant Flying Penises!!! Whew! That’s an image I don’t need in my head! And Espi, you’re right! That would make one hellava engram!
Right on, Al. What a confused mess he created. First you lay out the dynamics, and tell people Scn can help you survive better across the dynamics – including the second dynamic. To a normal person that would mean: great marriage, great sex and wonderful children. Then you tell them the true origins of Sex and how its all an evil trap. WTF??
Hubbard’s ideal “human” must have been a doll body or a eunuch 🙂
For nearly 40 years he claimed to produce superhumans or homo novis. Obviously that never happened. Instead, he developed a doctrine which made “being human” an undesirable condition.
I keep wishing pollyannishly, that John Travolta could somehow secretly read “Going Clear…” and particularly start first watching the HBO documentary “Going Clear….”
Seeing Spanky in tears, I think would get through to John.
John would have so many friends really come out, were John to come out!
John Travolta really could be the person to really tidal wave swell back upon Scientology, if he were to mentally unravel somehow.
Maybe a crowd funded Billboard, in Hollywood, addressing the top Scientology celebrities to please just watch the documentary, and read the book!
Haha well we can change the cover, change the author to LRH, and presto! They can read it. Maybe they’d learn enough before putting it down that they’d decide to leave. 😉
“…to make them unable to appreciate their own existence…”
My god, Alanzo, i think you nailed it again.
KA says
The more ‘overts’ (sins) you create, the more ‘guilt’ you have with which to manipulate people. The threat of using this ‘overts’ against a person (humiliation, black PRing, Comm Evs etc) is also used to introvert and to have the person in a more malleable state.
Besides that, I think that Hubbard was dramatizing his own issues and forcing his own case on others.
Visitor says
Actually, even eartworms have sex.
I agree KA.
Scientology is entirely the reflection of the LRH alter-ego, in living color.
Sex for an earthworm is a form of mutual masterbation, which in scn terms means at least a long stretch Liability formula, except of course for the leader-worm.
ForLease says
Mike, this post deserves a sticky or a front page reference. It’s an excellent summation for reporters and the world at large as to the intolerance of the COS.
agreed – another Rinder classic.
If those fools ever want to say Scientology is not anti-gay, I have a Comm Ev issue and SP declare (in my hand) that I received for kissing a girl (I am a female). It is the only reason I was SP declared.
Yes, Mary, shit is indeed Holy! Just like Toledo, OH. mackerel, fuck, cow & moley…
Wow Sunny. Incredible.
Have you ever published it online? Would you be happy to, if not?
Well, she just did.
And I love her for it.
Mwestern you can find her story over on tony ortega’s blog, the underground bunker… 😉
A few years ago there was a picture of John Travolta kissing a man. Why wasn’t he declared?
Go figure? Right?
I was a Sea Org member, a trained C/S (OT Elig C/S for ASHO), GAT Flag trained Class VI and OT V. I guess all that combined I should have not had any such tendencies? (year was 2004)
And JT has, over the years, from his celeb status, brought people in and so they overlook that? Only a guess.
My only conclusion is some people are more equal than other people.
Hubbard would agree with that. He knew of no equal to his knowledge, but he says others are wiser but stated he has travelled more road, whatever the fuck that really means?Although you can do precious little about it except maybe earn more money or perhaps worship violence, there will always be a pecking order, always!
I think there is some good gear in amongst this auditing business, but I don’t pitch myself against others, never have since I left the church but I cringe when I see groups or people rip each other apart to make a point about a technology they themselves can’t, aren’t experienced in or don’t know how to apply. I scratch my head with, why bother in such a game?
I personally think there’s value in your ability to CS & audit. Many will disagree but they play a game I’m not interested in playing. I’ve been in many a situation where the person beside me is willing to share their last cigarette or their last swig of water and that is amazing affinity. I didn’t like being in such crap situation but shit, boy, was I alive. Same sort of scenario in the auditing chair, it’s a good game to get right. Pity the Bridge was bobby trapped in the OT band.
Please don’t invalidate your abilities, especially because of some group consensuses. Having someone slap you on the back and consider you a friend is an wonderful experience, but it’s a rare commodity.
Scientology as a group activity just can’t seem to help itself, it just fucks things up! And this subject of sexual preference – geezers, what a minefield!
John T is WAY more equal than any other every-day scn-gist.
The only rich and famous actor more equal than him would have to be Tom, thanks to his lovey-dovey special love-triangle he’s got going with the leaders, L. Ron and the overlord of human self-love personified, David Miscavige. Just doesn’t get more equal than that.
You should declare them back to even out the flows. 😉
Hey Mike lets not gloss over this little beauty from the joberg. It appears its an overt for a white man to sleep with a black woman or vice versa. So homosexual hate AND racism. This line from the joburg deserves its own post. And just in case anyone reading this thinks its jot true it is 100 percent accurate. Ibwas there in the sea org. Mike is quoting hubbard 100 percent.
So thats in a confessional! Which means its an overt.
When I was asked that question on Grade II I told my auditor “No, but I’ve always wanted to.” 🙂
Hi Dave, I know also about The Sea Org and being with another race while in.Crazy isn’t it? “The most Ethical Team on the Planet” Ha,I take my Spirit back forever! Always,Ann
Hi statpush,Now this post is Classic! Thank you for a laugh! Ann.
Oh NO! I’m a bad, bad, very bad boy.
Isn’t a yes answer just the pits!
I need to be punished… really punished… mmmm?
Hahahahahahahaha. Well I yawn, we can arrange a spanking for you, or maybe some serious RPF duties…
o yawn stop stop dont o please…you’re driving me out of my mmmmind-mm
Whew! Where do I start! Maybe with the awesome Mabel who put me up in her place in Harare when CLO UK wouldn’t send me any money to stay in Zimbabwe to keep the Org doors open?
“Have you ever slept with a member of a race of another colour? So that’s in a confessional! Which means its an overt.”
No, it means the PC CONSIDERS it an overt. The whole idea of a confessional is to relieve the pc of what he is withholding because that will lessen his responsibility and his reach. Yes, confessionals have been used for other purposes, but that was not there original intent.
Should be “…THEIR original intent.”
Yeah, except that question is suggestive, and within the context of a sec check can prompt a feeling a guilt that maybe wasn’t there in the first place.
Kind of sick , in my book.
No argument with the beneficial aspect of a confessional.
Yeah, there are no questions about having good intentions or helping people.
Someone over at ESMB did a great expose once on the fact Hubbard never researched for and deployed a process for above 2 on the tone scale while developing processes to handle the R6 bank. It’s all about being opposed and what not. The other flow about being happy about things and game-man-ship was apparently ignored for the negative. I suppose havingness was the closest thing to good times.
It’s all too serious… another aspect of the dual nature of scientology, don’t be serious and lightness of organisation etc. sort of caved the whole thing in.
Well questions like that would be good dirt for the file now would they. Sigh.
Oops wouldn’t.
Marie, that shouldn’t be a problem if there’s no executive C/S’ing or pressure from Ethics or OSA. Actual reads and false reads can be differentiated by an auditor who knows what s/he is doing.
Right you are about the beneficial aspect.
So, in other words, you’re justifying sec checking. The last person to justify religious interrogation was Tomas de Torquemada. First the e-meter, then, if something reads, the thumb screws, with a nice session on the rack for afters.
Why don’t you stop before you totally ruin your reputation?
Espiando, I was talking about confessionals, which came before sec checks. Confessionals were originally intended for the sole purpose of relieving a person of his own emotional charge and guilt. They were for the benefit of the pc, and that was all there was to it. At the end of the confessional, the auditor stated to the pc what was called the “Proclamation of Forgiveness” – and there were no reports sent to Ethics. No “handling” was necessary as the pc had been forgiven.
As a person raised Catholic, it would be hypocritical of me to condemn the Sacrament of Confession per se. It’s what Scientology does with the concept that drives it into condemnation. The notes from those confessionals still exist in the PC folder, and we’ve all seen what they’ve done with those. However, I know that you condemn the use of PC folder information for Dead Agent purposes, so I’m definitely not accusing you of being part of this abominable practice.
tl;dr: Confession is good for the soul, but it’s not necessarily good for the thetan.
Well said, Espiando. 🙂
The SO members I was around were the most homophobic people I witnessed anywhere in the world that I’ve been.
Intolerant, vicious, “holier than thou”. What were probably well intentioned individuals have been totally perverted by a brain washing, vindictive so called religion.
Hi GBTO, Yes that was definitely pervasive throughout the SO.Those of us that started to see behind and beyond the veil,were punished always.Vicious is a good starting point for that mind set.Love,Ann.
Ann, No matter the punishment, you DID see beyond the veil and are a better person than most! Happy Sunday. 😉
Hi Observinginsandiego, Thany you for my good Sunday wish.Your posts are balanced and refreshing.Always Love,Ann.
Leslie Bates says
My question for today is how did LRH view Ayn Rand and Objectivism. I simply cannot imagine an Objectivist picking up the can and thus appearing anywhere on a tone scale.
If I recall correctly, Ayn Rand was either declared or shunned by Hubbard, at least when I was around in the middle 60s.
Ms. B. Haven says
All I can add to this revealingly accurate post is my own experience. I got into the cult in the mid 70’s at a mid-sized mission in a very conservative part of the USA. There were a couple of openly gay public taking courses. They seemed to be tolerated fairly well because they had money and were contributing to the ‘stats’. But, they were constantly ridiculed behind their backs. I believe that would be about 1.1 on Hubbard’s tone scale. That was the public. As for staff, on of the EDs had some history of homosexual acts that were somewhat generally known about. When the ‘coup of 82’ came along, he was one of the few who stood up to the storm troopers (Finance Police) and was removed from post promptly. Sadly, he got ‘handled’ somewhere along the line and as far as I know is still in as a public member and did some OT levels. I guess those ‘handlings’ that he received must have cured him. Riiiiiiiight… Only 50 to 200 or so hours to ‘handle’ this perversion? I would bet big money that this guy had easily that many hours in sec checks alone.
Slightly off topic, I have to add that people of color received the same ridicule behind their backs. The mission was a very white bread sort of place. Again, anyone was ‘welcome’ if they had money, but there was always the covert whispering behind their backs if they were different in some way. The ridicule always came from staff, not other public. Staff, even at the mission level, always exuded an air of superiority because they were more ‘on purpose’ than the mere public that contributed to their meager pay check.
Well at least the church is equal opportunity when it comes to hating everyone, gotta give them that. Thanks for sharing your experience ms. b! 😉
Hi Ms B.Haven,Your post said it all! Yes staff and Sea Orgers could really throw that Superiority around! Did that myself for awhile!But that was not me,in my soul,so I stepped aside and let those who wanted to keep the superiority thing going,have at it.I just wanted to fulfill what I thought was my mission back then.Clear the planet and put Ethics in on the Universe!Am I ever grateful I fled the cult!Always, Ann.
And then, in a flaming example of the First Law of Scientology Contradictions where for Every Bit of Policy and Tech there is an Equal and Opposite bit of Policy and Tech we have “2nd Dynamics Rules” where L Ron Hubbard, the author of all that idiocy about sex above, also writes this in HCO PL of 11 August 1967:
“It has never been any part of my plans to regulate or attempt to regulate the private lives of individuals.
“Whenever this has occurred, it has not resulted in any improved condition.”
“I have no concern about the second dynamic activities of Scientologists save only where they bring suffering to others and so impede our forward progress.
“Therefore: ALL FORMER RULES, REGULATIONS AND POLICIES RELATING TO THE SECOND DYNAMIC ACTIVITIES OF STUDENTS, PRECLEARS, STAFF AND SCIENTOLOGISTS ARE CANCELLED.”
Scientology: where plausible deniability works not only for the press and the police, but for the inside of your own mind, as well, if you find yourself needing to defend indefensible yet again.
Great point.
Yes, great point.
douwebeerda says
That seems like a sensible policy but can people use this in Scientology or the Sea Org or will they stil be disciriminated against in practise in Scientology and/or the Sea Org?
One thing for sure all of this tells you, that a world run by david miscavige with these writings of LRH will be a world where no one is below 2.0. Or else.
it is a small bubble, isn’t it?
Geezers! Little kids would run away from that one. What a horrible concept, ” a world run by david miscavige… ” arragh!
Great post Mike. I always found lrh’s writings on homosexuality to be hateful, ‘reactive’ and bigoted.
Commenting on a side not you made: I prefer alcohol way more than marijuana. But I would be the first to say, marijuana is way safer than alcohol. When I was “in”, I definitely didn’t see this pot datum being applied.
I think there is still a lot of debate on the pot vs. alcohol debate (I am against neither).
Today’s marijuana is much stronger (purer, if you will) than the pot you and I (well, me anyway) smoked in college.
And, I believe that it is a gateway drug to stronger stuff. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of any addict who said ‘I started with heroin’ (though I am sure there are a few who did).
I have two teens and two pre-teens, so I have been to more meetings and read more studies on addiction than I have ever wanted to, not to mention my own research outside of what I have learned through the schools.
Sorry, did not mean to derail the conversation into a pot v. booze discussion. Both have their place and it’s unfortunate they are abused, but every recent study/report I have read indicates pot is not necessarily a ‘safe’ alternative to alcohol.
Though it sure is fun…..and something David Miscavige desperately needs to try
As a sober opiate addict, I would say alcohol is they gateway drug. In my experience and for many people I know.
Important information today, thank you 🙂
Ah, drugs, sex and rock and roll…
Stairway to heaven from Fantasy Island.
Stories of Miscavige’s abuse abound and I struggle to give to give them credence.
What am I missing? Why don’t any of the stories read like the following?
“A semi-literate gay dwarf with a lisp attacked me yesterday.”
“Really mate? That’s fucking hilarious. What did you do?”
“I slappped it silly, sat it on my lap and made it pretend to be a ventriloquist’s dummy. Check out the video clip of the Xenu mini-Me impersonation I made it do on YouTube.”
Because if you punched the dwarf back, yes, you’d break the dwarf, but the dwarf’s 20 goons standing around would then break you, and you’d be condemned (as you believe) to eternity in pain, fear and darkness. That’s that Ben Carson nonsense: “why didn’t they just rush the shooter? Why didn’t the Jews stand up to Hitler?” It’s victim-blaming, the purpose of which is to give you an excuse not to emphasise.
vinaire says
Is David Miscavige a closet homosexual? Is it the frustration with his own condition that makes him viciously homophobic?
I don’t know vinair. As LRH was viciously homophobic many SO execs are. DM is one of many in that regard.
richardgrant says
Thanks, Mike, for taking the time to assemble all this damning information and to put it forward so clearly and forcefully. I think this essay will stand as the final word on the institutional homophobia of this organization.
As for Dave Miscavige, I suspect that personal anecdotes about his vile character will continue to accumulate as he continues to slide into impotent rage and, increasingly, irrelevance.
How can Scnists claim to hold the keys to a happy marriage and the raising of children, when their founder’s written words and the group’s policy and behavior on the second dynamic are so thoroughly twisted?
Serious, while reading Hubbard’s Pain and Sex, it is clear the old man had issues on the subject. One thing you can say, he isn’t covertly hostile on the second dynamic – he’s overtly hostile! Oddly enough, a Scnist would find that an improvement, since it is higher on the Tone Scale.
Could it be that having a healthy, active second dynamic, one that the individual enjoys spending time creating, is seen as a potential threat to the Almighty Third Dynamic?
One quickly learns that the Third Dynamic is THE most important dynamic. And there really is only one Third Dynamic, that of the church of Scientology. Vying for top dynamic position is the 9th dynamic, money. Unfortunately, any Third Dynamic is composed of a bunch of First Dynamics (you know, aberees, broken straws, DBs). But, Scn can “fix” them, provided they turn over their money and wear the mental straitjacket.
So, if we walk the straight and narrow, do what Hubbard and the church says, then maybe…just maybe, one day…
We can all be like Ron.
I always found it most odd that Clear #1, John Macmaster, was clearly gay. As was Hubbard’s son, Quentin. They were also two of the most gentle and kind human beings I ever met. I can only wonder at how Hubbard dealt with that internally.
It’s a tough job making up your own religion with all that religion’s rules to satisfy all of the cultural fad whims going on to satisfy all your cult clients, over top your own prejudices.
Ron the cult leader founder had his work cut out for himself!
When Ron said he failed at the whole thing, when he admitted that to Sarge Steven Pfauth, at the Creston Ranch a month or two before LRH died, that to me, is the big lesson picture of Scientology.
It’s just not anyone’s business to create a cult at all in the first place!
Going getting drunk after Ron admits failure, is a moment of enlightenment hindsight that makes Lawrence Wright’s book a must read for the Scientology celebrities.
Hi Chuck Beatty, A terrific post!Very true and the last paragraph was so vibrant.Would that the celebs,whales and Sea Orgers over the planet could really see that! Love,Ann.
Hi thegman77,Very good to see your post here.I have read all the posts to Mike’s powerful post,which was not available to me until this AM.Something blocked it,so I came to yours and here I am.I had some wonderful letters to and from John McMaster in 74.I was frightened that I could not last in the Sea Org having only DMSMH as my guide.But now I know that book had already set my hook! But John was so good to me with encouragement and support.It mattered not one iota whether he was gay or not.And Quentin was so very sweet and gentle and Funny! Could he make me laugh! I see now that when I signed that billion year contract,I signed my spirit or thetan as one will,I bound my soul to Ron’s as a soul slave.I was not free,I would never be free again,until I blew and even then nightmares will come now too.My own way of looking now,is much more simple.Is the person I am comming with a pure soul or a black soul? Yes it is hard to know and I got really tripped up with this with GO/Intel,but my heart tells me to trust what I know instinctively about some one.Ron/David it is all about their command and control pain and suffering they both dole those out via the tech that always works absolutely.So Indies and all I grant you your viewpoint.But once you have been thrown on the Sea Org fire or shoved under the Sea Org bus for being loving and sensitive and kind,you will feel differently forever after.All love to you,Ann.
Where was John McMaster in 74?
Hi Mike,Well if I can un-mix my mind,knowing how I screw stuff up,he may have passed in 74. But the John who wrote me and because I had gotten some old old time Dianetics people to write me,he wrote about early Ron.I believe he wrote me from South Africa.Don’t shoot,I’m just a lowly messenger! Plus I know there can be duplicates or doppelgängers,amongst the persons I wrote to.Love,Ann.
Terrific post, Mike.
Twisted policy bred by the man’s twisted behavior.
Then walks in MacCavige, the dick.
Sorry, Mike, that you had to describe his vulgar attacks and antics. Sure, it demostrates his sick
-nesses.
But, and who was the young beauty here that said, incredibly, a word of compassion for the man?
Aquamarine, if memory serves, said there was a way he could still, maybe, earn a pass.
Alanzo, now I remember. How beautiful is that?
But to stir up the hatred, the utter total repugnancy for the noun/person, well, I fear it just lends him, the dude, more power than he deserves.
After all, the more accurate measure would name him a zero, a solid zero. Sure, you can go lower, but what’s the point?
Once you start hurting people you are a zero.
If you take pleasure in it then your end is literally written in stone, and it will not be pleasant.
It is unavoidable.
And therefore nothing to be getting the girls upset over. I am reassured every time I see this Dave guy pull another boner. All the credit for every evil deed this church is responsible for can be rightly attributed to him.
So he gets mad and ugly when you call him out on it.
Mad and ugly is what school kids can do, giving it their best.
Which is all the power and juice this so-called leader can give, demonstrate to the universe.
You and me are are ten or even a hundred times the power.
If you take pleasure in watching his demise I invite you. It is happening. And I agree, it is indeed a beautiful day. Glad to say the beauty of it has nothing to do with a ignorant man who fell down and ate his way through the ground to where he is now, a place much like the place he will be buried in, the worm. I just said that to end this on a up-note. True-mm
Hi mark marco, Your post is shining today.Thank you.Ann.
thanks Ann. i actually threw that in extra just for you, (choke) i feel like a crook stealing a smile from you so easy, but wait it gets worse-
no control and the anti panic button went out and i have little choice but to write again
[insert blushing smile here, please]
Hi mark marco, How can I not smile light to you and love you all at once? Because you are golden and your posts are those I will always seek out.You are stuck with me! Stardust, Ann.
all those names are wrong, crap, i sabatoge my cred
it is all love in the end,
equal to the love you make
Wayne Borean aka The Mad Hatter says
Thanks Mike for a great explanation.
markthehungarian says
“get Guilluame’s cum out of your mouth and you might be able to talk better.”
That’s True Leadership right there. So Pope-like. Hah ahhaha hahahah .
What a fucking psycho!
I mean, what an exceptional ecclesiastical leader.
That comment is disturbing for so many reasons….I continue to be amazed that someone has not stood up and smacked Miscavige in the mouth.
The amount of self restraint is impressive.
A concrete bunker, bullet proof glass, 24/7 security, a 45 under the pillow. That self restraint isn’t exactly 100% self. That little twerp knows exactly what will happen to him if he lets his guard down. It’s pretty much just him and his security at Int now anyway from what I can make out. Anyone with any gumption was disposed of sometime ago.
Hi Chee Chalker, I was looking for your post and here it is! Made me happy to find you.I agree 100% with your post.David Miscavige seems to delight in engaging his SO Slaves in all sorts of bs and constant taunting and make wrong.I have wondered too what it would take for someone to say Enough! But David is no fool by surrounding himself with his private security force.Also I surmise the SO is so worn down and out by him they can’t see straight.And he knows that.Really a terrible “leader” of the cult.All Love,Ann.
He is a scared, homophobic little boy, playing in his fort with his toys.
thanks for saying that
i thought i was just imagining the whole thing…
Sneaky Little Phuq says
While that may be true, there is the other side to the coin; this scared little boy, by whatever means, has managed to hold oversight on a burgeoning real estate empire and as such, don’t think for a moment that he has not already locked in multiple safety-net locations in various far away lands.
Heck, good chance he is already operating form one of them (the new X?).
While you all ponder that, chew well and then swallow this; at some point, and here is my written prediction, Tiny Boots will eventually and quite intentionally leak to the kool-aid crew that due to the extreme expansion, the kick-back from the SP’s is so extreme that he has had to get fabian, as in “at times of war the fleet is at sea, whereabouts unknown”. The remaining sheeple will literally drop to their knees at the action-hero like maneuvers of dear leader, and then we will see them all pull out all the remaining hidden money that the cherch had not yet gotten. All the while, the rest of us, the media, and the world will see that he fled with everything and yet the still-ins will see it as a strategic move to protect the expansion.
Am I new here?
Nope. Do a whole bunch of you know who I am? Yup 🙂
Just been UTR for….years…still-in, taking copious notes, and here is one for tiny boots: the enemy is IN YOUR CAMP LITTLE BITCH, I’LL BE IN THE ORG ON COURSE TODAY, BETTER GO SEC CHECK EVERYBODY, AT LEAST ONE OF THEM IS A sneaky little phuq…!
Plausible scenario that.
I’m kind of hoping he does a Sultan Griss type thing and simply fucks it all up.
Or made found in a ditch beaten to death… but Christmas isn’t for awhile yet.
Stay hid, oh strange one, still attached.
I yawn, Christmas can come early sometimes… Keep the hope alive. Lol
Oh rest assured, nothing would make me happier but for Tiny Boots, this play would stretch his status out longer, let him overtly gather his booty and clear it to a safe location, undisclosed of course, and he could literally still be SOB even after having raided the coffers and strip-mined the parishioner base; if he goes that route, ya gotta tip your cap to the deviousness of the little snake!
Haha you get them sneaky!
Well I figured early on that staying hidden behind enemy lines would be more fruitful in the direction of imploding it than one more guy “out” and just getting 3-P’ed into the ground. Plus, I am taken LRH advise, he says words to the effect of filling a file cabinet with all the dirt, etc. Well, gathering all the dirt is much easier from within…good times ahead if they even make the mistake of coming for me or anyone who I have granted allegiance to…
Hi Sneaky Little Phug, You are most clever.Power to you.Ann.
Now, OSD2, I’m not scared and I’m not homophobic. But, his fort and toys are something I’d like to have! I mean, c’mon! A fort and toys? It just doesn’t get any better…
Id like his fort and his toys too for that matter!
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There are two kinds of trilogies: ones that were intended to be from the beginning and ones that were created after the first movie was a (surprise) success. The Lord Of The Rings and The Matrix are good examples of these two different types of trilogies. When you make a complete trilogy from the beginning it’s easier to create a coherent set of movies. You know where you want to go in the third movie when you’re busy creating the first one. The other kind of trilogy fails more often because all of a sudden two new scripts have to be made that follow up on a closed story. For every Star Wars trilogy (the original!) there are at least three Matrix trilogies. Luckily Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy ends up being this generation’s Star Wars trilogy, sadly that also means they didn’t save the best for last.
The Dark Knight Rises is set eight years after the events of “The Dark Knight”. Gotham is at peace and organized crime has been taken out due to the Dent act; created after Harvey’s death in the Dark Knight. Bruce Wayne is living a secluded life in one of the wings of the now rebuilt Wayne Mansion and walks with a cane. When terrorist Bane comes to Gotham, the city faces its greatest challenge yet and Batman has to come out of retirement to face an opponent who’s both physically and mentally his match.
The Dark Knight Rises has the almost impossible task to be as good or even better than the previous “The Dark Knight”, a movie that built upon the origin story of “Batman Begins” and gave the audience a memorable villain in an epic story full of twists and turns. Bane is very different from the previous villains of whom only Ra’s Al Ghul was a physical match for Bruce Wayne. Bane is a towering hulk of a man, trained in the same way as Bruce Wayne and wears a scary mask of which the function is explained in the movie later on. This mask is also the character’s greatest restraint as it gives Hardy only his eyes to use to communicate with the audience. That wouldn’t be a real problem if we saw his facial muscles move when he talks, but that is not the case here. To top it all off the voice has been filtered too much in post production creating a sound that really seems to be added after the movie was filmed. Whether Bane has a hood over his head or not, the voice is always the same volume… it never convinces me that this voice is actually on set; as if I’m watching a dubbed foreign film. Characters with masks on are always tricky. Hugo Weaving’s V in V for Vendetta and James Earl Jones’ Darth Vader pulled it off, but the Power Rangers and Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin did not. I can add Bane to the latter list.
A character that does completely work is Selena Kyle, better known as Catwoman though never addressed that way here. Doesn’t matter though because the character is grounded in realism and played with fun by Anne Hathaway. As always her loyalties lie with herself making her switch sides depending on the situation. One minute she’s leading Batman into a trap, another she’s saving his life.
As with every Nolan Batman movie the scheme by the villains are fairly grounded in realism, but still far fetched and not completely realistic. Compared to schemes with toxic smiling gas, penguins with rockets attached to their backs and a guy trying to create a new ice age, the scenarios in The Dark Knight trilogy do make much more sense. But where only after watching The Dark Knight I started pondering about how The Joker’s plans all were based upon a lot of coincidences, questions about the plot rose to me while watching The Dark Knight Rises. Bane has taken Gotham City hostage by bringing a nuclear bomb in and threatening to explode it if anybody tries to enter the city or leave it this situation takes up to about a month or five. I can hardly comprehend the United States government not being able to do something for five months. The opening scene also had me scratching my head asking myself why Bane would hijack a plane including a blood transfusion in mid air. Because it looks cool of course.
Despite the somewhat shaky plot the entire script once again does feel epic. Since it was made clear this would be the last movie and it would bring the story full circle it really had a nail biting finale. All the main characters we have got to learn and love over the course of these films are fair game. Gordon, Fox, Alfred and even Batman himself, the movie produces a feeling their lives could end at any moment. The Dark Knight Rises really creates a complete trilogy connecting all three movies together. Events from both movies resonate here. Both Scarecrow and Ra’s Al Ghul have small cameos and Harvey Dent is seen in flash backs. Only the Joker is never mentioned or heard from, a choice made because of Heath Ledger’s death, but it does feel weird that a character responsible for so many events in the previous movie including the physical en mentally scarring of Harvey Dent is never mentioned, not even in Gordon’s testimony about the true events that happened.
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It was drama at the death as Millwall finally ended their Priestfield Stadium hoodoo with a first win in 11 attempts in the sweltering sunshine on Sunday afternoon.
Aiden O'Brien had put The Lions in the driving seat with a 55th-minute opener, steering the ball home after Steve Morison's initial shot had been parried by keeper Stuart Nelson.
However the game looked to have turned on its head when Mahlon Romeo was dismissed on 86 minutes and John Egan grabbed an injury-time equaliser for the home side.
But in a final twist, Lee Grgeory - who underwent surgery less than two weeks ago on a stomach injury - stepped up in the eighth minute of injury-time to fire home the winning goal from the penalty spot after he had been fouled by Brennan Dickenson.
It was the perfect way for The Lions to sign off the regular season and now all thoughts have already turned to a a tough two-leg semi-final against Bradford City.
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New plastics technology improves sustainability spice packaging
Specialized plastics manufacturer, Meredith-Springfield Associates, Inc., provides innovative approach to save on costs and environmental impact of household brands
KEYWORDS PET / sustainability / sustainable materials
Classic spice brand, Mrs. Dash is using pioneering technology from. Meredith-Springfield Associates, Inc. (meredithspfld.com), a world-class plastics manufacturer specializing in extrusion blow molding and injection stretch blow molding.
“An analysis of the Mrs. Dash packaging process revealed the need to create a more sustainable bottle,” says president and chief executive officer of Meredith-Springfield, Mel O’Leary, Jr. While sustainable packaging has become a point of interest for manufacturers with regards to environmental benefits, significant cost-savings can also be realized. “Sustainable package innovation offered by advanced plastic molding technology minimizes packaging costs – which in turn reduces warehousing and transportation costs, as well” says O’Leary.
Meredith-Springfield constructed pilot molds and conducted design experiments with the objective to reduce the amount of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) used in the creation of Mrs. Dash packaging. “Manufacturers seeking more sustainable plastic packaging should look for innovative ways to reduce PET,” says O’Leary. “For Mrs. Dash, we are using the most advanced plastic molding technology to alter the amount of plastic and place PET only where it most impacts package performance.” By adjusting the weight bearing performance of the packaging, Meredith-Springfield was able to reduce the weight of a Mrs. Dash bottle by more than 25%. The more sustainable packaging saves B&G Foods an excess of 200,000 pounds of PET resin per year and reduces related costs of optimizing other aspects of the molding and delivery process. “In reducing the weight, we carefully engineered the placement of remaining mass of plastic to go into the areas of the bottle which would maximize top-loading ability,” says O’Leary. The entire re-design resulted in a significant cost-savings for B&G Foods, but required in-depth research and development.
“We never single source,” says director of global procurement of B&G Foods, Marty Schoch. “We always look at our alternatives and benchmark our current suppliers. Meredith-Springfield’s customer service, exceptionally low defect level and willingness to conduct research and development set them apart from the competition.” Schoch also identified Meredith-Springfield’s competitive pricing for a niche market and consistent, timely delivery as valued components to the working relationship. “The new packaging process for Mrs. Dash was able to save B&G Foods a double-digit profit percentage without impacting the brand ID,” says Schoch. “Despite a complete packaging overhaul, the bottle is not noticeably different to the consumer.”
The new extrusion blow molding machine produces more than 100,000 Mrs. Dash bottles in each 24-hour production period and is capable of delivering more than 35 million units per year. “This process is a major volume addition to our evolving PET business,” says O’Leary. “It provides economies of scale with resin, packaging and transportation purchases so it helps lower all costs and adds to our critical mass on both extrusion blow molding and stretch blow molding capabilities.”
The machine is a one-step process for making specialty PET bottles versus a two-step process used to make carbonated beverage bottles. Beverage bottles require multiple steps; first, a “perform” is molded in an injection molding machine and then transferred to a reheat-stretch machine. “Our technology is the most energy-efficient method available,” says O’Leary. “It goes from plastic pellets to finished bottles on one machine.”
In addition to cost-savings, the new Mrs. Dash bottles also save the environment; 100% of the PET used in the bottle is recyclable through curbside collection. “The plastic from these bottles may find their way into new plastic bottles or may also be used to make other things like polyester-based clothing, carpets or automotive interior components,” says O’Leary.
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'Atlanta: Robbin' Season' Recap, 'Alligator Man': A True Muthaf*cka Goin' Out For The Loot
By Brian Richards | TV | March 6, 2018 |
Previously on Atlanta: Earn, a recent Princeton dropout, approaches his cousin, an up-and-coming rapper named Paper Boi, about becoming his manager in the hopes of both of them becoming successful as well as becoming closer to one another. Paper Boi got into a fight with Justin Bieber during a basketball game, Van, Earn’s kinda-sorta girlfriend and mother to their daughter, was fired from her job as a schoolteacher after smoking weed with her friend and admitting it to her boss the following day due to the fact that she was scheduled to take a drug test, Paper Boi defended himself from accusations of transphobia while appearing on a talk show on Not-BET, Paper Boi slapped the shit out of a nightclub owner who attempted to not pay him the money that he was owed, Earn and Van went to a Juneteenth party which made them wish they had just stayed home and watched Netflix instead, and Earn looked all over town for his lost jacket, which contained the key to his storage locker where he keeps everything he owns…and is also where he lives.
Oh yeah, and invisible cars are a thing that really do exist. Welcome back to Atlanta.
THE STORY SO FAR: Robbin’ Season (the time of year when the crime rate increases because ‘Christmas approaches and everyone gotta eat, or be eaten’) is once again here in Atlanta, as evidenced by the fact that two young men rob a local fast-food joint for the bricks of marijuana that their employees sell in portions to customers who know which specific menu item to ask for, only for the robbers to end up in a gunfight straight out of Boogie Nights when one of the employees at said fast-food joint goes after the pistol-toting robbers with an assault rifle. The gunfight ends not with Alfred Molina blasting his shotgun at Mark Wahlberg and John C. Reilly in their Corvette while calling them puppies, but by Mister Good Guy With A Gun running out of the fast-food joint and shooting after the Bad Guys With Guns as they speed away. Their getaway vehicle stops, and while we’re led to believe at first that both robbers are dead, a young woman splattered in blood ends up climbing out of the backseat, screaming and crying. The fact that this young woman was never actually seen before (not with the two young men before the robbery or in the car with them as they rolled up) and just magically appeared out of nowhere to scream bloody murder like she’s re-enacting Jada Pinkett’s death scene in Scream 2 only makes it all weirder.
Earn is still living in his storage locker with all of his worldly possessions but due to the fact that the owner of the storage facility now knows that someone is living there, his stuff is now up for grabs for anyone and everyone to take for themselves (including the storage facility employees, who gladly remind him that this isn’t Storage Wars and that no auctions will be taking place here) and Earn needs to go find another place to rest his head. Which brings him to Paper Boi’s house, where the tension between him and Darius (tension that neither of them want to talk to Earn about) is thicker than a bowl of oatmeal. Paper Boi is on house arrest and Earn needs to go see his parole officer due to his being arrested for attempting to sell half a joint, so he asks Darius for a ride. Darius, who has recently returned from California and telling people with overly long acceptance speeches to GET OUT! and get off the stage (clearly, he was on break while Gary Oldman was giving his speech), says yes and the two of them head out.
As Earn explains to Darius that his parents have headed over to Florida to visit a dying relative, Darius explains his belief in the phenomenon that is Florida Man, an “alt-right Johnny Appleseed” whose true identity is a mystery and who is apparently responsible for “a large number of abnormal incidents that occur in Florida,” such as shooting unarmed Black teens…beating flamingos to death…eating other people’s faces……breaking into the hospital room of of his pregnant ex-girlfriend and beating up her boyfriend…crashing a vehicle into a fast-food joint…convincing the local serial killer that the best way to bring his eight-year-long career to an end was by steering into his boat into the middle of a hurricane, faking his death, and then becoming a lumberjack…and is in cahoots with the government to prevent Black people from voting and from registering to vote. And yes, I’m sure all five of you reading this recap are thinking “Oh, that Darius is so crazy, making shit up about Florida and Florida Man like that to freak Earn out.” Yeah, sorry to tell you this, but…Darius’s anecdotes about Florida and Florida Man?
fictional.
Especially when it comes to preventing Black people in Florida from expressing their right to vote.
While stopping for gas, Earn gets a phone call from Paper Boi, asking him to head over to their uncle Willy’s house, due to the fact that shit is popping off in the form of Willy’s girlfriend Yvonne calling him and claiming that she’s been kidnapped by Willy and is being held hostage. So Earn agrees to get his Danny Roman on and head on over there to see Willy, who not only has an alligator somewhere in his house like he’s Sonny Crockett on Miami Vice, but has also locked Yvonne in a room over the fact that fifty dollars has disappeared and she refuses to tell him what has happened to it. Earn spots her some money to give to Willy so that there will be peace, but that peace is interrupted by 1) two police officers who arrive on Willy’s doorstep in response to a call about a domestic disturbance and 2) the fact that he accuses her of being a lying-ass bitch and she refers to him as a muthafucka who she hopes gets blown away by the cops. Both officers ask Willy to step out of the house so they can talk, but Willy isn’t having any of that and is pretty much in Fuck Tha Police Mode, as he threatens to release his alligator on them both if they try to arrest him for no reason.
Earn is trying to play peacemaker as he tries to get Willy to stop acting a fool and pissing everyone off, only to have Willy call him out on the fact that he’s scared, and that the only reason he’s even there and hasn’t left yet is because Paper Boi told him to be there and he doesn’t want to get on the bad side of Mr. Moneybags and end up not being his manager anymore. Earn denies that and states that what he’s actually afraid of is turning out like Willy, who is “someone who everyone knew was smart, but ended up being a know-it-all fuck-up who just let everything happen to him.” Willy’s response to that armor-piercing statement before walking off to his room? “Damn.”
Earn follows Willy into his bedroom to both apologize for hurting his feelings, but also explaining that because of whatever history between Willy and Earn’s mother that left Earn feeling immensely pissed at Willy, he had that armor-piercing insult against him ready to go. He also admits to Willy that he is scared, due to the fact that Paper Boi has become more famous recently and is worried that he’ll no longer be needed. Willy, who has been searching through luggage under his bed, retrieves a gold-plated pistol and gives it to Earn. Because 1) he’ll need that if he’s going to be a part of the music business, 2) he’ll need that if he wants to be a cheating bastard when playing GoldenEye 007 in Multiplayer mode (more so if he uses it while playing as Oddjob) and 3) he has no interest in any of the police officers finding it and getting both himself and Paper Boi in trouble. He also tells Earn to get rid of whatever chip he has on his shoulder, if only so that he doesn’t end up becoming a failure like himself, before exiting the room.
Earn takes the pistol, along with a framed family photo, and walks out of the house to meet Darius back at the car. And right as he leaves and informs the cops that hewasn’t able to convince Willy to come out and talk to them, the front door opens and out walks…Willy’s alligator, Coach, which is rather giant and is far more interested in resting on the lawn than he is in devouring every human in sight.
As for Willy? He sneaks out of the house through the back and makes a run for it like his name is Tom Cruise and he’s starring in yet another Mission: Impossible movie.
Earn and Darius arrive back at Paper Boi’s house, and whatever tension there was between both Darius and Paper Boi has inexplicably dissolved, due to the fact that Paper Boi offers Darius a hit from the blunt he is smoking. Earn shows them both the pistol that Willy told him to take, which causes them both (and also Paper Boi’s friend Tracy, who has just gotten out of jail and is staying in the house) to laugh their asses off while also suggesting that he get rid of that shit. Earn just chuckles along with them and heads out. Darius, who knows that Earn is still in need of a place to stay, asks him, “You good?” Earn responds in the affirmative and leaves. Once outside, he sighs heavily and then keeps on moving.
ANY CAMEOS FROM THE CAST OF COMMUNITY?: No.
HOW MANY F-BOMBS WERE THERE IN THIS EPISODE?: A whole muthafuckin’ lot.
ANY CAMEOS FROM THE CAST OF SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY?: No. And despite his recent success, we don’t get to see Paper Boi riding around in his own personal Millennium Falcon.
NONE? DOES EARN WEAR A CAPE IN THIS EPISODE AT LEAST?: Sorry, Rebecca, but we don’t get to see Earn or anyone else rocking any capes.
ANY ALIENS AT LEAST?: Well, Donald Glover now has Lucasfilm connections so even though we don’t see any aliens in this episode, don’t be surprised if we see one appear onscreen before the end of the season.
TO SUM IT ALL UP: I know this is only just the season premiere and I certainly don’t want to jinx how the rest of the season turns out, but it’s so good to have Atlanta back on television again, and this episode proved why that is. As wonderful as it is to be reunited with Earn, Paper Boi, and Darius (I can’t wait for Zazie Beetz as Van to show up as well), the cherry on top of this amazing cake was the guest appearance by stand-up comedian Katt Williams. Almost every line of dialogue out of his mouth made me laugh, but it wasn’t hard not to recognize that much of the episode that took place between Earn and Willy, and the conversations about wasted talent and ruined potential, was a meta-commentary on Katt himself, as many of his legal issues throughout the years took a toll on both himself and his career, and he has slowly but surely been making his way back and reminding everyone why he blew up and became successful in the first place. I’ll understand if Willy never appears on Atlanta again, but part of me hopes that he didn’t run too far away and will make another appearance.
The fact that this season will be taking place during “Robbin’ Season” has me both worried about what kind of situations Earn and company will find themselves in, and also excited and waiting on the edge of my seat to see what kind of situations Earn and company will find themselves in. I don’t expect the show to suddenly become Grand Theft Auto: Atlanta, I just expect Atlanta to have me reacting to each episode the way Darius reacted to the sight of Earn holding his Golden Gun: laughing hysterically while shaking my head at what I’ve just seen and asking, “What the fuduck is that?”
This episode of Atlanta was brought to you by “Gimme The Loot” by The Notorious B.I.G.:
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Brian Richards is a Staff Contributor. You can follow him on Twitter.
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Decline and fall: Orwell's Burmese Days
For the second of our selection of the essential reads on Pandaw country, our guest contributor is self-confessed "Pandaw junkie" Charlotte Pinder, Who celebrates George Orwell's devastating critique of British Burma in the last years of the Raj.
The RV Kindat Pandaw glides effortlessly into the jetty at the little town of Katha in Upper Burma. No great monuments, no notable pagodas to visit here; we have stopped for a different reason, for Katha - or Kyauktada to give it its fictional name - is immortalised as the setting for George Orwell's 1934 debut novel Burmese Days.
Young Eric Blair (Orwell was a pen-name) clearly regretted his choice of Burma for his Indian Police Service career by the time he was dispatched to Katha in 1926. After a string of unprestigious postings he found himself in another remote town among a handful of dull Europeans. His disenchantment with the imperial ideal meant that this was to be his last posting; the novel he set here reveals his utter contempt for the British Raj.
Burmese Days tells a simple story of doomed love. John Flory is a rapidly ageing bachelor who has squandered his adulthood in Burma (in so many respects similar to Orwell's own background). A book-loving intellectual yearning for refined conversation, for a sitting room with a black piano and "furniture from Rangoon", Flory believes an unattached, pretty girl recently arrived from Paris will offer him the redemption he craves.
In the background, the local Europeans wrestle with an exhortation from above to admit a 'native' to their sacred Club ("I'll die in a ditch before I'll see a ni**er in here"). A minor Burmese official schemes and plots his way to greatness by exploiting the gullibility of the naive British Empire-builders.
Here the Burmese are portrayed in a damning light – in cheating their employers or as blackmailers, rapists and murderers. Far more surprising for its time is the novel's viciously unsympathetic portrayal of the British residents as bigoted, racist, cruel and grasping snobs scrabbling to uphold the "Pukka Sahibs' code".
They eat British (tinned, imported) foods, play endless bridge, repeat inane conversation about dogs, pore over out-of-date British newspapers. Memsahibs never learn a word of Burmese and torment their servants.
Hypocritical in moral matters, they start drinking before breakfast - Flory bemoans "booze as the cement of Empire". Men are lazy, leer over scantily dressed magazine models and cavort with native prostitutes. Even the more sympathetic Flory has purchased a concubine for himself, an incident that leads to the novel's far from happy ending.
Secure in the conviction of their superiority, what ultimately taints Orwell's colonialists is an unwavering contempt of local peoples. Timber manager Ellis' rantings against a "greasy little sod", "filthy black lips", "black snout", "oily little babu" go unchallenged. Cruelty is rife – even the genial Deputy Commissioner Macgregor reminisces about sending insolent servants to be flogged at the jail. Only Flory seethes at "the lie that we're here to uplift our poor black brothers instead of to rob them".
This drama is set in a time of growing nationalism and rebellion throughout the Indian Empire. "The British Raj is finished if you ask me"…. "The best thing we can do is shut up shop and let 'em stew in their own juice".
The overt anti-imperialism of the novel and unflattering depictions of the Anglo-Indians led British publishers initially to reject publication of Orwell's novel for fear of libel claims. Names and locations were disguised in the 1935 first UK edition. Yet a renowned contemporary reviewer praised Burmese Days as: "admirable… a crisp, fierce…. attack on the Anglo-Indian". In Burma, conversely, among Orwell's former colleagues, the response was livid. Orwell's superior Stewart at the Police Training School in Mandalay threatened to have him "horsewhipped". Another colleague whined that Orwell had "rather let the side down…."
Yet Burmese Days is no mere anti-colonial polemic. A case could even be made for it as the finest novel that the author of Animal Farm and 1984 ever wrote, a deftly-plotted, fast-paced and riveting story.
Today it is hard to read it without abhorrence of the blatant racism of the sahibs. (We Pandaw travellers have, after all, journeyed here to marvel at the wonders of Burma). And yet, here is the paradox: it is clear that the book's antihero, Flory, and its author both adore the country. We can revel in Orwell's beautiful, lyrical descriptions of the jungle flora and fauna, in Flory's repeated attempts to share with new arrival, Elizabeth, all that he considers fascinating in Burma: sinuous pwe-dances, delicate teas, exotic aromas and dazzling market produce - exactly what excites us as visitors today.
That afternoon, onshore in Katha almost a century later, we meander in pony carts through the sleepy town, halting at colonial-era structures which are startlingly familiar: the tennis court, the Club (a surprisingly unprepossessing building, given its status in the novel as "the real seat of British Power"), the railway station, the Deputy Commissioner's crumbling home, even Orwell's own spartan wooden shack.
Once-manicured gardens are now choked with creepers, the Club no longer boasts "swaths of English flowers, phlox and larkspur, hollyhock and petunias … in vast size and richness" and yet the novel has sprung to life before our eyes. Shocking that this could ever disappear, it suddenly seems vital to preserve these dusty colonial relics as witnesses to a story of such profound cultural significance to the history of British Burma.
Burmese Days, Penguin Modern Classics paperback £3.99-£9.99, Kindle edition £4.99.
Charlotte Pinder
A passionate linguist, educated in Britain, Charlotte has spent much of her adult life working overseas in marketing roles, primarily in the Far East. Her passion for "all-things Asian" was sparked during a youthful first posting to Tokyo (at a time when there were few expats living in Japan and learning the language was a necessity). She has since lived in China and travelled extensively in most countries of the region but has a particular affection for the cultures (and cuisines) of South East Asia. Her first trip to Burma was thirty years ago. A self-confessed Pandaw "junkie", she has joined us on the Mekong in Cambodia, the Red River in Vietnam and the Chindwin/Irrawaddy in Myanmar (describing the experience on the RV Kindat Pandaw as "a food-lover's paradise"). A future adventure on the RV Champa Pandaw from Laos to China is already booked!
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Welcome to Parhlo.com!! Parhlo is Pakistan’s top platform for citizen journalism.
Parhlo.com is the brainchild of Yasir Shirazi and Irfan Burney, who teamed up with Shoaib Shamsi to disrupt traditional journalism in Pakistan by encouraging citizen journalism via crowdsourced content.
Necessity is the mother of invention. Parhlo.com began this journey when Yasir identified the lack of space for young writers in the publishing industry. “I once tried to get published in a newspaper in Pakistan. I was living abroad and didn’t know anyone at any print or online publications in the country. I realized how hard it can be to get published unless you know people.”
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Kimberley D. v. United Healthcare Insurance Company
1. Case Name: Kimberley D. v. United Healthcare Insurance Company
2. Type of Treatment Services Denied: Residential Treatment
3. Lawyers:
Plaintiff: Lisa Kantor and Peter Sessions, Kantor & Kantor, LLP
Defendant: Raul Martinez and Elise Klein, Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith, LLC
4. Format: Memorandum from appeal of district court’s judgment in favor of the United Healthcare Insurance Company
5. Outline:
ERISA Claim? Yes
Class Action/or Individual Action: Individual
Defendant: Health Plan
Type of Insurance Plan: Employee Welfare Benefit Plan regulated by ERISA
Type of Coverage Denial: Medical Necessity
6. Legal Pointer: These are the same guidelines argued to be invalid in the Wit v. United case, 3:14-cv-02346-JCS.
7. Legal Issues and Causes of Action: Appellant appealed the district court’s judgment in favor of the United Healthcare Insurance Company, affirming denial of benefits.
Ruling: The district court did not err when determining whether Appellant’s stay at Sierra Tucson was medically necessary as covered by the Plan. Appellant failed to show by a preponderance of the evidence that the treatment she received ay Sierra Tucson was medically necessary or in compliance with United’s applicable guidelines.
8. Narrative Case Description: Kimberley D. suffers from mental illnesses, including an eating disorder, major depressive disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder. Kimberley attempted outpatient treatment without much success and was recommended for residential treatment at Sierra Tucson, a mental health facility in Arizona, in order to address her issues. Upon admission, Kimberley underwent several examinations which revealed that her suicide risk was high. Her risk was sufficiently elevated that Sierra Tucson required Kimberley to sign a no-harm contract upon entering treatment. While at Sierra Tucson, Kimberley’s suicidality increased. She informed staff that if she were released from treatment, she had a plan to kill herself by renting a hotel room and taking all of her pills. Despite these facts, United denied Kimberley’s insurance claim for benefits for her treatment at Sierra Tucson, and the district court upheld this decision.
Appellant contends that United’s denial was not supported by the record and was contrary to the guidelines used both by United and treating professionals in the mental health field. She further contends that Kimberley’s life would have been in jeopardy if she had left residential treatment.
Appellee contends that Kimberley did “not meet Optum Health’s 2014 Level of Care Guidelines, Mental Health Conditions: Residential Treatment Center medical necessity criteria” because her condition was stable, she was not experiencing any acute medical complications, her mood was moderate in severity and her behavior was well-controlled, Furthermore, she was described as cooperative and appropriate with others, compliant with treatment recommendations and there was no acting out behaviors to suggest impulse control problems or risk of harm. It was concluded that Kimberley could maintain stability and continue progress in her recovery with ongoing treatment in a less restrictive care setting.
The Appellate Court stated that the Plan provides that medically necessary treatment is “clinically appropriate, in terms of type, frequency, extent, site and duration, and considered effective…” The treatment must not be “mainly for [claimant’s] convenience or that of [their] doctor or other health care provider,” and must also not be “more costly than an alternative…service…,”” Medically necessary treatment must be “in accordance with Generally Accepted Standards of Medical Practice,” which are based on clinical policies developed and maintained by United Healthcare. Upon intake at Sierra Tucson, Appellant reported her primary problems as binge eating, isolation and poor body image. During her intake evaluation, treating physician Dr. Sipp noted that Appellant denied active suicidal ideation and had no “plan or intent to harm herself or harm others.” United’s Dr. Uy reviewed Appellant’s intake evaluation for authorization and concluded that coverage was not available under the Plan, because she did not meet the level of care guidelines. Dr. Uy explained that because Appellant was stable and not presenting active suicidal ideation, she could be treated in a less restrictive care setting. When Appellant appealed Dr. Uy’s conclusion, United’s Dr. Sane found, as had Dr. Uy, that the level of care guidelines did not specify residential care for Appellant’s reported symptoms. Appellant repeatedly denied suicide ideation and it was not until after earning she was denied coverage that she expressed active suicidal thoughts.
9. Additional Comments: None.
10. Website: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/4479686/kimberley-d-v-united-healthcare-ins-co/
11. Practical Implications and Lessons Learned: None.
12. All Legal Theories Presented in Case: Breach of ERISA
13. Successful Legal Theories in Case: None.
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Jude Sellen-Cole
Youth Self-harm and Suicide Awareness practical guide
A practical guide for staff and carers working with children and young people
This practical guide and DVD encourages staff working with young people to reflect on the way that attitudes about self-harm can impact on their work.
Youth Self-harm and Suicide Awareness practical guide quantity
Self-harm and suicide are notoriously difficult to talk about and can provoke strong emotional responses in those who work with vulnerable children and young people. But when research shows that on average two children in every classroom self-harm and one young person tries to take their life every half an hour, it is imperative that staff know how to respond effectively.
Youth Self-harm and Suicide Awareness emphasises the importance of acknowledging attitudes about self-harm and suicide and encourages the reader to reflect on how these attitudes can impact on their work with young people. As well as exploring key facts and research to help raise awareness, it also provides guidance on developing local youth suicide prevention guidelines and support within local areas and organisations.
The guide is underpinned by a framework of reflective practice and a basic application of theories from Transactional Analysis. Readers are encouraged to reflect on their responses to the learning and to apply this awareness to their work with children and young people.
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This guide will benefit anyone working with children and young people who may be self-harming or at risk of suicide i.e. education, social care, youth justice or healthcare settings
Publication: 10 April 2015
Content: Section 1: An introduction to self-harm and young people
Section 2: Working with young people who self-harm
Section 3: The epidemiology of suicide
Section 4: Key areas to consider when thinking about suicide prevention
Section 5: Action learning – direct work and community responses
DVD: 15 minute DVD featuring young people talking about their experiences of self-harm.
Jude Sellen has worked in the health and social care field since 1982 where she has primarily focused on meeting the mental health needs of children, young people and their carers. Jude is an accredited social worker and a trainee Transactional Analysis psychotherapist.
Since 2002 Jude has worked as an independent young people’s mental health adviser and trainer. She currently runs one and two-day bespoke mental health training courses for frontline staff across the UK. Jude has been involved in supporting the development of local self-harm protocols and youth suicide prevention strategies in various regions. She has extensive experience in strategic commissioning and acts as a consultant to local areas to support multi-agency child and adolescent mental health services commissioning arrangements.
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Doctor Who: The Beast of Babylon
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Ninth Doctor.
#8 in the Series: Doctor Who: 50th Anniversary Short Stories
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Eleven Doctors, eleven months, eleven stories: a year-long celebration of Doctor Who! The most exciting names in children's fiction each create their own unique adventure about the time-travelling Time Lord.
When a girl called Ali pockets a silver orb that falls from the sky, little does she realize it's her ticket to seeing the universe! Desperate to retrieve the mysterious object, the Ninth Doctor agrees to let her join him on a dangerous trip to ancient Babylon. Together they must join forces to stop a giant Starman from destroying Earth before it's too late!
Author Charlie Higson puts his own unique spin on the Doctor's amazing adventures through time and space.
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Charlie Higson started writing when he was ten years old. After university he was a singer and painter and decorator before he started writing for television. He went on to create and star in the hugely successful comedy series The Fast Show. He is the author of the bestselling Young Bond books the incredibly successful horror series, The Enemy. Charlie doesn't do Facebook, but you can tweet him @monstroso.
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LTV steelworkers take the fight to DC
December 14, 2001 7:43 AM CST By Pat McKinney
PITTSBURGH – Fresh from a Dec. 7 victory in bankruptcy court giving them a temporary stay in the battle to prevent LTV Steel Corporation from liquidating facilities in Ohio and Indiana, rank-and-file members of the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) are packing their winter camping gear and heading for Washington, DC. There they will conduct a last ditch effort to force Congress to unlock $250 million in emergency loans for LTV; they have until Dec. 19.
At stake are a finishing mill, and a number of blast furnaces and coke ovens throughout the Great Lakes region.
The battle to preserve the jobs of 6,000 steelworkers and the health care benefits of 70,000 retirees as well as the communities in which they live, reached a decisive stage in the Youngstown, Ohio courtroom of Judge William Budoh. On Dec. 7, Budoh signed onto an agreement forged by the USWA and LTV’s unsecured creditors that continued all provisions of the union contract until December 19, and puts the mills on “hot idle” until Feb. 28.
Budoh’s order prevents LTV from destroying the machinery or liquidating its properties without first giving the USWA and the unsecured creditors a final opportunity to petition Congress for help.
In the end LTV stood alone, deserted even by Ohio’s Republican Gov. Bob Taft, who, together with Indiana Gov. Frank O’Bannon, a Democrat, became what the USWA said were “powerful allies in our fight.”
Key to the victory was the unprecedented unity between the USWA, elected officials, communities and LTV’s unsecured creditors which forced open a “window of opportunity” that temporarily saved the union’s contract while buying time to obtain federal assistance.
“Our union’s tenacity and the unrelenting support of elected officials at every level of government have given our members and the communities they live in a ray of hope for saving a company whose steel making capacity has been systematically undermined by its top management,” said Dave McCall, USWA director in Ohio.
All production has ceased at plants in Cleveland and Warren, Ohio, East Chicago, Ind., and Hennepin, Ill. Orders for raw materials were cancelled in August. The company’s Asset Protection Plan calls for the blast furnaces to be “hot idled,” kept barely warm enough to resume production should a buyer be found. Coke ovens, on the other hand, are slated for cold idling. Once cooled, they crumble and die.
But Bodoh ordered the company to “toast” whatever coal was on the ground, thus extending the life of the coke facilities for a few more weeks. The company was ordered to continue making iron until it exhausts raw materials on hand and then go into hot idle until the end of February. This schedule applies to the finishing plant at Hennepin as well.
Given the “window of opportunity” provided in the extended period of “hot idle” ordered by Judge Budoh, the entire community is springing into action to save LTV’s Cleveland facility as a source of income for its workers and taxes for the community. All options are on the table, community and union leaders are saying, including public ownership of the mill if no buyer is found.
City officials are exploring action which could be taken to acquire ownership of the mill by eminent domain. Steelworkers on the mill floor and at recent rallies in Youngstown spoke of public ownership as possibly the only way left to save steel manufacturing in Cleveland and the country.
The USWA is asking its supporters to contact their congressional representatives and urge them to grant the federal loan guarantees as provided for in the Byrd Bill.
Wally Kaufman contributed to this article.
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fantasy football Scotland's first fantasy football app!
fantasyfootballscotland posted a topic in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
Hi everyone! We're launching Scotland's first fantasy football app this summer - Fantasy Football Scotland. There are over a quarter of a million active fantasy football users in Scotland, however most play an English version. A Scottish version of the game has not been available, until now. Fans will be able to build their squad of 15 players, make transfers, pick captains and vice captains, make substitutions, create their own custom leagues and invite their friends. The app will be available on the App Store and Google Play this summer. If you enter your email address (takes about 10 secs) in the link below we'll 1) email you when the app is available to download and 2) enter you in a draw to win a Google Pixel 3a. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP! Thanks! We're excited to get started.
Falkirk - Pre-match venue for AWAY
Peter Alexander posted a topic in Scottish Championship General Chatter
ARABEST The banter and the beer was flowing this afternoon as Laurieston Bowling Club hosted Dundee United supporters from Frank Kopel's Travelling Shindig prior to their away match against Falkirk. Other supporters buses visiting Falkirk Stadium are more more than welcome to use our clubhouse - free of charge - as a pre-match venue. Situated a mile from the stadium, we host a pool table, a dart board and two plasma screens showing all major sports. Furthermore, we offer free wi-fi and a range of drinks at affordable prices. For more information, visit our website or contact me on 07966 305 324 or [email protected]
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SoccerFM posted a topic in Soccer FM
This week the boys were joined by Scotland and Killie player Stephen O'Donnell to chat about our win versus Albania and what he was having for tea. Plus we crowned our very first Cornerstone player of the month, Hampden, the return of the SPFL and gave you another chance to win some Hooch and a fashionable t-shirt as well! Head to our facebook to enter- https://www.facebook.com/soccerfmpod/ Listen and subscribe on iTunes and all other podcast apps- itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/socce…d1144475017?mt=2
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Fantasy Fitba 17/18 - The Last Leg
Fantasy Fitba posted a topic in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
Managers - you'll have a brand new EMAIL with an invitation to pick your squad for the final phase of the debut Fantasy Fitba season. It may end up in spam/junk so check there, too. This one's for existing gaffers only, unfortunately. There's always (maybe) next year...
Eligible Scottish Players Moving Abroad 2017/2018
Afrojim posted a topic in Tartan Army Ramblings
A list of Scottish Players leaving Scottish football to ply their trade outside of Scotland. There has been three confirmed transfers thus far, all of them moving to England, I'm sure there will be many more... Transfers Billy Gilmour – Rangers (Scottish Premiership) to Chelsea (English Premiership) £502,000 Theo Archibald – Celtic (Scottish Premiership) to Brentford (English Championship) Free Transfer Peter Pawlett – Aberdeen (Scottish Premiership) to Milton Keynes Dons (English League One) Free Transfer
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TheTwoPointOne - new Scottish football site!
Albionies posted a topic in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
Hi guys! Spoke to the P&B Twitter account by DM, who told me I could start a thread on this subject. So we've started a new Scottish football site called TheTwoPointOne. We launched last week and the response since has been fantastic. We are a subscription site that focuses on video content, data pieces, support culture content and analysis. Over the past week we've done a mini-doc on Aberdeen's efforts to leave Pittodrie, a feature piece on the future of Hampden, a look at how much each Scottish Premiership team spent per point last season and loads more. I've attached some of the art work we have produced. We have a lot planned for the future as well. But because we don't have any adverts on our site (aren't you a bit tired of having to complete a survey before reading an article?) we rely on subscribers. Subscriptions start at just £4.17 a month (that works out at about 7p per article). Any help would be appreciated in keeping us going. Please take a look at our subscription plans here: https://www.thetwopointone.com/why-should-you-subscribe-to-thetwopointone/ And please us know what you think of our stuff and where we can improve. Always looking to get better and better.
Scottish Fan Survey
FitbaFan88 posted a topic in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
Ladies and Gents, I've spoken about the Scottish Football Supporters Association a few times and shared some stuff on them before. Paul Goodwin, a good mate of mine, is spearheading the organisation to challenge the SFA on a number of issues in the Scottish game but is trying to get a "fans mandate" to do so. So far there are over 14,000 responses on the national survey and the biggest ever (in Germany) was 18,000 so that is the target here. Please take the survey and share the link where possible. https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/sfsa-benchmark-2017
SPFL Trust Charity Fundraiser - Mental Health First Aid Training
George W BUSH posted a topic in Celtic v Rangers, Rangers v Celtic
Hello everyone. Just to let you all know that the first SPFL Trust Charity Golf Day will take place at Archerfield Links Golf Club tomorrow (24th May). The day is being hosted by Cell Events (event business founded by SPFL players for sports clubs) and is the first event the Chris Mitchell Foundation will officially be affiliated with since their inception as a charity. It's vitally important we raise awareness of mental health in professional football as it is a silent assassin. There will be a decent amount of media coverage and highlights from the day will be posted on the Cell Events twitter @celleventsuk with the extremely topical Jamie Murphy leading the PR charge! If you wish to come along and support, feel free to do so. Or if you wish to donate or bid for a signed Rangers or Celtic strip, just DM @celleventsuk before midday. All proceeds go towards Mental Health First Aid Training within SPFL clubs. Neil Lennon, Craig Beattie, Iain Russell, Tam McManus, Scott Arfield and Lewis Stevenson are a few others who will be present in some capacity on the day. Thank you in advance!
Colours of our Scarves - Elgin City
ScottishFans posted a topic in Scottish Football - Fans' Views
As part of our Colours of our Scarves project, Supporters Direct Scotland (SDS) were at Elgin City on Saturday for the visit of Clyde in the SPFL League Two Between the beginning of 2014 and the end of the 2014/15 season, SDS will have visited all forty-two Scottish senior club grounds promoting the government-funded initiative in an attempt to help play a part in addressing the issue of sectarianism in Scotland. The programme will collect much needed research through a campaign of educational workshops and visual displays utilising the services of world famous football photographer, Stuart Roy Clarke. SDS were in attendance on Saturday with our photographic display, encouraging supporters to view the images and partake in surveys to canvas their opinions on the issue of sectarianism in their local community, both today and in the past. We received a overwhelmingly positive response from those we spoke with on Saturday – supportive of the Colours of our Scarvesproject and being happy to participate in the initiative’s short survey. We would also like to extend our utmost thanks to Elgin City Football Club for their excellent hospitality and welcoming environment. SDS were treated to a tour of Borough Briggs – a very impressive ground – as well as a feature about the project in the match day programme. Our thanks go to everybody at the club, especially Martin Hunter who arranged our visit and was incredibly helpful on the day itself. To view images from the day, head over to our Facebook page SDS will be at Stranraer this coming Saturday (August 30th) for their match against Dunfermline Athletic, so if you’ll be attending look out for us and come and say hello. You can read more about the Colours of our Scarves programme here
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Songs for the Sons'
Super_Sons_Team posted a topic in Scottish Championship General Chatter
Following Dumbarton all over the country and having a very good support ourselves, I always find that other teams have songs about their own club, whether it be about their club itself, a cup success or one of their players and we tend not to create that much of an atmosphere at home, apart from the conventional 'Dumbarton *clap, clap, clap*' chants. Do any fellow Sons fans have ideas for songs for our fans to sing at home and away about the club, players etc, and lets try to create an atmosphere at the rock.
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MyPLU
Thank you for investing in the students of Pacific Lutheran University!
Whether you made a gift, followed the posts on social media, or shared your PLU story — your involvement demonstrates a commitment to the education of current and future Lutes.
With the combined investments of 994 Lute alumni and friends, and the individual gifts from our Board of Regents for the match, we raised $350,996 for PLU students during the My PLU campaign!
The impact of your generosity can be found in the words of gratitude we hear every day from students, like Michael, who work hard to make the most of every opportunity at Pacific Lutheran University.
“I always remember that it is a blessing and a gift, that my time at PLU is not something I should ever take for granted, and that not everyone gets an opportunity like this.
When I reflect back on the time I have spent here, I count my blessing for the doors that have opened to allow me to attend PLU. Thank you very much for considering me, helping me, and supporting me in my educational goals. I appreciate your help.”
Thank you for opening doors of opportunity for thoughtful, purposeful, Lutes.
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Tyler is grateful for the support he received from his professors during and after his time at PLU. In particular, his connection with his political science professor Peter Grovener stayed strong even after graduation. Because of their great connection, Grovener wrote a referral that helped Tyler get his current job in the Washington State Department of Revenue.
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“My PLU experience shaped my outlook and way of understanding the world. Through caring professors, I learned to think critically, to appreciate the diversity of people and ideas, to notice the beauty around me, and to celebrate the gift of each day. I remain grateful for the generations before me who helped make my education possible through their gifts of support.”
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“My PLU experience definitely made me who I am today. I had class with Dr. Shore in the psychology department, and without her mentorship I wouldn’t have the job I have today, nor would I be in graduate school.”
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“My time at PLU opened my eyes to be able to see the world with acceptance and love and has fueled my passion for people. Through a program I was recently sent to spend a summer in Africa, which made me realize that through PLU, I had developed a skill set of being open to new experiences, being curious to find new adventures, and caring for others. I really appreciate the global education that PLU provides and enjoyed my time there very much.”
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“I was so fortunate to go to a school that had small class sizes and was able to connect with so many people.”
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Dr. James Haaland was a man that grew up in the Lutheran church and was expected to, and looked forward to, going to a Lutheran university. In his first two years at PLU he just drifted by, but soon realized that he would need to kick it in gear in order to achieve his dreams. James truly did, and through the guidance of his professors he went on to become a pre-med student and was accepted into medical school. During his time at PLU he was able to begin a road to success serving in the air force and eventually becoming an orthopedic surgeon. When James sees his successes today, he links it back to his time at PLU and could not be more appreciative of his time spent here.
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Stemming from a long line of Lutes, Kyle Nowadnick ‘07 pretty much always knew he wanted to attend Pacific Lutheran University. As a child, Kyle fondly remembers the days when he would ride his bike around the pond on lower campus. “PLU has always been part of the family,” Kyle said about his decision to become a Lute following two generations of his family before him. Kyle has chosen to give back to that PLU family by taking out a life-insurance policy benefiting the university. “I would like to make a difference on an organization that left such a lasting impact on my life and this is my way to give back and ensure others can experience similar memories.” Reminiscing on some of his own memories, Kyle said he hopes that when the school finally tears down Foss Hall, he can keep a brick.
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“After my first visit on the PLU campus, I immediately felt welcomed. I received a very generous financial aid package before hearing back from any other schools that I applied to. I thought, “this institution does care about me.” Education is expensive, and because of the generosity of others, a college education became a reality. If I had to give advice to a future Lute, I would say, “be ready to challenge the things you think you know. Your views will be deconstructed. It’s a tough and humbling process.” My experiences at PLU have taught me that PLU is a safe place to screw up! After I graduate I know I will sustain connections with my professors and those I have worked with through the Center for Community Engagement and Service.”
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“During my junior year at PLU my mom passed away from breast cancer. All the professors at school really helped me through this difficult time. Dr. Young even started a campaign called “F*ck Cancer” to help support victims of cancer. That memory sticks out as something that really touched me.”
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At 28 years old Corey chose to attend PLU because of the great curriculum and immediately felt out of place being surrounded by 19 year olds. She quickly found her place when she became an English Major. She knew from the moment that she heard her professor say she “loved the smell of books” that she had found her people and that the English department would be a perfect fit for her passion for books.
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“Being involved in clubs was a great way to meet others, exchange experiences, and share beliefs.”
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“Through PLU I was able to study abroad in Norway. I feel like I became more cultured than most individuals who only attend one university during their college experience. I was able to extend my knowledge of the culture and language of Norway and it really helped me in my Norwegian language minor.”
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PLU’s liberal arts education helped Kimberly think outside of her major and broadened her perspective about the world.
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Betty went to PLU at a time when the country was going through a lot. There was a small number of students as a result of all the boys being sent off for WWII. Regardless of this hard time, Betty truly enjoyed her time at PLU playing baseball against teams at Fort Lewis and getting a great education. She loved her time at PLU.
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“I have had a unique journey that has brought me full circle. I actually started out in elementary education at PLU and student-taught in fourth grade at Arlington Elementary in Tacoma. On one end, I competed in Track and Cross Country for PLU. This experience taught me how to endure and essentially compete day in and day out for results. Our work as educators is not done at the end of the day; you often don’t get long-term results until years down the road — it is a relentless process. When I ran for PLU it was no different. I would run a 70-mile week to race 3 miles as fast as I could. Sometimes you would set a personal record, other days you fainted from exhaustion. On the other end of my PLU experiences, I remember asking the School of Education to place me in a diverse school that would make me a better person and teacher. That happened, and it was one of the toughest experiences of my teaching career. My class was challenging, and they taught me how to survive and fight for what is right. This would have never happened if PLU had not listened to my dreams as an educator. Another memorable experience was learning about PLU’s commitment to service. I think this was really the capstone of my education at PLU. I remember coming out of my undergrad and having a clear sense of purpose for social justice and serving others.”
Dallas Gordon ’14
“I had the opportunity to study abroad three times while I was at PLU; Cuba, the United Kingdom, and Australia. My study abroad experiences defined who I am today. I feel that studying abroad helped strengthen my communication skills as well as allowing me to have a better understanding of how different parts of the world operate. I would not be who I am today without my time at PLU.”
Charene Stovall ’18
“My uncle Robert Minns was an alumnus of PLU and graduated with a degree in both math and music. Unfortunately, he passed away last year much too soon. I am very honored to be able to attend the school my uncle held so dear, and every day when I walk the campus, I love that I am able to walk on the same paths he walked 1,000 times over. By attending PLU, I was able to connect with my uncle and for that I will never regret coming to this university and having the chance to honor him everyday as I go to class.”
Michelle Johnson ’14
“Dr. Gregory Youtz in the music program had a very positive impact on my PLU experience. He is so knowledgeable in music, and I was fortunate enough to have him as my advisor in my specified major. I feel my major was an extremely important part of finding what I wanted to do and Dr. Youtz helped me with that.”
Mamie Howard ’14
During her freshman year, Mamie took a Sociology 101 course and really enjoyed it! Professor Joanna Gregson from the Sociology department eventually led her to major in sociology and pursue her vocation in teaching. Mamie will always remember the support her professors provided to her and how helpful they were when she needed assistance.
LaVonne Davidson ’66
LaVonne has a long history with PLU beginning as a student in 1952. She has many fond memories of singing with the Three Dots and meeting lifelong friends. After a long career of teaching, she returned to PLU as a professor in the Education Department for two years.
Saiyare Refaei ’14
“I was fortunate to be involved in on-campus sustainability efforts, residential life, and I also co-organized the Parkland community mural. My PLU experience was a joy thanks to all the encouragement I received from staff and other students. The people I met really shaped my experience at PLU.”
Karin Anderson
The nurturing environment of PLU allowed her to grow both spiritually and creatively.
Courtney Fuller ’09
Courtney was a student that was very involved in the ROTC program here at PLU and did not originally plan to join the Army. Thankfully the leaders of the ROTC program were able to convince her to join the Army, which has lead her to 7 years of service and now a job taking her to work for the Pentagon. All in all she truly enjoyed her experience at PLU, taking advantage of the study away programs and building friendships through ROTC.
Lorraine Beardemphl ’57
“I felt like the education that PLU gave me was great and set me up to be the best teacher I could be. Other than academics what stood out to me the most about PLU was the lifelong friends I was able to make and all the great times that we had. Still even after all these years we still meet for lunch. I loved my time at PLU.”
Troy Andrade ’07
“I chose PLU because of its nationally-recognized music program and the generous financial aid package that was provided. And although at first I was hesitant to leave Hawai‘i, I can confidently say that I made the right decision. PLU—a university that values academic excellence in a highly personalized setting and fosters critical thinking and personal growth—offered me a sanctuary to learn from the brightest scholars and to figure out, as author Mary Oliver wrote, “what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” While I started off in the music program, I soon began to realize that my passion centered around giving voice to those marginalized and oppressed in our community, particularly our Native Hawaiian community. Honing in on that passion, I pursued a degree in political science and economics, which well prepared me for my subsequent work in law school, graduate school, and my current career. Indeed, PLU challenged me, and I believe all alumni, to think of the world beyond this campus and encouraged us to reach out locally and globally and serve. Some chose to tutor Somali refugees in Tacoma, travel three hours round-trip to educate children in a low-income neighborhood, explore service learning opportunities in Honduras and Tobago, engage in peace journalism in Geneva, and even travel to the end of the earth in Antarctica. I chose to return to Hawai‘i and pursue a career in law to help our community. I am proud to say that PLU set the foundation and paved the way for me to become a successful attorney and advocate for Hawai‘i’s indigenous people. PLU has certainly changed my life, as I know it has for many in our PLU Hawai‘i ‘ohana. I know that I would not be where I am today had it not been for the education and support I received at PLU.”
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World's biggest plogathon is coming to Exeter
Plogging is good for your health and the environment
Planet Earth Games CEO Chris Broadbent
Attention all ploggers! What is believed to be the world's biggest Plogathon is coming to Exeter.
If you've never been plogging before, now's your chance to try something new, while keeping fit and protecting the environment.
Plogging refers to the activity of picking up litter whilst jogging - a Swedish derived term, from "plocka" (to pick up) and "jogga" (to jog). From its beginnings in Sweden in 2016, plogging now represents an increasingly global movement, evidenced by the representation of over 40 countries in the official online “Plogga” group.
The Exeter Plogathon will take place at the Planet Earth Games in Exeter on July 6th. The Planet Earth Games is trailblazing for sustainability and sport delivering the world’s first environment-themed multi-sports event, encouraging the community to get active whilst also educating young people and their families on environmental sustainability.
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The Planet Earth Games is committed to walking the talk for the environment, they pledge their events will leave no trace, include no avoidable single use plastic, use recycled materials and be at the forefront of sustainability. Alongside the Plogathon, the Games will also feature competitive youth sport and a full day of activities for all the family.
Their partner in the Plogathon, Plastic Free Exeter, is a community movement with the aim to achieve ‘Plastic Free’ status for Exeter by 2020. The group have been organising monthly plogging events in and around Exeter and bring experience and plogging enthusiasm.
Chris Broadbent, Planet Earth Games CEO, said: “We are delighted to work with Plastic Free Exeter to deliver the world’s first Plogathon. We love the opportunity to work with partners who share our commitment to sustainability and physical activity.”
“Plogging was a natural event for us, with the ethos behind it at the core of the Planet Earth Games’ mission to a healthier planet and population,” Broadbent explained.
The Planet Earth Games’ organisers already have big ambitions for extending their events across the South West of England and beyond. Broadbent argues that “the environment and health of our young people are two of the greatest challenges of our time.
“Our vision is for a generation of environmentally-sustainable young people inspired through physical activity. Exeter is the starter point for a movement of sustainability and activity that we can take nationally and internationally.”
Royal Navy tribute to Foxtrot 4 Falkland heroes who ignored orders and rescued HMS Antelope survivors
Tumble dryers to be recalled by order of Government over fire risk
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Worst Millennials is a podcast that focuses on Generation Y's perspective of various societal topics. You know, the real important ones like sex, booze, and sports. This podcast will not only shape pop culture, but the minds and hearts of generations to come. This show is absolutely NSFW. Duh.
Twitter: @wrstmillennials
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Episode 99: Flawless Victory
We're talking about Drake again. I feel like we've talked about him on 4 of the last 5 episodes. That damn dude always finds a way to stay relevant. Although, in this case, relevance means being the victim of one of the most brutal diss tracks of all-time. Pusha T...
By Damon | June 7, 2018 | 0 comments |
Episode 98: Is There a Child Actor Tougher Than Drake?
We began this episode with a quick Killennials follow-up. That episode actually sat in the can for about two months because of some real life circumstances. The episode ended up turning out a lot better than expected. Again, we apologize to the HH Holmes fans out there. Also, what the...
By Damon | May 4, 2018 | 0 comments |
Episode 97: Killennials
Somehow, talking about the World Cup led us to talking about baseball, which somehow led us to talking about Andrew Cunanan, which led to a discussion about the greatest serial killers of all-time. Okay, so we should probably use "prolific" over greatest, but you get what we mean (we hope)....
Episode 96: The Pact
The Pact Kaz and Damon also have a pact of sorts. It's a fairly morbid pact that involves illicit substances and living at least 60 more years. Find out what these two knuckle heads have in store for 2080. Condom Snorting Challenge Are people still talking about the condom snorting...
By Damon | April 26, 2018 | 0 comments |
EP 95: Sloppy H
Damon is joined in-studio by his friend and first-time guest Molly. They discus dating, "glazed doughnuts," pooping on the floor, and alternate names for the Eiffel Tower.
By Damon | April 16, 2018 |
Episode 94: The Return
It's been three years since we started this podcast. And after 93 episodes, my friend Kate finally returns to the podcast. You may recognize Kate from her appearance on Episode 1 of the show. She's the person that came up with the name for the show. I had to heap...
By John Bruske | March 21, 2018 |
Episode 93: Blue Diamonds
This week on Worst Millennials, we talk about wrestling/porn star parallels, Viagra vs. Cialis, and Freddy vs. Jason.
By John Bruske | March 1, 2018 |
Episode 92: Compact Discs
This week on Worst Millennials, Damon is joined again by Kaz and John of TAWF to talk about compact discs. We called them CDs. Do kids even know what CDs are? When's the last time you bought a CD?! We also talked about some of the hustles kids had in...
By John Bruske | February 16, 2018 |
Episode 91: Pothole Porn
If you're from Michigan, you understand how much a pothole can ruin your day. If you're Kaz, you understand how much a hacked profile full of porn can ruin your day. On this episode of Worst Millennials, we talk about both of those things.
By John Bruske | January 30, 2018 |
Episode 90: We Don’t Understand Lent
Back in the Saddle Happy New Year! Yes, we know that it's 19 days into 2018, but we haven't been around in a while. We wanted to get off to a good start, you know? We covered three important topics on this episode of Worst Millennials. Light Beer Some of...
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8 Stunning Celebrity Portraits You Will Actually Want To Own
16 December 2014, 07:30 | Updated: 8 May 2017, 17:09
By Jason Gregory
Strike a pose.
If you love art, then you'll be familiar with Behance - the website that allows both professional and amateur artists to hang their work in an online art gallery where all of the rest of us can appreciate it.
And if there's one thing Behancers love more than anything else, it's famous people. Here's a few celebrity portraits that we want to hang on our office wall, like right now.
1) "FKA Shaped"
"FKA Shaped" impressively captures the profile of FKA Twigs, who its creator LaKendra Huckaby describes as "beautifully mesmerising".
2) "Noodling Voodoo"
Another portrait of FKA Twigs, here Russian-based artist Lika Kalandadze said she was dreaming of Twigs "making magic" in the creative process.
3) "Queen Bee"
In this drawing, artist Studio Jakob captures New Zealand's very own Queen Bee, Lorde in a royal stare.
Here's a close-up.
4) "Chupa Chups - Remake: Katy Perry"
"Chupa Chups - Remake: Miley Cyrus"
Anyone familiar with Chupa Chups will know that they don't just taste great, they leave their mark as well. That is perhaps the reason Pauline C. chose to use Miley and Katy in these specially created campaign posters.
5) "Rap Illustrations: Jay Z"
These stunning portraits are part of "Rap Illustrations", German-based illustrator Martin Schenk's final Project at the University of Applied Science Trier.
"Rap Illustrations: Notorious B.I.G"
According to Martin, the images are part of animaginary Dream-Rap-Label, on which all of his favourite hip-hop artists are signed. He certainly selected some good inclusions.
6) "LORDE"
Here's a cartoon version of Lorde, created by Ronald Garzes that we can't stop staring at.
7) "West"
Simply entitled "West", this illustration by Santiago-based illustrator Melissa Morano captures all the mystic and charisma of Kanye West through a combination of simple lines and colours.
8) "Taylor Swift"
Named after its muse, "Taylor Swift" is a complex digital illustration by artist Ma. Julia Pauline Aparente, who wonderfully shows off 2014's biggest pop star.
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Kanye West Apparently Abducted Seth Rogen Once And Rapped At Him For Two Hours
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After a Man Asked a Nursing Mom to "Cover Up" in 90-Degree Weather, She Obliged (Kind Of)
Breastfeeding Mom Covers Up When Asked
August 10, 2018 by Alessia Santoro First Published: August 8, 2018
Carol Lockwood is sick of breastfeeding women being shamed for any aspect of the natural act, especially for simply nursing in public (which, by the way, is legal in all 50 states). So when her friend's daughter-in-law was approached by a man who asked her to "cover up" on a humid, 90-degree day, she knew she had to share the mom's response. As it turns out, the nursing mom obliged . . . kind of.
In a post to Facebook, Carol shared a photo of the mom's reaction to the man's request — which was to cover her own head with her baby's swaddle blanket — and it's epic. "I've never met her, but I think she's AWESOME!!!" Carol wrote. "I'm SO over people shaming women for nursing!!!"
We think she's awesome, too and are currently applauding.
Dear Fellow Breastfeeding Mother Who Just Doesn't Get It, Why We Don't Need to Cover Up
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Chamber Businesses Give Portland Opportunity Crew a Boost
The City of Portland is excited to announce that several donations have recently been received to support the continuation of the Portland Opportunity Crew, the City’s panhandling-to-work program. The Portland Community Chamber of Commerce has brought together 13 businesses and organizations to fund 10 additional weeks of the program for the remainder of the summer.
The businesses include: Allspeed Cyclery & Snow, Bayside Bowl, David Wood Clothiers, Gritty’s McDuffs, Intermed, Old Port Wine Merchants, Press Hotel, Renys, Union Bagel, Verizon Wireless, Verrill Dana, Vitalius Real Estate, and Portland Downtown.
“We’re so thankful the Chamber recognized the impact this program has on our community and enthusiastically stepped up to mobilize its members and provide this crucial funding source,” said Jon Jennings, City Manager. “The reality is we must rely on public-private partnerships to sustain this program, and so we’re very grateful to the businesses, organizations, and people who have recently contributed financially.”
“Last year, we were thrilled to hear about the pilot program launched by the city and its success,” said Quincy Hentzel, CEO of the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce. “The business community sees great value and the many benefits of helping people find pathways to employment and economic security while at the same time, filling the workforce needs of many of our members and the business community at-large. It’s a program we are very proud to support and stand behind.”
“Supporting the Portland Opportunity Crew is a positive and productive way to help out folks that are looking for opportunities,” said Paul Farrell, co-owner and CEO of Union Bagel Company. “I am very excited to be a part of this initiative.”
In addition to the 13 businesses that contributed, the City recently received a $5,000 donation from the Maine Community Foundation via one of its members and a $500 donation from a local family.
The Crew can be supported financially in two different ways. People can donate any amount of money they wish by texting the word CREW to 91999 or online by visiting www.portlandmaine.gov/crew. Alternatively, businesses or organizations can contribute $1,300 to sponsor the program for one week, which covers all associated costs. Weekly sponsorships include advertising at the clean-up sites and publicity on the City’s website and social media channels. All donations are tax deductible.
About the Portland Opportunity Crew
The Portland Opportunity Crew is the City’s panhandling-to-work program that offers panhandlers the opportunity to earn money to cleanup public areas while linking them with needed services, such as job training and support services, to create a pathway to future success. Workers pick up trash and beautify the city's parks and trails. Program participants are provided with breakfast and lunch and paid Portland’s minimum wage, $10.68 an hour ($10.90 per hour as of July 1, 2018) at the end of the shift.
The City's Social Services Division works with the City's Parks Division to run the program. It operates two to three days a week from approximately April/May through November, and on each day up to six people will be hired. The City has partnered with Workforce Solutions and Complete Labor to link participants with additional services such as job training and employment support.
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Android Engineer
Added 1 month ago
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
URL: https://stripe.com/
Many of the most exciting ideas we’ve seen depend on mobile, and our work makes the difficult problems they come across invisible. Companies like Lyft, Wish and Instacart use Stripe to power an incredible diversity of experiences on Android. We help Android Apps move from lengthy forms to one touch payments and securely take payments from around the world. Beyond helping companies build products on mobile, we’re making apps to allow them to run their businesses on the go as well. We’re looking for engineers with a deep understanding of the Android platform to help define Stripe’s future role in mobile apps.
Android Projects at Stripe:
Building out a dashboard app in Kotlin to serve as our customer’s portal into their business. We work closely with design to iterate on products from a first principles perspective.
Design mobile APIs at a level of abstraction that lets us quickly add new features to make mobile payments even more powerful and convenient for the global market
Brainstorming unique mobile-first features to make it seamless to manage a business on Stripe
Design, build, and maintain our Android app and libraries in Kotlin and Java
Work with engineers across the company to bring new features and products into existence
Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization including subject matter experts, design, infrastructure, and operations
Improve engineering standards, tools, and processes
We’re looking for someone who has:
A deep interest in developing, releasing, and maintaining high quality Android applications
The ability to empathize with the many different types of users who depend on Stripe’s mobile portfolio involving both user facing products and developer tools
The ability to communicate effectively on both technical and non-technical subjects
You should include these in your application:
Links to apps you’ve released in the Play Store and description of the parts you’ve specifically built
Links to online profiles you use (GitHub, Twitter, etc)
A description of your work history (whether as a resume, LinkedIn profile, or prose)
What’s it like to work at Stripe?
Stripe is helping the internet fulfill its potential as a platform for economic progress by building software tools that accelerate global economic access and technological development. Stripe makes it easy to start, run and scale an internet business from anywhere in the world
Stripe is, at its heart, an engineering company. To provide a missing pillar of core internet infrastructure, we hire people with a broad set of technical skills (and from a wide variety of backgrounds) who are ready to take on some of the most challenging problems in the industry – from reliably handling 100M API requests per day, to building adaptive machine learning as a result of years of data science and infrastructure work, and enabling entrepreneurs worldwide to start a global internet business.
We look at Stripe as a constant work in progress and the same is true of our people; for all of us, we believe the best is yet to come. We’re here to support each other in our curiosity and creativity – which we pursue through thoughtful discussion and knowledge-sharing among a diverse set of peers and colleagues.
We encourage all engineers to transition teams once every year and a half and also take on short-term projects with other teams across Stripe. This enables engineers to learn how different parts of Stripe work while also establishing stronger ties and cross-pollination between groups.
We contribute to existing open-source projects and the people working on them, and we release several tools as open-source.
We want to work in a company of warm, inclusive people who treat their colleagues exceptionally well. The kind of people who are committed to going out of their way to help other Stripes in the short-term and pushing them to improve over the long-term (by helping them to get better at what they do).
We’re a highly cross-functional organization and view that as part of the fun: we design our space to encourage as much collaboration as possible. We have long tables in the kitchen for a reason (to enable everyone to meet new people and learn from them). We also have a culture of transparency that we carry through to email communication, ensuring that Stripes all around the world have the information they need to make good local decisions.
In both our products and our people, we aim to reflect, represent and advocate for all of our users, globally. Our users transcend geography, culture and language; what we share, collectively, is a drive to create a fairer, more economically interconnected world.
To apply: https://stripe.com/jobs/listing/android-engineer/218526
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preprints.org > mathematics & computer science > general mathematics > doi: 10.20944/preprints201703.0121.v2
Two Finite Mirror-Image Series Restrict the Non-Trivial Zeros of Riemann’s Zeta Function to Re(s) = 1/2 and the Zeros of its Derivative to Re(s) > 1/2
Anthony Lander *
Version 1 : Received: 15 March 2017 / Approved: 16 March 2017 / Online: 16 March 2017 (16:59:29 CET)
How to cite: Lander, A. Two Finite Mirror-Image Series Restrict the Non-Trivial Zeros of Riemann’s Zeta Function to Re(s) = 1/2 and the Zeros of its Derivative to Re(s) > 1/2. Preprints 2017, 2017030121 (doi: 10.20944/preprints201703.0121.v2). Lander, A. Two Finite Mirror-Image Series Restrict the Non-Trivial Zeros of Riemann’s Zeta Function to Re(s) = 1/2 and the Zeros of its Derivative to Re(s) > 1/2. Preprints 2017, 2017030121 (doi: 10.20944/preprints201703.0121.v2).
Lander, A. Two Finite Mirror-Image Series Restrict the Non-Trivial Zeros of Riemann’s Zeta Function to Re(s) = 1/2 and the Zeros of its Derivative to Re(s) > 1/2. Preprints 2017, 2017030121 (doi: 10.20944/preprints201703.0121.v2). Lander, A. Two Finite Mirror-Image Series Restrict the Non-Trivial Zeros of Riemann’s Zeta Function to Re(s) = 1/2 and the Zeros of its Derivative to Re(s) > 1/2. Preprints 2017, 2017030121 (doi: 10.20944/preprints201703.0121.v2).
Euler’s product formula over the primes and Euler’s zeta function equate to enshrine the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic that every integer > 1 is the product of a unique set of primes. The product formula has no zero, and with a domain ≤1 Euler’s zeta diverges. Dirichlet’s eta function η(s), negates alternate terms of zeta, permitting convergence when s∈C and Re(s) < 1, and its non-trivial zeros {ρ}, have a deep relationship with the distribution of the primes. The Riemann Hypothesis is that all the non-trivial zeros have Re(ρ) = 1/2. This work examines the symmetries in a partial Euler’s zeta series with a complex domain equating it to the difference between two finite vector series whose matched terms have mirror-image arguments, but whose magnitudes differ when Re(s) ≠ 1/2. Analytical continuation generates a modified eta series ηl(s), in which every lth term is multiplied by (1-l). If the integer l is appropriately determined by the Im(s), similar paired finite vector series have a difference that closely follows ηl (s) and their terminal vectors intersect in a unique way permitting zeros only when Re(s) = 1/2. Furthermore, those vectors tracking the derivatives of the series, have a special relationship permitting zeros of the differential only when Re(s) > 1/2.
Riemann Hypothesis; Dirichlet eta function; Zeta function; prime numbers; number theory; critical-line; critical-strip; symmetry breaking
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12th Annual Photoshare Contest Winners
Best of Show | Image of the Year | Outstanding Contributor | People's Choice Award | HIFA Award | Best of Category | Honorable Mention | Press Release
Photo from Malawi Honored in 12th Annual Photoshare Photo Contest By The Knowledge for Health (K4Health) Project
Baltimore, MD USA - An inspiring portrait of a mother and child in Malawi wins best of show in the 12th Annual Photoshare Photo Contest. Eric Bond with the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation submitted the award-winning photo. This year’s contest featured sponsorship from HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global campaign administered by the Global Healthcare Information Network, and the first-ever People's Choice Award in Sexual and Reproductive Health, presented with media partner Girls' Globe.
The winning image, taken in Malengachanzi, highlights the importance of prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission services in working toward the goal of an HIV-free generation. This photo along with other contest submissions will support Photoshare’s growing collection, helping international nonprofits communicate critical health and development issues. By facilitating photo-sharing among public health professionals and photographers, Photoshare has become a leading source for editorial public health and development photography.
Open to both amateurs and professionals, the contest drew interest from around the globe, including 203 participants who submitted over 1,560 photos captured in 78 countries. This year’s contest featured many high quality images across a range of topics and regions, contributing to the largest number of finalists since its creation. A new feature this year is the Photoshare People's Choice Award in Sexual and Reproductive Health, presented with media partner Girls' Globe. The winning image was chosen from a selection of images via social media voting, with 274 votes cast. Photoshare also continued a successful partnership with HIFA in sponsorship of the Healthcare Providers category, recognized with the HIFA Photo Award.
Photoshare is a service of the Knowledge for Health (K4Health) Project, which is supported by USAID’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health and led by the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP) in partnership with FHI360, IntraHealth International, and Management Sciences for Health (MSH). Photoshare’s editorial photography collection is focused on capturing projects in action and the people they serve. To find out how you can support the collection and share, visit: www.photoshare.org. To learn more about knowledge sharing and the K4Health Project, visit: www.k4health.org. Photoshare’s editorial photography collection is focused on capturing projects in action and the people they serve.
Photoshare Photo Contest Winners
Images selected by a Panel of Judges, including; Girls' Globe, HIFA Steering Committee, Photoshare and K4Health Staff
Eric Bond
In Malengachanzi, Malawi, Malia John, a mother living with HIV, proudly holds her son, Cephas, who is HIV-free thanks to prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission services.
Malia was tested when door-to-door HIV counselors from Foundation for Community and Capacity Development (FOCCAD) came to her village in Malengachanzi, Malawi. FOCCAD is supported by the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) and ViiV Healthcare.
© 2017 Eric Bond/Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Courtesy of Photoshare
Somenath Mukhopadhyay
Migrant workers at a cold storage facility for potatoes in Bankura, India, where they work in shifts for one month at a time.
© 2015 Somenath Mukhopadhyay, Courtesy of Photoshare
Sourav Karmakar
On International Women's Day in New Delhi, India, a woman who suffered an acid attack leads a candlelight peace rally with other social activists to raise public awareness about violence against women.
© 2014 Sourav Karmakar, Courtesy of Photoshare
Photoshare People's Choice Award -presented with media partner Girls' Globe
Best of Show: Sexual and Reproductive Health -presented with media partner Girls' Globe
Segawa Patrick, Public Health Ambassadors Uganda
In Kampala, Uganda, Cathy and Diana work on the "Ensonga" Campaign aimed at breaking the barriers related to menstrual stigma through informative and educative sensitization sessions in schools.
© 2016 Segawa Patrick, Public Health Ambassadors Uganda, Courtesy of Photoshare
See the Girls' Globe feature article about this year's winner:
Announcing the Winner of the People’s Choice Award!
Read the full article to hear more about the winning image:
“Our source of inspiration comes from the fact that many adolescent girls miss school and others drop out of school due to lack of sanitary commodities. It’s for this reason that we launched a campaign called “Ensonga” (meaning “the issue”) which aims to improve menstrual hygiene management within schools in Uganda.”
HIFA Photography Award
Best of Show: Healthcare Providers -sponsored by HIFA
Subrata Dey
Street children line up for a free treatment program provided by a nonprofit organization in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
© 2017 Subrata Dey, Courtesy of Photoshare
HIFA Steering Group: "The picture portrays the ignored reality of the modern world with its vast inequalities. The black and white photo suggests this should be yesterday's world, but it is today. The picture reveals the plight of disadvantaged children in an unequal world, and yet shows hope in the humanity of healthcare providers in helping to realise the right to health of every human being."
Outstanding Photoshare Contributor
Arvind Jodha
See all of Arvind Jodha's Photos
Arvind's Bio:
A fine arts student from Rajasthan University, Arvind is a photographer, filmmaker, and animator. He has worked for NGOs such as United Nations (UNFPA) and Save the Children.
Thanks for sharing images and advocating for photography's role in global health and development!
Young members of a Kishori Club, an adolescent support initiative of Jatan Sansthan, share a light moment in Udaipur, India.
© 2015 Arvind Jodha/UNFPA, Courtesy of Photoshare
Photoshare Image of the Year
Laura Wando
VHT/CHW Shares Success Stories
A Village Health Team (VHT) member in Nawandala, Uganda, shares her success stories in Community-Based Family Planning service delivery with visitors.
She said she is very popular in her community because of the services she offers. She was elected to be a councilor (political leadership position) by her community.
© 2016 Laura Wando, WellShare International Uganda, Courtesy of Photoshare
Best of Category
Sexual and Reproductive Health - Photoshare People's Choice Award
Public Health Ambassabors Uganda
Healthcare Providers - HIFA Photo Award Winner
An Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) in India explains the various family planning methods to a couple, as the young bride shies away.
Photographer's Notes:
Sanghamitra Sarkar
A Sabar mother from a remote village of Puruliya, India, uses a mosquito net to protect her and her child after hearing about malaria prevention from health workers.
© 2014 Sanghamitra Sarkar, Courtesy of Photoshare
A man in Birbhum, India, carries a pot to collect drinking water from a distant hand pump while wading through waist-deep flood waters.
Agricultural & Economic Development
Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief
Elena Sartorius
A victim of Hurricane Matthew waits at a humanitarian aid distribution site in Camp-Perrin, Haiti, one of the towns most affected by the disaster. Her name is not on the list of beneficiaries, and as the distribution of food and hygiene kits ends, she realizes there will be nothing left for her. There were only 250 kits available today for 10,000 people affected in this section of town.
© 2016 Elena Sartorius, Courtesy of Photoshare
mHealth and Communications Technology
Mulugeta Wolde for Maternity Foundation
Ethiopian midwife Zinash Teshome uses the Safe Delivery App, a life-saving mobile health tool developed by Maternity Foundation, University of Copenhagen and University of Southern Denmark, while examining a pregnant women in the West Wollega region of Ethiopia.
© 2016 Mulugeta Wolde for Maternity Foundation, Courtesy of Photoshare
Global Health and Human Interest
Hansa Tangmanpoowadol
A young mother breastfeeds her child in Bangkok, Thailand.
© 2013 Hansa Tangmanpoowadol, Courtesy of Photoshare
Sexual and Reproductive Health | People's Choice Award
Arvind Jodha/UNFPA
In India, a young tribal bride wearing a headband of bank notes indicating her family's property rides on the shoulders of her brother and other celebrating villagers.
Healthcare Providers - HIFA Photo Award
Allan Jay Quesada
A medical practitioner provides a lecture and demonstration on proper breastfeeding to first-time mothers at Chinese General Hospital in Manila, Philippines.
© 2015 Allan Jay Quesada, Courtesy of Photoshare
In Kumi, Uganda, Village Health Team member Caroline Ikoba speaks to a client about Depo Provera and its side effects.
© 2017 Laura Wando, Courtesy of Photoshare
Nandi Bwanali/ONE COMMUNITY
A child holds up a banner reading "HIV Free Generation" at a 2016 World AIDS Day mass community event in Blantyre, Malawi.
© 2016 Nandi Bwanali/ONE COMMUNITY, Courtesy of Photoshare
Eric Filemyr/CCP
Two pregnant women with the free insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) they received during their prenatal health care visit as part of the Chandarua Kliniki program in Mtwara region, Tanzania.
© 2016 Eric Filemyr/CCP, Courtesy of Photoshare
Uttam Kamati
A farmer struggles to save his remaining crops after sudden heavy rainfall caused the Teesta river to wash away paddy fields in Mekhliganj, India.
© 2015 Uttam Kamati, Courtesy of Photoshare
Agricultural and Economic Development
George N. Obanyi/FHI 360
Women participate in an internal lending and savings community (SILC) meeting in the Gilgil area of Nakuru County, Kenya, as part of health strengthening activities by USAID’s AIDS, Population and Health Integrated Assistance (APHIAplus Nuru ya Bonde) Project implemented by FHI 360.
© 2016 George N. Obanyi/FHI 360, Courtesy of Photoshare
Gregorio B. "Jhun" Dantes Jr.
Young Filipinos with painted slogans on their faces protest the increasing number of child victims of human rights violations across the country during International Women's Day near Malacañang Palace, the official presidential residence, in Manila City, Philippines.
The Children’s Rehabilitation Center (CRC) strongly condemns the human rights violations over the growing number of children who are killed or suffer in various other ways in operations by security forces against insurgents allegedly perpetrated by the elements of Armed Forces of the Philippines affecting the lives of hundreds of children and urged the Aquino administration to take measures to stop the alleged atrocities, especially in rural communities.
© 2011 Gregorio B. Dantes Jr., Courtesy of Photoshare
Probal Rashid
Rohingya refugees who recently fled from violence against Muslims in Myanmar wait in a long food queue in Ukhia, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
Approximately 70,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh since October 9, 2016 after the Burmese military launched clearance operations. The U.N. human rights office said in their report that Myanmar's security forces have committed mass killings, torture and gang rapes of Rohingyas, as well as burned their villages. Rohingyas began to flee from military oppression—first in 1978 and then again in 1991-92—in major influxes of some 500,000 people. Presently, around 32,000 registered refugees stay in the UNHCR-run camps in Cox’s Bazar, while another estimated 500,000 unregistered live outside the camps. Consequently, most of the unregistered refugees are deemed underprivileged according to the scale of basic human rights.
© 2017 Probal Rashid, Courtesy of Photoshare
Andy Prinsen / Akros
An Akros surveillance officer sits with Community Champions from Nyimba, Zambia, to map the villages they serve.
In this innovative mapping process, the surveillance officer uses Google Earth’s satellite imagery to navigate these community members’ villages “like a bird in the sky.” Most community champions have never seen satellite imagery before, but they know their communities so well that the mapping process works amazingly well. This is the first time decision makers at the national level will have detailed location data on these villages, allowing them to make more informed decisions and reach villages in times of emergency.
© 2016 Andy Prinsen / Akros, Courtesy of Photoshare
Raniel Jose Castañeda / DOTC
A Mangyan family, natives of Mindoro, Philippines.
The Mangyans are the first inhabitants of Mindoro. They belong to the Malay race like most natives in the Philippines. Me and my team went to interview some of them, taking photos and most of all to help them with their needs in life. We talked about a lot of things and what they need is what can the government support to them. They need regular jobs so they can survive and support their families. Today, we are in a new generation and they should be educated in the right way. I know these four children will be the key to success for a better nation.
© 2016 Raniel Jose Castañeda / DOTC, Courtesy of Photoshare
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Gonzaga's Anton Watson to undergo season-ending shoulder surgery
The Score "Gonzaga announced freshman forward Anton Watson will undergo season-ending shoulder surgery, according to Jeff Goodman of Stadium. "Anton is one of the toughest guys I've coached," Bulldogs head coach Mark Few said, per Rob Jesselson of SWX...." January 17
Why does San Francisco intentionally foul at the end of the first half?
NBC Sports - College Basketball Talk "Something weird happened at the end of the first half of San Francisco’s win over Pacific over the weekend. The Dons scored an and-one with just 12 seconds left in the half. They went up 45-33 after Jamaree Bouyea hit his free throw. The absolute worst-case scenario here is that..." January 17
Gonzaga's Filip Petrusev among new faces on Wooden Award midseason list
The Spokesman Review "Gonzaga’s Filip Petrusev has been named to the Wooden Award Midseason Top 25 Watch List. Petrusev is one of five new additions, along with former Washington State guard Malachi Flynn (San Diego State), on the midseason list who weren’t on the preseason top 50. The other..." January 09
5-star PG Jalen Suggs commits to Gonzaga
The Score "Five-star point guard Jalen Suggs has committed to Gonzaga, he announced Friday evening. The 6-foot-4 floor general is the No. 6 prospect in the 2020 ESPN 100 and ranks as the second-best point guard in the nation behind Cade Cunningham. Florida, Florida..." January 04
Duke jumps to No. 2, Kansas to No. 3 behind No. 1 Gonzaga in Coaches Poll
CBS Sports "The final USA Today Coaches Poll of the decade has the program that's won as much as almost any other -- Gonzaga -- as the No. 1. Mark Few's Zags hold a commanding lead, having acquired 30 of the 32 first-place votes. Inside the top five, we have some scooting and..." December 31
Gonzaga is new No. 1, as chaos continues to shake up the Power 36
NCAA "Villanova dropped Kansas on Saturday. Chaos is here. There are no great/dominating/intimidating teams this season. But that’s fine with me. Give me a last possession game like I saw Saturday at Wells Fargo Arena in front of a packed passionate house, and all is..." December 25
Your Daily Cartoon: College basketball's No. 1 seeds keep getting upset
The Sports Daily "It’s a common theme that No. 1 seeds in college basketball don’t stay at the top for too long, as upsets are common. The season is long, and letdown spots make it difficult on young athletes, so the top 25 gets reshuffled every week. " December 25
College Basketball Top 25 Power Rankings: Gonzaga or Ohio State at No. 1?
NBC Sports - College Basketball Talk "A new college basketball top 25 this week features another new No. 1 team in the country. Gonzaga is the team that takes their turn at the top of the rankings after Kansas fell at Villanova on Saturday. There are also three new teams in this week’s power rankings. Here..." December 23
Best of the decade: Top 10 men's college basketball players
USA Today "From the beginning of the decade, when Anthony Davis powered Kentucky to a national title, to the end, when Duke's Zion Williamson provided a spectacular highlight reel, college basketball has entertained fans with a wide array of game-changing..." December 11
Chris Paul's Resurgence Puts Rockets' Trade Into Question
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Lakers Trading Kyle Kuzma To Chicago Bulls?
10 Most Urgent Moves For The New York Knicks If They Want To Save The Franchise
6 Blockbuster Trades We Want To See This Season
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Current: Ghost of Tsushima Is Looking Like The Samurai Epic We’ve Always Wanted
E3 2018 Ghost of Tsushima
Ghost of Tsushima Is Looking Like The Samurai Epic We’ve Always Wanted
John-Paul Jones / June 20, 2018
Accounting for one quarter of the tent-pole exclusives that Sony showed off during its E3 2018 conference, it’s fair to say that Ghost of Tsushima was something of an unknown quantity going into this year’s PlayStation showcase event. Some nearly nine minutes after the gameplay video had drawn to a close, one thing was absolutely clear – Ghost of Tsushima is the samurai game, or rather, samurai epic, that we’ve been wanting for years.
Ghost of Tsushima – A Real Samurai Epic At Last
Immediately the footage makes one thing obvious – Jin, the main protagonist of Ghost of Tsushima is already nine days deep into his resistance of the Mongol Invasion and this suggests that we’ll see the conflict play out over an extended period to time (the Mongols actually invaded Japan twice, first in 1274 and then again in 1281), thus lending the game a real sense of epic scope and breadth that Samurai games are rarely afforded.
The sweeping landscape spectacle of Ghost of Tsushima is one that effortlessly invites comparison with classsic Japanese cinema – most notably the works of famed director Akira Kurosawa
Of course, the other thing straight away smacks you in the face with all the force of a katana scabbard being rammed into your skull is just how eye-searingly gorgeous Ghost of Tsushima looks. Despite following on the heels of the absolutely sublime looking The Last of Us Part II, Ghost of Tsushima boasts a level of visual fidelity that would make even God of War blush, with sweeping spectacle that takes in hugely detailed vistas, stunning lighting, superb animation and an extremely high level of character detail throughout.
As to the extent to which we can explore the sprawling rural spaces of 12th century Japan, things aren’t quite so clear at this juncture. Certainly on initial glimpse Ghost of Tsushima would seem to afford the player a degree of freedom comparable with The Witcher III, as the landscape stretches out from under your feet and over the horizon as our hero and his trusty steed Nobou, traverse the picturesque terrain at speed.
It would also seem that such a degree of freedom also extends to the presence of side quests too, as it was revealed on the Official PlayStation Blog that the entirety of the E3 2018 demo for Ghost of Tsushima was actually just one rather large side-quest rather than a chunk taken from the main story. As such, it would certainly seem that Ghost of Tsushima is shaping up to be a sizable beast and one that will likely boast a wealth of both side and main quest activities for the player to get stuck into (a fact that makes sense given the history of expansive quest structures Sucker Punch has demonstrated previously with the inFamous series of games).
With a bespoke flair for the cinematic, the duels in Ghost of Tsushima make spellbinding use of soft focus and the surrounding environment.
Elsewhere it’s abundantly clear that Sucker Punch has religiously studied the swordsmanship of Samurai from this era. With an emphasis on deadly counterattacks by way of a fighting style that we now call ‘Iaijutsu’ (a combative quick-draw sword technique that can end the fight in a single stroke), combat in Ghost of Tsushima looks every part how one would expect swordsmanship to appear from that period of time, as Jin can parry, evade and strike his opponents down with eye-opening brutality and equal grace.
Though barely nine minutes of gameplay from Ghost of Tsushima has been revealed, it’s prospects already seem lofty. The first truly epic open-world action RPG on PlayStation with 12th century Japan as its setting, the latest labor of love from Sucker Punch looks to be not just its best yet, but also a legitimately robust contender for one of the most anticipated titles in recent memory.
Much like the seemingly limitless horizons and the romanticized cherry blossom saturated expanses of Feudal Japan then, Ghost of Tsushima boasts a bounty of promise that I for one cannot wait to see fulfilled. Quite simply, this is the gaming equivalent of rarefied air and I cannot wait to savor every single breath.
Though a release date for Ghost of Tsushima has yet to be made official, you can check out the current selection of PS4 exclusive titles in our handy ongoing feature.
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* Carson city
Western Nevada FC signs Pablo Gervacio
By: Western Nevada FC
Pablo Gervacio
CARSON CITY, Nev. - Jan. 25, 2018 - PRLog -- Western Nevada FC is pleased to announce the signing of Pablo Gervacio. Pablo is a very skilled player that will make a great impact for the club. In his playing career he has spent a couple of years playing for the San Jose Earthquakes Academy. Pablo then spent his collegiate career at Peninsula College where he played there 2 seasons winning Division MVP both years.
Pablo had this to say about joining the club, "I am very excited to start the preseason and getting to know my new family. This club has the right vision to give players the opportunity they seek in reaching a top professional contract and I'm looking forward to that."
Western Nevada FC Head Coach, Ian Hill, had a comment regarding the signing of Pablo Gervacio. "We are thrilled to have Cesar as a part of the Coyote family. His creative scoring ability and overall talent will help take our team to the next level. We look forward to the great things he will do with us and we look forward to seeing him reach his goals of playing at the highest levels in the world."
The club asked Pablo for some insight into his game and this is what he had to say, "You should expect to see quick 1 and 2 soccer as well as combining with the forwards up top to create multiple chances for the team."
On behalf of the Club we wish Pablo the very best and are thrilled to have him joining the family.
For more information on WNFC, please visit http://www.westernnevadafc.com.
Will Bumgardner
: UPSL, WNFC
: Sports
: Carson city - Nevada - United States
Nevada Coyotes FC PRs
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Country Inn & Suites by Radisson, Council Bluffs, IA
17 Arena Way, Council Bluffs,Iowa51501,United States
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Walk to the adjacent Mid-America Center
Stay with us for your next casino adventure in Council Bluffs
Conveniently connected to the Mid-America Center, the Country Inn & Suites® by Radisson, Council Bluffs, IA provides guests with direct access to world-class concerts and conventions. If you're feeling lucky, head to Horseshoe Council Bluffs casino, located across the street, or venture to the Harrah's and Ameristar casinos, both situated less than four miles from the hotel. For family-friendly fun, don't miss Omaha's Old Market, Lauritzen Gardens, and Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium.
Our rooms and suites provide free Wi-Fi and easy casino access in Council Bluffs
Relax in one of our hotel's spacious rooms or suites, each equipped with inviting amenities like a coffeemaker and a microwave. You can catch up on current events with a free weekday newspaper and doze off in the evening atop a Serta Elite® pillowtop mattress.
Kick back in a king room with free Wi-Fi after an afternoon of shopping at the Old Market.
Sleep soundly in Council Bluffs with Serta Elite® pillowtop mattresses, blackout drapes and individual climate control.
Business travelers appreciate corporate rates and the added space of our studio suites.
Premium Suite-King Bed
Visit TD Ameritrade Park after a full night's rest in this suite with a separate living room and bedroom.
Relax in the two-person whirlpool during your getaway to Council Bluffs.
Enjoy space for the entire group with a separate living room and a sleeper sofa.
Host a business bash or dream wedding in our Council Bluffs event space
The Country Inn & Suites offers two versatile event rooms: a boardroom that can accommodate eight people and a large room for up to 70 guests. Both rooms are equipped with audiovisual technology and free high-speed Internet access to ensure your presentation is a success. Take advantage of our catering services and direct connection to the Mid-America Center as you plan a conference, corporate retreat or special event.
Things to do in Council Bluffs
Ready to try your luck at the slots or on the tables? Council Bluffs is home to some of the country's best casinos. After hitting the jackpot at Harrah's or Ameristar, treat yourself to a round of golf at the nearby greens, and then take a behind-the-scenes tour of your favorite animal exhibits at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium. Check out these other Council Bluffs attractions:
Ameristar Casino
Do you feel lucky? Spend an evening at Ameristar Council Bluffs, a casino on the Missouri River where you can play slots and table games before heading to one of the on-site restaurants or bars.
Squirrel Cage Jail Museum
2.42 mi / 3.9 km from the hotel
For an interesting peek into American history, head to the Squirrel Cage Jail Museum, the only three-story rotary jail ever built. The building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was designed with a distinctive rotating floor.
Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum
It's worth the trip to see one of the country's top military air- and spacecraft collections at the Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum. Explore Apollo modules, NASA prototypes and WWII bombers before catching a show at the planetarium.
Breezy Hills Vineyard
Share a glass of homemade wine during a romantic evening at Breezy Hills Vineyard. You can enjoy samples of favorites like Sassy Girl, an award-winning sweet white wine, while you tour this family-owned facility in the Iowa countryside.
Harrah's Council Bluffs
Whether you're looking for a lucky break at the blackjack table or a quick bite at the buffet, Harrah's offers a variety of table games, slots, restaurants and concerts. You can also enjoy access to two golf courses: Westwood and Dodge Riverside.
Horseshoe Council Bluffs
Everything's coming up aces at Horseshoe, the largest casino in Iowa. Come practice your poker face and celebrate a big win with premium meats from Jack Binion's Steak House, located on site.
Where to find the Country Inn & Suites by Radisson, Council Bluffs, IA
17 Arena Way, Council Bluffs, Iowa51501, United States
Country Inn & Suites by Radisson, Omaha Airport, IA
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French President On First Russia Visit
February 27, 2013 06:53 GMT
Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) met in Paris with French President Francois Hollande in June.
French President Francois Hollande is preparing to make his first official visit to Russia.
The Kremlin press service said Hollande would meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss bilateral relations, particularly trade, energy, investment, and cooperation in innovation and advanced technology.
Hollande is also expected to inform Putin about France’s military campaign in Mali, where French troops have helped local forces and forces from other African countries battle Islamic militants from positions they occupied last year.
Hollande was due in Moscow late on February 27 and was expected to stay through the following day.
Based on reporting by ITAR-TASS and Interfax
Depardieu Takes Up Mordovia Residence
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Health and Social Care Select Committee inquiry on the impact of a no-deal for Brexit
The Royal College of Physicians responds to the inquiry by the Health and Social Care Select Committee on the impact of a no-deal for Brexit.
Brexit – medicines, medical devices and substances of human origin inquiry
The House of Commons Health Select Committee has undertaken an inquiry on what the UK's regulatory arrangements will be after Brexit in order to ensure the safe and effective supply of medicines, medical devices, medical products and substances of human origin.
RCP response to House of Lords Science and Technology Committee inquiry on future of UK life sciences
The NHS must ensure that patient care remains at the heart of the Brexit negotiations to ensure that UK patients can continue to access the latest treatments.
RCP response to Migration Advisory Committee call for evidence on EEA-workers in the UK labour market
The RCP’s response calls on the government to introduce a positive and welcoming migratory system for doctors to ensure a sustainable and safe NHS.
Migration Advisory Committee: response to the call for evidence from the RCP
The RCP has outlined the existing workforce challenges faced by the NHS, its reliance on recruitment from overseas and our concerns for the UK to attract physicians to the NHS in the future.
Response to OECD consultation on innovative therapies
As an active member of the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA), the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has added its support to the EPHA response to a recent OECD consult
The implications for Wales of Britain exiting the European Union
The RCP in Wales has responded to the National Assembly for Wales External Affairs and Additional Legislation Committee inquiry into the implications for Wales of Britain exiting the European Union.
Consultation response: Brexit and health and social care
The RCP responds to the Health Select Committee's inquiry on the priorities for health and social care in the negotiations on the UK's withdrawal from the EU.
Consultation response: Leaving the EU – implications and opportunities for science and research
The RCP welcomes the opportunity to submit written evidence to this inquiry by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee.
Hip fracture: management – NICE guideline
This NICE guideline covers managing hip fracture in adults.
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August 13, 2013 / 12:31 AM / 6 years ago
Russian pleads not guilty in biggest U.S. hacking case
* Accused in credit card number theft that cost $300 million
* Victims included NASDAQ, JetBlue, J.C. Penney, Dow Jones
* Other suspects at large or fighting extradition
* U.S. authorities have been pursuing them for years
By David Jones and Joseph Menn
NEWARK, New Jersey/SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 12 (Reuters) - A Russian man accused of being part of the largest cybercrime ring ever prosecuted in the United States pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges that could send him to prison for decades.
Dmitriy Smilianets, 29, of Moscow, entered the plea during an afternoon hearing in federal court in Newark, New Jersey.
His attorney told Reuters that he would fight the charges and that he was looking into possible irregularities with the circumstances of his arrest last year in the Netherlands.
Smilianets wore an orange prison jumpsuit and stood with shackled hands and feet during the appearance with lawyer Bruce Provda before U.S. District Judge Jerome Simandle.
Smilianets is accused of conspiring with a team of hackers from Russia and the Ukraine to steal more than 160 million credit card numbers in a series of breaches that cost victim companies more than $300 million.
The companies infiltrated included financial firms such as NASDAQ and Heartland Payment Systems Inc, along with other well-known names including JetBlue Airways Corp and retailer J.C. Penney Co of Plano, Texas.
Prosecutors allege Smilianets sold the stolen data after it was taken by four other members of his team, including credit card data starting at $10 for an American number and $50 for a European number.
Smilianets was extradited to the United States in September 2012 and has remained in federal custody since. In Russia, he was most widely known as the founder of a championship electronic gaming team called Moscow 5, which traveled the world for competitions. Online, his handles included Dima Brave and Dima Bold.
If convicted, he faces up to 30 years for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, another 30 years for wire fraud and five years each for gaining unauthorized access to computers and conspiracy to gain access.
Also arrested in the Netherlands was Vladimir Drinkman, who remains there fighting extradition. Amid a general worsening of relations with Russia exacerbated by intelligence agency leaker Edward Snowden’s flight there, prosecutors last month also unsealed an indictment against another alleged member of the ring still free in that country, Alexandr Kalinin.
YEARS-LONG PURSUIT
Authorities have been pursuing the hackers for years. Many of the breaches were previously reported, though it appeared the one involving Nasdaq OMX Group Inc was disclosed for the first time in July.
Prosecutors said each of the defendants had specialized tasks: Drinkman and Alexandr Kalinin hacked into networks, while Roman Kotov, 32, mined them for data. They allegedly hid their activities using anonymous web-hosting services provided by Mikhail Rytikov, 26, of Ukraine.
Rytikov has not been arrested, but an attorney for him, Arkady Bukh, attended Monday’s hearing. Bukh said his client did not know Smilianets.
According to prosecutors, the five men hid their efforts by disabling victims’ anti-virus software and storing data on multiple hacking platforms, prosecutors said. They sold payment card numbers to resellers, who then resold them on online forums or to “cashers” who encode the numbers onto blank plastic cards.
The indictment cited Albert Gonzalez as a co-conspirator. Gonzalez is already serving 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to helping mastermind one of the schemes.
Prosecutors say the defendants worked with Gonzalez before his arrest in Miami, then continued on a crime spree after his capture.
Kalinin and Drinkman were previously charged in New Jersey as “Hacker 1” and “Hacker 2” in a 2009 indictment charging Gonzalez in connection with five breaches.
The NASDAQ breach did not include the trading platform that allows NASDAQ customers to buy and sell securities, prosecutors said. Officials with NASDAQ declined to comment.
An official briefed on that incident said the group wasn’t able to get any money from their NASDAQ access.
Other victims included Dow Jones, Wet Seal Inc and 7-Eleven Inc, according to prosecutors.
Dow Jones said in a statement that there was “no evidence” that information of Dow Jones or Wall Street Journal customers information was compromised as a result of the breaches.
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DPL: Straight 55-year lease ‘better’
By Erwin Encinares
Posted on Jun 06 2018
Tag: CNMI, DPL, life, Public Lands
The House chamber on Capital Hill was packed as a public hearing on legislation extending the maximum lease length for public lands was held last Monday. (Erwin Encinares)
The Department of Public Lands suggests that the lease extension bill would be better off with lease agreements of 55 years straight, instead of an initial 40 years and the option to extend an additional 15 years.
In comments submitted Monday evening at the House Natural Resources Committee public hearing on Senate President Arnold I. Palacios’ (R-Saipan) Senate Bill 20-35, DPL suggested that the Legislature amend the initial lease from 25 years to 55 years instead, but without the option to extend.
Rep. Alice Igitol (R-Saipan) chairs the committee.
“Should you be inclined to increase lease terms to 55 years, we recommend making it straight 55 years (on par with private land leases) instead of 40 [years] plus an extension of 15 [years],” said DPL Secretary Marianne Teregeyo in her written comments on the bill.
S.B. 20-35 seeks to extend the maximum initial lease term from 25 years to 40 years, allowing for a maximum of 55 years, including the 15 years extension if granted.
“This way, investors can plan for a 55-year horizon, which more fully addresses the concern of investors stated in the bill,” Teregeyo said, referring to investors’ feedback on the thought of “having to fight for an extension” as a deterrence to further invest, after having already developed the property.
Teregeyo cited “little added benefit” for DPL and those of Northern Marianas descent if the initial term of 25 years is changed to 40 years, and that, at the end of 55 years, the CNMI will be faced with the same situation of “investors wanting longer leases again to ‘recoup’ their investments.”
She pointed out that public land lease terms of 25 years, with an opportunity to extend for an additional 15 years with the approval of the CNMI Legislature, was designed to give investors time for their investment to generate sufficient returns as well as a mechanism to allow the CNMI to re-evaluate the situation for a new leasing decision after the initial 25-year term. She said this has been so since the enactment of the CNMI Constitution back in 1978.
“The benefit of re-evaluating at 25 years is significant because, at that point, there still remains sufficient useful life in the facility for the lessee to want a 15-year extension, which provides us some leverage to condition the approval of the extension on a certain level of improvements being made on the property as well as performance standards on the lease,” Teregeyo explained, adding that the benefit of re-evaluating after the initial term might be lost if investors lose interest in gaining a 15-year extension on a 40-year-old facility with “little remaining useful life.”
Erwin Encinares | Reporter
Erwin Charles Tan Encinares holds a bachelor’s degree from the Chiang Kai Shek College and has covered a wide spectrum of assignments for the Saipan Tribune. Encinares is the paper’s political reporter.
Tourist missing, car abandoned
CW bill glides thru House
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, By Roselyn Monroyo
Torres and GOP leaders owe the CNMI an apology and an explanation
, By Contributing Author
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, By JUSTINE NAUTA
Be the first Congressional Awardee in the CNMI
, By Iva Maurin
Autopsies done on 3 cases
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Tax hike eyed to fund PSS
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‘We almost died there’
DPS now ready to issue REAL ID-compliant DLs
wind speed: 6 m/s NE
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Sheryl Crow's Favorite Good-for-You Foods
Post-cancer, the singer learned to love all things colorful, crunchy, and healthy (but she can still hoover a bread basket).
By Nicole Yorio
Victoria Pearson
Don't underestimate the power of dinner. When I was a kid, I could always count on 6 o'clock dinner. Now that I have children, I want to create a similar environment, even when I'm on tour. Chuck White, my personal chef [and coauthor, with Sheryl, of the new cookbook If It Makes You Healthy, cooks for the group every night. There are usually 15 of us, including the band, my tour manager, my nanny, and my sons. It's hard to be away from home, and those dinners go a long way for morale.
Food heals. My breast cancer diagnosis in 2006 was a real game-changer. I'd never considered that what I ate had an impact on my health. I met with a nutritionist, and she taught me which foods are immune-boosting and disease-battling. I discovered that the more colorful the vegetable, the richer it is in nutrients — so I'll choose purple cabbage over white. I also learned how spices like cinnamon and turmeric are disease-fighting. Now, I'm less apt to eat whatever's around or to grab a handful of Fritos.
Even professional chefs can learn a thing or two. Chuck taught me almost everything I know about cooking, like how to chop without taking off a knuckle, plus healthy tips: I never knew that heating olive oil to very high temperatures can make it carcinogenic. But I taught him how to make a meal that a 4-year-old will eat. The trick is sneaking in the good stuff. Chuck invented these zucchini muffins that Wyatt loves. The first thing out of Wyatt's mouth every morning is, "I want a keenie muffin."
Calories don't count on vacay. I love going to Mexico. Chips, salsa, and guacamole feel like vacation. And a margarita and cerveza are always on the menu. To re-create the mood at home when I have friends over, I serve watermelon margaritas. They're pink and festive.
WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT ME
"Chuck's watermelon margaritas are amazing." Get the recipe from Sheryl's chef, plus ones for her chocolate mousse and zucchini muffins, at redbookmag.com/sherylsrecipes.
"Right before I go on stage, I sometimes have a piece of dark chocolate and a glass of red wine. After the concert, we all pile in the bus, watch episodes of Mad Men,and eat popcorn or veggie chips."
"I could make a meal out of rolls with oil or butter. At restaurants, I have to force myself to stop after one piece!"
"At dinner parties, I serve a healthy version of chocolate mousse — it's actually made with avocado."
"When I cook, I listen to old-school country music — Johnny Cash, the Carter Family, Tammy Wynette."
4 THINGS YOU'LL ALWAYS FIND IN MY KITCHEN
ORGANIC MILK. "We get ours straight from the local dairy farm. The boys drink it with every meal."
QUINOA SPAGHETTI. "I'm a huge fan of quinoa. It's packed with protein. Wyatt loves this pasta with butter and cheese or meat sauce."
FROZEN SWEET-POTATO FRIES. "They're an addiction of mine, and they're so easy to make — just spread them on a cookie sheet and bake."
ALMOND BUTTER. "We put this in smoothies, or I'll pack a sandwich with almond butter for Wyatt's lunch."
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