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__label__cc	0.607226	0.392774	Tag Archives: Religion News Canadian Muslims Foil Terrorist Plot to Derail Train On Monday Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced that Raed Jaser and suspected accomplice Chiheb Esseghaier were arrested in connection with a planned derailment of a Via Rail Canada train within the country, New York Times reports. The police have yet to figure out the details of the plot, but do credit members of the Canadian Muslim community for tipping off authorities to a terrorist plan to attack a train with both men allegedly working with al Qaeda. Muhammad Robert Heft, a Muslim leader in Ontario, told the Toronto Sun the imam of a local Muslim community helped foil the plot by alerting authorities. Heft has this to say,”At the end of the day, it’s not how you dress, it’s how you think. In our community we may look a little different, but in our hearts we love Canada. It’s our country. It’s our tribe. We want safety for all Canadians regardless of their religion.” And to those misconceptions and stereotypes of Muslims such as not sharing information, he told the Sun, “We have to be on the front lines. To either nip it in the bud in the very beginning or cooperate with authorities so they can be brought to justice.” According to Huff Post, Heft told CNN the Canadian police informed the Islamic community Monday during a briefing about imam’s help in the capturing and subsequent prevention of the terrorist plot. Heft had this to say to the RCM police, “We are supportive and thankful that the RCMP did the investigation and was able to apprehend the individuals before anything happened. We are pleased that they took us in and explained what was going on.” The two men involved have been under close watch for over a year and Imam Yusuf Badat, of the Islamic Foundation of Toronto, told Canadian CBC that tips from the Muslim community led to the capture Monday. U.S. Ambassador David Jacobson added the two men were arrested following cross boarder operations and in a statement says,”It underscores the fact that we face serious and real threats, and that security is a shared responsibility. We all need to remain vigilant in confronting threats and keeping North America safe and secure.” The accused men were arrested because, according to the Associated Press, they received instruction and guidance from member of al Qaeda in Shiite led Iran even though the group is a Sunni Arab network. The penalties being brought against the men include conspiracy to carry out an attack and murder people in association with a terrorist organization. Posted in 2013, activism, community, controversial, crime, goverment, international, news, people, picture, politics, religion, terrorism, transportation, video, violence, world Tagged Canada Terror Plot, Canada Terror Threat, Canada Terrorism, Canada Train Bomb, Derail Train Terror, Iranian Bomb Threat, Iranian Terror Threat, Islam, Muslims Canada Terror Plot, Muslims Foil Terror Plot, Muslims Terror Plot, Religion News, Train Bomb, Train Derail, Train Derail Canada, Train Derail Terror Plot Tensions Rise as the Manhunt Leaves Boston A Ghost Town As the manhunt continues for the second suspect, Boston remains more of a ghost town rather than bustling metropolis. Mass transit to and from Boston has come to a stand still on Friday as police conduct a massive manhunt for the remaining suspect in Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing with the exception of air travel through Logan International Airport. Authorities have indefinitely suspended mass transit taking to twitter to inform people to “Go/ stay home.” As the manhunt stretched into the afternoon, Amtrak stopped all trained between New York and Boston as well as intercity bus lines to the area. Passengers were allowed a refund or rebook for travel at a later date, while airline allowed customers to change plans without fees. In, Somerville, populations 75, 000, authorities told people to stay inside and lock their doors. The city went on lockdown Friday while the police continue their search for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing. Photos like the one above appeared online demonstrating the eery ghost town that is now Boston. The hunt for 19 year old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev piked up late Thursday night after the shooting at MIT, while the other Boston suspect identified as his 26 year old brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev died after a police shootout. Sean Collier, a 26 year old Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer, was shot and killed on Thursday night during a confrontation with the two suspects. Officers responded to a disturbance when multiple shots were fired according to Middlesex Acting District Attorney Michael Pelgro and Cambridge Police Commissioner Robert Haas. Collier was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. According to the Associated Press, the two suspects not only killed the officer, but injured a transit officer in a firefight and threw explosive devices at police during their getaway attempt in a long night of violence leaving one of the suspects dead and the other at large on Friday. The authorities classify the 19 year old as a dangerous terrorist and according to the Associated Press comes from the Russian region near Chechnya, a region plagued with Islamic insurgency stemming from separatist wars. On Friday at 3:15, according to eye witnesses, more than a dozen police cars were speeding to the UMass Dartmouth campus about an hour south of Boston adding to the strong police presences at the school where one suspect, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, was a registered student. The authorities evacuated the campus Friday afternoon and announced the campus would be closed on Saturday after the manhunt for one of the suspects consumed the school. Students report seeing Tsarnaev on campus this week after Monday’s bombing as a result UMass Dartmouth announced the relocating of students to a nearby high school where transportation to and accommodations would be made. The family of both men have spoken out for the two suspect brothers in disbelief condemning the police for such quick action without cause. Anzor Tsarnev, the father of Dzhokar and Tamerlan Tsarnev, said according to Lifenews.ru, “My children were simply framed, they [the police] should have simply waited. I am worried for the second.” When asked if his children had seen guns, he responded, “My children in their eye have never seen guns, if only on television. We went to America because of the political system.” Maret Tsarnev, the aunt of the two brothers, revealed the elder brother killed by police last night has a young child. Defending both young men to the Canadian Press on Friday, she said, “I do not believe these two boys have done that act of atrocity killing those people on the street and I will not believe that until, until I get evidence.” In many cases when these acts of atrocities occur, the increase in hate crimes is likely to follow against groups believed to be involved. Muslim, Sikh, South Asian and Arab Americans tried to head off the backlash that comes after such an act of terrorism by releasing a statement on Friday asking the country not to scapegoat innocent people. The collective statement read as follows: Our thoughts and condolences continue to be with the victims of the Boston Marathon attacks. We are grateful to the brave first responders and law enforcement officers, who endangered their own lives in pursuit of the suspects and to keep the people of Boston safe.This is a time for us to come together as Americans during a sad and difficult moment. As information continues to emerge, we urge the media and the public to refrain from scapegoating or turning against our fellow Americans based on their racial, ethnic, religious or immigrant identity. Incidences of violence against such groups has already occurred with a Muslim woman being attacked in the Boston area on Wednesday. The woman wearing a hijab was attacked by a man shouting that Muslims had perpetrated the twin bombing killing three people and wounding 170 Monday. Heba Abolaban, a Palestinian doctor who came to the United States from Syria, said she was punched in the shoulder in Malden, Mass. by a man who shouted “F*** you Muslims!” and “You are involved in the Boston explosions” according to the Malden Patch. The man a white male in his 30s shouted at the woman for two minutes before leaving the Patch reports. Polis Cheif Kevin Molis stated to the Boston Globe that, “No investigative strategy will be overlooked in order to determine who’s responsible for this. This is something that as a city and as a police department we take seriously.” While conservative commentators, like Glenn Beck, speculate Monday’s attack was perpetrated by Middle Easterners, the nationalities of the marathon bombers were still not know as of Thursday afternoon. However, the FBI on Thursday released photos of the suspects and enlisted the public’s help to track them down leading us to the manhunt in progress now. Posted in 2013, bombing, business, community, controversial, crime, goverment, international, news, people, picture, politics, shooting, terrorism, tragedy, transportation, United States, video, violence, white house, world Tagged : Boston Deserted, Boston Bombing, Boston Bombings, Boston Bombings Investigation, Boston Bombings Suspect, Boston Ghost Town, Boston Lockdown, Boston Manhunt, Boston Marathon, Boston Marathon 2013, Boston Marathon Bombing, Boston Marathon Explosion 2013, Boston Marathon Suspect Photo, Boston Shootout, Boston Streets, Boston Suspects, Boston Terror Attack, Boston Travel, Boston Travel Status, Boston Travel Updates, Crime News, FBI, FBI Investigation Marathon, Heba Abolaban, Heba Abolaban Attacked, Heba Abolaban Boston, Martin Richard, Mit, Muslim Attacked Boston, Muslim Attacked Boston Bombing, Muslim Attacked Massachusetts, Obituaries, Religion News, Sean Collier, Sean Collier Dead, Sean Collier Dies, Sean Collier Mit, Sean Collier Mit Police, Sean Collier Obit, Sean Collier Obituary, Travel News, video April 7, 2013 by craftymcclever Honoring the Past and Embracing the Future It’s official Pope Francis was formally installed as the Bishop of Rome on Sunday with less of the pomp and pageantry than the usual ritual even taking time to honor those that came before. Francis in another display of his humility toward the post, he arrived at St. John in Latern Basilica to honor a wildly popular past pope by blessing a plaque renaming a corner of the piazza outside the church after Pope John Paul II, who died in 2005. Arriving a half hour early, he gave the blessing after the mayor of Rome unveiled the plaque marked “Giovanni Paul II Square” in one section of the piazza which holds free rock concerts, political and labor rallies. The pope fashion was simple as he wore a plain white cassock and the Italian cardinal wore his red cape. The two hour long installation in the early evening was significant for the church due to the fact a pope is a pontiff because he is elected Bishop of Rome but not visa versa. The basilica is Rome’s most ancient, with the foundation dating back to the early 4th century, and the ceremony stems from centuries of traditional ritual that modern popes have updated to the times, but Francis is sticking true to his own tradition of simplicity and humility. While most ornately dressed pontiffs in centuries past arrive in horse drawn carriage, Francis came through the side entrance of the basilica complex in an open topped white jeep. Before entering the doors, the vehicle stopped again and again so that the security team could pass babies to him to kiss. When the wind picked up, Francis took off his skull cap exposing his head to the wind and tussling his hair according to the Associated Press. Later Francis wore the peaked bishop’s hat and wearing cream colored vestments sat in the mosaic studded basilica chair known as the “Cathera Romana” which represents the post of Rome’s bishop. He then was handed the pastoral staff, symbolizing a bishop’s care for his flock. During his homily, Francis said, “It is with joy that I am celebrating the Eucharist for the first time in this Lateran Basilica, the Cathedral of the Bishop of Rome. I greet all of you with great affection… those who love are able to understand, to hope, to inspire confidence; they do not give up, they do not burn bridges, they are able to forgive.” Throughout the ceremony and well after, the pontiff surprised and delighted the crowd with his humility and continued to set news standards for the church. Francis during the ceremony updated the obedience pledge recited by Cardinal Valilini, who is the pope’s prelate, when professing obedience to the pope’s teaching and leadership replacing the pontiff as being “in an elevated position to govern” with the pontiff as “presiding over the Churches in charity.” In honoring John Paul, Francis also paid tribute to a pontiff who embraced his role as bishop of Rome as the late pontiff would visit Rome parishes, hundreds of them and poor neighborhood on the city’s outskirts on Sunday mornings. When Francis mentioned that John Paul “closed his eyes to this world” eight years ago this month, the new pope drew so much applause he could not finish his sentence the Associated Press reports. Francis may be the pope that decided whether or not the Polish Born Pontiff will receive the church’s highest honor, sainthood. The church process to certify the first miracle needed for John Paul’s beatification only took six years from his death until Pope Benedict XVI beatified him in 2001 which is the shortest time in modern history and the last formal step before sainthood according to the Associated Press. The pope in his Vatican apperance on Sunday called for the faithful to “go into the piazzas and announce Christ our savior” to the people and “Bring the Good News with sweetness and respect” referring to the Gospel of course. John Paul, Benedict and Francis have all made shoring up flagging faith a priority of their leaderships. The new pope will be leading the Catholic youth pep rallies this summer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during a pilgrimage to his home continent. Posted in 2013, catholic church, community, history, new pope, news, peace, people, picture, Pope Francis, religion, Rome, Sunday Blessing, tribute, video, world Tagged Bishop Of Rome, future, history, Latern Basilica, Mayor of Rome, news, past, pontif, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, Pope Francis Bishop Of Rome, Pope Francis Reaches Out To Romans, Pope John Paul II, Religion News, St. John, tribute to John Paul II, video Women as the Foundation of the Roman Catholic Church Check out the Pope’s full address here. As the pope blazes a new trail for the modern Roman Catholic Church, Francis continues to emphasize the importance of women and their role in the church despite taking the office only weeks ago as the Bishop of Rome becoming the first Latin American pope and the first non-European pope in 1300 years after Benedict XVI resign the first in 600 years. On Wednesday, Pope Francis emphasized the importance of women in the church as they were the first witnesses of Christ and play a special role in the spreading of faith. As many witnessed on Holy Thursday last week, the pontiff included women in the traditional foot washing ritual drawing criticism from traditionalist who believe the right has always been reserved for men. Many see the custom as a re-enactment of Jesus washing the fee of his apostles who are all men. Women as Francis explains have always played a special role as the “first witnesses” of Christ’s resurrection passing the belief onto their children and grandchildren. Francis told the thousands of faithful in St. Peter’s Square, “In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.” He even went further to explain that in the bible women were not recorded witnesses as Jewish law prohibited it at the time as they are not reliable witnesses. However, Francis did comments that, “In the Gospels, however, women have a primary, fundamental role … The evangelists simply narrate what happened: the women were the first witnesses. This tells us that God does not choose according to human criteria.” This is the second time the pontiff has talked about the role of women as witnesses to the resurrection of Christ which is the cornerstone of the Catholic faith. As for the role of women, Pope Francis addressed women in his Easter Vigil on Saturday and urge the faithful to not fear change. Marinella Perroni, a theologian and leading member of the Association of Italian Women Theologians, according to Reuters had this to say: “This is very encouraging. Pope Francis is taking up, with a stronger emphasis, the teaching of previous popes about the role of women in the foundation of faith and the resurrection of Jesus. The fact that the Pope acknowledges that the progressive removal of female figures from the tradition of the resurrection…is due to human judgments, distant from those of God…introduces a decidedly new element compared to the previous papacy.” Several liberal reform supporters of the church call for the institution to ordain women as priests giving them a greater voice and more recognition within the church which the Vatican has said publicly that Jesus Christ chose only men for his apostles even though many female priesthood supports have said Jesus was conforming to the customs at the time. The 76 year old pontiff has set a new standard for the papacy as he continues to live as his name sake did St. Francis with humility and simplicity by shunning the ornate items of traditional dress, using informal language in his addresses, and choosing not to live in the regal papal apartments choosing instead to live in a simple residence. Many are hopeful that this new age of the Catholic Church can reform the Curia and many believe Pope Francis may even close the Vatican bank following the scandals at the heart of the Holy See which has damaged the church’s reputation. Posted in 2013, catholic church, history, new pope, news, peace, people, picture, Pope Francis, religion, Rome, speech, Sunday Blessing, video, wisdom, women, world Tagged change, Gender and Religion, news, Pope Francis, Pope Francis Women, reform, Religion And Gender, Religion News, Reuters, Role Of Women In Church, video, witness, women, Women And Jesus, Women In Catholic Church, Women In Church, Women In Gospels Pope Francis: A Vessel of Peace and Humility Pope Francis has made quite an impression on the international community especially the billion of so faithful during his short time as Pope with his official duties starting with Holy Week. With his most significant break from tradition occurring on Holy Thursday, Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of young women at a juvenile detention center which for most in the Curia is a departure from the strict rules that ritual involves men not women. In fact, no pope has ever washed the feet of women sparking a debate among conservative who feel it a questionable example and liberals who welcome the inclusivity. As Francis explained to the group of 14 to 21 year old at Casal del Marmo in Rome: “This is a symbol, it is a sign. Washing your feet means I am at your service. Help one another. This is what Jesus teaches us. This is what I do. And I do it with my heart. I do this with my heart because it is my duty. As a priest and bishop, I must be at your service.” A video released by the Vatican, demonstrates the 76 year old Francis kneeling on the stone floor pouring water over the feet of the youth then drying and kissing their feet. The group included black, white, male, female, and even tattooed feet. Previous popes carried out the traditional ceremony in Rome’s St. John Lateran Basilica choosing 12 priests who represent the 12 apostles whose feet Christ washed during the Last Supper, but Francis has never followed the traditions even as cardinal. Before being pope, the pope as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio celebrated in jails, hospitals, or hospices as part of his ministry to the poor and marginalized in society especially women. Vatican spokesman, Rev. Federico Lombardi, didn’t want to enter into a canonical dispute over the matter but did express that the ritual represent only men as Christ washed the feet of his apostles were all male. As the Associated Press reported, Lombardi wrote in an email saying, “Here, the rite was for a small, unique community made up also of women. Excluding the girls would have been inopportune in light of the simple aim of communicating a message of love to all, in a group that certainly didn’t include experts on liturgical rules.” Some believe the message was about Christ’s embracing love and ministering to everyone, while other believe that restricting the rite to men is in line with the church’s restriction on ordaining women since Christ’s apostles were male and that the ritual is more than washing feet. The ultimate message Pope Francis had for his young audience whom he greeted after the mass and gave each an Esster egg was, “Don’t lose hope. Understand? With hope you can always go on.” One young man asked the pontiff why he came to visit them and Francis responded simply that it was to “help me to be humble, as a bishop should be” as the gesture came “from my heart. Things from the heart don’t have an explanation.” Pope Francis ended Holy week with his first Easter Sunday celebration with a passionate plea for world peace to an enthusiastic crowd of more than 250,000 people who came to see him in St. Peter’s Square. In his Easter message, he spoke of the long standing conflict in the Middle East, on the Korean Peninsula and elsewhere and remembered the world’s neediest people. With physical gestures, he demonstrated his down to earth caring for all God’s children as he cradled a disabled child held out to him and delightedly accepted the gift the Associated Press reports. After the mass, the Pontiff took a ride through St. Peter’s Square in an open topped popemobile through the joyous crowd, kissing children, patting them on the head and overwhelmed with joy. The pope received a gift from one admirer in crowd who gave him a jersey of his favorite Argentine soccer team, Saints of San Lorenzo, as the crowd cheered in approval. In a moving moment to remember, Francis cradled and kissed a disabled boy passed to him waiting patiently for the boy to give his greeting to him. From the same spot he was introduced as pope on March 13, Francis gave his Easter speech from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica reiterating his concern for the poor and suffering as well as promoting peace and social justice. The Roman Catholic leader aimed the Easter greeting at “every house and every family, especially where the suffering is greatest, in hospitals, in prisons” and prayed that Jesus would inspire people to “change hatred into love, vengeance into forgiveness, war into peace,” reports the Associated Press. The first pontiff from the Jesuits, an order with concern for the poor, and the first pope to name himself after St. Francis who renounced wealth and preached to the down and out lamented that the world is still divided by greed. The square was covered in a beautiful variety of flowers as Francis thanked florists from the Netherlands for donating them and advised people to let love transform their lives saying, “let those desert places in our hearts bloom.” Francis used the language of the Holy See to give his greetings in Italian as the pope stressed his role as the Bishop of Rome. The pontiff improvised his parting words to the world including those who were present and those linked by modern technology adding that he especially remembers “the weakest and the neediest” and praying that all of humanity be guided along “the paths of justice, love and peace.” Another departure from Easter Tradition, Francis will not be taking a post holiday vacation at the summer palace in Castel Gandolfo where Benedict XVI resides and has declined moving into Benedict’s former apartment in the Apostolic Palace which overlooks St. Peter’s Square instead he still resides in the Vatican hotel where the cardinals stayed during the conclave. Francis has demonstrated so far in his short time as Bishop of Rome that he has little desire to participate in the pomp and pageantry that comes with his position as the leader of the Catholic Church. 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__label__cc	0.688277	0.311723	Ginni Thomas GOP Sen. Lights A Path In Congress To Protect Americans From ‘Heinous Crimes’ Ginni Thomas Contributor In this exclusive video interview for The Daily Caller News Foundation, Arkansas Sen. [crscore]Tom Cotton[/crscore] explains why polls show Americans’ anxieties about safety in the face of terrorism and crime are at record high levels. The lanky, calm freshman sporting a new beard says, “A lot of the Obama administration policies are undermining the safety and security of the American people and there is a sense of fear in the country because of those very short-sighted, very wrong-headed policies.” Congress can get excessively focused on “governing” and negotiating deals with President Barack Obama, and “too often we forget here” in the Senate the importance of stopping bad legislation, Cotton says. As a political matter, “drawing sharp contrast” can be important, and since Democrats appear poised to nominate a socialist, this should be easy. Examining Republican presidential nominees Donald Trump and Sen. [crscore]Ted Cruz[/crscore], Cotton senses Trump’s popularity on mass immigration policy has broken through the political elite’s stubborn mindset that mistakenly thought immigration policy was more malleable. As for Cruz, Cotton flashes a smile and says, “Ted’s obviously rocked the boat a little bit in the Senate,” but it is the voters, not the elite, who “ultimately make up our party.” Cotton’s two most prominent battles have been fighting Obama’s Iran Deal, and a new “unwise” criminal leniency bill — called S. 2123 — that threatens to “let out early thousands of violent felons, drug-dealers, traffickers and other convicted felons, often times repeat-offenders.” Cotton is currently battling fellow Republican Sens. [crscore]Mike Lee[/crscore], [crscore]John Cornyn[/crscore], Chuck Grassley, as well as the Koch brothers, on this criminal reform bill, and explains the myths that are driving and confusing the debate on this Obama legacy bill. “We are in a time when too many people are stigmatizing police,” he says. With more prison releases happening due to pressure from “strange bedfellows” from both sides of the aisle, budget constraints and policy changes, recidivism has caused brutal crimes across the country, including these murders in Ohio. “Heinous crimes against innocent Americans” will be the consequences if Congress gets this legislation wrong, Cotton adds. Looking at international policy, Cotton sees a dire need to correct previous missteps. The Arkansas native explains the Republican Congress, especially the Senate, failed to stop the Obama deal with Iran. The best that can be said, Cotton believes, is that Obama’s Iran deal is not actually binding and the public opposed it. It is only “an understanding” with America’s mortal enemy. Without the Senate approving the deal, according to the Constitution, any president “cannot consummate an agreement with another nation for the long term,” Cotton says. He expects a new American leadership to fundamentally change this agreement. Now that the sanctions are off Iran and money is flowing, companies tempted to go to Iran for the “gold rush” might want to think twice about the coming election, as he expects new, punishing sanctions around the corner. For reminders on the failed congressional effort to stop the Iran deal, see here, here and here. For more on Sen. Tom Cotton, go to his website here or follow him on Facebook or on Twitter @SenTomCotton. Mrs. Thomas does not necessarily support or endorse the products, services or positions promoted in any advertisement contained herein, and does not have control over or receive compensation from any advertiser. Tags : donald trump	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1157
__label__wiki	0.978893	0.978893	County clerks join Tedisco to denounce plate fee plan \| The Daily Gazette County clerks join Tedisco to denounce plate fee plan Tedisco: $25 fee on new license plates is a "money grab" State Sen. Jim Tedisco speaks during a press conference announcing GOP opposition to Cuomo's license plate proposal. Photographer: Marc Schultz / Gazette Photographer CLIFTON PARK -- County clerks who administer vehicle registrations across northeastern New York joined state Sen. James Tedisco on Wednesday to denounce Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to mandate replacement of license plates in the state. The two-week-old plan to replace about three million license plates over the next two years at a cost of $25 per plate stirred controversy, with members of the Republican legislative minorities like Tedisco, R-Glenville, and Assemblywoman Mary Beth Walsh, R-Ballston, calling the planned fee a "cash grab" by the state. Tedisco has been among the most prominent critics of the plan, drawing statewide attention to the issue, which has drawn criticism from several Democratic legislators as well, including Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara, D-Rotterdam. "The resistance to Gov. Cuomo's highway heist to raise license plate fees is growing, and it starts right in the front offices of the people on the ground who will actually have to administer this $70 million cash grab by the state: our county clerks," Tedisco said on Wednesday. Tedisco said charging the fee should lead to $70 million in new revenue for the state, above and beyond what it costs to actually make new license plates. That doesn't include any estimate for the additional $20 owners would be charged if they want to keep their current license plate number, Tedisco added. Underlying the plan to replace all plates that are 10 years old are concerns that some plates have aged poorly, with flaking and peeling paint. Cuomo's office has said new license plates will be easier for both EZ-Pass cameras and law enforcement plate readers to read. "Unreadable license plates need to be replaced, as they are important identification markers for vehicles and their owners," said Saratoga County Clerk Craig Hayner. "However, requiring plates that are in good condition to be replaced is wasteful." Hayner was one of five county clerks, all Republicans, who attended a press conference Wednesday at Tedisco's Clifton Park office. There are about 210,000 vehicles registered in Saratoga County, and he said his DMV clerks already are pressed, processing registrations and license renewals along with issuing Real ID cards. "Our clerks hear it every day," Hayner said. Hayner and the other clerks -- Frank Merola of Rensselaer County, Pam Vogel of Warren County, Holly Tanner of Columbia County, Joseph A. Provoncha of Essex County, and Sylvia Rowan of Herkimer County -- said they support a proposal by Tedisco, Walsh, and state Sen. Daphne Jordan, R-Halfmoon, to hold public hearings on the license plate fees. "It is an unfair burden on our taxpayers and our constituents," Tanner said. "DMV is just a cash cow, and the cow is being milked dry." Tedisco estimates the actual cost of making a license plate is about $1.15. He believes plate replacement should be included in a vehicle's registration fee, with no additional cost to vehicle owners. "This is a huge cash grab," said Walsh. "I don't know how they thought this was going to go well." If the fee is imposed next April 1 as scheduled, the money is expected to go to a highway and bridge trust fund that the Department of Transportation can draw on for transportation infrastructure projects. Cuomo's office said critics like Tedisco are ignoring the offer last week by state Department of Motor Vehicles Commissioner Mark Schroeder to work with legislators on a "compromise" that would lower the planned $25 fee. "At this point, Tedisco is talking to himself and it's sad -- the ‎DMV commissioner already said he wants to work with the legislature to come up with a cost-effective system before April that adapts to changing technology to ensure that plates can be read by both cashless tolling and law enforcement‎," said Cuomo senior advisor Rich Azzopardi. "Despite grandstanding from hypocritical elected officials in search of a cheap press hit, the cost of a replacement license plate was changed from $15 to $25 by a vote of the legislature in 2009 and has been the same for the last 10 years -- before this governor took office." Tedisco responded that the 2009 law -- adopted when then- Gov. David Paterson drew controversy with a similar plate replacement plan -- sets the replacement fee at "not to exceed" $25, so Cuomo has the power to set the fee lower. The senator said he wants the issue addressed sooner than when the legislature reconvenes in January. "I don't want this to become part of the budget negotiations," he said. The governor's office included mention of the fee in an announcement two weeks ago about a competition asking the public to vote on five different license plate designs, including one featuring the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo bridge, named for the governor's father. Voting ended on Monday, but Cuomo's office has yet to announce the results. Reach Gazette reporter Stephen Williams at 518-395-3086, [email protected] or @gazettesteve on Twitter. DOT to look at truck strikes on low-clearance bridge in Glenville Cuomo calls for vaping crackdown based on health concerns Foss: Time to put an end to 'License Plategate'	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1158
__label__wiki	0.511205	0.511205	An introduction to the testosterone a male hormone in steroids Wto and china essay Source analysis thomas hobbes Home need homework help The incredibles essay The incredibles essay You could have presently published a number of. Plot[ edit ] In a dark room, a large illuminated balanced-arm desk lamp named Luxo Sr. He eyes the ball curiously, and pushes it away, but the ball comes back to him. He pushes it away again. The ball comes back to him, but this time, it rolls past him. A smaller desk lamp, named Luxo Jr. The group, which numbered 40 individuals, [7] was spun out as a corporation in February with investment by Steve Jobs shortly after he left Apple Computer. The newly independent company was headed by Dr. Edwin Catmull as President and Dr. Bill Reeves, who was interested in algorithms to re-create the turbulence of ocean waves, made Flags and Waveswith waves reflecting a sunset and lapping against the shore. 12 Advice For Posting An Incredible ESSAY \| My Blog Reeves and Ostby also assisted Lasseter with model making and rendering on Luxo Jr. It struck Lasseter as humorous and he began to wonder what a young lamp would look like. When he showed some early tests at animation festival in Brusselsrespected Belgian animator Raoul Servais exhorted him, "No matter how short it is, it should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. He devised a simple plot line in which the two lamps would play a game of catch with an inflated ball; Luxo Jr. Among the films shown at SIGGRAPH inLasseter particularly admired a piece of character animation called Tony de Peltriefrom a group at the University of Montreal ; it featured a strikingly expressive human character, an aging piano player who entertained while inwardly reflecting on better days, which inspired Luxo Jr. The background would be plain black and there would be no camera movement. His energies would rather be focused instead on working out techniques based on classic animation principles to convey emotion. At every moment, the parent and child seemed to have a definite frame of mind. More significant than its photorealismhowever, was its emotional realism. Lasseter braced for a question about the shadowing algorithm or some other recondite technical issue that he knew equally little about. 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__label__cc	0.669904	0.330096	Home / Customer Success Stories / University of Wollongong How a modern university transformed with data Fiona Rankin is the CIO of the University of Wollongong (UOW), and her mission is to build UOW’s reputation as a cutting-edge research institution and as a center of academic excellence. The sheer scale is impressive. With 32,000 students, eight domestic campuses, international campuses in Dubai and Hong Kong, and affiliate campuses in Singapore and Malaysia, UOW is an innovative leader in the smart campus trend. Evolving the IT function and capabilities to meet rising expectations across such a large university begins and ends with data. That’s everything from campus sustainability to the quality of student learning and research success. Fiona Rankin CIO of the University of Wollongong (UOW) This data-driven approach is evident from the minute you enter the main Wollongong campus. Smart parking guides you to free spaces. Smart buildings open their windows, adjust cooling and heating, or drop blinds in response to sunlight, external temperatures, and airflows. Some buildings even know that you’re there. “We use student counting systems to determine physical attendance in tutorials or lectures. Analyzing this data lets us optimize our use of building space,” Rankin explained. Students also enjoy a high-tech experience through online classes and through a virtual desktop that lets them access academic software and experiences online. Students have the tools and the resources that they need to complete tasks wherever they are and at whatever time makes sense for them. It’s another great experience that sets this modern, youthful university apart. A quick scroll through the faculty programs at UOW reveals that the institution lives and breathes research. Research ranges from the basic molecular level of how proteins work, right through to whole-scale population health intervention, robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning. The sheer volume of research generates petabytes of data on an ongoing basis, all of which has to be managed. “As part of the overall transformational program, we needed a future-ready Data Fabric that would let us store and manage different kinds of data with different requirements,” said Rankin. “Data might need to be accessed from one of our other campuses in southwest Sydney, Dubai, or Hong Kong. It might be time-sensitive. It might be highly confidential. So, as well as access control, we need the ability to apply the right security standards and to select the type of storage that’s fit for purpose.” The partnership with NetApp has been an important part of the university’s successful digital transformation. Said Rankin, “It allows me and my team basically to extend our capabilities, tapping into a whole international world of security expertise, cloud expertise, and keeping up to date with the trends.” UOW deploys its data in a hybrid cloud environment, using public clouds such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure. A hybrid cloud approach enables researchers to tag their data with metadata, which determines policies as to where and how the data is managed and stored. This capability supports collaborative research across skillsets, faculties, and institutions. For Fiona Rankin, the benefits have been considerable: “Analytical tools let us see how much data is being ingested, where that data is residing, and who’s writing that data. Most important, we’re now able to report back to the university what data that we have, from what institutions, and what that data actually comprises.” Use the power of data to create a smart campus and to manage collaborative research that has led to scientific breakthroughs StorageGRID arrow-right	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1163
__label__cc	0.519404	0.480596	Another Democrat Party Laughingstock Says "Impeach!" Author Topic: Another Democrat Party Laughingstock Says "Impeach!" (Read 3615 times) Lord Undies Former US presidential candidate urges Bush's impeachment WASHINGTON (AFP) â€” Former US presidential candidate George McGovern on Sunday called for President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney to be impeached, saying the case for such a dramatic step "is far stronger" than it was against former disgraced president Richard Nixon. A former US congressman and senator, McGovern was the Democratic Party's presidential nominee in 1972, but lost the election to incumbent Richard Nixon, who was forced to resign amid the Watergate scandal in 1974. Writing in The Washington Post, McGovern said that after the 1972 election, he stood clear of calls to impeach Nixon because he was afraid it would be interpreted as an act of personal vengeance. But "today I have made a different choice," the prominent Democrat points out. "The case for impeaching Bush and Cheney is far stronger than was the case against Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew after the 1972 election." - snip - He cites as evidence the invasion of Iraq under the pretext of removing its non-existent weapons of mass destruction, "illegal tapping" of citizens' telephones by government agents, and shipping of war-on-terror prisoners for interrogation to other countries without respect for the laws of habeas corpus. Read more: http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hzTs98zoYaBYRhIUf8M... Seabiscuit (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-06-08 10:10 AM 23. I don't recall any of them being asked about impeachment at any of the debates. n/t RoccoR5955 (282 posts) Sun Jan-06-08 08:06 AM Response to Original message 13. WE THE PEOPLE want, nay, DEMAND... Investigation, Impeachment, and Incarceration! Justice MUST be served! jtrockville (492 posts) Sun Jan-06-08 11:03 AM 28. The article covered almost the ENTIRE front of WaPo's outlook section. It was written in white letters on black background. VERY eye-catching http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3126617 « Last Edit: January 06, 2008, 12:53:02 PM by Lord Undies » LadyLiberty Re: Another Democrat Party Laughingstock Says "Impeach!" Impeached for what???? And the grounds for impeachment are far stronger than they were for Nixon Someone please enlighten me, but didn't George McGovern REALLY bollo out when he ran? Oh, and what does "n/t" mean? I've been meaning to ask that "My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me to try to change it." Chris_ Little Lebowski Urban Achiever It usually means "no text". If you want to worship an orange pile of garbage with a reckless disregard for everything, get on down to Arbys & try our loaded curly fries. The wigged-out lunatics of the democrat party are on the verge of hyperventing tears. The Iowa Caucus has happened. New Hampshire is next week. No impeachment movement is catching fire. Bill Clinton will not be revenged. Liar McWarmongermonkeycokespoon will not be on the list with Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson. It is KILLING them. Okay one at a time... The Iraq war was sanctioned by the US Congress based on intelligence from both the current and previous administrations and the intelligence agencies of multiple countries. Name the US statute violated. There has been no illegal tapping of citizens telephones..ask your own dem Senators and Representatives who both knew of and endorsed the procedure. Present the evidence of illegal wiretapping of citizens inside this country. Lastly it is the treatment of terrorists and terrorism as a common crime that brought about our current situation but yet you still want to apply US laws to foreignors that have declared war and jihad on the USA. Name a US citizen,found on Americain soil that has not been afforded all the rights accorded to them as such. The suggestion that we should listen to the words of dems who lost almost every state in the country (McGovern,Carter,Mondale,Dukakis) never got even 50% of the vote (Clinton twice),couldn`t carry their home state (Gore) or were caught phonying up their military record (Kerry...never did answer for his lies or release his SF-180 as promised) is laughable. SSG Snuggle Bunny Voted Rookie-of-the-Year, 3 years running It all sounds so familiar: Scooter Libby has been indicted for lying. Many suspect Libby, and perhaps others, deliberately outed Joe Wilsonâ€™s wife as a covert CIA agent. This was done to punish and discredit Wilson for bringing attention to the false information regarding Iraqâ€™s supposed efforts to build a nuclear weapon-- information made public in President Bushâ€™s State of the Union message in January 2003. Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was chosen to determine if this revelation regarding Valerie Plame, Wilsonâ€™s wife, violated the Intelligence Identification Protection Act. The actual indictment of Libby did not claim such a violation occurred. Instead, he has been charged with lying and participating in a cover-up during the two-year investigation. I believe this is a serious matter that should not be ignored, but it is not an earth-shattering event. This case, like almost everything in Washington, has been driven by politics-- not truth, justice, or the Constitution. Itâ€™s about seeking political power, pure and simple, not unlike the impeachment process during the last administration. There are much more serious charges of lying and cover-ups that deserve congressional attention. The country now knows the decision to go to war in Iraq was based on information that was not factual. Congress and the people of this country were misled. Because of this, more than 2,000 U. S. troops and many innocent people have died. Tens of thousands have been severely wounded, their lives forever changed if not totally ruined. The lies Scooter Libby may or may not have told deserve a thorough investigation. But in the scheme of things, the indictment about questions regarding the release of Valerie Plameâ€™s name, a political dirty trick, is minor compared to the disinformation about weapons of mass destruction and other events that propelled us into an unnecessary war. Its costs-- in life, suffering, and money-- have proven to be prohibitive. The Libby indictment, unless it opens the door to more profound questions concerning why we went to war, may serve only as a distraction from much more serious events and lies. The decision to go to war is profound. It behooves Congress to ask more questions and investigate exactly how the President, Congress, and the people were misled into believing that invading Iraq was necessary for our national security. Why do we still not know who forged the documents claiming Saddam Hussein was about to buy uranium from Niger? Was this information concocted by those who were overly eager to go to war? Why was CIA reluctance regarding this assessment ignored, allowing it to be presented by the President as a clincher for our need to go to war? Other reasons used to justify the war deserve equal attention, since the results have been so painful for our country. If lies were told to justify the invasion of Iraq, the American people deserve to know the truth. Congress has a responsibility to seek this truth and change our policies accordingly. The sooner this is done the better. Any takers on who is spewing? (no googling, you bastards!) According to the Bible, "know" means "yes." That sounds like the Republican Savior. Do I win something if I'm right? I have missed you too Snuggles Quote from: Lord Undies on January 06, 2008, 11:50:33 AM A millyun innerwebx bukkz Stick a fork in us. We're done. Wow, the 3 I's. Seems you'd just like to move all the way over the the right and go with incarceration, right? Why does that last sentence seem so hypocritical? NAMBLA is a left-wing organization. There's a reason why patriotism is considered a conservative value. Watch a Tea Party rally and you'll see people proudly raising the American flag and showing pride in U.S. heroes such as Thomas Jefferson. Watch an OWS rally and you'll see people burning the American flag while showing pride in communist heroes such as Che Guevera. --Bob, from some news site VelvetElvis Misunderestimated Drill Sgt for the DeathSquadHateForce Quote from: Rebel on January 06, 2008, 12:20:57 PM Three eyes?!! Must be something bad in the DUmmie's bong water! Proud Member of the Death Squad Hate Force Since 1980 Gwitness Leave that thing alone. Quote from: Mr Snuggle Bunny on January 06, 2008, 11:38:46 AM Ron Paul............gad......I hate the fact that I share first names with this moonbat. scotth Probationary (Probie) The argument isn't about what statute was violated. It's about the accuracy of the intell present to Congress. The problem people will argue is Congress sanctioned a war because they only got half the story. How do you know there wasn't illegal wiretapping because it was all classified? The problem is they circumvented court approval for grabbing mass phone records. Informing members of Congress about intelligence activities doesn't releave the administration of having judicial review. That the problem, not wanting to allow for checks and balances and thats the foundation of our democracy. There are 3 branches of government and you can't just avoid the judical branch. The problem here is the administration created there own little declaration of status for the people they have grabbed and called them enemy combatant. They made these rules that put these people in a legal blackhole. With no rights no representation and no revue. Unless you call a revue process that is made up of hearsay, torture intell and classified information that the defendant doesn't know about or have a chance to defend themselves against a process. I don't have a problem with taking these people prisoner but I have a real problem with the process. What we do today is a kangroo court and it's what we use to say would never happen in America. We use to have the moral authority to critize places like the Soviet Union/Russia or China. I won't even get into the millions of "lost" emails and the using of the Republican email system for official business and those emails being destroyed. If Clinton deserved impeachment proceedings for lieing about getting a hummer in the Whitehouse then there is plenty of justification to at least investigate some of these issues.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1167
__label__cc	0.526833	0.473167	Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Intelligence, Lost History, Obama Administration, Politics Merkel Urged to Temper NATO’s Belligerence July 6, 2016 • 43 Comments U.S. intelligence veterans are calling on German Chancellor Merkel to bring a needed dose of realism and restraint to the upcoming NATO conference, which risks escalating the dangerous new Cold War with Russia. MEMORANDUM FOR: Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJECT: NATO Summit in Warsaw REFERENCE: Our Memorandum to You, August 30, 2014 We longtime U.S. intelligence officers again wish to convey our concerns and cautions directly to you prior to a critically important NATO summit – the meeting that begins on July 8 in Warsaw. We were gratified to learn that our referenced memorandum reached you and your advisers before the NATO summit in Wales, and that others too learned of our initiative via the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, which published a full report on our memorandum on Sept. 4, the day that summit began. President Barack Obama talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the G7 Summit at Schloss Elmau in Bavaria, Germany, June 8, 2015. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) Wales to Warsaw The Warsaw summit is likely to be at least as important as the last one in Wales and is likely to have even more far-reaching consequences. We find troubling – if not surprising – NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s statement at a pre-summit press event on July 4 that NATO members will agree to “further enhance NATOs military presence in the eastern part of the alliance,” adding that the alliance will see its “biggest reinforcement since the Cold War.” The likelihood of a military clash in the air or at sea – accidental or intentional – has grown sharply, the more so since, as we explain below, President Obama’s control over top U.S./NATO generals, some of whom like to play cowboy, is tenuous. Accordingly we encourage you, as we did before the last NATO summit, to urge your NATO colleagues to bring a “degree of judicious skepticism” to the table at Warsaw – especially with regard to the perceived threat from Russia. Many of us have spent decades studying Moscow’s foreign policy. We shake our heads in disbelief when we see Western leaders seemingly oblivious to what it means to the Russians to witness exercises on a scale not seen since Hitler’s armies launched “Unternehmen Barbarossa” 75 years ago, leaving 25 million Soviet citizens dead. In our view, it is irresponsibly foolish to believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not take countermeasures – at a time and place of his own choosing. Putin does not have the option of trying to reassure his generals that what they hear and see from NATO is mere rhetoric and posturing. He is already facing increased pressure to react in an unmistakably forceful way. In sum, Russia is bound to react strongly to what it regards as the unwarranted provocation of large military exercises along its western borders, including in Ukraine. Before things get still worse, seasoned NATO leaders need to demonstrate a clear preference for statesmanship and give-and-take diplomacy over saber-rattling. Otherwise, some kind of military clash with Russia is likely, with the ever-present danger of escalation to a nuclear exchange. Extremely worrisome is the fact that many second-generation NATO leaders seem blithely unaware – or even dismissive – of that looming possibility. Demagoguery like that coming from former Polish President Lech Walesa, who brags that he would “shoot” at Russian jets that buzz U.S. destroyers assuredly are not at all helpful. Walesa’s tone, however, does reflect the macho attitude prevailing today in Poland and some other NATO newcomers. We believe Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier was correct to point out that military posturing on Russia’s borders will bring less regional security. We applaud his admonition that, “We are well advised not to create pretexts to renew an old confrontation.” A Need For Candor Speaking of “pretexts to renew an old confrontation,” we believe the time has come to acknowledge that the marked increase in East-West tensions over the past two years originally stemmed from the Western-sponsored coup d’état in Kiev on Feb. 22, 2014, and Russia’s reaction in annexing Crimea. Although we have a cumulative total of hundreds of years of experience in intelligence, we had never before seen planning for a coup d’état exposed weeks in advance – and then carried out anyway. Few seem to remember that in early February 2014, YouTube published a recording of an intercepted conversation between U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and the U.S. ambassador in Kiev, during which “Yats” (for Arseniy Yatsenyuk) was identified as Washington’s choice to become the new prime minister of the coup government in Kiev. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland during a press conference at the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, Ukraine, on Feb. 7, 2014. (U.S. State Department photo) This unique set of circumstances prompted widely respected analyst George Friedman, president of the think tank STRATFOR, to label the Putsch in Kiev on Feb. 22, 2014, “really the most blatant coup in history.” If one listens only to Western politicians and the corporate media, however, their version of recent history in Eastern Europe begins on Feb. 23, 2014. A particularly blatant example of this came on June 30, when U.S. Ambassador to NATO Douglas Lute spoke at a pre-summit press briefing: “beginning in 2014 and still to this day, we’re moving into a new period in NATO’s long history. Why do I say that? Here’s the evidence I cite. So the first thing that happened in 2014 that marks this change is a newly aggressive, newly assertive Russia under Vladimir Putin. So in late February, early March of 2014, the seizing, the occupying of Crimea followed quickly by the illegal political annexation of Crimea. … Well, any notion of strategic partnership came to an abrupt halt in the first months of 2014.” (Emphasis added) In view of the coup d’état and post-coup instability in Ukraine, what Ambassador Lute goes on to say about NATO’s professed desire for stability in Ukraine comes across as disingenuous. Far more important, it puts Russia on notice that – in the U.S. view, at least – meddling on the “periphery” between NATO and Russia will continue. According to Lute, one of the “key themes” at Warsaw will be: “What do we do about the periphery.” Lute explains: “Here we talk about projecting stability. So we don’t have an obligation to defend states beyond NATO’s territory, but we realize it’s in our interest to make them as stable as possible.” We suggest that it is past time for Western leaders to admit that there is not one scintilla of evidence of any Russian plan to annex Crimea before the coup in Kiev and the coup leaders began talking about Ukraine joining NATO. If senior NATO leaders continue to be unable or unwilling to distinguish between cause and effect, increasing tension is inevitable with potentially disastrous results – all of them unnecessary and avoidable, in our view. Ukraine: Still Festering In our August 2014 memorandum, we suggested that you be “appropriately suspicious of charges made by the U.S. State Department and NATO officials alleging a Russian invasion of Ukraine.” Actually, the gravity of the situation was considerably worse than we realized at the time. Former NATO Commander Philip M. Breedlove. We now know that U.S. Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove, who was Supreme NATO Commander until two months ago, was pressing hard for confrontation with Russia and the anti-coup separatists in eastern Ukraine. This comes through clearly in Breedlove’s recently disclosed emails, which now confirm what we believed in 2014; namely, that everyone needed to examine closely Breedlove’s exaggerated claims, many of them based on fuzzy photos and other highly dubious “intelligence.” Lobbying for approval to wage a proxy war with Russia in Ukraine, Breedlove was highly critical of President Barack Obama’s policy, which Breedlove disparaged as simply: “Do not get me into a war.” (As though this were some kind of cowardly order!) The emails show that behind Obama’s back, Breedlove kept trying to “leverage, cajole, convince or coerce the U.S. to react” to Russia. One of Breedlove’s email correspondents wrote back to him: “Given Obama’s instruction to you not to start a war, this may be a tough sell,” but this did not stop Breedlove from trying. In 2015, as your own intelligence analysts were able to tell you, Breedlove went beyond hyperbole to outright fabrication with claims that “well over a thousand combat vehicles, Russian combat forces, some of the most sophisticated air defense weapons, and battalions of artillery” had been sent to eastern Ukraine. These were the kinds of faux claims Breedlove used in attempts to enlist help from the senior military and Congress in getting Obama to supply weapons to Ukrainian armed forces. Lest we seem to be singling out Gen. Breedlove, his predecessor as Supreme NATO Commander, Adm. James Stavridis, was hardly provided good example. A year after the U.S. led some NATO countries in a Blitz of aircraft and missile strikes against Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi, Stavridis and former U.S. Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder wrote in Foreign Affairs: “NATO’s operation in Libya has rightly been hailed as a model intervention.” The operation was just the opposite, of course. The chaos now reigning in Libya, with hundreds of refugees drowning in the Mediterranean, offers abundant proof that your government’s decision to keep Germany at arms-length from that “model intervention” was a wise one. While it is somewhat awkward for us to offer such candid comments on the character and caliber of the most senior U.S. generals and admirals – including those, like Ambassador Lute, who end up getting appointed to senior political positions at NATO – such a critique is unavoidable. The important reality to which we draw your attention pertains not only to their qualifications, but also to their dismissive attitude toward President Obama. President Barack Obama and President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine talk after statements to the press following their bilateral meeting at the Warsaw Marriott Hotel in Warsaw, Poland, June 4, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) We observed in our Aug. 30, 2014 memorandum that President Obama “has only tenuous control over the policymakers in his administration.” That this includes senior military leaders can be seen in Obama’s failure to remove Gen. Breedlove, who – in addition to his intense maneuvering behind Obama’s back – made little effort to hide his open disdain for the cautious approach of his commander in chief toward the possibility of armed confrontation in volatile places like Ukraine. An Appropriate “Nein!” One factor encouraging us to write to you again is your proven record of insistence on tenacious diplomacy rather than saber rattling and provocation. We noted, for example, that at a press conference with President Obama in Washington on Feb. 9, 2015, you personally experienced Breedlove-type pressure for sending lethal weaponry to Ukraine – the kind of pressure still being applied to Obama himself. You stuck to your guns, so to speak, when the first designated questioner noted that the U.S. was considering providing lethal weapons to Ukraine and that your view was “very different.” “I have given you my opinion on the export of arms,” was your unequivocal answer. Nor did you diverge from your insistent preference for diplomacy over arms, as you replied to a final, plaintive question: “Mrs. Merkel, … diplomacy, as you said yourself, has not brought much progress. Can you understand the impatience of the Americans when they say we ought to now deliver weapons?” Right-wing Ukrainian politician Andriy Parubiy. We believe your resolute “nein” to providing weapons to Ukraine was a key factor in scuttling that ill-conceived idea last year. And, as you know far better than we, your clearly expressed stance helped bring about a ceasefire that, however imperfect, was infinitely better than the escalation of fighting that would have inevitably resulted from sending weapons to Kiev’s government forces. You stuck to your position, even though it put you in opposition to nearly all political, military, and media voices in the U.S., which were expressing disdain for diplomacy and preference instead for war. It is inevitable that there will be more proposals to send weapons to the Kiev government, particularly in view of the continued hostilities in eastern Ukraine. We hope that unbiased scrutiny can be given to which parties are responsible for blocking full implementation of the Minsk accords that you, Foreign Minister Steinmeier, and your French and Russian counterparts have worked hard to offer as a plan for peace in Ukraine. Secretary of State John Kerry is visiting Kiev on July 7, a day before the Warsaw summit opens. He might be asked to share his impressions on the stormy political events in Ukraine over the past few months. In our view, things have gone from bad to worse there, with Andriy Parubiy now speaker of the Ukrainian parliament. Parubiy is one of the most conspicuous leaders of Ukrainian ultra-nationalist, and outright neo-Nazi, movements. In 1991 he founded the Social-National Party of Ukraine, together with Oleh Tyahnybok, another February 2014 coup plotter, who now leads the extreme right Svoboda party. The neo-Nazi Wolfsangel symbol on a banner in Ukraine. The name of Parubiy’s Social-National Party was chosen to identify it with Hitler’s National Socialist Party. Its official symbol is the somewhat modified Wolf’s Hook (Wolfsangel), used by the SS. Both parties blame Russia for the ills besetting Ukraine. Parubiy as Parliament Speaker makes a mockery of NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg’s insistence that NATO has resolved to make sure that a law-abiding Kiev is “committed to democracy.” On Monday, Parubiy stated on TV, “I have not supported the Minsk agreements from the very start,” adding that Moscow’s “plans on Ukraine may be stopped only by force and international sanctions.” Also on Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Ukraine has not made any new effort to facilitate implementation of the Minsk accords that call for a ceasefire, weapons withdrawal, local elections in eastern Ukraine, and constitutional reform. Doing the Possible in Poland Instead of muscle flexing and saber rattling, it would likely be more constructive if NATO leaders held a serious discussion regarding Kiev’s recalcitrance on the Minsk accords. An open discussion would mean avoiding the usual knee-jerk, wholesale identification with Ukraine’s long list of real and imagined grievances against Russia. U.S. Ambassador Lute might be asked if knows anyone with the kind of influence with Kiev that it would take to break the logjam and move events toward implementation of the peace agreements so painstakingly worked out at Minsk. Another worthwhile endeavor would be to establish a NATO working group to respond to Russia’s suggestion to devise organizational and technical measures to prevent close encounters or clashes of aircraft over the Baltic Sea. Lastly, it would be highly constructive if NATO would take responsibility for assessing the fundamental factors behind the hideous outbreak of the terrorist acts that took so many lives over recent days in Istanbul, Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Baghdad. In this context, as well as in central Europe, violence begets violence. It should not be beyond the capability of NATO to undertake a fresh, hard look at why terrorism continues to increase, and to attempt to come up with new, more imaginative, less violent ways to address the issues that ultimately fuel the curse of terrorism. NOTE: As is our custom, we are sending the White House a copy of this memorandum. We would like you to know, however, that we rarely receive any acknowledgement that our memoranda get through to President Obama – or that the he pays them any heed if they do reach his desk. We suspect that the wide generation gap between his relatively young advisers and the longtime collective experience that we in VIPS bring to the table may, in part, account for this. Therefore, if you find our thoughts informative – perhaps even provocative – we suggest that, when you see the President on Friday in Warsaw, you urge the President to obtain and read his copy. For the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity William Binney, former Technical Director, NSA; co-founder, SIGINT Automation Research Center (ret.) Daniel Ellsberg, former State Department and Defense Department Official (VIPS Associate) Graham E. Fuller, Vice-Chair, National Intelligence Council (ret.) Philip Giraldi, CIA, Operations Officer (ret.) Mike Gravel, former special agent of the Counter Intelligence Corps. former United States Senator from Alaska Matthew Hoh, former Capt., USMC, Iraq & Foreign Service Officer, Afghanistan (associate VIPS) Larry C Johnson, CIA & State Department (ret.) Brady Kiesling, Foreign Service Officer, Political Counselor, Embassy Athens, (ret.) (associate VIPS) John Kiriakou, Former CIA Counterterrorism Officer Edward Loomis, NSA Cryptologic Computer Scientist (ret.) David MacMichael, National Intelligence Council (ret.) Ray McGovern, former US Army infantry/intelligence officer & CIA analyst (ret.) Elizabeth Murray, Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Middle East, CIA (ret.) Torin Nelson, Former HUMINT Officer, U.S. Department of the Army Todd Pierce, MAJ, US Army Judge Advocate (ret.) Scott Ritter, former Maj., USMC, former UN Weapon Inspector, Iraq Coleen Rowley, Division Counsel & Special Agent, FBI (ret.) Peter Van Buren, U.S. Department of State, Foreign Service Officer (ret.) (associate VIPS) Ann Wright, U.S. Army Reserve Colonel (ret) and former U.S. Diplomat Tags: Angela Merkel Barack Obama NATO Philip Breedlove Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity Victoria Nuland ← Terrorism’s Murky Message The Nasty Blowback from America’s Wars → 43 comments for “Merkel Urged to Temper NATO’s Belligerence” Russian do not want war. We want peace and cooperation. But we will defend ourselves if attacked happen. As in all past wars … “Who’s to us with the sword come, that perish by the sword.” (C) Come and see us as friends! :) World War III is a really bad idea. World Peace I is clearly more sensible. Most people on Earth prefer peace. Hans Koritke the warmongering is the complete realisation of the policy of the military industrial complex of which already Eisenhower warned in 1960. People who desire war have no idea – like myself who suffered as a boy of 10 from the firestorms of burning German cities. People who desire war believe they can stand aside far away from the battlefield EUROPE. The same belief was also with the German Emperor and Adolf Hitler who were convinced that the WWI and WWII could easily be won in a few months. Both wars ended in the biggest desaster world has ever seen since then. But both wars will be playground plays compared to WWIII which some criminals prepare. I alerted Florian Rötzer to this article and shortly thereafter (on July 8) he published a long article quoting extensively from it in Telepolis, a German online magazine of which he is the chief editor: SmoothieX12 George Friedman of STRATFOR is “widely respected” by who? I read his “forecasts” (when having free time) for years–he is hardly in the know when saying (or writing) anything on Russia. … NATO members will agree to “further enhance NATOs military presence in the eastern part of the alliance,” adding that the alliance will see its “biggest reinforcement since the Cold War.” And NATO continues its march of folly. Gregory Herr Bill, perhaps you have read Barbara Tuchman’s “March of Folly: from Troy to Vietnam” ? It was recently recommended to me, and the reviews on Amazon have me very much looking forward to reading it. Gregory: It is a long time since I read this book, but I can recall I was very impressed when I read it. I highly recommend it as I do the compendium of essays by Walter Karp that woke me up to the reality of American politics. You can get information about the four books at alibris.com. You can probably also get a good deal on Tuchman’s books there. The same assessment for Karp’s books goes for Robert Parry’s books. He has continued the tradition of Karp who died about the time Robert Parry was starting his similarly courageous and enlightening career combining real journalism with history. Thanks for the references Bill. Walter Karp looks to be a real “find” for me. His “Indispensable Enemies: the Politics of Misrule in America” is in my shopping cart. I often come across the idea that America foreign policy is inept due to bureaucratic bungling; that “mistakes” are made because of institutional inertia, and that our missteps are well-intentioned. I argue that American foreign policy would certainly be a bungled job if in fact the intentions were good…but our foreign policy is not well-intentioned, the planners are basically doing what they set out to do. Karp (according to a review) may be of a similar mindset. Sorry to see he passed away at age 55. Those Breedlove emails should be a bigger story. It’s really something else, this push to create a nuclear-ized line of control on Russia’s border, beyond even the Pakistan/China and India Line of Control. We’ve lost the cultural understanding of how dangerous this is, lost that sense that those of us who grew up during the Cold War had of the precarious nature of it all. Hillary the Disband NATO please & close most of the American military bases in Europe and send the hundred thousand American troops home. Europe should be responsible for its own defense and its own foreign policies, not merely a compliant vassal of the United States https://www.darkmoon.me/2015/german-victims-how-the-allied-victors-of-wwii-tortured-and-killed-their-german-prisoners-of-war-part-2-of-2/ Berry Friesen Good try, VIPS; I respect your efforts. But Merkel has been on a very short leash since March, 2015 when Germanwings Flight 9525 inexplicably flew into a mountain. She knows that disaster was a personal message to her from the empire: get back in line. I am replying to you, Berry, because you and I are two of the very few who choose to identify themselves with a link to their website, which serves the important purpose of letting people know who the heck is speaking. As for your comment here, however, there is no indication whatever that anything other than the deplorably undetected insanity of the pilot was a cause of the crash, so you are either way off base (not to say your rocker) or privy to some info that no one else has. Mr. Morrissey, what is the credible “indication” of cause that the pilot deliberately crashed the plane into the mountain? As I recall, the case for such a conclusion is circumstantial at best and at worst is a leap of logic . . . . “the pilot must have been insane.” Then there is the documented fact that planes of the same manufacture as GW 9525 could be entirely controlled remotely without the pilots’ cooperation. So no, I am not privy to which it is, but the evidence of insanity is weak and the evidence that the empire uses terrorism to achieve its ends overwhelming. Peter Loeb CLOSE NATO—DIRECT INVESTMENTS TO DOMESTIC US NEEDS I agree with most of the commentators above. In addition with the closing of NATO, specific guidelines (and appropriations etc) should be made to engage those thousands currently employed in manufacturing US weapons to responsible, well-paid positions in domestic fields such as building and staffing of hospitals (eg technological needs, not only lifting a spade), building and rebuilding highways, bridges, and railroad systems, construction of affordable houses and the like. Our goal is NOT to put thouands of workers out-of-work but to direct them to more productive endeavors than the manufacture of higher tech means to kill other human beings. It goes without saying that various labor unions must be involved in all phases of this transition.. I have my doubts as to whether the above article will persuade Angela Merkel. Why is the US Secretary of State in Georgia declaring US interest in yet another state bordering Russia??? If the US continues to abrogate exclusively to itself the inalienable right to be militarily involved in every country in the world (as a basic US security interest and obligation?), perhaps they should establish bases and so-called “training exercises” in Palestine to combat the so far uncontested (by the US) oppression and illegal annexation etc. by the State of Israel. —-Peter Loeb, Boston, MA, USA F. G. Sanford I hesitate to be so self-serving as to re-post my own previous comments, but for those who may find them interesting, I refer you to my June 23 post under Marjorie Cohn’s June 22 article, and to my July 6 post under Ann Wright’s July 5 article. I frequently hear the truism: “Words have meaning.” That may be counted among humanity’s falsest statements. They simply don’t. Words have definitions, and “meaning” resides in the mind of the listener. Some comments on this site exemplify that point, demonstrating that not only do people fail to listen – or exhibit adequate reading comprehension – they also fail to comprehend that words have multiple definitions. The result is often an emotional response (irrationalism) where none is warranted. My observation is that a few of the commenters here, as well as the authors of this article, have assessed things with reasonable fidelity. The United States and NATO are now ‘in bed’ with a bunch of Nazi lunatics in Ukraine. There is an ideologically unbroken chain of association between the pogromists and Banderists of WWII and the current regime in Ukraine. Ergo, they are not “neo-Nazis”. They are simply “Nazis”. For example, Yaroslav Stetsko’s personal secretary is now a member of the current government. These people have their own agenda. What they “say” can hardly be expected to coincide with what they “mean”. This bizarre alliance is almost certain, whether intended or unintended, to spark some kind of kinetic event. The chance that the event will involve nuclear weapons is extremely high. As long as a Nazi tail is wagging the NATO dog, nobody is safe. We are now living in the surreal, delusional and abstract interpretation of current events which I choose to call, “The Dada Cafe”. Good luck with that. Don’t say nobody tried to warn you. The United States and NATO are now ‘in bed’ with a bunch of Nazi lunatics in Ukraine. From the same region as Gavrilo Princip who fired the starter’s pistol for World War One. “Shooting went on regardless, profiteering went on regardless, people would go on starving regardless, lies would always be told regardless—what was the good of art anyway? In those days we saw the mad final excrescences of the ruling order of society, and burst out laughing. We did not yet see that there was a system behind all this madness.” – George Grosz and Wieland Herzfelde, “Die Kunst ist in Gefahr“ (“Art is in Danger”), 1925 Geoffrey de Galles I would very much hope that VIPS also saw fit to Fed-ex a copy of this memo to Merkel’s regular interlocutor, Francois Hollande. In my understanding, France has long had a number of deep reservations vis-a-vis NATO; and — you never know, d’you — this memo could conceivably prove to be the straw that’ll break the camel’s back. Thank you for your courageous efforts VIPS, this memo is excellent. If no effort to steer vision to sanity is made, we won’t even have a chance to avoid a dance with death made by blind choice. Garol Equidik This article is nonsense. NATO, the EU, etc., are part and parcel of the Global-Totalitarian Cabal that is initiating negative advances toward Russia and Company, risking a world war. The best thing that would happen would be if Russia and Company would nuke all of it’s Totalitarian nemesis, including the U.S. International law expert Alexander Mercouris points out the fact that the “Ukraine Parliament Speaker Exposes Absurdity of Merkel’s Sanctions Policy” http://theduran.com/ukraine-parliament-speaker-exposes-absurdity-merkels-sanctions-policy/ “immediately after the sanctions were extended – Andrey Parubiy has acted to prove the EU wrong and Putin right. Though he is the Speaker of the Ukrainian parliament and a key figure in the Ukrainian power structure he admits that he entirely opposes the Minsk II Agreement and always did. In a television interview on Monday 4th July 2016 he is reported as saying: “’I have not supported the Minsk Agreements from the very start. I thought, and I still think that the Minsk Agreements were signed in conditions that were unfavourable for Ukraine.’ “The EU’s decision to link sanctions against Russia to the full implementation of the Minsk II Agreement happened directly after that agreement was reached in February 2015. Deeply humiliated by Putin at Minsk, Merkel tried to salvage her reputation with the US hardliners and gain some leverage over the process by getting the European Council to link the lifting of the sanctions to the full implementation of the Minsk II Agreement. “By doing so Merkel led the EU into a trap where its sanctions policy against Russia – which is severely hurting scores of European businesses, including German businesses – is now hostage to the obsessions of people like Parubiy, who have made it perfectly clear that they will never willingly implement the Minsk II Agreement. “Though this fact may not be widely known by the generality of the European public, it is very well known by the businesses affected and of course it is well known to EU governments including […] to members of Merkel’s own coalition government.” Andriy Parubiy founded the Social-National Party of Ukraine together with Oleh Tyahnybok in 1991. The name Social-National Party was chosen as a fully intentional allusion to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party called National Socialist Party. This interpretation has been confirmed by Der Spiegel, Germany’s leading weekly news magazine. True to its historical inspiration, the Social-National Party did not conceal its radical nationalism and its Nazi features. In a 2009 study of “Ultraright Party Politics in Post-Soviet Ukraine”, researchers Andreas Umland and Anton Shekhovstov characterized the Social-National Party of Ukraine in these words: “… of these various Ukrainian nationalist parties the SNPU was the least inclined to conceal its neo fascist affiliations. Its official symbol was the somewhat modified Wolf’s Hook (Wolfsangel), used as a symbol by the German SS division Das Reich and the Dutch SS division Landstorm Nederland during World War II and by a number of European neofascist organizations after 1945. As seen by the SNPU leadership, the Wolf’s Hook became the “idea of the nation.” Moreover, the official name of the party’s ideology, “social nationalism,” clearly referred back to “national socialism”—the official name of the ideology of the National-Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) and of the Hitlerite regime. The SNPU’s political platform distinguished itself by its openly revolutionary ultranationalism, its demands for the violent takeover of power in the country, and its willingness to blame Russia for all of Ukraine’s ills. Moreover, the SNPU was the first relatively large party to recruit Nazi skinheads and football hooligans.” From December 2013 to February 2014, Parubiy was a commandant of Euromaidan. He was then appointed Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, and was approved by (then) new Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on 16 June 2014. As Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, Parubiy oversaw the “anti–terrorist” operation against eastern Ukraine. Parubiy resigned as Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council on 7 August 2014. He declined to say why, stating “I believe it is unacceptable to comment on my resignation in a time of war”, and he would “continue to assist the front, primarily volunteer battalions”. President Poroshenko signed a decree confirming Parubiy’s dismissal the same day. RT reported that local media were stating that Parubiy resigned after he was ordered to declare another ceasefire in the southeast of Ukraine, but refused to do so. Parubiy has been the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, since 14 April 2016. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visited Kyiv on 7 July 2016 to meet with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD-8VSlDGb0 Kerry was accompanied by Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland. In addition to meeting with Poroshenko, Kerry discussed the Minsk Implementation Plan on Donbas with high-ranked Ukrainian officials including Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin and Verkhovna Rada Chairman Andriy Parubiy. After Kyiv, Kerry traveled to Warsaw, Poland to attend the NATO summit. On July 8, he will be accompanying U.S. President Barack Obama, who will also be present at the summit. “It is likely that the ultra-nationalist Parubiy was behind the false flag operation and nationalist revolutionary seizure of power. He would be rewarded under the new Maidan regime with the post of Chairman of the Defense and Security Council of Ukraine.” The Real “Snipers’ Massacre”, Ukraine, February 2014: Updated/Revised Working Paper By Gordon M. Hahn https://gordonhahn.com/2016/03/09/the-real-snipers-massacre-ukraine-february-2014-updatedrevised-working-paper/ Still timely and must reading for VIPS: “Ms. Merkel and Peace” by Dagmar Henn http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/02/13/ms-merkel-and-peace/ “Sometimes one gets the impression that the Russian side tries to explain very slowly three times to intellectually challenged people of Berlin the effects of what they are actually doing at the moment. I would consider the interview with [Russian politician Yevgeny Alexeyevich] Fedorov in this context — a kind of tedious pedagogic effort. Could it be that Merkel saw this video and became deeply frightened, when she heard that in case of a Ukrainian attack against Russia ‘Washington and Berlin would be burned to ashes’? “Well, some decades ago someone, after meeting Merkel — at that time minister of enviromental issues — commented that she is not any more intelligent than her appearance suggests. But it would need someone incapable to count up to three not to understand that we are talking about a real and massive risk of a nuclear war. This risk has existed since the day of the coup in Kiev, and we have escaped it twice already — through the reunification of the Crimea with Russia, and through the uprising in the Donbass, which has up to now prevented an attack of the junta against the Crimea. “So even if this specific question more or less escaped public attention until today, and now suddenly becomes so acute that even Der Spiegel remembers it, the leading players in Germany must have realised this tiny problem right from the start. (And they should have been able to imagine what it might mean if creatures like members of the Right Sector gained access to nuclear weapons, which might have happened, had their access to the Crimea not been blocked so promptly)” Far from tempering the alliance’s belligerence, Merkel plays NATO shieldmaiden http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6fl6Wdtm65o/T-_8RuRyZwI/AAAAAAAAAhY/tSp6tQlfN_U/s1600/angela+merkel+als+brunhilde+blog.jpg According to Albert Speer [Inside the Third Reich, The Macmillan Company. 1970, p. 463], the Berlin Philharmonic’s last performance before their evacuation from Berlin at the end of World War II in Europe was of Brünnhilde’s Immolation Scene at the end of Richard Wagner’s opera, Götterdämmerung [Twilight of the Gods]. Boris M Garsky Very wise words. I would like to point out that NATO is the military arm of the Rothschilds, not an ally of the USA, not in a true sense. . NATO could never confront Russia and survive, so it is imperative to get the USA’s military involved. If this does not wake up the President, then nothing will- he is in control of NOTHING! Since Israel was unsuccessful in maneuvering the USA into a catastrophic confrontation with Iran and Russia, a Rothschilds dream of divide and conquer and take total control of Americas stockpile of nuclear arms, the Rothschilds are now resorting to NATO as the bait. This country is at a fateful crossroad; one leading to life and one leading to total destruction and death. NATO is neither an ally, nor friend. NATO is the sole property of the Rothschilds dynasty and they want a WW3. The Napoleonic War with Russia, WW1 and WW2, were very profitable for the Rothchilds. This Putin knows as does Iran and China. Only our president remains blind! He is not blind,he is part of the Zionist problem. As a person living in Germany I strongly support this (further) attempt by the VIPS to speak truth and reason to power, in this case to our chancellor Merkel. I hope a copy is also sent to Steinmeier and Sigmar Gabriel, also to Gernot Erler and Gerhard Schröder (and even Joachim Gauck), all of whom would (I think) be supportive. I posted to OpEdNews.com about Steinmeier’s remarks and Schröder’s support of them, but I don’t think many people noticed. What the VIPS are doing is extremely important. I can hardly find words to praise them enough. I have suggested a couple of times that other “leading dissidents” should take them as a model and take similar actions, but as far as I can see the VIPS are the only ones acting responsibly, namely swallowing their egos and actually getting together to produce eminently sensible statements that everyone can and should stand behind. Many thanks and kudos to all the VIPS. You continue to be my model for responsible political engagement. If the world blows up, you will be among the few who will be able to say (theoretically!) you did your best to prevent it. thank you for this info seems not all americans are stupid warmongers as many people might think when they see what happens in the world,and hear Nato chiefs……. What Europe should have done long ago was to disband NATO, close all of the American military bases in Europe and send the hundred thousand American troops home. Europe should be responsible for its own defense and its own foreign policies, not merely a compliant vassal of the United States. You would think that, under such a policy, tensions would be lower, trip wires to World War III could be eliminated, money saved on needless armaments, and trade with Russia, China, Iran and other countries greatly enhanced, providing more jobs to fuel the economies of the European states. Perhaps, without American influences playing one country against another, Europe might have by now become even more unified than the mistrusted EU. So, why have they never done this? Why do they show not the slightest intention to do so in the future? Is it a consequence of the paranoia constantly being stoked by America? Or do these nation states still basically distrust one another to the point where they need a collective minder in the form of the United States? In essence, a super “baby sitter.” If the latter, people of Europe, please grow up and take control of your own destinies as soon as possible. Your American baby sitters are about to burn your house down. Realist, your warnings to the Europeans is spot on, but should we not advise our fellow Americans not to vote for a proven warmonger. If only the news media were doing it’s job. Doing their job of reporting the news with coverage that tends to dig into the depths of the news, and in a way that is objective to every issue, which would help greatly to improve the public’s education of world events. It’s not that people don’t care, they just don’t know. I’m hoping that this Brexit rebellion is the start of a European withdraw from the empire of chaos, and the empire’s Neocon influences. I’m also hoping that with the rise of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which represents two thirds of the world’s population, that this may slow down the ambitious nature which seems to prevail inside the Washington beltway, and that a more fair and level headed group of American diplomats will emerge. There have been a few times in my life, that I wished for less, and got lucky and received much more, I hope this is one of those lucky times again. take care Realist JT William Beeby The U.S. of A controls Europe in just the same way the USSR used to control Eastern Europe until it’s demise in 1991.Hence no disbandment of NATO and the huge increase of America weapons , including nuclear ,and personnel since the Warsaw Pact was ended. In other words Germany has no choice in the same way the UK has no choice. It is Wall Street again who wants war and they ALWAYS get what they want and Damn the people who will die. Very good article. bfearn Bigwigs being generously paid by NATO as well as all the senior officers in the militaries that belong to NATO, have no real interest in losing their jobs, or their $20000 a month pensions. So what good is peace to them? These people need an enemy and if they don’t have one they will make one up and go to ‘war’ with them, the ‘war on terror’ is a good example. Sanity is certainly required here but wealth and power have trumped sanity since the first guy figured out that it was easier and more fun to just take things by force. James lake Save your breath appealing to merkel she is a disaster for Europe Havent you picked up on the fact that Merkel is pursuing an anti Russian policy. German troops will be on Russia’s border. Merkel lost the plot when she supported the coup in ukraine and turned a blind eye to the nature of the government in Kiev Merkel gave tacit approval to the so called ATO in the east of ukraine. Merkel puts all the blame for failure of Minsk 2 on Russia when ukraine openly admit they will not enforce it Merkel maintains an anti a Russian stance that is at odds with her coalition partners in the german government and also with juncker at the EU who went to St Petersburg recently. Merkel has been briefing against him, blaming him for brexit. When her migrant policy was more of a factor in dividing Europe She is an over rated leader who needs to go. Germany needs to return to Ostpolitik sejmon I really can not believe how merkel is soooo stupid. Or blackmailed. We only read that NSA was spying on her, we never read what NSA had spied up on her. In Germany, the coalition partner of the Merkel’s CDU is going alone in re-establishing links with Russia, circumventing Merkel completely. Merkel is a politically dead woman talking due to her promotion of Germany as a destination for refugees and illegal immigration. This is why CDU has been routed at every regional election since the flood of refugges and immigrants started arriving. Not sure what the benefit of this letter will be, the veterans of intelligence appear to have obsolete intelligence. But they are all absolutely wonderful individuals. Brad Benson There’s no taste for that in Germany. The letter is correct in its assessment of Merkel’s attempts to maintain peaceful relations with the Ukraine. Merkel and Putin get along. She speaks Russian. He speaks German. However, Merkel is under great political pressure from both the EU and NATO. Jonathan Marshall outlines new US Programs that are being designed to “counter” Russian Propaganda. The story notes that one of the program’s targets is ‘RT’, which draws less than 0.1% of the US Audience. Along the way, Marshall manages to discuss NATO General Craig Breedlove, who complains that the Russian Information Machine is causing stress within certain NATO Countries who are becoming passive toward the Russian Threat. There’s a link to Dr. Stephen Cohen, which is followed by this amazing quote, which echoes my own concerns about the growth of the nuclear threat with this ‘New Cold War’: “no conflict in recent memory has attracted less debate than America’s dangerous revival of the Cold War with the world’s only other nuclear superpower”. https://consortiumnews.com/2016/04/13/the-new-propaganda-war/ Here’s the German Magazine ‘Der Spiegel’s’ Article on the raucous Bayerischer Hof Hotel Meeting in which US War Criminals plotted to destroy the Ukrainian Peace Process on the eve of Merkel’s trip to Minsk. Included in the meeting were US NATO Head, General Phillip Breedlove, Victoria Nuland, action officer for the coup in the Ukraine; and John McCain, who never saw a war he couldn’t love. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/germany-concerned-about-aggressive-nato-stance-on-ukraine-a-1022193.html Poison Pill added to Minsk II? http://www.bild.de/politik/inland/muenchner-sicherheitskonferenz/was-us-politiker-ueber-deutschland-denken-39678276.bild.html https://consortiumnews.com/2015/03/19/ukraines-poison-pill-for-peace-talks/ So if Blair was our “poodle,” what will Merkel be labeled? Speaking of Chilcot, did anyone notice how a large percentage of the families of British soldiers killed in Iraq are (rightfully) angry at learning how Blair helped lie the U.K. into the war while almost none of the US families–except for Cindy Sheehan–ever speak out? Is this a form of “Stockholm Syndrome?” Brainwashing by Zion has had a terrible effect on American minds. Add to that,the MSM won’t print things that hurt the Zionist expansion program,which of course Iraq,Libya,Afghanistan and Syria(most of all,as they can grab Syrian territory at will)all are part of. Dancing Israelis?Was that an ABBA song? SFOMARCO From my myopic viewpoint… US military families cling to the Support Our Troops meme, whereas the American public at large ignores the issue, probably because they are not personally affected. “Stockholm Syndrome” is too strong; US military families are not in a hostage situation.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1168
__label__cc	0.562835	0.437165	Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Intelligence, Lost History, Media, Obama Administration, Trump Administration NYT Retreats on 2013 Syria-Sarin Claims April 6, 2017 • 147 Comments Exclusive: Even as The New York Times leads the charge against the Syrian government for this week’s alleged chemical attack, it is quietly retreating on its earlier certainty about the 2013 Syria-sarin case, reports Robert Parry. By Robert Parry The New York Times, which has never heard an allegation against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that it hasn’t immediately believed, has compiled a list of his alleged atrocities with a surprising omission: the Aug. 21, 2013 sarin gas attack outside Damascus. A heart-rending propaganda image designed to justify a major U.S. military operation inside Syria against the Syrian military. Why this omission is so surprising is that the sarin incident was the moment when the Western media and the Washington establishment piled on President Barack Obama for not enforcing his “red line” by launching military strikes against the Syrian government to retaliate for Assad “gassing his own people.” The retaliation, which would have pummeled the Syrian military, was hotly desired by neoconservatives and liberal interventionists who were obsessed with achieving another Mideast “regime change” even if that risked turning Syria over to Al Qaeda and/or the Islamic State. The story of Obama’s supposed “red line” retreat has become a treasured groupthink of all the “important people” in D.C. So, for the Times to compile a summary of alleged Assad atrocities, which included a separate section on “chemical attacks,” and to leave out the August 2013 case suggests that even The New York Times cannot sustain one of the most beloved myths of the Syrian war, that Assad was at fault for the sarin attack. Previously, the Times backed away from one of its front-page reports – published about a month after the sarin attack – that used a “vector analysis” to place the site of the sarin missile launch at a Syrian military base about 9 kilometers from the two impact zones. That analysis was considered the slam-dunk proof of Assad’s guilt, but it collapsed when it turned out that one of the missiles contained no sarin and the other rocket, which did have sarin, had a range of only about 2 kilometers, placing the likely firing location in rebel-controlled territory. Hersh’s Findings Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh further demolished the Assad-sarin myth in an article that traced the chemicals back to Turkish intelligence, but the mainstream U.S. media was so hostile to any dissenting view on the Assad-did-it groupthink that Hersh had to publish his findings in the London Review of Books. Later, Turkish police and opposition officials corroborated much of Hersh’s findings – and I’ve been told that U.S. intelligence analysts now agree, at least generally, with Hersh’s conclusions. Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh But the Times never directly repudiated its earlier accusations against Assad’s military, thus allowing the groupthink to be sustained that Assad was responsible for the 2013 attack. That history became important again on Tuesday when another incident – also apparently involving sarin or a similar poison gas – claimed lives in an Al Qaeda-dominated area of northern Syria. The U.S. mainstream media (along with President Trump and his top aides) immediately blamed Assad again, with Trump and his team threatening to launch a retaliatory military strike even without the approval of the United Nations Security Council. The 2013 case loomed large in the background with Trump implicitly referencing Obama’s presumed failure to enforce his “red line.” Prominent U.S. news personalities, such as MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, also have cited the old Assad-was-guilty-in-2013 conventional wisdom to buttress their new rush to judgment over the Tuesday incident. Indeed, the 2013 sarin case has become a perfect example of how the major U.S. media often jumps to conclusions and then refuses to back down regardless of the ensuing evidence. But now we have the Times’ list of alleged Assad atrocities, compiled by Russell Goldman, a senior staff editor on the International Desk, that doesn’t allege that Assad or his forces were responsible for the 2013 sarin attack. Goldman reports: “In the latest attack on civilians, more than 100 people, including children, were believed to have been killed by chemical weapons in a rebel-held town in Idlib Province on Tuesday. A doctor there said the victims’ pupils were reduced to pinhole-size dots, a characteristic of nerve agents and other banned toxic substances. “The United States put the blame for the attack on the Syrian government and its patrons, Russia and Iran, and suggested that the salvo was a war crime. While the attack was among the deadliest uses of chemical weapons in Syria in years, it was far from an isolated case. “During the war, the Assad government has been accused of regularly using chlorine gas, which is less deadly than the agent used on Tuesday and is legal in its commercial form. According to the Violations Documentation Center, an antigovernment watchdog, more than 1,100 Syrians have been killed in chemical weapons and gas attacks.” The reference to the anti-Assad group’s claim about the 1,100 Syrians allegedly killed by chemical weapons would presumably include the 2013 sarin incident, although local medical personnel put the death toll much lower, at perhaps several hundred. But note how the Times used a passive tense in describing those deaths – “more than 1,100 Syrians have been killed” – without attribution of who did the killing. And nothing specific at all about the 2013 sarin case and who was responsible. The Chlorine Cases The chlorine-gas cases have resulted in only a few fatalities, which also undercuts the claims that the Assad government was responsible for them. Why would Assad risk more outside military intervention against his government by using a chemical weapon that has almost no military value, at least as allegedly deployed in Syria? The controversial map developed by Human Rights Watch and embraced by the New York Times, supposedly showing the flight paths of two missiles from the Aug. 21, 2013 Sarin attack intersecting at a Syrian military base. U.N. investigators – under intense pressure from the West to find something that could be pinned on Assad – agreed to blame him for a couple of the chlorine allegations coming from rebel forces and their civilian allies. But the U.N. team did not inspect the sites directly, relying instead of the testimony of Assad’s enemies. In one of the chlorine cases, however, Syrian eyewitnesses came forward to testify that the rebels had staged the alleged attack so it could be blamed on the government. In that incident, the U.N. team reached no conclusion as to what had really happened, but neither did the investigators – now alerted to the rebels’ tactic of staging chemical attacks – apply any additional skepticism to the other cases. In one case, the rebels and their supporters also claimed to know that an alleged “barrel bomb” contained a canister of chlorine because of the sound that it made while descending. There was no explanation for how that sort of detection was even possible. Yet, despite the flaws in the rebels’ chlorine claims – and the collapse of the 2013 sarin case – the Times and other mainstream U.S. news outlets report the chlorine allegations as flat-fact, without reference to sourcing from the U.N. investigators whose careers largely depended on them coming up with conclusions that pleased the majority of the five-member Security Council – the U.S., Great Britain and France. If this fuller history were understood, much greater skepticism would be warranted by the new allegations about Assad ordering a new sarin attack. While it’s conceivable that Assad’s military is guilty – although why Assad would take this risk at this moment is hard to fathom – it’s also conceivable that Al Qaeda’s jihadists – finding themselves facing impending defeat – chose to stage a sarin attack even if that meant killing some innocent civilians. Al Qaeda’s goal would be to draw in the U.S. or Israeli military against the Syrian government, creating space for a jihadist counteroffensive. And, as we should all recall, it’s not as if Al Qaeda hasn’t killed many innocent civilians before. [For more on the mysterious 2013 sarin case, see a memo from U.S. intelligence veterans, “A Call for Proof on Syrian-Sarin Attack.”] Investigative reporter Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories for The Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s. You can buy his latest book, America’s Stolen Narrative, either in print here or as an e-book (from Amazon and barnesandnoble.com). Tags: Barack Obama Bashar al-Assad Donald Trump New York Times Robert Parry Syria ← The Ugly Underbelly of Russia-gate Dashed Hopes for Trump’s Foreign Policy → 147 comments for “NYT Retreats on 2013 Syria-Sarin Claims” Aaron Holmgren Anyone claiming to know who did it at this point does not care about the victims. They are exploiting the victims for their own political gains. Anyone who cares about the victims would want to take extra care to ensure the correct perpetrators are identified and that no mistakes are made in that regard. People making claims at this point don’t care about truth, but about placing blame where it suites them. TERRENCE KNIGHT It is always necessary for aggressive nations like the U.S. to motivate their populations to hate someone enough to justify killing them. For many years the United States has characterized Russia as an evil empire; showing pictures of children suffering from an attack of nerve gas is certain to incite public anger, but it doesn’t resolve the issue of who is guilty. It is hard to say who is responsible, of course, but it is a fact that it is the U.S., not Russia, that maintains a concentration camp on a Caribbean Island that is in violation not only of international law but America’s own law, as well as the most fundamental moral laws of humanity. It is no longer possible for Americans, who are so completely brainwashed by their corporate/government media, to think rationally long enough to determine the truth. Jon Cloke What continues to intrigue me about these incidents is how clear and apparently damaging videos and photos become available almost immediately, as if pre-prepared.. remember the videos of victims in the 2013 incident? Clear, well-shot video that appeared quickly, instead of the shaky, grainy mobile-taken videos you usually get. In this latest one, good clear pictures of the bodies of undressed children in heaps appeared on Twitter again within hours – were these kids heaped/posed like that by someone in a mortuary, and why? How come they were all undressed? I realise that one can too quickly become a conspiracy theorist, but these two incidents have the smell of professional PR all over them… Those acting and photojournalism classes are paying off for the rebels. I suppose we should be grateful – our tax dollars are paying the tuition. https://youtu.be/2HMyPy94blk Everyone can see that justice isn’t being sought after in Syria. Qatar is looking for a pipeline into Europe through Syria. Israel wants more land than the Golan Heights. The only reasons I think Europe and the US have been holding back is because of all the refugees & attacks from Libya, Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Afghanistan. All of the chaos they’ve caused is coming back to haunt them. Paul Eichhorn Was it a false flag attack? Without an investigation, they did not know. It was a legal lynching. A rush to judgement. No investigation, no justification. This is nothing but an act of war done by Donald Trump without due process. Donald Trump needs to be impeached. https://www.nytimes.com/…/isis-chemical-weapons-syria… ISIS Used Chemical Arms at Least 52 Times in Syria and Iraq, Report Says The physiologic reactions of survivors in the April 2017, bombing Khan Sheikhoun in Syria described by witnesses – has nothing to do with sarin chemical actions on humans. Difficult where to start. The arrogance of power and the ignorance of the Trump administration have have resulted in another inexcusable U.S. war crime. The U.S. does not have the right to decide which rulers they will accept and which they will remove by one means or another. For argument’s sake, assume Assad is a brutal dictator and should be removed for the good of his country. The stench of the rank hypocrisy here is revolting. The U.S.. administration is not only tolerating Egypt’s gen. Sissi but actively praising him. Gen. Sissi is perhaps the most brutal of all reigning dictators, although all dictators are enemies of their countries. To actively support Egypt’s brutal dictatorship clearly points to U.S. policy of approving anyone and any crime if committed on behalf of Israel. As long as Egypt’s leader continues to support the existing peace treaty with Israel, the U.S. will accept any torture or murder. On the other hand, Israel most strongly desires the destruction of Syria, and expects the U.S. to do its bidding just as it did in Iraq. Never in history has such a mighty empire been occupied so easily, without a fight, by a small enemy. If this develops into a stand off between the US and Russia I think it is about time to get out on the streets again. I truly believe that the Kremlin is trying its best to avoid this stand off but the West is trying very hard. It’s like Jewish doctors in 1930s Germany, because they were helping people to get better, you prohibit them to practise, and then you can say, look at the Jews, they are doing nothing good for us. That is how the West is treating Russia. Many years ago Medvedev suggested a free-trade area from Vladivostok to Lisbon, the mistake he did was not to include North America. But I am certain, if the US and Canada had suggested to be included, he would have happily expanded the area to include North America. But instead, Washington’s alarm bells went off, they believe they can’t let this happen, The EU plus Russia, that wlll be serious competition. But why did they they not say, include us as well, then we are a very strong democratic liberal block and I am certain, the Kremlin had happily agreed to it. But now we got the opposite. Let’s get to streets, give peace a chance! Fran Macadam “And that the peace activists of Boston, San Francisco, New York, major cities get out on the street, regardless of presstitute coverage or not.” Peace activism ain’t what it used to, once war became the pillar of the peace prize presidency. “Humanitarian War” and the “Right to Protect” (corporate profits) are now in. Progressives are no longer against war, but personal “safe spaces” where reality can supposedly be kept at bay. Peace Out. Joe Giambrone Big Lies & WW3 https://jgiambrone.wordpress.com/2017/04/07/big-lies-and-world-war-3/ “The Kremlin will likely step back and say ‘we’re not going to risk nuclear war over Assad.’” That is certainly the consensus of the neocons – Russia will do nothing. But if they are worse than the neocons, as the neocons certainly believe, then they will have made the hubristic fatal mistake of every over ambitious military conqueror, that being aggressive is sufficient to cause others to roll over without a fight. When you go looking for a fight, you usually find one. Shock and awe only works the first time out, a Hitler learned about his blitzkriegs. The NYT might retreat but apart from that, the unassessed judgement that “it was Assad” by ALL western media, incl. The Guardian or the German “Die Zeit” is just simply shocking. Not a single attempt is raised to investigate somehow what the truth might bear and they all choose eagerly to ignore the 2013 Syria-sarin case. This bias in western media is worse than a 1970s Pravda. Do we have to believe now Al-Qaida’s media output? Is that what we are facing here? Why not believing everything Goebbels said in the 1930s? I am wondering how much money do the editiors get from the gulf-emirates and absolute monarchies to write this propaganda. angryspittle If we haven’t learned to take these government claims with skepticism by now, we’ll never learn. The truth is that we do not fucking know who is responsible for this latest attack. That, however, hasn’t stopped the media and most pols from jumping to conclusions and laying the blame at the feet of Assad. Caveat emptor……….. Cui bono……. Michael Kenny The NYT could have quite simply forgot! The attack Mr Parry refers to took place four years ago and Assad (and Putin!) have done lots of frightful things in the interim. Yeah, comrade Kenny. The Syrian Arab Army has done lots of frightful things… like roll back the Western-backed Al Qaeda and ISIS terrorist assault on Syria. And with every advance in the liberation of Syria from the terrorists, NATO poodles Eliot Higgins and Bellingcat have shrieked about “chemical” attacks. No actual evidence required. Just the terrorists’ claims, the requisite “shocking” YouTube videos, and pro-Al Qaeda PR flacks like Lindsey Graham and John McCain urging the President get tough (to the immense pleasure of their Israel Lobby paymasters). And so have we…….. No, they haven’t. If they have, name them. US attack based on “Superb analysis” via Twits https://twitter.com/DanKaszeta/status/850288010625245184 “Strikes Aid Al Qaeda, Defend Terrorists’ Last Bastion in Syria “The northern Syrian city of Idlib currently serves as the last significant stronghold of Al Qaeda in Syria. The eastern city of Raqqa serves as a sister city for the Islamic State. Despite claims that the two groups are ideologically and strategically opposed, they have coordinated their efforts in Syria for the entirety of the Syrian conflict. “Despite Al Qaeda openly running the dysfunctional city – held together almost entirely by foreign aid – US policymakers have repeatedly called for it to be transformed into the defacto capital of an opposition government. Much like the decades-long terrorist capital of Benghazi in Libya was transformed into a front for US-backed regime change, Idlib would function as a political front as US, European, NATO, and Persian Gulf states dismembered the existing Syrian state. “With the city facing imminent liberation by Syrian forces and their allies, the staged chemical weapons attack and the rushed unilateral US missile strike that followed it seeks to slow down or entirely reverse Syrian gains versus Al Qaeda’s stronghold in Idlib. “Ironically, US President Donald Trump ran on a hardliner anti-terror platform in 2016 only to find himself presiding over a foreign policy aiding and abetting the literal perpetrators of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York City and Washington D.C. he predicated his immigration ban list’s creation on. “‘Trump’s Policy’ is Merely Continuity of Agenda “The use of US cruise missiles to strike at Syria’s air force is in no shape, form, or way ‘President Trump’s policy.’ Instead, it is merely the final execution of policy that sat on former US President Barack Obama’s desk since attempts at swift regime change failed against Syria in 2011. “The use of ‘stand-off’ weapons like cruise missiles was tabled in 2013 after a staged chemical weapons attack near Damascus, and again in 2015 after Russia’s military intervention in Syria prevented more direct use of US military force within and above Syrian territory. The use of such weapons are required due to the nature of Syria’s air defense networks.” US Missiles Strike Syrian Forces Fighting Al Qaeda By Tony Cartalucci http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2017/04/us-missiles-strike-syrian-forces.html Israel is a legitimate suspect in a possible false-flag chemical attack delivered by aircraft in Syria. The alleged air attack may have involved Polish or Israeli operated Su-22 aircraft. 59 Raytheon Tomahawk land-attack missiles launched from US Navy vessels in the eastern Mediterranean targeted Al-Shayrat air base near Homs, Syria. Israeli sources indicate that 14 of the Syrian Air Force’s approximately 40-strong fleet of Sukhoi Su-22M (export designation of the Su-17) aircraft were destroyed in the attack, with significant damage was caused to the air base’s two main runways. According to US sources, Russia and Israel were notified about the attack shortly before the cruise missiles hit their targets. The Su-22 was designed as a high speed, medium range, low level ground attack / recce aircraft. Very rugged, reliable, and easy to maintain, these aircraft are the main striking arm of the Syrian Air Force. Su-22 squadrons are based near Damascus, at T4 near Homs and at Shayrat. Since the second half of 2012, Syrian Air Force Su-22s have been involved in combat operations against the Al-Qaeda and ISIS terrorist forces in Syria, that have been supplied mainly via NATO-member state Turkey. NATO-member Poland is a major operator of Su-22 combat aircraft. Israel also possesses multiple Su-22 aircraft used for a variety of purposes. Poland and Israel have extensive cooperation in developing upgrades package for the Su-22 largely based on Israeli avionics. Israel also developed and delivered ‘smart munitions’ for the Su-22. Israel obtained operational nuclear weapons capability by 1967, with the mass production of nuclear warheads occurring immediately after the Six-Day War. The US Congress Office of Technology Assessment has recorded Israel as a country generally reported as having undeclared chemical warfare capabilities, and an offensive biological warfare program. Israel signed but has not ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). In 1983 a report by the CIA stated that Israel, “undertook a program of chemical warfare preparations in both offensive and protective areas… In late 1982 a probable CW nerve agent production facility and a storage facility were identified at the Dimona Sensitive Storage Area in the Negev Desert. Other CW agent production is believed to exist within a well-developed Israeli chemical industry.” There are also speculations that a chemical weapons program might be located at the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) in Ness Ziona. 190 liters of dimethyl methylphosphonate, a CWC schedule 2 chemical used in the synthesis of sarin nerve gas, was discovered in the cargo of El Al Flight 1862 after it crashed in 1992 en route to Tel Aviv. Israel insisted the material was non-toxic, was to have been used to test filters that protect against chemical weapons, and that it had been clearly listed on the cargo manifest in accordance with international regulations. The shipment was from a U.S. chemical plant to the IIBR under a U.S. Department of Commerce license. In 1993, the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment WMD proliferation assessment recorded Israel as a country generally reported as having undeclared offensive chemical warfare capabilities. Former US deputy assistant secretary of defense responsible for chemical and biological defense Dr. Bill Richardson said in 1998 “I have no doubt that Israel has worked on both chemical and biological offensive things for a long time… There’s no doubt they’ve had stuff for years.” Marine Le Pen has condemned the US strike on Syria. Good. I wish I could vote for her, but I’m American, not French. From what I saw in Wikileaks the Sarin & rocketry were purchased from America: “We met the enemy and he is us.” –Pogo I think Kurt Vonnegut’s last book was “A Man Without A Country”. Hoping and meditating that there is world condemnation of the United States of Aggression. And that the peace activists of Boston, San Francisco, New York, major cities get out on the street, regardless of presstitute coverage or not. Lutfullah Kusdemir Why would Assad risk more outside military intervention against his government by using a chemical weapon that has almost no military value, at least as allegedly deployed in Syria? He wouldn’t. “Even” a cartoonist knows his readers are more logical than politicians and the news media assume. And thus remarks Scott Adams: “According to the mainstream media – that has been wrong about almost everything for a solid 18 months in a row – the Syrian government allegedly bombed its own people with a nerve agent. The reason the Assad government would bomb its own people with a nerve agent right now is obvious. Syrian President Assad – who has been fighting for his life for several years, and is only lately feeling safer – suddenly decided to commit suicide-by-Trump. Because the best way to make that happen is to commit a war crime against your own people in exactly the way that would force President Trump to respond or else suffer humiliation at the hands of the mainstream media. And how about those pictures coming in about the tragedy. Lots of visual imagery. Dead babies. It is almost as if someone designed this “tragedy” to be camera-ready for President Trump’s consumption. It pushed every one of his buttons. Hard. And right when things in Syria were heading in a positive direction.” Read the rest at http://blog.dilbert.com/post/159264981001/the-syrian-gas-attack-persuasion Rand Paul and Tulsi Gabbard will be Kuciniched. The evil warlords have prevailed. The whole thing looks to have been stage managed from campaign to today. Hillary out now to play her Trump card. It is a sad day indeed. Trump lied from the beginning. United States of Aggression. Kenny Voltaire Trump = Alzheimer’s (no memory of 2015-16) This was a Crime against Americans… verdict before investigation / bombings before debate… (quick!) start the War before the Citizens get any say at all… I pumped Trump to my audience in Feb-2015… now, I feel like I was duped… America voted against John McCain + Lindsey Graham… yet look who’s celebrating… Sunni Jihadis, Saudi Arabia and Islamic Turkey are thrilled… the GOP is now forever dead, as well as their agenda… Rand Paul + Tulsi Gabbard in 2020 Maybe now someone from the West will finally suggest that the bodies of those allegedly killed by sarin gas be autopsied and chemical evidence of sarin gas anywhere in the nearby environment confirmed or discounted. Since there is so much video footage of the alleged atrocity and response to it by the “white helmets,” there should be a goldmine of evidence pointing one way or the other right there. It is nothing short of amazing that the care givers did not perish themselves by exposure through their bare flesh and lack of proper respiratory protection. Perhaps cannisters of sarin can even be found now at the site of the atrocity or at the airfield from which Trump insists it was delivered, which he has expediently destroyed. There is much to be ascertained belatedly that should have been determined BEFORE the act of war perpetrated by the United States. Or, doesn’t the world, and especially purportedly civilised Europe, care about such things any more? Heartbreaking. Frightening. I get all my news from shitty blogs like this one. Eliot Higgins https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/849694232394825729 Higgins and Kaszeta are shills for the government (also too big for their britches). Bellingcat is no place to get the truth. Likely, this means Trump has signed on to “The Assad must go” movement which will be on display at the UN by Haley in the days ahead. And So The Madness Begins: info at link below: US missile strike against Syria Live updates Published time: 7 Apr, 2017 03:09Edited time: 7 Apr, 2017 03:42 Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), who recently visited Syria on a fact-finding mission and introduced a bill intended to stop US from arming terrorists, condemned the airstrikes as strengthening Al-Qaeda. “It angers and saddens me that President Trump has taken the advice of war hawks and escalated our illegal regime change war to overthrow the Syrian government,” Gabbard said in a statement. “This escalation is short-sighted and will lead to more dead civilians, more refugees, the strengthening of al-Qaeda and other terrorists, and a possible nuclear war between the United States and Russia.”… [read more at link below] https://www.rt.com/news/383785-us-missiles-syrian-army/ One has to tip ones cap to the fascists in the US. They obviously planned this false flag and attack on Syria to coincide with Xi’s visit. It will be interesting to see what sort of quiet strong arm tactic the US places on China today. No doubt an attack on N. Korea is in the offing. Xi will get an ultimatum today. The problem is that Russia did not back down to fascist threats and attacks in the past. The US is banking that they will today. This attack on Syria is an attack on Russia and China, not to mention Iran. The choice they have is capitulation or all out war. Just heard on RT that the strike destroyed 15 Syrian jet fighters, basically obliterated the air field and killed at least 4 people. If Russia were so inclined, it could have delivered its own cruise missiles right down the throat of the American ship that fired the tomahawks. I think they are still trying to delay the start of WWIII, but may not be successful. When America wants a war it usually gets it. Those who voted Trump ( I was not one of them) have been vindicated tonight. Trump one way or another delayed the neocon war with Syria for at least two months. Only after being blackmailed by CIA he was put in leash and submit. And all those on the phony left, touchy feely peace loving snowflakes who hate Bannon as reincarnated evil have been fatally discredited since it seems that Flynn and Bannon were the very few who opposed open war with Syria and Russia. The air base in Homs that was attacked was also Russian training and Repair base for Syria aircraft, first causalities reported. Are those first shots of WWIII? Unless it was reported inaccurately, the United States entered World War I on 6 April 1917. We may have just started World War III on 6 April 2017. Why is that date so cursed? And exactly 100 years to the date. OTOH, America has been at peace for how many single years since 1917 (following the FED privatization) ? In the 50s maybe ? JCLincoln Assad didn’t do it then, he didn’t do it this time. The governments of England, Germany and Russia all determined that the U.S. supported Syrian used the sarin gas in 2013. It’s just a guess but I bet it was some terrorist faction this time also. President Trump said this when launching 69 bgm109 Tomakawk missiles into Syrian Shayrat Air Force base, “Even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered at this very barbaric attack. No child of God should ever suffer such horror.” So with that America is made great again. For once all 3 major cable networks are in agreement with each other. Brian Williams while showing missiles being launched from our U.S. Navy ships, was in awl of the beauty of those decks abroad our proud American naval vessels while firing those Tomahawks in rapid order to alert the evil Assad that there’s a new sheriff in town. Hannity is falling all over himself that Trump didn’t allow America to lead from behind anymore, and that Trump’s Red Line is one you don’t cross. Anderson Cooper had on more retired generals and admirals than Trump had in his War Room. All this is being done without question to what is right. Here we go again on our noble quest to save the world. Might makes right, and since we are exceptional then how could we ever be wrong? Right is the reality we Americans make it. With the flimsiest of evidence Assad has been judged guilty of a war crime. All this while still no one has answered how the White Helmet rescue barricade attends to sarin gas victims, mostly children shown on film being squirted down, while no White Helmet wears rubber gloves or any air respirators. There are even reports how this ammunition depot may not have even had stored any chemical weapons. I should also had, and I’m no science, but I read a report by a science who said that if a chemical weapons facility were hit with a aircraft missile the effects would be much different than described so far. Then I ask, shouldn’t the burden be on the rebels who had these illegal weapons of mass destruction? No instead, America comes to the rescue, and forever should Evil governments live in fear of the Eagles claws. backwardsevolution Joe – my heart sunk today. I cannot believe that Trump would do this. Why? I am quite sure that this chemical weapons attack was a false flag – again! I’ve heard reports that the U.S. warned Russia and Syria that the missiles were coming, but who knows if that’s true. Someone also said that in order to get Gorsuch elected, he needed the help of McCain and Graham, and this is Trump paying them off. Who knows about that either. Gee, if that’s the case, what else is Trump going to have to do to get their votes in the future? I just feel so sorry for the poor people of Syria and for Assad. ISIS was losing, they were on the ropes. Is this why the neocons wanted to get in there? Because they were losing? We all know that the U.S., Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, Israel, Turkey, NATO countries want Assad gone. I feel for Assad, watched many interviews of him. He appears to love his country. I do not think he would do this to his own citizens. It doesn’t add up. The guy is a doctor. They tried the same false flag in 2013, but Obama didn’t fall for it. They tried it again a few days ago, and Trump fell for it. Perhaps a trap. It’ll probably be miraculously discovered a few days or weeks from now that this was a rebel-inflicted chemical attack, and then the MSM can go crazy on Trump and say that he should have waited. I can see the headlines: “Why didn’t President Trump wait like President Obama did?” or “President Trump is Too Impulsive.” I am deeply disappointed. I know how you have placed your hope in Trump backwardsevolution, and that’s the risk all of us take when we yearn for a better world. You weren’t hearing things when Trump continually kept saying how he wanted to talk with Putin. In fact all night long people are sending each other tweets from Trump where back in 2013 Trump urged a struggling with the Red Line President Obama not to bomb Syria. What you just witnessed backwardsevolution was another U.S. Presidential Candidate become an American President. I’d leave links but you seem to know your way around the Internet, but there are a lot of people writing lots of different stuff about what is going on, so you should go surfing and find some of that literature to read. I will tell you this that by Putin telling Netanyahu that Russia will honor a Jewish capital in West Jerusalem is a curious piece of diplomacy to come about at such an even more curious time of it in Syria. Between the Brookings Institute, Tel Aviv, Erdogan the sneak, and dashing Jared, all cards are in play. All we need now is for Ivanka to come out with a new line of perfume, and we’re all in business. Hang in there, and don’t beat yourself up too bad backwardsevolution. And oh if you want to answer a riddle, then wonder why Hillary made her big debut today on the cable networks, and then ask yourself why today…coincidence right? Joe – thanks for your kind words. Your post was excellent. We just have no idea what’s happening behind the scenes, do we? Except, of course, that Trump is obviously NOT in control, at all. I did not like Orwell’s “1984”, not because it wasn’t a good book, but because of the content. I don’t like this either. When I talk to my family about what’s going on in the world, they look at me as if I’m from a foreign land, someone who is speaking a different language. I feel like Winston. I guess we all do. About that family thing, you and I should see if we could get group rates with a therapist. Seriously my family isn’t on the same page either. Depending on where they source their news is what I find we all resemble in opinion. When I figure out the proper way to deal with this relative problem I will be sure to inform you. In the meantime continue your venting with us here on consortiumnews, because we’re all kind of in the same box so to speak…and I’m not including all, but some of us. Here I am, reading a horror story, and you come out with…”All we need now is for Ivanka to come out with a new line of perfume, and we’re all in business.” Next thing I know, I’m choking with laughter! Joe, only you could come up with such a pearl! Diana at times like this if I made you laught then that is good. I hope my humor doesn’t upset any of the readers who frequent this site due to the seriousness of this bombing attack. The real reality of having our country doing this kind of idiotic stuff is disheartening to say the least. So I hope everyone young and old keeps their cool, and that they don’t worry to much. Lastly with all this bombing news, I wonder if beer sales will go up. I also wonder if Trump hotels are getting a lot of cancellations. I know this though, our ‘Owned Media the MSM’ is enjoying the ratings that this recent escalation will bring…and that’s the proof of where America is, and how sick our American society has become. I’m going to go calm my wife down, and play with this puppy who hasn’t a clue. You have nice day Diana, maybe do something you have been putting off for awhile. And always keep smiling because that’s what we need more of. Take care…Joe I’ll tell you what I BELIEVE. Al Qaeda faked the gas attack. Once again both the white helmets and the victims were all actors. The victims weren’t befouled with shit and puke as true sarin gas victims would be. The white helmets were handling them without gloves or proper respirators. Al Qaeda got away with the dramatic performance because it was ordered and approved by Washington to use as a pretext for striking Assad two days after putting both Syria and Russia off guard by formally saying that he really doesn’t have to go. The purported “strike” is rapidly used as a pretext for war before it can ever be methodically investigated by neutral observers trained in chemistry and toxicology. It’s not investigated and not even discussed in the UN Security Council. The United States had no authorization to go in and commit acts of war against Syria and potentially against Russia and Iran. The incident was not discussed or put up for a vote in the U.S. Congress. Not under the constitution which grants congress the sole authority to declare war and not even under the Authorization for Use of Military Force Act of 2001 which dodges that issue with a bunch of arm waving to embellish even further the imperial presidency and erode democracy (or whatever it is we think we have) under the separation of powers. I assert that all this is true, and I’ve just given you MORE evidence and analysis than Donald J. Trump or his entire government did in prelude to his unprovoked act of war against the people of Syria. Heaven help the world if his entire presidency is going to be run this way: a provocative act purportedly occurs by malefactors unknown, Donald Trump makes an instantaneous judgement with no evidence or analysis, he strikes immediately (in OUR name), killing an unknown number of humans, destroying millions of dollars of property, and expending similar millions of American taxpayer dollars. What’s he gonna do if the insane Ukies pull another of their false flag high jinks and the Donbass Russians respond defensively? Is he spontaneously gonna blame Putin and launch an attack on Russia? Would he have reflexively started World War III after the Malaysian jetliner was shot down by the Ukies and blamed on the Russians? I thought he was supposed to be the lesser evil compared to Hitlery. Right now, he seems like her clone. Realist – “The victims weren’t befouled with shit and puke as true sarin gas victims would be. The white helmets were handling them without gloves or proper respirators.” Such great observations. ISIS and the neocons would have been desperate over the fact they were losing. “Quick, do something. I know, let’s do another chemical weapons attack. Get some fake actors on the phone.” The taking out of seven countries is still on. Trump is a fool. You know Realist I said I was no scientist but then there you are. I’m nothing, but I’ve read through out the Net some interesting analogies today that fly in the face of what these attacks should have looked like and with casualties there of where none of these traits showed signs of existence. Even in my average secular brain it would appear that the results aren’t even close to being in, but when you are saving God’s children and bringing Liberty and freedom to a dictators world…well that’s enough for any red blooded American to stand tall for at the next SuperBowl when our Anthem is sung. Seriously we are all in trouble, but…. You raise a point about an unhinged Trump. In your wildest imagination would you seriously believe that if a certain few had encouraged and urged Trump to go bomb Syria’s Shayrat Air Base, that this notion was purposely done so as Commander in Chief Donald J Trump would give reason for his impeachment. I mean have we come to that strain of dastardliy that someone could have whispered into the bosses ear a good idea? Trump seems to me to be the type of boss whereas a understaffer would need to pitch they’re idea in away that the boss would think it was his/her’s idea? I knew executives who perfected this tricky to an art, so why not use it on the brilliant leader who’s currently in Mar-a-Lago? What I want to learn more about now, is how do the Russians feel? Will Trump’s actions boost Russia’s anti-Americanism or be harsh with criticism of Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin? Is Tillerson’s Moscow meeting in early April still on? Will it be worth us starting to keep a careful eye on Jared Kuschner? Does Steve Bannon even matter? Are we seeing a President Trump under the influence of Russia hater McMasters? Does Assad continue to have the support of Russia, and what about Iran? On hell let’s get it over with and light up N Korea, and chase the Russians out of Crimea. You know I’m kidding, but what about Washington? The good news is tomorrow is another day….a good day to plant a flower. Joe – “…that’s enough for any red blooded American to stand tall for at the next SuperBowl when our Anthem is sung” and “Oh hell let’s get it over with and light up N Korea” – thanks for the laugh! Thank you. There’s no cover charge for the laugh…just enjoy! (Spoken like Rick Blaine would have said it) Joe, I was just thinking the same thing as I took out the garbage about 10 minutes ago. Trump has NOW committed an impeachable offense. They’ve got him trapped. Wow, Xi’s mind must now be racing at 100 mph. Here he is in the lair of the beast and it commits this atrocity even as it purports to speak sweet reason with him. How can he believe a thing that Trump utters without suspecting that it is a threat, blackmail or extortion? If Trump thinks that Xi will be intimidated because he has acted from a position of strength, he’d better guess again. More reason than ever for China to build up its defenses in the South China Sea. Steve Bannon was probably ditched on orders from the Deep State. He was allowed to keep his position but not his influence to maintain face. In fact, they probably ordered Trump to keep him on as window dressing. Yes, Mattis and McMasters now run the show on all foreign policy. Russia cannot afford to cut and run and retain its credibility in the world. It cannot admit, even if greatly pressed to do so by American military might, that it has been supporting war criminals (for which there is NO evidence). At the same time, it does NOT want to fight America and take losses. It will not pursue a strategy that forces it to surrender. It might make a secret deal if it feels threatened enough to perhaps not fight hard enough for Assad to win. It might come to a scenario like the game goes into extra innings, it’s now the 19th inning and no one has any pitchers left, neither team will be blamed for losing this one… like a stalemate in chess that both sides concede, if I understood chess. Assad finally shuffles off, having battled alongside Russia for 10-15 years, while the American MIC made billions of dollars on the deal and Russia still retains cred with Iran. From time to time when Assad was winning is when this stuff happens. This time though Russia is more deeply involved. It’s anyone’s, and everybody, guess what comes next. I trust Turkey worst than I do Israel (who’s got us fighting their war), and then you got the Saudi head choppers. My guest is not much will come of this, but then what do I know? My wife and I are suppose to take our grandchild to DC, so you can only imagine where the concern and conversation after this U.S. bombing attack is taking us. Should we go, or should we stay? I would rather say, ” Right is the reality the Military/Industrial/Banker complex makes it to be. JCLincoln you speak like a person who has read they’re bullet point list well. In fact on my bullet point list handed down to me by my Wizard of Oz handler I see that what you wrote in your comment is the number one bullet point on my evil list too. All kidding aside I’m agreeing with you, and that’s the shame of it, is that you and I live inside of such a false society is that we now believe our own lies. This works for the habitual liar sociopath until it doesn’t, and that’s a fact. When everything becomes radioactive will Karl say he was wrong, and now he’s sorry like his pal Lee Atwater tried to do? I’m not that religious, but I sometimes think that if good triumphs over evil then some of these characters who run our humdrum lives will need to get theirs in the here after…and with that statement being made we get into that here after bull, and then we have Mike Pence. JC good reaction to my previous comment…Joe Philippe Lemoine Thanks for this. In case someone is interested, I wrote a very detailed blog post, in which I examine the evidence about the recent chemical attack and compare the situation with what happened after the chemical attack in Ghouta in August 2013. I argue that, in that previous case, the media narrative had rapidly unravelled and that, for that reason, we should be extremely prudent about the recent attack and not jump to conclusions. It’s more than 5,000 words long and I provide a source for every single factual claim I make. I really believe it’s the most through discussion of the allegations against Assad with respect to his alleged use of chemical weapons out there. Please share it if you thought it was interesting. Philippe Lemoine I enjoyed your writing. I look forward to reading more of what you write, so continue posting. Would like to hear your thoughts as time progresses in regard to Trump’s recent actions against Syria. I would also like to endorse your blog essay to everyone else who’s interested in reading something good….Joe Thank you for your detailed discussion, Philippe. As I have pointed out above, Higgins and Kaszeta of Bellingcat have been mainstream media go-to “experts” on the Khan Sheikhoun attack despite their consistent track record of factually inaccurate analyses of the 2013 Ghouta attack and other incidents. Bellingcat effectively functions as a NATO propaganda agency. Incidents are manufactured and shocking images are produced so that allegations can be shouted, not proven. Philippe – really enjoyed your informative article. Thanks for posting it. Good luck to you. I also agree with your “Edit” comment. Philippe , I haven’t read your article yet but am looking forward to doing so. I did read the “edit” comment and agree with that 100%. FYI , you might be interested in this by Swedish Doctors for Human Rights : http://theindicter.com/analysis-of-evidence-contradicts-allegations-on-syrian-gas-attacks/ Thank you, Philippe, for your very interesting article, and Marko for your equally interesting link. Thank you all for the nice words. If you liked my post, please share it, we need people to know about these things. I plan to write more about this as soon as possible. Get to that keyboard right now. Time is a wasting. Seriously Philippe this news is happening fast, and I’d love to read what you have to say. Joe Hahaha, thanks. I wish I could, but I also have a dissertation to finish :-) In the meantime, you may be interested in my four-part series of posts about the Russia/Trump nonsense. The whole thing is approximately 16,000 words long and contains 137 hyperlinks, so it should keep you busy for a while! Here is the first part: http://necpluribusimpar.net/trump-russia-media-hacking-democratic-party-private-cybersecurity-companies-part-1/. Sadam hussein in iraq was later exnoerated for faked hospital pictures of his gassed victims…2013 gas attacks mention above..were at 1 point linked to a saudi prince with poison gas signatures from westGermany..and now…..syrian government has Absolutely nothing to profit from this attack…..but remember gen. Paterous in jointchief of staff pentagon briefing…will take out 5-7 arab regimes in 5yrs….this latest attack is another effort to bring to ruin one of the modern moderate islamic nations….follow the mccains and grahams..nwo change agents…begging for a provoked incident with russia…last nation on that pentagon list?? Iran……Ukraine. .crimea…russia…any nation that wont bow to nwo agenda…..shame on you Donald….we hoped better from you And Sadam only attacked Kuwait after an assistant to our Ambassador in Saudi Arabia told him that the U.S. wasn’t concerned with Kuwait. Then the U.S. Military/Industrial/Banker complex sprang into action with stories of newborn babies left to die on cold floors, so of course the U.S. had to go in and save the babies by killing a million Iraqis. Boy, I love the smell of war in the morning. I really liked CN until people called Hillary. “Killary” . Why? Would Hillary Clinton try to do something? How do you know what she would have done? Is djt;s response more to your liking? Accelerating international tensions? The Bannon philosophy, Destroy everything? I really want to be educated, what do you people want and expect? Zachary Smith “Hours before missile strikes, Hillary Clinton said the US should attack Assad’s airfields” We seem to have gotten Hillary after all. And djt said go to Iraq and get the oil. How is that better or different? I’m really hoping that President Trump does not cave in the the neocons. I guess you people did not the memo, USA 50 Airstrikes in Syria tonight by none other , our commander in chief 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles had hit Al Shayrat airfield in Syria. John McCain and Lindsey Graham praised the strike in a statement and called for Mr. Trump to go further and to “take Assad’s air force — which is responsible not just for the latest chemical weapons attack, but countless atrocities against the Syrian people —completely out of the fight.” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/world/middleeast/us-said-to-weigh-military-responses-to-syrian-chemical-attack.html NO EVIDENCE NECESSARY Manufactured by Raytheon, the Tomahawk cruise missile has a unit cost of US $1.59 million (FY2014 / Block IV). Trump just dumped US $93.8 million of explosives on Syria to defend Al Qaeda headquarters in Idlib. Our country is out of control. RT is reporting that only 23 of those 59 missiles hit the Syrian air base. https://www.rt.com/news/383858-syria-us-strike-inefficient/ sejomoje Rachel Maddow opened her show tonight with a hearkening back to Ghouta, a real tearjerking lament of the civilians gassed by Assad, and vis a vis his “new” victims. Maybe she hasn’t read any of these things yet? Anyway, only half through her monologue she was interrupted with the breaking news that cruise missiles had been launched from US warships on Homs airbase. Then Barry McCaffrey came on and actually said; “Well, we all love Tomahawks…”. I want off this planet. Maddow would have been a member of the SS in Hitler’s Germany. Either that or they would have lobotomized and sterilised a creature like her. What a loathsome piece of excrement. Nicholas Kristoff just told Rachel Maddow he talked to Hillary Clinton who, he claimed, said she would have done what Trump just did. Before that Chris Matthews seemed to be enjoying this escalation in violence. Well, the whole MSNBC team must now absolutely love Trump for embracing Hillary’s policies and basically declaring war on Russia. Apparently, Trump don’t need no steenkin’ evidence on who released the poison gas (or if, in fact, there actually was such a release rather than some phony dramatization). He don’t need no steenkin’ approval of the United Nations security council to effectively wage war on a country that has never attacked the United States. (Wage war = to kill human beings and destroy their property on a massive scale) He don’t need no steenkin’ approval from the United States Congress to start a war with a foreign country in spite of what the consitution says. I should say yet ANOTHER war, because this time Russia and Iran will be directly involved as Syria’s allies. He don’t even need no steenkin’ approval from Congress under the Use of Military Force Act of 2001 which even Obomber sought and failed to get on Syria. Finally, he don’t even need to follow his own steenkin’ campaign remarks and promises on the matter of the conflict in Syria. He said he’d stay out, cooperate with Russia, wind it down. Yet he escalates it first chance he gets. Yes sir, all the neocon converts at MSNBC must be in full orgasmic mode full time since Trump’s complete brain transplant a day or two ago. Or, are they still bellyaching about his being a puppet of Putin’s. More like he’s become a puppet of the CIA. All he’s good for now is standing in front of the TV cameras and reading what he’s handed. the times is always ready to blame every one for war crimes, what about all the war crimes , this country have commited. A Trump administration official who was granted anonymity in order to speak freely told DailyMail.com on Thursday that part of the president’s strategy is to ‘telegraph to Assad – and to Russia – that he’s deadly serious.’ Also a “signal” to the North Koreans, Iran, and the visiting Chinese guy. Maybe the Trumpies have proof positive the Syrians were the evildoers. If so, they’d better provide that proof. Can’t help but notice how quickly this developed. There was no chance at all for we-the-people to get our congresscritters involved. The Imperial President did it all by himself after only two days. I am hoping Xi Jinping’s visit to Florida might turn this in another direction, since China has big plans with the Silk Road Project and has expressed desire to help rebuild Syria because of its significance to the route. Also, Moon of Alabama reports tonight on a phone call from Putin to Netanyahu to warn him that judgment on the Syria attack without investigation is unwise. Very interesting if you read Moon of Alabama. (Putin is an intelligent leader among many hacks, recently spoke against geoengineering at a conference, calling it an “assault on nature” and would lead to unforeseen consequences.) Trump has gone Full Hillary. “U.S. attacks Syrian air base with dozens of missiles in response to chemical attack” I have no idea what’s going to happen next, but it’s not likely to be pretty. Christian Yates Here”s a great report from nimmo at newsbud on the history of attempted regime change by the VIA going back to the 50’s. Than God for real journalists and truth tellers like Robert Parry, Sibel Edmondson, Kurt Nimmo, James Corbett, William Engdahl, etc. https://youtu.be/zGEc-CMsrQs Drew Hunkins It’s looking extremely likely that the Zionist Power Configuration in America is going to get its regime change war in Syria. This is preposterous! Israel’s always desired that Assad be removed as Syria’s leader. It’s looking like the ZPC has cajoled and browbeaten (and possibly blackmailed somehow?) the Trump admin into actually putting this outlandish war on the front burner. This is completely unacceptable. For Washington to fight another regime change war on behalf of Israel is beyond belief! This is at a point in time when U.S. citizens are suffering under poor wages, strained public-sector budgets, drug addiction, a dental health care crisis, and un and underemployment. It seems only Russia can stop this madness but Russia may very well see it as being too dangerous to stand in the way of a Washington-Tel Aviv hell bent on Mideast war. The Kremlin will likely step back and say ‘we’re not going to risk nuclear war over Assad.’ Perhaps the American public can once again save the day like in 2013 when they made it perfectly clear they would not countenance an Obama-Killary war on Syria. To his credit, Obama backed down. Assad’s one of the last state leaders in the world who speaks up for Palestinian rights and criticizes Israeli human rights violations at almost every opportunity, he’s also an ally of Iran. These are the reasons he’s been totally vilified in the Western press and targeted for liquidation. Can the insouciant American public return to its 2013 glory when it successfully beat back imperial Washington’s drive to obliterate Syria? We’re going to find out. The first thought when reading your comment is: appeasement. Therefore, you may be right that: The Kremlin will likely step back and say ‘we’re not going to risk nuclear war over Assad.’ But apeasement did not work with Hitler, why would it work with Anglo-Zionist would be rulers of the World? Great point Kiza. Bob In Portland Here comes war. I am expecting it to happen very soon. If a couple of cruise missiles are lobbed into Syria what happens if a couple of US ships get taken out in response. MSDNC has been reporting 50 and 100 cruise missiles lobbed into Homs airport. 50 or 100 missiles to attack one installation? These people must be mad – or so incompetent they figured at least one or two might hit the target. For those of us who thought Trump might save us from Hillary Clinton, it looks like our choice was a lose-lose option. Bob & Bill I would like to hear more of both of your opinions, but at this moment Hannity is declaring that Trump by his ordering that 50 to 60 BGM109-Tomahawk missiles be fired into Syria, that Trump is telling the world that you just don’t cross that Red Line in the Sand set by us anymore and that America is back. It’s at times like this that I would love to arm up Sean and send him into battle on the first wave. Shayrat Air Base is the target for these Tomshawks, and Trump wants the world to join us Americans in stopping the slaughter of innocents. In the pass all this chaos may have prompted me to pop off some popcorn and watch ‘The Longest Day’ movie, but now I’m completely recovered from that mental state of mind, and my rehabilitation was done totally using a secret organic method. To add to our brain drain today Russia told Israel that it would recognize West Jerusalem to belong to Israel, and recognize East Jerusalem as belonging to the Palestintian’s. Go to moonofalabama and read what b has to say about this. The question is, is there any tie to Russia’s recognition of a West Jerusalem have anything to do with what’s happening in Syria? Joe, please read my comment above – this bombing and the one in St Petersburg are the beginning of the regime-change operation in Russia. The Chinese are being soothed whilst this operation lasts. Putin is the angriest anyone has ever seen him. KIza I read all your comments that you have posted here today, and I value your opinion more than you know. This whole charade over Syrian use of chemical weapons in my mind was predetermined by the U.S. and it’s corrupted allies long before Tuesday when the said chemical attack occurred. My reasoning is because this urgency seems not well thought out, but more like we’ll get Assad the first time he blinks. The media makes no mention of how in recent weeks Israel has struck Syrian air bases, or base, which ever you prefer. I read of one Israeli attack on a Syrian base, but there may have been more. Add this to our media’s no mention ever of the slime bucket Erdogon who is the original theft in the night, by just his standard practices alone. I watched the Russia Deputy Ambassador to the UN Vladimir Safronkov lay it out pretty good. Safronkov brought up such details as we all here on this site have done in our comments. Like where is the innocent until proven guilty? Were these chemical weapons not stored under rebel occupation? What would motivate Assad while winning this terribly long war against the terrorist inside his embattled country, to do such a horrible crime using chemical weapons against his own people? Of course as the day presses on America is not dwelling on what the Russian Ambassador so rightly pointed out. No instead there are people in Washington applauding President Trump today who were but yesterday seeking his very impeachment. No KIza my friend it may possibly be that America has such politicos as but the kind who think bombing people in other nations, is as American as apple pie and Chevrolets. The question is, to how soon this Tomahawk missile ($569,000.xx each) war will turn into a full fledge war to go after Iran. How many more terrorist attacks inside of Russia will it take to weaken the most popular of Russian leaders maybe ever Vladimir Putin? Sadly Trump just by his publicly displayed nature appears to me to be the type of person who will never apologize or back down….let’s hope I’m wrong. mike k The promises Trump made before the election were just political theater, which he turned out to be good at. But once in office and having to face the tremendous pressures put on him, he caved in like a wet cardboard box with nothing inside it. We are getting a lot of lessons these days in how all history is malleable – like beauty it seems to be in the eye of the beholder. The saying by Nietzsche that “there are no facts, only interpretations” is something to keep in mind these days. It’s not that some interpretations are not much closer to truth than others, but beware of people who confidently assure you that such and such is a “fact.” This is more of a conceit to strengthen the validity of their opinion than an unquestionable reality. Gullible people who have not learned to think deeply for themselves are easily persuaded when some well dressed seemingly authoritative person declares something a “fact.” Evangelista One of the reasons the Assad government jumped at the chance Russia offered to get rid of its chemical weapons was the growing possibility of the then advancing foreign-sponsored Da-‘esh terrorist forces “liberating” a Syrian military facility where the national chemical weapons were stored. That would, of course, have put chemical weapons into Da’esh hands, making use of them against Syrian forces, and civilians, inevitable (the wide-spread Da’esh employment of terrorist-tactics, bombings, massacres, etc. against civilians perceived ‘opponents’ proofs Da’esh willingness to slaughter civilians indiscriminately, using any means they may have available, or that their backers might make available). For the Syrian government’s deliberate efforts to prevent chemical weapons introduction in the conflict being fought in their state, it is an irony, of the bitter sort, for the Syrian government and forces to be being cast as the introducers of the chemical weapons involved in the current release event. The game, of premature and uninformed allegation and attempt to hype a hysteria on the premature and uninformed allegation allegation, being engaged in by the “Coalition” of external aggressors sponsoring Da’esh is, in terms of historical perspective, incredibly short-sighted and stupid: All reasoning and the initial evidences stand against the allegation, and have from the moment of the incident’s initiation. For the allegation starting off against initially available evidences and sense, the allegation is jaundiced at allegation. This means that in historical perspective the U.S. and “Coalition” position is going to be colored by the mad rush of the “Coalition” players to make a fight, instead of seek to discover and determine truth. This ‘rushing to judgment’ and slavering to build a rushed judgment to a causus belli even as the settling of dust and learning of smoke (and gas) seems to be revealing, and affirming, evidence rebutting the rush, being not something new, nor startling or surprising, but, instead, a reprise of at least a half-dozen previous examples of the same panicking and rushing and posturing to justificate bellicosity, increases the proofs of the bellicosity being deliberate warmongering and aggressing. And this, in this instance, by a United States administration that replaced a previous administration in part on grounds that administration rushed to judgments and mongered war. Donald Trump did, after all, claim to have been intelligent enough to have foreseen and recognized the building a case for war on hysteria and wrong information engaged in by George Bush a mistaken and tragically stupid rush to war, and did accuse Barack Obama of engaging in the same precipitate irrationality and hysteria-mongering in his escalations of U.S. sponsored war. In fact, Trump campaigned on promises to carry common sense to the United States government and end the nationally impoverishing and embarrassing endless foreign war and warmongering his predecessors had frustrated the electorate indulging in… So now we have Trump following in the footsteps of the predecessors he disparaged, and diving headlong into the same swamp he promised to ‘drain’… We have another change of administration, elected on promises of ‘change’, again turning around, once in office, to continue the destructive policies The People have twice now changed administrations in desperate efforts to reverse and change… BannanaBoat Pray it’s just more of T’s macho bluster, The musical chairs in the USA State Security Council does not bode well. USA citizens should be camping out on the grounds of these war propagating news outlets…..they are calling for your children to sacrifice their lives for a totally bull shit agenda…..OMG……but the sad part is the citizens do …..nothing……so , send your children off to war with a kiss…… DannyWeil Yes, the official newspaper of lies and perversion. They will now march us into WWIII. 82% of the American people believe Russia is an enemy of the US. But here’s the infamous Michael Gordon of the NY Times very much implying that the 2013 sarin attack had to have been the work of the Assad regime. Gordon doesn’t quite come out and say it, but pretends it’s one of “Assad’s crimes”. “The Obama administration prepared plans to strike Syrian targets with sea-launched cruise missiles after an August 2013 Syrian chemical weapons attack that killed more than 1,400 civilians, including hundreds of children.” Just saying that the Times doesn’t appear to have learnt its lesson. The chlorine gas claims always seemed real suspect, it’s gas pretty much anyone can make. Most households in the USA have the basic ingredients on hand. And it’s not real poisonous unless one is in a confined space–meaning indoors in a closed room. RamboDave Robert forgot to mention a very important point covered by Seymour Hersh in his articles. It turned out that the traces of the chemical footprint of the 2013 sarin attack near Damascus are completely different from the high quality sarin that was later removed from Syria by the United Nations, when Syria gave up all of it’s chemical weapons. Mr. Hersh calls the 2013 attack sarin used by the rebels, “kitchen” grade, probably made with simple lab equipment and precursors obtained through Turkey. I would hope that someone can obtain a sample of the chemical used on Tuesday, and determine if in fact it even is sarin, and whether it is that same “kitchen” grade sarin used in 2013. If is the same 2013 sarin, it would prove that the rebels are guilty of a war crime. The “brains” behind this attack may not be those of the rebels , rather those of the military or intel forces of the West or GCC countries , in which case the earlier mistake would be avoided if at all possible. It wouldn’t surprise me if a sarin batch had been delivered to the rebels that was custom-made to resemble Assad’s previous stockpile. There’s no reason to believe that the sarin must have been cooked-up by the rebels themselves. Idlib is a stones-throw from the border with Turkey , which is notably porous to weapons and fighters of every sort. The notorious short shelf life of sarin is a distraction as well. “Short” means weeks-to-months for the crappy stuff if kept in suitable containers. The good stuff lasts for years. The binary components , if kept separately , are stable , with shelf lives that are essentially indefinite. That is the key – this is not a false flag of the “rebels”, this is a false-flag of the Western and GCC agencies. The rush to judgement in the media is the best proof, in other words: “We know that Assad did it, because we cooked it all up. Anyone interested in truth would do an investigation before accusing anyone, even the rebels. Even the Russians are speculating (defensively but wrongly) that an ammunitions dump contained poison gas. The whole thing may have been staged and neutral Syrian civilians brought to the bombing site to be executed by gas. Eldiem “The whole thing may have been staged and neutral Syrian civilisan brought to the bombing site….” I agree, and tho probably virtually impossible, it would be of great interest to determine who the victims were, where they came from, and why they were there. How did reporters from nations supposedly not affiliated with the rebels get freedom of movement around the strike zone? “Misreporting Iraq and Syria” by Patrick Cockburn – http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/02/03/90277/ Information Clearing House reported residents stated the victims were from the towns where 250 civilians were kidnapped last week. While the victims in Idlib province are choking on the chemical agent that hit them, I’m choking on the rampant hypocrisy coming out of the establishment media, Congress, and the White House. Regardless of who is guilty the deaths and injuries in Idlib are deplorable, but where was the outrage out of these talking heads, presstitutes, and politicians when the Israeli military waged Operations Cast Lead and Protective Edge against the Palestinians in Gaza? There was no outrage. Instead, there were not only approving endorsements but also a rush to replace Israel’s expended ordnance made in the USA. The victims in Idlib province can be measured in the dozens. In Gaza on both occasions the victims could be measured in the thousands that included hundreds of children. Dr. King. You were right. America would eventually experience spiritual death. And just 50 years after your prediction. – https://consortiumnews.com/2017/04/04/mlks-warning-of-americas-spiritual-death-3/ Last week a USA airstrike killed a confirmed 300 civilians sheltering in one building in Mosul, The decision to newly attack Syria seems as though only a question of when, however distressing. Stanley Payson The “truth will set us free” but where can you find it? Enlightened public opinion is key to this country”s survival as a democracy and the publishing “assembly line” is renigging on its core responsibility of helping it’s readers be accurately and truthfully informed. Truth is not a “camel designed by a committee”; it has to be seen whole to be understood. Anthony from NZ Unfortunately the US Govt & Mainstream fake news media is not interested in the Truth or retractions from published mistakes? Telling the truth is superfluous & must be suppressed as it doesn’t fit the psych-ops narrative being foisted on America minds? It’s becoming abundantly clear that it doesn’t matter who occupies the Whitehouse or what Party is in power? The Deepstate Neo-con Warmongers & Corporate elite rule America & they have decided that Assad must be removed just like Saddam Hussein & Gaddifi? The drumbeats to War are the same lies that they used to justify America going to War in Iraq? Who can forget Colin Powell’s corrupt vial display at the UN, now their applying the same lunacy to justify taking out Assad with the American Ambassador holding up these photo’s at the UN? America’s Imperialistic mentality is leading the World to thermonuclear War?Russia & Iran will not allow Assad’s Govt to be removed as they know they would be next on the US Deepstate’s hit list? Americans need to rise up & demand that their Leaders de- escalate this situation? We are talking Cuban missile crisis territory here & not some reality TV show, this is real life & people must realise & understand that the next World War will be the last one ever waged? If you don’t want to end up living in a nuclear wasteland you must rise up! Read the comments on the NY Times article that shills this bogus Assad-did-it story. Many commenters express disbelief and call it a false flag attack. This false flag ain’t flyin’. David Smith – that’s good to know. It was really quite remarkable to read an overwhelming majority of comments which did not agree with the NYT. Even more remarkable that the NYT published them. Is there a rogue comment editor trying to be heard ? irene – “rogue comment editor” – good one! Ausmar Normally, when investigating a crime, determining a suspect’s motivation is of paramount importance. Why does this not equally apply to the present case of poison-gas attack? With the Al Qaeda-controlled rebels on the run, it would seem that Assad had nothing to gain and everything to lose by carrying out this attack, while the rebels had everything to gain and nothing to lose by staging the attack… Normally, when investigating a crime, determining a suspect’s motivation is of paramount importance. Why does this not equally apply to the present case of poison-gas attack? The first case is conducted by law enforcement. The latter scenario is determined by politicians. Brad Owen 3rd possibility: 3rd party (S.A.S.? SEAL Team six?, French Foreign Legion special forces?…) pre-rigged a chemical weapon to be remotely exploded-by-electronic signal at “the right time”. Over on Globalresearch.ca is an article about how Pentagon equipped and trained “moderate” terrorists in the use of chemical weapons. They could have given them one rigged in this way, to trigger it during a Syrian airstrike…BTW, is it verifiable that there EVEN WAS a Syrian airstrike on this ammo dump at precisely the time when Trump and Xi of China are meeting (New Silk Road discussions?) while Tillerson goes next week to see Putin, his good friend (New Silk Road discussions?). Who benefits?…The Establishment of war criminals, Wall Street financiers, the MIC, the Intelligence community, the policies championed by The Western Empire of The City & The Street, Inc., THEIR status quo. Look how the war criminals in Congress are now applauding Trump’s “bold and necessary” Today, Eliot Higgins and Dan Kaszeta of Bellingcat blog are in the vanguard of propaganda about chemical attacks in Syria. The BBC, UK Guardian, Time online, and public radio outlets generously provided media platforms for Higgins and Kaszeta. Back in 2013 and 2014, Higgins and Kaszeta of Brown Moses blog were in the vanguard of propaganda about chemical attacks in Syria. After the August 2013 chemical attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, US President Barack Obama was ready to launch an air strike to punish the Syrian government for allegedly crossing the ‘red line’ he had set in 2012 on the use of chemical weapons. Two days before the planned strike, Obama announced that he would seek congressional approval for the military intervention. The strike was subsequently cancelled when President Bashar al Assad offered to relinquish the Syrian Army’s chemical arsenal in a deal brokered by Russia. The Syrian government maintained that the gas which killed hundreds of Syrian civilians in Ghouta had been used by terrorist groups in the hope that the West would blame Assad and turn its strategic weapons against the regime. Russian sources stated that the chemicals had not been sold to Assad, but had come from stocks sold by Moscow to the former Libyan government of Muammar Gaddafi. On 17 April 2014, American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published “The Red Line and the Rat Line” in the London Review of Books. Hersh reported that British intelligence had confirmed to the Americans that the gas used at Ghouta did not come from the Syrian Army’s chemical arsenal. According to Hersh’s information, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had allowed the Americans to ship a ‘rat line’ of weapons from Libya via Turkey to the Syrian militants. On 22 April 2014, Higgins and Kaszeta published an article in the UK Guardian attacking Hersh. However, the technical claims of Higgins and Kaszeta’s were found to be either inaccurate or irrelevant. In a 22 May 2014 letter to the London Review of Books, Richard Lloyd, a former United Nations weapons inspector, and Theodore Postol, a professor of science, technology and national security policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology addressed the controversy. Lloyd and Postol stated unequivocally that “Higgins, a blogger who, although he has been widely quoted as an expert in the American mainstream media, has changed his facts every time new technical information has challenged his conclusion that the Syrian government must have been responsible” for the attack. Postol later presented a detailed refutation of published statements in the media made by Kaszeta. Nevertheless, the claims of Higgins and Kaszeta continue to be cited by governments and mainstream media. Lloyd and Postol’s concluding remarks from 2014 remain relevant today: “We do not claim to know who was actually behind the attack […]. But we can say for sure that neither do the people who claim to have clear evidence that it was the Syrian government. The mainstream American media have done a disservice to the public by allowing politically motivated individuals, governments, and non-government organisations to misrepresent facts that clearly point to serious breaches of the truth by the White House. For a detailed rebuttal of all of Kaszeta’s claims regarding the 2013 Ghouta chemical attack: http://whoghouta.blogspot.com/2013/11/response-to-dan-kaszetas-chemical.html Accurate analysis of all primary and secondary evidence relating to the 21 August 2013 chemical attack at Ghouta indicate it was carried out by opposition forces. According to the most likely scenario, they used looted incendiary rockets, refilled them with sarin they manufactured themselves, and launched them from a rebel-held territory 2 km north of Zamalka. The New York Times’ quiet retreat on its earlier certainty about the 2013 chemical attack will not prevent it from enthusiastically embracing new propaganda claims from the likes of Higgins and Kaszeta. Dan Kaszeta repeats debunked claims on CNN today http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/05/middleeast/syria-sarin-chemical-weapons-explainer/ Dan Kaszeta repeats debunked claims on Popular Science today http://www.popsci.com/how-syria-using-chemical-weapons-2017 Kazeta then Tweeted that he “liked helping” Business Insider consults Bellingcat “experts” Eliot Higgins and Dan Kaszeta http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-explanation-for-syria-chemical-weapons-attack-2017-4 Kaszeta also has a column at the Middle East Eye website that should caution readers to be skeptical of anything posted there. I do not who the BBC America had on the news today, but I know they were reasonable compared to the BBC commentator who twisted the experts statements to promote attack on Syria and finished with blurb ” Autopsies show Damascus carried out Gas Attack” obviously a lie. I called my local radio station and told them the should get another news provider and drop the lying Warmongering BBC. Silence is complicity , we are looking at possibly hundreds of thousands murdered as in Iraq or perhaps many millions if the USA and its ally countries go nuke on Russia and China . Russia gate is a setup for this. Neocons and Democratic Humanistic Interventions may end the human race in the near future with a nuke aggressive illegal warbased on lies and a false flag operation. The BBC was once a highly-respect organization, but as with so many other examples Margaret Thatcher set it on a U-turn. With Britain’s lurch to the right under Thatcher the once-highly-regarded magazine, The Economist, also went downhill peddling right-wing propaganda. W. R. Knight That’s why I quit reading the NYT a long time ago. Will The Nukes be Produced? Armageddon coming?See Link Below: Trump on Syria’s Assad: ‘Something should happen’ By Dana Bash, Jeremy Herb, Barbara Starr and Jeremy Diamond, CNN Updated 5:39 PM ET, Thu April 6, 2017 Defense Secretary James Mattis will lead Trump through his available options, including what the potential consequences for military action could be…. http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/06/politics/donald-trump-syria-options/index.html Maybe the “Gray Lady” just forgot to include it? She’s getting grayer by the day. Contact the White House (202-456-1111) or email them at whitehouse.gov to say there is no investigation and this is rush to judgement on Khan Sheikhoun, or whatever you want to say. Tillerson is now changing his previous stance of staying out of Syria, now saying Trump admin is weighing options. And hit hard! It’s time they know we’re disgusted with these neocon wars! And H. R. McMaster is a war criminal for his horrendous treatment of Iraqis in 2005 at a detainee war camp in Tal Afar; short article on antiwar.com. I’m going to bring that up, too. (When I typed “whitehouse.gov”, the CN spell check changed it to “whorehouse.gov”, three times before I corrected it! Well, maybe that’s appropriate.) Given recent events , calling the White House on Friday is essential. Lots of four-letter words would be appropriate. The media reporting on Syria is a disgrace. Propaganda is published as “news.” Now it looks like Trump is intending to get involved militarily. Is World War Three Looming? See Link Below: http://graysinfo.blogspot.ca/2017/04/has-trump-become-chump-for-war-criminals.html Erik G Yes, the article is again an essential “Parry” of the mass media “newspeak.” Those who would like to petition the NYT to make Robert Parry their senior editor may do so here: https://www.change.org/p/new-york-times-bring-a-new-editor-to-the-new-york-times?recruiter=72650402&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink He may prefer to be independent, and there may be better polling websites, but pressure on the NYT to recognize the superior reporting of their opposition is a good thing. It is instructive to them that intelligent readers know better journalism when they see it. A petition can demonstrate the concerns of a far larger number. I will repeat this post from time to time. Media propaganda is really not an issue any more – this madness has developed way past the propaganda stage. The real question is will the West conduct the usual shock & awe on Syria and when? What kind of military plan do the Russians have for the contingency of this shock & awe on Syria, when the Russians will certainly be killed. Are there plans for direct military cooperation between Russia and China in such situation? In other words, which Western targets will Russia hit in case of attack on the Russians in Syria? I presume that the Russian response will be strictly proportional to the Russian losses to encourage de-escalation and negotiations. But let us see if the West can cop it as well as they are always ready to dish it out to others. Maybe the time for those body bags that Morell and McCain were talking about has finally come, only a two-way exchange. Mike Strong Just did. Josh Stern Media propaganda is an issue because most of the MSM and both parties march in lock step with CIA/Pentagon propaganda nowadays, regardless of both truth and public opinion. That’s a super bad & dangerous destruction of democracy, and a form of attempted mass brainwashing. Independent journalists should try to figure out why it is happening. My view is that the owners and exec editors have a combination of financial incentives and secret allegiances to the Deep State that takes priority over both journalism and public service. Obviously I’m open to other theories, but that’s the best model I see to fit the data, present and historical. Putin is spitting chips. After good six months of idiotic bull on how Russia hacked the US election, the US Deep State has finally launched a regime change in Russia with St Petersburg bombing and bombing of Syria. As if we should have expected any different. I believe that Putin used CIA as a short name for the amalgam of the Western agencies, lead by Mossad, but also consisting of CIA, MI, BND, DGSE etc. All these agencies are being run by and for Zionist interests. These agencies, in turn, control all the Western media, although it is really a two-way interdependence between media owners and the Deep State. Yes, I do believe that this is not only an attack on St Petersburg and Syria then an attempt at regime change in Russia. The Deep Zionist State has decided to bamboozle China whilst attacking Russia. This plan to go after Russia first and then China has been hatched much before the male Hillary Clinton got into the White House. I expect a “historic” agreement between US and China, which the US will respect until Russia is taken off the enemy list and onto the asset ledger. Then China will get the same treatment. The Jews know very well how to appeal to Chinese greed. This is just the link that CN kept refusing: http://www.unz.com/forum/putin-95-of-world-terrorist-attacks-are-orchestrated-by-the-cia/ Sorry, my comment above looks disjointed because I tried to post a link to an important article which CN refused about 15 times. The governor of the Syrian Homs province which was attacked by US stated that at least two civilians living near the airport have been killed by the US attack, as published by RT. Cannot post a link, because the whole comment would disappear, please visit RT website if interested. An interesting note – the Russian MoD claims that out of 59 cruise missiles, only 23 reached their apparent targets. Have the Russian S400 crews and Syrian S300 crews had some very good real-life targeting practice? The cruise missiles are relatively slow, but fly low, so they are not super easy to shoot-down unless you have a look-down radar on AWACS planes, which the Russians reportedly have in Syria. Have the Russians been testing the transfer of targeting data from their AWACS planes into the S400 and S300 systems? If they shot down 36 US missiles, why did they let 23 through? If shooting down of cruise missiles was the case, then the Russian military has significantly benefited from this US attack. Next time over Moscow, they could aim for 100% shoot-down rate of nuclear armed US cruise missiles. david ascher We’ve been told told that these missiles fly at near supersonic speeds. That doesn’t sound ‘relatively slow’ to me. I cannot help wondering who came up with the idea of using exactly 59 missiles. Maybe it is one of Trump’s luck numbers? The speed of sound is about 767 mph, the cruise missile fly at subsonic speeds (not at near sonic speeds) of around 500-600 mph, similar to the speeds of civilian airliners. The reason for such low speed is to achieve long range at low altitude (where the air density is high). Cruise missiles were invented by the Germans in WW2, when they were known as V1. The British Spitfires fighter planes used to knock them off course by nudging then with the tips of their wings. In a tactical sense, the US attack on the Syrian military airport Al Syairat appears to have “coincided with an Islamic State ground attack east of the airport“, according to b of moonofalabama and based on a report on Sputnik (no links, sorry). This would amplify the suspected coordination between US and ISIS, as the previous “mistaken” US attack on the nearby Deir Ezzor, which killed more than one hundred SAA defenders and coincided with another ISIS ground attack. Like the previous attack, this attack again improves the odds that ISIS will finally take from SAA the desperately defended Deir Ezzor. In response, the Russian MoD appears to have terminated all military coordination with US in Syria. My final comment on this topic, I saw the bipartisan clapping in Congress to this military action. Whenever I hear an announcement of the Chorus of Hebrew Slaves in Verdi’s opera Nabucco, I think of the US Congress and most of the US nation, all slaves of Hebrews. I know that this is a reversal of the Nabucco story, but the reversal is more relevant than the original. I apologize for getting a bit off topic, but it’s really looking like the Trump admin is going to green light a regime change war on Damascus. It’s looking extremely likely that the Zionist Power Configuration in America is going to get its regime change war in Syria. This is preposterous. Assad’s one of the last state leaders in the world who speaks up for Palestinian rights and criticizes Israeli human rights violations at almost every opportunity. This is the number one reason he’s been totally vilified in the Western press and targeted for liquidation. A war for the ZPC this would be. Can the insouciant American public yet again stop this insane dash to essentially see another obliterated and failed state in the Maghreb and Middle East?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1169
__label__cc	0.607554	0.392446	By Dennis Shiao published September 25, 2019 High-Level Strategy / Audience and personas / Content strategy for marketers Ethical Marketing: Are You Crossing the Line? As I was getting ready to pick up my wife and daughter at the airport, I went to Google and entered the airline and flight number. I wasn’t expecting what I found. I expected to see a Google answer box neatly displaying the flight status like I do for simple searches like “time in London,” “100 dollars to Japanese yen,” and “59 degrees Fahrenheit to Celsius.” I got far more detail than I was expecting. Here’s the top excerpt from the search results: Gmail content integrated with search results Notice how the beginning includes a “from” line from the airline? My wife had forwarded her flight confirmation email to my Gmail account. So Google, the search engine, conveniently accessed data from Google, the email provider. Below the flight status (and not shown in the image above) were the names of my wife and daughter along with their seat assignments. Google labeled this information with “Only you can see these results” so I didn’t have privacy concerns. My first two reactions were, “What?” and “What the heck!” On one hand, Google was providing a utility, using available data to give me the best possible answer. On the other hand, utility also relates to a user’s expectations. While it’s likely that Google or Gmail’s terms of service (that I agreed to) give them the right to perform this “Gmail lookup,” I had no idea they were doing it. My reaction to this day remains, “How could you, Google?” As a passenger on the flight, showing me seat assignments is useful. As the family member doing the airport pickup, seat information is unnecessary. And now that content from my Gmail messages can appear in my search results, has Pandora’s box been opened? #Content from my Gmail can appear in my search results. Has Pandora’s box been opened? @DShiao #privacy #SEO Click To Tweet HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Data Privacy Law: Ignorance Is No Excuse Active participant vs. object of pillaging In GDPR: The Biggest Gift to Content Marketers in a Decade, CMI chief strategy advisor Robert Rose quotes internet privacy expert Simon Carroll who captures my scenario perfectly: When someone grants permission they are acting consciously, becoming an active participant rather than a passive source of data to be pillaged. Permission equals engagement. And engagement is the ultimate goal here, isn’t it? #GDPR isn’t about giving up on personal data, it’s about caring more about the data being given. @Robert_Rose Click To Tweet While Google’s terms of service might permit their search engine to access my Gmail inbox, I didn’t consciously give them permission to do so. I didn’t check an opt-in box that read, “allow Google to improve search results by accessing your email.” While I believe Google’s intentions were good, I feel like the “passive source of data to be pillaged” that Simon describes. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How to Protect Customer Data — and Your Company Are marketers privacy pirates? Here’s where my story takes a twist. In the flight status search, I was the consumer. In my day job, however, I’m a marketer. I’ve instrumented campaigns that target users based on data I know or acquired about them. I confess to have purchased contact lists, emailing thousands of users without their active consent. A lot of us did before regulations like CAN-SPAM and GDPR. (And some still do today.) Oh, if only unsolicited email were the only privacy concern. But consider these: Tracking. Targeting. Geolocating. Following. Surveilling. Spying. Many of these practices represent the lifeblood of digital marketing. Are we, as marketers, comfortable with those words describing what we do? Is it possible to be an ethical marketer and still use data to inform the ways we interact with our customers? Or are we crossing a line that puts us in opposition to our audience? Consider these recent news stories: Geoffrey A. Fowler, a reporter for The Washington Post, detailed how over the course of a week his iPhone encountered 5,400-plus trackers, mostly in apps, that passed personal information to third parties. The data passing continued even while Geoffrey slept. (Subscription required to access full article.) A New York Times article detailed how phones record minute-by-minute details of its owners’ physical location and how companies have access to that data. “At least 75 companies receive anonymous, precise location data from apps whose users enable location services to get local news and weather or other information,” according to the article. (Subscription may be required to access full article.) Another New York Times article highlighted what someone can learn from a phone number. It goes into how marketers use phone numbers to track and target audiences. (Subscription may be required to access full article.) A CNET article detailed FaceApp’s one-sided terms of service in favor of the company, not the user. FaceApp gained scrutiny after the popularity of its feature allowing users to upload their photo to see how they would look older or younger exploded. U.S. senators, including Chuck Schumer, are calling on the FBI and Federal Trade Commission to look into the national security and privacy risks. As marketers, how do we stay on the right side of the line? Let’s highlight some approaches marketers can take. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Why You May Want to Rethink Data, Privacy, and Content What is ethics in marketing? In an article about ethics in marketing, Christopher Penn references a concept called utilitarian ethics. According to Chris, utilitarianism defines ethical practices as “those practices that result in the greatest good and/or the greatest happiness for all.” Utilitarian ethical practices result in greatest good or happiness for all, says @cspenn. Click To Tweet Chris gives an example of a well-known influencer who had social media posts ghostwritten. Some practitioners called this inauthentic. When considering utilitarian ethics, however, Chris notes, “If the posts were helpful, if the posts provided value, then the practice was ethical in the sense that it was doing the maximum good possible, even if the influencer wasn’t writing a single one.” If we set our goals to create the maximum amount of good possible, Chris says, we’ll come up with innovative ways of doing the same things. “Do enough good, create enough happiness, and the world will want us to win,” he says. Pivoting toward ethical marketing In a post, How to Pivot Your Brand Towards Ethical Marketing, Skyword provides this definition for ethical marketing: Ethical marketing is all about doing the right thing as a business, doing the right thing in marketing, and using marketing to emphasize that you are doing the right thing. The author interviews Valerie Stachurski, founder and president of Charming Media, who pivoted her PR business to a more pro-socially conscious brand image. “A commitment to ethical marketing means a commitment to spending the money and time to adhere to the principles you’re touting to the public. It sometimes means choosing the slower, more expensive route.” A commitment to ethical #marketing sometimes means choosing the slower, more expensive route. @ValCharmingGal Click To Tweet Brands must grow their marketing on a foundation of ethical beliefs and principles. That requires first considering the ethics of your actions, instead of focusing solely on attracting and converting customers. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Want to be Trusted? Here’s a Crash Course in Brand Journalism Put the audience first Where do the priorities lie for a company that obtains location data harvested from phones to target their owners with advertising? I’d argue that the priorities of the company are more important than the phone users. In fact, the users are merely a resource to be monetized. But when marketers put the audience first, we stay on the right side of the line. Look at data as a means to create a better experience. If the resulting experience encourages users to provide more data, consider that a privilege — a symbol of trust that we reciprocate with a reward, an even better experience. As Robert writes in the GDPR article, we should treat audiences as we would customers and place the same priority and care in our content as we would products released to the market. We can transform the purpose of marketing. We should place the same priority & care in our #content as we would products released to the market. @Robert_Rose Click To Tweet As Robert says, “It can go from a surveillance-based process of identifying the optimal targets for persuasion to a valuable experience where audience members are more than willing to identify themselves.” In a prior CMI post, Robert wrote about a new, critical role on the content team: the audience strategist. To add to the roles and responsibilities outlined in that post, Robert would add a new one, that of a data shepherd, who manages the data collected by a company. In a ContentTECH Summit presentation, “Integrity In a World of Advanced Technology,” Ruth Carter proposes a similar role. Ruth calls it the data custodian, the person who cares for data once it’s acquired. The data custodian asks why certain data is still being stored. “Are we protecting it effectively, and if we don’t need it anymore, delete it safely, so that you don’t end up in a situation where millions of passport numbers are being stolen,” says Ruth. If you don’t have resources to have a dedicated data custodian, it could be the responsibility of the audience strategist. Rant Alert: Content Marketers Must Up Their Data Game Dataviz: A Critical Skill for Modern Marketers Have the important conversation With personal data being generated, collected, and used more than ever and with the growing number of smart devices in our lives, the challenges around data for marketers will only grow. Don’t rely only on the mandates of new regulations to dictate your data policies. Take a step back to discuss how your brand should access and use the data shared by your prospective audience, current audience, as well as your customers. Root the conversation in fundamental beliefs of right vs. wrong and detail the principles that should never be compromised. We can’t practice ethical marketing if we skip over the fundamentals of defining our values and beliefs. What are you thoughts on ethics in marketing? How are you practicing it? Where have you seen brands run amok? Share your thoughts in the comments. We can’t practice ethical marketing if we don’t define our values and beliefs. @DShiao Click To Tweet Join us for ContentTech Summit April 20-22, 2020, in San Diego. Registration will open later this fall. Stay in the loop – and get more help for your content marketing programs – by subscribing to the free weekday newsletter. Author: Dennis Shiao Dennis is an independent marketing consultant who works with brands on content marketing, product messaging, and social media marketing. Formerly, Dennis led the content marketing function at DNN Software. Dennis curates an email newsletter called Content Corner and publishes marketing-related content on Medium. Feel free to reach out to Dennis on Twitter @dshiao Other posts by Dennis Shiao	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1171
__label__wiki	0.588956	0.588956	Blades of Orterra Blades of Orterra is a Fantasy Open-World Multiplayer RPG created in Unreal Engine 4. A castle of a dozen Kingdoms stacked one on top of the other, awaiting for those brave enough to ascend them— Orterra is filled with adventure. Progress through the floors of Orterra, reach the top of the castle, and discover the secrets hidden within each Kingdom. Your quest begins on the first floor, from where you must not only progress individually, but also with your fellow players as a whole. Every Kingdom contains a labyrinth filled with dangers, and at the end of each labyrinth contains an enemy more powerful than any beast found up to that point. These enemies are called Guardians; once defeated, the next Kingdom becomes accessible to all players on the server. Be anything you dream of being: Blades of Orterra follows a classless character design, allowing players a wide range of possible paths to choose from. From a blacksmith to a chef to a bounty hunter, you have the freedom to advance in a certain profession or multiple. The game will feature crafting professions, exploration, community, and of course, an immersive and interactive world. Combat in Blades of Orterra is action-oriented and skill-based, inspired by titles like Dark Souls and Absolver. Battle can be hectic and will test your quick-thinking abilities. Whether fighting a boss or a wolf in the fields, players will need to choose their movements carefully and make every action count. Blocking, dodge-rolling, and proper positioning during battle can be the difference between victory and defeat for the player. Players' loadouts of skills and equipment can be changed freely. Equip different weapons depending on your playstyle or the situation and mix and match armour pieces. The overall weight of armour equipped determines the speed you may move/dodge at. The armour weight types are Light, Medium, and Heavy. In Blades of Orterra, there are two types of progression, global and personal. Throughout the game, the players can progress through the Kingdoms by defeating Guardians, the bosses of the Kingdoms. These fierce enemies will push the players' skills beyond their limits, and once beaten, all players, including new players in the server, may progress to the Kingdom above. This is global progression Before reaching the Kingdom's Guardian, players will set out to level up their character, find new gear, and become stronger to prepare for the challenges ahead. This is personal progression The worlds that form Orterra are separated into Kingdoms, each Kingdom has its own story line, and side-quests. Explore beautiful cities and towns, dungeons full of mysteries, and unlock new Kingdoms by advancing in the Labyrinth. Orterra's worlds are dynamic and changing- every Kingdom is generated uniquely in each server. Dungeons, locations of shops, locations of chests and more are placed differently in each server to make every adventure a fresh experience. Players can choose to either complete the story and quest content or hunt enemies to level up their characters for the next Kingdom. No content is mandatory or required. A Kingdom's story may be experienced without completing the previous Kingdoms' stories, but bear in mind an over-arching story connects each Kingdom's storyline. Players can always go back to previous Kingdoms by means of teleportation crystals. Each Kingdom features a different biome and theme. You'll never know what kind of world you'll find next as you progress through Orterra. After a long night of killing monsters and making new allies, you may want to take a break from combat and work on your Profession skills. In Blades of Orterra, professions play a big role in the market and creation of rare items. Players can choose from professions such as Cooking, Blacksmithing, Mining, and more. Players will not be limited to a maximum number of professions. Our goal for professions is to have players interact with the profession rather than clicking and waiting to craft items. A Cook might experiment to discover new recipes for their next dish, or a Blacksmith might try smithing a sword with different hilts or materials. We want professions to be fun and satisfying. Action-oriented and Skill-based Combat Equipment and Player progression Dungeons and locations to explore Unlockable skills, abilities, professions, and more Party and Guild systems Guardians and huge Bosses to defeat Player-hosted servers, allowing for co-op and multiplaye Windows 7/8/10 64-bit Intel i5-3570 @ 3.4Ghz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550Ti Blades of Orterra is a Fantasy Open-World Multiplayer RPG created in Unreal Engine 4. Progress through the Kingdoms, defeat enemies, and explore the world of Orterra. Publisher: Covert Games Assassin's Creed Odyssey - Gold Edition	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1183
__label__wiki	0.869641	0.869641	New Navy Amphib Assault Strategy: "Mother Ships" Launch Small Boat Attacks Kris Osborn Warrior Maven Video Report Above: What Will the New Navy Amphibious Assault Strategy Consist of? By Kris Osborn - Warrior Maven The future of amphibious attack may consist of thousands of disaggregated manned and unmanned surveillance boats, armor-carrying connectors, minesweepers and small attack vessels operating in tandem as the Navy and Marine Corps refine a new strategic approach and continue their pivot toward a new, great-power threat environment. The concept is to configure a dispersed, yet “networked” fleet of next-generation connectors and other smaller boats launched from big-deck amphib “mother ships.” The larger host ships are intended to operate in a command and control capacity while bringing sensors, long-range fires and 5th-generation air support to the fight. “We envision fleets of smaller, multi-mission vessels, operating with surface warfare leadership. People talk about a 355-ship Navy, how about a 35,000-ship Navy?,” Maj. Gen. David Coffman, Director of Naval Expeditionary Warfare, told an audience at the Surface Naval Association Symposium. Coffman explained it as a “family of combatant craft, manned and unmanned, integrated in a distributed maritime operation.” Since potential adversaries now have longer-range weapons, better sensors, targeting technologies and computers with faster processing speeds, amphibious forces approaching the shore may need to disperse in order to make it harder for enemy forces to target them. Therefore, the notion of a disaggregated, yet interwoven attack force, less vulnerable to enemy fire, will be launched to hit “multiple landing points” to exploit enemy defenses. “This does not mean we give up the bigs, it means we use them more effectively. They are a big part of our ability to project combat power,” Coffman explained. New ships, such as future Landing Craft Air Cushions (LCAC), Unmanned Surface Vessels (USV), Amphibious Combat Vehicles, ship-launched undersea drones and even newly up-gunned PC boats, are expected to empower the emerging strategy to introduce a new, more effective and lethal “over-the-horizon ship-to-shore” attack ability. Future LCAC replacements, such as the now-under-construction Textron-built Ship-to-Shore Connectors, are expected to figure prominently in these anticipated missions. They introduce an unprecedented ability to transport 70-ton Abrams tanks to war and bring an integrated suite of new technologies to amphibious attack missions. Execution of this new strategy is, depending upon the threat, also reliant upon 5th-generation aircraft, Coffman said; the Corp F-35B, now operational as part of Marine Corps Air Ground Task Forces aboard the USS Wasp and USS Essex, is intended to provide close-air support to advancing attacks, use its sensors to perform forward reconnaissance and launch strikes itself. The success of an amphibious attack needs, or even requires, air supremacy. Extending this logic, an F-35 would be positioned to address enemy air-to-air and airborne air-to-surface threats such as drones, fighter jets or even incoming anti-ship missiles and ballistic missiles. The idea would be to use the F-35 in tandem with surveillance drones and other nodes to find and destroy land-based enemy defenses, clearing the way for a land assault. The entire strategic and conceptual shift is also informed by an increased “sea-basing” focus. Smaller multi-mission vessels, according to this emerging strategy, will be fortified by larger amphibs operating as sovereign entities at safer distances. Coffman said these ships would operate as “seaports, hospitals, logistics warehouses and sea-bases for maneuver forces.” A 2014 paper from the Marine Corps Association, the professional journal of the US Marine Corps, points to sea-basing as a foundation upon which the Navy will shift away from traditional amphibious warfare. “Seabased operations enable Marines to conduct highly mobile, specialized, small unit, amphibious landings by stealth from over the horizon at multiple undefended locations of our own choosing,” the paper writes. In effect, future “ship-to-shore” amphibious attacks will look nothing like the more linear, aggregated Iwo Jima assault. A Naval War College essay on this topic both predicts and reinforces Coffman’s thinking. “The basic requirements of amphibious assault, long held to be vital to success, may no longer be attainable. Unlike the Pacific landings of World War II amphibious objective areas could prove impossible to isolate,” the paper, called “Blitzkrieg From the Sea: Maneuver Warfare and Amphibious Operations,” states. (Richard Moore, 1983) The essay, written in the 80s during the height of the Cold War, seems to anticipate future threats from major-power adversaries. Interestingly, drawing from some elements of a Cold War mentality, the essay foreshadows current “great-power” competition strategy for the Navy as it transitions from more than a decade of counterinsurgency to a new threat environment. In fact, when discussing its now-underway “distributed lethality” strategy, Navy leaders often refer to this need to return its focus upon heavily fortified littoral defenses and open, blue-water warfare against a near-peer adversary - as having some roots in the Cold War era. The Naval War College essay also seems to anticipate modern thinking in that it cites LCACs as fundamental to amphibious warfare, writing that LCACs can “land at several points along an enemy coastline, seeking out enemy weaknesses and shifting forces.” LCACs can access over 70-percent of the shoreline across the world, something the new SSCs will be able to do as well. Designed with over-the-horizon high-speed and maneuverability, LCACs are able to travel long distances and land on rocky terrain and drive up onto the shore. Referring to a more dispersed or disaggregated amphibious attack emphasis, the Naval War College essay describes modern attack through the lens of finding “surface gaps” to exploit as a way to bypass or avoid “centers of resistance.” Dispersed approaches, using air-ground coordination and forward positioned surveillance nodes, can increasingly use synchronized assault tactics, pinpointing advantageous areas of attack. Not only can this, as the essay indicates, exploit enemy weakness, but it also brings the advantage of avoiding more condensed or closely-configured approaches far more vulnerable to long-range enemy sensors and weapons. Having an SSC, which can bring a heavier load of land-attack firepower, weapons and Marines, helps enable this identified need to bring assault forces across a wide-range of attack locations. None of this, while intended to destroy technologically sophisticated enemies, removes major risks; Russian and Chinese weapons, including emerging 5th-generation fighters, DF-26 anti-ship missiles claimed to reach 900-miles and rapidly-emerging weapons such as drones, lasers and railguns are a variety of systems of concern. New Amphibious Attack Platforms The effort to integrate large numbers of multi-mission smaller craft, naturally hinges upon the continued development of vessels enabled by newer advanced technologies. Textron's upgraded Ship-to-Shore Craft includes lighter-weight composite materials, increased payload capacity, modernized engines and computer-automated controls. Also, SSC’s new Rolls Royce engines have more horsepower and specialized aluminum to help prevent corrosion. Textron engineers also say the SSC is built with digital flight controls and computer automation to replace the traditional yoke and pedals used by current connectors. As a result, on-board computers will quickly calculate relevant details such as wind speed and navigational information, according to Textron information. The Navy’s 72 existing LCACs, in service since the 80s, can only transport up to 60-tons, reach speeds of 36-knots and travel ranges up to 200 nautical miles from amphibious vehicles. The first several SSCs, which have been built and launched on the water, bring a new level of computer networking, combat-power transport technology and emerging elements of advanced maritime propulsion systems. The new SSC's have also moved to a lower frequency for ship electronics, moving from 400 Hertz down to 60 Hertz in order to better synchronize ship systems with Navy common standards. Along with these properties, the new craft uses hardware footprint reducing advances to lower the number of gear boxes from eight to two. As part of this overall attack apparatus, the Corps is preparing to deploy new BAE-built Amphibious Combat Vehicles by 2021. By integrating a new, more powerful engine, large weapons and digitized C4ISR systems, the ACV is expected to bring new mechanized firepower to amphibious assaults - when compared to the existing AAV - Amphibious Assault Vehicle. BAE is now beginning Low-Rate Initial Production as part of a Marine Corps plan to build hundreds of the new vehicles. Unlike existing tracked AAVs, ACVs are eight-wheeled vehicles engineered for greater speed, maneuverability and survivability. By removing the need for torsion bars, a wheeled-vehicle such as the ACV can build a v-shaped hull for additional protection, BAE Systems developers say. "The Marine Corps went from tracked to wheeled because of advances in automotive technology," said John Swift, Director of Amphibious Warfare. These vehicles, if upgraded with advanced AI-enabled networking and computer technologies, could help identify threats, protect SSCs and of course bring needed firepower to amphibious landings. BAE and the Corps are now preparing to fire weapons at the new vehicle until the live-fire attacks achieve "total destruction," as a way to prepare the vehicle for combat, Swift said. Mine Threat Coffman also explained that he envisions unmanned, yet networked LCACs as something which, among other things, can limit risk to Marines from a range of enemy attacks such as deep-water mines. “We have significant gaps in our capability to defeat 100,000 Russian and Chinese mines which will not be laid in shallow water,” Coffman said. When accompanied by a fleet of small attack and reconnaissance vessels, SSCs will operate with more protection from mines and other enemy threats. While this emerging Navy strategy is, of course, intended to implement a far more effective attack strategy, it is also, by design, intended to save more lives when launching dangerous assaults into heavily-defended enemy areas. “Amphibious landings are marked by extremely high costs and heavy casualties, and are considered among the riskiest and least desirable operations to conduct,” the Marine Corps Association essay maintains. --- Kris Osborn is a Senior Fellow at The Lexington Institute - The Lexington Institute Osborn previously served at the Pentagon as a Highly Qualified Expert with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army - Acquisition, Logistics & Technology. Osborn has also worked as an anchor and on-air military specialist at national TV networks. He has a Masters in Comparative Literature from Columbia University. More Weapons and Technology - WARRIOR MAVEN (CLICK HERE)-- Kris Osborn can be reached at Krisosborn.ko@gmail.com You cite "a naval war college essay" — "written in the 1980s" — as the conceptual foundation in part of this emerging Marine Corps vision: Should not the author of that essay be properly cited as well? Hey Michael - thx for responding. I had the essay, and its title properly attributed - at the same time, I think your suggestion is worthwhile - I added his name. Regards and nice to make your acquaintance Sure - while not required, I added his name as a courtesy. Appreciate the suggestion khan saab Best Settings For Apex Legends 2019 [Boost FPS & Performance NOW] Find out the most optimized Apex Legends Settings for High-End PCs and Low-End PCs along with some bonus optimizations that will boost… www.apexsettings.net ErlTyriss So basically turning LHDs into all domain drone motherships for UAV, UCAV, UUV, and USVs. Karl -Moderator Yes Erl - great point - and the plan is to expand this kind of integration across the other fleet to more ships, LCS, DDG 51 and many more CoolHandMike Thank you for the article. Can you cite the source for the 2014 Marine Corps Association paper on sea-basing? Navy Stealthy Zumwalt Destroyer May Fire Conventional Prompt Strike Missile The Navy’s newest destroyer may fire a not-yet-to-be fielded Conventional Prompt Strike conventionally-armed missile Navy Strategy Fast-Tracks New Weapons for "Offensive" Attack Navy leaders cite key weapons programs as essential for future warfare "offensive-attack" strategy Navy Accelerates New Ship Radar to Support Emerging "Sea-Attack" Strategy The Navy is accelerating integration of a new, much more powerful radar system intended to find and destroy enemy drones Navy Adapts LCS Attack Strategy, Shoots HELLFIRE in Live-Fire How Will Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship deck-launched HELLFIRE will change surface war? Watch VIDEO: Navy Capt. 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__label__cc	0.739296	0.260704	STEVE & KIM's MUSIC MUSIC & HEALTH Tai Chi for Musicians Vocal Toning Awareness Vocal & Piano Lessons Band Booking Inquiry Your Voice & You: Vocal Toning Awareness Use Your Tones to Shift Your Vibration! The purpose of this class series is to work towards achieving Your Best Sound. We will focus on vocal methods to improve awareness, breath control, relaxation, phonation, articulation, resonance, tonal quality, flexibility and equalizing the registers, improvisation, as well as improve your overall performance on and off stage. The series is intended to help you learn how frequency and intention work together to create harmony of the spirit, mind and body. Musicians and non-musicians are welcome. It’s important to note that it’s not necessary to be a “good” singer to successfully engage in and benefit from vocal toning and awareness. If you can hum, you can tone! That said, in this unique class series we will apply what we learn from the toning and awareness exercises to help you explore the nuances of your voice and discover or enhance the “voice” within. Many healing practitioners believe the singing voice to be the most natural healing instrument as it carries every frequency in our bodies, so when this awareness is linked to psychological patterns and emotional responses it can assist you towards discovering just who your unique voice is as you express your truths and work towards balance and harmony. Vocal Toning, the practice of allowing one's voice to express fully and spontaneously through a range of sounds, primal and/or contemporary, has been used by indigenous cultures for centuries as an integral part of healing practices. “Vocal Toning” is a phrase coined by vocal sound healer and author Laurel E. Keyes, and is a means by which harmony can be restored physiologically as well as psycho-spiritually from a person elongating a single note on a single vowel or consonant/vowel combination. The ancient vocal sound therapy practices (i.e. toning, harmonic singing, etc.) of the Khoisan peoples of Central and South Africa, the Tuvans located Northwest of Mongolia, the Shamans of Native America, and the Inuit people of Northern Canada have been researched to reveal their understanding of the medicinal benefits of Vocal Toning. Acquiring these attributes can help to strengthen and elevate one’s overall daily activities and work/school performance. Whether your work is on stage or in the office, you’ll learn how frequency and intention work together to create harmony of the spirit, mind and body. As a group we will explore ourSelves through vocal toning and awareness and learn how Vocal Toning and Distinctive Resonant Tones of Vocal Harmonics enhance the singing voice, quality of performance, and our overall well-being. When in tonal harmony, each atom sings its song! Benefits of Vocal Toning Health Benefits of Vocal Toning: Restoration of Vocal Cords Stimulate Circulation Balance Hormones Increased Melatonin Releases Endorphins Physical Stamina Technical (Singing) Benefits of Vocal Toning: Long-Tone Singing Control Vibrato Appropriate Tonal Placements Balance Vocal Registers Extend Vocal Range Strengthen Resonance Increase Dynamics Communication & Self-Expression Kim Wright has over 25 years professional concert experience as a Vocalist. Her versatile singing styles include R&B, Jazz-Traditional/Contemporary, Christian/Gospel-Traditional/Contemporary, Pop, Progressive Rock, and Fusion music. Kim also has 13 years experience teaching private and group music lessons (vocals and piano) and conducting workshops/clinics at community music centers and schools. She has an extensive education and performance background including a MMUS Performance degree in Jazz Vocals from London College of Music at University of West London, UK, with honors of distinction where she completed her dissertation on Vibrational Sound Therapy and Vocal Toning. Kim is currently working on her PhD in Vocal Performance with a research emphasis on Vocal Toning and Distinctive Resonant Tones of Vocal Harmonics to not only enhance the singing voice, quality of performance, but more importantly contribute to improving overall health and well-being. Throughout her singing career, Kim has witnessed the power and influence the singing voice can have over its audience and over the singer alike. As a Vocalist, Vocal Instructor, and former Rehabilitation Counselor, she is driven to shine a brighter light on the subject and practice of therapeutic vocalizations, and quality toning for not only sound performances but moreover for health and healing. Kim's vocal toning work is rooted in the extensive and tested work of renowned musicians, sound healers, and medical practitioners including Laurel E. Keyes, Otto Haddad, Dr. Diane Austin, Dr. Mitchell Gaynor, Mantak Chia, Bobby McFerrin, Dr. Fritjof Capra, Shira Hunt, Dr. David Frawley, Ted Andrews, and Russill Paul, among others. Their work has resulted in healing ways including helping students and clients lower stress and performance anxiety, dissolve tumors, improve mental clarity, repair broken bones, build confidence, and uncover our true voice. 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__label__wiki	0.578426	0.578426	NETSCOUT Awarded Global 2010 Enabling Technology of Year Frost & Sullivan recognizes NetScout Adaptive Session Intelligence technology for its ability to deliver highly scalable and comprehensive visibility into complex IP service delivery environments WESTFORD, Mass. – 20. Januar 2011— NetScout® Systems, Inc. today announced that independent research firm Frost & Sullivan has named NetScout Adaptive Session Intelligence™ (ASI) technology as the Global 2010 Enabling Technology of the Year for Network Performance and Application Monitoring. The award recognizes NetScout as setting new industry standards for innovation and leadership with the introduction of a transformative Deep Packet Analysis (DPA) engine that dynamically tracks, captures and analyzes user-level transactions across multi-domain IP networks. The highly scalable and comprehensive visibility from by ASI technology will enable a more unified end-to-end view of user experience and speed the identification, triage and resolution of performance problems across highly complex distributed service delivery architectures, such as cloud-based services, virtualized applications and distributed transaction-based applications. “We chose NetScout ASI technology for the Global 2010 Enabling Technology of the Year Award for its innovative approach in addressing the challenges of service delivery management in multi-tier, multi-domain environments,” said Olga Yashkova, Program Manager, measurement & instrumentation, Frost & Sullivan. “The ASI technology also demonstrates exceptional vision in the protection of customer investments by adapting the new technology across existing nGenius® Service Assurance Solution analysis modules. Clearly, NetScout is providing the leadership that IT organizations need to manage the fast-changing technology revolution in service management approaches.” Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company that has developed a pioneering technology that not only enhances current products, but also enables the development of newer products and applications. This award recognizes the high market acceptance potential of the recipient's technology. Frost & Sullivan's Best Practices Awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service and strategic product development. Frost & Sullivan industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis and extensive secondary research in order to identify best practices in the industry. “We are extremely honored to have received this recognition for our technology innovation and vision from Frost & Sullivan,” said Steven Shalita, vice president of marketing, NetScout. “Throughout our 26-year history, NetScout has remained focused on driving innovative and scalable ways to address the challenges of service management by leveraging the value of information from network traffic. Our vision for ASI technology will help organizations to address the inherent scalability and visibility challenges of next generation IP technologies and enable a more business-oriented view into user experiences. NetScout ASI technology transforms the power and analysis velocity of the nGenius Service Assurance Solution’s Deep Packet Analysis capabilities. Using adaptive application recognition, ASI technology constructs “intelligent signatures” of user sessions to fully visualize all of the transactions occurring within a specific session for unprecedented visibility into complex multi-tier, multi-domain service delivery environments. The new intelligent metadata of every transaction and the associated user experience enables a more scalable approach to analyzing and storing high volume IP traffic, which is necessary for emerging technologies such as 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces and IPv6. ### About NetScout Systems, Inc. NetScout Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTCT) is the market leader in Unified Service Delivery Management enabling comprehensive end-to-end network and application assurance. For over 26 years, NetScout has delivered breakthrough packet-flow technology that provides trusted and comprehensive real-time network and application performance intelligence enabling unified assurance of the network, applications and users. These solutions enable IT staff to predict, preempt and resolve network and service delivery problems while facilitating the optimization and capacity planning of the network infrastructure. NetScout nGenius® and Sniffer® solutions are deployed at more than 20.000 of the world’s largest enterprises, government agencies, and more than 130 service providers, on over 740.000 network segments to assure the network, applications, and service delivery to their users and customers. NetScout, nGenius, InfiniStream and Sniffer are registered trademarks and Adaptive Session Intelligence is a trademark of NetScout Systems, Inc.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1196
__label__wiki	0.510004	0.510004	Syngas Brief intro to syngas speichernSyngas für später speichern Test Bank and Solution Manual 2018-2019 List 2 Chemical engineering december 2015.pdf Chapter 1 (Introduction) Continuous Regenerative (moving bed) CCR Platforming Are There Any Special Precautions to Be Taken When SA (Submerged Arc) Welding Circumferential Seams Life as Only Chemistry Preliminary Screening Technical and Economic Assessment of Synthesis Gas to Fuels and Chemicals Use of Enzymes in Pre-treatment step standard 5 Production of Urea Alt Renewable Energy Solutions Fnl 12-08 Unlock Code.pdf Bui 2015 Applied Catalysis B Environmental CoatingPro May2010 - Dry Film Thickness vs Profile Syngas , or synthesis gas , is a fuel gas mixture consisting primarily of hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and very often some carbon dioxide. The name comes from its use as intermediates in creating synthetic natural gas (SNG)[1] and for producing ammonia or methanol. Syngas is also used as an intermediate in producing synthetic petroleum for use as a fuel or lubricant via the FischerTropsch process and previously the Mobil methanol to gasoline process. Syngas is combustible and often used as a fuel of internal combustion engines.[2][3][4] It has less than half the energy density of natural gas. Production methods include steam reforming of natural gas or liquid hydrocarbons to produce hydrogen, the gasification of coal,[5] biomass, and in some types of waste-to-energy gasification facilities. 1 Production chemistry 2 Alternative technologies 2.1 Biomass catalytic partial oxidation[6] 2.2 Carbon dioxide and hydrogen 2.2.1 Microwave energy 2.2.2 Solar energy 3 Post-treatment 4 Energy capacity 5 See also 6 References 7 External links Production chemistry The main reaction that produces syngas, steam reforming, is endothermic with 206 kJ/mol methane needed for conversion. The first reaction, between incandescent coke and steam, is strongly endothermic, producing carbon monoxide (CO), and hydrogen H2 (water gas in older terminology). When the coke bed has cooled to a temperature at which the endothermic reaction can no longer proceed, the steam is then replaced by a blast of air. The second and third reactions then take place, producing an exothermic reaction - forming initially carbon dioxide - raising the temperature of the coke bed - followed by the second endothermic reaction, in which the latter is converted to carbon monoxide, CO. The overall reaction is exothermic, forming "producer gas" (older terminology). Steam can then be re-injected, then air etc., to give an endless series of cycles until the coke is finally consumed. Producer gas has a much lower energy value, relative to water gas, due primarily to dilution with atmospheric nitrogen. Pure oxygen can be substituted for air to avoid the dilution effect, producing gas of much higher calorific value. When used as an intermediate in the large-scale, industrial synthesis of hydrogen (principally used in the production of ammonia), it is also produced from natural gas (via the steam reforming reaction) as follows: CH4 + H2O CO + 3 H2 In order to produce more hydrogen from this mixture, more steam is added and the water gas shift reaction is carried out: CO + H2O CO2 + H2 The hydrogen must be separated from the CO2 to be able to use it. This is primarily done by pressure swing adsorption (PSA), amine scrubbing, and membrane reactors. Biomass catalytic partial oxidation[6] Conversion of biomass to syngas is typically low-yield. The University of Minnesota developed a metal catalyst that reduces the biomass reaction time by up to a factor of 100. The catalyst can be operated at atmospheric pressure and reduces char. The entire process is autothermic and therefore heating is not required. Carbon dioxide and hydrogen Microwave energy CO2 can be split into CO and then combined with hydrogen to form syngas. A method for production of carbon monoxide from carbon dioxide by treating it with microwave radiation is being examined by the solar fuels-project of the Dutch Institute For Fundamental Energy Research.[7] This technique was alleged to have been used during the Cold war in Russian nuclear submarines to allow them to get rid of CO2 gas without leaving a bubble trail.[8] Solar energy Heat generated by concentrated solar power may be used to drive thermochemical reactions to split carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide or to make hydrogen.[9] Natural gas may be used as a feedstock in a facility that integrates concentrated solar power with a power plant fueled by natural gas augmented by syngas while the sun is shining.[10][11][12] The Sunshine-to-Petrol project has developed a device allowing for efficient production using this technique. It is called the Counter-Rotating Ring Receiver Reactor Recuperator, or CR5.[13][14][15][16] The The syngas produced in waste-to-energy gasification facilities can be used to generate electricity. Coal gasification processes were used for many years to manufacture illuminating gas (coal gas) for gas lighting, cooking and to some extent, heating, before electric lighting and the natural gas infrastructure became widely available. Syngas can be used in the FischerTropsch process to produce diesel, or converted into e.g. methane, methanol, and dimethyl ether in catalytic processes. If the syngas is post-treated by cryogenic processing, it should be taken into account that this technology has great difficulty in recovering pure carbon monoxide if relatively large volumes of nitrogen are present due to carbon monoxide and nitrogen having very similar boiling points which are -191.5 C and -195.79 C respectively. Certain process technology selectively removes carbon monoxide by complexation/decomplexation of carbon monoxide with cuprous aluminum chloride (CuAlCl4 ) dissolved in an organic liquid such as toluene. The purified carbon monoxide can have a purity greater than 99%, which makes it a good feedstock for the chemical industry. The reject gas from the system can contain carbon dioxide, nitrogen, methane, ethane, and hydrogen. The reject gas can be further processed on a pressure swing adsorption system to remove hydrogen, and the hydrogen and carbon monoxide can be recombined in the proper ratio for catalytic methanol production, Fischer-Tropsch diesel, etc. Cryogenic purification, being very energy-intensive, is not well suited to simply making fuel, because of the greatly reduced net energy gain.[citation needed ] Energy capacity Syngas that is not methanized typically has a lower heating value of 120 BTU/scf.[17] Untreated syngas can be run in hybrid turbines that allow for greater efficiency because of their lower operating temperatures, and extended part lifetime.[17] Biochar Biobased economy Biofuels Boudouard reaction Claus process Coal gas Industrial gas Integrated gasification combined cycle Partial oxidation Reformer sponge iron cycle Syngas fermentation Underground coal gasification 1. ^ Beychok, M.R., Process and environmental technology for producing SNG and liquid fuels, U.S. EPA report EPA-660/2-75-011, May 1975 2. ^ Syngas in Gas Engines (http://www.clarke-energy.com/gas-type/synthesis-gas-syngas/), www.clarkeenergy.com, accessed 15.11.11 3. ^ Syngas used in IC engines (http://www.dailytech.com/Why+Let+it+go+to+Waste++Enerkem+Leaps+Ahead+With+TrashtoGas+Plans/article1 7817.htm) 4. ^ Syngas used in IC engines 2 (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00102200801963417) 5. ^ Beychok, M.R., Coal gasification and the Phenosolvan process, American Chemical Society 168th National Meeting, Atlantic City, September 1974 6. ^ "Syngas using metal catalyst" (http://www.license.umn.edu/Products/Syngas-from-Renewable-Hydrogen-andCarbon-Monoxide-Gases-Using-a-Biomass-Gasification-Process__Z07080.aspx). University of Minnesota. Retrieved 25 August 2011. 7. ^ DIFFER (http://www.differ.nl/en) 8. ^ NWT magazine 6/2012 9. ^ "Sunshine to Petrol" (http://energy.sandia.gov/wp/wp-content/gallery/uploads/S2P_SAND2009-5796P.pdf). Sandia National Laboratories. Retrieved April 11, 2013. 10. ^ "Integrated Solar Thermochemical Reaction System" (http://www1.eere.energy.gov/solar/sunshot/csp_sunshotrnd_pnnl.html). U.S. Department of Energy. Retrieved April 11, 2013. 11. ^ Matthew L. Wald (April 10, 2013). "New Solar Process Gets More Out of Natural Gas" (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/11/business/energy-environment/new-solar-process-gets-more-out-of-naturalgas.html). The New York Times. Retrieved April 11, 2013. 12. ^ Frances White. "A solar booster shot for natural gas power plants" (http://www.pnnl.gov/news/release.aspx? id=981). Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. 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__label__cc	0.694431	0.305569	The results are being filtered by the region: BC Mrs Andrea J. Lee (Denman Island, Canada) Provider Thought Partners Internationalna Home 1551 Pickles Road Denman Island British Columbia V0R 1T0 CanadahomeHome BC V0R 1T0 Canadahome Work Phone: 250-335-2468work Cell Phone: 2504651018cell Personal Email: andrealeeonline@gmail.comINTERNET Work Email: ajleeceo@gmail.comINTERNET Website: Indrani's Light Foundation Skype: andrea.jennifer.lee I am currently without academic affiliation, possessing a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University in Canada, and am exploring the possibility of applying to do graduate work in social work or psychology. Since 1997, I have been an entrepreneur. For the last 14 years, I have trained and coached entrepreneurial women and men to create expertise-based businesses. Both group programs and private work include leadership development, emotional resilience, and conflict management. For some women clients, I also provide coaching for anger management, abusive behaviour towards staff, and emotional abuse in their personal relationships. From 2011 to present, I have been involved in the creation and start up of a 501(c)3 called the Indrani’s Light Foundation (ILF) whose mission is to eradicate ‘gender-based violence’ (GBV.) The activities of the foundation are two-pronged. (1) Internationally, in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation and Population Services International, the NGO in Washington, DC, funding GBV work in keeping with the U.N.’s Millennial Development Goals. On the ground in India and Trinidad and Tobago, ILF provides evidence-based, behaviour-change trainings called ‘Live a Brighter Life’ which teach boundaries, shame resilience, and self-care to community workers, NGO-staff, abused women, and schoolchildren. (2) In the US, ILF provides ‘Caring for the Caregivers’ training to Women’s Shelter caregivers in Houston, Texas and in 2017, Portland, Oregon. Training in both of the above areas takes place over half a day to, ideally, a 2-day time span for participants in person, however, an online version of the Live a Brighter Life course has also brought measurable results. To support scaling these efforts, ILF has also started to train trainers. As of 2014, with new trainers in place, I have been studying research methods and conducting qualitative interviews of female perpetrators and male survivors, with the goal of gaining a more balanced picture of the field, and to determine possible future contributions. For entrepreneurs, I published ‘We Need to Talk: Your Guide to Challenging Business Conversations’ in 2014. In 2003, I published ‘Multiple Streams of Coaching Income.’ In between the two, there have been other titles, all unrelated to domestic violence. Some books of note for various reasons: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk The Emotionally Abusive Relationship by Beverly Engel The STOP Program by David Wexler An Adult Child’s Guide to What’s Normal by John Friel The Power of a Positive No by William Ury Getting our Bodies Back by Christine Caldwell The Potent Self by Moshe Feldenkrais My Darkest Hour by Harold Turley II The Emotional Terrorist and Violence Prone by Erin Pizzey I Thought it was Just Me by Brene Brown	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1201
__label__cc	0.700174	0.299826	Child’s Play In Gozo MALTA DIVER Who says having children cramps your style? After the birth of Mabel, scuba is still on the table, as JO CAIRD finds when she and photographer STEVE PRETTY take their young daughter to Gozo Divers and baby reunited after diving Cathedral Cave. OUR DAUGHTER HAS SPOTTED us coming out of the water, and I can see her reaching for me as we walk back to the truck. I rush to put down my tank and peel off my drysuit as she squirms in my babysitting brother’s arms – she’s suddenly desperate to be reunited after my short sojourn beneath the waves. My partner and I get changed and pack our gear into the truck, passing Mabel between us and back to my brother when faced with tasks requiring two hands. We strap her into her car-seat, and she’s asleep before we reach the main road. On days like this, diving with a baby in tow feels like a breeze. The Double Arch It’s all pretty new for us. This trip to Gozo is only the second time we’ve been diving since Mabel was born 14 months ago, a follow-up to a week at Somabay in Egypt when she was seven months old. For that first dive holiday we travelled with some friends with a baby, and tag-teamed baby-sitting and diving so that we were able to buddy each other some of the time. Here in Gozo, we’re trying another childcare option. My 19-year-old brother Yoji is baby-sitting in exchange for us covering his accommodation and transfers. My partner and I had assumed that we would leave Yoji and Mabel behind in Marsalforn while we dived, but dive-guides Denis Marin and Georgia Mainente – in charge of Atlantis Diving Centre while owners Brian and Stephania Azzopardi are out of town – were quick to suggest that they come with us in the dive-truck instead. I shouldn’t have been surprised really – the team had already organised us an apartment with a cot and high chair, and the dive-centre is equipped with a big pile of toys belonging to the Azzopardis’ daughter. Somehow we’ve stumbled on the most family-friendly dive-centre in the world. Appeared in DIVER April 2018 WE PICKED GOZO partly because it’s one of the warmest winter dive destinations in Europe, but also because I’ve been itching to come back here since learning to dive in Xlendi Bay just over 10 years ago. I never made it to the island’s star underwater attractions on that trip – awesome geological features such as the Blue Hole, Inland Sea and Cathedral Cave – and it’s high time to tick them off the list. Coming here in November, and for just a week, is something of a risky move, but it’s the only time we have, so we’re keeping our fingers crossed for good weather. We get lucky. After two weeks of strong wind, the dive-sites on the north and west of the island are open for business again, just in time for our arrival. We start in Dwejra, at the Inland Sea, gearing up on the stony beach alongside tourists waiting for a fishing-boat to take them out through the 80m channel through the cliff. It’s an easy entry off the jetty and, after a short swim on the surface to the opening of the tunnel, we make our descent over shallow boulders that are home to bearded fireworms and green spoon worms. It’s dim and narrow here but as we step down a series of shelves to 24m, the channel widens and is flooded with beautiful blue light. Apparently infinite visibility makes this a treat of a first dive. We turn left out of the channel and follow the algae-covered wall until we reach a narrow cave that cuts deep into the cliff, accessible only when the conditions are right. Pulled gently to and fro by the swell as I make my way in, I can see why you wouldn’t want to try this in rougher weather. There’s a big shoal of damselfish mobbing the entrance to the channel and a few juvenile parrotfish and scorpionfish here and there, but in terms of flora and fauna this site (and Gozo in general, as I’ll learn over the next few days) is really one for algae and sponge enthusiasts. A carpet of bright green, red and purple covers the walls, providing ample grazing for the handful of nudibranchs dotted around the place. We’re back at Dwejra bright and early the next morning to dive the Blue Hole before anyone else gets there. There are hardly any other divers around anyway – most of the dive-centres in Gozo are closed for the winter, in fact – but Denis is taking no chances. His caution pays off – we have the place to ourselves, and the entry is an astonishing experience as a result, the surface of the water perfectly still, giving way to the brightness of an archway on one side and the darkness of a cave on the other. WE EXPLORE THE CAVE (which, at just 14m down and with a wide opening, is accessible to all), finding conger eels and shrimp hiding in gaping horizontal cracks in the rock, before heading out through the archway. Turn right, as we do now, and you find the ruins of the Azure Window, once Gozo’s most famous photo opportunity but, since March 2017, just a pile of massive boulders on the seabed. The collapse of the arch in a spring storm was a blow for the island, but fortunately sightseeing’s loss was diving’s gain – this is now a brilliant dive-site. There’s not much life yet – just a faint fuzz of green algae on the sun-bleached rocks – but that doesn’t matter. The area is a veritable maze of swim-throughs, offering endless routes to explore. Heading back past the Blue Hole, we head up the Chimney, going nearly straight up from 20 to 12m, then up again to 7m to find ourselves in the Coral Gardens. It’s great fun, and beautiful too, the walls of the passageway lined with yellow anemones that give way to yellow-green algae up top that glows bright in the sunshine. Coral Gardens, we discover, is sheltered and shallow, perfect for beginners. We finish our dive in the Blue Hole – all by ourselves once again. On the safety stop, I watch tourists peering in from the rocks above and a few tiny fish skittering around just beneath the surface. If I had to choose one way of finishing every dive from now on, this would be it. The walk back to the car park, around slippery rock-pools and along a path carved into the fossil-packed coralline limestone, is arduous but nothing compared to the route we take to Crocodile Rock – another of Dwejra’s dive-sites – the following morning. Snug in my drysuit and undersuit, I’m seriously warm by the time we’ve made our way gingerly across the moon-like expanse of spiky limestone pools, and it’s a relief when I can finally step into the 20° water. I can’t imagine what this walk must be like at the height of summer. We swim on the surface towards the massive outcrop of Crocodile Rock for a few minutes before descending to discover that there’s much more of the rock beneath the water than there is up top. Keeping it on our left, we gradually make our way down to 39m, to find boulders littering the sea-floor but no sign of the number of large grouper we’re told sometimes hang out here. Up above us hundreds of barracuda suddenly appear, shoaling in an enormous underwater valley between two steep peaks. They pour over the sheer edge of the rock towards us, circling our group before disappearing into shallower water. It’s a mesmerising sight. After a couple of days playing with Mabel on the beach of the Inland Sea, my brother is keen to see some other areas of the island. So after one more dive at the Blue Hole, Denis takes us to the Salt Pans, location of a handful of dive-sites to suit various tastes and levels of experience. To reach Dwejra from Marsalforn you have to drive into Victoria, the main town at the centre of Gozo, and out again, a journey of around 25 minutes, but the Salt Pans are just a short hop along the coast. Gozitans have been harvesting salt from shallow pools on this beautiful patch of shore since Roman times. In the summer you have to be careful not to step in the pans on your way to the water, but it’s not an issue in the winter, so we stomp straight through. OUR FIRST STOP is Reqqa Point, right at the far end of the pans, necessitating a slow, bumpy, off-road drive that I feel sure is going to end in disaster, but somehow doesn’t. Steve is looking after the baby this afternoon so I’m buddying Denis, while Yoji takes the opportunity to do some snorkelling along the rocks above us. Denis and I turn right after a giant stride in, descend 10m and duck down, feet-first, into a chimney I would never have spotted on my own. Popping out at the bottom, we double back to Reqqa Point and follow a sheer algae-covered wall west. Denis points out the entrance to Bubble Cave, a favourite with technical divers, at 36m, before leading me to the top of a sea grass-covered plateau, from which we “jump” off into the blue. There’s quite a swell at the end of the dive and the rocks below the exit ladder are slippery with algae, so Denis signals for me to put my fins around my wrists and get ready. An unceremonious shove from below and I’m sliding up the rocks and grasping the ladder with both hands – not exactly a graceful way out of the water, but a whole lot of fun. THE NEXT DAY we all return to the Salt Pans, Yoji and Mabel playing in the rock-pools in the sunshine while Steve and I dive Double Arch with Denis. The arch itself is stunning – appearing out of the blue to one side of a large natural amphitheatre – but doesn’t warrant the tedious 10-minute swim on the surface to get there from the shore. If you’re going to make an effort to get to a dive-site in this part of Gozo, save your energy for Cathedral Cave. There’s supposed to be a ladder at the far end of the Salt Pans that puts you in just the right spot for the cave, but it’s been washed away by the time of our visit, and won’t be replaced until spring. Which means that the only way to get there is down 100 steps cut into Wied il-Ghasri gorge, followed by another 10-minute surface swim – this time in rather more picturesque surroundings. Under water it’s the usual mix of juvenile scorpionfish, nudis and algae, until all of a sudden I get lucky and spot a little octopus hiding in a hole in a wall. From then on, it’s marine life a-go-go, Denis pointing out a slipper lobster and a Swiss cow nudibranch, while a cuttlefish lurks in a crack at the opening of the cave. Cathedral Cave is enormous, both above and below the water, entirely justifying its name. A small window lets in fresh air and enough light that we don’t need our torches to see by, and when we duck back under the water to make our way back out, the mouth of the cave is bathed in blue. On the swim back to the gorge, the waves are smashing powerfully against the rocks above us, a sign of the arrival of a weather front that means that this will be our last visit to Gozo’s famed north and west coast dive-sites this week. The climb back up the gorge is exhausting, but I’d do it all again in a shot for another glimpse of Cathedral Cave. WE HEAD TO THE SOUTH of the island for our final dives, trying out the sheltered bay of Mgarr ix-Xini and the scuttled passenger ferry Karwela. The wreck-dive is nothing special – with its deck at 33m, there’s not enough time to explore properly on a no-deco dive. Added to that, Karwela is dived so frequently that there’s barely any life there, even after 12 years submerged. The opposite is true of the marine meadow area we pass over on our way back to shore, where I spot no fewer than four octopuses, plus my first-ever long-snouted seahorse. Mgarr ix-Xini, meanwhile, hosts a riot of cuttlefish and flounders, an opportunity for Steve to get his macro lens out after days taking spectacular wide-angle shots, and a suitably rewarding spot for my brother to give diving a go for the first time. Needless to say, he’s hooked, and keen to come along on another diving / baby-sitting trip the next time we need him. It’s all been a resounding success. Steve and I have both dived a little less than we would have done had we been travelling without our daughter – nine dives each over the week, rather than the 12 you might hope to pack in – but that’s OK. Taking things a little slower has given us the chance to relax in a way that we don’t normally get to do on a dive-trip. We’ve even got to see something of Gozo’s topside attractions, checking out the ancient temples at Ġgantija, the impressive Citadel that overlooks Victoria, and pretty Xlendi Bay. We’ll be booking our next dive trip with Mabel as soon as we can work out where to go. And who we can persuade to baby-sit for us, of course. GETTING THERE> Direct flights to Malta from multiple UK airports with BA, Jet2.com and easyJet. Taxi or bus to the ferry terminal at Cirkewwa, then ferry to Mgarr in Gozo. DIVING> Multiple dive centres operate in the two resort towns of Marsalforn and Xlendi – Jo highly recommends Atlantis Diving Centre in Marsalforn, atlantisgozo.com ACCOMMODATION> Basic apartments near Atlantis and five-minutes’ walk from Marsalforn centre are cheap. Atlantis has a lodge or can arrange villa accommodation. WHEN TO GO> Diving is possible year-round, though strong winds can be a problem between November and February, and it can get very hot in midsummer. MONEY> Euro. PRICES> Return flights from £130 (May), Atlantis Lodge costs 60-80 euros per room per night (two sharing), a 10-dive package with Atlantis costs 220 euros pp. VISITOR INFORMATION> visitmalta.com By diver\|2018-08-06T11:04:52+00:00April 1st, 2018\|Mediterranean\|0 Comments	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1206
__label__cc	0.721266	0.278734	You are here: Home / Failure of Current Divorce Laws / Couple Divorces Over Mayonnaise Feud: Fact or Fiction? Couple Divorces Over Mayonnaise Feud: Fact or Fiction? Kraft, the purveyor of the cousin of mayonnaise, just announced a contest entitled “Not For Every Relationship.” Entrants must submit 60-second videos answering the question “How Has Miracle Whip Affected Your Relationship?” The $25,000 grand prize winner can use the proceeds for a marriage – or a divorce. While Kraft’s challenge is presumably all in good fun, with the divorce rate between 40-50% should we joke about such things, let alone award prize money to fund divorce? Could a dispute over a sandwich spread really cause a split? Would divorce laws even permit it? You’ve probably heard the terms irretrievable breakdown, irretrievably broken, and irreconcilable differences. Those are fancy legal names for what is better known as no-fault divorce. Some states have attempted to define these divorce terms with more legalese; others have cloaked them in seeming further mystery by providing no definition whatsoever. Either way, it all boils down to essentially the same thing: If you want out of a marriage, it’s yours for the asking. No explanation required. You spell “potatoe,” I spell “potato.” Either party can call the whole thing off. Indeed, neither I nor any other lawyer I know is aware of any successful challenge to a no-fault divorce lawsuit. Several months ago, I attended a continuing legal education seminar at a local bar association meeting. The topic was New York’s new no-fault divorce law. One of the panelists, a matrimonial attorney, explained that in order to obtain a divorce in New York one spouse need only assert a “subjective” belief that the marriage had broken down irretrievably for six months. The other spouse could not defend against the assertion, he said, for two reasons. First, the statute does not contain any allowable defense, and the legislative history demonstrates that the legislature so intended. Second, the very nature of a subjective statute means that it’s all in the mind of the beholder. In other words, how can you contest someone’s opinion? As an aside, I wonder why we need lawyers or judges at all when it comes to no-fault divorce. Granted they can serve a useful function in financial and custody disputes but, as for the divorce itself, why not a simple form with a box to check? “My marriage is irretrievably broken.” Raise your right hand before the same clerk who collects your fee, say “I divorce you” once, and the deed is done. It’s not like anybody can really challenge you. I’m not in favor of this option, obviously, but it does highlight the charade our divorce system has become. Over the years, one justification given for no-fault divorce is the alleged institutionalized perjury rampant in the fault-based system of divorce where certain spouses fabricated charges and chose one spouse to be the fall guy. This sham of lying has been replaced with what legislators, lawyers and judges claim is an improvement – a law where basically no reason or any reason at all for the dissolution of a marriage will suffice. Where any value attributable to marriage has been completely stripped out of our laws. And that’s called progress. He believes in global warming, and I’m with Sarah Palin. Won’t that do? This whole toilet seat business is the final straw. Check? My dog has just never taken to her. Affirmative? Our fights over mayonnaise have irretrievably broken our relationship. Now that legal standards for dissolving marriages have been chucked, who’s to quibble? After all, the subjective perception of the plaintiff controls. Indeed, even pleading reasons could make things messy and confusing. The prevailing wisdom in New York – the last state to adopt no-fault — is that pleadings should merely state that the marriage has irretrievably broken down for at least six months and leave it at that. Many people wouldn’t think of disposing of their marriages for the flimsy reasons discussed above. But what about their spouses? Twenty years down the road when boredom sets in or looks erode or other grass starts to look greener? We know that the heat of anger, too, can produce irrational behavior. So what protection do abandoned spouses and children have when a mom or dad walks out for no good reason or none at all? Right now the only protection that exists is reliance on the clear thinking and moral decency of the person we married. And with the divorce rate being what it is, we know that option hasn’t worked out too well for many. While I think we need to take the reasons we enter into our marriages as seriously as we take the reasons for our exits, it’s certainly our prerogative to design our wish lists any way we’d like before tying the knot. Once you’ve made your free choice, however, it’s no longer all about you. The person standing next to you in the courtroom deserves consideration and so do the living, breathing by-products of your union waiting back home beside their suitcases wondering whose weekend it is. Put aside any pre-conceived notions you may have about our current divorce system for a moment. Do you nevertheless believe there ought to be some meaningful and minimal standard for the ending of a marriage, before unlimited get out of jail free cards are handed out at random? Should the law require some pause before hasty decisions are made and render assistance to couples who have the potential to reconcile? How would you feel if you were abruptly divorced, with your property and children divided without your consent, without any legal option to object and no opportunity to try and preserve your family? Thinking About Divorce Doesn’t Mean Couples Will Follow Through The Joy of Love How To Fix No-Fault Divorce Filed Under: Failure of Current Divorce Laws · David Conway says Those who have been through the divorce process know full well why there is no divorce reform. Simply, there is too much money too be made by family court lawyers and judges to do anything other than perpetuate the current system. Rather than encourage mediation and working at resolving differences, the family court system works to create more divisions in order to create a lifetime of perpetual court action and profit. Beverly Willett says Thanks for writing, David. As an insider from that process, and now having worked in the field, I concur. Just look, too, at the growth of the matrimonial bar and family court system since the inception of no-fault divorce. Tremendous reform needs to take place. By saving marriages and families with minor children, the mission of the CDR, we can begin to accomplish this. I encourage you to sign up on the CDR website for our newsletters. If you follow us on Facebook, you’ll also get regular news in your in-box. Please feel free to download the flyers we have on our website as well if you can use them in your work. Tom Anstead says Dear Beverly, The Family is not dying, it is dead. It was all over the minute no-fault divorce laws went into effect. The only reason any families are left is that they have to be killed one at a time. And here is precisely why the Family is dead. In no fault divorce, the walkaway spouse needs no reason to destroy the marriage. They could have done anything, yet still may not be held accountable. And the spouse and children they abandoned are FORBIDDEN BY LAW to mount a defense. Is that not ABSOLUTE POWER? If none of those variables change, what can possibly save all families from being destroyed? That’s not a rhetorical question. What force can possibly save them? There is none!!!! The only defense is for both parties to honor their wedding vows, despite the lure of ABSOLUTE POWER for the divorcing spouse, the ONE THAT HAS BROKEN THE CONTRACT. But right now, the government can only force one spouse out of the marriage. It cannot break up a marriage where both parties refuse to divorce. At least not yet. -TCA Note to Millennials — It’s Not All About You America’s Dismantling of Marriage Why Divorce Reform Is Key To America’s Prosperity	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1207
__label__wiki	0.795615	0.795615	Messina Lodge Messina Lodge No. 5483 Consecrated 25th August 1934 Meeting at: Messina - Whyte/Great North Roads Meeting Dates: 2nd Thursday (2nd Sat Aug) Inst Aug Contact 083 734 8306 In the early 1930s a number of members of Lion of the North (Louis Trichardt) were working in Messina, and under the leadership of W Bro T H Jackson (according to the Lodge history, the 'only brother with any masonic experience'!) they agreed to petition for a lodge to meet there. Meetings were held at the Huke Memorial Church while the masonic hall was being built. This was completed in January 1937, at a cost of some £1200. An early candidate was Dr H R le Helloco and he was followed a few years later by J E (Boet) Scholtz, the younger son of one of the first two initiates. These brethren both went through the chair of Messina Lodge before moving elsewhere to continue masonic careers of high distinction. The first 30 years saw the Lodge making very good progress, with one very sad occurrence, the murder of W Bro Yeats, the Master in 1948/9. In those days the Lodge saw many visitors, passing through on their way to or from 'Southern Rhodesia'. But the year 1965 brought 'UDI' and Messina felt the full effects of a close neighbour at war with itself. Holiday traffic via Beit Bridge virtually fell away and with it, much of the visiting of the past, while members living north of the border could rarely attend their lodge, Nor did the end of the war bring relief, as the economy of Messina had been badly affected and South Africa's relations with its northern neighbour were anything but good. Indeed, following the closure of the Messina Transvaal Development copper mine, and the transfer of employees elsewhere, attendances at regular meetings of the Lodge fell to an average of six. However, under the leadership of W Bro George Grobler, members of Lion of the North came to the rescue and in addition to visits, some of them joined Messina Lodge, including W Bro G D Boyd, who served in the Messina chair for three years. So by 1993 the Worshipful Master was able to report on an 'extremely successful year, including exceptionally sound finances for a small Lodge with its own, far from young, masonic hall to look after. In the previous years Messina Ltd. had given the Lodge the ground on which the hall was situated, while the Lodge also received a donation of R3000, earmarked for local charities; and encouraging news was that Messina was to be the headquarters for the new Venetia diamond mine. So the Lodge is confident of a sound future.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1217
__label__cc	0.645055	0.354945	Name Of Album: Masters Of Gospel He Looked Beyond My Fault (And Saw My Need) Words By Dottie Rambo Music Adapted From Londonderry Aire (Oh Danny Boy) 3:13 If That Isn't Love Dottie Rambo 2:41 Sheltered In The Arms Of God Dottie Rambo & Jimmie Davis 3:16 * SEE NOTE Lyrics Link At DottieRambo.net Build My Mansion (Next Door To Jesus) Dottie Rambo 3:23 In The Valley (He Restoreth My Soul) Dottie Rambo 3:05 He Was The Talk Of The Town Dottie Rambo 2:43 I've Never Been This Homesick Before Dottie Rambo 3:02 Stand Still And See His Glory Dottie Rambo 2:54 Holy Spirit, Thou Art Welcome Words By Music By Dottie Rambo & David Huntsinger 3:57 I Go To The Rock Dottie Rambo 3:44 Behold The Lamb Dottie Rambo 4:26 I Will Glory In The Cross Dottie Rambo 4:20 We Shall Behold Him Dottie Rambo 4:28 When His Kingdom Comes Dottie Rambo & Dony McGuire 5:33 For What Earthly Reason Dottie Rambo 3:58 * Sheltered In The Arms Of God was written as Dottie Rambo walked along a Florida beach after a storm. Jimmie Davis received a writer’s credit for publishing many early Dottie Rambo songs which gave Dottie her first big break in the music business. Dottie Rambo and Jimmie Davis (the writer of the classic song You Are My Sunshine), were friends until Jimmie Davis’ death at age 102. **** Singing News Fan Award for Song Of The Year in 1970.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1220
__label__wiki	0.611706	0.611706	Gaming Through a Writer's Eyes - Anton Strout Instead of my usual ranting and raving tonight, I am incredibly honored to present an essay written by one of my favorite Fantasy authors, the charming and talented Anton Strout. Given his status as a writer and a gamer, I asked him for a few words on both subjects combined. Surprising the hell out of me, he was gracious enough to accommodate despite an incredibly busy schedule. Without further ado, here's what he had to say… Hello, and thanks for having me. Before I begin my guest spot here at Drinking Coffecola, let me get my introduction and a bit of shameless self-promotion out of the way so you know who you’re dealing with. I’m the author of the Simon Canderous urban fantasy series for Ace Books which include Dead To Me, Deader Still and the latest book, Dead Matter. I can also be found in a variety of anthologies—some of which include Simon Canderous tie-in stories—including: Boondocks Fantasy, The Dimension Next Door, A Girl’s Guide to Guns & Monsters, Pandora’s Closet, Spells of the City, and Zombie Raccoons & Killer Bunnies (my favorite name of them all). I currently live in the haunted corn maze that is New Jersey and, most importantly, I am the worlds most casual and controller-smashing video gamer. I am also prone to hyperbole. Making a videogame comprises many a part, but what makes a game come alive? Is it the gameplay? The music? The character or level designs? The story? Certainly all of the above, and if one of those elements is lacking, a great game can become a mediocre one. But since I’m a story slinger by trade, I’d like to talk about the writing in games. As a writer/gamer, I am in the habit of dissecting the things I experience. My content creator eye can’t help it. I need to know what makes things tick. Where does the heart come from in a game? More and more, I think story has grown over the years. Just take a look at Resident Evil 5 dialogue now compared to that of the “master of unlocking” clips from RE1. There’s a ton of games I could talk about, but I’m going to go with a few here that struck a chord with me in my development as a writer. People often ask me to define why I write what I write and funnily enough, my answers tie in to gaming. When I elevator pitch my books for people, I usually tell them I write Jim Butcher Lite urban fantasy novels, basically because I miss Ghostbusters and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It’s no coincidence, then, that these two television and movie franchises both have games. Ghostbusters has come a long way in story development since its Commodore 64 version (where I basically maxed out my Ecto-1 with all the best equipment, then sadly my friend’s mother threw away our account numbers for all our stuff). The story of the recent game version was critical enough that it was actually written by the screenwriters of the film and playing it is feels like being immersed in a brand new Ghostbusters film. It helps that it also has many of the original voice actors, art design and such on top of a fun plot, but the writing really helps pull all those elements together. It’s no different than what I’m trying to do when I structure a novel. Short of writing actual gaming code, I need to create all those atmospheric elements so the reader immerses themselves into a world where they believe it’s possible to be chased down by a demonic carnivorous bookcase. When I first picked up the Buffy the Vampire Slayer video game, I was worried. Movie and television tie-in games are almost always questionable, but I have to say the 2002 game and it’s follow up in 2004, Chaos Bleeds, was written like an actual episode and caught the essence of what the show was. Despite a lot of the humor in it, a lot of the game creeped me the hell out as well. The writing set a tone and a mood that were furthered by all the other elements. When I learned that my fellow urban fantasy writer and friend Tom Sniegoski actually wrote them, I was jealous as hell that he got to do it. Roger Ebert recently wrote that video games can never be art. I like a lot of what he has to say about movies, in this case, I think he’s dead wrong (despite the large amount of things he can quote in his original article, found here.) Defining what is art is subjective, as proven by thousands of years of people trying to define aesthetics. I know what it is to me. It’s anything that’s crafted that I can experience and it evokes something in me from my interaction with it. And games do that for me. The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time, for instance, was one of the first games to make me cry. Even with only subtitles and no voice acting, the storyline brought me to tears with Link’s shift from adolescence to an adult and the way the world changed between that. I laughed out loud and wanted to dance with the king of the Gorons when Link found the song to cheer him and played it for him. I can still remember him shouting, all caps, HOT HOT HOT! If that ain’t art, then I don’t know what is. Writing is an integral and more and more important part of the game creation process, probably even more so in games that are 100% original content, but that’s a guest post for another day… Again, thanks for having me and if you are so inclined, please go check out the books! Infinite thanks to Anton Strout, controller-smashing player and author extraordinaire. If you're in the market for an exciting Urban Fantasy page-turner, take the man's advice and go check out his books. If you'd like to learn more about Anton, you can visit his website HERE, or follow him on Twitter -- @AntonStrout is his handle, and I can tell you first-hand that he tweets some pretty amusing stuff. Risen (360) Giveaway, Baby Won't Sleep, and Random Bits It's been one heck of a day. For whatever reason, the baby decided that he would wake up at around 3:30am this morning, and no matter what the wife and I did, we couldn't get him back down. That was pretty painful (and, I'm sorry, but as lovely as the Sprout channel is, I'd much rather be staring at the inside of my eyelids at that time of day) but we figured he’d probably crash for a good nap in a few hours... but he didn't. With mommy and me drained due to lack of sleep, we staggered through the day waiting for him to finally run out of juice and zonk out... but he didn't. With the internal energy reserves of a long-distance marathon runner, he kept going, and going, and going, and going and still hasn't fallen asleep as of the time I'm writing this entry. Pray for us. Games: Gonna clear out the inbox and post a few random bits here – >In case you missed it, here's a LINK to my Just Cause 2 (360) reviewed which just went up today. There's a lot to like about it, but it's one of those instances where less would have been more. In other Just Cause 2 news, I just got an e-mail announcing two new DLC packs for the game. I can't say that I'm honestly raring to get back into it, but one of the items detailed was “Parachute Dual Thrusters: twin parachute-mounted jets which transform Rico’s trademark parachute into one of the most nimble and powerful attack platforms.” I haven't seen what it looks like in action, but it sounds just crazy enough to get me to put another hour or two into the game. If nothing else, I'll just screw around and pick up a few more of the easier Achievements while putting it through its paces. This DLC hits the 360 on May 26. >Not exactly news, but the Lost Planet 2 multiplayer demo is now freely available on the various DL services. If you didn't win one of the codes earlier in the month, this is your chance to get caught up. If nothing else, give it a whirl and try out some of those crazy Vital Suits. >Still working my way through Trauma Team (Wii.) Just about through with all of the initial campaigns, and the more I play it, the more convinced I am that it's probably going to end up being my favorite Trauma title of the series. I think so far, the best paths are Forensics and the EMT. The not-best? Endoscopy, by a mile. The forensics is deep enough and interesting enough to be a game all by itself (and, I buy that in a second if it was) and I like the quickly shifting back and forth between patients when playing as the EMT. One is totally cerebral, and the other is about fast action and reflexes, so it's a good balance. As far as Endoscopy goes, it's just really dull... there are only so many applications for sticking a tube somewhere, and actually having to physically thrust my arm forward in order to make the probe move is a real pain in the ass. It's just irritating, really, and could easily have been done by pushing up on the D-Pad. I was hoping to get the review done this weekend, but I hit a snag. Each path (out of six) will let you get only so far before you hit "locked" missions that can be opened by making progress with the other doctors. I've done as much as I possibly can, but I hit a puzzle in the Forensics section that I can't solve and I'm stuck. Hopefully this roadblock will be removed soon, because I'm quite eager to push on. That little bump aside, Trauma Team has been a fantastic little title that comes highly recommended. >The final Risen (360) giveaway: As promised, I’ve saved my final copy of Risen (360) for readers of the blog. I have only one more brand-spanking new, completely sealed and untouched copy of the game waiting to find a new home, and all you need to do to win it is give me three topics that you'd like to hear us discuss on a future episode of the GameCritics podcast. Feel free to write as much or as little on each suggestion as you'd like, but definitely come up with at least three separate ideas. Leave your three (or more) suggestions as a comment at the end of this post, and I will pick a winner at random from everyone who comments. That's all you have to do. Pretty easy, right? Since this post is going up on a Friday night, I imagine that quite a few people will probably not see it until Monday (when they should actually be working) so the winner will be announced on my next blog update, probably Monday evening. That seems to me like a pretty generous timeframe to enter, so hopefully everyone is interested in the game will get a chance to do so. by Brad Gallaway \| 12 comments Giving Away Risen - 360 Games: Going to turn in early tonight and get some sleep, so no big update tonight EXCEPT to say that I'm giving away copies of Risen (360) via my Twitter account. If you're already following me, then you've probably seen the contests. If you're not, then... you're not. No worries, though -- If you're anti-Twitter for some reason (and I know some of you are) then you'll still get your chance. I'm saving the last copy to give away to folks who comment here at my blog. Keep your eyes peeled for your cue, and you just might win a free copy of this really excellent RPG. Infinite thanks to super-cool Aubrey at SouthPeak Games for providing the loot, and also to everyone who's been supporting GameCritics.com, this blog, and me! Preview: Trauma Team (Wii) Games: For a change of pace, I thought I'd give a little preview love to the upcoming Trauma Team from Atlus. As anyone who reads this blog surely knows, I loves me some in-house Atlus, and after having spent the last few days with the title, it's proved to be no exception. While players may be familiar with the Trauma formula of doing crazy surgeries against ever-increasing odds and biological agents that are closer to being aliens than tumors, Trauma Team takes a huge step away from the established pattern and shakes things up from top to bottom. While I enjoyed Trauma Center and its sequels, this new approach is a complete home run. For those that don't know, Trauma Team now features six different specialties instead of only surgery. Surgery is still here, but in addition there are paths for EMT, Diagnostics, Forensics, Endoscopy and Orthopedics. I initially had my doubts about how different the game would be, but those doubts have been laid to rest. I haven't completed the game at this point, but I have touched on three of the six fields. Surgery is the same action that series fans know and love. Surgeon ‘CR-S01’ is a nameless prisoner who’s been sentenced to 250 years for a crime he may not have committed, and each life he saves shaves time off of what he's got to serve. Players have access to the standard range of surgical implements, and will be proceeding through this path in the same way that they have in previous games. No surprises here, but the solid action still delivers. Maria Torres is Team’s sexpot character, a hothead EMT whose gameplay centers around juggling multiple victims at the scene of accidents. She shares some tools with the surgery path, but spends more time on stabilizing patients and doing first-response care... Things like opening airways, establishing IVs, applying splints and emergency blood transfusions. I think it's fair to say that her actions are a little shallower than what's available in the surgery path, but it's more than made up for by the need to jump back and forth between multiple patients. Gabriel Cunningham is the diagnostician, and of the three modes I've played so far, his is the most absolutely different and completely new, not at all similar to anything that's been seen in the Trauma games before. Instead of getting his hands dirty, Gabe spends his time interviewing patients and trying to pick out clues to their conditions from the things that they say. Once he's got a general idea of what's going on, the player checks vital signs and examines blood test results. If further information is needed, patients can be sent to X-ray, CT or other various high-tech tests. After getting these results, players have to look very carefully at the images in order to see small differences and variations that may be dangerous. More like a puzzle game than the fast-paced OR action players generally expect, it presented welcome mental challenges while giving my reflexes a break. At this point, I still have three more specialties to spend time with, but I'm absolutely loving everything I've seen so far. Each mode has been different from the last, yet well-developed and well-defined enough to feel like they each present their own unique flavor. In terms of production, Trauma Team is aces. The music is superb swank-jazz similar to the top-notch tracks in the stellar Persona series, and the graphics are a brilliant 2D/3D hybrid that blends Anime style with comic-book panel presentation. The writing is sharp, the voice work is excellent, and there's plenty of story to flesh out the segments between operations. The developers are still resisting adding any sort of RPG-lite or choice elements, but I'm not going to criticize at this point... they've done so much to freshen up the formula and so much of it is dead-on correct that I'm going to be quiet, smile big, and keep playing. More info to come, but it's pretty clear that fans of Trauma are going to be in heaven with this installment, and newcomers are going to find one of the most stylish, distinctive games available on the Wii. It's fresh, it's different, and it's beautiful. For more information, check out the official website HERE and keep your eyes peeled for the game when it hits retail on May 18. (P.S.- I may be a bit of an Atlus shill, but that doesn't mean this game isn’t awesome.) My Follow Fridays! Misc: Rather than spam the Twitter feed with chunk after chunk of FFs, I thought I'd put together a comprehensive list of the folk I follow and read on a daily basis. These are all living, breathing people who reply to messages and interact with others, and the categories should be self-explanatory. Following these people gets me through my day, and if you're not already following them, give 'em a shot. (Caveat: the list isn't complete... I'm SURE I've missed a few. Apologies if you're one I've overlooked!) Follow Fridays v2.1 GameCritics.com Staff: @GameCritics @ChiKongLui @DaleWeir @GC_Danny @GenePark @HorrorGeek @TimSpaeth @TeraJK @TrentFingland @RichardNaik @SparkyClarkson Game Folk: @Aeazel @AfraidToMerge @AlexRubens @AndrewGroen @Andrew_Reiner @Ashelia @AveryZoe @Batrock @BetaChris @BrainyGamer @ChrisGreen87 @CuppuhT @DaveOshry @DriveForSix @Dits @DocBrown_GTM @Dudieboy @EddieInzauto @FinalMacStorm @GCacho @Gelles22 @Hargrada @Ind1fference @Ing3nu @Iwatttfodiwwfa @JamesBishop @JayPullman @JKeverne @JenJeaHaly @Jeremy_LaMont @John_Carson @JohnPeterGrant @KayinAmoh @KiltedMoose @KirkHamilton @KyleOrl @LKesten @Mahkia @MattGKaplan @MeanCode @MerryGodown @MitchyD @MolotovCupcake @MrDurandPierre @MTidwell @NJiska @NoelRK @Nokkonwud @NorthwestGamer @Nightdreamer @OneJaredNewman @Overlordror @PeterSkerritt @PitcherOfPixels @PKollar @REJackson @RyanOlson75 @Sajon77 @Shoinan @SidShuman @SilentHitoshura @Strident @Strybe @SlamVanDerHuge @StillGray @T3h_Kaiser @ThiefOfHearts @TimSeppala @Tweeting_Keith @Unangbangkay @VivoEstSomnio @Will_GTM @WillyFourEyes @Zolos Game Devs/Pubs/Media: @8BitHorse @AtlusUSA @Chupacaubrey @DToid @GamerMelodico @GamingTheMedia @MommysBestGames @SonyPlaystation @TheBigRedPotion @TheGameReviews @WereZomPire Writing Folk: @AntonStrout @BettyViolaBlue @BrianKeene @DeadEndFiction @DorothyDreyer @LeatherZebra @StaciaKane Misc Peeps: @CrystalChambers @DonaldTaylorII @GaySpiderman @KirbyKrackle @MalikG @ParkerXL @TheColorOfFire Just Cause 2, The Haunt, Beasts of Burden, and Wormwood Games: Although it's a little late to the party, I would definitely recommend any Heavy Rain fans (or even not-fans) give a listen to the latest GameCritics Podcast. Totally dedicated to David Cage’s game for the entire hour, Richard Naik, Trent Fingland and Dan Weissenberger (along with host Tim Spaeth) chew some pretty good fat. You can check it out HERE. In other games news, I just finished my playthrough of Just Cause 2 about an hour or so ago. The funny thing was, I had seen enough to write the entire review at about the eight-hour mark but I held back on publishing it to be sure that I had seen enough to form a valid opinion. The game continued on for another six hours, and you know what? Not only did my opinion not change, it actually got worse... The review will go live soon, but Just Cause 2 is definitely a case where more does not equal better. Comics: Had a chance to start whittling down my backlog of comics today, with mixed results. The Haunt from Image was very disappointing. Anyone who reads this blog will know that I am a huge fan of Robert Kirkman and his work on both The Walking Dead as well as Invincible. Love both of those books. LOVE THEM. However, as much as I respect Mr. Kirkman, I’ve got to say that his work here left me ice cold. In a nutshell, the main character is a priest whose brother was some sort of super spy, and after this spy brother is killed, he possesses the priest and gives him goopy-tentacle-suit powers. There is some government agency stuff, rival assassins, and so on and so forth. I didn't find any of the characterizations to be compelling, and the story felt very amateurish and nonsensical. In terms of the art, I have to say that I am not much of a Todd McFarlane fan, and since he's doing visuals, there's not a lot here for me to like. I'm convinced that he is completely unable to draw anything that doesn't resemble either Spawn or Spider-Man in some way, and to say that his style is unappealing is an understatement. I had hoped that Kirkman's plotting would make the book worth reading, but that's a negative. After five issues, I'm out. Beasts of Burden from Dark Horse has been a pleasant surprise, although I guess I can't really say that I should be surprised. Written by Evan Dorkin of Milk & Cheese fame (if you haven't read M&C, GO READ SOME RIGHT NOW!!!) and beautifully illustrated by Jill Thompson, Beasts is about a group of pets who guard against supernatural occurrences and threats in a small town. Although the dialogue doesn't always quite hit the right notes for me, the scripting is very interesting and has a superb balance of both cute/cuddly and horrific/terrible. If the creators were afraid to get dark or go violent, the book wouldn't work as well as it does. However, they have shown several times that they're not afraid to spill a little blood in service to the drama, and I love them for it. I've read the first four issues at this point, and I will definitely be reading more. (Another animal-based book well worth reading is We3. Sad pets, laboratory cruelty and cybernetic enhancement blend together for an unforgettable tale. Damned touching, it was…) Finally, I'm into the second series of Wormwood. Subtitled ‘The Last Battle’, the series is written by one of my all-time favorite writers, Garth Ennis, and stars the antichrist himself. However, although he's the son of Satan and the one meant to bring about the apocalypse, he's instead rebelled against dear old dad and become content with being a media executive. The book touches on many issues that a reader might not expect, and spends a lot of time on character development. For example, in the issues I read today, the main character was struggling with the idea of becoming a father himself, quite apart from its significance to ethereal balance. The story is a little involved and I would recommend anyone interested in it to pick up the first series instead of just jumping in, but it's dark, adult, incredibly smart and is a good gateway into the work of Mr. Ennis. This is exactly the kind of comic that I love to curl up with at the end of the day. Insta-buy. Although I've got more in my stack to get to, I'm always looking for quality recommends from other people. If you've got something that you think is worth a shout-out, leave a comment and let me know! Sony's PS3 Move Event - Seattle Games: On April 8, Sony hosted an event in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood in honor of the new PS3 Move controller and its games. I was fortunate enough to attend the event with a number of other local press folks (big ups to Chris Matel of Gamer’s Hell and New Guy from the Escapist Without a Business Card) and snapped a few pictures in between scarfing hors d'oeuvres. Check it out. This was the line of PS3 non-press attendees waiting to get in after the Press period was over. Thank goodness for credentials! A view of the main floor from the balcony area above. The event was housed in a local bar near Broadway (a popular strip in Seattle's most gay-friendly neighborhood) and the bartenders were quite generous. Notice the open door at the top of the pic? The constant opening/closing and changing light levels threw the Move controllers into a tizzy and required constant recalibration. It was unfortunate placement since the developers on hand mentioned several times that the Move is fine in either light or dark settings, but that it struggles in environments where lighting fluctuates. That fact was quite noticeable. The Move controller itself, with a plethora of buttons and a squishy ball on top that changes colors on the fly. A shot of the Move with its sub-controller (now called the 'navigation controller'.) The lighting? A perfect example of why Chris Matel works at Gamer's Hell -- That red glow is coming from him. The person depicted here is playing Sliders (tentative title). A crazy downhill racing/obstacle game that features characters scooting on office chairs, it looked amusing enough but didn't control well. It was also very simple in nature, and didn't do much to show the controller's strengths. Some players will buy it for the gratuitous butt-shots offered by the arching Chinese girl character, but it was more novelty than anything. A shot of the 'Motion Fighter' game (actually called 'Dukes' on the PS3 system memory.) Of everything that was shown, this was the game that had the most potential, in my opinion. Played with a Move in each hand, the game tracks actual punches thrown and had a nicely visceral feeling. The developer present said there'd be a lengthy campaign mode as well as some character customization. When asked if it was strictly fisticuffs, he said that there'd be some special moves and grabs, but the game was basically enhanced street boxing. The moves list for 'Motion Fighter'. It's a bit hard to make out, but the top row is mostly based on motions only, and the bottom row represents moves that use motions plus buttons. Chris and I playing against each other in one of the simplistic 'enhanced reality' minigame/partygame applications for the Move. Instead of seeing the us holding the controller onscreen via the PS3 Eye camera, it appeared as though we were holding tennis rackets, electric razors, harpoons, and so on. As you can see, the Eye was also used to snap our photos for in-game avatars. As you can also see, he's winning. The people on the balcony above were treated to Socom 4. Using both the Move and the navigation controller, it handled exactly like a Wii game in its Wiimote/Nunchuk configuration. However, the aiming with the Move was far superior to anything the Wiimote was capable of. Aside from the new controller, it seemed like any other standard military shooter, though there wasn't much time to take in its finer details. Sadly, the Sony reps removed it from the floor before the Press period was over. This picture speaks for itself, I think. It was a good event overall and it was nice to finally get a hands-on with the Move, but I will say that the first round of software is less than impressive. The games seem to fill the same space that Wii titles currently do, and I didn't see any compelling reasons to rush out and preorder the new hardware. That said, the Move was vastly superior to the Wiimote in terms of accuracy and 1-to-1 movement reception. The tech is clearly better, so my hope is that by E3 or soon thereafter, we'll start to see some games that capitalize on that fact. Still, I have to be honest in saying that the Wii's been out for a few years and I've yet to see much that truly takes advantage of its controls... I suspect the same may hold true for the Move. Time will tell. Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening ... Afterthoughts Games: I finally got around to playing (and finishing) Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening this week, and it was an interesting experience. I'm going to be talking about only this subject for the rest of the blog, in what most people would probably describe as rambling haphazardly in geektastic fashion. If this doesn't sound like a good way to spend three minutes, skip reading today's post and come back next time for my rundown of the Sony PS3 Move event. You've been warned. (Also, I will be responding to some of the DLC comments later, I just need more time to digest them.) So….. Awakening. To start with, it was a pretty chunky amount of content for something called an "expansion". It may sound odd, but after going through it I kind of felt as though it might have worked better if it had been split up into its three main component parts and doled out one at a time, similar to the way Fallout 3 handled its five add-ons. The main reason I say this is that as an expansion, it did not include the same amount of character-building and dialogue content found in the main game. If you ask me, those things are what made the original DA experience what it was, and playing a title which is technically the same (but with less dialogue) only served to highlight how poor the gameplay actually is. Combat is still a fairly jumbled mess and level designs remain quite boring. Many of the quests are on the insipid side, and without having the same level of dedication to my party, I found myself simply skipping some of the more pointless quests to keep the story progressing at a faster pace. This is just a theory, but I imagine if Awakening had been separated into thirds, going through it might've been more tolerable since there would be less to go through at a time. After all, it's easy to put up with stuff that isn't stellar if it only takes an hour or two. Getting through ten or fifteen hours of not-stellar is a little tougher. Another reason I think separating it might have been a good idea is that I found the experience to be fairly buggy, and having to only focus on one portion at a time may have been a benefit to quality control. As a sometimes-completionist, it was quite irritating to see that some quests didn't clear from my active queue after finishing. At first I thought it meant there was still something left to do, but no, they were just bugged. Other quests simply wouldn't trigger. For example, in Amaranthine, I was supposed to steal booze from a gang, yet the gang never appeared. I'd like to finish your personal quest, but I literally can't. Along similar lines, I found the implementation of the companion-specific quests to need a little more work as well. I couldn't get Sigrun’s to activate (another bug, well-noted by the GameFAQs community) and the same went for the second part of Oghren’s. Also, due to the way the game is structured, it appears as though whichever party member is collected last will not be able to undertake the Joining ceremony, nor their specific quest, apparently. When the proper character is spoken to in order to initiate it, it instead leads to the final battle. (If I’m wrong on that, please let me know.) These issues were quite surprising given that interacting with the companions are generally the high points of any BioWare game, and they left me with a generally unsatisfied feeling. I don't want to sound like Awakening was all bad, though, because it wasn't. Despite the characters not having as much dialogue or depth as the main game, I did enjoy them. Once again, BioWare shows it has the most consistently well-done characters in the industry thanks to interesting party members like the acerbic, wisecracking Anders, or the undead Justice. The handling of Nathaniel Howe was another high point, and I certainly enjoyed seeing the way his character related to previous events. The undead character, Justice. The engaging characters were par for the course, but one thing I didn't expect was how similar Awakening was to Mass Effect 2 in terms of structure. In both games the player is tasked with collecting upgrades to fortify something. In ME2 it’s the Normandy spacecraft. In Awakening, it’s the Vigil Keep. Both titles have late-game ramifications based on how much effort the player put in. Besides that, both games wait until the end phase to really kick their main plots into high gear. After what felt like three generally disconnected quests in Awakening, everything started to mesh and make sense in the final two or three hours. There were a few fairly agonizing choices, and the level of drama finally took a sharp upswing before credits rolled. This paralleled my experience with ME2’s teammate-fetchquesting exactly, just on a smaller scale. Another unexpected aspect that I appreciated about Awakening was that it gave me a second chance to experiment with a new character build without having to re-play the core 50-hour quest. In my Origins run, I chose to be a sword/shield user and became quite comfortable with being the primary damage dealer in every encounter. After discovering that BioWare did not take into account the fact that a player’s Warden can sacrifice themselves at the end of the adventure, I chose to start a brand-new character rather than compromise the storyline continuity I had created. (And by the way, WHAT THE HELL was up with NOT taking that ending into account? It should have absolutely been possible to import the choices I made in the game INCLUDING the fact that my Warden made the ultimate sacrifice at the end. Resurrecting her with a quick handwave? No bloody thanks, and way to disregard the way I played the game.) Better than a sword and shield? Maybe. Funnier? Definitely. Deciding to take a different route, I created a mage to see how the other half lived. After setting one up and taking my best guess at how a mage should be built, it was quite a shock to have to completely re-vamp my battlefield strategies and play the game in a totally different fashion. I was vaguely hating life for the first few hours until I found the right selection of spells that suited my preferences, after which things started to click. I can't say that I never stopped feeling naked without heavy armor and shield, but the mass-damage lightning spells and sniping-distance energy bolts helped to compensate. I don't know that I would stick with a mage for Dragon Age 2: Excessive Subtitle Here, but I might consider it and that's not something I would've said prior to Awakening. After all was said and done, I'm not quite sure that the experience was worth it. Like I said, I enjoyed the chance to go through new content with a different kind of avatar and I was definitely a fan of some of the new teammates, but it all felt a little long and a little flat until the very end… I guess it just goes to show that developers should play to their strengths, and in BioWare’s case, their strengths are their writing and their characters. Take some of that away, and the end product doesn't quite make as much sense as their other efforts. The Consumer's Seven Laws of DLC With the advent of online connectivity for consoles, developers and publishers alike have been exploring new opportunities for new creative and financial endeavors. While some people may have initially had doubts about the viability of Downloaded Content (DLC), it's become quite clear that this new business/development model has been wildly successful. Without question, all sides agree that DLC is here to stay. However, proper utilization of DLC is still in its infancy, and has much potential for going astray. Just because something is technologically possible doesn't mean that it's morally right (or even good business) and as people who participate in and support DLC, the three authors of this article are absolutely in favor of seeing it continue as long as profits don't trump ethics. The following rules of fair play weren’t created by spoiled gamers lashing out or to serve some imaginary sense of entitlement. This outline is about keeping the games industry in touch with real consumers and common-sense expectations in a new world full of unexplored territory -- territory that's extremely ripe for consumer exploitation. Developers and publishers want to succeed and earn a living. Players want to enjoy their creations, yet avoid being taken advantage of. It is our firm belief that these two sides can meet amicably in the middle, and we hope that these seven laws will help spur conscientious thought and discussion on the subject. --Brad Gallaway, Peter Skerritt, and Michael Tilson 1. All purchased DLC shall stay with the consumer, not the hardware. Additionally, all DLC shall be transferrable to current and successive hardware models of a given platform in the same generation. When a player spends money on a download, it's unthinkable that they'd have to pay for the same content again if (or when) their hardware is rendered inoperable. For example, players who’ve bought DSiware aren’t able to transfer those purchases to a DSi XL, or even to another DSi should their first unit die out of warranty. 2. Publisher-locked content on a disc that’s not accessible through play (henceforth referred to as Ransomware) shall not be called DLC, and game discs containing Ransomware shall disclose such to the consumer prior to their purchase. As players saw most recently with BioShock 2, developers have started encoding certain pieces of content on discs, and then locking this content away unless players pay for keys obtained online for an additional fee. Since nothing but a key is being downloaded, such content is not DLC, and advertising it as such is blatantly misleading the consumer. 3. Any DLC requiring additional purchase should not be launched simultaneously with a new game. If developers have the time and resources to create paid DLC that's released at the same time as the new game, then that effort should have been put towards the game itself. This is especially true in the cases of DLC that adds content which could realistically have been expected to be included with the retail version. Day-one DLC available free with retail purchase or another such offer is acceptable since it does not require additional money from the player. 4. Additional DLC content should be something above and beyond what could reasonably be expected in a full-featured retail game. Story additions, standard features and normal ‘extras’ should not be held back from retail releases for purposes of becoming DLC later. Prior to the age of online consoles and microtransactions, developers would frequently include all sorts of options and features in order to make their product seem as though it were delivering the best value. These days, it seems that developers are now holding back such additions as a way of generating revenue later. For example, Mass Effect 2 is charging for new costumes and Resident Evil 5 locked away a versus mode, both of which are things that would normally be expected in any current big-budget game. 5. Difficulty of a game shall not be skewed in order to encourage players to purchase DLC. Although there haven't been any egregious examples of this phenomenon so far, it's not too hard to imagine a situation where enemies are so powerful, or life-ups are so infrequent that players would be tempted to pay for items that make aggressive titles more playable. Additionally, games which provide DLC shortcuts for players to avoid grinding should not have grinding in the first place. For example, Dante’s Inferno offers in-game currency (souls) in exchange for real money as a way of skipping the tedious ‘redeeming’ minigame to earn it, and Tales of Vesperia lets players purchase level-ups outright. Although the idea of shortcuts might seem like a good idea, why should they be desirable in the first place? 6. Owners of DLC should be allowed to create back-up copies of their purchases. DLC should be treated as an actual commodity, not as a limited-life rental disguised as a “purchase”. If players pay real money for a Dragon Age expansion, and they should be able to sell that expansion (along with their disc) at some point in the future like any other used good. Back-ups are also important since it's possible for paid DLC to unexpectedly become unavailable, and people may lose access to their paid content. For example: players who purchased Robotron 2084 for the 360 may have noticed that it's no longer available through the Marketplace. A similar situation occurred with Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, and certain download characters are no longer available. If a player’s hard drive fails or a unit catches the RROD, they aren't able to recover the content that they already own. 7. Titles available only via download should offer players a demo prior to purchase. Titles which do not offer a demo should be eligible for a refund. While Microsoft has done an excellent job of offering a free demo for every title in their Marketplace, both Sony and Nintendo sell a large number of games without any information about them, nor any opportunity for a player to try before they buy. With physical copies, players could rent first, or at least trade or sell unwanted titles to recoup some of their investment. With demo-free DLC titles, consumers have no way to know exactly what they're buying and have has no recourse whatsoever should they take a chance on a game which turns out to not be what they expected. Agree? Disagree? Have another idea? Leave a comment and let us know. Blue Toad Murder Files, Afrika, and two upcoming contests Games: I'm just wrapping up my review for PSN’s Blue Toad Murder Files, and while I had a pretty good time with it, I could easily imagine the majority of people hating it. It's fair to say that the game is more cutscene than gameplay, and from a critical angle, there’s really not much to praise -- BUT -- I'll be damned if I didn't enjoy going through the first three episodes with my wife. We are fans of quirk, I suppose. That said, it's actually a pretty expensive offering compared to most of the other titles on Sony's online service, and for a game that offers so little gameplay, the high price is going to be a major sticking point for most. Myself included, really... if the developers not at least five dollars off of the price, I’d have a much easier time recommending it. Look for the review to go live in a couple of days. In other games news, I started up Afrika on PS3 just for fun, no review intended. For those who may not remember (or for those who missed it the first time… the game had ZERO presence) the player takes on the role of a photographer in a relatively unexplored region of Africa. After setting up base camp, requests come in via PC for things like ‘head-on shot of a zebra’ or ‘monkey in a tree’ and so on. At that point, it's up to the player to drive out into the savanna and get the required shots. It's almost exactly like a terrestrial version of the Wii’s Endless Ocean in that much of the game is simply the experience of being there. Replace whales and angelfish with giraffe and gazelle, and it's basically the same thing. I don't mean that as a negative, though. I had a great time with Endless Ocean, and Afrika had little problem keeping my attention as well. There's no combat and animal attacks only result in the player being sent back to base camp, so everything is very safe and harmless. This will definitely be one I'll share with my older son when he comes to visit for summer. One last note, I'm expecting more codes for Lost Planet 2 (360/PS3) to give away, and in addition, I'm also going to be running a contest to give out multiple copies of Risen on 360. Keep your eyes peeled here for more information soon, and if you're not already following me on Twitter, I would humbly suggest that you do so... I'll be giving out more information via tweet, and you don't want to miss out, do you? No Girls in Crackdown 2, XBLA's Shadow Planet, and Lost Planet 2 Charity Info (and Pics!) Games: Although I wasn't the biggest fan of the original Crackdown, I did see a lot of potential in the title and I've definitely been looking forward to the announced sequel. However, the recently-announced news that there will be no playable female agents was incredibly disappointing to me. Current hardware can't support feminine curves! Ruffian developer Billy Thompson was quoted by 1Up.Com as saying: "In Crackdown, the amount of memory that it was going to take for it to do all the actual animation, the texture sets and the models for the females -- we would've needed to massively reduce other sections of the game," Thomson told 1UP at PAX East this past weekend. "So rather than do two separate models, we cut it back and gave the player as much customization as we could on the male character and that allowed us to use that extra memory to do other things in the game." Now, I will be the first one to admit that I am not someone well-versed in the technical side of game production, nor have I ever made a game myself. That said, I can't help but find this line more than a little hard to swallow. I mean, let me get this straight-- simply having a female playable character would "massively reduce other sections of the game”? Really? Did they intend millions of polygons to go into breast structure alone? Let's get serious here. Tons of games give players the option to choose either a male or female avatar, and I'm having a really hard time imagining something so special about the Crackdown 2 experience that a system's resources are depleted to the point of being unable to render the opposite sex. Going further, every picture I've seen of the Crackdown characters so far has them completely covered in armor, so would it really have been a drain on the system to swap a male head for a female one? Granted, male and female bodies are not identically alike and animation differences do exist, but I'm sure that somewhere in the game Ruffian’s artists have created at least a few female characters for use during the campaign. Could any of those have been repurposed? Nyah nyah! Crackdown 2 was on my to-play list. In fact, it was one I had been specifically looking forward to for the purpose of co-op with my wife -- and before anyone assumes that she would be upset by this omission, the truth is that she has no problem playing a male character whatsoever. If anything, I'm probably more upset than she is that females aren't in the game since I usually pick a female avatar. After all, my Commander Shepard is the galaxy’s toughest lady, and you do not want to mess with my Latina mob boss in Saints Row 2, either. Ferelden’s darkspawn problem? Beaten back by a lady Warden. Fable 2? Fallout 3? Hell, even 3D Dot Game Heroes… All female characters for me. Let's face it, in games which do not feature a single, predefined character as the protagonist, offering either sex isn’t an above-and-beyond use of resources, it’s the norm. Regardless of my preferences (or my wife's willingness to be flexible when female avatars aren’t offered) I find it unacceptable that in this day and age, a developer thinks it's okay to skip representing half the world’s population. Girl gamers aren’t the rare creature that they used to be, and not every guy has sexual insecurity issues with playing as a woman. Come on, Ruffian... it's not too late to do the right thing. Super-cool site 8 Bit Horse has some great coverage of an upcoming XBLA game titled Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet. This is the first I've heard of it, but you better believe I'm going to keep an eye on it from here on out. In other games news, Dan Weissenberger has put together an incredibly detailed takedown of Heavy Rain’s endless potholes, weirdness and WTFery. The best thing is, he's been writing it as he's been going through the game, so his perspective is that of someone who does not know the ending yet. I've been tweeting about it incessantly, and strongly suggest that anyone who played Heavy Rain and felt let down by the story (uh, that’s everybody, right?) do so. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Coming back to Lost Planet 2 for a minute, Capcom has announced a new charity event called ‘Kill Big for Charity’ that ties into the title. Here's an excerpt from their press release: Capcom will create a charity fund of $20,000 as a donation for the first one- million Lost Planet 2 multiplayer demos downloaded on the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation® 3 computer entertainment system from March 31, when the early access program begins, through midnight PST May 5. If the demo surpasses the million mark across both platforms, an additional $5,000 will be donated when an extra 500,000 downloads is achieved. Please visit Lost Planet’s community site, http://www.lostplanetcommunity.com/ for early access codes. They will also be distributed by various blogs, gaming media sites, and Amazon.com. In addition, here's a contest if you think you're a Lost Planet 2 bad-ass: Additionally, beginning April 1, community members will compete for a seat in the celebrity tournament and a trip to Los Angeles to attend the launch party by submitting their best tips and tricks for beating the new Lost Planet 2 multiplayer demo to Capcom-Unity. The Capcom Unity team will choose the four lucky winners and shall post them on http://www.capcom-unity.com and www.lostplanet2game.com. For more details on the contest and the official rules, check out http://www.capcom-unity.com/snow_infernus/blog/2010/04/01/lost_planet_2_-_kill_big_for_charity Finally, for those of you who were curious about my hands-on with the Lost Planet 2 demo, I snapped a few pics of Capcom HQ to share. Beyond these doors... A place only dreamed of. Nathan Spencer's in good company. Stylin' nametags. Eight networked 360s, with eight networked PS3s on the other side. Game journos in their natural environment. Risen (360) Giveaway, Baby Won't Sleep, and Random... Just Cause 2, The Haunt, Beasts of Burden, and Wor... Blue Toad Murder Files, Afrika, and two upcoming c... No Girls in Crackdown 2, XBLA's Shadow Planet, and...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1224
__label__wiki	0.566052	0.566052	Apo Island Dauin Dumaguete City Campuestohan Highland Resort CATA-AL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM Father Tropa Sumilon Island(CEBU) Twinlakes Balinsasayao Negros Island CategoriesHistory & Museums, Municipality, Nature & Parks, Outdoor Activities, Tours LocationsAmlan, Apo Island, Ayungon, bacolod, bacong, bais city, Basay, Bayawan, Bindoy, Canlaon, Dauin, Dumaguete City, Guihulngan, Jimalalud, kabangkalan, kabankalan, la libertad, Mabinay, Malatapay, Manjuyod, manjuyud, Pamplona, san jose, Siaton, Sibulan, Sipalay, Sta. Catalina, Sumilon Island, Tanjay, tayasan, Valencia, Vallehermoso, zamboanguita Status Open now Contact & Tab Negros is the fourth largest island of the Philippines after Luzon, Mindanao and Samar for having an area of 13,309 sq. km. It comprises of the provinces of Negros Occidental where its capital city is Bacolod and Dumaguete City for Negros Oriental. From May 2015 to August 2017, the island was declared as the Negros Island Region or the NIR which was made to accelerate social and economic development and improve the delivery of public services. However, due to insufficient funding, the Negros Island need to be dissolve by the current President. As a result, Negros Occidental went back to being a part of the Western Visayas Region while Negros Oriental a part of Central Visayas Region. It is one of the many islands that compose the Visayas, which forms the central division of the nation. In the island, there are two provinces that comprise the Negros Oriental and the Negros Occidental where you can find the beautiful Dumaguete City, Manjuyod, Canlaon, Dauin, Bacolod City, Sipalay, Kabankalan, and many more. These are just some cities and municipalities that you can travel to in this big island. Much has been said about the Negros, But what is really in the island? In Negros, we have Maskara Festival of the Bacolod every October it is an annual festival with highlights held every fourth Sunday of October. Before the fun starts at the city of smiles, you need to experience first the Buglasan Festival of Negros Oriental. It is a festival that showcases the different attractions of different cities and municipalities of the Negros Oriental through a contest of their booths. But that’s not just they can offer. The island has numerous famous resorts and sea beaches that surround the entire island. The island also can offer you a lot of different delicacies from the different towns from Oriental to Occidental. But you know what is best in the island? It is the people. It is where you can see them smiling genuinely. It is where they create happiness. Negrenses are also known for being hospitable people even if you are a foreign or a local. What is important to them is they give joy and spread love to one and all. Claiming your listing is the best way to manage and protect your business. More nearby Bayawan City Body and Sole Negros Island Region, Philippines (Get directions) Alona, a Bohol's Hidden Paradise Car-Car City Famous Lechon and Free taste. Runways and Tiaras Cebu Subscribe to updates from Dumaguete Info Claim your listing in order to manage the listing page. You will get access to the listing dashboard, where you can upload photos, change the listing content and much more. Please register/login first To login or register please click here DumagueteInfo Attractions	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1228
__label__wiki	0.77099	0.77099	Articles with spoilers, Dying Light characters, Secondary characters, Hostile survivors Bozak Bozak, contains plot and/or ending details of Dying Light and all its related media. Proceed at your own discretion. "Bravo! The champion has arrived!" —Bozak upon meeting Kyle Crane. Bozak is a character featured in Dying Light. He is also the primary antagonist of the expansion pack The Bozak Horde. Scattered throughout the Old Town district of Harran are nine posters which offer various combat and free-running challenges for Kyle Crane to complete. After examining a poster, Bozak will contact Crane via radio and challenges the runner to test his skills while he observes. Following the completion of all nine challenges, Crane is again contacted by Bozak, who now instructs Crane to meet with him atop the highest tower in Old Town. Upon meeting Bozak in person, he reveals to Crane that he came to Harran to hunt and has grown bored after having hunted and killed every type of infected, including Volatiles. He now desires a more talented enemy who will present a real challenge. Having found Crane "worthy", he engages him in combat, mentioning that the last person to complete the poster challenges turned out to be an easy kill and hoping that Crane provides a better fight. Oddly, despite his boasts and the effort it takes to reach him, Bozak himself is a mediocre opponent. He has less than 250 health, even at Survivor Level 25, and should be dispatched almost effortlessly by any player strong enough to get to him. This then ends the 'Posters' quest and earns you 10,000 survivor points. He will also drop his weapon, a (non-unique) leveled Purple-rarity Dark Scythe. He can be spared by the player just leaving him and he will stay there for the rest of the game. The Bozak Horde With the addition of The Bozak Horde expansion pack, posters of Bozak are now placed in the Tower and serve to transport Crane to the Stadium in Old Town. There, he is knocked unconscious by Bozak, who straps a bomb to Crane's leg and challenges him to complete 20 different combat and free-running trials set up throughout the Stadium. During the challenges, Bozak frequently taunts Crane while appearing on numerous monitors. Following the completion of Bozak's trials, he will appear via video screen to inform Crane that he has grown bored of the challenges and says that Kyle is the new Bozak. In co-operative play, with multiple players, Bozak will provide each player with a handgun and reveals that they must now kill each other, with the survivor achieving the title of Bozak. He also rewards Crane with the Bozak Bow. "You didn't think the game was over, did you? We're just getting started!" —Bozak taunts Crane. "I came to Harran to hunt, and for three months I have slaughtered every form of infected that has crossed my path - volatiles and spitters and biters. But I'm bored with all of them. So, I've been screening for a new playmate." —Bozak to Crane. "Please, don't give up too easily. My last combatant wouldn't fight after I lopped off his arm. Too easy." The name Bozak is a surname of Croatian origin. Prior to the release of The Bozak Horde, during his appearance in the main game, Bozak wears an outfit similar to that of members of Rais' Gang. However, with the release of the expansion pack he now wears a unique mask which can be acquired upon completion of his challenges. Even if he is encountered and killed prior to completing The Bozak Horde, he will still appear via video screen in the Stadium. The mask represents the anonymous mask. Bozak's unique mask. Retrieved from "https://dyinglight.fandom.com/wiki/Bozak?oldid=26753"	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1229
__label__wiki	0.752505	0.752505	Boston college business plan competition Business writing lesson plans Online essay contest 2012 honda Home get homework help The life of frederick douglass analysis The life of frederick douglass analysis Summary Analysis At this point, Douglass can now give accurate dates when describing his experience. Published intwo decades before the Emancipation Proclamation, the book is a brutally honest portrayal of slavery's dehumanizing capabilities. By clearly establishing his credibility and connecting with his audience, Douglass uses numerous rhetorical devices to argue for the immorality of slavery. Form and Content Ethos Ethos is the establishment of authors' credibility and authority to write about a topic. According to teaching resources developed by Nicole Schubert of the Yale National Initiative, Douglass' narrative was a groundbreaking work because slaves had never been able to speak about their experiences. For example, Douglass begins to build his ethos in the opening of chapter one when he says that he doesn't know his birthday, unlike white citizens, who know all the details of their lives. Beginning with this fact establishes that Douglass can be trusted because of his direct personal experience. Pathos Pathos is the author's appeal to the audience's emotions. The writing resource site Writing Commons states that emotional appeal uses language in a way that helps audiences empathize with the author. Throughout the narrative, Douglass describes his experiences in a way that lets audiences feel the indignity of being owned by another person. For example, Douglass recounts the experience of watching the slaveholder whip his aunt until she was covered in blood and the pleasure the slaveholder seemed to take in it. The graphic description of her abuse makes readers feel the same anger Douglass must have experienced. Anecdotes An anecdote is a brief story often used in argumentative texts to prove a point. As a narrative, Douglass' memoir weaves multiple anecdotes together, each illustrating a different aspect of slavery's immorality. For example, in chapter eight, Douglass' elderly grandmother is expelled from the plantation because she is too old to work anymore. Despite her faithful service, even caring for her master when he was a child, the plantation owners cast her into the woods to live alone. This anecdote demonstrates that slavery places a person's value purely on their physical ability without consideration of their humanity. Irony Irony is a rhetorical device that reveals the disparity between reality and what is expected. In arguments, it often reveals the unfairness or fallacies of a particular situation. Douglass often uses irony to reveal the flaws in the logic of slavery. For example, in chapter three, Douglass describes the obsessive attention his former master, Colonel Lloyd, paid to his horses. If the slaves in charge of caring for the horses made any mistakes, Lloyd would beat them. Douglass uses irony here to show that Lloyd treats his animals better than he treats the human slaves. Cite this Article A tool to create a citation to reference this article Cite this Article.Technically, Frederick Douglass's book is an autobiography. After all, it's the story of his life from the time of his birth to the time he wrote the book, in But it also has a lot of importa. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Written by Himself study guide contains a biography of Frederick Douglass, literature essays, a complete e-text, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. Technically, Frederick Douglass's book is an autobiography. After all, it's the story of his life from the time of his birth to the time he wrote the book, in . From a general summary to chapter summaries to explanations of famous quotes, the SparkNotes Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Study Guide has everything you need to . LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Narrative of Frederick Douglass, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. The Self-Destructive Hypocrisy of Christian Slaveholders. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by: Frederick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass that was is a memoir by Frederick Douglass that was first published in . Ann nixon cooper Writing african history phillips How to write a report to ceo example Noragric master thesis Online apparel business plan Best custom essay writers login Business plan firm Gre analytical writing argument essay samples The reasons behind the botched uprising of the weathermen Is erp worth the pain essay Analysis and Summary of “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1230
__label__cc	0.643521	0.356479	Lizzie mcguire rencontre avec une idole University of arizona creative writing major Pied piper of hamlin Home get homework help Write ahead logging postgresql commands Write ahead logging postgresql commands Dru Nelson has an administrator's program to remove queued mail that has a certain string in it. LinuxMagic has written qmail-remove to remove emails from the queue. Both of them make an explicit separation of what code is internal to the application, what is external, and what is used for connecting internal and external code. The application core is what write ahead logging postgresql commands should really care about. Rutadeltambor.com(5) – collectd – The system statistics collection daemon It is the code that allows our code to do what it is supposed to do, it IS our application. As you can imagine, the typical application flow goes from the code in the user interface, through the application core to the infrastructure code, back to the application core and finally deliver a response to the user interface. Tools Far away from the most important code in our system, the application core, we have the tools that our application uses, for example, a database engine, a search engine, a Web server or a CLI console although the last two are also delivery mechanisms. The key difference is that, while the CLI console and the web server are used to tell our application to do something, the database engine is told by our application to do something. This is a very relevant distinction, as it has strong implications on how we build the code that connects those tools with the application core. The adapters are the ones that effectively implement the code that will allow the business logic to communicate with a specific tool and vice-versa. Ports These Adapters, however, are not randomly created. They are created to fit a very specific entry point to the Application Core, a Port. A port is nothing more than a specification of how the tool can use the application core, or how it is used by the Application Core. In most languages and in its most simple form, this specification, the Port, will be an Interface, but it might actually be composed of several Interfaces and DTOs. For this pattern to work as it should, it is of utmost importance that the Ports are created to fit the Application Core needs and not simply mimic the tools APIs. They translate whatever comes from a delivery mechanism into a method call in the Application Core. In other words, our Driving Adapters are Controllers or Console Commands who are injected in their constructor with some object whose class implements the interface Port that the controller or console command requires. In a more concrete example, a Port can be a Service interface or a Repository interface that a controller requires. The concrete implementation of the Service, Repository or Query is then injected and used in the Controller. In this case, a concrete implementation of the Command or Query Bus is injected into the Controller, who then constructs a Command or Query and passes it to the relevant Bus. Secondary or Driven Adapters Unlike the Driver Adapters, who wrap around a port, the Driven Adapters implement a Port, an interface, and are then injected into the Application Core, wherever the port is required type-hinted. So we create a persistence interface that meets its needs, with a method to save an array of data and a method to delete a line in a table by its ID. From then on, wherever our application needs to save or delete data we will require in its constructor an object that implements the persistence interface that we defined. Now we create an adapter specific to MySQL which will implement that interface. It will have the methods to save an array and delete a line in a table, and we will inject it wherever the persistence interface is required. Understanding Heroku Postgres plans Inversion of control A characteristic to note about this pattern is that the adapters depend on a specific tool and a specific port by implementing an interface. Application Layer The use cases are the processes that can be triggered in our Application Core by one or several User Interfaces in our application. These UIs applications could trigger use cases that can be specific to one of them or reused by several of them. Typically, their role is to: The Command Handlers can be used in two different ways: They can contain the actual logic to perform the use case; They can be used as mere wiring pieces in our architecture, receiving a Command and simply triggering logic that exists in an Application Service. Which approach to use depends on the context, for example: Do we already have the Application Services in place and are now adding a Command Bus? These events trigger logic that is a side effect of a use case, like sending emails, notifying a 3rd party API, sending a push notification, or even starting another use case that belongs to a different component of the application. Domain Layer Further inwards, we have the Domain Layer. However, sometimes we encounter some domain logic that involves different entities, of the same type or not, and we feel that that domain logic does not belong in the entities themselves, we feel that that logic is not their direct responsibility. So our first reaction might be to place that logic outside the entities, in an Application Service. The solution is to create a Domain Service, which has the role of receiving a set of entities and performing some business logic on them. A Domain Service belongs to the Domain Layer, and therefore it knows nothing about the classes in the Application Layer, like the Application Services or the Repositories. In the other hand, it can use other Domain Services and, of course, the Domain Model objects. Domain Model In the very centre, depending on nothing outside it, is the Domain Model, which contains the business objects that represent something in the domain. Examples of these objects are, first of all, Entities but also Value Objects, Enums and any objects used in the Domain Model.Heroku Postgres is a managed SQL database service provided directly by Heroku. You can access a Heroku Postgres database from any language with a PostgreSQL driver, including all languages officially supported by Heroku. In addition to a variety of management commands available via the Heroku . 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__label__cc	0.57231	0.42769	Saigon family helps light up mid-autumn fest with huge lanterns By Thanh Nguyen &nbspAugust 22, 2018 \| 11:05 am GMT+7 For five decades, this Saigon family has produced thousands of paper lanterns for every Mid-Autumn Festival. Inside Phu Binh hamlet, Ho Chi Minh City's District 11, Nguyen Trong Thanh’s family is well known for the lanterns they make with transparent plastic sheets. Every Mid-Autumn Festival celebrated in September, the family produces thousands of these large lanterns for the market. “Two generations of our family have pursued this career. My parents moved from Nam Dinh Province to Saigon and make lanterns, then my siblings and I followed their footsteps. In the beginning, all eight of us were doing it, but as the work got more challenging, only two of us have stayed with it,” said Thanh. Thanh, 50, stands with Nguyen Trong Binh (R), 40, with a 1.5-meter-long dragon they'd just finished. It takes a lot of time to finish a giant lantern, said Thanh. “We usually finish our products a month before the festival, but we start preparing bamboo, transparent plastic sheets and other materials since the beginning of the year,” Thanh said as he briskly sliced bamboo sections. "In the past, our lanterns were shaped as stars, rabbits or chickens. Now the demand has changed. We do whatever customers need,” Thanh said as he showed a goldfish pattern ordered by a supermarket in District 1. This year, the family has received about 4,000 orders, mainly from big companies and overseas Vietnamese (Americans and Canadians). Thanh frames a fish-shaped lantern that is 1.6 meters long and 1 meter high. This would cost VND2 million ($86). “Sticking the plastic sheet is the easiest step, so my family hires our neighbor Van to do it," said Binh, who has been crafting lanterns for 20 years. Painting the lantern is the most challenging task, requiring skilled and experienced craftsmen. Powder paint is used to avoid any harm to the consumers, the lantern makers said. In the final stage, Thanh attaches a plastic ball to the lantern, which shows a dragon releasing gems from its mouth. Colorful plastic feathers will be used to make peacock-shaped lanterns costing VND30,000 - 80,000 ($1.3-3.5). Giant lanterns are hung in Binh’s house, waiting for customers to pick them up. The largest lantern the family has created was a dragon more than four meters long. Some merchants come to Phu Binh Hamlet to buy lanterns for the festival. "The prime time for lanterns was the 1990s, when the whole hamlet worked all day and night but could not produce enough to supply the Mekong Delta provinces. When Chinese lanterns entered the market, the demand for homemade ones dropped sharply. Over the past few years, Vietnamese people in the U.S., Canada and Singapore have begun to take interest in these lanterns, which is a good sign," Binh said. Tags: Saigon mid-autumn festival lanterns When sunsets are the rage, Phu Quoc in Vietnam goes raging, raging Two prayerful, architectural gems in Vietnam’s Central Highlands Saigon exhibits veteran Vietnam war photographer’s work Fish tank lamp returns to the bedroom in Vietnam Timber-paneled walkway alongside iconic river to open soon in Vietnam A Da Nang café panders to nostalgia for ‘tough times’ Motorbike rescuers hit Hanoi streets at all odd hours Robot wars: China shows off automated doctors, teachers and combat stars Reading: Saigon family helps light up mid-autumn fest with huge lanterns	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1232
__label__cc	0.598191	0.401809	What happened to swappable batteries for electric vehicles? By Jeremy Williams April 24, 2017 October 16, 2017 22 Comments on What happened to swappable batteries for electric vehicles? In 1938 a company called Battery Traction Ltd was set up in Britain. It aimed to speed the advent of electric vehicles by building a network of charging points, and battery stations where you could pull in and swap your depleted battery for a fresh one. The business was overtaken by the Second World War and never got off the ground. EF Schumacher was a founder, and the initiative gets a fleeting mention in his biography. Otherwise, that visionary idea is long forgotten. Almost 80 years later, it’s more crucial than ever before. If you’re driving a petrol car and you begin to run out of fuel, you can pull into a filling station and top up. There’s an extensive network of petrol stations and drivers are well served. With an electric car, charging points are still few and far between, at least where I live. Where they do exist, you’ll have to plug your car in for a matter of hours. Even rapid charge stations take 30 minutes. So wouldn’t it make sense to have an EV lane at the petrol station, where you can pull in and change battery? If it were possible to swap in a fresh one and motor on, electric cars would be as easy to refuel as petrol cars. It would overcome one of the big obstacles to their adoption. Why hasn’t it happened, I wonder. It’s not for lack of trying. US company Better Place pioneered this kind of network and began installing battery stations in 2008 in Israel. They even developed a robot that unloaded and loaded the batteries automatically as you trundled along on a conveyor. After much hype from entrepreneur Shai Agassi, it went bankrupt in 2013 and nothing remains of its network. Investors lost hundreds of millions on Better Place, which will make it harder to fund similar schemes in future. But it remains a good idea. Better Place failed because it over-reached and over-promised, and spread itself too thin. It also attracted too much money too early. In order to succeed, it needed car manufacturers to design cars with a standard battery. Only Renault actually backed the idea, and did so with just one model – the Renault Fluence. No, I don’t remember that one either. If the company had done more groundwork before the TED talks and Silicon Valley cash waterfall began, it might still be here today. Instead it burned bright and disappeared, with all the millions spent. While we wait for decent EV charging infrastructure, competing ideas abound. Range extending engines are one, or electric highways. Rapid charging stations are another. Tesla are putting all their effort into quick charging rather than swappable batteries. But some are still prepared to entertain the idea. A company called Greenway tried it in Slovakia, serving delivery vans rather than cars. In China electric bus fleets use battery swapping rather than taking the vehicles off the road for hours at a time in the middle of the working day. The French government announced a competition in 2015 to encourage its car manufacturers to create an affordable EV with a switchable battery. The biggest boost for the idea has come from India. Entrepreneur Chetan Maini created India’s first EV – the Reva (marketed as the G-Wiz in Britain). Further models have followed, and his latest plan is to make them affordable. The main way to do that is to remove the cost of the battery. Drivers will buy the car and lease the battery, which they’ll switch when they need to recharge. This will bring the cost of an electric vehicle to parity with cheap Indian petrol cars, and there’s every chance that this will finally be the impetus needed to give us a genuine EV battery network. That doesn’t mean we’ll get one in Britain though. Like different voltages or socket shapes, or the fact that some countries drive on the left and others on the right, we’re going to see some variations around the world. Some places might end up with battery swapping, others with wireless charging infrastructure or a network of fast charging points. Britain hasn’t committed in any direction yet, but tends towards the latter. It will be interesting to see what India and China do, as it’s entirely possible that the next generation of drivers there leapfrog straight to a low cost electric vehicle. More Transport Innovation of the Week Tags: electric cars TIOTW DevonChap says: The problem with swappable batteries is the degree of standardization they require and the capital they tie up. Battery technology is evolving so fast that any major investment in the infrastructure for this will soon be out of date. To have enough batteries to swap you have to invest a lot of capital in assets that will probably soon be obsolete. The rate of progress in rapid charging is such that it seems likely in a few years it will down to the kind of length of time you currently spend filling up your tank. I think the important thing is not to get fixed on particular technologies. It doesn’t matter if electric cars are charged by overhead wires, embedded induction loops, rapid charging or battery swapping. We just want mobility. This is why we let the market sort this out as that is likely to let the technology that works for its users win out. Government planning has planners who decide on their favoured technologies to the exclusion of other better ones. Just like modular mobile phones it’s an idea that seems good, gets tested by the market and fails. It might come back better or not but doesn’t matter (unless you invested in it). Correct, and with the exception of France’s competition all the examples above are businesses making their pitch to the market, and sinking or swimming accordingly. There’s no need for governments to select for us, though support that encourages innovation and facilitates pilot projects is welcome – as we’ve seen with inductive charging. I take your point on capital, though it’s possible to do this with specific niche markets and build up a sustainable business that way. A company could serve a particular fleet of vehicles for example, like the bus and van companies that are making this work at the moment. Tesla have experimented with just serving their car owners network. I don’t think batteries would be obsolete though, not if they’re designed with upgrading or recycling in mind. Like an AA battery, there’s lots of room for improvement and innovation within a standard format. That’s what I’d like to see. If car companies could get organised and get some basic principles in place around size and shape and connection, it would open up all sorts of new possibilities. That will happen as EVs and battery technology takes off, but it’s early days yet. It took the mobile phone industry 20 years to get anywhere near a standard phone charger, so I don’t expect it to be quick. Is it not the case that when you buy a Renault the price of the battery is excluded; it is rented to you, I think. You keep the same battery for several years, paying a fee per annum. Sure, that’s Reva in India that are planning to do that, not Renault. prometheuseducation says: Sure the concept of having swappable batteries might still be a little too early for it to work, but hey I am sure with enough thought put into it someone could come up with a workable system! Which is why it’s awesome that you are sharing stuff like that, hopefully it inspires someone to innovate and to come up with a brilliant solution to this little problem! Thank you for the post and keep up the awesome work man! Pingback: The electric taxi returns to London – 120 years later \| Make Wealth History I saw a story on BBC America about a Chinese train manufacturer. They are making street cars that use capacitors instead of batteries. At each stop the capacitors are re-charged in 30 seconds. No overhead wiring and no batteries. It seemed like an awesome indea. Graeme Harding says: As we well-known with the fact that electric cars are the modern face of automobile industries, it definitely brings revolutionary change in the automobile world. But since its invention, we have found some common problems with the batteries and charging system. Here from this article we came to know about the swappable batteries for electric vehicle, I hope it is helpful to boost the performance of electric cars. Pingback: Transport innovation of the week: Emmy Scooters \| Make Wealth History Jonathan Allen says: An additional advantage of battery swapping is that stations can exploit intermittent renewable energy sources such as solar and wind during the times they are available. Remember that an EV charged from a conventional power station is actually a coal-fired steam car, although the steam engine is not actually onboard. All good points. If EV drivers were able to painlessly swap batteries on the go, it would also avoid the surge in demand when everybody arrives home at night and plugs in their car to recharge. Steve Masters says: This definitely gets my vote and with reference to the standard for batteries why are car manufacturers looking at this? We have 1 or 2 standards for most things so surely this is the way to go for electric car batteries. I almost hate to suggest it but the oil companies already have the retail outlets in the fuel stations and could leap on this in the way that the tobacco companies lept on e-cigarettes? Absolutely, and the oil companies need to be forward-thinking about this if they’re going to protect their bottom line. EVs will erode their profits. And since they have the big financial clout to fund charging and battery swapping, they’re well placed to help pay for the up-front costs of investing in it. Use oil profits to fund the transition. Pingback: Electric barges and shipping container batteries – Make Wealth History Alkè says: The constant evolution of these means of transport make difficult to standardize their batteries. Today exist varius type of car batteries such lithium ion, lead gel or lead acid. The one described above is a good idea but just does not seem feasible. Pingback: Recharging EVs on the go with Sweden’s electric highway – Make Wealth History LiVolta makes battery swiping practical and affordable LiVolta makes battery swapping practical and affordable nadolski123 says: What about hiring a ‘range extender’ trailer full of batteries whenever you want to go further? These could be located along the motorway so that you can connect and disconnect such trailer during your motorway journey, not having to enter the city with one attached. The only limitation is that you need a trailer hook installed, but that’s easy and cheap to do. Pingback: Common misconceptions on climate action – Climate Thoughts – Climate Misconceptions Previous Entry What we learned this week Next Entry Book review: People Power, by Dan Jellinek	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1234
__label__cc	0.535272	0.464728	Daily bite: Hart Healthy Food now open in Calgary The new East Village eatery provides Calgarians with a healthy dose of wholesomeness and community by Daniel Ball Few things are more synonymous with the city of Calgary than the legacy of the Hart family. Dating all the way back to 1951, the historical Hart House produced more than just a legion of successful professional wrestlers; it produced a wide-spanning family whose veins spread throughout the very bloodline of Calgary’s pulsing culture. Today, the Hart family legacy continues to have a positive impact on the city of Calgary in a multitude of ways. Most recently, Alex--the youngest daughter of Bret Hart--opened the doors to Hart Healthy Food as a way to give back to the city that’s shown her family so much love. Hart family dinners were as important--if not more important--than the legendary training sessions that took place downstairs in the fabled Hart Dungeon. Alex explains that the made-from-scratch family-style feasts were the foundation for her passion for community, and filled not just the belly but the heart and soul too. “Food in my mind has always been the foundation to bring family together and I wanted to give Calgarians a place where they could come eat and feel like a part of our family,” says Alex. “I'm thanked often for the things my family has gone on to accomplish for themselves and for what they've given to the city. What most people don't realize is how thankful we as the Hart family are for what the city has given to us. Food is a way for myself and my family to provide our gratitude and a way for us to hopefully bring people together." Located in Calgary’s eclectic East Village, on a site that once housed BJ’s Gym, Hart Healthy Food provides patrons with a fast and convenient selection of locally-sourced, farm-to-table offerings from protein-packed power bowls to multigrain toast spreads, to daily soups, created in house by chef Sherin Samuel. A post shared by Hart Healthy Food (@hhf.yyc) on Oct 10, 2019 at 3:54am PDT In keeping with its core values of giving back, Hart Healthy Food offers dairy-, gluten-, vegan-, and vegetable-friendly options, as well as cooking classes and catering services. “My hope for Hart Healthy Food is to provide another outlet to unite people in my home town of Calgary and build community around while providing people wholesome and healthy food options,” Alex explains. “My ultimate goal is to serve food that comes from local producers, that supports our local economy. I want the individuals and families who eat our food to take comfort in knowing that we are filling their bellies with real, high quality ingredients.” Hart Healthy Food is open Tuesday to Friday from 9 a.m. - 7 p.m. and 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. on weekends. Make dinner make a difference with Restaurants for Change ICYMI: Hart Healthy Foods' controversial closure, tips to cope with rising food costs, and more Daily Bite: Tractor Everyday Healthy Foods opens its first Eastern Canada location in Toronto Daily Bite: Former White House chef and healthy food advocate Sam Kass to open 2018 Devour! Film and Food Festival Daily bite: Dine out and do good with Restaurants for Change Q&A with Mairlyn Smith on her hilarious Youtube channel, eating healthy and dealing with the holidays	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1237
__label__wiki	0.66358	0.66358	Dale Lewis in Artlyst 'Dale Lewis And Emma Cousin The Painterly Post Digital Vernacular' by Paul Carey-Kent 12 Febraury 2018 The story of painting has become, in large part, the story of its response to other media, especially photography. That used to lead to lead to questions about whether painting would survive, but we seem to have got beyond that. Now the obvious question is how it relates to the online world and the proliferation of social media. Facebook, for example, started in 2004 so children born this century will have been interacting online since childhood. No doubt that will affect the art their generation produces, but what of artists already at work? Some painters have responded directly, for example Richard Prince and Michael Williams. But indirect approaches are also possible. Painters have emerged who play an awareness of the streaming prolixity of images and stories into painterly concerns which remain equally rooted in day to day life and art history. That yields an approach which is conscious of the online world but chooses not to foreground it in formal terms. The result is a fresh form of colloquially-driven narrative. There’s something of that spirit in Rose Wiley, Ansel Krut, Lisa Yuskavage, Magnus Plessen, Ryan Mosley, Jana Euler, Katherine Bernhardt, Dana Schutz and Jordan Kasey, for example. Perhaps that positioning is most likely for artists in their thirties: a unique generation, quite probably, for whom the online world is natural without it having been the dominant part of childhood; and for whom painting was a straightforward rather than charged choice of medium at art college, as it wasn’t during the perpetual debates about its status in the preceding century. The way is open for a painterly post-digital vernacular to develop, and two of the most impressive in that mode are currently showing in London: Dale Lewis, who has risen to prominence and gained an international profile over the past year, at Edel Assanti (‘Fat, Sugar, Salt’ to 10 March) and Emma Cousin, with her first big solo show at Lewisham Arthouse (‘Leg Up’ to 18 Feb). Though their careers are at slightly different stages, they have much in common. Neither can be slotted into the macho-male tradition of painterly assertion: Lewis is gay, which indeed seems to facilitate a particular abandon in his depiction of women, on whom Cousin concentrates with a comparable freedom. Both work at scale so their figures are often life sized, and Lewis in particular has found his distinctive voice over the last couple of years at a widescreen horizontal format of 2 x 4 metres. Neither use photographic sources. Both are open fans of the Renaissance, and you can see it pretty directly in their work. The underlying composition of Lewis’s works tends to come from the National Gallery, explaining how he combines structural clarity with spontaneity. Cousin cites how Pontormo, Tiepolo and Poussin feed into the shapes of her figures and her choices of colour. Both spent much of their twenties in the more measured end of the art business, contributing perhaps to the vertiginous sense in their work of having been freed from constraints: Lewis was assistant to Raqib Shaw, painting with exacting detail; Cousin worked for the secondary art dealer Robin Katz. Both concentrate on the figure, whether in groups or with a dominant individual – though Cousin also operates synechdotally, using a ‘language of legs’ to stand in for the whole person. Both make paintings packed with incident and content. There’s an immediate hit, for sure, but there’s also plenty available to decode. And there’s always a dash of colloquial wit, boosted by the matching informality of the painterly language. That often feeds into their titles: Cousin’s Running Scared repurposes a stock phrase to describe figures who, ‘although propelled’, as she puts it, ‘remain motionless’; and whatever the juice may be in Lewis’ Devil’s Juice – drugs, Southern Comfort or paint? – it’s the cause of a pub brawl sufficiently gloried in to allow for an orgiastic reading. The ‘action painting’ in that fits how Lewis paints: at speed, straight from the tube while the paint can be moved around – sometimes completing a painting within one flat-out day – and preferring to keep a sense of urgency and semi-accidental discovery rather than ‘tidy up’. The big difference lies in the source of their vernacular visions. Both use the personal to reach the universal, but from different directions. Lewis is primarily an observer: he generates his multi-figure tableaux, ordered by classical principles, from the quick-fire notations he makes around the streets. ‘In London’, he says, ‘you only have to take a walk, a bus or a tube journey and you’ve seen a whole host of people and scenarios that could make it into a painting’. Lewis adds in his own memories, often from childhood, of what affected him emotionally. Sometimes he’ll appear himself, in that remembered role, but I read him as outside looking in: onto the social and geographical scene around him, onto his own past. Cousin, in contrast, inhabits her characters. They’re not self-portraits as such, but they do present the inner experience of being a woman in society now – how it feels to be in a social female body – so that they take on a common relevance. So let’s look at a couple of paintings from each… Lewis’ most recent paintings originate in his daily walk through London’s East End, from his flat in Leyton to his studio in Bow. Here we’re in Morrison’s supermarket, posited as a scene of exotic ethnic and culinary diversity. Lewis has fun with the pineapple, creamy avocado, fried eggs and a goat’s head (a.k.a. ‘Hoxton Chicken’, from when Hoxton was a poor area). He playfully imports an upside-down child from the playground, and a more disturbing figure who seems unaware of her exposure. It builds to an upbeat view of how to get on with life in the face of deprivations. Here Lewis starts from the media story of a murdered actress who starred in East Enders. Her body was found cut up in the canal, but Lewis’ riff on the gruesome result is clearly inspired by Henry Moore’s way of dividing a body. Here again, there is comic detail to relish: the isolated fishermen who, says Lewis, never seem to catch anything, bits of other bodies floating past the shopping trolleys in the canal, the pigeons apparently stoned… Set aside the subject and this is a formal winner as tilt meets stripes a la Daniel Buren meets a device whereby the car’s windows are delineated but we can see the whole interior. But it is an insistent subject, its head-on engagement with potential embarrassment arising, says Cousin, from personal experience when caught short in her favoured outdoor activities such as climbing and running. Then, despite the deft aiming of the extra yellow stripe, it would be much simpler to be a man. So ‘Peeing at 80’ can – as Luce Garrigues proposes to Cousin in the show’s catalogue –be read as a female existential statement: how can a woman perform the most natural task in a society led at full speed by men? En Masse fits various types together: a washing-up-gloved mother, shrinking into a floor of restricted activity as she cradles her baby; a gymnast-come-doll; a booted submissive; a new age meditator with trendy blue hair; an over-eater, who arches over the set-up even as she enacts her own version of ‘having it all’. Behind a jauntily energetic surface, as society requires, lies a rum set of choices set up to compete as possible facets of a self. Fat, Sugar, Salt is on view at Edel Assanti through 10 March 2018. Link to the original article Copyright © 2020 Edel Assanti 74a Newman Street, London W1T 3DB	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1242
__label__cc	0.589712	0.410288	👈Brief contents ⇒ Summary “The Scandal in Bohemia” by Doyle To the Sherlock Holmes, the King of Bohemia appeals for help. Once the king had a stormy romance with the famous opera diva Irene Adler, but now he is going to marry a woman of his descent. Irene blackmails his former admirer, threatening to send a compromising photo to the bride’s family and upset the wedding. Despite the fact that various attempts were made to get the picture – hired burglars and robbers, searched Irene – the card could not be found. Remains the last resort – the help of the famous detective. To fulfill the commission, Holmes changes into an unemployed groom and goes to the Irene house. Helping the servants to take care of the horses, he learns that Irene is the most charming creature of all, wearing a bonnet. She leads a modest lifestyle, sometimes gives concerts and after lunch leaves for a walk. She is visited by a lawyer, Godfrey Norton. The detective decides what this Mr. Irene may be. Meanwhile, he appears himself and with Irene leaves for the church. Holmes follows them. In the church Irene and his companion approach the priest with the request to marry them, but he refused to perform the rite without witnesses. The appearance in the church of Holmes in the groom’s clothes solves the problem: a wedding takes place. In the evening of the same day Holmes, disguised as a priest, again goes to the house of Irene. The people hired by them attack the woman leaving the carriage. Holmes rushes to her aid and with a face smeared with specially painted red for this purpose falls to the ground. The people of Irene bring the detective into the house and, at his request, open the window. Standing in the street, Watson throws a smoke flare into the room. There is a panic, during which Irene first rushes to the hiding place, which holds the coveted picture. Taking advantage of the general confusion, Holmes leaves the house. When he enters his apartment on Baker Street, the passing young man wishes him good night. Holmes is perplexed: where did he hear this voice? The next day, Holmes, Watson and the King of Bohemia come to the house of Irene, but the house is empty, and for the great detective a letter is left. Irene figured out who the priest was to whom she had sheltered in her house and made sure of that when she changed into a man’s suit to wish Mr. Sherlock Holmes goodnight. Irene will not obstruct the marriage of the king, she married a loved one and leaves England forever. The photo she takes with her, and in return leaves her to remember. Such a turn of affairs of the king suits. As a payment for services, he offers Holmes a ring with an emerald. But the great detective refuses: the picture of Irene is the best reward. Holmes, who always mockingly spoke of the woman’s mind, suffers defeat from a woman. Irene Adler becomes for him the ideal, the only woman who managed to outwit him, the one he calls “That Woman”. Summary “The Empty House” by Doyle Three years have passed since the death of Sherlock Holmes. In London, under very mysterious circumstances, the young Count Ronald Adair was killed. Ronald was... Summary of “Dyed Ribbon” Doyle The work of A. Konan Doyle “Motley Ribbon” is included in the series of works about Sherlock Holmes, detective extremely talented and intelligent. The narrative... Summary “Dog of the Baskervilles” Doyle In the beginning of the story, the detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson are talking with their visitor – the physician James Mortimer.... Summary of Doyle’s “Reigetian Squires” After a serious investigation, the great detective Sherlock Holmes needs rest, and Dr. Watson brings a friend to the estate of his patient Colonel Heather... 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__label__wiki	0.977273	0.977273	Airbus, Deutsche executives to skip Saudi investment summit Tehran, Oct 19, IRNA -- Airbus said its defense chief Dirk Hoke will no longer attend the Future Investment Initiative conference in Saudi Arabia, the latest senior industry executive to skip next week's event amid concern about the fate of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Deutsche Bank's CEO, Christian Sewing, has also cancelled plans to attend the summit, a source close to the matter said on Friday, Reuters reported. Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, who had been trying to rebuild strained ties with the kingdom before Khashoggi disappeared on Oct. 2, called the situation 'unacceptable'. He told reporters that Berlin would draw its consequences once Riyadh provided a statement on the issue. Khashoggi, a US resident and Washington Post columnist critical of Riyadh's policies, went missing after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Turkey believes he was murdered and his body removed. Saudi Arabia has denied that. Airbus said Hoke would not attend the Saudi investment conference given a new guideline ordering executives to abstain from high profile engagements there, but the company would not break off contact with the kingdom. 'We believe it is important to maintain engagement and dialogue in a country which hosts about 1,000 of our employees,' a spokesman said. The investment summit, dubbed Davos in the Desert, in Riyadh typically attracts executives from some of the world's largest companies and media organizations. Many of those slated to attend, including US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, have cancelled their participation, but the Saudis have said they plan to move forward with the conference, scheduled for Oct. 23-25. Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser has not yet announced whether he will attend. Opposition lawmakers are calling on Berlin to halt arms deliveries to the kingdom, the second largest customer of German weapons this year behind Algeria. Germany approved a total of 416 million euros in arms sales to Saudi Arabia in the first nine months of 2018, economics ministry data showed.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1261
__label__cc	0.633442	0.366558	View source for Guide to playing in Industrial Zone effectively ← Guide to playing in Industrial Zone effectively __NOTOC__ __NOEDITSECTION__ {{see also\|Guides for Maps}}<br /> [[File:Industrial_zone_new.jpg\|right\|300px\|link=]] [[File:Industrial_zone_winter_new.jpg\|right\|300px\|link=]] == About Industrial Zone == <br> '''Overview:''' Industrial Zone, while not the most popular map out there, is still fairly attractive to players in the mid- to lower-ranks. Not only does this map have a wide range of tactics employable due to the many terrain variants, but there are also many parkour opportunities. The top of the hangars around the lookout towers are the first to come to mind. <br> '''Battle Modes:''' DM, TDM, CTF, CP <br> '''Size:''' 20 players, 10 vs 10 <br> == Tactics == === DM/TDM === Almost every weapon has an opportunity to shine in a diverse map such as Industrial Zone. Starting with the close ranged weapons, there are many pockets of tight and confined spaces near the corners of the map for them to hide, taking every opportunity to pounce on any sorry soul who dares enter that territory. Note that camera angle adjustment is difficult in these areas, especially near the large series of hangars by the red flag's zone. <br> Mid-field weapons, such as [[Striker]], [[Smoky]], [[Hammer]], [[Thunder]], and [[Ricochet]] all tend to excel within the confines of buildings and passageways. While [[Smoky]] has the impact force and critical hit to its benefit, [[Thunder]] can use splash damage to take out tankers from behind blind corners, giving them significant advantages over other tankers. [[Ricochet]] can pull this strategy off with even more finesse, considering that combat from unusual angles is what this turret was designed to excel at. [[Hammer]] can effectively be used to brace it's impact on enemy tanks, using its pellets to knock off enemies' aim. [[Striker]] works well in this map locking down enemies on far sides of the map or destroying them in mid-range combat. <br> Lastly, the rest of the map goes to long ranged fighters. [[Shaft]]s, [[Magnum]]s, [[Railgun]]s and [[Vulcan]]s alike simply love the firing ranges near the center of the map and the sides. The lookout towers on the tow red corners are especially lucrative to these players. A few crafty tankers can even set themselves to control the bridge overseeing the rest of the facility, picking off players that dare to hide within the walls as well as outside. A heavier hull is recommended in this situation, though, since you're leaving yourself open to attack as well. <br> <br> === CTF === Light hulls are useful for swift flag captures, as per usual with maps with moderate size. It's worth noting that since Industrial Zone has so many diverse sections that mid-fielding can be rather important too, since in CTFs, players will be forced to stray outside their comfort zones; a few mid-field weapons in tandem with a [[Viking]] or [[Hunter]] would suit this position well. <br> One thing to note is that whilst the map is quite large, in comparison to others, there aren't as many players to co-exist with you here, with Industrial Zone only having a 20 player capacity. This can be taken advantage of, since teams have more difficulty setting up a proper offense with many members at their base, making for a quicker swipe of the flag. However, having a low total team member count doesn't mean you can't use closer ranged turrets to take advantage of the cramped quarters (i.e. the underground tunnel, or inside the buildings), such as [[Firebird]], [[Hammer]] and [[Freeze]] to be a true offensive presence. <br> The aforementioned vantage points from the towers pair well with [[Railgun]], [[Magnum]] and [[Vulcan]], dependent on which one you claim. For [[Railgun]], the tower further from the flag that harbors a Double Supply drop is the best route to take, since you can slowly but surely peck off any unwanted visitors from behind the cover of a large concrete block. Meanwhile, the lookout tower right next to the flag is a great place for a [[Vulcan]] to hold position at, having both a constant rate of fire pointed at opposition that may attempt to take the flag ''and'' an extra life nearby in case your constant hull exposure lets the situation grow sour fast. [[Magnum]] gives you the possibility of hitting the opponents' base without having the need to move away from cover. <br> <br> === CP === There are five control points in this one map; taking the size of the map into account, it's not a huge leap to assume a couple of points will be neglected. You can use a lighter hull to quickly capture the neglected control points, which can make a difference in the long run, or alternatively, you can use a medium/heavy hull to seize control of the more popular control points. <br> It's worth noting, though, that the heavier of a hull you decide to use, the less likely you are to be moving from point to point with any swiftness. If you're intent on camping at a specific, well sheltered point, then something like [[Ricochet]], [[Hammer]] or [[Thunder]] would suit you well, considering they can take maximum advantage of the surrounding environment. [[Twins]] is also a niche option for suppressing fire near contained or precarious driving locations, a great choice for bowling roving [[Wasp]]s off of cliffs like there's no tomorrow. <br> ==Recommended Equipment== ===DM/TDM=== =====For "Close to Mid" range Combat===== [[Firebird]], [[Freeze]], [[Hammer]], [[Smoky]], [[Twins]], [[Striker]] or [[Ricochet]]. <br> [[Wasp]], [[Hornet]], [[Hunter]] or [[Viking]]. =====For "Mid to Long" range Combat===== [[Magnum]], [[Vulcan]], [[Railgun]] or [[Shaft]]. <br> [[Viking]], [[Dictator]], [[Titan]] or [[Mammoth]]. ===CTF=== =====Attack===== [[Firebird]], [[Freeze]], [[Isida]], [[Hammer]], [[Smoky]], or [[Ricochet]]. <br> [[Wasp]], [[Hornet]],[[Hunter]], [[Viking]]. =====Defense===== [[Freeze]], [[Twins]], [[Vulcan]], [[Magnum]], [[Railgun]] or [[Shaft]]. <br> [[Dictator]], [[Titan]] or [[Mammoth]]. ===CP=== [[Twins]], [[Ricochet]], [[Thunder]], [[Hammer]], [[Striker]], [[Vulcan]], [[Magnum]] or [[Railgun]]. <br> [[Hornet]], [[Hunter]], [[Dictator]], [[Titan]] or [[Mammoth]]. 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__label__cc	0.626722	0.373278	Uncus For the component of lepidopteran genitalia, see uncus (genitals). Medial surface of left cerebral hemisphere. Uncus is shown in orange. Human brain inferior-medial view (Uncus is #5) NeuroNames Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy [edit on Wikidata] The uncus is an anterior extremity of the parahippocampal gyrus. It is separated from the apex of the temporal lobe by a slight fissure called the incisura temporalis. Although superficially continuous with the hippocampal gyrus, the uncus forms morphologically a part of the rhinencephalon. AN important landmark that crosses the inferior surface of the uncus is the band of Giacomini.[1] The term comes from the Latin word uncus, meaning hook, and it was coined by Félix Vicq-d'Azyr (1748–1794).[2] 2 Additional images Clinical significance[edit] The part of the olfactory cortex that is on the temporal lobe covers the area of the uncus, which leads into the two significant clinical aspects of the uncus: uncinate fits and uncal herniations. Seizures, often preceded by hallucinations of disagreeable odors, often originate in the uncus. In situations of tumor, hemorrhage, or edema, increased pressure within the cranial cavity, especially if the mass is in the middle fossa, can push the uncus over the tentorial notch against the brainstem and its corresponding cranial nerves and can result in a brain herniation. If the uncus becomes herniated the structure lying just medial to it, cranial nerve III, can become compressed. This causes problems associated with a non-functional or problematic CN III - the pupil on the ipsilateral side fails to constrict to light and absence of medial/superior movement of the orbit, resulting in a fixed, dilated pupil and an eye with a characteristic "down and out" position due to dominance of the abducens and trochlear nerves. Further pressure on the midbrain results in progressive lethargy, coma and death due to compression of the mesencephalic reticular activating system. Brainstem damage is typically ipsilateral to the herniation, although the contralateral cerebral peduncle may be pushed against the tentorial notch, resulting in a characteristic indentation known as Kernohan's notch and ipsilateral hemiparesis, since fibers running in the cerebral peduncle decussate (cross over) in the lower medulla to control muscle groups on the opposite side of the body. The landmark that helps you find the amygdala on a coronal section of the brain. Additional images[edit] Position of uncus (red) Basal view of a human brain Scheme of rhinencephalon. (Uncus labeled at bottom right.) This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 826 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918) ^ Pfleger, René. "Uncus \| Radiology Reference Article \| Radiopaedia.org". Radiopaedia. Retrieved 17 October 2019. ^ JC Tamraz, YG Comair. Atlas of Regional Anatomy of the Brain Using MRI (2006), p 8. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Uncus. Uncus in the Brede Database at the Technical University of Denmark http://www.neuroanatomy.wisc.edu/coursebook/neuro3(2).pdf Anatomy of the cerebral cortex of the human brain Superolateral Superior frontal gyrus Middle frontal gyrus Inferior frontal gyrus: 11 47-Pars orbitalis Broca's area 44-Pars opercularis 45-Pars triangularis Superior frontal sulcus Inferior frontal sulcus Precentral Precentral gyrus Precentral sulcus Medial/inferior Medial frontal gyrus Paraterminal gyrus/Paraolfactory area Orbital gyri/Orbitofrontal cortex Ventromedial prefrontal cortex Subcallosal area Orbital sulcus Paracentral lobule Paracentral sulcus Primary motor cortex Premotor cortex Supplementary motor area Supplementary eye field Frontal eye fields Parietal lobe Superior parietal lobule Inferior parietal lobule 40-Supramarginal gyrus 39-Angular gyrus Parietal operculum Intraparietal sulcus Precuneus Marginal sulcus Postcentral gyrus/Primary somatosensory cortex 3, 1 and 2 Secondary somatosensory cortex Posterior parietal cortex Occipital pole of cerebrum Lateral occipital gyrus Lunate sulcus Transverse occipital sulcus Cuneus Lingual gyrus Calcarine sulcus Transverse temporal gyrus/Auditory cortex 41 and 42 Superior temporal gyrus 22/Wernicke's area Middle temporal gyrus Superior temporal sulcus Fusiform gyrus Medial temporal lobe Inferior temporal gyrus Inferior temporal sulcus Interlobar sulci/fissures Central (frontal+parietal) Lateral (frontal+parietal+temporal) Parieto-occipital Preoccipital notch Longitudinal fissure Cingulate (frontal+cingulate) Collateral (temporal+occipital) Callosal sulcus Limbic lobe Parahippocampal gyrus Entorhinal cortex Perirhinal cortex Postrhinal cortex Posterior parahippocampal gyrus Prepyriform area Cingulate cortex/gyrus Subgenual area Anterior cingulate Posterior cingulate Isthmus of cingulate gyrus: Retrosplenial cortex Hippocampal formation Hippocampal sulcus Fimbria of hippocampus Dentate gyrus Rhinal sulcus Indusium griseum Operculum Poles of cerebral hemispheres Some categorizations are approximations, and some Brodmann areas span gyri. 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Connie McMindes' father served on the Lafayette Police Department for 23 years (until 1983) and had the first K9 officer in the city in 1963. Officer Everette Cooper and Sultan were quite the team. Connie's son, Devlin, continues that legacy with his pawsome new partner, Edi, a 3-year-old Belgian Malinois. Beginning as a drug-detecting dog, he has added skills to his repertoire and has assisted in manhunts as well. Devlin was so intent on bringing a K9 to the Seymour PD, he went door-to-door to different businesses in Seymour to raise the nearly $15,000 needed to add a second dog to the department. More information is available in the Seymour Tribune article. Thank you, Devlin, for your service - and Edi for yours as well! The ABE Department will be hosting our next Indiana Blood Center Bloodmobile drive on Monday, November 12. Come roll up your sleeve! We need to fill all of the appointment slots to match (or exceed?!) our donations from last year. Our Food Finders Food Bank warehouse shifts to support United Way have ended for 2018. Friday, October 5, during the 1-3 shift, we sorted 2,192 pounds (approximately 1,827 meals). Due to the timing of Fall Break, there were only 5 of us (and only 1 from ABE), so that is a rather remarkable statistic. If your group, club, posse, or tribe would like to schedule a shift together during 2019, please contact Carol Weaver and she will help you with the process. The National AgrAbility Project’s assistive technology specialist, Steve Swain, exhibited as a guest of Ohio AgrAbility at the 2018 Ohio Farm Science Review near London, Ohio. The NAP exhibit included an AgrAbility popup display and AgrAbility publications. The publications included NAP brochures, AgrAbility Harvest newsletters, 25-Years, 25 Stories, the AgrAbility Impact publication, Arthritis and Agriculture, SRAP contacts, and the Gaining Ground and Seedstock reprints. Other exhibitors in the Ohio AgrAbility tent included Life Essentials, Pwr EZ Systems, McCabe Outdoor Mobility, and K&M Manufacturing. Steve Swain, Indiana AgrAbility rural rehabilitation specialist, was a guest lecturer for the Assistive Technology Practice graduate level class for Dr. Brad Duerstock. The presentation was entitled Practical AT User Assessments. The presentation examined the AT assessment process from identifying clients thru the assessment process to re-examination of the outcomes. Examples of AT for the farm and garden were shown and examples of the potential of secondary injuries seen on the farm. Chuck Baldwin of the National AgrAbility Project joined Abi Jensen and others from AgrAbility of Wisconsin to staff an AgrAbility booth at the World Dairy Expo (WDE) October 2-6, in Madison, Wisconsin. Chuck was there for Thursday’s and Friday’s activities. The AgrAbility staff had many opportunities to renew contacts with previous and current AgrAbility clients, and to share the vision and goals of AgrAbility with interested Expo attendees and potential future clients. It is AgrAbility’s vision to enhance quality of life for farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural workers with disabilities. The WDE provides an opportunity to see almost 2,500 head of cattle from across the USA and Canada as they compete in seven breed shows. There are also contests and activities for 4-H, FFA, a youth showmanship contest, a youth fitting contest, and one of the largest contests of its type: the World Dairy Expo Product Championship Contest that evaluates and ranks all types of dairy products. In addition, there is the World Forage Analysis Superbowl that brings the best from across North America to compete in this part of dairy nutrition quality. These are only a part of the events that take place at the WDE. To give an idea of the size of this Expo, on Wednesday, Oct. 3, the day’s attendance was 12, 665, with the international attendance for the first two days being 1,570 from 84 countries. For further information on the World Dairy Expo, see their website at: https://worlddairyexpo.com/ Margaret Gitau, Associate Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University gave an invited seminar at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), on October 3, 2018. Prof. Gitau talked about one of the greatest challenges in our world today, this being the impairment of water quality by pollutants from agricultural, rural/urbanizing, and urban lands. She discussed her perspectives, current research, and future directions, and also highlighted opportunities for integrated, multidisciplinary research to develop sustainable solutions to current water quality problems. Professor Richard Stroshine officially retired August 31, and the department hosted a celebration on Friday, September 28, at the ADM Agricultural Innovation Center in his honor. In addition to his wife, Alice, and his son, Tim, many of the China Agricultural University students attended, along with many other colleagues of Dr. Stroshine. Thank you for the faithful years of service and for being a DifferenceMaker! Professor Emeritus Gary Krutz will be signing his book "Dream Happy, Be Great" at Stacked Pickle from 11-2 on October 27. Drop by and see him! Allison (Ustynoski) Cox (BE '12) and her husband Clint Cox (BA English '04) welcomed home their daughter, Hazel (8 lbs, 9 oz. 20 inches long) on June 14, 2018. Allison is still with Chicago Vegan Foods with one of our 2009 outstanding alums, Ryan Howard. Paul Brayton (AE '18) and Samantha Kowalski (BE '18) are featured in the ASABE Resource Magazine, September/October 2018 (pages 22 and 23, respectively). Thanks for representing us so well! Danielle Winter, a new graduate student working with Dr. Sara McMillan, was featured in the ASABE Resource magazine, September/October 2018 issue. Check her out on page 8! We had perfect weather for homecoming. Nate Engelberth, Laurie Snyder, Bernie Engel, Dan Ess and Dan Taylor, with help from ABE Ambassador Nathan Leroy, all had fun talking to alums, current and prospective students. Maha Graduates On August 23rd, Matteo Pellegri successfully defended his PhD thesis on the simulation and virtual prototyping of gerotors--- over the course of his time as a research assistant at the Maha Fluid Power Research Center, Pellegri developed and experimentally validated a novel multi-domain gerotor model able to capture the leakage and flow pulsations associated with these units. He also developed an algorithm capable of designing the components of these machines such as to increase the unit’s overall volumetric efficiency. Also on August 23rd, Abhimanyu Baruah held his master’s degree defense, presenting his work towards noise reduction in positive displacement machines (hydraulic pumps/motors) known as axial piston machines of swash plate type. To this end, Baruah has developed a novel software tool by the name of MiNoS, which is aimed at designing the valve plates of these machines such as to minimize noise. By setting up a parametrization scheme for the design of the relief grooves in these valve plates, Baruah was able to push the process of valve plate optimization to a new level, allowing not only for more advanced designs, but also for a broader perspective on the design trends governing the performance of these valve plates. On behalf of the Maha Fluid Power Research Center, congratulations go out to Baruah and Dr. Pellegri on the degrees they have earned--- and on their valuable contributions to fluid power technology. Maha Awards The Maha Fluid Power Research Center is honored to announce that at the 2018 ASME/Bath Symposium on Fluid Power and Motion Control, Dr. Divya Thiagarajan was presented with the best paper award. Her exceptional work in modeling key lubricating interfaces in external gear machines gives novel insight into the inner workings of this popular positive displacement machine, allowing industry to work towards units more efficient and more robust than those on the market today. The award-winning paper, entitled “Modeling of the Lateral Lubricating Interfaces in External Gear Machines Considering the Effects of Cavitation,” was written during her time as research assistant and PhD candidate at Maha. Thiagarajan is now a Senior Engineer at Gamma Technology, where she pursues new challenges and opportunities in modeling machine components. Congratulations Dr. Thiagarajan! WANT TO WIN $5,000, $10,000 or $20,000? Perhaps earn a provisional patent in YOUR name? Get a PAID internship? 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__label__wiki	0.632305	0.632305	Center for Resilient Infrastructures, Systems, and Processes Resilient and Adaptive Cyberinfrastructures Resilient cyber physical systems Scientific foundations of resilient socio-technical systems Lab and facilities Building resilient cyberinfrastructure Scientific foundations of resilient systems All Events... David Warsinger of Mechanical Engineering and expert in food energy nexus joins CRISP David Warsinger, Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering and the Birck Nanotechnology Center, has joined CRISP as an Affiliate Faculty member. David’s research focuses on the water-energy nexus, with approaches from thermofluids and nanoengineering. He is especially interested in energy efficient and robust systems that can safeguard human health, including disinfection and agricultural water. David completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at MIT, and his B.S. and M.Eng at Cornell. After his PhD, David did Postdoctoral research at MIT and Yale with Meny Elimelech and Jaehong Kim. New NSF project on resilient use of accelerators A team of four ECE faculty members won a research award from the National Science Foundation to broaden the applicability of accelerators, like GPUs, including its reliable use under varying workload conditions. The team includes CRISP faculty members, Saurabh Bagchi, Milind Kulkarni, and Felix Lin. ECE Faculty Shreyas Sundaram joins CRISP as Associate Director Purdue ECE faculty member, Shreyas Sundaram, has joined the Center for Resilient Infrastructures, Systems, and Processes (CRISP) as Associate Director, effective August 15, 2019. Felix Lin wins NSF CAREER Award Felix Lin, Assistant Professor in ECE and CRISP Thrust Lead in Cyber-physical systems, has won the NSF CAREER award. The project titled "A Trustworthy and Verifiable Software Backplane for the Cloud Edge" is for 5 years and started June 1, 2019. Shaoshuai Mou receives 2019 outstanding faculty mentor award CRISP Affiliate Faculty, Shaoshuai Mou, an assistant professor in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, has been selected as the Outstanding Faculty Mentor of Engineering Graduate Students. The award is presented annually by the College of Engineering to an individual faculty member in each School of Engineering to recognize outstanding work mentoring master’s and Ph.D. students. Nicolo Michelusi prepares for finals of DARPA's Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2) Affiliate faculty, Nicolo Michelusi, is part of the Purdue team of five faculty members from ECE, one research group from Texas A&M, and a research scientist from Raytheon BBN Technologies, that is one of the 15 finalists competing in the third and final phase of DARPA’s Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2). Ilias Bilionis part of team winning NASA's new Space Tech Research Institute for Smart Habitats CRISP Affiliate Faculty, Ilias Bilionis, an assistant professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, is part of the winning team of a $15M research institute from NASA. The team, led by Shirley Dyke, will form the institute called Resilient ExtraTerrestrial Habitats (RETH). CRISP leadership and affiliate faculty members planning for the Grand Challenge Workshop The organizing committee members are discussing the technical topics to be addressed at the Grand Challenge workshop. NSF-sponsored Grand Challenge in Resilience Workshop comes to campus Purdue Engineering's Center for Resilient Infrastructures, Systems, and Processes (CRISP) will host an NSF-sponsored Grand Challenges in Resilience Workshop on March 20 and 21 on the Purdue campus. This will involve about 30 external attendees, Purdue's community working on resilience, and Program Managers from DOD, DOE, NSF. NSF-sponsored Grand Challenges Workshop is coming in March The NSF-sponsored Grand Challenges in Resilience workshop is coming to Purdue on Mar 19-21. This will bring leading lights from academia, government labs, and industry working on resilience in cyber, cyber-physical, and socio-technical systems. Viewing 1 to 10 of 32 \| More... Shortcut URL: http://eng.purdue.edu/jump/1e35d03	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1267
__label__wiki	0.597839	0.597839	WestBoundary Photography Chris Gill We’re working to urge campuses, cities and our state to lead the way to 100% renewable power, go big on solar, and harness the abundant wind power off the Atlantic coast. The Cleanest Energy In a greener, healthier world, we would conserve more, use the energy we have more wisely and efficiently, and rely only on sources of energy that are clean, renewable and tread lightly on the planet. The question is, what concrete steps can we take to move closer to the world we want to live in? And given the current administration’s myopic preference for older, dirtier energy sources, where can we realistically take those steps right now? 100% Renewable, Go Solar, Go Big on Offshore Wind Through our Clean, Green & Renewable program, Environment North Carolina is working alongside our network of 29 state environment groups and our members and activists in all 50 states to run three campaigns: 100% Renewable: The shift toward 100% renewable starts locally. We’re asking more than 50 college campuses, a dozen key cities and half a dozen key states, including North Carolina, to lead the way. Go Solar: Smart public policies are key drivers of the incredible growth of solar power. We’re working to promote and defend solar in multiple cities and states. Go Big on Offshore Wind: The winds that blow off our Atlantic Coast could provide 40% of the electricity Americans use today. We're asking North Carolina's leaders to harness the wind that blows off our shores. Michelle Kinman, Environment California Nicolas Kaviani, NK Artography The Environment North Carolina approach Each of these campaigns aims to accelerate our country’s shift to clean energy in unique ways. But they share a common approach. Each campaign strives to: Put the environment first. A healthy environment isn’t the hoped-for by-product of a fossil fuel-driven prosperity. It’s the necessary precondition and only sustainable source of a sound energy system for America and our communities. Through our research and public education, we’re working to shift more hearts and minds over to this point of view. Take a strategic approach. We must think big and act boldly, but we recognize that progress comes one step at a time. Our focus is on making a difference in public policy and in our lives and our environment, not just making a statement. Build on what works. Our national network has won policies that have resulted in more solar and wind power, cleaner air, and reduced global warming pollution in 25 states. We know which policies work, how they can be improved, and what it takes to win their approval. As always, we’re also open to new ideas that work even better. Work together. We work to unite people from all across the political spectrum around clean, renewable energy, whether it’s the farmer who benefits from wind turbines on her land or the environmentalist who wants to store and share the solar energy generated on his rooftop. Our national advocates in Washington, D.C., lobby members of Congress from both parties. Our advocates in North Carolina build coalitions that include business owners, doctors and nurses, religious leaders and people from all walks of life. Our organizers and canvassers engage literally hundreds of thousands of people. Our members and activists live across the state. Energy Sage Have you ever thought about going solar at your home or business? Environment America has partnered with EnergySage to make finding your local solar options easy. Find out more: http://www.EASolar.org In the absence of national leadership, it’s up to us to convince our colleges, communities and others in North Carolina to help lead the way to a clean energy revolution — one that will conserve more of the Earth’s resources, improve the health of millions of people, and help stabilize the climate that makes life on our planet possible. What happens next is up to us. Tell your legislators to support 100 percent renewable energy by 2050.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1274
__label__cc	0.673342	0.326658	“Papa Loki, who art in chains, or was in chains, or will be in chains forged from my brother’s guts,” I supplicated, damp sand grinding into the slashes on my palms and making a mess of my knees, “I wish to –“ A sharp hand grabbed at my scalp and pushed my head down, scraping my forehead on the ground. It didn’t hurt, but I could feel the individual prick of each grain of sewage-soaked earth sticking to my skin. “No,” came the voice that should have been above me but was instead reaching towards me from every side and twining itself around my limbs. It was keen enough to pierce through my internal organs and pop my lungs like tired balloons but I knew that it wouldn’t. “What do you mean ‘no?’ I didn’t even say anything yet,” I asked with a scowl, shaking myself free and lifting my head. Old Flamehair stared down at me with exactly the same scowl on his face. Like father like son. “Doesn’t matter. I can tell by the way your jaw is clenched what you want.” He crouched in front of me and wiped the grime from my forehead with the back of his hand. “And the answer is still no.” “Why’s that?” I shook my head, getting the sand out of my hair. Loki sat down beside me on the riverbank and crooked his elbows around his knees, the lights from the city twinkling through the air beyond him. He swayed a little when he talked, bumping my shoulder with every couple of words. “I’m not your god, Finnur. We’ve got a different sort of relationship and you know it. Honoring your ancestors is one thing, but you can’t exactly worship someone you call ‘Pops.'” He flashed me his favourite tongue-in-cheek smile. “Might work for some folks, but not you.” I flicked some sand at him from my bangs, narrowing my eyes. “Okay, Pops,” I responded with the loving sort of vehemence he’d come to expect from all his children, “assuming I buy that, what do you suggest I do instead? I was kinda calling on you for a reason.” “Maybe, kiddo, maybe, but you’ve gotta understand that I’m already as devoted to your betterment as you are to mine. I’m not the breed of mentor you’re looking for.” “Eh, you’re a bad role model anyway.” I grinned when he knocked my shoulder a bit harder than before. “A bad role model for you, maybe. Again, only because a different sort of teacher would suit you better. What with the whole ‘Captain of the Lawful Good Brigade’ thing you’ve got going on.” He snorted when I jabbed his side with my elbow. We both smiled. “Finnur, you’re a good kid, man after my own heart and all that, and I’m glad you’ve finally come enough to your senses to realize it. Real proud.” He snuck an arm around me and clapped me on the shoulder, giving me a small squeeze. “Thing is, keeping you under my own wing for too long’ll stunt your growth, shape you into something you’re not. Everybody loses.” “But you’re the man with the backup plan, right?” “Of course not, kiddo.” He winked. “I’m a god.” “Smartass.” “Oi! That’s no way to speak to your father,” he said with a pout, the pitch of his voice tilting higher. “As if you mind.” I could feel the heat of the playfulness I’d inherited from him burning in my eyes. He’d told me once that when I really smiled he could see starlight dancing inside me. I think that’s what he meant. “Nah,” he relented, kicking at the sand to uncover a slab of driftwood. “Can’t hold a grudge against my own kin.” He snapped his fingers and the wood lit up with a crackle. “Now, as for the reason I called you here…” “I called you here.” “Details, details. It’s but a technicality,” he said with a wave of his hand. “My plan is not a backup because it is the original plan. Not your original plan, but mine came first.” His fingers drummed excitedly on my shoulder. “Time does have a tendency to get all warped and twisted around me, but the sentiment remains.” “And what is that sentiment, exactly?” His chattering would have been annoying if his voice didn’t have a sort of swaddling effect on me. I got too wrapped up in how comforting his warmth was to complain about his circuitous speech. It was just how he talked, spinning his words rapid-fire and precision-tilted, aimed at the senses. Well, all senses but the common one. The good one. “It just so happens that I’ve got the perfect match for your spiritual and experiential needs.” “So what, you’re a dating service now?” “You say that as though I weren’t already,” he told me with a frown, holding his hand over his heart. I unceremoniously stuck my tongue out at him. “It’s not like that, though,” he said, jabbing me in the side. “My blood-brother’s son is my nephew, so you’re cousins. Right? Sort of.” I snickered and he gave me another delighted scowl. “Whatever, we’re all still family.” When I was eight years old my mother threw me from a mountain. She meant to kill me with the fall, I’m sure, but didn’t bother to check her handiwork. She was cold and tired and more than ready to return to a quiet, manageable home where there was enough food for one but not for two. If I weren’t crushed and flayed by the sharp rocks then I was bound to freeze to death. She was free. My shoulder crunched first, smashing into a ledge I couldn’t grab onto. The wind wailed louder than my frail voice could manage as I rolled and thudded down the mountainside until, bruised and battered, my leg cracked open against a boulder and I came to a stop. A thin layer of ice glazed over my cheeks. I could barely even tell that I was crying. A bird passed overhead and I fancied I was looking down at myself from all the way up there. I closed my eyes. My mother’s broken toy or superfluous tool, I had no value apart from what others could manage to use me for. She didn’t want me because I was worthless to her, so she doomed me to die alone and bloody. Unwilling to accept it, I prayed against the pain, against the snow, prayed without knowing what prayer really was. A deep croak rumbled by my ear, a small feathered earthquake. I stirred, my eyelids creaking against the ice sealing them shut. Something heavy and sharp knocked at my hurt shoulder and I howled, wrenching my eyes open. The raven pecking at me leapt back with a clumsy half-flap of its wings. It cocked its head to the side, examining me. “You can eat me when I’m dead, bird,” I said through chattering teeth, “but I’m not dead yet.” I was an obstinate child, if a little slow on the draw. Laughter like a rockslide pounded the air around me, shaking the earth from every side. I whipped my head around to look for the source and winced when I strained my shoulder too hard. No one was there. The back of my head tamped down on the snow. “I’m right here, child,” the chuckling voice said, bouncing off the rocks. ‘Right here’ could have been anywhere; it was everywhere. The raven took a tentative hop towards me. “I’m not going to eat you.” I yanked myself to a sitting position with my good arm and stared at the bird. It bobbed its head the same way a person would flip their hair, throwing off its beak like a party mask. The feathers fluttered in and out of place and once they had settled it was a man who stood before me, running his fingers through his long, hot-coal hair. “There, there, I won’t harm you,” he told me, crouching down to my level. I stared nervously at his angled nose, remembering the beak that had stabbed into my shoulder. He caught the look and reflexively covered his nose with his hand. His fingernails were painted like the night sky, deep swirls of lapis blue and lazuli gold. “Sorry about that. That whole transformation business takes a lot out of you. I can’t help getting a bit peckish…” He winked but I just frowned back, shivering. “Oh. Right. Yes,” he said haltingly, recognition and reality dawning in the green of his eyes. He pulled the deep black cloak from his shoulders and wrapped it around mine, taking care not to jostle me too much. It was warmer and softer than I had imagined, the feathers weaving together to put a comfortable yet flexible wall between me and the wind. “You’re … here to help me?” I asked, my eyebrows lifting as much as they could while set in my half-frozen face. “Of course I am,” he said, and scooped me into his arms. I whimpered at the pain in my leg, but he was warm and just being near him thawed me out a little. “Because you asked, dear.” Loki trudged through the snow like it was nothing, gliding up the mountain’s steep inclines without breaking a sweat. I kept looking at him like he was an alien or some other thing that wasn’t quite from my world. I was right about that much, at least. “It’s not like you’re heavy, kiddo,” he said in response to my questioning gaze, flashing his canines. “I’m not that small,” I told him with a pout. He chuckled softly, cradling me closer as he climbed over an exceptionally large boulder. “Yes, you are. But don’t ever let anyone tell you that’s a bad thing — when you’re small you can get away with anything if you play your cards right.” “And how would you know that?” He was tall and strong enough to carry me effortlessly through the blizzard. I couldn’t imagine that he’d know what it was like to be small, cold, powerless, or afraid. “Even the greatest and most terrible men were once children. Most of them will ask you to forget that. Don’t.” He ducked into a cave and the wind finally stopped biting at me. A sharp pain still had its fangs dug into my shoulder and leg, though, and I winced despite the gentleness with which Loki set me down. “Now, this might hurt a bit, but it’s going to help. Promise,” he said, holding up one hand. My eyes narrowed and I opened my mouth to protest but he cut me off, pressing his thumb to my forehead. “Mengloth taught me herself, if somewhat unwillingly.” He started muttering something unintelligible under his breath and I felt a sizzling sensation sear through my entire body like a bolt of lightning, lingering and ricocheting around the broken skin and bones. I whimpered, squirming under his hand, but after a moment the pain subsided. All of it. “Who are you? Why are you doing this?” I blurted out, flailing the arm that had been injured to the point of debilitation just a few seconds earlier. “Now he asks,” he said, pulling at a strand of his hair and looking away. I didn’t know if I should be glaring at him or not, so my expression kept faltering between that and a sort of bemused half-frown. He sat crosslegged in front of me and spread his hands wide. “My name is Loki, son of Laufey. And I’m helping you because I want to. Any complaints?” I shook my head. “Good, ’cause you’re my responsibility now.” “Says who?” He stared at me, an amused smirk tugging at his scarred lips. “It’s woven into your fate. Should you survive long enough to ask for my help, I’m to take you as my ward.” He lightly tapped my knee with his fist. “Obviously you have, so here we are.” I sucked in my bottom lip, thinking. His help in the last few minutes had been more than anyone had given me in the rest of my whole life. My mouth opened with a sigh. “Am I really meant to survive? You make it sound unlikely,” I asked. My voice wavered more than I would have liked. “I make it sound unlikely because it was unlikely. The chances of you keeping your determination clenched so close to your heart for so long were slim to none.” Tears welled up in my eyes and my entire body drooped. Tiny splats of saltwater hit the cave floor in an uneven tempo. “I don’t want to die,” I whispered, and Loki’s arms were instantly around me. “You’re not going to, Finnur,” he said softly, squeezing my healed shoulder. “Not on my watch.” A chord of thunder pealed through the air, yanking my attention skywards. I had seen no flash of lightning scorching the river’s reflection, or if I had I hadn’t registered it for what it really was. A heavy hand clapped onto my back and I leapt up, spinning on the spot. “My, how you’ve grown, Finn!” the newcomer said with a grin, extending his hand to me. I grasped it, his huge palm completely engulfing my fingers. He had more than half a foot on me, this giant with his gnarly beard and thick strawberry-blond hair. His deep brown eyes were littered with reddish flecks, like dark chocolate flavoured with bits of chili peppers. “Well met, cousin,” I answered, gripping his hand as best I could. He pulled me in for a hug and clapped me on the back again. “Oi, Thunderpants — what am I, chopped liver?” Loki complained, crossing his arms over his chest. Thor released me and crouched down behind him, wrapping an arm around his neck. “A very nice piece of chopped liver,” he said, lightly tapping Loki on the cheek with his fist. “Insolent as ever, I see.” “Says you. I happen to be an incredibly upright and respectable individual.” “Don’t I know it.” Loki turned to face him and they both smiled at each other with full sets of wolf-teeth, embracing. “Now, have a seat, boys, we’ve business to attend to.” Thor gave him a playful nudge as they pulled apart and I settled back down in front of the fire. “Your father has told me much about the man you’ve become, Finnur,” the bearded one said, circling around to sit beside me and putting me between himself and Loki. It had to have been three or four years since I’d seen him last. “You can’t have heard anything good, then.” “Of course not.” He gave me a knowing smile, gently bumping my arm with his elbow. “I figured this day would come sometime soon in your timeline,” Loki said, glancing back and forth between my face and the flames licking at the driftwood. “So the two of us have already discussed this.” “It’s still entirely your choice,” Thor inserted quickly, putting up a hand to indicate some sort of strange reverse fealty, “but I’d be more than happy to take you under my wing.” “Have you even got any wings?” “Maybe not, but a cart more than gets the job done.” I’d been travelling with Thor for six months when he took me to the dam for the first time. He talked like we were going for a picnic lunch with the goats, but even with someone as beautifully uncomplicated as my cousin things were never that easy. With a few unabashed strides he made his way out onto the top of the cement behemoth and took a seat, his powerful legs swinging over the edge. “What are you waiting for?” he said with the raise of his eyebrow, watching me give the traditional full 360 check of my surroundings. “Is this really okay?” “Nothing will come of it.” He patted the spot beside him. “Sit.” I teetered out on the concrete walkway, feeling more unsteady than I actually was. The dam was strong enough to hold back a terrible serpent of a river; my fewer-than-150 pounds weren’t going to crack it any time soon. When I reached Thor I hunkered down beside him, trying to keep my heels from clacking against the side. It didn’t work. “Alright, cap, what’re we doing out here?” “Shh.” He held a finger to his lips. “Listen.” My head tilted to the side as I strained my hearing, trying to catch his drift. Seven hundred feet away someone made a prayer to Jesus’ old man. Thor smiled. “What’s so funny?” I asked. He absentmindedly fondled Mjolnir’s handle. “Nothing. That request just sounded like something your father could oblige to.” “Too soon!” “Too soon? It hasn’t even happened yet. Sort of.” I snorted despite myself. It was an earthquake they wanted, just big enough to carefully crack the dam’s shell and spill out its yolky pent-up insides. “Now why in the hell,” I started, rocking a bit too excitedly on my precarious perch, “would anyone want something like that?” Thor’s hand swept in front of me, pointing down at the stopped-up lake of stagnant water. “The river?” “The river.” Part of me wanted to kick loose a chunk of cement or throw something down to disturb the water’s brackish-green coat, just to see what it’d look like. The dam was solid, though, and there was nothing for me to chuck at the murky film besides what I had on me. I eyed my shoe more thoughtfully than I probably should have. “So he wants it to run free,” I managed to say, tearing my eyes away from my feet. “Isn’t it there for a reason?” “Presumably. But you see back there?” He motioned farther off and I squinted, nodding a little. “What do you see?” “A lake?” I flicked my eyes back to Thor and he gave me a taut smile. “All he sees is what used to be his hometown, submerged beneath a substance not fit to be called water anymore.” I stared down over the edge of the dam, my heels banging into the side a little harder than before. The river probably used to look less like a bloated frog and more like a proper snake — sleek and moving deftly between the canyon’s cracks. I frowned. “So what are we going to do about it?” “Eh, nothing. For now.” He pulled Mjolnir from his belt and laid it in his lap, running his thumb over the hammer’s head. The sun glinted off it and it seemed to quiver in his hand, like it was itching for action. I shook my head, blinking hard. My perception wasn’t off and I knew it, but part of my brain still struggled to accept that the hammer had its own special way of expressing its master’s intent. “How about later?” “I don’t know yet.” Thor turned to look at me, his eyes warm with a legitimate grin this time. “Someone else might end up taking care of the job.” “Or no one. Seems like something a lot of the others would take as a tall order for something too trivial for them to even bother with.” “Perhaps.” He set the hammer down beside him and the concrete shuddered, on the verge of admitting that the whole structure was drowning itself. “I know a few who would be happy to help, but until he builds the resolve to climb up here and dismantle it himself, no god will strike this dam down for him.” “So what’s the point of praying if he has to do it all himself anyway?” “Sometimes people have the will but lack the resources to carry it out. Prayer from someone with such determination can occasionally spark a miracle and inspire the gods to fill in the gaps.” “A miracle, huh? You’re a lot more dreamy than you let on.” “What can I say? I have my reasons.” [Lucas Jewell Zarrilli is a poet by nature and an author by trade. His writing has appeared in the Burlington Free Press and anthologies from the Vermont Young Writers Project. He’s currently working on his first novel, a work of high fantasy starring phoenixes, unicorns, and witches running wild. In his free time he enjoys tormenting his fiancé and dancing to French pop music. He also works as the resident cunning man at Faust Corner Divination, mostly doing tarot readings. You can find him online at http://faustcornerdivination.tumblr.com/%5D	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1284
__label__wiki	0.65765	0.65765	My first meeting with a bear I love adventures in real life. Experiences beyond the expected. Those experiences that come along the way. I was very happy about the program, before the departure of the “GirlsWeekend” to Brasov hosted by Ethical Travel Portal. The tempting and authentic hiking from village to village, a professional painting workshop, free time in charming Brasov and at last a visit to Bran Castle better known as Dracula’s Castle. But, at the moment our guide, already the first night, told us about his last hike where the tourist had seen bears, I could not hold it back. I expressed loudly that I also wanted to see bears! My enthusiasm finally convinced our guide to make changes in the program, and it was time for another adventure. Ethical Travel Portal had the knowledge of a bear sanctuary outside Brasov, and it could not have been better for me since I have been interested in animal rights since my teens. It was not possible to be anything else than highly impressed by the flexibility of ETP’s partner in Romania, who suddenly had booked a visit to Libearty Sanctuary. The air was rainy the moment we passed by Zarnesti on our way to the bear sanctuary. We were greeted by the security guards friendly “Teddy-bear”-dog, a wagging beautiful lady, with puppies soon to come. We were then told to follow a small secured path to the office. A movie was screened and we were soon to be served the history of the brown bears in Romania, and the reasons behind the need of this sanctuary. According to my guidebook, Romania today has approximately 60 % of Europe’s Brown bears. It’s said that the earlier dictator prohibited all hunting at the bears. Not to protect the bears, but for himself to have unlimited access to hunting bears. Unfortunately, there still exists a tradition across the world, especially in Turkey and Hellas, but also in India, Bangladesh and Romania, where bears are kept in captivity, for example, to act as dancing bears. The World Society of Protection of Animals (WSPA) has been working with bears in captivity since 1992. They started a project together with the Romanian enthusiast Christina Lapis, who already managed a shelter for street dogs in Romania through the organization Asociatia Milioane de Prieteni in English, Millions of Friends. Together they revealed about the serious abuse of bears held in captivity in Romania. Some of the bears had been used as a source of income when the tourists paid the owner for shooting photos of the bear. Others had been used as a stop-effect at petroleum stations and restaurants, still, others had been kept in zoos. The histories were many. In 2005, after many years of hard work, was the donation-based forest from the local authority at an area of 70 hectares was opened for the three first bears to come to Libearty namely Cristi, Lydia and Odi. We met a young and relaxed man who guided us around. He seemed to have been affected by the apparently leisurely life of the bears. Just outside the office was the first big enclosure for some of the sanctuary’s bears. Each bear had their own nameplate made out of timber with the date of their arrival at Libearty. It was magical to suddenly be standing approximately 1 meter from a big teddy bear, who didn’t seem to notice me at all. The fascination was huge from my side. They were big and impressing animals in almost their true element. Most of the bears at Libearty are operating in a herd. They have big areas to move on, and the enclosures even have pools, something which seems popular. But a couple of the bears had a past history that made them even today more comfortable alone or in small groups. One of them was Max. He came to Libearty already in 2008. He was the one bear out of the 60 who made the strongest impression on me. Max just sat there. Our guide told us that he probably had been blinded by needles, to avoid him reacting in his natural way, if people came close to him. Because, during the first 10 years of his life, Max was chained outside an restaurant, near one of Romania’s biggest tourist attractions, namely Peles Castle. Tourists took photos of Max and the owner got paid for it. At arrival at Libearty had these big bear even problems with walking because of the motion dispossession he had been a victim of. Max was now sitting at his back, snacking at a big piece of watermelon. And even for a person inexperienced with bears, it seemed like he had a good time for now. 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__label__wiki	0.521426	0.521426	Leadership Blog Art-In-Trust \| Etienne Kiss-Borlase Art-In-Trust About ART-IN-TRUST™ Former Goldman Chairman – Art Collector Jackpot April 7, 2015 by Etienne Kiss-Borlase Former Goldman Sachs’ employee John Whitehead sadly passed away earlier this February, leaving behind a vast fortune including real estate, automobiles, and even art. For art collectors, Whitehead’s collection was a jackpot. John Whitehead possessed a total of 90-pieces in his collection, including rare pieces by Vincent Van Gogh, Pierre Bonnard, Claude Monet, and Amedeo Modigliani. His collection is valued at over $40 million. It is reported that Whitehead had a few pieces valued from $7-$10 million, including the Portrait de Beatrice Hastings by Modigliani from 1916. Whitehead began working at Goldman Sachs’ in the late 1940’s and worked his way up the corporate ladder. On the way he picked up a few tips and developed a love for the arts. John’s own art advisor Achim Moeller explained, Naturally, I have always esteemed the relationship between the collector and his art advisor. For this reason alone, I regard my own with John Whitehead as an achievement, akin to noteworthy collector-advisor associations that have existed through a great part of art history.” Both Whitehead and Moeller hoped the vast collection would be sold in a lot to keep the art together, but it is evident that the pieces will create a greater profit if they are solid separately. Besides the Beatrice Hastings piece, he also has a Claude Money from 1888, Paysage de matin, which is expected to bring in anywhere from $6-$8 million alone. Whitehead used his Wall Street wits to land him most of his collection, but he did get lucky in some scenarios purchasing the Modigliani for only $10,500, now worth over $10 million. Whitehead explained in his biography, This sort of appraisal was entirely new to me, nothing like anything I’d had to do at Goldman Sachs or any other aspect of my life … but I remained enough of a financier that I took an interest in the prices, and I tried to predict what price an individual piece would go for at auction.” Rather then going for the main auction at the show, he would go for the ones which he believed would increase in value overtime. This strategy worked leaving him close to $100 million in art work. For more about Etienne, please visit Etienne Kiss-Borlase‘s main website ai Alberto Giacometti Amedeo Modigliani Art Art-In-Trust Art Auction Art Collecting Art Collections Art Collectors Art History artificial intelligence Art Laundering China Claude Monet CNBC Etienne Kiss-Borlase Europe FIFA Forbes Geneva Goldman Sachs John Whitehead Kunstmuseum Basel Max Dupain Money Laudering Nafea Faa Ipipo Oil Painting Pablo Picasso Paintings Paul Gauguin Pierre Bonnard Politics Rudolf Staechelin Sotheby's Swiss Swiss Banks Swiss Finance Switzerland Technology tips travel Van Gogh Whitehead Women of Algiers Zurich The World’s Best Street Art Artificial Intelligence Takes on the Art Industry What is Art Therapy? What is Environmental Art? ARTnews.com Photos: Félix Vallotton’s “Painter of Disquiet” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Simone Leigh, Sculptor with a Focus on ‘Black Female Subjectivity,’ Heads to Hauser & Wirth Desert X Reveals Artists for Controversial Saudi Arabia Exhibition Jennifer and Kevin McCoy Explore the Gulf Between Working at a Hip Office and Cleaning It Photos: Jennifer and Kevin McCoy’s Show “Cleaner” at Postmasters Copyright © 2020 · Art-In-Trust \| Etienne Kiss-Borlase	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1286
__label__cc	0.646976	0.353024	Faculty of EducationEducational Technology Support Educational Technology Support » Faculty of Education » Home » Innovation » Special Projects » Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education: Massive Online Open Courseware (MOOC) Teach Mental Health Bringing Mental Health to Schools Online Course Career Preparation Playlist Enhancing Teacher Candidates’ Digital Competencies High Performance Coaching Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education: Massive Online Open Courseware (MOOC) Secondary Teacher Education Diploma in Dadaab Collaborative Annotation System (CLAS) in the Teacher Education Program Gamification: Adult Educator Weekly Using Mobile Devices as Learning Tools Teaching for Indigenous Education Aboriginal Family and Community Literacy Curriculum Blended Learning: Modern Languages Education The First NITEP Blended Course Language Revitalization Certificate Program Accessibility Brochure Accessible Media Web Content Accessibility Serbia – eLearning Projects The newest offering of the course begins on October 23rd, 2018. Tell your colleagues and join us. Register on the edX site. Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education is about the need to disrupt and rethink personal and professional assumptions that we hold about Indigenous histories, cultures, and realities that very well may play out in classrooms and schools. Further, we need to reconcile the fundamental educational promise of equality of opportunity that has not yet been met for many of our Indigenous students. Choosing reconciliation as a lens for rethinking policy and the practices of schooling acknowledges that there are contradictions in the current curriculum of schooling that impact the success of Indigenous leaners. Reconciliation in this course emphasizes changing structures and ideologies that create unequal educational outcomes for Indigenous learners in comparison to their non-Indigenous counterparts. As educators, we need to be able to respond to educational reforms that prioritize improved educational outcomes for Indigenous children and youth. Further, all students should have opportunities to learn from Indigenous histories, traditions, and knowledges as part of a social justice education. This course will enable educators to envision how Indigenous ways of knowing, content, perspectives, and pedagogies can be made part of classrooms, schools, and communities in ways that are thoughtful and respectful. This is an approach that more and more educators see as far more likely to ensure the success of Indigenous learners, which is important to their families and communities, but also to the future of Canada. Explore personal and professional histories and assumptions in relationship to Indigenous peoples, histories, and worldviews. Develop awareness and knowledge of the colonial histories and current realities of Indigenous peoples. Engage with Indigenous worldviews and perspectives that contextualize and support your understanding of the theory and practices of Indigenous education. Explore a range of educational experiences shared by educators and through teaching exemplars that support the inclusion of Indigenous perspectives and approaches to learning in schools and classrooms. Develop strategies to engage Indigenous families and community members in classrooms and schools. Engage in personal and professional discussions, online, with colleagues from a range of educational settings. Over the course of the six weeks, we will move through a set of topics that focus on changing ideologies and the way we do things in schools. Each topic will begin with a short introduction, which provides key concepts that the topic is intended to develop and introduces participants to what they can anticipate in the topic. Other elements within each topic include: A narration from Indigenous Elders or knowledge keepers, which will provide a cultural context for understanding ideas that will be developed in the topic. Videos and materials intended to inform practice through research and experts in the field. Teaching supports and strategies that draw on a range of resources that enhance our understanding of Indigenous education concepts for application in classrooms and schools. Activities which are designed to help bring together and consolidate the new understandings that have emerged for you through each of the course’s topics. Additional resources that include relevant materials that may have been mentioned in the topic or that seek to enhance your understanding of the topic. Self-assessed completion checklists that will help you to reflect on your work in each topic and ensure you have completed tasks associated with each topic. These checklists are due by the end of the course and will be worth 15% of your final mark. Concluding thoughts that summarize or extend conversations by participants that have taken place in discussion forums. The topics are: Week 1: Reconciliation Through Education Week 2: History of Indigenous Education Week 3: Learning from Indigenous Worldviews Week 4: Learning from Story Week 5: Learning from the Land Week 6: Engaging in Respectful Relations Course information website eCampaign ETUG workshop (June 4, 2015) TEC Expo event (July 8, 2015) ETUG webinar (January 29, 2016) – Session recording The first offering of Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education MOOC was in January 2015 and it had over 5000 enrollments with more than 2000 active students from 120 countries. The top three most represented countries were Canada, US and Australia. There have now been four offerings, with a fifth in progress now. Over 20,000 learners have enroled in the course, the completion rate is over 15 percent, and the verified certification rate is the highest at UBC. The second offering of the MOOC started in September 2015. There were 3550 students enrolled in the course. Ultimately, this offering had very similar demographics and with the same results as the first time. The average age group was 30-35, which may confirm our goal to inform current educators about Indigenous education and useful teaching strategies when dealing with these complex issues. The production of MOOC took far more resources (material, time and people) than we could have predicted. The challenge of this particular MOOC was the fact that it was created by the whole community of scholars, educators and support personnel, and collaboration across all parties takes a lot of energy and time. However, while this proved to be a challenge, it was also the strength of the course, as it included various perspectives and richness of diverse experiences. Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education was not a course usually taken by university students who wanted to learn more about the subject area. The participants came from a wide range of professions and had different skills as online learners. Given the nature of the course, we paid particular attention to make participants feel comfortable by producing a welcome announcement and an orientation video. The weekly activities and schedule of the tasks were also laid out clearly to facilitate student learning. From a technical standpoint, we recognized that as a platform that was still evolving, edX lacked some functionality. Therefore, we customized the learning experience in our MOOC based on the constrains of the platform. At the same time, adding new features to the system was ongoing, and open communication with the edX development team was an extremely valuable side of this partnership. EdX was not as full-featured as UBC’s Connect (Blackboard), but it has several unique features (e.g. peer evaluation) and a more modern look and feel. Assignment submission was another challenge, as with any course offered internationally. Embedding a countdown timer was a great help to students and to the instructor. To promptly respond to student inquires, the course had two graduate students working as TAs and a few community TAs. They monitored the activities in the course, bringing the discussion issues to the attention of the instructor, who then engaged in providing input and clarifications. Over the past 6 weeks my passion for change has been reignited and supplemented by this course. It happened to coincide with a designs series in my district geared at reconciliation through indigenous education. I have been fortunate to be a part of a group focused on adopting the First People’s Principles of learning , and implementing them in our classrooms. I utilized resources and engaged in dialogues based on the videos and strategies supplied in this course. I witnessed a shift in my ideologies and educational practices, realizing that acknowledging history is the first step. This is only the first step and I will continue to enhance my education by utilizing and understanding the power of dialogue within our local communities. — bobrien57 Reconciliation must start within and extend out, weaving back and forth between the two. Systemic change is needed as much as change in thinking and consciousness. Educators must be at the forefront of this transformation. Peace, S.M. This course was inspired by conversations with DeDe Derose and Mark Edwards. At the time of our initial talks, DeDe DeRose was the first Superintendent of Aboriginal Achievement for the Ministry of Education with the province of British Columbia. She has since returned to work in the Kamloops School District and has been championing this MOOC as an important professional development resource for all educators. Mark Edwards, Assistant Dean of Professional Development and Community Engagement at UBC, was drawn in to our enthusiasm by the need to support educators, and others, to advance Indigenous education in schools and communities. This eventually led to engaging Aboriginal community educators to ensure that this MOOC was relevant to the field. I am grateful for the time they gave to guide us here at UBC in the development. The Elders, knowledge holders, and educators who contributed their wisdom and experiences create a significant experience for all those taking the MOOC. Special thanks to Sharon Hu, whose excitement for this endeavour kept the momentum of this project going through to the finish, and to Ian Linkletter for his meticulous attention to the many details of the project. And there have certainly been others whom we acknowledge below that contributed to the success of this MOOC, Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education. Chi miigwech (big thank you) to all of you. Academic lead Dr. Jan Hare IndEdu200x contains contributions by the following people: Dr. Jo-ann Archibald Kaleb Child Robert Davidson Larry Grant Peggy Janicki Dr. Verna Kirkness Virginia Morgan Dr. Cynthia Nichol Gerry Oleman Dr. Jean Phillips Shane Pointe Roberta Price Dr. Andrew Schofield DeDe DeRose, Kamloops School District Diane Jubinville, District Aboriginal Principal, Delta School District Gail Stromquist, Aboriginal Education, British Columbia Teacher’s Federation Dr. Jo-ann Archibald, Associate Dean of Indigenous Education, UBC Starleigh Grass, First Nations Education Steering Committee Don Fiddler, District Aboriginal Principal, Vancouver School Board Video Production: UBC Studios Team Lead: Natasha Boskic Tech Lead: Ian Linkletter Multimedia Producer: Sharon Hu Digital Media Developer: Bill Pickard Quality Assurance and HTML Programming: Felicia Tjeng Quality Assurance: Andrea Gonzalez Quality Assurance: Eleanor Hoskins Quality Assurance: Austin Lee Quality Assurance: Eric Lee Christopher Aitken Susan Currie Craig Carpenter Manuel Dias Saeed Dyanatkar Mark Edwards Will Engle Clare Ford Mairin Kerr Gregor Kiczales Sarah Lockman Beni Loti Barry Magrill Heather McGregor Jeff Miller Jason Myers Nicole Ronan Christopher Spencer Anne-Rae Vasquez Derek White Jenny Wong Beaty Biodiversity Museum, UBC Museum of Anthropology, UBC MOOC Banner Development Timeline March 2014 - February 2015 Flexible Learning Fund $70,000 Project Contact Ian Linkletter 2125 Main Mall Room 1008, Educational Technology Support Vancouver, British Columbia Canada V6T 1Z4 Website ets.educ.ubc.ca/ Email ets.educ@ubc.ca	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1287
__label__wiki	0.501618	0.501618	Newsletter Sign Up \| Member Login \| > KNOWLEDGE CENTRE Our News & Yours News from Brussels Join our members 1 year after: decoding the European Pillar of Social Rights Home » 1 year after: decoding the European Pillar of Social Rights By Veerle Klijn In EaSI, NEWS, Opinion, Policy 1 year after: decoding the European Pillar of Social Rights2018-11-222019-01-30http://euclidnetwork.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/logo-euclid-web.jpgEuclid Networkhttps://euclidnetwork.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/thumb2-happy-birthday-cake-burning-candle-1-year-birthday.jpg.png200px200px This week, as we celebrate its first year anniversary, Euclid zooms into the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR); a set of initiatives that has raised as much expectation as scepticism from civil society organisations and social enterprises across Europe. The social dimension of the European construction has been deemed neglected for decades by numerous academics and commentators; the major obstacles being the EU’s lack of legal prerogative in the area and the major disparities between member States (on State welfare provisions, social protection, labour laws, etc.) So, a year after its launch, what are results? And, what does the EPSR mean for Euclid and its members? A reinvigorating push towards a European Social Policy ineluctably contained within the frame of a ‘soft law’ During Gothenburg’s ‘Social Summit’ a year ago, and after a decade of austerity following the crisis, the EU officially launched the ‘European Pillar of Social Rights’ (EPSR). The idea? Make the social dimension of the EU stronger. Concretely, the EPSR consists in 20 principles structured into 3 categories: Equal opportunities and access to the labour market, Fair working condition, Social protection and inclusion. Those principles are, in reality, a set of recommendations to the Member States on areas such as gender equality, social dialogue, work-life balance, childcare, inclusion of people with disabilities onto the labour market, etc. While the EPSR seems ambitious and gives a clear direction, it hits the everlasting obstacle when it comes to building a ‘Social Europe’: the lack of legal bind for Member States to implement it. If the EU has legislative prerogative in a few areas covered by the EPSR and took some concrete actions on some already (e.g. work-life balance with the introduction of a paternity leave and the strengthening of the parental leave directive), we’re mainly confronted here to fields where it’s up to national governments to act (e.g. gender equality, education, labour laws, housing, assistance for the homeless, wages, etc.) So, without legal bind and no formal funding stream linked to it, how can we, social enterprises support and civil society organisations, make the most of the Social Pillar? Euclid Network is best placed to use the Pillar to influence the future European budget and its allocation to our sector Euclid Network wants to see the EPSR as major influence to pervade all of EU’s future law and produce more concrete and binding social-focused legislation. We also wish for the systematisation of the use of social standards in EU governance starting with its budget (through ‘the European Semester’ process) and therefore in the design of future European funding streams and financial instruments. “Effective implementation of the Social Pillar also means that social measures must be properly financed in the EU’s future budget for 2021-2027.” (EESC, 16.11.18 Press release) DG Employment’s funding instruments, such as the EaSI programme that Euclid Network benefits from, are key to delivering the EPSR. Euclid Network advocates for social entrepreneurship and social finance development to be considered as priorities of the next EU budget (we tell you more about that here) with clear incentives and more funding. Advocacy through European benchmarking? A way for Euclid’s members to use the EPSR for more social impact If no compulsory implementation of the recommendations has been imposed to the Member States, the EPSR has the potential to be used as an advocacy tool by social-impact focused organisations. Civil society and social enterprise have indeed a key role to play in securing and monitoring the Pillar’s implementation in national laws. And, for that, why not use the EPSR’s ‘social scoreboard’? This tool has been designed to evaluate the Member States’ performance vis-à-vis some dimensions of the Pillar (the grading ranges from “critical situations” to “best performers”) and could be envisaged as a benchmarking tool to push for real convergence amongst countries through, for example, more active and long-term social investment strategies, active labour market policies, reformed welfare provisions. (We’ve worked on that before, have a look!) A year after its launch, it is still hard to assess whether the EPSR initiative has more to it than previous unfortunate attempts to make the EU ‘more social’. For now, Euclid choses to add it to its toolbox to push for more active social and labour policies and more European support for the social enterprise sector. A new directive on work-life balance European Semester: The Autumn Package explained Parental leave directive The Social Scoreboard A Broken Social Elevator? How to Promote Social Mobility, Overview & main findings, OECD EU Programme For Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) Live Actions, Our Actions, Social Innovation & Investment What’s the European Semester? EU facts & figures 12 millions new jobs created since 2014 2017 employment rates in the EU: 78% for men – 66.5% for women In the second quarter of 2018, 239 million persons were employed in the EU In 2017, 5 million people exited from poverty or social exclusion Youth unemployment is now below 15%. 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__label__cc	0.644419	0.355581	Any Other Business: Part XII Filed under: Talking Nonsense,Talking Television — Fergal Casey @ 8:37 pm Tags: American Assassin, Andy Murray, Any Other Business, BBC 4, Bet365, Blindspot, Blumhouse, CBS, CBS Films, David Eagleman, Delaney, Eurosport, Flood Tribunal, Fred Perry, GK Chesterton, Guantanamo Bay, James Gogarty, Michael Keaton, Nick Cohen, NSA, Person of Interest, Ray Winstone, Russell T Davies, Sam Querrey, The Brain, Twitter, US Open, Virginia Wade, William Shakespeare What is one to do with thoughts that are far too long for Twitter but not nearly long enough for a proper blog post? Why round them up and turn them into a twelfth portmanteau post on television of course! “I know, it’s not pretty, but that is the next scene in the script and we’ll just all have to grit our teeth and get thru it together.” American Asinine The first time I became aware of American Assassin was when the trailer pounced on me in the cinema a few weeks ago. I was incredulous that it had been made, and was being pushed as a big deal movie, let alone that Michael Keaton was in it. Then on a TV spot the other day I saw the words “CBS Films” and suddenly that déjà vu feeling that this concept belonged on TV, maybe in an episode of Blindspot, Person of Interest, et al, suddenly made sense… EXT.CBS BACK-LOT- DAY. TITLE: 2016 SUMMER PRODUCTION HIATUS DAY 1 Delaney hurries through the back-lot looking stressed. He is speed-reading the first few pages of various scripts, and tossing them over his shoulder, as he walks. Suddenly he notices a group of men smoking beside beat-up cars and oil drums. DELANEY: You can’t be smoking here!! Do you know how much f**ing ether we’ve got in this lot? BORIS: We’re not going to set anything on fire or blow anything up unless we mean to, man, we’re professionals. DELANEY: Hang on, I know you, you’re that slacker stuntman. What are you bums doing just hanging out here on the lot? JOHNSON: No need to get hostile, we’re paid to be here. DELANEY: Wait, what? I’m paying you to sit around smoking? BORIS: Contract is for 12 months man. Not our fault there’s a production hiatus in the summer. DELANEY: Now wait a goddamn minute! You mean I pay the actors to do TV, then they bunk off and someone else pays them to do films, but I have to keep paying you to do nothing? JOHNSON: Hate the contract, not the contractors. DELANEY: No, no, no. I didn’t get where I am today by not sweating people for the last ounce of blood from their contracts. You’re going to do some work! BORIS: Hey dude, chill, there’s no TV happening, and CBS is a TV network. There’s nothing you can do. DELANEY: Oh yeah?! JOHNSON: Cool it Boris. Look, Boris doesn’t mean any offence. We think CBS is a fine network. We’re happy here. You’re happy with our work. The audience is happy with the procedurals and spy shows. Let’s just all – take a step back. Delaney walks up to Johnson and pushes one finger into his chest. DELANEY: You can take one step back, and then keep stepping back, until you reach the production offices. You, buddy boy, are making a movie. BORIS: WHAAAT?! CBS doesn’t make movies, CBS is a network. DELANEY: CBS is whatever I need it to be. And right now it’s a film studio. I’ve got scripts coming out the yazoo here. All of them bad. (throws all the scripts in the air) (to Johnson) Pick them up, bring them to the production office, that’s what the staff writers are going to turn into the screenplay you’re filming during this ‘hiatus’. JOHNSON: (beat) You’ll never get away with this. This is stepping over so many union lines. DELANEY: When they see I’ve called Hollywood’s bluff and simply stitched together rejected TV scripts and sent out it there as a blockbuster at a fraction of their budgets all your precious unions will beg me for a Blumhouse deal. Go to work… #InPlayWithRay I’ve been watching the US Open on Eurosport for the last while and laughing myself sick every time Ray Winstone appears to advertise Bet365 because he seems to have mixed up his script with the copy for an NSA recruitment campaign: “You can find us in every corner of the world. Watching. Listening. Analysing. We are … everywhere. And we … see everything. We are members of the world’s most feared spy agency favourite online sports betting company. And we gamble responsibly at Bet365.” “Male player” It is unfortunate that, in the midst of watching the US Open, and being reminded of Andy Murray’s idiotic “Male player” interjection at his losing Wimbledon press conference, I also saw episode 5 of David Eagleman’s series The Brain, which dealt with empathy. Very simplistically, when you see someone in pain, the pain matrix of your brain lights up as if you were in pain; much as your face unconsciously mirrors expressions to figure out what others are feeling. However, while we care about other people in pain, if in-groups and out-groups are introduced, we care about people in our in-group but shut down empathy for people in our out-groups. Eagleman noted an atheist cares more at seeing a hand stabbed if that hand is identified as atheist than if it is identified as theist. And social rejection hurts our brain in much the same manner as physical pain. Now, what was Murray up to with his bizarre interruption? As Nick Cohen said of Russell T Davies censoring Shakespeare, he was creating an imaginary crime to prove his moral superiority by having noticed the imaginary crime, which you did not. Murray was shaming the journalist for ‘casual sexism’, and google displays journalists fawning over how Murray schooled this male journalist for ‘casual sexism’. But the journalist was not guilty of casual sexism. He was guilty of casual logic: talking to a male player about the male draw, listing the precedents of male players in the male draw. Murray was being as illogical as if he’d attacked someone for not noting a French woman winning Best Supporting Actress when people were discussing French women winning the Best Actress Oscar. But to notice the imaginary nature of a crime is to become guilty. A witch-hunt can’t truly work until people who know there aren’t any witches join the hunt out of fear that if they refuse to hunt they’ll be accused of being a witch too. That fear of swimming against the snowflake tide explains some journalists turning on their colleague. But remember GK Chesterton’s contention that journalists parroted conventional wisdom because it saved time on a deadline; sheer idleness prioritises cheerleading nonsense over critical dissections, plus it gets clicks via headlines that pander to the internet’s emptiest vessels. Murray was being a bully, a boor, and a hypocrite. He was inviting online witch-hunters to burn this journalist, who did not deserve that abuse, and as a happy side-effect downgraded what Sam Querrey had accomplished in beating him. But because the journalist was tagged as out-group setting him on fire online was a virtuous act: who cares about the hurt feelings of bigots? It is good to hurt bigots. Any actions, however ugly, that bring about a bright future are to be applauded. The ends justify the means. (Except in Guantanamo). It was the ungracious act of a sore loser to belittle Querrey’s achievements, but Murray’s shaming action tagged himself in the angelic in-group: if you thought his behaviour bullying and conveniently self-serving you proved yourself a bigot. As for hypocrisy, well, in 2012 Murray became the first Brit to win Wimbledon since Fred Perry. Sorry, male player, male player. He became the first Brit to win Wimbledon since Virginia Wade. But that’s less impressive, isn’t it? Bridging a gap of 35 years rather than 66 years, but such questions of vanity didn’t concern Murray, did they? He naturally corrected anybody who tried to congratulate him based solely on the perspective of the male draw, didn’t he? To paraphrase James Gogarty’s memorable testimony at the Flood Tribunal – did he f*…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1305
__label__wiki	0.734897	0.734897	← Don Winslow of the Navy Deadwood Dick → Posted on October 28, 2013 by filesofjerryblake under Republic Serial Reviews, Reviews, Western and Frontier Serials Republic, 15 Chapters, 1938. Starring ? as the Lone Ranger, Chief Thundercloud, Silver Chief, Lynn Roberts, Stanley Andrews, Hal Taliaferro, Herman Brix, Lane Chandler, Lee Powell, George Letz, George Cleveland, John Merton, William Farnum. At the close of the Civil War, a deserter named Captain Smith (Stanley Andrews) leads a band of outlaws and renegade soldiers in mercenary raids–until he captures, murders, and assumes the identity of a newly-appointed Federal finance commissioner named Colonel Marcus Jeffries. Posing as Jeffries, with his henchmen serving as his army, the ex-outlaw assumes despotic control of Texas, mercilessly taxing the war-ravaged citizens and forcing Federal administrator Blanchard (George Cleveland) to conceal his abuses of power by threatening Blanchard’s daughter Joan (Lynn Roberts). To protect his power, “Jeffries” has a contingent of Texas Rangers–returning from wartime service–wiped out before they can move against him; one man, however, survives the massacre of the Rangers and is nursed back to health by an Indian named Tonto (Chief Thundercloud). Donning a black mask, this Lone Ranger leads the settlers in a desperate fight against Jeffries’ tyranny, with the aid of Tonto and of four valiant Texans who are aware of his true identity. The Ranger sometimes rides unmasked among this quartet, leaving the villains (and the audience) to wonder which of five heroes–Bert Rogers (Herman Brix), Dick Forrest (Lane Chandler), Bob Stuart (Hal Taliaferro), Allan King (Lee Powell), or Jim Clark (George Letz)–is also the Lone Ranger. The Lone Ranger was Republic Pictures’ most expensive serial production at the time of its release; the popularity of the character’s radio incarnation warranted special treatment from the studio. The serial’s cast and production crew did such a splendid job with their unusually large resources that the serial proved a phenomenal hit for the studio–and remained one of their most beloved serials ever afterward, despite being available only in poor-quality Spanish-subtitled prints for over fifty years after its release; even today, DVD editions of Ranger–while definite upgrades over earlier prints–have many aural and visual rough spots. That the serial’s popularity has endured among buffs, despite the often wretched conditions it has been viewed under, speaks volumes for its high quality. The plot of Lone Ranger is, in outline, nothing special, revolving as it does around the Lone Ranger’s Robin-Hood-like thwarting of Jeffries (by recovering extorted tax money, blocking the villain’s plans to expand his political power, and protecting holdout settlers from Jeffries’ army) and Jeffries’ repeated attempts to destroy the Ranger (by recruiting different badmen to track him down, setting the Indians against him, or laying various traps for him). However, writers Barry Shipman, Ronald Davidson, Franklin Adreon, George Yates, and Lois Eby (and an uncredited Oliver Drake) embellish this ordinary storyline so skillfully that the potentially repetitive narrative becomes continually urgent and suspenseful. The serial’s high budget, which permitted an unusually large supporting cast, definitely assists the writers in the urgency department; while many serials’ hero-villain duels seem to take place in a sort of vacuum where noncombatants are scarce, in Lone Ranger we’re given several glimpses of local settlers victimized by Jeffries–Jim Clark’s parents, Bob Stuart’s uncle and nephew, mission priest Father McKim, the Rangers in the first chapter, and others. The appearances by these minor characters illustrate what the heroes are fighting for, demonstrate the evil effects of the villain’s actions–and give the struggle between the two sides a much more high-stakes feel than the standard serial conflict. Above: The Lone Ranger rallies the settlers. The serial’s urgency is additionally heightened by the deaths of the various Ranger “suspects,” which, spread throughout the serial, give the chapterplay some truly touching and dramatic moments, and lend additional tension to the action scenes: in this chapterplay, co-hero status is no guarantee of survival till the closing credits. The serial’s supporting heavies also bite the dust with regularity, the screen Ranger and his allies ignoring the radio Ranger’s tiresome no-killing policy. This is as it should be; a life-and-death struggle for control of Texas would seem utterly phony were it not accompanied by casualties on both sides. Above: Tonto mourns the passing of one of the heroes. This depiction of a lethal Ranger irritated the character’s owner George Trendle–but even he was impressed by the dramatic origin assigned to the character by Republic’s writers; the mythic “sole survivor of an ambush” idea introduced in the serial was so powerful that it was carried over to the radio show and became firmly wedded to the Ranger character. Wonderful though the ambush origin is, one must admit that the continuing presence of the Ranger in the chapterplay is more dramatic than logical; it makes no sense for him to continue wearing his mask once his alter-ego becomes an outlaw as well, or for him to conceal his identity from characters like the Blanchards. However, repeated sequences like the shadowy shots of the Ranger taking down his special gun belt, or the masked man’s rides to the rescue atop his white horse (accompanied by the legendary cry “Hi-Yo, Silver!”) are so rousing that it’s hard to carp about the illogicality of the hero’s masquerade. Above: Tonto (Chief Thundercloud) and the wounded Lone Ranger after the massacre of the Ranger’s company. Most of the aforementioned gallops on Silver, along with many other action sequences, are filmed against the canyons and cliffs of Lone Pine, with cinematographer William Nobles and directors William Witney and John English showing off that region’s rugged majesty to excellent effect. The smoke-filled, stalactite-laden volcanic cavern that serves as the hideout of the Lone Ranger’s band also provides some memorable visuals, while the hills of Iverson’s Ranch, the ranch house at Kernville, Republic’s Spanish fort, and their decidedly Southwestern-looking town street are likewise used to good advantage. Above: Some shots of the serial’s magnificent Lone Pine scenery. The serial’s action scenes are excellent and varied, with fistfights, horseback chases, and gunfights being neatly balanced by directors Witney and English. Yakima Canutt doubles the Lone Ranger throughout the serial and brings his knack for throwing and taking convincing punches to the fight scenes, giving them a more focused look than the wild arm-swinging brawls led by George DeNormand or Eddie Parker in other Republics of the period. The Ranger’s cabin fight with outlaw Black Taggart and a couple of Jeffries’ troopers in Chapter Four is a highlight, as are the Chapter Seven fight atop a team of running horses (which also incorporates Canutt’s famous fall-beneath-the-team stunt), the energetic Chapter Twelve stable brawl, and the fight in the jail in Chapter Fourteen, in which one of Canutt’s opponents is ace stuntman Duke Green; Canutt’s other collaborators in the serial include Kenny Cooper, Bill and Joe Yrigoyen, and Loren Riebe. Above, left and right: Yakima Canutt fights Duke Green in the Chapter Fourteen jail sequence. Canutt also contributes some very impressive leaps (from roofs, walls, and rocks) throughout the serial, and brings his rodeo-honed skills to many horseback sequences. The Chapter Three horseback chase, with the Ranger riding furiously to stop the heroine from running her own horse into a pitfall, is especially memorable, being shot at angles that emphasize the distance between the two riders. The Ranger’s cross-country gallop (with pursuing Indians hot on his trail) to save Tonto from death at the hands of angry Comanches is another standout, as is the climactic chase sequence that has the two surviving heroes making an apparently doomed ride for help and Silver intervening to save the day at the last minute. Above: Canutt makes a “Pony Express” mount during the climactic chase. Additional action highlights include the Chapter Five siege of the mill, the Chapter Eight shootout in town (with two of the heroes taking cover in a well), the dramatic Chapter Eleven cantina showdown between Hal Taliaferro and a group of henchmen, the rooftop escape and accompanying gun battle in the following chapter, and Lane Chandler’s standoff with the troopers in the cave in Chapter Fourteen. Tonto’s rescue of the five heroes from a firing squad in Chapter One–and their subsequent escape via stagecoach–is also terrific, and–like many of the serial’s other action scenes–is augmented by composer Alberto Colombo’s stirring musical score, which makes very effective use of the Lone Ranger’s famed radio theme music, the finale to Rossini’s William Tell Overture. Above: The heroes make their daring stagecoach getaway in Chapter One. The serial’s chapter endings are excellent, with the Chapter Two avalanche cliffhanger, the Chapter Three pitfall peril, the Chapter Five fire-pit sequence, the Chapter Seven powder-wagon explosion, the Chapter Eight well collapse, the burning barn sequence in Chapter Ten, and the falling-stalactites scene in Chapter Fourteen topping the list. There are also some less spectacular but still interesting “situational” cliffhangers–in fact, far more than usual in a Republic outing. The Ranger’s imminent unmasking in Chapter Four is good, but the well-shot and cleverly-resolved “missing spur” sequence at the end of Chapter Nine is definitely the best of the situational chapter endings. Above: Lynn Roberts and the Lone Ranger (left-hand image) gallop towards the deadly concealed pitfall (right-hand image) in the Chapter Three cliffhanger sequence. The serial’s large and excellent cast is full of interesting (and varied) performances. Billy Bletcher, his deep, booming tones ideally suited to resounding cries of “Hi-Yo, SILVER, Awayyy,” provides the voice of the Lone Ranger; he’s memorably imposing in confrontations with villains, but a little too theatrically stentorian in interchanges with his comrades. However, most of his dialogue is properly limited to barked orders or shouted commands, leaving Tonto and the quintet of Ranger “suspects” to handle other lines in more natural and low-key fashion. Of the suspects, the cheerfully easygoing Hal Taliaferro and the affable but authoritative Lane Chandler (both former Western leads) receive the most screen time, excelling in their final heroic turns before shifting permanently into character parts. Up-and-coming serial heroes Herman Brix and Lee Powell have fewer lines, but are still given several good scenes–in which the former’s calmly thoughtful manner and the latter’s energetic earnestness are both much in evidence. The inexperienced George Letz plays the fifth suspect and has about as much to do as a fifth wheel, although he handles his few lines competently; the gruff and slightly swaggering screen persona that he developed later (as A-western star George Montgomery) is not displayed here–except in the wide grin he flashes during the stagecoach escape and in his growling defiance of henchman Raphael Bennett. Above, left to right: Lee Powell, George Montgomery, Hal Taliaferro, Herman Brix, Lane Chandler, and Chief Thundercloud. Chief Thundercloud is perfect as Tonto, conveying admiring respect for the Ranger, considerable shrewdness, and rock-solid toughness through facial expressions and body language as much as through his laconic dialogue. The Ranger’s other legendary sidekick, Silver, is played by an impressive horse named Silver Chief, who is spotlighted far more often than other animal co-stars in Republic’s serials, intimidatingly tackling badmen on his own and galloping furiously to the rescue of the unhorsed hero. Lynn Roberts makes a very appealing heroine, despite having little to do beyond stand up to Jeffries’ threats and send messages to the heroes; her fresh-faced good looks and her air of put-upon dignity and heartfelt but controlled concern make for a very winning combination. Venerable character actor George Cleveland is excellent as her father–soberly genteel when conducting state affairs, continually worried over threats to his daughter, but fiercely energetic and defiant in his angry confrontations with Jeffries. Above: George Cleveland and Lynn Roberts. Stanley Andrews, usually a dignified official of some sort, is cast against type as Jeffries but does a very good job with the role, giving the villain formidable slyness, impatient arrogance, and bullying menace, but also lending a slightly comic awkwardness to the part–which serves as a subtle reminder of the impostor’s true past as an uncultivated outlaw. John Merton is perfectly cast as Andrews’ henchman Captain Kester, his ramrod bearing and growling voice fitting well with his militaristic assaults on the heroes and the Texas citizenry. Above: John Merton and Stanley Andrews. Tom London is shifty as Merton’s second-in-command, while the sly Ted Adams and the phlegmatic Charles King are also prominent as corrupt troopers; Jerry Frank, Curley Dresden, and Jack Ingram have much smaller roles as other members of the villains’ army. Devilish-looking Raphael Bennett is very sinister in his turn as the crafty killer Black Taggart (conditionally pardoned by Jeffries and assigned to bring in the Ranger), and Maston Williams is terrific as the villainous Snead–a grubby, folksy, and exceedingly wily local opportunist who alerts Captain Smith of the genuine Jeffries’ identity, engineers the ambush of the Rangers, and performs other memorable acts of villainy before being killed off at the end of the first chapter. Above: Maston Williams as the cunning Snead receives payment from Stanley Andrews (back to camera). William Farnum, as upright mission priest Father McKim, is frequently hammy but always energetically sincere, reacting to the heavies’ outrages with eloquently-expressed disgust and pop-eyed disapproval. Sammy McKim, on the other hand, is utterly unaffected in his turn as a spunky orphaned youngster; his angry, half-ashamedly tearful reaction to the murder of his grandfather is a convincing and moving piece of acting. Jack Perrin, Bud Osborne, Jack Kirk, Frank Ellis, Slim Whitaker, and Jack Rockwell appear as outlaws, while Allan Cavan and Reed Howes are honest cavalry officers distrustful of Jeffries’ “army.” Murdock McQuarrie and Jane Keckley play the parents of George Montgomery’s character, while William James is Hal Taliaferro’s tough blacksmith uncle and Tex Cooper, Griff Barnett, and Fred Burns are other beleaguered settlers. Edmund Cobb has a brief but good role as the captain of the ambushed Rangers in the first chapter, and Forbes Murray appears as the genuine Jeffries. Edna Lawrence is the heroine’s sympathizing maid, Bob Kortman pops up (via stock footage from a Republic B-western) as a nasty soldier, George Armenta is a Comanche chieftain, and the ubiquitous Iron Eyes Cody plays a Comanche warrior. Frank McGlynn Sr. appears as Abraham Lincoln, giving Blanchard his orders in a scene that was cut from the serial but used in the chapterplay’s feature version; it has been re-inserted into most current prints of the serial. The Lone Ranger was the first big serial success turned out by the Witney-English directorial team, and while the duo would continue to refine and improve the acting, stuntwork, and camerawork in their ensuing Republic serials, few of those later efforts ever quite duplicated The Lone Ranger’s powerful combination of stunning locations, vivid performances, robust action, and involving scripting. It remains one of Republic’s best, and despite the frequently shaky quality of extant prints, is simply too good for any serial fan to skip. This entry was tagged Charles King, Edmund Cobb, Hal Taliaferro, Herman Brix, Jack Ingram, John English, John Merton, Lee Powell, Republic serials, Sammy McKim, The Lone Ranger, Tom London, William Witney. Bookmark the permalink. 6 thoughts on “The Lone Ranger” Ken Walker I’ve seen a few chapters of this on line. I was 4 years old on the date of the serials initial release and much too young to attend movies. This serial,to my knowledge. never was re released as were so many of the other classics. Until it popped up on the web I had never viewed and have yet to view it in its entirety.With its star power and production team, Ive no doubt of its greatness.Maybe ill invest a few a few dollars one day and purchase the remastered{?} version and see what all the shoutings about.Great review as usual. Michael Litant “… the screen Ranger and his allies ignoring the radio Ranger’s tiresome no-killing policy” is not illustrated any better than by Chief Thundercloud’s Tonto. Unlike the TV Tonto, the Chief typically rides in shooting and/or knife-throwing, usually to save the Lone Ranger. Great chapter ending in the casino/saloon scene, when one of the Rangers puts down his bet in silver bullets and just looks around the table at everyone’s eyes bugging out. I also have to give big credits to whoever matched up the William Tell Overture to the on-screen action. Often, the action cuts back and forth during a chase between the Lone Ranger and Andrews’ private army right on the beat and cranks up the excitement even further. Fortunately, all 15 episodes are available on the Web now. This is one I just don’t like as much as everyone else seems to. The whole “who is the Lone Ranger” bit didn’t work that well for me. Still, this is a superior western serial and a must see for buffs. I just prefer The Painted Stallion or the William Elliott & J B Brown serials from the same era myself. I pretty much agree with the Old Serial Guy about the Lone Ranger serial. It’s alright but I was never enamored with this one as much as other Republic western serials. The same could be said for the Lone Ranger Rides again, it’s more of a 3M type western than a LR serial. Ronald Stephenson I thought Republic really cheaped out on too many of the cliffhangers and sometimes repeated footage, ZORRO’S FIGHTING LEGION had a much stronger group of perils. When Tonto rescues the Rangers in chapter one, he pops up from behind a wall, and motions to them his plans. The footage is reused later, and makes no sense at all. Other than that, it is a superb serial with great location work at Lone Pine, and some beautifully shot riding scenes. Wayne Farrell Hey Jerry, I saw this serial a few years ago and had a print of it that was so dark it was really hard to see! At the time I had never seen nor heard of Lee Powell who was revealed at the end as The Lone Ranger. I was surprised to learn he enlisted in the Marines in 1942 and died in 1944 from drinking some kind of alcoholic beverage he and a couple of other Marines cooked up, mixed up, or found on Tinian Island in the Pacific. They were celebrating after coming through some particularly bloody fighting. One of the other Marines was temporarily blinded from drinking it! Sounds like methyl alcohol to me. Anyway, since then I’ve seen him in some other B westerns and noticed he had a great voice. Thanks for your hard work keeping the website going.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1307
__label__wiki	0.760526	0.760526	THE HARVEST SHALL COME [Main Title] Title: THE HARVEST SHALL COME [Main Title] Film Number: UKY 383 Summary: A film that calls upon the British people to maintain their wartime commitment to agriculture and the prosperity and well-being of everyone who works on the land after the war by telling the story of Tom Grimwood, an ordinary Suffolk farm labourer married with three children. Description: START 10:00:00 British Board of Film Censors certificate and opening titles. 10:01:00 Dramatised scenes showing Tom Grimwood, aged 13, leaving his family home, a ramshackle farm labourer's cottage in the Suffolk countryside, to look for work at a nearby farm in 1900. The farmer's wife, although unimpressed by his youth and lack of farming experience, nevertheless agrees to hire him. An old ploughman shows Tom how to operate a plough drawn by two horses. Tom acquires first-hand experience of other jobs on the farm such as using a harrow, a cultivator and a roller, scything grass and trimming a hedge with a sickle. 10:05:33 Eight years later, Tom, now aged 21, is interviewed by a new employer who offers him a job as farmhand at 14 shillings a week, an adult farm labourer's wage. Tom also gets the key to a tied cottage. He takes his fiance Lil around to see the property; despite its delapidated, rat-infested condition, she does her best to look pleased and they agree to get married. Several years later, with three children running around the garden, Tom returns home from a day's work to find Lil, now looking careworn, complaining about their poverty. Their place at the bottom of the economic ladder is further emphasised when two young upper-class ladies who have got lost ask him for directions. "He's only a farm labourer", one whispers to the other as she gives him a small tip for his trouble. 10:10:34 The First World War has begun and many ships heading for Britain with food fall victim to German U-Boats. Down on the farm, Tom and Bill, a young farmhand, leading a waggon into the yard and removing the yoke from the draught horse after putting him back in the stable. In 1917, Tom finds out he won't be called up for military service because of the government drive to increase food production and a corresponding rise in his weekly wage. In 1919, with the war won, Tom joins other farm hands celebrating victory over pints of beer whilst the local squire praises their wartime contribution and looks forward to a period of peace and plenty. 10:14:08 It's 1921 and the local agricultural board is in session: news has come through that the government has got rid of wartime legislation promoting agricultural production and the Wages Board, allowing the market to set commodity prices and wages. The weekly wage for a farm labourer is set to fall from forty three to thirty shillings. Down on the farm, Bill and Tom discover how badly their pay has been cut. Bill decides to quit and look for a job in town but Tom is told by his boss that if he leaves, he stands to lose his cottage. Tom agrees to stay on but for him, Lil and their children, it means the return of hard times. 10:19:09 An auctioneer's sign at the Suffolk farm where Tom was employed since he was 21 and images showing stock market speculation, the import of cheap grain from abroad and derelict farms illustrate the collapse of agriculture in Britain in the inter-war period. The government tries to stem the ruin by investing in new cheap housing, bus services, schools and the introduction of electricity in rural areas but the only work for Tom and other farm labourers like him is digging ditches as part of poor relief. A chance roadside meeting with Bill who has a new motorcycle and is earning forty five shillings a week in town still doesn't convince Tom that he should quit working on the land. However, his son Jack announces his intention to look for work in town as he is now 21 and next day, Tom and Lil wave him a sad farewell. Tom finds work harvesting sugar beet, a crop supported by a government subsidy, and on road construction but leaves the local Ministry of Labour office empty handed as until 1936 there is no unemployment benefit for farm labourers. 10:25:35 It's 1939 and as Britain is at war again, abandoned farm land is once more brought under the plough. 1940 sees Tom back working on the land as the driver of a tractor with his old employer as his boss once more. In the evening, he accompanies Lil to the village shop, gives her her housekeeping money and goes off to the local pub to sup a pint of beer with two regulars, Fred and Ben. For two shillings, the pub landlord serves him a pint, an ounce of 'shag' (tobacco) and a box of matches. Tom remarks that the cost of these three items has almost doubled since 1939. At the same time, two million more acres are under cultivation and the average wage for a farm labourer has risen to forty eight shillings a week. 10:29:12 The work on the land continues with Tom and other farm workers busy feeding harvested wheat into a mechanical threshing machine and loading full sacks of grain into a farm cart. At the end of the day, Tom, his father and two other workmates head for home. He finds Lil cooking him supper in the kitchen. As he sits down to eat his haddock, she turns on the wireless to listen to a talk on the BBC Home Service about farming in wartime Britain. In it, the speaker announces a rise in farm labourer's pay to sixty shillings a week and observes that war has once more made the people of Britain realise the importance of the work done by farm labourers. Over quickly cut shots showing labourers feeding wheat into a threshing machine, a rural council house, children arriving at a new school, boys being taught how to shear sheep and a combined harvester and tractor at work in a wheat field, he looks forward to major improvements in the living standards of people living in rural districts once the war is over - "these things are the responsibility of the British people and we must see that they are done". Over images showing 'Okies' leaving their semi-derelict farming shack in one of the 1930s 'dustbowl' prairie states in the USA, Russian, Asian and African women working in fields and the speaker urges that farmers throughout the world must be helped to make the land more fertile because all human life on the planet depends on the soil and its produce - "never again must we neglect our land and the men and women who live by it". Lil comments, "They said all that in the last war". Tom replies, "Ah well, this time, it's got to be different", and in the uniform of the Home Guard and shouldering a US-manufactured P.14 .303 rifle, he bids goodnight to his wife and leaves, leaving Lil to clear up the supper plates. End credits. END 10:33:26 Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) Imperial Chemical Industries (Production sponsor) Realist (Production company) Wright, Basil19071987 (Production individual) Anderson, Max (Production individual) Pearl, Bert (Production individual) Alwyn, William (Production individual) Jenkins, A E (Production individual) Freeman, H W (Production individual) Halsted, H G (Production individual) Willard, Edmund (Production individual) Belfrage, Bruce1900-10-301974-08Family origin: London (Production individual) Slater, John (Production cast) Beldon, Eileen (Production cast) Woolf, Victor (Production cast) George, Richard (Production cast) Borrow, Earnest (Production cast) Personalities, Units and Organisations: Home Guard (regiment/service) Imperial German Navy, U-35, submarine (regiment/service) Keywords: Agriculture (concept) Suffolk, England, UK (geography) Home Front, UK, Second World War (event) British War Work 1914-1918 (theme) British War Work 1939-1945 (theme) British Home Front 1914-1918 (theme) British Home Front 1939-1945 (theme) Submarines (theme) Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English Subtitle language: None Technical Details: Format: 16mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 1222 ft; Running time: 33 mins 26 secs Notes: Summary: in this film, Basil Wright (1907-1987) returns to the subject matter of two of his earliest films made for the Empire Marketing Board in 1931, 'The Country Comes to Town', about food production, and 'O'er Hill and Dale' (1931), documenting the lambing season on the Cheviot hills. For the brief prairie 'dustbowl' scene towards the end of this film, Wright used a scene from the 1936 documentary 'The Plow that broke the Plains' by pioneering US documentary film maker Pare Lorentz. The actor playing Tom Grimwood, John Slater (1916-1975), had a long career in British films and British television dramas, notably 'Z Cars'. The cast list also mentions 'Suffolk farmers and farm labourers'. Remarks: the film consists mainly of dramatised sequences but there is good stock footage of traditional as well as more modern farming methods. Remarks: the First World War U-boat sequences are from IWM 560 the EXPLOITS OF A GERMAN SUBMARINE (U-35) OPERATING IN THE MEDITERRANEAN / GWY 784 der MAGISCHE GÜRTEL Technical: some dirt and print damage. UKY 383	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1308
__label__cc	0.516243	0.483757	About GCFD Under the guidance of the Chief of Training, the Training Division coordinates and conducts all fire department training at the GCFD training facility at 688 Mauldin Road. Built in 1972, the facility is named in honor of former chief J.E. Poole. Along with company in-service training, the Training Division also conducts annual proficiency and competency training to meet professional standards and federal regulations. Recruit firefighters are scheduled for a three-week skills review and department procedure orientation. In addition to basic firefighting skills, the recruits review operations level response in hazmat and rescue incidents. The department's special operations teams also conduct advanced hazardous materials and technical rescue response training at this location. Training Facility Community Usage The training facility is also available for use by other emergency services agencies in the Upstate that may not have their own training facility. View a map and driving directions to the facility. Stephen Kovalcik Class I ISO Rating Organizational Chart (PDF) Address and Service Locator Use this interactive map to enter your city address and get a list of services, including fire district, location of fire stations and hydrants. Fire Prevention Forms	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1309
__label__wiki	0.767966	0.767966	RTÉ chief says broadcasters salaries worth it because they ‘work hard’ Claire Concannon News broke yesterday that national broadcaster RTÉ needs to save €60million over the next three years by cutting 200 jobs and reducing salaries. Top chiefs in the station have taken a 10 percent pay cut and the entire staff is now under a pay freeze. Some of the most talked-about cuts in RTÉ include those of the highest-paid TV and radio personalities such as Ryan Tubridy, Ray D’Arcy and Miriam O’Callaghan. These national stars will take pay cuts of up to 15 percent but many, including politicians, have spoken out about how they are still being paid too much who earn more than The Taoiseach. Dee Forbes. Pic: RTÉ A number of ministers have spoken out against the amount some of RTÉ’s presenters are paid, as it exceeds the amount Taoiseach Leo Vradkar earns. The Taoiseach earns €207,590 in comparison to Ryan’s estimated €420,000 or Miriam O’Callaghan’s estimated €254,250. RTÉ Director-General Dee Forbes has defended her staff in an interview with the Irish Independent stating that the presenters work extremely hard in what they do under great pressure. Speaking out against the salaries paid Business Minister Heather Humphrey said she didn’t think it was viable for presenters to be paid so much. When asked if he thought they were worth it, Minister of State John Halligan bluntly replied ‘no’. This comes in light of the fact that most of the highest-paid personalities are earning more than the Taoiseach but Dee defends her decisions stating how hard they work: ‘I’m not saying the Government doesn’t but you know they do work incredibly hard in a very, very pressurised environment and in a competitive environment.’ Pic: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin Brother of Tanaister and RTÉ’s director of strategy Rory Coveney stands by Dee explaining that people in all different sectors are paid more than the Taoiseach. RTÉ is also planning to sell parts of its prime Donnybrook site along with the closure of its Limerick studio in an effort to save money. The RTE Guide is also up for sale. Staff in RTE are still reeling from the decision with many finding out about the cuts from news bulletins. Holly Dalton’s advice for aspiring female chefs in a male-dominated industry Dermot Bannon reveals what his wife BANNED him from doing to their home Miriam O’Callaghan celebrates 60th in style with family trip Previous articleWhen is the new season of I’m a Celebrity starting? Next article‘See yiz in Coppers’: Iconic Dublin nightclub is off the market Ciara Doherty reveals husband does ‘overnights’ with baby amid her early start... Ex-Love Islander fears for Ollie Williams safety as he quits the show Cha-cha-cheating? Curtis Pritchard appears to cosy up to mystery woman at NYE bash Liam Payne ‘gave Cheryl his blessing’ to have a second baby	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1313
__label__wiki	0.908741	0.908741	TV Chevron Right The 9 biggest changes between YOU season 2 and Hidden Bodies book By Samantha Highfill December 28, 2019 at 01:00 PM EST Beth Dubber/Netflix You (TV series) Warning: This post contains spoilers from YOU season 2 and Hidden Bodies. In YOU‘s first season, the show followed its source material — Caroline Kepnes‘ 2014 novel of the same name — pretty closely. There were only a handful of major changes. With its second season, the show did something similar with Kepnes’ follow-up novel, 2016’s Hidden Bodies, though there were a few more major deviations. We’re not talking about small changes — such as the absence of characters like Calvin or Dez — but the big stuff. See below for the biggest changes the series made in season 2. No Amy Adam One of the biggest changes from the book is the absence of Amy Adam, the woman who, in Hidden Bodies, Joe chases out to Los Angeles after she wrongs him. But by bringing Candace back to life in the series, Joe moved out to L.A. in an attempt to escape his ex. There was, however, a fun Amy Adam reference when Candace uses it as a fake name to fool Forty. The addition of Ellie The Ellie character, much like the Paco character in season 1, did not exist in the book. Delilah didn’t have a sister, and certainly not one as cool as Ellie. The addition of Will Similarly, the Will character was a show addition. Seeing as Joe wasn’t on the run in the book, he had no reason to steal someone’s identity. Delilah and Henderson’s expanded roles Both Delilah and Henderson had a few added characteristics in the series. For instance, Henderson’s sex dungeon didn’t exist in the book, and for that matter, Joe very much intended to kill him, whereas in the show, Henderson’s death is more of an accident. Delilah also wasn’t sexually assaulted by Henderson in the book, nor was she the landlord at Joe’s apartment building. She was simply another tenant who didn’t tie quite as heavily into the plot. Meeting Love Joe’s introduction to Love in the book was VERY different than in the show. Instead of a simple hello, in the book, Joe met Love while she was watching auditions for one of Forty’s projects. The two of them kissed almost immediately, whereas in the show, Joe tried to resist his attraction to Love for as long as possible. Also, fun fact, Love was an actress in the book. Fincher’s role In Hidden Bodies, Fincher didn’t make it out alive. Let’s just say he butted heads with Joe one too many times and Joe traveled to Mexico to make sure the guy left him alone. So yeah, Joe killed a cop. Forty’s death In the show, not only did Fincher live, he was the one who killed Forty when he walked in on Forty pointing a gun at Joe. In the book, Joe attempted to kill Forty himself, though in the end he was taken out by a car while crossing the street in Beverly Hills. The Love twist Oh, Love. In Hidden Bodies, she did accept Joe for who he was, and to prove her loyalty to him, she retrieved the mug of urine he left at Peach Salinger’s house. She was okay with his murderous tendencies, but she didn’t share them. The show took it a step further, making Love just as twisty as Joe. After all, she’s the one who killed Delilah, not Joe. (She also took out Candace.) Joe’s fate Although the series ends with Joe living the suburban life with a pregnant Love, the book did not. Love was pregnant. And she and Joe were together … sort of. Right after Joe proposed at Taco Bell, the cops showed up and arrested him. Joe ended the book in jail. YOU star Victoria Pedretti reacts to Love’s big twist Penn Badgley reacts to Joe and Love’s ending in YOU season 2 YOU showrunner discusses the Will twist in the season 2 premiere Falling for YOU: Penn Badgley talks EW through the twisted fandom (and season 2) of his Netflix hit Sera Gamble, Penn Badgley, By Samantha Highfill @samhighfill	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1314
__label__wiki	0.631067	0.631067	(OT) Effect of Radiation on Living Organisms from ... #Fukushima I Nuke Plant: TEPCO Has Started "Hot" T... "Soh-Teh-Gai" (想定外; Beyond Expectation) in Cyprus:... CBS News: Obama Signs "Monsanto Protection Act" in... US Sends Nuclear-Capable B-2 Stealth Bombers to So... #Fukushima I Nuke Plant: Photo of an Electrocuted ... #Fukushima Namie-Machi on Google Street View JNES Calculation of the Amount of Radioactive Mate... Cyprus Latest: 80 Percent "Haircut" for Uninsured ... Obama's Carbon Tax Plan with IMF, G-20, World Bank... #Radioactive Japan: Once TEPCO, Always TEPCO, Even... #Radioactive Japan: 50 Millisieverts Radiation Exp... Cyprus President Justifies 40 to 100% "Haircut" as... (OT) Effect of Radiation on Living Organisms from Nuclear Accidents in Fukushima and Chernobyl Birds, butterflies, King Kong, Godzilla... I happened to pick up a tweet that had a link to the presentation Professor Timothy Mousseau of University of South Carolina, discussing the effect of radiation on living organisms in the contaminated areas in Fukushima and in Chernobyl. In February last year, Professor Mousseau announced the result of his initial research on birds in Fukushima Prefecture, and it was "an immediate negative consequence of radiation for birds". From Professor Timothy Mousseau's presentation on March 11, 2013 the 1st day of the Fukushima Symposium by Helen Caldicott Foundation (where former PM Naoto Kan made a video appearance): A humorous page with our favorite radiation mutant monsters: "Note lack of decomposition" - Are we supposed to infer that irradiated trees don't decompose? Or is it just a matter of no water or moisture to expedite decomposition? Number of birds plotted against the air dose rates, for both Fukushima and Chernobyl. So, do birds avoid high radiation areas? Were there birds in those high radiation areas before the nuclear accident? Or are we supposed to conclude that birds died off or failed to reproduce in the high radiation areas? (Oh wait, is King Kong big because of irradiation?) Labels: Chernobyl, Fukushima, radiation exposure for wild life, Timothy Mousseau #Fukushima I Nuke Plant: TEPCO Has Started "Hot" Test on ALPS (Multinuclide Removal Equipment) A short announcement on March 30, 2013 from TEPCO: 本日（平成25年３月30日）午前９時56分、多核種除去設備（ＡＬＰＳ）において、水処理設備で処理した廃液を用いたホット試験を開始いたしました。 At 9:56AM today (March 30, 2013), we started the hot test of the multinuclide removal equipment (ALPS) using the water treated by the contaminated water treatment system. 多核種除去設備（ＡＬＰＳ）は３系統（Ａ～Ｃ）ありますが、まずは１系統（Ａ）でホット試験を行い、処理状況を確認してまいります。 The multinuclide removal equipment (ALPS) has three lines (A through C), but we are starting the hot test using the line A to observe the effectiveness of the treatment. The vessels ("high-integrity containers") for the system managed to pass the test of being dropped onto concrete surface. TEPCO's information on ALPS, released on March 29, 2013, "Overview of the Multi-nuclide Removal Equipment (ALPS) at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station": On hot testing: - At hot testing, the capabilities of the multi-nuclide removal equipment to “remove radioactive materials” and to “maintain its capability to remove radioactive materials while in operation” are evaluated. - In accordance with a direction given by NISA (at the time) “perform testing in a minimum amount of time/scope to evaluate the specified capabilities”, the hot testing will be performed on system A first. [Evaluation of capability to remove radioactive materials] - Confirm that the radioactivity densities of target 62 nuclides are below the density limit specified by the Reactor Regulation. - Perform evaluation during the period in which approx. 1000-2000m3 of water is treated per system. [Evaluation of capability to maintain its capability to remove radioactive materials while in operation] - Confirm that the capability to remove radioactive materials is maintained until the timing of adsorbent replacement. - Considering that the longest adsorbent replacement cycle (adsorbent 7) is 121 days (Flow rate of treated water: approx. 30,000m3), perform evaluation during the period in which approx. 30,000m3 of water is treated per system. In the big scheme of things, ALPS is at the end of the treatment cycle: Detailed schematics of ALPS: This structure... Is housing this (photo taken on September 16, 2012): The hot testing of the line A is to continue till the end of July. The first analysis of treated water is scheduled in mid April, according to TEPCO's timeline (on page 8 of the handout above). ALPS can remove 62 different nuclides, including strontium and americium. Pages 13 to 17 shows the nuclides and removal performance of ALPS (on a small-scale test, I suppose). What's missing is tritium, which cannot be removed. As space to build more temporary storage tanks becomes scarcer at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, and some materials used to build these tanks (which are bolted together not welded) reach the end of useful life in 3 years, the company (and its effective owner, the national government) will try harder to win consensus on releasing the water treated by ALPS into the ocean. Not before another politician, this time from LDP, does another performance of drinking the treated water to prove safety, I'm hoping. Labels: ALPS, TEPCO "Soh-Teh-Gai" (想定外; Beyond Expectation) in Cyprus: Bank of Cyprus Depositors to Get 37.5% of Deposits in Bank Shares and Some Interest on the Remaining Deposts Which Will Not Be Returned It looks like Russians have cleaned their accounts. According to Reuters, Bank of Cyprus's depositors will get, for deposits over 100,000 euros: 37.5% bank equity (priced at ....?) 22.5% of deposit will earn no interest 40% of deposit will earn interest but won't be repaid sans some miracle that the bank does well. Latest from Reuters (3/29/2013): Big depositors in Cyprus to lose far more than feared Big depositors in Cyprus's largest bank stand to lose far more than initially feared under a European Union rescue package to save the island from bankruptcy, a source with direct knowledge of the terms said on Friday. Under conditions expected to be announced on Saturday, depositors in Bank of Cyprus will get shares in the bank worth 37.5 percent of their deposits over 100,000 euros, the source told Reuters, while the rest of their deposits may never be paid back. The toughening of the terms will send a clear signal that the bailout means the end of Cyprus as a hub for offshore finance and could accelerate economic decline on the island and bring steeper job losses. Officials had previously spoken of a loss to big depositors of 30 to 40 percent. Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday defended the 10-billion euro ($13 billion) bailout deal agreed with the EU five days ago, saying it had contained the risk of national bankruptcy. "We have no intention of leaving the euro," the conservative leader told a conference of civil servants in the capital, Nicosia. "In no way will we experiment with the future of our country," he said. (Well Mr. Anastasiades, you just did.) ...At Bank of Cyprus, about 22.5 percent of deposits over 100,000 euros will attract no interest, the source said. The remaining 40 percent will continue to attract interest, but will not be repaid unless the bank does well. Those with deposits under 100,000 euros will continue to be protected under the state's deposit guarantee. (For now, you mean.) ...But policymakers are divided, and the waters were muddied a day after the deal was inked when the Dutch chair of the euro zone's finance ministers, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, said it could serve as a model for future crises. Faced with a market backlash, Dijsselbloem rowed back. But on Friday, European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot, a fellow Dutchman, said there was "little wrong" with his assessment. "The content of his remarks comes down to an approach which has been on the table for a longer time in Europe," Knot was quoted as saying by Dutch daily Het Financieele Dagblad. "This approach will be part of the European liquidation policy." (Full article at the link) So he did say that and now it's confirmed as experiment and template. I have a feeling that more people are now hoping for liquidation of EU. So it probably isn't "soh-teh-gai" after all. It was, and has been, well within the expectation that Russians would clean their accounts in time, and that "haircuts" (or decapitation) will be administered to the rest of them small people so that they can serve as a model of European liquidation. Labels: Cyprus CBS News: Obama Signs "Monsanto Protection Act" into Law, GMO Opponents Furious The "Act" is actually the Section 735 of H.R. 933 "Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013" which enables the US government to fund itself without passing any budget until the end of the fiscal year (September 30, 2013): Sec. 735. In the event that a determination of non-regulated status made pursuant to section 411 of the Plant Protection Act is or has been invalidated or vacated, the Secretary of Agriculture shall, notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon request by a farmer, grower, farm operator, or producer, immediately grant temporary permit(s) or temporary deregulation in part, subject to necessary and appropriate conditions consistent with section 411(a) or 412(c) of the Plant Protection Act, which interim conditions shall authorize the movement, introduction, continued cultivation, commercialization and other specifically enumerated activities and requirements, including measures designed to mitigate or minimize potential adverse environmental effects, if any, relevant to the Secretary’s evaluation of the petition for non-regulated status, while ensuring that growers or other users are able to move, plant, cultivate, introduce into commerce and carry out other authorized activities in a timely manner: Provided, That all such conditions shall be applicable only for the interim period necessary for the Secretary to complete any required analyses or consultations related to the petition for non-regulated status: Provided further, That nothing in this section shall be construed as limiting the Secretary’s authority under section 411, 412 and 414 of the Plant Protection Act. As CBS News (3/28/2013) puts it: Critics slam Obama for "protecting" Monsanto There's no love lost between Washington and the American public, it seems, five days after Congress for the first time in years managed to handle a budget-related issue without reaching the brink of crisis. Protesters have descended on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House this week, enraged at a potentially health-hazardous provision they allege lawmakers inserted surreptitiously into a continuing resolution (CR) that will fund the government through the remainder of the fiscal year. The bill sailed through the Capitol on Friday; President Obama signed it into law on Tuesday. Opponents have termed the language in question the "Monsanto Protection Act," a nod to the major agricultural biotech corporation and other like firms geared at producing genetically modified organisms (GMO) and genetically engineered (GE) seeds and crops. The provision protects genetically modified seeds from litigation suits over health risks posed by the crops' consumption. Food safety advocacy groups like Food Democracy Now, which collected more than 250,000 signatures on a petition calling for the president to veto the CR, argue not enough studies have been conducted into the possible health risks of GMO and GE seeds. Eliminating judicial power to halt the selling or planting of them essentially cuts off their course to ensuring consumer safety should health risks emerge. Seeking a "balance" to the newly minted law, Food Democracy Now has shifted its tactics to encouraging supporters to sign and send letters to Mr. Obama, chiding him for signing the legislation despite that refusal to do so would have expired the federal budget and triggered a government-wide shutdown this week. Part of the template for the letter reads: "In an effort to balance this violation of our basic rights, I am urging you as President to issue an Executive Order to require the mandatory labeling of genetically engineered foods, something that you promised farmers while on the campaign trail in 2007. It is urgent that the U.S. government rectify the 20 year old politically engineered loophole and allow for open and transparent labeling of genetically engineered foods," the letter continues, "a basic right that citizens in 62 others countries already enjoy." Other groups have aimed their ire toward the more worthy target, criticizing Congress for slipping the language into a must-pass bill without review by the Agricultural or Judiciary Committees. The International Business Times reports that the Center for Food Safety is putting in the hot seat Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., chairwoman for the Senate Appropriations Committee, for not giving the amendment a proper hearing. According to Salon, many members of Congress who voted to approve the bill were unaware the language existed. Seeking a "balance"? It's amusing that Food Democracy Now is urging the president to use an Executive Order to mandate GMO labeling. As if campaign promise is something that any candidate should fulfill once in office. As if the president cares, when his food safety czar is a former vice president of Monsanto. And an Executive Order? I'd love to know who put this section into the bill, though. CBS says "refusal to do so [sign the bill] would have expired the federal budget and triggered a government-wide shutdown this week", as if it is a really bad thing. Very funny. The proposition that would have required GMO labeling in California was soundly defeated in the November 2012 election by an extremely well-funded, out-of-state industrial lobby headed by Monsanto. Labels: czars, food safety, GMO, Monsanto, Obama administration, Obama presidency US Sends Nuclear-Capable B-2 Stealth Bombers to South Korea To further feed paranoia in the already paranoid North Korean regime? To achieve what? From Washington Post quoting AP (3/28/2013): US sends nuclear-capable B-2 bombers to South Korea in show of force SEOUL, South Korea — The U.S military says two nuclear-capable B-2 bombers have completed a training mission in South Korea amid threats from North Korea that include nuclear strikes on Washington and Seoul. The statement Thursday by U.S. Forces Korea is an unusual confirmation. It follows an earlier U.S. announcement that nuclear-capable B-52 bombers participated in ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills. The U.S. says the B-2 stealth bombers flew from a U.S. air base and dropped munitions on a South Korean island range before returning home. The announcement will likely draw a strong response from Pyongyang. North Korea sees the military drills as part of a U.S. plot to invade and becomes particularly upset about U.S. nuclear activities in the region. Washington and Seoul say they the annual drills are routine and defensive. "Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the addition of nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers to military drills with South Korea was part of normal exercises and not intended to provoke a reaction from the north." (CBS News, 3/28/2013) To fly two B-2 stealth bombers to and from South Korea, it costs $5.5 million, according to Antiwar.com. (Sequester? What sequester?) #Fukushima I Nuke Plant: Photo of an Electrocuted and Very Dead Mouse Remember that power outage? TEPCO released the result of their investigation on March 25, 2013. The mouse has a mark in the stomach from an electric shock. From TEPCO's Photos and Videos Library, 3/25/2013, "Progress of Investigation of Power Supply Facilities Failure at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station": The regular M/C was receiving power from the temporary M/C because of the ongoing renovation work: (Text part) [Power supply system structure] Since power receiving cable renovation for the regular M/C in the Process Building (as part of Tsunami countermeasures) was ongoing at the time of the incident, the regular M/C was temporarily receiving power from the backup M/C in the Process Building. [Analysis] 1. The ground relay in B system operated: The failure is assumed to have occurred in B system and high voltage power supply system. 2. The circuit breakers of the regular M/C (3A) and (4A) in the Process Building and the backup M/C in the Process Building (3A) tripped due to overcurrent. : The failure is assumed to have occurred in the downstream of the regular M/C in the Process Building (4A). 3. The ground directional relays and the circuit breakers of Units 3-4 temporary M/C (4A), (5A) and (10A) did not operate. : The failure is assumed to hav e occurred in the upstreamof the load systems of Units 3-4 temporary M/C. 4. Fault current was found in Units 3-4 temporary M/C (A)(5B). : The failure is assumed to have occurred in the downstream of Units 3-4 temporary M/C (A) (5B). Conclusion page: TEPCO will install mouse traps as countermeasure. Labels: power failure, SFP, TEPCO Google announced on March 4 this year that it was sending the crew to capture "Street View" of Namie-machi, Fukushima Prefecture, at the request of Mayor Baba. Not all of Namie-machi is captured yet, but here it is. There is no one there, and houses and stores are broken, deserted; there is nothing left in the farmland along the coast. In the center of the town, there are stores side by side, one utterly collapsed, the other seemingly intact. I don't know if Google Japan plans to send people to the high radiation spots within Namie-machi, such as Akougi and Tsushima. There are many in Japan who seems to think anything done by a company based in the US has something to do with "conspiracy" to defraud Japan. According to such people, the reason why Google Japan has already started showing the Street View (they said it would take a few months) is because the mayor of Namie-machi has sided with the national government, so all the goodies like Google Street View will be quickly done, as some kind of perks. Sided with the national government? It seems that for such people, having to agree to the reorganization of the no-entry zone into three new zones in preparation for future return (as if these mayors have any choice), as pushed by the national government, is the same as colluding with the national government. I thought of responding to someone who clearly seems to think that way, but then I looked at the desolation captured by the Street View. I'd rather thank Google instead. Thank you. Labels: Google, Namie-machi, Street View JNES Calculation of the Amount of Radioactive Materials Released from #Fukushima I Nuke Plant Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Organization (JNES), an independent administrative corporation under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, issued the result of its calculation of radioactive amounts released from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant in the first week of the nuclear accident. From JNES presentation (3/27/2013), unit is petabecquerel (1x10^15) and 1 petabecquerel is 1,000 terabecquerels: From March 11 to March 17, 2011, I-131: 250 to 340 petabecquerels (or 250,000 to 340,000 terabecquerels) Cs-134: 8.3 to 15 petabecquerels (or 8,300 to 15,000 terabecquerels) For I-131, JNES's calculation, which is based on the accident progress analysis, is closest to TEPCO's number which is the highest (500 petabecquerels, or 500,000 terabecquerels). In the image below (English labels added by me), from the top row, the entities that did the analysis are: Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Organization (JNES) Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI) All except JNES based their calculation on the actual measurement of radioactive materials. I find it interesting that JNES's calculation shows potentially more Cs-134 than Cs-137. From the actual measurements on the ground, I believe the ratio has been 1:1 to 1:1.2. On the night of March 11, 2011, the now-defunct Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) had JNES do the simulation using the Emergency Response Support System (ERSS) to predict the progression of the accident. JNES faxed the result of the simulation for Reactor 2 to NISA as early as 9PM on March 11, the simulation for Reactor 1 by noon on March 12 (more than three hours before the explosion), and the simulation for Reactor 3 at 6:30AM on March 13. The faxed results for Reactor 2 was delivered to the Prime Minister's Official Residence just past midnight on March 11 (early hours of March 12). (Jiji Tsushin, 9/3/2011) No one acted on them. NISA was trying to figure out the areas to have people evacuate. In addition to ERSS, the agency also ordered SPEEDI simulations done, using the information that the agency collected on its own. The agency dropped that effort when Prime Minister Kan and his ministers thought they knew best and drew concentric circles around the plant and decided the evacuation zones, ignoring the emergency protocol that specifically said they should use SPEEDI simulations for that purpose. (Asahi Shinbun's "Trap of Prometeus" Part 2) Labels: atmospheric release of radioactive materials, ERSS, JNES, NISA, oceanic release of radioactive materials, TEPCO Cyprus Latest: 80 Percent "Haircut" for Uninsured Depositors at 2nd Largest Bank And "informality" of all of this. First, from UK's Telegraph Live Blog on Cyprus Bailout (3/26/2013): 21.19 Cyprus Finance Minister Michael Sarris has said uninsured Laika depositors could face an 80pc haircut, and might have to wait up to seven years for a payout. He adds: "If Parliament had voted on March 17 [instead of March 19], maybe we could have saved Laiki Bank... It's obvious that Germany wants to impose its will on the people of the South. They didn't want to show to German taxpayers that they would pay to save Russian depositors' money. Sure, Minister Sarris. That's the meme by the way in the US in the public radio programs - taking the money from those bad, rich Russians is only fair. (Fair to whom? German taxpayers who fork out money as their government instructs them to do?) What's so really funny and sad about all this is: Why does anyone have to listen to this "informal" group of Eurozone finance ministers which doesn't even keep the records of their "informal" meetings, not to mention follow what these ministers informally decide? From Gary North (3/19/2013; emphasis is mine): The No-Name European Committee That Made the $13 Billion Guarantee to Cypriot Banks The Eurogroup held a teleconference this evening to take stock of the situation in Cyprus. The eurozone's decision-making institution on the euro is an informal committee of finance ministers. The committee has no official name. It has no official power. It is not voted into office. In the Lisbon Treaty, which went into effect on January 1, 2009, this no-name informal committee at last got its legal status. Article 1: The Ministers of the Member States whose currency is the euro shall meet informally. Such meetings shall take place, when necessary, to discuss questions related to the specific responsibilities they share with regard to the single currency. The Commission shall take part in the meetings. The European Central Bank shall be invited to take part in such meetings, which shall be prepared by the representatives of the Ministers with responsibility for finance of the Member States whose currency is the euro and of the Commission. Article 2: The Ministers of the Member States whose currency is the euro shall elect a president for two and a half years, by a majority of those Member States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_Group So, it meets informally. It discusses questions. The Commission takes part. (How? With what authority? With how many votes?) The ECB is invited. It does not have a vote. The president of the no-name committee has a name no one can pronounce unless he is Dutch, Jeroen Dijsselbloem. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeroen_Dijsselbloem) Yet this no-name Committee promised Cyprus banks $13 billion worth of euros over the weekend, on its own authority, and answerable to no one in any European parliament, including the European Union. This is called democracy in Europe. In Europe, democracy means: "You dumb clucks." The bailout required the government of Cyprus to impose a capital tax on all bank accounts. This was announced on Monday by the newly elected President of Cyprus. The voters of Cyprus went ballistic. The President of Cyprus had sworn to the people in his inauguration address on February 28 that he would never, ever do this. Translation: "You dumb clucks." The Parliament of Cyprus has thrown a spammer into the works. It has refused to impose the tax. What's this? It's democracy. The real kind. The president of the no-name informal committee, which is informally called the "Euro Group," has issued a statement. It is unsigned. (No one can pronounce it, so who cares?) He is appalled at this betrayal by the parliament of Cyprus. This was a secret deal, and secret deals are supposed to be agreed to by Parliaments. Parliaments are supposed to be rubber stamps. Who does the bunch of stooges think they are, anyway? I reproduce this announcement verbatim from the website of the so-called Euro Group. I also provide a translation. I recall that the political agreement reached on 16 March on the cornerstones of the adjustment programme and the financing envelope for Cyprus reflects the consensus reached by the Cypriot government with the Eurogroup. Because the meeting was held in secret, there were no official notes. You will have to trust my memory. The group met with the someone or other -- I cannot recall who -- who said he represented the government of Cyprus. The implementation of the reform measures included in the draft programme is the best guarantee for a more prosperous future for Cyprus and its citizens, through a viable financial sector, sound public finances and sustainable economic growth. The parliament of Cyprus should rubber stamp this deal. It is best for Cyprus citizens. Pay no attention to those crowds in front of the Parliament shouting "no!" I reiterate that the stability levy on deposits is a one-off measure. No body in the Eurozone outside of the no-name group with no official power has approved any of this. It has never happened before. It will never happen again. Trust me. This measure will - together with the international financial support - be used to restore the viability of the Cypriot banking system and hence, safeguard financial stability in Cyprus. In the absence of this measure, Cyprus would have faced scenarios that would have left deposit holders significantly worse off. No one in power told the voters of Cyprus that its banking system was close to collapse. But I am, now that someone or other representing the government of Cyprus agreed to it. The Eurogroup continues to be of the view that small depositors should be treated differently from large depositors and reaffirms the importance of fully guaranteeing deposits below EUR 100.000. The Cypriot authorities will introduce more progressivity in the one-off levy compared to what was agreed on 16 March, provided that it continues yielding the targeted reduction of the financing envelope and, hence, not impact the overall amount of financial assistance up to EUR 10bn. The Cypriot authorities will do this because we say so. They have cooperated so far by stealing the people's money over the weekend, in preparation for the heist on Monday. The Eurogroup takes note of the authorities' decision to declare a temporary bank holiday in Cyprus on 19-20 March 2013 to safeguard the stability of the financial sector, and urges a swift decision by the Cypriot authorities and parliament to rapidly implement the agreed measures. Our no-name committee speaks for all of the member nations of the eurozone. The euro area Member States stand ready to assist Cyprus in its reform efforts on the basis of the agreed adjustment programme. The voters who will fork over the money to bail out the banks of Cyprus are 100% behind this. Trust me. That ended the press release: http://eurozone.europa.eu/newsroom/news/2013/03/peg-statement-cyprus-18-03-13 This is the foundation for a never-ending crisis in the eurozone. This is business as usual. Here is the no-name president of the no-name committee which pledged the money to bail out the banks of Cyprus. Let me translate. "There is no problem here. There is nothing to see here. Move along." Labels: Cyprus, EU, Eurogroup, Gary North Obama's Carbon Tax Plan with IMF, G-20, World Bank with Iran as Model Speaking of anthropogenic global warming caused by CO2 (reference to the previous post), the Team Obama has a great plan for you, which probably will be forced on to you via the presidential executive order. It'll be for the interest of people in the United States, they will say, just like the deposit theft in Cyprus will be in the interest of people in Cyprus. (By the way, Russians may have already transferred their money out of Cyprus, leaving Cypriot citizens and businesses to pay for their own bail-out, I mean bail-in. 100% haircut? More like a decapitation.) If you look at the players - US Treasury, IMF, G-20, World Bank (who cites Iran as success), you know they are up to no good. Just like so-called housewives (employees of TEPCO PR subcontractor) shaping the "more electricity and more nuclear power are good for you" message for naive fellow housewives and their kids, they suggest a clever way to make people feel good about being taxed and having the standard of living lower while their money goes to bureaucrats in foreign countries: call the carbon tax an “offset” instead of a “tax,” and downplay economic costs to “focus on framing green policies as a way to reach an ambitious and positive social goal How they take us for fools. From Fox News opinion page, by Phil Kerpen (3/21/2013; emphasis is mine): Here comes Team Obama's carbon tax The Treasury Department’s Office of Environment and Energy has finally begun to turn over documents about its preparations for a carbon tax in response to transparency warrior Chris Horner’s Freedom of Information Act request. The documents provide solid evidence that the Obama administration and its allies in Congress have every intention of implementing a carbon tax if we fail to stop them. The Office of Environment and Energy, if you’ve never heard of it, is housed in Treasury’s Office of International Affairs and exists principally to wait for authority to administer the revenue from a cap-and-trade scheme or carbon tax. And, apparently, to trick Americans into supporting the tax to provide it the money. So the documents they’ve reluctantly released are worth a careful look. There’s the G-20 report titled “Mobilizing Climate Finance,” which pegs the price tag at $2.1 trillion “of investment requirement” in a “global carbon market.” There’s the helpful IMF report from Ian Parry of the Fiscal Affairs Department on “Public Sources of Climate Finance.” Parry’s stated goal for the United States is “raising revenue and putting it to good use.” He suggests a $25 per metric ton carbon tax – right in the middle of the range suggested by the discussion draft legislation recently released by U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman, the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee – and noted that $25 billion a year could be sent abroad “for climate finance.” He singles out aviation and maritime fuels as “under-taxed” and suggests new taxes on fuels or directly on aircraft and ship operators. Parry notes that this “will harm developing countries” – for the simple reason that it’s economically harmful -- and concludes “compensation needed for fairness.” (Obama recently asked Congress to OK another $65 billion in increased IMF dues, no doubt so we can receive more of this kind of advice.) By far the biggest document is from the World Bank. It’s titled “Inclusive Green Growth: The Pathway to Sustainable Development.” The document itself is posted on the World Bank website, but that doesn’t mean its use at the U.S. Treasury Department doesn’t require scrutiny. The report notes that “some observers, mostly in high-income countries, have argued against the need for more growth, suggesting that what is needed instead is a redistribution of wealth.” It seems this “remains more relevant for high-income countries” like the United States. The report goes on to outline how a carbon tax could be used to drive a massive redistributive scheme based on – believe it or not – Iran as a model of success: “The political economy of reform will likely require compensatory transfers to the middle class. In the Islamic Republic of Iran… 80 percent of households received significant transfers—no doubt contributing to the success of the reform.” It continues: “In the end, the redistributive impacts of a carbon price scheme depend on how revenues from the scheme are used.” Such a redistributive scheme is a key element of carbon tax proposals from Waxman and from Barbara Boxer, the chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. It’s easy to foresee a “gas stamps” program much like food stamps that would provide a taxpayer-funded gas purchasing card to people up to some multiple of the federal poverty level. Much like ObamaCare, a policy driving up costs would be paired with a huge new welfare program that would foster government dependency and political loyalty. The World Bank paper also advises Treasury on how to convince the public. It says to call the carbon tax an “offset” instead of a “tax,” and downplay economic costs to “focus on framing green policies as a way to reach an ambitious and positive social goal (such as becoming carbon neutral by 2050 or becoming a leader in solar technologies).” This advice helps explain why an administration so heavily invested in implementing a carbon tax attempts to deny any such thing is going on. What else are they hiding? At least 10,000 emails from 2012 alone. Horner has filed suit, and Treasury can only stonewall for so long. One thing that’s already clear is that the preparations to pursue a carbon tax are very much proceeding in earnest. We need to be ready to fight back. Labels: carbon tax, G-20, IMF, Obama presidency, world bank #Radioactive Japan: Once TEPCO, Always TEPCO, Even for Female Employees Japan is the number one country in the world where nearly 90% of the citizens believe in anthropogenic global warming. 54 nuclear reactors in Japan have been justified as carbon-free "clean" energy to help fight the global warming. The truth is that nuclear energy has been pushed by the electric power companies because it fattens their bottom lines thanks to the accounting allowed by the national government. No matter how much the nuclear power generation costs, the power companies are allowed to fully transfer that cost to the consumers (mostly retail, household customers) and add a fixed percentage of that cost as their profit. In other words, bigger the cost, bigger the profit. But nuclear energy was actually not needed to meet the demand in the beginning of this century, as the economy was still in doldrums after the massive real estate bubble burst and people had other sources for heating and cooking (natural gas, heating oil). So what did the power companies and the national government come up with? A coordinated push to increase electricity consumption by launching a campaign of "all-electric lifestyle". It suddenly became "cool and sophisticated" to heat the house using electricity, cook with electricity. Electricity consumption skyrocketed in large cities like Tokyo, justifying more nuclear reactors to meet the newly created "demand" in a country with declining population and the economy that was going nowhere. At the same time, TEPCO, for one, was busy educating the impressionable mothers, selling them the story of global warming and how they could help save the planet by going clean electric. The company didn't do it themselves, of course. It used a subcontractor. Mainichi English (3/25/2013): 'Housewives' educating children on energy linked to TEPCO PR firm A puppet theater troupe advertising itself on its website as "started by a group of housewives concerned about energy" was in fact founded by staff from Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)'s PR firm, the Mainichi has learned. According to the website of the puppet theater troupe in question -- Kappa no Kawataro Ichiza -- in 2000 a group of housewives set up an online "energy club" to exchange their views on energy after taking their "children to visit a nuclear power plant and discovering the great efforts being taken to supply energy to private households." The puppet troupe was launched after club members decided they "wanted to pass on the importance of energy to (their) children," the website continues. In 2002, the troupe was certified as the Japan Industrial Location Center (JILC)'s "energy theater caravan nonprofit organization project." According to a leading member of the group, however, all five members of the troupe belong to a research firm doing publicity work for TEPCO. Their PR work involves holding parties at their homes for fellow housewives and informing participants of the necessity of nuclear power. One troupe member threw approximately 300 such parties at her home. Upon hearing from participants at the parties that they wanted their children to learn the same information, the group responded to a JILC call for theater troupes to educate young children about energy. Group members said they made a presentation at the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy -- which commissioned the JILC competition -- before the public competition, and were promised assistance on the spot. The members did not explain, however, whether they went to the agency on their own initiative or were encouraged by another party to do so. One puppet show plot entails "kappa," a creature from Japanese folklore, receiving a letter from a polar bear asking for help. The kappa set out to find that melting ice has separated a baby polar bear from its mother. While the mother and cub are reunited, the kappa are dumbfounded to hear about global warming. Another of the group's shows features a trip to the Edo period (1603-1868) in a time machine to get a glimpse of life without electricity and an understanding of how convenient life has become because of it. Through 2005, the troupe received up to 2.5 million yen a year in assistance as part of the agency and JILC program, performing at schools in areas hosting nuclear power stations, and at events in the Tokyo metropolitan area. Each member received 7,000 yen per performance. After financial assistance subsequently plummeted to 600,000 yen per year, however, the group chose to cut off its affiliation with the project. Since the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, the troupe has performed for children at the request of the Atomuseum in Niigata Prefecture. The members admit to some feelings of discomfort with their dealings with TEPCO PR officials. "TEPCO employees sometimes come to our parties for training, but they say they want us to keep their presence a secret form the people we've invited," one member said. "There are things (TEPCO) won't tell even us." Now they say they are uncomfortable, after being busted by Mainichi.　They also quickly took down their website (here's a cache). They took down the youtube videos on their channel, but here's one copied by a user - "Kappa meets dinosaur"： Labels: nuclear propaganda, TEPCO #Radioactive Japan: 50 Millisieverts Radiation Exposure Per Year Is "Low" Enough to Bring Residents and Businesses Back to Tomioka-Machi in Fukushima That's where Fukushima II (Daini) Nuclear Power Plant is located, but the town was heavily contaminated when the radioactive plume released from Fukushima I (Daiichi) Nuclear Power Plant (mostly from vent, from explosions to a lesser degree) hit south. The entire town has been designated as "no-entry (exclusion) zone". But now, one year after similar measures were taken in other outlying cities and towns like Minami Soma City, Tomioka-machi and Namie-machi, another very contaminated town north of Fukushima I Nuke Plant, are being reorganized into new zones that signifies "hope" (at least for the government if not for the residents). No more forbidding "no-entry zone". The areas which are expected to have cumulative radiation exposure of 20 millisieverts or less per year will be called the "zone in preparation for having the evacuation order lifted" (避難指示解除準備区域) where people are free to go back and live (or I should say strongly encouraged to go back and live) after the national government thoroughly decontaminate the areas. The areas with the expected cumulative radiation exposure of 20 to 50 millisieverts per year will be called the "zone with restricted entry" (居住制限区域) which only means cannot cannot stay there overnight but no problem if they want to commute to work there. Only if the cumulative radiation exposure per year in the areas exceed 50 millisieverts, the areas are designated as "zone where it is difficult for people to return" (帰還困難区域), and people cannot go back at all until 5 years after the accident, meaning only three more years. After three more years, the cumulative radiation levels per year are magically expected to drop below 50 millisieverts. (Good luck with that, with cesium-137 whose half-life is 30 years.) Who measures the radiation levels? The national government under the pork-cutlet-over-rice prime minister (baseless rumors say he won't last long, as his stomach ailment has returned) of course. They will continue token "decontamination" - practically smearing the area with water and bagging the top soil (if that, these days), cutting branches of trees (and dumping in the rivers nearby) - mostly to profit general contractors, greatly save on compensation money, and claim "See, we're not Chernobyl! We're returning people in two years!". Here's from Mainichi English, talking hopefully about cherry blossom viewing event in the most contaminated area inside Tomioka-machi (3/25/2013; emphasis is mine): Nuke disaster exclusion zone change has Fukushima town ready for cherry blossom season TOMIOKA, Fukushima -- The cherry blossoms in this town are on the edge of blooming, and as of March 25 local residents can see the buds in person for the first time since the Fukushima nuclear disaster began more than two years ago. Tomioka had been locked inside the nuclear disaster exclusion zone since the town was evacuated in March 2011. However, the national government has determined that radiation doses in about 70 percent of the town have fallen to 50 millisieverts per year or less -- still high, but low enough to re-designate these areas as open to temporary visits. The rezoning happens to cover a good portion of Yonomori Park, known for its some 1,500 cherry trees lining an L-shaped road and forming a pink tunnel when in full bloom. "The buds look ready to pop open," said Kiyoshi Horikawa, the 72-year-old chairman of a local cherry blossom viewing group as he looked on the trees on March 25. The day also marked the beginning of decontamination work on the trees. Unfortunately, the east-west part of the route generally remains in the exclusion zone and generally out-of-bounds even for quick visits. Many of the trees in that section are more than a century old. Nevertheless, the town government is planning a cherry blossom-viewing bus trip for residents in late April, and includes the section still inside the exclusion zone. So the national government has simply decided the radiation levels have dropped below 50 millisieverts per year in 70% of the town. Why didn't Russians think of this wonderful gimmick? Labels: radiation exposure, Tomioka-machi Cyprus President Justifies 40 to 100% "Haircut" as "Best Interest of the Cyprus People and EU" Rejoyce! Cyprus is saved! From what, you may ask? Who cares? They will take 40% of uninsured (over 100,000 euros) deposits at one bank, and take 100% of such deposits at another bank so that they can pay international creditors, and say "it's for the people of Cyprus". It's for the people of Cyprus but the Cypriot Parliament doesn't need to vote, says Germany's fin min Wolfgang Schaeuble. Stock market futures jump on this merry news of yet another save for the large financial institutions in Europe and the US. (Photo is Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades emerging from the meeting, from Nikkei.) Cyprus Said to Reach Tentative Deal to Avert Default Cyprus agreed to the outlines of an international bailout, paving the way for 10 billion euros ($13 billion) of emergency loans and eliminating the threat of default. The accord between Cyprus and the “troika” representing international lenders was reached in overnight talks in Brussels and ratified by finance ministers from the 17-nation euro area. “It’s in best interest of the Cyprus people and the European Union,” Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades told reporters. ...The agreement calls for Cyprus Popular Bank Pcl (CPB) to be shut down and split. The Bank of Cyprus Plc would take over the viable assets of the failed bank along with 9 billion euros in central bank-provided emergency liquidity aid, according to three EU officials who asked not to be named because talks are ongoing. Deposits below the EU deposit-guarantee ceiling of 100,000 euros will be protected, and a loss of no more than 40 percent will be imposed on uninsured depositors at the Bank of Cyprus, two EU officials said. Uninsured depositors at Cyprus Popular would largely be wiped out, two other officials said. Much more and with appropriate sarcasm at Zero Hedge (who still shows me ANA's horrendous "maid" with contact-lens-augmented blank eyes). I wonder how Cyprus residents react to this wonderful news. Since most of their savings are guaranteed (under 100,000 euro) and it will be mostly Russians who will get wiped out, will they breathe a sigh of relief? Or will some of them recall what one Nazi camp survivor said long time ago? Labels: Cyprus, deposit tax	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1315
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__label__cc	0.623909	0.376091	Savor the Flavor: Chefs Eleni Vavouris and Joelle Upton Bring Big Flavors to Nashville Selena Haynes by Selena Haynes \| photos courtesy TennesseePhotographs.com Big flavors and creativity — for Chefs Eleni Vavouris and Joelle Upton, it’s all about balance, in both the kitchen and in life. In 2000, on their journey into the culinary industry, they met at Opryland Hotel’s Culinary Apprenticeship program. From there they launched two successful businesses, Savor the Flavor (STF) Events & Catering and EV Originals (EVO), an outgrowth of the catering business delivering salsas, sauces, marinades, and vinaigrettes to the masses. Chef Eleni Vavouris, the EV in EVO, never planned for a career in the food industry. She grew up watching and learning from her Greek and Southern relatives. She had always viewed food as a stress-relieving hobby. She had a degree in Human Environmental Sciences and Psychology and was a year and a half into her Masters in Family Counseling when a friend saw her frustration with her current career choice and suggested she go to culinary school. “It all clicked at that point,” said Chef Vavouris. She then changed career paths and forged a culinary career. It was during this change she met Chef Joelle Upton. Chef Upton says she has known since college she wanted to be in the industry. She says, “It was at Sullivan University, while getting a degree in catering, that I realized I was good at it. Shout-out to Chef Kim Jones!” After completing their culinary education rotations, they started developing a business plan. “I used to want restaurants,” Chef Vavouris explains, “but Joelle made me go into catering [because of] cheaper start-up costs and we never looked back.” Perseverance = Success Like anything in life, working with someone for so long has its ups and downs. “Most days it is great! We have always worked well together [going back to] our very first rotation at Opryland,” says Chef Upton. She elaborates by noting, “Her [Chef Vavouris] strengths in the business and kitchen are my weaknesses and vice versa. We balance each other.” At the end of the day, it’s business needs first. “You can’t stay mad long at each other because work has to get done [and] events have to go out,” says Chef Upton. They credit three things for their success: God, hardheaded-ness, and creative spirits. “We always see ourselves as the underdog.” Chef Upton clarified, “Part of that is being women in this industry. Part of that is being a minority in general, and always feeling the need to do more, be better, prove ourselves. That’s a constant in our heads, I believe. So we are always pushing ourselves.” Although it can be a lot of work coupled with long days and nights, independence and gratitude keep them going. They say, “Only answering to each other and the ability to take time off whenever we’d like,” is a driving force. But ultimately, “It is clients who love our food and appreciate the work we put in to make their events amazing.” Bold, Innovative, Fresh To keep things fresh, they are always on the lookout for inspiration. Chef Upton says, “We get lots of inspiration from traveling – we travel to eat! We love trying new foods and learning about different cultures; whether here or abroad.” According to Chef Upton, Chef Vavouris has the knack of being able to taste foods/dishes and put her own spin on it or have a food or flavor combo spark an idea to create something totally new. This has come in handy with their EVO collection and to date, there haven’t been any duds in the flavor combinations. Chef Upton says, “[Chef Vavouris] has an amazing palette and generally knows what flavors will work together so she has a great track record.” In terms of Middle Tennessee being a welcoming environment for LGBT+ owned businesses, Chef Upton says, “I think it’s getting there. Not necessarily because we are becoming a more welcoming, caring city/region/state but because it makes financial sense as the cities grow.” While they have not had any issues doing business in Middle Tennessee, they credit the LGBT+ community in ensuring doors remain open for all stating, “Discrimination never makes financial sense and I think organizations like the Nashville LGBT Chamber have done a great job of reinforcing that point and opening doors.” As for the future of STF and EVO, expect the continuation of big things. “Both STF & EVO are all about big flavors and creativity,” says Chef Upton. ”Whether it’s a gala or wedding or a bottle of marinade, we want it to be delicious and memorable.” And Chef Vavouris is putting her palette to work while expanding EVO, “The craft series salsas, which are currently Smokey Bourbon and Nashville Hot, are going to be changing. I have lots more flavor ideas and combos up my sleeve!” Looking back 10 years ago, Chefs Vavouris and Upton had a different picture of the future – “In some ways, we thought this journey would be easier and we’d be gazillionaires and retired by now.” However, they are thankful to the road they have created with Chef Upton saying, “The businesses have afforded us the opportunity to go and do things we never dreamed of.” I love to travel and experience all things new. I also love music and karaoke. I'm a bit rusty, but I still rock out my drum set from time to time. I'm married to a beautiful woman, Lauren Means. She's my rock. We've been together since 2005 and legally married in Metropolis, Illinois on June 9, 2014, which coincidentally is my parent's anniversary. We weren't planning for that date in particular. It just worked out and that's when I knew I had my father's blessing. He passed in 2012; however, as you get to know me, you will know him. We live in Murfreesboro, Tn and have three precious fur babies. Franklin and Daisy are our beagles and Scarlett is our cat. Our world revolves around them for the most part. As you can tell I have many loves and Focus Middle Tennessee is my new found love! Prior to partnering up with Ray Rico, my best friend of 18 years, I had no idea what my next job/career move would be. I was tired and bored with all the jobs for which I had experience. I was finished working for others. I knew the only way I was going to be happy in my career was to be my own leader. Then, this opportunity came along and I absolutely love it. It's revived me. I have met more people in the past three months than I have in the past three years! And talk about welcoming with open arms. That's the welcome I've received. This is an exciting time for all of us involved with this magazine and we hope you all join us for the journey. Kim Petras Brings “Clarity” to Nashville at the Cannery Ballroom Spin On: Nashville’s Vinyl Collection Pop-up Shop Lands in NYC Focus Recommends: FLUMMOX: Artist Alyson Blake Dellinger finds community in music, artistry “Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Nashvillians”: CATS at TPAC Sydney Moxley LGBT+ Ally Miss Margaret: Finding Hope Through Sharing Her Story at Nashville CARES Young, Scrappy and Hungry: “Hamilton” Has Arrived in Music City Pet Focus Hamilton: More Than History I love to travel and experience all things new. I also love music and karaoke. I'm a bit…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1329
__label__cc	0.523235	0.476765	Tel: +353 (0)56 4441229 Email: info@fonsiemealy.ie Rare Books & Collectibles How to Buy & Sell Auctions & Archives Auction Any #0188 Fine Art Sale (24 February 2009) #0189 Affordable Antique Sale (28 March 2009) #0190 Book Sale (8 April 2009) #0192 Fine Art Sale (12 May 2009) #0193 Independence (28 April Year) #0194 Fine Art Sale (7 July 2009) #0195 House Contents Sale (21 July 2009) #0196 Irish Literary & Sporting Memorabilia Sale (15 September 2009) #0197 Fine Art Sale (29 September 2009) #0198 Book Sale (8 December 2009) #0199 Fine Art Sale (25 November 2009) #0200 Fine Art Sale (9 February 2010) #0201 Fine Art Sale (30 March 2010) #0204 Fine Art Sale (20 May 2010) #0205 Fine Art Sale (22 June 2010) #0206 Country House Sale (20 July 2010) #0207 Rare Books & Collectors' Specialist Sale (29 July 2010) #0208 Fine Art Sale (12 October 2010) #0209 Fine Art Sale (30 November 2010) #0210 Rare Book Sale (14 December 2010) #0214 Rare Book Sale (19 July 2011) #0215 Rare Books & Collectors' Specialist Sale (28 September 2011) #0216 Rare Book Sale (13 December 2011) #0217 Rare Book Sale (24 April 2012) #0220 Rare Books & Collectors' Specialist Sale (26 September 2012) #0221 Rare Book Sale (5 December 2012) #0222 Rare Book Sale (23 March 2013) #0223 House Contents Sale (23 April 2013) #0224 Rare Book & Collectors Sale (23 July 2013) #0225 Fine Art Sale (8 October 2013) #0226 Rare Book Sale (10 December 2013) #0227 Fine Art Sale (18 February 2014) #0228 Rare Book Sale (2 April 2014) #0229 Chatsworth Fine Art Sale (20 May 2014) #0230 Rare Book Sale (1 July 2014) #0231 Chatsworth Fine Art Sale (7 October 2014) #0232 Rare Book Sale (9 December 2014) #0233 Chatsworth Fine Art Sale (25 February 2015) #0234 Rare Book Sale (19 May 2015) #0236 Country House Sale (6 October 2015) #0237 Rare Book Sale (15 December 2015) #0288 Fine Art Sale (8 March 2016) #0289 The Centenary Sale (23 April 2016) #0293 Fine Art Sale (15 November 2016) #0294 Rare Book Sale (13 December 2016) #0296 March 2017 (7 March 2017) #0297 RARE BOOKS, LITERATURE & SPORTING COLLECTIBLES (30 May 2017) #0298 Chatsworth Summer Fine Art (25 July 2017) #0299 Rare Books, Collectors' & Ephemera Items (3 October 2017) #0300 0300 Chatsworth Fine Arts Sale - Yeats Family Collection - The Final Chapter Nov. 2017 (14 November 2017) #0301 0301 Rare Book Sale - December 5th, 2017 - Tara Towers Hotel, Dublin (5 December 2017) #0302 0302 Chatsworth Fine Art Sale - March 2018 (7 March 2018) #0303 0303 Rare Book & Collectors' Sale (2 May 2018) #0304 0304 Fine Art Sale July 10th & 11th (10 July 2018) #0305 0305 Chatsworth Fine Art Sale - October 10th, 2018 (10 October 2018) #0306 #306 Milford House Sale Carlow (20 November 2018) #0309 #0309 11 Oxmantown Mall, Birr, Co. 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Killkenny, R95 XV05, PSRA Registration No: 001687 Email: info@fonsiemealy.ie All content Copyright © Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers ← Back to Index 6 October 2015 - Country House Sale FURNESS, NAAS, CO. KILDARE Lot 257/0236 Early 19th Century French School An old wool work and collage Picture, of flowers in a vase, inscribed, signed and dated ‘Dedie a la Amitie’ Dec. 1820, 36cms x 28cms (14″ x 11″). (1) A blue and white Chinese porcelain Fish Bowl, 36cms (14″) diameter. (1) A large rectangular early Louis Vuitton Steamer Trunk, decorated in the usual taste, stamped with owners initials “H.R.” and with printed label, “Louis Vuitton, Asnieress-Seine, Paris, Nice, Lille and London,” & No. 212387, approx. 112cms (44″) long. (1) * Note: “H.R.” stands for Hermione Ramsden (Mariga’s godmother) who was the daughter of John William Ramsden, 5th Baronet. A large 19th Century plaster Bust, “Daniel O’Connell, The Liberator,” approx. 76cms (30″) high overall. (1) After Joseph Tudor “The Obelisk on the Boyne,” engraved by J. Brooks and Crofts, and published in mortal memory of William III, Aug. 1736, approx. 40cms x 51cms (16″ x 20″), with wash mount and gilt frame. (1) After James Malton Rare Engraving: “A View of the Portico of the Senate House of Ireland,” dedicated to the Rt. Hon. John Foster, Speaker of the House of Commons of Ireland. Engraved by Wilson Lowry, approx. 50cms x 62cms (20″ x 24 1/2″), in hogarth frame. A very good clear impression. Very Rare. (1) * This fine engraving was described and advertised at a guinea on a loose sheet inserted in part 1, Malton’s Views,” Mac Dowell Cosgrave, R.S.A.I. Journal, Vol. XXXV, Dec. 1905. (1) After Thomas Malton, c. 1776 Co. Waterford: Rare line engraving, Inside of the Cathedral of Christ Church, Waterford, engraved by John Roberts, approx. 37cms x 48cms (14 1/2″ x 19″) hogarth frame. (1) * A very rare print. After John Rocque Maps: “Plan de la Ville, Havre, Baye & Environs de Dublin,” sur la meme Echolle de ceux de Londres, Paris, et Rome, dated 1757 (possibly Paris), 54cms x 76cms (21″ x 30″) hogarth frame; and its companion “The First Sheet of an Actual Survey of the Environs of the City of Dublin”, both in hogarth frames. (2) Siobhan Ramos – Lady P. Conyngham – after Wooton “A Bay Arab Stallion, probably The Byerley Turk,” held by a Turkish groom, a view of Constantinople beyond, in its three stages, ancient, medieval and modern, unframed, O.O.C., 236cms x 213cms (7’9″ x 7′). (1) N.B. Commissed by the Guinness Family in 1990. * The Byerley Turk is one of three Stallions from which all thoroughbred blood-stock throughout the world is descended. Early 19th Century Irish Caricature, c. 1815 Co. Kildare: “The Curragh of Kildare – Captn. Gore’s celebrated Horse Oakstick by Fitzemily beating Mr. Daly’s Narcissus over the Two year old Course for One Thousand Guineas on Monday at the April Meeting 1815,” approx. 26cms x 34cms (10 1/4″ x 13 1/4″), gilt tipped mount, and mahogany frame. Very good. Extremely Scarce. (1) Rare Map of The Curragh Co. Kildare: Walker (Henry) Surveyor. “A Map of the Curragh of Kildare” showing The Race Courses Gentlemen’s Seats etc. Accurately described. Dedicated to The Duke of Leinster and engraved by Kersting, approx. 69ms x 114cms (27″ x 45″), with engd. views of The Stand etc., gilt frame. V. Rare. (1) A gilded wood and plaster Overmantel Mirror, with pierced scroll cresting, 20th Century, 120cms (47″) high. (1) Rare Prints of Irish Houses of Parliament After Roland Omer A suite of four Engravings after R. Omer, engraved by P. Mazell and P. Halpin, consisting of: * “The Geometrical Elevation of the Parliament House, Dublin,” published by Bernard Scale, L. 1767, approx. 38cms x 49cms. * “A Section of the House of Lords, Dublin,” approx. 34cms x 41cms. * “A Section of the House of Commons, Dublin, approx. 34cm x 41cms. and one unframed en suite. A scarce set, in hogarth frames. (4) Engraved by Giles King after Wm. Jones, 1745 Early Irish Engraving: View of the Salmon Leap at Leixlip, Humbly Dedicated to the Rt. Hon. William Conolly Esq., approx. 43cms x 47cms (17″ x 18 1/2″) finely hand coloured in gilt frame. (1) * Possibly a unique Print. After Sir Joshua Reynolds, Engraved by James Watson “Charles James Fox, Lady Sarah Bunbury and Lady Susan Fox Strangeways,” a fine mezzotint engraving, London c. 1762, approx. 64cms x 43.5cms (25″ x 17 1/4″), hogarth type frame. Extremely Rare. (1) * Fox is shown here as a youth of thirteen, together with his cousin Lady Susan Fox Strangeways (1743 – 1827). They are walking in the garden of Holland House beneath a window, out of which Charles James’s young aunt Lady Sarah Lennox (1745 – 1826) who married Sir Thomas Charles Bunbury, Bt. during the progress of this picture, is shown leaning forward and pointing to a dove, held up towards her by Lady Susan. Reynolds recorded a payment of £120 for the above oil painting. Karl Anton Hickle, (1745 – 1798) “A Portrait of Charles James Fox,” half length, O.O.C., approx. 61cms x 51cms (24″ x 20″) in heavy gilt frame. * This portrait was engraved by Mr. Young and published in March 1797. It was painted (probably before 1797) for his Aunt Lady Louisa Conolly of Castletown, Celbridge, Co. Kildare. Note: C.J. Fox shared the Liberal-Whig views of Tom Conolly – Louisa’s husband. Provenance: Sold in 1965 at the Castletown Sale by the Conolly-Carew family, when purchased by Hon. Desmond Guinness. It subsequently passed to his wife Mariga, and after her death in 1989, to their son Patrick. An old box shaped Pony’s Trap, by Taggart, of Cavan, with 12 spoke iron and rubber clad wheels. (1) Provenance: Ashford Castle, Cong, Co. Mayo. A good old horse drawn Side Car, with drop sides, on iron clad 14 spoke wheels, by Daniel Bros., Builders, Cavan. (1) A 19th Century painted horse drawn Brougham Coach, 16 spoke back wheels by Mullins & Son, Cork and fourteen spoke wheels by William Kinross & Sons, Stirling. (1) An extremely rare early 19th Century full size Road / Family Coach, the fitted interior with decorated needlework fringe and on a elaborate carved turn style, with iron and leather suspensions, and with two 12 spoke wheels to front and two 14 spoke wheels to the rear, approx. 11’6″ long and 6′ wide at rear, and with hand painted coats of arms on both sides, by Charles Collinge, R. Tyrrell & Sons, Long Acre, London. (1) * Bears full Coat of Arms on both doors (in particular that of the Conyngham Family, Co. Meath). 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__label__wiki	0.754867	0.754867	Home/MIDDLE EAST/Caliphate and Tawhid: Understanding the main two pillars of ISIS’ ideology MIDDLE EASTOPINION Caliphate and Tawhid: Understanding the main two pillars of ISIS’ ideology Foreign Policy News June 12, 2019 St. Anthony's Shrine, Kochchikade (Photo: Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) By Punsara Amarasinghe and Eshan Jayawardane The brutal attacks carried out by an Islamist group in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday has galvanized the lost attention on ISIS, especially the waves of attacks in Sri Lanka seemed to have conveyed the idea that the Islamic vendetta on Christians and the West would likely to continue beyond the frontiers of their so called “Caliphate “and targets in Europe. Nevertheless, the notion of caliphate and the ideological surrounding of it have derived from Islamic history as an idealist Islamic state which would unify the Muslims around the world on basis of authentic creed of Prophet Muhammad. On 4th of July 2014, the leader of Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ascended the pulpit of the pulpit of Mosul Grand Mosque by culminating the idea of revival of aged long idea of reviving Islamic caliphate the utopian state of both temporal and spiritual accomplishment that Many Muslims yearned to see. While preaching his sermon, Baghdadi romanticized the idea of idea of resurrecting caliphate by saying “After long years of Jihad, patience and fighting the enemies of Allah, he guided them and strengthened them to achieve this goal. Therefore, they rushed to establish the caliphate. The tantalizing idea of the formation of Caliphate brought ISIS a tremendous popularity overnight. In fact the nostalgia of caliphate has seriously lingered in Muslim psyche since the collapse of Ottoman Empire at the end of Great War which ended the last remnant of the caliphate. Under the pressure of British and French allies, Turks undermined the ulema into a state functionaries and the last realm of Muslims for caliphate was wiped out. Since then, bringing a caliphate back to a reality has been a predilection of many Islamic radical theorists. Egyptian radical Islam theorist Sayyid Outb once emphasized the utmost necessity of reviving caliphate by killing all corrupt secular Muslim leaders for the cause of purifying Jihad, yet this idea did not become a serious thought to implement till ISIS announced their so called caliphate in 2014. Even for militant Islamists who accepted Qutb’s view, like Osama Bin Laden, it was risky to move quickly. The ISIS idea of caliphate could reach their popularity in such an escalating manner by attracting many youths from Europe and Northern America to quit their normal life style in order to join the caliphate in Syria and Iraq. However, today the territory occupied by ISIS as caliphate has been ebbed after ISIS was militarily defeated by the US backed Syrian force in Syria and Iraqi army in Iraq. Yet, the ideology propounded by Baghdadi on caliphate seems to have not flown from many radical Muslims. Indeed , the looming danger after ISIS envisaged some heavy losses at the hands of Syrian Iraqi forces is that fantasy of caliphate has transformed into a global jihadi ideology expanding beyond the frontiers of ISIS territorial claims. In examining the ideology of ISIS, one has to comprehend the significance of caliphate and ISIS one of cardinal virtues in their salafi –jihadim, which is called Tawhid. In fact, Tawhid is generally regarded as the central pillar of Islam which stands for the doctrine of monotheism and the omnipotence of God. However, the impact of Tawhid on the development of Salafi Jihadism was based on the work of Islamic theologian Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab. This 18thcentury Islamic theologian was anxious about the growth of mystic cults like Sufism in Islam as corrupting forces that debilitate the purity of faith of the people, he focused extensively on the promotion of Tawhid in order to steer people away from such practices. Wahab’s understanding of Tawhid was divided into three categories as Tawhid al-rububiyya (Oneness of divinity), Tawhid al-uluhiyya (Oneness of worship), Tawhid al-asma’wa-l-sifat (Oneness of names). Salafi Jihadists including ISIS and its allied Muslim radicals have heavily relied on ascertaining and practicing Tawhid as central aim. In other words , ISIS killings of Sufi priests and burning their mosques , vandalizing the tomb stones of Sufi saints in the Eastern province of Sri Lanka have simply gained their legitimacy from the doctrinal interpretation of Wahabb over the concept of Tawhid. From Islamic theological perspective Tawhid is an emotive issue as it profoundly embraces the unity of God and ISIS has indoctrinated the notion of Tawhid into their ideology, in the given context the narrow interpretation of Tawhid in ISIS, inculcates the rigid will in ISIS fighters that aims to transform Islam into a living ideal, something which must be physically manifest and given continuous expression through acts. Unlike its other Abrahamic counter partners, faith itself is not enough for salvation under Islam. It is rather a situation forming the unity between Oneness of divinity and oneness of worship in a coherent manner that would invoke the Muslims to work for God. As a matter of fact, this theological interpretation seems to have sharply focused within the Salafi construction of Islam in ISIS. The ISIS’ empathy on Caliphate has emerged from the apotheosis of Islamic glory in its early stage as the entire idea is rooted in the Islamic community founded in 7thcentury Arabia by Prophet Muhammad. In fact, the role of prophet in early Islamic history embodied the fusion of religion and politics. The prophet was bestowed the responsibility of leading his followers to salvation and organizing the political state, moreover this tradition was continued by the caliphs who came after him in various Islamic dynasties. All in all, the idea of caliphate symbolized a spiritual and temporal sanctuary for Muslims. It is true that ISIS self-proclaimed caliphate had been moulded under the inspiration they gained from early Islamic caliphs to revive the 7thcentury Islamic values in the context of 21stcentury. The denial of secular state systems and other political organizations in present day Muslim world has become another key element of ISIS ideology. The jubilant reception came from the followers of ISIS in 2014 when al-Baghdadi proclaimed the inception of new caliphate was sort of euphoria for them as they waited such a moment for decades. Today even after the fall of ISIS territories and self-proclaimed caliphate, there are dozens of followers around the world who are still passionately dwelling in the fancy of realizing a caliphate. The video footage issued by the Islamic militants who carried out Easter day attacks in Sri Lanka show how those attackers pledged the oath to ISIS leader al-Baghdadi and it is just an instance demonstrates the power of the idea planted by ISIS over reviving the caliphate. It seems to indicate that territorial loss of Islamic state has not completely drifted the idealism around forming a caliphate, instead of diminishing such an idea, it has moved beyond Middle East. Those Jihadi groups that swore their alliance to ISIS in South Asia have already smitten by the idea of caliphate and moreover, their well-established notion of Tawhid has now crated a global Jihadi family of fighters. It is important to understand, the combating ISIS would become a futile venture without deconstructing the ideology possessed by ISIS fighters. The above mentioned two pillars such as the concepts of Tawhid and Caliphate have provided the main ideological bulwark for the expansion of global ISIS network. Punsara Amarasinghe is a PhD researcher at Institute of Law and Politics in Sant Anna School for Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy. He holds his a bachelor degree in Law from University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and completed masters in international law at South Asian University in New Delhi, India. He did complete one year research fellowship in Faculty of Law at Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Punsara can be reached at punsaraprint10@gmail.com. Eshan Jayawardane is a researcher of international affairs currently lives in New Zealand. He completed his bachelor degree in Sociology at Delhi University and holds masters in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He taught at Sri Lankan Open University, Faculty of Social Sciences a guest lecturer. Eshan can be reached at EshanJayawardne@gmail.com ISIS Islamic State Jihad Sri Lanka terrorism President Gotabaya’s foreign policy: priorities, opportunities and challenges Why Sri Lanka needs a “National Securitism” oriented national security policy? 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__label__wiki	0.763976	0.763976	Home/AFRICA/The Libya blitzkrieg breaks down: Negotiations needed AFRICAINTL CONFLICTSOPINION The Libya blitzkrieg breaks down: Negotiations needed Rene Wadlow August 20, 2019 0 6,354 1 minute read Tripoli (Photo: Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) After a two-day truce to observe the Eid al-Adha ceremonies, fighting was resumed in and around tripoli, Libya continuing to take its deadly toll of civilian lives. The U.N. envoy for Libya, Ghassan Salame, has recently warned that the influx of weapons from foreign supporters in violation of the arms embargo was fueling the conflict – arms from Egypt and the United Arab Emirats to General Khalifa Haftar, Turkey to the government opposing him. Dozens of people were killed in an air raid on 3 July 2019 on a detention center holding migrants in a camp at Tajoura, a suburb of Tripoli according to the U.N. Support Mission in Libya. Most of those killed and wounded were Africans from Sudan, Eritrea and Somalia who had hoped to reach Europe but were blocked in Libya. Others held in the detention center had been returned to Libya, arrested trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea. In 2018, some 15,000 persons were intercepted on boats at sea and returned to Libya, placed in detention centers without charge and with no date set for release. The detention centers are officially under the control of the Government of National Accord’s Department for Combating Illegal Migration. In practice, most of the detention centers are controlled by militias. The former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights has described the conditions in these detention centers as “an outrage to the conscience of humanity.” Since the outbreak of armed conflict on the outskirts of Tripoli on 3 April 2019, many persons have been killed or wounded in what General Khalifa Hifter hoped would be a blitzkreig advance. He badly underestimated the degree of military response that he would meet from the militias loyal to the Government of National Accord led by Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj. Since the blitzkreig bogged down, in the absence of a ceasefire, the humanitarian situation is dramatically degenerating. The dramatic conditions in Libya have a double aspect. One is the need to create a stable administrative structure of government taking into consideration the geographic and ethnic diversity of the country. The second aspect is the humane treatment of refugees and migrants from other countries who have tried to cross Libya or have been returned from failed crossings of the Mediterranean. Therefore, the Association of World Citizens, as an immediate step, calls for a humanitarian ceasefire and the resumption of U.N.-led negotiations in good faith among a broad spectrum of Libyan political parties and tribal representatives. Secondly, the Association of World Citizens calls for an end of returning refugees and migrants to Libya. Other countries must welcome migrants while longer-range cooperative structures are put into place. Migration issues will continue to challenge the world society. *This post contains affiliate link(s). Click here for Affiliate Disclosure. Libya United Nations Local communities play outsized but overlooked role in global fisheries Signs of hope for Persian Gulf conflicts: serious negotiations needed Trump scorns United Nations as tensions with Iran flare over Saudi oil attacks The abrogation of Article 370 and its implications U.S. State Secretary warns Libyan warlord’s forces against advancing on Tripoli A world federation The U.N. should not remain passive in the face of human wrongs in Kashmir Libya: Elections to what structures? India’s vote on Jerusalem lacks strategic vision India’s constitutional revocation and prevalent security environment of Kashmir Fascism then and now	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1333
__label__cc	0.676141	0.323859	Doctors Strike Author Topic: Doctors Strike (Read 5510 times) Sam_Adams Are there doctors on the forum? I'm trying to find out how feasible it would be to try and start organizing a doctors strike for a day. I figure that might be a good way for people to understand that they do not have a 'right' that confers a liability on to someone else to provide that right ( talking about people that think they have a right to healthcare ). How cool would it be if all doctors called in sick on a certain day? Re: Doctors Strike There is another active thread about whether there are doctors. It appears there is a med student who is a member. I might suggest, though, that if you want to plan an event where people risk their job, you be the one who's taking the risk, not others. Moved? Email Moved@FreeStateProject.org to let them know where you landed, and to get your mover number. rossby Quote from: Sam_Adams on July 28, 2009, 07:00:40 am That'd be terrible! You don't have to "call in sick" and put your patients at risk. You can just stop taking federal Medicare/Medicaid dollars. Yes, but remember, it's the patients that are insisting that the doctors enslave themselves to a government run health care system. My hope would be that the doctors would organize and start mounting a resistance through ads, information, forums, etc - a strike would be part of the strategy. But the goal would be to put so much pressure on congress by the people ( patients ) that they would have to vote down the socialized medicine legislation and the strike would never occur. Quote from: Sam_Adams on July 28, 2009, 08:24:53 pm You don't need to take government money just because patients "insist" that you should. Just stop serving those patients. FSP Participant You don't have to "call in sick" and put your patients at risk * During Doctors' strikes in the past, the death rate declined, because the medical monopoly, owned by the drug companies et al, dispense poisons, aka drugs, that do much more harm than good. First aid is about the only thing the medical monopoly does fairly well. The other Libertarian doctor, at http://mercola.com , documents this fairly extensively. Most anything that's not a nutrient is a poison. Medical treatments cause more deaths per year than any disease and actually cause or exacerbate most disease in the first place. * One of my Legislative Proposals for next year in NH is to end government support of monopolies, including the AMA, the ABA [bar assoc.] etc. Another is to start to end forced taxes, starting with property taxes on people's home grounds. Dreepa First 1000 Quote from: Luck on July 29, 2009, 08:27:50 am One of my Legislative Proposals for next year in NH is to end government support of monopolies, including the AMA, the ABA [bar assoc.] etc. Another is to start to end forced taxes, starting with property taxes on people's home grounds. Do you have a sponsor for these bills? JasonPSorens Neohantonum liberissimum erit. Lunacy. "Educate your children, educate yourselves, in the love for the freedom of others, for only in this way will your own freedom not be a gratuitous gift from fate. You will be aware of its worth and will have the courage to defend it." --Joaquim Nabuco (1883), Abolitionism Quote from: JasonPSorens on July 29, 2009, 11:44:42 am Well, not quite! There's statistical data out there that seems to support that death rates drop when doctors strike. It makes a little bit of sense. When doctors strike, elective procedures and the like are canceled. Buuut, in the end, the effects are not statistically significant. People blow it out of proportion. Makes for a good story. Most anything that's not a nutrient is a poison. In the proper dose, nearly anything can be a poison. Medical treatments cause more deaths per year than any disease and actually cause or exacerbate most disease in the first place. Medical treatments cause death or they are incident to death? I bet the deceased were probably eating and drinking water too. Correlation does not imply causation. Brainwashed by the govt monopoly education system about the govt supported monopoly pretended health care system. Quote from: Luck on July 29, 2009, 12:47:46 pm Ah, when reason fails, the other person must be brainwashed. Clever. Pat McCotter Fund the health care system you want to use. Don't fund the health care system you don't want to use. Simple. Visualize Whirled Peas Give Pizza Chance I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly. - Steven Wright DrGreg I just stumbled across this thread and thought i would weight in. From our website: www.doctorsonstrike.com On July 4, 2009, Doctors on Strike for Freedom in Medicine was established to take on the mission of preserving, protecting, and promoting individual rights and freedom in healthcare. We simultaneously issued a Declaration of Independence for Doctors and declared a philosophical and political war against the imminent government takeover of healthcare. Doctors on Strike is establishing a rapidly growing national audience through our website, www.doctorsonstrike.com, where we supply doctors and patients with the philosophical and political ammunition to fight for their rights. Within the first three weeks, our website was visited by people from 756 cities in 40 countries around the world, including all 50 states in America. Our message is getting through to people interested in protecting the rights of doctors and patients. Our most urgent goal is to defeat the statist healthcare reform legislation now being written by Congress. Another immediate aim is to mobilize doctors to be prepared to go on strike against any new government-run healthcare plans. Our longer term objective is to supply doctors and patients with the intellectual ammunition required to win the “philosophical war” against statism in medicine. The founding of Doctors on Strike coincided with the 233rd anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Inspired by the genius of the Founding Fathers, our Declaration of Independence for Doctors recognizes that doctors and patients have inalienable rights; that the purpose of government is to protect these rights — not violate them; that rights impose limitations on government; that statism in healthcare violates these rights; that Washington’s plan to takeover healthcare would violate the rights of doctors and patients — the very heart of the healthcare system; that the Hippocratic Oath requires doctors to take action to prevent harm; and that doctors, patients, and elected officials need to act — now — to preserve, protect, and promote individual rights and freedom in medicine. I invite you to visit our site and also to sign our petition at http://www.doctorsonstrike.com/petitiontoprotectdoctor-patientrights.html	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1339
__label__cc	0.592251	0.407749	Sound sets with good general background music? squiddoctor 2019-11-03 09:36:10 UTC #1 Could someone recommend some sound sets which contain general fantasy background music? I have a few sound sets for disconcerting music, battle music etc. but how about just general background music such as that found on the Brindol Town or Friendly Tavern free sets? I use the music from these sets all the time and I’d like to vary it up a bit more. Try music in Trollskull Manor, Wagon Journey, Tabletop Music (if you’re a Supersyrin, as that’s a community soundset by the very talented @davinci522), The Birds, Haunted Fortunes (the element Happy Home), Eel’s End (Tiger Tunes), Infection (Trails End). I hope those help! Great. Thanks for the tips. Most appreciated. Thanks for the shout out. I just asked @benjamin to update that soundset with the new songs I have added. So hopefully over the weekend it will have a few more that can be of use. benjamin 2019-11-04 04:58:24 UTC #5 davinci522: update that soundset Yup yup yup. Am totally getting to that asap! I just saw the “Shadows of Esteren Album Dearg” sound set on the Store page. It looks really good. However, when I watched the YouTube preview, Ben seemed to suggest the tracks do not play endlessly as one would expect “and that’ll be a cue that it’s time to indicate to Syrinscape that you want the next track of the album”. Could you please confirm if these music tracks play endlessly like most Syrinscape music? If so, I’ll definitely pick this set up. That’s right, each track from the album is a separate element, which you can play individually or by triggering the corresponding mood and playing the ambience designed for each track. It’s done that way so you can easily play the exact song that you want and put them into custom moods. If you have a SuperSyrin sub you can also use the Creator to then group those songs however you like and add them into your own soundsets. So if you just wanted to create a single element that plays them all you can. Each of the tracks have quite different feels to them though, so in most cases you wouldn’t want them all playing in any one particular game scene	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1342
__label__wiki	0.808612	0.808612	Fanedit Forums / General Topics / Movies / James Bond 25 Countdown Marathon James Bond 25 Countdown Marathon TM2YC Administrator / FE Academy Likes Received: 1,551 in 805 posts 12-07-2019, 07:18 AM (This post was last modified: 12-07-2019, 07:22 AM by TM2YC. Edited 1 time in total.) Halfway through the series now... Octopussy (1983) Roger Moore was set to retire from Bond and the producers went as far as doing full screen-tests with James Brolin featuring other main 'Octopussy' cast members but when it was announced that Sean Connery was doing a rival film in the same year, EON got nervous and brought Moore back. They also re-hired John Barry to ditch the synths of the last film and do a traditional lush orchestral score, making maximum use of the classic Bond themes, which the rival film would not have the rights to. He collaborated with Tim Rice to write 'All Time High' for Rita Coolidge, one of my favourite title songs. The film is mostly set around India and features Indian tennis star and actor Vijay Amritraj as "our man in". He is clearly having a ton of fun being in one of these films, with an infectious smile and laughing at Bond's antics during the excellent Tuk-Tuk chase. Maud Adams is much less memorable as the heroine (they sadly decided against Star Trek actress Persis Khambatta, who was actually Indian) and Steven Berkoff is astonishingly awful as a rogue Soviet General. The tone retreats back into some of the camp humour that was mostly avoided in 'For Your Eyes Only'. So we get misjudged moments like Bond using a crocodile-shaped sub, hiding in a gorilla suit and him doing the Tarzan call while swinging from vines. There is some awesome stuff too, like the thrilling micro-plane cold-open, a car being driven on train-tracks, the aforementioned Tuk Tuk action-scene in the packed streets of Udaipur and Roger sliding down the banisters firing an AK-47! The plot involving Fabergé eggs, Nuclear bombs, smuggling, circus acrobats and multiple enemy factions is all over the place. Michaela Clavell is introduced for a few seconds as "Penelope Smallbone", a younger assistant to the aging Moneypenny (Clavell's one and only appearance in the series). Robert Brown takes over the role of 'M' for the first time, with much success. He would play M until the series was re-booted with Dame Judi Dench in 1995. 'Octopussy' was one I saw on TV a lot as a kid, so I am pretty fond of it despite the flaws. ITW Edits: Star Trek: Paradise / Warriors Restoration / John Wick: Point Blank Cut / Escape From Los Angeles Completed Edits / Banners / FanEdit Ideas / Vimeo Channel The following 3 users Like TM2YC's post:3 users Like TM2YC's post • Garp, lapis molari, Neglify Faneditor Watched Spectre last night, maybe I'll do it backwards...:-) Back To The Future:The Hill Valley Chronicles Kill Bill: Roaring Rampage Edition Die Hard 'til Midnight Apocalypto: The Legend Of Jaguar Paw Drive: Radiohead Edition The following 2 users Like Sinbad's post:2 users Like Sinbad's post • Neglify, TM2YC Never Say Never Again (1983) Back in the 80s/90s 'Never Say Never Again' would be repeated in the UK as part of ITV's semi-regular "Bond Season" alongside all the other official EON films. As a child I didn't really notice all the off-brand features of the film, it had Sean Connery in it, it was a Bond movie... close enough. Re-watching now, they do stand out, plus of course it's a remake of 'Thunderball', so that's odd. Without the drilled EON stunt team, the action scenes are noticeably less impressive but to compensate the VisFX shots look more expensive and ambitious. Q is referred to as "Algernon" (except in one scene) for no obvious reason and is played as a very different character, Bernie Casey makes a great Felix Leiter though. Klaus Maria Brandauer's take on villain Largo goes beyond the typical gloating Bond arch-nemesis, into genuinely seeming psychotic. Laughing quietly to himself at jokes that only he can hear. Edward Fox wildly overacts as M, clearly collecting a paycheck. It's Directed by Irvin Kershner, with Cinematography by Douglas Slocombe, both hot off Lucas/Spielberg blockbusters, so I'm surprised to say the visuals are kinda bland. Sean Connery looks back in shape and isn't phoning it in like he did during 'Diamonds Are Forever'. They use his age to play the "You're a relic 007" angle, long before 'Goldeneye' and 'Skyfall' would do it. A mixed bag. This time I watched Blofelds Cat's clever 'Never Say McClory Again' fanedit, which replaces Michel Legrand's score with classic John Barry themes and changes the opening and closing to match the look of the other EON films. It's the only way to watch this film. https://ifdb.fanedit.org/james-bond-007-...ory-again/ The following 1 user Likes TM2YC's post:1 user Likes TM2YC's post • Neglify A View to a Kill (1985) 'A View to a Kill' marks the last outing for Lois Maxwell as Moneypenny and Roger Moore as 007, they were both approaching 60 at the time. It's also the point where Cubby Broccoli began handing over Producing duties to his daughter Barbara Broccoli and step-son Michael G. Wilson (who run the franchise to this day). It gets a bad rap for some reason but the mostly serious tone makes it one of the better Moore films in my book. There is plenty of proper covert spy stuff, gadgets to copy documents, a camera ring, spy shades, a lock picking device and swapping of code words. The stunts are top drawer like the one where Bond is shown jumping a car off a ramp, onto the top of a moving bus and off again in one continuous shot. There is also a base jump off the Eiffel Tower, a vertiginous finale atop the Golden Gate Bridge worthy of Alfred Hitchcock and the opening scene is crediting with popularising Snowboarding, which had never been shown in a film before. Patrick Macnee plays Bond's sidekick Sir Godfrey Tibbett, so we get fictional agents John Steed and Simon Templar on screen together. The bits where Moore is lording it over Macnee (who is posing as his valet) are really funny. Christopher Walken is of course terrific as the psychotic villain and Grace Jones makes an intimidating female "heavy" but Tanya Roberts' main heroine is introduced too late into the film and is a bit of a wet blanket on the last act. John Barry composes one of his best 007 scores, weaving the main theme from his and Duran Duran's credits song throughout. The Living Daylights (1987) 'The Living Daylights' just might be my favourite movie in the franchise. It gets the formula mixed just right, as serious in tone as the later Craig-era but Bond is still allowed to be fun (and funny) when it's appropriate. Timothy Dalton plays 007 with a cold suppressed fury, exemplified by the way he first delivers the "Bond, James Bond" line, terse and understated, like his 007 hasn't got time for that sh*t. The cold open is a cracker, the 00s under attack as they parachute onto the Rock of Gibraltar. It's refreshing to see the younger virile Dalton actually doing some of the stunts himself, after Roger Moore's often phony back-projection efforts. Alec Mills' Cinematography is total class, these films have rarely looked better. I'd forgotten how effective the romance with Maryam d'Abo is, a girl hasn't cut this deep into Bond's heart since Tracy. The scene they share at the funfair is beautifully played, you can see the steely exterior Dalton puts on the character melt away, forgetting his troubles. Then you see how the death of a fellow operative while he was having that fun causes Bond to put the emotional armour back up. It's a portrayal a lot deeper than most of these films go. Interestingly Pierce Brosnan was announced as the new Bond, which led to NBC not letting him out of his contract on 'Remington Steele' as planned, which led to the Bond offer being withdrawn and so 'Remington Steele' was cancelled. Bad luck for Pierce, good luck for Dalton, although it worked out in the end. The subplot involving Bond teaming up with a dashing Osama Bin Laden proxy (played by Art Malik) to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan looks somewhat different now, than I'm sure it did then. John Terry is a fairly forgettable Felix Leiter, so he would be replaced in the next film. Caroline Bliss is alright as Dalton's new Moneypenny but she's not got the same flirty spark as the actors before and after. Sadly Walter Gotell was ill, so he couldn't do more than a brief cameo as General Gogol (the last of six appearances as the character), so a new KGB chief called General Pushkin was devised. John Rhys-Davies does a wonderful job as always but it would have had so much more impact for it to have been Gogol. Bond gets perhaps his sexiest car from Q, a gorgeous tricked-out black Aston Martin V8 Vantage with lasers and missiles (I've seen it at a museum). John Barry pulls out all the stops for his final score for the series. 'The Living Daylights' is the last Bond film to have a stunning fully painted poster (by Brian Bysouth)... it's bland Photoshop from here on out. • ChainsawAsh, Garp, lapis molari, Neglify Problem Eliminator TLD is class, easily my favourite in the series. COMPLETED: The Living Daylights: Recut \| Licence to Kill: Recut \| Blade Runner 2049: New Vangelis Cut \| All Edits on IFDB The following 2 users Like Problem Eliminator's post:2 users Like Problem Eliminator's post • Canon Editor, ChainsawAsh 01-02-2020, 04:43 PM (This post was last modified: 01-02-2020, 04:46 PM by TM2YC. Edited 3 times in total.) (01-02-2020, 12:00 AM)Problem Eliminator Wrote: TLD is class, easily my favourite in the series. 1 point to Gryffindor! btw... a minor criticism I had of TLD was the almost comically large sniper rifle Bond uses in the first mission (like a Manga or videogame gun). I always thought it looked like a fake movie prop but no it's apparently a real and obscure rifle, the Walther WA2000 (point of criticism no more): Wikipedia: "Only 176 were built due to its high cost, making it one of the rarest and most sought production firearms ever made." It goes for as much as $75k, so lord knows how much the actual one from the movie is worth. matrixgrindhouse FE Academy Member 01-02-2020, 07:51 PM (This post was last modified: 01-02-2020, 07:59 PM by matrixgrindhouse. Edited 1 time in total.) Likewise, the "rocket guns" from You Only Live Twice were also real, called Gyrojets. Their explosive bullets were not an accurate depiction of what they did, though. Completed Projects:Robots VS Kung Fu: The Matrix: Grindhouse Edition - COPS Consecution Segment: The Naked Gun - Fear and Loathing in Fantasy Mission Force - Time Travel Consecution Segment: Future Shock - Halloween Shock Robots VS Kung Fu 2000 - RoboCop 4 - Rumble in The Bronx: Uncut and Extended The following 1 user Likes matrixgrindhouse's post:1 user Likes matrixgrindhouse's post • TM2YC Licence to Kill (1989) For Timothy Dalton's second and sadly final outing as 007, they go all 'Scarface' 1983, pitting Bond against Robert Davi's Sanchez, a sadistic South American drug lord. This latest viewing gave me renewed respect for one of the most focused scripts/stories in the franchise, James quits MI6 and goes rogue on a rage fueled vengeance quest, with minimal globe trotting and no subplots getting in the way. However, I've always had a problem with quite how comparatively nasty and mean spirited the film is and my mind hasn't been changed. Felix Leiter (played with real warmth once more by the recently late David Hedison) gets maimed by a shark after his new bride is implied to have been raped to death on their honeymoon (and in her wedding dress), we see Sanchez whip his girlfriend, Bond gleefully feeds a traitor to a shark, forces a henchman into a mincing machine and later burns a villain alive, the corpse of one of Bond's friends is pictured hooked up like a piece of meat, we see a guys head exploding 'Scanners' style and Sanchez drops a man into a propeller blade. I don't think there is another film in the series that has anywhere near this much violence and certainly not without cutting away from it. It's not fun anymore. The cold-open action sequence is incredible, featuring Bond hooking a plane out of the air and then parachuting in with felix in time for the latter's wedding. It's so badass. I loved the semi-meta scene where one of Sanchez's underlings is trying to explain to his enraged boss how Bond made another miraculous escape and he realizes he is in trouble because 007's exploits don't sound believable. I also liked the feeling that James is making things up as he goes along, improvising, using his cunning. A very young looking Benicio Del toro looking like a total psycho gets one of his first roles as the top henchman. I'd forgotten how stunning Carey Lowell is as Bond's love interest and action sidekick. The bits where Moneypenny and Q help Bond out behind MI6's back are kinda charming. 'Licence to Kill' is the end of an era in many ways, the 16th and last Bond film Produced by Cubby Broccoli and the last of five Directed by John Glen. Legal and financial troubles at parent studio MGM would stall production on the next film for 6-years. Then we're into a different post 'Jurassic Park'/'Terminator 2' FX-blockbuster 90s world with a new M. • Garp, Neglify	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1344
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__label__cc	0.635955	0.364045	Fall 2016 Tie Replacement Project I'll write another blog post about the overall poor on-time performance of the Framingham-Worcester line (as highlighted in some recent news articles). But for today, I wanted to focus on the tie replacement project. This fall's tie replacement project is on track 2 between Boston and Southboro. Track 2 is the track used for both inbound and outbound rush hour trains between Boston and Framingham. The tie replacement project is necessary maintenance and actually decreases the risk that restrictive speed limits will be imposed due to track and railbed condition. Every 6 months, an inspection train checks the condition of the tracks. This sophisticated "geometry train" uses a number of sensors to verify that the track and railbed are safe for the operation of the railroad at the highest possible speeds (daily inspections check for visual and other defects). If the geometry train detects a fault, there is a speed restriction imposed on that section of track until the defect can be repaired. Without regular replacement of ties and resurfacing of the railbed, the risk increases that the geometry train will find defects that will result in temporary speed restrictions. As many of you recall, the previous major tie replacement project in May-June on track 1 resulted in significant delays for many trains. The MBTA & Keolis changed the way the current tie replacement project is being executed for track 2 in order to minimize delays. The disturbance of the railbed from any construction work requires temporary speed restrictions after the work has been done. But how the work is sequenced can affect the length (distance) of those speed limits - and by minimizing the length of the speed limits, the overall impact to on-time performance can be mitigated. For this fall's project, the productivity of the construction has been intentionally slowed down in order to minimize the length of the temporary speed restriction. In addition, a specialized piece of equipment - a track stabilizer - has been added to the track surfacing crew so that the speed restrictions can be further minimized. For this tie replacement project, the sequence is: 1) close track 2) tie replacement crew / work 3) track surfacing crew / work 4) open track 5) temporary speed restriction for first / ONE train movement across entire length of work area (both tie replacement area & surface work area). 6) ~24 hour 30 mph temporary speed restriction for the ~1 mile of track that the tie replacement crew disturbed (or actually the disturbed area where the surface crew HASN'T worked yet). The 'track surfacing' work is the distribution of new ballast (stone) and the tamping and stabilization of the stone. Normally the area where the surfacing crew works requires a temporary speed restriction for 24 hours. Adding the stabilizer to the surfacing crew reduces the temporary speed restriction from 24 hours to one train passage. In addition to adding the track stabilizer to the surfacing crew, the tie replacement crew's productivity is being intentionally limited so that they do not get too far ahead of the surface crew. Normally, the productivity of the tie replacement crew is HIGHER than the surfacing crew. So over time (multiple days), the tie replacement crew could get way ahead of the surface crew, resulting in a 24 hour temporary speed restriction for their work area and the entire 'gap' between the two work areas. In other words, for this project, the tie replacement crew is not allowed to go as far as they could if they were unconstrained. This limits the tie replacement crew to probably ~75% of their unconstrained productivity. An MBTA manager mentioned to me that they can remember an instance when the Old Colony lines had tie replacement done and the temporary speed restriction between the crews got all the way up to 7 miles. This was a long time ago - but that is a long distance to be restricted to 30 mph. The track stabilizer as a member of the surfacing gang and the constraint on the tie replacement crew were both NOT present during May-June when they worked on track 1. The delays resulting from having multiple miles of temporary speed restrictions were catastrophic to on-time performance for that period - and not only were there many delays, but the delays were much more substantial than the delays being caused by this fall's tie replacement project. The overall scope of this tie replacement project is from Boston (actually CP 4 on the west side of Boston Landing station) to CP 28 in Southboro (see the map). 33,000 ties are scheduled to be replaced - an average of 1,600 per mile. That's about half the ties (US railroads typically have ~3,000 ties per mile). As of today, the work has been completed from CP 4 in Boston to just west of Wellesley Farms station. Railbed construction and maintenance is usually halted in the winter when the ground freezes. This project got a slightly later start than was intended - I think it started around the beginning of October. The current plan is to continue with the project until approximately December 16th, with the remainder of the work presumably deferred until the spring. The limitations on the track work productivity have been successful and have resulted in 24-hour 30 mph speed restrictions of no more than one mile since the project started in October. Many of you have commented on the recent "slow-downs" in Wellesley and Newton - and this is what you have been noticing. It is much more noticeable on an express train that would be operating at 60 mph for that whole stretch - a one mile speed restriction requires slowing down before the train reaches the start of the speed restriction (as opposed to a local train that may never even get up to 60 mph after its nearest station stop). It is likely that this tie replacement project has had a impact on on-time performance for many trains over the past month. As noted, a one mile speed restriction for an express train may be enough to push it close to 5 minutes late (the threshold for "on-time"). In addition to the impact on rush hour trains, there have been more significant delays for mid-day trains when one track is out-of-service completely and train service is limited to one track only during the construction. So in summary, we need to give credit where credit is due. I'm not suggesting that ~60% on-time performance is acceptable - but I am suggesting that without these changes to the way the tie replacement project is being executed, the delays related to the tie replacement project would have been much more extensive. Summer 2016 Construction Update I'll break this update into three separate blog posts, since there's a lot to talk about: 1) This post - quick take / status update / recap 2) Drainage improvements in Natick (with pictures & video!) 3) Recap of tie replacement (with pictures & video!) Finally! The spring construction work is done. Well, actually almost done. Here is a breakdown: 1) Drainage project in Natick: completed on Monday 7/11/2016. Details in blog post below. 2) Tie replacement on track 1 from Boston to Worcester: completed on Saturday 6/25/2016. Except for directly in Framingham station - details in blog post below. 3) Railbed resurfacing (explanation in tie replacement blog post below): Almost complete. Looks like about 1 mile east of West Natick & 1 mile between West Natick and Framingham still to be done. 4) Rail destressing: Almost complete. Details below (in this blog post). 5) Collection of old ties from tie replacement: Ongoing, but in off-peak hours. Details in tie replacement blog post below. The bottom line is that the major construction work that was causing mid-day delays (and the significant delay to P512 in the morning) is complete. For the rest of the summer, there should be minimal delays caused by track work. There will still be some over the next few weeks, but it will be much less disruptive than it has been prior to now. In addition, most of the temporary speed restrictions associated with the construction have been removed. So those won't slow things down for us either. [See below for possible heat restriction delays...] The speed restriction near the Boston Landing construction is still in place and will remain until the final track configuration is complete. The elimination of mid-day delays will also help with on-time performance of evening trains. When a mid-day train became delayed, it would delay the 'turn' of equipment at South Station - and those delays would cascade through the 5-6 PM peak hour. I have no idea why the construction wasn't complete on 6/30/16 as promised. It wasn't for lack of trying - they had crews going 7 days a week through most of June. Just too much to do, I guess. Some final thoughts (for this blog post) on the new schedule: 1) At the FMCB meeting today, there was some discussion of tweaks to the schedules. Apparently the MBTA is now willing to admit that the new schedules were too aggressive and the 'transit times' (time from start to finish) were reduced too much on the new schedules. This was reported by Mike Deehan of WGBH here. I have not seen an estimate of when the schedules will be re-issued or what lines will be affected. They might not make any changes to the Framingham-Worcester line yet, because... 2) As noted in this announcement, the construction on the Framingham-Worcester line has prevented a true analysis of the schedule performance. I think this is probably half true: mid-day and evening rush hour on-time performance cannot currently be analyzed with the June data since it was heavily impacted by the construction. But all trains before 9 AM should not have been heavily affected by construction, although there may have been some temporary speed restrictions related to the construction that affected those trains. So it's possible that they will delay making any changes to our schedules until they can get 'clean' data from periods with no construction. 3) A fellow Framingham-Worcester rider did an very in-depth analysis of recent on-time performance and posted it here. Lots to think about for all of us data nerds. Other topics / thoughts 1) Heat Restrictions: For background on this topic, read this post. You can also use the category links on the right side of this blog (or way down at the bottom if you're reading this on a mobile device) to learn about Heat Restrictions and Rail Destressing. As noted in previous blog posts, the MBTA spent a lot of money to fund and execute rail destressing on both tracks of the entire line. That's about 82 miles of track - or 164 miles of rail (CP 4 to CP 45 = 41 miles * two tracks * two rails per track = 164). Now that the rail destressing is done (or will be very shortly), heat restrictions will be much reduced. But not eliminated. As noted in this announcement, the new heat restriction rules will be a reduction in maximum track speed to 40 mph (instead of 30 mph) and only when ambient temperatures exceed 95 degrees (instead of 85). 2) Rail Destressing: Sources indicate that there are approximately 2 miles of rail destressing still to be completed on track 2 west of Framingham. Not sure if it is in the Grafton-Worcester stretch or the Ashland-Southboro stretch. Both those locations seem to get tagged with 'board trains on the opposite side' notices in the middle of the day, which must be related to some kind of construction. 3) Future tie replacement: We're not completely done with construction. With tie replacement work completed on track 1, track 2 is next. The construction crews will be remobilizing in the fall and restarting tie replacement work on track 2. I'm guessing after Labor Day. Someone pointed out that summer would be actually a better time to do the work since ridership is somewhat lower. I can't argue with that and I also have not heard an explanation for why the gap / pause in construction activity over the summer. The track 1 tie replacement work started in late March or early April. Therefore the duration was about 3 months. Expect the same for track 2 in the fall. And therefore expect on-time performance / delays in the fall to be similar to what we just experienced in June. Sorry... don't shoot the messenger. And believe it or not, having maintenance done and money spent on our line is actually a good & necessary thing. See the blog posts below for more details on: Construction and New Schedule update I've gathered some great information over the past few weeks. Here's an update on the following topics: 1) Rail Destressing & Tie Replacement Projects 2) Boston Landing & Allston single track 3) Turn Table for new schedule 4) Track assignments for new schedule It was a race to the heat and the weather won. The MBTA was trying their best to accelerate the rail destressing construction so that it would be completed before the hot weather arrived. Our little late May heat wave dashed those hopes. As I've previously reported, the funding for the completion of ALL rail destressing between Boston and Worcester was only approved in late March. Until that point, there was one large section of rail that would never have been destressed. So along with the tie replacement project, the last portion of the entire rail destressing project has been ongoing throughout this spring. The last sections of track that needed destressing are typically used for inbound trains in the afternoon. All of the 'outbound' tracks have already been destressed. So how do outbound trains become delayed in that scenario? As you may recall, the new schedule eliminated the idea of 'interlining' trains. Meaning that there are now 8 sets of equipment dedicated to the Framingham-Worcester line. They just go back and forth from Worcester (or Framingham) to Boston. In the middle of the day, some of them are parked in yards or go for service, since 8 train sets aren't needed for the reduced service in the middle of the day. With no interlined trains, a delayed inbound train can delay an outbound train since that inbound equipment is needed for outbound trips. The inbound/outbound non-interlining system is also a reason why evening trains are delayed even though the construction ended before rush hour. That's why it was so important to get all of the tracks destressed. So kudos again to however they came up with the money for these construction projects - we've gotten a big influx of money and the payoff will be good. The other good news is that both the rail destressing project and the tie replacement project are ahead of schedule and will be completed in June. So only a few more weeks of construction and heat restrictions. After the projects are complete, there will be no more heat restrictions and no more construction delays west of Boston Landing. Hang in there, we're almost there! Actually there will be construction later this year. The tie replacement project will continue on track 2 west of Framingham in the fall. So we're not completely done with construction delays. But the summer should be much better than recent weeks. To be specific, the current status of the rail destressing project is: Track 1: CP 4 (near Boston Landing) to CP 11 (Weston switch) - destressing completed this spring. CP 11 (Weston switch) to CP 21 (Framingham) - destressing completed late 2015. CP 21 (Framingham) to Worcester - track replaced during 2014 and 2015. CP 4 to Framingham - destressed in 2015. Framingham to Worcester - destressing will be completed in June. CP = "Controlled Point." You can read about the definition of CP in the glossary. CP 4 = The interlocking just west of the new Boston Landing construction. CP 4 is where the two tracks from Worcester become a single track through the Beacon Park freight yard. CP 11 = What I call the "Weston switch," this is the interlocking between the Wellesley Farms and Auburndale stations, right next to the Leo J. Martin golf course and just west of Route 128. You can see the precise locations of all these places on my map. Until Track 2 is fully destressed, certain sections of track 2 between Framingham and Worcester will have a 30 mph speed restriction imposed in hot weather. The previous rule was that ambient temperatures above 85 degrees at Worcester, Framingham, or Boston triggered the heat restrictions and that appears to be what happened on Tuesday 5/25. The temperature spiked above 85 degrees at Framingham and the heat restrictions were imposed. I'm not sure if Boston is still a part of the rule since the section of affected track is far from Boston. And who knows, the entire rule could have changed. If you're a first time reader and would like the background on heat restrictions and rail destressing, read this post for an introduction to the topic. Also don't forget to use the 'category' links on the right side of this page to read all the posts about certain topics. Astute readers may notice that I don't spend much time talking about the tie replacement project in the above discussion regarding heat restrictions. That's because the tie replacement actually has nothing to do with removing heat restrictions - the rail destressing is performed FIRST, and then the ties are replaced after the rail is destressed. The tie replacement is important, but it won't affect heat restrictions, regardless of what politicians and the mainstream media try to tell us. The tie replacement project is proactive maintenance that maintains the track in good condition. Rotted ties are one of the most common causes of speed restrictions. Some of you may recall a 5 mph speed restriction just west of Yawkey at the CP 3 interlocking for about a week in April or May. That speed restriction was imposed after the FRA (Federal Railway Administration) inspection car came across the line and found TWO rotted ties at that location. That was enough to impose a speed restriction for safety purposes. So proactive tie replacement is very important to avoid the imposition of those speed restrictions (and keep the system safe!), but it doesn't really have anything to do with heat restrictions. However, tie replacement is actually more disruptive to the rail bed than rail destressing. Therefore tie replacement results in speed restrictions that last longer (on the calendar) and affect more trains over more days. Areas where the ties are replaced have new ballast (stone) spread and tamped, which takes time to settle and stabilize. This results in a requirement for temporary speed restrictions related to the amount of tonnage (number and weight of trains) that pass over the modified railbed. Most of the tie replacement has been completed (obviously, since they only have a few weeks left of construction!). The remaining few sections for tie replacement include a section on track 1 in Wellesley and Natick, a section within and near Framingham station on track 1, and a section on track 1 in Ashland and Southboro. Track 1 through Wellesley and Natick never carries rush hour trains (AM or PM), so temporary speed restrictions there don't affect most of us. Track 1 from Framingham to Worcester is the outbound track (all day), so temporary speed restrictions have affected lots of passengers on that stretch and will continue to affect us. It should also be noted that the temporary speed restrictions related to the tie replacement project will last PAST the completion of construction - again, the speed restriction remains in place until a certain amount of tonnage passes over the disturbed railbed. So expect delays through the Ashland and Southboro areas through June on track 1 (outbound track). The background on Boston Landing station is in this post. More good news to report today - the construction is ahead of schedule and the station should be completed before the end of this year. The original schedule put construction completion in the spring of 2017. With both the Celtics and Bruins practice facilities being built at Boston Landing, maybe we'll see players taking the train to practice this winter? As most of you are aware, the section of track from CP 4 (near Boston Landing) to CP 3 (just west of Yawkey) has been the only section of single track between Worcester and Boston since the Mass Pike extension was built in the 1960's. That foolish decision is now being corrected, with the MBTA and Keolis starting construction on a second mainline track through this section. As you pass through the former Beacon Park freight yard you can see this construction. The first step in the process is the removal of the 40 foot sections of 'stick rail,' which will be replaced with continuously welded rail. All of the switches connecting into the freight yard are also currently being removed. The path of the new mainline 'second track' will follow the existing path of the freight lead closest to the existing single track mainline. This includes going up onto the little 'rise' and under the Mass Pike viaduct since there is a column supporting the Mass Pike preventing the second track from being directly adjacent to the existing single track. The only bad news is that this second track construction will be synchronized with the completion of the Boston Landing station, so the second track won't be completed as soon as we would all like. The new second track will be 'stubbed out' to align with the new tracks alongside the new Boston Landing station and only connected once the tracks alongside the station are completed. For fellow rail nerds, part of this overall project will be the decommissioning of CP 4 (it will no longer exist as an interlocking). It will be replaced with a new interlocking at CP 6, which will be on the straight / tangent rail section along the Mass Pike near the Staples store on Soldiers Field Road. A freight lead switch will be included somewhere near Boston Landing station and the former location of CP 4 to allow freight trains to access the parts of Beacon Park yard still in service. I've updated the "Turn Table" for the new schedule. Theoretically, with 8 dedicated sets of equipment, we should be able to figure out the 'turns' at South Station as well as the 'turns' at Worcester. I gave it a try but it is impossible since all of the equipment goes to storage or service in the middle of the day. How that equipment returns to service in the afternoon is where I couldn't 'reverse engineer' the schedule. We'll see if I can't get some additional information and create a more comprehensive table of equipment usage and all equipment turns. As detailed in previous blog posts, the 'inbound' and 'outbound' tracks are really not labeled properly or helpfully. Based on the new schedule, I've updated my table of track assignments, which includes the status of the rail destressing as of now. As explained above, this table will soon be covered entirely in green! For information on which track is which, see this blog post. I'm NOT 100% confident this is correct, so please let me know if you notice any errors or changes. Click on the image for a PDF version. Compare the table above to the corresponding table from September 2015 in this blog post. Notice the lack of red - everything has been funded. And we're almost to all green! Also note that there are no leapfrog moves with the new schedule, and the Newton stretch is kept more consistent than with previous schedules (at the expense of reverse commute options for Newton passengers). Overall an operational improvement that should result in better service and less delays (remember, the current delays are primarily related to construction, and those should be gone soon). Rail destressing! Tie replacement! CP4! CP11! Construction! Keolis has just announced upcoming construction work for the Framingham-Worcester line. They published this press release this afternoon and published a video with Rich Murphy explaining the work. Let's dive into the details of what they have announced and provide some context. First, the background. If you haven't already read it or just want to get a reminder on what heat restrictions are all about, read this post. As Rich points out in the video, the Framingham-Worcester line has the dubious distinction of being the most recent rail line brought under the complete control of the MBTA. The MBTA has invested quite a bit of money into construction projects to eliminate heat restrictions, and that work continues this spring. Rich (and I) talk in railroad jargon about track 1 and track 2, and things like CP 4 and CP 11. Let's translate those into terms you can use to follow this story: Track 1 = the northernmost track, or the track closest to New Hampshire. This is called the "outbound" track by Keolis customer service. Track 2 = the southernmost track, or the track closest to Rhode Island. This is called the "inbound" track by Keolis customer service. But note that between Boston and Framingham, rush hour trains use track 2 for BOTH the inbound and outbound legs of their journey. Hence why I hate calling the tracks "inbound" and "outbound." More about track numbering here. The last time I posted an update about the rail destressing projects was in September of last year. At that time, the MBTA had either completed or planned for work on most of the tracks, but not all. Back then, I got the scoop on an expansion of the scope of the project. With that expanded scope, all of the rail was due to be destressed (or replaced) with the exception of track 2 from Worcester to Framingham. With today's announcement from Keoils, that section - track 2 from Framingham to Worcester - is now scheduled to be destressed. So when these construction projects are complete, all the rail on both tracks will have been destressed, and heat restrictions will no longer be imposed on inbound OR outbound trains. Here are the precise details: CP 4 to CP 11 (Weston switch) - will be destressed this spring CP 11 to CP 21 (Framingham) - destressing completed late 2015. CP 21 (Framingham) to Worcester - track replaced during 2014 and 2015 CP 4 to Framingham - destressed in 2015 Framingham to Worcester - will be destressed this spring. You can use this map from last year to visually see what is happening. On that map, the dashed pink / orange line indicates track 2 where the rail destressing had not been scheduled (and hadn't even been funded until recently). Now, with today's news, that section of track will be destressed. As you probably know, the heat restrictions usually only have a big impact on outbound rush hour trains. Outbound rush hour trains usually use track 2 from Boston to Framingham and then track 1 from Framingham to Worcester. As Rich mentions in the video, and as you can see from the list above, those tracks have already had destressing completed. So even without today's announcement, the prior work that has been completed will mean that heat restrictions this coming summer will have much less of an impact on the majority of daily Boston commuters. But having heat restrictions on the other tracks can delay other trains, primarily because equipment that is delayed arriving in Boston can't leave ("turn") on time. So if an inbound afternoon rush hour train is delayed due to a heat restriction, an outbound train may be delayed even if it doesn't have a heat restriction on the path it is scheduled to follow. This is much more likely to happen now that they plan on keeping all equipment dedicated to a particular line with the implementation of the new schedules in May. Other important tidbits from the video: 1) 30,000 ties to be replaced. 2) a new interlocking at CP 6 will be created and constructed. 3) a second track along the single track through the Beacon Park freight yard will be constructed, eliminating that single track bottleneck. Although Rich doesn't state it in the video, I've been told that the second track through Beacon Park is part of this spring's construction project! That tidbit is probably the biggest news of the day. And buried here at the bottom so only you nerds that read this whole post will find out. Rail Replacement Project <edited based on comment> One of the aspects of the ongoing projects to reduce or eliminate heat restrictions on the Framingham / Worcester line is the replacement of rails between Framingham and Worcester. Over the weekend of 9/12 - 9/13, the contractor working on the project replaced both of the rails on Track 2 within Framingham station, between CP 21 (the signal at the east end of the station) and CP 22 (the signal at the west end of the station). They did the southernmost rail on Saturday and the northernmost rail on Sunday. I noticed the crew working there on Saturday morning when I went out for some errands, and I was able to convince my wife to come with me to check it out later in the day. We arrived after they had changed the rail and after they had completed the weld near CP 21. We took some pictures of the welding operation near CP 22 and the grinding of the new weld near CP 21. The rails are joined using exothermic welding. Plenty of hard work and even an old fashioned whacking of spikes with a sledge. Here are our pictures (after the "read more:" Rail Destressing / Heat Restrictions UPDATE <updated 9/2/15 to correct error in table, as per comments> All of the posts on this topic are here. If you haven't read anything about heat restrictions and want an explanation of what this is all about, read the first post here. Today's post is kind of fun...instead of just re-posting news and explanations that are posted elsewhere, I get to break some news that hasn't yet been reported anywhere! The breaking news is that on August 12, 2015, the MBTA expanded the scope of the rail destressing project to include track 1 from Boston to Framingham. Prior to this contract modification, as I have previously explained, this section of track was not scheduled to have rail destressing performed on it, meaning heat restrictions would never have been eliminated for trains on that track. Technical details of the additional scope are contained in this "Field Memo 5." This is good news, since it now means that ALL of the tracks used for ALL outbound trains (not just rush hour) have rail destressing projects either completed or underway. The bad news is that this work probably won't be finished in time to make a difference this summer. The MBTA has now updated their website and published a great map that confirms my earlier speculation about the extent of the rail destressing project. This updated FAQ document also confirms our thoughts on the project extents. The map really helps to explain the project in a visual way. Most outbound rush hour trains travel on track 2 (the orange line on the map) from Boston to Framingham, and then on track 1 (the green and blue line on the map) from Framingham to Worcester. Since both the orange and blue represents areas where rail destressing is complete, you can see where trains are allowed to operate at "track speed." To help explain the effect of the various aspects of the rail destressing project, I expanded the table that I created for an earlier post. This table shows the track that each train usually travels on versus the status of the rail destressing project. 1) Where the rail destressing project is NOT complete (in other words, any yellow or red on the table), the max speed of any train during a heat restriction is 30 mph. 2) Weston is the location of the "CP 11" set of switches that allows trains to change tracks. It is next to the golf course, just west of Route 128, and between the Wellesley Farms and Auburndale stations. 3) Framingham is a station stop where all trains stop, so rail destressing doesn't really matter there, since all trains are going slow anyway. I'm not sure if they are even doing rail destressing in that area. 4) "N-A" indicates that those trains don't operate there (i.e. originate or terminate in Framingham). To use the table, simply find your train and read down to follow what tracks it normally operates on. Then you can understand if you are likely to encounter heat restrictions (now or in the future). For example, if you are riding on train P527 (the 'express' that departs South Station at 5:00 PM), you can expect to operate at 'track speed' (60 mph in most places) all the way to Framingham (on track 2, the green squares in the table). After Framingham, you're normally on track 1 to Worcester - but at reduced speed to Westboro (the yellow square in the table). Make sense? Other important notes: 1) Even if 'your' train shouldn't experience reduced speeds due to heat restrictions according to my table, other delayed trains (especially inbounds) may affect the timing of meets and routing at switches, meaning your train might be delayed even though the rail has been 'destressed' on the section you are operating on. For example, inbound P526 or P528 operating at a reduced speed for the entire length of its transit (at least now) can delay outbound trains by 'getting in the way' (especially at the single track through Allston). 2) As recently reported, the schedule for all commuter rail lines will change on November 1, 2015. Therefore my table above may not accurately represent what the conditions will be for the summer of 2016, when all of the 'yellow squares' would presumably turn to 'green squares' (since the current projects are due to be completed in 2015). 3) I have simplified the "Worcester to Westboro" section for track 1. A close inspection of the project map shows that on track 1 there are sections that are complete (blue line) and sections that are not complete (green line) within that stretch. For simplicity, I'm calling it all complete, but you will probably experience a reduction to 30 mph between Grafton and Worcester on heat restriction days over the next few weeks. I guess I'm cutting the MBTA some slack by calling it complete for the table above. The MBTA actually published the project map back in July and I saved it. Note that it doesn't indicate today's breaking news - the addition of rail destressing from Boston to Framingham on track 1. On this July map, that section is still dashed peach - awaiting scheduling of the project. So kudos to the MBTA for releasing the money to do more rail destressing! It will be interesting to see if they can find the money to do the remaining section of track (track 2 from Framingham to Worcester) that is the last piece of the rail destressing puzzle. Table of tracks vs. heat restrictions Get ready for more heat restriction delays this week. As discussed in an earlier post, and now confirmed, the current rail destressing project is complete between Boston and Framingham. Therefore, we will see better schedule performance for trains on this stretch. To simplify the story, I have created this little table. The number in the table indicates which track the train USUALLY runs on. Green indicates that rail destressing was scheduled, executed, and is now complete for that track. Yellow indicates the rail destressing project is scheduled and underway for that track. Red indicates that rail destressing on that track is NOT funded, NOT scheduled, and is NOT on the MBTA capital projects plan (in other words, NEVER scheduled to happen). 2) Weston is the location of the "CP 11" set of switches that allows trains to change tracks. It is next to the golf course, just west of Route 128, and between Wellesley Farms and Auburndale stations. 4) P525 and P529 terminate in Framingham, so "N-A" for them past Framingham. Also note that when heat restrictions are in place, the entire schedule is put into jeopardy due to cascading delays. For example, a late inbound train may occupy the single track in Allston, delaying an otherwise unaffected outbound train. So this table is NOT a guarantee of anything - delays may occur to any train for multiple reasons when heat restrictions are in place. What this table can tell you is where delays are MORE LIKELY to occur during a heat restriction. For example, if you are going outbound to anywhere west of Framingham, there is almost a guarantee that you will be delayed on that stretch during a heat restriction (unless the heat restriction gets cancelled). The completed project between Framingham and Boston helps all riders on the line - and actually may benefit 'express' trains more, since they can run at full track speed for a longer time than the locals. As mentioned in the earlier post, P583 is the one interesting train on this table. The takeaway from this analysis (and explained in more detail in the earlier post) is that P529 will most likely arrive in Framingham BEFORE P583 when heat restrictions remain in place for the duration of P529 or P583's trip to Framingham. According to the MBTA, the third phase of the rail destressing project (from Framingham to Westboro) is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2015. Eventually I plan to update the table to include the entire schedule. This is one of multiple blog posts regarding heat restrictions. Click here to read them all. Yours truly on Fox 25 News Yes, that's me giving a D/C grade. My assessment (and my conversation with Ms. Hegedus) was based on overall performance- not just the heat restrictions. Short sets, staff shortages, and sometimes incomplete communication are more significant factors in my assessment. The heat restriction isn't really Keolis' fault (nor actually the MBTA's fault), so I hesitate to pin that on them. Hence my "they were dealt a bad deck of cards" phrase. But anyway, Ms. Hegedus had already read this blog to get a flavor of the nitty-gritty details of the heat restrictions. We discussed some particular topics that she had picked up on, but unfortunately, and somewhat understandably, the details that I discuss in this blog are way too detailed for a brief television news report. There are some aspects of our conversation that I will be following up on, and I'll be blogging about those topics as soon as I can verify some information. No use in putting out bad info and having to retract it. The news report: Cartoon to explain heat restrictions Keolis created a little cartoon video to help explain heat restrictions. What is a heat restriction? from Keolis Commuter Services on Vimeo. Cute, and certainly simplistic, but it gets the message across! And easier than reading my overly geeky explanation. Photos of Rail Destressing Project MBTA Commuter Rail recently tweeted out two photos of the rail destressing project. More details about the project here. This also explains the station closure - you really don't want to be near chopsaws and open flames while waiting for your train. Crews continue to de-stress track along the Worcester line to end heat-related speed restrictions. pic.twitter.com/ZvQtSYDtA8 — MBTA Commuter Rail (@MBTA_CR) July 23, 2015 De-stressing the rails near West Natick Station today. pic.twitter.com/lkeX9ayOS6 Heat Restrictions: Take 3 Please read the original post: http://framwormbta.weebly.com/blog/whats-with-the-heat-restrictions and "Take 2:" http://framwormbta.weebly.com/blog/heat-restrictions-take-2 According to scanner chatter on Monday 7/20/15, there are now four places that are subject to outbound rush hour heat restrictions. I'm not sure exactly where they are, but based on my observations, they may be: 1) Allston single track (from CP 3 to around milepost 5) 2) On either side of and through the switches at CP 11 (Weston) 3) From Framingham to Worcester I'm not sure where the fourth one is, and I'm not even sure if that list is correct. I'll try to find out the real list, but the weather forecast indicates heat restrictions are probably not in the cards for the rest of this week. On Tuesday, 7/21, I watched the PTIS (GPS) data for the outbound rush hours trains and created this table: This table shows the scheduled vs. actual arrival times for the outbound PM rush hour trains on Tuesday 7/21/2015. Heat restrictions were in place from about 3:25 PM until after 8 PM. As noted in the table, there were other problems with P583 and P531, so that data may not be useful in our analysis. I gave up after P531 arrived in Worcester, so I don't know how late P533 was at Worcester. The revealing data is that P525, P527, and P529 essentially arrived in Framingham on time - while all arrivals at Worcester were at least 20 minutes late. From my unscientific and only periodic watching of the train data, it appears that all trains operated up to 60 mph from Boston to Framingham, but no train exceeded 30 mph from Framingham to Worcester. So perhaps my theories in "Heat Restrictions: Take 2" were correct, and they're making progress with the entire project. Note that as I explain in previous posts, the heat restrictions are VERY complicated, which is why the MBTA justs advertises it as affecting the whole line. Issues: 1) Late outbound trains create late inbound trains due to equipment 'turns.' 2) There are NO repairs being made to the tracks used for inbound trains. So while an outbound train may be able to go 60 mph on track 2 from Boston to Framingham, an inbound train on track 1 on that same stretch is probably limited to 30 mph. 3) Late trains screw up the sequencing and shuffling of all trains at switches, meaning that an outbound train just going to Framingham may STILL be affected by the whole mess even if it doesn't have a reduced speed restriction. Good news is PROGRESS! And it's great news for pax between Framingham and Boston, since heat restrictions appear to have a much reduced effect on them. Even Worcester pax benefit from being able to go fast all the way to Framingham. Please read my original heat restrictions post below, if you haven't already. If you have a short attention span and don't care about details, just read the red & bold text buried in this post. That's what you're looking for. If you're a nerd like me, then read on... I have learned some more information regarding the current state of heat restrictions, but I'm still trying to find out more and trying to verify some of the information I'm getting. So, three topics below: 1) How are heat restrictions applied? 2) Where are heat restrictions applied? 3) Track 1 vs. track 2 and the super express (P583) 1) How are heat restrictions applied? The current MBTA / Keolis rule is that ambient air temperature is monitored on a real time basis in Worcester, Framingham, and Boston (I'm not sure if those are NWS reporting stations or how the temperature is measured). Anytime any one of those places exceeds 85 degrees Fahrenheit, the heat restriction (30 mph speed limit) is enforced on the Framingham-Worcester line. Conversely, as soon as the temperature is below 85 at all those locations, the heat restriction is cancelled. This is NOT how CSX used to enforce the rule. Their rule was that once a heat restriction was declared for a certain afternoon (probably on the same ambient air temperature measurement basis, but I'm not sure), the heat restriction remained in place until a certain time, usually 7 PM. Good news is that heat restrictions probably won't be as long in duration on any particular day. Bad news is they will be more unpredictable and will seem somewhat arbitrary with regards to start and end times. I'm fairly confident about the accuracy of this item. Primary source is @MBTA_CR conversation here: https://twitter.com/MBTA_CR/status/609444813268721664 and my 1-on-1 conversation at the "meet the managers" meeting at South Station. 2) Where are heat restrictions applied? This one gets a little more technical, and my confidence is lower about the accuracy of this info. 2A) From Boston to "CP 11" (the set of switches in Weston, next to the golf course, just west of Route 128 - between the Wellesley Farms and Auburndale stations) the heat restriction is no longer in effect on track 2. In other words, as of very recently, the destressing project has completed all their work on this section of track and trains won't be slowed by a heat restriction. See post below for explanation of which track is which. But suffice it to say that track 2 is the track used by outbound evening rush hour trains on this stretch. This story makes sense, since it somewhat matches the story at this page regarding phase 2 of the destressing project. But I'm not 100% sure - I couldn't get a straight answer out of the managers or @MBTA_CR - I think they might not know this level of detail. NOTE that this means track 1 on this stretch is still affected by heat restrictions - so inbound evening trains will have to go slow, and the effect is worse for them, since they usually run express skipping the Newton stations through this stretch. 2B) "CP 11" (Weston) to Framingham: This section is being worked on right now (note recent closures of Wellesley Hills station to execute track work there) as part of phase 2 of the overall project. This should be the next section to be completed, and Keolis management indicated to me that once work was complete on this section, the heat restriction rules would be cancelled. Again, this only affects track 2 (more on that below). The info page says phase 2 is scheduled for completion in July, and Keolis management indicated the project is on schedule. 2C) Westboro to Worcester: You may also notice on this page that phase 1 of the destressing project was completed last summer, and covered the stretch from Westboro to Worcester. That was done on track 1, which is the normal outbound evening rush hour track in this stretch. So it would seem to be logical that if the destressing work is complete there, then the heat restriction shouldn't apply there? Not so, says Keolis. In an exchange with their customer service, they explained that the work for phase 1 was not necessarily continuous on that stretch. So the heat restriction rules remain in place for that stretch until completion of the entire project. This one defies logic for me, but rider reports seem to confirm it and Keolis management seemed to confirm it, although I'm not sure the manager I was talking to knew exactly what I was talking about. We'll have to wait and see. Please report your experience in the comments section below. So, in summary, for outbound evening rush hour trains, we think, for now: Boston to Weston: trains can go fast no matter what. Weston to Framingham: heat restrictions will slow trains until completion of phase 2 in July. Framingham to Worcester: heat restrictions will slow trains until completion of phase 3 by end of 2015. 3) Track 1 vs. track 2 and the super express (P583): Another complicated issue, but I figured this one out independently and it was confirmed by Keolis management. I'm very confident this is accurate. The rail destressing project is only addressing destressing of half of the tracks: track 2 from Boston to Framingham and track 1 from Framingham to Worcester. Therefore, track 1 from Boston to Framingham and track 2 from Framingham to Worcester are NOT being fixed. Keolis management indicated that the MBTA did not (or could not) provide enough funding to do all tracks everywhere (the manager suggested I complain to the legislature!). Most outbound rush hour trains follow the path of the tracks being fixed. In other words, most outbound rush hour trains travel through Newton, Wellesley, and Natick on track 2, switch to track 1 after Framingham station, and then continue to Worcester on track 1. So completion of all three phases of the project will eliminate the heat restrictions for the majority of evening commuters. BUT, even when it is fully complete (all three phases), the project will not eliminate the heat restrictions for these trains: 1) Inbound evening rush hour trains; 2) P583, the 'super express' (that's what I call it); and 3) Potentially, inbound morning rush hour trains from Worcester to Framingham, in the rare event heat restrictions are imposed in the morning (I'm pretty sure I have seen it occasionally). These trains usually operate on track 2 in this stretch at this time, which as explained above, is not being fixed. They could solve this by putting the inbound trains on track 1, the track that gets fixed. But the tweets and comments and chaos that will occur in the event of an AM heat restriction with a track change for all those stations will be quite the experience. I digress... The inbound evening rush hour trains will continue to be affected by the heat restrictions in the future because they will be operating on the tracks that didn't getting fixed (since the outbound trains are occupying the tracks that DID get fixed). P583 is a pretty unique and special case. If you take a look at the schedule, P583 leaves Boston 15 minutes AFTER P529, but arrives in Framingham seven minutes BEFORE P529. Magic, huh? That's why I call this one the super express. Just like P582 in the morning, it skips everything between Boston and Framingham. The way that P583 arrives in Framingham before P529 isn't magic or a time warp or a secret tunnel. It simply passes P529 between CP 11 (Weston) and Framingham. The only crossover switches to enable this to happen are at CP 4 (in Boston at the west end of the Beacon Park freight yard), CP 11 (Weston, as described above), and CP 21 (just east of Concord Street in Framingham, east of the Framingham station). So usually P583 travels outbound on track 2 from CP 4 to CP 11, then crosses over to track 1 at CP 11, passes P529 which is on track 2 around Natick Center, and then crosses back over to track 2 at CP 21 to make the station stop in Framingham. A close inspection of the schedule shows how this is possible - there are no inbound trains between Framingham and Weston during the time P583 and P529 are both traveling outbound on the two parallel tracks. So there's the problem. P583 is supposed to be running at 59 mph all the way from Weston (CP 11) to Framingham (CP 21) on TRACK 1, A TRACK THAT ISN'T GETTING FIXED. [P583 goes back to track 1, the 'fixed' track, from Framingham to Worcester. So no delays on that stretch.] Therefore, even after all of the current 3 phases of the destressing project are complete, P583 will still be affected by heat restrictions for the 10 mile stretch from Weston to Framingham. One solution is to keep P583 on track 2 that has no heat restriction, but it will quickly catch up to P529 and get stuck behind it. My guess is that this is actually exactly what they will do (let P583 get stuck behind P529 on track 2), because by going slow on track 1 it wouldn't be able to get around P529 before Framingham anyway. Either way, it's delayed. But I don't think the overall delay should be more than 10 minutes or so. [I know, 10 minutes is 10 minutes... especially for all you folks going all the way to Worcester...] A really creative solution that they will NEVER implement would be to put P529 on track 1 from Weston to Framingham, under the theory that letting the frequently stopping local train incur the heat restriction delay is more efficient than putting the fast express train on the track affected by the heat restriction. But they will never do that because that would mean the passengers getting off of P529 in Wellesley Hills and West Natick would need to cross over the grade crossing wooden walkways and walk across both tracks 1 and 2 to get to the station exit, all while P583 is barreling along from behind them on track 2 with no heat restriction. So that will be the topic of my next post - why do the outbound evening rush hour trains cross back and forth between track 1 and track 2? PLEASE provide your experience with heat restriction delays in the comments below. Did you go fast between Boston and Weston when a heat restriction was announced? Did you go fast between Westboro and Worcester when a heat restriction was in place? Do you just want to get out your own blow torch and set fire to me, the MBTA, Keolis, and all the rail between Boston and Albany? The more observations we collect, the more accurate we'll be in our assessment of how this foolishness works. What's with the "heat restrictions?" Ugh! Here we go again. There are only three seasons on the Framingham - Worcester line: frozen (no trains), summer (heat restrictions), and fall ("slippery rail" - more about that some other time). The MBTA has a pretty good explanation of this issue here, but I've got some more technical details. Basic physics: make something cold and it shrinks, make something hot and it expands. The Framingham - Worcester line, as most rail lines nowadays, is constructed with 1/4 mile long pieces of continuous rail. That's correct, they come from the factory as 1/4 MILE long pieces. This is a pretty good video of how the rail is transported and laid out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xxVD2L_veM And here is a picture of a rail train: If that big hunk of metal gets too hot, it can expand to the point where it will create a 'sun kink' - a buckle. Here is a sun kink: That will probably derail a train going any speed. A piece of rail has a "neutral" temperature ("rail neutral temperature" (RNT)) - the temperature at which it is neither in compression or tension. Once it is anchored down at this temperature, any changes in temperature create stress in the rail. Too much compression stress (from expansion in heat) = sun kink. The general rule of thumb is that if the rail temperature gets 40 degrees above RNT, there is a chance of a sun kink. Too much tension stress (from shrinkage in cold) = a broken rail. The good thing about a broken rail is that it usually breaks the track 'circuit' and changes all the signals to red. So there is some mitigation for the cold side of RNT. There is also evidence that rails are better able to stretch than compress - meaning you have more 'room' on the cold side of RNT than the hot side. In other words, a higher RNT is more desirable. There has been much research into this topic, and the Federal Railway Administration (FRA) now requires all railroads to outline their plan for managing the risk of CWR (continuously welded rail). The target RNT in our area is now 105. Note that this is the RAIL temperature - not the air temperature. Everything we're talking about here is the temperature of the rail - which can be quite a bit higher than air temperature on a sunny day. Prior to the MBTA purchase of the entire line, CSX dispatched all the trains. They had a policy of limiting speeds according to hot temperatures, with the theory that a slower train does a number of things: 1) does not impart more heat onto the tracks by the faster friction of speeding train; 2) allows more reaction time for an engineer to react to a sun kink; and 3) mitigates the chance of a derailment over a sun kink (slower train has better chance of dealing with a track defect). Now that the MBTA owns the entire line and dispatches it, they can set and follow their own policy. However, their policy has to follow some logic or reasoning to comply with the FRA rules. For whatever reason, CSX or Conrail did not record or have the RNT of the Framingham - Worcester line. With an unknown RNT, the MBTA is forced to 'play it safe' and slow trains down like CSX did. The good news is that the MBTA is spending a few million dollars to fix this situation on the Framingham Worcester line. Details are here. The "destressing project" essentially raises the RNT to a documented 105 degrees. The rail is released from the ties and heated to the new RNT. This usually requires cutting a small segment from the rail to allow it room to expand. Once it is at the new desired RNT, it is reaffixed to the ties and welded to the next section. Note that they are only fixing track 2 from Boston to Framingham and track 1 from Framingham to Worcester. These are the tracks that carry MOST outbound evening commuter trains. So the project will fix the delays for MOST outbound trains in the evening, but it doesn't fix everything. And yes, this is a real problem. The following accidents have been blamed on sun kinks: April 18, 2002 Amtrak Auto-Train derailment, off CSX tracks, near Crescent City, Florida. 4 deaths. July 29, 2002 Amtrak Capitol Limited derails, off CSX tracks, near Kensington, Maryland. July 8, 2010 CSX train derails off tracks in Waxhaw, North Carolina. July 6, 2012 WMATA Metrorail train derails off tracks near Hyattsville, Maryland Sources / regards: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckling http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=159622&sid=4fa8c195a604c2fbd5e115d687a94b98 https://www.fra.dot.gov/Elib/Document/3036	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1360
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__label__cc	0.557042	0.442958	Sincerely, Natalie Reed Critical Thinking On Gender, Sexuality and Other Human Matters Trans 101 Acknowledgments, Thanks Yous, and Goodbyes How Do I Know If I'm Trans? My Traumatic Life Story Homophobia, White-Supremacism and "Disco Sucks!" Privileges and Decoys: Part One Born This Way (Reprise): The New Essentialism Discourse And Intersectionality "Ideal Bodies" Complicity Vs. Cause In Trans-Misogyny And Violence brianpansky on Trans 101 skeptifem on Trans 101 tremault on How Do I Know If I’m Trans? Missy Dee on Trans 101 3basethriller on …F@#king Trans Women… ‘How do I know I’m trans?’ : Link to a thought provoking article. Well worth reading. \| Kate's Gender Dysphoria Blog on How Do I Know If I’m Trans? LIsa K. on “I Always Knew” FinlyErkenwald on Born This Way (Reprise): The New Essentialism Swati on Acknowledgments, Thanks Yous, and Goodbyes Natalie Reed on Free Thoughts #1: Superheroes And Disability Video: We Happy Trans – 7 Questions » « Born This Way: A Skeptical Look At The Neurological Theory Of Gender Identity Fourth Wave: Part One “If feminism is the radical idea that women are people, then trans-feminism is the radical idea that women come in different containers” I mentioned in my links yesterday a somewhat disposable exchange that occurred on the Ms. Magazine blog regarding the “conundrum” of how trans-feminism is to fit into the future of feminism. While in and of itself, this exchange isn’t particularly interesting, and is rather just yet another iteration of the increasingly tired (in a “oh come on are we really still asking this? This should not be any kind of deal” kind of way) validation of feminism’s cis-supremacist fringe, I find that there’s one little beautiful and highly radical question hiding in there beneath the vapidity. One that is likely just an accident on the original author’s part but that nonetheless coalesces several threads of thought that have been tangled up in my brain these past couple months. Coalesces into something rather important to ask: Perhaps the future of feminism is trans-feminism? Since its inception, one of the principle driving concepts underlying feminism has been that biology is not destiny, that the gender roles associated with women (and men) are not indispensable, “natural” or inherent, and that we cannot (must not) create prescriptive social structures on the basis of those arbitrarily defined roles and their association with certain biologies. That we must not prescribe what a life is to entail on the basis of the gender that life happens to inhabit. It’s the inevitable, and necessary, progression of these concepts that the genders themselves must not be prescribed. If biology really isn’t destiny, we mustn’t limit that question of destiny to roles and social positions, but extend it to biology itself. Biology isn’t social destiny, but biology isn’t biological destiny either. If we’re to truly confront and destabilize gender’s capacity to operate as a determinant, prescriptive force, we need to embrace those who refuse to allow gender to determine or prescribe gender. We need to embrace the possibilities of gender fluidity, transience, transgression, variance and rejection, else we’ve mired ourselves in hypocritical half-measures. Else we’re posing the image of claiming our gender-assignment does not define us, but still unwilling to take the plunge into full self-determination. Insofar as feminism is to be able to progress forward at all, it must be able to address things like differing morphologies, differing narratives, differing paths to womanhood (or from it), differing socializations, differing axes of gender-based oppression, etc. Third-Wave Feminism has generally been doing a good job of moving forward with this, through confronting intersectionality along lines of race, poverty, sexual orientation, disability, body type, neurotypicality, and other qualifying aspects of experience and identity (as defined by existing hierarchies), obvious or otherwise. But despite the pressingly obvious manner in which transgenderism intersects with gender-based oppression, and embodies many desperately important questions (and goals!) of feminism, there is repeated reluctance, controversy, push-back, anger, exclusion, erasure, pathologization, ridicule and all other means of forcing silence when it’s posed as a similar qualifier. It remains a “conundrum” even after decades of trans people fighting side by side with feminists and queer rights activists. As much as we’ve fought for them, and our own demands and actions have so often prefigured their victories, we continue to sit in the waiting room, perpetually hoping for them to “get around” to trans rights, to “figure out” what we mean to them (never, of course, being asked what we mean to us). We’re still an unsettled, and unsettling, question. I have my own conundrum: It seems to me that the reason this particular issue of intersection, of corresponding and mitigating oppression, remains something feminism is reluctant to address is because it ends up challenging some of the ideological foundations on which much of feminism has been built. While acknowledging other intersectionalities demands that one not continue framing feminism through the needs and perspectives of middle-class, white, heterosexual women, it does not threaten the fundamental cis-privileged perspective that drove so much of the movement: that we live in a world defined by a binary male/female Hegelian dialectic, with a “master” oppressor (men) and a ‘slave” victim (women). A conflict that, like that supposed between the proletariat and the bourgeois, must someday be resolved. Just as the Marxist tendency to frame all social dynamics and “ills” as stemming from a singular binary conflict was, in retrospect, a blatant oversimplification that of course led to disaster when used as the theoretical basis for a utopian social engineering project, this boys vs. girls idea of how the social dynamics of gender, sex and sexuality operate is similarly myopic, and similarly (to inevitable disaster) seeks to ignore all the variables that complicate and threaten the assumption on which it is based. Just like Stalin began projects of “Marxist science”, science based on good Marxist principles, unlike the nasty actual science being conducted under his government that suggested ways the world operates in ways more complicated than the black/white ideology he was certain would lead to a wondrous future, many branches of feminism have arrived at the point where they’d rather reject those facts and new ideas that threaten their ideological principles even if it comes at the expense of being a movement that has any claim to the term “progressive”, or any claim of speaking to the realities of gender and gender-based oppression. Transgender and intersex human beings are a fact that cannot (and will not) be theorized away. In walling us and our implications out of your movement, you’re really only walling yourselves into irrelevance. Your Marxist genetics won’t yield better crops. But in as much as feminism has had a right to describe itself as progressive, that progress was always ultimately in the name of self-annihilation. The most reasonable and also the most powerfully radical ambition of feminism was to eventually bring about the circumstances that would undo its own necessity… or at least create the circumstances where a new movement, a new revolution, a new turning of the wheel, would be necessitated instead. When feminists begin to selfishly cling to and reinforce the concepts that made feminism a necessary response, they have become quintessentially anti-feminist: a force for gender’s status quo. Maintenance of old ideas, old hierarchies, old conflicts, old oppressions. And this does NOT merely harm the principle “threats” to those ideas and the status quo that necessitates them, like trans people. It harms everyone who is currently holding the short end of the gender stick …which is almost all of us. Frankly, the trans-exclusionist, anti-sex-worker, so-called radical feminists are precisely the opposite of radical. They are stodgily clinging to a dying era …and more so one that very much needs to die. To recap the word salad: positively addressing trans-feminism is essential to feminism continuing to move forward. If feminism ceases to move forward, it starts becoming part of the problem instead of part of the solution. If existing branches of feminism will not move forward with us, it is time to accept we need to leave them behind. If feminism itself, as it currently exists, also continues to look backwards, continues to fail to move past the “conundrum” of trans-feminism, continues to treat it as a “controversy” rather than a natural, inevitable extension of the ideas that biology is not destiny and we can be more than the social expectations coercively placed upon us in accordance with our gender assignment, then it is time to move forward without it too. I’m tired of waiting for the rest of feminism to catch up. This is not the first time a fundamental break was needed within feminism. First wave addressed the basic principle of women being directly politically disenfranchised, and made the initial declaration that women are also citizens, human beings, deserving of basic rights, but it generally failed to examine what exactly being a woman meant, or what was expected of women, or the numerous and more subtle ways in which women’s access to power and social participation was limited. Second wave pushed forward, and began to ask the harder questions that first wave did not. It began to examine how basic human rights and citizenship were not sufficient, but we also needed to address the cultural understanding of gender and how women are colonized by patriarchy to such an extent that their vote may ultimately not even be their own vote, or only a vote for which man would continue to ignore the needs, desires and ambitions of women. But second wave was still hobbled by its failure to look beyond the needs, desires and ambitions of those women who were positioned with no accompanying social disadvantages, and failed to fully consider patriarchy and misogyny in relation to other forms of oppression and discrimination. Despite the best efforts of numerous women of colour and queer women active within feminism during the time (just as there are active trans-feminists now), the movement as a whole was largely limited in scope to the plight of the middle-class white housewife. It also engaged in numerous forms of gender essentialism that simply enabled new means of keeping women, and men, in “their place”… like how the “women’s intuition” concept was tacitly suggesting women lacked the full capacity for reason that men had. Third wave began to much more directly address intersectionality, and also began to expand the concept of patriarchy from direct, deliberate disenfranchisement of women but instead to an emergent system based on largely unconscious assumptions and biases about gender. Furthermore, it made the crucial step of examining gender-binarism and essentialism, and the ways that these assumptions and biases about gender cut both ways, and harm men as well as women. In each instance, the breaks were defined by an essential and necessary step forward that previous generations of feminists had been reluctant to take. We are now again presented with exactly that kind of necessary step. I have no illusions that the suggestion of trans-feminism stepping forward as the inevitable 4th wave of feminism is going to make a lot of people very angry, and many more very uncomfortable. I can already hear the assertions that this would be wholesale “appropriation” of feminism by “men” who are no longer content to merely “invade”; or for those less overtly transphobic feminists, “people who identify or were socialized as male”. But the idea that this would in any way be an “appropriation”, or that feminism somehow exclusively belongs to cisgender women, belies exactly the problematic, archaic assumptions about gender, gender-based oppression and feminism that most need to be questioned and challenged. This will piss a lot of people off, and raise a lot of hard questions, but those are the people who most need to be pissed off (with the hope that they’ll get around to asking themselves why they’re angry), and the hard questions that most need to be asked. Addressing these kinds of difficult, complex, uncomfortable questions is hard. But becoming obsolete is worse. I’m a big fan of the quote with which I began this post. But there’s a subtle, important change I’d like to make that I feel gets to one of the finer points of what trans-feminism can, and perhaps should, be: If feminism is the radical idea that women are people, trans-feminism is the radical idea that people come in different containers. Natalie Reed Feminism, Trans* Sebor says Excellent post. As a transhumanist, the idea that biology is not destiny seems natural to me (I see what I did there). Gender, class, race and ultimately even species may represent boundaries of the technology presently available and the structure of our society, but they are not ethical boundaries. The only binding principle of ethics that I’m willing to accept is the idea of personhood, and historically emancipation has been linked to an expanding definition of personhood that would encompass more and more people and respect their right of ownership of their own selves. It looks like progress so far, but there’s still a lot of progress to be made. James K says In fact I would have thought that transhumanists would be some of the most trans-friendly people out there. A combination of lacking theistic prejudices (the vast majority of transhumanists are atheists) and an unwillingness to assign moral value to a person’s “natural” state would make for a trans-friendly attitude. I usually read “natural” as “needs work” or “could use improvement”. I guess its possible to look at transition from a human enhancement perspective. After all transitioners are modifying their body’s configuration and neurochemistry to match their own expectations, if that doesn’t constitute improvement I don’t know what does. Sadly though, there’s no system of thought that instantly makes one immune to the cissexism and misogyny of society in general, so (trans-)feminism is still necessary within transhumanism. I am an agender transhumanist. I obviously cannot speak for the “community” but I would like to raise my own hand as a trans-friendly transhumanist. It makes no sense whatsoever in a transhumanist frame of mind to maintain antiquated ideas of biological predestination. The Nerd says Squee! I was hoping this would happen: the trans* humanists and the transhumanists joining forces to take on the future. Anders says It’s a quest to find ever more subtle or obscure area of oppression. Obscure, that is, to the people of the last wave. Which makes me wonder what other marginalized groups there are out there. Is substance abuse a feminist issue? Homelessness? I would probably say this – feminism is maybe a method first and foremost. There are many areas where it is beneficial to view the problems through a feminist lens. Or maybe a color filter is better, because you can add several filters together – feminism, transactivism, equal rights for various ethnic groups, etc. Each filter removes part of the picture, but that might bring new things into focus. And of course it’s not like anyone watches the world devoid of filters. genuinely curious says It seems very odd to me that you consider viewing though trans-activist and feminist etc lenses as ‘filters’ that ‘take away some of the picture’ I think you’ve got a very bad metaphor at hand- surely looking at life though eyes other than your own adds something to the picture- as opposed to taking somethign away? It seems very arrogant and solophistic to say otherwise. Society has a very large, largely unconscious apparatus to make certain people invisible. It can be done with whips or words but the end results are the same. By making that apparatus temporarily new things that were concealed. To peek behind the curtain you must first remove it. I don’t know if it’s my post-lunch stupor kicking in or what but I’m finding it really really hard to understand what you’re saying. “By making that apparatus temporarily new things that were concealed.” in particular really confuses me. What I took exception to was you saying “Each filter removes part of the picture, but that might bring new things into focus.” which comes across to me like you’re saying “looking at things though different points of view (other than the majority one) removes information from the scene” Which I found odd- as I would have thought that looking at things through a different point of view should add information to the scene- illuminate you. We want to be taking filters away not adding any- which as I understood it, was what feminism was about? Did I come across wrong? honestly I’m really kinda confused No. I left out a part. “By making part of that apparatus invisible…” Or transparent if you prefer that. The idea is that we shield ourselves from the less-than-pleasant parts of our society and that we need to remove that shield. But I’ll agree that it wasn’t a very good metaphor. I’ll try to think of something else. Jadehawk, cascadeuse féministe says huh; maybe I’m weird, but that totally made sense to me. it’s like the test-circles for red-green colorblindness: colorblind people don’t see the “obvious” solution (numbers made of red dots amid green dots), but as a result they can see the other, subtler solution (another number, but this time made of differences in value). so: you filter out the obvious, “old” problems so that you can see past them to the subtler, less obvious problems. Natalie Reed says Mmm… the problem is there’s a great big filter already being imposed. A cisgender, heterosexual, male one. Feminism, and trans-feminism, seek to shatter it. WMDKitty says I think what Anders is getting at is that the “filters” bring small details, that you otherwise would never have noticed, into focus. sisu says I think that you’re missing the point… as Natalie says, there are a lot of different filters in place in the way we generally see the world. Sexist, cissexist, racist, etc. The point of the different movements is to point out those filters – privileges, if you will – so we can work to see the world more clearly. Kind of how white people will sometimes say “I don’t see race,” or (as Natalie has written) cis people can say “I don’t really see gender, people are just people!” There’s a whole lot of privilege tied up in being able to make those kind of statements. “The point of the different movements is to point out those filters – privileges, if you will – so we can work to see the world more clearly.” That’s exactly what I mean- sorry I must not be communicating very well today- mondayitis. My point was (and now that I look at it. it’s more like pedantry) that feminism is a move to strip away this privelidge- and to see it described as a “filter” that “takes something away” (from what I presumed was meant ‘takes something away from the male-white-straight-cis worldview’) seemed kinda galling. As pointed out feminism is (ideally) about removing the filters NOT adding new ones in and I think I read too much out from what Anders said and took it a bit too strongly I think. karmakin says I understood what Anders was trying to say, and it’s pretty much the same thing. You use filters to remove things that are oversaturated (I.E. privileged positions) so you can see the remaining things more clearly. It’s really a bad analogy because it IS too technical and not easily graspable. To what extent do you think a movement like this sets the agenda, and to what extent is it an expression of an agenda that has been set (unconsciously) by the public? To put it in large words – are we the makers of our fate or are we slaves to it? kagerato says Answering that second question in full would be wandering down the rabbit hole of a philosophical discussion that’s been on-going for centuries. However, I have sufficient self-confidence to assert that the answer is “neither”. There is something important, even crucially so, in recognizing the gaps and interactions between personal power and environmental influence, but neither is an absolute. This FOREVER. I have two guiding principles in my own feminisms and humanisms: 1. Nobody is free from systematic oppression until everyone is free. 2. Nothing about us without us (or about them without them). In practice this means that we cannot have an elite few decide that equality has been achieved on behalf of everyone else. We must have everyone involved for the benefit of all. And in some cases, that means I get my own white-colored abled tush out of the way so that others can be heard. hall_of_rage says Well maybe this is a good time to ask if anyone thinks calling myself a trans feminist is misleading, given that I’m cis. This is an interesting post. I do think the future of feminism must involve a better understanding of gender and biology. Also because of people like you, I think we should acknowledge trans women as on the front line, in terms of who really /needs/ to fight for feminism. But for some reason it is sounding to me as if this suggested fourth wave would be likely to neglect the still desperately needed tools of intersectionality. Or also, I can imagine coming to a point where society says “fine, pick whatever gender you want, we’ll acknowledge it and then we’ll discriminate against you because of it.” Like an exaggerated version of the thinking that women who dress prettily are less deserving of respect than women who dress plain. I need to think further, because I think I am wrong about this, bit would like a better understanding of how such a fourth wave would or would not incorporate third-wave stuff. It’s a matter of standing on the shoulders of giants, more or less. It would be 3rd-wave plus, not something completely separate on its own. I should say as well, at least my feeling is that the big difference between the various waves, is the same difference that causes a lot of the problems with Feminism that Natalie talks about. I think it’s just a different flavor of overt exclusive identity politics, which I think is something that tends to result in the claiming of privilege, as opposed to a systematic based intersectional approach. One of the big differences I see in the evolution of feminism is moving away from that. As such, I see such a thing as 4th-wave feminism being a continuation and an amplification of these trends. Right. Just like 2nd wave didn’t reject the rights of women to vote, and 3rd wave didn’t reject the necessity of critiquing cultural attitudes towards women, we don’t need to reject those elements of 3rd wave that are and will continue to be useful. We only need reject those aspects that refuse to move forward. My take: A cis person can be trans-feminist in exactly the same way a man can be a feminist. It’s not where you come from, it’s where you want to go that’s important. And just as men lose from the patriarchy (although not to the degree that women do) so cis people lose from the cisarchy (is that the word?). We lose wonderful, talented people who could have enriched our lives. And we lose the ability to question and move outside of our gender roles for fear of being misunderstood. The list of what we lose is not meant to be exhaustive. Cisnormativity. There’s also something over and above what we lose… whenever someone thinks they can take away the rights of a group or a single individual that is a deadly threat to the rights of everybody else. Fighting for other peoples’ rights is a deeply egoistical thing to do (I’m one of those strange people who believe that a rational egoism is a perfectly legitimate way to behave). fuck I forgot, I was going to add that this is the sentiment expressed in Maurice Ogden’s poem Hangman. http://homepage.mac.com/steveklein/hangman.html hall-of-rage says Oh definitely, Anders. Not only do I hate cisnormativity working against others, I also want “freedom of gender” for me and everyone. I’m cisgender enough, but most people don’t read my gender presentation right; also I hate norms. In most contexts where the distinction between masculine and feminine is even more marked than usual (e.g. many formal-dress occasions), I become uncomfortable and may dress or do things to exempt myself. Thanks Karmakin and Natalie, those are great responses. Sas says I admit that I am so used to “trans” being an adjective for people rather than philosophies that I usually read “trans feminist” as “feminist trans person” rather than “person that supports trans feminism”. Gaptooth says On the question of whether a cis person can call themselves a transfeminist, I’d be interested to hear the views of others, but my gut reaction is that it’s more important what you believe and what you do than what you label it. Labels are always imperfect, and we’ve probably all heard people label themselves as feminists before going on to express some incredibly anti-feminist views (feminism is a broad church, but there are limits…). That said, labels can be incredibly powerful. We’ve all heard people saying “I’m not a feminist but…” before expressing a point of view that is clearly feminist. Of course, the reason for denying the label is because it is seen as a dirty word, and that perception is very powerful and has real political consequences. I’m just thinking ‘aloud’ now and probably going a bit off topic, but I wonder to what extent the same kinds of issues arise with the term ‘transfeminist’. Stentor says Minor nitpick: a binary male/female Kantian dialectic, with a “master” oppressor (men) and a ‘slave” victim (women). I think you mean Hegelian dialectic — Hegel was the one who proposed the master-slave dialectic and was Marx’s mentor. Sorry… I couldn’t remember whether Kant was the first to propose master/slave and Hegel just expanded on that into his whole dialectic schtick. Sinead says Kant and Hegel argued from opposite sides of a dialectic. It’s been a while since I studied the “Critique of Pure Reason” but I believe Kant used thesis-antithesis-synthesis to uncover false epistemologies or that syntheses were illusory, whereas Hegel’s dialectic approached the dialectic to show that theses and antitheses were illusory and that syntheses were the only part that had a meaningful epistemological reality. So if I remember right, Hegelian dialecticalism doesn’t say that the master/slave relationship describes the world, but that that relationship is itself illusory. Also, I believe that Hegel’s dialectic also embraced a perpetual state where the inherent contradictions of theses and antitheses would continue, such that as every synthesis that derives from these create a new dialectic of thesis and antithesis. I’ve always thought about Hegel as speaking in terms of Matter and Anti-Matter with Energy as the resultant synthesis by analogy. Whereas, I’ve always thought of Kantian dialectic in terms of Thesis as Absolute Truth, such that all syntheses can be broken up to uncover the Absolute. Syntheses would be considered a posteriori knowledge, and theses were analytically valid theses. I hadn’t even known Kant had a dialetic … seems I will have to be more careful of the glass walls on this house when I’m tempted to go nitpicking other people. My perspective of the evolution of social movements is that there are always some segment of people with more comprehensive views among them. Over time, the best informed group eventually manages to gain the key influence over the movement and shift it in a new direction. However, this is a slow moving process that typically takes decades (if not generations). The rate of change may have improved somewhat now, with far better communications technology than we used to have, but it’s still an uphill struggle to convince or at least neutralize those who stand in the way of a more perfect union. Perhaps the key difference between progress and stagnation is in finding the most effective spokespeople for the cause. If all the leaders in the feminist movement had the same eloquence and understanding as Natalie, I have no doubt that we’d be proceeding at a much faster pace than we are. Erin W says This is the feminism I’ve been looking for. Thanks for laying out such a clear statement of purpose. What about the area between cis and trans? Who live there? Is there any special reason to believe gender identity is any more binary than sexual orientation? Considering that the definition of cisgendered is “not transgendered” I’d say it’s a true dichotomy. Especially given that the term “transgender” basically encompasses ALL iterations of gender that aren’t cis and concomitant with cultural expectations. As much as cis means “not trans”, trans kind of just means “not cis” too. Law of excluded middle, I curse your name! shakes fist at the sky Tim C. says In my experience, when I hear someone saying “I’m neither trans nor cis” it’s usually a cis person trying to deny their cis privilege, tbqh. Yes. But I also hear it from people who don’t feel “trans enough”. It pops up in multiple settings, some of them from privilege, some of them from the woeful inadequacies of a binary system. Ace of Sevens says When did the “wave” terminology come into effect? Were people talking about first and second waves before there was a third? cami says Hi Natalie. Yes I agree that the category trans is generally understood to include gender variant individuals of all stripes but most of the trans feminist writing that I have seen usually reinforces the binary system of gender classification. Even the most broad definitions of man and woman will still leave some people (genderqueer, bi gender, gender fluid, etc..) out of the picture. Unfortunately, there is a tendancy for binary trans folks to either overlook non-binary trans folks or, even worse, to include them using some condescending label such as ‘other’. Another tendancy I’ve been noticing a lot lately is people building conceptual models that revolve around a cis/trans binary. The later tendancy I tend to rather enjoy. Many things, for example #iftranstalkedlikecis, really resonate with me but I recognize that many of my genderqueer friends would find these same things sophomoric at best but more likely offensive. How do we create a trans feminist model that includes people who do not identify within the binary system of gender classsification? Brony says There is a major theme in this post that has been driving my own personal quest to figure myself out the last nine months. It’s gotten to the point that I am outlining a book that I want to write just to get to the real subject. I’m at least in the neurotypical camp and just finding out that what I have is not completely detrimental has made me obsessed with discovering the rest. About four years ago I was trying to get through graduate school and really struggling with it. Eventually I saw a neurologist and I found out that I still had my childhood ADHD, and I also had Tourette Syndrome. I have always been really twitchy but I just never thought that it was Tourettes because of the Hollywood stereotype. Long story short, it’s a bad economy and research science is too cutthroat for someone less efficient at the job so I had to leave. Fast forward to nine months ago and I finally started reading lots of papers on ADHD and TS and I was astounded. TS is also associated with cognitive enhancements! I never thought of the success that I had up until graduate school as being related to anything other than studying hard. Now I’m reading about people with TS who are athletes and more. This guy blows my mind, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson Dr. Johnson was an 18th Century English author who had TS and is credited with writing what is thought to be the greatest solo achievement in authorship, the 1755 “A Dictionary of the English Language”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dictionary_of_the_English_Language Why is it considered such an achievement? He wrote in 9 years what took 40 contemporaries 40 years to write! The same “problem” I was born with gave this guy a powerful conceptual command of English that has had an unknowably enormous impact on our culture. Now I’m obsessed enough about nature and nurture that I’m actually doing the basic research necessary to try to write a comprehensive overview of the evolution and natural history of the human brain suitable for general public consumption. The only reason I want to do that is because I really want to explore the whole “Hunter vs. Farmer” hypothesis of human society and ADHD and I can’t so that without a god general understanding of the human brain. What else don’t we know about other human “syndromes” or “disorders”? What could we accomplish if we could all define our nature in terms of accurate possibilities so that we can finally do nurture “right” as a society? What I really want to do is get the research done to remove all of those fucking scarequotes!!! “…I can’t do that without a good general understanding…” Erista (aka Eris) says I fully intend to read this fully when my eyes are less burning (oh, onions, the hurt you inflict upon me!), but for now, all I can say is, “Whaaa, I wail at # wave feminism, for I do not understand what the various waves are even after reading Wikipedia! sniffle sniffle ZenPoseur says This {gay marriage / atheism / transgender} stuff is oppressive and disruptive to my {traditional marriage / religious expression / feminism} and should therefore be {banned / outlawed / silenced forever.} I has a question. This is probably going to sound really stupid, and I apologize in advance if I offend — it’s just been bugging me for a while. Once you’ve completed the transition from male to female (or vice versa), wouldn’t it make more sense to just drop the “trans” label, and just refer to yourself as your “new” gender? I.e., instead of “I’m a trans-woman”, just “I’m a woman”? Again, I apologize if this offends, my curiosity got the better of me. Personally, I’ve always been trans, and I’ve always been male. Neither one is ever going to change. My neurological sex is never going to change to be a different sex, and the historical fact that I was assigned the wrong sex at birth due to my outward appearance won’t change either. That said, the most important thing is to respect whatever terminology each person uses for themself. OK. It just seems to me that, by keeping the “trans” label, you’re deliberately segregating yourself from other men (or women). I’m probably wrong, though. (Nothing new there!) Why would that be true? Is a Jewish man who calls himself Jewish segregating himself from other men? Is a gay man who calls himself gay segregating himself from other men? Is a Republican man who calls himself Republican segregating himself from other men? These are not rhetorical questions, I’m really curious why “trans” somehow negates what follows it if “cis” doesn’t. Well, what I’m getting at is this. Post-transition, the “trans” prefix becomes irrelevant and obsolete, as your body now matches your internal sense of gender. So… why, then, would you keep a prefix that has become irrelevant, if not for the explicit purpose of segregating yourself from others of your chosen gender? It just seems counterproductive. Savannah says Response to WMDKitty: Because there is nothing wrong with being trans in the first place. Your question has a built in assumption that cis is the ‘normal’ or at least ‘stable’ state. We challenge that assumption by living our lives as trans people til the day we die. WMDKitty: No, it’s certainly not irrelevant. One reason is political: it’s not within my power as an individual to change the fact that some people don’t recognize my gender as valid and never will, no matter what I do personally. That fact can translate into concrete harmful consequences for my life. So it benefits me to form alliances with other people who share my interests. Labels are useful for that. The other, more mundane reason is that I will always be a person who was born with a neurological sex that was on a different side from what some people would call my morphological sex at birth, and for me, anyway, that will have consequences that last forever, regardless of what medical interventions I do or don’t have. Savannah — I didn’t say there was anything “wrong” with being trans, because, honestly, there ISN’T. I’m not “assuming” anything, other than that a person who has transitioned now has a body that matches their preferred gender. I’m just saying that, post-transition, the prefix becomes irrelevant because the “building” now matches the “blueprints”, so to speak. Some women get there “naturally”, having been born with all the right parts and hormones. Some women get there with hormones and surgery. Those in the latter group are no less female than I am — and, in my (admittedly limited) experience, far more feminine! So, yeah, I don’t get why you can’t just say, “I’m a woman. I used to have a male body, but I had that corrected.” You know, in the same matter-of-fact way you’d say, “I had toast for breakfast.” Okay. Whoa. I’m doing it again. I’m over-analyzing this (damn you OCD!) I am learning here, which is always of The Good. I tried to find a better word to convey my meaning, however, the English language is often… imprecise and inadequate. Well … I don’t call myself a trans woman except when my being trans is actually relevant to the discussion. Other than on blogs, videos, or sites specifically dedicated to trans issues or social justice issues, it really doesn’t come up that much. For someone who’s an activist or other public figure it can be important to let people know they’re trans because other trans people need role models and relatable public figures (and cis people benefit from seeing trans people who are out, as well). I was going to say roughly that but you beat me to it. 🙂 The question is based on a false assumption that trans people always explicitly identify themselves as such. That’s not the case, and often times they go to a lot of trouble strictly to avoid doing in order to blend in. In the sense of advocacy or identity, though, I don’t see how you can get away from being trans anymore than you can get away from being cis. It’s fumbling with semantics to try to explain the situation with different words. I have to say, reading this was really exciting for me Natalie. It touches on some ideas that have also been in my head lately (and as you suggested elsewhere I guess we might have touched on that in conversations on twitter). Monica and I were chatting last night and I remember one of the concepts that came up was the idea that some of the roots of feminism were so deeply transmisogynistic that merely acknowledging that and trying to move forward in a different mindset may not be sufficient; in other words, feminism may have no choice but to evolve into transfeminism* in order to have any chance of challenging its own past in a meaningful way. As a more general comment, there is a phrase that has occupied my mind a lot lately, which is that transfeminism is simply that which allows feminism to reach its full potential. I think what you’ve written here is a great explication of a similar concept. I particularly thought that the Marxist analogy was really insightful; in fact, in our seemingly endless war with the Brennanite radfems lately I’ve often thought about what life for women would be like with such people in power in the world. I honestly think that most cis women would be miserable. There would be all this social pressure to conform to a hypothetical “genderless” state… which is absolutely meaningless. In fact, whenever I hear this phrase “gender atheist” it makes me think of someone obsessed with achieving some utopian gender ideal that doesn’t exist and never will (the fact that the gender ideal in question claims to be “genderless” is irrelevant as it is completely devoid of meaning as far as I can discern). Of course, that says nothing how cis men would be treated in such a world, but I think we could imagine… as for us and our trans brothers… shivers In any case, I think you’ve given us a lot to think about. <3 Regarding the quote: "If feminism is the radical idea that women are people, trans-feminism is the radical idea that people come in different containers." I agree with you on the change to 'people'… however, I admit I am slightly uncomfortable with the word 'container' as in my mind it is something plastic (i.e. inorganic). I wonder if we could find another word for this? 'different forms' or 'different configurations'… or something? *Personally, I haven't yet made up my mind on my mind on 'transfeminism' or 'trans-feminism' or using the space as Serano insists upon… I admit I don't totally agree with her argument, and I'm still thinking it over. At first I went with “…different packages”, but Patience said that she preferred the quote to be left in its original form if it was to be used, and that I preserve her usage of “containers”. So I switched it, out of respect for her and its origins. Yes, I think “packages” would be a really good modification. I admit that I do not understand why allowing modification to a concept like this would be a big deal when that might allow us to improve on each other’s work/ideas. It’s not really my place to argue it, though. She made the request, I felt a responsibility to honour it. Julian Morrison says FWIW, “package” has an unfortunate informal meaning and that might be why “container” is better. Dr. Margaret Robinson says I am tired of anti-trans rhetoric that acts as if we already know everything about sexism and misogyny. Focussing only on how oppression impacts cis women (and often a small group of cis women at that) hasn’t been liberating for all cis women. As a bisexual and a third-waver, I’ve been on the end of that kind of anti-woman “feminist” discourse that insisted my experience was invalid or that my very being was somehow oppressing other women. If Audre Lorde was right that the masters tools won’t dismantle the master’s house, it boggles my mind when women resist the inclusion of any new tools. Rejecting new or silenced insights is never going to move us toward liberation. Thanks for talking about the fourth wave. clairecramer says “Focussing only on how oppression impacts cis women (and often a small group of cis women at that) hasn’t been liberating for all cis women.” YES! (From another fed-up bisexual.) Tina Price-Johnson says I could not agree more; a fourth wave is definitely not only where feminism is headed but is where I feel it should be headed. There is no room for any discriminatory behaviours or ideologies in a movement founded upon the ideal of equality. The majority of transphobic commentary I hear from feminists is from those who identify as ‘radical’ (although thankfully not all radical feminists feel this way). I wrote this blog in February of this year after being mired in many an argument on this issue, I hope you find it interesting and applicable: http://fromthemindoftinapj.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/transphobia-is-a-feminist-issue/ SallyStrange: bottom-feeding, work-shy peasant says Rather than self-describing as a trans feminist, this cis woman plans on describing as a Fourth Wave feminist, and linking to this article and others like it when questioned about its meaning. Thank you Natalie! Oh, that is a perfect solution to the naming issue! Thank you! Jules says I gave a speech at the Alabama We Are Women rally this weekend that was specifically about including transgendered people in our consciousness regarding feminism, and I was directed to this post (I frequently read your blog, but I hadn’t seen this one). It was an invaluable resource. I am not a transwoman, and I was a bit hesitant to tackle a subject I’m not personally familiar with, but I wanted this message to get out and I was pretty sure no one else was going to address it. Having your amazing insight and amazing words to draw from made a huge difference. The talk was very well received, and I quoted from your directly, so maybe a few new readers will be coming your way soon. In a fun bit of serendipity, from the carpool pool I ended up driving down with a man who has a local GLBTQ advocacy group (it’s a nearly 4 hour drive one way, so we had a LOT of time to talk). It was exciting to see how intersectionality is gaining more prominence even in such a backwards place as Alabama. Anyway, I just wanted to thank you for raising my awareness, and I wanted you to know that many people are happy to take the message of Fourth Wave Feminism to heart. They just need to hear it. On transphobic “feminism” « Liberal Will says: […] past ten years, will be a major component of the "fourth wave" when it comes, if it hasn't already. As popularised by the wonderful transfeminist blogger Natalie Reed (really, you should read her blog, especially […] Fourth Wave: Part Three \| Sincerely, Natalie Reed says: […] that has been holding feminism back from being able to speak to the fact of gender variance. In part one, I mentioned the way that a considerable amount of feminist theory, radical feminism in particular, […] An open letter to Atlanta’s Feminist Women’s Health Center on its refusal to treat certain women and its willingness to treat certain men. « Cisnormativity says: […] Center were recently brought to light online before several feminist communities — including fourth-wave trans feminists like me — on how your clinic adequately treats cis women and trans […] Leave a Reply to clairecramer Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1363
__label__wiki	0.848957	0.848957	Man In 2010 Killing Of U.S. Border Agent Brian Terry Gets Life In Prison Sobs of relief racked the Tucson federal courtroom where Judge David Bury imposed his sentence. Men in the camouflaged uniform of Brian Terry’s tactical Border Patrol unit have silently attended every trial, conviction and sentencing since his murder outside of Nogales, Arizona, nine years ago. They filled the courtroom as this sixth defendant was sentenced. Ducey Seeks Federal Money For Bridge Over Tonto Creek Gov. Ducey is asking the federal government for money to build a bridge where four people drowned in two separate incidents late last year. The feds have denied earlier requests to build a bridge over Tonto Creek. Board Of Supervisors Accept Paul Petersen's Resignation A day after Paul Petersen resigned the job of Maricopa County Assessor, the Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to accept his resignation today. The board’s vote means it will not issue an opinion about the decision to initially uphold Petersen’s suspension. Goldwater Institute Sues Department Of Education Earlier this week, The Goldwater Institute filed a lawsuit against the Arizona Department of Education. The suit pertains to the 50 page handbook of policies and procedures used by the department to help participating parents utilize their school vouchers. Tucson Marks 9 Years Since Deadly Arizona Mass Shooting Nearly a decade after Tucson became the site of a deadly mass shooting, the city renewed a promise Wednesday that the victims would not be forgotten. Dozens, including survivors like former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords, gathered for a morning ceremony in front of a historic courthouse downtown. KJZZ's Photos Of The Month KJZZ is known for its award-winning radio stories and programming — but the newsroom has some great photographers, too. See some of our best photos of 2020 so far. 9th Circuit To Weigh Hold On Exemption To So-Called Asylum Ban Immigrant rights groups won a court-ordered exception to the so-called asylum ban for some people ordered to wait just outside the United States before making their claim. On Thursday the federal government hopes to convince a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel to put the mandate on hold during an appeal. 7 Sonoran Workers Dead After Train Strikes Bus A bus carrying several dozen agricultural workers in southern Sonora was struck by a train Tuesday, leaving seven dead and more than 30 injured. Two of the victims were teenagers. What The Sunnyslope Line Says About School Choice Dozens of parents lined up outside of Sunnyslope High School in Phoenix this week, hoping to land their students a spot at one of the highest-rated schools in the area. The images and news reports sparked heated debate on social media, pitting school choice advocates who argued the system is working against those who saw the line as an example of how it has backfired. How UA's Phillip Kuo Bridged Eastern, Western Medicine Dr. Phillip Kuo’s feet stand firmly in Western medicine. He’s a professor of medical imaging and biomedical engineering at the University of Arizona, but he’s also dedicated to one of Eastern medicine’s oldest practices: tai chi. Research: 'Family Values' Vs. 'Sexy Shakira' Species New research from ASU finds that across the world, what really motivates us is “kin care” — taking care of our families. It's an even bigger motivator than finding a mate. Why John Chayka Has Been Successful As Arizona Coyotes GM The Arizona Coyotes are on a four-game win streak and tied for second place in the NHL's Western Conference. A key figure in the team's turnaround: 30-year-old general manager John Chayka. Mexican Asylum Seekers Might Be Forced To Apply In Guatemala Mexicans seeking asylum in the U.S. might be forced to apply thousands of miles away from the border between both countries, in Guatemala. The Mexican government is not pleased. WATCH: Trump Addresses Iran's Attacks On Bases President Donald Trump is speaking to the nation following attacks on military bases in Iraq where U.S. troops are stationed. Trump tweeted on Tuesday night that "All is well!" and that an assessment of the casualties was underway. Why Is Downtown Phoenix Scooter Ridership Lower Than Other Cities? After four months of a pilot program, an electronic scooter company says ridership is lower in downtown Phoenix compared to other cities. Ryan Mores, Phoenix operations manager for Lime, told the transportation subcommittee Tuesday that the city’s geofencing technology requirement is a significant obstacle. NBA Plays To Score And Win In Mexico Mexico has become an attractive market for American sports leagues. That includes the NBA, which wants to expand its presence and build strong alliances — and the Phoenix Suns are part of that effort. AZ Senate President: Education, Transportation And Prison Reform Priorities The Arizona Legislature will kick off a new session on Monday. Senate President Karen Fann says education, transportation and prison reform will be priorities in the budget. Iran Strikes Back At U.S. With Missile Attack At Air Base Iran struck back at the United States for the killing of a top Iranian general early Wednesday, firing a series of surface-to-surface missiles at an Iraqi air base housing U.S. troops and warning the United States and its allies in the region not to retaliate. Unclaimed Lottery Winnings Mean Prizes Doubled They say that one person’s trash is another person’s treasure. In the case of one unclaimed lottery ticket, that’ll be the case for future Arizona Lottery winners. County Attorney's Office Changes Structure Of Diversion Programs The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office is making changes to its felony diversion program. The County Attorney’s Office says it is combining two current diversion programs to “offer a more robust treatment option” to address criminal behavior.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1366
__label__wiki	0.920966	0.920966	Chelsea news: Fikayo Tomori signs new long-term contract Dickson Mose Chelsea have moved to tie down young defender Fikayo Tomori at the club, signing a new five-year deal that will see him stay at the club until at least 2024. Tomori has had a breakout season with the Blues this campaign, making 16 appearances in all competitions for Frank Lampard's charges. His good form has seen him receive a call-up to the England national team. “It’s obviously a very proud moment for myself and my family,” Tomori, a graduate of Chelsea’s academy, said on the club website. “I’ve been at the club since I was seven years old so I don’t really know much else other than Chelsea. “The club has been so good to me, looking after and developing me during that time into the player and the person I am today. “It’s a dream come true to sign a new five-year contract. I’m really happy the club have shown this faith in me and I’m just excited to carry on.” Tomori's rise is well documented, having starred for Frank Lampard at Derby County last season in the Championship. He moved with the 21-year-old, seamlessly fitting in the Blues' defense alongside Kurt Zouma and at times, Andreas Christensen. Chelsea director Marina Granovskaia was full of praise for the youngster and paid tribute to the club's academy. “We are very happy to see another fantastic young player come through from our academy into the senior team," “Fikayo has been with us since he was seven years old and has contributed to many Chelsea successes at youth level. Fikayo has missed the last two matches with an injury but will hope to recover in time for Bournemouth's clash. Read More: Man City 2-2 Crystal Palace: Fernandinho own goal denies City a needed win Chelsea - Next Match Saturday Roundup: Haaland scores debut hattrick, Fernandinho ruins Guardiola's birthday as Chelsea see Blue Newcastle vs Chelsea lineups Lampard: Ross Barkley staying at Chelsea Sporting Lisbon manager uncertain over Bruno Fernandes' future Erling Haaland bags debut hat-trick as BvB beat Augsburg 5-3 🔴🏆 What Liverpool needs to do to win Premier League title now	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1370
__label__wiki	0.576599	0.576599	Returning To A Series After E3 E3 is a magical time of the year for gamers, both hardcore and casual. While the hardcore will stay awake till the early hours of the morning watching the ‘earth shattering’ announcements being made live during conferences, the casuals will still be drip fed news on the biggest games via social media and word of mouth. It’s not all about the announcement of brand new IP’s or games though, E3 is a time for franchises to make their returns or sequels to be announced. On occasion the returns can be unexpected. Awash with all plethora of E3 news, did you know that Bubsy is back? Yeah The Bubsy the cat. With the revival or return of other nostalgic franchises of late such as Wipeout, Parappa the rapper and Crash you’d be forgiven if you didn’t see much on this announcement. Nostalgia is winning this generation So this E3 was no different, in that new installments in beloved franchises were revealed. For me the hype of these announcements, and looks at new footage of returning characters or franchises will always give me the urge to play other older games in the series in anticipation of the new release. I mentioned in the ‘Best & Worst of E3‘ post that my surprise of E3 was the reveal of Metro Exodus. I also mentioned that due to that announcement I would now go out of my way to pick up Metro Redux for PS4 so I can play the first 2 games in this franchise. I still feel this way, I’m excited for payday to pick up a new PS4 game to keep me going through the month till next month, but now I’m asking myself some pretty important questions such as what game should I buy? Do I pick up some games in franchises that have just had new installments announced? It turns out I might not need to buy any new games due to already owning some games in standout franchises sequels. While I do want to play the Metro games thanks to Exodus reveal which would mean parting with money for the Redux collection, I also have an urge to go back to Wolfenstein after the absolutely sensational reveal of Wolfenstein: The New Colossus. Fortunately for me I have New Blood sat waiting to be played in the backlog of games I got at Christmas, So this is making it’s way up the list of games to play next (once I finish the superb Horizon: Zero Dawn). Then there’s Life is Strange. I picked up the original pretty late after it’s initial release, I got the physical version with the soundtrack included. That game ended up being one of the greatest gaming experiences I’ve ever had, and you can bet your bottom dollar that thanks to the reveal of “Before the Storm” I am now also determined to play through that masterpiece again, reliving each emotional decision again and no doubt needing to compose myself between episodes as I did the first time I played it. Oh and let’s not get started on Metroid Prime. Despite Metroid Prime 4 being years away, I have the largest urge to go back to the Gamecube’s heyday and retrace my steps as Samus in Prime 1 and 2. There are select games where I wish my memory could be erased so I could replay them for the first time and experience them in their glory again, and Metroid Prime is one of those games. So has E3 done anything for you with regards to giving you an itch to return to a franchise that had a new installment announced? Tags Bubsy The Cat Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy E3 2017 Featured Content Life Is Strange Life is Strange Before the storm Metro Exodus Metro Redux Metroid Prime Metroid Prime 4 Wipeout Wipeout Omega Collection Wolfenstein The New Colossus Wolfenstein The Old Blood E3 2017: Best & Worst iplayedthegame says: Personally I’m liking seeing new franchises at E3. Much as nostalgia is powerful, I was pleased to see so many “not sequels”, especially during Microsoft’s reel. Geekly Roundup – Metro Exodus, Planet Zoo	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1375
__label__wiki	0.756837	0.756837	Rebuttals News Ticker > [ January 18, 2020 ] Palestinian Muslim Woman Running To Be Manhattan’s Next District Attorney Women Quitting Jobs in Swedish No-Go Area Mall Due to Harassment from Migrant Men More Than 120 Members of Congress Issue Letters of Support for Hamas-tied terror org CAIR ‘Jabba The Jihadi,’ 560-Pound Terrorist, Arrested In Iraq Londoner Rashidul Islam who made multiple bomb threats to easyJet passenger flight gets 16 months... “Rise and Resist” Communists Protest “Sycophat” Nikki Haley at Federalist Society Gala US Public School Teacher Threatens Muslim Girl for Taking Off Hijab Iranian crown prince and heir to the throne : Tehran regime on the brink of... Babson College professor fired after saying Iran should target Kardashians, Mall of America \| Report: Antisemitic Harassment at U.S. College Campuses Hits Historic Levels By Geller Report Staff - on September 18, 2019 This frightening report is not a surprise. The pro-Palestinian Left are being allowed to terrorize pro-Israel Jewish students with impunity. The fact that pro-Israel Jewish students are not able to exercise their First Amendment rights on American college campuses is a tragedy. It represents one of the worst failures in the history of American Jewish leadership. A strong pro-Israel organization in the United States is urgently needed. An organization that knows how to fight a war. Report: Anti-Semitic Harassment at U.S. College Campuses Hits Historic Levels ‘Israel-related anti-Semitic harassment increased 70 percent’ “Antisemitic acts involving the singling out of Jewish and pro-Israel students and groups for personal vilification more than doubled,” including a 147 percent increase in incidents of the students being linked to “white supremacy,” according to the findings. “Attempts to exclude” Jewish and pro-Israel students “from campus activities more than doubled, with expression calling for the total boycott or exclusion of pro-Israel students from campus life nearly tripling.” By:Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, September 17, 2019 2:10 PM Anti-Semitic harassment on college campuses aimed at pro-Israel students jumped by 70 percent in the past year, the highest levels ever seen, according to a new study showing that the endorsement of anti-Israel causes by students and professors has created an unsafe environment for Jewish students. Harassment of students who expressed pro-Israel ideologies jumped 70 percent from 2017 to 2018, according to a new report by the AMCHA Initiative, a campus organization that monitors anti-Semitism on more than 400 college campuses and that has recorded some 2,500 anti-Semitic incidents across the U.S. since 2015. AMCHA found in its latest report that while examples of classical anti-Semitism decreased overall, there has been a major spike in students being targeted for hate speech and violence due to their open support for the state of Israel. The findings jibe with anecdotal evidence seen across the country of Jewish and pro-Israel students experiencing violence and harassment from those associated with the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, or BDS, which aims to wage economic warfare on Israel. The BDS movement has put major resources into its campus activities and it appears to be bearing fruit across the United States. Hostility toward Israel’s supporters on campus “reached near-historic levels” during the past year, according to the report. National SJP Says Conference Will Be Held at University of Minnesota By The Jewish Press, September 16th, 2019: National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) announced on Sept. 16 that they will be holding their annual conference at the University of Minnesota (UMN) Twin Cities on Nov. 1-3. NSJP’s website states that the conference, titled “Beyond Struggle: From Roots to Branches Towards Liberation,” will recognize that “support for the Palestinian cause is increasing within mainstream politics,” citing the elections of Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), both of whom support the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. The conference will also provide information on Palestinian history. “The history of Palestine, and the Palestinian struggle against Zionism, extends beyond the confines of 1967, and well before the Nakba (the Catastrophe) of 1947-1948,” the website states. “It is important that this be recognized by those who claim to act in solidarity with the Palestinian people, many of whom engage solely in anti-occupation advocacy– that is, advocacy which relies on a version of Palestinian history limited to the Green Line. In doing so, they forego the rights of those Palestinians in refugee camps, in diaspora, and in 1948 lands.” Your contribution supports independent journalism Please take a moment to consider this. Now, more than ever, people are reading Geller Report for news they won't get anywhere else. But advertising revenues have all but disappeared. Google Adsense is the online advertising monopoly and they have banned us. 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Rick Gouveia on More Than 120 Members of Congress Issue Letters of Support for Hamas-tied terror org CAIR Ban Islam on Babson College professor fired after saying Iran should target Kardashians, Mall of America \| yiyoya on Palestinian Muslim Woman Running To Be Manhattan’s Next District Attorney Tweets by @PamelaGeller AMERICAN FREEDOM DEFENSE INITIATIVE The Islamic State (ISIS) FATWA on Pamela Geller: “We will send all our lions to achieve her slaughter” Books & Movies By Pamela Geller It is the conflict of our age, yet no one dares talk about it. The true story of the Islamic Supremacist war on free speech as told by those on the front lines fighting for our First Amendment rights, . Pamela Geller tells her own story of how she became one of the world's foremost activists for the freedom of speech, individual rights, and equality of rights for all. "It's my story, it's what happens when someone fights for freedom in America today," Geller explained. 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__label__cc	0.743188	0.256812	A Traveller in Search of Music' National Programme Daventry, 26 May 1934 10.45 PHILIP THORNTON Unknown: Philip Thornton National Programme is a radio service which began broadcasting on 9 March 1930 and ended on 9 September 1939. It was replaced by BBC Home Service Basic. Feedback about A Traveller in Search of Music', National Programme Daventry, 10.45, 26 May 1934 Please leave this link here so we can find the programme you're referring to: http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/e43f98afec854ff3915004b57047153e	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1379
__label__wiki	0.90819	0.90819	Successfully defended China at ICSID People in Who’s Who Legal People in Future Leaders US$2.8 billion 5 (of which 0 are as sole or chair) Zhong Lun was founded in 1993 as one of China’s earliest private partnership law firms. Since then it has grown from a single office in Beijing to one of China’s three largest firms. It has an international arbitration group full of English-speaking lawyers, which is part of the firm’s wider dispute resolution practice. In the early days, this group focused on real estate and construction arbitrations at CIETAC, the Beijing Arbitration Centre and some overseas fora. As the firm has developed, the practice has grown and now handles disputes over joint ventures, equity transfer, international sale of goods, IP licensing, shipbuilding, banking and finance, distribution, energy, media and telecoms. The dispute resolution department is headed by Yuming Liu, who worked as a Chinese Supreme Court judge for over 10 years before joining private practice, and has experience dealing with high-profile commercial lawsuits and enforcement applications before the courts. He also sits as an arbitrator at CIETAC and the Beijing Arbitrator Committee. The head of the arbitration practice is Lijun Cao, a New York and China-qualified lawyer who worked with CIETAC for many years and is a member of the SIAC executive committee responsible for revising the institution’s rules. Other major partners include Lei Niu, a former deputy secretary general of the China Maritime Arbitration Commission’s Shanghai sub-commission, and New York-qualified Huawei Sun. Both Cao and Niu sit as arbitrators for various Asian institutions (Cao also sits on AAA-ICDR cases). The firm’s eminence in Chinese arbitration was recognised when it picked up an award at the GAR Awards ceremony in Shanghai in 2016. Zhong Lun has eight offices in mainland China (Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Chengdu, Qingdao and Chongqing), and others in Hong Kong, Tokyo, London, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Domestic clients include Chinese state-owned electrical supplier Shandong Luneng; Dongfang Electric; the New York Stock Exchange listed CDEL; Paul Y Construction (China); Sinosure; Shanghai Motors; Zhejiang Tenglong Shipyard Company; and Chinachem Group. The Chinese government is a client at ICSID (see ‘Recent events’). Outside China, clients include US’s Intel Security Group; InterContinental Hotels; Honeywell; Lacoste; BNP Paribas; Heineken-Asia Pacific Breweries Limited, which is engaged in a series of disputes in relation to a Chinese joint venture; and US-owned Invista Technologies, in a dispute arising from agreements between the client as licensor and a Chinese company as licensee. In 2014, the firm won a landmark decision from a Chinese court for a Luxembourg subsidiary of Invista. The court found that a “hybrid” clause providing for arbitration at CIETAC under UNCITRAL rules was valid and enforceable. Norton Rose Fulbright acted as Zhong Lung’s co-counsel. Zhong Lun defended a Hong Kong property service provider as respondent in two consolidated arbitrations worth US$10 million before CIETAC’s South China sub-commission in Shenzhen, succeeding on most counts. It also knocked out claims brought against Shanghai Motors in an arbitration before a CIETAC Shanghai tribunal over a long-term auto parts sale contract (before CIETAC Shanghai broke away to become SHIAC). Other successes were for Zhejiang Tenglong Shipyard as claimant in a London Maritime Arbitration Association case against Russian vessel owners; and Canada’s Absolute Energy in an international sale of goods dispute against a US subsidiary of a Chinese state-owned company. The firm represented Puyang Steel Company as claimant in a CIETAC Beijing arbitration against an international air products company worth US$280 million. The claim was settled. Zhong Lun paired with Dentons to defend the Chinese government in an US$80 million ICSID claim brought by South Korea’s Ansung Housing. The case – concerning the failed construction of a golf course and condominium – was dismissed as “manifestly without legal merit” in March 2017. It is the first ICSID case against China to reach a final award. The firm represented a leading Canadian engineering firm in a US$561 million SIAC dispute with Chinese state-owned enterprise. The case settled in December 2016. A Hong Kong company used it for a US$60 million arbitration with a Dutch company over a Chinese-registered joint venture. The case was under UNCITRAL rules and administered by the HKIAC. In two recent CIETAC arbitrations, the firm represented an Asian private equity firm in a US$70 million dispute over a put option; and another private equity firm in a US$55 million dispute over a share transfer agreement. In the past year, Bing Wang in the Beijing office was promoted from non-equity partner to equity partner, and Changyu Fu joined the firm as equity partner. Client comment Geraldine Lim, general counsel to Heineken, had occasion to use a Zhong Lun team led by partner Lijun Cao. She praises them for their ability to “keep the big picture in mind, including the practicalities”. Cao is an “experienced arbitrator who knows the CIETAC system inside out.” Renn Shi, CEO of China’s HRS Wind Power Technologies, says the firm provides “the right people with the right expertise at the right time”. Cao is “top class” and “a high-level orator” while partner Bing Wang is a “sharp-minded lady” with “excellent cross-examination skills”. Jacky Huang, legal director at Accor China, says the company has used Zhong Lun for the past 10 years with “good results”. Lijun Cao and Lihua Wang are particularly impressive, she adds. The Asia-Pacific Arbitration Review 2019 Energy Arbitration in China Construction Arbitration in Mainland China and Hong Kong	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1384
__label__cc	0.718165	0.281835	project websites: https://bridgingsustainability.leuphana.de/ www.leuphana.de/zentren/cgsc/forschung-projekte/bridging-the-great-divide-in-sustainability-science.html Bridging The Great Divide in Sustainability Science Linking High-Performance Modeling and Transition Experiments to Foster Transformational Change Towards Sustainability Sustainability challenges threaten the long-term viability and integrity of societies around the world. While the theoretical understanding of these challenges continues to grow, solutions are far less developed. In response, sustainability science has been developing a research agenda that focuses on evidence-based solutions that are scalable and transferable. Yet, there is still a significant gap between understanding complex challenges and contributing to context specific solutions. Concept & Approach This proposal aims to build additional capacity at Leuphana University of Lüneburg to bridge the divide between modeling and understanding of complex sustainability problems (often on a global scale) developing and evaluating contextualized solution efforts (often on a local scale). Focusing on water, land-use, and climate change challenges, two prominent approaches will be combined: high-performance computational modeling and transition experiments. Combining these two approaches and supporting interdisciplinary collaboration across the related academic communities while building on disciplinary excellence defines the agenda for a future cluster of excellence. This will also be a major leap towards bridging the knowledge-action gap in sustainability science. These questions will be addressed by adopting an interdisciplinary research framework that structures the knowledge-action loop by linking: data-driven screening for suitable locations and contexts to make transition experiments more effective and efficient ex-ante testing of transition strategies to improve their performance and impact generalizing context-specific insights about solutions from transition experiments, including ex-post evaluations, to advance scalability and transferabilit up-scaling findings from transition experiments into high-performance computational models to improve their validity, transferability, and explanatory power. Mobile Solution Theaters will be developed as advanced collaborative settings to facilitate activities and synthesize insights across the loop. A media culture and critical epistemology perspective will allow reflecting on assumptions and implications across the loop. Finally graduate and postgraduate junior researchers will be trained in innovative research-teaching settings across the loop, and thereby in bridging the great divide in future sustainability science. Participant No Participant organisation name Leuphana University of Lüneburg Global Climate Forum GCF project team Dr. Andreas Geiges Carbon Bubble DTnaMo	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1385
__label__cc	0.588817	0.411183	What’s the Veer? Hoops News 2018-19 Archive About GoCoogs Lady Coogs Time To Tell The Truth: Cougar Defensive Woes (FREE!) by Ryan Monceaux/ November 8, 2018/ By The Numbers, Football/ Thanks to one of our subscribers, we are able to make this GoCoogs Insider analysis available to all passionate UH fans: Most of the people I’ve talked with this week were so frustrated with the offense following the SMU game that, in some ways, they gave the defense a pass. But in his press conference earlier this week, Major Applewhite was asked about if the UH defense has been improving or not. Here’s his response in its entirety: “How many points do we allow? How many points are we giving up? What type of third down defense are we playing? What type of red zone defense are we playing? How many takeaways are we creating? Those are the key things that I am looking at. Yards can lie. If you get people off the field with field goals, if you’re taking the ball away and creating short fields for your offense, and getting them off the field on third down, those are successful traits that you look for. I’m not always going to look at total rushing yards or total passing yards given up. Those aren’t always great indicators on winning or losing, but ultimately holding the team to one less point than you score. That’s what we talk about. That’s the reality. When you get in games you may be able to dominate an opponent and hold them to zero points in the first half. We’ve done that. We’ve been in some other games where they were shootouts with explosive offenses. South Florida two weeks ago was an example of that. You know you’re going to give up some yards. There’s some skilled players there. We have to play good red zone defense, take the ball away a few times, and play great on third down. Those are the things we look at to evaluate our defense to see how successful we are. Obviously effort on ball security and tackling and the basic fundamentals of defensive football are important.” Major’s response was curious. Is this the first step in shoving Mark D’Onofrio out the backdoor? Or does he think that by ignoring the question that no one will point out how bad we’ve been? Let’s break it all down point by point: Major’s Defensive Keys Yards can lie, Major. But these numbers don’t – Points given up: 31.7. 96th in the country. 8th in the conference. 3rd down defense: 111th nationally. 10th in the American. Red zone scoring defense: 120th. 11th in ACC. Takeaways: 35th (tied with 12 others). 4th in the league. If those are the keys that the head coach is focused on then he can’t be too pleased with his defensive coordinator. The bend bend bend but don’t break defense has never improved in these areas. least improved Opponents average 4.44 points per scoring opportunity (drives that go inside the 40) – 67th in the country. We are T-84th in TDs given up and T-115th in FGs made by opponents. We’re T-104 in red zone touchdowns allowed and 91st in percentage of red zone trips that end in a touchdown. GoCoogs Insider Research: On 43% of drives, an opponent scores on the Coogs (35 TDs and 21 FGs on 130 total drives). In fact, opponents score more than they punt (54 punts – 41% of drives). Are those the successful traits you’re looking for? UH is also 114th in 3rd & long success-rate and 101st in 3rd & medium success-rate. Tell the truth time: we aren’t getting anyone off the field, Major! Judging a drive a “success” because you hold them to 3 points is ludicrous when you’re also giving up 4 TDs a game. Along with all that, UH is ranked 129th in Time of Possession – dead last in the country. For a team like UH, this is largely controlled by the defense. Despite scoring 48 points a game, we’re never playing from too far ahead. Your offense can’t control the ball if you can’t get it to them without giving up points. The Wrong Mindset For Today’s Game If he talks to his team about winning by one point then he might not understand the City of Houston and UH fans. One-point wins aren’t moving the needle here. On 43% of drives, an opponent scores on the Coogs. If the head coach isn’t “always going to look at” the fact that the Coogs are 129th in pass defense (last in the country) or 120th in total defense (11th in the AAC), I suppose that’s good news for D’Onofrio. But that’s the only way any of his overall performance can be seen in a positive light. Of the statistical categories Major mentioned, here’s where we stand in comparison to other AAC schools: Points given up: 8th 3rd down defense: 10th Red zone scoring defense: 11th Takeaways: 4th Rush defense: 3rd Pass defense: 12th Total defense: 11th Time of possession: 12th Major didn’t address first down defense (118th – last in the AAC) or scoring defense (96th – 8th AAC). He could have spun the scoring defense ranking in a positive light: with all the yards these teams put up against us, at least they’re not always scoring! doesn’t always give up points Time To Tell The Truth Major largely told the truth about what are important numbers. Naturally, though, there was no follow-up about how bad those important stats have been or how they will affect his assessment of D’Onofrio. He glossed over the fact that he has a top-five offense but all he requires from his defense is “holding the team to one less point.” That’s a pro-style, run-it-up-the-middle mindset that doesn’t work in this era. He tried it against Rice, Tulsa, and SMU this year and was faced with second-half deficits in each game. In two losses this year to mediocre teams, the Coogs have given up an astounding 108 total points. That’s 15 offensive touchdowns. 1218 yards. And 923 passing yards. It’s time to tell the truth, Major: you botched this hire. It’s time to rectify the situation and start over. What did you think of this story? A note to our readers: Thanks to a friend of GoCoogs.com, we were able to make this Cougars By The Numbers free to you in order to demonstrate the value of a GoCoogs Insider subscription. Most of our data-driven articles like this one are subscriber-only content. A GoCoogs Insider subscription delivers premium HOUSTON COUGAR content just like this. 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__label__cc	0.726756	0.273244	You are here: Home / Digital Publishing News / Publishers to Release Figures on Digital Magazines Publishers to Release Figures on Digital Magazines April 3, 2012 By Mercy Pilkington Leave a Comment Image courtesy of tek-tips.nethawk.net Highly specific information on sales figures involving digital publishing has always been kept very quiet, with most retailers only releasing very general hints about how their numbers appear to be faring. Everything from the precise units of devices sold to the exact number of ebooks purchased has been closely guarded. Now, Hearst publishers will be following the lead of Conde Nast, both publishers of popular magazines, in releasing specific information to its advertisers on several key aspects of digital magazine subscriptions. Advertisers will now be able to know such details as how many subscriptions and single-issue magazines sales have been purchased for a tablet or app, as well as how much time users actually spent with the magazine open on their devices. When Conde Nast first experimented with gathering and distributing this information to a small group of advertisers last summer before opening it up to all of its advertisers in March, the information from users of iPads, Kindle Fires, and Nook Color tablets became available about ten weeks after the magazine issue had been distributed. Hearst, which charges separately for its print and digital editions (unlike Conde Nast, which began bundling the digital version for its print subscribers), will start out slowly by releasing the number of units sold to iPad users. Eventually, the publishers has plans to start providing advertisers with more information, including how much time users spend interacting with the ads in the issues. An article for paidContent.org outlined the standards that not only the Association of Magazine Media but also the Audit Bureau of Circulations are expected to put in place later this year which will contain certain expectations of reporting for both monthly and weekly digital magazines. Mercy Pilkington Mercy Pilkington is a Senior Editor for Good e-Reader. She is also the CEO and founder of a hybrid publishing and consulting company. Filed Under: Digital Publishing News, E-Book News, e-Reader News, Tablet PC News	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1393
__label__wiki	0.53741	0.53741	Dear Yaw Home/Politics/Rawlings on sex-for-grades in schools Rawlings on sex-for-grades in schools GWO October 31, 2019 Ex-President Jerry John Rawlings Former President Jerry John Rawlings is advocating for the use of external examiners [markers] in institutions of higher learning in Ghana as part of efforts to help address the sex-for-grades menace between some lecturers and their students. According to him, many brilliant students, particularly girls who refuse to succumb to their lecturers’ sexual demands end up “getting unfair deals” in their results. To Mr Rawlings, it was sad that students who are not academically good but give in to such lecturers oftentimes get good grades. “Apparently sometimes, the dumb ones, get upgraded; either first class or second class honours or whatever it is, when everybody knows that they are not worth it,” he said. Mr Rawlings made the remarks when the leadership of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) paid a courtesy call on him at his office in Accra on Thursday, October 31, 2019. The GJA leadership was in the former President’s office to invite him to the association’s awards and 70th-anniversary celebrations and to solicit his support for the safety of journalists in Ghana and to tap into his fountain of experience as to how to have a thriving journalism industry in the country. Mr Rawlings noted that the practice of sex-for-grades was not only a shortcut to destroying people’s lives, but it was an inhumane practice that could destroy the moral fabric of the country. “Why should we be taking human beings through such humiliations [sex for grades],” he questioned and added that there was nothing “as bad and corruptible as breaking the moral fabric of society.” According to him, the sex-for-grades menace was not only limited to academic institutions and that the practice was equally thriving at many workplaces. Mr Rawlings shared an experience of a lady who approached him in Nigeria whilst he was still President to help her get job and explained that the said lady’s qualification and natural beauty should naturally land her a job but the lady told him that she was jobless because she had refused to give in to men who demanded sex to give her a job. He said there was the need to make the marking of students’ scripts transparent so that students who fought for their integrity by not trading sex for grade were not cheated in their examination results. “I would like to see just as I would advocate for, markers; external markers looking into remarking, examining those papers by some of those girls. I would wish they would examine some of those first-class ones too to see if their performance corresponds to the marks they have been given,” he explained. He added “how can we make sure there is so much transparency in this [marking]” Mr Rawlings said if the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) has been able to institute measures to ensure that students got what they merited in their examination and not by any other means, other institutions could replicate such systems. He was of the view that the recent sex for grade exposes by the BBC was “probably going to make some of them [lecturers] who do these things even more vengeful,” hence the need for the tertiary institutions to check the practice. He also encouraged individuals who feel cheated in their results to seek for remarking to ensure that they receive what they deserve. \|Graphic Online BBC Sex for grades scandal GIMPA JJ Rawlings SEX FOR GRADES Ghanaweb Onine is dedicated to bringing you news from various media groups in Ghana,Africa and around the world to keep you informed and educated as you go about your daily lives. Disclaimer: The views of each article are the sole responsibility of the author and do not reflect that of Ghana web online.We are not responsible for any misinformation or incorrect statement. If you need any more clarification on an article please direct them to the original source.All contents belong to their respective owners we do not own it. Rev. 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__label__cc	0.6785	0.3215	What Purpose Does the Blasphemy Law Actually Serve? Source: The Nation We all know that the blasphemy law is supposed to punish the offenders who desecrate the good name of God and the Prophet, or commit a similar offense against religion. And there is really no doubt that blaspheming against holy persons and entities is indicative of a lack of sensitivity and regard toward religious communities. However, people like to debate whether the offense warrants penalties as strict as death and life imprisonment or even any at all. There is no debate possible in the country in its present climate whether the blasphemy law should be repealed or not. However, fortunately, many of the people, including some very smart mainstream religious scholars from both Sunni and Shia traditions agree that there are margins of improving the law. In other words, many people concede that the law is being abused or that there is a possibility of abusing it to settle personal scores. This is keeping the next-to-none debate of amending the law alive, where it is important to keep in mind that most people are not willing to compromise on the prescribed penalty. That is still progress nevertheless. To the common religious conservative citizen, the law must be about penalizing the blasphemer and it becomes a matter of the “rule of law.” However, this is merely an instrument of asserting the political authority of a community. It is basically a reminder of who is in charge, or what is in charge, relevant in this case. There is a reason why blasphemers happen to only target Islam in a country of more than 200 million. But even if you are in the “amend-not-repeal camp,” I wonder with these motives behind it, people who matter would actually be willing to even agree on any changes to the law. We all know how Senator Sherry Rehman was threatened when she tried proposing her amendments. Even if the majority agrees on such an amendment, the small but forceful minority would see to it that they have their way. There obviously is little hope but to try convincing people to improve the law. However, banking your hopes on that also points toward a fundamental misunderstanding of why the law exists in the first place. So, if you missed the memo, initiating discussion of the misuse of the law also becomes an offense to the authoritarian religious conservative. That is a fine line to tread on as slips like the late Governor Taseer calling it a black law could cost you dearly. But even if you are super careful and respectful, you are still challenging the very authority that the blasphemy law formulated under Zia is designed to keep, instead of offering an equal opportunity of complaint to all. While this may have prevented an average citizen from the fanaticism of the minority religious communities, it has made those communities very prone to damage. Especially the helpless individual citizens from those communities who always end up paying the highest cost. It is simply their misfortune that their fellow citizens want nothing to do with knowing their troubles. The blasphemy law under Zia was passed under the threats of clerics and it is maintained by similar vows. It was a comprehensive push against the secular side of the state, which had since grown weaker by the day. And since the penalties are as per the prescription of the Sharia according to most scholars, amending how the law is enforced would be a push against the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic against secular entities, if not about upholding the word of God. After all, the JI Emir complains that Pakistan is not an Islamic State. Even when common citizens or scholars agree on the problems with the law, the blame often goes to the secular law enforcement instead of the violence it is encouraging. Vigilantes are arrested alright, but this is seen unfavorably in general, thanks to legends like Ghazi Ilm Deen. However, the act of vigilante violence is disapproved by conservative elites who prefer the victims to hang after a trial. This is why we must have the blasphemy law. Even though they choose to ignore how free our judges are in terms of passing the verdict in such cases and how it encourages religious extremism. While Mashaal Khan’s tragic killing has opened a window to start this conversation, it is not as if the other side is giving even an inch other than tolerating slightly dissenting comments and pieces in the media. That too, because let’s admit it, Mashaal’s death was too brutal for even most blasphemy law supporting religious conservatives in Pakistan. But the underlying problem remains the same and only time will tell if the ice would break. We do make a lot of fuss about the blasphemy law and its abuse. While there has been a sharp rise in cases registered since the amendment under Zia, the secular judiciary has refrained from passing many harsh verdicts. Call that denying justice, it hardly matters as hate speech like “Off with the head of the blasphemer” dominate every town in Pakistan. It is almost an article of faith. We are at a point far from arguing or talking reason. Perhaps we would be if the intent were just to penalize the offenders. Filed under: Articles, Commentary \| Tagged: abuse, amendment, blasphemy, blasphemy law, death, Faith, free speech, freedom of expression, Ghazi Ilm Deen, God, hate speech, Islamic state, Jamaat-e-Islami, life, Mashaal Khan, mob, mob violence, Pakistan, President Zia, Prophet, religion, religious communities, religious conservative, religious extremism, secular, Secularism, Sherry Rehman, Shia, Sunni, tradition, vigilante violence \| Leave a comment » Ignoring Local Atrocities Posted on July 31, 2014 by Haroon Riaz Source: dawn.com A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the not-so-correct political logic of accusing individuals of selective outrage. Now I agree that such arguments are best reserved for academic debate instead of political campaigns. I would not want to make this a habit, but perhaps I would actually like to engage in using such a line of reasoning every now and then too. And I’ll tell you why. There is a deep problem concerning more educated but nationalist conservative Muslim Pakistanis who believe in the myth that Pakistan is fair and safe to all non-Muslim religious minority groups. They simply fail to recognize a problem exists when it comes to local minority groups. They would simply want to dodge the question about secularism, Shariah and the atrocities on the minority groups at home. One of the more fresh and good examples is the recent incident of arson targeting an Ahmedi home in Gujranwala over an alleged blasphemous facebook post, which resulted in the death of a woman and two children. As usual, nobody stopped the rioting mob. Now, these are the events that sadly do not even make it to their information radar, or even the mainstream media. Or are simply ignored, heh, let’s say because the body count in Gaza has exceeded a thousand. Yes, I know it sounds ridiculous. But I actually agree with ignoring the problem of, say persecution of Ahmedis at home, and picking up the Palestinian cause in the Gaza conflict. Hey, you are free to do that. It is the same crooked reasoning with a complete lack of respect for individuals that lets Pakistani nationalists ask why Malala does not speak up about Gaza and is so concerned about kidnapped Nigerian girls. Well, you can only do so much. It is this sort of jingoism which is why I actually find many protests at home in bad taste and want to think twice before joining. It is almost always an insult to your intelligence, but you need to put up with it for the sake of solidarity. While politics is about emotional blackmail, it is also about compromises. Even though I greatly respect the policy of not joining any protests at all as well. No, the ones who don’t speak up are not “criminals”. Yes, that is the word they use. Jesus, the rhetoric. But then again, you have to stoop to the level of the Pakistani nationalist conservatives (actually, true for most political groups) to engage them and to proselytize. You need to really appeal to probably the kind of reasoning that they would understand and respond to. Maybe, you need to do that when they accuse others of moral double standards and not even recognize secularism as a fair social contract, and opting for Islam instead while justifying murder for blasphemy. I still think this line of reasoning is bullshit, but hey, who cares what I think. Filed under: Commentary \| Tagged: Ahmedis, blasphemy, conservative, democracy, double standards, emotional blackmail, Gaza, individuals, Islam, Islamism, logic, minorities, mob, morality, nationalists, outrage, Pakistan, Palestine, Peace, politics, religion, riots, Secularism, selective morality, Shariah, violence \| Leave a comment » Hire-a-Mob Source: asianews.it It is pretty elementary, yet so many people have been missing the point for such a long time. Not others though, because no one uses this openly secret weapon like religious groups. In a democracy, the numbers count. For votes. But in half-baked democracies such as those in the Indian subcontinent, and in Pakistan in particular, it is the numbers with the pitchforks that count. Yes, if you have the numbers, and passion, mobs can do just about anything for you. Time and again, over decades, consistently and repeatedly, we have observed that rioting mobs have been and are superior to the police. They are the only force. There is simply no match. The subcontinent has this proud medieval tradition of rioting. And then there are vendetta riots. Armed vigilantes taking control of things themselves and making sure that justice is delivered there and then. Needless to say, that these mobs are often than not motivated by religion. Hindu Muslim riots, Hindu Christian riots, Muslim Christian riots, Muslim Ahmedi riots, Sunni Shia riots, partition riots, ethnic riots, favorite cult or political leader assassinated riots, anti Western blasphemy riots. The history is so rich, both in variety and frequency of events, that a systematic proof is not even necessary. The police has learned never to stand in the way of this unstoppable force. Any resistance is futile. When a mob is invading, the best bet for a cop is to run for his life and turn his firearms over to them like a responsible trooper. After all, the police is neither trained, nor paid, nor equipped to handle these mobs. The worse that could happen is a few days of curfew and the military patrolling the streets. What could possibly go wrong? So if you have an agenda, the most profitable way of achieving instant and tangible results is to hire a mob. There are professional rioters around who can execute the job with great skill and controlling chaos. And the state is forced to listen to you. Rioting mobs forced the state to ban YouTube. Perhaps, activists who campaign against internet censorship could use the same tactics. But seriously, the state listens to rioters, say laid off government employees. Of course, if you are in the business of insurance, life can be difficult for you. A lot of lost bets. Frequent claims, that is, if people bother to buy your hopeless policies at all. But what of the relatively secular, god-fearing businessman and poor low key resident who is caught in the middle of the storm, just because they happened to be somewhere at the wrong time in the wrong place? Well, what of them? They are just a casualty. If you are a Pakistani businessman, you are going to pay some very high premiums, especially if your business office or warehouse is located near a religious or political structure. Or even if it is located at a prominent location, where it is supposed to be, or a city square known to be a frequent rioting ground. The most useful rioting agenda could be setting up an attack on one’s own office or home in order to lodge an insurance claim or to get rid of inconvenient office record. Just stir a riot for a reasonably unreasonable reason, and sit back and enjoy the show. Who could ever possibly know? So if you live in some city or village in Pakistan with reasonable population, you could be the next casualty. You have been warned. Perhaps saying a little prayer at the right time could help. Filed under: Commentary \| Tagged: agenda, curfew, hire-a-mob, indian sub continent, insurance, internet censorship, law, military, mob, Muslims, Pakistan, Peace, police, politics, religion, riot, security, state, violence, youtube \| 1 Comment » Sweeping the Ashes Beneath the Green and the White Posted on March 23, 2013 by Haroon Riaz Source: Nayyar Afaq/Unknown Happy Pakistan Day. The Day of the Green and, yes, even the White. Of talking about Quaid-e-Azam and Allama Iqbal and their delusional visions that brought about a humanitarian disaster. A lab with some 180 million lab rats, and I am not even counting those which have passed away. I don’t want to be a cynic today, though there are few better other occasions. I love the idea of Pakistan Day. But that’s not what I am talking about here. I want to talk about our conservative ideals. This addresses Pakistanis primarily. Pakistani Muslims and Pakistani Muslim Nationalists. Those who are proud of their infallible ideology which can never possibly fail when it comes to righteousness and how people should be treated. The ones with an all-encompassing code of life that covers just about every area of life with great justice and peace. The ones who have presented the best way to the world to treat those who refrain from believing in their faith even though residing in their domain. I want them to recall what happened on the fateful days from late February to June 2002 in the Indian state of Gujarat that resulted in the death of 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus as per the official figures. I want them to recall Muslims houses burned by Hindu mobs there with little or no intervention from the police. And I want them to recall how they and all of us had reacted to that, criticizing the Indian state’s failure to protect the minority religious group. Thankfully not with such drastic consequences, but equally horrifyingly, a mob of angry and pious Muslims, most of them young boys apparently, set fire to the houses and possessions of poor Christians living in Badami Bagh, downtown Lahore because one of their boys was said to have blasphemed against the Prophet. There is something common between a few of incidents in the Gujarat riots and the Joseph Colony riots in Lahore. The police made no attempt to save the victims. But then again, this is usually the case historically in the subcontinent. Isn’t it? Has not Shahbaz Sharif been as complicit as Narendra Modi in his handling of the affair? Gojra riots and Gujrat riots. Even the letters try hard to separate them. Yes, is Shahbaz Sharif Pakistan’s Narendra Modi? Maybe not, not for us to decide maybe and who cares, but what about the role of Punjab police, who are supposed to protect the defenseless Christians? Oh well, but why complain about it. The only difference however was that Muslims in India are strong enough to fight back against the Hindu mobs, or at least have been known to. Since they have mobs of their own attacking Hindus too. Though it is actually ridiculously unfair to even come close to compare Gujarat riots to the Joseph Colony incident on so many levels, but the degree of offense can only be made out by humanistic and secular eyes. We are dealing with the absurd and ridiculous over here . The riots in Gujarat sparked after Muslims set a train containing Hindu pilgrims on fire, after a Muslim girl’s kidnap, while others say it was an orchestrated conspiracy. But neither did the Pakistani Christians do anything as wrong, or that is at least what anyone not a fervent Muslim would think, nor are they strong enough to have even the remotest hope of responding back in anger. Alright I don’t have to make it too long. The point is clear here. I want the conservative Muslims of Pakistan to read it and I will try sending out that message in Urdu as well. But while keeping little more odds of staying alive, I can still send out the message to the one or two of the Pakistani Muslim conservatives Pakistani Muslims who happen to stumble upon this blog. The Pakistani Muslims who would criticize Indian Hindu extremists for harming Muslims would tolerate incidents like Joseph Colony and Gojra riots at home, being as complicit and as protective of the culprits as their similar adversaries across the border. To my eyes, there is hardly any difference between the two, which is why they hate each other so. And that is the ultimate insult to them. Source: Mohsin Raza/Reuters But make no mistake about what happened in Joseph Colony. Make no mistake about its horrors and the misery of having your home attacked and your possession and memories burned to ashes and dust. Home lost, families forced to live under tents or in indefinitely temporary camps, as was or would have been the case with some rendered homeless in Gujarat. Let it be for possessing the land or whatever political crimes may be the reason behind this incident, the fact remains that the masses acted on their religious beliefs, and we love to protect that part of our faith. And oh, how terrible this tragedy has been, and how wrong it was and there were only a handful of people doing it and how it should not have happened, would be the answers we have to it. But we wouldn’t want to face what is causing this behavior over and over again. That’s all there is to this matter and nothing more. Good and evil do not matter anymore. The key here is not to emphasize how atrocious the Joseph Colony tragedy is, but to tell Pakistani Muslim Conservatives how idiotic they are. Filed under: Commentary \| Tagged: arson, Badami Bagh, blasphemy, Christians, code of life, conservatives, death, education, extremism, fire, fundamentalism, Gojra, Gujarat riots, Hindu, homeless, ideology, Joseph Colony, justice, Lahore, life, mob, Muslims, Narendra Modi, nationalists, Pakistan, Pakistan Day, Peace, police, politics, possessions, Punjab, religion, religion of peace, riot, Secularism, Shahbaz Sharif, violence \| 1 Comment » RT @Mustafa_PPP: Thank you ⁦@SaleemKhanSafi⁩ ⁦@MazharAbbasGEO⁩ ⁦@Mehmal⁩ ⁦⁦@Benazir_Shah⁩ for taking a principled stand! Respectfully Niazi… 3 minutes ago Namoos-e-Risalat cult is not a religion but a criminal gang. 5 minutes ago	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1416
__label__cc	0.740382	0.259618	Haseeb Khawaja Documentary Filmmaker, Journalist, Activist, Consultant, Speaker, Host, Anchor, Healer, Artist, Fixer & Trainer All Services – HKS Production Services – HKP Pakistani Men Against Rape [We are Real Men and We are Against Rape.] After watching the Shoaib Mansoor’s latest film, Verna, on the social issue, Rape/ Zabarjinsi. We men from different segments of society have decided to stand up against rape, making it clear that all men are not rapist but many do realize the gravity of this heinous crime and launched a voluntarily nationwide campaign against rape from Islamabad to show our support for victim-women/ girls regarding rape cases. According to the 2016-report of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), a woman is raped every two hours in Pakistan based. However, the fact is that almost 10 percent of rape cases are reported, because in most cases women do not report to the police due to several reasons. So actually, in Pakistan a woman is raped every 12 minutes. We believe condemnation of rape, specifically by men, should be heard more clearly. We believe rape is not a crime just against women, it is a crime against society. Many men condemn rape but they do not raise their voice against it actively & collectively. That’s why it was important to design a campaign to unite men’s voices for women effectively. Every time women or/ and women alliances only speak on this issue properly but this time we as men want to show our solidarity with women on such cases of violence (Rape) and also change the perception of the people that all men are not against women and they are also standing here to speak for women and raising their voices against male rapists/ culprits. Pakistani women are already running national campaigns against rape for last many years. Men were required for their combined concrete actions and collective conscious responsibility to establish men’s campaign separately in order to bridge the existing gape for a rape-free Pakistan with women and particularly for women. Our conviction reflect that rape is the ugliest societal issue in Pakistan which cannot be eliminated without men’s engagement; so to strengthen women’s campaigns against rape we have launched our solidarity campaign. We are fully convinced that both women and men must combine their synergies and work together against rape. Together women and men can win the battle and make Pakistani society a Rape-Free. We men are here to strengthen our support and to amplify our voices against rape of women especially. We are feeling great to pioneer and for spearheading Pakistan’s 1st voluntarily flagship national men’s solidarity campaign against rape as Pakistani Men Against Rape. Not all men are rapist. Men like us are against such crimes that’s why we have initiated a nationwide men’s campaign against rape. We had given a call to all men in Pakistan through print, electronic & social media to join the campaign and separate themselves from the criminal minded aggressive men who rape and commit crimes against women and who blame women in rape cases. Up till now we have established 40+ chapters across Pakistan {including Federally Administered Tribal Areas (ex-FATA region), Baluchistan and Gilgit Baltistan (GB)} within few weeks and its number is still growing. We are doing everything 100% voluntarily, so in spite of limited resources we have set a unique milestone inside and outside Pakistan. We have been conducting awareness raising sessions, media conferences, panel discussions and trainings regarding our anti-rape cause as Focal Person/ Panelist/ Speaker/ Activist and Trainer in different Universities, Press Clubs, Governmental and Non-Governmental Organisations, especially with male colleagues. Moreover I have introduced/ represented this initiative in the Pakistan based diplomatic community especially among the UN and EU delegates. We are also running a social media campaign for awareness and I have given my interviews to different TV channels and Newspapers for awareness and also participated in different TV Talk Shows where I spoke about rape laws, myths and way forward to eliminate this heinous crime. We are setting a narrative, Blame The Rapist, Not The Victim. Moreover different people/ journalists have written about our campaign in the newspapers, social media and online news sites. Those men who are not rapist and who believe that rape is a crime and rapist is criminal can join our campaign. Moreover, we had designed this campaign (in 2017) especially for “16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence” UN’s global campaign and in response to “#MeToo” campaign. And majority segments of the society encouraged us too much especially national and international public figures of different walks of life endorsed, appreciated and supported our unique initiative as men for women across the world. Lastly women and women rights networks/ organizations also appreciated our initiative. Here are few photos of launching ceremonies of PMAR’s chapters: https://facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10217397517998876&type=1&l=6c2b577fee Pakistani Men Against Rape	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1417
__label__cc	0.641624	0.358376	Madurai : MMC gets official nod for 100 additional MBBS seats The allotment of 100 additional undergraduate seats for Madurai Medical College (MMC) has finally been confirmed as the Medical Council of India (MCI) sent an official communication regarding the same to MMC on Monday. First liver transplant in KGMU’s 100-yr history The patient is a 50-year-old man who was suffering from chronic liver disease. The 12-hour surgery is a big achievement for KGMU’s surgical gastroenterology department which has conducted many organ retrievals till now. Pondy medical college receives nat'l body accreditation The college is the first institution in Puducherry and third in Tamil Nadu to receive NABH accreditation. Japan varsity to provide telemedicine facilities Kyushu University, Japan has collaborated with Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (Jipmer) to provide telemedicine facilities in the field of surgical gastroenterology through video conferencing. Meenakshi hosp introduces high tech 3D laparoscopy machine An advanced three-dimensional (3D), high-definition (HD) laproscopy imaging system was introduced in the department of surgical gastroenterology at the Meenakshi Mission Hospital and Research Centre (MMHRC) in the city recently. Watch what you eat: 40 is new 60 for gastric cancer Being young does not mean being healthy these days. Changing lifestyles, work stress and junk food at odd hours take a toll rather early.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1420
__label__wiki	0.760092	0.760092	Behavioural Public Policy: Future Challenges People do not always behave rationally and the idea that effective public policy should embrace this fact has taken hold in recent years. In the UK, in particular, the concept of behavioural public policy has made great inroads at Whitehall where trials have had great success at little cost. Australian Government agencies are increasingly embracing the idea too: there is a groundswell of interest in how 'nudge' policy has been effective. But such policies have also come under increasingly fierce criticism on the grounds that it is just another springboard for liberal paternalism and that questionable ethical judgements may be inherent to these approaches. In this workshop, we assessed the progress made with behavioural policy insights - and considered how far we can push the insights gained into new policy domains. Benefits to participants Gained a deeper appreciation of the rationale underpinning the behavioural policy framework, its implications and future challenges Heard from speakers who provided practical insights and illustrations the challenges posed by behavioural insights in terms of policies and policy making Heard from leading academics from the University of Melbourne and the University of Queensland, as well as from leading practitioners This was an interactive, participatory seminar. Presenters actively engaged with participants' own experiences and questions to ensure the material is relevant to all, and that the shared collective knowledge and experience of other attendees leaves participants armed with practical solutions as well as new ideas. This workshop was designed for middle managers and senior executives in government, as well as those working closely with government in not-for-profit and commercial organisations. Dr Alex Gyani, Behavioural Insights, UK Cabinet Office, NSW Dept of Premier and Cabinet Professor Brian Head, Institute for Social Science Research, University of Queensland Professor Deborah Cobb-Clark, Melbourne Institute, The University of Melbourne Dr Mike Pottenger, Victorian Competition & Efficiency Commission Ms Maria Katsonis, Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1423
__label__cc	0.690075	0.309925	Our Performances Outreach Concerts Join High Spirits Choir "High Spirits is my weekly "high" — I forget everything else and just enjoy singing and the camaraderie of fellow singers. I love the wide range of our repertoire and that each season adds something new and sometimes challenging." INTERESTED IN JOINING? We're inviting new singers for our Fall 2019 season starting September 11th. We are a diverse group of experienced choral singers. High Spirits is open to new members who have choral music experience and want to sing a challenging but fun repetoire from a variety of genres. We welcome new members regardless of age, race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation. If you think High Spirits is the right group for you, please Contact Us About Joining and our Membership Coordinator will be in touch with you. For any other general enquiries about the choir, please visit our main Contact Us Page. CHECKLIST FOR POTENTIAL MEMBERS If most of these statements fit you, High Spirits may be the choir you’re looking for! I love to sing, and have good choral experience. I can read music or can learn quickly with a recording of my part. I like interesting rhythms and singing in other languages. I am willing to spend some time rehearsing on my own. I do not want a formal audition in order to join a choir. I am looking to join a group of enthusiastic, welcoming fellow musicians. MEMBERSHIP EXPECTATIONS Good choral experience is necessary in High Spirits, as we perform in four-part harmony (soprano/alto/tenor/bass), and depending on the arrangement, we may sing up to eight or more parts. You must be able to commit to attending rehearsals every Wednesday from 7:00 to 9:30 pm from September to January for our fall season, and February to June for our spring season. Rehearsals are in the community hall of St. Peter's Estonian Lutheran Church, 6520 Oak Street, Vancouver (Oak & 49th). Singers are expected to attend three section practices each term, which are 1½ hours, on a weekend. Each season, High Spirits brings in a choral clinician/mentor for an all-day Saturday workshop to help us polish our songs and improve our voices - it is expected that all singers will attend these workshops. It is expected that singers will practice their songs between rehearsals, to minimize the amount of "note bashing" we need to do. Mp3 files for each section are posted on the website. Click here to download a copy of the Singer's guidelines. High Spirits welcomes new singers at the beginning of September and February. We do not audition; however, all interested singers must participate in a telephone interview. After the interview, potential members may then be invited to sing with the choir for the first two Wednesdays in September or February. This gives them the opportunity to experience the choir and decide whether they wish to join, and gives the choir an opportunity to determine if interested singers have the necessary skill. MEMBER FEES Term Dues (Fall Term/Spring Term): $215.00 each term. This included the workshop with our clinician, section rehearsals and a $20 annual society fee. SUBSIDY FOR DUES High Spirits is a non-profit society and we never turn anyone away for financial reasons. If finances are a challenge, we have several payment and subsidy options available. Please don't hesitate to ask for a subsidy if you cannot afford the full choir dues. CONTACT US ABOUT JOINING If you would like more information about singing with High Spirits Choir, Contact Us. We are so thankful to all of our sponsors for making it possible for us to bring our music to you! Brad Leslie - RE/MAX R.E.S. at Oakridge Keith B. Bergner - Lawson Lundell Helen Ries - Sitka Physio & Wellness Sue Cheung - IG Wealth Management Young Men's Adventure Weekend Rob Shaw Photography Urban Vintner Reflections Metaphysical Bookstore & Wellness Centre TotalTherapy Rehabilitation & Wellness Centre Eleanor Sy Tan - Royal LePage Westside The Flag Shop Choral Sites Gotta Sing - Ieva Wool Afternoon Delight - Directed by Ieva Simple Gifts Choir - Directed by Ieva High Spirits Choir Join High Spirits We are a registered charity, you will receive a tax receipt for your donation. © 2020 www.highspiritschoir.ca	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1436
__label__cc	0.738347	0.261653	Does Hindu morality come from scripture or is it the other way round? The question Is the Gadhimai massacre a Hindu ritual? has an answer which says animal sacrifice is against the Hindu principles of ahimsa while the other answer says 'Animal sacrifice is spoken of in the Vedas. It belongs to another era.' probably discouraging animal sacrifices. Now since those answers were written in 2014, it appears as stated in this Wikipedia article this archaic Hindu ritual has been stopped for good: It is estimated that 50,000 animals were sacrificed during the Gadhimai festival of 2009. In 2015, Nepal's temple trust has announced to cancel all future animal sacrifices at the country's Gadhimai festival. According to this announcement: For generations, pilgrims have sacrificed animals to the Goddess Gadhimai, in the hope of a better life. For every life taken, our heart is heavy. The time has come to transform an old tradition. The time has come to replace killing and violence with peaceful worship and celebration. The Gadhimai Temple Trust hereby declares our formal decision to end animal sacrifice. With your help, we can ensure Gadhimai 2019 is free from bloodshed. Moreover, we can ensure Gadhimai 2019 is a momentous celebration of life. Scripture guiding morality: (Inherent) Morality guiding our perception of scripture: Given the above example (animal sacrifice once done and now stopped or discouraged), it appears it's our inherent morality that's been guiding our perception of scripture. In one case, we deliberately choose to ignore animal sacrifices. In another case, it could be polygamy. So is it correct to assume that the Hindu morality is constantly changing and beyond the scope of any one scripture including the Vedas? scripture karma dharma smriti sv.sv. Hindu morality doesn't come from scriptures directly. E.g Before Svetaketu, wives were allowed to have physical relationships with other men after marriage, Svetaketu changed the trend. Hindu scriptures attempt to develop conscience. i.e, we are meant to develop conscience through scriptures rather than parroting them . Listening wises helps us to understand scriptures to develop conscience. – Mr. Sigma. Jun 8 '17 at 3:02 Where do you feel non-Hindu morality comes from? – user1195 Jun 8 '17 at 4:12 Well, as an atheist I am all of the time accused of being immoral second incarnation of Hitler by fellow christians (i'm from christian dominated coutry, so not much comparative material, but I guess bigotry is not catholic-specific phenomenon) – charlie_pl Jun 8 '17 at 9:48 @charlie_pl: The difference will be that in Hinduism, you can sit in temple itself and debate about existence of God, and deny God existence and freely declare that you are an atheist and nobody will have any problem with you. Only requirement is that you do not disrespect idol or God, but you can respectfully critique it, expose fault in it. Nobody requires you to have faith 'in their' God or beleif. Nobody will declare you hitler or evil. – zaxebo1 Dec 31 '18 at 10:53 There is no consensus on this issue. Some think morality is based on scripture and others disagree. Bhishma said, 'Some say that righteousness consists in what has been upheld in the Srutis. Others do not agree to this. I would not censure them that say so. Everything, again, has not been laid down in the Srutis.’ Mahabharata, Santi Parva, Section CIX Pradip GangopadhyayPradip Gangopadhyay could you post the original Sanskrit text ? – ram Mar 1 '18 at 0:35 Sorry! I only have access to Sri K. M. Ganguli's English translation of the Mahabharata. – Pradip Gangopadhyay Mar 1 '18 at 5:50 Does Sruti encompass all scriptures ? what about Smritis ? – ram Jan 3 '19 at 13:38 Morality comes from scripture. For starters, here is what Adi Shankaracharya says in this section of his Brahma Sutra Bhashya, which is actually about the subject of animal sacrifice: [The reasoning criticizing animal sacrifice] is not valid, because our knowledge of what is duty and the contrary of duty depends entirely on scripture. The knowledge of one action being right and another wrong is based on scripture only; for it lies out of the cognizance of the senses, and there moreover is, in the case of right and wrong, an entire want of binding rules as to place, time, and occasion. What in one place, at one time, on one occasion is performed as a right action, is a wrong action in another place, at another time, on another occasion; none therefore can know, without scripture, what is either right or wrong. For a more systematic look at things, we must turn not to the Brahma Sutras, which begin with "Athato Brahma Jijnasa" or "Now therefore there is a desire to know Brahman", but to the Purva Mimamsa Sutras, which begin with "Athato Dharma Jijnasa" or "Now therefore there is a desire to know Dharma". Here is what Adhyaya 1 Pada 1 Sutra 4 of the Purva Mimamsa Sutras says: satsaṃprayoge puruṣasyendriyāṇāṃ buddhijanma tatpratyakṣamanimitrta vidyamānopalambhanatvāt That cognition by a person which appears when there is contact of the sense-organs is "sense-perception", and it is not a means (of knowing Dharma), as it apprehends only things existing at the present time. And here is what Shabaraswami's commentary says about this Sutra: The examination (promised in the preceding Sutra) is as follows:- Sense. perception is not the means (of knowing Dharma), - why?- because the character of Sense-perception is that it is "that cognition by a person, etc."(sutra); that is, it is that cognition which a man has when his sense-organs are in contact with the object cognised. - Dharma however is something that is yet to come, and it does not exist at the time that it is to be known; - while Sense-perception is the apprehending of an object that is actually present and not non-existent at the time (of cognition); - hence Sense-perception cannot be the means (of knowing Dharma). In the Sutra, no stress is meant to be laid upon either "cognition", or the "appearance", or upon mere "contact"; the only factor meant to be emphasised is the fact of its being such as is possible only when there is contact between the sense-organ and the object, and not when there is no such contact between them. If stress were laid upon several factors, then there would be syntactical split. As for (the other means of Cognition.) Inference, Analogy, and Apparent Inconsistency, these also presuppose (are based upon) Sense-perception; hence these also cannot be the means (of knowing Dharma). Nor can Dharma be amenable to “Negation' (i.e. it cannot be regarded as non-existent; because of the reason given in the next Sutra which indicates the real means of knowing Dharma). The idea is that perception and inference can only tell us about the world of things which already exist. They cannot tell us about that which does not yet exist, namely the consequences that you will experience for the actions that you do. So we require some other means of knowledge to tell us what actions are linked to what kinds of consequence. What is that means of knowledge? It is Hindu scripture. Here is what Adhyaya 1 Pada Sutra 5 of the Purva Mimamsa Sutras says: autpattikastu śabdasyārthena sambandhastasya jñānamupadeśo 'vyatirekaścārthe 'nupalabdhe tatpramāṇaṃ bādarāyaṇasyānapekṣatvāt The relation of the word with its denotation is inborn.- [Vedic] instruction is the means of knowing it (Dharma) - infallible regarding all that is imperceptible; it is a valid means of knowledge, as it is independent, according to Badarayana. The idea is that the human mind is powerless to find out what is right or wrong, since as I discussed above morality concerns that which does not yet exist, but the Vedas, since they are Apaurusheya or authorless, have the capacity to talk about the imperceptible realm, since they do not depend on the knowledge of a human being. (The authoritativeness of Smriti is derived from the authoritativeness of the Vedas in Adhyaya 1 Pada 3 of the Purva Mimamsa Sutras.) Now I could go on to discuss Shabara's commentary on Adhyaya 1 Pada 1 Sutra 5 and on the subsequent Sutras of Adhyaya 1, which demonstrate the Pramanya (authoritativeness) and Apaurusheyatva (authorlesness) of the Vedas, but that would require me to write a book. (Which I might well do! See idea #1 in my Medium post here.) Bottom line, people might have all kinds of false, ever-changing beliefs about morality due to the temptations of the Kali Yuga, but what is actually moral and immoral is based on scripture, not on human beliefs. 'Bottom line, people might have all kinds of false, ever-changing beliefs about morality' - so if someone wants to better what it states in scripture about polygamy and decides to have a single wife instead, that's a false belief? In this comment, you said: 'taking an Eka Patni Vrata can be a meritorious act' so you too are using your own personal judgement (possibly derived from Ramayana) to say being married to a single wife is better & meritorious than multiple wives? – sv. Jun 8 '17 at 15:49 @sv Even scripturally, ekapatnivrata is held superior. I am told there are atharvaveda mantras that extol the husband& wife to be faithful to each other, the rigveda lists the pitfalls of having more than one wife.Having said that,society "allowed" polygamy keeping in mind the weaknesses of humans.Even then it had rules such as marrying in descending order of varna order.Polygamy also had more sanction in kshatriya varna for various reasons.Sometimes war was preempted thr' matrimonial alliances.So peace and by extn - preservation of economic and social order trumped polygamy. 1/2 – user1195 Jun 8 '17 at 16:21 @sv. "so if someone wants to better what it states in scripture about polygamy and decides to have a single wife instead, that's a false belief?" No, it is not and has never been a required Dharma to have multiple wives. Polygamy is an allowed but not required practice. But the fact that society currently believes that polygamy is immoral has no effect on the fact that polygamy is allowed. And the same principle holds true of animal sacrifice, gender roles for men and women, and any other practice that modern society considers immoral to due being deluded by the temptations of the Kali Yuga. – Keshav Srinivasan♦ Jun 8 '17 at 16:58 "But the fact that society currently believes that polygamy is immoral has no effect on the fact that polygamy is allowed" It has an effect, in Indian Constitution people not allowed to have multiple marriages. In anycase with degrading sex ratio we cannot hope to have more than one wife in India unless someone is a Casanova. – Yogi Jun 8 '17 at 20:37 @Yogi Certainly it affects what laws governments may pass. I'm just saying that it doesn't change the fundamental nature of right and wrong. – Keshav Srinivasan♦ Jun 8 '17 at 21:25 Laws of morality or the laws pertaining to what's good and what's bad are the ones which are laid down in the scriptures. So, its definitely not the other way round. Vedo Akhilo Dharmamulam Smritikhilo Cha... 2.6. The whole Veda is the (first) source of the sacred law, next the tradition and the virtuous conduct of those who know the (Veda further), also the customs of holy men, and (finally) self-satisfaction. 2.7. Whatever law has been ordained for any (person) by Manu, that has been fully declared in the Veda: for that (sage was) omniscient. The knowledge that is there in the Vedas are God's words so irrefutable. The orders that are present in the Smritis are also the words of the sages who were omniscient. So, both determine all laws including even those pertaining to morality. Srutis Tu Vedo Vigneyo Dharmashastram Tu Vai Smriti... 2.10. But by Sruti (revelation) is meant the Veda, and by Smriti (tradition) the Institutes of the sacred law (or the Dharmashastras): those two must not be called into question in any matter, since from those two the sacred law shone forth However there is also an option of applying our own conscience before adhering to the scriptural injunctions, but still scriptures shall override in all conditions. 2.8. But a learned man after fully scrutinizing all this with the eye of knowledge, should, in accordance with the authority of the revealed texts, be intent on (the performance of) his duties. NOTe: All verses are from the Manu Smriti. RickrossRickross I meant Applying conscience only after understanding scriptures, otherwise not. Without scriptural injunctions, mind is prone to decide based on latent ego. :) – Mr. Sigma. Jun 8 '17 at 11:16 Thanks for attempting to answer but this doesn't answer the main issue in my question which is that there is a contradiction in what scripture says and what majority of Hindus today follow (no one likes to do animal sacrifice nowadays and no man wants to have multiple wives). You're simply stating what it says in the scripture without addressing the contradiction between preaching and practice I point out in my question. – sv. Jun 8 '17 at 15:39 @sv Hindu scriptures say animal sacrifices are allowed but they are optional. So, that most people today don't resort to sacrifices does not imply that they are revolting against scriptures, ( however sacrifices are still practiced at some places or the other) .. Similarly hindu scriptures don't say you have to have multiple wives..But one can. – Rickross Jun 8 '17 at 16:44 Ok got it now @Aghori You are talking about the comment of urs which u have posted under the question. – Rickross Jun 9 '17 at 5:07 Also @sv. that men are becoming more and more immoral by the days is something that can be empirically verified. So being moral or compassionate towards animals is not the reason behind stopping animal sacrifices. Otherwise why would the slaughterhouses crop up in every corners of the city nowadays.? Regarding polygamy the same reasoning work. People these days are more than happy if they can satisfy their lust by committing adultery etc instead of having more than one legally wed wife. Also, most people can't afford more than one wives. So, morality is not an issue here. – Rickross Jun 9 '17 at 5:27 Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged scripture karma dharma smriti . 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__label__wiki	0.590583	0.590583	What did Kashyapa do with the Earth after he received it from Parashurama? Parashurama is a famous avatara (incarnation) of Vishnu who killed the Kshatriyas (kings) of the world twenty-one times. Since he had defeated all the rulers of the world, he obtained control of the entire Earth. But I'm interested in what happened to the Earth afterward. The immediate aftermath seems clear: to repent for the sin of killing all those people, Parashurama conducted an Ashwamedha Yagna (horse ritual), performed by sage Kashyapa (the ancestor of many gods and demons), and then Parashurama gave the earth to Kashyapa as a gift for performing the yagna. This is well-attested in many scriptures: In the Bala Kanda of the Ramayana, Parashurama says to Rama "I gave all that earth to sage Kashyapa, a sage with divine soul and with pious observances, as a ritualistic-generosity." The Vana Parva of the Mahabharata says "And the exterminator of the [Kshatriyas] possessed of immense strength, bestowed the earth upon the high-souled Kasyapa, and then became engaged in penance of an exceedingly severe form." Finally, the Srimad Bhagavatam describes Parashurama dividing the earth among Kashyapa and the priests working under him. My question is, what happened to the Earth after Parashurama gave it to Kashyapa? The next major mythological event that occurred was Ravana taking over the three worlds, as described in the Uttara Kanda of the Ramayana. So how did Ravana take over the earth? Did he take it directly from Kashyapa, or were there some intermediate stages between Kashyapa's control of the earth and Ravana's? If Ravana did take over the world from Kashyapa, then I think it may have been a voluntary transfer (akin to how Ravana got the island of Lanka), because there are legends (I don't know whether they're based in scripture) that Ravana and Parashurama were friends. so it's possible that Parashurama simply told Kashyapa to give the earth to Ravana. But that's just speculation. Are there any other scriptures that detail how custody of the earth went from Kashyapa to Ravana? ramayana mythology mahabharata parashurama ravana The purpose of the Ashwamedha Yagna, in my limited knowledge is to establish dominion and not to atone for sins. So the reference to the Yajna herein is puzzling. – Naveen Nov 7 '15 at 17:50 @Naveen Well, the Ashwamedha Yagna isn't solely for dominion, it's also just a Punya-granting act. So it can certainly be used to make up for sins you've committed. – Keshav Srinivasan♦ Nov 7 '15 at 18:28 Apparently the Mahabharata tells the story of Parashurama twice - once in the Vana Parva as I linked to in my question, but also once in the this chapter of the Shanti Parva. And it's the second version that has the answer to my question. It looks like after Kashyapa got control of the earth, Bhumidevi the goddess of the earth told Kashyapa to install certain Kshatriyas she deemed worthy as new kings of the earth, since the world had fallen into chaos in the absence of kings: When anarchy sets in on earth, the weak are oppressed by the strong, and no man is master of his own property. Unprotected duly by Kshatriyas observant of virtue, and oppressed by the wicked in consequence of that disorder, the earth quickly sank to the lowest depths. Beholding the earth sinking from fear, the high-souled Kasyapa held her on his lap; and since the great Rishi held her on his lap (uru) therefore is the earth known by the name of Urvi. The goddess earth, for protection's sake, gratified Kasyapa and begged of him a king. The Earth said, "There are, O, regenerate one, some foremost of Kshatriyas concealed by me among women. They were born in the race of Haihayas. Let them, O sage, protect me. There is another person of Puru's race, viz., Viduratha's son, O puissant one, who has been brought up among bears in the Rikshavat mountains. Another, viz., the son of Saudasa, has been protected, through compassion, by Parasara of immeasurable energy and ever engaged in sacrifices. Though born in one of the regenerate orders, yet like a Sudra he does everything for that Rishi and has, therefore, been named Sarvakarman (servant of all work). Sivi's son of great energy, viz., Gopati by name, has been brought up in the forest among kine. Let him, O sage, protect me. Pratardana's son, named Vatsa of great might, has been brought up among calves in a cowpen. Let that one of the royal order protect me. Dadhivahana's grandson and Diviratha's son was concealed and protected on the banks of Ganga by the sage Gautama. His name is Vrihadratha. Possessed of great energy and adorned with numerous blessed qualities, that blessed prince has been protected by wolves and the mountains of Gridhrakuta. Many Kshatriyas belonging to the race of Maratta have been protected. Equal unto the lord of Maruts in energy, they have been brought up by Ocean. These children of the Kshatriya order have been heard of as existing in different places. They are living among artisans and goldsmiths. If they protect me I shall then stay unmoved. Their sires and grandsires have been slain for my sake by Rama Of great prowess. It is my duty, O great sage, to see that their funeral rites are duly performed. I do not desire that I should be protected by my present rulers. Do thou, O sage, speedily make such arrangements that I may exist (as before)." ... The sage Kasyapa then, seeking out those Kshatriyas of great energy whom the goddess had indicated, installed them duly as kings (for protecting her). Those Kshatriya races that are now extent are the progeny of those princes. (On a side note, the need for new kings in the wake of Parashurama was also behind the birth of the Rajputs according to legend.) So to sum up, the earth went from the hands of Kshatriyas to Parashurama, from Parashurama to Kashyapa, and then from Kashyapa back to the Kshatriyas. That explains why Ravana had to conquer the earth kingdom by kingdom; the Uttara Kanda of the Ramayana describes how Ravana defeated conquered various kingdoms by challenging their kings to battle, for instance defeating Rama's ancestor Anaranya as described in this excerpt from the Uttara Kanda. (Anaranya put a curse on Ravana that his descendant would defeat him.) AFAIK, Parashuram is often called progenitor of certain clans like Namboodiri in Kerala, Bhumihar Brahmin of Bihar and Jharkhand, Chitpavan, Niyogi, Daivadnya, Mohyal, Shukla, Awasthi, Tyagi, Anavil besides Rajputs. – Vineet Menon Aug 6 '14 at 5:39 There's also a legend that certain Kshatriya clans in south India, like Nairs and Tulu disguised themselves as Brahmins by wearing Janeu/Sacred Thread for not to get killed by Parashurama when he came down south. – Vineet Menon Aug 6 '14 at 5:42 @VineetMenon This i'm afraid might be incorrect. Nairs are Menons are not pure Kshatriya lineage, but are mix between namboodiri brahmin and Kstriyas. – Naveen Nov 7 '15 at 17:59 @Naveen I'm not sure whether this is correct or not, but here is what this website says: agnihotrausa.net/Lord-Parashuram.html "There is an another legend that Nairs (Nagas) of Kerala removed their sacred thread and hide in forest to avoid Parasuramas revenge against Kshatriyas. Parasuram donated the land to Nambuthiri Brahimns and Nambuthiris denied the Nairs Kshatriya status (though they did Kshatriya duties and almost all the royal houses in Kerala come from them)" – Keshav Srinivasan♦ Nov 7 '15 at 18:20 Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged ramayana mythology mahabharata parashurama ravana . How did Ravana get the golden city of Lanka? Ages of Ramayana's characters Do we have any record of events in any previous Kaliyuga? Did the divine architect Vishwakarma cause the Earth to submerge? 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__label__wiki	0.677146	0.677146	On its surface, the Alfie Evans story bears little relevance to the Hampstead SRA hoax. What comparison could possibly be made between a little boy with an undiagnosable but clearly progressive degenerative brain condition, and a monstrous hoax, deliberately perpetrated by a small but persistent group of co-conspirators against an entire community? We’ve noted the eagerness of certain Hoaxtead promoters to leap—and more important, to be seen to leap—into the circus which surrounded Alfie and his family. But when we read a recent article in The Guardian, we realised that the two cases had more in common than one might initially expect. In the article, titled “‘Call from God’: American Pro-Lifer’s Role in Alfie Evans Battle”, we learned that a small group of Catholic fundamentalists, led by an American woman named Christine Broesamle, had inserted itself into the story as long ago as last August. Within days of the death of 11-month-old Charlie Gard last July, a Christian missionary in Rome spotted a Facebook post about a baby named Alfie Evans. The post by Alfie’s father, Thomas Evans, explained that his 13-month-old son had a degenerative neurological condition and that doctors wanted to switch off his life-support. Ms Broesamle, whose group had been involved in the Charlie Gard case, advising his parents to fly him to Italy for treatment and attracting the attention of the Pope to his case, told Tom Evans that they could do the same for Alfie. Since September, Ms Broesamle has lived in Liverpool, acting behind the scenes as an advisor to Alfie’s parents. This week in an interview with a Christian fundamentalist radio station in the US, she said there should be riots in Britain over Alfie’s treatment by doctors at Alder Hey hospital, whom she accused of being “hellbent” on killing him “to cover something up”. Ms Broesamle, who was named in court last week, is connected to the Italian “pro-life” organisation “Lawyers for Life”. She brought in physicians from overseas to examine Alfie in a clandestine manner, under the guise of being family friends; she also brought in a Russian law student, Pavel Stroilov of the “pro-life”, anti-gay Christian Legal Centre. Mr Justice Hayden described Mr Stroilov as a “fanatical and deluded young man” whose submissions to the court were “littered with vituperation and bile” that was “inconsistent with the real interests of the parents’ case”. Ms Broesamle also appears to be well-funded: Another source says Broesamle had access to a “seemingly endless pit of money and contacts”, and her network arranged for air ambulances to be ready at a moment’s notice to whisk Alfie from Alder Hey to the Vatican-approved Bambino Gesù hospital in Italy. As we read the Guardian article, we found it difficult not to make comparisons with Belinda McKenzie and Sabine McNeill’s “Association of McKenzie Friends” (and the later “Knight Foundation”), whose founders were known for their habit of lurking outside the Royal Courts of Justice, offering their special brand of assistance to desperate parents whose children had been, or were about to be, taken into care by social services. As with Ms Broesamle and the Christian Legal Centre, who darkly accused Alder Hey Hospital of “covering something up”, Sabine and Belinda were known for filling their victims’ heads with paranoid conspiracy theories—such as their canard that social workers, working on commission, were “snatching” their children in order to sell them to the highest bidders, who would adopt them for the specific purpose of trafficking them. Like the Christian Legal Centre, with its submissions laced with “vituperation and bile”, “inconsistent with the real interests of the parents’ case”, Belinda and Sabine’s interventions in their clients’ cases never once managed to help a parent retrieve his or her children. And, as in the Alfie Evans case, we think Sabine and Belinda were never in any doubt that their interference in their clients’ lives, in any of the cases they undertook, would come to no good. That’s because organisations like this aren’t in it to win. They are in it to use the lives (and deaths) of other people to advance their own ideologically driven agendas, to create “profile”, to arouse public outrage which they can then turn to their own advantage. The words used by Mr Justice Hayden—”fanatical”, “deluded”, “emotive nonsense”—can be equally applied to the Christian Law Centre and the Association of McKenzie Friends. And just for the record, we’d like to add another word: “Vultures”. 30/04/2018 in Fair comment. Tags: Belinda McKenzie, conspiracy theories, Knight Foundation, Mckenzie Friends, Sabine McNeill More evidence the Hampstead SRA hoax was planned from the outset ← Miles learns a valuable lesson about Angela ITNJ co-founder blamed Sacha Stone & friends for its failure → 113 thoughts on “Alfie Evans case & Hoaxtead: The element they share in common” amdie66 says: They’re all nuts and for some of them I’ve no idea how they still have their kids. TM is boarding on paranoid schizophrenia, the woman would appear to have serious mental health problems. She’s all about lies I.e Tom has barricades in the room to stop staff getting in, trying to stop the coroner getting Afies body, acting as if the family didn’t make a move without her telling them what to do. At least Sabine and Belinda stayed out of this one. I feel her daughters death has placed her in a downward spiral as she hasn’t given herself time to grieve properly, as she’s always on the next ‘big’ news story. I feel sorry for her two young boys, there’s no doubt she truly loves these boys, but she needs to drop away from the drama and spend more time with her sons. Lies from Angela too, who claimed to have been bombarded by messages from Mr. Evans but unable to prove it because she didn’t know how to copy and paste them onto her timeline! TM claimed he’d been in contact with her and Linda too. I’m pretty sure he hadn’t. Both Tracey and Linda’s FB pages are down, btw. They’re claiming to be locked out but that’s bollocks – their pages would still be showing if that were the case. EC, your point about Belinda and Sabine lurking outside court and pouncing on vulnerable people for their own ends brings to mind once again that now legendary diatribe by Melanie Shaw: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RZqEb2zBoqStyQvxi-yBxZtbfYn6D5_R/view?usp=sharing It was someone from the Christian Legal Centre – Roger Kiska – who appeared on Victoria Derbyshire’s show last Wednesday and criticised the judge’s decision in the Alfie case: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Yd0vtI2VfM6VsckS9z-dSwRJJK0-k-IB/view?usp=sharing As Victoria points out, the CLC are part of a larger group called Christian Concern. From last Friday’s Liverpool Echo: “The Christian Legal Centre is a branch of Christian Concern – a religious lobbying organisation which has been vocal on a range of topics including abortion and gender identity… …Christian Concern is an anti-abortion organisation which says ‘divorce, homosexuality and transsexualism are the three most significant challenges to God’s pattern for family in today’s society’. They have also fought against compulsory sexual education in school. A mission statement on their website reads: ‘We have a passion to see the United Kingdom return to the Christian faith. Our nation has been shaped and defined by this faith for hundreds of years. Yet in the last few decades, the nation has largely turned her back on Jesus and embraced alternative ideas such as secular liberal humanism, moral relativism and sexual licence. The fruit of this can be seen in widespread family breakdown, immorality and social disintegration.’… …In 2015, he [Paul Diamond of the CLC] successfully represented a Christian nanny who called a lesbian ‘sinful’ and said ‘God is not okay with what you do’… …The CLC currently represent a family who withdrew their son from school after a classmate came into class sometimes ‘dressed as a girl’.” https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/who-lawyers-fighting-alfie-evans-14545819 Moosnight says: Could the Christian Legal center perhaps take on Deborah’s case? She’s launching a bid for sainthood. LOL, did I miss something? The Linda woman’s Facebook is back she’s claiming TM simply got locked out of hers which wouldn’t explain why it’s gone but still they persist. She’s came up with an elaborate explanation about it having been set up so long who she forgot the passwords – small problem with this latest fairytale- TM has been arrested and had phones/laptops etc taken by police as part of the harassment case she’s involved and remembered her passwords to get back in then. Linda claims Tracey’s son uploaded a copy of her licence to Facebook to get it opened again – I happened to know from a very reliable source that when tracey was in court in Belfast last Monday one of the many charges she faces was Driving without a licence and insurance – they are terrible women and you can’t believe a word they say but they’d need to get their lies straight. She was reported by the Alfie’s Army admins for causing trouble and pretending to have a hotline to a grieving father and that’s why her Facebook is closed down. When I click on it, it’s still saying, “Sorry, this content isn’t available at the moment.” What are the odds of Angie actually following that advice, do you think? Everyone needs a hobby… Mr Evans probably had a huge email mailing list via Alfie’s Army and sent regular emails. I have a friend on such a list and he’s always telling me he got a very important email from a very important person as though the message was directed personally at him and not the 100K others on the list. APD does similar in everything she does. I read online (so it may not be true) that once in the Vatican hospital the parents would have lost the right to turn off the life support machine. If true then the irony of those protesting about the parents right to choose is obviously missed on them. No doubt these spin-off “Christian” groups are funded by the right wing Evangelicals in the USA. They have $100Ms in the pot mainly contributed by poorer working class Yanks who think if they send them a hundred bucks they’ll go to Heaven. In a way it may have been better if Alfie had been allowed go to the Bambino Gesù hospital who I’m sure were acting in his best interests. The chances are he would have died on the way and certainly within a day of arriving there. But then they would be accused of being part of a plot to kill the poor lad. The whole case demonstrates the ethics of the hard workers in the NHS and in particular at Alder Hey Hospital. Rather than wash their hands of the problem and take the easy way out they took the correct path at great cost to themselves. I hope the whole matter dies down but I suspect the Ratbag Brigade are gearing up for a vicious campaign against the hospital and the staff. I think Kris Costa’s way of choosing to “fight” means stepping up her intake of Bourbon, That’s alleged sainthood. or lawfully suspected sainthood. SandraB says: No, no, the Bible Belt is Protestant Sam. No work based salvation. It may be some Catholics have taken that view. It is sad that this bunch of hysterical nutters is bringing Christianity into disrepute. The discussion has been partly highjacked by the political faction in the US which is against social medicine for all, and they are keen to claim that once the state pays for medicine they kill babies to save cash. The level of basic education in the States doesn’t seem high. No attempt to explain the real position gets through. The stance of the Pope has been odd and unhelpful, since the official position of his church is that it is unecessary to strive officiously to keep alive, though abortion is almost always wrong. He seems to be a politician, milking the popular hysteria, but perhaps I am being unfair. Thank goodness both children have finally been allowed to die: you would think those who claim to be Christian would be the first to see that they are better off sleeping peacefully, awaiting the resurrection. Better for whom? The question was, what was better for Alfie? In his best interests to be put on a plane, transferred via ambulances, increasing the risk of dying say by choking or tubes coming out and having to be reinserted, to a hospital which had no treatment for him? Or in Alfie’s best interest to remain where he was, minimising any risk? The NHS workers at Alder Hey no doubt did their best for him, but they didn’t decide anything of the sort you suggest. They had no option but to care for him there since the decision was made by the courts. And I am sure the judge made the right call. Wouldn’t that be brilliant news for the world! 🙏😂👏 I wouldn’t blame admin for reporting her, herself & her sidekick were nauseating to the extreme. 😷 Kansas Shitty says: The very Protestant Westboro Baptist Church notwithstanding The problems were many, the so called ‘army’, none of whom appear to be capable of reading, logic or critical thinking. Then of course the religious extremists, the anti-vaxxers, the anti-abortionists, the Polish Diplomat & God knows how many more, they were all bombarding those young parents since the woman EC mentioned above got involved. Still trying to cause trouble are this lot: https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/lawyers-media-on-alfie-theyve-killed-him anti-abortionists Fixed! 😉 ??? LOL That really is a disgusting article, and has whipped up a froth of paranoia and hate in the comments. It does annoy me when these fundamental Catholics try to traduce the Church’s position to their own ends. I appreciate that I’m in danger of invoking the “No True Scotsman” fallacy here. However, with the Catholic faith (as opposed to general Christianity) there are rules and edicts, which are often deliberately spun in ways they were not intended to be read for ulterior motives. I can’t speak for other countries but in broad terms, if your priest was from Ireland there was a good chance your local church would be conservative. If he was English, you’d be surprised how close to “liberal secular humanist” it would be. Our parish priest went as far as effectively telling the congregation to vote Liberal in the 1979 General Election, which caused a stir with our ex-pat Irish parishioners as they were then closely associated with the Abortion Act (1967). Another misconception is Papal infallibility. This extends to matters of Doctrine only. The last Ex Cathedra proclamation was made in 1950. “The Pope is not an oracle; he is infallible in very rare situations, as we know.” Pope Benedict XV1 “I am only infallible if I speak infallibly but I shall never do that, so I am not infallible.” Pope John XXIII In all other matters, the Pope’s position is guidance only. I’ve seen nothing in the Pope’s actual statements on this matter (and by that I mean actual quotes, rather than what people have said he has said) that contradicts the official position on end of life treatment. Yes, it can be argued that in his position he should have gathered all the facts first, but how many of us did initially? Before having read the careful judgement I too would have taken the position of “what’s the harm in transferring Alfie to Rome” ascribed to him. Has anyone any idea what any of that means or what the photo represents? Is it one of the short planks that Jake Clarke is as thick as? Nope, sorry. It’s a real ‘WTF?’ moment, mate. Still, at least Charlotte would never stoop to sending out death threats herself. Not even via her sooper seekrit Corina Lovage sock… “Family problems”: family has finally realised that “Mom’s” lift doesn’t go all the way to the top floor. Good luck to them. If she has uploaded her licence then it means the account was disabled by Facebook for breaking terms and conditions. They won’t even consider an appeal until you do the following. Unfortunately, we can’t assist you until you reply and attach identification that verifies the name submitted in your request. Please attach a copy of one government-issued ID (ex: driver’s license or passport) or two documents from a respected institution or business. Together these documents must show your full name, photo, and date of birth. GoS, that lot are the very same crowd who are funding the anti-abortionists in Ireland now with half truths as APD shared. Disgusting lot only bombard people with selected parts of bill, never the full text. I expect the pre-recorded phone calls with an American accent to start next, which happened last time before the Referendum. Thank you EC. 😊 One of Tracey Morris’ muck spreading posts. She would be good on a farm actually! 🐮🐄 “Trump is a white hat” You said it, luv. The updated evidence folder showing the full range of Tracey et al’s Alfie-related bile: Not a clue, sorry! But Jake does seem to have liked an image on the page in question. Ooh, zing! 😆 The following quote seems apposite: The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. That’s interesting, OCS. Much here that I did not know. Question mark? Clarky Cat says: What was the role of the two Bavarian charlatans who snuck into the hospital claiming to be air-ambulance staff, and had to be escorted off by security staff? They told German media that they had given the infant a thorough though clandestine examination — untroubled by the absence of their own MRI scans, EEGs, and such as — and in their professional opinion, he would have handled the noise, vibrations and air-pressure changes of a helicopter flight to Europe, without any problem at all. As I say, charlatans. But the German media took their word for it. https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article175816280/Grossbritannien-In-Deutschland-waere-Alfie-schon-ein-Jahr-lang-zu-Hause.html Bavarians, so I guess some hard-line catholicism was involved. Bavaria is why Germany can’t have nice things. I know I’m gonna sound dim but can someone please explain the death threat element of this to me? I’m assuming the pic is a reference to something. I’m guessing that Shiris Summers is a Charlotte sock (?). Weird that whoever it is has posted their Jake rant on Angie’s page. I’m…no. I can’t explain it. Sorry. Or a Heather one. Chopping block? Would be more sinister if there was an axe in the photo. Just checking the replies under Angie’s post and someone’s lost the plot: Cue the inevitable Skype video Yes it wood. So these court dates are for her rather than her accusing others? I’m glad someone reported her. She has very grandiose ideas about herself, which is never a good sign. Another great man defamed by a dickhead: Great quote. And it’s triggered Malcolm, who appears to have had a wee dram or two: Or eight. @Gharris – The other day I took the liberty of passing on your concerns to that nice Ms. Morris (along with a few memes and HR post links at no extra cost). And now that she’s managed to hack her way back into her account, she’s finally responded: What’s a pyscoparh? “He missed his vocabulary in life” 😂 If only he had put aside his indifferences. Inside job, schminside job. 9/11 never happened at all! Ooh, this just got interesting: “He missed his vocabulary in life”. Oh, that one almost made me spit out my coffee! 😀 It always bugs me when someone types “would of made” instead of “would have made”. I think it’s Tracey who has missed her “vocabulary” in life… Ooh, I can’t imagine who this might be. Nudge nudge wink wink. Say no more. A nod’s as good as a wink to a blind bat… Packed with lies (surprise surprise). – Spiny closed his channels down himself voluntarily (despite what she claims in that video). He still has his G+ accounts and all his videos are on the Google drive. – What’s this about us or MKD having criminal records? And how telling that she doesn’t back that up with a scrap of evidence. If anything, last I checked it was her Hamphoaxer fruitloop mates who practically had their own allocated parking spaces at Southwark Crown Court. Off the top of my head, people who’ve had knocks on the door from either the rozzers or the men in white coats include: Sabine McNeill, Angela Power-Disney, Deborah Mahmoudieh, Happy Brewer, Rupert Quaintance, Jim & Helen McMenamin, Neelu Berry, Belinda McKenzie, Robert Green, Dawn Moses, Jake Clarke, Tracey Morris, Arthur Kaoutal, Abe & Ella, D** S****, John Duane, Lee Cant, Alan Alanson, John Paterson, Christine Ann Sands, Maurice Kirk, Brian Pead… I knew Arthur C.Clarke for over 40 years. While he was gay he lived with the same partner who he met when he was 30 and his partner was 19. They stayed together for life. What the vile creeps do not know and which shows their appalling ignorance is that Arthur was paralyzed from the waist down from the age of about 38. He had no interest in, nor the ability to be interested in sex and he hid his disability extremely well which is why you never see film of him in later life. A TV series he made had him propped up by sticks on a beach at one stage to make it look like he had been walking..not unlike how FDR hid his disability. “Christian” NGOs started the rumours of his alleged pedophilia because his house, more a small compound had some children living there. But what these ignoramuses didn’t know was that the children were his partner’s children who was also married. Clarke was suing these NGOs for libel in a long complicated case which lapsed when he died. He was determined to take them to the cleaners. His partner and those grown up children inherited Clarke’s considerable fortune and all now live in luxury in Melbourne were they were able to be very nice houses with their legacy, $Millions from the days authors made lots of money. The Sri Lankan government were so infuriated at the allegations against Clarke who they considered an honorary Sri Lankan citizen they still have arrest warrants out for two British journalists who concocted the tale about Clarke hoping to embarrass the Royal Family at the same time (Prince Charles was to travel to Sri Lankan to invest him his knighthood at the time). The 2 desperately poor lads who accused Clarke (they were both 18- not children) admitted the British journalist had paid them £200 each in “expenses” to accuse Clarke and they recanted their accusations. Sri Lankan police wanted to charge them with various offenses (for bringing the country into disrepute) but Clarke intervened on their behalf as he had contributed a fortune to local charities and recognized their dire poverty and instead urged the government to put them through college which they did. The Smithsonian has only just received all Clarke’s writings and manuscripts including books that were never published. His house is still there ( a comfortable but rather plain English style house) which the government is planning to turn into a museum in his honour. And that’s the truth about Sir Arthur C.Clarke who makes a creep like Ogilvy seem like a piece of insignificant dung by comparison. The Past Participle Protection Club says: Oh Gawd, has she went and wrote a load of bollocks again? “What the vile creeps do not know and which shows their appalling ignorance is that Arthur was paralyzed from the waist down from the age of about 38. He had no interest in, nor the ability to be interested in sex…” Good point, Sam. Not that it’ll deter Ogilfail – he even accused the late Stephen Hawking of being a child molester! Back in the day homosexuality was believed, incorrectly, to be inextricably linked to paedophilia. But Sam – according to Malcolm, Reddit and Chris Spivey say it’s true. So it must be 😂 Weaselwatch says: Just scored a strike against one of Wesley’s friends, who was calling for various politicians to be murdered: I take threats like that seriously since the Jo Cox shooting. What was that Malcolm was saying about arselickers? The drunken twat’s a day late anyway, lol. I’m sure all the relatives of those who died will be thrilled to know that. Can Ms Mahmoudieh ask her friend David to tell us where all those people are? Rejoice! Please tell all the relatives that their loved ones aren’t dead after all! Can Ms Mahmoudieh please ask her friend David exactly where we are to find the nearly 2000 people who disappeared that day? Nearly 3,000, wasn’t it? Alan Alanson says: Feel I need to comment here… And it is directly to the point of the case in fairness… ‘Do you think a hospital/doctors should have any say on your child’s welfare’? Bearing mind the circumstances of ‘this’ case? This is a woman who claims to be able to take down judges and social workers and governments and yet can’t even manage Year Eight standard English. She’s an unwanted pariah, she’s an awful mother and awful human and it was only a matter of time before people seen right through her, just surprised it took so long. It is a difficult one. In reality the courts took over when doctors and parents couldn’t agree. I certainly would want the court to intervene on the side of the child if parents refused lifesaving treatment, also if parents believed bleach enemas cured all ills. I have the utmost sympathy for the parents of Alfie Evans. He was dying, no cure or treatment offered by anyone, which gets forgotten. Perhaps read the court judgments through. “…no cure or treatment offered by anyone…” I was under the impression that Alder Hey were providing first rate palliative care, weren’t they? Its interesting we seem to have the same groups here GOS, Abbott and the more extreme rightwingers in his party had close links to US based xian fundamentalist groups and received a lot of funding from them too “tracey was in court in Belfast last Monday one of the many charges she faces was Driving without a licence and insurance” Be interesting to see, was that because she didn’t have the dosh, or has she, like many others that seem to be involved, have FOTL leanings ( ‘traveling’ is a prime indicator of FOTL people- they often get caught sans license, registration/insurance due to the common belief that they are ‘traveling’ rather than ‘driving’, which they believe only happens when you are acting in a commercial activity, thus they don’t need ‘drivers licenses’ or rego etc “Militant church” indeed, they delete any postings that disagree with their charge of Alfie being murdered or that he was never going to have a ‘normal life’, some there seem to think that if he had been taken to Bambino Gesù he would miraculously recover and gone on to have a normal life- this was never going to happen, he was literally ‘brain dead’ and the hospital there even said all they could do was palliative care ie keeping his body alive (and who would be paying?) That is so cool GOS, he was my first scifi author (Rendezvous with Rama), I have every scifi book available of his in my collection The hijackers all paid cash (obvious why they would do so), but as usual the 9/11ers have gotten it wrong and are claiming that all the passengers paid cash, nope they didnt How dare you state facts in front of Deborah, Steve., Show some consideration! Morticia Addams says: I think the paralegal took down her page on the advice of the barrister she worked for, i know from a reliable source that he told her she got mixed up with a bunch of lunatics who will only drag her down so she is going back working for him and continuing her work on the boys case she was initially helping who had been murdered on the M25 along with the barrister she has and is returning to work for again. She actually got involved thinking she was genuinely helping people as she is not a bad person really. Again, i personally believe what Mr Dearman was accused of was wrong, i will never change my mind on that one, but the little boys father did actually ring her and TM and asked for their help but i suppose in cases like that when all legal avenues have been exhausted what can one do but show up and show some moral support at least. Nonetheless, take care all and God bless. PS, she is also distancing herself from TM as she is not good company, That’s an understatement! 🙂 I totally agree El Coyte 🙂 but a statement nonetheless that i believe she is sticking to. Keep up the good work exposing the ” Lunatics ” because too many people are listening unfortunately and getting caught up in the hype of all the madness. Yes he was a wonderful writer. I was vising him once when Morgan Freeman arrived to discuss buying the rights to Rendezvous With Rama 3 to make into a film which sadly never eventuated. Arthur had a brilliant mind and with his professor like personality he was one of the kindest and gentle people one could meet. The original allegations hurt him so badly especially as his partner had once saved his life after he fell badly and he promised to take care of him for life. He did that but also for the partner’s entire extended family by buying them houses and setting them up in small businesses and so on. It’s why his house was full of the partner’s relatives all the time who worshiped Arthur including his partner’s parents and grandparents who spent so much time at the house fussing over Clarke. His partner was not a sexual partner but a student who originally worked for Clarke, Arthur had a life partner who he adored but who died at about age 40 and who Clarke is now buried with. She wouldn’t be the first nor the last person to be dragged into the gutter by TM so glad she has seen sense and is getting away from that company before it’s too late. I do not however believe the child’s father rang them for help, it was in the middle of a legal wrangle and he was being represented by the Christian lawyers what in earth help could she provide? Also the fact the two stood in the carpark with TM posting random nonsense on her Facebook page tells its own story. I had a brief chat with one of the Alfie’s Army admins who reported TM to Facebook and Merseyside Police, they had never heard of her and were rightly disgusted at her behaviour. Yes, that’s what I meant. There was no treatment to reverse or halt the underlying disease. There isn’t one. Well, I don’t think there’s any good excuse for ‘the paralegal’ to deny that she was, in fact, guilty of jumping on the bandwagon, being an agitator and using scare-mongering tactics to rabble rouse in regard to Baby Alfie’s situation….she can’t blame Tracey for her involvement in exploiting the tragedy – it’s very obvious she involved herself out of pure self interest and self promotion. She’s probably used TM as much as TM has taken advantage of her willingness to make a name for herself…so Morticia, I think you are full of it and you’re wrong to be Ms. Paralegal’s apologist. Also, please tell LBO’R that taking hair styling advice from a Shih tzu dog groomer is not advisable as adopting that sort of dressage only serves to make her look completely mental or more politely “quite eccentric” , just because she’s pug-faced doesn’t mean she has to go the whole hog. “I personally believe what Mr Dearman was accused of was wrong, I will never change my mind on that one…” Morticia, that’s a tad ambiguous. Are you saying you believe the accusations were wrong or that he was wrong to do the things he was accused of? “I knew Arthur C.Clarke for over 40 years.” Coolest thing I’ve read in a while. I am not jealous at all…. “‘Do you think a hospital/doctors should have any say on your child’s welfare’? ” And he got to meet Morgan Freeman! Sweet Jesus. That woman needs serious help as she’s totally delusional. I am weak Haha, yes the hair was all over the place, they had just woke up i believe hahaha. The Dad did 100% ring and spoke with the two women i would never lie about that, he rang TM first who in return told the paralegal to call to her as he was ringing back to talk to her and that is exactly what happened and like i said being a paralegal she knew all legal avenues had been exhausted and expressed that to TM before even going on the phone to the Dad as she was not going to give anyone false hope and from there offered moral support in turning up with TM and joining the protesters, the camera of course was just shoved in their faces a long with lots of others and both were quite surprised it even made BBC as others had spoke and they thought because BBC were randomly picking people there was no chance they would be on it especially given the condition both were in just after waking up from having a couple of hours sleep in the car that day. The paralegal has stepped back from all the nonsense concerning every other thing. I am not sure about admins but the dad obviously did not tell them about everyone he spoke to as i suppose he spoke with hundreds of people, which i believe he did. Also, i had stated weeks ago i did not believe what Mr Dearman was accused of after reading all this website and other stuff. I made that quite clear then. Anyway guys, i shall not be commenting here again as i has a lot of work to catch up on but no hard feeling towards anyone of you and i wish you all the best that life has to offer. God bless. PS, Moticia is a Christian herself and maybe that is why TM thought to tell the dad about her, i don’t know, that could be purely speculation, but to her ,common sense, given her beliefs and the fact the legal team were also Christian’s. I could be wrong there but as my mother would never ” I may not be always right, but i am never wrong. ” Again, take care you lot and God bless. @gharris & Morticia Addams, having followed those pages, I saw someone tag Tracey Morris in the last few days, asking if she could do anything, next thing she was all over it like a cheap suit. I would no more believe that she had spoken to the father than I would Angie Dizzy saying the same thing. Hopefully Morticia has got sense & gone back to her everyday life of investigating an accidental death of a young man, maybe she will stop egging on members of the travelling community too & giving them false hope of getting their children back. She has a brilliant singing voice, she should take that up in her spare time. Linda Byrne O’Riordan can make all the excuses she likes but at the end of the day she’s as bad as Tracey and has much to answer for. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1v0vTe5p4Qb3l-7Rq-aQDuhi9l9eRifdT?usp=sharing That’s it, Tere – you know it makes sense: Bigotry Update It may not be obvious from the title or thumbnail but this video is really anti-Buddhism and ‘Hinduism: That’s in addition to her recent post about there being too many Asians and black people in some UK cities, her rants about the impending arrival of her new Pakistani Muslim neighbours, her previous remark about Jamaican men making bad fathers and several iffy comments/shares about Jews. Oh and she’s also notoriously homophobic. My claim to fame is that as a kid I once gave directions to Tommy Docherty. You’ll have to Google him, but where I live that was like meeting the Queen.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1443
__label__cc	0.698619	0.301381	Tom Dunn: Following Angie in all things Saturday was Thomas Dunn’s birthday. By sheer coincidence it was also Adolf Hitler’s natal day, but of course that has nothing to do with Dunn. Err, not much to do with him. Dunn celebrated the day by gorging himself on his favourite breakfast comestibles, then taking to his bed to deliver a few “seig heils” of his own. Aside from some hilarious chitchat about the helmet of salvation and the breastplate of self-righteousness (he takes a C cup, in case you were wondering), much of his rant was dedicated to railing against “the satanic underground cults, the paedophiles, the child rapists” who he believes inhabit the UK in general and Hampstead in particular. “We cannot allow them to get away with this!” he screamed at one point, adding later, ““Every person who raped a child on Wednesday in Hampstead, you will bow before the king of kings!” Apparently those who rape children on the other six days of the week get a free pass? Plus frankly, if people are raping children (on any day of the week), wouldn’t it be preferable to have them arrested, tried, and sentenced to prison? Bowing before some über-king seems a bit lame, if we’re honest. Dunn repeats the ‘white powder’ rumour Dunn refers several times to the Hampstead children and a protected witness, and repeats the lie that the witness forced one of the children to sniff a white powder, which made him feel dizzy. It’s odd that we’ve been able to find no trace of the child actually saying this on any of the videos which Sabine McNeill released, though it did appear in some of her writings. More to the point, in the medical examination, Dr Hodes (who sided with the mother regarding the sexual abuse allegations) stated she’d found evidence of THC, an active ingredient in cannabis, in the children’s hair samples. She said nothing about any other drug, including cocaine, which is what the “white powder” rumour seems to imply. It’s pretty easy to determine where Dunn picked up the “white powder” rumour: his mentor, Angela Power-Disney, has mentioned it several times, including in a video interview with Jason Goodman of “Crowdsurfing the Truth”. [You’re sure that’s not ‘Crowdsourcing‘? Oh, never mind—Ed.] Like much of what Dunn has parroted about the Hampstead hoax, it seems very unlikely that he has bothered to do any actual research himself, but has merely swallowed Angela’s lies and inaccuracies holus-bolus. Threats against protected witness Referring to a protected witness, Dunn shrieked, “We think he’s living in California—is anybody concerned about this? Is anybody concerned about the accused paedophile and rapist living in California? FBI? Coming to my house? Does anybody care about this? These people don’t quit until they’re forced to quit! I’m not saying that, the children said it. And they said it real good! I sure hope the FBI is watching this guy like a hawk. This sounds an awful lot like a request to his deluded followers to hunt somebody down—something the FBI should probably know about, especially as they have already enraged Dunn by daring to turn up on his doorstep and ask him some questions about his previous threats. Dunn’s response to this perceived insult is to shriek into the camera, They’re censoring us and they’ve taken down our video of Ella. They want the truth censored. they’re calling the police on us and they’re calling the FBI on us but that only emboldens us to speak out more! Hmm. Isn’t this the strategy Angela employed following last summer’s visit by the gardaí, when all her tech was removed for investigation? That worked like a bleedin’ charm, didn’t it? Instead of informing her that they were coming to arrest those of us who’ve been pointing out her criminal activities for the past four years, the “friendly” gardaí told her a few weeks ago that the results of their investigation had been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions, where a decision would be made as to whether to prosecute, and if so, what the charges would be. Angela responded to this, as we know, by going on a drinking binge, and finally checking herself into rehab—possibly the first sensible thing we’ve seen her do. As for Dunn, while his helmet of salvation and breastplate of self-righteousness might help him out in his next cosplay adventure, we strongly suspect that they will be of no use whatsoever when the FBI next come to call. 23/04/2019 in Assorted knobheads. Tags: Angela Power-Disney, false allegation, Gardaí, harassment, lies, police investigation, Thomas Dunn, threats Thomas Dunn’s ultimatum: ‘Join us or die, okay?’ Are we giving undue attention to nonentities? Deplorable Dunn to exploit Hampstead kids at conference ← Video share: Who is Abraham Christie? Video share: Who is Ella Draper? → 50 thoughts on “Tom Dunn: Following Angie in all things” It’s great to see your new youtube channel up EC. But just to make sure you understand: Youtube is not your friend. I put some stuff up about Abe Christie that I think you would find very interesting. But Youtube deleted it. I have some other friends who put some other ‘interesting’ stuff up. That got deleted as well. So just know that there are people watching your channel. Some of them can’t sub to you (they sub but they get deleted). Many of them can’t comment on your videos. It’s incredibly frustrating, and that is why I don’t use Youtube as a ‘platform’ any more. They will allow you to exist within your own little echo chamber. They will also allow ‘trolls’ to abuse you. But if some people give real information, they will just delete what they have to say and cut out their tongues. Youtube is cancer. They give a voice to the mangelas and the dunces, but erase at source some of us with real information. I only drop by now and again. There is no point in engaging with you. It all gets deleted. There are so many things you don’t know as well. But it’s a real task to get this information to you. Some of it might be valid, some of it rubbish. But it’s just getting it out there that is the real difficulty. I’m seeing you covering stuff and coming around to stuff that we were trying to get out to you in the last six months past. I realise this sounds a bit paranoid. It’s late here. Keep on doing what you’re doing. It’s making a difference all the same. Really, what we have to say is not so earth shattering, but it’s the shutting down of lines of communication between us that is so utterly frustrating. There are no ‘scoops about Ted Heath was a pedo, kind of thing, but more stuff like, xxx is a wrong un’, don’t waste your time on them. We see you go round in circles. But you do come to the right conclusions eventually. Youtube is not your friend. Just remember that. ‘…he takes a C cup, in case you were wondering’ If he can’t find a breastplate I believe Playtex still do a Wonderbra. Thanks for the caution. Should you ever wish to contact me directly, you can use the “Contact us” box at the top of the blog—I receive emails directly from that, and they are not public to the blog. I’m also trying to envision him in the helmet of salvation. It’s not a pleasant thought. Is Dunny’s helmet of salvation what makes him such a dickhead? 🤔 “Angela responded to this by going on a drinking binge and finally checking herself into rehab” Interestingly, she said she was going in for two weeks. It’s been nearly four so far 🤔 Hugh Mungus-Titzling says: Thanks for letting us know, MC. I shall have to peruse their catalogue later. For educational purposes, you understand. For anyone who missed this last night, it seems Devine’s not happy about losing his Facebook account (and being suspended from his four back-up accounts) and he’s blaming us for it – perish the thought 🤭🤐😇 Had to laugh at “there’s so many sockpuppet accounts on Youtube, it’s unreal” Says the man with at least 5 accounts on Facebook and an unknown number on youtube…. (and really, an hour eight of him droning on about whatever pops into his vacuous mind…) Remember less is more… Yeah, it’s weird how he spends 8 hours a day telling us to “keep it simple, stupid”. I don’t think sock puppets are a secret anymore. Didn’t Amazon cut down on fake reviews? For some reason the talk about bra cups made me think of “Judge” Rinder and the mankini* https://youtu.be/j2CbJvqe4cQ Being more serious, Mr D seems to want to believe doctors when it suits him (I was thinking of AD here), for instance he wants to believe Dr Hodes although a different opinion was given later, but then he witters on about how good hemp is. (I know there have been some people who have said marijuana helps their pain but I’m not sure it’s a good idea for it to be dispensed willy-nilly). * Not a real judge – I think the cases are real but they are for entertainment, not legally binding. Joe Friday says: I’m fascinated that Dunn was visited by the FBI. We have that in common. My visit was in 1977 in a New York hotel after I “passed” a counterfeit $5 note in the Deli. I can’t tell you how polite and nice the 2 agents were. All they wanted to do was track down the source of my note which happened to be a bank a few hours earlier ( US dollars must be the easiest in the world to copy). In fact one agent phoned me the following day to confirm what I said and to thank me for “my co-operation”. I bet if I wasn’t innocent I’d have been on their radar for the the next few months I was in the US. The FBI are legendary for their manner which is always professional & polite when dealing with so-called “civilians” (thank the alleged cross dressing J.Edgar Hoover for that). If Dunn was visited over Hoaxstead he’s really fooling himself if he thinks he’s now not on the FBI radar. There is a method to the politeness of the FBI. It disarms those they really suspect of illegality as they probe even deeper. (ask anyone from the Mafia who tremble when they hear the FBI is showing interest.) He’s FBI visit is the best news I’ve heard for yonks. Few grammar mistakes there & I’m sober !!! Mr. D? Do you mean Dunn or Devine? I thought it was three months? By Mr D I meant Mr Devine but then I realised Tom Dunn is also a Mr D which was why I said AD the next time. Tinribs, I can proofread other peoples’ writing wonderfully, my own not so well. I just had a thought (though I daresay others have had the same thought previously) but if people who contribute to this blog really had the powerful connections opposing voices believe them to have wouldn’t the opposing views have been shut down by now? And I mean, really shut down, not banned from social media platforms for a few day (and even that hasn’t been achieved easily from what I can make out). Also, why do folk think “Hoaxtead” is a group? I have commented here sometimes over the past few months but I don’t belong to a “group”. I don’t even live in London. Personally I’d run a mile if anybody tried to involve me in Satanism. The only people I’ve seen comment here who might have a link thus are HH and SV (and I’m not sure how much they are leg-pulling) and one is in the USA and the other in Australia so how the heck would anybody think they would be coming to Hampstead to take part in a group? Well, Concorde was a fast plane but it’s been discontinued. Though there are some nutters on YouTube who think Catholics worship Lucifer. In the service I attended on Sunday we renewed our baptismal vows and renounced Satan and all his works. Possibly but her blog post said a few weeks: https://angelascaches.org/last-post-for-a-few-weeks-satanic-ritual-abuse To be honest, she probably said both. She’s another one who changes her stories more often than her underwear. Interesting points there, CAW. One thing – James definitely isn’t leg-pulling. He’s very serious about his religion and it means a great deal to him. Joe Friday's cat and part-time typist says: Yeah but I’m not. Hic 🍷 Devine is live on YT now. I can’t link it, though, as the children and their father have been named. Facts Over Fiction says: I’m not holding my breath… Oh right, it was that cave-dwelling wackadoo who said three months. @Liz Wales https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2018/10/06/new-evidence-shows-ella-failed-polygraph-test Well: this is surprising. Just received from Praterson…. Not sure what has made him suddenly decide that both Finchley Road and Hampstead are hoaxes. There really is no telling what goes on in his mind. Fred Fintstone says: Hey, don’t drag me into this! The idea that Roman Catholics are actually (if not knowingly) worshipping Lucifer is older than nutters on YouTube. C.H. Spurgeon saw Rome as the place where Satan’s seat was. https://www.whatsaiththescripture.com/Voice/Spurgeon.On.Catholicism.html Read all that sort of crap in the FIEC (Fellowship (sic) of Independent Evangelical Churches) newspaper back in the 70’s too – my ex’s parents, and her too, attended an FIEC “church”. And of course ecumenicalism is Satanism in disguise, too. Depressing, or what. Syntax not simtex. So funny. Though there are some nutters on YouTube who think Catholics worship Lucifer. I can confirm that that is not true. In addition to the yearly renouncing I’m also a godfather to a niece and a nephew so have an extra two pro bono renouncings under my belt. Although I am a bit of a goth and I am enjoying season two of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. I also should admit that I was a bit surprised when our local Easter services went ahead. Neelu had assured everyone in February that the Pope was going to make an announcement and the Catholic Church was closing down for good in March. Still the internet is a bit slow in my parish, so I’ll await the news to finally arrive at some point. HartyJay says: Wow has he turned on the dark side and come to his senses, that doesn’t ring true imo but I hope he has It was hard to keep track of Andy’s lies in that broadcast, not to mention those of his idiotic supporters in the chat. Great fruitloop quote from him, mind: “You keep that truth from not getting out and I’ll keep that truth from getting out.” I think that’s unlikely; more probably he is (as usual) confused. 🙂 That one was definitely a classic. There’s a good’un in this one too, from this rather irate Australian gentleman – “You arseholes are causing mental health.” By the way, he totally loses it with MKD at 12:52. Devine was saying it was EC who put out the rumour that Abe sold hemp, lol. Then when Steve Douglas and I pointed out that it came from Abe himself, he switched to asking what’s wrong with selling hemp! Strawmen-R-Us 😀 Oh and he’s claiming that we said Ray Savage doesn’t exist! 🙄 Waynettawatch says: And there was me thinking that Cat cared about children… Meanwhile, her bid to get arrested continues apace: What’s a pertner? 🤔 Deinve @ 35:20 – “If you are hurting children, you all deserve killing, mate.” You’re basing your statement and belief that there is a mind that works for anything to actually “go on”. And just when you thought he couldn’t get any more desperate, he’s now sharing old Chris Everard videos to support his Hampstead allegations 😂 Why is it, when I see “The Cat” insult “the Hoaxsted twats” and so forth, I automatically hear this Eddie Izzard live stand up in my head (remembering when he was younger). And actually you can get away with anything! I mean, John Major got away with a very good one just recently, he was talking about civil service, and there was a reporter that came out saying it was very wasteful or whatever, and Major said, “If you don’t think that civil service is the best in the world… then you should!” Kind of a dodgy argument there, you know… “Then you should.” I remember when I was five, going, “You smell… ‘cause you do! You’re a twit… ‘cause you are!” (rolling eyes) “Then you should!” And she STILL hasn’t responded to EC’s offer of a live Q&A session. Seems “The Cat” is a pussy after all. Not much of a lady is she lol defending abe Christie aswell this chick would make the devil blush doesn’t she know dr hemp has got a few skeletons in the cupboard or does she choose not to believe them lol some ppl smh True. Foolish moi. Yes, when children of rich people die, it’s okay by her. Apparently. Does she not realise that no matter how much money that man has, he will never be able to buy back the lives of his children? Yes, she’s been flirting with Christie the child torturer—it’s sickening to watch tbh. Yes, that offer remains open, Cat.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1444
__label__cc	0.685223	0.314777	About IAI Ability of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Neisseria meningitidis, and commensal Neisseria species to obtain iron from lactoferrin. P A Mickelsen, E Blackman, P F Sparling P A Mickelsen E Blackman P F Sparling The ability of 107 Neisseria isolates to compete for iron with human lactoferrin (LF) was examined. Each of 15 meningococci, 53% of 59 selected gonococci, and 24% of 33 commensal Neisseria could use LF-bound iron for growth. Isolates which could not obtain iron from LF were growth inhibited when sufficient LF was added to defined agar medium to bind available free iron. No difference was observed in the ability of colony type 1 and colony type 4 gonococci of the same strain to compete with LF for iron. LF was growth inhibitory for 50% of 22 disseminated disease isolates (DGI strains) and 51% of 35 local urogenital disease isolates (UGI strains). Only 14% of gonococcal isolates requiring arginine, hypoxanthine, and uracil for growth were able to compete with LF for iron, whereas 87% of all other gonococcal isolates could do so (P less than 0.005). Ability to obtain iron from LF does not appear to be required for survival of Neisseria on mucosal surfaces, nor essential for invasion of the bloodstream by gonococci. However, ability to utilize LF as a source of iron may contribute to differences in pathogenicity among certain gonococcal isolates. Infection and Immunity Mar 1982, 35 (3) 915-920; DOI: Thank you for sharing this Infection and Immunity article. You are going to email the following Ability of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Neisseria meningitidis, and commensal Neisseria species to obtain iron from lactoferrin. Message Subject (Your Name) has forwarded a page to you from Infection and Immunity Message Body (Your Name) thought you would be interested in this article in Infection and Immunity. Follow #IAIjournal	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1450
__label__cc	0.694746	0.305254	U-M India Impact Keyword Search of csas Summer in South Asia Undergraduate Fellowships South Asian Languages Michigan-IISER Student Exchange Undergraduate Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships MIRS: South Asian Studies Specialization Graduate Certificate Program Regional and National Initiatives K-14 Educational Materials CSAS K-12 Teacher Fellow National Resource Center Outstanding Faculty The Center for South Asian Studies is one of six NRCs housed in the International Institute. These prestigious designations, earned in national peer-reviewed competitions, are awarded by the U.S. Department of Education Title VI program. This program strives to develop the nation’s capacities in international studies, area studies, foreign languages, and international business education. The six NRC-designated centers also received grants for Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships. These centers administer annual competitions to award undergraduate and graduate-level fellowships to support the study of foreign languages. Centers Awarded Grants East Asia National Resource Center (comprising U-M’s Centers for Chinese Studies and Japanese Studies and the Nam Center for Korean Studies) Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Center for International Business Education Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) csas@umich.edu	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1463
__label__cc	0.622523	0.377477	Why Mendoza Constant growth Skilled populations Infraestructure Linking the oceans Investor´s guide A guide to buy real estate in Mendoza Regulations on real property General Legal Framework Audiovisual industry Stockbreeding Invest in Real Estate Industrialized Food and Beverages Exportable products offer Winery & Vineyards Alpasion Achaval Ferrer Casarena Invest in Mendoza Argentina’s Mendoza Province Becomes First to Pass Law Allowing Uber BUENOS AIRES — Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] got the green light on Tuesday to operate in Argentina’s Mendoza province when lawmakers there passed the country’s first law regulating ride-hailing applications. Argentina’s Senate voted 24-14 in favor of the law which specifically allows such services in the country’s fifth-largest province by population, the legislature said on its website. Uber has been operating in the capital Buenos Aires for more than two years despite court rulings ordering the company to stop and internet service providers to block its platform. Uber has said that the lack of explicit regulation does not mean the service is banned, and that it obeys Argentine law, pays taxes and wants cities to pass ride-hailing regulations. Mendoza’s government would likely issue regulations to put the law into effect in August, and Uber could begin operating in the province as soon as September, Mendoza newspaper Diario Uno reported. “We are very excited about the government’s decision and the consensus reached by Mendoza’s lawmakers,” Uber’s general manager for the southern cone region of South America, Mariano Otero, said in a statement. “We are convinced we can contribute, and we expect to be in the province soon to do so.” A Buenos Aires court in 2016 found Uber in violation of local transportation and labor standards. While the company serves several cities in Brazil, Bolivia and Chile, it does not operate elsewhere in Argentina, according to its website. The San Francisco-based company has clashed with governments in many cities and countries. Taxi services and labor groups have been frequent opponents of the Silicon Valley startup. (Reporting by Eliana Raszewski and Luc Cohen; Editing by Ross Colvin and Richard Chang) nytimes.com/reuters/ 31 July, 2018 14 October, 2018 Report and communityGovernment Program, International context, Invest in Startups, Key Sectors, National contextMendoza newspaper, Mendoza province, Mendoza's government, nytimes, Uber Technologies Previous Post ProMendoza promotes the export of bulk wine Next Post UBER in Mendoza CATEGORIES Select Category Desarrollo inmobiliario (3) Events (40) Government (47) Government Program (64) Industrial and Commercial Guide of Mendoza for the World 2018. (3) Industrialized Food and Beverages (12) International context (35) Invertir en la Ciudad de Mendoza (3) invertir en Mendoza (5) Invest (37) Invest in Godoy Cruz (7) Invest in Real Estate (18) Invest in Startups (11) Invest in Vaca Muerta (3) Investor´s guide (6) Key Sectors (57) Mendoza al Mundo (19) Mendoza exportable products offer (8) Olive oil (1) wineries (5) Minería (3) National context (51) Opinion (5) Opportunities (20) Programa de Gobierno (15) Renewable Energy (14) Sin categoría (16) Tourism (25) visit mendoza (7) Winery & Vineyards (5) 參觀門多薩 (1) Mendoza in the main world media: Mendoza in National Geographic Mendoza in The New York Time Mendoza in Financial Times Mendoza in The Telegraph Made in Mendoza Argentina	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1469
__label__wiki	0.569085	0.569085	Bad Bishop Innocent in the Afterlife Reading & Research A humorous little novelette, available for Kindle Pope Innocent XIV, né Polycarp Njue Wako, the first ever black Cardinal to be elected to the seat of St Peter, reigned for the grand total of three days – thus gaining for himself the dubious honour of henceforth heading the list of shortest-reigning Popes. The previous record holder, Pope Urban VII, trailed now at a distant second place, far behind him, with a reign of a full thirteen days. Pope Innocent XIV dropped dead, quite suddenly, at the age of 73, whilst happily composing his Papal Inauguration homily. An asymptomatic and, as such, undiagnosed cerebral aneurysm chose that precise moment, to pop – with the holy father’s new, 55,000 euro white-gold and diamond Mont Blanc fountain pen, a congratulatory gift from the African Cardinals on the occasion of his election to the Pontificate, suspended, for a moment, between the word ‘clergy’ that he had just finished writing with a flourish, and the one that would follow it. Only that next word never came, for Polycarp Njue Wako, henceforth to be known as Innocent XIV, the 266th – according to modern reckoning – Bishop of Rome, rather abruptly vacated his hard-won Holy See and departed the world. Rather bemused, Innocent XIV watched the commotion that ensued feeling more than a little cheated, and bitter, that he should have been plucked away from this vain world just when he had achieved his lifetime ambition, without first being given the opportunity to savour it, to enjoy its well-earned benefits, and of course to dedicate some years to the governing of the Church, to be allowed to put his own personal stamp on it. To be Infallible. He had only been Infallible for three days – hardly much, by any reckoning – and, though he had known he was Infallible, he hadn’t really had the opportunity to demonstrate his Infallibility to the world at large, by either word or deed. He hadn’t even had the chance to finish writing his homily. And there were so many things he wished to say about condoms… Not in the Inauguration homily, of course, that would have been inappropriate, the homily would have revolved around the selfless dedication of the Church and its priests to the service of humanity and God, an extolling of it as a force for good in the world; but later, at the first opportunity, condoms would certainly have been mentioned at length. And it was only a few days before Christmas. He would have given his first Urbi et Orbi address, offered remission of all sins to millions of people gathered at St Peter’s Square, or watching the ceremony on television, or listening on the radio, (for no reason other than that they were doing so), and now this was not to be. Yes, Innocent XIV felt cheated. Of course, he reprimanded himself for these perfectly natural feelings; this clearly was God’s will and, Pope though he was, even he could not question this ultimate authority, or Its Divine Plan – whatever this was. Perhaps, now that he was dead, he would finally find out. He wondered, vaguely, whether the Divine Plan was revealed to all dead Popes, or whether sainthood was necessary first. Though he was beginning to experience a little niggle of worry, as he was still there, watching all the ancient, ritual preparations for his funeral, with all due honours; the Rite of Visitation at St Peter’s Basilica; the endless flow of the crowds paying their respects – this seemed appropriate and most satisfying, of course – and he was not going anywhere. It was true that he had not received Last Rites, as his death had come so suddenly, but he had not been behind with his confessions, and he had died as Pope, after all. All things considered, the worry was small, but nonetheless noticeable, as the days went by, his last will and testament was published, and finally the Mass of Requiem was sung, with an impressively good turnout despite his reign having been so short. Some fifty-five heads of state and nine or ten leaders of other religions – Innocent XIV didn’t count them too carefully – attended the service, and there were a couple of million mourners gathered in Rome for the event. Despite his mounting concern, Innocent XIV felt as pleased as he could be, under the circumstances, with the turnout and the splendour and solemnity of the event. Finally, eight days after his death, the body of Pope Innocent XIV was buried under St Peter’s Basilica, in the Tomb of the Popes – whilst Innocent XIV himself watched in continued uneasy, and more than a trifle miffed, bemusement, wondering, ever more urgently, why on earth he was still there. No sooner was the lid of the tomb lowered into place, than the crypt of St Peter’s Basilica suddenly vanished, to be replaced by a dark, rocky landscape with no definable borders between dark grey ground and gloomy sky, if this were indeed a sky, and not impenetrable grey fog wrapped round the landscape itself like a shroud. A great, dark river, its far bank almost invisible, flowed through the rock-strewn terrain, coming from a distant, indeterminate greyness that could not properly be termed a horizon to the left, and flowing towards much the same to the right. Innocent XIV felt a little shriek of panic rising up inside him and demanding to be set free – despite the obvious absence of any pits of excrement or cauldrons of fire, which, in any case, as a twenty-first century, highly educated Catholic he didn’t truly believe in, in a literal sense – when he noticed something else, which, by its mere presence, half-stifled the rising shriek. What came out instead was a timid little squeal. ‘Eeek!’ gasped Innocent XIV, staring at what was, admittedly, and without a doubt, the most handsome, white young man the ex-Pope had ever before seen or could, in fact, ever imagine might exist. He was breathtaking – though Innocent XIV wasn’t himself that way inclined, this fact was as undeniable as the fact that the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was a work of highest art. The young man had short, dark brown hair, just long enough to betray the curls that would develop should it be allowed to grow longer, eyes like liquid chocolate, fair skin and a body like any of the numerous ancient Greek statues of athletes kept at the Vatican museums, and with which Innocent XIV was well-aquainted. (Some of them had even escaped well-intentioned Christian vandalism and had not acquired new, marble fig leaves with which to preserve their modesty). The young man was wearing khaki-coloured cargo shorts to below the knee, sturdy hiking boots, and a darker-green tank top. He had one knee bent, booted foot on one of the higher placed rocks, elbow resting on his knee, and appeared to be talking on a mobile ‘phone. Until, that is, the Pope’s squeal alerted him to his presence there, at which point the young man’s eyes flashed round, glittering with something that worried Innocent XIV but which he hadn’t the time to properly analyze, and a smile. It was a welcoming smile, Innocent XIV decided, electing to focus on that, rather than the unsettling twinkling in the liquid-chocolate eyes that somehow put him in mind of his schoolboy days. “A cheerful comic fantasy sharply written and guaranteed to cheer you up.“ — Tina Rath “Although Innocent in the Afterlife is both light-hearted and an enjoyable read, it’s also is a daring story underpinned by intelligence and intellect. The irreverent, comedic take on religion brings an obvious comparison to the Monthy Python films, whilst the cast of minor and major deities is reminiscent of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods and the newcomer to the afterlife accompanied by a guide is, obviously, very Dante-y.” — Ross Buy the book: Amazon UK, Amazon US, Amazon DE Welcome to my random ramblings. Oh, and I have a couple of books. Click the covers below to learn more about each one. 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__label__wiki	0.849006	0.849006	The Glass Bottom Boat of the Cultural Press Screen Reviews Columns Archive I’ll Never Forget You: The Last 72 Hours of Lynyrd Skynyrd In Screen Reviews directed by Jonathan Braucher starring Lynyrd Skynyrd, Gene Odom, Leslie Hawkins, Craig Reed MVD Visual In a fashion similar to how the four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) tell the story of Jesus’ life, ministry and crucifixion, the tale of the tragic Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash also has been recounted numerous times over the years from various perspectives. However, these accounts often have been conflicting versions told by actual band members. What makes this DVD different and special is that the story is told by those who were on board that day on October 20, 1977 when the plane carrying the Skynyrd band, backup singers and crew crashed in Gillsburg, MS – insider eye witnesses with nothing to lose by being candid. Based on the 1983 book, I’ll Never Forget You by Gene Odom, the documentary is riveting and real. A lifelong friend of founding Skynyrd frontman, Ronnie Van Zant, Odom was a member of the band’s security team, and he was on the plane. Odom also serves as one of the film’s producers and primary storyteller, along with back-up singer, Leslie Hawkins and guitar tech, Craig Reed. The absence of actual Skynyrd music and the presence of reenactment footage indicates that the Skynyrd “machine” was neither involved with the film nor endorses it. Which is exactly why it feels so darn honest. Without casting spoilers, I’ll simply say that Odom comes off as completely credible and likable. Despite the “Last 72 Hours” subtitle, Odom also provides engaging personal as well as band back story. Through his first-hand accounts, he further succeeds in offering the viewer with an authentic fly on the wall view of the band’s last 72 hours. In sum, for fans who still crave insider glimpses into the Skynyrd world, particularly details surrounding the legendary plane crash, I’ll Never Forget You: The Last 72 Hours of Lynyrd Skynyrd will prove to be a bitter sweet treat, indeed. www.MVDb2b.com Christopher Long Craig Reed Gene Odom I'll Never Forget You: The Last 72 Hours of Lynyrd Skynyrd starring Lynyrd Skynyrd Recently on Ink 19... Voice of the Eagle: The Enigma of Robbie Basho A genius of American guitar is profiled in this highly recommended documentary. King Orange. Review by Stacey Zering. Julia Haltigan Trouble. Review by Carl F. Gauze. Orlando Fringe Winter Mini-Fest 2020 Archikulture Digest More shows for the brave of heart. ’80s Movie Night Stroke of Midnight Three new Blu-Ray releases celebrate the glory days of VHS rentals. Becoming Doctor Ruth A one woman show relating the fascinating history of Dr Ruth Westheimer, America’s favorite sex advisor. Barnes & Barnes Holidays in Lumania (Demented Punk Records). Review by Carl F. Gauze. The curated version of Orlando Fringe festival is back! Cinema Cinema CCXMD (Nefarious Industries). Review by Steven Garnett. The Ragin’ Cajun Doug Kershaw took his Cajun music from the bayou to stardom, but it wasn’t an easy trip. eMOTIVe (Virgin). Review by Andrew Ellis. They Might Be Giants proves itself a gigantic nuclear furnace inside the belly of Orlando’s House of Blues. Rose Petralia basks in the glow. Mike Doughty The Flip Is Another Honey (Snack Bar/Megaforce Records). Review by Tim Wardyn. Ultimate Underground (Groovilicious). Review by Vanessa Bormann. Tragic Ceremony Carl F Gauze wanted atmospheric horror, instead he got a straight-faced version of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. When faced with this, does he moan about the truncated gore, or compliment the pre-disco fashions? Read on… East To West (SideOne Dummy). Review by Stein Haukland. Valley of the Damned & Sonic Firestorm (Spinefarm Records). Review by Tim Wardyn. Hot Rod Circuit The Underground Is A Dying Breed (Immortal). Review by Jen Cray. The ’70s TV cop series reinvents itself as an action comedy with laughs and charm. Rob Levy explains why it’s good to like the latest Hollywood remake. Fifty Tons of Black Terror Event Review by Tyson Meade The Mercury Program The Mercury Program (Boxcar). Review by Tom Minarchick Murder by Pride (Big 3 Records). Review by Christopher Long. © Copyright Ink 19	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1477
__label__wiki	0.661565	0.661565	Home » Supreme Court » Supreme Court Grants ‘Cert’ to Decide Whether Good Faith Is a Defense to Contempt Supreme Court Grants ‘Cert’ to Decide Whether Good Faith Is a Defense to Contempt On Jan. 4, 2019, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Taggart v. Lorenzen, 18-489 (Sup. Ct.), to decide whether good faith is a defense to a violation of the discharge injunction. The grant of certiorari means that the Supreme Court again will have at least three bankruptcy cases on the calendar this term. The high court agreed to review Lorenzen v. Taggart (In re Taggart), 888 F.3d 438 (9th Cir. April 23, 2018, rehearing denied Sept. 7, 2018), where the Ninth Circuit held that a subjective, good faith belief that an action does not violate the discharge injunction absolves the creditor of contempt, even if the belief is “unreasonable.” To read some of ABI’s coverage of Taggart, click here. Taggart will resolve a split of circuits. Five weeks after Taggart, the First Circuit held in IRS v. Murphy, 892 F.3d 29 (1st Cir. June 7, 2018), that good faith is not a defense to contempt of the discharge injunction. To read ABI’s discussion of Murphy, click here. In the first bankruptcy case this term, the Supreme Court is hearing oral argument today in Obduskey v. McCarthy & Holthus LLP, 17-1307 (Sup. Ct.), also to resolve a circuit split and decide whether the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act applies to nonjudicial foreclosures. ABI will report on oral argument. In late October, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Mission Product Holdings Inc. v. Tempnology LLC, 17-1657 (Sup. Ct.), to resolve a split of circuits and decide whether rejection of a trademark license bars the licensee from continuing to use the mark. Oral argument in Mission Product is scheduled for February 20. To read some of ABI’s coverage of Mission Product, click here. In both Obduskey and Taggart, Daniel L. Geyser of Dallas will argue in the Supreme Court on behalf of the debtors. The trademark licensee is being represented in Mission Product by Danielle Spinelli of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP. Ms. Spinelli is a former Supreme Court clerk who argued on the winning side in two recent bankruptcy cases, Czyzewski v. Jevic Holding Corp., 137 S. Ct. 973 (2017), and Clark v. Rameker, 134 S. Ct. 2242 (2014). Oral argument in Taggart will be held before the end of April, allowing the justices to issue a ruling before the Court’s term ends in late June. The stay-violation case in the Supreme Court is Taggart v. Lorenzen, 18-489 (Sup. Ct.). Equitable Mootness Attacked in Jefferson County ‘Cert’ Petition Lack of a circuit split makes equitable mootness an unlikely topic for Supreme Court review. Bankruptcy & the U.S. Supreme Court Join leading bankruptcy scholars as they discuss will not only the most important bankruptcy decisions by t... Supreme Court to Tackle a Bankruptcy Tax Refund Circuit Split Circuits are split on whether a tax refund presumptively goes to the subsidiary that created the losses giving rise to the refund. Experts Discuss Supreme Court's Ruling in Taggart v Lorenzen Experts Discuss the SCOTUS Decision in Tempnology On May 20, the Court held that rejection of an executory trademark license does not bar the licensee from continuing to use the mark. Join our panel of experts to learn more. Sixth Circuit Shows Why the Supreme Court Must Reverse Taggart The appeals court didn’t allow an ambiguous state statute to confer absolution for violating the automatic stay. Join leading bankruptcy scholars as they discuss will not only the most important bankruptcy decisions by the Supreme Court but also on the decision-making process that the Justices undertake. 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(16-784) that the only relevant transfer for purposes of the §546(e) safe harbor is the transfer that the trust Supreme Court Narrowly Interprets the Safe Harbor, Overrules the Majority of Circuits Intermediate transfers to financial institutions do not trigger the safe harbor.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1481
__label__wiki	0.51633	0.51633	Avant-grandparents You carry your avant-grandparents inside you wherever you go. You carry them around inside you as voices you find yourself mimicking. It may well be against your will. It may even be your own "real" voice, but your avant-grandparents got there first. People hear you talking, people who knew your avant-parents and your avant-grandparents before that, and hear them. It makes you "cute", as cute as The Strokes. It makes you reassuring, reassuringly unoriginal. You fit a pre-cut hole. Hey, you sound just like grumpy grandpa Lou! Lou's "up to Lexington, 125, feeling sick and dirty, more dead than alive" popped into my head, as it always does, when I found myself on Lexington Avenue yesterday. I also caught myself earlier in the day sounding remarkably like Laurie Anderson in my art show, with an 80s string machine loop backing a narrative about Hummers, recited in the glazed-appalled schizo-mesmer sprechgesang style Laurie has made her own over the years. And I've been doing the "prematurely air-conditioned supermarket" piece from Robert Wilson and Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach, adding the twist that someone on the beach is listening to it on an iPod. How appropriate, then, that a certain C. Depp, who's working on Robert Wilson's archives, would kindly give Mai and I tickets to see Wilson's new epic, I La Galigo at the Lincoln Center. The piece, three hours long, was inspired by the Galigo Manuscript, a sacred epic poem of the Bugis people of South Sulawesi in the Indonesian archipelago. Unfortunately, I La Galigo was like the school play from hell, a three hour yawnfest of frigid tableaux, depoliticized Piscator, pastel lighting, costumes apparently bought from Saks 5th Avenue, tepid humanism, slow-mo tai chi, fake, neutered ethnic music, the mannerism but not the viciousness of Peter Greenaway, and animal scenes worthy of "The Lion King". The plot (projected in supertitles above the stage) constrained the gesture, everything worked to diminish everything else, the cast of thousands felt like nobody was on stage at all, and I felt a curious absence of any guiding theatrical intelligence whatsoever. It was like some tourist folk dance spectacular staged at the Hilton Hotel, Jakarta. The audience at the Lincoln Center—average age 60—seemed to love the piece, though, giving it a standing ovation at the end. The elderly Jewish couple in front of me were typical. The man fell quickly asleep, which was fine, he wasn't snoring. I kind of envied him. But his wife insisted on waving her hand in front of his eyes and talking to him continuously to wake him up. "You're missing it!" she hissed. "I'll wake up when important bits of plot are happening", he grunted. "You missed important bits of plot already," she said, lying through her teeth, since for the last ten minutes all that had happened was that people had walked very slowly across the stage, gradually rotating their hands. A couple of balconies down from us sat Shazna and her friend Claudia. In front of them were Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson, pals of Robert Wilson. Shazna tells me that Lou slept through most of the play, while Laurie watched with a fixed, blissful smile. Mai and I ran into them on the sidewalk outside as we headed towards the subway. Lou was wearing long shorts and a faded Hawaiian shirt, small steel-rimmed spectacles. They'd left the Lincoln Center but were returning against the crowd, as if they'd just realised they'd left something under the seat. Lou glanced at my eyepatch and I recognised him, shocked to see how frail, silver-haired and dithery he looked, like a Floridian retiree. Laurie walked close behind, blurry-faced, unexpectedly tiny. They looked like your avant-grandparents from the countryside, frazzled by the big city. PS: Just a reminder that your very own avant-grandfather Momus plays Tonic tonight between 8pm and midnight, joined by Rusty Santos and the Billy Nayer Show. Also, uberdionysus has a page of drawings, photos and descriptions of his trip to "I'll Speak, You Sing" here.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1494
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Mother of slain teen says 'Donald Trump is trying to do' something, and they're trying to shut him down' 7/10/15, "Slain Football Player Jamiel Shaw’s Father: Donald Trump ‘Is Telling the Truth’ on Immigration," KTLA.com, Melissa Pamer and Kareen Wynter Jamiel Shaw Sr. with Trump "The family of an L.A. high school football star who was killed by an undocumented immigrant expressed support for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s controversial views on Mexican immigrants, standing with Trump as he spoke about the issue in Beverly Hills Friday. Relatives of Jamiel Shaw Jr. met with Trump at an undisclosed location Friday afternoon and later attended a news conference with him. Shaw died at age 17 in a 2008 shooting near his Arlington Heights home when gang member Pedro Espinoza mistook him for a rival gang member because of the victim’s red Spider-Man backpack. Espinoza, who was in the country illegally, was in 2012 sentenced to death for the murder. He had jumped out of a vehicle, shot Shaw in the stomach and then fired a second execution-style shot in his head. Jamiel Shaw in casket, 2008 Shaw was a running back at Los Angeles High School and had been named the Southern League’s most valuable player. He reportedly drew interest from Stanford and Rutgers universities. The victim’s parents have recently come out in support of Trump, who has been in the spotlight more than usual since he referred to Mexican immigrants as “rapists” when announcing his candidacy on June 16 for the Republican presidential nomination. “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best.…They’re sending people that have lots of problems and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime. They’re rapists, and some, I assume, are good people,” Trump said. “They’re sending us not the right people.” Jamiel Shaw in High School Since making those comments, Trump has seen his ties cut with NBC Universal, Univision, Macy’s and the PGA of America. Trump’s businesses’ alleged employment of undocumented Mexican workers has also come under scrutiny since he made the comments. Meanwhile, he has vaulted to the top of a crowded field of Republican hopefuls, and many commentators have spoken up in support of the former reality television star. Early Friday evening, speaking at the Beverly Wilshire hotel in Beverly Hills, Trump complained that his comments were being cut down and oversimplified by news media. He said he had “great relationships” with Mexicans, but he faulted the country’s leaders. “They’re sending people into our country that we don’t want, but we take, and that they don’t want,” Trump said of Mexico. “You know who they’re sending.” Jamiel Shaw’s father stood behind Trump as he spoke, as did several other people who said their relatives had been killed by immigrants in the country illegally. Jamiel Shaw’s mother, Anita Shaw, had drawn attention Wednesday when the Daily Mail’s West Coast correspondent published a story in which Shaw endorsed Trump. Jamiel Shaw Jr.’s father told FoxNews.com the same day that Trump’s comments about immigrants made him “happy for the first time.” The family held an impromptu news conference in Arlington Heights Friday afternoon, before the event in Beverly Hills with Trump. Jamiel Shaw Sr.’s sister, Althea Shaw, said Trump’s office had reached out to the family though Fox News after Jamiel Shaw Sr. spoke to the network about his support for Trump. “It’s a blessing,” she said. “We love Mr. Trump. We’re happy, because we know he spoke up and he said something,” Althea Shaw said later at the Beverly Hills news conference. Jamiel Shaw Sr. compared his son’s death to that of 32-year-old Kate Steinle, who was shot to death on a pier in San Francisco this month, allegedly by an undocumented immigrant who had been deported five times. The suspect, Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, admitted to a local TV news reporter that he shot Steinle. “Put yourself in that same spot,” Jamiel Shaw Sr. said. “From grandfathers to babies have been victims of illegal aliens. So for people to act like it’s not happening because you didn’t say it the right way — that’s a cop out.” Shaw Sr. said Trump’s statements about immigration resonated with him. “To me, he said it right. He was light on them. He just said ‘rape.’ Come on, I would have said ‘murder,'” Shaw Sr. said. “You don’t have to know how to say everything, you just have to have action.…He’s telling the truth.” “The only difference between me and Donald Trump is that he is rich, so he’s able to withstand the onslaught to get his point across. That’s why he don’t care what people think,” Shaw said. “Me, on the other hand, I don’t have nothing.” Trump was in the Los Angeles area Friday, reportedly for a meeting with a “secret” conservative group of Hollywood industry actors and executives called Friends of Abe, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Local immigrant rights group CHIRLA, or Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, planned to protest Trump’s visit outside the Luxe Sunset Boulevard Hotel, where the group said he was set to meet with Friends of Abe." Image caption #1: "Jamiel Shaw Sr. stands behind Donald Trump at a press conference on July 10, 2015, in Beverly Hills. (Credit: CNN)" Image caption #2: "Anita Shaw prays as her husband Jamiel Shaw Sr., kneels at the casket of their son Jamiel Shaw Jr. in March 2008. (Credit: Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)" Mother of son murdered by illegal alien says: "It makes me angry. Donald Trump, he's trying to do something, and they're trying to shut him down.'... Mother says when her son was murdered in 2008 people tried to downplay the illegal alien status of the killer: "When I found out he was an illegal alien, I felt everyone was trying to keep it quiet, I felt like because he was an illegal alien it was alright that he killed my son. 'It felt like an American citizen living in the United States is not worth anything, but my son was worth something.'" 7/7/15, "EXCLUSIVE: 'My son was murdered by a Mexican illegal immigrant, just like Kathryn Steinle - it's time people listened to Trump,' says mother of gunned-down teenage football star," UK Daily Mail, Ryan Parry, West Coast correspondent "Jamiel Shaw was murdered in 2008 in Los Angeles by a gang member who should not have been in the country Brilliant high school footballer was shot twice by Pedro Espinoza because he thought 17-year-old's red backpack was sign he was in rival gang Espinoza was freed from four-month sentence day before murder even though he was wanted for deportation... *She tells Daily Mail Online: 'It makes me angry. Donald Trump, he's trying to do something, and they're trying to shut him down.'" Jamiel, left, age 17 "The mother of a teenage boy gunned down by an illegal Mexican immigrant in strikingly similar circumstances to how Kathryn Steinle died, has backed Presidential hopeful Donald Trump to 'close our borders'. Anita Shaw, whose 17-year-old boy Jamiel Jr was murdered by gang member Pedro Espinoza in Los Angeles in 2008, says she is 'angry' at the current immigration policy. She told Daily Mail Online: 'It makes me sad, it makes me angry, it makes me frustrated. 'It's amazing to me that the same incident is still going on today. It's like, when will the public wake up and do something. 'And this guy who is running for President, Donald Trump, he's trying to do something and they're trying to shut him down. 'I believe in what he's saying, he's trying to fix the borders and do all the things people should have done a long time ago.' Los Angeles High School football standout Jamiel was shot twice, once in the stomach and once in the head, near his Arlington Heights home in March, 2008. He was targeted by Espinoza simply because he was carrying a red Spider-Man backpack and was mistaken for a rival gang member. The killer, who was aged 19, had been released the day before he killed Jamiel having served four months of an eight month sentence for assault with a deadly weapon and battery on a police officer. He had lied about his immigration status - which if it had been properly checked would have made clear he was wanted for deportation.... Anita, 50, who was serving with the U.S. Army in Iraq when she was told of her eldest son's death, said: 'I still don't understand why it happened, just like what happened in San Francisco, why wasn't this guy deported after he was released from prison. 'Sanctuary City', that's crazy. 'When I heard about the girl in San Francisco, I said, 'oh no, not again', she was so pretty and so young and to be with her father and her brother when it happened, just enjoying her day, and then all of a sudden no more.' For Army Sgt Anita, who is currently based in Fort Hood, Texas where she works as a supply specialist, the death only brought memories of Jamiel's death flooding back. 'I remember crying a lot when I was told about Jamiel because I was still in Iraq,' she said. 'I was screaming and crying, I wanted to help find the guy, but I felt completely helpless. 'And then when I found out he was an illegal alien, I felt everyone was trying to keep it quiet, I felt like because he was an illegal alien it was alright that he killed my son. 'It felt like an American citizen living in the United States is not worth anything, but my son was worth something.' Los Angeles police officials described the killing as random and senseless - Jamiel was unarmed and had no gang ties. Espinoza had killed a youth who had been doing everything right in his life - from studying hard to never missing church. He was also a talented football player inspiring the Los Angeles High Romans to the 2007 Southern League title. And Mom Anita, who has separated from Jamiel's dad Jamiel Snr and has another son Thomas, aged 16, says she had 'high expectations' of her 'wonderful' son Jamiel. 'A few colleges had been looking at Jamiel for a scholarship. Stanford University had called about him the week before he died and Rutgers University also called,' she said. 'It makes me sad every day and my thoughts and prayers are with the family of her girl in San Francisco.' L.A. Superior Court Judge Ronald Rose sentenced Pedro Espinoza to death in 2012." Image caption: "Murdered: Jamiel Shaw, 17, with his father Jamiel snr. He was a complete innocent when he was shot twice in the head by illegal immigrant Pedro Espinoza in March 2008 in Los Angeles," Family Photo via UK Daily Mail	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1495
__label__cc	0.642791	0.357209	Infrastructure Australia and Africa Infrastructure for the SKA requires two consortia, each managing their respective local sites in Australia and Africa. INFRA-AU and INFRA-SA have the huge task of taking care of all SKA infrastructure on continent wide scales. What do we mean when we refer to Infrastructure in the SKA design? The “Infrastructure” (INFRA) element as stated covers both the Infrastructure in Africa and in Australia. It includes all work undertaken to deploy and be able to operate the SKA in both countries. Infrastructure includes roads, buildings, power generation and distribution, reticulation, vehicles, cranes and specialist equipment needed for maintenance that are not included in the supply of the other elements. Infrastructure does not include access rights to the land, environmental protection or monitoring. Infrastructure does not include protection from external sources of interference. Infrastructure includes the provision of any site wide safety systems necessary for personnel and equipment safety. Main objectives of the INFRA consortia Primary goals of INFRA teams will be to minimise the amount of infrastructure & power required for SKA1 by re-using existing infrastructure & power as far as possible (and expanding where necessary) and collaborate with each other to follow a common engineering approach, share knowledge & provide lessons learnt through design & delivery of SKA pathfinders. INFRA consortia challenges Due to the nature of this Work Package, INFRA covers a wide range of activities and the INFRA Consortia will be eventually responsible for the design of a number of elements such as (non-exhaustive list): power, antenna foundations, routing and articulation, access to the site, water and sanitation, buildings, communications, vehicles; as well as in Africa for the dishes, the construction of a prototype antenna foundation. More about the individual consortia Aerial view of the ASKAP telescope, precursor to the SKA, and the construction activities going on at the Murchison Radio Observatory (MRO) site. Credit: CSIRO INFRA AU Infrastructure Australia (INFRA-AU) is fundamental in supporting the other consortia as they endeavour to design and cost the SKA. INFRA-AU is in charge of designing and costing critical infrastructure, such as providing power to the site, costing telescope foundations, providing access to the telescopes themselves, and designing housing for the supercomputing facility. Other important areas INFRA-AU will be in charge of include the design of site-monitoring equipment (for weather and radio frequency interference), providing designs to implement water and sanitation to and on the site, vehicles for the construction and operations phase, and communications both on and to off site. Optical fibres being deployed at the SKA Australia site. Credit: CSIRO INFRA AU Consortium The INFRA-AU team, led by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), working closely with Aurecon, have prepared a technically excellent team. The Australian members of the consortium have a strong track record of working closely together on SKA-related projects. Established relationships exist between key members, giving the consortium the ability to immediately begin productive work on the work package. Having designed the ASKAP and MRO infrastructure on the Boolardy site, supervised the MRO infrastructure construction contract and worked on both sets of SKA bid documentation in 2005 and 2011, the INFRA-AU consortium understands how to ensure the design and delivery of infrastructure for SKA is effective and efficient. Entrance to the radio quiet Murchison Radio Observatory site. Credit: CSIRO From their history on the project, they fully comprehend the ultimate aims and importance of the infrastructure for SKA. With a detailed knowledge of the site and existing infrastructure, along with a clear understanding of the practicalities and complexities of working at the remote site in the Shire of Murchison. And with combined experience, the INFRA-AU Consortium also brings unmatched local knowledge in relation to the construction workforce profile, logistics, seasonal weather constraints and the cost and sourcing of materials and labour. In addition, this team have the required links with government departments to ensure that the other land acquisition processes are well integrated with the pre-construction design work. As for Australia the task facing the INFRA-SA team is huge. Panoramic view of the construction activities at the SKA South Africa site (C) SKA SA INFRA-SA INFRA SA is fundamental in supporting the other consortia as they endeavour to design and cost the SKA. The INFRA SA Consortium will manage the successful delivery of the Stage 1 and Stage 2 infrastructure and power element design in South Africa on behalf of the international SKA Office. This includes the infrastructure power, routing, reticulation, access, water and sanitation, buildings, antenna foundations, site monitoring equipment (SKA1), as well as vehicles and communications on site. MeerKAT antenna foundations (C) SKA SA RFI Shielding of the Karoo Array Processor Building (C) SKA SA The INFRA SA Consortium The INFRA SA Consortium is led and managed by the SKA SA Infrastructure team. This small team has been working on the provision of infrastructure for KAT 7 and MeerKAT since 2007. For the KAT 7 phase of the project, the SKA SA team completed the acquisition of the land, the design of the infrastructure for KAT 7 and the construction of infrastructure. The SKA SA infrastructure team, with the assistance of South African Consulting Engineers, also completed the design, environmental impact assessment and various site characterisation studies for the MeerKAT infrastructure early in 2012. Construction is underway on site and is expected to be completed by the end of 2013. INFRA-AU Consortium will work with the following organisations: Aurecon, Australia Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia Horizon Power, Australia Radio Quiet Zone (RQZ) Solutions, Australia Rider Levett Bucknall, Australia Contact information of individuals involved in the INFRA AU consortium can be provided by the INFRA AU Consortium lead Antony Schinckel. As INFRA-SA is primarily just the SKA SA office, contact information of individuals involved in the INFRA SA consortium can be provided by the Consortium lead Tracy Cheetham. Click on the map below to get more information on the organisations involved in the infrastructure consortia. Select Africa/Australia or both to see the relevant people involved SKA Global Consortia	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1496
__label__wiki	0.876202	0.876202	Home Tags History Indian Motorcycle Military Legacy America’s first motorcycle company, today announced its Scout Inspired Custom Series; a chronology of the rich, century-long history of the Indian(R) Scout(TM) motorcycle. Throughout 2015, Indian Motorcycle will unveil a series of custom Indian Scouts designed and crafted by some of America’s leading custom bike builders — each designed to celebrate an important Indian Scout milestone or achievement since its debut in 1920. Each of the custom Scouts will be accompanied by vignettes to share the legacy of the Indian Scout. To kick-off the series, Indian Motorcycle today launched the Custom Military Scout in a vignette narrated by Mark Wahlberg. The Custom Military Scout is a tribute to the company’s nearly 100-year history of supporting the U.S. Military and to celebrate Indian Motorcycle’s partnership with USO. The Custom Military Scout was designed and built by world-renowned custom builder Klock Werks Kustom Cycles of Mitchell, South Dakota. “Klock Werks Kustom Cycles is honored to partner with Indian Motorcycle on a project that pays tribute to the USO and their outstanding work on behalf of the dedicated men and women of our U.S. Armed Forces,” said Brian Klock, founder of Klock Werks. “Indian Motorcycle has a long and impressive legacy of supporting the U.S. Military dating back to WWI and all of us at Klock Werks are humbled to play a role in this important and historic endeavor.” The Custom Military Scout is built on the award-winning 2015 Indian Scout platform, sporting a matte green paint indicative of a vintage military bike that was perfectly applied by Brad Smith of The Factory Match. It utilizes taillights that are modern street legal reproductions on a custom bracket to mimic the original military-style lights. The Custom Military Scout features Genuine Indian Motorcycle Accessory leather saddlebags, a Klock Werks “Klassic” seat kit and leather wraps for the base of the Indian accessory quick-detach windshield — all upholstered using matching leather hides. A custom gun scabbard mount holds a Thompson sub-machine gun with a custom gunstock by Boyds Gunstocks of Mitchell, SD etched with both the USO and Indian Motorcycle logos. “Today we are proud to launch our Scout Inspired Custom Series with our inaugural episode dedicated to the USO and our mutual support of the U.S. Military and their families, and we are grateful to brand ambassador Mark Wahlberg and our friends at Klock Werks for their support and fine craftsmanship,” said Steve Menneto, Polaris Industries vice president of motorcycles. “The Indian Scout has built a long and storied legacy of racing wins, world records, engineering innovations and industry firsts, and along the way it has won the hearts and minds of fans around the world. Those achievements have materially impacted our current and future direction for the Indian Scout marque, and we look forward to telling some of those important stories through our Scout Inspired Custom Series.” The Custom Military Scout and accompanying video vignette narrated by Mark Wahlberg can be found by visiting www.indianmotorcycle.com, along with upcoming stories in the Scout Inspired Custom Series. ABOUT THE USO The USO lifts the spirits of America’s troops and their families millions of times each year at hundreds of places worldwide. We provide a touch of home through centers at airports and military bases in the U.S. and abroad, top quality entertainment and innovative programs and services. We also provide critical support to those who need us most, including forward-deployed troops, military families, wounded warriors, troops in transition and families of the fallen. The USO is a private, non-profit organization, not a government agency. Our programs and services are made possible by the American people, support of our corporate partners and the dedication of our volunteers and staff. ABOUT KLOCK WERKS Located in Mitchell, South Dakota, Klock Werks has grown from humble beginnings to an internationally recognized brand. Achieving status as “Air Management Experts,” Klock Werks credits this to the success of the original patented, Flare(TM) Windshield. Also supplying fenders, handlebars, and other motorcycle parts, Klock Werks proudly leads the industry through innovation in design and quality of materials and fitment. Team Klock Werks has been successful for years designing parts, creating custom motorcycles and setting records on the Bonneville Salt Flats. You will find motorcycles, family, and faith at the core of Klock Werks, along with a commitment to caring for the needs of enthusiasts around the world who enjoy their products. ABOUT INDIAN MOTORCYCLE(R) Indian Motorcycle, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Polaris Industries Inc. is America’s first motorcycle company. Founded in 1901, Indian Motorcycle has won the hearts of motorcyclists around the world and earned distinction as one of America’s most legendary and iconic brands through unrivaled racing dominance, engineering prowess and countless innovations and industry firsts. Today that heritage and passion is reignited under new brand stewardship. To learn more, please visit www.indianmotorcycle.com. Crocker Motorcycles- First Ride Review When the new Crocker motorcycle was unveiled at the Quail Motorcycle Gathering last May, Michael Schacht, who owns the Crocker name and built that first prototype, told me I could have a test ride next time I was in L.A. That would mean I’d be the only person besides Schacht to have ridden the new bike. I couldn’t pass up an opportunity like that, so I met him at his warehouse/assembly shop, where sat the rough makings of the next 15 Crocker V-Twins. Yep, Schacht is already making a limited run. As he put it, “Whether I have orders or not, I’m just going to build them.” He has invested heavily in cash, time and reputation to make the patterns and cast the parts necessary to build a whole motorcycle, and that first Crocker Big Tank discussed in Cycle World last May was made from the same batch of rough metal seen in these photos. A deconstructed motorcycle is an excellent teaching device, and Schacht pointed out the changes that Al Crocker incorporated during the evolution of his big Twin between 1936 and 1942, when WWII restrictions put an end to civilian motorcycle production. Schacht doesn’t reproduce the first hemi-head engine, which powered the rare original models Crocker built in 1936. Although the hemi variant commands the biggest prices from collectors, issues with rapid wear on the valve gear means the later parallel-valve heads are more suitable for the modern road. Those first hemis had open rockers, springs and valves, whereas the valve gear in the later engine was totally enclosed. Because of these issues, the hemispherical cylinder head is the only option not available when ordering a new Crocker V-Twin. The early Small Tank frame with different steering-head lugs and unbraced gearbox/lower-frame castings is ready to assemble, as is the later Big Tank style, which most newbies love, since they’re more glamorous. Aficionados prefer the smaller tank, which really shows off that fantastic big Twin engine. Michael Schacht has something to prove. He’s happy to regale anyone within earshot with tales of attempted intimidation from a few old-time Crocker collectors who take serious issue with his style, his business methods and perhaps the mere fact that he’s done what they said couldn’t be done. In a way, his tales mirror the difficulties Al Crocker faced after building a better bike than Indian and Harley, the last two American motorcycle manufacturers left standing following the Depression. After H-D allegedly threatened its wheel supplier (Kelsey-Hayes) with a massive loss of business if that company sold wheels to Crocker, Al suddenly found he couldn’t buy wheels for his bikes. Solution? If you wanted a Crocker, you had to supply your own wheels. Such tales are meat and drink to Crocker lovers, who have embellished the reputation of their favorite marque to such effect that you’ll need $300K to buy an original. Schacht is asking half that for his new machine. How does it compare to the originals? Schacht’s test machine is completely paint-free to show the world how it was built and that it’s indeed all-new. It’s a Big Tank, with those lovely cast-aluminum panniers customizers have been copying for 70 years now. Same with the taillight, as seen (ironically) on thousands of Harleys and bobbed Triumphs through the decades. Like George Brough, Al Crocker was a masterful stylist; unlike GB, he was also a trained engineer, and with the help of Paul Bigsby (inventor of the “whammy bar” on electric guitars), he built his own engine and gearbox. Those designs were an advance on anything available in the U.S. at the time, even after H-D introduced its Knucklehead six months after Crocker got the jump on big Source: Crocker Motorcycles- First Ride Review Crocker Motorcycle Company Resurrected- Quail Motorcycle Gathering Crocker & Indian Shared a history – Let’s read about the revival…. After nearly twelve years of hassles and legal setbacks, a brand-new Crocker Big-Twin motorcycle has emerged from a hangar in SoCal. Learn more at Cycle World now. After nearly twelve years of hassles, legal setbacks, a change of countries, and one nasty recession, a brand-new Crocker Big-Tank motorcycle has emerged from a hangar in SoCal. Michael Schacht is at no loss for words in describing the ordeal he’s overcome to reach the point of turning a key, kicking over the 80 cubic-inch V-Twin, and hearing an engine he literally built from scratch rumble into throaty life. His first complete Crocker sits unpainted, brazed joints bright and cast iron dull, spun metal fenders covered with a zillion tiny scratches, the big aluminum tanks resplendent in their own bare-metal shine. Schacht was a staunch Indian man a dozen years ago, and still rides a 1929 ‘101’ Scout nearly every day. His restored Indians brought him to the attention of a branding company who owned the Indian name in Canada. His machines were used for promo work and he gradually became ‘involved’ with the company, which was mostly interested in T-shirt sales at that time. When talk began of making an Indian motorcycle by re-badging a Ural, Schacht ran away. The idea of resurrecting an important American motorcycle marque stuck with him though, and while looking over two Crockers at a friend’s restoration shop, the big light went on and his destiny was set. “The Crocker name is so pure, nobody had tried to make a new one, even though several people tried to claim the name. It took some work, but I was finally able to secure the name with the intention of starting production of Crockers.” Few people have made an entire motorcycle from scratch. Schacht admits he knew little of making castings, metallurgy or even production machining before he embarked on his dream. “I was lucky, and hired some incredibly talented people. I moved my facilities from Canada to Southern California, so that the Crocker would be made 100% in the U.S.A. It was important to me that such a historic name was built, again, in the country it started from. This is an all-American deal.” Schacht also wasn’t an expert on Crockers, but enlisted the help of collectors who are, such as Chuck Vernon. “These guys are the keepers of the flame. They know everything about these machines and helped me tremendously to sort out exactly how the original Crocker was made.” While the new Crocker is as faithful to Al Crocker’s original machine as possible, a few of the materials have been upgraded. “Better steels are available now, stronger and lighter, and while the appearance is identical with a 1939 bike, what’s inside is better.” The Crocker Motorcycle Company does not, Schacht insists, produce ‘replicas’ of the motorcycles last produced in 1942. “These are continuation machines, built by the legal owner of the Crocker motorcyclename.” The new engine is certainly more powerful than a standard 61-inch Crocker from the 30s, pumping out a whopping 85 horses from the 80-inch V-Twin to push the same 500 pound machine. “We’ve just finished it, and there are a few minor bugs to sort out, but basically, she’s the best sounding motorcycle I’ve ever heard, is really, really fast, and handles beautifully. That was one of my biggest surprises about the Crocker; this is a serious performance machine.” Stay tuned to Cycle World for additional information about production plans for these machines and a potential modern “retro-bike” in the works. Source: Crocker Motorcycle Company Resurrected- Quail Motorcycle Gathering Indian Motorcycles- History of America’s Oldest Motorcycle Brand High on the list of truths universally acknowledged must be the fact that the Indian Motorcycle, as a legend, a logo and a symbol ranks up there with the golden arches and the three-pointed star, with power and value beyond calculation. On the other hand, naming your daughter Baby Ruth doesn’t ensure she will hit 60 homers a season against big-league pitching. To collect on the promise of legend and esteem, you gotta have a product. We are concerned here with the Indian, originally spelled Motocycle by the founders, as currently offered by Polaris Industries. To fully appreciate this, we’ll have to look back 60 years, to an undisputed tragedy. At the close of WWII, a prosperous and product-starved public was ready to buy just about anything. The car and motorcycle makers had learned a lot during the war, but they were canny enough to offer the old versions while testing and refining the new. The 1947 Harley-Davidsons, Fords, Chevys, Dodges, etc., were identical to the 1941 models, while the improved models—the ohv Oldsmobile engine and the telescopic-fork Hydra-Glide—didn’t get here until 1949. But at the Wigwam, as always, things were different. E. Paul DuPont, who owned Indian and kept the brand in business through the Great Depression, sold his shares in the company. The new owners had new ideas—vision, one could say. The firm’s chief engineer had designed a radical line of really new machines, modular in that there would be a Single, a Twin and a Four, all using the same basic design, all overhead valve, foot shift and hand clutch, suspension fore and aft, with the writing on the tank being the only clue as to what was what. Further, the new president embarked on a revolutionary ad campaign. As the Japanese say, he reckoned to enlarge the pie, rather than fight over slices. The completely different motorcycles were launched in 1945, with a completely different campaign endorsed by baseball, show business and movie stars. But wait: Doesn’t this sound like Honda in 1959, meeting the nicest people and all that? Yes. But for one thing, Honda’s dealer network was based on new people who mostly ran hardware or sporting-goods stores, and for another, Honda’s engineering raised the bar worldwide. Indian’s new bikes—the Single and Twin (the inline-Four never got past the prototype stage)—were disasters. When they didn’t blow up, they broke down. The motorcycling community was small, and everybody knew how bad the new models were. Add to that, the old dealer network, the guys who’d raised a stink when the evergreen Scout was abandoned and stormed the boardroom demanding a new one, wasn’t always that happy with the new people. Suffice it here to say that everything that could go wrong did. The money ran out and Indian’s new owners begged for help. The English brands were doing well, so Indian asked to distribute several makes. A partnership was formed, and before you could say the camel’s nose was in the tent, the Indian visionaries were out, the English owned Indian and production of the new models was immediately stopped. The final production run of the final genuine Indians, the Blackhawk version of the side-valve 80-inch Chief, came in 1953. There followed a run of Royal Enfields and later, Matchlesses labeled Indian, but fooling nobody. Next, a puzzle and struggle over ownership of the script, name and symbols. There were Matchless-Indians, then a run of Italian Indians backed by entrepreneur Floyd Clymer, first road bikes and then motocross. Next, a series of failures on a different stage: promoters with big plans and no money, who never made any motorcycles. A serious effort appeared in 1999. There was a major market at the time for full-dress Harleys and look-alike rivals from the major brands. Indian of America had a factory in Gilroy, California, and produced a viable machine, a big Twin styled like the old Chief and powered by a version of a Harley clone. But the funding wasn’t enough, sales did not meet hopes and the firm went bankrupt in 2003. Three years later, another group of investors picked up the baton and began building the same sort of repro-Indian Chief, this time with modern engineering as in EFI and a bigger V-Twin than Indian Motocycle ever dreamed of—all of it just in time for the bottom to drop out of the market. But the true revival, one can only hope, came in 2011, when Polaris bought the struggling brand. What’s the difference this time? The lesson since the debacle in 1945 is clear: It’s a heap more difficult to produce a viable motorcycle than all those dreamers and promoters realized. They all had the script and the logo and the legend, but not one had a product to match the hype, good intentions or no. In contrast, Triumph, with a logo and badge nearly as good, was revived and still thrives simply because it had 1) the capital to invest; and 2) a properly engineered machine that created its own market. It didn’t revise the classic Bonneville Twin until the big Triples proved that the product matched the promotion. Knock wood, those Indian dealers who stormed the boardroom demanding a new Scout in 1947, may soon get their wish. Except there is a very good chance it will be a Chief. I don’t hear anybody complaining. Source: Indian Motorcycles- History of America’s Oldest Motorcycle Brand	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1497
__label__wiki	0.76108	0.76108	Profiles of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbosacral spine in children and adolescents with lumbosacral spondylolisthesis Randall Loder The sagittal and frontal profiles of the entire spine are poorly studied in lumbosacral spondylolisthesis. It was the purpose of this study to further investigate these profiles. Standing posterior-anterior and lateral radiographs in 24 children with lumbosacral spondylolisthesis were reviewed (18 isthmic, 6 congenital). Cervical lordosis, lumbar lordosis, thoracic kyphosis, sagittal vertebral axis, sacral inclination, slip magnitude, slip angle, and sagittal rotation were measured. Cobb magnitude, Risser sign, curve location, and direction were noted for those with scoliosis. Relationships between sagittal variables were explored (Pearson correlation). The average age of patients was 14.7 ± 2.5 years, slip magnitude was 38 ± 38%, slip angle was 5 ± 31°, sagittal rotation was -6 ± 31°, thoracic kyphosis was 29 ± 16°, cervical lordosis was -1 ± 12°, and lumbar lordosis was 62 ± 22°. Correlations were noted between thoracic kyphosis and sacral inclination, percent slip, slip angle, and sagittal rotation. Sacral inclination decreased as the slip increased. Scoliosis was present in 10 children, with an average curve of 19 ± 6°. Thoracic kyphosis was less in those with scoliosis (21 ± 25° versus 33 ± 25°, p = 0.033). In children with lumbosacral spondylolisthesis, the sacrum becomes more vertical as the slip worsens. As the sacrum becomes more vertical, the thoracic spine becomes more lordotic, which is likely an adaptive mechanism used by the body to maintain forward visual gaze. Journal of Spinal Disorders https://doi.org/10.1097/00002517-200112000-00001 Location Directories and Signs Cervical lordosis Lumbosacral spondylolisthesis Sacral inclination Slip magnitude Thoracic kyphosis Loder, R. (2001). Profiles of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbosacral spine in children and adolescents with lumbosacral spondylolisthesis. Journal of Spinal Disorders, 14(6), 465-471. https://doi.org/10.1097/00002517-200112000-00001 Profiles of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbosacral spine in children and adolescents with lumbosacral spondylolisthesis. / Loder, Randall. In: Journal of Spinal Disorders, Vol. 14, No. 6, 2001, p. 465-471. Loder, R 2001, 'Profiles of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbosacral spine in children and adolescents with lumbosacral spondylolisthesis', Journal of Spinal Disorders, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 465-471. https://doi.org/10.1097/00002517-200112000-00001 Loder R. Profiles of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbosacral spine in children and adolescents with lumbosacral spondylolisthesis. Journal of Spinal Disorders. 2001;14(6):465-471. https://doi.org/10.1097/00002517-200112000-00001 Loder, Randall. / Profiles of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbosacral spine in children and adolescents with lumbosacral spondylolisthesis. In: Journal of Spinal Disorders. 2001 ; Vol. 14, No. 6. pp. 465-471. @article{adde38c0afd34d6aaa9bd26e45baaed7, title = "Profiles of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbosacral spine in children and adolescents with lumbosacral spondylolisthesis", abstract = "The sagittal and frontal profiles of the entire spine are poorly studied in lumbosacral spondylolisthesis. It was the purpose of this study to further investigate these profiles. Standing posterior-anterior and lateral radiographs in 24 children with lumbosacral spondylolisthesis were reviewed (18 isthmic, 6 congenital). Cervical lordosis, lumbar lordosis, thoracic kyphosis, sagittal vertebral axis, sacral inclination, slip magnitude, slip angle, and sagittal rotation were measured. Cobb magnitude, Risser sign, curve location, and direction were noted for those with scoliosis. Relationships between sagittal variables were explored (Pearson correlation). The average age of patients was 14.7 ± 2.5 years, slip magnitude was 38 ± 38{\%}, slip angle was 5 ± 31°, sagittal rotation was -6 ± 31°, thoracic kyphosis was 29 ± 16°, cervical lordosis was -1 ± 12°, and lumbar lordosis was 62 ± 22°. Correlations were noted between thoracic kyphosis and sacral inclination, percent slip, slip angle, and sagittal rotation. Sacral inclination decreased as the slip increased. Scoliosis was present in 10 children, with an average curve of 19 ± 6°. Thoracic kyphosis was less in those with scoliosis (21 ± 25° versus 33 ± 25°, p = 0.033). 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Cervical lordosis, lumbar lordosis, thoracic kyphosis, sagittal vertebral axis, sacral inclination, slip magnitude, slip angle, and sagittal rotation were measured. Cobb magnitude, Risser sign, curve location, and direction were noted for those with scoliosis. Relationships between sagittal variables were explored (Pearson correlation). The average age of patients was 14.7 ± 2.5 years, slip magnitude was 38 ± 38%, slip angle was 5 ± 31°, sagittal rotation was -6 ± 31°, thoracic kyphosis was 29 ± 16°, cervical lordosis was -1 ± 12°, and lumbar lordosis was 62 ± 22°. Correlations were noted between thoracic kyphosis and sacral inclination, percent slip, slip angle, and sagittal rotation. Sacral inclination decreased as the slip increased. Scoliosis was present in 10 children, with an average curve of 19 ± 6°. Thoracic kyphosis was less in those with scoliosis (21 ± 25° versus 33 ± 25°, p = 0.033). 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__label__cc	0.707217	0.292783	Tag Archives: 19790303 Jinty 3 March 1979 22/03/2017 1979, Issues1979, 19790303, 3 March 1979, Alice in a Strange Land, Alison Christie, Alley Cat, Blake's Seven, Children of Edenford, features, Flying High with the Caravettas, Fran'll Fix It!, Guy Peeters, Gypsy Rose looks at the stars, horoscope, Hugh Thornton-Jones, I'll Make up for Mary, Jim Baikie, Peter Wilkes, Phil Gascoine, Phil Townsend, pin-up, Prisoner of the Bell, Ron Smith, Sea-Sister, She Shall Have Music, Sue's Fantastic Fun-Bag, Terry Aspincomixminx Sue’s Fantastic Fun-Bag! (artist Hugh Thornton-Jones) Sea-Sister (artist Peter Wilkes) Prisoner of the Bell (artist Phil Gascoine) Gypsy Rose Looks at the stars (Horoscope) Masters of Space: pin-up of “Blake’s Seven” She Shall Have Music (artist Ron Smith) Flying High with the Cavarettas! (feature) Fran’ll Fix It! (artist Jim Baikie) “Alice in a Strange Land: is the lead story at this point – Alice and her cousin Karen are told by the mysterious High Priestess that there is a prophecy that a “white-skinned goddess” will lead the tribe back to greatness. Will that goddess be Karen or Alice – and what test will decide between them? Sea-Sister Helen and her friend Jane are stuck in the ocean – Helen was trying to return to the underwater village that she comes from, but with Jane also on board her sea-shell boat it was not able to return properly. An oil tanker that is stuck on the rocks threatens the two girls, and also a number of friendly birds – Helen tries to save them all but in then end a giant wave sweeps the two of them overboard and under the sea. That’s fine for Helen, who is finally home again – but what of Jane, who has ended up visiting the underwater kingdom without permission? In “Prisoner of the Bell”, Susie Cathcart is afraid she’s lost her nerve and can’t face doing gymnastics any more. Loyal friend Lorraine thinks of a way to help her get back into the swing of it and even lends her twenty pounds for it – a residential course at a gym school. But the meddling gran finds the money and instructs Susie to “destroy that friendship forever!” The hypnotized Susie can only reply “Whatever your orders, Grandma, I will obey!” We normally haven’t touched on the features and extraneous items in the pages of the comic. I include the page with the horoscope (and who better to present it than Gypsy Rose, of course – here drawn by Phil Townsend) and a crossword. The clues on the crossword seem surprisingly hard for the intended age range of 8-12, I’d think: but have a look at the tiny upside-down answers, if you can, and see what you think. You will need to click through, of course. This is just the second episode of “Children of Edenford”. Patti has arrived at the clean and beautiful village of Edenford, but she knows that something’s not right about it. Well, the runaway terrified girl being pursued by grim blank-eyed schoolgirls, and the headmistress whose motto is “Others strive for perfection – we achieve it!” is a bit of a give-away, maybe. Lisa Carstairs is still a snooty snob in “She Shall Have Music”. Her mother is ill and unable to cope: Lisa is told to stay on with her friend Tracey but instead runs off to stay with her London godmother. Will it work out? Not likely… There is a two-page text article about a trapeze artist act, the Caravettas: three sisters and a brother. Very exciting! Fran is playing at being the Fire Officer, which is great fun, so long as she doesn’t screw it up badly enough that she gets into the Headmistress’s bad books, cos that would mean that big bully Martha Stump would have a chance to get her own back. Shy Ann has changed her hairstyle and other looks to match her dead twin’s – and the other girls on the school bus are understandably rather freaked out when they first see it. Being back at school after the traumatic holiday where her sister was drowned is difficult in many ways, however hard Ann tries.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1499
__label__cc	0.525241	0.474759	Judicial and Other Legal Professionals ANZSCO ID 2712 Judicial and Other Legal Professionals hear legal and other matters in courts and tribunals; interpret, analyse, administer and provide advice on the law; and draft legislation. Judicial and Other Legal Professionals are usually appointed by a State or Federal Governor or Attorney-General. To be eligible, you need to have completed a law degree and have been licensed to practise law for a minimum of eight years, although most Judicial and Other Legal Professionals have a lot more experience before being appointed. Many Judicial and Other Legal Professionals complete postgraduate studies. researching statutes and previous court decisions relevant to cases conducting trials and hearings calling and questioning witnesses hearing and evaluating arguments and evidence in civil and criminal summary matters deciding penalties and sentences within statutory limits, such as fines, bonds and detention, awarding damages in civil matters, and issuing court orders exercising arbitral powers if resolution is not achieved or seems improbable through conciliation preparing settlement memoranda and obtaining signatures of parties advising government of legal, constitutional and parliamentary matters and drafting bills and attending committee meetings during consideration of bills preparing advice on matters associated with intellectual property rights advising clients and agents on legal and technical matters More about Judicial and Other Legal Professionals All Judicial and Other Legal Professionals Magistrates Judicial and Other Legal Professionals (not covered elsewhere) Court and Legal Clerks Intelligence and Policy Analysts Strong Future Growth Average unemployment Unemployment 12,500 workers Employment Size Very high skill Skill level rating The number of people working as Judicial and Other Legal Professionals (in their main job) grew very strongly over the past 5 years and is expected to grow strongly over the next 5 years: from 12,500 in 2018 to 13,600 by 2023. Job openings can come from new jobs being created, but most come from turnover (workers leaving). There are likely to be around 4,000 job openings over 5 years (that's about 800 a year). Size: This is a medium sized occupation. Unemployment: Unemployment was average in 2018. Location: Judicial and Other Legal Professionals work in many regions of Australia. Industries: Most work in Public Administration and Safety; Professional, Scientific and Technical Services; and Health Care and Social Assistance. Earnings: Full-time workers on an adult wage earn around $1,978 per week (higher than the average of $1,460). Earnings tend to be lower when starting out and higher as experience grows. Full-time: Many work full-time (73%, higher than the average of 66%). Source: ABS Labour Force Survey, Department of Jobs and Small Business trend data to May 2018 and Department of Jobs and Small Business projections to 2023. Source: Based on ABS Survey of Employee Earnings and Hours (cat. no. 6306.0), May 2018, Customised Report. Median weekly total cash earnings for full-time non-managerial employees paid at the adult rate. Earnings are before tax and include amounts salary sacrificed. Earnings can vary greatly depending on the skills and experience of the worker and the demands of the role. These figures should be used as a guide only, not to determine a wage rate. Full-Time Earnings 1978 1460 Public Administration and Safety 49.0 Professional, Scientific and Technical Services 22.5 Health Care and Social Assistance 7.2 Financial and Insurance Services 5.9 WA 8.3 10.8 Post Graduate/Graduate Diploma or Graduate Certificate 36.2 -10.1 10.1 Advanced Diploma/Diploma 4.3 -11.6 11.6 Certificate III/IV 2.4 -21.1 21.1 Year 12 5.7 -18.1 18.1 Year 10 and below 1.2 -12.5 12.5 Registration with the relevant state or territory board may be needed to work as a Judicial or Other Legal Professional. Checks, licences and tickets You may need: national police check Search and compare thousands of higher education courses, and their entry requirements from different institutions across Australia at Course Seeker website. Compare undergraduate and postgraduate student experiences and outcomes on the QILT website. Judicial Conference of Australia. Australian Association of Women Judges. Australian Bar Association. The Law Council of Australia. Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand. Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia. We're working on this content How our laws and courts work. Government rules and regulations, and the political system. English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. Human behaviour; differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; research methods; assessing and treating disorders. Use of equipment, rules and ideas to protect people, data, property, and institutions. Reading work related information. Writing things for co-workers or customers. Use general rules to find answers or solve problems logically. Use lots of detailed information to come up with answers or make general rules. Making decisions and solving problems Using information to work out the best solution and solve problems. Checking compliance with standards Deciding whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards. Working with the public Greeting or serving customers, clients or guests, and public speaking or performing. Keeping your knowledge up-to-date Keeping up-to-date with technology and new ideas. The skills and importance ratings on this page are derived from the US Department of Labor O*NET Database Version 21.2, 23-1023.00 - Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates. Freedom to make decisions Have freedom to make decision on your own. Impact of decisions Make decisions that have a large impact on other people. Use electronic mail.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1504
__label__cc	0.72751	0.27249	Liana's Extensive Reading Journal Working towards 三国志, one picture book at a time What Is Extensive Reading? Classification System Currently viewing the tag: "Japanese society" Review of なぜ？どうして？会社のお話 (Why? How? Stories about Society) By Liana On November 17, 2013 · · In Detailed Reviews of Level 5 Books なぜ？どうして？社会のお話 Why? How? Stories about Society 監修 (Editor)：橋本五郎（はしもとごろう, Hashimoto Gorō) Level 5 本, 176 pages, 9,500 words (est.) ★★★★★ This book is part of a popular series of books that are divided by grade level. There’s short stories, biographies, science facts, stories about animals and so on. (A lot of them are listed on the page I made for short story collections divided by grade level.) This particular book isn’t recommended for any particular grade, although I personally would peg it at about 3rd grade level. It’s divided into 37 short essays that answer questions such as “What does the Prime Minister do?,” “What are stocks?” and “Why do we study English?” It also has a short story at the end of each chapter. I think this is a great book for extensive readers because it deals with adult subjects in a basic way. Textbooks for adult learners being what they are, most learners probably have encountered many of the words used before in their formal studies, such as 株式会社 (joint-stock company), 国際連合 (the United Nations), or 保険証 (insurance card). However, if you’re doing extensive reading and starting with simple books, these kinds of words don’t usually come up. So although it’s not an easy book, it’s very likely that a beginning reader can enjoy it as well, and it will help to reinforce some of those more complex words that the reader has probably seen at least once or twice in a textbook. The format means that if you don’t understand one story, you can just skip ahead to the next one, and there are a lot of pictures to help the reader understand some of the more complex ideas. (I am not sure that I myself fully understood stocks until I saw the concept illustrated with a little tiger selling stocks to a bunny, a kappa and a hamster.) It’s also nice because its content dovetails with that of one of the best sites for intermediate readers, NHK News Web Easy, which puts up five articles every weekday from NHK News that have been rewritten in simpler language. Many of the words that are explained in this book frequently appear in several news stories, such as 世界遺産 (World Heritage) and 遺伝子組み換え (genetically modified). I think that the writing is slightly more complex than the average News Web Easy story, but if you’re in the habit of reading them, or want to be, this is an excellent supplement. According to Hitosugi and Day’s classification system, I’d give it a 5. There’s a good deal of text, but it’s not too small, and there are just enough pictures to help the reader understand what’s going on. All kanji have furigana, and I think that for a 3rd-grade level book it’s pretty heavy on the kanji, which is nice for those of us who like a lot of kanji in our reading material. Happily, there is a preview of this book up on Google Books. I don’t think any of the essays are entirely available, but there is enough content that you should be able to tell if it’s a good fit for you. Please refer to my post about buying books online for advice. (It is a little out of date at this point, though! I’ll work on it.) It’s at Kinokuniya, YesAsia, and of course there’s always Amazon (watch the shipping and handling fees) and honto as well. I paid $15.60 for it at Kinokuniya, which was a bit expensive, but I think it was worth it. You can see if it’s at a library close to you with worldcat. Tagged with: Japanese society • Stories about Society • なぜ？どうして？社会のお話 Extensive reading is known as 多読, or tadoku in Japanese. To try it, start with very easy books (ones with no more than two or three unknown words per page), and follow these principles: 1. Don’t look up words in the dictionary while reading. 2. Skip over parts you don’t understand. 3. If you aren’t enjoying one book, toss it aside and get another. Find something to read! Hundreds of free books and stories online Local bookstores and libraries Buying new and used books online For more information, read "What Is Extensive Reading?" and "Classification System." To learn more about Kunihide Sakai, who developed the three principles of tadoku and has worked to popularize it in Japan for years, read this interview with him. Finally, for more than you ever wanted to know about why I believe extensive reading is worth your time, read my tadoku manifesto. Superfluous Stats Books read: 303 Word count (since starting the blog): 380,500 Books from my own collection Detailed Reviews of Graded Readers Detailed Reviews of Level 2 Books EhonNavi Books Extensive Reading Basics Extensive Reading Materials Online Extensive Reading Paper Summaries and Notes Extensive Reading Resources Illustrated Reference Books Japanese Language Learning Resources Mini Reviews of Level 1 Books Mini-Reviews of Level 6 Books Nikkei Bunko Library Books Pierce County Library Books Reading in a Foreign Language Seattle Library Books Tacoma Library Books Tadoku Contest 多読材料 Extensive Reading group Goodreads Tadoku Group Overview of the "Start with Simple Stories" method Read More or Die Tadoku Livejournal Community tadoku.org (in Japanese) Talk to the Clouds The Extensive Reading Foundation The Extensive Reading Pages 日本多読研究会 (Japanese Graded Readers Research Group) My Japanese blog My profile on lang-8 (feel free to add me as a friend!) My profile on 読書メーター (again, feel free to add me as a friend) Other Extensive Readers Informal Language: a language learning journey KSaiydT's Room Lan'dorien's Mysterious Journey Ryan Layman Shall we Tadoku… sloppyreader Three Pounds Flax Wings English School 我輩はブリートである。 Tadoku Is For Everyone! One thing I worry about, as the tadoku contest becomes more popular, […] Thank you for reading my blog! I'm currently doing extensive reading in Japanese, and I'm always happy to hear from other extensive readers and language learners. Feel free to leave a comment, and if you'd like, subscribe to the RSS feed. © 2011 Liana Kerr	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1509
__label__wiki	0.761722	0.761722	Psychology and Behavior in Sport/Exercise (3) Sport and Exercise Science/Kinesiology (67) Social Studies in Sport and Physical Activity (2) You are looking at 21 - 30 of 74 items for : "sweat rate" x Page:12345678 The Hydration Profile of Female Cricket Players during Competition Karen Soo and Geraldine Naughton This study investigated the hydration profile of high-performance female cricket players competing at a national tournament. The profile comprised hydration monitoring (n = 18) and a questionnaire (n = 20). Our objectives were to 1) advance the understanding of fluid losses in cricket sessions across a tournament and 2) assess the hydration knowledge and practices in female cricket players. Body mass before and after each game inning was recorded in order to estimate sweat rate, sweat loss, and percentage body-mass loss. Comparisons were made between groups categorized according to level of activity during each inning. When sweat rates were estimated according to actual activity time, results were in the range of those in other female team sports but less than results from male cricket players. A range of knowledge of hydration issues was also observed. This study supports the need for individualized hydration recommendations and provides direction for further hydration education in women’s cricket. In International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism Volume 17 (2007): Issue 1 (Feb 2007) Zinc Loss in Sweat of Athletes Exercising in Hot and Neutral Temperatures Kevin Tipton, Nancy R. Green, Emily M. Haymes and Mary Waller Zinc (Zn) loss from sweat of 9 male and 9 female athletes exercising under hot (35°C, HE) and neutral (25°C, ME) conditions was examined. Subjects exercised at 50% VO2max on a cycle ergometer for 1 hr during each trial. Cell-free sweat samples were analyzed for Zn by atomic absorption spectro-photometry. There was a significant interaction of time, gender, and temperature for whole-body sweat rates (WBSR). WBSR for males were higher during both trials and at each time. WBSR from the second half of exercise were higher than those from the first half for both sexes and temperature conditions. Sweat Zn concentration was higher in the NE than in the HE, but when the sweat rates were included, the rate of Zn loss was no different between HE and NE. Zn concentration of the sweat for the first half of exercise was over twice that of the second half. Sweat Zn concentration of the men was no different than that of the women; however, due to greater sweat rate, men had significantly higher Zn losses. Although total Zn losses are estimated to be relatively low compared to the RDA. exercise at moderate intensities may increase surface Zn losses. In International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism Volume 3 (1993): Issue 3 (Sep 1993) Sweat Mineral-Element Responses during 7 h of Exercise-Heat Stress Scott J. Montain, Samuel N. Cheuvront and Henry C. Lukaski Uncertainty exists regarding the effect of sustained sweating on sweat mineral-element composition. To determine the effect of multiple hours of exercise-heat stress on sweat mineral concentrations. Seven heat-acclimated subjects (6 males, 1 female) completed 5 × 60 min of treadmill exercise (1.56 m/s, 2% grade) with 20 min rest between exercise periods in 2 weather conditions (27 °C, 40% relative humidity, 1 m/s and 35 °C, 30%, 1 m/s). Sweat was collected from a sweat-collection pouch attached to the upper back during exercise bouts 1, 3, and 5. Mineral elements were determined by using inductively coupled plasma-emission spectrography. At 27 °C, sweat sodium (863 [563] µg/mL; mean [SD]), potassium (222 [48] µg/mL), calcium (16 [7]) µg/mL), magnesium (1265 [566] ng/mL), and copper (80 [56] ng/mL) remained similar to baseline over 7 h of exercise-heat stress, whereas sweat zinc declined 42–45% after the initial hour of exercise-heat stress (Ex1 = 655 [362], Ex3 = 382 [168], Ex5 = 355 [288] µg/mL, P < 0.05). Similar outcomes were observed for sweat zinc at 35 °C when sweat rates were higher. Sweat rate had no effect on sweat trace-element composition. Sweat sodium, potassium, and calcium losses during multiple hours of sustained sweating can be predicted from initial sweat composition. Estimates of sweat zinc losses, however, will be overestimated if sweat zinc conservation is not accounted for in sweat zinc-loss estimates. In International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism Volume 17 (2007): Issue 6 (Dec 2007) Water and Salt Balance of Well-Trained Swimmers in Training Ronald J. Maughan, Lisa A. Dargavel, Rachael Hares and Susan M. Shirreffs This study investigated fluid and electrolyte balance in well-trained male and female swimmers during 2 training sessions. Participants were 17 nationally ranked swimmers measured during a period of intensive training. Sweat loss was assessed from changes in body mass after correction for fluid intake and urine collection. Sweat composition was measured from waterproof absorbent patches applied at 4 skin sites. Air and pool-water temperatures were 36 °C and 27.4 °C, respectively. Training lasted 105 min in each session. All measured variables were similar on the 2 testing days. Mean sweat-volume loss was 548 ± 243 ml, and mean sweat rate was 0.31 ± 0.1 L/hr. Mean fluid intake was 489 ± 270 ml. Mean body-mass loss was 0.10 ± 0.50 kg, equivalent to 0.1% ± 0.7% dehydration. Mean pretraining urine osmolality was 662 ± 222 mOsm/kg, which was negatively associated with both mean drink volume consumed (p = .044, r 2 = .244) and mean urine volume produced during training (p = .002, r 2 = .468). Mean sweat Na+, K+, and Cl− concentrations (mmol/L) were 43 ± 14, 4 ± 1, and 31± 9, respectively; values were not different between males and females and were not different between days except for a marginal difference in K+ concentration. The average swimmer remained hydrated during the session, and calculated sweat rates were similar to those in previous aquatic studies. Assessment of Physical Demands and Fluid Balance in Elite Female Handball Players During a 6-Day Competitive Tournament Brian Cunniffe, Carissa Fallan, Adora Yau, Gethin H. Evans and Marco Cardinale Little data exists on drinking behavior, sweat loss, and exercise intensity across a competitive handball tournament in elite female athletes. Heart rate (HR), fluid balance and sweat electrolyte content were assessed on 17 international players across a 6-day tournament involving 5 games and 2 training sessions played indoors (23 ± 2 °C, 30 ± 2% relative humidity). Active play (effective) mean HR was 155 ± 14 bpm (80 ± 7.5% HRmax) with the majority of time (64%) spent exercising at intensities >80% HRmax. Mean (SD) sweat rates during games were 1.02 ± 0.07 L · h-1 and on 56% of occasions fluid intake matched or exceeded sweat loss. A significant relationship was observed between estimated sweat loss and fluid intake during exercise (r 2 = .121, p = .001). Mean sweat sodium concentration was 38 ± 10 mmol · L-1, with significant associations observed between player sweat rates and time spent exercising at intensities >90% HRmax (r 2 = .181, p = .001). Fluid and electrolyte loss appear to be work rate dependent in elite female handball players, whom appear well capable of replacing fluids lost within a tournament environment. Due to large between-athlete variations, a targeted approach may be warranted for certain players only. The Heat Tolerance Test: An Efficient Screening Tool for Evaluating Susceptibility to Heat Daniel S. Moran, Tomer Erlich and Yoram Epstein Individuals in the population who are not able to sustain heat and whose body temperature will start rising earlier and at a higher rate than that of others, under the same conditions, are defined as “heat intolerant.” The applicability of the heat tolerance test (HTT) in identifying individuals’ tolerance/intolerance to heat is presented. HTT is performed according to the following protocol: 120 minutes exposure to 40°C and 40% relative humidity in a climatic chamber while walking on a treadmill, dressed in shorts and T-shirt, at a pace of 5 km/h and 2% elevation. Rectal temperature and heart rate are continuously monitored, and sweat rate is calculated. Results and Conclusion: The HTT that is based on controlled exposure to an exercise-heat stress is an applicable and an efficient tool in differentiating between a temporary and permanent state of heat susceptibility. In Journal of Sport Rehabilitation Volume 16 (2007): Issue 3 (Jan 2007) Fluid Balance and Sodium Losses During Indoor Tennis Match Play Matthew J.E. Lott and Stuart D.R. Galloway This study assessed fluid balance, sodium losses, and effort intensity during indoor tennis match play (17 ± 2 °C, 42% ± 9% relative humidity) over a mean match duration of 68.1 ± 12.8 min in 16 male tennis players. Ad libitum fluid intake was recorded throughout the match. Sweat loss from change in nude body mass; sweat electrolyte content from patches applied to the forearm, calf, and thigh, and back of each player; and electrolyte balance derived from sweat, urine, and daily food-intake analysis were measured. Effort intensity was assessed from on-court heart rate compared with data obtained during a maximal treadmill test. Sweat rate (M ± SD) was 1.1 ± 0.4 L/hr, and fluid-ingestion rate was 1.0 ± 0.6 L/hr (replacing 93% ± 47% of fluid lost), resulting in only a small mean loss in body mass of 0.15% ± 0.74%. Large interindividual variabilities in sweat rate (range 0.3–2.0 L/hr) and fluid intake (range 0.31–2.52 L/hr) were noted. Whole-body sweat sodium concentration was 38 ± 12 mmol/L, and total sodium losses during match play were 1.1 ± 0.4 g (range 0.5–1.8 g). Daily sodium intake was 2.8 ± 1.1 g. Indoor match play largely consisted of low-intensity exercise below ventilatory threshold (mean match heart rate was 138 ± 24 beats/min). This study shows that in moderate indoor temperature conditions players ingest sufficient fluid to replace sweat losses. However, the wide range in data obtained highlights the need for individualized fluid-replacement guidance. Responses of Motor-Sport Athletes to V8 Supercar Racing in Hot Conditions Matt B. Brearley and James P. Finn Despite the thermal challenge of demanding workloads performed in high cabin temperatures while wearing heavy heat-retardant clothing, information on physiological responses to racing V8 Supercars in hot conditions is not readily available. To describe the thermal, cardiovascular, and perceptual strain on V8 Supercar drivers competing in hot conditions. Thermal strain was indicated by body-core temperature using an ingested thermosensitive pill. Cardiovascular strain was assessed from heart rate, hydration status, and sweat rate. Perceptual strain was estimated from self-rated thermal sensation, thermal discomfort (modified Gagge scales), perceived exertion (Borg scale), and perceptual strain index. Prerace body-core temperatures were (mean ± SD) 37.7°C ± 0.4°C (range 37.0°C to 38.2°C), rising to 39.0°C ± 0.4°C (range 38.4°C to 39.7°C) postrace. Driver heart rates were >160 and >170 beats/min for 85.3% and 46.7% of racing, respectively. Sweat rates were 1.06 ± 0.12 L/h or 13.4 ± 1.2 mL · kg−1 · h−1, and postrace dehydration was 0.6% ± 0.6% of prerace body mass. Drivers rated thermal sensation as hot (10.3 ± 0.9), thermal discomfort as uncomfortable (3.1 ± 1.0), and perceived exertion as very hard to very, very hard (8.7 ± 1.7) after the races. Overall physiological and perceptual strain were 7.4 ± 1.0 and 7.1 ± 1.2, respectively. Despite the use of cooling, V8 Supercar drivers endure thermal, cardiovascular, and perceptual strain during brief driving bouts in hot conditions. In International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance Volume 2 (2007): Issue 2 (Jan 2007) Influence of Successive Badminton Matches on Muscle Strength, Power, and Body-Fluid Balance in Elite Players Javier Abian-Vicen, Adrián Castanedo, Pablo Abian, Cristina Gonzalez-Millan, Juan José Salinero and Juan Del Coso The aim was to analyze the influence of competitive round on muscle strength, body-fluid balance, and renal function in elite badminton players during a real competition. Body mass, jump height during a countermovement jump, handgrip force, and urine samples were obtained from 13 elite badminton players (6 men and 7 women) before and after the 2nd-round and quarterfinal matches of the national Spanish badminton championship. Sweat rate was determined by using prematch-to-postmatch body-mass change and by weighing individually labeled fluid bottles. Sweat rates were 1.04 ± 0.62 and 0.98 ± 0.43 L/h, while rehydration rate was 0.69 ± 0.26 and 0.91 ± 0.52 L/h for the 2nd round and quarterfinals, respectively. Thus, dehydration was 0.47% ± 1.03% after the 2nd round and 0.23% ± 0.43% after the quarterfinals. There were no differences in prematch-to-postmatch jump height, but jump height was reduced from 37.51 ± 8.83 cm after the 2nd-round game to 34.82 ± 7.37 cm after the quarterfinals (P < .05). No significant differences were found in handgrip force when comparing prepost matches or rounds, although there were significant differences between dominant and nondominant hands (P < .05). The succession of rounds caused the appearance of proteinuria, hematuria, glycosuria, and higher nitrite and ketone concentrations in urine. Rehydration patterns during a real badminton competition were effective to prevent dehydration. A badminton match did not affect jump height or handgrip force, but jump height was progressively reduced by the competitive round. Badminton players’ renal responses reflected diminished renal flux due to the high-intensity nature of this racket sport. Hydration during Exercise in Warm, Humid Conditions: Effect of a Caffeinated Sports Drink Mindy L. Millard-Stafford, Kirk J. Cureton, Jonathan E. Wingo, Jennifer Trilk, Gordon L. Warren and Maxime Buyckx Caffeine is regarded as a diuretic despite evidence that hydration is not impaired with habitual ingestion. The purpose of this study was to determine whether a caffeinated sports drink impairs fluid delivery and hydration during exercise in warm, humid conditions (28.5 °C, 60% relative humidity). Sixteen cyclists completed 3 trials: placebo (P), carbohydrate-electrolyte (CE), and caffeinated (195 mg/L) sports drink (CAF+CE). Subjects cycled for 120 min at 60–75%VO2max followed by 15 min of maximal-effort cycling. Heart rate and rectal temperature were similar until the final 15 min, when these responses and exercise intensity were higher with CAF+CE than with CE and P. Sweat rate, urine output, plasma-volume losses, serum electrolytes, and blood deuterium-oxide accumulation were not different. Serum osmolality was higher with CAF+CE vs. P but not CE. The authors conclude that CAF+CE appears as rapidly in blood as CE and maintains hydration and sustains cardiovascular and thermoregulatory function as well as CE during exercise in a warm, humid environment. In International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism Volume 17 (2007): Issue 2 (Apr 2007)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1513
__label__wiki	0.766109	0.766109	JFK Reviews Did The Mob Kill JFK? It is evident that [the] three shows [reviewed in this article] reveal a rather unwelcome truth. That is, today's cable TV companies are just as psychologically and socially incapable of telling the truth about President Kennedy's death as the networks were in the sixties and seventies, concludes Jim DiEugenio. Did the Mob Kill JFK? was broadcast right before another Discovery Channel program entitled JFK: The Ruby Connection in November and December of 2009. At the end of this review, I will specify why I find that to be retrospectively interesting and what it says about Discovery Channel. But first, let me answer the question posed in the show's title: Nope, not by themselves. In fact, I can think of no credible, respected JFK researcher on the scene today who thinks that the Cosa Nostra pulled off Kennedy's murder alone. Yet this program seems to foster that idea in a truly offbeat, even bizarre kind of manner. How does it do so? By using three main talking heads who have serious credibility problems that the producers never tell us about. They are Robert Blakey, Lamar Waldron and Gerald Posner. With the choice of these three men, the Discovery Channel lets us know that, as far as they are concerned, they have no interest in dealing with any of the compelling new discoveries unearthed by the Assassination Records and Review Board (ARRB). This was the body constructed by congress to declassify thousands of documents on the JFK case that were classified until 2029. But alas, the program cannot inform us of that salient fact. Because if it did, Blakey would have to explain why he did it. See, Blakey was the Chief Counsel of what Gaeton Fonzi memorably termed The Last Investigation. This was the congressional inquiry into the deaths of both President Kennedy and Martin Luther King by the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA). To say that he helmed that committee in an unsatisfactory and controversial manner is somewhat of an understatement. And to go into all of the shortcomings of the HSCA would take an essay about ten times longer than this one, and it still would not do it justice. (For a summary of the HSCA's failings, see The Assassinations, edited by James DiEugenio and Lisa Pease, pgs. 51-89) But I should note just one aspect in this regard. When the Warren Commission published its final report, it issued 26 volumes of evidence with it. When Blakey published his report, he issued only 12. Further, the HSCA saw many more declassified government files than the Warren Commission did, from agencies like the FBI, the CIA, the Secret Service and the State Department. They also conducted many more independent interviews with important witnesses and in crucial areas. For instance, the medical interviews the HSCA did went much further than the shameful dog and pony show orchestrated by Arlen Specter for the Warren Commission. For instance the interviews done by the HSCA staff prove that there was a large avulsed wound in the rear of Kennedy's skull, which indicates that there was an exit wound there. And therefore an entrance from the front. To point out another area, the HSCA investigation of Oswald's background was much more extensive than the Commission's. They actually reviewed many CIA and FBI files about the pinko Marine who defected to Russia at the height of the Cold War, and then decided to return with a Russian wife. They also interviewed and investigated many more witnesses in New Orleans than the Commission did. And they went much further in uncovering Oswald's activities there. For example, they built upon the fascinating evidence first accumulated by Jim Garrison about the sighting of Oswald with David Ferrie and Clay Shaw in the Clinton-Jackson area. Yet after seeing many, many more documents and conducting many more searching interviews than the Commission, Blakey then classified a larger volume of material than the Warren Commission had previously. And most of it, like the two instances described above, clearly pointed away from the Mob-did-it theory that Blakey came to advocate. By ignoring the files that Blakey agreed to classify – and that reveal a true conspiracy and cover-up in the JFK case – the show can avoid asking Blakey two questions: 1.) Why did you do it?, and 2.) What was hidden? Let's go to the next cultivator of cover-up. What can one say about Posner? Except the obvious. His discredited book, Case Closed, was designed to detract from the creation of the ARRB and to counteract the gale impact of Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK. And we have this from the horse's mouth so to speak. (Although, with Posner, I would use a different pack animal's name.) After Jim Marrs debated Posner on the Kevin McCarthy show in Dallas, he asked him how he came to do the book. Posner told him that the project was brought to him by longtime CIA crony Bob Loomis, the backer of such compromised "investigative" reporters as James Phelan and Seymour Hersh. (DiEugenio and Pease, p. 369) Posner's book was and is an embarrassment today. One reason being that it relies so much on both the evidence in and the claims of the Warren Report. It also tried to uphold the unsustainable Single Bullet Theory, which today – with the discoveries of Gary Aguilar, Josiah Thompson and John Hunt – is simply not possible to do. (ibid, p. 284) Finally, as more than one commentator has pointed out-including Aguilar-there is a serious question about whether or not Posner actually talked to the people he said he interviewed. Because at least three of them say they don't recall the conversations. Here is a writer who made the oh so definite statement, on page 428 of the hardcover version of his book, that there was no evidence that David Ferrie knew Lee Oswald. This was right before a Civil Air Patrol picture surfaced depicting both Oswald and Ferrie at an outdoor CAP barbecue. This was also right before the ARRB declassified several statements that CAP members made to the HSCA that they knew Ferrie had met Oswald in their troop. Posner is the same writer who tried to explain the lack of copper on the James Tague bullet curb strike in Dealey Plaza like this: See, the bullet went through the branches of an oak tree and the branches sheared off the copper jacket as the bullet passed through. To anyone who has seen said bullets, this is nothing but balderdash. Posner's phony book was nothing but a PR counter by Bob Loomis. Final proof: the book went on sale the same week the ARRB declassified its first batch of JFK assassination files. Which brings us to the third member of this circle, Lamar Waldron. Here is a guy who wrote two books trying to sell the idea that Kennedy was preparing for an invasion of Cuba in the first week of December 1963. That the Mafia found out about it, and that they then arranged for his death since they knew that the security about this plan would guarantee a cover up of what they did. Except that in all the years since, there has never been any evidence that this was a cause of the JFK cover up. Today, we have literally thousands upon thousands of pages of FBI, CIA, State Department, Warren Commission, and HSCA declassified files. None of them indicate this is the case. So Waldron now sells another talking point: See, there are files the ARRB did not get, and it must be in there someplace. The problem with that is what Bill Davy revealed on this web site. Waldron misrepresents the very title of those plans. The title is not, as he says, "Plan for a Coup in Cuba." The full and proper title is "State-Defense Contingency Plan for a Coup in Cuba." With that proper title in mind, a natural question arises: What would be the national security need to tell the Warren Commission about a contingency plan? None that I can imagine. Which is why in the now declassified executive session hearings of the Commission, you will not read one reference to them. Neither it is mentioned in any communication between J. Edgar Hoover and the Commission that I have seen. Waldron and his co-author Thom Hartmann had further difficulty deciding on how to sell the so-called "coup leader" on the island of Cuba. This is the guy who was supposed to kill Castro, blame it on the Russians and then convince the Cuban public that a band of former Batista followers from the CIA would continue Castro's revolution. In their first go round, called Ultimate Sacrifice, they strongly hinted the leader was Che Guevara. When people like David Talbot pointed out how ridiculous this was, the coup leader was changed to Commander Juan Almeida. Yet, one of the since declassified CIA files reveals a serious problem with their replacement choice for coup leader. According to a National Security Agency intercept, Almeida was not on the island at the time of the alleged coup. He was on his way to Africa. Can one get any more preposterous than this? Think of it all: Castro was going to be murdered, the blame had to be placed on the Soviets, there was going to be a flotilla of Cuban exiles boating to Cuba. And the necessity of holding this explosive situation together was with a guy who wasn't there. When someone pointed this out to Waldron, he was momentarily shaken. But only momentarily. His self-admitted CIA associated co-author Hartmann must have bucked him up with: "Well, we already wrote two books, we can't admit we were wrong now." They continued on this path even when former military officer and guardian of the plans Ed Sherry revealed the following: JFK was so uncomfortable with the contingency plans that he cancelled them. In the face of all this these two still insist on the efficacy of this downtrodden idea. Today they must remind us of the likes of David Belin and Wesley Liebeler upholding the Warren Commission after it was thoroughly discredited. As I wrote in my reviews of both the Hartmann/Waldron farces, once the coup idea is done away with – which it is today – the two books are nothing but pretenses for still another discredited idea: the concept that the Cosa Nostra alone killed President Kennedy. There has never been any volume that argued this theory convincingly: not by Dan Moldea, David Scheim, John Davis, Blakey, and certainly not Frank Ragano. What these two poseurs did was to throw them all of them into a Waring blender together. Twice. As I showed in my two reviews (click here and here), it still did not work. If the idea behind the show was to give us a three headed hydra even worse than Gary Mack, then they may have done it. But the ideas of the three men do not coincide. Posner is an Oswald as demented Marxist man. To my knowledge, Robert Blakey has never said one word about the Waldron/Hartmann construct. As Bill Davy noted, in Waldron's latest revision – which may change at any moment – he now says the Kennedy assassin was E. Howard Hunt's friend Bernard Barker. Neither Blakey nor Posner would agree with that. So how did this show work around that serious problem? Let's see. It begins on the wrong foot almost instantly. After introducing the Warren Commission, and saying most people don't believe the Commission today, we cut to Robert Blakey. He says that the Commission conducted what he calls "a shooter investigation." In other words: Who pulled the trigger? There is one thing Blakey is not, and that is stupid. But I feel about him as I do Allen Dulles: I respect his brains as much I don't the uses to which he puts them. As we shall see, with this statement Blakey tells us two things: 1.) He is doing a limited hangout on the Warren Commission, and 2.) He does this limited hangout because he wants to stick with Oswald as the killer, but impose his own agenda over his alleged act. The problem with saying the Commission did a "shooter investigation" is that they never looked at anyone else as the shooter. So what kind of investigation was it? One that had Oswald in its sights almost from the beginning. And no matter how much the evidence of Oswald as the assassin did not add up, that is how much the Commission went into denial about it. If the FBI came up with no fingerprints on the rifle, that was no problem. If, after the murder, two women were allegedly on the same stairs with Oswald, but did not see him or hear him, that was no problem. If the Commission could not get anyone to match Oswald's shooting exhibition of two head and shoulder hits in six seconds, that wasn't a problem. If the paraffin, spectrographic, and neutron activation analysis all showed Oswald did not fire a rifle that day, that was not a problem. If no credible witness could put Oswald in the proper window in the building, that was no problem. If Oswald never purchased the bullets for the rifle, that was not a problem. If the bullet originally discovered at Parkland Hospital that went through Kennedy and Gov. Connally does not match the bullet in evidence, that is no problem. The above is what Blakey calls a "shooter investigation". He can get away with this malarkey because the show protects him by not telling the viewer any of the above facts. Which tells us a lot about its honesty. Right after this, the show shifts to Cuba in the late fifties. It tells us that if there was a conspiracy in the JFK case, it probably came from the conflict there. After depicting the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista by Fidel Castro, it tells us that Castro decided to clamp down on the Cosa Nostra interests there, which he did. (I should add, this is one of the few accurate, non-debatable statements on this show.) This accent on Cuba as the sole provenance of President Kennedy's assassination is the cue to bring in Waldron. He begins almost immediately with a misrepresentation as to why the Bay of Pigs invasion failed. He chalks it up to the fact that word of the invasion had leaked too much. This is true but it is not the main reason the invasion failed. In fact, Lyman Kirkpatrick's CIA Inspector General report downplays that as the reason for the failure. (See Bay of Pigs: Declassified, edited by Peter Kornbluh) If one reads that report closely, one comes to the conclusion that even if the word had not leaked out, even if the invasion had proper air support, even if the landing had been made at a more suitable beach, even if the supply boats had not been damaged, the invasion would have failed. Why? There was little or no chance of mass uprisings in Cuba (ibid, p. 55) The logistical advance planning was so poor (ibid, pgs. 83-95) and The Cuban forces simply overmatched the size and firepower of the invasion force by a huge margin. (ibid, p. 41) Kirkpatrick's report implicitly says that the invasion could not have succeeded without overt and direct support from the Pentagon. (ibid, pgs. 13-15, p. 146) David Talbot made what was implicit in the report explicit in his book Brothers. He wrote that in 2005 the CIA declassified a memo that showed that they had lied to Kennedy about the operation. As early as November of 1960, the CIA had admitted internally that the objective of holding the beachhead could not be achieved without joint CIA/Pentagon action. (Talbot, pgs. 47-48) Or as Kornbluh told Talbot, "The CIA knew that it couldn't accomplish this type of overt para-military mission without Pentagon participation-and committed that to paper – and then went ahead and tried it anyway." Yet Kennedy was not told about this admission. To put it plainly, the Agency was trying to hoodwink the young president and banked on him caving in to pressure when he saw the invasion collapsing. Did Waldron miss that terribly important point? Probably not. Because elsewhere he admits he read Talbot's book. But since it does not fit his agenda, and in fact detracts from it, he doesn't tell the viewer about it. Waldron then tells the viewer that the CIA had been working with the Mafia to kill Castro since the summer of 1960. (Actually there is evidence that the plans were in effect as early as 1959, see the 5/23/67 Inspector General Report, p. 9) Posner then chimes in by saying that the CIA does these kinds of things occasionally. That is, signing up with unsavory characters to do ugly jobs. He then adds that this is not surprising. Well Jerry, yes it is. Especially in light of the fact that these plots secretly continued even after the CIA knew that Attorney General Robert Kennedy had declared all out war on the Mafia. Waldron then adds that RFK's campaign targeted three particular mobsters: Sam Giancana, Santos Trafficante, and John Roselli. The first two seem accurate enough. But if you look at the chapters dealing with this issue in Arthur Schlesinger's two-volume biography of RFK, Roselli is not mentioned as an RFK target. (Robert Kennedy and His Times, Chapters 8 and 13) In fact, the only instances where Schlesinger mentions Roselli is as a go-between for the CIA-Mafia Castro assassination plots. This gets distorted in Waldron World presumably to play up a motive for Roselli's alleged later retaliation with Trafficante and Carlos Marcello against the Kennedys. With the Bay of Pigs and the CIA-Mafia plots to kill Castro now noted, the show brings in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Now everyone knows that this was a great foreign policy highlight of the Kennedy administration. But in Waldron World it really wasn't. Why? Because Waldron pulls out the old chestnut about Castro not allowing on site inspections to be sure the missiles were removed. This has been a canard tossed around by the rightwing since 1962 in order to tarnish Kennedy's triumph. And even encourage an invasion of Cuba. In fact, this never really bothered the Kennedys very much since they realized that aerial reconnaissance would do the job adequately. (Schlesinger, p. 551) What bothered the Kennedys was Castro's insistence on keeping the IL-28 bombers, capable of delivering nuclear weapons. They insisted to their Russian contact, Georgi Bolshakov, that the bombers be removed. And Khrushchev convinced Castro to do so. (ibid, p. 550) And as James Douglass's fine book JFK and the Unspeakable thoroughly documents, it was this diplomatic resolution to the crisis that allowed for a quest for dÈtente between not just Kennedy and Khrushchev, but also one between Kennedy and Castro. In both of their books, Waldron and Hartmann deliberately distorted this clear and important development at the ending of the Missile Crisis. Why? Because their invasion creation could not live beside it. For why would President Kennedy want to launch an unprovoked attack on Cuba and therefore wreck his quest for dÈtente, which he so eloquently elucidated in his famous American University speech? So with Waldron and Hartmann, Kennedy's back channel to Castro gets discounted. And here it gets substituted for the whole diversion about Castro not allowing on site inspection. Why does reality get upstaged for fiction in Waldron World? Because then you can bring on stage the infamous C-Day Plan. Or the plan for the coup in Cuba. Which, as I said, Waldron and Hartmann misrepresent by leaving out the words "contingency plan". And this is what this show now does. It brings on the late Enrique Williams. Williams allegedly told Waldron and Hartmann about C-Day before he died. Yet, somehow, in all the hours Williams talked to Bill Turner for his fine volume The Fish is Red (later retitled Deadly Secrets), he never mentioned C-Day once. And as one can tell from reading my review of Legacy of Secrecy, what Waldron and Hartmann posthumously did to Williams' credibility is a real shame. Turner considered him spot on until those two got to him. At this point, Waldron tells us that the Mafia found out about C-Day because it was leaked to them by the likes of Bernard Barker and David Morales. Which is one of the great paradoxes of Waldron World. As one can see from my review of Ultimate Sacrifice, Barker and Ferrie and Jack Ruby somehow knew about C-Day. But people like National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk did not. To preserve its credibility, the show doesn't ask Waldron how that could possibly be. Bypassing that impossibility, the show says that the Mafia's aim was now to assassinate Kennedy and then use the C-Day Plan to camouflage that murder attempt. Except, as I noted previously, there is no evidence in the millions of declassified pages for this having happened. Waldron then tells us that Dallas was not the first attempt to kill President Kennedy. There were previous Mob attempts to murder him in Chicago and in Tampa. Waldron then says, with a straight face, that the Mafia's models for assassination in these places were all the same. It's just the personages that were different. The reason I find this risible is that the show then brings on former Secret Service agent Abraham Bolden for a few short minutes. Bolden is the agent who tried to tip off the Warren Commission about the plot to kill JFK in Chicago. His is by far the most valuable segment on the program. When I talked to Bolden at the Lancer Conference in Dallas recently, I asked him how many times author Edwin Black interviewed him for his excellent 11/75 Chicago Independent essay on the subject. He said Black talked to him three times and gave him a polygraph examination. Now, as I showed in my review of Ultimate Sacrifice, Waldron and Hartmann did everything they could to keep the reader from reading Black's very important essay. To prevent the reader from finding it, they footnoted Black's essay to a book which had no relation to the subject, and was not even written by Edwin Black! As I mentioned in my review, the perceptible reason for this is that the Waldron World plot has little relation to what Black wrote about. Black did not describe a Mafia plot. What he described clearly outlined a military intelligence type of operation. This did not fit their agenda so the Waldron/Hartmann deliberately disguised their source. (To read the essay Waldron didn't want you to find, click here.) Waldron next discusses the so-called Tampa murder attempt. The implication being that this somehow resembles Chicago (the plot he tried to disguise) and Dallas. I say "so-called" because, as Bill Davy points out, there is a debate about whether any such attempt actually occurred. Waldron's main source here is one of his posthumous sources, a police chief he said he talked to. As Davy notes, Ken Sanz, a special agent for the state who is both alive and working as a consultant on a book about Trafficante, has never come across any evidence for such an attempt. This is problematic for the Dynamic Duo. In their first tome, Ultimate Sacrifice, they actually tried to use the hoary Joseph Milteer episode as their pretense for a Tampa plot. This is difficult because other authors who have analyzed the Milteer evidence – Henry Hurt, Tony Summers, Michael Benson – have concluded that it is difficult to specify any city for a location Milteer is discussing. But if you had to underline one, it would be Miami, not Tampa. The other problem is that Milteer was a southern racist, not a Mafiosi. In Ultimate Sacrifice, the Waldron/Hartmann Dynamic Duo used their usual nonsensical Six Degrees of Separation method. Roughly speaking, they pulled names out of a hat to connect Milteer with the Mob. Yet this program lets Waldron get away with this "Tampa plot", and proclaim its resemblance to Chicago and Dallas. Posner chimes in again at this point. He tries to say that there is only a superficial similarity between Chicago and Dallas. That you cannot specifically link Oswald to Chicago. Which, as is standard for this show, makes no sense, since that is not the point. The real point is this: the patsy chosen for Chicago, was a man named Thomas Vallee. As Edwin Black makes clear, Valle had several similarities to Oswald. (See Black, pgs. 5,6, 31) In addition, he worked in a tall building which was right along the motorcade route that Kennedy was supposed to traverse on his Chicago trip. As for a direct linkage, actually there is one, which Black revealed. Yet, the Dynamic Duo, with Black's article in front of them, tried to hide it. The original FBI informant who tipped off the Secret Service about the assassination plot in Chicago had the codename of "Lee". (Black, p 5) Posner couldn't bring himself to say that. And neither could anyone on this show. Which tells you a lot about its objectivity, honesty, and quality of research. But the program then gets worse. It actually lets Waldron drone on about President Kennedy's speech in Miami on November 18th. Waldron repeats what he and Hartman wrote in Ultimate Sacrifice: that a small part of the speech was a message to Almeida about the C-Day plot being ongoing. Which is absolute silliness on the surface. This guy is going to be running a coup attempt in 12 days in Cuba, and you have to encourage him to stay involved by talking to him in a speech from Miami? Maybe JFK was trying to tell him not to go to Africa? But it's even worse than that. In Ultimate Sacrifice, the Dynamic Duo admitted that supposedly only Arthur Schlesinger and Dick Goodwin worked on the speech. So what they did was they used Seymour Hersh's pile of rubbish, The Dark Side of Camelot, to say that CIA officer Desmond Fitzgerald had a minor hand in inserting a paragraph into the speech. But they gave no page number in Hersh's book as a reference for this. As in their subterfuge with Edwin Black, this was another trick by the Dynamic Duo. Because when you find the material in Hersh you will see that he is not even talking about the same speech. (p. 440) He is referring to a talk Kennedy did in Palm Beach ten days earlier. Further, Hersh sold his particular version of the CIA insertion as a message not to Almeida, but to CIA agent Rolando Cubela as part of an assassination attempt on Castro. Somehow, the producers of this show never asked Waldron to explain this huge discrepancy before he talked about it on the air. At this juncture, the program turns slightly away from Waldron and Hartmann. The major talking head in the last segment is Blakey. It's easy to understand why. This last part will deal with the actual assassination. In their particular disinfo strain, Waldron and Hartmann postulate someone other than Oswald as the assassin. In his disinfo strain, Blakey doesn't. So what this show concludes with is the scenario that Blakey has been selling since the late seventies, right after he closed down his spectacularly disappointing congressional inquiry. Blakey says Oswald was the assassin, but he did it as an agent of the Cosa Nostra. Specifically for Trafficante and Marcello. But this show even curtails that. Because the HSCA ultimately concluded that in addition to the Texas School Book Depository, there was a shot from the picket fence, which missed. Blakey does not discuss that here. (Dr. Cyril Wecht is brought on to talk about his interpretation of the Zapruder film and how it indicates two assassins, but this is not followed up on. He is left hanging out there almost like he's from a different show.) Blakey begins this segment by saying if the Cosa Nostra was going to try and kill President Kennedy they would do it with someone who would not be easily or directly related to them. They had the motive to kill JFK since he and his brother were helming a war on organized crime. The show then notes that both Roselli and Sam Giancana were murdered in 1975 and 1976. Incredibly, Waldron now chimes in and says that a famous Marcello adage was " Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead." Which is ridiculous even for Waldron and this show. The implication that Marcello would or could have Giancana and Roselli knocked off is silly. A decision like that could be made only at the highest level of organized crime-if that is how it happened at all. As I noted in my review of Ultimate Sacrifice, Marcello was never considered in that stratosphere. He has been aggrandized into that stature by those writers, like John Davis, who have tried to make him into the main driving force behind the JFK murder. Now the show brings in Jack Van Laningham. This is the FBI informant who talked to Marcello toward the end of his life when he was in prison. Laningham was in jail on an armed robbery charge. He was told his sentence could be lessened if he turned informant. According to Laningham, Marcello told him that he had JFK killed. And that Ruby and Oswald worked for him in that caper. After watching some forty minutes of this witless farrago, I was not really surprised that they stooped to this. For those who read my review of Legacy of Secrecy, you will understand why this is all so specious. As I explained there, although the Dynamic Duo trumpeted the Laningham surveillance as a great discovery they had uncovered, it was anything but. In 2007, Vince Bugliosi discussed it in Reclaiming History. Before that, researcher Peter Vea had sent me the documents in the late nineties. Peter and I had put together the materials with the obituary notices about Marcello and concluded that the mobster was suffering from Alzheimer's disease at the time he talked to Laningham. Somehow, the producers of this show couldn't figure that out. So when Laningham asks why Marcello was not arrested for what he said to him, my reply is: And do what, send him to a mental asylum? There is no real treatment for Alzheimer's anyway. It's appropriate though that the show intercuts Laningham with Blakey near the end. Because Blakey's theory could only be endorsed by a guy with Alzheimer's. Blakey says that Oswald was recruited by Cubans who were operating under a false flag: They approached him posing as Marxists, but they were really working for the Cosa Nostra. (Wisely, Blakey does not tell us who those Cubans were.) So the show's implication is that the Mafia picked Oswald to kill Kennedy for them. No one asks Blakey the obvious question: Why would the Mob pick a presidential assassin who was such a lousy shot? Would you pick a guy who not only was a lousy shot but who would use a cheap manual bolt-action rifle to do the job? Another question: Who were the Cubans who controlled Oswald in Dallas? And if they were controlling him for the Mafia, wouldn't they steer him toward at least using a professional rifle? Blakey then says that Oswald realized he had been duped when famous leftist lawyer John Abt did not get back to him while he was in jail. But the reason Abt did not get back to Oswald was because he wasn't in his office, he was out of the city on a weekend getaway. At the end Waldron says that Trafficante toasted JFK's death that weekend. This is from Frank Ragano's rather late rendition – by about thirty years – of what happened. As I explained in my Ultimate Sacrifice review, Ragano has about as much credibility on this subject as Posner or Blakey. Waldron also says that RFK came to believe that Marcello had killed JFK and that the AG was part of the cover up. This is more obfuscation by the Dynamic Duo. As Talbot's book shows, Bobby Kennedy never came to a definite conclusion about who killed his brother. And if Waldron and Hartmann can show me how RFK participated in the Warren Commission cover up, I wish he would show me. He and Hartmann had almost 2,000 pages to do so in their two books. They didn't. (Hartmann makes an appearance on the show, probably because the producers could not get anyone else to vouch for Waldron's goofy theory. He comes off with all the slickness and credibility of a snake oil salesman.) As I said at the start, this show aired right before Gary Mack's latest fiasco, JFK: The Ruby Connection. (For that review, see here.) So, by putting together a show that says Oswald killed JFK for the Mafia, and then running a show that says Ruby had absolutely no help in killing Oswald, what is the underlying message? Oswald might have killed JFK for the Mafia, but that is the length and breadth of any possible conspiracy. And since upon inquiry or analysis, this idea falls apart, what is the real aim of the two shows? In my view it is to extend the confusion and cover-up about he true circumstances of President Kennedy's death. Consider this: In the three programs that Discovery Channel has broadcast in the last two years – Inside the Target Car, and these two – what has been the amount of declassified ARRB documents that they have used or shown us? Of about two million pages, we have seen almost none. And the ones Discovery Channel has shown are the misrepresented ones that deal with Waldron's discredited theory. As Bill Kelly and John Simkin have pointed out, like Gus Russo, Waldron and Hartmann have become the MSM's new go-to guys for the Kennedy cover-up. A job they seem all too willing to perform. As many have pointed out, including Jim Garrison, the actual perpetrators had given us a series of False Sponsors to cover their tracks. The first was Oswald, the second was Castro, and the third was the Cosa Nostra. Of late, Gus Russo specializes in proffering Castro. Waldron and Hartmann give us the Cosa Nostra, sexed up with a non-existent Coup Plan. A plan in which the coup leader wasn't even in town to run the coup. In combination, it's evident that these three shows reveal a rather unwelcome truth. That is, today's cable TV companies are just as psychologically and socially incapable of telling the truth about President Kennedy's death as the networks were in the sixties and seventies. In fact, what they are doing amounts to a smelly cover-up. In light of that fact, its better that no programs be broadcast on this subject than those as bad as this one. Last modified on Wednesday, 02 November 2016 04:11 James DiEugenio One of the most respected researchers and writers on the political assassinations of the 1960s, Jim DiEugenio is the author of two books, Destiny Betrayed (1992/2012) and The JFK Assassination: The Evidence Today (2018), co-author of The Assassinations, and co-edited Probe Magazine (1993-2000). See "About Us" for a fuller bio. 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__label__cc	0.700916	0.299084	Montag, 24. Juni 2019, 10:15 - 19:00 iCal Critical Inventory: Towards a Methodology of Contemporary Art History Internationale Konferenz Location: Seminar Room 1, Department of Art History, University of Vienna University Campus, Hof 9, Garnisongasse 13 1090 Vienna Conceptualized and organized by Noit Banai and Gregor Pirgie Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Seminarraum1, Universitätscampus Hof 9 Garnisongasse 13, 1090 Wien Dienstag, 25. Juni 2019, 10:00 - 19:30 This international conference emerges from two premises, namely that the writing of Contemporary Art History in a global context is based on developing specific methodologies, theories, and histories that simultaneously continue and disrupt certain genealogies and paradigms emerging from multiple modernisms; and that art historians located in the city of Vienna can play a significant role in this endeavor through their particular positionality. With this double starting point, we wish to focus on the measures through which the multiple histories of contemporary artistic production can be written and consider our own entanglements in their formulation. To open these pathways, we build upon the five years of dialogue, exchange, and collaboration with diverse protagonists in the field of contemporary art, initiated during Noit Banai’s position as Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Vienna. Recognizing the importance of connecting theory and praxis, we wish to extend our conversations and analyses with individuals who participated in site visits that occurred in the context of excursions in the city of Vienna and beyond. Between 2014 and 2019, beginning with the imperative to “meet our neighbors,” we consider contemporary artistic practices, forms and techniques of production and reception, and role of institutions in the Austrian region of Vorarlberg and the proximate St. Gallen, extend our foray into Graz, and continue to Ljubljana, Zagreb, Rijeka, Sarajavo, Srebrenica, Banja Luka, Mostar, Novi Sad, Belgrade, and Pristina. Image:© Jennifer Eckert Institut für Kunstgeschichte Andrea Ennagi Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Professur Islamische Kunstgeschichte 01/4277-41412 andrea.ennagi@univie.ac.at Erstellt am Montag, 17. Juni 2019, 14:12 Letzte Änderung am Dienstag, 18. Juni 2019, 08:47	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1526
__label__wiki	0.668875	0.668875	Keep calm and...listen to Barenboim This is probably the most astonishing performance of Beethoven's 'Appassionata' Sonata that I've ever heard. Barenboim writes about Brexit on the Journal page of his website: "The vote in favor of Brexit is, in my view, a very sad decision for Great Britain and Europe. It is, however, senseless to bathe in pessimism and desperation as Brexit is now an unchangeable historical fact. The best thing to do now is to analyze both the extremist and populist motivations behind the vote to leave, and the serious issues requiring improvement. The construction of the EU is far from ideal. Europe consists of so many different peoples, cultures, and languages that the EU requires a much more substantial unifying idea than simply joint trade and a single currency.There are now two possible reactions: To lament Brexit and watch extremist movements in other countries such as France and the Netherlands seeking to follow the example of Great Britain. Or, to think about necessary improvements for the EU and to work together towards a true spirit of unity and collaboration, especially in finding a global solution for the refugee crisis and not an exclusively European one. Nationalism is the opposite of true patriotism, and the further fostering of nationalist sentiment would be the worst case-scenario for us all. Instead, we need a unifying, European patriotism. In the spirit of Kennedy’s words, we need to ask not what Europe can do for us, but we can do to fortify, solidify and unify Europe." Those words will probably be cold comfort for UK readers. It shows just how relevant we are to the big picture as seen the rest of the continent, i.e., not at all, except as a lesson to others. Labels: Beethoven 'Appassionata' Sonata, Brexit, Daniel Barenboim Cold light Absorbing what's just happened to my home country takes some doing. Remember, against the nearly 52 per cent of people who voted to leave the EU - many of them, tragically, on the basis of outright lies and deceptions peddled to them by the Leave camp, supported by the tabloids (and I don't know how this is even legal) - 48 per cent of us voted to stay. The gap was fewer than two million, in a country of some 60 million plus, many of whom didn't vote at all. Anyway, in the cold light of day, what are the implications for the music industry? Well, where shall we start?? Several artists' management companies and opera houses have put out statements. Here is a hard-hitting one from Jasper Parrott, head of HarrisonParrott and one of the most strong-minded and experienced people in the business: ‘The result of the referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union makes this a sombre and disheartening day for all of us. ‘Forged out of the bloodiest war in history after centuries of conflict and division, the European Union – however flawed it may be – has been at the heart of an international movement to share an enriching diversity of languages, cultures and aspirations, and celebrate the good of humanity. ‘The United Kingdom, one of the most active and successful laboratories for artistic and cultural pluralism, should remain true to this – one of history’s greatest projects. ‘We at HarrisonParrott are deeply committed to the idea that our business and our lives benefit immensely from the fact that our artists and our staff share such a diverse range of nationalities, languages and cultures, and we take great pride in the success of our open and internationally inclusive recruitment policy. ‘The referendum, in the considered opinion of many leading figures and commentators, was never really necessary – it was promised largely for party political purposes. ‘I believe government, in its it reckless decision to hold it, has failed us all in its primary duties of keeping us safe, protecting our welfare, and honouring our alliances and commitments. I fear this will go down in history as one of the great follies of vanity and opportunism. ‘The power of music and the arts is universal. It brings us all closer together in a creative and non-discriminatory way, which can only benefit society as a whole. ‘All of us involved in the Arts and Creative Industries must now do whatever is possible to heal these self-inflicted wounds.’ The classical music and opera world is incredibly international. Indeed, one of the weirdest things for me, watching all this unfold, is that it's barely two months ago that I went to the WIPO conference in Geneva when the contrast between territorially-based copyright laws and non-territorial, galloping technology that crosses all boundaries in a twink became abundantly clear - this is part of what is screwing the livelihoods of creatives, to put it bluntly. In such a globalised world, for the UK (or what's left of it, if Scotland goes independent) to imagine it can isolate itself and flourish by doing so is the silliest, least realistic idea imaginable. Here are some of the most concerning issues. First: • Money. The pound's value fell sharply and will probably be worth much less long-term. -- This makes it more expensive for those in the UK to travel. So British artists earning fees on "the continent" will find their pay is worth more, but goes less far. -- It could make it very difficult for UK promoters to afford to bring in foreign orchestras. -- It's possible that our UK orchestras will be cheaper for the promoters overseas, so that may be a benefit. But the costs of transport and work permits/visas that currently aren't needed (assuming it turns out they do impose these) will be high and there'll be more admin involved so more costs associated with that. -- Low pound and higher costs for imports will probably result in significant inflation, while possibly there'll be higher interest rates appearing too. Low pound is better for our exports, but we don't export very much, and of what we do, 40% goes to Europe... Inflation is a nightmare for anyone who's scratching around trying to make a living, which has already become more difficult for musicians and writers for other reasons. So that means... -- It may be harder to persuade people to sponsor orchestras, operas and concert series - and if the big City firms move to Frankfurt or Madrid, as they're already starting to consider, there will be fewer moneyed companies and high-earning individuals around to contribute to "Development". -- Therefore, probably higher costs of tickets on an already squeezed audience. -- We can manage on our own, the Leave camp assured us - ignoring the fact that the EU gives us hundreds of millions to spend on deprived areas (Cornwall and Yorkshire are already jittery about this, despite having voted to leave - pity they didn't think about that first) and on scientific research (which depends heavily on EU grants to fund crucial medical developments) and indeed on the Arts (try the Creative Europe programme, for a start). All that will simply evaporate, and the idea that our own government can replace it pound for pound is frankly laughable. -- But also, because EU funds will not be there to help us, there will be more pressure on government funds. These will be hard hit because if the financial whizzes leave the country and so do all the hard-working, tax-paying EU immigrants, tax revenues will be seriously down. I've seen figures quoted today in significant billions. -- So taxes will have to go up, hitting us all where it hurts. I can't imagine any alternative. -- Austerity, austerity and more austerity, and more cuts and more cuts and more cuts, and the arts will be high in the firing line - not that they give the arts all that much now, but I won't be remotely surprised if government support for the arts simply vanishes, especially if we get a hard-right populist government led by some of the goons who have got us into this mess. Remember, Boris Johnson supported the skateboarders against the Southbank Centre redevelopment, which was a) nuts and b) fatal. Government funding has depended on the good will and appreciation of the arts among those in power. Say farewell to them, and London may also have to kiss goodbye to that dream of a new concert hall (all a bit quiet now about that, isn't it?). Mark Pemberton of the Association of British Orchestras has warned of "challenges ahead" and writes: ‘Following the Referendum decision to leave the EU, the ABO is deeply concerned at the potential impact on its members. ‘The prospects for the nation’s public finances are worrying, and may affect the implementation of Orchestra Tax Relief, which has not as yet received Royal Assent, and lead to further reductions in public funding for the arts and local authorities. ‘We will need the new leadership of this country to give us guarantees as to continued freedom of movement across Europe’s borders for our orchestras, artists and orchestral musicians, and whether the many pan-European regulations that currently affect our sector, from VAT Cultural Exemption to harmonisation of radio spectrum, Noise at Work to the Digital Single Market, will still apply. ‘The worst outcome for our members will be additional uncertainty, bureaucracy and expense, allied to a worsening of their financial viability. The ABO’s next step is to work with whichever Ministers take responsibility from here on, to ensure the best possible outcome for our members.’ • Xenophobia -- Our musical life is fabulously enriched by its internationalism. Musicians from the EU and beyond help to bring our orchestras, our chamber ensembles, our conservatories where they teach and study, to the level of the world's finest. London has the richest musical life of any city in Europe. All this will be in peril. -- As part of the EU, UK nationals have the right to live, study and work in any European country. By leaving the EU, because part of the population thinks our problems are down to "foreigners" and want them not to come here any more, we are also shooting ourselves and especially our young people in the foot because we are forfeiting our own right to go to 27 other countries to live and work without being caught up in astronomical costs and a tangle of red tape. Conservatoire fees for Europeans here will be the same as they are for non-EU nationals, about £20k a year, and paying at the rates of non-EU students will most likely apply also to our youngsters wanting to study abroad. -- It will be harder for European orchestras to justify employing British musicians, and a regulation headache for British ones to employ Europeans. This will affect, frightfully, career opportunities for the UK nationals and possibly the standards for our own orchestras. -- I don't believe there is any reason to assume that EU musicians currently employed in British musical institutions will be chucked out, because all that will depend on the terms that are finally arranged; nothing is certain yet and currently we are still very much part of the EU, Cameron having not triggered Article 50, which starts the exit process; he has decided to leave it to his successor. We have to keep an eye on how negotiations pan out in due course. Things that happen there will do so several years down the line at the earliest; but the effects may begin sooner because some musicians will begin looking for opportunities elsewhere instead and may well not apply for UK courses and jobs for fear of what will transpire. -- Did you know? Before the First World War foreign artists started to be banned in the UK. And before the Second World War regulations were brought in against foreign performers too, mainly targeting American dance bands. -- All this comes from fear. But what frightens me is that the Out voters have fallen for what's probably the biggest con-trick in the history of Britain, pulled upon them by some of the most loathed politicians of today's administration including one who isn't even part of the government (Farage). Brexiting the EU will not solve any of the problems that frighten them. It will only make things more difficult for everybody (see "Money"). And when they realise that they've been had, and dragged the rest of us down with them, they'll be even angrier than they are now. The EU was the scapegoat, but it was the wrong scapegoat. It brought us innumerable advantages and all we have done is to throw them away for the sake of some kind of fictional notion of "sovereignty". When people realise the extent to which they've been duped, where will that anger go? Already there are reports of the British National Party bullying and harrassing Poles and Muslims in the east of England. I've been writing a novel set in the 1930s and I'm beginning to feel I've stepped into it. -- Music is a profound artistic force that crosses all boundaries and speaks from a place of universal human experience. -- Whatever happens, we have to find a way to make the best of it. We mustn't let Britain descend into fascism - the one thing it has never, ever done. We're better than that, we're better than this rubbish that's being foisted on us and, as Hans Sachs suggests in Meistersinger, we have to hold fast to our arts as the one bastion of positive identity and strength that can hold fast through everything. Yesterday, my musical encounters saved me in the midst of all the horror. I spent the morning interviewing one of London's greatest musician residents, virtually sitting at his feet while he talked about music and demonstrated on the instrument. Then in the evening I went to hear Benjamin Grosvenor's recital at the Wigmore Hall. The programme included the Chopin Funeral March Sonata, appropriately enough - and his interpretation seemed to articulate for all of us the emotions and anguishes we were going through. The final movement was very fast, a daring evocation of a terrifying madness. Yet at the close of the concert, his Liszt Venezia e Napoli was huge and dazzling fun. Music can still bring us together and offer us catharsis and spiritual solace - if only for a while. We can rely on music when we can rely on nothing else. Labels: Brexit, EU, music industry Wahn... HANS SACHS: Wahn! Wahn! Überall Wahn! Wohin ich forschend blick’ in Stadt und Weltchronik, den Grund mir aufzufinden, warum gar bis auf’s Blut, die Leut’ sich quälen und schinden in unnütz toller Wuth? Hat keiner Lohn noch Dank davon: in Flucht geschlagen, wähnt er zu jagen: hört nicht sien eigen Schmerzegekreisch, wenn er sich wühlt im eig’ne Fleisch, wähnt Lust sich zu erzeigen! Wer giebt den Namen an? ‘Sist halt der alte Wahn, ohn’ den nichts mag geschehen, s’mag gehen oder stehen! Stet’s wo im Lauf. Er schläft nur neue Kaft sich ah: gleich wacht er auf, dann schaut, wer ihn bemeistern kann!... Madness! Madness! Everywhere, madness! Whenever I look in the archives of the city and of the world, to look for the reason behind why people strive to argue in useless results for this insanity? What are they to gain from this: in fits of struggle they hunt for it and do not hear their own pain especially when it rips into their own flesh, joy’s own embrace! Who can name it? It’s simply the same old craziness, without it ever happening in spite of itself! It pauses. And then with sleep acquires a new strength: suddenly awakens then who can become master of it? REMAIN is the only sane choice for anybody in today's ever-more-international arts world. Don't forget to place your vote for the UK to REMAIN in the EU. Otherwise on Friday we become nothing more than a sunk island. (Reminder of some of the reasoning.) Two Walks through the End of Time... I've been rewriting A Walk through the End of Time, my two-hander play introducing the Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time. It's needed doing for a while. Forever, really. But it is now nine years since I first wrote it and one thing that happens in real life that doesn't happen in books is that people get older; and sometimes that needs to be reflected in theatre pieces that are happening, supposedly, now. The couple, Christine and Paul, are consequently nearly ten years older than they were, and if we're to accept that her father was of Messiaen's generation and she has grown-up kids, a few things needed a rethink. It's not only where Christine and Paul are in their own lives and those of her children that changes; one's priorities and attitudes do start to shift with the passing years. Things that seemed of all-consuming importance when you were in your twenties can start to look laughable with the benefit of hindsight. And of course, a little tightening up never did any script any harm. So now A Walk is leaner, clearer, sharper (I hope). It's about six minutes shorter, depending on how the performers pace it. There are more jokes, but also more sense of the threat of loneliness in age. Old rituals are recalled, hair is shorter or gone, tastes have evolved. And some things haven't changed at all - but we can deal with them in new ways. Tonight A Walk is at the Crossing Borders Festival in Brighton. 8pm at The Latest Bar, Manchester Street, Brighton BN2 1 TF, performed in a rehearsed reading by the excellent Brighton-based actors Beth Fitzgerald (Christine) and Michael Sheldon (Paul). The Messiaen Quartet will be heard in a concert tomorrow; the second half of tonight will be tunes from Best Foot Music. My immense thanks to festival director Siriol Hugh-Jones for including the play in a programme of artistic events of many hues that seek to cross borders, physical and mental, in every possible way. On 24 July, A Walk goes to the Ryedale Festival in gorgeous Yorkshire, where words&music events are a big part of the programme. Here it will be at the Helmsley Arts Centre at 5pm and the Messiaen is in a concert the same night played by members of the Chilingirian Quartet with Ian Fountain (piano) and Andrew Marriner (clarinet). This time the reading of the play will be given by Dame Janet Suzman and Michael Pennington, two actors I have admired all my life. I'm deeply grateful to them for being able to take this on. Labels: A Walk Through the End of Time, Beth Fitzgerald, Crossing Borders Festival, Dame Janet Suzman, Michael Pennington, Michael Sheldon, Ryedale Festival Civilisation is...Mozart's chamber music The American academic and violist Edward Klorman, a professor at the Juilliard School in New York, has written a truly beautiful book about Mozart's chamber music, exploring the conversational exchanges the composer's writing seems to evoke and its lineage among Enlightenment ideals: Mozart's Music of Friends: Social Interplay in the Chamber Works (just out, from Cambridge University Press). It makes me realise how very far society seems to have fallen from such things, and how wonderful they are, and how we should start aspiring to them again, right now, this minute. I've done an e-Q&A with Edward about his book. I hope you will love these ideas as much as I do. JD: Your book Mozart’s Music of Friends examines the interplay within chamber ensembles using the metaphor of social interplay. How did you begin exploring this topic? EK: During my studies at Juilliard, I had some opportunities to study chamber music with violinist Pamela Frank and pianist Robert Levin at various festivals. I remember vividly some of the images they invoked in their coachings. Pam would describe a violin singing a beautiful melody when the viola pokes in to interrupt or to tease. And Bob would point out how one instrument “changes the subject” from a serious fugue to something more light-hearted, or how another instrument introduces a certain accidental that urges the others to modulate to a particular key. This way of treating each instrument like a character seems to be so intuitive to many performers, but it’s somehow not something most musical scholars tend to write. Perhaps this is because a player literally enacts just one of the instrumental parts, whereas a music analyst adopts an omniscient, outside vantage point. This book aims to bring the scholarly and performance perspectives together. By examining the historical and theoretical underpinnings of performers’ experiences of this repertoire, I’ve united two parts of my musical life. JD: Could you explain the title Mozart’s Music of Friends? EK: This lovely phrase is borrowed from a 1909 lecture by Richard Henry Walthew, a British composer and chamber music aficionado. Chamber music is fundamentally a music not just for friends but of friends. Its natural habitat is the drawing room, where it was played among friends in intimate settings, but even when it is played in large halls, the music reflects its sociable ethos through the way the musical parts interact with one another. We become friends just be playing or listening to it together. This is a traditional idea. A German preacher, who wrote an essay about string quartets in 1810, observed: “Those who ever drank together became friends [but] the quartet table will soon replace the pub table. A person cannot hate anyone with whom he has ever made music in earnest. Those who throughout a winter have united on their own initiative to play quartets will remain good friends for life.” JD: It was Goethe who famously described Beethoven’s quartets as resembling a conversation among four sophisticated people. Was this his original idea? EK: That Goethe quote is an oft-cited expression of that idea, but the comparison dates back to the 1760s, around when string quartets first became popular. And it makes a certain sense, since four instruments with similar timbres resemble the sound of four conversationalists. Parisian quartet publications dating from this period often used the title “quatuors dialogués” — literally “dialogued quartets.” To compare chamber music to conversation was quite a compliment, since the Enlightenment regarded conversation to a highly refined art form. Whether a group of friends and familiars socializes through conversation or chamber music (or perhaps both at the same time!), the interest is on the witty exchanges and liveliness of the repartee. A watercolour by Nicolaes Aartman showing this type of gathering JD: How would you compare settings for chamber music performances in Mozart’s period vs. today? EK: This is an interesting question, but a complicated one. To begin with the words “performed” and “concert”: These words are tricky in historical documents such as Mozart’s letters. The German word “Akademie” sometimes describes a public, subscription concert in a theater, but it can also refer to a private gathering in a salon in someone’s home, possibly with some listeners (“audience”) but just as likely with no one else present. In paintings and drawings from the period, you sometimes see what looks like a soirée or party setting, with guests chatting (and half listening) as the musicians play. The musicians were often arranged in a circle, playing inward toward the other musicians rather than directing their performance outward toward attentive listeners. In a letter to his father, Mozart describes a four-hour-long “Akademie” he played at an inn where he was staying. The gathering lasted four hours, and Mozart played with a violinist he’d only just met that morning – and who turned out to be a rather lousy sight-reader. (“He was no good friend of the rests!” wrote Mozart.) The impression you get is that the guests at the inn were basically just socializing, while music was being played, rather than listening with full attention as a formal audience. As one of my musicologist colleagues nicely put it, music could simulate artful conversation, but in salon settings it also served to stimulate it. JD: Tell us about the companion website for Mozart’s Music of Friends? EK: The website (www.MozartsMusicOfFriends.com) is fun to explore either together with the book or as a standalone resource. There’s a large trove of paintings and drawings that give an idea what it might have felt like to attend these musical salons. And there are videos that allow you to hear the musical examples while watching explanatory animations. Appropriate for “the music of friends,” those videos include musical performances by a number of my close friends and colleagues, so it was a real treat to play together with them as part of the project. Labels: Cambridge University Press, Edward Klorman, Mozart Tumble points I'm just back from a few days away for much-needed crashout. Before I left on Tuesday, I wrote this post for the Ghost Variations "shed", headed "Why this, why now?". It's about the relevance of the 1933-38 setting of the book to today; and how it brings together three matters poised together on the brink, tipping over from something that was fine if troubled to something tumbling towards illness, insanity and fascism, whether that is our heroine, or Schumann, or the world. Forty-eight hours later, it was even more relevant than I'd thought. These are grim times in Britain, with the EU referendum having opened a Pandora's Box and unleashed monstrosities that run contrary to everything humanity at its best can and should stand for. Yesterday a Labour MP was shot and killed outside her constituency office by, allegedly, a mentally ill man with far-right associations. And next week's referendum could still be part of the beginning, not the end. https://unbound.co.uk/books/ghost-variations/updates/why-this-why-now They can't take that away from us... ...to misquote Ira Gershwin. I'm puzzled beyond puzzlement about the toxic idea that the EU is somehow putting British culture under threat and that we should gamble our economy, complete with everyone's livelihoods and kids' futures, in order to protect this oddly nebulous idea. As we've been in the EU for around four decades, perhaps we should have a look at those things that nobody has ever taken away from us, nor ever will (unless our currency plunges, our pay and pensions disappear and we can't afford anything more...which will only happen if we leave...). Roses. Best of British, growing happily within the EU Here's my Top 100 of British Culture, in no particular order other than putting Shakespeare first. 1. William Shakespeare 2. John Donne 3. Jane Austen 4. George Eliot 5. Henry Purcell 6. Orlando Gibbons 7. Ralph Vaughan Williams 8. Edward Elgar 9. Frederick Delius 10. The Wigmore Hall 11. Symphony Hall, Birmingham 12. Simon Rattle 13. Dame Myra Hess 14. Monty Python 15. Wimbledon 16. Lindisfarne 17. The Sage, Gateshead 18. The Peak District 19. John Keats 20. Charlotte Bronte 21. Emily Bronte 22. Glyndebourne 23. Hilary Mantel 24. Rose Tremain 25. Henry Moore 26. Turner 27. Gainsborough 28. The Beatles 29. Benjamin Britten 30. Aldeburgh 31. Kent apples 32. Scones & jam & cream 33. Sunday roast 34. Gilbert & Sullivan 35. The Isle of Eigg (well, they could take that away if we leave Europe & then Scotland leaves England as a result. But the Western Isles are among the most beautiful spots on this planet...) 36. DH Lawrence 37. Laurence Olivier 38. Mark Rylance 39. Dame Judi Dench 40. Helen Mirren 41. Colin Firth 42. The Goons 43. Just A Minute (sort of) 44. English spellings 45. Rose gardens like Regent's Park and Mottisfont Abbey 46. The boat race 47. Dartington 48. Tintagel 49. Tristan & Isolde being set in Cornwall 50. Fish & chips, which I used to like 51. The Southbank Centre 52. Trafalgar Square 53. The Kindertransport 54. Richmond Park 55. Roxanna Panufnik 56. Lincoln Cathedral 57. Errollyn Wallen 58. Stratford-upon-Avon 59. The RSC 60. The Royal Opera House 61. English National Opera... 62. Thomas Hardy 63. Pimms 64. The Two Ronnies 65. Dad's Army 66. Victoria Wood 67. Edward Gardner 68. Tasmin Little 69. Chandos Records 70. Hyperion Records 71. Wendy Cope 72. JK Rowling & Harry Potter 73. Lewis Carroll 74. AA Milne & Winnie-the-Pooh 75. Dodie Smith 76. Imogen Cooper 77. Paul Lewis 78. Hay-on-Wye 79. Salman Rushdie 80. Ian McEwan 81. Vikram Seth 82. The walk to Kingston along the river from Richmond 83. Edinburgh (+ see Isle of Eigg) 84. Anish Kapoor 85. Matthew Bourne's New Adventures 86. Judith Weir 87. The South Downs 88. York Minster 89. Durham Cathedral 90. Hampstead Heath 91. Thomas Adès 92. Michael Tippett 93. Jacqueline du Pré 94. Elderflower cordial 95. David Beckham 96. The Royal Ballet 97. Mary Shelley 98. Bram Stoker 99. Tough gun laws 100. The Channel Tunnel. A reminder: NONE of this is "under threat" from the EU, nor ever has been, nor ever will be. British culture is flourishing quite happily within it. Labels: British culture, EU referendum A counter-tenor with a few big differences Even now it's not every day that I fall lock stock and barrel-organ for something that can be broadly categorised as "early music" and isn't by Monteverdi or Bach. But Yaniv d'Or is a counter-tenor with a difference, and his new project Latino-Ladino, with his Ensemble NAYA and Barrocade, is based around traditional Sephardic songs and their legacy, extending forward as far as an incredibly beautiful new number by d'Or himself. It's got straight under my skin and I can't stop listening to the disc. I had a wonderful interview with Yaniv the other day about how he got started, what a fight he had with various educational establishments in order to be able to sing the way he wanted to, and how he evolved this heartfelt project. Part of its driving force is about bringing people together – bridging cultural, religious and ethnic differences by finding our shared musical roots and transcending the lot. Here's the piece (lead feature in this week's JC, out today) and below, an introduction from Yaniv himself about the project and a taster of the music. Enjoy. Labels: Latino-Ladino, Yaniv d'Or It's the first night of ENO's Tristan [FRIDAY MORNING, 10 JUNE: OH DEAR. The trouble with writing previews is that sometimes the reality does not deliver. Warning: the value of investments can go down as well as up.... I'm leaving my original preview up here, but after seeing the performance I have to report that though it was many things, Gesamtkunstwerk it ain't.] The last Tristan und Isolde I saw was Katherina Wagner's production at Bayreuth 2015. Interesting moments, striking designs, but by and large it was a disappointment. Firstly because there seemed no coherence between the three acts - the style of each was so different that a massive disconnect ensued. Secondly, and more importantly, it imposed on the opera a heap of stuff that simply isn't in it and ultimately subverted the whole point. King Marke is not a vicious dictator. It's not in his music or his words or the drama. And in this miserable vision's finale, he simply dragged Isolde away from the dead Tristan's bed and marched her off. Liebestod schmiebestod. Having just seen a Manon Lescaut in Munich that didn't make much sense either until the final Kaufmann-Opolais act (which was stupendous), I started to wonder if I was going off Regietheater. I love radical reinterpretations when they bring us new insights and "relevance" that is actually relevant to the opera as well as the supposed audience. Hats off to Calixto Bieito's The Force of Destiny at ENO, which just days ago won a South Bank Sky Arts Award. But when I talked to Iván Fischer a couple of months ago, I did begin to wonder if he was right: we need to start exploring a "third way" to present opera that does not alienate newcomers and fans alike, yet that also isn't stuck in some imaginary golden age of pretty dresses, painted backdrops and park-and-bark. Something, instead, that brings the music and the drama into one "integrated" whole. So with Tristan and Isolde opening tonight at ENO - Daniel Kramer directing, Ed Gardner conducting, designs by Anish Kapoor and singers including Stuart Skelton, Heidi Melton, Karen Cargill and Matthew Rose - I wrote this little think-piece for the Indy about whether a refreshed take on Wagner's notion of Gesamtkunstwerk can help to save ENO. First, a foretaste of the love duet from rehearsals... Tonight English National Opera opens a new production of Tristan and Isolde, Richard Wagner’s gigantic, groundbreaking hymn to love and Schopenhauerian philosophy. With designs by the artist Anish Kapoor, ENO’s ex-music director Edward Gardner conducting, direction by Daniel Kramer – the company’s artistic director elect – and a starry cast featuring the Australian tenor Stuart Skelton as Tristan, it promises much. ENO, strapped for cash and mired in controversy, badly needs a smash hit, other than Sunset Boulevard; hopes ride high that this could be it. Kramer has described the production as “a very poetical, mythical, simple world that Anish Kapoor and I have created to let the music and the singers just become gods”. This feels unusually close to Wagner’s own ideal. In 1849, the composer wrote a series of essays entitled The Artwork of the Future, expounding the idea of a “Gesamtkunstwerk”: a complete art work, fusing together music, drama, design, dance and more, in which a fellowship of artists would work together towards one shared goal. Today, though, this is radical in its own way. And here’s why. ENO's image for Tristan There’s a Facebook group called “Against Modern Opera Productions”. No, really, there is. It loves “beauty” and often pours vitriol upon “Regietheater”, the director-led concepts that have dominated European lyric stages for the past several decades. Some critics, academics and opera professionals watch its hatred with a fascination of horror. It feels reactionary; as if operas’ blood-and-guts tales of sex and violence can only succeed if prettified for some imagined 1950s golden age. Yet this group currently boasts well over 35,500 “likes”. That’s enough people to fill the beleagured London Coliseum for nearly a fortnight. Is the operatic audience really in revolt against Regietheater? Recently the Hungarian conductor Iván Fischer told me in an interview here that he was seeking ways to develop “organic, integrated opera performances”. In his view, the disconnect between staging and music that can result from focus on supposed originality in the former and on historical accuracy in the latter has run its course. It’s become a cliché and it’s time for a change. When Regietheater is inspired and coherent, when it truly casts valuable new light on a familiar masterwork, there is nothing better. I admire and enjoy the finest of it. Yet reluctantly I’m starting to agree that the operatic sphere needs to find new types of approach less likely to put off newcomers and frustrate fans. Success stories seem to be thinner on the ground than duds and in certain territories audiences have started to vote with their feet. As for the singers, I once asked the tenor Joseph Calleja what the most outrageous thing is that a director has asked him to do on stage. His answer: “Singing the Duke of Mantua [in Verdi’s Rigoletto] wearing a monkey suit.” The production was set on the Planet of the Apes. Tannhäuser at Bayreuth Enrico Nawrath/© Bayreuther Festspiele A couple of years ago I attended Wagner’s Tannhäuser at Bayreuth, the festival founded by the composer himself. It was staged as an opera-within-an-opera: a supposedly futuristic society putting on a show. The set was dominated by a huge processing machine glooping away throughout; the concept must have cost a pretty penny to design and produce, yet added to the opera…precisely nothing. Last year the same festival’s new Tristan und Isolde imposed a vicious, dictatorial character on King Marke that simply isn’t in the music or the drama. And the lovers had to sing their heavenly duet with their backs to the audience. That festival appears still to be able to afford controversy, indeed to court it. But in the UK cash for opera companies is ever more difficult to come by and increasingly requires justification. If a new staging of a popular piece goes clunking to an early death, there’s a sense of tragic waste. Yes, artists and companies need space to fail. But that space is getting smaller every year. Still, the Metropolitan Opera in New York has not been enjoying much success of late with supposedly safe, traditional productions. The current season is projected to reach only 66 per cent of potential box office revenue, its lowest ever. Some punters, and even some critics, would like ENO to stay safe and traditional too: middle-of-road productions of popular repertoire for middle-class audiences. But that’s not how London works these days, or New York. These audiences can mingle eager newbies with knowledgeable, cosmopolitan types; and none like to feel they’re being fobbed off with something predictable and second-rate any more than with something pretentious or incoherent. If opera houses want audiences, they have to find out how that audience functions now and what its needs are. These are not the same as the 1950s. They’re not even the same as the 2000s. And so a radical readoption of Wagner’s Gesamtkunstwerk principles might hold some answers, along with Fischer’s “integrated” approach. It’s possible to be wonderfully imaginative, sophisticated and stylish while working in harmony, rather than in a seeming struggle between inherently opposed ideals. If Kramer can indeed bring ENO a strong, simple, transcendental Tristan, perhaps he can signal a way forward for the troubled company. Can Wagner’s Gesamtkunstwerk save ENO? It’s time to find out. Tristan and Isolde, English National Opera, London Coliseum, from 9 June. Box office: 020 7845 9300 Labels: ENO, Tristan and Isolde Opera North's treasurable Ring: a guest review by Timothy Fancourt QC Regrettably I haven't been able to attend Opera North's much-lauded Ring cycle myself, but a great friend and passionate Wagnerian Timothy Fancourt QC has, and he's offered us a guest review. Below, delighted to run it. JD Orchestra of Opera North and conductor Richard Farnes in Leeds Town Hall. Photo: Clive Barda A RING TO TREASURE Following Ring cycles at the Proms (2014) and at Bayreuth (2015), this reviewer headed to Leeds Town Hall last week with no sense that anything inferior was about to be served up by Opera North. Indeed, after the egregious nonsense of the Bayreuth production, the simple, semi-staged and beautifully lit production of Peter Mumford was a revelation of how effective the drama in the Ring can be when the music is allowed to speak largely for itself. Wieland Wagner would have approved heartily. The four operas have been built up by Opera North over the last four years and have received hugely commendatory reviews in the process. This year the Ring is presented as a full cycle, in the traditional format of a week with days off in between. It is of course a totally different experience: the musical language develops and mutates over three nights, so that by Götterdämmerung every note derives dramatic and musical resonance from the events in the 11 hours that have preceded it. The same themes permeate the whole, but take on different colours and nuances as the story develops. The demands made of the audience are considerable, but so are the rewards. The first word must go to the orchestra of Opera North and the conductor, Richard Farnes. The orchestral playing was of a very high quality, one or two minor lapses of concentration excepted. It is clear that the orchestra has benefited greatly from the incremental building up of the Ring over years, and the considerable technical demands of the music were met with aplomb throughout. What is also clear is that there is a huge commitment and level of enthusiasm about the project and the music. It is easy to see this when the orchestra is on stage, exposed to full view, but also in the corridors and on the steps of the Town Hall in the intervals, where cast, musicians and audience happily exchange thoughts and compliments. The majority of the orchestra was on stage 15 minutes before each opera started, and numerous players remained on stage after each lengthy act, practising for the one to follow. Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke as Loge. Photo: Clive Barda Mr Farnes’ conducting is a revelation too (to those who have not enjoyed it previously). In London it is easy to forget that other parts of the country boast conductors who really do understand Wagner’s music and have it in their blood. His conducting style is calm and his beat clear: no histrionics; no heaving and subsiding with the musical flow. In Das Rheingold, which overall was the least convincing performance, the music was sometimes a bit one-paced, without time to breathe on occasions, and without bite and zip when needed to lend colour to the black comedy being enacted on stage. The ensemble went awry for a while at the start of Scene 4, where the vocal lines and the orchestral commentary are at their most complex. But the difficulty of conducting with one’s back to the actors/singers must be considerable, and overall Mr Farnes achieved a wonderful sound and cohesion. A special mention for Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke, whose Loge was beautifully judged and acted, a personification of flickering fire, volatility, insecurity and cunning. In Die Walküre, the orchestral sound blossomed fully and the effect was powerful and beautiful in equal measure. Some lovely moments in the woodwind in the middle section of Act 2 (and later in Act 2 of Siegfried) will stay long in the memory. Leeds had a Siegmund (Michael Weinius) and Sieglinde (Lee Bisset) to relish, and each acted with great delicacy of expression and movement and sang to a very high standard. Indeed, one had to pinch oneself to remember that all this was being presented in Leeds Town Hall and not in the Metropolitan Opera. Reginald Goodall used to say, with only a hint of irony, that he was not sure that he had really mastered the end of Act 3 of Die Walküre. I have never heard it more perfectly judged and played than here: the beauty and colour of the music deliciously set off by the shocking personal tragedy happening on stage, for which equal credit is due to Kelly Cae Hogan (Brünnhilde) and Robert Hayward (Wotan). Ms Hogan sang wonderfully well: she is confident, technically secure, acts well, and produces a beautiful but well structured sound. Siegfried is sometimes regarded as the weak link in the cycle. Not here. The orchestral playing was nothing short of superb throughout, with Mr Farnes finding space and colour for all the subtleties of the music. A great deal depends on the eponymous hero, of course, and Leeds was very lucky to have a recently-engaged Lars Cleveman, who sang to a very high standard, with lovely bright tones, clear diction, faultless intonation and considerable reserves of energy. His voice was well contrasted by the character tenor of Richard Roberts (Mime), whose acting skills were deployed to memorable effect as the evil, scheming dwarf. The musical high at the start of Act 3, with Wotan, Erda and Siegfried, suffered something of a fall when a different Brünnhilde was kissed awake. Ms Broderick unfortunately fell short of the very high standards of the rest of the cast and the musical intensity was lost, which was a great shame. (Ms Hogan will sing throughout in London.) Götterdämmerung is and was the pinnacle of the cycle. A different Siegfried was with us, Mati Turi, who, while not reaching that heights that Mr Cleveman reached, let no one down, despite some dryness and lack of colour at the top of his range. The show was once again stolen by the orchestral playing and by Ms Hogan, whose scene with Waltraute (Susan Bickley) in Act 1 was exquisitely performed, a telling portrayal of human characters who were once godlike and close but who now live in different worlds and no longer speak the same language. A very well sung Gunther (Andrew Foster-Williams) and Gutrune (Giselle Allen) contributed to the awful denouement, manipulated almost to the point of success by the Hagen of Mats Almgren. Mr Almgren, with resonant deep bass voice and German pronunciation that seems to emanate from some primordial middle earth, had been a fearsome Fafner and was no less fearsome in this opera, bringing off a superbly chilling Rhine watch scene in Act 1 and the Siegfried’s Ende trio with Gunther and Brünnhilde at the end of Act 2. No one doubted that Ms Hogan would steal the show at the end, which she did, unforgettably. So palmes d’or for the orchestra, Mr Farnes and Ms Hogan, and one other character who I have not mentioned so far, but who appears throughout the cycle. The anti-hero Alberich, who is cruelly abused by the gods and then disdained and dismissed by his son, who for the merely human misjudgement of preferring wealth to love sets the whole disaster in motion and is condemned to misery. It is a wonderfully ambiguous part, and in Das Rheingold has some of the best musical lines; here it was sung to perfection by Jo Pohlheim, whose lovely bass-baritone easily captured the true character of the villain-victim. For those who missed it in Leeds, it is touring Nottingham, Salford, London and Gateshead. London sold out its cycle in May last year, within days of going on sale, such is the renown of this Opera North production and the dearth of Ring productions in the capital. For those lucky enough to have a ticket, this really is a Ring to treasure. Timothy Fancourt Labels: Opera North, Richard Wagner, The Ring Opera North's treasurable Ring: a guest review by ... Conchord takes off	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1534
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