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Emancipate Yourself from … Yourself
Published on August 6, 2014 in Africa, Education, General T&T, Race and Identity and Racism Watch. 14 Comments Tags: Africa, African, Corey Gilkes, Emancipation.
By Corey Gilkes
Years ago, the late economist and social thinker Lloyd Best pondered over the question of how does one save a culture from itself. This is a question we have not collectively dealt with as we continue to entangle ourselves more and more in the destructive aspects of this culture that we’re partly responsible for creating. Somewhere along the line, Emancipation, understood as “freedom” – and I’ll come back to that later – was hijacked to become something that was tolerant of mediocrity, the spurning of ambition, industriousness and intellectual pursuits. Small wonder some people say “dey should bring back de white man” because we’ve made a mess of our Independence (and our Emancipation). I don’t necessarily subscribe to such a self-loathing sentiment but much of what we’re doing to ourselves and our space certainly gives credence to it.
I had another piece written for Emancipation Day. But after listening to the talk shows on i95.5 and Power 102 the morning before and the comments made by some callers and the hosts – all of whom admittedly, fall well within the age group I’ve always said need to be politely eased out of any serious discourse on social transformation – I felt it necessary to write this setta ramblings instead. Besides, I always like to comment on things like Emancipation Day out of the “season.”
My mind was made up when that same day I found myself in Rituals on UWI campus, saw a man of African descent walk by dressed in a kaftan and overheard a contemptuous remark made by a young woman ALSO of African descent sitting not too far away from where I sat (“wha he feel he is?”). This on the same campus from which grew a movement that came to shake up this country in 1970 and generated much intellectual discourse before and after that seminal year. The same movement that forced the then power structure to, at the very least, make a better mamaguy at redistributing the wealth and assets of the country. But then this is the same campus that held the 40th Anniversary of the 1970 February Revolution and the George Padmore conference some years prior to that and the seats were more filled with other presenters than neophytes like me. Hell, I spoke to a sociology student at the time and she didn’t even know who Padmore was. So if we waiting for another major social movement, yuh know in what institution NOT to look for it.
Now the statement made by the young woman is often defended by some who argue that the younger generation is moving away from the narrow views and expressions of “race” pride the older generations seem to be trapped in. Such persons argue that today’s youths, by such actions, are embracing the identity of “citizen,” of “Trinbagonian” – the preferred ideal of intellectual Dr. Morgan Job and i95’s Tony Lee along with their respective cheerleaders.
Sorry, I just can’t buy that anymore.
On the surface there’s little one could (and should) find objectionable with that. That IS the ideal we should be moving towards instead of the narrow, reactionary tribalism we see and hear. Certainly, throughout the whole week leading up to Emancipation Day, some of the pro-Emancipation callers to i95.5 and Power 102 displayed levels of ignorance and tribalism bordering on xenophobia that were downright unsettling. Similar views in the context of Hindutva abound and are made ad nauseum from people like the good Sat Maharaj. No really progressive-minded person would want to be associated with that.
But that is the exact same thing was being said by and about young people back in the early 1970s; read the letters to the editor in the Guardian and Express newspapers of the time. The young people then are the middle-aged and older folks of today. The problem is that many people don’t understand that interwoven in this colour blindness, this idea of a “universal” code of values and mannerisms, are assumptions and philosophical ideas developed in a Eurocentric cultural ethic that was firmly individualistic, authoritarian, chauvinistic, xenophobic and linear. Some of these ideas were advanced by thinkers who appeared progressive but were no less elitist, tribal and often racist; two of the leading advocates of democracy in the United States, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman, viewed working people – the so-called working class – with utter disdain and had no liking for universal suffrage. We can level similar charges against Voltaire and Rousseau, two of the 18th century philosophers those of Twain’s generation (and ours) drew from. On Facebook, we can see quotes from Theodore Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, I think I even saw one from William Wilberforce, posted by people with no apparent understanding of what these otherwise passionate racists and imperialists stood for or who their ideas were intended for.
Much of the problem stems from our very incomplete self-examination and use of history. If Eurocentric scholars use a selective interpretation of history as an academic weapon, far too many of us are using it in a narrow fashion to manipulate tribal insecurities, ideas of entitlement and/or “racial purity” (drawing, ironically, on bigoted 19th century pseudo-scientific European theories of race). It gets no better when, on the one hand, you have one radio talk show host supporting the remembrance of Emancipation Day and the history of Africans but speaking as if it only starts with enslavement. On the other hand, you have another talk show host dismissing Afri-centred history as pointless hubris about “Pharaoh and Sundiata.” This is the same man who speaks at length about Newton, Plato, Aristotle, Socrates and Pythagoras, all of whom drew from that same Pharaonic civilisation. The real history and contemporary analysis of Africa is very complex, and, at times, too unpleasant and uncomfortable for many, including Africentrists, to deal with.
To make sense of this one should acknowledge a deep-seated culture-based sense of shame stemming from an acceptance of information that was more propagandistic than factual. Africa has been presented to us as primitive and barbaric when dealing with its past and a muddled basket case when dealing with its present. Books by J.A. Rogers, Cheikh Anta Diop, Joseph Inikori, J. Danquah, Ivan Van Sertima, John G. Jackson, Jacob Carruthers, even Sir Flinders Petrie, Gerald Massey, Martin Bernal and E.A. Wallis-Budge were and are all but unknown to many. So it’s almost impossible to think of Africa as the place where hydraulic engineering, astronomy, biological psychiatry, high carbon steel smelting, advanced medicine and ocean travel were developed at a time when there was no Europe to speak about.
How else can one explain the attitude of the young woman in Rituals? How else can one explain the evangelical, bible-waving ignoramus – a regular caller to i95.5 – who, with the deepest sincerity, hopes and prays that we all emancipate ourselves from “certain African practices” and instead come to accept the true and living lord Jesus Christ and his word the Holy Bible as the only way for salvation. Hurl obscenities at her and the radio if you must (I certainly f***ing did), but she said what many people here otherwise believe: Africa, Africans and “African practices” are backward, savage and barbaric. If there’s anything can make that continent and its people civilised and stable, it cannot be found WITHIN Africa. This toxic thinking is as much of our making, especially those of us over 40, as it is “de white man.” And I personally don’t fault the European colonisers; people holding illegitimate power do not educate those they colonise to take power and influence from them.
A closer analysis of this Emancipation we speak so much about may offer some illumination. Emancipation is an interesting term that does not actually mean “freedom” but comes from a Latin term that means “transfer of ownership”. In the context of ancient Rome and the latter-day British (their former slaves) who studied them, that meant you could pretty much continue to govern your local affairs as long as you understood and acknowledged who was the ultimate ruler. Looking at our situation, one can argue without fear of successful contradiction that that meant a deceptive shift from the physical restraint to a mental/psychological one, all the while the coloniser maintained positions of dominance. Those who are subjected to that are given illusions of progress, tokens that suggest real advancement – some of which may indeed be real – that in the wider analysis doesn’t really alter the balance of power and, instead, put the people in even greater dependence.
And as such, I suppose we can’t be too harsh either on the generation of educated – more correctly schooled and churched – elite who grew up in that period. The colonial education in the British West Indies, inspired by and largely taken from the U.S. Tuskegee vocational model and the Phelps-Stokes Report of the 1920s, was designed principally to produce a large semi-skilled labour force and small, schooled middle-class elite trained to run the colonies for the British. So even though there were scholars who used that warped education system to challenge colonialism, they were no less products of it (did Dr. Williams not say words to the effect that if the British political system was good enough for them it good enough for us too?).
At what point are we going to ask and answer the awkward questions about ourselves? At what point are we going to decide to break the cycle even though it will most likely cause deep division among a certain “class” or age-group in the society, many of whom did otherwise yeoman’s service since 1962? Inasmuch as the root of emancipation means “transfer of ownership,” exactly when are we going to transfer at least some of it back to ourselves? None but ourselves can free our minds Marley said, while Lancelot Layne reminded us that it’s a mental block that’s hard to unlock. Recognising that and even getting past it is going to require an almost defiant sense of pride in the products of our creativity on its own terms instead of trying to fit it into foreign standards and ideas of success – which is what we’ve been doing thus far.
Lloyd Best, again, was one of the few back then who speculated that intellectual talent would become the next frontier to be explored and exploited in the never-ending process to create more and more wealth. We see that that is precisely what is taking place. The truly emancipated mind will find ways to capitalise on that and yet also find ways to place proper restraints to the inevitable excesses for which the capitalist ethic is infamous. The laws being drafted to protect intellectual property are a double-edged sword particularly when it comes to indigenous knowledge as Dr. John Mugabe has shown in his paper.
Of course, recognising *that* will have to mean a radical transfer of mental ownership from the Bible-waving, Quran-clutching con artists with nice clothes and smoother (or more aggressive) words. Dr. John Henrik Clarke never tired of pointing out to us that African peoples will “out-pope the Pope and out-Mohammed, Mohammed.” That overly-trusting, overly innocent way in which spiritual beliefs are embraced in their purest forms, have been the downfall of African peoples over and over and over. Every single one of the major religions of the world can be traced back to humanistic cultural and philosophical ideas in Africa thousands of years ago. Yet, infused with authoritarian, domineering worldviews from other cultures, every one of them eventually did Africa more harm than good. African people had conceptualised, discussed, modified and discussed again the complexities of the Divine and had all, I say again, ALL the elements that went into Judaism, Christianity and Islam thousands of years before any of these faiths came along; their thinkers and theologians borrowed and appropriated Wisdom Teachings that can still be read today in books like Miriam Lechteim’s “Ancient Egyptian Literature.” Some of us need to be inspired by that instead of being filled with horrified anger and denial.
In this age of rising religious extremism and fundamentalism – Jewish, Islamic, Christian, Hindu – they’re all guilty of it, no exception – spurring and influencing ecological violence, sexual discrimination and economic fundamentalism that lauds greed-is-good ethics, a rediscovery of truly humanistic principles that were taught in centres of learning along the Nile and Niger, matched with similar teachings from the Indus Valley is long overdue. Some of the aspects of our cultural behaviours that were considered weaknesses must now be turned around and shown to be the positive forces for change that they are. Many accounts by European travellers to Africa commented on the ways in which there was a marked respect for the natural world. As the corporations of the North seek to move their industrial centres – partly because of restraints by powerful environmental laws in their own countries – to other countries seeking to modernise, intimidation and bribery of self-serving local politicians are like standard procedures now. Ancestral cultural ideas of creativity and process-oriented philosophies are what will help create effective balances so that we don’t destroy ourselves in the pursuit of development.
This is vital even in our own space where we have economic and political policies imposed by self-serving elites (it really doesn’t matter which major political party). They suck the Treasury dry, turning the country slowly into an ecological wasteland, engaging in state-sanctioned criminality and shallow, ethnic divisiveness – even as they treat their respective support bases with utter elitist contempt – playing with a time-bomb that apparently never went off in Palestine, Guyana, Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia and as if there was never any interaction between Africa and Asia thousands of years before Europe was any maritime power.
When all the justifiable finger-pointing is done, it still comes back to our immersion in Eurocentric values, ideas of leadership, institutions and models. This may partly explain why even some Africentrists still like to say that our ancestors were kings and queens when the real power lay in the priests, the griots/djalis, the Royal Great Wife, the council-of-elders and the secret societies like the all-female Sande Society of West Africa. When people use the term “Pharaoh” to describe a style of leadership that is totalitarian, despotic and using false claims of divinity to get away with exploitative rule, they clearly never bothered to research the moral code the Pharaohs had to govern by. So they would not have picked up books by scholars like the Congolese Prof. Theophile Obenga. Ways need to be found to rein in abuses of authority and history, while at the same time, support needs to be given to the attempts to bridge the Ganges and the Nile. Too much of the discourse on Africa and Africans still revolve around very narrow stereotypes of how “de black man” supposed to look and carry on as if the history, culture and even physical features aren’t much more complex than that. And there is also too much talk about restoring “de black man” back to his rightful place in a way that is clearly in keeping with Judeo-Christian/Islamic worldview that consigns women to mere property – albeit highly treasured property.
Our principal problem is that we almost reflexively doubt ourselves and dislike the little we do know. It’s not that we can’t access the history and the research; the idea that enslavement cut us off from our ancestral culture is largely a myth. Since the 1930s scholars like J.D. Elder, Melville and Frances Herskovitz have shown otherwise, uncovering numerous examples of cultural retentions. But most of us just don’t want to and many rather hold onto that defeatist view which I strongly believe has more to do with an instinctive seeking for an excuse for us not dealing with our problems ourselves: it’s easier to blame someone else for our learned helplessness. It’s indeed a mental block that’s hard to unlock.
So, emancipate yourself from mental slavery, starting with the shackles, the ghetto of your mind. Looking past the disrespectful tone, there is SOME validity in the critique that Emancipation Day is just another Carnivalesque jump-up funded by the State for people to “dress up and play African for one day” as Dr. Job likes to put it. If, by the time the next Emancipation Day, the vast majority of those who paraded the year before are no more informed about the current situation in Africa or the Diaspora and how it came to this point, yuh could give de man wrong? Anyone who claims to want to help “little black boys” and never read a line by Diop, Obenga, Amilcar Cabral, Julius Nyerere, Kenneth Kaunda, Ifi Amadiume, Gloria Thomas-Emeagwali, C.L.R. James, Lloyd Best, Frantz Fanon, Dr. Vandana Shiva, Aime Cesaire; who could sing line by line a Bob Marley but can’t talk about Fela Kuti, Baaba Maal, Sali Sidibe, Mamou Kouyate, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ravi Shankar, Boukman Experianz and make connections with Jimi Hendrix, KRS One, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Kitchener, Maestro, Duke, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Ayn Rand, Thomas Friedman, Adolf Hitler, John Calvin, Martin Luther, St. Augustine . . . that person is a con artist. Cuss ‘way dey mudder ass and run far.
Hotep (peace)
14 Responses to “Emancipate Yourself from … Yourself”
Mamoo
What is the purpose of this article? It appears to be an article that is lashing out at any and everything under the pretext of mental liberation…really. It is no different when Gaddaffi was alive who made long, long nonsensical speech at the United Nations.
trinamerican
Mamoo,
I do not see a problem with this article, and I am not going to insult your intelligence by trying to explain a well-crafted, thought-out argument.
Jerry C. Hussain
Mammie boy the article says one thing for you ….only one for a mentality like yours ….one race sucks up with money as their God …the other race in his article was subjected to a raw form of slavery ….that coming out of it will take many more than over 200 years of that slavery. They do not suck up like you. You have a TV …then turn it on on CNN news today. The more things change the more they remain the same …check what is going on in Missouri, USA but I caution you you must learn to read between the lines and the propaganda. Hence the afro coummunities world wide are still held back.
Mamoo yuh taboo please stay away from this forum.
Corey Gilkes
I knew YOU’D come with something like that. My apologies, will try to use smaller words next time and include pretty pictures.
Gilkes you need to develop a particular style of communication. You write as you think a jumbled mass of ideas that confuses even the few who attempt to make sense of what you are trying to say. Here are some tips
(1) stick to your topic in a coherent manner (don’t make the false assumption that people can read your mind)
(2) pray and ask God for knowledge (Solomon did and he produce the book of proverbs, a book I highly recommend for you).
(3) understand your audience, who you are trying to reach and why.
(4) I notice a lot of African American nuances,in your writing. Malcolm X thinking in your writing is self evident.
(5)try to be systematic in your writing it will be easier to follow.
JustRight
There is nothing too difficult to understand in the article. Trying to condemn the article and writer shows a sign of unwillingness to learn about what you do not understand especially as it pertains to Africans who some like to casually condemn. This proves such folks are both stupid and racist.
Kind sir/madam,I am not condemning the article nor the writer. I am simply offering a bit of free advice call feed back (hello) but you suddenly accused me of being stupid and racist. Pray tell how did that come to that conclusion???
Mammie boy maybe you should go ask your mudder how you came about.
Rodwell Paton
What concern is it of yours Mamoo. You cannot understand it obviously, because it is not meant to reach the understanding of those who are symbiotic kin of the slave master. So of course it will annoy you, you little eichman you.
The most amazing thing with you modern day Aryans is that you wish to walk both sides of the fence, always whining that you belong in the group of the oppressed, while gleefully assuming all the behaviors and characteristics of the traditional oppressors. But then when I really go back and examine history, I come to the realization that you guys have been in that camp throughout History, despite being in a situational circumstance of an oppressor with a cultural and religious belief system based on the racial superiority and inferiority of humans, but with less military capability, being oppressed by one with the same cultural and religious beliefs, but with greater military capability. That has to be some real freaking irony.
Africans need to stop concentrating on dead white people and start focusing their attention on the living replicas of those deceased elements appearance in their midst in a darker shade of pale. What they need to grasp and understand is that the circumstances of their existence today under any political administration monopolized by these replicas, will be no less heinous than their ancestors were under their predecessors. Amanda
History Paton is a subjective thing base on one man’s interpretation of events. Yes dead white people contributed a lot to such subjectivity. Without slavery there would not be an Oprah the richest African in the world. No Michael Jackson or Jayz or Beyoncé the great icons of American culture. The list of success is endless so why focus only on the negative aspect of slavery. The Muslims for instance were enslaving Northern Africans for over 2000 years and still continues to this day. Just ask the people of Dafur. Western slavery were about 4 centuries. Yet that is all black apologist like yourself seem to talk about. Ali said when he went to Africa “thank God my father made the boat”. Should you and Gilkes thank God also that your ancestors made the boat? Slavery did not start with the white man, your own people captured and bought the people to the ship.
You have just proven that your comments about reparation for Indians on the reparation thread were not from any position of understanding but rather condescending and mocking.
That was the topic on that thread I don’t see what it have to do with this thread. Repatriation money not only to one people group but all who are entitled to it. I just argued for indenture ship.
marva telemaque
The people who are speaking negatively of this well written, truthful, concise article are fools. A product of the same thing the Author is speaking about…Euro-indoctrinated ignoramus. There are many who will be ready for change but there will be others –like the uneducated fools above– who choose to remain in the seat of ignorance, dogmas and mindlessness. Mr Gilkes, thank you for a well written article, thanks for the information, your article serve to not only open my mind to new information but to remind me that the legacy that was left for me from my ancestors will be the weapon I will use to emancipate myself from mental slavery. In the abundance of water the fools are still thirsty (Bob Marley
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Naxos, the lozenge island of Cyclades with the bigger extent, has a continuous inhabitation from the 5th B.C. millennium. In the varied history, legends and reality constantly involved in spate of mystery and imagination, while maintaining unabated desire for knowledge for knowledge and understanding of the way of life of our ancestors. Fortunately, lots of remnants of all periods make it easy to us to infiltrate in their life and to deduce information that satisfies our justifying thirst and throws light on the dark pages of the eternal fairy tale.
Dionysus, Semeli, Theseus, Ariadne, Nymphs, Nereids, tyrants, conquerors, pirates, sovereigns, farmers are heroes, whose traces are scattered throughout the space-time of this rock, which rises imposing, between to other many, in the middle of Aegean Sea.
The mythology possesses a very important part in the fabric of history and culture of Naxos. With indelible colours are woven in memory and in time figures of Dionysus, Zeus, Apollo, Ariadne, Demeter, that attract the dekko of our imagination and our interest.
“Naxeans”, as other populations, were people with deep faith and interest for answers to inexplicably. With the possibility of communication with other regions of the world, that to them it was provided to them by navigation, accepted influences and, as it was natural, had cultural exchanges, a fact that is proved by similar findings that were found in remote areas, as is the golden rolled plate of cave of Za and his twin in a region of Pontus.
Thus, they accepted with pleasure the presence of the god Dionysus, whose origin was from Thracians, or in another aspect from the East. Diodoros the Sicilian, a historian says that the Naxians mythografer support that the god was born in Naxos, by Semeli, daughter of Kadmos, King of Thebes and by King Asterios (considering always his real father to be Zeus). Zeus assigned his upbringing to the Naxian nymphs Filia, Kleidi and Koroni, who rear him in the cave of Za or at another opinion in the "Kako Spilaio", Koronou, where was found a insription that says "DRIOC DIONYCOY". Dionysus accompanied the Satyrs and the Maenads (women) dancing and living it up, reaching occasionally in ecstasy, drinking and getting drunk with the smooth wine of the island. Dionysus who was expression of joy and amusement, for his love for Naxos he had give euphoria in the cultivation of vines, with production of most excellent quality of wine as a result.
From gratitude and love to the god, that brought to them the cheerfulness and the amusement, Naxians founded a temple for his adoration in Yria. Plutarch says that they had established celebrations in his honour, "Donysia" twice a year, with contests and sacrifices. The celebrations took part simultaneously in Chora for the bourgeois and in Yria for the residents of countryside. One feast became at spring time that the leaves of vine came out and contained games and cheerfulness, while the other at Autumn time with the vintage and the pressing of grapes.
The young persons danced with garlands on their head made by vine-twigs, while the satyrs were disguised dancers. It is said that the custom of Apokreo with “maskarades” (disguised) is residue of the adoration to Dionysus.
The well-known legend, the marriage of Dionysus with Ariadne, is exclusively connected with Naxos. According to the fable, as it is reported by Diodorus Siculus, Theseus, afterwards the extermination of Minotaur with the help of Ariadne, daughter of Minos, sailed from Crete to Athens, taking with him the beautiful girl. Rough sea made them to anchor in Naxos, at the time it was named Dia, in order to rest. Theseus anchored his boat in the small islet, "the Palaces", as we name it nowadays, and Ariadne, tired she was, laid in the sandy beach and felt asleep. Theseus with his companions remained in the boat and felt asleep. Then Dionysus, that had already seen Ariadne and felt in love with her, visited Theseus on sleep and told him to leave without her. He reacted, but the god insisted, declaring his supremacy because his of the divine attribute. Being afraid of the consequences of the punishment of the god, Theseus was forced to leave. Then Dionysus went close to Ariadne. As soon as she woke up she saw him standing next to her, saying loving words to her. Immediately she asked him for Theseus, but he answered that he had left, while he gave her to drink wine from a golden cup and offered her a gold wreath, work of Hephaestus, with precious Indian gems in the form of nine stars. At another aspect, the wreath was a gift of Venus and Time for their marriages. It is reported, that it was so much brilliant that the gods put it in the sky to shine next to the other stars and named it constellation of Ariadne. Being angry with Theseus, Ariadne accepted the proposal of Dionysus. He took her to Drios mountain, nowadays called Koronos mountain. From there they left for mountain Olympus. It is also said that children of Dionysus and Ariadne were the Stafylos and the Oinopiopas..
Variations of the myth of Ariadne and Bacchus are many and have important differences. Others claim that Ariadne suicide falling into the sea, after information, that Theseus abandoned her. Others claim that existed two Ariadne. Another myth claims that Theseus left because he loved Aegle in Athens.
Homer in one of his myths says that Dionysus once had rented a boat from Tyrrinous seamen in order to return to Naxos. Those however, wanted to capture him. Dionysus understood it and in order to rescue he gave them to drink wine and to get drunk. Immediately an arbour climbed in the masts of the boat and branches filled with grapes. The sailors, terrified by this sudden phenomenon, feared and felt into the sea, where at the same moment were transformed into dolphins.
Dionysus was the god that was worshipped more on Naxos, which is also named theotrofos (god-nourishing).
The father of gods, Zeus was worshipped also in Naxos. Aglaosthenis, a historian from Naxos, says that when Zeus was a child he was kidnapped by Crete, from Idaion Antron (Idi mountain), and was transported to Naxos, in order to be rescued from his father Cronus. He grew up in the cave of Za, where one of his temples is situated, until he grew up and was in age to claim the reign of the gods with expedition against the Titans. To Zeus had been dedicated a very big extent on the slope of the highest mountain of Naxos, a holy shrine in honor of god, which was an important religious centre for tillers and shepherds of the area. Two inscriptions up the rocks, marked by the same craftsman on the 4th B.C. century, with the same words and letters " ΟRΟS DΙΟS ΜILOSΙΟU "( mountain of Zeus Milosean) define, protect and raise the temple. The residents of the area that worshipped the god, dressed with "milotes" that means lambskins of sheep, went up in the top of Za , in the summertime, the season of big drought, in order to request god to send his cool winds and to rescue humans from the despair of heat.
In Naxos were worshipped also Apollo, the god of light and music. He was the son of Zeus and Leto. Leto because of the rage and the persecution by Ira, wife of Zeus, was protected by Poseidon and was transported by a dolphin in Delos, where she born Apollo and Artemis.
Nikos Kefalliniadis reports to us three areas as places of adoration of god.
At Chora, where is situated " Portara", the imposing huge gate of the erected temple by the tyrant of the island, Lygdamis, which however never finished, and which in our days is brought as the main emblem of island. At Tragea, by the testimony of Stefanos Byzantios “there is a city in Naxos named Tragea, where Apollo is worshipped”. And finally at Apollonas “at the mountain of Apollonas”, where an inscription is engraved in suitably shaped rock :“Mountain of the holy village of Apollo”. In this area, near in the place of ancient quarries, it was located an open-air shrine as it is testified by the above inscription of the 3rd B.C. century. In the residues is still situated “kouros” (young man’s statue) of Apollona, a giant statue of bearded Dionysus, which probably was intended for his temple in Yria. A sample of his adoration is still, the enormous statue of god , which was dedicated to the temple in Delos by Naxeans with inscription " ΝΑXΙΟS ΑPΟLLOΝΙΟS "( Apollo from Naxos).
A special part in the heart of Naxean people had also the goddess Demeter with her daughter Persephone. Demeter was the goddess of fertility of the land. The myth of mother and daughter, who was kidnapped by Pluto (Hades) and brought to the Underworld as the queen of Hades, symbolizes the cycle of seasons. The sadness with the decline of the nature in Autumn and Winter, the joy with the rebirth in Spring and Summer.
This important deity, protector of farmers and agriculture, was honoured and loved a lot by the people of Naxos, who built a very beautiful temple in her honour, in a prominent position of the fertile plain of "Baouzi", in Sagkrios point. The devastated temple was restored recently with the same marble material, which was collected from the surrounding area. It is considered as the more important and representative ancient temple, valuable not only for the additional knowledge of history and society of Naxos, but also for the understanding of ancient religion and adoration. It contains important architectural elements, which we meet later in the Parthenonas.
Nikos Kefalliniadis tell us that "the Greek mother of wheat is Demeter and the faithful set up her idol next to hills of wheat, with a bundle and poppies of field in her hand, in the celebration of the harvest ".
In the mythology of Naxos are reported the presence and the adoration of other gods, perhaps less important, as is possible the adoration of Ares, in Fanari mountain that is located between Aperathou and the basin of Tragea. It is speculated that there was situated a holy shrine in honour of god, after the recovery of a inscription on the ruins of the church Agios Georgios, as is reported by the naxean historian Iakovos Gkrimaldi, saying “Shrine of Ares”. Tradition says that, after Ares, god of war, killed Adonis, the lover of Venus, the giants Aloades, Otos and Efialtis, twin sons of Poseidon, closed him in a jar to punish him for 13 months. Afterwards he released, he resorted to Naxos and was hidden in "siderovrotin petra…", that is to say "in Stone that eat the iron", which was placed in Bitsa mountain above in the Fanari.
Aloades, as the myth says had supernatural force, extremely dangerous and grew along with their age. They threatened to dethrone Zeus from Olympus. Zeus, in order to come through, sent them to Naxos to find their mother,that had been kidnapped by Naxeans. There, they killed each other by a subterfuge of Artemis. The inhabitants inhumed them in the island and worshipped them as heroes. The quarry workers of Flerio in Melanes, defined them as their protectors, because of their excessive force, which they needed because of the hard and dangerous work that they had to do so as to manage stone. An inscription, which was found in the area and reports to a shrine dedicated to Otos and to Efialtis leads us to this result.
Bethels that were found in caves and mountains peaks, show that were adorations of other deities as, in Eggares one dedicated to Nymphs, according to an inscription in the cavern church of "Birth" in foothill of "Kalo Oros". Proportional adoration existed in the "Virgin Mary Kaloritsa", in Damarionas and "Nyfiotissa", small cavern chapel at Amelacthiou point in Tsikalario. An all same bethel existed also in the devitional cave of "Virgin Mary of Spiliotissa", at Argia point.
Almost all the monuments are dated from the 8th to the 3rd B.C. century. During this period, Naxean quarry workers were emerged in pioneers of the architecture and plastic art of the archaic culture. Beginning with the carving of kouros ,enormous statues of human forms, they continued with the countless famous Cycladic figurines in order to be the first to create a statue of girl in natural size of woman. It is the famous statue, dedicated of Naxeans to the sanctum in Delos. It was an offer, probably by a rich naxean sovereign, Nikandra, as it says the inscription of dedication to the“ Female archer, who through the arrow far away”. We can conclude that the female archer was goddess Artemis . Another creation of them is The Sphinx of Naxeans dedicated to the Sanctum at Delphi and the “Andiro” of “lions”, at Delos etc.
Finally, for the current name of the island, Naxos, prevails the perception that it took after Naxos, the king of Karias, a country of Asia Minor, which residents, Kares, lived also in this place. However, for Greek mythology-history, Naxos was the son of Apollo and Akalis, a daughter of Minos. It is said therefore, that the island took the name after him, showing thus the connection of the island with the Minoan Culture. The first name of island was , Stroggyli then it was named Dia and finally prevailed Naxos.
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A Tough Save
by 75X11 on Fri Mar 07, 2014 7:04 am
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Re: A Tough Save
by Guest on Fri Mar 07, 2014 9:48 am
Wow! That's something I would not have believed possible.
by 75X11 on Fri Mar 07, 2014 11:17 am
It's a good thing it's sac held together.
by Wildcat445 on Fri Mar 07, 2014 3:07 pm
It's also nice that it was successful.
by Guest on Fri Mar 07, 2014 4:54 pm
I think it's a miracle.
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Last night we celebrated the 25th Anniversary of NYFOS. We celebrated the vast contributions made by Artistic Director Steven Blier and his Associate Michael Barrett. We celebrated our broadening appreciation of different types of songs. We celebrated the countless gifted singers and composers who contributed to the success of this venture over the past quarter of a century.
The woman sitting next to me had never heard of Mr. Blier until she read the touching tribute in the New York Times. It was a "Where have I been all this time?" moment for her and we understood completely. Mr. Blier's diligence, perseverance and fine ear for a fine song, combined with his delightful sense of humor have combined to create series of recitals (he doesn't like that word) or events that open our ears to the magnificence we may otherwise have overlooked. His droll narration and his astute choice of artists continue to delight us.
From the rousing ragtime inflected opener "Play That Barbershop Chord" sung by James Martin to the beautifully sustained final note of "If It's Magic", sung by Darius De Haas, we heard a bountiful smorgasbord of songs in English, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish.
We just about swooned over NYFOS' Comedian Harmonists, five of our favorite Juilliard guys (Kyle Bielfield, Miles Mykkanen, Nathan Haller, Philip Stoddard and Leo Radosavijevic) clearly inspired by the German Pre-WWII close harmony group, singing "Mein Onkel Bumba". They not only sang but had the choreographic moves down pat. Another favorite Juilliard singer, the divine Julia Bullock, began the stirring "I Wish I Knew How It Feels to Be Free" a capella . Wow!
Not only were Mr. Blier's current students represented but dear friends and colleagues from the past joined in the fun, and fun it was! Our favorite LMAO moment was Mary Testa singing "I'm Going to Make You Beautiful". It was equally thrilling to hear William Bolcom play his own composition "Black Max" with Joan Morris singing; "The Bird on Nellie's Hat" from 1908 was another hoot, as was Andrew Garland's "He Never Did That Before". Sari Gruber's humor was a bit more on the wry side in "Just Like a Man".
In a more serious vein, we enjoyed Joseph Kaiser in Kurt Weill's "Love Song" and even more in Korngold's "Sommer" with his impeccable German. Amy Burton and John Musto were on hand and we liked the French riffs in "Le chaland qui passe" but especially Mr. Musto's own "Penelope's Song". There was pathos to spare in a selection from the recently heard (Opera Hispanica) Maria de Buenos Aires sung with great depth of feeling by Jennifer Aylmer and Ricardo Herrera, whose final diminuendo was stunning.
Judy Kaye took a Gershwin tune "Nice Work If You Can Get It" for a nice spin and Mr. Martin used his powerful voice to read a poem by Langston Hughes "Harlem Sweeties" before singing W.C. Handy's "Harlem Blues". Some Portuguese songs were performed by Ms. Aylmer, Mr. Herrera, Jeffrey Picón, and Jesse Blumberg (who was reviewed two days ago). The tables were turned on Smokey Robinson's "My Guy", sung by a male quartet (Mr. Mykkanen, Scott Murphree , Mr. Blumberg and Adrian Rosas who had some low notes that would outdo the tuba).
At the conclusion, the audience jumped to its feet as one and expressed their enthusiasm. Mr. Blier said he hopes to continue for another 25 years. To this we say..."Cent'Anni!"
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Queen of Always (Stolen Empire #3)
by Sherry D. Ficklin
LONG LIVE THE QUEEN!
If her time at court has taught Catherine anything, it’s that there is no room for weakness in Imperial Russia. With the Empress’ health failing and rumors of a change in the line of succession, her place in the royal line is once more in jeopardy. Tormented by her sadistic husband and his venomous mistress, Catherine must once more walk the fine line between pleasure and politics—between scandal and survival.
When her young son becomes the target of those rebelling against Peter’s reign, Catherine will have to rise up to protect herself, her child, and her nation from his unstable and potentially catastrophic rule. This means putting herself at odds with the most dangerous man she’s ever known, trusting those who once proved to be her enemies, and turning a nation against its sovereign. In the ultimate battle for the crown, new alliances will be forged, loyalties will be tested, and blood will be shed.
Don’t miss this breathtaking conclusion to the Stolen Empire series!
Queen of Tomorrow is a YA historical fiction based on the life of young Catherine the Great. Fans of the hit TV show REIGN will devour this scandalous glimpse into the life of one of the most dynamic women in history.
What an amazing and emotional ending to a fantastic series. We witnessed the growth of Sophie aka Catherine through this series but in this book we truly witnessed the evolution of a queen.
A superbly written story line with rich details and strong characters that grip your very soul and leaves you breathless. I hate that the series has ended and that I have to say goodbye as it was truly impressive. I highly recommend you read this book as this author has a way with words.
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#TBT “Homicide Hank”, gave shine to boxing
by Jesús Cova
“Homicida Hank”, aportó brillo al boxeo.
“Homicide Hank”, gave shine to boxing.
Henry Armstrong stands on a very distinguished place in the already bicentennial boxing pages, thanks to his relevant execution on the ring. A fourteen-year trajectory that contributed in uncommon ways to make the “Noble art of Self Defense” one of the sports activities of mass attraction. He has been one of the most exceptional fighters to ever fight for money.
So much so, that in 1942 he was ranked No. 2, below no other than “Sugar” Ray Robinson on the highest peak of the discipline, in the survey of the last 80 years of boxing. The ranking of the best of all time was made by The Ring Magazine, by the renowned American journalist Bert Sugar.
Armstrong is also the only fighter in history to hold the championship title in three categories simultaneously, feather, light and welter weight in the years 37 and 38 of the past century. He had 19 successful defenses in this last division, a record still current.
The first of the 3 crowns was conquered against Petey Sarron, who was featherweight champion, on the 17th of September 1937, a title he never exposed since he left the category when he gained weight. That year he fought the incredible figure of 27 combats and won all of them by KO, except for one: Aldo Spoldi, who endured stoically for the 10 programmed rounds.
Later he seized the welterweight belt (more than 63,503 kgs or 140 lbs and less than 66,678 kgs or 147 lbs) with a decision in 15 against Barney Ross in May ´38. In August of the same year, he took the belt of the 135 lbs with a victory over Lou Ambers in 15 rounds at the so called temple of boxing, the Madison Square Garden in New York.
In his 25 defenses, he was defeated only three times: on the rematch he gave Lou Ambers in August of ´39, by points, in which he recovered the lightweight Crown he had lost in 15, also in August of the previous year, both fights at the Garden. Fritzie Zivic was the other one who beat him, once by decision in October 1940 to take his welterweight belt and then another one in January of the following year, this time by KO12, both in New York. On October 26, 1942, Armstrong took revenge on Zivic by decision in a non-title fight in San Francisco.
Discouraging beginnings… And then his class erupted
The young Armstrong debut on July 27, 1931 made it impossible to predict that he would reach the highest honors in the profession he chose to escape the poverty of his childhood and teenage years in Saint Louis, in a family where he was the 11th out of 15 siblings.
In fact, his debut could not have been any worse, he fell to the canvas at 2:37mins of the third round against a man named Al Iovino, in Pennsylvania.
That ominous day he climbed to the ring as Melody Jackson, his real name, which he later changed to the one he used and made famous through years of giving and receiving blows. He left an impressive balance of 151 triumphs (101 by KO.), 21 defeats (2 by KO) and 10 draws.
Dubbed “Homicide Hank” and “Hurricane Henry”, Henry Melody Jackson Jr., that is Henry Armstrong (born in Columbus, Mississippi, December 12, 1912-Los Angeles, California, died in October 23, 1988), was known for his fight rhythm, always aggressive, he threw punches without pause, like a whirlwind who had a granitic stamina, pure concrete. His quality erupted in bursts after his fourth fight (he won the second and lost the next two against Eddie Trujillo and Al Greenfiel.
From then on, he knitted a string of 12 consecutive wins and then another of 11 victories after one loss by decision against Tony Chávez. Then a third chain of 46 consecutive wins, 38 before the limit, between 1937-39.
Of his 182 combats some consider as highlights the ones he fought against renowned enemies, such as Barney Ross, Fritzie Zivic, Lou Ambers, Ceferino García (he sought the middleweight belt before the Filipino, a fight he tied, although the majority saw him win. It would have been his fourth reign in four divisions) Mexicans Alberto (Baby) Arizmendi (he beat him 5 out of 5), Juan Zuritaand y Roberto “Chango” Casanova. And, of course, Robinson, who beat him by points at the Madison in an electrifying battle of 10 rounds, in August 27 of ‘43.
Overwhelmed by the long and demanding road traveled, after getting over a severe bout with alcoholism and becoming a Baptist pastor, he hung the gloves in February of 1945 after falling by decision against an obscure rival named Chester Slider.
He worked as a referee for a while. He then kept a low profile, affected by his failing vision and senile dementia. He also turned to teaching the young boys of his neighborhood. He died of heart failure in Los Angeles, California.
He has a niche in the Boxing Hall of Fame of Canastota since 1990 and his name is the Saint Louis, Missouri Walk of Fame. It is absolutely irrefutable that few such as “Homicide Hank”, have given so much shine to boxing as he did.
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Scott Weiland finds out he was fired from STP from the press
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So yesterday we told you that Stone Temple Pilots announced they fired their singer Scott Weiland. Well, apparently, no one told Scott because, according to him, he found out the way the rest of us did: “I learned of my supposed ‘termination’ from Stone Temple Pilots this morning by reading about it in the press.”
What’s just as interesting is the question I posed regarding STP minus Weiland: Can STP be STP without him? Weiland himself wonders the same thing: “Not sure how I can be ‘terminated’ from a band that I founded, fronted and co-wrote many of its biggest hits, but that’s something for the lawyers to figure out.”
I guess we’ll have to wait and see. In the meantime, Weiland’s doing a solo tour which starts Friday. It’s pretty much the only thing he’s got going on since he was also fired from Velvet Revolver.
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Greetings. I'm originally from Milwaukee, WI, but currently living in Madison. I earned a poli-sci degree from UW-Madison in December 2008 and now trying to figure out what to do...
Anyhow I'm an aspiring music critic, having been published in the Badger Herald (UW's premier student paper) and the London-based blog The Line of Best Fit.
You can follow me on twitter (@_bandnames) where you can find me throwing out silly names for potential bands, as well as other thoughts on life - most of it, music-related.
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Black Label Society released new video: My Dying Time
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Black Label Society Source Black Label Society decided to share a new song from their upcoming most awaited album, through a video full of symbolism. The band’s upcoming album, Catacombs of the Black Vatican, is set to be released on April 8 and it contains 13 tracks. Album artwork Source Talking to Billboard a while ago, about the upcoming album, Zakk said that: It’ll have all the heavy riffs and…
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The organizers of Download Festival 2014 mean business – they’ve just announced a lot more participants, confirming artists such as Opeth, Phil Anselmo and the Illegals, Black Label Society, Bowling For Soup, Flogging Molly, Bad Religion, the BossHoss, Skid Row, Tesla, Bury Tomorrow, Danger Danger, Powerman 5000, Huntress, the Graveltones and Anti-Mortem. The headliners had been previously announced: Avenged Sevenfold, Linkin Park and Aerosmith. Rob Zombie, Fall Out Boy and Alter Bridge were announced as…
Black Label Society reveal new details about upcoming album
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Source Black Label Society finally reveals the release date for their upcoming album, Catacombs of the Black Vatican. The band’s forthcoming album is set to be released on April 8 and was announced through a video trailer and a message posted on the band’s official facebook page: WE WON’T STOP UNTIL IT’S COMPLETE BLACK LABEL WORLD DOMINATION! Share the video with your friends and DESTROY AND CONQUER! tBLSt GIFD Talking to…
Black Label Society began working on a new album
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Gor clash a welcome entertainment ahead of Shield semis
Head coach Dunstan Nyaudo follows proceedings in the game against Wazito on Sunday 16th September, 2018
Head coach Dunstan Nyaudo has embarked on preparations for the midweek clash against Gor Mahia, just a few hours after the win over Wazito FC in the Kenyan Premier League (KPL) and while the Gor match will be crucial in deciding the final placing on the log, the SportPesa Shield semi final against Kariobangi Sharks holds a special place for the team and its plans.
The team will be up against Gor on Wednesday then Sharks comes on Sunday. Both matches will have apportioned importance and The Don is seeking positive results in both.
“The Gor game will be an entertaining match, and a good one for us because Gor have nothing much to play for after winning the league, while we will be out to play for a better position so it will be an entertaining match.
“But of course the most important game in our schedule is the Sharks game. We have to be at our best for these matches because we are playing in very tight timelines and it is not easy. The players will be worn out but we have to do this because a lot of what we have done in the season will be hinged on these matches,” he said.
The coach also lauded the team for the hard fought win against a battling Wazito FC side. While the winning margin should have been bigger than the 1 – 0 posted, he was just satisfied that the team took home three points to move fourth on the log.
“We prepared for the whole week to play a tough team. Most importantly, we wanted to go for an early goal because we knew very well that being the relegation zone, they (Wazito) would come strongly. We wanted the goal then defend well knowing we have the advantage and we created some five good chances that we should have used.
“I am very satisfied with the result because I expected from Wazito more than they threw at us. They are a good side and I wish them the best in the remaining games,” he added.
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Home guvklaswmxrn Gov’t Wants NSA’s US$284K Case Transferred
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Gov’t Wants NSA’s US$284K Case Transferred
A legal argument as to whether or not a case in which US$247,000 was allegedly confiscated from a group of Korean nationals by officers of the National Security Agency (NSA) should be transferred from Monrovia, in Montserrado County, to another county for hearing will be decided on Friday by Judge Yussif Kaba of the Civil Law Court at the Temple of Justice.Judge Kaba’s decision to reserve ruling on the change of venue for the case came immediately after he listened to the lawyers pushing their respective arguments to convince him.In 2014, the NSA confiscated from a group of Korean businessmen, Messrs Jung Dal Park, Chae Dae Byoung, Chold Jung Woo, Cha Kwang Woon and Aleck Gold, without a court order, the amount of US$247,000. The NSA claimed the cash was ‘counterfeit banknotes,’ and placed it in an escrow account. The remaining US$37,000 was unaccounted for.The Korean investors denied the claim and are seeking legal redress to get their money back from the NSA.At yesterday’s proceedings, state lawyer Cllr. Augustine Fayiah argued that should the matter be decided in Monrovia, there would be no justice for the state on grounds that the issue had been heard on various media outlets on several occasions. According to Cllr. Fayiah, public perception could influence the jury’s decision.They also argued that if they were to hear the matter in Monrovia, prospective jurors already have their minds made up that the allegation was true; and as such, they would not have a fair trial.On the other hand, lawyers for the Koreans argued that if the matter were to go to another county, their clients would be burdened by huge expenses such as hotel bills, food, and transport, among others.Judge Kaba is expected to decide on these arguments on Friday.In their complaint, the Korean businessmen alleged that they withdrew US$284,000 on bank slips from the International Bank (IB) on July 8, 2014. They alleged that while they were going through a business transaction for gold with Nasser Ally, a Lebanese businessman who had invited them to Liberia, the NSA agents, who claimed that the US bills were ‘counterfeit bank notes,’ confiscated their money.They believed that somebody at the IB Bank alerted Fumbah Sirleaf, head of the NSA, who reportedly sent his agents to seize the money. “Further,” they claimed in their complaint, “our clients have presented to us emails which were exchanged with Mr. Ally prior to their visit to Liberia and were shocked that after they were jointly arrested along with Mr. Ally while transacting business, Fumba Sirleaf allegedly instructed his boys to remove Mr. Ally from the midst of the Koreans to an unknown area. After a while, the plain-clothes security returned and confiscated the money claiming it was counterfeit US banknotes.“Of course, Ally from that moment, was seen as ‘cooperating’ with the investigators and was never seen again.“What is mind-boggling is that none of our clients or a third party was present when US$49,300 of the US$284,000 was declared as ‘counterfeit notes’ by the same arresting officers who confiscated our clients’ money.”Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
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Senate confirms Stephen Hahn, an oncologist, as FDA commissioner
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By Laurie McGinley Washington Post December 13, 2019
WASHINGTON — Stephen Hahn, an oncologist and top official at MD Anderson Cancer Center, was confirmed Thursday as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. The Senate vote was 72 to 18.
Hahn, 59, takes over as the FDA juggles vexing political and health issues, including the Trump administration’s still-unresolved response to a surge in underage vaping over the past two years.
Other challenging issues awaiting him include Trump administration efforts to allow the importation of some cheaper drugs from Canada, the regulation of food and other products containing CBD, and the sales of unapproved treatments by commercial stem cell clinics. He becomes the fourth chief of the agency this year.
Forty-nine Republicans and 23 Democrats voted for Hahn’s confirmation. Seventeen Democrats, including independent Senator Angus King of Maine, voted no.
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Hahn told senators at his confirmation hearing last month that the rise of teen vaping was an ‘‘important, urgent crisis,’’ adding, ‘‘I do not want to see another generation of Americans become addicted to tobacco and nicotine and I believe that we need to take aggressive to stop that.’’ He pledged to use science and data to guide decisions on that and other topics. But it’s clear the ultimate decision on vaping will be made by President Trump himself.
In September, the president said the FDA would ban non-tobacco-flavored e-cigarettes, a response to data showing almost 28 percent of high schoolers had vaped in the previous 30 days. But last month, Trump declined to finalize the ban because of concerns that job losses in the vaping industry and disgruntled vapers could hurt his reelection prospects. At a recent White House meeting with health groups, vaping advocates and tobacco executives, Trump expressed concerns that a flavored e-cigarette ban could lead to a rise in counterfeit products.
Senator Richard Durbin, an Illinois Democrat who endorsed Hahn as commissioner on Wednesday and strongly favors a ban on flavored e-cigarettes, said the Texas cancer doctor might find himself responsible for implementing a vaping policy that will prove ineffective. ‘‘Dr. Hahn may find himself in a compromised position soon, and I told him as much,’’ Durbin said in a statement.
Several former FDA heads agreed curbing underage vaping should be Hahn’s top priority. ‘‘Every parent of a teenager is concerned their kids will become addicted,’’ said David Kessler, who served as commissioner during the George H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations and pushed for FDA authority over tobacco products.
Vaping advocates, meanwhile, say flavors are critically important to adults using e-cigarettes to quit smoking, and argue the youth-use problem can be eased by increasing the federal tobacco-purchasing age to 21 and taking other steps to make it harder for minors to get e-cigarettes.
Vaping is one of several tough issues pending at the sprawling FDA. With a budget of $5.7 billion, the agency regulates products accounting for about 20 cents of every dollar spent by US consumers, including over-the-counter and prescription drugs, tobacco products and much of the nation’s food supply.
Robert Califf, FDA commissioner during the Obama administration, said key issues facing Hahn include the ongoing opioid epidemic and declines in life expectancy caused in part by chronic disease, suicide and depression.
He also urged Hahn to press forward with agency efforts to incorporate ‘‘real world evidence” — information from sources such as electronic medical records — in evaluating drugs. ‘‘We need much better evidence about medical products in practice,’’ he said.
One of the most sensitive issues facing Hahn involves Trump’s vow to allow states and others to import cheaper prescription drugs from Canada to ease the financial burden of high drug costs. The FDA, which has long been leery of importation for safety reasons, has sent the White House a proposed rule but officials at the Department of Health and Human Services view it as too restrictive and are trying to broaden it.
Former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb, who stepped down from the post in April, said another early political challenge for Hahn will be the increasing congressional pressure for the FDA to create ‘‘an immediate path for CBD or cannabidiol to be added to food products.’’ After Congress legalized hemp last year, companies rushed to put CBD — which, unlike THC, is not psychoactive — in everything from cookies to coffees.
Recently, the FDA accused several companies of illegally selling products. The agency said that it couldn’t conclude that CBD is safe for human consumption, though it would continue ‘‘to explore potential pathways for various types of CBD products to be lawfully marketed.’’
Mark McClellan, who was commissioner during the George W. Bush administration advised Hahn to continue pressing to reduce smoking and to keep ‘‘the agency up to date with the ever-advancing scientific environment,’’ including science-based approaches to reducing drug costs.
Hahn, a researcher as well as a medical and radiation oncologist, has most recently been chief medical executive at MD Anderson in Houston, responsible for the cancer center’s clinical care. He is the first permanent FDA commissioner since Gottlieb’s departure in the spring. In the interim, Norman ‘‘Ned’’ Sharpless, who was director of the National Cancer Institute and has since returned to that job, and Brett Giroir, assistant secretary for health at HHS, served as acting FDA chiefs.
In the early 1990s, Hahn worked at the NCI. He joined the University of Pennsylvania in 1996, serving as chair of radiation oncology from 2005 to 2014. He then moved to MD Anderson to become division head of radiation oncology. In 2017, he served as chief operating officer of the hospital during a period of big losses and staff cuts, and has been praised for helping engineer the cancer center’s financial turnaround.
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If You Build, They Come
Moscow Suburbs Celebrates Opening of Mikveh
by Rena Greenberg - Moscow, Russia
The Jewish community of Sokolniki, Moscow recently celebrated the opening of their first mikveh in grand style, a development that is astounding even to local Chabad emissary Rabbi Avraham Bekerman. On Tuesday, February 23, dozens of community rabbis, dignitaries and donors inaugurated the new mikveh, followed by a day-long celebration and education for 200 local women on Sunday February 28.
The spa-like ritual bath has has been lauded in local media for its beauty and elegance, drawing hundreds of visitors eager to have a look at the luxurious facilities featuring gold-plated fixtures and elegant furnishings. The architects of the world-class mikveh also integrated innovative technologies throughout the facility. Mikveh users communicate with the mikveh attendant via personal ipads, and even choose their own surround sound music as they prepare.
Time to Build
The now-open mikvah is the fifth ritual bath to serve Moscow’s Jewish community, which numbers in the hundred thousands. Mikveh observance has seen a dramatic revival among the women at Moscow’s 20 Chabad houses in recent years, and attendance at the previous four mikvehs has grown as well.
Still, Rabbi Bekerman, who moved with his wife Frumi, to Sokolniki about 15 years ago, never thought of building a mikvah for his own community.
“We moved here because the campus opened here, but we had limited interaction with the local Jewish community, as our main focus was Machon Chamesh, a university we founded for Jewish women,” says Bekerman.
Some 100 women ages 17-22, study at Machon Chomesh, where students take courses in a wide range of subjects, including Judaic studies. As the school found a firm footing and no longer needed their full-time efforts, the Bekermans began working with the local community which has a sizable Jewish population.
“In my building alone, thirty percent of the residents are Jewish,” Bekerman says. As he became more familiar with the community, the rabbi received requests to build a local mikveh. “The closest mikveh is only 7 km away, but in Moscow traffic that drive can take an hour or longer.”
When he confirmed that there were several local families who would begin to observe mikveh, but were deterred by the travel, Bekerman took action. The rabbi secured the financial commitment of various Jewish philanthropists and construction began on the facility two years ago.
“Going into this project, my wife and I felt that it was important that the mikveh be beautiful and luxurious, allowing the women who would use it to enjoy the experience.” The construction generated a buzz in the community, and as more families expressed interest in using the facility, an additional room was added to the original two that had been planned.
As construction neared completion, the Chabad couple explored ways to raise awareness of this tradition within their community. “But we realized that there were very few materials on the subject of mikveh in Russian,” says Bekerman. The rabbi enlisted the help of a Moscow-based mikveh expert, Rivky Wilansky, and local Russian translators, and founded www.mikva.ru, an online website where women in Russian speaking countries can locate the closest mikveh and peruse related literature.
Awareness and Education
More than 200 women attended “The Secret of the Jewish Woman,” participating at lectures, a mikvah tour, workshops and symposiums focused on various aspects of Jewish family life.
“When we planned the event, I thought maybe 50 women would come if we were lucky,” says Frumie Bekerman, co-director of Machon Chamesh. She reached out to a few of their closest community members, many of them graduates of Machon Chamesh, and recruited them in a grassroots effort to spread the word about the event.
“Mikveh is such a delicate topic, but inaugurating the new building was the perfect vehicle to bring it to the forefront,” she explains. When registration quickly topped 200, the organizers had to turn people away for lack of room. “The response and the community’s enthusiasm have been extraordinary.”
“Most of the women came in not knowing anything about this mitzvah,” Frumie observes. The sessions, led by local rebbetzins, halakhic experts, psychologists and even a gynecologist, introduced the women to the history of mikveh use, tutorials on mikveh use, and explored Judaism’s attitude to love and marriage.
The response was immediate. “Women walked out telling me that then and there that they decided to go to mikveh,” Frumie says. Others who’d never had a Jewish chuppah, decided they wanted to have one, to sanctify their marriage the Jewish way. But the number one response from women was a request for more education on mikveh and the Jewish woman, a demand that event organizers are working to accommodate.
The day of education included a lectures series geared specifically to Machon Chomesh students, most of whom are dating and serious about marriage. The new mikveh in Skolniki will, it seems, have many users for years to come.
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The Society shall be called “Wesley College Alumni” (“WCA”) (formerly known as and incorporating
“Wesley College Past Pupils Union”).
The objectives of WCA shall be:
a) To support the educational work of Wesley College Dublin (“College”) and to bring together and form
a link between Alumni of the College at home and abroad.
b) To foster the spirit of friendship and co-operation between Alumni by means of social and other
c) To form sections of WCA which shall cater for the intellectual, social and other interests of the
d) To provide a Bursary Fund or Funds to assist in the education and advancement of a child or children
of an Alumnus/Alumna who, in the opinion of the relevant trustees, need(s) financial assistance.
e) To provide a Benevolent Fund or Funds to assist an Alumnus/Alumna who needs financial assistance.
f) To provide bursaries for the fees and costs of the education of pupils of the College where families
need financial assistance.
a) All Alumni of the College are members of WCA.
b) Both current or former Governors and current or former staff of the College are members of WCA.
4. Officers
The Officers of WCA shall be the President, the President Elect, the Immediate Past President, the
Honorary Secretary (“Hon. Secretary”) and the Honorary Treasurer (“Hon. Treasurer”).
5. Executive Committee
a) An Executive Committee (“Committee”) to run the day to day affairs of WCA shall be comprised of the
the President, the President Elect, the Immediate Past President, the Hon. Secretary, the Hon. Treasurer,
the Principal of the College (“Principal”), a Trustee from each of the existing Bursary and Benevolent
funds and eight Ordinary Members to be elected at the Annual General Meeting (“AGM”).
b) The President and President Elect shall be Alumni of the College.
c) The Hon. Secretary, the Hon. Treasurer and other Committee members (with the exception of the
Principal, current or former Governors of the College and current or former staff of the College) shall be
Alumni of the College.
d) The Committee shall have the power to co-opt two additional Ordinary Members to the Committee.
e) The Committee shall undertake the financial and general management of WCA and its decision in
such matters shall be final subject to the authority of the AGM.
f) The Committee shall meet at least four times annually. A special extraordinary or emergency meeting
must be held on the written request of at least five members of the Committee.
g) Five members of the Committee including at least one Officer shall form a quorum for Committee
h) The Committee may reimburse when possible out of the current account any reasonable travelling
expenses incurred by the President or his or her representative and administrative expenses of the
officers, all expenditure to be agreed in advance.
6. Council of Trustees
a) The Council of Trustees (“Council”) shall be comprised of the President, the President Elect, the
Immediate Past President, the Hon. Secretary, the Hon. Treasurer, the eight Ordinary Members of the
Committee, the Trustees from each of the existing Benevolent and Bursary funds and the Principal.
b) The Council shall meet at least once between successive AGMs. It shall be empowered to make
recommendations to the Committee regarding the Benevolent and Bursary Funds which shall be under
the full control of the respective Trustees of the said funds. The Committee shall have discretion as to
the manner in which such recommendations shall be dealt with, bearing in mind the joint aims and
responsibilities of both the respective Trustees and WCA.
c) Ten members of the Council of Trustees including at least one Officer and one Trustee shall form a
quorum for Council meetings.
d) The Trustees of the Benevolent and Bursary trust funds shall have full and absolute control over their
respective funds. Any decision made by the Trustees in relation to the trust funds shall be final.
7. Sub Committees
a) The Committee shall have the power to appoint Sub-Committees and to form such sections of WCA as
they may consider necessary.
b) At least one member of the Committee shall be appointed a member of each Sub-Committee.
c) The President and the Hon. Secretary shall be ex-officio members of all Sub-Committees.
8. Annual General Meeting
a) The AGM of WCA shall be held each year in April or May.
b) The Committee may summon a Special General Meeting at any time. A Special General Meeting must
be held on a written demand signed by at least fifty members of WCA.
c) Twenty members shall form a quorum at the AGM.
9. Notice of Annual General Meeting
The Secretary shall give at least 21 days’ notice in writing of the AGM or of any Special General Meeting
to all members. It shall be deemed sufficient if such notice is posted electronically.
10. Election of President and President Elect
The President and President Elect shall be elected at the AGM and shall hold office for one year or in
exceptional circumstances may be re-elected for a second year.
11. Honorary Secretary, Honorary Treasurer and Honorary Auditors
The Hon. Secretary, the Hon. Treasurer and the Honorary Auditors shall be elected at the Annual General
12. Reports and Accounts
a) The Hon. Secretary shall at the AGM present a report of the activities of WCA for the preceding year.
b) The Hon. Treasurer shall at the AGM submit an audited statement of accounts for the year ending on
the preceding 31 st December.
c) The Trustees of the Benevolent and Bursary funds shall submit annual reports at the AGM.
13. Donation
A voluntary donation may be sought from each 6 th year pupil on leaving the College.
14. Chairperson
a) At every meeting the chair shall be taken by the President of WCA or, in his or her absence, by the
President Elect or a Past President nominated by the meeting. In the absence of the President Elect or
Past President the members should elect their own Chairperson.
b) The Chairperson at any meeting shall have a vote and a casting vote.
15. Appeals
All notices appealing for money shall be previously sanctioned by the Committee or the President and
shall clearly specify the particular purpose for which the appeal is being made. The money collected as a
result of that appeal shall be applied only to that particular purpose save with the approval of the AGM.
16. Alteration of the Constitution
a) The Constitution of the Union may be amended by a resolution carried by at least a two thirds
majority of the members voting either in person or by postal vote at the AGM or at a Special General
Meeting. Such resolution must have been proposed and seconded and forwarded in writing for
consideration at the AGM and must be received by 1st March.
b) The members of WCA should be given at least twenty-one days’ notice of such a resolution.
17. Copy of Constitution
A copy of the constitution of WCA shall be posted electronically.
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American dreaming, from G1 to Bilderberg
By: My Catbird Seat
PAKISTAN / INDIA
G1 plus junior partners? Bilderberg? Get a job; you’re not the only show in town, any town.
What’s the connection between the G7 summit in Germany, President Putin’s visit to Italy, the Bilderberg club meeting in Austria, and the TTIP – the US-EU free trade deal – negotiations in Washington?
We start at the G7 in the Bavarian Alps – rather G1 with an added bunch of “junior partners” – as US President Barack Obama gloated about his neo-con induced feat; regiment the EU to soon extend sanctions on Russia even as the austerity-ravaged EU is arguably hurting even more than Russia.
The “civilized” G1 + junior partners could not possibly argue whether they would collectively risk a nuclear war on European soil over a Kiev-installed ‘Banderastan’, sorry, “Russian aggression.”
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich Interview with Al Etejah Iraqi TV: U.S. Manufactured Crisis in Iraq
The Iraqi government is calling for more foreign international assistance to help fight the Daesh terror group.
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich says.the United States created ISIL, aka Da esh, so why would they want to fight them. Every effort is being made to divide the Iraqis.
Back to Iraq: The First 450 Soldiers Are on Their Way
Palestinian government to resign in next 24 hours: Abbas
By: blackbird9
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced that his government will be dissolved within the next 24 hours, Fatah officials say.
“Within 24 hours the Palestinian government will resign,” several senior officials of Abbas’ Fatah movement quoted him as saying at the 15th Fatah Revolutionary Council conference held in the West Bank city of Ramallah late on Tuesday.
The inability to exert authority in the besieged and war-torn Gaza Strip has been cited as the main point of dispute between Fatah and Hamas and the reason for the resignation of the first Palestinian unity government, forged by the two rival movements in June 2014.
“The government will resign in the next 24 hours because this one is weak and there is no chance that Hamas will allow it to work in Gaza," Amin Maqbul, the secretary general of the Revolutionary Council, which serves as the Fatah’s legislative body, told AFP.
Germany prints stamps of Palestinian iconic cartoon
Germany has printed stamps depicting Naji al-Ali's Handala, the cartoon of an orphan who became the iconic symbol of Palestinian identity and resistance back in early 1970s.
In an attempt to raise awareness about the deplorable conditions of Palestinians, Germany’s main post office (Deutsche post) is printing Ali’s work on a series of its stamps and plans to donate the revenue to equip a hospital in the Palestinian city of Beit Sahour, Palestinian television network Paltoday.tv reported on Tuesday.
Israel’s race to economic – and moral – bankruptcy
By: Redress
Jonathan Cook explains why, despite the economic cost of Israel’s oppressive policies towards the Palestinians, the focus of its economic interests and activity is likely to shift even more towards the occupied territories.
Kids Are Paying the Price for Yemen’s War
Hisham Yahya, 13, is an eager student. As we sat in the large, empty yard of his school in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, with weapons debris scattered about, he said he missed going to class. “I just sit at home, it is so boring, and we have no electricity, nothing,” he said. “I want to go back to school so I can start learning again.”
It doesn’t look like Hisham’s school will be up and running again any time soon.
On March 26, the first day of airstrikes by a Saudi-led international coalition against the Houthi rebels who control the capital and much of the rest of the country, Yemen’s education ministry suspended all classes in Sanaa. Many other areas subject to coalition attacks and fighting between the Houthis and other armed groups soon followed suit. Across Yemen, 3,600 schools – 76 percent of the country’s total – have closed due to insecurity, according to the United Nations. As a result, about 1.85 million children cannot take this year’s final exams.
This proxy war, lead by Saudi Arabia, has been an unmitigated disaster, and those in the US and Saudi leadership appear to want to punish to death those who threw out their US-sponsored leader, Al-Hadi, and replace him with a government which is more to their liking.
The airstrikes have killed scores of civilians to date, including women, kids, and the medically fragile elderly. Where is the morality here?!?
Apparently, nowhere to be found in this wretched little war.
This would not be happening if Yemen were not on the Saudi border.
ROTHSCHILD AND THE GAY CAMBRIDGE APOSTLES
By: TheBigWedding
It's not Zionists versus fascists. It's the feudal elite and their mafias versus the rest.
"Lord Victor Rothschild ... made Churchill's decisions, including the bombing of the food trains into the concentration camps, and the continued strafing of the inmates. "Rothschild is on record as saying: "'There will be no room in the new country for shnorrers' (poor Jews).
"He only wanted the rich powerful and influential for the new land (Israel), the rest were to be sacrificed."
Obituary Tariq Aziz
By: Elias
Tariq Aziz, former Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq has passed away. Twelve years of suffering in Iraqi jails have ended and he can finally rest in peace.
Israel’s behaviour will bankrupt it over time
Two recent reports suggest that Israel could face catastrophic consequences if it fails to end the mistreatment of Palestinians under its rule, whether in the occupied territories or in Israel itself.
Three Victories For 9-11 TRUTH Advocate Mr. Christopher Bollyn
It is good to see the videos from Mr. Christopher Bollyn's
"Solving 9-11 Ends The War" 2015 tour continuing to go Truth Viral.
"NEW 2015! Solving 9/11 Christopher Bollyn Live in Dallas TX Feb 12, 2015"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVHstSrC1CQ
Yes, this was a highly successful tour by 9-11 TRUTH Advocate Mr. Christopher Bollyn which I think have scored three great victories for Bollyn and the Truth Movement.
First, there was the concern as to what would happen the second Mr. Bollyn stepped onto Zio-Occupied U.S. Soil as he has been in political exile ever since The Tribe released "Jubala, Jubalo, and Jubalum" with guns and badges on him and his family back in 2006 in an attempt to silence him by beating him up on his own property . . ..
. . .and then, in typical Jewish Modus Operandi, turned around, played the "victim" and claimed Mr. Bollyn "assaulted" the "innocent Police Officers" ("Heroes" since 9-11, of course).
"Articles by Subject The Bollyn Trial"
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Yemen: The Silent Slaughter
By: WUFYS
There are shortages of food, cooking gas, fuel and drugs…The health system is collapsing. Patients with chronic diseases cannot get their drugs, bodies are on the streets, and the city is an open dump with trash covering the streets….It is extremely important to lift the blockade on food and medication and to set up unobstructed channels for air, sea and land access, to provide the population with what they need to survive.
Hawkish Hillary Clinton and Her Israel-First Political Sugar Daddy Haim Saban
Considerable attention has been devoted to the millions of dollars Bill and Hillary Clinton have received from wealthy individuals and corporations for their foundation and for themselves.
Hillary Clinton’s greatest billionaire backer has been Haim Saban, a dual United States-Israel citizen and hardline supporter of Israel, who has openly commented, “I’m a one-issue guy, and my issue is Israel.”
It would not be beyond the realm of possibility that those who handed over tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Clinton Foundation (some of which took place while Hillary was Secretary of State) or to the couple themselves for speaker fees expected favors in return.
Ukrainians Dispossessed, Americans are next — Paul Craig Roberts
Americans are already dispossessed of their livelihoods and careers and their pensions are next. Wherever we look, the fate of populations under Western influence are the same. The Ukrainians are exploited, the Greeks, the British, the Americans.
Apologists for exploitation claim that the rich are richer because they are smarter. But the stupidity of the rich is everywhere visible. The greedy fools have destroyed their domestic US market. Really, how stupid can you be? How do Americans buy when they are forced by offshoring out of well paid manufacturing and software engineering jobs into being waitresses, bartenders, retail clerks and part-time Walmart workers in order that corporate bottom lines improve? Who buys the stuff that sustains the profits? Not Americans who no longer have the incomes to do so.
Explosion destroys part of Yemen's UNESCO heritage site; Saudi Arabia denies responsibility
A protected 2,500-year-old cultural heritage site in Yemen’s capital was obliterated in an explosion early Friday, and witnesses and news reports said the cause was a missile or bomb from a Saudi warplane. The Saudi military denied responsibility.
The top antiquities-safeguarding official at the United Nations angrily condemned the destruction of ancient multistory homes, towers and gardens, which also killed an unspecified number of residents in Al Qasimi, a neighborhood in Sanaa’s Old City area.
“I am profoundly distressed by the loss of human lives as well as the damage inflicted on one of the world’s oldest jewels of Islamic urban landscape,” said the official, Irina Bokova, the director general of UNESCO, the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
It may have been Israel, which has a political motive to erase archaeological evidence of ancient cultures to counter the fact no archaeological evidence exists supporting the claimed great Kingdoms of David and Solomon.Israel's entire claim to the lands of the Palestinians rests on biblical myths about the Kingdoms of David and Solomon and the First Temple, for which there is no hard archaeological evidence. The two best known claimed artifacts for the First Temple, the Pomegranate Temple Staff ornament and the Jehoash Tablet have been exposed as clever forgeries, and locations in Israel said to be connected with David and Solomon are so named out of tradition and "confirmation bias", with archaeologists admitting there is no actual hard data as to what they really were. Contrast that with other nations such as Egypt, Iraq, Iran, etc. where one cannot take three steps without tripping over the evidence of their ancient histories. Such a plethora of archaeological evidence in other countries has proven to be a severe embarrassment to Israel as it underscores the paucity of such evidence for what Israel declares to be its historical origins. Much of the Torah is now known to have simply been copied from other sources. The story of the Exodus actually happened to the Hyksos, not the Hebrews, and the story of the great flood was copied almost verbatim from the Epic of Gilgamesh. People can be forgiven for asking if the stories of the First Temple are also likewise purloined from other places and peoples. So Israel's governments, which justifies its theft on those stories, has a powerful motive to want the archaeological sites in other countries erased, to "level the playing field" by reducing the obvious contrast in the amount of such remains in other countries versus Israel itself. This may explain why, following the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, armed forces guarded the oil ministry while the Baghdad Museum was left wide open for looting and why American forces defaced the ancient city of UR, including building portions of a runway over the site.
Congressmen back role of Saudi Arabia in the region
The Congress members appreciated the role of the Kingdom in bringing back legitimacy to Yemen, saying that Saudi Arabia should be extended all possible support on this matter.
"Legitmacy?!?" Back in 2011, the US covertly overthrew Yemen's government and installed a puppet ruler, Hadi. This is common practice for the US Government as they have done this against fifty other nations since the end of WW2, including Cuba in 1952, Iran in 1953, Guatalama in 1954, Chile in 1973, Iraq in 2003, Afghanistan in 2004, Egypt in 1981 and again in 2013, Libya in 2011, Ukraine in 2014, etc. etc. etc. Back in 2012, Obama proclaimed the installation of the US puppet Hadi as a "successful" US intervention.
But the interventions are not always a success, especially when the people of a nation understand the real hand behind their civil strife. As a result, many of these conquered nations have successfully taken themselves back from US puppet rule such as Cuba in 1959, Iran in 1979, Chile in 1990, Egypt in 2011, and now Yemen, Libya, and eastern Ukraine in play. The US wants to stop this trend of conquered people refusing to stay conquered, but faced with a war-weary American people on the eve of an election year, is using Saudi Arabia as a proxy to do their dirty work of forcing the people of Yemen back under US puppet ruler Hadi.
"Legitimacy" my ASS!
Iraq Body Count: undercounting death with pro-war cash
By: Blacklistednews
An official funding document confirms that the Iraq Body Count (IBC), a widely-respected ‘independent’ antiwar group monitoring Iraq War casualties since its inception in 2003, has received core funding from government agencies complicit in the Iraq War, since 2009. A close review of evidence in the public record also reveals that in 2006, the Pentagon used IBC’s data to legitimise US violence under the military occupation of Iraq.
Over 100,000 attend biggest gay pride parade in Middle East
Jihad and vandalism - Save our stones
As well as killing people, Islamic State is smashing up ancient works of art. Only a little can be done to prevent its acts of barbarism
CIA spending $1 billion a year to arm and train Syrian 'rebels'
By: HangTheBankers.com
Obama’s Stupid Propaganda Stuff
Obama spouts stupid propaganda stuff that is ultimately damaging to the American Republic.
President Barack Obama must know better regarding the crisis in Ukraine, but he insists on reciting the propaganda lines drafted by his neoconservative and “liberal interventionist” advisers blaming everything on Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Watching his behavior in the White House over the past six-plus years, I’ve come to suspect that – if he had been a national politician amid the Iraq War fever – he would have gotten in line just like ambitious Sens. Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and Joe Biden did. Even as President, a position that gives him enormous power to push back against Official Washington’s “group think,” he won’t.
WPost Plays Ukraine’s Lapdog
Ukraine’s Prime Minister Yatsenyuk and Finance Minister Jaresko are on a U.S. trip to drum up weapons and money to crush the ethnic Russian resistance in the east – and they are finding a lapdog U.S. press that won’t ask them tough questions.
There once was a time when the U.S. news media investigated U.S. imperial adventures overseas, such as Washington-sponsored coups. Journalists also asked tough questions to officials implicated in corruption even if those queries were inconvenient to the desired propaganda themes. But those days are long gone, as the Washington Post demonstrated again this week.
Global business risk has never been greater as geopolitical risks are climbing... Interstate conflict is highest risk in 2015 - reflecting the instability in the Middle East & N. Africa - the ongoing conflict in Ukraine - the rise of terrorist groups such
Coalition ‘not over’ until UN resolution takes effect: GCC
The Saudi-led coalition bombing Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen for more than two months will continue until a UN resolution calling for a rebel pullback takes effect, Qatar's foreign minister said on Thursday.
That the same UN that pussied-out and gave Israel a free pass for all the kids they murder? Why is anyone even listening to them?
What Saudi Arabia is saying is that they are going to go on bombing the Yemen people (including children) until Yemen accepts their US-puppet ruler Hadi back!
ISIS Missing Link Alt News And NATO Saying The Same
By: mo
Criminalizing Criticism: A Zionist Project - An Analysis by Dr. Lawrence Davidson
“the Israeli electorate is still dominated by hyper-nationalist, in some cases proto-fascist, figures. It is no way inclined to make peace. It has given a clear mandate for policies … that will further deepen Israel’s colonial venture.”
Adelson’s Anti-BDS Event Links Money To Action
The “secret” Vegas weekend focused on planning for, and funding, a campaign to kill BDS in its academic cradle.
With U.S. billionaires both funding and setting up its top down strategy with Israeli-inspired organizations on American campuses, Israel’s successful invasion of U.S. institutions takes another major step toward “occupying” American institutions.
Four days after the Salon posting appeared, The New York Times buried two paragraphs about the Vegas event inside a longer story which featured the success Israel was enjoying in gaining anti-BDS support in state legislatures in South Carolina and Illinois.
This campaign against American supporters of Palestinian freedom, was prompted by the alarmed awareness among Israeli leaders, and their U.S. allies, that the BDS movement is rapidly gaining ground.
A Rapprochement Or Just Wishful Thinking?
Iranian people have no problem with a rapprochement with the United States...…?Iran could prove to be a powerful strategic partner to the United States, as long as its independence and regional influence are not threatened.
While Mr. Obama had, realistically speaking, no better alternative in choosing the timing for his administration’s foreign policy reorientation, a meaningful follow-through to implement his vision after his term in office expires would need a new Chief Executive with similar convictions; and, as things appear now, that prospect seems somewhat in doubt.
The current jockeying by potential candidates for the 2016 presidential elections is a perfect example of how true national interests are sacrificed for the sake of personal gains.
Israel razes Palestinian land in Wadi Fuqeen to prepare for new Jewish squatters project
The Israeli Wehrmacht on 11 June razed Palestinian-owned agricultural land in the village of Wadi Fuqeen, west of Bethlehem, to pave the way for an expansion of nearby Jewish squatter colonies, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reports.
According to the head of the village council, Ahmad Sokar, Israeli Wehrmacht troops, accompanied by bulldozers, arrived in the early morning of 11 June and razed nearly five acres of land located between the illegal Jewish squatter colonies of Beitar Illit and Tzur Hadassah.>>
Big Powers Supplying Terrorists with Weapons to Target Iran
"One of the terrorist groups in the region is in possession of $30bln worth of weapons, and we should see where these weapons have come from; they have, surely, not fallen from the sky, rather, they have been provided by the big powers and the countries which have manufactured those weapons have urged the terrorists to aim them at Iran," Larijani said, addressing a forum in the Northern province of Mazandaran on Thursday.
He blasted the big powers' double-standard policy on terrorism, while alleging to be pioneering war on terrorist groups.
In relevant remarks in April, Top commander of the Iranian Armed Forces said the US military planes are making regular flights to and from airports ISIL-controlled cities to supply the terrorist group with weapons, money and foodstuff.
False Flag Warning: Isis’s dirty bomb – Jihadists have seized ‘enough radioactive material to build their first WMD’
By: ajkktip
‘The Isis militant group has seized enough radioactive material from government facilities to suggest it has the capacity to build a large and devastating “dirty” bomb, according to Australian intelligence reports.
Report: Israel built and exploded ‘dirty bombs’ in nuclear test
‘Israel built and exploded so-called “dirty bombs,” explosives laced with nuclear material, to examine how such explosions would affect the country if it were to be attacked by the crude radioactive weapons, the Haaretz daily newspaper reported Monday.
The U.S. Petrodollar Is Dying, Behold The Birth Of PetroYuan
Iran could prove to be a powerful strategic partner to the United States, as long as its independence and regional influence are not threatened.
What This World Needs is Some Really Honest Journalists
By: MTJ
Writing about and reporting the Middle East is not an easy task, especially during these years of turmoil and upheaval. But I cannot remember another time in recent history we needed journalists to shine, to challenge conventional wisdom, to think in terms of contexts, motives, alliances, not ideological, political or financial interests.
US stirring chaos in Middle East through ISIL: Analyst
The United States and its allies seek to sustain the growth of the ISIL terrorist group across the Middle East to create chaos in the region and preserve the prosperity of the US military-industrial complex, says a former American intelligence linguist.
Israel Enraged With US Over Advanced Arms Supplies to Arab States
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon raised concerns that the United States' move to supply various Gulf Arab states with arms as a counterweight to Iran could weaken Israel's own US-backed regional military dominance.
Logistics 101: Where Does ISIS Get Its Guns?
Since ancient times an army required significant logistical support to carry out any kind of sustained military campaign...
The lessons of history, however clear they may be, appear to be entirely lost on an either supremely ignorant or incredibly deceitful troupe of policymakers and news agencies across the West...
The American people are being led toward the precipice of another Middle East war, guided by neocons and liberal hawks who are set on "regime change"
Princes Fleeing Saudi Arabia after Yemen's Scud Missile Attacks
Saudis, including Royal family members, are in a rush to flee the country after Yemen's first Scud missile hit a military airbase in Saudi Arabia's South on Saturday, media reports said.
"What do you mean, they are shooting back?!?" -- Saudi King Salesman
“It’s Like a Jail”: Account of Life in Lebanon’s Refugee Camps as Told by a Syrian-Palestinian Refugee
“Compared to Syria, life in Lebanon is disgusting. Life is different in every way: with housing, schools, visas and work—especially work, since Palestinians are not permitted to work, and the majority relies on UNRWA’s meager assistance.
EU, US, NATO, IMF, MI6, Big Oil, Wall Street Meeting At The Bilderberg Conference 2015. On The Agenda: Ukraine, Syria, TTIP…
Only Iran can break ISIS by invading Iraq and Syria
By: Stacy Vassman
"Turkey was primarily involved in the Syrian project. The Turks wanted to replace Assad with Muslim Brotherhood that is related to the Turkish party Justice and Development. Thus the ideology of neo-Ottomanism, which Mr. Erdogan preaches, would have been a great success."
"Erdogan was coming to power with a motto of "zero problems with neighbors." Today, Turkey does not have a friendly neighbor, as Erdogan managed to ruin relations with all of his neighbors."
Friends of Israel: Old and New Patterns in British Politics
By: Ken
Lindsey Graham: Don’t vote for me if your anti-war
The Bomb Iran Lobby Gears Up for 2016
Horrible scare video
Yemen Becomes Front Line in US Drone War
Ebad al-Shabwani was driving his vehicle late one evening last month along the road between Safir and the ancient ruins of Mahram Bilqis in the remote Wadi Abeeda area of Yemen’s central Marib district. His family claims he was, at 16 years old, the youngest in a ride he was sharing with friends.
Precisely what happened next is unclear. What is known is that, out of the darkness, a United States armed drone appeared in the vicinity. It had most likely taken off hours earlier from the US Expeditionary Naval Base at Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, across the Gulf of Aden, and had located its target. The drone fired on the vehicle with between one and three Hellfire missiles, scoring a direct hit. Shabwani and as many as three others were killed.
Secret Directive 11 codifies Islamists takeover of ME, Muslim Brotherhood Alliance with Obama
Directive 11 brought together activists and operatives at multiple agencies to come up with a “tailored” approach for regime change in each country. The goal was to “manage” the political transitions. It tossed aside American national security interests by insisting that Islamist regimes would be equally committed to fighting terrorism and cooperating with Israel. Its greatest gymnastic feat may have been arguing that the best way to achieve political stability in the region was through regime change.
What little we know about the resulting classified 18-page report is that it used euphemisms to call for aiding Islamist takeovers in parts of the Middle East. Four countries were targeted. Of those four, we only know for certain that Egypt and Yemen were on the list. But we do know for certain the outcome.
Meanwhile, ISIS has been found across the border in Mexico.
Saudi-Led Airstrikes Kill At Least 45 In Yemen Capital
Saudi-led airstrikes during the pre-dawn hours on Sunday reportedly killed at least 45 people at the headquarters of Yemen’s armed forces located in the capital city of Sanaa. The attacks came after Saudi Arabia intercepted a Scud missile fired off by Houthi militias on Saturday, escalating a conflict that started in September when the rebels swept in and seized parts of the city.
Drone victim sues US government over family deaths in Yemen
A Yemeni man, whose innocent nephew and brother-in-law were killed in an August 2012 U.S. drone strike, has today filed a lawsuit in his ongoing quest for an official apology over his relatives’ deaths.
US Intelligence Responds ''No Comment'' To Questions Of Support for ISIS
By Brandon Turbeville
On May 25, I wrote an article entitled “DOD Admits Supporting ISIS, Buffer Zones In Syria,” where I detailed the importance of documents obtained by Judicial Watch via a lawsuit filed by the watchdog organization against the Defense Intelligence Agency revealing that the US government was not only well aware of the fact that al-Qaeda/AQI/ISIS made up the bulk of the so-called “opposition” in Syria but that the US supported these terrorist organizations in their drive to create an “Islamic State” in Syria and Iraq.
45 dead in Saudi-led raids on Yemen capital
Twenty civilians were among at least 45 people killed in Saudi-led air strikes on the rebel-held armed forces headquarters in the Yemeni capital early on Sunday, a medic said.
The raids on the army headquarters in central Sanaa came a day after the kingdom’s air defences shot down a Scud missile fired from the war-torn country.
They also followed the UN confirmation of June 14 as the start date for peace talks between warring Yemen factions in Geneva, which both the country’s Shia Houthi rebels and its exiled government said they will attend.
American States are Slaves to Terrorist Federal Government planning Massive False Flag with Seizure of Property and shutdown of communications.
Israeli Mossad posed as CIA to recruit terrorists to attack Iran
Peace Negotiations or War Preparations?
The US strategy of war through negotiations has mixed results. Where it confronts a burgeoning world power, such as China, it has failed. With a weak, disarmed state like Libya, it succeeded beyond its wildest dreams (or nightmares). With “middle level powers” like Cuba and Iran, it has secured political concessions but has not yet eroded the security and defense capabilities of the governments. In the case of Colombia, Washington is deeply embedded in the regime and has openly embraced a naked military solution.
U.S. quietly starts channeling arms from $1.6 billion fund to Iraq
The United States has quietly started delivering promised arms for Iraqi soldiers from a $1.6 billion fund approved by Congress last year, officials said, following mounting Iraqi frustration over the pace of coalition assistance. The Pentagon said long-awaited equipment from the Iraq Train and Equip Fund (ITEF) started being fielded about two weeks ago and was moving as fast as possible. Officials noted extensive, previous arms transfers under different U.S. authorities.
Saudi-led naval blockade leaves 20m Yemenis facing humanitarian disaster
Aid agencies say embargo imposed by US and UK-backed Arab coalition has had dramatic effect, with almost 80% of population in urgent need of food, water and medical supplies
The era of Iran is over; the age of Boycott,Divestment and Sanctions begins
How the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement is changing organized American Jewish life.
The news that Sheldon Adelson will this weekend host a secret conference for Jewish groups aimed at countering the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement is yet more evidence that “pro-Israel” activism in the United States is entering a new phase. The Iran era is ending. We are entering the age of BDS...READ MORE
What really happened in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war
Alan Hart demonstrates from his experience while reporting from Israel and with quotes from Israeli generals that the Arab-Israeli war of June 1967 was a war of naked Israeli aggression not self-defence.
Destabilization, Inc. - Regime change by any means necessary
When the official history of the realm is one day written, it may contain several chapters that establish President Barack Obama as a great flag-bearer of liberty, free trade, and economic recovery. Those chapters will be drenched in distortion, tinged with the blood of true freedom fighters, darkened by the vanished jobs and sickly pall of an economy in permanent decline. But though parlor tricks like fiddling with unemployment numbers and disguising offshoring as free trade are notable for their sheer chutzpa, few deceits are more striking than those that occur in the sordid arena of regime change.
War crimes suspect Tony Blair to lead campaign against the extremism he instigated
Scores of Civilians Killed in Saudi Airstrikes on Yemen's Sana'a
Saudi military aircraft severely targeted Yemen's capital city of Sana'a on Wednesday, killing and injuring scores of people. The Saudi-led coalition, which has been conducting an air campaign against the Yemeni people in the past 71 days, has so far claimed the lives of more than 4,207 civilians as it continues bombing the country using banned weapons.
Bail-ins are coming world wide, and a 11 EU countries must enact the Bail-in rules within two months or these countries will be charged.
Some Israeli leaders do sometimes tell the truth
Still today, 48 years on, there are relatively few people who know the whole truth about how Israel set the stage for war in June 1967 to grab more Arab land. The single most decisive event that made war inevitable happened on Thursday 1 June, four days before Israel launched its attacks. What was it?
Elements of the Coulibaly affair recall the role of the French services in 1999
One thing led to another, and I arrived at three major conclusions :
- The Front National was as creation of the Gaullists, aimed at stabilising the different groups who were excluded from national political life (as the losers of the Second World War, and losers of decolonisation) and re-inserting them into the political arena.
- From its creation, the FN was piloted by the secret services under the vigilant eye of the Elysée.
Battling ISIS: Iran-Iraq War Redux
Obama’s unofficial strategy to fight ISIS may be that of Reagan’s for Iran and Iraq in the 1980s: a long, drawn-out war to strengthen US-Israeli hegemony in the region.
Deal for Greece most likely will not be made by June 5. Euro zone factory output declines. US factory orders decline near recession territory. People do not have enough to make it to the end of month and are turning to payday loans.
Never Mind FIFA, How about a Crackdown on the Banksters?
The belated focus of American and British authorities on the alleged wrongdoings at FIFA can be readily seen as both ludicrous and laughable when we compare that with the absolute dearth of interest by these same authorities in applying law enforcement where it ought to be applied – on the Wall Street and City of London banksters.
Both the timing of the US-launched corruption probe – in the week of FIFA’s annual conference and leadership election – plus the way that senior American and British officials, not to mention the publicity of Western news media, have weighed-in to rebuke FIFA suggests that it is all part of a coordinated political campaign authored at the highest level of government. That, in turn, suggests that there is an ulterior political agenda behind the supposed criminal crackdown on FIFA, and that the ulterior agenda is the Western objective to undermine Russia.
Middle East Turmoil Is Complete Theatre - War Is On The Horizon
Considering the years of propaganda surrounding Iran and its nuclear program, it was clear to any informed observer that the recent US-Iran nuclear deal was nothing more than theatre. After all, the US/NATO imperialist machine has made its desire to wage war on the Persian nation explicit for some time. The only question is just how long this theatre will last before that goal is finally realized...
Israel’s state-approved abuse of children – for profit
German Federal Prosecutor ‘investigating’ US actions on drones base
The German Federal Prosecutor is reported to have begun investigating a US base in Germany that is used as a ‘hub’ for drone strikes, days after a Yemeni man testified in a Cologne court about the 2012 strike that killed his relatives.
According to a report in Der Spiegel, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office – Germany’s highest prosecuting authority – has launched a ‘monitoring process’ to ascertain whether activities at Ramstein, a US base in Germany, violate international law. The officials have reportedly requested documents from German authorities, including the Ministry of Defence, relating to the base – which was recently revealed to be a ‘hub’ for the facilitation of drone strikes in Yemen and elsewhere. US drone strikes in countries such as Yemen, where the US has not declared war, have killed hundreds of civilians, and are widely regarded as a violation of international law.
The Meaning of The ISIS Flag
SEPTEMBER END TIMES EVENTS The Latest Move For Middle East Peace
U.S. Provokes War Around The World As The Economy Crashes
One last appeal before a Bedouin village in the Negev is demolished and a Jewish town is built in its place
The Bedouin village of Umm el-Hieran in Israel’s southern Negev desert is running out of time and appeals before it will be razed to the ground and an exclusively Jewish town will be built in its place.
Jihadists in the service of imperialism
Western governments no longer hide the fact that they’re using jihadists - NATO overthrew Mouamar el-Kadhafi by using al-Qaïda as its its only ground forces; Israël displaced the UN Forces to Golan, and replaced them with al-Nusra; the international anti-Daesh Coalition allowed Palmyra to fall in order to cause more problems for Syria. But while we can understand Western interests, we fail to grasp why and how the jihadists can serve Uncle Sam in the name of the Koran.
Possible Tactical Nuclear Strike (Neutron Bomb) in Yemen?
A video received from Yemen, believed to be taken May 20, 2015, of an explosion, when analyzed by nuclear weapons experts is, by very high probability, a neutron bomb that could only have been an Israeli attack.
Analysis by Jeff Smith who is a nuclear physicist and former IAEA inspector.
Qatar sues French politician for terror claim
Qatar is suing a far-right French politician for defaming the country "and all its citizens" after he linked the Gulf emirate to "terrorism" following the deadly Charlie Hebdo attack.
BEX ALERT - Islamic State Announces That Southern Israel Will be Attacked In Coming Days
Russian Foreign Intelligence chief: Russia is a target because it's a cradle of a new world paradigm
There is a community of some virtually unknown to the society people who not only install American presidents, but determine the rules of the "Big game" for everyone. These are, in particular, transnational financial corporations. But not only them..READ MORE
Maybe Walking Down The Street in ISIS Territory One could Feel Safe
[http://youtu.be/csGkoaW6_JM]
Swedish politician: US is the true cause of the masses of refugees from the Middle East
IMMIGRATION/NAU/GLOBALISM
Syria: Say goodbye to Assad! Russia pulls staff, cuts support.
SITUATION NORMAL: BANKS DISHONEST, GOVERNMENTS DESPICABLE, US MIDEAST POLICIES DISLOYAL
Yemen-bound UN aid ship targeted by shelling, says port official
A UN-chartered ship loaded with humanitarian supplies bound for Yemen was targeted by shelling as it approached the country's main southern port of Aden on Sunday, an official said.
May 31 16:33
Israel Is A Discredit To America — Paul Craig Roberts
Jeffrey St. Clair, one of the few remaining Western journalists with a moral conscience, describes the latest Israeli horror to which we are all accomplices.
The Israel Lobby tries to prevent reports and criticism of Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians by branding every critic of every policy of the extreme right-wing Israeli government an “anti-semite.” In other words, if you object to Israeli armed forces shooting down Palestinian children in the streets and then bombing the funerals of the kids the Israelis have already murdered, you hate Jews and are an anti-Semite.
The success that the Israel Lobby has enjoyed in imposing this twisted logic on Congress, the White House, the media, the universities and the insouciant American public is astonishing. As a consequence, Americans are no longer answerable to Christian morality but to the evil that the Israel Lobby represents.
Russia and China mock divide and rule
Divide et impera? It’s not working. And it’s bound to fail miserably.
As it stands, what we do know is that 2015 will be a hair-raising year in myriad aspects... we all still remain under the sign of a fearful, dangerous, rampantly irrational Empire of Chaos.
Russia could outmaneuver Western financial markets by cutting them off from its wealth of oil and natural gas. The markets would inevitably collapse – uncontrolled chaos for the Empire of Chaos (or “controlled chaos”, in Putin’s own words).
In a different vein of the “soft beds of the East” seducing Marcus Aurelius, the silky splendors of chic Beijing offer a glimpse of an extremely self-assured emerging power. After all, Europe is nothing but a catalogue of multiple sclerosis and Japan is under its sixth recession in 20 years.
Did Israel Buy Its Way Out of FIFA Suspension?
You’d have to be comatose not to know of the startling revelations of massive corruption in FIFA that amounted to $150-million in the past few years alone. Eight current or former senior officials were suddenly arrested at dawn at their posh Swiss hotel, where they were preparing for today’s international meeting.
US preparing for war with China and Russia to save the banks
“There’s a general recognition growing that the driving force for this war is the utter collapse of the entire Western banking system,” Billington said.
“And the view from London and Washington and New York is we have to go to war, we cannot allow this BRICS alliance between Russia, China, India, South Africa and most of Latin America creating new financial institutions to take away our ability to loot the resources in the developing sector,” Billington noted.
International law and crimes against humanity
Lawrence Davidson examines how states that are apt to commit crimes against humanity, such as Israel and its Western protecters, are wilfully eroding international law using spurious excuses, to the detriment of ordinary people.
Common interests vs military power, and the quest for peace
Uri Avnery reminds Israel’s politicians of the poignant lessons of European history, which show that the only real and lasting peace is one that is based on common interests, not military power.
US rebukes Israel while showering it with arms and favours
Jonathan Cook draw attention to US President Barak Obama’s showering of Israel with arms and diplomatic cover despite it having the most extremist, racist and brazenly annexationist cabinet in its history.
Decrepit US Resorts to the Viagra of Militarism
The increasing deployment of American navy, warplanes and missile systems – under the guise of «protecting its partners» – is fuelling militarization of the territorial disputes.
US deteriorating relations with China are the latest manifestation of America’s self-declared «manifest destiny» to behave like a global hegemon.
China, for its part, says that its own military presence in the region is to protect its voluminous trade routes. Beijing has pointedly refused to cease its maritime development projects, mainly land reclamation in shoals and reefs that it says are strictly within its territorial limits.
Saudis still using cluster bombs against Yemen
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says evidence shows Saudi Arabia has been pounding neighboring Yemen with internationally banned cluster bombs, warning that such attacks are “harming civilians.”
POETS’ TALK — Where do we fit in in ‘the march of Time’?
The gatekeepers have, I believe, crucified American poetry upon a cross erected by “language poets,” “identity poets,” “politically correct poets,” “apolitical poets” and general nincompoops -- Gary Corseri
The Arts have fallen into an era of petite academicism, crass commercialism and manipulated populism. So, our challenges are many; they are harsh; let us hope they will be invigorating!
Poets who do not see, who do not confront what is out there and around them-- are cowards! Which needn’t mean that that is ALL we must do! But… we must see and confront what surrounds us at some point! Not always…, but when it’s right to do so. To advocate that we always do it is asking us to be propagandists.José M. Tirado
Pentagon Report Says West, Persian Gulf States and Turkey Created ISIS
When asked repeatedly by journalist and ex-US marine Brad Hoff to dispel claims that the West aligned itself with IS or ISIS at some point in Syria, the DIA’s official response was telling: “No comment.”
Imprisoned Israeli human rights activist vows to fight on
Marianne Azizi describes the ordeal of human rights activist Moti Leybel who was arrested, strip-searched and imprisoned by Israeli police after exercising his right to free speech for only 30 seconds.
Hamas, Fatah must start communicating or forget dreams of freedom
Stuart Littlewood challenges Hamas and the Palestinian Authority to get a grip and reach out with news and briefings to those who are likely to use their material, including the alternative media.
Bank Head: Islamic banking in Russia may ease effect of sanctions and help attract capital from Arab Countries
Herman Gref, the head of Russia’s largest bank Sberbank, welcomed the introduction of Islamic banking in the country’s traditionally Muslim regions, saying it would help attract capital from Arab countries. "We will actively promote the development of such a tool as Islamic banking, as it opens up a good opportunity to work with international partners amid sanctions," said Gref on Friday at a shareholders meeting.
It's Ok, Everyone, Nusra Says Nusra Won't Hurt Us
Al-Nusra Front has taken to the airwaves with a message for all Westerners and Americans in particular – they really aren’t that bad. And there are no plans to attack Americans. They are just your friendly neighborhood terrorist organization, funded handsomely by the West and the GCC, raping and beheading their way across the Middle East. There’s nothing to worry about so long as the US allows them to continue to rape little girls, cut off heads, impose savage Sharia law, and eat the hearts and livers of the occasional dissident.
This message was brought to you by the feudal monarchy of Qatar and its mouthpiece organization, Al-Jazeera and conducted with a journalist whose past is checkered with a conviction of supporting al-Qaeda...
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Kevin Smith Wrote Fake "Batman v Superman" Script and Then Leaked It Online?
There are constant "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" rumors floating around the internet, with most of them being circulated by sites like Latino-Review and AICN. Now comes word that Warner Bros is the one behind these rumors as a way to spread misinformation.
Movieweb recently reached out to its Warner Bros contact, who works in the marketing department. This contact revealed that he came across a "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" script that was commissioned by the studio and producer Charles Roven.
The script has little to do with the actual "Batman v Superman" plot, which is why the studio "leaked" it to several sites. Warner Bros accomplished this by asking its marketing people to pose as recently-fired production crew members when getting in touch with movie websites.
So who wrote this script? Apparently director Zack Snyder has been working with Kevin Smith to put together something believable, yet completely different from "Batman v Superman." Smith was then hired to write the script.
Source: Movieweb
Good thing this site chooses not to partake in the circulation of such rumors
MeTV Remix Promo
Star Trek and The Odd Couple:
http://youtu.be/CXPy2Vl6tzM
So is this means that Jesse Eisenberg isn't Lex Luthor and Jason Homoa isn't Aquaman? Thank goodness for that.
Bet that script was covered in KFC grease.
on July 5th, 2014 at 10:16:43 AM
Words of Wisdom writes:
Hidden meaning is entangled in essential sexual energy.
^ the wise man knows when to speak and when to the f*ck up!
Then smith later ate the script after being leaked
vincere01 writes:
I call bullsh*t. There is no point. It makes absolutely no sense. This sounds like something queertin terriblino would do.
He already "leaked" his last movie on purpose to build anticipation and try to keep himself in the news to stay relevant.
Quidd writes:
I don't get why they are trying to market a film thats not gonna be released for another 2 years.
trutsky465 writes:
At quidd, Jews like $
Someone should leak a Domino's pizza laced with strychnine onto his front yard.
Fat useless f*ck.
BTW, if anyone ever gets the chance to watch Lady in Cement with Frank Sinatra...don't. One of the absolute worst movies I've ever seen. I'd get into why, but there's no point. Just a terrible film with orange paint for blood that magically disappears from scene to scene and some of the worst writing imaginable.
I know it's too late for the thread but they should of hired a white guy or an Asian guy to play Hendrix instead of the nigra from outkast
This sounds too stupid to be true. "Which means it probably is," one might say? Yeah, maybe. May-be.
Good book:
Terrorism in American Cinema: An Analytical Filmography, 1960-2008
http://www.amazon.com/Terrorism-American-Cinema-Analytical-Filmography/dp/0786441550
http://libgen.org/book/index.php?md5=936D853E99169DF6387FB6C108E2A03F
Blade Runner Sketchbook
http://libgen.org/book/index.php?md5=470AFFDE12743FD94FBE95845932C5F6
No uh!
lol, I see it.
Man, this f*cker's hosed.
Gave that Noah sh*t a watch...ugh. Darren's lost his f*cking mind. Definitely his most commercial film, but lacks the intellectual verve of even The Fountain.
Or sucking Nolan's c*ck, whatever he does to keep his job. Horrible f*cking film.
Transformers 5 On the way
http://www.inquisitr.com/1335316/transformers-age-of-extinction-sequel-and-optimus-prime-development-discussed-by-producer/
@Rambo: less of a snooze than Transcendence for sure and Crowe, Hopkins and Connelly don't slouch. Not really. Not their best performances for sure but better than say SMith and Smith in After Earth. The effects are impressive and the narrative is engaging, but if you're looking for the Roland Emmerich treatment of the Great Flood, Noah ain't it. Also a very bleak and grimy looking film with a color palette of mud and sh*t.
Aronofsky's Noah as little to do with the actual story from the bible.
Stone creatures as The Watchers?! What an idiot.
*has not as
So basically Transformers 5 is going to be Prime in space looking for his creators, a la Prometheus 2...but without humans?
I think the stone creatures are the giants of Genesis or something.
Not a very intelligent film, but a damned bit more narratively coherent than The Fountain, that's for sure, which is why I said it's his most commercial film yet.
Instead I highly recommend the funniest film with Alan Arkin and James Caan in "Freebie and the Bean" (1974). Still hilarious after seeing it after so many times.
And don't your time with "They Came Together" and "The Other Woman": Pure garbage!
*don't waste your time...
One's body gives rise to unbridled positivity.
Wow that's some real good movie news Alex. Keep up the good work.
That's funny, I already read this from Smith posting it on Facebook.
Kill-the-director writes:
i like smith but no doubt he will use this story to fill 2 hours of his next evening with DVD
Dude, this place is a'rockin'!
Did Alex die?..
^^Doubtful, they have life-saving drugs for that virus now.
triggax writes:
Is it not 4th of July in the US? Has to be.. I watched independence day yesterday.
Maybe he has a life and went camping or something?
Maybe he's been abducted by aliens.
Anythings possible right?
Anything other than you enjoying male action movies.
on July 6th, 2014 at 10:22:10 PM
He's at home
washing his tights
Ain't no sunshine when he's gone
It's not warm when he's away.
And he's always gone too long
Anytime he goes away.
Wonder this time where he's gone
Wonder if he's gone to stay
And this site just ain't no home
And I know, I know, I know, I know,
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know,
I know, I know,
Hey, I oughtta leave young homo alone
But ain't no sunshine when he's gone
Only darkness every day.
I thought Noah was a lot better than critics are saying.
If you're a bible thumper looking for an answer to Evan Almighty, you're surely out to lunch with this one. Definitely not the worst movie of the year. Crowe is honestly, quite good in the film. Worth a look, at least once.
I close my eyes only for a moment, and the moment's gone
All my dreams pass before my eyes, a curiosity
Dust in the wind, all they are is dust in the wind
Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see
Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind
Now, don't hang on, nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky It slips away, and all your money won't another minute buy
(all we are is dust in the wind)
Dust in the wind (everything is dust in the wind),
everything is dust in the wind (the wind)
Don't I wish... ^
Kody*
And he's 4 lmao We don't play cards very often.
They dont shoot zombies in Canada
they just hang advertisements around their necks and let'em walk around
They freeze to death what with the 24/7 winters we have!
they get brain freeze when they eat frozen brains
Damned frozen zombies have to learn to just let it go.
Still no news.
Well, you know what they say...no news is good news.
c-prime writes:
Is it too late to throw in my two cents?
I strongly think "Noah" might turn out to be the worst movie of 2014. And I say that having seen the latest "Transformers" movie. Such an ugly, dour, subversive, sh*tty movie.
Apart from "Requiem for a Dream" and maybe "The Wrestler", I can't think of a single Aronofsky movie I like all that much. (Haven't watch "Pi", before anyone asks.) And even with those two I named, I'll never go back and rewatch, just like the rest of his filmography. They're all too f*cking depressing.
In my honest opinion, Darren Aronofsky is M. Night Shyamalan for hipsters.
Also, I love how WP, an unabashed secondhand news site, tries to defer blame for all the "Superman/Batman" gossip being disseminated. The hypocrisy is just delicious.
Well, I saw last night The Winter Soldier and while I'm not a big fan of Marvels I must admit that I've enjoyed that very much. Solid action scenes and the next one should be promising.
Also, "Transcendence" had an interesting concept but the end just ruined everything.
In other news, Lewis Hamilton won!
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W ILLIAMS had been athletic most of her life but had not considered running until 2002. She entered a race, won it, and became hooked. She posted impressive results over the next several years in distances ranging from 5 kilometers to the half marathon (13.1 miles). It was during her first full marathon that she suffered her first major setback, a debilitating injury to her foot. The injury cost months of training, but Williams, like Prefontaine, is determined, tough, and dedi-cated. She cannot admit defeat. Common among world-class athletes and other highly successful people, this character trait propels people like Williams to highs, allowing them to inspire others to achieve their own goals. That fortitude of character allowed Williams to survive her late 40s, “that awful phase in a woman’s life called menopause, the point in life where the nuts, bolts, screws, and wheels all come off at the same time,” she says. “Injury after injury, hormonal changes, mood swings, sleepless nights, heart palpitations, you name it!” Desperate to continue competing despite suffering chronic running injuries, Williams turned to triathlons to quench her competitive thirst. Again, she proved successful, placing on the podium in virtually every race she entered. The fitness she gained from triathlons paid off. She ran her second marathon in a blistering 3 hours and 42 minutes, stamping her ticket to the 2015 Boston Marathon, a race with very strict qualifying standards for all ages. Desperate to continue competing despite suffering chronic running injuries, Williams turned to triathlons to quench her competitive thirst. COURTESY ALECIA WILLIAMS Steady rain and near-freezing temperatures greeted runners in Boston that year, but Williams wasn’t deterred. “I was raring to go,” she says. “When I made that finish line, I choked up with emotion. It was one of my greatest experiences.” Williams ran well enough to requalify for the follow-ing Alecia Williams placed second in her age group at the 2019 Azalea Sprint Triathlon in Wilmington after recovering from three surgeries to repair her broken femur. Opposite: Williams finishes the 2014 Age Group National Championship Olympic Distance Triathlon in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 48 WBM january 2020 year. Little did she know that race would hand her a challenge that would end most runners’ careers. On race day, the weather in Boston was hot, dry, and miserable. Dehydration, cramping and heat exhaustion ran rampant among the runners. Despite the conditions, Williams ran a strong pace for 23 miles. Then, it happened.
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Gaming News Wrap [1 Dec 2014]
Zombie Dredd
– December 1, 2014Posted in: Industry, News, PC, Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Videos, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Hello to you all. Thanks to Thanksgiving weekend, it really has been a dry couple of days when it comes to gaming news. That should change again tomorrow.
The top 100 Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare ranked players will be awarded the Grand Master Character Gear by Sledgehammer. Because most of us will never get close enough to wear the armour and exoskeleton, here’s what those elite players will be wearing. [via Twitter]
According to analyst firm Infoscout, 53% of consoles purchased at retailers on Black Friday during the sales were Xbox One units. This marks the second year that the Xbox One dominated console sales on Black Friday. [More…]
Xbox Japan’s boss Takashi Sensui has resigned but will continue to work for Microsoft at their US offices. [More…]
Xbox boss Phil Spencer promised that there will be more Japanese RPGs heading to the Xbox One in the future. [via Twitter]
This past weekend saw the MLG Columbus event played out, which marked the first major LAN outing for Call of Duty Advanced Warfare. With well over 100 teams competing, it was FaZe that beat Optic Gaming to start off the season with a bang. Full standings can be found here. For even more on Day One and Day Two of the event, you can hit the links, with coverage by eSports Nation.
Want to see Far Cry 4‘s second alternate ending? Watch below. Or don’t if you want to avoid spoilers.
A new Final Fantasy Type-0 HD trailer titled ‘We Have Arrived’ has been released, with a shorter version being released for airing in US cinemas this holiday season. Final Fantasy Type-0 HD will be out on 17 March 2015 in North America and 20 March in Europe and will have a voucher code to download a Final Fantasy XV demo.
One of the UK’s (if not the biggest) eSports organisations, Gfinity, have announced their plans for 2015. Starting with the opening of the Gfinity Arena which has been “purpose built for live UK gaming events housing up to 500 fans”, moving via 30 events across six titles and culminating in the Gfinity Championship. [More…]
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About Zombie Dredd
Wannabe gaming journalist. Wannabe zombie. And sometimes clan leader of OAP. Clint O'Shea when in his human disguise.
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'It Feels Juvenile': What Aussie Influencers Think Of Instagram Hiding Their Likes
Valentina Todoroska
10 daily Lifestyle Editor
On Thursday morning it was announced that Instagram will be hiding 'likes' in an effort to encourage users to focus on the content, not how many followers have tapped the little red love heart on their post.
The move is supposed to "remove pressure" on the digital platform's users, with the change being rolled out from today.
While you'll still be able to see your likes, other users will not, and you will no longer be able to view theirs. Video views will also be hidden.
The change won’t affect measurement tools for businesses and creators on Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, and all likes and engagement metrics will still be available in those tools.
READ MORE: Instagram Is Getting Rid Of Likes On Posts For Australian Users From Today
But what happens if you're an influencer and your main source of income is directly tied into how many likes your Instagram amasses? And what if you're a brand who relies on Instagram and the subsequent likes on your post to sell your products?
10 daily spoke to influencers and business founders to find out exactly how the huge move could impact them, either personally, professionally or both. Here's what they had to say:
Lisa Clark, Freelance Content Creator and former 'Big Brother' contestant
Followers: 93.5K
Likes are a huge part of Instagram's business model and how they monetise the platform, so it seems like an odd move to make on a full-time basis.
The change won't impact me personally -- I am grateful to be at a place in my life where I do use the platform to share my life, but it doesn't consume me enough that likes make me feel more or less loved/or liked.
I have also only ever used my platform as a 'second' job, living off money earned from Instagram has never been my priority, so what ever I earn from the 'gram is just cream.
Professionally, that might be a little harder to explain to my clients and also to brands -- it shouldn't be an issue but it just means that they will need to use third party metric platforms to see the actual likes moving forward.
Plus, as a business or brand you will be looking for more than just likes anyway (as these can be purchased) when engaging an influencer or content creator.
There are way more metrics for serious businesses and content creators than just likes... It's not the end of the world.
Michelle Andrews and Zara McDonald, founders of Shameless podcast
We are surprised that Instagram feels like it needs to mollycoddle adults. Our entire digital landscape has been defined by numbers and metrics for more than a decade.
Before Instagram, it was how many likes your Facebook profile got, and before Facebook, it was how many MySpace friends you had. And guess what? We survived, because whether it's our salaries or KPIs, we ascribe numbers to everything.
I doubt that there are many 30-year-old teachers who feel lesser-than because an influencer got 8,000 likes on a photo of her Gucci belt. It’s hard to see how a change like this, some seven years after Instagram really took off, can undo whatever the platform is trying to undo.
Our habits, our perceptions, our attitude to the app and its photos are already deeply ingrained. From a cultural standpoint, we take huge interest in what people flock to, because what is popular at any given moment says a lot about us, what we value, and who we are.
Hiding those numbers feels like a pretty juvenile way to treat grown adults, and seems like something that would be perfect for users under 18 instead.
Sarah Holloway, co-founder of Matcha Maiden and Matcha Mylkbar
I think it’s quite a positive change to the platform in removing so much pressure from everyone to clock up the numbers.
It can be disheartening sometimes that some accounts can reach over a million followers (often just because of a time advantage and different algorithm conditions earlier on) while others don’t feel that’s ever attainable.
It will be a bit disorientating to start with, but I already feel quite liberated by it. We are all subtly influenced by the response we hope to get when we create content but this way, the mentality can shift back even if only slightly to just creating the content you love.
I think from a self-esteem and motivation perspective too, because we are so reliant and intimately involved in our social media platforms these days, it is a positive move in encouraging people to separate the self-worth and value from numbers on a screen.
It’s much more democratic, like podcasts where the numbers and data are so hidden, so that the focus returns to creating what you love, very exciting times.
Dylan Rivier, founding instructor of Barry's Bootcamp
I think it’s a great idea. Somewhere along the line, Instagram shifted from carefree, casual posts, to carefully curated, well thought out, beautiful creations designed specifically to get likes and comments.
Unfortunately it was also easy for people to purchase followers, likes and comments to effectively fool the consumer into thinking their page or post was stronger than it actually was. To a financial gain most of the time, I might add also.
Taking the focus off the numbers will force businesses to look more closely at the content rather than the analytics -- if they like the look of someone then go with them. Don’t just choose to work with someone simply because it looks good on paper.
I can’t see it having any impact on me at all, apart from maybe bringing some fun back into the Instagram game.
Ali Cavill, Nutrition Coach, Writer and Influencer
I think it will be a positive move for many personal accounts but for business accounts it could potentially have a negative effect. Businesses use a variety of methods to determine product popularity and one of those is like count and engagement.
As an influencer I will still have access to this data, however, businesses will now need to reach out to access this information from me rather than just passively viewing my profile to determine engagement.
Jason Neophytou, founder of lifestyle blog Mr Neo Luxe
I believe not displaying likes is a positive change because it will encourage followers to engage with your content in the form of comments.
As a marketer by day, being able to understand your customer (in this case your followers), you’re able to deliver content that interests them, ensuring they’re engaged and loyal.
I’m fortunate enough to work with many brands and my stats will still be visible to me and shareable with clients who partner with me for paid collaborations.
If anything, this change is providing me with more knowledge and insight into what my audience expects from me so that I'm able to continue delivering it.
What about the brands that represent influencers?
Cyan Ta'eed, co-founder of Milkshake, a new app for Instagrammers, told 10 daily that the social media platform is becoming more aware that they need to create the best platform in order to survive, and removing likes is a great step in that direction.
"I think Instagram at its worst it can feel like a popularity contest which can exacerbate people’s feelings of competitiveness. This decision takes away the ability to quantify the success of something by a number and encourages more meaningful connection," she said.
Yet from the perspective of a person who owns businesses that are on Instagram, Cyan believes it will make it more difficult to quantify the success of their content.
"It’s a forward thinking and strategic move on Instagram's part, and will make it a more positive platform. Long term it will encourage us to make content that is more about communicating and less about likes."
READ MORE: Hold Us Back, Instagram Is Finally Introducing A Checkout Feature
Anthony Richardson, founder of Q-83 the influencer authentication program, told 10 Daily that the shift is an opportunity for influencers to adapt and get better at what they do.
"Hiding likes will help separate the ‘wheat from the chaff’ when selecting influencers for a campaign. To date, brands have used followers and likes to determine an influencer’s value," he said.
He said the rise of 'bot farms' and 'fake followers' are a flawed method of assessing how valuable an influencer really is and that is will force those on the channel to find more accurate ways of sourcing data.
"This provides a golden opportunity for influencers with authentic audiences to build long term and lucrative relationships with the brands they support. Conversely it makes it more difficult for ‘fake’ influencers to thrive."
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In a brand new Jumanji adventure, four high school kids discover an old video game console and are drawn into the game's jungle setting, literally becoming the adult avatars they chose. What they discover is that you don't just play Jumanji - you must survive it. To beat the game and return to the real world, they'll have to go on the most dangerous adventure of their lives, discover what Alan Parrish left 20 years ago, and change the way they think about themselves - or they'll be stuck in the game forever, to be played by others without break. Written by Sony Pictures
Genre : Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy,
Actor : Karen Gillan, Dwayne Johnson, Bobby Cannavale, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, Missi Pyle, Rhys Darby, Alex Wolff, Tim Matheson, Nick Jonas, Maribeth Monroe, Marc Evan Jackson, Madison Iseman, Sylvia Jefferies, Friday Chamberlain,
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Country : USA,
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ivan is an ordinary guy who is transferred from modern Moscow to the fantasy world Belogorye. in this parallel universe where characters of russian fairy tales live, magic is an integral part of the daily life, and arguments are settled with the help of sword ght. Unexpectedly, ivan nds himself in the middle of the battle between the good and evil. He has to nd out why everyone thinks that he should play the main role in the occurring events...
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Bad Cat: The Movie
Produced by Turkey's biggest animation studio, Anima Istanbul, The Bad Cat is an animated epic for young adults featuring the unforgettably bad cat, Shero and his foul mouthed gang in action. As animals inhabiting streets Shero and his friends are after what anyone else in their notoriously sleazy Istanbul neighborhood wants: debauchery with girls, food and the occasional drinking binge. This ordinary looking day will prove otherwise as their paths cross with humans, things get a little out of hand in hilarious, harsh and unexpected ways. The Bad Cat is an animated 3D feature film that strikes into our heads the epitome of what a bad cat who's deprived of love and barbeque is capable of. The story involves a sleazy, sexed up cat Shero, discovers he is the father of a bastard son.
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy,
The Wonderful World of Disney
Devoted teacher Anne Sullivan (Alison Elliott) leads deaf, blind and mute Helen Keller (Hallie Kate Eisenberg) out of solitude and helps integrate her into the world.
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical,
There are big changes brewing in Gotham City, and if he wants to save the city from The Joker's hostile takeover, Batman may have to drop the lone vigilante thing, try to work with others and maybe, just maybe, learn to lighten up.
Country: USA , Denmark
Alpha and Omega: The Legend of the Saw Tooth Cave
After exploring the haunted Saw Tooth Cave and finding a wolf who has been driven away from her pack, Runt musters all of courage to help her.
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Thriller,
In a small town, an oil company is drilling for oil. The geologist, Dowd, informs his boss, Tenneson that they detected what could be an ecosystem which could affect their drilling rights. But Tenneson tells them to go on and something happens. Something came out and Tenneson wants to keep it quiet by keeping what came out on ice. In the town, something's been taking the fuel tanks off vehicles, leaving a big hole. Tripp, who lives in the town is frustrated at his life, specifically not having a vehicle of his own. He works at a scrap yard and he's been working on restoring an old truck. One day he thinks he hears something and traps it in the storage pit. He calls the Sheriff who's his step-father, whom he doesn't like. And when he gets there, it's gone. Later he sets a trap for it and sees it's a slug like creature who feeds on oil. He would bond with it. Later a man from the oil company shows up at the yard and asks him about the thing he reported earlier. Tripp feigns it was ... Written by [email protected]
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Opening Night Film, Contemporary World Cinema
This bewitching yet unassuming adaptation of Scholastique Mukasonga's award-winning novel recounts the coming-of-age of a group of Rwandan schoolgirls at a Belgian-run Catholic boarding school.
Atiq Rahimi
For the opening-night film of Contemporary World Cinema, award-winning director Atiq Rahimi returns to TIFF with the world premiere of his third feature, the highly anticipated adaptation of Scholastique Mukasonga's acclaimed, bestselling 2012 novel, Notre-Dame du Nil. Set in 1973, this coming-of-age portrait follows a group of young Rwandan girls at a Belgian-run Catholic boarding school, taking inspiration from true events that would come to foreshadow the 1994 genocide during the Rwandan Civil War. Many of the girls belong to elite families, while others hold less privilege; further division is sown by ballooning anti-Tutsi rhetoric under existing Hutu rule. The terrain is tense, but in the foreground lies a bewitching yet unassuming story of colonial refusal, flanked by adolescent mischief and curiosity that is surely typical but has, in this case, much higher stakes.
Rahimi's second feature, The Patience Stone, premiered at TIFF in 2012, following the success of his debut, Earth and Ashes, which won the Prix du regard vers l'avenir at Cannes in 2004.
Though Our Lady of the Nile is the first time he's adapted a novel he hasn't written, the film still bears the immersion, contemplation, and hypnotic cinematography for which he has become known. A surprise hit comes from the young Rwandan actors, whose first-appearance performances have seasoned depth, capturing a moment in history through the eyes of those so rarely consulted.
KIVA REARDON
French / Kinyarwanda
Belgium, France, Rwanda
Amanda Santa Mugabekazi, Albina Sydney Kirenga, Malaika Uwamahoro, Clariella Bizimana, Belinda Rubango Simbi, Pascal Greggory
TIFF Bell Lightbox 1
Jackman Hall (AGO)
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Fiction November 10, 2017 November 10, 2017
La Lunática
by: Carmen Baca1
A follow up to “Baile De Diablo,” where the fallout from that fateful evening at the Blue Light City Roadhouse continues…
“¡Lunáticos! ¡Brujas!”
We were all lunatics or witches to the old woman who moved into our little village. All the years she lived among, yet apart from us, and every time she passed up or down our rutted dirt road, this was the refrain we heard from her. Whether wandering up to her house at the end of the valley, or driving down to the nearest town for groceries or errands, the old crone yelled at all of us, but mainly at one older woman, Prima María, La Médica — the closest thing we had to a doctor in our community.
Years before, when she was a young girl, Claudia (that was her name at this juncture in time) was a cherished child of two doting parents with an older sister. An accident, thereafter, stole her parents, and the sister who was already married took Claudia in. She was a sheltered child. Her sister and brother-in-law tried their best to keep her safe and comfortable, and to remind her that she was loved. But when she turned eighteen, they began taking her to dances and fiestas in the hopes they could find a good man to whom they could marry her off. It was at a dance at the Blue Light City Roadhouse that something so terrible and shocking occurred that resulted in Claudia being institutionalized. When Claudia was released, she didn’t want to remain in a city where the dance hall and such a traumatic event unfolded and where the insane asylum was located. For many years after she moved to our little town, we silently wished we knew who had suggested she move there so we could lay our complaints at their feet.
The feud between La Médica and La Lunática — the name we eventually gave Claudia — began shortly after La Lunática settled in our rural community. Our town was having a dance one evening, and everyone in attendance was having a grand time. The party was in full swing when La Lunática decided to drop in. No one thought she’d been invited, and since we couldn’t know for sure, no one moved to ask, much less to throw her out. None of us knew her personally and we were too apprehensive about making that all important first move toward friendship. We all had heard rumors she’d come from the hospital in the nearby city of Las Nubes, and since we didn’t know just how unstable she was, we stayed away concerned for our safety. We all wondered why she had even come to our community gathering that evening, being that it was in fact a dance that began her descent into lunacy.
La Lunática was a tall woman, thin and bony. She wore a look of superiority as if she were the village queen. The fact that she dressed in silks and velvets set her apart from us, even when we wore our Sunday best. We knew the woman didn’t see us as equals, and we all felt her disdain as she looked us over. La Lunática moved gracefully across the long room as as the dance commenced causing the musicians to stumble a bit in their rhythm. All the dancers kept dancing however, only pausing to turn their heads to watch her while those seated or standing along the walls stopped their conversations to keep her in their line of sight. La Lunática paused and sat at an unoccupied chair tucked behind a table. Those with their backs to La Lunática swiveled in their seats to keep their eyes on her, even if only peripherally. In time, the conversations resumed and she continued to sit and observe the room. After a while, she stood and made her way to the refreshment table where La Médica stood pouring a drink from the punch bowl.
We kept our eyes glued on the two women. We all knew La Médica; she’d been our “doctor” for most of her life and every one of us had been treated by her at one time or another. Because of this, we knew her character, her ability to “see” things, her lack of tolerance for the lazy or the vain among us, and her bottomless generosity. As La Lunática began to reach for a tea cup with a white-gloved hand, La Médica raised the one she held and motioned for La Lunática to take it since it was already filled with punch. La Lunática mumbled a short “thank you” as she raised the cup to her lips and took a large swallow. La Médica stood skeptically looking up at the woman’s throat when she swallowed. Then she slowly took a couple of steps away as if preparing for something.
“Brrr—ach!” emerged from the La Lunática’s mouth as she let out a monstrous belch. Those close to her swore later they actually saw vapor emerge from her widely parted lips. No one knew if she’d been about to say something specific and no one cared. They were too busy enjoying her reaction to the liquor.
Unfortunately, the moments immediately after are when the condemnation of La Médica, and all of us, began.
“¡Brujas!” La Lunática spat. “¡Lunáticos!”
“Something the matter?” La Médica smiled sweetly.
“¡Bruja!” La Lunática accused with a pointed finger almost touching La Médica’s nose.
“You’ve poisoned me!” She turned for help where there was none. “She gave me poison and now I’m dying!”
“M’bah!” The diminutive La Médica dismissed the accusation with a wave of her hand.
“Don’t you know how to drink mula? Moonshine should be sipped like a lady, not slurped like a horse.”
The punch had been spiked generously with a Mason jar full of moonshine, some of the best turpentine-tasting liquor for miles around. La Lunática thrust the cup at La Médica who caught it in both hands before it spilled, for moonshine was not to be wasted on the clothes or the floor. Spinning on her heels, La Lunática raised her gloved hands in the air and shook her head as if to say we were all too much for her to waste her time on. The room filled with laughter as she took long swift steps toward the exit. Right before she reached it, La Lunática turned and looked at all of us once more. Her voice took on a sort of desperation and as a whole we quieted, feeling a touch of shame for laughing. Until she yelled again, that is.
“¡Son brujas todas!¡Lunáticos todos!” La Lunática bellowed.
“Yes, we are!” one fellow agreed.
“¡Sí, somos brujas— wicked witches!” two elderly woman, Comadre Teresita and Prima Paula, chimed in.
Hollers from the crowd mocked La Lunática, urging her to go back to the looney bin. Defeated she lifted her nose, turned and left with a swirl of her velvet skirt. Her abrupt departure made those of us in attendance hang their heads in shame. We didn’t feel comfortable around her and breathed a sigh of relief when she departed, but the way we did it made us all confess our sins the next day to the Padre who came from town to hear our confessions and to give mass.
In the following weeks we returned to our daily routines, shaking our heads anew when La Lunática passed up or down our dirt road, each time yelling at us with even more vigor. One detail we all remembered was that she always wore those white gloves. And we all knew why. Rumor had it she bore the mark of the devil — his lips had been burned into the skin at the back of her hand as it had on all those who had attended the dance where she lost her sanity many years earlier. We were grateful in those days to be guided in our faith by Los Hermanos, the Brotherhood of devout men who cared for us, for they never would’ve let us go to such a celebration during Lent. Even though La Lunática continued her tirade of condemnation of us all, we felt a certain sympathy for her plight. But we also remained steadfast in avoiding her for our own self-preservation. That is, until the Fall, when the women of our little valley decided to offer her mercy.
Autumn brought the driving winds and the cold and with it the urgency to harvest our crops before the first freeze. Neighbors exchanged fruits and vegetables, one having harvested more than enough pumpkins to go around while another shared his corn crop or wheat crop, and so on. The Tres Compañeras, Paula, Teresita, and Dolores, worked together and by horse and wagon went up and down the valley distributing the fruits of their harvests.
At the top of the hill stood the house of La Lunática, and the Tres Compañeras stopped their wagon several hundred yards away, as they argued over whether to extend their charity to the woman.
“So do we keep going?” Paula asked her cohorts.
“We’re here already, seems a shame to just turn back,” Teresita said, throwing in her two cents.
“We don’t need to take the whole sack to her,” added Dolores.
“What sack? We didn’t bring any sack.”
“What are you two rambling about?” Paula grumbled. “Let’s just take her a few things.”
“Nothings going to happen to the wagon’s springs.” Dolores looked at the road, which was worn with muddy ruts. She added, “They aren’t deep enough to break the wheels.”
“What are you talking about? Never mind,” Teresita stopped herself. “Vámonos ya,” she added.
Comadre Dolores looked at her in disgust, leaving Teresita to wonder why.
“¡Vomito? “Who has to vomit?”
“Bah, ha, ha” burst from Paula’s mouth. “It’s her hearing!” she exclaimed, pointing at Dolores. Distracted by the trepidation of going any closer to the house of La Lunática, both had forgotten for a moment just how deaf Dolores was. Christian consciences ruled the day, however, and they slowly approached. Teresita stiffly lowered her seventy-year-old body from the wagon and tried to quicken her pace to the back, where she retrieved a box of calabacitas, corn, manzanas y duraznos, peas, avas, and cucumbers. There was no way Teresita was going near the front door, so she placed the box on the ground by the wooden gate and backed away. Once mounted, she motioned to Paula to get going.
Suddenly, La Lunática emerged from the house with raised fists, and the horse began balking as if sensing something amiss.
“Leave!” she yelled. “You won’t get rid of me that easily with your poisoned fruit!” She picked up a rock the size of a baseball at the same moment that Teresita spotted the black mark on La Lunática’s hand and gave a little screech. Paula slapped the reins on the horse’s back to turn her away from the rabid woman. The horse reared at first, giving La Lunática time to launch her rocky missile. Both Dolores and Teresita threw their arms over their heads in an attempt to shield themselves.
“¡Apurate!” Teresita yelled at Paula.
“I’m hurrying, I’m hurrying!”
“¡Pronto! Get out of here!”
“Dolly, come around!” Paula screamed at the horse.
“You stupid, or what?” Dolores screamed back. “I’m not getting down!”
Finally Paula was able to control Dolly and they sped off just as the rock crashed against the back of the wagon.
After the Tres Compañeras explained to the townsfolk what had happened, no one attempted to engage with La Lunática again. In some ways this was a shame, as what no one saw during the confrontation with La Lunática was her smiling to herself when she spotted the box of vegetables and fruits the Tres Compañeras had left for her.
The food, both fresh and the portion she had set aside to dry for the long winter, sustained her for some time. La Lunática enjoyed all of it immensely after coming to an understanding that the food hadn’t been poisoned in the least. She had learned to appreciate her solitude during the time she spent in the asylum and preferred to be left alone. In the back of the woman’s mind was the threat of the future looming before her and the dark promise of the stranger — el Diablo — who had ruined her life on that night of her first real dance at the Blue Light City Roadhouse. Fearing she was a danger to others, she avoided forming friendships purposely to prevent putting any of her neighbors, her kind vecinos, from falling victim to the demon which haunted her days and who visited her mind in the nights.
Then something else occurred in our little valley, something which made us all believe witches had truly taken up residence among us. All of us believed then that la Lunática was herself a bruja and that she’d accused us to divert suspicion from herself. But that’s another story for another time…
Carmen Baca taught a variety of English and history courses, mostly at the high school and college levels, over the course of thirty-six years before retiring in 2014. Living on the land left to her by her father, she and her husband enjoy a peaceful county life in northern New Mexico.
Header art by Jessica Rimondi. [↩]
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1. Mafi JN, Edwards ST, Pedersen NP, Davis RB, McCarthy EP, Landon BE. Trends in the ambulatory management of headache: analysis of NAMCS and NHAMCS data 1999-2010. J Gen Intern Med. 30(5):548-55, 2015 May. Observational-Dx 9,362 visits To characterize trends from 1999 through 2010 in the management of headache. We identified 9,362 visits for headache, representing an estimated 144 million visits during the study period. Nearly three-quarters of patients were female, and the mean age was approximately 46 years. Use of (computed tomography/ Magnetic resonance imaging) CT/MRI rose from 6.7% of visits in 1999-2000 to 13.9% in 2009-2010 (unadjusted p < 0.001), and referrals to other physicians increased from 6.9 % to 13.2% (p = 0.005). In contrast, clinician counseling declined from 23.5 % to 18.5% (p = 0.041). Use of preventive medications increased from 8.5 % to 15.9% (p = 0.001), while opioids/barbiturates remained unchanged, at approximately 18%. Adjusted trends were similar, as were results after stratifying by migraine versus non-migraine and acute versus chronic presentation. Primary care clinicians had lower odds of ordering CT/MRI (OR 0.56 [0.42, 0.74]). 3
2. Stovner L, Hagen K, Jensen R, et al. The global burden of headache: a documentation of headache prevalence and disability worldwide. Cephalalgia. 2007;27(3):193-210. Review/Other-Dx N/A To assess and present all existing evidence of the world prevalence and burden of headache disorders. Globally, the percentages of the adult population with an active headache disorder are 46% for headache in general, 11% for migraine, 42% for tension-type headache and 3% for chronic daily headache. The study calculations indicate that the disability attributable to tension-type headache is larger worldwide than that due to migraine. On the World Health Organization's ranking of causes of disability, this would bring headache disorders into the 10 most disabling conditions for the two genders and into the five most disabling for women. 4
3. Stovner LJ, Andree C. Prevalence of headache in Europe: a review for the Eurolight project. J Headache Pain. 2010;11(4):289-299. Review/Other-Dx N/A To update studies on headache epidemiology as a preparation for the multinational European study on the prevalence and burden of headache and investigate the impact of different methodological issues on the results. More than 50% of adults indicate that they suffer from headache in general during the last year or less, but when asked specifically about tension-type headache, the prevalence was 60%. Migraine occurs in 15%, chronic headache in about 4% and possible medication overuse headache in 1%-2%. Cluster headache has a lifetime prevalence of 0.2%-0.3%. Most headaches are more prevalent in women. As to methodological issues, lifetime prevalence’s are in general higher than 1-year prevalence’s, but the exact time frame of headache (1 year, 6 or 3 months, or no time frame stated) seems to be of less importance. 4
4. Expert Panel on Neurologic Imaging:, Salmela MB, Mortazavi S, et al. ACR Appropriateness Criteria Cerebrovascular Disease. J. Am. Coll. Radiol.. 14(5S):S34-S61, 2017 May. Review/Other-Dx N/A Evidence-based guidelines to assist referring physicians and other providers in making the most appropriate imaging or treatment decision for cerebrovascular disease. No results stated in abstract. 4
5. Shetty VS, Reis MN, Aulino JM, et al. ACR Appropriateness Criteria Head Trauma. J. Am. Coll. Radiol.. 13(6):668-79, 2016 Jun. Review/Other-Dx N/A Evidence-based guidelines to assist referring physicians and other providers in making the most appropriate imaging or treatment decision for head trauma. No results stated in abstract. 4
6. Expert Panel on Neurologic Imaging:, Policeni B, Corey AS, et al. ACR Appropriateness Criteria Cranial Neuropathy. J. Am. Coll. Radiol.. 14(11S):S406-S420, 2017 Nov. Review/Other-Dx N/A Evidence-based guidelines to assist referring physicians and other providers in making the most appropriate imaging or treatment decision for cranial neuropathy. No results stated in abstract. 4
7. Expert Panel on Neurologic Imaging:, Kennedy TA, Corey AS, et al. ACR Appropriateness Criteria Orbits Vision and Visual Loss. Journal of the American College of Radiology. 15(5S):S116-S131, 2018 May.J. Am. Coll. Radiol.. 15(5S):S116-S131, 2018 May. Review/Other-Dx N/A Evidence-based guidelines to assist referring physicians and other providers in making the most appropriate imaging or treatment decision for orbits, vision and visual loss. No results stated in abstract. 4
8. Expert Panel on Neurologic Imaging:, Kirsch CFE, Bykowski J, et al. ACR Appropriateness Criteria Sinonasal Disease. J. Am. Coll. Radiol.. 14(11S):S550-S559, 2017 Nov. Review/Other-Dx N/A Evidence-based guidelines to assist referring physicians and other providers in making the most appropriate imaging or treatment decision for sinonasal disease. No results stated in abstract. 4
9. American College of Radiology. ACR Appropriateness Criteria®: Neuroendocrine Imaging. Available at: https://acsearch.acr.org/docs/69485/Narrative/. Review/Other-Dx N/A Evidence-based guidelines to assist referring physicians and other providers in making the most appropriate imaging or treatment decision for a specific clinical condition. No abstract available. 4
10. Olesen J.. International Classification of Headache Disorders. Lancet Neurology. 17(5):396-397, 2018 May.Lancet neurol.. 17(5):396-397, 2018 May. Review/Other-Dx N/A N/A No results stated in abstract 4
11. Cvetkovic VV, Strineka M, Knezevic-Pavlic M, Tumpic-Jakovic J, Lovrencic-Huzjan A. Analysis of headache management in emergency room. ACTA CLIN. CROAT.. 52(3):281-8, 2013 Sep. Observational-Dx 6225 patients To analyze the management of headache patients presenting to the emergency room (ER) at a university hospital in Zagreb. Among 6225 patients, 1385 (22.3%) complained of headache; there were 894 (64.5%) women and 491 (35.5%) men. Migraine with or without aura, tension-type headache or "cervicogenic headache" had 1004 (72.5%) patients (women 67.5% and men 32.5%); secondary headache had 381 (27.5%) patients: 89 (6.4%) stroke or intracranial hemorrhage, 33 (2.4%) primary tumor, 54 (3.9%) metastatic tumor, 200 (14.4%) head trauma with or without hemorrhage, and 5 (0.4%) had an infectious disease. Diagnostic procedure was performed in 413 (29.8%) patients: 314 (22.7%) underwent computerized tomography scan of the brain, 85 (6.1%) electroencephalography and 70 (5%) ultrasound examination. Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and diazepam were the most commonly prescribed medications, followed by fluids, simple analgesics and antiemetics, whereas opioids were prescribed to 3.0% of patients. Among patients with primary headaches, diagnostic procedure was performed in 235 (23.2%) patients, while 40 (4.0%) patients were hospitalized. 3
12. Eller M, Goadsby PJ. MRI in headache. [Review]. Expert rev. neurotherapeutics. 13(3):263-73, 2013 Mar. Review/Other-Dx N/A To review the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in headache. No results stated in abstract. 4
13. Nallasamy K, Singhi SC, Singhi P. Approach to headache in emergency department. Indian J Pediatr. 79(3):376-80, 2012 Mar. Review/Other-Dx N/A To evaluate the approach to headache in the emergency department. No results stated in abstract. 4
14. Silberstein SD, Lipton R, Goadsby PJ. Headache in Clinical Practice. In: olesen J, Tfelt-Hansen P, Welsch KMA, eds. The Headaches. 2nd ed. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins; 2000. Review/Other-Dx N/A Book chapter. No abstract available. 4
15. Mitsikostas DD. Nocebo in headache. Curr Opin Neurol 2016;29:331-6. Review/Other-Dx 20 patients To review nocebo in headache. Nocebo was higher in preventive treatments than in symptomatic ones. Among preventive migraine treatments botulin toxin A showed the lowest nocebo. Generally, the safer a drug was the less nocebo was induced. Nocebo was similar in trials for tension-type headache. To predict and prevent nocebo consequences a 4-item self-fulfilled questionnaire (Q-No) has been developed, with 72% specificity and 67% sensitivity. 4
16. Douglas AC, Wippold FJ 2nd, Broderick DF, et al. ACR Appropriateness Criteria Headache. J. Am. Coll. Radiol.. 11(7):657-67, 2014 Jul. Review/Other-Dx N/A Evidence-based guidelines to assist referring physicians and other providers in making the most appropriate imaging or treatment decision for headache. No results stated in abstract. 4
17. Lester MS, Liu BP. Imaging in the evaluation of headache. [Review]. Med Clin North Am. 97(2):243-65, 2013 Mar. Review/Other-Dx N/A To review Imaging in the evaluation of headache No results stated in abstract. 4
18. May A.. Pearls and pitfalls: neuroimaging in headache. [Review]. Cephalalgia. 33(8):554-65, 2013 Jun. Review/Other-Dx N/A To review the neuroimaging in headache. No results stated in abstract. 4
19. Gilbert JW, Johnson KM, Larkin GL, Moore CL. Atraumatic headache in US emergency departments: recent trends in CT/MRI utilisation and factors associated with severe intracranial pathology. Emerg Med J. 2011. Review/Other-Dx 15,062 patient records To estimate recent trends in CT/MRI utilization among patients seeking emergency care for atraumatic headache in the USA and to identify factors associated with a diagnosis of significant intracranial pathology in these patients. Between 1998 and 2008 the percentage of patients presenting to the ED with atraumatic headache who underwent imaging increased from 12.5% to 31.0% (P<0.01) while the prevalence of intracranial pathology among those visits decreased from 10.1% to 3.5% (P<0.05). The length of stay in the ED was 4.6 hours (95% CI: 4.4 to 4.8) for patients with headache who received imaging compared with 2.7 (95% CI: 2.6 to 2.9) for those who did not. Of 18 factors evaluated in patients with headache, 10 were associated with a significantly increased odds of an intracranial pathology diagnosis: age =50 years, arrival by ambulance, triage immediacy <15 minutes, systolic blood pressure =160 mm Hg or diastolic blood pressure =100 mm Hg and disturbance in sensation, vision, speech or motor function including neurological weakness. 4
20. Kernick DP, Ahmed F, Bahra A, et al. Imaging patients with suspected brain tumour: guidance for primary care. Br J Gen Pract. 2008;58(557):880-885. Review/Other-Dx N/A Review guidance for imaging of patients with suspected brain tumor. Study suggests management for three levels of risk of tumor: red flags >1%; orange flags 0.1-1%; and yellow flags <0.1% but above the background population rate of 0.01%. Clinical presentations are stratified into these 3 groups. Important secondary causes of headache where imaging is normal should not be overlooked, and normal investigation does not eliminate the need for follow-up or appropriate management of headache. 4
21. Kuruvilla DE, Lipton RB. Appropriate use of neuroimaging in headache. [Review]. Curr Pain Headache Rep. 19(6):17, 2015 Jun. Review/Other-Dx N/A To provide guidelines for the appropriate use of neuroimaging in headache. No results stated in abstract. 4
22. Loder E, Weizenbaum E, Frishberg B, Silberstein S, American Headache Society Choosing Wisely Task Force. Choosing wisely in headache medicine: the American Headache Society's list of five things physicians and patients should question. [Review]. Headache. 53(10):1651-9, 2013 Nov-Dec. Review/Other-Dx N/A To draw attention to tests and procedures associated with low-value care in headache medicine, the American Headache Society (AHS) joined the Choosing Wisely initiative of the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation. No results stated in abstract. 4
23. Sempere AP, Porta-Etessam J, Medrano V, et al. Neuroimaging in the evaluation of patients with non-acute headache. Cephalalgia. 2005; 25(1):30-35. Observational-Dx 1,876 consecutive patients Prospective study to estimate the frequency of significant intracranial lesions in patients with headache and to determine the clinical variables helpful in identifying patients with intracranial lesions. Neuroimaging studies detected significant lesions in 22 patients [1.2%, 95% CI, 0.7, 1.8]. The rate of significant intracranial abnormalities in patients with headache and normal neurological examination was 0.9% (95% CI, 0.5, 1.4). The only clinical variable associated with a higher probability of intracranial abnormalities was neurological examination. The proportion of patients with headache and intracranial lesions is relatively small, but neither neurological examination nor the features in the clinical history permit authors to rule out such abnormalities. 3
24. Tsushima Y, Endo K. MR imaging in the evaluation of chronic or recurrent headache. Radiology. 2005;235(2):575-579. Observational-Dx 306 patients Retrospective chart review and literature review to determine the likelihood of MRI depicting an abnormality in patients with chronic headache and no neurologic abnormality. 169 patients (55.2%) were placed in the first group, 135 (44.1%) were placed in the second group, and two (0.7%) were placed in the third group because they had a clinically important abnormality at MRI. Neither contrast material enhancement (n=195) nor repeated MRI (n=23) contributed to the diagnosis. Literature review revealed 2 previous studies concerning unspecified headache (in addition to the current study), including a total of 1,036 MRI results and 22 (2.1%) clinically important results (upper 99.5% confidence bound, 3.4%). 12 studies of migraine headache were found, with a total of 790 MRI examinations. Excluding the 19 patients with complicated migraine, the 99.5% confidence bound of the frequency of clinically important abnormality at MRI was estimated as 0.68%. Clinically important infarctions were noted on MRIs in 5 (26.3%) of 19 patients with complicated migraine. MRI is an unrewarding technique in the evaluation of patients with chronic or recurrent headache and normal neurologic findings. 4
25. Perry JJ, Stiell IG, Sivilotti ML, et al. High risk clinical characteristics for subarachnoid haemorrhage in patients with acute headache: prospective cohort study. BMJ. 341:c5204, 2010 Oct 28.BMJ. 341:c5204, 2010 Oct 28. Observational-Dx 1999 patients To identify high risk clinical characteristics for subarachnoid haemorrhage in neurologically intact patients with headache. In the 1999 patients enrolled there were 130 cases of subarachnoid haemorrhage. Mean (range) age was 43.4 (16-93), 1207 (60.4%) were women, and 1546 (78.5%) reported that it was the worst headache of their life. Thirteen of the variables collected on history and three on examination were reliable and associated with subarachnoid haemorrhage. We used recursive partitioning with different combinations of these variables to create three clinical decisions rules. All had 100% (95% confidence interval 97.1% to 100.0%) sensitivity with specificities from 28.4% to 38.8%. Use of any one of these rules would have lowered rates of investigation (computed tomography, lumbar puncture, or both) from the current 82.9% to between 63.7% and 73.5%. 2
26. Bellolio MF, Hess EP, Gilani WI, et al. External validation of the Ottawa subarachnoid hemorrhage clinical decision rule in patients with acute headache. American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 33(2):244-9, 2015 Feb.Am J Emerg Med. 33(2):244-9, 2015 Feb. Review/Other-Dx 5409 records of patients To externally validate the Ottawa subarachnoid hemorrhage (OSAH) clinical decision rule. No results stated in abstract 4
27. Perry JJ, Stiell IG, Sivilotti ML, et al. Clinical decision rules to rule out subarachnoid hemorrhage for acute headache. JAMA. 310(12):1248-55, 2013 Sep 25. Observational-Dx 2131 patients To assess the accuracy, reliability, acceptability, and potential refinement (ie, to improve sensitivity or specificity) of these rules in a new cohort of patients with headache. Of the 2131 enrolled patients, 132 (6.2%) had subarachnoid hemorrhage. The decision rule including any of age 40 years or older, neck pain or stiffness, witnessed loss of consciousness, or onset during exertion had 98.5% (95% CI, 94.6%-99.6%) sensitivity and 27.5% (95% CI, 25.6%-29.5%) specificity for subarachnoid hemorrhage. Adding "thunderclap headache" (ie, instantly peaking pain) and "limited neck flexion on examination" resulted in the Ottawa subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) Rule, with 100% (95% CI, 97.2%-100.0%) sensitivity and 15.3% (95% CI, 13.8%-16.9%) specificity. 2
28. Mortimer AM, Bradley MD, Stoodley NG, Renowden SA. Thunderclap headache: diagnostic considerations and neuroimaging features. [Review]. Clin Radiol. 68(3):e101-13, 2013 Mar. Review/Other-Dx N/A To discuss the diagnostic considerations and neuroimaging features of thunderclap headache No results stated in abstract. 4
29. Schwedt TJ.. Thunderclap headaches: a focus on etiology and diagnostic evaluation. [Review]. Headache. 53(3):563-9, 2013 Mar. Review/Other-Dx N/A To review the focus on etiology and diagnostic evaluation. No results stated in abstract. 4
30. Mehdi A, Hajj-Ali RA. Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome: a comprehensive update. [Review]. Curr Pain Headache Rep. 18(9):443, 2014 Sep. Review/Other-Dx N/A To review the reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome. No results stated in abstract. 4
31. Quon JS, Glikstein R, Lim CS, Schwarz BA. Computed tomography for non-traumatic headache in the emergency department and the impact of follow-up testing on altering the initial diagnosis. EMERG. RADIOL.. 22(5):521-5, 2015 Oct. Observational-Dx 1098 patients To determine the incidence of positive computed tomography (CT) findings in patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with non-traumatic headache at our institution and (2) to examine follow-up exams, including lumbar puncture, non-enhanced CT, CT angiogram, CT venogram, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), to see how often the use of further testing changes the diagnosis. CT results were divided into three categories: P0, P1, and P2. Negative studies were graded as P0. Positive studies were subdivided into clinically insignificant or P1 and clinically significant or P2. Clinically significant was defined as requiring medical treatment. Subsequently, the electronic medical records and picture archiving and communication system (PACS) were reviewed to determine the incidence of follow-up exams, including lumbar puncture or imaging. The secondary tests were divided into the same P0, P1, and P2 categories. There were 254 positive studies: P1 clinically insignificant (27.1 %, 235/865) and P2 clinically significant (2.2 %, 19/865). Of 257 follow-up exams performed, the majority were lumbar punctures (36.0 %) or CT angiograms (29.5 %). In 19/257 exams or 7.4 %, the additional testing changed the clinically insignificant (P0/P1) diagnosis to a significant (P2) result. At our institution, there was a 2.2 % incidence of significant positive CT findings in patients presenting to the ED with non-traumatic headache. Follow-up testing was variable and resulted in a 7.4 % increase in the severity of diagnosis compared to the initial negative CT scan. 3
32. Carpenter CR, Hussain AM, Ward MJ, et al. Spontaneous Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Describing the Diagnostic Accuracy of History, Physical Examination, Imaging, and Lumbar Puncture With an Exploration of Test Thresholds. [Review]. Academic Emergency Medicine. 23(9):963-1003, 2016 Sep.Acad Emerg Med. 23(9):963-1003, 2016 Sep. Meta-analysis 22 primary studies To perform a diagnostic accuracy systematic review and meta-analysis of history, physical examination, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tests, computed tomography (CT), and clinical decision rules for spontaneous SAH. A secondary objective was to delineate probability of disease thresholds for imaging and lumbar puncture (LP). A total of 5,022 publications were identified, of which 122 underwent full-text review; 22 studies were included (average SAH prevalence = 7.5%). Diagnostic studies differed in assessment of history and physical examination findings, CT technology, analytical techniques used to identify xanthochromia, and criterion standards for SAH. Study quality by QUADAS-2 was variable; however, most had a relatively low risk of biases. A history of neck pain (LR+ = 4.1; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 2.2 to 7.6) and neck stiffness on physical examination (LR+ = 6.6; 95% CI = 4.0 to 11.0) were the individual findings most strongly associated with SAH. Combinations of findings may rule out SAH, yet promising clinical decision rules await external validation. Noncontrast cranial CT within 6 hours of headache onset accurately ruled in (LR+ = 230; 95% CI = 6 to 8,700) and ruled out SAH (LR- = 0.01; 95% CI = 0 to 0.04); CT beyond 6 hours had a LR- of 0.07 (95% CI = 0.01 to 0.61). CSF analyses had lower diagnostic accuracy, whether using red blood cell (RBC) count or xanthochromia. At a threshold RBC count of 1,000 × 10(6) /L, the LR+ was 5.7 (95% CI = 1.4 to 23) and LR- was 0.21 (95% CI = 0.03 to 1.7). Using the pooled estimates of diagnostic accuracy and testing risks and benefits, we estimate that LP only benefits CT-negative patients when the pre-LP probability of SAH is on the order of 5%, which corresponds to a pre-CT probability greater than 20%. Good
33. Perry JJ, Stiell IG, Sivilotti ML, et al. Sensitivity of computed tomography performed within six hours of onset of headache for diagnosis of subarachnoid haemorrhage: prospective cohort study. BMJ. 343:d4277, 2011 Jul 18.BMJ. 343:d4277, 2011 Jul 18. Observational-Dx 3132 patients To measure the sensitivity of modern third generation computed tomography in emergency patients being evaluated for possible subarachnoid haemorrhage, especially when carried out within six hours of headache onset. Of the 3132 patients enrolled (mean age 45.1, 2571 (82.1%) with worst headache ever), 240 had subarachnoid haemorrhage (7.7%). The sensitivity of computed tomography overall for subarachnoid haemorrhage was 92.9% (95% confidence interval 89.0% to 95.5%), the specificity was 100% (99.9% to 100%), the negative predictive value was 99.4% (99.1% to 99.6%), and the positive predictive value was 100% (98.3% to 100%). For the 953 patients scanned within six hours of headache onset, all 121 patients with subarachnoid haemorrhage were identified by computed tomography, yielding a sensitivity of 100% (97.0% to 100.0%), specificity of 100% (99.5% to 100%), negative predictive value of 100% (99.5% to 100%), and positive predictive value of 100% (96.9% to 100%). 1
34. Blok KM, Rinkel GJ, Majoie CB, et al. CT within 6 hours of headache onset to rule out subarachnoid hemorrhage in nonacademic hospitals. Neurology. 84(19):1927-32, 2015 May 12. Observational-Dx 760 patients To investigate whether staff radiologists working in nonacademic hospitals can adequately rule out subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) on head computed tomography (CT) <6 hours after headache onset. Of 760 included patients, CSF analysis was considered positive for bilirubin in 52 patients (7%). Independent review of these patients' CTs identified one patient (1/52; 2%) with a perimesencephalic nonaneurysmal SAH. Negative predictive value for detection of subarachnoid blood by staff radiologists working in a nonacademic hospital was 99.9% (95% confidence interval 99.3%-100.0%). 2
35. Dubosh NM, Bellolio MF, Rabinstein AA, Edlow JA. Sensitivity of Early Brain Computed Tomography to Exclude Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. [Review]. Stroke. 47(3):750-5, 2016 Mar. Meta-analysis 882 titles To determine the sensitivity of brain CT using modern scanners (16-slice technology or greater) when performed within 6 hours of headache onset to exclude SAH in neurologically intact patients. A total of 882 titles were reviewed and 5 articles met inclusion criteria, including an estimated 8907 patients. Thirteen had a missed SAH (incidence 1.46 per 1000) on brain CTs within 6 hours. Overall sensitivity of the CT was 0.987 (95% confidence intervals, 0.971-0.994) and specificity was 0.999 (95% confidence intervals, 0.993-1.0). The pooled likelihood ratio of a negative CT was 0.010 (95% confidence intervals, 0.003-0.034). M
36. Suarez JI, Tarr RW, Selman WR. Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. N Engl J Med. 2006;354(4):387-396. Review/Other-Dx N/A To review aneurysmal SAH. No results stated in abstract. 4
37. da Rocha AJ, da Silva CJ, Gama HP, et al. Comparison of magnetic resonance imaging sequences with computed tomography to detect low-grade subarachnoid hemorrhage: Role of fluid-attenuated inversion recovery sequence. Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography. 30(2):295-303, 2006 Mar-Apr.J Comput Assist Tomogr. 30(2):295-303, 2006 Mar-Apr. Observational-Dx 45 patients To compare computed tomography (CT) with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the presumptive diagnosis and localization of acute and subacute low-grade subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Three of 45 patients had normal CT and MRI scans, and SAH was excluded by lumbar puncture. We demonstrated SAH on CT scans in 28 of 42 (66.6%) patients, T2* sequences in 15 of 42 (35.7%) patients, and FLAIR sequences in 42 of 42 (100%) patients. Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery sequences were superior to CT in 16 of the 26 evaluated regions. 2
38. Mohamed M, Heasly DC, Yagmurlu B, Yousem DM. Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery MR imaging and subarachnoid hemorrhage: not a panacea.[Erratum appears in AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2004 May;25(5):904 Note: Heaseley, D Cressler [corrected to Heasly, D Cressler]], [Erratum appears in AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2008 Nov;29(10):E107]. Ajnr: American Journal of Neuroradiology. 25(4):545-50, 2004 Apr.AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 25(4):545-50, 2004 Apr. Review/Other-Dx 12 patients To determine how often FLAIR MR imaging findings are positive for SAH in cases with negative CT findings and positive lumbar puncture results. For all 12 control cases without SAH, the FLAIR MR imaging findings were interpreted correctly. Of the 12 cases that had positive lumbar puncture results but false-negative CT findings for SAH, FLAIR MR imaging findings were true-positive in only two cases and were false-negative in 10. One of the two true-positive cases had the highest concentration of RBC in the series (365 k/cc), and the other had the second highest value of RBC (65 k/cc). 4
39. Kirby S, Purdy RA. Headaches and brain tumors. [Review]. Neurol Clin. 32(2):423-32, 2014 May. Review/Other-Dx N/A To review the Headaches and brain tumors. No results stated in abstract. 4
40. Montella S, Ranieri A, Marchese M, De Simone R. Primary stabbing headache: a new dural sinus stenosis-associated primary headache?. Neurol Sci. 34 Suppl 1:S157-9, 2013 May. Observational-Dx 50 subjects To evaluate the association of abnormalities in cerebral venous circulation with Primary stabbing headache (PSH). All MRV revealed significant unilateral or bilateral sinus stenosis. Mean age at PSH onset was 35.3 +/- 18.9 years (range 11-67 years). Duration of attacks ranged 1-3 s. Median daily frequency of attacks was 4 (range 2-20); median number of days per month with PSH presentation was 14 (range 4-30). Six patients described attacks in temporal or parietal areas, one at the top of the head, and one in the occipital area. Only one patient had isolated PSH; all the others were diagnosed also with migraine without aura. Seven out of eight patients responded to indomethacin 75 mg/die, and one to topiramate 100 mg/die. Interestingly, both drugs share with acetazolamide a cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) pressure lowering effect. Our findings indicate that PSH is associated with central sinus stenosis and suggest that an undiagnosed ss-IHWOP might be involved in PSH pathogenesis. 3
41. Friedman DI, Jacobson DM. Diagnostic criteria for idiopathic intracranial hypertension. Neurology. 2002;59(10):1492-1495. Review/Other-Dx N/A To report an updated diagnostic criteria for IIH that may be used for routine patient management and for research purposes. No results stated in abstract. 4
42. Friedman DI, Liu GT, Digre KB. Revised diagnostic criteria for the pseudotumor cerebri syndrome in adults and children. Neurology. 81(13):1159-65, 2013 Sep 24. Review/Other-Dx N/A To provide diagnostic criteria for pseudotumor cerebri syndrome in adults and children. No results stated in abstract. 4
43. Sidhom Y, Mansour M, Messelmani M, et al. Cerebral venous thrombosis: clinical features, risk factors, and long-term outcome in a Tunisian cohort. J STROKE CEREBROVASC DIS. 23(6):1291-5, 2014 Jul. Observational-Dx 41 patients To characterize clinical presentation, predisposing factors, neuroimaging findings, and outcomes of the disease in the Tunisian population. This study included 41 patients with cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT). Mean age was 41.24 years, predominantly women (68%). The mode of onset was acute in 10 patients (24%), subacute in 26 (64%), and chronic in 5 (12%). The most common presenting features were headache, observed in 83% of the patients, followed by seizures, focal motor deficits, papilledema, and mental status changes. Lateral (56%) and superior longitudinal (51%) sinuses were the most commonly involved. Multiple sinuses were involved in 46% of cases. Nineteen patients (46%) had a D-dimer level more than 500 ng/mL. Major causes of CVT were thrombophilia (56%), either genetic or acquired, obstetric and gynecological (50%), and septic (34%). Outcome was favorable in 83% of patients. At the end of follow-up, 32 patients (78%) had complete recovery (modified Rankin Scale [mRs] score 0-1), 2 (5%) had partial recovery (mRs score 2), and 4 (10%) were dependent (mRs score 3-5). One patient (2.5%) had a recurrent sinus thrombosis. 3
44. Sparaco M, Feleppa M, Bigal ME. Cerebral Venous Thrombosis and Headache--A Case-Series. Headache. 55(6):806-14, 2015 Jun. Observational-Dx 25 adult patients To report a case-series of Cerebral Venous Thrombosis (CVT), focusing on headache characteristics. Headache was reported by 23 out of 25 (92%) of participants, being by far the most frequent symptom. It was the sole manifestation in nearly one third of the patients (8/25, 32.0%). Headache was typically severe (19/23, 82.6%) and throbbing (16/23, 69.5%), with sudden onset (13/23, 56.5%) and non-remitting (20/23, 86.9%) characteristics. The sinus most frequently involved was the transverse sinus (24/25, 96.0%), either alone or in association with other sinuses. 2
45. Timoteo A, Inacio N, Machado S, Pinto AA, Parreira E. Headache as the sole presentation of cerebral venous thrombosis: a prospective study. J HEADACHE PAIN. 13(6):487-90, 2012 Aug. Observational-Dx 30 patients To study the characteristics of headache as the sole presentation of cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT), namely if there was a typical pattern of headache or if there was an association between its features and the sinuses involved and extension of CVT. There was no association between the characteristics of headache and extension of CVT. Time from onset to diagnosis was significantly delayed in these patients presenting only with headache. In our series, 40 % of patients presented only with headache. There was no uniform pattern of headache apart from being bilateral. There was a significant delay of diagnosis in these patients. Some characteristics of headache should raise the suspicion of CVT: recent persistent headache, thunderclap headache or pain worsening with straining, sleep/lying down or Valsalva maneuvers even in the absence of papilloedema or focal signs. 3
46. Avsenik J, Oblak JP, Popovic KS. Non-contrast computed tomography in the diagnosis of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis. Radiology & Oncology. 50(3):263-8, 2016 Sep 01.RADIOL. ONCOL.. 50(3):263-8, 2016 Sep 01. Observational-Dx 53 patients To investigate the sensitivity and specificity of non-contrast computed tomography (NCCT) in the diagnosis of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST). CVST was confirmed in 13 patients. Sensitivity and specificity of NCCT for overall presence of CVST were 100% and 83%, respectively, with Kappa value of 0.72 (a good agreement between observers). The attenuation values between CVST patients and control group were significantly different (73.4 ± 14.12 HU vs. 58.1 ± 7.58 HU; p = 0.000). The ROC analysis showed an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.916 (95% CI, 0.827 - 1.00) and an optimal cutoff value of 64 HU, leading to a sensitivity of 85% and specificity of 87%. 2
47. Saposnik G, Barinagarrementeria F, Brown RD, Jr., et al. Diagnosis and management of cerebral venous thrombosis: a statement for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. Stroke. 2011;42(4):1158-1192. Review/Other-Tx N/A To provide an overview of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis and to provide recommendations for its diagnosis, management, and treatment. No results stated in abstract 4
48. Wetzel SG, Kirsch E, Stock KW, Kolbe M, Kaim A, Radue EW. Cerebral veins: comparative study of CT venography with intraarterial digital subtraction angiography. Ajnr: American Journal of Neuroradiology. 20(2):249-55, 1999 Feb.AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 20(2):249-55, 1999 Feb. Observational-Dx 25 patients To compare the reliability of CT venography with intraarterial digital subtraction angiography (DSA) in imaging cerebral venous anatomy and pathology Using DSA as the standard of reference, MPR images had an overall sensitivity of 95% (specificity, 19%) and MIP images a sensitivity of 80% (specificity, 44%) in depicting the cerebral venous anatomy. On the basis of an intraobserver consensus including DSA, MPR, and MIP images (415 vessels present), the sensitivity/specificity was 95%/91% for MPR, 90%/100% for DSA, and 79%/91% for MIP images. MPR images were superior to DSA images in showing the cavernous sinus, the inferior sagittal sinus, and the basal vein of Rosenthal. Venous occlusive diseases were correctly recognized on both MPR and MIP images. Only DSA images provided reliable information of invasion of a sinus by an adjacent meningioma. 2
49. Gaikwad AB, Mudalgi BA, Patankar KB, Patil JK, Ghongade DV. Diagnostic role of 64-slice multidetector row CT scan and CT venogram in cases of cerebral venous thrombosis. Emergency Radiology. 15(5):325-33, 2008 Sep.EMERG. RADIOL.. 15(5):325-33, 2008 Sep. Observational-Dx 53 patients To evaluate the role of CT scan as the primary modality of imaging in suspected cases of cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT). Out of the total 33 patients, 20 patients were detected to have thrombosis of one or more of the cerebral venous sinuses or veins, at the concluding consensus reading. MDCTA together with NCCT could identify thrombosis in all of the 20 patients, i.e., 100% sensitivity and specificity. Sixty-four-slice MDCTA together with NCCT provided 100% sensitivity and specificity for the identification of CVT. It can be considered as a cost-effective and widely available, primary imaging modality in emergency situations. 2
51. Chang RO, Marshall BK, Yahyavi N, et al. Neuroimaging Features of Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension Persist After Resolution of Papilloedema. Neuro-Ophthalmology. 40(4):165-170, 2016 Aug.NEURO-OPHTHALMOLOGY. 40(4):165-170, 2016 Aug. Review/Other-Dx 18 patients To review three groups (six per group) of patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension(IIH ) who had received orbital imaging within 4 weeks of fundoscopic examination:(1) IIH patients without active papilloedema, (2) IIH patients with active papilloedema, and (3) patients with no history of IIH or papilloedema Neuroimaging features were compared by using the Kruskal-Wallis one-way analysis of variance. Measurements of sellar and optic nerve configuration showed a statistical trend with papilloedema status. For the control group versus the active papilloedema group, the values were 0.0597 and 0.0621, respectively. For the control group versus the resolved papilloedema group, the values were 0.0485 and 0.0512, respectively. However, globe and sellar p values for the resolved papilloedema group versus the active papilloedema group were 1.000 and 0.6023, respectively, and not significant. Sellar and globe configuration suggest that a statistical trend for persistence after papilloedema has resolved and intracranial pressure (ICP) has normalised. Careful clinical correlation and fundus examination are essential because some of these neuroimaging features can be seen in normal patients and those with resolved IIH, and their presence on MRI may not necessarily indicate active disease or elevated ICP. 4
52. Maralani PJ, Hassanlou M, Torres C, et al. Accuracy of brain imaging in the diagnosis of idiopathic intracranial hypertension. Clin Radiol. 67(7):656-63, 2012 Jul. Observational-Dx 43 patients; 43 control subjects To investigate the accuracy of individual and combinations of signs on brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetic resonance venography (MRV) in the diagnosis of idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH). Partially empty sella (specificity 95.3%, p < 0.0001), flattening of the posterior globes (specificity 100%, p < 0.0001), and CSS <4 (specificity 100%, p < 0.0001) were highly specific for IIH. The presence of one sign, or any combination, significantly increased the odds of a diagnosis of IIH (LR+ 18.5 to 46, p < 0.0001). Their absence, however, did not rule out IIH 2
53. Morris PP, Black DF, Port J, Campeau N. Transverse Sinus Stenosis Is the Most Sensitive MR Imaging Correlate of Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension. Ajnr: American Journal of Neuroradiology. 38(3):471-477, 2017 Mar.AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 38(3):471-477, 2017 Mar. Observational-Dx 63 patients To demonstrate that transverse sinus stenosis could be identified on conventional MR imaging, and this identification would allow improved diagnostic sensitivity to this condition. Transverse sinus stenosis was identified bilaterally on MRV in 94% of patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension and in 3% of controls. On coronal T1 postgadolinium MR images, transverse sinus stenosis was identified in 83% of patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension and 7% of controls. Previously described MR imaging signs of intracranial hypertension were identified in 8%-61% of patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension. Correlation among the 3 modes of evaluation was highly significant (P < .0001). 2
54. Detsky ME, McDonald DR, Baerlocher MO, Tomlinson GA, McCrory DC, Booth CM. Does this patient with headache have a migraine or need neuroimaging?. [Review] [67 refs]. JAMA. 296(10):1274-83, 2006 Sep 13.JAMA. 296(10):1274-83, 2006 Sep 13. Meta-analysis 5470 patients To determine the usefulness of the history and physical examination that distinguish patients with migraine from those with other headache types and that identify those patients who should undergo neuroimaging. Four studies of screening questions for migraine (n = 1745 patients) and 11 neuroimaging studies (n = 3725 patients) met inclusion criteria. All 4 of the migraine studies illustrated high sensitivity and specificity if 3 or 4 criteria were met. The best predictors can be summarized by the mnemonic POUNDing (Pulsating, duration of 4-72 hOurs, Unilateral, Nausea, Disabling). If 4 of the 5 criteria are met, the likelihood ratio (LR) for definite or possible migraine is 24 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.5-388); if 3 are met, the LR is 3.5 (95% CI, 1.3-9.2), and if 2 or fewer are met, the LR is 0.41 (95% CI, 0.32-0.52). For the neuroimaging question, several clinical features were found on pooled analysis to predict the presence of a serious intracranial abnormality: cluster-type headache (LR, 10.7; 95% CI, 2.2-52); abnormal findings on neurologic examination (LR, 5.3; 95% CI, 2.4-12); undefined headache (ie, not cluster-, migraine-, or tension-type) (LR, 3.8; 95% CI, 2.0-7.1); headache with aura (LR, 3.2; 95% CI, 1.6-6.6); headache aggravated by exertion or a valsalva-like maneuver (LR, 2.3; 95% CI, 1.4-3.8); and headache with vomiting (LR, 1.8; 95% CI, 1.2-2.6). No clinical features were useful in ruling out significant pathologic conditions. Good
55. Holle D, Obermann M. The role of neuroimaging in the diagnosis of headache disorders. Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders. 6(6):369-74, 2013 Nov.Ther. adv. neurol. disord.. 6(6):369-74, 2013 Nov. Review/Other-Dx 3026 scans of patients To review the role of neuroimaging in the diagnosis of headache disorders. No results stated in abstract. 4
56. M S, Lamont AC, Alias NA, Win MN. Red flags in patients presenting with headache: clinical indications for neuroimaging. British Journal of Radiology. 76(908):532-5, 2003 Aug.Br J Radiol. 76(908):532-5, 2003 Aug. Observational-Dx 111 patients To evaluate clinical features in patients with headache using neuroimaging as a screening tool for intracranial pathology. A retrospective study of 111 patients was performed and the outcomes were divided into positive and negative. Abnormal neuroimaging was present in 39 patients. Results were analysed using the Logistic Regression model. Sensitivity and specificity of red flags were analysed to establish the cut-off point to predict abnormal neuroimaging and a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve plotted to show the sensitivity of the diagnostic test. Three red flag features proved to be statistically significant with the p-value of less than 0.05 on both univariate and multivariate analysis. These were: paralysis; papilloedema; and "drowsiness, confusion, memory impairment and loss of consciousness". In addition, if three or more red flags from the list were present, this showed strong indication of abnormal neuroimaging, from cut-off point of ROC curve (area under the curve =0.76). 3
57. Sandrini G, Friberg L, Coppola G, et al. Neurophysiological tests and neuroimaging procedures in non-acute headache (2nd edition). Eur J Neurol. 2011;18(3):373-381. Review/Other-Dx N/A An update of the 2004 European Federation of Neurological Societies guidelines and recommendations for the use of neurophysiological tools and neuroimaging procedures in non-acute headache (first edition). Although many of the examinations described in the present guidelines are of little or no value in the clinical setting, most of the tools, including thermal pain thresholds and transcranial magnetic stimulation, have considerable potential for differential diagnostic evaluation as well as for the further exploration of headache pathophysiology and the effects of pharmacological treatment. 4
60. Xu H, Pi H, Ma L, Su X, Wang J. Incidence of Headache After Traumatic Brain Injury in China: A Large Prospective Study. World Neurosurg. 88:289-96, 2016 Apr. Observational-Dx 543 patients To evaluate the incidence of headache after traumatic brain injury (TBI) and investigate risk factors and functional outcome in a large tertiary center with a high caseload. Of our 543 patients (82% men, 18% women), 62% were injured in motor vehicle collisions and 27% in falls. Most patients (97%) were considered to have mild TBI. Follow-up rates at 3, 6, and 12 months were 91%, 75%, and 61%, respectively. Only 12% of patients reported pre-TBI headaches, whereas 58% of respondents reported headache at 3 months follow-up, 54% at 6 months follow-up, and 49% at 1 year follow-up. No statistically significant correlations between age, sex, or TBI severity and posttraumatic headaches were observed. 2
61. Alvarez R, Ramon C, Pascual J. Clues in the differential diagnosis of primary vs secondary cough, exercise, and sexual headaches. [Review]. Headache. 54(9):1560-2, 2014 Oct. Review/Other-Dx N/A To review the differential diagnosis of primary vs secondary cough, exercise, and sexual headaches. No results stated in abstract. 4
62. Donnet A, Valade D, Houdart E, et al. Primary cough headache, primary exertional headache, and primary headache associated with sexual activity: a clinical and radiological study. Neuroradiology. 55(3):297-305, 2013 Feb. Observational-Dx 36 patients To describe clinical features of primary cough headache, primary exertional headache, and primary headache associated with sexual activity and to evaluate potential association with abnormalities in the cerebral or cervical venous circulation. In all primary headache groups, headaches were most frequently diffuse, severe, or very severe. Headache duration was significantly shorter in patients with cough headache (median 6.5 versus 20 and 60 min). An exploitable magnetic resonance venogram was obtained for 36 patients. Stenosis was detected in none of the control group, but in 5/7 patients with primary cough headache group, 2/10 patients with primary exertion headache, and 12/19 patients with primary headache associated with sexual activity. The frequency of stenosis was significantly different from the control group in the primary cough headache and primary headache associated with sexual activity groups. 2
63. Pascual J, Gonzalez-Mandly A, Martin R, Oterino A. Headaches precipitated by cough, prolonged exercise or sexual activity: a prospective etiological and clinical study. Journal of Headache & Pain. 9(5):259-66, 2008 Oct.J HEADACHE PAIN. 9(5):259-66, 2008 Oct. Observational-Dx 6,412 patients To delimitate characteristics, etiology, response to treatment and neuroradiological diagnostic protocol of those patients who consult to a general Neurological Department because of provoked headache. A total of 6,412 patients consulted due to headache during the 10 years of the study. The number of patients who had consulted due to any of these headaches is 97 (1.5% of all headaches). Diagnostic distribution was as follows: 68 patients (70.1%) consulted due to cough headache, 11 (11.3%) due to exertional headache and 18 (18.6%) due to sexual headache. A total of 28 patients (41.2%) out of 68 were diagnosed of primary cough headache, while the remaining 40 (58.8%) had secondary cough headache, always due to structural lesions in the posterior fossa, which in most cases was a Chiari type I malformation. In seven patients, cough headache was precipitated by treatment with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors. As compared to the primary variety, secondary cough headache began earlier (average 40 vs. 60 years old), was located posteriorly, lasted longer (5 years vs. 11 months), was associated with posterior fossa symptoms/signs and did not respond to indomethacin. All those patients showed difficulties in the cerebrospinal fluid circulation in the foramen magnum region in the dynamic MRI study and preoperative plateau waves, which disappeared after posterior fossa reconstruction. The mean age at onset for primary headaches provoked by physical exercise and sexual activity began at the same age (40 years old), shared clinical characteristics (bilateral, pulsating) and responded to beta-blockers. Contrary to cough headache, secondary cases are rare and the most frequent etiology was subarachnoid bleeding. In conclusion, these conditions account for a low proportion of headache consultations. These data show the total separation between cough headache versus headache due to physical exercise and sexual activity, confirm that these two latter headaches are clinical variants of the same entity and illustrate the clinical differences between the primary and secondary provoked headaches. 2
64. Yeh YC, Fuh JL, Chen SP, Wang SJ. Clinical features, imaging findings and outcomes of headache associated with sexual activity. Cephalalgia. 30(11):1329-35, 2010 Nov.Cephalalgia. 30(11):1329-35, 2010 Nov. Observational-Dx 30 patients To study the clinical profiles, imaging findings and outcomes and field test the diagnostic criteria proposed by the International Classification of Headache Disorders, 2nd edition (ICHD-II) in patients with headache associated with sexual activity (HSA). Twenty patients (67%) had secondary causes, including one subarachnoid hemorrhage, one basilar artery dissection, and 18 cases reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome (RCVS). Ten patients (33%) had primary HSA. The demographics, headache profiles, drug response and clinical course were similar between primary and secondary HSA. Compared to prior studies done in Western societies, our patients had similar clinical features but with a higher ratio of females (50%) and a higher frequency of chronic course (39%). 2
65. Mokri B, Ahlskog JE, Luetmer PH. Chorea as a manifestation of spontaneous CSF leak. Neurology. 2006;67(8):1490-1491. Review/Other-Dx 1 patient The study examined a 59-year-old man presented with orthostatic headaches, memory complaints, pronounced choreiform movements, and related hyperkinetic dysarthria and titubations. Head MRI findings were suggestive of CSF leak. CSF pressure was low. CT myelography documented CSF leak at the cervicothoracic junction. Targeted epidural blood patch led to resolution of symptoms, including complete disappearance of choreiform movements. 4
66. Schievink WI, Maya MM. Quadriplegia and cerebellar hemorrhage in spontaneous intracranial hypotension. Neurology. 2006;66(11):1777-1778. Review/Other-Dx N/A No abstract available. No abstract available. 4
67. Syed NA, Mirza FA, Pabaney AH, Rameez-ul-Hassan. Pathophysiology and management of spontaneous intracranial hypotension--a review. [Review]. JPMA J Pak Med Assoc. 62(1):51-5, 2012 Jan. Review/Other-Dx N/A To review the Pathophysiology and management of spontaneous intracranial hypotension. No results stated in abstract. 4
68. Schievink WI, Maya MM, Louy C, Moser FG, Tourje J. Diagnostic criteria for spontaneous spinal CSF leaks and intracranial hypotension. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2008;29(5):853-856. Observational-Dx 107 consecutive patients A new set of diagnostic criteria for spontaneous spinal CSF leaks and SIH encompassing its varied clinical and radiographic manifestations is presented. The intent of these criteria is to present a diagnostic scheme that can be used to more reliably diagnose spontaneous spinal CSF leaks and intracranial hypotension. The diagnosis was confirmed in 94 patients, with use of criterion A in 78 patients, criterion B in 11 patients, and criterion C in 5 patients. 4
69. Nye BL, Ward TN. Clinic and Emergency Room Evaluation and Testing of Headache. [Review]. Headache. 55(9):1301-8, 2015 Oct. Review/Other-Dx N/A To review the evaluation of patients in both settings with mention of evaluation in the pediatric and pregnant patient population. No results stated in abstract. 4
70. Ramchandren S, Cross BJ, Liebeskind DS. Emergent headaches during pregnancy: correlation between neurologic examination and neuroimaging. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2007;28(6):1085-1087. Review/Other-Dx 63 patients Retrospective review to examine demographic and clinical features that are predictive of intracranial pathologic lesions on neuroimaging studies in pregnant women with emergent headaches. 43% of subjects had abnormal neurologic examination findings. Emergent neuroimaging studies may reveal an underlying headache etiology in 27% of pregnant women. Odds of having intracranial pathologic lesions on neuroimaging were 2.7 times higher in patients with abnormal results on neurologic examination (P=.085). 4
71. Azizyan A, Miller JM, Azzam RI, et al. Spontaneous retroclival hematoma in pituitary apoplexy: case series. J Neurosurg. 123(3):808-12, 2015 Sep. Review/Other-Dx 18 cases To review the cases of spontaneous retroclival hematoma in pituitary apoplexy. Eighteen patients (13 men and 5 women; mean age 54 years) were identified with presenting symptoms of sudden onset of headache and ophthalmoplegia, and laboratory findings consistent with pituitary apoplexy. Ten of these patients (8 men and 2 women; mean age 55 years) had imaging findings consistent with retroclival hematoma. 4
72. Jho DH, Biller BM, Agarwalla PK, Swearingen B. Pituitary apoplexy: large surgical series with grading system. World Neurosurg. 82(5):781-90, 2014 Nov. Observational-Dx 109 cases To present a retrospective series of 109 consecutive cases of pituitary apoplexy from a single institution from 1992 to 2012 and develop acomprehensive classification system to analyze outcome. Most of the patients in this series presented clinically with "classic" pituitary apoplexy (97%), had magnetic resonance imaging for evaluation (99%), underwent transsphenoidal surgery as their primary treatment (93%), and were found to have pituitary adenomas on histopathology (90%). We categorized patients into 5 grades based on clinical presentation. Tumor volume, cavernous sinus involvement, suprasellar extension, and need for ongoing endocrine replacement correlated with grade. Long-term endocrine replacement at follow-up was required in 62%-68% of patients with a higher grade compared with 0-23% of patients with a lower grade. Higher grade patients tended to undergo earlier surgery after symptom onset. Symptoms resolved or improved with treatment in 92%-100% of patients across all grades with good general outcomes for visual deficits and ocular motility problems, validating management decisions overall. 3
73. Kim WJ, Shin HY, Kim YC, Moon JY. Clinical Association Between Brain MRI Findings With Epidural Blood Patch in Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension. J Neurosurg Anesthesiol. 28(2):147-52, 2016 Apr. Observational-Dx 185 patients To compare brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings and clinical variables between conservative management group and epidural blood patch (EBP) group. The incidence of abnormalities of brain MRI findings did not show significant differences between conservative treatment and EBP. However, the proportion of patients with severe pain was higher in patients who underwent EBP. In multivariate regression analysis, the incidence of positive brain MRI finding(s) for spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH) increased in patients with older age, higher weight, and an absence in nausea/vomiting. EBP procedure was effective in both younger and elderly patients. 3
74. Robbins MS, Farmakidis C, Dayal AK, Lipton RB. Acute headache diagnosis in pregnant women: a hospital-based study. Neurology. 85(12):1024-30, 2015 Sep 22. Observational-Dx 140 patients To characterize demographic and clinical features in pregnant women presenting with acute headache, and to identify clinical features associated with secondary headache. The 140 women had a mean age of 29 +/- 6.4 years and often presented in the third trimester (56.4%). Diagnoses were divided into primary (65.0%) and secondary (35.0%) disorders. The most common primary headache disorder was migraine (91.2%) and secondary headache disorders were hypertensive disorders (51.0%). The groups were similar in demographics, gestational ages, and most headache features. In univariate analysis, secondary headaches were associated with a lack of headache history (36.7% vs 13.2%, p = 0.0012), seizures (12.2% vs 0.0%, p = 0.0015), elevated blood pressure (55.1% vs 8.8%, p < 0.0001), fever (8.2% vs 0.0%, p = 0.014), and an abnormal neurologic examination (34.7% vs 16.5%, p = 0.014). In multivariate logistic regression, elevated blood pressure (odds ratio [OR] 17.0, 95% confidence interval [CI] 4.2-56.0) and a lack of headache history (OR 4.9, 95% CI 1.7-14.5) had an increased association with secondary headache, while psychiatric comorbidity (OR 0.13, 95% CI 0.021-0.78) and phonophobia (OR 0.29, 95% CI 0.09-0.91) had a reduced association with secondary headache. 3
75. GBD 2015 Disease and Injury Incidence and Prevalence Collaborators.. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. Lancet. 388(10053):1545-1602, 2016 10 08.Lancet. 388(10053):1545-1602, 2016 10 08. Meta-analysis 85 causes To estimate the incidence and prevalence by age, sex, cause, year, and geography with a wide range of updated and standardised analytical procedures. We generated 9·3 billion estimates from the various combinations of prevalence, incidence, and YLDs for causes, sequelae, and impairments by age, sex, geography, and year. In 2015, two causes had acute incidences in excess of 1 billion: upper respiratory infections (17·2 billion, 95% uncertainty interval [UI] 15·4-19·2 billion) and diarrhoeal diseases (2·39 billion, 2·30-2·50 billion). Eight causes of chronic disease and injury each affected more than 10% of the world's population in 2015: permanent caries, tension-type headache, iron-deficiency anaemia, age-related and other hearing loss, migraine, genital herpes, refraction and accommodation disorders, and ascariasis. The impairment that affected the greatest number of people in 2015 was anaemia, with 2·36 billion (2·35-2·37 billion) individuals affected. The second and third leading impairments by number of individuals affected were hearing loss and vision loss, respectively. Between 2005 and 2015, there was little change in the leading causes of years lived with disability (YLDs) on a global basis. NCDs accounted for 18 of the leading 20 causes of age-standardised YLDs on a global scale. Where rates were decreasing, the rate of decrease for YLDs was slower than that of years of life lost (YLLs) for nearly every cause included in our analysis. For low SDI geographies, Group 1 causes typically accounted for 20-30% of total disability, largely attributable to nutritional deficiencies, malaria, neglected tropical diseases, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis. Lower back and neck pain was the leading global cause of disability in 2015 in most countries. The leading cause was sense organ disorders in 22 countries in Asia and Africa and one in central Latin America; diabetes in four countries in Oceania; HIV/AIDS in three southern sub-Saharan African countries; collective violence and legal intervention in two north African and Middle Eastern countries; iron-deficiency anaemia in Somalia and Venezuela; depression in Uganda; onchoceriasis in Liberia; and other neglected tropical diseases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Good
76. Stewart WF, Wood C, Reed ML, Roy J, Lipton RB. Cumulative lifetime migraine incidence in women and men. Cephalalgia. 2008;28(11):1170-1178. Observational-Dx 120,000 US households To estimate lifetime sex and age-specific incidence of migraine. Data are from the American Migraine Prevalence and Prevention study, a mailed survey sent to 120,000 U.S. households. Cumulative incidence was 43% in women and 18% in men. Median age of onset was 25 years among women and 24 years among men. Onset in 50% of cases occurred before age 25 and in 75% before age 35 years. 4/10 women and 2/10 men will contract migraine in their lifetime, most before age 35 years. The incidence estimates from this analysis are consistent with those reported in previous longitudinal studies. 4
77. Becker LA, Green LA, Beaufait D, Kirk J, Froom J, Freeman WL. Use of CT scans for the investigation of headache: a report from ASPN, Part 1. J Fam Pract. 1993; 37(2):129-134. Review/Other-Dx 349 CT scans To provide information about the reasons for ordering CT scans and the results obtained. Clinicians in 58 practices ordered 349 CT scans. Only 52 patients (15%) had abnormalities noted on neurological examination. Most CT scans were ordered because the clinician believed that a tumor (49%) or an SAH (9%) might be present. Fifty-nine (17%) were ordered because of patient expectation or medicolegal concerns. Of the 293 reports reviewed, 14 indicated that a tumor, an SAH, or an SDH was present. Two of the 14 (14%) were false positives. Forty-four (15%) of the reports noted incidental findings of questionable significance. 4
78. Goldstein JN, Camargo CA Jr, Pelletier AJ, Edlow JA. Headache in United States emergency departments: demographics, work-up and frequency of pathological diagnoses. Cephalalgia. 26(6):684-90, 2006 Jun.Cephalalgia. 26(6):684-90, 2006 Jun. Review/Other-Dx 5198 visits To examine headache work-ups and diagnoses across the USA of a representative sample of adult ED visits (the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey) for the years 1992-2001 Of the 14% of patients who underwent neuroimaging, 5.5% received a pathological diagnosis. Of the 2% of patients who underwent lumbar puncture, 11% received a pathological diagnosis. On multivariable analysis, a decreased rate of imaging was noted for patients without private insurance [odds ratio (OR) 0.61, confidence interval (CI) 0.44, 0.86] and for those presenting off-hours (OR 0.55, CI 0.39, 0.77). Patients over 50 were more likely to receive a pathological diagnosis (OR 3.3, CI 1.2, 9.3). In conclusion, clinicians should ensure that appropriate work-ups are performed regardless of presentation time or insurance status, and be vigilant in the evaluation of older patients. 4
79. Katz M.. The Cost-Effective Evaluation of Uncomplicated Headache. [Review]. Med Clin North Am. 100(5):1009-17, 2016 Sep. Review/Other-Dx N/A To determine the Cost-Effective Evaluation of Uncomplicated Headache. N/A 4
80. Lebedeva ER, Gurary NM, Gilev DV, Olesen J. Prospective testing of ICHD-3 beta diagnostic criteria for migraine with aura and migraine with typical aura in patients with transient ischemic attacks. Cephalalgia. 38(3):561-567, 2018 Mar.Cephalalgia. 38(3):561-567, 2018 Mar. Observational-Dx 120 patients To field test ICHD-3 beta diagnostic criteria for migraine with aura and migraine with typical aura in patients with transient ischemic attacks. No results stated in abstract 2
81. Frishberg BM. The utility of neuroimaging in the evaluation of headache in patients with normal neurologic examinations. Neurology. 1994;44(7):1191-1197. Review/Other-Dx N/A To review literature to determine usefulness of neuroimaging in evaluating headache patients with normal neurologic examinations. CT or MRI may be indicated in patients with atypical headache patterns, a history of seizures or focal neurologic signs. Insufficient evidence to define the role of CT and MRI in the evaluation of patients with headaches that are inconsistent with migraine. 4
82. Dinia L, Bonzano L, Albano B, et al. White matter lesions progression in migraine with aura: a clinical and MRI longitudinal study. Journal of Neuroimaging. 23(1):47-52, 2013 Jan. Observational-Dx 41 patients To evaluate longitudinal changes in white matter lesions (WMLs) in migraineurs with aura, by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and to correlate WMLs modifications with patients' clinical characteristics. WMLs were present in 26 subjects (63.4%) at baseline MRI. At follow-up a total of 8 patients had new WMLs (19.5%). There was a significant correlation between aura duration and number of new WMLs, and between the number of migraine attacks with aura and new WMLs. 2
83. Gaist D, Garde E, Blaabjerg M, et al. Migraine with aura and risk of silent brain infarcts and white matter hyperintensities: an MRI study. Brain. 139(Pt 7):2015-23, 2016 07. Observational-Dx 172 cases (34 co-twins and 139 control subjects) To investigate an association between migraine with aura and risk of silent brain infarcts and white matter hyper intensities in a population-based sample of female twins Comparisons were based on 172 cases, 34 co-twins, and 139 control subjects. Compared with control subjects, cases did not differ with regard to frequency of silent brain infarcts (four cases versus one control), periventricular white matter hyperintensity scores [adjusted mean difference (95% confidence interval): -0.1 (-0.5 to 0.2)] or deep white matter hyperintensity scores [adjusted mean difference (95% confidence interval): 0.1 (-0.8 to 1.1)] assessed by Scheltens' scale. Cases had a slightly higher total white matter hyperintensity volume compared with controls [adjusted mean difference (95% confidence interval): 0.17 (-0.08 to 0.41) cm(3)] and a similar difference was present in analyses restricted to twin pairs discordant for migraine with aura [adjusted mean difference 0.21 (-0.20 to 0.63)], but these differences did not reach statistical significance. We found no evidence of an association between silent brain infarcts, white matter hyperintensities, and migraine with aura. 1
84. Honningsvag LM, Hagen K, Haberg A, Stovner LJ, Linde M. Intracranial abnormalities and headache: A population-based imaging study (HUNT MRI). Cephalalgia. 36(2):113-21, 2016 Feb. Observational-Dx 864 patients To evaluate the relationship between intracranial abnormalities and headache among middle-aged adults in the general population. Intracranial abnormalities were more common in headache sufferers than in headache-free individuals (29% vs. 22%, respectively; p = 0.041). Adjusted multivariate analyses revealed that those with tension-type headache had higher odds of having minor abnormalities (odds ratio, 2.13; 95% confidence interval = 1.18-3.85). This association disappeared when those with only white matter hyperintensities were removed from the analysis. 3
85. Kruit MC, Launer LJ, Ferrari MD, van Buchem MA. Infarcts in the posterior circulation territory in migraine. The population-based MRI CAMERA study. Brain. 128(Pt 9):2068-77, 2005 Sep.Brain. 128(Pt 9):2068-77, 2005 Sep. Experimental-Dx 435 patients To describe the clinical and neuroimaging characteristics of migraine cases with and without aura and controls with PC lesions. In total, 39 PC infarct-like lesions represented the majority (65%) of all 60 identified brain infarct-like lesions in the study sample (n = 435 subjects with and without migraine). Most lesions (n = 33) were located in the cerebellum, often multiple, and were round or oval-shaped, with a mean size of 7 mm. The majority (88%) of infratentorial infarct-like lesions had a vascular border zone location in the cerebellum. Prevalence of these border zone lesions differed between controls (0.7%), cases with migraine without aura (2.2%) and cases with migraine with aura (7.5%). Besides higher age, cardiovascular risk factors were not moreprevalent in cases with migraine with PC lesions. Presence of these lesions was not associated with supratentorial brain changes, such as white matter lesions. The combination of vascular distribution, deep border zone location, shape, size and imaging characteristics on MRI makes it likely that the lesions have an infarct origin. Previous investigators attributed cases of similar ‘very small’ cerebellar infarcts in non-migraine patients to a number of different infarct mechanisms. The relevance and likelihood of the aetiological options are placed in the context of known migraine pathophysiology. In addition, the specific involvement of the cerebellum in migraine is discussed. The results suggest that a combination of (possibly migraine attack-related) hypoperfusion and embolism is the likeliest mechanism for PC infarction in migraine, and not atherosclerosis or small-vessel disease. 2
86. Vijiaratnam N, Barber D, Lim KZ, et al. Migraine: Does aura require investigation?. Clinical Neurology & Neurosurgery. 148:110-4, 2016 Sep.Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 148:110-4, 2016 Sep. Review/Other-Dx 505 patients To analyse the demographics of migraine presentations to our hospital and the yield of imaging in our centre to help guide future approaches to these patients. We found patients with aura were more likely to have hypercholesterolemia (12% vs 7%, p=0.05). Patients with aura were more likely to be evaluated with imaging (CT brain (70% vs 41% p<0.0001) and MRI brain (44% vs 17% p<0.0001)). The patients investigated with imaging had no clinically significant findings. 21% of patients with aura were investigated with carotid Doppler studies. Only 1 patient had an abnormal result. Patients with white matter hyperintensities were older (51 vs 39 years; p<0.0001) and were more likely to have Hypertension (29% vs 14% p=0.019), Hypercholesterolemia (29% vs 11% p=0.003) and T2DM (16% vs 4% p=0.011). 4
87. Clarke CE, Edwards J, Nicholl DJ, Sivaguru A. Imaging results in a consecutive series of 530 new patients in the Birmingham Headache Service. Journal of Neurology. 257(8):1274-8, 2010 Aug.J Neurol. 257(8):1274-8, 2010 Aug. Review/Other-Dx 530 patients To review imaging results in a consecutive series of 530 new patients in the Birmingham Headache Service. Five hundred thirty (14.5%) underwent imaging with large differences in the proportion referred by each consultant. There were more insignificant abnormalities on MRI (46%) than CT (28%). There were 11 significantly abnormal results (2.1% of those imaged). Significant abnormalities were found in patients diagnosed with migraine in 1.2% and in 0.9% of those with tension-type headache. Significant abnormalities in those suspected to have an intracranial abnormality occurred in 5.5%. This supports the practice of selecting patients with suspicious findings for imaging, rather than imaging all patients. 4
88. Paemeleire K, Proot P, De Keyzer K, Achten E, Crevits L. Magnetic resonance angiography of the circle of Willis in migraine patients. Clinical Neurology & Neurosurgery. 107(4):301-5, 2005 Jun.Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 107(4):301-5, 2005 Jun. Review/Other-Dx 244 patients To analyze the Magnetic resonance angiography of the circle of Willis in migraine patients. No results stated in abstract. 4
89. Levy MJ, Matharu MS, Meeran K, Powell M, Goadsby PJ. The clinical characteristics of headache in patients with pituitary tumours. Brain. 2005;128(Pt 8):1921-1930. Review/Other-Dx 84 patients To describe prospectively the phenotypic characteristics of pituitiary tumor related to headache in a large series of patients and to correlate the headache presentations with the tumor biology. The patients presented with chronic (46%) and episodic (30%) migraine, short-lasting unilateral neuralgiform headache attacks with conjunctival injection and tearing (short-lasting unilateral neuralgiform headache attacks with conjunctival injection and tearing; 5%), cluster headache (4%), hemicrania continua (1%) and primary stabbing headache (27%). It was not possible to classify the headache according to International Headache Society diagnostic criteria in six cases (7%). Cavernous sinus invasion was present in the minority of presentations (21%), but was present in 2/3 patients with cluster headache. short-lasting unilateral neuralgiform headache attacks with conjunctival injection and tearing-like headache was only seen in patients with acromegaly and prolactinoma. Hypophysectomy improved headache in 49% and exacerbated headache in 15% of cases. Somatostatin analogues improved acromegaly-associated headache in 64% of cases, although rebound headache was described in three patients. Dopamine agonists improved headache in 25% and exacerbated headache in 21% of cases. 4
90. Williams M, Bazina R, Tan L, Rice H, Broadley SA. Microvascular decompression of the trigeminal nerve in the treatment of SUNCT and SUNA. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 81(9):992-6, 2010 Sep.J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 81(9):992-6, 2010 Sep. Review/Other-Dx 9 patients To discuss the nine cases of SUNCT/SUNA that failed medical treatment and had an aberrant arterial loop either in contact with or compressing the appropriate trigeminal nerve demonstrated on MRI. Immediate and complete relief of SUNCT and SUNA symptoms occurred in 6/9 (67%) cases. This was sustained for a follow-up period of 9-32 months (mean 22.2). In 3/9 (33%) cases, there was no benefit. Ipsilateral hearing loss was observed in one case. 4
91. Favier I, van Vliet JA, Roon KI, et al. Trigeminal autonomic cephalgias due to structural lesions: a review of 31 cases. Arch Neurol. 2007;64(1):25-31. Review/Other-Dx 31 Cases To review the literature and 4 new cases of a trigeminal autonomic cephalgias or trigeminal autonomic cephalgias-like syndrome associated with a structural lesion in which symptoms resolved after treatment of the lesion. Even typical trigeminal autonomic cephalgiass can be caused by an underlying lesion. Clinical warning signs and symptoms are relatively rare. 4
92. Head Imaging Guidelines. http://www.tmhp.com/RadiologyClinicalDecisionSupport/2011/HEAD%20IMAGING%20GUIDELINES%202011.pdf. Review/Other-Dx N/A No abstract available. No abstract available. 4
93. de Coo IF, Wilbrink LA, Haan J. Symptomatic Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalalgias. [Review]. Curr Pain Headache Rep. 19(8):39, 2015 Aug. Review/Other-Dx 19 cases To review the recent insights in symptomatic Trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias (TACs) by comparing and categorizing newly published cases. No results stated in abstract 4
94. Bigal ME, Lipton RB. The prognosis of migraine. [Review] [55 refs]. Curr Opin Neurol. 21(3):301-8, 2008 Jun. Review/Other-Dx N/A To review the prognosis of migraine. No results stated in abstract. 4
95. Silberstein S, Loder E, Diamond S, et al. Probable migraine in the United States: results of the American Migraine Prevalence and Prevention (AMPP) study. Cephalalgia. 27(3):220-9, 2007 Mar. Review/Other-Dx 162 576 individuals To describe the epidemiology, medical recognition and patterns of treatment for Probable migraine (PM) in the united state of American (USA); to compare the patterns of preventive PM treatment in the population with expert panel guidelines for preventive treatment. Our sample consisted of 162 576 individuals aged > or = 12 years. The 1-year period prevalence of PM was 4.5% (3.9% in men and 5.1% in women). In women and men, prevalence was higher in middle life, between the ages of 30 and 59 years. The prevalence of PM was significantly higher in African-Americans than in Whites (female 7.4% vs. 4.8%; male 4.8% vs. 3.7%) and inversely related to household income. During their headaches, most (48.2%) had at least some impairment, while 22.1% were severely disabled. The vast majority (97%) of PM sufferers used acute treatments, although 71% usually treated with over-the-counter medication. Most PM sufferers (52.8%) never used a migraine-preventive treatment and only 7.9% were currently using preventive medication. According to the expert panel guidelines, prevention should be offered (16.9%) or considered (11.5%) for 28.4% of the PM sufferers in the survey. 4
96. Hale N, Paauw DS. Diagnosis and treatment of headache in the ambulatory care setting: a review of classic presentations and new considerations in diagnosis and management. [Review]. Med Clin North Am. 98(3):505-27, 2014 May. Review/Other-Dx N/A To review theclassic presentations and new considerations in diagnosis and management. No results stated in the abstract 4
97. Choosing Wisely® An initiative of the ABIM Foundation. American College of Radiology. Ten Things Physicians and Patients Should Question. Available at: http://www.choosingwisely.org/societies/american-college-of-radiology/. Review/Other-Dx N/A A review of the Ten Things Physicians and Patients Should Question. No results were stated in the abstract. 4
98. Morris Z, Whiteley WN, Longstreth WT Jr, et al. Incidental findings on brain magnetic resonance imaging: systematic review and meta-analysis. [Review] [30 refs]. BMJ. 339:b3016, 2009 Aug 17.BMJ. 339:b3016, 2009 Aug 17. Meta-analysis 16 studies To quantify the prevalence of incidental findings on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain. In 16 studies, 135 of 19 559 people had neoplastic incidental brain findings (prevalence 0.70%, 95% confidence interval 0.47% to 0.98%), and prevalence increased with age (chi(2) for linear trend, P=0.003). In 15 studies, 375 of 15 559 people had non-neoplastic incidental brain findings (prevalence 2.0%, 1.1% to 3.1%, excluding white matter hyperintensities, silent infarcts, and microbleeds). The number of asymptomatic people needed to scan to detect any incidental brain finding was 37. The prevalence of incidental brain findings was higher in studies using high resolution MRI sequences than in those using standard resolution sequences (4.3% v 1.7%, P<0.001). The prevalence of neoplastic incidental brain findings increased with age. Good
99. Weber F, Knopf H. Incidental findings in magnetic resonance imaging of the brains of healthy young men. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 240(1-2):81-4, 2006 Jan 15.J Neurol Sci. 240(1-2):81-4, 2006 Jan 15. Observational-Dx 2,536 patients To determine the frequency of serious intracranial abnormalities in a healthy young male population. The authors report a variety of morphological abnormalities in the brains of a large population of healthy young males, providing data on disease prevalence. Arachnoid cysts were found in 1.7% (95% CI 1.2 to 2.3%), vascular abnormalities in 0.51% (95% CI 0.29 to 0.9%), and intracranial tumors in 0.47% (95% CI 0.26 to 0.85%) of the applicants. No cerebral aneurysms were found. 2
100. Miller DG, Vakkalanka P, Moubarek ML, Lee S, Mohr NM. Reduced Computed Tomography Use in the Emergency Department Evaluation of Headache Was Not Followed by Increased Death or Missed Diagnosis. The Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. 19(2):319-326, 2018 Mar.West J Emerg Med. 19(2):319-326, 2018 Mar. Review/Other-Dx 582 separate index ED visits To review the the electronic medical records of the patients sampled during a quality improvement effort in which the aforementioned decrease in head computed tomography (HCT) use had been observed. Of the 582 separate index ED visits sampled, we observed a total of nine deaths and 10 missed intracranial diagnoses. There was no difference in the proportion of death (p = 0.337) or missed intracranial diagnosis (p = 0.312) observed after a 9.6% reduction in HCT use. Among patients who subsequently had visits for headache or brain imaging, we found that these patients were significantly more likely to have not had a HCT done during the index ED visit (59.2% vs. 49.6% (p = 0.031) and 37.1% vs. 26% (p = 0.006), respectively). 4
101. Forsyth PA, Posner JB. Headaches in patients with brain tumors: a study of 111 patients. Neurology. 1993;43(9):1678-1683. Observational-Dx 111 patients To characterize brain tumor headache in patients with primary or metastatic brain tumors identified by CT or MRI. Headaches were present in 48%, equally for primary and metastatic brain tumors. Headaches were similar to tension-type in 77%, migraine-type in 9%, and other types in 14%. The typical headache was bifrontal but worse ipsilaterally, and was the worst symptom in only 45% of patients. 4
102. Forde G, Duarte RA, Rosen N. Managing Chronic Headache Disorders. [Review]. Medical Clinics of North America. 100(1):117-41, 2016 Jan.Med Clin North Am. 100(1):117-41, 2016 Jan. Review/Other-Dx N/A To review the management of chronic disorders. No results stated in abstract. 4
103. Choosing Wisely® An initiative of the ABIM Foundation. Clinician Lists. Available at: http://www.choosingwisely.org/clinician-lists/. Review/Other-Dx N/A To examine the nitiative of the ABIM Foundation. N/A 4
104. American College of Radiology. ACR–SPR Practice Parameter for the Safe and Optimal Performance of Fetal Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Available at: https://www.acr.org/-/media/ACR/Files/Practice-Parameters/mr-fetal.pdf Review/Other-Dx N/A To promote safe and optimal performance of fetal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). No abstract available. 4
105. American College of Radiology. ACR-SPR Practice Parameter for Imaging Pregnant or Potentially Pregnant Adolescents and Women with Ionizing Radiation. Available at: https://www.acr.org/-/media/ACR/Files/Practice-Parameters/pregnant-pts.pdf Review/Other-Dx N/A To assist practitioners in providing appropriate radiologic care for pregnant or potentially pregnant adolescents and women by describing specific training, skills and techniques. No abstract available. 4
106. American College of Radiology. ACR-ACOG-AIUM-SMFM-SRU Practice Parameter for the Performance of Standard Diagnostic Obstetrical Ultrasound. Available at: https://www.acr.org/-/media/ACR/Files/Practice-Parameters/us-ob.pdf Review/Other-Dx N/A To promote the safe and effective use of diagnostic and therapeutic radiology by describing the key elements of standard ultrasound examinations in the first, second, and third trimesters of pregnancy. No abstract available. 4
107. American College of Radiology. Manual on Contrast Media. Available at: https://www.acr.org/Clinical-Resources/Contrast-Manual. Review/Other-Dx N/A To assist radiologists in recognizing and managing risks associated with the use of contrast media. No abstract available. 4
108. Expert Panel on MR Safety, Kanal E, Barkovich AJ, et al. ACR guidance document on MR safe practices: 2013. J Magn Reson Imaging. 37(3):501-30, 2013 Mar. Review/Other-Dx N/A To help guide MR practitioners regarding MR safety issues and provide a basis for them to develop and implement their own MR policies and practices. No abstract available. 4
109. American College of Radiology. ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Radiation Dose Assessment Introduction. Available at: https://www.acr.org/-/media/ACR/Files/Appropriateness-Criteria/RadiationDoseAssessmentIntro.pdf. Review/Other-Dx N/A To provide evidence-based guidelines on exposure of patients to ionizing radiation. No abstract available. 4
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The 5 top worst Christmas songs of all time (that I can remember)
By Tamara Paulsen
Since we are in the festive season, I feel it’s only fair that we talk about the music we are going to be hearing for the next month or so. Ready for the worst songs you will be hearing over and over while last minute shopping?
5. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas – Anybody
This is the song your annoying friend sings to get on your nerves. I feel like this song has only ever been sung obnoxiously, it’s the original ‘Do you wanna build a snowman?’ but without the cutesiness or the novelty.
4. Mistletoe – Justin Bieber
I don’t know if it’s the fact that Bieber was still insufferably vanilla and boring at this point in his career, or if it’s the disinterested tone in his voice, but this song genuinely puts me to sleep, and not in a good way.
3. Santa Buddy – Michael Buble
Santa Baby was a coy song from a girl who wanted as many materials as she could get. Originally by Eartha Kitt, the song has a playfulness to it that seemed to almost poke fun the ‘sugar baby’ aspects of it. Michael Buble is not what I think about when I hear ‘coy’. Especially considering he is approaching Santa less like a sugar daddy and more like a stranger at a pub you wanna convince to buy you a beer. “Santa pally” just makes me nauseous.
2. Do They Know it’s Christmas? – Band Aid 1984
I get that the song is to raise money for charity and that the Christmas season is the best time to catch us in a ‘giving mood’ (don’t know why really, I’m always skint around this time buying everyone I know presents), but for god’s sake, can this song be more patronizing than it already is? Some of these lines are just terrible, ‘where the only water flowing is the bitter sting of tears’ ‘the Christmas bells that ring there, are the clanging chimes of doom’ – you know that Africa isn’t a country right? It also isn’t all a freaking desert! Lastly, why do they need Christmas bells? What if they don’t celebrate Christmas? Why are your religious and celebratory beliefs so important to thrust upon the people of an entire continent? The song just reeks of ego and falls flat in anything regarding actual substance. I get what they were aiming for, but they failed.
1. Christmas Shoes – The Newsong
As far as bad Christmas songs go, this one takes the cake! It even has a li’l story: a man who doesn’t feel christmassy sees a boy who wants to buy shoes for his dying mother and helps him pay for them BAM! Christmas spirit restored! The idea seems harmless enough, until you actually start thinking about it… This child is alone at a store on Christmas eve trying to scrape pennies to buy his dying mother shoes. No adults with him, no one to try to help him through what is clearly a way for this poor kid to process the fact that his mom might be ‘meeting jesus tonight’. Nothing. To top it off, our narrator/singer person is so freaking self involved that he pays for the shoes and then pats himself on the back ‘I knew I caught a glimpse of heaven’s love as he thanked me and ran out’, basically ‘gee darn aren’t I such a good person? That little boy was suffering and I helped him through enabling consumerism based grief’. But the worst part is the lyric right after that. Not only does this narrator feel the need to boast about how awesome he was to a poor child with a dying mother but he has the nerve to think that this was all god’s plan to make him feel more in the Christmas spirit, I am not joking, go to minute 3:32 he literally says “I knew that God had sent that little boy to remind me just what Christmas is all about”. I don’t know who this song was intended for, but I certainly wouldn’t feel comfortable singing this around the fire with the family.
Join me next time to prove I’m not a grinch by listing out the 5 absolute best Christmas songs you’ll hear during this festive season!
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Sigma has announced that it has made a new supply agreement with Chemist Warehouse
In a market update, the wholesaler announced that a new first-line agreement has been reached with the My Chemist/Chemist Warehouse Group for the supply of FMCG products.
The announcement follows a clarification earlier this month by Sigma in which it confirmed it was in negotiations with Chemist Warehouse.
The previous supply arrangement between Sigma and MC/CW was finalised at the end of the last financial year, following legal action by Sigma against the discount giant. At the time, Sigma claimed that under the then existing agreement, Chemist Warehouse was not entitled to source some products from a different CSO wholesaler.
Sigma ultimately dropped that action and a formal negotiation period was entered, after which it was decided that EBOS would take over the exclusive wholesale distribution of pharmaceuticals to MC/CWH’s more than 450 pharmacies from 1 July 2019.
In December 2018, it was announced that DHL would supply MC/CWH with front-of-store FMCG items directly into the pharmacy network.
The new agreement is effective from 1 December 2019, with the progressive build-up of supply expected to reach a full run rate by July 2020.
According to Sigma, the arrangements secure the first-line supply contract for four and a half years, with sales in the first full year of operations of approximately $700-800 million.
Other terms of the agreement remain commercial in confidence and follow an approach by MC/CW for Sigma to resume the supply of FMCG products, which had previously transitioned to another provider.
Mark Hooper, Sigma Managing Director and CEO said, “Sigma understands what is required to provide effective support on these product ranges, and the financial terms of the new agreement provide an acceptable return on capital employed for Sigma shareholders”.
“The investment we have already made in our distribution centres provides the efficient platform to absorb this volume, maintain our growth ambitions, and enhance our ability to better service our existing customer base which has achieved above market growth over the course of the year.”
Sigma advised its shareholders that initial work and costs will be required to transition in the volume associated with the MC/CW agreement.
This will delay the timing of some of the Project Pivot savings and is likely to impact FY20 EBITDA guidance, it warned. A market update will be provided once this has been worked through.
“More importantly, we expect our growth to accelerate in FY21 and beyond as we benefit from contributions from Project Pivot, efficiencies from our distribution centre investments, and the progressive ramp up of the CW contract,” Mr Hooper said.
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The Media Is Reluctant to Report Israel Boasts of Killing Iranians
Israel’s Regional Cooperation Minister Tzachi Hanegbi. Credit: Facebook
By Philip Giraldi | American Herald Tribune | July 27, 2019
It is rare that a high official in a government will admit that his country has been killing foreigners without any declaration of war or being subjected to an imminent threat, but that is exactly what Israeli Regional Cooperation Minister Tzachi Hanegbi has done recently, boasting on a Sunday morning talk radio show that “Israel is the only country in the world that has been killing Iranians for two years now.”
Hanegbi’s candid admission of a policy that is a war crime included his description of how Israel “strikes the Iranians hundreds of times in Syria, sometimes admits it and sometimes foreign reports reveal it. Sometimes the chief of staff [reveals it], sometimes the outgoing air force chief [reveals it], but it’s all coordinated policy.”
The interviewer then asked “what would happen should Israel get in trouble with Iran?” and Hanegbi responded that “You can see that the Iranians are very limited in their responses [to Britain’s seizure of their tanker], and it’s not because they don’t have abilities, it’s because they understand that Israel means business.”
Hangebi went on to add that Israel is “very aggressive when it comes to our national security… We still didn’t see the Iranians backing off from their intention to entrench themselves militarily in Syria, and this campaign isn’t over. But they know exactly who to mess with, and who can be annoyed. We can’t.”
The minister’s comments inevitably were not reported in the western media, which is reluctant to air anything that demonstrates just how irresponsible Israeli policies actually are. In the United States, in particular, the Jewish state is consistently portrayed as some kind of perpetual victim in spite of the fact that it is the only nuclear armed power in its neighborhood as well as having the most powerful conventional military arsenal.
The Iranian government did not respond directly to the report of the Israeli minister’s comments, but there was some mention on Tehran’s Press TV local broadcast, which noted that “This is how Israelis are freely and proudly talking about killing Iranians! Just imagine what would happen if it was the other way around!” Indeed. A boast by Iran that it had been very successful at killing Israelis would have produced shocked headlines in every European and American newspaper.
The Israeli admission that it is attacking targets in Syria should come as no surprise to anyone who has been following developments in the region. That there have been hundreds of attacks may be an exaggeration to impress the Israeli listeners regarding their country’s military prowess, but it is certainly true that numerous incidents have been recorded both by the Syrian government and by foreign observers. In one notorious incident on Christmas Day 2018, Israeli warplanes masked their approach to targets inside Syria by flying closely behind civilian airliners transiting the region. It has been speculated that they hoped that Syrian air defenses would respond by shooting down a civilian plane, creating a major crisis for the Bashar al-Assad government. In the event, the Syrians held their fire and the Israeli warplanes launched their missiles against targets near Damascus, killing Syrian military personnel and civilians on the ground.
What is astonishing is that Minister Hangebi does not perceive the implications of the Israeli government’s apparent willingness to kill Syrians on the ground by intent and also as collateral damage even though it is not at war with Damascus. It does so with the stated objective of killing Iranians even though it is also not at war with Iran. It is, to state it succinctly, several war crimes tied up in one package and it would make the Jewish state uniquely a rogue among nations but for the fact that the United States has done the same sort of thing with cruise missile strikes in Syria, though not in as sustained a fashion as have the Israelis.
Israel’s willingness to use its armed forces in what might be described as non-traditional roles creates some very specific problems for the region. One particular concern is that the Israelis might stage a false flag attack, possibly in cooperation with its temporary friend Saudi Arabia, to draw outside powers into a war with Iran. The recent incidents involving mining two tankers, attributed to Iran but much more likely a false flag, nearly succeeded in doing just that. Subsequent incidents involving the seizures of a tanker carrying Iranian oil by the British and a retaliatory move against two British tankers by the Iranians have threatened to escalate into a shooting war. There should be little doubt that any ambiguous armed exchange involving Iran and Israel would see the American Jewish dominated media immediately laying the blame on the Iranians, producing demands by the Israel Lobby, Christian Zionists and Congress to get involved in the conflict.
There should also be particular concern over developments in neighboring Iraq, even though the country is not yet under attack by the Israelis. Shi’te militias in the country, linked to Iran, have long demanded that American military bases be closed down. Recent rocket attacks on the bases have been blamed on the militias, with Washington placing particular emphasis on the militia links to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp, which has now been listed as a state sponsor of terrorism by the U.S. State Department. The Israelis are well aware of the dynamics of what is going on in Iraq and might be inclined to stage an incident in that country that will kill Americans and be blamed on the Iranians. The comments by Minister Hangebi that Israel is “very aggressive when it comes to our national security” would strongly suggest that his country is prepared to do anything – even something quite stupid – to eliminate what it sees as the Iranian threat.
The tragedy in all this for Americans is that Washington is being led into war by an Israeli propaganda and influence machine that is second to none. In May four hundred Congressmen signed on to a generic bill that was intended as a blanket endorsement of Israeli behavior and a blank check for the ruthless Netanyahu government to do whatever it sees fit in “self-defense,” with Washington willing to be dragged into a conflict in which it has no real interest just to show its loyalty to the Zionist enterprise. More recently, by last Tuesday’s vote of 398 to 176, another Congressional bill condemned and established penalties against the nonviolent Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which has become a bête noire for all of Israel’s friends. If America is ever to regain its independence from foreign entanglements the time to start is now and the process should begin by disengaging from Israel.
July 27, 2019 - Posted by aletho | Ethnic Cleansing, Racism, Zionism, Timeless or most popular, War Crimes, Wars for Israel | Iran, Israel, Syria, United States
Self-important little turds, aren’t they? These pinpricks won’t stop the Iranians.
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Because I Was a Boy: A Personal Account of Foreskin Restoration
C R Strebor
Because I was a boy, it was legal for medical practitioners to restrain me, separate my foreskin from my glans and remove my foreskin. This is known medically as circumcision. It is also mutilation as it removed functional, healthy tissue and left a scar on my penis.
As an infant, I could not consent. As an adult, I have taken back control of my body and restored my foreskin.
Circumcision has a long history, with no definitive starting time or purpose. Various forms of genital cutting have been recorded in cultures from around the world: some cultures only cut boys, though all cultures that cut girls also cut boys. Genital cutting is also done on children who are born intersex, most often with the goal of ensuring the child fits into the gender binary.
Male circumcision, most commonly practiced by those of Abrahamic faiths, differs today from its origins. Named milah, this cutting involved the removal of the skin that extended beyond the glans. Today, circumcision involves the removal of the inner foreskin, the outer foreskin, the ridged band (the interface between the inner and outer foreskins) and, often, the frenulum (the band connecting the foreskin to the underside of the penis—similar to the connective tissue beneath the tongue).
Foreskin restoration—or even foreskin lengthening—also has a long history. In ancient Greece, men would sometimes tie a kynodesme (a piece of leather cord) around a short foreskin to pull it forward over the glans. In ancient Rome, a man might attach a ring to the end of his penis for the same purpose. Jewish men used both of these methods, as well as the method known as pondus judaeus: a weight that was tied to the penile shaft skin, with the goal of stretching the skin over the glans.
There is also a surgical procedure known as epispasm, in which the skin around the base of the penis is cut, the skin on the shaft of the penis is moved forward over the glans and the wound is covered until such a time as new skin forms. This procedure was also used by those who had foreskins that were shorter than they wanted them to be. This procedure is described by Aulus Cornelius Celsus in De Medicina in 47 CE.
I began restoring my foreskin over five years ago, as I was becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the way my penis looked and functioned. I have never been happy with the visible scar from the circumcision, which I could see when urinating, showering, having sex or merely being in the nude. As I grew older, my glans was becoming less sensitive due to the chafing that the foreskin would normally prevent. The majority of my sexual interactions as an adult have been with men who are intact. As a result of my sexual experiences, I knew that I was missing out on what my intact partners experienced. Having always admired the foreskins of my partners, I had investigated and knew that foreskin restoration was possible. Now that I have begun restoration, my only regret is that I wish I had started earlier.
Modern foreskin restoration can involve a number of methods: from manual and taping methods to the use of various devices, colloquially referred to as tugging devices, as well as surgical procedures. I started with manual methods, found that the taping methods irritated my skin too much and then moved onto using a number of tugging devices. Initially, I also used silicone o-rings as a retainer, so as to keep what skin I had restored in place over my glans, protecting it from chafing; now that I have enough skin that my glans is covered, I rarely use o-rings.
The first few weeks of using a tugging device were interesting: applying the device to my penis was easy—the feeling of having something attached to my penis was the more difficult part. It took time to get used to that new sensation. Now that I have been restoring for a number of years, I can apply the devices that I use without looking and I no longer feel discomfort when I have a device attached to my penis. I now use two devices other than o-rings: a dual-tension device, which applies tension to the skin so as to promote cell growth and increase the skin on my outer foreskin and an inflating device that does the same but for the inner foreskin.
Now that I have a foreskin that is long enough to protect my glans from chafing, I am certainly enjoying sex more. Now that my glans has recovered some sensitivity, receiving oral sex is better than it has ever been for me. One of my partners assures me that my movements when I’m doing the penetration have changed for the better.
There are other benefits, not related to sexual gratification, too: I cycle regularly and I now feel my glans moving around in its protective sheath as my legs move up and down instead of being chafed against my clothing; when it’s cold, my penis has a hoodie which keeps my glans warm; and, importantly for me, I no longer see the scar from circumcision on my penis when I am in the nude.
The nerves that were severed when I was circumcised as an infant cannot be replaced, though my foreskin restoration has provided me with protection for my glans and improved my appreciation of sex. I was born with a foreskin and I shall die with a foreskin.
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Charles Strebor is a peripatetic maker of things. He currently lives in Melbourne with his cat Bonnie, his bicycle Terrance and many cameras, some of which he has not yet named.
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Engineering_Physicist says:
Reply From: Engineering Physicist
Reply To: Aero Magazine Blog Forum (C.R. Strebor)
Regarding: My Non-Surgical Foreskin Restoration Experience
All fertilized human embryos are defaulted with XX chromosomes. This means ALL human fetuses start out FEMALE. By the second trimester if those chromosomes change from XX to XY, then the fetus will MODIFY into a MALE fetus. The cells which comprise the labia minora and clitoral hood will become the penile shaft skin and foreskin, respectively. Also, the glans clitoris, clitoral shaft, labia majora and ovaries will modify into the glans penis, penile shaft, scrotum and testes, respectively.
The labia minora and clitoral hood are the same exact types of tissue which makes up the penile shaft skin and foreskin. The foreskin serves the same purpose as the clitoral hood and the labia minora. Anyone who says that “foreskin is useless” is ALSO saying that the labia minora and clitoral hood on women are also “useless”.
The American Medical Establishment was founded by Puritanical Theocratic framers, who equated sexual pleasure with “disease”. Everyone long ago KNEW that the foreskin and clitoral hood enhance sexual pleasure, and that is why they targeted both. In the 1920’s many American girls and women were circumcised by the American Medical Profession by such instruments such as the Rathmann Female Circumcision Clamp. Made by the same company that developed the Gomco Male Circumcision Clamp. Marilyn Monroe was circumcised (had her clitoral hood removed), as specified in her 1950’s Playboy interview article.
America for the lonest time, used to live in its own strange world of religion disguised as “science”. The rest of the Western world DOES NOT circumcise their boys and girls and actually have LESS health problems than Americans. The only reason routine circumcision of males was started in the USA, was to prevent boys from masturbating. The foreskin is the “clitoral hood of the penis” and should be renamed as the ‘penile hood’.
Fortunately, most circumcisions leave considerable inner and outer foreskin upon the penile shaft, (sensitive lighter colored tissue behind the glans and outer foreskin at the base of the shaft), which can in fact be expanded non-surgically. Cells in the human body are constantly replicating and replacing themselves, as DNA are cell factories engaged in Meiosis. If prolonged and consistent tension is placed on human tissue, the spaces between cells caused by prolonged tension, will induce surplus cell production and result in Mitosis. Over time, any type of tissue placed under prolonged tension will duplicate itself to relieve the tension, resulting in new tissue growth.
Non-Surgical Foreskin Restoration takes advantage of tension-induced cellular mitosis allowing for the reversal of circumcision. We see this process also happen when people gain weight and instead of splitting open like a grape, grow new skin to accommodate the increase in body volume. Non-surgical tissue expansion is as old as humanity and non-surgical foreskin restoration is as old as circumcision, (referred to in the Bible as “uncircumcision”).
I am a man who voluntarily underwent circumcision as an adult for no other reason aside from curiosity. I can CLEARLY admit that male circumcision is INDEED genital mutilation! I won’t bore you with the details regarding the negative outcomes of circumcision, but I will state that circumcision in America is a religious custom disguised as “science”. American Medical Doctors are practicing junk science to pay for their BWMs’. The most powerful word in the English language is: NO! I’m glad my parents used this word when I was born!
I was kept intact when I was born, and no doctor or woman or individual ever gave me a hard time about being intact, despite where I live, over 80% of the boys are circumcised. Here in the Midwest, far too many boys are circumcised, but no one seems to care if boys are intact either. There seems to be a respect for other cultures here, especially for those who don’t circumcise as well. WASP and Black Americans in the Midwest tend to circumcise, where as foreigners from Europe and non-Islamic Asia, Catholics, Amish, Christian-Science and Jehovah Witness do not. So overall, in the US Midwest, no one makes a big deal about intact guys, respecting parents and families that don’t circumcise. This is an interesting aspect about the US Midwest, as it is over 80% WASP/Black Americans and 20% cultural and religious minorities.
Honestly, I feel bad for men who were subjected to circumcision mutilation as infants, which is the WORSE time to ever perform a circumcision! Lying (or ignorant) medical doctors in the USA claim that infancy is the best time to circumcise, probably because infants can’t fight back or even consent for that matter! Many American parents are more than likely ill-prepared, and do not establish a legally-certified birth plan prior to hospital delivery. Also, many Americans parents have a cultural bias in favor of male circumcision. Although that trend is now changing, as circumcision in America is in decline, with a US nationwide circumcision rate of 50% as of 2018.
My story has a very happy outcome though. After I was circumcised, I noticed that most of my frenulum was intact and at least half or more of my foreskin was actually flipped upside down and re-positioned backward upon my penile shaft. Having studied Tissue Mechanics in engineering, and also realizing the growing non-surgical foreskin restoration movement in America, I decided I might consider restoring. Sexual intercourse was practical in the circumcised state, but I did not like the fact that when not aroused and flaccid, my penile glans was constantly exposed. I was used to having total foreskin retraction when erect and then the foreskin covering up and protecting the glans when flaccid. Similar to women when their glans clitoris is erect it uncovers and when not erect, is covered and protected by the clitoral hood.
Walking around flaccid without the protective foreskin on my glans became quite annoying. I could not complain about my state, because this was completely all my fault. But at least I can admit with absolute certainty that it is NOT better to be circumcised in the long-run! During sexual intercourse in the erect-state, circumcision serves some practicality, but not when in the flaccid state! As the glans needs to be covered and protected, or else chafing and irritation will occur when the flaccid glans makes contact with clothing. If the glans, an internal organ comprised of mucosal tissue, is constantly exposed, it will keratinize and become more and more layered, inhibiting stimulation of free nerve endings, leading to desensitization. The same complaints women make about excessive glans clitoral exposure and the correlating desensitization that occurs, also applies to prolonged exposure of the glans penis. The penile glans and foreskin originate from the clitoral glans and clitoral hood during gestation, with an in-line urethra running through the penile shaft and glans. People with basic anatomical knowledge understand this, unlike many of the American medical quacks out there, who push the religious, cultural and cosmetic custom of circumcision as a “medical” one!
Eventually I got around to manual stretching in the shower for about thirty minutes a day for six months. By that time I had enough slack skin to draw up over my glans and keep in place with a medical tape ring. When placed at the tip with just enough compression to retain and retract, sufficient longitudinal tension was also maintained. This allowed me to retain without having to take the tape off every time I urinated, as I could retract, urinate, extend and tug forward into an overhang. Staying clean, securing downward and curled into underwear. An ergonomic, cost and time-effective retaining system which only required once-a-day change outs and replacements after showering, which resulted as effective, safe, clean and practical.
After about one year using this method, increasing tension as more skin grew, I upgraded to the (red) silicone O-ring method instead of medical tape. This method was even more ergonomic, as silicone is inert (14-electroncs per atom) and will not react with skin at all, in fact the body does not even know it is there on a chemical level avoiding possible long-term toxicity. Silicone O-rings are the best to use as they are soft, provide superior friction with skin, and will not impress or dig into skin as will black rubber O-rings, which are to be avoided when restoring. Silicone O-rings provided immobilized point circular compression and tension simultaneously, where as a medical tape ring mainly provides compression. Medical tape rings provide sufficient compression but limited consistent tension.
After adjusting a circular point of compression contact, with a desired amount of foreskin overhang through the silicone O-ring, longitudinal tension would result upon penile shaft skin as well as the inner foreskin remnant. Now placed over the glans, held together at this point-of-equilibrium with the silicone O-ring. After that, there is nothing to look after, just curl everything back into underwear and hold it all together with briefs. I continued this method for three more years, adjusting greater tension as more foreskin grew. After about a five year period, I was completely restored, with actually a bit more foreskin than I originally had when I was first intact. Facilitated by growing more skin that I actually needed, allowing for any adjustments or contraction of tissue after restoration completion.
My new foreskin is thicker and longer than my original one, and converges to a puckered point due to having more foreskin overhang, compensating for the loss of the rigid band. Honestly, I can report that my restored foreskin is between 90% to 95% as good as my original one, and 100% identical in appearance and aesthetics. So as mentioned before, a happy ending, resulting in the reversal of my circumcision!
During sex, my very sensitive glans easily exposes and my shaft skin has good mobility. If I retract when erect I can pass as circumcised, without a problem, but I can also cover nearly all of the glans when erect as well. When I’m flaccid, if I retract, full coverage of the glans takes place when I let go. So technically, I am uncircumcised in terms of form and function once again, which is not the same as being intact. Intact is original without any modification, uncircumcised is reversal of circumcision and circumcised is no foreskin covering the glans when in the flaccid and erect states.
So technically I am uncircumcised, not intact, and have 90% to 95% of what I lost completely restored and I look 100% “uncut”. My new foreskin has much sexual sensitivity within it as well, the overhang I have now is nearly as sensitive as my original intact overhang. Folding it over the glans in my underwear, I experience the same erogenous pleasure all throughout the day as I did when I was originally intact.
No matter how tight or how little skin you have left, it can be grown out as long as you want it to be, but it will just take more time. All cells in the human body are constantly replicating and duplicating themselves, by placing consistent tension on any human body tissue will result in an increase of tissue cells, resulting in new growth in the direction and magnitude of the tension placed (tension-vector). Reversing circumcision in form and function to get back at least 90% of what you lost from circumcision is feasible, provided that you stick with it and restore in a consistent manner.
This is what I have learned and experienced in regard to my foreskin restoration project and I thought it would be appropriate to share this with you all here in this blog.
Okay that’s all from me, and before I go, I wanted to share a video with you made by a Doctor of Physical Therapy named Tori. She has a YouTube Channel called ‘Pelvic Empowerment’. Tori primarily helps women overcome pelvic and sexual orgasm problems. However, one of her videos is a very informative video regarding the relationship between female genitalia and male genitalia. It is worth a view by everyone, not just restorers or genital integrity activists. Our male genitalia is actually a modified female genitalia, during our embryonic and fetal states. Below is the URL Link to access the video along with some additional resources to consider.
Sincerely, – Engineering Physicist – Thanks!
Video Title: All About The Clitoris * Female Anatomy Review
URL Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ4kbOjm-BY&t=2s
[At around 8:00, Dr. Tori explains that the labia minora & clitoral hood becomes the penile shaft skin & foreskin while in the womb, made from the same exact cells.]
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I was circumcised before I could form a memory of it happening, and as a result… I really don’t care. haven’t had any problems as a result, and haven’t dwelled on the matter enough to convince myself I have.
Rod Davidson says:
There is much variability in circumcision surgery on a baby. There is no dotted line on which to cut. While it is a small area on a baby, it represents 10-15 square inches of missing tissue on an adult male. Some who perform this surgery go out of their way to gouge out all traces of the sensitive nerve-rich frenulum, while some practitioners leave much of the frenulum intact. Some males are cut tight and some cut loose. With such variability, one man cannot say he is fine with his neonatal circumcision and speak for other men who got a botched job and are NOT fine with it. Yet, American society seems to expect all men to be fine with it and keep quiet. Why should we?
A M Ber says:
As an uncircumcised urologist, trained in a country where there was little circumcision and working in a country where there is a great deal of circumcision the following observations could be entertained.
1) General data suggests that circumcision has only drawbacks in areas with good access to hygiene (clean water)
2) Circumcision is protective against the spread of a number of STD’s when hygiene access is compromised (see sub Saharan Africa)
3) Based on the above if I lived between the tropics I would want a circumcision as a matter of risk reduction
Having said this. A community needs an experience with managing uncircumcised males. There are pockets in the US where the circumcision rates have fallen dramatically (to do with insurance – its complicated). In these areas mothers, fathers and other relatives have no knowledge how to care for preteen boys who are not circumcised. This leads to a number of avoidable scenarios.
There are other scenarios where a circumcision is worthwhile. The one that jumps to mind is middle-aged diabetic men who suffer a number of complications regarding foreskins.
From a urologists perspective in an uncircumcised male the frenulum is the most sensitive area. There are some theories about why this would be. There appears a connection from the frenulum down the penile rhaphe to the peno-scrotal junction. With each thrust of an erection the scrotum is pulled back and the frenulum stretched on the underside of the penis stimulating the glans. Now there can be too much of a good thing and cases of premature ejaculation have been linked to a tight frenulum.
I have seen and examined thousands of penises. While every individual has their own penis and their own penis story, the experience of the collective has to be given sufficient weight. All I can say is the majority of circumcised men do not seem to have a problem with being circumcised, and the majority of uncircumcised men do not seem to have a problem being uncircumcised. A few adult uncircumcised men seek circumcision and a few circumcised men seek foreskin reconstruction . As stated earlier on balance, if you live with good access to hygiene, circumcision offers minimal benefit and only downside risks.
C R Strebor says:
I’m not against circumcision for adults who choose or need to be circumcised. Adults can do what they wish or need to do with their bodies. Leave children alone.
Miriam B says:
Mr. Srebor, I can’t begin to imagine the guilt trip you put your parents through since it was decided as a good intention to provide a baby boy with a healthy start in life.
If you’re wondering where all the downvotes suddenly sprang, it’s from a coalition of women in a group which knows firsthand the real mutilation which is occurring to women—unfortunately, by women—in certain cultures which most certainly do allow a gouging out by a blunt instrument of a girl’s clitoris.
It’s not true that medically circumcised males are “multilated” because their penis can still function. It’s extremely rare —and still more painfully brutal—for a girl to go through removal of the clitoral hood and anybody can read about the stats for themselves and find most clitorectomies and labialectomies are performed outside medical hospital by a person using a spoon or blunt instrument devoid of any anesthesia or medical training.
Usually family members hold the young girl child down and the procedure is performed without anesthesia by a blunt instrument. Years ago, PBS showed an explicit video of a young girl who underwent such a process and it was horrific. Many girls have died by non-medical digging out of the clitoris. Have you ever heard of a boy infant dying by receiving a medical circumcision?
When the clitoris is removed it is equal to removing a man’s penis. A female who has been mutilated by clitorectomy—the most common form—will never know the joys of sex. She will also become frigid and may experience more difficulty in conceiving.
Mr. Strebor, by your own account, your penis was still a functioning part of your body, it was still intact. However, your anger over a safe medical procedure which offers more health benefits—especially for gay men—is something you personally feel passionate about because of your not being able to give consent. That’s fair enough. However, you were never mutilated because your penis still functions and is intact.
Vini says:
“If you’re wondering where all the downvotes suddenly sprang, it’s from a coalition of women in a group which knows firsthand the real mutilation which is occurring to women…”
This is not a zero-sum game. Opposition to male circumcision does not diminish opposition to female genital mutilation. I personally believe that it is wrong to amputate parts of anyone’s genitals without consent, unless there’s a clear medical need.
However, this article is about male circumcision. It is counterproductive to dismiss arguments against male circumcision because female genital mutilation is considered more egregious by most accounts.
Upvoting and downvoting is really, really important because those votes alone determine the validity of the arguments being presented. This is how it works, Vini. We all know this to be true.
Shavon says:
Unfortunately you’re wrong, Mr, Strebor because any one person can hit either the thumbs up or thumbs down button on this site as many times as they please.
Maybe you and the your friend—the Vini you keep chastising—are wrong about other notions you both mistakenly hold on to as well.
It seems futile to try to educate in a commentary section which someone on Areo edits despite their claiming free speech.
Mr. Strebor, I am educated and have a passion about our bodies, human anatomy, our sexuality and the differences of male/female as well as the sameness shared.
It seems Areo allows editing which deletes or stops posts, from contributors which impedes free speech and allows bias to occur. I’m done reading or commenting on Areo because of this reason.
Miriam B. You seem to be saying that if a man can ejaculate and urinate, i.e. “their penis can still function” then he has no basis to complain. That’s ignorant. In fact, some boy infants die as a result of circumcision. A person can complain about a partial loss of hearing. A partial loss of sight. A partial loss of taste. But not an involuntary loss of mechanical sexual function and partial loss of erogenous sensitivity when up to 50% of the penile skin is amputated? Of course, FGM is bad, too, but this article is not about FGM.
It’s telling that you choose to speculate on what didn’t happen.
More concerning, though, is that your information on male and female genitalia is sadly inaccurate. I hope you are able to find information that enables you to learn.
Stop cutting those who cannot consent.
Indi says:
Talk about calling the kettle black. Completely amputating the most erogenous part of a (infant) males body by forcefully strapping him down is gential mutilation any way you look at it. People justify it for BS reasons because that’s how bad it is, and the only way they can make themselves feel better about doing it to someone. You talk about how painful FGM is, do you think MGM is any worse? People just hide behind the fact that it’s done before a baby can remember it so that makes it ok. Well god forbid a man said the same thing about removing female sexual parts, you would all have fit. Get real.
Miriam B. You ask: “Have you ever heard of a boy infant dying by receiving a medical circumcision? Yes, of course. Google it. It does happen, although it is rare. But if you are the parents of a baby boy who dies as a result of a medically unnecessary circumcision it doesn’t matter how rare it is. You also state that circumcision offers health benefits ”especially for gay men.” Where is your proof or citation? The studies cited by proponents of circumcision were on heterosexual men in Africa who contracted HIV from women. The results of that study are hotly contested but, more importantly, cannot be applied elsewhere or to gay men.
Reyos Blackwood says:
Yes actually, hundreds of boys die from medical circumcisions every year, and those are the ones done in a hospital, how many more die in the Xhosa bush rituals, a jewish bris or islamic circumcision?
Partial clitoridectomy does not at all equal the full removal of the penis, for many reasons, but it’s an inflamatory way to put it, it sparks images and gets sympathy to your cause. Sympathy that you may well deserve, but NOT at the expense of the billion and a half men who have been cut, offering possible minor heath benefits that the studies on keep disagreeing about, which by the way offers LESS benefit to gay men, there is no benefit to gay men for HIV found, the studies into that were on straight men, for straight sex, all studies into gay men, like most studies into straight men found no benefit, in fact some studies are starting for find the tight skin, and the friction that causes, is raising not lowering STI risk.
I could also point out there were two studies that found a 60-70% reducition in HIV among FGM victims, should that be an excuse to cut little girls? What if we do it in clinics and hospitals not in huts in Africa? After all that’s how it’s done in Malaysia, just like how boys are cut not infants but boys, in the bush in Africa too, but those get ignored, they don’t fit your story.
Your coalition is the problem, your coalition is here literally admitting to sabotaging our fight against what was done to us because of what was done to you. Your coalition could have just shut up and kept to yourself, your coalition could have joined forces and decided to try and end all childhood genital mutilation, regardless of gender, but instead you decided to delight in the pain of men and boys, to say you deserve what you got because we have it worse (often not true, more forms of FGM do less damage and are less invasive than forms that do more and are more invasive, though more harmful forms do exist sure)
If base functionality is your measuring stick, then all these women are too, they can still bear children, FGM would never have been done if it sterilized women, the tribes that did it would have died out. Studies into FGM have shown that most victims still want sex, still are capable of orgasm, and are still functioning, it’s harder, it’s not as enjoyable, but then that’s exactly what we’re saying here.
And since you asked, here’s just one example of a death from medical circumcision, if you want I can find hundreds more.
https://nationalpost.com/health/ontario-newborn-bleeds-to-death-after-family-doctor-persuades-parents-to-get-him-circumcised
I stumbled across this forum while looking for something else, and felt an unrelenting urge to comment. I never contribute to any of these forums, but I can’t help but respond to this comment. I see that this is from February, so I’m not even sure people will see this comment.
When I was two days old, I was strapped to a table, and the most sensitive parts of my genitalia were cut, and literally torn from my body. I was not given anesthetic, as babies were not in 1971 in the southern states, so it was literally the most painful experience of my life. Research shows that this kind of trauma can alter a baby’s brain permanently, and that infants enter a state of dissociation during this experience. They scream violently during the procedure, then finally just stop moving, barely breathing. Nurses who witness this have vowed to not circumcise their sons. I can add links if anyone cares to see them.
I always felt something was missing, and not until I saw and intact male did I truly understand what had happened. The structure, the sensitivity, the moisture! Why would anyone ever do this? From early on I felt strongly that this is truly a human rights violation – no one should ever have this done without the choice.
Now it seems widely accepted that the frenulum is the equivalent of the female g-spot, as a strong erogenous zone. I wouldn’t know, I have NO frenulum remaining. I have nothing but a dry, wooden stick. I have tried restoring, and will continue to try, but it’s a long, often uncomfortable endeavor – but it would be absolutely worth it to restore the sensitivity which I am starting to feel above the scar line, as the mucosal tissue becomes protected again.
So – in response to the comment above, I find it INCREDIBLY OFFENSIVE to take such a parallel situation of constraint and non-consensual mutilation, and to call it a “good intention to provide a baby boy with a healthy start” on the male side of the fence, and yet on the female side of the fence it’s a crime against humanity. Both are equally horrific, and I’m AMAZED, confused, and incredibly saddened that your group is not completely against genital cutting in general. Who is going to protect the baby boys, if their mothers have no issue with this barbaric practice.
AB – I’m sorry to read that you, too were mutilated.
The commenter to which you are replying is best ignored: uninformed with many axes to grind.
Dimitri V says:
Thank you, for posting a fair and intelligent observation.
Thank you, Dr. Ber, for your objective comments. You state, “the majority of circumcised men do not seem to have a problem with being circumcised, and the majority of uncircumcised men do not seem to have a problem being uncircumcised.” I would postulate that society in general, is not amenable, i.e. open and responsive, to complaints from circumcised men. Case in point is the quote in the documentary film American Circumcision, where Dr. Edgar Schoen, former head of the American Academy of Pediatrics task force on circumcision, was asked what he would say to a man who is unhappy with his neonatal circumcision. Dr. Schoen said on camera, “I’d tell him to get a life.” With that kind of attitude from spokespersons from the medical community, it should not surprise anyone that men are reluctant to entertain the idea that their sexual function has been diminished in any way by their newborn circumcision, let alone come forward publicly and subject themselves to mockery and ridicule. Some of the callous and dismissive comments from doctors in this comments section prove that circumcised men’s reluctance to come forward is not unfounded. The fact is that all the way back to antiquity there is ample historical acknowledgement that the purpose of circumcision was to diminish and desensitize the male sexual organ to make sex and masturbation more difficult and less enjoyable, yet still allow for the basic functionality of ejaculation and procreation.
That particular documentary is the most biased and skewed information source ever conceived—and cheaply done.
It falsely reports so many things like the worst segment showing a map and the narrator claiming America has the most cases of HIV/AIDS. Not true! Africa still remains the highest in HIV/AIDS pandemic but education and circumcision is lowering the numbers.
When the film focuses on protesters, it does not pan, it says still on a two or three people in each shot. The nurse is from the U.K. and is of an age whereby she witnessed a medical circumcision whereby anesthesia was not used back in the day.
There were numerous discrepancies and false reporting in that documentary which also pointedly focusses the camera while he’s talking on the retired, aging doctor’s shaking hands as if to further undermine his intelligence and past skills knowledge about circumcision.
Before the doctor states, I’d tell him to get a life, he offered much much more information which truthfully validates the safety and health benefits of circumcision. To jump to that one statement is to take his words out of context. Very unfair.
Miriam B. The particular doctor you mention, Dr. Edgar Schoen, is perhaps the most notoriously biased and skewed proponent of circumcision ever conceived. The American Academy of Pediatrics says that circumcision evidence is not great enough to make a universal recommendation in favor of it. In fact, no medical association in the world recommends it and most flat out recommend AGAINST it. I cannot imagine any context in which it would be acceptable for a medical doctor to tell a man who is unhappy with his circumcision: “Get a life.” That is callous and insensitive in any context for a doctor who has pledged, “First do no harm.”
Lxx 0000 says:
Miriam, read Wallerstein (1980), Romberg (1985), Gollaher (2000), Glick (2005) and Darby (2006).
Are you aware that among first world nations, in only 2 (USA and South Korea) is routine circumcision the norm, and in only one, Israel, is ritual circumcision the norm. There is no consensus in the medical community that circumcision is medically or sexually beneficial for persons living in the first world.
It is also the case that circumcision in the USA was never done with anesthesia before this century, and that dispensing with anesthesia remains common.
If anyone cares to do research, male circumcision predates religions. But isn’t it ironic that someone stated in this commentary that being uncircumcised is “God given” considering both the Christian and Muslim God commanded instuction to circumcise men?
It really is amazing how so many folks are devoutly religious yet can make one cringe when saying remarks which show they don’t read, study the very religion they’re brought up in.
In my experience, the devoutly religious are often devoutly uninformed about their religion.
Indeed, even Shavon who says the christian god demands it, while it’s true that it’s in the old testament (and there are many claims that it was added in by others, not in the original genesis) the new testament is very much against circumcision. The Jewish god arguably demands it, Christianity does not, and in fact the bible goes so far to say in the NT that circumcision, as a mark of the old covenant (judaism) means you have chosen the old covenant, and must follow that one, if you do it you’re Jewish not Christian.
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M Patel says:
The essay and comments are personal opinions by people who are not aware or ignore medical science which if one were to take the time to read sources other than cultural and personal opinion essays will better educate on the pros and cons of circumcision.
It’s clear if you’re uncircumcised there’s more need for cleanliness because the accumulation of smegma can cause two kinds of infections only associated with being uncircumcised.
Many cultures do not practice circumcision because of their ideas about a man-made-up God as well as a another culture claims their God instructed such a procedure. Medical science studies prove circumcision proves much more positive effects because keeping the foreskin intact causes much more adverse conditions.
The glans penis, the tip of the penis, is where concentrated nerve endings are and is NOT associated whatsoever with extra folds of skin which cover a flaccid penis.
But I’m curious as to why a second essay which promotes uncircumcision in a personal opinion essay format which is devoid of medical science is again presented on Areo Magazine.
Many uncircumcised males exist in the world (quite a few are Areo Magazine readers according to upvotes) but it’s certainly not a God given condition. An educated person is able to acknowledge many medical advances in the future will allow gene editing which can eradicate many diseases. It’s a futuristic consideration: Promoting being uncircumcised is like being proud of holding on to a defective gene which can be edited to maintain better health.
Intact males. That’s the word you are looking for.
S Scott says:
“Promoting being uncircumcised is like being proud of holding on to a defective gene”
This is one of the most outrageous statements regarding circumcision I think I’ve ever heard..
Even if, EVEN IF, the foreskin was a vestigial organ like the appendix, why do we forcibly remove it from an infant? We don’t remove infants appendix’s unless they are causing trouble, so why remove the foreskin if it’s not causing trouble?
That being said, the foreskin IS NOT a vestigial organ. It serves a clear purpose. You are so misinformed.
M Patel’s knowledge of anatomy is concerning. I’m glad he had the choice of removing his foreskin as I believe adults should be able to do whatever they wish with their own bodies.
Children, though?
Leave them alone.
Robert Darby says:
This is both a well-informed account of the early history of circumcision (as a ritual procedure customary in certain religious/cultural groups) and a moving personal story about how injured the author felt by what had been done to him. It is significant that it is possible to buy foreskin restoration devices, reflecting the fact that literally thousands of men are sufficiently distressed by the loss of their foreskin that they are willing go to the immense and tedious trouble of laboriously trying to restore it. The author’s comments about loss of sensitivity are confirmed by scientific studies of foreskin tissues showing that it has one of the highest concentration of pleasure-detecting nerves of any part of the body, similar to the finger tips or lips; indeed, the tissue conveying its inner surface is a mucous membrane very similar to the lips. Further information:
http://www.cirp.org/library/anatomy/
While the most common reason for circumcision on a world scale is the religious/cultural affiliation of the parents, medically rationalised (“health”) circumcision is still prevalent in the United States and lingers in Canada and Australia. The practice was introduced into the British and American world in the late 19th Century as a preventive health and hygiene option, largely out of the belief that it would promote moral hygiene – i.e. discourage boys from playing with themselves – masturbation at that time being regarded as a both a serious disease and a wicked moral failing. The practice began to die away in the 1970s as child health authorities recognised that these fears were groundless, and that the subsequent discovery of “health” reasons were invalid or insufficient. As a result, routine circumcision has largely disappeared in Britain and Australia, though it remains common (even normal) in the United States, where the relevant authority show great reluctance to acknowledge relevant research on the anatomy and functions of the foreskin, much less the bioethical and human rights aspects of the question.
Some more useful references:
http://www.historyofcircumcision.net
http://www.circinfo.org/index.php
https://www.academia.edu/35001238/False_beliefs_predict_increased_circumcision_satisfaction_in_a_sample_of_US_American_men
https://www.academia.edu/32691464/Cultural_bias_in_American_medicine_the_case_of_infant_male_circumcision
https://www.academia.edu/12035421/Risks_benefits_complications_and_harms_Neglected_factors_in_the_debate_on_non-therapeutic_circumcision
I think that the material here will prove an adequate response to the misleading remarks by Mr Patel. It is significant that no child health authority anywhere in the world recommends routine circumcision of boys (not even the American Academy of Paediatrics, which states merely that the benefits exceed the risks), and that all other child health authorities (Europe, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) that have issued policies on the subject are actively opposed to the practice as medically unnecessary, harmful and contrary to accepted principles of medical ethics.
Thank you, Robert.
The first site cirp.org is anti-circumcision and is not a medical site offering unbiased information. Other sites listed offer a history about circumcision or only focus on the rare negative consequences as given in a medical journal (which also would list the benefits not supported by the biased commentator).
I shared my story, too, yet get pushback because the before and after experience of circumcision chosen later in my life holds no merit to males who simply can’t relate. It is a far more uncomfortable procedure to go through as an adult because I do not have any memory of my birth.
As to the author of the essay, I’m sorry to hear you feel the way you do and it must be disappointing to realize there is no such thing as restoring foreskin. The best non-surgical treatments can do is stretch skin but it is missing the frenulum and therefore cannot really restore what you place certain focus. I tried to share a positive experience in which I do not miss or feel less of a man—and don’t think many guys bother to talk about.
Currently there’s much misinformation on the internet and a huge frenzy about male infant circumcision. It’s very much related to the vaccine fear mongering going on and cases of measles and chicken pox rising. Circumcision and becoming vaccinated against diseases has become more of a personal choice issue than a medical service which helps people live a more healthy life.
I could list valid sites which offer unbiased research that men who are uncircumcised are more apt to suffer cancer and infections than circumcised men but it’s doubtful with all the down votes and digging in that anyone in this comment section would read them.
You commented about choosing to have your foreskin removed.
I’m glad you had the choice of removing your foreskin. I did not.
R G says:
C R Strebor, it’s possible you might sound like someone in the future who complains about gene therapy and laments about it, no?
Gene therapies hold promise for many advancements in science – mutilating children is not gene therapy.
Shavon S says:
Circumcision is NOT mutilation. That is a ridiculous and backward mindset.
What the author chose to feel and do to try and reestablish a foreskin is his prerogative and his own personal desire by which he is not being honest with himself as there is absolutely no way whatsoever to regain foreskin tissue. Medically removing the foreskin in sage, sterile conditions by a competent physician in infancy has many more benefits both in health and sexuality than keeping a foreskin that if not kept constantly clean can harbor, cause and magnify disease.
However, must respect a person’s feelings about being denied the choice of circumcision and further understand their psychological feelings or cultural biases which may be adverse to a medical procedure which again has more pros than cons.
The issue which is not being addressed or talked about in an honest way is the fact no amount of skin stretching or surgical procedure can take a man back to square one because specific kinds of skin tissue cannot be reconstructed but can only mimic the look of an uncircumcised penis.
It takes much time and years to go through a dubious procedure to only achieve the look of being uncircumcised. It’s hopeful counseling was sought before undergoing a procedure which cannot restore but only mimic a physical structure.
Circumcision is the procedure that results in mutilation.
I hope you have had the the choice of whether or not to have your genitals altered.
That is all the more reason not to perform an amputation procedure that is not medically necessary on those who cannot consent to it.
You are right that circumcission cannot genuinely be reversed. What the author describes simply mitigates and reduces the damage done to him.
This is why circumcission is mutillation and a horribly abusive procedure. There are no genuine health benefits and many possible negatives up to and including death even if performed in a medical facility. All operations even minor ones have risks. That sexual function is impacted is clear and often quoted as the justification in early sources.
It is a stain on our western society that those who perform this disgusting practice are not prosecuted as the child abusers they undoubtedly are.
> I shared my story, too, yet get pushback because the before and after experience of circumcision chosen later in my life holds no merit to males who simply can’t relate. It is a far more uncomfortable procedure to go through as an adult because I do not have any memory of my birth.
You are the one who can’t relate, as evidenced by remarks like this. You got to make that decision for yourself; I, and many of us didn’t.
I started life debased and violated. I wasn’t given the basic human right to my own natural, healthy body. My whole life I have had to live with the shame of that violation, and the shame that my parents were too ignorant not to question the prevailing notion in the United States that says circumcision is what you’re supposed to do to infant boys, because otherwise people might think their natural penises look weird, and men certainly don’t have the sense to practice basic hygiene.
I have also had to come to terms with the growing realization that circumcision is a cause of sexual dysfunction, a fact that circumcising cultures seem to be in staunch denial of. How can amputating part of a functioning organ NOT impair its function? I don’t want to completely lose sensation by the time I turn 40. That is why I have also started the process of foreskin restoration. I will never get back what was forcefully taken from me, but I can at least regain some of my dignity this way.
Richard Dick says:
There is no such thing as foreskin restoration and it’s clear this is a shill kind of essay and rigged consequential commenting forum which is promoting a procedure which is dubious and non-existtant.
The internet is rife with anti-circumcision, false testimonials and sites which claim foreskin restoration at cost which does more damage than help a person who ridiculously believes their “manhood” was denied by a medical procedure which has far more benefits for men than the so-called false call-out that it decreases male “manhood”.
C R Strebor by his account is surrounded by males who are not circumcised and seems more brainwashed by their narrow knowledge of being uncircumcised and, of course, their bias.
This essay received no commentary whatsoever until Patel stepped up then all bias broke loose. Aero should place this as an advertisement for foreskin restoration like those false ads for gizmos like AccuJack which claim to make small penises grow larger.
There is no known remedy which can restore male foreskin—and why the hell would a man want to???
It’s a fallacy to assume circumcision is mutilation because many medical procedures are best performed in infancy. Being born with a cleft palette is certainly not God given and operations were initially delayed until a adulthood which caused unnecessary suffering. Nowadays, medical doctors go to great lengths to visit countries and work for free to operate on and correct cleft palettes in infancy.
Women endure breast cancer which may cause complete removal of their breast and seldom do you hear a woman say it affected their womanhood like the author does about a beneficial procedure to eradicate penile cancer and stop inflammatory infections.
Because you’re a boy, medical science is doing it’s best to make sure you live a healthy life. If you live in a cultural environment whereby your penis looks different than everybody else’s doesn’t mean a damn thing. If you’re experiencing issues go seek medical or counseling advice.
The essay serves to strangely promote a false ideal and sounds even stranger to focus manhood on a body part called penile foreskin. As if a woman is only defined by her breasts a man is “manly” because of having extra folds of penile foreskin?
I am curious why Areo would allow such a blatant topic which shills as a false advertisement for penile foreskin restoration and lists this as “Politics”.
Oh, the absurdity in this world is rife on net forums!
I am sorry that your unable to experience that the pleasure that is my restored foreskin.
> It’s a fallacy to assume circumcision is mutilation because many medical procedures are best performed in infancy. Being born with a cleft palette is certainly not God given and operations were initially delayed until a adulthood which caused unnecessary suffering.
A healthy, intact penis is not a malformation. There is no humanely-sound reason for amputating part of it in infancy.
Reading your comment was tiring, but I did it! And I easily came to a conclusion: you’re a brainwashed idiot. Especially after this doozy: “Women endure breast cancer which may cause complete removal of their breast and seldom do you hear a woman say it affected their womanhood”
Do you realize how ignorant you sound? It’s tragic that people this stupid exist.
The AAP (American Academy of Pediatrics) is the only medical community in the world that endorses circumcision. Let that sink in.
Comparing foreskin, which 100% of males are born with, to a cleft pallet is just truly bafflingly ignorant.
You’d do society a big favor by not weighing in on issues that you clearly have no knowledge about.
“Women endure breast cancer which may cause complete removal of their breast”
We could remove those in infants too, it would eliminate breast cancer, something far more common and more dangerous than all the issues blamed on the foreskin, combined. Yet that would be seen as abusive and mutilation wouldn’t it? Removing any other healthy and normal part of the body would be seen as mutilation and abusive, and would be a violation of medical ethics, the principles of least intervention, the very same reasons why surgeries are not the first option for other issues, cancer is treated with chemo, with radiation, and if it absolutely must be, with surgery, with circumcision they don’t even wait for an issue, they allow it to be done on fully healthy natural bodies.
You mention cleft palate and you are right there, that’s something done to infants, however there is a diagnosis there, a condition to treat, that is therapeutic medicine, having a prepuce is not a condition, it is not an aberration, it is not unnatural and it is not something that requires treatment. It is the one prophylactic surgery we allow parents to ask for without the consent of the person to be operated on, when the body is completely healthy, and it is a violation of the boys rights to bodily integrity, and done for no actual benefit, I could site as many studies that find no benefit as those that say there are, and I could list the hundreds if not thousands of other conditions circumcision was said to prevent or treat, things like tuberculosis, blindness, gangrene, epilepsy, even erectile dysfunction which it has been shown to cause. Circumcision is not medicine, it is social, cultural ritual masquerading as medicine and that mask needs to be ripped away.
Big Dick Nick says:
Shame? You’ve really carried shame about this? Most boys in America around the time of your birth were circumcised, and you have carried the heavy weight of that shame with you for your whole life?
I find that ridiculous at face. I was circumcised, probably around the time you were. There’s no shame in it. There would be no shame had my parents chosen otherwise.
What a massive burden it is for me to be circumcised. Add me to the victimhood hierarchy. From now on, don’t see my whiteness or my maleness, see my victimhood and mourn my foreskin.
I change the things I cannot accept.
You could, too.
If you tried.
I’m not sitting here saying, “Give me special consideration and privileges because I am a victim.”
I have felt from an early age that I was violated as an infant, which has had a lasting impact on me. I don’t want that to happen to other people.
I am not a victim: I change the things I cannot accept.
Major Styles says:
Having restored, I agree with the general gist of your information: circumcision is a harmful procedure and the foreskin is a critical part of male sexual vitality. However, I think your historical analysis has a few oversights in it (ones that I repeatedly see in the Inactivist community).
1.) You state that, “The practice was introduced into the British and American world in the late 19th Century…” This is not true. Jews have lived in New York since 1655 (then it was called New Amsterdam). The first synagogue in New York dates back to 1730. There were also numerous Jewish communities throughout the United States in the 18th century: Georgia (1730s), Philadelphia (1740s) and Rhode Island (1750s). Some of these Jews were also Orthodox and would have been practicing Mitzvah B’peh, the act of sucking the blood out of the child’s penis.
So in short, Jews were mutilating children and sucking the blood out of their penises before the late 19th century.
Source regarding Jewish community:http://americanjewisharchives.org/education/timeline.php
Source regarding penile blood sucking:https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/18085/is-metzitzah-bpeh-a-must/18783
2.) The circumcision rate was still relatively low in both Britain and the US after the Puritanical push. Foe example, in 1900 the US rate of circumcision has at 18% (source: http://www.boystoo.com/history/statistics.htm). So what explains the fact that 70 years later, this rate skyrocketed to 90%? The answer to this is more complex than “let’s just blame the cereal guy”. Again, we see Jewish involvement via the GOMCO clamp (short for the Goldstein Manafacturing Company) and the Mogen Clamp (made by the Jewish man Bronstein). We also see the work of Benjamin Spock, whose book “Baby and Child Care” in 1946 was very influential in encouraging the average American to mutilate their son: his parents were of Dutch ancestry.
In short, I think it’s important to present an honest representation of history. We have several culprits for circumcision in the US and we should have the courage to name the perpetrators.
DTK says:
“Major” anti-Jewish propaganda.
I’m with you on this, DTK – Major Styles, and others, need to stop blaming Jews for what non-Jews do to their children.
http://beyondthebris.com
Cut pomegranates, not children.
Who invented the GOMCO and the Mogen clamp? Do you disagree with those facts?
Since when are facts considered propaganda. Are you telling me that Jews do not practice circumcision?
Jewish people are the front of the bodily integrity movement – stop blaming Jews for what non-Jews do in far greater numbers.
“Jewish people are the front of the bodily integrity movement.”
I applaud those individuals and give credit where it’s due. Even Theodore Hertzl – the father of the state of Israel – did not circumcise his son. And yet, the circumcision rate in Israel is estimated to be between 95%-98%.” .Source: https://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/top-10-countries-with-highest-circumcision-rate-in-the-world-599346/11/
Just because there are Jewish individuals that are fighting for inactivism, this does not negate the factual data: i.e. the vast majority of Jewish babies are subjected to genital mutilation. They have no say in this and they never gave their permission. This is a human rights violation. I was one of those babies – funny how you accuse one of anti-semitism with zero understanding of that individual’s history.
If you really care about the “Jewish people” (as you suggest that you do) then you will defend the rights of their children as opposed to the egoistic sensibilities of their adults.
I defend the rights of all children whether male, intersex or female.
Regardless of the religion of their parents.
Your posting is suggesting otherwise. You keep responding with a “protect the Jewish people at all costs” type of reasoning.
You seem to hear what you want to hear.
Cut pomegranates, not boys.
Ok, Strebore…You keep re-posting the same irrelevant link. How successful has Brit Shalom if Israel’s circumcision rate is still at 98%.
Be well, Major Styles, be well.
I have to say that the only reason that circumcision is done “in far greater numbers” to non Jews is the low percentage of the population following that faith. Judaism makes up 0.2% of the world’s population, Muslims, which make up 70% of the world’s circumcision. are 24%of the world’s population, 120 times as many people. A relative comparison would be interesting, but comparing raw numbers like that doesn’t mean much when the population base is so vastly different.
It is most distressing the ignorance which continues to this day and age about male and female genitalia let alone the misunderstanding that some things about our body are not conducive for our health and longevity.
Foreskin has little if no nerve tissue and is a known contributor for harboring bacterial components within its folds to escalate infections and STDs.
Because we’re human and make mistakes it is likely the author of this essay is the recipient of a an unfortunate botched circumcision which took off too much tissue and is the cause of over sensitivity, tightened skin leading to chaffing.
It is common for uncircumcised men to exhibit pride in being so yet they cannot fathom the enhanced pleasure circumcision allows during sexual pleasure as well as acknowledge the difference in cleanliness by the ridding of extra skin folds.
Uncircumcised males face the demand of constant cleanliness of those excess skin folds. Men who undergo circumcision later in life will attest to the positive differences. However, it’s more painful to wait than undergo as an infant.
I underwent circumcision later in life because of ongoing infections which also led to chaffed areas and despite the longer recovery can vouch sex is far more pleasurable.
It makes no sense when men boast about their cultural affinity for being uncircumcised or think it’s better when they have no idea whatsoever how it feels.
Again, the author must have endured a botched circumcision which happens but is overall very rare.
M Patel – I’m not sure where you got your information, but it is flat out wrong. The foreskin has upwards of 20,000 nerve endings, possibly more. It is the most sensitive and erogenous part of the male body.
Perhaps you are pleased with your circumcision-good for you, you got to make that decision as an adult. I wish that I would have been given that option. Restraining an infant and amputating off their sexual nerve centers for cultural, religious or aesthetic reasons is barbaric and just plain wrong. It needs to stop. If a man wants to alter his sexual organ let him make that decision on his own when becomes an adult and can consent on his own.
Please show medical evidence of the foreskin’s number of nerve endings you claim exist. Perhaps you confuse the tip of the glans penis which lies UNDER many folds of skin.
Not confused at all. I know the difference between the foreskin and the glans, thanks. You can use any search engine you’d like and type in “nerve endings in foreskin” and you’ll find all the information needed to back me up. Why am I not bothering to link anything directly you may ask? Well honestly, because after reading your other comments I know it’s not worth the time. Anything I, or other say will not change your tone or opinion. Ignorance can be fixed by education and information. Brainwashed cannot. You sir are I am afraid brainwashed. Good luck.
Martin Villegas says:
Are you actually retarded? You seem to think skin blocks feeling, when in reality it’s where nerves are located and transmits feeling. Not blocks it. Your idea foreskin blocks or restricts feeling is so stupidly unintelligent it shows the desperation of you pro circ pedophiles to force your disfigurement on others. If you’re so happy with your mutilated broken cock why the need to lie and try force it on children? Can’t be too happy or confident in your position if you need to force your opinion on children.
Martin, one can debate issues without calling someone retarded. Have a look at other comments on my article and you’ll see where the technique of using words instead of slurs has been used quite effectively.
Take a look at Sorrells study here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17378847
They found that the most sensitive parts of the penis are all in the foreskin, the frenulum, the ridged band, etc, all reacting to lighter forms of stimulation than anywhere else and that the glans of the penis was the least sensitive part of the penis, requiring the most pressure to feel touch of any kind. If there were no, or few nerves in the foreskin this would not be the case. It’s also telling that their results find the circumcision scar to be the most sensitive part of the cut penis, as enervation increases as you move closer to the acroposthion, the end of the foreskin.
This is nothing but lies and pro-mutilation propaganda. Literally, every single thing you wrote is false. The idea that there is such thing as a “botched circumcision” spreads the lie that a properly-performed circumcision is not in itself harmful and damaging.
Stop. Mutilating. Infants’. Genitals.
Male circumcision does not mutilate but rare occurrences can happen whereby the procedure may be botched. However, genital mutilation is done to young girls in which their their clitoris is gouged out. A clitoris is NOT foreskin but is very much like a tiny penis and is consists of many nerve endings much like the tip of a male penis.
For you uncircumcised males: A female’s labia is like male foreskin. The labia occur at left and right sides of female genitalia. Imagine the head of your penis (which lies under the folds of male labia-like skin) being lopped off by a blunt instrument—THAT’S what is happening to young girls in certain parts of the world and IS mutilation and is not the same as medically performed circumcision.
Go ahead and downvote because it shows how many ignorant people think circumcision is on any level whatsoever to female clitoral mutilation.
Your information on male and female genitalia is sadly inaccurate. I hope you are able to find information that enables you to learn.
That’s totally beside the point. Out of respect for human dignity, we need to stop debasing our children with amputation practices whose origins stem from barbaric blood rituals.
Vii says:
MD, the harmfulness of FGM is not a justification to stay silent about male circumcision. Surgical, irreversible, non medical removal of foreskin is mutilation as well as a human rights violation. Did you also know that certain types of FGM (type IV in WHO classification) are actually less mutilating than male curcumcision? (ofc they’re still non justifiable).
Your anatomy description is a bit off the mark as well. The equal of male foreskin (prepuce) in females is the clitoral hood (also prepuce) which indeed is part of labia minora but not on the left or right side (actually labia minora and majora are part of genitals so on the left and right you can find…thighs).
Your whole analogy is irrelevant and off topic. And before you start imagining things, I think FGM is horrible practice and should be eradicated in all its forms.
First only 4/12 forms of what is called FGM involve partial clitordectomy, are you saying girls who go through FGM IA, FGM IIA and all the subtypes of FGM IV are not mutilated? Also the clitoris is not “gouged out” but the glans clitoris is cut off in those other 4 forms.
Second, most circumcision is not done the way people assume, the average circumcision is not an infant in a clean US hospital, it’s a 7 year old boy at home or in a room in the Mosque with other boys being circumcised. FGM done in Singapore (type I) is done in a clinic with sterile tools, and the traditional male circumcision of the Xhosa tribe in Africa has a higher complication rate than FGM, to say nothing of aboriginal pacific island practices of subincision, where the entire penis is slit along the length of the urethra.
Third circumcision meets the definition of mutilation, as defined by Encyclopaedia Britannica “Mutilation or maiming is cutting off or injury to a body part of a person so that the part of the body is permanently damaged, detached or disfigured.” As defined by the Cambridge English Dictionary “to damage something severely, especially by violently removing a part” granted most surgery meets these criteria, but all other surgeries are done with therapeutic medical need, to fix a problem that already exists, or at the very least with the consent of the patient, as being born male is not a pathology, circumcision meets neither of these qualifications.
So I will indeed downvote you, because you have shown your ignorance of both sides of this issue,
It’s rather simple to note but so difficult to achieve: stop cutting children.
“Foreskin has little if no nerve tissue…”
False. The foresking is very rich in nerve endings.
“…and is a known contributor for harboring bacterial components within its folds to escalate infections and STDs.”
Then why does the USA, where at least 80% of adult men are circumcised, have the highest rates of STDs in the first world?
There never has been a study of the adult outcomes of newborn circumcision in first world nations. Hence we have no idea of how many circumcisions result in permanently damaged penis.
“It is common for uncircumcised men to exhibit pride in being so…”
ME. Most intact men do not give much thought to their circumcision status, because they live in societies where foreskin is normal.
“…the enhanced pleasure circumcision allows during sexual activity…”
ME. This has never been documented, because there is no way of measuring sexual pleasure.
“…the difference in cleanliness by the ridding of extra skin folds.
ME. The intact foreskin has but one fold. No one has shown that an intact penis is a sanitary problem for men who live in the first world.
“Uncircumcised males face the demand of constant cleanliness of those excess skin folds.”
ME. Cleaning a penis with a retractable foreskin is trivial.
“Men who undergo circumcision later in life will attest to the positive differences.”
ME. There are men who were circumcised in their 20s or 30s, who bitterly regret the fact.
“…it’s more painful to wait than undergo as an infant.”
ME. Older children and adults are done under general anesthesia and can be given pain killers. Infants get neither.
ME. Only because your foreskin was a troubled body part.
ME. THe only human beings who know from experience the difference the foreskin makes, a straight women who’ve been in relationships with both kinds of men.
“…a botched circumcision which happens but is very rare.”
ME. You and I have no way of knowing whether that is true, because the necessary studies have never been performed.
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🐭-LAB RAT-🐭 asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 month ago
Regarding a recent question; what exactly does attacking the President's underage non-political minor child prove to anyone?
Seriously Liberals, I don't think that really helps your cause in any measurable way.
The underage minor wasn't attacked; his name was invoked to ridicule the president's behavior.
With the numbers that defend or spin the attack from not only the flock, but their elected leadership. Did you really think you would get a meaningful answer?
It is one think for members of the flock on either side to go after the kids. It shows how low they are. It is another when elected officials do it or their supposed educated witnesses do.
Weasel McWeasel
and in relation that recent question........I will REPEAT my answer *again* in case YOU didn't see it.
and just WHO "attacked" his son?
His name was referenced , in a discussion about the difference between a president and a king.
I heard no one "attack" him.......call him names, belittle him, or call him out---personally--- in any way, shape or form.
There was not a damn thing wrong with the reference...........but she aplogized anyway, because republicans cried SOOOOOOOO hard, because the boys mere NAME was mentioned.
well, Trump DOES have a son named Barron, right????? It's not exactly a SECRET is it?
And when Trump went to the world series game..........yeah, gee.........you'd THINK he take his ***SON*** to the ball game.
Instead he took Matt Gaetz. Yeah, father of the year, right there.
I am sure his son, didn't want to go the world series, anyway, right?
so stop your Faux OUTRAGE, just because she used the word "BARON" in reference to the difference between KINGS and Presidents-
The kids name is BARRON. She used the word "Baron" in reference to Royal Titles......but I wouldn't expect cons to know the difference.
As opposed to the way y'all went after Obama's daughters,, or Chelsea Clinton when she was a minor,,, how exactly did that help your cause
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/20/politics/peter-fonda-baron-trump-secret-service/index.html
They didn't attack Barron. You just think that because that's what Trump and Faux News said. Quit listening to Trump.
First of all, that was over a year ago. Second of all, that was more of an attack to Donald than to Barron. Peter was wondering if Melania would stand up to PoS Donald if Barron was put in a cage of pedos, he didn't say Barron deserved to be put in there.
It proves that liberals are so degenerate that they take pleasure attacking minor children in front of millions of Americans.
Maga Myers
More spin. The cages were installed and used by 0bama.
It proved Karlan's testimony was hate based.
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No one attacked anyone. It what way is saying, "You can name your son Barron, but you can't make him a Baron" attacking him. Another faux outrage by the GOP to try to distract from crimes they can't defend.
all white people are racist
you are just mad that liberals are more educated than you
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Sorry I am not a ***(g) like you
There's no attack. . The barons are coming.
How do I get my neighbor to take down his confederate flag?
Do any sane people stop and wonder how this bafoon got elected President?
Is diversity really a strength?
Should we put trump on the $100 bill?
Is it true that now whenever “President Trump” is mentioned people will think “he got impeached”? It’s a permanent stain on his legacy?
Doesn’t Melania look a lot happier these days since disgraced hubby got impeached? She looked clinically depressed all the time before.?
Why did so many architects of the Iraq War just so happen to be Jewish ?
Why couldn't the Europeans conquer China Japan Korea like the rest of the world?
Who do you predict Biden will make his running mate?
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July 4, 2015 / Charlie / 1 Comment
I’d like to share with you all something that was shared on my Facebook wall recently, and which I think encapsulates a lot of the problems that the people I work with, among others, face when dealing with people from industrialised societies. It’s to do with representation.
Here’s the post:
I hate this hippy dippy bullshit.
“An anthropologist” Which one? When?
“African children” – Africa is huge. Soweto is in Africa. Cairo is also in Africa. Children in these two places have remarkably different cultures to grow up in. Are we supposed to believe they both think of “Ubuntu” simply because they were born on the same lump of land? It is one more to add to the tally of people thinking Africa is one big wild place full of mystical black people. It’s not. It’s a spot on the surface of the Earth. A damn big one.
Who are these people the story describes? Where are they? Are we expected to believe they have no concept of individualism? Give out sweets to kids on the field sites I have experience of and they clamour to be first. Like kids in many places. It may be a shock to the writer of this story but “African children” are not smiley examples of how the world is pretty. They are children. People.
“African concept of Ubuntu”. Does the article mean like the “European concept of dialectical materialism” or “European concept of capitalism”? What does that even mean? Do all Africans (the Pan African movement is interesting, and worth investigating, but is not entirely relevant to this) identify with Ubuntu? Are Africans more tuned into Ubuntu because they live on the same arbitrary lump of rock as the people who made this word and have this cultural concept? Am I more a Communist or a Capitalist because I’m European?
No. I’m more of those things (or less) because the culture I come from has shaped me towards or away from these things. There are so many cultures on the African continent and it is as meaningless to lump them together as it is to lump Japanese and Turkish people together as “Asians”.
It would be interesting to see a source for the story, if it exists at all. It sounds like something made up by a hippy to make the world seem like its full of sunshine and roses when it isn’t. Certainly not in Africa. If these “African children” are so full of Ubuntu where was it among the people of Rwanda in 1994? Where was it under Apartheid, committed by white people, yes, but white people who had been on this continent so long it would be meaningless to call them anything other than Africans.
Colonialism is one of the many reasons that the continent has many problems. Borders drawn by Europeans in Berlin in 1890, that bear no resemblance to tribal and ethnic lines. Violence, repression, genocide. Entire cultures sold into slavery in the Americas by my ancestors, the British. It’s not that “Africans” are too nice and full of Ubuntu to resist. This whitewashes the long and noble history of indigenous rebellion. I only know the Namibian history, but the resistance of the Hereros to German atrocities, the blood shed in the fight against apartheid, these were not nice people laying down and dying so that they could be picked over by “vultures”, as this story puts it. It is a “bless their noble savage hearts” attitude, the idea that people are not fit to engage with the modern world simply because they are African. It is disgusting, white supremacist, eurocentric bullshit, and moreover isn’t true.
The use of “vultures” as an image is doubly vile. It implies that Africa is a carcass, a dead thing, its people unwilling or unable to fight back, to resist, to make the world in their image as other cultures have done for centuries, and which people from Africa have done! Look at the pyramids, the magnificent Sudanese civilisations, who built monuments without writing a single word. The simple fact that almost all popular music is African in origin. The Symbolic Revolution, when we started making art, likely took place here. The rock art in Namibia is another example. Centuries of sophistication and deep culture. But to say that the entire continent is somehow dead, by using the metaphor of vultures, is thoughtless if unintended and racist if intended.
Ubuntu does in fact mean “I am because we are”. It is Swahili, though, a mixed-up language from many roots just like English, and is from Kenya, thousands of miles away from where !Xhosa (note the correct spelling, with a uvular click) is spoken, which is in South Africa. More evidence here, if it were needed, that the author of this piece just thinks Africa is one place full of smiling black kids.
“Ubuntu” does have another, rather amusing side, too. It roughly goes like this:
<Sitting in a shebeen after a long day>
Complete and utter stranger: Hey, man, buy me a beer!
Me, tired and crabby: What? Why?
CUS: I don’t have a beer.
Me: What makes you think I have the money?
CUS: *pointedly looks me up and down, and notes my foreign accent and whiteness* Come on man, we’re friends!
Me: Huh *buys beer out of exasperation*
I have no problem with this, but it’s not all smiles. You have, so I have. Fair enough, most of the time. If I claim to be a socialist, this is the reality of it.
Also what the hell is an “African website”!?
I’ve read this fake story before about a thousand times, and it makes me very angry. It’s because hippies don’t know that this holding up of a “Noble Savage” in this ideal “primitive” state is really really racist. They think they’re being nice, but they’re not. Also why are the children naked? This is symbolism. The Primitive, the Savage, the Undeveloped, the Human In His Primal State. Africa is not that! Africa is a continent, with people on it. People just like you, and me.
I think it’s important to debunk this stuff, even if I get really angry about it. I know it’s well-meaning, and I know it doesn’t come from a place of malice, but it’s harmful in a different way. If we are to engage with people from different cultures, and to focus on exploitation and one-sided geopolitical relations, we need to begin from a place of equality. We need to engage with people keeping the idea in mind that more than anything else the people we are talking to are people. It sounds so basic, but it’s not happening. These microaggressions and dehumanising representations add up, and actively work against the interests of the people they claim to want to learn from.
If debunking faulty or racist depictions of indigenous people that I come across is something that readers want to see, I might make a series of it. We shall see.
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Study: Cardiovascular toxicities associated with ibrutinib
After a recent study showed that chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients who received ibrutinib as a frontline treatment had a 7% death rate, a new study offers a clearer picture on the reasons for the deaths.
A team of researchers utilized the VigiBase, a global database of drug complications maintained by the World Health Organization, to analyze deaths associated with ibrutinib, a targeted therapy for several blood cancers that has boosted long-term survival rates and proven superior to other therapies. However, ibrutinib also was shown to have a death rate of 7% compared to 1% for chemotherapy during treatment or within 30 days afterward, according to a study published Dec. 27, 2018, in The New England Journal of Medicine.
The death rate, which was noted on the eighth page of that study, stood out to Javid Moslehi, MD, (pictured above) director of Cardio-Oncology and associate professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is part of a team at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center focusing on toxicities associated with targeted therapies, immunotherapies and other newer treatments.
“Seven percent of people dying from a frontline treatment is not a good thing,” said Moslehi, the senior author of a follow-up study published Sept. 23 in Journal of The American College of Cardiology that analyzed deaths associated with ibrutinib utilizing VigiBase.
The study identified several cardiovascular toxicities associated with ibrutinib, including supraventricular arrhythmias, central nervous system hemorrhagic events, heart failure, ventricular arrhythmias, conduction disorders, ischemic strokes and organ damage related to hypertension.
“Our study is interesting in that it allowed for detection of new signals of potentially fatal cardiovascular toxicities associated with ibrutinib, such as heart failure, conduction disorders and central nervous system hemorrhagic events. Treating physicians should be aware of these risks,” said the study’s lead author, Joe-Elie Salem, MD, PhD, associate professor of Cardiology and Pharmacology at Sorbonne University and adjunct professor at Vanderbilt University.
Some of the cardiovascular adverse drug reactions associated with ibrutinib are difficult to treat.
“The challenge is that from a cardiology perspective we don’t always know what to do,” Moslehi said. “For example, we generally treat patients with atrial fibrillation with blood thinners. The problem is that ibrutinib also thins the blood, so you already have a bleeding risk. That is a problem.”
The study noted “there is a clear and pressing need to improve management of these patients.” The research team is currently investigating what protein kinase within the drug mechanism is causing the atrial fibrillations and how best to reverse the effect, Moslehi said.
Two of the cardiovascular adverse drug reactions identified in the VigiBase analysis – heart failure and conduction disorder – are new findings.
The median time from start of treatment with ibrutinib to onset of supraventricular arrythmia was two to three months. The median time was four to five months for hypertension. Heart failure, brain bleeds and ventricular arrythmias had onset times of two to three months. However, the onset of conduction disorder occurred more quickly, mainly within the first month of treatment.
Moslehi and the team of oncologists who are co-authors on the manuscript, including Nishitha Reddy, MBBS, MSCI, associate professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University, urge monitoring patients closely when prescribing ibrutinib and to consult with cardiologists with difficult patient cases.
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Jim O'Brien (born February 2, 1947) is a former American football placekicker in the National Football League. He played for the Baltimore Colts from 1970 to 1972 and the Detroit Lions in 1973. He also played wide receiver, catching the bulk of his career passes during the 1972 season while still performing his kicking duties. His short career was less than stellar, posting a 55.6 percentage making 60 of 108 field goal attempts. His shining moment came in the closing moments of Super Bowl V in January 1971, where he kicked a 32-yard field goal with only five seconds remaining in the game to break a tie and give the Colts the victory over the Dallas Cowboys 16–13. Before kicking the field goal, teammates saw that O'Brien was so nervous, he tried to take some of the artificial turf off the field to figure out the wind, thinking the field was regular grass. Because of his singular moment kicking the Super Bowl-winning field goal, NFL Films named him the #9 "One-Hit Wonder" of all time.[1]
O'Brien attended the University of Cincinnati, where he led the nation in scoring as a football senior. He also played basketball for the Bearcats. O'Brien graduated from Aiken High School in Cincinnati and had an appointment to the U.S. Air Force Academy, but received a medical discharge for an ulcer.[2]
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Thomas spreads her love of ballet and figure skating to a global community
As a child, Annette Thomas’ favorite activity wasn’t playing in the backyard or swinging on the jungle gym; it was keenly observing her mother teach ballet.
“I would sit by the rosin box and just watch the whole class,” she said. “I loved discussing the class with her afterward. My mother never talked to me as a kid; she talked to me as if I were a partner, a friend.”
Her mother Mika Mingo, a skater and professional dancer, often brought skating friends to ballet class. After the class, Mingo helped her skating friends translate the lesson onto the ice, working on the specific needs for figure skaters to strengthen muscles and improve alignment for on-ice performance.
“My mother mixed the worlds,” Thomas said. “She would tell me to watch the skaters and see the differences in how they moved. We would discuss the skaters and dancers strong and weak points. And so skating and ballet have always been in my heart.”
After her mother’s sudden death at age 17, Thomas continued a career path combining the two passions her mother instilled inside her. Now an international publisher, professional dance teacher, choreographer and mother, she devotes her time spreading the art of ballet to those needing its special touch on the ice.
“Teaching movement is in my soul. Making an image that stays in your head and goes into your heart is what I love to see,” she said. “I want people to understand the beginning, middle and end of each movement. It’s how you tell the story, not the story itself.”
Living in New York City, Thomas never became a competitive figure skater attended skating shows with her mother at Madison Square Garden and loved skaters such as Janet Lynn and John Curry. Her dance background includes extensive training at Carnegie Hall by Maria Nevelska of the Bolshoi Ballet. Gaining experience throughout her lifetime in Flamenco, Modern, Folkloric and Character Dance, Bharata Natyam and Mime, figure skating continued to be a love in which she yearned to be involved. Teaching ballet to figure skaters at rinks throughout the Milwaukee area since 1984, she wanted to see how ballet was being integrated in figure skating training on a national and global scale.
Eric Bensen and Thomas, age 4, at Wollman Rink in NYC. Photo courtesy of Annette Thomas
She got her wish as the technology boom of the 1990s brought an invention: online discussion forums. In 1998, she started the first ever online forum on Yahoo! that specifically dealt with ballet in the field of figure skating.
“It was very informative and rewarding to get high level coaches and ballet teachers from all over the world to contribute and discuss relevant topics and share information,” she added.
The group reached around 50 members, but she decided to close it down after three years when dialogue among members succumbed to bickering.
“Some coaches don’t want ballet teachers telling their skaters things that they believe may be contrary to their progress on the ice,” she says. “What skaters need is a team working together to be able to transfer everything on the ice. What it boils down to is that a lot of ballet teachers are just teaching ballet as a piece of choreography. They are not understanding the biomechanics of the movement.”
Thomas received her Certificate of Completion of the First Class Pedagogical Course for the Study of Classical Ballet in 2005 and has released two books: Fundamentals of Alignment and Classical Movement for Figure Skaters and her latest book Lessons in Classical Ballet for Figure Skaters. She has been mentored by skating legend Ricky Harris and received critical acclaim of her books and material from those within the skating community such as Deidre Arianne Kellogg, Ryan Jahnke, Salome Brunner and Dorian Shields Valles.
With the rise of social media sites, Thomas has rekindled her online presence by creating a Facebook group and continues the up keeping of her website. In June, American Ice Theatre announced a partnership with Thomas that will include collaboration on educational material.
“I’m very grateful that Jodi is reaching out to me,” she said. “Creativity is contagious and we want to share it.”
No doubt Thomas will continue to share it wherever she goes.
“People are just so full of creativity and life and I just want to stir that up,” she said. “I want people to be all they can be creatively and ballet for figure skating is a venue of what’s in my heart to give people. There’s so much in the world that is mundane and brings us down; I just want people to be lifted up.”
Annette Thomas, ballet for figure skating, Jodi Porter, Ricky Harris
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2017 First Harvest – Resistance, Persistence, March For Truth, “A New Way” studio ALBUM out by end of year!
July 29, 2017 August 3, 2017 Amy Clarke#anewway, @amyclarke, a new way, activist, album, albums, amy clarke, amy clarke a new way, amy clarke music, amy clarke musician, musician, percussionist, pianist, singer, singer-pianist, singer-songwriter, songwriterLeave a comment
2017 has been a busy year of active resistance, relentless persistence, and divine timing – am excited to share that I just received the final mastered copy of my long-awaited “A New Way” studio album and will release it to the world by the end of this year!
After the powerful #womensmarch in January, the first half of 2017 was focused on activism, leadership in spiritual retreats such as Cross Pollinate in LA & Gaia Grove in Baja, Mexico, and partnering with new colleagues at The Hollywood Bowl, all the while writing music & performing. However, my heart still ached for the lost files from my studio sessions over the last decade, trying again to recover files from crashed hard drives to no avail… (or so it first seemed…)
In June, I was honored to be invited both to share my own music and give a speech on the steps of Los Angeles City Hall at the #MarchForTruth LA alongside Congressman Brad Sherman, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, and numerous other inspiring activists, community leaders, and artists. I shared my experience as a musician running for local office and winning, eventually becoming Co-Chair of the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council, and reminding everyone to get involved on the issues that matter to them, while making sure to take time for self-care and recharging. It was a powerful day of action and activism with sister marches around the country and world, and I look forward to more to come!
Then, at July’s new moon, I refocused efforts on finishing my studio album, & thanks to excellent partners at 4th St Recording in Santa Monica, we finally revived all the sessions I have been recording since 2009! Combining newer songs along with the larger project suspended in time has resulted in “A New Way” coming to life, albeit in quite a dramatic and unexpected manner, and I look forward to a worldwide release this fall.
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Love Is The Way,
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Letter to the House Opposing The ADA Education and Reform Act
Note: H.R. 620 was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and will now move to the Senate. See NCIL’s updated letter with additional signatories.
Addressed to: Representatives Paul Ryan (Speaker of the House) and Nancy Pelosi (Minority Leader)
Regarding the ADA Education and Reform Act of 2017 – the wrong avenue to “restore the integrity” of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) – the following 508 organizations sign onto this letter.
On July 26, 2017, millions of people with disabilities throughout this country celebrated the 27th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). Unfortunately, many in the business community decided to celebrate the anniversary by diminishing this historic civil rights legislation through a letter of support for the ADA Education and Reform Act of 2017 (H.R. 620). Their letter supporting this extremely dangerous legislation, which was sent to Congress, was titled It’s Time to Restore the Integrity of the ADA (PDF).
This bill was introduced by Representative Ted Poe of Texas in the 115th Congress. It would create significant obstacles for people with disabilities to enforce their rights under Title III of the ADA to access public accommodations and would impede their ability to engage in daily activities and participate in mainstream society.
It is supported by the businesses that signed on to the above letter, which feel they have been hurt by a “loophole” that punishes them for not being compliant with the ADA 27 years after its enactment. Their letter states, “We support the spirit and intent of the ADA and our members strive to remain fully accessible so that all of our customers and guests can enjoy a full range of services and amenities.”
However, what is being proposed actually harms millions of people with disabilities living in America by weakening their civil rights and punishing them for the awful actions of a few attorneys. The bill does the opposite of its intent. It places a new burden on individuals with disabilities, who must now prove the denial of access, and adds significant barriers to the process. The United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division agrees and did an analysis of H.R. 620 that was sent to Congress. This legislation extends the process by adding steps aimed at “eliminating the unintended consequences of drive-by lawsuits,” which will delay true access to those the ADA is intended to protect by:
Removing the incentive for businesses to comply with the ADA
Requiring a person with the disability to file a written notice specifying the exact ADA provisions that are being violated
Giving the business owner 60 days to acknowledge the notice and 120 additional days to begin to fix the violation; a total of 180 days (6 months!) to deny access.
The ADA includes education, training, and technical support provided at no cost by the Department of Justice and the Regional ADA Centers across the country. There are multiple disability organizations around the country that assist with creating an accessible facility and/or business. Some do this important training for free, others will do at a nominal fee. They do this not only to ensure the rights of people with disabilities as users or customers, but also in the hopes of providing employment for the community. A person with a disability is unable to work in any business that is not accessible for entry, lacks ability to function (too high shelves), or has barriers to pathway of travel inside or for essential needs such as restroom facilities. The unemployment rate for people with disabilities is currently around 11%, nearly twice the unemployment rate for the general population*. This number is even higher for people of color and other disenfranchised communities who also have disabilities. The numbers for Native Americans with disabilities are triple this estimate. Having access to work in these places of business would make a significant contribution to ending this horrible statistic.
Persons with disabilities have long been marginalized and discriminated against by society and the ADA provided human and civil rights for our community. H.R. 620 would significantly change civil rights law for all people. This will set precedent because, for the first time in history, a protected class would have to provide notification of its intent to exercise their civil rights. No other protected class has to do this for public accommodations.
Changing the ADA does not solve what many see as the problem. It prohibits millions of people with disabilities from being consumers and employees in these places of business.
We urge Congress to maintain the integrity of the ADA and REJECT the notion that this historic civil rights legislation lacks integrity as indicated by businesses in their letter to the Hill on the ADA’s 27th anniversary.
The undersigned organizations urge you to oppose The Education and Reform Act of 2017 and work on strengthening the rights of millions of people with disabilities.
Disability Rights and Resources (Birmingham, AL)
Lakeshore Foundation (Birmingham, AL)
Access Alaska (Anchorage, AK)
Alaska Network on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (Juneau, AK)
Disability Law Center of Alaska (Anchorage, AK)
Independent Living Center (Homer, AK)
Independent Living Center of Mobile (Mobile, AL)
SILC of Alaska (Anchorage, AK)
Southeast Alaska Independent Living, Inc. – SAIL (Juneau, AK)
Ability360 (Phoenix, AZ)
Arizona Center for Disability Law (Phoenix, AZ)
Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence (Phoenix, AZ)
Assist To Independence (Tuba City, AZ)
DIRECT Center for Independence (Tucson, AZ)
New Horizons Disability Empowerment Center (Prescott Valley, AZ)
Services Maximizing Independent Living and Empowerment (Yuma, AZ)
Spectrum Experience, LLC (Tempe, AZ)
The Arc of Arizona (Phoenix, AZ)
The Beacon Group (Tucson, AZ)
Association of Programs for Rural Independent Living (Little Rock, AR)
Disability Resource & Advocacy Center (White Hall, AR)
Disability Rights Arkansas (Little Rock, AR)
Spa Area Independent Living Services, Inc. (Hot Springs, AR)
California Collaborative for Long Term Services and Supports (Sacramento, CA)
California Foundation for Independent Living Centers (Sacramento, CA)
Center for Disability and the Health Professions (Pomona, CA)
Center For Independence of Individuals with Disabilities (San Mateo, CA)
Center for Independent Living (Berkeley / Oakland / Alameda, CA)
Central Coast Center for Independent Living (Salinas, CA)
Community Resources for Independent Living (Hayward, CA)
Dayle McIntosh Center (Anaheim, CA)
Disability Community Resource Center (Los Angeles, CA)
Disability Organizing Group For Initiating Total Equality – DOGFITE (Sacramento, CA)
Disability Rights California (Sacramento, CA)
Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (Berkeley, CA)
Disability Resource Agency for Independent Living (Modesto, CA)
Disabled Resources Center, Inc. (Long Beach, CA)
East Bay Legislative Coalition (Oakland, CA)
FREED Center for Independent Living (Grass Valley, CA)
HospitalGlam (Los Angeles, CA)
Independent Living Center of Southern California (Van Nuys, CA)
Independent Living Resource Center San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
Independent Living Resource Center (Santa Barbara, CA)
Independent Living Resources of Solano & Contra Costa Counties (Concord, CA)
Marin Center for Independent Living (San Rafael, CA)
Placer Independent Resource Services (Auburn, CA)
Resources for Independence Central Valley (Fresno, CA)
Resources for Independent Living (Sacramento, CA)
Rolling Start Inc. (San Bernardino, CA)
Service Center for Independent Life (Claremont, CA)
SCRS-IL (East Los Angeles, CA)
Silicon Valley Independent Living Center (San Jose, CA)
Transgender Law Center (Oakland, CA)
Tri-County Independent Living (Eureka, CA)
UDW/AFSCME (San Diego, CA)
V-Day (San Francisco, CA)
Association of Colorado Centers for Independent Living (Colorado Springs, CO)
Atlantis Community, Inc. (Denver, CO)
Center for People With Disabilities (Boulder, CO)
Center for Independence (Grand Junction, CO)
Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence (Denver, CO)
Disability Law Colorado (Denver, CO)
Disabled Resource Services (Fort Collins, CO)
Southwest Center for Independence (Durango, CO)
The Independence Center (Colorado Springs, CO)
Center for Disability Rights – CT (West Haven, CT)
Connecticut Legal Rights Project, Inc. (Middletown, CT)
Connecticut State Independent Living Council (Hartford, CT)
Counsel of people with disabilities (New Britain, CT)
Independence Northwest, Inc. (Naugatuck, CT)
ADAPT Delaware (Newark, DE)
Disabilities Law Program of Community Legal Aid Society (Wilmington, DE)
Allies for Independence (Washington, DC)
American Association of People with Disabilities (Washington, DC)
American Civil Liberties Union (Washington, DC)
American Network of Community Options and Resources – ANCOR (Washington, DC)
Association of Assistive Technology Act Programs (Washington, DC)
Autistic Self Advocacy Network (Washington, DC)
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law (Washington, DC)
Center for Public Representation (Washington, DC)
Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation (Washington, DC)
DC Center for Independent Living (Washington, DC)
Disability Power & Pride (Washington, DC)
DC Statewide Independent Living Council (Washington, DC)
Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of Deaf communities – HEARD (Washington, DC)
Howard McClintic & Associates (Washington, DC)
Justice in Aging (Washington, DC)
National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities (Washington, DC)
National Black Justice Coalition (Washington, DC)
National Center for Learning Disabilities Washington, DC)
National Center for Transgender Equality (Washington, DC)
National Council on Independent Living – NCIL (Washington, DC)
National Disability Institute (Washington, DC)
National Disability Rights Network (Washington, DC)
National Health Law Program (Washington, DC)
National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund (Washington, DC)
National Multiple Sclerosis Society (Washington, DC)
Paralyzed Veterans of America (Washington, DC)
Parent to Parent USA (Washington, DC)
TASH (Washington, DC)
The Arc of the United States (Washington, DC)
The HSC Health Care System (Washington, DC)
The Recovery Group (Washington, DC)
United Spinal Association (Washington, DC)
Caring and Sharing Center for Independent Living (Largo, FL)
Center for Independent Living in Central Florida, Inc. (Winter Park, FL)
Disability Rights Florida (Tallahassee, FL)
disAbility Solutions for Independent Living, Inc. (Daytona Beach, FL)
Independent Living Resource Center (Jacksonville, FL)
Keys Advocacy Center, Inc. (Key Largo, FL)
PolicyWorks, Inc. (Tallahassee, FL)
Disability Connections, Middle GA Center for Independent Living, Inc. (Macon, GA)
disABILITY LINK (Tucker, GA)
Georgia ADAPT (Atlanta, GA)
Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence (Decatur, GA)
National Down Syndrome Congress (Roswell, GA)
Statewide Independent Living Council (Decatur, GA)
Walton Options for Independent Living (Augusta, GA)
Aloha Independent Living Hawaii (Pearl City, HI)
Hawaii Disability Rights Center (Honolulu, HI)
Statewide Independent Living Council (Honolulu, HI)
Access Concepts and Training, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Center for Independent Living (Twin Falls, ID)
Disability Action Center – NW, Inc. (Moscow, ID)
Disability Action Center (Lewiston, ID)
DisAbility Rights Idaho (Boise, ID)
Idaho Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence (Boise, ID)
Idaho Developmental Disability Council (Boise, ID)
Idaho Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health (Boise, ID)
Idaho Parents Unlimited (Boise, ID)
Idaho State Independent Living Council (Boise, ID)
LIFE, Inc. (Pocatello, ID)
Living Independence Network Corporation – LINC (Boise, ID)
Seven Peaks Counseling (Sandpoint, ID)
United Vision for Idaho (Boise, ID)
Access Living (Chicago, IL)
American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Rosemont, IL)
Disability Resource Center (Joliet, IL)
HIGH IMPACT Mission-based Consulting & Training (Northbrook, IL)
Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence (Springfield, IL)
Illinois Iowa Center for Independent Living (Rock Island, IL)
Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities, City of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Illinois Network of Centers for Independent Living – INCIL (Springfield, IL)
Illinois Valley Center for Independent Living (LaSalle, IL)
IMPACT CIL (Alton, IL)
IMPRUVE (Chicago, IL)
Jacksonville Area Center for Independent Living (Jacksonville, IL)
Lake County Center for Independent Living (Mundelein, IL)
LIFE Center for Independent Living (Bloomington, IL)
National Organization of Nurses with Disabilities (Chicago, IL)
Opportunities For Access – OFA CIL (Mt. Vernon, IL)
Options Center for Independent Living (Bourbonnais, IL)
PACE, Inc. Center for Independent Living (Urbana, IL)
Progress Center for Independent Living (Forest Park, IL)
RAMP Center for Independent Living (Rockford, IL)
Sibling Leadership Network (Chicago, IL)
Smart Policy Works (Chicago, IL)
Soyland Access to Independent Living – SAIL (Decatur, IL)
Springfield Center for Independent Living (Springfield, IL)
accessABILITY (Indianapolis, IN)
Everybody Counts (Merrillville, IN)
Everybody Counts North (Hammond, IN)
Fifth Freedom (Fort Wayne, IN)
Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence (Indianapolis, IN)
Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council (Indianapolis, IN)
The WILL Center (Terre Haute, IN)
Access 2 Independence of the Eastern Iowa Corridor (Iowa City, IA)
Central Iowa Center for Independent Living (Des Moines, IA)
Disabilities Resource Center of Siouxland (Sioux City, IA)
Iowa Statewide Independent Living Council (Des Moines, IA)
South Central Iowa Center for Independent Living (Oskaloosa, IA)
Big Tent Coalition of Kansas (Topeka, KS)
Disability Rights Center of Kansas (Topeka, KS)
Independent Connection Inc. (Salina, KS)
Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence (Topeka, KS)
Keys for Networking (Topeka, KS)
Prairie Independent Living Resource Center, Inc. (Hutchinson, KS)
Resource Center for Independent Living, Inc. (Osage City, KS)
Southeast Kansas Independent Living – SKIL (Parsons, KS)
Sedan SKIL (Sedan, KS)
Statewide Independent Living Council of Kansas (Topeka, KS)
Center for Accessible Living (Louisville, KY)
Independence Place (Lexington, KY)
Kentucky Protection and Advocacy (Frankfort, KY)
Kentucky Statewide Independent Living Council (Lexington, KY)
Louisiana Statewide Independent Living Council (Baton Rouge, LA)
Disability Rights Maine (Augusta, ME)
Accessible Resources for Independence (Glen Burnie, MD)
American Association on Health and Disability (Rockville, MD)
Association of University Centers on Disabilities (Silver Spring, MD)
Baltimore County Progressive Democrats Club (Baltimore, MD)
Disability Rights Maryland (Baltimore, MD)
Higher Education Consortium for Special Education (Chevy Chase, MD)
Maryland ADAPT (Towson, MD)
Maryland Statewide Independent Living Council (Rockville, MD)
National Association of the Deaf (Silver Spring, MD)
Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies (Gaithersburg, MD)
Peer Wellness & Recovery Services, Inc. Silver Spring, MD)
The Freedom Center (Frederick, MD)
The IMAGE Center of Maryland (Towson, MD)
Together We Will – Baltimore Area (Baltimore, MD)
AdLib, Inc. (Pittsfield, MA)
Asperger Works, Inc. (Lawrence, MA)
Boston Center for Independent Living (Boston, MA)
Cape Organization for Rights of the Disabled – CORD (Hyannis, MA)
Center for Living and Working (Worcester, MA)
Disability Law Center (Boston, MA)
Disability Policy Consortium of Massachusetts (Boston, MA)
Easter Seals Massachusetts (Worcester, MA)
Independence Associates, Inc. (East Bridgewater, MA)
Independent Living Center of the North Shore and Cape Ann, Inc. ( Salem, MA)
MassADAPT (Boston, MA)
Multicultural Independent Living Center of Boston (Boston, MA)
National Association of Benefits and Work Incentive Specialists (Boston, MA)
Northeast Independent Living Program Inc. (Lawrence, MA)
Southeast Center for Independent Living (Fall River, MA)
Stavros Center for Independent Living (Amherst, MA)
Disability Network of Mid-Michigan (Midland, MI)
Disability Network Northern Michigan (Traverse City, MI)
Disability Network Oakland & Macomb (Troy, MI)
International Association of Assistance Dog Partners (Sterling Heights, MI)
Michigan Protection & Advocacy Service, Inc. (Lansing, MI)
Peer Action Alliance (Muskegon, MI)
Minnesota Association of Centers for Independent Living (Hibbing, MN)
SMILES CIL (Mankato, MN)
Coalition for Citizens with Disabilities (Jackson, MS)
Disability Rights Mississippi (Jackson, MS)
Epilepsy Foundation of Mississippi (Flowood , MS)
Families as Allies (Jackson, MS)
Just Advocacy of Mississippi (Jackson , MS)
Mississippi Coalition Against Domestic Violence (Jackson, MS)
Mississippi Religious Leadership Council (Jackson, MS)
National Alliance on Mental Illness – Mississippi (Jackson, MS)
Parents for Public Schools, Inc. (Jackson, MS)
Parents United Together (Madison, MS)
Nestle Purina (St. Louis, MO)
Paraquad (St. Louis, MO)
Rural Advocates for Independent Living (Kirksville, MO)
Services for Independent Living (Columbia, MO)
Starkloff Disability Institute (St. Louis, MO)
The Starkloff Disability Institute (St. Louis, MO)
The Whole Person (Kansas City, MO)
ADAPT Montana (Missoula, MT)
Living Independently for Today & Tomorrow (Billings, MT)
Montana Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence (Helena, MT)
Montana Independent Living Project (Helena, MT)
Montana Statewide Independent Living Council (Helena, MT)
North Central Independent Living Services, Inc. (Black Eagle, MT)
Summit Independent Living (Missoula, MT)
Autism Women’s Network (Lincoln, NE)
Disability Rights Nebraska (Lincoln, NE)
Nebraska Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence (Lincoln, NE)
Nebraska Statewide Independent Living Council (Lincoln, NE)
Disability Rights Center – New Hampshire (Concord, NH)
Granite State Independent Living (Concord, NH)
New Hampshire Statewide Independent Living Council (Concord, NH)
Artemis Center for Independent Living (Galloway, NJ)
Alliance Center for Independence (Edison, NJ)
Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation (Short Hills, NJ)
Coalition of Mental Health Consumer Organizations of New Jersey (Wayne, NJ)
Collaborative Support Programs of NJ – CSPNJ (Freehold, NJ)
Community Health Law Project (South Orange, NJ)
DAWN Center for Independent Living (Denville, NJ)
DIAL – Center for Independent Living (Clifton, NJ)
Disability Rights New Jersey (Trenton, NJ)
Family Voices NJ (Newark, NJ)
Heightened Independence and Progress Center for Independent Living (Hackensack, NJ)
Mental Health Association in NJ (Springfield, NJ)
NAMI New Jersey (North Brunswick, NJ)
National Center for Environmental Health Strategies (Voorhees, NJ)
New Jersey Association of Mental Health and Addiction Agencies, Inc. (Mercerville, NJ)
New Jersey Council on Developmental Disabilities (Trenton, NJ)
People Support Network (Titusville, NJ)
Progressive Center IL (Hamilton, NJ)
Seeking Ways Out Together NJ (Titusville, NJ)
SPAN (Newark, NJ)
The Supportive Housing Association of NJ (South Orange, NJ)
NNCIL (Sparks, NV)
Rural Center for Independent Living (Carson City, NV)
Southern Nevada Center for Independent Living (Las Vegas, NV)
Native American Disability Law Center (Farmington, NM)
Access to Independence of Cortland County, Inc. (Cortland, NY)
Action Toward Independence (Monticello, NY)
AIM Independent Living Center (Corning, NY)
All About You Home Care (Rochester, NY)
ARISE (Syracuse, NY)
Bronx Independent Living Services (Bronx, NY)
Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled (Brooklyn, NY)
Capital District Center for Independence Inc. (Albany, NY)
Catskill Center for Independence (Oneonta, NY)
Center for Disability Rights (Rochester, NY)
Center for Independence of the Disabled (New York, NY)
CONNECT (New York, NY)
Finger Lakes Independence Center Inc. (Ithaca, NY)
Harlem Independent Living Center (New York, NY)
Independent Living Center of the Hudson Valley, Inc. (Troy, NY)
Independent Living of Niagara County (Niagara Falls, NY)
International Action Center (New York, NY)
Independent Living, Inc. (Newburgh, NY)
Long Island Center for Independent Living, Inc. (Levittown, NY)
Long Island ADAPT (Holtsville, NY)
Mental Patients Liberation Alliance in New York State (Sterling, NY)
National Coalition for Assistive & Rehab Technology (East Amherst, NY)
New York Association on Independent Living (Albany, NY)
New York Statewide Independent Living Council (Albany, NY)
New York State ADAPT (Albany, NY)
New York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence (Albany, NY)
Northern Regional Center for Independent Living, Inc. (Watertown, NY)
North Country Center for Independence (Plattsburgh, NY)
Not Dead Yet (Rochester, NY)
NYAPRS (Albany, NY)
NYC ADAPT (New York, NY)
Peoples’ Power Assembly (New York, NY)
RCIL (Utica, NY)
Resource Center for Accessible Living, Inc. (Kingston, NY)
Regional Center for Independent Living (Rochester, NY)
Rochester ADAPT (Rochester, NY)
Rockland Independent Living Center (New City, NY)
Southern Adirondack Independent Living Center (Queensbury, NY)
Southern Tier ADAPT (Binghamton, NY)
Southern Tier Independence Center (Binghamton, NY)
Southwestern Independent Living Center (Jamestown, NY)
Staten Island Center for Independent Living, Inc. (Staten Island, NY)
Suffolk Independent Living Organization (Hotlsville, NY)
Taconic Resources for Independence, Inc. (Poughkeepsie, NY)
The Resource Center for Accessible Living, Inc. (Kingston, NY)
Transcend Legal (New York, NY)
Tri-Lakes Center for Independent Living (Saranac Lake, NY)
United Spinal Association (Queens, NY)
Westchester Disabled On the Move Inc. (Yonkers, NY)
Westchester Independent Living Center (White Plains, New York)
Witness to Mass Incarceration (New York, NY)
Workers World Party (New York, NY)
Alliance of Disability Advocates (Raleigh, NC)
Disability Advocates & Resource Center (Greenville, NC)
DisAbility Partners (Sylva, NC)
DisAbility Partners-Asheville Office (Asheville, NC)
disAbility Resource Center (Wilmington, NC)
Disability Rights, Education, Activism, and Mentoring – DREAM (Huntersville, NC)
Disability Rights North Carolina (Raleigh, NC)
Disability Rights & Resources (Charlotte, NC)
Joy A Shabazz Center for Disability Rights (Greensboro, NC)
North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence (Durham, NC)
Freedom Resource Center for Independent Living, Inc. (Fargo, ND)
Protection & Advocacy Project (Bismarck, ND)
Ability Center of Greater Toledo (Toledo, OH)
Access Center for Independent Living (Dayton, OH)
Getting Back Up (Westlake, OH)
Independent Living Center of North Central OH (Mansfield, OH)
Linking Employment, Abilities and Potential – LEAP (Cleveland, OH)
Ohio Domestic Violence Network (Columbus, OH)
The Center for Disability Empowerment (Columbus, OH)
Tri-County Independent Living Center (Akron, OH)
University of Cincinnati Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (Cincinnati, OH)
Western Reserve Independent Living Center (Warren, OH)
Ability Resources (Tulsa, OK)
Dynamic Independence (Bartlesville, OK)
Oklahoma SILC (Oklahoma City, OK)
Progressive Independence (Norman, OK)
Association of Oregon Centers for Independent Living – AOCIL (Portland, OR)
Community Bridges Consulting Group (West Linn, OR)
Disability Rights Oregon (Portland, OR)
Eastern Oregon Center for Independent Living (Ontario, OR)
Handicap Awareness & Support League – HASL (Grants Pass, OR)
Lane Independent Living Alliance – LILA (Eugene, OR)
Oregon Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence (Portland, OR)
SPOKES Unlimited (Klamath Falls, OR)
The National Crittenton Foundation (Portland, OR)
Umpqua Valley disAbilities Network (Roseburg, OR)
Voices Set Free (Hillsboro, OR)
Center for Independent Living (Scranton, PA)
Center for Independent Living of North Central PA (Williamsport, PA)
#CripTheVote (Philadelphia, PA)
Disabled in Action (Philadelphia, PA)
Disability Rights Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, PA)
Learning Disabilities Association of America (Pittsburgh, PA)
Lehigh Valley Center for Independent Living, Inc. – LVCIL (Allentown, PA)
Liberty Resources Inc. (Philadelphia, PA)
Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence (Harrisburg, PA)
Pennsylvania Statewide Independent Living Council (Camp Hill, PA)
Public Interest Law Center (Philadelphia, PA)
Movimiento para el Alcance de Vida Independiente – MAVI (San Juan, PR)
Rhone Island
Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence (Warwick, RI)
Rhode Island Disability Law Center, Inc. (Providence, RI)
Able South Carolina (Columbia, SC)
AccessAbility (North Charleston, SC)
Beginnings South Carolina (West Columbia, SC)
Brain Injury Association of South Carolina (Columbia, SC)
disAbility Resource Center (dba) AccessAbility (North Charleston, SC)
EQUIP Young Adults Leadership (Greenville, SC)
Family Connection of South Carolina (Columbia, SC)
Impact South Carolina (Columbia, SC)
Portlight Strategies (Johns Island, SC)
Protection and Advocacy for People with Disabilities, Inc. (Columbia, SC)
South Carolina Access & Independence Network (Columbia, SC)
South Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (Columbia, SC)
South Carolina Statewide Independent Living Council (Columbia, SC)
Spinal Cord Injury Association (Columbia, SC)
The Arc of South Carolina (Cayce, SC)
Trident Head Injury Support Group (Charleston, SC)
Walton Options (North Augusta, SC)
Women’s Rights and Empowerment Network (Columbia, SC)
Independent Living Choices (Sioux Falls, SD)
South Dakota Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities (Pierre, SD)
disABILITY Resource Center (Knoxville, TN)
Disability Rights Tennessee (Nashville, TN)
Empower Tennessee (Nashville, TN)
Memphis Center for Independent Living (Memphis, TN)
Mid-South ADAPT (Memphis, TN)
ADAPT of Texas (Austin, TX)
ARCIL, Inc. (Austin, TX)
Brazoria County Center for Independent Living (Angleton, TX)
Brazos Valley Center for Independent Living (Bryan, TX)
Coalition of Texans with Disabilities (Austin, TX)
Coastal Bend Center for Independent Living (Corpus Christi, TX)
Crockett Resource Center for Independent Living (Crockett, TX)
El Paso Desert ADAPT (El Paso, TX)
Fort Bend Center for Independent Living (Sugar Land, TX)
Houston Center for Independent Living (Houston, TX)
Palestine Resource Center for Independent Living (Palestine, TX)
Panhandle Independent Living Center (Amarillo, TX)
Personal Attendant Coalition of Texas (Austin, TX)
REACH of Dallas Resource Center on Independent Living (Dallas, TX)
REACH of Denton Resource Center on Independent Living (Denton, TX)
REACH of Fort Worth Resource Center on Independent Living (Fort Worth, TX)
REACH of Plano Resource Center on Independent Living (Plano, TX)
RISE Center (Beaumont, TX)
Road to Freedom Bus Tour (Austin, TX)
SAILS (San Antonio, TX)
Valley Association for Independent Living, Inc. (McAllen, TX)
Volar Center for Independent Living (El Paso, TX)
ADAPT/Utah (Salt Lake City, UT)
Utah Statewide Independent Living Council (Salt Lake City, UT)
Disabled Rights Action Committee (Salt Lake City, UT)
Disability Law Center (Salt Lake City, UT)
OPTIONS for Independence (Logan, UT)
Roads To Independence (Ogden, UT)
Disability Rights Vermont (Montpelier, VT)
Disabled Access & Advocacy of the Rutland Area (Rutland, VT)
Green Mountain ADAPT (Montpelier, VT)
Green Mountain Self-Advocates (Montpelier, VT)
National Association of State Head Injury Administrators (Waitsfield, VT)
Vermont Care Partners (Montpelier, VT)
Vermont Center for Independent Living (Montpelier, VT)
Vermont Coalition for Disability Rights (Montpelier, VT)
Vermont Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living (Waterbury, VT)
Vermont Legal Aid, Inc. (Burlington, VT)
Women’s March Vermont (Burlington, VT)
Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence (Montpelier, VT)
Vermont Partnership for Fairness & Diversity (Brattleboro, VT)
Vermont Psychiatric Survivors, Inc. (Rutland, VT)
Vermont Statewide Independent Living Council (South Burlington, VT)
Access Independence, Inc. (Winchester, VA)
American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (Reston, VA)
American Therapeutic Recreation Association (Reston, VA)
Appalachian Independence Center, Inc. (Abingdon, VA)
Blue Ridge Independent Living Center (Roanoke, VA)
Brain Injury Association of America (Vienna, VA)
Clinch Independent Living Services, Inc. (Grundy, VA)
Community Concepts, Inc. (Dumfries, VA)
DC Metro ADAPT (Fairfax, VA)
disAbility Resource Center of the Rappahannock Area, Inc. (Fredericksburg, VA)
Disability Rights and Resource Center (Rocky Mount, VA)
Eastern Shore Center for Independent Living, Inc. (Belle Haven, VA)
Endependence Center Inc. (Norfolk, VA)
ENDependence Center of Northern Virginia (Arlington, VA)
Happy on Wheels, LLC (Arlington, VA)
Independence Empowerment Center, Inc. (Manassas, VA)
Junction Center for Independent Living, Inc. (Norton, VA)
Lynchburg Area Center for Independent Living, Inc. (Lynchburg, VA)
National Disability Mentoring Coalition (Falls Church, VA)
New River Valley Disability Resource Center (Christiansburg, VA)
Resources for Independent Living Inc. (Richmond, VA)
The Advocacy Institute (Marshall, VA)
The American Counseling Organization (Alexandria, VA)
The Arc of Northern Virginia (Falls Church, VA)
The Disability Resource Center of the Rappahannock Area, Inc. (Fredericksburg, VA)
Virginia Association of Centers for Independent Living (Harrisonburg, VA)
Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance (Richmond, VA)
Virginia Statewide Independent Living Council (Henrico, VA)
V.I. Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Council (St. Croix, VI)
Center for Independence (Lakewood, WA)
Disability Rights Washington (Seattle, WA)
Rooted in Rights (Seattle, WA)
Spokane Center for Independent Living (Spokane, WA)
Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence – WSCADV (Seattle, WA)
Washington State Independent Living Council (Lacey, WA)
Appalachian Center for Independent Living (Charleston, WV)
Northern WV Center for Independent Living (Morgantown, WV)
West Virginia Statewide Independent Living Council (Institute, WV)
WVSU Student Access Advocates (Poca, WV)
Access to Independence (Madison, WI)
Center for Independent Living Western Wisconsin (Menomonie, WI)
Central Wisconsin ADAPT (Plover/Stevens Point, WI)
Disability Rights Wisconsin (Madison, WI)
FORGE, Inc. (Milwaukee, WI)
IndependenceFirst (Milwaukee, WI)
Independent Living Resources, Inc. (La Crosse, WI)
Midstate Independent Living Choices (Stevens Point, WI)
North Country Independent Living (Superior, WI)
Options for Independent Living (Green Bay, WI)
SEWI ADAPT Chapter (Milwaukee, WI)
Wisconsin ADAPT – Madison (Madison, WI)
Wisconsin Board for People with Developmental Disabilities (Madison, WI)
Wisconsin Coalition of Independent Living Centers (Madison, WI)
WSIL (Lander, WY)
Wyoming Independent Living (Casper, WY)
Wyoming State Independent Living Council (Casper, WY)
End Notes:
* U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics (March 6, 2015). Employment status of the civilian population by sex, age, and disability status, not seasonally adjusted. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
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Nigerian journalist under threat of arrest for exposé of police and prison corruption
'Fisayo Soyombo risks imprisonment or fine, if arrested and convicted
Posted 23 October 2019 15:54 GMT
‘Fisayo Soyombo, image from Facebook.
Investigative journalist ‘Fisayo Soyombo is at risk of arrest for an undercover inquiry he conducted in July this year, that revealed corruption in Nigeria's justice system — particularly among the police and prison service.
The Nigerian Guardian newspaper reports that Soyombo was “to be arrested at the venue” of a workshop where he was scheduled to speak on October 22 in Lagos, the economic capital of Nigeria. He got a tip-off about the impending arrest which made him withdraw from the event. Consequently, Soyombo has “has gone underground” after fleeing his residence on October 21.
So @fisayosoyombo has been forced to pull out of an event he was scheduled to speak at this evening because he got tipped off that the authorities want to arrest him for his stories on our prisons.
Part 3 of #CashAndCarryPrison isn't out yet…
— Chxta (@Chxta) October 22, 2019
Read more: How Nigeria uses the law to repress free speech: The case of journalist Jones Abiri
‘Bribery, bail for sale, drug abuse, sodomy, pimping’
Adopting the pseudonym Ojo Olajumoke, Soyombo plotted his own arrest and detention to expose corruption in the justice system. He committed an ‘offence’ which got him arrested, detained, charged to court and remanded in prison. The feigned offense was committed in November 2018, when Soyombo purchased a car worth 2.8 million naira [about US$ 8,000] for which he paid a cash deposit of 300,000 naira [about US$ 800]. But after this payment, Soyombo began to avoid the person who sold the car to him. The car owner reported to the police and this lead to the arrest of Soyombo on July 8.
With the purported offence and consequent arrest, Soyombo had the opportunity to investigate the police and prison from within.
This award-winning journalist documented his experiences during the five days spent in police custody and eight spent as an inmate of Ikoyi Prison, Lagos. This exposed monumental corruption by the Nigerian police and the officers of the Nigerian Prison Service (recently renamed as the Nigerian Correctional Service).
In Part I of his story, which was simultaneously published on October 14 in the two online newspapers, CableNG and the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR), Soyombo explained how he exposed corruption in the country's justice system:
Of course they didn’t know I was a journalist; I had assumed a pseudonym and grown my hair long enough — for 10 months — to blend with artificial dreads. My locks were tinted in gold and almost all my facial hair removed. I cut the profile of the kind of youth the police indiscriminately railroad into their notoriously ramshackle vans for no reason, for onward transfer to their cells. One look at me and the typical policeman would have mistaken me for a compulsive hemp smoker, an incorrigible internet fraudster or a serial drug abuser.
Part II of Soyombo investigation, published a week later October 21, exposed the “drug abuse, sodomy, bribery, pimping…” and the corruption in Ikoyi Prisons, Lagos, Nigeria:
Seeing the lack of restraint with which they discuss acts of bribery and corruption, I approach them for guidance on the allocation of accommodation in prison. Apparently, it’s a high-wire fraud involving prison officials in court and those in the yard proper. “You can get a cell for N30,000 [naira]” [US$ 83], one of the warders tells me. “You can also get for N100,000 [US$ 277] or N150,000 [US$ 417]. You can even get a N1.5million [US$ 4,170] cell.”
“A million and five hundred thousand? [naira]” I protest…
Another warder cuts in. “Don’t worry, you can never suffer in the prison yard,” he says. “As long as you have your money.”
In the Part III published on October 23, Soyombo recounts how he shared the same cell with a ‘mad’ inmate and the varied reactions of prison officials when his true “identity” as an undercover journalist was unraveled:
Over the course of my seven days in prison, it was, quite simply, too easy for me to separate the corrupt warders, who were in the majority, from the clean ones. The corrupt ones were usually pensive and jittery whenever they came in contact with me, and they were the ones who were most vicious during the initial attempt to unravel my identity. I could see the apprehension in the eyes of two of those filmed demanding and receiving bribes from me in court. The corrupt ones in the prison yard who didn’t appear in the videos were nevertheless furious, knowing it could have been them as well. The blameless ones wanted to know my mission quite alright, but they were calm and civil with me. No violence; their strategy was to engage with me and look out for any loopholes in my answers. Fair enough.
Soyombo if arrested, will be charged under Section 29 of the Nigeria Correctional Service Act [Subsection 1 (d)] for possessing and using “communication devices” within the prison to record “conversation through a mobile phone or other devices” without authorization. If convicted, he risks a fine not exceeding 2 million naira [about US$5,500], two years imprisonment or both.
Read more: Nigerian journalist Omoyele Sowore remains in jail on trumped-up charges of treason and insulting the president
Hauled for exposing ‘the rot in society’
Nigerians online are angry with the news with a hashtag #KeepFisayoSafe trending on Twitter.
Chris Akor, former chairman of the editorial board of Nigeria's BusinessDay newspaper stated that journalism was Soyombo's “life passion”:
Fisayo, since his student days, have been a passionate journalist — and that turned out to be his life passion. We pray for his safety! https://t.co/Kww14ZaEpw
— Chris Akor (@krissakor) October 22, 2019
“A sad day” for a journalist to be hauled to jail for exposing societal “rot”, activist Chioma Agwuegbo lamented:
It's a sad day when journalists are hauled into jail for exposing the rot in society. @fisayosoyombo should be feted & his reports used to expunge the corrupt amongst us but it seems it is easier to shut him up than to do right by Nigeria.#KeepFisayoSafe#JournalismIsNotACrime
— Chioma Agwuegbo (@ChiomaChuka) October 22, 2019
And rather than praises, the journalist is now “hiding of his life”:
Someone goes undercover, exposes a rot, and the next logical reaction is to find him and teach him a lesson. Is this how to go forward? @fisayosoyombo should not be hiding for his life but is now having to because of credible threats. #journalismisnotacrime #keepFisayosafe
— Lolade Nwanze (@LoladeSowoolu) October 22, 2019
The Enough is Enough (EiE) movement, a youth-led coalition promoting good governance and citizen engagement in Nigeria, urged the Nigerian government to “guarantee” Soyombo's safety:
According to information received, the personal safety of the investigative journalist, @fisayosoyombo may be under threat.
We urge the @NigeriaGov to guarantee his safety.#PressFreedom#KeepFisayoSafe#CashAnCarry pic.twitter.com/QeQC3gMaZD
— EiE Nigeria (@EiENigeria) October 22, 2019
“You cannot silence the media,” Kiki Mordi, who led a BBC investigation into sexual harassment in West African universities tweeted her support to Fisayo:
#JournalismNoBeCrime
Nigeria needs to stop her constant muzzling of the press! YOU CAN NOT SILENCE THE MEDIA!
We ask that our journalists go above and beyond to cover the news, and when they do they're targeted and victimised!
It is our collective DUTY to #KeepFisayoSafe
— Kiki Mordi (@kikimordi) October 22, 2019
Netizen Chuba Ugwu said Soyombo became a target for exposing an “irredeemably rotten criminal justice system”:
#keepfisayosafe is actually trending on Twitter.
A young journalist spent months, risking life and limb, to expose what is now looking like the most corrupt and irredeemably rotten criminal justice system in the world!@fisayosoyombo is now a target.
— Chuba Ugwu (@chonsyy) October 22, 2019
The intimidation of Soyombo exemplifies the precarious state of press freedom and free speech in Nigeria. From Jones Abiri to Omoyele Sowore to Agba Jalingo; the Nigerian government has flagrantly clamped down on journalists and dissenting voices.
The head of Nigeria's Prison Service, Ja’afaru Ahmed has set up an investigative panel to “establish the authenticity” of Soyombo's exposé, “and bring the culprits to book if found guilty of the allegations”. He also denied any plans of “arresting or harassing” Soyombo.
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2015 May Day; International Workers Day, List Of 100 Countries Celebrating Workers Day On May 1st
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What does May Day mean to you? Do pictures of children dancing around the May pole come up for you?
Does anything else come up?
Have you ever participated in a May Day parade, celebration, or protest?
If not, why not?
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Over 50% of young people are out of work in Greece and America, as well as other countries were the debts are rising stratospherically. Politicians have for the most part focused on bailing out the 1%, not the 99%. Today, many people are protesting this focus on a trickle down theory, instead of giving assistance directly to the people who need the help the most. The trickle down theory is not working. The ‘Austerity Program’ is also not working, as debts keep increasing, and QE programs help only the richest 1%.
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Wikipedia; “International Workers’ Day, also known as Labour Day in some places, is a celebration of laborers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labor movement and occurs every year on May Day,
1 May, an ancient European spring holiday.[1][2] The date was chosen for International Workers’ Day by the Second International to commemorate the Haymarket affair, which occurred in Chicago on 4 May 1886.[2] This Day has its origins in the labour union movement, specifically the eight-hour day movement, which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest.[3]
The Haymarket affair (also known as the Haymarket massacre or Haymarket riot) was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square[2] in Chicago. It began as a peaceful rally in support of workers striking for an eight-hour day and in reaction to the killing of several workers the previous day by the police. An unknown person threw a dynamite bomb at police as they acted to disperse the public meeting. The bomb blast and ensuing gunfire resulted in the deaths of seven police officers and at least four civilians; scores of others were wounded.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day
Being a traditional European spring celebration, May Day is a national public holiday in many countries, but in only some of those countries is it celebrated specifically as “Labour Day” or “International Workers’ Day”. Some countries celebrate a Labour Day on other dates significant to them, such as the United States which celebrates Labor Day on the first Monday of September.
1 May was chosen to be International Workers’ Day in order to commemorate the 4 May, 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago. The police were trying to disperse a public assembly during a general strike for the eight-hour workday, The police fired on the workers, killing four demonstrators.[8][9]
Socialists in Union Square, N.Y.C. on 1 May, 1912
In the United States, efforts to switch Labor Day from September to 1 May have not been successful. In 1921, following the Russian Revolution of 1917, 1 May was promoted as “Americanization Day” by the Veterans of Foreign Wars and other groups in opposition to communism. It became an annual event, sometimes featuring large rallies. In 1949, Americanization Day was renamed to Loyalty Day. In 1958, the U.S. Congress declared Loyalty Day, the U.S. recognition of 1 May, a national holiday; that same year, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower proclaimed 1 May Law Day as well.
Unions and union locals in the United States — especially in urban areas with strong support for organised labour — have maintained a connection with labour traditions through their own unofficial observances on 1 May.
Some of the largest examples of this occurred during the Great Depression of the 1930s, when hundreds of thousands of workers marched in May Day parades in New York’s Union Square. Radical organisations including anarchist groups and socialist and communist parties have kept the May Day tradition alive with rallies and demonstrations in such cities as New York, Chicago and Seattle, often with major union backing.[28][29][30]
San Jose, California, May Day March, 1 May 2006
In 2006, 1 May was chosen by mostly Latino immigrant groups in the United States as the day for the Great American Boycott, a general strike of undocumented immigrant workers and supporters to protest H.R. 4437, immigration reform legislation which they felt was draconian. From 10 April to 1 May of that year, millions of immigrant families in the U.S. called for immigrant rights, workers rights and amnesty for undocumented workers.
They were joined by socialist and other leftist organizations on 1 May.[31][32] On 1 May, 2007, a mostly peaceful demonstration in Los Angeles in support of undocumented immigrant workers ended with a widely televised dispersal by police officers.
In March 2008, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union announced that dockworkers will move no cargo at any West Coast ports on 1 May, 2008, as a protest against the continuation of the Iraq War and the diversion of resources from domestic needs.[33]
For May Day 2010, marches were being planned in many cities uniting immigrant and native workers including New York,[34][35] San Francisco,[36] Boston,[37] Albany[38] Chicago and Los Angeles most of whom protested against the Arizona Senate Bill 1070[39]
On 1 May, 2012, members of Occupy Wall Street and labour unions held protests together in a number of cities in the United States and Canada to commemorate May Day and to protest the state of the economy and economic inequality.[40][41]
MAY DAY DEMONSTRATIONS AND CELEBRATIONS AROUND THE WORLD
May Day demonstration in Vienna, Austria, 1 May 2013
Norway’s former Prime MinisterJens Stoltenberg gives his 1 May speech in Oslo, Norway
1 May has been an important part of Swedish history since the late 19th century. The day was made a public holiday in 1938 but had been celebrated by the Swedish Social Democratic Party and the left since 1890. The first May Day celebration gathered more than 50,000 people in central Stockholm. The crowd went to hear speeches by the leading figures in theSwedish labour movement such as Hjalmar Branting (later prime minister), August Palm andHinke Bergegren. During World War I the demonstrations mainly had a peace message and the Liberal Party also joined the demonstrations. The 8-hour working day and women’s suffrage were the principal themes during the troubled times after World War I.
The May Day demonstrations are still an important part of Swedish politics for the social democrats, left-wing parties and unions who use May Day to discuss their politics. In Stockholm the Social Democratic Party always marches towards Norra Bantorget, the centre of the Swedish labour movement, to hold speeches in front of the headquarters of the Swedish Trade Union Confederation, while the smaller Left Party marches in larger numbers[64] towards Kungsträdgården.
Swedish Social Democratic Party at May Day demonstration in Stockholm,Sweden in 2006. The party has dominated Swedish politics for nearly a century. The Trade union palace in Stockholm is seen at the end of the picture.
For a long list of the 100 countries celebrate May Day,
KEVIN BLANCH ON MAY DAY
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MAY DAY EVERYDAY, The broken mosaic by Kevin D. Blanch 5/1/2015
Most people have no clue what May 1st symbolizes or what people coming together in this type of celebration are pointing at. In America, May 1st has come to be known as an Anti Communist celebration day, and has nothing to do with workers. Now that the US is best friends with Communist China and Vietnam, what is it going to celebrate?
Communist China Winning Trade, Resource, Renewables, Job And Influence War Against USA, Without A Shot Being Fired
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In other countries the celebrations and demonstrations are pro LABOR, pro WORKER and pro 99%, anti 1%. For example, in protests today, large numbers of people in Greece protested against the 1% cutting back social programs and safety net features, including pensions and bank account balances.
If you don’t know the history of unions, the benefits that unions and/or cooperatives got for workers, and the struggles, blood, treasure and energy that millions if not billions of people have fought for, click on the following links..
Those who do not know history, are condemned to repeat it.
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What Is A Cooperative And How Does It Work To Generate Profits And Income For Members? Benefits, Origins, Meaning, Identity, Types, And Numbers, Comparison To Communism And Capitalism
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How Corporate America Is Killing Unions And The Middle Class Workers, Socialism Defined By A Group Of Children
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Are Unions Evil Socialist Plots That Must Be Made Extinct, Or The Best Thing Going? Iceland As Example Of Unions Working For Everyone
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Money Or Wealth Distribution And Income Inequality In America; Myth Vs Reality
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Six things we learnt from AFC Champions League Group Stage
Posted on May 19, 2012 by asiafootball
1. Qatar – numbers mean nothing
Like many things in Qatar, the Stars League can offer more than its neighbors. The payroll might not be as interesting as in Dubai or Abu Dhabi, but Doha seems to be a more interesting place to live and has better football atmosphere. We’re talking about the Asian Cup and the World Cup host here (which, well, who knows, might get the fourth ticket to Brazil). Many Bahrain players move there to escape the political prosecution and complications, and supposedly, with a Qatari club as the defending champions, a Qatar club can go further than UAE’s, while the living condition is more pleasant than in Saudi.
Not so. All Qatari club, four of them, crashed. First, unlike Liverpool 2005, the champions Al-Sadd was not competing. They could be the third best club in the world after Kashiwa Reysol (okay, that’s not true), but they finished sixth in the 2010-11 Stars League season. They won’t compete in ACL next year either, finished fourth (the fourth ticket was taken by Emir Cup’s winners Al Gharafa).
So, Al Rayyan (Afonso Alves, ex-Middlesbrough) and Lehkwiya (Nam Tae-Hee) scored only two wins. Al Gharafa (Ze Roberto & ex-Urawa Edmilson) got three times draw – although facing Persepolis and Al Hilal would leave you a little chance of qualifying. Al Arabi….certainly the worst. Six losses, four goals for against sixteen against.
I’ve said that there’s a ray of light shining for UAE since the Olympics qualification. It is, with Al Jazira topping Group A and Bani Yas overcoming Pakhtakor. Al Nasr and Al Shabab certainly crashed and ranked below their Qatari rivals, but the Emirates are still having in the game.
2. Can Saudi football redeem itself?
Certainly Saudi Pro League still have the two most fearsome clubs in Asia – Al Ittihad and Al Hilal. In the past both clubs could draw more than 30 thousands to an ACL match, although that’s not the case now. They are, however, are still powered by local players. In fact each of them has only two non-Muslim players – Paulo Jorge and Fabrice Ondama in Ittihad and Christian Wilhelmsson and Yoo Byung-Soo in Hilal, which are flourishing far away from La Coruna and Incheon.
Of course, club success can be powered by good management and national failures can be influenced by terrible FA administration, negative state intervention (including choosing a crappy or inflexible manager), and lack of motivation. It’s hard to describe nationalism in an absolute monarchy – Hegel had found it in the 1800s. Al Hilal, Al Ahli, and Al Ittihad have the good chance to go to quarter finals (and eliminating UAE clubs if they do so), and certainly they aim to reclaim the champions title, last won by a Saudi side in 2005. If they can do it, then the FA have to follow up with the Asian Cup 2015 project.
3. Adelaide are still the only reliable Australian club in the ACL
In A-League, they can go from top 3 to bottom 3 in alternating seasons. Adelaide qualified to this year’s ACL through playoff. But their experience and flair against the northerners count year after year, while Brisbane and Central Coast prove that unlike the national team, Aussie clubs are not first rate (league and clubs managements included). Adelaide destroyed two former champions, Pohang and Gamba, and could become the favorites against Nagoya. Bruce Djite might fit as Australia’s Emile Heskey, but Dario Vidosic has my vote to be a Socceroo regular, and Sergio van Dijk is the best forward Indonesia has never had.
4. These are testing times for Korean teams.
Finally, the fallout of last year’s bribe scandals is here. Only Ulsan proved the quality of a Korean team, and Seongnam were lucky they were in an equally boring group with half of the group’s games ended in draws (hey, draws without losses is something to be proud of. Just ask New Zealand fans). The supposedly exciting Pohang lost in competition to Bunyodkor (another sign of Uzbek resilience against the Japan-Korea block), while I’m bit ashamed of praising Lee Dong-Gook in my last post, seeing how Jeonbuk fell. It seems that the life and death of Jeonbuk are decided by how he’s doing on the match day instead of the teamwork Eninho, Kim Jung-Woo, and Kim Sang-Sik. Hugo Droguett is promising, but it seems like he needs more time to be a worthy partner to D.G.
This is the first time Korea fail to qualify at least three clubs since the current format introduced in 2009. And I take it as a failure. Jeonbuk’s failure certainly influenced by the rise of Guangzhou Evergrande, which deserves its own talking point, but even Seongnam were close to fail were it faced more aggressive opponents.
5. Guangzhou Evergrande continue its empire building
Manchester City teach that money can build your glory, earlier than what you expect. that’s what’s happened in Guangzhou, probably the best-run metropolis in China, which scouted and nurtured South Americans who really delivered. If Chelsea rely on Africans and Arsenal on continental Europeans (and Manchester United, at one point, on the Celts), then Guangzhou can be forgiven to rely on Muriqui, Cleo, and Conca for the attack and Paulao for the defence. Still, they needed six others Chinese to hold the line – and it’s good to see Cho Won-Hee redeemed after terrible times in Wigan and Suwon.
Sadly, pride rather than ambition might influence the replacement of Lee Jang-Soo with Marcello Lippi. Evergrande RE just wants to boast that it employs the Italian legend rather than trusting a coach that can ensure its domination in China and in Asia. Just like Roberto di Matteo’s employment in Chelsea is still not ensured even if he’ll win them the UEFA Champions League tonight. Owners, after all, care more about employing famous generals than having the most suited general for the club.
6. Gamba aside, J. League clubs are fine
Oh the irony. Newcomers FC Tokyo, previously the West Ham of Tokyo football, did really fine. Unstable Japanese champions Kashiwa passed the test with the last day’s coup against Jeonbuk (a plus point, if you consider Japanese stage fright against Korean teams). Nagoya followed Seongnam’s policy of two wins four draws, and yet they still prevailed against the supposedly threatening Brisbane and Tianjin.
So, why do we need to speak about Gamba? Perhaps because they are the former Asian champions. Perhaps they are used to be one the most strongest teams in Japan year in and year out. And now in the J. League, their mission for the season would be to escape relegation, just one month into the completion.
I’ll leave the deeper discussion about Gamba to my good friend Ben Mabley, who’s considering himself Osakan. I counted myself as a Gamba supporter, but then again, I don’t feel the passion I have when I’m supporting Manchester United (come on, I feel bad writing this). Maybe had I lived in Japan, I chose to live in Yokohama. Yay Marinos.
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Douglas Johnston and his wife Maureen conned friends they met through the Collingwood Football Club. Credit: AAP
An elderly Melbourne man is set to be jailed for defrauding footy friends out of more than $800,000 with a bogus investment scheme.
Douglas Johnston, 76, and his wife Maureen convinced friends they met through the Collingwood Football Club to invest with them but instead used the money to pay off credit cards and for their own investments.
Victoria's County Court was earlier told Johnston could expect jail time after a jury convicted him of nine counts of obtaining a financial advantage by deception.
He defrauded five people of $815,000 in what prosecutor Catherine Fitzgerald dubbed a "callous" and "exploitative" scheme, running between January 2010 and November 2013.
One couple gave the Johnston's $720,000, purportedly for property investments in Melbourne and the US.
In December last year, Maureen Johnston was jailed for five-and-a-half years after admitting to scamming victims out of more than $1 million, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission said.
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Prosecutors have asked Judge Wendy Wilmoth to give Johnston a harsher penalty than his wife when he is sentenced on Tuesday.
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Four BBC radio reports on the same topic promote politicised themes
Listeners to BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service radio recently heard four different radio reports on the same topic. The maker of those reports, Linda Pressly, described one of them as “a different window on the region” – but is that actually the case?
In fact, all four of those reports repeated politicised themes frequently seen in BBC content.
One of those themes is promotion of the umbrella term ‘occupied West Bank’ without any distinction being made between the places under complete Palestinian Authority control (Area A), those where the PA administers civilian life and Israel is responsible for security (Area B) and those under Israeli administration (Area C) – as laid out in the Oslo Accords agreement signed by Israel and the Palestinians.
The first of Pressly’s reports about Arabian horses was aired on November 25th in the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘From Our Own Correspondent”. Presenter Kate Adie told listeners (from 12:22 here) that:
“In the occupied West Bank though, among ordinary Palestinians, there’s been a resurgence of interest in these horses.”
In that report, Pressly visited two locations: Al Bireh – in Area A and under complete PA control since 1994 – and Anata in Area B.
The second report was broadcast on November 30th in an edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newshour’. Presented James Menendez’s introduction (from 18:00 here) included both use of the term ‘occupied West Bank’ and another increasingly seen theme: portrayal of Israeli Arabs as “Palestinian Israelis”.
“In the occupied West Bank equestrian sport has been growing in popularity over the past decade and the breeding of Arabian horses […] is a passion shared by both Jewish and Palestinian Israelis as well as those who live in the West Bank…”
In that report Pressly visited Silwan in Jerusalem which she described as follows:
“The area known as Silwan by Palestinians and as the City of David by Jewish Israelis tumbles down the hillside in East Jerusalem. It’s one of the most heavily contested parts of this city…”
Pressly also visited a riding centre in Jericho – located in Area A and also under complete PA control since 1994. Despite that fact, listeners heard a young show-jumper say that:
“My goal is to represent Palestine and tell people that we’re there, we can do things while we are occupied, that we don’t give up.”
Also on November 30th, listeners to BBC Radio 4’s ‘Crossing Continents’ heard a much longer version of the same report – titled ‘Pride, Passion and Palestinian Horses’ – in which Pressly’s “journey in the occupied West Bank”, as she termed it, included visits to Al Bireh (Area A), “East Jerusalem”, Anata (Area B), Turmus Ayya (Area B) and Hebron (Area A).
“In the West Bank hundreds of families share a passion for breeding horses. Amid the narrow streets and cramped apartment buildings small stables can be found with owners grooming beautiful Arabian colts and fillies. These new breeders are now making their mark at Israeli horse shows where competition to produce the best in breed is intense. As Palestinian and Israeli owners mingle on the show ground, political differences are put to one side as they share a passion for the Arabian horse.
For Crossing Continents, Linda Pressly follows one Palestinian owner and his colt as they navigate their way through Israeli checkpoints to the next big event in the Israeli Kibbutz of Alonim. Winning best in show is the plan but will they even get there?”
As can be seen from that synopsis, another theme promoted in this report and in the very similar one broadcast on the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Assignment‘ on November 30th and December 3rd was that of “Israeli checkpoints”.
Early on in the report (06:53), Pressley told listeners that in what she calls the West Bank, “the geography’s complicated; carved up as it is between the Palestinian Authority and Israeli control and punctuated by Israeli military checkpoints”.
During her visit to Anata, listeners heard her local fixer say that since the second Intifada “the Israelis are not allowed to come into Palestinian areas” but no explanation was given.
At 12:04 listeners heard Pressly’s sketchy portrayal of the paperwork needed for the horse breeder from Turmus Ayya – Ashraf Rabi – to show his horses in Kibbutz Alonim in the Galilee district.
Pressly: “To go to Alonim in Israel from the West Bank through one of the military checkpoints his horses need certificates issued by the Israel Arabian Horse Society. And Israel is closed to Palestinians from the West bank with no travel or work permit.”
Rabi: “As I’m a Palestinian so sometimes they don’t give me permit to go. Sometimes my horse doesn’t pass because the soldier who’s on the checkpoint he will return the horse back. […]
Whether or not those “certificates” needed by the horses include medical/vaccination paperwork was not made clear and so listeners were left with the inaccurate impression that passage through crossings between PA controlled areas and Israel depends on the caprice of those staffing them.
Pressly later introduced another element into the checkpoints theme:
Pressly: “Ashraf Rabi’s anxiety about Israeli checkpoints is shared by the Palestinian horse owning community and it’s compounded by the absence of specialised veterinary facilities and equine vets on the West bank, especially if there’s a medical emergency.”
She then visited a person in Hebron identified only by his first name – ‘Rashad’ – and listeners heard a story concerning his horse, Burak.
Pressly: “At the age of four Burak developed colic. He needed an operation. The only option was to get him to a hospital in Israel.”
Rashad [translated]: “We ordered a horse-box, got to the checkpoint. The horse-box waited six to eight hours and they wouldn’t allow him to go to the hospital. I asked them at the checkpoint why aren’t you allowing him to go? He has his papers, everything is correct. They wouldn’t. So I called the hospital. An Israeli vet he came and he took him to the hospital.”
Pressly: “It was too late. Burak died as he arrived at the hospital.”
The possibility that it was not the horse’s paperwork – but rather than of the person accompanying it – that was problematic was not raised. Pressly continued:
Pressly: “Israel’s restriction on free movement is a source of huge antipathy among West Bankers – not just horse owners. For Israel, insecurity and the recent wave of killings of Israeli soldiers and civilians by Palestinians in attacks at checkpoints justify the constraints. In 2015 the National Arabian Horse Show in Alonim was cancelled at the height of what’s been called the stabbing intifada. As far as we know, Burak’s the only horse to die after being held at a checkpoint.”
Remarkably, that highlighted sentence was Pressly’s sole attempt to explain to listeners why security measures are necessary at crossings and checkpoints – and it even misled listeners by claiming that Palestinian attacks during the past two years took place “at checkpoints” and implying that security measures commenced relatively recently. Listeners heard nothing whatsoever about the Palestinian violence during the second Intifada that actually made such security measures necessary and the word ‘terror’ was – predictably – completely absent from all of her reports.
In all four of her reports Pressly told BBC audiences that “love for Arabian horses trumps the divided politics of this troubled region”. More is the pity then that Pressly deviated from reporting on those animals and the people who raise them and ventured into just such politics by promoting well-worn, context-free, politicised themes seen all too often in BBC content.
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To find the truth, the BBC would have learned more by avoiding this beeboid agitprop interlocutor and going straight to the horses’ mouth.
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Check Global: Phase VI awarded funding!
By Dima Saber on July 11th, 2019
I’m very happy to share the news that our Check project (ongoing since 2014) has been recently awarded funding by the Swedish International Development Agency for another 36 months!
Check Global will provide world-class tools and training resources to an international network of independent media organisations, journalism schools and human rights researchers in the developing world. With a focus on collaboration, we will create open source tools and open licensed online and offline training to support emerging practices in digital media literacy skills, fact-checking, disinformation monitoring and verification of digital media. This program builds on six years of impactful programming that has seen the Check team build a world-class network of international partners, and an award-winning open source platform addressing the increasingly high-profile challenge of credibility in digital media.
The current award expands the MENA-based network (Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Palestine) to include:
– East Africa (Zimbabwe, Kenya and Tanzania)
– Latin America (Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Costa Rica and Venezuela)
– Southeast Asia (Philippines)
Building on the solid foundations laid since 2014, the Check program is designed around 5 key areas of focus:
Technology – Improved open-access tools and technical infrastructure for independent actors in all areas of focus to curate, check, verify and debunk claims and media shared online, and to produce alternative content that helps countering mis- and disinformation.
Network – Improved collaboration and stronger networks between independent media, journalism programs, activists, archivists and human rights defenders working on open source investigation, fact checking and debunking, and digital media literacy efforts in all countries of focus.
Training – Improved capacity of journalism students, citizen journalists, civil society and activist networks and human rights documentation enthusiasts to verify content, conduct investigations and produce viable online content to counter the rise of propaganda and mis-information in their countries.
Research – Improved understanding of the relation between open-source tech development, digital media literacy and social impact, as well as the global misinformation ecosystem on ways in which citizens’ public opinion is formed (M&E).
Data – Improved datasets around online source and content credibility, and digital literacy skill sets in all countries of focus for research and product development.
Here are the outputs we’re working on producing in the
– Check Global Partner Network: At least 20 new independent media collectives, CSOs and journalism schools will be using our project’s tools and training resources over the next 3 years.
– Check training partners in Syria (Syrian Archive), in Yemen (Yemen Archive), in Zimbabwe (ZimFact & CITE), in the Philippines (VERA Fact), and in Latin America (Chicas Poderosas).
– CheckCon II and III – Building on the first CheckCon Conference in Beirut in 2017, these two international conferences will gather partners and the wider Check community in Years 2 & 3.
– MENA Investigative Fund: https://arabcitizenmedia.org/mena-investigative-fund/ Over 30 recipients will be awarded funding to develop investigative stories and reports (short and long form, print & audiovisual).
– Check Global Training Series Over 1500 beneficiaries will be trained in open source investigation, verification and misinformation monitoring and digital literacy skills over the next 3 years.
– Arab Citizen Media: https://arabcitizenmedia.org/courses/ 3 open-licensed online courses will be made publicly available in Arabic & English.
– Pop-Up Newsroom: From the Check Lebanese University Newsroom to a Check Pan-Arab Newsroom https://arabcitizenmedia.org/newsroom/ We will expand our work with the Lebanese University to set-up a Pan-Arab student newsroom, with young journalism students from 5 Arab universities, and will train them in issues related to media literacy, new media, investigation and social change. We will host a Digital Media Literacy Camp which will bring together over 50 students and reporters from across the MENA region.
– Research: M&E frameworks and open-access resources for public use within academic and non-academic circles; Presentation of findings and project impact at 5 international conferences and academic gatherings in the next three years; 2 scholarly articles to be published in academic journals building on the experience working on and assessing the Check Global project; 3 research papers produced in partnership with research partner Oxford Internet Institute; a Check Global Impact Case Study as part of UoA 34 REF 2021 submissions.
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Category: Regulation
Regulation and the Internet
Here’s a little speech I gave to members of the EU Parliament in Brussels on Oct. 14th. The cousins are contemplating a set of Internet access account regulations that would mandate a minimum QoS level and also ban most forms of stream discrimination. This explains why such rules are a bad (and utterly impractical) idea.
The Internet is a global network, and regulating it properly is a matter of global concern. I’d like to share a view of the technical underpinnings of the question, to better inform the legal and political discussion that follows and to point out some of the pitfalls that lie in wait.
Why manage network traffic?
Network management, or more properly network traffic management, is a central focus of the current controversy. The consumer-friendly statements of policy, such as the Four Freedoms crafted by Senator McCain’s technology adviser Mike Powell, represent lofty goals, but they’re constrained by the all-important exception for network management. In fact, you could easily simplify the Four Freedoms as “you can do anything you want except break the law or break the network.†Network management prevents you from breaking the network, which you principally do by using up network resources.
Every networking technology has to deal with the fact that the demand for resources often exceeds supply. On the circuit-switched PSTN, resources are allocated when a call is setup, and if they aren’t available your call doesn’t get connected. This is a very inefficient technology that allocates bandwidth in fixed amounts, regardless of the consumer’s need or his usage once the call is connected. A modem connected over the PSTN sends and receives at the same time, but people talking generally take turns. This network doesn’t allow you to save up bandwidth and to use it later, for example. Telecom regulations are based on the PSTN and its unique properties. In network engineering, we call it an “isochronous network†to distinguish it from technologies like the old Ethernet that was the model link layer technology when the DoD protocol suite was designed.
The Internet uses packet switching technology, where users share communications facilities and bandwidth is allocated dynamically. Dynamic bandwidth allocation, wire-sharing, and asynchrony mean that congestion appears and disappears on random, sub-second intervals. Packets don’t always arrive at switching points at the most convenient times, just as cars don’t run on the same rigorous schedules as trains.
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Author RBPosted on November 26, 2008 Categories Internet, Net Neutrality, RegulationLeave a comment on Regulation and the Internet
The Trouble with White Spaces
Like several other engineers, I’m disturbed by the white spaces debate. The White Space Coalition, and its para-technical boosters, argue something like this: “The NAB is a tiger, therefore the White Spaces must be unlicensed.” And they go on to offer the comparison with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, arguing as Tom Evslin does on CircleID today that “If we got a lot of innovation from just a little unlicensed spectrum, it’s reasonable to assume that we’ll get a lot more innovation if there’s a lot more [unlicensed] spectrum available.”
According to this argument, Wi-Fi has been an unqualified success in every dimension. People who make this argument haven’t worked with Wi-Fi or Bluetooth systems in a serious way, or they would be aware that there are in fact problems, serious problems, with Wi-Fi deployments.
For one thing, Wi-Fi systems are affected by sources of interference they can’t detect directly, such as FM Baby Monitors, cordless phones, and wireless security cameras. Running Wi-Fi on the same channel as one of these devices causes extremely high error rates. If 2.4 and 5.x GHz devices were required to emit a universally detectable frame preamble much of this nonsense could be avoided.
And for another, we have the problem of newer Wi-Fi devices producing frames that aren’t detectable by older (esp. 802.11 and 802.11b gear) without an overhead frame that reduces throughput substantially. If we could declare anything older than 802.11a and .11g illegal, we could use the spectrum we have much more efficiently.
For another, we don’t have enough adjacent channel spectrum to use the newest version of Wi-Fi, 40 MHz 802.11n, effectively in the 2.4 GHz band. Speed inevitably depends on channel width, and the white spaces offer little dribs and drabs of spectrum all over the place, much of it in non-adjacent frequencies.
But most importantly, Wi-Fi is the victim of its own success. As more people use Wi-Fi, we have share the limited number of channels across more Access Points, and they are not required to share channel space with each other in a particularly efficient way. We can certainly expect a lot of collisions, and therefore packet loss, from any uncoordinated channel access scheme, as Wi-Fi is, on a large geographic scale. This is the old “tragedy of the commons” scenario.
The problem of deploying wireless broadband is mainly a tradeoff of propagation, population, and bandwidth. The larger the population your signal covers, the greater the bandwidth needs to be in order to provide good performance. The nice thing about Wi-Fi is its limited propagation, because it permits extensive channel re-use without collisions. if the Wi-Fi signal in your neighbor’s house propagated twice as far, it has four times as many chances to collide with other users. So high power and great propagation isn’t an unmitigated good.
The advantage of licensing is that the license holder can apply authoritarian rules that ensure the spectrum is used efficiently. The disadvantage is that the license holder can over-charge for the use of such tightly-managed spectrum, and needs to in order to pay off the cost of his license.
The FCC needs to move into the 21st century and develop some digital rules for the use of unlicensed or lightly-licensed spectrum. The experiment I want to see concerns the development of these modern rules. We don’t need another Wi-Fi, we know how it worked out.
So let’s don’t squander the White Spaces opportunity with another knee-jerk response to the spectre of capitalism. I fully believe that people like Evslin, the White Space Coalition, and Susan Crawford are sincere in their belief that unlicensed White Spaces would be a boon to democracy, it’s just that their technical grasp of the subject matter is insufficient for their beliefs to amount to serious policy.
Author RBPosted on October 27, 2008 Categories FCC, Net Neutrality, Regulation, Wireless18 Comments on The Trouble with White Spaces
Comcast files their compliance plan
Today was the deadline for Comcast to tell the FCC how its existing congestion management system works, as well as how its “protocol agnostic” replacement is going to work. To the dismay of some critics, they’ve done just that in a filing that was hand-delivered as well as electronically filed today. It will be posted to the Comcast web site shortly.
The filing corrects some of the false allegations made by critics with respect to privacy, making it very clear that the existing system simply inspects protocol headers (“envelopes”) and not personal data. David Reed in particular got himself worked into a tizzy over the idea that Comcast was deciding which streams to delay based on content, but this is clearly not the case. Inside the IP envelope sits a TCP envelope, and inside that sits a BitTorrent envelope. User data is inside the BitTorrent (or equivalent) envelope, and Comcast doesn’t look at it.
The current system sets a bandwidth quota for P2P, and prevents P2P as a group from crossing the threshold from this quota (about 50% of total upstream bandwidth) with new uni-directional upload (AKA, file-server-like) streams by tearing down requested new streams with the TCP Reset bit. The system is a bit heavy-handed, but reserving 50% of the network for one class of application seems pretty reasonable, given that no more than 20% of customers use P2P at all.
Nonetheless, the new system will not look at any headers, and will simply be triggered by the volume of traffic each user puts on the network and the overall congestion state of the network segment. If the segment goes over 70% utilization in the upload direction for a fifteen-minute sample period, congestion management will take effect.
In the management state, traffic volume measurement will determine which users are causing the near-congestion, and only those using high amounts of bandwidth will be managed. The way they’re going to be managed is going to raise some eyebrows, but it’s perfectly consistent with the FCC’s order.
High-traffic users – those who’ve used over 70% of their account’s limit for the last fifteen minutes – will have all of their traffic de-prioritized for the next fifteen minutes. While de-prioritized, they still have access to the network, but only after the conforming users have transmitted their packets. So instead of bidding on the first 70% of network bandwidth, they’ll essentially bid on the 30% that remains. This will be a bummer for people who are banging out files as fast as they can only to have a Skype call come in. Even if they stop BitTorrent, the first fifteen minutes of Skyping are going to be rough. A more pleasant approach would be to let excessive users out of QoS jail with credit for good behavior – if their utilization drops to Skype level, let them out in a few seconds, because it’s clear they’ve turned off their file sharing program. This may be easier said than done, and it may raise the ire of Kevin Martin, given how irrational he is with this anti-cable vendetta.
The user can prevent this situation from arising, of course, if he wants to. All he has to do is set the upload and download limits in BitTorrent low enough that he doesn’t consume enough bandwidth to land in the “heavy user” classification and he won’t have to put up with bad VoIP quality. I predict that P2P applications and home gateways are going to incorporate controls to enforce “Comcast friendly” operation to prevent de-prioritization. There are other more refined approaches to this problem, of course.
At the end of the day, Comcast’s fifteen/fifteen system provides users with the incentive to control their own bandwidth appetites, which makes it an “end-to-end” solution. The neutralitarians should be happy about that, but it remains to be seen how they’re going to react.
It looks pretty cool to me.
UPDATE: Comcast-hater Nate Anderson tries to explain the system at Ars Technica. He has some of it right, but doesn’t seem to appreciate any of its implications. While the new system will not look at protocol headers (the evil “Deep Packet Inspection” that gets network neophytes and cranks so excited) , and it won’t use TCP Resets, that doesn’t mean that P2P won’t be throttled; it will.
That’s simply because P2P contributes most of the load on residential networks. So if you throttle the heaviest users, you’re in effect throttling the heaviest P2P users, because the set of heavy users and the set of heavy P2P users is the same set. So the “disparate impact” will remain even though the “disparate treatment” will end.
But the FCC has to like it, because it conforms to all of Kevin Martin’s rabbit-out-the-hat rules. The equipment Comcast had had to purchase for this exercise in aesthetic reform will have utility down the road, but for now it’s simply a tax imposed by out-of-control regulators.
Author RBPosted on September 19, 2008 Categories Comcast, FCC, Internet, Net Neutrality, RegulationTags net+neutrality Comcast FCCLeave a comment on Comcast files their compliance plan
FCC finally issues Comcast memo
Kevin Martin and his Democratic Party colleagues at the FCC have issued their Comcast order, available at this link. They find some novel sources of authority and apply some interesting interpretations of the facts. I’ll have some detailed commentary after I’ve read it all and checked the footnotes. It’s an amusing exercise, if you like that sort of thing.
For a good summary of the order, see IP Democracy.
Author RBPosted on August 20, 2008 Categories FCC, Internet, IPTV, Net Neutrality, Peer-to-Peer, RegulationLeave a comment on FCC finally issues Comcast memo
BitTorrent Soap Opera continues
Valleywag’s outstanding reporting on the BitTorrent collapse continues with a detailed account of the tussle:
BitTorrent has denied our report that the company laid off 12 out of 55 employees. That may be true: While our source told us 12 employees were on the layoff list, we’ve learned that, at the last minute, the jobs of two sales engineers, an HR manager, and an office manager were spared. Another tipster — “you can guess as to whether I’m an insider or not” — says that the BitTorrent layoffs aren’t the fault of new CEO Doug Walker, who came to the those-crazy-kids file-sharing startup to add some enterprise-software gravitas. Instead, the elimination of BitTorrent’s sales and marketing departments amounts to a coup by cofounders Bram Cohen and Ashwin Navin, pictured here to Walker’s right and left, who are giving up on the notion of marketing BitTorrent’s file-sharing technology to businesses and hardware makers, and instead pinning their hopes on becoming an “Internet peace corps.”
One part that I can confirm is the lack of enthusiasm for DNA on the part of the tech people. I’ve asked them why anybody should care about DNA and I got was silence.
How long until we hear about the equally vexing woes at Vuze? They won their battle with Comcast before the FCC, at the expense of their corporate viability. Peer-to-peer needs to be domesticated, but the FCC has forbidden that. The only other choice is extermination, and metered pricing will take care of that quite efficiently.
Previous entry here.
Technorati Tags: net neutrality, FCC, P2P, business
Author RBPosted on August 7, 2008 Categories FCC, Net Neutrality, Peer-to-Peer, RegulationLeave a comment on BitTorrent Soap Opera continues
Kevin Martin’s secret regulations
As the crescendo of criticism builds against the FCC’s pending publication of its new rules for Internet access providers, the New York Times emerges as the sole source of pro-FCC coverage. They publish a bizarre Op-Ed by Free Press chairman Tim Wu equating competing carriers with OPEC and mistaking the general trend in broadband prices – sharply down – with the trend for gas prices, which goes in the opposite direction entirely:
AMERICANS today spend almost as much on bandwidth — the capacity to move information — as we do on energy. A family of four likely spends several hundred dollars a month on cellphones, cable television and Internet connections, which is about what we spend on gas and heating oil.
Here’s what’s happening to broadband prices at Comcast:
High-speed Internet revenue increased 10% to $1.8 billion in the second quarter of 2008 from $1.6 billion in 2007 reflecting a 12% increase in subscribers and a 3% decline in average monthly revenue per subscriber to $42.01, reflecting the impact of additional bundling and the recent introduction of new offers and speed tiers.
I’d love to see a 3% monthly decline in gas prices, even at the same volume level. But the Comcast figures show consumers upgrading to higher speed tiers (like Blast, which I measure at 28 Mb/s download speed) and still seeing an average decline in prices. Wu isn’t talking about life in the Real WorldTM.
Martin himself held a pow-wow with Times reporters, hoping to evoke some of that old-time populism that the nation’s elite daily is so good at. BITS blogger Saul Hansell reports on Martin’s faulty facts and shoddy analysis:
“The network operators can recoup their investment in the network and can charge for access to network services, but consumers have complete control over the devices and content that don’t have anything to do with investment in the underlying network,†he said.
I asked about reports that AT&T now bans all use of peer-to-peer networking software on its wireless data network. It also bans some video services, like the Slingbox feature that lets you watch your home television signal on your cellphone.
Mr. Martin declined to answer. His view is that the commission should not publish explicit regulations. Rather, it should address complaints that are made, as it did with the Comcast case.
“The commission is very careful in that we look at the particular facts that are in front of us. We are not judging the next case,†he said. “Hard and fast rules can actually be over- and under-inclusive, and they can also have adverse impact.â€
Mr. Martin was asked whether the commission’s approach will push more Internet providers to start to impose caps on how much bandwidth consumers can use.
He said he wanted to reserve judgment on that trend. He seemed comfortable with Internet providers offering services with limits, so long as they are clearly stated.
So we have this new regime for Internet access providers where every move they make is to be judged according to a list of secret regulations. If ever there was a recipe for stalemate, this is it.
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Gallery Weekend Berlin in Fragments
By : Eremire Krasniqi May 5, 2013 June 20, 2013
The Gallery Weekend in Berlin has a relatively recent history as this year it celebrated its 9th birthday. The event, which this time around was even more well–organized than in previous years, was founded by a small group of gallerists, who have now become somewhat even more professional in what they do, since they had appointed Cédric Aurelle as a general manager. Certainly, Gallery Weekend Berlin is growing each year: the participating galleries this time were fifty-one in total, ranging from emerging to established. It was roughly estimated that around ten-thousand visitors were gallery–hopping throughout the Gallery Weekend.
Without a doubt Gallery Weekend Berlin is an increasingly successful event, energizing the whole of Berlin’s cultural life in one springtime weekend. It is a ‘once a year snapshot’ of Berlin-based artists and galleries that this spring took place as fifty-one shows, most of which solo, in sixty-six venues. The Gallery Weekend was held this time between the 26-28th of April 2013.
Fragment I: Kurfürstenstraße
Aleksandra Domanovi, Belgrade Hand on Minsky Tentacle Arm, 2013. (Courtesy of Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin)
This year I happened to do my fair share of ‘gallery hopping’, which was more of a ‘conceptual hopping’, really, as I would lend my sensibilities to one art idea and would then very soon find myself indulging into another. I explored one chunk of participating galleries by hitting the streets of Potsdammerstraße/ Kurfürstenstraße. Doing this survey in one go was exhausting, yet very exciting.
My first visit was Tanya Leighton Gallery. The exhibition on view was “The future was at her fingertips” by the Berlin-based artist Alexandra Domanovic. Domanovic’s exhibit is an interesting exploration of the ideas about technology that the ex-Yugoslav constellation of countries had and of how they envisioned their future together after the Second World War. Her work draws attention to one of the earliest attempts at developing an artificial limb with a sense of touch, known as the ‘Belgrade Hand’.
For her exhibition, Domanovic commissioned a fully–rigged computer model of the ‘Belgrade Hand’, from which she made five 3D–printed sculptures that allowed her to act out a variety of gestures. What one sees in the gallery are four hands cast through a laser sintering process. Three of them sit atop obelisk-shaped plinths, made of acrylic glass––a fourth is mounted on the wall. Two of the hands and the frame of a large ink–jet print, displayed in the back room, are coated with a layer of ‘Soft-Touch’: a polyurethane-based coating that feels like an organic surface (almost like leather) and is commonly used for cars’ interiors or book covers. The ‘Hands’ are exhibited at times in such an unexpected way––they resemble door knobs or handles of some sort, whose details are as if designed by futurists, who find excitement in the artistic possibilities of fluorescent colors.
Just on the other side of the street from Tanya Leighton Gallery, insitu––a new contemporary art space, was launching itself in the art world. Insitu‘s inaugural concept, ‘Episode 0: Introducing insitu’, could be thought of as a way of reflecting on its possible identity as space per se. Within the framework of the Gallery Weekend Berlin, ‘Episode 0’, gave the artists Ulrich Vogl, Sinta Werner, and Ignacio Uriarte free reign over the transformation of the empty space and its structure into contemporary art.
The exhibition space had two rooms, the second one of which was devoted to Uriarte. Uriarte’s project “1_2_3_4_3_2_1” is a sound installation, which plays on the sound made by eight different typewriting machines. The typewriters take turns as they raise the tempo of the rhythm. In his work, Uriarte infuses with life the monotonous sound of the typewriter, which would otherwise evoke not much more than the notion of tedium and exhausting labour. By vitalizing the monotony of typewriting, which has now become a nostalgic device for us because of the ‘technological revolution’, the artwork still manages to furnish the banal sounds of the daily office routine with a curious facet.
Fragment II: Henri Chopin––Le Crevette Amoureuse
Henri Chopin, La crevette amoureuse, 1967-1975 (Courtesy of Supportico Lopez, Berlin)
Henri Chopin (1922-2008) was a French Dada poet––one of the key figures of the French avant-garde of the fifties and sixties. Supportico Lopez put on view the manuscript of Le Crevette Amoureuse, which is part of the trilogy of Le Dernier Roman du Monde, started in 1961. The manuscript was never printed out until 1994 when Peppe Morra, Chopin’s former gallerist, bought the manuscript.
The 146–pages manuscript, modest and wonderful, is a text marked by the playfulness of Dada and backed up by abstract reason and dialectics. Oftentimes, one can see in the pages of this Dada Novel the typewriter’s red and black ribbon drawing characters and puzzles, full of abstractions–– sassy and quaint.
In the back room of Supportico Lopez, two of Chopin’s sound-poetries were installed and available to the public’s ears. The poetries had no recognizable language––only sounds. Language in Chopin’s belief was capable only of lying and unable to express genuine ideas. Chopin tried to find the purest form of sound within the human body, which led him to do a very peculiar thing: he swallowed a microphone, which was supposed to allow him to capture the voice ‘in its most purest form’. What characterized the space the most, however, was that the space itself was replicating the effect of Chopin’s sound poetry. If one wanted to communicate the nature of the material one was listening to on the head-phones, the echo of the back room would make one’s uttered sounds resound like Dada poetry.
Fragment III: Potsdammerstraße/ 9 TIMES PHILOSOPHY / Sharpening Phantasy
Jorinde Voigt, Goethe Faust Prolog im Himmel (Courtesy of Jorinde Voigt)
Potsdammerstraße is a street that accommodates a large number of independent contemporary gallery exhibitions, but 9 TIMES PHILOSOPHY by Jorinde Voigt in Klosterfelde Gallery was one of the nicest discoveries that an ECLA of Bard student can come across.
Voigt is one of those avid readers, who tries to integrate her enthusiasm within an art medium, which does not work with language, and whose signs certainly do not produce meaning in the order of language. Nonetheless, her drawings are based on philosophical and literary texts. She has developed in them a coded form of writing, so as to transform these texts into visual compositions. Even though she is working with some complex texts and her own intricate ideas, she unites both in an orderly appearance. The erraticness of philosophical concepts in fact seems to bring order to her erratic ideas.
In 9 TIMES PHILOSOPHY, Voigt creates her space of ideas and concepts by allowing the viewer to participate in her own experience of appropriation and her attempt to understand and close–read the texts at hand. Her paintings are like a dense network of notes; each surface is a drawing, or better put––a representation of quoted passages, which are supposed to reproduce a visual association in an avid reader like her.Voigt sketches these imaginary forms on paper, cuts them out, plates them in gold, and combines this inlay technique with handwritten notations, creating in this way surfaces which reflect on her subjective readings.
The philosophical and literary texts that one encounters in these surfaces, visually interpreted by Jorinde Voigt, are Goethe’s “Prologue in Heaven” (Faust I), Epicurus’s “Letter to Menoeceus”, Kandinsky’s exchange of letters with Schoeneberg, works from Peter Sloterdijk, Plato, Elias Canneti, Paul Celan, and various haiku poems from the most eminent japanese poets.
Douglas Douglas Gordon, The Sharpening Fantasy (Courtesy of Blain-Southern Berlin)
Another pleasant encounter in Potsdammerstraße was Douglas Gordon’s exhibition at Blain|Southern exhibition space. Gordon’s Sharpening Fantasy brings together his very recent video works. The video projects which were presented within Sharpening Fantasy (working title) were: In Full Circle, Unnatural History, Unnatural History II; Once Upon a Time Without the Sun; and Sharpening Fantasy (2012). These works give us a glimpse on what unsettles him, but also on what is to be unsettled. His videos––fragments from his travels to Morocco and Tangier, create that documentary setting that needs to “record things for what they are”. But Gordon is not after discoveries that stand out as otherworldly or as such that need to be documented––on the contrary, he is interested in blurring the divide that constructs the other. The exhibition as a whole is meant to challenge the polarities between Europe and the ‘Orient’, desire and fear, light and dark, and all the conventional ideas that define themselves through these oppositions.
Do make sure to check out Gallery Weekend Berlin if you happen to be in the city during the spring. The development of the event throughout the years has shown that there is much to be expected. And even if you cannot visit all galleries and exhibitions on offer––every fragement of experience is a valuable and exciting one.
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Need of the Hour for Nepal: A Complete End to the Maoist Intimidation
April 14, 2008 UWB 46 Comments
Today’s attack to Nepali Congress candidate Ram Sharan Mahat (more at the end of the post), first incident of Maoist highhandedness after their victory in the CA, is deplorable
As the Maoist is readying itself to assume the leadership of the government that is to be formed by the Constituent Assembly, Nepali society and the world are keenly watching the behavior of the former rebel party and its cadres. The spectacular endorsement of the Maoist party in the CA polls by the people has several messages. Some of them are listed below:
1. Okay, now that you have fought a decade-long war ‘for the people’ in which we suffered a lot, brought the issue of Constituent Assembly into limelight again after 50 years, and come to the peace process providing a great degree of relief to us, we want to give you a chance to you so that you could turn your promises into deeds.
2. Hey, even after signing the Comprehensive Peace Agreement you are involved into widespread intimidation and heavy-handedness through your Young Communist League (YCL). We want to give you whole of the state machinery which is far more powerful and bigger than your YCL so that you play by the rules that have been already made for this country because the sate machinery must be operated as per the law of the land.
3. You know what; we the people of Nepal are really tired of your extortion. We are tired of giving significant percentage of our hard-earned money to feed your arrogant cadres. Instead, why don’t you take control of the state exchequer itself so that we could be saved of the extortion and forced donations? Be warned, though, that any misuse of the sate fund would be considered corruption- same act done by the likes Khum Bahadur and Govinda Raj whom we will not let win. You don’t want to be voted out in the next election like them, do you?
Now that people have given their verdict, they will be closely watching the Maoist’s behavior. Even a possible thief will be in an awkward position should he be given the key to the cupboard. There will be more pressure to the Maoists now then when they were in opposition or minority stakeholders in the government. Prachanda was busy today meeting with many diplomats and assuring them that the government under his leadership will be behaving democratically and constitutionally. Again words are not enough. They have to be displayed into deeds.
If Prachanda and his party Maoist continue their highhandedness through YCL like they did to Ram Sharan Mahat in Nuwakot today, they will be punished. The attack over the Nepali Congress candidate who won the election is deplorable. Pre-election violence and today’s attacks can’t be put into same category. Today’s incident is much more serious and shouldn’t be tolerated by the state machinery.
The Background: Mahat attacked in Nuwakot allegedly by Maoists
Nepali Congress leader and Finance Minister Dr Ram Sharan Mahat was attacked in Nuwakot today only a day after he was elected for the Constituent Assembly from Nuwakot district constituency-2. Maoist cadres allegedly assaulted the NC leader, who has sustained injuries in his head in the attack.
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46 thoughts on “Need of the Hour for Nepal: A Complete End to the Maoist Intimidation”
coward nepali says:
Who will punish? HA ha.
Who will punsih?
Who will punish?
Vashir says:
i agree. who’ll punish???? paper tigers.
now maiost show their true colour.why foolish had to vote for maiost.every one knows that they are mass murder and people still vote for maiost.they can not change nepal like this kind of behaviour.
Huna ta ho says:
NC people deserve to stay in prison and suffer worse than what Mr. Mahat suffered today. He has been the instrument for the rich of Nepal to get richer and has people’s sweat in his hands without delivering anything.
UWB is obviously a traitor to the new Nepal and I hope maoists IMMEDIATELY shut down Kantipur and uWB
Nepalis will get the punishment for electing Maoists. Just because they are in government has never stopped them from using criminal means. Now this is still set to continue. I do not see this stopping anytime soon.
kanchha says:
Comrades: Now, You have very short window of oppurtunity to bring real change in nepal. I hope you will start the development process in a war footing, and soon. Else, the process of dragging the red carpet under your feet will begin.
If such incident continues, which I believe. Congress will be forced to pick Arms againt Maoist. In such event Madhes will liberate itself as they have many CA members. And Remaining of the Nepal will be even poorer after loosing Madhes.
Be Responsible Junglees, Now u r in Human Area.
Harke says:
I am now feeling like we have elected a criminal gang to power. As far as I know, Dr. Mahat is not a corrupt leader like others in NC. These Maoists cannot even control their Young Criminal League, how will they bring democracy and peace to Nepal.
Maoists will now a also merge their criminal carades with the Nepal army. This will produce a force brutal and dictatorial than Taliban. “New Nepal” will turn out to be a criminal safe heaven. The new class struggle will be between Maoists (who are above the law) and the general people (who always wish for better days).
SeriouslyFrustrated says:
I have not blogged here for a long time. Frankly speaking, I am just too much fed up with the whole Nepali politics. I have seen euphoria in Nepal and everybody who wishes well for Nepal. But I have a very mixed feeling. I, as an individual, am currently not living in Nepal. But I care about what goes on in Nepal because I am still Nepali. I have a strong will to come back and settle in Nepal. In fact, I know I will. But I have this big apprehension.
I so much want to be happy about the election result. I want to walk in the street with the vermilion all over my face. I want to look forward to the time of peace and prosperity. I simply just cannot see that. The change that we are seeing right now, is very overwhelming. Maoist came to prominent, first my war and bloodletting. With two years of peace, now they are or will be in power with the mandate from people. My fear lies mostly on the way they came to power, bombings, killings and bloodletting. Prachanda himself glorifies the current achievement to those days of bloodletting implementing that they could not have gotten where they have without the guns. I heard that in an interview he gave to New York Times, that interview was a day before the election.
The lasting memory of those sorrowful days of bloodletting in my mind is the photo of Muktinath Adhikari of Lamjung laying limp with head tilted at the side, legs bent, body tied to a tree with patches of blood in his sweater. I can never forget that image.
I look at every other revolution and change that came about in the present history that I can remember witnessing through my own eyes or living through the news in this information age on TV, I have seen the dividend of peace only when the agitating party came through with the ethos of nonviolence. I have lately seen the characterization of Prachanda with Nelson Mandela. That simply is not the case. Mandela, while in jail, renounced violence. Hence, when he came to power, there were commissions like truth and reconciliation. The whole country reaped the dividend of peace later. It didn’t collapse like Zimbabwe. We know it. We have seen it.
In case of Nepal, I am very afraid. Just the other day, YCL cadres attached one NC leader, Dr. Mahat, who had won in his constituency. What am I to make of it?
How are Maoists going to develop the country? What is the real plan? Socialist Capitalism: What is that? I have read somewhere Prachanda talking about equidistant between Delhi and Beijing. Seriously, are we going to import oil from China? Looking more to North, are we going to compromise the plains?
I want to come back. I want to be part of the economy. Will I have the freedom to run any legitimate for profit business? Can I do whatever I want to do to fulfill my individual aspiration? Do I have to compulsorily work for the government?
Mr. Wagle sighted that during the interim government, Maoists were not able to stop some beauty pageant. That time is then, it is now. How can Kantipur forget that they had to deal with labor faction of Maoist to keep their newspaper running!
At one point, Baburam Bhattarai, an would be PM, talked about drafting the army. Everybody from each family in Nepal has to be in the army for a year or two. His principal behind that ideology is to make a citizen soldier so Nepal can defend itself. Fine and dandy, what if I do not want to be the part Army?
My biggest question is: HOW ARE WE GOING TO CHANGE THE FACE OF NEPAL?
Economy in the world is in the down turn. There is a deepening energy crisis, electricity and fuel shortages, price of rice is at all time high, and with India not exporting rice, we are facing deep food crisis. With all these odds at play, HOW ARE WE GOING TO CHANGE THE FACE OF NEPAL?
Labor Camp? PLEASE SOMEBODY SHOW ME THE LIGHT!
Hari Naam says:
“Pre-election violence and today’s attacks can’t be put into same category. Today’s incident is much more serious and shouldn’t be tolerated by the state machinery.”
What a preposterous statement. Pre-election violence is also a crime and post election violence is also a crime. So why shoudn’t they be put in the same category?
psimeson says:
There were some slogans being shouted on the street in celebration to Maoists victory. “Chop off the heads of all who oppose the Maoists”.
Rallies and celebrations are being organised in some temple premises with complete disregard to sanctity of the area.
The maoists have been successful. Successful at directing the entire nations wrath towards one individual, King Gyanendra, while all their immense political inadequacies we have chosen to ignore. In the name of ridding ourselves of “feudalism” we may have accepted a greater evil.
But it is said all happens for the best. So maybe we as a nation have to learn from our faults. And while it is difficult to remain optimistic given the present outer circumstances, i will try to be nonetheless.
The reason for Maoists being so keen to remove the King is NOT because the King is a hurdle to the progress of the nation, but that he is major hurdle towards their desire for absolute power.
These [icd] ko chhoras are acting as if they have won parliamentary election
maijukc says:
my idiot husband used to say maoism was good for china he meaning moneywise. sorry guys entire country is on marihuana.
glorious victory
when are the next election now we have peace water and money
I think personally they voted for water who needs business or money we have GOD.
scoop says:
if these goons can thimp a senior leader like mahat after his victory imagine the state of the rest.
haha says:
Signs of things to come. I bet many of you who gave them the sympathy vote or the vote because they hate monarchy thinking that they would not get an overwhelming majority anyway are feeling like the class idiots.
if they can treat Mahat like a piece of rag what of the rest?
I hope you guys have balls of brass, like you potray. Royal regime was like dealing with a grade 5 bully, welcome to the real world of maoists. Let me remind so called journos of journalist thapa – throat slit, hands tied behind his back, strung to a tree.
Except this time the maoists not only have their goons under them (many elected as MPs to boot) but the other grave human rights abusers – our security forces under their command.
Don’t tell me you all did not see it coming?
freedom writer says:
SeriouslyFrustrated,
Even I have the same question in my mind, so people voted, and they are willingly giving all the power to Maoist. Now what. “HOW ARE WE GOING TO CHANGE THE FACE OF NEPAL?” What’s our big plan?And how and where are we going to fit in that plan?
I know today, there are Nepalese people in most of the fields, be it science, economics, tourism or anyother field. And there are people like you who want to use your education for our country. If we can bring these people together, then we can build our country. But how can we build that platform to bring people together?
Do maoist leaders have some plan for Nepal? Someone in this blog had written that Maoists manifesto are:
“1. Prachanda is going to eliminate illiteracy in next 5 years.
2. Produce 10,000 Megawatts of electricity in next 10 years.
3. Establish 15 more universities, one in every state and another a agriculture university. Every such universities will be research oriented ones. They will attract “bideshi” students and researchers.”
So, where’s the big master plan for all these things? Or is Dr. Babu Ram Bhattarai working on these plans with his sketch pen and notebook? Designing each of these shools, each of these universities? Its so easy to give hope, so difficult to keep it up. If maoist can create a peaceful environment in Nepal and stop the brain drain from Nepal and let those who want to work, work in their own way. Then I think even that can bring a big change.
vote says:
Apart from the people that are still half alive, this is a good time to honour the fallen martyrs on both sides of the armed conflict.
Not to speak of the peace diaspora gang.
landlocked in racist Europe.
asrology says:
Happy 2065 BS PROSPEROUS AND NEIA NEPAL PEACE
hareram says:
Nepal’s intellectual class had remained so emasculated by a fixation on delegitimizing royal politics, they ended up legitimizing Maoist politics.
In hindsight, the rabid anti-monarchy activism (that Nepal’s intellectuals displayed) as having facilitated the Maoists’ strategy, is a realization many will find difficult to come to terms with. It will be even more difficult to admit (for some of Nepal’s most conceited and elitist individuals), that yes, the king’s act was foolish but their response served only to exponentially compounded this foolishness, to the utter glee and satisfaction of Nepal’s homegrown killers.
jpt says:
Brothers fight, one goes to the forest, father comes home to settle the quarrel, brothers get together and kick the father out.
coke says:
Congress and UML’s wings were the one who were participating in hooligans by beating to those who are against their syndicate system. Now they are facing the same consequencies. Balls always bounce back.
Dhadhing election day (by the way where was the media, monitors, gora sirkars, dhoti bhais etc etc) – YCL was actualy looking at where people were stamping the stamp (no – no binoculars or fancy contraptions required no sireee, there were there looking over the shoulder of voters), some unfortunate congress supporters who placed their stamp on the tree were beaten black and blue and got their back broken. I hope Jimmy Carter reads this and understands why he has been one of the worst Presidents in US history – he’s plain naive.
I see the media uses “allegedly” when it comes to maoists but swears by all its other clap trap against non-maoists. Pray tell us who could have thumped Mahat? UML? MJF? Maybe Sathbhavana Party? Or IT MUST be those regressive royalists… yes yes that’s it it’s the royalists not allegedly it is them… hahahaha
Oh sorry I read it wrong – the maoists was’nt “alledged” this time it was the thumping that Dr. Mahat received that was “alleged” – maybe Dr. Mahat beat himself up just for the hell of it to blame the maoists.
Oh sorry I read it wrong – the maoists was’nt “alleged” this time it was the thumping that Dr. Mahat received that was “alleged” – maybe Dr. Mahat beat himself up just for the hell of it to blame the maoists.
baje says:
I’m afraid “10%” (also known as Ram Sharan Mahat) is jut the the first in a soon to be long line of NC affiliated individuals who will now face the Leftist wrath. After all, NC was the party that most assaulted the Maoists since the early nineties. Now it’s time for payback.
Welcome to the New Nepal! Enjoy the fruits of your hard labor, advocating on behalf of the Maoist by toeing their republican line.
Unfortunately, with the kind of overwhelming legitimacy the Maoists have garnered, they can do as they please. They have won, fair and square.
you know the really funny thing though with this republiucan half arsed, half wit idea – it has endorsed the maoist agenda and when the King is kicked out he will be enjoying martinis on the french riviera while the UML and Congress will be getting more and more thumpings.
Come on Kangressis – who you gonna call? Ghost busters!
UML is leaving govt. Congress may follow suite – so PLA, army, police all under Prachanda. Ke Garne? Jana Gana Mana ……
Let me take you back to the RAW Nepal agenda since 1951 – it’s stll active.
Water, Water everywhere but not a drop to drink.
Well donor baby may have to cry to the donors about this incident. What will they do – nada.
Gyanendra must be loving this every bit as the maoists. I’m sure he’s already reached the stage of acceptance while useful idiots are still in denial.
The hilarous part about useful idiots is that you show them the script and they still don’t have a clue.
the burningman says:
I think it’s time for the corrupt ones to realize the truth that the leadership of the old political parties is over, that there enabling of the monarchy and fear of the people must end.
The Communist Party of Nepal has demonstrated leadership, courage and sacrifice to bring an end to the corrupt monarchy and establish a republic. They fought long and hard for this constituent assembly because they believe in the power of the people.
No doubt those who believe servants are their birthright feel it is intimidation when those they view as beneath them stand up.
But today is the day of the people of Nepal. From New York City I send greetings, congratulations and respect.
Truly a great day. Lal Salaam… and Gyenendra should start packing his bags right now. It’s over. A new day is in the making.
It’s also a real pleasure to read the monarchist groaning here. It seems to boil down to fear and loathing of the people. This “republican halfwit idea”…
Well, it’s over. Get it through your heads. The parasitic upper classes and feudals are over. There is no going back.
personally i dont care what happens to gyanendra but on the topic of feudal – what a joke – i mean who is more feudal then prachanda and his heirachal party. its text book feudalist.
also people who pose that they are not the upper class is more sickening. educated, and english speaking and prentending to be one with the masses. what a hypocritical laugh.
also people who pose that they are not the upper class is more sickening. educated, and english speaking and prentending to be one with the masses. what a hypocritical laugh. from ny to boot, the capitalist center of the universe.
oh forgot to add comeback and join the masses here. tomorrow dont wait and watch like the opportunist you are.
NepaleseLaw says:
Is this news correct?
I think Congress themselves deployed some goondas from their parties to trash Maoists so that YCL can be blamed. Sounds ridiculous? Yes, to me too. But, the “jaundiced Media’s” reporting makes me think twice before I believe what they say about Mao. Independent Journalism is okay, which Wagle does- I know, but sometimes, the reporting can be heavily loaded with their/reporters’ biases. The Wagle’s some points in this blog presents either he has not recovered from the shock that he received after Mao’s victory OR during this distressing phase in his life, he has still not lost the sense of humor.
really says:
nepalese law,
for your contentment lets just say mahat beat himself up. happy.
I am ‘really’ not happy for this poor man. Why he might have beat himself up! Might have gone mad and shocked with CA Results!
Humor apart, There is a need of independent enquiry from UN on this matter. I refuse to believe these news just because Kantipur, Mao’s old nemesis, publishes something.
There can be something that Maos used their force in self defence after being provoked by some Congressi Cadres. can be right! Whi is saint these days!
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English Surnames and Their French Equivalents
Dick Eastman · March 2, 2015 · Genealogy Basics · 22 Comments
If you have French-Canadian ancestry, as I do, and have tried to trace your family tree back into Quebec or Acadia, you may have encountered difficulties with name changes. When many of the French-speaking people moved to areas where English was the predominant language, they often adopted new surnames that were often based upon their French surnames.
Some were obvious, such as the surname Leblanc being changed to White. Both words mean the same thing. Other changes were a bit more difficult for the non-French-speaking descendant to decode, such as the French name Courtemanche being Anglicized to Shortsleeve. Courtemanche apparently is a nickname derived from the French words court (meaning short) + manche (meaning sleeve).
I once met Boston newsman Joe Shortsleeve and asked him the origins of his name. I had never imagined a French-Canadian connection until he told me.
So how do you determine an ancestor’s original name? I would start first at an impressive list of English surnames and their French equivalents at the Quebec Project GenWeb at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~canqc/alias/angloabc.htm.
Note: People are people and each person had his or her own reasons for changing a name. I doubt if the list is 100% accurate but it does list the more common name changes. I am sure there must have been exceptions.
Dee Sager March 2, 2015 at 4:26 pm
My daughter’s great-great-grandmother was born in Quebec. I could not find her until I realized that the surname of Hill was Deco’teau in French Quebec.
Lee March 2, 2015 at 5:11 pm
I have what I think is a French ancestor in 1670s Maryland with the surname on a document as “DuSharoone.” This later became “Disheroon” (sometimes with an “ar”), and by the time it got to my 3rd great-grandmother, the surname had devolved to “Dishroom.” That is what I began my search with in the mid-1800s.
Kelly Young March 3, 2015 at 9:00 am
My last name (Young) was changed by Firmin YON b. 1844, son of Julian GUYON (descendants of Jean Guyon, the original settler). Firmin came from Quebec to Slatersville, RI USA in 1858 at age 14 (without his family) and by 1870 he appears on the Acworth, Sullivan Co. NH census as Freeman Scott Young. What I wouldn’t give to know the events of those 12 years, including when/where he changed his name! I never see “Young” mentioned as a derivative of Guyon/Dion/Yon, but it is. And there are A LOT of us! 🙂
Ray Lambert March 3, 2015 at 9:36 am
My Lambert surname has been anglicized into Lumbra, Lumbard, and Lombard among others according to records I have found. Ancestor Eustache Lambert’s name in Highgate, Vermont town records is Justin Lumbard.
Bob wirtz March 3, 2015 at 9:46 am
Of course pronounciations are changed too. My mother told me that her grandmother’s name was “four near” and that that was the only way that she ever heard it. Turned out to be “Fournier” and the spelling had never been changed
Shirlee Murphy March 3, 2015 at 10:18 am
It’s have found the surname database to be useful and I
Think accurate in tracing names from Europe to the British
Isles. They are very careful in noting when a name has not
been researched.
Sharon McKee March 3, 2015 at 11:00 am
Too bad the links to the coordinator are broken.
Bruce Butterfield March 3, 2015 at 1:59 pm
When a customer of mine mentioned a Butterfield in his ancestry, I did some research and discovered many Dutch names, including that of his grandmother.
In an Illinois library I found a small book on that family. The father explained that when people saw his name -Buitevelt- they couldn’t figure out how to pronounce it and if they heard it, they couldn’t spell it correctly.
When he complained of this to an uncle, that person said ” Do what I did- change it to Butterfield”. And that is what happened.
David Paul Davenport March 3, 2015 at 2:50 pm
I suppose this applies to some folks from Scotland. I happen to be descended from John White of Killwining, and his ancestor was a French Huguenot immigrant named LeBlanc.
Carl Mortensen March 3, 2015 at 3:58 pm
My wife’s was Jardine from Dumfries. Sounds a little French maybe Huguenot.
G March 3, 2015 at 7:13 pm
Now if someone would only explain to me what “dit” names are…..
Dick Eastman March 3, 2015 at 7:26 pm
===> Now if someone would only explain to me what “dit” names are…..
See http://www.lachance.org/dit.html and http://www.francogene.com/quebec/ditnames.php and http://www.eogen.com/acadianditnames
Sue Wilson March 3, 2015 at 8:22 pm
My MIL said my husband’s ancestors were from Three Rivers, Quebec, and she couldn’t find it on a map. I looked at a map of Quebec for 3 rivers coming together, and there it was, Trois-Rivières.
Edwin Bailey March 4, 2015 at 10:59 am
In the seemingly controversial book “Jews and Muslims in British Colonial America” by Elizabeth Hirschman and Donald Yates, McFarland, 2012, p. 43 it is stated that “Recent scholarship has also brought to light the presence of Converso Jews among the French colonists in North America. …..several of these- such as Arnau, Alexander, Brandon, Cassel (Casal- a sept of clan Kennedy), and Noble- in the British colonies as well.”
A list is then given titled “Some French Canadian Sephardic Surnames” which includes:
“Allaire, Bellemare, Bernard, Bilodeau, Boucher, Bourgeois, Case, Charpentier, Chollete, Dockes, Dube, Dugas, Eblinaer, Forcier, Gauvrit, LaFleur, Lafond, LaMont, LaRochelle, LeBlanc, Levinge, Lovers, Marion, Martin, Michaud, Moores, Payeur, Pelland, Plante, Trottier, Vaudrin, Vigil, Vizenor, Wisener”.
Michael J Denis March 7, 2015 at 8:20 am
About half of those are my lines. Maybe I should do a DNA test?
Richard Pelland April 3, 2015 at 10:33 am
I am very skeptical of this list. I know my Martin dit Pelland ancestors came from Brittany, the Celtic part of France. All of my Y-DNA matches have been from Celtic parts of the British Isles. The only French-Canadian name that I know of that may have Jewish origins is Gélinas dit Lacourse.
GMF March 5, 2015 at 3:21 pm
Mom said her mother’s maiden name was Bercher or Barsha and I found a church record that it was Bercier, from French speaking Switzerland. It’s easy to see how someone speaking only English and taking the Census could make the mistake.
The Shortlsleaves was an obvious name to me me. There are many such tranlsations in the US. Some are very imaginative: Frappier became Strikefoot in NY (frapper= to strike, pied=foot). Beauparlant became Wellspeak in MA. Beauchemin is Goodroad. Fournier is Fuller. Both Desjardins and Gagné can become Gardner. Boulanger and Bélanger can both be Baker. Meunier becomes Miller. Lefevbre becomes LaFever or Bean. Other transformations are phonetic: Lacaillade became Lackyard. Taillon became Tyo in Massena NY. Berthiaume becomes Barcomb. Pelletier is Pelkey. Gauthier is Gokey. Éthier is Hickey. Desautels becomes Disotell or DesHotels (autel means alter, while hôtel is a hotel). Lapalme becomes Lapanne. Beaulieu become Bolio. Fagnant became Fanyou. Pariseau becomes Parazoo in Oregon. Létourneau becomes LeTourneau and Blackbird (étourneau means starling). Dauphinais becomes Duffney. Hétu became Itchue. Geoffroy became Jeffrey. Camaraire became Cameron in Vermont. Branconnier became Brockney. Saint-Onge becomes Santor, while Saint-Amand becomes St. Thomas. Therrien can be Landers, Farmer and Thériault. Sometimes the names take on another ethnicity: Aucoin becomes both O’Quinn and Wedge (coin means corner). Auger becomes O’Shea and Vincelette becomes Van Sleet. In Connecticutt, Desnoyers became Warner, elsewhere, it became Hickory. In Rhode Island, Gadoury became Gadrow. Even actor Jim Carrey descends from the French-Canadian Carré.
Robert Blais August 23, 2015 at 12:19 am
There are many people with the last name Blay or Blays that do not know it comes from the Quebecois Blais.
Jean Gallagher June 13, 2016 at 9:43 am
I have Gelinas and Robert as well as some of the other names that may be linked to Crypto Jews. I had my DNA tested and it showed no Jewish ( European Jew) or Middle Eastern DNA. However it shows 12% Iberian Penninsula. I have heard that Sephardic Jews DNA won’t show European Jewish DNA.
Robert Gilbert October 6, 2016 at 4:39 pm
My ancestors came from the Quebec area around 1838. They moved to my hometown on the Northeastern New York/Canadian border and changed their surname from Guillemette to Gilbert. I’ve seen Guillemette defined as “to quote” but does it have any real relationship to the surname Gilbert? I’m in a Y-DNA Gilbert group and I don’t seem to be closely related to any other group of Gilberts. I suppose that isn’t a surprise but it is curious.
Sue Kelly April 19, 2019 at 9:19 pm
Hello, Robert. Are you an Ogdensburg Gilbert? If so, we are related. My Gilbert ancestors originated in Quebec and came to St. Lawrence County. They were Guillemettes who changed their surname to Gilbert.
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The SOUL, The Mind & The Foiler
Flysufer kiteboarding rider Fly Fisch his new edit is truly a special one, making us jealous, out alone on the Mediterranean sea, in pure silence, foiling his way around beautiful Talamone Bay in Italy.
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From Weather4D by Francis Fustier
Adrift, a drama adventure movie about sailing the high seas is in theaters since June first.
The story begins on September 23, 1983. Tami Oldham (Shailene Woodley) and Richard Sharp (Sam Claflin) leave Tahiti.
They believe this will be a side trip on their cruise around the South Pacific and New Zealand.
A British couple hired them in Papeete to deliver their 44-foot yacht, Hazana, to San Diego while the couple flies home on a family emergency.
However, Tami and Richard couldn’t anticipate they would be sailing directly into Raymond, one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history.
In Adrift, Tami awakens in aftermath of the storm to find Richard badly injured and their boat in ruins.
With no hope of rescue, Tami must find the strength and determination to save herself and the only man she has ever loved.
Real life wasn’t as forgiving as the movie. Richard Sharp lost his life, Tami Oldham spent 41 days in survival mode alone on the ocean while suffering severe head injuries.
It took her years to cope with the trauma caused by the loss of her fiancé and the violence of the hurricane.
Tami Oldham Ashcraft and Richard Sharp
Oldham eventually wrote the story of her ordeal in a book titled “Red Sky In Mourning: The True Story Of A Woman’s Courage And Survival At Sea” from which Adrift is inspired.
Why did this happen in the first place?
Back in the 1980s, weather forecasting and telecommunications weren’t as advanced as they are today by any means.
Sailors used to listen to radio broadcasts on shortwave receivers, a boat makes noise at sea, and there wasn’t a replay button in case part of the weather forecast wasn’t fully heard or understood.
In 1978, the first hurricane-tracking model based on atmospheric dynamics – the movable fine-mesh (MFM) model – began operating.
It was actually not until well in the 1980s that numerical weather prediction gained credibility.
It consistently outperformed statistical models only in the 1990s.
Ocean grid in the 1980s
Ocean grid in 2009
The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) hurricane model was used for research purposes from 1973.
Later in the mid-1980s, it became an operational model.
The National Weather Service started using this model in 1995 and kept improving it.
This is more than 10 years after Tami and Richard relied on statistical models received from the weather channel WWV aboard Hazana.
While there were some hints, it wasn’t obvious to decipher what was in the making even four days before they got hit by the hurricane.
It seems there was a lot of unknown : “Richard later scribbled ‘Cyclonic’? in the logbook” — Tami describes Richard as not appearing overly concerned and they continue their route North East to San Diego.
They started paying close attention to the depression on October 9th.
It was then 1300 NM away, moving West at 12 knots towards them, almost twice their boat’s max speed.
Hurricane Raymond 1983
Within 48 hours, Raymond’s trajectory changed and it was heading further to the Northwest.
Tami and Richard simply could not escape it at that point.
Hurricane Raymond track 1983
Unfortunately the book doesn’t explain the rationale to make the decision to head North instead of South to get closer to the safer Equatorial zone.
Would have they been short on food, water and fuel in that case?
What has changed since 1983?
Three fundamental things have dramatically improved safety at sea
Weather models have become way more sophisticated and hence forecasts are more accurate.
GRIB files and satellites make weather models accessible anywhere at anytime
One no longer needs to decipher an audio message coming from a shortwave radio.
Rich animated graphic representations of wind, waves and currents have made weather forecasts incredibly precise and intuitive.
Furthermore, the data can be crunched to produce simulations and suggest optimal routes.
What remains the same?
The need to analyze forecast data to anticipate the worst possible conditions.
Departure date and time must depend on weather conditions to be on the safe side.
The need to do it at least once a day and to adjust the route if necessary.
While routing calculation estimates x numbers of days at sea, add 15-20% to that value and make it your benchmark for food, water and fuel supplies.
Avoid sailing in tropical regions during hurricane season.
My last major sailing trip was to deliver a 42 footer catamaran from Cuba to France.
I got the offer on a Saturday and landed in Havana just three days later.
It was late June and hurricane season was around the corner.
It was consequently much safer to go as early as possible with a crew of two rather than spending time recruiting a crew of four which would have delayed our departure and potentially exposed us to extreme weather.
Hazana versus Raymond locations in 1983 layered with 06/07/2018 GFS model
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Pacific_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Raymond
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-03-19/features/0303180492_1_sailing-cabin-south-pacific
https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/climate-modeling
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World Oceans Day focuses on stopping plastic pollution
From Eco Watch by Pete Stauffer
Ever since the United Nations declared June 8th to be World Oceans Day in 2002, people and groups from around the world have used the occasion to celebrate the ocean and take steps to protect it.
Now, with the ocean facing more threats than ever, it's time for all of us to come together to protect our treasured marine environment.
Our federal leaders are waging an unprecedented assault on the ocean.
The Trump administration has proposed new offshore drilling in more than 90 percent of U.S. waters, while targeting marine protections for potential repeal.
Meanwhile, plastic pollution continues to proliferate in our ocean, choking and entangling marine wildlife, as government leaders and corporate interests refuse to take meaningful steps to address the problem.
This is why grassroots action is desperately needed to protect the health of our ocean.
As Mahatma Gandhi famously said, "If the people lead, the leaders will follow."
So, on June 8th, let us all be reminded of our responsibility as ocean advocates to protect this incredible resource for now and the future.
Celebrate World Ocean Day with NOAA's National Ocean Service.
What do you know about our ocean?
Here are three ways to take action on #WorldOceansDay 2018.
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1. Tell Your Federal Leaders to Stop the Rollback of Ocean Protections
The administration and members of congress need to hear from people who value the ocean and oppose proposals that would damage the marine environment.
Please visit Surfrider's Stop Offshore Drilling campaign page to learn how you can take action to defend our coastlines from new oil rigs.
Please also complete this action alert to urge your representatives to support our Marine Sanctuaries and National Monuments.
Or better yet, pick up the phone and call your representatives in the Senate and House!
For more information on Surfrider's Ocean Protection initiative click here.
2. Reduce Your Consumption of Plastics With a #ZeroPlasticLunch!
Plastic pollution represents one of the greatest threats to the health of our ocean.
Every year, millions of tons of plastic enters marine waters, wreaking havoc on wildlife and ecosystems.
That's why the theme of this year's World Oceans Day is preventing plastic pollution and encouraging solutions for a healthy ocean.
Surfrider is partnering with CNN to ask students around the world to celebrate #WorldOceansDay with a #ZeroPlasticLunch.
Join by sharing photos of your lunch on social media using the hashtag #ZeroPlasticLunch and tagging @surfrider with changes you made to your meal and why.
For more tips on reducing your consumption of plastics, please visit Surfrider's Rise Above Plastics page.
3. Join the March for the Ocean (or Wear Blue to Show Support)
On Saturday, June 9th, ocean advocates are assembling in Washington DC and sister events around the country to March for the Ocean.
The goal is to show grassroots support for stopping offshore drilling, reducing plastic pollution, and preserving coastlines in the face of rising seas.
Surfrider Foundation will have a strong presence at the march, with chapter members and staff traveling to our nation's capital for the event.
Those who can't make it to Washington DC are encouraged to 'Wear Blue for the Ocean' to show their support in local communities and on social media.
For more information go to: www.marchforocean.com and engage with #MarchForOcean on your favorite social channels.
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High seas fishing isn’t just destructive—it’s unprofitable
From National Geographic by Sarah Gibbens
Government funds prop up more than half of fishing in the open ocean, a new study reveal
A fish’s journey from ocean to plate may not be as straightforward as it sounds.
Most people are aware that a fisher, a grocer and a cook were involved in that journey.
But a new study finds that governments lend a hand, too—and a mighty big one.
A paper, published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, found that as much as 54 percent of high seas fishing would be unprofitable were it not for governments covering some of the industry's costs.
To a lesser degree, the study also found that exploited labor and underreported catch may explain how large vessels afford to fish in international waters.
“The study confirmed that much of the high seas fishing does not make sense,” says study author and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Enric Sala.
“If it's ecologically destructive and economically unprofitable, why don't we end all high seas fishing?”
A fisherman checks his fishing lines while fishing on the high seas.
The high seas is defined as the open waters outside a country's exclusive economic zone, generally 200 miles past the shore.
Photograph by Chris Johns, National Geographic Creative
In 2016, just over 3,600 vessels actively fished on the high seas—the open ocean outside any country's jurisdiction.
To better understand this impact, the research team of ecologists, data scientists, and economists looked at the most recent cost datasets available, from 2014.
They found that the total cost of fishing in that year ranged anywhere from 6.2 to 8 billion USD and that subsidies totaled around 4.2 billion USD.
This boat is fishing for tuna, a species commonly fished out of the high seas.
Photograph by Paul Nicklen, National Geographic Creative
By far, their data showed that China and Taiwan net the fewest profits in the sector, while exerting some of the most effort.
Russia was also shown to have an unprofitable fishing industry, even with subsidies.
However, subsidies weren't just given to unprofitable fishing vessels.
The study also found that marginally profitable companies in Japan, South Korea, Spain, and the U.S.
had their profits boosted by government subsidies.
“There are three different categories [of subsidies],” says University of British Columbia economist Rashid Sumaila, one of the study's authors.
He and his colleagues began compiling data on fishing subsidies in 2000, and they found that not all subsidies were harmful.
Some were ambiguous and hard to categorize.
Others were beneficial and went toward activities like sustainable management, research, and regulation enforcement.
Other subsidies helped companies increase their carrying capacity—essentially these allowed boats to fish more in fisheries that might be at risk of depletion.
Rather than directly providing a fishing company with a check, governments may offer tax breaks, help pay for fuel costs, provide money to upgrade gear, or fund infrastructure like ports.
Encounters between high seas vessels and reefers/bunkers
Spying from space
Open ocean outside EEZs, generally 200 miles beyond the shore, is free game.
The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization outlines a code of conduct on these high seas, but regulation is minimal and enforcement is scant.
What's more, vessels often have a competitive interest in not sharing details about their activities.
Global Fishing Watch's new encounters layer reveals for the first time where and when thousands of vessels are involved in close encounters at sea.
To detect pairs of vessels meeting at sea, analysts applied machine learning algorithms to more than 30 billion Automatic Identification System (AIS) messages from ocean-going boats to find tell-tale transshipment behaviour, such as two vessels alongside each other long enough to transfer catch, crew, or supplies.
To compile data for one of the world's most inaccessible regions, marine data scientist and study author Juan Mayorga turned to a program called Global Fishing Watch that tracks vessels from space using the satellite-transmitted signal from AIS—Automatic Identification System—that vessels are required to transmit.
Earlier this year, he used the data to find that industrial fishing covers a third of the planet.
“When we first came up with this idea, we did not have a good handle on what fishing on the high seas looked like,” says Mayorga.
Over a two-year period, he determined how many vessels were operating in the high seas and how often, though he adds that the study's data can't account for all high seas fishing activity.
Some vessels forego AIS or turn it off to intentionally be covert.
With the data for the ships they could measure, Mayorga used models to estimate fuel costs based on a vessel's size, location, distance traveled, and speed.
He could also see the type of vessel and what it was fishing for, which helped him estimate needed labor.
Looking at existing information on minimum wage laws and typical cost of labor, Mayorga was able to estimate labor costs on a scale.
He notes, however, that this estimate is the least certain part of the study, because reports from several non-governmental organizations show the fishing industry has a history of exploitative labor practices, verging on or directly resulting in slave labor in some regions.
“Labor is what drives the uncertainty in our analyses,” he says.
With his range of operating costs, Mayorga then estimated the haul each vessel was bringing to market.
The study's authors suspect that catch may be underreported in some cases.
Bottom trawling is one of the most destructive fishing practices.
It commonly drags coral from the ocean floor, like this large piece of Paragorgia coral dredged from waters near New Zealand.
Photograph by Malcolm Pullman, Greenpeace
All-in-all, industrial fishing on the high seas is a relatively small portion of global fishing—accounting for only six percent of all fishing activity.
Fishing subsidies in EEZs have been controversial, with the World Trade Organization considering banning them in the past decade.
So why subsidize fishing for more expensive fleets that yield smaller returns, the study's authors ask.
According to a representative from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, food security is often cited as a major reason for providing subsidies to fishing industries.
But a statement published by the agency in 2016 acknowledges a need to regulate subsidies to ensure sustainability.
“Fisheries subsidies warrant concern,” says FAO representative Christopher Emsden, adding, “Care is needed as they can serve development purposes in some cases, (although these would likely be for small-scale fishers and not those featuring in the study).”
The study identified squid fishing as an unsustainable but government-funded fishing practice.This fisherman holds a squid in the green light they use to bait them.
Photograph by Ben Horton, National Geographic Creative
In addition to depleting fisheries, high seas fishing subsidies also threaten important natural habitats, says Sala.
Deep-sea bottom trawling, one of more common high-seas fishing practices, is problematic, he notes.
“Trawling is one of the most destructive practices on the planet,” says Sala.
“They have nets so large they can hold a dozen 747 jets.
These huge nets destroy everything in their path, including deep-sea corals.
And it would not be profitable without subsidies.”
In addition, all three researchers noted that high-seas fishing may perpetuate exploitation.
“[Unprofitability] has implications about the extent to which unfair labor practices drive fishing on the high seas,” notes Mayorga.
What if we could save the fishing industry and protect the ocean at the same time?
Marine ecologist Enric Sala shares his bold plan to safeguard the high seas -- some of the last wild places on earth, which fall outside the jurisdiction of any single country -- by creating a giant marine reserve that covers two-thirds of the world's ocean.
By protecting the high seas, Sala believes we will restore the ecological, economic and social benefits of the ocean.
"When we can align economic needs with conservation, miracles can happen," Sala says.
The future of high-seas fishing
Transparency, whether because industry officials intentionally withheld information or governments lacked records, presented a major hurdle for how researchers comprehensively assessed the high-seas fishing industry.
To combat what they say is an economically and environmentally unsound practice, the research team says increasing transparency is key.
More stringently enforcing AIS, for example, is one way Sala says regulators could monitor the full impact of high-seas fishing.
High seas fishing effort (energy in kWh)
High seas fishing profits in thousands US$
courtesy of Global Fishing Watch
Sumaila would like to see the World Trade Organization ban or roll back fishing subsidies, but despite extensive discussion at the organization progress has been minimal.
The last vote was shot down in December of last year, primarily due to procedural hurdles.
The WTO will consider changes to fishing subsidies again in 2019.
The high seas have sometimes been seen as an avenue for countries to compensate for other overfished waters.
China, for instance, has experienced extensive overfishing in its own waters, and a study published in April 2017 found the country trying to compensate by fishing in waters as far as western Africa.
Depleting fisheries is a growing problem.
Of the 600 fisheries monitored by the FAO, more than half are depleted to the point of yielding little to no catch.
Last December, the U.N. also began talks to create a framework to protect high-seas biodiversity.
Negotiations are expected to be ongoing for the next two years.
The high seas doesn't belong to any one country, which means regional governments often clash during negotiations.
In the past, some have objected to long-term changes, hoping to leave the door open to commercial opportunity, while others are worried they may be impacted by declining biodiversity.
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Defence underwater glider may be future of ocean military surveillance
The Sun Ray glider being tested in Woronora Dam in Sydney.
Photo: Defence Media Australia
From Camberra Times by Tim Barlass
These are the first images of the experimental Sun Ray military undersea surveillance glider, a $3.17 million defence project which looks as though it has come straight out of a James Bond movie.
Shaped like a stingray, the prototype was built in a western Sydney suburb and has just undergone trials in Woronora Dam.
It could be the forerunner of technology to be used one day in anti-submarine warfare or to monitor vessels illegally entering Australian waters.
The link to the movie industry is actually quite real.
The designer of the Sun Ray is Ron Allum who also built the Deepsea Challenger underwater vehicle for US film director James Cameron.
The director then piloted it to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest place in the ocean, in 2012.
Allum was also a member of Cameron’s historic Titanic expedition team in 2001.
Underwater inventor Ron Allum with the Sun Ray glider.
The glider contains an internal buoyancy vessel that can be flooded or pumped out to change the vehicle's displacement, making it sink or rise.
The resulting movement of water over the wing's surface generates forward thrust, removing the need for propeller or water-jet propulsion.
It is built partly of the same lightweight composite foam as the Deepsea Challenger and holds its shape even at extreme pressures, giving the glider greater depth capability than manned submarines.
It may allow missions of up to three months, gliding more than 2000 nautical miles.
The Defence Science and Technology group says to meet future requirements for "military undersea surveillance", a new breed of autonomous equipment is required.
"High performance 'cross country' underwater gliders show great promise as mobile acoustic surveillance platforms," it states.
Mr Allum said the oil and gas industry had also shown interest in the high tech structural foam but it was defence that had shown most enthusiasm.
"Defence came to us and said could we build something that could go deeper and faster and we said yes. The Sun Ray can also carry a payload that is of interest to scientists and we are now looking at getting other contracts," he said.
"Gliders are very quiet and that is certainly the advantage of this vehicle. It does use the motors for a few minutes when it could be detected but then the noise stops and it can be deadly quiet."
Likely uses for the glider which is funded by the Defence Innovation Hub, could include the monitoring of marine life, mapping the sea bed and taking temperature measurements for climate change research.
But it could also come into its own in the event of the loss of an aircraft, Mr Allum said.
"The glider may not be the ideal vehicle to find MH370 but if you had a fleet of these gliders in the ocean, then if something like that happened you would be able to pinpoint that plane straight away. It would be like having satellites in the sky," Mr Allum said.
David Liebing, Research Leader at the Defence and Science Technology group was slightly more circumspect about the way gliders could be utilised in the future.
"It's about putting sensors on it that will give us information about what's happening under the ocean," he said.
"What we are trying to do is, basically, take measurements under the ocean of everything from the temperature, the oceanography to measuring the ambient noise in the ocean and to knowing, for example, what marine life is around.
"We are exploring concepts, we are trying to make them fly underwater correctly. What we are concentrating on is the technology.
"It's a sensor that is out there, that can have long endurance, that we can measure the physical properties of what's happening under the water. It's no different to any other manned platform we have out there with sonar on it."
Asked if the glider could be used to detect submarines, he said: "This project is not specifically about that and that is a long bow to draw at this time.
It can listen under the water.
At this stage we are looking at sensing the undersea environment and seeing what defence can make of that.
"People dream about unmanned combat aircraft, we are nowhere near that sort of stage in the undersea environment. A manned submarine comes with intelligence, this doesn't come with intelligence yet. That's a huge step."
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Oceanalpha wants to build the world’s first autonomous cargo ship.
In the vast, freezing Ross Sea, China’s “Snow Dragon” icebreaker needed to find a safe anchorage before it could begin its mission to set up China’s fifth Antarctic research station.
The solution was to deploy one of Zhang Yunfei’s freezer-tested boat drones to map the ocean floor.
For Zhang, it was the latest in a string of government contracts — from surveying Tibetan lakes to testing river pollution — that have helped him turn a university project into China’s largest unmanned surface vessel company, one that has fired the interest of some of China’s biggest venture capitalists.
In a pending round of funding, Oceanalpha Co. Ltd. may be valued at $780 million — about 40 times revenue — despite never having turned a profit.
Drones on a rack at Oceanalpha’s facility in Zhuhai.
Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg
“If you look at Chinese traditional culture, we’re not as close to the ocean as Western countries.
But now we’re getting closer,” Zhang, 34, said at his offices in Zhuhai, a seaside city next to Macau.
“We want to change the relationship that human beings have with the sea."
Outside, workers are building the company’s new $40 million waterfront headquarters on land leased at a steep discount from the government, fashioned like a giant 10-story catamaran, including topographical pools for testing.
Alongside a private dock are prototypes of various sizes, from boats that can fit several people to motorized life savers for rescue missions.
Oceanalpha's drone with the "Snow Dragon" icebreaker in Antarctica.
Source: Oceanalpha
While Shenzhen-based DJI led the charge in the competitive consumer market for aerial drones and China has used unmanned submersibles to probe the depths of the South China Sea, Oceanalpha is one of a handful of companies around the globe specializing in ocean-going drones that operate on the surface.
“Zhang found a unique niche,” said Derrick Xiong, a co-founder of EHang Inc., which is developing aerial drones for swarms, deliveries and air taxis in nearby Guangzhou.
Oceanalpha’s advantage is being in China, where capital is readily available and leader Xi Jinping is promoting both technology to move up the manufacturing value chain and maritime industries to enhance the nation’s overseas interests.
As its trading empire has grown, so has China’s interest in the oceans, with the construction of a modern navy, trading ports and an armada of merchant vessels.
It’s a turnaround from what China’s textbooks call the “century of humiliation,” when the nation’s weakness at sea allowed a period of foreign interventions beginning with the Opium Wars.
Top: A technician builds a vessel at the company’s facility.
Bottom: Workers assemble main control modules.
Zhang says venture capitalists began hounding him ever since his start-up won the China Innovation & Entrepreneurship competition in 2013.
Zhen Fund and GGV Capital are both investors.
Now, after nearly a decade focusing on research and development, Oceanalpha is expanding from water sampling and hydrological surveys into search and rescue, surveillance and other segments.
The company may seek a public listing after 2020.
The big prize is cargo.
Zhang has a new partnership with Wuhan University of Technology, China’s Classification Society and Zhuhai municipal government that will use artificial intelligence to direct autonomous container vessels.
“There will be a huge revolution in the maritime industry within three years,” Zhang said.
“Cargo ships will be autonomous before cars.”
The project, called Cloudrift — a reference to the Chinese legend of the monkey king, who could summon a cloud on which he traveled — is racing against rivals to build an unmanned cargo ship this year.
Norway has created a test area for pilotless vessels in the Trondheim Fjord in a joint effort by the Norwegian University of Science Technology and companies including Rolls Royce.
Cloudrift’s ship would be battery powered and use China’s BeiDou satellite navigation system.
The 50-meter vessel would have a loading capacity of 500 metric tons and a range of 500 nautical miles per charge.
The company is building a test site of its own among islands about 50 kilometers from Zhuhai and the group is investing $10 million in cargo technology and $50 million in USV field-test development.
Zhang is in the right place.
Zhuhai was one of the fastest-growing commercial ports in China last year and the Pearl River Delta, now calling itself the Greater Bay Area as it turns high-tech, is one of China’s two giant logistics regions for container ships, along with the area around Shanghai.
A poster featuring the new Oceanalpha headquarters in Zhuhai.
Raised largely in Shenzhen by parents who worked at state-owned Chinese IT companies, Zhang’s path into boat drones began across the bay at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, whose alumni include Frank Wang, founder of DJI and the first drone billionaire.
Zhang and two PhD schoolmates, Cheng Liang and Wang Mingyu, convinced a chemistry professor to sell them sensors, which they mounted on a prototype to test the local seawater.
The three went on to found Oceanalpha, which now employs 260 people.
Wang later left to join DJI.
Cheng is general manager at Oceanalpha.
Technicians test Oceanalpha drones on a pond at the company's office in Zhuhai.
With the results of the university project, Zhang went on the road in 2009 for 10 months, showing local environmental agencies in nearly a dozen provinces how the vessels could help them collect water samples.
He scored deals and started making boats that could suck water samples up through the hull and detect illegal pipelines spewing effluent into rivers.
“That trip gave us the confidence that the market needs this kind of technology,” he said over sugary coffee with milk and platefuls of toffee candies.
Water sampling and hydrological surveying for government agencies and local authorities gave Oceanalpha cashflow to support research and explore other opportunities, including surveillance.
In the factory paint shop, where workers put the finishing touches to different colored drones, a camouflaged version will help China’s Coast Guard monitor port security.
A recent tie-up with industry giant Teledyne Technologies Inc. will also explore strategic opportunities, Zhang said.
The Thousand Oaks, California-based company didn’t respond to a request for comment.
A camouflaged boat drone at Oceanalpha’s facility.
But its Zhang’s ties with Chinese government agencies that remain the impetus behind the company, in which the Zhuhai government holds a small stake.
A wall of awards in his office shows photographs of Zhang with high-level Party officials.
In one, he hands a model drone to Premier Li Keqiang in front of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
Li heads China’s Made in 2025 initiative, which targets 10 areas for innovation, including maritime engineering.
The program’s subsidies have become a point of tension in U.S.-China trade talks.
One day Zhang hopes to have a picture with Xi, who may lead the country beyond 2023 after China recently scrapped presidential term limits.
“Perhaps you’ll see it next time you visit,” he said.
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Why melting icebergs don’t affect sea level
From Pulse by John Englander
Images of icebergs melting or the disappearing sea ice in the Arctic are generally associated with rising sea level – a widely-held belief that is simply not true.
Though many of my regular blog readers know this, over the last several years I have presented to hundreds of audiences.
A freshwater ice cube floats in a beaker of concentrated saltwater.
Note that the ice cube floats much higher in the saltwater than it would in a glass of freshwater because saltwater has a greater density.
When the freshwater ice melts, it raises the water level.
Freshwater is not as dense as saltwater; so the floating ice cube displaced less volume than it contributed once it melted.
Nearly everyone is surprised to learn that floating ice has no effect on sea level as it melts.
I usually explain it with a reference to Archimedes Principle, or a simple demonstration of ice cubes floating in a glass.
But the other day, talking to a small group in San Francisco, it occurred to me that I often do not explain the science behind why melting ice does not raise water level, so that is my topic for this week. As most substances cool, the molecules become more tightly packed, making the material “denser.”
In a liquid, dense objects sink to the bottom.
Through most of its temperature range, water gets more dense as it cools.
As the Arctic and Antarctic melt, there are more icebergs.
Surprisingly, they do not add to sea level as they melt.
(Photo credit: Clemens Vanderwerf)
So for example, colder water in oceans and lakes will normally be found near the bottom.
However as water cools towards freezing, at about 39 degree Fahrenheit, or 4 degrees Celsius, water does something strange and extraordinary: it gets less dense.
Technically it’s because the totally fluid water molecules which are tightly packed, transform into the very rigid crystal structure of ice, which occupies more space.
In fact ice is almost 9% less dense than the water that forms it.
As a result ice floats.
Saltwater is a few percent more dense than freshwater due to the dissolved minerals, the “salts.” Icebergs that calve off from glaciers are almost pure freshwater, since the glaciers largely result from snowfall.
Thus freshwater icebergs rise even a little more than nine percent above the ocean surface.
This is the typical rule-of-thumb that icebergs are roughly ten percent above the surface and ninety percent below.
As icebergs melt and the water warms back into the “normal” ocean temperature range above 39 degrees F (4 degrees C) the density increases, reducing the volume.
As a result, the actual melting of ice does not add to the level of the water – regardless whether the liquid is your glass of iced tea, or the ocean – though it does defy intuition and seems perplexing.
It is truly one of nature’s phenomena.
Understanding that melting icebergs and even the sea ice in the Arctic Ocean and the marine ice shelves in Antarctica do not add to sea level rise is important in the growing debate and understanding about rising sea level.
At the global level, rising sea level is primarily caused by ice on land melting, mostly from Greenland and Antarctica, either in the form of: meltwater flowing to the ocean, in some cases essentially as rivers, adding to sea level, (just as adding water to a glass adds to the level), or large pieces of ice break off from a glacier and enter the sea, becoming a new iceberg.
Any new icebergs entering the ocean, they do add to sea level adding more than 90% of their volume, (just as adding an ice cube adds to the level of water in a glass).
Another factor in sea level rise, not as obvious as the above two forms, is something called thermal expansion of seawater.
Again referring back to the previous description that warmer substances normally expand, including water above 39 degrees F (4 degrees C) the warming ocean is slightly expanding because global average temperature is now measurably higher.
Average global temperature today is approximately 16 degrees Celsius (60.5 degrees Fahrenheit) an increase of roughly one degree Celsius from the pre-industrial era.
In addition to those global factors of rising sea level, there are regional and local reasons for sea level to change.
Most commonly, land subsidence or uplift – land actually moving downward or upwards, due to movements of the earth’s crust or compaction of silts, can add to or subtract from global sea level rise.
(Examples: Jakarta and New Orleans have had extreme subsidence and higher sea level; Alaska and Scandinavia have generally had land uplifting causing sea level to fall slightly.)
There are many factors that contribute to sea level rise, but melting icebergs and sea ice are not among them.
It is important that we avoid the confusion and keep the world’s focus on what will increase sea level – fundamentally it is the warming global temperature, with the greatest effect being the melting of the glaciers and ice sheets on land, entering the sea as new icebergs or meltwater.
Common Misconceptions about Icebergs and Glaciers
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NSIDC : Melting of Floating Ice Will Raise Sea Level
The greatest rides from maxing Cloudbreak May 26th-27th, 2018
Minds were blown as the highlight clips trickled in during the mega swell that hit Fiji this past weekend.
From the viral moments like Ramon Navarro’s massive tube and Makua Rothman’s foamball pitch, to unseen footage of the heavy paddle sessions, watch three minutes of the hard-charging glory and carnage that transpired at maxing Cloudbreak.
Featuring Ramon Navarro, Billy Kemper, Landon McNamara, Kelly Slater, Luke Shepardson, Nathan Florence, Evan Valiere, Laurie Towner, Makua Rothman, Koa Rothman, Sai Smiley, and a handful of other chargers.
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The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Irish Classical Theatre present a very special collaborative production of Shakespeare’s warmhearted comedy with Felix Mendelssohn’s brilliant score.
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Max Valdés’ Tour of Europe
Kleinhans Music Hall, 3 Symphony Circle, Buffalo, NY
Former BPO music director Maximiano Valdés returns with a bouquet of European masters: Preludes to Act 1 and 3 of Wagner’s "Lohengrin;" Sibelius’ Symphony No. 5; and Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 featuring Drew Peterson.
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What’s Your 80s Sitcom IQ?
Which of these 80s sitcoms did not feature a wisecracking housekeeper?
"Mr. Belvedere"
"The Cosby Show"
"Who's the Boss?"
"Gimme a Break!"
Which 80s sitcom featured a recovering alcoholic who owns a bar?
"Head of the Class"
"Family Ties"
"Cheers"
"Newhart"
Which of these sitcoms did not feature Scott Baio?
"Joanie Loves Chachi"
"Happy Days"
"Charles in Charge"
"Designing Women"
Which of these shows was a spin-off of "Diff'rent Strokes"?
"The Facts of Life"
"Webster"
"Wiseguy"
"Taxi"
Which of these shows starred an actor who would later win two best actor Oscars?
"Three's Company"
"Bosom Buddies"
"Night Court"
Which of these shows starred a young Ricky Schroder?
"The Golden Girls"
"Silver Spoons"
"Growing Pains"
Which NFL star later starred on the sitcom "Webster"?
Which show featured a young Leonardo DiCaprio?
"Dear John"
"Kate & Allie"
"My Two Dads"
Which of these shows was not on the air during the 80s?
"Laverne & Shirley"
"The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air"
"Mork & Mindy"
Question 10/10
Which of these shows did not feature a single father?
"Full House"
"Diff'rent Strokes"
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May 1, 2019 Toronto Blue Jays Minor League Report
May 2, 2019 May 1, 2019 Jay Blue
The Toronto Blue Jays minor leaguers got two wins in four games with the Lansing Lugnuts finishing off a suspended game from Tuesday night and the Buffalo Bisons getting their game postponed with another rain out.
Buffalo Bisons, Pawtucket Red Sox (BOS)
Game postponed due to rain.
New Hampshire Fisher Cats 4, Trenton Thunder (NYY) 1
While the New Hampshire Fisher Cats had fewer hits than the Trenton Thunder, they ended up winning, beating the Thunder 4-1 on Wednesday.
Alberto Mineo hit a grand slam in the fourth, providing all the offense the Fisher Cats needed, adding a hit for a 2/5 day. Santiago Espinal was 1/3 with two walks and run while Brock Lundquist was 1/3 with a walk and a double. Brandon Grudzielanek was 1/4 with the club’s other hit.
Yennsy Diaz started and had another strong outing, going five innings and giving up a run on six hits and a walk with five strikeouts to get the win. Jake Fishman gave up a hit and a walk with three strikeouts and Bryan Baker pitched a perfect eighth. Kirby Snead got the save with a hit and a strikeout in the ninth.
W: Yennsy Diaz (2-2)
S: Kirby Snead (5)
HR: Alberto Mineo (1)
Player of the Game: Alberto Mineo
Dunedin Blue Jays 8, Daytona Tortugas (CIN) 2
The Dunedin Blue Jays pushed their record to 16-9 with an 8-2 win over the Daytona Tortugas, getting two strong innings from Nate Pearson and excellent work from the rest of the pitching staff.
Pearson, only scheduled to throw two innings, struck out five batters in two frames, facing one batter over the minimum, walking one. Turner Larkins came on to throw four innings, striking out seven and giving up a run on seven hits in his outing while Kyle Weatherly struck out a pair and walked one in two scoreless innings. Connor Law allowed a run on two hits and a walk with two strikeouts in the ninth to secure the victory.
Christian Williams had a monster day for the Blue Jays, going 4/4 with a home run, a double and two singles, driving in three and walking two. Cullen Large had a great day, going 2/4 with two doubles, two RBI and two runs while Cal Stevenson was 2/5 with two runs. Norberto Obeso and Christopher Bec were each 2/4 with both hitting a double.
W: Turner Larkins (3-1)
HR: Christian Williams (2)
Player of the Game: Christian Williams
Lansing Lugnuts 3, Wisconsin Timber Rattlers (MIL) 8
The Lansing Lugnuts finished off their suspended game that was called in the third inning in Wisconsin on Tuesday but they weren’t able to come back and win, falling 8-3 to the Timber Rattlers.
The Lugnuts had just four hits including a single and a triple from Ryan Gold who scored a run. Otto Lopez was 1/3 with an RBI on a sacrifice fly while Dominic Abbadessa had a double and a walk, going 1/2 with a run but was caught stealing and made a throwing error.
Sean Wymer was hit hard in his start, giving up six runs on seven hits and two walks with three strikeouts in 2 2/3 innings while Cobi Johnson had a solid outing, allowing just a solo home run to score over 5 1/3 innings, giving up two hits and a walk with three strikeouts. Mike Pascoe allowed an unearned run in the ninth, allowing a hit.
L: Sean Wymer (1-1)
Player of the Game: Cobi Johnson and Ryan Gold
In the regularly scheduled game, played over seven innings as the second half of a double header, the Lansing Lugnuts couldn’t get another win either, losing 2-1 to the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers.
Nick Podkul had a 3/3 game with a double, scoring the Lugnuts’ only run while Jake Brodt (1/3), John Aiello (1/3, 2B) and Alejandro Kirk (1/3, 3B) each had a hit.
Fitz Stadler had a solid start in the loss, going five innings and allowing two runs on four hits and two walks with five strikeouts. Jackson Rees struck out five batters in just two perfect innings, finishing off the game.
L: Fitz Stadler (1-3)
Player of the Game: Nick Podkul
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It’s pretty impressive how Nick Saban can make the appalling sound bloodless, whether it’s D.J. Pettway’s “horrible decision” or the “university decision” to let him back on the team.
It’s also impressive to see how the Process works, as Pettway was the only one of the four players involved who’s been allowed to return. Maybe it’s because he kept his mouth shut.
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39 responses to “Decisions, decisions”
Or maybe it is because he did all the things that we’re ask of him as to redeem himself.
If by that you mean “don’t get your ass arrested again”, he’s a real champ.
No, I mean if you pay the price for your crime, maybe we should give you a second chance. or we could just take them out back and shoot them.
Take them out back and shoot them?
A week after he was charged with two counts of robbery, a judge allowed him to leave the state so he could keep playing football. The wheels were greased from the get go.
He’s kept his nose clean for the last ten months, and bully for him for that. But don’t try to make this sound noble. He’s a talented football player that Saban wanted back in the fold, nothing more.
{“He’s kept his nose clean for the last ten months, and bully for him for that. But don’t try to make this sound noble. He’s a talented football player that Saban wanted back in the fold, nothing more.”}
My new Mac Tablet has a mind of its own. were
I wish Mark Richt was more of a disciplinarian. 😉
We’ll Senator, isn’t that what it all about! We want the best football players. It has nothing to do with honor or being noble.
I guess that explains why Nick Marshall is wearing red and black these days. Oh, wait…
fatman48
My question is “Why isn’t he in Jail” ? The problem is no one is prosecuting them, they leave school to avoid prosecution, Scam Newton(Florida), Nick Marshall(Georgia), and now Winston(FSU) not for stealing but Rape. The blind eye is shut. All this just to WIN, it is a Shame. Some say give them another chance, “WHY” they knew what they were doing was “WRONG” but did it anyway. “Its all about choices”. They were not kicked off the their team by the coaches or schools, they kicked themselves off the team.
How in the world do you throw Winston into that list at all with what is public knowledge? No comparison there, and any male walking the streets can be accused without supporting evidence. This woman has done a terrible thing for future “llegit” rape victims.
I think the Scam and Marshall incidents are much less significant than Pettway’s case because of the level of violence involved. The university should be ashamed for even allowing Pettway near the campus, much less giving him a scholarship….think of that, paying him to be there among the students. Damn!
“This woman has done a terrible thing for future ‘legit’ rape victims.”
FIFY: Delete “This woman” and replace with “Law enforcement”
“This is criminal investigation 101, it seems to me. It’s a real failure,” said Samuel Walker, author and emeritus professor of criminal justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. “The question in my mind is: Are they incompetent or was this willful?”
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/experts-jameis-winston-investigation-flawed-from-the-start/2156871
Let me give my prediction on what is going to happen vis a vis young Mr. Winston. He is going to get sued by the victim who will then use the court’s subpoena power to take depositions and conduct a judicially-supervised investigation (for the first time) of those involved and the police investigators. What will come out will cause the Florida Attorney General to order the criminal case against Winston to be reopened, probably with a Special Prosecutor. Winston will cop a plea, maybe have to serve some jail time, but still be eligible for the NFL where he will play, probably for many years. The only reason the State’s Attorney in Tallahassee didn’t prosecute Winston was he has to run for re-election and if he caused Winston to be suspended from the BCSNCG, and FSU lost that game, the election would have been lost, too.The real loser in this will be the Heisman Trophy which takes another hit to its reputation and that of its winners and voters. Likely the Heisman will get stripped from Winston just like it was from OJ Simpson. I wish they would just stop awarding the damn thing because they almost never give it to someone who really deserves it. (See: Newton, Cam).
Seeing the Florida AG doing a press conference? What more could a patriotic American guy ask for…
“Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is a conservative Republican who is incredibly attractive. What more could a patriotic American guy ask for in eye candy?”
http://downtrend.com/brian-carey/here-are-the-7-most-beautiful-photos-of-florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi/
Pretty confused view you have of “right and wrong” on many subjects so it isn’t surprising you would look at placing the blame on law enforcement. I am not saying they were textbook, or perfect, but the accuser was pretty uncertain of her actions, or desires for over a month. I can understand the police and DA’s office not chasing every single false claim.
My concern is they get it right. I don’t care if OJ’s Scheme Team won an acquittal, they screwed justice by the tactic they used, and what Idiot Ito allowed them to do. That was wrong, and the evidence was ignored while we put every miniscule half step by law enforcement under the microscope on trial then while ignoring overwhelming evidence that a double murderer was slipping back into society. And I don’t care if we need to change procedure and protocol in the Tallahassee PD and FSU PD, but don’t allow false charges to drag on when there is no evidence to justify a false claim, or refute her unusual actions on that night.
At the same time, if evidence comes forth to show he was guilty, don’t hesitate to lock him up immediately and prosecute him ASAP. I don’t feel the scales of justice have been level on this case since the media blew this up in November and it is time for him to be given the benefit of the doubt until something indicates otherwise. Not saying this is playing out in her favor, or will end well for her, but she has been shielded while he has been ripped publicly by many for no reason at all that I can see, except the poor judgment of youth.
This is so trite! Women who claim to be rape victims sure do get a lot of attention paid to their claim if the perp is a famous CF player. Then it always ends bad for them….Monica Lewinsky style… As Dave Chapelle said, if you are going to become famous for doing what she did, it might as we’ll be with the most powerful man in America! Why can’t we All just do what we do best. I do not give a sugar honey iced tea about your personal activities if I do not know you. That is between you GOD and the law of the land.
Seriously, Meggs is not going to prosecute. No one else is either. If she was sexually battered, what about the scales of justice for her? Don’t you think from her perspective that she thinks this is not playing out in her favor and that she has been ripped publically and laughed at by law enforcement for no reason at all? Her life has been disrupted, not his.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2013/12/05/laughter-at-jameis-winston-press-conference-struck-wrong-note-video/
She brought this on herself! Maybe some greedy people prompted her to do this. I do not know, but I. Still say… You go out drinking with a bunch of CF football players…. What do you expect to happen. I would like to see a picture. Of her when she went out that night. Again, “Just because, I am dressed like a prostitute, does not mean that I am a prostitute”. Dave Chapelle.
You really need to drop this. It’s incredibly offensive.
The Senator is completely right, you are doing a disservice to the victim (yes, the details smell of a cover-up) and any future victims. Women can’t associate with guys, dress certain ways, and if any at all happens, must be the girl’s fault.. Sounds a little Islamic , to me..
I have been ask to drop this by Bluto. It is his blog, and as his guest, I will. As a woman who has been around CF players and Pro FB players all my life, you would not believe how many women I Have seen come out of the woodwork with these allegations. I know this … Ninety percent are like false injury claims, but hey a girls gotta make a living.
None of which is relevant in the slightest to the matter you were discussing as a matter of fact.
And by the way, I wasn’t asking.
I know, I know, and there are absolutely NO corrupt cops/politicians, NO history of firemen/women turning out to be arsonists, etc. People in powerful positions (some real, some perceived..) NEVER take advantage of a he said/she said situation, and should be given all of the benefit of doubt as we can all muster, those poor, entitled individuals.. You most likely can relate, seeing you are to be held in such *high* esteem as a “woman who has been around CF players and Pro FB players all my life…” No one should ever feel like the laws of which we are all governed by, can’t/won’t protect them. We all have opinions, but to suggest she “brought it on herself!”, without even a sniff at the obvious irregularities of the investigation, is just a disgusting continuation of victim blaming.
“Pretty confused view you have of ‘right and wrong’ on many subjects so it isn’t surprising you would look at placing the blame on law enforcement.”
That means so much to me!
“My concern is they get it right.”
Strange view you have of what ‘my concern is they get it right’ means when you blame the woman rather than law enforcement for not doing an investigation.
OJ was nullification by jury. At least there was an investigation.
“but don’t allow false charges to drag on when there is no evidence to justify a false claim, or refute her unusual actions on that night.”
How do you know whether it’s a false charge, a false claim or that her actions were unusual? You don’t. And except for those directly involved, nobody else does either. Why? Because there was no investigation.
Chill, Mac … Have a Macallan on me… Go for the 22 year old. it is soooo smooth…. YUM!
So, you were not asking…you were suggesting or just giving me GTP advice as the facilitator? I am confused….. Again…it gets tougher every day to buy into some of this CF media BS.
FWIW, JON….. So you got to sniff at all the obvious irregularities of the investigation. Guess you are better suited to comment than moi’!
accskp
I know like performance enhancing drugs. If you take them you should be gone, right?
As a completely innocent bystander in the transition from a “horrible decision” to a “university decision” rarely if ever does Nick feel shattered
That’s why he’s Nick, not Mick. BTW, you find some obscure stuff to post, man.
As I said before, its clear that Saban’s standards for behavior depend on talent levels. He’s a fraud with his Process crap.
So it’s process if he gets rid of them and it’s process if he doesn’t get rid of them? Y’all are unbelievable..really!
Hey, “Ya’ll”….implies others. Tim speaks for no one here!
And neither do you, VictimBlamingDawg…
I do not blame anyone. Blame it on Cain, it just seems to be his turn. Just like everyone here, I have an opinion. I think we all know what that is worth.
So… let me see if I have this straight.
Man who commits an act that within the hour has a woman in a police station: victim.
Woman who went to the police station: criminal.
Coach who cuts football players for football-related deficiencies: evil.
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We’re gonna need a bigger Process.
Jeez, four games into the season, and I’m already typing one of those existentialist posts about Georgia football that I loathe. Not a good look, Dawgs.
I’m sure there is a temptation on the part of some who thought a coaching change was unnecessary to point to yesterday’s crushing loss as a certain form of vindication. Since I was a Richt agnostic by last season, while I can understand the sentiment, I can’t say I share it.
And I’m not gonna even touch this one:
Four games into the season and I'm seeing some fans ready to fire Kirby Smart
— Anthony Dasher (@AnthonyDasher1) September 25, 2016
The problem with jumping to conclusions after four games is that you’re relying on a small sample size to justify a big picture argument. Even so, I do think there are certain takes that are justified early on.
This team has some serious structural flaws in personnel. Georgia doesn’t appear to have an offensive tackle. It certainly doesn’t have a reliable place kicker. (Auburn got a school record six field goals in its win yesterday; it’s legitimate to question whether Georgia will exceed six field goals for the entirety of the 2016 season.) It’s starting a true freshman quarterback who’s never played in a pro-style offense before this spring. The defensive line is both green and thin. Some of these issues will likely be addressed through more experience, but some don’t stand a chance of being fixed this year.
Jacob Eason isn’t the only rookie in red and black. I don’t know if you heard what Greg McElroy said during the broadcast, but it really stuck with me. Basically, he noted that he came out of a similar high school shotgun passing attack as Eason did, but whereas he got to learn the ropes on Alabama’s scout team for a season, Eason is getting his baptism by fire in live SEC play. That’s understandably rough. The same thing, relatively speaking, can be said about his head coach. Smart may be a Saban clone — at least that’s what we’re hoping — but he doesn’t have Saban’s history. Saban was a head coach at three other college programs and on the NFL level before taking the Alabama job. By the time he got there, he’d had plenty of time to learn what did and didn’t work running a program. Georgia, on the other hand, is OJT for Smart. Once again, we’re seeing that working for a great head coach and being a great head coach aren’t the same thing.
The team hasn’t bought into Smart’s vision for the program. Small sample size arguments can cut both ways and, like it or not, it’s noteworthy that in four games, Georgia hasn’t shown up to play in half of them. Yes, it’s true that Mark Richt had his share of humiliating losses. So that’s nothing new… except that Richt had a few years under his belt before we started seeing those. You want an even nastier comparison? Kirby Smart’s fourth game was a 31-point loss to a conference opponent that for a while was on pace to be an epic disaster for the program. Richt’s fourth game led to Munson’s Hobnail Boot call. Sure, it’s not like Georgia didn’t lose a few more games that year after the Tennessee win, but it was clear that the team had bonded with the coaching staff in a way that made them believe. The mindset of this year’s squad is nowhere in the same vicinity of the 2001 team. The question yet to be determined is when the players will buy in. (Using “if” in that last sentence is too depressing for me to consider.)
At the time of the events leading to Richt’s dismissal and Smart’s hiring, you will recall that my misgivings centered around the athletic administration’s inept track record in hiring/firing. If the stories we heard at the time were true — the fig leaf of hiring a search firm to cover a decision that McGarity had already reached and the panic that hit several big boosters from the news that Smart, one of “our guys”, was speaking with South Carolina about becoming the head coach being just a couple of those — I think my concerns were certainly valid.
I mention this not because I’m seeking my own form of vindication here, but because if Kirby Smart does have a vision in the sense of a concrete plan on how to take the Georgia program to the next level, he’d best realize he’s on his own on implementing it and bringing it to fruition. The people he answers to don’t have a clue. (I’m betting McGarity has begun honing his “remember what Saban’s first season in Tuscaloosa was like” marketing pitch to the fan base and Mark Bradley for next offseason. That should work like a charm.)
I assumed Smart went into this season trying to have his cake and eat it, too, by transitioning the program into his model while remaining competitive enough to be a factor in the divisional race. There’s a very good chance a week from now that approach will have been blown to shreds. Tennessee may or may not be as good a team as Ole Miss, but that won’t matter in the slightest if Georgia doesn’t show up for the game next Saturday.
If that is what happens, that’s when things really start getting interesting around Athens. Kirby may know where he wants to go with Georgia football, but that doesn’t mean he knows the best way to get there, or maybe even any way to get there. Regardless, I expect him to try and stand by his convictions in that regard. Where this all goes in 2016 if his team never buys in to it, for whatever reason, could get pretty ugly. For a lot of reasons, I hope things never reach that point. But I can’t say I’m not a little uneasy this morning in that regard. Piling up bad efforts in a very short time can do that to a person.
UPDATE: I see from some of the comments in response to this post that I’ve created some confusion with regard to the terms “buy in” and “show up”.
Let me just say there’s more than one context for those terms. Sure, both can be taken in a purely psychological sense. But I was also thinking of that post of mine from several years ago about how Georgia’s biggest problem on defense in Martinez’ last year or so was the lack of trust the players had in the coaching staff’s approach to mechanics and game planning, which in turn led the staff to lack trust in the players’ ability to play.
There’s a similarity in my mind between that and Georgia’s 2016 secondary. Smart and Pruitt both come from the Saban coaching tree, but their approaches are different. Pruitt played a lot of zone and dropped the linebackers into coverage a lot to help protect a secondary that had its share of shortcomings on the talent/experience side. Smart is all in with what worked at ‘Bama: much more man coverage and pattern matching. That’s a big change and his defensive backs, based on what we saw yesterday, aren’t even close to being on the same page. Are they buying into what Smart’s preaching? I can’t read their minds. But it was obvious yesterday that they might as well have been invisible on most of Kelly’s touchdown throws, because they offered zero resistance in coverage. In my mind, that meets a definition of not showing up.
I’ll leave it for you to describe the team’s mentality for the Nicholls game.
My apologies for not being clearer with my meanings.
198 responses to “We’re gonna need a bigger Process.”
SouthGaDawg
I went to the UGA/Ole Miss game in 2012 (37-10 and it wasn’t even that close). How did Ole Miss get to where they are now and how did UGA get to where it is now? I was shocked at how UGA was so physically overmatched. Wow…
Because Ole Miss pays their players.
And we don’t have any, paid or otherwise, it would appear.
Dawgs1
Did I see Maurice Smith on a milk carton? Where was he the last 2 games? Witness Protection?
I know our players are getting used to a new staff, new signs, new process, etc., but our secondary looked like they had never covered a receiver before. It looked like they were new to the game of football.
GATA 72
#7 Carter makes Ray Drew look like LT in his NFL prime
How long can we go in this thread before Richt is mentioned (aside from that one)
T-Minus 3…2..
Great post Senator and right on the money. I also wanted B-M to hire an experienced HC with a proven track record of winning. But instead we have Kirby Smart as our HC whether we like it or not. We have no real alternative except to get behind him. He’s going to make mistakes, some we can see and others we can’t see. It is painfully obvious that this team hasn’t bought in to what Smart is selling–yet. Let’s hope they do. Nothing is worse in football than a team foundering on the rocks like a rudderless ship. Things could get really ugly if they don’t.
Saban coached at 10 or more stops as an assistant, including 2x in the pros before he landed as HC for Michigan.
Everybody has that first time shot.
Michigan State when Sparty sucked and was the Wolverines’ whipping boys
Yes. There is that.
He beat a number 3 Michigan abd number 10 Florida his last year as Michigan’s whipping boy. He finished in top 10 and moved to Louisiana.
Absolutely – my point was that Sparty had to go the career assistant route at the time Little Nicky was hired
Ahhhh….fair enough. But the career assistant blossomed. Not as an NFL coach. Are you thinking Smart moves on ….after 3 or 4 years then.
I don’t know. I guess my point is that we weren’t in the situation that Sparty was when they hired Saban. Other than Saban, Corch, Jimbo, Big Game Bob and D’Antonio, we could have had any college head coach we wanted.
I hope Kirby is wildly successful and retires as the winningest coach in Georgia history by wins, winning percentage, and championships.
I whaaaa
Other than Saban, Corch, Jimbo, Big Game Bob and D’Antonio, we could have had any college head coach we wanted.
Name a few.
Herman, possibly Shaw, Strong (although his star has fallen), Petrino(!), among others …
Don’t forget Jason Fuentes who went to VT.
And Bronco Mendenhall who went to Virginia. Even South Carolina hired a HC with prior HCing experience even if Boom’s past experience is questionable at best LOL. I think Jim Mclewain will prove that he’s done more with less in his first two years than Kirby once he makes it thru 2 years and JM inherited a mess at Florida.
All the talk was that Herman pulled his name out at USCe when Richt was relieved of his duties in Athens. If we had conducted a search, names would have lined up for the opportunity to coach at UGA. Everyone says it’s a top 5 or 10 job. Why wasn’t a national search conducted? If Kirby got through that, we would have known we got the best guy.
As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I want Kirby to be wildly successful because I don’t want to get into the “Hire, Struggle, Fire” cycle we’ve seen elsewhere or that we went through between 1989 and 2001.
Don’t forget that Clay Helton was the interim coach at USC. My point is that virtually every major P5 football power that’s hired a new HC over the past few years hired someone with prior HC experience whether it was at an FCS or FBS school with UGA being a notable exception.
Kirby speaks often on “imposing your will” on an opponent with physical, relentless, tough, knock-you-back play.
This approach can be successfully implemented if you have invested years in recruiting this kind of size and depth into the roster and have developed them with a consistent strength-and-conditioning program.
This program has done none of this, opting instead for smaller, faster athletes who have bounced between several strength-and-conditioning programs. In our league, this is why we are starting over.
Similar to the final five games of last season, we have to adjust our coaching strategy this season to leverage the strengths we have.
In our case, it is a more mobile offensive line, with tough blocking backs and tight ends and a receiving corps with quickness and moves. Playing a speed game, with more sweeps, traps, and counters instead of trying to straight drive-block opponents 30 pounds larger and stronger than us may lead to some success. Running shorter routes with more protection may lead to some success if our line has difficulty handling a straight bull or speed rush one-on one.
Defensively, we cannot feature as our base defense a one-on-one man coverage scheme against larger, stronger receivers if we do not have the size and depth to generate a consistent pass rush.
Finally, this program has long shown that players’ coaches cannot generate the consistent motivation and focus needed to perform at a championship level. At the end of the season, drop the first-name-basis and build into the newcomers the respect and discipline needed to perform at this level.
Your third point is the one that troubles me the most. As I watched that debacle unfold yesterday, any delusions I had that the 4th and 10 touchdown against Mizzou was Kirby’s “hobnail boot” disappeared quickly. That whole game was so discombobulated, with 12 defenders on the field called at least twice, players stating the defense was playing “different coverages”, the lack of fire in the players, dropped passes, missed blocks, etc. that I just felt this isn’t Kirby Smart’s team yet. Will it be? I sure hope so, or else this will be a long painful journey.
As for Eason, I think most of us accepted he would have a game or two (maybe more if he is under siege like that all season) in which he would look like a true freshman. I had anticipated this game as a loss partly for that reason. The Ole Miss defense can play and put pressure on a QB and he had not faced that yet. I think he overall stood in there and took his lumps. I didn’t see too much panic or frustration even when his receivers let him down with dropped touchdown passes. He will grow from this.
Senator, I won’t blame you if you decide to not watch this game a second time and report on further review. I already deleted it from my DVR.
As for Eason, he still looks worlds better than Stafford did as a freshman (until the light bulb went on at halftime of the Auburn game for Staff).
I mean, even after Stafford got the hang of it and beat 3 ranked teams in a row (Auburn, Tech, Virginia), he still finished the year with 7 touchdowns and 13 interceptions. And don’t forget the losses to Vanderbilt and Kentucky.
So, yeah, it could be a lot worse (and still might be–UGA lost to UT and Florida that year as well).
Let the man play, and FFS quit trying to mold him into a pure Pro-Style QB as a freshman and let him operate out of the shotgun more…
I think Chaney and Kirby is trying to fast tract Eason. Unfortunately with a weak OL failure is inevitable. They also tried to balance run and pass which further worsened the games result. I think the team is better served this season to have more pass like the Mizz game and at least have a better chance of winning.
You know, the third point is where I’m at, too. From my perspective, CKS has been dawgrading these players and the program from the moment he set foot on campus. He was also subtly criticizing CMR often, although he never mentioned his name, with comments like “turn a battleship around”.
It’s a poor carpenter who blames his tools. But beyond that, it’s really bad leadership. He’s been defensive and paranoid since he got here, and I don’t think this team is behind him because he’s always bitching about what they’re not.
+100….far different to “lay out your vision for the team” and call out the current players and former staff for everything they’re not
“Yes. Tools matter. Good tools won’t bring you to your optimum peak performance on your own, but bad tools will guarantee you’ll never get there. Bad tools typically take longer to work with, and typically teach bad habits to get around their deficiencies.
Da Vinci with a mop and a bucket of mud may be a better painter than you, but he would never beat Da Vinci with quality tools.”
I like your term ” Richt agnostic”. That’s where I was last year also. I didn’t really like the KS hire mainly because I like an offense guy as HC. In the game today you have to score points in bunches to keep up with teams like Ole Miss no matter how good your defense is. Bama has a great defense but you saw what OM did to them. I wish KS the best but don’t feel real good right now. If we can recruit like Bama we’ll be fine, but that remains to be seen. Also, Saban may have had a poor first year at Bama but IIRC he went into the SECCG ranked #1 his second year. If Smart can do that, I don’t care what happens this year.
You are 100% right about Saban’s first year at Alabama. Plus, he already had a BCS championship under his belt, so everyone knew he could be a winner.
Im tired of hearing there’s no talent.
http://247sports.com/Season/2016-Football/CollegeTeamTalentComposite
I’m not saying that.
But if you insist, perhaps you can tell me who should be starting at left and right offensive tackle. I’m all ears.
Ham and Blankenship?
I kid.
That comment was the only fun I got out of the entire game this week.
You didn’t say that. Everyone else has.
The problem is your number 3.
There is a talent problem, whether anyone wants to admit it or not. And unfortunately, the deficit lies primarily along the line of scrimmage. You’re welcome to point to recruiting rankings all you’d like, but then I’ll just remind you of such 5-star duds as John Theus. Not all 4- and 5-star recruits are really good enough to compete in the SEC. And we’re learning the hard way what that really means.
Thankfully, we’ve finally got an OL coach who knows what the hell he’s doing. But we’re all going to have to be patient while he rebuilds the OL from scratch, trusting that he can tell the difference between a 4-star who looked great at his private school with no competition, and a 4-star who actually has what it takes to block an SEC-caliber DE.
People for some reason think that the recruiting services actually do a thorough evaluation of High School prospects and are actually qualified to do so. Look people, the ratings come after the offers. Part of the reason our recruits are rated as highly as they are is because they were offered by Georgia. The spread of “non-committable” offers has led to even more screwed up rankings.
The recruiting services do not specialize in evaluating recruits; they specialize in getting grown men to pay for information about children.
And yet, recruiting rankings correlate with college success and the pro draft. Curious.
The top programs, to whom they give the best rankings, are also able to recruit the best players. I’m not saying that the information that comes from the recruiting services in worthless. I’m saying that it is only useful in the aggregate. The rating for an individual recruit, though, is almost meaningless.
While I concede that the margin of error increases with smaller sample size, it’s also true that the aggregate is made up of individuals.
Basically, UGA is a team with SEC talent. Yes, there are holes. But this team is talented enough to wax FCS teams and compete with good SEC teams.
Five stars doesn’t mean that a player is what you need. If you think that offensive line is talented then I’ve got some great beachfront property in Valdosta to sell you. Hell our starting tackle is an FCS transfer and most of the rest are either just bad or playing out of position.
As I said in a comment yesterday. Our OL consists of an FCS Left Tackle (i.e. he should be a career backup in the SEC), 3 Guards, and a 3rd string Nose Tackle. Will Friend was a quality coach but a shite recruiter. Rob Sale apparently screwed up any good that Friend had previously done. Sam Pittman has a hell of a job ahead of him.
Also, some freshman need to step up. We need to get Sims and Galliard off of the field. The TEs can help the Tackles on the outside. The Guards are allowing people to come in unblocked as they are not releasing from combo blocks.
SAtownDawg
No, we need to move Galliard to center and get Kubanlow off the field…hard to run up the middle when our center is blown up on a regular basis
Kublanow was the Left Guard for the 2014 team. You know, the one that set the record for most points scored by a UGA offense. He played great. The key is that he was playing LEFT GUARD and not Center. Playing Center is not the same as playing Guard but with snapping duties. Kublanow was great at taking on a 3 technique, helping on a combo for a 1 technique, and pulling as a lead blocker. All things that a Left Guard does. He is not equipped for handling a 1 technique solo. If you read my comment from yesterday, part of our OL problem is that we lack a natural center. If we had one, we could kick Wynn back out to LT, move Catalina to RT, move Kublanow back to LG, and move Pyke back to RG. At that point, our OL problem would only be that we do not have natural Tackles. That is a problem we can fix with TE help. Right now, the only person playing their natural position is Wynn.
^This^
We have lots of talent. We have perhaps the most talented freshman QB ever. We have great running backs, plural. We have great TEs, very good LBs, some really good DLs, and a decent – sometimes very good -secondary. The OL has some pieces but as a group, it’s a weak link. We may have some big recruits on the OL, but if there’s anything more dangerous than a freshman QB, it’s a freshman OL. So when Sam and Kirby say they are playing the best, they probably are. We also have glaring deficiencies at receiver. And the kicking game is a mess. I saw a bit recently showing that having to kick a field goal is essentially a failure, but that failure is eclipsed by having to kick one and not being able to do it successfully.
So yeah, we have talent, but it’s not spread out particularly well, yet. If we’re honest, we knew that coming in. A 3-1 record puts us on pace for the 8-4 or maybe 9-3 record most of us predicted before the season began. We lost to a team that has been prolific against really good defenses even in losses and it happened at their house. It’s too early for us as fans to wet the bed. Some things will get better as the season develops, I hope, and others I think we’re going to have to wait a year or two. Let’s see what happens next week.
AMEN, when you stop a team on the 8 etc., and they get 3 it feels like a wash or a win, but when you fail and then miss the FG inside 30, it is a shot to the nuts.
Those of you writing that 4 and 5 stars don’t mean anything….rofl. This team has talent deficiencies in certain areas, but the recruiting services are more often right than they are wrong.
We grouse about CMR not recruiting enough talent then we move the goalposts by saying the universally accepted measure of talent isn’t actually a good measure after all.
EVERY team has deficiencies. The OL has its issues, but it’s not as bad as it’s being made out to be. Coach Pruitt had this same personnel group at secondary ROCKING – with half the game-ready players and when the whole squad was a bunch of freshmen.
Under Richt, everybody said we had a lousy OL coach when the OL didn’t perform. Under Smart, we have a genius OL coach, he just doesn’t have the players. Gotcha.
A better QB situation and a now-healthy 3-4 juggernauts at RB offsets the loss of Theus and Mitchell, in my opinion.
Who exactly tested the secondary last season though? Final ranking was nice, but I recall Vandy nearly hitting 300 yds passing, and Dobbs shredding the secondary. Beyond Dobbs it wasn’t exactly a murder’s row of passers.
Great post. We now see what 5 years of administrative foot dragging and a coach on the hot seat did to recruiting.
Or a coach who seemingly didn’t place emphasis on recruiting on the OL. Don’t give me the fans hurting recruiting straw man argument. Plenty of top ten classes in the last five years. Just perhaps misevaluation of needs at best or negligence at worst.
This is it…KS wants to play a way that doesn’t suit the talent at hand, it would seem. I guess we’ll see where that gets us: 1. KS changes, for this year at least; 2. the team changes; 3. nothing changes, and we go 5-7 or something.
Baitstand
Is it too early, or too late, to start the “could’ve had Tom Herman” meme??
Hey BR549….that started yesterday!
If you don’t catchem the first time we will re bate you…we sell worms, crickets and minnows!
budlite
For all of the “cupboard half full, half bare folks”, I’d like to paraphrase Bear Bryant’s definition of a good coach. “He’s somebody that can take his’n and beat yor’n and then turn around and take yor’n and beat his’n”.
I fear that our new coach’s world view has been shaped by his Alabama experience to the point that he hasn’t learned to win without an overwhelming talent edge. It is hard to imagine UGA gaining that talent edge while Saban is still alive. I hope I’m wrong, on both counts.
DawgsFan1
Anybody else watch TA&M v ARK last night? ‘Hogs played a smash mouth, “impose my will on you” kind of offense against a defense stocked with a number of Sunday players soon enough and it got them beat (my english is terrible there). Kinda like our game yesterday. It has taken four years for Sumlin to get where he is with these Aggies. I suspect it will take Smart that long as well.
(Sigh.)
“For us, it was all about playing the Georgia way, the Georgia brand of football. Which is physical, relentless, tough, knock you back. I think we did that.” — Kirby Smart, Dawgs247, 9/5/16
For some reason, I can’t quit that quote.
I look forward to the game that he can say it again.
G-Day?
You should put up his quote today where he calls out players by name.
Did he actually do that??
“Because I’ve seen them do it,” Smart said when asked why he has confident his UGA can turn the page and respond against Tennessee. “I’ve seen Jayson Stanley make that catch. I’ve seen Isaiah McKenzie make that catch. I’ve seen Malkom Parrish make those plays. He made one against a 6’5″ guy against North Carolina. I’ve seen them do it. We’ve just got to do it when we need to do it. We didn’t do it today. Like I said, it’s not all on them. We’ve got to do a better job as coaches to help them. At the end of the day, the thing snowballed and we didn’t have anybody step up and make a play. Lorenzo Carter, go make a play — go make a tackle for a loss right there. Go make a play on the perimeter out there, Malkom, and it possibly changes the game. We didn’t do that.”
http://georgia.247sports.com/Bolt/Rowe-These-things-take-time-47761434
He just broke the Golden Rule of coaches, never call out the players especially by name unless it is to praise them. He very well may lose the team especially the seniors and juniors.
It is to me like he is praising them. Hes saying that he’s seen what they CAN do and he knows they can do anything they set their minds to.
*sounds to me
I think Carter for instance needs to be called out. Maybe not in the press though.
sectionzalum
i think that may be a source of our problem. kirby is a manball, pro-style evangelist, and our qb is not yet ready to be effective under center. big cognitive dissonance from january to today for college kids to absorb. physical-physical-physical sermon, pass block-passblock- pass block in games. our most effective offensive player thus far is 5’8, 165.
and it elevates my appreciation of theus.
I’ve been impressed with Smart’s grasp of meaningful upstream factors that contribute to success, such as offensive line recruiting and accountability. I’m equally troubled by the recent vacuous refrains of “effort,” “compete,” “wanting it,” and “hustle.” Those are inputs in the formula of winning on the same level as “playing well” – which is to say, they’re much closer to the result than to root cause. I am not encouraged that Smart has not given much time at his podium to talking about where effort comes from while giving so much time to the need for effort. He’d better have some good ideas on where motivation to play hard comes from other than experiencing success on the field and/or getting yelled at.
Do we have any sports psychologists on retainer? For consultation with Kirbs, not for meeting with players.
Not a sports psychologist but:
We assume football players are competitive. At a place with Alabama’s depth, you are reminded every day that, if you don’t play your best, there is someone as talented as you just waiting to take your place. If a program doesn’t have that kind of depth. . . Well, I think you may have what we’ve got. I suspect the guys played often hard for Mark Richt because they loved and respected him. I have no idea what the players think about Kirby. Maybe you have some thoughts.
This, exactly.
Great post. I feel like Smart needs to show his players that he can make the changes necessary to be competitive this week. Otherwise he is going to lose them.
I am most disappointed in the lack of offensive creativity. Have we thrown a screen pass? Why don’t we use the toss sweep more? Still missing the tight ends. I know we have had a lot of drops. But I am 100 % sure Bobo and Richt, even Lilly could have done more with this talent.
You do realize that, with the exception of bubble and smoke screens, screen passes rely on Offensive Linemen blocking in open space, right? They have a hard time blocking a guy 18 inches away who was standing still.
Why not throw to the TEs? The tight ends have having to stay in help the Tackles against the pass rush. Eash can’t throw a pass to a TE while laying on back with a concussion.
I don’t think you, along with a lot of people on this board, understand how bad of OL is. The lines from the 2009 and 2010 teams were much better than this, and they were less than mediocre.
Good post, Senator. As disappointing as yesterday’s result and effort were, I’m not ready to conclude that the players haven’t bought into the process. While the 4 game sample size is sufficient to show the glaring personnel issues (kicker, tacker, receiver), in my view it is not large enough to gauge whether the team is buying into Kirby. I find myself thinking back to the aftermath of the Carolina game, when the consensus was that the team had bought into the process by showing a resilience and toughness that we hadn’t seen in recent years. Only 7 days ago, we commented on how the team kept their composure and pulled out a win on the road. And maybe Ole Miss is just that good.
That said, I have no clue at all which team shows up this Saturday. I have a feeling that we’re going to see our fair share of both the teams we saw in Oxford and at the Dome before the season is over.
I just keep reminding myself that I said over the off-season to expect bumps in the road with a rookie HC and freshman QB. I just didn’t expect us to look this clueless. We have talent (and holes, obviously). But a good coach should be able to figure out some way to use the talent at hand. That was Kirby’s reason for hiring Chaney and Pittman. But the offense shows very little creativity and our WR play has been abysmal.
Defense, Kirby’s forte, has been disappointing as well.
The comebacks earlier in the season gave me hope, but yesterday makes me wonder if those were a fluke. The Tennessee game will tell us a lot, and I’m really afraid of what it’s going to tell us.
I’ll go further to offer a caution of my own on the talk of effort, speaking as someone who has studied psychology at the doctoral level. The most dangerous thing he could do to undermine morale (and subsequently, effort and buy-in) is to accuse those who are trying their best of not trying their best. I’d be willing to bet there’s a fair amount of that going on. The culture will change in response to intense pressure, but while you hope it compresses into something stronger, it could just crumble instead.
Excellent – he’s been doing that publicly with his comments since January about the roster. I think he has crushed the offensive line’s confidence in particular.
I’ve been concerned a about that as well. He seems to have gone far over the line of calling out a player to encourage greatness (i.e. see what Yoculan did with that freshman class that went on to win 4 straight NCs!) into just knee jerk negative as a “on the other hand” they can get better line. I don’t think I’ve ever heard him simply compliment a guy without the other “he could get better” shtick. maybe he did it about Chubb’s rehab, but then he even the week before the game acted like he didn’t know if he’d play despite everyone else knowing he most certainly had a great camp and was fine. There is Dooley esque gloom about how good the opponent is as a general commentary vs, how bad we are individually.
Having someone who is a fine example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect make this hire was always going to have some issues with it, especially when that decision was made in a panic by some big money boys over hiring rumors somewhere else.
We shouldn’t be surprised that McGarity, who worked for a successful AD but hasn’t been able to translate that level of success to his own AD career, would think an assistant from a successful program like Kirby would do fine, and Georgia didn’t deserve or need a new coach with head coaching experience. (Though he was going to pay him like one.)
But it just breaks my heart for the players. We’ve lived a couple blocks from Butts-Mehre for nearly 20 years, and there isn’t energy around here like in a normal football season. Some of that is the rotten September schedule, perhaps. But after watching the second half of UT-UF, with UT knowing they can essentially cinch the East next week, I’m definitely worried that things are going to get worse, and we won’t have a coach with the experience to keep it from happening.
I’m sure the kids love taking a bus every day to and from practice. Something to consider when considering attitude and “buying in”… man I hate that term.
The problem as I see it… and it’s the only thing I see… is what happens when the ball is snapped. On offense we clearly have a lack of talent on the line and at receiver. But for the life of me I can’t figure out how professionals making hundreds of thousands of dollars per year can’t see what is and is not working. Toss the damn ball. On defense we can either sit back and cover or be aggressive and blitz. We clearly have chosen the former. And it doesn’t take a “rocket scientist”… love that term… to see which works and which doesn’t.
If Kirby wants to be successful like Saban then he needs to copy Saban and get in the face of his two coordinators during the game and tell them to change what isn’t working.
I put the over/under in Cola at 23 and Lexington is gonna be a barn burner. This weekend will be ugly.
Fortunately for me I have other hobbies that aren’t as painful as watching the Dawgs. Hobbies like cutting myself, drinking lye or shoving knitting needles into my eyeballs.
I see my Tennessee fan neighbor has his flag back up, this one satin I think. He also has the “Next are the _______!” With the coming opponent in the blank. He has “Puppies” currenty.
When we left this morning I mention he wasn’t suppose to have that sign in the yard.
“I rather not go through that again…. concentrate on the house please.” Was all the support she offered.
A David Wiggins plan. L’Atessa de vita! Indeed.
They stock sheetrock on Wednesday. Cabinets are ready. Exterior is finished. Preliminary grading done…..topsoil and double ground mulch stockpiled. Won’t be long.
LOL, careful, they are everywhere now. Don’t think any of us will be able to escape them until Sgt Carter gets slapped back into reality. What a horrifying half that was after they were booed loudly leaving the field just 30 minutes earlier. I think they drugged the Gatorade in the FU dressing room. Looked like a different team that came back out.
Mac I chuckled at your earlier post when you sugggested i consider making a move to a new neighborhood. 😉
Firing Kirby Smart would be the stupidest possible move we could make. Kirby is what he is: probably not a very good coach, but it’s only 4 games, so who knows? All that matters are (1) pretending everything is fine so that Kirby can continue recruiting like gangbusters and (2) firing Greg McGarity so that he has zero influence over hiring Kirby’s replacement.
I remember well the hiring of an Assistant Coach as HC in Athens back in 1964 and a similar outcry from what spawned today’s Instant Gratification Fan Generation. Just as it was then, Dooley inherited what Griffith left him and managed a 7-3-1 season. The next was a 6-4 effort marked by the thrilling upset of Bama on the flea-flicker but marred by back to back 2 loss stretches (FSU, UK & UF, AU) before vengence upon the nats.
The History lesson is intended to introduce a little reality into what is not much more than a bunch of whining over team issues all knew existed back in August.While the Bear’s homily is quaint, such as is the game today he too would struggle matching up with today’s superior distribution of talent.
Four games in, I believe it’s obvious that the first Year HC has not yet captured all 105 players into functioning as a Team. This Saturday we shall all discover whether that 2×4 strike in Oxford brings more of them around to the Process.
Didn’t we go up north and win a big game in year 2? CKS has a chance to repeat that but in South Bend this time.
Castleberry
That with year one. And Notre Dame lost to Duke yesterday.
Dooley’s first year was 1964. We beat Michigan in 1965.
Dooley inherited a smoldering dumpster fire from Johnny Griffith. The program was an absolute disaster from the end of the Little Round Man’s era.
I disagree that we didn’t show up yesterday. We showed up. We are just lacking in a lot of areas and for now, we just aren’t very good. I’ve seen posted here more than once that we are and still will be feeling the affects of the disaster that was the 2013 recruiting class. Why do people think this transition is going to happen without us getting our noses bloodied a few times? Did yall honestly think that game yesterday was goi g to look like anything other than what it looked like? If so, why? Ole Miss gave Alabama all they could,handle. What made any of our fans think that four games into a season with new coaches who have a new approach, a freshman qb, and a bad offensive line, we were going be able to give ole miss a game? They nearly beat Alabama. Go ahead and get ready for a few more games like this. It ain’t got a thing to do with players not buying in. They can buy in til the cows come home and it won’t make up for a talent disparity. I think it will be two more seasons before we start to really see things take shape. My phone blew up all day yesterday and I was just shocked at how shocked people were. A buddy of mine even said he thought the players are mad because Richt was fired and are taking it out on the new coaches. Come in off the ledge folks.
Good post Mike
BarneyDawg
Agree, good post
Well said Mike
Blutarsky – Your key phrase is this… “small sample size…”
It’s waaaaaaay too early to push the panic button! We knew going into the season the OL would be an issue. They’re undersized, Kublanow IMO has never been able to live up to either of his two predecessors, Wynn is not big enough to play Guard, Gaillard is a converted DT, Catalina is transfer from… well you know and lastly Pyke was playing Guard last year and was a 3 star in HS. Additionally, we all knew the WR corp was weak on depth and their lack of consistency is proving what we feared. The QB situation is playing out exactly how we anticipated, both good and bad. On the defensive side of the ball, in fall camp everyone was worried about the front 7 and our inability to get pressure on QBs, so that’s also playing out as feared. The true bright spot has been our ILB play. The DB situation is worse; however, than we anticipated and Briscoe is proving to be the new Prince Miller of this bunch. If the guy behind him is worse, then we’re in really, really bad shape!
The real story here is a lesson in Red & Black coke bottle glasses. Our fan base drank the talent Kool Aid, when in reality there’s a significant separation between our players and the upper tier SEC programs.
Blutarsky, for some reason you’ve either forgotten Kirby’s vision for the future or are ignoring it. It’s quite simple: Get bigger, faster, stronger, deeper and more talented. It will take 3 recruiting classes to get the type of high caliber players Kirby’s use to coaching. Making a silk pillow out of a sow’s ear is impossible, so everyone’s going to have to alter their 2016 expectations in line with REALITY!
DB, for some reason, you’ve misunderstood what I posted. I’m in no panic over Smart. I think he knows what he wants and how to get there.
But I am a little uneasy over the possibility that things don’t head in a positive direction this season, not because of Smart per se, but because there will be unrest in the fan base, and B-M isn’t doing fan unrest too well these days.
You’re looking through some funky colored glasses of your own, though, if you can pretend that the Nicholls and Ole Miss results are merely the consequence of a talent gap.
Nicholls is certainly not the result of a talent gap. That was straight coaching combined with all the flaws everyone has noted.
BTW, I posted a very similar concern to your #3 this morning on BI. Your #3 with what appears to be a lack of player confidence can breed a cancer that’s worth keeping an eye on.
FWIW, I don’t think you’re pushing the panic button. You’ve written a thoughtful analysis of what you believe are root causes of this teams problems, along with your usual spy novel tangents. It makes for entertaining reading.
If things don’t improve, there have to be some people who are chewing their fingernails to a nub about the impact on the increased minimum giving levels and the ticket price increases. That with a downright awful home schedule is a perfect storm. It may require a withdrawal from the AA’s 401k.
As I said back in December, I’ll wait until 2018 to form any lasting conclusions about Kirby’s ability to coach winning football. I gave Richt more than a dozen years. I’m willing to give Kirby more than a few weeks.
Until then, the rational among us will be patient and enjoy whatever few highs we’re given on what is going to be a roller-coaster of a couple years.
I get that the “well look at Saban’s first year at Bama” excuse can come across as a bit of a cop out, but that doesn’t mean it’s completely invalid either. I mean, I doubt if anyone was under the impression that their players were totally bought in while they were watching them lose to U-La-La. I concede the point that Saban had a history backing him up that Kirby doesn’t have, but I’m not getting too concerned just yet. For me it’s always been that this was going to be a rebuilding year, and I’ll judge Kirby on 2017 & 2018 results.
This is gonna sound weird, but I think in some ways, the UNC victory has impaired our growth. The win was not as impressive as it looked – we got a LOT of breaks in that game that even just 2 or 3 of them going the other way would have changed the result of the game. I told my buddies afterwards that we weren’t as good as everyone thought – if we played that UNC team 10 times, I think both would win roughly half, that’s the level of team we are right now. Whatever your expectations are for UNC, that’s what your expectations should be for us right now. Of course most of them thought I was crazy, they were caught in the euphoria of the media praise, the top 10 ranking, etc. And I think the players thought that too. Instead of realizing how far they still had to go, I think that game and all the love right after it made them feel as if they had already arrived.
I know you never want to sacrifice wins, but I would be happy if the rest of the season was focused on getting the young guys built up and experienced. We have a ton of talent but it’s young talent. Let them make their mistakes this year so we can have a kick-ass 2017 & 2018. And yeah, that’ll mean some less than desirable results this year, but our future is still very bright, in my eyes.
It sure feels like 1990 doesn’t it?
Will McGarity give me a rebate on the Hartman Fund contribution and season ticket check it sent to see UGA do its best to win every game in 2016?
The “let’s sacrifice to make 2019 better ” stuff is easy to say when one isn’t spending any money to see them play.
Well said Gaskill. It also assumes that 2018 or 2019 will be “the year”, which is anything but a given. I think Kirby or any new, unproven HC for that matter has a 3 year window to show significant progress in terms of making it to or winning a conference championship, winning 11 games or making it to the CFP. Otherwise, the fan base and athletic department are very likely to make a change because the expectation level is so high now-a-days. That leash becomes even shorter if a HC essentially decides to take program used to winning 10 games a season and throw in the towel to settle for a 5-6 win rebuilding season. This team has talent issues, but not to the point where they can’t win 8 games unless the team completely quits on the coaching staff.
I’m with Charles in being inherently suspicious of psychological explanations of why a team is not doing well at a physical game. Frankly, I don’t know precisely what it means for Kirby’s players to “buy into” his approach to the game. They presumably want to win. So unless he’s tormenting them physically or psychologically and they’d rather lose than support him, why would they not cooperate? There’s nothing about his game-planning that seems radically different from what Georgia was doing last year, but maybe I’m missing something.
He’s been telling everybody who will listen how badly his players suck since he got here. You don’t think that has an effect?
Some professionalism would go a long way. 1. Do the easy stuff (fundamentals) really really well. 2. Practice the hard stuff while still doing the easy stuff perfectly. 3. Do the hard stuff only when necessary and don’t let it affect the easy stuff. 4. Success is making the hard stuff look like the easy stuff.
The mental side of things was my passion as I went through grad school. Inner game of tennis type stuff was where I lived. I imagine Kirby to be the micro manage to a fault type. For example, when someone asks you to stand up, you just flash the action in your head, and you’re standing up. You did not look at your legs and identify each muscle that needed to contract and extend, you didn’t reach your hands out to try to balance. Single thought drove many actions and it all works smoothly. The team needs to work on details, but they can’t play the details. Perhaps some “get out of their own way” would help em out.
Eh. A 7-5 season this year, which looks very possible right now, would be a somewhat worrying sign, but ultimately there’s not much difference between 9-3 and 7-5. If there’s no step forward next season, that’s when major concern should start to kick in.
I beg to differ … There’s a lot of difference between 9-3 and 7-5.
Besides the fact you’ll be happier on two more Saturdays, there’s really not.
Better record means higher rankings, better publicity, and likely better bowl game. It would also mean we beat a couple of rivals during the regular season. If the record doesn’t matter, why keep score?
I don’t particularly give a shit about being ranked 18th vs. unranked or publicity. As for rivals, as I said, you get to be happier on two extra Saturdays. That’s nice, but in the end, Kirby Smart is not going to be any better off if he goes 9-3, especially considering how ugly that 9-3 will look based on the first third of the season, if he doesn’t show substantial improvement next year.
So you think recruiting and overall direction of the program would be exactly the same at 7-5 as it would be at 9-3.
Losing to Florida, Auburn, Tennessee, and tech or USCe –> no thanks
Yes, he will be better off at 9-3 than 7-5. To say there’s no difference makes absolutely no sense.
After his first year, yes, I absolutely think 7-5 is the same as 9-3 when it comes to recruiting. The overall direction of the program is up to Smart, and an ugly 9-3 or an ugly 7-5 is not going to make a lick of difference. Either they improve in year 2 and contend with a 10-2 type of season or they don’t and the hot seat talk begins. That’s when you’ll see problems in recruiting.
You have a different impression than what I got from it. You see a team that hasn’t bought in. I see a team with glaring deficiencies that simply can’t be covered up against a team like the one we played yesterday. Our offensive line is garbage. We have few good receivers. We’re asking a true freshman QB to save us on offense but he can’t do it if 15% of his passes are dropped. And the defense can’t recover five turnovers every game.
I don’t think it has anything to do with “buying in.” They just don’t have the players.
Strange how we got worse at virtually every position right around the same time Miami got better. No accounting for college kids, I suppose.
Miami is Greatness….v. Fla Atlantic, Fla A&M & ApSt. Richts done an outstanding job in only 3 games. Turnaround job I’d say.
Receiving talent is a problem, but I’m not as sure about the offensive line. It’s not great by any means, but blown assignments seem to be an issue as often as being physically beaten. If they were to cut down on mental mistakes, they wouldn’t look quite so bad.
This would be a theory except we can point to position groups with almost the exact same personnel as last year that are underperforming relative to last year.
As someone mentioned above, if talent is the problem, then what happened against Nicholls State? If talent is the problem, why did it take five turnovers and 4th quarter heroics to defeat Mizzou, with whom we are at least equal to in talent?
This years team has more talent than last year by a long ways Las t two years with no QB and no healthy RB’s won 10 games. This staff not getting it done first 4 games.
Nobody should think we had no chance against Ole Miss because of the talent difference. That’s BS. There was a far greater talent difference between UGA and Nicholls State than between UGA and Ole Miss. Nicholls certainly was competitive against us. The team was not ready and played like shit. That’s on the coaches.
No offense, Ghurka, but I think you are wrong. I think our talent level over the last 4 years has degenerated to a bottom tier SEC level at best. outside of a brand new QB, a couple of stud backs, and the odd DL player, we are not at the level of the teams we wish to compete against.
But ya gotta start somewhere, and here we are. 2 to 3 years for sure before it gets better.
David Pinson
Amen. There is one common feature of every great team at UGA (and elsewhere). Very high quality players man the line between the skill players and the opponents. When was the last time you could say of a Georgia team that our offensive and defensive lines (including linebackers) are superior to quality opponents and can and do dominate the rest.
And yet the recruiting services have ranked our signing classes in the top ten each year. It’s interesting how those guys can be so right about Alabama and Ole Miss and so wrong about UGA.
What’s really going on with the fans is their wishes and wants does not jibe with reality. Those that are very upset about yesterday’s result are refusing to accept what had always been a possibility at the back of their minds since the beginning of Smart career with Georgia. I think the best scenario for Smart is to win enough to go and limp into SECCG(by default) just like FU last season with expectation to get whip again by the West Conf. champ.
Count me in with those that think the explanation is as simple as “we don’t have the horses” this year. I really don’t think it’s as complicated as the players not “buying into the process”. Kirby just doesn’t have the RIGHT players for what he wants to do. UGA is no better than a decent Div 2 squad as we stand currently. We are staring down the barrel of an 8 – 4 season at best I’m thinking. Maybe 9 wins if we can squeak past AU. Consider the following:
Kirby has been saying all spring that the kicking game scared him to death.
Kirby has been saying all spring the secondary was not as good as their numbers from last year had advertised.
We all know the risks of starting a true freshman at the QB position.
The O line is a mess thanks to lackluster recruiting by Richt & Co. Kirby can only do so much this this bunch when the talent ceiling is so low in this group. I don’t think any of us expected it to be this bad but could CMR done any better if he were here this year? I’m inclined to say not.
A 4-star D-lineman by the name of Ledbetter is still riding the bench. Who would have thought UGA would have had to deal with his addiction?? So a young and think D line is made even thinner by this.
I’m not saying that Kirby has no fault here. Obviously the dropped passes are a coaching issue. Did these kids forget how to catch balls out of high school? Of course not. This is a coaching problem. The special teams miscues (sans field goals) are also a coaching issue. This is the most maddening part since UGA has a ST coach now which we have been screaming at CMR to hire one for years.
The fans calling for Kirby’s head have no idea what they are talking about. I’m betting they are young 20 something year olds who have nothing better to do that call into Finebaum and tweet all day long.
I think we just all need to adjust our expectations this year. Kirby isn’t a miracle worker. The players at some of the skill positions just aren’t that good. It’s a simple as that…
UGA is no better than a decent Div 2 squad as we stand currently.
I don’t think Bigger realized how damning to Smart that comment is. Smart gets paid a lot of money to produce an SEC team that is a lot better than a Division 2 team.
I do not want to fire him; that would be the worst thing UGA could do. However, if there was any truth to the statement that Smart took a team that was better than beat 7 Power 5 teams and reduced it to the level of a decent Division 2 team he should be fired immediately.
I was overzealous with that Div 2 remark. Obviously, UGA is better than the average Div 2 team…
…But by how much? Hanging on to beat Nicholls seems to make me think not much.
Doubling down on your condemnation of Smart? If he has taken a team that was better than 7 Power 5 teams last year and coached it down to being not much better than a Division 2 team, then he still should be fired immediately.
I disagree with your assessment that we are not much better than a Division 2 team. Your benchmark was Nicholls State, which is a Division 1 team (albeit in the FCS subdivision of Division 1.) Any FCS team ought to be better than a Division 2 team. After all, Division 2 teams can give no more than 36 football scholarships. You really can’t, with a straight face, say we are not much better than Shorter College, or Valdosta State or West Georgia.
I’m curious what the score would have been had Valdosta St. played Ole Miss last Saturday instead of UGA. It’s conjecture of course but the butt whipping I’d guess would be about the same. When a Power 5 teams pulls its starter against another Power 5 team in the 3rd quarter that is a pretty piss poor team they are playing.
My point is that I do believe last year’s team is better than this year’s team. It’s still early in the season but 4 games in, I don’t think you can say with a straight face we will win 10 games this year like we did last year.
“but he doesn’t have Saban’s history”
…or his players, or the experience coaching real-world players… Coaching Saban’s players, it should be patently obvious, is more like coaching pro players than coaching college players.
Christ in a red corvette, folks we had to throw the fucking football 55 times to beat Missouri cause we could not run the damn ball against MISSOURI!!! What exactly did you expect to happen in Oxford?
Kirby, I hope to ever-loving God almighty, may turn out to be the greatest coach in Georgia history, I just hope I am sentient when it happens.
“I think the best scenario for Smart is to win enough to go and limp into SECCG(by default) just like FU last season with expectation to get whip again by the West Conf. champ.”
I don’t know what he is smoking, but I sure am going to need some of it by November.
Eason’s footwork is just terrible.
The worst thing that could have happened yesterday did not happen in Oxford, it happened in Knoxville.
“The people he answers to don’t have a clue. (I’m betting McGarity has begun honing his “remember what Saban’s first season in Tuscaloosa was like” marketing pitch to the fan base and Mark Bradley next offseason. That should work like a charm.)”
And neither, if I may, do the fine folks who led the charge to fire Mark Richt.
Bluto this may be your finest hour…I hope you are wrong, but there’s a voice in my head telling me you are not.
As I look at the schedule, 8 – 4 is certainly doable. Why did we expect more from a first year coach? I was disappointed yesterday, but we are 3 – 1, with several cream puffs left on the schedule. At this point, to me, I am hoping for one win this season over a good team, like Florida or Auburn. I am fine with UT going to ATL; we clearly don’t need to be there.
Very disappointing outing. Glad they took Chubb out. It seems that the enemy D is keying on Chubb so much that playing all the backs would open things up. I am concerned about his injury. Anyone have any idea how serious Chubb’s injury could be?
Brian Van Gorder
Guys, let me know if I can help. Experienced head coach here with a great defensive mindset and extensive resume.
Yeah, right…your Notre Dame defense is simply awesome.
Actually…see above, I should have said “the defense at Notre Dame formerly belonging to Brian Van Gorder.”
Lol, that was funny
You forgot “and always-innovative choices in facial hair.”
I guess I thought that these new coaches might do some of that “coaching up”. You know take a 5 star kid and turn him into an All SEC player and an NFL draft pick.
It’s hard to find any players on this teams that look better than they did last year.
Saban’s style of coaching does not appeal to everyone.
Kirby Smart wants to be Saban, without all of the advantages.
The offensive line is a liability. I’d like to know what sort of playcalls or scheme would turn them into assets or even significantly less liabilities.
The game reminded me of our high school team. They beat the snot out of other 2As because their skill position talent is top-notch. Ranked Top 10 in the state. They lose to 4As badly because the 4A lines are just bigger and faster.
Nothing you can do when the other team is just better on the line on both sides of the ball. Given a month to prepare for a bowl game, maybe you can scheme around those weaknesses and hope for a couple of breaks.
The wins haven’t been as aesthetic as we would like and the L was ugly. But did anyone here think this team was 4-0 material? I didn’t.
Screen pass and toss sweep. Jet sweep and tunnel screen. Essentially anything where they can block someone much smaller than them.
Stop trying to play smash mouth against opponents that outweigh you by 50 lbs.
At this point my biggest worry is that the offensive tackles are going to get our future star QB killed. At one point in the game I feel Eason was justified to seek out Pike on the bench and kick him in the nuts. I am not joking here. Other than that, I am a little concerned that we should be more fundamentally sound than what I am seeing. Kirby has much work to do.
The results were to be expected. Ole Miss Is much better than any
Team In the East. How good, or bad. will the Dawgs be this year?
That question will be answered this week against the Vols.
The “buying in” comments are confusing as hell to me. Most of these athletes started playing football when they were around 8 years old. That means they have all had 10 years or more to become decent players. These guys just need to go back to the basics and DO their job….block, tackle, catch, throw, kick, etc…
While performing above duties, showing passion and hustle is a must. These are the things coaches can demand from our players. If they do not perform then they sit the bench.
I saw such lackluster efforts out of players yesterday that it made me question their passion for the game of football, much less the Old Piss game.
We have a long row to hoe this year…..
blands
Everyone just be patient. The worst thing that can happen is that these coaches get run out of town and Georgia becomes an unstable program hiring and firing coaching staffs every 2-3 years. Stability is really important.
Our lines stink, we have a true Fr QB, and no kicker. Receivers are shaky.
Our best hope was to catch Ole Miss with a Bama hangover and we got their best game.
We need to do some real recruiting and roster management.
8-4 is somewhat realistic and maybe that will include a victory over Tech and someone else decent.
Perhaps this game will turn out to be a “teachable moment” and hopefully we will be a serious SECC threat in 2018.
And let’s kick Notre Dame’s ass next season.
Why are the fan expectations for this team so high?
Why was this team even ranked 11 in the polls.
This is a very young inexperienced team with a freshman QB starting his second game in the SEC, and on the road. As well as a few others on that team
Granted the play was not there at all times. They did do some good things.
The bad. Well, to me they looked like a team that had been on the road for three of their first four games. They had a short week after getting back from a late night game on Saturday and arriving back in Georgia on Sunday. Not good for a team this young and inexperienced. More so playing a team that had tested FSU and Bama, and on both of those teams put up the points. But the Dawgs are nowhere near a Bama or FSU re experience and players.
Now the defense had a very rough game yesterday. I will let up on the offense a little. No pass rush, but hopefully they get an interior D lineman back this week. Ole Miss pretty much did to them what they did to the Tide and Noles. Kelly racked them up.
The D faired about as good as those two teams did in the first half. Now UF is alleged to have the best and deepest D in the SEC. Can thank the current USC coach for that senior and junior laden roster. But the Vols put up 35 unanswered points on them and could have put 7 more in that second half.
The Dawgs do not have the defensive linemen and offensive linemen they need. It will come. Be patient. The roster was set before Smart and company got there, and for all purposes that was February. In any recruiting classes there will be hits and miss.es
A former TECH grad and now sideline reporter / SEC NOW commentator told Freeze post game that Eason is “not an athletic QB”. I guess he means mobile. In fact one of those other game announcers for SEC, former Bama QB, said many times this week [as did others] that Dobbs at UT will not be able to pass on UF.
My point here. Well, Eason is an athlete. Want to check those throws in the end zone that were dropped. Hell, Kelly can not make those throws. Nor Dobbs when freshmen or now. The kid can flat out throw the damn ball. He can put a freaking dime in mason jar at 25 yards and splash out the JD on the rocks.
Look folks, lighten up. For me they are ahead of the pace. Looked for them to drop these games at the beginning…UNC, Ole Miss, UT, UF, and Auburn.
Before this season is over they will start more O line rotation and player rotation. Give them a break and some time.
If your idea of high expectations includes the team taking an FCS opponent reasonably seriously, I guess you have a point.
Easy folks. It’s early
OrlandoDawg
“I’m a patient man, and willing to take a wait-and-see approach until Saturday.”
–Georgia Fan
Unfortunately that’s a common mindset.
Bet at Ole Miss they were saying fire Freeze if we put up 30 points on Georgia and get beat.
Bet at old Rocky Top they were saying fire Butch Jones [man will have a heart attack on the sidelines like some Dawg folks] if he drops another to UF. Hell some of that 102,000 thought they were on the way and left the game at half time.
Now UT comes in. With an experienced three year starter at QB and TB. UT is a team sitting at high expectations for half a decade. Same with Ole Miss. Same with Arkansas. Same with South Carolina. How many times did the old ball coach beat our butts badly. Want to revisit that Clowney game. And yet not one SEC championships team from those teams. What Spurrier went one time to the Dome at USC before he just simply quit in mid season
Dawgs are a team in heavy transition. Want to check the coaches and players who have revolved off that team the past three years. Not one dab of continuity.
Georgia does not have a quality solid roster yet.
Recommend you folks give the current staff a little break and understanding.
Plus we would like to thank the idiots who set this team up at 11 in the polls.
No doubt the man to man coverage is killing the secondary. UNC missed a couple of wide open receivers that would have lead to TD’s and mizzu, Nichols burned the sec, but what Oke Miss did to them was just man among boys kind of stuff. They just scored at will. Easily could have put 60-75 points on us.
We all knowOle Miss had been cheating every sense freeze got there and he will probably be gone sooner rather than later, and ole miss will be on probation, but boy he sure can cheat!
Am I the only one who was wanting to see more Michel and Herrien in place of Chubb? I think Chubb is the best we have, but he is not getting the looks the others are getting. Not saying that would have made all the difference in the game, but let’s go with the back who is “hot”. Bring Chubb in more in the second half until we can get a more balanced attack. When he is in there, the defense is teeing off on this terrible O Line. He is going to get hurt because they are not able to give him ANY space. It’s maddening to watch.
You are not the only one. It seemed our running game was more effective without Chubb in the game.
His long run was a toss sweep….which we promptly abandoned. Boy, that crappy OL sure calls some stupid plays!
Somebody explain how Pruitt gets a top 5 secondary out of this crew last uear and Kirby doesn’t.
Thought I did that. Scheme change.
Let me point out a point that addresses most of the discussion. The defensive backfield this year contains the same players that were back there last year. Now I know that Ole Miss is a special case because they air it out. How does this back field go from being one of the best against the pass to being a hot mess when the only thing that changed was the coaches. Pruitt, love him or hate him knew how to coach the whole defense to adjust for it’s weaknesses. Kirby has them playing like Bama and that is exposing the things that Pruitt had to deal with. Kirby is willing to put his player in a position to fail just because it’s the Alabama way. We are screwed. The players are getting a weekly dose of negative reinforcement from getting beaten and I’m not sure if Kirby GAS. We may in the next few years become the Alabama of the East but I wouldn’t bet the farm on it.
You did. I looked for it and couldn’t find it. My question is rhetorical, really. It doesn’t appear that Kirby believes he can get that that kind of production out of this secondary due to the lack of a pass rush. It doesn’t appear he had tried, either.
Sorry, 69, that was for Blutarsky. You asked what I have been wondering. I’ll hang up and listen now.
Let’s also no forget the Mel Tucker affect. I told you he was a complete flop here in Chicago for the Bears and people couldn’t run him off fast enough. Same story at other NFL teams before he was the DB coach for one year at Bama. He could turn out to be a great DC or he could turn out to be a real bust. For our sake, I hope it’s the latter and not the former.
I really think the biggest issues right now are at OL and DL. If either line was better at least you might be able to hang with a really good team, but having both sides dominated consistently almost assures you of taking the L. It seems basic to break it down that way, but it has been that way for a while. The years UGA has had decent play on both lines it has won a majority of the games. This year is looking pretty bleak unless these guys can gel and start dominating the opponent to an extent. I have seen none of that this year with the exception of Trent Thompson in the Nicholls game. I think the UNC game was a bit of a misleading game. They suck defending the run.
Please take down the “quote of the day”.
Not the feature….just that particular quote.
Mad Hatter gone at LSU….
JUST WIN BABY!
How long till some dope here want to hire him?
Mr Herman call for Mr Herman!!!
I am hearing that many simply aren’t buying in…so you get our players showing up and going through the motions or half stepping. This wouldn’t shock me and would explain why we seem like we are sleepwalking in all or parts of our game…
As others have said coaching is harder when you do not have the Alabama benefits. You have to inspire them and they don’t seem inspired. I saw a quote from Kirby that said Eason needed to take better control of the huddle. He is a freshman they need to support him not lay blame at his feet. The team lacked chemistry this week. They had it the first game and against Mizzou but it was gone yesterday. His job as coach is to bring them together as a team. They are stronger when they work together. It is too soon to call for anybody’s head. LSU is stupid to fire now. Kirby needs to start building up his team not by saying things that are untrue but praising.their strenghts and scheming to use those strenghths. We are who we are and we need to be behind our team and our coach.
junkyardawg41
I really have to look at some of the things we are doing and wonder about the buy in and whether we are doing the square peg in the round hole. I had a couple of thoughts and take aways from yesterday. Most have pointed out the defensive struggles and what it reminds me of most is the Grantham years. We all love Pruitt’s players talking about being able to go out and make plays. Yes Pruitt was protecting the defensive backfield but the last two years our defense was in the top 15 (including 7 last year). I am not sure how you lose a few players and drop to 59th nationally without a confusing playbook/technique.
With the offense, several people talk about Chubb and his lack of production. I have seen a loss of a step versus last year but I have also seen what I will call coach focus versus player focus. Chubb had excellent vision and would go out and find the daylight. If you look at how he runs, he follows the play exactly. If the hole is not there, he hits it anyway. Same with Michel. I think we are seeing the effects of run the ball here and be consistent. I don’t think that is where Chubb’s strength lies. Personally, I think that is a CKS thing.
Also, I have to wonder about all the focus being placed on blocking and if it is bleeding over into the receivers focus on catching the ball. I understand CKS’s comments about catching the ball is the easiest thing a receiver can do… but if you aren’t practicing it enough, it ceases to be the easiest thing.
Kaaya leads No. 25 Miami over Appalachian State 45-10
Brad Kaaya threw for 368 yards and three scores, Mark Walton ran for 130 yards and two touchdowns and No. 25 Miami rolled to a 45-10 win Saturday over Appalachian State in front of a record crowd
The Old Jeffster
No one should be shocked at defeat at Oxford and no one should be shocked at a number of other “L’s” along the way this season. I wish Smart could have worked the freshman into his QB rotation a little more gradually but he had no better choice. Clearly the win in Atlanta raised everyone’s expectations a tad too high on this group. They whys of how it seems so fouled up will come out in time; the good ole-fashioned eyeball test says we don’t have the caliber of players to adapt to a new system and win big in the SEC. But I’m far from writing off the season after one loss.
We knew going into the year that lacked experience and/or depth at QB, WR, DL, and OL. Four games in, it is readily apparent that the Rhode Island transfer is not Anthony Munoz in disguise, and that the OL is just five guards thrown out there indiscriminately because it wouldn’t matter if thought were given as to where they should play. We have eight guards, and the last I checked only two should play at a time. We have zero offensive tackles. The WR’s, despite their promise, are undersized, lack any consistency catching the ball, and aren’t good blockers. The DL is like Trenton Thompson and a few body doubles. Our DBs are asked to cover for an eternity because the front is not generating any pass rush. Aside from that, the team is just chock full of All-SEC performers.
There is no amount of coaching that will turn a guard into a tackle. Either you can play in space or not. None of our guys can. They also can’t push anyone around, so playing tight formations to avoid a speed rush is also a failure. How do you formulate any sort of offensive identity when your OL can’t play in space or in tight formations? What plays would you like for them to call? What identity do you want them to have? So far this year, they’ve had more success slinging it around a little bit. If you don’t think that is Kirby trying to adapt to what he has on his roster, then I’m not sure you really are being honest with yourselves.
The problem is that UGA can’t be a power running team. The OL can’t do it. They can’t pass block either, but we try to get them help with a RB or TE on the edge rushers. That typically gives Eason enough time to throw it, but the WRs aren’t holding up their end of the bargain. If you can’t run it like you want to, and you can’t pass it because the WRs won’t catch it, and you can’t kick it because your kickers are basket cases, then what do you have left? A 7-5 team… maybe. Unless this team turns into something it hasn’t shown it is capable of to this point, it is going to be the rebuilding year that UGA was destined to have under Richt anyway (similar to 2006, 2010). Next year will be better, and 2018 should be even better. If things haven’t changed by then, it may be time to revisit the topic. Otherwise, enjoy the wifi.
Installing his players and his system aside, this team looks as poorly disciplined and coached as I’ve seen. Then he throws the players under the bus and promises more effort next week. Lmao. I didn’t see effort being much of an issue this week. I saw bad penalties and guys acting like they’d won the game after finally making a play while we were down 3-4 touchdowns.
At some point he’s gonna have to stop pointing fingers and talking about the process and actually show it.
Looks like we got Coach Mus-smart
First tee Hazeltine….Arnie’s red, white and blue wing tips as tee markers….can’t get any better than that!
Long live The King!!
Yesterday was going to happen whether the coach was Smart, Saban, Richt, Bryant, or Lombardi. Maybe not against Ole Miss, but it was absolutely going to happen.
Kirby’s biggest challenge is cleaning out ten years’ worth of Richt’s chronic tolerance of half-ass.
Kirby’s second biggest challenge at UGA is recruiting. The 2013 class had 33 players. There are 8 left. THREE ARE STARTERS. Three senior starters from a signing class of 33. A grad transfer from Virginia started at QB last year and a grad transfer from RHODE FREAKING ISLAND starts at LT this year. This DL has to be in the bottom half of the SEC. The OL, LB, DB, and WR are in the bottom third. At best. How Lorenzo Carter was a five star is beyond me. Outside of QB, RB, and TE, Kirby has exactly d**k. Give him time.
Okay, Pruitt had exactly the same dick in the secondary (actually, worse dick since we added Maurice Smith this year) and he coached far better results from the secondary. Four of the five dicks on the o-line last year are back. We had a 1,100 yard rusher and another runner who averaged 150 yards per game before his injury. The new LT’s problem is pass blocking, not run blocking. Think the same dicks this year will produce a 1,000 yard rusher?
Stan, even if we trotted out 11 dicks from a Class A high school to play against Nicholls State and Ole Miss good coaching would result in those 11 knowing what coverage to run, even if they are overmatched. By contrast, we could have suited up the Denver Broncos defense against Ole Miss but if our coaches cannot get them all running the same coverages then that talent can be exploited.
12 men on the field, missed assignments, stupid penalties and lack of focus are coaching issues, not talent issues.
Pruitt had a pass rush last year in Floyd and Jenkins. A pass rush makes a secondary much better.
Georgia also played practically nobody who could throw the ball effectively. They’ve faced three better passing teams in their first four games this year than they saw all last season, with the possible exception of Alabama.
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This is fine.
College football attendance continues to decline.
Major-college football experienced its largest per-game attendance drop in 34 years and second-largest ever, according to recently released NCAA figures.
Attendance among the 129 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) teams in 2017 was down an average of 1,409 fans per game from 2016. That marked the largest drop since 1983 when average attendance declined 1,527 fans per game from 1982.
The 2017 FBS average of 42,203 fans per game is the lowest since 1997.
I knew those players taking a damned knee during the National Anthem… oh, wait.
How about this, then? Those liberals just don’t appreciate ‘Murica’s greatness like they used to… um, what’s that you say?
Even the most rabid league in the country saw a dip. In 2017, the SEC experienced its sharpest per-game decline — down an average 2,433 fans — since 1992. That figure led the Power Five in fans lost per game in 2017.
While the SEC led all FBS conferences in average attendance for the 20th consecutive year, its average attendance (75,074) was the lowest since 2005. The SEC has slipped an average of 2,926 fans per game (3.7 percent) since a record 78,630 average in 2015.
Well, dayum, Johnny, what’s the problem?
College sports has long been at odds with how to manage the time/value relationship. In other words, how to make attendance at a live event more valuable than the alternatives, which range from remaining at a tailgate outside the venue to viewing on a smartphone while on the go to watching in the comfort of one’s living room.
“It’s a technology issue,” said Wright Waters, Football Bowl Association executive director and former Sun Belt commissioner. “The public is ahead of us every day in what they can get from technology. We have not been able to keep up.”
One former Power Five athletic director called it a “societal shift” leading the powers that be scrambling to figure out the viewing habits of millennials as well as well-heeled alumni.
“This is not surprising to me,” said Bill Lutzen, a veteran sports TV programmer who is currently the CFO of a web optimization firm. “This issue is with lack of involvement of the college students. They no longer view attending sporting events as part of the university experience.”
Gee, you mean there’s a price to pay for crapping all over your fan base? Who’da thunk it? Certainly not the geniuses who’ve been selling out the sport to whatever broadcast partner they can find with some cash to spend. Well played, everyone.
Ordinarily, I’d say it’s something to bring to the attention a certain someone at Butts-Mehre, but he’ll be long gone by the time this particular poo hits the proverbial fan.
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My top 5 reasons. My game-day experience centers on winning even if I have to hold my water for 4 hours.
1.) every game on TV
2.) higher ticket prices
3.) irregular start times
4.) high price of concessions/parking
5.) countless commercial and replay timeouts
Big screen HD TV
Stocked refrigerator
No line when waiting to pee.
No drive and walk…in rain or heat or freezing cold.
No drunks.
bulldogbry
“While the SEC led all FBS conferences in average attendance for the 20th consecutive year, its average attendance (75,074) was the lowest since 2005.”
Ironically, the LAST time we won the SEC. Somehow, we’re gonna get blamed for this, aren’t we?
It is all tied together. With the conference, esp. the East, bottom heavy.
Tennessee usually packs in 100K but they are the bottom feeder now. So their attendance would be down..as would UF’s.
The same reason UGA had a cakewalk to the SECE championship. UT and UF suck and even their fans know it.
Maybe Tennessee and Vandy can play at Bristol this year. “Bottom Feeders Bowl”..That would help.
But the raw #’s and avg were up at Vandy, Kentucky and USC.
Senator, didn’t the WWL lose viewers as well? That would signal something other than stadium game experience falling off.
Pretty sure viewership was down. My theory is there are simply way more options than ever before and I think the concussion awareness among Joe Fan is much, much higher than it used to be and it’s having an impact (albeit a small one most likely).
College teams aren’t protesting like the NFL, so we can’t use that a potential reason like it can for the NFL ratings slide. I think we’re seeing people tune out live TV in general.
The EPL (English soccer league) just sold its rights in Great Britain for the same rate is it did in the last negotiation window after the previous two windows jumped significantly. I think globally there’s been a push to consume content when people want as opposed to live.
Concussion awareness was in the forefront of my thoughts as well.
75 inch 4k tv with perfect camera angles, 7 speaker surround, BBQ on the BGE and cooler of beer on deck, perfect weather, no restroom lines or traffic issues, no drunk slob taking up half your seat while cursing explatives at a long departed OC, no cost (other than beer and BBQ), no getting up before dawn for noon games or getting home after midnight for night games, ability to switch to other games during halftime or myriad breaks in action, no worries about drunk driving/drivers…
Hmm…I can’t possibly figure out why attendance is declining.
No live football in 4K as far as I know…YMMV.
You needn’t count the cost of BBQ and beer, as you have to eat and drink beer on Saturday, football or no.
Keep raising prices, keep making tailgating difficult, don’t worry too much about anything except the most spartan stadium improvements for the fans, and keep allowing TV to control the tempo of the game.
This is the formula for getting people to stay at home.
I guess that’s one explanation. Another one might be that the programs most responsible for the dip in 2017 were Arkansas (-6,300), Ole Miss (-6,300), Tennessee (-5,200), Texas A&M (-3,100), and LSU (-2,700). Seeing as all of those coaching situations were tenuous, might I suggest that fan optimism plays a larger role than technology or those damn kids?
There are always programs suffering down years. Don’t see how that explains a trend.
It’s two years following a record high. I don’t think that’s a trend. And the programs who have been both good and stable haven’t dipped (unless you’re fretting over a few hundred at Auburn).
Sorry… I was talking about the general trend in CFB.
But on the SEC, I assume there have always been programs that have suffered through poor seasons, so why are we seeing a dip now and not before?
I think it ebbs and flows, and we saw a peak right before a whole lot of things happened to reduce attendance at a lot of programs all at once. Missouri’s campus problems followed by a coaching change in 2015 killed 2016, and they haven’t recovered. A&M fan expectations were on a decline, so we saw a year to year decline in both 2016 and 2017 there. Florida fans like offense, and the end of the 2015 season was brutal for them, so a decline for them in both 2016 and 2017. Ole Miss went up between 2015 and 2016, then plummeted again with their probation. I can go on, but I think if you analyze each situation individually you don’t get a simple answer about the state of modern college football. There’s no obvious reason for attendance not to rebound everywhere but maybe Missouri.
The SEC as a whole had a bit of down year. Look at how terrible Florida and Tennessee were when was the last time both UT and UT didn’t make a bowl?
I would also argue the playoff has devalued the regular season resulting lower attendance.
Yes, the playoff [sic] has devalued the regular season.
In case you’re wondering about the dip from 2015 to 2016, the major dips belonged to Missouri (nearly -13,000!), Kentucky (-7,600, which I don’t understand. Am I missing something about 2015 Kentucky?) and Florida (-2,200).
I forgot MSU who fell over 3,400 per game from 2015 to 2016, which makes sense.
Joe Dash (@Dashlok)
Schools regularly report student tickets as sold out even when the students don’t show up. How does BM convince the kids to wake up early for the likes of Austin Peay? Intimidation of course! The school can track if you do (or don’t) use your student tickets because they are 100% electronic and tied to the student’s personal ID card. If you don’t show up for games you can lose the rest of the season. This has the added benefit of allowing all resales to flow through BM, because most students are not keen on just giving their student ID to a stranger.
So now you get the students walk over to the game when the gates open, scan their tickets and then walk back out to go back home/downtown. Those seats remain empty, even if there was another student that maybe would have gone (Particularly for games like that when students likely would just give them away).
This obviously applies to students and not the rest of us, but just one example of how It’s not just technology.
How to fix this.
All un-scanned student tickets go on sale for 10 bucks apiece five minutes after kickoff.
A standby buyer gets if for ten bucks.
If the student shows up in say 15 minutes, he gets another no-show’s ticket if there are any left.
After 20 minutes, the tardy student has to get in the stand by line and pay 10 bucks like the other standbys.
None of this effects the student’s future ticket status.
But it will piss off scalpers.
Amazing stuff can be accomplished with technology.
Would this work?
That last quote basically reads like “It’s those damned kids!” to me.
tony barnfart
The college student drop-off is pretty concerning . I simply don’t understand how you could live in Athens, have access to season tickets for apx $50 and still not attend the games.
For others, a lot of the problem is the total cost to do it “right.” Nobody wants to tailgate 1.5miles from a stadium. (so you pay out the — for parking). People would love to recreate the college weekend experience but not at $400+ per night for a room. So the all-in cost for a good experience becomes expensive and the “do-it-on-the-cheap” option ends up being kind of a pain in the rear that isn’t all that cheap.
Bogart Double Dawg
As a many year financial supporter of the “Dawg House” by Joe Purcell in Athens, that distance isn’t bad. We have a bus (a short bus…no comments there please) that takes us to the stadium and picks us up. Best tailgating there is, tvs bathrooms and a kitchen. Look it up and you’ll probably get an invite. That’s the fun you can have here..,
Yeah – that rubbed me the wrong way. Rather than figuring out how to engage your customers, let’s just blame the kids because they and adults our own age don’t consume content the exact way we believe they should.
To me TV is a poor substitute for being in the stadium but if they keep upping the prices we will end up watching at home too.
“This issue is with lack of involvement of the college students. They no longer view attending sporting events as part of the university experience.”
I remember a few years ago there was a heated discussion on this blog about whether all the students who want tickets should get tickets and if the student section should be close to the field. Now, we are seeing the results of not engaging the students.
The results of not engaging the students, along with dropping TV viewers leading to less TV revenue, will change the sport. Add CTE and it doesn’t bode well for the long term future.
The students are not just not interested in College, it goes back to High School. I went to see my Nephew’s school play my Mother’s and Grandfather’s High School in the playoffs. It was the 1st time for my Nephew’s school to make the playoffs in their ~20 year history. Attendance was about the same a a typical home game from my time in school and my school never stood a chance of making the playoffs back in the 90s when I was there.
The model for College is going to have to change in the coming decades. I also believe fantasy leagues are keeping the NFL rating up which will eventually change.
*interested in College football
Yep, I agree Otto. It’s just not “must see” like it was when we were in college. It happened to baseball, and it will happen to football.
High school football has nothing to do with college football viewership, IMO. I couldn’t give a shit about HS ball when I was there (I didn’t choose the school), but I was a RABID CFB fan when I arrived in Athens (I grew up a UGA fan).
dawgxian
If you don’t see the effect of the players protesting idiots getting themselves shot by cops during the anthem, you are living in a bubble. It’s not just stats. I know multiple people who won’t nothing to do with the NFL and refused to watch the Super Bowl. I’ve never seen anything like this
Maybe you missed it, but the post is about college football attendance.
Isn’t that the same savant who missed the whole idea on a post yesterday?
My favorite part was a vague reference to stats immediately followed up with anecdotal evidence as irrefutable.
Right-wing dude with right-wing friends discover evidence that totally is in line with their world view… gee, now there’s a shocker.
Goes both ways.
You could fit all the left wing dudes in the west end zone at Sanford.
And there would still be room left over in the west end zone.
Mg4life0331
You used this quote to discredit the population decline. Taking a shot at the “protest protesters?” that’s a bit talking out of both sides.
Good Lord, man, it was a joke. And I wasn’t discrediting the attendance decline. I was kidding about the rationale some have suggested for the NFL.
I get your joke. Im just saying you cant rag the guy for bringing up something you already did imo. YMMV
You know multiple people who “won’t nothing to do with the NFL?”
How interesting.
That of course has nothing to do with attendance at college football games, but thanks so much for that particularly insightful contribution.
Granthams replacement
The Masters has a pretty good model that the conferences should replicate.
ATL Dawg
The decline of football started a few years back.
I feel sorry for people who think their Hartman Fund points are going to be worth a shit in 20-30 years.
As my Hartman Fund points go up and up the out of town and postseason games I qualify for go down and down. The only value of my Hartman points right now is I keep the seats I like and a free media guide. You could say your 20 year projection is closer than you think.
Yes – we hit peak football right around 2010/2011. It had nowhere to go but down. It will be a long slow slide but something could speed it up. Concussion and health issues most prominently.
College football programs having to rethink and retrench to woo back live attendance. Whoda thunk it?
I don’t know about that. It seems they’ve noticed the dip and responded with the same ole same ole. MOAR WIFI!!!1!1
Oh I definitely think it’ll be the better part of a decade before we see seats being widened, cushioned, and/or removed, or any other sea change attempting to draw fans back. But it has happened. See Trade School, North Avenue, circa early 80’s.
SlawDawg
Could this have anything to do with the rising number of neutral site games rather than strictly on-campus match ups? The Benz – for example – (and the Dome before it) has a smaller seating capacity than quite a few SEC stadiums. Alabama/FSU opening this year in Atlanta missed out on a few thousand attendees in Tallahassee (~80,000 capacity) and tens of thousands in Tuscaloosa (~100,000 capacity). The $$$ must be better than the crowd.
Even with the recent price hike for disney tickets I can still get in the gate of the magic kingdom for less than the price of a decent UGA ticket. At disney there will be no shortage of people to help make my experience great. At a UGA game I will be explaining to my son why the young man leaving the bathroom only has one shirt sleeve and there is shit all over the bathroom wall.
Reipar
That is odd. Your price comment indicates you have the best seat in the stadium but your bathroom comment indicates you are in the student section.
I told’em that people would buy Disney tickets instead if they didn’t put a urinal trough off the top back of the North stands that flows sideways and down to the two bathrooms there. Think of the view of downtown Athens while relieving yourself. Or maybe just a small shelter built onto the side of the Skyboxes that flows into their bathroom.
Hell, no one listens to anyone suggesting the pleasures of outdoor peeing.
What was your explanation – careless shitter who had to use his shirtsleeve to wipe?
Austin Peay, Middle Tennessee, UMass, Vandy, Tennessee, Auburn, Ga Tech. Not sure much more needs be said. And our schedule is similar to most others…unfortunately.
So let’s go ahead and raise the price on those attend, make em crap in porta pots, stand in long lines for overpriced concessions and make em park on Mars so they don’t mess up campus for 6-7 days a year. Of course we aren’t surprised we we treat em like hamburger.
Georgia’s attendance hasn’t budged in at least the last four years by the official numbers. It’s sellouts all the way down.
I know the tickets get sold and that’s all that counts…for now. I’d like to see the numbers on actual butts in seats. To me, that seems to be the leading indicator of future ticket sales problems. People will pay those Hartman and ticket fees for a few years, even if they aren’t going as much. But at some point it becomes too big of a pain and they drop tickets all together. With less students turning into money-spending young alumni, that’s going to eventually catch up.
Unfortunately, that’s when the big schools go to the NFL model with fewer, more expensive seats, PSLs, and the rest. Then it becomes a social/business expense rather than a football game.
Tickets sold is what pays the bills…they can’t make folks attend…
I’ve opined on this topic for years………the likes of BM can’t see anything but TV revenue and increasing donations. They have no clue that their continued focus on seemingly making it less fun to actually attend a game, will eventually lead to a decline.
My children are 25 and 23. They were brought up coming to football, basketball, baseball in Athens. I was able to coax them into coming to the National Championship game with me. No other games.
And the “fan” experience at the Natty was…………….well you know. And that had nothing to do with the outcome.
That upper deck will be tented over sooner than they expect. I’m much closer to all TV and the younger generation isn’t going to replace us.
Some what on the subject but I was watching the start of Speed Week at Daytona and noticed that as part of their new renovation they had put in seat backs of varying colors mixed it looked like at random so that it was very hard to tell if people were in the seats or they were just empty. If you are going to just have a television production I can see ESPN/The Mouse using special effects to make the fans look real for TV. The fan ticket prices are just chump change now compared with the TV money.
Stegman has new black seats so you can’t see they are empty…………
If someone can bring robofans to market, they’ll make a fortune.
Talledega has been this way for quite a few years, look over there from I-20 and you’d swear there was something going on.
Yeah somehow the fact that I couldn’t get a full season’s worth of student tickets while I was attending coupled with the university trying to get me to start paying into the Hartman fund before even graduating didn’t really sit well with me.
Maybe in the future treat your future alumni base like they’re valued by you, not just a resource to be drained.
Have had disagreements with you in the past, if unexpressed, but you are right here. Absolutely right.
Didn’t realize you were so young though, unless I’m wrong I thought the no season tickets was less than a decade or so old. Of course I could be wrong, wouldn’t be the first or last time.
Class of ’09. They were doing full and half-season packages depending on the number of requests. You know, rather than just fulfilling the student requests for tickets because, hey, we were the students. Nope. Too much money to be made off of others.
By the way thanks for referring to me as “so young.” LOL
For me, it came down to $$$$. Not going to spend the money to watch crappy teams play, spend way too much time getting there and back, and last but not least, I got tired of the crowds. Call me an old curmudgeon, it would fit, but stay home and spend those $$$ on travel. It is all ones priorities.
As an aside: years ago I bought Seahawks season ticket. Then they made you pay for the “pre season” games as part of the ticket. Kinda like watching Austin Peay or UW vs Portland State.
The Georgia Way
Rest assured, this is not a problem at Georgia.
#COMMITTOTHEG
McDoofus and the rubber stamp board do not care that the current students are the folks who would have to replace ticket buyers such as me. If McDoofus cannot get the students interested in football when it is cheap and convenient then he damn sure won’t get them interested in 10 years when it is a big time and money commitment.
He does not care because television money will replace ticket money, you say.
If he doesn’t get them interested in football now they aren’t going to watch it later, and the broadcast value will go down.
Of course, McDoofus and the current board members will be gone and it will be someone else’s problem.
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By Erik Moeller, Wikimedia Foundation
From late October to early November 2008, the Wikimedia Foundation and UNU-Merit conducted the first multilingual survey of Wikipedia readers and contributors in 20 languages. In total, more than 130,000 Wikipedia readers and contributors completed the extensive survey questionnaire (out of more than 300,000 people total who took at least part of the questionnaire).* This level of response far exceeded our expectations, and the data that was collected provides a wealth of information about the Wikipedia community. English, German and Spanish were the most responsive Wikipedia editions and together make up two thirds of the responses.The UNU-Merit team has spent
From late October to early November 2008, the Wikimedia Foundation and UNU-Merit conducted the first multilingual survey of Wikipedia readers and contributors in 20 languages. In total, more than 130,000 Wikipedia readers and contributors completed the extensive survey questionnaire (out of more than 300,000 people total who took at least part of the questionnaire).* This level of response far exceeded our expectations, and the data that was collected provides a wealth of information about the Wikipedia community. English, German and Spanish were the most responsive Wikipedia editions and together make up two thirds of the responses.
The UNU-Merit team has spent the previous months cleaning and preparing the data, and is now making available first results for some of our priority questions. Key outcomes of this first analysis include:
65% of respondents self-described as readers, and 35% as (mostly occasional) contributors. Former contributors are analysed separately.
Respondents came from over 200 countries, ranging from 10 to 85 years completed the survey; their average age is 26 years, and 25% of the respondents are younger than 18 years. Female respondents are a bit younger than the average (24 years)
Among these, readers and contributors are on average in their mid-twenties, and predominantly male (75%)
Women, with a share of 25% in all respondents, are more strongly represented among readers (32%) and less strongly represented among contributors (13%).
Both educational levels and age are slightly higher among contributors than among readers.
Regarding their motivations to contribute, respondents mentioned as their top two reasons that (1) they liked the idea of sharing knowledge, and (2) that they had come across an error and wanted to fix it.
The concern that they might not have enough information to contribute is the main reason holding back potential contributors, mentioned by 51% of this group. Fourty-eight percent mentioned they were happy readers of Wikipedia, and saw no reason to get involved as contributors.
The most common reason why respondents have not donated money to the Wikimedia Foundation, mentioned by more than 42% of respondents, is that they don’t know how. (If you happen to be one of them, we suggest you go to donate.wikipedia.org ;-) )
Ruediger Glott and Philipp Schmidt from UNU-Merit have made available additional data in the online workbook of their analysis (PDF file), and we’re planning to give you regular updates with new data every couple of weeks from now on. The survey team also maintains its own website at wikipediastudy.org.
This is a landmark moment in the history of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement. These and future findings that will result from this data will help to shape our efforts to reach new contributors and new readers. The Wikimedia Foundation wishes to thank everyone who has made this survey possible, especially the UNU-Merit Team and the community of translators.
Erik Moeller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
* In addition to the 130,000 responses overall, we’ve received 40,000 responses from the Russian Wikipedia, which very significantly overrepresents this group in the total response set. The survey team has excluded this group from the data until the possible causes for this overrepresentation can be fully understood.
[UPDATE 4/16] Naoko Komura, who project-managed the survey translation and launch on the Wikimedia Foundation side, sent a list of translators who helped us to run this survey in 20 languages. They are: Jeandré du Toit, Mohamed Magdy, Meno25, Toni Pulido, Jordi Roqué Figuls, Xavier SMP, Zirland, MF-Warburg, Tim Landscheidt, Michael Bimmler, Arno Lagrange, Ariel T. Glenn, Ziko van Dijk, Verónica Rivero, Salvador Espada, Sébastien Beyou, Plyd, Delphine Ménard, Philippe Verdy, Daniel U. Thibault, Maximilian Hasler, Rex Alberto, Morris Mastini, Federico Leva, Hatukanezumi, Henrdrik Maryns, Robin P., Wojciech Pędzich, McMonster, Jennifer Hobbs, Thomas Buckup, Aleksandr Sigachov, Ilya Haykinson, Mayooranathan Ratnavelupillai, BalaSundaraRaman, C.R. Selvakumar, Manop Kaewmoracharoen, Nguyễn Thanh Quang, Trần Vĩnh Tân, Ting Chen, Andrew Leung. Thanks to all of them for their help — it’s wonderful to have so much volunteer support in a project like this. Thanks also to Naoko herself, who helped to create the Japanese translation, and to the UNU-Merit webmasters, Herman Pijpers and Mourik Jan Heupink. :-)<
5 Comments on First preliminary results from UNU-Merit Survey of Wikipedia Readers and Contributors available
SJ 11 years
This is brilliant. That 2/3 of readers who took time to respond are male is surprising. Many congratulations on completing this phase of the survey. Are there thoughts yet on how to revise questions in surveys to come?
Lengra 11 years
I don’t understand why you published the results before you have actually done your investigation. Without those 40 000 answers the statistics cannot be considered correct.
Why did I even bother to answer the questionnaire when I should have know I don’t matter…
Bruno ANTOINE 11 years
Hello. If I am right, just a few of the respondents are regular contributors. Best regards.
Awadewit 11 years
Self-selecting samples, such as the one used in this study, are usually quite skewed. The one piece of data listed here that we might be able to externally verify is the percentage of contributors vs. readers (it could at least be approximated). Has this been done and, if so, what was the result?
bluebirch 11 years
I think the “don’t know how to donate” is largely because not everybody has a credit card. Therefore it would help to have the different chapters more visible on the donate page and explicitly direct people who don’t want to use a credit card (or PayPale) to them.
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Natasha Lewer
Rohingya crisis: Vaccinating children inside the world’s largest refugee camp
Natasha Lewer has recently returned to the UK from Bangladesh. She blogs about her time with nurse Chrissie McVeigh inside Kutupalong refugee camp as Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) raced to vaccinate as many children as possible against diphtheria.
It’s 8 am on a day in late March and a crowd has gathered outside the gate of MSF’s hospital in Kutupalong, Bangladesh. They are all Rohingya volunteers, ready to take part in the final day of a mass diphtheria vaccination campaign in the largest of the refugee camps in eastern Bangladesh, home to an estimated 300,000 people.
In their midst stands MSF nurse Chrissie, with clipboard, rucksack and shalwar kameez, orchestrating the day’s activities. In two minutes they are off, at speed, dodging rickshaws and overloaded lorries, down the busy roadside towards the entrance to Kutupalong makeshift camp, a vast, dense maze of huts that spreads across the hills into the far distance.
"This is the beginning of a seven-hour journey on foot, up and down steep hills, across bamboo bridges, crisscrossing the camp."
MSF nurse Chrissie McVeigh and her team prepare for the day ahead. Photo: Natasha Lewer/MSF
For Chrissie and the outreach team, this is the beginning of a seven-hour journey on foot, up and down steep hills, across bamboo bridges, crisscrossing the camp and reaching its very furthest edges – all at the peak of the hot, dry season.
Preventing the next outbreak
Diphtheria broke out in the camps in December 2017 – the first major outbreak of the disease for decades. Airborne, it spread fast through the crowded camps, infecting 6,000 people and causing 40 deaths, most of them children. The current vaccination campaign, organised jointly by the Bangladeshi Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO) and MSF, will ensure such an outbreak cannot happen again.
The Ministry of Health has taken the lead on the practical side of the campaign, providing teams of vaccinators, overseeing the cold chain (the vaccines are sensitive to heat and must be kept cool to be effective) and distributing the vaccines. The WHO has provided training and data collection, alert to any areas that might have been missed. MSF’s role has been to provide logistical support and additional vaccination teams, to mobilise the community, and – most importantly – to formulate the plan.
“What exactly is the plan?” I ask Chrissie.
“Simply to vaccinate as many children as possible,” she says.
“If we can vaccinate 25,000 children today, we will have reached our target.”
From every hillock in the camp, you can spot a handful of the 62 vaccination sites, each flying a yellow flag. Each site is staffed by a team of 10, and each team will aim to vaccinate 350-400 children in the course of this final day.
“If we can vaccinate 25,000 children today, we will have reached our target,” says Chrissie.
A line of children wait to be vaccinated against diphtheria. Photo: Natasha Lewer/MSF
Most of the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh did not receive even basic healthcare in Myanmar. They have no experience of vaccinations. As a result, rumours abound, with some people believing that the needles will tattoo their children’s skin, amongst other things.
Such misinformation and distrust within the community means that the ground had to be prepared carefully before the campaign kicked off. MSF enlisted the help of 100 Rohingya volunteers, all of whom live in the camp and know it intimately.
“As volunteers, we use our knowledge of our culture and customs and how people are thinking to provide support from the community’s side,” says volunteer supervisor Ruhul. “We discuss problems and then we come up with a solution.”
With his co-volunteers Zakhir and Shamshu Alam, Ruhul approached the head imam, followed by other religious and community leaders, to convince them of the importance of the campaign. Only with their approval could they be sure that people in the camps would allow their children to be vaccinated.
"The smaller ones howl, squirming on elder sisters’ laps, but the older ones smile stoically as they receive their jabs."
Ruhul and Chrissie step neatly across a skinny bridge just two bamboo poles wide, heading for a hut with a yellow flag on the hill above. Ruhul carries an umbrella to protect himself from the fierce sun; Chrissie stops at a hand pump to soak her scarf in water and drape it over her head. “On these days, the temperature’s anything from 32 to 40 degrees,” says Chrissie, “and it can be a challenge to encourage people to come out of their houses in the middle of the day.”
Chrissie and her team spend seven hours covering as much of Kutupalong as possible. Photo: Natasha Lewer/MSF
By way of encouragement, a volunteer with a megaphone tours the area, reminding people in a booming voice that this is their final chance to protect their children from diphtheria.
Inside the hut on the top of the next hill, Alif and Sarmin are checking immunisation cards and vaccinating a line of children. The smaller ones howl, squirming on elder sisters’ laps, but the older ones smile stoically as they receive their jabs, then hold out little fingers to have their nails marked with black felt-tip pen.
The aim is to vaccinate all children aged between six weeks and 15 years. As many of the older girls are reluctant to venture out in public to the vaccination sites, female vaccinators like Sarmin gather all the teenage girls in the neighbourhood together in one house and vaccinate them in private.
Chrissie and Ruhul pick their way towards the next site, along narrow paths around the backs of houses, up slippery slopes and around the edges of small valleys planted with rice and other crops. They pass door-to-door salesmen, shops selling groceries and boys hauling sacks of firewood. Everywhere there is activity in the camp, as its residents prepare for the upcoming rainy season – frequently they step aside to make way for men balancing bundles of bamboo poles on their shoulders and children collecting buckets of mud for house repairs.
“To me, walking around the camps and checking in on the vaccination points is just a privilege,” says Chrissie. “You rarely take the main path – you go around the sides of people’s houses, seeing the detail of their lives and being able to stop and say hello. This is what MSF means by proximity – it’s what we believe in and what we should be doing. We don’t sit in an office telling someone else to do the job. To walk around, meet people, hear their concerns, reassure them – that’s what it’s about.”
The last stop is the distribution point back near the main road, where the teams meet to hand over their tally sheets from the day. Dr Jobayer of the WHO puts the data straight into his computer. He confirms that, over the three rounds of the campaign, a total of 340,000 children have been protected against diphtheria in the Kutupalong-Balukhali megacamp – a remarkable achievement.
If you live in the UK, please donate to MSF UK’s winter 2018 appeal to support our work with Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
If you live elsewhere in the world, please click here to make a donation.
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Refugees in Jordan: Recruiting the right team
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and in the cutting of stones for settings and in the carving of wood, so as to perform in every inventive work. "He also has put in his heart to teach, both he and Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. "He has filled them with skill to perform every work of an engraver and of a designer and of an embroiderer, in blue and in purple and in scarlet material, and in fine linen, and of a weaver, as performers of every work and makers of designs. Scripture Verse Christian Image
Then to Adam He said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it'; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life. "Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field; By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return." Scripture Art
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and in the cutting of stones for settings, and in the carving of wood, that he may work in all kinds of craftsmanship. "And behold, I Myself have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all who are skillful I have put skill, that they may make all that I have commanded you: the tent of meeting, and the ark of testimony, and the mercy seat upon it, and all the furniture of the tent, the table also and its utensils, and the pure gold lampstand with all its utensils, and the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offering also with all its utensils, and the laver and its stand, Goodnews Art
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Mark 16:15 reads, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation”. It can be a little intimidating to approach a total stranger or even a close acquaintance and share your faith in Christ, as not everyone is ready to hear the good word. Some may feel they are being preached to, become confrontational, or are just not ready to receive the word of Christ. Scripture Verse Art
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God is love and the Bible says His love is like a fire, stronger than death. Indeed God proved the intensity of His passionate love for us, when He became a human being, just like us, and died for us at the cross. He chose to give His own life for us, to set us free from sin, and bring us back to His heart. This incredible piece of Christian wall art shows us the deep love of God, who died for us, while we still sinners… Scripture Art
"Now her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lust than she, and her harlotries were more than the harlotries of her sister. "She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and officials, the ones near, magnificently dressed, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men. "I saw that she had defiled herself; they both took the same way.read more. Scripture Verse Art
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure. Scripture Art
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Solomon made all the furniture which was in the house of the LORD: the golden altar and the golden table on which was the bread of the Presence; and the lampstands, five on the right side and five on the left, in front of the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers and the lamps and the tongs, of gold; and the cups and the snuffers and the bowls and the spoons and the firepans, of pure gold; and the hinges both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, that is, of the nave, of gold. Scripture Art
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Actor Son Byung-ho expressed his feelings for the end of "The Great Show". Through his agency, Son Byung-ho said, "We started filming in the blistering heat of summer, but now we are at the end in fall. I've played a congressman numerous times, but I've always focused on my role in the work and studied my emotion at every moment of every situation. I'll be back soon. Stay healthy and thank you".,...More
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King Kong by Starship released pictures of Song Seung-heon holding up his script for "The Great Show". Song Seung-heon left a message. "Hello this is Song Seung-heon. "The Great Show" is over and I'm grateful for the good and bad times the drama has presented to me over the span of 6 months. I thank all the producers, writers, staff and co-stars who came down this road with me".,...More
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Camille Maalawy – Mezzo Soprano
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Grimeborn Festival Stages Daring Triple Bill Featuring El-Turk’s “Silk Moth”
CAROLINE POTTER on August 20, 2019 at 6:00 am
It’s summer opera festival season in the UK–so, are you a Glyndebourne or a Grimeborn person? Country house in Sussex, or a converted factory in east London? Mostly standard repertoire, or an adventurous programme with plenty of contemporary discoveries? Membership advised if you want to attend, or accessible pricing? Picnic on the lawn in the supper interval, or walk round the corner to the finest Turkish kebab joints in town? Glyndebourne’s founder, John Christie, “encouraged the wearing of formal dress to show respect to the singers and musicians,” while Grimeborn say “Whether it’s your first or your latest opera experience, you’ll be right at home.”
Grimeborn it is. Their summer season takes place in the carbon neutral Arcola Theatre: it wouldn’t be entirely accurate to say the factory has been renovated–walls are unfinished and facilities are basic–but Grimeborn brought its unique approach to opera to both performance spaces. On 9 August, I saw Silk Moth, a triple bill mounted by Ruthless Jabiruin the more intimate space.
An ensemble of Australian musicians directed by Kelly Lovelady, Ruthless Jabiru describe themselves as “a London chamber orchestra dedicated to new music and humanitarian stories.” They collaborate with activists and campaigners, making them an excellent fit for the central work on the programme, Bushra El-Turk’s Silk Moth, a story of female genital mutilation and ‘honour’-based violence. The final work on their programme was Bel Canto(2010) by Canadian composer Cassandra Miller, “a portrait of Maria Callas, based on her live recording of Puccini’s Vissi d’arte–with all the full generosity of her vibrato, swoops and portamenti.” Miller’s work often takes recording transcriptions as a starting point and Lovelady’s intention was to use this piece as an opportunity for “controlled reflection.”
The set played without a break and the staging connected all three works, starting with an ash-like substance falling onto a heap on the white floor. The programme began with The Heart’s Ear (1997) for flute, clarinet and string trio by fellow Australian Liza Lim, with the instrumentalists in a row at the back of the room and Lovelady conducting from a corner. This 12-minute-long “meditation on a fragment of a Sufi melody” is a study in ambiguity and wavering pitch, combining sinuous arabesques with more incisive, dense textures. The ensemble were strong advocates for the work, though the dry acoustic did them no favours. Towards the end, we became aware that the black heap was moving; a female performer emerged and cast off the net in which she was encased, to a backdrop of projected images of opening flowerbuds.
The actor left the stage and Silk Moth started. Composed by Bushra El-Turk, a Londoner of Lebanese heritage who is fully in tune with Ruthless Jabiru’s mission to see art as a means for social change, to a libretto by Eleanor Knight, Silk Moth “explores the story of a mother implicated in the gender abuse and honour killing of her own daughter. […] the role of Mother calls for a rare agility across Arabic and operatic vocal styles in equal measure.”
Camille Maalawy in Bushra El-Turk’s Silk Moth
Photo by Lidia Crisafulli
The British-Egyptian mezzo Camille Maalawy, experienced in Arabic and Sephardic singing styles as well as Western classical music, was a perfect fit for Mother. Mona Khalili, Karim Jabri, Shira Agmon, Sophie Atalar and Aivale Cole acted as foils to Mother and represented the suffocating family and community through Heather Fairbairn’s effective “choreographic opera” direction. Khalili, the daughter, had a speaking role, but significantly only Mother had a singing voice.
Simple gestures–reacting to photos or looking at a tablet–spoke volumes, and at the climax, Khalili was tied up using a rope light and black scarf. Maalawy emerging wearing a rubber glove was enough to suggest the act of mutilation, though the projected text was far more graphic: “This flesh, pink cut, cast down on the floor/Is your promise to them that I will never want more.” The daughter read, deadpan, the lifecycle of the silkworm: it weaves its own cocoon, and it must die, unable to emerge as a fully-grown moth, in order for the cocoon to be harvested intact. Silk is a commodity; so, it is suggested, is a woman’s life.
Maalawy was not only a strong singer, but also an excellent actress who brought a warm humanity to Mother and projected complex emotion even when reacting to a phone screen. The character might have had a voice, but Maalawy’s layered portrayal suggested she had little agency. El-Turk’s music created its own world with a small number of instruments. The hollow timbre of the ney was underpinned by astringent accordion, and intricate interweaving violin and cello built up to some powerful climaxes.
Camille Maalawy performs in Silk Moth at Grimeborn 2019 from 9 to 11 August 2019 at London’s Arcola Theatre. More information and tickets
As part of the promotion for Silk Moth, Camille was interviewed for Meet The Artist by @CrossEyedPiano
CAMILLE’S WIGMORE HALL DEBUT!
Friday March 5th 2010, reviewed by Peter Grahame Woolf:
Lama’s two songs to texts form Darwish’s Yatirou-I Haanou felt like extended accompanied recitative, expressively presented by an excellent versatile mezzo Camille Maalawy, whose repertoire represents her “passion for embracing music from many cultures”.
Other Notable Performances:
Concert performances have included Music Beyond Frontiers, a concert of Arabic and Jewish music with Hilda Bronstein, as part of the Sing London Festival; a recital to support the Friends of Bereaved Families Forum: Israeli-Palestinian Families for Peace (LSO St. Lukes); Murder in the Cathedral (Iris Theatre); the world premiere of Song of Songs (Ken Burton); concerts with the Choir of London, under the baton of John Rutter and performances for the charity Hafla which promotes Middle-Eastern co-existence.
Recent engagements have included Camille’s debut at the Wigmore Hall singing songs by the Palestinian composer, Patrick Lama; a premiere of a new work for the Ekon Greek Music Festival and of a song cycle by Julian Dawes; a performance with the Lincoln Noel Trio; recitals at St. Pancras Parish Church, St. Ethelburga’s Centre for Peace and Reconciliation, Arts Depot, Finchley and a series of concerts with the London Vintage Jazz Orchestra.
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Opening Groningen Digital Business Centre on April 3
The Groningen Digital Business Centre (GDBC) will be officially launched on April 3. The GDBC is a new knowledge centre on Zernike Campus Groningen, that focuses on developing, sharing and transferring knowledge on digital business and analytics. A place where innovation and research are encouraged. The opening day will be an inspiring event.
Cooperation of business and science
Within the GDBC, science and business come together to develop and share knowledge. This way, the GDBC must become the digital hotspot of Groningen, where (young) professionals are trained and prepared for a job in the digital sector.
The centre is set up by the faculties of Economics and Science and Engineering of the University of Groningen and the Northern Online Entrepreneurs (Noordelijke Online Ondernemers, NOO). There will also be close cooperation with the Centre for Information Technology (CIT) of the UG. This unique cooperation is intended to strengthen in a structural way the digital sector in the Northern Netherlands. The Groningen Digital Business Centre is supported by the Samenwerkingsverband Noord-Nederland (SNN).
Opening April 3
The opening of the GDBC will be an inspiring afternoon, with interesting and well know speakers, and withplenty of room for discussion and interaction. The programm starts at 14.30 hours and ends with drinks.
More details will be revealed in March on www.rug.nl/gdbc-launch or follow GDBC on Twitter and LinkedIn.
You can register via this online form.
Source article: Samenwerking Noord
Image: rug.nl
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Focus on Computer Resources
Highly Cited Collection
Early Career Award
17p Allelic Losses in Diploid Cells of Patients with Barrett's Esophagus Who Develop Aneuploidy
Patricia L. Blount, Patricia C. Galipeau, Carissa A. Sanchez, Katayoun Neshat, Douglas S. Levine, Jing Yin, Hiroyuki Suzuki, John M. Abraham, Stephen J. Meltzer and Brian J. Reid
Patricia L. Blount
Patricia C. Galipeau
Carissa A. Sanchez
Katayoun Neshat
Douglas S. Levine
Jing Yin
Hiroyuki Suzuki
John M. Abraham
Stephen J. Meltzer
Brian J. Reid
DOI: Published May 1994
Inactivation of the p53 gene, located on chromosome 17p, leads to genetic instability and aneuploidy in vitro. Aneuploid cell populations from Barrett's adenocarcinomas have a high prevalence of 17p allelic losses, and there is substantial evidence that the target of these losses is the p53 gene. If 17p allelic losses lead to aneuploidy in Barrett's esophagus, then they should be present in diploid cells from patients who develop aneuploidy. We detected 17p allelic losses in diploid cells from 10 of 11 patients (91%) with Barrett's esophagus who developed aneuploid cell populations. Our data strongly suggest that 17p allelic losses precede the development of aneuploidy during neoplastic progression in Barrett's esophagus in vivo and, therefore, support in vitro evidence for the role of p53 in genetic instability.
↵1 This research was supported by American Cancer Society Grants EDT-21E and EDT-37A, NIH Grant R01 CA55814, National Cancer Institute Grant K07 CA59555, the Ryan Hill Research Foundation, and the Office of Research and Development (Medical Research Service), Department of Veterans Affairs.
↵2 To whom requests for reprints should be addressed, at Division of Gastroenterology RG-24, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98195.
Received February 14, 1994.
Accepted March 18, 1994.
©1994 American Association for Cancer Research.
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Director of Administration and Finance
Amherst, United States
About UMass Amherst
UMass Amherst, the Commonwealth's flagship campus, is a nationally ranked public research university offering a full range of undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees. The University sits on nearly 1,450-acres in the scenic Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts, and offers a rich cultural environment in a bucolic setting close to major urban centers. In addition, the University is part of the Five Colleges (including Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, and Smith College), which adds to the intellectual energy of the region.
The Director of Administration and Finance will partner with the Chair in the overall management of the Department of Resource Economics in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS).
Provide leadership and initiative for diplomatic problem-solving in the day-to-day administrative and operational functions of the Department.
Develop and implement various administrative procedures to ensure that operations are efficient in meeting department goals.
Collaborate with the Chair on a variety of special projects, including department strategic planning.
Provide a broad range of financial services for the department. Work collaboratively with the Chair on budgetary planning. Counsel the Chair on current and projected status of overall financial operations in the department. Provide long and short-term budget projections, revenue account forecasts, and monthly financial status reports.
Oversee personnel processes within the department. Work with Department Personnel Committee to manage the preparation and work-flow for all faculty tenure cases, mini-tenure reviews, and PMYR cases. Work closely with the Director of Personnel for the college to ensure correct and timely preparation, processing, and management of all departmental personnel actions and records, including paid and unpaid leaves and course buyouts. Collaborate with the Chair and Graduate Program Director to allocate resources appropriate to curricular demands by managing contracts for part-time faculty, lecturers, and teaching assistants.
Manage complete accounting and reconciliation of all department funds (e.g., general operating funds, Continuing Ed, Faculty start-up funds, and research awards in Faculty Fund accounts). Manage and reconcile departmental Procard accounts and corporate travel accounts.
Manage complete accounting, reconciliation, and revenue reporting for the two Department cost centers (UMass Tax School for Practitioners, Willis Experimental Economics Laboratory); vet and approve contracts with external vendors in accordance with University policy, invoice for services provided, vet and approve vendor invoices for payment.
Manage faculty and staff search and hiring processes. Initiate requisitions via electronic talent management software system. Review all search documentation to ensure compliance with University policies and procedures.
Maintain records of USCIS documentation for international employees. Track immigration status, expiration dates, and notify employees of upcoming renewals. Maintain correspondence with the Office of Human Resources, International Programs Office, and private immigration law firms regarding pending visa applications and/or changes to existing visa statuses.
Supervise non-exempt staff, including recruitment, selection, training, evaluation, and work assignment to ensure smooth operation of the Department. Proactively address issues related to supporting a positive work environment for staff, such as workload, professional development, and relationships with faculty and students.
Manage post-award transactions in Department grants, providing periodic budget reports to the principle investigator. Provide information to the Office of Grants and Contracts for issuing subcontracts; manage subcontract budgets and invoicing.
Plan and facilitate space use in the Department; serve as department reporter for the annual TRIRIGA Space Survey.
Other Functions
Perform related duties as assigned or required to meet department, executive area/division, and university goals and objectives.
Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Education, Experience, Certifications, Licensure)
Bachelor's degree and 5 years of relevant work experience in financial or human resources positions. A Master's degree in Business, Social Sciences, Public Policy or related field may be substituted for 2 years of the required experience.
Excellent managerial, leadership, negotiation, and project management skills and ability to manage crisis or changing situations effectively.
Excellent initiative and problem-solving skills. Ability to make sound and mature decisions and to carry out assignments in an organized and timely manner, balancing the demands of concurrent and potentially competing projects.
Ability to lead a team to facilitate collaborative projects and to work cooperatively with staff, faculty, department chairs, and administrators.
Experience developing and managing budgets.
Excellent writing and editing skills. Superlative communication, interpersonal, and supervisory skills.
Strong collaborative skills with the ability to work productively and diplomatically with faculty and staff from different departments and colleges, as well as constituents from outside the University.
Extensive knowledge of MS Office applications, with the ability to learn quickly any additional application software relevant to the position.
Preferred Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Education, Experience, Certifications, Licensure)
Knowledge of UMass systems.
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Typical office environment.
Monday - Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm
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Special Instructions to Applicants
Please include a cover letter, resume, and contact information for three professional references. Review of applicants will begin on January 27, 2020 and may continue until a suitable candidate pool has been identified.
UMass Amherst is committed to a policy of equal opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, age, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, disability, military status, or genetic information in employment, admission to and participation in academic programs, activities, and services, and the selection of vendors who provide services or products to the University. To fulfill that policy, UMass Amherst is further committed to a program of affirmative action to eliminate or mitigate artificial barriers and to increase opportunities for the recruitment and advancement of qualified minorities, women, persons with disabilities, and covered veterans. It is the policy of the UMass Amherst to comply with the applicable federal and state statutes, rules, and regulations concerning equal opportunity and affirmative action.
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Carlsberg Research Lab Rebrews the Father of Quality Beers
Carlsberg is re-creating the Father of Quality Lager. It is brewed from the world’s first pure yeast, extracted from an original living sample that survived 133 years in a Carlsberg bottle recently found in the brewery’s old cellars.
Using sophisticated techniques, Carlsberg Research Laboratory has rebrewed the world’s very first quality lager. It is brewed with the original pure yeast which was developed at the Carlsberg Lab and which revolutionized the world’s beer brewing in 1883. The yeast has surprisingly survived 133 years in a beer bottle in the brewery’s old cellars, and leading brewing experts have now managed to rebrew what is considered the father of most modern day lager beers.
In the old days, brewing beer was an unpredictable process that often resulted in undrinkable beer due to the phenomenon called ‘beer sickness’. However, in 1883, Carlsberg Research Laboratory revolutionised quality beer with its ground-breaking discovery of pure yeast, which made it possible to make quality beer from every brew.
As beer sickness was a widespread problem back then, Carlsberg gave the pure yeast, aptly named ‘Saccharomyces Carlsbergensis’, away for free to other brewers. Today, most lager beers in the world originate from that pure yeast discovery, including major international brands.
“Without it, we wouldn’t have the type of beer that is now 90 percent of the world’s market”, says Britain’s leading Beer Historian Martyn Cornell. Recently, scientists at Carlsberg Laboratory made an extraordinary discovery in the old cellars of Carlsberg in Copenhagen, Denmark. They found one of the very first Carlsberg beers brewed with the original pure yeast from 1883. After one year of intense research, they were able to extract living yeast cells from the bottle.
To celebrate the 140th anniversary of the Carlsberg Research Laboratory, leading scientists and brewers at the Laboratory have now rebrewed the world’s first quality lager in the most authentic manner, using the original pure yeast and the exact same recipe, ingredients and brewing techniques as in 1883. The results is a testament to the historical discoveries at the
Research Lab as well as the world leading quality capabilities of the modern day Carlsberg Laboratory.
Chairman of the Carlsberg Foundation and the Board of Trustees of the Carlsberg Research Laboratory, Professor Flemming Besenbacher says: “The Laboratory is renowned for someof the most extraordinary inventions of the past century, ranging from Professor Dr. Emil Chr. Hansen’s method of purifying yeast to the invention of the pH scale, the concept of protein structures and the characterization of enzymes. Carlsberg Research Laboratory remains acrown jewel in Carlsberg’s jewellery box and this beer, the first quality lager, was rebrewed in honour of the Lab’s historical research developments and its present day capabilities.
”For the first time in more than a hundred years, men and women will taste a beer, that not only is the forefather to most lager beers today, but that also displays some of the unique capabilities at the Carlsberg Research Laboratories. Steve Hindy, Chairman and Co-founder of Brooklyn Brewery, and former Chairman of American Brewers Association, comments:
“Being able to go into the archive at Carlsberg and recreate that original beer is very exciting, and I can’t wait to taste it.”
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Starting life as a glass factory in Finland in 1881, Iittala has since grown into an internationally recognised brand that combines quality, aesthetics and functionality to design essential and beautiful objects for the home. Over the years Iittala has produced a number of design classics, all of which contribute to the brand’s distinctive heritage.
Caro Communications initially worked with Iittala to launch its new collection, Iittala X Issey Miyake, a collaboration which saw two masters of timeless design from two sides of the world join together to create a home collection for everyday rituals. Consisting of ceramics, glass and home textiles, the collection plays on the shared design philosophies of the two brands, and showcases the simple and minimal design language of both Japan and Finland.
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CEI Releases New Video Explaining How a Carbon Tax would Punish American Families
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) today launched a new video, “The Carbon Tax Scheme, Explained,” outlining various ways increased costs generated by a carbon tax will be passed on to American families. Last summer, a small number of Republicans in Congress introduced a carbon tax bill and in recent months lobbying campaigns advocating for such a tax have intensified.
The video explains how a carbon tax works and how the costs are inevitably passed on to consumers through higher energy costs. The video also describes how the negative impact these laws and regulations can have on the market, consumers, and our economy.
CEI Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis said:
“A carbon tax is a pernicious idea because it can dramatically increase costs for Americans on a range of necessities without presenting them with a tax bill. In addition to higher costs for energy, businesses that consume energy—like shipping companies, travel services, agriculture and more—will also pass increased costs onto consumers. Some carbon tax proposals attempt to soften the blow for consumers by proposing a ‘rebate,’ but those unfair plans would give people living in cities the same rebate as Americans living in more rural areas, who use more energy. The bottom line is a carbon tax is a bad idea that would harm our economy and punish American consumers.”
Script for “Carbon Tax Scheme Explained” (3:07)
NARRATOR: Just when you thought Washington politicians were running out of ways to tax Americans they have a clever new scheme to tax virtually every aspect of our lives.
It’s not a tax on breathing, but it’s pretty close.
Humans need some basic things to survive—like food, water, and shelter. All of those things require energy—to heat our homes, power our vehicles, manufacture products, and grow, harvest, and ship our food. Energy literally makes our lives possible. But politicians increasingly want to tax and regulate it.
MARLO LEWIS: A carbon tax is a tax on carbon dioxide emissions from energy sources like coal, oil, and natural gas. In fact, 80 percent of all the energy Americans use emits carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Although energy producers would initially pay most of the tax, who do you think the added cost of the tax gets passed onto? You guessed it, consumers.
NARRATOR: So, how much will the average American pay?
Meet the Willards. They have three kids, one car, an old pickup truck, and a home to call their own. They live within their means, pay their taxes, and even recycle. Estimates show the carbon tax increasing their gas and energy bills by $1,000 a year. And that’s just the start. Rising energy costs will mean pain at the pump for the Willards. Flights to see Grandma could be more expensive. Their grocery bills will likely go up, shipping costs may climb, as well as prices for clothing, TVs, toys, you name it, manufacturers that use energy will pass added costs down to consumers.
And it gets worse. Most carbon tax proposals include an automatic annual increase, meaning that $1,000 per year for the Willards could go significantly higher.
Now, some lawmakers are trying to window-dress their carbon tax schemes by offering rebates to taxpayers. It goes something like this: the government collects carbon tax revenue as an interest-free loan and issues a rebate to Americans like the Willards.
MARLO LEWIS: But what about households in suburbs and rural areas? They still have to heat their homes, they commute longer distances to work and school, and they have to travel farther to see family and friends. They use more energy and will have to pay more for it, yet both households could get the same rebate. Does that seem fair to you?
NARRATOR: The carbon tax is a tax on a basic human need: energy. Politicians think it’s clever because you won’t see the tax taken out of your paycheck, but we’ll all be paying for it, and those who can least afford it, families that rely on affordable energy, will be hit the hardest.
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10 Hours In…Red Hook
A nautical theme decorates this waterside neighborhood where visitors will feel like they’ve washed ashore a summertime island. Photo: @later_nyc
It’s time to salvage summer. Don your boat shoes and jump on this ferry. We’re going to a nautical neighborhood that is closer than any beach island, where we’ll find fishing village vibes circa Montauk 2008. Put on this sunscreen, take this book and prepare yourself for a day of seafood, summertime sweets and the best of outdoorsy games in Red Hook.
During one of the hottest weeks of the year, I met up with a hodgepodge of friends and kids and traversed the empty blocks of industrial warehouses juxtaposed with romantic waterfront docks. The neighborhood was moving extra slow, and we were grateful for corners of a shady park, ice cold beverages and an array of frozen treats. In Red Hook, it’s eternally summer: a community where buoys are used as year-round decorations and there are numerous opportunities for napping and relaxing.
If you’ve skipped work to #liveyourbestlife, and it happens to be a Tuesday, make sure to stick around for Red Hook Flicks in Valentino Pier Park. Upcoming screenings include the deliciously dark Silence of the Lambs (August 14th), kid-favorite Coco (August 21st) and political satire Dr. Strangelove (August 28th.) These free movies come with a view of the Statue of Liberty, and in case of rain, the film is moved indoors to Rocky Sullivan’s. Or even better, swing by our Total Red Hook Immersion this Saturday, August 18th where you’ll get free beer and deals on all the lobster tacos, ice cream scoops and mini-golf that the neighborhood has on offer.
Does the subway have a snack bar? No? This is just one way the ferry is superior. Photo: @later_nyc
11am, Arrive by Ferry
There is no subway access to Red Hook, which is why it feels low-key and not full of glass condominiums. The neighborhood is not actually remote. The B61 meanders down Van Brunt all day long, the IKEA shuttle has access points all over town, and parking is plentiful if you have a car. But, the best way to get here is via the NYC Ferry. For the price of a MetroCard, (you’ll need a specific ferry card, not an MTA MetroCard), you can take a short boat ride that includes a snack and coffee bar. I got on at Pier 6 and took a five-minute relaxing float, getting right into vacation mode. The South Brooklyn Ferry Route runs about every half hour, and the schedule is available online.
Do you dream of having your own yacht? This is the next best thing. Photo: @portsideny
11:30am, Portside on the Mary Whalen
Ahoy! Did you just realize that the ferry was your first time being on a boat all summer? Remedy that by hanging onboard a real ship for a bit longer at Portside. They are just steps from the ferry (you’ll be walking right past it) and you can climb on up for free on weekdays from 10-6pm and on Sundays from 5pm till midnight. (This also would be a great place to wait for your ferry, if you are planning on taking it home.) There are hammocks for napping and books for reading. Apply some sunscreen and work on your tan. The ship is stationary, so although you’ll feel the lull of the waves, you won’t be going anywhere at all. When you’re ready for lunch, just return to harbor. It’s like having your personal yacht, if only for the afternoon. One caveat: if the weather is scorching, like the day I was there, they may be closed due to a heat advisory. Check the website for details. (Ship MARY WHALEN, Pier 11, Atlantic Basin, Red Hook, Brooklyn.)
They have both Maine style (mayo) and Connecticut style (butter) lobster rolls here. Photo:@marcmdk
12pm, Lunch at Red Hook Lobster Pound
Nothing says summer like a classic lobster roll, and Red Hook Lobster Pound is known for having some of the best in Brooklyn. I’m from New England, so I’m biased and very hard to impress. The service was excruciatingly slow, Mercury was in retrograde, and at one point our server seemed to be crying. So, it might have been an off day. I ordered a Connecticut-style lobster roll (butter, no mayo) and was surprised at how thin the sandwich was. There wasn’t much lobster meat for $26, but what was there was sweet and delicious. (The lobsters are brought right in from Maine.) The bun was buttered and toasted, which seems obvious, but a detail that many places get wrong. It came with a pickle, a side of fries and a bright coleslaw. Get a beer while you wait so you won’t be cranky. (Red Hook Lobster Pound, 284 Van Brunt St., Red Hook)
The secret garden at Pioneer Works is a perfect place to meditate on this vibrant tank. Photo: @later_nyc
2pm, Discover Pioneer Works
Pioneer Works is exactly the thing missing from most “cool” neighborhoods in Brooklyn. It’s a gallery/ studio / community space, a garden, and a publisher with a nearby bookstore. Every month, the enormous downstairs space transforms into a free party with Second Sundays that brings the whole neighborhood to the yard. Through August 26th, you can trek up to the third floor to see a small show by filmmaker and photographer, John Lucas and writer, Claudia Rankine called “Stamped,” which explores the concept of blondeness. Afterward, enter the secret garden through the wide gates next to the building. Inside, you’ll find covered paths, tunnels, flowers, an airstream, a coffee bar, and an actual tank that has been meticulously covered in rainbow beads by artist, Ralph Ziman. In other words, there is much to explore here. You can meander through and pick one of many benches on which to rest. (Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer St., Red Hook.)
These are some of the coolest beach bags (and regular bags) around. Pick one up while you are here. Photo: @kemptonandco
3pm, Shopping: Record Shop, Erie Basin, Kempton & Co.
Van Brunt has a sprinkling of cute shops, and depending when you are here will depend on what’s open. You’ll notice Record Shop first when you hear it; music drifts out from the store into the street, serenading passersby with jazz or meringue or reggae. This is one of the coolest record stores in NYC, and audiophiles may not ever re-emerge from these stacks. Also of note, there is a speakeasy-style hair salon in the back of the store. (Record Shop, 360 Van Brunt., Red Hook.) If Erie Basin is open (Wednesday through Saturday, but closed for most of August), you will find unparalleled treasure in the form of 18th through 20th-century jewelry. The price point might be steep like $1,050 for a 1920s art deco signet ring, but it’s where all the cool girls look for engagement rings. (Erie Basin, 388 Van Brunt., Red Hook.) You’ve probably noticed these Kempton & Co. distressed canvas bags all over town and wondered where they were from. The store offers totes, purses, backpacks and small pouches and gifts. You can even buy a slingshot here. It’s British sensibility mixed with a Brooklyn backbone; in other words, lovely. (Kempton & Co., 392 Van Brunt St., Red Hook.)
Beyond this orange door is all the caffeine and cakes of your dreams. Photo: @mrmark161
3:30pm, Iced coffee break at Baked
You’ll notice the famous orange door first at Baked, Red Hook’s iconic bakery. Inside you’ll find some beautiful cakes, brownies and homemade treats. Everything is made from scratch on the premises, including a delicious granola. If you’re lucky, they will be handing out samples of their salted caramel brownies, and you will debate about getting a whole one to go. There are also shelves stocked with their cookbook, in case you’d prefer to make your own. What you’re here for now is the cold brew. Sit in the AC and drink it, or take it to go to hydrate. (Baked, 359 Van Brunt St., Red Hook.)
In this beautiful establishment, you can tour a chocolate factory or drink a flight of whiskey. Photo: @later_nyc
4pm, Chocolate & whiskey at Cacao Prieto
Step off the beaten path of Van Brunt, and down to Cacao Prieto, a behemoth distillery and chocolate factory. This is no silly Wonka world though, it’s for foodies. At 4pm on Saturdays and Sundays (as well as 12pm, 2pm and 6pm) there is a chocolate and distillery tour which I reviewed last year. A tour guide will lead you through the bowels of this clean new building, where you’ll see the chocolate being processed into artisanal candy bars. Out in the back garden, you’ll notice the chickens squawking, and you’ll be forgiven for feeling like you are upstate. In the last room, the shiny machines are making rum and whiskey. The tour lasts about an hour, or you can skip it just do a flight tasting of Widow Jane in the front a la carte. (Cacao Prieto, 218 Conover St., Red Hook.) Tours: $20/ per person.
This Red Hook dessert is a classic for a reason; it’s amazing. Photo: @maureen698617
5pm, Eat a Swingle at Steve’s Authentic Key Lime Pies
What is the secret behind Steve’s Authentic Key Lime Pies? Let me tell you. The pie uses 100% fresh squeezed key lime juice. When you come to the Red Hook headquarters, past the vacant lots and warehouses, you’ll feel like you stumbled into the Florida Keys. This little jumble of a shack is brightly painted with picnic tables out front. Steve Tarpin opened his headquarters in 2001, and with the waterfront views, passing ferries, and ocean breeze, it’s easy to see why. Purchase a Swingle, a mini key lime pie frozen on a stick, and then dunked in chocolate. It’s better than any popsicle you’ll ever eat. There are a few different flavors (Raspberry and the Raspberry Blonde) to choose from, but I recommend the classic. Take a fistful of napkins with you, as these things are messy. Steve’s Authentic Key Lime Pie, 185 Van Dyke St., Red Hook. Classic Swingle: $6.50.
This tiny park has unparalleled views and rarely has crowds. Photo: @later_nyc
5:15pm Relax in the Louis Valentino Jr. Pier Park
Instead of eating your swingle at Steve’s, follow the waterline through to Louis Valentino Jr. Pier and Park, where you will find stunning views of Lady Liberty, Governors Island and the Manhattan skyline. There is also some nice shaded greenery to sit under. This was once the site of a bustling shipping industry, but now it is a sleepy pier with a sprinkling of people on park benches. We had a beach towel and spent some time catching up on our summer reading. A cool breeze rippled through the humidity, a few dogs came up to cuddle, but for the most part we were undisturbed. This is the perfect little park for daydreaming. It also would be a perfect place for a quick nap. Wake me up in ten minutes. (Louis Valentino Jr. Pier and Park, Ferris St. & Coffey St.)
It’s not summer without a competitive game of mini golf. Photo: @jaydollars83
6pm, Dinner and games at Brooklyn Crab
It’s true that we already had seafood earlier in the day, but you’re going to Brooklyn Crab for their game yard. From the front, this crab shack looks enticing. It’s three levels of fun: an outdoor bar, open decks with views of the water. But wander in through the Reed Park backyard and you’ll also find video games, a sandbox for kids, corn hole and a wide selection of tables. Get a cold drink and get comfortable! They serve whatever you’re hankering for during the summer months: a frozen margarita, Aperol spritz or a pitcher of cold beer. Start with a game of miniature golf, and build up your appetite. Then put your order in for a bucket of crab legs, which are sharable with a few sides. This is when the magic of Red Hook will hit you. The sun is on its way to setting, the fish is fresh and the crowd feels familiar. (Brooklyn Crab, 24 Reed St., Red Hook.)
Can’t decide on a flavor. You can sample any (or all!) the flavors before committing. Photo: @amplehills
8pm, A final treat at the new Ample Hills Factory
The most exciting thing to open in Red Hook this summer is the Ample Hills Red Hook Factory. This mammoth space is about 15,000 square feet. According to Eater, this location will have the ability to produce 500,000 gallons a year or ten times the amount they currently make out of the Gowanus shop. (So expect to see a lot more packaged flavors coming to a grocery store near you!) In the meantime, this place also has a shop and huge eating area complete with an interactive exhibits for kids. There’s a tunnel, a microwave, and scratch-and-sniff bottles. We found the mixture of air conditioning, open space and kid stuff to be a pleasant respite from outside. All of your favorite flavors and cones are here. This summer I discovered the pretzel cone and haven’t looked back. There is also one special flavor that can only be found in here: The Hook, made of burnt sugar base, pieces of stroopwafel and globs of fudge. Saying it’s sweet is an understatement, but I can’t wait to try it again, mixed with another more subdued flavor. (Ample Hills Red Hook Factory, 421 Van Brunt., Red Hook.)
The antique truck outside Sunny’s is a tribute to its previous owner, the late Sunny Balzano, a Brooklyn icon. Photo: @emilianowuc
8:30pm, Nightcap at Sunny’s
I have never been able to figure out why ice cream makes you so thirsty. If you’ve been hydrating all day, you’ll be in the mood for one more brewsky before you call it quits. Sunny’s is Red Hook’s staple; literally, it’s been here since the 1890s. It’s gone through different owners and Sunny (whom this incarnation of the bar was named after) has passed away (Tim Sultan’s memoir, Sunny’s Nights, about tending bar here with Sunny is a terrific portrait of him.). Somehow, often by the skin of its teeth, the bar stays open. It’s a classic dive bar; the decor is “longshoremen” complete with knick-knacks and bluegrass. There’s a large outdoor patio/ smoking section, an array of great bartenders and cheap drinks. It seems that every time I am there, it’s someone’s birthday. That’s the kind of place this is. It’s also the kind of place you run into random acquaintances or celebrities on their off hours. (I saw Paul Dano here once.) For a dive bar, it feels like an event. It’s the type of bar and community that people are searching for (and rarely find) when they move to Brooklyn. By the time you take a car service home, you may be scrolling Streeteasy for Red Hook listings. I can’t say I’d blame you. (Sunny’s, 253 Conover St., Red Hook. CASH ONLY.)
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Merri - August 14th, 2018
Been going to red hook way before it became the hipster paradise.
Homer Fong - February 5th, 2019
Well, yay for you Karen.
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The Channel Rail
British and Irish ringers usually ring more House Martins in one year than the total number of Water Rail that have ever been ringed in Britain or Ireland since 1909. With a grand total of just 6,036 ringing records, the BTO database shows a recapture rate of only 430 different birds, and 137 reports of dead birds found.
Water Rail by John Harding
Having said that, we have had some exchange with our other Euring colleagues, particularly Belgium, Germany and The Netherlands and from as far away as Belarus. Recoveries of foreign ringed birds show an autumn immigration into Britain and Ireland from central and northwestern Europe, and then hint at movement further south into France.
In 2009, we received a report from a a member of the public in Truro, Cornwall, who had found a dead Water Rail that had been killed by his cat. It was wearing a French ring, making it the first French ringed Water Rail to be found on our shores (not shown on map).
We have just received the ringing details back from the French Ringing Scheme on another Water Rail that was found in Ivybridge, Devon, in November 2012. This bird was found fresh dead after hitting powerlines. This bird had only been ringed 49 days previously at Dune de Slack, Wimereux, Pas-de-Calais (390km).
Labels: cat, France, Ivybridge, powerlines, Truro, water rail
Wintering Rosefinch
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A Stirling Recovery
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A nationally respected executive recruiter, Chris Nadherny has conducted more than 700 search assignments for a wide-range of companies, assessed thousands of successful professionals and counseled many whose career paths have been disrupted or stalled. He knows what it takes for professionals to get to the next level, and what holds them back. In writing The Proactive Executive, Nadherny has created a highly effective five-step framework for mid-career professionals who want to fulfill their potential. Packed with actionable guidance, real-world stories and insider knowledge, The Proactive Executive explains how to build key skills, assess job opportunities, develop self-awareness, and obtain a position of senior-level responsibility.
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Buckingham Palace Tours
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The Duke of Sussex has announced that the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, has given birth to their baby boy. The latest royal to be born was delivered at 05:26 this morning (06/05/2019).
Prince Harry has confirmed he was present at the birth of their 7lbs 3oz baby boy.
No name has yet be confirmed for the new baby royal who is 7th in line to the throne.
The Royal Family at Christmas 2019 The Royal Family are a massive part of public life in the UK and play a key role in the stability we all enjoy. Theirs has been a constant, reassuring presence over the years and gives the whole of the UK a real sense of history....
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DONALD C. WILKER Age 53, of Mc...
DONALD C. WILKER
Age 53, of McKeesport, formerly of North Huntingdon, died peacefully surrounded by his family, Monday, January 13, 2020, at his home. He was born September 23, 1966, in Jeannette, the son of Barbara (Heil) Wilker, of North Huntingdon and the late Donald R. Wilker. Don was employed as a machinist in charge of quality control for Cleaveland Price, of Trafford. He was a member of the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, in North Huntingdon. Third Degree member of the Knights of Columbus Council 1222, of Jeannette. Don was an avid competitive bowler, with two 300 games on his record and enjoyed skiing and was a true motorcycle enthusiast. In addition to his mother he is survived by his wife of nearly seven years, Jennifer (Chytil) Wilker; a sister, Brenda Wilker, of North Huntingdon; an uncle, Bruce Heil, of North Huntingdon; mother-in-law, Catherine Morrow, of West Homestead; brother-in-law, Bill (Nicola Dempsey) Chytil; niece and nephew Olivia and Liam Dempsey. The family wishes to extend their thanks to his close friends caregivers, Anne Ladik, Paula Kircher and Mike Sonnie. Friends will be received 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the OTT FUNERAL HOME, INC., 805 Pennsylvania Avenue, Irwin. Parting prayers will be held 9:30 a.m. Thursday in the funeral home followed by a 10 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial celebrated in the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church. Don's riding friends are invited to bring their motorcycles. The family suggests, in lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the St. Vincent DePaul Society c/o St. Agnes Church, 11400 St. Agnes Lane, North Huntingdon, PA 15642. To send online condolences, please visit www.ottfuneralhome.com.
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WILLIAM C. MERGENTHALER Age 84...
WILLIAM C. MERGENTHALER
Age 84, of Ross Township, on Sunday, December 22, 2019. Beloved husband for 63 years of Janet (Daugherty) Mergenthaler; father of Brian (Sue) Mergenthaler, Diane Farabaugh, Craig (Becky) Mergenthaler, and Amy (Chris) Murray; grandfather of Liza (Steve) Bair, Scotty... More
JOHN M. "J.M." FAGAN Age 62, o...
JOHN M. "J.M." FAGAN
Age 62, of Bridgeville, on December 21, 2019. Beloved son of the late Patrick and Vivian Fagan; loving brother of Sharon (Robert) Matusic, Patricia (Kenneth) Podobensky, Ricky (Patty) Fagan, Sally (Dom) Mannella, Terri Fagan and Kimberly (Mark) Aul; dear nephew of Lee... More
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MICHAEL GEORGE GRANITE
Michael G. Granite of Conneaut Lake, formerly of Bethel Park, passed peacefully on December 21, 2019, age 83. Beloved partner of 26 years to Mary Beth Graham; father of Michael Granite, Michelle Cochran, Carrie May, Jackie (Joe) Pantanella, and Becky Lower;... More
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Acute Myeloid Leukemia Studies
This study is in progress, not accepting new patients
Bortezomib and Sorafenib Tosylate in Treating Patients With Newly Diagnosed Acute Myeloid Leukemia
a study on Acute Myeloid Leukemia Leukemia Myeloid Neoplasm Sarcoma
for people ages up to 29 years (full criteria)
at Oakland, California and other locations
study started June 2011
This randomized phase III trial studies how well bortezomib and sorafenib tosylate work in treating patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia. Bortezomib and sorafenib tosylate may stop the growth of cancer cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. Drugs used in chemotherapy work in different ways to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving bortezomib and sorafenib tosylate together with combination chemotherapy may be an effective treatment for acute myeloid leukemia.
A Phase III Randomized Trial for Patients With De Novo AML Using Bortezomib and Sorafenib (NSC# 681239, NSC# 724772) for Patients With High Allelic Ratio FLT3/ITD
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:
To compare event-free survival (EFS) and overall survival (OS) in patients with de novo acute myeloid leukemia (AML) without high allelic ratio fms-like tyrosine kinase (FLT3)/internal tandem duplications (ITD)+ mutations who are randomized to standard therapy versus bortezomib/standard combination therapy.
II. To determine the feasibility of combining bortezomib with standard chemotherapy in patients with de novo AML.
III. To compare the OS and EFS of high-risk patients treated with intensive Induction II with historical controls from AAML03P1 and AAML0531.
IV. To determine the feasibility of administering sorafenib (sorafenib tosylate) with standard chemotherapy and in a one year maintenance phase in patients with de novo high allelic ratio FLT3/ITD+ AML.
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
To assess the anti-leukemic activity of sorafenib in patients with de novo high allelic ratio FLT3/ITD+ AML.
II. To compare the percentage of patients converting from positive minimal residual disease (MRD) to negative MRD after Intensive Induction II with historical controls from AAML03P1 and AAML0531.
III. To compare OS, disease-free survival (DFS), cumulative incidence of relapse, and treatment-related mortality from end of Intensification I between patients allocated to best allogenic donor stem cell transplant (SCT) and comparable patients on AAML0531 who did not receive allogenic donor SCT.
IV. To compare OS, DFS, cumulative incidence of relapse, treatment-related mortality, and severe toxicity between patients allocated to matched family donor SCT on AAML1031 and AAML0531.
To assess the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of patients treated with chemotherapy and stem cell transplant (SCT) for AML.
VI. To evaluate bortezomib pharmacokinetics (PK) in patients receiving the combination regimen.
VII. To obtain sorafenib and metabolite steady state pharmacokinetics and pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic data in subjects with FLT3/ITD receiving sorafenib.
VIII. To compare the changes in shortening fraction/ejection fraction over time between patients treated with and without dexrazoxane.
IX. To refine the use of minimal-residual disease (MRD) detection with 4-color flow cytometry.
To evaluate the prognostic significance of molecular MRD and its contribution to risk identification with multidimensional flow cytometry (MDF)-based MRD in patients with translocations amenable to quantitative real time (RT)-polymerase chain reaction (PCR) (e.g., t[8;21], inv[16], t[9;11], Wilms tumor 1 [WT1] expression).
XI. To determine the leukemic involvement of the hematopoietic early progenitor cell and its role in defining response to therapy.
XII. To define the leukemic stem cell population in patients with AML. XIII. To determine the prevalence and prognostic significance of molecular abnormalities of WT1, runt-related transcription factor (RUNX)1, mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL)-partial tandem duplication (PTD), tet methylcytosine dioxygenase 2 (TET2), Cbl proto-oncogene, E3 ubiquitin protein ligase (c-CBL), v-kit Hardy-Zuckerman 4 feline sarcoma viral oncogene homolog (KIT), and other novel AML-associated genes in pediatric AML.
XIV. Correlate the expression of cluster of differentiation (CD)74 antigen as well as proteasome beta 5-subunit (PSMB5) gene expression and mutation with response to bortezomib.
XV. To evaluate the changes in protein expression and unfolded protein response (UPR) in patients with AML.
XVI. To determine the expression level of wild-type FLT3, and correlate with outcome and in vitro sensitivity to FLT3 inhibition.
XVII. To collect biology specimens at diagnosis, treatment time points, and relapse for future biology studies XVIII. To create a pediatric-specific algorithm to predict the occurrence of grade 2-4 acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prior to its clinical manifestations using a combination of pre-transplant clinical variables and serum GVHD biomarker concentrations in the first weeks after SCT.
OUTLINE: This is a dose-escalation study of sorafenib tosylate. Patients are randomized to Arm A or B or offered treatment on 1 of 6 arms. (Arms A and B are closed to new patient enrollment as of 02/04/2016)
Arm A:
INDUCTION I: Patients receive cytarabine intrathecally (IT) on day 1 and ADE chemotherapy comprising cytarabine intravenously (IV) over 1-30 minutes on days 1-10; daunorubicin hydrochloride IV over 1-15 minutes on days 1, 3, and 5; and etoposide IV over 1-2 hours on days 1-5.
INDUCTION II: Patients with low risk (LR) receive cytarabine IT and ADE chemotherapy as in Induction I. Patients with high risk (HR) receive cytarabine IT on day 1 and MA chemotherapy comprising high-dose cytarabine IV over 1-3 hours on days 1-4, and mitoxantrone IV over 15-30 minutes on days 3-6. Patients who achieve complete remission (CR) proceed to Intensification I (beginning on day 37). Patients with refractory disease are off protocol therapy.
INTENSIFICATION I: Patients receive cytarabine IT on day 1 and AE chemotherapy comprising high-dose cytarabine IV over 1-3 hours, and etoposide IV over 1-2 hours on days 1-5. Patients who achieve CR proceed to Intensification II or stem cell transplantation (SCT) beginning on day 34. Patients with refractory disease are off protocol therapy.
INTENSIFICATION II: Patients with LR receive cytarabine IT on day 1 and MA chemotherapy as in Induction II. Patients with HR and no donor for SCT receive high-dose cytarabine IV over 3 hours on days 1, 2, 8, and 9 and asparaginase intramuscularly (IM) on days 2 and 9.
STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION (SCT) (HR patients with matched family [MFD] or unrelated donor):
CONDITIONING REGIMEN: Patients receive fludarabine phosphate IV over 30 minutes once daily on days -5 to -2 and busulfan IV over 2 hours 4 times daily on days -5 to -2.
TRANSPLANTATION: Patients undergo allogeneic SCT within 36 to 48 hours after the last dose of busulfan.
GVHD PROPHYLAXIS: Patients receive tacrolimus IV continuously or PO beginning on day -2 and continuing until day 98 (matched sibling donor) or day 180 (with taper) (other related/unrelated donors or cord blood) and methotrexate IV on days 1, 3, and 6 (matched sibling/cord blood donors) or days 1, 3, 6, and 11 (other related/unrelated donors). Patients with unrelated donors also receive antithymocyte globulin IV over 6-8 hours on days -3 to -1.
Arm B:
INDUCTION I: Patients receive cytarabine IT and ADE chemotherapy as in Induction I, Arm A. Patients also receive bortezomib IV over 3-5 seconds on days 1, 4, and 8.
INDUCTION II: Patients with LR receive cytarabine IT, ADE chemotherapy, and bortezomib as in Induction I. Patients with HR receive cytarabine IT and MA chemotherapy as in Induction II, Arm A (HR patients) and bortezomib IV on days 1, 4, and 8.
INTENSIFICATION I: Patients receive cytarabine IT and AE chemotherapy in Arm A, Intensification II, and bortezomib IV on days 1, 4, and 8. Patients who achieve CR proceed to Intensification II or stem cell transplantation (SCT) beginning on day 34. Patients with refractory disease are off protocol therapy.
INTENSIFICATION II: Patients with LR receive cytarabine IT on day 1, MA chemotherapy as in Arm A, Induction II (HR patients), and bortezomib IV on days 1, 4, and 8. Patients with HR and no donor for SCT receive high-dose cytarabine IV over 3 hours on days 1, 2, 8, and 9 and asparaginase intramuscularly (IM) on days 2 and 9.
ARM C (COHORT 1):
INDUCTION II: Patients receive cytarabine IT on day 1, cytarabine IV over 1-30 minutes on days 1-8, daunorubicin hydrochloride IV over 1-15 minutes on days 1, 3, and 5, etoposide IV over 1-2 hours on days 1-5, and sorafenib tosylate PO on days 9-36.
INTENSIFICATION I: Patients receive cytarabine IT and AE chemotherapy in Arm A, Intensification II, and sorafenib tosylate PO on daily on days 6-28.
INTENSIFICATION II: Patients receive cytarabine IT on day 1, MA chemotherapy as in Arm A, Induction II (HR patients), and sorafenib tosylate PO on days 7-34.
MAINTENANCE: Patients receive sorafenib tosylate PO starting on day 40-100 after completion of intensification II or SCT for one year.
INDUCTION I: Patients receive cytarabine IT and ADE chemotherapy as in Arm A, Induction I and sorafenib tosylate PO at the time of known HR FLT3/ITD+ (including in Induction I and concurrently with chemotherapy).
INDUCTION I: Patients receive cytarabine IT and ADE chemotherapy as in Arm A, Induction I and sorafenib tosylate PO on days 11-28.
ARM D:
INDUCTION I: Patients with unknown FLT3/ITD status prior to study enrollment receive cytarabine IT and ADE chemotherapy as in Arm A, Induction I. If patients are determined to be HR FLT3/ITD+ no later than the end of Induction I they will be eligible to participate in Arm C.
After completion of study therapy, patients are followed up monthly for 6 months, every 2 months for 6 months, every 4 months for 1 year, every 6 months for 1 year, and then yearly thereafter.
Acute Myeloid Leukemia Leukemia Cutis Myeloid Neoplasm Myeloid Sarcoma Leukemia Leukemia, Myeloid Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute Sarcoma, Myeloid Cytarabine Sorafenib Etoposide Bortezomib Daunorubicin Mitoxantrone Etoposide phosphate Asparaginase Daunorubicin Hydrochloride Laboratory Biomarker Analysis Mitoxantrone Hydrochloride Pharmacological Study Quality-of-Life Assessment Sorafenib Tosylate
Open to people ages up to 29 years
Patients must be newly diagnosed with de novo acute myelogenous leukemia
Patients with previously untreated primary AML who meet the customary criteria for AML with >= 20% bone marrow blasts as set out in the 2008 World Health Organization (WHO) Myeloid Neoplasm Classification are eligible
Attempts to obtain bone marrow either by aspirate or biopsy must be made unless clinically prohibitive; in cases where it is clinically prohibitive, peripheral blood with an excess of 20% blasts and in which adequate flow cytometric and cytogenetics/fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) testing is feasible can be substituted for the marrow exam at diagnosis
Patients with < 20% bone marrow blasts are eligible if they have:
A karyotypic abnormality characteristic of de novo AML (t(8;21)(q22;q22), inv(16)(p13q22) or t(16;16)(p13;q22) or 11q23 abnormalities
The unequivocal presence of megakaryoblasts, or
Biopsy proven isolated myeloid sarcoma (myeloblastoma; chloroma, including leukemia cutis)
Patients with any performance status are eligible for enrollment
Prior therapy with hydroxyurea, all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA), corticosteroids (any route), and IT cytarabine given at diagnosis is allowed; hydroxyurea and ATRA must be discontinued prior to initiation of protocol therapy; patients who have previously received any other chemotherapy, radiation therapy or any other antileukemic therapy are not eligible for this protocol
Patients with any of the following constitutional conditions are not eligible:
Shwachman syndrome
Any other known bone marrow failure syndrome
Patients with constitutional trisomy 21 or with constitutional mosaicism of trisomy 21 Note: enrollment may occur pending results of clinically indicated studies to exclude these conditions
Patients with any of the following oncologic diagnoses are not eligible:
Any concurrent malignancy
Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML)
Philadelphia chromosome positive AML
Biphenotypic or bilineal acute leukemia
Acute myeloid leukemia arising from myelodysplasia
Therapy-related myeloid neoplasms Note: enrollment may occur pending results of clinically indicated studies to exclude these conditions
Pregnancy and breast feeding
Female patients who are pregnant are ineligible
Lactating females are not eligible unless they have agreed not to breastfeed their infants
Female patients of childbearing potential are not eligible unless a negative pregnancy test result has been obtained
Sexually active patients of reproductive potential are not eligible unless they have agreed to use an effective contraceptive method for the duration of their study participation
Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland
Oakland California 94609-1809 United States
UCSF Medical Center-Parnassus
San Francisco California 94143 United States
UCSF Medical Center-Mission Bay
in progress, not accepting new patients
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Broadcasting services revenue in the Telecommunications Development Levy
Recent amendments to the Telecommunications Act mean that the treatment of broadcasting services revenue in the Telecommunications Development Levy (TDL) is changing.
Specified points of interconnection
The Act allows us to specify points of interconnection (POIs) which are places in wholesale networks where responsibility for fibre services is handed over from a fibre provider to other commercial service providers.
2018/19 TDL liability allocation determination
The liability allocation determination for the 2018/19 Telecommunications Development Levy (TDL) covers the period from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019.
Review of electricity distribution businesses asset management practices
We assess electricity distributors asset management practices to understand their current practices and improve their performance through disseminating good practice; both in terms of asset management practices and the disclosure of those practices within the electricity distributors asset management plan (AMP).
Updates to the 2018/19 Telecommunications Development Levy
The Commission uses specified instructions and templates to get the information we need to make our annual Telecommunications Development Levy (TDL) determination.
Unbundled layer 1 fibre service
Chorus and the Local Fibre Companies’ have Deeds of Open Access Undertakings (Fibre Deeds) given under the Telecommunications Act 2001 (Act). The undertakings requires them to provide a point-to-multipoint layer 1 fibre access service (PON Fibre Access Service) from 1 January 2020 for area 1 of the governments Ultra-Fast Broadband initiative.
Commerce Commission/Electricity Authority joint project – Spotlight on emerging contestable services
Electricity distributors are increasingly participating in markets for contestable electricity services such as distributed energy services.
Bombay-Otahuhu Regional Major capital proposal
The transmission network supplying Bombay and Wiri substations is ageing and requires refurbishment. This network includes the transmission lines between Bombay and Otahuhu substations and Bombay and Meremere substations.
Commission 111 Contact Code
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In This Fighting Game Tournament, Each Round Lasts Two Seconds
Ian Walker
Filed to:Galaxy Fight
Fighting game matches can come in many forms, from quick blowouts to drawn-out bouts, but one Japanese arcade has introduced something quite unique, holding tournaments for the game Galaxy Fight in which the rounds last only two seconds each.
Mikado, located in the Tokyo neighborhood of Takadanobaba, is holy ground for fighting game fans. With its long rows of head-to-head cabinets, the unassuming game center is the perfect place for competition. Its schedule is filled with regular events for everything from modern titles like Guilty Gear Xrd and Ultra Street Fighter IV to classics such as Vampire Savior and Samurai Shodown.
That said, more obscure games are typically the focus at Mikado, and nowhere is this more apparent than during the arcade’s Street Fighter Carnival events. Despite the name, these competitions feature a variety of franchises, allowing even the most niche titles to share the spotlight.
Galaxy Fight is one such game. Developed by Sunsoft for the Neo Geo, the fighter’s unique sci-fi trappings helped it stand out at least to some extent during the 1990s’ explosion of Street Fighter clones. The use of infinite-scrolling stages without the usual invisible boundaries forced players to pursue their opponent, making matches fairly offense-oriented.
Over the last few years, Mikado has included Galaxy Fight in two separate Street Fighter Carnival circuits. Unlike the other chosen games, however, this one had a special caveat: Where most competitive fighting game rounds are played with 99 ticks on the clock, the Galaxy Fight machines started with just :01 on the timer.
You’d think such a thing wouldn’t work, and yet it seems to have distilled the intense mind games associated with the fighting game genre to their purest form, crafting a unique experience for players and spectators alike. Strategy that typically plays out over a minute and a half is crammed into just a few brief moments. Should you wait for your opponent to make the first move and react accordingly, or bet everything on a risky uppercut that can be punished if it misses? With such a small amount of time for gameplay, the weakest attack can secure a round, opening avenues for outlandish tactics that infrequently pop up during normal competition.
“In reality, you’re able to move for two seconds,” an employee of the arcade explained to Kotaku—the timer stays on :00 for another second before the match ends “Because of this, even if you are blocked, you are still able to knock down your rival’s health, and it does make for quite a match.”
If you found a Galaxy Fight machine in an arcade, you wouldn’t be able to set the round time to one second. That ability is limited to the owner of the arcade machine, through a special function test menu. “In static test mode, you can change the play time,” said the Mikado employee. “Since you can decrease it down to one second, it started with the notion that this might make for an interesting competition.”
After introducing the concept in August 2014, the folks at Mikado have run one-second Galaxy Fight tournaments regularly, as recently as last year. The game center plans to include one-second Galaxy Fight and this special format during Street Fighter Carnival IX later this year.
You can replicate this setting at home, if you have the right version of the game. The Arcade Archives release of Galaxy Fight on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One also allows players to reduce the round time to just one second, making it quite possibly the perfect ice-breaker to introduce fighting game-averse friends to the appeals of the genre.
Brian Ashcraft contributed reporting to this story.
Ian Walker is a fighting game expert and freelance writer. You can find him on Twitter at @iantothemax.
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Quake Champions Finals Pit Young Blood Against Seasoned Pro
Filed to:Quake Champions
Two eras of competitive Quake clashed in Dallas today, as the first world championships were held for the early access Quake Champions, awarding $1 million in prize across the tournament.
19-year-old Nikita “Clawz” Marchinsky came into this year’s Quake World Championships Duel as the young Quake Live talent, taking down players like “cooller” to earn a spot in the grand finals. His opponent, Sander “Vo0" Kassjager, is a veteran of the Quake scene, playing since the Quake II days.
Earlier that day, Marchinsky had hoisted one trophy over his head alongside his team 2z after wining the Sacrifice championships. In the Duel finals, he would have to take this one on his own, in a best-of-five set against a seasoned pro.
Playing in the Sacrifice finals seemed like a boon for Marchinsky, as he hit the ground running with kills on Kassjager. The commentators lauded Marchinsky’s aggression and accuracy, and both were on point throughout each round.
Some skirmishes between the two came down to a sliver of health, as they hopped and strafed, trying to keep their champion pool alive. Each death meant losing your active champion and moving to a new one, and certain champion’s skills (like Sorlag’s Acid Spit or Nyx’s Ghost Walk) are critical tools in securing a frag.
Both played the kind of high-level Quake you would expect at a championship, timing power and weapon spawns to both keep their arsenal stocked and track their opponent’s movement. The bunny-hopping, rocket-flinging carnage of classic competitive Quake was alive and well in the championship match.
As the games kept on though, Marchinsky continued to pull ahead. Despite dropping a few rounds, he never let enough go to lose a game, and at the conclusion of game 3, Marchinsky emerged victorious, securing two championship wins in Dallas.
In total, Marchinsky takes home $100,000 in Duel winnings and a slice of 2z’s $300,000 prize earnings for the Sacrifice championships as well. If you’d like to watch the entire finals, you can catch the videos in Quake Championships’ Twitch archives.
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How WiMAX Works
by Marshall Brain & Ed Grabianowski
A model displays a laptop computer equipped with WiMAX technology. See more laptop pictures.
PATRICK LIN/AFP/Getty Images
Think about how you access the Internet today. There are basically three different options:
Broadband access - In your home, you have either a DSL or cable modem. At the office, your company may be using a T1 or a T3 line.
WiFi access - In your home, you may have set up a WiFi router that lets you surf the Web while you lounge with your laptop. On the road, you can find WiFi hot spots in restaurants, hotels, coffee shops and libraries.
Dial-up access - If you are still using dial-up, chances are that either broadband access is not available, or you think that broadband access is too expensive.
The main problems with broadband access are that it is pretty expensive and it doesn't reach all areas. The main problem with WiFi access is that hot spots are very small, so coverage is sparse.
What if there were a new technology that solved all of these problems? This new technology would provide:
The high speed of broadband service
Wireless rather than wired access, so it would be a lot less expensive than cable or DSL and much easier to extend to suburban and rural areas
Broad coverage like the cell phone network instead of small WiFi hotspots
This system is actually coming into being right now, and it is called WiMAX. WiMAX is short for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, and it also goes by the IEEE name 802.16.
WiMAX has the potential to do to broadband Internet access what cell phones have done to phone access. In the same way that many people have given up their "land lines" in favor of cell phones, WiMAX could replace cable and DSL services, providing universal Internet access just about anywhere you go. WiMAX will also be as painless as WiFi -- turning your computer on will automatically connect you to the closest available WiMAX antenna.
In this article, we'll find out how WiMAX works, what engineers are doing to make it better and what it could mean for the future of wireless Internet.
Could an Attack on Undersea Cables Take Down the Internet?
Net Neutrality Is Gone. How Could That Affect You?
The Battle Looms Over Net Neutrality
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Rail project expected to double port capacity
Fewer trucks will travel area roads
When complete, GPAs Mason Mega Rail Terminal will double rail lift capacity to 1 million containers per year, reach new markets and reduce impact on the local community, port officials say. - photo by Stephen B. Morton for Georgia Ports Authority
Special to the Couirer
Updated: April 2, 2018, 11:21 a.m.
SAVANNAH — On the heels of reporting 32 percent growth in containerized trade for October, a record for Savannah, the Georgia Ports Authority Monday approved rail and gate expansion projects that members said will double capacity at the Garden City Terminal.
At the meeting the board approved spending $42.27 million as part of GPA’s $128 million Mason Mega Rail Terminal.
An authority news release said the project will expand the Port of Savannah’s on-dock rail capacity by 100 percent and allow the port to increase service to an arc of inland markets from Memphis to Chicago.
A total of $90.7 million has been allocated to the project thus far. Construction is slated to begin next month and be completed by the end of 2020.
"What makes Georgia and the Georgia Ports Authority a continuing success story is the relentless effort to stay one step ahead of the curve and the competition," Jimmy Allgood, GPA board chairman, said. "The projects approved today will do exactly that."
The board also approved a $13.2 million project to expand the existing Gate 8 at Garden City Terminal. The addition will help the GPA absorb growth and offer a link to the Jimmy Deloach Parkway, which provides a direct truck route to Interstate 95. The project will expand the terminal’s gate infrastructure by 12.5 percent for a total of 54 truck lanes, the news release said.
"In addition to expanding capacity, we will also reduce the impact on our local community," Lynch said. "The new pre-check lanes will reduce truck congestion and the Mega Rail Terminal will significantly reduce or eliminate rail crossings."
The increase in traffic late last years was from an improving economy.
"A strong Southeast U.S. economy, on-terminal expansion and investment by private logistics firms throughout the region have resulted in phenomenal growth for Georgia," port Executive Director Griff Lynch said. "But these record volumes could not have been possible without the tireless dedication of the men and women responsible for moving this cargo. From the GPA and the International Longshoreman Association, to the stevedores and logistics community, thank you for a job well done."
In addition to record container volumes, Lynch reported to the board that total tonnage for all terminals climbed by 25 percent, from 2.6 million to 3.2 million tons, for an additional 661,290 tons of cargo. Breakbulk tonnage, primarily the movement of lumber, steel and autos, also increased by 14.7 percent, signifying the growing strength of construction and manufacturing in the U.S. Southeast, he said.
In Brunswick, Lynch said, Colonel’s Island Terminal handled 56,492 auto and machinery units last month, for growth of 21 percent or 9,811 units.
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Déjà vu all over again for UCLA?
By Mike MillerDec 6, 2010, 1:54 AM EST
Ben Howland can’t take much more of this.
UCLA’s miserable 2009-10 season – 14-18 overall, 8-10 in the Pac-10 and losses to the likes of Cal State-Fullerton, Portland and Long Beach State – should’ve been a hiccup. The Bruins had myriad injuries, underwhelming talent and rarely displayed the nasty defense Howland’s teams showcased during his Final Four run of 2006-2008.
So what’s changed? Howland added a pair of heralded recruits (Josh Smith and Tyler Lamb) and the roster is finally healthy.
And still can’t avoid embarrassing losses.
Sunday’s 66-57 setback to Montana shouldn’t have happened. Not at home. Not after the way UCLA played during Thursday’s last-second loss to Kansas. And certainly not against an average Big Sky team. (And to come on a night when cross-town rival USC thumps Texas? Ouch. It’s not sitting well with Bruins fans.)
“The way we played, yeah (it reminded us of last year),” Malcolm Lee told the L.A. Daily News. “Our capabilities, we could’ve played way better. I think we took this team just too lightly. Especially coming off a three-game losing streak. I think it was a hidden feeling that we almost beat Kansas.”
UCLA scored just 28 points in the first half. It made just 31.3 percent of its shots, mostly because it missed nearly 20 layups. The defense disappeared (Montana shot 52 percent from the field) and Tyler Honeycutt, who couldn’t miss against Kansas, connected on just 3 of 12 shots.
“It’s early, but it’s a bad loss, no question,” Howland told the paper. “We have to control our future by having better practices. It’s frustrating that it’s now always a given. This was a nightmare deal.”
Thing is, this feels like another hiccup. The Bruins’ three previous losses were to Villanova, VCU and Kansas, all of which are NCAA tournament teams. They play faster than usual (through seven games, they get about three more possessions than in previous seasons under Howland) and the defense is starting to resemble its old self. Things should work out.
Except … the terrific on-ball defenders Howland used to have aren’t around anymore. Their point guards (Lazeric Jones and Jerime Anderson) stink. Lee’s a nice complementary player, but not a great option as a scoring guard. Smith killed Kansas’ frontline, but was irrelevant against Montana.
By season’s end, UCLA will probably have 20 wins, but only because the Pac-10 is a good way to boost one’s overall record. Even if the Bruins make the Big Dance, they’re a lock to lose in the first round.
That’s not good enough in UCLA. Howland’s Final Four run undoubtedly earned him another season with the Bruins, but it’ll be one without any room for error.
If he lasts that long.
Want more? I’m also on Twitter @BeyndArcMMiller.
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Governor Polis
BIPARTISAN BYPASS: Hick Signs Election Fraud Bill Into Law
Well, that was fast. Just a few days ago, we reported that liberal Gov. John Hickenlooper told The Yuma Pioneer that he would veto any bill without bipartisan support. Like many Coloradans, we thought that was a step in the right direction. That sentiment lasted less than a week. Last night, Gov. Hickenlooper signed into law the bill that opens the door wide for election fraud – the infamous H.B. 1164. The bill had no bipartisan support.
Why is H.B. 1164 so bad? Remember last year’s laughably-named “Election Modernization” law? It was the one that said a voter only had to “intend” to live somewhere in order to be eligible to vote there. It’s the one that allowed Jon Caldara to vote (without actually filling in his ballot) in an election in El Paso County despite not living there – and it was totally legal. This new bill extends the same practices to special elections as well as school board elections – so it’s just taking the same bad policy and spreading it across additional elections.
It’s not just the Peak that has taken issue with this legislation. The Denver Post has called out Democrats on this as well:
“We understand the urgency, but this is a terrible way to legislate. Although it may come as a surprise to some at the Capitol, those who draft and sponsor legislation are not the sole authorities on policy. Sometimes members of the public, or political colleagues, offer useful insights on a proposal — noticing unintended flaws, for example. But that won’t happen if they don’t have time to reflect on it.”
Coloradans must hold Hick’s feet to the fire on his eagerness to break his promises. Afterall, it was Hick that told The Yuma Pioneer the following:
“He said he has told current legislative leadership that the legislative process must be fair and that legislation passed without all parties being allowed to participate will face a certain veto from him this year.”
These aren’t our words, PeakNation™. These are his. Make him stand by his promise.
Walter Hunt on February 21, 2014 at 3:06 pm
Ya got one really honest Democrat out there?
Lloyd Wilson on February 19, 2014 at 11:34 pm
He has totally gone to JERK status!
Neal Pashman on February 19, 2014 at 9:36 pm
Gotterdammerung…. (where's my helmet and spear?)
Regan Benson on February 19, 2014 at 9:21 pm
People have not clue one what this is going to do. Presto- they've worked their magic again- how many more months in this session? Pretty sure they are just warming up right now for the grand finale.
H/T Marilyn Marks :—–If there were ever a bill rammed through without citizen participation, 1164 is it. The governor's signed it, he has signed a license for corruption in local elections. It allows private for-profit contractors (say Karl Rove, Inc. or Rachel Maddow, Inc.) to conduct local elections hundreds of miles from the voters, with no local polling location, and no ADA accessible voting equipment, no SOS oversight. Abolishes all SOS Election Rules for special district elections, and makes it no longer a crime to tamper with voter rolls in local elections! Allows taxes and bonds to be approved in November elections on separate ballot controlled by the private enterprise. Too bizarre to be true, but sadly it is. But Democratic lawmakers had no time to listen to the 150 or so errors found in the draft. Some violate TABOR.
Ed Hunnicutt on February 19, 2014 at 8:44 pm
Hickenloop is still the liar he always was….
This is going to be catastrophic- something MUST be done!
Wang Newton on February 19, 2014 at 6:54 pm
Democrats cannot win fair elections.
Cathy Gardino on February 19, 2014 at 5:39 pm
ppppffffttttt…. Hicken-Loser!
Colorado Peak Politics - BACK-DOOR GAMBLING: Popular Bill Stalls in House, Rumor is Hickenlooper’s Doing - [...] yet again, failing to live up to the bipartisan rhetoric he likes to tout, we’d figure a bipartisan bill…
BAIT AND SWTICH: Democrat Covers For Hick’s Wild 9/11 Fund Spending
IS HE HIRING? Sanders Applauds Professional Hissy Fits at Polis Speech
ULTERIOR MOTIVES: Why This Dem Wants Hick Protected From Pesky Audits
FREEDOM OF SPEECH: Democrat Senate Candidates Have to Sneak Off to Debate
SNARKAPALOOZA BEGINS! Crow Named Impeachment Manager
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Date of manufacture: 1838 to 1841
Total production: 500
Length of barrel: 28 or 32 inches also special order lengths.
Caliber: .44 with eight or ten shot cylinders.
Address: ‘Patent Arms M’g. Co. Paterson, N-J.-Colt’s Pt.’ with a snake and star finial at each end.
Weight: 8 pounds 8 ounces depending on barrel length and with or without loading lever assembly.
The Colt Second Model Ring Lever Rifle or Model No. 2 Ring Lever Rifle was manufactured circa 1838 to 1841 in Paterson, New Jersey. A total of approximately only 500 Second models were manufactured and serial numbered in their own range from 1 through to 500. By pulling the ring lever the cylinder is turned and the hammer is cocked for each shot.
Standard model, without attached loading lever, with capping channel in the recoil shield, and having a square-back or rounded type cylinder. Chambered in .44 caliber with eight shot cylinder (ten shot very rare) with standard 28 inch and 32 inch octagonal barrel with or without loading lever. The cylinder roll scene depicts horsemen and a centaur hunting a deer; the word COLT is also present. A small house is also engraved on the cylinder. The barrels were marked on the top: ‘Patent Arms M’g. Co. Paterson, N-J.-Colt’s Pt.’ with snake finials at either end. Varnished walnut stock with cheek-piece. All metal parts are blued except the barrel which is browned. Serial numbers appear on various parts, most of them visible only when the rifle has been disassembled. The standard model is without loading lever and no capping channel in the recoil shield. Also cylinders have a square-back configuration. Weight 8 pounds 8 ounces with thirty inch barrel with loading lever. The improved model is Factory fitted with loading lever attached and also a spring held detent underneath trigger guard to permit the cylinder to be revolved while loading (instead of removing cylinder for loading), locking the ring lever to permit this. The addition of a capping groove on the recoil shield and the rounding of the back of the cylinder were also factory improvements and came before the loading lever became permanent.
As with most Colt firearms there are always exceptions to the rule with some engraved examples known. Coverage is mainly to the frame, trigger-guard and tangs. Also inlay and overlay of silver on stocks has been observed. Values depend on condition, rarity and provenance. Cases were advertised for $4 but are seldom seen.
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« Another Software & Systems Debacle
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A long hot summer is coming.
Posted by Michael Kennedy on March 12th, 2016 (All posts by Michael Kennedy)
The Telegraph Gets it.
Middle America is besieged by radical, anti-American voices trying to drown out alternative opinion. Shutting down a Trump rally won’t silence Trumpism. On the contrary, it affirms it. Why does the Left continue to make this mistake?
Trump’s views are unconstitutional, illiberal and sometimes they trigger hate. But he did not take America to war in Iraq on flimsy evidence, establish Guantanamo in contravention of human rights law or licence the torture of enemy combatants.
Trump’s political style bears comparison not with Mussolini but George C Wallace, who ran for the presidency in 1968 and 1972 on a conservative populist ticket. Protestors turned up to his rallies, too – and he loved it. Wallace perfected the anti-hippie zinger. When kids shouted “F**k Wallace!” he replied: “Why don’t you try learnin’ some other four letter words – like W.A.S.H. and W.O.R.K.?” The confrontations added to the Alabamian’s appeal, confirming him as “the only guy willing to take on the mob”.
I worry about the comparison and hope it is not too accurate.
Last night, the Trump rally in Chicago after rioters invaded the hall and threatened to rush the stage.
Last night saw unprecedented scenes inside the University of Illinois at Chicago Pavilion between an anti-Trump mob and Chicagoans who came to hear the Republican front-runner speak.
While outside, an impatient group of thousands more massed. Temperatures rose.
Multiple law enforcement sources told DailyMail.com that there was a credible threat against Trump from groups of protesters who planned to storm the stage.
I watched some of the TV coverage and the protestors seemed to be a combination of blacks and white “Bernie” sign carrying student age people. There were a few fist fights but the vast majority of the capacity crowd filed out peacefully and drove home. I was struck by the quiet cooperation of the rally goers and the taunting celebration of the rioters.
This will be a long hot summer. Last weekend saw 22 shootings in Chicago’s black neighborhoods. St Louis saw protestors at that Trump rally and there is another big rally scheduled in Ohio tonight.
The political world holds its breath for Saturday’s Ohio rally after Donald Trump’s Chicago event last night went into melt down after bloody brawls and loud demonstrations broke out, amid simmering racial tensions.
As the dust settles in Chicago, hundreds gather in Wright Brothers Aero Hangar for the Republican candidate’s first official address since last night’s fracas.
Supporters were queuing from midnight last night, according to local reports, where there is a heavy police presence and the venue is said to be ‘at capacity’.
Today’s event is arguably the most anticipated of the entire primaries following yesterday’s unprecedented scenes.
The Donald tweeted this much-needed message of encouragement as the crowds anticipate his arrival: ‘The rally in Cincinnati is ON. Media put out false reports that it was cancelled. Will be great – love you Ohio!’
It will be interesting to see if the rioters can create the same disturbance. In Chicago, local politicians helped organize the riot.
Yes, it did and some of them are elected officials. Some are old experienced terrorists, like Bill Ayers who was there.
Ted Cruz managed to look creepy.
Ted Cruz: Ted Cruz is responding to Donald Trump’s cancellation of his Chicago rally, saying the billionaire has created ‘an environment that encourages this sort of nasty discourse.’ The Texas senator is calling it a ‘sad day.’
He says, ‘Political discourse should occur in this country without the threat of violence, without anger and rage and hatred directed at each other.’
Cruz says blame for the events in downtown Chicago rests with the protesters but ‘in any campaign responsibility starts at the top.’
Cruz says, ‘When the candidate urges supporters to engage in physical violence, to punch people in the face, the predictable consequence of that is that is escalates. Today is unlikely to be the last such incidence.‘
An invitation ?
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49 Responses to “A long hot summer is coming.”
DirtyJobsGuy Says:
Trump never showed and the Chicago PD denied telling him to cancel the event. For all of their failings Chicago police are pretty ruthless in enforcing order in the higher rent areas. Trump stage managed this which was a perfect opportunity to show he was a real “tough” guy not a poseur. He could have made a speech on how he would lead the nation out of these divisions and strife as opposed to his earlier “in the old days we beatup protestors”. He does have a carefully crafted way of speaking that encourages his less restrained followers without explicitly saying so. I run into guys like this a lot and they are very much like Trump. They spend 100% of the time promoting their reputations, but are not really good at what they claim they do. They are also never around when the Shit hits the fan.
Putz is a perfect description for the Donald.
So, you think the riot was justified ?
There is a rally tonight in Dayton which he has promised to attend and which is sold out to capacity.
I just hope he has enough security there. Dayton is not Cleveland. The convention may become a battleground.
I am very concerned about violence and I do not agree with you about what might have happened last night. Did you watch the TV as it was going on ?
Mrs. Davis Says:
CPD was not responsible for security inside the building, Secret Service and UIC Campus Cops were. So they had nothing to do with cancelling the event. Campus Cops could not control the crowd and they and Secret Service advised Trump to cancel. The Donald could not have given the speech without a riot erupting in the hall. Call him a putz if it makes you feel good. But his choice of UIC as a venue was brilliant and the leftists played right into his hand. I expect lots of out of doors political activity this spring and summer. Party like it’s 1968. Let’s hope the Ohio National Guard is a little better trained than they were then, because they’re going to get a lot of duty in Cleveland this year. Last chance for boomer radicals to relive the good old days. Who won in 1968?
TM Lutas Says:
“[T]he left played right into his hand” is a back handed way of saying Trump bears some responsibility for this situation. Since it’s likely a political winner, Cruz is probably correct that it’s going to happen again. That’s analysis, not invitation.
All that being said, we should not be a country where a major party candidate cannot hold a rally without violent protesters. The vast bulk of the responsibility rests on the protestors with Bernie Sanders supporters being the bulk of them. Sanders should be called to account to repudiate the violence. Did I miss it or is he being given a pass?
PenGun Says:
“The vast bulk of the responsibility rests on the protestors with Bernie Sanders supporters being the bulk of them.”
There is little evidence for this. Certainly a wide group of people were involved but there are many, especially Muslims and Latinos, who have good reasons to go after Trump.
No question Trump bears some responsibility. Has he ever appeared at a venue like UIC before? Not to my knowledge.
Looks like Trump is getting what he wanted in Dayton. Now claiming he made decision to cancel Chicago. Doesn’t mention police advice.
there are many, especially Muslims and Latinos, who have good reasons to go after Trump.
Depends on what you mean by “go after”. That’s the kind of language that implicitly incites.
Tom Holsinger Says:
Cruz is done. He won’t even get to the federal bench.
PenGun – What is the name of another candidate who had their support groups in Chicago committing assault and trying to provoke violence? We know that Bernie Sanders’ support group People for Bernie was there. Who else should we be asking to disavow the actions of their supporters. Please enlighten us as to the other culprits.
Michael Walsh in his book The Devil’s Pleasure Palace makes the point that behind the New Left’s agenda lies violence. The event last night in Chicago, as well as the “days of rage,” again in Chicago almost half-a-century ago, seem to bear out Walsh’s point. A frequent commentator on Chicago Boyz, Subadar Badahur [sp], has often said violence was looming ahead in our upcoming political campaigns. He seems to be prophetic on this wouldn’t you say?
Grurray Says:
Here’s a closer look at the attack on Trump during today’s rally.
(warning- foul language & raving leftist lunatic)
To quote someone on INSTAPUNDIT, “All of those principled Republicans and conservatives joining up with MoveOn and Black Lives Matter” is disappointing, but not surprising.
We have now seen who their higher loyalties are to.
And they have guaranteed that in any putative November elections, the Democrats will win. If Trump is the nominee, the GOPe and all the candidates running now will be functionally working for the Democrat. It is what Republicans have done consistently whenever an outsider wins a nomination. If Trump is not the nominee, how many of his supporters [35-45% of the voter base, at least, in the primaries so far] will vote for the [insert the expletives they will use] who stabbed Trump in the back? Republicans lose up and down the ticket. And there is the possibility of the rise of a real SECOND party, above ground or underground.
Unless the entire political establishment has gone Chiroptera feces crazy; they have to have had an end condition that they want to come to. Every option from the actions of the GOPe, is a Democrat victory. Unless someone can come up with another path and explain it, once you have eliminated the impossible, what remains has to be the answer.
The goal of both parties is a Democrat victory, and the GOPe is willing to destroy the Republican party to achieve it.
Which means we are outside the realm of electoral politics until it can be restored. Chicago points to where we are now.
TM. There is no evidence the Sanders supporters are the main protagonists. The organization of organizations implies a cooperative effort. I understand you have but one weapon, it makes little sense to use it here.
It would be dumb to oppose Trump. He will be by far the easiest to beat for either the Hildabeast, I like that one, or the Bern.
So, PenGun, you can’t name others but you’re sure that they’re not mostly Sanders people.
Thank you for playing.
TangoMan Says:
especially Muslims and Latinos, who have good reasons to go after Trump.
What reasons would they have to go after Trump? He said nothing about American Hispanics or American Muslims.
If you’re an engineer and you design a ratchet, should you be surprised that the ratchet moves in only one direction? What we’re seeing taking place in society and being focused on Trump is not due to Trump, it’s entirely due to structural forces running within society. Maintaining the status quo, even with Trump leaving the scene, is not going to make matters better. The future will be more unstable than the present, that’s due to the ratchet effect. It took us a long time to get here, by following the path laid out for us and it’s going to take a long time to fix the problems in society, problems which most people don’t even recognize. I’m not sure that Trump is the man to fix these problems, but then again, simply because he’s smart enough to see and to talk about some of the problems, he’s hands down a better choice than any of the alternatives on offer.
Tyouth Says:
Ted Cruz is responding to Donald Trump’s cancellation of his Chicago rally, saying the billionaire has created ‘an environment that encourages this sort of nasty discourse.’ The Texas senator is calling it a ‘sad day.’
Weak, Ted, weak.
The thuggish left and comments like Ted’s make us become more and more Trumpish.
Told ya!
I can’t tell for sure, but it looked to me like Trump was wheeling around to punch that guy jumping the stage.
Ken Hoop Says:
http://www.counter-currents.com/2016/03/chicago-the-veil-is-being-lifted/#more-62433
says what needs to be said.
“There is no evidence the Sanders supporters are the main protagonists”
Other than 50 Sanders signs, of course.
NBC News is running this story:
How Bernie Sanders Supporters Shut Down Donald Trump’s Rally in Chicago
When Ja’Mal Green, a prominent black activist and Bernie Sanders supporter in Chicago, saw that Donald Trump was coming to the University of Illinois-Chicago, he knew what he had to do.
“Everyone, get your tickets to this. We’re all going in!!!! #SHUTITDOWN,” he posted on Facebook last week.
Little did he know, they actually would shut it down. . . .
Protesters interrupt virtually every Trump speech. But what made Chicago different were its scale and the organization behind the effort. Hundreds of young people, mostly minorities, poured in from across the city, taking over whole sections of the arena and bracing for trouble.
And as the repeated chants of “Ber-nie” demonstrated, it was largely organized by supporters of Sanders, the Democratic presidential candidate who has struggled to win over black voters but whose revolutionary streak has excited radicals of all racial demographics.
“Remember the #TrumpRally wasn’t just luck. It took organizers from dozens of organizations and thousands of people to pull off. Great work,” tweeted People for Bernie, a large unofficial pro-Sanders organization founded by veterans of the Occupy movement and other leftist activists. . . . .
Jorge Mena, an undocumented graduate student at UIC, started a petition on MoveOn.org calling on the school’s administration to cancel the event. The petition garnered more than 50,000 signatures, and once brass at MoveOn, which has endorsed Sanders, caught wind of the UIC backlash, they wanted to help.
MoveOn chipped in money to get signs and a banner printed and blasted out an email to members in the Chicago area encouraging them to join the protest.
TangoMan – So, you’re saying that the Clintonista “MoveOn.org” people had a major role too? I stand corrected. Clinton needs to reign in her thugs as well. I’m not holding my breath for a journalist to press her on that.
Clinton needs to reign in her thugs as well. I’m not holding my breath for a journalist to press her on that.
Leftists play to win. Republicans don’t. Trump does. We see the common theme to how leftists play politics, and they even named the pro-Affirmative Action movement after that theme, By Any Means Necessary. This is what middle America doesn’t get, their enemy is totally committed to getting power and then using that power to jam their policies down America’s throat.
As for you point about the journalists holding Clinton to account, yeah, don’t hold your breath, we’d miss you here, it would be such a senseless loss.
Rioting fascists accuse Trump of being Hitler.
Phil Ossiferz Stone Says:
I would like to recommend Rex Applegate’s ‘Kill Or Get Killed’ to everyone in this thread who is angered and alarmed by these events. (Except PenGun).
http://www.amazon.com/Kill-Get-Killed-Rex-Applegate/dp/1581605587
It was originally penned to help fresh-faced American draftees learn to fight down and dirty against hardened killers in WW2, with eye gouges, knives to the groin, wire around the throat, and every kind of firearm at every range. Its premise is that the reader will be utterly scared spitless and is largely inexperienced — that you will involuntarily crouch and flail your arms and succumb to tunnel vision. It proceeds from there, and tells you how to channelize your body’s natural impulses in a fight to maximum effect. There is no macho-man tacticool sheepdog baloney, just user-friendly life-saving drills, most of which you can practice in your living room. Anyone who takes self-defense seriously, who has their CCW or is concerned about violent crime, should read this without delay.
The second part of the book was added in the 1950’s. It is largely aimed at LEO’s and Natl. Guard, and addresses the rise of the Communist-trained ‘ideologically motivated mob,’ which at that time was a new and worrisome thing in America. How they seize control of public places and marginalize the police, how they terrify the general population and whip up their own followers, how the senior members often manipulate underlings into potentially lethal situations in order to generate martyrs… you will find that informative as well. You will also find it terrifying, because you are going to recognize a helluva lot of what you see on the news at home and abroad. Including Chicago.
“you are going to recognize a helluva lot of what you see on the news at home and abroad. Including Chicago.”
And Cleveland.
I fear we will see war in the streets and the police are affected with PC, not as bad as in Britain, but they are under attack by the left, especially the Black Lives matter group which is funded by Soros and other Progressive organizations.
Chicago already sees race riots, which are called “Flash Mobs,” and which are now targeting the north Michigan Avenue shopping and residential areas.
This can all be fixed if we all chant Diversity is our Strength.™
Might as well post it again.
Someone on another site posted “Blaming Trump for the rioters is like blaming a You Tube video for Benghazi” BLM/Soros et al are responsible for the disruption, damages and staggering cost overruns. These individuals have been documented White House visitors, and were staged long before Trump announced. Sanford, Ferguson, Baltimore, and many points in between. Whoever the front-runner was going to be, they were going to be targeted.
That he’s caused such enthusiasm and momentum only serves to infuriate the organizer(s)and has added dangerous levels of urgency. Anyone who remembers the bat-shit crazy sixties and seventies can attest to how reckless and damaging they are. There are still empty lots in my old home town that were burnt in 68-69, and back then the principals didn’t have the reins of the federal government.
“There are still empty lots in my old home town that were burnt in 68-69, and back then the principals didn’t have the reins of the federal government.”
I anticipate Cleveland burning during the GOP convention. I hope not but I see it.
Trump is now talking about “Law and Order.” We will see that get very big this year again.
Law and Order. That’s so 1968.
Whitehall Says:
I intended to vote for Cruz in the Florida primary but I am withholding my vote.
The right to free speech and the right to peaceable assembly are civil right and the Declaration of Independence said to protect these rights are why “governments are instituted among men…”
If Cruz and Rubio can’t stand 100% behind the civil rights of a political competitor, how can I trust a Cruz or Rubio Administration to stand up 100% for MY civil rights?
Yes, this could lead to a civil war.
One classic bit of advice from General Sherman – “If war be the remedy of my enemy’s choosing, I say, give it to him.”
If the civil government won’t or can’t protect our rights to hear a candidate for president (and there were practical problems in Chicago so I understand in this case) then free men and women will have to protect them ourselves or we won’t be free much longer.
BREAKING: Black Trump supporter shot and killed by Chicago protesters
http://christiantimesnewspaper.com/breaking-black-trump-supporter-shot-and-killed-by-chicago-protesters/
He won’t be the only black man shot in Chicago this weekend by another black man> He might be the only one who was worth a damn.
Too bad but this will get common, I fear.
Have they arrested Marinus van der Lubbe yet?
LOL. Umm, no one believes this was a Sander’s set up or that the people doing the protest were largely Sanders people. That’s not gonna fly, even Trump does not believe that.
My favorite so far is that Soros is behind this, using his expertise gained by instigating Maidan in the Ukraine. It seems Trump will not be controllable by the Zionists, that apparently run everything, so he has to be stopped.
At least mine is funny, yours is just wrong.
Yup, I’ve been a badass since I was quite young. A tip, the environment is a better weapon that your rather fragile body. Hitting the environment with the ‘subject’ is often more effective than hitting the ‘subject’ with your fist etc.
The organizations behind the Chicago riot are being described.
In 2011, Cook County became the first locality to stop cooperating with the federal government on detainers; detainers became controversial among leftist groups when their use skyrocketed under the now discarded Secure Communities program.
It’s coming.
” It seems Trump will not be controllable by the Zionists, ”
PenGun is in usual form.
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2016/03/13/455393/George-Soros-violent-mobs-Chicago-/
Really, would I kid you?
Michael Kennedy quoting The Telegraph:
“But [Trump] did not take America to war in Iraq on flimsy evidence”
Neither did President Bush. In fact, the Saddam regime was in material breach across the board of the Gulf War ceasefire for casus belli, including the “governing standard of Iraqi compliance” (UNSCR 1441) for disarmament and renouncing terrorism mandated by UNSCR 687 (1991), in Saddam’s “final opportunity to comply” (UNSCR 1441). On the evidence, Bush’s decision for Operation Iraqi Freedom was correct.
Answer to “Why did Bush leave the ‘containment’ (status quo)?”;
Answer to “Did Bush allow enough time for the inspections?”;
Answers to “Did Bush lie his way to war with Iraq?” and “Was Operation Iraqi Freedom legal?”.
It’s no coincidence that The Telegraph led its thesis with the Iraq issue. The prevailing yet demonstrably false narrative of the why of OIF is a course-setting, cornerstone premise in the public discourse regarding American leadership in general and perception about American leadership under Republican presidency in particular.
As such, if you support Trump’s insurgent candidacy, it’s to his advantage – in the same way that it advantaged President Obama’s candidacy – that you continue to allow the demonstrably false narrative of the why of OIF to shape American affairs. But if you support another Republican candidate over Trump and the Democrats, then it’s incumbent to set the record straight on the why of OIF in the public discourse, ASAP.
I would like to read that book, Phil O., but the price is outrageous. I will look locally for a copy or try to find it elsewhere on the web.
The review mentioning knife attacks reminds me of the video of when Spencer Stone, the hero of last year’s French train attack, was stabbed in a bar brawl in Sacramento. He tried to fight three men but one had a knife. He was stabbed in the heart, lungs, and liver, and he required open heart surgery to save his life. You can see in the video that he was throwing roundhouse punches which opened him up and made him vulnerable to knife thrusts.
I’ve often heard to go for the wrist holding the knife. You would need to be faster than your attacker for it to work. I agree it’s a long shot, but when you have someone thrusting at you, you don’t have much to lose anyway.
There are a number of knife fighting things you can do. We used to practice knife fighting with ballpoint pens and no shirt. The pen will leave a mark where you strike and we tried to not hurt each other too much.
A standard sucker move, you can find out if the guy knows anything this way, is the simple reverse slash at the guys knife wrist. If successful he will lose the knife and probably suffer tendon damage. It’s also a fairly safe move as you can still keep your distance.
Always focus on the knife, do not let the other guy distract from that. Always grab a weapon of some kind a mug is better than nothing, throw it at his head. My motto for a while was run till you find a weapon. A chair is very good but anything you can find can be useful.
If you can, just run away, it’s not a fair fight.
Friday evening’s Donald Trump rally in Chicago was broken up by a foul-mouthed mob that infiltrated the hall and forced the cancellation of the event to prevent violence and bloodshed.
Brownshirt tactics worked. The mob, triumphant, rejoiced.
And the reaction of Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and John Kasich?
All three Republican rivals blamed – Donald Trump.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/03/republican-wimps-absolve-the-rioters/#aHSjIzmAXGAaJqe6.99
The clear-sighted Buchanan has it right as usual.
G Joubert Says:
The Telegraph, which I’ve read regularly for years, most definitely doesn’t “get it.” They may get this little sliver of an issue, but, big picture, they hate Trump too.
ErisGuy Says:
Trump’s views are unconstitutional, illiberal and sometimes they trigger hate
Compared to all other presidents and candidates who are scrupulously constitutional and only inspire love. Get real.
“when you have someone thrusting at you, you don’t have much to lose anyway.”
The old rule is “Run from a knife and charge a gun.” Stone forgot that.
I have my doubts about Trump, but anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia, lack of ability to deal with serious people, or lack of intelligence are not among them. He has developed large real estate projects in several large cities, including being based in Manhattan. That negates all of those concerns.
Anyway, his son-in-law is Jewish and his daughter converted when she married him, and remains a senior person (VP, I think) in the Trump Organization. So much for anti-Semitism.
My main concern, other than electability with both sides sliming him as they are, is that he seems too quick-tempered, too ready to rise to the bait. He cannot seem to let a slight just go by, he seems to always have to have the last word. I want someone with great powers of self control in that office.
Related, his need to see his name on everything from his buildings to licensing deals he should have checked out before going into (steaks? vodka? Trump University?) is a related problem. Are his id and ego really under control?
Case in point, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK got 2 successive messages from Khrushchev, within a couple of hours. The first was constructive, the second belligerent. JFK’s team decided that K was probably caught in the middle of a factional conflict in the Kremlin, and the way to help the constructive side was to respond positively to that message and ignore the belligerent one. I wonder if Trump would resist the urge to respond angrily to that second message.
Now, maybe all this is the persona he had to adopt in order to crack the political market and build a differentiated “brand” there, and once he is satisfied that is accomplished he can dial it back down. I don’t know. I suspect we may learn more over the next 2 months.
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D1101 Prototype of J-11D Sino-Flanker Fighter jet With Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) Radar
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Most advance version of Sino J-11 Flanker fighter jet has been recently spotted. This new version of Sino-Flanker has be designated J-11D as it is speculated to have Chinese active electronically scanned array (AESA) inside its upwardly canted radar dome.
The "D1101" prototype of J-11D Sino-Flanker was first spotted on April 29, 2015, powered by two WS-10A engines at Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (SAC) airfield.
The J-11D Flanker fighter jet with improved fly-by-wire (FBW) system and increased the usage of composites in the fuselage to cut overall weight of aircraft will result in increased maneuverability and control. The Infrared Search and Tracking (IRST) system has been moved to starboard side of the windshield, and retractable inflight refueling (IFR) probe was installed on the port side.
The J-11D will be able to carry new generation Chinese missiles like fifth generation PL-10 within visual range (WVR) high agility infrared homing air-to-air missile, Pl-12 / PL-15 Beyond Visual Range (BVR) missile and YJ-12 long range supersonic anti-ship cruise missile
The AESA radar for aircraft is developed by the 14th Institute and was tested on-board a modified J-11B fighter jet in 2014.
Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (SAC) has produced licensed version of Russian Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker fighter jet under designation of J-11 and later on started producing improved version under designation J-11B to make use of local engines, composite materials, radar, avionics, and weapons.
China has also developed J-15 Flying Shark carrier borne fighter jet for operations from CV-16 Liaoning Aircraft Carrier of PLA Navy.
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Wooden Piers Canvas Prints A pier is a raised structure typically supported by well spaced piles or pillars. Bridges, buildings, and walkways may all be supported by piers. Their open structure allows tides and currents to flow relatively unhindered, whereas the more solid foundations of closely spaced piles of a wharf can act as a breakwater and are consequently more liable to silting. Piers can range in size and complexity from a simple lightweight wooden structure to major structures extended over 1600 meters. Pier may be synonymous with dock. Piers have been built for several purposes and because these different purposes have distinct regional variances, the term pier tends to have different nuances of meaning in different parts of the world. Piers can be categorized into different groupings according to the principal purpose. Pleasure piers often also allow for the docking of pleasure steamers and other similar craft, while working piers have often been converted to leisure use after being rendered obsolete by advanced developments in cargo handling technology. Many piers are floating piers, to ensure that the piers raise and lower with the tide along with the boats tied to them. This prevents a situation where lines become overly taut or loose by raising or lowering tides. An overly taut or loose tie line can damage boats by pulling them out of the water or allowing them so much leeway that they bang forcefully against the sides of the pier. Many piers are built for the purpose of providing boat less angler access to fishing grounds that are otherwise inaccessible.
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Blur review
29/07/2009 By Ciarán Ryan
Blur have reformed to play some of the biggest gigs of their career. Here’s a review of their performance at Hyde Park, London, 2nd July 2009.
The LED billboard reads ‘Welcome to Blur at Hyde Park. Drink water, wear sunscreen. Have a great time!’
Four songs into their performance and Damon’s singing ‘Tracy Jacks’. 55,000 fans are singing with him. We’re having a great time. The mid-twenties woman standing next to me is jabbing her finger into the air, finishing Damon’s lyric for him; “His putt is erratic”.
Blur jog through ‘She’s So High’, ‘Girls & Boys”, Tracy Jacks’, ‘There’s No Other Way’, ‘Jubilee’ and ‘Badhead’.
For ‘Beetlebum’ they work themselves into a frenzy. The sunlight is fading. The stage lights are brighter.
Before ‘Out of Time’, Damon recalls the anti-war protest: “Two million people marched into this park in 2003, and tried to stop something and you know what happened, I just want to remind myself about it.”
Damon’s screaming during ‘Trimm Trabb’. Lights strobe. Graham sings ‘Coffee & TV’. Alex is smiling. Oh my baby. ‘Tender’ unites the crowd in extended sing-a-long. Oh my baby. A line of white light illuminates the stage. Oh my baby.
Now it’s ‘Country House’. Topless lads climbing on each other’s shoulders. It’s a favourite with those in the audience who don’t have English as their first language.
‘Oily Water’, ‘Chemical World’, then it’s ‘Sunday Sunday’. Damon encourages us to jog on the spot to ‘Parklife’, and tells us that he came up with the idea for the song while people-watching in Hyde Park.
“She said there’s ants in the carpet / Dirty little monsters / Eating all the morsels / Picking up the rubbish”
‘End Of A Century’ is sing-a-long and beautiful. It’s night. A glitterball descends and we’re singing ‘To The End’. Beams of light shoot into the audience. Damon is staring out.
Then we’re singing “This is a low / But it won’t hurt you / When you’re alone / It will be there with you”. During ‘This is a low’ the strong beam of a lighthouse sweeps the swaying audience. Damon’s scrunched up and sitting down on stage, rocking back and forth. A huge cheer when the song ends.
It’s 9:54pm, the band leave the stage. The crowd sings “Oh my baby” from ‘Tender’.
Blur reappear and play ‘Popscene’ and ‘Advert’. The crowd erupts to ‘Song 2′. In huge red letters, ‘Vote Dave’ scrolls across the backcloth. Woo Hoo. They leave the stage again. Then return to play ‘Death Of A Party’.
“For everyone who lives in this wonderful mixed-up city” is how Damon introduces the wonderful ‘For Tomorrow’. We’re singing along. He mouthes ‘I love you’ to crowd.
The last song is ‘The Universal’. “No one here is alone / Satellites in every home / Yes the universal’s here / Here for everyone / Every paper that you read / Says tomorrow is your lucky day / Well, here’s your lucky day / It really, really, really could happen / Yes, it really, really, really could happen / When the days they seem to fall through you, well just let them go”.
It seems we’re all singing, remembering, celebrating something or other. During the swelling instrumental Damon holds the microphone in the air. The two big screens flanking the stage show the mic in his fist, behind the mic a sea of heads in Hyde Park.
“That was better than when I saw then in ’94″ says someone behind me, as the band exit for the final time. Warm light bathes the crowd. We’re walking away. One girl turns back to her friend, “That was f****** sweet”.
“Oh my baby / Oh my baby / Oh why / Oh my” echoes off the tiled walls of Marble Arch tube station as the fans make their way home.
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(1) general economic conditions;
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B. A trustee's investment and management decisions respecting individual assets shall be evaluated not in isolation but in the context of the trust portfolio as a whole and as a part of an overall investment strategy having risk and return objectives reasonably suited to the trust.
C. Among circumstances that a trustee shall consider in investing and managing trust assets are such of the following as are relevant to the trust or its beneficiaries:
1. General economic conditions;
2. The possible effect of inflation or deflation;
3. The expected tax consequences of investment decisions or strategies;
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E. A trustee may invest in any kind of property or type of investment consistent with the standards of this article.
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In January 1993, six children in the aboriginal Innu community of Davis Inlet attempted multiple suicide by inhaling gasoline fumes. All fortunately were rescued and those most at risk were removed from the community to Poundmaker’s Lodge, a native treatment centre near Edmonton. The footage of these children was broadcast nationally and sparked a new cross-country awareness of the tragedy ...
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The Donald Marshall case is as straightforward as it is tragic. Marshall is a Mi’kmaq man who spent 11 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. The subsequent inquiry showed evidence that discrimination and incorrect procedures led to this miscarriage of justice. The justice and police systems not only failed him, they indicted, tried, convicted and, ultimately, ...
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Nunavut, Canada’s newest territory, is celebrating its sixth birthday. It’s an exciting time for the estimated 30,000 residents of the territory. But it’s a difficult time too. Nunavut is experiencing some serious growing pains. Rapid change is causing social problems. Food prices are high, and there are not enough houses, hospitals or jobs. In this News in Review story we’ll ...
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A former FBI lawyer is being criminally investigated over an altered document related to the 2016 Russia investigation, CNN reported Thursday, citing people briefed on the matter.
The allegations are reportedly being levied by the Justice Department’s inspector general, Michael Horowitz, who is expected to release a report on December 9 reviewing the FBI’s actions during the Russia investigation.
The document in question is associated with the court-approved surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page, sources told The Washington Post.
The news of the allegation comes amid the public impeachment hearings into President Donald Trump.
It is unclear which document was thought to be altered by the FBI lawyer, nor what changes were made or whether the document had any impact on the Russia investigation.
The allegation against the ex-FBI employee is included in Horowitz’s hotly anticipated report, which will “examine whether the FBI violated surveillance laws or policies by obtaining a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant” to investigate Page, according to Politico.
The Senate Judiciary Committee’s chairman, Sen. Lindsey Graham, a loyal ally to Trump, said Horowitz was expected to appear before lawmakers to testify on December 11, The Post reported.
“I look forward to reviewing the report and hearing Mr. Horowitz’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he will deliver a detailed account of what he found regarding his investigation, along with recommendations as to how to make our judicial and investigative systems better,” Graham said in a statement to Politico.
The Justice Department and the FBI did not immediately respond to Insider’s requests for comment.
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Every web user needs the kind of information assurance that comes from trained cyber professionals who can monitor, protect, and serve the best interests of their online accounts, networks, and data. That’s why Cybersecurity is one of the fastest growing professions in the world. Because as cyber criminals find more and more ways to infiltrate our computer systems and digital infrastructure every day, the demand for cyber professionals will only grow, especially for those who possess fundamental cybersecurity skills in information systems, software assurance, and vulnerability detection and assessment, all of which learners can earn with an associate’s degree in cybersecurity.
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Associate of Science (A.S.) in Cybersecurity
An Associate of Science in Cybersecurity will train learners with the technical skills they need to earn careers as cyber security professionals in an number of areas, including but not limited to cybercrime, cyberwarfare, cyberlaw, biometrics, cryptography, digital forensics, homeland security, and wireless or mobile defense mechanisms. In addition to preparation to enter a B.S. program in Cybersecurity, many affordable A.S. programs in Cybersecurity also provide preparation to sit for certification in the learner’s preferred area of cybersecurity specialization.
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An Associate of Science in Computer Forensics will train learners with the technical skills they need to earn careers as cyber security professionals in an number of areas, including but not limited to programming, networking technologies, criminal justice, and various operating systems. In addition to preparation to enter a B.S. program in Computer Forensics, many affordable A.S. programs in Computer Forensics also provide preparation to sit for certification in the student’s preferred area of specialization in cybersecurity.
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An Associate of Science in Network Security will train learners with the technical skills they need to earn careers as cyber security professionals, including but not limited to networking fundamentals, computer technology, data security, computer forensics, and various operating systems. In addition to preparation to enter a B.S. program in Network Security, many affordable A.S. programs in Computer Forensics also provide preparation to sit for certification in the student’s preferred area of specialization in cybersecurity.
An Associate of Science in Cybersecurity will train learners with the technical skills they need to earn careers as cyber security professionals in an number of areas, including but not limited to cybercrime, cyberwarfare, cyberlaw, biometrics, cryptography, digital forensics, homeland security, and wireless or mobile defense mechanisms. Many A.S. programs in Cybersecurity also provide preparation to sit for certification in the student’s preferred area of specialization in cybersecurity.
FYI: Job Prospects for Cybersecurity Associate’s Degree-Holders
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a much faster than average job growth rate between now and 2024 for cybersecurity jobs that require only an associate’s degree to work, which include jobs titles like Web Developer. Professionals who work either of these jobs will be on the frontlines of the IT industry, establishing and securing digital infrastructure with their fundamental knowledge of cybersecurity. There are quite a number of other jobs that an associate’s degree in cybersecurity can prepare learners to earn, including those on the following list:
Cybersecurity Jobs that an Associate’s Degree Can Prepare You To Attain and their Median Salaries
Computer Support Specialist: $52,160
Computer Programmer*: $79,840
Database Administrator*: $84,950
Information Security Analyst*: $92,600
Computer and Information Research Scientist*: $111,840
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With the future of cybersecurity so bright and expansive—particularly via the online format that is its natural habitat, considering cybersecurity professionals work and communicate via connected computer systems—the skills that an associate’s degree in cybersecurity will prepare online learners to possess are in high demand. The largest employers of cybersecurity companies and professionals, lists the following areas of expertise among their most high-demand skillsets for new employees and partners to possess:
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These skills are also highly tested. Cybersecurity certifications have increased immensely in popularity over the past several years, with over two dozen certifying bodies providing testing to degree-holders who need professional credentials to kickstart their careers.
And as more cybersecurity programs emerge to meet growing demand, the certification and regulation processes become more rigorous, meaning it’s more important than ever to earn an associate’s degree that will prepare you for certification properly.
Want a little more job security? See What Can I Do with a Bachelor’s in Cybersecurity? for more information on how completing a bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity can help ensure you pass all your examinations and get the job you want.
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Judge Joe Walker looks on as former pastor Ronnie Gorton testifies on Aug. 28.
Former Atoka pastor Ronnie Gorton was found guilty on two dozen counts of sexual abuse and providing teenagers with drugs and alcohol.
Former Atoka pastor Ronnie Gorton and his father, Bob, embraced in the hallway before walking in to listen to the verdict.
As each guilty verdict was read – two counts of exploitation of a minor, two counts of contributing to a minor, two counts of furnishing alcohol to minors, seven counts of sexual battery by an authority figure, 10 counts of statutory rape by an authority figure and the continual abuse of a child – his former best friend Wesley Edwards cried from the gallery.
Gorton, as he had during the entirety of the trial, remained emotionless until after the last one was read by the foreman, then he rested his chin on his praying hands.
He left the courtroom from the back door, towards the jail, where he will stay until he is sentenced on Nov. 8.
“We’re very thankful for the verdict and the jury made it clear to the community that child sexual abuse will not be tolerated in Tipton County,” said district attorney general Mark Davidson.
‘Please don’t do that to me …’
Ballin cut right to the chase when Gorton took the stand Wednesday.
“I’m going to ask you the question everybody wants to hear you answer: Did you molest [the victim]?”
“Absolutely not,” Gorton said before going on to answering questions about his background and the state of his now-failed marriage.
Much of his two-hour testimony was centered on why he slept in the victim’s bed, suggesting the victim was in “a dark place” and talked about suicide after his mother was arrested.
“He could not handle the thought of being alone,” he said. “[The victim] was extremely clingy. He had to follow me wherever I went. He chose to be with me, even on weekends when it wasn’t a school night.”
Assistant district attorney Walt Freeland called the upstairs area where the two spent their time a “chamber of horrors” because of the graphic nature of the abuse.
Even on vacation Gorton chose to sleep with the victim instead of sleeping on the couch because, he said, he was asked to.
“He would ask me, or make those comments, ‘… Please don’t do that to me,’” Gorton testified.
The former pastor admitted to providing his victim, and other teenagers, beer mixed with whiskey and marijuana on several occasions.
“Did you feel no obligation as the shepherd of the flock to take care of your flock?” Freeland asked.
“In that area I failed,” Gorton responded.
‘I’ve lost everything’
Gorton finally showed emotion Wednesday when he talked about his dogs and his life since the accusations were made.
“My life has been a living hell for the past 19 months,” he said, choking up. “I’ve lost everything, friends, family, I’ve lost it all. All I know to do is turn to God.”
Gorton testified he’s done a lot of praying, including for the teenager who accused him of molesting and raping him.
He said he didn’t show emotion because he tried to keep himself composed, even with witnesses sobbing on the stand, then suggested the victim lied.
“He couldn’t even tell the truth about the good days we had. I couldn’t understand that. He was extremely happy … I was thinking I’d leave with closure, but I didn’t get it.”
The anger from his victim, he said, he hasn’t seen in years, but he was glad he has fond memories of the dogs.
Gorton referenced the victim’s testimony from the day before where, as an aside while identifying photos, he’d mentioned missing them and cried as he shared he told the dogs about it.
“I went home last night and told Bullet and Bubby he missed him.”
Ballin asked Gorton if he knew why the victims would make the accusations.
“I have wracked my brain and I have done a lot of trying to investigate myself. I know [the victim] was easily persuaded by a certain individual and they had reached the point in my life where they had lost respect for me.”
Gorton also choked up several times as he shared being hurt over his wife and his best friend talking behind his back.
“You’re a professional speaker,” Freeland told him, “and you try to convince people to believe things.”
“The Holy Spirit does the convincing,” Gorton answered.
“When you turned on the tears, it was just about your life … you’re trying to convince this jury you’re something you’re not.”
The jury was not convinced however, returning its verdict in an hour and a half.
There are still two more trials and neither will begin before 2020.
Gorton was booked into the Tipton County Jail immediately and will await his Nov. 8 sentencing from behind bars.
It is not known whether he’ll be on suicide watch.
“I am pleased that the jury listened, they took their time to consider the proof, that’s all you can really ask for in cases like this,” Ballin said. “You’re obviously disappointed, but respect their decision. Any time you have more than one person saying the same thing it becomes an uphill battle, but you still have to believe in the system.”
With so many charges, it’s difficult to calculate how much time he could be facing in prison.
Davidson said the conviction was gratifying for the victims who’ve suffered as a result of Gorton’s actions.
“He’s a ravenous wolf in sheep’s clothing,” Freeland said. “As the shepherd of a flock he didn’t pray for the flock, he preyed on the flock.”
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One of two beers to join the permanent Hargreaves Hill lineup from late summer 2018 onwards is a beer that has been around before, albeit under the rather less snappy title of Small Hoppy Ale. Sure, it told you what to expect and, in a new look range that puts cleanliness to the forefront – its five core range stablemates are named by style – maybe it could have ended up as Mid. But JNR does the job of telling you it's a smaller beer with more of a smile.
When we say smaller, in keeping with the way the world of mid-strength has been heading for a few years now, it's more a case of getting as much character you'd expect from a bigger beer into a smaller package. The only aspect you'd say was reduced here is the body, with little concession when it comes to hop flavour and aroma, coming courtesy of Simcoe, Mosaic, Citra and Chinook. From the slightly hazy pale gold beer in your glass you'll find lively citrus aromas and tangerine flavours, while it's light on the palate and signs off with a refreshing, pithy, citrusy bitterness.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?" This question was posed by Leo author Ray Bradbury in his book Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity. Even if you're not a writer yourself, you will benefit from responding to his exhortation. It's one of the best things you could possibly do to activate your dormant creativity and intensify your lust for life. This is one of those times when working with your extremes is not only safe and healthy, but also fun and inspirational. So do it, Leo! Get excited and expressive about the best and worst things in your life.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It's time to leave behind the golden oldies. You'd be wise to tiptoe away from tradition, and give the ghosts of the past one last kiss goodbye, and wean yourself from nostalgia for the good old days. Frankly, my dear, you've got numerous appointments with the future, and it would be a shame to miss them because you're mucking around with memories. In the coming weeks — for that matter, in the coming months — you're most likely to thrive if you become an agent of change. And the most important thing to change is your relationship to the person you used to be.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In Indonesia, the term gotong-royong is defined as the "joint bearing of burdens." In practice it means that you and I and our allies get together voluntarily to help each other achieve a shared goal. It may also be an agreement to provide mutual aid: I help you do what you need to have done, and you help me with my task. Gotong-royong also implies that we enjoy working together. The emotional tone that we cultivate is affection and care. By sharing a burden, we lighten the load that each of us has to bear. I bring this to your attention, Libra, because it's the gotong-royong season for you and yours. Be the ringleader who initiates and sustains it.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In one of his poems, Jack Gilbert mentions "the incurably sane," who are "uncrippled by beauty" and "unbutchered by love." When I read those lines, I felt a surge of protest. Is there a single person on the earth who fits that description? No! I was miffed by such starry-eyed idealism. Later, though, as I studied the astrological omens for you Scorpios, my attitude softened. I realized that the coming weeks may be a time when many of you will at least temporarily be incurably sane, uncrippled by beauty, and unbutchered by love. If you're one of these lucky ones, please use your blessed grace to spread an abundance of blessed grace everywhere you go.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you're not skirting the edges of the forbidden zone, you're playing it too safe. If you're not serving as a benevolent mischief-maker for someone you care about, you're shirking your duty. Your allegiance should be with X-factors and wild cards. You will thrive to the degree that you cultivate alliances with mavericks and instigators. Are you shrewd enough to mess with time-tested formulas? Are you restless enough to rebel against habits that stifle your curiosity?
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): How to be a Capricorn, according to my Capricorn reader Sadie Kennedy: When you are younger, take yourself too seriously. Look and act older than you actually are as you serve what's most practical. Sacrifice fun and frivolity, working doggedly to achieve the goals you yearn for, until you reach some level of accomplishment. Then realize, as if struck by a thunderbolt, that fun and frivolity have practical value. Begin to age backward like Benjamin Button as you balance work with play and discipline with leisure. Enjoy the fruits of your intense efforts as everyone tells you how relaxed and supple and resilient you are becoming.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Cracking open the shell of a soft-boiled egg is a tricky task. You must be firm enough to break the shell, but sufficiently gentle to avoid making a mess. If you live in Germany, you have access to a metal instrument that provides just the right measure of soft force. It's called an Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher, translated as "soft-boiled egg shell cracker." Your assignment in the coming weeks is to cultivate a talent that is metaphorically similar to an Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher. I believe you will need that blend of sensitivity and power on numerous occasions.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Americans often regard Cuba as impoverished and backward. There is an element of truth in their prejudice, primarily because the U.S. has imposed a stifling embargo on the Caribbean nation for more than 50 years. That's why, for example, many Cubans drive cars that were manufactured in the 1950s. But I wonder how my fellow citizens would respond if they knew that in some ways Cuba's health care system is better than America's. The World Health Organization recently congratulated Cuba for being the first country on earth to eradicate the transmission of syphilis and HIV from mothers to babies. Can you identify a metaphorically similar situation in your personal life, Pisces? Are there people you regard as inferior or undeveloped who could teach you an important lesson or motivate you to grow? Now is a perfect time to benefit from their influence.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Charles de Lint is a novelist whose stories are influenced by folklore, myths, and science fiction. In his book Yarrow, a wizardly character named Toby is skilled at conjuring. He can make small objects appear and disappear, for example. But Toby yearns for more. "I want to be magic," he says. "I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. I want to marry a moonbeam and hear the stars sing. I don't want to pretend at magic anymore. I want to be magic." If you have ever wished for a comparable upgrade, Aries, now is an unusually favorable time to work on it.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): An imaginative Welsh man named Liam Bennett has developed a "dausage," which is a blend of a doughnut and sausage. One of his most requested treats is pork meat stuffed with strawberry jelly. Even if this novel blend doesn't appeal to your taste buds, it serves as a good prompt for my advice: The coming weeks will be a favorable time to expand your notion of what types of nourishment are fun and healthy for you. I mean that in the metaphorical as well as the literal sense. Experiment with new recipes, both with the food you provide your body and the sustenance you feed your soul.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the woods, living matter isn't segregated from the decaying stuff. Rotting tree trunks are host to teeming colonies of moss. Withered stems of ferns mingle with cheerful saplings. Audacious mushrooms sprout up among scraps of fallen leaves. The birds and beetles and lizards and butterflies don't act as if this mix is weird. They seem to be at peace with it. I suspect they thrive on it, even exult in it. That's the spirit I suggest you adopt as you enjoy the paradoxical mélange of your life in the coming weeks, Gemini. Celebrate the mysterious magic that emerges as you simultaneously fade and flourish, decline and increase, wind down and rise up.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here are some tips on being the best Cancerian you can be: 1) Cultivate your sensitivity as a strength. Regard your emotional vulnerability as a superpower. 2) Nurture yourself at least as much as you nurture others. 3) Learn to know the difference between your golden hunches and the glimmering delusions that your demons stir up. 4) Be kind, but don't be exorbitantly nice. 5) Remember that others' unhappiness is rarely your fault or responsibility. 6) Keep reinventing the way you love yourself.
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Dutta Majumder, D.
Fuzzy sets in pattern recognition, image analysis and automatic speech recognition. (English). Aplikace matematiky, vol. 30 (1985), issue 4, pp. 237-254
MSC: 03E72, 68T10, 94D05 | MR 0795985 | Zbl 0587.68078
survey; image processing; fuzzy set theory; pattern recognition; image analysis; speech recognition
Fuzzy set theory, a recent generalization of classical set theory, has attracted the attention of researchers working in various areas including pattern recognition, which has had a seminal influence in the development of this new theory. This paper attempts to discuss some of the methodologies that have been suggested for pattern recognition, and techniques for image processing and speech recognition.
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[21] B. B. Chaudhuri D. Dutta Majumder: On membership evaluation in fuzzy sets. Not yet in print.
[22] L. Vanderheydt F. Dom A. Oosterlinck H. Van den Berghe: Two-dimensional shape decomposition using fuzzy subset theory applied on automated chromosome analysis. Publication unknown.
[23] B. B. Chaudhuri D. Dutta Majumder: Recognition and fuzzy description of sides and symmetries of figures by computer. Int. J. Syst. Sci. 11 (1980), 1435-1445. DOI 10.1080/00207728008967095 | MR 0601673
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[28] S. K. Pal D. Dutta Majumder: Fuzzy sets and decision making approaches in vowel and speaker recognition. IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern., Vol. SMC-7 (1977), 625-629. DOI 10.1109/TSMC.1977.4309789
[29] S. K. Pal D. Dutta Majumder: On automatic plosive identification using fuzziness in property sets. IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern., Vol. SMC-8 (1978), 302-308. DOI 10.1109/TSMC.1978.4309956
[30] R. Jain: Pattern classification using property sets. Publication unknown.
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[34] E. T. Lee: Shape oriented chromosome classification. IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern., Vol. SMC-5 (1975), 629-632. DOI 10.1109/TSMC.1975.4309407 | MR 0451919 | Zbl 0329.92014
[35] S. Tamura S. Higuchi K. Tanaka: Pattern classification based on fuzzy relations. IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern., Vol. SMC-3 (1973), 98-102. MR 0312779
[36] D. Duta Majumder S. K. Pal: Concept of fuzzy sets and its application in pattern recognition problems. Proc. CSI, Hyderabad, 20-23 January 1976.
[37] D. Dutta Majumder S. K. Pal B. B. Chaudhuri: Fuzzy sets in handwritten character recognition. Recent Trends of Res. Pattern Recognition and Digital Techniques, February 1977, Ed. D. Dutta Majumder, ISI Calcutta, 63 - 71.
[38] D. Dutta Majumder S. K. Pal: Fuzzy sets and decision making approaches in vowel and speaker recognition. IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. (1977), 625-629.
[39] D. Dutta Majumder S. K. Pal: On some applications of fuzzy algorithm in man-machine communication research. JIETE (India), Vol. 23 (March 1977), 117-120.
[40] D. Dutta Majumder S. K. Pal, Datta: Computer recognition of Telugu vowel sounds. JCSI vol. 7 (December 1976), 14 - 21.
[41] D. Dutta Majumder S. K. Pal B. B. Chaudhuri: Some experiments on computer recognition of speech pattern. Proc. Int. Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems, August 19-24, 1976, Patras, Greece. Hemisphere Publishing Corporation, USA.
[42] D. Dutta Majumder: Studies on some application pattern recognition methods for development. Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Applications in Developing Countries, (IFIP Regional. Symposium), Bangkok, August 22-25, 1977.
[43] D. Dutta Majumder S. K. Pal: On fuzzification, fuzzy languages and multicategory fuzzy classifier. Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Cybernetics and Society, 1977, Washington, USA.
[44] D. Dutta Majumder: Effect of fuzzification of plosive cognition system. Int. Jour. of Systems Sciences 9 (1978), 837-886.
[45] D. Dutta Majumder: Adaptive learning algorithm in classification of fuzzy patterns. An application to vowels in CNC context. Int. Jour. of System Sciences 9 (1978), 887-897. DOI 10.1080/00207727808941747 | MR 0502347
[46] D. Dutta Majumder A. K. Datta N. R. Ganguli: Some studies on acoustic-phonetic features of Telugu vowels. Acoustica, Stuttgart, Germany.
[47] D. Dutta Majumder S. K. Pal: Application of fuzzy recognition system in speech patterns. Proc. 5th National Syst. Conf. NSC-78, Ludhiana, September 1978.
[48] D. Dutta Majumder S. K. Pal A. K. Datta: Computer recognition of vowel sounds using a self-supervised learning algorithms. J. Acoust. Sec. India, Vol. VI, No. 4 (1978), 117-123.
[49] D. Dutta Majumder S. K. Pal: Effect of fuzzification on automatic vowel sound recognition. The 4th Intern. Conf. on Pattern Recognition, November 7-10, 1978, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 1044-1046.
[50] D. Dutta Majumder: Computers in national policy formulation and monitoring. Proc. South East Asia Regional Computer Conference '78, September 4-8, 1978, Manila, Philipines.
[51] D. Dutta Majumder S. K. Pal: Fuzzy recognition system for patterns of biological origin. Proc. 4th Int. Congress, Amsterdam, August 21 - 25, 1978.
[52] D. Dutta Majumder S. K. Pal: Vowel identification using piecewise separation technique. Indian J. Tech. 16, No. 4 (1978), 148-153.
[53] D. Dutta Majumder B. B. Chaudhuri: Symmetry analysis in computer visual perception and learning process. Proc. CSI Convention, 1979, Bangalore.
[54] D. Dutta Majumder S. K. Pal: Adaptive classification using property sets. Prov. CSI-79, Bangalore, January 1979.
[55] D. Dutta Majumder: Some studies on pattern recognition and image processing methods in remote sensing application. (invited paper). Proc. Workshop on Remote Sensing Techniques and Applications, IEEE, November 5-7, 1979, New Delhi.
[56] D. Dutta Majumder S. K. Parui B. B. Chaudhuri: Some algorithms on preprocessing of two-tone pictures for image analysis. J. Inst. Elect. Telecom. Eng. 26, No. 1 (1980), 21 - 28.
[57] D. Dutta Majumder A. K. Datta N. R. Ganguli: Acoustic features of consonants. A study based on Telegu speech sounds. Acoustica, Germany, Vol. 44, part 5 (1980).
[58] D. Dutta Majumder B. B. Chaudhuri: Fuzzy sets and possibility theory in reliability studies of man-machine systems. Fuzzy sets, theory and application to policy analysis and information systems. Eds. P. P. Wang and S. K. Chang, Plenum Press, New York 1980. MR 0587648
[59] D. Dutta Majumder S. K. Pal: A self-adaptive fuzzy recognition system for speech sounds. Fuzzy sets, theory and applications to policy analysis and information systems. Eds. P. P. Wang and S. K. Chang, Plenum Press, New York, pp. 223 - 230, 1980.
[60] D. Dutta Majumder A. K. Datta S. K. Pal: Self-supervised vowel recognition system. Pattern Recognition 12, No. 1 (1980), 27-34. DOI 10.1016/0031-3203(80)90051-5
[61] D. Dutta Majumder S. K. Pand B. B. Chaudhuri: A new grammar for generatinon recognition scripts. Proc. 5th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems, Vienna. Hemisphere Publishing Corporation, Washington, 1980.
[62] D. Dutta Majumder: A fuzzy set theoretic approach for recognition of pattern generated from biosocial systems. Proc. 5th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems, Vienna. Hemisphere Publishing Corporation, Washington, 1980.
[63] D. Dutta Majumder: Pattern recognition and image understanding system for remote sensing applications. Proc. South East Asia Regional Computer Confederation - Third Conference, October 21 - 34, 1980, Jakarta, Indonesia.
[64] D. Dutta Majumder B. B. Chaudhuri: Recognition and fuzzy description of sides and symmetries of figures by computers. Int. J. Syst Sc. 11, No. 12 (1980), 1435-1445. DOI 10.1080/00207728008967095 | MR 0601673
[65] D. Dutta Majumder B. B. Chaudhuri: 3-d image processing methods and applications. Proc. Informatics - '81, (IFIP), Jan. New Delhi, pp. 89-92, 1981.
[66] D. Dutta Majumder: Fuzzy set theoretic approach in ASR research. Proc. 5th Int. Congress Cybernetics and Syst. of WOGSC, August 17-22, 1981, Mexico City.
[67] D. Dutta Majumder B. B. Chaudhuri: On membership evaluation in fuzzy sets. Fuzzy information and decision process. M. M. Gupta, E. Sanchoz, eds. North-Holland (to be published).
[68] D. Dutta Majumder B. Chand B. B. Chaudhuri: Image enhancement and edge detection for human visual systems. Tech. Report No. ECSL (1) 81, ISI, Calcutta, 1981.
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Airbus Presses Its Advantage Over Boeing With Order for 100 New Longer-Range Planes
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Airbus SE won its first order for a new longer range model, the A321XLR, and pressed its advantage over rival Boeing Co., which is still trying to get its most-popular narrow-body back into the skies after two fatal crashes.
The European manufacturer gave details about the A321XLR on the first day of the Paris Air Show on Monday and said Air Lease Corp. ordered 27 as part of a larger 100-plane contract worth $11 billion at list prices, confirming an earlier report by Bloomberg. The A321XLR could fly on trans-Atlantic routes and has a range of 4,700 nautical miles.
With the A321XLR–for “extra long range”– Airbus has succeeded in beating Boeing to market with a new offering for middle-distance routes, such as between central Europe and the U.S. heartland. Boeing has been weighing a $15 billion investment in a jet it calls the new midmarket airplane, or NMA. But the U.S. planemaker has put those plans on the back burner until the 737 Max, which was grounded after crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia, gets the green light from regulators to fly again.
JetBlue Airways Corp. and Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA, regarded as likely buyers for the XLR, on Friday urged Boeing to go ahead with the NMA that–with a planned range of 5,000 nautical miles–they say will have capabilities the European plane can’t match. The 240-seat XLR is a variant of Airbus’s best-selling A320neo family and will fly 15% further than the existing LR model, aided by extra fuel capacity that will increase its maximum takeoff weight to 101 metric tonnes. By moving first, Airbus has put pressure on Boeing to respond or risk handing over a large chunk of a segment it once controlled with its 757 and 767 planes.
The NMA, which would seat up to 270 people, could begin service around 2025, Boeing Chief Executive Officer Dennis Muilenburg said in a Bloomberg TV interview.
The Air Lease order includes 27 A321 XLR, 23 A321neos and 50 of the A220 jetliner that Airbus acquired from Bombardier Inc. The list price of the baseline A321 is $129.5 million, while the smaller A220 goes for as much as $91.5 million, valuing the total order at $11 billion before customary discounts.
Air Lease’s decision to buy A220s provides that model with a seal of approval from one of the world’s most closely watched jet purchasers. Steven Udvar-Hazy, Air Lease’s founder and chairman, has been nicknamed the “godfather” of aircraft leasing for his role in founding the industry.
The post Airbus Presses Its Advantage Over Boeing With Order for 100 New Longer-Range Planes appeared first on Fortune.
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