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Dr. Justin K.H. Chiu Vice-Chairman
Board of Governors, HKBU Foundation
Knowledge can change one’s fate, while education can help one succeed. HKBU has focused on internationalisation in recent years, striving to provide a humanistic, culturally and intellectually diversified experience on campus in order to imbue its students with a global outlook. Students are warmly encouraged to participate in a variety of overseas exchange, internship and service learning activities to broaden their learning experience and raise their cultural competencies. These qualities are essential for meeting the challenges and seizing the opportunities of today’s increasingly globalised world. I sincerely hope that more members of the community will support HKBU in its mission to nurture more leaders who have the broadened minds that are necessary for our times.
Dr. Ronald Lu Vice-Chairman
It is our greatest hope that the upcoming generation can become responsible global citizens and make a positive difference to people’s lives by utilising their knowledge to the fullest, no matter what career they pursue.
For example, as an Architect my mission is to design a sustainable environment with spaces for people to live, work, play, worship and to help others in need. At HKBU we are dedicated to nurturing students’ whole person development, encouraging them to be creative and to protect our planet earth. The qualities that we foster in our students are essential for the leaders in the 21st century. Such a meaningful mission on the part of HKBU truly deserves our support.
Ir Dr. K.K. Wong, GBS, JP Vice-Chairman
Board of Governors and
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Entrepreneur Committee, HKBU Foundation
With the Central Government’s launch of the Belt and Road Initiative, Hong Kong’s education sector and society face a fresh range of opportunities. Being a cradle for Hong Kong’s future leaders, HKBU has embarked on equipping its students with a global vision through joining international exchange programmes, helping them to cope with the multiple challenges posed by globalisation. It is my sincere wish that you will continue to render your support to the HKBU Foundation, thereby playing a crucial part in nurturing outstanding young talents for the country.
Ms. Rosanna Y.T. Choi Treasurer
Board of Governors, HKBU Foundation and
The Council and the Court, HKBU
The mission of the HKBU Foundation is to sustain the University’s institutional advancement by consolidating support from all sectors of society and raising funds. I am truly honoured to be invited to join the Foundation family and work with other Board Members to support HKBU in providing premier kind of Whole Person Education. I look forward to having more and more people who share our vision joining us, helping HKBU students to become inspiring, confident, professional, and ethical leaders, for the betterment of the world.
Dr. Simon Suen, BBS, JP Co-Chairman
The HKBU Foundation strives to establish an excellent platform for stakeholders who recognise HKBU’s philosophy of Whole Person Education. Through this platform they can exchange views, share thoughts and pool resources. With our collective wisdom and concerted efforts, we can realise the University’s 10-year Strategic Plan, blueprint, thereby making HKBU into a truly world-class University.
Mr. Sunny H.K. Wong Chairman
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Not long ago, President Roland T. Chin released the University’s Institutional Strategic Plan 2018-2028. I believe now it is time for the Alumni Committee to modify its action plans in order for the University to fully utilise contributions from our alumni. I wish to take this opportunity to thank President Chin and the management for enabling me to serve the University, and would like to extend my heartfelt appreciation to all Alumni Committee Members for their time and efforts.
Mr. Yeung Chee Kong Associate Vice-President (Engagement), HKBU
A bold start-up we were 61 years ago. That was when a group of Chinese and American Christian educators decided to create a university out of nothing. Even by today’s and tomorrow’s standard it was a visionary and daring start-up.
Like all bold start-ups, HKBU went through many challenges, such as running out of money for our loyal teachers’ salary who stood by our noble ideals without pay during the most testing times.
Today, we are in the top 300 among the 26,000 universities worldwide, i.e. among the 1.1% top universities in the world. Our students thrive because of you – our donors who share the same conviction and passion as our daring founding fathers. You are visionary donors.
Mrs. Lily Chan Director of University Advancement
Secretary-General of Hong Kong Baptist University Foundation
HKBU aspires to become a leading research-led liberal arts University in Asia for the world delivering academic excellence in a caring, creative and global culture. The University sets out its Institutional Strategic Plan for 2018-2028, which will offer the best learning experience, promote research excellence, and build up the capacity through appropriate investments in people, governance and facilities. The success in fulfilling our aspirations will count on your wise counsel and staunch support in the years ahead.
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Full House episode eerily similar to Lori Loughlin’s real life college admissions scandal
Posted 11:17 AM, March 13, 2019, by Tribune Media Wire, Updated at 11:25AM, March 13, 2019
First an awkward interview with William H. Macy resurfaced after his wife, actress Felicity Huffman, was indicted in a major college-admissions scandal. Now an episode of Full House has emerged that’s sure to prove cringeworthy to actress Lori Loughlin, also indicted Tuesday.
The Week reports that in early 1993, “Be True to Your Preschool” originally aired, and its plot is “eerily similar” to the real-life storyline in which Loughlin is now entangled.
In the episode, Becky Katsopolis (aka “Aunt Becky,” played by Loughlin) is mortified to find out that her husband, Jesse (John Stamos), has lied on their toddler twins’ applications to a coveted preschool.
Jesse “embellishes” both the twins’ and his own credentials, a scam that’s undone when Becky admits the scheme to the preschool’s admissions officer. “I know you want what’s best for them, but you know what, maybe the fast track isn’t it,” Becky admonishes Jesse, per People.
In real life, Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, have been accused of paying $500,000 in bribes to get their two daughters recruited to the University of Southern California crew team (even though they’re not on crew) to help them get into the college. (Read more Lori Loughlin stories.)
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Park invites Hoosiers to ‘watch the wheels go ’round’ above the South Split
Posted 6:15 PM, October 15, 2019, by Russ McQuaid
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.-- There’s a John Lennon quote embedded in the sidewalk of the entrance to The Idle off Virginia Avenue approaching Fountain Square.
“Sitting here watching the wheels go 'round and 'round.”
Lennon’s lyrics epitomize the mindset of anyone who walks down the path of The Idle, a pocket park on a bluff wedged in between the northbound and southbound lanes of I-65 approaching the South Split near downtown Indianapolis to overlook the heart of the Crossroads of America that beats to the monotonous rhythm of passing traffic.
“I think it's special because people move really fast through life in the city, and while all the traffic’s moving really quickly here, I like to sit and kind of wonder where everybody’s going,” said Christina Jordan who came from Boulder, Colorado, to sit in The Idle and marvel at the motorists hurrying hither and yon. “Too many people just don’t take a moment and look at what’s going on around you, and even though it's only just traffic, if you close your eyes you can kind of pretend that it’s the ocean and you can draw some mountains in your head behind there.
“It's our version of the ocean in the oceanless Midwest.”
Tom Battista, owner of Bluebeard on Virginia Avenue, knows the road after spending decades on it as stage manager for Jimmy Buffett.
Battista envisioned what the park could be, launched a $40,000 fundraising campaign through Patronicity and over the course of five years, rounded up volunteers to build it and petitioned the federal government to set aside some land to sit and watch traffic from a safe distance.
Driving by on the South Split, you can see two rows of orange seats, rescued from the old Bush Stadium, below a partial canopy to block the sun, anchored by gabions, wirework containers filled with building debris to symbolize the neighborhoods in the Holy Rosary and Fletcher Place and Fountain Square neighborhoods that were destroyed to build the freeway interchange.
Often, drivers will see people in the park watching them maneuver the exit and merge lanes below.
“All these cars going by are probably looking up here going, ‘Wonder what those guys are doing up there right now?’” said Ray Bridges of Greenwood, making his first visit to The Idle. “Gives them just a second to pause and see the seats and see maybe someone sitting up here and thinking, ‘Well, that’s kind of different.’
“It’s a little different, but a little different is okay.”
Park goers agree that sitting on the side of a highway watching traffic go by is an acquired taste but a uniquely Indianapolis form of recreational amusement.
“You probably wouldn’t build it in a place where you have mountains and beaches just because people are going to go to the mountains and beaches,” said Jordan. “There’s some people who kind of rag on the Midwest but people here are really good and I love the Midwest and I think that’s why I came back to this park because it kind of brings the Midwest together with the crossroads.”
“We’ve got Mount Highway,” said Bridges as he swept an arm across the landscape. “We are the Crossroads of America. Right there goes south to the rest of the country. Right there goes west to the country. Right up there goes east to the rest of the country so this is really the heart of the nation right here.
“How many places in the country have stadium seats in the middle of a highway?”
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Sexual compatibility is so important to a couple. It’s important to signal to your man that you are enjoying yourself so he knows what he’s doing right. Seeing you enjoy yourself will make him happy, too. We surveyed our female readers to bring you 9 ways to show you’re enjoying yourself in bed.
1. Squeeze the sheets or pillow tightly
“This shows that you just had to grab onto something from the intense pleasure.” Squeeze the sheet until it’s all wrinkled and messed up and he’ll assume you’re really enjoying yourself. Clench your face and it’ll be even more effective.
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State Fair staff excited for first fair under new director
By: Mary Stewart Douglas Budget Via Wyoming News Exchange - Updated: 3 weeks ago
DOUGLAS — The excitement shows on everyone’s face in the Wyoming State Fair main office. A new vibe permeates the room, with open door policies readily apparent (hey, all the individual office doors were wide open).
And the ideas for new events (at least at the WSF) and year-round changes were being tossed around the office like ping pong balls tossed at glass plates. Some stuck easily, some bounced around until landing on the floor, and some floated in the air waiting for someone to pick up the metaphorical ball and run with it.
“We have some work to do to make it the best fair ever, but we know it’s not going to happen overnight,” WSF Manager Courtney Conkle said.
Conkle, planning her first fair as the new director, and her relatively new staff are also working on bringing in new sponsorships and have put a bid out for a new marketing firm that would take care of advertising, logo, events, theme development, web design and social media.
“We’re looking for the right group,” Conkle said. “We aren’t just the state fair which is 10 days in August. We have beautiful grounds that should be used year round.”
Since taking over the fair manager position in September, Conkle has already been some changes to not only make money but to bring in new events and have the facilities open for local residents.
“We started a punch card program for the Ford Pavilion building,” she said. “One card is for hourly rides and maxes out at 10 hours. We also have a producer’s card which is a three-day card, and will enable for profit events guaranteed use of the facilities at least three times per season.”
Conkle explained the pavilion can be used to bring in equine events, so the card would give the sponsor or producer full access to the facility.
“The hourly card is great if you want to ride your horse for a short time,” she said. “You just punch the time on the card that you use until you fill your 10 hours.”
Free open rides are also available Mondays and Wednesdays from 4-8 p.m.
As for the long-term vision for the fairgrounds, Conkle and the fair board are awaiting the master plan to be released next month, something that the fair board, the state and former interim Fair Manager Dan Cheney had been working on for the past year.
The master plan, developed by Markin and Associates which specializes in fairgrounds projects, will play a large part in getting the state fair – and the fairgrounds – profitable again.
“This will strengthen the facilities that we have and bring in more events,” Conkle said. “There’s a lot we can do to help the local economy thrive, but we need to roll up our sleeves and get to work.”
The master plan will include all of the facilities and their usability, building a better state fair, pricing changes and how to bring events and people to the fairgrounds year round, she said.
As for the 2020 Wyoming State Fair, the calendar is already filling up. Some changes are already taking shape, and other ideas are in the works – all with the hope of expanding the draw from five days back to the full week-plus it was in the past. The new director shared some thoughts, but kept others private for the moment.
“The fair will be Aug. 11- 15 but we have plans in place for the weekend before fair,” Conkle confirmed.
The “kick-off weekend,” as she likes to call it, will start with ranch rodeo Friday and Saturday, and Conkle would like to build it as a stand-alone event that will bring people to Douglas before the fair and keep them here during the fair.
“We are working on having a BBQ competition that weekend,” she said. “We’ve had a local Rotarian approach us about organizing and running the competition. It would be another fun event to help kick start the fair.”
The carnival will be moved back to the large grassy area just east of the Pioneer Museum, where it used to be a number of years ago before being moved to the parking lot behind the grandstands.
“We want to build something huge and memorable for the state fair,” she said. “We are working on bringing free entertainment to every area of the grounds – family friendly entertainment for all ages.”
The fair will continue to have the pig wrestling, Octane Addictions, a concert on Thursday, PRCA Rodeo Friday and the incredibly popular demolition derby will continue to close out the fair on Saturday.
“We want to make each day of the fair full of fun events and experiences that you don’t get normally,” she promised. “We are working and planning on having the 2020 state fair the best party of the summer.”
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Lymphoma? A Terrier with a huge abdominal mass
By Owen Davies American Specialist in Veterinary Oncology and Ivan Doran RCVS Specialist in Small Animal Soft Tissue Surgery
A nine year old female (entire) Norfolk Terrier presented to Owen Davies of the Highcroft Oncology Service, with abdominal discomfort associated with a large abdominal mass. The mass was so extensive that specialist ultrasonography (performed at another centre) had previously been unable to identify its origin. The mass was aspirated under ultrasound guidance, and cytology demonstrated a population of large, atypical round cells with moderate pleomorphism and frequent mitotic figures, as shown in below:
Figure 1: cytology from the abdominal mass. A population of pleomorphic round cells
Figure 1: cytology from the abdominal mass. A cluster of cells demonstrating mitoses and multinucleation.
A CT scan of the dog’s thorax and abdomen characterised the extent of the mass and also revealed that the dog mad marked lymphadenomegaly of the sternal, cranial mediastinal, aortic and hepatic lymph nodes. An important differential diagnosis for both the clinical presentation and the cytologic findings would be high-grade lymphoma, or less commonly, disseminated histiocytic sarcoma. The course of these diseases would be expected to be rapid, and the mainstay of treatment would be medical. In this case however, our dog had a very different diagnosis. The clue was to be found in the tumour’s vascular supply and anatomic attachment. A contrast CT scan clearly showed the gonadal artery coursing through the mass, which was itself continuous with the dog’s left ovary. This is consistent with an ovarian tumour, and given the cytology being suggestive of a poorly-differentiated round cell tumour, differential diagnoses of a dysgerminoma or a teratoma (rather than a carcinoma) were considered likely. Figure 2 shows the CT scan of the abdominal mass where the green arrows indicate the mass and the red arrow indicates the gonadal artery.
Figure 2: CT scan of the abdominal mass
Cytology from the dog’s enlarged sternal lymph node subsequently confirmed that it was effaced by the same cell population as the abdominal mass; the tumour was clearly metastatic. Since both the differential diagnoses are considered slowly-progressive, and the dog was showing clinical signs relating to the mass, a decision to surgically-excise the abdominal mass was made in the interest of improving the dog’s comfort. Soft tissue surgeon Ivan Doran took the dog to surgery. The mass was clearly demonstrated tobe an ovarian tumour. Histopathology later confirmed the mass to be a dysgerminoma.
Figure 3: intraoperative picture of the ovarian tumour in situ, indicating the left horn of the urterus in the surgeon’s hand
Figure 3: the heterogenous interior of the tumour after sectioning.
Ovarian dysgerminomas are rare canine malignancies, characterised by slow-progression and a low metastatic rate (in the order of 10-20%). Many dogs survive over 18-months post diagnosis. Owing to their rarity, there is no consensus for the most effective medical therapy in cases which are metastatic, but platinum-based drugs are the standard-of-care in human medicine and so these treatments can be extrapolated to dogs. The dog recovered well from surgery, and has rapidly returned to her usual active lifestyle. A course of carboplatin-based chemotherapy has been advised to control development of further metastatic disease, and is hopefully starting soon.
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The Art of the Ending
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Last summer I was teaching at a writing retreat on a small island in Puget Sound where I stayed in a mother-in-law apartment in the home of one of the attendees. The night I arrived, after I’d unpacked and made my notes for the next day’s
class, my host, Ann, and her husband, Charlie, invited me to join them on the deck for some fresh blueberry cobbler and tea. It was quite beautiful sitting there watching the sun set over the bay. Ann told me if I got up early, I’d be able to watch seals frolicking near the shore. I said I would definitely do that.
Anna’s husband had once flown rescue choppers in Alaska, but he was retired now and recovering from back surgery by walking five miles a day. Ann told me she had started writing when people from her church asked her to pen eulogies for loved ones. She was quite new to writing, really, but she found she loved it. She asked if I had children and I told her about my oldest son who had just moved to Los Angeles and my younger son who still lived with us because of some social issues.
She and Charlie then began eagerly telling me about their granddaughter who had similar struggles and whom they had helped raise. I was glad we had moved to talking about children on what is called the spectrum. The woman who organized the retreat had told me that some of the attendees were pretty conservative Christians, and I suspected, given how they talked about their church, that my hosts fit this category. I liked them both right away, but I was wary of wandering into some tricky conversational terrain.
Children with special needs was not one of those topics. We all agreed that the experience of raising kids who couldn’t fit into the mainstream was revelatory in different ways, that it had taught us a lot about ourselves and education and just what it means to be a person. Ann then told me about watching a TV series about a family raising an autistic son. She said she was surprised by how much she had enjoyed the show and that it had taught her to have compassion for people she might not have otherwise.
“Now that’s good television,” she told me. “That’s an example of TV teaching you to see people differently. Not like those other shows that are trying to brainwash you into believing certain things.”
We had just arrived at the edge of some tricky terrain. I suspected those things TV was trying to brainwash her into believing had to do with homosexuality or abortion or the like. I gave an ambiguous nod and took a sip of my tea and tried to think of how to steer the conversation back to something we could all agree on. I turned to the sunset, whose hand of light was nearly done withdrawing over the hills.
“You ever get so used to this view you can’t appreciate it?” I asked.
“Not yet,” she said.
That night, as I lay in my strange bed, my mind was filled with things I hadn’t said to Ann about art, and sharing a point of view, and how you could call all entertainment and inspiration brainwashing if you wanted. The next morning, the seals were out early just as she’d promised, surfacing and diving and occasionally breaking the otherwise perfect quiet with their barking. Living in Seattle, I forgot how quiet real quiet can be. It’s the silence that’s complete, that’s missing nothing.
In our first class that day, Ann shared a beautiful story she’d written about a time she’d mistakenly believed her husband had become lost while hunting on a remote Alaskan island, and how her decision to call for a rescue team ended up saving the life of a fisherman whose boat had capsized; had the rescue team not already been in the air they would not have gotten to the fisherman in time. She ended the story with a quote of the chopper captain who, noting the improbable timing, wondered, “How you could ever doubt God’s glory?”
It was such a great story, I wanted to talk to her about the ending, which I thought had just the whiff of an argument in it. “As soon as you start trying to prove a point, you can lose all those readers who were not already in complete agreement with you,” I told her. “At least that’s been my experience. At the end of the day, though it’s your story, and you can end it however you want.”
Later that day at lunch, I thought how endings are often the hardest and most important part of a story. Ann was sitting across from me eating her salad and talking to another attendee about homeschooling her children and how smart and obedient they were. You have to leave out the part you want to say, the thing you hope the reader will be left feeling or believing. You have to let the reader make up their own mind about coincidence and divine intervention, let them fill in that perfect, complete silence that comes after the last word.
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About William Kenower
William Kenower is the Editor-in-Chief of Author magazine, and the author of Fearless Writing: How to Create Boldly and Write With Confidence. He's also been published in the New York Times, The Huffington Post, Edible Seattle, and Writer's Digest. He hosts the weekly podcast Author2Author.
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All the below books are available to borrow from the first shelf of our church library.
What can help me learn what it means to be a Christian?
by Greg Gilbert
What is the Gospel? It seems like a simple question, yet it has been known to incite some heated responses, even in the church. How are we to formulate a clear, biblical understanding of the Gospel? Tradition, reason, and experience all leave us ultimately disappointed. If we want answers, we must turn to the Word of God.
Greg Gilbert does so in What Is the Gospel? Beginning with Paul’s systematic presentation of the gospel in Romans and moving through the sermons in Acts, Gilbert argues that the central structure of the gospel consists of four main subjects: God, man, Christ, and a response. The book carefully examines each and then explores the effects the Gospel can have in individuals, churches, and the world. Both Christian and non-Christian readers will gain a clearer understanding of the Gospel in this valuable resource.
In the classic Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis, the most important writer of the 20th century, explores the common ground upon which all of those of Christian faith stand together. Bringing together Lewis’ legendary broadcast talks during World War Two from his three previous books The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality, Mere Christianity provides an unequaled opportunity for believers and nonbelievers alike to hear this powerful apologetic for the Christian faith.
The Prodigal God
The New York Times bestselling author of the forthcoming God’s Wisdom for Navigating Life uncovers the essential message of Jesus, locked inside his most familiar parable.
Newsweek called renowned minister Timothy Keller “a C.S. Lewis for the twenty-first century” in a feature on his first book, The Reason for God. In that book, he offered a rational explanation of why we should believe in God. Now, in The Prodigal God, Keller takes his trademark intellectual approach to understanding Christianity and uses the parable of the prodigal son to reveal an unexpected message of hope and salvation.
Within that parable Jesus reveals God’s prodigal grace toward both the irreligious and the moralistic. This book will challenge both the devout and skeptics to see Christianity in a whole new way.
What can help me grow as a Christian?
by J.I. Packer
Stemming from Packer’s profound theological knowledge, Knowing God brings together two important facets of the Christian faith― knowing about God and also knowing God through the context of a close relationship with the person of Jesus Christ. Written in an engaging and practical tone, this thought-provoking work seeks to transform and enrich the Christian understanding of God.
Explaining both who God is and how we can relate to him, Packer divides his book into three sections: The first directs our attention to how and why we know God, the second to the attributes of God and the third to the benefits enjoyed by a those who know him intimately. This guide leads readers into a greater understanding of God while providing advice to gaining a closer relationship with him as a result.
by Sinclair Ferguson
‘Christian doctrine matters for Christian living.’ This is ‘one of the most important growth points of the Christian life’, writes Sinclair B. Ferguson. From this starting point, The Christian Life expounds such key biblical themes as grace, faith, repentance, new birth and assurance with clarity and contagious enthusiasm. ‘Christian doctrines are life-shaping’, explains the author, because ‘they show us the God we worship’. Widely used and appreciated since its first appearance, The Christian Life not only expounds the teaching of Scripture, but outlines its meaning for practical Christian living. It is, as J.I. Packer writes in his preface, theology that is ‘practical, applying Bible teaching with insight and wisdom to the condition of plain people. Christian beginners will get the benefit and the Lord’s older sheep, grown tough and stringy maybe, will find themselves edified and perhaps tenderised too’.
by Stephen Smallman
The Walk is a book written to those who have expressed a desire to follow Christ as his disciple. It assumes
no prior understanding of what that means, nor does it assume that the person has actually come to the point of professing faith. It uses as a starting point someone who is simply wondering, “What next?”
Stephen also addresses those who have grown up Christian and may be wondering how to step out in their own faith.
The Walk is designed to be used as much as read. It will be helpful to someone who wants to read on his
own, but also includes readings and projects that will make it useful as a workbook for that individual, in a
mentor relationship, or for use in groups.
The division into twelve chapters is ideal for a typical Sunday School quarter.
Sacred Bond: Covenant Theology Explored
by Michael Brown and Zach Keele
Sacred Bond is an introduction to covenant theology geared to the lay reader.
“We wrote this book because we have often found ourselves at a loss when asked by congregants for a good introductory resource on covenant theology. Although there are many excellent books on the subject, most, in our opinion, are not designed for the uninitiated layperson. Given the importance of covenant theology for the Christian life, we believe a book that provides a simple and clear explanation of each of the major covenants of Scripture is needed in the church today. This book is intended to be a means to that end, although it is in no way the final word on the vast subject of covenant theology. Rather, it is an introductory volume designed to give readers a basic grasp of this essential subject matter and encourage them to pursue further study.” (From the Introduction)
What can help me learn more about the Bible?
Ryken’s Handbook of the Bible
by Phil and Leland Ryken
This book gives students of the Bible a quick overview of every book in the Bible. Leland Ryken’s distinctive trait is a literary approach to the Bible―understanding the Bible as literature. The three authors help shed light on understanding the Bible as the inspired Word of God and as literature by looking at the Bible’s different literary genres: poetry, narrative, wisdom literature, story, parables, and more.
Taking God at His Word
by Kevin DeYoung
Can we trust the Bible completely? Is it sufficient for our complicated lives? Can we really know what it teaches?
With his characteristic wit and clarity, award-winning author Kevin DeYoung has written an accessible introduction to the Bible that answers important questions raised by Christians and non-Christians. This book will help you understand what the Bible says about itself and the key characteristics that contribute to its lasting significance.
Avoiding technical jargon, this winsome volume will encourage you to read and believe the Bible—confident that it truly is God’s word.
What can help me learn about the church?
What is The Mission of the Church?
by Kevin DeYoung and Greg Gilbert
Social justice and mission are hot topics today: there’s a wonderful resurgence of motivated Christians passionate about spreading the Gospel and caring for the needs of others. But in our zeal to get sharing and serving, many are unclear on Gospel and mission. Yes, we are called to spend ourselves for the sake of others, but what is the church’s unique priority as it engages the world?
DeYoung and Gilbert write to help Christians “articulate and live out their views on the mission of the church in ways that are theologically faithful, exegetically careful, and personally sustainable.” Looking at the Bible’s teaching on evangelism, social justice, and shalom, they explore the what, why, and how of the church’s mission. From defining “mission”, to examining key passages on social justice and their application, to setting our efforts in the context of God’s rule, DeYoung and Gilbert bring a wise, studied perspective to the missional conversation.
Readers in all spheres of ministry will grow in their understanding of the mission of the church and gain a renewed sense of urgency for Jesus’ call to preach the Word and make disciples.
by Edmund Clowney
At a time in which the very word church sounds a tone of dull irrelevance, the doctrine of the church has suffered the studied neglect of many Christian leaders. The persistent demands to market, manage and grow the church and to meet the felt needs of churched and unchurched all threaten to quench theological reflection on the abiding nature and mission of the church. But few activities bear greater promise as a starting point for renewing and reshaping the Christian church than the work of theology. In this book Edmund Clowney takes up that task, addressing along the way a variety of contemporary concerns: worship, mission, church and culture, church and state, church order and discipline, the ministry of women, baptism and the Lord’s Supper, tongues and prophecy, signs and wonders. He draws on decades of thinking and teaching about the church as well as from his committed leadership and ministry within the church. Biblical, historical, systematic and Reformed, The Church is a timely and provocative reflection on the life, order and purpose of the household of God.
What can help me pray?
A Praying Life
by Paul E. Miller
Prayer is so hard that unless circumstances demand it—an illness, or saying grace at a meal—most of us simply do not pray. We prize accomplishments and productivity over time in prayer. Even Christians experience this prayerlessness—a kind of practical unbelief that leaves us marked by fear, anxiety, joylessness, and spiritual lethargy.
Prayer is all about relationship. Based on the popular seminar by the same name, A Praying Life has discipled thousands of Christians to a vibrant prayer life full of joy and power. When Jesus describes the intimacy He seeks with us, He talks about joining us for dinner (Revelation 3:20). A Praying Life feels like having dinner with good friends. It is the way we experience and connect to God. In A Praying Life,author Paul Miller lays out a pattern for living in relationship with God and includes helpful habits and approaches to prayer that enable us to return to a childlike faith.
Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God
by Tim Keller
Christians are taught in their churches and schools that prayer is the most powerful way to experience God. But few receive instruction or guidance in how to make prayer genuinely meaningful. In Prayer, renowned pastor Timothy Keller delves into the many facets of this everyday act.
With his trademark insights and energy, Keller offers biblical guidance as well as specific prayers for certain situations, such as dealing with grief, loss, love, and forgiveness. He discusses ways to make prayers more personal and powerful, and how to establish a practice of prayer that works for each reader.
Dr. Keller’s previous books have sold more than one million copies. His Redeemer Presbyterian Church is not only a major presence in his home base of New York, it has also helped to launch more than two hundred fifty other churches in forty-eight cities around the world. His teachings have already helped millions, the majority of whom pray regularly. And with Prayer, he’ll show them how to find a deeper connection with God.
What can help me spend time with God everyday?
New Morning Mercies
by Paul Tripp
Mornings can be tough. Sometimes, a hearty breakfast and strong cup of coffee just aren’t enough. Offering more than a rush of caffeine, best-selling author Paul David Tripp wants to energize you with the most potent encouragement imaginable: the Gospel.
Forget “behavior modification” or feel-good aphorisms. Tripp knows that what we really need is an encounter with the living God. Then we’ll be prepared to trust in God’s goodness, rely on his grace, and live for his glory each and every day.
Heart Aflame
by John Calvin
John Calvin described the Psalms as “an anatomy of all the parts of the soul.” The description is an apt one, says Sinclair B. Ferguson in the foreword to this volume, “since every experience, every emotion, all the heights and depths, all the joys and sorrows, all the mysteries of human life, are here.” These select readings from Calvin’s Commentary on the Psalms provide us with a year’s worth of rewarding daily meditations. Calvin wrote as one whose own experience is mirrored in the Psalms. Here we witness his remarkable knack for seeing the real issues, particularly how Christ is the focus of all of Scripture.
by Arthur Bennett
This compilation of prayers is intended to teach and encourage Christians to be faithful in their private and family worship. The strength of Puritan character and life lay in prayer and meditation. In this practice the spirit of prayer was regarded as of first importance and the best form of prayer, for living prayer is the characteristic of genuine spirituality. Yet prayer is also vocal and may therefore on occasions be written. Consequently in the Puritan tradition there are many written prayers and meditations which constitute an important corpus of inspiring devotional literature.
Too often ex tempore prayer lacks variety, order and definiteness. The reason for this lies partly in a neglect of due preparation. It is here that the care and scriptural thoroughness which others found necessary in their approach to God may be of help. This book is certainly not designed to take the place of your own prayers, but rather to nourish the mind with ideas from godly writers and poets of past ages.
What can help me connect God to my struggles?
Holding Onto Hope: A Pathway Through Suffering to the Heart of God
by Nancy Guthrie
A healing book for those in the wake of life’s devastating storms. We can never plan for the unexpected turns of this life that sometimes lead to great personal suffering. Sometimes that suffering can overshadow everything and threaten to pull us under. Nancy Guthrie knows what it is to be plunged into life’s abyss. Framing her own story of staggering loss and soaring hope with the biblical story of Job, she takes you by the hand and guides you on a pathway through pain—straight to the heart of God. Holding On to Hope offers an uplifting perspective, not only for those experiencing monumental loss, but for anyone going through difficulty and failure. (Includes an 8-week study on the book of Job for readers who want to dig deeper into what the Bible says about dealing with suffering and grief.)
Good and Angry
by David Powlison
Good and Angry, a groundbreaking new book from David Powlison, contends that anger is more than a problem to solve. Anger is our complex human response to things we perceive as wrong in a complex world, thus we must learn how to fruitfully and honestly deal with it. Powlison undertakes an in-depth exploration of the roots of anger, moral judgment, and righteous response by looking in a surprising place: God’s own anger.
Powlison reminds us that God gets angry too. He sees things in this world that aren’t right and he wants justice too. But God’s anger doesn’t devolve into manipulation or trying to control others to get his own way. Instead his anger is good and redemptive. It causes him to step into our world to make wrongs right, sending his own Son to die so that we can be reconciled. He is both our model for change and our power to change.
Good and Angry sets readers on a path toward a faithful and fruitful expression of anger, in which we return good for evil and redeem wrongs. Powlison offers practical help for people who struggle with irritation, complaining, or bitterness and gives guidance for how to respond constructively when life goes wrong. You, your family, and your friends will all be glad that you read this book.
by Ed Welch
In his new release, Running Scared, Edward T. Welch investigates the roots of fear in the human soul and the ramifications of living in the grips of anxiety, worry, and dread. Welch encourages readers to discover for themselves that the Bible is full of beautiful words of comfort for fearful people (and that every single person is afraid of something). Within the framework of thirty topical meditations, Welch offers sound biblical theology and moment-by-moment, thoughtful encouragement for life-saving rescue in the midst of the heart and mind battlefield of rampant panic-stricken responses. This comprehensive primer on the topic of fear, worry, and the rest of God will have readers retreating to scripture for invariable constancy, stalwart care, and robust comfort, instead of as Welch terms it hitting the default switch by responding with characteristic human independence, control, and self-protectiveness. Running Scared affirms that, through Scripture, God speaks directly to our fears. Welch’s lively text provides convincing evidences that humanity’s struggle against active and dormant fears are countless. The good news is that God provides both the remedy and the cure for this malady in the person of Jesus Christ, the work of the Holy Spirit, and through powerful, life-altering promises in Scripture. Far more than merely another psychology self-help guide, Running Scared serves as a biblical roadmap to a life of serenity and security.
What can help me tell others about Jesus?
Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God
If God is in control of everything, can Christians sit back and not bother to evangelize? Or does active evangelism imply that God is not really sovereign at all?
J. I. Packer shows in this new edition to the popular IVP Classics how both of these attitudes are false. In a careful review of the biblical evidence, he shows how a right understanding of God’s sovereignty is not so much a barrier to evangelism as an incentive and powerful support for it.
With over 100,000 copies in print, Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God is truly a classic that should be read by every Christian.
Honest Evangelism
by Rico Tice
Hostility and hunger—that’s the response to the message of Jesus. The first is painful, the second is wonderful, and Rico Tice is honest about both.
Short, clear, realistic and humorous, this book will challenge you to be honest in your conversations about Jesus, help you to know how to talk about him, and thrill you that God can and will use ordinary people to change eternal destinies.
Evangelism: How the Whole Church Speaks of Jesus
by J. Mack Stiles
Christians often struggle to know where to start when it comes to telling others about God, Jesus, sin, and salvation. In this short book, J. Mack Stiles challenges us to view evangelism as something we do together instead of something we do alone, helping churches cultivate a culture of evangelism that goes beyond simply creating new programs or adopting the latest method. The seventh volume in the 9Marks: Building Healthy Churches series, this book will help Christians joyfully embrace evangelism as a way of life as it equips them to share their faith with those who don’t yet know Jesus.
Part of the 9Marks: Building Healthy Churches series.
What can help me learn about global missions?
Let the Nations be Glad
This new edition of a bestselling textbook (over 185,000 copies sold) draws on key biblical texts to demonstrate that worship is the ultimate goal of the church and that proper worship fuels missionary outreach. John Piper offers a biblical defense of God’s supremacy in all things, providing readers with a sound theological foundation for missions. He examines whether Jesus is the only way to salvation and issues a passionate plea for God-centeredness in the missionary enterprise, seeking to define the scope of the task and the means for reaching “all nations.” The third edition has been revised and expanded throughout and includes new material on the prosperity gospel. The book is essential reading for those involved in or preparing for missions work. It also offers enlightenment for college and seminary students, pastors, youth workers, campus ministers, and all who want to connect their labors to God’s global purposes.
From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya
by Ruth Tucker
This is history at its best. From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya is readable, informative, gripping, and above all honest. From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya helps readers understand the life and role of a missionary through real life examples of missionaries throughout history. We see these men and women as fallible and human in their failures as well as their successes. These great leaders of missions are presented as real people, and not super-saints. This second edition covers all 2,000 years of mission history with a special emphasis on the modern era, including chapters focused on the Muslim world, Third World missions, and a comparison of missions in Korea and Japan. It also contains both a general and an “illustration” index where readers can easily locate particular missionaries, stories, or incidents. New design graphics, photographs, and maps help make this a compelling book. From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya is as informative and intriguing as it is inspiring—an invaluable resource for missionaries, mission agencies, students, and all who are concerned about the spreading of the Gospel throughout the world.
by Jason Mandryk
Operation World, the definitive global prayer handbook, has been used by more than a million Christians to pray for the nations. Now in its 7th edition, it has been completely updated and revised by Jason Mandryk with a team of missionaries and researchers, and it covers the entire populated world.
Included in this updated and revised 7th edition:
All the countries of the world featured
Maps of each country
People groups within each country
Political information
Religious make-up of each country
Daily Prayer Calendar
Answers to prayer
Challenges for prayer
Whether you are an intercessor praying behind the scenes for world change, a missionary abroad or simply curious about the world, Operation World will give you the information necessary to play a vital role in fulfilling the Great Commission.
What can help me think wisely about parenting and technology?
In the midst of folding laundry, coordinating carpool schedules, and breaking up fights, many parents get lost. Feeling pressure to do everything “right” and raise up “good” children, it’s easy to lose sight of our ultimate purpose as parents in the quest for practical tips and guaranteed formulas.
In this life-giving book, Paul Tripp offers parents much more than a to-do list. Instead, he presents us with a big-picture view of God’s plan for us as parents. Outlining fourteen foundational principles centered on the gospel, he shows that we need more than the latest parenting strategy or list of techniques. Rather, we need the rescuing grace of God—grace that has the power to shape how we view everything we do as parents.
Freed from the burden of trying to manufacture life-change in our children’s hearts, we can embrace a grand perspective of parenting overflowing with vision, purpose, and joy.
The Tech-Wise Family
by Andy Crouch
Making good choices about technology in our families is more than just using internet filters and determining screen-time limits for our children. It’s about building character, wisdom, and courage rather than accepting technology’s promises of ease and instant gratification. It’s about developing our heart, mind, soul, and strength when we’re tempted to settle for entertainment and consumer satisfaction. And it’s definitely not just about the kids.
Alongside in-depth original research from Barna Group that shows how families are wrestling with technology’s new realities, Andy Crouch takes parents beyond the typical questions of what, where, and when to show us that in a world full of devices, there’s a way to choose a better life than we’ve imagined.
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Amazon Great Indian Festive Sale: Top 5 Deals on Smartphones
Continuing the festive season discounts, Amazon India has kick-started its Great Indian Festival sales starting today. The festival sale will last until October 20. The discounts are mostly on smartphones, accessories, and electronic items on the first day. Xiaomi also announced its “Diwali with Mi” sale on its range of smartphones.
Amazon India is offering an additional 15% discounts for buyers who shop on their app. Also, Citibank credit or debit card users are entitled to get additional discounts. The e-tailer is also offering exchange offers on electronic items. There is also an option to avail EMI options at no additional costs. For Prime subscribers, Amazon India will open deals 30 minutes ahead of general availability.
Here are the top five deals on Amazon India for smartphones.
Apple iPhone 6s (64 GB, Gold and Space Grey): If you are looking for a killer deal on the slightly older iPhone 6S, then Amazon is offering the 64GB variant of the iPhone 6s for Rs 45,999. The Rose Gold colour variant is available for a slightly higher price of Rs 48,290. While Amazon India has also listed the Silver colour variant of iPhone 6s (64GB) for Rs 39,225, note that the offer is not Amazon Fulfilled.
OnePlus 3: The new OnePlus 3 smartphone is available in both colours—Gold and Graphite—for the same price of Rs 27,999. However, there is exchange offer of up to Rs 16,000 at select regions.
LeEco Le Max2: LeEco Le Max 2 (32GB) is available for Rs 17,999 instead of Rs 22,999 during the sale.
Moto G4 and G4 Plus: The new Moto G4 and Moto G4 Plus are available at a price of Rs 10, 499 and Rs 13,499 respectively. Also, the budget Moto G4 Play is available for cash back of Rs 1,000.
Lenovo Zuk Z1: If you are looking the best budget smartphone, then check out the Lenovo Zuk Z1 on Amazon India. For a discounted price of Rs 10,999, the device offers top-notch hardware.
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Since a longtime, Android users have been waiting to enjoy video calling facility on WhatsApp just like Windows phone users. And it seems that their wait has finally come to an end, hinted WABetaInfo. It tweeted: “I received a report about video calls on WhatsApp for Android (NO ROOT). Are they finalizing the server to enable video calls?”
On October 20, OneWindows.es, a Spanish website, has reported that many Windows Phone users are now able to see the option to make video calls in WhatsApp beta app. The website also cited that the users did not have to re-install the application for using the video calling option as there was a server-side change.
In September 2016, WhatsApp Android Beta version has introduced a number of new features to customize images like Snapchat, i.e., by adding stickers and drawing to add more fun. The users could write a message and add emojis atop the photos and videos. This information was revealed by Android Police.
Besides WhatsApp, Facebook has also initiated steps to improve its FB Messenger app for Windows 10 as users will now be able to make video and voice calls using the Windows 10 app. Earlier, the users had to actually leave the app and use this feature from the web version of Facebook in a web browser.
According to VentureBeat, “Just like on Messenger for Android and iOS, the phone icon in the top right corner of the screen in the Windows 10 app during a chat glows green when the other person is currently active, so you know you can reach them immediately.”
So if you are a Windows user and you are able to use this new feature of video calling on your handset, do let us know your experience in the
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Kodak to launch photography-centric smartphone Ektra with Android 6.0
After not so successful device IM5, photography company Kodak will launch its new device Ektra — a smartphone aimed at aimed at shutterbugs — that looks like a camera.
Named after its 1941 rangefinder (and the 1970s 110 film camera range), the handset’s back is wrapped in “leatherette” with a slightly curved grip on one side and a dedicated shutter button on top, Engadget reported.
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To be available in Britain from December for 450 pounds ($550), the smartphone has a large, protruding lens pokes out the back and a 21MP Sony sensor (IMX230) under the hood and is photographer-friendly.
Kodak has recruited Bullitt, a phone manufacturer to make the device. The camera app on the smartphone has a digital “Scene Selection Dial” that lets you access different shooting modes.
Bullitt has also made Snapseed the default photo-editing app, believing it is one of the best options on the Play Store.
The phone is powered by a deca-core MediaTek Helio X20 processor and 3GB of RAM. It comes with 32GB of internal storage, which you can supplement with a MicroSD card up to 128GB and a 3000mAh battery that supports “Pump Express” quick charging.
The 5-inch, the 1080p display has a stock version of Android 6.0 Marshmallow.
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Google will provide Android updates to Pixel phones for 2 years
Tuesday when Google launched Pixel phones, it seemingly left out a minor — albeit important — detail from the announcement, probably because there were bigger things to talk about. It didn’t reveal for how long the phone would be supported in terms of software and the security updates, an issue that plagued Android phones. But now India Today Tech can confirm that Pixel and Pixel XL will be different when it comes to updates compared to other Android phones. According to Google, these phones will be supported for at least 2 years after their launch in terms of software updates and for at least 3 years for the necessary security updates.
This is an improvement over the Nexus phones, which are given official support for software updates like next version of Android for 18 months. But at the same time, it falls short of the high standard set by Apple which typically supports the iPhone for 4 years.
“(For Pixel phones) we provide software and security updates for 2 and 3 years, respectively,” a Google spokesperson told India Today Tech. “We provide warranty support for the life of the warranty — 1 year in the US and typically 2 years for the rest of the world, although there are exceptions.”
The two years, although it sounds low compared to what Apple offers with the iPhone, seems fairly decent in the world of Android where most phones never get a software update. The security updates are not so rare, especially for the high-end Android phones from big manufacturers like Samsung, the mainstream, and low-end phones do not get the updates all that frequently. The updates, software or security, are also very rare six months after the launch of a phone.
In fact, prompt updates were one of the big attractions of Nexus phones. They were the most affordable option for consumers wanting to get the direct and prompt Android software updates from Google. Although after the launch of Pixel, now that Nexus product line has ended, even the Nexus phone users seem to be getting a raw deal. Unlike the pre-Pixel world, when Nexus phones were first to get latest Android features, now the users of Nexus 5X and the Nexus 6P will have to wait at least couple of months before they get some of the Android 7.1 features that Pixel phones have at the moment.
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Motorola is usually fast with updating its phones to the latest Android version, the reason basically is that it uses almost stock Android, hence it doesn’t need to add touch-ups to the OS unlike Samsung, Xiaomi or other companies. Nougat has already reached some Nexus phones, Android One phones, and LG’s V20, now Motorola has announced the list of phones that will get the latest Android 7.0 Nougat.
Earlier a report had said that Motorola will roll out the Nougat update starting with Moto G4, Moto G4 Plus and its latest Moto Z line of smartphones. Motorola’s announcement confirms that report as well.
“We’re happy to confirm Android 7.0 Nougat is on its way to a lot of our smartphones, we’ll be starting in Q4 with Moto Z and Moto G (4th Gen),”said the company in a blog post.
Going by the announcement, the Moto G4, Moto G4 Plus and the Moto Z phones should be running Android Nougat by the end of this year. Motorola launched the Moto Z and Moto Z Play in India earlier this week, the phone at the sale will come with Android Marshmallow.
Here’s the full list of the phones that will receive Android Nougat update, the list also include Droid phones which are not available in India:
Moto G (4th Gen)
Moto G Plus (4th Gen)
Moto G Play (4th Gen)
Moto X Pure Edition (3rd Gen)
Moto X-Force
Moto Z-Droid
Moto Z Play Droid
Android Nougat update will add more efficient notification controls, improved battery and data saver features. It also promises to offer better security options along with custom quick setting features.
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Cinese company Meizu on Tuesday launched its budget smartphone M3s in India, in exclusive partnership with Snapdeal at a price of Rs.7,999.
The Meizu M3s comes with a 5-inch FullHD screen with a 720X1280 pixel resolution. Meizu’s M3s is powered by a 1GHz octa-core MediaTek MT6750 processor. The handset comes in two variants as 2 GB RAM & 16 GB ROM and 3 GB RAM & 32 GB ROM.
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The smartphone is backed by a 3020 mAh non-removable battery along with several features like gravity sensor, ambient light sensor, capacitive touch screen, 24GHz dual band WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0 and digital compass.
The dual SIM M3s comes with a 13-megapixel camera on the rear and a 5-megapixel at the front. The phone like most of the Meizu’s flagship phones such as M3 Note and MX5 boats of an all-metal body and is available in three colours- Grey, Silver, and Gold.
“M3s generated quite a buzz among our target audience and since the dynamics of the Indian market is similar to any other successful market in the world, it encouraged us to rollout this stunning device here as well. Undoubtedly, we at Meizu always tend to introduce our best in class products here on priority. We firmly believe the level of acceptability m3s would get from Indian consumer will bolster our future growth plans, ” the company said in a statement.
The company earlier this year also launched M3 Note, a strong competitor against Xiaomi’s Redmi Note 3. The M3 Note comes with a 5.5-inch FullHD screen with a 1080×1920 pixel resolution. It is powered by a 1.8GHz octa-core MediaTek Helio P10 processor coupled with Mali T860MP2 GPU and 3GB of RAM. It comes with 32GB of internal memory which is further expandable by up to 128GB via hybrid microSD card slot. The phone costs Rs 9,999 to its buyers.
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teresting as it may sound, the truth is that Google, the company that is behind Android, has not made an Android phone. At least not in the way Apple makes the iPhone. This is changing now. Several days ago on October 4, Google announced Pixel and Pixel XL. According to Google, the Pixel phones are the first phones that it has engineered and developed completely in-house. Although technically Motorola phones, when Motorola was a Google-owned company, were also Google official phones and so are the Nexus devices, the Pixel phones are indeed slightly different. Although Google has sold phones using its Play store earlier, this is indeed the first time it is taking full ownership of the phones.
In the coming days, Pixel and Pixel XL will reach shops in India. Pre-orders have already started and Google has already started reaching out to prospective consumers, telling them all about the virtues, as it sees them, of the Pixel phones. Here at India Today Tech, we will take a better look at the Pixel phones in the coming days. But for now, on the basis of a day I have spent with the Pixel XL, there are some quick thoughts on what I make of the Pixels XL (and up to an extent Pixel).
Design from HTC
Although the Pixel XL is a Google phone, it unmistakably looks like an HTC phone. Well, there is a reason for that. The Pixel XL is a phone manufactured by HTC, even though it carries the Big G logo of Google. And its design is a mishmash of HTC phones, primarily the HTC 10 and the HTC A9. As you expect from a mishmash, the design will leave a user with mixed emotions. It is not a bad design. But it is not great either.
The Pixel XL uses an aluminium metal shell, with the left and the right edges carved with clean straight lines, something that we have earlier seen on the HTC 10. On the other hand its curved corners reminded me of the HTC A9 and the iPhone 6. This is a familiar design and we have seen it again and again on high-end — and now mainstream — phones. The unique bits to the Pixel design, however, come from the glass portion on the rear and fingerprint scanner. The phone has a conveniently located — and I must add very fast — fingerprint sensor on the rear cover.
Android in the Pixel XL seems fast and quite beautiful with its clean, flat layer-based users interface. There are no unwanted apps here, unless you count some of the Google apps as unwanted
All in all, my impression of the Pixel XL in terms of design is that this is very utilitarian design, and somewhat boring for a phone that costs Rs 67,000. The bezels are thick and various design elements give the fairly generic look. Although with slim profile and, for a 5.5-inch phone, a compact enough frame also means that you can use Pixel single-handedly. Well, most of the time. Compared to a phone like the Galaxy S7 Edge, the Pixel XL doesn’t look all that well. But it sure is more convenient to use compared to the iPhone 7 Plus.
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The big story with the Pixel XL is not its design. It is the software inside it. With Pixel phones Google is taking charge of Android back from the phone makers in China and Korea and instead trying to give users a version of Android that will fast, good looking and feature rich. The company is also promising timely updates to Pixel users.
All of this sounds very promising and Pixel XL does highlight some of the better aspects of Android. It comes inbuilt with Google Assistant. It seems very smart, smarter than Siri, although I need to spend a bit of more time with it. Then there is a new app drawer — swipe up from the bottom edge — and it looks better than the app drawer that is out there by default in the Android 7 aka Nougat. The Pixel XL not only runs a more recent version of Android — Android 7.1 — but also has the exclusive Pixel launcher that Google has created.
In the Android 7.1 on Pixel XL, Google has added a couple of more unique features. The most intriguing of these seems to be the shortcuts. You long press on an app, and it shows a shortcut. For example, long press on the Chrome app and it shows shortcut for opening a tab or opening an incognito tab. This is very neat.
Overall Android in the Pixel XL seems fast and quite beautiful with its clean flat layer-based users interface. There are no unwanted apps here, unless you count some of the Google apps as unwanted. And there is no tacky animations or colours, which we often see on phones made by China-based companies.
It also helps that Pixel XL has pretty good hardware inside it. It is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 processor and has 4GB RAM. It also has 32GB internal storage. The AMOLED screen of the phone, at first glance, look beautiful as it shows rich and deep colours. It also seems to be a very bright and vibrant screen, although this is something that will be tested properly once the phone is used outdoors in bright sunlight.
iPhone 7 Plus vs Pixel XL: On the left is image by iPhone. On the right the photo by Pixel. The iPhone exposed the image better and has accurate colours. Pixel image has more details, richer colours.Talking of hardware, probably the best part of the phone seems to be the camera. We haven’t yet really put the phone’s camera through its paces but it seems to capture images that have great detail and extremely punchy colours. Although speed wise — focus and processing — it does seem slower than the camera in the iPhone 7 Plus, or for that matter the camera in the Galaxy S7.
In the coming days I will take a better look at Pixel XL, see how well its battery holds up, whether the phone heats or not, whether its software has bugs or not, and most importantly, see how well it works with the Jio network. You guys do want to know how well it works with Jio, right? But all of that is for later. For now my impression of the Pixel XL is mostly positive, although the design could have been better. For example, it doesn’t have the water and dust resistant body, which is kind of a big miss at a time when both Galaxy S7 and the iPhone 7 have it. Similarly, the glass panel on the back cover looks tacky and useless. But then there is the software and features. The Android 7.1 Nougat inside the Pixel XL looks fantastic and seem to work very very well. It is the kind of software that is going to make you fall in love with Android. And although software is not everything, it matters a lot in a “smartphone”.
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Android utility app suite SooperMo, operated by Gurgaon-based SooperMo App studio Pte Ltd, has raised $100,000 (Rs 67 lakh) in seed funding from Dubai-based entrepreneur Lalit Vase. The vase is the chief executive of Red Entertainment Distribution FZCO, a distributor of interactive entertainment software in the Middle East region.
The startup plans to use the capital raised to launch the beta version of its utility apps in Middle East, Southeast Asia and Africa, co-founder Pushkar Sinha told Techcircle.
The apps suite is expected to hit the Google Play Store in the first week of November.
Launched earlier this year by Sinha and Tapan Pandey, SooperMo is a single package of utilities that includes disk and battery optimization, clean-up, privacy control, SPAM SMS blocker and malware app checker. The apps suite comes bundled with a brand engagement module that will reward users for engaging with the app on a daily basis. The apps will come in a freemium model.
Both Sinha and Pandey previously worked with desktop-based utility companies Disk Doctor Labs Inc. and Remo Software respectively.
Earlier this year, the company raised its first round of funding led by Raj Hajela, who is the founder and director of mobile e-commerce company Estel Technologies. In addition, Estel’s chief operating officer Deepak Luthra also participated in the round. With a majority stakeholding in SooperMo, Hajela undertakes an advisory role in the startup.
SooperMo competes with global brands such as Clean Master and CC Cleaner, among others.
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Samsung India Electronics will make all the future launches, including entry level smartphones, with 4G facilities and it expects to gain the market share in the current year on the back of new launches, a top company official said on Thursday.
“There is huge conversion happening from feature phones to smartphones at the entry level. This migration will continue. All the future launches, including entry level segment, will have 4G facilities and we will sell 4G devices. But at the same time, there will be a certain set of feature phones users because of price points,” said company’s Vice President (Mobile Business) Manu Sharma Yarlesac.
He also said the mobile maker has experienced growth in sales this year but declined to give details of sales figures.
“We expect that the company will gain its market share on the back of new launches,” he said.
According to latest data, in the smartphone market, the mobile maker at present has 48.7 per cent share in terms of value.
Speaking on the Galaxy Note 7, he confirmed that the company would refund consumers who bought the Galaxy Note 7 smartphones outside the country. “They can go to service center and get it refunded,” he said, adding that it “did not sell” the device in India.
In lieu of the Galaxy Note 7 pre-book offer, the company has offered Samsung Galaxy S7/S7 Edge, he added.
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India Mobile Diwali or IMD, a one of its kind event, is going to be held in New Delhi from 22 October to 24 October at Pragati Maidan. Keeping the upcoming festive season and Indian tradition of buying new products including electronic gadgets during Diwali in mind, around 200 mobile phone brands from China and India are expected to participate in the three-day fair.
Some of the brands who are participating in the fair include Techno, Gionee, Coolpad, Holitech, Micromax, Lava, Videocon, G’Five, Karbonn, Spice, Vodafone, Intex Galaxy Core, Poxiao, Vivo, Sprocomm, Nubia, ZTE, Meizu, Water World, Miki, Acer, Essline, Nuwei, Ramos and Huawei.
The organizers including China’s Shoujibao claim the event is being conducted with the support of Indian government.
“Chinese companies are excited to be a part of the ‘Make in India’ campaign and establish mobile handset & component manufacturing facilities in India. I’m sure that IMD will open ample opportunities to network and join hands and further strengthen investments in India.” said Lingyun Wu, CEO, Mobile World (Shoujibao), Shenzhen & Organizers of India Mobile Diwali Do Some Work Do Some Work.
The Grand first edition of ‘India Mobile Diwali’ is an annual gathering of India and China’s mobile industry with international influence, ‘Rooted in India’, radiated to South East Asia and oriented to the globe. One of the key highlights of ‘India Mobile Diwali’ will be the public voting for ‘India’s most popular mobile brand’ followed by a spectacular award ceremony. Indian government leaders, officials of Chinese Embassy in India and heads of more than 200 popular mobile brands will also gather to witness the glorious moments in the mobile industry.
Meanwhile, ‘The Second India-China Mobile Phone and Its Accessories Manufacturing Summit’, ‘The First India-China Mobile Phone Industry Investment Forum’ and the award ceremony of ‘The most popular mobile phone brand awards ceremony’ will also be held during this period.
“We hope both India and China’s mobile enterprises may enjoy a good communication in this ‘India Mobile Diwali’, acquire more opportunities in business and investment cooperation, and promote jointly the development of India’s mobile industry,” organizers of India Mobile Diwali said in a statement.
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(1) 1This appendix sets out how a firm should handle complaints relating to the sale of a payment protection contract by the firm which express dissatisfaction about the sale, or matters related to the sale, including where there is a rejection of claims on the grounds of ineligibility or exclusion (but not matters unrelated to the sale, such as delays in claims handling).(2) It relates to the sale of any payment protection contract whenever the sale took place and irrespective
The aspects of complaint handling dealt with in this appendix are how the firm should:(1) assess a complaint in order to establish whether the firm's conduct of the sale failed to comply with the rules, or was otherwise in breach of the duty of care or any other requirement of the general law (taking into account relevant materials published by the FCA, other relevant regulators, the Financial Ombudsman Service and former schemes). In this appendix this is referred to as a "breach
In this appendix:(1) "historic interest" means the interest the complainant paid to the firm because a single premium payment protection contract was added to a loan or credit product;(2) "simple interest" means a non-compound rate of 8% per annum; and(3) "claim" means a claim by a complainant seeking to rely upon the policy under the payment protection contract that is the subject of the complaint.
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Amazon Prime Video and Excel Media & Entertainment have released the trailer of the highly anticipated series – Mirzapur.
Set in the heartland of India, Mirzapur revolves around drugs, guns and the politics of power in a land where might is right.
Created by Karan Anshuman & Puneet Krishna and directed by Gurmmeet Singh, Mirzapur is a nine-episode series that will be available to stream exclusively on Prime Video from November 16, 2018, across more than 200 countries and territories.
An edge-of-your-seat binge-watching experience, Mirzapur is a gripping narrative brought to life by a power-packed cast including highly acclaimed and award-winning actors such as:
Pankaj Tripathi, Ali Fazal, Vikrant Massey, Divyendu Sharma, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Shweta Tripathi, Shriya Pilgaonkar, Rasika Dugal and many more.
Vijay Subramaniam, Director & Head, Content, Amazon Prime Video India, said:
“With Mirzapur, we reiterate our commitment to bring new, groundbreaking shows to Indian and global audiences with high calibre production values and exceptional content creators and talent.
More importantly, we remain committed to taking stories from India that are local in narrative yet epic in scale to a global stage.
If the global launches of Inside Edge, Breathe, etc. have taught us anything, it is that high-quality Indian content has found resonance with audiences around the world and there is a growing appetite for the same”.
Mirzapur is the fifth Prime Original Series offering from India and brings together the winning trio Ritesh Sidhwani, Karan Anshuman and Farhan Akhtar, the creators of Prime Original Series, Inside Edge that recently earned an International Emmy nomination for Best Drama Series (the first of it’s kind for a video-on-demand series originating from India).
Ritesh Sidhwani, Excel Media & Entertainment, said: “We are thrilled to collaborate with Amazon Prime Video to present a genre-defining, bold and powerful story like Mirzapur.
A show of this calibre with high production value and scale takes it to the next level of cinematic experience.
We are taking a story set in the heartland of India to a global audience & are excited to see how viewers respond to it.”
Karan Anshuman, the creator, said, “Mirzapur is the perfect storm.
The creative freedom Amazon Prime Video allows, Excel’s adroit production experience, an ensemble cast that takes an already fantastic script and owns it.
This is a fine time for filmmakers and I’m looking forward to new collaborations.”
Farhan Akhtar, Excel Media & Entertainment, said:
“We are excited to collaborate again with Amazon Prime Video for the next Prime Original Series, Mirzapur.
The success of Inside Edge reaffirms our faith in digital streaming in India, proving that these are indeed exciting times for storytellers, artists, writers and filmmakers.
Mirzapur is a story not meant for the faint-hearted and it will make people think about the show for days after watching it.”
Mirzapur Synopsis
The journey of two brothers lured by the idea of power only to get consumed by it, the series is an amped-up portrayal of India’s heartland and youth.
It’s a world replete with drugs, guns, and lawlessness, where caste, power, egos and tempers intersect and violence is the only way of life.
Iron-fisted Akhandanand Tripathi is a millionaire carpet exporter and the mafia don of Mirzapur.
His son, Munna – an unworthy, power-hungry heir – will stop at nothing to inherit his father’s legacy.
An incident at a wedding procession forces him to cross paths with Ramakant Pandit, an upstanding lawyer, and his sons, Guddu and Bablu.
This snowballs into a game of ambition, power and greed that threatens the fabric of the lawless city.
With heart-pounding action, violence at an operatic scale, gangsters with sharp minds and dry humour, Mirzapur is a hinterland story that is as raw as it gets.
Watch the trailer here!
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JC Penney says holiday same-store sales fell 7.5%, reaffirms outlook for the year
Employees assist customers at the checkout counter of a J.C. Penney store.
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The announcement follows one from rival Macy’s a day earlier, in which Macy’s said its holiday same-store sales dropped 0.6%. The decline wasn’t as bad as many had feared, sending Macy’s shares higher on the news. CEO Jeff Gennette said Macy’s saw “a strong trend improvement from the third quarter,” igniting some optimism for the retailer’s turnaround plans.
Still, on the whole, department stores are expected to have underperformed during the 2019 holiday season.
The category of retailers that includes Penney, Macy’s, and Nordstrom, saw overall sales decline 1.8% from Nov. 1 through Dec. 24, according to Mastercard Spending Pulse, which tracked retail spending across all payment methods.
More shoppers are expected to have turned to retailers like Target and Walmart — which aren’t at traditional malls — for apparel, electronics, and other gifts. Many rung up purchases on Amazon as well. The e-commerce giant has already claimed 2019 was a record holiday.
Penney reported a narrower-than-expected loss during its latest fiscal quarter, ahead of the holidays. But sales declines are still steep. Penney hasn’t reported a quarterly sales gain since the 2017 holiday season. The company has been calling for sales to be down 7% to 8% in fiscal 2019.
The Plano, Texas-headquartered department store chain knows it has work to do to get back to growth. Analysts say one of the biggest overhangs for the embattled, 117-year-old company remains its real estate. Penney has more than 800 locations – arguably far too many, as more people turn to the internet to shop.
Penney CEO Jill Soltau told analysts in November: “I have not given any direction on what we’re doing with our [store] fleet closing or keeping open. … All I’ve said is that we are very close to our physical fleet and understanding what each store is contributing to the total business, as it relates to driving traffic.”
Penney shares, which closed Wednesday at $1.20, have dropped less than 1% over the past 12 months. The company has a market value of $384.0 million.
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Why God is the Biggest SPN Villain
Posted: September 12, 2013 in Characters I Hate, Characters I Love, Supernatural Musings, Supernatural Rants, Theories and Headcannons
Tags: Angels, Awesome TV, Castiel, Dean Winchester, Demons, God, God did Nothing, God is a Jerk, Heaven, Hell, Lucifer, Lucifer's Cage, Sam Winchester, SPN, Supernatural, Supernatural TV show, Villains, Winchester Brothers
I’ve been discussing this quite a lot with friends recently. Mostly because I enjoy talking about the villains of my favorite fandoms (I dunno who I love more… Loki, the Joker, the Master or Lucifer… Or Hannibal. Can I have them all?). A common idea that keeps popping up, however is that Supernatural’s most infamous and evil villain is God.
Disclaimer: Please note that I am speaking ONLY of the character of God in the television series “Supernatural” and not any actual religious deity. This post in no way reflects my opinions on religion, Christianity, or God.
Let me break it down a little bit (though I’m sure some of you can already see what I’m saying):
The biggest villains in Supernatural were as follows: demons and angels.
Demons only exist because Lucifer rebelled. Lucifer rebelled because God expected him to bow to humanity, which is clearly flawed logical because angels are über awesome.
Azazel killed Samuel and Diana Campbell to get Mary to make a deal for her son. He needed her to make that deal so he could infect Sam with his demon blood and get Sam to open Lucifer’s cage twenty some-odd years later. (It was a very thorough and LONG master plan, after all.)
Lucifer broke out of his Cage because who wants to be stuck in a Cage for eternity? Lucifer used Sam to free himself because it was all part of the Plan. It was all part of the Plan because God said so.
Michael brought Adam back from the dead and used him as bait to get Dean to say yes. Dean’s a stubborn ass and Adam gets the short end of the deal. Why did Michael even WANT Dean as his vessel? BECAUSE GOD SAID SO.
God knew all along that Lucifer would rebel and what it would all lead to… yet did nothing to prevent it and let Lucifer turn Lilith into a demon, thereby cementing his fate and the fate of every other living thing. God forced Michael to cast his own brother (someone Michael clearly cared about) into Hell because of this disobedience rather than KILLING LUCIFER LIKE HE TOTALLY COULD HAVE.
God then promptly ditched the angels, leaving them to their own devices. When Sam and Dean went to him, asking for help stopping Lucifer he said it wasn’t his problem. Yet he CREATED the problem. He had enough forethought to CREATE the plan to fix it, though that plan ensured that Sam and Dean and their family never be happy or have normal, healthy lives.
When Dean was in Hell, God could have gotten him out before he broke. He’s God. He can do anything. He could’ve saved Dean. When Sam was in Hell, God could’ve gotten him out – with his soul. Again, he’s God. He can do that. Hell, when Ruby was manipulating Sam, God could’ve intervened and killed her. He could’ve stopped Lilith. He could’ve killed Lucifer. He could’ve returned to Heaven and straightened his CHILDREN up, putting an end to their “Let’s burn the entire earth” nonsense.
Really, aside from getting Sam and Dean out of that church (and repeatedly forcing Castiel to die and return to life, each time worse than the last for the poor angel) WHAT has God done to assist in cleaning up the utter mess he STARTED.
He made Lucifer. Lucifer rebelled and created demons. God created Hell and made Michael cast Lucifer into it. Lucifer got pissed, decided to destroy all of humanity to show God how wrong he was. Michael got bitter because his brother was stubborn and wouldn’t realized that “daddy knows best”. Gabriel hightailed because his family sucks. God ran away because I guess the pressure of totally being the biggest asshole ever just get to you or something.
God not only created the problem and did very little to correct it (even though, if he had truly wanted to, he COULD HAVE), he actively avoided fixing the problem and instead decided to use two humans – thereby destroying THEIR lives as well as ruining the angels’ existence – to end the world and/or possibly save everyone.
I highly doubt Lucifer, Azazel or any of the angels or demons would’ve gone after Sam and Dean if they hadn’t KNOWN that it was all supposed to end with them on opposite sides of the final showdown between Heaven and Hell.
The argument could be made that God helped them (as the heavy implication that Chuck is God would suggest) to avoid ending the world, but he didn’t exactly do much considering he’s an all-powerful God, now did he? He could destroy everything and everyone with a thought. He could have stopped Lucifer, he could’ve stopped Michael, he could’ve stopped Raphael.
Hell, in season 6 Castiel prays for guidance on the Purgatory issue and God could’ve at the very least shown him something to let him know how dangerous and wrong the path he was on was at that time, but he didn’t. He did absolutely nothing.
And I’m not particularly fond of the “but he gave them freewill” argument either. God’s actions cannot be justified in the show with that simple statement. He had the opportunity to help, he was asked for guidance and gave none, he abandoned his children and humanity, he ruined the Winchesters’ lives and he knew it was going to happen exactly that way.
So yeah, God’s the biggest asshole in SPN.
Why season 3 is the worst season of “Supernatural”
Posted: July 10, 2013 in Characters I Hate, Supernatural Rants
Tags: Badass Characters, Bela Talbot, Dean goes to Hell, Dean Winchester, Demons, FBI subplot, Gordon, Gordon Walker, Hell, Henricksen, Hunters, Mary-Sues, Ranting, Ruby, Sam Winchester, season three, Season three could've been so much better, SPN, Supernatural, Supernatural season 3, Supernatural TV show, Victor Henricksen, Wasted Potential, Winchester Brothers
Before I get started, I’d like to first apologize again for my lack of posting. Busy summer, no laptop and unforseen real life events make it harder to write posts than I would like. Forgive me.
And also: please note that while I love Supernatural, I am not above complaining about what I didn’t like and season 3 falls under the “what I didn’t like” category. Not that I hate season 3, it’s decent enough, but it was not as good as the two previous seasons or the seasons that follow it. I avoid watching season 3 in its entirety as often as possible. (I’ve only watched it all the way through 3 times compared to the four or five times I’ve watched all the other seasons…)
So I figured since we’re on hiatus waiting for season 9, I’d just sit here and bitch about things until I get new episodes to sob over. Savvy?
One of the bigger issues I have with season three is the storyline. I feel like it wasn’t enough to spend a whole season on. I get that Dean going to Hell was a big fricking deal and I definitely understand the focus, but there weren’t nearly as many diverse episodes that season – it was nearly all demons. It makes sense with the release of the demons, but it was still repeating things we’d already seen and was frankly not as interesting.
Basically, not enough happened. I’m sure the writer’s strike that year really hurt the show – it’s probably a bigger factor in the season’s poor performance than anything. But I’m not inclined to be too forgiving.
They could’ve done more. So much more, but they didn’t.
They cleared up the Gordon issue – excellently, sure, but ultimately that sucked some tension out of the show. I was glad to see Gordon gone, but disappointed that we never saw any other hunters aside from the ones trying to kill Sam with Gordon or the two at the very beginning.
Where were the other hunters? Hundreds of demons were let loose and we didn’t hear one friggin’ peep out of more than a handful of hunters at best. That is just stupid. We should have heard way more about other hunters. Like, say Ellen and Jo? Remember those people? Because they made not one single appearance in season 3 and in fact vanished entirely until season 5 where they were killed off.
It was a brilliant opportunity to play with the whole hunter world and expand it a bit – it’s something we so rarely see on the show. I’d like for there to be more hunters and more run-ins with other hunters. It’d be interesting.
And can we please talk about why it was necessary for Bela Talbot to be part of the show? I hated that bitch.
She was cold, self-centered, greedy, bitchy and horrible. I never liked her. She had no moral compass, no goals past looking out solely for herself and she was annoyingly Mary-Sueish. She was just so fucking “badass” that it hurt because she wasn’t.
And don’t even bring up the abuse storyline they shoehorned in there right at the end because I don’t care. I know people who were abused, I understand that it is terrible and it will scar someone and I don’t blame Bela for having her parents killed and she doesn’t deserve to go to Hell over something like that.
However, that doesn’t excuse her from being a horrible human being. So she had a shitty, awful, tragic background. A lot of people do and they don’t use it as an excuse to be total dickbags to everyone around them. Bela’s past was awful, apparently (since we only get that tiny little glimpse designed to force us to empathize) but that doesn’t mean she has a right to treat everyone like shit.
She has NO EXCUSE for how she behaves. She is greedy and self-serving and that’s not the bi-products of a scarred young woman, that’s the psychopathic personality she has. I’m seriously wondering why the writers included her at all because she was utterly pointless.
Sure she affected the plot, but remove her and they could’ve found otherways for them to lose the Colt and for Gordon to find them. That’s about the only part of the plot she really effected anyway.
The saddest part is that I could’ve liked Bela, if she’d been given a better personality and wasn’t so damn cold and flat. Written properly, a character like her could have been fantastic and interesting and dynamic and deep. She was cold and flat right up until she died and then they tried to make her into a tragic character. It did not work.
Something else that bugs me about season three: the end of the Henricksen storyline. Hear me out, I love the episode “Jus in Bello”, I do. It’s one of my favorites. However, I was disappointed that they ended the Henricksen storyline there and the threat of the FBI altogether for a while.
They closed that subplot too quickly with Henricksen’s death and Sam and Dean’s supposed death. It, like the subplot with Gordon, sucked out some of the tension. I mean, we still had Dean going to Hell, but I liked the FBI subplot. I enjoyed Henricksen’s character and I was not happy that he died so soon after learning the truth.
There was so much potential in that character. Imagine Sam and Dean having a real FBI agent on their side. Imagine them having a contact within the FBI. That would have been amazing. Henricksen could help them cover their tracks, alert them to weird cases, etc. It would have been awesome. And they could still kill him off later, maybe working some case with the Winchesters, where his death would have a bigger impact once we’d gotten to know him better.
I’d have appreciated more Henricksen, is what I’m saying.
Overall those, as I said, my real issue is that the season went mostly like this: demons, demons, demons, demons, random case, demons, save Dean from hell, demons, demons, Dean’s in Hell, ha ha you all lose.
So anyway, that’s the gist of what I feel about season three.
And to prove that I’m not a horribly cynical person, there are things I liked about the season:
Ruby. She was badass and basically the demon version of what Bela could have been if she’d been written better.
Sam’s struggle with trying to save Dean and be strong for him and his gradual shift in character. That was perfect and wonderful and really set up the following seasons perfectly and established Sam’s character arc nicely.
Dean’s struggle to accept that he didn’t deserve Hell and his attitude toward the whole thing.
And of course, the Trickster episode, “Mystery Spot”, because, duh.
And remember: these are my opinions. I’m allowed to have them, but you’re allowed to disagree with them.
Let’s Talk About Fanfiction
Posted: June 23, 2013 in Supernatural Musings, Supernatural Rants
Tags: Angels, Castiel, Crowley, Dean Winchester, Destiel, Doctor Who, Dos and Don'ts, Gender Bending, Lucifer, Sam Winchester, Samifer, Sherlock, SPN Fanfics, Supernatural, Supernatural Fanfiction, SuperWhoLock, Wincest
Sorry I haven’t posted anything in a while guys! I was just a teeny bit completely distracted by NBC’s glorious Hannibal. (If you haven’t seen it, save your soul. It will do horrible, twisted things to you…) And my laptop screen is busted, plus fixing some issues with my classes next Fall and my brother graduating high school. I’ve been busy. (Who knew I had a life…)
Anyway. I want to talk about Fanfiction today, specifically, Supernatural Fanfiction.
I feel like Fanfiction gets a bit of a bad reputation, which is probably at least a bit deserved because holy mother of Lucifer, I’ve read some really horrible things in Fanfiction archives. But sometimes you want to read the bad stuff. Or at least, I do. It makes me feel better about my writing. And there are tons of good stories too, and also every now and then you’ll stumble onto something so beautiful it’ll make you cry.
So, here are my Fanfiction Dos and Don’ts for the brilliantness of the Supernatural fandom.
(Also, a brief disclaimer: these are my opinions on these matters. If you happen to love anything I say is a definite Don’t, please don’t take offense because you can write or read whatever you want. I’m just explaining my issues with the SPN fanfictions I see)
Crossovers: Do. Absolutely do. I have a serious love of crossovers. With Supernatural, my favorites are the Superwholock stories. Because I’m a huge nerd and don’t judge me, it’s awesome. (For those sad people who don’t know, Superwholock is Supernatural, Doctor Who and Sherlock.)
Wincest: DON’T. Not ever. I hate every single form of Wincest. Incest is fucking gross people, I don’t care how hot Jared and Jensen are, when they are playing Sam and Dean they are brothers and I don’t even want to entertain the thought of it.
Destiel: Oh please do. Dean and Cas’ “profound bond” is absolutely adorable and I swear, one day Dean will realize that he’s a total dick and realize that Cas is in love with him. It’s just a given.
Serial Killer AUs: Do. For anyone unfamiliar, this is where the supernatural element of SPN is taken out and Sam and Dean are actual serial killers. I love AUs and I love the idea of Sam and Dean being serial killers for real. Dean especially really fits the profile of a serial killer. (I watch too many crime shows… *shrugs*)
Angel Incest: Blarg. In case my tiny rant about Wincest wasn’t clear enough: DON’T. I don’t care if they’re angels, it’s still disgusting. They’re fucking angels people. Angels don’t HAVE sex. At least the majority. Anna did because she was human-ish then and she specifically mention sex being something angels don’t have. Gabriel did because he’s fucking Gabriel. And Balthazar did because fuck the rules. And none of them screwed another angel because THEY’RE FAMILY. Ew.
Gender Bending: Don’t. Gender bending is pretty obviously where you take a character and change their gender. Usually it’s male to female. In SPN, it’s more often than not Sam. But it doesn’t matter because the point of gender bending is to change the character’s gender and keep their personality, but more often than not, the female version is just a generic version of a female original character – usually an author insert. So let’s stop with the gender bending and call a spade a spade. You’re a shitty writer if you do it because you want two characters to have sex but you don’t want to write gay sex. Anyway. Just, don’t. Unless it’s done by, like, a spell or a curse or something and is played for laughs and the character retains their actual personality, it’s just not good.
MPreg: Don’t. Please don’t. MPreg is when a dude gets pregnant. It’s usually very poorly written, though I admit I’ve read a couple of good ones. Generally, author’s don’t bother explaining just how the fuck a guy got pregnant and seem to have set their story in an AU world where guys just get pregnant all the time. It’s bizarre. And gross. And I’m really not a fan.
Giving Sam and Dean a little sister: Why the fuck would you do that? Don’t, obviously. It’s ridiculous. Sam and Dean don’t need a sister. If you want to add a third party to their hunting duo, how about Adam? You know, their actual brother? That guy they left to rot in Hell?
Weechester: Absolutely do. Weechester is basically writing pre-series stories where Sam and Dean are kids. And they are often adorable, sometimes heartbreaking but oh so wonderful. It’s like an extended flashback of awesome when they’re done right. I love Weechester fics.
Adding any new hunters in and pairing them with Sam or Dean: Don’t you fucking dare. That is so annoying. No one wants to read about your fantasies about hunting with the Winchesters and one of them falling for you. NO ONE. Look, 90% of us have those sort of stories in our heads, but we don’t all inflict them on other people so don’t you do it either. It’s annoying. It’s really annoying.
Any Romance at all: Meh. This is an iffy one. I hate romance, especially in Fanfiction where most of the authors have no idea how to write it. However, there are some really good ones out there. I say, as long as it involves two canonical characters and isn’t incest, go for it. I don’t care who you pair together, even if it’s Crowley and Cas (dude, that’d be kinda awesome). Romance can be interesting if it’s written correctly. So it’s a do/don’t because it’s so easily fucked up.
Stanford Era: Do. These fics are so interesting. I love reading about the Stanford era stuff and when they’re done write they’re amazing.
Character Death: Do. It’s SPN. You cannot escape character death and I have grown into a twisted person who is a total masochist. So kill off whoever the hell you want, even Sam if you want.
Character Bashing: I’d avoid it if I were you. There are plenty of characters in SPN I want to tear a new one, but writing them grossly out of character to demonstrate how horrible they are isn’t going to get you anywhere. Sometimes it’s okay, but generally it’s something to avoid. If you really hate the character, just have them brutally killed. It’s what I tend to do with Amelia.
Secretly Genius Dean: Please don’t. I can understand the appeal, but don’t. Dean isn’t a genius. He’s not stupid, but he’s not fucking Einstein. He’s got a GED and he’s more comfortable quoting movies than philosophers. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing; it’s part of who Dean is. It’ feels like a huge breech of his character to have Dean doing calculus or trig or something. He doesn’t like school. It bored him. He’s not an idiot, but he’s not interested in being books smart. He has practical smarts, no need to know anything that he can just have Sam Google or research for him.
Samifer: DO. There can never be enough Samifer. Just make sure it’s not all lovey-dovey, happy shit because that relationship is fucked up in a thousand beautiful ways. It hurts so good. Seriously.
So there you have it. Some of my Fanfiction Dos and Don’ts. Not really sorry if I offended anyone. Like I said, you’re totally entitled to disagree with anything I said. They’re just my opinions and I’m hardly the Fanfiction God or anything.
If you want to read some great fanfics, I have a small sample of those here. And if you’re interested in reading my SPN fanfics, you can find those here.
In Defence of Fangirls
Tags: Awesome TV, Crazy Fangirls, Dean Winchester, Fangirling, Fangirls, Insane Fangirls, John Winchester, Not really sure what this is, Sam Winchester, Supernatural, Supernatural TV show
I have officially survived more than a week after the Supernatural finale. I find that to be a miracle considering that last Saturday I watched the Doctor Who finale and Thursday was the Elementary finale and this Wednesday was the Criminal Minds finale that SPOILER ALERT killed off a character they were just starting to develop properly. Those bastards.
But anyway, what I want to talk about today is the fact that I’ve been having these really aggravating arguments with people and was recently called a hypocrite BY MY OWN MOTHER for the way I act about Supernatural.
Basically, the gist of the story is: I despise Twilight with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns. And I am vocal about that hatred. Then, someone said that they thought the recent season of Supernatural was stupid and the storyline was idiotic. I flipped my shit, guys, I will not lie. It utterly pissed me off. I didn’t flip out on the person who said it, but I did rant about it for a while to my brother and my mom overheard and told me I was getting upset for someone doing the same thing that I do to Twilight.
That made me stop and think because I never, EVER want to be compared to the crazy Twilight fangirls that scare the shit out of me.
Look, to be clear, everyone can have their own opinion and I get that there are people who just don’t like Supernatural. I can even accept that there are people who legitimately like Twilight. If everyone had the same opinions the world would be boring.
However, I do have to defend myself a bit: yes, I am a totally insane fangirl and yes, if you insult the fandoms I am a part of I will be very quick to argue my points. But the thing is, I LIKE arguing with people about that stuff. Not screaming, yelling, tossing insults, etc. of course. Just a good debate.
The difference between me and the fangirls I don’t like is that I won’t tell someone that they’re an idiot simply because they say that they don’t like something I happen to adore.
In the case of Supernatural, there are many fans who don’t like to hear negative things said about the show, but I’m not one of them. Hell, I think I rant enough about the show that some people probably have to wonder why I’m so in love with. There are things about the show that I despise with such intensity that thinking about them upsets me.
I can go on for hours about the shitty things I hate Dean for doing, about the stupid choices Sam has made and about how much John Winchester pissed me off. Yet, I love them all.
I’m not one of those fangirls who thinks my fandom is above reproach. I don’t think Supernatural is perfect. What I do think, however, is that it is brilliant. I think the show is a lot deeper than some people think. I think the storyline (especially this season) is unique and beautiful. I think the relationship between Sam and Dean is amazing. I think Supernatural has some of the best actors ever on their show. I think the special effects are phenomenal. (And have improved dramatically since season 1.) I think the beauty of the show is that despite its flaws, it’s still remarkable and tells a story people are interested in. A story that I am very much in love with, with characters I care about.
I want people to stop assuming that being part of a fandom means that fangirls are the devotedly insane type of people who will bite your hand off for insulting their favorite character.
Seriously, go ahead and tell me how much you hate Sam Winchester. I have a very close friend who actually despises Sam to the point that she will write fanfictions with him being tortured just because. She’s a bit twisted, mind you, but it doesn’t bother me. In fact, we have some interesting debates about the show and other fandoms because we actually don’t agree on much of anything except that we love the shows.
I enjoy those kind of debates, talking about the nature of characters and what their choices mean and whether or not they were a “bad” character. It’s interesting and I learn things doing that.
Basically, what I’m saying is: I might be overly protective of my fandoms, I might get upset when someone goes to a site dedicated to loving the show and says it’s stupid, but if you’ve got actual reasons backing you up and aren’t just an idiotic troll, then I completely and utterly do not care that you have a differing opinion.
No one can convince me that Supernatural isn’t awesome, but then again, I doubt I could convince someone that it IS awesome if they’re so deadest on hating it so there’s that.
I think I’m done now… I need to go prepare myself for watching the re-run of “As Time Goes By” tonight. Because I’m a masochist and I wanna rip open the scars.
Looking Back on “Supernatural” Season Eight
Posted: May 16, 2013 in Supernatural Musings, Theories and Headcannons
Tags: Angels, Awesome TV, Beautiful story, Brotherly Love, Cas, Castiel, Crowley, Curing Crowley, Dean Winchester, Demons, Falling Angels, Heaven, Hell, Metatron, Naomi, Sacrifice, Sam Winchester, Season 8 Spoilers, SPN season 8, Supernatural, Supernatural "Sacrifice", Supernatural season 8, Supernatural season 9, Supernatural season Gr8, Supernatural TV show, Waiting for Season 9 already, Winchester Brothers
Now that I’ve had some time to recover I think it’s time to take a look back at season 8… (Note that when I say “recover” I mostly just mean I ran out of tears. I’m still reeling from the finale)
I can say honestly that season 8 is my new favorite season. I admit, there are aspects of it that I am still not happy with (like, say, Amelia) but all the same, it was a brilliant, heartbreaking, turbulent rollercoaster ride of awesomeness and badassery like we haven’t really seen in a while.
I have never not loved Supernatural, but I will admit that season 6 was a bit of a mess story-wise and season 7 (while wonderful) had more than its share of moments that made me wanna punch things. (Of course, if we’re looking at all the seasons, nothing in the show is worse than season 3…)
Anyway, this season really took the show somewhere new and also brought back some of the old spark that was the reason I fell in love with it in the first place.
Specifically, I’m talking about Sam and Dean and their relationship.
I don’t know if anyone noticed, but after season 5, Sam and Dean didn’t seem as close. Not that they didn’t care about each other, but there were less brother moments, there was more tension and fighting and very little of the brotherly banter in the first few seasons.
But this season really delivered on the Brotherly Love scale. We got to see Sam and Dean like they haven’t been in a long time. Sure, they were fighting (especially in the beginning when Dean was angry at Sam for not looking for him in Purgatory) but they still looked out for each other and their love for each other really became the focus of the season like it hasn’t been in far too long.
Sam’s struggle with the trials, Dean’s struggle to be there for him even when he couldn’t really do anything about what was going on really reminded me a lot of season 2, when they were freaked out about what was happening to Sam because of the YED.
And the finale… Oh god, the scene where Sam tells Dean about his biggest sin. You guys, I was crying buckets. It was so heartbreaking and so beautiful and it really was just so perfect. I was so happy they had that scene because they needed that scene. The last couple of seasons didn’t give us those kinds of scenes like they used to.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Supernatural never fails to surprise me. Just when I think I have things figured out, they change the rules on me.
I was sure that the trials would kill Sam. I was sure of it like I haven’t been sure of anything in a long time. And the worst part is, I was right, but Sam still didn’t die. I totally expected Sam to die in the finale and I have to say and I was pleasantly surprised that not one of the main characters died. We still have Sam, Dean AND Cas.
I said I wanted them to do something different for the finale this year and they did. And I truly loved it even though I’m still freaking out and the fall seems so very far away. I wanna know what happens next NOW.
I was also absolutely certain Naomi would die in the finale – I refused to accept that she would live to go to season 9. I said before that I didn’t even care who killed her or how she died so long as she did and yet again, Supernatural went and changed things on me.
Naomi had to go and apologize and act reasonable and warn them about the danger they were in. THEN they kill her. After she reveals herself to not be a total bitch, they have Metatron shove a drill in her skull.
Not only that, but I trusted Metatron, damn it. I was a bit wary, but I never thought I had anything to actually worry about. I should have listened to my own advice. I always say that you should never trust or like any new character on the show because they always, always turn evil and/or die. ALWAYS.
Supernatural is why I have trust issues.
The story line of this season was just brilliant. The episodes were brilliant. Everything was just brilliant. There was only one not-quite-brilliant-but-still-good episode this season and the only reason I didn’t love that episode was because it’s a crime to have an SPN episode with so little Sam and Dean.
I’m not exaggerating when I say I think this season is the best one yet. The acting, the stories, the cast, the directing, everything was brilliant. It was emotional, it was visceral, it was beautiful and painful and terrifically wonderful.
I only have one concern and that is this: Crowley. They did not finish curing Crowley. Does this mean he will go back to being his demonic self or did the purified blood change him too much? If he does go back to be a demon, will he escape or will Sam and Dean kill him before he can? He’s still chained up in the church. Does he get away? Did they just leave him in there? I’m very, very concerned about the Crowley storyline. I don’t want Crowley to go away just yet.
Also, I’m very interested to see if Abaddon comes back. She smoked out of the body she was in so it’s entirely possible.
And I am extremely anxious to see how they fix the fallen angel problem. (Did anyone else thing it was really beautiful in a depressing way watching all the angels fall?) How are they going to fix thousands of angels thrown out of Heaven? How are they going to solve this one? Are they going to kill Metatron?
I can’t wait to see Sam and Dean and Cas reunited again, working to fix this. I am dying for season 9 already.
Seriously. Why isn’t it Fall yet?
Bracing Myself for the “Supernatural” Season 8 Finale
Tags: Angel Tablet, Cas, Castiel, Closing the Gates of Heaven, Closing the Gates of Hell, Crowley, Curing Crowley, Dean Winchester, Death to Naomi, Demon Tablet, Finale, I want Naomi to die, Metatron, Musings, Naomi, Sacrifice, Sam and Dean, Sam Winchester, Sealing Heaven, Sealing off Hell, Someone hug Cas already!, SPN finale, Supernatural, Supernatural Musings, Supernatural Season 8 Finale, Supernatural TV show, Winchester Brothers
As we prepare for tonight’s episode (Sacrifice, 8×23) of Supernatural I figured I might as well say a few things about my expectations for the episode before I get my heart ripped out and am unable to do anything but choke on my own tears. Besides, maybe if I talk my way through it before the episode, I won’t be catatonic by the end of it…
So, here are a few of my thoughts on what I expect to happen and what I want to happen tonight:
Curing Crowley:
I cannot stress enough how much I do not want this to happen. Crowley having his humanity restored would be even worse than killing him outright. You take away the badass, ruthless demon and Crowley won’t be half as awesome as he is. I couldn’t take that. I’d rather he just be killed. My hope is that Sam and Dean won’t be able to curse him because Abaddon will burst in before they can. (That’s what I think will happen from the promo at least).
I’d much rather Abaddon kill Crowley than Sam and Dean cure him. I mean, I don’t want him to die, but if it’s a choice between the two then you can bet your ass I’d rather see him dead.
Sealing off Hell:
Again, this is something I am vehemently against. I just don’t want them to be successful here. It’s not like I’m rooting for the bad guys (though, with the generally awesome cast of baddies on SPN, that’s not necessarily a bad thing…), but I just can’t figure out how they’d even have a show anymore with Hell sealed off.
It would mean the end of Crowley, which is enough for me to hate it. But it would also effectively destroy any chance of most of the major villains from the series ever coming back or for them to have anywhere near the same level of badassery.
Let’s face it, the demons are their best villains. The Leviathan just pissed me off and while the angels were total dickbags, only Lucifer really lived up to the same level of awesome as their demon villains.
Meg, Azazel, Abaddon, Crowley… They’re the kind of bad guys that this show needs and closing the Gates of Hell would destroy their cast of villains. We’d be stuck with fucking Naomi and no one wants that. No one.
So I want Sam and Dean to lose this one, for the sake of the show. They cannot win. If they do close the Gates of Hell, I expect there to be severe backlash. Like, opening the Cage and freeing Lucifer backlash.
Sealing off Heaven:
This, however, I’m not so against. I will admit, I’m very nervous about these trials Cas is going to have to do. And a friend pointed out that Metatron could very well be hiding something. And given that he’s an angel, there’s likely some unknown agenda there. But still, I really love the idea of slamming the Pearly Gates shut. Plus, the way Metatron talked, it seems like a non-permanent solution so the Gates could be opened again.
It seems like a sound solution for getting thing in Heaven back in order. They need it. Things have been insanely chaotic up there since season 5. And they seem to be getting worse. It’s a sad, sad day when Hell is more organized than Heaven.
Killing Naomi:
Okay… I want this so bad. I just really want Naomi to die. I don’t even care who kills her, I just want to see her dead. I’d prefer for Cas to do it, but I honestly don’t care if it’s Crowley or Dean or Sam… Hell, it could be some nameless angel or demon. I don’t give a fuck, just stab the bitch in the face and put us out of our misery.
The “Sacrifice”:
I’ve already talked a bit about my thoughts on the episode title and what it could mean. I think I’d love for the sacrifice in question to be Sam giving his life up – I’d never, ever forgive them, however, if it’s Dean again. Dean died last season, don’t kill him again.
Besides, the state Sam’s in… he’s not gonna live through this one, I don’t think. It horrifies me, because as you should know I’m a total SamGirl, but it’s not like he’ll be dead permanently. So I’d be okay with it.
I wouldn’t be okay with Cas dying again. I want them to cut Cas a break. Oddly enough, I never want them to cut Sam and Dean a break, but with Cas… damn it, stop picking on him! He’s been through enough. Poor, nerdy little badass warrior of God.
My random, totally-not-gonna-happen-but-dear-Lucifer-if-it-did-theory: The “sacrifice” is Amelia. Sam has to kill Amelia. And he does. Sure, it’ll scar him psychologically, but he spent nearly 200 years in Hell and seems relatively fine now. He’ll get over it. Just kill Amelia and I won’t complain about anything else that happens.
Dean and Cas:
It’s not what you think, I swear. While I totally ship Destiel, I seriously doubt it’ll happen outside of fanfiction and fanvids. No, what I’m talking about is how Dean was a total dick last Wednesday for no reason and Cas clearly was trying to make it up to Dean so what I want, more than anything, from tonight’s finale is for Dean to forgive Cas. And hug him.
I want a Dean/Cas hug, damn it. Cas deserves to be forgiving. I wouldn’t blame Cas if he punched Dean in the face for being such an ass to him.
And, if we can’t get Dean and Cas hugging, can Sam hug him? Please? Because Sam hasn’t hugged Cas and Cas needs a hug, damn it! Someone just hug Cas!
Crowley’s Victims:
So… I’ve been thinking about this. Crowley read Chuck’s books. (And apparently, Chuck has been publishing them again since Crowley knew about Jenny – who was from season 7 – and Charlie knew Sam and Dean saved the world – something they didn’t do until season 5.) And Crowley’s been using the books to find victims…
I know it’s unlikely, if not impossible, but this is just a short list of who I think he should have gone/should go after:
Cassie – Dean’s ex from the racist truck episode, “Route 666“
Lucas – the little boy they saved in “Dead in the Water“
Michael and/or Asher – the two little boys they saved in “Something Wicked“
Tyler – the little girl from “Playthings“
Tara – the actress from “Hollywood Babylon“
Matt – the kid from “Bugs” (yes, I realize the same actor played Samandriel… but still, it could work!)
Lori – the girl from “Hook Man“
Yes, I am aware that there are several children on this list. But if Crowley’s going all out, he might as well. Plus, the kids would be older now. Also, I tried to include more people that Sam connected with… but they all seem to be dead so really, Matt and Lori are all I can think off. Anyway.
I think that’s pretty much everything. I still don’t feel an less anxious about the finale, but hey, maybe I won’t drown on my own tears tonight.
*bursts out laughing*
Yeah right. I’m screwed. Oh well. Time to go prepare my emo corner for when the episode is over. I’ve got a lot of sobbing ahead of me, I think.
Sam and Cas: The Parallels
Posted: May 11, 2013 in Characters I Love, Supernatural Musings
Tags: Angels, Cas, Castiel, Character Arcs, Crowley, Dean Winchester, Demons, Heaven, Hell, Killing Lilith, Leviathan, Lucifer's Cage, Purgatory, Ruby, Sam and Cas, Sam and Cas Parallels, Sam Winchester, SPN, Supernatural, Supernatural "Clip Show", Supernatural TV show, Winchester Brothers
After last Wednesday’s episode (Clip Show, 8×22) I got to thinking about Sam and Dean and Cas and Dean and Cas and Sam and their relationships and the way that they relate to each other.
I’ve always thought Sam was more forgiving to Cas because, well, he gets it. And I’ve noticed some interesting parallels in their character arcs, but that last episode really made me look at them a bit closer.
Cas and Sam have both been through very similar situations.
Sam trusted a demon (Ruby), wrongly, to help him kill Lilith. While Ruby did, ultimately, help Sam kill Lilith, killing Lilith set about a whole, horrible aftermath (Lucifer’s Cage was opened) and Dean placed the blame almost entirely on Sam for betraying him by trusting Ruby. Sam, being Sam, felt horribly guilty and eventually made the ultimate sacrifice to right his wrong, by jumping into the Cage with Lucifer to put a stop to Armageddon. He was (or at least his soul was) in Hell for a year and a half earth-time, 180 years Hell-time.
Now, let’s look at Cas:
Cas trusted a demon (Crowley), wrongly, to help him open Purgatory. While Crowley did help Cas open Purgatory, opening Purgatory set about a whole, horribly aftermath (the Leviathan were released into the world) and Dean placed the blame almost entirely on Cas for betraying him by trusting Crowley. Cas, being Cas, felt horribly guilty and eventually made the ultimate sacrifice to right his wrong, by taking on Sam’s insanity and brokenness, driving himself insane to save Sam from certain death. He later ends up sucked into Purgatory for a year because he helped Sam and Dean stop Dick Roman (the head of the Leviathan).
When I put it like that, it’s almost impossible not to see why Sam relates so strongly to Cas and why he defends him every single time Cas makes a (completely honest) mistake.
Let’s go a bit deeper though.
What were their motives for trusting Ruby and Crowley? What were their intentions?
Well, Sam wanted to kill Lilith, an evil demon who not only dragged Dean into Hell, but who was actively breaking seals to open Lucifer’s Cage. Sam had no way of knowing Lilith was the final seal. His intentions remained, always, in the right.
Cas made his deal with Crowley because Raphael was waging war in Heaven and he was losing. If Raphael won, he would open the Cage, once more releasing Lucifer and starting the Apocalypse all over again. He needed the souls in Purgatory to give him enough power to defeat Raphael. He had no way of knowing that opening Purgatory would unleash the Leviathan.
Even more interesting, think about this: Pride comes before the fall.
Sam was, near the end of season four and his time with Ruby, addicted to demon’s blood and the power it gave him. He felt invincible, powerful. Stronger than Dean and capable of doing anything. He didn’t only want to kill Lilith – he wanted to show Dean that he was not weak. He wanted to prove something to himself and to Dean. He thought he didn’t need Dean, he thought he didn’t need help and he wanted to do it on his own. He became, basically, prideful, self-righteous and power-hungry. It all culminated in the fight between Sam and Dean and Sam actually having demon-black eyes as he killed Lilith and let the demon’s blood consume him.
Cas was, near the end of season six and his deal with Crowley, becoming just as self-righteous, if not more. He wanted to defeat Raphael, not just to stop Armageddon from happening again but also to prove that he was strong enough to lead the Heavenly Host. He was prideful, he was power-hungry and he let that power go to his head, which resulting in the terrifying God!Cas.
And there are even more parallels in their story lines, involving Dean’s reaction this time.
Dean was adamantly against Sam trusting Ruby. It was a bad idea and he knew it and he was entirely unhappy with it. He felt betrayed and he was angry. However, in the following season, Dean works with Crowley to stop Lucifer in spite of Sam insisting that doing was exactly like what he did with Ruby. You cannot trust demons, according to Dean. Not unless he decides it’s okay.
Dean was vehemently against Cas working with Crowley in season six, going so far as to basically disown Cas for doing so and seeing his involvement and lies as the ultimate betrayal. He was pissed and angry and pretty much told Cas he never wanted to see him again. However, the following season, when they were trying to deal with God!Cas, he is the one who suggested that they go to Crowley for help, which was exactly what he disowned Cas for! Again, it’s only okay to trust demons when Dean says so.
Both Sam and Cas have consistently made mistakes for all the right reasons. They were trying to stop powerful demons or powerful angels from unleashing Hell on earth. They were trying to do the right thing. They were trying to protect the people they care about. They fully took responsibility for their actions and sacrificed themselves as penance for their mistakes.
My point is, they’re very, very similar characters. Which is why, whenever Dean was acting like a total dick to Cas Wednesday night, Sam jumped to defend him.
Sam’s always seem the shades of grey in the world. He wants to see the good in everyone, especially someone like Cas who really was only doing the right thing. Sam, unlike Dean, will take into consideration the motivations and intentions behind someone’s actions.
Dean sees betrayal as betrayal. Everything is black and white. Monsters are evil and deserve to die. People who lie to him, hurt him or don’t trust him when he thinks he should be trusted are simply wrong. He adopted that view from John. John raised them to see the world that way, but Sam, in his stubborn need to not be like John, chose to see it different, while Dean, in his desperate need for John’s approval, chose to see it exactly like that.
I’ve noticed, over the seasons, that they’ve both reached a more middle ground. Sam’s less trusting and less optimistic and, especially lately, Dean’s become more willing to accept the shades of grey he usually refuses to see.
But when it comes to family and friends, he’s still stubborn because family means so much and loyalty means so much that every betrayal hurts. It leaves scars and Dean already has such a low opinion of himself that each breach of trust just cracks his sheild even more. So he reacts viscerally, with anger and violence and unbending stubbornness. And Sam, who’s been where Cas is and sees things from his point of view, reacts with understanding, compassion and open-mindedness.
I just hope Dean’s progress on the road to being more open-minded will continue, because this time I really feel his anger isn’t all the justified. He was so cold to Cas and Cas is trying so hard to do the right thing and to make it up to Dean… I know as a viewer I have a more objective eye on the characters’ motivations and actions, but really, Dean knows about Naomi so I don’t get why he was so angry at Cas. I really want him to lay off the poor guy a bit because Cas doesn’t deserve this and, much as I love Dean, no one really ever calls him out on his hypocrisy and bad attitude.
…So, somehow this post became really analytical feeling. *shrugs* Oh well. The point is, I get why Sam is always defending Cas, I get why Dean gets so angry and I get why Cas does what he does the way he does it.
And also… I am terrified of next Wednesday’s episode. *grabs tissues* I am not going to come out it in one piece.
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Millington, Tennessee - Navy announced today, that Sailors serving on sea duty in Japan, Guam and Spain now have an increased set of incentives available to them, in NAVADMIN 042/18.
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Rochester, Minnesota - When is it safe to return to normal activities after coming down with the flu? "A general rule of thumb is to stay away from work or school until fevers have resolved for at least 24 hours," says Dr. Pritish Tosh, an infectious diseases specialist at Mayo Clinic.
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Posted by Giancarlo Fiorella April 29, 2016
The head of the Mesa de la Unidad Democratica, Jesus Torrealba, was attacked by a group of government supporters today outside the headquarters of CORPOELEC (the national electrical company) in Caracas.
El Nacional reports that at least four attackers hurled rocks and threw punches at Torrealba and his entourage as they congregated outside the utility company’s building.
A video of the event shows a man with glasses in a green shirt and red undershirt approach Torrealba with his hands behind his back. Torrealba notices the man, and begins to walk away from him. As he does, the man takes a swing at Torrealba, and a scuffle breaks out.
As the man in the glasses approaches Torrealba, he says:
Que, maldito? Dependiente de que, maldito? Dependiente de que, mamaguevo? [Roughly, “Damn you, what did you say? Damn you, depending on what? Depending on what, you cocksucker?”]
As the fight unfolds, the same man can be heard yelling, “Metele plomo! Metele plomo!” [literally, “Put lead in him!”, meaning “Shoot him!”].
As the group of attackers begins to retreat, they throw rocks at Torrealba and his entourage.
Below, a video of the attack. Torrealba is the man in the beige vest.
Torrealba’s Attacker Known to MUD
According to the MUD, the man who threw the first punch against Torrealba is known to the organization for participating in violent activities against the opposition.
The MUD claims that the same man headed an attack against opposition deputies at the National Assembly on Tuesday, and provided the pictures below as evidence:
The man in the red undershirt and green vest on Tuesday outside the National Assembly:
Apparently the same man as he approached Torrealba earlier today:
Torrealba Upbeat After Attack
Torrealba took to Twitter after the attack to let his supporters know that he was fine. Torrealba – who is completely bald – posted the following tongue-in-cheek tweet:
I was with some neighbours who were protesting against the blackouts, but on my way there I was attacked by a violent group. I’m fine. They didn’t even ruffle my hair.
Torrealba also clarified that the attack took place as a protest that was scheduled to take place outside the CORPOELEC building was cancelled after state security forces blocked demonstrators from accessing the area. Torrealba and a small group of political figures managed to congregate in the area, and the attack began as they were about to leave.
On the attack, Torrealba said:
It’s the same recipe for violating human rights that the government has used in other occasions.
Allup: Attackers Were “Gov’t Armed Gangs”
National Assembly President Henry Ramos Allup also responded the the attack on Twitter, saying that “government armed gangs” were responsible for the violence. He also quipped that instead of fixing the electrical crisis affecting the country, they government is instead more concerned with attacking opposition figures.
NA Loses Electricity on Maduro’s Orders
Following a threat by Maduro that he would order CORPOELEC to shut down power at the National Assembly, the national legislature was plunged into darkness today as the threat appeared to be carried out.
The blackout also affected the headquarters of El Impulso, a publication which is located near the National Assembly.
It is not clear how long the loss of power at the legislature will last.
Allup took to Twitter after news of the blackout spread, saying:
They should shut off power at the main sites of inefficiency and corruption in the country: Miraflores [the Presidential Palace], salainconstitucional [the Supreme Court], and altomandofan [National Bolivarian Armed Forces High Command].
Polar Shuts Down Beer Production
The country’s largest beer producer, Polar, was forced to shut down all of its beer production lines today as a result of a lack of raw materials. Polar produced 80% of all beer consumed in Venezuela.
Of the four breweries Polar operates, three shut down during the week, with the last one closing its doors today.
Arquimedes Sequera, a union leader for Polar workers, said:
Today, the shift that came in the morning has already been suspended at the San Joaquin plant… this was the last plant that had yet to be stopped, and Polar’s largest.
Polar confirmed the move in an e-mail to Reuters.
Earlier this week, Maduro appeared to taunt Polar’s management and the shutdown they have been forced to implement by saying:
Planta para, planta recuperada [Roughly, “A factory that closes is a factory that we take over”].
The closure at Polar’s four breweries means the direct loss of 10,000 jobs.
Leopoldo Lopez Turns 45
Opposition figure Leopoldo Lopez turns 45 today. Lopez, who is serving a fourteen year prison sentence for his role in the 2014 anti-government protests, has now spent his last three birthdays in prison.
Speaking on the occasion, Miranda state governor Henrique Capriles said that “this will be Leopoldo Lopez’s last birthday in jail”, adding:
We say this because there will be a constitutional change in our country this year. The people’s constitutional and democratic conviction as demonstrated over the last few hours is evidence that we are united, and that we are invincible.
A number of visitors were denied access to the Ramo Verde military prison in which Lopez is held, including Henry Ramos Allup, Henrique Capriles, Julio Borges, Freddy Guevara, and Monseigneur Diego Padron.
Allup explained what happened when the visitation party arrived at the prison:
When we got here to [the gate], the sub-director of the prison told us that while [Lopez] made the request [for us to visit him] on time, there had been no answer [given to the request], so he could not allow us access because he was following orders to not let us in except by express authorization by the Minister of Defence.
Allup told El Nacional that Monseigneur Padron personally attempted to contact Vice-President Aristobulo Isturiz and Minister of Defence Vladimir Padrino Lopez, but that they were both allegedly unavailable to take his call.
Antonieta Mendoza – Lopez’s mother – spoke on the denial of visitation rights for her son, saying:
What we’re seeing here is unconstitutional. It’s another violation, yet again. I hope that as is his right, and as a birthday present, they will let him sign this form [the recall referendum form]. I demand that Nicolas Maduro [and] Minister Padrino Lopez, as a humanitarian gesture, allow his family and his brothers in this political struggle to visit him today to give Leopoldo a birthday hug.
Torres: NA’s Vote “Will Not Unnerve” Me
Minister of Nutrition Rodolfo Marco Torres responded to the censure vote against him by the National Assembly yesterday, which essentially forced Maduro to remove him from his post. Speaking to reporters today, Torres said that he was unphased by the vote, and appeared to indicate that he does not expect to be removed from office.
Torres told reporters:
I will not be unnerved by these actions. On the contrary, this will give me more strength to move forward and guarantee that homeland’s nutritional sovereignty, which is a legacy of our giant Hugo Chavez.
Torres also said that he would continue to work to deliver food to Venezuelan citizens “despite the economic war and the brutal drop in oil prices”.
CNE Rector Lays Out Path to Referendum
One of the rectors of the Consejo Nacional Electoral, Luis Emilio Rondon, explained today what the next steps would be in the recall referendum process against Maduro.
In an interview with Televen, Rondon explained that the law that regulates the recall referendum process is the 2007 Reglamento del Poder Electoral [Electoral Power Regulation]. Rondon explained:
The first step is the collection of 1% of the signatures by entity [each state, plus the Capital District] (…) after they have been received, and in accordance to this same 2007 regulation, there is a period of five continuous days of review with the goal of verifying that the parameters have been met, and that the accompanying documentation meets the regulations.
After signatures from 1% of the electorate have been verified, Rondon explained that the next step would be:
… the collection of [signatures from] 20% of the electorate, which is close to four million voters, which will take place over three days with the goal of allowing this 20% to manifest their desire to activate the recall referendum process.
After signatures from 20% of the electorate have been verified, Rondon said that:
… within 90 days, the recall referendum would take place.
In short, the recall referendum process is made up of three steps:
Collecting signatures from 1% of the electorate.
Collecting signatures from 20% of the electorate.
Holding the actual referendum vote.
Questions/Comments? E-mail me: invenezuelablog@gmail.com
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010 学術雑誌論文 沓掛, 展之 / KUTSUKAKE, Nobuyuki
Reconciliation and post-conflict third-party affiliation among wild chimpanzees in the Mahale Mountains, Tanzania 利用統計を見る
学術雑誌論文 / Journal Article
KUTSUKAKE Nobuyuki
CASTLES Duncan L
This study investigated post-conflict (PC) behavior among wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) of the M-group in the Mahale Mountains, Tanzania, and examined what types of behavior characterize the PC situation in this group, and the factors that influence the occurrence of PC affiliation between opponents soon after the end of an aggressive conflict (i.e., reconciliation). We found that the opponents affiliated selectively soon after the end of aggression, suggesting that reconciliation occurred in this group. The mean individual corrected conciliatory tendency (CCT) (Veenema et al. 1994 in Behav Proc 31:29-38) was 14.4%, which is similar to or lower than frequencies observed in studies of captive and wild chimpanzees. The valuable relationship hypothesis predicts that the CCT is higher among individuals who share valuable relationships (e.g., males or affiliative dyads) than among individuals who do not (e.g., females or less-associative dyads). However, the analysis based on data for aggression between unrelated individuals (including one incident between an adult and non-adult) and aggression between unrelated adults, did not uncover this difference. Affiliation by a previously uninvolved individual with the victim ("consolation") and with the aggressor ("appeasement" occurred more frequently following aggression than in the control condition. The results are compared with previous studies of captive and wild chimpanzees.
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MIT Experts Say CAFE, Low-Carbon Grid Key To Reduce Vehicle GHGs
Experts with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say efforts to decarbonize vehicles and reduce mobile source greenhouse gas emissions will depend on strengthening federal corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards for gasoline-fueled vehicles and creating a low-carbon electricity grid that can support electric vehicles (EVs).
In an interview with Environment Next, Jennifer Morris, a research scientist at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, discussed the new MIT Energy Initiative report, “Insights Into Future Mobility,” The study presents the findings of a three-year multidisciplinary analysis of how to transform vehicle transportation through complex interactions involving government policies, consumer choices, refueling infrastructure, and other factors affecting a sector that is a major source of GHG emissions.
The report comes as the House Ways and Means Committee Nov. 19 introduced a “discussion draft” of the "Growing Renewable Energy and Efficiency Now (GREEN) Act," which would extend and expand various incentives for EVs, wind, solar, biofuels, energy storage, and other clean energy technologies. Parts of the bill could be attached to a must-pass continuing resolution expected Dec. 20, say renewable energy experts.
Some characterizations of the report said it portrayed a pessimistic future for EVs. For instance, an article in the MIT Technology Review was titled “Why the electric-car revolution may take a lot longer than expected,” while the Electric Drive website wrote that the report was” significantly more pessimistic than other forecasts” in predicting battery costs will fall 50% between 2018 and 2030 and then reach $124 per kilowatt hour, a figure significantly higher than other forecasts.
“We were disappointed to see those as the leading headlines,” Morris tells Environment Next, noting that the MIT researchers comprehensively examined the economics of different passenger vehicle options, consumer preferences, market dynamics, different policy scenarios, and other factors, and in all scenarios “we expect to see significant growth” of EVs.
The report assessed the impact of various options for government policies on passenger vehicles. Analyses examined a Paris Agreement scenario, a 2o C scenario, and other scenarios for growth in demand, especially in China, along with the impacts of incentives for EV adoption. “Across-the-board, regardless of the scenarios,” deployment of EVs will grow significantly, driven by increasingly competitive economics over time, Morris says. By about 2030, MIT’s research suggests, EVs will reach “total cost parity” with internal combustion engines (ICE), she adds.
EV Adoption
Marc Geller, a media relations official with the Electric Auto Association, a non-profit educational organization that promotes the widespread adoption of battery EVs, presents a faster timeline for EV cost parity. In an email, Geller says, "As many reports have indicated, battery costs are coming down significantly and quickly enough to give EVs cost parity with ICE cars by 2023-25. Along with lower battery costs, we believe consumers will drive demand because EVs are better, quicker, cleaner, safer and cheaper to own and operate."
While the MIT study places cost parity later, its conclusions are by no means pessimistic, Morris says. However, MIT researchers carefully analyzed how EV costs can be expected to evolve over time and found that while the cost of batteries is falling rapidly, “there is a floor to how low that cost can go” that is based on the costs of cobalt, lithium, and other raw materials.
Other studies do not account for that floor and thus see battery costs falling toward zero, Morris says. “We have a more realistic assessment,” and factoring in the floor is why the MIT numbers “are different” from those of other studies.
EV adoption will be significantly affected by whether a tax credit or subsidies are available, Morris says. MIT’s base analysis removes subsidies, but if they are restored -- as proposed in the GREEN Act -- EV penetration would occur more rapidly. The report’s researchers will share their findings with GREEN Act sponsors.
As part of a Washington, D.C., rollout event for the report on Nov. 20, MIT experts met with Senate Environment and Public Works staffers, as well as House and Senate staffers from transportation-related committees, Morris notes. She says they appreciated the study’s multi-disciplinary approach. Morris and other MIT presenters reassured staff that their research did not lead to a pessimistic conclusion about the prospects for EVs.
CAFE Standards
The MIT experts focused on the importance of continuing and expanding CAFE standards during their EPA briefing, Morris says. While she did not participate in that briefing and thus could not speak to staff responses, she says agency officials working on CAFE standards recognize their importance even despite the Trump administration’s efforts to roll back Obama-era efficiency requirements and California’s Clean Air Act authority to craft its own vehicle rules.
The need for strong CAFE standards is one of two key findings about what is needed for decarbonizing the transportation sector, Morris says. Another “key takeaway” is that EVs cannot be an effective decarbonizing strategy unless the electrical grid is also “cleaned up,” which will also take time, so continued fuel efficiency improvements will be critical, especially since light-trucks and SUVs are costlier to electrify.
Morris notes that EV fueling and charging infrastructure will be critical to boost adoption of the vehicles. The report says current limitations on EV batteries, including a relatively low range and long charging time, contribute to a fear among consumers that they will run out of energy before reaching their destinations. The researchers cite that “range anxiety” as a barrier to EV adoption. Even if EVs and ICE cars reach cost parity, infrastructure and range issues will be important factors for consumers, Morris says.
Following release of its recent study, MIT launched a new “Mobility Systems Center,” one of several university Low-Carbon Energy Centers, to build on the report’s research, focused on a range of issues including heavy-duty trucking and how developing regions such as India could transition to decarbonized transportation .
Although MIT does not advocate for legislation, in general the program has a “very clear position” on the need to address climate change, Morris says, including through economy-wide policies with a price on carbon. A sector-by-sector, regulation-by-regulation approach can help, but will be costlier, she adds. -- David Clarke
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AMD’s SeaMicro Takes on Storage with SM15000
by Mark Hachman September 11, 2012 7 min read
AMDData CenterSeaMicroServerSM15000
The SeaMicro SM15000 server (rear view).
AMD has unveiled the SeaMicro SM15000 server, taking its Freedom Fabric outside the box to support petabytes’ worth of storage arrays.
AMD acquired SeaMicro back in March for approximately $334 million, intending to use the latter’s assets as a foundation for a new generation of server technology.
Despite his company’s much-publicized competition with Intel, AMD executive (and former SeaMicro CEO) Andrew Feldman said the new platform would support several generations of Intel Xeon processors. The SM15000 supports the E3-1260L “Sandy Bridge” architecture, and will add support for the next-generation Intel Xeon E3-1265LV2 “Ivy Bridge” core as well as AMD’s own “Piledriver” core in November.
The SM15000 includes three new compute cards.
One of SeaMicro’s key assets is its I/O virtualization technology, which eliminates the need for components beyond the CPU, memory, and SeaMicro ASIC chip. Another is its Freedom Supercomputer Fabric, which allows all CPUs within the system to share attached storage equally at a fabric throughput of 1.28 terabits per second. According to AMD, the new SM15000 supports up to 1,408 hard drives or SSDs.
Feldman positioned the new SeaMicro servers as ideal for frameworks such as Hadoop, which was designed to sidestep the resources-intensive practice of using SANs for massive storage and processing before moving the data to a number of blades for processing. Feldman suggested that using SANs or hanging storage off a Fibre Channel switch, though simple and relatively cheap, represents the old way of doing things.
“What the industry failed to see what that compute, storage, and networking were intertwined pieces of the solution,” Feldman said at a Sept. 10 press conference. “And all those that made servers, networking devices and storage failed to meet the reality that in the server, they were pieces of a single solution.”
The high level of integration allows the SM15000 to consume 20 kilowatts, half that of a traditional SAN-based architecture. It’s also the same amount SeaMicro’s servers consume for a fully populated (16 storage enclosures, 512 cores, 5 petabytes of storage) server, an AMD spokeswoman said via email.
AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000 will be available with 64 compute cards. The Opteron option will include a 2.0-GHz/2.3-GHz/2.8-GHz “Piledriver” Opteron eight-core chip for a total of 512 cores per system or 2,048 cores per rack. The Ivy Bridge option will use a 2.5-GHz quad-core Xeon E3-1265LV2 for 256 cores per 10-rack system or 1,024 cores per rack.
The server also contains 16 fabric extender slots, which can connect to three different Freedom Fabric storage arrays: the FS 5084-L, an ultra-dense system with 84 SAS/SATA 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch drives, arranged in 5-rack units for a total of 5 petabytes per system; the FS2012-L, which uses 12 2.5-inch/3.5-inch drives in 2 rack units for up to 48 TB of capacity per array or 768 TB per system; and the FS 2024-S, which uses up to 24 2.5-inch drives in 2 rack units for a total of 24 TB per array or 384 TB per system.
Feldman said that SeaMicro and AMD were currently in active discussions with larger OEMs such as HP and Dell to license the Freedom Fabric: “We are in discussions right now with… an entire ecosystem filled with potential partners.”
Somewhat surprisingly, Feldman did not indicate that the Xeon version of the SeaMicro SM15000 would be handicapped or relegated to some lower-priority tier—although he did not comment specifically on pricing premiums, either. According to analyst Martin Reynolds of Gartner, that silence suggests AMD recognizes that the Xeon is the favored architecture at this point in time.
A starter system will cost about $139,000, with 64 Sandy Bridge sockets, 8 disks and 16 1-Gig uplinks, Feldman said. A spokeswoman for AMD added that the company was not prepared to discuss the prices of the Opteron or Ivy Bridge systems.
Intel’s Atom will continue to be supported, Feldman said, as will ARM chips when the 64-bit solutions begin rolling out in production in 2014. Rohith Pai, vice president of business development at AMCC, told SlashDataCenter that the well-received X-Gene platform AMCC debuted at Hot Chips would sample at the end of the year, but that actual production was slated for late in 2013. Systems, of course, will follow later.
Feldman himself took a more pragmatic view, with the bold statement that multiple Xeon generations would be supported. “We will continue to build with these—we are interested in building extraordinary solutions for large customers,” he said. “That requires us to keep an open mind.”
Analyst Pat Moorhead of Moor Insights, a former AMD corporate fellow, said he didn’t expect AMD’s commitment to a competitor. “I saw two big things,” he said. “The first thing is that we’re going to be in the hardware business for a long, long time. The second thing is that [they said] they’re going to support multiple generations of Xeon processors. That surprised me.”
AMD may not have the support or “feet-on-the-street” sales structure of some of its server rivals, either. “We’ll have to see where that goes,” Moorhead said.
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'JIMS' to bring transparency in the mining of coal and minerals in Jharkhand
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Chief Secretary Dr. DK Tiwari urged the mining department, forest and environment department, commercial tax department, transport department, State Pollution Control Board, Central Government undertaking BCCL, CCL, ECL, Income Tax Department and Indian Unique Identity Card (Aadhar) to work closely while emphasizing on adopting transparency. He instructed them to share online information with the mining department through their own portal. He said that on transparency, prevention of coal from the coal and illegal mining could be prevented in the state.
Chief Secretary was speaking in the meeting regarding the online integration of central and state departments, undertakings of the Jharkhand Mines and Mineral Management System (Jims) at Project Bhawan. He also lamented the fact that despite the efforts made by the Department of Mining for two years to adopt the system of sharing information through various departments and undertakings of the state and central government, it did not happen so far. He also fixed the time limit for sharing online information to the respective departments and companies and instructed the Secretaries to continue monitoring it in their weekly meeting.
He said that with online integration where transparency will come in the works, mining, mineral transport, commerce tax and leakage in all cases will be settled and accountability will be decided. He said that this would prevent the smuggling of coal smuggling and also the crime associated with it. The Forest and Environment Department has told the mining department to do online integration in two months. The Commerce Tax Department has said that it will take some time to cite some difficulties in adopting this process.
The Chief Secretary removed all the difficulties and ordered the Commerce Tax Department to join the process within two months. While directing the mining department to add the stack holders' bank account online to the proforma. Coal companies have been instructed to start recording the information related to the state, which will be registered on Kolnet, till June 30. Unless the online integration is done by the mining department, make the information available through mail.
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Chemical diabetes in childhood. Integrated concentrations of glucose, insulin, and growth hormone
R. J. Winter, L. P. Plotnick, R. G. Thompson
Children and adolescents with varying degrees of glucose intolerance were studied with constant, blood withdrawal methods, and concentrations of glucose, insulin, and growth hormone were evaluated during a normal twenty-four-hour routine. Integrated concentrations of glucose and insulin in children with chemical diabetes were normal despite abnormal oral glucose-tolerance tests. All but two insulin-dependent diabetics had elevated integrated concentrations of growth hormone, as did some but not all chemical diabetics. Three of four mildly ketoacidotic individuals with newly diagnosed diabetes, who were studied before insulin therapy, had normal growth hormone-integrated concentrations. These data differentiate pharmacologic and physiologic assessments of carbohydrate homeostasis, as they support the concept that elevated growth hormone concentrations may not be a direct result of poor diabetic control.
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Winter, R. J., Plotnick, L. P., & Thompson, R. G. (1978). Chemical diabetes in childhood. Integrated concentrations of glucose, insulin, and growth hormone. Diabetes, 27(9), 909-915.
Chemical diabetes in childhood. Integrated concentrations of glucose, insulin, and growth hormone. / Winter, R. J.; Plotnick, L. P.; Thompson, R. G.
In: Diabetes, Vol. 27, No. 9, 1978, p. 909-915.
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The New Visayas, Playground of the Pacific
Posted by The Society of Honor on May 16, 2018 · 92 Comments
Sometimes I dream.
It gets tiresome dealing with all the bad thinking, bad values, and absurdity of the Philippines. I mean, when you have Supreme Court justices so self-involved that they disregard the Constitution, the situation is pretty hopeless. Then you have the power families tapping the streams of wealth that taxpayers ship off to government, enriching themselves and their friends, retreating into the warm webbed cocoon of impunity, and sneering at or shooting lesser Filipinos.
What, we are supposed to expect someone to lead an uprising and throw the bums out? Young people, as far as I can tell, are locked into cell phones and social media and can’t imagine a future outside of their own small, self-involved worlds. Meanwhile, the olds are too satisfied and complacent to risk what they have spent a lifetime building and the leftists and labor groups are too detached from economic realities to have much relevance at all.
If something is going to change, there needs to be a different kind of breakout moment. Someone needs to step forward, needs to demonstrate new thinking and new ways to go about being Filipino.
Not seeing that, I guess it falls to a wayward global hobo, yours truly, to propose a dynamic and prosperous (preposterous?) way forward for about 23 million Filipinos plus or minus a few million.
Cast a dream.
I’d like to propose that the Visayas get a head start on federalism and aggressively chart their own course. Visayan leaders can do this today if they can ‘break the mold’ of small-minded self-gratification in favor of building something special.
The Visayas way too often get dragged around by Manila and bogged down by Mindanao. Forget that. Let the Arroyo, Marcos, Estrada, and other decrepit, stuffed shirt, corrupt autocrats fight it out in Luzon. Let the Duterte family take over Mindanao and run it like their personal realm, kings and queens of no redeeming quality whatsoever that I can discern. Let their worshipers have their dreamland in the south where they can admire their idol unimpeded by those of moral, civil, democratic, and capitalistic inclination.
I tend to think the only FAST way Filipinos can get good governance is to import some corporate-style leaders from abroad, employing foreigners as business advisers to seat good ethical principles and ways of working across the Visayas. I mean, modernize the place, not just in physical concrete infrastructure, but in terms of how people think and act. That can happen best if there is a full-force adoption of modern business ethics applied to government.
The Visayas region can thrive as a Playground in the Pacific for the traveling set, or the adventuring set, or as a retirement wonderland for well-to-do elderlies from around the globe. It is rich with beaches, mountains, seas, scenery, resorts, malls, underground rivers, exotic species, and one-of-a-kind adventures.
Only four regional governments have to agree that the current way of doing business is not working for them, and set out to create something special, a business union of the Southwestern Tagalog Region (Mindoro to Palawan), Western Visayas, Central Visayas, and Eastern Visayas. Business means the disciplines, values, and work done to be productive, efficient, and prosperous.
Here’s how they might go about it:
Form a New Visayas Governing Board (with outside advisers) to develop an overall business plan that assures self-contained prosperity under an agreed set of by-laws that integrate the efforts of the four regions.
Form an Executive Board that manages day to day affairs within the regions, chaired by a CEO and having representatives from each of the four geographic regions and the following functions: economics, technology, education and employment (joined), finance, and infrastructure.
Put together long-term plans that can outlive politicians who might otherwise want to muck with it for personal gain. Have an overall plan and subordinate plans for: (1) the economy (trade, manufacturing, etc), (2) education and employment, (3) technology, (4) finance, and (5) infrastructure.
Establish a firm bond with the United States to assure independence from China and other encroaching forces; build strong relationships with Japan, Australia, Viet Nam, Singapore, and South Korea.
Import and apply technology and expertise from the US and advanced Asian nations to provide efficient operations across all disciplines.
Market the region. Create a ‘New Hawaii’ tropical adventure land, cool for its style, attractions, and price. Sell it globally.
I dream of a group of progressive regional governments managed by highly talented team of technocrats obsessively committed to developing a wholesome, prosperous, modern, law-abiding sub-state. Yes, it will have banana republics to the north and south, and a Chinese octopus to the west, but it will for sure have friends (and markets) in Singapore, Japan, Korea, Viet Nam, Singapore, Australia, the United States and elsewhere.
There is absolutely nothing stopping the Visayas from leaving corruption and backwardness behind in favor of prosperity and modern living.
The only barrier is lack of imagination and commitment.
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That is a nice out-of-the-box thinking, Joe.
Interestingly, it is doing a salvageable job of part of the box which is the Philippines — hoping to re-invent the region; thereby making it a pearl in the box. Exciting idea!
Thanks. The box is rather tiresome these days. 🙂
Synchronicity, as edgar will put it. 🙂
Just so happens I’m reading book on sale from Barnes & Noble, HOW THE STATES GOT THEIR SHAPES. The book chronicles the timeline from 1700s (England & Spain), 1754 (French-Indian War, a.k.a. Northwest Territory) thru 1803 (Louisiana Purchase). What you’re suggestng regarding the Visayas is how California came to be. The entry for California says: “California created itself …” It did so with gold, people, a huge territory and a need for governance. (My interpretation of text).
Ahh, good point, sonny. “It’s the economy, sports fans!”
… and there is more, Joe. Cebu, Panay, Negros, Bohol, Samar and Leyte are 1.5 bigger than Taiwan; Visayas population is 15 million to Taiwan’s 23 million. 🙂
Nice additional ingredient. GO GO GO Visayas.
My info says the Visayas, including the far west, is 23 million. Good to know the comparison, which confirms there is critical mass.
Good idea. It may not be that simple in practice as Manila (and Beijing) might fight it. Really fight.
Yet quitting an empty husk of a state (the Philippines) which mangled its own Constitution (May 11) and whose President openly declared he is under Chinese protection (May 15) is hardly treason.
Selling it as the right kind of Federalism (economically progressive and bottom up), putting the capital of the Federation in Mactan (echoes of Lapu-Lapu) and being open to states that follow similar principles – but in practice, not just on paper – might work. The rest depends on the leaders.
I think that gets to an important point. It would be an economics union to get the most out of the separated provinces, not a nationalistic union.
A new kind of beast, not a state or a federation of states?
Just do business, still recognize Manila on paper but ignore it in practice?
Well, the question is how to get from A to B. Revolt won’t work. But a business agreement can minimize outside interference. I’m thinking on the fly here . . .
Adding Bicol to the mix might make sense as it has two Pacific ports – Naga and Legazpi.
There is a distinct possibility of a new cold war with a divided Philippines – but maybe better than having the entire Philippines in the Chinese area of control – up to the Benham Rise!
I agree. My observation: a small community or village seem conducive to working well with democratic-economic principles compared with a large one which uses concepts such as faux nationalism and machismo to hold the group together for a time. The small village is also conducive to bringing out good leaders [ref, Irineo’s post].
I dont know, but somewhere i heard that the ‘Imperial Manila’ contributes like 70% of the entire government current revenue. Meaning, less budget for other provinces if they are to separate.
According to 2016 statistics, it’s:
o Luzon – 72%
o Visayas – 13%
o Mindanao – 15%
The Visayas has the smallest contribution, but not by much.
Nationwide companies with HQ in Manila pay their taxes there – the big mall owners..
Germany regulates that differently – the tax paid by chain stores is credited to all places where they have a branch based on number of employees per branch, and distributed.
I wonder, for example, where Mövenpick Boracay pays it taxes. Mövenpick is a major Swiss hotel and restaurant chain. Might also be in a Manila head office even if it (used to) make its money on Boracay. Though they will survive, as they have the capital and legal muscle.
Thanks, edgar. That puts the base in solid, realistic terms. Pursuing my post [@ May 16, 2018 at 9:23 am], a LKY type can emerge and bring that small percentage to heights even LKY can only dream of when he started. But I have to admit that there are barriers, not the least is Chinese-influenced barrier as already expressed by Irineo. But I can dream, can’t I? (Disclosure: I am a Visayan.)
“VISAYANS UNITE!!!”
Cebu is a dynamic and significant city. The economy would be centered there. Much of the national budget goes to military and Manila, and is irrelevant to the Visayas. The region would be fine.
So is Iloilo. They have done a lot in renovating their monuments and cleaning their river. Small wonder that Duterte hates them and harrassed their mayor.
Like NHerrera noted, small communities can be more effective. The subsidiarity principle in the EU is about handling matters at the lowest level possible. Boracay style interventions don’t happen over here, that kind of approach is downright Stalinistic, maybe Putin-style.
Rule 1. “Ignore the bastards!” . . . to the north and south.
Zen says:
Not a bad dream at all but I say that for now, we’re all down to the doldrums and melancholia with every outrageous thing happening in our country – not so peaceful barangay election, two clowns on a jet ski, leveling of forested mountain in Boracay, Marawi to be rehabbed by IMF blacklisted companies, and even the mere statement of Duterte’s grandson that he would like his Auntie Sara to become the country’s next President makes me sick.
Yes, and if it makes Visayan governors sick, they should build an alternative reality.
Addie Cuizon says:
With the right, forward-thinking leaders, this could be a workable idea. Since there is no legal framework yet for such a de-facto “federal state” of the Visayas, this could be done only if the local governments take the initiative to band among themselves on the basis of shared geographical and cultural interests and use these shared interests to propel the economic agenda. The Visayan “subculture” that Abella talked about could come into play. The intent should be not so much to create a Visayan fiefdom and divide it from the rest of the country, but merely to exploit the fact that Visayans are able to agree and cooperate with each other better in order to promote their common interests.
However, this “federal state” could only do so much. The thing is, laws are still crafted by Congress and the Senate dominated by Duterte allies. The interpretation of laws and the exercise of judicial powers still ultimately rests in the same SC that handed down the Sereno ruling. The implementation of the laws and the administration of government will still be in the hands of the Chief Executive who has shown a disdain, if not disregard, for those very same laws. All of these entities are in Manila. So it doesn’t seem like the heartaches and frustrations that we’ve had in the last two years will end soon. In the words of Justice Caguioa, we will be called upon to grin and bear the unbearable. Like it or not, the fate of the Visayans will be inextricably tied to the Manilenos.
But your idea has merit in that the Visayans could lead the way to a transformation in the way that we think and the way that we do things in this country. One is direly needed. Because judging by how things are going right now, we seem to be headed down the path of perdition. Sadly, the public seems to be in a state of malaise. We need to do more and be more if we are still hoping to leave a better future for our children.
Thank you for your concern for a country that is not your motherland, Joe Am. Keep up the good work.
Wonderful assessment, Addie. Thank you for being engaged, too.
David C. Martinez says:
A badly fabricated country inhabited by people with a fictive national identity led by a popular mass murderer. We’re a failed state that remains in denial.
It is a tad quirky.
To add realism to our discussion — a spoiler so early in the commentaries — is this article which treats a subject that is far from being new; but the specifics add to our information. It is titled, “China using ‘debtbook diplomacy’ to spread its strategic aims in Asia Pacific.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/15/asia/china-us-australia-debt-diplomacy-intl/index.html
Right, and Duterte is in favor of such debt.
Themistocles Padla says:
Two possible flies in the ointment. 1) Western and Central Visayas are likely interested parties. I am not sure Eastern Visayas would be interested. I thought all along that it is Duterte territory (Joe, I have the impression that you are there. Perhaps, you can sense the mood). 2) Who would lead such an undertaking?
MY CONTRYMEN I SPEAK TO TODAY AS THE TRUE LEGITIMATE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES BY OPERATION OF LAW ON JULY 1 (1916 ) I TALK MY OATH AS PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES BASED ON THE FACT THAT AT THE TIME THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT IS VACANT.
The east is pro-Duterte. It’s up to them whether or not they see a better way than their current impoverished existence. Leadership would have to emerge from the four regions, I think. Maybe some progressive provincial governors.
Logical to surgically remove the good parts from cancerous surroundings.
Left to be seen to what extent federal laws will constraint the independence of states to negotiate with foreign entities.
A prosperous Visayas will fall victim to a great irony. First, the Federal capital will impose unjust tax laws to scoop off some of the richest of the state to national coffers. Second, millions of DDS from the south and Dut supporters of closed down call centers will migrate to Visayas for the new opportunities. When gunks gather, diamonds cannot sparkle.
I tend to think the other two areas, seeing a progressive Visayas, would have no patience for their crappy leaders and go progressive, too.
The interesting odyssey of Malaysia’s Najib Razak, Mahathir Mohamad and Anwar Ibrahim suggests bright political prospects for the country, depending on the last leg of Mahathir’s political participation and Anwar’s taking over.
My point: it looks better than the prospects of the Philippines. (I do not have the profiles but, I believe, both Mahathir and Anwar do not lack genuine love of country.)
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/15/asia/anwar-ibrahim-pardon-mahathir-intl/index.html
I wonder what President Duterte’s passions are? What he lives for? To dominate? Wealth? Aimless marauding? What happened to his sense of nation, his love of country and his peoples? Why does he have so many enemies, in his mind?
1. It’s odd.
1.1. On one hand, we denounce Duterte’s Federalism because it will fragment the country into dynastic fiefdoms.
1.2. On the other hand, we advocate a Visayas State to create a fragment independent of and independent from an autocratic Luzon.
1.3. In the first, we resist an outward dispersion and, in the second, we promote it.
2. Of the three island congregations, Visayas is the most scattered. If one includes Masbate and Palawan as part of Western Visayas, the jigsaw gets more complicated. Masbate is part of the Bicol region but has a strong affiliation with the Visayas from “a geographical and sociolinguistic perspective.”
3. The population breakdown per 2015 Census:
Source: https://www.rappler.com/nation/134240-philippines-census-population-2015-psa
o Western Visayas (Region VI) – 4,477,247
o Eastern Visayas (Region VIII) – 4,440,150
o Central Visayas (Region VII) – 6,041,903*
o Palawan (part of MIMAROPA) – 886,308*
o Total – 15,845,608
* From other sources
3.1. The population is 14% of the entire country. A little higher than its economic contribution of 13%.
4. The Visayas is a babel of tongues. The major dialects are as follows (the first named is the lingua franca):
o Western Visayas – Hiligaynon, Cebuano, Capiznon, Aklanon, Kinaray-a, Malaynon, Caluyanon
o Eastern Visayas – Waray-Waray, Cebuano, Baybayanon, Abaknon, Boholano, Kinabalian
o Central Visayas – Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Bantayanon, Boholano, Porohanon
o Palawan – Tagalog, Cuyonon, Palawanon
5. The Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP) breakdown (in Php B) is:
o Western Visayas – 597 (32%)
o Eastern Visayas – 312 (17%)
o Central Visayas – 967 (51%)
Total – 1,876 (100%)
5.1. The economic sector breakdown is:
o Agriculture – 238 (13%)
o Industry – 627 (33%)
o Services – 1,012 (54%)
5.2. In all three groups, the Agriculture sector lags behind. The Services sector dominates, accounting for more than 55% of the total. The exception is Eastern Visayas where the Industry sector (42.1%) is slightly higher than the Services sector (40.3%).
6. It is likely that, due to the wide dispersal of the islands, dynastic fiefdoms will be created — if they do not reign now.
6.1. As Joe Am notes, the most likely capital would be Cebu. Central Visayas has the highest GRDP. But I hear good things about Iloilo and Roxas City on the island of Panay. Boracay is an exclamation point at the northwestern tip of Panay.
The proposal does not propose a fragmentation, it proposes a UNION that simply leaves the dynasties behind in favor of riches earned through earnest work and smart thinking. The fiefdoms exist now, so nothing will be created except opportunity for those who like to work hard and smart. It is good that Iloilo and Roxas City are on the right path. The more the merrier.
While thinking hypotheticals, consider that:
1. Luzon and Mindanao do not exist and the Island Groupings (Western, Central, Eastern) of Visayas have statistics as cited by edgar.
2. The population distribution is reasonably even, with CV higher at 6 million compared to the other two at 4.5 million each [and CV correspondingly higher GDP among the three groups] for a total Visayan GDP of about 13 percent of PH — rather sizeable for a total Visayan population of 16 million.
3. The Gross Regional Product — for WV, CV and EV of 32%, 51%, and 17%, respectively — are not so disparate [see my note below *]
4. The Babel of Tongues is not quite so babel. Hiligaynons, Cebuanos, Capiznons, Aklanons, Kinaray-as, among others, can reasonably understand each other and can hasten their understanding under a union envisioned in the blog article.
So the concept of the union is reasonably helped by the above cited information.
* Addendum: If one takes at random five sets A, B, … , E of three random numbers, we get in one set of calculations (using Microsoft Excel’s random number generator) the following:
A 0.18 0.78 0.03
B 0.20 0.85 0.50
C 0.12 0.58 0.45
D 0.55 0.63 0.50
E 0.76 0.20 0.38
So except for Set D the disparate GDP of the 3 Visayas Groupings are not quite disparate based on random numbers which we know averages 0.50
Ah, reads like a statistical endorsement to me! I love the table which makes a point far beyond the reach of trolls and presidents.
One of the silver linings of federalism is that it may open another path towards reform in the Philippines.
I don’t have hard evidence but I have a hunch (an educated guess) that the problem with attempts to reform the Philippines, especially at the local level—is likely because the changes/reforms don’t stick after the “reformer” leaves office. And I don’t know much about local governance, but local ordinances and legislation are easy to overturn?
The unitary nature of the Philippines means everyone’s focused on getting the guy who’ll hit the piñata (electing their manok for President) and their cut of the “candy” from the piñata. The President is boss. Metro Manila is what everyone focuses their eyes towards.
I think that big national-level reform, for such a fractious nation-state like the Philippines, is a bit hard. Sorta like Sisyphus pushing a rock upwards—over and over again.
Maybe, another way is to make local reforms in promising regions and cities stick. Ensure that no matter who’s in Malacañan—these initiatives will continue, and can be furthered. Maybe, that way, the excelling states can “pull up” the struggling ones by showing the citizenry of the latter that there is an alternative.
It may also be a good way for reformists to be not just idealistic—but also attuned to the nitty-gritty of governance, and to get much-needed practice with how to balance being pratical administrators while at the same time not getting swallowed up by the system.
I think of the campaign to Legalize Gay Marriage in the US—how that started with the states, and swelled up enough for the SC of the US to take note, and affirm it. I also think of how Romney put up “Romneycare” in Massachusets, which Obama scaled-up on the national level in the form of the ACA. By making the Philippines federal—perhaps we can jumpstart local innovation? Or at least highlight it more?
That last paragraph is a humdinger, for indeed the states in the US are more progressive in many respects than the nation. There is more problem-solving going on there. I think federal could be good if it bridged between unity and tribalism and got states focused and competing. But I don’t trust President Duterte to do anything to generate earnest solutions to poverty or incompetence. His motives are entirely wrong for federalism.
Federalism usually exists in places where there was a transition from tribal to national.
Classic example: Switzerland. Founded in 1292 by three valleys that formed an alliance – carried by independent farmers – against looters and oppressive lords from the lowlands.
A non-federalist example would be Holland, which is not truly federal, but has the so-called polder model of localities taking care of their own business. Originated in water boards that regulated how water was to be used and kept clean and how dams were to be maintained.
The main idea is that of subsidiarity – take responsibility down to the most local level. People then discuss what is important to them, not abstract national ideas. Where do we need to fix the roads? What must we do to clean our rivers? When is the curfew for noise, for minors?
At the next level, communities discuss their common needs. If they are sharing a coast they might want to discuss how to avoid dumping smelly stuff that will mutually bother them. If they are on an island they might want to discuss water supply, electricity and Internet.
Federalism without democracy is nonsense. The Holy Roman Empire had that for a long time. In some places you (Thuringia) you had the classic castle on a a hill, village below. Obviously the lords ruled over people. Not much freedom in such places – or progress.
Then you had larger cities near rivers, either capitals of dukedoms or kingdoms (Munich and Berlin) or independent (Cologne under its archbishop) or Imperial cities, under the direct protection of the Empire, with a charter and self-government (Hamburg and Frankfurt).
Free Imperial Cities were the Empire’s way of countering too strong Kings and Dukes who were always rivals for power. I think a good share of their taxes went to the Emperor. So a central state can take the role of protector of weak citizenry against strong local warlords.
Later on, more developed cities – especially Frankfurt and Hamburg – had their gentry. Meaning the business elite that had gotten rich through money, not noble/warlord positions. Usually German noblemen who ruled over dukedoms/kingdoms and capitals had their secure earnings. The Dukes/Kings of Bavaria for example levied duties for all goods passing over certain bridges they controlled. The business elites of Hamburg and Frankfurt were used to earning their money the modern, liberal/capitalist way, not by rent-seeking.
The nice thing about places like Cebu and Iloilo is that the elite families there (Drilon, Osmena) are more business elites than warlord/extortionist elites – their interest is in everything that brings more business, more jobs, more opportunities – they think win/win.
What I have seen over here in Germany and Europe is that the elites of other places that used to think more in a rent-seeking way tend to try to emulate the successes of the more profit-/progress-seeking places, even if their origins were as cronies of rent-seeking groups.
How to make our trapos do that—
—is one of the pressing questions of our nation, I strongly believe.
lots of factors involved there.. I think the consistent push to industrialize and modernize turned former rent-seeking groups into eager entrepreneurs and stockholders, eventually.
So it is just pragmatically rechanneling greed and ambition into something more civilized.
When I read about Edgar and Unc Sonny’s recollection of SS President Wilson I dreamed that the trans pacific would be revived, if before it orginated from Manila which will have to navigate WPS, whit this trans-pacific you just go east to reach Coast.
With the likes of that cruise ship more possible in my version of this dream no need for connecting bridges to Bicol and Surigao.
There would be no need for long bridges that might lead to nowhere.
Passage by ship is slow and leisurely.
It takes — what? — 17 hours to get from Manila to San Francisco? So less than a day.
I recall it took 20 days to sail from Hawaii to Manila. Frisco to Manila would take a month?
One of the nice, if paradoxical, things I remember was going back in time. From Friday we went back to Thursday as we crossed the International Date Line. We gained a day.
I was recently in Manila and there was a huge cruise ship parked at the dock on the Bay. Those babies should be sailing through the Visayas, for sure. Boracay is big only because it got an international reputation. There are beaches everywhere. Most are scruffy. Some are special.
It bears noting that passage by ship from Manila to the San Francisco Bay area used to take three to six months. To make the crossing, the primary passage was through Visayan seas mainly by Samar and Leyte. Passengers rode on the then largest ships in the world. The vessels were made in the Philippines though captained by Europeans. These were the mighty galleons that plied the oceans to go to bring people and precious cargo from Acapulco to Manila and back to Monterey, California. The journey required going through mud-archipelago before catching the tradewinds going westwards and eastwards across the Pacific which was why Magellan made landfall in the Visayas and not in Luzon. Something in Philippine and Visayan history worth keeping in mind since we are discussing lical geopollitics.
The goal of the Visayas should be to return to the days of yore when seas were life and the Philippines was prominent.
🙂 (Begging everyone’s indulgence for the length of this comment, this was my recollection of my trans-Pacific crossing; written 9 years ago)
“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?”
— Robert Browning
The momentous year, towards the unknown
Up ‘til then, my life of 25 years and the physical world were totally contained within the confines of Luzon (Manila, the Ilocos region, southern Tagalog provinces, Benguet Province). Then it happened. The US Embassy mailed me my 2nd preference immigrant visa and I had only a few weeks to get my travel belongings together. Just like that, I resigned my teaching position, packed my clothes and collected the padalas & bilins, the total weight limit aboard ship was 350 pounds. Next I found myself at a North Harbor pier saying goodbye to everything and everybody Philippine; after the ticker tape send-off it was all aboard on SS President Wilson (steerage); destination – San Francisco, USA.
*April thru May, 1969, in transit somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. 19 days of sailing at 20 knots in a northeasterly direction.
Short of being an astronaut or a mariner, crossing the Pacific on an ocean liner must be the best way to truly know the meaning of the word immense. The voyage started from the pier just within sight of Manila Hotel. The ship threaded its way along the western waters of Southern Luzon. After exiting San Bernardino Strait just south of Sorsogon, the color of the ocean changes to dark blue, almost black! I didn’t realize at the time that we were sailing atop the second deepest part of the Pacific Ocean, the Philippine Deep (more than seven miles deep)! And to behold the heavens lit up by multitudes of stars at night was literally a heavenly sight! Because of this voyage, I said nothing will top this experience and I thought this would last me a lifetime. (So it was until 41 years later when I took my second boat ride to Alaska through a segment of the Northwest Passage.)
After 14 days and nights at sea, with stops at Guam in the Marianas and Wake Island, the first 30 minutes walking on the Honolulu pier felt like the ground under my feet was rocking. This must be what they meant by the expression “landlubbers’ legs.” With some travel mates, we toured Oahu listening to an Ilocano radio station! I was able to visit my college friend at the East-West Center, University of Hawaii. The final leg was a 5-day sailing to the US mainland.
The approach to the California coastline was a misty-veiled sight with the crispy, cold morning air accented by a flock of seagulls flying alongside our ship and escorted by a pod of dolphins keeping pace portside, along the water below. At the distance was a bright, orange colored, toy-sized structure seemingly connected to strings of dollhouses lined up and stacked on the hillsides of the Bay Area. My first view of that glorious-looking structure known as the Golden Gate Bridge was its underbelly. I have never seen such a marvelous-looking man-made structure in my life. We seemed to glide as our ship slipped into San Francisco Bay surrounded on either side by high mountain sides of Marin county. As if this was not enough, later in the day we drove through the Oakland Bay Bridge … huge, huge, huge were the only words in my mind! (considering that the longest and biggest bridge I’ve seen in my life was the one at Urdaneta, Pangasinan). My mouth was agape as I watched black and white giants (compared to my puny 120 pound frame) of longshoremen unload our cargo from ship to wharf. All said and done, I logged some 8,000 nautical miles between Luneta and Wharf 49, San Francisco, CA.
Thus I entered the US and claimed that “select membership” among Filipinos, literally: “FOBs (fresh off the boat).” I also had my B.S. (Bagong Salta) status.
My first sight of a California Sunkist navel orange was one the size of our suha; also tasted my first US-grown strawberry (the size of a large Philippine tomato). Size is what I consider my particular experience of culture shock.
My first sensation of “high speed” was at 100 kph, riding our brand-new ’67 VW Beetle on the brand new North Diversion Road. My second speed trip was aboard a Western Airlines plane lifting from San Francisco International, cruising 35,000 feet above the ground at 550 mph in the direction of Minneapolis-St Paul, a distance of some 2,000 miles, the distance from Aparri to Davao and back. As we climbed above the Bay Area, the cloud banks and formations were such spectacular displays of Nature. This awesome visual play of Mother Nature up in the clouds will be repeated in all varieties of shapes during my other take-offs and landings in later years. And then on that fresh Spring day in May, our airplane’s landing approach to the lake-peppered (10,000 of them) land of Longfellow’s Hiawatha, Minnesota was an intriguing sight as one sees the many lakes of the twin cities of Minneapolis-St Paul like so many little puddles. This Nordic land was to be my American home for the next five years.
(Thank you)
My, my, my. Poetry within prose that conjures up the feeling of being there myself. So many memories drawn from the catacombs of my mind. Vivid as an orange. Thank YOU, sonny.
Wow. I guess the times of jetliners over the Pacific were yet to come with increased range and fuel efficiency. I do NOT remember the first trip I took from Europe to the Philippines – meaning the very first in late 1968 as a three year old boy from Berlin with my parents..
But I do remember later trips with a lot of stopovers With PAL to Frankfurt via Bangkok, Karachi and Rome. Lots of refueling still needed. Later flights via Dubai, had to leave the plane but the duty free in Dubai was full of Filipinas working there and fully sorted.
Slow trips were those to Bicol with the train when my grandfather died in 1978 and there were not busses or plane trips available due to a Mayon eruption. The lava covered the tracks between Camalig and Legazpi so we had to get out at Camalig and take jeepney.
Propeller plane back, started directly towards the volcano and flew over the still erupting crater. I don’t know if that would still be allowed now. The view of the lava was like wow. Didn’t feel dangerous then but I was a teenager. Nothing feels dangerous at that age.
The propeller planes I took to Bern, Zürich and The Hague from Munich for some meetings decades later were bigger and sturdier, yet still they felt like private planes with only four seats per row and maybe 30 rows max. Canadair jets on regional flights were hardly larger.
The nice thing about the relatively low altitude propeller flights was having more detailed view of the Alps and Lake Constance along the way, for example. The commercial jets all fly so high that one does not see much. Though Mideast oil fields at night are fascinating.
Train trips, the European staple. The long haul to Italy, when Munich for me still had the air of a fascinating place, totally different in flair from the parts of Germany I knew. The old route to Frankfurt along the Rhine with its castles, now supplanted by a high-speed route.
The high speed trains are fascinating in the beginning – and they do compete with flying in terms of door to door time by now. 300 km per hour flying over bridges and through tunnels, sometimes beside Autobahns with much slower cars even those Mercs with 200 km/h plus.
Yet the old mode of travel, making stops in different cities, getting a feel of their uniqueness, looking out of the window and seeing the places one passes, is nearly gone. Anti-noise walls keep the places one passes out of sight often on the high-speed train lines.
True, travel has brought people together, especially in very varied Europe. But somehow it has also homogenized people. But that is of course also something caused by commerce, fashion and modern communication. Movies, cable TV, Internet, smartphones, socmed..
Very few Germans, nearly no Italians and even less Spaniards spoke English before 1990. Now practically every German below 30, even working-class ones, speaks some English. Italians now get by and even the Spanish somehow manage, but better speak their tongue.
The Dutch and the Nordic people were forerunners in speaking English mainly because they did not sync their movies, they subtitled them. With the Dutch, add the pragmatism of a trading people. Add to all of this the migrant and refugee flows of over 50 years now..
The only ocean ship I ever went on was the ferry from Germany to Denmark. Germany has a bridge to Fehmarn island, but at the end of it you drive your car into a ferry boat. Two hours is my memory of crossing, then a further drive across the Danish isles, all bridged.
A somewhat more intense feel than even a propeller plane is a helicopter. Only twice – from Copenhagen airport to Helsingborg in Sweden on the other side of the Oresund. Part of the trip to that small city, from a commercial jet plane to a 6 seater than just rose into the air.
What I have never done is to jetski. I did observe some jetskis doing their rounds on Majorca last summer. And I did get on a catamaran as well. A bit scary in the beginning, hopping over the waves. One does get more of a feel of the waves than on a boat, which is slow.
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I second emotion. Highly evocative, somewhat like Filipino migrant novels or short stories. Just like Joe, I remembered a lot of trips I have made. The feel of time and distance. The ground we have all covered, each of us in his or her own way.
In your case, it was not Paoay to Hawaii, it was Hawaii to Paoay. Sonny retraced the ways of Ilocano migration, you went back.
Nice,uncle Sonny!
Sonny, may I ask why you choose to migrate in 1969 when Philippines was still the Pearl of the Orient?
There was little compelling push-out reason to emigrate in 1969. The sobriquet of Manila as Pearl of the Orient was no longer a strong descriptive word for the city. When the 1971 Plaza Miranda incident happened I was already a new addition to the American immigrant scene. What I could identify with was the so-called “brain drain” to the US; net reason for leaving was a parental assessment of a better prospect for a socio-economic future. I had, like thousands of Filipinos, the educational ticket for the US Cold War and the Space Race. Those who eventually returned were in the minority, IMO.
May I enjoin the tales of trips, somewhat closer to the blog leanings.
My very first visit to Philippines was in Cory’s time. I came to see if I could have someone fabricate some cane furniture for a project I was working on. Took some time off to travel by bus to Apaari. Twice during the journey somewhere out in the province, during the nights, the bus was stopped by soldiers who boarded for a cursory check. What I noticed was when the bus was slowing down and approaching the soldiers, everyone in the bus seemed afraid. Strange I thought, as to why civilians should be afraid of their own soldiers. I was naive then. Wonder if civilians in Boracay who watched those soldiers and policemen going through their anti-terrorist drills feel the same kind of fear.
That reminded me of my trip to Sri Lanka a couple of years before. It was somewhat similar. At army checkpoints, civilians in the bus appeared afraid. (There was a civil war going on in the Northern part of the country). I personally saw soldiers collecting cash from my taxi driver. Perennial problems of 3rd world countries.
Grace Sapuay says:
Because just like Duterte’s drug war where they invent planting evidences like sachets of shabu, these remnants of Marcos’ military will invent anything so they cpukd get promoted. One look at you and tgen they decide to take you along, force you ro admit being an NPA by torturing you until you die if you don’t admit, put armalites and ammunitions beside your cadaver, take photos before burying you in a shallow grave. I know.
@ Joe, edgar, Irineo, Karl, chempo
Thank you much for the listen; event important in its time & places; sharing – priceless. 🙂
Cheers, sonny.
Ah, bridges to nowhere. Yes, that is what some of those in the pipeline are likely to be.
OT, I just saw his photo, and I’m betting one thinks the other is a whack-nut moron.
Or one thinks he can play the guy walking alongside him like a fiddle.
Haha, yes, that, too! 🙂
Duterte: Next Ombudsman should have integrity and not be a woman
Read more: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/991530/duterte-next-ombudsman-should-have-integrity-and-not-be-a-woman#ixzz5FhnhmCq7
1. The next president should have integrity and not be a man.
2. De Castro should resign forthwith from the Supreme Court.
3. All women appointees of Duterte should resign in protest.
4. All women should boycott Duterte’s life and deprive him of love, care, and vagina.
Please, at least let him have Kat de Castro
His chronic fear of strong women. Except maybe for Uson.
DEFEATIST!
Duterte: I can declare war on China tonight, pero sino ang magpunta? Sundalo ko? Pulis ko? Mamatay lahat yan? Why would I go into a battle I would not win?
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What a nice dream, but then, Joe, you must have woken up sweating and screaming, realizing that Visayas displays exactly the mentality you started with. As you said in the beginning: Hopeless. So, why would Visayas suddenly display a complete change in mentality and have the courage to fight and become independent (in whatever form). Not only would Manila never accept it and call the renegade province “terrorists”, there are in Visayas a similar amount of Duterte supporters, certainly not an ingrained independent Visayan spirit needed to win a nasty fight like the Vietnamese facing the French initially.
I pity on the shock you must have felt when you woke up from your dream and realized you better start learning Chinese P.D.Q. This country has never displayed independent thinking nor acting and in spite of the many (individual) hero’s it produced in the fights against Spain, America, Japan and it’s dictators, there never has been a collective spirit capable of deterring and conquering a strong oppressive force. Keep on dreaming, I often do, but then, my partner pulls me down to earth again and makes me realize that “This Is Philippines”.
“This country has never displayed independent thinking nor acting and in spite of the many (individual) hero’s it produced in the fights against Spain, America, Japan and it’s dictators, there never has been a collective spirit capable of deterring and conquering a strong oppressive force.”
http://filipinogerman.blogsport.eu/the-philippines-has-never-stood-on-its-own-feet
Only few admire those who stand up to power like Trillanes. Would Filipinos cheer Tell or Gessler? Yes, Landvogt (bailiff) Gessler as opposed to heroic Wilhelm Tell of Swiss revolutionary legend. Sure, Filipinos have their heroes and are proud of them. But how much solidarity do their heroes get while alive? My impression, more and more, is that Filipinos prefer their heroes DEAD.
Because living heroes remind them of their mostly deficient characters? Put heroes in cement and put them in Rizal Park instead of sinking them in Manila Bay, but still letting the next scoundrels rule the country as always, while the majority, as Rizal already noted in the Fili “feel privately ashamed, hearing the growl of their rebelling and protesting conscience, while in public they keep silent and even join the oppressor in mocking the oppressed.. wrapping themselves up in their selfishness and praising with forced smiles the most despicable acts, begging with their eyes for a share of the booty”. Collaboration with a new empire in 1571. Revolution against a fading empire in 1896, as one of the LAST remaining colonies. Quick collaboration with the USA, then Japan, then USA again. What Filipino pride? Pride chicken. Fuck the EU, Mr. Duterte? Bend over for China.
Wrote the article on January 21, and Duterte’s submissiveness has become even clearer. The Filipino mentality is mostly “you go first” and if you succeed they join the bandwagon. Fail and they usually deride you, die and they put cement on you and make you a statue. Certainly I am being a bit polemic, but even the esteemed writer-colleague Will Villanueva makes a similar point in a somewhat more cautioning, nicer sort of way:
https://joeam.com/2015/10/04/heneral-luna-the-other-side-of-aldub/
My advice for those who want to lead: accept the leadership role but pull out when you have made your point. You will not win, not in the Philippines. Pull out for your own sake because the system will damage you unless you want an early death of body and principle, but leave an indelible mark, a message, that righteousness is possible, the law can be enforced, wisdom will be king, but the people have to lend support. For now, that is the message I can impart.
I am after all a family man, on watch for my own family. At bottom, my kids know what is right from wrong, so when they enter other societies where law trumps whatever culture is on the ground, they know what to do.
In a way, you are of the view it is too damaged for rehabilitation. Well, those here can ask, how will it ever change if we do not work on a new enlightenment? Or they can give up, subsist, or leave. I think there are rewards for trying, that can’t be had in any other way.
Okay, Pablo, you do your defeatist way and I will look for ways out of the box.
You are obviously not cheering Philippines latest heroes.
As Baste and Bong Co rode the jetskis, hand punching their enemies in arm to arm combat, and waving the countrys flag, Filipios cheered wildly their new heroes. Their enemies thousands of miles away to the East watched with chills down their backs, no doubt peeing in their pants at the sight of the mighty naval forces putting up a show of immense strength. No doubt the Prex regretted not being there. He should be the one in the limelight. That would make the US freeze, even to all those living in sunny California.
It wont be long before Baste and Bong Co be revelled in a victory parade down Edsa.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world are head scratching and wondering what that was all about.
They could have done it in Subic bay for 1800 peso 30 minutes jet ski ride……?
Too much cynicism and negativity in one thread is discouraging to those seeking strength or ideas in the face of adversity.
Palawan and Romblon are not part of the Visayas. They are part of Luzon. That’s why we have MIMAROPA (Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon, Palawan) which are part of Region 4-B of Luzon island
They are surrounded by seas, not a part of Luzon, really.
Making MIMAROPA part of the new Visayas when they are not Visayan at all doesn’t seem to be a good idea. They are Tagalog people and they have Tagalog culture and speak Tagalog. So why make a New Visayas? Ethnic tribes align themselves by virtue of their language and culture.
Okay. How do you propose getting a sound economy going for the smaller islands?
i LIKE THE IDEA OF FEDERALISM AMONG THE 4 REGIONS. THE DISCUSSIONS THAT FOLLOWED WERE SOUND SEEMINGLY WORKABLE IDEAS. SO I THOUGHT THERE IS AFTER ALL HOPE FOR OUR COUNTRY (WHICH IS ALSO THAT OF JOE’S WIFE AND SON) – HOWEVER TOWARDS THE END OF THE DISCUSSIONS, THE SAD STATE OF THE PINOY MIND, STARTED TO APPEAR. – Too much cynicism and negativity in one thread is discouraging to those seeking strength or ideas in the face of adversity. I strongly suggest that we all continue the discussions – for and against – without trying to insult anyone for trying. AND LET US THANK A FOREIGNER FOR CARING FOR US.
Thanks for the balancing remark, Tancio.
DEMOCRACY or FEDERALISM
Is this system of government called democracy, invented by the Greeks before Christ was born, and given currency in the Western world by a bourgeoisie educated in the classics, of any relevance to an underdeveloped Asian nation under the shadow of Communist China, a shadow that lengthens over our region as the shadow of the United States recedes? Or should we embrace Federalism? That is what we must now ask ourselves.
Even prescinding from power politics, we are internally confronted by a dilemma – that between rapid, planned development and popular government. Rapid, planned development calls for a highly centralized authority with the brains to formulate a single strategic plan and the power to execute it. The trouble with such regimes is that they are invariably managed by cold-blooded technocrats and enforced by equally cold-blooded men in military uniforms – with the result that civil rights like the freedom of speech and human rights, like the right to life tend to sink to a very low priority in the scale of values.
In a system of popular government, obviously, these rights have a high priority. But such a system – or at least – our experience of it – does not seem to permit development that is planned, much less one that is rapid. And without rapid, planned development, what are our chances, as the world now is, for survival as a people, let alone as a nation?
But perhaps it was not popular democracy as such that failed us but our experience of it – our clumsy way of making it work. Perhaps we should dare to say of democracy what Chesterton said of Christianity; that the trouble with it is not that it failed, but that it has never been properly put to use. And if we now try to embrace Federalism, it will be worse because we have not even tried it.
Good assessment. I agree with your reservations about federalism. And the nation needs a re-commitment to the ethics presumed to accompany democracy, or it needs a benevolent dictator.
Bottom line: we need to unite under a God-fearing benevolent leader, whether as a dictator or under a president. Do we need to be prodded by a gun or do we move autonomously guided by conscience. It may be because of our tribal background scattered among 7,000 islands, speaking many more dialects. And the failure of the Catholic church through the centuries to guide Pinoy minds to think and have only one belief in the after-life?
“Bottom line: we need to unite under a God-fearing benevolent leader, whether as a dictator or under a president. …”
There is a simple injunction handed down thru God’s Church to ensure a successful life for all. It contains both the command and the measure of compliance needed for an endeavor for good: “YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND; AND YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.” Anything less makes for futility.
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Reliance JIO expected to launch a 4G LTE support device at just Rs 500
Jio is all set to rock the market again, this time it’s a mobile device. Yes, that’s true. There are firm rumors that Jio will launch a mobile phone with support of 4G LTE. The thing that will rock the market is that this device is expected to be priced at just Rs 500.
It is expected that Reliance Industries will announce this device at its Annual General Meeting which is scheduled on 21st July.
It is being said by many experts that Jio is making this move to strengthen the customer base by attracting those customers who still use a 2G mobile device. The majority of the population is using 2G devices yet and this launch will be a boost for the company as most of the 2G customers will then look forward to shifting towards the 4G network. Jio has also planned an amazing deal for the buyers of this device to make it even better.
According to the research note by HSBC published in Economic times report, a Jio 4G mobile phone will be quoted after subsidizing it by around Rs 650 and which will bring its price to as down as Rs 500.
It is being said that Jio has already placed an order for more than 18 million units to a Chinese company for this device and the shipments are expected to start in July or August.
The device is expected to be launched at the AGM and it will be in the markets in mid of August. The device is expected to have the branding of LYF.
It is also expected that Jio will give attractive plans with this device but we don’t have any confirmed data on the type of plans expected with the device.
Let’s have a look at the specifications expected in this device:
Two variants: One with QUALCOMM Processor and second with Spreadtrum
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We expect now it will induce further competition in the telecom market with this aggressive move from the company. Already Jio has damaged other companies through its aggressive priced plans starting last year.
We will cover the Annual General Meeting on 21st July and we will wait for the outcome. We will bring you the detailed information about this device when and other confirmed specifications after this event. Till then, Stay tuned with KNine Vox and don’t forget to follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
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Dems Move Aggressively to Draw Up Formal Articles of Impeachment
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats moved aggressively to draw up formal articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Thursday, with Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying he “leaves us no choice” but to act swiftly because he's likely to corrupt the system again unless removed before next year's election.
A strictly partisan effort at this point, derided immediately by Trump and other leading Republicans as a sham and a hoax, it is a politically risky undertaking. Democrats say it is their duty, in the aftermath of the Ukraine probe, while Republicans say it will drive Pelosi’s majority from office.
Congress must act, Pelosi said. “The democracy is what is at stake."
“The president's actions have seriously violated the Constitution,” she said in a somber address at the Capitol. “He is trying to corrupt, once again, the election for his own benefit. The president has engaged in abuse of power, undermining our national security and jeopardizing the integrity of our elections."
Trump has insisted he did nothing wrong. He tweeted that the Democrats “have gone crazy."
At the core of the impeachment probe is a July phone call with the president of Ukraine, in which Trump pressed the leader to investigate Democrats, including political rival Joe Biden. At the same time the White House was withholding military aid from Ukraine, an ally bordering an aggressive Russia.
Drafting articles of impeachment is a milestone moment, only the fourth time in U.S. history Congress has tried to remove a president, and it intensifies the rigid and polarizing partisanship of the Trump era that is consuming Washington and dividing the nation.
The speaker delivered her historic announcement in solemn tones at the Capitol, drawing on the Constitution and the Founding Fathers in forcefully claiming Congress' oversight of the president in the nation's system of checks and balances. Democrats are already beginning to prepare the formal charges, pushing toward House votes, possibly before Christmas.
“Sadly, but with confidence and humility, with allegiance to our founders and a heart full of love for America, today I am asking our chairmen to proceed with articles of impeachment," Pelosi said.
Seemingly eager to fight, Trump tweeted that if Democrats “are going to impeach me, do it now, fast." Though he has fought the House investigation, trying to bar current and former officials from testifying, he said he now wants to move on to a “fair trial” in the Senate.
Approval of articles of impeachment is considered likely in the Democratic-majority House. Conviction in a following trial in the Republican-dominated Senate seems very unlikely.
Once reluctant to pursue impeachment, warning it was too divisive for the country and needed to be bipartisan, Pelosi is now leading Congress into politically uncertain terrain for all sides just ahead of the election year.
Republican are standing lockstep with Trump, unswayed by arguments that his actions amount to wrongdoing, let alone impeachable offenses. That is leaving Democrats to go it alone in a campaign to consider removing the 45th president from office.
At a town hall late Thursday on CNN, Pelosi said she would have no regrets if impeachment ended up helping Trump's reelection effort. “This isn't about politics at all," she said. "It's about honoring our oath of office" — to defend the Constitution.
Pelosi has emphasized the Russia connection, from special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into 2016 election interference to the president's phone call this summer with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that set off alarms in Washington.
Russia and President Vladimir Putin benefited most from Trump's actions toward Ukraine, she said.
“All roads lead to Putin. Understand that,” she declared at a morning news conference at the Capitol. "That was the a-ha moment."
She spoke solemnly and calmly, but that changed when she was asked as she was leaving if she hates Trump.
Pelosi stiffened, returned to the podium and responded sharply that the president's views and politics are for the voters to judge at elections but impeachment “is about the Constitution.” She said that as a Catholic, she does not hate the president but rather is praying for him daily.
Trump quickly tweeted back that he didn't believe her.
Trump's allies argue that voters, not lawmakers, should decide the president's future. But Democrats say the nation cannot wait for the 2020 election, alleging Trump's past efforts to have foreign countries intervene in the presidential campaign are forcing them to act to prevent him from doing it again. Pelosi said the still-anonymous whistleblower's complaint about Trump's Ukraine call changed the dynamic, creating the urgency to act.
The number of articles and the allegations they will include will be both a legal and political exercise for the House committee chairmen, who will be meeting privately. They must balance electoral dynamics while striving to hit the Constitution’s bar of “treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”
Pulling from the House’s 300-page investigation of the Ukraine matter, Democrats are focusing on at least three areas — abuse of power, bribery and obstruction — that could result in two to five articles, they say.
They argue that Trump abused the power of his office by putting personal political gain over national security interests; engaging in bribery by holding out $400 million in military aid that Congress had approved for Ukraine; and then obstructing Congress by stonewalling the investigation.
Some liberal Democrats want to reach further into Trump’s actions, particularly regarding the findings from special counsel Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. That could produce an additional article of obstruction not only of Congress, but also of justice.
But more centrist and moderate Democrats, those lawmakers who are most at risk of political fallout from the impeachment proceedings, prefer to stick with the Ukraine matter as a simpler narrative that Americans can more easily understand.
The GOP Leader of the House, Kevin McCarthy, said Pelosi is more concerned about tearing the president down than building the country up. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., criticized Democrats for focusing on impeachment over other issues, though many House-passed bills are waiting for action in his chamber. “It's all impeachment, all the time," he said.
At the White House, press secretary Stephanie Grisham tweeted that Pelosi and the Democrats “should be ashamed."
House members are preparing to vote on the articles of impeachment in the Judiciary Committee, possibly as soon as next week. The committee set a Monday hearing to receive the Intelligence Committee's report outlining the findings against the president.
The House is expecting a full vote by Christmas. That would send the issue to the Senate for a trial in the new year.
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Mayonnaise Belly Flopping Is a New, Gross Tailgating Game
These fans had a Hellmann's of a time.
Some Jacksonville Jaguars fans (yes, they exist) passed the time while tailgating before the team's game against the AFC South rival Tennessee Titans last Sunday by belly flopping into a kiddie pool filled with mayonnaise.
It's weird and it's a minor Miracle Whip no one suffered any injuries. Or had a swarm of bees attacking them.
And if you think that was weird, check out a more in-depth clip below, which features a proposal that took place right before the belly-flopping began. Because what woman doesn't want a man to propose to her before he jumps into a pool covered in mayo? It's what every little girl dreams of, right?
Why, exactly, were people jumping into the sandwich condiment. "There’s been an ongoing joke among Jaguars fans that Titans fans eat mayonnaise straight from the jar," reports SB Nation. And there's an ongoing joke among fans of other teams that the Jaguars one day hope to win more than five games in a season.
And as sticky as it must have been to be covered in mayo, it's nothing compared to the job Tennessee did sticking it to Jacksonville, 37-16.
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Portrait of John Dryden (1631-1700) by Gérard Edelinck after Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Thank you Dryden for your poetry. Gave me reason to write today.
(For Dryden)
True Poets dodge the fakeness of fame.
They allow praise to fall from their thoughts.
Old Poets understand the beauty of the sun rising from the east.
Allowing opportunity for new dreams and new places to come alive.
They enjoy watching the sun falling into the western sea.
Allowing the night to overcome the excitement of the day.
A wise Poet behold the beauty of the woman.
Tried to describe the softness of her skin and the feel
of her warm sweet kisses.
The Poet must feel the burden of war.
A writer must taste and know death, poverty and suffering.
A empty journey leave nothing for the pen and the paper.
Writers are neither revolutionist nor a martyr.
Just observers.
Great Poets left us with real description of war.
Many died in combat in the old wars.
Their poetry was longing for home and the beautiful valleys of youth.
Best honor for a writer.
Have more Poesy written because of their words.
This poem is for my favorite Poet Dryden.
His words will never be forgotten.
“War, our consumption, was their gainful trade.”
“What peace can be, where both to one pretend.”
(Dryden words.)
I tell the young writers.
Honor the old words.
Never be a naysayer to a up and coming writer.
We need more word-man and word-woman.
A real Poet love the word.
Written with skill or not.
Words written from the heart.
We need to read with a kind heart.
Category : life, peace, poet, poetry, war
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238 thoughts on “Poesy”
With Love on August 1, 2019 at 7:52 am said:
Buona giornata John 🙂
johncoyote on August 1, 2019 at 12:01 pm said:
ilonapulianauskaite on May 7, 2019 at 9:06 pm said:
I love the way you write its wonderful. we definitely need less war and more kind words in this world.
I pray we can learn. Peace over war/profit. Thank you for reading and the kind words.
Sue Young on December 13, 2018 at 4:30 pm said:
This is wonderful. Thanks.
Thank you Sue. A old one. One of my favorite.
moorezart on June 17, 2018 at 5:29 pm said:
Great post/poem! You’re welcome
when you cant help but write and because the pain of not writing the word suffocates, taking away the breath of the author until the poet has no choice but to give the word life so the writer can live another day. Sometimes poetry hurts so bad as the words are sharp like knives but mostly the word is love embraced and expressed, shared.
I agree. I have been writing for 50 years. Keep me sane. I agree and I liked your thoughts.
Ms. Munoz on March 2, 2018 at 12:41 pm said:
Great write and true to itself. Keep writing, brother: we need more poems and less wars.
I agree. More kind words and less hateful. Thank you for reading and the comment. I do appreciate.
Megha's World on February 27, 2018 at 2:46 am said:
Such a beautiful thought.. any poet, when writes, writes from the heart.It should be appreciated and encouraged. I guess all writers are an empath to a certain extent when they feel the moment so deeply and let their ink flow in it.
I had written something on the similar lines about what does writing mean to a writer. Take a look, if you are interested.
https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2017/11/11/are-you-writing-from-heart/
I will read now dear Megha.
Thanks.No rush.
bluejeansongster on December 8, 2017 at 6:21 pm said:
This is beautiful, you touch my heart. ❤
Thank you for reading and the comment. John Dryden ancient story and words ensure. The Poesy could never be forgotten.
Poetry Curator on November 28, 2017 at 10:44 pm said:
ladyfi on November 10, 2017 at 5:59 am said:
Wonderfully written
Thank you Ladyfi for reading and the comment. I do appreciate.
tobeafashionmom on November 9, 2017 at 12:14 am said:
Love the poem! You are very talented)))😻
http://www.fashionmomblog.org
You are very kind. I appreciate the comment.
ManicDdaily on August 5, 2017 at 11:39 am said:
I like Dryden! And I love the kindness you emphasize. Thanks. k.
Dryden and Ben Jonson. Both my examples of true wordsmiths. Thank you for reading and the comment.
N on May 23, 2017 at 3:56 am said:
Your Poems, your way fo writing is so beautiful. Simple, soothing yet so impactful.
I have really enjoyed visiting your blog today.
Thank you N. I appreciate the comment,
Suzy Hazelwood on May 15, 2017 at 12:44 pm said:
I’m not familiar with John Dryden’s poetry, but your wonderful poem has made me very intrigued to check out his work. I like the way you said “True Poets dodge the fakeness of fame.
They allow praise to fall from their thoughts.” That is so true… and who really needs fame anyway? It’s all quite empty, a huge illusion for the very foolish ego. 🙂
John Dryden, Ben Jonson(Called father of the great Poets of 1500)and Donne. These are my favorites. If you read them. You will find the modern words we write today. Without Dryden bad attitude. Writing would of been stopped.
nildamacedopaulino on May 6, 2017 at 8:56 pm said:
Nice PIC ❤ ❤ ❤
A old photo. I was in Santa Cruz, California in 1994. I need a year on the California coastline today.
mujtaba on March 9, 2017 at 6:04 am said:
thanks for dropping by my blog and sharing the love, i appreciate it. hope you liked it as I do your side of things. have a good one .
I enjoyed your work and good to have found your site. Cheers back to you.
Irfan on March 5, 2017 at 2:52 pm said:
Beautiful as always!
One of my favorites. Need more Poesy and less violence. Thank you for reading and the comment.
Chrissy on February 21, 2017 at 4:45 pm said:
Thank you Chissy.
Reblogged this on Christina Strigas and commented:
He knows what a true poet is…
Thank you Chissy for the reblogged.
Chrissy on February 21, 2017 at 11:42 pm said:
You’re so welcome, I love how you write and express a story and this one about poets was bang on. Kudos.
Simona on January 6, 2017 at 9:33 pm said:
Happy Weekend 🙂
Thank you Simona. I wish you a fun and safe weekend.
maureenrose7 on August 5, 2016 at 12:29 pm said:
John that was just beautiful! perfect first read of the day! 🙂
I’m glad and I appreciate the kind words.
sure anytime! hope your day is good! 🙂
Yuriy Ku on July 15, 2016 at 12:18 pm said:
So many commented, I suspect it’s the spirit of Dryden living within you if you found it, John. Some lines in there prove it. I’ll try to read him later.
Thank you. John Dryden is one of my favorites. Donne, Ben Jonson and Dryden. My teachers. Kosinski, Heming and London too.
Monica on July 8, 2016 at 5:00 pm said:
Just beautiful. “to read with a kind heart” – perfect
Thank you Monica. I appreciate the comment.
amrita1992 on May 6, 2016 at 5:21 am said:
There’s a lesson, there’s a message. Heart penned down. Beautiful 🙂
Thank you. We need more poesy.
Lynda Bullerwell poetry on February 8, 2016 at 2:04 am said:
Love this!!! ❤
Thank you Lynda. John Dryden gave me some positive motivation for this one. He create the word Poesy over 500 years ago.
Great poem. “A empty journey leave nothing for the pen and the paper.” Appreciated this line. It started wonderfully and you kept it up throughout.
Thank you for reading and the comment. John Dryden gave me the will to write this one. I liked how he defined writing.
den169 on September 30, 2015 at 2:33 pm said:
Wonderfully conceived and written. Kudos!
Thank you. Mr. Dryden gave me the will to write this one.
Bernardo Montes de Oca on September 25, 2015 at 5:07 am said:
This is a good one, I loved it. Keep writing. Cheers!
Mr. John Dryden gave me reasons to write this one. Thank you for reading and the comment.
Bernardo Montes de Oca on September 25, 2015 at 12:37 pm said:
Being from Costa Rica and relatively new to poetry, I hadn’t studied him much. Thanks for the tip.
John Dryden, Ben Jonson and Donne. Ancient poets and writers. Their words will expand your thoughts on writing.
MissTaraBeara on July 11, 2015 at 10:54 pm said:
The last 4 lines are perfect. Ground breaking.
Thank you Tara. John Dryden book gave me reasons write this poem.
anxiouspen on June 23, 2015 at 2:00 pm said:
“We need to read with a kind heart.” I wrote poetry as a young child, but quit for 25 years. Your words are encouraging as I stumble through beginning again. Thank you.
I’m glad. I have needed writing. Kept me sane in hard times. I hope to read your work.
Katherine on June 11, 2015 at 3:08 pm said:
Look at this and read carefully
Thank you Katherine for the reblogged and the kind words. I do appreciate.
Hugh A Tague on May 25, 2015 at 6:17 pm said:
Well done my friend!
Thank you Hugh. I appreciate the comment.
Vagrant Rhodia on May 16, 2015 at 10:28 pm said:
Gorgeous, multi-layered words. Gives me plenty to reflect on
Thank you. Poetry and writing. Words can be multi-layered.
The poets of older days are blessings to those of us struggling now. I like the idea of not focusing on fame, but on the words. Important to remember this in today’s social media days where fame is its own goal.
Arifah on December 25, 2014 at 9:20 pm said:
Very true John, writing is a space to learn emotionally what we can miss by walking through life, with our heads down. It has helped me cope with overpowering emotions that I wouldn’t have been able to make sense of without the pen. I’ll have to read Dryden.
Dryden and Jack London “When Gods laugh”. I recommend. Made me write a 100 poem and many stories.Thank you for reading and the comment.
Caro on December 1, 2014 at 10:17 am said:
Wow this is quite extraordinary! You are very talented.. Caro
johncoyote on December 1, 2014 at 10:24 am said:
Dryden gave me some motivation. The ancient writers believed in the power of words. Thank you Caro for reading and the positive comment.
delightedsouls on November 24, 2014 at 1:23 pm said:
You know, I always believe that to be able to write, one needs a bundle of imagination with a few meaningful words. I am glad to see this principle clearly in your writing. Let me begin with thanking you for your presence on my blog, so that I could find yours. Thank you for knowing and expressing a writer so well. It’s a great boost, indeed for amateurs like us, or shall i Say for the ones like me who just loves to write anything, just because it needs to be penned down and shared 🙂
I shall take some time till I go in details on your blog. Shall stay connected and hope the same from you. And yes, I often find some good (at least I think they are ) liking and following my blog. This makes me wonder what could such a creative mind find interesting enough to follow mine. Not compulsory, but would like to hear from you (genuine feedback about my writing).
Purnima Manhas
Thank you. I appreciate the positive comment. I will stop by
your site. I believe we must understand our world. Must read and observe.
delightedsouls on November 25, 2014 at 6:29 am said:
Yes, we must understand. But sometimes the brain starts baffling if loaded with so much of information. It happens with me. And then I just stop looking outward and stick to inward, to remain balanced. The greatest challenge for me has always been not to lose sight of deeper self, while living and enjoying the outward journey.
Sun Thathong on November 3, 2014 at 4:11 pm said:
I will take your wise poetic advice on board.
Thank you for crafting and sharing those elegant lines with an amateur like me.
John Dryden taught me the word Poesy. We must expand the good word and story to other. Thank you for reading and the comment.
Very good. Poetry, like any art, makes life more beaitiful, and bearable.
You are right Dana. We need music, art and good book to make life bearable.Thank you for reading.
sandrabranum on September 22, 2014 at 6:07 pm said:
Reblogged this on SandraBranum's Blog and commented:
Yes we DO need more poets in this world, so write!
This is so beautiful and heartfelt. You are right John, we need more poets in this world.
John Dryden said this many moons ago. People who read and write. They understand the world around them. Thank you for reading and the re-blog.
sandrabranum on September 26, 2014 at 1:02 am said:
I don’t know if we writers really understand the world around us, but it does help squelch The Dark Thoughts.
I believe the more we read and listen. The better we can understand our world.
intrepidjane on September 5, 2014 at 3:06 pm said:
Yes – we definitely need more word-men and word-women!
Would be a better world if we had people who wrote and thought before action. There are good and bad to every action. Need to know both. Thank you for reading and the comment.
Thought-filled words are always worth reading, John!
beautiful and wise Coyote, thanks for sharing with the world. Wanda
Thank you for reading and the comment. The great writer Dryden gave me the positive motivation to write.
MichaelsLyric.com on August 14, 2014 at 9:37 pm said:
Excellent piece )
Thank you. Dryden, the great writer gave me the motivation to write.
Michael Fink on August 6, 2014 at 3:13 pm said:
Wonderful writing, and I couldn’t agree more. The world is in desperate need of feeling, something writing has in spades. I couldn’t imagine life without poetry, to me, they are one and the same.
I agree. We need good books, poetry and music.
thengyouthandteensroadmap on July 25, 2014 at 11:12 am said:
your writing style is subtle and enchanting. would love to read more
I have 700 poem on WordPress. A lot to be read. Thank you for reading and the comment.I do appreciate.
eeinsteinauthor on July 12, 2014 at 7:12 pm said:
This poem is beautiful! And thanks for the follow
Thank you for stopping by and reading. I do appreciate.
psychopathsgetbored28 on July 10, 2014 at 8:42 am said:
Hey! Thank you for following my blog.
Your blog is very inspirational, and needless to say, the poems are all beautiful. Looking forward to more! 🙂
Thank you for reading and stopping by. I do appreciate. I enjoyed your blog also.
Drew on April 30, 2014 at 12:00 pm said:
Glad to find another person who loves Dryden’s poetry !
http://connecthook.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/washed-up-and-hung-on-the-line-to-dryden/
Come visit sometime.
I got lucky. At a book sale I found a copy of “The best of Dryden” for a dollar. A 1933 edition. I have read the book twice this year. He gave me motivation to write 50 new poems. Glag to meet you. Another book I found was a 1911 edition of Jack London “When gods laugh”. Another fantastic book.
Kaleidoscopic Kites on April 20, 2014 at 12:52 am said:
Amazingly written! I really enjoyed reading this! 😀
Thank you. Mr. Dryden was a wise writer. He told the writers 500 years ago. Observe and write. History cannot be forgotten.
iku2e on April 18, 2014 at 3:39 pm said:
one of the finest poem here. i read all the thoughts i have myself.
I borrow a few lines from my favorite writer “Dryden”. He knew what a writer should be. 500 years ago. Thank you for reading and the comment.
mytiturk on April 2, 2014 at 3:05 pm said:
Thank you, Coyote, for following my wandering blog. You have awakened an interest in Dryden for me and we want the same things, especially for the young and the generations to come. I will meander through your ideas. Awareness for now – and progress soon, I hope.
John Dryden was a great writer. He knew the real reasons for why we should write.
headgamesptsd on March 29, 2014 at 3:41 pm said:
Thank you for visiting my blog and thank for this, I really needed to read it today. I look forward to reading more of your words.
Thank you for reading and the comment. John Dryden knew 500 years ago. We need writers and poets.
parkhurst6 on March 27, 2014 at 4:27 pm said:
I loved this one. Very powerful. I wanted to stop by and show my support and encouragement. To also thank you in person on your page for reading my blog and stopping by. Great work…and very inspiring!
Thank you for stopping by. I need to write. Keeps my old mind alert and alive.
Writing is a great way to keep alert…let it flow let it flow!
prince2000ful Poems Videos and Photoes. on March 5, 2014 at 11:14 pm said:
I don´t believe my eyes . I am in awe of your writings.. and say thanks god for a poet. and for your love of words and how they are used. Thanks for all old poets we have, especially the English poets as you here mention Dryden but so many more. I thought I was alone to write in a classical manner and so many (poets of today) writing in free verse and consider our writings as out of fashion. thanks for being here and for visiting my blog which gave me a kind visit here.. Love Kerstin Centervall
johncoyote on March 6, 2014 at 12:06 am said:
You are welcome and thank you for reading and the comment. I have been reading the ancient writers. Today my verse from reading “Virgil”
“Who can limit love.”
The writers of the past held passion and desire for understanding above all. We need to copy them.
prince2000ful Poems Videos and Photoes. on March 6, 2014 at 9:12 am said:
I am happy your read this old literature.. we have so much to learn. Greek Mythology and forwarding writers are on my menu.always and on my mind . I am a very romantic dreamer in my writings.. Have a nice day.
But not copy only to learn and try to use their manner and their picture of life and all what that mean.Also their proper use of language and words. thanks for being here.
haelanra on February 24, 2014 at 6:50 am said:
What a lovely poem! As a poet myself (although perhaps not a very good one) I’m so happy that Dryden was able to express that peculiar joy which springs from a love of language so much more beautifully than I ever could have. Thank you for sharing this poem!
Dryden is one of the greats. I recommend Jack London “When gods laugh.” This book is why we write. To leave knowledge and wisdom for the future generation. Thank you for reading and the comment.
Petra on February 16, 2014 at 3:04 pm said:
“We need to read with a kind heart.” I ask God to give me that sort of heart often. Thank you for your visits and follow.
Dryden knew 500 years ago. Words can have great power. Thank you for reading and the comment.
Monika Ribeiro (writer/poet) on February 7, 2014 at 11:10 pm said:
Hmmm… Food for thought 🙂
I have been reading some Dryden. His books are true books for thoughts. His words are 500 years old and have the same meaning today. Thank you for reading and the comment.
Y. on February 7, 2014 at 5:24 pm said:
I can’t stop reading this! love this!!
Thank you for reading and the kind words. I do appreciate.
The Midnight Thief on January 25, 2014 at 9:50 am said:
Love it! You’re a true poet describing the reality of other poets.
I learn from the ancient Poets like Dryden and Neruda. Words are needed. Without writers. There would be no past or history. Thank you for reading and the comment.
love these lines.
Those were some words I borrowed and re-wrote from Dryden. He wrote these words over 500 years ago. Thank you for reading and the comment.
12kilroy on January 8, 2014 at 3:29 pm said:
Read words from the heart with a kind heart – I love this.
Thank you. Mr. Dryden gave me great motivation. The great writers of the past foretold the future with their words.
Thank You for sharing the beautiful poem. It is truly inspiring and hope for a new beginners.
I read the ancient writers. The Jack London, Milton and Dryden can lead us to good places and thoughts. Dryden was my motivation for this poem. Thank you for reading and the kind words.
Will read the poems of The Jack London and Dryden. I have so much to learn and thanks once again for sharing.
racheltoalson on January 7, 2014 at 10:48 pm said:
The ancient writers are beautiful. My favorite old poet is W.H. Auden. Have you ever read any of his stuff?
I need to. I read some his work in poetry book of the best writers. Never his collection. I will research him. Thank you.
2goldenbirds on December 22, 2013 at 9:07 pm said:
I love open heart poetry. I respect the more literary genre, but not sure I’ll ever match that style myself…plus it puts me to sleep after a few seconds (i just don’t feel what they’re saying)
I had read the new and ancient writers. We take from both and hope we can save or improve a life somehow. Thank you for reading and the comment.
The Ink Jester on December 17, 2013 at 10:30 am said:
What a magnificent vision of the poet. Your words have a timeless wisdom about them. Certainly, and perhaps most importantly, you have inspired me. Thank you for this.
Jack London book “When God laugh” gave me some positive motivation. Thank you for reading and the comment.
Audrey Dawn - Oldest Daughter Redheaded Sister on December 16, 2013 at 2:29 am said:
I wish I would have found your words sooner, John. Your heart is beautiful. A positive force! Blessings, Audrey
Thank you Audrey. You are very kind. Like most people. I had to learn the hard way. Kindness and love is the cornerstone of life.
Yes, we’ve all walked the harder path at some point. Coming through to the other side is a relief. I still have a lot to learn.
Great lines!
All of us need positive words. You never know who may be the next great writer or words that could save us from ourselves. .
True very true. Words written by others have saved me multiple times. Thanks!
Sharmishtha on November 23, 2013 at 10:49 am said:
this is an amazing poem about poets John, I so feel like that about them (us? – I don’t really dare to call myself poet even though I try writing poems).
You are a Poet. When we write and express words. Allow us to tell and show the world a better place. Thank you for reading and the comment.
thanks for calling me a poet.
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Thank you the nomination. I will check it out.
unbridledbaloney on November 20, 2013 at 6:44 pm said:
Love the last few lines. They are perfect
Thank you for reading and the comment. Poesy is a good word. Can lead us to many places and thoughts.
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Thank you for the nomination. I will check out award later. My daughter is my expert on organizing my site.
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johncoyote on November 19, 2013 at 10:57 am said:
Thank you. I appreciate the award. Tomorrow I research and post. My job is killing me. Working in retail and the holidays. Too much work.
prayingforoneday on November 19, 2013 at 4:47 pm said:
Least you are working John…
In this climate they are at a loss…
And people like me cant….
Did I make you feel guilty 😀
Take your time pal..
I want to hire five people. Can’t find anyone who desire to work. USA people rather live on welfare than work for a living. There are jobs in Michigan.
Björn Rudberg (brudberg) on November 11, 2013 at 9:53 pm said:
Indeed John, we write because we love the words.. we write because we need….
Mr. Dryden was a wise man. Good to write the poesy for the future. Maybe someone will pay attention.
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Jacqui Murray on November 3, 2013 at 10:01 pm said:
Nicely said.
Thank you Jacqui for reading and the comment.
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Argus on October 27, 2013 at 7:01 pm said:
“War, our consumption, was their gainful trade.” Got it in one.
No-one notices (but all accept) that the war-mongers never go off to war themselves? Are we doing something wrong here, do you think?
You are right. President Johnson made profit off the war in Vietnam. That is why he is the forgotten President. I did meet people with a degree and great ability in the military. War is the base of the USA. We spend for contractors. Close to 500 billion dollars for equipment. Add payroll, VA hospitals, pensions and disability. Over a trillion dollar for the cost of war. This is sad.
callingonangels on October 12, 2013 at 4:07 pm said:
Thank you for humbling my blog with your presence =] It brought me to this. What a beautiful read
Thank you. I enjoyed your site also. It is good we can wander around and learn from each other. Good to meet you.
Brenda on October 9, 2013 at 5:26 pm said:
I like Dryden saying: “If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams – the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.” We need to condense them, examine them, celebrate them, but use caution. 🙂 Thanks for your lovely Poesy, Brenda
Dryden like many saw the future and the past. I wish the kids of today learn. The great word and thoughts are repeated. It is good to learn from the ancient writers. They can teach us many positive lessons. Thank you for reading and the amazing comment.
The human race hasn’t really changed much, even though technology has changed significantly, and language has changed, too. But still, people do the same things.
You are right. I read two of his books last month. Different countries. Same problems. World did not change much.
edgarone2 on October 5, 2013 at 11:59 pm said:
hastywords on October 4, 2013 at 2:39 pm said:
Why haven’t we written something together? You always have such amazing comments. Write with me if you ever get time… you look like a busy guy 🙂 hastywords@gmail.com
Later this month. I will regain some energy. I just finished my inventory at work. I would enjoy writing with you.
grimbeau on October 4, 2013 at 9:58 am said:
Nice one! And, should the sun rise in the west I’ll let you know.
johncoyote on October 4, 2013 at 10:15 am said:
I hope not. We would be in trouble. Thank you for reading and the comment.
Open Up Life on October 2, 2013 at 7:28 pm said:
Love this poem and the words are so true. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for reading and the comment. I was reading the old writers Dryden. Gave me the motivation to write the poem.
The Drugstore Notebook on October 2, 2013 at 1:43 am said:
Thank you for reading and following my work. Beautiful writing here!
Than you Ana for reading and the comment.
mockingbird181984 on October 1, 2013 at 6:32 pm said:
I agree. Let’s not write for fame. Let’s write because there is something to write about. Your poem is just beautiful!
Dryden knew 500 years ago. Writer need to write. We need writers to ensure history is not forgotten and we hope someone learn from past mistakes. Thank you for reader and the comment.
Tammy on September 29, 2013 at 2:12 pm said:
I do think that death and poverty and suffering have something to do with it.
To be a great writer. You must live. Reading books and being a observer leave you empty. The great writers saw war and knew poverty. Few great writers came from the mouth of wealth. Hemingway, Kosinski, Twain, Helen Jackson and Nevil Schute live through hard times and left us with a realistic story of time and life. One of my favorite writers years ago wrote.Dryden said set the example. Write the truth and don’t be afraid of the consequences.
ncbek on September 24, 2013 at 10:16 pm said:
I really like this.
You have a great voice within the formation of the page.
– Also –
~N
Forever lost without reason our minds are our own
http://ncbek.wordpress.com – check me out!
Thank you reading and I will stop by.
Francina on September 19, 2013 at 12:38 pm said:
Thank you for the like on my blog, John, and by doing so giving me the chance to read your blog. Wonderful encouraging poem for poets from all kind of ages!
groetjes, Francina .
Thank you Francina for reading and the comment. Writers must assist each other. Purpose of a writer. To tell the world the truth and lead the world away from war. It is too bad no-one listen to the war time writers like Hemingway and Shute. There is no real honor or beauty in war.
vozey on September 16, 2013 at 8:18 pm said:
A writer writes to express. A writer writes to show. But a writer should never write to show off.
Old wisdom is still true today. Thank you for reading and the comment.
Carl Paul Henneman on September 13, 2013 at 11:50 am said:
Thank you J, this actually helped me, been wrestling with this whole writing thing lately
Dryden told writers almost 500 years ago. Write to tell the truth, to create laughter and tears and try to lead people to a better places. I believe this should be the goal of a writer. Thank you for reading and the comment.
russtowne on September 11, 2013 at 5:26 pm said:
Well said, Coyote.
Old writers need to motivate young writers to hope and dream. Thank you for reading and the comment.
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ruuthhannah on September 3, 2013 at 11:00 pm said:
Hello, I have really enjoyed reading your blog! I followed.
If you don’t mind, could you take a second to check out my work, let me know what you think and maybe follow if you like? Not a problem if not! Thank you 🙂
mcwatty9 on August 30, 2013 at 10:22 pm said:
Thank you for reading and the comment. Need more writers and thinkers, maybe the world would be a better place. We would listen more and discuss with a open mind and heart.
mcwatty9 on August 31, 2013 at 5:32 am said:
Absolutely. Starting my new concept of ‘Thirty days of Listening’ for precisely this same reason. Feel free to do the same if you would like. What you’ve said is true, thanks for saying it.
I tried to write and read daily. Keep me sane. I believe reading, writing and learning something new daily give us strength in mind and heart.
Yes because people write what they mean, but often say what they presume others want them to hear. It is always good to learn and grow.
Erik Andrulis on August 30, 2013 at 6:41 pm said:
Thanks for leading me back, oh john coyote. Dreams of peace are with me as well; my personal goal is World Peace in my lifetime. So it is, so it shall be done. Peace on Earth, Ik
Oh, and John, a while back I wrote a poem from your eyes, that is, the eyes of a coyote. Here: http://erikandrulis.wordpress.com/2013/08/02/coyote-locomotion/
Me too. For the sake of my children and all children. We cannot allow the madmen to kill the hope and beauty of life. Thank you for reading and the comment.
inspiredart03 on August 29, 2013 at 2:29 pm said:
Wow! You write amazing poetry. I have only just started writing and loving putting thought & experiences down.
Thank you for introducing me and many others to your talent.
Thank. Writers are always learning. If we are lucky. We improve with time and age. Thank you for reading and the comment.
Ajaytao2010 on August 25, 2013 at 11:15 am said:
I Nominate you for a Super Bunch of Awards – 30 Nominations
http://ajaytao2010.wordpress.com/2013/08/24/super-bunch-of-awards-30-nomination/
Thank you. I will choose three tonight.
Ajaytao2010 on August 25, 2013 at 4:20 pm said:
Thank you very much dear John 🙂
anelephantcant on August 25, 2013 at 10:41 am said:
Keep tilting at those windmills, John, this is good stuff.
Thank you for the kind words. I have been reading the ancient writers. Making my poetry become better. I hope.
wepoetsshowit on August 23, 2013 at 10:18 pm said:
Thank you so much for dropping by wePoets. It’s much appreciated. We would be happy to showcase your work 🙂
I would be honored. Your site is amazing. Need more places for writers and poets to share their work.
We’d be honoured to have you a part of this. Thank you so much!
nightshiftsister on August 23, 2013 at 4:05 pm said:
thanks for liking so many of my poems back to back!
You are a very good writer. I enjoy reading your work and I tried to write when I can. I enjoy WordPress. So many good writers.
Thanks again! I will keep trying to get things feelings out. It has been good for me this summer to find time and space to write again.
roughwighting on August 22, 2013 at 1:51 pm said:
I read this with a kind heard, I left your poem with a kinder heart. Thank you.
Elestra on August 19, 2013 at 9:38 am said:
Thank you for brilliant poetry!!!!
Thank you reading and the comment.
Tayyeba on August 18, 2013 at 4:36 pm said:
Such wonderful words. *o*
claudia on August 17, 2013 at 6:05 am said:
words written from the heart….yes…and we feel if they are… the fakeness of fame is a good point as well… i think no one will ever write really good if fame is the first thing they have in mind.. you make me curious for dryden’s work…
I read his collection in one day. He is amazing. If you can find. The best of Dryden. I read up on him. They said he was the writer who made the English language come alive. He even complimented the French writings.
JPF Goodman on August 9, 2013 at 10:46 pm said:
Greetings from Southampton, and thanks for liking my little film. Your like led me to look at your site, and this poem was the one that drew me first. Looking forward to reading more.
Eva PoeteX on August 3, 2013 at 4:37 am said:
“We need more word-man and word-woman.” I couldn’t agree more with you. This piece is very touching, like everything you write. Thank you!
Thank you Eva. People who love the word. Understand life and the real purpose of life. Peace.
LadyBlueRose's Thoughts Into Words on August 1, 2013 at 11:43 pm said:
beautiful times two
through and through
speaking of past winters we once knew
waiting for the skies of Spring to again turn blue…
your words and his are wonderful to feel
johncoyote on August 2, 2013 at 10:25 am said:
Thank you MaryRose. Dryden gave me some positive reasons to write reasons today. Thank you for reading and the comment.
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The Affliction: A Novel by Beth Gutcheon (William Morrow, $16.99, 384 pages)
Maggie was sitting on the floor paging through a book on Bernard Berenson and Hope was deep in one of the desk drawers when a voice from the doorway said, “What the hell do you think you are doing?”
Prolific author Beth Gutcheon serves up her second Maggie Detweiler mystery in a decidedly Miss Marple/J.B, Fletcher tone. Of course, this being a mystery novel, someone is murdered. There are subplots of unrest among the students at a private girls’ school. Various members of the Rye-on-Hudson community where the school is located have been plotting their own schemes. The infusion of developer capital to the otherwise bucolic community energizes the action.
Maggie and her buddy Hope Bobbin insinuate themselves into the community after a call for assistance. Initially, Maggie arrives at leader of an Independent School Association accreditation evaluation team. The school, Rye Manor School for Girls, is facing the likely loss of its accreditation.
Ms. Gutcheon seamlessly brings her reader along on Maggie and Hope’s quest for the killer. Along the way the faculty, students and campus of the school fill in a privileged New England experience around the wonderful dialogue. There’s no lack of finger pointing and accusations to make solving the murder a challenging effort for the Detweiler and Bobbin team.
The Affliction is consistent with its predecessor, Death at Breakfast. Hopefully, Ms. Gutcheon will deliver more such engaging adventures for her readers.
A review copy was provided by the publisher. The trade paper version of The Affliction will be released on November 27, 2018.
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Proof Positive: A Joe Gunther Novel by Archer Mayor (Minotaur Books, $25.99, 304 pages)
Proof Positive is Archer Mayor’s 25th novel (Three Can Keep A Secret). Mayor uses his expertise as Vermont’s medical examiner to paint effective pictures of good guys and bad guys and the setting in which they take place (i.e., Vermont).
The opening line of the novel is excellent: “It was the time of year when New England wobbles between fall and winter, as prone to Indian summer as to sudden, short-lived snowstorms.” The story is enticing from the start. The introductory pages are arguably the greatest strength of the book. Some of the writing that follows is less consistent (“Neil’s body collapses like a dropped sack of laundry,” p. 213, comes to mind).
Ben Kindall is a Vietnam vet and a hoarder, which is significant because it provides for the circumstances that mask the real causes of his death. Ben’s cousin, medical examiner Beverly Hillstrom, alerts Vermont Bureau of Investigator and her flame, Joe Gunther, of Ben’s death. The mystery of missing negatives uncovers a trail of dead bodies and a list of potential targets. The suspense builds as a senator and hit men are discovered to be involved.
As is common in many crime novels, dialogue is the convention of choice, and the degree to which this is effective depends on the reader’s preference.
Fans of the series will be happy to know that immediately upon the conclusion of Proof Positive comes the first two chapters of novel 26, The Company She Kept, meaning that the next Joe Gunther fix is just around the corner.
A review copy was provided by the publisher. “…a smoothly plotted and absorbing mystery.” Publishers Weekly “The best thing going!” Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
Dave Moyer is an educator and the author of Life and Life Only: A Novel.
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Trump Admin’s Closure of PLO’s DC Office is Another Malicious Salvo Against Peace
In response to the Trump administration’s move to close the PLO’s office in Washington, J Street president Jeremy Ben-Ami issued the following statement:
“The Trump administration just granted another gift to enemies of a two-state solution by forcing the PLO to shut down its Washington office. This latest salvo against peace came as American Jews, who overwhelmingly support a two-state solution, were observing Rosh Hashanah in their homes and communities.
This is the latest in a series of moves explicitly intended to pressure and undermine the only government among the U.S., Israel and the Palestinians that currently endorses a two-state solution. It follows the previously unimaginable spectacle of an American government expressly attempting to take final status issues like Jerusalem and refugees ‘off the table’; maliciously choking off bilateral and multilateral assistance benefiting Palestinians in dire need of clean water, medicine and education; and making clear the U.S. will no longer speak out against unrelenting Israeli illegal settlement activity.
One by one, this administration is kicking the legs out from under any possible negotiating table. No one benefits from this sabotage other than those who oppose a just and lasting peace for Israelis and Palestinians. The record makes clear that any ‘peace’ proposal coming from this administration is nothing more than a sham. No serious person who cares about the security and dignity of Israelis and Palestinians will buy it.”
J Street Commends House Passage of War Powers Resolution to Block Iran War, Urges Senate to Follow Suit
By taking this step, Congress has acted to restrain an out-of-control president and assert its constitutional authority to decide whether,...
‘Pompeo Doctrine’ on Settlements is Opposed by Congress, Disastrous for US and Israel
While the Trump administration continues its outrageous effort to legitimize the settlement movement and green-light Israeli annexation of the West...
Congress Must Pass War Powers Resolutions to Stop President’s Threatened War and War Crimes
President Trump and Secretary Pompeo may want a war, but the American people do not. Congress must stand up and...
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The Secret Place of Thunder
"Thou calledst in trouble, and I [God] delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder."
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ook!" exclaimed Vera, calling Charlie away from the kitchen sink and into the living room where Vera and Chuck were watching television.
"What is it?" asked Charlie, coming from the kitchen, dish cloth still in hand.
A news clip showed Adam and his entourage at an airport, surrounded by fans and photographers-- some carrying signs reading, "We Love Wallace Shipley," and others that read, "Welcome to Chicago."
"At O'Hare International Airport today," the newswoman was saying, "solo pianist, Wallace Shipley arrived for his well publicized, first ever concert in Chicago. Tickets reportedly were sold out in only five hours."
"The reception here has been just great," said Adam, taking off his sunglasses. "I'm really looking forward to Friday!" To this, the crowd cheered.
"Wallace Shipley's publicist," continued the reporter, the footage now showing Adam waving to the crowd and taking autographs, "said that even he was surprised by the large turnout of fans that waited at the airport to welcome Wallace Shipley to Chicago."
"I don't think anyone could have anticipated this," grinned Melvin Galloway, Adam's publicist. "For decades, Wallace Shipley's name has been synonymous with solo piano, and for the first time, people have the opportunity to see a live performance! Wallace is thrilled to be here, and it's going to be a great concert!"
When the news clip was over, Charlie returned to the kitchen to place the last of the cleaned dinner dishes back into the cupboard. The amount of publicity Adam was receiving, numbed Charlie. Wallace Shipley may be famous, but that same man on television was the mild mannered plumber who loved to watch the stars on peaceful desert nights, where only the sound of the wind and the distant baying of coyotes would break the stillness. This man who was making thousands of fans happy with his music, was the same person who could coax Charlie's tears into smiles.
She wasn't prepared to see those images on television. Charlie was surprised to feel resentment toward the zealous fans who acted as if Adam was theirs. This strong emotion took Charlie by surprise. If she had ever seriously suspected herself of being in love with Adam, it was now.
By the time Charlie climbed into bed that night, she hadn't heard from Adam all day. Charlie wanted to call him, but she knew that since he had just arrived, he would be too busy to chat with her right now-- unless it was important.
Sleep didn't come easily that night, but when it did, a peculiar thing happened. While deep in sleep, Charlie saw a private jet come into view. She saw Adam sleeping in a comfortable chair with a pair of headphones, getting some well-deserved rest. Outside, thunder crashed, though there were few clouds in the day sky. Suddenly, Charlie saw the plane rock violently from side to side. She could see smoke coming from the right engine, as the plane plummeted from the sky. Adam was now awake, and gripping the armrests of his seat. She heard him scream... and then... she woke up.
A little later, Vera came running from her bedroom.
"Charlotte! What is it?!" exclaimed Vera, alarmed by the scream she heard coming from her granddaughter's room in the middle of the night.
Charlie sat bolt-upright in bed, her face covered with perspiration.
"Pumpkin," repeated Vera, now more alarmed than before, "what is it?"
"Grandma!" gasped Charlie, now bursting into tears, "I saw Adam's plane go down-- it hit a mountain!"
"What?" asked Vera, sitting down on the edge of Charlie's bed. She took Charlie's hands into her own, and felt them tremble.
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KLM Took Delivery of Two Boeing Aircraft In December
On December 19, KLM took delivery of its 31st 737-800 and last 737-800 from the production line. It bears the name “Redcrested Pochard”, all 737s are named after birds; KLM has fifty two Boeing 737s in its fleet: sixteen 737-700s thirty one 737-800s and five 737-900s.
On December 21, KLM took delivery of its 4th 787-10 bearing the name “Snow drop”. All KLM Dreamliners are named after flowers or flowering plants. With the arrival of Snow drop, KLM has seventeen Boeing 787s in its fleet: thirteen 787-9s and four 787-10s.
Source: KLM Newsroom
Airbus Delivers First A350s with Touchscreen Cockpit Displays
Airbus has commenced deliveries to airlines of the first A350s equipped with pioneering new touchscreen cockpit displays.
On December 18th, China Eastern Airlines took delivery in Toulouse of the first A350 equipped with the new devices. To date, around 20 airlines have selected the option for their new A350s. Airbus developed the systems with Thales, a French aerospace electronics maker.
Boeing is also working to introduce touchscreens into the Cockpit forward displays in its 777-9 and eventually 777-8. Boeing said in 2016 its aircraft designer decided to introduce the touchscreens in the 777-9 and -8 cockpits to make it even more intuitive and easy for pilots.
Of the A350 cockpit’s six large screens, three can now become touch capable: the two outer displays plus the lower-center display. These displays now offer touchscreen capability for pilots when presenting Electronic Flight Bag(EFB) applications. This new method of input complements the existing physical keyboard integrated into the retractable table in front of each pilot and also the keyboard and trackball “keyboard-cursor control unit” (KCCU) located on the center console.
Boeing Bullish Over BBJ 777-X Sales Prospects
Boeing stated in the recent Dubai Air Show that the interest in the VVIP airliner has been “strong”, particularly in the Middle East, and it hopes to secure the first sales for the latest wide body this year.
“ We have several exciting prospects for the for the BBJX from Governments, heads of state and very wealthy private individuals and expect this year be a very interesting year,” says acting BBJ president James Detwiler.
Like the commercial aircraft on which it is based, the BBJ 777X will be available in-8 and -9 variants, joining the 787-8/9, and 777-200LR/300ER in the BBJ Twin-aisle family.
Detwiler says the BBJ 777X is “far superior” to its predecessor, with GE aviation GE9X engines and a new, more advanced composite wing key to delivering” engined fuel efficiency”.
The -9 will be the first to market at the end of 2021. Boeing plans to begin delivering the commercial variant that year.
Source : Boeing Business Jets
Air Kiribati Takes Delivery of its First Embraer 190-E2
Air Kiribati, the flag carrier of the central Pacific island nation of the same name, has taken delivery of the first of two Embraer 190-E2 jets; giving the ability to significantly expand its footprint and directly connect parts of the far flung republic which comprises 32 atolls and one raised coral island across all four hemispheres.
The E-19-E2 aircraft will allow the airline to operate longer-haul domestic and international routes; including connections that had so far been beyond the reach of its fleet of two Viking Air DHC-6 Twin Otters, one Bombardier Dash 8 and one Harbin Y-12.
With a maximum range of 2,850nm, Air Kiribati’s E190-E2, delivered on December 30, will be able to fly nonstop from the country’s capital Tarawa to Kiritimati(Christmas)Island. An atoll belonging to the country, one of the most challenging routes in the Pacific. To date, the domestic flight from Tarawa to Kiritimati required an international stopover in Fiji.
In December 2018, Embraer and Air Kiribati, signed a purchase agreement for two E190-E2 variant and took a purchase rights on two more with a total list price of $243 million.
Source: Embraer/Embraer Picture
Bamboo Airways Gains IOSA Certification
Vietnamese carrier Bamboo Airways received its Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) certification on the 3rd of January, nearly a year after launch. This will pave its way to becoming an IATA member in the near future, the carrier says.
Bamboo Airways took delivery of its first 787-9 on December 22, 2019. And passed the requisite safety audit that covers eight areas contributing to airline operational safety. These are corporate organization and management systems, flight operations, flight dispatch, aircraft engineering and maintenance, cabin operations, ground handling, cargo operations, as well as operational security.
The Carrier launched in January 2019 and Cirium schedules data shows its first flight took off in March. It mostly services the domestic market but launched four international routes in October and November: from Cam Ranh to Seoul and Macau, and from Da Nang to Seoul and Taipei.
The carrier is targeting 30 aircraft by the first quarter of this year, including four 787-9s, and hopes to expand its network to 25 international routes within the year.
Source: Flightglobal/Picture Boeing
Azerbaijan to Double Fleet with Airbus, Boeing Aircraft
The Azerbaijani government-owned carrier Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) will buy more than 20 new aircraft to develop its route network as plans continue to more than double its fleet.
To build up long-haul routes, AZAL has signed an agreement for two Boeing 777s, which will go into service in 2020-2021.
AZAL president, Jahangir Askerov, said the airline is ready to discuss the purchase of three more 777s, as well as Boeing 787s. ”This will allow us to expand our long-haul flight geography,” he said. The Azerbaijani carrier became the first operator for the later type in post-Soviet area in 2014.
AZAL is also in negotiations with Airbus for 10 A320neos to increase its narrowbody capacity. The airline had initially planned to start receiving the same amount of Boeing 737MAX aircraft from the end of 2019, but deferred the deal to 2024 after the type’s grounding.
AZAL now operates 18 aircraft, including four A319s and six A320s, as well as two each A340-500s, Boeing 757-200s, 767-300s and 787-8s.
Source: Air Transport World/Picture Azerbaijan Airlines
Royal Jordanian Ranked in AirlineRatings Top 20 Global Airlines List
Royal Jordanian closed 2019 with another positive record, according to an airline safety and product review website, AirlineRatings.com.
AirlineRatings.com listed Royal Jordanian (RJ) as one of the top 20 safest airlines in the world in its list of “Top Twenty Safest Airlines 2020”. They were selected from a pool of 405 different airlines it monitors.
The Safety-rating system in this list was developed based on different factors, including airlines’ compliance with international regulations, the age of their fleet of aircraft, safety innovation, operational excellence and the utilization of new, more advanced, aircraft like the Boeing 787 and Airbus A350.
RJ’s President/CEO Stefan Pichler said: “We are pleased with this rating among other big international carriers. RJ has been known for its great record in safety and operations for the past 56 years’ result of the hard work of its employees, who are keen to maintain this high standard. We will continue the hard work to keep our high international position and improve our operations, products and services, thus making sure to always offer our passengers the best.”
Source: Arabian AeroSpace/Picture Royal Jordanian
Sun Country Airlines has signed a six year deal with Amazon to operate 10 Boeing 737-800F freighters for Amazon Prime starting this spring.
Singapore Airlines when Singapore Airlines has announced it will fold Subsidiary SilkAir into Singapore Airlines including its 17 Boeing 737-800s and six grounded Max 8s.SilkAir is currently transitioning to an all-737 fleet. This entry was posted in Singapore Airlines and tagged 9V-MBN, Boeing 737 Max 8, MSN 44258, Singapore Airlines on December 20, 2019.
Icelandair Cargo handles all shipments to and from Iceland for FedEx and TNT, following a new three-year agreement going into effect early this year.
Airbus plans to boost A320neo production at its Mobile, Alabama, site to seven aircraft monthly in 2021.
All Nippon Airways(ANA) will take delivery of its last of three Airbus A380s, which have been specially dedicated on its Tokyo-Honolulu routes.
BOC Aviation has placed an order for 20 Airbus A320neos, with at least committed to new customer Avianca.
Avianca Colombian airline has cancelled 20 Airbus A320neo purchase commitments and delayed Airbus deliveries of A320neos until 2025, making another step in the carrier’s financial transformation effort.
KLM Cityhopper firms up an order for Embraer E-195-E2 jets and adds six further aircraft.
Emirates retains 777-8s in revised 777x order, the airline is expecting to receive 101 777-9s and 25 777-8s.
Embraer E175_E2 made its inaugural flight from the company’s facility in Sao Jose dos Campos. The maiden flight kicks of a rigorous 24-month flight test campaign.
Sources: Embraer, Airbus, Flightglobal, Emirates,Singapore Airlines
Atlas Air Lands El Al As New Customer
El Al Israel Airlines is outsourcing operation of its main freight route between Tel Aviv and Liege, Belgium, to Atlas Air Inc. under unexpended charter arrangement.
Atlas, an aviation services company headquartered in Purchase, N.Y., said on January 7 it is leasing an El Al Boeing 747-400 freighter, operating it with its crew and providing maintenance and insurance (ACMI) beginning this month.
El Al, a new customer for Atlas, is experiencing strong growth in demand across its freight network, according to the announcement. The Israeli carrier sells space on the plane and covers expenses such as ground handling, landing fees and fuel.
No terms of the commercial cooperation were disclosed, but ACMI deals typically run for one to three years.
El Al opted for the turnkey”wet” lease with Atlas because in the past year it ended use of Boeing 747s in its own fleet and switched to the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
Source : Atlas Air Worldwide/Picture Atlas Air Worldwide
OTHER NOTEWORTHY NEWS
China’s Bid to Challenge Boeing and Airbus Falters
Development of China’s C919 single-aisle plane, already at least five years behind schedule and going slower than expected, a dozen people familiar with the program told Reuters, as the state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation(COMAC) struggles with a range of technical issues that have severely restricted test flights.
Delays are common in complex aerospace programs, but the especially slow progress is a potential embarrassment to China, which has invested heavily in its first serious attempt to break the hold of Boeing and Airbus on the global jet market.
The most recent problem came down to a mathematical error, according to four people with knowledge of the matter.
COMAC engineers miscalculated the forces that would be placed on the plane’s twin engines in flight -known in the industry as loads- and sent inaccurate data to the engine manufacturer, CFM International, four people familiar with the matter told Reuters.As a result the engine and its housing may both have to be reinforced, the people said, most likely at COMAC’s expense-though another source denied any modification.
That and other technical and structural glitches meant that by early December, after more than two and a half years of flight testing, COMAC had completed less than a fifth of the 4,200 hrs in the air that it needs for final approval by the Civil Aviation Administration of China, two people close to the project told Reuters.
COMAC did not respond to Reuters requests for comment for this story. CFM, a joint venture between General Electric and France’s Safran, declined comment.
COMAC has still not finalized the correct calculations and data to send to the engine manufacturer, which are key to ensuring that the engine does not fail under heavy loads.
The engine miscalculation does not reflect a lack of theoretical understanding – China has been putting people in space for almost two decades. But it does illustrate the national aerospace manufacturer’s lack of experience in designing and building commercial aircraft.
It also found a gearbox attached to the engine was vulnerable to cracking, which caused and engine to shut down during a test flight, three sources told Reuters, a problem that potentially affects all six C919 jets now invest flights. Regular inspections of the gearbox to check for cracks and leaking oil have curtailed COMAC’s flight test program, they said.
The gearbox problem, discovered in 2018 and not previously reported, was due to unexpected vibrations, two sources told Reuters. Engineers on the program have found ways to minimize the risk, the sources said.
The accumulation of problems has put COMAC significantly behind schedule, which will prove costly. The C919 is designed to compete with the Boeing 737 MAX and Airbus A320neo families.
Most industry forecasters now expect the prolonged cyclical boom in demand to fade this year’s business confidence wanes amid geopolitical tensions, meaning the plane that debuts in 2021 or 2022 will likely miss out on orders for years to come.
Source : Reuters
December 13, 2019 by thekaplanianreport
The Kaplanian Report December 2019
With Hushed Fanfare, Boeing Rolls out the 737 MAX 10
On November 22, Boeing quietly unveiled the first flight-test Max 10, a variant designed to compete closely with the Airbus A321neo. The first flight expects to be sometime next year. The aircraft, which is more than a simple stretch, features a revised main landing gear design.
Boeing launched the Max 10, the largest variant of the Max line-up, at the Paris Air Show in 2017 as a competitor to the A321neo. The Max 10 will be capable of seating up to 230 passengers, and is around 1.6m (5ft 3in) longer than the Max 9. The longer fuselage potentially required taller landing gear to ensure the appropriate clearance between the rear fuselage and ground during take-off rotation.
However, a taller gear would have required extensive changes to items such as the main gear wheel wells Boeing incorporated a semi-levered main gear design. This enables the gear to extend 241mm (9.5in) upon rotation during take-off run and provides the required clearance. A steel compressing mechanism called a “shrink link” pulls the inner cylinder as the gear retracts.
The design shown (see picture) is similar to the gear on the 777-300. It preserves commonality within the Max family by allowing the landing gear to be accommodated into the same wheel well as other Max variants.
The muted debut was understandable, as Boeing continues to work trying to return its grounded existing MAX jets to service. The newest MAX has more than 550 orders and commitments from more than 20 customers.
Source : Boeing/Picture Boeing
BelugaXL Receives EASA Type Certification
The BelugaXL has received its Type Certification from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), paving the way for entry-into-service by early 2020.
The aircraft is an integral part of Airbus’ industrial system and a key enabler for production ramp-up requirements beyond 2019. The BelugaXL allows for 30% extra transport capacity being seven meters (23.62 feet) longer than its BelugaST predecessor.
With the largest cargo bay cross-section, the BelugaXL can carry two A350 XWB wings compared to the BelugaST, which can only carry one. With a maximum payload of 51 tons, the BelugaXL has a range of 4,000 km (2200 nm).
The aircraft gets its stamp of approval following an flight test campaign that saw the BelugaXL complete more more than 200 flight tests, clocking over 700 flight hours. In total, six aircraft will be built between 2019 and 2023, gradually replacing the current fleet of BelugaST transport.
Launched in November 2014,The BelugaXL is based an A330-200 freighters large re-use of existing components and equipment. The Beluga XT is powered by Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engines.
Source : Airbus/Pictures Airbus
Pilatus Has Delivered its 1,700th PC-12
The all-metal PC-12 NG, the 1,700th, was handed over to one of Pilatus’s oldest and largest customers, Jefly. The Luxembourg-based fractional ownership operator has the biggest inventory of PC-12s in Europe, with 40 aircraft in Service.
Pilatus says over 7 million flying hours have been logged by the worldwide PC-12 fleet to date; with the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67 P-powered type deployed for range of roles including air ambulance, corporate and charters well as by owner flyers.
The Stans, Switzerland headquarterd airframer describes the PC-12 as a “reliable, efficient aircraft” that is flown by customers” who know they can depend on it for many years of excellent operation.”
Pilatus launched a third generation version of the 10-seat single in October, called the PC-12NGX.The aircraft features a number of enhancements over the NG model, including a PT6E-67XP turboprop engine featuring electronic propeller and engine control systems; a revamped cockpit with digital autothrottle, a redesigned cabin with a choice of BMW Designworks interiors and larger windows to deliver more natural light.
With European and US certification for the NGX already secured, Pilatus in now preparing the first examples for service entry early next year.
GE Aviation Fixed GE9X Problem That Delayed First Flight of 777X
GE Aviation completed the final tests on the GE9X, clearing the way for the 777X flight tests to begin.
“ It is solved. It is fixed, and it’s fixed robustly,” GE Aviation’s (GE9X program manager, Ted Ingling, says of the GE9X stator vane problem that delayed the 777X’s flight test program. “It is better to have found it in the factory than find it in the field.”
We fixed the assembly to make it more durable,” adds Ingling, “The performance and operational characteristics of the engine did not change.” The 105,000 lb-thrust (467kN) GE9X is the only power option for both 777X variants-the 777-8 and larger 777-9.
GE Aviation is now completing certification testing on two engines. One is undergoing an “endurance test”, which examines engine performance when operated for extended periods at “ redline temperatures and redline speed rotors”, says Ingling.
The other engine is being subjected to a “vibration endurance” test, during which engineers run it with rotor imbalances. That test will help determine the engine’s ability to withstand such conditions and help establish procedures pilots will use to respond to issues.
GE Aviation had halted testing after discovering a problem with stator vanes at the front end of the GE9X’s high-pressure compressor. The issue eventually forced Boeing to delay the 777-9’s first flight from 2019 to its current expectation of early 2020.
“It’s a lesson learned for us,” Ingling says. ”The unfortunate part of this learning was that it came late in the game.” The problem forced GE aviation to recall from Boeing four GE9X “compliance engines” — those used for 777X test flights. Two of those engines are already on the wings of a test aircraft, Ingling says.
China Approved Boeing’s Proposed Acquisition of Embraer’s Commercial Division, Removing Another Hurdle to a Deal. Still Under Particular Scrutiny by European Regulators.
Embraer, confirms China has green lighted the transaction, which calls for Boeing to buy 80% of Embraer’s commercial aircraft unit for $4.2 billion. The Brazilian manufacturer would retain a 20% stake of the division, which Boeing intends to rename Boeing Brasil—Commercial.
“ We have received unconditional clearance to close our transaction from almost all jurisdictions, including the United States, China and Japan,” Embraer says in a statement. “We continue to cooperate with the remaining jurisdictions as the assess our transaction and look forward to a positive resolution.”
The European Commission seems to be the sticking point. Several weeks ago, Embraer executives announced the deal’s closing delayed to no sooner than March 2020, due to the Commission deciding to conduct a more thorough review.
The acquisition proposal calls for Embraer’s entire commercial aircraft business to transfer into Boeing’s control, including its hugely successful E-Jet program, commercial aircraft services and related engineering expertise.
Source : Flightglobal
FAA Approves Boeing 737 Distress Tracking Device
On November 20th, aircraft tracking system provider Blue Sky Network announced FAA certification for its autonomous distress tracking (ADT) device on Boeing 737 airliners.
Blue Sky Network said its HawkEye ADT, was granted approved model list supplemental type certificate(AML-STC) authorization for the 737 types; the first device to comply with an upcoming international recommended standard for autonomous distress tracking.
The HawkEye ADT automatically reports aircraft 4D Global Navigation Satellite system position data via Iridium modem for normal operations and defined distress anomalies. The unit incorporates an altitude and heading reference system module that can autonomously determine a possible distress condition.
Position report messages are routed to an airline operations center using Blue Sky Network’s Sky Router aircraft tracking software platform. The HawkEye ADT derives power from the aircraft’s electrical bus and contains a battery in the event of a power failure.
Source: Air Transport World/Picture Blue Sky Network
Bamboo Airways is set to take its first Boeing 787-9 aircraft during this month from GECAS on operating leases.GECAS subsequently confirmed that the two aircraft would be transferred to the carrier from an existing lessee.
Emirates ordered 30 Boeing 787 Dreamliners to complement its 777-8 and 777-9 on order.
Condor German leisure carrier has reverted to a previous corporate logo for its fleet, distancing the airline from its collapsed former parent Thomas Cook Group.
Air Astana Kazakhstan’s flag carrier has signed a letter of intent covering 30 Boeing 737 Max jets which will be placed with newly launched low-cost unit FlyArystan.
KLM will say goodbye to the Airbus 330 fleet in the coming years at which time will only be flying exclusively Boeing aircraft.
Garuda Indonesia will lease two Boeing 737-800 converted freighters from GECAS from mid-2020.
Airbus has unveiled the first A220 painted in the colors of Air Canada, coming ahead of expected first delivery of the type to the carrier this month.
Binter Spanish regional carrier has received its first Embraer 195-E2 from the Brazilian manufacturer.
SAS Has taken delivery of its first Airbus A350-900, one of eight of the twinsets the carrier has on order.
El Al Israeli airline has signed for the financing of its first Boeing 787-8, which was delivered during the month of November.
Lockheed Martin Gained Certification for its LM-100J
Lockheed Martin gained US civil certification for its LM-100J commercial Freighter. US Federal Aviation Administration approval was received on November 15, after 150h flight-test campaign, says Lockheed.
Cargo services provider Pallas Aviation will put the initial example of the LM-100J into service in the first quarter of 2020; following training of maintenance crews and pilots in Marietta, Georgia.
The LM-100J features new avionics an updated flight-management system and carbon brakes, among other modifications for the commercial market.
Lockheed delivered 115 of the earlier L-100 commercial freighters before production ended in 1992 and 35 aircraft remain in service, it says. The company expects operators of those aircraft to make up a large portion of LM-100J’s future orders.
Lockheed has taken orders for five LM-100Js so far, including the two for Pallas.It forecasts total sales of up to 45 units.
Source : Lockheed/Picture Lockheed
Boeing Global Services Aiming for “Good Growth”
Boeing Global Services (BGS) is continuing to outpace the market as it pursues a target of achieving $50 billion in revenues by 2025, according to the division’s new CEO, Ted Colbert.
However, achieving that target-which Colbert described aspirational- will not be done simply by chasing volume.
“ Part of our goal is to have good growth, profitable growth. There are lots of opportunities that could allow us to have lots of revenue at low levels of Profitability.”
Services-which covers a myriad of areas; such as spares, MRO and training-is a relatively low-key sector but one that is rapidly growing in importance. Training, for example is taking center stage, given the huge numbers of new pilots that will be needed to fuel the growth in aviation-notably in Asia-over the next 20 years.
BGS estimates the Middle East market for services at $225 billion over the next decade. Its presence in the region include a parts distribution center in Dubai.
Source: Arabian Aerospace.
The Kaplanian Report – November 2019
Boeing Inks Digital Service Training Deals with Korean Carriers
Korean Air signed a 10-year agreement with Boeing for digital navigation services, as well as electronic flight bag(EFB) solutions offered by Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen. The Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro EFB solution will offer pilots digital charting and navigation information.
The Partnership was inked on the sidelines of this year’s Seoul ADEX, and sees Korean Air and Jin Air renewing their contracts for pilot training services. The five-year agreement covers both carriers’ Boeing fleet, such as the Boeing 737s, 777s and 787s. Boeing Global Services did not indicate the value of these contracts.
Late September, (see October edition of kaplanianreport.com for more details) the business unit clinched nearly $50 million worth of orders and contracts from Asia Pacific carriers, primarily for the digital products.
It has forecast that the Asia Pacific commercial aviation services market will grow by 5% per annum over the next twenty years and estimates the sector to be worth $3.4 billion by 2038.
A350-1000 to be Airbus’s Lead Candidate for Project Sunrise
Airbus is putting forward a longer-range A350-1000 as its lead contender for Qantas’s ultra-long-haul initiative, Project Sunrise, as the Australian carrier prepares to conduct test flights using Boeing 787-9s.
Qantas had requested submissions from both both Airbus and Boeing which would meet the challenging demands of Project Sunrise, which aims to provide nonstop services to Australian east coast cities from NewYork and London.
It is conducting three simulations of Project Sunrise routes- from London and New York to Sydney- using 787-9s on “repurposed” delivery flights in October, November and December, the carrier states. The 787s will carry only around 40 people to ensure sufficient range.
While 787s are already used by Qantas on nonstop services between London Heathrow and Perth, Boeing is offering the 777-8 as its Project Sunrise candidate— although development of the long-range twinjet has been put on hold.
Airbus confirmed it is offering a version of the A350-1000 in the Qantas ultra-long -haul competition around its Project Sunrise initiative that would enable the airline to launch nonstop flights from Australia’s east coast to London and New York, among others. “The airplane will be available in the timeframe required by Qantas at the end of 2022,” Airbus head of A350 marketing, Marisa Luisa Ugena said.
Embraer’s E190-E2 Program Named 2019 PMI Project of the Year
According to the Project Management Institute, the world’s leading association for the project management profession, the E190-E2 was an extremely complex program. It is a virtually new airplane, new production system, a new and more connected airplane and customer support, and a new global supply chain spread throughout the US,Brazil,Europe and Asia.
The PMI Project of the Year Award recognizes a large and complex project that best delivers superior performance in terms of project management practices, superior organizational results, and positive impacts on society.
The institute also highlighted Embraer’s challenge to bring a family of commercial aircraft to market on schedule and on budgets as well as exceeding performance targets.
“The E2 represents a new benchmark for crossover jets, and we are honored to receive this prestigious award, recognizing the excellence of all Embraer’s teams involved in the program,” said Luis Carlos Affonso, Embraer’s vice president of strategy, innovation and former COO of Ember Commercial Aviation.
Source : Embraer
Korea’s Carrier Air Premia has Committed to Acquire Five Boeing 787-9s
Boeing did not specify a delivery timeline for the five aircraft; the commitment has yet to be finalized into a firm order.
At the start of the year, the Seoul-based carrier said that it plans to operate 10 787-9s over a five-year period, of which five would come from lessors. In April it signed a lease agreement to take three 787s from Air lease.
“We are honored to welcome Air Premia as Boeing’s newest customer. As new entrants in Asia continue to launch innovative business models and strategies for growth, we are excited that Air Premia have selected the 787-9 Dreamliner to power their future fleet,” says Boeing’s senior vice-president of commercial sales and marketing Ihsanne Mounir.
Air Premia plans to begin services in September 2020, starting off with services within Asia before expanding into long-haul routes in 2021.
Vietnam Airlines has Hit The 100-Aircraft Milestone
Vietnam Airlines has hit the 100-aircraft milestone with the delivery of a Boeing 787-10, its third example of the variant.
The airline celebrated the arrival of the aircraft with a ceremony at Hanoi’s Not Bai International Airport, attended by deputy prime minister Truong Hoa Binh.
“ This opens up new development opportunities for Vietnam Airlines on its quest to leverage Vietnam’s aviation industry among leading airlines in the region and the world,” says company chairman Pham Ngoc Minh. The airline has used the type between Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, as well as on services to South Korea.
Cirium fleets data shows that Vietnam Airlines operates 53 Airbus A321s, 14 A321 neos, 14 A350-900s, 11 787-9s, three 787-10s, and five ATR-500s. In October 2018, the airline operated 86 aircraft.
Source: Flightglobal/Vietnam Airlines
Seattle’s AeroTEC inks Deal to Modify Qantas Boeing 747-400 into Rolls-Royce Testbed Aircraft
AeroTEC of Seattle has inked a deal with Rolls-Royce to convert a retired Qantas 747 into a testbed aircraft for evaluating new engines and engine technology.
Under the deal announced on October 15 at Moses Lake, Washington Rolls-Royce has bought a retired Qantas Airways 747-400 airliner that flew passengers for more than 20 years as part of a $70 million investment in new engine technologies that will be tested at the former Air Force B-52 bomber base.
AeroTEC engineers and technicians will spend the next two years converting the 747 from a passenger jet with 364 seats to a state-of-art flying testbed equipped with instruments and systems that record measurements of in-flight engine performance.
Rolls-Royce took delivery of the Qantas 747-400 at AeroTEC flight test center in Moses Lake on Monday, October 14 after it flew from a storage facility in Southern California.
Gareth Hedicker, a Rolls-Royce director of development and experimental engineering said the collaboration with AeroTEC involves a “significant investment” that will transform the 747 into “ the jewel in the crown of our global test programs.”
Source: Rolls-Royce/picture Rolls-Royce
Vietjet Vietnamese low-cost carrier has placed a firm order for 20 Airbus A321XLRs, making it the first airline to operate the type when it enters service in 2023.
The Federal Aviation Administration(FAA) has issued a proposed airworthiness directive(AD) for the problem-plagued Pratt& Whitney PW1100G engines that power Airbus A320neo-family aircraft.
Boeing Business Jets has taken two orders for BBJ 787-9s from a single unidentified VIP customer.
Ural Airlines has received its first Airbus A321neo, the third aircraft from the re-engined family to enter the Russian carrier’s fleet.
Cebu Pacific has firmed up its commitment to acquire 16 Airbus A330-900 aircraft, first made at the Paris air show in June.
GE Aviation delivers the first flight-ready GE-9X engine to Boeing paving the way for the Boeing 777-9 flight tests to resume.
Chinese MRO Firm Ameco will conduct the world’s first D-check on a Lufthansa Boeing 747-8.
Guangzhou Aircraft Maintenance Engineering (GAMECO) will open a Boeing Converted Freighter (BCF) production line at its Guangzhou base.
El Al Israeli Airline has flown its final 747 flight from Rome to Tel Aviv on November 3rd.
Lufthansa Cargo Orders Two 777-200FLR Freighters
Lufthansa Cargo has ordered a further two Boeing 777 Freighters as it accelerates the retirement of its remaining MD-11Fs.
The freighter operator says the latest order is part of a fleet modernization program that will see the carrier retire its 10 MD-11Fs by the end of 2020, four years ahead of a previous target. The 777Fs will be based at the carrier’s hub in Frankfurt.
Lufthansa Cargo says the higher capacity and range of the new aircraft would allow it to achieve the same performance with fewer aircraft movements.
With a maximum capacity of 103t, the 777F is around 20% more efficient than the MD-11F, which has a 93t capacity. Range for the 777F is listed as 4,970nm (9,200km).
The airline currently operates seven 777Fs, alongside its ten MD-11Fs. In addition to its own fleet, Lufthansa Cargo can utilize the cargo capacity of four 777Fs operated by Aerologic, a joint venture between the German carrier and DHL.
Source : Lufthansa/Picture Lufthansa Cargo
Rolls-Royce Counts Cost of Failed 1000 TEN Redesign
After some fumbled early communications, Rolls-Royce has been relatively open about the ongoing issues affecting its Trent 1000 engines.
Unfortunately, such transparency also serves as a reminder of how the manufacturer has consistently underestimated the scale of its problems. In its latest trading update, Rolls-Royce predicts that Trent 1000 problems across all variants will cost about $3.1 billion (2.4 pounds) from 2017-2023, which is about 1billion pounds more than forecast a little over a year ago.
Having certified fixes for the durability problems affecting Package B and C variants of the Trent 1000, Rolls is now focusing on the newest iteration, the Trent 1000 TEN.
Ironically it was this engine, which share just 25% parts commonality with earlier builds, that was supposed to put Trent 1000 problems to bed; instead, its issues appear to be among the most serious.
The OEM had hoped to start retrofitting a redesigned high-pressure turbine blade for the TEN from 2020, only to announce the first week of this month that even the redesign “will not deliver a sufficient level of enhanced durability.” Asa result it has penciled in the retrofits for early 2021.
According to Rolls-Royce chief executive Warren East, the delay “will give our customers and ourselves a higher degree of certainty as we plan for the servicing of the fleet over the coming years.”
Source : Rolls-Royce/Picture Rolls-Royce
October 14, 2019 by thekaplanianreport
The Kaplanian Report – October 2019
Boeing Global Services Continues to Be On the Roll
Boeing’s services business has signed a series of orders and contracts from Asia-Pacific carriers, primarily for its digital products.
This comes on the back of a Boeing Global Services forecast projecting the Asia-Pacific commercial aviation services market will grow 5% annually over the next twenty years. By 2038, it is estimated to be worth $3.4 billion.
Boeing announced that Indian low-cost carrier IndiGo signed a deal for crew and aircraft scheduling and management solutions offered by Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen.
Japanese low-cost operator Peach Aviation has signed for Boeing’s digital aircraft positioning products. Chinese carriers, Shandong Airlines and Shenzhen Airlines, both renewed multi-year contracts for various Jeppesen products as well.
Meanwhile, Cathay Pacific and Philippine Airlines inked deals with Boeing for performance improvement packages for their Boeing 777-300ER fleets.
The second version of the packages feature aircraft modifications, associated retrofit parts kits and accompanying service bulletins. These will improve aircraft fuel efficiency, payload and range capability without requiring airlines to significantly change operational policies or procedures, says Boeing.
Lastly, Malaysia Airlines signed a consumables and expendables services agreement, allowing Boeing to provide supply chain solutions.
Airbus Inaugurates Automated Fuselage Line in Hamburg
Airbus has inaugurated an automated fuselage structure assembly line for the A320 family of aircraft in Hamburg, the company announced on October 1st.
The new facility features 20 robots, new logistics concept, automated positioning by laser measurement, and digital data acquisition system.
For the initial section assembly, Airbus uses a modular, lightweight automated system called Flextrack, which employs eight robots and counter-sinking 1,100 to 2,400 holes per longitudinal joint. In the next production step,12 robots, each operating on seven axes, combine the center and aft fuselage sections with the tail to form one major component, drilling, counter-sinking, sealing, and inserting 3,000 rivets per orbital joint.
Besides the use of robots, Airbus will implement new methods and technologies in material and parts logistics to aid production efficiency, improve ergonomics, and shorten lead times. The initiative includes the separation of logistics and production levels, demand-oriented material replenishment, and use of autonomous guided vehicles.
The Hamburg structure assembly facility carries responsibility for joining single fuselage shells into sections and final assembly of single sections to aircraft fuselages. Mechanics equip aircraft parts with electrical and mechanical systems their delivery to the final assembly lines in France, Germany, China, and the U.S.
Source : ainonline/Picture Airbus
Flagship Cessna Citation Longitude Enters Service
Textron Aviation has announced the first deliveries of the company’s new flagship Cessna Citation Longitude super-midsize business jet, which it says signals the start of a new dimension in business travel.
“The newly certified Citation Longitude brings unrivaled technology to the business travel market, for both the passenger and the pilot, offering our customers the most efficient and productive super-midsize jet now in operation,” said Ron Draper, president and CEO. ”We are thrilled to now transition this program into service.”
The Longitude features the longest maintenance intervals in its class—800 hours or 18 months—and is the most cost-effective aircraft in its category.
“The Longitude was designed around maximizing reliability and operational availability for our customers,” said Kriya Shortt, senior vice president, global Customer support.
Source : Textron Aviation/Picture Textron Aviation
Aeroflot Announce Contract on 777 Passenger Cabin Modifications
Aeroflot and Boeing announced a contract to modify passenger cabins on 18 of the Russian flagship carrier’s 777-300ERs.
Boeing will perform engineering work and supply component kits for the planned cabin interior reconfiguration.
“It’s a great honor that a leading Russian carrier selected Boeing solutions,” said Stan Deal, president and chief executive officer of Boeing Global Services. ”Aeroflot is an experienced 777 operator and we are pleased to provide them with the expertise that will support their implementation, long-term strategic growth and development plans.”
Aeroflot is a member of the SkyTeam global airline alliance. It serves 159 destinations in 54 countries. Aeroflot’s 249-strong fleet is the youngest of any airline worldwide that operates more than 100 aircraft. In 2018, Aeroflot carried 35.8 million passengers.
Source : Boeing/Picture Aeroflot
Gulf Air Receives its Seventh 787-9 Dreamliner with New Livery
The airline received the aircraft at Dulles International Airport in Washington, DC.In attendance at the event marking the arrival, which took place ahead of Gulf Air’s 70th anniversary, was the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, and Chairman of Gulf Air’s Board of Directors, HE Zayed, R. Alzayani and the United States Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur L.Ross.
Attendees toured the aircraft, which displayed a redesigned vintage of the Golden Falcon Locheed TriStar livery, representing the company’s iconic design from the 1970s.
Alzayani said: “It gives me great honor to reveal this special livery which would definitely resonate nostalgically with our global audience.The revival of this livery is a homage to our resilient national carrier as it celebrates being one of the first established carriers in the Middle East and how it continues to connect the Kingdom of Bahrain to the world”.
The new Dreamliner will join the fleet by the end of this month, increasing the total number of Dreamliners operated by the airline to seven aircraft following the delivery of three more by 2021.
Source : Arabian Aerospace
Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Delays Entry into Service of A350-1000 Jets
Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways is delaying the entry into service of five Airbus A350-1000 jets as it strives to return to profitability after three consecutive years of losses.
The state-owned carrier has been downsizing its fleet and route network following a failed strategy to rapidly expand to compete with more established Gulf airlines like Emirates.
The Spokesman for the airline said the largest version of the A350 jet remained important to Etihad’s future plans, but did not say when the airline would start using it. Airbus declines to comment, referring questions to Etihad.
Etihad has canceled billions of dollars in aircraft orders, including for 40 of the smaller A350-900 jets and two A350-1000s, as part of a five-year turnaround strategy started in 2016. It has committed to take delivery of five A350-1000s from a current order of 20.
Etihad replaced the management who led the aggressive expansion strategy, which also included investments in airlines that later ceased operations due to their own financial turbulence.
SpiceXpress has taken delivery of its first 737-800 Boeing converted Freighter (BCF)
Pegasus Airlines took delivery of its first Airbus A321neo on September 11, equipped with a 239-seat high-density cabin layout.
China’s AVIC begins first MA700 assembly; on September 27, aiming for first flight in 2020 and certification in 2022.
EasyJet UK budget carrier has emerged as the recipient of the 9,000th Airbus A320-family jet to undergo delivery to customers.
Turkmenistan Airlines buys a Boeing 777-200LR which is planned for delivery in January 2021.
Mongolian Airlines will receive its first Boeing 787-9 from Air Lease Finance in the Spring of 2021.
Saudia the national flag carrier of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has welcomed its first Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner with a special ceremony that included a water cannon salute at Jeddah’s King Abdulaziz International Airport on Monday September 30.
Flydubai introduces Split Scimitar Winglets on its NG Boeing 737-800 fleet.
Boeing says it remains fully committed to the development of the ultra-long-range 777-8 variant despite its decision to shelve development to focus on recovering the schedule of the baseline 777-9.
ATR regional aircraft manufacturer, confirms it has received authorization from the board of directors for the launch of the ATR 42-600S.
Sources: Flightglobal, Boeing, Arabian Aerospace, World Airline News, Airbus.
Express Cargo Operator Atran Adds Extra 737-800 BCF
Russian express airline Atran has added another freighter to its fleet as it continues adding capacity to cater for an e-commerce bonanza.
The addition of a second Boeing 737-800 BCF brings the Volga-Dnepr-owned airline’s fleet to six aircraft.
Atran has now taken delivery of three freighters this year and its fleet also includes four 737-400Fs and another 23t-capacity 737-800BCF.
The company says that the additional capacity will help it meet growing demand for e-commerce shipments, including mail, between China, Russia and CIS states.
The 737-800BCF is 19ft (6m) longer than the -400F variant and also has a wider cargo door.
Atran says that the “step-by-step” fleet expansion and addition of new destinations has allowed it to achieve a “more than 15-fold volume upsurge from China to Russia, eight fold increase of domestic traffic, and more than six-fold uptick from Europe to Russia.”
Source : Volga-Dnepr/Flightglobal/Picture Atran Airlines
Japan Airlines Strives for No Irregular Operations
Japan Airlines is a bit of a phoenix that has risen past adversity and now has an engineering division that is striving toward achieving the highest safety goals, what it terms zero, zero, 100 irregular operations and inflight shutdowns; zero flight squawks and 100% on-time departure.
Since starting its zero, zero, 100 safety goals in 2017,JAL’s flight operations have improved. One big achievement is not having any inflight shutdowns in 2018 and none in 2019 as of this writing, says Yasuo Yoshida, VP maintenance, corporate planning and finance. This is a first for JAL.
He also revealed that the airline’s on-time domestic and international on-time departure rate is more than 99.38%, as of August.
“We’d like to be first MRO” to reach the zero, zero, 100 goal, he says. While he says some people think the airline’s goals are “far too high” or “may sound crazy”, he says they are largely driven by three detrimental things: the crash of flight JA8119, a Boeing 747 that crashed in 1958 and resulted in 520 deaths; the Japan Civil Aviation Bureau issuing a “business improvement order” in 2005 after a series of three unsafe events: and the airline filing bankruptcy in 2010 after accumulating $264 trillion in debt.
“We had given so much trouble to society due to the accident and bankruptcy that we felt that we needed to give back,” says Yoshida. JAL, relisted on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
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September 18, 2019 by thekaplanianreport
The Kaplanian Report – September 2019
GE Aviation is Recalling Four GE9X Powerplants From Boeing To Address A Previously Disclosed Engine Compressor Issue
News of the recall surfaced in a August 19 regulatory filing with the US Department of Transportation (DOT) by Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Airlines, which has applied the rights to fly the engines from Washington State to Ohio.
Ohio-based GE Aviation confirms it is shipping four “compliance engines” to its Ohio facilities. Compliance engines are those that power 777Xs during flight tests.
Volga-Dnepr intends to transport the “GE9X engines, as well as ancillary parts and equipment”, back to GE Aviation within this month on Antonov An-124 freighters, according to its regulatory request with DOT.
Non-US airlines wishing to operate – intra U.S. flights – generally need exemptions from U.S. regulators. U.S.-based airlines are unable to transport massive GE9X, which ship on a stand measuring roughly 8x4x4m (26x14x13ft) and weighing 36,000lb (16,300kg), Volga-Dnepr’s application says.
“Approval of the requested exemption is necessary to enable Volga-Dnepr to respond to an emergency created by unusual circumstances not arising in the normal course of business,” GE says. ”Failure to deliver the engines by air could delay testing, production and subsequent delivery of Boeing airplanes, which would cause financial harm to GE Aviation, Boeing and their customers”.
Boeing tells Flightglobal it is returning the first GE9X test flight engines to GE for retrofit.
Source : Flightglobal/GE Aviation/Boeing
Airbus Eyes Toulouse for Further A321 Production
Airbus considers its factory in Toulouse the “front-running” location for the addition of A321neo manufacturing capacity. The European airframer continues to study where it should boost production of its largest narrowbody by 2022.
The deliberations come as the A321 continues to gain share in the overall A320 family backlog—it now accounts for 40 percent of all A320s on order—and Airbus considers what to do with manufacturing space that will be open with the end of A380 production in Toulouse in 2021.
Operations in China and the United States are also being considered as part of an A321 study that Airbus says will be complete this year.
But industry sources say Toulouse is all but certain the ninth A320-family assembly line because of shorter lead times and the availability of cavernous halls built for the A380. The A380 line is shutting down due to weak demand.
The 180-240-seat A321 is the longest version of Airbus medium-haul A320 family which competes with Boeing’s 737 in the busiest part of the jet market, worth $3 trillion over 20 years.
Source : Reuters/Photo Airbus
Pilatus Clinched An Order From The Swedish Air Ambulance Organization
Pilatus got an order from the Swedish air ambulance organization(KSA) for six PC-24s to be delivered in 2021. The superlight business jets will be used by the Lulea-headquartered operator to provide aeromedical services across the country.
The acquisition follows “an extremely intensive selection process”, says Pilatus.
Swedish air ambulance operates across the whole of Sweden and mutually owned and financed by all 21 of its regions.
“The highly selection process confirmed that the PC-24 is indeed the perfect aircraft for medieval missions,” says Pilatus chairman Oscar Schwenk. He anticipates “further worldwide market potential” for the platform within this segment.
Pilatus says the PC-24’s pressurized cabin accommodates three beds and additional seats for medical personnel, while its large cargo door facilitates rapid loading and unloading of patients.
Source : Pilatus/Picture Pilatus Aircraft
Embraer Delivers First E195-E2 To Brazil’s Azul
On Thursday, September 12, the first delivery of the Embraer E195-E2 marked the start of what the Brazilian manufacturer hopes will be a continued run of success in the segment of small narrowbody market up to 150 seats. They also revealed a plan by JetBlue founder and Azul chairman David Neeleman, to launch another new airline, using E195s in the US.
The largest airplane ever built by Embraer, the E195-E2, goes to Brazil’s Azul at a time AerCap CEO Angus Kelly called a unique moment in the company’s economic and industrial history. The country’s largest domestic carrier is embarking on the next phase of its rapid development. Appearing with Kelly at Embaer’s manufacturing campus in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, Neeleman thanked the leasing company executive “for his support and all his money.” AerCap will lease roughly half of Azul’s E195-E2s, including part of the order for 51 so far publicized.
Azul plans to fly the first of 51 E195-E2s from its main hub in Campinas to Brasilia by the end of October. An aggressive service entry plan will see a total of six airplanes arrive in Campinas by December. Embraer plans to deliver 18 E195-E2s by the end of the year.
Source : AIM/ Picture Embraer
GEnx Engine Celebrates 15 Years
The GEnx engine, the fastest selling wide body engine that GE Aviation has ever produced, marked its 15th year since its launch in April 2004. With outstanding performance and utilization, the GEnx engine family has accumulated 25 million flight hours and 4 million flight cycles.
“ The GEnx began as a blank sheet design incorporating the advanced technologies and materials developed and tested after the GE90 engine entered service,” said Mahendra Nair, General Manager of the GEnx program at GE Aviation. “These proven and matured technologies and materials combined to produce an engine that was 15 percent more fuel efficient than its predecessor with reduced weight, improved performance and lower maintenance costs.
Key to GEnx engine’s are its high pressure compressor, lean burning combustor and lightweight durable composite materials. With the highest pressure ratio compressor in commercial service today, the GEnx has the best fuel efficiency in its thrust class, enabling it to power many of the longest routes.
Customers prefer the GEnx engine, with more than 2,500 GEnx engines sold, solidifying it as the fastest selling high-thrust GE engine in history.
More than 1,700 engines are flying today with 60 operators of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliners and 747-8 aircraft.
Source : GE Aviation
American Airlines Retired Its Final MD-80
American Airlines retired the last of its McDonnell Douglas MD-80 aircraft on September 4th. The iconic airliner departed from Dallas-Fort Worth at 9:00am before landing at Chicago O’Hare at 11:35am. The aircraft conducting the last flight was the last Md-80 to roll from the Long Beach assembly line.
American Airlines initially announced the retirement of all 26 of the models on June 24th on their website. The last of these flights took place on the 4th of this month finishing its last journey. The aircraft was then ferried to Roswell, New Mexico to join the other MD-80s.
Affectionally nicknamed ”Mad Dog”, the aircraft was launched by McDonnell Douglas in 1979. It was built as an upgrade to the manufacturer’s DC-9 which was operated in 1965. The MD-80 held between 130-172 passengers depending on its configuration.
Following McDonnell Douglas’ merger with Boeing, the MD-80s continued to be produced until 1999. Altogether, 1,191 of these models were produced.
American Airlines operated 360 of these over the decades. Delta Air Lines and other operators still continue to use some of these airliners in their services.
Source : World Airline News/Ed’s Research/Picture American Airline
Emirates Is Implementing Its Airbus A380 Retirement Plan
Emirates Airline is implementing its Airbus A380 retirement plan which will see its fleet size peak shortly before declining to around 90-100 aircraft by the mid-2020s.
The airline which took delivery of its first A380 in 2008, is to cut its orders for the type from 162 to 123 in the wake of Airbus’s decision to axe the program in 2020. Cirium fleet data shows that the current stands at 112 aircraft.
“You’ll start seeing A380s coming out of our fleet for various reasons, and we’ve always said this,” Emirates Airlines president Tim Clark. “ These are being dealt with on a tail-by-tail, month- by-month basis under a retirement schedule that is well planned already.”
Two A380s have been withdrawn from service at Dubai World Central (DWC) airport and will be used as a spares source for the operational fleet, says Clark. So, the A380 will remain a major component of our fleet mix for the next 15 years at least. Clark specifies that the Emirates-owned airframes can be used for spares support of its operational fleet. “What the lessors do with their aircraft is up to them.”
Turkish Airlines celebrates 787-9 inaugural flight from London to Istanbul.
KLM has formally transferred an order for seven Airbus A350-900s to its Skyteam and corporate partner Air France.
KLM has ordered another two pair of Boeing 777-300ER twinjets, Boeing has disclosed. The order has previously been listed on the Boeing backlog but attributed to an unidentified customer.
Amazon has bought a minority stake in Canadian freight cargo carrier Cargojet.
Egyptair has taken delivery of its first of 12 A220-300 aircraft on order, becoming the first A220 operator based in the Middle East and North African region.
Tunisair Express and ATR have confirmed a firm order for three ATR 72-600s.
Mesa Airlines and Mitsubishi Aircraft have a memorandum of understanding covering a potential firm order for 50 SpaceJet M100 regional jets and purchase rights on another 50.
Singapore Airlines launches the first ever nonstop flight from Singapore to Seattle covering 8,010 miles in 15 hours and 50 minutes using the A350-900 on the route.
Qantas Freight Has Welcomed First of Two Boeing 747-8 Freighters
Qantas Freight has welcomed a new addition to its fleet with the first of two Boeing 747-8F freighter aircraft touching down in Sydney on Tuesday, August 27th.
The next generation freighters will be operated by Atlas Air, on behalf of Qantas.
Each aircraft offers 20 percent more freight capacity and space for seven extra pallets compared to the 747-400F.
Qantas Freight Executive Manager Paul Jones said the arrival of the 747-8F aircraft would better meet customer demand for freight capacity around the globe.
“More capacity and better reliability means we can continue to deliver for our customers in Australia and around the globe,” Mr Jones said.
These aircraft have a far better environmental footprint, producing less carbon emissions and offering greater efficiency, something that we know is really important to our customers.”
The two freighters will operate between Australia, China and the USA, with additional routes currently being explored. The second 747-8F entered service later the same week.
While the aircraft will be painted in Atlas Air livery, the Qantas Freight logo will be displayed on either side of the nose and underneath the freighter’s nose cargo door. The 747-8’s iconic nose allows easier loading of oversized cargo and helps achieve faster turnaround times.
Source : Qantas/Picture Qantas
Joramco Obtained Approval for Boeing 777
This is the fourth EASA Part-145 approval obtained by Joramco since the acquisition by DAE, following earlier approvals for Boeing MAX, Airbus A320neo and Boeing 787. Joramco currently holds 12 type approvals from EASA: 5 Airbus,5 Boeing and 2 Embraer.
Jeff Wilkinson, Joramco’s chief executive officer said: “Joramco has recently progressed further into the wide body market. At the request of its existing loyal customer base, we have added the Boeing 777 capability to our extensive in-house portfolio.
Firoz Tarapore, chief executive officer of DAE said: “The addition of this approval further supports our ambition to continue to build a successful and meaningful services provider in the region. The Boeing 777 is a highly popular long-haul aircraft both regionally as well as globally, and we are very pleased to be able coextend our skillset and service offerings to operators of this type from now on.”
Source : Arabian Aerospace/Picture DAE
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Boeing Becomes Sole Provider of Aftermarket Parts for New Tecnam P2012 Traveller
Boeing signed a multiyear agreement with Tecnam to be the sole provider of aftermarket spare parts and distribution services for the P2012 Traveller, Tecnam’s first commuter airline aircraft.
Boeing will assume distribution responsibilities, including forecasting, ordering and delivering all original equipment manufacturer(OEM) genuine replacement parts for the P2012 Traveller through its Aviall distribution network.
“We are thrilled to provide our industry leading distribution services for the new aircraft,” said William Ampofo, vice president, Business & General Aviation, Boeing Global Services.” Our global supply chain and agile distribution systems will keep these planes in the air for many years to come.”
The P20012 has completed European Aviation Safety Agency(EASA) certification and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification and is ready to be delivered to Tecnam’s launch customer, Boston based regional airline Cape Air.
Powered by two 375 HP turbo-charged Lycoming engines, the Tecnam P2012 Traveller features a modern design and state-of-the-art equipment. The aircraft’s simple and easily accessed airframe and systems, fixed landing gear, robust interiors and easy to replace parts, result in high efficiency and low maintenance costs.
Tecnam currently utilizes Boeing’s navigation and charting data through an existing agreement with Jeppesen.
Source : Boeing/Tecnam/ Picture Tecnam
A320neo Also Potentially Vulnerable to Pitch Up Scenario
Airbus has determined that the A320neo is potentially vulnerable to an angle-of attack protection weakness which could result in excessive pitch attitude under certain circumstances.
EASA stresses that the condition has never been encountered during A320 operations.
But it says that a “reduced efficiency” of the aircraft’s angle-of-attack protection under certain flight configurations, and in combination with specific commanded maneuvers from the crew, could lead to excessive pitch and higher workload.
The scenario has been uncovered during analysis and laboratory testing of the A320neo flight-control laws.
Airbus has developed temporary revisions to the A320neo flight manual to address the condition, and EASA has ordered operators to amend their manuals accordingly.
Both the CFM International Leap 1A and Pratt & Whitney PW1100G versions of the aircraft are effected.
EASA has opted for quick implementation of an airworthiness directive, requiring the changes within 30 days of 14 August, postponing the commentary period until after publication.
Airbus is working to develop a flight-control law amendment for the A321neo which will become available next year.
Bombardier’s Challenger 350 Has Hit its 300th Delivery Milestone
Bombardier’s Challenger 350 hit its 300th delivery milestone, five years after the first example of the super-midsize business jet entered service.
Launched in May 2013, the 10-seat aircraft is the second iteration of the Challenger 300, which Bombardier launched in 1999 as the continental business jet. The model entered service four years later.
The Challenger 350 is powered by Honeywell HTF7350 turbofans, each producing 7,323 lb (32.57KN) thrust. It has a maximum take-off weight of 18,430kg (40,600lb), while maximum range with eight passengers and two crew is 3,200nm (5,920km) at a long range speed of Mach 0.8. The 27 million aircraft has a maximum speed of M0.82.
Recent enhancements include a combined Collins Aerospace head-up display and enhanced vision system; improved cabin soundproofing and updated cockpit aesthetics. Also included are braking improvements and rudder control modifications that give the 350 up to 1500nm of additional range when departing from shorter runways.
The aircraft is now facing stiff competition in the segment from Embraer’s Praetor 600, which entered service in June, and the Cessna Citation Longitude, deliveries which are set to begin this quarter.
Source : Bombardier/Bombardier picture/Flightglobal .
FYI Purchasing Process of Commercial Jetliners
During the last Paris Air Show, a lot of orders where announced at the show – specifically Airbus aircraft. However, when looking at the orders it is important to distinguish between what orders were firm and which are Letter of Intent and Memorandum of Understanding. In this article I will explain what the terms mean from the least committed to most.
Letter of Intent (LOI)
This will spell out the details of the intended sale and that discussions have already taken place between manufacturer and the airline covering price, deposit amount, terms of sale, it includes and expiration date for a proposed deal, giving the chance to withdraw if papers are not signed by a certain date.
No deposit is put down for a LOI. However it is important to remember that a letter of intent is non-binding.
An agreement between two or more parties outlining the terms and details of an understanding, including each party’s requirements and responsibilities.
It is often the first stage in the formation of a formal contract and does not involve the exchange of money.
Here is where things get a little more complex, there are subtle differences between an LOI vs an MOU. Investopedia states that the primary difference between the two is that a letter of intent is not binding while legal courts consider a memorandum of understanding legally binding.
Firm order
In a firm order a deposit is put down in the deal. However, there are still conditions in place that allow the buyer to back out. If the buyer happens to back out then there are usually penalties. Conversely, if the planes are late there can be a refund of deposits.
Firm orders can include options. Airlines will commonly obtain options from the aircraft manufacturer which allow the airline to delay the purchase of additional aircraft until market conditions justify the purchase.
( Recent example – China Airlines has converted three options for Boeing 777 Freighters to firm orders to replace its aging 747-400Fs)
Options also save the airline a position in the manufacturing queue, for a guaranteed delivery slot. If the airline finally exercises its option(s), it can place its order without going to the end of the queue which would otherwise delay the delivery of the aircraft for years.
However, if future conditions do not justify expansion of the airline’s fleet, the airline is not under obligation to purchase the aircraft.
Source : Sherpa Report/Ed’s Research
De Havilland Canada delivered the 600th Dash 8-400 to Ethiopian Airlines.
Vietnam Airlines agreed to lease two Airbus A320-200neos from Air Lease Corp. for delivery in the second half of 2020.
Air France-KLM has signed for up to 120 Airbus A220-300s as part of a fleet renewal plan disclosed on July 30th.
EgyptAir has taken delivery of its fifth 787-9 Dreamliner. The fifth aircraft is more fuel-efficient and generates fewer greenhouse emissions than similarly sized aircraft.
Air Asia receives its first A330-900 leased from Avolon will be operated by Malaysian carrier affiliate Air Asia X Thailand.
Virgin Atlantic became the second UK airline to take delivery of an Airbus A350-1000, following British Airways delivery of the airline first Airbus A350-1000 in July.
Korean Air has finalized an agreement with Boeing to order 20 787 Dreamliners including 10 each of 787-10 and 787-9 models valued at $6.3 billion according to list prices.
FedEx adds its First B767F to its European Network
The express operator said the new aircraft can carry 41 tons, which is around 16% more than the A300F it replaces. FedEx added that the new aircraft would also reduce fuel consumption by around 9% and also offered noise reduction.
The newly introduced aircraft operates five times a week and connects FedEx in Dublin, London Stansted, and Paris-Charles de Gaulle-one of the major FedEx hubs in Europe alongside Cologne & Liege.
FedEx began upgrading its fleet in 2007 and since then, 210 new aircraft have been introduced into the FedEx fleet which is now comprised of 679 planes.
Last year, the company ordered an additional 12 Boeing 777Freighters and 12 767 Freighters, which are more fuel efficient than the aircraft they will replace.
Source: Air Cargo News/ Picture FedEx B767F
China Airlines Has Converted Three Options for the Boeing 777 Freighters
China Airlines has converted three options for the Boeing 777 Freighters into firm orders, more than two months after it first inked a memorandum of understanding to take the freighters.
The airline states in a stock exchange disclosure that the total transaction value is estimated to be $ 1.06 billion, or about $352 million per aircraft.
This follows the firming of orders for three 777Fs in late June. China Airlines said then that the total transaction was around $1.06 billion.
The airline signed the memorandum of understanding with Boeing in May, in a deal comprising three firm-order aircraft and three options. Boeing then acknowledged the deal during the Paris Air Show in June.
China Airlines will use the 777Fs to replace its aging 747-400Fs. Cirium’s Fleets Analyzer shows that the airline has 18 of those jets in operation, with three more in storage.
Source : China Airlines/Boeing/Boeing Picture/Cirium’s Fleets Analyzer
Lufthansa Technik & GE Aviation Team Up on 777X
Lufthansa Technik and GE Aviation have signed a cooperation agreement, further enlarging the German company’s collaboration for Boeing 777X MRO services.
As part of the deal, Lufthansa Technik will become GE’s authorized service provider for backup generator and converter systems, along with certain electrical load management system components on the new aircraft.
Joe Kriciunas, general manager of GE Aviation Electrical Power Systems commented: ”Lufthansa Technik brings a breadth of engineering expertise and extensive experience in maintaining civil electrical generators, along with their global logistics network to provide seamless support tour mutual customers.”
Additionally, the German MRO provider will supply various 777X power component services, including original equipment manufacturer-approved repairs, warranty corrections and component modifications on behalf of GE aviation.
Georg Fanta, Lufthansa Technik’s vice president of aircraft component services added: “Together, we will generate additional customer value by combining GE’s vast experience in design and product engineering with Lufthansa Technik’s comprehensive strengths in repair development, MRO and the management and handling of valuable Assets.”
Source : Lufthansa Technik/Picture Lufthansa Technik
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Neonatal sepsis in a neonatal intensive care unit in Indonesia
Letter to the Editor The incomplete cleaning and disinfection and use of reusable oxygen humidifier for several patients probably created a reservoir ...
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Letter to the Editor The incomplete cleaning and disinfection and use of reusable oxygen humidifier for several patients probably created a reservoir for L. pneumophila and facilitated transmission.6 This matched caseecontrol analysis showed that the risk of LD increased with every additional minute of exposure to the contaminated humidifier although weakly statistically associated. Our regular water distribution system monitoring did not disclose potentially dangerous situations. A contamination level of L. pneumophila of 40% positive water samples out of a total of 15 samples was detected in September 2007, of which only one sample exceeded 103 cfu/L. Treatment of the water distribution system was repeated one month later and revealed no contaminated water samples. Humidifiers have been implicated in transmission of LD, but this is the first description of the involvement of sterile water refilling in a nosocomial outbreak of LD.1e5 Unfortunately, it was not possible to compare clinical and environmental isolates genetically, because the bacteria were not recovered from the patient and the small number of cases limited the power and precision of the study. We recommend using disposable oxygen humidifiers. Furthermore, staff adherence to infection control procedures should be reinforced. No new L. pneumophila infections were identified in our hospital following implementation of these measures.
Acknowledgements We thank maintenance personnel for their technical assistance, the physicians C. Merino and F. Tarazona for clinical management, the physician C. An ˜o ´ and the nurse supervisor M.A. Go ´mez for their help in the PARU, and the microbiologist V. Domı´nguez for the sample management. Conflict of interest statement None declared. Funding sources None.
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383 3. Moiraghi A, Castellani Pastoris M, Barral C, et al. Nosocomial legionellosis associated with use of oxygen bubble humidifiers and underwater chest drain. J Hosp Infect 1987;10: 47e50. 4. Arnow P, Chou T, Weil D, Shapiro EN, Kretzschmar C. Nosocomial Legionnaires’ disease caused by aerosolized tap water from respiratory devices. J Infect Dis 1982;146:460e467. 5. Zuravleff JJ, Yu VL, Shonnard JW, Rihs JD, Best M. Legionella pneumophila contamination of a hospital humidifier. Demonstration of aerosol transmission and subsequent subclinical infection in exposed guinea pigs. Am Rev Respir Dis 1983; 128:657e661. 6. Tablan OC, Anderson LJ, Besser R, Bridges C, Hajjeh R, CDC, Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. Guidelines for preventing health care associated pneumonia, 2003: recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2004;53(RR-3):1e36. 7. Fields BS, Benson RF, Besser RE. Legionella and Legionnaires’ disease: 25 years of investigation. Clin Microbiol Rev 2002; 15:506e526.
R. Bou* P. Ramos Infectious Diseases Group, Hospital Universitari de La Ribera, Alzira, Valencia, Spain E-mail address: [email protected] Available online 5 February 2009 * Corresponding author. Address: Hospital Universitari de La Ribera, Ctra. de Corbera, km. 1, 46600 Alzira, Valencia, Spain. Tel.: þ34 96 245 83 25; fax: þ34 96 245 81 56. ª 2009 The Hospital Infection Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.jhin.2009.01.002
Neonatal sepsis in a neonatal intensive care unit in Indonesia*
Madam, In developing countries neonatal mortality is about 34 per thousand newborn infants. Most of these deaths occur in the first week of life.1 The World Health Organization estimates that infection, prematurity and birth asphyxia are the main causes of death.2 A study from Pakistan showed that the rate of neonatal infections is high in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in developing countries, Gram-negative bacteria being the most * Presented in part at the Society for Pediatric Research Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 2006.
384 common causative agents.3 We studied the incidence of neonatal sepsis on day 1 and day 3e5, the bacteria causing infection, and the relation between the incidence of sepsis and prescribed antibiotics in our NICU. We included all newborn infants admitted to the NICU of Harapan Kita Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia, between May 2003 and June 2005. Data on mothers and infants were recorded. Antibiotics given prior to delivery were also noted. The most commonly used antibiotics were third-generation cephalosporins. Neonatal septicaemia was suspected when infants showed any signs of infection (respiratory insufficiency, bradycardia, lethargy, poor feeding, seizures or temperature instability). Blood cultures were analysed with the BACTEC 9240 Rapid Detection System (BectoneDickson, Sparks, MD, USA) using the PEDS Plus culture bottles and media. When neonatal septicaemia was suspected, broad-spectrum antibiotics were started. When the first culture was negative but there was clinical improvement the blood culture was repeated on day 3e5. Neonatal septicaemia was confirmed by positive blood culture. In the study period 6600 infants were born. Of these, 216 were admitted on the first day of life to the NICU. In 163 out of these 216 infants the mother received antibiotics before delivery. In 133 of the 216 infants an infection was suspected on the first day of life. Four out of nine with proven sepsis on day 1, and 45 out of 63 with proven sepsis on day 3e5, were due to Serratia species. Klebsiella pneumoniae accounted for a further nine of these 63 infants. Most cases of proven sepsis either on day 1 or 3e5 had been exposed to antenatal antibiotics. We did not find a relationship between infections either on day 1 or day 3e5 with any maternal risk factors and no relation to birthweight, gestational age and Apgar score. We observed an important difference in the rates of sepsis between day 1 and day 3e5. On day 1 we found that nine out of 216 infants had a positive blood culture compared with 63 positive cultures in these same infants on day 3e5. Infections in newborn infants are often divided into early-onset, diagnosed within the first days of life, and late-onset sepsis occurring after the first week. Early-onset sepsis is mainly caused by perinatally acquired bacteria, Group B streptococci, H. influenzae and Escherichia coli. Late-onset infections are considered nosocomial and caused by staphylococci and Candida spp.4 The rate of earlyonset sepsis in the NICU of the University Medical Centre Groningen is w0.5 per 1000 deliveries including all gestational ages (P. van den Broek and S. Lusyati, unpublished data). In our hospital
Letter to the Editor we observed an incidence of early neonatal sepsis of 1.4/1000 deliveries. This incidence in our hospital is higher than in NICUs in developed countries, when taking into account the higher weight and gestational age in infants in our unit. In our unit Serratia spp. was the commonest infecting agent, both on day 1 and 3e5. It is unclear whether infants in our unit were contaminated with Serratia spp. during delivery or soon after birth in our unit. In our hospital the majority of mothers received broad-spectrum antibiotics before delivery. Whether this caused an abnormal bacterial flora in the mothers, which then transmitted to the infants is unclear. Almost all proven sepsis on day 3e5 was caused by Gram-negative bacteria with Serratia spp. as the main organism, followed by K. pneumoniae. These infections must be considered as nosocomial. The postnatal age of our infants developing a nosocomial infection is lower than that found in studies in developed countries, whereas the incidence in our unit is much higher. Our results therefore indicate a serious problem with nosocomial infections in our unit starting soon after admission to the unit. Efforts therefore have to be directed to reduce the incidence of nosocomial infections. Conflict of interest statement None declared. Funding sources Supported by Nestle ´ Nutrition Institute Pediatric Scholarship Award ‘in Neonatology studies’, Switzerland, 2005.
References 1. Costello A, Francis V, Byrne A, et al. The states of the world’s newborns. Washington: Save the Children Fund; 2001. 2. Anonymous. Perinatal mortality. Report No.: WHO/FRH/ MSM/967. Geneva: WHO; 1996. 3. Zaidi AK, Huskins WC, Thaver D, Bhutta ZA, Abbas Z, Goldmann DA. Hospital-acquired neonatal infections in developing countries. Lancet 2005;365:1175e1188. 4. Stoll BJ, Hansen N. Infections in VLBW infants: studies from the NICHD Neonatal Research Network. Semin Perinatol 2003;27:293e301.
S. Lusyatia,b,* P. van den Broekb P.J.J. Sauerb a Paediatrics Department, Women and Children’s Harapan Kita Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia
Paediatrics Department, Beatrix Children’s Hospital, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands E-mail address: [email protected] Available online 12 February 2009 * Corresponding author. Address: Pediatric Department, Women and Children’s Harapan Kita Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia. Tel./fax: þ62-21-53152570. ª 2009 The Hospital Infection Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.jhin.2009.01.004
Bacterial flora in residents of long-term care facilities: a point prevalence study
Madam, The bacterial flora of residents of long-term care facilities (LTCFs) differ from the flora of residents in the general community. Factors like poor hand hygiene and selective pressure of antimicrobials contribute to infection in the LTCF population with serious health and financial consequences.1e3 The present study focused on factors other than antibiotic consumption that may promote carriage of resistant micro-organisms. This point prevalence study was performed during the period June 2002 to May 2004 in 41 LTCFs of the Athens region. In total, 1523 residents participated after giving written informed consent. Residents with any signs of infection were excluded. Swabs were taken from decubitus ulcers and anterior nares and urine samples were collected. Sampling was done once for each resident irrespective of the length of stay in the LTCF and once for each LTCF during the study period. Sample cultures, identification of isolates and susceptibility testing were performed according to standard techniques.4 Production of extended-spectrum b-lactamases (ESBLs) by Klebsiella pneumoniae was assessed by the double disk approximation test.5 Full clinical data were collected for each participant. Residents were divided into two groups: group A, consisting of residents of 32 LTCFs with perceived poor hygiene, i.e. four residents per room sharing the same toilet, one nurse per 16 residents and a physician available only on demand; and group B, consisting of residents of nine LTCFs with good hygiene infrastructure, i.e. one
resident per room with single toilet, one nurse per four residents and physician available daily at a 2:1 rate of nurses to physicians.6 In total, 328 residents were male and 1195 female. Their mean SD age was 84.6 6.3 years. A total of 1139 belonged to group A and 384 to group B; 474 (41.6%) and 128 (33.3%) respectively had a positive urine culture (P ¼ 0.005). The commonest isolates were Escherichia coli (19.1%) and Proteus mirabilis (9.4%) in group A; and P. mirabilis (11.5%) and E. coli (10.9%) in group B. Carriage of a micro-organism was found in the nares of 309 (27.1%) and 32 (8.3%) residents of groups A and B respectively (P < 0.0001). The commonest isolates were Staphylococcus aureus (15.0%) and P. mirabilis (4.5%) in group A; and S. aureus (3.9%) and P. mirabilis (1.6%) in group B. Carriage of a micro-organism was found in the decubitus ulcers of 152 (13.4%) and 12 (3.1%) residents of groups A and B respectively (P < 0.0001). The commonest isolates were P. mirabilis (4.0%) and E. coli (2.4%) in group A; and P. aeruginosa (1.5%) and E. coli (0.5%) in group B. Their resistance patterns are shown in Table I. Analysis failed to disclose any effect of the length of LTCF stay on the colonisation in group A. Mean SD length of stay of group B residents with sterile urine was 34.6 20.8 months; for those with positive urine cultures it was 39.7 23.4 months (P ¼ 0.029). Factors favouring colonisation of the urinary tract were urinary catheterisation (OR: 3.83), decubitus ulcers (OR: 2.11), lack of mobility (OR: 1.61), and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2; OR: 1.75). Those favouring nasal colonisation were nasogastric feeding tubes (OR: 92.51), decubitus ulcers (OR: 4.06) and intake of sedatives (OR: 1.54); those favouring colonisation of decubitus ulcers were urinary catheterisation (OR: 2.14), nasogastric feeding tubes (OR: 600.00) and intake of sedatives (OR: 1.65). The single factor affecting the urinary tract colonisation by ESBL-producing K. pneumoniae was the intake of broad-spectrum b-lactams (OR: 6326.1; P < 0.0001) and of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (OR: 27.5; P < 0.0001) during the previous trimester. It was evident that the patient flora was dependent on the level of hygiene provided by the LTCF. The most heavily colonised sites were the urinary tract followed by anterior nares and decubitus ulcers. Colonisers of urine and decubitus ulcers were predominantly Gram-negative bacteria; that of anterior nares was mostly S. aureus. These findings are in general agreement with those reported by other authors.1,7 The most
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Transport of acid phosphatase to lysosomes does not involve passage through the cell surface
Yoshitaka Tanaka, Shinji Yano, Koji Furuno, Toyoko Ishikawa, Masaru Himeno, Keitaro Kato
生命薬学
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In foregoing studies, we reported that LGP107, a major lysosomal membrane glycoprotein in the rat liver, distributes in and circulates continuously throughout the endocytic membrane system (endosomes, lysosomes and plasma membrane), in hepatocytes (1,2). In the present study we examined whether acid phosphatase (APase), an enzyme that is transported to lysosomes as a transmembrane protein, passes through the cell surface during intracellular transport, because transport of newly synthesized APase to lysosomes involves the passage of endosomes containing a ligand which is internalized via receptors on the cell surface and is finally dispatched to lysosomes for degradation (3). When localization of APase in rat hepatocytes was investigated by immunoelectron microscopy, APase was found to be localized in lysosomes and endosomes, but not in coated pits on the cell surface, which are positive for LGP107, and from which antibodies for LGP107 are internalized. Further, unlike LGP107, newly synthesized APase was not detected in plasma membranes isolated from livers of rats given [35S]methionine, and when cultured hepatocytes were exposed to 125I-labeled anti APase IgG at 37°C, there was no transfer of the antibody to lysosomes even after 24 h incubation. Therefore, these results indicate that intracellular movement of APase does not involve cell surface passage in rat hepatocytes, and clearly differs from the recent report that human APase is transported to lysosomes via the cell surface in BHK cells transfected with its cDNA (4).
https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-291X(90)90501-D
出版済み - 8 16 1990
Lysosomes
Endosomes
Lysosome-Associated Membrane Glycoproteins
Immunoelectron Microscopy
Cell Surface Receptors
Microscopic examination
Complementary DNA
rat Lgp107 protein
Tanaka, Y., Yano, S., Furuno, K., Ishikawa, T., Himeno, M., & Kato, K. (1990). Transport of acid phosphatase to lysosomes does not involve passage through the cell surface. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 170(3), 1067-1073. https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-291X(90)90501-D
Transport of acid phosphatase to lysosomes does not involve passage through the cell surface. / Tanaka, Yoshitaka; Yano, Shinji; Furuno, Koji; Ishikawa, Toyoko; Himeno, Masaru; Kato, Keitaro.
：: Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 巻 170, 番号 3, 16.08.1990, p. 1067-1073.
Tanaka, Y, Yano, S, Furuno, K, Ishikawa, T, Himeno, M & Kato, K 1990, 'Transport of acid phosphatase to lysosomes does not involve passage through the cell surface', Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 巻. 170, 番号 3, pp. 1067-1073. https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-291X(90)90501-D
Tanaka Y, Yano S, Furuno K, Ishikawa T, Himeno M, Kato K. Transport of acid phosphatase to lysosomes does not involve passage through the cell surface. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 1990 8 16;170(3):1067-1073. https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-291X(90)90501-D
Tanaka, Yoshitaka ; Yano, Shinji ; Furuno, Koji ; Ishikawa, Toyoko ; Himeno, Masaru ; Kato, Keitaro. / Transport of acid phosphatase to lysosomes does not involve passage through the cell surface. ：: Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 1990 ; 巻 170, 番号 3. pp. 1067-1073.
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Jac o' the North
Tag: John Jenkins
Brexit, Boris, Nigel . . . and independence!
On 22/07/2019 22/07/2019 By JacIn Brexit, British Nationalism, Corruption, Devolution, Englandandwales, English Nationalism, Labour Party, Plaid Cymru, Third Sector, Welsh Government, Welsh Independence, Welsh Labour, Welsh Nationalism73 Comments
PLEASE APPRECIATE THAT I GET SENT MORE INFORMATION AND LEADS THAN I CAN USE. I TRY TO RESPOND TO EVERYONE WHO CONTACTS ME BUT I CANNOT POSSIBLY USE EVERY BIT OF INFORMATION I’M SENT. DIOLCH YN FAWR
Regular readers will know that I voted for Brexit back in June 2016. I did so for the reasons I set out in EU Referendum: Why I Want OUT! which was followed in celebratory mood with Brexit, Wexit: Things Can Only Get Better!
The clue to my motivation lies in my use of the word ‘Wexit’, for I believed then, and I believe even more strongly today, that Brexit, especially a disastrous and damaging Brexit, can lead to Welsh independence. And Welsh independence is my priority; more important by far than membership of the EU.
In addition to voting for Brexit I confirmed my trip to Tartarus by supporting Trump, and more recently, by voting for the Brexit Party in the recent EU elections. Then there’s my backing for Neil McEvoy, and the regular criticism of Plaid Cymru.
Oh, yes, and of course I attack the Labour Party on a regular, almost daily, basis.
So, all in all, I suppose I’ve made a few enemies.
My rap sheet is enough to reduce certain people to bouts of carpet-chewing rage. These, it should be said, tend to be Plaid Cymru members and supporters; more especially what some call the ‘Leannistas’, the woke left, currently nursing their wounds after so many recent defeats and now lashing out blindly at people like me.
Which is ironic in a way, for I am only following Lenin’s dictum, “The worse, the better”. By which he meant that the population at large will be more receptive to revolutionary change when the system they’re familiar with starts disintegrating.
It may be cruel, it may be cynical, but old Vlad was spot on. For the Bolsheviks would never have come to power if Russia had stayed out of World War One and the Czar had introduced adequate reforms.
BY THE LEFT
There are no half measures with these people who attack me.
If you don’t support Extinction Rebellion bringing cities to a standstill then you’re a climate change denier. Vote for Brexit and you’re a fascist/racist/white supremacist. Refuse to accept that ‘chicks with dicks’ are 100% women and you’re a transphobe. The list of crimes people like me can commit – without even knowing it! – is endless. And these ‘crimes’ increase by the month.
Though many of my critics are happy to engage in rational debate, and there’s even banter. But then there’s the darker side, those who just want to screech at me.
Here’s a recent example from Twitter of what I’m talking about.
I don’t know who Aled Gwyn Williams is (is he the one in the cap?), and I’ve no idea what motivated him to put such ugly slanders on social media for my grandchildren to be teased about.
I shall deal with the first paragraph in a minute.
As for the second paragraph, I am none of the things he lists. Though perhaps he’s trying to say the same thing with “fascist”, “racist”, and “authoritarian & white-supremacist”. (I can almost hear the spluttering as he repeats himself.)
As for being “homophobic”, well, just ask my gay friends.
The final smear is that I am a “defender of violence against women”, but I have no idea what the hell he’s trying to say. Does he think I stand outside windows listening to domestic arguments and shouting, “Go on, pal, punch her!”
Displayed here we see the absolute self-belief of the true fanatic (political or religious); convinced that he/she is right and anyone he/she disagrees with is not only wrong, but evil.
Which makes them no different to those they claim to oppose. For the right, we’re told, is intolerant, that it ‘others’ people, who can then be vilified and humiliated. Precisely what Aled Gwyn Williams tried to do to me in that tweet.
Support for the old axiom that says there’s no real difference between the extremes of left and right. They operate in almost exactly the same way.
But yes, I did vote for Brexit; and yes, I did support Trump; and yes, I did vote for the Brexit Party in last month’s EU elections; and yes, I certainly want Boris Johnson to become prime minister: and yes, I did help form Ein Gwlad – because I want Welsh independence!
An increasing number of people across the political spectrum now agree that Brexit delivered by Boris Johnson with his head up Trump’s arse will threaten the Union.
‘Welsh’ Labour leader Mark Drakeford has said it. His predecessor Carwyn Jones conceded that the “shambles” in Westminster was making more people in Wales think about independence. Former Liberal Democrat leader and deputy PM Nick Clegg knows the Union is under threat. Former PM Gordon Brown agrees with him. I could go on, but you get my drift.
The exclusive English nationalism preached by Boris Johnson makes many more Scots, Irish, and Welsh question the English connection.
This is a good thing. As this Irish tweet I picked up over the weekend understands. (Though I’m not sure about Wales as a fifth province!)
When Johnson is announced as new Tory Party leader and prime minister tomorrow he will face a choice. Either to soldier on with a rebellious minority in his party capable of derailing his plans, or to call a general election in the hope of removing his critics and increasing his majority.
Despite the obvious discord in the Labour Party there’s no guarantee that Johnson could increase his majority, that’s because any election will be fought on the issue of Brexit, which will see certain parties standing aside to give a single anti-Brexit candidate a clear run at the Tory opponent.
His best option then might be an electoral pact with the Brexit Party. The Tories could concentrate on the suburbs and the shires, while Farage’s crew could focus on those ‘left behind’ areas that voted for Brexit in 2016.
Such a pact will confirm the split in the Conservative Party.
For as I’ve said somewhere before, in recent decades ‘Europe’ has been to the Tories what Irish Home Rule was to the 19th century Liberal Party. The Liberals split in 1886 with the breakaway Liberal Unionist Party eventually merging with the Conservative and Unionist Party.
A victory for the pact would give Boris Johnson – and his thirsty deputy, Nigel Farage – the majority needed to turn the UK into an offshore tax haven where everybody whistles The Dam Busters tune before settling down to yet another meal of chlorinated chicken.
A LITTLE BIRD
While it’s difficult to understand the unprovoked attack from Aled Gwyn Williams, he is not alone. Not so long ago a very similar assault was mounted by someone called Huw Marshall who, again, is a complete stranger to me.
Ifan Morgan Jones also came out swinging with a ludicrous charge of Antisemitism over something I’d written that included George Soros. But in my piece I never mentioned that Soros was Jewish. To which I might add that, as a good conservative, I support the state of Israel because it’s an ally of the West.
But why would complete strangers want to attack me, and do so by telling lies? I mean, if you don’t like me, or you don’t agree with me, then don’t read this blog, don’t follow me on Twitter, etc. Am I that influential?
Which makes me wonder whether we are really dealing with a few individuals who’ve taken an intense dislike to me/my views or if there’s more to it.
Let’s think about it for a minute. I criticise Plaid Cymru. I helped form Ein Gwlad. I continually attack the Labour Party. I am an outspoken supporter Neil McEvoy. I regularly refer to Cardiff Bay as ‘Corruption Bay’ (or “a cess-pit”). For years I have exposed the corruption, cronyism and waste of public funding in the third sector . . .
Thinks . . . who might share my interest in those things, but from a perspective opposite to mine, and might be able to influence, directly or indirectly, people who don’t know me?
One obvious suspect is Deryn Consulting, the lobbying firm that acts as a link between Labour, Plaid Cymru, the third sector, and others that together make our country a corrupt and impoverished laughing-stock and a magnet for crooks and chancers.
At this point I should add that I’ve also attacked Deryn more than once.
To understand how Deryn operates – they are lobbyists and ‘influencers’ after all – just think of Welsh public life focused on Cardiff Bay as a web, with Deryn as a fat, hairy-legged spider at the centre.
Deryn was instrumental in the sacking of Carl Sargeant and must bear considerable responsibility for his suicide. Deryn also co-ordinates the unremitting campaign against Neil McEvoy.
If you doubt how influential Deryn is in Welsh political life then read this piece by the lawyer representing the Sargeant family at the resumed inquest the week before last into Carl Sargeant’s death. There are passages there that almost jump off the screen.
Particularly the section below.
Extract from Dr Neil Hudgell’s account of the Sargeant inquest. Some might argue that Deryn set itself up as accuser, judge and jury. Click to enlarge.
Why would Carwyn Jones make TWO phone calls to Deryn almost immediately after hearing of Carl Sargeant’s death? Was it, ‘Oh, dear, ladies . . . tell me what to do now.’
Maybe I should explain that the Cathy Owens mentioned by Dr Hudgell is the leading director of Deryn, while the other woman also figured in Guido Fawkes’ coverage of December 2018, where we read: “Jo Kiernan: Deryn employee and named at last week’s Inquest as co-ordinating a bullying campaign against Sargeant when she worked as Carwyn Jones’ chief SpAd.”
Carl Sargeant complained about this bullying at the time it was happening, in 2014, other AMs also complained on his behalf, but of course Carwyn Jones later denied that any complaints had been made. But then, Kiernan was a powerful woman, she was even allowed to deal with complaints made against her.
One of those who stood by Carl Sargeant was his friend and former AM Leighton Andrews. For standing up for his dead friend, and pointing the finger of guilt in the right direction, Andrews himself became a target for the extended Deryn network.
I’m not saying that Aled Gwyn Williams, Huw Marshall, Ifan Morgan Jones, and the rest of my critics are taking orders from the nest (or maybe it’s the bunker nowadays) but they seem to share the Deryn mindset that will not tolerate critics or divergent views.
And never forget that Deryn is a creation of devolution, prospering thanks to weak and malleable politicians in a devolved system still controlled from London. Deryn would not survive independence.
‘HIS NAME IS ROYSTON JONES AND HE’S NOT ON OUR SIDE’
Is what Aled Gwyn Williams wrote in the first paragraph of his tweet.
His tweet is addressed to “Welsh Self-determinationists”, which I assume to mean those who want Wales to be independent. But I have been a nationalist all my life, check with anyone who’s been around since the 1960s.
It follows, then, that when he says I’m not on ‘their’ side, he must mean some grouping other than those wanting independence. As Williams is a hard-line socialist he can only be alluding to the comrades.
I am a lifelong opponent of socialism.
So my real ‘crime’, in Williams’ eyes, is being hostile to socialism.
Williams seems to be active in YesCymru and supports All Under One Banner Cymru. Two groups some fear have become too close to Plaid Cymru.
All of which fits together, because despite the humiliating defeat suffered by Leanne Wood in the party leadership contest last year those who share her views still control the party.
The small increase in membership in the wake of Adam ‘Soundbite’ Price’s victory may already have been offset by resignations over the party’s treatment of Neil McEvoy, which will of course only strengthen the influence of the ‘Leannistas’.
I’m not the only one who sees this drift to the left. Here’s a tweet put out a week or so ago by writer Siôn Jobbins, asking if he’ll be welcome at Plaid’s Summer School, seeing as he’s not a socialist.
Though it could be that not all the leftists trying to capitalise on the increase in support for independence belong to Plaid Cymru, there may be even more exotic elements trying to muscle in.
Below we see a picture from a recent AUOB Cymru tweet showing some kind of street furniture or utility box in Cardiff presenting an interesting display. In the centre we see nationalist hero, John Jenkins, leader of Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru, who was sent down for 10 years in 1970 for his role in a 1960s bombing campaign.
John, now 85, has lived in Wrecsam for many years.
We also see a couple of YesCymru stickers, a football fans for independence sticker and Wrexham fans against the Sun (newspaper). But it’s the other three that intrigue me.
On the top left we see the Starry Plough of the Irish Citizen Army, led by James Connolly in the Easter Rising of 1916. This was a socialist organisation that fought alongside the larger, and nationalist, Irish Volunteers led by Padraig Pearse.
The one at the bottom right carries letters printed backwards to look Russian, a communist red star, and the slogan ‘Free Wales’.
Finally, the black one on the left reads ‘Wxm (Wrexham) Antifa No Pasaran!’ Antifa are left wing thugs who first took to the streets of the USA following Donald Trump’s victory, ostensibly ‘fighting fascism and racism’.
Now they resort to bombing and attacking anyone who doesn’t agree with them. A recent victim was journalist Andy Ngo, who wrote: “Antifa operates by a very broad definition of ‘fascists.’ By antifa’s telling, fascists include mainstream conservatives and even centrist journalists who dare criticize them.”
I know exactly how he feels.
You have to wonder what’s going on when the self-appointed promoters of inclusivity beat up the gay son of Vietnamese boat people. I hope to God we don’t have any nutters in Wales preparing to emulate Antifa.
And I’m disappointed to see AUOB Cymru apparently endorse Antifa.
So on a Cardiff street we see a collection of stickers linking independence with socialism, with some pretty hairy and intolerant expressions of socialism at that.
THE CRUCIAL EIGHTEEN MONTHS
Partly due to events beyond our control Wales will soon be closer to independence than at any time in the past five hundred years. But the mood is also being influenced by what is happening here in Wales.
Our homeland is deprived and exploited because devolution has been a miserable failure. For what has devolution given us – Deryn! This realisation has resulted in the Labour Party losing credibility by the day; but I fear Plaid Cymru will be reluctant to take advantage of the opportunity presented by Johnson in No 10 and Drakeford in the Bay.
Instead, Plaid Cymru will chase rainbows and form Englandandwales anti-Tory or anti-Brexit alliances. This loss of focus is due to the party’s leftward drift coupled with the ephemeral appeal of being ‘taken seriously’ by appearing on TV with Caroline Lucas.
And when Johnson makes his move, Plaid Cymru will rush to support the Labour Party in defending ‘the devolution settlement’.
I say, fuck the devolution settlement. It wasn’t worth having in 1999 and it’s been seriously devalued over the past two decades. All our efforts now must concentrate on independence. And to achieve that goal we must reach out to as many as possible of our people.
This cannot be done by demanding a socialist feminist republic (as was heard at AUOB’s first rally on May 11). And if balaclava’d Antifa thugs start beating up people they disagree with, then any hope of independence will be lost. Wales may have a radical past but most of us today are socially conservative.
It should go without saying, therefore, that Wales needs a broad-based movement for independence that must either be ideology-free or else it must accept all ideological standpoints.
And so I’m asking All Under One Banner Cymru if there’ll be a welcome in Caernarfon on Saturday for people who don’t support Plaid Cymru, and people who are not socialist; for those who would have fought alongside Pearse rather than Connolly, who don’t obsess over a second referendum and who regard Antifa thugs no differently to the thugs who follow Tommy Robinson.
I ask because there are clearly some who feel that the drive for independence should be controlled by the left; and maybe they’ll only accept independence on their terms. Either way, it’s insulting and offensive to those holding different views who have worked for independence for over 50 years.
♦ end ♦
Plaid Cymru, Going Nowhere, by Design
On 13/03/2017 13/03/2017 By JacIn Plaid Cymru, Welsh Assembly, Welsh Labour, Welsh Nationalism140 Comments
In which I try to explain how Plaid Cymru became a serious political party in the 1960s, why it was derailed in the 1980 and 1990s, and how we’ve ended up with a self-emasculating party that sees no role for itself other than as Labour’s little helper.
BLOWN INTO THE LIMELIGHT
I can write about the 1960s with some authority because I was there, I was involved, and I knew many of the players. Most weekends would see a gang of us pile into a hired transit van to attend some rally or protest, and there were real issues for us to focus on; we had Tryweryn (plus the other drownings), Aberfan, the Investiture – how could anyone not believe that Wales would be better off if she was independent?
There was a widespread perception among those I mixed with of there being a broad nationalist front, with Plaid Cymru as the political wing. Many people I knew were members of both Plaid and Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg (The Welsh Language Society), I even knew people who were members of Plaid, CyIG and the Free Wales Army. There was most definitely ‘overlap’.
Though Plaid’s leadership, Gwynfor Evans especially, attributed the bombing campaigns to MI5 and sought to distance the party from them. Whatever the response, the truth is that in the 1960s Plaid Cymru rode the coat-tails of Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru and the FWA to became a serious political party, winning Carmarthen in the 1966 by-election and pushing Labour close in subsequent by-elections in the Valleys.
‘That Charles is a lovely boy, Mam . . . I think I’m in love!’
The lesson was clear, get the people to focus on Welsh issues, particularly exploitation and injustice, and Plaid Cymru would reap the electoral reward. Without the reaction to Tryweryn and the protests of Cymdeithas yr Iaith, it’s unlikely that Gwynfor Evans would have beaten Gwilym Prys-Davies in Carmarthen. And Gwynfor’s victory in July 1966 is often cited as the inspiration for Winnie Ewing winning the Hamilton by-election for the SNP in November 1967. Can we go so far as to attribute the impending independence of Scotland to the greed and insensitivity of Liverpool Corporation?
Plaid Cymru’s leaders don’t like being told that the party owes its boost in the 1960s to Owain Williams, John Jenkins and Cayo Evans, but the party certainly lost impetus when MAC and the FWA were broken up. With little to excite and involve the voters Plaid Cymru’s support in the 1970s fell back in the south, but the party entrenched itself in the west and the north, appealing primarily now to Welsh speakers, a trend that damaged its appeal outside the Fro Gymraeg.
Again, I speak from personal experience, having stood as a Plaid Cymru candidate for both Swansea city council and West Glamorgan county council in the mid 1970s. I’d knock on a door, introduce myself as one of the local Plaid Cymru candidates and often get the response, ‘Sorry, love, we don’t speak Welsh’. There was rarely hostility, more the feeling that whatever Plaid Cymru might be (and few knew, or cared), it was definitely a party for Welsh speakers only. Plaid Cymru in the 1970s and 1980s was a national party with a very narrow appeal just bumbling aimlessly along.
PLAID GOES LEFT, AND GREEN, AND DISAPPEARS UP ITS OWN ARSE
Nineteen-seventy-nine was a significant year in Wales for three main reasons.
On March 1st, St David’s Day, Wales rejected the Labour Party’s devolution proposals, with just 20.26% in support. Despite it being a Labour initiative most Labour politicians, led by Neil Kinnock and George Thomas, campaigned vigorously and viciously against devolution.
Then on May 3rd Margaret Thatcher and the Conservatives were elected to power in Westminster, with the party gaining 32.2% of the Welsh vote and eleven of the thirty-six Welsh seats. In the general election of 1983 – and despite the war in the south Atlantic and the losses suffered by the Welsh Guards on the Sir Galahad – the Tories still gained 32% of the Welsh vote. From a high point of 11.5% in the general election of 1970 Plaid Cymru’s share of the vote slipped to 8.1% in 1979 and 7.8% in 1983.
Finally, on December 11th, we saw the first holiday home arson attacks by Meibion Glyndŵr.
Plaid Cymru continued to bumble along, going nowhere. The party was so rudderless, so unattractive to voters outside of the rural west, that the MG campaign was unable to give the boost that MAC and the FWA had done in the 1960s, possibly because holiday homes were not an issue in the areas where Plaid needed to grow. Plaid Cymru was a weak party of dispirited members, ripe for change, or takeover . . . preferably not a takeover by nationalists.
Gwynfor Evans stepped down as president in 1981 and a new generation stepped into his shoes. First, Dafydd Wigley, who’d been elected MP for Caernarfon in 1974, and then, more significantly, from 1984, Dafydd Elis Thomas, who’d been elected in the same year for the neighbouring constituency of Meirionnydd.
Now things begin to get strange. Because although the obvious problem was that Plaid Cymru was not getting enough support from the anglophone Welsh, under Dafydd Elis Thomas the party started reaching out in other directions, primarily to the hairier fringes of the Left, and to even more hirsute elements of the environmental movement. It will be noted that none of these new ‘allies’ had a snowball’s chance in hell of increasing Plaid’s vote in Swansea East or Merthyr or Wrecsam.
Another in Plaid’s hierarchy keen on ‘reaching out’ was Cynog Dafis, who believed there was common ground between Plaid Cymru and the Greens. These Greens were of course overwhelmingly English and many of them were openly dismissive of Welsh identity. As far as they were concerned, they had moved to ‘the country’, not to someone else’s country.
The Plaid-Green Summer Solstice Conference, Pontrhydfendigaid, 1991
This contempt was returned in kind, for most Plaid Cymru supporters had no time for the Greens, and some, especially those involved in farming and other activities, thoroughly detested these arrogant interlopers who threatened their livelihoods. Yet to Cynog Dafis the hippies and the rest were “those who had moved here to live for progressive and enlightened purposes”.
This episode provides us with an example from thirty years ago of Plaid Cymru’s leadership being out of step with the party’s rank and file, and of course the wider population. Guilty of going off on tangents that did nothing to address Plaid Cymru’s fundamental problem. I wrote a few years ago about this rather silly flirtation with the Greens in Plaid Cymru and the Green Party of Englandandwales.
AN AMERICAN FRIEND
When he was Plaid’s head honcho Dafydd El’s consort was an American named Marjorie Thompson. An interesting woman from an impeccably WASP-Republican background who, after a stint as assistant to a Republican Congressman, crossed the Pond and soon joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, rising to be chair of that body. More remarkably, perhaps, she also served as chair of Scottish CND, though this is not mentioned in her Linkedin profile.
I’m not sure when her relationship with DET began but it lasted some seven years and intrigued observers. Having served her time among the ‘progressives’ in CND and other groups Ms Thompson eventually joined Saatchi & Saatchi, Margaret Thatcher’s favourite ad agency, in 1997, and returned ‘home’, as it were, by joining the Conservative Party in 2009.
I seem to recall that there was interest at the time in a brother of Marjorie Ellis Thompson who, it was alleged, worked for a US intelligence agency. But I could be mistaken, it was all a long time ago. Maybe someone remembers?
By 1992, after all the changes, and all the ‘reaching out’, Plaid Cymru’s percentage of the vote in that year’s general election barely moved. Nevertheless, the party did hold its three seats in the north west and Cynog Dafis added Ceredigion and Pembroke North, almost certainly due to the thousands of bearded ones turning out to vote for him.
Though the only constituency that saw an official Plaid-Green alliance was Monmouth, where the candidate Mel Witherden got 0.8% of the vote, the lowest Plaid vote in the country. Witherden was quite open in stating that many Greens were anti-Welsh in a racist and colonialist way.
Plaid was now firmly located on the political left, it was a ‘welcoming’ party concerned with all manner of ishoos and -isms, and more interested in the opinions of Islington than with what people were thinking in Islwyn.
DESIGNED TO FAIL
Plaid Cymru, the party I joined in the mid-’60s because it – and I – wanted to make Wales a better place for the Welsh people, had become a regional rainbow alliance for which nationhood and independence were dirty words. Wales no longer mattered except for the votes and seats it provided that then allowed the Plaid leadership to rub shoulders with other ‘progressives’.
This party had no chance of winning seats outside of the Welsh-speaking areas, where most of Plaid’s voters supported the party for cultural reasons, and didn’t really care about Plaid’s policies (even if they knew what they were). If this electorate had one concern it was the influx that was breaking up communities and slowly destroying a Welsh way of life.
Plaid Cymru had no intention of making a stand against colonisation; in fact, as we’ve seen, Plaid’s leadership was happy to co-operate with elements of this influx. Never was an electorate taken for granted and treated with such contempt as Plaid Cymru’s rural voters. It’s no exaggeration to say that Meibion Glyndŵr spoke for these people better than Plaid Cymru.
Courtesy of BBC
Plaid Cymru was successfully subverted in the late 1980s and early 1990s into a political party that would never get more than 10-12% of the vote in UK general elections and therefore pose no threat to the integrity of the UK state. It would have been easy to interpret this catastrophic re-alignment to foolishness, were it not for the removal of Dafydd Wigley in 2000.
In the first elections to the new Welsh Assembly in May 1999 Plaid Cymru gained 28.4% of the constituency vote (Labour 37.6%) and 30.5% of the second or regional vote (Labour 35.4%). In addition to predictably winning its western, rural seats the party also won Llanelli, Rhondda and Islwyn. This result sent shock waves way beyond Wales.
In June 2000 an internal plot removed Dafydd Wigley, persuading him to cite health grounds for ‘his’ decision. Seventeen years later he leads a full life travelling up to London regularly to sit in the House of Lords and is actively involved in many other, more worthwhile, activities.
In my previous post I wrote of the strange case of Plaid Cymru councillor and AM Neil McEvoy, stitched up on a ludicrous ‘bullying’ charge by the Labour corruption machine and then, instead of being supported by his party, he found Plaid’s leadership siding with Labour and assorted organisations on Labour’s Third Sector payroll such as Welsh Women’s Aid.
In that post – and if you haven’t read it then I urge you to do so – I talked of the ‘consensus’, a delusion prevalent among Plaid Cymru’s hierarchy that they and ‘Welsh’ Labour are natural allies in the fight against the forces of darkness. This results in Plaid Cymru refusing to take Labour on in the way that the SNP has so successfully done in Scotland. But it goes deeper than that, and it’s more sinister.
Like all advanced states, the UK has a ‘permanent government’ which may or may not be made up of military brass, top businessmen, intelligence chiefs, senior civil servants and others. Whatever their attitude towards the Labour Party – and this will vary depending on who’s leading Labour – they understand full well that Labour is the bulwark against Welsh nationalism simply because it’s the largest party in Wales.
Equally, those I’m talking about understand that due to its corruption and incompetence, and the quality of its elected representatives, Labour in Wales is highly vulnerable, and must therefore be protected from any threat to its hegemony. The best way of doing this is from within. From within Plaid Cymru.
It’s no coincidence that Dafydd Wigley, Plaid Cymru’s most successful ever leader, was removed when the party he led threatened to dislodge Labour in the Valleys. And no coincidence that it was done with a palace coup.
Now Neil McEvoy, a politician from a different mould to most other Plaid MPs and AMs, is gaining popularity in working class Cardiff, so he is stitched up by Labour and hung out to dry by his own party.
To achieve this control over Plaid Cymru the permanent government doesn’t need many on the inside, just enough, in senior positions, to ensure that the right kind of left-liberal losers are recruited and promoted, and that nationalists, or anyone threatening Labour’s domination, is sidelined.
THE DOG IN THE MANGER
Since the Neil McEvoy affair blew up I have spoken with people I know inside Plaid Cymru and they are surprised, annoyed or outraged by the actions of the party leadership. No one I have spoken to supports the party leadership. The confusion extended to surprising quarters, like Martin Shipton in the Wasting Mule. Plaid’s leadership must know that they’ve got this one badly wrong.
But then, this is exactly how Plaid Cymru has been programmed to react in a situation like this. As I said earlier, Plaid Cymru was “subverted in the late 1980s and early 1990s into a political party that would never get more than 10-12% of the vote in UK general elections”, achieved by the simple expedient of taking the party in directions that made it unattractive to the great majority of Welsh voters.
Update that figure for devolution and we are talking of less than 25% in Assembly elections. Anything higher sets the alarm bells ringing in the marbled corridors of the permanent government. And action is taken.
Plaid Cymru since the bright young things took control has been a party promising everything to everybody . . . and delivering nothing, apart from minor concessions allowed by our masters to delude the rank and file that their leaders can deliver, and that the long-heralded ‘breakthrough’ is just around the corner. The ‘breakthrough’ that never comes . . . and was scuppered from within when it threatened to happen.
But perhaps Plaid Cymru’s most useful role has been as a dog in the manger party, because for as long as Plaid is in place, gaining just enough votes, it blocks the emergence of an alternative that could confront and defeat ‘Welsh’ Labour.
MY MESSAGE TO PLAID CYMRU MEMBERS
Whether you accept my theory or not, you know that your party is going nowhere. Which means that you are probably confused or disappointed by the treatment of Neil McEvoy, your party’s most effective politician.
You know that ‘Welsh’ Labour is there for the taking – so why is Plaid Cymru propping up this stumblebum party?
Or ask yourself why your party is so unattractive that Ukip got more votes in the last general election. And not just in Clwyd, but in Blaenau Gwent, Merthyr Tydfil, Rhymni, Swansea East, etc. Come on! wise up!
My belief remains that Plaid Cymru has been compromised. For appearances’ sake, and to block the emergence of a credible alternative, it is allowed a certain level of support, in return for which it must deal with anyone threatening to upset the status quo.
To make Plaid Cymru the party it should be, the party most of you want it to be, you need to give our people the message of hope they want to hear. But to achieve this you must remove the deadwood at the top of the party.
Plaid Cymru needs a new leadership prepared to put the interests of Wales and the Welsh people first, no matter what other parties, the commentariat, or the ‘progressives’ of Islington, may say.
Now I KNOW I’m Doing Something Right!
On 03/02/2015 04/02/2015 By JacIn History, Welsh Media, Welsh Nationalism24 Comments
As you might guess, this (originally short) post is a follow-up to my previous one, I Must Be Doing Something Right. It seems that Phil Parry at Wales Eye and Martin Shipton at Llais y Sais just won’t let go . . . though their persistence is not to be compared to slavering pit bulls, more like drowning men clutching at straws.
Yesterday afternoon I received a tweet from Fat Boy, you can see it for yourself on the right, together with my response. (Click to enlarge.) Yes, I was flippant, partly because I have difficulty taking the man seriously and also because I’d caught some bug that had me in bed by seven o’clock. I should have guessed that this was the prelude to another attack on me but, as I’ve said, I was feeling rough and on my way to bed.
Refreshed by fifteen hours of sleep I powered up my computer this morning to learn that after I’d gone to bed Shipton had tweeted again, this time about paramilitary
activity and John Jenkins. His tweet and my response can be found on the left. (Click to enlarge.) What was it all about? I soon found out thanks to an e-mail from a supporter directing me to a tweet from Phil Parry at Wales Eye. (Below.) Again, I replied, and again, the response was somewhat flippant because, quite frankly, and with the best will in the world, I regard the man as an arsehole.
Anyway, it seems I am a “controversial commentator” (thank God for that!) and I support a paramilitary organisation. Which organisation would that be? I certainly support the various Kurdish militias fighting their people’s many enemies, but somehow I don’t think Parry is thinking of the Kurds. Given Lard Boy’s tweets yesterday we can safely assume that tomorrow, Wales Eye will run a World Exclusive! that I, Jac o’ the North, Swansea Jack, Royston Jones, support
ed the Free Wales Army . . . an organisation that ceased to exist around 1970.
This Earth-shattering news will be taken up by media outlets around the globe, Muscovites will stop complete strangers in a Red Square blizzard to ask, ‘Have you heard about that bastard Royston Jones supporting the Free Wales Army?’ And the response will be, ‘That’s nothing, I’ve heard he used to go drinking with that Cayo Evans in Lampeter’. Before they both shuffle off safe in the knowledge that President Putin would know how to deal with the likes of me. Then again, the coverage might be limited to Fat Boy at the Western Mail. In fact, I’m prepared to bet that the uptake will be limited to Llais y Sais.
So what’s going on here? It started off with Wales Eye, from out of a clear blue sky, attacking me in this concoction on September 2nd. A week or so later Wales Eye ran another piece about the persecution fantasies of Jacques Protic due (allegedly) to something I’d written about him, and this resulted in a North Wales Police enquiry. Then Wales Eye told us that I had been reported to South Wales Police for launching a ‘racial hatred’ petition . . . a petition that I did not launch. (But, understandably, Wales Eye neglected to tell us exactly who reported me.) This lie was then repeated almost verbatim by Martin Shipton in the Western Mail, and in WalesOnline, even though I’d put him straight. (See below.) Now it seems I am to be ‘outed’ as a supporter of paramilitary activity, a member of the Free Wales Army, and an admirer of John Jenkins. (Thank God they don’t know about that statue in Aber’!)
What sort of an arrangement is this that sees one of Wales’ most respected journalists (though not respected by me, obviously) acting as researcher for a vindictive blogger? Does Trinity Mirror plc pay Shipton’s salary for him to behave in this demeaning manner? But then, Shipton and Parry are both Labour, and Trinity Mirror has a record of supporting the Labour Party in Wales; who can forget the short-lived Welsh Mirror that crept from under a stone in the wake of Labour’s failure to gain a majority in the first Assembly elections of 1999? This rag was nothing but a platform for Paul Starling
to spew his hatred for all things Welsh, dressed up of course as ‘combatting the evils of nationalism’.
With an election approaching, is Trinity Mirror doing ‘Welsh’ Labour another favour by targetting me? For those tempted to answer with, ‘You’re not important enough, Jac’, I would answer that I’m obviously important enough for the chief reporter of Llais y Sais to sift through my blog postings, check my photographs, and to monitor my tweets, looking for anything that could be presented as remotely incriminating. It’s clearly a concerted attempt to discredit me and, by extension, what I write. So why is it happening?
Anyway, the whole point of writing this was to prepare my easily shocked readers for the news that tomorrow, on the Wales Eye blog, ace investigator and top notch political analyst, Phil Parry will break the news that I supported direct action. This will then be relayed by his fat friend over at Llais y Sais. And that, my friends, just about sums up the dire state of what today passes for ‘the Welsh media’. Stop Press: Here’s Parry’s World Exclusive!, in pdf format (saving you having to pay to read it). Oh, yes, make sure you’re not eating anything, otherwise you might choke laughing.
P.S. To save certain ‘journalists’ unnecessary delving into my past I shall set the record straight on a few things.
I did not sink the Titanic, honest!
I may have met Gavrilo Princip at a social event.
I was not responsible for the Wall Street Crash.
I played no part in the invasion of Abbysinia.
I never served in the SS . . . well, not before 1944, anyway.
I was never a hippy in the 1960s (though I did wear flares).
I did not kill JFK, it was the New Orleans Mob (I was with the Chicago Outfit).
I had no hand in the break-up of the Beatles.
I was nowhere near Watergate.
I have no idea where Jimmy Hoffa is buried (God bless him).
I did not invade Las Malvinas The Falklands.
I had no involvement in the collapse of the Soviet Union.
I am not related to Slobodan Milosovic (try Protic on that one).
I was never formally introduced to Saddam Hussein.
I did not vote Yes in last September’s Scottish independence referendum.
I have recommended you both for the very highest awards your profession can bestow.
That Different Country
On 29/11/2013 03/03/2016 By JacIn History, Welsh Nationalism10 Comments
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The title is of course a reference to the past. That’s because the pictures are all of friends and comrades, taken over the past half century. Some by me, others by the late Rhobert ap Steffan (‘Castro’); while the rest are of unknown origin. When I started writing the captions I realised that I was having to use ‘the late’ far too often. So, in the interests of brevity, and to stop me feeling so old and bloody miserable, I have dropped ‘the late’.
I am slowly organising the photographs I’ve accumulated into collections and galleries and will make them available on this site as they’re done. Eventually I hope to have them all catalogued and available via this blog or perhaps on a separate site.
If anyone has information to add, such as names, dates, corrections, even, then please get in touch. Also contact me if you have photos to contribute. If they’re in good nick then please e-mail me a copy. If not in good nick, then how about about letting me work on it? (The original will be untouched.)
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Eyes of the Tri – 11 comments on 2011
By Séamus Smyth
For the Reporter/Examiner
Considering I spent the better half of 2011 deep inside the nucleus of the tri-area, covering the Stony Plain, Spruce Grove, Parkland County and the Village of Wabamun councils, I figured making a few obvious and potentially intriguing comments may help describe the year that was:
-On a global scale, 2011 will likely be remembered for an incredible string of devastating natural disasters and a global protest against the “1 per cent.” Both scenarios left many scrambling for answers and it seems that time may once again determine if this was just another whacky year, or a sign of consistent turbulence that society may have to unfortunately become accustomed to.
-The tri-area had a record dump of snow that had the City forming mountains upon mountains on the outskirts of the Grove to ensure residents could escape their own driveways. There is no doubt that council and administration are praying for a warm winter, as putting aside even more money for snow removal will not sit well with the financial team as a number of considerable projects on the horizon.
– The Village of Wabamun began what is intended to be massive direction change. Down came the smokestacks and in came ideas of transforming the once industrial area into a local hot spot, similar to Sylvan Lake a few hours south. However, heads butted early on during council meetings, as Mayor Bill Purdy and Coun. Joanne Hay feuded over allegations that she was violating certain job regulations. The lake waters seemed to have mellowed in the second half of 2011, however, the New Year may bring more changes which could inevitably lead to more bickering.
-Former Spruce Grove Ald. Randy Palivoda sadly passed away. The man was a pillar in the Spruce community and seems to have left a lasting impression on every member that had a chance to work alongside him.
Local artist Robert Bailey displayed some of his unbelievable Star Wars limited edition drawings at the Multi-Cultural Centre which was unquestionably an artistic highlight for the community. One question; where the hell was everyone? This sort of talent doesn’t come around too often folks.
A community cornerstone and certainly a local mover and shaker, MLA Fred Lindsay announces his retirement from politics.
Suddenly, the Alberta Winter Games no longer seem like a reincarnation away.
-The Rep/Ex team begins a Mo-vember tradition? Three staff members grew moustaches for the November fight against prostate cancer, but with lackluster funding results in the inaugural year. As long as Rep/Ex reporter Jordan Wilkins keeps that hasty brown broom under control, I think it’s an excellent way to raise funds for a masculine cause.
-An endearing English dame gets dumped yet manages to churn out the undisputed album and single of the year. I am guessing she has a full name like the rest of us mortals, but the pop world knows her simply as Adele. On the flipside, a woman from the same island, Amy Winehouse, sadly passes away after years of drug and alcohol abuse; what a shame.
-Former Stony Plain head honcho Ken Lemke decides to up to the ante and run for the position of MLA. Local reporters salivate at the chance to cover multiple, enticing elections.
-The Grove Cruise was an incredible success in the middle of the summer with a record turnout and two skin-scorching hot days to accompany the annual showcase.
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Wine Region Series: 3 Franschhoek Destinations
by Jared June 5, 2019
* Note this article originally appeared here on Food24.com
Cradled by ruggedly handsome Cape Fold mountains, South Africa’s food and wine capital sits proudly, waiting to welcome both local and international visitors alike. With its elegant cuisine and vinicultural offerings, Franschhoek is an epicurean’s paradise. As part of a series on the Cape Winelands, I made three visits that should be on every person’s list.
Chamonix Wine Farm
Somehow, I’d never visited Chamonix on previous visits to the village, and the excitement of experiencing a new farm was as tangible as the beauty of the drive up the mountain drive to the farm. Much of Franschhoek’s proud wine heritage is thanks to the French Huguenot influence. Escaping religious persecution in the 1600’s, a diaspora of French Protestants were welcomed by the Cape Colony, and as experienced viticulturists, they soon set about planting. Chamonix holds true to this French heritage with elegant and structured old-world wines.
The tasting journey begins in a 18th century blacksmith cottage, and since my visit was on a cold wintery day, the roaring fire certainly helped welcome me into this cosy space. Winemaker Thinus Neetling is a new kid on the winemaking block, but has very quickly proved himself with a bouquet of exceptional wines, several of which have been awarded high accolades. Most unique perhaps, is the farm’s underground cellar – the first in South Africa. Descending the stairs into the cellar felt like following Alice down the rabbit’s den, into a wonderland of winemaking where private tastings can be arranged.
The wines are exceptional, and it was difficult identifying my favourites. The pinotage ranked very highly: despite the dark fruit and full body, it was one of the more delicate Pinotages I’ve tasted, which Thinus told us was made in a more Pinot Noir style. The unwooded chardonnay also bowled me over – as a result of a malolactic fermentation, the wine has rich and creamy texture, but all natural, and with no wood contact. For an intimate Franschhoek tasting experience, I’d wholeheartedly recommend Chamonix, which also offers safaris, and Ricine, an excellent dining choice.
2. Terbodore Coffee Roasters
With the emergence of artisanal coffee roasters in the past years, one brand has stood head and shoulders – or rather tail and paws above the rest. Terbodore is a firm favourite in and around the Winelands, and although birthed in the KZN Midlands, in 2011 they made their mark in the Cape and have never looked back. I recall driving through the town years ago, and seeing the sign on the side of the road, stopped, intrigued as to who Terbodore was. The Franschhoek beginnings were in a converted farm shed, featuring a small espresso bar and roastery adjacent. Luckily for myself and other fans, Terbodore was one of the first local coffee roasters to make it into retail, so we’re never far from our favourite brew.
Michael, the co-owner, had, however, a much bigger vision brewing. Around six years later this was realised, and Terbodore in Franschhoek now has a custom-built café and roastery just up the road closer to town. Much of the packaging, including the logo, features Sultan the family Great Dane, and so it’s only apt that the new eatery is called the Big Dog Café. Although I knew the coffee well, I was experiencing the Café food for the first time and quickly converted. Once you’ve tasted the buttermilk fried chicken waffles you’ll never look back.
Saving the best for last, their new range of signature drinks, introduced to the winter menu. The first of these is the Mexican Hot Chocolate. It’s a deliciously decadent delight: slightly spiced, a shot of coffee, dark chocolate and most impressively a layer of marshmallow foam. This small drink is a dessert in itself, and will have me driving back for it alone. Their new zip-pull technology coffee bags will also be sure to impress you, and also look out for their limited release flavoured coffees: Salted Caramel has been selling up a storm, and Sticky Cinnamon Bun and Pecan Pie are both on their way. Big Dog Café is a perfect halfway break between wine farm and essential on all Franschhoek itineraries.
3. La Motte
The third and final stop for my visit was La Motte, a stately heritage farm. At La Although they excel at it, the focus at La Motte is more than simply making premium wines. They were the first wine estate to be awarded the coveted ISO 14001 Environmental Management Certification, recognizing their dedication to sustainable farming practices. More impressively, is the commitment to social responsibility: the Rupert’s humanitarian endeavours are wide-reaching. I was particularly impressed to discover more about Dennegeur, the staff village where various services are provided, and even transfer of home ownership to their farm workers.
Having visited the farm for a tasting before, I was excited to discover the Vinoteque tasting experience. Ushered through the cellar into an exclusive tasting room, I was then guided through a private tasting of a selection of vintage wines chosen by the cellar master. My favourites were contrasting the 2009 and 2012 vintages of the estate Chardonnay, and then the same vintages of the award-winning Pierneef Syrah Viognier. The tasting costs R200pp – more than a usual tasting price, but there’s something invaluable about leaving the other patrons behind, and being invited into one of the farm’s inner wine sanctums.
My time at La Motte also included a visit to the Pierneef à La Motte Restaurant. Expect classy country cuisine, inspired by the Cape Dutch heritage and the creativity of Jacob Hendrik Pierneef, famed South African artist after which the eatery is named. I’m looking forward to seeing what’s in store for the restaurant with new Executive Chef Eric Bulpitt, when it reopens 13th July. Before leaving La Motte, take a quick browse of the farm shop, a look at the museum with a permanent exhibition of Pierneef’s heritage collection, and in summer a five-kilometer hiking trail taking in the farm’s biodiversity and startling landscape.
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A Durban Long Weekend Staycation
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1. The Tale Of The Lost Land...
2. King Arthur's Court
3. Knights Of The Table Round
4. Sir Dinadan The Humorist
5. An Inspiration
6. The Eclipse
7. Merlin's Tower
8. The Boss
9. The Tournament
10. Beginnings Of Civilization
11. The Yankee In Search Of A...
12. Slow Torture
13. Freemen
14. "Defend Thee, Lord"
15. Sandy's Tale
16. Morgan Le Fay
17. A Royal Banquet
18. In The Queen's Dungeons
19. Knight-Errantry As A Trade
20. The Ogre's Castle
21. The Pilgrims
22. The Holy Fountain
23. Restoration Of The Fountain
24. A Rival Magician
25. A Competitive Examination
26. The First Newspaper
27. The Yankee And The King T...
28. Drilling The King
29. The Smallpox Hut
30. The Tragedy Of The Manor-...
31. Marco
32. Dowley's Humiliation
33. Sixth Century Political E...
34. The Yankee And The King S...
35. A Pitiful Incident
36. An Encounter In The Dark
37. An Awful Predicament
38. Sir Launcelot And Knights...
39. The Yankee's Fight With T...
40. Three Years Later
41. The Interdict
42. War!
43. The Battle Of The Sand Belt
44. A Postscript By Clarence
The Yankee And The King Sold As Slaves
Well, what had I better do? Nothing in a hurry, sure. I must get up a diversion; anything to employ me while I could think, and while these poor fellows could have a chance to come to life again. There sat Marco, petrified in the act of trying to get the hang of his miller-gun--turned to stone, just in the attitude he was in when my pile-driver fell, the toy still gripped in his unconscious fingers. So I took it from him and proposed to explain its mystery. Mystery! a simple little thing like that; and yet it was mysterious enough, for that race and that age. I never saw such an awkward people, with machinery; you see, they were totally unused to it. The miller-gun was a little double-barreled tube of toughened glass, with a neat little trick of a spring to it, which upon pressure would let a shot escape. But the shot wouldn't hurt anybody, it would only drop into your hand. In the gun were two sizes--wee mustard-seed shot, and another sort that were several times larger. They were money. The mustard-seed shot represented milrays, the larger ones mills. So the gun was a purse; and very handy, too; you could pay out money in the dark with it, with accuracy; and you could carry it in your mouth; or in your vest pocket, if you had one. I made them of several sizes-- one size so large that it would carry the equivalent of a dollar. Using shot for money was a good thing for the government; the metal cost nothing, and the money couldn't be counterfeited, for I was the only person in the kingdom who knew how to manage a shot tower. "Paying the shot" soon came to be a common phrase. Yes, and I knew it would still be passing men's lips, away down in the nineteenth century, yet none would suspect how and when it originated. The king joined us, about this time, mightily refreshed by his nap, and feeling good. Anything could make me nervous now, I was so uneasy--for our lives were in danger; and so it worried me to detect a complacent something in the king's eye which seemed to indicate that he had been loading himself up for a performance of some kind or other; confound it, why must he go and choose such a time as this? I was right. He began, straight off, in the most innocently artful, and transparent, and lubberly way, to lead up to the subject of agriculture. The cold sweat broke out all over me. I wanted to whisper in his ear, "Man, we are in awful danger! every moment is worth a principality till we get back these men's confidence; don't waste any of this golden time." But of course I couldn't do it. Whisper to him? It would look as if we were conspiring. So I had to sit there and look calm and pleasant while the king stood over that dynamite mine and mooned along about his damned onions and things. At first the tumult of my own thoughts, summoned by the danger-signal and swarming to the rescue from every quarter of my skull, kept up such a hurrah and confusion and fifing and drumming that I couldn't take in a word; but presently when my mob of gathering plans began to crystallize and fall into position and form line of battle, a sort of order and quiet ensued and I caught the boom of the king's batteries, as if out of remote distance: "--were not the best way, methinks, albeit it is not to be denied that authorities differ as concerning this point, some contending that the onion is but an unwholesome berry when stricken early from the tree--" The audience showed signs of life, and sought each other's eyes in a surprised and troubled way. "--whileas others do yet maintain, with much show of reason, that this is not of necessity the case, instancing that plums and other like cereals do be always dug in the unripe state- -" The audience exhibited distinct distress; yes, and also fear. "--yet are they clearly wholesome, the more especially when one doth assuage the asperities of their nature by admixture of the tranquilizing juice of the wayward cabbage- -" The wild light of terror began to glow in these men's eyes, and one of them muttered, "These be errors, every one--God hath surely smitten the mind of this farmer." I was in miserable apprehension; I sat upon thorns. "--and further instancing the known truth that in the case of animals, the young, which may be called the green fruit of the creature, is the better, all confessing that when a goat is ripe, his fur doth heat and sore engame his flesh, the which defect, taken in connection with his several rancid habits, and fulsome appetites, and godless attitudes of mind, and bilious quality of morals--" They rose and went for him! With a fierce shout, "The one would betray us, the other is mad! Kill them! Kill them!" they flung themselves upon us. What joy flamed up in the king's eye! He might be lame in agriculture, but this kind of thing was just in his line. He had been fasting long, he was hungry for a fight. He hit the blacksmith a crack under the jaw that lifted him clear off his feet and stretched him flat on his back. "St. George for Britain!" and he downed the wheelwright. The mason was big, but I laid him out like nothing. The three gathered themselves up and came again; went down again; came again; and kept on repeating this, with native British pluck, until they were battered to jelly, reeling with exhaustion, and so blind that they couldn't tell us from each other; and yet they kept right on, hammering away with what might was left in them. Hammering each other--for we stepped aside and looked on while they rolled, and struggled, and gouged, and pounded, and bit, with the strict and wordless attention to business of so many bulldogs. We looked on without apprehension, for they were fast getting past ability to go for help against us, and the arena was far enough from the public road to be safe from intrusion. Well, while they were gradually playing out, it suddenly occurred to me to wonder what had become of Marco. I looked around; he was nowhere to be seen. Oh, but this was ominous! I pulled the king's sleeve, and we glided away and rushed for the hut. No Marco there, no Phyllis there! They had gone to the road for help, sure. I told the king to give his heels wings, and I would explain later. We made good time across the open ground, and as we darted into the shelter of the wood I glanced back and saw a mob of excited peasants swarm into view, with Marco and his wife at their head. They were making a world of noise, but that couldn't hurt anybody; the wood was dense, and as soon as we were well into its depths we would take to a tree and let them whistle. Ah, but then came another sound--dogs! Yes, that was quite another matter. It magnified our contract-- we must find running water. We tore along at a good gait, and soon left the sounds far behind and modified to a murmur. We struck a stream and darted into it. We waded swiftly down it, in the dim forest light, for as much as three hundred yards, and then came across an oak with a great bough sticking out over the water. We climbed up on this bough, and began to work our way along it to the body of the tree; now we began to hear those sounds more plainly; so the mob had struck our trail. For a while the sounds approached pretty fast. And then for another while they didn't. No doubt the dogs had found the place where we had entered the stream, and were now waltzing up and down the shores trying to pick up the trail again. When we were snugly lodged in the tree and curtained with foliage, the king was satisfied, but I was doubtful. I believed we could crawl along a branch and get into the next tree, and I judged it worth while to try. We tried it, and made a success of it, though the king slipped, at the junction, and came near failing to connect. We got comfortable lodgment and satisfactory concealment among the foliage, and then we had nothing to do but listen to the hunt. Presently we heard it coming--and coming on the jump, too; yes, and down both sides of the stream. Louder--louder--next minute it swelled swiftly up into a roar of shoutings, barkings, tramplings, and swept by like a cyclone. "I was afraid that the overhanging branch would suggest something to them," said I, "but I don't mind the disappointment. Come, my liege, it were well that we make good use of our time. We've flanked them. Dark is coming on, presently. If we can cross the stream and get a good start, and borrow a couple of horses from somebody's pasture to use for a few hours, we shall be safe enough." We started down, and got nearly to the lowest limb, when we seemed to hear the hunt returning. We stopped to listen. "Yes," said I, "they're baffled, they've given it up, they're on their way home. We will climb back to our roost again, and let them go by." So we climbed back. The king listened a moment and said: "They still search--I wit the sign. We did best to abide." He was right. He knew more about hunting than I did. The noise approached steadily, but not with a rush. The king said: "They reason that we were advantaged by no parlous start of them, and being on foot are as yet no mighty way from where we took the water." "Yes, sire, that is about it, I am afraid, though I was hoping better things." The noise drew nearer and nearer, and soon the van was drifting under us, on both sides of the water. A voice called a halt from the other bank, and said: "An they were so minded, they could get to yon tree by this branch that overhangs, and yet not touch ground. Ye will do well to send a man up it." "Marry, that we will do!" I was obliged to admire my cuteness in foreseeing this very thing and swapping trees to beat it. But, don't you know, there are some things that can beat smartness and foresight? Awkwardness and stupidity can. The best swordsman in the world doesn't need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant antagonist who has never had a sword in his hand before; he doesn't do the thing he ought to do, and so the expert isn't prepared for him; he does the thing he ought not to do; and often it catches the expert out and ends him on the spot. Well, how could I, with all my gifts, make any valuable preparation against a near-sighted, cross-eyed, puddingheaded clown who would aim himself at the wrong tree and hit the right one? And that is what he did. He went for the wrong tree, which was, of course, the right one by mistake, and up he started. Matters were serious now. We remained still, and awaited developments. The peasant toiled his difficult way up. The king raised himself up and stood; he made a leg ready, and when the comer's head arrived in reach of it there was a dull thud, and down went the man floundering to the ground. There was a wild outbreak of anger below, and the mob swarmed in from all around, and there we were treed, and prisoners. Another man started up; the bridging bough was detected, and a volunteer started up the tree that furnished the bridge. The king ordered me to play Horatius and keep the bridge. For a while the enemy came thick and fast; but no matter, the head man of each procession always got a buffet that dislodged him as soon as he came in reach. The king's spirits rose, his joy was limitless. He said that if nothing occurred to mar the prospect we should have a beautiful night, for on this line of tactics we could hold the tree against the whole country-side. However, the mob soon came to that conclusion themselves; wherefore they called off the assault and began to debate other plans. They had no weapons, but there were plenty of stones, and stones might answer. We had no objections. A stone might possibly penetrate to us once in a while, but it wasn't very likely; we were well protected by boughs and foliage, and were not visible from any good aiming point. If they would but waste half an hour in stone-throwing, the dark would come to our help. We were feeling very well satisfied. We could smile; almost laugh. But we didn't; which was just as well, for we should have been interrupted. Before the stones had been raging through the leaves and bouncing from the boughs fifteen minutes, we began to notice a smell. A couple of sniffs of it was enough of an explanation-- it was smoke! Our game was up at last. We recognized that. When smoke invites you, you have to come. They raised their pile of dry brush and damp weeds higher and higher, and when they saw the thick cloud begin to roll up and smother the tree, they broke out in a storm of joy-clamors. I got enough breath to say: "Proceed, my liege; after you is manners." The king gasped: "Follow me down, and then back thyself against one side of the trunk, and leave me the other. Then will we fight. Let each pile his dead according to his own fashion and taste." Then he descended, barking and coughing, and I followed. I struck the ground an instant after him; we sprang to our appointed places, and began to give and take with all our might. The powwow and racket were prodigious; it was a tempest of riot and confusion and thick-falling blows. Suddenly some horsemen tore into the midst of the crowd, and a voice shouted: "Hold--or ye are dead men!" How good it sounded! The owner of the voice bore all the marks of a gentleman: picturesque and costly raiment, the aspect of command, a hard countenance, with complexion and features marred by dissipation. The mob fell humbly back, like so many spaniels. The gentleman inspected us critically, then said sharply to the peasants: "What are ye doing to these people?" "They be madmen, worshipful sir, that have come wandering we know not whence, and-- " "Ye know not whence? Do ye pretend ye know them not?" "Most honored sir, we speak but the truth. They are strangers and unknown to any in this region; and they be the most violent and bloodthirsty madmen that ever--" "Peace! Ye know not what ye say. They are not mad. Who are ye? And whence are ye? Explain." "We are but peaceful strangers, sir," I said, "and traveling upon our own concerns. We are from a far country, and unacquainted here. We have purposed no harm; and yet but for your brave interference and protection these people would have killed us. As you have divined, sir, we are not mad; neither are we violent or bloodthirsty." The gentleman turned to his retinue and said calmly: "Lash me these animals to their kennels!" The mob vanished in an instant; and after them plunged the horsemen, laying about them with their whips and pitilessly riding down such as were witless enough to keep the road instead of taking to the bush. The shrieks and supplications presently died away in the distance, and soon the horsemen began to straggle back. Meantime the gentleman had been questioning us more closely, but had dug no particulars out of us. We were lavish of recognition of the service he was doing us, but we revealed nothing more than that we were friendless strangers from a far country. When the escort were all returned, the gentleman said to one of his servants: "Bring the led-horses and mount these people." "Yes, my lord." We were placed toward the rear, among the servants. We traveled pretty fast, and finally drew rein some time after dark at a roadside inn some ten or twelve miles from the scene of our troubles. My lord went immediately to his room, after ordering his supper, and we saw no more of him. At dawn in the morning we breakfasted and made ready to start. My lord's chief attendant sauntered forward at that moment with indolent grace, and said: "Ye have said ye should continue upon this road, which is our direction likewise; wherefore my lord, the earl Grip, hath given commandment that ye retain the horses and ride, and that certain of us ride with ye a twenty mile to a fair town that hight Cambenet, whenso ye shall be out of peril." We could do nothing less than express our thanks and accept the offer. We jogged along, six in the party, at a moderate and comfortable gait, and in conversation learned that my lord Grip was a very great personage in his own region, which lay a day's journey beyond Cambenet. We loitered to such a degree that it was near the middle of the forenoon when we entered the market square of the town. We dismounted, and left our thanks once more for my lord, and then approached a crowd assembled in the center of the square, to see what might be the object of interest. It was the remnant of that old peregrinating band of slaves! So they had been dragging their chains about, all this weary time. That poor husband was gone, and also many others; and some few purchases had been added to the gang. The king was not interested, and wanted to move along, but I was absorbed, and full of pity. I could not take my eyes away from these worn and wasted wrecks of humanity. There they sat, grounded upon the ground, silent, uncomplaining, with bowed heads, a pathetic sight. And by hideous contrast, a redundant orator was making a speech to another gathering not thirty steps away, in fulsome laudation of "our glorious British liberties!" I was boiling. I had forgotten I was a plebeian, I was remembering I was a man. Cost what it might, I would mount that rostrum and-- Click! the king and I were handcuffed together! Our companions, those servants, had done it; my lord Grip stood looking on. The king burst out in a fury, and said: "What meaneth this ill-mannered jest?" My lord merely said to his head miscreant, coolly: "Put up the slaves and sell them!" Slaves! The word had a new sound--and how unspeakably awful! The king lifted his manacles and brought them down with a deadly force; but my lord was out of the way when they arrived. A dozen of the rascal's servants sprang forward, and in a moment we were helpless, with our hands bound behind us. We so loudly and so earnestly proclaimed ourselves freemen, that we got the interested attention of that liberty-mouthing orator and his patriotic crowd, and they gathered about us and assumed a very determined attitude. The orator said: "If, indeed, ye are freemen, ye have nought to fear--the God-given liberties of Britain are about ye for your shield and shelter! (Applause.) Ye shall soon see. Bring forth your proofs." "What proofs?" "Proof that ye are freemen." Ah--I remembered! I came to myself; I said nothing. But the king stormed out: "Thou'rt insane, man. It were better, and more in reason, that this thief and scoundrel here prove that we are not freemen." You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws; by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself. All hands shook their heads and looked disappointed; some turned away, no longer interested. The orator said--and this time in the tones of business, not of sentiment: "An ye do not know your country's laws, it were time ye learned them. Ye are strangers to us; ye will not deny that. Ye may be freemen, we do not deny that; but also ye may be slaves. The law is clear: it doth not require the claimant to prove ye are slaves, it requireth you to prove ye are not." I said: "Dear sir, give us only time to send to Astolat; or give us only time to send to the Valley of Holiness--" "Peace, good man, these are extraordinary requests, and you may not hope to have them granted. It would cost much time, and would unwarrantably inconvenience your master-- " "Master, idiot!" stormed the king. "I have no master, I myself am the m--" "Silence, for God's sake!" I got the words out in time to stop the king. We were in trouble enough already; it could not help us any to give these people the notion that we were lunatics. There is no use in stringing out the details. The earl put us up and sold us at auction. This same infernal law had existed in our own South in my own time, more than thirteen hundred years later, and under it hundreds of freemen who could not prove that they were freemen had been sold into lifelong slavery without the circumstance making any particular impression upon me; but the minute law and the auction block came into my personal experience, a thing which had been merely improper before became suddenly hellish. Well, that's the way we are made. Yes, we were sold at auction, like swine. In a big town and an active market we should have brought a good price; but this place was utterly stagnant and so we sold at a figure which makes me ashamed, every time I think of it. The King of England brought seven dollars, and his prime minister nine; whereas the king was easily worth twelve dollars and I as easily worth fifteen. But that is the way things always go; if you force a sale on a dull market, I don't care what the property is, you are going to make a poor business of it, and you can make up your mind to it. If the earl had had wit enough to-- However, there is no occasion for my working my sympathies up on his account. Let him go, for the present; I took his number, so to speak. The slave-dealer bought us both, and hitched us onto that long chain of his, and we constituted the rear of his procession. We took up our line of march and passed out of Cambenet at noon; and it seemed to me unaccountably strange and odd that the King of England and his chief minister, marching manacled and fettered and yoked, in a slave convoy, could move by all manner of idle men and women, and under windows where sat the sweet and the lovely, and yet never attract a curious eye, never provoke a single remark. Dear, dear, it only shows that there is nothing diviner about a king than there is about a tramp, after all. He is just a cheap and hollow artificiality when you don't know he is a king. But reveal his quality, and dear me it takes your very breath away to look at him. I reckon we are all fools. Born so, no doubt.
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Michelle Williams Made A Powerful Speech About 'A Woman's Right To Choose' At Golden Globes
Michelle spoke about how her choices may be different from others, but we live in a "country founded on the principles that I am free to live by my faith and you are free to live by yours."
Michelle Williams gave a very emotional speech as she accepted her award for best actress in a limited series for "Fosse/Verdon" at the 2020 Golden Globes. Using her acceptance speech, she talking about reproductory rights and called out to women to vote, according to CNN. "When you put this in someone's hands you're acknowledging the choices they make as an actor. Moment by moment, scene by scene, day by day. But you're also acknowledging the choices they make as a person. The education they pursued, the training they sought, the hours they put in," began Williams.
Reproductive rights are at stake in this election.
Thank you, Michelle Williams, for using your microphone to bring this issue to the forefront. pic.twitter.com/PfWsSeQnpW
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) January 6, 2020
"I'm grateful for the acknowledgment of the choices I've made and I'm also grateful to have lived in a moment in our society where choice exists because as women and as girls, things can happen to our bodies that are not our choice," Williams added. "I've tried my very best to live a life of my own making and not just a series of events that happened to me. But one that I could stand back and look at and recognize my handwriting all over."
How sad it must be to trade an innocent human life for a tiny golden statue. Praying for Michelle Williams.
— Abby Johnson (@AbbyJohnson) January 6, 2020
"Sometimes messy and scrawling, sometimes careful and precise. But one that I had carved with my own hand. And I wouldn't have been able to do this without employing a woman's right to choose." She went on to say, "To choose when to have my children and with whom, when I felt supported and able to balance our lives as all mothers know that the scales must and will tip towards our children."
My God, did Michelle Williams really come out and thank having an abortion so she could have a bigger career?
It’s murder, that “choice” you brag about is the murder of the most precious thing you’ll ever have in life. Enjoy your trophy.
— Mindy Robinson 🇺🇸 (@iheartmindy) January 6, 2020
She did not stop there and went on to say, "Now I know my choices might look different than yours, but thank God or whoever you pray to that we live in a country founded on the principles that I am free to live by my faith and you are free to live by yours. So, women 18 to 118, when it is time to vote please do so in your self-interest. It's what men have been doing for years, which is why the world looks so much like them but don't forget we are the largest voting body in this country. Let's make it look more like us."
Michelle Williams beautifully articulated abortion rights without shame or apology and called out the bullshit double standard that women shouldn't center women at the ballot box. Good on her. More of that.#GoldenGlobes
— Charlotte Clymer🏳️🌈 (@cmclymer) January 6, 2020
Of course, there were people who thought she was spewing nonsense while others completely agreed to everything she said. Kristen Lima commented on Facebook: "Presented a thought-provoking, intellectual, compassionate and non-inflammatory speech. I was blown away by her strength of spirit. Yay, Michelle! Brilliant Woman of honor and dignity." However, Nancy Deluca- D'orazio wrote: "This is why I’ve stopped watching these award shows! I just want to watch it what it was meant for, giving an award! Leave politics out of it! There are so many other shows to voice your opinion on!"
"I'm grateful for the acknowledgement of the choices I've made & also grateful to have lived at a moment in our society where choice exists, because as women & as girls things can happen to our bodies that are not our choice," Michelle Williams AGAIN drops truth! #registertovite
— Jamie Lee Curtis (@jamieleecurtis) January 6, 2020
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Are road trips cheaper than flying?
In an age of cheap flights and expensive petrol it can be hard to know for sure whether your best option when planning a big trip is to get behind the wheel on a road trip, or take to the skies.
On the one hand, the wide open road allows you to cruise along at your own pace, take your own picnic and avoid pesky airport taxes; on the other hand, flying will have you there in a matter of hours and there are some surprisingly good deals to be had, especially if you book in advance.
So, are road trips cheaper than flying?
There are a lot of variable factors when it comes to deciding whether hopping on a flight or jumping into your car is going to work out cheaper in the long run.
To work out whether road trips are cheaper than flying, the most important things to consider are the number of passengers and the cost of fuel vs airfare.
As a general rule, driving becomes the more cost-effective option when four or more people are travelling, or if you're going on a trip during the more expensive school holiday months. If you're travelling solo or have a car that's not fuel-efficient, flying might work out cheaper than driving.
That being said, it's not as simple as just counting people or ticket fees, as factors including getting to and from the airport, whether you need to break up your drive with an overnight stay somewhere, and what kind of car you drive can all have a huge influence on the final cost of your trip.
Here are just a few more costs to take into consideration when you're deciding whether to fly or drive:
How your vehicle affects the cost of a road trip
How fuel-efficient is your car?
It goes without saying that the bigger and more gas-guzzling your car is, the more expensive it's going to be to use on a road trip, but in actual fact the difference can be staggering.
If you're going to choose a giant SUV with a low mpg count, then you'll probably find yourself stopping to fill up so often that just paying for the flights would probably have worked out cheaper in the first place.
Will your car withstand the journey?
Driving long distances can have a big impact on your car and often requires some kind of prep, whether that means making sure the tyres are up to scratch, checking that your brake pads will last the entire duration, or seeing you've got enough spare light bulbs.
Unsurprisingly, all of these things cost money. If you don't already have breakdown cover, it's a good idea to take it out before starting any long road trip, something that will also push up the costs in the 'driving' column.
It's also worth considering how long you're going to keep your vehicle for after your road trip; if you're thinking about selling it some time in the near future, it may be best to fly rather than drive in order to keep those clock miles low and wear-and-tear to a minimum.
Does your car insurance already cover you for international road trips?
Not all insurance policies will cover you to drive internationally, but almost all countries require you to have car insurance, so if you're planning to take your car across country borders then you need to make sure you're sorted.
How does the additional cost of upgrading your insurance compare to the cost of the flight? This is yet another thing to consider when weighing up the cost of a road trip verses a flight.
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How your travel companions will influence your spending
So we know that the ability to share the driving and the fuel costs between various passengers can be a big tick in the road trip column, but that doesn't always mean that everyone on the same journey is necessarily on the same page.
Will you have to stay somewhere expensive overnight?
Depending on how far your journey is, you might find yourself needing to stop overnight somewhere along the way.
So are your party the kind of people who are going to be fine roughing it in an 'it'll do' kind of hotel, or are they going to want to stay somewhere slightly nicer?
If you're a parent taking the kids away, you should also consider how many rooms you're going to need to book.
Either way, booking ahead or at the very last minute is most likely to get you the cheapest rates on hotels.
Will you spend lots of money on eating and drinking?
You're going to need to eat at some point along your journey, especially if you're the driver, and if you're buying these meals at motorway service stations then you're going to be paying a premium for them.
Use a programme like Google Maps to gain a rough estimate of how long your journey is going to take, and then work out how many meals you're going to need to eat within this time.
Add in an (honest) guess at how many journey snacks you're going to work your way through - those giant crisp bags might only be £1.50 a pack, but when you get through four of them a day, they clock up.
Likewise, if you know you're someone that's partial to getting overexcited at the airport and stuffing yourself with coffee, beer or sweets, then consider these costs too.
Factoring these totals into your budget calculations will help you to make an informed decision - and remember, you could just bring your own sandwiches in the car or on the plane.
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How the route you take can cost or save you money
Where are you starting from? Where are you going to?
Another thing to think about is where it is you are starting from and where you're planning to end up.
In parts of Europe, many budget airlines offer international fares for as little as (or even lower than) £20 - cheaper than you could ever drive the same distance, even with all other costs added in.
Airports in more remote destinations, however, will most likely incur higher charges and so may be worth the drive instead.
Flight prices rocket in the busy school summer holiday months as the demand becomes greater; our advice is to travel outside of this time if possible (the roads will be quieter too), but if this isn't an option then it's at this time of year that road trips really come into their own.
Are there any toll roads on your route?
The USA and many European countries use toll roads to ensure roads are well maintained without passing costs onto wider taxpayers.
While the cost of these varies by country and they're usually not overly expensive, they can add up if you're travelling over large distances; in France, for instance, you generally pay about €1 for every ten miles.
Factor in your plans once you get there
Do you need a car once you get there?
Another thing to consider is whether or not you're going to need a car for the rest of your holiday.
If you're staying in the middle of nowhere, you're most likely going to need to provide your own transport as in many rural areas public transport tends to be limited and taxi prices high.
Similarly, even if you base yourself in a city or town with good transport links but do want to go off exploring on your own for a few days, then you're going to need a car.
With this in mind, spend some time researching car rental costs in your destination location, noting that collecting a hire car from the airport is often more expensive than collecting one in a town (although airport transfer costs may balance this out).
Sometimes, it works out cheaper just to take your own vehicle.
Are there any city taxes to contend with?
In an effort to tackle pollution and overcrowding, many major cities now have introduced taxes for driving through them at peak hours; much like toll roads, the prices can vary dramatically but can add unexpected costs to your trip.
Driving in Central London, for example, will incur an £11.50 per day Congestion Charge, while to drive in Paris you will require a Clean Air vignette.
Make sure you factor these fees in when totting up whether to fly to drive.
How long do you want to spend there?
The fact of the matter is that as much as we love road trips, flying is often a faster option if you're travelling long distance.
Flying from London to Malaga, for example, would take just 6 hours with airport time either end included, while driving could take up to two days.
If you're on a time budget, you may find that any increase in cost is worth it for the extra time you get to spend there.
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All in all, it's clear that personal circumstances must be considered when you're trying to work out if road trips are cheaper than flying.
Not only do you have to think about the airfare vs the petrol, but also about who you're going to be travelling with, when you're going to be travelling and what you'll be doing once you get there.
At the most expensive times of year, driving can be a very affordable option and offer you a lot more flexibility, but that doesn't mean it's always the most affordable option.
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Amazon Launches Marketplace, Dell Partners with Microsoft
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Etsy has long been known as the biggest name in the market for handmade goods. But it’s now facing some huge competition thanks to a new handmade marketplace from eCommerce giant Amazon. And that’s not the only way that Amazon broke into the news this week.
Read on for a full list of small business related headlines in this week’s Small Business Trends News and Information Roundup.
Amazon Takes Aim at Etsy with Handmade
Watch out Etsy, Amazon is issuing a challenge for the handmade market space with a new store featuring only artisan made products. Named Handmade at Amazon, the new store is tailored for factory-free handmade items. Amazon says it already features more than 80,000 handcrafted products from artisans in more than 60 countries.
44 Percent of Shoppers Go to Amazon First – Are You There?
Here’s one reason why your small business should consider selling products at Amazon.com. According to a new study from BloomReach, 44 percent of American consumers go directly to Amazon before using search engines like Google (34 percent) or a retailer’s site (21 percent) to search for products.
Dell and Microsoft Partnership Creates Onramp to the Cloud for Small Businesses
At Dell World 2015, the annual Dell customer convention this week in Austin, the big buzz was about Dell’s acquisition of cloud computing provider EMC, and the announcement of the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft. Both are primarily of interest to larger enterprises.
Your Turn to Try Dropbox Paper – A New Collaborative Writing Tool
About six months ago, Dropbox quietly announced Notes — a collaborative note-taking tool — launching it as an invite-only beta version for a few select people to play with. Back then, Dropbox said Notes was “a new way for teams to write together.” However, now Dropbox has officially rebranded Notes to Dropbox Paper and its beta-testing phase is expanding significantly.
Google Will Provide Yahoo with Search Services, Search Ads
Former search heavyweight Yahoo has entered into an agreement with current champion Google. Yahoo will gain access to Google’s Web and Image search results services along with search advertisements under the deal. The Google Yahoo deal is not a bad setup for either party.
Relaunch of Wix Music Platform Adds Distribution, Concert Promotion
Wix has relaunched and added additional components to its Wix Music platform, which debuted in March. It was mainly positioned as a platform allowing musicians to upload their recorded music directly to their new Wix site and sell it immediately. Initially, Wix also offered specialty site themes.
NASA Says It Will Start Licensing Technology to Startups
Could NASA be looking for funding to gear up for a trip to Mars? Public interest in manned missions to Mars has been a fantasy for decades and is slowly becoming a reality. Riding the wave of enthusiasm, NASA has tentative plans for missions to Mars and the asteroid belt.
Amazon Space Needle Will Provide Analytics, Data Transfer
Amazon is announcing a service called Space Needle to help clients of its Amazon Web Services leverage the amount of data now available from their customers. The quantity of data now available to businesses large and small especially gathered from online traffic and customer behavior is vast.
Andy Rhodes of Dell: View IoT as an Opportunity, Before it Becomes a Threat
At this week’s Dell World event, as the case at last month’s Dreamforce event, some of the main focus was around the Internet of Things (IoT).
Square Snatches Yahoo Chief Development Officer Jacqueline Reses
Square Inc. CEO Jack Dorsey has lured a top Yahoo executive away from CEO Marissa Mayer. Jacqueline Reses had been Yahoo’s chief development officer and her move to Square is viewed as a blow to Yahoo, sources told BloombergBusiness. Yahoo has lost a handful of top executives recently.
Big Bank Lending Up, Says Biz2Credit Index
Institutional lenders reached an all-time high in the number of small business loans they approved, as did big banks, the latest Biz2Credt Small Business Lending Index reveals. Small banks, however, reached an all-time low in total number of approved small business loans.
More Sales & Better PPC ROI with The Bing Ads Holiday Planning Guide
If you’re in the mood for holiday cheer and a little inspiration for your PPC and online marketing plans, look no further than our holiday planning guide for digital marketers.
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Spotlight: Future Solutions Media Repairs Online Reputations
Online reviews have the potential to make or break your company’s reputation. But even companies with great products and services can see sales suffer due to just a few negative comments. That’s where Future Solutions Media comes in.
Get Customer Feedback Fast with New Twitter Polls
Twitter has unveiled Twitter Polls, a new feature that allows for the collection of feedback in a more straightforward way than previously possible on the service.
Social Media Usage Nearly 10 Times Higher Than a Decade Ago
With the Internet increasingly available to the public, reaching out to the rural areas, social media usage has been on the rise. This has created a forum that enables small businesses to reach target customers more easily. The Pew Research Center has released a study that looks for social media usage trending by different groups. The study suggests U.S.
Did You Know 45 Percent of Pinterest Users are Outside the U.S.?
Nearly half of Pinterest users are from abroad. The revelation may come as a surprise to small business owners and other marketers that have been under the impression that they were targeting a primarily domestic audience. The report comes from Marketing Land. Pinterest recently crossed the big boys line — 100 million monthly active users.
HelloGiggles by Zooey Deschanel Acquired by Time Inc. for $20 Million
Time Inc. has acquired HelloGiggles, an online platform dedicated to upbeat coverage of young women’s topics and issues. The small site — founded in 2011 by actress, musician and TV personality Zooey Deschanel, Molly McAleer and Sophia Rossi — was nabbed for a purchase price of around $20 million, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Jury: Apple Used Patented Tech in iPhone, Could Owe $862 Million
Apple could face a stiff penalty after a jury found it violated patent laws by using certain technology in its iPhones. A jury in a U.S. District Court in Madison, Wisconsin, has ruled against Apple in a patent infringement case filed in February 2014 by Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) regarding patent 5,781,752.
TPPA Has Serious Implications for Content Creators
Internet service providers (ISPs) and their customers could soon be subject to a takedown and potential criminal penalties similar to the DMCA request process. According to a chapter of the final version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TTPA) leaked by Wikileaks, several new criminal penalties will be enforced in the countries that are part of this deal. These include the U.S.
Are Fiverrs Running Scared From Amazon Fake Reviews Lawsuit?
Less than a week after Amazon cracked down on fake reviews by filing a lawsuit, the sale of fake reviews at Fiverr.com still seems to be occurring. And people still appear to be buying the services. But it’s put a dent in the activity. Amazon sued 1,114 reviewers in Washington state court on October 16, 2015.
Newest Toshiba DynaPad is 2-in-1 with Stylus
There’s a new 2-in-1 tablet coming to market from Toshiba, in collaboration with Microsoft. The company recently introduced its newest dynaPad, a Windows 10 tablet. With boasts that dynaPad is not only a notebook but also can be held and written on the way people write on paper, this one’s for the note takers.
BLOCKS Smartwatch Has Modules, Each Capable of Its Own Function
Smartwatches are trying to find their audience, and even Apple is having a hard time of it as the segment continues to evolve. So, what is the best way to increase the adoption rate of smartwatches? If you ask the people at BLOCKS Wearables, they will tell you they have the answer. It is a modular smartwatch that gives the user more control of the options they want.
HTC One A9 Smartphone Boasts Power and Beauty
In case you are experiencing phone fever with all the new models being announced, here is one more to get your interest up. HTC recently unveiled its newest smartphone, the HTC One A9. And this one is setting itself up as not only a beautiful option but powerful, too. HTC is putting an emphasis on the beauty of the One A9.
Try Out the Latest Android Google Search App – It’s In Beta
Google now has a beta channel for testing the latest features on the Android Google Search app. If you want to test Google Play’s beta service, click here. Testers will receive a testing version of the Google app, Google announced, adding, “Please note that testing versions may be unstable or have a few bugs.
Meet Marshmallow, Newest Android System (Where Do They Get These Names?)
Android 6.0 Marshmallow began rolling out this month and is set to displace Lollipop as the latest Android operating system. But you may not notice too many changes at first glance. Here is a look at some of the more interesting new features. In appearance, there is little change between Marshmallow and it’s sugary predecessor. That’s because Android 6.
Verizon Says It’s Added 1.3 Million Wireless Customers
The growing mobile market got a boost when the nation’s largest wireless carrier, Verizon, reported it had enlisted an additional 1.3 million wireless customers during its third quarter.
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Home Wire Entertainment Iconic Las Vegas wedding chapel is no longer up for sale
Iconic Las Vegas wedding chapel is no longer up for sale
LAS VEGAS (AP) – The owner of a Las Vegas chapel where celebrity couples like Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner have gotten married is staying wedded to her business.
Charlotte Richards told KVVU-TV on Wednesday that she is taking A Little White Wedding Chapel off the market.
The iconic property had been listed for $12 million back in April.
Richards says she received one offer but declined it.
After more consideration, she has decided to hold onto the business she operated since 1951.
The chapel has become a Sin City icon over the years hosting quickie wedding ceremonies including for pop singer Britney Spears in 2004.
“Game of Thrones” actress Turner and singer Jonas married there in May.
Information from: KVVU-TV, http://www.kvvu.com
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Alternative Animal Feed Part of Global Fisheries Crisis Fix
tags: Agriculture, chickens, farming, fisheries, research, sustainability, swine
[Source: ScienceDaily.com]
Finding alternative feed sources for chickens, pigs and other farm animals will significantly reduce pressure on the world’s dwindling fisheries while contributing positively to climate change, according to University of British Columbia researchers.
“Thirty million tons — or 36 per cent — of the world’s total fisheries catch each year is currently ground up into fishmeal and oil to feed farmed fish, chickens and pigs,” says UBC fisheries researcher Daniel Pauly, co-author of the Oryx: The International Journal of Conservation article, recently published online.
“Meanwhile, 25 per cent of infants in Peru — which produces half of the world’s fishmeal using anchovies — are malnourished,” says Pauly.
In the Oryx article, nine of the world’s leading fisheries and conservation researchers — including four from UBC — reviewed the effectiveness of past conservation campaigns and propose new strategies to effect swifter and larger-scale changes.
“Globally, pigs and chickens alone consume six times the amount of seafood as US consumers and twice that of Japan,” says lead author Jennifer Jacquet, a post-doctoral fellow at UBC’s Fisheries Centre. “Ultimately these farm animals have a greater impact on our seafood supplies than the most successful seafood certification program.”
“We should work to eliminate the use of tasty fish for livestock production. It’s a waste,” says Pauly. “Plus, it is not what pigs or chickens naturally eat. When is the last time you saw a chicken fishing?”
Many sustainable seafood campaigns focus on consumers but ignore large-scale market impacts — such as farming demand for fishmeal — and have failed to reach their goals, say the study’s authors, which include Enric Sala of the National Geographic Society and Rashid Sumaila and Tony Pitcher of UBC.
After pioneering and distributing more than one million seafood wallet cards — pocket-sized guides that advise consumers of ocean-friendly seafood, the Monterey Bay Aquarium conducted a study that revealed no overall change in the market and that fishing pressures had not decreased for targeted species, the study points out.
“Sustainable seafood certification programs such as wallet cards have raised consumer awareness but are far less effective than targeting mega supermarket chains such as Walmart, Whole Foods and Loblaw through a combination of positive and negative publicity campaigns,” says Jacquet, adding that more than 60 per cent of seafood in Canada and half the seafood in the U.S. is sold through supermarkets.
The authors also suggest establishing international standards for labeling sustainable seafood, eliminating harmful fisheries subsidies and leveraging momentum for fisheries conservation through existing global concerns for climate change.
“Global fisheries consume 13 billion gallons of fuel each year just to catch and land fish,” says Jacquet. “That’s more gas than 22 million cars would use. Energy use would be much higher if we include the fuel used to ship fish further for processing and to market. No discussion of the overall impact of fisheries would be complete without clarifying its contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.”
“Overall, we’d like to encourage people to engage more as citizens — as they have with the global climate change movement — and less as mere consumers,” said Pauly. “Big problems like overfishing require efforts to be directed at big change.”
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Google Drive for Android now supports OCR allowing users to take photo and save as PDF
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Google announced big changes to several of its services -- most importantly Google+ and Google Maps -- at the I/O conference this year. Shortly after the I/O conference ended, the search giant started rolling out the updated version of apps on Android and iOS. Last time, Google+ for Android received an updated with Snapseed integration for advanced photo editing. Latest in line to get an update is Google Drive.
Google announced big changes to several of its services — most importantly Google+ and Google Maps — at the I/O conference this year. Shortly after the I/O conference ended, the search giant started rolling out the updated version of apps on Android and iOS. Last time, Google+ for Android received an updated with Snapseed integration for advanced photo editing. Latest in line to get an update is Google Drive.
Google’s cloud storage service, a direct competitor to Dropbox and the likes, has just updated its Android app with a redesigned interface and a new OCR option. The new interface allows users to switch between “list” and “grid” view. It also focuses more on images on folders that have images inside them. This comes as bigger image becomes a trend after Google+ for Android app is updated followed by Flickr’s new Android app release; both of which have bigger photo as a core feature of their user interface.
Besides the slightly redesigned interface and a somewhat smoother performance, Google Drive now lets users take photos of documents using the phone’s camera and turn them into a PDF document. Such technology exists on the web and as standalone computer software that utilizes a technology called “Optical Character Recognition.” The idea of bringing OCR into Google Drive could be that you can now quickly “Scan” a business card or a receipt and save them as PDF on your Drive for later viewing.
Google Drive for Android’s new Scan feature can be access by pressing the menu button and tapping “Add New”, which will bring up a list of items. If you tap “Scan”, your camera will fire up with grid overlay. You can then take a photo of your document. After you take the shot and confirm, the file will be uploaded to your Google Drive and you can view them as PDF.
The scanned files will be renamed as scanned with the date and timestamp as suffix, so you won’t have a problem finding them on your Drive. We can’t wait to see how accurate most users find it with their real life use. Try the Scan option today and let us know if it’s satisfactory to you.
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EBOLA, OR AFRICAN STRAINS OF TB?
Dr. Lawrence Broxmeyer, M.D.
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Today, the Ebola, and for that matter the Marburg virus have assumed general acceptance. Yet according to David Rasnick, PhD, a previous member to the Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel of South Africa, there is no convincing evidence, and “certainly no confirmatory evidence of human isolation”, in either case. This is ― to be certain ― not only a direct challenge that the “Ebola” is behind the current Ebola outbreak ― but that the virus is pathogenic at all. Nor is Rasnick alone. If the virus called Ebola is not causing the current epidemic, then what is?
The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) recently declared:
“Diagnosing Ebola in a person who has been infected for only a few days is difficult, because the early symptoms, such as fever, are nonspecific to Ebola infection and are seen often in patients with more commonly occurring diseases, such as malaria and typhoid fever.”1 Only a sin of omission. then, would explain why anyone or any group would not want to specifically mention the most commonly occurring cause of infectious death in Africa ― tuberculosis ― whose sky-high rates in West Africa make Ebola look like a dropper-full of water squeezed into the Mississippi.
If by October, 2014, Ebola had laid claim to what WHO (the World Health Organization) claimed was well over 4,000 deaths since its February outbreak2 ― certainly this ought to be weighed in the light of the approximately 600,000 Africans slain by TB during the same window of time.3 Furthermore, if by October 17th, 2014 world-wide Ebola mortality stood at 4,811 then surely 81% of these deaths took place in Liberia and Sierra Leone. While Librarian health officials warned4 as early as 2009 that TB was skyrocketing out-of-control ― a mixed scientific coalition from Sierra Leone and Germany cautioned that Sierra Leone’s tuberculosis level was not only the highest in West Africa, but filled with resistant strains of TB and tuberculous Mycobacterium Africanum that had “reached an alarming level”…..raising the question of possible consequences” for a future new TB epidemic.”5 Indeed almost half of all TB cases in the West African Ebola zone are caused by such Mycobacterium africanum ― an unusual, yet just as deadly member of the tubercular family, exclusive to West Africa ― and fast becoming a microbe of great public ― and now global concern. That tubercular M. africanum can and has already caused tuberculosis in the United States is a matter of record.6 Furthermore, there is a body of evidence that africanum requires more sustained contact, even among household members – certainly mirrored in the current outbreak. Meanwhile health officials continue to insist that “casual contact” cannot transmit Ebola ― precisely the same claim they’ve long made with TB.
Surely the CDC is aware that there is not a sign or symptom of Ebola, including its hemorrhagic tendencies that cannot be found in acute disseminated miliary (blood-borne) tuberculosis, once called “galloping consumption” ― the single most feared form of the disease ever. And most likely it is also aware that such tuberculosis has its own viral-like forms, some of which can simulate the Ebola. Such viral TB is generally acknowledged to be TB’s preferred form ― as a survival strategy to storm any inclement conditions the microbe might find itself in.7
Then why did the CDC not mention TB, by name, in their short-list of possibilities that could cause Ebola-like symptoms? If such oversight stopped there it would be unremarkable, but it seems to have been carried over in the very design of the most recent CDC-approved tests to detect Ebola.
A River named Ebola
In September of 1978, about 40 years ago, a team ― including a 27-year-old fresh out of medical school, who was training as a clinical microbiologist at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, received a blue thermos from Zaire. It was filled with the two 5ml. clotted blood specimens of an African-based Flemish nun. The Belgium doctor who sent it, Jacques Courteille, practicing in Kinshasa, included a note saying that he was at a complete loss for the nun’s mysterious, yet deadly illness. Also, could the samples be tested for Yellow Fever? This thermos had traveled from Zaire’s capital city of Kinshasa, on a Sabena commercial flight to Belgium ― inside its deliverer’s hand luggage. When the samples were received, Peter Piot, the 27-year-old medical graduate and his colleagues, among other things, placed the blood samples under an electron microscope. To be sure Piot’s interest was virology and a virologist he would soon become, best known for his work on theorizing the ‘viruses’ behind Ebola and AIDS. To this effect he contributed heavily to the voluminous literature that HTLV-1 had a role in AIDS, which it did not. Nevertheless Piot would become a pioneer, and part of the group that included veterinarian Max Myron Essex in trying to define what AIDS was at WHO’s 1985 Conference in Banqui, Africa.
Dr. Peter Piot
Piot on the Ebola: “We saw a gigantic worm like structure ― gigantic by viral standards. It’s a very unusual shape for a virus, only one other virus looked like that and that was the Marburg virus.”8
Figure 2. Piot (on the right), at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, in 1976
But the new “virus” needed a name. Piot relates the interesting tale of how Ebola came to be named as Ebola:
“On that day our team sat together late into the night – we had also had a couple of drinks – discussing the question. We definitely didn’t want to name the new pathogen “Yambuku virus”, because that would have stigmatized the place forever. There was a map hanging on the wall and our American team leader suggested looking for the nearest river and giving the virus its name. It was the Ebola River. So by around three or four in the morning we had found a name. But the map was small and inexact. We only learned later that the nearest river was actually a different one. But Ebola is a nice name, isn’t it?”9
Depends upon how you look at it.
Figure 3. The Ebola River, Circa 1976.
Piot’s specimens proved negative for Yellow Fever and he mentions that the tests for Lassa fever and typhoid were also negative. What, then, could it be? Piot: “To isolate any virus material” small amounts of the blood samples were injected into VERO cells and into mice. Several of these mice subsequently and abruptly expired ― “a sign that a pathogenic virus was probably present in the blood samples that we had used to inoculate them”.10
The fact that the mice died did not mean that it was at the hands of a “pathogenic virus.”
Piot’s boss, Stefaan Pattyn, who Piot admitted “could be a bit of a bully”, supposedly specialized in the study of mycobacteria ― tuberculosis and leprosy, yet seemed unaware of the hemorrhagic consequences of acute TB, nor had he taken the time to use special stains and cultures to detect its viral-like cell-wall-deficient forms. Instead Pattyn followed his current passion, shared by Piot. Pattyn had recently worked in Zaire for six or seven years and exotic viral illnesses were now “right up his alley”.11 So Pattyn’s team likewise never really considered a strain of acute miliary TB or its viral cell-wall-deficient forms in his rule-outs for an acute hemorrhagic or epidemic fever ― among them Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium africanum.
From Past to the Present
The Ebola of its day on steroids, “galloping” acute consumptive tuberculosis could kill in days ― the mere memory of which, just a few generations ago, brought terror to the faces of those who had witnessed and were describing it. To Dubos12 “galloping consumption” was not an isolated, but a frequent diagnosis in the 19th and early 20th centuries. And despite persistent myths to the contrary, in the early phase of any new TB epidemic from a new and virulent strain, tuberculosis manifests itself as an acute disease and only much later as the chronic pulmonary tuberculosis that we know in today’s western world. An example of this can be found in the high mortality during the 1918 influenza pandemic, when African-Americans were brought to fight in France during World War I ― large numbers of them dying from a fast-tracked tubercular “galloping consumption”.
Many often underestimate the speed, contagiousness and ferocity of a TB epidemic. Khomenko’s 1993 study13 should have cemented the notion that the explosive contagiousness of just such Ebola and influenza-like viral forms of tuberculosis are exactly the stuff that previous epidemics and pandemics could have been made of. But it didn’t.
In the US, the CDC and NIH seemed to feel differently, ignoring the historic possibility. There was much the same viral passion, at that time over “Influenza”, when in 1990, a new multi-drug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis outbreak took place in a large Miami municipal hospital. Soon thereafter, similar outbreaks in three New York City hospitals left many sufferers dying within weeks. By 1992, approximately two years later, drug-resistant tuberculosis had spread to deadly mini-epidemics in seventeen US states, and was reported, not by the American, but the international media, as out of control. Viral forms of swine, avian and human TB can be transmitted from one species to another. So can exotic strains of tuberculosis and tubercular Mycobacterium africanum, imported into the United States through countries such as Liberia. By 1993 the World Health Organization (WHO) had proclaimed tuberculosis a global health emergency.14 That emergency has never been lifted.
Anderson pointed out that such acute, untreated disseminated, “galloping”, blood-dispersed TB could kill in hours or days15 ― its mortality, according to Saleem and Azher even today approaching 100%.16 Ebola itself can take up to a month to kill its victims, said Ben Neuman17, an expert in viruses at Britain’s Reading University ― although there are many cases that also kill in hours or days. Not only were tubercular hemorrhaging and fever both mentioned by Fox18, but hemorrhaging of the serous cavities, the gums, and the nose, into the joints, the skin, and the bowels. Appleman19, in the American Journal of Ophthalmology, considering massive spontaneous hemorrhages into the vitreous, mentions that Axenfeld considered acute tuberculosis an important possibility in the rule-out for bleeding into the eye. Coughing-up blood has always been a well-known scenario for TB. Hemorrhages of significance from the ear secondary to tuberculous otitis media are also on record.20 And the possibility of acute disseminated tuberculosis attacking the bone marrow and through fibrosis causing a partial shutdown of platelets; changing the very morphology of those platelets; as well as interfering with their function ― all combine to create a clear and present hemorrhagic danger. Even today, bone marrow biopsy is at times a valuable diagnostic test for tubercular involvement. In addition Extrapulmonary (outside of the lungs) tuberculosis is the most frequent cause of a prolonged Fever of Unknown Origin (FUO) and has been for a long, long time.21
A fact initially carefully minimized by certain Ebola ‘authorities’ ― and clarified by Feldmann in the New England Journal (October 9th, 2014 issue) is that in the current Ebola outbreak “less than half” of the people infected have visible hemorrhaging.22 This was just enough to prompt some virologists to rethink Ebola’s designation from Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever, to the “Ebola virus Disease”. So much for “hemorrhagic fever.” Yet even then, in a 1978 publication of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization regarding the 1976 Ebola outbreak in Zaire it was admitted that hemorrhaging, although from “multiple sites” was “principally [from] the gastrointestinal tract”.23 But patients with TB spread to the gastrointestinal tract can also have fever, abdominal pain, and can have gastrointestinal/rectal bleeding that patients with Ebola can have.
Mortality Rates of Both Diseases about the Same
Nor do the parallels stop there. In September, as the CDC justifiably warned against nonessential travel to Sierra Leone ― available data from the two Ebola facilities in that country came in with Case Fatality Rates (CFRs) for Ebola that ranged between 50% and 72%. This, although considerably higher than the 37.7% CFR that Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health was reporting24, averages out to an agency reported fatality rate of 61% ― not much different from the approximately 67% mortality given for the untreated active tuberculosis that currently rages in West Africa and many other places around the world.25
Meanwhile, The World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) latest “Situation Report” summed-up that although the rate of Ebola infections were picking up speed at an alarming rate in West Africa, the fatality rate was 53% overall, ranging from 64% in Guinea to just 39% in Sierra Leone.26
A Flaw in Diagnostic Test Design?
Moreover, the design of present diagnostic tests for Ebola, in certain respects, don’t meet the sniff test. An August 6, 2014 article in the L.A. Times mentioned27 that an unapproved Ebola test-tube diagnostic assay, developed by the U.S. military, was just approved for use in the US under a special emergency-use provision.
Critics claimed that the two PCR systems to be used for Ebola testing in such “emergency situations” were unapproved. But there is more. While an instruction booklet issued by the Food and Drug Administration28 showed impressive results for detecting and thereby being positive for known “Ebola” samples ― it sadly failed in its inadequate selection of those pathogen’s that might be cross-reacting and therefore making for false positive Ebola tests.
The instruction booklet, Version 2, that accompanied the new Ebola assay mentions:
“9.2.2.2 Bacterial Cross-Reactivity: Bacterial cross-reactivity of the EZ1 assay was evaluated by testing purified nucleic acid of bacteria that potentially could be infecting the majority of the population. No cross-reactivity was observed in the human DNA or any of the bacteria tested (Table 51).”29 [Bold print theirs.]
Yes. The only problem being that a glance at Table 51 shows practically every bacteria in existence except for the one subset of pathogens “that potentially could be infecting the majority [of West Africa’s] population” and those pathogens are again ― Mycobacteria tuberculosis and its related Mycobacterium africanum.
Such diversion is no trivial point. As time went by it became obvious that attempts were in the pipeline to link the pathogenesis of Ebola and AIDS, right down to their sexual transmission (a poorly kept secret is that TB can also be sexually transmitted30). So mistakes made during the AIDS probes would have to be avoided with Ebola.
For example, in the past, as the first scientist to propose HIV-virus testing, veterinarian Max Myron Essex knew that tuberculosis and its allied mycobacteria gave a false positive for the HIV virus in his tests in almost 70% of cases. Such cross-reactivity between HIV and tuberculosis was so significant, that it forced Essex31 and his protégé, Congo physician Oscar Kashala, to warn that both the HIV screening test, the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and western blot results “should be interpreted with caution when screening individuals with M. tuberculosis or other mycobacterial species.”31 This, of course, automatically meant throwing away HIV serum diagnostics for, according to WHO, at least a third of the people in the known world that WHO (The World Health Organization) has proclaimed presently harbor tubercular infection.
So why then was Mycobacterium tuberculosis noticeably excluded from the CDC’s Table 51 and not included in those pathogens tested for cross-reacting and therefore possibly giving false positive tests for the Ebola? Did the originally panel (Version 1) chosen by government scientists actually include Mycobacterium tuberculosis and related microbes in its design ― only to find that indeed these mycobacteria caused positive tests for Ebola as in the HIV affair? Did they feel that such results might muddy the waters, be too difficult to explain, and subsequently remove them? This is not known.
A group of researchers from Oxford University and the University of Leuven have just determined that HIV is “almost certain” to have begun its spread ― from Kinshasa, now the capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo.32 Whether this research bears out or doesn’t, Kinshasa itself has long been a hotbed for tuberculosis ― and now Ebola. On top of that, a doctor in rural Liberia, swarmed with Ebola patients, says he’s had extremely good results with HIV treatment ― albeit such treatment was born out of admitted desperation.33 The US NIAID, having gotten wind of this, is carefully looking into the use of some of these HIV-antiretrovirals to control Ebola. This just might work, but will it answer the reason as to why it works? The NIH, for example, has long known, though mechanisms not yet clearly worked out, that HIV treatment suppresses both the tuberculosis and the fowl tuberculosis that are currently the leading causes of infectious death in AIDS. To this effect the NIH, decades ago recruited University laboratories to look into the reason why.34
Therefore are the HIV drugs working against an “Ebola” which is estimated to have killed well over 3,000 African’s so far this year, or the TB that killed 600,000 Africans in that same window? There still remains much work ahead to determine this. Antiretrovirals have major side effects.
The Ebola virus (also referred to as Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever) is often compared to the Marburg virus. So we have this, written in July, 2005, regarding that outbreak:
“Angola is in the grip of the world’s worst ever outbreak of the Marburg virus. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), as of 5 April, 156 of the 181 people reported infected have died. The Ebola-like virus causes a fever that, in fatal cases, is usually accompanied by severe internal bleeding and shock. There is no vaccine or medical treatment and up to 80 per cent of infected people die within three to seven days. Three-quarters of those affected are children under five. Diagnosing an infection with the Marburg virus can be difficult as its initial symptoms are similar to those of malaria or tuberculosis. They include diarrhea, stomach pains, nausea, and vomiting and severe chest pains.”35
The heavy mortality and morbidity under the age of five with Marburg brings to mind specifically a tubercular involvement, in which most children are affected also in the same age group. What has been called ‘The Golden Age of Resistance’ against TB mortality has always been, for unknown reasons, ages six thru fifteen.In this same vein, during the Zaire Ebola outbreak of 1976, women 15-29 years of age had the highest incidence of that disease.36
“We saw a gigantic worm like-structure ― gigantic by viral standards. It’s a very unusual shape for a virus” – Peter Piot.
Figure 4. The Serpentine Form of the Ebola Virus. Magnification: approximately x60,000.
Micrograph from F. A. Murphy, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas. Courtesy: CDC Dr. Frederick A. Murphy
To some it might be considered “worm-like”, to others serpentine.
TB OR EBOLA?
Figures 5A through 5G. Which of the serpentine, worm-like forms above is the Ebola virus? The correct answer is Figure 5 F. Figures 5A, 5B and 5C are L-Forms (Or Cell-Wall-Deficient Forms) of TB Under the Electron Microscope. (Michailova, L et al. Morphological variability and cell wall deficiency in ‘heteroresistant’ strains. Internat Journ of Tuberc and Lung Dis, 9:,8, Aug 2005:.907-914:,911). Figure 5D. Worm-like lethal tubercular cords from an atypical TB under the Electron Microscope. (Julián E, Roldán, M Journ. Of Bact Apr. 2010 p.1751-1760. P.1756). Such virulent cords are also represented in Figure 5E (Darzins, E. The Bacteriology of Tuberculosis Minneapolis. 1958. 488pps. p296) and Figure 5G.
Both the Ebola virus and the Marburg virus are called Filoviruses because they form filamentous infectious viral particles. Filoviruses, however, are not alone. Mycobacterium. tuberculosis, which commonly lodges in and multiplies in the white cell defenders of our body (called macrophages) ― also become filamentous once inside a macrophage.37 (See figures 6,7)
Figure 6. Filamentous Cell-Wall-Deficient Forms of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Figure 7. Filamentous Forms of the Ebola. Magnification: approximately x40,000.
Micrograph from F. A. Murphy, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.
According to the WHO, close contact with the bodily fluids of people infected with Ebola, for example in hospitals or at burials, has in the past increased the risk of infection. Health workers have been advised to wear a mask and gloves.38 Yet physicians all masked and gloved up have contracted Ebola and Marburg.
WHO’s statement is misleading. As far back as 1995 the ability of Ebola to aerosolize or spread through airborne transmission was reported, studied and confirmed.39,40 Ebola, is a communicable airborne infection, just like tuberculosis.
Tubercular Monkeys, Apes and Fruit Bats
“Ebola virus has been found in African monkeys, chimps and other nonhuman primates such as fruit bats in Africa. A milder strain of Ebola has been discovered in monkeys and pigs in the Philippines.”41 Interestingly Infection by M. africanum has also been reported from chimpanzees and African green monkeys. And in 1970-71 the CDC estimated that tubercular infection in individuals in contact with these and other non-human primates was 60 to 100 times that of the population at large (Richardson, 1987). Both African moneys and great apes are susceptible to TB.42 Early studies suggested that the new strain of Ebola had emerged in West Africa, but according to epidemiologist Fabian Leendertz, a disease ecologist at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, who led the large team of scientists to Guinea, it is likely the virus in Guinea is closely related to the one known as the Zaire Ebola Virus, identified more than 10 years ago in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.43
It is felt that the new strain probably arrived in West Africa via infected straw-colored fruit bats from another part of Africa and seems to be related to that Zaire Ebola virus identified more than 10 years ago in the Congo. These bats migrate across long distances and are commonly found in giant colonies near cities and in forests. Fruit bats, however, are widely eaten in rural West Africa – supposedly as a delicacy.
But the same fruit bats can carry mycobacteria from the mycobacterial tuberculosis complex.44,45,46
Previous Ebola outbreaks saw catastrophic death rates in gorilla and chimpanzee populations, which led some scientists to think that they were the ones responsible for the disease spreading. Old World monkeys are very susceptible to human and cattle tuberculosis. Unlike humans, monkeys have no natural resistance to the disease. When they do catch it from a human, it usually spreads very fast and fatally in their bodies (as in acute miliary tuberculosis) and to areas other than their lungs. During their illness, they can spread the disease to anyone who comes in contact with them or their waste.
The current Ebola virus began in West Africa, a hotbed of tuberculosis. (See Figure 8)
Figure 8: Map showing the true severity of the tuberculosis problem; in 2006-2008 – the last period before WHO’s TB statistics dived as a result of including many TB cases into the wastebasket of “AIDS-defining illness”. Note that the darker-colored regions are mostly in Africa. (Source: WHO)
Another map recently put out by WHO lumps Ebola deaths in West Africa under three puzzling categories “probable, confirmed, and suspected”.47
So what is the take-home message here? At best that “Ebola-like” does not always mean Ebola; at worst that Ebola does not mean Ebola.
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2. World Health Organization. WHO: Ebola Response Roadmap Update. Oct. 17, 2014. 4pp. p. 1.
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3. Ball, James. Concerned about Ebola? You’re worrying about the wrong disease, The Guardian. 2014, August.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/05/ebola-worrying-disease
4. LIBERIA: Tuberculosis on the rise, IRIN News. 4 February, 2009
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5. Homolka et al. High genetic diversity among Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains from Sierra Leone.
BioMed Central. 25 June 2008 p.1-8 p.1. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2180/8/103.
6. Desmond, E, Ahmed AT, Probert WS et al. Mycobacterium africanum cases, California, Emerg Infec Dis 2004 May; 10(5):921-923 p.1. http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/10/5/pdfs/03-0016.pdf
7. Mattman, LH. Cell Wall Deficient Forms ― Stealth Pathogens 3rd Edition CRC Press Boca Raton 2001 416pp p. 189.
8. Brown, R. The virus detective who discovered Ebola in 1976. BBC News Magazine. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28262541
9. Von Bredow R, Hackenbroch V. Interview with Dr. Peter Piot: ‘In 1976 I discovered Ebola – now I fear an unimaginable tradgedy.” Der Spiegel through The Observer. 2014, Oct 5. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/04/ebola-zaire-peter-piot-outbreak
10. Piot, P. Part one: A virologist’s tale of Africa’s first encounter with Ebola. Science. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). 2014, Aug. http://news.sciencemag.org/africa/2014/08/part-one-virologists-tale-africas-first-encounter-ebola
11. Ibid.
12. Dubos R, Dubos J. The White Plague: Tuberculosis, Man, and Society, Rutgers University Press, 1987, p. 205.
13. Khomenko AG, Muratov VV. Epidemiological risks of tuberculous infection foci in patients discharging L forms of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Problemy Tuberkuleza i Bolezni Legkikh, 2,2–5 1993.
14. Reuters. WHO Calls Tuberculosis a Global Emergency. Health Statistics. Los Angeles Times, 24 April 1993, http://articles.latimes.com/1993-04-24/news/mn-26683_1_global-emergency
15. Anderson, M. Clinical Lectures On the Curability of Attacks of Tubercular Peritonitis and Acute Tuberculosis (Galloping Consumption). James Maclehose Publisher. Glascow. 56p. 1877.
16. Saleem A and Azher M. The Next Pandemic – Tuberculosis: The Oldest Disease of Mankind Rising One More Time. British Journal of Medical Practitioners, June 2013; 6 (1):a615.
17. Kelland K. Ebola mortality rate expected to rise as outbreak runs its deadly course. Reuters. Aug 5, 2014. http://news.yahoo.com/ebola-mortality-rate-expected-rise-outbreak-runs-deadly-192146284.html
18. Fox,W. A treatise on Diseases of the Lungs and Plueura. Coupland, S, editor. J.&A. Churchill. London. 1891 1200 pp.
19. Appleman LF. Massive spontaneous hemorrhages into the vitreous Am Journ of Ophth. Vol. 1 No. 1, January, 1918. P24-28.
20. Burnett CH. A Text-book on Diseases of the Ear, Nose and Throat. J.B. Lippincott. 1901. 716pp.
21. Kasper DL, Braunwald E, Fauci AS, Hauser SL, Longo DL, Jameson JL, Casademont J. Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine. 16th Edition. 2004. McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing. 2680 pp.
22. Feldmann H, Ebola ― A Growing Threat? N Engl J. Med 371;15. p1375-1378 p.1374; October 9, 2014.
23. Report of an International Commission. Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Zaire, 1976. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 56(2): 271-293 p.271. 1978
24. Conton, P., “Sierra Leone News: Ebola – what is the true Case Fatality Rate CFR?, September 2nd, 2014, http://thethirdway.forumchitchat.com/post?id=7062282&goto=nextnewest
25. Saleem and Azher; op. cit.
26. Conton, op.cit.
27. Morin, M. FDA authorizes Ebola test; vaccine will probably take until 2015. Aug 6, 2014. http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-ebola-vaccine-20140806-story.html.
28. JPM-MSC. Ebola Zaire [EZ1] rTR-PCR [TaqMan®] Assay on ABI® 7500 Fast Dx. LightCycler®, and JBAIDS. Instruction Booklet Version 2.0 14th of August 2014. Manufactured by the Naval Medical Research Center for The U.S. Department of
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29. Ibid., p.53 Table 51, pp. 69-70.
30. Broxmeyer, L. AIDS: What the Discoverers of HIV Have Never Admitted: Latest Edition. 2014, July. 142 pp http://www.amazon.com/AIDS-Discoverers-Admitted-Latest-Edition/dp/1495457044/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1412347161&sr=8-3-fkmr0&keywords=Lawrence+Broxmeyer+AIDS%3A+What+the+discovers+of+HIV+have+never+admitted.
31. Kashala O, Marlink R, llunga M, Diese M, Gormus B, Xu K, Mukeeba P, Kasongo K, Essex M. Infection with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and human T cell lymphotropic viruses among leprosy patients and contacts: correlation between HIV-1 cross-reactivity and antibodies to lipoarabinomannan. J Infect Dis. 1994 Feb;169(2):296-304.
32. Schlanger, Z., Researchers Pinpoint Origin of HIV Pandemic Newsweek, October 2nd 2014. http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/researchers-pinpoint-origin-of-hiv-pandemic/ar-BB740Xi
33. Izadi, E., A Liberian doctor is using HIV drugs to treat Ebola victims. The NIH is intrigued, The Washington Post, October 2, 2014. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/10/02/a-liberian-doctor-is-using-hiv-drugs-to-treat-ebola-victims-the-nih-is-intrigued/
34. Broxmeyer, op. cit., pp.6-17
35. Shetty, P. Worst ever outbreak of Marburg virus hits Angola, SciDevNet, April 7, 2005. http://www.scidev.net/global/health/news/worst-ever-outbreak-of-marburg-virus-hits-angola.html?from=related%20articles&stay=full
36. Dubos and Dubos, op. cit.
37. Chauhan A, Madiraju MV, Fol M, Lofton H, Maloney E et al. Mycobacterium tuberculosis Cells Growing in Macrophages Are Filamentous and Deficient in FtsZ Rings J Bacteriol. Mar 2006; 188(5): 1856–1865.
38. WHO: “Ebola virus disease”, Fact sheet no. 103, updated September 2014, http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/
39. Johnson E, Jaax N, White J, Jahrling P. Lethal experimental infections of rhesus monkeys by aerosolized Ebola virus. Int J Exp Pathol. 1995 Aug; 76(4):227-36.
40. Jaax N, Jahring P, Geisbert T, Geisbert J, Steele K, McKee K et al. Transmission of Ebola virus (Zaire strain) to uninfected control monkeys in a biocontainment laboratory. Lancet. 1995 Dec 23-30; 346(8991-8992): 1669-71.
41. The Mayo Clinic Diseases and Conditions. Ebola virus and Marburg virus. Aug 6, 2014. http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases
42. Kaufmann AF, Moulthrop JI, Moore RM: A perspective of simian tuberculosis in the United States—1972. J Med Primatol 4:278–286, 1975.
43. Vidal, J., “Ebola: research team says migrating fruit bats responsible for outbreak”, The Observer, 24 August 2014. http://tinyurl.com/lzdgqry
44. Scott, H.H., “Report on the deaths occurring in the Society’s gardens during 1925”, Proc. Zool. Soc. London. 1926; 96:231-244
45. Griffith, A.S., “Tuberculosis in Captive Wild Animals”, J. Hyg. (Lond.) 1928 Nov; 28(2):198-218.
46. Hamerton, A.E., “Report on the deaths occurring in the Societies gardens during 1930.” Proc. Zool Soc. Lond. 1931: 101:527-555).
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SEE ALSO::
Broxmeyer, L. AIDS: What the Discoverers of HIV Have Never Admitted: Latest Edition. 2014, July. 142 pp.
Pennsylvania internist/researcher Lawrence Broxmeyer, MD, was on staff at N.Y. affiliates of Downstate, Cornell, and NYU for 14 years. He was lead author and originator of a novel way to kill AIDS mycobacteria. (Journal of Infectious Diseases, 11/15/2002}. His ideas on phagotherapy are still in use today. He appeared in Patho-Biotechnology, by Landes. His peer-reviewed articles are on PubMed. His books include “Parkinson’s—Another Look”, “Autism: An ancient Foe” and “AIDS: What the Discoverers of HIV Have Never Admitted.” SEE: AIDS: What the Discoverers of HIV Have Never Admitted: Latest Edition
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EBOLA……….OR ACUTE, EPIDEMIC, FEBRILE, HEMORRHAGIC, VIRAL-LIKE TUBERCULOSIS?
The CDC recently declared:
“Diagnosing Ebola in a person who has been infected for only a few days is difficult, because the early symptoms, such as fever, are nonspecific to Ebola infection and are seen often in patients with more commonly occurring diseases, such as malaria and typhoid fever.”
Only a sin of omission. then, would explain why anyone or any group would not want to specifically mention the most commonly occurring cause of infectious death in Africa ― tuberculosis ― whose sky-high rates in West Africa make Ebola look like a dropper-full of water squeezed into the Mississippi.
If by October, 2014, Ebola had laid claim to what some say is 3,000-plus deaths since its February outbreak, certainly this ought to be weighed in the light of the approximately 600,000 Africans killed by TB in the same time-frame. Furthermore, although TB incidence is decreasing globally, incidence rates are increasing in most of West Africa (1) ― ground zero for the current Ebola outburst. Just as curiously, almost half of all TB cases in the West African Ebola zone are caused by an unusual, yet just as deadly member of tubercular family, Mycobacterium africanum ― a strain of tuberculosis exclusive to West Africa, which is fast becoming a microbe of great public ― and now possibly global concern.
Surely the CDC is aware that there is not a sign or symptom of Ebola, including its hemorrhagic tendencies that cannot be found in acute disseminated miliary (blood-bourne) tuberculosis, once called “galloping consumption” ― the single most feared form of the disease ever. And most likely it is also aware that such tuberculosis has its own viral-like forms, some of which can simulate the Ebola. Such viral TB is generally acknowledged to be TB’s preferred form ― as a survival strategy to storm any inclement conditions the microbe might find itself in. (2)
Then why did the CDC not mention TB, by name, in their short-list of possibilities that could cause Ebola-like symptoms? If such oversight stopped there it would be unremarkable, but it seems to have been carried over in the very design of the most recent diagnostic tests issued to detect Ebola.
In September of 1978, about 40 years ago, a team ― including a 27-year-old medical graduate, training as a clinical microbiologist at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, received a blue thermos from Zaire. It was filled with the two 5ml. clotted blood specimens of an African-based Flemish nun. The Belgium doctor who sent it, Jacques Courteille, practicing in Kinshasa, included a note saying that he was at a complete loss for the nun’s mysterious, yet deadly illness. Also, could the samples be tested for Yellow Fever? This thermos had traveled from Zaire’s capital city of Kinshasa, on a Sabena commercial flight to Belgium ― inside its deliverer’s hand luggage. When the samples were received, Peter Piot, the 27-year-old medical graduate and his colleagues, among other things, placed the blood samples under an electron microscope. Piot: “We saw a gigantic worm like structure ― gigantic by viral standards. It’s a very unusual shape for a virus, only one other virus looked like that and that was the Marburg virus.”
“On that day our team sat together late into the night – we had also had a couple of drinks – discussing the question. We definitely didn’t want to name the new pathogen “Yambuku virus”, because that would have stigmatized the place forever. There was a map hanging on the wall and our American team leader suggested looking for the nearest river and giving the virus its name. It was the Ebola River. So by around three or four in the morning we had found a name. But the map was small and inexact. We only learned later that the nearest river was actually a different one. But Ebola is a nice name, isn’t it?” (3)
Piot’s specimens proved negative for Yellow Fever and he mentions that the tests for Lassa fever and typhoid were also negative. What, then, could it be? Piot: “To isolate any virus material” small amounts of the blood samples were injected into VERO cells and into mice. Several of these mice subsequently and abruptly died ― “a sign that a pathogenic virus was probably present in the blood samples that we had used to inoculate them.”
The fact that the mice died did not mean that it was at the hands of a “pathogenic virus”. Piot’s boss, Stefaan Pattyn, who Piot admitted “could be a bit of a bully”, supposedly specialized in the study of mycobacteria ― tuberculosis and leprosy, yet seemed unaware of the hemorrhagic consequences of acute TB, nor had he taken the time to use special stains and cultures to detect its viral cell-wall-deficient forms. Instead Pattyn followed his current passion. He had recently worked in Zaire for six or seven years and exotic viral illnesses were now “right up his alley”. So Pattyn’s team likewise never really considered a strain of acute miliary TB or its viral cell-wall-deficient forms in his rule-outs for an acute hemorrhagic or epidemic fever ― among them Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium africanum.
The Ebola of its day on steroids, “galloping” acute consumptive tuberculosis could kill in days ― the mere memory of which, just a few generations ago, brought terror to the faces of those who had witnessed and were describing it. Dubos made clear that “galloping consumption” was not an isolated, but a frequent diagnosis in the 19th and early 20th centuries. (4) And despite persistent myths to the contrary, in the early phase of any new TB epidemic from a new and virulent strain, tuberculosis manifests itself as an acute disease and only much later as the chronic pulmonary tuberculosis that we know in today’s western world. An example of this can be found in the high mortality during the 1918 influenza pandemic, when African-Americans were brought to fight in France during World War I ― large numbers of them dying from a fast-tracked tubercular “galloping consumption.”
Many often underestimate the speed, contagiousness and ferocity of a TB epidemic. Khomenko’s 1993 study (5) should have cemented the notion that the explosive contagiousness of just such Ebola and influenza-like viral forms of tuberculosis are exactly the stuff that previous epidemics and pandemics could have been made of. But it didn’t.
In the US, the CDC and NIH seemed to feel differently, ignoring the historic possibility. There was much the same viral passion, at that time over “Influenza”, when in 1990, a new multi-drug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis outbreak took place in a large Miami municipal hospital. Soon thereafter, similar outbreaks in three New York City hospitals left many sufferers dying within weeks. By 1992, approximately two years later, drug-resistant tuberculosis had spread to deadly mini-epidemics in seventeen US states, and was reported, not by the American, but the international media, as out of control. Viral forms of swine, avian and human TB can be transmitted from one species to another. So can exotic strains of tuberculosis and Mycobacterium africanum, imported into the United States through countries such as Liberia. By 1993 the World Health Organization (WHO) had proclaimed tuberculosis a global health emergency (6). That emergency has never been lifted.
Anderson pointed out that such acute, untreated disseminated, “galloping”, blood-dispersed TB could kill in hours or days (7) ― its mortality, according to Saleem and Azher even today approaching 100%. (8) Ebola itself can take up to a month to kill its victims, said Ben Neuman, an expert in viruses at Britain’s Reading University ― although there are many cases that also kill in hours or days. Not only were tubercular hemorrhaging and fever both mentioned by Fox (9), but hemorrhaging of the serous cavities, the gums, and the nose, into the joints, the skin, and the bowels. Appleman (10), in the American Journal of Ophthalmology, considering massive spontaneous hemorrhages into the vitreous, mentions that Axenfeld considered acute tuberculosis an important possibility in the rule-out for bleeding into the eye. Coughing-up blood has always been a well-known scenario for TB. Hemorrhages of significance fro Read the rest of this entry »
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Global Public Affairs (GPA) at UCLA Luskin welcomed Vivek Maru, founder and CEO of the legal advocacy nonprofit Namati, to campus on Oct. 24. In his talk entitled “The Global Struggle for Environmental Justice,” Maru shared three stories of local people — smallholder farmers in Sierra Leone, fisher people on the coast of India and families in an industrial zone of Baltimore — who used the law to stand up to industries polluting their communities. Their work was supported by Namati, which trains and deploys community paralegals around the world to help people understand and exercise their legal rights. Maru said isolated incidents can lead to great change in policies and systems. He stressed the importance of the “legal empowerment cycle,” in which grassroots experiences can trigger systemic change. Namati, founded in 2011, convenes the Global Legal Empowerment Network, more than 2,000 groups and 7,000 individuals from all over the world. Members collaborate on common challenges, such as enforcing environmental law and securing basic rights to healthcare and citizenship. More information about Maru’s work is available in a free e-book, published by Cambridge University Press. — John Danly
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Microsoft to ditch Edge for Chromium-based replacement
December 7, 2018 | 10:16
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Microsoft has confirmed ongoing rumours surrounding the future of its Edge browser, and it's a milestone for the company: It's ditching its in-house engines in favour of adopting the open-source Chromium as its base.
Edge Launched as a replacement for Internet Explorer with Windows 10, but it wasn't exactly a smooth ride for the company: Its private browsing mode was found to track users regardless, while its extension support launched late and never grew to match the variety of its competitors' ecosystems. Microsoft kept at it, though, adding features like Application Guard and Android and iOS ports while proclaiming it to be the best choice for battery-powered machines.
Now, though, Microsoft has confirmed a week's worth of rumours with the announcement that Edge as we know it is effectively dead, to be replaced by a browser built on Google's open-source Chromium project - just like its biggest competitor, Chrome.
'Over the next year or so, we’ll be making a technology change that happens "under the hood" for Microsoft Edge, gradually over time, and developed in the open so those of you who are interested can follow along,' explains Microsoft's Joe Belfiore in the announcement. 'The key aspects of this evolution in direction are: We will move to a Chromium-compatible web platform for Microsoft Edge on the desktop; Microsoft Edge will now be delivered and updated for all supported versions of Windows and on a more frequent cadence; we will contribute web platform enhancements to make Chromium-based browsers better on Windows devices.'
The company has confirmed that members of the Microsoft Edge Insider programme will be the first to receive preview builds, with the first to arrive in early 2019, but has not yet given a timescale for general release. As for why the shift has come about, especially given Microsoft's traditional reluctance to offer anything but an in-house browser engine, Belfiore claimed that the move will allow the company 'to create better web compatibility for our customers and less fragmentation of the web for all web developers' - not issues Microsoft has ever appeared to consider in the past.
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Prodigal Son: Marlin Briscoe takes long road home (from my Omaha Black Sports Legends series, Out to Win: The Roots of Greatness)
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I never saw Marlin Briscoe play college football, but as I came of age people who had see The Magician perform regaled me with stories of his improvisational playmaking skills on the gridiron, and so whenever I heard or read the name, I tried imagining what his elusive, dramatic, highlight reel runs or passes looked like. Mention Briscoe’s name to knowledgable sports fans and they immediately think of a couple things: that he was the first black starting quarterback in the National Football League; and that he won two Super Bowl rings as a wide receiver with the Miami Dolphins. But as obvious as it seems, I believe that both during his career and after most folks don’t appreciate (1) how historic the first accomplishment was and (2) don’t recognize how amazing it was for him to go from being a very good quarterback in the league, in the one year he was allowed to play the position, to being an All-Pro wideout for Buffalo. Miami thought enough of him to trade for him and thereby provide a complement to and take some heat off of legend Paul Warfield.
The following story I did on Briscoe appeared not long after his autobiography came out. I made arrangements to inteview him in our shared hometown of Omaha, and he was every bit as honest in person as he was in the pages of his book, which chronicles his rise to stardom, the terrible fall he took, and coming back from oblivion to redeem himself. The story appeared in a series I did on Omaha’s Black Sports Legends, Out to Win: The Roots of Greatness, for The Reader (www.thereader.com) in 2004-2005. Since then, there’s been a campaign to have the NFL’s veterans committee vote Briscoe into the Hall of Fame and there are plans for a feature film telling his life story.
Prodigal Son:
Marlin Briscoe takes long road home (from my Omaha Black Sports Legends series, Out to Win: The Roots of Greatness)
©by Leo Adam Biga
Originally published in The Reader (www.thereader.com) as part of my Omaha Black Sports Legends series, Out to Win: The Roots of Greatness
Imagine this is your life: Your name is Marlin Briscoe. A stellar football-basketball player at Omaha South High School in the early 1960s, you are snubbed by the University of Nebraska but prove the Huskers wrong when you become a sensation as quarterback for then Omaha University, where from 1963 to 1967, you set more than 20 school records for single game, season and career offensive production.
Because you are black the NFL does not deem you capable of playing quarterback and, instead, you’re a late round draft choice, of the old AFL, at defensive back. Injured to start your 1968 rookie season, the offense sputters until, out of desperation, the coach gives you a chance at quarterback. After sparking the offense as a reserve, you hold down the game’s glamour job the rest of the season, thus making history as the league’s first black starting quarterback. When racism prevents you from getting another shot as a signal caller, you’re traded and excel at wide receiver. After another trade, you reach the height of success as a member of a two-time Super Bowl-winning team. You earn the respect of teammates as a selfless clutch performer, players’ rights advocate and solid citizen.
Then, after retiring from the game, you drift into a fast life fueled by drugs. In 12 years of oblivion you lose everything, even your Super Bowl rings. Just as all seems lost, you climb out of the abyss and resurrect your old self. As part of your recovery you write a brutally honest book about a life of achievement nearly undone by the addiction you finally beat.
You are Marlin Oliver Briscoe, hometown Omaha hero, prodigal son and the man now widely recognized as the trailblazer who laid the path for the eventual black quarterback stampede in the NFL. Now, 14 years removed from hitting rock bottom, you return home to bask in the glow of family and friends who knew you as a fleet athlete on the south side and, later, as “Marlin the Magician” at UNO, where some of the records you set still stand.
Now residing in the Belmont Heights section of Long Beach, Calif. with your partner, Karen, and working as an executive with the Roy W. Roberts Watts/Willowbrook Boys and Girls Club in Los Angeles, your Omaha visits these days for UNO alumni functions, state athletic events and book signings contrast sharply with the times you turned-up here a strung-out junkie. Today, you are once again the strong, smart, proud warrior of your youth.
Looking back on what he calls his “lost years,” Briscoe, age 59, can hardly believe “the severe downward spiral” his life took. “Anybody that knows me, especially myself, would never think I would succumb to drug addiction,” he said during one of his swings through town. “
All my life I had been making adjustments and overcoming obstacles and drugs took away all my strength and resolve. When I think about it and all the time I lost with my family and friends, it’s a nightmare. I wake up in a cold sweat sometimes thinking about those dark years…not only what I put myself through but a lot of people who loved me. It’s horrifying.
“Now that my life is full of joy and happiness, it just seems like an aberration. Like it never happened. And it could never ever happen again. I mean, somebody would have to kill me to get me to do drugs. I’m a dead man walking anyway if I ever did. But it’s not even a consideration. And that’s why it makes me so furious with myself to think why I did it in the first place. Why couldn’t I have been like I am now?”
Or, like he was back in the day, when this straight arrow learned bedrock values from his single mother, Geneva Moore, a packing house laborer, and from his older cousin Bob Rose, a youth coach who schooled him and other future greats in the parks and playing fields of schools and recreation centers in north and south Omaha.
For Briscoe, the pain of those years when, as he says, “I lost myself,” is magnified by how he feels he let down the rich, proud athletic legacy he is part of in Omaha. It is a special brotherhood. One in which he and his fellow members share not only the same hometown, but a common cultural heritage in their African–American roots, a comparable experience in facing racial inequality and a similar track record of achieving enduring athletic greatness.
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Marlin Briscoe, a South High alum, is honored with a street named in his honor on Oct. 22, 2014.
Briscoe came up at a time when the local black community produced, in a golden 25-year period from roughly 1950 to 1975, an amazing gallery of athletes that distinguished themselves in a variety of sports. He idolized the legends that came before him like Bob Boozer, a rare member of both Olympic Gold Medal (at the 1960 Rome Games) and NBA championship (with the 1971 Milwaukee Bucks) teams, and MLB Hall of Famer and Cy Young Award winner Bob Gibson. He honed his skills alongside greats Roger Sayers, one of the world’s fastest humans in the early 1960s, NFL Hall of Famer Gale Sayers and pro basketball “Iron Man” Ron Boone. He inspired legends that came after him like Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Rodgers.
Each legend’s individual story is compelling. There are the taciturn heroics and outspoken diatribes of Gibson. There are the knee injuries that denied Gale Sayers his full potential by cutting short his brilliant playing career and the movies that dramatically portrayed his bond with doomed roommate Brian Piccolo. There are the ups and downs of Rodgers’ checkered life and career. But Briscoe’s own personal odyssey may be the most dramatic of all.
Born in Oakland, Calif. in 1945, Briscoe and his sister Beverly were raised by their mother after their parents split up. When he was 3, his mother moved the family to Omaha, where relatives worked in the packing houses that soon employed her as well. After a year living on the north side, the family moved to the south Omaha projects. Between Kountze Park in North O and the Woodson Center in South O, Briscoe came of age as a young man and athlete. In an era when options for blacks were few, young men like Briscoe knew that athletic prowess was both a proving ground and a way out of the ghetto, all the motivation he needed to work hard.
“Back in the ‘50s and early ‘60s we had nothing else to really look forward to except to excel as black athletes,” Briscoe said. “Sports was a rite-of-passage to respect and manhood and, hopefully, a way to bypass the packing houses and better ourselves and go to college. When Boozer (Bob) went to Kansas State and Gibson (Bob) went to Creighton, that next generation — my generation — started thinking, If I can get good enough in sports, I can get a scholarship to college so I can take care of my mom. That’s how all of us thought.”
Like many of his friends, Briscoe grew up without a father, which combined with his mother working full-time meant ample opportunity to find mischief. Except that in an era when a community really did raise a child, Briscoe fell under the stern but caring guidance of the men and women, including Alice Wilson and Bob Rose, that ran the rec centers and school programs catering to largely poor kids. By the time Briscoe entered South High, he was a promising football-basketball player.
On the gridiron, he’d established himself as a quarterback in youth leagues, but once at South shared time at QB his first couple years and was switched to halfback as a senior, making all-city. More than just a jock, Briscoe was elected student council president.
Scholarship offers were few in coming for the relatively small — 5’10, 170-pound — Briscoe upon graduating in 1962. The reality is that in the early ‘60s major colleges still used quotas in recruiting black student-athletes and Briscoe upset the balance when he had the temerity to want to play quarterback, a position that up until the 1980s was widely considered too advanced for blacks.
But UNO Head Football Coach Al Caniglia, one of the winningest coaches in school history, had no reservations taking him as a QB. Seeing limited duty as a freshman backup to incumbent Carl Meyers, Briscoe improved his numbers each year as a starter. After a feeling-out process as a sophomore, when he went 73 of 143 for 939 yards in the air and rushed for another 370 yards on the ground, his junior year he completed 116 of 206 passes for 1,668 yards and ran 120 times for 513 yards to set a school total offense record of 2,181 yards in leading UNO to a 6-5 mark.
What was to originally have been his senior year, 1966, got waylaid, as did nearly his entire future athletic career, when in an indoor summer pickup hoops game he got undercut and took a hard, headfirst spill to the floor. Numb for a few minutes, he regained feeling and was checked out at a local hospital, which gave him a clean bill of health.
Even with a lingering stiff neck, he started the ‘66 season where he left off, posting a huge game in the opener, before feeling a pop in his throbbing neck that sent him “wobbling” to the sidelines. A post-game x-ray revealed a fractured vertebra, perhaps the result of his preseason injury, meaning he’d risked permanent paralysis with every hit he absorbed. Given no hope of playing again, he sat out the rest of the year and threw himself into academics and school politics. After receiving his military draft notice, he anxiously awaited word of a medical deferment, which he got. Without him at the helm, UNO crashed to a 1-9 mark.
Then, a curious thing happened. On a follow-up medical visit, he was told his broken vertebra was recalcifying enough to allow him to play again. He resumed practicing in the spring of ‘67 and by that fall was playing without any ill effects. Indeed, he went on to have a spectacular final season, attracting national attention with his dominating play in a 7-3 campaign, compiling season marks with his 25 TD throws and 2,639 yards of total offense, including a dazzling 401-yard performance versus tough North Dakota State at Rosenblatt Stadium.
Projected by pro scouts at cornerback, a position he played sparingly in college, Briscoe still wanted a go at QB, so, on the advice of Al Caniglia he negotiated with the Denver Broncos, who selected him in the 14th round, to give him a look there, knowing the club held a three-day trial open to the public and media.
“I had a lot of confidence in my ability,” Briscoe said, “and I felt given that three-days at least I would have a showcase to show what I could do. I wanted that forum. When I got it, that set the tone for history to be made.”
At the trial Briscoe turned heads with the strength and accuracy of his throws but once fall camp began found himself banished to the defensive backfield, his QB dreams seemingly dashed. He earned a starting cornerback spot but injured a hamstring before the ‘68 season opener.
After an 0-2 start in which the Denver offense struggled mightily out of the gate, as one QB after another either got hurt or fell flat on his face, Head Coach Lou Saban finally called on Briscoe in the wake of fans and reporters lobbying for the summer trial standout to get a chance. Briscoe ran with the chance, too, despite the fact Saban, whose later actions confirmed he didn’t trust a black QB, only gave him a limited playbook to run. In 11 games, the last 7 as starter, Briscoe completed 93 of 224 passes for 1,589 yards with 14 TDs and 13 INTs and he ran 41 times for 308 yards and 3 TDs in helping Denver to a 5-6 record in his 11 appearances, 5-2 as a starter.
Briscoe proved an effective improviser, using his athleticism to avoid the rush, buy time and either find the open receiver or move the chains via scrambling. “Sure, my percentage was low, because initially they didn’t give me many plays, and so I was out there played street ball…like I was down at Kountze Park again…until I learned the cerebral part of the game and then I was able to improve my so-called efficiency,” is how Briscoe describes his progression as an NFL signal caller.
By being branded “a running” — read: undisciplined — quarterback in an era of strictly drop back pocket passers, with the exception of Fran Tarkenton, who was white, Briscoe said blacks aspiring to play the position faced “a stigma” it took decades to overcome.
Ironically, he said, “I never, ever considered myself a black quarterback. I was just a quarterback. It’s like I never thought about size either. When I went out there on the football field, hey, I was a player.”
All these years later, he still bristles at the once widely-held notions blacks didn’t possess the mechanics to throw at the pro level or the smarts to grasp the subtleties of the game or the leadership skills to command whites. “How do you run in 14 touchdown passes? I could run, sure. I could buy more time, yeah. But if you look at most of my touchdown passes, they were drop back passes. I led the team to five wins in seven starts. We played an exciting brand of football. Attendance boomed. If I left any legacy, it’s that I proved the naysayers wrong about a black man manning that position…even if I never played (QB) again.”
Despite his solid performance — he finished second in Rookie of the Year voting — he was not invited to QB meetings Saban held in Denver the next summer and was traded only weeks before the ‘69 regular season to the Buffalo Bills, who wanted him as a wide receiver.
His reaction to having the quarterback door slammed in his face? “I realized that’s the way it was. It was reality. So, it wasn’t surprising. Disappointing? Yes. All I wanted and deserved was to compete for the job. Was I bitter? No. If I was bitter I would have quit and that would have been the end of it. As a matter of fact, it spurred me to prove them wrong. I knew I belonged in the NFL. I just had to make the adjustment, just like I’ve been doing all my life.”
The adversity Briscoe has faced in and out of football is something he uses as life lessons with the at-risk youth he counsels in his Boys and Girls Club role. “I try to tell them that sometimes life’s not fair and you have to deal with it. That if you carry a bitter pill it’s going to work against you. That you just have to roll up your sleeves and figure out a way to get it done.”
While Briscoe never lined up behind center again, soon after he left Denver other black QBs followed — Joe Gilliam, Vince Evans, Doug Williams and, as a teammate in Buffalo, James Harris, whom he tutored. All the new faces confronted the same pressures and frustrations Briscoe did earlier. It wasn’t until the late 1980s, when Williams won a Super Bowl with the Redskins and Warren Moon put up prolific numbers with the Houston Oilers, that the black QB stigma died.
Briscoe was not entirely aware of the deep imprint he made until attending a 2001 ceremony in Nashville remembering the late Gilliam. “All the black quarterbacks, both past and present, were there,” said Briscoe, naming everyone from Aaron Brooks (New Orleans Saints) to Dante Culpepper (Minnesota Vikings) to Michael Vick (Atlanta Falcons).
“The young kids came up to me and embraced me and told me, ‘Thank you for setting the tone.’ Now, there’s like 20 black quarterbacks on NFL rosters, and for them to give me kudos for paving the way and going through what I went through hit me. That was probably the first time I realized it was a history-making event. The young kids today know about the problems we faced and absorbed in order for them to get a fair shot and be in the position they are.”
Making the Buffalo roster at a spot he’d never played before proved one of Briscoe’s greatest athletic challenges and accomplishments. He not only became a starter but soon mastered the new position, earning 1970 All-Pro honors in only his second year, catching 57 passes for 1,036 yards and 8 TDs. Then, in an example of bittersweet irony, Saban was named head coach of the moribund Bills in 1972 and promptly traded Briscoe to the powerful Miami Dolphins. The move, unpopular with Bills’ fans, once again allowed Briscoe to intersect with history as he became an integral member of the Dolphins’ perfect 17-0 1972 Super Bowl championship team and the 1973 team that repeated as champs.
Following an injury-plagued ‘74 season, Briscoe became a vagabond — traded four times in the space of one year — something he attributes to his involvement in the 1971 lawsuit he and five other players filed against then-NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle, an autocrat protecting owners’ interests, in seeking the kind of free agency and fair market value that defines the game today. Briscoe and his co-complainants won the suit against the so-called Rozelle Rule but within a few years they were all out of the game, labeled troublemakers and malcontents.
His post-football life began promisingly enough. A single broker, he lived the L.A. high life. Slipping into a kind of malaise, he hung with “an unsavory crowd” — partying and doing drugs. His gradual descent into addiction made him a transient, frequenting crack houses in L.A.’s notorious Ho-Stroll district and holding down jobs only long enough to feed his habit. The once strapping man withered away to 135 pounds. His first marriage ended, leaving him estranged from his kids. Ex-teammates like James Harris and Paul Warfield, tried helping, but he was unreachable.
“I strayed away from the person I was and the people that were truly my friends. When I came back here I was trying to run away from my problems,” he said, referring to the mid-’80s, when he lived in Omaha, “and it got worse…and in front of my friends and family. At least back in L.A. I could hide. I saw the pity they had in their eyes but I had no pride left.”
Perhaps his lowest point came when a local bank foreclosed on his Super Bowl rings after he defaulted on a loan, leading the bank to sell them over e-bay. He’s been unable to recover them.
He feels his supreme confidence bordering on arrogance contributed to his addiction. “I never thought drugs could get me,” he said. “I didn’t realize how diabolical and treacherous drug use is. In the end, I overcame it just like I overcame everything else. It took 12 years…but there’s some people that never do.” In the end, he said, he licked drugs after serving a jail term for illegal drug possession and drawing on that iron will of his to overcome and to start anew. He’s made amends with his ex-wife and with his now adult children.
Clean and sober since 1991, Briscoe now shares his odyssey with others as both a cautionary and inspirational tale. Chronicling his story in his book, The First Black Quarterback, was “therapeutic.” An ESPN documentary retraced the dead end streets his addict’s existence led him to, ending with a blow-up of his fingers, bare any rings. Briscoe, who dislikes his life being characterized by an addiction he’s long put behind him, has, after years of trying, gotten clearance from the Dolphins to get duplicate Super Bowl rings made to replace the ones he squandered.
For him, the greatest satisfaction in reclaiming his life comes from seeing how glad friends and family are that the old Marlin is back. “Now, they don’t even have to ask me, ‘Are you OK?’ They know that part of my life is history. They trust me again. That’s the best word I can use to define where I am with my life now. Trust. People trust me and I trust myself.”
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St. Petersburg Eifman Ballet was established by Boris Eifman in 1977 (the original name of the company was the Leningrad New Ballet.). The concept of New Ballet was more than innovative for its time: from the first days of its work, it was conceived and developed as a ballet theatre for one choreographer.
The company’s first performances such as Two-Voice and Boomerang brought success and stirred intense interest of the audience; ballet critics began arguing about new tendencies in the Russian ballet. Advocates of the traditional ballet school, however, were rather reluctant to acknowledge the young choreographer’s authority. Eifman’s novelty in how he chose literary basis and music for his ballets, the audacity of the body movement vocabulary secured for him the reputation of “a choreographic dissident”.
In late 70s – early 80s, Eifman’s theatre was working out its own individual approach to repertoire formation. More and more new ballets based on classical literature from around the world appeared on the playbill. The choreographer and his company, characterized by an outstanding dance intellect, explored new genres. Boris Eifman created performances whose distinguishing feature is the strikingly sharp choreographic patterns, intended to express the fiery passions of ballets’ characters: The Duel, The Idiot, The Mad March Day, or The Marriage of Figaro, The Legend, The Twelfth Night, Master and Margarita, Murderers, etc.
Today, St. Petersburg Eifman Ballet is renowned among ballet lovers in Asia, Europe, the Americas and Australia for such ballets as I, Don Quixote; Red Giselle, Russian Hamlet, Anna Karenina, The Seagull, Eugene Onegin, Rodin, Beyond Sin, Requiem, Up & Down, Tchaikovsky, PRO et CONTRA. These works were widely well received. Not only did they represent the highest artistic level of achievement of the contemporary Russian ballet, but they also turned the audience to the immortal spiritual heritage of Russian and world culture that inspired the choreographer and his dancers.
Boris Eifman’s endeavor to engage his spectators in the infinite world of human passions, to form a spiritual liaison with the audience, to amaze viewers by the brilliance and dynamism of his plastique – all this has ensured a decades-long success of Eifman Ballet’s performances at leading venues around the globe.
Boris Eifman is a philosopher choreographer. He is earnestly concerned with the problems of today, with the secrets of creativity. The choreographer speaks openly with his audience about the complicated and dramatic aspects of human life; he defines his genre as “psychological ballet”. The New York Times calls Boris Eifman the leader among living choreographers: “The ballet world in search of a major choreographer need search no more. He is Boris Eifman.”
The company is distinguished by its brilliant technique, unique dedication and high onstage intelligence. Today excellent dancers, winners of international ballet contests and laureates of the President of Russia’s Prize for Young Cultural Professionals and the Russian Government prize in the field of culture, holders of the prestigious Golden Mask and Golden Soffit awards, implement Boris Eifman’s ideas: Maria Abashova, Lyubov Andreyeva, Dmitry Fisher, Oleg Gabyshev, Sergey Volobuev and others.
An important period in the company’s life began in 2011, when the Government of St. Petersburg took a decision to launch the construction of the Boris Eifman Dance Academy – a project originally initiated by the choreographer himself. In September 2013 the Academy announced the start of its first academic year. By 2018 the St. Petersburg Children's Dance Theatre, the city venue for arranging dance festivals, contests and performances, that is currently under construction, will become a part of Academy complex.
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Greece and the political capture of the IMF
When governments borrow too much, and cannot repay, it generally falls to the IMF to sort things out. In playing this role, the IMF should be pretty tough on creditors. As Interfluidity so lucidly points out, this is where real moral hazard lies.
So what went wrong with Greece? Remember the Troika made a huge mistake in using their citizens’ money to lend to Greece so Greece could partially repay these private sector creditors - that is where most of the Troika’s rescue package went. The IMF’s own internal analysis was deeply flawed (being predictably wrong in how austerity would impact on the Greek economy), and even then the deal failed its own tests, so special dispensation had to be made.
The IMF should have been very worried about motivations here. After all, many of these creditors were banks from European countries, so the motivations of those bailing out these creditors were conflicted to say the least. They were nevertheless persuaded to go along because of fears of contagion. If the worry was contagion to other countries governments that was an obvious mistake, because it happened anyway but could have been solved ‘at a stroke’ by the ECB (as it eventually was). If the worry was a collapse in the European banking system, then that was the responsibility of the governments concerned, and not the Greek people.
To the present, and the negotiations that failed. Forget all the fluff you read in most papers about this. What is quite clear is the following. A deal could have been done if the Troika had allowed debt restructuring to be part of the package. The IMF agrees that debt needs to be restructured, as do most economists. It has made no secret of this, yet it has consistently soft pedalled when it came to dealing with the rest of the Troika. So it was allowed to be kept off the table in the current negotiations by the Troika: vague promises to look at this after a deal had been agreed would never be enough for Syriza to sell the deal. There are two reasons why Germany might have wanted it to remain off the table. One is that it never wanted a deal; the other is that to include it would have been politically embarrassing for German politicians.
What seems abundantly clear is that the IMF should have had no truck with either concern. It has to be tough on creditors, and in this case the creditors were the European institutions. It clearly had the political power to face down European governments on this issue, and if it had done so a deal could have been achieved. The only conclusion I can come to is that the IMF on this occasion has been captured by the rest of the Troika. [1] [2] [3] As Ashoka Mody puts it, it has become trapped by the priorities of [selective] shareholders, including in recent years the U.K. and Germany.
The following are not really true footnotes - they are too important for that - but I wanted to keep the main text crystal clear.
[1] Peter Doyle has also noted how dubious the IMF’s interventions on essential ‘reforms’ are both in economic and political terms. (If this report is true, it is even worse.) While other parts of the IMF seem to understand multipliers (see [2] below), those in charge of the negotiations seem to take a more German view. [Postscript: Ashoka Mody's verdict on this IMF analysis is restrained but blunt.]
[2] One of the reasons that it is part of the IMF’s job to be tough on creditors is that creditors have no concern for social welfare, by which I mean the aggregate welfare of both creditors and debtors combined. (Although, as Interfluidity says, you might have hoped differently on this occasion.) As this point is hardly ever made in the media let me set it out here (the numbers are based on a FT piece by Martin Sandbu). To achieve a primary surplus of 1% of GDP to transfer to the Troika, the Greek government needs to undertake austerity that will reduce Greek GDP by 3% (assuming a multiplier of 1.5, and a tax/transfer loss from lower GDP of a third). That reduction in GDP is a social loss (the loss to the Greek economy is 3% plus the 1% transfer) - at best pure waste, and probably for some the cause of much suffering.
[3] Here is the former head of the IMF's European department, on the need for both debt restructuring and the dangers of demanding larger primary surpluses.
Labels: Ashoka Mody, Greece, IMF, Martin Sandbu, Peter Doyle, Syriza, Troika
Carol Ann 4 July 2015 at 05:59
I would argue that this has been and will be the cause of much suffering for the majority, and a tiny inconvenience for the wealthy (but we know that tiny inconvenience=huge suffering in the eyes of those pea princesses). If 25% unemployment isn't a lot of suffering, I don't know what is.
Alexander Sebastian Schulz 4 July 2015 at 06:04
The IMF doesn't speak with one voice. The legalistic, "German" view still persisted unter Strauss-Kahn. Yes, the research wing of the IMF speaks a different language now, but then, these people are the spearhead. It's going to be hard for any politician who has been in power for several years, to simply say, "oops, the economists of the IMF got it wrong the first time. We need to be more lenient." That would also not be good for economics either.
Mainly Macro 4 July 2015 at 06:26
On the contrary, it would be very good for economics. One of the very positive things to say about the IMF is that their ex-post economic analysis of their own decisions by staff members can be very candid - but this analysis is not necessarily accepted by those in charge.
From the point of view of a scientist, you're right, I think. But politicians like Mr. Schäuble will see it as a confirmation of their beliefs that "with five economists in one room, you get five opinions, and if a macroeconomists is among them you get six".
source in German: http://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/diw-feiert-geburtstag-fuenf-oekonomen-fuenf-meinungen/11998460.html
Alexander:
That shows that Schäuble, though a lawyer, knows something about economists.
Horacio Schreyer 4 July 2015 at 08:50
You say that "if the worry was contagion to other countries governments that was an obvious mistake, because it happened anyway but could have been solved ‘at a stroke’ by the ECB (as it eventually was)".
But that fear doesn't refer to 2012 when ECB stated the "whatever it takes" policy. If this latter had been said back in 2010 when the fresh greek wound was bleeding, it would have been analogous as letting any major US commercial bank to go under when the american crisis had begun.
As far as I recall two years after this event there was still serious concern about recovery, so that if the EU had cut Greece loose by then (2010), simultaneously announcing "whatever it takes", it would have been a little presumptuous to sustain the belief that every other EZ member were solvent in the long run. Worse, following your line of reasoning, the complaint would had been why Greece; and before the obvious answer, there would have given no 2nd chance to redeem herself from past accounting misdeeds.
Conflating policies that happened 2 years apart doesn't look appropriate.
Ralph Musgrave 4 July 2015 at 09:20
As an advocate of full reserve banking, I was much amused to see the fractional reserve bank system being rescued from its own follies in 2010 in Europe. Meanwhile across the Atlantic, the Fed had to lend $13trillion at sweetheart rates of interest to fractional reserve incompetents.
In contrast, under full reserve, banks or bank subsidiaries which lend (as opposed to accepting deposits) are funded just by shares. So when silly loans are made, shareholders get a nice big haircut. That happens automatically. No need for taxpayers to be robbed. It also means that silly loans would tend not to be made in the first place.
That would have meant austerity started earlier for Greece, but as SW-L suggested in an earlier post (probably rightly), a longish period of mild austerity is better than a shorter period of extreme austerity. And possibly the amount of cost cutting that happens under mild austerity is just as much per annum as under extreme austerity.
Christopher 5 July 2015 at 07:46
Ok but almost the entire political economy of the planet is centered on fractional reserve banking and any change would dislodge the ruling elites that run the system. Whatever happens has to happen within that structure and there are other avenues open for reform. I do agree that fractional reserve banking is toxic at this moment in history, btw?
''There are two reasons why Germany might have wanted it to remain off the table. One is that it never wanted a deal; the other is that to include it would have been politically embarrassing for German politicians.''
third reason: to use as carrot (or stick if you want) approach, first reforms, than debt relief (Lagarde said this herself).
BTW: please stop using ''the Germans'' if you mean the troika. surely the troika and eurozone countries are agreement about this approach.
if the emphasis on a surplus is such a waste, and the output gap is easy to close with fiscal stimulus, bringing in additional tax revenues, why doesn't Greece ignore the troika, and loan money from the capital markets?
If they can't borrow on the capital markets (at least not at reasonable rates), isn't this evidence the capital markets do not have faith in your output cap predictions?
Hugo Evans 5 July 2015 at 07:18
No, not because of the gap, because of the debt.
am 4 July 2015 at 11:15
Footnote 2 has a calculation based on primary surplus of 1 per cent. Has this surplus been calculated with any improvement in tax collection or does it assume continued levels of tax evasion.
JPL 4 July 2015 at 22:50
Let me try to lay out the logical structure of the troika's argument, expressing the implicit premises that actually do the work. The creditors (i.e., the captured troika) say, 'What we want is the reduction or elimination of social programmes, and we want a government that represents the interests of us, the creditors, and not "the people", who are "scroungers and skivers" [as George Monbiot puts it], and we shall have it.' That is their argument in full; the claim that reduction of social programmes is the most desirable solution is logically based solely on that premise, i.e., that that's what they want, plus their moralising emotional impulse to punish the Greeks for being who they are. All the rest is dishonest nonsense which we all must accept anyway by force (of money). The key point indeed is that the creditors do not have the interests of the community as a whole at heart, and that only their own interests (specific or vaguely understood, it doesn't matter) are taken as axiomatic. The creditors, they say, should get what they want because they are more important and morally superior, more worthy as human beings. It is indeed childish. In the interaction with the people of Greece this creates an illegitimate imbalance toward the power of money; the principle of nevertheless recognizing the human dignity of a person who is struggling is ignored and overridden. Where is the love? The fundamental principle of equality is being violated here.
I don't think morality has much to do with it other than a propaganda used by the Euro elites. The real issue is that this crisis reflects the general trend towards fragmentation of power. The West is in disarray because various factions all have different agendas and lack common ground, ironically, because morality indeed is not recognized as a way to achieve common ground. Doing the "right thing" rarely enters into any political-economic issue other than as propaganda or a tool to manipulate others. The system, using a game-theory concepts, has already eliminated those who are swayed by morality using the Washington maxim "no good deed goes unpunished" because the game is set up to penalize those that do not act in a strictly Machiavellian manner.
The fact that ethical principles are violated left and right, and even the fact that entrenched laws and institutions allow and encourage the continued violation of those principles has absolutely no effect on the validity of those principles. "No good deed goes unpunished" and "strictly Machiavellian manner" as attempts to express the principle actually being followed in the world economic system as currently set up are way too crude. You need a much more specific formulation, and it would be helpful if you could come up with a good formulation, because then "the people" would become aware of the gap and see clearly how unacceptable it is. Ethical principles work for "the people" and against the power principle. Your objections concern praxis; if "the people" were able to get a clear understanding of the current ethical situation, the power of public pressure might have a positive effect on the level of praxis. I admit it would be no easy task to bring about such an understanding. I think you are misunderstanding the role the the common awareness of ethical principles has in governing human activities, including economic interactions. (I distinguish between ethical principles, properly speaking, and "morality", which is what I adverted to in the case of creditor behaviour above. Actually, a conventional idea of "morality" in this sense on the part of the creditors (as opposed to a decentred ethical understanding) is one of the things getting in the way of arriving at a practically effective solution to the problem in this case.)
David Blum 5 July 2015 at 00:56
The IMF has had some good anti austerity posts. Apparently these folks are working in the basement. Then there's Germany . After WW1 France demanded severe debt reperations and we got you know who in Germany . Didn't go well.
Then after WW2, after a bit, the US had the Marshall Plan to help Germany. Because it was in OUR INTEREST. Communism and all that.
I think the referendum is a bad idea, it created uncertainty. But it will bad for the North if South atrophies or leaves.
I hate simplified macro metaphors. But if your neighbor is out of work, angry, resentful and desperate, is that good for you? They can't buy your goods. And why be mean them? Love thy._.You know.
Go US women's NT in WC final.
Patrice Ayme 5 July 2015 at 06:50
That France caused Hitler is an anti-French myth. Prussian imperial forces proceeded under orders, to destroy most of the economy in North-East France. Dynamiting factories, castles, flooding mines, even destroying all telephone poles.
The French government, naturally enough, asked the German government to repair some of the damage. However, it, and its central bank preferred to make its currency worthless. Then the French asked at least to send over telephone poles, to replace the ones they destroyed, but were told there were not enough trees in Germany, and so on.
Keynes and its ilk, supported racist prejudice in Germany at the time, with an anti-Polish, and anti-French campaign. That helped bring Nazism to power. As did the opinion that Germany was not responsible for its own destructions.
"Remember the Troika made a huge mistake in using their citizens’ money to lend to Greece so Greece could partially repay these private sector creditors - that is where most of the Troika’s rescue package went. The IMF’s own internal analysis was deeply flawed...
The IMF should have been very worried about motivations here. After all, many of these creditors were banks from European countries, so the motivations of those bailing out these creditors were conflicted to say the least."
It maybe good to put it in one word, and introduce the concept of the banksterocracy we live under.
https://patriceayme.wordpress.com/2015/07/04/banksterocracy/
Patrick VB 5 July 2015 at 01:23
Remember that the Fund as often said publicly that Greek debt should be restructured; this option was rejected by EU member states. Given this rejection, the only way for Greece to balance its budget was more stringent austerity, even at the expense of GDP growth (an effectively binding budget constraint). So the IMF was maybe adopting this very hard line (being tougher than the EU) as a second best, BECAUSE the EU was refusing debt restructuring...?
I think the IMF had, and still has, much more power than you suggest.
Okay, thanks for sharing your view... Which thus means that the Fund's Managing Director (Lagarde) and its Executive Board have aligned with the EU institutions in rejecting the IMF Research Department work that is critical of Greek austerity. Could it be that it is the Lat Am and Asian countries that side with the "German view" because they do not want "Old Europe" countries to receive "better" treatment than they got from the Fund in the 1990s during their own crises, thinking that they were forced to go through very tough austerity and survived and so should Greece now? Of course, if this is the reasoning behind the Fund's hard line position on Greece, these countries forget that contrary to them, Greece has no independent central bank and no own currency...
there is another reason why Germany (but shared by most eurozone countries don't want to offer debt relief (at least not now):
With taking over Greece debt, a first line was crossed: the no bailout clause of the Lisbon treaty. Private creditors took a haircut, but the eurozone governments did not. And I think this was on purpose, this was about trying to stay as close as possible to the Lisbon treaty that says that eurozone governments are not responsible for paying debt of others.
Now if the other eurozone governments would give Greece debt relief, than that would mean the no bailout clause will be dead and buried, a precedent has been shaped, and if there is a first, future bailouts can be expected. At least that is how voters in creditors nations will look at this, it will greatly undermine confidence in the eurozone. Until now the creditor nations can say to their taxpayers: yes, we took over debt, but Greece will pay it back. With debt relief, they can't claim this anymore.
For outsiders in the UK and US this may be difficult to understand how big this point is, but for the Northern creditor nations this is an important issue, as the thing they fear most is having to bailout more (much bigger) debtor nations.
there might be a legal aspect to this too: with debt relief, taxpayers maybe could go to the European court claiming it's illegal to become liable for debts of Greece under the Lisbon treaty.
But why were the private sector creditors only given a partial haircut (and so late in the day)?
If fear of bailing out bigger governments was the key, a better strategy would have been to offer Greece nothing, and let the IMF do all the work.
The actual strategy was almost certain to lead to the undesired outcome - by taking over unsustainable private sector debts, the EZ governments were almost certain to end up giving debt relief to Greece (or losing it when Greece defaults). I agree that the fears you mention are very real, and I have some sympathy with them, but the Troika is at fault for ignoring these fears at the crucial point when they bailed out private sector creditors.
david belay 5 July 2015 at 05:25
Mr Wren Lewis, may I ask what you think about Dominique Strauss Kahn's statement?
http://fr.slideshare.net/DominiqueStraussKahn/150627-tweet-greece
greg 5 July 2015 at 12:07
Germany will never accept a realistic deal. There are only two ways, in real terms, Germany can be paid: By confiscating a large quantity of real Greek assets, or by accepting a long running trade deficit with Greece. That is Germany would elect to become a net importer of Greek production. This is unlikely in any case because Greek industry is in shambles after years of itself running a trade deficit and austerity.
The talk about money is just smoke and mirrors. German industry made out from the trade surplus with Greece. They don't want the unavoidable costs, the necessary depressed demand for domestic production, that come from running a deficit.
The Greeks do have to put their house in order. The Germans can demand that. But to demand money from Greece now will prevent that from ever happening.
Random 5 July 2015 at 16:17
"When governments borrow too much, and cannot repay, it generally falls to the IMF to sort things out. "
When governments borrow IN A FOREIGN CURRENCY too much, should say.
Germany must invade Greece to get back there money.
A very interesting post indeed. In my view the Greek episode has led to more soul-searching by the IMF than previous episodes. During the Asian Debt Crisis and Latin American Debt Crisis the IMF's policy prescription was austerity as a condition for debt relief - and included wholesale privatisations and drastic macro-contraction measures to stabilise currencies. The likes of Stanley Fischer (yes Paul Krugman's mentor) were behind this, not the Germans. So really these policies are very deeply rooted in the IMF, and so we should be careful in tracing them back to German influence. (Some economists, notably Jeff Sachs, were critical of the IMF during these episodes, but frankly, not enough were.)
Having said that, I do feel that the victim of the IMF's policies have been poorer, weaker states, and I suspect the real motivations behind them are the powerful countries and powerful, especially powerful financial, interests and their links to respective governments in powerful countries. But Germany is only one of these, and not the most important. For sure the US centred Anglo-Saxon dynamic is far more influential, and not just during the age of the Washington Consensus.
In short, we are seeing a little bit of soul searching and reticence by the IMF re Greece, but austerity is very much consistent with its practice since the 1980s. Over and over again the result has been small emerging markets paying the price for the excesses of powerful financial interests that have promoted financial deregulation and globalisation, a lot of them US and UK centred.
You should read page 6 onwards of this from Peter Doyle:
https://ptdyblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/dsa.pdf
I agree that once this would have just been standard fare from the IMF, but I thought they knew better now. I think many of their staff do, but politics gets in the way.
Stephen H 6 July 2015 at 02:57
Anon: the IMF would surely feel wholly vindicated by the strong recovery in countries affected by the 1997/8 Asian Debt crisis. Portraying them as victims is grossly inaccurate.
Thanks for the link - essential reading on the DSAs. It was also good to see Max Corden referred to.
"Anon: the IMF would surely feel wholly vindicated by the strong recovery in countries affected by the 1997/8 Asian Debt crisis. Portraying them as victims is grossly inaccurate."
It was a tragic episode, especially for Indonesia, Thailand and SE Asian countries. Korea got out of it thanks to an already very strong export sector. Malaysia got out of it probably the strongest - by defying IMF advice and implementing capital controls (to the ridicule of just about everyone at the time save Jeff Sachs). Thailand eventually recovered, but after enormous losses to output. Both Thailand, and especially Indonesia have been left with fragile political environments, the latter only saved by a resources boom - and if you want some idea of the human rights and ecological cost google Freeport Moran mine Grasberg. The latter is a particularly explosive situation given high income and other inequalities and widespread distrust of western capitalism, evidenced in its most extreme form with the Bali bombings.
Even the IMF admitted the SAPs in the aftermath of the Asian Financial Crisis were a mistake (and has specifically said so) and now also endorses capital controls.
Using the Islamist-inspired Bali bombings as some sort of diatribe against capitalism is utterly ludicrous. Anyway, let's not go further down that road.
At first sight the 1997 crisis seems not dissimilar to 2008 insofar as it was caused by a credit bubble that resulted in an unsustainable property boom throughout SE Asia. Malaysia's recovery (slower than those who took IMF funds) was due to stronger commodity prices. Their economy was fundamentally healthy with the exception of a few over-extended businessmen with links to the ruling party. Their refusal to take IMF funds was not due to some noble decision to go it alone. They knew their racist policies favouring Malays at the expense of minority races would have to be repealed. By 1999 Thailand's economy was growing by 4%-pretty decent compared with the post 2008 recovery in the west. Some perspective is required-in the 10 years prior to the crisis the Thai economy would have topped world growth tables.
You do realise these SE Asian nations have some of the most hostile laws regarding foreign investment on earth? Portraying the IMF involvement as some sort of US/British conspiracy is unsupported by any evidence. If it were true, surely they would have ensured foreigners were free to invest in land/businesses in Thailand/indonesia/Philippines? Hint: you can't without going through endless bureaucracy. Anyway by far the biggest foreign players in these economies are Japan/Taiwan and china.
The IMF itself has recognised that the SAPS were a mistake. And as I said, it now endorses capital controls - something unthinkable even say five years ago. No, I did not say there is a conspiracy between the US/UK and the IMF. But the IMF is an institution in which the US has enormous influence. It's thinking often reflects the thinking dominant in the country at the time. Come on, most of its economists are educated at MIT. The IMF under Stanley Fischer's stewardship used moral hazard arguments to argue against bail outs and the implementation of austerity. They used incentive arguments and what can be called "sound money" arguments. (My guess is that this reflects Sargent et al influence which was very powerful at the time - even on MIT economists.) I have posted actual quotes from the IMF when it said this in the 1990s, and when it said they were a mistake (last year) on past SWL's actual blog comments - I will dig them up again if I have time. Very clear on their wrongdoings.
What is very interesting is why the IMF last year admitted its mistakes, yet insisted on that Greece pay its debts. I suspect a big internal battle is going on in the institution.
The reference to Bali bombings is not diatribe. The political problems in dysfunctional states is related to the economic problem and a society with extreme differences between winners and losers. Sort out the economic problems in the Middle East and Indonesia and basically you have neutralised the problem of Islamic State. (Once again though we have mainstream economists arguing that income inequality is good for third world growth - they have not studied history or development economics- which thankfully still has a large historical and sociological component.) Yes, Thailand went through a boom (and bust), but likes it political situation, it is on a flimsy economic one.
I might just add that Paul Krugman and others have justified IMF practice in previous episodes on the basis that states were "corrupt" and therefore needed the IMF's reforms (yes meaning austerity). Watch this - and be sceptical. Some are also saying this about Greece. The fact is that institutional structures in smaller states and emerging markets are of course in no position to deal in equal terms with the financial institutions and power structures of major countries like the US or Germany. Imagine them up against the legal and other resources of major corporations, banks and governments in the US or such countries. This is more the problem and the fact they were in no position to defend their positions than the states being "corrupt", which was a generalisation in any case.
While I applaud this post as being more balanced, I think it seriously misconstrues the IMF. The IMF took a very "austerian" view during the Asian crisis, to the great profit of American financial firms. I'm trying to search my memory, and I can't remember a case where it was hard on creditors. Could someone give an example?
I'd also just repeat what other commentators have said. The whole point of the current approach to Greece is to get structural reforms into an economy which is supposedly corrupt. It used the carrot approach: dangle it in front but never so close it might be eaten. I'm not saying I approve of the approach, but that was the idea.
The Troika always set this up as a repeated game: loans always had to be renewed, so giving the Troika a chance to enforce compliance. In a repeated game, if you keep dangling a carrot but fail to give it, you get rumbled. That was the No vote.
"The IMF took a very "austerian" view during the Asian crisis, to the great profit of American financial firms."
Indeed, and Goldman Sachs did very well out of the slash and burn fire-sales which it later sold on the left over pieces to jaw-dropping dividends shared among their partners. Grotesque vultures.
The author is following Greek propaganda that negotiations actually failed because no debt relief has been granted. I think this is wrong.
Negotiations failed due to Syrizas unwillingsness to make the pension system sustainable, the unwillingness to improve public finances by cutting public expenditures instead of tax hikes and the reluctance to enter into further structural improvements that improve competitiveness.
Syriza is the ruling party of the radical left that has little understanding of modernizing the economy by fostering entrepreneurship and liberalize markets. There is simply no willingsness to invest into Greeks future because this is not w´hat Syrizas electoral base represents.
The IMF might have not predicted multipliers in Greece correctly. But aren't these multipliers a direct result of a governments ability to implement structural reform. Creditors rightly complained about the previous governments undermining of structural reforms by subsequently introducing legislation that countered these reform efforts.
Greeks debt looks high but is no burden on the economy since most payments have been moved into the distant future. The Eurozone gave itself a mechanism to deleverage which is financial repression effected by loose monetary policy and QE. Greece could have it in the same way but refuses to accept this.
Some limited debt relief was even considered by the eurozone but Greece made it clear it would not deliver on any structural reforms whatsoever.
Greece can't have it all and both ways.
No structural reforms, debt relief and still staying in the euro.
I wonder what a European referendum on a Greek package would have looked like. Outcome would likely be similar. A majority would rejects such package after this farce of the last 5 months.
I think you really need better sources. Here is Clive Crook, hardly someone of the left:
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-07-01/europe-wants-to-punish-greece-with-exit
The data shows that Greece, at the Troika's insistence, has enacted more austerity than any other country. That inevitably leads to a collapse in GDP: multipliers have nothing to do with 'structural reforms'. It has also enacted a good deal of the 'structural reform' asked of it. The idea that the Greek economy has collapsed because it has not enacted every reform is pure nonsense - it has collapsed because of the measures imposed by the Troika.
I think if anyone is suffering from following propaganda ....
Rohan 6 July 2015 at 08:02
What a load of baseless rubbish. Your anti-austerity agenda is harming the development of macro-economics as a field because you ignore proven facts when concocting your arguments.
You are a disgrace to the profession.
So you keep saying. Would you like to mention some of these proven facts?
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Week 2: Music Hall
The Mandala Lady June 3, 2013 November 4, 2013 Asymmetry
For this mandala, I actually created the mandala painting first and then drew out its design.
Music Hall – Color Pencils
The Music Hall Mandala came about from a doodle meditation session. When I first looked down at the paper, I saw the center piece in my mind’s eye and just started drawing what I saw. Then the rest just evolved on its own…with each line drawn seeming to inspire the next line.
I painted the original 6″ diameter mandala using color pencils.
Music Hall looks like an old-fashioned jukebox or the grand stage of Radio City Music Hall New York City. This mandala celebrates the joy of music. Whether we listen to it, sing to it, dance to it, play to it, work to it, hum to it…
“Music has charms to sooth a savage Breast“
Regardless of cultures, music helps us to transcend the mundane. While lyrics to a song may be beautiful, when they are sung to a melody, it raises the vibration to even greater heights.
When we say the letter “o” it’s short and sweet. When we sign the letter “o” and hold it, especially in our lower register, our sternum vibrates and the sensation becomes quite soothing. In some eastern cultures, people meditate by chanting the word “om” in long, exhaled notes.
We use music to relax, to energize, to feel good, to release tension/anxiety/stress, to express our feelings. We’ve been entertained by music for millennia. It makes us feel good and when experienced with many other people, it becomes a grand, unifying experience. What do we do after we hear a great piece of music? We stand up and cheer.
Since movies first began, music was a major factor in telling a story. Pay attention to the music in the background the next time you watch a movie.
Music has the ability to transport us back in time. When we hear a song from our youth, we immediately remember what we were doing when we used to listen to that song.
Even if our ears lack the ability to “hear” music, music can be felt. The sound of music creates a vibration. That vibration resonates with every cell in our bodies as well as everything around us. Hans Jenny wrote an interesting article entitled “The Structure and Dynamics of Waves and Vibrations.” What’s even more interesting are the “mandalas” that are created when sound vibrates granules of sand on plates.
“Music Hall” encourages us to bring into our experience music that raises our vibration and makes us feel good whether we listen to it, play it on an instrument or sing it. As we raise our vibration, that vibrational energy radiates outward raising the vibration of those around us.
The lyrics to The Carpenter’s song “Sing” say it best:
Sing.
Sing a song.
Sing out loud, sing out strong.
Sing of good things, not bad.
Sing of happy, not sad.
Make it simple to last your whole life long.
Don´t worry that it´s not good enough for anyone else to hear.
Sing. Sing a song.
Let the world.
Sing out loud.
Sing of love there, could be.
Sing for you and for me.
Just sing, sing a song.
Songwriter(s):Joseph G. Raposo, Francis Healy
Copyright:Jonico Music Inc., Sm Publishing Uk Limited
Lyrics from eLyrics.net
Music-Related Links:
The Carpenters “Sing a Song” video
My pinterest board called “heartfelt music” for more feel-good music.
My pinterest board for music that makes me want to get up and dance
Mr. Rogers re-mix “Sing Together” video – highly recommended viewing!
Amazing effects of sound on grains of sand video added 6/8/2013
Sing Your Song!
the original “Music Hall” mandala is available for sale
“Music Hall” mandala to color can by found in the “Celebration” Mandala Coloring Book
joyfully, Maureen
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Martech: Advertising
Adobe Ad Cloud’s first app lets marketers manage ad campaigns
The company said this is the first ad app that enables campaign management across a range of channels.
Barry Levine on October 12, 2017 at 2:50 pm
Adobe’s Advertising Cloud is out today with its first mobile app, which the company says is the only app that can manage advertising campaigns across a wide variety of channels.
Advertising Cloud Vice President Keith Eadie told me via email that development on the app was started by the team at TubeMogul, the video ad platform that Adobe bought late last year. At the time, Adobe noted that its TubeMogul acquisition boosted video ad capability across channels, including linear TV as well as digital channels.
This new iOS and Android app for smartphones and tablets is free for current customers.
It’s unique, Eadie said, “in the breadth of channels than can be managed through the app: video, display, native, mobile, social and over-the-top (OTT) ad formats, including connected TV.” Search and linear TV ad management are not currently available in the app.
In the app, marketers can perform such actions as monitoring the 40+ performance metrics available in the desktop version, activate or pause campaigns based on impression totals or other preset caps, and adjust ad budgets and bid prices. But the desktop version is still required for setting targeting parameters or uploading creative assets. Here’s a sample screen from the app:
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Why did Tinder make a show about the apocalypse? We drank margaritas and found out.
With the launch of 'Swipe Night,' Tinder took the apocalyptic premise to a whole new level in person.
Image: rachel kraus / mashable
By Rachel Kraus 2019-10-07 20:53:23 UTC
Tinder's new "Swipe Night" is a ... product? Experience? TV show? Last night during the series' premiere, the company tried to explain to reporters why it got into the content game. Honestly, it kind of made sense.
Every Sunday in October from 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. local time, U.S. Tinder users will be able to access a new five-minute scripted episode of "Swipe Night," an interactive series following a group of friends in the last three hours on Earth before a comet destroys us all.
You have 3 hours left until the end of the world. How are you spending it? Find out starting this Sunday 6PM - midnight. Link in bio for more. #SwipeNight
A post shared by Tinder (@tinder) on Oct 4, 2019 at 1:27pm PDT
It's all viewed through first person, as if you are a character in the story and member of the friend group, too. And it's even further "interactive" in that users determine the course of events through choose-your-own-adventure-style scenarios, which you "swipe" to choose.
But it's more than just a content offering or game. Tinder says that the choices you make in the game will get integrated into its matching algorithm, another data point for compatibility. Additionally, some of the "Critical Choices" you make in the episode (did you decide to save a person, or save a puppy?) will show up on your actual Tinder profile. On premiere night, when users weren't as wise to how their choices might appear on their profiles, that became extremely revealing.
so I did the #SwipeNight thing and roughly 95% of the guys I've come across chose to cover for the dude cheating on his gf like men really are trash huh pic.twitter.com/ryub9FqUeU
— Dragon (@rachel_soulek) October 7, 2019
To celebrate the launch on premiere night Sunday, Tinder invited reporters and influencers to its West Hollywood offices. Thematic decorations like comet projections and tinfoil-covered computers, and snacks like Pop Rocks, asteroid Cheetos, margaritas in a shade of radioactive red, and, of course, champagne, abounded.
Cosmic margaritas and first aid kits were on offering at Tinder on Sunday.
They told us to take the First Aid kits... gulp.
Tinder says that one of the biggest goals of Swipe Night is to give users something to talk about. Speaking to reporters, Tinder CEO Elie Seidman explained that Tinder made approaching new people easier than in the real world. Conversely, what you talk about once you approach someone is harder in the digital realm, where there's not really a "Come here often?" line of conversation available.
"When you’re staring at that messaging screen with that match, both men and women struggle a lot with 'What do I say?'" Seidman said. "There isn’t a contextual environment. We’ve been wrestling with that challenge, and would like to offer some help."
Enter Swipe Night, a common experience where you and a match can talk about the choices you made. Is that need for conversational ~tinder~ a little depressing? Maybe. But for anyone who's received "hey" after "sup" after "heyyyyy" in their messaging screen, it also makes sense.
SEE ALSO: 'Covered for Graham'? Tinder's 'Swipe Night' debut revealed a moment of rare honesty
Searching for answers about how choices in a five-minute game get analyzed by the love formula, I asked Tinder's chief product officer, Ravi Mehta, whether Swipe Night players will get matched with users who made the same choices they did, or different ones. It turns out it's a combination of both.
"There’s the old adage that opposites attract," Mehta said. "When you make the same decisions as someone else, there’s less to talk about."
that was fun 💁🏽♀️ #SwipeNight pic.twitter.com/pLgaa2Z6IF
— Rachel Kraus (@realkrauswife) October 7, 2019
After the party, I played Swipe Night with my sister, who uses Tinder regularly, if begrudgingly. The way matching actually seemed to work was that, after the game, you were served up Tinder users like normal, and their profiles indicated if they had played Swipe Night. If they had, it would show if they ended up in the same location as you (there are three possible "endings" to episode 1), and my sister frequently matched with people who had ended up at "Molly's House," like her. However, she frequently didn't get people who made all of the same "Critical Choices."
if you didn’t save the puppy you can’t be trusted #swipenight
— Rebecca Soderlund (@becca_soderlund) October 6, 2019
This, to me, is the best part about Swipe Night: that it makes matching, and the whole Tinder experience, more fun. In addition to the actual show being entertaining, my sister and I spent an hour in the app afterwards, laughing through swipes as we tried to guess which guys would have made which choices.
In between enthusing to me about how Tinder was trying to appeal to Gen Z, the UCLA college brand rep for Tinder U (whose Instagram is below) said that she'd felt a lull with Tinder of late; that swiping had become a bit of a slog for her. But Swipe Night was something new that gave her a reason to go back.
spoopy season & apocalypses☄️ . . . If you haven’t already, check out tinder RIGHT NOW and every Sunday of October (6pm-12am) to play along in an interactive movie story (like bandersnatch!!!) where your choices result in different storylines and matches😛😛 #swipenight is on.
A post shared by maggie pan (@moogiepan) on Oct 6, 2019 at 8:45pm PDT
My sister agreed.
"Way to make the depressing swamp of swiping through profiles fun again, Tinder," she said.
That, and a whole new product experience, was cause for celebration. Swipe Night team members all wore black bomber jackets emblazoned with the logo. While big wigs and us reporters were shepherded to the roof for a cocktail hour, the engineering team in the Swipe Night "war room" drank beer and ate pizza, while allegedly analyzing the data that was pouring in in real time.
Here’s the #SwipeNight “war room.” Engineers apparently all got matching bomber jackets 😂 pic.twitter.com/AnqBNewT2F
At the party, Tinder really did commit to the theme. The plot of Swipe Night involves a comet careening into Earth, so everything — drinks, desserts, decor — was vaguely space oriented. The whole offices and party area kind of looked like a bubblegum mashup of retro neon '80s style that had been invaded by aliens.
Bomber jackets were out in force.
Planetary chic.
Even if some people on Tinder are commitment-phobic, Tinder still commits to a theme.
Reflecting the anecdotal sentiments of the Tinder U brand rep and, um, my sister, there have been reports that Tinder engagement is lagging. While it continues to amass users, third party analytics companies like SensorTower report that the time people spend in the app, and sentiment about the app, is decreasing.
Swipe Night could be the neon-infused juice Tinder needs. On Sunday, there was a lot of talk from executives about how Swipe Night was meant to appeal to Gen Z, or to give people something to talk about, or to create an Authentic experience. But overall, the novelty, and the fact that it is quick (just five minutes!), and actually fun, seems to be what Swipe Night has going for it.
And that's certainly worth a party.
UPDATE: Oct. 8, 2019, 12:15 p.m. EDT
A previous version of this story included a quote from a Swipe Night writer that stated that Tinder has 50 million users. Tinder said this number is inaccurate. However, most recent estimates do put Tinder's user count at around 50 million.
Tinder also stated that it currently has 5 million paid subscribers, an increase from 2018's count of 4.1 million paid users.
Topics: choose your own adventure, Party, sex-relationships, social-media-companies, Tech, Tinder
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Once a primarily male-dominated arena, military schools have started taking on the challenge of preparing girls for the role of serving in the military (about 10% of the students in the major military academies are now female), or if nothing else, learning good personal values. However, none of these schools offer an all-girl campus - they are coed. Girls can gain the same life-changing benefits of military schools that boys have been enjoying for years.
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Bracketology, Final Edition: Oregon is the Last #1 Seed
With just two hours until the Selection Show, here is my final bracket projection. I’ve had a great time taking a more in-depth look at the field in my second season of doing this, and I thank everyone who has read these projections since I did my first one of the season on January 31 (and look at how much it has changed since then).
The battle for the final #1 seed is very close. The majority opinion at this point seems to be that Michigan State will edge Oregon for that spot. However, I see it differently. Here is a head-to-head comparison that illustrates why I have chosen to project Oregon as the final #1 seed, regardless of whether Michigan State wins or loses against Purdue in the Big Ten tournament final this afternoon:
Non-conference strength of schedule: Oregon’s is 16, Michigan State’s is 131
Record vs the RPI Top 50: both teams are 5-1 against RPI 1-25. But when we move to RPI 26-50, Oregon is 5-2, while Michigan State is 2-3.
Record vs the RPI 51-100: Oregon is 10-1, while Michigan State is 5-0.
Indeed, Oregon has only played 9 games outside of the RPI Top 100, while Michigan State has played 17 games against such teams. This is reflected in the teams’ non-conference strength of schedule (mentioned above) and overall strength of schedule: 5 for Oregon, 65 for Michigan State
Finally, Oregon’s’ RPI rank is 2, while Michigan State’s is 11. Note that 11 is the lowest RPI rank with which a team has ever gotten a #1 seed, which happened for the 2006-07 Kansas Jayhawks.
These are the debates that make Selection Sunday, and all the craziness leading up to it during the conference tournaments, fun. Well, it’s fun anyway, but this adds to it!
Elsewhere, San Diego State is projected as an at-large team after losing to Fresno State in the Mountain West final last night, which shakes up the Last Four In. After closer review, I’m projecting that the Aztecs will take the spot previously occupied by South Carolina. The problem for the Gamecocks is that they rank 270th in non-conference strength of schedule and have only one win against a team projected to make the field, which is Texas A & M. Making matters worse, they have 3 losses to teams outside of the RPI Top 100.
This caused me to project Michigan as the last team in, just edging out South Carolina thanks to four wins over teams projected to be on the 5 line or better, no bad losses, and an unimpressive-but-better-than-South Carolina’s non conference strength of schedule, at 189th.
The major contingency in this projection is based on what happens between Connecticut and Memphis in the American Athletic Conference final. The projection below assumes Connecticut wins. But should Memphis win, the following changes occur in the final projected field of 68:
Connecticut and Cincinnati trade spots, such that Cincinnati gets a 9 seed and Connecticut gets a 10 seed
Michigan drops out of the field (unfortunately for me and my fellow Wolverines)
The new First Four becomes #10 Pittsburgh vs #10 Monmouth and #11 Temple vs #11 San Diego State
Chattanooga moves up to the 11 line, UNC-Wilmington moves up to the 12 line, and Buffalo moves up to the 13 line.
Memphis settles in on the 14 line.
There is one other contigency in this projection, which is much simpler than the one above: if Purdue beats Michigan State, they receive a 3 seed and Utah falls to the 4 line.
With that said, here’s how the final projected bracket looks!
In since 3/12 update: Fresno State, Buffalo, Southern, CSU-Bakersfield, Hawaii
Out since 3/12 update: South Carolina, Akron, Jackson State, New Mexico State, Long Beach State
Eliminated from consideration: Florida State, George Washington, Georgia Tech, Hofstra, Washington
As always, moves up or down are in parentheses, and teams who have clinched auto bids (as well as projected winners in the current time slot, Michigan State and Connecticut) are in bold.
1s: Kansas, North Carolina, Virginia, Oregon (+1)
2s: Michigan State, Villanova (-1), Oklahoma, West Virginia
3s: Miami, Xavier, Kentucky (+1), Utah
4s: Purdue (-1), Texas A & M, Indiana, Duke
5s: California, Maryland, Texas, Seton Hall (+1)
6s: Iowa State (-1), Arizona, Baylor, Notre Dame
7s: Iowa, Dayton, Colorado, Saint Joe’s (+1)
8s: Providence (-1), Texas Tech, Wisconsin, Oregon State
9s: Southern California, Butler, Wichita State (+1), Connecticut
10s: Cincinnati, Saint Bonaventure, Virginia Commonwealth (-1), Pittsburgh
11s: Monmouth, Temple, San Diego State, Michigan, Gonzaga, Northern Iowa (+1)
12s: Chattanooga (+1), Arkansas-Little Rock (+1), Yale, South Dakota State (+1)
13s: UNC-Wilmington, Stephen F. Austin (+1), Stony Brook (+1), Iona (+1)
14s: Buffalo, Middle Tennessee, Hawaii, Fresno State
15s: Green Bay, UNC-Asheville, Weber State, CSU-Bakersfield
16s: Hampton, Florida Gulf Coast, Austin Peay, Fairleigh-Dickinson, Southern, Holy Cross
Last Four In: Monmouth, Temple, San Diego State, Michigan
First Four Out: South Carolina, Vanderbilt, Valparaiso, Syracuse
Next Four Out: Saint Mary’s (-1), Florida, Tulsa, Georgia
Again, thanks for reading the last few weeks, and check out the Bracket Matrix to see how this compares to over a hundred other projections!
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Singing in “The Hobbit” and With the Saints
July 2, 2016 by mitchchase
I just finished reading The Hobbit for the first time, and I was surprised at all the singing. Surprised–and delighted! In the first and final chapters and in many of those between them, there was a preponderance of songs.
One especially meaningful song appears in Chapter 10 (“A Warm Welcome”). Bilbo had recently rescued the dwarves from imprisonment (in Chapter 9), and now he and the gang were approaching The Lonely Mountain. Along the way, when they came to Lake-town (or Esgaroth), people began to sing “old songs concerning the return of the King under the Mountain.”
The lyrics were:
The King beneath the mountains,
The King of carven stone,
The lord of silver fountains
Shall come into his own!
His crown shall be upholden,
His harp shall be restrung,
His halls shall echo golden
To songs of yore re-sung.
The woods shall wave on mountains
And grass beneath the sun;
His wealth shall flow in fountains
And the rivers golden run.
The streams shall run in gladness,
The lakes shall shine and burn,
All sorrow fail and sadness
At the Mountain-king’s return!
This is prophecy-in-song. The mountain was currently occupied by the despicable dragon Smaug, and people longed for–and sang for–the day when the true Mountain-king would come.
The first verse declares that the king would come. In the second verse, royal music would once again fill the halls. In the third verse, creation would respond as woods and grass wave. In the fourth verse, sorrow and sadness would be no more.
This prophetic song, along with other songs old and new, strengthened the characters. Over the days of such celebration and singing, the dwarves recovered and anticipated the remaining miles of their journey to The Lonely Mountain. Within a week, “Thorin looked and walked as if his kingdom was already regained and Smaug chopped up into little pieces.”
As I read the lyrics of the songs in The Hobbit, I was struck afresh with how important singing is for the saints. We sing not only because of what God has done in Christ but also in view of what he will do. We sing to remember, and we sing for hope. And as was the case with characters in the book, songs strengthen us in the face of fear, trial, and battle. And we mustn’t minimize the power of singing together. The characters joined in song with others. By singing together they grew stronger together.
One final observation about singing in The Hobbit. Even the bad guys, like the goblins, had songs. In Chapter 6 (“Out of the Frying-Pan Into the Fire”), the goblins celebrated their wicked plans with singing. Those songs may be poetic, but ultimately the lines lack the power of the noble songs which come from the souls of the brave and hopeful hobbits, dwarves, and elves. Songs are better which reflect on what is true, beautiful, and worthy.
As I finished the last of the songs in the final chapter of The Hobbit, I found myself looking forward to singing with the saints on the Lord’s Day. I’m ready to remember with them and hope with them. And I’m confident that in singing together we will be stronger together, for what we reflect on is the Lord Jesus Christ, the one most true, beautiful, and worthy.
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NFL VP of Officiating Says It Wasn’t Offensive Pass Interference in Vikings Upset Win
Ken Hayes
Kirk Cousins threw a touchdown to Kyle Rudolph in shocking overtime win against the Saints on Sunday. While we cheered in disbelief, there was a moment where we thought it might come back as pass interference. Kyle Rudolph extended his arm against his defender keeping him away as he caught the ball for the touchdown.
Saints fans wanted an offensive pass interference call. It was a missed pass interference call that blew the Saints playoff chances last year:
Now compare that clip with last Sunday's play.
If you're a Saints fan, you are probably upset, saying it was clearly offensive pass interference. A Vikings fan (like myself) would say that it's just playing the game and this is nowhere near as blatant as the last year's missed call. Really, it isn't even comparable to me.
But what do the officials say? According to CBS Sports, The Vice President of NFL Officiating Al Riveron says there wasn't enough contact to call a foul, and he agrees with the no call on the field. While during the game we thought that there was no official review, Al Riveron says he was able to see the replays quick enough and it didn't warrant a call. Even during the broadcast color commentator Troy Aikman said from what we've seen during this year, you can't call OPI on that.
Experts are split across the league. Really, the call could have probably gone either way, but fortunately for us Vikings fans it went their way this time.
Filed Under: Kyle Rudolph, Minnesota Vikings, nfl
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Hello Asparagus readers,
This month, we’ve got water on the mind. Did you know it takes 2,700 litres of water to produce a single cotton shirt? Or that one out of five Canadian households drinks primarily bottled water?
That last statistic has our columnist Sara Bynoe, a.k.a. the Environmentalist from Hell, fuming. Even though many people believe it has health benefits, bottled water is typically no healthier than tap water and often comes loaded with microplastics, as Sara explains in her latest column: “If you live in a community with clean drinking water, but opt to purchase bottled water instead, I think your choice is wasteful, shameful, and tells me that you are a garbage person.”
To be sure, there are times when avoiding bottled water can be pretty challenging — like while travelling in a place where tap water is unsafe to drink. With this in mind, travel writer Breanna Wilson explores a solution: water bottles with built-in purification systems that enable you to drink water from almost anywhere.
Finally, in our inaugural print issue’s cover story (now online for our digital readers), journalist Shreya Kalra dives into the environmental footprint of the textile industry, including its seemingly unquenchable appetite for water and other resources.
If you aren’t all caught up, here are some more of our latest articles:
A reading list from Black Sheep Parent Brianna Sharpe with five books to inspire earth-loving kids;
A moving essay on how Indigenous land defenders in northern BC aren’t just fighting against pipelines, but for a way of life;
A deep dive into how North Vancouver’s mountain bikers came to build some of North America’s best and most sustainable trails;
And the low-down on why line drying bed sheets is better for you and the environment.
If you like what you’re reading, please consider making a donation or subscribing to our print magazine. We’d also be chuffed if you’d tell your friends and encourage them to sign up for our Mailchimp newsletter. We’re getting started on our second issue and could use all the readers and support we can get.
Not only that, but new newsletter subscribers and the people who referred them will be automatically entered in our August giveaway! This month’s winner will receive: a limited-edition tote from Vancouver Farmers Markets, a print subscription to Asparagus, some sustainable Gus swag, a sample of eco-friendly laundry detergent from Eucalan, and an organic lip balm from Lunapads. (Apologies international Gus fans, but for now our giveaways are restricted to folks in Canada and the US.)
Other ways to enter:
Post a photo of Issue #1 on social media, tag us, and use the hashtag #gogusgo, OR
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A winner will be drawn on August 31st.
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Deputy Editor, Asparagus Magazine
Asparagus tells the large and small stories of how we can live sustainably, from an environmental, social, and cultural perspective.
Telling stories of sustainability in ways that are intersectional, impactful, grounded in science, and fun. (Don’t follow this account, follow the publication!)
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Memory Alpha pages needing citation, Unnamed Humans, Scientists
Unnamed Humans (24th century)
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The following is a list of unnamed Humans from the 24th century.
Unnamed Humans who were members of Starfleet will be listed at the lists of Starfleet personnel.
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Arbitrator Edit
A Federation arbitrator
This arbitrator was a Federation official who presided over a legal dispute between holonovel publisher Ardon Broht and The Doctor in 2378 after Broht published The Doctor's holonovel Photons Be Free despite having agreed to hold off until The Doctor completed a revision. Broht argued that, as a hologram, The Doctor had no legal right to contest his actions. Though the arbitrator was unwilling to make any sort of legal ruling as to the rights of holograms, he did rule that Broht had breached the contract and ordered him to withdraw the holonovel from circulation. (VOY: "Author, Author")
The arbitrator was played by Joseph Campanella.
Aster's aunt and uncle Edit
Jeremy Aster's aunt and uncle were his only living relatives after the death of his mother, Marla Aster. (TNG: "The Bonding")
These relatives were only mentioned in dialogue.
Avery III prisoners Edit
See: Avery III inhabitants
Ayala's sons Edit
Lieutenant Ayala was separated from his sons as a result of USS Voyager's exile to the Delta Quadrant, and missed them terribly.
In 2372, Captain Kathryn Janeway tried to convince Neelix of his usefulness on Voyager, saying she didn't know how Ayala would handle being separated from the boys without the Talaxian's help. Neelix then expressed his wish that he could do more for the lieutenant. (VOY: "Initiations")
These characters were only mentioned in dialogue.
Bajor's admission delegates Edit
These two civilian delegates joined, among others, five Starfleet admirals, in attending the abortive ceremony meant to admit their homeworld into the Federation in 2373. One sat at a table in Deep Space 9's wardroom, with a pen and paper document, awaiting his signature, while the other stood off to the side.
Moments after the ceremony began, several of them showed concern when Benjamin Sisko entered the wardroom and collapsed after warning Bajor not to continue the admissions process. (DS9: "Rapture")
Played by an unknown actor
Baby in Data's memory Edit
A Human baby
This infant was one of the events and persons Lieutenant Commander Data witnessed during his psychotronic stability examination in 2365. (TNG: "The Schizoid Man")
This baby was played by an unknown performer.
Beach goers Edit
Beach goers
Beach goers where Deanna Troi was relaxing in the sun on Earth. (VOY: "Inside Man")
The beach goers were played by unknown performers.
Bergan's mother Edit
Seven as Gregory Bergan's mother
This woman was the mother of Lieutenant Gregory Bergan. She was supposed to meet her son at Wolf 359, but was hindered by the Borg attack. Her ship was so badly damaged that everyone had to leave in escape pods. At one point, she hadn't heard from him in three days.
In 2375, Seven of Nine manifested her personality--indicating that the woman had been assimilated by the Borg--and relayed this information to Captain Kathryn Janeway, asking her if she could check with Starfleet Headquarters for news on her son. Janeway agreed in order to not antagonize Seven further. The grateful woman thanked Janeway, asking her to tell Bergan that his mother was alright. She was about to make another request for him to do something, but was interrupted by Seven's real personality re-asserting itself. (VOY: "Infinite Regress")
This character was only mentioned in dialogue.
Bilby's children Edit
The Bilby children with their mother
These children belonged to Liam Bilby and his wife Morica Bilby. They lived in New Sydney with their mother. (DS9: "Honor Among Thieves")
They were portrayed by unknown performers.
Bobruisk transporter operator Edit
This female individual operated the transporter at the Earth Station Bobruisk in 2367 and contacted Chief Miles O'Brien that year, informing him that Helena and Sergey Rozhenko were ready to be beamed aboard the USS Enterprise-D. (TNG: "Family")
This transporter operator was voiced by an unknown actress.
Brianon's father Edit
The father of Kareen Brianon died when she was very young. After his death, she went to live with Doctor Ira Graves. (TNG: "The Schizoid Man")
Carey's family Edit
Wife Edit
This woman was the wife of Joseph Carey, with whom he had two sons. (VOY: "Prime Factors") In 2378, he told Tom Paris that while pregnant (like B'Elanna Torres was at the time) she didn't wish to be coddled either. (VOY: "Friendship One")
This woman was only mentioned in dialogue.
Two Voyager short stories, "The Ones Left Behind" and "Widow's Walk", give her the name "Anne Carey", while "Letting Go" names her "Abhaya Parekh". The Starship Creator video game calls her "Dina Carey".
Two sons Edit
These children were Joseph Carey's sons. In 2371, he expressed his wish that they not grow up without a father. (VOY: "Prime Factors")
These children were only mentioned in dialogue.
A Voyager short story, "The Ones Left Behind" gives their names as "JJ" and "Patrick", while "Letting Go" names them "Devraj" and Michael". The Starship Creator video game calls them "John" and "Josh".
Castillo's family Edit
After arriving in 2366 from 2344, Richard Castillo dreaded the thought of never seeing his family again. Natasha Yar then raised the possibility that they might still be alive. Castillo acknowledged that they might be, but wondered if he'd even recognize them after twenty two years. (TNG: "Yesterday's Enterprise")
This family was only mentioned in dialogue.
Mother Edit
According to Castillo, his mother called him "Richard". (TNG: "Yesterday's Enterprise")
Cestus III inhabitants Edit
See: Cestus III inhabitants
Chakotay's family Edit
Cousin Edit
In 2374, when Voyager used the Hirogen communications network to contact the Alpha Quadrant, Chakotay wrote a letter to his cousin in Ohio. (VOY: "Message in a Bottle")
Grandfather(s) Edit
Illusion of grandfather
Chakotay's grandfather was an elderly man who refused to take his medicine and Chakotay looked after him when he was young. Chakotay called him an "old crazy man" and learned from The Doctor that he suffered from hallucinations caused by an inherited defective gene. An illusion of his grandfather appeared to Chakotay while experiencing a "vision quest" in 2375. (VOY: "The Fight")
Chakotay also spoke of a grandfather who "used to think he could transform himself into a wolf so that he could venture out to explore the spirit realm." Chakotay used it to describe the symbolism of what was contained in the events his grandfather thought was real, which Chakotay explained that "it [didn't] mean he grew hair all over his body and walked around on all fours." (VOY: "Barge of the Dead")
The illusion of Chakotay's grandfather was played by Ned Romero.
Chakotay's mother was the wife of Kolopak.
When Chakotay was born, his father considered him a "contrary" from the beginning because he had come out of his mother "upside down". (VOY: "Tattoo")
While rubbing Kathryn Janeway's sore neck in 2372, he recalled doing so for his mother, as she frequently suffered from neck pain. He was the only person she believed would not aggravate her discomfort further. (VOY: "Resolutions")
When Chakotay went on a vision quest to confer with his father, where he explained that he had just learned that he had a son that was born without his consent, Kolopak didn't quite understand how such a thing could happen, stating, "Well, it's been a long time, so forgive me, but it seems that I had to play a part before your mother could conceive." (VOY: "Basics, Part I")
She taught him the science behind vision quests, something which disappointed him, as by doing so, she had dispelled the mysterious nature of the ritual. (VOY: "Sacred Ground")
After Chakotay was subjected to a combination of mind control techniques by the Vori in 2374, according to The Doctor, "from the condition of your hypothalamus, I'd say they had you so mixed up they could have convinced you your own mother was a turnip." (VOY: "Nemesis")
The novel Old Wounds gives her the name Tananka.
Sister Edit
In 2378, when Voyager achieved two-way communication with the Alpha Quadrant, Chakotay intended to call his sister with his share of uninterrupted comm time. (VOY: "Author, Author")
She is presumably the daughter of Kolopak.
In the Voyager relaunch novels, Chakotay's sister is named Sekaya (β), and is the spiritual leader of his tribe.
Chez Sandrine visitors Edit
See: Chez Sandrine visitors
Collins' father Edit
Dorian Collins' father was an inhabitant of Luna. Once a month, he and his daughter would hike to the Sea of Clouds and watch Sol rise over the moon. (DS9: "Valiant")
Contact juggler Edit
A contact juggler
This contact juggler visited Deep Space 9 in 2371 to entertain the people during the Bajoran Gratitude Festival, held on the station for the third time. He was seen juggling with two golden balls and doing a body roll across his chest with a full weight bowling ball in another scene. (DS9: "Fascination")
This juggler was played by background artist Thomas Wood, who received no credit for his appearance.
Cusak's sisters Edit
These women were both teachers and the sisters of Lisa Cusak. When speaking to Julian Bashir in 2371 (her) and 2374 (him), she mentioned this and said she didn't know how they could stand it, as she herself didn't care for children.
Once, one of her sisters served on the same starbase as her, a situation Cusak described as a nightmare. She related this to Benjamin Sisko, assuring him that most people couldn't mix their personal and professional lives. (DS9: "The Sound of Her Voice")
These women were only mentioned in dialogue.
Darwin's sisters Edit
These sisters of Frank Darwin survived him after his murder in 2372. When Kathryn Janeway suggested that his killer, Lon Suder, be confined to quarters with maximum security confinement, not executed as Tuvok wished, she felt it was the best they could do. Tuvok believed Darwin's sisters would disagree. (VOY: "Meld")
These sisters were only mentioned in dialogue.
Davila's family Edit
The family of Carmen Davila was to be notified of her death by Starfleet in 2368, at which time her personal effects would also be returned. Jean-Luc Picard asked William T. Riker if he wished to write a letter to them as well, which Riker did. (TNG: "Silicon Avatar")
Delon's father Edit
This Human male was the father of Palis Delon, and the administrator of a medical complex located in Paris. He once offered Julian Bashir a position there, but Bashir declined rather than leave Starfleet. (DS9: "Armageddon Game")
D'Sora's family Edit
The family of Jenna D'Sora consisted of Jenna, her father, mother, and younger brother. After her father's death, the surviving family spent little time together as a family. Jenna recalled in particular the cookouts they'd have in the summer, just the three of them. Despite her mother's ineptness with the replicator, the children didn't seem to mind the taste of the food.
When D'Sora related this story to Data in 2367, he suggested it may have been due to the fact that children often did not have as discerning a palate until after their adolescence. She corrected him, saying it was being together that was important, not the way the food tasted, and expressed her longing to return to those days with him. (TNG: "In Theory")
According to her personnel file on the video game Star Trek: Starship Creator, the father, mother and brother are named Patrick, Gwen, and Luke D'Sora, respectively.
Federation Archaeology Council members Edit
These seven Humans were members of the Federation Archaeology Council in 2367. They attended a symposium aboard the Enterprise-D, Captain Picard's lecture and the banquet in Ten Forward. Among these individuals were McFarland, Switzer and Klarc-Tarn-Droth. (TNG: "Qpid")
According to the call sheet all seven members were Humans. The actors filmed their scenes on Friday 8 February 1991 on Paramount Stage 8. The two last pictured actors were played by background actors with the last names R. Bruce and Crow.
John Copage's costume was previously worn by Rudolph Willrich as Reittan Grax in the episode "Ménage à Troi" and his sash by Nancy Parsons as Marouk in the episode "The Vengeance Factor", the robe of the second to last pictured actor was previously worn by Nehemiah Persoff as Palor Toff in the episode "The Most Toys", and the suit of the last pictured actor was previously worn by Craig Richard Nelson as Krag in the episode "A Matter of Perspective".
The Star Trek Customizable Card Game gives the name Van Orton to the council member played by David B. Maccabee. His face was digitally altered on the card.
Played by Kelly Burris
Played by John Copage
Played by Betty Matsushita
Played by Williams
Played by David B. Maccabee
Frazier's family Edit
Grandfather Edit
Riley running to her grandfather
The grandfather of Riley Frazier was a Human male who often picked bluebonnet flowers together with his granddaughter when she was a child during the early half of 24th century. He carried a walking stick. (VOY: "Unity")
He was played by an unknown actor.
The mother of Riley Frazier was a Human female was known for her famous Texas barbecue. After Riley was freed from the Borg Collective, she had recurring dreams of her mother's barbecue. (VOY: "Unity")
Galen's children Edit
As of 2369, none of the children of archaeologist Richard Galen had followed in their father's footsteps, prompting him to consider Jean-Luc Picard to be like a son. (TNG: "The Chase")
Gilmore's nephew Edit
This boy was the nephew of Marla Gilmore. AS of 2375, he was a teenager. She hadn't seen him since he was Naomi Wildman's current age and doubted she'd recognize him now. Chakotay assured her she'd see him again. (VOY: "Equinox")
According to the short story "Bottomless", his name was Aidan.
Guides Edit
Played by Kaiyoti Pesante
Played by David Reyes
These two guides accompanied Kolopak, Chakotay, and Antonio on an expedition into the Central American rainforest to find the descendants of the Rubber Tree People in 2344. (VOY: "Tattoo")
Haftel's children Edit
The children of Anthony Haftel were brought up by Data when the Admiral questioned Data's ability to raise his own "child", Lal, in 2367.
While in discussion with Captain Jean-Luc Picard on the topic of parenting, Data inquired if Haftel had any children, before bringing up the point, "I am forced to wonder how much experience he had as a parent when his first child was born." (TNG: "The Offspring")
Harkins' cousin Edit
Peter Harkins' cousin owned a beach house in Malaysia.
In 2377, he assured Reginald Barclay that she'd be happy to lend it to him, but Barclay declined the offer. (VOY: "Inside Man")
Harren's mother Edit
Mortimer Harren's mother never called him "Mortimer". He mentioned this in 2376 after Captain Kathryn Janeway, asking if he wanted something to eat, used his first name. (VOY: "Good Shepherd")
Hickman's family Edit
Paul Hickman was married with two children. (TNG: "Identity Crisis")
Hutchinson's parents Edit
As of 2369, Calvin Hutchinson had not forgiven his parents for naming him "Calvin", which he considered a terrible name. (TNG: "Starship Mine")
These parents were only mentioned in dialogue.
Ilario's siblings Edit
This family of Hector Ilario included at least five siblings, brothers and sisters - two of one kind and three of the other. (DS9: "Field of Fire")
Institute patients' parents Edit
The parents of Jack, Lauren, Patrick, and Sarina Douglas were forced to admit that they had broken the law against having DNA resequencing so that their children could be treated for the side effects they suffered from. When Julian Bashir discussed this with the crew of Deep Space 9, Benjamin Sisko suggested they might have waited too long to do something. Bashir later questioned why they should be excluded for the crimes of their parents. (DS9: "Statistical Probabilities")
Ishikawa's grandmother Edit
The hand of Keiko's grandmother
This woman was the grandmother of Keiko Ishikawa, the future Mrs. Keiko O'Brien.
As a child, Keiko helped her grandmother, whom she called obachan bringing and placing fresh water for her ink brush on a table. Her grandmother painted pictures of Japanese brush writing and calligraphy.
In 2368 Keiko remembered her grandmother and experienced flashbacks during a telepathic memory retrieval by the Ullian researcher Tarmin. (TNG: "Violations")
Though not stated, this woman would be the mother of either Keiko's father, Hiro Ishikawa, or Keiko's mother, Mrs. Ishikawa.
Keiko's grandmother was portrayed by actress Bo Ching who received no credit for this appearance.
She filmed her scenes involving her hand on Monday 25 November 1991 on Paramount Stage 8, as part of the second unit inserts shooting team. The call sheet listed her as "P.D. Woman", p.d. for photo double.
Janeway's family Edit
Kathryn Janeway's grandfather used to make Kathryn Welsh rarebit when she was a child. Quinn revealed this fact to Janeway after preparing it for her as a thank you for freeing him from his imprisonment. (VOY: "Death Wish")
Later, during a Devore inspection of USS Voyager in 2375, Kashyk observed an old microscope in Janeway's ready room, which he found "remarkable." Janeway explained that it was from about six hundred years old, or Earth's 18th century, and a gift given to her by her grandfather when she was a child. (VOY: "Counterpoint")
This man was only mentioned in dialogue.
Grandmother Edit
Kathryn Janeway's grandmother used to make vegetable biryani. In 2375, Kathryn programmed her replicator to create the same dish. (VOY: "Timeless")
Kathryn Janeway's mother outlived her husband, who died sometime prior to 2358. An alien posing as his ghost said that he had gone back after his death to see her and his daughters. (VOY: "Coda") She was still alive in 2378. (VOY: "Author, Author")
The novel Mosaic gives her the name Gretchen Janeway (β).
Kathryn Janeway's sister, and daughter to vice admiral Janeway, helped Kathryn "deal with the real world" after the death of their father. She was who Kathryn would turn to when she would wake up and feel that their father was in the room with her. (VOY: "Coda") She was the artist in the family, while Kathryn was the scientist. (VOY: "Sacred Ground")
The novel Mosaic states that her name is Phoebe, and that she is four years younger than Kathryn.
In the second novel in the String Theory trilogy, a Nacene attempts to infiltrate the crew by altering their memories to create the illusion that she is Phoebe Janeway, who accompanied Voyager on its first mission to do a portrait of the Badlands and was caught in the transfer to the Delta Quadrant. However, although she is able to alter the memories and even computer logs of the crew, her deception is exposed as she cannot alter the memories or perceptions of Naomi Wildman or Harry Kim due to their origin from the duplicate ship (VOY: "Deadlock") and she was required to activate a back-up module of the original EMH as The Doctor was too sophisticated for her to be comfortable 'reprogramming' him.
Jaresh-Inyo's advisors Edit
Jaresh-Inyo's advisors
In 2372, during a blackout on Earth, Federation President Jaresh-Inyo consulted with these five Human advisors, when he was interrupted by Captain Benjamin Sisko, Odo, and Admiral Leyton who beamed into his office. (DS9: "Homefront")
These five Humans were portrayed by unknown performers.
Jellico's son Edit
This child was Captain Edward Jellico's son. In 2369, he gave his father a drawing of what the captain presumed was an elephant. (TNG: "Chain of Command, Part I")
This child was never seen, only referenced. The 1998 video game Star Trek: Starship Creator gives his name as Franklin Paul Jellico, and his birth year as 2361, making him 7 or 8 at the time of the TNG episode.
K'Ehleyr's mother Edit
This Human female was in a romantic relationship with a Klingon male. Their child was K'Ehleyr. K'Ehleyr believed she had inherited her mother's sense of humor, which had gotten her into trouble. Her mother was deceased by 2365. (TNG: "The Emissary")
Lefler's parents Edit
The parents of Starfleet officer Robin Lefler were plasma specialists. The family lived in a certain sector, where the parents' expertise was needed and they traveled from base to base. (TNG: "The Game")
It is not stated in the episode if they were Starfleet or civilian.
Lil's dad Edit
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Lil's dad
Lil's dad was employed as a quality systems supervisor at the Mars Orbital Facility during the 2380s. (ST: "Children of Mars")
Lil's dad, who was credited simply as "Dad", was played by Jason Deline.
Maryl's family Edit
This woman was Maryl's mother. Sometime before 2375, Maryl pleaded with her mother not to leave her with the scary Borg.
That year, while attempting to stabilise Seven of Nine's neural pattern via a mind meld, Tuvok saw and heard Maryl crying for her mother. (VOY: "Infinite Regress")
Twelve brothers Edit
These brothers were the brothers of Maryl. Nine of them were older than her and three were younger. One of them studied "too much", in Maryl's opinion. They often played Kadis-kot together. In 2375, Seven of Nine told Naomi Wildman about them while manifesting Maryl's personality under the influence of the vinculum. (VOY: "Infinite Regress")
These individuals were only mentioned in dialogue.
Medical big shot Edit
A medical "big shot"
This male was a senior official from the Federation Medical Council who announced the winner of the Federation's prestigious Carrington Award in 2371, Dr. Henri Roget. (DS9: "Prophet Motive")
The big shot was played by Bennet Guillory. The "Medical Big Shot" was referred to as such in the episode's end credits.
Norkova personnel Edit
See: Norkova personnel
Nova Squadron parents Edit
Four parents of members of the Nova Squadron attended the hearings held by superintendent Admiral Brand. Two of them previously attended a briefing that followed the accidental death of cadet Joshua Albert in 2368. (TNG: "The First Duty")
All four parents were played by background performers and are listed as "Parents" on the call sheets of the episodes. According to these call sheets there were six background talents portraying these parents, Jacquelyn Masche, D. Wayman, S. Halm, R. Torre, J. Elliot, and R. Bruce, but only four appeared in the final episode.
It is unclear who are their children, but the only possibilities are Nicholas Locarno and Jean Hajar. The script identifies them as "N.D. PARENTS".
Played by Jacquelyn Masche
O'Brien's family Edit
Brothers Edit
When Constable Odo is questioning Quark at an airlock with Chief O'Brien, Quark asks whether he has a Brother, to which he replies that he has two. He further mentions that saying goodbye to them when he left for Starfleet put a tear to his eye. (DS9: "Invasive Procedures")
While listening in 2374 to a stranded Lisa Cusak speak of her family and her home in 2371, Miles O'Brien was reminded of his cousin. (DS9: "The Sound of Her Voice")
Miles O'Brien's mother was Michael O'Brien's first wife, and mother of two other sons. She died in 2368.
In 2370, when O'Brien was replaced by an Paradan replicant of Miles O'Brien, who included all his memories, this fact was known to all the crew aboard Deep Space 9 except "O'Brien" himself. During this time, he was given a physical by Doctor Julian Bashir, who, during the physical, he tested the memory of "O'Brien" by inquiring about the health of his mother and father. "O'Brien" reminded Bashir that the doctor knew his mother had died two years prior. (DS9: "Whispers")
Later in 2373, during Kira Nerys' pregnancy, where she carried the son of Miles and Keiko, Miles often gave Nerys foot massages. Nerys inquired about Miles' proficiency in the matter, and he described it as "an O'Brien survival technique," explaining, "my mother hated being pregnant. My father's massages were the only thing that kept her from killing everyone." While Miles' noted that his mother didn't "curse in Bajoran" she was known to "use what she liked to call 'descriptive phrases.'" When Keiko was later trying to convince Miles that he was not pressing hard enough, and he duly increased his efforts, Nerys called him "a sadist" and asked if his father was "this cruel to your mother?" Miles explained that he was "worse" and that he would "swear sometimes you could hear her scream halfway across Ireland," adding that "our neighbors didn't know whether to be worried or titillated." (DS9: "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places")
O'Brien's mother's name is given as Megan in Force and Motion.
Stepmother Edit
The second wife of Michael O'Brien was married to her husband in early 2369, a year after the death of O'Brien's first wife.
In 2370, when O'Brien was replaced by an Paradan replicant of Miles O'Brien, who included all his memories, this fact was known to all the crew aboard Deep Space 9 except "O'Brien" himself. During this time, he was given a physical by Doctor Julian Bashir feigned recalling that O'Brien's mother had died to test the memory of "O'Brien", to which, "O'Brien" reminded Bashir about the time he told him about his dad remarrying last spring, and him "blathering on about this woman I've never met..." (DS9: "Whispers")
Outpost scientists Edit
Played by an unknown actress
These two Federation scientists were stationed on a Federation outpost in 2366. They were hit by several phaser blasts and were lying in a closed room following a raid by a group of Acamarian Gatherers. An away team from the Enterprise-D found them and they were beamed directly to sickbay, where Doctor Beverly Crusher treated their injuries. (TNG: "The Vengeance Factor")
Penthara IV inhabitants Edit
See: Penthara IV inhabitants
Picard's vineyard workers Edit
These vineyard workers were employed by Robert Picard at his vineyards in La Barre, France on Earth in 2367 when his brother Jean-Luc Picard visited the Picard family home following his regeneration from the Borg assimilation. (TNG: "Family")
Played by two unknown performers
Played by four unknown performers
Quadra Sigma III inhabitants Edit
See: Quadra Sigma III inhabitants
Qualor II bar patron Edit
See: Qualor II patrons
Risa visitors Edit
New Essentialists Edit
These two Essentials were followers of Pascal Fullerton, chairman of the New Essentialists movement, an organization dedicated to "restoring the moral traditions" of the Federation. They accompanied him to Risa for a rally. (DS9: "Let He Who Is Without Sin...")
These two Human essentials were played by unknown performers.
Tourists Edit
These tourists vacationed on Risa in 2366 while Captain Jean-Luc Picard was also on the planet for shore leave. They were entertained and cared for by Risian employees at the resort. (TNG: "Captain's Holiday")
Played by unknown performers
Rishon Uxbridge's family Edit
This family of Rishon Uxbridge owned a music box for generations.
The parents of Rishon were with her when she first met and later proposed marriage to Kevin Uxbridge. They were traveling by ship at sea. Initially, her parents did not like Kevin, not liking his "hanging around" their daughter. (TNG: "The Survivors")
Romulan conference guests Edit
These Humans attended the conference on Romulus in 2375 and were chatting with Romulans. (DS9: "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges")
They were played by background performers who received no credit for their appearance.
The dress worn by the second pictured can be seen in several Star Trek episodes and films such as the Deep Space Nine episode "Rivals" where it was worn by Alsia.
Played by Louis Ortiz
Rossa's grandfather Edit
This man was the grandfather of Jeremiah Rossa. In 2367, Connaught Rossa assured Jeremiah that he and she would welcome and love him. (TNG: "Suddenly Human")
This grandfather was only mentioned in dialogue.
Samuels' daughters Edit
The daughters of William and Louise Samuels, aged 14 and 12 as of 2370, were raised on his land. In a recorded confession for his part in destroying the Bok'Nor, he apologized to them and said he loved them. (DS9: "The Maquis, Part I")
These daughters were only mentioned in dialogue.
San Franscisco inhabitants Edit
Inhabitants of San Francisco were in streets when Harry Kim was placed in an alternate timeline where he was never assigned to USS Voyager. (VOY: "Non Sequitur")
Played by Kevin Finister
Played by Irving Ross
Satie's elder brothers Edit
These brothers were the sons of Aaron Satie and brother to Norah Satie. The children would debate each other around the dinner table while their father refereed, using a stopwatch to teach them brevity, not allowing them to leave until they had examined the issue thoroughly. They usually lost to Norah, something Aaron enjoyed. In 2367, Norah related this to Jean-Luc Picard, who correctly guessed that she had "trounced" them. (TNG: "The Drumhead")
This brothers was only mentioned in dialogue.
Scientist Edit
A scientist
This Federation scientist led an engineering team that discovered ancient artifacts in a cave in San Francisco in 2368. He showed Captain Picard and Data artifacts that he had dated as late 19th century. These included a Colt pistol, a watch, and bifocals. He believed that he found evidence of an alien presence on Earth in 19th century San Francisco. The cave contained triolic waves that only the shapeshifting Devidians were known to use. He also showed them the last artifact, which was Data's head. (TNG: "Time's Arrow")
The scientist was played by Milt Tarver.
Sisko's family Edit
Benjamin Sisko's brothers were the sons of Joseph Sisko, the brothers of Judith Sisko and the half-brothers of Benjamin Sisko. When they were younger, the Sisko brothers cultivated the vegetables for use in the family restaurant. (DS9: "Paradise")
According to the novel Rough Beasts of Empire their names are Aaron and Samuel.
Second child Edit
Kasidy Yates-Sisko was pregnant with Benjamin Sisko's second child in 2375. (DS9: "The Dogs of War")
The DS9 relaunch books revealed the child to be a daughter named Rebecca Jae Sisko. According to the short story "The Dreamer and the Dream", the child is a boy named Jonathan.
Sisko's stepmother was Mrs. Sisko, the second wife of Joseph Sisko, mother to Judith and two boys, and step-mother to Benjamin Sisko.
She met and married Joseph Sisko in the 2330s. They agreed that, instead of telling Ben what had happened to his biological mother, she would pretend to be his biological mother. She ultimately kept that secret for the rest of her life.
Soon after marrying Joseph Sisko, she had children with him: Judith and two boys. (DS9: "Image in the Sand")
Her name was also Rebecca.
Sisko's Creole Kitchen visitors Edit
See: Sisko's Creole Kitchen visitors
Spectators Edit
Human spectators
These Human civilians witnessed the homecoming of the USS Voyager in 2394 in an alternate timeline from a point near the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge. Admiral Kathryn Janeway watched the television story ten years later in her apartment. (VOY: "Endgame")
These Humans were played by unknown performers.
Stubbs' mother Edit
Upon observing the closeness of Wesley Crusher and his mother Beverly, Doctor Paul Stubbs told them he wouldn't want his mother flying through space with him, as she was, in his words, "a formidable woman, too. A woman of letters. A great critic." This information was found in Stubbs' biography. (TNG: "Evolution")
Tarses' mother Edit
Simon Tarses' mother, according to Simon, would have been happy to see him become a Starfleet officer. He mentioned this when explaining to Captain Jean-Luc Picard that despite this, he did not wish to spend four years sitting in a classroom. In addition to Simon, she had at least one additional son. (TNG: "The Drumhead")
The "37's" Edit
In 1937, these four people along with Amelia Earhart, Fred Noonan, Jack Hayes, and Nogami, were some of the three hundred Humans abducted from Earth and taken to an unnamed class L planet in the Delta Quadrant by the Briori to work as their slaves. These eight people remained in cryostasis in a cryostasis chamber a hundred feet under the surface of the planet until 2371 when an away team from Voyager woke them up.
Known as "the 37's", the ancestors of a Human group living on the planet, they decided to stay with their descendants in a settlement on the planet. (VOY: "The 37's")
All four people were played by background performers who received no credit for their appearances.
The description of the first two is from the script of the episode and from the trivia text commentary on the VOY Season 2 DVD, the description of the other two is from the call sheets of the episode.
The costume worn by Rita Dail was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. [1]
Played by Rita Dail
Scandinavian fisherman
Played by Dan Lambirth
Irish woman
Played by Emily Hall
Irish man
Played by Peter Johnson
The 37's descendant Edit
A Human descendant
This descendant took part in a skirmish with an away team from the USS Voyager on a planet in the Delta Quadrant in 2371 along with John Evansville and Karyn Berlin. He believed that they were Briori, aliens who had abducted his ancestors in the year 1937. He was shot by Kathryn Janeway from behind. (VOY: "The 37's")
The Human descendant was played by stunt coordinator Dennis Madalone who received no credit for this part.
His costume was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. [2]
Torres' grandparents Edit
The grandmother of B'Elanna, Michael, Dean, and Elizabeth Torres, was the mother of John and Carl Torres. (VOY: "Extreme Risk", "Lineage")
When John spoke with Carl, during the mid-2350s, about his relationship with his wife Miral, he confessed how "Mom and Dad always turn out to be right," adding how "Mom warned me not to marry Miral." This came as a surprise to Carl, who always thought that "Mom loved Miral," to which John agreed with, but added "But she never thought I had the constitution to live with a Klingon." (VOY: "Lineage")
These grandparents were only mentioned in dialogue.
Trade Agreements Conference attendees Edit
These officials attended the Trade Agreements Conference on Betazed in 2366 and the following banquet in Ten Forward aboard the Enterprise-D. (TNG: "Ménage à Troi")
The second pictured woman wore the catsuit of Yareena from the episode "Code of Honor".
Played by Shana Ann Golden
Troi-Riker wedding guests Edit
Several Human wedding guests attended the ceremony of Deanna Troi and William T. Riker in Alaska on Earth in 2379. (Star Trek Nemesis)
The dress worn by the first pictured actress was originally created for Alsia in the 1994 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Rivals" and was re-used in several Star Trek films and episodes. It was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. [3]
Ventax II scientists Edit
These three scientists were stationed at the Federation science station on Ventax II in 2367 under the command of Dr. Howard Clark. When the Ventaxian citizens learned that their mythical figure Ardra returned riots occurred and a few citizens attacked the science station. They held the scientists hostages and only Dr. Clark was beamed aboard the Enterprise-D. Later they were set free at order of Ardra. (TNG: "Devil's Due")
Volan III inhabitants Edit
See: Volan III inhabitants
Yates' family Edit
See: Yates family
Yates' brothers Edit
These were the brothers of Kasidy Yates-Sisko.
Her youngest brother was a colonist on the planet Cestus III in the 2370s and, in 2371, became a member of the baseball team Pike City Pioneers. During a game, he tore a ligament sliding into second. He later sent his sister a transmission of the game between his team and the Cestus Comets, which was later viewed by her and her boyfriend Benjamin Sisko on Deep Space 9. In the next year, Yates' brother promised to get a seat in the dugout for Benjamin Sisko if he ever got out to Cestus III. (DS9: "Family Business", "The Way of the Warrior")
In tie-in fiction, (citation needed • edit) Kasidy's brother is called Kornelius.
Yates' father Edit
This was the father of Kasidy Yates-Sisko. He used to tell her, "If you're going to do something, do it right." He was deceased by 2374. (DS9: "The Sound of Her Voice")
Yates' mother Edit
This was the mother of Kasidy Yates-Sisko. According to her daughter, she would have preferred if Kasidy was married by a minister. (DS9: "Penumbra")
Unnamed mirror universe inhabitants
Humans:
Early history • 19th century • 20th century • 21st century • 22nd century • 23rd century • 24th century • Future
Unnamed Humans:
Distant past • 19th century • 20th century • 21st century • 22nd century • 23rd century • alternate reality • 24th century • 25th century • 31st century
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MemoryNS
A Catalogue of Archived Records Preserved in Nova Scotia
Washabuck Centre (Victoria County, N.S.), 1 results 1
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MacLean, Joseph W.
Joseph (Joe) W. MacLean was a well-known Cape Breton Island fiddler, composer and collector of “Scottish” music. He performed, not only across the Cape Breton Island, but also throughout eastern Canada and New England. He was regarded as an accomplished musician who had a genuine interest in helping young fiddlers learn the old ways and forge their own path. He was born in 1916 in Washabuck, Victoria County to Vincent and Theresa (MacNeil) MacLean. The family, which included brothers Alexander, Murdock, Leo, Peter F., Michael Anthony and John, and sisters Helen, Theresa, Lucy, Mary and Nancy, were widely known for their musical skills and accomplishments. The MacLean family was descended from emigrants, from the Isle of Barra in Scotland, who came to Nova Scotia in the early 1800's to build a better life for themselves. Joe was raised in the family home at MacKays Point, Washabuck, Iona Peninsula.
Joe began playing fiddle at 12 years of age. His father was an excellent dancer, so Joe was trained to be a dance player. In his teens, he began playing for dances and at parties with his siblings in the Washabuck area, and on his own in Middle River, Bucklaw and Baddeck. In the 1950s and 1960s, Joe made ten 78 recordings on the Celtic and Rodeo labels and three LPs. He had a large repertoire of traditional tunes gleaned from old Scottish books, his own compositions and tunes from around Cape Breton Island.
He began his working life at MacRae's General Store in Nyanza, Victoria County. He moved to Sydney in 1939 where he drove a taxi and worked a year at the Sydney Steel Plant. On January 6, 1941, Joe began his career with the Canadian National Railway. He retired in 1981 from CN where he had been employed as a brakeman, conductor and finally as the yardmaster.
He married Marguerite MacNeil, the daughter of Jim Hugh MacNeil, Sydney. They had eight children, including a daughter Stephanie and seven sons; Vincent J., Stephen, Allison, Rev. Lt-Cmdr Joseph, Ronald, John and James. Their home was on Alexandra Street, Sydney, Nova Scotia. He died August 22, 1996, in Cape Breton Regional Hospital, Sydney, NS.
He was not only a fiddler but also a custodian and promoter of the Gaelic fiddle tradition and music. Joe collected well over 100 published music books containing over 18,000 tunes including rare books from Nathaniel and Neil Gow, Scottish composers and publishers of music. Joe shared these resources with fiddlers from around the Island and his generosity with his time and talent was well known.
Joe also collected and was given tunes from noted Cape Breton fiddlers such as Dan H. MacEachern, Dan R. MacDonald, Bill Lamey, Donald Angus Beaton, John Campbell, Jerry Holland, Dave MacIsaac and many others. Before the advent of photocopiers, Joe would spend time copying tunes by hand for future use. Modern music books were also added to the collection. He was a part of the Cape Breton Fiddlers Association and played around the Island. He was active in many Scottish organizations and societies that promoted Scottish culture on Cape Breton Island such as the Cape Breton Gaelic Society and the Fiddlers Association. On many occasions, he donated his time, energy and talent in aid of charitable organizations.
This incredible collection was maintained by Joseph W. MacLean during his lifetime and kept in the home he shared with his wife and family at 49 Alexandra Street, Sydney, NS. After his death, the material came to his son Vincent J. MacLean and was maintained by him. Vincent J. MacLean donated the material to the Highland Village in 1999 and it has remained in the care of the Highland Village since that time.
It is important for the Highland Village to maintain the link between the language, the music and everyday Gaelic life. It is part of our mandate and a responsibility to our heritage. The mission of the Highland Village Museum/An Clachan Gàidhealach, a living history museum, is “to research, collect, preserve and share the Gaelic heritage and culture of Nova Scotia and represent it accurately and vibrantly”. The Joe MacLean Collection of Music Manuscripts and Papers will allow us to continue this mission and further enhance the visitor experience.
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'The Hustle' trailer: Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson are dirty rotten scoundrels
By Silas Lesnick | Feb 12, 2019
From Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures comes “The Hustle,” a new comedy based on Frank Oz’s 1988 classic “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” (which itself was based on the 1964 Ralph Levy film “Bedtime Story”). The new version sets Anne Hathaway as wealthy con artist Josephine Chesterfield and Rebel Wilson as two-bit hustler Penny Rust. When their worlds collide, the game begins.
In addition to the trailer, MGM has also released the official poster for “The Hustle” as well as three stills from the film. Check them all out right here:
“The Hustle” is directed by Chris Addison from a screenplay by Stanley Shapiro & Paul Henning and Dale Launer and Jac Schaeffer. Wilson herself produces alongside Roger Birnbaum p.g.a.
Look for “The Hustle” to hit the big screen May 10.
'Bad Boys for Life' debuts five new movie clips
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are back on the big screen this Friday.
Scares abound in the ‘Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween’ trailer
Maleficent II
Celebrate the darkness with a new 'Maleficent: Mistress of Evil' movie poster
Angelina Jolie, Michelle Pfeiffer and Elle Fanning headline the sequel, on the big screen October 18.
News and Trailer
Return to Bricksburg with ‘The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part’ trailer
Emmett, Wyldstyle, Batman and the rest are back on the big screen February 8, 2019.
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The determinants of australian exchange rate: a time series analysis
Atif, Syed Muhammad and Sauytbekova, Moldir and Macdonald, James (2012): The determinants of australian exchange rate: a time series analysis.
The paper analyzes Australian exchange rate and its determinants by providing an insight into the economic and non-economic factors. By drawing a comparison between quarterly and annual data over the period of 1975 to 2012, it is suggested that Australia’s trade components and macroeconomic indicators such as output and liquidity relative to the US, play a significant role in determination of its exchange rates. However, interest rate and inflation appear insignificant in this relationship. The study also emphasizes on the pertinence of unobservable effects such as political events and external shocks in influencing the exchange rate. Engle-Granger Cointegration test exhibits a long run relationship between exchange rate and its determinants, and corroborates the substantial role of macroeconomic indicators in diminishing the uncertainty in foreign exchange market.
Exchange Rate; Backward Elimination
F - International Economics > F3 - International Finance > F31 - Foreign Exchange
Syed Muhammad Atif
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Book Blitz: Anything Between Us by Sarah Fine
Posted by ehmusings in Book Blitz, Contemporary Romance, New Adult
Anything Between Us
(Starving Artists, #3; Standalone Story)
Publication date: July 31st 2019
Bestselling author Sarah Fine presents a powerful standalone romance sure to thrill new adult readers everywhere.
What if falling in love is the biggest risk of all?
Sasha decided a long time ago that she would only allow herself a single night each year to go out and be wild. The rest of her time is spent at her pottery wheel or taking care of her father, who has early-onset Alzheimer’s. She has plenty of reasons to avoid anything more than this: one guy, one night, and no names exchanged. But this year, the long and lean stranger she chooses turns out to be more than she bargained for. He makes her feel alive—when it doesn’t seem safe to feel that way at all.
Discharged from the army after a traumatic deployment, Nate returns to his hometown riddled with guilt and unable to envision a future. Everything starts to change during a night out with friends, when a beautiful stranger offers him a no-strings-attached encounter against the wall in the back room of the bar. He knows the deal, but when they run into each other again at the local artists’ co-op where his older brother works, he can’t help but crave more. She makes him feel alive—but he’s still trying to decide if he wants to live at all.
She’s not willing. He’s not ready. But with an unrelenting attraction that weakens their resolve with every passing minute, Sasha and Nate embark on a friendship. One that makes them both stronger. One that makes them wonder if the future might be brighter than either of them ever imagined—until a devastating turn forces them to decide: Is risking everything for love is worth the pain of losing it long before they’re ready?
**WARNING: This is a new adult novel and contains material which is sexual in nature. Content may not be suitable for readers under the age of 18.**
I know alcohol is inadvisable after getting new ink, but tonight I’m not in a rule-following mood. As I walk into the bar and look around for my buddies, I feel Sam’s initials on my arm; the sharp, hot reminder they’re meant to be. SLP. Never forget.
He should be here. And I probably shouldn’t.
I’m fifteen minutes late, but Brent and Aidan aren’t here yet. It kind of pisses me off—I drove all the way out here to Grand Rapids to meet up with them, nearly an hour from the lakeshore town where we all grew up. They both moved here while I was gone.
It’s approaching midnight and the place is already starting to empty out, so I snag a seat at the bar—facing the door—and raise a finger to get the bartender’s attention. He smirks as he saunters over. “Got some ID on you?”
He doesn’t look that much older than I am, maybe late twenties, but his cheeks are pocked with acne scars and he’s already balding on top. I slide my ID from my wallet and hand it over. His expression smooths out like I knew it would. “Thank you for your service,” he says as he hands it back to me. “First one’s on me.”
I thank him and order a beer, wondering if coming out tonight was a mistake. I don’t exactly feel public-facing. But I haven’t seen Brent or Aidan since before this last deployment, the last one I’ll ever have, as it turns out, and I figured reconnecting with them would be another way to slide into civilian life. That’s what the adjustment counselor at the VA said, anyway. He issued the advice like a prescription, right after he asked me if I had access to firearms. He seemed relieved when I said no, which was the truth.
I didn’t mention that I got my ten-day handgun purchase permit eight days ago.
The bartender hands over a pint, and I down half of it in one long swallow. “Looks like you needed that pretty badly,” he comments.
“You have no idea,” I mutter, glancing at the door and wishing my friends would arrive. My body jitters with a restless energy that I need to drown before it ignites. I’d check my phone, but Jen’s message from earlier is right there, waiting like a buried IED. And I can’t answer her yet. I just can’t.
I down the rest of the pint and raise my head. That’s when I see her. Black hair, dark eyes, and a green dress over some very dangerous curves. She’s at the other end of the bar, nursing brown liquor in a rocks glass, rolling that thing between her palms as if the heat from her skin could change its shape.
When she sees me watching her, she arches one eyebrow and raises her glass.
My heart picks up a hungry, urgent rhythm as I silently toast with my empty glass. She looks like she’s alone there, just her and that drink, but she’s made up like she wasn’t planning to be. And there’s something deep and sad in those eyes, despite the playful smile she’s aiming at me. Did her date bail on her? Maybe she’d like some company?
I’m considering offering her mine when a heavy hand claps me so hard on the back that I nearly face-plant on the bar. My muscles go rigid with the unexpected blow, but the familiar voice booming in my ear keeps me from reflexively throwing a punch. “Back on the home front,” says Brent, grinning as I turn to him. “Great to see you, man.”
Aidan stands next to him, and they make a funny pair. Brent is built like a bear and is a few inches taller than me—he has to be about six-five—with shaggy hair and a beard to match. Aidan is lean like me, only about five inches shorter than I am.
“How long have you been back?” Aidan asks.
I glance over at the woman in the green dress, but she’s lost interest in me and is deep in conversation with the bartender. “Back from deployment for about six weeks, but I’ve only been home since last Wednesday.”
“And already sporting a new tat?” Brent gestures at my arm as he settles on the stool next to mine.
I move my hand to my lap, tilting my arm so that the bandage is concealed. “Just a small one.”
“Want to show it off?” Aidan asks as he takes the seat on my other side. “I remember when you got that one.” He tilts his head toward the tribal pattern that encircles my right biceps, a souvenir from one wild night with my older brother right before I deployed for the first time. “You kept flexing like a total idiot, trying to show it off.”
I suck a breath through my teeth. “This one’s still raw.” In so many ways. “I’ll show you once it heals.” Which it never will. “I need another drink,” I add, glaring at the bartender’s back.
“Hey! Buddy!” Brent’s voice fills up the whole place, despite the loud music. The sound turns a few heads, including the bartender’s. “Can we have a round here?” Brent’s meaty hand swirls around us, drawing invisible boundaries.
The bartender holds up a finger, signaling for us to wait as he finishes his conversation with the woman in green. Brent rolls his eyes. “He’s too busy trying to get laid, apparently,” he says, eyeing her. “Not that I blame him. I kinda wish I’d spotted her first.”
For some stupid reason, I don’t want Brent looking at her. “How’s Anna?” I ask.
The smile drops from his face. “She told me she’s thinking of buying another wedding dress.”
Aidan snorts. “And she has two already.”
With a groan, Brent says, “She’s turned into one of those bridezillas. I never thought she’d be like that. She always seemed so normal.”
I laugh. “Serves you right for settling down.”
Aidan clears his throat. “I guess I’m in for it, too, then.”
I whip around. “Seriously?”
“He popped the question a few weeks ago, and Lizzy actually said yes,” Brent tells me, sounding incredulous. “No accounting for taste.”
“You guys are killing me. I’m gone for a few years, and suddenly you’re old men?”
“She graduated from Calvin in May and was deciding whether to take a job here or in Lansing.” Aidan shrugs. “I figured this would seal the deal. Seemed as good a time as any.”
“You’re twenty-three,” I say in a flat voice.
“Twenty-four,” he replies. “I’m six months older than you are.”
“You’re both insane,” I say. I’ve known them since elementary school, but now they seem like strangers to me. From another planet. Except maybe I’m the alien.
Brent bumps me with his shoulder. “If we’re crazy, it looks like your brother might need to be committed soon, too. Have you met his girlfriend yet?”
I shake my head. “Daniel’s a player. He never lets anyone hang on for too long.” Even as I say it, I’m thinking this time might be different. My parents are both nuts over this girl, and Daniel … I’ve only hung out with him once since I got back, but he could barely wipe the woozy, shit-eating grin off his face when he talked about her. “Maybe he’ll come to his senses.”
“Still bitter about Carrie, huh?” Aidan says this cautiously, like he knows he’s on dangerous ground.
“Please.” It’s been nearly two years since she got bored of having a boyfriend in the military—the letters slowed, and Facetiming was hit or miss. Fourteen months since Aidan broke the news—he’d seen her and Cameron Bakker making out in the balcony of the movie theater on Main, like they didn’t give a shit who saw them. And almost exactly a year since I confronted her about it and broke up with her—while I was home on leave and about to deploy, for fuck’s sake. “She did me a favor.”
I believe that, but I haven’t been with anyone since we split. My eyes slide over to the woman in green again, and my stomach tightens. She’s staring at me again.
The bartender comes over and asks what Brent and Aidan want. Brent laughs when Aidan gets carded. I order another pint, and the bartender smiles. “This one’s on the lady,” he says as he serves it up.
I go still, blocking the impulse to look at her again. “Which lady would that be?” I sound like I’ve been punched in the gut, all breathless and stupid.
The bartender gives me a look. One that says I’m fooling no one. “Maybe you should go thank her.” His gaze cuts in the direction of the woman in green, but he’s blocking my view of her. He leans forward, getting in my space a little. “But if you do, I expect you to mind your manners, okay?” There’s a warning in his gaze, like she’s no stranger to him.
Brent slaps my back again. “Nate was raised right. Not an impolite bone in his body. Or maybe just the one, but only if she asks really nicely. Right?”
I jam my elbow into his flank, which is softer than it used to be. His grunt provides a brief moment of satisfaction.
Aidan pokes me from the other side. “Are you going to talk to her?” His lips are barely moving, but his wiry frame is tense with excitement. “She keeps looking over here!”
“Dude,” I snap. “Try not to wet yourself.” I take a few gulps of my beer. I need to feel that loose warmth unfurling in my bloodstream before I do anything. I don’t trust myself right now.
Jen’s last message is burning a hole right through my phone screen. I can almost feel the searing heat of guilt against my thigh. You owe this to him. Five words that gutted me.
“Fuck,” I whisper, and then I tilt my head back for another few swallows. I need something. I need this. Anything to push away the thoughts clamoring against the walls of my skull.
“That stuff’s a little weak for liquid courage,” Brent comments, signaling the bartender again. “And you look like you could use some.”
A shot appears in front of me, and I throw it back without asking what it is. Tequila, it turns out. When a second one appears, courtesy of Aidan this time, I down it just as quickly. Now the heat is in my veins, tingling and buzzing. I wipe my mouth with the back of my hand and get to my feet while Brent and Aidan snicker. I ignore their jokes at my expense because I’m too busy plotting my course over to the woman in green, who is still rolling her palms over that glass, slow and deliberate.
I make it to her side, wedging myself in behind a tangle of sorority girls probably just back in town for the fall semester. I push down thoughts of how stupid I feel by reminding myself—she bought me the beer. Women don’t do that unless they’re interested, right?
“Hi,” I say. “Thanks for the drink.”
She looks up at me, so I get to see her face up close for the first time. Her eyes are so dark that they’re almost black, like her hair, and so big I almost get lost. “You look even younger up close,” she says, amusement lacing a voice that pings a chord somewhere south of my navel.
“Past the age of consent, at least,” I say, wishing I were wittier, but I guess Daniel got all of that particular genetic gift and pretty much left me with nothing.
“Are you on leave?” she asks.
“What? How—did he tell you that?” I jerk my head toward the bartender, who is now laughing with Aidan and Brent, hopefully not about how badly I’m flailing.
Without breaking eye contact, she reaches up and slides her palm along the back of my head, sending a hard shiver right down my spine and into my groin. “High and tight. Got it buzzed right before you left post, by the feel of it.”
I don’t breathe again until she lowers her hand, and I barely manage to resist the urge to ask her to touch me again. “Are you from a military family or something?”
Her voice is doing things to me. It’s like honey, sweet and substantial. “What’s your name?” I ask.
“That’s not an interesting question.”
“Okay.” I draw it out, because what the fuck? “You’re here alone?”
“That one’s both obvious and uninteresting.”
“Did you want me to come over here and talk to you?” I ask, unable to keep the irritation out of my voice.
She doesn’t look put off by it. In fact, her eyes are glittering with a hot kind of mischief. “Now that … That is a more interesting question. And a complicated one.” She looks me over, catching her lush bottom lip between white teeth. All my blood rushes south. “Or maybe not,” she murmurs, so quietly that I almost miss it.
At a loss, I glance at her almost-empty glass. “Can I buy you a—”
“Not necessary,” she says, sliding off her stool and nodding at the bartender. He nods back. I try to translate whatever’s passing between them, but I’ve slammed four drinks in the space of about twenty minutes. Though I’m not a lightweight, I haven’t eaten since lunch, and my head is buzzing. I’d try to straighten myself out, but this disconnect between my brain and body is actually a relief. And when she takes my hand, I don’t even ask where we’re going or why. I let her guide me down a back hallway and into a room marked “Employees Only.” It turns out to be a storage room, cases of beer stacked five feet high.
She swings the door shut, leaving us with the glow of one bare lightbulb hanging overhead. I’m about to make a joke about her bringing me in here to murder me when her hands slide up my abs to my chest, scattering my thoughts like autumn leaves on a windy day. She pushes on me, backing me up. My shoulder blades meet the wall. Her eyes are on mine, and in them I see so many things, none of which I understand. But I feel her hands on me. Her fingertips slide under the neck of my shirt, and suddenly I’m all sensation, addicted and needing more. I grab her hips and pull her body to mine. There’s no finesse in what I’m doing. No technique or gentleness.
She seems to like that just fine. She pulls my face to hers and then her mouth is on mine and I’m completely gone. My hand slides down to her ass as my tongue thrusts, and her moan nearly makes me crazy. Her breasts are mashed against my chest. She’s got her hand up under my shirt, stroking up my back, feeding my frenzy.
How far does she want this to go? She doesn’t even know my name. She doesn’t know anything about me. Except that I want her, which is undeniable after her hand slips over the front of my jeans. I groan and catch her fingers, pressing them where I want, not nearly close enough. This feels insane, like it’s not really happening, but now she’s unbuttoning my jeans and dipping her hand inside. I gasp against her mouth, and I can feel her smile as she squeezes me.
“I-do you-I—” I’m stammering even as my fingers curl under the hem of her short, tight dress, inching it up. I should stop now. I should stop. But her thighs are so fucking smooth and—I pull back from our kiss and look down at her as the realization hits. “You’re not—”
“Wearing panties?” She smiles at me sweetly. In the dim light, she looks triumphant, but her eyes are shining. I want to ask her why she looks like that, but she’s stroking me up and down like she owns me.
Right now, that’s pretty much true.
“You can walk away,” she says, reaching into the low neckline of her dress. As I stare, she pulls out a little square, foil package. She taps it against my chest. “Up to you.”
My gaze flits from it to her face to her breasts, barely contained in that dress. I’ve never done this before, not like this. We’re in a dirty storeroom and I don’t even know her name. It’s not how I was raised to act. Not how I was raised to treat women.
But this woman … She seems to want it. And she came here, to this bar, on this night, to get it. So many questions spill into my thoughts, tumbling over each other, but the only one that actually escapes my mouth is:
“Does it matter to you?” She stands on her tiptoes and kisses me, slow and deep, kindling the fire inside me. She pulls her hand from my pants and puts it over mine, guiding it between her legs. She whimpers when my fingers meet slick, hot flesh.
I curse and spin us around, so she’s the one with her back to the wall and I’m looming over her, caging her body with my arms. Maybe trying to scare her a little, though I’m not sure why. But she’s right there, unafraid, giving me a knowing smile, those black eyes deep and fathomless.
“Does it?” she asks again. She’s still holding that condom against my chest. An invitation. A question. A challenge.
I push her against the wall and give her my answer.
SARAH FINE is the author of several books for teens, including Of Metal and Wishes (McElderry/Simon & Schuster) and its sequel, Of Dreams and Rust, the bestselling Guards of the Shadowlands YA urban fantasy series (Skyscape/Amazon Children’s Publishing), and The Impostor Queen (McElderry, January 2016).
She is also the co-author (with Walter Jury) of two YA sci-fi thrillers published by Putnam/Penguin: Scan and its sequel Burn. Her bestselling adult urban fantasy romance series, Servants of Fate, includes Marked, Claimed, and Fated, and was published by 47North in 2015, and her second adult UF series —Reliquary (and its sequels Splinter and Mosaic) was published 2016. When she’s not writing, she’s psychologizing. Sometimes she does both at the same time. The results are unpredictable.
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Cover Reveal: Phoenix Rising by Giulia Lagmarsino
Posted by ehmusings in Contemporary Romance, Cover Reveal
Giulia Lagomarsino
(Reed Security Series, #16)
Publication date: August 26th 2019
Phoenix Rising is book 16 in the Reed Security Series and it is suggested they be read in order.
The men and women of Reed Security are back, but after all the turmoil of the past year, how do they adapt and move forward? For some, it’s easy, but others, the past year is only the beginning of what they will have to deal with. Some of them were shot and almost died. Morgan and Chance were taken and tortured in their own respects and now must deal with the after effects. Payton was torn from her mother and spent a year and a half without her. The wives lost their jobs, and many had to run from their families and friends to keep them safe. But one thing remained the same through all of this, they are each others’ family and will do anything to help each other through. They are Reed Security, and they will rise from the ashes.
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I’m a stay at home mom that loves to read. Some of my favorite titles are Pride and Prejudice, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Horatio Hornblower. I started writing when I was trying to come up with suggestions on ways I could help bring in some extra money. I came up with the idea that I could donate plasma because you could earn an extra $500/month. My husband responded with, “No. Find something else. Write a blog. Write a book.” I didn’t think I had anything to share on blog that a thousand other mothers hadn’t already thought of. I decided to take his challenge seriously and sat down to write my first book, Jack. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed writing. From there, the stories continued to flow and I haven’t been able to stop. I hope my readers enjoy my books as much as I enjoy writing them. Between reading, writing, and taking care of three small kids, my days are quite full.
Book Blitz: The Rogue King by Abigail Owen
Posted by ehmusings in Book Blitz, Paranormal, romance
The Rogue King
(Inferno Rising #1)
Published by: Entangled: Amara
Publication date: July 30th 2019
Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Romance
Kasia Amon is a master at hiding. Who—and what—she is makes her a mark for the entire supernatural world. Especially dragon shifters. To them, she’s treasure to be taken and claimed. A golden ticket to their highest throne. But she can’t stop bursting into flames, and there’s a sexy dragon shifter in town hunting for her…
As a rogue dragon, Brand Astarot has spent his life in the dark, shunned by his own kind, concealing his true identity. Only his dangerous reputation ensures his survival. Delivering a phoenix to the feared Blood King will bring him one step closer to the revenge he’s waited centuries to take. No way is he letting the feisty beauty get away.
But when Kasia sparks a white-hot need in him that’s impossible to ignore, Brand begins to form a new plan: claim her for himself…and take back his birthright.
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The only warning she got that she was being followed was the flick of a shadow in the headlights. Before she could react, a massive golden dragon slammed down on the road in front of her about half a mile out. She almost expected the ground to shake with the force, but the act was near silent.
She gritted her teeth and tightened her hands on the wheel. Rather than stop, Kasia hit the gas, pushing the car to go faster. He wasn’t taking her without a fight, that was for damn sure.
The dragon’s deep golden scales glittered in the oncoming headlights. He didn’t budge. But he did growl, his tail slashing back and forth.
“Move, you scaly bastard,” she muttered.
But she didn’t let up on the pedal.
He lowered his head and let loose a growl of warning, which she responded to by stomping harder on the gas.
“Get out of the way!”
She had no intention of playing chicken. If he didn’t, she’d ram this car down his fire-breathing throat. The hell with it. She didn’t want to go back to that cabin in Alaska anyway. Maul would miss her, but he’d be the only one.
Only the dragon didn’t move. Okay then. Kasia braced for impact.
At the moment she should’ve slammed into him, the beast heaved himself into the air, and she zoomed past, fishtailing underneath him from the force of the wind his wings caused.
He must’ve backed up, because he landed on the road in front of her again.
“You want another go, you oversized flying iguana?” she shouted, and bore down on him.
And again, he hopped out of her way only to land in her path.
Damn. Kasia held in a scream of fear-tinged frustration. They could keep this up all night, getting them nowhere fast. He wasn’t going to let her go.
With a growl of aggravation, though not defeat, Kasia stomped on the brakes. The tires squealed in protest, and the unpleasant odor of burning rubber followed her as she skidded the car to a stop broadside of the dragon, only a few feet away. If she rolled down her window, she could reach out and touch him.
The terrifying creature moved around the car, his movements more of a glide, like golden water flowing around her. He lowered his head to gaze in at her with an eye the size of her entire thigh. He snorted, and smoke trailed from his nostrils as he glared at her.
Please let this be Brand, and not some other phoenix-stealing dragon shifter.
Kasia glared back but raised her hands off the steering wheel in a gesture of surrender.
Award-winning paranormal romance author, Abigail Owen, grew up consuming books and exploring the world through her writing. She attempted to find a practical career related to her favorite pastime by earning a degree in English Rhetoric (Technical Writing). However, she swiftly discovered that writing without imagination is not nearly as fun as writing with it.
No matter the genre, she loves to write witty, feisty heroines, sexy heroes who deserve them, and a cast of lovable characters to surround them (and maybe get their own stories). She currently resides in Austin, Texas, with her own personal hero, her husband, and their two children, who are growing up way too fast.
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Book Blitz: The Cave by Amanda McKinney
Posted by ehmusings in Book Blitz, romance, Suspense
Amanda McKinney
(A Berry Springs Novel)
Publication date: August 1st 2019
Genres: Adult, Romance, Suspense
After getting trapped in a remote cave, two strangers must work together to survive while being hunted by a ruthless killer…
Life is full of surprises, rescue swimmer Owen Grayson knows that better than anyone, especially when he’s forced to take an indefinite military leave and return home to pick up the pieces of his dad’s latest mistake. As Owen struggles to settle back into his roots, he is called to a remote cave where he discovers the mysterious death of his uncle wasn’t an accident at all. As the clues begin to unravel, it becomes apparent that the cave is hiding secrets worth killing for… and everyone on site has a target on their back.
Coming off a bad break up and an even worse few days, Forensic Anthropologist Dr. Sadie Hart is brought in to excavate human remains found deep in the treacherous mountains of Berry Springs, in a cave rumored to be haunted, nonetheless. When her team stumbles upon a dead body before they even reach the cave, Sadie quickly realizes this is going to be no ordinary job—especially when she meets a particularly bull-headed Adonis who claims to be related to the victim.
A storm hits, trapping Sadie and Owen inside the cave with nothing but a flashlight and a small backpack with provisions… and someone who wants them dead. As the odds stack up against them, Sadie begins to fear she and Owen will become the next pile of bones found deep in the catacombs of Crypts Cavern…
THE CAVE is a standalone romantic suspense novel.
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SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL. Alluring, magical. A commanding force who had a way of reminding you how little and vulnerable human life really was. How she could chew you up and spit you out without so much as a happy ending. She was powerful, relentless, unforgiving, and tonight, she was in one hell of a mood.
Owen knew her well. He loved her, respected her, and had found a home with her even though she’d take everything from him in a moment’s notice, then build him back up, only to destroy him again. She was addictive, an adrenaline rush second only to jumping out of a MH-60 Jayhawk at a hundred feet, then getting pelted with a 120-knot rotor blast. He’d seen the bodies she’d devoured in her wake, watched the friends and families cry. But the truth was, he’d be nothing without her. She’d made him into the man he was today. For better or worse.
She was a bitch of a mistress, and Owen’s gut told him they were in for a helluva fight tonight.
Owen buckled the waist belt, giving it a quick tug before moving onto the chest straps. The helicopter dipped, dropped, then slowly lifted again causing him to glance up at the pilot, Lieutenant Potts, who was laser focused on the controls glowing through the dark night. A flash of lightning streaked the sky in the distance, sparkling off the rain-streaked windshield. Up ahead, the lights of a capsized sailboat—the only light in the black, swirling water—swaying back and forth on its side, at the mercy of her angry waves.
Yeah, she was in one hell of a mood tonight.
Amanda McKinney is the bestselling and multi-award-winning author of more than ten romantic suspense and mystery novels. She wrote her debut novel, LETHAL LEGACY, in 2017 after walking away from her career to become a writer and stay-at-home mom. Set in small, southern towns, Amanda’s books are page-turning murder mysteries packed with steamy romance.
Book Blitz: The Prince’s Prisoner by Klarissa King
Posted by ehmusings in Book Blitz, Fantasy, New Adult
The Prince’s Prisoner
Klarissa King
(Feared Fables #2)
Genres: Fantasy, New Adult, Retelling
A dark fae prince. A stolen human girl.
And an unwanted marriage.
Not all beasts can be redeemed…
Callie doesn’t believe in fairy tales. Too bad they believe in her.
The fae whisk Callie and her friend off to be prisoners of an eternal dance. But Callie is stolen again.
Maybe the eternal dance wasn’t so bad after all…
A lethal fae has taken her as his unwilling bride, and she has to balance between life and death in his castle, while finding a way out of the dangerous fae realm. Only, she’s playing games with the Prince of War.
The Prince learns just how far Callie will go to save her friend from a lifetime of torture—and just what she will do to save herself from his clutches.
Callie must escape the wicked prince before she turns from prisoner to prey. But as the prince himself tells her, ‘Sacrifice is no noble thing in the fae realm.’
Everything in the fae realm comes at a price…
The Prince’s Prisoner is a Dark Fae Retelling of the original Beauty and the Beast, and is the second book in the anthology series, Feared Fables. Can be read as a stand-alone. Please be aware of themes.
His eyes touched to hers in the reflection of the mirror.
As he slipped off his shoulder pads, he said, “You should not have touched them.”
Callie shoved forward, away from the arch. Her feet slapped against the floor. “What do you want from me? We made a deal, but I’m still trapped.”
Rain removed metal chains from his torso. He kept his back to her, but his eyes followed her in the mirror.
“I want to go home,” she said. “Tell me how to do that—”
The chains crashed to the dressing table.
Callie flinched, and suspected that he’d meant to throw them down hard.
The danger clutching to his words when he spoke confirmed it. “This is your home now.” He turned to face her and leaned back against the table. “We had a deal. It is final.”
“But—” Callie blinked at him, her brows knitting together. “I promised you something in return for helping me. You haven’t set me free yet.”
“I released you from the dance,” he said. “And while you rested, I took your part in the bargain.”
Thoughts of the shared bed sprung to Callie’s mind. A twist of bile coiled in her belly. “What do you mean you took my part?” she whispered, horror wiping her face clean.
Rain’s eyes flashed with outrage. His chin raised, and he looked down his nose at her.
“It is not what you accuse,” he said darkly. “I made you my wife.”
Callie choked on a gasp. “You—you did what?”
Rain’s face remained impassive. “I married you. That was the price of your freedom from the eternal dance.”
“You married me?” shrieked Callie.
Rain folded his arms over his chest. His biceps pressed against the thin black leather of his armour.
Callie’s hands furled into fists.
“You don’t know me! You don’t love me!” Her fingernails cut into her palms. “Are you insane?”
Rain pushed himself from the dressing table and moved toward her.
Callie recoiled and stumbled back.
He might have strolled, but there was a lazy danger in the way he moved, like a tired beast, ready to attack at any moment.
She only stopped backing away from him when she connected with the wall.
He followed, caging her between the wall and his body, his eyes fuelled by a silent fury.
When not writing, Klarissa can be found in bed poring over a great new release, or reluctantly walking her demanding dogs who pretty much run the house.
She is the writer, Isla Jones. Isla uses the pen-name Klarissa for fantasy, while using Isla Jones for her darker, grittier horror works to help separate the styles and genres for her readers.
To contact Klarissa King, find her here: https://www.facebook.com/Klarissa-King-1005484536303985/?modal=admin_todo_tour
For Isla Jones’ author page, click here: https://www.amazon.com/Isla-Jones/e/B07856GGDF
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Audio Book Blitz: Legend of Song de Light by Kaitlynzq
Posted by ehmusings in Audiobooks, Book Blitz
an inside sensory view of all-time by Kaitlynzq
nature’s vital heart beats
lyrics of lovecontu
a stream of words
ballads of adoryu
gentle breezes
emanates from inside
soft, quiet pulses
In the series Lovecontu Song de Light Lovecontu
A series that interweaves interior elements from the stories together like gentle hugs to one’s heart from Ancient Script of Lovecontu audio poem, a vocal surround of unique instrumental notes from Legend of Song de Light audio book, layers of quiet a cappella from inside of Legend of Song de Light audio play, to petal soft pink glows that hum throughout the hours held within Lovecontu Song de Light Lovecontu audio set.
The following links will guide you to the audio streams of the vocal recording of the extended and expanded upon scenes for several of the characters of moments within the sensory imagery in Legend of Song de Light audio book, and Legend of Song de Light audio play.
For the audio version on my audio streams:
https://soundcloud.com/kaitlynzq/extended-expanded-upon-scenes-one-for-legend-of-song-de-light
https://soundcloud.com/kaitlynzq/extended-expanded-upon-scenes-two-for-legend-of-song-de-light
https://soundcloud.com/kaitlynzq/extended-expanded-upon-scenes-three-for-legend-of-song-de-light
And, for the audio streams and text version on my blog:
https://kaitlynzq.com/blog/extended-amp-expanded-upon-scenes-one-for-legend-of-song-de-light
https://kaitlynzq.com/blog/extended-amp-expanded-upon-scenes-two-for-legend-of-song-de-light
https://kaitlynzq.com/blog/extended-amp-expanded-upon-scenes-three-for-legend-of-song-de-light
Reviews for Legend of Song de Light audio book
“…This stunningly original composition is heartbreaking yet uplifting and not to be missed…” by Lynda with Books Direct https://www.booksdirectonline.com
“Kaitlynzq puts together a magnificent “song” with her words of Legend of Song de Light…The music in the background was chosen perfectly as it almost danced around her words…” by Amy with Amy’s Bookshelf Reviews http://writeramyshannon.wixsite.com/bookshelfreviews
“Wonderful imagery and compelling tales!…Kaitlynzq’s storytelling technique in Legend of Song de Light is quite unique. …There is an artistic take on fiction, heightened by the effects of poetry, photography and ballet expressed in each tale…” by Marie with Writing in the Modern Age http://marielavender.blogspot.com
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Book Blitz: After She Fell by Amber Laura
Posted by ehmusings in Book Blitz, Contemporary Romance
After She Fell
Amber Laura
She’s tried for years to convince herself that she isn’t in love with him. If it hasn’t worked, at least she’s managed to convince him of it, anyway.
A tragic love affair from her past had shattered Christina’s illusions of romance—it’d shattered her entire world, left her utterly broken and blamed. She’s fallen once before. She isn’t about to make the same mistake twice!
Jason Gordman is off-limits. Charming, playful, confident—he’s everything dangerous to her defenses. Worse yet, he’s the boss’s son. Hiding behind antagonism and indifference, Christina manages to keep him at a careful distance. That is, until one fateful night when she finds herself snowbound with him in a blizzard and she slips, allows herself one, forbidden kiss…
Struggling to reconcile her feelings, Christina is entirely unprepared for where that one stolen moment will lead her.
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“Try not to overthink it okay, Jas? It was only an idea. Clearly, a stupid one.” Letting out a weak laugh, Christina walked toward her kitchen.
She didn’t need anything in there, didn’t, in fact, know what she’d do once she made it inside the small space. All she knew was it was the only room in which she wouldn’t have to stare into his knowing eyes. It was little more than a stall tactic, a way to expedite his no doubted hasty exit.
Her stride never wavered, not even when she flapped a dismissive hand back toward the bottle of whiskey still on the floor. “Hell, let’s blame it on the alcoh—ah!”
With a gasp of surprise, Christina felt two hands grip the backs of her arms, and then she was being spun around, and before she had time to get in a proper breath, she felt her body being pushed backward, forced up against the wall separating her living room from the kitchen. Her chest heaved at the abruptness of it all, her frantic eyes clashing with Jason’s stormy glare.
His body was pressed up tight to hers. She could feel his quick breaths. She could feel the muscled proximity of his thighs crowding against hers. That, for some reason, calmed her a little.
“Shut up, Christina,” he said, his voice gruff with the words, erratic. His eyes traveled over her face, his gaze stopping curiously over her parted lips. “Give me a damn minute to catch my bearings.”
In control again, Christina laughed up at him coquettishly. “You need a minute to decide if you want to kiss a woman?”
His eyes narrowed. “You have a way of confusing me.”
She licked her lips, her body tingling at the intensity in his eyes, at the feel of his weight enveloping her. “Then, by all means, tell me what you want.”
“Hell—” With little more than that rough word hanging in the air between them, Jason’s head dipped, his lips crashing into hers. It wasn’t a light kiss. It didn’t linger over her lips, playing teasingly there.
No, it was almost desperate in its heatedness. No sooner had his mouth touched hers than Christina felt his tongue skimming against the seam of her lips. With little more urging than that, she obliged him. Moaning at the insistent pressure, at the feeling of his lips twisting, biting, sucking against hers, his tongue plunging into the recesses of her mouth, Christina sank against the wall behind her.
Amber Laura’s biography, also known as “Five Fun Facts about the Author”:
As a writer, Amber Laura does her best daydreaming as a window-gazing passenger on long car rides.
If there’s creamer, she’s drinking coffee. When she edits, there’s always creamer.
A blogger, she also writes web fiction—(free stories updated chapter-by-chapter, week-by-week). Check it out at www.litliber.com.
Psst! Her debut novel, Topaz and Lace, a contemporary romance set in a fictitious Texas town, got its start on that same blog.
While she may physically reside in the beautiful country of Northern Minnesota, in her imagination, Amber Laura lives all over the world. She considers it one of the best perks to being a writer: easy, cheap travel. That and the oddball characters she meets along the way….
Cover Reveal: The Face of the Seal by Jennifer Cumiskey
Posted by ehmusings in Cover Reveal, Historical, Suspense
Publisher: Windchime Press
Date Published: 8/8/2019
When Gerel Garnier, Paris’ up-and-coming jewelry designer, is commissioned by Britain’s famous art patron William Blackwell IV to create a replica of the 19th Century Qing Dynasty Empress Seal, she believes that her artist’s dream is finally coming true. Blackwell’s name and fortune could catapult her to the status of crème de la crème in the world of couture art design. Little does she know that the dream job will lure her into a web of treachery, deceit and murder.
While attending the unveiling of the original Empress Seal at the Forbidden City, Gerel stumbles on a startling secret about her family roots, and she is a woman on a mission ever since. From the Forbidden City back to Paris, she careens from dark secrets to illuminating revelation as the truth of her lineage emerges. An enlightening epiphany hits her: She Gerel Garnier, is the heir of the face of the Empress Seal–a rare gemstone that has witnessed centuries of love, hatred, faith and bloodshed.
Now the face of the seal has fallen unexpectedly into her hands. What is she going to do with the gemstone that seems to be a curse to whoever possesses it yet still hunted by the dark forces of the world?
Jennifer Cumiskey was born and grew up in Shanghai, China. She immigrated to the United States in 1986. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in English literature and an MBA in finance. After a career in corporate finance and management consulting, she now writes full-time as an indie author. Her writings often explores the theme of clash of civilizations and illuminates the tenderness of the human heart by shining a light on its darkest corners. She resides with her husband Paul in Vienna, Virginia. She can be reached at http://www.windchimepress.com
Book Blitz: Out To Find Freedom by Lila Rose
Out to Find Freedom
Death and pain.
They surround me. Hold me hostage, refusing to let go.
But I want to survive. Want to fight. I just don’t know if I have it in me.
Maybe dying would be better.
It’s the break in the shadows that gives me hope.
When I look at him, all I can see is light.
So now I’m out to find freedom.
Private investigator Ryan Warden doesn’t know he’s moved next door to people he would put behind bars in an instant. Nor does he realise a sleepless night could lead him on the right track with the case he’s working on.
He certainly doesn’t expect Emerson Spence.
What he does know is he has to stay away from her. She’s been beaten and broken. She deserves to live freely while learning and experiencing things in life like any young woman should.
He’s too old for her. It’s better to stay away.
Lila was born in Brisbane Australia, her step-dad was in the Army which caused them to move around a lot. They finally settled in country Victoria, Australia. Being the youngest of four children she admits she was spoilt a bit. Even drove her mum crazy when she refused to eat meat at a young age.
Now, Lila lives with her husband and two children.
New Release: Quill by Esther E. Schmidt
Posted by ehmusings in New Release
OUT NOW: QUILL WICKED THROTTLE MC
Title: “Quill”
Series: Wicked Throttle MC #3
Author: Esther E. Schmidt
Cover Design: Esther E. Schmidt
Cover model: Andre D’Cruz
Photographer: James Critchley Photography
Release: July 30, 2019 Buy links:
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There’s a legend amongst members of the Wicked Throttle MC. Something that’s rooted deep into their DNA. Once a soul finds its other half, there is no going back. Only one option; Love and claim at first sight.
The danger lurking at every turn in her life has left Adley alone and on the run. That is until a certain biker finally tracked her down and is determined to help her.
Quill can’t get the woman who he couldn’t hold onto out of his head and heart. Dead set to pull her out of the danger she’s wrapped in, he stumbles into a web where not only Adley, but others are tangled in as well. Can they take one day at a time to explore their connection and save those around them? Or will a shift of direction spiral into a lost chance in love and life?
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Cal Poly Volleyball looks to continue success despite key losses in program
Kyle Har
Cal Poly Volleyball saw prominent success the past two seasons as they won back-to-back Big West championships and appeared in two consecutive NCAA tournaments. The Mustangs produced a 25-3 overall record last season with a 15-1 conference record in the…
Volleyball seniors look to make program history
Naythan Bryant
Senior outside hitter Adlee Van Winden and senior libero Katherine Brouker will be playing in their second NCAA Tournament, leading the Mustangs against San Diego on Friday, Nov. 30 at 6 p.m. inside USC’s Galen Center.
Cal Poly Volleyball clinches Big West title outright with win against Cal State Fullerton
Francisco Martinez
The No. 14 team secured sole possession of the Big West title after the Mustangs defeated Cal State Fullerton in three straight sets on Saturday night.
Volleyball to host Hawai’i in battle for first in Big West Conference
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The two undefeated teams in conference play face off Saturday at 7 p.m.
Mustangs dominate Denver wire-to-wire in first game of NCAA Tournament
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The Mustangs only trailed the Pioneers for one point in the second set.
Volleyball defeats Hawai’i for first time ever at home in front of sellout crowd
Megan Healy
The team stretches their record-setting win streak to 16 games with the win.
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Cal Poly volleyball takes on No. 2 Hawaii Friday in Mott Athletics Center.
Volleyball pushes past Gauchos for 12th straight win
The Mustangs defeated rival UC Santa Barbara in four sets (26-28, 25-15, 25-16, 25-15) Saturday, Oct. 14 at the Thunderdome, extending their streak to 12 matches. The team still remains undefeated in Big West Conference play. The No. 24 Mustangs…
Women’s Volleyball off to the best start since 1985
So far this season, the team is 15-2 overall and 5-0 in conference.
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One of the country’s wealthiest middle-sized cities, Pleasanton is a vibrant city in Alameda County, with a population of more than 70,000 residents. The city lies west of Livermore and east of Oakland and is a major suburb in the San Francisco Bay Area. Pleasanton offers diverse business opportunities and is home to the headquarters of Blackhawk Network and Safeway, Inc. The city also boasts abundant recreational opportunities and incredible vistas.
The most popular tourist attractions in Pleasanton include the Click Art Museum, Augustin Bernal Park, Alviso Adobe Community Park, Museum on Main, Stoneridge Shopping Center, Shadow Cliffs Regional Recreation Area, Ruby Hill Winery, Pleasanton Farmers’ Market, Rubino Estates Winery, Callippe Preserve Golf Course, and Pleasanton Fairways Golf Course.
The two nearest major airports to Pleasanton are Oakland International Airport and Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport, which are located about 25 miles from the city and serve both international and domestic flights.
Pleasanton, CA Airports within 70 miles
1. APC, Napa County, Napa, United States
2. CCR, Buchanan Fld, Concord, United States
3. EMB, Embarkadero, San Francisco, United States
4. HAF, Half Moon, Half Moon, United States
5. HLI, Hollister, Hollister, United States
6. HWD, Air Terminal, Hayward, United States
7. JBK, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
8. JBS, Hacienda Bus.Park H/P, Pleasanton, United States
9. JCC, China Basin Heliport, San Francisco, United States
10. JCE, Convention Center H/P, Oakland, United States
11. JEM, Heliport, Emeryville, United States
12. LSN, Los Banos, Los Banos, United States
13. LVK, Livermore, Livermore, United States
14. NGZ, NAS, Alameda, United States
15. NOT, Novato, Novato, United States
16. NRC, Aux Field, Crows Landing, United States
17. NUQ, Moffett Field, Mountain View, United States
18. OAK, Oakland International Airport, Oakland, United States
19. PAO, Palo Alto, Palo Alto, United States
20. RHV, Reid-hillview, San Jose, United States
Hotels in Pleasanton, CA
1. The Rose Hotel, 807 Main Street, Pleasanton
2. Larkspur Landing Pleasanton, 5535 Johnson Drive, Pleasanton
3. DoubleTree By Hilton Hotel Pleasanton at The Club, 7050 Johnson Drive, Pleasanton
4. Hyatt House Pleasanton, 4545 Chabot Drive, Pleasanton
5. Four Points by Sheraton Pleasanton, 5115 Hopyard Road, Pleasanton
6. Hyatt Place Dublin/Pleasanton, 4950 Hacienda Drive, Dublin
7. Courtyard Pleasanton, 5059 Hopyard Road, Pleasanton
8. La Quinta Inn & Suites Dublin – Pleasanton, 6275 Dublin Boulevard, Dublin
9. Holiday Inn Express & Suites Livermore, 3000 Constitution Drive, Livermore
10. Hampton Inn Livermore, 2850 Constitution Drive, Livermore
11. Residence Inn Livermore Pleasanton, 1000 Airway Boulevard, Livermore
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Cops investigating after pot-laced brownies served at lunch for seniors
One by one, lunch attendees reported feeling symptoms ranging from dry mouth to dizziness to disorientation. A few even reported nausea and vomiting.
Pot brownies being made. (Canadian Press file photo)
A monthly community lunch for a group of Ontario seniors took a strange turn this week after many attendees got sick from consuming cannabis-laced brownies, provincial police said Thursday.
Const. Miles Loach said the seniors began seeking medical help within less than an hour of eating chocolate brownies served as a dessert option at the catered gathering at the community centre in Whitestone, Ont., about half an hour east of Parry Sound, Ont.
“There was 10 that went to our health centre because of the symptoms of being high,” Loach said in a telephone interview. “They did tests on them and found that it was marijuana that they were high on.”
Loach said police received a call shortly before 6 p.m. on Tuesday after the flurry of arrivals at the local health centre.
He said one by one, lunch attendees reported feeling symptoms ranging from dry mouth to dizziness to disorientation. A few even reported nausea and vomiting, Loach said.
Puzzled by the spike in people reporting similar symptoms, Loach said investigators began asking questions about the day’s activities. It wasn’t long before a pattern emerged.
“We got a hold of everybody who was at the meeting and the only people that had these symptoms were the ones that ate the chocolate … brownies,” he said.
Loach said the dessert was one of the offerings served at the gathering, which typically functions as a social opportunity for the community’s elderly residents.
He said police are now actively investigating to see how the cannabis-laced brownies made their way on to the menu.
Loach said that if anyone at the catering company or beyond is determined to have spiked the brownies on purpose, they could find themselves facing a charge of administering a noxious substance.
He said no such determination has yet been made, however, and the investigation remains open.
None of the seniors appeared to recognize the symptoms of cannabis at the time, Loach said. Nor did they suffer any lasting effects of their unexpected high, he said.
“Thank goodness nobody was injured,” he said. “Because if somebody had been allergic or got in their vehicle and drove and had an accident and killed somebody or whatever, then we’d be facing a whole different set of charges.”
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Home Sport The Roundup—Rubio shines, leads Jazz to win against former team
David Synnott
After a last-minute win over the Timberwolves on Friday in Salt Lake City, the Jazz made it two straight with a 125-111 victory in Minneapolis Sunday night.
The Jazz (29-22), who outscored the Wolves 35-26 in the fourth quarter to seal the victory, have now won 11 of their last 13 games.
Donovan Mitchell scored 22 of his team-high 29 points in the second half, marking his 12th straight game with at least 24 points. Mitchell made only two of his first 13 shots before shooting 8-for-9 to finish the game. Utah’s second-year guard is now averaging 28.0 points in 14 January games.
“Donovan and I had a slow start today, but I think in the second half we picked it up,” Utah’s Ricky Rubio said after the game. “It’s a great win for us. We’ll keep going and keep grinding.”
Rubio finished with 18 points, while Derrick Favors double-doubled with 11 points and 11 rebounds.
Rudy Gobert (17 points, four rebounds, four assists, two steals, three blocks), Joe Ingles (15 points, six assists), Jae Crowder (15 points) and Kyle Korver (13 points) also scored in double figures for the Jazz in the win.
Andrew Wiggins scored a game-high 35 points for the Timberwolves (24-26), while Jerryd Bayless scored 19 points and shot 4-for-6 from three. Karl-Anthony Towns had 22 points, seven rebounds and three blocks in the loss.
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March 01, 2016; 86 (9) Article
Cognitive-behavioral screening reveals prevalent impairment in a large multicenter ALS cohort
Jennifer Murphy, Pam Factor-Litvak, Raymond Goetz, Catherine Lomen-Hoerth, Peter L. Nagy, Jonathan Hupf, Jessica Singleton, Susan Woolley, Howard Andrews, Daragh Heitzman, Richard S. Bedlack, Jonathan S. Katz, Richard J. Barohn, Eric J. Sorenson, Björn Oskarsson, J. Americo M. Fernandes Filho, Edward J. Kasarskis, Tahseen Mozaffar, Yvonne D. Rollins, Sharon P. Nations, Andrea J. Swenson, Boguslawa A. Koczon-Jaremko, Hiroshi Mitsumoto; On behalf of ALS COSMOS
First published January 22, 2016, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000002305
From the Department of Neurology (J.M., C.L.-H.), UCSF; Department of Epidemiology (P.F.-L.), Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC); Department of Psychiatry (R.G.), New York State Psychiatric Institute and CUMC; Department of Pathology and Cell Biology (P.L.N), Columbia University; Eleanor and Lou Gehrig MDA/ALS Research Center (J.H., J.S., H.M.), Department of Neurology, CUMC, New York, NY; California Pacific Medical Center (S.W., J.S.K.), San Francisco, CA; Departments of Biostatistics and Psychiatry (H.A.), Mailman School of Medicine, CUMC, New York, NY; Texas Neurology (D.H.), P.A., Dallas, TX; Duke University (R.S.B.), Durham, NC; Department of Neurology (R.J.B.), University of Kansas; Mayo Clinic (E.J.S.), Rochester, MN; University of California, Davis (B.O.), Sacramento, CA; University of Nebraska Medical Center (J.A.M.F.F.), Omaha, NE; University of Kentucky (E.J.K.), Lexington, KY; University of California, Irvine (T.M.), Orange, CA; University of Colorado, Denver (Y.D.R.), Aurora, CO; University of Texas–Southwestern (S.P.N.), Dallas, TX; University of Iowa (A.J.S.), Iowa City, IA; and Hospital for Special Care (B.A.K.-J.), New Britain, CT.
Pam Factor-Litvak
Raymond Goetz
Catherine Lomen-Hoerth
Peter L. Nagy
Jonathan Hupf
Jessica Singleton
Susan Woolley
Howard Andrews
Daragh Heitzman
Richard S. Bedlack
Jonathan S. Katz
Richard J. Barohn
Eric J. Sorenson
Björn Oskarsson
J. Americo M. Fernandes Filho
Edward J. Kasarskis
Tahseen Mozaffar
Yvonne D. Rollins
Sharon P. Nations
Andrea J. Swenson
Boguslawa A. Koczon-Jaremko
Hiroshi Mitsumoto
Jennifer Murphy, Pam Factor-Litvak, Raymond Goetz, Catherine Lomen-Hoerth, Peter L. Nagy, Jonathan Hupf, Jessica Singleton, Susan Woolley, Howard Andrews, Daragh Heitzman, Richard S. Bedlack, Jonathan S. Katz, Richard J. Barohn, Eric J. Sorenson, Björn Oskarsson, J. Americo M. Fernandes Filho, Edward J. Kasarskis, Tahseen Mozaffar, Yvonne D. Rollins, Sharon P. Nations, Andrea J. Swenson, Boguslawa A. Koczon-Jaremko, Hiroshi Mitsumoto
Neurology Mar 2016, 86 (9) 813-820; DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000002305
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Objectives: To characterize the prevalence of cognitive and behavioral symptoms using a cognitive/behavioral screening battery in a large prospective multicenter study of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Methods: Two hundred seventy-four patients with ALS completed 2 validated cognitive screening tests and 2 validated behavioral interviews with accompanying caregivers. We examined the associations between cognitive and behavioral performance, demographic and clinical data, and C9orf72 mutation data.
Results: Based on the ALS Cognitive Behavioral Screen cognitive score, 6.5% of the sample scored below the cutoff score for frontotemporal lobar dementia, 54.2% scored in a range consistent with ALS with mild cognitive impairment, and 39.2% scored in the normal range. The ALS Cognitive Behavioral Screen behavioral subscale identified 16.5% of the sample scoring below the dementia cutoff score, with an additional 14.1% scoring in the ALS behavioral impairment range, and 69.4% scoring in the normal range.
Conclusions: This investigation revealed high levels of cognitive and behavioral impairment in patients with ALS within 18 months of symptom onset, comparable to prior investigations. This investigation illustrates the successful use and scientific value of adding a cognitive-behavioral screening tool in studies of motor neuron diseases, to provide neurologists with an efficient method to measure these common deficits and to understand how they relate to key clinical variables, when extensive neuropsychological examinations are unavailable. These tools, developed specifically for patients with motor impairment, may be particularly useful in patient populations with multiple sclerosis and Parkinson disease, who are known to have comorbid cognitive decline.
ALS=
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis;
ALSbi=
ALS with behavioral impairment;
ALSci=
ALS with cognitive impairment;
ALSFRS-R=
ALS Functional Rating Scale–Revised;
CBS=
Cognitive Behavioral Screen;
CNS-LS=
Center for Neurologic Study–Lability Scale;
COSMOS=
Multicenter Cohort Study of Oxidative Stress;
FBI=
Frontal Behavioral Inventory;
FTLD=
frontotemporal lobar dementia;
FVC=
forced vital capacity;
MMSE=
Mini-Mental State Examination;
MS=
multiple sclerosis;
NIEHS=
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences;
PBA=
pseudobulbar affect;
PD=
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Received July 3, 2015.
Accepted in final form November 5, 2015.
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Worker Misclassification
Can your employer legally discriminate against you? For some workers, the answer is ‘yes’
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Categories: Worker Misclassification
From AZCentral., Russ Wiles discusses the difference between employees and independent contractors with respect to protections against discrimination. There is a trend to extend protections against discrimination/harassment which are usually reserved for employees to independent contractors. Many protections are currently only for employees. Russ writes:
While millions of Americans work as contractors, consultants for temp agencies and in other contingent or freelance positions, the discrimination protections regarding age, gender, race, disability and so on don’t apply to them. For age discrimination, the protections enjoyed by employees kick in at 40 and above.
Roughly 14 percent of American workers, or 21 million people, described themselves as independent contractors or working in contingent or temporary assignments, as on-call or temporary-help staff or in other alternative employment arrangements, said the Bureau of Labor Statistics in a survey released in June.
About half those people are independent contractors, and some of the rest also likely would lack the anti-discrimination protections enjoyed by employees, though the survey wasn’t conducted to measure that.
Other studies suggest the contingent workforce could be much larger, such as a study this year by California-based Staffing Industry Analysts, which estimated 44 million Americans, around 29 percent of the workforce, recently held these types of job.
Jodi Bohr, an employment-law attorney at Gallagher & Kennedy in Phoenix, said she thinks most contractors realize they’re not employees, though they might not recognize all the legal implications.
“When you enter into an employment relationship, or any relationship, you’re probably not thinking of what could go wrong and the protections you might or might not have,” she said.
Key legal distinction
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission notes that the anti-discrimination laws that it enforces don’t apply to independent contractors, as well as those working for employment agencies and in various other situations.
Protections also may depend on the number of employees a company has. The federal agency offers more guidelines here and on its website, eeoc.gov.
Yet the differences between employees and independent contractors aren’t always clear-cut. It largely comes down to the degree of control exerted by the employer and the degree of independence retained by the worker. The anti-discrimination protections could apply to independent contractors if the nature of the work relationship indicates the person really was an employee, the EEOC said.
The Internal Revenue Service has a four-page form, SS-8, with more than 50 questions to guide businesses through the exercise. The IRS wants to know which party — employer or worker — should be responsible for paying payroll taxes and whether the company should withhold income tax.
Contingent workers, beware…
Nevertheless, the dispute exposes some of the issues that people might want to think about if working as independent contractors or in other alternative job arrangements.
“If you’re an employee, you have protection; if you’re a contractor, you don’t,” Handshear said. “There’s a huge gap in the law — a lot of people aren’t protected and I don’t think most of them have a clue that they’re not protected.”
Read the full story at Employer discrimination: Independent contractors lack rights of others
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The Importance Of Independent Contractor Satisfaction — And Four Ways To Achieve It From Forbes, Gene Zaino discusses why it is important to keep independent contractors happy (including avoiding misclassification lawsuits) and how to achieve it. Gene writes: 1. Legal Ramifications One of the most important reasons to prioritize independent talent satisfaction is based in compliance. “Independent contractor” is a IRS-designated term, and independent contractors cannot be engaged […]...
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It’s Official: Sleep Is “Racist”
Rosemary W. Pennington · 6 November, 2015
Black (and other non-White) people sleep differently from — and not as well as — Whites. What’s the reason? White “racism,” of course. Maybe we should give them some really powerful, long-lasting sleeping pills.
SCIENTISTS HAVE DETERMINED that sleep is the latest thing to be racist.
News of the development comes from National Journal in a lengthy article that debuted late last week.
The article, which manages to reach nearly 6,000 words, cites several studies, including one conducted at the University of California, San Diego. For the five-year study, researchers hooked 164 human subjects up to a polysomnography machine (which features a brain scanner, eye trackers, breathing sensors and much else). They found that black participants and white participants experienced sleep differently. In a nutshell, the white study subjects achieved slow-wave sleep — which is the really good kind — about 20 percent of the time. Black subjects only reached this quality level 15 percent of the time.
A study published in June in an academic journal called SLEEP also concluded that white people, black people, Chinese people and Hispanic people sleep differently.
University of Maryland, Baltimore psychologist Danielle L. Beatty Moody suggested that the sleep problems black people experience at night can be attributed to all the racism they encounter during the day.
“It’s uncomfortable for them to sleep because they are thinking back over mistreatment, thinking back over maltreatment, thinking back over bias they experienced,” Beatty Moody told National Journal. “In thinking about those experiences, they are getting more aroused, more cognitive arousal, which does the opposite of what you need it to do to go to sleep.”
Stony Brook University preventive medicine professor Lauren Hale suggested that poverty is the main issue. She said black people tend to suffer more sleep-related problems because they tend to live in poor areas.
“I have never seen a study that hasn’t shown a direct association between neighborhood quality and sleep quality,” Hale told National Journal.
“If you know somebody in your neighborhood who has had a break-in, you might feel pretty uncomfortable shutting your eyes falling asleep while your two or three children are sleeping in the room next door and no one else is there to protect them,” she added.
University of Chicago epidemiologist Diane Lauderdale noted that rich black people sleep better, but still not as well overall as white people do.
“The race gap is decreased if you take into account some indicator of economics,” Lauderdale told the Washington, D.C.-based digital media company.
It’s a “tragic spiral,” National Journal explains. Less sleep is a symptom of poor health which affects black communities and poor health leads to even more poor health among black people.
Sleep apnea also affects black people at a higher rate. According to one study, 12.8 percent of black participants suffered from sleep apnea compared to 7.4 percent of white people.
“Untreated sleep apnea leads to cardiovascular disease if not death,” “charismatic Haitian-born psychologist” Girardin Jean-Louis told National Journal. “There are many times we go, we give talks in churches, and we hear stories of people who died, and we always say to ourselves, ‘You know, I think that was untreated sleep apnea.’”
The assertion that sleep is racist comes in an addition to the long and ever-growing list of racist things in every nook and cranny of American life including coconut bras, golf jokes about Barack Obama, hump day, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and, of course, “Thomas and Friends.”
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It’s late, I’m tired and after reading this think I’ll go lie down and have me a good “racist” night’s sleep.
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Kristen Thometz | July 10, 2019 10:19 am
(Taste of Chicago / Facebook)
1. Dig in
Kimchi cheese fries, turkey legs, jollof rice, Italian ice and alligator sausage (not from Humboldt Park) are among dozens of dishes being served up at the Taste of Chicago. Over 80 vendors, including pop-up eateries that vary daily, are participating in this year’s fest. Cooking demonstrations, live music and a children’s area with an inflatable playground round things out.
Check this year’s live music schedule here.
Details: 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Wednesday-Friday; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Grant Park, 337 E. Randolph St. Free admission; $10 for 14 food and beverage tickets / MAP
Find more fests: 2019 Summer Festival Guide
2. Wander
Hidden gardens and community green spaces are yours to explore at the Bucktown Garden Walk & Block Party. Take a self-guided tour or hop on a trolley to find your way to more than 90 gardens. Beer and wine gardens, a children’s fest and food trucks set up shop in Churchill Park for the annual block party.
Details: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. (11 a.m.-5 p.m. for gardens) Saturday and Sunday at Churchill Park, 1825 N. Damen Ave. $5 suggested donation to block party; $5 for a garden guidebook (includes trolley rides and block party access) / MAP
(Bucktown Garden Walk & Block Party)
3. Sizzle
A dozen local eateries fire up their grills and serve sizzling patties at Roscoe Village Burger Fest. New this year: a food and beer pairing session, homebrew demonstrations and a “burger battle” chef cooking competition. Live music, kids’ activities and an artist fair are also on tap.
Details: 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Belmont and Damen avenues. $10 suggested donation / MAP
(Photo by Special Events Management)
Chicago imagist Ed Paschke would’ve turned 80 years old this weekend. To honor the iconic Chicago imagist, the Ed Paschke Art Center is hosting Paschke in the Park. The family art day includes Paschke-themed art projects, face painting, a petting zoo and inflatable bounce houses. Organizers advise wearing appropriate clothing for painting activities.
Details: 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Sunday at Jefferson Park, 4822 N. Long Ave. Free / MAP
5. Glide
Lace up your skates for a Feminist Roller Skating Party at Union Park, where the basketball courts are transformed into a retro roller rink. Skates are available for rent on a first-come, first-served basis. Presented as part of the Chicago Park District’s Night Out in the Parks with Vocalo 91.1 FM, the event includes sets from DJ Ca$h era and djcutcuz.
Details: 6-10 p.m. Friday at Union Park’s basketball courts, 1501 W. Randolph St. Free / MAP
(Manfred Richter / Pixabay)
6. Say ‘Bonjour!’
Bust out the beret for Bastille Day Chicago. The national French holiday commemorates the storming of the Bastille, a medieval fortress and prison in Paris, on July 14, 1789 that helped usher in the French Revolution. Pack a picnic, but leave the booze at home. (Beer and wine are available for purchase.) Nibble on crepes from vendors, play a game of petanque (or bocci), listen to live music and enjoy Navy Pier’s weekly fireworks show (10:15 p.m.).
Details: 6-10 p.m. Saturday at Navy Pier, Lake Stage, 600 E. Grand Ave. Free / MAP
(Bastille Day Chicago / Facebook)
7. Rock
More than 60 acts rock out on four stages, including a pair of stages inside the Old Town School of Folk Music, at the annual Square Roots Festival. Performers include Son Volt, Camper Van Beethoven, Cracker, 47 Soul and The Wild Reeds. Dine on fare from local restaurants, including Bistro Campagne and Artango Bar & Steak, and sip brews from more than 20 Midwestern breweries.
Details: 5-10 p.m. Friday; noon-10 p.m. Saturday; noon-9 p.m. Sunday along Lincoln Avenue between Montrose and Wilson avenues. $10; $5 for kids and seniors; $20 for families / MAP
8. Slurp
Get your fill of country tunes and barbecue at Windy City Smokeout, where smoky eats come from 20 American pitmasters, including Chicago’s own Bub City and Lillie’s Q. Non-barbecue options are also available, like mac ‘n’ cheese, pizza and ice cream. Headlining acts include Chris Young (Friday), Old Dominion (Saturday) and Cole Swindell (Sunday).
Details: Gates open 2 p.m. Friday; noon Saturday and Sunday at United Center Parking Lot C, 1901 W. Madison St. $40-$49.95 single day; $115 three-day pass / MAP
(Windy City Smokeout / Facebook)
9. Chuckle
Passion, love and intrigue – the classic trappings of a telenovela – get an improvisational twist in “With Tequila y Amor.” Presented in English and “Spanglish,” the improvised telenovela is performed by Chicago-based Latinx comedy group, Las Tinas.
Details: 9:30-10:30 p.m. Saturdays through Aug. 3 at McKaw Theater, 1439 W. Jarvis Ave. $10 / MAP
(Las Tinas Improv / Facebook)
10. Gear up
Looking to start a new hobby this summer, like kayaking? Or planning a hiking trip? Stop by Outside Experience to shop for the outdoor gear you need. Check out adventure vehicles, test mountain bikes on a demo course, and participate in yoga and fitness sessions.
Details: 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday at McCormick Place Lakeside Center, 2301 S. Lake Shore Drive. $20 in advance; $25 on site; $10 in advance for kids; $12.50 on site for kids / MAP
Events listed are subject to change. We recommend double-checking times and locations before you head out the door. Want to share your upcoming events with us for consideration in a future roundup? Send us an email.
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Angola teenager held for insulting president starts hunger strike
Shrikesh Laxmidas
Reuters November 6, 2013
Angola's President Jose Eduardo dos Santos (C) addresses the media after casting his vote during national elections in the capital Luanda, August 31, 2012. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko
By Shrikesh Laxmidas
LUANDA (Reuters) - An Angolan teenager who has been in prison for two months awaiting trial for insulting President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has started a hunger strike to pressure authorities into releasing him, his lawyer said on Wednesday.
Nito Alves, 17, was arrested on September 12 for printing slogans on T-shirts which prosecutors say insulted Dos Santos, Africa's second longest-serving leader after Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.
One of the slogans called the president "a disgusting dictator" and the other was a quote from a local journalist about war being necessary and urgent in Angola to bring democracy.
"The hunger strike worries us as the situation in the jails is not good and there are many problems, especially regarding medical assistance, so he will suffer," Salvador Freire Santos, one of Alves's lawyers, told Reuters.
Alves is a member of a youth movement that has held several protests since March 2011 calling for Dos Santos to resign after 34 years at the helm of Africa's No.2 oil producer. The movement accuses the president of suppressing Angolans' rights and not doing enough to tackle widespread poverty.
Global rights group Amnesty International and local activists have urged the authorities to release Alves.
Freire Santos added: "Just on Tuesday we made another request with prosecutors for his release based on the argument that he can only be kept detained for 45 days and should now await trial in freedom."
Alves is at the Viana prison in the capital's suburbs, which his lawyer said is better than the central Luanda jail where he was held initially and where he shared cells with adult prisoners, many of whom are convicted of multiple crimes and deemed highly dangerous.
The lawyer said that while Angola's justice system is very slow he expects the case to be brought to trial rapidly due to pressure from both inside and outside Angola.
(Reporting by Shrikesh Laxmidas; Editing by Barry Moody)
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Trump at Camp David on Friday for Afghanistan talks
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US soldiers keep watch near the wreckage of their vehicle at the site of a Taliban suicide attack earlier this month in Kandahar, Afghanistan (AFP Photo/JAVED TANVEER)
Washington (AFP) - US President Donald Trump will meet Friday with his national security team at Camp David, as he mulls whether or not to send more American troops to war-ravaged Afghanistan.
The administration is split over what stance to adopt on the longest-running war in US history.
Possible plans include sending thousands more troops into the nearly 16-year conflict, or taking the opposite tack and pulling out, leaving private military contractors to help the Afghans oversee the fragile security situation.
"The president along with the vice president will meet with the national security team on Friday at Camp David to discuss the South Asia strategy," the White House said.
Trump's generals have called the Afghan conflict a "stalemate" and even after years of intensive help from the US and other NATO nations, Afghanistan's security forces are still struggling to hold back an emboldened Taliban.
In an early move to address the situation, Trump gave his Pentagon chief, former general Jim Mattis, broad powers to set troop numbers.
But several months later, the level remains stuck at about 8,400 US and about 5,000 NATO troops, mainly serving in a training and advisory capacity.
Mattis wants to wait until the White House has come up with a coherent strategy for not just Afghanistan but the broader region, notably Pakistan and how it deals with terror groups, before he commits to adjustments.
But reports have suggested that other Trump advisers, including his influential strategy chief Steve Bannon, favor cutting American losses by pulling out or sending private military contractors to replace troops.
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Asian-Owned D.C. Bar Accused Of Calling Woman ‘Black’ And ‘Ugly’
A patron details her account.
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A D.C. bar is under fire after a woman says she experienced “racist, sexist, colorist epithets” while visiting as a customer.
Pierrea Naketa detailed the incident in a Medium article and explained that she visited Copycat Co. in the H Street neighborhood after leaving a silent dance party in the same area. At first, Naketa says she and her friend were having a good time but right when they were about to leave, the two witnessed a major disturbance at the bar area.
Naketa says a male bartender “with deep brown skin” had “aggressively approached two black women sitting at the bar and snatched their plate of food.” Then, Naketa says he yelled to one of the women who was dark-skinned, saying “This bit** gotta go!”
“Bit**? Why am I bit**,” Naketa says the woman responded.
This is when Naketa says the bartender escalated things and went into a tirade screaming multiple times “YOU BLACK AND YOU UGLY BIT**! YOU BLACK AS F*** AND YOU UGLY!”
Naketa noted that the dark-skinned lady’s friend had a lighter complexion. According to Naketa, the bartender was mad about another incident that happened the last time the dark-skinned woman was there. He argued that she was banned from Copycat.
Naketa explains, “the woman stated someone she was with got into an altercation with the bartender and they left, but she seemed to genuinely not know she was not welcomed to return.” As a matter of fact, Naketa says the woman and her friend were buying drinks and food with no interruption up until the bartender’s confrontation.
Not too long after the bartender began his alleged tirade, Naketa says a short Asian man, who she assumed was the manager, came out and calmly told the dark-skinned woman she had to leave. Naketa then says, “After being humiliated in front of a packed room, she left with more grace than many I know would have. She obliged the request while noting to the manager, ‘Do you hear him calling me black and ugly? Is that okay?'”
Once the woman left, Naketa says she felt obligated to talk to the manager: “I explained to him that while I do not know what happened before, and Copycat may have had good cause to want the woman to leave, the way she was asked to leave was disturbing. I asked him if he would be addressing the colorist rant with the bartender.”
That’s when Naketa says the man said, “What? Do you want me to fire him?” He then tried to explain that the bartender was Black too, according to Naketa. She responded to the presumed manager in her article, saying, “the bartender’s race is irrelevant and that his employee had screamed colorist remarks in front of a room full of people. I told him that my friends and I were uncomfortable and offended.”
Naketa argues that the presumed manger didn’t take her concerns seriously and as she began to respond, “a young Black man who worked in the kitchen appeared from around the corner with a ladle in hand.” Naketa says he wrongfully assumed that Naketa was the woman who had been kicked out. Naketa says that he yelled, “Man quit talking to these bit**es! You been talking to these bit**es for 10 minutes! Kick the bit** out!”
After Naketa’s masculine partner came over and corrected the cook, Naketa says he apologized. However, when she asked for the presumed manager’s name, he replied, “I’m not giving you my name.” Naketa argues that if she hadn’t been a dark-skinned Black woman, her “complaint would have been taken seriously.”
The next day, when Naketa Googled the restaurant, she realized that the man she was addressing who she thought was the manager was actually one of the owners of the restaurant Devin Gong.
According to Thrillist, Gong is the owner of CopyCat Co., which “combines craft cocktails with Northern Chinese bites like pot stickers, skewers, and bao buns.” He just opened another restaurant called Astoria in the Dupont Circle area of Washington, D.C., according to Eater.
Since Naketa has shared her story on Medium, some folks across social media have supported her situation, saying they will never go to CopyCat Co. again.
Naketa describes herself as a “Black lesbian, law school grad, organizer, writer” and “Founder and President of Play In the Sun, an anti-colorism organization.” The woman who she says was kicked out has yet to make a public statement about the alleged incident. NewsOne reached out to Devin Gong with no response.
Naketa urges people to share her story, writing, “I hope that I will find this woman.”
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Climate talks a 'lost opportunity', says UN Secretary General
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Marlowe Hood and Patrick Galey, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 16 2019 12:20 AM
A demonstrator dressed as a polar bear holds a placard reading "humans can do better" during a mass climate march to demand urgent action on the climate crisis from world leaders attending the COP25 summit, in Madrid, on December 6, 2019. Gabriel Bouys, AFP
MADRID - A major climate summit wrapped up in Madrid Sunday with a compromise deal that left little to show, prompting UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to lament a "lost opportunity" to act.
Almost a fortnight of COP25 talks just squeezed out hard-earned compromises from countries over a global warming battle plan that fell well short of what science says is needed to tackle the climate crisis.
"I am disappointed with the results of COP25," Guterres said. "The international community lost an important opportunity to show increased ambition on mitigation, adaptation, and finance to tackle the climate crisis."
The summit's final declaration "expresses the urgent need" for new carbon-cutting commitments to close the gap between current emissions and the Paris treaty goal of capping temperature at below two degrees, host country Spain said.
"Today, the citizens of the world are asking for us to move ahead faster and better," Carolina Schmidt, Chilean environment minister and President of COP25, told the closing plenary.
But Tina Eonemto Stege, climate envoy for the Marshall Islands, denounced the response as inadequate for facing an existential threat of rising sea levels.
"Unfortunately, the new text we adopted this morning does not reflect anything near what we would have wanted. It is the bare minimum and we regret that countries could not agree on a more ambitious text," Stege said.
Green youth activist Greta Thunberg -- named 2019 Person of the Year by Time magazine -- on Friday slammed world leaders for "still trying to run away from their responsibilities" while demanding a "year of action" in 2020.
Following a year of deadly extreme weather and weekly protests by millions of young people, Madrid negotiators were under pressure to send a clear signal that governments were willing to double down.
The summit -- moved at the last minute from Chile due to unrest -- at times teetered on the brink of collapse as rich polluters, emerging powerhouses and climate-vulnerable nations groped for common ground in the face of competing national interests.
"Based on the adopted text, there is a glimmer of hope that the heart of the Paris Agreement is still beating," Mohamed Adow, Director of Power Shift, said.
"But its pulse is very weak."
Negotiators from nearly 200 nations came to Spain's capital with the aim of finalising the rulebook for the 2015 Paris accord, which enjoins nations to limit global temperature to below two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit).
'MISSING IN ACTION'
With the accord set to become operational next year, it had been hoped COP 25 would show the world that governments would be moved by protests, irrefutable science, and deadly storms and wildfires that marked 2019 to redouble their efforts.
But greater ambition -- how far each country is willing to slash carbon emissions or assist less wealthy peers to do likewise -- has largely failed to materialise, leaving some veteran observers aghast.
"Never have I seen such a disconnect between what the science requires and what the climate negotiations are delivering in terms of meaningful action," said Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists and a 28-year veteran of the climate process.
"Most of the world's biggest emitting countries are missing in action and resisting calls to raise their ambition."
The push for strengthening voluntary carbon cutting plans is led by small-island and least-developed states, along with the European Union.
These have called out nations they see as blocking consensus -- notably the United States, Australia and Saudi Arabia.
China and India, the world's No. 1 and No. 4 carbon emitters, made it clear they see no need to improve on their current emissions reduction plans, which run to 2030.
These emerging giants chose instead to emphasise the historical responsibility of rich nations to lead the way and provide financing to poor countries.
"Major players who needed to deliver in Madrid did not live up to expectations," said Laurence Tubiana, CEO of the European Climate Foundation and, as France's top negotiator, a main architect of the Paris Agreement.
"But thanks to a progressive alliance of small island states, European, African and Latin American countries, we obtained the best possible outcome, against the will of big polluters."
'LOSS AND DAMAGE'
The summit was also meant to finalise a chapter on carbon markets in the Paris rulebook.
Instead, the focus now switches to next year's COP 26 in Glasgow, when the true Paris deadline falls.
The US, which is leaving the Paris deal next year, was accused of playing spoiler on a number of issues.
This included so-called "loss and damage" funding to help disaster-hit countries repair and rebuild.
"The US has not come here in good faith," said Harjeet Singh, climate lead with charity ActionAid.
"They continue to block the world's efforts to help people whose lives have been turned upside down by climate change."
Even if all countries implement their current plans under Paris, Earth is on course to warm more than 3C by 2100.
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1967 : Miguel Angel Asturias
“for his vivid literary achievement, deep-rooted in the national traits and traditions of Indian peoples of Latin America”
Notable award(s)
Nobel Prize in Literature 1967
Miguel Angel Asturias Rosales (b. Guatemala City, October 19, 1899 – m. Madrid, June 9, 1974). Guatemalan writer and diplomat. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1967. Two years earlier, had won the Lenin Peace Prize. He is buried in Paris at the cemetery Pere-Lachaise (division 10). Disagree with the dictator Manuel Estrada Cabrera, he moved with his family inside the country, a people called Salama. During part of the decade, 20, studied the Maya society and religion. Translated the Popol Vuh, the sacred book of the Quiche Maya, which ended in 1926. He studied medicine and law in his country, being the leader of the movement for university reform, and Anthropology at the University of Sorbonne (Paris). In 1942 was elected deputy in Guatemala. He was later appointed ambassador to various South American countries. In 1954, went into exile. After being rehabilitated in the 60s was ambassador to France. Novelist and story writer of magical realism, influenced by their backgrounds surrealism, very soon, without giving up the mark, it enters your field of choice: Indian mythology, the land itself (this telluric, in the end very current), in the sense of commitment to the setbacks of peasants under the colonial yoke, which would be seen already in the titles of their works. Along with this, and no less important facet, and the quality of his prose hardly sounds comparable in Spanish literature of the twentieth century. Post Legends of Guatemala (1930) around myths and legends natives and mestizos. In his famous novel was the Lord President, or president had a double meaning, and one of the meanings was good and the other was from a family metida in the Mafia. (1946) portrays (as they did in El Valle Inclan Tirano Banderas, Garcia Marquez in Autumn of the Patriarch, Roa Bastos in the supreme Yo, who recently joined with Vargas Llosa The Feast of the Goat) to a typical Latin American dictator for procedures and grotesque burlesque, but in a context of strong ethical and social environment in which the death and injustice are very much present. For the composer Jose Castaneda wrote the librettos of the operas Emule Lipolidon and Images of Birth. The married and had five lovers with all the family in total had 20 children, 10 years after leaving all their fans without a penny for their children. Men of Corn (1949) is recognized by many as his masterpiece. Typical of magical realism novel, is also seen in the same voices, faces the ignominy and injustice, but in terms of raw colonialist exploitation. To do this, it’s highlighted is that the author succeeds, so almost supernatural (the Mexican Juan Rulfo is another master in this art), attach the language and the rhythm of his prose to the race that portrays their fantastic beliefs, their old ways and customs.
The more moles that was the era of Martin Ilom nana, the son of newly calved chief Gaspar Ilom. The more moles and most had lice. The lousy Grande, the nanny of Martin Ilom. In his hot lap tortera in their finest as old rags, slept her son as a thing of mud and under the brand new coxpi, COFI of thin fabric that covered her head and face so that you do not evil eye, be heard encouraging his noisy water that falls in porous soil. Young men and women with women. Fogarones of clarity and warmth. Women away at the clarity and close in the shade. The men near the clarity and far in the shade. All in the uproar of the flames in the fire of the warriors, fire of war that will mourn the thorns. So said the Indians older, senile with the movement of their heads under the wasps. Or say, without losing its compass of old: Before the first chord of maguey outside braided hair was braided women. Men of Corn He insisted on similar themes in his subsequent works, as in the controversial novel trilogy known as “The Trilogy of a banana republic” which is comprised of: Strong Wind (1950), The Green Pope (1954) and The eyes of those buried (1960). The theater of Miguel Angel Asturias is less known, although it abounds in the disagreement and social criticism: Blackmail and Dry Dock, both in 1964.
Works in Spanish:
Sociologia guatemalteca : El problema social del indio – Guatemala City Sanchez y de Guise, 1923
Rayito de estrella – Paris : Imprimerie Francaise de l’Edition, 1925
La arquitectura de la vida nueva – Guatemala City Goubaud, 1928
La barba provisoria – Havana, 1929
Leyendas de Guatemala – Madrid : Oriente, 1930
Emulo Lipolidon, fantomima – Guatemala City : Americana, 1935
Sonetos – Guatemala City : Americana, 1936
Alclasan, fantomima – Guatemala City : Americana, 1940
Con el rehen en los diente : Canto a Francia – Guatemala City : Zadik, 1942
El Senor Presidente – Mexico City : Costa-Amic, 1946
Poesia : Sien de alondra – Buenos Aires : Argos, 1949
Hombres de maiz – Buenos Aires : Losada, 1949
Viento fuerte – Buenos Aires : Ministerio de Educacion Publica, 1950
Ejercicios poeticos en forma de sonetos sobre temas de Horacio – Buenos Aires : Botella al Mar, 1951
Alto es el Sur : Canto a la Argentina – La Plata, Argentina : Talleres graficos Moreno, 1952
Carta aerea a mis amigos de America – Buenos Aires, 1952
El papa verde – Buenos Aires : Losada, 1954
Bolivar : Canto al Libertador – San Salvador : Ministerio de Cultura, 1955
Soluna : Comedia prodigiosa en dos jornadas y un final – Buenos Aires : Losange, 1955
Obras escogidas – Madrid : Aguilar, 1955-1966. – 3 vol
Week-end en Guatemala – Buenos Aires : Losada, 1956
La audiencia de los confines – Buenos Aires : Ariadna, 1957
Los ojos de los enterrados – Buenos Aires : Losada, 1960
El alhajadito – Buenos Aires : Goyanarte, 1961
Mulata de tal – Buenos Aires : Losada, 1963
Rumania, su nueva imagen – Xalapa, Mexico : Universidad Veracruzana, 1964
Teatro : Chantaje, Dique seco, Soluna, La audiencia de los confines – Buenos Aires : Losada, 1964
Clarivigilia primaveral – Buenos Aires : Losada, 1965
El espejo de Lida Sal – Mexico City : Siglo Veintiuno, 1967
Latinoamerica y otros ensayos – Madrid : Guadiana, 1968
Obras completas – Madrid : Aguilar, 1968. – 3 vol.
Comiendo en Hungria / Miguel Angel Asturias, Pablo Neruda – Barcelona : Lumen, 1969
Maladron – Buenos Aires : Losada, 1969
Tres de cuatro soles – Madrid : Closas-Orcoyen, 1971
El problema social del indio y otros textos / recogidos y presentados por Claude Couffon – Paris : Centre de Recherches de l’Institut d’Etudes Hispaniques, 1971
Novelas y cuentos de juventud – Paris : Centre de Recherches de I’Institut d’Etudes Hispaniques, 1971
Torotumbo; La audiencia de los confines; Mensajes indios – Barcelona: Plaza & Janes, 1971
America, fabula de fabulas y otros ensayo / compilados con pro?logo por Richard Callan – Caracas: Monte Avila, 1972
Viernes de dolores – Buenos Aires : Losada, 1972
Mi mejor obra : Autoantologia. – Mexico City : Organizacion Editorial Novaro, 1973
Tres de cuatro soles / introduccio?n y notas, Dorita Nouhaud – Ed. Critica. – Madrid : Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1977
El Senor Presidente – Ed. Critica / texto establecido por Ricardo Navas Ruiz, Jean-Marie Saint-Lu. – Paris : Klincksieck, 1978
Viernes de dolores / texto establecido por Iber H. Verdugo – Ed. Critica – Paris : Klincksieck, 1978
Sinceridades / recopilado por Epaminondas Quintana – Guatemala City : Academica Centroamericana, 1980
Hombres de maiz / texto establecido por Gerald Martin – Ed. Critica. – Madrid : Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1981
El hombre que lo tenia todo, todo, todo; La leyenda del Sombreron; La leyenda del tesoro del Lugar Florido – Barcelona: Bruguera, 1981
Viajes, ensayos y fantasias / Compilacion y prologo Richard J. Callan – Buenos Aires : Losada, 1981
Paris 1924-1933 : periodismo y creacion literaria / ed. critica Amos Segala, coord – Nanterre: ALLCA XX, 1988
Cartas de amor, entre M. A. Asturias y Blanca de Mora y Araujo (1948-1954) : homenaje a Miguel Angel Asturias – Madrid : Cultura Hispanica, 1989
El arbol de la cruz – Nanterre : ALLCA XX/Universite Paris X, Centre de Recherches Latino-Americanes, 1993
Con la magia de los tiempos – Guatemala City : Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes, 1999
Miguel Angel Asturias, raiz y destino : Poesia inedita, 1917-1924 / Marco Vinicio Meji?a, ed – Guatemala City : Artemis Edinter, 1999
Cuentos y leyendas – Ed. Critica / Mario Roberto, coordinador. – Madrid : ALLCA XX, 2000
El senor presidente : edicion critica – Ed. del centenario / Gerald Martin, coordinador – Madrid : Allca, 2000
Translations into English:
The Mulatta and Mr. Fly / translated by Gregory Rabassa. – London : Owen, 1963
The President / translated by Frances Partridge – London: Gollancz, 1963 – Translation republished as El Senor Presidente – New York : Atheneum, 1963
Cyclone / translated by Darwin Flakoll and Claribel Alegria – London : Owen, 1967
Strong Wind / translated by Gregory Rabassa – New York : Delacorte, 1968
Sentimental Journey around the Hungarian Cuisine / translated by Barna Balogh – Budapest : Corvina, 1969
The Bejeweled Boy / translated by Martin Shuttleworth – Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1971
The Green Pope / translated by Gregory Rabassa. – New York : Delacorte, 1971
The Talking Machine / translated by Beverly Koch – Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1971
The Eyes of the Interred / translated by Gregory Rabassa – New York : Delacorte, 1973
Men of Maize / translated by Gerald Martin – New York : Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence, 1975
Guatemalan Sociology : The Social Problem of the Indian / translated by Maureen Ahern – Tempe : Arizona State University Center for Latin American Studies, 1977
The Mirror of Lida Sal : Tales Based on Mayan Myths and Guatemalan Legends / translated by Gilbert Alter-Gilbert – Pittsburgh : Latin American Literary Review, 1997
Literature (a selection):
Prieto, Rene, Miguel Angel Asturias’s Archaeology of Return – Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993
Llarena, Alicia, Realismo magico y lo real maravilloso : Una cuestion de verosimilitud – Gaithersburg, MD : Hispamerica, 1997
Marting, Diane E, The Sexual Woman in Latin American Literature : Dangerous Desires – Gainesville, L : Univ. Press of Florida, 2001
Welly, Carina, Literarische Begegnungen mit dem Fremden : Intranationale und internationale Vermittlung kultureller Alteritat am Beispiel des Erzahlwerks Miguel Angel Asturias’ – Wurzburg : Konigshausen & Neumann, 2004
Asturias received many honors and awards over the course of his career, most notably the 1967 Nobel Prize for literature. The award of the Nobel caused some controversy, as critic Robert G. Mead notes: outside of Latin America, Asturias was still relatively unknown; within Latin America, some thought that there were more deserving candidates. More controversial still was the award of the Soviet Union’s 1966 Lenin Peace Prize, which was given for exposing “American intervention against the Guatemalan people.”This honor came after his completion of the Banana Trilogy.
Other prizes for Asturias’ work include: Premio Galvez, 1923; Chavez Prize, 1923; Prix Sylla Monsegur, for Leyendas de Guatemala, 1931; and Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, for El senor presidente, 1952.
Presentation Speech:
Presentation Speech by Anders Osterling, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy.
This year the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to the Guatemalan writer Miguel Angel Asturias, a prominent representative of the modern literature of Latin America, in which such interesting developments are now taking place. Born in 1899 in the capital of Guatemala, Asturias became imbued, even as a child, with the characteristically Guatemalan love of nature and of the mythical world. He devoted to this native heritage, and to its libertarian spirit, a fervour which was to dominate his whole literary production. After studying law and folklore, he lived in France during the twenties, and, for a time, represented his country in the diplomatic service. He condemned himself to a long exile after the anti-democratic coup d’etat of 1954, but returned when the legitimate regime took office again. He is presently the Guatemalan Ambassador in Paris.
During the last few years, Asturias has gained international recognition, as his most important works came to be translated into various languages; today they can be read even in Swedish. His first work was a collection of Guatemalan legends, strange evocations of the Mayas’ past, a treasure of images and symbols which has, ever since, been the inexhaustible source of his inspiration. But he did not get his real start as a writer until 1946, the year of the publication of the novel, El Senor Presidente (The President). This magnificent and tragic satire criticizes the prototype of the Latin American dictator who appeared in several places at the beginning of the century and has since reappeared, his existence being fostered by the mechanism of tyranny which, for the common man, makes every day a hell on earth. The passionate vigour with which Asturias evokes the terror and distrust which poisoned the social atmosphere of the time makes his work a challenge and an invaluable aesthetic gesture. The narrative, entitled, Hombres de maiz (Men of Maize) appeared three years later. It might be considered as a folktale whose chief inspiration is in the imagination but which, nevertheless, remains true to life. Its motifs are from the mythology of that tropical land where man must struggle simultaneously against a mysteriously beautiful but hostile nature and against unbearable social distortions, oppression, and tyranny. Such an accumulation of nightmares and totemic phantasms may overwhelm our sensibilities, but we cannot help being fascinated by a poetry so bizarre and terrifying.
With the trilogy of novels begun in 1950 – Viente Fuerte, 1950 (Strong Wind), El Papa verde, 1954 (The Green Pope), and Los ojos de los enterrados, 1960 (The Eyes of the Buried) – a new topical concern appears in Asturias’s epic work: the theme of the struggle against the domination of American trusts, epitomized by the United Fruit Company, and its political and economic effects upon the contemporary history of the “Banana Republic”. Here, again, we see the violent effervescence and the visionary vehemence which stem from the author’s intense involvement in the situation of his country.
Asturias has completely freed himself from obsolete narrative techniques. Very early, he came under the influence of the new tendencies appearing in European literature; his explosive style bears a close kinship to French surrealism. It must be noted, however, that he always takes his inspiration from real life. In his impressive cycle of poems entitled Clarivigilia primaveral, 1965 (Bright and Awake in Spring), on which a Swedish critical study has just appeared, Asturias deals with the very genesis of the arts and of poetic creation, in a language which seems to have assumed the bright splendour of the magical quetzal’s feathers and the glimmering of phosphorescent insects.
Latin America today can boast an active group of prominent writers, a multivoiced chorus in which individual contributions are not readily discernible. Asturias’s work is nevertheless vast, bold, and outstanding enough to arouse interest outside of his own literary milieu, beyond a geographically limited area situated far away from us. One of the Indian legends Asturias alludes to evokes the belief that dead ancestors are forced to witness, with open eyes, the struggles and sufferings of their offspring. Only when justice is re-established, and the stolen soil restituted, will the dead finally be able to close their eyes and sleep peacefully in their tombs. It is a beautiful and poignant popular belief, and we can easily imagine that the militant poet has often felt upon him the gaze of his ancestors and has often heard the silent, symbolic appeal reaching to his heart.
Mr. Ambassador – you come from a distant country, but do not let this fact make you feel today that you are a stranger among us. Your work is known and appreciated in Sweden. We take pleasure in welcoming you as a messenger from Latin America, its people, its spirit, and its future. I congratulate you in the name of the Swedish Academy, which pays tribute to the “vividness of your literary work, rooted in national traits and Indian traditions”. I now invite you to receive your Prize from His Majesty, the King.
Nobel Lecture:
The Latin American Novel
Testimony of an Epoch
I would have preferred this meeting to have been called a colloquium instead of lecture – a dialogue of doubts and assertions on the subject that concerns us. Let us start by analysing the antecedents of Latin American literature in general, focusing our attention on those aspects that have most connection with the novel. Let us follow the sources back to the millenarian origins of indigenous literature in its three great moments: Maya, Aztec and Inca.The following question arises: Was there something resembling the novel among the indigenous peoples? I believe there was. The history of the original cultures of Latin America has more of what we in the western world call the novel than of history. It is necessary to bear in mind that the books of their history – their novels we would now say – were painted by the Aztecs and Mayas and preserved in a figurative form which we still do not understand by the Incas. This assumes the use of pictograms in which the voice of the reader – the indigenous do not distinguish between reading and reciting since for them it is the same thing – recited the text to the listeners in song form.The reader, reciting stories or ‘great language’, the only person who understood what the pictograms meant, carried out an interpretation, recreating them for the enlightenment of those who listened. Later, these painted stories become fixed in the memory of the listeners and pass in oral form from generation to generation until the alphabet brought by the Spanish fixes them in their native tongues with Latin characters or directly in Spanish. In this way indigenous texts come to our knowledge with very little exposure to European corruption. The reading of these documents is what has allowed us to affirm that, among the native Americans, history has more of the characteristics of the novel than of history. They are accounts in which reality is dissolved in fable, legend, the trappings of beauty and in which the imagination, by dint of describing all the reality that it contains, ends up re-creating a reality that we might call surrealist.This characteristic of the annulment of reality through imagination and the re-creation of a more transcendental reality is combined with a constant annulment of time and space as well as something more significant: the use and abuse of parallel expressions, i.e. the parallel use of different words to designate the same object, to convey the same idea and express the same feelings. I wish to draw attention to this point – the parallelism in the indigenous texts allows an exercise of nuances that we find hard to appreciate but which undoubtedly permitted a poetic gradation destined to induce certain states of consciousness which were taken to be magic.If we return to the theme of the origin of a literary genre, similar to the novel, among the pre-Colombian peoples it is necessary to link the birth of this novel form with the epic. The heroic legend, exceeding the possibilities of historical fiction, was sung by the rhapsodists – the great voices of the tribes or ‘cuicanimes’ who toured the cities reciting the texts in order that the beauty of their songs would be disseminated among the peoples like the golden blood of their gods.These epic songs that are so abundant in pre-Columbian literature, and so little known, possess what we call ‘fictional plot’ and what the Spanish friars and missionaries termed ‘tricks’.These fictional tales were originally the testimony of past epochs; the memory and fame of high deeds that others on hearing would desire to emulate, this literature of reality and fable is broken in the instant of servitude and remains as one of the many broken vessels of those great civilisations. Other narratives will follow – in this same documentary form – recounting not the evidence of greatness but of misery, not the testimony of liberty but of slavery, no longer the statements of the masters but those of the subjects and a new, emerging American literature attempting to fill the empty silences of an epoch.However, the literary genres that flourished in the Iberian peninsulas – the realistic novel and the theatre – were not to put down roots here. On the contrary, it is the indigenous effervescence, the sap and the blood, river, sea and mirage that affects the first Spaniard to write the first great American ‘novel’ for the ‘True Story of the Events of the Conquest of New Spain’ written by Bernal Diaz del Castillo deserves to be called no less. Is it not rather bold to describe as a ‘novel’ what that soldier called not history but ‘true history’? But are not novels frequently the true history? I repeat the question: is it really boldness to describe as a novel the work of this illustrious chronicler?To those who might call me daring in my description I would invite them to enter the cadenced and panting prose of this versatile foot soldier and they will notice how – on entering into it – they gradually forget that what happened was reality and it will seem to them increasingly a work of pure imagination. Indeed, even Bernal himself says no less, next to the very walls of Tenochtitlan: “this seemed to be the work of enchantment that is recounted in the book of Amadis!” But this is the work of a Spaniard – it will be said – although the only thing Spanish about it is its having been written by a ‘peninsular’ resident in Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala – where that glorious manuscript is kept – and its having been composed in the old language of Castile although it partakes of that masquerade characteristic of indigenous literature. To Don Marcelino Menendez y Pelayo – this expert in classic Spanish literature – the taste of this prose is strange and the fact that it has been written by a soldier he finds surprising. It escapes this eminent writer that Bernal, at the age of eighty, had not only heard many texts of indigenous literature being recited, being influenced by it, but through osmosis had absorbed America and had already become American.But there is another more impressive parenthesis. In their last sorrowful cantos the indigenous peoples – now subjugated – call for justice and Bernal Diaz Castillo expresses his deepest feelings in a chronicle which is a howl of protest at the oblivion into which they fell after being “fought and conquered.”As from this moment, all Latin American literature, in song and novel, not only becomes a testimony for each epoch but also, as stated by the Venezuelan writer Arturo Uslar Pietri, an “instrument of struggle”. All the great literature is one of testimony and vindication, but far from being a cold dossier these are moving pages written by one conscious of his power to impress and convince.Will the south give us a mestizo? The mestizo par excellence since – in order for nothing to be lacking – he was the first American exile: Inca Garcilaso. This Creole exile follows the indigenous voices already extinguished in his denunciation of the oppressors of Peru. The Inca offers us in his magnificent prose not only the native American – nor only the Spanish – but the mixture materialised in the fusion of the bloods, and in the same demand for life and justice.To start with nobody discerns the ‘message’ in the prose of Inca. This will be clarified during the struggle for independence. Inca will then appear with the dignity of the Indian that knew how to make fun of the empire of “the two knives” – that is to say civil and ecclesiastical censorship. The Spanish authorities, slow to fathom the message containing so much spirit, imagination and melancholy, wisely order the confiscation of the story of Inca Garcilaso where the Indians have “learned so many dangerous things.”Not only poetry and works of fiction bear witness. The least expected authors such as Francisco Javier Clavijero, Francisco Javier Alegre, Andres Calvo, Manuel Fabri, Andres de Guevara gave birth to a literature of exiles which is – and will continue to be – a testimony of its epoch.Even the Guatemalan poet Rafael Landivar has his form of rebellion. His protest is silence – he calls the Spanish ‘Hispani’ without qualifying the adjective. We refer to Landivar because, despite being the least known, he should be considered the standard bearer of American literature as the authentic expression of our lands, our people and landscapes. According to Pedro Henriquez-Urena, “among the poets of the Spanish colonies he is the first master of landscape, the first to break definitively with the conventions of the Renaissance and discover the characteristic features of nature in the New World – its flora and fauna, its countryside and mountains, its lakes and waterfalls. In his descriptions of customs, of the crafts and the games there is an amusing vivacity and – throughout the poem – a deep sympathy and understanding of the survival of the original cultures.”In 1781 in Modena, Italy, there appeared under the title of ‘Rusticatio Mexicana’ a poetic work of 3,425 Latin hexameters, in 10 cantos, written by Rafael Landivar. One year later in Bologna the second edition appeared. The poet called by Menendez y Pelayo ‘the Virgil of the modern age’ proclaimed to the Europeans the excellence of the land, the life and the peoples of America. He was concerned for the people of the Old World to know that E1 Jorullo, a Mexican volcano, could rival Vesuvius and Etna, that the waterfalls and caves of San Pedro Martir in Guatemala were the equals of the famous fountains of Castalia and Aretusa and referring to the cenzontle – the bird whose song has 400 tones – he elevated it above the realm of the nightingale.He sings the praises of the countryside, of the gold and silver that was filling the world with valuable coins and the sugar loaves offered at royal tables.His poem is not short of statistics concerning the riches of America. He cites the droves of cattle, the flocks of sheep, the herds of goats and pigs, the sources of medicinal waters, the popular games – some unknown in Europe – and he does not hide the glory of the cocoa and chocolate of Guatemala. But there is something that we should be aware of in the song of Landivar; namely his love of the indigenous. The Indian, for Landivar, is the race that succeeds in everything, he describes the marvels of the floating gardens created by the Indians, he holds them up as examples of charm and skill without forgetting their great sufferings. In this way he imparts poetic substance – in naturalistic poetry far from symbolism – to a fact that has always been denied: the superiority of the American Indian as farmer, as craftsman and worker.To the image of the bad Indian, lazy and immoral that was so widely propagated in Europe and accepted in America by those who exploit it Landivar opposes the picture of the Indian on whose shoulders has weighed – and continues to weigh – the burden of labour in America. And he does not do it by simply stating it – in which case we would have the right or not of believing it. In his poem we see the Indian on board his charming canoe, transporting his goods or travelling and we admire him extracting the purple and scarlet, laying out the snowy worms that produce the silk, holding on stubbornly to the rocks in order to remove the beautiful shellfish, patiently and doggedly ploughing, cultivating the indigo plant, extracting the silver from his native mines, exhausting the golden veins… The Rusticatio of Landivar confirms what we have said of the great American literature – it cannot accept a passive role while on our soil a famished people live in these abundant lands. In its content it is a form of novel in verse.Fifty years later, Andres Bello was to renovate the American adventure in his famous ‘Silva’, an immortal and perfect work in which the nature of the New World appears again with maize the leader – as haughty chief of the corn tribe – the cacao in ‘coral urns’, the coffee plants, the banana, the tropics in all their vegetable and animal power, contrasting the impoverished inhabitant with this grandiose vision ‘of the rich soil.’Bello recalls Inca Garcilaso in his role as an exile, he is of the American lineage of Landivar, both represent the brilliant start of the great American odyssey in world literature. As from this moment the image of nature in the New World will awake in Europe an interest but it will never attain the incandescent fidelity that is achieved in the work of Landivar and Bello. A distorted vision of the marvels is offered us by Chateaubriand in ‘Atala’ and ‘Les Natchez’.For the Europeans nature is a background without the gravitational force achieved by Creole romanticism. The romantics give nature a permanent presence in the creations of poets and novelists of the epoch. This is exemplified by Jose Maria de Heredia singing of the Niagara Falls and Estaban Echeverria describing the desert in ‘La Cautiva’ to mention just two.Latin American romanticism was not only a literary school but a patriotic flag. Poets, historians and novelists divide their days and nights between political activities and dreaming their creations. Never has it been more beautiful to be a poet in America! Amongst the poets influenced by the Patria converted in Muse are Jose Marmol, author of one of the most widely read novels in Latin America – ‘Amalia’. The pages of this book have been turned by our febrile and sweaty fingers when we suffered in our very bones the dictatorships that have plagued Central America. The critics, when referring to the novel of Marmol, point out inconsistencies and carelessness without realising that a work of this type is written with a madly beating heart – pulsations that leave in the sentence, in the paragraph, on the page that abnormal heartbeat reflecting the distortion of the life force that troubled the entire country. We are in the presence of one of the most passionate examples of the American novel. Despite the years ‘Amelia’ – the imprecations of Jose, Marmol – continue to move readers to such an extent as to represent an act of faith.It is at this very moment that the voice of Sarmiento is heard posing his famous dilemma at the threshold of the century: ‘civilisation or barbarism’. Indeed, Sarmiento himself will be startled when he becomes aware that ‘Facundo’ turns his arms against him and against everyone, declaring himself to be the authentic representative of Creole America, of the America that refuses to die and attempts to break – with a breast already hardened – the antithetical scheme of civilisation and barbarism in order to find between these two extremes the point where the American peoples are able to find their authentic personality with their own essential values.In the middle of the last century another romantic, no less passionate, appears in Guatemala: Jose Batres Montufar. In the midst of tales of festive character the reader feels that he should forget the fiesta to listen to the poetry. The immortal Jose Batres Montufar, with abundant charm tinged with bitterness, was able to get to the core of issues that already – in the middle of the past century – were highly charged.Another voice was to ring out from north to south, that of Jose Marti. His presence was felt, whether as an exile or in his beloved Cuba, the fre of his speech as poet or journalist being combined with the example of his sacrifice.The 20th century is full of poets, poets that have nothing more to say with very few exceptions. Among the latter stand out the immortal Ruben Dario and Juan Ramon Molina from Honduras. The poets flee from reality, maybe because this is one of the ways of being a poet. But there is nothing living in much of their work which instead tend towards garrulity.They are ignorant of the clear lesson of the native rhapsodists, they are forgetful of the colonial craftsmen of our great literature, satisfied with the bloodless imitation of the poetry of other latitudes and ridicule those who sang the bold gestures of the liberation struggle, considering them dazzled by a local patriotism.It is only when the First World War is passed that a handful of men – men and artists – embark on the reconquest of their own tradition. In their encounter with the indigenous peoples they drop anchor in their Spanish home port and return with the message that they have to deliver to the future.Latin American literature will be reborn under other signs – no longer that of verse. Now the prose is tactile, plural and irreverent in its attitude to conventions – to serve the purpose of this new crusade whose first move was to plunge into reality not so as to objectify but rather to penetrate the facts in order to identify fully with the problems of humanity. Nothing human – nothing which is real – will be foreign to this literature inspired by contact with America. And this is the case of the Latin American novel. Nobody doubts that the Latin American novel is at the leading edge of its genre in the world. It is cultivated in all our countries, by writers of different tendencies, which means that in the novel everything is forged from American material – the human witness of our historic moment.We, the Latin American novelists of today, working within the tradition of engagement with our peoples which has enabled our great literature to develop – our poetry of substance – also have to reclaim lands for our dispossessed, mines for our exploited workers, to raise demands in favour of the masses who perish in the plantations, who are scorched by the sun in the banana fields, who turn into human bagasse in the sugar refineries. It is for this reason that – for me – the authentic Latin American novel is the call for all these things, it is the cry that echoes down the centuries and is pronounced in thousands of pages. A novel that is genuinely ours; determined and loyal – in its pages – to the cause of the human spirit, to the fists of our workers, to the sweat of our rural peasants, to the pain for our undernourished children; calling for the blood and the sap of our vast lands to run once more towards the seas to enrich our burgeoning new cities.This novel shares – consciously or unconsciously – the characteristics of the indigenous texts; their freshness and power, the numismatic anguish in the eyes of the Creoles who awaited the dawn in the colonial night, more luminous however than this night that threatens us now. Above all, it is the affrmation of the optimism of those writers that defied the Inquisition, opening a breach in the conscience of the people for the march of the Liberators.The Latin American novel, our novel, cannot betray the great spirit that has shaped – and continues to shape – all our great literature. If you write novels merely to entertain – then burn them! This might be the message delivered with evangelical fervour since if you do not burn them they will anyway be erased from the memory of the people where a poet or novelist should aspire to remain. Just consider how many writers there have been who – down the ages – have written novels to entertain! And who remembers them now? On the other hand, how easy it is to repeat the names of those amongst us who have written to bear witness.To bear witness. The novelist bears witness like the apostle. Like Paul trying to escape, the writer is confronted with the pathetic reality of the world that surrounds him – the stark reality of our countries that overwhelms and blinds us and, throwing us to our knees, forces us to shout out: WHY DO YOU PERSECUTE ME? Yes, we are persecuted by this reality that we cannot deny, which is lived in the flesh by the people of the Mexican revolution, embodied in persons such as Mariano Azuela, Agustin Yanez and Juan Rulfo whose convictions are as sharp as a knife; those who share with Jorge Icaza, Ciro Alegria, Jesus Lara the shout of protest against the exploitation and abandonment of the Indian; those who with Romulo Gallegos in ‘Done Babara’ create for us our Prometheus. Here is Horacio Quiroga who frees us from the nightmare of the tropics, a nightmare that is as peculiar to him as his style is American. ‘Los ros profundos’ of Jose Maria Arguedas, the ‘Rio oscuro’ of the Argentinian Alfredo Varela, ‘Hijo de hombre’ of the Paraguayan Roa Bastos and ‘La ciudad y los perros’ of the Peruvian Vargas Llosa make us see how the life-blood of the working people is drained in our lands.Mancisidor takes us to the oil fields to which are drawn – leaving their homes – the inhabitants of ‘Cases muertas’ of Miguel Otero Silva… David Vinas confronts us with the tragic Patagonia, Enrique Wernicke sweeps us along with the waters that overwhelm whole communities while Verbitsky and Maria de Jesus lead us to the miserable shanty towns, the Dantesque and subhuman quarters of our great cities…Teitelboim in ‘E1 hijo del salitre’ tells us of the gruelling work in the saltpetre mines while Nicomedes Guzman makes us share in the lives of the children in the Chilean working class districts. We feel the countryside of E1 Salvador in ‘Jaragua’ of Napoleon Rodriguez Ruiz and our small villages in ‘Cenizas del Izalco’ of Flakol and Clarivel Alegria. We cannot think of the pampas without speaking of ‘Don Segundo Sombra’ by Guiraldes nor speak of the jungle without ‘La voragine’ of Eustasio Rivera, nor of the Negroes: without Jorge Amado, nor of the Brazilian plains without the ‘Gran Sertao’ of Guimaraes Rosa, nor of the plains of Venezuela without Ramon Diaz Sanchez.Our books do not search for a sensationalist or horrifying effect in order to secure a place for us in the republic of letters. We are human beings linked by blood, geography and life to those hundreds, thousands, millions of Latin Americans that suffer misery in our opulent and rich American continent. Our novels attempt to mobilise across the world the moral forces that have to help us defend those people. The mestizo process was already advanced in our literature and in rediscovering America it lent a human dimension to the grandiose nature of the continent. But this is a nature neither for the gods as in the texts of the Indians, nor a nature for heroes as in the writings of the romantics, but a nature for men and women in which the human problems will be addressed again with vigour and audacity.As true Latin Americans the beauty of expression excites us and – for this reason – each one of our novels is a verbal feat. Alchemy is at work. We know it. It is no easy task to understand in the executed work all the effort and determination invested in the materials used – the words.Yes, I say words – but by what laws and rules they have been transformed! They have been set as the pulse of worlds in formation. They ring like wood, like metals. This is onomatopoeia. In the adventure of our language the first aspect that demands attention is onomatopoeia. How many echoes – composed or disintegrated – of our landscape, our nature are to be found in our words, our sentences. The novelist embarks on a verbal adventure, an instinctive use of words. One is guided along by sounds. One listens, listens to the characters.Our best novels do not seem to have been written but spoken. There is verbal dynamics in the poetry enclosed in the very word itself and that is revealed first as sound and afterwards as concept.This is why the great Spanish American novels are vibrantly musical in the convulsion of the birth of all the things that are born with them.The adventure continues in the confluence of the languages. Amongst the languages spoken by the people, in which the Indian languages are represented, there is an admixture of the European and Oriental languages brought by the immigrants to America.Another language is going to rain its sparkle over sounds and words. The language of images. Our novels seem to be written not only with words but with images. Quite a few people when reading our novels see them cinematically. And this is not because they pursue a dramatic statement of independence but because our novelists are engaged in universalising the voice of their peoples with a language rich in sounds, rich in fable and rich in images.This is not a language artificially created to provide scope for the play of the imagination or so-called poetic prose; it is a vivid language that preserves in its popular speech all the lyricism, the imagination, the grace, the high-spiritidness that characterise the language of the Latin American novel.The poetic language which nourishes our novelistic literature is more or less its breath of life. Novels with lungs of poetry, lungs of foliage, lungs of rich vegetation. I believe that what most attracts non-American readers is what our novels have achieved by means of a colourful, brilliant language without falling into the merely picturesque, the spell of onomatopoeia cast by representing the music of the countryside and sometimes the sounds of the indigenous languages, the ancestral smack of those languages that flourish unconsciously in the prose that is used. There is also the importance of the word as absolute entity, as symbol. Our prose is distinguished from Castilian syntax because the word – in our novels – has a value of its own, just as it had in the indigenous languages. Word, concept, sound; a rich fascinating transposition. Nobody can understand our literature, our poetry if the power of enchantment is removed from the word.Word and language enable the reader to participate in the life of our novelistic creations. Unsettling, disturbing, forcing the attention of the reader who – forgetting his daily life – will enter into the situations and personalities of a novel tradition that retains intact its humanistic values. Nothing is used to detract from mankind but rather to perfect it and this is perhaps what wins over and unsettles the reader, that which transforms our novel into a vehicle of ideas, an interpreter of peoples using as instrument a language with a literary dimension, with imponderable magical value and profound human projection.
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1938 : Pearl Buck
2000 : Gao Xingjian
1989 : Camilo Jose Cela
1985 : Claude Simon
2008 : Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio
1993 : Toni Morrison
2004 : Elfriede Jelinek
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October 17, 2016 /in Uncategorized /by northc.admin
Governor Brown recently signed a new Bill establishing a new drunk driving law in the state of California. An ignition interlock device will be required for variable amounts of time for those with any number of DUI offenses. The new law will not go into effect until 2019, but news of this serves as a warning of future consequences for those who drive under the influence.
Ignition Interlock Requirement for DUI Offenders Signed Into Law by Gov. Jerry Brown
A bill requiring most convicted drunken drivers to install ignition interlock devices that would prevent them from driving while intoxicated was signed into state law Wednesday.
The bill will expand an existing four-county pilot program that requires the devices, which are essentially in-vehicle Breathalyzers. The statewide program will go into effect Jan. 1, 2019.California Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 1046, the advocacy group Mothers Against Drunk Driving announced.
Authored by state Sen. Jerry Hill of San Mateo, the bill will require or allow use of ignition interlock devices aka an IIDs in several circumstances:
for a first DUI offense involving an injury, an IID would be required for six months;
for first non-injury DUI offense, an offender may choose to have an IID for six months with full driving privileges, or a one-year restricted license that only allows driving to work, alongside a treatment program;
for a second DUI offense, an IID would be required for a year;
for a third DUI, an IID would be required for two years; and
for fourth and subsequent DUIs, IIDs would be required for three years.
The devices cost about $60 to $80 per month, with an installation fee of $70 to $150, according to Hill. The bill includes a program to help low-income offenders.
In a news release, Hill cited figures that state about 1,000 people die in California each year due to drunken drivers, and more than 20,000 are injured.
MADD was a major backer of the bill.
No parent should have to lose their child to the criminal negligence of a drunk driver especially when technology exists to prevent such a tragedy, said MADD board member Mary Klotzbach, whose son Matt was killed by a drunken driver in 2001, in a statement.
Since the pilot program began in 2010 through late last year, the devices have stopped about 125,000 attempts to drive by offenders with a blood-alcohol content of .08 percent or higher, according to MADD data.The pilot program covered Los Angeles, Alameda, Sacramento and Tulare counties.
And a DMV report last year found that IIDs are 74 percent more effective than licenses suspensions in preventing repeat DUIs for first-time offenders.
Twenty-eight states require the devices for all drunken driving offenders, according to Hill.
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Heinrich Meyer's Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament
Acts Acts 11
Church Pulpit Commentary
Commentary on Acts
Acts 10:1. After τις, Elz. Scholz have ἦν, which Lachm. Tisch. and Born. have deleted. It is wanting in A B C E G א, min., in the VSS. and Theophyl.; it was inserted (after Acts 9:36 ), because the continuous construction of Acts 10:1-3 was mistaken. Almost according to the same testimony the usual τέ, Acts 10:2, after ποιῶν is condemned as an insertion.
Acts 10:3. ὡσεί] Lachm. and Born. read ὡσεὶ περί, after A B C E א, min. Dam. Theophyl. 2. Rightly; the περί after ὡσεί was passed over as superfluous.
Acts 10:5. After σίμωνα read, with Lachm. Tisch. Born., τινα, according to A B C, min. Copt. Arm. Syr. p. (in the margin) Vulg. The indefinite τινα appeared not suited to the dignity of the prince of the apostles, and was therefore omitted.
After Acts 10:6, Elz. (following Erasm.) has οὗτος λαλήσει σοι, τί σε δεῖ ποιεῖν, which, according to decisive testimony, is to be rejected as an interpolation from Acts 9:6, Acts 10:32. The addition, which some other witnesses have instead of it: ὅς λαλήσει ῥήματα πρός σε, ἐν οἷς σωθήσῃ σὺ καὶ πᾶς ὁ οἶκός σου, is from Acts 9:14.
Acts 10:7. αὐτῷ] Elz. has τῷ κορνηλίῳ, against decisive testimony. On similar evidence αὐτοῦ after οἰκετ. (Elz. Scholz) is deleted.
Acts 10:10. αὐτῶν] So Lachm. Born. Tisch. instead of the usual ἐκείνων, which has far preponderant evidence against it, and was intended to remedy the indefiniteness of the αὐτῶν.
ἐπέπεσεν] A B C א, min. Copt. Or. have ἐγένετο, which Griesb. approved, and Lachm. Tisch. Born. have adopted, and that rightly, as it is preponderantly attested, and was easily replaced by the more definite ἐπέπεσεν (Clem.: ἔπεσεν) as its gloss.
Acts 10:11. After καταβαῖνον, Elz. has ἐπʼ αὐτόν, which is wanting in A B C** E א, min. VSS. Or. Defended, indeed, by Rinck (as having been omitted in conformity to Acts 11:5 ); but the very notice καὶ ἦλθεν ἄχρις ἐμοῦ, Acts 11:5, has here produced the addition ἐπʼ αὐτόν as a more precise definition.
δεδεμένον καί] is wanting in A B C** E א, min. Arm. Aeth. Vulg. Or. Cyr. Theodoret. Deleted by Lachm. But see Acts 9:5 .
Acts 10:12. τῆς γῆς] is wanting in too few witnesses to be regarded as spurious. But Lachm. and Tisch. have it after ἑρπετά, according to A B C E א, min. VSS. and Fathers. Rightly; see Acts 11:6, from which passage also the usual καὶ τὰ θηρία before καὶ τὰ ἑρπετά is interpolated, τά before ἑρπετά and πετεινά is, with Lachm. and Tisch., to be deleted.
Acts 10:16. εὐθύς] So Lachm. and Tisch. after A B C E א, min. Copt. Aeth. Vulg. But Elz. Scholz have πάλιν, which is introduced from Acts 11:10, although defended by Born. (who places it after ἀνελ .) on account of its appearing superfluous.
Acts 10:17. καὶ ἰδού] Lachm. reads ἰδού, after A B א, min.; but καί was unnecessary, and might appear disturbing.
Acts 10:19. διενθυμουμένου] Elz. has ἐνθυμ. against decisive evidence. Neglect of the double compound, elsewhere not occurring in the N. T.
ἄνδρες] Elz. Lachm. Scholz add to this τρεῖς, which is wanting in D G H min. VSS. and Fathers. An addition, after Acts 10:7; Acts 11:11; instead of which B has δύο (Acts 10:7), which Buttmann in the Stud. u. Krit. 1860, p. 357, unsatisfactorily defends by the artificial assumption—not confirmed by the expression in Acts 10:8—that the soldier was only taken with him as escort and attendant.
Acts 10:20. Instead of ὅτι, Elz. διότι, against decisive evidence.
Acts 10:21. After ἄνδρας, Elz. has τοὺς ἀπεσταλμένους ἀπὸ τοῦ κορνηλίου πρὸς αὐτόν, against A B C D E G א, min. and most VSS. Chrys. An addition, because Acts 10:21 commences a church-lesson.
Acts 10:23. ἀναστάς] is wanting in Elz., but is just as certainly protected by decisive testimony, and by its being apparently superfluous, as ὁ πέτρος, which in Elz. stands before ἐξῆλθε, is condemned by A B C D א, min. and several VSS. as the subject written on the margin.
Acts 10:25. τοῦ εἰσελθεῖν] Elz. has merely εἰσελθεῖν. But τοῦ is found in A B C E G א, min. Chrys. Bas. Theophyl. See the exegetical remarks.
Born. reads Acts 10:25 thus: προσεγγίζοντος δὲ τοῦ πέτρου εἰς τὴν καισάρειαν, προδραμὼν εἷς τῶν δούλων διεσάφησεν παραγεγονέναι αὐτόν· ὁ δὲ κορνήλιος ἐκπηδήσας καὶ συναντήσας αὐτῷ πεσὼν πρὸς τοὺς πόδας προσεκύνησεν αὐτόν, only after D, Syr. p. (on the margin); an apocryphal attempt at depicting the scene, and how much of a foil to the simple narrative in the text!
Acts 10:30. After ἐνάτην, Elz. has ὥραν, which, according to preponderant testimony, is to be rejected as a supplementary addition. Lachm. has also deleted νηστεύων καί, after some important codd. (including א ) and several VSS. But the omission is explained by there being no mention of fasting in Acts 10:3.
Acts 10:32. ὃς παραγενόμ. λαλήσει σοι] is wanting in Lachm., after A B א, min. Copt. Aeth. Vulg. But the omission took place in accordance with Acts 10:6 .
Acts 10:33. Instead of ὑπό, read, with Lachm. Tisch. Born. according to preponderating evidence, ἀπό (E παρά).
Instead of θεοῦ, Lachm. and Tisch. have κυρίου, according to predominant attestation; θεοῦ is a mechanical repetition from the preceding, in which the reading ἐνώπ. σου (Born.) is, on account of too weak attestation, to be rejected.
Acts 10:36. ὅν] is wanting in A B א **, loti. Copt. Sahid. Aeth. Vulg. Ath. Deleted by Lachm.; but the omission very naturally suggested itself, in order to simplify the construction.
Acts 10:37. ἀρξάμενον] A C D E H א, min. have ἀρξάμενος, which Lachm. has on the margin. A D Vulg. Cant. Ir. add γάρ, which Lachm. puts in brackets. Born. has ἀρξάμενος γάρ. But ἀρξάμενον is necessary, according to the sense.
Acts 10:39. After ἡμεῖς, Elz. has ἐσμεν, against decisive testimony. A supplementary addition.
Acts 10:42. αὐτός] B C D E G, min. Syr. utr. Copt. Sahid. have οὗτος. Recommended by Griesb. and adopted by Lachm. and Born. An erroneous correction. See the exegetical remarks.
Acts 10:48. αὐτούς] αὐτοῖς is neither strongly enough attested (A א ), nor in accordance with the sense.
τοῦ κυρίου] A B E א, min. VSS. Fathers have ἰησοῦ χριστοῦ. So Lachm. An alteration, in order to denote the specific character of the baptism more definitely. Hence some codd. and VSS. have both together. So Born, after D.
Acts 10:1-2. καισαρείᾳ] See on Acts 8:40.
The centurion was of the Italian cohort, which, stationed at Caesarea, consisted of Italians, not of natives of the country, like many other Roman troops in Syria. Such a Roman auxiliary corps was appropriately stationed at the place where the procurator had his residence, for the maintenance of tranquillity. See Schwarz, de cohorte Italica et Augusta, Altorf. 1720; Wieseler, Chronol. p. 145, and Beiträge z. Würdig. d. Evangelien, 1869, p. 327 f.
εὐσεβὴς κ. φοβούμενος τ. θεόν] pious and fearing God. The latter is the more precise definition of the more general εὐσεβής. Cornelius was a Gentile, who, discontented with polytheism, had turned his higher interest towards Judaism, and satisfied a deeper pious want in the earnest private worship of Jehovah along with all his family. Judaism (as Stoicism and the like in the case of others) was for him the philosophical-religious school, to which he, although without being a proselyte, addicted himself in his heart and devotional life. Hence his beneficence (Acts 10:2) and his general esteem among the Jews (Acts 10:22). Comp. the centurion of Capernaum, Luke 7. Others consider him, with Mede, Grotius, Fecht (de pietate Cornelii, Rostoch. 1701), Deyling, Hammond, Wolf, Ernesti, Ziegler, Paulus, Olshausen, Neander, Lechler, and Ritschl, as a proselyte of the gate.(254) But this is at variance with Acts 10:28; Acts 10:34-35; Acts 11:1; Acts 11:18; Acts 15:7, where he is simply put into the class of the Gentiles,—a circumstance which cannot he referred merely to the want of circumcision, as the proselytes of the gate also belonged to the communion of the theocracy, and had ceased to be non-Jews like absolute foreigners. See Ewald, Alterth. p. 313; Keil, Archäol. I. p. 317. And all the great importance which this event has in a connected view of the Book of Acts, has as its basis the very circumstance that Cornelius was a Gentile. Least of all can his proselytism be proved from the expression φοβούμενος τὸν θεόν itself, as the general literal meaning of this expression can only be made by the context (as Acts 13:16; Acts 13:26) to apply to the worship of proselytes; but here we are required by Acts 10:35 to adhere to that general literal meaning without this particular reference. It is to be considered, moreover, that had Cornelius been a proselyte of the gate, it would have, according to Acts 15:7, to be assumed that hitherto no such proselyte at all had been converted to Christianity, which, even apart from the conversion of the Ethiopian, chap.8., is—considering the many thousand converts of which the church already consisted—incredible, particularly as often very many were admitted simultaneously (Acts 2:41, Acts 4:4), and as certainly the more unprejudiced proselytes were precisely the most inclined to join the new theocracy.
Accordingly the great step which the new church makes in its development at chap. 10. consists in this, that by divine influence the first Gentile, who did not yet belong to the Jewish theocratic state, becomes a Christian, and that directly, without having first made the transition in any way through Mosaism. The extraordinary importance of this epoch-making event stands in proportion to the accumulated miraculous character of the proceedings. The view, which by psychological and other assumptions and combinations assigns to it along with the miraculous character also a natural instrumentality (Neander, p. 115 f.), leads to deviations from the narrative, and to violences which are absolutely rejected by the text. See, on the other hand, Zeller, p. 179 ff., and Baumgarten. The view which rejects the historical reality of the narrative, and refers it to a set purpose in the author (Baur, Zeller), seeks its chief confirmation in the difficulties which the direct admission of the Gentiles had for long still to encounter, in what is narrated in chap, 15., and in the conduct of Peter at Antioch, Galatians 2:11 ff. (comp. also Schwegler, nachapostol. Zeitalt. I. p. 127 ff.; Gfrörer, heil. Sage, I. p. 415; Holtzmann, Judenth. u. Christenth. p. 679 f.). But, on the other hand, it is to be observed, that not even miracles are able at once to remove in the multitude deeply rooted national prejudices, and to dispense with the gradual progress of psychological development requisite for this end (comp. the miracles of Jesus Himself, and the miracles performed on him); that further, in point of fact the difficulties in the way of the penetration of Christianity to the Gentiles were exceedingly great (see Ewald, p. 250 ff.; Ritschl, althath. K. p. 138 ff.); and that Peter’s conduct at Antioch, with a character so accessible to the impressions of the moment (comp. the denial), is psychologically intelligible as a temporary obscuration of his better conviction once received by way of revelation, at variance with his constant conduct on other occasions (see on Galatians 2:14), and therefore by no means necessitates the presupposition that the extraordinary divine disclosure and guidance, which our passage narrates, are unhistorical. Indeed, the reproach which Paul makes to Peter at Antioch, presupposes the agreement in principle between them in respect to the question of the Gentiles; for Paul designates the conduct of Peter as ὑπόκρισις, Galatians 2:13.
Acts 10:3. εἶδεν is the verb belonging to ἀνὴρ … κορνήλ., Acts 10:1, and ἑκατοντ.… διαπαντός is in apposition to κορνήλ.
The intimation made to Cornelius is a vision in a waking condition, caused by God (during the hour of prayer, which was sacred to the centurion on account of his high respect for Judaism), i.e. a manifestation of God made so as to be clearly perceptible to the inner sense of the pious man, conveyed by the medium of a clear ( φανερῶς) angelic appearance in vision, which Cornelius himself, Acts 10:30, describes more precisely in its distinctly seen form, just as it at once on its occurrence made the corresponding impression upon him; hence Acts 10:4 : ἔμφοβος γενόμ. and τί ἐστι, κύριε. Comp. Luke 24:5. Eichhorn rationalized the narrative to the effect that Cornelius, full of longing to become acquainted with the distinguished Peter now so near him, learned the place of his abode from a citizen of Joppa at Caesarea, and then during prayer felt a peculiar elevation of mind, by which, as if by an angel, his purpose of making Peter’s acquaintance was confirmed. This is opposed to the whole representation; with which also Ewald’s similar view fails to accord, that Cornelius, uncertain whether or not he should wish a closer acquaintance with Peter, had, “as if irradiated by a heavenly certainty and directed by an angelic voice,” firmly resolved to invite the apostle at once to visit him
ὡσεὶ περὶ ὥρ. ἐνάτ. (see the critical remarks): as it were about the ninth hour. Circumstantiality of expression. See Bornemann in loc.
Acts 10:4. εἰς μνημόσυνον ἐνώπ. τ. θεοῦ] is to be taken together, and denotes the aim or the destination of ἀνέβησαν (comp. Matthew 26:13): to be a mark, i.e. a token of remembrance, before God, so that they give occasion to God to think on thee. Comp. Acts 10:31. The sense of the whole figurative expression is: “Thy prayers and thine alms have found consideration with God; He will fulfil the former(255) and reward the latter.” See Acts 10:31.
ἀνέβησαν is strictly suited only to αἱ προσευχαί, which, according to the figurative embodiment of the idea of granting prayer, ascend from the heart and mouth of man to God (comp. Genesis 18:2; Exodus 2:23; 1 Maccabees 5:31); but it is by a zeugma referred also to the alms, which have excited the attention of God, to requite them by leading the pious man to Christ. The opinion (Wolf, Bengel, Eichhorn, and others) that ἀνέβ. is based on the Jewish notion (Tobit 12:12; Tobit 12:15; Revelation 8:4) that prayers are carried by the angels to the throne of God, is as arbitrarily imported into the text as is the view (Grotius, Heinrichs, and others) that εἰς ΄νη΄όσυνον signifies instar sacrificii (comp. on the idea, Psalms 141:2), because, forsooth, the LXX. express אַזְכָּרָה by ΄νη΄όσυνον, Leviticus 2:2; Leviticus 2:9; Leviticus 2:16; Leviticus 5:12; Leviticus 6:15; Numbers 5:26; comp. Sirach 32:7; Sirach 38:11; Sirach 45:16. In all these passages the sense of a memorial-offering is necessarily determined by the context, which is not the case here with the simple ἀνέβησαν.
On the relation of the good works of Cornelius to his faith, Gregory the Great, in Ez. Hom. 19, already correctly remarks that he did not arrive at faith by his works, but at the works by his faith. The faith, however cordial and vivid it was, was in his case up till now the Old Testament faith in the promised Messiah, but was destined, amidst this visitation of divine grace, to complete itself into the New Testament faith in Jesus as the Messiah who had appeared. Thus was his way of salvation the same as that of the chamberlain, chap. 8. Comp. also Luther’s gloss on Acts 10:1.
Acts 10:5-7. The tanner, on account of his trade, dwelt by the [Mediterranean] sea, and probably apart from the city, to which his house belonged (“Cadavera et sepulcra separant et coriarium quinquaginta cubitos a civitate.” Surenh. Mischn. xi. 9. Comp. Artemid. i. 53). See Walch, de Simone coriario, Jen. 1757.
The τινά is added to σίμωνα (see the critical remarks) from the standpoint of Cornelius, as to him Peter was one unknown.
εὐσεβῆ] the soldier, one of the men of the cohort specially attached and devoted to Cornelius ( τῶν προσκαρτ. αὐτῷ), had the same religious turn of mind as his master, Acts 10:2. On προσκαρτ., comp. Acts 8:13; Dem. 1386. 6 : θεραπαίνας τὰς νεαίρᾳ τότε προσκαρτερούσας. Polyb. xxiv. 5. 3.
Acts 10:9-10. On the following day (for Joppa was thirty miles from Caesarea), shortly before the arrival of the messengers of Cornelius at Peter’s house, the latter was, by means of a vision effected by divine agency in the state of ecstasy, prepared for the unhesitating acceptance of the summons of the Gentile; while the feeling of hunger, with which Peter passed into the trance, served the divine revelation as the medium of its special form.
ἐπὶ τὸ δῶμα] for the flat roofs (comp. Luke 5:19; Luke 12:3; Luke 17:31) were used by the Hebrews for religious exercises, prayers, and meditations. Winer, Realw. s.v. Dach. Incorrectly Jerome, Luther, Pricaeus, Erasmus, Heinrichs, hold that the ὑπερῷον is meant. At variance with N. T. usage; even the Homeric δῶμα (hall) was something different (see Herm. Privatalterth. § 19. 5); and why should Luke not have employed the usual formal word ὑπερῷον (Acts 1:13-14, Acts 9:37; Acts 9:39, Acts 20:8)? Moreover, the subsequent appearance is most in keeping with an abode in the open air.
ἕκτην] See on Acts 3:1. πρόσπεινος, hungry, is not elsewhere preserved; the Greeks say πειναλέος.
ἤθελε γεύσασθαι] he had the desire to eat (for examples of the absolute γεύσασθαι, see Kypke, II. p. 47)—and in this desire, whilst the people of the house ( αὐτῶν) were preparing food ( παρασκευαζόντων, see Elsner, Obss. p. 408; Kypke, l.c.) the ἔκστασις came upon him ( ἐγένετο, see the critical remarks), by which is denoted the involuntary setting in of this state. Comp. Acts 5:5; Acts 5:11; Luke 1:65; Luke 4:37. The ἔκστασις itself is the waking but not spontaneous state, in which a man, transported out of the lower consciousness (2 Corinthians 12:2-3) and freed from the limits of sensuous restriction as well as of discursive thought, apprehends with his higher pneumatic receptivity divinely presented revelations, whether these reach the inner sense through visions or otherwise. Comp. Graf in the Stud. u. Krit. 1859, p. 265 ff.; Delitzsch, Psychol. p. 285.
Acts 10:11-13. Observe the vividly introduced historical present θεωρεῖ.
τέσσαρσιν ἀρχαῖς δεδεμ.] attached with four ends, namely, to the edges of the opening which had taken place in heaven. Chap. Acts 11:5 requires this explanation, not the usual one: “bound together at the four corners.” Nor does the text mention anything of ropes, bound to which it was let down. The visionary appearance has something marvellous even in the way of its occurrence. We are to imagine the vessel (whose four corners, moreover, are without warrant explained by Augustine, Wetstein, Bengel, Lange, and others as pointing to the four quarters of the world), looking like a colossal four-cornered linen-cloth ( ὀθόνη), letting itself down, while the corners attached to heaven support the whole. On ἀρχαί, extremitates, see Jacobs, ad Anthol. XI. p. 50.
πάντα τὰ τετράποδα] The formerly usual interpretation: “four-footed beasts of all sorts, i.e. of very many kinds” is linguistically erroneous. The phenomenon in its supernatural visionary character exhibits as present in the σκεῦος ( ἐν ᾡ ὕπηρχε) all four-footed beasts, reptiles, and birds (all kinds of them) without exception.(256) In a strangely arbitrary manner Kuinoel, after Calovius and others, holds that these were only unclean animals. See on Acts 10:14.
τοῦ οὐρανοῦ] See on Matthew 6:26.
ἀναστάς] Perhaps Peter lay during the trance. Yet it may also be the mere call to action: arise (Acts 9:11; Acts 9:39, Acts 8:26, and frequently; comp. on Acts 8:26).
θῦσον] occide (Vulg.), slay, not: sacrifice, as 1 Maccabees 1:47 (Thiersch), see Acts 10:10.
Acts 10:14-16. Peter correctly recognises in the summons θῦσον κ. φάγε, Acts 10:13, the allowance of selection at his pleasure among all the animals, by which, consequently, the eating of the unclean without distinction was permitted to him. Hence, and not because only unclean animals were seen in the vessel, his strongly declining μηδαμῶς κύριε! This κύριε is the address to the—to him unknown—author of the voice, not to Christ (Schwegler, Zeller).
Concerning the animals which the Jews were forbidden to eat, see Leviticus 11; Deuteronomy 14:1 ff.; Ewald, Alterth. p. 194 ff.; Saalschütz, Mos. B. p. 251 ff.
ὅτι οὐδέποτε ἔφαγον πᾶν κοινὸν ἢ ἀκάθαρτ.] for never ate I anything common or unclean (the Talmudic פסול או טמא), i.e. for any profane thing I have always left uneaten. ἤ does not stand for καί (which Lachm. and Tisch. read, after A B א, min. VSS. Clem. Or.; perhaps correctly, see Acts 11:8 ), but appends for the exhaustion of the idea another synonymous expression. Fritzsche, ad Marc. p. 277; Bornemann, Schol. in Luc. p. xl. f. κοινός = βέβηλος; the opposite of ἅγιος (Ezekiel 42:20).
καὶ φωνή] and a voice (not ἡ φωνή, because here other words were heard) came again the second time to him ( πάλιυ ἐκ δευτέρου, pleonastically circumstantial; see on Matthew 26:42; comp. on John 4:54).
ἃ ὁ θεὸς ἐκαθάρισε, σὺ μὴ κοίνου] what God has cleansed, make not thou common (unclean). The miraculous appearance with the divine voice (Acts 10:13) had done away the Levitical uncleanness of the animals in question; they were now divinely cleansed; and thus Peter ought not, by his refusal to obey that divine bidding, to invest them with the character of what is unholy—to transfer them into the category of the κοινόν (Romans 14:14). This were man’s doing in opposition to God’s deed.
ἐπὶ τρίς] for thrice, which “ad confirmationem valuit” (Calvin); ἐπί, denotes the terminus ad quem. Bernhardy, p. 252. Comp. ἐς τρίς, Herod, i. 86; Xen. Anab. vi. 4. 16; and Wetstein.
The object aimed at in the whole vision was the symbolical divine announcement that the hitherto subsisting distinction between clean and unclean men (that hedge between Jews and Gentiles!) was to cease in Christianity, as being destined for all men without distinction of nation (Acts 10:34-35). But in what relation does the ἃ ὁ θεὸς ἐκαθάρισε stand to the likewise divine institution of the Levitical laws about food? This is not answered by reference to “the effected and accomplished redemption, which is regarded as a restitution of the whole creation” (Olshausen), for this restoration is only promised for the world-period commencing with the Parousia (Acts 3:20; Matthew 19:28 : Romans 8:19 ff.); but rather by pointing out that the institution of those laws of food was destined only for the duration of the old theocracy. They were a divine institution for the particular people of God, with a view to separate them from the nations of the world; their abolition could not therefore but be willed by God, when the time was fully come at which the idea of the theocracy was to be realized through Christ in the whole of humanity (Acts 10:35; Romans 3.; Galatians 3:28; Colossians 3:11; John 10:16). Comp. Matthew 15:17-18. The abolition therefore does not conflict with Matthew 5:17, but belongs to the fulfillment of the law effected by Christ, by which the distinction of clean and unclean was removed from the Levitical domain and (comp. Romans 2:28-29) raised into the sphere of the moral idea. See also on Romans 15:14; Matthew 5:17.
Acts 10:17-20. The ἔκστασις was now over. But when Peter was very doubtful in himself what the appearance, which he had seen, might mean (comp. Luke 8:9; Luke 15:26). The true import could not but be at once suggested to him by the messengers of Cornelius, who had now come right in front of the house, to follow whom, moreover, an internal address of the Spirit urged him.
ἐν ἑαυτῷ] i.e. in his own reflection, contrasted with the previous ecstatic condition.
διηπόρ.] as in Acts 5:24, Acts 2:12.
καὶ ἰδού] See on Acts 1:10.
ἐπὶ τὸν πυλῶνα] at the door. See on Matthew 26:71.
φωνήσαντες] Kuinoel quite arbitrarily: “sc. τινὰ, evocato quopiam, quod Judaei domum intrare metuebant, ver.18.” They called below at the door of the house, without calling on or calling forth any particular person, but in order generally to obtain information from the inhabitants of the house, who could not but hear the calling. That Peter had heard the noise of the men and the mention of his name, that he had observed the men, had recognised that they were not Jews, and had felt himself impelled by an internal voice to follow them, etc., are among the many arbitrary additions (“of a supplementary kind”) which Neander has allowed himself to make in the history before us.
ἀλλὰ ἀναστὰς κατάβηθι] ἀλλά with the imperative denotes nothing more than the adversative at. “Men seek thee: but (do not let yourself be sought for longer and delay not, but rather) arise (as Acts 10:13) and go down.” The requisition with ἀλλά breaks off the discourse and renders the summons more urgent. See Fritzsche, ad Marc. p. 370; Baeumlein, Partik. p. 17 f.
μηδὲν διακρινόμ.] in no respect (Jak. i. 6; Bernhardy, p. 336) wavering (see on Romans 4:20); for I, etc. The πνεῦμα designates Himself as the sender of the messengers, inasmuch as the vision (Acts 10:3-7) did not ensue without the operation of the divine Spirit, and the latter was thus the cause of Cornelius sending the messengers.
ἐγώ] with emphasis. Chrysostom rightly calls attention to the κύριον and the ἐξουσία of the Spirit.
Acts 10:22-25. ΄αρτυρούμ.] as in Acts 6:3.
ἐχρηματ.] See on Matthew 2:12. The communication on the part of the angel (Acts 10:4-7) is understood as a divine answer to the constant prayer of Cornelius (Acts 10:2).
Peter and his six (Acts 11:12) companions had not traversed the thirty miles from Joppa to Caesarea in one day, and therefore arrived there only on the day after their departure. The messengers of Cornelius, too, had only arrived at Peter’s abode on the second day (Acts 10:8-9), and had passed the night with him (Acts 10:23), so that now ( τῇ ἐπαύριον, Acts 10:24) it was the fourth day since their departure from Caesarea. Cornelius expected Peter on this day, for which, regarding it as a high family-festival, he had invited his (certainly like-minded) relatives and his intimate friends ( τοὺς ἀναγκ. φίλους, see Wetstein; Kypke, II. p. 50).
ὡς δὲ ἐγένετο τοῦ εἰσελθεῖν τὸν π.] but when it came to pass that Peter entered. This construction is to be regarded as a very inaccurate, improper application of the current infinitive with τιοῦ. No comparison with the Hebrew וַיְהִי לָבוֹא, Genesis 15:12 (Gesenius, Lehrgebr. p. 787), is to be allowed, because וַיְהִי does not stand absolutely, but has its subject beside it, and because the LXX. has never imitated this and similar expressions (Gesenius, l.c.) by ἐγένετο τοῦ. The want of corresponding passages, and the impossibility of rationally explaining the expression, mark it as a completely isolated(257) error of language, which Luke either himself committed or adopted from his original source,—and not (in opposition to Fritzsche, ad Matth. p. 848, and Rinck, Lucubr. crit. p. 64) as a corruption of the transcribers, seeing that the most important witnesses decide in favour of τοῦ, and its omission in the case of others is evidently a correction. Comp. now also Winer, p. 307 [E. T. 412].
ἐπὶ τ. πόδας] at the feet of Peter. Comp. Luke 8:41; Luke 17:16; Mark 5:22; John 11:32, al.
προσεκύνησε] See on Matthew 2:2. He very naturally conjectured, after the vision imparted to him, that there was something superhuman in the person of Peter (comp. on Luke 5:8); and to this, perhaps, the idea of heroes, to which the centurion had not yet become a stranger, contributed.
Acts 10:26-29. κἀγὼ αὐτός] also I myself, I also for mine own part, not otherwise than you. See on Romans 7:25.
συνομιλ αὐτῷ] in conversation with him. The word occurs elsewhere in Tzetz. Hist. iii. 377, συνόμιλος in Symm. Job 19:19.
εἰσῆλθε] namely, into the room. In Acts 10:25, on the other hand, τοῦ εἰσελθεῖν τ. π. was meant of the entrance by the outer door into the house.
Ye know how (how very) unallowed it is, etc.
ἀθέμιτον] (2 Maccabees 6:5) is a later form (Plut., Dion. Hal., etc., 1 Peter 4:3) for the old classical ἀθέμιστον (Herod. vii. 33; Xen. Mem. i. 1. 9, Cyrop. i. 6. 6). The prohibition to enter into closer fellowship with men of another tribe,(258) or (even but) to come to them, comp. Acts 11:3, is not expressly found in the Pentateuch, but easily resulted of itself from the lofty consciousness of the holy people of God contrasted with the unholy heathen (Ewald, Alterth. p. 310), and pervades the later Judaism with all the force of contempt for the Gentiles (see, e.g., Lightfoot on Matthew 18:17). The passage Matthew 23:5, and the narrative of the conversion of Izates king of Adiabene in Joseph. Antt. xx. 2. 4 f., appear to testify against the utterance of Peter in our passage, and therefore Zeller, p. 187, holds it as unhistorical But Peter speaks here from the standpoint of the Judaistic theory and rule, which is not invalidated by exceptional cases (as Josephus I.c.) and by abuses (as in the making of proselytes, Matt. I.c.). Not even if Cornelius had been a proselyte of the gate (but see on Acts 10:1-2) could the historical character of the saying be reasonably doubted; for the Rabbinical passages adduced with that view (according to which the proselyte is to regard himself as a member of the theocracy, as Schemoth Rabba 19 f., 118. 3, ad Exodus 12:3) apply only to complete converts (proselytes of righteousness, comp. Sohar p. 22. 27 : “quamvis factus sit proselytus, attamen nisi observet praecepta legis, habendus adhuc est pro ethnico”), and are, moreover, outweighed by other expressions of contempt towards proselytes, as, e.g., Babyl. Niddah f. 13. 2 : “Proselyti sunt sicut scabies Israeli.” It is erroneous to derive the principle which Peter here expresses from Pharisaism (Schoettgen), or to limit it to an intentional going in quest of them (Hofmann, Schriftbew. II. 2, p. 39), or, according to Acts 11:3, to the eating (Ebrard, Lange, Ewald), which must have been made clear from the context.
ἀναντιῤῥήτ.] without contradiction, Polyb. xxiii. 8. 11, vi. 7. 7, xxviii. 11. 4. Comp. ἀναντιλέκτως, Lucian. Cal. 6, Conviv. 9. “Sanctum fidei silentium,” Calvin.
καὶ ἐμοὶ ὁ θεὸς ἔδειξε] Contrast to ὑ΄εῖς ἐπίστασθε. The element of contrast lies not in the copula, but in the relation of the two clauses: Ye know … and to me God has showed. Comp. Bornemann, Schol. in Luc. p. 102; Hartung, Partikell. II. p. 147; Kühner, ad Xen. Mem. 3:7. 6. Very often so in John. The ὁ θεὸς ἔδειξε took place through the disclosure by means of the vision, Acts 10:3 ff., the allegorical meaning of which Peter understood.
μηδένα κ. τ. λ] namely, in and for itself.
τίνι λόγῳ] with what reason, i.e. wherefore. See examples from classical writers in Kypke. Comp. on Matthew 5:32. The dative denotes the mediate cause. Comp. Plat. Gorg. p. 512 C: τίνι δικαίῳ λόγῳ τοῦ μηχανοποιοῦ καταφρονεῖς;
Acts 10:30. The correct view is that which has been the usual one since Chrysostom (held by Erasmus, Beza, Grotius, Bengel, Kuinoel, Olshausen): Four days ago I was fasting until this hour (i.e. until the hour of the day which it now is), and was praying at the ninth hour, ἀπὸ τετάρτης ἡμέρας is quarto abhinc die, on the fourth day from the present (counting backwards), and the expression is to be explained as in John 11:18; John 21:8; Revelation 14:20 (see Winer, p. 518 f. [E. T. 697 f.]. Comp. Exodus 12:15, ἀπὸ τῆς πρώτης ἡμέρας: on the first day before. Cornelius wishes to indicate exactly (1) the day and hour when he had seen the vision,—namely, on the fourth day before, and at the ninth hour; and (2) in what condition he was when it occurred,—namely, that he had been engaged that day in an exercise of fasting, which he had already continued up to the very hour of that day, which it now was; and in connection with this exercise of fasting, he had spent the ninth hour of the day—the prayer-hour—in prayer, and then the vision had surprised him, καὶ ἰδοὺ κ. τ. λ. Incorrectly, Heinrichs, Neander, de Wette render: For four days I fasted until this hour (when the vision occurred, namely, the ninth hour), etc. Against this view it may be decisively urged that in this way Cornelius would not specify at all the day on which he had the vision, and that ταύτης cannot mean anything else than the present hour.
ἐνώπ. τ. θεοῦ] Acts 10:3. Revelation 16:19. The opposite, Luke 12:6.
Acts 10:33. ἐνώπιον τοῦ κυρίου (see critical remarks), לְפְנֵי יְהֹוָה in conspectu Dei. Cornelius knows that it is God, who so wonderfully arranged everything, before whose eyes this assembly in the house stands. He knows Him to be present as a witness.
ἀπό (see the critical remarks), on the part of, divinitus. See Winer, p. 347 f. [E. T. 463].
Acts 10:34-35. ἀνοίξας κ. τ. λ.] as in Acts 8:35.
With truth (so that this insight, which I have obtained, is true; comp. on Mark 12:14, and Fritzsche, Quaest. Luc. p. 137 ff.) I perceive that God is not partial, allowing Himself to be influenced by external relations not belonging to the moral sphere; but in every nation he that feareth Him and worketh rightness (acts rightly, comp. Psalms 15:2; Hebrews 11:33; Luke 1:20; the opposite, Matthew 7:23) is acceptable to Him,—namely, to be received into the Christian fellowship with God. Comp. Acts 15:14. Peter, with the certainty of a divinely-obtained conviction, denies in general that, as regards this acceptance, God goes to work in any way partially; and, on the other hand, affirms in particular that in every nation ( ἄν τε ἀκρόβυστός ἐστιν, ἄν τε ἐμπερίτομος, Chrysostom), etc. To take this contrast, Acts 10:35, as no longer dependent on ὅτι, but as independent (Luther, Castalio, and many others), makes its importance the more strongly apparent. What is meant is the ethico-religious preliminary frame requisite for admission into Christianity, which must be a state of fellowship with God similar to the piety of Cornelius and his household, however different in appearance and form according to the degree of earlier knowledge and morality in each case, yet always a being given or a being drawn of God (according to the Gospel of John), and an attitude of heart and life toward the Christian salvation, which is absolutely independent of difference of nationality. The general truth of the proposition, as applied even to the undevout and sinners among Jews and Gentiles, rests on the necessity of μετάνοια as a preliminary condition of admission (Acts 2:38, Acts 3:19, al.). It is a misuse of this expression when, in spite of Acts 10:43, it is often adduced as a proof of the superfluousness of faith in the specific doctrines of Christianity; for δεκτὸς αὐτῷ ἐστι in fact denotes (Acts 10:36 ff.) the capability, in relation to God, of becoming a Christian, and not the capability of being saved without Christ. Bengel rightly says: “non indifferentismus religionum, sed indifferentia nationum hic asseritur.”
Respecting προσωπολήπτης, not found elsewhere, see on Galatians 2:6.
Acts 10:36-38. The correct construction is, that we take the three accusatives: τὸν λόγον, Acts 10:36, τὸ γενόμ. ῥῆμα, Acts 10:37, and ἰησοῦν τὸν ἀπὸ ναζαρ., Acts 10:38, as dependent on ὑμεῖς οἴδατε, Acts 10:37, and treat οὗτός ἐστι πάντων κύριος as a parenthesis. Peter, namely, in the τὸν λόγον already has the ὑμεῖς οἴδατε in view; but he interrupts himself by the insertion οὗτός … κύριος, and now resumes the thought begun in Acts 10:36, in order to carry it out more amply, and that in such a way that he now puts ὑμεῖς οἴδατε first, and then attaches the continuation in its extended and amplified form by ἰησοῦν τὸν ἀπὸ ναζ. by way of apposition. The message, which He (God, Acts 10:35) sent to the Israelites (comp. Acts 13:26), when He made known salvation through Jesus Christ (He is Lord of all!)—ye know the word, which went forth through all Judaea, having begun from Galilee after the baptism which John preached
Jesus of Nazareth (ye know), how God anointed Him (consecrated Him to be the Messianic King, see on Acts 4:27) with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing, etc. This view is quite in keeping with the hurriedly aggregated and inartistic mode of expression of Peter, particularly at this urgent moment of extraordinary and profound emotion. Comp. on Ephesians 2:1; Winer, p. 525 [E. T. 706]. The most plausible objection to this construction is that of Bengel (comp. de Wette): “Noverant auditores historiam, de qua mox, non item rationes interiors, de quibus hoc versu.” But the contents of the λόγος is, in fact, stated by εἰρήνην διὰ ἰ. χ. so generally and, without its rationes interiors, so purely historically, that in that general shape it could not be anything strange to hearers, to whom that was known, which is said in Acts 10:37-38. Erasmus, Er. Schmid, Homberg, Wolf, Heumann, Beck (Obss. crit. exeg., I. p. 13), Heinrichs, Kuinoel make the connection almost as we have given it; but they attach ὑμεῖς οἴδατε to τὸν λόγον, and take to τὸ γενόμενον ῥῆμα as apposition to τὸν λόγον,—by which, however, οὗτός ἐστι πάντων κύριος makes its weight, in keeping with the connection, far less sensibly felt than according to our view, under which it by the very fact of its high significance as an element breaks off the construction. Others refer τὸν λόγον ὃν κ. τ. λ. to what precedes, in which case, however, it cannot be taken either as for ὃν λόγον (Beza, Grotius; comp. Bengel and others), or with Olshausen, after Calvin and others, for κατὰ τὸν λόγον ὃν κ. τ. λ.; but would have, with de Wette (comp. Baumgarten and Lange), to be made dependent on καταλαμβ., or to be regarded as an appositional addition (Buttm. neut. Gr. p. 134 [E. T. 153]), and consequently would be epexegetical of ὅτι οὐκ ἔστι … δεκτὸς αὐτῷ ἐστι. In this case εἰρήνη would have to be understood of peace between Jews and Gentiles. But even apart from this inadmissible explanation of εἰρήνην (see below), the λόγος of Acts 10:36, so far as it proclaims this peace, is something very different from the doctrine indicated in Acts 10:35, in which there is expressed only the universally requisite first step towards Christianity. Moreover, Peter could not yet at this time say that God had caused that peace to be proclaimed through Christ (for this he required a further development starting from his present experience), for which a reference to Acts 1:8 and to the universalism of Luke’s Gospel by no means suffices. Pfeiffer in the Stud. u. Krit. 1850, p. 401 ff., likewise attaching it to what precedes, explains thus: he is in so far acceptable to him, as he has the destination of receiving the message of salvation in Christ; so that thus εὐαγγελιζ. would be passive (Luke 7:22; Hebrews 4:2; Hebrews 4:6), and τὸν λόγον, as also εἰρήνην, would be the object to it. But this is linguistically incorrect, inasmuch as it would require at least the infinitive instead of εὐαγγελιζόμενος; and besides, εὐαγγελίζομαί τι, there is something proclaimed to me, is foreign to the N. T. usage. Weiss, Petr. Lehrbegr. p. 151 f., gives the meaning: “Every one who fears God and does right, by him the gospel may be accepted;” so that τὸν λόγον would stand by attraction for ὁ λόγος, which is impossible (in 1 Peter 2:7 it is otherwise). According to Ewald, p. 248, τὸν λόγον κ. τ. λ. is intended to be nothing but an explanation to δικαιοσύνην. A view which is the more harsh, the further τ. λόγον stands removed from δικαιοσ., the less τὸν λόγον ὃν κ. τ. λ. coincides as regards the notion of it with δικαιοσ., and the more the expression ἐργάζεσθαι λόγον is foreign to the N. T.
εἰρήνην is explained by many (including Heinrichs, Seyler, de Wette) of peace between Jews and Gentiles (Ephesians 2:17), but very arbitrarily, since no more precise definition is annexed, although the Jews are just named as the receivers of the gospel. Nor is there in what follows any mention of that peace. Hence it is to be generally taken as = שָׁלוֹם, salvation, and the whole Messianic salvation is meant, which God has made known through Christ to the children of Israel; not specially peace with God (Romans 5:1, Calovius, and others), which yet is the basis of salvation. Comp. on Romans 10:15 .
διὰ ἰ. χ. belongs to εὐαγγ., not to εἰρήνην (Bengel and others); for εὐαγγ. εἰρ. διὰ ἰ. χ. contains the more precise explanation of the τὸν λόγ. ὃν ἀπέστ., consequently must also designate Jesus as the sent of God, through whom the λόγος is brought.
πάντων] not neuter (Luther and others), but masculine. Christ is Lord of all, of Jews and Gentiles, like God Himself (Romans 3:29; Romans 10:12), whose σύνθρονος He is; comp. Romans 10:12; Romans 14:9; Ephesians 4:5 f. The aim of this emphatically added remark is to make the universal destination of the word primarily sent to the Jews to be felt by the Gentile hearers, who were not to regard themselves as excluded by ὃν ἀπέστ. τοῖς υἱοῖς ἰσρ. Comp. Acts 10:43.
ῥῆμα] word, not the things (de Wette and older expositors), which it does not mean even in Acts 5:32; Luke 2:15. Comp. on Matthew 4:4. It resumes the preceding τὸν λόγον. On γενόμ., comp. Luke 3:2. Concerning the order of the words (instead of τὸ καθʼ ὁλ. τ. ἰουδ. γενόμ. ῥῆμα), see Kühner, ad Xen. Anab. iv. 2. 18.
In Acts 10:38 the discourse now passes from the word, the announcement of which to the Jews was known to the hearers, to the announcer, of whose Messianic working they would likewise have knowledge.
ὡς ἔχρισεν αὐτόν] renders prominent the special divine Messianic element in the general ἰησοῦν τὸν ἀπὸ ναζ. ( οἴδατε(259)). Comp. Luke 24:20. As to the idea of this χρίειν, see on Acts 4:27.
ὃς διῆλθεν] him ( αὐτόν), who (after receiving this anointing) went through (Galilee and Judaea, Acts 10:37) doing good, and in particular healing, etc.
In the compound verb καταδυναστ. is implied hostile domination, James 2:6; Wisdom of Solomon 2:10; Wisdom of Solomon 15:14; Sirach 48:12; Xen. Symp. ii. 8; Strabo, vi. p. 270; Joseph. Antt. xii. 2. 3; Plut. de Is. et Osir. 41: καταδυναστεῦον ἢ καταβιαζόμενον. Comp. καταδουλοῦν.
΄ετʼ αὐτοῦ is not spoken according to a “lower view” (de Wette), against which, see on Acts 2:36; but the metaphysical relation of Christ to the Father is not excluded by this general expression (comp. John 16:32), although in this circle of hearers it did not yet demand a specific prominence. Comp. Bengel: “parcius loquitur pro auditorum captu de majestate Christi.”
Acts 10:36-43. After this general declaration regarding the acceptableness for Christianity, Peter now prepares those present for its actual acceptance, by shortly explaining the characteristic dignity of Jesus, inasmuch as he (1) reminds them of His earthly work to His death on the cross (Acts 10:36-39); (2) then points to His resurrection and to the apostolic commission which the disciples had received from the Risen One (Acts 10:40-42); and finally, (3) mentions the prophetic prediction, which indicates Jesus as the universal Reconciler by means of faith on Him (Acts 10:43). Comp. Seyler in the Stud. u. Krit. 1832, p. 55 f.
Acts 10:39-41. ὃν καὶ ἀνεῖλον] namely, οἱ ἰουδαῖοι. ὃν refers to the subject of ἐποίησεν. There lies at the bottom of the καί, also, the conception of the other persecutions, etc., to which even the ἀνεῖλον was added. See on the climactic idea indicated by καί after relatives, Hartung, Partikell. I. p. 136.
ἀνεῖλ. κρεμάσ.] as in Acts 2:23.
ἐπὶ ξύλου] as in Acts 5:30.
καὶ ἔδωκεν κ. τ. λ.] and granted (comp. Acts 2:27) that He should become manifest (by visible appearances, Acts 1:3; John 21:1), not to all the people, but to witnesses who (quippe qui) are chosen before of God, (namely) to us, who, etc.
τοῖς προκεχειρ. ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ] Peter with correct view regards the previous election of the apostles to be witnesses of the resurrection of Jesus (Acts 1:3, Acts 2:22, Acts 3:22, al.) as done by God (John 17:6; John 17:9; John 17:11; John 6:37); they are apostles διὰ θελήματος θεοῦ (1 Corinthians 1:1; Galatians 1:1, al.), ἀφωρισμένοι εἰς εὐαγγ. θεοῦ (Romans 1:1; Galatians 1:15). And with the προ in προκεχειρ. he points back to the time of the previous choice as disciples, by which their election to be the future witnesses of the resurrection in reality took place. On προχειροτονεῖν (only here in the N. T.), comp. Plat. Legg. vi. p. 765 B.
μετὰ τὸ ἀναστ. αὐτὸν ἐκ νεκρῶν] is not, with Cameron and Bengel, to be connected with ἐμφανῆ γενέσθαι, Acts 10:40,(260) so that οὐ παντὶ … αὐτῷ would have to be arbitrarily and violently converted into a parenthesis; but with οἵτινες συνεφ. κ. συνεπ. αὐτῷ, which even without the passages, Acts 1:4, Luke 24:41; Luke 24:43, John 21:12, would have nothing against it, as the body of the Risen One was not yet a glorified body. See on Luke 24:51, note; Ignat. ad Smyrn. 5; Constitt. Ap. vi. 30. 5. The words clearly exhibit the certainty of the attested bodily resurrection, but annexed to Acts 10:40 they would contain an unimportant self-evident remark. The apparent inconsistency of the passage with Luke 22:18 is removed by the more exact statement to Matthew 26:29; see on that passage.
Acts 10:42. τῷ λαῷ] can only denote the Jewish people, seeing that the context speaks of no other (Acts 10:41), and cannot include the Gentiles also (Kuinoel). But the contents of ὅτι … νεκρῶν is so different from Matthew 28:20 (also Acts 1:8), that there must be here assumed a reference to another expression of the Risen One (for He is the subject of παρήγγ.) unknown to us.
ὅτι αὐτός ἐστιν … νεκρῶν] that He (no other) is the Judge ordained by God (in His decree) over living (who are alive at the Parousia, 1 Thessalonians 4:17; 1 Corinthians 15:51-52) and dead (who shall then be already dead). Comp. 2 Timothy 4:1; 1 Peter 4:5. Incorrectly Olshausen (resting on Matthew 22:32!) understands by ζώντων κ. νεκρ. the spiritually living and dead. This meaning would require to be suggested by the context, but is here quite foreign to it. Comp. Romans 14:19-20; Acts 17:31.
Acts 10:43-44. Now follows the divinely attested way of salvation unto this Judge of the living and dead.
πάντες οἱ προφ.] comp. Acts 3:24.
That every one who believes on Him receives forgiveness of sins by means of His name (of the believing confession of it, by which the objectively completed redemption is subjectively appropriated, Romans 3:25; Romans 10:10, al.). The general πάντα τὸν πιστ. εἰς αὐτ., which lays down no national distinction, is very emphatically placed at the end, Romans 3:22. Thus has Peter opened the door for further announcing to his hearers the universalism of the salvation in Christ. But already the living power of his words has become the vehicle of the Holy Spirit, who falls upon all the hearers, and by His operations makes the continuation of the discourse superfluous and—impossible. Comp. on Acts 11:15.
Here the unique example of the outpouring of the Spirit before baptism—treated, indeed, by Baur as unhistorical and ascribed to the set purpose influencing the author—is of itself intelligible from the frame of mind, now exalted after an extraordinary manner to the pitch of full susceptibility, in those present. The appropriate degree of receptivity was there; and so, for a special divine purpose, the πνεῦμα communicated itself according to the free will of God even before baptism.(261) Olshausen thinks that this extraordinary circumstance took place for the sake of Peter, in order to make him aware, beyond a doubt, in this first decisive instance, that the Gentiles would not be excluded from the gift of the Spirit. But Peter had this illumination already (Acts 10:34 f.); and besides, this object would have been fully attained by the outpouring of the Spirit after baptism. We may add that the quite extraordinary and, in fact, unique nature of the case stands decidedly opposed to the abuse of the passage by the Baptists.(262)
(261) “Liberum gratia habet ordinem,” Bengel. Not the necessity, but the possibility of the bestowal of the Spirit before baptism, was implied by the susceptibility which had already emerged. The design of this extraordinary effusion of the Spirit is, according to ver. 45, to be found in this, that all scruples concerning the reception of the Gentiles were to be taken away from the Jewish-Christians who were present in addition to Peter, and thereby from the Christians generally. What Peter had just said: πάντα τὸν πιστεύοντα εἰς αὐτόν, was at once divinely affirmed and sealed by this σημεῖον in such a way that now no doubt at all could remain concerning the immediate admissibility of baptism. Chrysostom strikingly calls this event the ἀπολογίαν μεγάλην, which God had arranged beforehand for Peter. That it could not but, at the same time, form for the latter himself the divine confirmation of the revelation already imparted to him, is obvious of itself.
Acts 10:45-46. οἱ ἐκ περιτ. πιστοί] those who were believers from the circumcision, i.e. believers who belonged to the circumcised, the Jewish-Christians. Comp. Acts 11:2; Romans 4:12; Galatians 2:12; Colossians 4:11; Titus 1:10. On περιτομή in the concrete sense, comp. Romans 3:30; Romans 4:9; Romans 4:12; Romans 15:8; Galatians 2:7; Philippians 3:3.
ὅσοι συνῆλθ. τ. ιι.] see Acts 10:23.
ἐπὶ τὰ ἔθνη] Cornelius and his company now represented, in the view of those who were astonished, the Gentiles as a class of men generally; for the article signifies this. Observe also the perfect; the completed fact lay before them.
γάρ] reason assigned ab effectu.
λαλούντων γλώσσαις] γλώσσαις (or γλώσσῃ) λαλεῖν is mentioned as something well known to the church, without the ἑτέραις, by the characteristic addition of which the event recorded in chap. 2 is denoted as something singular and not identical with the mere γλώσσαις λαλεῖν, as it was there also markedly distinguished by means of the list of peoples. Now if, in the bare γλώσσαις λαλεῖν, this γλώσσαις were to be understood in the same sense as in chap. 2. according to the representation of the narrator, then—as Bleek’s conception, “to speak in glosses,” is decidedly to be rejected (see on chap. 2)—no other meaning would result than: “to speak in languages,” i.e. to speak in foreign languages (different from their mother tongue), and therefore quite the same as ἑτέραις γλώσσαις λαλεῖς. But against this we may decisively urge the very expression ἑτέραις (with which agrees καιναῖς in the apocryphal passage, Mark 16:17) only added in chap. 2, and almost ostentatiously glorified as the chief matter, but not inserted at all elsewhere (here or at chap. 19 or 1 Corinthians 12-14). So much the more decidedly is γλώσσαις here and in Acts 19:6 not to be completed by mentally supplying ἑτέραις (so Baur still, and others, following the traditional interpretation), but(263) to be explained: “with tongues,” and that in such a way that Luke himself has meant nothing else (not: “in languages”) than the to him well-known glossolalia of the apostolic church, which was here manifested in Cornelius and his company, but from which he has conceived and represented the event of Pentecost as something different and entirely extraordinary, although the latter also is, in its historical substance, to be considered as nothing else than the first speaking with tongues (see on chap. 2). Cornelius and his friends spoke with tongues, i.e. they spoke not in the exercise of reflective thought (of the νοῦς, 1 Corinthians 14:9), not in intelligible, clear, and connected speech, but in enraptured eucharistic ecstasy, as by the involuntary exercise of their tongues, which were just organs of the Spirit. See the more particular exposition at 1 Corinthians 12:10.
Acts 10:47-48. Can any one, then, withhold the water, in order that these be not baptized? The water is in this animated language conceived as the element offering itself for the baptism. So urgent now appeared the necessity for completing on the human side the divine work that had miraculously emerged. Bengel, moreover, well remarks: “Non dicit: jam habent Spiritum, ergo aqua carere possunt.” The conjunction of water and Spirit could not but obtain its necessary recognition.
τοῦ μὴ βαπτ. τούτ.] genitive according to the construction κωλύειν τινά τινος, and μή after verbs of hindering, as in Acts 14:18.
καθὼς καὶ ἡμεῖς] as also we, the recipients of the Spirit of Pentecost. This refers to the prominent and peculiar character of the enraptured speaking, by which the fact then occurring showed itself as of a similar kind to that which happened on Pentecost (Acts 11:15). But καθὼς καὶ ἡμεῖς cannot be held as a proof that by γλώσσαις λαλεῖν is to be understood a speaking in foreign languages (in opposition to Baumgarten, who thinks that he sees in our passage “the connecting link between the miracle of Pentecost and the speaking with tongues in the Corinthian church”), for it rather shows the essential identity of the Pentecostal event with the later speaking with tongues, and points back from the mouth of the apostle to the historical form of that event, when it had not yet been transformed by tradition into a speaking of languages.
προσέταξέ] The personal performance of baptism did not necessarily belong to the destined functions of the apostolic office. See on 1 Corinthians 1:17.
ἐν τῷ ὀνομ. τοῦ κυρ.] belongs to βαπτισθ., but leaves untouched the words with which the baptism was performed. As, namely, the name of Jesus Christ is the spiritual basis of the being baptized (see on Acts 2:38, comp. Acts 8:35 f.) and the end to which it refers (Acts 19:5), so it is also conceived as the entire holy sphere, in which it is accomplished, and out of which it cannot take place.
ἐπιμεῖναι] to remain. And he remained and had fellowship at table with them, Acts 11:3. So much the more surprising is his ὑπόκρισις at Antioch, Galatians 2:11 ff.
Meyer, Heinrich. "Commentary on Acts 10:4". Heinrich Meyer's Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament. http://odl.studylight.org/commentaries/hmc/acts-10.html. 1832.
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Growing Artemis reveals large BAE Systems deal
Ten-year supply agreement for head-up display components supporting expansion at Plymouth, UK, headquarters.
BAE Systems 'LiteHUD'
UK-based optical thin-film coatings expert Artemis Optical is set to double its workforce by 2020, after signing a decade-long supply deal with the multinational defense contractor BAE Systems.
Coupled with a recent £230,000 grant that is helping finance the installation of a new ion-beam assisted deposition coating chamber, it should see headcount rise from the current 29 employees to an anticipated 60 by the end of the decade.
The deal with BAE Systems, which will see Artemis provide combiner assemblies that feature in the defense giant’s “LiteHUD” head-up displays, runs through 2026. Artemis originally announced the supply agreement in June, but has only just revealed that BAE Systems is the customer.
Nick Hurst, the executive chairman at Artemis, said when the deal was first signed: “This order encapsulates our strategy to be world leaders in this area and positions the company well for predicted strong continued growth in the HUD market.”
Hurst added that the company’s work on HUD combiners had been growing, particularly over the past year. “We have one of the highest on-time delivery rates in the industry, exceeding 90 per cent,” he noted, along with a near-perfect customer acceptance rate. “The quality of our manufactured products, as well as our service makes us world-class and at the very high end of the photonics sector.”
Absorbing data
The advanced optical assembles for the HUDs enable pilots to see and absorb critical data without being distracted from their main view out of the cockpit.
The company said: “Artemis Optical’s coatings maximize clarity without the need for pilots to change focus as the symbology is fixed at infinity, appearing to ‘float’ on the horizon. This maximizes pilot performance and aircraft safety.”
Aside from the specifics of the BAE work, the agreement is evidence that Artemis’ strategy of moving up the value chain to supply assemblies rather than just components, and thus deal directly with major contractors, is bearing fruit.
The company is now expecting to employ additional personnel in the form of coating technicians, assembly staff and project managers at its 25,000 square foot factory in Plymouth to support the agreement, which it is believed will see thousands of units shipped.
Artemis’ sales director Jamie Pindard commented: “BAE Systems is a very prestigious partner and a world leader in the design of HUD systems. Supplying the assembly, not just the coated glass, underlines our position as a leading international manufacturer of HUD combiners. Our strategy is to be global leaders in this area.”
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EU should fear the jihadists it’s backing in Syria, not refugees – Assad
November 9, 2019 greenteeth Immigration, middle east assad, britain, eu, europe, jihad, refugees, syria
from RT
In an exclusive interview with RT’s Afshin Rattansi, Syrian President Bashar Assad said it’s hypocrisy for European nations to fear that Ankara will send refugees to Europe, but continue to sponsor terrorism in Syria.
The Syrian leader argued that the primary concern for Europe should not be the Syrian refugees which Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan now threatens to release to Europe, but the “hundreds of thousands” of jihadists Europe allied itself with.
How can you fear those few millions, the majority of them are moderates and they have few terrorists, while you support those terrorists directly in tens of thousands at least and maybe hundreds of thousands in Syria and you don’t fear that they’re going to go back to your country?
Assad told Afshin Rattansi that while there might be some extremists among those who fled the war-torn country, the majority of the refugees do not pose any acute threat, as opposed to hardened jihadists who may turn on their patrons …
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Irish EU Official Says Open European Borders Allow Jihadis to ‘Carry Out Their Atrocities at Will’
March 24, 2016 greenteeth europe, Immigration, Uncategorized brussels, eu, europe, islam, jihad, multiculturalism, muslim, terror
Hermann Kelly, who is the communications director for the EFDD Euroskeptic group in the European Parliament, had strong words for the Euronazi Bureaucratic Dictatorship in Brussels. Speaking to news organisations on the day following the Burssels bombings he said, “People here are absolutely appalled by the loss of life. This horrific act of terrorism shows that Schengen free movement, and lax border control across the EU, now presents itself as a huge threat to our security. David Cameron said we must stay in the EU for our security. Well, I’m sitting here in the middle of the European Parliament. A bomb has just gone off half a mile away. People have been killed. And believe me, it doesn’t feel too safe here today.”
“It’s incredible… the head of Europol — which is like the European police, the federal service — said there’s 5,000 jihadists at large in the European Union, having slipped in from Syria,” he added before pointing out that there were some “94 returned jihadists from Syria” living in the same small area of Brussels ( the run down suburb of Molenbeek) where Paris massacre mastermind Salah Abdeslam went to ground until being arrested a few days ago.
“For me, it’s just incredible that these people are allowed to murder people in Syria and come back, and live, and walk around as if nothing happened… in the center of Brussels, which is supposed to be the center of the European Union,” Kelly stormed. “This whole thing of free movement across borders, in the European movement, allows these fighters to travel wherever they will. It allows them to move their guns, and their explosives, as they like. And we see, now, the consequences of this ridiculous, this stupid, this just incredibly stupid policy of the European Union. Free movement means free movement for fighters, for guns, for explosives, and they can go and carry out their atrocities at will.”
Kelly dismissed the argument used European Union proponents such as British Prime Minister David Cameron, that keeping Britain inside the EU will enhance its security to be “so ridiculous, it’s beyond belief.”
Referring to the fact that one of the bombs went off only one kilometre from the EU headquarters in Brussels, he said terror attacks so close to the European Parliament were “not only barbaric, but it’s also a symbolic act, which blows this whole security argument out of the water.”
Staff at the EU headquarters and other Britons working in Belgium expected Brussels to remain on a high state of alert for some time to come. Staff and journalists at the European Parliament were strongly advised to remain indoors throughout the morning, pending further notice from security officials.
Improvements in Belgium’s shambolic security system are unlikely unless national and EU authorities get serious about dealing with the dangerous elements infesting certain Belgian neighborhoods, through such actions as rounding up the known veterans of Syrian jihad immediately. With senior bureaucrats such as Jean Claude Juncker and Martin Schulz and national leaders like Angela Merkel and David Cameron in complete denial about the problems being caused by the uncontrolled arrival of so many people from the world’s most violent areas, a change of direction is unlikely in the near future.
So we the punters must expect to bear the brunt of more attacks, while the elite sit in their ivory towers babbling about how we much learn to live with “The Religion Of Peace” because ‘multiculturalism’ (something of which the jihadists are clearly not aware.
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There’s gratitude for you
September 15, 2015 greenteeth Uncategorized allah, diversity, islamic, jihad, multiculturalism, muslim
So Hausfrau Merkel tells those lovely, peace loving Islamic jihadists, “You can all come to Germany, we are a tolerent nation who welcome multiculturalism and celebrate diversity. And here’s the newly arrived in Germany jihadists message of thanks to the German people:
Translation: you children will pray to Allah or die (Image source: Atlas Shugged (Pam Geller)
It’s time our leaders woke up to what is happening, then they have two options: they can grow backbones and stand up for their people and hope they can do enough so that we dn’t throw them out of office at the first opportunity, or they can admit their whole approach to national sovereignty, immigration and the Islamic jihad has been idiotic, misguided and just plain wrong and then they can fuck the fucking fuck off unless they fancy having their severed heads displayed on iron spikes outside the parliament building of their repecyive county’s.
Secret Informant Played Key Role In Helping FBI Foil Its Own Terror Plot
February 27, 2015 May 13, 2017 greenteeth Uncategorized fbi, ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State, jihad, satire, syria, terror, terrorists, united states
Yes you read the headline right. Now see what you make of the story
On Wednesday in Washington, The FBI announced the arrest of three men it alleges planned to help the Islamic State, news intended to stoke fears that Islamic extremism is spreading to the United States.
“The flow of foreign fighters to Syria represents an evolving threat to our country and to our allies, U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch said in a press release announcing the arrests. “We will vigorously prosecute those who attempt to travel to Syria to wage violent jihad on behalf of ISIL and those who support them.
Omitted from the FBI statement however, is the role of a paid informant in generating the charges against the men. The intruction of this third party acted as a catalyst, turning a couple of fantasists whose ” terrorist plots were on a par with the late Peter Cook’s character E L Wisty, founder and leader of the world domination society, into something even slightly believable. It appears that none of the three men had either the intelligence or the financial means to travel or support the Islamic State, without help from the FBI informant.
Abdurasul Hasanovich Juraboev, 24, and Akhror Saidakhmetov 19, are alleged to have made arrangements to travel to Syria, and also to have expressed willingness to conduct attacks in the United States “if ordered to do so by the group. A third man, Abror Habibov, 30, was arrested in Florida and charged with helping provide financial support for their travel plans.
According to the criminal charges against the three, the FBI first began investigating Juraboev after he made postings on Uzbek-language social media sites in August 2014 praising the Islamic State and pledging allegiance to them. While these postings were made anonymously, Juraboev neglected to conceal his IP address.
When FBI agents visited him, he reiterated these violent and criminal desires, stating his willingness to kill President Obama if he were ordered to do so by any member of Islamic State, and also telling the agents he was willing to “plant a bomb on Coney Island if so ordered by ISIL.
In the interviews, Juraboev also mentioned Saidakhmetov, 19, as someone who shared his basic views and desire to travel to areas controlled by the Islamic State. Transcripts of a recorded conversation between the two in mid-September show them apparently expressing their desire to travel to Syria via Istanbul, and trying to determine logistics of the trip.
Shortly after this, the FBI introduced them to a ‘confidential informant’, who “approached Juraboev at a mosque, while posing as an ideologically sympathetic individual, and met Saidakhmetov the same day. The informant befriended the two men, who told him of their desire to go to Syria. According to the criminal complaint, the informant was paid for his services and was perceived by the defendants to be an “older and more experienced person.
An experienced suicide bomber, that’s exactly the kind of mentor every aspiring terrorist needs.
Over the next several months the informant evidently developed a relationship of trust with both Juraboev and Saidakhmetov, even possibly moving into an apartment with Juraboev, and convincing both of them that he intended to travel to Syria and join Islamic State.
Saidakhmetov was arrested on Feb. 25 at JFK airport in New York as he arrived to board his flight to Istanbul. In the run-up to his arrest, he had also allegedly proposed a plan to gain control cockpit and “[divert] the plane to the Islamic State, so that the Islamic State would gain a plane. Juraboev, not scheduled to leave for Turkey until March 29, and Habibov, were also arrested on the same day at separate locations.
After first making contact with Juraboev in August 2014, seven months elapsed until FBI agents the arrested the trio. During this time, the group stayed under close surveillance, and an informant was introduced who was evidently older and considered to be “more experienced by the defendants.
It seems clear from the evidence (published on a whistleblower site only accessible to members – see our post on Little Nicky Machiavelli about the US government’s Ministry of Love site) that plans to actually commit criminal acts were only discussed after the introduction of the FBI informant.
A 2011 study conducted by US liberal news site Mother Jones and the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California-Berkeley found that of 508 post-9/11 terrorist suspects actually charged with crimes, “Nearly half the prosecutions involved the use of informants, many of them incentivized by money, with operatives being paid as much as $100,000 per assignment. Of the sting operations that resulted in terrorism arrests, nearly a third are believed to have been led by an agent provocateur in the employ of the FBI.
Well who’d have thought it, except me, Mike St Mark and a few million hard nosed realists with nasty, suspicious minds maybe.
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The Ginge Jihad: Revenge Of The Redheads?
September 9, 2014 greenteeth Uncategorized ginger, jihad, morrigan, prejudice, retribution, satire, scottish
You might thing the left are notable for nothing except their sheep like tendency to follow every fad that momentarily grabs the ever shorter attention spans of denizens of cyberspace. You’d be almost right, displaying the stupidity of the mob and stupidly calling it The Wisdom Of The Crowd is one of the noticeable traits of left wing thinking.
The other of course is hypocrisy.
Do you know any red heaired people (or if you are Scottish do you know anyone who doesn’t have red hair?) Most of us do, and they are for the main part fine people. So why a few years ago did it become an acceptable prejudice to pour scorn on Ginges. I mean it wasn’t just good natured teasing we are talking about it was nasty, vicious hate speech. Well I suppose the people who run around screeching ‘hate – speech’, ‘racism’, ‘sexism’, ‘homophobia’ at anyone who expresses an opinion they don’t quite totally agree with have to have an outlet for their prejudices. In fact they have several. Northerners are one, short people another (I’m a victim on both counts), ginger haired people are yet another.
I suppose Chris Evans has a lot to answer for, but even with black, brown or blond hair he would still have been a knobhead. I could never understand the pillorying of Simply Red sing Mick Hucknall for his suposed freakish ugliness which was often said to be related to his ginger hair. Mick isn’t the best looking guy on the planet, but he’s not The effing Elephant Man either. And he’s a very good musician; where in the rules does it say he has to look like Adonis?
Anyway the Gingism has backfired
from Breitbart London
Dozens of young redheaded men and women are replacing the ritual bullying of the playground with the ritual strictures of radical Islam, perhaps at least according to some experts as a result of the bullying and persecution they endure early in life.
You’ve likely already made the connection between ginger hair and home-grown Islamic radicals yourself. Subconsciously, perhaps, from newspaper reports showing carrot-topped wannabe jihadis from Bradford, and TV clips of auburn brothers in east London. What you probably don’t know is just how vastly over-represented redheads are in the ranks of Islamist converts.
There are no surveys of jihadis, of course. The Quilliam Foundation, a counter-extremism organisation, told us that no one keeps reliable data on white converts to Islamism. So news reports probably represent the best data set available to researchers.
We sampled national newspaper coverage of white converts to radical Islam published between 5 August 2013 and 4 August 2014, excluding cases where there was no evidence of extremism or radicalisation. For example, Lucy Vallender, the ginger-haired Territorial Army private who had a sex change and became Britain’s first transgender Muslim woman, was excluded from our results.
We discovered that 76 per cent of white British converts to radical Islam had red hair. In the Daily Mail archives, 69 per cent of white Brits lured into jihadism or the orbit of an extremist preacher were ginger. The number was similar for the Mirror and the Telegraph. The Guardian yielded a full 100 per cent redhead rate for the stories we sampled.
These are extraordinary numbers when you consider that in northern and western Europe, the average incidence of red hair in the general population is 5 per cent. In other words, Islamic extremists reported on by the media are fifteen times more likely than the general population to have red hair.
Well, that’s where being prejudiced gets you, as you sow so shall you reap, as the saying goes. The revenge of the ginges is upon us. although I’d rather they’d chosen The Morrigan than Allah as their agen of retribution.
Unless you think there’s a Fleet Street conspiracy to single out and report on ginger jihadis and that the Guardian is leading the charge the data clearly demonstrate that white people who convert to radical Islam are overwhelmingly likely to be ginger. Continue reading
Morrigan – Goddess of retribution and Ginger hair
A Jihadist Joke
September 6, 2006 greenteeth Uncategorized humor, humour, jihad, satire, terror
You may have thought that jihadists are a pretty humourless lot but Boggart Blog can bring you the comforting news that the bearded boys do have a sense of fun. To prove it here is a jihadist joke:
An Arab maths teacher was detained at London Heathrow airport today when he was found to be in possession of a slide rule, a set of logarithmic tables, a protractor and set square and a calculator. A spokesman for airport security said the man is suspected on being involved in terrorist group Al Gebra.
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Fountains in the Desert
Oct14 by little city hermit
Book launch by En Plo Publications in Athens
This event has been a most humbling experience! The ethos of the two panel speakers, Hieromonk Chrysostomos of Koutloumousiou Monastery, Mount Athos, and Fr. Bogdan-Konstantin Georgeskou, and that of the author himself, Fr. Jonathan Hemmings, permeated all the events. Such love and humility, especially in the face of various trials and tribulations, the least being an airline strike (!) impacting with its last-minute flight cancellations our speakers’ trips, felt like a rare blessing in “the apostasy of our times”. Fr. Seraphim’s Rose warning “Do not be deceived !” “It is later that you think, hasten therefore to do the work of God” is a favourite motto of Father Jonathan, his spiritual grandchild.
The book presentation proved to be a Panorthodox Synaxis, truly ecumenical! So many Greek, Romanian and English Orthodox friends turned up. En Plo Bookstore was packed out! The occasion provided everybody with the grace of fellowship.
Hieromonk Chrysostomos, the first panelist, summed it all aptly in the opening sentence of his presentation: “I have not come here to introduce or recommend the book, which needs no such thing, as this is evident to anyone who begins to read it, but I have come here, all the way from Mount Athos, to meet its author!”
Because “cradle Orthodox” have so much to learn from “Orthodox converts“! (One of the ‘ironies’ of this event was that in the many conversations which followed with priests, academic theologians and lay people, Father Jonathan, himself a ‘convert‘, had to repeatedly ‘defend’ Orthodoxy from ‘cradle Orthodox‘ faithful, from their disillusionment, doubts, and confusion about ‘their’ faith).
For Hieromonk Chrysostomos presentation, “Monasticism as Unity and Overcoming Divisions” go to http://www.pemptousia.gr/video/ierom-chrisostomos-koutloumousianos-monachismos-ine-i-enotita-ke-i-ipervasi-ton-diereseon/
A vignette of the occasion which was indelibly marked in my heart was the author himself, in front of the audience in the packed room, all quiet during Hieromonk Chrysostomos’ presentation, deeply immersed in prayer, bending in humility his head, radiant, otherworldly, silent, and yet so eloquent, so full of the Holy Spirit amidst all this noise and praise in the crowded building. And I write ‘building’, because both floors were packed, and people were also waiting outside the book store too!
The long queue of the author’s spiritual children at the end of the book launch, their love and gratitude was such a heartwarming experience on its own! “And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.” (Luke 13:29) So many memories, of his life and ministry, of his works and his deeds, of love, which will continue in them and in their families. Father Jonathan was himself visibly moved to be with his spiritual children and dearest supporters of the ‘crucified’ Community of the Holy and Life Giving Cross in Lancaster, England and meet new friends in Christ and make further ‘connections’ in the Holy Spirit with those who are part of Christ’s extended family.
The two panel speakers’ presentations were outstanding, and the author impressed the audience with his profound humility, his love for everybody, his wise words, the purity of ‘his’ Orthodoxy, his poetry and his knowledge of the Greek language:
“It is with a profound sense of thanksgiving that in humility I thank you for publishing “Fountains in the Desert.” It is the product of a long lived admiration for those who found the desert to be a treasury of blessings. I have simply woven my own experiences into this mystical landscape. Any worth in it springs from the overflowing love of God for me, a prodigal, and to those whose zeal, patience, kindness and loving example have been spiritual signposts of the faith for my own journey through the desert.
Such salvation is experienced when one is thirsty for the Truth and the saints who Christ sends, provide the living water from which one drinks deeply of the sparkling fresh fountains of our Orthodox Christian faith. I wish to recognise in particular the heaven endowed, grace-filled influences of His Eminence Metropolitan Antony of Sourozh, Archimandrite Barnabas of New Mills, Archimandrite David of Walsingham, Archpriest Michael Harper and Hieroschemamonk Ambrose ( formerly Fr.Alexey Young) the spiritual son of Blessed Seraphim Rose, who chrismated me .
The Apostle Paul writes to the Christians at Ephesus:
“Walk in the way of love just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.”
When we drink deeply from these sparkling springs and living waters of Orthodoxy, there is an inevitable outpouring of love to sustain us in our journey and an inexpressible joy to share this life giving water with others who thirst after truth. This is the life of the Church, to share the Gospel.
29 And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
So we have much to do- because for to those who have been given much, much is expected. We rejoice with those returning to the Orthodox Church. We weep with those who find themselves exiled from their lands. We are warmed by the fact that so many of our parishes are microcosms of Pentecost with faithful being welcomed from all over the world regardless of nationality. We thank God that we witness strength of faith and growth in His Church and we ask empowerment for the apostolic mission set before us to bring God’s love to a hungry and thirsty world.
The glory of God is revealed in joy. The mercy of God is experienced in suffering. The grace of God is discovered in fellowship. The power of God is realised in miracles. The love of God is manifested in mission. Our dialogue is with heaven, even in the deserts of our cities where we encounter ourselves, the evil one and God. Christ only speaks one language and that is the language of love for His creation. May His love give voice to our faith.” (excerpts from the author’s presentation)
Fr. Jonathan‘s interview following the booklaunch has been videotaped by pemptousia.com and will appear shortly.
The Orthodox Christian Parish of the Holy and Life Giving Cross at Lancaster (United Kingdom) belongs to the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of the British Isles and Ireland, is a relatively small parish led by Fr. Jonathan, but with faithful from more than half a dozen nationalities, a ‘crucified’ parish, literally ‘on the move’ for over 20 years. After 20 years of using borrowed premises (a quite typical situation for ‘convert’ Orthodox parishes at the UK), they are renting a former Anglican church St Martin’s of Tours Church from Friday to Sunday evening, in order to serve the needs of the Orthodox Christians in the Lancaster area. To this end, they are making an appeal to raise funds to cover the rent and other needs of the Church on a permanent basis. Apart from your much needed prayers, you can find information on how to contribute to their fund raiser here. The proceedings from this Greek translation of the book or the English original will be likewise used to cover basic needs of the Church. The Holy and Life Giving Cross at Lancaster is a lively parish which enjoys Christian fellowship, having meals together and taking part in pilgrimages to Orthodox monasteries, churches, ancient Christian sites and other worship places (photos), produce a newsletter each month with their news and spiritual food for thought, and is engaged in a number of holy tasks.
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OneKindPlanet | Blog | Wildlife wonders of the world: fish
Wildlife wonders of the world: fish
August 2, 2019 by Jane Warley
Fish are vertebrates that have gills and live in water. There are two types, bony fish and cartilaginous fish. While there are many differences between them, the main one is the skeleton. Bony fish have a skeleton of bone while cartilaginous fish have a skeleton of cartilage. Here, we are looking at bony fish, of which there are over 30,000 species!
Ocean sunfish
Best place to see: These giant creatures can even be seen off the coast of the UK during summer feasting on jellyfish.
Unique and easily recognisable, sunfish look like giant floating heads! They are the heaviest known bony fish on the planet and inhabit temperate and tropical oceans throughout the world. Currently listed as vulnerable on the IUCN red list, sunfish are at risk from bycatch and ocean rubbish. Like turtles, they feast on jellyfish and are susceptible to suffocation through plastic bag ingestion.
Best place to see: The Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
Made famous by the Disney Pixar movie, Finding Nemo, clownfish are hard to miss – just look for the distinctive orange and white stripes hiding amongst the sea anemones. The relationship between clownfish and sea anemones is a symbiotic one, meaning they both benefit – the anemone offers protection and food while the clownfish defends the anemone from predators and parasites. Even more fascinating is the fact that clownfish are born male and may develop into females later in life. There is a strict hierarchy in groups and only the dominant male and female mate. Females lay eggs while the male guards.
Best place to see: Indo-Pacific coral reefs.
Stonefish are the master of disguise, blending into the seafloor to ambush their prey. Moreover, they are the most venomous fish in the world. Venom glands in the fin spines are automatically released if you put pressure on them as a defence mechanism.
Image credit: George Berninger Jr. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leopard_lungfish_(Protopterus_aethiopic
us)_close_-_GRB.JPG
Best place to see: Sierra Leone.
Lungfish possess both lungs and gills and can breathe in and out of water; there are six species. West African and South American lungfish go into estivation (like hibernation) to survive dry seasons. They burrow into the mud, secrete a mucus cocoon to protect themselves and use their lungs for breathing until the water returns.
Best place to see: Bermuda
Seahorses are the only animal in which the male bears the unborn young! The female deposits her eggs into the male’s brood pouch where they remain for up to 45 days until ready. Seahorses are usually monogamous and mate for life.
Humpback anglerfish
Image credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Melanocetus_johnsonii1.jpg
Best place to see: 1,000–4,000 m below sea level!
Deep-sea fish are some of the most bizarre fish species, and adapted to living 1,000–4,000 m below the surface of the ocean, the humpback anglerfish is no exception. Females ambush their prey using a bioluminescent lure at the end of an extended spine. At up to 18 cm big, females are bigger than male, which only grow up to 2.9 cm!
Best place to see: Lembeh strait, Indonesia
Found in shallow tropical waters, frogfish employ camouflage to lie in wait for their prey. Most species have a lure that looks like a worm to attract prey which is immediately swallowed once close enough! Their reactions are so fast an attack lasts only six milliseconds.
We often forget about the oceans when thinking about the impact we have on the planet. However, issues such as overfishing and plastic pollution are causing a crisis under the sea. Please help by visiting our AnimalKind pages – Top 10 things to think about before buying fish and Top 10 ways to reduce your plastic waste – and support our campaign to reduce the impact of ghost fishing.
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Tag: #disorder
by Spencer Swalm • February 26, 2019
MSMS: My scary movie syndrome
Understand. I have a slight tremor anyway. It’s a side effect of the medication I take for my bipolar syndrome. And, I suppose, a natural consequence of getting older. But it doesn’t come close to preventing me from spending inordinate amounts of time poking this keyboard trying to turn out something that might grab your attention.
And, understand further, that I’m a coward when it comes to spooky movies. On the first date with the woman who became my wife of what is now nearly 40 years, I, for some crazy reason suggested we see Hitchcock’s Psycho. Before the credits rolled, I was reduced to a whimpering mess, eyes closed, my head cowering behind her back. Why she consented to marry me after that display remains, to this day, a mystery.
And then there’s the night before last. As is my wont when watching DVD’s, I was grinding away on the downstairs elliptical. Marleen was in the mountains, skiing with my sister who was visiting from Albuquerque. So it was just me and Disorder. In a quiet house with nightfall rapidly coming down outside. But by the time it was over, I was palsied like a leaf in a hurricane, barely able to get the disc back in its Netflix sleeve and rush it back to the outer darkness from whence it came.
But . . . I watched it again a few nights later.
I got to it, of all places, from one of my favorites, Far From The Madding Crowd.
Matthias Schoenaerts is the common denominator: the strong, silent type. But in Disorder he’s a veteran- and victim-of one of our endless wars: the conflict in Afghanistan. His unsettling portrayal of the mood swings of a now body guard for hire suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was more than enough to keep me on the edge of my figurative seat while on the elliptical. And keep me glued to the couch when I otherwise would have climbed down from the elliptical and started doing sit-ups.
But it wasn’t because I needed to see the subtitles in this French language film-the dialog doesn’t carry the show. It was far more that the long silences and the eerie sound track were punctuated by jump-out-your-skin sneak attacks as Schoenaerts defends co-star Diane Kruger’s creepy mansion from invasion. Even the last scene, which turned out to be perfectly benign, made my skin crawl the first time around.
But as I said . . .
I’m a coward when it comes to scary movies. But I liked this one anyway. How Kruger slowly, grudgingly allows Schoenaert to earn her trust and respect. In part, because, he, a hardened soldier with plenty of issues of his own, unobtrusively shows her how to be a better mother to her young son. Over a bowl of cereal.
But if fingernails-on-the-blackboard suspense isn’t your cup of tea, Disorder might not be for you. But I’ll give it this much: it made me come back for a second helping.
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Interview with Dr. Ilana Sasson on Judeo-Arabic
PHILOLOGY: Recovering Judeo-Arabic. Local scholar translates Karaite Bible commentary of Yefet ben Eli (LARRY YUDELSON, Times of Israel).
When Dr. Ilana Sasson of Teaneck was growing up in Israel, the child of Iraqi immigrants, she was embarrassed by the Arabic her parents would speak at home.
“I wanted people to speak Hebrew,” she said. “Kids who had Yiddish in their house felt the same. It was more so for those of us coming from the Islamic world, since Arabic was identified as the language of the enemy.”
Her childhood self would be quite surprised, therefore, that Dr. Sasson wrote a dissertation on a Judeo-Arabic translation and commentary on the biblical book of Proverbs. A revised version of the dissertation was published this summer by Brill Publishers as “The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet ben Eli on the Book of Proverbs.”
I noted the book when it came out this summer.
So what is Judeo-Arabic?
Briefly, it’s the distinctive versions of Arabic used by Jews.
But it’s not so simple.
“There is a big debate now,” Dr. Sasson said. “There’s a scholar at New York University, Dr. Ella Habiba Shohat, who claims that we shouldn’t say Judeo-Arabic, we should just say Arabic.”
That’s because “Arabic has so many dialectics and so many levels. Every ethnic group has its own. Yemenites cannot understand Moroccans, their dialects are so far apart from each other.”
Jews, Dr. Shohat argues, may have spoken a different dialect than their Muslim neighbors. But still, it was closer to their neighbors’ than that of distant Jews.
Yet in the traditional understanding of Judeo-Arabic as a unique thing, there are two possible definitions, Dr. Sasson said. “One says that anything written or said by a Jew in Arabic is by definition Judeo-Arabic. The other says anything in Arabic written in Hebrew characters is Judeo-Arabic.” (As it happened, some of the manuscripts she worked from were written in Arabic characters.)
I generally think of Judeo-Arabic as Arabic written in Hebrew letters, but that's because that type of Judeo-Arabic is relevant to my own research. As the article says, the matter is more complicated. Some past PaleoJudaica posts involving Judeo-Arabic are here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
As an aside, as I have noted before, there sure is a lot of good philology going on in Teaneck, New Jersey. See here and here and links.
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Last year was marked by some negative events about Facebook – the Cambridge Analytica scandal, then later another breach of personal information. Despite all the negativity, their annual revenue from ads grew and the predictions are for a continuous growth later on. What are the trends for the platform for next year?
Facebook watch is an area for user-generated video content. Reports show that video traffic will be increasing and increasing in the following years to reach a level of 85% in 2022. The increase of video consumption over the last couple of years is astounding. The move to more video content seems logical, but so far it has been a mixed success. On one side of course, there is strong competition from channels like YouTube, which were created with the purpose of video sharing. On the other hand there is increased amount of subscription type of video platforms like Netflix, Amazon video and even traditional TV provides moving towards on-demand online service.
Overall Facebook Watch is in its infancy and it looks like a long way to go to the level of sticky addictiveness other platforms have. First of all you see videos uploaded by pages you have liked before….which gets you thinking why on the first pace you liked these pages. Comparing to YouTube where you subscribe to channels intentionally and content suggestions seem very relevant, on Facebook Watch you see a random mess of videos. The experience is not great you can easily come upon some religious propaganda within two clicks.
Facebook stories are the equivalent of Instagram stories, which are an equivalent of Snapchat. To make it even more confusing Facebook stories are also translated into Messenger, so whenever you react to a story, the creator gets a message from you. Advertising within stories is now quite common with mini skippable video ad formats. The Facebook version is the least successful one.
The evolution of stories comes from the change towards mobile devices. With much wider internet access, superior screens and cameras and cheaper costs smartphone use has changed the way social networking works. A well curated social media post has changed into a posting a quick “snap” which has no deep meaning and will disappear in 24 h anyway.
Despite Facebook Stories not getting that much views and engagement, compared to Instagram and Snapchat, they still have not given up from them. The way to sustaining future for the platform is through cracking the code of stories and we will see them becoming a very important part of social media.
The feed is where still the majority of attention and advertising money is coming in. There increasing concerns with the quality of posts shared and the quick spread of fake news, propaganda and negativity. With all these concerns, it is expected ad revenue to continue growing over the next year. Online advertising budgets have been split between Google and Facebook for the last couple of years. With all the turmoil of 2018, Facebook still grew by 36%, but it is expected to slow down in the following year due to market saturation.
What is expected when it comes to ads?
New ad formats follow the development of new parts of Facebook. Now you can run ads simoultaneusly on Facebook and instagram stories, but they will not appear in Messenger or WhatsApp(which is also owned by Facebook). The format is either a 15 sec video, single image, canvas or a slideshow of images(carousel). They come with creative stickers and ready made call to action buttons. You can either run the on Facebook Feed and stories or Facebook and Instagram Stories.
Video advertising is bringing new opportunities for audience creation. On YouTube you can create audience out of the users who watched your video. You can do the same thing on Facebook or Instagram, simply remarketing people who have watched your video with other ad formats. For example, if you have a successful video you can retarget the people who watched it with ads on Facebook feed, Instagram and Stories on both platforms. You can combine videos from Instagram and Facebook to make the audience larger. If the audience is big enough you can create a lookalike out of it, too.
What else is new on audiences? Remember the time I wrote how with Facebook you can target people by their household income? It was one of my first articles ad I was astonished from where they have this information. The answer was partner categories – Oracle, Axiom, Experian. This targeting is no longer available since March last year. Facebook removed the audiences in attempt to improve privacy on Facebook.
In the meantime, Google developed some new audiences like Customer Patterns, Life Events, Custom Intent, etc. which target people likely to have some shopping behaviour or are in a certain stage of their life. All of these are made with first party Google data gathered across the seven main platforms Google owns.
And since audiences and video have been such a big focus in digital marketing in 2018 and seem to continue in 2019, you can check my book How to Advertise Like a Social Media Agency which teaches you about video ads, Facebook and audiences in much more detail, I could ever go in my articles. It is now available on Amazon, printed and in Kindle format.
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Convention 2019: Power of Many
The 15th Biennial Convention of the Ontario Federation of Labour will be held from Monday, November 25 to Friday, November 29, 2019 at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, 123 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario.
CREDENTIALS: This year, registration for convention is available online for all delegates.
Latest from Convention
Power of Many: Resolutions, November 29
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Legal Aid cuts undermine justice for all Ontarians
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2019 Bob Borch Human Rights Award goes to Abdi Hagi Yusuf
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OFL adopts Power of Many vision and action plan for an Ontario for all
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OFL delegates mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
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OFL Young Worker’s Award presented to Ken Maclam
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Patty Coates is the first woman to be elected President of the Ontario Federation of Labour
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Bif Naked receives OFL Cultural Award at Ontario Federation of Labour Power of Many 15th Biennial Convention
Celebrated Canadian performer in music, TV, film, and dance, Bif Naked, is the recipient of the 2019 OFL Cultural Award. A tireless advocate and humanitarian, Bif was orphaned in India, emancipated by punk rock, and empowered by surviving breast cancer, kidney failure, heart surgery, divorce, and has survived as a woman in the entertainment industry…
Power of Many delegates gripped by Climate Emergency
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Women’s Caucus honours Carrol Anne Sceviour for 30 years of service
The OFL Women’s Caucus gathered to pay tribute to a woman who has been working in the labour movement for over 30 years. Dozens of women took to two microphones to celebrate Carrol Anne Sceviour, who is now retiring. Sceviour was commended not only for the work she has done on issues such as sexual…
Convention workshop looks ahead to the next Ontario budget
In a lunch-hour workshop, Ontario Director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Randy Robinson, delivered an informative session about underfunding of Ontario Services and how that hits families and the most vulnerable. Randy went over the sequential series of PC and Liberal Finance Ministers that have eroded the Ontario’s revenue position. “They’ll tell ya…
The following resolutions were carried on Monday, November 25, 2019 by the Ontario Federation of Labour: 18. Keep Fighting for Decent Work 19. Protect Temp Agency Workers 67.* as amended – Student Choice Initiative 22. Repeal Bill 124 and Restore Free and Fair Collective Bargaining to Ontario’s Public Sector and Broader Public Sector 33. Campaign on Domestic Violence Leave…
Convention opens with a strong message: Labour is going to make our vision a reality in Ontario
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Marquette University - Golden Eagle Mascot
The Golden Eagle mascot has served as Marquette’s official mascot since 1994. Due to an outdated look and bulky build, Marquette University decided the Golden Eagle mascot needed a makeover just before the 2018 school year. Marquette University worked with Olympus Mascots on a redesigned university mascot and new mascot apparel for the school year.
Branding with the Golden Eagle Mascot
“We know that having the Golden Eagle mascot at home sports events as well as university and community appearances has made a difference from a branding perspective. Sending the university mascot gives us opportunities to get our marketing collateral and information out. The Golden Eagle mascot is a great option to have whether on its own or part of a team.”
Matt Michalko, Marketing Assistant at Marquette University
New and Improved Golden Eagle Mascot
Some of the new university mascot costume features include a shorter beak, slimmer suit, and five-finger gloves. The new suit is slimmer and keeps the performer cooler, the new gloves allow for more dexterity, and now, the Golden Eagle mascot can change clothes!
Introducing the New Golden Eagle Mascot
To announce the Golden Eagle’s new design, the university wanted to make it fun and created a press release describing the new mascot releases with a letter written by the Golden Eagle. The Golden Eagle Mascot was unveiled for the first time at an athletics welcome back barbeque and was on display more throughout the fall at different home sporting events. Since the unveiling, people have been loving the new and improved Golden Eagle mascot.
Read Marquette's Press Release
Spicing Up His Wardrobe
“The Golden Eagle mascot has outfits for basketball, soccer, lacrosse, and volleyball; generic branded outfits for university and community events, and even has a bowtie for weddings and things like that. The Golden Eagle mascot can wear anything that a person would wear, so we really like that feature this year.”
Impacting the Community in Positive Ways
The athletic department at Marquette University takes the initiative to make the Golden Eagle mascot as active as possible at different events. In addition to athletic events, the Golden Eagle mascot appears at events by university partners, community events, and even private events. The Golden Eagle mascot is famous for throwing out t-shirts and prizes at Marquette sports games throughout the year.
Mascot Tips from Marquette University:
Make sure you know the physical needs of the costume—is look the most important or is functionality?
If you are using a mesh material for the suit, know that sweat from the performer may be visible on outer clothing.
If your university mascot is going to be attending different events, consider the possibility for outfit changes!
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Petronet LNG Limited, one of the fastest growing world-class companies in the Indian energy sector, has set up the country's first LNG receiving and regasification terminal at Dahej, Gujarat, and another terminal at Kochi, Kerala. While the Dahej terminal has a nominal capacity of 15 MMTPA, which is being expanded to 17.5 MMTPA, the Kochi terminal has a capacity of 5 MMTPA. The company is also exploring suitable opportunities within and outside India to expand its business presence.
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During the quarter ended 30th June, 2017 (current quarter), PLL processed highest combined throughput at 192 TBTU. Dahej terminal processed 184 TBTU of LNG and had operated at around 97% of its average increased name plate capacity. The Dahej Terminal witnessed increase in throughput over the previous quarter by 4% (Q4 16-17 at 178 TBTU) and increase in throughput over the corresponding quarter by 12% (Q1 16-17 at 165 TBTU) respectively. The Kochi Terminal processed highest ever quantity of 8 TBTU of LNG.
The Company has reported profit before tax of Rs 666 Crore witnessing a growth of 20% over the corresponding quarter (Q1 16-17 at Rs 556 Cr) and a growth of 8% over the previous quarter (Q4 2016-17 at Rs 619 Cr) respectively. Profit after tax is reported at Rs 438 Crore in the current quarter, which registered a growth of 16% over the corresponding quarter (Q1 16-17 at 378 Cr).
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June 21, 2013 feature
Muscles act as metamaterials due to collective behavior, physicists show
by Lisa Zyga , Phys.org
Muscles act as metamaterials when they exhibit “negative stiffness,” meaning they loosen when extended and tighten when shortened. Although this unusual behavior was originally observed in 1971, a new study has found that the behavior can be explained by the collective behavior of muscle material, which seems to be finely tuned to operate near a critical point. Credit: Wikipedia / public domain
(Phys.org) —Metamaterials are defined as artificial materials that have been engineered to have unusual properties that are not found in nature. For instance, ordinary materials (say, a rubber band) that are under tension expand in the direction of that tension, while metamaterials may contract, exhibiting "negative stiffness" while still remaining stable. An idea of how this could work in principle was suggested in a 1991 Nature paper by Cohen and Horowitz, and in a 2012 Nature Materials paper by Nicolaou and Motter this idea was implemented to construct an extended material that contracts when tensioned (pulled) or expands when compressed (pushed).
Upon further search for possible mechanisms of negative stiffness, scientists in a new study have found that biological muscles exhibit a mechanical response that also qualifies them as metamaterials: when a tetanized (maximally contracted) muscle is suddenly extended, it comes loose, and if it is suddenly shortened, it tightens up without using any of the metabolic fuel adenosine triphosphate (ATP). The researchers explained that this behavior is due to the folding and unfolding of proteins called myosin cross-bridges that play a crucial role in muscle contraction. Most interestingly, muscles appear to be finely tuned to perform close to a critical point, at which they can exhibit highly synchronized microscale behavior.
The researchers, M. Caruel, J.-M. Allain, and L. Truskinovsky, at CNRS-UMR, Ecole Polytechnique in Palaiseau Cedex, France, have published their paper in a recent issue of Physical Review Letters. Caruel is now at Inria in Palaiseau, France.
As the authors of the new paper explain, skeletal muscles can exhibit two types of behavior: active and passive. Active behavior occurs on time scales of about 30 milliseconds (ms). At shorter time scales, about 1 ms, muscles exhibit passive behavior, including negative stiffness. As the researchers explain, elementary parts of these mechanisms that ensure efficient recovery of forces work as snap-springs, making muscles similar in a sense to shape memory alloys.
A remarkable phenomenon reported by Caruel, et al., is that, in contrast to known smart materials, the micro-mechanisms inside muscles are finely tuned to work in unison, which allows them to perform a highly synchronized stroke. Behind this collective behavior is an internal architecture with domineering long-range interactions, which has been previously overlooked in muscle studies.
Already in 1971, researchers A. F. Huxley and R. M. Simmons at University College London observed the unusual passive mechanical response of tetanized muscles and developed a model of muscle contraction explaining this behavior. This model has since dominated the field, and its impact was based on the impressive scientific reputation of Sir Andrew Huxley, a Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist who served for a long time as President of the Royal Society.
In the paper of Caruel, et al., a seemingly innocent change of the loading conditions in the Huxley-Simmons model has led to the discovery of the collective behavior and criticality, which had been overlooked despite more than 40 years of intense scrutiny of this model in many papers and textbooks.
Quite surprisingly, the cooperation at the nanoscale in muscles was found to be similar to magnetism; moreover, the critical point at which muscles seem finely tuned to perform near is, in this case, a direct analog of the ferromagnetic Curie point. Criticality and the ubiquity of power laws are issues of great significance in contemporary science, giving a framework for understanding the emergence of complexity in a variety of natural systems, from earthquakes to turbulence. Why and how muscle systems are tuned to criticality is an open problem, and the authors argue that it can be the result of either evolutionary or functional self-organization.
Tuning to criticality in muscles has many intriguing parallels in other biological systems. For instance, in a 2011 paper published in Physical Review Letters, Patzelt and Pawelzik showed that when humans perform control tasks like in upright standing or while balancing a stick, their behavior also exhibits power law fluctuations, which suggests a fine-tuning of the underlying mechanical system to a critical point. Similar fluctuations have been also found in the collective behavior of humans; for example, in stock market log-return fluctuations. According to Patzelt and Pawelzik, the criticality emerges when an unstable dynamics as, for instance, in metamaterials with negative stiffness, is stabilized by an adaptive controller that has finite memory.
Overall, the discovery that muscles act as metamaterials due to collective behavior suggests that determining the cause of the critical behavior of muscles may lead to a paradigm change in the biomimetic design of new materials.
Artificial muscle computer performs as a universal Turing machine
More information: M. Caruel, et al. "Muscle as Metamaterial Operating Near a Critical Point." PRL 110, 248103 (2013). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.248103
Z. G. Nicolaou, et al. "Mechanical metamaterials with negative compressibility transitions." Nature Materials, 11, 608 (2012). DOI: 10.1038/nmat3331
Cohen, J.E., Horowitz, P. "Paradoxical behaviour of mechanical and electrical networks." Nature 352, 699 - 701 (1991). DOI:10.1038/352699a0
Patzelt, Felix, and Klaus Pawelzik. "Criticality of adaptive control dynamics." PRL, 107.23 (2011): 238103. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.238103
Huxley, A. F., Simmons, R. M. "Proposed mechanism of force generation in striated muscle." Nature 233, 533-538 (1971). DOI: 10.1038/233533a0
Journal information: Nature , Nature Materials , Physical Review Letters
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Monthly Chart - May 2012
1. Sandra - Maybe Tonight
2. Mimi Oh - Festen Som Vi Hatar Imorrn
3. Ivi Adamou - La La Love
4. Hazell Dean - No Fool (For Love) (The Murray 7" Mix)
5. Eleftheria Eleftheriou - Aphrodisiac
6. Pajama Party - Over And Over
7. Sandra - Everlasting Love (PWL 12" Remix)
8. Hazell Dean - Who's Leaving Who (The Boys Are Back In Town Mix)
9. Anggun - Echo (You And I)
10. Hazell Dean - Always Doesn't Mean Forever
11. Sandra - In The Heat Of The Night (Extended Version)
12. Bananarama - Last Thing On My Mind (Hi-NRG Mix)
13. Jedward - Waterline
14. Sandra - (I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena (Extended Version)
15. Hazell Dean - Stand Up
16. Pajama Party - Hide And Seek
17. Five Star - Somewhere Somebody
18. Mandinga - Zaleilah
19. Ivi Adamou - La La Love (Rico Bernasconi Remix)
20. Gaitana - Be My Guest
21. Donny Montell - Love Is Blind (New West Club Remix)
22. Popsie - Rough Enough (Radio Edit)
25. Kurt Calleja - This Is The Night (Promostella Club Remix)
23. Lonnie Gordon - Happenin' All Over Again (Italiano House Mix)
24. The Pointer Sisters - He Turned Me Out
26. Sofi Marinova - Love Unlimited
27. LiteSound - We Are The Heroes
28. Valentina Monetta - The Social Network Song (Oh Oh - Uh - Oh Oh) (Baltic Club Mix)
29. Bananarama - Movin' On
30. Eric Saade - Popular (SoundFactory Club Mix)
31. Pastora Soler - Quédate Conmigo
Labels charts, music
Agnes - One Last Time
Swedish pop sensation Agnes is best known for her hit singles "Release Me" and "On And On", but now she's back with the ballad "One Last Time". I'm not a big ballad lover but I like the electronic sound of this one. I'm looking forward to her upcoming album!
"One Last Time" is out now on iTunes and Spotify.
Labels Agnes Carlsson, music
My Week With Marilyn on Blu-ray and DVD
The wonderful, British movie "My Week With Marilyn" is finally out on Blu-ray and DVD. The movie stars Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh, Emma Watson, Judi Dench, Eddie Redmayne and Dominic Cooper.
This amazing movie is a must for all Marilyn Monroe fans. You can order it now from Amazon UK and Amazon US. Don't miss this masterpiece!
"During Marilyn Monroe's first trip to London to film 'The Prince And The Showgirl' with Laurence Olivier, she befriends Colin Clark, an ambitious 23 year-old production assistant on the set. As their relationship progresses Colin's focus shifts from making his way in the film business to rescuing her from the pressures of celebrity life. When Monroe's new husband, playwright Arthur Miller, makes a brief trip to Paris, Clark takes the opportunity to introduce her to the world outside of Hollywood fame. Based on the true story by Colin Clark, this memoir describes a magical week in which Monroe opens herself up to a stranger and finds in him a confidant and an ally."
Written by Dennis Alexis Hellström kl. 12:44 pm
Labels classics, Marilyn Monroe, Michelle Williams, movies
Eurovision Song Contest 2012 - Final
Wow! I'm so happy my favourite song won Eurovision. I'm not patriotic but Loreen actually makes me proud to be Swedish. Here is my chart of the songs in the second semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. Number one is the best and number twenty-six is the worst, in my opinion.
1. Loreen - Euphoria (Sweden)
2. Ivi Adamou - La La Love (Cyprus)
3. Tooji - Stay (Norway)
4. Anggun - Echo (You And I) (France)
5. Eleftheria Eleftheriou - Aphrodisiac (Greece)
6. Gaitana - Be My Guest (Ukraine)
7. Jedward - Waterline (Ireland)
8. Mandinga - Zaleilah (Romania)
9. Pastora Soler - Quédate Conmigo (Spain)
10. Kurt Calleja - This Is The Night (Malta)
11. Gréta Salóme & Jónsi - Never Forget (Iceland)
12. Compact Disco - Sound Of Our Hearts (Hungary)
13. Donny Montell - Love Is Blind (Lithuania)
14. Nina Zilli - L'amore È Femmina (Italy)
15. Roman Lob - Standing Still (Germany)
16. Željko Joksimović - Nije Ljubav Stvar (Serbia)
17. Engelbert Humperdinck - Love Will Set You Free (United Kingdom)
18. Rona Nishliu - Suus (Albania)
19. Buranovskiye Babushki - Party For Everybody (Russia)
20. Ott Lepland - Kuula (Estonia)
21. MayaSar - Korake Ti Znam (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
22. Can Bonomo - Love Me Back (Turkey)
23. Sabina Babayeva - When The Music Dies (Azerbaijan)
24. Soluna Samay - Should've Known Better (Denmark)
25. Kaliopi - Crno I Belo (F.Y.R. Macedonia)
26. Pasha Parfeny - Lăutar (Moldova)
Labels Eurovision Song Contest, Jedward, Loreen, music, Tooji, TV
Kylie Minogue - Timebomb
Wow! My big idol, the amazing Kylie Minogue, surprised her fans today by releasing a brand new single digitally! "Timebomb" is a wonderful dance-pop track with an electronic sound. Kylie sure knows what her fans want!
Let's make "Timebomb" climb the charts by buying it on iTunes! Check out the brand new video:
Labels Kylie Minogue, music, PWL
Package from England
I got a package from England with CD's by Desireless, Jakie Quartz, and the Eurovision Song Contest. I had also ordered the adventure game "Captain Morgane And The Golden Turtle" for Playstation 3 and the 1953 classic "Titanic" on Blu-ray.
Labels Captain Morgane, collection, Desireless, Eurovision Song Contest, Jakie Quartz, movies, music, Titanic, video games
Eurovision Song Contest 2012 - Semifinal 2
Here is my chart of the songs in the second semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. Number one is the best and number eighteen is the worst, in my opinion.
4. Sofi Marinova - Love Unlimited (Bulgaria)
5. Litesound - We Are The Heroes (Belarus)
6. Kurt Calleja - This Is The Night (Malta)
7. Donny Montell - Love Is Blind (Lithuania)
8. Željko Joksimović - Nije Ljubav Stvar (Serbia)
9. MayaSar - Korake Ti Znam (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
11. Joan Franka - You And Me (Netherlands)
12. Eva Boto - Verjamem (Slovenia)
13. Nina Badrić - Nebo (Croatia)
15. Kaliopi - Crno I Belo (Macedonia)
16. Filipa Sousa - Vida Minha (Portugal)
17. Max Jason Mai - Don't Close Your Eyes (Slovakia)
18. Anri Jokhadze - I'm A Joker (Georgia)
Labels Eurovision Song Contest, Loreen, music, TV
Here is my chart of the songs in the first semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. Number one is the best and number eighteen is the worst, in my opinion.
5. Gréta Salóme & Jónsi - Never Forget (Iceland)
6. Compact Disco - Sound Of Our Hearts (Hungary)
7. Buranovskiye Babushki - Party For Everybody (Russia)
8. Valentina Monetta - The Social Network Song (San Marino)
9. Pernilla Karlsson - När Jag Blundar (Finland)
10. Iris - Would You? (Belgium)
11. Anmary - Beautiful Song (Latvia)
13. Sinplus - Unbreakable (Switzerland)
14. Trackshittaz - Woki Mit Deim Popo (Austria)
15. Izabo - Time (Israel)
18. Rambo Amadeus - Euro Neuro (Montenegro)
Labels Eurovision Song Contest, Jedward, music, TV
Scissor Sisters - Magic Hour
American pop group Scissor Sisters are releasing their brand new album "Magic Hour" on May 28. I'm really looking forward to it! The album includes the singles "Shady Love" and "Only The Horses".
You can already pre-order "Magic Hour" from Amazon UK, Amazon US and iTunes. There will also be a special deluxe edition of the album which includes a bonus DVD.
Låtlista till "Magic Hour":
1. Baby Come Home
2. Keep Your Shoes On
3. Inevitable
4. Only The Horses
5. Year Of Living Dangerously
6. Let's Have A Kiki
7. Shady Love
8. San Luis Obispo
9. Self Control
10. Secret Life Of Letters
11. Somewhere
12. Miss Matronic's Magic Message
13. Fuck Yeah*
14. Let's Have A Kiki (DJ Nita Remix)*
15. Fuck Yeah (Seamus Haji Remix)*
16. Shady Love (Tommie Sunshine & Disco Fries Remix)*
Tracks marked with * are bonus tracks and not available on all editions of the album.
Labels music, Scissor Sisters
Deborah Harry - In Love With Love (London Extended Mix)
Deborah Harry is best known as the lead singer of Blondie, but she has also released lots of solo music. My favourite track by Deborah is "In Love With Love" from 1987. Not the slow original version, but the amazing Stock Aitken Waterman remix that you can listen to further down.
There is also a wonderful single version of the remix called "London Mix Edit", available on this compilation. Enjoy discofied Debbie:
Labels Blondie, Deborah Harry, music, PWL
Steps - Last Thing On My Mind
This is the song that started my Steps obsession. I was fourteen years old when I saw the "Last Thing On My Mind" video on MTV and I fell in love straight away. I love the ABBA inspired, plastic pop sound and the kitchy video. Me and my sister even used to mime to the track.
The song was originally released by Bananarama in 1992, but as much as I love Bananarama, I prefer Steps' version. It's more dance-pop oriented than Bananarama's slow original. Which one do you prefer?
Labels Bananarama, music, PWL, Steps
Rest in peace, Donna Summer
I'm so sad. One of my favourite singers, the fantastic disco diva Donna Summer, has passed away. She had been battling Cancer for a while and sadly lost the fight. She was sixty-three years old.
This is such sad news. I've been a huge fan of hers for ages and I can't believe she's really gone. But Donna's amazing voice will live forever, that's for sure.
Rest in peace, angel. We miss you already.
Labels Donna Summer, music, PWL
Kate Ryan - Robots
Belgian popstar Kate Ryan is back with the new dance-pop single "Robots". It's the third single from Kate's upcoming album "Electroshock" and will be out on iTunes very soon. Cool, isn't it?
Labels Kate Ryan, music
Package from Germany
I received a package from Germany today! I finally got Sandra's new single "Maybe Tonight" and remix collection "So80s Presents Sandra" so tonight is 80's night at my place. Aren't they lovely? I almost want to pet them ha ha!
Labels music, Sandra, shopping
Captain Morgane And The Golden Turtle
I'm a huge fan of classic point-and-click adventure games and I just ordered the brand new game "Captain Morgane And The Golden Turtle" for the Playstation 3. The game is a spinoff from "So Blonde", inspired by classics such as "Monkey Island", "Broken Sword" and "Beneath A Steel Sky".
I can't wait to play this modern classic. The game is available for PC, Playstation, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS. You can order your copy from Amazon UK.
Follow me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube to see more stuff from my life. You can also find more information about me on DennisAlexis.com.
Labels Broken Sword, Captain Morgane, Monkey Island, video games
Monthly Chart - April 2012
1. Madonna - Girl Gone Wild
2. Paulina Starborn - Never Gonna Let Me Go
3. Samantha Fox - (Hurt Me! Hurt Me!) But The Pants Stay On (Radio Edit - Sam Talks)
4. Hazell Dean - In The Name Of Love
5. Samantha Fox - I Wanna Have Some Fun
6. Planet R - Kärleken (Det Var Då)
7. Pebbles - Love/Hate
8. Lena Philipsson - Du Följer Väl Med?
9. Mandy Capristo - The Way I Like It
10. Monrose - Like A Lady
11. Samantha Fox - Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)
12. Madonna - Turn Up The Radio
13. Sequal - My Love For You (Giuseppe D.'s Back To Miami Radio)
14. Elen Cora - No Less No More
15. Monrose - This Is Me
16. Sabrina - Hot Girl (New Version)
17. Bananarama - Love Comes (Riff & Rays Radio Mix)
18. Justin Bieber - Boyfriend
19. Planet R - Juliette
20. The Pointer Sisters - Be There
21. Sandra - Japan Ist Weit
22. Melissa Gorga - On Display
23. Samantha Fox - I Only Wanna Be With You
24. Sandra - What Is It About Me
Kylie Minogue - The Best Of
EMI will release the new compilation album "The Best Of Kylie Minogue" on June 4. The CD includes some of Kylie's biggest hits, from the 80's and her time with Stock Aitken Waterman until today. It will also include a bonus DVD with videos.
As a fan, I'm disappointed in the tracklist since it doesn't include anything new och rare. But I recommend the compilation to newcomers who are yet to discover the wonderful music of Kylie Minogue.
"The Best Of Kylie Minogue" tracklist:
1. Can't Get You Out Of My Head
2. Spinning Around
3. I Should Be So Lucky
4. Love At First Sight
5. In Your Eyes
7. Better The Devil You Know
8. All The Lovers
9. Give Me Just A Little More Time
10. Celebration
11. Slow
12. Red Blooded Woman
13. I Believe In You
14. On A Night Like This
15. Confide In Me
16. Get Outta My Way
17. The Loco-Motion
18. Tears On My Pillow
19. Wow
20. In My Arms
21. Never Too Late
Linda Sundblad - Hur Kan Jag Sakna Nåt Jag Aldrig Haft
The wonderful Linda Sundblad is back with the brand new, Swedish single "Hur Kan Jag Sakna Nåt Jag Aldrig Haft", which basically means "How can I miss something I never had?" I love the electric sound!
"Hur Kan Jag Sakna Nåt Jag Aldrig Haft" is available on iTunes and Spotify.
Labels Linda Sundblad, music
Sandra - Maybe Tonight
I'm so happy! As I told you in an earlier blog post, one of my biggest idols, 1980's icon Sandra, is back with a brand new single called "Maybe Tonight". You can listen to a preview of the track at the bottom of this post.
The best thing about the track is that Sandra has returned to her roots, with an electronic, 80's inspired retro sound, which I love! "Maybe Tonight" is produced by Blank & Jones and can be pre-ordered now from iTunes.
If you, like me, prefer a physical CD single, you can get one from Amazon Germany. Whatever you do, don't miss out on this amazing retro hit!
"Maybe Tonight" tracklist:
1. Maybe Tonight
2. Maybe Tonight (Extended Version)
3. Maybe Tonight (Dub Version)
4. Maybe Tonight (Instrumental Version)
Labels music, Sandra
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palisades park Demographics
Less than High School 1,518 10.6 % 6.3 %
Divorced 693 8.6 % 13.4 %
1-Unit, Attached 1,053 13.3 % 5.9 %
2-Units 2,177 27.6 % 3.6 %
20 or More Units 1,502 19.0 % 9.0 %
Electric 508 6.4 % 33.9 %
Asian 11,712 58.6 % 5.6 %
Some Other Race 1,678 8.4 % 5.2 %
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