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CX Speakers
Martha Rogers Ph.D.
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Don Peppers and Martha Rogers Ph.D. started the customer experience revolution 20 years ago and today they are reinventing it. Let them show you how at your next event.
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Peppers and Rogers are widely recognized as two of the world’s leading experts on Customer Experience and Engagement. They focus on delivering world-class keynote presentations, custom workshops and executive training to help organizations around the globe build meaningful and long lasting customer relationships. Together they’ve delighted thousands of clients in more than 40 countries.
“Don brought an energetic and thoughtful presentation that really challenged how we think about the customer experience. Because of Don, we immediately embarked on a strategy to remove any and all friction from the customer experience. While his presentation was just an afternoon, the impact it had is shaping how we think about how we interact with both staff and customers.” – Joe Hayman, CEO
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Martha was fantastic! We received very high survey results for her presentation. Having her attend the events the day before was very helpful for us to get to know her and I am sure more for her to get to know us! She did a great job threading conversations from the day prior into her presentation making it very relevant. You and the entire team have been great to work with! Thank you!
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From large keynotes to small executive planning sessions, Peppers and Rogers work closely with clients to provide a customized presentation that exceeds expectations. Their combination of ideology and field experience with humor creates a compelling and informative presentation which will captivate and engage your audience.
Digitally Transformed Marketing and CX
Business Competition, Future Tense
Technology is raising customer expectations, and now you’re competing with Amazon, Apple, JetBlue, and Amex. Four strategies for succeeding in the transparent future.
The Omnichannel Myth
99% of companies that say they’re “omnichannel” aren’t. Three obstacles to overcome before joining the 1% of companies that really are.
After e-Commerce: Immersive Commerce
Today’s programmatic marketing tactic is tomorrow’s smartphone app, so get ready now for an online CX featuring “chatvertising” and bot-to-bot marketing.
Surviving and Thriving in the Next Disruption
Four Ways to Avoid “Post-Disruption Stress Disorder”
PDSD has plagued more than one business, from Kodak to Blockbuster, and from Apple to IBM. Four strategies for beating the next disruption in your own category.
Customer Trust as a Disruptive Innovation
How to out-do your competitors by earning your customers’ trust, and why this can insulate you from the next big disruption in your business.
Digital Disruption for Fun and Profit
Creating your own disruption is a good way to survive radical technological (or regulatory) change, and offense is always more fun than defense.
Proactive Customer Strategy: The Smart Response to Transparency
Now that what customers say about you matters more than what you tell customers about yourself, what your customers want is for you to be proactive on their behalf.
Uber-izing your business
Trust platforms like Airbnb, Uber and Taskrabbit empower customers with the ability to self-organize, eliminating the middle man. Other businesses can, too. And will.
Extreme Trust
Proactive Trustworthiness is the New Black
New technology drives new expectations. You need a new strategy, good for 2019 and beyond. Grow profitably and stay competitive with Extreme Trust. Four tasks to do so.
Do Your Customers Trust You? Should They? And Do You Trust Them?
If somebody measured every company tomorrow, how would your company rank? What decisions are you making today that create or destroy trust?
What Would a Trustable [insert your company’s name] Look Like?
Do you give refunds proactively? Host customer reviews on your website? Things to show you’re a leader in trustability, while improving business results at the same time.
Customer Metrics, Big Data, and Common-Sense Analytics
What is the Value of a Better Customer Experience?
How to map the CX, improve it, profit from it. How does it help us and help our customers? Why is “customer journey mapping” exactly what’s needed now?
The Customer Dashboard
How to measure your success with customers. Metrics needed to drive your decisions and behaviors, eliminate landmines and build customer equity.
Customer Metrics You Can Bank On
Providing a better CX is costly today, while value is realized tomorrow. Resolve this dilemma to the satisfaction of your CFO. How much more will customers pay if…?
You Can Lead a Man to Data, But You Can’t Make Him Think
Trustworthy data is (1) objective and (2) accurate. That’s half the battle. Five principles for using objective, accurate data to make more scientifically reliable business decisions.
How to Make Data-Driven Decisions Without a Statistics Degree
Anticipating human biases, avoiding statistical errors, and recognizing the limits of the data you have. How to talk with your customer analysts, without equations.
Women: Smart, Savvy, and Successful
Balancing Work, Life, and Getting Where You Deserve to Be
Take it from a woman who has advanced degrees, a history of professional leadership in corporate America and entrepreneurial ventures, and has raised a family while traveling on six continents. It ain’t easy, but you can do it for fun and profit.
Leading While Female
One of the world’s most acclaimed leaders in customer experience, customer loyalty, trustability, business technologies, and building equity shares her insights from 25 years in the field with clients, companies, CEOs, and real customers.
Winning the Millennial Generation by leveraging the increasing power, influence, and authority of women in business. How to structure a truly collaborative and social business enterprise.
The Future of CX in YOUR Industry
Preparing for the Next Great CX Innovations and Challenges In:
Digital B2B
Customer Advocacy: Recruiting Your Best Customers to the Sales Team
The pinnacle of Customer Success Management is customer advocacy. How to create emotional, human bonds with customers, at scale, and leapfrog your competitors to own the category
Customer Success: Competing for Sales in the Cloud
SaaS and other subscription-based businesses must cultivate prospects, not just hunt them. How to manage every customer relationship as a Challenger Sale.
Social Selling: Arm Your Salespeople
Turn salespeople into thought leaders armed with social ninja skills. Learn how to sell based on triggers, insights, and referrals.
Human to the Max
Empowered Consumers? Or Digitally Augmented Humans?
Today’s consumers have digital super powers undreamed of even a decade ago, but affection, trust, and genuine loyalty can’t be automated, and will never be outdated.
Digital Connections, Emotional Engagement
Customer satisfaction doesn’t generate loyalty, but dissatisfaction creates disloyalty. Design your customer experience to be frictionless first, then emotionally engaging.
Delivering Humanity to B2B Customers
Success, more than satisfaction, drives the business customer. But a successful customer success effort will include genuine, human connections, based on emotion and trust.
“Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast”
Managing a Successful Customer-Centric Transformation
The key isn’t technology or data or policy. All these things are table stakes. The key lies in the culture of your employees. How to improve and maintain your corporate culture.
Self-Organizing Your Way to Competitive Success
When a customer problem comes in, you want your employees to swarm the problem and solve it, without top-down direction. Here’s how to make that happen.
Customer Loyalty: What, How, and Why
What it means to “loyalize” your customers, how to do so, why it’s worth the money, and three important obstacles that must be overcome.
Using Customer Loyalty to Make Better Short-Term Decisions
The customer’s memory is the most reliable link between the short-term financial effects of current decisions and the long-term shareholder value they might create.
Are you Loyal TO Your Customers?
Implement CRM processes to make customers more loyal and you’ll almost certainly fail. But do it to improve their lives, and you’ll almost certainly make them more loyal.
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We received some amazing feedback from the audience regarding Don’s session and he also won the ‘Most Engaging Speaker Presentation” award at our awards dinner. I’m sure we’ll definitely be in touch to have Don as a speaker for us again.
Don brings a fresh perspective and impactful insights around how to truly develop a meaningful relationship with your customers. His ideas and thoughts are practical and easy to understand. I value our partnership.
We had an amazing session with Don and well received by the group.
The sessions yesterday were fantastic for everyone. They helped our associates get back in touch with what is important in a fun, engaging way. Don is an entertaining speaker with a great message.
Don Peppers opened the World Marketing & Sales Forum with his keynote and it was the perfect start. His message was right on target — relevant and insightful. We received great feedback from the attendees. As always, it was a pleasure working with Don and his team.
Martha’s remarks hit close to home, and proved to be a great thought-starter for positive change in not only my area of the business, but cross functionally in other areas as well.
Thank you so much!…We received really positive feedback and they couldn’t get enough of you…The most important inspiration for me is how you’re practicing what you’ve been preaching.
Martha was wonderful! I loved what she had to say and the insights she shared with us.
Don, thank you for speaking at the Health Plan and Payer Summit, part of the 12th World Health Care Congress…Your preparation and commitment to the program were evident throughout planning and I sincerely appreciate your efforts.
Critically Acclaimed Authors
Peppers and Rogers have together written nine books, creating a legacy of international best sellers that have collectively sold more than 1 million copies in 18 languages. All of which build on the premise of treating different customers differently.
Managing Customer Experience and Relationships
2016 • Don Peppers & Martha Rogers Ph.D. • Wiley
Managing Customer Experience and Relationships is the third edition desk reference from internationally acclaimed business gurus and best-selling authors Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, Ph.D. Fully revised and updated with new examples, case studies, and references with contributing works from industry leaders and academic experts, Managing Customer Relationships is one of the first books designed to develop an understanding of the science of managing customer relationships and used for graduate-level CRM studies. The new edition also offers a full discussion of the influence of social networking on customer empowerment and customer relationship management (CRM).
Customer Experience: What, How and Why Now
2016 • Don Peppers
Technology is empowering customers. It is making them more knowledgeable, more connected – and more discerning – than ever before. But, there’s a twist: While it’s true that customers love the convenience that technology provides, they still crave that empathetic, human connection with their favorite brands.
On the other side of the table, business leaders are struggling to anticipate and defend against the disruption that technology – and customers themselves – are creating. Those who are able to find the right balance between automation and human-to-human interaction will be a step ahead.
This book will show you how.
Extreme Trust, Turning Proactive Honesty and Flawless Execution into Long-Term Profits
2016 • Don Peppers & Martha Rogers Ph.D. • Penguin
Originally published in 2012 as Extreme Trust, Honesty as a Competitive Advantage, this updated edition (2016) from international best-selling authors and business visionaries Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, Ph.D. is an absolute must read for any business executive who wants to succeed in today’s highly digital and transparent world. Don and Martha predict that rising levels of transparency will require companies to protect the interest of their customers and employees proactively, even when it sometimes cost money in the short term. The importance of this “trustability” will transform every industry. Success won’t come from top-down rules and processes, but from bottom-up solutions on the part of employees and customers
Rules to Break & Laws to Follow
From internationally acclaimed business gurus and best-selling authors Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, this is a must read for any business executive. Rules to Break & Laws to Follow examines what empowered customers, networked employees and a culture of innovation and trust mean for the competitive differentiation and long-term viability of a business.
Return on Customer
2005 • Don Peppers & Martha Rogers Ph.D. • Doubleday
Return on Customersm advances the concepts and tenets of business valuation to the next evolutionary stage, demonstrating how maximizing the value of the customer base means maximizing the value of the enterprise. Fast Company named ROC one of the 15 “most important reads” of 2005 and cited it again in 2007 on their list of the 25 “Best Books” in business.
One to One B2B
One to One B2B: Customer Development Strategies for the Business to Business World, applies one-to-one principles to the tasks businesses face when they are selling to other businesses, rather than consumers. Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, Ph.D. examine in detail the customer relationship management efforts of five business-to-business organizations. One to One B2B catches these companies in mid-stride, documenting what they’ve done so far, and how this fits into their bigger plans.
The One to One Manager
The One to One Manager: Real-World Lessons in Customer Relationship Management documents real-world stories of one-to-one marketing. Released in October 1999, it represents a departure from the previous books. Here, Don Peppers and Martha Rogers Ph.D. examine the actual issues companies have faced while implementing CRM programs. By compiling more than two dozen case studies from companies around the world, The One to One Manager gives an inside peek at the world of one-to-one marketing.
The One to One Fieldbook
In 1999, The One to One Fieldbook: The Complete Toolkit for Implementing a One-to-One Marketing Program, co-authored with Bob Dorf, former president of Peppers & Rogers Group, transformed one-to-one theory into a practical working guide. It pairs strategies with worksheets, questionnaires and specific tactics to give businesses the tools for starting a one-to-one program today.
Enterprise One to One
Enterprise One to One has taken its place alongside Don Peppers and Martha Rogers’s The One to One Future as a marketing classic on how to sell more products to fewer customers through one-to-one marketing. In this brave new world, where microchip technology is making it possible for businesses to know their customers better than ever before, there is incredible opportunity to build unbreakable customer relationships.
Life’s a Pitch… Then You Buy
1995 • Don Peppers • Doubleday
In business, a pitch is a closed-end, winner-take-all competition involving one prospective customer and two or more hopeful suppliers, each struggling to defeat the others and win the account. In Life’s A Pitch…Then You Buy, Don Peppers shows us how to design a pitch guaranteed to win the confidence and trust of prospective clients while besting the competition. He believes the strongest pitches appeal to a person’s emotional “hot buttons” that make each of us into thinking, feeling creatures, and he shows us how to design our pitch so that we capture our clients’ hearts while throwing our competition off balance at the same time.
The One to One Future
In 1993, Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, Ph.D. introduced the concept of one-to-one marketing in their book The One to One Future: Building Relationships One Customer at a Time. This book started the one-to-one revolution and has been published in 13 languages around the globe. The companion video hosted by Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, Ph.D. takes you on a tour of the one-to-one paradigm presented in The One to One Future.
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Obama to visit Vietnam, says Chinese-led trade deal poses urgent need for TPP approval
By Reuters  May 3, 2016 | 07:30 am GMT+7
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the White House Correspondents Association, April 30, 2016. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday that a Chinese-led regional trade deal demonstrated the urgent need for Congress to approve the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact and plans to visit TPP partners Vietnam and Japan this month, Washington Post reports.
Obama has been pushing to finalize the TPP before he leaves office on Jan. 20, but he needs to overcome strong anti-trade sentiment from both the left wing of his own Democratic Party as well as from the right flank of the Republican Party.
Voter anxiety over the impact of trade deals on jobs and the environment has featured large in the campaigns of Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner for the Nov. 8 presidential election, and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, who is running against Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination.
In an opinion piece published on the website of the Washington Post on Monday, Obama said he understood voter skepticism but that "building walls to isolate ourselves from the global economy" would backfire on the American economy.
"China is negotiating a trade deal that would carve up some of the fastest-growing markets in the world at our expense, putting American jobs, businesses and goods at risk," Obama said in the piece.
Obama was referring to the 16-member Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP, and noted that China was seeking to finalize the deal by the end of the year.
"That trade deal won't prevent unfair competition among government-subsidized, state-owned enterprises. It won't protect a free and open internet," Obama said, also criticizing the RCEP's lack of protections for intellectual property, labor standards and the environment.
Obama, who plans a visit to TPP partners Japan and Vietnam later this month, argued the TPP would allow America to "call the shots" on trade with Asia.
"That's why my administration is working closely with leaders in congress to secure bipartisan approval for our trade agreement, mindful that the longer we wait, the harder it will be to pass the TPP," he said.
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Does my brother need an operation for tuberculoma of the brain?
Answered by: Dr SK Pandya | Neurosurgeon,
Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre, Mumbai
Q: My brother had severe headache and his CT scan shows multiple right tempero parietal lobe sub-cortical conglomerate ring lesions with gross surrounding edema - possibility - tuberculoma. Doctors say that if the lumps don't go off with medication, they might become cancerous. Can it be tuberculosis, if so, what must be done? Can it be cured by medication?
A:The computerised tomography scan (CT) provides x-ray images of sections of the brain. From these images the experienced doctor can make intelligent guesses as to the nature of the disease. Most of the times, these guesses, based as they are on a study of hundreds or even thousands of patients who have been followed up during and after treatment, prove correct. If, however, a definitive diagnosis is required where no guesswork is involved, the diseased portion of the brain must be removed at operation and sent to the pathologist who will study it under the microscope. He will then offer a final opinion on the nature of the disease. Whilst such an approach is logical, it necessitates an operation. We know, by experience, that the ring-shaped diseased areas seen on your patients CT scan and suspected to be tuberculomas, disappear in most cases on anti-tuberculosis drugs. We need to give these drugs for a long period of time (often up to 2 years) and follow the patients progress clinically and on serial CT scans. If the patient shows clinical improvement and CT scans show resolution of disease, there is not need to perform an operation. If, however, the patients condition does not improve OR the scans show worsening of disease, it is wiser to remove the diseased tissue and obtain a definitive diagnosis. Your doctor rightly feels that the disease will resolve under anti-tuberculosis treatment. It is only if the disease does not settle that he may consider an operation.
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Congressional Game of Chicken: Fixing Filibuster, Part II
Austerity Bomb
Post Election Redux: What Republicans Have Not Learned from Losing
(4 pm. – promoted by ek hornbeck)
Cross posted from The Stars Hollow Gazette
While Republicans at the federal level appear to understand that they have a huge demographics problem with Latino and women voters, the lesson of the loss has failed to reach the Republicans at the state level. As Rachel Maddow explains in states where Republicans control the legislature and governorship, they are taking further steps to pass legislation that cracks down on undocumented immigrants, gay rights and women’s access to abortion and reproductive health care:
But where Republicans are really in control of government, as in Kansas for example, Maddow said the party is taking steps to “crack down on immigrants who want to go to college.” She also said that the Republican leadership in Indiana is moving to add a constitutional ban on gay marriage to the state constitution-in a state where gay marriage is already illegal. In Ohio, Maddow said, one of the first things the state government did after the November election was hold a hearing on defunding Planned Parenthood. [..]
Maddow added that Republicans at the state level are still “waging wars” on issues like immigration, abortion, and gay marriage, even though members of the party seem to be saying otherwise on a national level. Speaking of the differences between Republican messages, Maddow said, “Somebody should tell the Beltway, or maybe it’s funnier if we don’t.”
Keep in mind some of these same Republican governors, like Wisconsin’s union and women hating Scott Walker and Louisiana’s creationist Bobby Jindal, are considered top contenders for the 2016 presidential ticket. And you thought they couldn’t do worse that Mitt Romney.
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TMC on November 28, 2012 at 8:38 am
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At a very local level, it makes sense for Republicans to cater to the cultural prejudices of white people in those areas they already rule. What is the payoff of not doing so? People really do think all the weird things that were said on the campaign trail, particularly in the primaries and worse. Hopefully this is a diminishing section of the population but they will still hold sway in many areas for at least then next decade so it makes sense for Republicans to serve that constituency and they get elected.
On the national level they can no longer win elections with the kind of nativistic attitudes they display.
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Duke starting to look like Duke
February 10, 2015 danebaron23 1 Comment
Let’s go back to January 28, shall we? Notre Dame comes from behind at home to beat the Blue Devils. It was Duke’s third conference loss in the month of January. But since then, the Blue Devils have looked like experienced upperclassmen rather than wet-footed underclassmen in a very deep ACC, especially at the top of the conference.
Duke rallied past ACC-leading Virginia, handing the Cavaliers their first loss of the season, and looked to continue its momentum against highly-ranked Notre Dame in a rematch. Notre Dame came into the game Saturday as the best scoring team in the ACC while the Blue Devils were second but struggled to be consistent on the defensive end. The game started out with a 6-0 run by Notre Dame and then … Duke happened.
Showing its consistency on both ends of the floor, Duke went on a 45-7 run and shot 81 percent from the field in the first half. The Blue Devils shot 60 percent from behind the arc and made the Irish look like a junior varsity team. Duke ended up winning 90-60. It was Notre Dame’s worst loss since 1999 as the team shot below 40 percent from the field and the free-throw line.
Jahlil Okafor continued to show why he is a lock to be picked first in the NBA Draft. Okafor scored 20 points and added 10 rebounds. This was Okafor’s 23rd straight game scoring in double figures. Sophomore Matt Jones had a breakout game adding 17 points off the bench and freshman Justice Winslow had a monster game with 19 points and 11 rebounds.
On Monday night, it wasn’t as emphatic of a win, but Duke did what good teams do – it found a way to win the game. Despite allowing Florida State to come within a point with under a minute to play in regulation, the Blue Devils made free throws when it counted (and Florida State managed to make intentionally missing free throws look terrible) to hold on for a 73-70 win in Tallahassee.
As it heads into the home stretch, Duke once again looks like it is poised to take hold of one of those coveted top lines in the NCAA Tournament bracket.
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W. S. Vosburghs Book---an Appreciation: Salvator, Daily Racing Form, 1922-11-22
I W. S. VOSBURGHS BOOK--AN APPRECIATION BT SALVATOR. Repeatedly in recent years I have lamented the fact that there was no book on the American thoroughbred that was not either out of date or hopelessly inadequate. And in doing so I repeatedly expressed the hope that Mr. W. S. Vosburgh could or would be prevailed upon to supply this "great desideratum." It was, I think, about two years ago in Daily Racing Ronn that I suggested how "altogether fitting and proper" it would be were he to sit down to the composition of such a work and the Jockey Club, one of whose officials he so long has been, to sponsor it When I voiced these sentiments it was with little or no hope that my wishes would ever reach realization. I was merely expressing an ardent personal desire, based upon my long-cherished admiration for Mr. Vosburghs unrivaled .stores of information and admirable literary faculty and my con-jstant sense of the void in our turf literature has been, to sponsor it. UNEXPECTED BUT AGREEABLE. And now at last what I had hoped for and dreamed of has occurred. Mr. Vosburgh jhas written just such a book and the Jockey Club has sponsored its publication ! All of which goes to show that when the unex-J pected happens it need not be always a I disagreeable surprise. I had no warning of what was to occur j until but a few weeks ago ; and then, shortly after, the volume itself, through the courtesy Jof the Jockey Club, Avas laid one morning on I my desk. As it has been privately printed in a limited edition it cannot be obtained at book stores in the ordinary way. This is its only drawback, but one necessitated by the form in which it has been published. "Racing in America, 1866-1921" so Mr. Vosburgh has modestly chosen to call his work as the Jockey Club has issued it from the Scribner press, is a magnificent, a sumptuous volume. It is the most dignified, the most tasteful and artistic specimen of the "art preservative of all arts" that the American turf has ever inspired, or that of any other country, in so far as my experience enables me to judge. A THING OF "HIGH DEGREE." Like the animal it celebrates, it is a thing of "high degree," upon which every resource has been lavished that might enhance its elegance and beauty. The quietude of its luxury is one of its fine features, and this leaves the voice of criticism silent. There is only one respect in which the most captious censor could wish it different. The illustrations are profuse and cover a wide range, but few of them lack distinction. This, however, is due to the fact that it is practically impossible to obtain satisfactory portraits of many of Americas greatest racers for purposes of reproduction. What a misfortune it is that this country has not and never has had a Rouch or a Hailey ! In a brief notice of the work which has already appeared in Daily Racing Form an outline of its contents has been given, so that need not here be repeated. Mr. Vosburgh has confined himself to the period a lengthy one with which he has been personally familiar. He has not essayed the task of writing "history," so-called, but has offered us something still more valuable : his immediate, first-hand impressions and recollections of the great race horses and race tracks, the owners, trainers, jockeys and other personalities which have adorned or made memorable the era which began with the revival of racing at the close of the Civil War and comes down to this present year. While the volume is a large one, it is of course manifest that Mr. Vosburgh has had to, as it were, sort out his memories, sift his stories of information and experiences, and present only the clarified and concentrated residuum. This he has accomplished in a most felicitous manner. While compressing the mateiials for pages into paragraphs, chapters into pages and what would make a whole library into a single volume, he has at the same time, by his admirable ! selective judgment and literary skill, ac-1 quitted himself of the task without sacri-1 ficing anything of importance. His narrative flows as smoothly, as gracefully, as enthrall-ingly, as if it had been written spontaneously and "everything been told." To one aware of the long perspective and the crowded vistas through which his way has been made the happy ease, the fluidity and finish of his story appear astonishing. He has exercised the "art that conceals art" and by that Ave have profited who turn his pages. They combine many details, assembled in a warm and glowing picture, or, rather, panorama, which has the verisimili tude of life. Apparently his hand has never shaken, his memory hesftated, his interest flagged or his faculty of presentation failed him. On page after page he sketches with a few deft and telling strokes what he desires to portray. Now the lines are as beautifully "bitten in" as those of an etching, again they are as if tinted with exquisite halftones, or disclose the breadth of treatment of a painters brush. DISAGREEMENT AND RESPECT. Of course individual preferences may permit various readers to differ, at times, in judgment of various horses or events ; something that applies to all books of the kind. But if one may here and there disagree, one must always respect Mr. Vosburghs verdicts and pause tand consider if, after all, they may not be more correct and valid than ones own? It is almost impossible for any man to write of race horses or horse racing without betraying prejudice on the one hand or undue extravagance of praise on the other. Our likes and dislikes for and against certain horses or families of horses, certain breeders, owners or other horsemen, are constantly waylaying us and, as the turfite is above all things human, leading us astray. But there is almost no evidence of such weakness in Mr. Vosburghs volume. He has, in a remarkable degree, divested himself thereof, and eliminated them from his equations. At the same time he has not remained remote or frigid. While never losing his poise, he has refrained consistently from any of the attitudes of the "superior person," the ex-cathedra censor or arbiter of reputations. Vou feel throughout the justness of his standards and the impartiality with which he has applied them. A PERMANENT RECORD. "Racing in America" is something whose possession, to the lover of racing, is at once a privilege and a pleasure. The eager reader will find it difficult not to devour it forthwith, heedless of the fiight of time or the calls of duty as page after page is turned with increasing fascination. He will find it ! rlso something in the nature of a permanent j record and register to which he will return again and again. J One knows not which to be most grateful J to for it Mr. Vosburgh for having written it or the Jockey Club for having had it bodied forth so superbly. John Milton, that stern old Puritan, to whom, doubtless, all forms of sport were anathema, has nevertheless given us an oft-quoted definition which I cannot refrain from quoting yet again : "A good book," said he, "is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up to a life beyond life." For is it not the truth that the writers very life-blood has gone to the composition of this volume, and that long after we of the present shall have passed from the scenes of which he writes it will be treasured as their enduring monument?
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Formula One Releases Their Epic 22-Race Calendar For 2020
By Jamie Shore - September 1, 2019
We had heard rumors that it was coming, but only recently have Formula One bosses confirmed what we’d all expected… There are going to a record number of races for the 2020 race calendar. With 22 races announced, what can we expect next season?
For the most part, many of the races on the calendar will stay the same. We’ll still open with Australia on 15 March, then finish up with the Abu Dhabi finale on 29 November. Plenty of other races will stay around the same timings as this year, including Silverstone in the UK which is set to be 19 July – after finally agreeing to renew their contract.
New Races
There will be two new tracks for Formula One fans in 2020 – we’ll welcome a street circuit in Hanoi, Vietnam in April and see the return of Zandvoort in the Netherlands in May. It’s believed that Zandvoort is coming back mainly due to the popularity of Dutch driver, Max Verstappen. The staged street circuit in Hanoi sees Vietnam become the 34th country to host a world championship.
However, there are some other changes to the calendar. After suffering financially in recent years, it’s time to say goodbye to the German Grand Prix in 2020. Plus, although Italy is on the calendar, for now, they still haven’t agreed to a new contract with F1 bosses. However, it appears that talks are going well and we’re hoping to keep the Italian Grand Prix in its September slot.
As things stand, this could be an epic race calendar for 2020. However, there are still some final talks to be had and contracts to be signed. Let’s just see how it all pans out when the dates get finalized before it all kicks off.
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While much of the castle is a ruin, some of the outer buildings are now a luxury hotel, "wellness" centre and restaurant.[citation needed] There is also a museum within some of the better preserved structures.
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A neighbourhood that has been reborn in recent years with a strong East End community vibe, Blake-Jones is a small locale tucked between Danforth Avenue and Leslieville. Known by locals as “The Pocket” it’s a popular spot for working professionals in arts and culture, education and government, with an eco-friendly vibe.
The residential atmosphere consists largely of semi-detached houses and townhouse units, with lively front porches along quaint tree lined streets. There are some Toronto condos in the area, but nothing too big and flashy just yet. Following the growth of Leslieville and The Beaches, Blake-Jones is drawing a lot of attention both from prospective homeowners and condo developers, as the neighbourhood has great access to the restaurants and stores of the Danforth, Little India, and surrounding ‘hoods.
The convenience of the Bloor-Danforth subway line really can’t be beaten for trips into downtown, plus there are north and south-bound bus routes. But walking and cycling may still be the most common form of transportation in this charming, East End neighbourhood. Definitely worth a visit!
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PREVIEW: John Tyler Faces Tough Task at West Mesquite
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DISTRICT 7-5A DIVISION I
John Tyler Lions (3-2, 2-0)
West Mesquite Wranglers (2-2, 1-0)
7 p.m. Friday
E.H. Hanby Stadium, Mesquite
John Tyler: Ricklan Holmes
West Mesquite: Jeff Neill
John Tyler: def. Wylie East, 51-3
West Mesquite: idle
John Tyler: idle
West Mesquite: at McKinney North, Oct. 19
WR Ke'Andre Street, Sr., 6-4, 195 (15 catches, 410 yards, 4 TDs; committed to Houston)
RB Rod Hawkins, Sr., 5-8, 190 (48 carries, 429 yards, 4 TDs; 3 catches, 50 yards)
RB Cam Grant, Sr., 5-10, 185 (33 carries, 394 yards, 5 TDs; 12 tackles, 1 INT, 5 PBUs)
QB Devlen Woods, Sr., 5-8, 170 (34 of 62, 808 yards, 8 TDs, 0 INTs; 18 carries, 60 yards, 1 TD)
WR K'Lon Warren, Sr., 5-10, 175 (10 catches, 210 yards, 4 TDs)
DE Christian Hartsfield, Sr., 5-10, 221 (27 tackles, 10 for loss, 5 sacks, 1 blocked punt)
LB Tyrell Jones, Sr., 5-11, 220 (41 tackles, 4.5 for loss, 1.5 sacks, 1 QB pressure)
RB/DB Kitan Crawford, Jr., 5-10, 170 (8 carries, 116 yards, 1 TD; 2 catches, 74 yards, 1 TD; 8 tackles, 1 INT, 2 PBUs)
West Mesquite
WR Dylan Wright, Sr., 6-4, 213 (19 catches, 348 yards, 4 TDs; 3 carries, 18 yards; committed to Texas A&M)
DB Aaron Lowe, Sr., 6-1, 180 (31 tackles, 3.5 for loss, 1.5 sacks, 1 QB pressure; committed to Utah)
QB Neal Johnson, Sr., 6-4, 220 (42 of 83, 669 yards, 7 TDs, 2 INTs; 32 carries, 121 yards, 2 TDs)
RB Ty Jordan, Jr., 5-8, 180 (70 carries, 583 yards, 6 TDs; 11 catches, 119 yards, 1 TD)
DL Colby Williams, Jr., 5-11, 260 (12 tackles, 3 for loss, 2 sacks)
LB Paul Christopher, Sr., 5-9, 190 (28 tackles, 1 sack, 1 forced fumble, 2 PBUs, 1 blocked punt)
DB Jamal Clemons, Sr., 5-11, 160 (24 tackles, 1 INT, 2 PBUs)
DL Jeremy Sapp, Sr., 6-1, 225 (18 tackles)
John Tyler Is 33-7 in district games under head coach Ricklan Holmes.
West Mesquite is 29-14 in district games since 2012.
John Tyler is averaging 37.4 points and 459.6 yards per game -- 262 rushing and 197.6 passing.
Lions senior receiver Ke'Andre Street is averaging 27.3 yards per catch.
John Tyler is allowing 27 points per game, has 19 sacks, and has forced five turnovers -- three interceptions and two fumbles.
West Mesquite is averaging 35.8 points and 399.3 yards per game -- 232 rushing and 167.3 passing.
Wranglers senior receiver Dylan Wright, a four-star recruit, committed to Texas A&M over other offers from Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, LSU, Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, TCU, Texas, USC, and Washington.
West Mesquite is allowing 42 points per game, has five sacks, and has forced five turnovers -- two interceptions and three fumbles.
John Tyler ATH Cam Grant. (© Clint Buckley, ETSN.fm)
Key matchup: West Mesquite passing attack vs. John Tyler secondary. While the Wranglers come into Friday's district clash averaging more than 230 rushing yards per game, it's the threat of the big play that usually keeps opposing defensive coordinators up at night. Senior receiver Dylan Wright is one of the top recruits in the country. The Texas A&M commit chose the Aggies over some of the biggest programs in the nation, including Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, LSU, Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Texas, and USC. Wright has four of his team's seven touchdown receptions in 2018, and averages more than 18 yards per catch. His 6-4, 213-pound frame makes it hard for opposing cornerbacks and safeties to match, and if West Mesquite gets into the red zone, Wright will be option No. 1.
John Tyler RB Rod Hawkins. (© Clint Buckley, ETSN.fm)
The Lions' run defense has been very good this season, and that will be important this week against West Mesquite junior running back Ty Jordan, who is averaging 145 rushing yards per game and 8.3 yards per carry. John Tyler's defensive front should have an advantage against the West Mesquite offensive line, which should make the Lions' job of slowing down Jordan an easier one. The real key will be how well John Tyler fares against the big plays downfield, with Wright in particular. Long gainers in the passing game could be a big equalizer for the West Mesquite offense.
Don't be surprised if: John Tyler continues to feature its running game. The Lions have been strong up front on the offensive line and in the backfield so far in 2018. Running backs Rod Hawkins and Cam Grant have combined for 823 yards and nine touchdowns. And while those two get the majority of the team's carries, don't discount the big-play ability of Kitan Crawford, Kadarian Asbell, and quarterback Devlen Woods. John Tyler comes into this week with six players with at least 100 rushing yards and seven with touchdowns runs.
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Project acronym LANDGRABRU
Project ‘Land grabbing’ in Russia: Large-scale investors and post-Soviet rural communities
Researcher (PI) Anne Visser
Host Institution (HI) ERASMUS UNIVERSITEIT ROTTERDAM
Call Details Starting Grant (StG), SH2, ERC-2012-StG_20111124
Summary "The mid-2000s saw the emergence of large-scale land acquisitions. While processes of agricultural ‘land grabbing’ have received considerable global attention, particularly in Africa, the land grabbing issue in the countries of the post-Soviet region has gone largely unnoticed This research proposal aims to explore this omission in the ‘land grab’ debate by studying the case of Russia. The main research question is: To what extent and how has global land grabbing occurred in Russia, with what implications to local communities, and how have local communities resisted or modified these land deals (if at all)? The proposed research is pertinent by providing a case distinct from other regions, which is likely to raise new insights on global land grabbing. Several features make the case of Russia remarkably divergent. First, whereas in most parts of the world the current trends see an increase in population density and marginal and forest land being converted into cultivated land, Russia is witness to massive land abandonment and reforestation. Another particular feature is the low level presence of an autonomously organized civil society (which also manifests on the issue of land grabbing contestation). This research will be the first comprehensive study of land grabbing and related rural social movements in Russia and the post-Soviet area at large. Rural movements have been studied mainly in Latin-America, Africa and Asia. In contrast, research on rural movements in post/reform socialist contexts (such as China) is still in its infancy, and practically absent in Russia. The proposed research aims to establish a new field of ‘(post)-socialist land grabbing and rural social mobilisation’ studies. Moreover, it will contribute to more broad debates on civil society and protest in state dominated, post/reform-socialist countries, by studying these issues from the perspective of the (mostly ignored) rural areas."
"The mid-2000s saw the emergence of large-scale land acquisitions. While processes of agricultural ‘land grabbing’ have received considerable global attention, particularly in Africa, the land grabbing issue in the countries of the post-Soviet region has gone largely unnoticed This research proposal aims to explore this omission in the ‘land grab’ debate by studying the case of Russia. The main research question is: To what extent and how has global land grabbing occurred in Russia, with what implications to local communities, and how have local communities resisted or modified these land deals (if at all)? The proposed research is pertinent by providing a case distinct from other regions, which is likely to raise new insights on global land grabbing. Several features make the case of Russia remarkably divergent. First, whereas in most parts of the world the current trends see an increase in population density and marginal and forest land being converted into cultivated land, Russia is witness to massive land abandonment and reforestation. Another particular feature is the low level presence of an autonomously organized civil society (which also manifests on the issue of land grabbing contestation). This research will be the first comprehensive study of land grabbing and related rural social movements in Russia and the post-Soviet area at large. Rural movements have been studied mainly in Latin-America, Africa and Asia. In contrast, research on rural movements in post/reform socialist contexts (such as China) is still in its infancy, and practically absent in Russia. The proposed research aims to establish a new field of ‘(post)-socialist land grabbing and rural social mobilisation’ studies. Moreover, it will contribute to more broad debates on civil society and protest in state dominated, post/reform-socialist countries, by studying these issues from the perspective of the (mostly ignored) rural areas."
Project acronym LEXMERCPUB
Project Transnational Private-Public Arbitration as Global Regulatory Governance: Charting and Codifying the Lex Mercatoria Publica
Researcher (PI) Stephan Wolf-Bernhard Schill
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM
Summary The proposed research will analyze the rising phenomenon of transnational arbitrations between private economic actors and public law bodies as a mechanism of global regulatory governance. It breaks with the prevailing view that arbitration involves no more than settling individual disputes and hypothesizes instead that arbitrators generate the rules governing public-private relations rather independently of specific domestic legal systems and their democratic processes, and thereby prospectively steer and restrict government conduct. The body of law thus crafted by arbitral tribunals is what the project designates as lex mercatoria publica, in allusion to the a-national law generated by arbitral tribunals in international private-private disputes. Unlike existing research, the proposed project will provide a comprehensive (historic, sociological, political, economic, and legal) perspective on the lex mercatoria publica and explore its legitimacy. It will, by empirically charting the modern and historic practice of private-public arbitration, describe and analyze the content of the lex mercatoria publica and develop, through comparative law research, normative criteria to assess the legitimacy of private-public arbitrations in democratic societies that are based on the rule of law. The research will result in a comprehensive online database and a codification of both the principles of private-public arbitration and of the lex mercatoria publica as developed and applied by arbitral tribunals. The project will enable arbitrators, judges, and other international and national decision-makers to render more predictable, more circumspect, overall better, and fairer decisions concerning private-public arbitration. This will provide solid foundations for enhancing transnational private-public arbitration as an institution of global regulatory governance in the interest of better and more efficient cooperation between states and private economic actors in the global economy.
The proposed research will analyze the rising phenomenon of transnational arbitrations between private economic actors and public law bodies as a mechanism of global regulatory governance. It breaks with the prevailing view that arbitration involves no more than settling individual disputes and hypothesizes instead that arbitrators generate the rules governing public-private relations rather independently of specific domestic legal systems and their democratic processes, and thereby prospectively steer and restrict government conduct. The body of law thus crafted by arbitral tribunals is what the project designates as lex mercatoria publica, in allusion to the a-national law generated by arbitral tribunals in international private-private disputes. Unlike existing research, the proposed project will provide a comprehensive (historic, sociological, political, economic, and legal) perspective on the lex mercatoria publica and explore its legitimacy. It will, by empirically charting the modern and historic practice of private-public arbitration, describe and analyze the content of the lex mercatoria publica and develop, through comparative law research, normative criteria to assess the legitimacy of private-public arbitrations in democratic societies that are based on the rule of law. The research will result in a comprehensive online database and a codification of both the principles of private-public arbitration and of the lex mercatoria publica as developed and applied by arbitral tribunals. The project will enable arbitrators, judges, and other international and national decision-makers to render more predictable, more circumspect, overall better, and fairer decisions concerning private-public arbitration. This will provide solid foundations for enhancing transnational private-public arbitration as an institution of global regulatory governance in the interest of better and more efficient cooperation between states and private economic actors in the global economy.
Project acronym PLIOPROX
Project New proxies to quantify continental climate development during the Pliocene
Researcher (PI) Johannes Weijers
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT
Call Details Starting Grant (StG), PE10, ERC-2012-StG_20111012
Summary Atmospheric CO2 concentrations have risen rapidly since pre-industrial times and our current climate is not yet in equilibrium with this; it will change. To obtain insight in the type and magnitude of this change and to validate climate models used to project these changes, we need to look back at past climates. The most recent time in Earth history with CO2 levels that were similar to today is the Pliocene. The Pliocene thus provides a unique window into a world that exhibited many of the climate characteristics that we might experience. These are documented by proxies locked into sedimentary archives, especially marine sediments. It remains a challenge for palaeoclimatologists, however, to quantify past terrestrial temperatures. I have recently developed a novel proxy for quantitative annual mean air temperature reconstruction, which is based on the distribution of membrane lipids synthesised by soil bacteria. Upon soil erosion these molecules are transported to the marine realm where they become part of the marine sedimentary archive. The PlioProx project aims at a quantitative reconstruction of continental temperatures and latitudinal temperature gradients for the Pliocene. This will be achieved by applying this new palaeothermometer to high resolution marine sediment records near river outflows to generate river-basin integrated records of continental air temperature. This approach also allows for a direct comparison to reconstructed sea surface temperatures. Using globally distributed sediment records, latitudinal temperature gradients will be constructed which will be compared to moisture transport and rainout, reconstructed using stable hydrogen isotopes from plant wax lipids. Results will provide vital new insights in climate evolution on land under elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations. It will also contribute to improving the next generation earth system models that are used to predict future climate.
Atmospheric CO2 concentrations have risen rapidly since pre-industrial times and our current climate is not yet in equilibrium with this; it will change. To obtain insight in the type and magnitude of this change and to validate climate models used to project these changes, we need to look back at past climates. The most recent time in Earth history with CO2 levels that were similar to today is the Pliocene. The Pliocene thus provides a unique window into a world that exhibited many of the climate characteristics that we might experience. These are documented by proxies locked into sedimentary archives, especially marine sediments. It remains a challenge for palaeoclimatologists, however, to quantify past terrestrial temperatures. I have recently developed a novel proxy for quantitative annual mean air temperature reconstruction, which is based on the distribution of membrane lipids synthesised by soil bacteria. Upon soil erosion these molecules are transported to the marine realm where they become part of the marine sedimentary archive. The PlioProx project aims at a quantitative reconstruction of continental temperatures and latitudinal temperature gradients for the Pliocene. This will be achieved by applying this new palaeothermometer to high resolution marine sediment records near river outflows to generate river-basin integrated records of continental air temperature. This approach also allows for a direct comparison to reconstructed sea surface temperatures. Using globally distributed sediment records, latitudinal temperature gradients will be constructed which will be compared to moisture transport and rainout, reconstructed using stable hydrogen isotopes from plant wax lipids. Results will provide vital new insights in climate evolution on land under elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations. It will also contribute to improving the next generation earth system models that are used to predict future climate.
Project acronym SINK
Project Subduction Initiation reconstructed from Neotethyan Kinematics (SINK): An iterative geological and numerical study of the driving forces behind plate tectonics
Researcher (PI) Douwe Jacob Jan Van Hinsbergen
Summary "The concept of Plate Tectonics, as fundamentally unifying to Earth Sciences as Darwin’s Evolution Theory is to Life Sciences, mathematically describes the complex evolution of Earth’s outer shell in terms of lithosphere plates and their interactions. There is no widely accepted dynamic mechanism, however, that explains why plate tectonics developed and continues. Subduction of oceanic lithosphere into the mantle, compensated by spreading of new oceanic lithosphere elsewhere is a key element of plate tectonics. Half of the subduction zones active today formed in the Cenozoic, and subduction initiation must be a common and fundamental element of plate tectonics. Geophysical models demonstrate that forcing is required to initiate subduction at weakness zones. Mechanisms producing this forcing remain unexplored, but may include clogging of existing subduction zones with continental lithosphere, formation of high plateaus as a result of absolute plate motions and arrival of mantle plumes below plates. I aim to identify the mechanisms that force subduction initiation, using a novel and multidisciplinary approach. (1) I will design a Natural Laboratory, in which subduction initiation events, absolute and relative plate motions, continental subduction and mantle plumes are reconstructed. The Alpine-Himalayan mountain range that formed during closure of the Neotethyan Ocean is an ideal natural laboratory in which subduction initiation events and geological expressions of all potential driving mechanisms have been and will be reconstructed. (2) To test whether the reconstructed geological ‘incidents’ are causally related, a Numerical Laboratory will be designed, to conduct numerical modeling experiments based on fundamental geophysics. SINK will iteratively integrate the natural and numerical laboratories to advance our understanding of the processes that drive subduction initiation, as an essential step towards a dynamic and quantitative model to explain plate tectonics."
"The concept of Plate Tectonics, as fundamentally unifying to Earth Sciences as Darwin’s Evolution Theory is to Life Sciences, mathematically describes the complex evolution of Earth’s outer shell in terms of lithosphere plates and their interactions. There is no widely accepted dynamic mechanism, however, that explains why plate tectonics developed and continues. Subduction of oceanic lithosphere into the mantle, compensated by spreading of new oceanic lithosphere elsewhere is a key element of plate tectonics. Half of the subduction zones active today formed in the Cenozoic, and subduction initiation must be a common and fundamental element of plate tectonics. Geophysical models demonstrate that forcing is required to initiate subduction at weakness zones. Mechanisms producing this forcing remain unexplored, but may include clogging of existing subduction zones with continental lithosphere, formation of high plateaus as a result of absolute plate motions and arrival of mantle plumes below plates. I aim to identify the mechanisms that force subduction initiation, using a novel and multidisciplinary approach. (1) I will design a Natural Laboratory, in which subduction initiation events, absolute and relative plate motions, continental subduction and mantle plumes are reconstructed. The Alpine-Himalayan mountain range that formed during closure of the Neotethyan Ocean is an ideal natural laboratory in which subduction initiation events and geological expressions of all potential driving mechanisms have been and will be reconstructed. (2) To test whether the reconstructed geological ‘incidents’ are causally related, a Numerical Laboratory will be designed, to conduct numerical modeling experiments based on fundamental geophysics. SINK will iteratively integrate the natural and numerical laboratories to advance our understanding of the processes that drive subduction initiation, as an essential step towards a dynamic and quantitative model to explain plate tectonics."
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Project acronym BIONICS
Project Bio-Inspired Routes for Controlling the Structure and Properties of Materials: Reusing proven tricks on new materials
Researcher (PI) Boaz Pokroy
Host Institution (HI) TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Summary "In the course of biomineralization, organisms produce a large variety of functional biogenic crystals that exhibit fascinating mechanical, optical, magnetic and other characteristics. More specifically, when living organisms grow crystals they can effectively control polymorph selection as well as the crystal morphology, shape, and even atomic structure. Materials existing in nature have extraordinary and specific functions, yet the materials employed in nature are quite different from those engineers would select. I propose to emulate specific strategies used by organisms in forming structural biogenic crystals, and to apply these strategies biomimetically so as to form new structural materials with new properties and characteristics. This bio-inspired approach will involve the adoption of three specific biological strategies. We believe that this procedure will open up new ways to control the structure and properties of smart materials. The three bio-inspired strategies that we will utilize are: (i) to control the short-range order of amorphous materials, making it possible to predetermine the polymorph obtained when they transform from the amorphous to the succeeding crystalline phase; (ii) to control the morphology of single crystals of various functional materials so that they can have intricate and curved surfaces and yet maintain their single-crystal nature; (iii) to entrap organic molecules into single crystals of functional materials so as to tailor and manipulate their electronic structure. The proposed research has significant potential for opening up new routes for the formation of novel functional materials. Specifically, it will make it possible for us (1) to produce single, intricately shaped crystals without the need to etch, drill or polish; (2) to control the short-range order of amorphous materials and hence the polymorph of the successive crystalline phase; (3) to tune the band gap of semiconductors via incorporation of tailored bio-molecules."
"In the course of biomineralization, organisms produce a large variety of functional biogenic crystals that exhibit fascinating mechanical, optical, magnetic and other characteristics. More specifically, when living organisms grow crystals they can effectively control polymorph selection as well as the crystal morphology, shape, and even atomic structure. Materials existing in nature have extraordinary and specific functions, yet the materials employed in nature are quite different from those engineers would select. I propose to emulate specific strategies used by organisms in forming structural biogenic crystals, and to apply these strategies biomimetically so as to form new structural materials with new properties and characteristics. This bio-inspired approach will involve the adoption of three specific biological strategies. We believe that this procedure will open up new ways to control the structure and properties of smart materials. The three bio-inspired strategies that we will utilize are: (i) to control the short-range order of amorphous materials, making it possible to predetermine the polymorph obtained when they transform from the amorphous to the succeeding crystalline phase; (ii) to control the morphology of single crystals of various functional materials so that they can have intricate and curved surfaces and yet maintain their single-crystal nature; (iii) to entrap organic molecules into single crystals of functional materials so as to tailor and manipulate their electronic structure. The proposed research has significant potential for opening up new routes for the formation of novel functional materials. Specifically, it will make it possible for us (1) to produce single, intricately shaped crystals without the need to etch, drill or polish; (2) to control the short-range order of amorphous materials and hence the polymorph of the successive crystalline phase; (3) to tune the band gap of semiconductors via incorporation of tailored bio-molecules."
Project acronym CONFINEDCHEM
Project Synthetic Confined Environments as Tools for Manipulating Chemical Reactivities and Preparing New Nanostructures
Researcher (PI) Rafal Klajn
Host Institution (HI) WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE
Summary "Nature has long inspired chemists with its abilities to stabilize ephemeral chemical species, to perform chemical reactions with unprecedented rates and selectivities, and to synthesize complex molecules and fascinating inorganic nanostructures. What natural systems consistently exploit - which is yet fundamentally different from how chemists perform reactions - is their aspect of nanoscale confinement. The goal of the proposed research program is to integrate the worlds of organic and inorganic colloidal chemistry by means of manipulating chemical reactivities and synthesizing novel molecules and nanostructures inside synthetic confined environments created using novel, unconventional approaches based on inorganic, nanostructured building blocks. The three types of confined spaces we propose are as follows: 1) nanopores within reversibly self-assembling colloidal crystals (""dynamic nanoflasks""), 2) cavities of bowl-shaped metallic nanoparticles (NPs), and 3) surfaces of spherical NPs. By taking advantage of these unique tools, we will attempt to develop, respectively, 1) a conceptually new method for catalyzing chemical reactions using light, 2) nanoscale inclusion chemistry (a field based on host-guest ""complexes"" assembled form nanosized components) and 3) to use NPs as platforms for the development of new organic reactions. While these objectives are predominantly of a fundamental nature, they can easily evolve into a variety of practical applications. Specifically, we will pursue diverse goals such as the preparation of 1) a new family of inverse opals (with potentially fascinating optical and mechanical properties), 2) artificial chaperones (NPs assisting in protein folding), and 3) size- and shape-controlled polymeric vesicles. Overall, it is believed that this marriage of organic and colloidal chemistry has the potential to change the fundamental way we perform chemical reactions, paving the way to the discovery of new phenomena and unique structures."
"Nature has long inspired chemists with its abilities to stabilize ephemeral chemical species, to perform chemical reactions with unprecedented rates and selectivities, and to synthesize complex molecules and fascinating inorganic nanostructures. What natural systems consistently exploit - which is yet fundamentally different from how chemists perform reactions - is their aspect of nanoscale confinement. The goal of the proposed research program is to integrate the worlds of organic and inorganic colloidal chemistry by means of manipulating chemical reactivities and synthesizing novel molecules and nanostructures inside synthetic confined environments created using novel, unconventional approaches based on inorganic, nanostructured building blocks. The three types of confined spaces we propose are as follows: 1) nanopores within reversibly self-assembling colloidal crystals (""dynamic nanoflasks""), 2) cavities of bowl-shaped metallic nanoparticles (NPs), and 3) surfaces of spherical NPs. By taking advantage of these unique tools, we will attempt to develop, respectively, 1) a conceptually new method for catalyzing chemical reactions using light, 2) nanoscale inclusion chemistry (a field based on host-guest ""complexes"" assembled form nanosized components) and 3) to use NPs as platforms for the development of new organic reactions. While these objectives are predominantly of a fundamental nature, they can easily evolve into a variety of practical applications. Specifically, we will pursue diverse goals such as the preparation of 1) a new family of inverse opals (with potentially fascinating optical and mechanical properties), 2) artificial chaperones (NPs assisting in protein folding), and 3) size- and shape-controlled polymeric vesicles. Overall, it is believed that this marriage of organic and colloidal chemistry has the potential to change the fundamental way we perform chemical reactions, paving the way to the discovery of new phenomena and unique structures."
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Principal The Little Book of Stoicism: Timeless Wisdom to Gain Resilience, Confidence, and Calmness
The Little Book of Stoicism: Timeless Wisdom to Gain Resilience, Confidence, and Calmness
Jonas Salzgeber
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Marilyn Stokstad, Michael W Cothren, Michael Cothren
THE LITTLE BOOK OF STOICISM
Timeless Wisdom to Gain Resilience,
Confidence, and Calmness
Please note that this book is for entertainment purposes only. The views
expressed are those of the author alone, and should not be taken as expert
instruction or commands. The reader is responsible for his or her actions.
The Power of Philosophy
“The power of philosophy to blunt the blows of fate is beyond belief. No
missile can settle in her body; she is well-protected and impenetrable. She
spoils the force of some missiles and wards them off with the loose folds of
her dress, as if they had no power to harm; others she dashes aside, and
throws them back with such force that they rebound upon the sender.
Farewell. ”
Maybe you’ve stumbled upon a smart quote by an ancient Stoic
philosopher or you’ve read an article that shared some inspiring Stoic
ideas. Maybe you’ve been told about that helpful and flourishing old
philosophy by a friend or you’ve already studied a book or two about
Stoicism. Or maybe, although chances are very low, you’ve never even
heard about it before.
However, encountering Stoicism in one way or another is the easy part.
Understanding and explaining exactly what it is, though, is the tricky part.
Recognizing and seeing exactly how it’s relevant today and how it can help
you, is the challenging part. Fully grasping it and putting it into practice, is
the ambitious part—that’s where the gold is hidden.
What the Stoics taught and practiced in the era of gladiators fighting for
their lives and Romans socializing in steaming baths is still remarkably
applicable in the era of Game of Thrones and Facebook. The wisdom of
this ancient philosophy is timeless, and its value in the quest for a happy
and meaningful life is undeniable.
With this book, you’re holding the treasure map in your hands. It
introduces you to the leading philosophers. It gives you an easy to
understand overview of the philosophy. It teaches you the core principles.
It provides you with 55 Stoic Practices and helpful hints for the
application in your challenging life. And most importantly, it shows you
how to translate it from book page to action in the real world.
Cool! But how does a twenty-something know how to write the Stoic
treasure map for the good life? Fair enough, I’d be wondering about that
too. After many years of school and university, I was sick of reading
academic books and papers and learning about stuff that didn’t really
teach me anything of real life value. So, literally the day after handing in
my final paper, I left the country and started my seven months long travel
around the world. I wanted to get away, see places and other cultures, but
mainly I wanted to get to know myself so I'd know what I wanted to do
with my life when I got back. That last part did not work out; however, I
did figure out something else instead: "I somehow must have missed the
class on howto live?!”
In fifteen and a half years of schooling, I learned math, physics, chemistry,
biology, and a bunch of other stuff, except how to deal with challenging
situations? How to face my fears and struggles? What to do about my
depressive feelings? How to deal effectively with the death of my friend?
What to do with my anger? How to be more confident? Nope, I must have
missed all those classes. That, by the way, is exactly what schools of
philosophy were all about in the ancient world, they taught you how to
live. And even though these schools don’t exist anymore, you and I and
most people are in as much need of a philosophy that teaches us how to
live as we ever were.
Long story short, I decided to invest in myself and learn how to live well.
From all the wisdom I devoured in the following years, Stoic philosophy
helped me the most, even though it didn’t start on good terms. Before I
knew much (anything) about the philosophy, I thought this must be the
most boring thing on earth. I mean, after all, it’s called Stoicism and not
“Supermanism” or something else that would indicate it’s worth studying.
I gave it a shot anyway, got hooked, and since then I’ve been a voracious
student and practitioner of Stoic philosophy. And even though I’ve read
and reread countless books. I’ve always lacked a source that provides a
simple overview and explains what exactly Stoicism is. So I wrote this
massive article that should do exactly that: Give an overview of the
philosophy and say what it’s all about. Fortunately, many people loved the
article and found it immensely helpful—so much, actually, that someone
stole the exact content and sold it as his book. That did not only test my
personal Stoic mindset, but all the five-st ar reviews it got told me that
people really want to learn about this philosophy.
So here I am, passionately writing about what would have saved me
countless weeks of research and would have provided so much sought-
after and desperately needed wisdom from this exemplar}7 philosophy. I’m
positive that this book will contribute to the modern Stoic literature and,
most importantly, that it will serve you well oil your quest for the good life.
Because that’s really what Stoicism helps you with: living a great life.
Whatever you’re going through, there’s advice from the Stoics that can
help. Despite the philosophy’s age, its wisdom often feels surprisingly
modern and fresh. It can help you build stamina and strength for your
challenging life. It can help you become emotionally resilient so you’ll
neither get jerked around by outside events nor will others be able to push
your buttons. It can teach you to handle yourself and stay calm in the
midst of a storm. It can help you make decisions and therefore drastically
simplify everyday living.
“He who studies with a philosopher,” Seneca says, “should take away with
him some one good thing every day: he should daily return home a
sounder man, or in the way to become sounder.” Practicing Stoicism helps
you improve yourself as a person; it teaches you to mindfully live by a set
of desirable values such as courage, patience, self-discipline, serenity,
perseverance, forgiveness, kindness, and humility. Its many anchors offer
security and guidance and will level up your confidence.
And you can get that too. In fact, Stoic philosophy made the good life a
reachable goal for everybody, cutting through social classes—whether
you’re rich or poor, healthy or sick, well-educated or not, it makes no
difference to your ability to live the good life. The Stoics were living proof
that it’s possible for someone to be exiled to a desert island and still be
happier than someone living in a palace. They understood very well that
there’s only a loose connection between external circumstances and our
In Stoicism, what you do with the given circumstances matters much
more. Stoics recognized that the good life depends on the cultivation of
one’s character, oil one's choices and actions rather than on what happens
in the uncontrollable world around us. This, my fellow Stoic student, is at
the root of a tough and at the same time highly attractive aspect of
Stoicism—it makes us responsible and deprives us of any excuses for not
living the best life possible.
You and I, we’re responsible for our own flourishing. We’re responsible for
not letting our happiness depend on external circumstances—we shouldn’t
let the rain, annoying strangers, or a leaking washing machine decide
upon our wellbeing. Otherwise, we become helpless victims of life
circumstances out of hand. As a Stoic student, you learn that only you can
ruin your life and only you can refuse to let your inner self be conquered
by whatever nasty challenge life throws at you.
So, Stoicism teaches us to live by a set of values that contribute to
emotional resilience, calm confidence, and a clear direction in life. Just
like an old reliable walking stick, it’s a guide to life based on reason rather
than faith, a guide that supports us in the pursuit of self-mastery,
perseverance, and wisdom. Stoicism makes us better human beings and
teaches us how to excel in life.
Its powerful psychological techniques are almost identical to the ones that
are now proven to be effective by research in the scientific study called
Positive Psychology’. I am not accusing the researchers of theft, but the
exercises discussed in Positive Psychology look suspiciously similar to the
ones the Stoics used over two thousand years ago. The fact that modern
research often goes hand in hand with what the Stoics taught makes the
philosophy even more appealing. On top of that, Stoicism isn’t rigid, but
open and looking for the truth. As a Latin saying goes: “Zeno [founder of
Stoicism] is our friend but truth is an even greater friend.”
If we look around, we see countless people who pursued their dreams of a
golden mansion, a Porsche 911, and a six-figure job, and yet they’re not
happier than before with the moldy flat, the rusty old car, and the cheap
job. They’re living by a formula that looks something like this: If you work
hard, you'll be successful, and once you’re successful, then you’ll be happy.
Or, if I finish/get/achieve such and such, then I’ll be happy. The only
problem? This formula is broken. And after following this formula for
years, these people are wondering: Is this really all life has to offer?
No, it’s not. The point is, many people don’t get any happier when they
grow older, they don’t improve whatsoever. They mindlessly stroll through
a life lacking clear direction, repeatedly make the same mistakes, and
won’t be any closer to a happy and meaningful life in their eighties than
they were in their twenties.
It should really be a no-brainer for many of us to adopt a philosophy of life
that offers guidance, direction, and a larger meaning to life. Without that
compass, there’s the risk that despite all our well-intentioned actions, we'll
run in circles, chase worthless things, and end up living ail unfulfilling life
full of emotional suffering, regrets, and frustration. And since it doesn’t
take much effort to give Stoicism a chance as your guiding philosophy of
life, there’s really nothing to lose and much to gain.
The promise of this book is really the promise of Stoic philosophy: It
teaches how to live a supremely happy and smoothly flowing life and how
to retain that even in the face of adversity. It prepares you to be ready for
anything, like a tower of strength—unshakable, deep-rooted, emotionally
resilient, and surprisingly calm and mindful even in the midst of a hellfire.
Stoicism can improve your life in good times, but it’s in bad times when its
efficacy becomes most apparent. It can be the light showing you the way
through pitch-black depressive moments. It holds your hand when you
need confidence to minimize emotional suffering by taming the bad guys
like anger, fear, and grief. It can be your stepping stool to reach that
tranquility you need when you’re knee-deep in shit. It can be your strong
backbone when you need to act courageously even when you’re shaking
like a leaf. It can be the clown that wakes you up and casts a smile on your
face when you need it the most.
In short. Stoicism not only shows you the way but also hands you the key
to the good life. All you need to do is walk the path, turn the key, and
enter. So, Stoic teacher Epictetus asks, “How long are you going to wait?”
“How long are you going to wait before you demand the best of yourself?”
You’re no longer a child but a full-grown person, and yet you
procrastinate, Epictetus reminds himself “You will not notice that you are
making no progress but you will live and die as someone quite ordinary.”
From nowon, he warns himself, and all of us, to live like a mature human
being and never set aside what you think is best to do. And whenever you
encounter anything difficult, remember that the contest is now, you are at
the Olympics, you cannot wait any longer.
We don't have the luxury of postponing our training, because unlike the
Olympic Games, the contest we participate in every day—life—has already
begun. Life is right now, it’s about time to start our training.
Training in Stoicism is a bit like surfing—little theory and lots of practice.
Right now, you can't wait to get started and you imagine yourself standing
on the surfboard hitting wave after wave, having the time of your life . . .
wait, I have to stop you there. Because in your first surf lesson, you get to
learn some theoretical aspects of surfing too. On the dry land, you practice
how to paddle, pop up, and stand on the board. In other words, the first
part feels annoying—you just wanted to surf, you didn’t sign up for that
dry theory lesson.
Surprisingly quickly you make it through the theoiy part and you get to
enter the water, flush out the sandy mouth, and start your practice. In the
water, you quickly realize that it’s not so easy, and the theoiy part was
actually necessary. It’s the same with Stoicism. You’ll get to hit the waves,
but if you want to hit them successfully and not give up after the first few
(many) nosedives, you first need to understand some of the theoiy behind
surfing ... ahem, Stoicism.
I sought to organize this book and present the ancient wisdom in an
accessible, digestible, and highly functional way. In the first part, you’ll
learn about the promise of the philosophy, its history, main philosophers,
and about the core principles presented as the Stoic Happiness Triangle.
Study that triangle and you’re able to explain the philosophy to a five-year-
old. The second part is all about hitting the waves; it’s crammed with
practical advice and exercises for everyday living.
My ultimate aim of this direct and straightforward approach to Stoicism is
to help you live a better life. I believe we can all become a little wiser and
happier by practicing this wonderful philosophy.
It’s time to dive in.
What is Stoicism?
“If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it/'
The Promise of Stoic Philosophy
No tree becomes deep-rooted and sturdy unless strong winds blow against
it. This shaking and pulling is what makes the tree tighten its grip and
plant its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those grown in a sunny
valley. “Why then/’ asks Seneca, “do you wonder that good men are
shaken in order that they may grow strong?” Just like for the trees, heavy
rain and strong winds are to the advantage of good people, it’s how they
may grow calm, disciplined, humble, and strong.
Just like the tree must tighten its grip not to fall down with eveiy breeze,
we must strengthen our position if we don’t want to be swept off our feet
by eveiy trifle. This is what Stoic philosophy is here for—it will make you
stronger and let the same rain and wind appear lighter and keep you on
your feet at all times. In other words, it will prepare you to deal more
effectively with whatever stormy weather life throws at you.
From wrestling philosophers to emotional wolves, this first chapter covers
all you need to know about the promise of Stoic philosophy, or why you
should get into Stoicism.
Warning: This book will contain some scary words like eudaimonia,
arete, or virtue. Their unknown looks will make you want to turn the page,
so brace yourself and stand strong. Despite the resistance, it will pay off to
hang in there and you might even add them to your everyday vocabulary.
And hey, this wouldn’t be ancient philosophy without at least some scary
Practice the Art of Living: Become a Warrior-
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to
do ” - Epictetus
How to live a good life? This classic philosophic question stands at the
origin of the primary concern of Stoic philosophy: How to live one’s life, or
' the art of living.” Stoic teacher Epictetus compared philosophy to
artisans: As wood is to the carpenter, and bronze to the sculptor, so are
our own lives the proper material in the art of living. Philosophy is not
reserved for wise old men, it’s an essential craft for everybody who wants
to learn how to live (and die) well. Every life situation presents a blank
canvas or a block of marble that we can sculpt and train on, so that over a
lifetime we can master our craft. That’s basically what Stoicism does, it
teaches us how to excel in life, it prepares us to face adversity calmly, and
simply helps us sculpt and enjoy a good life.
What makes someone good at living? According to Epictetus, it's neither
wealth, nor high-office, nor being a commander. There must be something
else. Just like someone who wants to be good at handwriting must practice
and know a lot about handwriting, or someone who wants to be good in
music must study music, someone who wants to be good at living,
therefore, must have good knowledge of how to live. Makes sense, right?
Seneca, another important Stoic philosopher we 11 get to know in Chapter
2, said that ‘‘[the philosopher] is the one who knows the fundamental
thing: how to live.”
A “philosopher” literally translates from the Greek into a “lover of
wisdom,” someone who loves to learn how to live, someone who wants to
attain practical wisdom concerning how to actually live their life. As
Epictetus told us before, if we want to become good at living, we must
attain knowledge on how to live. This might surprise you, but philosophy
is really a matter of practice, learning how to sculpt our lives. Thinking
and philosophizing about the blank block of marble won’t teach us how to
skillfully use chisel and mallet. The Stoics were particularly concerned
with applying philosophy to everyday life. They saw themselves as
veritable warriors of the mind and thought the primary reason to study
philosophy was to put it into practice.
This is a great comparison made by author Donald Robertson in his book
The Philosophy of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. He said that in ancient
times, the ideal philosopher was a veritable warrior of the mind, but in
modern times, “the philosopher has become something more bookish, not
a warrior, but a mere librarian of the mind.'’ Think of the old grey
philosopher teacher. So we want to be warriors and what matters most is
not our ability to recite Stoic principles, but to actually live them out in the
real world. As Epictetus asked his students, “If you didn’t learn these
things in order to demonstrate them in practice, what did you learn them
for?” He continued that they (his students) were not hungry and
courageous enough to go out in the real world and demonstrate the theory
in practice, “Which is why I would like to escape to Rome to see my
favorite wrestler in action, he, at least, puts policy into practice.”
True philosophy is a matter of little theory and a lot of practice, like
wrestling in the ancient and surfing in the modern world. Remember, in
surfing, we get to practice in the water after a quick theory part on the
beach. Heavy waves are better teachers than heavy school books. And
Stoicism demands exactly that, to go out there in the real world and
vigorously apply what we’ve learned in the classroom. Our lives offer the
perfect training ground for daily practice with its uncountable green waves
and blank marble blocks.
This practical "art of living” dimension of Stoicism holds two main
promises: First, it teaches how to live a happy and smoothly flowing life,
and second, it teaches you how to stay emotionally resilient to retain that
happy and smoothly flowing life even in the face of adversity. Let’s dive
into the first promise and tackle the first of the scary words: eudaimonia.
Promise #1: Eudaimonia
“Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to
bubble up, if you just dig.” - Marcus Aurelius
Imagine the best version of yourself. Look inside, do you see and know
who that highest version of you is, the one who acts right in all situations,
the one who makes no mistakes and seems unbeatable? If you’re anything
like me and have been trying to improve yourself, then you probably know
this ideal version of yourself. Well, in Greek, this best version would be the
inner daimon, an inner spirit or divine spark. For the Stoics and all other
schools of ancient philosophy, the ultimate goal of life was eudaimonia, to
become good (eu) with your inner daimon. (Not to be confused with
demon, which is a bad spirit.)
The Stoics believed that nature wants us to become that highest version of
ourselves. This is why the inner daimon (or divine spark) has been planted
within all of us like a seed, so that we have it in our natural potential to
become that highest version of ourselves. In other words, it’s our nature to
complete what’s been started with that divine seed and bring our human
potential to life. To become good with our inner daimon, to live in
harmony with our ideal self is, therefore, to get as close as possible to that
high potential self.
We should close the gap between who were capable of being (our ideal
self) and who we actually are in that moment. How can we do that? The
Stoics had a word for that too: arete. In short, arete directly translates as
“virtue" or “excellence,” but it has a pro founder meaning—something like
“expressing the highest version of yourself in every moment." We’ll dive
deeper into that in Chapter 3, but you can already see that Stoicism deals
with your moment-to-moment actions and with living as close as possible
to your ideal self.
The Stoics’ overarching goal was eudaimonia; to be good with your inner
daimon, to live in harmony with your ideal self, to express your highest
version of yourself in every moment. But what does that mean exactly?
The most common translation of the Greek word eud aim onia is happiness.
The translations “flourishing” or “thriving," however, capture the original
meaning better because they indicate a form of continuing action—you can
only be good with your daimon when your moment-to-moment actions are
in harmony with your ideal self. You flourish at living well, and only os a
consequence you’ll feel happy.
Eudaimonia refers more to the overall quality of someone’s life rather than
a temporary mood such as happiness. It’s a condition in which a person is
thriving and living optimally well and supremely happy. As Zeno, the
founder of Stoicism, puts it, “happiness is a smoothly flowing life.” This
entails that your life generally flows smoothly. Let’s conclude that
eudaimonia is a happy and smoothly flowing life that comes from thriving
at bringing our moment-to-moment actions into harmony with our
highest self
This promise of eud aim onia entails that we’re armed with all we need to
deal with whatever challenge we’re facing in life. How else can we stay
happy even when life gets tough? Because life is pretty easy when things
are going well, it only gets arduous when things seem to turn against us,
when we’re facing difficulties and struggles. This brings us to the second
promise of Stoicism: Philosophy trains us to be able to take on every
obstacle in life with the right mindset so that life keeps on going smoothly.
Promise #2: Emotional Resilience
“To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and
burden." - Seneca
“But what is philosophy?” asks Epictetus. “Doesn’t it mean making
preparation to meet the things that come upon us?” Yes, he says,
philosophy prepares us to endure whatever happens. “Otherwise, it would
be like the boxer leaving the ring because he took some punches.” We
could actually leave the ring without any consequences, but what if we’d
abandon the pursuit of wisdom? “So, what should each of us say to every
trial we face? This is what I’ve trained for, this is my discipline!” Hey, a
boxer who gets punched in the face won’t leave the ring, it’s what he
prepared for, it’s his discipline. And the same is true for philosophers; just
because life slaps, kicks, spits, and knocks us out doesn't mean we should
give up and leave, it means we should get back up and keep on getting
better. Such is life—it's like our boxing ring, punches and kicks are what
we’ve signed up for, this is our discipline.
“Unharmed prosperity cannot endure a single blow,” says Seneca, but a
man who has gone through countless misfortunes “acquires a skin
calloused by suffering.” This man fights to the ground and carries on the
fight even on his knees. He will never give up. The Stoics loved wrestling
metaphors, so Marcus Aurelius similarly says, “The art of living is more
like wrestling than dancing." We need to be prepared for sudden attacks.
Nobody will ever tackle a dancer. The dancer will never get choked by
adversity like a wrestler. So, as warrior-philosophers, we know that life
will be challenging. Actually, we should even be rubbing our hands
together and be looking forward to take some punches, knowing they will
make us stronger and grow our skin thicker.
This is why we should want to engage and train in this fight they call life.
Because we want to be strong, we want to live happy and smoothly flowing
lives. We want to handle ourselves and our actions when life gets tough.
We want to be a tower of strength, unshakable even at the peak of a rage
attack. When others panic, we want to stay cool, well-considered, and be
able to be the best we can be.
Practicing Stoicism helps us develop the tools to deal as effectively as
humanly possible with whatever kicks and punches life throws at us. No
matter what happens in our lives—we’re ready for anything—we’re
prepared to take hooks and si de-kicks, never give up, and make the best of
it. This is the promise of Stoic philosophy. Yet, right now, if you get
punched in the face, what’s going to happen? You get emotional. Like
everybody else, you either angrily fight back, or more likely, you start
crying. The Stoics identified strong emotions as our ultimate weakness;
especially when we let them dictate our behavior. They’re toxic to
eudaimonia and they’re at the root of all human suffering. Unfortunately,
according to the Stoics, most of us are enslaved to passions—strong
negative emotions such as irrational fear, grief, or anger. This is why so
many of us are miserable, we’re far away from being a tower of strength,
we’re far away from being at good terms with our ideal self. Our passions
cause us to act far beneath of what we’re capable of.
If we want to be able to act like our ideal self, say the Stoics, we need to
keep our emotions in check, we need to tame them so they won’t get in the
way of the good life. No, thank you, I can’t afford to panic right now.
Tame Restricting Emotions (± Unemotional)
The promise of Stoic philosophy consists of both the supremely happy life
(eudaimonia) and the preparation (ready for anything) to deal effectively
with whatever life throws at us. Yet, we can only deal well with life’s
challenges when we’re emotionally resilient and don’t let our emotions
jerk us around.
This is why we need to make progress toward taming and overcoming
disturbing desires and emotions, so that, as Seneca puts it, the glitter of
gold doesn’t dazzle our eyes more than the flash of a sword, and that we
can easily wave aside what other people crave and fear. This overcoming of
one’s emotions is sometimes called the Stoic “therapy of the passions” and
might be the reason why Epictetus said: “The philosopher’s school is a
doctor’s clinic.”
Now, if we imagine a doctor’s clinic to have a couch in it, then, with some
cliche, we get a psychotherapist’s room. Back in Epictetus’ days, when you
had problems with your mind or soul, you wouldn’t see a shrink but a
philosopher instead—they were the preferred doctors of the mind. The
Stoics were great observers of the human mind and actually had many
important psychological insights. They realized, for example, that what
makes insults hurtful isn’t their content, but our interpretation of those
insults. They had a proper understanding of our mind and developed
psychological techniques to prevent and deal with negative emotions
(most techniques will be covered in the second part of this book).
Although Stoicism is a philosophy, it has a significant psychological
component to it. Many of its beliefs, such as the goal to thrive as human
beings, go hand in hand with modern research in Positive Psychology; this
is something I find highly intriguing about Stoicism. It’s beyond the scope
of this book to look at the science behind the Stoic ideas, but if you happen
to read a book on Positive Psychology, you’ll see the consonance (Shawn
Achor’s The Happiness Advantage is a fantastic start.)
Just as there are ailments to the body, there are ailments to the mind; and
the Stoics were well aware of that. They said it’s impossible to flourish in
life while being tormented by irrational emotions. Therefore, we need
apatheia—the ability to overcome these interfering emotions. That's
where the word “apathy” comes from, and it’s a main reason for the classic
misunderstanding that the Stoics were somehow unemotional or seeking
to suppress their feelings. The other reason for that misunderstanding
comes from the lowercase word stoic which means to “suck it up” or
having a “stiff upper lip” and has absolutely nothing to do with the
uppercase Stoicism this book is all about. Let’s clear out this “Stoics are
emotionless” misunderstanding right now.
Stoicism has nothing to do with suppressing or hiding one’s emotions or
being emotionless. Rather, it’s about acknowledging our emotions,
reflecting on what causes them, and learning to redirect them for our own
good. In other words, it’s more about unslaving ourselves from negative
emotions, more like taming rather than getting rid of them.
Imagine strong emotions to be like your inner wolf—immensely powerful
when let loose and able to pull you wherever it wants to. Emotions activate
an action tendency—when you feel angiy, for example, you have the
tendency to clench your fists, shout, and throw stuff. Basically, when the
inner wolf is angry, we let it take over, and then we blindly follow the
action tendency and act out. What the Stoics found, however, is that we
don’t need to follow that tendency. We can train ourselves to act calmly
despite feeling angiy, act courageously despite feeling anxious, and going
east despite the wolf pulling west.
Fortunately, we don’t need to pretend the wolf isn’t there, or even kill it
(which isn’t even possible). The Stoics want us to tame and learn to
understand that wolf. Instead of letting it dictate our actions when it’s
angry, anxious, or hungry, we act calmly despite the anger. It can snarl
and howl as much as it wants, we don’t fear it and act as we choose to. The
wolf doesn’t have a say in our decisions any longer despite feeling the
action tendency.
The goal isn’t to eliminate all emotions, the goal is to not get overwhelmed
by them despite their immense power. We feel the emotional wolf, but we
keep on our path despite it pulling in another direction. “Okay, the wolf
wants to freak out, but what would it help?” we say to ourselves. We rise
above our emotions, we can hear it snarl, but we know we neither need to
listen nor follow along.
The Stoics weren’t unemotional people with hearts of stone. They
acknowledged that desires and emotions are part of nature, but we have it
within our power to rise above them and not get (too) disturbed by them.
“No school has more goodness and gentleness; none has more love for
human beings.” says Seneca. “The goal which it assigns to us is to be
useful, to help others, and to take care, not only of ourselves, but of
everyone.” The Stoics do care for their loved ones and fellow citizens; they
just tame their emotions so they won’t get irrationally overwhelmed by
them. As Seneca puts it, there’s nothing impressive about “putting up with
that which one doesn’t feel.” Stoic author Donald Robertson explains it
well: “A brave man isn’t someone who doesn’t experience any trace of fear
whatsoever but someone who acts courageously despite feeling anxiety."
The Stoics want us to conquer our passions by becoming stronger than
them and not by eliminating them. We will always feel the emerging
emotional wolf, but we can train ourselves to recognize our tendency
toward following along, and then deliberately choose whether to follow
along or not. Stoicism will help us get less plagued by negative emotions
and, at the same time, experience more positive emotions such as joy or
tranquility. It’s important to notice, however, that for the Stoics, these
positive emotions are more like an added bonus than a motive by
themselves. Let's look closer at tranquility’ as a by-product of practicing
Stoicism.
Practice Stoicism and Become more Tranquil as a By-Product
It may come as a surprise, but Stoicism is a rather joyful philosophy of life.
When you read the Stoics, you find cheerful and optimistic people fully
enjoying what life has to offer. They weren’t unemotional, they just
recognized that strong emotions were their weakness and stood in their
way to live as they’re capable of.
Remember, the ultimate goal of life is eudaimonia—the happy and
smoothly flowing life that comes from thriving at expressing your ideal
version moment to moment to moment. And if you’re enslaved to your
emotional wolf, then you panic and follow your action tendencies that are
way beneath of what you’re capable of. That’s why the Stoics want us to
minimize the effects that strong emotions have oil our lives, they want us
to tame that wolf so that we can stay at the steering wheel at all times
instead of letting the wolf take over whenever it wants to. Only then can
we express our highest version and lastly live a happy and smoothly
flowing life.
So when we’re not enslaved to our emotions, we can express the highest
version of ourselves in eveiy moment. When we do that, there’s simply no
room for regret, fear, or insecurity. What results from this is a really
helpful side effect—tranquility. In today’s hectic world, it’s what so many
of us seek, to be able to stay calm, feel confident and secure, even in the
midst of chaos. If we practice Stoicism, this is exactly what we get as a by
product. It’s a by-product because it’s not what the Stoics sought in the
first place. They didn’t seek tranquility, they sought eudaimonia, and
tranquility came as an added (and welcomed) bonus. So it wouldn’t really
be consistent with Stoicism to practice it for tranquility’s sake.
What’s tranquility anyway? Seneca talks about the power of euthymia in
his classic letters. He tells us that euthymia, which gets translated as
tranquility, is all about knowing your path and walking that path. It’s the
feeling we get when we truly and utterly trust ourselves. You’re confident
that what you’re doing is right, and you don’t need to listen left and right
for what others have to say. You don't need to second guess and compare
yourself to others all the time. You trust in what you’re doing because
you’re trying your best, and you’re living accordingly to your values and
know it’s all you can do.
It’s the calm confidence you feel when you’re living your authentic self in
integrity with your highest values. You get that peace of mind, says Seneca,
because you have an unchanging standard you live by, not like the rest of
mankind who “continually ebb and flow in their decisions, floating in a
condition where they alternately reject things and seek them.”
Stoicism will give you many anchors to hold yourself onto, so you can find
your path and walk it assured. This will cause you to gain an inner
tranquility, a calm confidence at all times, even when life gets tough and
shows its meanest kicks and punches. Because you know why you do what
you do. You have this inner security that you’re doing the right thing and,
come what may, you’re steadfast like that tower of strength, and nothing
can root you out.
A Quick History Lesson
“I made a prosperous voyage when I suffered shipwreck." - Zeno of
Citium
The year is around 320 BCE. A Phoenician merchant suffers shipwreck
somewhere between Cyprus and the Greek mainland in the Mediterranean
Sea. He just lost all his mu rex dye, a highly valuable purple-colored dye
won from the murex sea snail, and with that all his wealth. We are talking
about Zeno of Citium who, thanks to this shipwreck, should become the
founder of Stoicism many years later.
Zeno’s father was a merchant himself and used to return home from his
travels with books purchased in the Greek city of Athens. This might be
the reason why after the accident at sea, Zeno went to Athens, sat down in
a book store, and read about the Athenian philosopher Socrates who
taught around a century earlier. Zeno was so impressed that he asked the
bookseller where men like this Socrates could be found. The bookseller
pointed in the direction of Crates the Cynic, who was just walking by, and
said, “Follow yonder man.”
Indeed Zeno did follow Crates, who was a leading philosopher at the time,
and became his pupil for years to come. Zeno was happy how his life took
a turn and said, “It is well done of thee, Fortune, thus to drive me to
philosophy.” When looking back on the shipwreck time in his life, Zeno
later commented, “I made a prosperous voyage when I suffered
shipwreck.”
Note: This intriguing shipwreck story was written down by Greek
biographer Diogenes Laertius in his Lives of Eminent Philosophers around
150 years after Zeno's death. There are different versions of the story and
the dates are inconsistent and contradictory. So we can’t be sure whether
this is the true story or just the most attractive founding story of Stoicism.
After studying with Crates for a time, Zeno chose to go and study with
other leading philosophers, before he started his own philosophy several
years later in around 301 BCE. Initially, his followers were called
Zenonians, but came to be known as Stoics because Zeno gave his lectures
in the Stoa Poikile, the "Painted Porch,” a famous colonnade decorated
with paintings of historical battles, located in the Athenian city center.
Stoicism was born. Unlike other schools of philosophy, the Stoics followed
the example of their hero Socrates and met outside in the public, on this
porch, where anyone could listen. So Stoic philosophy was for academic
and ordinary people alike and therefore it was something like a
“philosophy of the street.”
As we’ve seen. Stoicism was not born out of nowhere, its founder Zeno and
the early Stoics had been influenced by different philosophical schools and
thinkers, especially by Socrates, the Cynics (like Crates), and by the
Academics (followers of Plato). The Stoics adopted Socrates’ question:
How to live a good life? They focused on applying philosophy to everyday
challenges, on developing a good character and becoming better human
beings who excelled in life and cared about other people and nature itself.
One thing the Stoics changed from the Cynics was that they abandoned the
Cynic asceticism. Unlike the Cynics, the Stoics favored a lifestyle that
allowed simple comforts. They argued that people should enjoy the good
things in life without clinging to them. As Marcus Aurelius later said, "If
you must live in a palace, then you can also live well in a palace.” This
allowance of comfort was something that made Stoicism more attractive
back then, and certainly today too.
After the death of Zeno (who, by the way, was so admired by the Athenians
that they built a bronze statue of him), Stoicism kept its place as a leading
Athenian school of philosophy (alongside others) until 155 BCE, when
something very important happened to ancient philosophy—the heads of
Stoicism (Diogenes of Babylon) and other schools of philosophy were
chosen as ambassadors to represent Athens in political negotiations with
Rome, in Rome. While the negotiations are of little interest, the cultural
impact this visit had is not. The Athenians gave packed lectures and
sparked an interest in philosophy among the rather conservative Romans.
Stoicism became a thriving school in Rome with all the famous Stoics
whose writings serve as the major source of the philosophy today: Seneca,
Musonius Rufus, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius (we’ll get to them
shortly.)
Stoicism was one of the most influential and respected schools of
philosophy for nearly five subsequent centuries. It was practiced by the
rich and the poor, the powerful and the sufferer alike, in the pursuit of the
good life. However, after the deaths of its famous teachers—Musonius
Rufus, Epictetus, and the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius—Stoicism fell
into a slump from which it has yet to recover. The lack of charismatic
teachers and the rise of Christianity are the main reasons for the decline of
the once so popular philosophy.
The idea of Stoicism, however, found its way into many writings of
historical philosophers such as Descartes, Schopenhauer, and Thoreau.
And it is finding its way back into the lives of ordinary people like you and
me (no offense). This comeback of Stoicism can be traced back to Viktor
Frankl’s logotherapy and Albert Ellis’ rational emotive behavior therapy,
both of which were influenced by Stoic philosophy. In more recent years,
authors such as Pierre Ha dot, William Irvine, Donald Robertson, and
especially Ryan Holiday have accelerated the return of Stoicism.
The Most Important Stoic Philosophers
Look around, you’re in the middle of thousands of excited people swinging
their flags, shouting and cheering madly for their favorite chariot racers
down in the arena of the Circus Maximus—zoom out, go half a mile north,
zoom in—Roar! Straight in f ront of you, a gladiator fighting a lion, on your
right, a gladiator aiming his spear in your direction, left, a monstrous
elephant sprinting at you'. In these dramatic times, our main characters
taught and practiced Stoic philosophy. Although philosophy is much less
exciting than bloody battles in the Colosseum (where you just got smashed
by an elephant), it's the philosophy that survived until today. For good
reasons as you’ll learn in the following chapters.
Now, we’ll look at the four Roman Stoics whose writings and teachings
survived for nearly two millennia and now build the foundation of
Stoicism: Seneca, Musonius Rufus, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius. It's
said that over a thousand books had been written on Stoic philosophy but
only a handful survived—mainly the ones from these luminaries.
Luckily, these brilliant (but also flawed) men did not live in caves
somewhere in the mountains, but all of them were fully engaged in society
and worked hard to make the world a better place. You’ll meet an
incredible wealthy playwright and equivalent of the modern-day
entrepreneur, you’ll meet an early feminist, and a crippled slave who
should become the main influence of the Roman Emperor and mightiest
person in the world. To stay true to the name of this book, we ll only
scratch the surface of these fascinating lives of the four most important
Stoic philosophers.
Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BCE — 65 CE)
“If a man knows not which port he sails, no wind is favorable.” - Seneca
The most controversial Stoic philosopher, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, mainly
known as Seneca the Younger or simply Seneca, was born around the time
of Jesus in Cordoba, Spain, and educated in Rome, Italy. He is renowned
as one of the finest writers of antiquity and many of his essays and
personal letters survived and serve as an important source of Stoic
philosophy. These writings speak to us because he focused on the practical
aspect of Stoicism, down to how to take a trip, how to deal with adversity
and its provoked emotions such as grief or anger, how to handle oneself
while committing suicide (which he was ordered to do), how to deal with
wealth (which he only knew too well), and poverty.
Seneca lived an extraordinary life, a life that raises many questions when
studied closely. Apart from his letters which are still read almost two
millennia after his passing, he made it into the history books for many
more reasons. He was a successful playwright. He got extremely wealthy
thanks to smart financial undertakings (the modern-day entrepreneur and
investor if you will). He was exiled for committing adultery with the
emperor’s niece to what he called the “barren and thorny rock” Corsica—
which, by the way, is a popular holiday destination known for diverse and
scenic landscapes. After eight years of exile, the emperor’s new wife
wanted Seneca as a tutor to her son Nero.
Once Nero became emperor, Seneca was promoted to his advisor and
became one of the wealthiest people in the Roman Empire. According to
author Nassim Taleb, who devoted a whole chapter to Seneca in his book
Antifragile, “his fortune was three hundred million denarii (for a sense of
equivalence, at about the same period in time, Judas got thirty denarii, the
equivalent of a month's salary, to betray Jesus)." This extreme wealth
while being a philosopher that promoted the indifference of external
possessions is a reason why Seneca sometimes gets called a hypocrite. The
other fact that raises questions is that he was the tutor and advisor of
Emperor Nero, who was a self-indulgent and cruel ruler and had his
mother and many other people killed. In 65 CE, Nero ordered Seneca to
commit suicide because he was supposedly involved in a conspiracy
against the Emperor.
Hypocrite or not, Seneca lived a turbulent life full of riches and power but
also of philosophy and introspection (he understood well enough that he
was imperfect). Stoicism remained a constant in his life and stamped his
many helpful and inspirational letters that I ll quote liberally throughout
this book.
Musonius Rufus (c. 30 CE — c. 100 CE)
“Since every man dies, it is better to die with distinction than to live long.”
- Mu son ins Rufus
The least known of the four great Roman Stoics, Gaius Musonius Rufus
taught Stoic philosophy in his own school. We know little about his life
and teachings because he didn’t bother to write anything down.
Fortunately, one of Musonius’ pupils, Lucius, took notes during the
lectures. Rufus advocated for a practical and lived philosophy. As he put it,
’’Just as there is no use in medical study unless it leads to the health of the
human body, so there is no use to a philosophical doctrine unless it leads
to the virtue of the human souk" He offered detailed advice on eating
habits, sex life, how to dress properly, and how to behave toward one’s
parents. Besides thinking philosophy should be highly practical, he
thought it should be universal. He argued that women and men alike can
benefit from education and the study of philosophy.
Musonius Rufus was the most prominent Stoic teacher at the time and his
influence in Rome was respectable. Too much so for tyrannical Emperor
Nero that he exiled him to the Greek island Gyaros in 65 CE (and yes, exile
was common in ancient Rome). Seneca’s description of Corsica as a
“barren and thorny rock” would have fitted much better to Gyaros, which
really was (and still is) a desert-like island. After Nero’s death in 68 CE,
Musonius returned to Rome for seven years before he got exiled again. He
died in around too CE and left behind not only the few lecture notes from
Lucius, but also his most famous pupil. Epictetus, who as we’ll see right
now, became an influential Stoic teacher himself.
Epictetus (c. 55 CE — c. 135 CE)
“Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.” - Epictetus
Epictetus was born a slave in Hierapolis (present-day Pamukkale in
Turkey). His real name, if he had one, is unknown. Epictetus simply
means “property” or “the thing that was bought.” He was acquired by
Epaphroditos, a wealthy freedman (that is, a former slave himself) who
worked as a secretary to Emperor Nero in Rome, the place where
Epictetus spent his youth. He was crippled in one leg either by birth or by
an injury received from a former master. His new master Epaphroditos
treated him well and allowed him to study Stoic philosophy under the
most renowned teacher in Rome, Musonius Rufus.
Sometime after Nero’s death in 68 CE, Epictetus was freed by his master—
a common practice in Rome with intelligent and educated slaves. He
started his own school and taught Stoic philosophy for nearly twenty-five
years until the Emperor Domitian famously banished all philosophers
from Rome. Epictetus fled and moved his school to Nicopolis, Greece,
where he led a simple life with few possessions. After the assassination of
Domitian, Stoicism regained its respectability and became popular among
the Romans. Epictetus was the leading Stoic teacher at the time and could
have moved back to Rome, but chose to stay in Nicopolis, where he died in
around 135 CE. Despite its location, his school attracted students from all
around the Roman Empire and taught them, among other things, how to
retain dignity and tranquility even in the face of life’s hardships.
Just like his own teacher Musonius Rufus, Epictetus didn’t write anything
down. Fortunately, there was again a geek among the students, Arrian,
who radically took notes and wrote the famous Discourses—a series of
extracts of Epictetus’ lectures. (Now I’m the geek who is trying to organize
all of Stoicism into a little book . . .) Arrian also compiled the short book
Enchiridion, a summary of the most important principles of the
Discourses. Enchiridion often gets translated as Handbook, but it literally
means “ready at hand”—more like a dagger than a handbook, always ready
to deal with life’s challenges.
Marcus Aurelius (121 CE -180 CE)
“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other
people, but care more about their opinion than our own.” - Marcus
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
These words were written not by some slouch but by a rare example of a
philosopher king and, at the time, most powerful man on earth—Marcus
Aurelius, emperor of the legendary Roman Empire. He is the most well-
known of all the Stoic philosophers and his Meditations, a series of 12
short books which he wrote entirely to himself (like a diary) as his own
guidance and self-improvement, is considered one of the greatest works of
philosophy of all time.
As a teenager, it's said Marcus not only enjoyed activities such as
wrestling, boxing, and hunting, but also philosophy. He studied with
different philosophers, one of which lent him a copy of Epictetus’
Discourses, which became the single most important influence on him.
When he was sixteen, Emperor Hadrian adopted Marcus’ maternal uncle
Antoninus, who in turn adopted Marcus (his real father died when he was
younger). When Marcus entered palace life, his political power didn’t go to
his head (he didn't let it), neither as a co-emperor of his adoptive father
nor as an emperor himself after Antoninus’ death. For one thing, he
exercised great restraint in his use of power and money. Furthermore,
despite his interest in Stoic philosophy, he chose not to use his power to
preach Stoicism and lecture his fellow Romans on the benefits of its
practices. He was ail exceptionally good emperor and ruled from 161 CE to
his death in 180 CE and counts as the Zast of a succession of rulers known
as the Five Good Emperors.
The Stoic Happiness Triangle
“The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown
into it.” - Marcus Aurelius
Enough history, it’s time to get to the heart of Stoicism. What did these
fascinating philosophers believe and teach exactly? How did they plan to
keep their promise of a supremely happy and smoothly flowing life? How
can their principles prepare us to face whatever challenge life throws at
us? And how can we tame our emotions and become an unshakable tower
of strength? It's simple: you need to go out in the real world and train like
a warrior-philosopher. But first, you need to know the rules to play by, you
need to know what to fight for, and you need to know which direction to
take. These are the core principles of Stoicism that you will learn in this
Now, you might think this should be fairly easy, spit it out, what are the
core principles? I thought the same when I stumbled upon Stoicism the
first time. I quickly got hooked, read quite a bit about it, and told friends
about this cool philosophy. But when they wanted to know what it exactly
was, then I failed miserably at explaining it. I realized that despite the
many texts I'd read, I hardly knew anything about Stoicism, I couldn't
even manage to explain it properly to friends.
As it turned out, it's not so easy to get a simple overview of the philosophy.
The original texts—consisting of lecture notes, personal letters, and diary
entries—don’t offer a clear-cut answer like one out of a textbook. And even
modern books lack foolproof explanations, I find. It’s often a mix of
fantastic Stoic ideas, which are definitely worth studying, but fail to bring
across a simple overview to hold onto.
This is basically the idea behind the Stoic Happiness Triangle. It gives you
a simple overview of the core principles of Stoicism. If you know the
triangle, you know and are able to explain the most important aspects of
what Stoicism is—even to a five-year-old. It’s the best I could come up with
to present Stoic philosophy in a simple and visual way, combining ancient
and modern literature. I hope you’ll find it helpful. And keep in mind that
the Stoic Happiness Triangle is not what the Stoics taught per se, it’s my
visualization of their core teachings.
The Stoic Happiness Triangle in a Nutshell
Take Responsibility
Eudairnonia: At the core of the triangle is eudaimonia—the ultimate goal
of life all ancient philosophies agreed on. As touched in Chapter 1, this is
tlie main promise of Stoic philosophy and it’s about living a supremely
happy and smoothly flowing life. It’s about thriving in our lives. That’s
basically what we all want, to thrive and live happy lives , right? That’s why
it’s at the core of the Stoic Happiness Triangle. Do you remember the
Greek origin of the word? It means being on good terms (eu) with your
inner daimon, your highest self. And how can we achieve this? By living
with arete.
Live with Arete: Express your highest self in every moment. If we want
to be on good terms with our highest self., we need to close the gap
between what we’re capable of and what we’re actually doing. This is really
about being your best version in the here and now. It’s about using reason
in our actions and living in harmony with deep values. This is obviously
easier said than done, what supports this ambitious goal is to separate
good from bad and focus on what we control.
Focus on What You Control: This is the most prominent principle in
Stoicism. At all times, we need to focus on the things we control, and take
the rest as it happens. What already is has to be accepted because it’s
beyond our power to undo it. What’s beyond our power is ultimately not
important for our flourishing. What's important for our flourishing is what
we choose to do with the given external circumstances. So no matter the
situation, it’s always within our power to try to make the best with it, and
to live in harmony with our ideal self.
Take Responsibility: Good and bad come solely from yourself. This
follows the first two cornel's that say external things don’t matter for the
good life, so living with arete, which is within your control, is enough to
flourish in life. Also, you’re responsible for your life because every external
event you don’t control offers an area you can control, namely how you
choose to respond to this event. This is crucial in Stoicism, it’s not events
that make us happy or miserable, but our interpretation of those events.
This is when a tower of strength can be born—the moment you decide to
give outside events no more power over you.
That's of course just the frame of the triangle, and we barely scratched the
surface. In the coming pages, we’ll look at each corner in detail with
clarifying ideas and metaphors, and we’ll get to know the villain that
hinders so many of us from expressing our highest self moment to
moment to moment. But first, let’s remember the surfing analogy.
Up next is the highly important but not so fun theory part at the beginning
of your first surf lesson. Oh. there we go .. . some wise guys run straight
into the water, despite the warnings. It always happens. Here’s the cool
thing—once we’re done here and you follow them in the water, you’ll do
better immediately because they lack the basics, and that’s when you need
to see their faces—priceless! However, some wall come back earlier
because they’ve realized they’re lacking something or they’ve hurt
themselves. Anyway, let’s start without the runaways and you’ll get in the
water before you know it. On the sand, get set, go!
1. Live with Arete: Express Your Highest Self in Every
"A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree
happiness- Seneca
The first corner of the Stoic Happiness Triangle is Live with Arete. The
classic translation for this Greek word is “virtue” or ‘‘excellence.” I prefer
how Brian Johnson, the philosopher behind the website optimize.me,
translates arete: “Expressing the highest version of yourself moment to
moment to moment.” Because of this deeper meaning of the word and
because it apparently was one of the highest ideals of Greek culture, let’s
use the original word for the name of this first corner of the triangle. We’ll
necessarily use the common English translation virtue too, so keep that in
mind.
The ultimate goal of Stoicism is positioned in the center of the triangle: eu-
daimon-ia, to live a hanny and smoothly flowing life. To achieve this goal.
we need to be on good terms (eiz) with our inner daimon, the highest
version of ourselves, our natural inborn potential. In whatever you do,
imagine there are two lines: the higher line indicating what you’re capable
of and the lower line what you’re actually doing. Living with arete is about
tiying to reach the higher line and express what you’re capable of in this
very moment. That’s actualizing the highest version of yourself, that’s
being on good terms with your inner daimon, that’s when you achieve the
happy and smoothly flowing life called eudaimonia.
Now, this perfect actualization of our highest selves might not be too hard
to express in single situations or in our imagination, but drag us out in the
real world and we fail miserably. And that’s ok, that’s what we’re here for,
learning about ourselves and how to express our highest version moment
to moment to moment. That’s why we re tiying to get better, that’s why
we’re trying to improve our virtue. Think of arete or virtue as a form of
wisdom or strength that helps you do the appropriate thing at all times, so
that your actions are in harmony with your highest self—courageous,
disciplined, and kind for example. Virtue is what helps you close the gap
between what you’re actually doing and what you’re capable of. The bigger
that gap, the further away you are from eudaimonia, and the worse off you
are. Because somewhere in the darkness of the gap, they are lurking, the
bad guys lead by regret, anxiety, and disillusionment.
Alright, virtue is about trying to be the best you can be in every moment.
And if you’re able to do that, then you'll have a good relationship with your
highest self and will live a happy and smoothly flawing life. If you’re
unable to express the highest version of yourself, this will create space for
regret and anxiety to crawl out of the darkness and spread misery. This is
highly important to know, but let’s be honest, it doesn’t help much yet. I
mean, don’t we all want to be the best we can be anyway? (I sure hope so.)
Now, apart from living with arete, the Stoics used another stock phrase
for the same goal of expressing the highest version of yourself: living in
agreement with nature. Let’s unravel that and see whether we’re smarter
afterward.
The Perfection of Our Natural Potential
The Stoics believed that nature wants us to thrive in life. This is why the
inner daimon, our highest self, had been planted within all of us like a
divine seed, so that we have it in our natural potential to become that
highest version of ourselves. As Musonius Rufus said, we’re all “born with
an inclination toward virtue.” In other words, it’s our nature to complete
what’s been started with that divine seed and bring our human potential to
life. So, a person’s virtue depends on their excellence as a human being, on
how well they perform their natural potential. To be virtuous, then, is to
live as nature designed us to live. This is where the Stoic aphorism living
in agreement with nature comes from.
Put simply, virtue is the same thing for all living beings—the perfection of
their own nature. So, living with arete is basically to complete our nature.
Without that completion, we lack something and our lives will remain
unfulfilled. It's clear—if we don’t live up to our innate potential, we ll never
be fulfilled.
Let’s look at an example in nature. The natural potential of a grape seed is
to grow into a grapevine and bear grapes. So a grape seed Hues with arete
or in agreement with nature when it fulfills its natural potential by
growing into a grapevine and producing grapes.
Just as it’s enough for the good life for the grapevine to produce grapes,
it’s enough for us to express the highest version of ourselves moment to
moment to moment. That’s all it takes. Nothing external is required to get
to the good life—no villa by the beach, no diamond rings, no porcelain
plates, and generally nothing that hasn’t been planted within as natural
potential. And that’s something that makes Stoicism so appealing. The
potential to live the good life is within all of us—whether we’re rich or
poor, healthy or sick, model-like beautiful or other-kind of beautiful. All of
us can get to the good life. But I’m getting ahead of myself, we’ll learn
more about the unimportance of external things in the second corner of
the Stoic Happiness Triangle.
Your natural potential lies in your highest version of yourself. Yet there’s
more. The Stoics argued that the most significant difference with other
animals is the human’s ability to use reason. Stoic teacher Epictetus
explained that what separates us from wild beasts and sheep is our
rational element and not the naked skin, weaker bones, or missing tails.
We negate our veiy humanity and fall to the state of a sheep when we let
our actions become impulsive and inconsiderate. He asked, “When our
actions are combative, mischievous, angry, and rude, do we not fall away
and become wild beasts?"
Epictetus' point is that our ability to use reason is at the core of our
natural potential we need to fulfil, and it shows best in our actions, by
expressing it moment to moment to moment. On one hand, the ability to
use reason is our most precious gift and, if we live by it, we’ll have a happy
and smoothly flowing life-like a grapevine that produces grapes. On the
other hand, it's our heaviest burden, because if we fail to live by it, we fall
to the level of a beast, negate our humanity, and won’t live a happy life—
much like a grapevine that fails to produce edible grapes.
For the Stoics, then, it’s reasonable to always try to be the best you can be.
We all have this seed of reason, this seed of our highest self, planted
within. And therefore, we’ve got the potential to live a virtuous life—that
is, a life led by reason and expressing our ideal self. This expression shows
as generally honorable and praiseworthy actions that benefit ourselves and
others. As learned earlier, virtue is for all living beings the perfection of
their own nature; in the case of humans, then, virtue is the perfection of
reason. Put differently, living with arete is the perfection of expressing our
highest self in every moment. Remember, living with arete, virtue, reason,
and in agreement with nature are all different expressions for the same
In Stoic philosophy, it’s clear that the perfection of reason not only
included rational, but also social actions in the form of duties to our
fellow men, such as honoring our parents, being agreeable to our friends,
and being interested in the wellbeing of mankind. As rational and social
creatures, we should therefore apply reason and express our highest selves
to three main areas of life:
1. Our own mind: As human beings with the ability of reasonable
thinking, we should consider our actions rationally and wisely, and at
all times try to be the best we can be.
2. With other people: As social beings who naturally care for each other,
we should try to live harmoniously with others and contribute to the
wellbeing of mankind.
3. In the universe: As citizens of the vast cosmos, we should tiy to live
harmoniously with nature, calmly accept events that happen to us,
and tiy to respond wisely.
I know, this whole arete, virtue, reason, and fulfilling our nature idea is
highly abstract and it’s difficult to have a clear understanding of how this
looks like in practice. Luckily, the Stoics used a more graspable
classification of virtue that divided it into four desirable character traits
known as the four cardinal virtues. Before we look at them, though, let’s
quickly look at the Stoic Sage, the hypothetical ideal the Stoics used to
portray the perfectly wise and good person—the Adonis of character, if you
You might have been wondering, is it even possible to be the best we can
be in every moment? No, it’s not. This is why the Stoics used the Sage as
an ideal, because there are no perfect humans. And we don't need to be
perfect for the Stoics, but we can at least try to be as good as possible. This
is why they contemplated the Sage, they wanted to be as good as possible
and just like the Sage attain perfect eudaimonia. “He lives in total
harmony with himself, the rest of mankind, and Nature as a whole,”
describes Donald Robertson, “because he follows reason and accepts his
fate graciously, insofar as it is beyond his control. He has risen above
irrational desires and emotions, to achieve peace of mind. His character is
absolutely praiseworthy, honourable and beautiful.”
No wonder the Sage is a hypothetical ideal, but the Stoics say it’s beneficial
to have someone to look up to and compare ourselves against. The Sage
makes it easier to imagine our ideal self and acts like a signpost showing
the direction. Now, let’s look at the four virtues with which we can try to
deliver a Sage-like performance.
The Four Cardinal Virtues
You and me, we get closer to our common goal of the good life by making
progress toward living with arete. Now, we can evaluate this progress in
four broad character traits the Stoics adopted from the Socratic
philosophy. They divided virtue into the four cardinal virtues of wisdom,
justice, courage, and self-discipline. Living by these qualities makes a
strong character and lets you take generally honorable and praiseworthy
actions, just like the Sage. The opposite immoral and wicked character
traits are known as the four cardinal vices. Kakia is the Greek word that
opposes arete and it makes a weak character that shows as shameful and
ignorant behavior. Let us look at all of them, one by one:
Wisdom is about understanding how to act and feel appropriately.
Wisdom includes excellent deliberation, healthy judgment, perspective,
and good sense. It opposes the vice of folly or thoughtlessness.
Justice is about knowing how to act and feel well in our relationships
with others. Justice includes good-heartedness, integrity, public service,
and fairness. It opposes the vice of wrongdoing or injustice.
Courage is about knowing how to act and feel correctly when facing
fearful situations. Courage includes bravery, perseverance, honesty, and
confidence. It opposes the vice of cowardice.
Self-Discipline (or temperance) is about knowing how to act and feel
right, despite emotions such as strong desire, inner resistance, or lust.
Self-discipline includes orderliness, self-control, forgiveness, and humility.
It opposes the vice of excess.
These are definitely character traits worth striving for, right? If you’re
anything like me, these make intuitive sense and we all, even across
different religions and cultures, value these same traits in people among
us and Olli's elves. When you read through those, you might think you’re
good at justice because you always treat others with exceptional fairness,
but you’re not so good at self-discipline because you often struggle with
sticking to that one glass of Rioja. Now, even though it makes perfect sense
to say that you’re better at some of them and worse at others, for the
Stoics, it’s always the whole package that counts. Virtue is an all-or-
nothing package.
The Stoics offered an analogy to clear things up: Someone can be a poet,
an orator, and a general, but at the same time he’s still only one individual.
And so too are the virtues unified in one but can be applied to different
areas of action. So, this person can be an excellent poet, an okay orator,
and a lousy general, but what matters is the person as a whole and not the
single actions in their respective areas. And if we think about it, this all-or-
nothing package makes sense. After all. we don’t want to call a highly self-
disciplined and courageous bank robber a virtuous person.
Perfect virtue is an ideal only the Sage can reach, but it’s encouraging to
see that what matters is you as a whole being. You can grow and ripen as a
whole person and it doesn’t matter whether someone observes your
virtuous actions or not. making progress and trying to be the best you can
be is enough. So virtue is essentially one form of practical wisdom: to
know what’s the appropriate tiling to do, and to actually do it. And keep in
mind that just like a grapevine won’t produce perfect grapes in its first
years, and will continue to have some sour grapes even in its prime, you
too will get better if you tiy to be your best but you’ll also continue to show
some flaws. This imperfection is perfectly natural and something the
Stoics observed in their own lives.
Here’s an example from Seneca: “When the light has been taken away and
my wife has fallen silent, aware as she is of my habit, I examine my entire
day, going through what I have done and said.” Seneca pleaded his case at
his own court every night and shared some examples in his letter On
Anger. My favorite story is when at some event he got angry because he
was not seated in a place of honor he thought he deserved. He spent the
evening being angry with the host who seated him and with the guests who
were seated above him. “You lunatic,” he wrote in his journal, “what
difference does it make what part of the couch you put your weight on?”
The point is, nobody will ever be perfect in all their actions and, as long as
we’re trying our best, this doesn’t matter. The world isn’t black and white,
we can’t always tell what the right thing to do is, but we can always try to
act with our best intention. And that’s what I find is the easiest way to
understand living with arete—at all times, tiy to be the best you can be, try
to choose the appropriate action/response, and simply try to be a good
person with concern for others and nature as a whole. In other words,
develop your character. And that’s what we’ll look at after an important
side note.
Attention (literally): If we want to be the best we can be in eveiy
situation, if we want to live with arete, then we need to be aware of our
every step. Today, we call this “mindfulness,” the Stoics used the term
“attention” (prosoche). In the words of Marcus Aurelius, we should pay
“vigorous attention ... to the performance of the task in hand with precise
analysis, with unaffected dignity, with human sympathy, with
dispassionate justice.” We can achieve such a mind free of other thoughts
by performing “each action as if it were the last of your life.”
Imagine you're walking barefoot along the beach when suddenly a section
is full of bits of broken glass. Now you walk very cautiously and watch
every step like a hawk so you don’t hurt yourself— that's the attention the
Stoics want us to pay to every action. This focused attention and
continuous self-observation is necessary if we actively want to align our
actions with virtue, for how could we make sure we act virtuously if we
weren't even aware of our actions? As we let our thoughts drift away, our
actions become mmd/ess, we stumble into folly, and give away our best
chance for eudaiinonia as we’re far off from being our best in this very
moment. This will happen countless times, but that’s when mindfulness is
needed most. “A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to
salvation,” Seneca says. “You have to catch yourself doing it before you can
correct it.” Just like he did when he realized what a lunatic he was for
getting angry at others about his seating. Without such consciousness, our
actions become impulsive, automatic, and random—exactly the opposite of
what we want.
“Attention (prosoche) is the fundamental Stoic spiritual attitude,” explains
author Pierre Ha dot. “It is a continuous vigilance and presence of mind,
self-consciousness which never sleeps, and a constant tension of the spirit.
Thanks to this attitude, the philosopher is fully aware of what he does at
each instant, and he wills his actions fully.” Even if this consciousness
which never sleeps is the Stoic’s goal, Epictetus said that it’s not possible
to be faultless, but we can tiy and “we must be content if by never
remitting this attention we shall escape at least a few errors.”
Character Beats Beauty
“Lay aside the senator’s dress, and put on rags and appear in that
character.” No matter which role you happen to play in society, no matter
if you wear a suit and tie or socks and sandals, Epictetus is pointing out
that what matters is your core, your character. The only way to recognize a
true Stoic, then, is by their character.
Think about someone you know who has a character of granite. Bruno
comes to my mind. Bruno was one of my early soccer coaches. He was
dependable, trustworthy, and most importantly, he was consistent in his
actions. He was fair and honest not only when it was convenient, but
always. He was a man solid as a rock with a pinch of fantastic humor. Iam
sure you can think of a Bruno in your own life and it becomes clear why
Stoicism values a person’s character so greatly.
“Character beats beauty,” I once wrote in an article. This is probably not
true for our times, which will be referred to as the beauty mania epoch in
history books, but it’s definitely true in Stoic philosophy. The Stoics would
go a step further and claim that “character beats not only beauty, but also
riches, power, and yeah, even the Joker.” Being a person of virtue really
means to excel at one’s character and always tlying to do your best and
what’s generally honorable and praiseworthy. Virtue really is the highest
good in Stoicism and living by it will ultimately shape you into a genuinely
good person. And that will come with extra bonuses. Let me explain.
Let’s go back to Bruno. Do you think his consistently fair and honest
actions went unnoticed? No! He got promoted as a coach many times and
became one of the most important figures at the club. As far as I know,
everyone loved and appreciated him. His trustworthy and steadfast
character brought him many bonuses. Just to mention a few: love and
admiration from his players, respect and power at the club, and so on. And
thanks to these bonuses, Bruno most certainly experienced feelings of joy
and worthiness.
And so it can be in our lives too. When we act bravely, honestly, and just,
then we might get some good feelings in return. When you raise your voice
against Jimmy the bully, the victim might thank you for it and you'll be
proud as a consequence. When you tell your parents the truth about that
joint, you might feel relieved. When you persevere in your job search,
you’ll feel happy once you get accepted.
For the Stoics, it’s important that these positive feelings should not be the
primaiy motives of our virtuous actions. The positive feelings should be
looked at as added bonuses. Virtue must absolutely be its own reward for
at least two reasons:
1. The added bonus (e.g., feeling of joy) is not under our control.
2. The added bonus could be caused by other non-virtuous actions.
You should act virtuously because it’s the right thing to do and not because
it will benefit you in some way or another. Help the bullied girl because it’s
the appropriate thing to do and not because you’ll feel great afterward and
you’ll get a chance for a date. The added bonuses are uncertain and not
under your control. You only control your action and not what happens
afterward. Yes, you might feel good about helping her. Yes, you might get
her number. But also, you might get slapped in the face by the bully. And
you might get ignored by the girl. So, a Stoic should be willing to act with
courage despite his feelings pulling him back rather than because of
possible future benefits.
Marcus Aurelius describes this elegantly in his Meditations. He
distinguishes between three types of people. The first type of people, after
doing a deed of kindness to another, is quickly to demand the favor in
return. The second type of people are not so quick to ask for a return of the
favor, but privately think of the other as their debtor. The third type of
people are just “like the vine which has produced grapes and looks for
nothing else once it has borne its own fruit.” Like a horse after its race or a
bee after producing honey, this third type ask for nothing but pass on to
the next action, “just as the vine passes on to bear grapes again in due
season.” It’s in our nature to do good to others, and we should do it for its
own sake.
The Stoic Love of Mankind: Actfor the Common Welfare
We’re social creatures with a natural affection toward other people. Stoic
philosophy is full of goodness, gentleness, love for human beings, and
attention to the common good, says Seneca. The goal is to be useful, to
help others, and to take care of ourselves and everybody else.
The Stoics nurtured this idea that we should be concerned with other
people, wish them to flourish, and develop a sense of kinship with the rest
of mankind: Treat even strangers and those who oppose us as relatives—
brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles. We’re all citizens of the same
world. This shared affinity forms the basis for mutual love and friendship.
A person cannot attain anything good for himself, says Epictetus, “unless
he contributes some service to the community’.” That’s the nature of the
social and rational animal we are. We’re designed to live among other
human beings, very much like bees, says Musonius Rufus: “A bee is not
able to live alone: it perishes when isolated.” And Marcus conveniently
adds, “What brings no benefit to the hive brings none to the bee.” Our
actions must benefit the common welfare, or they won’t benefit ourselves.
We’re like a massive organism: all depending on one another.
Our social duty is to feel a concern for all mankind, to work together, and
to help each other. “For all that I do,” says Marcus, “should be directed to
this single end, the common benefit and harmony.” We cannot express our
highest selves without at the same time contributing to the common good.
If we seek the very best in ourselves, we will actively care for the wellbeing
of all other human beings. The best for others will be the best for you.
It’s not that we are social in the sense that we like being around other
people, it’s in the deeper sense that we couldn’t exist without the help of
others. Therefore, when we do good to others, we actually benefit
ourselves. Benefiting others is a form of virtue, and it ultimately benefits
ourselves as virtue is its own reward. Now that you know doing good to
others benefits yourself, you could selfishly do good to others. All for your
own benefit.
And ultimately, it doesn’t matter whether we do good to others for selfish
or altruistic reasons, as long as the intention is to act for the common
welfare. Remember the three types of people Marcus describes? The first
always looking for a return, the second thinking that the other is his
debtor, and the third, who is more like a grapevine, producing grapes and
not looking for anything in return. It’s his social duty to do good to others,
and he won’t look for anything in return.
Marcus says that fulfilling your social duties will simply give you the best
chance at having a good life. That’s the reward for acting for the common
welfare, not gratitude, admiration, or sympathy—these are (uncertain)
additional bonuses and shouldn’t be the reason for your actions. So even
Marcus Aurelius acted for the common good for a selfish reason—because
he thought it would give him the best chance for a good life.
living with arete and directing one’s actions toward the common good is
its own reward. This is our nature and it’s ultimately our best chance to
live a happy and smoothly flowing life. We must not look or wish for added
bonuses such as admiration from others because they aren’t within our
control and can fade quickly. “But the wise person can lose nothing,”
Seneca argues, “their own goods are held firm, bound in virtue, which
requires nothing from chance, and therefore can’t be either increased or
diminished.”
Your character, stemming from your actions, is what you can rely on at all
times. In Stoic philosophy, it’s enough to try to express your highest self at
all times, and direct your actions to the common good. That’s all you can
do. Marcus Aurelius beautifully reminds himself that a lamp shines until
its fuel is fully spent. So why shouldn't his truth, justice, and self-control
shine until he’s extinguished? In that sense, let’s light our lamps of virtue
and let them shine by expressing our highest versions for as long as we
may exist.
2. Focus on What You Control: Accept Whatever
Happens and Make the Best of It
“What is it then to be properly educated? It is learning to apply our
natural preconceptions to the right things according to Nature, and
beyond that to separate the things that lie within our power from those
that don’t ”- Epictetus
“Of things some are in our power, and others are not.” These are the very
first words in Epictetus’ Enchiridion. As we learned earlier, Enchiridion
translates into ready at hand—like a dagger—and the separation between
what is in our power and what is not, is something we should always have
ready at hand, ready to help us deal with whatever life throws at us. The
central teaching of Epictetus was that there are things which are up to us
and things which aren’t; we should always “make the best use of what is in
our power, and take the rest as it happens.” This idea is the cornerstone of
Stoic philosophy, and therefore builds the second corner of our Stoic
Happiness Triangle.
Imagine you hold in your hands a doll that looks just like you. Let's call it a
voodoo doll. Beautiful. Now, you walk over to the window, open it, and
throw your doll out into the street. You stay inside and hope for a sunny
day with some lucky happenings. All of a sudden, life becomes an
emotional roller coaster—without you having a say in it. Pug marks you,
suit kicks you around, and Prius rolls you over. Ugh .. . life sucks! Now,
nobody would actually do that with their own voodoo doll. Or would they?
Isn’t that exactly what many people do by worrying about stuff outside
their own control? Right, that’s the root cause of emotional suffering, to
wony about outside events. Does Steven like me? Will I get that job? Why
am I not taller/thinner/better looking? Handing power to things we have
no direct control over causes emotional suffering. This is why the Stoics
would tell us to take that imaginary voodoo doll back into our own hands,
and let ourselves decide when to get kicked around and not. The point is,
the Stoics want us to focus on what we control and let the pugs mark
where they may.
What is it then that we have control over? Only a few things—onr
voluntary judgments and actions. We can decide what events mean to us
and how we want to react to them (we’ll look at our judgments more
closely in the third corner of the Stoic Happiness Triangle.) And our
actions, we can choose to align them with virtue, as discussed in the
previous part. All else is not under our control. That’s from the weather to
other people and their actions to our health and body, and literally
everything that happens around us.
Right, our body, for example, is not completely under our control. We can
surely influence it with our behavior—we can lift weights, do some all-out
sprints, and eat a broccoli a day—but this won’t make our hips smaller, our
shoulders wider, our nose straighter, or our eyes bluer. There are certain
things that influence our body that we don’t control, such as genes, early
exposure, or injuries. The so-called Stoic dichotomy of control—some
things are up to us, other things are not—is really about the recognition of
three levels of influence we have over the world:
• High influence: Our choices in judgments and actions
• Partial influence: Health, wealth, relationships, and outcomes of
our behaviors
• No influence: Weather, ethnicity, and most external circumstances
“This is wholly up to you—who is there to prevent you being good and
sincere?” Marcus Aurelius often reminded himself of the power he was
granted by nature—the power to choose his actions and craft his own
character. He said people can’t admire you for what’s been granted to you
by nature, but there are many other qualities to cultivate. “So display those
virtues which are wholly in your own power—integrity, dignity, hard work,
self-denial, contentment, frugality, kindness, independence, simplicity,
discretion, magnanimity.”
We are the only ones to stop ourselves from cultivating these qualities. It’s
within our power to prevent viciousness, curb our arrogance, stop lusting
after fame, and control our temper. “Do you not see how many virtues you
can display without any excuse of lack of talent or aptitude? Or does the
fact that you have no inborn talent oblige you to grumble, toady, or
blame?” No it does not! It’s within our power to choose our behavior, even
if everything else is not or only partially within our control.
Before we look at what’s within our control in more detail, let’s look at an
example of it in practice. The Serenity Prayer, a prayer used by Alcoholics
Anonymous and other recovery communities, is basically the idea applied
in practice:
Recovering addicts cannot change the abuse suffered in childhood, or
maybe even before they were born. They cannot undo the choices they
have made in the past; they cannot unsnort the coke, undrink the booze,
or unswallow the pills. They cannot undo the pain they have caused for
themselves and others. But they can accept the past and try to change the
now and the future by focusing on the choices they’re making right now.
And we can do the same by focusing on what we control—namely the
choices we make every day—and taking the rest as it happens. For it is
futile and therefore/ooZzsh, said Epictetus, to worry about things that are
not up to us.
The Stoic Archer: Focus on the Process
As I’m Swiss, it’s time for a Swiss legend. In the early fourteenth cent my,
part of Switzerland was oppressed by the Habsburg emperors of Vienna.
In one village, the cruel governor raised a pole in the market place, hung
his feathered hat on top of it, and demanded everybody to bow respect
before that hat. When William Tell and his son passed the place without
bowing—either they didn't know or ignored it—Tell was forced to shoot an
apple off his son’s head with his crossbow. Luckily, he was an expert with
tlie crossbow and hit the apple in a straight shot. He was arrested anyway
for admitting that he’d prepared a second arrow to kill the governor in
case he missed the apple and hit his son instead.
Thanks to a storm, Tell managed to flee from the boat that was supposed
to bring him to the governor’s castle for imprisonment. Knowing that he
was facing a death sentence now, he hurried to the alley leading to the
castle and waited in ambush. When the cruel governor and his followers
came through the alley, William Tell leapt out and shot the governor with
his second bolt straight through the heart, before he melted back into the
woods. My fellow countryman’s act of bravery sparked a rebellion and led
to the free Swiss Confederacy— hurray!
Hundreds of years before Tell shot an apple off his son’s head, the Stoics
used the archer metaphor to explain their fundamental idea of focusing
on what you control. Tell can draw his bow, close an eye, focus, aim, hold
his breath, and finally pull the trigger. Now imagine the arrow to be in the
air in slow motion. The arrow is out there, moving through the air toward
the apple. It’s out of control—Tell can't influence it anymore, he can only
wait and see. An unexpected gust of wind could blow the arrow off course.
A bird could fly directly in front of the arrow. The son could stoop down,
or his mother could jump in and heroically take the hit.
The point is, Tell can try his best to the moment he pulls the trigger, but
whether he hits the apple or the eye is not in his power. And the same is
true for us in everyday life. We can choose our intentions and actions but
the ultimate outcome depends on external variables beyond our control.
This is the reason why the Stoics advised to focus on what we control, and
let the rest happen as it will.
In modern times, we call this process focus—to focus on the process
(under our control), instead of the desired outcome (not under our
control). In archery, the desired outcome is to hit the target, but that’s not
where the focus should lie because it’s beyond our control. It’s smarter to
focus on the process that will optimally lead to the desired outcome. The
Stoics realized that the process will affect the outcome. The process is
about our behavior, deliberate practice, and all that prepares us to shoot
Success, then, is defined by our effort to do everything that's within our
power. Whether we hit the target or not, whether we win or lose, whether
we drop some weight or not, ultimately does not matter. We succeed or fail
already in the process. So the Stoic archer focuses on the process
(preparing and shooting well); a possible positive outcome (hitting the
target) won’t arouse jubilation, and a possible negative outcome (missing
the target) won’t arouse despair. The Stoic archer succeeds in the process
and is ready to take any outcome with equanimity and calm confidence,
knowing they’ve tried their very best
This focus on the process, focus on what you control idea, is a massive
confidence booster. You know if you do your very best, you will succeed no
matter what It’s all you can do. If you try your absolute best at your job, in
your relationships, and for your health, then you’ll always feel confident
and at peace with yourself. This calm confidence or tranquility lies in
knowing that you did whatever was in your power, because that’s all you
control. Even if things don’t turn out well, you can derive satisfaction from
knowing you’ve done your best. No need to justify bad results, there are
just too many uncontrollable factors influencing the outcome.
It’s only if you know you haven’t done everything in your power that you
will feel insecure and must justify yourself That’s the dark gap between
what you're actually doing and what you’re capable of doing, as discussed
earlier. The Stoics highlighted that anxiety and inner disturbance come
from wanting things out of our control. Epictetus, for example, said that
it’s foolish to want friends and relatives to live forever because it’s not up
to us. As seen before, the root cause of emotional suffering comes from
worrying about things outside our control. This is why we should focus on
the process; the process is fully under our control. And if we define success
as giving our best in the process, then we cannot fail, feel calmly confident,
and can accept any outcome with equanimity.
Stoic Acceptance: Enjoy the Ride or Get Dragged Along
“Suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens,” explains Dan
Mill man in The Way of the Peaceful Warrior. Events can give us physical
pain, but suffering and inner disturbance only come from resisting what is,
from fighting with reality. We get angry at that driver that cut us off, we’re
unhappy with our exam grades, and we’re desperate because the train is
running late. If we look at those situations objectively, we recognize it’s
futile to fight with them, because we can’t change or undo what already is.
Yet, we fight with reality all the time and want it to be different. That
driver shouldn’t drive like that, my grades should be better, the train
should be on time. We must have it our way, the way we want it, the way
we expected it to be.
This is fighting with the Gods, says Epictetus, things are as they are
because that’s how it's meant to be. Our emotional pain emanates from
confusing the things which are up to us and those that aren’t. Fighting
with reality; fighting with the things we cannot change, will leave us
disturbed, angry at the world, blaming others, resenting life, and hating
the gods.
Whenever we desire something that isn't in our power, our tranquility and
confidence will be disturbed; if we don’t get what we want, we’ll be upset,
and if we do get what we want, we 11 experience anxiety and insecurity in
the process of getting it as we can never be sure we 11 get it. Therefore, we
should always focus on what is up to us; that way we won’t blame others,
won’t resent life, and surely won’t fight with the gods. That’s where much
of the power of Stoicism comes from. The internalization of this basic
truth that we can control our actions but not their outcomes makes us
confident because we have given all that was in our power, and this
confidence lets us calmly accept whatever happens.
Focus on what you control, and take the rest as it happens. The rest is not
under your control, that’s why the Stoics advise to accept it even if it’s not
pleasing. Accept it first, and then try to make the best out of it. We should
accept rather than fight every little thing. If this guy cuts you off, then so
be it. If your grades are bad, then they are, you’ve had your chance to
prepare better. If the train is late, then it is late. Maybe it’s good that it’s
late. Who knows? All you know is that the train isn’t here yet. And that’s
okay, because it’s someone else who drives the train.
The Stoics want us to cultivate acceptance to whatever happens because
most events happen without us having a say in the matter. You can either
take it as i t comes and try to enjoy, or you can be reluctant and get dragged
along anyway. There's a wonderful metaphor the Stoics use to explain this.
Imagine a dog leashed to a moving cart. The leash is long enough to give
the dog two options: (1) either he can smoothly follow the direction of the
cart, over which he has no control, and at the same time enjoy the ride and
explore the surroundings, (2) or he can stubbornly resist the cart with all
his force and end up being dragged alongside anyway—for the rest of the
ride.
Just like for that dog, there are many things in our lives we can’t control.
Either we accept the situation and tiy to make the best with it, or we fight
it like a stubborn baby and end up crying and feeling miserable. It’s our
choice. I11 Ryan Holiday’s words: “To get upset by things is to wrongly
assume that they will last, [and] to resent change is to wrongly assume
that you have a choice in the matter.” That’s why we should take Epictetus’
advice to heart: “Seek not for events to happen as you wish but rather wish
for events to happen as they do and your life will go smoothly.” Very
simple (yet not easy—we’ll look at different exercises in Part 2.)
Things happen that seem very unfortunate, no question. Loved ones die, a
flood destroys your home, you lose your job, or fail your exams. You can’t
undo those conditions, you can only try to bear them with a noble spirit,
and tiy to make the best with the given situation. Stoic philosophy teaches
to focus on what you control, take the rest as it happens, and tiy to make
the best out of it. It's what you do with a given situation that matters, and
the way you go about doing it. The outcome, on the other hand, is beyond
your control and doesn’t matter much.
That's the kind of person Epictetus is looking for, “Find me a single mail
who cares how he does what he does, and is interested, not in what he can
get, but in the manner of his own actions.”
Attention: Taking the rest as it happens has nothing to do with
resignation. Just because the Stoics said that many things are not within
our power and that we should take any outcomes with equanimity does
not mean that they were unambitious, feeling helpless, or into resignation.
On the contrary, resignation is precisely against what the Stoics preached
and practiced. Events do not happen as they do regardless of your actions,
but rather depending on your actions. With your voluntary actions, you
can co-direct the outcomes. It matters greatly how hard you train and tiy
to hit the target, it’s just not entirely up to you whether you hit or miss.
The argument that you could just resign if you should love whatever
happens is ignorant and just plain lazy. It takes much more to accept
rather than fight eveiythmg that happens. It takes a real man or woman to
face necessity, and it takes a tough yet humble mind to accept and deal
with misfortune. In other words, it takes a warrior-philosopher. Because a
warrior takes eveiythmg as a challenge to become their best, while an
ordinary person just takes everything either as a blessing or curse.
Just because we should try to accept whatever happens does not mean we
approve of it. It just means that we understand that we cannot change it.
And thus the best option is to accept it—and out of this acceptance, try to
make the best out of it. “No one wants their children to get sick, no one
wants to be in a car accident; but when these things happen, how can it be
helpful to mentally argue with them?” That’s how Byron Katie puts it in
her book Loving What Is. Sure, things suck sometimes, but it doesn't help
to fight them, neither does it help to give up and feel helpless. What the
Stoics say helps is to look at them as a challenge, as a blank block of
marble where we can train to express our best and ultimately become
stronger.
The Stoics did not resign—they were committed to take appropriate action
in the world. Marcus Aurelius was the most powerful military and political
leader of his lifetime and led his armies into countless battles to protect
the Roman Empire. He was wise enough to know the difference between
what’s up to him and what’s not, courageous enough to focus and act upon
his powers, and calm enough to take what’s out of hand with equanimity
so it wouldn’t affect his wellbeing (see the Serenity Prayer).
The Good, the Bad, and the Indifferent Things
“Of things some are good, some are bad, and some are indifferent.’’
Epictetus and the Stoics did not only differentiate between what’s up to us
and what’s not, but also between what is good, bad, and indifferent.
Crucially, only the things which are up to us can be either good or bad, and
all those that aren’t up to us get classified as indifferent. This is why the
Stoic archer takes any outcome with equanimity, because it’s not up to
them and is therefore ultimately indifferent. However, the Stoics used a
finer distinction that defined hitting the target (or the apple) as a
preferred indifferent. If the outcome was completely indifferent, then why
would you tiy to hit the target in the first place? Before we look closer at
that distinction, let’s look at what good, bad, and indifferent things
• Good things: All that is virtue; wisdom, justice, courage, self-
discipline.
• Bad things: All that is vice; folly, injustice, cowardice, intemperance.
• Indifferent things: Everything else; life & death, health & sickness,
wealth & poverty, pleasure & pain, reputation & bad repute.
The good and bad things can only be found in your behavior. Expressing
your highest self, as seen earlier, is sufficient for the happy and smoothly
flowing life. Because it’s all that is within our power. Our actions matter
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A 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck the Tulunan area of Cotabato province on the southern island of Mindanao, Philippines.
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) reported that 14 people have been killed and 403 injured. They also stated 12,000 people were sheltering in 19 evacuation centres, and over 2,000 houses have been totally or partly damaged.
This is the third earthquake to affect the area after a 6.6 magnitude quake shook the area only days before. On 16 October an earthquake with a magnitude 6.3 killed at least seven people, injured more than 200 and destroyed or damaged more than 7,000 buildings.
Several cities and towns in the quake-hit areas have closed schools and advised people not to work in office buildings as more tremors are possible.
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Characters, Live-action characters, Males,
The Happiest Millionaire characters
The Happiest Millionaire
Tommy Steele
Mr. Lawless
Optimistic, lovable, happy
The Biddle household
To be a good butler
County Tyrone, Ireland (formerly)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (current)
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Mrs. Biddle, Cordy Biddle, Tony Biddle, Liv Biddle, Angie Duke, Aunt Mary, Mrs. Worth
Mrs. Duke (formerly)
His job, being Irish
Alligators, when there's a domestic disturbance
Was the champion boxer in his hometown, has the ability to think quickly in tense situations
"There's an old Irish proverb: To have your alligator's thaw out and your daughter forgive you all on the same bright day, That's Fortuosity."
"Poison dart... I mean raisin tart? "Have no fear, lad. I'm looking out for you."
John Lawless is a character in The Happiest Millionaire. He's a bouncy, upbeat immigrant butler who works for Anthony J. Drexel Biddle. He was portrayed by British singer and musician Tommy Steele.
John is a happy-go-lucky, new immigrant who is really happy to get the Job as the Biddle's butler. He believes in "Fortuosity" a termed he coined himself and gives 100% into his work. At first he doesn't want to take the job as the Biddle's Butler, but he soon gets used to their quirky ways. He also acts as the partial narrator for the film and talks to the audience on occasion.
Despite loving his adopted country, America, He still has great pride for his Irish roots and says he will always be an Irish man.
The Biddles come to love and respect John, and John proves he would do anything for them (Such as patching up the relationship between Angie and Cordy)
Role in the Film
John Lawless arrives fresh in America from Ireland, happy as a clam, and already with a new job as a butler for a wealthy man. He sings about how happy and how fortunate he is "Fortuosity." When he comes to the Biddle's mansion, he seem a little nervous, but calm and optimistic. When he rings the doorbell, The Biddle's cook, Mrs. Worth answers. John says he is from the Mayflower employment agency and interested in the butler job, Mrs. Worth recognizes him as an Irishman and invites him in. Mrs. Worth tells him that the Biddle's have a hard time keeping a butler, due to their eccentric ways. He was a little put off by Mr. Biddle, who came in yelling about how his alligator bit him. He orders john to get tell his boys to get the emergency kit. He then orders him to get a beefsteak for Cordy's knocked out boyfriend. John wonders if the Biddle household is always this hectic but Mrs. Worth seems to think it is normal. He says the job isn't worth it and goes to quit. He stumbles onto Aunt Mary on his way out, who thinks he is another prize fighter. John says he actually came for the butler position so Aunt Mary instruct him on how to a be a good Butler. He goes to tell Mr. Biddle about the lady, who is in the middle of one of his Bible/Boxing classes, and Mr. Biddle immediately guesses its Aunt Mary. He tells John to tell him that nobodies home.Aunt Mary doesn't believe John as she can hear the singing from the bible class. Mrs. Biddle comes home from shopping and asks John to take her packages. When he finally gets a chance to talk to Mrs. Biddle about the butler job, she immediately hires him and tells him to prepare dinner. John then gets the feeling he is in over his head.
John is bewildered when he sees Mr. Biddle's pet alligators. Mr. Biddle tells him he got them in Florida. John Lawless properly introduces himself. When Mr. Biddle asks how good he is at boxing he says he was champion of County Tyrone in Ireland. Mr. Biddle suggest that John apply for citizenship. John says he will eventually. He then sings about how he loves his new adopted country but he will always remain Irish at heart (I'll Always be Irish). During the song Mrs. Biddle gets a call from the Mayflower employment agency. She says that John will definitely suit their needs.
John is later seen at a party that Mr. Biddle is holding for some Marine friends. When the situation gets tense, he tries to break the tension, but fails. Mrs. Biddle then tells John to tell Mrs. Worth to get dinner ready as soon as possible. Mr. Biddle asks John to referee a boxing match with him and and one of the marine guests. When Mr. Biddle defeats the marine in combat, John decides to stay behind and clean the place up.
Some time later, John helps Mr. Biddle thaw his alligators after a maid accidentally let the chilly air freeze their pools. When Cordy arrives, she warmly greets John and tells him about her engagement.Later after Mr. Biddle bitterly goes to bed, John remarks that he lost his daughter and his alligators in the same night. The next morning Mr. Biddle happily tells John that his alligators are alive and kicking. John is aware of this as he is tugging George back to the conservatory. John the helps Mr. Biddle round up his alligators. When Mr. Biddle forgives Cordy, he says that Mr. Biddle regaining his alligators and daughter is a little bit of what he calls "Fortuosity" He then rounds up the alligators while he sings a reprise of Fortuosity.
At the start of Act 2, John is seen serving the Biddles and their guest Angie Duke, dinner. When Angie insults boxing, Mr. Biddle asks John to get him some boxing gloves to show him what boxing is all about. Angie decides to be his opponent, so Mr. Biddle asks him to be Referee. When Angie shows Mr. Biddle some of his jujitsu moves, John remarks that he wouldn't mind learning some jujitsu moves. Later on, John is seen serving guests at an extravagant party at the Biddle's house in honor of Cordy and Angie's engagement. During Mr. Biddle's operatic number, Mrs. Duke asks John if he does this often, which he responds that he does so occasionally. When Aunt Mary arrives, he greets her in the living room and fetches her some refreshments. He serves Aunt Mary and Mrs. Duke while they are arguing, and tries to prevent them from fighting. When Mrs. Duke says that her family hasn't received wedding invitations, Mr. Biddle says that he and John personally sent them and asks him to find out what happened to them. John finds the invitations under a pile of clothes that they collected for Chinese missions. Angie finds this "funny" and leaves in frustration. Mr. Biddle tells John to follow him.
John follows Angie to Clancy's bar were he's drinking and lonely. He goes next to Angie and orders an Irish stout. Angie figures that John followed him there and wants him to leave him alone. Angie tells him that he's tired of people running his life, and says he finally has to be a man about this. John agrees and decides to have a drink on it. (Let's have a Drink on it). Throughout the song, John tries to get Angie drunk while Angie comes up with ideas with what he wants to do with his life. John talks him out of most of his choices and realizes he's getting nowhere. He later spills some beer on a thug, who immediately grabs Angie and slides him across the bar. This gets Angie mad and starts one big bar room brawl. John for the most point stays out of the fight and when the cops come, they ask John who started the fight.John says Angie did because he insulted mother Ireland. The cop asks John to come along to tell the story to the chief. When the cops drag Angie out, John Assures him that he's looking out for him.
The next morning when Mrs. Duke is looking for Angie, Mr. Biddle yells for John to come in. Mr. Biddle wonders how John got a black eye. John says that Angie gave it to him at the jailhouse last night. John says that they'll release him when he stops pressing charges.Mr. Biddle asks him to bring the car around son they could head to the jail.
After the Biddles get home, Mrs. Biddle rings for john to get some tea and sandwiches. John asks if everything went alright. Mrs. Biddle tells them that Cordy and Angie are going to Detroit, and John is happy with the news. Soon, Mr. Biddle is told that he has been accepted into the marines and asks John to get the campaign to celebrate.John pours everyone champagne. Mr. Biddle says to John that he should have a glass, too, so he pulls one out of his coat pocket. John celebrates with the rest of the group (Let's have a Drink on it (Reprise)) and invites Mr. Biddle's bible students in to congratulate Mr. Biddle.
Songs Sung
Fortuosity
I'll Always be Irish (Sung with Anthony Biddle and Cordy Biddle)
Fortuosity (Reprise)
Let's Have a Drink on it (Sung with Angie Duke)
Let's Have a Drink on it (Reprise)
He is known for breaking the fourth wall and talks to the audience on occasion. He is eventually caught doing so by Mr. Biddle who finds it strange.
His catchphrase is "Fortuosity."
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‘Disappointed’ Activists Criticize India’s ‘Iron Lady’ for Daring to End Her 16-Year-Long Hunger Strike
diasporaasianvoices / August 17, 2016
Written by:Vishal Manve
Activist Irom Chanu Sharmila recently decided to end her 16-year-long hunger strike against a controversial draconian law in order to join politics in India’s north-eastern state of Manipur and settle down with her boyfriend. While many have cheered her decision and courage (hers was often called the world’s longest fast), some of her supporters and fellow activists are not pleased.
Sharmila, 44, had intended to stay in a local Manipur colony after being discharged from the hospital, where she had been kept detained and force-fed through a tube in her nose on the basis of a law that prohibits suicide. But community members rejected her, as did a local Iskcon temple. Police then brought her back to the hospital to stay in the meantime.
Activists from the group Sharmila Kanba Lup (Protect Sharmila Organisation) complain that Sharmila did not consult them before deciding to stop her hunger strike and feel “disappointed” and “let down”. Another group, the Manipuri separatist organization Alliance for Socialist Unity, Kangleipak, urged her not to marry her boyfriend, a British-Indian man, deeming his Indian descent suspicious; some supporters felt that her relationship might have “misled” her into taking this decision.
The cruelty shown to Irom Sharmila is staggering. Like she cant own her own life or choices. Very Opposite of human rights she fought for
— barkha dutt (@BDUTT) August 11, 2016
The cruelty shown to Irom Sharmila is staggering. Like she cant own her own life or choices. Very Opposite of human rights she fought for.
Sharmila, also known as the ‘Iron Lady’ of Manipur, started her non-violent protest in November 2000. Her main demand was the repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), which grants government forces de facto impunity in their bid to rein in militants and separatists working in the region.
Many consider her to be a Manipuri icon, and say ending her fast and entering politics could sully that image. Another organization, the Sharmila Kanba Lup (Save Sharmila Campaign), was dissolved after she announced she was going to stop her hunger strike, although it appears to have happened with Sharmila’s blessing.
Those who saying that #IromSharmila should have continued her fast are always welcome to take over from her. Any takers?
— Vikram Chandra (@vikramchandra) August 9, 2016
Addressing the criticism and local rejection she experienced, a pained Sharmila told the press:
At that moment, I felt the best thing for them would have been beating me to death. What is the difference between being beaten to death or dying from fasting. Not much. They want me to remain a martyr forever. But I can’t always be a martyr.
‘Zenith of moral bankruptcy’
Manu Joseph summarized the situation in the newspaper Hindustan Times:
They said she had betrayed their cause. They had promoted her as “iron lady”, but now she was not behaving like one. Fair-weather friends and family isolated her. People who had made her a deity, now abused her. At least one group threatened her.
Irshad Ahmed reacted to the news on Facebook:
India has lost humanity. India is slowly losing hearts of people of North East and Kashmir.
For a better India we must speak up for rights of one and all, we cannot allow the politicians to divide us further.
Shashikumar Velath criticized on Facebook those who had “exploited” Sharmila:
All human rights organizations – national and international – are responsible for creating an icon without thinking through a focused exit strategy. All exploited her struggle to raise the mast of their narrow campaign narratives, forgetting about the suffering of a real human being. They lulled the society to believe that Irom’s hunger strike would be a never ending reality show. This is what happens when human rights bureaucracies elevate everything to clinical assessment of violations vis a vis national and international law standards. […]
Zenith of moral bankruptcy.
Indian actor Renuka Shahane offered up his own home and praised Sharmila’s efforts:
Irom Sharmila if you have no place that is willing to accept you please stay with me in Mumbai, it will be an honour! All those human rights & anti AFSPA “activists” who were happy & supportive only when you had a tube attached to your nose for force-feeding or only when you were facing the wrath of the State with courage, are not worth a second thought. You are still fighting against AFSPA; you are going to do that with a person whom you have chosen to love & in a manner that you & only you should choose to do. You are so used to dissent. Now, its from within the people you consideted your own. That is more difficult & painful.
Writing on “infotainment” website Arre, Shoma Chaudhury described the injustices that Sharmila is facing on all sides:
Sharmila’s protest should have become a lightning rod in India’s public life. The media should have given it life breath. The State should have acknowledged its moral force and entered a dialogue. Instead, the media has tired of her and the State has worn Sharmila down and leached her protest of its magnetism.
The situation might be different if Sharmila’s former supporters would only trust her commitment to repealing the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, which she has emphasized:
Nobody told me to start fasting then (November 2000). And I dissuaded others from joining me because I knew how hard it can be on a woman with multiple responsibilities in a conflict-torn land. Why can’t they understand I have not deviated from the goal of getting AFSPA repealed?
And besides that, what Sharmila does in her personal life is purely her choice.
Originally published in Global Voices.
August 17, 2016 in Democracy, Journalism, Your voice. Tags: AFSPA, Global Voices, India, Indian politics, Irom Sharmila, Kashmir, South Asia
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Elite Atrocities: Australia’s Special Forces in Afghanistan
by Binoy Kampmark / June 10th, 2018
Further into the Afghanistan mission, after multiple deployments, soldiers began to refer to members going ‘up the Congo’.
— Chris Masters, The Sydney Morning Herald, June 9, 2018
They operate with impunity in areas already deemed lawless by their civilising superiors. Afghanistan, derided as a country of anarchic sensibilities, was never going to be a place for those abiding by armchair rules. Whether it was the Soviet army engaged in strafing operations indifferent to combatant and civilian, or those subsequent intruders of the Global War on Terror – the forces of the US-led International Security Assistance Force and associated allies – the complement of atrocities was only set to grow.
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, has had an eye on Afghanistan for some time for that very reason. In 2016, she claimed in a report that, “Members of US armed forces appear to have subjected at least 61 detained persons to torture, cruel treatment, outrages upon personal dignity on the territory of Afghanistan between 1 May 2003 and 31 December 2014.”
The Central Intelligence Agency was not to be left out sulking on the side, with Bensouda suggesting that 27 detainees in Afghanistan, Poland, Romania and Lithuania had been subjected to “torture, cruel treatment, outrages upon personal dignity and/or rape” between December 2002 and March 2008. A true smorgasbord of violence.
In November 2017, Bensouda concluded, after a seemingly interminable preliminary process, “that all legal criteria required under the Rome statute [of the ICC] to commence an investigation have been met”. The investigation specifically into the conduct of forces in Afghanistan, she suggested, would cover the alleged perpetration of crimes against humanity including murder, targeting humanitarian workers, and summary executions.
Afghanistan has again become the site of interest for the maligned side of human nature, this time from the Australian angle. The weekend began with Canberra in a tizz over allegations that Australia’s special forces have committed war crimes since commencing operations in 2001.
On Friday, Fairfax Media revealed certain contents of a report written by Defence Department consultant Dr Samantha Crompvoets in 2016 alleging the commission of such crimes suggesting a “complete lack of accountability”. It had been instigated at the behest of the Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force (IGADF) examining “rumours… [of] possible breaches of the Laws of Armed Conflict by members of the ADF in Afghanistan between 2005 and 2016”.
Various “unsanctioned and illegal” applications of “violence in operations” entailing a “disregard for human life and dignity” had purportedly taken place. There were “allusions to behaviour and practices involving abuse of drugs and alcohol” peppered with instances of “domestic violence”.
The report by Crompvoets points to “problems deeply embedded in the culture” of the Special Operations Command. The account of one interviewee is studded with suggestion though little detail. “I know there were over the last 15 years some horrendous things. Some just disgraceful things happened in Kabul… very bad news, or just inappropriate behaviour, but it was pretty much kept under wraps.”
A central theme emerges here: ignorance in central command and amongst the civilians at the helm. Unvarnished, necessary, practised, Australia’s national security remains detached from an understanding of its elite, anointed arm which does its best to keep bloody in conditions of utmost secrecy. Such ignorance extends to matters of “mentality” and the logistical makeup of the Special Air Service Regiment itself and the Commandos.
Chris Masters has tailed the culture of the SASR for some time, being himself “embedded” within the organisation in Afghanistan that yielded No Front Line – Australia’s Special Forces at war in Afghanistan. “The long deployment to Afghanistan had worn at the character of some members, who were beginning to act as a law unto themselves.” Such are the ugly disfigurements produced by small, endless wars.
Evidence would be planted on the dead to throw off beady-eyed investigators; detainees would be slaughtered in acts of “competitive killing” to prevent the endless questioning that awaited them back at base. By 2010, the butcher’s bill for Oruzgan province, euphemised by the term EKIA (enemies killed in action) had become so lengthy as to raise eyebrows back amongst the paper shufflers in Kabul.
The report has produced its own precipitate in the form of another inquiry, this time fronted by Australia’s judicial arm. A dozen or so men of the Special Air Service Regiment have been subject to lengthy periods of questioning by New South Wales Supreme Court Justice Paul Brereton.
Concern of this ugliness is tempered with well-seeded praise. “The SAS is in my electorate,” Australian foreign minister Julie Bishop took care to point out, “they are regarded as some of the finest men prepared to put their life on the line in conflict situations to defend us and our freedoms, they are one of the finest fighting forces in the world.”
The opposition minister for defence, Richard Marles, was similarly tiptoeing with a pseudo-psychologist’s hat, wanting a killing force that was doing its bit in accordance with decency. “Our soldiers, particularly our special forces, work in difficult and complex environments. It’s important that we know, as a country, that they’re doing it in a professional and legal way.”
Elite forces trained to liquidate their opponents with ruthlessness do not suggest law book observers and the scrupulous reading of statutes. Their very existence is owed to being unorthodox, to operate outside convention in contempt of local rules and the encumbrances of red tape.
The issue, as ever, is not their operational doctrine so much as the political masters who put them there, inspired by fatuous assessments of what the defence of freedom might look like. The crimes will happen, but the mandate to do so will always come from high and farther afield, those tut tutting types back in the bureaucracy who insist that small wars in vaguely defined theatres are necessary for the national interest.
Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne and can be reached at: bkampmark@gmail.com. Read other articles by Binoy.
This article was posted on Sunday, June 10th, 2018 at 11:38pm and is filed under Afghanistan, Australia, Crimes against Humanity, International Criminal Court, Media, Militarism, Torture.
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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune, and favor cannot satisfy him. ~ Jean de La Bruyère
Ambition is word denoting strong desire for distinction, preferment, honor, political power, fame, or the object of such desires, or a general motivation, not necessarily tied to any particular goals.
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The lust for power, which of all human vices was found in its most concentrated form in the Roman people as a whole, first established its victory in a few powerful individuals, and then crushed the rest of an exhausted country beneath the yoke of slavery. For when can that lust for power in arrogant hearts come to rest until, after passing from one office to another, it arrives at sovereignty? Now there would be no occasion for this continuous progress if ambition were not all-powerful; and the essential context for ambition is a people corrupted by greed and sensuality. ~ Augustine
Virtue’s true reward is happiness itself, for which the virtuous work, whereas if they worked for honor, it would no longer be virtue, but ambition.~ Thomas Aquinas
How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal! How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams (10 July 1775)
Virtue’s true reward is happiness itself, for which the virtuous work, whereas if they worked for honor, it would no longer be virtue, but ambition.
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
The lust for power, which of all human vices was found in its most concentrated form in the Roman people as a whole, first established its victory in a few powerful individuals, and then crushed the rest of an exhausted country beneath the yoke of slavery.
For when can that lust for power in arrogant hearts come to rest until, after passing from one office to another, it arrives at sovereignty? Now there would be no occasion for this continuous progress if ambition were not all-powerful; and the essential context for ambition is a people corrupted by greed and sensuality.
Augustine, The City of God (c. 400), as translated by H. Bettenson (1972), Book 1, Chapter 31, p. 42
Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar. ~ Edmund Burke
It will not be amiss to distinguish the three kinds and, as it were, grades of ambition in mankind. The first is of those who desire to extend their own power in their native country, a vulgar and degenerate kind. The second is of those who labor to extend the power and dominion of their country among men. This certainly has more dignity, though not less covetousness. But if a man endeavor to establish and extend the power and dominion of the human race itself over the universe, his ambition (if ambition it can be called) is without doubt both a more wholesome and a more noble thing than the other two.
Francis Bacon, Novum Organum (1620), Book I, Aphorism 28
Things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm.
Francis Bacon, Essays (1625), "Of Great Place"
So ambitious men, if they find the way open for their rising, and still get forward, they are rather busy than dangerous; but if they be checked in their desires, they become secretly discontent, and look upon men and matters with an evil eye, and are best pleased, when things go backward.
Francis Bacon, Essays (1625), "Of Ambition"
A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect?
David Baldacci, Stone Cold (2007), Ch. 13
Almost all of them adopt convenient social, literary, or political prejudices so as to dispense with having to form an opinion of their own, just as they place their conscience in the shelter of common law, or of the commercial court. Having left home early in order to become remarkable men, they become mediocre, and crawl along the heights of society. Accordingly, their faces present us with this sour pallor; these false complexions, these dull, lined eyes, these talkative and sensual mouths where the observer recognizes the symptoms of the degeneration of thought and its turning round and round in the dull circle of specialization that kills the generative faculties of the brain, the gift of seeing the big picture, of generalizing and deducing.
Honoré de Balzac, The Girl with the Golden Eyes (1833)
Wilt thou debase the heart which God refined?
No; let thy heaven-taught soul to heaven aspire,
To fancy, freedom, harmony, resigned;
Ambition's groveling crew forever left behind.
James Beattie, The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius (1771), book 1, stanza 7
Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Henry Ward Beecher, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 11
AMBITION, n. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.
At court, far from regarding ambition as a sin, people regard it as a virtue, or if it passes for a vice, then it is regarded as the vice of great souls, and the vices of great souls are preferred to the virtues of the simple and the small.
Louis Bourdaloue, as quoted in The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1927), p. 137
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases.
Thomas Brooks, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 12
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune, and favor cannot satisfy him.
Jean de La Bruyère, Characters, H. Van Laun, trans. (London: 1885) “Of Personal Merit,” #43
Arouse your energy for the attainment of the as-yet-unattained, for the achievement of the as-yet-unachieved, for the realization of the as-yet-unrealized.
Gautama Buddha, Saṃyutta Nikāya, Book 2, Sutta 12, Verse 22, as translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi (Wisdom Publications: 2000), p. 553
There ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved.
Charles Bukowski, Factotum (1975)
Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke, Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796), No. 3
As fall the dews on quenchless sands,
Blood only serves to wash Ambition's hands!
Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto IX (1823), Stanza 59
From my youth upwards
My Spirit walked not with the souls of men,
Nor looked upon the earth with human eyes;
The thirst of their ambition was not mine,
The aim of their existence was not mine;
My joys—my griefs—my passions—and my powers,
Made me a stranger; though I wore the form,
I had no sympathy with breathing flesh
Lord Byron, Manfred in Manfred, Act 2, Scene 2, lines 50-58
The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich. ~ E. M. Cioran
Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.
Nicolas Chamfort, Maxims and Considerations, E. P. Mathers, trans. (1926), #158
The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.
E. M. Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born (1973)
To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.
Confucius, Analects, 6.20
I think that all ambitions are lawful except those which climb upwards on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are permissible, up to and even beyond the limit of prudent sanity. They can hurt no one. If they are mad, then so much the worse for the artist. Indeed, as virtue is said to be, such ambitions are their own reward.
Joseph Conrad, A Personal Record (1912), "A Familiar Preface"
The pugilist, whose highest ambition is to pound and bruise human flesh, and bear off from the prize-ring the victory and money staked thereon, subjects himself to the severest physical training in order to secure those ends, and naturally enough he always develops into a powerful animal, but an animal of less value than the horse or mule, whose powers of body contribute so much to human comfort.
There have been pugilists on a more gigantic scale, with larger arenas for their operations, men like Julius Caesar, who conceived a passion for sovereign power.
William H. Crogman, "The Importance of Correct Ideals" (1892), in Talks for the Times (1896), p. 273
Neither the black boy nor the white will ever be educated in the best and broadest sense of the term who seeks an education merely to reach an office, for, as in nature a stream never rises higher than its source, so in life men never rise higher than their ideals. The education that merely seeks an office must of necessity be limited to the dimensions of that office.
The place-seeker will resort to methods from which self-respecting men would shrink with as much aversion as the ancient Jew shrank from contact with the leper. The true purpose of education is not office. "The true purpose of education," says one, "is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop to their fullest extent the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us." He, therefore, who fixes a limit of any kind to his intellectual attainments dwarfs himself, and cramps the growth of that mind given to us by the Creator, and capable of indefinite expansion.
I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks. ~ Eugene V. Debs
Nearest the king, nearest the gallows.
Danish proverb, in A Book of Proverbs, edited by Raymond Lamont_Brown (1970), p. 135
Ambition is like love, impatient
Both of delays and rivals.
John Denham, The Sophy: A Tragedy (1642), Act I, scene ii
Ambition, Interest, Pride without control,
And Jealousy, the jaundice of the soul;
Revenge, the bloody minister of ill,
With all the lean tormentors of the will.
John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther (1687), Pt. III
Why shall I not be content with these thoughts and this being which give a majesty to my nature and forego the ambition to shine in the frivolous assemblies of men where the genuine objects of my ambition are not revered or known? ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.
T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral (1935)
And why shall I not be content with these thoughts and this being which give a majesty to my nature and forego the ambition to shine in the frivolous assemblies of men where the genuine objects of my ambition are not revered or known?
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal entry (January 1827)
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
Benjamin Franklin, "On True Happiness", Pennsylvania Gazette, 20 November 1735
The climbing soul, leaving all that she has grasped already as too narrow for her needs, will thus grasp the idea of that magnificence which is exalted far above the heavens. But how can any one reach to this, whose ambitions creep below? ~ Gregory of Nyssa
Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,
Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;
Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile,
The short and simple annals of the poor.
Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1750), St. 8
The climbing soul, leaving all that she has grasped already as too narrow for her needs, will thus grasp the idea of that magnificence which is exalted far above the heavens. But how can any one reach to this, whose ambitions creep below? ... He therefore who keeps away from all bitterness and all the noisome effluvia of the flesh, and raises himself on the aforesaid wings above all low earthly ambitions, or, more than that, above the whole universe itself, will be the man to find that which is alone worth loving, and to become himself as beautiful as the Beauty which he has touched and entered.
Gregory of Nyssa, On Virginity, Chapter 11
Where ambition can be so happy as to cover its enterprizes, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of all human passions.
David Hume, The History of England (1754-62), Volume I, Part IV, "William the Conqueror"
Under the influence of illegitimate-capitalist values, I was pursuing the alleviation of social-economic hardship through individual advancement. [...] Unaware of my class interest, I was perpetuating my own oppression by engaging in competitive capitalist practices that ensure the smooth functioning of the system. ~ Kevin Rashid Johnson
I had no car, no money, and it was tough seeing others have what I didn’t have even though I was working. I mean the social pressures to have the flyest ride, clothes, and financial mobility started to bear down on me. It’s hard for a person to be without these socially valued possessions and feel like a whole complete human being. [...] Under the influence of illegitimate-capitalist values, I was pursuing the alleviation of social-economic hardship through individual advancement. This is a wholly inadequate remedy to social problems because it doesn’t challenge the fundamental injustice of class-exploitation and class-oppression, which are responsible for creating the socio-economic ills in the first place. Unaware of my class interest, I was perpetuating my own oppression by engaging in competitive capitalist practices that ensure the smooth functioning of the system as the exploiting minority profits in more ways than one off the division and disunity engendered by competition, so prevalent amongst the exploited. Look around: competition, euphemistically called “individuality,” permeates and is systematically promoted to the masses of people while the corporate conglomerations and Fortune 500 are busy “merging and monopolizing.”
Kevin Rashid Johnson, Defying the Tomb: Selected Prison Writings and Art of Kevin "Rashid" Johnson. Kersplebedeb. 2010. p. 65-71. ISBN 1894946391.
Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back;
And is a swelling, and the last affection
A high mind can put off; being both a rebel
Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth
All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion,
and offereth violence to nature's self.
Ben Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy (1611), Act III, scene ii
Ambition never comes to an end.
Yoshida Kenkō, Tsurezure-Gusa (Essays in Idleness) (ca. 14th century)
For the modern psychologist, … industry has remained as the only virtue—with its satellites, ambition and success—a conception of virtue which the Ancients would never have hesitated to relegate to the lowest of men, to pariahs and to slaves.
Ludwig Klages, The Science of Character, W. Johnston, trans., p. 15
Ambition is but Avarice on stilts and masked.
Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations (1824-1829), "Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney"
Most people would succeed in small things, if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Drift-Wood, Table-Talk (1857)
Whenever men are not obliged to fight from necessity, they fight from ambition; which is so powerful in human breasts, that it never leaves them no matter to what rank they rise. The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain everything.
Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (1517), Book 1, Chapter 37
Reason can no longer restrain one who is lured by the fury of ambition.
Karl Marx, “Reflections of a Youth on Choosing an Occupation” (1835), Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society, L. Easton, trans. (1967), p. 36
Just see these superfluous ones! Wealth they acquire and become poorer thereby. Power they seek for, and above all, the lever of power, much money—these impotent ones!
See them clamber, these nimble apes! They clamber over one another, and thus scuffle into the mud and the abyss.
Towards the throne they all strive: it is their madness—as if happiness sat on the throne! Ofttimes sitteth filth on the throne—and ofttimes also the throne on filth.
Madmen they all seem to me, and clambering apes, and too eager. Badly smelleth their idol to me, the cold monster: badly they all smell to me, these idolaters.
Friedrich Nietzsche, “The New Idol,” Thus Spake Zarathustra (1891)
The excellent man is he who condemns what he finds in his mind without previous effort, and only accepts as worthy of him what is still far above him and what requires a further effort in order to be reached. ~ José Ortega y Gasset
That man is intellectually of the mass who, in the face of any problem, is satisfied with thinking the first thing he finds in his head. On the contrary, the excellent man is he who condemns what he finds in his mind without previous effort, and only accepts as worthy of him what is still far above him and what requires a further effort in order to be reached.
José Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses (1929), p. 63
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority, otherwise called ambition.
Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living (19 September 1938)
Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive, of our actions; and although it happen not to attend the worthy deed, yet it is by no means the less fair for having missed the applause it deserved.
Pliny, Letter 5
Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes;
The glorious fault of Angels and of Gods.
Alexander Pope, Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (1717)
Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things
To low ambition and the pride of Kings.
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-1734), "Epistle I"
Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.
John Cowper Powys, The Meaning of Culture (1929)
There are very few philosophers and artists who are absolutely detached from ambition and respect for power, from "people of position." And among those who are more delicate or more sated, snobism replaces ambition and respect for power in the same way superstition arises on the ruins of religious beliefs.
Marcel Proust, notes to Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin (1906)
If any man stopped and asked himself whether he’s ever held a truly personal desire, he’d find the answer. He’d see that all his wishes, his efforts, his dreams, his ambitions are motivated by other men. He’s not even struggling for material wealth, but for the second-hander’s delusion—prestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no joy in the struggle and no joy when he has succeeded. He can’t say about a single thing: this is what I wanted because I wanted it, not because it made my neighbors gape at me. Then he wonders why he’s unhappy.
Ayn Rand, Howard Roark describing "second-hand men" in The Fountainhead (1996), p. 607
I am not unambitious. I am just too ambitious for what you call ambitions.
James Richardson, Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001), #412
In classical cultures, an ascended class had to justify itself before those now below in the social structure. But the culture revolution of our time has eliminated this need for class- as well as self-justification. Nevertheless, those below still seek to emulate the ascendant social class, without being convinced of its superiority.
Philip Rieff, The Triumph of the Therapeutic (1966), chapter 2
The need of success … might have made me strive to say what might please the multitude, rather than what was true and useful, and instead of a distinguished author which I might possibly become, I should have ended in becoming nothing but a mere scribbler.
Rousseau, Confessions (Wordsworth: 1996), p. 391
A narcissist, for example, inspired by the homage paid to great painters, may become an art student; but, as painting is for him a mere means to an end, the technique never becomes interesting … The result is failure and disappointment, with ridicule instead of the expected adulation. … All serious success in work depends upon some genuine interest. … Consequently, the man whose sole concern with the world is that is shall admire him is not likely to achieve his object.
Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness, p. 20
Ambition prompted many to become deceitful; to keep one thing concealed in the breast, and another ready on the tongue; to estimate friendships and enmities, not by their worth, but according to interest; and to carry rather a specious countenance than an honest heart.
Sallust, Bellum Catilinae (ca. 1st century), X, 5
At nos non imperium neque divitias petimus, quarum rerum causa bella atque certamina omnia inter mortales sunt, sed libertatem, quam nemo bonus nisi cum anima simul amittit.
At power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
Sallust, Bellum Catilinae (ca. 1st century), XXXIII, 5
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
George Santayana, The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1906)
I charge thee, fling away ambition;
By that sin fell the angels.
William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (1613), Act III, scene ii
Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI (1591), Part II, Act III, scene 1, line 143
The poor man’s son ... devotes himself for ever to the pursuit of wealth and greatness. To obtain the conveniencies which these afford, he submits in the first year, nay in the first month of his application, to more fatigue of body, and more uneasiness of mind, than he could have suffered through the whole of his life from the want of them. ... He makes his court to all mankind; he serves those whom he hates, and is obsequious to those whom he despises. Through the whole of his life he pursues the idea of a certain artificial and elegant repose which he may never arrive at, for which he sacrifices a real tranquillity that is at all times in his power.
Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Part 4, Chapter 1
Ambition is an idol on whose wings
Great minds are carry'd only to extreme;
To be sublimely great, or to be nothing.
Thomas Southerne, The Persian Prince, or the Loyal Brother (1682), Act I, scene 1
But when a miser thinks of nothing but gain or money, or when an ambitious man thinks of nothing but glory, they are not reckoned to be mad, because they are generally harmful, and are thought worthy of being hated. But, in reality, Avarice, Ambition, Lust, &c., are species of madness, though they may not be reckoned among diseases.
Baruch Spinoza, Ethics (1677), Part IV: "Of Human Bondage, or the Strength of the Emotions", Prop. 44
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.
Henry Taylor, Notes from Life (1853), "Wisdom"
To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; and to forgo even ambition when the end is gained — who can say this is not greatness?
William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians (1857-1859), Chapter 92
Full of hopes beyond their power though not beyond their ambition.
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War (5th century BC), Book III, 39
When we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition.
Theophrastus, dying words (286 BC) quoted by Diogenes Laërtius in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition; and the second is the rarity of lofty ambition to be observed in the midst of the universally ambitious stir of society. No Americans are devoid of a yearning desire to rise, but hardly any appear to entertain hopes of great magnitude or to pursue very lofty aims. All are constantly seeking to acquire property, power, and reputation.
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume 2, Book 3, Chapter 19
“Nothing but ambition, nothing but the desire to get on, that's all there is in his soul,” she thought; “as for these lofty ideals, love of culture, religion, they are only so many tools for getting on.”
Leo Tolstoy, Anna describing her husband, Anna Karenina, C. Garnett, trans. (New York: 2003), Part 2, Chapter 28, p. 192
Ambition is the death of thought. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Vain the ambition of kings
Who seek by trophies and dead things
To leave a living name behind,
And weave but nets to catch the wind.
John Webster, The Devil's Law Case (1623)
I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years "Be successful, be successful, be successful" as opposed to "Be great, be great, be great". There's a qualitative difference.
Cornel West, Speech in San Francisco: Democracy Matters (1 October 2004)
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar Wilde, "Phrases and Philosophies for the use of the Young", in The Chameleon (Oxford, December 1894)
The people ... have marred themselves by imitation of their inferiors. They have taken the sceptre of the Prince.
Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Ambition is the death of thought.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value (1980), p. 77
Too low they build who build beneath the stars.
Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night VIII, line 225
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 20-21.
Nor strive to wind ourselves too high
For sinful man beneath the sky.
Christian Year, Morning
Prima enim sequentem, honestum est in secundis, tertiisque consistere.
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
Cicero, De Oratore, I
On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
Eliza Cook, Thomas Hood
By low ambition and the thirst of praise.
William Cowper, Table Talk, line 591
On the summit see,
The seals of office glitter in his eyes;
He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! At his heels,
Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends,
And with a dexterous jerk soon twists him down,
And wins them, but to lose them in his turn.
William Cowper, The Task (1785), Book IV, line 58
Il gran rifiuto.
The great refusal.
(Supposed to refer to Celestine V., elected Pope in 1294, who resigned five months later).
Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto III. LX
But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand,
And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.
They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem
Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
For all may have,
If they dare try, a glorious life, or grave.
George Herbert, The Temple (1633), The Church-Porch
Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.
I strike the stars with my sublime head.
Horace, Carmina, Book I. 1
Nil mortalibus arduum est:
Cœlum ipsum petimus stultitia.
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we would storm heaven itself in our folly.
Horace, Carmina, I. 3. 37
Vestigia nulla retrorsum.
No steps backward.
Horace, Epistles. I. 1. 74
I see, but cannot reach, the height
That lies forever in the light.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christus, The Golden Legend (1872), p. II. A Village Church
The shades of night were falling fast,
As through an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice
A banner with the strange device,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Excelsior
Ambition has no rest!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu (1839), Act III, scene 1
He was utterly without ambition [Chas. II.]. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, History of England (Character of Charles II.) Vol. I, Chapter II
The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one,
May hope to achieve it before life be done;
But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes,
Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows
A harvest of barren regrets.
Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton), Lucile (1860), Part I, Canto II, Stanza 8
Here may we reign secure, and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell.
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book I, line 263
But what will not ambition and revenge
Descend to? who aspires must down as low
As high he soar'd, obnoxious first or last
To basest things.
John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book IX, line 168
If at great things thou would'st arrive,
Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap,
Not difficult, if thou hearken to me;
Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand,
They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain,
While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.
John Milton, Paradise Regained (1671), Book II, line 426
Such joy ambition finds.
John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book IV, line 92
Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms.
Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms,
Pours fierce ambition in a Cæsar's mind.
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle I, line 157
Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise.
By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies?
Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys,
And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epigram IV, line 74
But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd,
And chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (1712), Canto V, line 108
Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.
Francis Quarles, Emblems, Book IV. Emblem 3
Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter tamen causa virtutum est.
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria, II. 22
Ambition is no cure for love!
Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805), Canto I, Stanza 27
O fading honours of the dead!
O high ambition, lowly laid!
Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805), Canto II, Stanza 10
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act II, scene 2, line 264
Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk!
When that this body did contain a spirit,
A kingdom for it was too small a bound;
But now, two paces of the vilest earth
Is room enough.
William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I (c. 1597), Act V, scene 4, line 88
Mark but my fall, and that that ruin'd me.
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition.
By that sin fell the angels; how can man then,
The image of his Maker, hope to win by it?
William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (c. 1613), Act III, scene 2, line 437
'Tis a common proof,
That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
Whereto the climber upward turns his face;
But when he once attains the upmost round,
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend.
William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar (1599), Act II, scene 1, line 21
Ambition's debt is paid.
William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar (1599), Act III, scene 1, line 83
Hath told you Cæsar was ambitious;
If it were so, it was a grievous fault;
And grievously hath Cæsar answered it.
I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself,
And falls on the other.
William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act I, scene 7, line 25
Si vis ad summum progredi ab infimo ordire.
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
Syrus, Maxims
Ambition destroys its possessor.
Talmud, Yoma 86
The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.
Vauvenargues, Reflections and Maxims, E. Lee, trans. (1903), p. 180
And mad ambition trumpeteth to all.
Nathaniel Parker Willis, from a poem delivered at the Departure of the Senior Class of Yale College (1827)
How like a mounting devil in the heart
Rules the unreined ambition!
Nathaniel Parker Willis, Parrhasius
Ambition has but one reward for all:
A little power, a little transient fame,
A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
William Winter, The Queen's Domain, line 90
Academic careerism
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What is the difference between “lightning rod” and “scapegoat”? [closed]
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I was watching an interview with someone in politics who said he had become the lightning rod, and I was not sure what that meant but looking up the meaning, I wonder how is that different from being a scapegoat?
EDIT: I'm asked to say why the following suggested link is not the answer. That one is not about the difference between these two terms. But I do see an answer that references both terms:
"A lightning rod is someone who attracts a lot of criticism, in particular in order to shield other people (like a literal lightning rod diverts lightning harmlessly into the ground). It is thus related in meaning with scapegoat, i.e. someone who is blamed for the mistakes of others."
So is this the difference then that lighting rod (purposefully) attracts the criticism to shield others, almost heroically, but scapegoat is person who is blamed/criticized by OTHERS?
JSavant
JSavantJSavant
Possible duplicate of When is a person called a "lightning rod"? – NVZ Jan 16 '17 at 3:36
Actually, their meanings are quite different. Please examine the definitions and explain what you do not understand. – Hot Licks Jan 16 '17 at 3:41
The metaphors are quite different. A scapegoat is a person or personified thing that attracts blame (usually deflecting it from the real culprits); it's entirely social and the metaphor is simply substituting a person for a goat. A lightning rod, on the other hand, attracts electricity, which is metaphorically equivalent to a number of possibilities, most not good -- trouble, danger, unwanted attention, systemic failures, etc. It's a real metaphor, not just a reified social custom like a scapegoat. – John Lawler Jan 16 '17 at 5:01
It's worth noting that a lightning rod doesn't set itself up to draw lightning away from a vulnerable structure. The people who own the vulnerable structure set it up to do that. But a lightning rod is not damaged by a lightning strike—in fact, it's designed to convey the electricity away safely and without damage to itself or the structure. In contrast, though a scapegoat is likewise set up by others who wish it to draw harm away from themselves, the scapegoat may suffer severe damage as a result. So a lightning rod passes electricity safely to the neutralizing earth; a scapegoat gets zapped. – Sven Yargs Jan 16 '17 at 8:47
A scapegoat does not attract anything. A person who is a scapegoat is ****used**** by someone else as the object of blame of some condition. – Lambie Jan 16 '17 at 14:31
A scapegoat is someone who is maliciously used by others as the person to be blamed/criticized, thereby deflecting blame from the actual guilty parties. The term derives from the practice of assigning ones sins to a goat (and then slaughtering it), in biblical times.
A lightning rod intentionally attracts blame/criticism, without the need for others to direct the blame. The term (obviously) derives from the grounded metal rods placed atop buildings to protect them from lightning.
(Interestingly, real lightning rods do not generally "attract" lightning, but rather cause the air around them to become deionized, making lightning much less likely to strike. But few non-technical people understand this. (Would that the figurative lightning rods had this same effect.))
An outspoken, politically-biased news commentator might be a lightning rod (and may actually enjoy the attention), while a earnest reporter who reports the truth in an unbiased fashion might be "scape-goated" by others for simply reporting some unpleasant facts. (And the "round up the usual suspects" form of law enforcement is also a scape-goating practice.)
In both cases the individual (or organization/agency/whatever) is receiving blame, but in one case there is intent is on the part of the blamed party to attract blame while in the other case there is malicious intent on the part of the blaming party (or some third party "blowing a dog whistle") to misdirect the blame.
thank you this seems to be the most helpful and detailed answer to me (unless someone disagrees and can make a comment here). I accept it as answer, thank you. – JSavant Jan 16 '17 at 22:49
In a comment, John Lawler said:
The metaphors are quite different.
A scapegoat is a person or personified thing that attracts blame (usually deflecting it from the real culprits); it's entirely social and the metaphor is simply substituting a person for a goat.
A lightning rod, on the other hand, attracts electricity, which is metaphorically equivalent to a number of possibilities, most not good -- trouble, danger, unwanted attention, systemic failures, etc. It's a real metaphor, not just a reified social custom like a scapegoat.
Sorry, but are we now posting other's comments as answers? This is just a question. :) – Lambie Jan 16 '17 at 14:39
@Lambie this is what we sometimes do to preserve good quality answers posted in comments. I don't gain any rep from it. See that it's marked as community wiki. :) – NVZ Jan 16 '17 at 14:43
@Lambie it's done mostly when the answer-in-comment is by John Lawler or other experts. See: english.stackexchange.com/a/368363/50044 – NVZ Jan 16 '17 at 14:52
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Are words from other languages(especially European ones) also appropriated in the English language, like they do in case of Hindi/Sanskrit?
I observe that there are many words in Hindi/Sanskrit, the pronunciation of which, are appropriated by the International(especially US) English speaking crowd, for example:-
Ramayan
etc.(Believe me, there are many, it's just that they are not coming on my mind right now)
I think that words from other languages(especially European ones) are not appropriated in such ways that their entire pronunciation changes drastically.
Am I wrong? Are they?
loanwords foreign-phrases
aparente001
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The pronunciation of yoga hasn’t really changed that much – the biggest difference is that Classical Sanskrit would have had [ɔː] where English has a diphthong [oʊ] or [əʊ] (and remember that Skt. /o/ comes from earlier /əʊ/, essentially the same). I also don’t think ramayan and mahabharat are common enough to be called English words. I’ve certainly never heard either before. Pajamas and juggernaut may be better examples. And yes, loan words from all languages get butchered in all languages – that’s part and parcel of different languages having differing phonetic inventories. – Janus Bahs Jacquet Feb 16 '19 at 20:09
It's not clear what you're actually asking. Are you stating that some foreign words end up in English and their pronunciation remains mostly the same? Or are you stating that their pronunciation changes? And, whichever you believe is true, are you asking if that's appropriate? Or why that should be? – Jason Bassford Supports Monica Feb 16 '19 at 20:17
There are lots from Spanish that have get butchered, sorry, severely altered, in English. How about "guerilla warfare"? In English, "guerilla" sounds completely different from the original. Also there are tons from French (e.g. lingerie) and German (see Chris's answer). – aparente001 Feb 16 '19 at 22:36
Pick just about any English word. Consult a site like Etymology Online to find its origin. What do you see? – Hot Licks Feb 16 '19 at 23:10
Karma is one religious word that we use, probably with a very distorted meaning compared to the original. Thug is another widely used loan-word from Hindi. – The Photon Feb 17 '19 at 16:09
The English language has appropriated a great many European words and then changed the pronunciation of them. What immediately comes to mind are niche (usually pronounced as "nitch" instead of "neesh"), Reich ("Rike"), Gesundheit ("Gheesoontight") and Kindergarten ("Kindergarden").
The reasons are obvious: it is difficult for native English-speakers to pronounce certain sounds that are recurrent in other languages. The throat muscles, the placement of the tongue -- you have to practically retrain your body. On the other hand, it is difficult for native German-speakers to tackle words like excel, dust bowl, figure or things, so they come up with their own way of pronouncing these words comfortably when they use them in speeches about IoT or some such.
Chris W.Chris W.
I would take psychology out of your list because it wasn't brought over untouched. – aparente001 Feb 16 '19 at 22:34
@aparente001 you're right, psychology is actually anglicized -- though I do find it interesting that English is one of the few languages that ignores p's in words like psyche or pterodactyl. – Chris W. Feb 17 '19 at 15:52
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There was almost a Home Alone sequel... with Kevin McAllister as an adult?
Home Alone and the sequel, Home Alone 2: Lost In New York are childhood classics that couldn't possibly be replicated.
For one, Child Services would almost definitely take Kevin McAllister into custody. Leaving a child, home alone, while the parents are in Paris? Or Miami, as it was in the second one? No. Not in this climate.
However, director Chris Columbus did toy with the idea, albeit briefly, of an updated version.
In a recent interview, he noodled the idea of an adult Kevin McAllister and his son being in a similar predicament.
"This was talked about maybe 10 years ago - I don’t know, we were just having fun with it - and we said, 'What if Kevin is an adult and he has a kid?' But it was still Pesci and Stern - Pesci and Stern are still obsessed with this kid. They’re going to get his kid."
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Plus, they're kinda describing the plot to Panic Room, minus the Panic Room.
Except Macaulay Culkin is Jodie Foster and whoever they get to play young McAllister is Jodie Foster. They could get Chris Pratt to play the Panic Room.
In all seriousness, the threat of Home Alone reboot is quite real. When quizzed about it, Columbus said that a potential remake is "a matter of a year or two or three years... it's going to happen, I don't know it's going to happen."
He didn't sound terribly jazzed about the idea, but we can understand why. It's of its time.
It's like when Robert Zemeckis said there'd be a Back To The Future reboot over his dead body. Quite literally as he had a clause of that magnitude written into his contract.
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These are the crunch issues for the 2019-2024 EU commission
By Jan Techau
Berlin, 18. Sep 2019, 08:48
Audiences should always be cautious when think tankers claim that it's crunch time.
Crunch time has often been announced, following the time-tested rule that a think tanker can never really lose money by selling doom and gloom or by over-dramatising the one little idea that happens to be floating around in his head.
Jan Techau is a senior fellow and director of the Europe Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). (Photo: German Marshall Fund)
The need to sell ideas in a noisy market has created a cry-wolf problem: totally mega-decisive make-or-break turns of events are announced at least twice a week, so no one will listen anymore when one of those moments is actually for real. This is the general mood that seems to prevail in Europe today.
We have had too many crises over the last decade, so please leave us alone with all this talk about the next big super critical thing.
But as we are heading into the next European Commission's five-year term, it's actually true.
There is almost no aspect of how Europe is constituted today that will not put to the test in an extreme way over the next half decade.
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And this is not just because of a possible second Trump term in office which would fall neatly into this time frame. Most of these developments would happen anyway, regardless of whether Trump stays in the White House or not. Let's have a look at what's at stake.
First, the continent's nuclear balance is out of whack.
After the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty's demise, land-based intermediate range missiles can be legally owned again in Europe.
Russia already has them deployed in Europe, and it is likely to increase its stockpile while the US, the erstwhile balancer of Russian missile threats, has already announced it will not install these kinds of systems in Europe to re-establish parity.
Nato's response has been very cautious, and so a deterrence and credibility problem has emerged for the old West that nobody really seems to be willing to address.
This makes European countries susceptible to Russian nuclear blackmailing.
Nato's underlying idea, that European and American security are one indivisible thing, seems to be out of the window. Strategic uncoupling across the Atlantic has already happened, and nobody except Mr Putin seems to care much.
This will come back to haunt the Europeans. A European nuclear debate will follow, and with it a fundamental debate on the entire security architecture of Europe.
The timid attempts by the Europeans "to do more on defence" via Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO), Coordinated Annual Review on Defence (CARD) or a new DG Defence in the commission will look like child's play compared to the strategic questions that will emerge over the next five years.
The combined trends of American disinterest in Europe and China's rather massive investment (Chinese money is political money) in the Old World will undermine what's left of European strategic unity, if there ever was such a thing.
The early signs are visible today.
Macron vs Merkel?
France and Germany are drifting apart on the Russia issue, and the reason for it is China.
President Emmanuel Macron believes that in order to counterbalance China's growing influence, a European rapprochement to Russia is inevitable, a view violently shared by the Kremlin.
While it is certainly true that something needs to be done to counter China's attempts to become a veto player in EU politics, it is not clear that one should choose a partner who himself is only too willing to eat Europe's lunch.
Germany, in the meantime, prefers to stay in its deep strategic snooze, frantically clinging to a status quo that no longer exists.
Berlin seems to be unwilling to think a new geopolitical reality in Europe, let alone pay for a forceful answer to it.
So Paris in its ill-conceived solo dabbling in big-power politics can't even be blamed. The only EU power France could lean on is neither available as a critical balancer, nor as a force multiplier.
The European strategic market is open, and who will own it in the absence of a distracted America or the Europeans themselves will be decided over the next five years.
Add to these bigger strategic concerns a big one on economic governance.
Euro wounded
The EU's partially-shared currency, the euro, remains an open wound that serves more to illustrate European divisions than its unity.
The genius of the currency is that, as foreseen and intended by its founders, it creates the pressure to unify the EU politically. Joint fiscal policies including transfers are inevitable if the euro is ever to function properly.
But Germany and a cadre of northern European allies refuses to even talk about this problem, partially for a lack of trust in their southern European counterparts, partly because of cowardice vis-à-vis their own nervous populations.
As a recession is near, and with ECB monetary policy being a spent force, the incomplete integration project called the euro will pose a fundamental question to the Europeans over the next five years: will they truly want to create political unity where economic integration dictates it, or not?
So far, a good economic run after the 2008 crisis made it possible to dodge the issue. This time is over now.
Migration woes
No smart solution on migration is in sight.
Neither border protection, nor a shared asylum policy, nor a replacement of the Dublin agreement, nor a system for acceptable burden sharing are in place.
The political willingness to move on any of these is limited in Europe, to say the least.
But with the Turkey deal being increasingly wobbly, and demographic trends in both the Middle East and Africa creating additional migratory pressures, this issue is likely to resurface forcefully over the next five years, with all the known consequences for Europe's already hyper-charged domestic tensions.
And to add another spritz of political juice to the already potent mix, international trade, one of the EU's strong sides, is undergoing fundamental change, and the fourth industrial revolution built around super-fast computing, networks and artificial intelligence is, for the most part, bypassing Europe.
These developments will largely determine who will be running the world in the coming decades and perhaps generations. If the Europeans can't find an answer over the five years, they will be toast. And we haven't even mentioned climate change yet.
Finally, to top it all off, let's assume that Europe will get its act together and do all kinds of dramatic reforms to avoid turning crunch time into crush time.
This would likely entail massive political integration in fields that so far remain largely outside of the EU's old integration logic. Foreign policy, defence, the currency, perhaps social Europe.
This would require new forms of participation for EU citizens in European decision-making. It is unthinkable to continue deep integration without also politicising the participatory process, a development that would change the role of nation states in the EU fundamentally.
A big democracy question is looming for the EU, especially if the bloc does what's necessary to survive. One can only imagine the turmoil it will create, in addition to all the other beautiful challenges listed earlier.
Of course, not all of these developments will come to a conclusion over the next five years.
But in all of them the decisive moves will have to be made within that period. It is indeed crunch time in Europe. But you would not know it from they way the public debates unfold.
Jan Techau is a senior fellow and director of the Europe Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF).
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author's, not those of EUobserver.
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Addressing digital health literacy is essential to avoid widening health inequalities
In a step towards ensuring that the development of digital health leaves no one behind and benefits the most vulnerable, EuroHealthNet and the Portuguese Directorate-General of Health have drawn conclusions on how national public health bodies can strengthen digital health literacy following an expert meeting. The growth of digital health is rapid and unstoppable. It brings many advantages, but threatens to exacerbate existing health inequalities experienced by people who have lower levels of digital health literacy.
Digital health literacy is the ability to seek, find, understand, and appraise health information from electronic sources and apply the knowledge gained to addressing or solving a health problem[1]. People who are digitally health literate are able to have a more active role in achieving their health potential. Inclusive digital health services can lead to improved prevention, awareness of healthier lifestyle behaviours, and overall improvement in health outcomes throughout the life-course.
However, people with lower socio-economic backgrounds, people experiencing vulnerabilities, or people in old age may struggle to keep up with technological advancements.
“The growth of digital health risks widening health inequalities. Specific strategies are needed to address digital health literacy and Portugal is keen to help design and implement evidence based practice” says Graça Freitas, Directorate-General of Health in Portugal.
“Improving digital health literacy must be central to all European efforts on enabling the digital transformation of health care, as well as to health promotion efforts to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” says Caroline Costongs, EuroHealthNet Director.
Last week EuroHealthNet and the Portuguese Directorate-General of Health held an expert workshop on digital health litteracy. National and international specialists discussed intersectoral approaches and identified a range of strategies and good practices for national public health bodies to take up. Examples that were highlighted are the Portuguese SNS24 health platform using various channels for engagement, DIGI-UNG a Norwegian online platform that offers integrated services including health for young people age 13-20, and a Dutch ‘4 steps to eHealth4All’ model from Pharos which not only helps to develop comprehensible and easy to use digital tools but also enables local partners in prevention and care to implement them within local infrastructures.
Recognising the sense of urgency to advance digital health literacy as a means to improve health for all, the participating experts encourage leadership to implement the following recommendations:
The future is happening now! Increase awareness about digital health literacy; advance capacity building and training of health professionals in this area;
Include co-creation with citizens from different backgrounds as part of guidelines for the design, implementation and evaluation of digital health solutions;
Provide an approach to enable inclusive digital health solutions to be taken up widely across Europe, develop an EU Joint Action on Digital Health Literacy, a knowledge hub to share results and facilitate networking and learning;
Create a framework and guidelines for health equity impact assessment and cost effectiveness of digital health services. Design a repository for easy to use, effective and reliable eHealth tools;
Develop EU regulation on search engines; monitor the commercial determinants of health on the internet and select the appropriate type of regulations;
Promote technological citizenship and advance critical digital health literacy during the life course (on eHealth, resilience towards digital marketing, understanding pros and cons of big data in schools and wider education);
Always ensure interdisciplinary cooperation, action on digital health literacy at all levels (national, regional, local, community levels) and tailored to the needs of divers groups to avoid widening health inequalities.
[1] https://www.who.int/global-coordination-mechanism/working-groups/digital_hl.pdf
EuroHealthNet is the leading Partnership for Health, Equity and Wellbeing in Europe, with key activities in policy, practice as well as research. Its unique focus is on reducing health inequalities through action on the social determinants of health, integrating sustainable development goals, and contributing to the transformation of health systems. Its main members are authorities and statutory bodies responsible for public health, health promotion and disease prevention at national, regional and local level.
Background notes and report of the Expert Workshop will become available soon.
A policy Precis about health equity and mHealth is available here.
The Directorate-General of Health regulate, guide and coordinate activities to promote health and disease prevention, defining the technical conditions for providing adequate health care, plan and program the national policy for quality in the health system and ensure the development and implementation the National Health Plan and also the coordination of international relations of the Ministry of Health.
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Meet the CSTB at Equipbaie 2018
The CSTB guides industry stakeholders as they mobilize for the quality, sustainability and comfort of buildings. From November 20th to 23rd, experts from the CSTB's Windows & Glazing as well as Safety, Structures & Fire Performance departments will be at the Equipbaie international trade fair in Paris, at Porte de Versailles.
Behind the scenes at the Silver BIM Awards 2018: the Jardins de l'Arche Tower in La Défense with the CSTB
The winner of the Silver BIM Award 2018, the Jardins de l'Arche tower in La Défense, will feature three hotels, offices and an observation platform at the top, by 2022. With its 54 floors, standing 200 meters high, this project won in the category of new construction projects with an area of more than 40,000 square meters.
The CSTB Wins Prize in French Construction Awards (Trophées de la Construction) 2018
Online service of the CSTB: SED Express won a prize in the French Construction Awards 2018, organized on September 12, 2018 by Batiactu in partnership with the SMA Group.
The CSTB's 2017 Activity Report
Through interviews, highlights and featured topics, the CSTB's 2017 Activity Report takes stock of the year's accomplishments and sets the stage for actions and projects to come.
The CSTB awaits you at BATIMAT, November 6-10, 2017
The CSTB awaits you at BATIMAT for a week of appointments, talks and demonstrations. CSTB experts will be present every day to inform and advise stakeholders in the building sector, with a focus on the major challenges facing the industry, and the CSTB’s specialist areas: digital technology, energy and environmental performance, innovation, health & comfort in buildings, materials and equipment, etc.
The offering of the CSTB: ATEx and regulatory flexibility
On June 21, the CSTB organized a day-long event to guide stakeholders in innovation. A round table discussion focused on innovation in connection with the regulatory flexibility recently proposed for the construction industry. In order to support stakeholders, the CSTB is expanding the scope of the Technical Experimentation Assessment (ATEx) to new solutions that have been developed, based on the regulatory flexibility that has made it possible to use means other than those described in the regulations.
3rd Ifop-CSTB innovation survey: environmental performance, a driver for innovation by construction VSEs and SMEs
The 3rd survey conducted by the Ifop for the CSTB among construction companies of less than 500 employees (VSE/SME) confirms the importance of innovation in the view of company directors, especially innovations that improve energy performance and reduce the environmental impact of materials.
The CSTB Info Day for VSEs, SMEs and construction professionals
The CSTB organizes an information day about its innovation support services to help companies prepare for increasingly open markets. The Info Day brings together construction professionals with partners of the Réseau National d’Accompagnement (National Support Network) and CSTB experts.
Activity report 2015: challenges and advances of the CSTB
Anticipating the challenges of the future brought by the digital and energy transition, guiding innovative companies with their projects and supporting the improvement of quality in construction: the CSTB is continuing to pursue its policy of openness and modernization to durably improve the living environment of all.
NF-certified windows exclusively on BFM TV and online, starting on March 7
The CSTB, the FCBA (French Technology Institute for Forestry, Cellulose, Wood Construction and Furniture) and the UFME (French Association of Exterior Door and Window Frame Manufacturers), are launching their communication campaign on NF-certified windows.
Speed meetings with innovative VSEs and SMEs
“I have a new product, what should I do to have it certified?” Although the same question is asked by all construction professionals, it reflects many different needs. In particular, it was heard frequently during discussions between innovative VSEs and SMEs and experts during the speed meetings of the CSTB and its partners on November 5 at the BATIMAT trade show.
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Beira Grande Hotel, Hell with 5 Stars
Built in 1954, the Beira Grande Hotel was once the most luxurious hotel in Africa The giant complex had around 120 suites, a cinema, an Olympic swimming pool, a helicopter pad, restaurants, a bank, a post office - it was a city in itself. Since shutting down, this colonial
dream has become a nightmare. After being used initially as military
base during the civil war, the squatters moved in. Thousands of impoverished people now crowd the Grande Hotel, it being the only place they can find shelter. The living conditions are atrocious.
Drugs, disease, and trash are ubiquitous. People have removed much
of the plumbing, electrical, windows and even concrete to sell on the black market. This weakens the building but provides them with another meal. The parquet floor was used as fuel for cooking, so all
that is left now is the cold, unwelcoming structure they call home. Children play around open elevator shafts with no elevator in sight.
"No one knows when the building is going to collapse,
" says one resident, Its going to collapse on top of our poverty"
Despite the abhorrent conditions, there is an element on community here. All are poor, but poor together. Newcomers are always welcome and mutual respect is one of the few laws in this house of misery.
It was really the pinnacle of luxury, meant for wealthy businessmen and tourists. For its massive size, 120 rooms is really not much. Turns out there was no demand so they shut it down in 1963. It never made a profit. After closing, the pool still remained open. The Mozambican Olympic Swimming Team trained there. Now it used by inhabitants for bathing or washing laundry. After the civil war, it became a refugee camp. The people who live there have mostly emigrated from the mine-filled countryside. As of 2008, it housed 1,077 inhabitants with large families sharing one room. Now there is between 2,000 and 3,000 inhabitants about 350 families. They occupy not only the rooms
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Eric Lafforgue hotel Africa travel
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Erratum to: Measurement of forward J/ψ production cross-sections in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV (JHEP, (2015), 10, (172), 10.1007/JHEP10(2015)172)
The Lhcb Collaboration
An issue has been identified in the simulated samples used to calculate the track reconstruction efficiencies, which affects the published J/ψ production cross-section in pp collisions at √s = 13TeV [1]. A brief description of the nature of the problem is provided and then the corrected results are given.
Journal of High Energy Physics
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2017)063
The Lhcb Collaboration (2017). Erratum to: Measurement of forward J/ψ production cross-sections in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV (JHEP, (2015), 10, (172), 10.1007/JHEP10(2015)172). Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017(5), [63]. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2017)063
Erratum to : Measurement of forward J/ψ production cross-sections in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV (JHEP, (2015), 10, (172), 10.1007/JHEP10(2015)172). / The Lhcb Collaboration.
In: Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2017, No. 5, 63, 01.05.2017.
The Lhcb Collaboration 2017, 'Erratum to: Measurement of forward J/ψ production cross-sections in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV (JHEP, (2015), 10, (172), 10.1007/JHEP10(2015)172)', Journal of High Energy Physics, vol. 2017, no. 5, 63. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2017)063
The Lhcb Collaboration. Erratum to: Measurement of forward J/ψ production cross-sections in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV (JHEP, (2015), 10, (172), 10.1007/JHEP10(2015)172). Journal of High Energy Physics. 2017 May 1;2017(5). 63. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2017)063
The Lhcb Collaboration. / Erratum to : Measurement of forward J/ψ production cross-sections in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV (JHEP, (2015), 10, (172), 10.1007/JHEP10(2015)172). In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2017 ; Vol. 2017, No. 5.
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Reddit is a social network platform that allows users to discuss and vote on content. Most of the content on Reddit's site are User Generated Content (UGC). Reddit is ranking as the No. 5 most visited website in U.S.
"Karen" ended up getting caught up in the quite the shady business practice. Apparently, she had been disregarding and shredding employees leave requests. Fortunately, the CEO was around to catch Karen in the act, and ended up making it right. Karen, ended up getting fired.
Tutor Maliciously Targets Students, Ends Up Getting Taken Down
Sounds like this terrible tutor was proactively trying to maliciously target students, but they banded together to form an army and fight back. Got to love the sweet and satisfying ending when the tutor ends up being the one who has to be "creepy nice" to the very students that they were gunning for.
Guy's Friend Says She's Out Of His League, He Claps Back
This guy asked the people of Reddit whether or not he was a jerk for clapping back against his friend who said she was out of his league. He proceeded to meet that statement by telling her that she "wasn't that pretty." People seem to be of the opinion that everyone kind of sucks here.
Jerk Manager Ruins Childhood Game Store, Ends Up Getting Fired
If you're going to be a rude manager and proceed to ruin someone's favorite childhood game store, you better be ready for them to retaliate. In this case, the retaliation was swift and brutal. Looks like the rude manager is going to be fresh on the job hunt!
Concierge For Super Rich People Dishes Out Juiciest Stories
A self-proclaimed concierge for the rich and "super rich" took to Reddit to share some of his juiciest stories from his time spent working the job. Whether it's witnessing the super rich get away with all kinds of ridiculous depravity, or enjoying the benefits of insanely large tips....you definitely end up seeing some things.
Bridezilla Tells Newly Engaged Woman She Can't Wear Ring
This bridezilla is about as petty as it gets! She was so desperate to direct all the attention her way that she ended up being her own worst enemy. Gotta love it when a crappy plan absolutely backfires.
Airbnb Host Demands Guest Showers Before Using Bed
What a bizarre predicament to find yourself in while you're just trying to crash at an Airbnb. This 26-year-old dude shared the actual handwritten note that he received from his host. Apparently they were all kinds of fired up over him having a strong odor.
Guy Gets Back At Girl Who Uses Him
When this guy found out that he was getting played by a woman who apparently had a reputation for using other guys, he decided to go about taking a little revenge. Specifically, he gets back at her by leaving her with a massive dinner bill.
Student Takes Epic Pro Revenge On Lazy Classmate
This student had had enough of their lazy classmate bringing them down. So, they executed just the kind of A+ pro revenge that ultimately resulted in complete and utter destruction for their lazy classmate. Group projects really bring out the worst in people.
Woman Tells Stranger At Funeral That Her Outfit Was Inappropriate
This woman asked the people of Reddit whether or not she was in the wrong for telling a stranger that her outfit for the funeral was inappropriate. It sounds like they were alone when she had her outfit called out. So, any embarrassment felt was probably diminished by that factor. Even then, it can be pretty brutal to have someone call out what you're wearing as inappropriate.
Guy Causes $3K Of Damage With $4 Worth Of Ice
Never underestimate the destructive power of a bag of wild ice left to create chaos in the back of your very nice car. This person ended up enduring quite the regrettable situation with a measly bag of ice. Apparently, it ended up resulting in thousands of dollars worth of damage.
Bride Uninvites Wedding Guests Over Bad Weather
This enraged bridezilla had a bit of a meltdown over a case of bad weather. She went so far as to uninvite the guests to the actual wedding, who missed her bridal shower, due to a severe snowstorm. Someone needs to take a minute and calm the hell down!
Toxic Bar Owner Gets Outed By Employee To The Tune Of $50,000
This bar owner sounds like they were an absolute nightmare to be around. Not only were they walking around with a complete disregard for how one is supposed to legally run a bar, but they eventually fired an employee over a whole load of BS. Fortunately, the employee kept their wits about them, and ended up getting the bar shut down, due to all the BS that was occurring.
Bride Demands Brother Change Appearance To Look Less Like The Groom
It sounds like this particular predicament is all kinds of strange. Apparently the bride was demanding her brother alter his appearance so that he looked less like the groom. Uh, yikes. What the hell is that about?
Blessed Images To Light Up The World With Wholesome
We're back at it again with a fresh collection of blessed images that have an unfailing ability to just bring on the good feels. In such strange and troubling times, it can be nice to take a break from the steady stream of fails, to appreciate some blessed images that are filled to the brim with pure goodness.
Wife Turns WiFi Off If Husband Uses Bathroom Too Long
Sounds like Dad was using the bathroom too long for his wife's liking. So, she decided to take matters into her own hands and turn off the WiFi if his bathroom usage exceeded a certain timeframe. The wife decided to ask the people of Reddit whether or not she was in the wrong for doing this.
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We are beset on all sides by the tyranny of bad CEIAG reports
“say jobs of the future again, I dare you, I double dare you”
A lot of reports get published that look at the state of CEIAG provision for young people in the UK and offer improvement ideas. As well as policy makers there are a vast number of stakeholder organisations in this arena and across areas such as social mobility, apprenticeships, vocational education that all overlap with Careers Advice. Some of these organisations are more upfront in the policy ambitions of their backers than others but all have found that publishing a report is a proven method of gaining those all important media column inches if you want to advance your agenda.
Some sink, never to pass over the desks of Ministers while others take center stage in shaping Government thinking. The quality spectrum of these reports is wide and two came out recently that, to my mind, should be filed at the weaker end of the publication pool.
First up came Beyond the Numbers: Incentivising & implementing better apprenticeships from the University of Sheffield. Branded under their “Sheffield Solutions” research arm, the publication was based on a number of interviews with
local and national stakeholders in education, training and youth services, staff members – including tutors, trainers and employers
views from apprentices which were collected from
two focus groups and a number of in-depth, semi-structured interviews
as well as previous publications. The report includes quotes and stories that rehash the cliches of school CEIAG’s relationship to apprenticeships, including a lack of information regarding alternative to HE routes, a belief that apprenticeships were treated as a second class pathway and that high achieving pupils were actively discouraged from applying for them. The actual application figures of young people compared to the opportunities on offer, isn’t considered.
Where the report really falls down though is in it’s recommendations for schools
Rethinking school league tables to include apprenticeships – this already happens. When you go the DfE school comparison site you can find individual school data through school name, distance to your postcode, through Local Authority area or through Parliamentary Constituency. Users can then scroll down past huge amounts of information about the school to find the Pupil Destinations – what pupils did after key stage 4 drop down menu and, hey presto, there is that information.
You can also find this data about key stage 5 leavers on the 16-18 tab further up the page.
Apprenticeship destination information is a single drop on a website that is an ocean of information about each school from the number of teachers, to the performance of disadvantaged pupils, to the number of pupils entered in Physics, Biology and Chemistry. Data on pupils remaining in education or employment after leaving the school is included in the headline data
but the sheer amount of other information means that users are left to navigate to find what is important to them.
2. Extra training and resources for Careers Advisers in school about apprenticeships – nobody is ever going to say ‘no’ to more resources or extra training which is why the DfE has contracted organisations across the country to offer this to schools. The provider across the Midlands is Workpays. They will come into school to offer provision for students, send you resources and offer training. The DfE has a page with resources for schools and advisers and the ASK (Apprenticeship Support & Knowledge) providers will come and offer events for students. The University of Sheffield is, again, recommending something that already exists.
3. Coordinated, single application process for apprenticeships – Guess what, it already exists. Find An Apprenticeship is not a great website (it’s text search is terrible) but it is a single, coordinated portal for apprenticeships. All of the apprenticeships, they’re all on there. What it is not though is a single application process as many apprenticeship vacancies require an applicant to click through to the employer website to register (again) and complete an application. This is something that is out of the hands of Government as many employers will insist on their own hiring methods that are standardized across their business for all job roles. This is part of the challenge when supporting a young person through a labyrinth registration process on a company website full of business jargon but it fits established employer HR practices.
So all three of the recommendations for education are, to some extent, already in place which highlights how, while diagnosing problems with CEIAG provision may be achievable, offering solutions requires more a real understanding of the landscape.
The other report that caught my attention was Averting a 90Bn GDP crises: A report on the image and recruitment crises facing the built environment carried out by Kier Group by polling “2000 secondary school teachers, advisers and parents.” The Group, a profitable player in the UK construction market, look very keen to play their part in improving student career advice by pledging 1% of their workforce to act as ambassadors and place a “virtual world plaque” on sites to help the public “explore a digital world of information on a project.” They hope that these initiatives will begin to change widely held views of their industry as their poll reports 73% of parents not wanting their child to pursue a career in the sector and, despite 76% knowing that apprenticeships lead to careers in construction, 45% wouldn’t encourage their child to take an apprenticeship when leaving school. To it’s credit the report gives context to the current CEIAG landscape by devoting a whole page the loss of funding and the placing of the legal duty on schools in 2012.
Where the report fails to offer much value is, again, in the recommended solutions, both those from within the construction industry and from government, to improve the situation. Despite clearly identifying that parents are a persuasive and influential negative voice against young people aspiring to work in their industry they suggest nothing to then engage with parents. That parents are an important voice in shaping the career views of a young person is backed up by other data and we also have clear indications of how young people would like to receive their CEIAG and what types of provision help them most. An important type of provision is work experience and workplace visits, the report also fails to acknowledge or offer a proposal to grow the dearth of these opportunities in the sector.
The 1% workforce ambassador pledge will hopefully, from a very low base, improve the number of work inspiration opportunities.
From Government they ask that the Careers & Enterprise Company is allowed to continue it’s work (it will be so this isn’t much of recommendation) and
2. Mandate that every school gives children a minimum of three one hour careers advice sessions – the first session with a school advisor, follow up sessions with ambassadors from relevant industries.
3. Ensuring the frameworks and resources are in place to support schools and colleges to meet all of the eight benchmarks identified by the Gatsby Foundation14 for best practice careers advice
4. Mandate that the careers advice process begins as early as possible in a young person’s life to enable them to make informed choices about their subject/course selection
which are all useful and worthwhile suggestions but after earlier acknowledging that
as part of the difficult choices made through austerity measures, funding for Connexions was cut, leaving a significant responsibility largely resting with schools themselves
and that
given substantial and repeated budget cuts, other schools are unable to provide the kind of service that they would aspire to
the report fails to then include the obvious point that these (uncosted) increases in service provision would require more funding. This shows a lack of willingness to bring up the funding of public services for the wider benefit and a failure to acknowledge the financial reality in schools.
Reports that help shine attention to the issues with employer engagement and CEIAG in schools but also then offer constructive solutions that work within the realities of the landscape are to be welcomed. Reports that finger point at a Careers service under funded and unable to solve all of the problems laid at it’s door without significant collaboration and investment, only have one purpose; to shift the focus of blame away from the other stakeholders.
Posted in CEIAG Policy, Employer Engagement and tagged apprenticeship, Careers Entreprise Company, destination statistics, dfe, Gatbsy Foundation, kier group, policy, Sheffield University, work experience, Workpays on September 25, 2017 by fecareersiag. Leave a comment
A picture collection: Bored students at Careers events
Getting CEIAG events organised, planned and running is no mean feat. You’ve done all of the prep work, you’ve booked the guests months in advance, managed to find a free room and then held off other members of staff trying to see if they can pinch it at the last-minute, you’ve reserved a parking space, smoothed things over with the lesson teachers that will have to supervise pupils a little over excited that something different is happening and then, the time arrives.
Your Careers event is finally taking place.
Perhaps a member of the Senior Team pops their head in and agrees that “it’s very important that they think of their futures, isn’t it,” perhaps the speaker isn’t as jovial or attention grabbing in front of the rows of hard to impress teenagers as they were in your planning meeting, perhaps the TA you were promised is off sick without cover and you…well, you just want everything to go well. You would like the pupils to get something positive from the event, for the feedback sheets to show they’ve taken something in and begun to reflect on their own future but it would also just be great if you could get a quick photo for the school website to show parents and the world that Careers work does happen here. Now you just need to find those interested looking faces to take a quick pic…
Classic “is this really going to last till break miss?” face on the young lady
Over 30,000 Young People in Wales Set to Develop their Skills | @BITCCymru https://t.co/KQb0hVY6Kp pic.twitter.com/ioSW32j2jI
— Business News Wales (@WalesBusiness) July 27, 2017
Never snap when the 2am GTA streaming session is about to show itself in a yawn (bottom right 2nd pic)
"@DYWDundee: S1 @stpaulsdundee are working with @LifeSkills_Ed this morning! #MathsWeekScotland pic.twitter.com/4zSSuqtRCi" What a morning!
— Sarah Donnelly (@SarahDwork) September 12, 2017
A classic example of the “always frame it to miss out the back row kids” rule
Our second #NCW2016 session today. This time at @kirkleescollege speaking to BTEC students. #apprenticeships #jobs pic.twitter.com/Xtfn4yrNZu
— Fourteen19® (@fourteen19) March 11, 2016
“Sir! I said don’t take a photo!”
Year 10 are joining the @BigAssembly #NCW2017 #GetInGoFar pic.twitter.com/kH6GCjl3IY
— WMG Academy (@WMGAcademy) March 7, 2017
Add your own examples in the comments, none of us have been immune to the odd sour face messing up a photo of a great CEIAG event. Once, on a trip to a Russell Group University, I had a Year 10 flat-out refuse to take part in the group photo at the end of the day and went and stood by the car. The rest of group soon followed which meant I had a full on strike on my hands and had no photo for an expectant Headteacher looking for a good news story when we got back. I hope you enjoy your start to the new school year and are planning lots of exciting CEIAG events for teenagers to look nonplussed in.
Posted in Careers & WRL lessons, Employer Engagement and tagged employer engagement, marketing on September 13, 2017 by fecareersiag. 1 Comment
The apprenticeship PR still doesn’t match the vacancy numbers reality
Every summer, the news cycle shines its brief gaze on the exam results of our nation’s youth and those you wish to promote their specific routes for young people attempt to gain PR traction usually by doing down the other pathways on offer. This summer I found it noticeable the extent articles and headlines blamed poor careers advice specifically in relation for a perceived lack of interest or knowledge in young people about apprenticeships.
A number of articles highlighted the results of an online survey conducted by YouGov on behalf of the Electrical Contractors’ Association (ECA) that reported that 8% of 15-18 year olds were being advised to pursue the apprenticeship route and that 28% had never been spoken to by their school or college about apprenticeships. This was picked up by specialist sites such as FE News and mainstream press such as The Mirror. The quoted response from Alex Meikle, the Director of the ECA, was that “too many young people are effectively being led up the garden path by careers advice in schools, which is significantly out of step with the needs of industry and future employers.”
Elsewhere, Labour MP Frank Field was writing in the TES that A Level students had “been sold a pup” by schools and advisers due to the increasing rates of apprentice pay progression and employment opportunities compared to the weakening graduate labour market. The Managing Director of the NOCN, Graham Hastings-Evans, was also in the TES, claiming that it was “not too late” for students let down by poor careers advice to still apply for vocational and apprenticeship routes. And finally, the new Apprenticeships and Skills Minister, Anne Milton, took the opportunity in The Telegraph to promote the route and the Government’s work on the Skills Plan.
All of this attention is welcome for promoting the full variety of routes on offer to young people but, in their haste to do down careers advice as the reason that large numbers of young people are still following traditional paths the writers are conveniently forgetting a number of facts.
Large numbers of secondary school pupils would consider taking vocational routes post 16
2. Significant proportions of young people who want to pursue vocational pathways are battling unsupportive parents (same source)
3. For Level 3 students, the choice of Higher Apprenticeships is miniscule
Using the above data from the GOV.UK FE Data Library we can see that there have only been 3908 Higher Apprenticeship vacancies advertises in the whole 17/18 year to date, 3810 in 15/16 and 2870 in 14/15. So Apprenticeship provision at this level is growing but compare this to the numbers of students transitioning from Level 3 into traditional Higher Education routes. For the 2017 application cycle, just from England the total of 18 & 19 year olds applying for Higher Education was 319,100.
The number of actual live Higher Apprenticeship vacancies in June 2017 when these young people were finishing their education courses or gap years and becoming available to the labour market? 590.
To suggest that young people should take the apprenticeship route to protect against the waning wage benefit of graduate salaries is blindly ignoring the biggest hurdle facing those young people. There are nowhere near enough apprenticeship opportunities at that level for them to pursue.
4. Young people are registering on “Find an Apprenticeship” and applying for Apprenticeships in far greater numbers than the vacancies available
16-18 year olds are by the far the largest age group to register to be able to apply for Apprenticeship vacancies. 254,250 have registered in the year to date so far well on the way to the 280,200 who signed up in 15/16.
This age group has, so far this year, gone on to make 939,630 applications.
5. We know that Apprenticeship employers favour hiring older applicants.
In 2015 Ofsted found that, “Under 19s made 56% of applications but only 27% of starts; 25+ made 7% of applications but 37% of starts” and that employers were reluctant to take on younger apprenticeship applicants as:
They believed too many 16-year-old school leavers lacked personal
presentation and communication skills, or gave the impression at interview
that they were immature and unreliable.
They recognised that employing an apprentice required a significant
investment in time to train them in the generic employability skills and did
not feel they could afford this.
To recap, over a quarter of a millon 16-18 year olds are making over 900,000 applications, going up against 262,970 other 18+ applicants for 169, 290 apprenticeship vacancies.
Let’s go back to those survey figures from the ECA, using the 2016 Schools, Pupils and their Characteristics national tables data we can see that there were 1,549,000 15-18 year olds in English schools last academic year. 8% of this figure is 123,920 pupils that self reported that they were being advised to attempt to secure an apprenticeship. The total number of apprenticeships advertised so far this year is 169,298, so, in reality, the pipeline of young people being advised to take this route is proportionate to the number of vacancies on offer.
All of this shows there is already far greater interest in apprenticeships from that age group than there is base line opportunities. The Director of the ECA, and others, need to acknowledge that the challenge for apprenticeship recruitment for young people is not a lack of awareness or knowledge of the route but
A lack of support with the whole application process from on line form to interview
A lack of work experience building opportunities
A lack of social capital to source opportunities
And that is the work that takes time, qualified staff and funded resources all of which are much more difficult to understand, lobby for or support than just taking the easy option of bashing careers advice for not giving out information.
Posted in CEIAG Policy and tagged Anne Milton, apprenticeships, daily telegraph, Electrical Contractors Association, Employer perspectives survey, Frank Field MP, GCSEs, NOCN, ofsted on September 5, 2017 by fecareersiag. 2 Comments
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Bestowed with honorary doctorates from Gent University and UCL in Belgium, and American University of Paris and Paris Diderot University in France, she has addressed gatherings in major venues of the world like the European Parliament, National Assembly of France, Universities of Sorbonne, Oxford, Harvard, Yale, etc. She got fellowships as a research scholar at Harvard and New York Universities. She was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in the USA in 2009.
Taslima has written 40 books in Bengali, which includes poetry, essays, novels and autobiography series. Her works have been translated in thirty different languages. Some of her books are banned in Bangladesh. Because of her thoughts and ideas she has been banned, blacklisted and banished from Bengal, both from Bangladesh and West Bengal part of India. She has been prevented by the authorities from returning to her country since 1994, and to West Bengal since 2007.
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Sindoor Khela, the celebration of patriarchy
Married Bengali Hindu women celebrated their sindoor or vermilion yesterday. They do it every year. On the last day of Durga puja, women apply sindoor on the goddess’s feet or forehead and then start applying it to all the married women around, smearing each other with it.
Unmarried women or widows are not allowed to celebrate Sindoor Khela.
The main purpose of a married woman to celebrate Sindoor Khela is to be proud of having a husband no matter how pathetic, and worthless stupid he is and to wish a long happy life of the husband.
Married women wear sindoor along the parting-line of their hair. It is one of the many signs of marriage they have to wear.
Hindu widows do not wear sindoor, because their husbands are not alive.
The sindoor gives some kind of social importance to women, only because their husbands are alive. Women are blamed if their husbands die. After husbands die, women are not allowed to wear sindoor or colourful clothes. Their clothes must be white, or colourless, and they must remove all the colours from their bodies, all the happinesses from their minds, all the smiles from their faces, and they must stop eating good nutritious food, fish or meat or protein, and they must look ugly and unattractive and they must die slowly.
A widow is just a nobody or a dead body or a piece of shit. It is not necessary for widows to continue living when they are not able to serve their husbands for which they were born. Once upon a time widows were thrown into husband’s funeral pyres.
Married men do not wear anything to prove that they are married. In patriarchal traditions, men’s lives are more important than women’s lives, and women are treated as nothing but sex objects, inferior beings, child bearing machines, slaves of men. Believe it or not, instead of being rejected, Sindoor Khela the patriarchal festival is becoming popular in urban educated societies. It is very alarming that in some parts of the world, the more educated women become, the more patriarchal traditions they celebrate. Is it because educated ones can learn all kinds of systems including misogynistic much better than uneducated ones?
Amitava Ghosh says
সি”দুর খেলার ছবি সুন্দর ভাবে ফুটিয়ে তুলেছ।যুগ যুগ ধরে মেয়েদের অবদমিত করে রাখার যে প্রচেষ্টা,দূর্গা বরনের সময় তার ব্যাতিক্রম হয় না।অবিবাহিত,বিধবা মহিলারা এই অনুষ্ঠানে অংশ গ্রহন করতে পারে না।
মাতৃ আরাধনায় পা”চদিন চলে যায়।মাতৃ জাতীর দুঃখ,দুর্দশা মোচনের কোন উপায় এই দিন গুলতে বের হয় না।উতসব উদ্দিপনার মধ্যেও নারীকে পরাধীন করে রাখার কি অপরিসীম শিল্প পুরুষ তান্ত্রিক সমাজে চালু আছে তা প্রত্যেক উতসব,অনুষ্ঠানে বারে বারে প্রমাণিত হয়।
Humanbeing20903 says
Most religions are biased against women. The reason for it is that the rule religions impose are very much outdated; male protection might have been needed when the there were no laws.
Some movies I like criticizing some Hinduistic beliefs. 1 ‘Water’. The reaction from religious thugs when that movie was made and released were despicable. They prevented the movie being made halfway through and they vandalized the movie theater when it was produced. The movie was completed in Sri Lanka. 2 ‘Maya’. This movie was shot in India but it is still banned from showing in India. 3. ‘Sita Sings The Blues’. An open-minded look at ‘Ramayan’. 4. ‘Kanchana Sita’. From 1970s. Saw this movie at the Washington Film Institute of the Kennady Center in Washington, DC. 10% into the movie 90% of the Indians walked out of the movie theater. It was about the story in Ramayan where Ram ask Sita to jump into a fire and come back alive. She perishes and Ram takes a tiny piece of gold and says it is his wife now. ‘Gold is pure’ attitude.
About cruelty to women among some Islamic countries: 1. ‘Stoning of Soray M.’ About how the husband orchestrates the murder of his wife who did nothing wrong, her father is offered a lot of money and who throws the first stone when she is buried to her neck in ground and stoned to death. 2. Throwing acid at women is a sport in some.
Men = Women = Men
G3 says
Reg the “educated” vs “uneducated” argument on issues of patriarchy : In recent years I have come to know how the so-called “savages” – native AMericans and similar cultures throughout the world were some of the most egalitarian societies we have come to known with regard to gender relations, if not outright matriarchal. Patriarchy came about after the so-called “civilization” started. How ironic – civilised are misogynist while savages were not. And those “savages” also recognised grey areas in sexual identity – homosexual and what we call today as GLBT (Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender) whereas we the “civilised” still show bigotry (to varying degrees) against those people. Native Americans used the term “two spirits” to recognise non-binary forms of sexual identities. Patriarchy and homophobia goes hand-in-hand.
Katherine Woo says
How come this blog doesn’t get more visitors? It seems the more you wallow in petty fights with other atheists or roar about conservative Christians (how original), the more popular you are. This article is unique and informative. I not only learned something about a completely different culture, but this is another fact to file away for future debates on misogyny or religion.
Sheetal says
The article reeks of a woman who wants to portray herself as a very forward thinking feminist, even at the cost of facts.
The world has come a long way from what it used to be earlier. Hinduism is the oldest religion, so yeah there were a lot of practices that we are not proud of today. They did exist, but are not part of the society anymore. One such is the way widows were treated.
However, putting sindoor here signifies much more than flaunting d fact that one has a husband.
Durga is a Goddess, hence a female. Women may have lost their superiority in Hinduism along the way, but women were always considered sacred. Men would address them as devi/deviji ( goddess). We had this in our culture too. I was born in a society which followed matriarchy, which was curbed post independence by the learned people who made the Constitution!!
Coming back to the topic in hand, in durga festival the females are celebrated. We have kanjaki pooja, where little girls are invited for lunch by those who are fasting. Their feet are washed (a mark of respect) and their blessings taken. Wonder why? Because, these little girls, are durga for them. Similarly, on the last day of pooja, all tge women who are throwing vermilion on each other are considered durga… They are given tge status of the goddess. Now it so happens that in Our culture unmarried women or widows do not wear vermilion. And in the culture, we put vermilion. On durga… Hence the non participation from the other women. But we can always put our point forward in a civil way and argue and get them accepted into this too. The point is to ho bitch about it where it matters.
And oh yeah, men so wear wedding rings as a sign of showing as to being married. Women wear more stuffs like sindoor (not prevalent in some parts of India) and mangalsutra . But now don’t women in general wear more jewellery than men!!!
As for modern India…i don’t wear mangalsutra or my wedding ring daily ( read hardly) but my dear husband does wear his ring dutifully. Oh and no one bothered me much about it .
Ani says
Taslima… I need to talk to you. Can you talk tome once? I am feeling suffocated and need to tell you the things. Please talk to me once!
Ajeeta Khatiwada says
“Believe it or not, instead of being rejected, Sindoor Khela the patriarchal festival is becoming popular in urban educated societies.”
I have noticed this happen in regards to other patriarchal practices too, though I never found any social study on it. Perhaps this speaks volumes about the inefficiencies of our education system in enabling people to think freely. All that present education system seems to be good at is in mass production of “followers” with no brains of their own. Somewhat privileged women are happy being slaves of patriarchy because at superficial level they benefit from it too. While they are happy voluntarily choosing to keep their husband’s last name, putting an end to their career to raise kids or enrolling their infant daughters in beauty pageant, numerous other women die of gender related violence or are deprived of basic human rights by the same patriarchal institution they are helping get stronger. I seriously feel terrified seeing present education system do nothing significant to change the status of women.
Durga Puja 2014 says
Great snaps of Sindoor Khela Photos
Prodip says
I saw ,our Hindu women’s are encouraging ,especially who are growing up with modern elements including higher education,but all this nomadic performance beneath. Even mens don’t bother them properly in the family life , but they worship their god for the immense development for their husband. They are the so-called awaken dupes by their social customs. And women’s are the enemy of them,one more time it has come in the scene truly.
Sandeep says
Marking a woman’s forehead with vermillion means, ‘this woman is taken’. It is a sign of patriarchal possession, much like how a shepherd marks his livestock. Many women who are taking part in this celebration are leading modern lifestyles. They are either oblivious to the fact or are ignorant of it. Patriarchy survives in the disguise of tradition. And by the way, women are not even allowed to touch the goddess during the five days of Durga Puja. It is only before the immersion, once all the worship is finished they are allowed to touch the idol.
Anindita says
Over time the Bengali woman has emerged more steep in traditions and engulfed in rituals without as much as questioning her identity and existence. Sindoor khele is now a romantic occasion where the Bangali bride waits to be adorned in the red vermillion so that the men gawk at them from the shadow of the sophisticated thousand dollar camera bought for the occasion. While the percentage of so called emancipated percentage of women in Bengal is probably one of the highest in India, Bengali women have yet a long way ahead yet to confirm themselves as individuals in their own right. By a married woman or a virgin daughter allowed to participate in Sindoor khela and only on the last day when Durga is ready to leave puts such an obnoxious flavour to the ritual and yet we women submerge in it and in no way discredit it either. After all wherever we are in the world we are still hunting for the so called ‘Brahmin’ to perform the 5 day Puja. We are no closer yet to be convince pd to break the tradition to allow any member of the female species tread any close to doing the Puja. In fact we women will vehemently be the first ones to oppose it. Sad and ironic!
poga says
sweetswords/tika
branded cow,
mark of ownership,
sindoor on forehead. #haiku #micropoetry
Chaitra Saxena says
Informative write up but written in a very foul and disrespecting language. “Piece of Shit”, really??!!
Sourav says
Yes…informative but language in which it has been written seems somewhat disrespecting (“piece of shit” “pathetic”, “worthless stupid ” etc etc..)
…. Sindoor khela is indeed celebrated to show how a hindu woman is proud of having her husband in her life. Its a “lovely and pious feeling” … but this write up has not been written in a lovely manner … its like mud and water has been mixed together…
Angshuman says
Author is a knowledgeable freak who doesn’t know to respect others. I don’t understand if this tradition make ladies happy why to criticize. What happened in past or with the author doesn’t mean to everyone is like that. Sorry bad taste. And I appreciate you Mr.Sourav for writing.
Tanisha says
I think you don’t have a clue! You’re obviously not a Hindu so you should mind your own business. I’m not married, I’m educated, employed, and born and raised in England. I think there are so many beautiful traditions in Durga puja, I don’t appreciate you trying to drag down my faith because you are insecure. For example you stated that women take part in sindoor khela for their ‘pathetic husbands’- how do you know? and who are you to judge if someone’s husband is pathetic or not?
Are ALL Hindu men pathetic to you? Why? Is it because these men don’t give you the time of day? There are pathetic men and women in every society. I think you are pathetic for coming out with ill informed statements.
You don’t even know that Durga – female manifestation of the divine is Shakti – literal translation is Strength. In which other religion, culture or language is the word for Strength given to a woman or even exist in the feminine? The expectation of a true devotee of Hinduism ( or Sanatan Dharma) is too be loving and kind. Women who take part in this Sindoor Khela do so optionally, and are in loving happy marriages no doubt. Being a feminist is not about trampling on men – what you state stinks of hate and narrow mindedness. We have 2 ears and 1 mouth for a reason- to listen and understand more than we speak! Please stop writing your hate and find some happiness in your life- Jai Maa Durga?
Lekha C says
জয় মা
এইটা লেখার জন্য অনেক ধন্যবাদ। ভাল থাকবেন।
শুভ বিজয়া।
deepak gautam says
Nice reply there??
Thanks Tanisha for writing. This lady doesn’t know anything. Fir her knowledge let me tell her… Ardha narishar is a combination of shiv and parvati. In later stage when bhrahma requested Shiva and parvati got separated as individual. Where it means Shiva or males are physical strength while the parvati or female are inner strength. Hindu do respect female as better half and Hindus are not like road side religions. Durga is also another image of parvati only. Gather information before bla bla in any blog @ author
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Fiona Gardner
Being real about Mothering Sunday
Mothering Sunday can be a difficult time for many people. Unfortunately there’s sometimes a rather simplistic and superficial attitude towards it which is only to be expected in the commercial world but is sadly reproduced in the world of the church. Here’s a few examples from my own experience:
In one church the children are lined up in front of the congregation to sing a song about how wonderful their mothers’ are and how grateful the children are for everything their mothers’ do and how sorry they feel for the times when they have not done what their mother has told them.
In another church baskets of posies are handed out to anyone female, after all women if nothing else are all mothers!
In another church the prayers are for us to all think about the great sacrifices our mothers’ made especially when we were babies (and by implication selfishly) waking in the night and needing feeding and care. We are to thank God for the qualities of gentleness and compassion that belong to mothers.
You don’t have to train as a psychotherapist to know that this one dimensional sentimental and sanctimonious trash is going to at best continue some rather dreadful stereotypes and at worse enrage those who beg to differ. What about the children in the first scene who are adopted or fostered or as all children do have ambivalent feelings towards their mothers? In the second scene what about the women who would love to have children, but who for various reasons do not want to or are unable to? In the third example we need to just be aware that times are changing there is increased awareness of shared parenting (after all men can be compassionate and gentle too!) and there are also statistics that show the high rates of neglect and abuse faced by children. Also what about all those struggling in counselling and therapy to make sense of their childhoods and sorting out the good and the bad, and working through all the mixed feelings that belong to any mother/child?
Mothering by God though now that’s the real deal!
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on March 30, 2014 by Fiona Gardner.
It’s probably about 30 years or so since I last read the 5 volumes of The Children of Violence in sequence and I’ve just finished rereading them this week. It confirms to me what a brilliant writer Doris Lessing is. The final volume The Four Gated City is inspirational but reading them I also felt a poignancy and at another level a fear for how asleep we seem in contemporary society in terms of politics. Doris Lessing was prophetic about the environmental damage that we now know about – the poisoning of natural resources and the associated billions and billions being spent by the military-industrial complex. The end of volume five takes us to the aftermath of what is called ‘The Catastrophe’ and life after a radiation leak that has almost destroyed Britain. Everything is contaminated and only small groups encamped on the far west coast of Ireland have had any chance of survival.
I think there is a link with contemplative prayer and concern for the environment. Thomas Merton thought that and demonstrated in his own life how immersion in contemplation led to a feeling of greater connection with others and with the natural world. It awakened a concern for all other living things including the planet. Being awake is being aware and is about being fully alive and that has to include not just an interest in our own spiritual development but an active concern for the natural world.
Sometimes there seems a feeling in church circles that one has to be nice – very nice. perhaps this is what has been referred to as the vicar’s tea party syndrome (VTPS). This seems at odds with being human. After all being human is about having lots of different feelings and some are nice and some not so nice. Instead of beating oneself up about having the nastier thoughts it might be more helpful to accept them as part of what it means to be human. You can sometimes see the strain in the endless smiling and the positive speak and so on.
Strangely this ‘being nice’ is so at odds with the accounts we have of those who have really struggled in the spiritual life to become authentic. This often seems a path of great testing and involvement with all aspects of being human – instincts, desires, and so on. One of the best accounts is from the Quaker George Fox who writes that ‘his inward sufferings were heavy’ when he realized that everything that we decry and deny outside has its origins within the psyche. Using the language of the time George Fox writes in his Journal in 1647; ‘the Lord shewed me that the natures of those things which were hurtful without were within’. He asks why he needs to know about murderous rage, envy, hostility, destruction and so on as he didn’t want to ‘commit these evils’ and the reply he gets is ‘that it was needful I should have a sense of all conditions. how else could I speak to those conditions; and in this I saw the infinite love of God … and I had great openings’ .
And great openings is what analysis is about. Despite the embarrassment and the shame a great deal of the instinctual life is revealed in all its varied forms and if the analyst and patient can accept this with love then what has been split off and denied has a chance to become acknowledged and integrated. The primitive life of the instincts is there from birth and how it is managed by the parents then helps the infant either integrate this or to repress and deny these feelings. If they are split off then they emerge later usually in some perverted or distorted way.
Sorting all this out has to be the way to authenticity and the acceptance that even as Christians we are human, not plaster cast saints! The great thing about the account by George Fox is that as he sees all the awful things within his psyche – ‘an ocean of darkness and death’ so he also sees ‘an infinite ocean of light and love which flowed over the ocean of darkness’. So love is stronger but it doesn’t mean that the dark has to be denied.
A weak ego – spiritual advantages and disadvantages
I’ve been thinking a great deal about the question of having a weak ego. This is traditionally where the reality function isn’t always 100% and there is a tendency for all sorts of impulses to break through which can lead to feeling confusion and so on. The sense is of being unbalanced. In spiritual writing there is much made of laying aside the ego, or even breaking down the ego. Thomas Merton understood that this can be extremely problematic and he wrote about how for many of the novices that he taught there needed to be a building up of the ego before it was dismantled.
When R. D. Laing wrote about the spiritual breakthroughs that can happen for those who are mentally ill, especially those who are psychotic he rightly received much criticism with people saying that he was romanticising the reality of what mental ill health can be like and so on. I think what he was getting at is that some people are then able to see reality without the obfuscation of their status, role and so on. This is what Merton called the false self. I think false self is a much more helpful term to use as it is not possible to function without the ego. For example we have to organise ourselves, shop, cook, wash, respond to demands and so on. Perhaps in a community the ego can be released as the community or the organisation takes on the egoic function.
The way to build up the ego is through love. People with a weaker ego have usually had insufficient love, and by that I mean unconditional love in their earliest years. This is where you are loved for just being you! I’ve realised very recently that impulses that break through such as fear, aggression, anxiety and so on can be met or tempered by love. Those of us who are religious can experience God’s love and this can help to build up the necessary foundations. Holding on to that sense, perhaps even when it is not always apparent is faith. But it’s a slow business building up that faith experience in order to become resilient.
Reading Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton in his writing has the knack of making you feel as if the words are addressed just to you. It’s a wonderful skill and those who were lucky enough to meet him whilst he was alive say that he offered you undivided attention. In other words he was not one of those people looking past you or over your shoulder checking to see if someone more interesting had come into the room. What Merton offers still in his writing is connection – ‘only connect’ as E. M. Forster said – Merton could do that. He was interested in people and interested in the inner world and it shows in his writing. Listening to Josh Cohen today talking about the private self at Bath Literature Festival I found myself thinking about Merton and how much he did in fact reveal of his private self. It is thought that the Journal entries were written with the idea of future publication in mind and yet they seem so private and you read them thinking that here is the real Merton. However his great skill is that in reading of his struggles and insights one is of course learning more about oneself. For above all his writing offers the reader a chance to learn not only about some one else’s spiritual life but to reflect and question one’s own
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on March 7, 2014 by Fiona Gardner.
The return of the repressed
Freud used this phrase to describe how the past can irrupt into consciousness one way or another. It doesn’t really matter what we do to try and prevent it as it will emerge through dreams, symptoms and our responses. Sometimes one is caught unaware by the strength of a reaction and part of the work in therapy is to disentangle what belongs in the present from the there and then, and understand how the past can affect us so strongly in the present. Jung used instead the idea of the shadow and the importance of bringing what had been pushed into the dark recesses of our minds into the light of consciousness. Jung wanted the shadow to become integrated – as far as is possible.
The same thing happens to our spirituality. If it suppressed by the endless rationalisations and factual and sometimes cynical justifications that things are as they are and there’s nothing more than our human reason it has to re-merge in other sometimes distorted forms.
Someone whose thinking about the affect of our modern society on emotional well being had a big impact in the 1960s and 1970s was R. D. Laing: a bit of a hero for me. He believed in the primacy of experience – experience that is unmediated by concepts, conjectures and stylised thought…he wrote about the experience of being a person. Laing asked, ‘Can human beings be persons today?’
Laing explored the violence and damage – both intentional and unconscious – between people in all types of relationship, within families and in our social structures, and wider societies. This violence forces us to become alienated and to lose our potential to become who we really are. Instead we conform and comply to fit the demands and expectations of family and society. For many this leads to great suffering and mental breakdown. Laing understood these dynamics both from his own childhood, and the extraordinary capacity he had to understand the minds of others. He thought that the journey to recover our self is often a journey through the experience of madness into awareness and insight. He writes that no age in the history of humanity, has perhaps so lost touch with natural healing processes.
Laing’s work criticised the medical establishment. Over his career he increasingly attacked the theories and reasoning behind the system of psychiatric diagnoses, and also the treatment on offer. As his popularity grew so did the unease and criticism about his stance and practice. In his work with people Laing moved beyond the labels of madness. He went beyond the formal classification system, the earnest discussions about the use of ECT and physical restraint (I think he would have understood the now extensive use of drug treatments as another form of restraint) into a place of innocence and experience where he met the distressed person and saw and heard the abused child, or neglected baby, or over-protected infant subjected to confused parenting. Nearly forty years later all his books and perhaps especially for the interface between psychology and spirituality The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise remains a relevant and inspirational book
What the word contemplation means
I came across a Centring Prayer retreat led by Basil Pennington in 1991 and was interested to see that he attributes the inspiration of the name centring prayer to Thomas Merton. Basil Pennington traces the idea of what is also called the prayer of the heart back to John Cassian and his journey out to the deserts of Egypt where he learnt how to pray from Abba Isaac.
In the course of his teachings Basil Pennington explains the word contemplation as a word made up of three parts and this is taken from his teaching:
The last part of the word ‘tion’ means abiding state – all of us have those, if we are alive, and able to stay in the present moment – when we feel touched by God and we experience the Divine. What we look for in our spiritual lives is a way that helps us live more and more constantly in communion with God
And that’s what the first part of the word means ‘con’ – con means with
And the middle part ‘templa’- well in the early Roman times the templa was seen as a particular part of the heavens, and the then priests of the temple, the priests of the people, would look up into the skies and try to see how the birds flew and what was happening in the sky so as to work out the will of God. From that time, that templa, got projected onto earth and became the templum, the temple, an actual place where people go to commune with God.
So contemplation is abiding with God, where his will is known, where his love is known, where he is present in his temple.
Thinking about happiness
Happiness is in many ways such an ephemeral feeling. There’s a wonderful poem by Mary Oliver called Happiness which I’ve found deeply moving. In it she describes watching a she-bear looking for honey ‘the secret bin of sweetness’ that bears can find in trees. The she-bear presents as a ‘black block of gloom’ as she shuffles through the woods. And then she finds the honey. In the second stanza Mary Oliver writes how the bear perhaps drunk on the honey and perhaps a bit sleepy begins to sway from side to side … I’m going to quote this part:
I saw her let go of the branches,
I saw her lift her honeyed muzzle
into the leaves, and her thick arms
as though she would fly –
an enormous bee
all sweetness and wings –
down into the meadows, the perfection
of honeysuckle and roses and clover –
to float and sleep in the sheer nets
swaying from flower to flower
day after shining day .
I think it’s the last two lines that I find so powerful. I actually came across this poem for the first time when on retreat for a few days. I wasn’t having a good time. Some old feelings, began to re- emerge and I suppose looking back I felt a bit like the black block of gloom, weighed down. Reading that the bear could feel herself as a bee and dancing between the flowers in the sunshine reminded me that depression does lift, situations do change and difficulties do not remain for ever – nothing stays the same and so happiness is always possible. Transformation can take place and then the world looks different – what a relief!
Miserable sinner and the false god – 3
Miserable sinner and the false god
December with Thomas Merton – week 5
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I Wouldn’t Start from Here: the Second Generation Irish in Britain
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Editors Ray French, Moy McCrory and Kath McKay will be reading from their book of essays, fiction and poetry by second generation Irish writers in Britain , whose contributors attempt to capture the diverse experience of a group of people largely rendered invisible.
The sections touch upon what it is to be authentic, what’s new about the experience of ‘diaspora’, what evolves and what changes. Many of the contributors acknowledge that anti-Irish racism has been part of their lives and the work reflects the tensions of not belonging but of ploughing on.
Ray French is the author of two novels, All That is Mine and Going Under and the joint editor of End Notes: ten stories about loss, mourning and commemoration.
Moy McCrory writes academically about identity and class. Her own fiction has been translated into fifteen languages and she was included in the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing.
Kath McKay has published two novels, three poetry collections and short stories, some of which have been broadcast on Radio 4. Like Ray French, she teaches at the University of Hull.
In association with Nottingham Irish Studies Group
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One course at a time...
By gcallah - February 28, 2014
I am going to be the difference, cure violence, perhaps even be touched by a nurse! It is my first-year experience and my imagination beyond measure that will see me through while I'm working toward a world without cancer.
You know why? Because tomorrow starts here!
(Explanation.)
Talk about being spread thin
The conductor just announced that to exit the train at my station, a passenger "must be in the front four cars."
Hey, I may have gained a few pounds, but I'm not that large yet!
Dear editors,
Did one of you asked me to review the book with the above title?
Because Penguin Books just sent me a free copy in the mail, and right now I have no idea why.
Enjoying my free book in Brooklyn
Just a URL
My wife was looking over my son's shoulder at the computer. "What's that?"
"It's just a URL."
"No, try it!"
I imagined how the poor URL felt:
I'm just a URL
Difficult to spell
People know the site I'm displayin'
Paid for every click
Hope my link they'll pick
It's for eyeballs I'm prayin'
There will come a day
The site will pass away
Then what will they say about me?
When the end comes oh well
They'll say just a URL
The web goes on without me
OK, This Is Sheer Idiocy
I know I am an evil "statist," but really, I don't think the State is our salvation or anything of the sort, and often it screws up really badly.
Or really, really badly, as when a Texas town just spent $60 million on a new high school football stadium. Now, that number alone fills me with despair: while I don't think that all taxes are theft, I do think that for the most part people ought to be left to spend their money as they see fit, and taxation should only be used to take care of true collective action problems. So if the town had had a severe problem with lots of destitute people living on the street, and it spent $60 million to give them all decent housing… well, it would sound a little excessive, but maybe that would be okay. But for a football stadium? For a high school? And I assume all of these kids are already reading beyond grade level, are computer programming experts, understand the history of Western civilization, can speak a foreign language fluent…
MathMan, in the comments here, is surprised to discover my Hindu/Buddhist leanings. Let me share a story with you.
I have read a fair amount of Hindu and even more Buddhist literature. Besides my less structured readings, I once taught a comparative religions course, and as part of my prep work, I went through a semester long course on Buddhism on CD, and a semester long course on Hinduism on CD. I always considered reincarnation as a quite plausible hypothesis, and I have thought that it could fit in with the Christian concept of purgatory quite nicely. (In this synthesis, reincarnation would be the way purgatory is "implemented.")
But an experience with one of my children profoundly influenced me on this topic. This particular child was very angry for the first couple of years of his/her life. (We will just go with "his" henceforth, to avoid awkward exposition.)
While puzzling over this, at one point, rather unbidden, an image came to me: it was of him living a …
Why do cashiers…
when giving you your change, first put the bills in your outstretched hand, and then place the coins on top of the bills? This is pretty obviously the wrong order: you can easily grasp the bills with the coins underneath them, but it is very hard to grasp the coins with the bills underneath them.
Let's Stop Talking "Historical Bollocks"
You know the story:
1) how the rise of Christianity destroyed Greco-Roman science;
2) how it threw us into the "Dark Ages";
3) how the church carefully monitored every scientific idea, holding back science for centuries; and
4) it was only with the overthrow of Church authority that science began to advance again.
Unfortunately, every single point in the above narrative is false, has been known to be false for many decades, and is acknowledged to be false by essentially all professional historians of science. When I studied the history of science at King's College in London, right away the lecturer, who as far as I could tell is an atheist, began debuking the above story, since it is the main obstacle to learning the actual history of science for most students.
Here is another actual historian of science noting the same problems with the commonplace narrative, and also noting that the above story is "Far from reflecting the latest considerations of the historical e…
Oblivious to the concept
Mark Anthony Signorelli gets this right:
"One answer would be that modern disbelievers, under the influence of their positivist assumptions, simply have no idea what earlier thinkers meant by the concept of God."
This is so much the case that when I discuss the standard, millenia-old idea of God here, readers accuse me of "redefining the word"!
And this quote is nice, too: "An atheist is just someone who has failed to notice the perfectly evident necessity of God’s existence."
Private security firms...
Turn on the "protected." Who could have imagined?
Lousy Error Messages
Programmers (I am sometimes among this crew of miscreants!) are often terrible at informing users about what has gone wrong in an interaction. I have previously offered the example of text boxes on, say, an application form, that have a limit on the number of words acceptable. Almost every time I encounter one in which I've gone over the limit, the program responds, "Over the limit of X hundred words." Realize that the programmer who put up this message just counted the number of words in your message (say 700), saw this was over the limit (of say 500), and then... totally failed to tell you "You are 200 words over the limit"! ("I don't get paid to count the words for you, MF!")
Tonight I ran into an equally uninformative error message in programming in iPython. I tried to run my program, and got this:
run predator_prey.py
Syntax error ^
OK, by the looks of the message, it is a "syntax error" to type the letter "y" into …
Prepositions are hard
In learning Italian, getting the prepositions right has been a maddening effort for me. I really think there is no way to get this through rules: you just keep at it until 'a' or 'in' or 'per' or 'di' etc. seems natural to you in the right spot.
But even among speakers of English across the globe the question of what preposition to use is not easy, as shown by this group of linguists fighting over whether they were dining 'on the weekend' or 'at the weekend.' And for Americans 'X is different than Y,' while to Brits, 'X is different to Y.'
What does evolution tell us about the value of human beings?
Nothing, of course, but some people seem desperately to want to believe otherwise.
The theory of evolution is a fine scientific theory. It is a very good explanation of the historical process by which the current diversity of species came to exist on the earth. But, of course, as a scientific theory, it addresses the phenomenal level of existence; it has nothing to say about the substantial level whatsoever.
What Bob rightly objects to in this post is people who want to take a valid scientific theory and extend it to realms in which it has no applicability, such as metaphysics or ethics. It is as though, upon seeing a wonderful new plumbing fixture, someone concludes, "You see! I told you homosexuality is a sin!" Or encountering an innovative lightbulb, they exclaim, "It is as I thought: the universe is an indifferent place, devoid of meaning."
A particularly startling claim was made in the comment thread to Bob's post, and found some backing there. "Evo…
Leviticus on what is due the poor
"Now when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. Nor shall you glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the needy and for the stranger. I am the LORD your God." -- Leviticus 19:9-10
The context of the quote is the Lord laying down a series of laws to Moses for the Israelites. This passage declares that the poor have a right to this minimal subsidy from the better off, and that the better off have no right to withhold it.
The Bible, at least, does not endorse the view that any property taking without the consent of the property owner is theft: sometimes, others have a right to part of one's property.
Very Interesting Employment Figures
From Livio DiMatteo.
Here is what I found fascinating: the second graph -- what a beautiful way to display this data! -- and what it shows: from 2009-2013, among advanced economies, only Iceland, Estonia, and Ireland have had better increases in their employment growth rate than the United States.
So everyone who is complaining about US unemployment remaining high under Obama: I would stop.
UPDATE: Correct "employment rate" to "employment growth rate."
Pop history of science is often pretty terrible
An actual historian looks at a pop "history" of science column and discovers it is about as accurate as an explanation of evolution that says, "And one day a fish grew legs and walked up onto the land."
And Christie even missed a problem with the pop history account, in which Potter wrote: "...how the young Newton, sent home from school at Cambridge to avoid the plague of 1665, was sitting under a tree one day, saw an apple fall to the ground, and, in a flash of insight, came to understand the workings of gravity."
Christie notes that "the flash of insight" part is absurd, and it took Newton another twenty years to put his thoughts in publishable form.
But the problem Christie misses is the idea that Newton ever "came to understand the workings of gravity": he did not. He devised a formula describing how objects under the influence of gravity would behave. But he had no model or theory of how gravity was producing this behavior, a fact…
Reductionism does not succeed even for simple physical phenomena
Here is a great anti-reductionist paper, in which the author demonstrates that:
* Temperature is not equivalent to the particular mean molecular kinetic energy of a collection of molecules, since any collection will always have such a mean but it still may not have a temperature:
“The appearance of the temperature as an argument in the Boltzmann distribution function
ni = n0e-Ui/kT
is therefore precisely what it seems to be, a macroscopic determinant of a microscopic condition without which a gas does not have a temperature.”
* Water is only a collection of H2O molecules in its gas phase. Even the purest of liquid water will contain many hydrogen and hydroxyl ions. So even such a simple substance as water does not reduce to H2O.
The situation is worse with more complex molecules:
"For example, methyl ether and ethanol share a Hamiltonian, the quantum mechanical description of their energetic properties. Nevertheless, they are very different molecules. Ethanol is extremely soluble…
Book review work flow
1) Walk into Barnes and Noble and scan new release section.
2) Find book of interest.
3) Think of which of my eight review outlets is the right target for this book.
4) Photograph book cover and mail it to that editor along with text "Need a review?"
5) Receive answer.
6) Send editor my address.
Fifteen minutes after walking into Barnes and Noble and seeing the book for the first time, the publisher is sending me a copy!
More predator-prey business cycle theory
Again from this paper:
"Information asymmetry among the economic players generates an incentive for non-cooperative strategies. Specifically, we assume that the producers’ control on the means of production of the companies allow them to extract rents from them at the expense of the sector of investors that do not enjoy such control (the creditors), who in turn impose limits on this “predatory activity” by subjecting the corporate leadership through creditor controls, resulting in dynamic process analogue to the classical Lotka-Volterra Predator-Prey model."
Defining a bubble
From a very interesting paper using a predator-prey model to capture the business cycle:
"From a financial markets viewpoint, the implication is of course that everyone could be buying a stock that each one of the investors privately thinks is overvalued, but which nevertheless keeps soaring because the purchase decision is not made on the basis on one's individual assessment of the asset value itself but of everyone else's assessment: in short, this interpretation says that, in a financial 'bubble', an asset price would go up because everyone is buying it, and everyone would buy it because it is going up, regardless of its fundamentals."
This definition seems sound to me, and contra Scott Sumner, it shows how we can have a bubble even if we cannot reliably profit from the fact that it exists: we have no idea how long people will keep buying an asset because everyone else is buying it.
We don't need more condos!
The Long Island College Hospital has been threatening to close for some time now, as it loses millions of dollars per month. Some people in the neighborhood I've been very worked up about this--I don't know why, as it is a terrible hospital. In any case, I just saw posters around the neighborhood saying "Governor Cuomo, we need a hospital, not more condos."
Two observations:
1) I bet these same people complain about how housing costs in our neighborhood are getting out of hand.
2) My neighbors protesting the closing of LICH, of course, already have housing in the neighborhood. To someone who wants to move here but can't find a place, a few more condos might not seem like such a bad idea.
In My Ongoing Effort to Make Sure No One of Any Political Stripe Likes Me...
I will now defend Hayek against the ignorant attack of E.J. Dionne, who recently wrote: "In [Hayek's] view, the policies of Franklin Roosevelt led down what Hayek called the 'Road to Serfdom' and were thus objectively comparable to those of Hitler or Stalin."
Note the weasel words "objectively comparable." Even Dionne is not quite so brazen as to claim that Hayek thought these policies were "objectively the same." But then just what is "objectively comparable" supposed to mean? That they can be compared by some objective criteria? Well, any set of policies can be so compared!
Dionne means to imply that Hayek thought Roosevelt's policies were the same as those of Hitler or Stalin, but without actually saying it, so when someone points out he is talking rubbish, he can retreat with "I just said comparable!"
What is wrong with mixed metaphors?
They are the spice that adds a different beat to the music!
Best product upgrade ever?
Ordinary potato chips --> kettle-cooked potato chips
It is like they are a whole different food. My only objection: the producers leave the hyphen out of "kettle-cooked."
The Circulation of the Elites
"You are right, the idyll of peace and virtue of which our philosophers sing is about as real as a fable. But look what lies hidden behind these words, and you will see that an oligarchy is arising, ready to defeat and replace the one in power. The victory of the new oligarchy is certain because energy and strength are on its side." -- Vilfredo Pareto, The Rise and Fall of Elites, pp. 38-39
Reading Pareto just give me a whole new perspective on the libertarian "movement." Of course a world of entirely voluntary interactions is a pure fable. That many people like believe this fable is understandable: what really needs explaining is the large amount of funding behind it. But looking at all the talk of a world of peaceful cooperation as a smokescreen for the rise of a new oligarchy makes it comprehensible.
"I am fighting for a world without coercion" is going to motivate many more people than is "I am fighting for a world in which the Koch brothers and…
I Can't Watch Shows at *That* Volume!
As I adjust the volume on my TV at night, trying to keep it as low as possible, for sleeping others, while still audible, for me, I find there certain numbers at which I just cannot rest.
Let's say that 30 was just a bit too loud. I can turn the volume down, but I can't turn it down to 29. At 29, I feel I am teetering on a pyramid supported only by 1 at its basis. A volume of 29 is completely unstable! But at 28, ah, now that's comfortable: I've got 1, 2, 4, 7 and 14 all holding me up. There is a volume with which I can relax on the couch.
Sometimes, it is not easy being me.
Did You Mean "*Dis*analogy," Steve?
Landsburg's whole post was an exercise in deliberately missing the point of what your opponent is saying, but this part was especially bad:
"I am dismayed by Father Wildes’s blindness to the clear analogy between being forced to work someone else’s land and being forced to serve someone else’s lunch."
Okay, there indeed is something about these two situations that is analogous: both parties are being placed in a legal situation in which they are forced to choose between two options, each of which they would rather avoid.
This slave is being faced with the choice: pick cotton or die.
The restaurant owner is being faced with the choice: serve people of all races lunch, or... don't run a public dining establishment.
So, while there is some analogy, the situations are far more dissimilar than they are alike. No one, after all, is forced to run a public dining establishment. (No one is forced to live either, but that is sort of a sine qua non for doing anything else.) On…
Take that, Samson Corwell!
I was once accused of holding Singapore up as a model. Well, I don't, but this guy sure does. (I simply do not know enough about the place to have a strong opinion.)
Known Unknown Subjects
Criminal Minds seems to abuse the term "unsub." One of the agents just presented a "list of unsubs," everyone of whom was a known and named subject, and not an unknown subject at all.
No, Plato Did Not Think Taxes Were Some Sort of Permitted Theft
It was refusal to contribute to public expenses that for him was clearly a crime:
"But as regards attendance at choruses or processions or other shows, and as regards public services, whether the celebration of sacrifice in peace, or the payment of contributions in war-in all these cases, first comes the necessity of providing remedy for the loss; and by those who will not obey, there shall be security given to the officers whom the city and the law empower to exact the sum due; and if they forfeit their security, let the goods which they have pledged be, and the money given to the city; but if they ought to pay a larger sum, the several magistrates shall impose upon the disobedient a suitable penalty, and bring them before the court, until they are willing to do what they are ordered." -- The Laws, Book XII
By the way, the point of this post is not to prove or even argue that any or all governments can justifiably collect taxes: that is a separate argument. No, what I am…
They Forgot to Include "No Belts" in the Fourth Amendment
But Plato did not:
"If a person wishes to find anything in the house of another, he shall enter naked, or wearing only a short tunic and without a belt, having first taken an oath by the customary Gods that he expects to find it there; he shall then make his search, and the other shall throw open his house and allow him to search things both sealed and unsealed." -- The Laws, Book XII
Surprising fact of the day from the History Channel
Vikings had wings:
This probably explains a lot of their raiding success.
The final straw
I've had it! I woke up today and realized I had just been dreaming about a series of Internet ads. What's even worse is that I suspect Google had placed them in my dream, and the NSA knows I had been looking at them.
Chris House's Idea of Science
I mentioned Chris House's model of science in a previous post. But now I want to comment on a different aspect of its oddity. (And my goal here is not to pick on House, but on the view of science he has presented, because I think it is too common.) If you recall, House's model is this:
The scientific method goes something like this: Observation
Formation of hypotheses
Testing/evaluation
Repeat If you can follow these steps then anything (even economics! even macroeconomics!) can be studied scientifically. When economics is at its best it truly is a science. The aspect I wish to point out in this post is that ever achieving any success at explaining anything plays no part, for House, on whether any endeavor is scientific.
Want to do "scientific" astrology?
* Observe that the planets, moon, and sun move around in the sky relative to the "fixed stars." * Form an hypothesis: "When the moon is in the seventh house / And Jupiter aligns with Mars / Then …
Economic Schools of Thought
A great post from George Selgin, who pretty much captures my answer when asked "Are you an X economist?"
A Professional Writer Penned the Following Sentence
"Lopez is interested to see how differently it is to walk for the first time."
Hints from Heloise...
uh, ahem, I mean "Life Hacks"!
Something that really works for me: I cook quite a bit. A great time saver and mass preventer has been to put a large Tupperware on the counter near my cutting board. I can generally prepare an entire meal before it's filled. Instead of a dozen trips to the trashcan, I make one. If the scraps are all vegetable, I will often bag them and throw them in the freezer, to feed to my worms at a future date.
Self-refuting lyrics?
OK, what about "Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer"?
In the first few lines, we are told that we know the names of all the "traditional" reindeer. (The tradition does not stretch back all that far, but never mind that.)
Then we are asked, "But do you recall / the most famous reindeer of all?"
Now, wait just a second. I can see where we could recall the names of many reindeer, but forget the name of "the most important reindeer of all," or "the most noble reindeer of all," or something like that.
But isn't the phrase "the most famous reindeer of all" pretty much equivalent to "the most recalled reindeer of all"? So, if it is a given that everyone knows the names of all those other reindeer, but doubtful that they know Rudolf's, isn't that pretty good evidence that he is not "the most famous reindeer of all"?
I just wanted to get that off my chest, so I can get back to exploring the commonality among…
Language Is a Political Matter
The ancient Greeks famously classified any people who do not speak Greek as "barbarians."
The people of Ireland call the language spoken there before English became widespread "Irish," while the English referred to it as "Gaelic."
Calabrians and Sicilians are told not that they speak their own languages, but that their Italian is very bad.
The same sort of dynamics are now playing out in China, vis-à-vis Cantonese.
Vico's two-population model of city formation
"The origin of cities, which developed from extended families which included both children and servants. We find that cities were naturally founded on two communities, the nobles who commanded and the plebeians who obeyed: for these two parts make up the entire polity or law of civil governments. I shall show that the first cities could not have arisen at all merely on the basis of simple nuclear families." -- New Science, pp. 16-17
Is this the Tidy Bowl Olympics?
What is that blue stuff they have put all over the snow? It is not so much the blue stripes themselves that are disturbing, but the way they run and leak down the slope. All I can think of when I see it is what happens when you flush if you have one of those toilet sanitizers installed.
Vico on the basis of civil society
"Hence, devine providence organized human society according to the eternal order that, in commonwealths, men who use their minds command, while those who use their bodies obey." -- New Science, p. 13
Why Did Urban Crime Rates Drop the Last 20 Years?
There have been a number of explanations put forward, new policing techniques and the waning of the crack epidemic among them. But I think the most important explanation has been largely overlooked: planners (mostly) stopped mucking about poor neighborhoods.
To understand my point here, consider Jane Jacobs:
Statistical people are a fiction for many reasons, which is that there treated as if infinitely interchangeable. Real people are unique, they invest years of their lives in significant relationships with other unique people, and are not interchangeable in the least. Severed from their relationships, they are destroyed as effective social beings--sometimes for a little while, sometimes forever. In city neighborhoods, whether streets are districts, if too many slowly grown public relationships are disrupted at once, all kinds of havoc can occur--so much habit, instability and helplessness, that it sometimes seems time will never again get in it's licks. She goes on to quote Ha…
A Bad Term for an Important Concept
"expectations, a manifestation of subjectivism" -- Ludwig Lachmann, Expectations and the Meaning of Institutions
Most economists today are "subjectivists": that is, they believe that, say, value, or expectations (as above) are "subjective" phenomena. This idea is often associated the Austrian School, but it is held widely outside that school.
The term "subjective" is an unfortunate choice for what is being talked about here. For instance, my expectations have a subjective aspect, in that they are my expectations and not yours, and in that they are expectations about an uncertain future, rather than matters of "mere" fact. But they have an objective aspect as well, in that, so far as they are articulable at all, I can state them in our common language and share them with you (so they are not merely mine), and that, in so far as they are expectations and not mere fantasies, I mean them to be my best guess as to a future, objective state…
Today is a day that will go down in history
My inbox right now fits on one screen!
How is this for a foreign way of thinking about an ideal state?
In The Laws, Plato offers a somewhat bizarre criterion for the right population size for the polis: maximize the ways the total number of citizens can be divided into equal-sized groups:
Let’s assume we have a convenient number of five thousand and forty farmers and protectors of their holdings… divide the total first by two, then by three: you’ll see it can be divided by four and five and every number right up to ten. Everyone who legislates should have sufficient appreciation of arithmetic to know what number will be most use in every state, and why. So let’s fix on the one which has the largest number of consecutive divisors. Of course, an infinite series of numbers would admit all possible divisions for all possible uses, but our 5,040 admits no more than 59… which will have to suffice for purposes of war and every peace time activity, all contracts and dealings, and for taxes and grants. (Penguin Classics, 2004: 159-160) There you have it: the ideal state should have 5040 citiz…
The "Hot Hand" Vindicated
Mungowitz posts a link to an interesting paper vindicating the fact (rather obvious to anyone who has played sports!) that some times you are more "on" than others. Money quote:
"We argue that this difference is attributable to endogenous defensive responses: basketball presents sufficient opportunity for defensive responses to equate shooting probabilities across players whereas baseball does not."
Yup: one thing masking the hot hand, in the way the original "debunking" was done, is that in basketball the defense quickly sees that a player is hot, and adjusts to defend them better. In baseball, only one player is "up" at a time, so you really can't shift extra defense to that player, and here the "hot hand" shows up robustly.
The Importance of Dates to History
"There is a clichéd view of history encouraged by bad teaching that presents the subject as the memorising of long lists of dates that somebody has designated as being significant, 55 BC, 1066, 1492, 1687, 1859, 1914 etc., etc. Now whilst in reality history is much more concerned with what happened and why it happened than with when it happened dates are the scaffolding on which historians hang up their historical facts for inspection."
I tell my students this every time I teach historical material: importance of these dates is not that you know exactly which year Luther broke with the Catholic Church or Constantinople fell, but that one understands the sequence in which such events took place. Otherwise, history becomes similar to trying to watch Memento.
The Church and Science
Interesting post here:
In 1618 the Jesuit astronomer Orazio Grassi showed by observation and parallax measurement that the comet of that year was indeed supra-lunar driving another nail in the coffin of the Aristotelian theory of comets. Galileo, who due to illness had been unable to observe the comet, was urged by his claque to enter the arena with his opinion on the nature of comets. Galileo then famously launched an unprovoked and extremely vitriolic attack on Grassi condemning his work and defending what was basically a version of the Aristotelian theory. It was one of Galileo’s less glorious moments, far from using mathematic to criticise a doctrine of Aristotle’s Galileo was defending Aristotle’s theory of comets against an astronomer who had used mathematic to disprove it. So, in this case, someone from the Church was disproving a theory of Aristotle's while Galileo was dogmatically defending it.
Life is usually not as simple as we like to make it out.
Teleology and biology
Contra Noah Millman, who recently claimed, "we can’t rely naively on an Aristotelean teleology which we now know has no empirical basis" (God knows what he meant here!), teleology pervades modern biology, and there is absolutely no sign it can be gotten rid of. Take this report of recent sloth research in the NY Times: I find at least the following uses of teleology in explaining what the sloths are up to, with the key teleological words highlighted:
"[the three-toed sloth] has carved out a remarkably ingenious mode of life in the treetops" (Something is ingenious in that it achieves an end very economically.)
"Why then does the sloth take such a risk every week?" (For what end?)
"They started by trying to understand what would compel the sloth to brave the dangers of a weekly visit to ground zero." (To what end would it do so?)
"Rather, they assumed, it was to favor a critical component of the sloth’s ecosystem, the pyralid moth. The desc…
A brief sketch of the Keynesian "vision"
A reader asked me for the above. I thought I'd drag this up from the comments and make it a top-level post, to prompt commentary. So, here goes:
1) Aggregate demand need not equal aggregate supply. (In an economy with temporally lengthy production process and plans made for the far future, Say's Law holds only under special conditions.)
2) The investment portion of aggregate demand is volatile, and depends upon investor's "animal spirits" more than on "fundamentals."
3) On the other hand, for the consumption portion of aggregate demand, the average, marginal propensity to consume out of income is fairly stable.
4) Thus, when investment plunges, aggregate demand is likely to fall far short of aggregate supply.
5) Producers are likely to adjust to this situation through cutting back on production rather than by making price adjustments, so that the economy spirals down into a recession.
As I see it, for someone who wants to intelligently reject Keyne…
Aristotle on handling envy and distributive justice
You must've seen this a number of times: some libertarian dismisses complaints about inequality by saying, "What does it matter if inequality is growing, so long as the poor are getting wealthier in an absolute sense? To worry about one's relative wealth, to resent another for doing even better than one is doing oneself, is simply envy."
There are two things to note here: first of all, not all worry about increasing inequality is based on envy. Republican theorists throughout the centuries worried about great economic inequality because they felt it made republican politics impossible: the very rich could easily buy the allegiance and votes of the very poor, who would not act as independent republican citizens, but as clients of their wealthy patrons.
But let us grant that some of the worry about inequality is based on end. That does not mean we can dismiss it lightly! Here is Aristotle on the issue: "Inequality is everywhere at the bottom of faction, for in ge…
The State Is a Natural Object
"From these considerations it is evident that the state belongs to the class of things that exist by nature, and that man is by nature a political animal. He who is without a state, by reason of his own nature and not of some accident, is either a poor sort of being, or a being higher than man: he is like the man of whom Homer wrote in denunciation: 'Clanless and lawless and heartless is he.'" -- Aristotle, Politics, Book I, Section ii
Anarchists often like to point to the decline in character of various states over time as making a case against the state tout court. But Aristotle documents this sort of decline at great length: he would be unmoved. Claiming that because states, like all natural objects, are subject to decay and corruption, therefore we should eliminate them, is like saying that because our bodies decline with old age, they should be eliminated!
Stupid Super Bowl Tautology Winner
"Is there anything more American than America?"
That it was delivered by Bob Dylan probably made it worse.
On the high holy day of Americanism. Days of celebration and feasting, a binge of consumption this evening, paeans to our military heroes, riotuous musical celebrations: an ancient Roman would have had no problem identifying our most important religious holiday.
Factoid: "[Football] Game telecast's accounted for nine of the 10 most-watched programs in 2013" -- NY Times Magazine, Feb. 2, 2014
"Yet there is a light I love, and a food, and a kind of embrace when I love my God — a light, voice, odor, food, embrace of my innerness, where my soul is floodlit by light which space cannot contain, where there is sound that time cannot seize, where there is a perfume which no breeze disperses, where there is a taste for food no amount of eating can lessen, and where there is a bond of union that no satiety can part." -- St. Augustine, Confessions
"In the attics of my life
Full of cloudy dreams unreal
Full of tastes no tongue can know
And lights no eye can see
When there was no ear to hear
You sang to me
"I have spent my life
Seeking all that's still unsung
Bent my ear to hear the tune
And closed my eyes to see
When there were no strings to play
You played to me
"In the book of love's own dream
Where all the print is blood
Where all the pages are my days
And all my lights grow old
When I had no wings to fly
You flew to me
"In the secret space o…
For your dining pleasure
My friend Neil Ganic, famed for throwing a live lobster on a customer's table in response to complaints the lobster dish "isn't fresh," is featured in the NY Times today.
The best constitutional change?
My suspicion grows that sortition would be the best among practicable changes to the American Constitution. How about this for a way of eliminating the pain of our three-year long presidential campaigns? Choose the president by drawing lots among the 100 US senators and 50 state governors. Have the person serve a single three-year term. Repeat.
Sure, we might get some presidents worse than those we are likely to get with an elective system. But surely we would get some better presidents as well. And just think: no primaries, no conventions, no campaign ads! That has to be worth it.
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Genie Road Trip
My genealogy journey…
Judge Abner Smith, Bank Scandal, and the Chicago Tribune Archives
Posted by JessLibrarian under Character Studies, Great Sources | Tags: Alison, Black Sheep Relatives, Chicago Tribune Archives, Massy |
So as I noted, I’ve been working on a presentation on black sheep ancestors—which I’ve found a fair number of hanging out on my family tree. Some I’ve found by accident, some I obviously went looking for—like good old H.R. I’m going to write about a few of the side characters in my presentation because of their interesting stories and the great resources I found to research them.
I was trying to be better about following out the siblings of my direct ancestors and researching the siblings of Hugh and Jane Alison Massy starting with Rowland Hill and Elizabeth Massy Alison (because siblings marrying siblings). I’d hoped the double family tie might lead me to more information on my Massy-Alison family. But while the Rowland Alison family did move briefly to Detroit and it appears Jane and family followed along right after Hugh’s death, Rowland and family quickly moved on to Chicago where they settled and the research hasn’t yet led me to further revelations on my direct line. But it did lead to a few interesting characters like Abner Smith.
Rowland had at least 5 children including Edith who married Charles Lee Caswell in 1870. The couple had two children including Charles Lee Junior who studied at Northwestern University Law School and was admitted to the Bar by the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois on 1896. He worked in practical law in Chicago until he made junior partner in the firm Smith & Caswell with Judge Abner Smith upon the Judge’s retirement from the Circuit Court Bench in 1903. Smith and Caswell can each be found among the turn of the century who’s who for Chicago prior to the fall of 1905 when Abner became the president of Bank of America and Caswell appears to have gone on to found Caswell & Healy.
By April the following year Smith and several others were indicted for conspiracy leading to the wreck of the bank. Among those who lost the majority of their investments was Clarence Darrow who paid out of pocket to all small depositors and served with his partner Edgar Lee Masters (Spoon River Anthology) as attorney for the receiver, Daniel Healy, at Abner’s hearings. There are great detailed write ups in the Chicago Tribune Archives—like this one, “Smith Plea Met by New Charges”. Abner tried every appeal possible before turning himself in to the Cook County Jail for transport to the State Penitentiary in Joliet, Illinois in May of 1909. And then the process was lengthened when the Sheriff actually refused to transport him.
In the end he served a year and a month, and on parole in July of 1910 returned home to Chicago and practicing law. His wife Ada died in 1914, he was enumerated as a widowed lodger in 1920, and when the census came round again in 1930 he had married his former partner’s widowed mother, Mrs. Edith Alison Caswell—Rowland’s daughter and my 1st cousin 5 times removed. Abner died in 1932 at the age of 89 and Edith died a year later.
One of my biggest finds from this side trip is that the Tribune archives are fabulous for researching the notable and infamous—especially if you have Chicago roots. And as cases get messy enough you may be able to continue your research in legal reviews or biographies of notable lawyers.
For example, Reports of Cases at Common Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois Vol 239 (available in Google Books) has a detailed and verbose review of the case which charged that the defendants wrongfully, wickedly, fraudulently, feloniously and unlawfully conspired, combined, and confederated… to cheat and defraud and injure the public…” and that’s leaving out a ton.
Happy hunting,
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Geeks for Social Change
Theory and practice towards a fairer world using research and technology.
Join us for Hulme & Greenheys Community History Day!
23rd November at The Old Abbey Taphouse
Join us in a day of celebration of Hulme & Greenheys’ diverse history. We are a group of grassroots historians, residents and academics who have come together to explore the history of our area. We’ve organised this day to help us understand how the four waves of rapid redevelopment over the last 100 years have affected us all, for better and worse.
By Dr Kim Foale
Why tech co-production practice is barely scratching the surface
Revisiting Arnstein's "Ladder of Citizen Participation"
There’s a lot of discussion about co-production, co-design and other impressive-sounding terms starting with ‘co-‘ at the moment in tech circles. This article discusses a seminar paper from the 1960s, and examines how we can rethink how technology products are made made and who they’re for.
Why an email list is the most important tool for community groups
Tips and tricks on getting off on the right foot.
When starting a new community group or campaign of any type, one of the first things to get right is group communication. Despite dozens of tools claiming to sort out this kind of thing, in my experience nothing beats an email list. Why?
Making a place for technology in communities
PlaceCal and the capabilities approach
We discuss how a capability approach to information technology in neighbourhoods with low social capital can create embedded and sustainable Community Technology Partnerships (CTPs) that connect residents and institutions together, reducing barriers to social participation and collaborative action.
A brief introduction to PlaceCal
How we made Hulme & Moss Side's go-to resource to find out what's on.
PlaceCal is a package of calendar software, education and community development. It makes it easier for residents to publish events, find information about their area, and see how to get involved in local groups. This helps people become active in their community by connecting them to events that are happening nearby.
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Dead by Daylight's next chapter is called "Cursed Legacy"
by: Nathan - posted: 11/20/2019 2:27:00 AM
More On: Dead By Daylight
Dead by Daylight's roster continues to grow as the newest chapter has been revealed and is called "Cursed Legacy". The new chapter. The new killer, Yamaoka Kazan is a samurai and an ancestor of The Spirit. Kimura Yui is a street racer who unfortunately finds herself trapped in the Entity's realm.
Here is all the content coming with the Cursed Legacy Chapter.
New Killer: "The Oni"
New Survivor: "Kimura Yui"
New Map: "Sanctum of Wrath"
The new chapter "Cursed Legacy" will be available sometime in December.
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Home / Sports / Local Sports / Campus Chatter: Lytle Making Big Splash for Notre Dame Swim Team
Campus Chatter: Lytle Making Big Splash for Notre Dame Swim Team
Posted on Thursday, November 9, 2006 by Gant Team in Local Sports
NOTRE DAME, Ind. — Freshman John Lytle, a Pennsylvania state champion the last two years, is off to a great start for the University of Notre Dame men\’s swimming and diving team that debuted at No. 17 in the first College Swim Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) dual meet rankings, the highest ranking ever for the Fighting Irish program.
After dominating the 42nd Annual Dennis Stark Relays on Oct. 6, Notre Dame won its dual meet opener at Texas A & M 169-129 on Oct. 28 and then topped No. 18 Purdue 156-144 at the Rolfs Aquatic Center last Friday.
In the Notre Dame\’s first victory against Purdue in 19 tries, Lytle turned in a 45.71-second split in anchoring the 400-yard medley relay foursome\’s meet-opening win, finished third in the 50 freestyle, won the 100 free in :47.17 and then, with the Fighting Irish clinging to a three-point lead going into the final race, gave the 400 free relay team a lead it wouldn\’t relinquish with a :46.12 split.
Against Texas A & M, Lytle was touched out by the Aggies\’ Francisco Picasso in the 50 free but came back to win the 100 free in :45.80. He swam a leg for the 400 medley relay team that placed third and the 400 free relay team that did not officially compete against the Aggies but would have finished second.
In the six-team Dennis Stark Relays, Lytle teamed with two other freshmen and a sophomore to win the 300 free relay and then joined senior captain Ted Brown, freshman Ray Toomey of Baldwin (PA) High School and sophomore Jeff Wood to win the 400 free relay in a meet-record 3:07:01. Notre Dame dominated with 264 points, winning 11 of 13 events and setting five meet records.
The Fighting Irish, with 24 monogram winners from last year\’s team that posted a 10-2 dual meet record and won the Big East championship for the second year in a row, will host Michigan State Friday and Pitt Saturday.
CLARION — Two seniors from Clearfield, Stacy Ogden and Aimee Kelly, have been contributing to the fast getaway by the Clarion University women\’s swimming team, which easily won the Clarion Classic Oct. 20 and 21 before reeling off dual meet victories against Allegheny College 158-80 at Meadville on Oct. 25, Carnegie-Mellon 177-117 at Pittsburgh on Oct. 28 and Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference opponent Shippensburg 199-101 in its home opener last Saturday.
In the Clarion Classic, Ogden finished second in the 100-yard backstroke and the 200 freestyle and anchored the winning 200 free relay team with a 24.92-second split. Kelly earned points with a sixth in the 200 backstroke in addition to helping the Golden Eagle \’B\’ 400 medley relay team place fourth with a 1:00.50 split and the Golden Eagle \’C\’ 200 free relay team finish sixth. Clarion amassed 943 points to Slippery Rock\’s 346, Lock Haven\’s 280 and Grove City\’s 259.
Ogden swam on both of the Clarion \’A\’ winning relay teams at Allegheny, the first leg in :30.17 for the 400 medley quartet that and the final leg in a team-best :54.56 for the 400 free foursome. In addition, she finished second in the 200 back.
At Carnegie-Mellon, Ogden turned in a :29.66 leadoff leg for the victorious Clarion \’A\’ 200 medley team and posted seconds in the 100 back and 200 back.
Ogden recorded a :25.28 split in the Clarion \’A\’ 200 free relay team\’s victory and helped the Golden Eagle \’A\’ 200 medley relay team place second against visiting Shippensburg in the W. S. Tippin Natatorium. She also was second in the 500 free and third in the 100 back.
Ogden is working on her fourth letter for the Golden Eagles.
In her freshman season, she placed 10th in the 200 back, 12th in the 100 back and 16th in the 50 free at the PSAC Championships as Clarion (8-4 in dual meets) won the title before finishing fifth in the NCAA Division II Nationals.
As a sophomore, Ogden earned NCAA Division II All-American Honorable Mention honors with the 200 freestyle relay team to cap a season in which Clarion (8-4) finished second in the PSAC meet and 10th in the nationals. She earned a silver medal with the 200 free relay team, placed sixth in the 100 back, 11th in the 200 back and 17th in the 500 free at the conference championships.
Last year, Ogden earned a gold medal with the Clarion \’A\’ 200 freestyle relay team and a silver medal with the Clarion \’A\’ 200 medley relay team as the Golden Eagles (9-3) won the PSAC championship for the 26th time in 31 years. She placed seventh in both the 100 back and 200 back with victories in the B heat finals and finished 16th in the 50 free. The 200 free relay team placed 11th and the 200 medley relay team finished 16th at the NCAA Division II Nationals.
Clarion\’s next meet will be Saturday at Akron with Duquense.
WASHINGTON — Freshman Nathan Taylor of Clearfield finished second in the 200-yard individual medley and the 100 butterfly as the Washington & Jefferson College men\’s swimming team opened the 2006-2007 season with an 85-76 win over Frostburg State in the Henry Memorial Natatorium Saturday.
Sophomore Ryan Sayers of Frenchville, also a Clearfield Area High School graduate, finished in exhibition one-meter and three-meter diving for the Presidents.
WILLIAMSPORT — Sophomore letterman Brandon Good of Clearfield is being counted on provide points in the sprints and butterfly events for the Lycoming College men\’s swimming team and was one of the Warriors\’ top performers in a 100-78 Middle Atlantic Conference loss at Albright Saturday.
Good received All-MAC first team honors last season after anchoring Lycoming\’s 200-yard medley and 200 freestyle teams, which finished second in the conference championships. He also placed eighth in the 50 free, 13th in the 100 fly and 14th in the 200 fly.
Two other formed Clearfield Area High School swimmers under coach Jackie Morrison who are on college rosters are sophomore Samara Warrick (freestyle/backstroke) at Shippensburg University and freshman Cassie Mulhollem (freestyle) at Franklin & Marshall. A broken arm will keep Mulhollem out of action until after the holidays.
Paterno to Miss 1st Game Since 1977
Penn State-Temple football game set for 3:30 p.m. kickoff
Season Preview: Curwensville Boys Basketball Squad Looking For Turn Around Season
Lady Bison’s Picard Hurls No-Hitter for 2-0 Victory Over Lady Chucks
District 9 Football Friday Night Overtime Show Announcement
Penn State-Minnesota Football Game to be played as scheduled
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Operation Open Market: The Vendors
When we wrote last week about Operation Open Market the court documents had not yet been released in a major multi-agency Identity Theft case which targeted criminals who traded in the identities of others through the online site "Carder.su" and its affiliated other sites. We profiled the prior identity theft career of one of the charged, Jonathan Vergnetti, while we waited for the rest of the court documents to be made publicly available.
Now we are part way there. We have received copies of all three of the indictments related to this operation. Today we'll focus on the largest of the three cases, which still has a considerable amount of data redacted in the version that has been released by the courts. I refer to this case as "The Vendors" case because most of those charged were approved vendors of services in the Carder.su framework. The case, known as "No: 2:12-CR-004" in the PACER system, currently charges 39 defendants in the U.S. District Court of Nevada.
DISCLAIMER: The data below is a reflection of the CHARGES. Of course these dirty rotten identity thieves are presumed innocent until convicted in a court of law.
[REDACTED] indicates someone whose identity is being suppressed for the time being, but "John Doe" indicates someone who is known only by their online monickers such as those used at Carder.su. Authorities may be interested in learning more true identities of John Does if you have them.
A quick index of Carder.su aliases that are still John Does:
Senna071, Morfiy, Gruber, Maxxtro, Elit3, Fozzy, Vitrum, Lermentov, TM, Zo0mer, Deputat, Centurion, and Consigliori. If you know who those folks are, I'm sure your local FBI office would be interested. Refer to "Operation Open Market Nevada Case 2:12-CR-004" when you call. 8-)
The Charges
Count 1: 18 USC § 1962(c) and 1963: Participate in a Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization
Count 2: 18 USC § 1962(d): Conspiracy to Engage in a Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization
Counts 3-17: 18 USC § 1028(a)(1): Unlawful Trafficking in and Production of Counterfeit Identification Documents or Authentication Features
Count 18: 18 USC § 1028(a)(1): Attempt to Unlawful Trafficking in and Production of Counterfeit Identification Documents or Authentication Features
Count 19: 18 USC § 1028(a)(2): Conspiracy to Unlawfully Transfer Identification Document, Authentication Feature, and False Identification Document
Count 20: 18 USC § 1028(a)(7) and (c)(3)(A): Unlawful Transfer, Possession, and Use of a Means of Identification
Count 21: 18 USC § 1029(a)(2): Trafficking in and Use of Counterfeit and Unauthorized Access Devices
Counts 22-55: 18 USC § 1029(a)(3): Possession of Fifteen or More Counterfeit and Unauthorized Access Devices
Counts 56-60: 18 USC § 1029(a)(4): Unlawful Possession, Production, and Trafficking in Device-making Equipment
Counts 61-62: 18 USC § 1029(a)(4): Conspiracy to Unlawful Possession, Production and Trafficking in Device-Making Equipment
18 USC § 2: Aiding and Abetting (applied to Counts 1, 3-17, 18, 20, 21, 22-56, 61-62).
The Charged
[REDACTED] AKA Admin, AKA Support (Counts 1,2,19)
[REDACTED] AKA Graf, (Counts 1,2,33,44,47)
Alexander Kostyukov, AKA Temp, AKA Klbs (Counts 1-2, 3-17) (Age 27, arrested in Miami, Florida, a Russian citizen)
Maceo Boozer III, AKA XXXSimone, AKA Gr, AKA El Padrino, AKA Mr. Right, AKA MRDC87 (Counts 1,2,3-17) (Age 23, arrested in Detroit, Michigan)
[REDACTED] AKA [REDACTED], AKA Ray (Counts 1,2, 3-17)
Edward Montecalvo, AKA Nightmare, AKA Tenure44 (Counts 1,2,3-17,22-55), arrested in Morgantown, West Virginia. (Carder.su Member#8711, Carding.su Member#8237 Current Status: RIPPER. His profile says he sells FEDEX labels and Track2 Dumps)
[REDACTED] AKA Ibatistuta (Counts 1-2)
[REDACTED] AKA cc--trader, AKA Kengza (Counts 1-2, 20, 22-55)
Jermaine Smith, AKA SirCharlie57, AKA FairBusinessMan (Counts 1-2, 61-62), age 31, arrested in Newark, New Jersey
Makyl Haggerty, AKA Wave (Counts 1-2) NOT YET ARRESTED, LAST KNOWN ADDRESS IN SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
[REDACTED] AKA Bank Manager, AKA Document Manager, AKA Corey (Counts (1-2, 61-62)
[REDACTED] AKA AbagnaleFrank (Counts 1-2)
[REDACTED] AKA Devica, (Counts 1-2)
[REDACTED] AKA Track2, AKA Bulba, AKA NCUX (Counts 1-2, 22-55)
Qasir Mukhtar, AKA Caliber, (Counts 1-2, 56-60), Age 27, arrested in New York, NY
[REDACTED] AKA [REDACTED], AKA Patistota, (Counts 1-2, 22-55)
[REDACTED] AKA Source (Counts 1-2, 22-55)
[REDACTED] AKA C4rd3r (Counts 1-2, 22-55)
[REDACTED] AKA Bowl (Counts 1-2, 22-55)
[REDACTED] AKA Dorbik, AKA Matad0r (Count 2)
Michael Lofton, AKA Killit, AKA Lofeazy (Counts 1-2, 3-17), Age 34, arrested in Las Vegas, NV
Shiyang Gou, AKA CDER, (Counts 1-2, 3-17), Age 27, Arrested in New York, NY
David Ray Camez, AKA BadMan, AKA DoctorSex, (Counts 1-2, 3-17), Arrested in Las Vegas, NV
Cameron Harrison, AKA Kilobit, (Counts 1-2,3-17), Age 25, Augusta, Georgia
[REDACTED] AKA Qiller (Counts 1-2, 3-17)
Duvaughn Butler, AKA MackMann (Counts 1-2, 21, 61-62), age 37, arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada
Fredrick Thomas, AKA 1Stunna (Counts 1-2), age 31, arrested in Orlando, Florida
John Doe 1, AKA Senna071 (Counts 1-2, 3-17)
John Doe 2, AKA Morfiy (Counts 1-2, 3-17)
John Doe 3, AKA Gruber (Counts 1-2, 18)
John Doe 4, AKA MAXXTRO (Counts 1-2)
John Doe 5, AKA Elit3 (Counts 1-2)
John Doe 6, AKA Fozzy (Counts 1-2, 22-55)
John Doe 7, AKA Vitrum, AKA Lermentov (Counts 1-2, 22-55)
[REDACTED] AKA Panther, AKA Euphoric, AKA Darkmth (Counts 1-2, 22-55)
John Doe 8, AKA TM (Counts 1-2, 22-55)
John Doe 9, AKA ZO0MER, AKA Deputat (Counts 1-2, 22-55)
John Doe 10, AKA Centurion (Counts 1-2, 22-55)
John Doe 11, AKA Consigliori (Counts 1-2, 61-62)
The main indictment goes after the vendors who provided services at Carder.su, which includes Carder.info, Carder.su, Crdsu.su, Carder.biz, and Carder.pro.
The name of the Administrator (AKA Admin AKA Support) is known but [REDACTED]. There are two moderators charged in the indictment, one [REDACTED] AKA Graf and the other unknown, called JOHN DOE 4, AKA MAXXTRO.
Kostyukov, AKA Temp, AKA Klbs, is a vendor of Cashout Services at Carder.su, receiving a fee between 45% and 62% of the total funds laundered in exchange for providing members with cashout.
Boozer, AKA XXXSimone, AKA G4, AKA El Padrino, AKA Mr. Right, AKA mrdc87, is a vendor of Dumps at Carder.su. He sells dumps for between $15 and $150 each, depending on the quantity and the geographical location. United States dumps are least expensive, and European dumps are most expensive.
[REDACTED Defendant #5] AKA RAY is a vendor of Counterfeit Plastic. He sells blank cards for $20 to $25, with a minimum order of 50 cards. Embossed counterfeit credit cards were $65 to $75 with a minimum order of 10. He is also a vendor of Dumps – stolen credit card account numbers – ranging from $30 to $45 each.
Montecalvo, AKA N1ghtmare AKA Tenure44, is a vendor of Dumps at Carder.su as well. He was arrested at his home in Morgantown, West Virginia.
[REDACTED Defendant #7] AKA Ibatistuta is a vendor of Dumps, Counterfeit Credit Cards, Counterfeit Holograms and Signature Panels.
[REDACTED Defendant #8] AKA CC—Trader AKA Kengza is a vendor of Fullz or credit cards along with the cardholder information: name, date of birth, Social Security Number, address, telephone number, mother’s maiden name, ATM PIN, Expiration Date, and the CVV number or the security code on the back of the card for $20 each with a minimum order of $200. He also sells Paypal accounts for $10 each. He also sells access to online banking accounts with Fullz identification information for between $140 and $200, depending on the balance in the victim’s account.
Smith, AKA Sircharlie57 AKA Fairbusinesssman, is a vendor of Counterfeit Plastic and Counterfeit Credit Cards at Carder.su.
Haggerty, AKA Wave, is a vendor of Counterfeit Identification Documents and Counterfeit Credit Cards at Carder.su. Haggerty offers drivers licenses for the states of Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Nevada, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin, as well as British Columbia, Canada.
Drivers Licenses range from $100 to $200. Blank credit cards were $20 and embossed cards $30 each.
[REDACTED Defendant #11], AKA Bank Manager, AKA Document Manager, AKA Corey, is a vendor of Counterfeit Identification Documents, stolen or otherwise stolen corporate account information, dumps, and counterfeit credit cards in the Carder.su organization.
[REDACTED Defendant #12], AKA AbagnaleFrank, is a vendor of Dumps. He sells a mix of 100 Visa and Master Card accounts for $1500, and 100 American Express cards for $1,000.
[REDACTED Defendant #13], AKA Devica, is a vendor of counterfeit credit cards and holograms.
[REDACTED Defendant #14], AKA Track2, AKA Bulba, AKA nCux, is a vendor of dumps (ICQ#572019043/164419326/460085653). He has his own website that he advertises to sell his dumps that allows users to do searches for the types of cards they want and to pay using Liberty Reserve dollars (an online currency). Card prices are approximately $20 each.
Mukhtar, AKA Caliber, is a vendor of Counterfeit Plastic and Counterfeit Credit Cards as well as Counterfeit Holograms and Signature panels. Blank plastic was sold for $15, embossed credit cards for $20. Cards with photos or chips were $25 unembossed or $30 embossed. Cards with both chip and photo were $30 unembossed or $35 embossed. His prices were negotiable based on volume.
[REDACTED Defendant #16] AKA Patistota is a vendor of CVVs as well, with a custom website that allowed buyers to shop for cards at specific banks by their BINs (Bank Identification Numbers, the prefix of a Visa or MasterCard number), and offered a service for testing whether the CVV on a card was valid.
[REDACTED Defendant #17] AKA Source is a vendor of dumps, which he sells from $12 to $150 each depending on quantity and geographical location. He also advertised his own specialty site on Carder.su which allows members to lookup cards for sale by BIN.
[REDACTED Defendant #18] AKA C4rd3R is a vendor of CVVs and Fullz on Carder.su, and offers member-to-member ICQ chats.
[REDACTED Defendant #19] AKA Bowl is a vendor of CVVs at Carder.su, and advertises his own website on Carder.su websites.
[REDACTED Defendant #20] AKA Dorbik AKA Matad0r is a vendor of Bullet Proof Hosting services. Bulletproof hosting guarantees that websites hosted in these locations will not be shut down, even if they are blatantly hosting criminal content. Other criminals hosted carding forums and phishing sites on Dorbik’s services.
John Doe 3, AKA Gruber, is a vendor of counterfeit identification documents in the Carder.su organization. He makes cards for Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Nevada, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin, as well as British Columbia, Canada. (By pricing and state selection, it is clear that Gruber and Haggerty are working together.)
John Doe 5, AKA Elit3, is a vendor of Fullz which he sells for $5 to $7 each with a minimum order of $15. He also sells Enroll data (all the personal information in a Fullz, plus login information for an online bank account) for $15 to $20 if the Enroll also included an ATM PIN.
John Doe 6, AKA Fozzy, is a vendor of dumps in the Carder.su organization with prices from $12 to $100 depending on quantity and geographic location.
John Doe 7, AKA Vitrum, AKA Lermentov, is a vendor of dumps in the Carder.su organization, priced between $15 and $100 depending on quantity and geographic location.
[REDACTED Defendant #35], AKA Panther, AKA Euphoric, AKA Darkmth, is a vendor of dumps in the Carder.su organization with prices beginning at $20 for United States dumps.
John Doe 8, AKA TM, is a vendor of dumps and CVVs in the Carder.su, which he sells through his own website advertised on Carder.su.
John Doe 9, AKA Zo0mer, AKA Deputat, is a vendor of stolen Paypal accounts, including names and passwords, as well as proxies (for hiding member’s true IP addresses while performing transactions) and Fullz. He also provided Credit Card testing services, and information services, including lookups of Social Security numbers, Dates of Birth, and Mother’s Maiden Names. He sold dumps for between $15 and $150 depending on quantity and geographic location.
John Doe 10, AKA Centurion, is a vendor of dumps in the Carder.su organization which he sold for between $15 and $80 depending on quantity and geographic location.
John Doe 11, AKA Consigliori, is a vendor of dumps in the Carder.su organization and sells blank plastic cards for $15 or embossed credit cards for $20 each.
Members charged with production and trafficking
Michael Lofton, AKA Killit, AKA Lofeazy.
Shiyang Gou, AKA Cder.
David Ray Camez, aka BadMan, aka DoctorSex.
Cameron Harrison, AKA Kilobit.
[REDACTED Defendant #25], AKA Qiller.
Duvaughn Butler, AKA Mackmann.
Fredrick Thomas, AKA 1Stunna.
John Doe 1, AKA Senna071.
John Doe 2, AKA Morfiy.
More on the Charges
In the Full Indictment individual charges are shown with many examples.
For example, one charge lists all of those charged with trafficking in false identities, and gives one example of a purchase date from each vendor, with dates ranging from January 23, 2009 to April 7, 2011, and showing what state the driver's license was for, including many in Nevada, some in New York, and others in Texas, Georgia, and Virginia.
To show the Conspiracy charges, each charge provides evidence of at least two of the defendants communicating and agreeing to be involved in criminal activity.
For the "Possession of Document-making Implements" charge, an example is that Montecalvo was found to have laminates used in the production of counterfeit Illinois driver's licenses; and Photoshop templates for creating counterfeit Maryland and Florida driver's licenses.
Several of the members, including REDACTED #8, 12, and 16, and Lofton, Harrison, Thomas, Maxxtro, and Elit3 are shown committing fraud by making charges using cards on certain dates belonging to certain named people. Dates range from MAXXTRO in November of 2006 to REDACTED #16 on September 16, 2010.
The "Possession of more than 15" cards charges are spelled out by showing how many provably counterfeit cards each charged user was shown to have on a particular date (presumably when a search was performed or an email was sent or received containing that information). Some were as low as 17 for Fozzy on February 15, 2007, and as high as "More than 490" for REDACTED #7. Dates of evidence range from February 13, 2007 to June 14, 2011. That's right, bad guys! Even if you "got out of the game" five years ago, you can still be charged for your activities at that time.
Again, for more details, interested readers are referred to the full 50 page PDF of the indictment.
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A Women's Film Series from the ATA
About GAZE
The GAZE Curators
Animation Spectacular IV
GAZE is excited to present Animation Spectacular IV! Join us for an evening of 16 original animated works that explore cinephilic obsession, deception for personal gain, spatial memory as a site for healing, disorientation as form of radical resistance and so much more.
Thursday October 24, 2019
Doors open at 7:30PM. Screening starts at 8PM.
Entrance fee is $7-$10 sliding scale
ATA is ADA Accessible
THE ROT RUNS DEEP by Shubhangi Singh (0:24)
What is the latitude of identity and the arc of identifying through micro gestures? Through tiny mutations? Through practices of subtle transformations? The Rot Runs Deep is a sketch in direction of that exploration where nuanced approach toward presence hopes to make the absence visible.
PROXIMITY by Karly Stark (1:38)
Me to Agnès Varda: “I wrote my thesis on Cléo – I’ve seen that film over 20 times” Agnès: “That’s more times than I’ve seen it.” a rotoscope reflection on my cinephilic obsessions.
CUENTOS PARA NIÑOS #1, by Michelle Trujillo (3:21)
La Llorona transcends from the world of the living to that of infinite waters. Images were created on 16mm film through alternative techniques.
FRACTURED by Laurie O’Brien (4:06)
Inspired by our relationship to the past and our contemporary disconnected world. Made at Visual Studies in Rochester, NY and at Light Cone in Paris.
WHEN WE BRING BALANCE by Robin Bean Crane (1:24)
A vision for a restored watershed, an ode to salmon, a call to action. This film is inspired by the words of Chief Caleen Sisk and the Winnimem Wintu Tribe’s work to protect their indigenous lifeways.
SLOPING SUBURBIA by Jenna Anne Turner (3:24)
Floods, fire, fast food. As this stop-motion suburbia encroaches upon nature, disaster strikes again and again. This piece consists of almost 500 images, ripped and scanned one-by-one to reveal underlying images, then layered to build a sense of chaos.
CPS CLOSINGS & DELAYS by Kristin Reeves (6:38)
The Chicago Board of Education made history in 2013 approving the closure of 50 schools, the largest public school closing to date in the United States. I documented all 50 schools on a 100’ roll of 16mm film while my digital camera caught visual and audible vignettes of the school communities. Direct laser animation and bleach were used to distress the 16mm film, which was then optically printed.
GETTING INTO SHAPES (4:02) by Carey Lin and Gabriel Gilder
A playful stop-motion investigation of narrative that utilizes the format of four short stories, or “yarns”, bookended by five variations on a theme. ‘Getting Into Shapes’ was animated at Opossum House in Eugene, Oregon, as part of an artist residency there in 2018. The original score was composed and recorded in San Francisco, California using audio collected by the artists from around the U.S. and internationally.
BUILDING THE CITY OF EXILES by Asma Kazmi (6:27)
Reflecting on the status of sanctuary city of San Francisco, this project examines the material culture of the city’s shelter and encampment structures, as well as construction sites. The work shows stark excesses in infrastructure planning and building practices, that frame a drifting marginalized community of immigrants, refugees, and exiles struggling to keep up with the radically changing global city.
EMPTYING, TO MAKE ROOM FOR OVERFLOWING by Hannah Hamalian (5:09)
What if there are really gleaming cities hung upside-down over the desert sand? A girl contends with her fate by taking on a variety of forms. A cube becomes a vessel, a site of transformation, a container of the universe.
MY FLESH CRAWLS by Alison Davis (3:27)
Your flesh is porous. If you are not vigilant something could slip through. It is important to check yourself over and then check again. This hand-painted animation will show you how.
CONFIDENCE GAME by Kathleen Quillian (6:03)
Confidence Game sheds light onto the motivations, methods and impact of those who use persuasion and deception to bring about personal gain.
JUDY’S WORLD by Salise Hughes (3:59)
A “female gaze” version of Jimmy Stewards fever dream in Vertigo.
SANCTIFY by Youna Song (5:29)
Sanctify is about sexual harassment trauma. There are two characters: me & my traumatic memory.
SPEAKING IN TONGUES by Shubhangi Singh (4:14)
An imagined conversation between Purnima Chawla, an Indian poet/ pedagogue who had emigrated to Oslo, Norway in the early 1970s and Marie Hamsun, a Norwegian writer/ poet and a rather contentious figure in the Norwegian political and literary landscape, Speaking in Tongues is a dialogue between the two women that might have been, should have been, but perhaps, would never have ever been.
SPAZI INDETERMINABIL by Michelle Trujillo (10:46)
Spazi Indeterminabili is an exploration of spatial and social orientations within national borders, and social structures. It follows personal memories and portraits of space and spacelessness through the cities of Miami and Milwaukee. It holds onto the ideas found in Sarah Ahmed’s “Queer phenomenology” that call onto the concept of disorientation as a radical form of resisting and being in the world.
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Home / New York Boroughs / Flatiron District
Ladies Mile, Historic District, and more
The Flatiron District is a relatively recent name for this area. In its early days, the area was filled with numerous toy manufacturers, thereby called the Toy District.
The Toy Building at 23rd Street and Fifth Avenue was the mecca for toy manufacturers starting around 1905. Manufacturing shifted overseas in the late 1980s. Across from the Toy Building is the Flatiron Building, an incredible skyscraper and historical landmark.
Madison Square Park, founded in 1624, is right across the street and serves as an urban recreational space. The New York Life building is particularly easy to spot with its golden pyramid topper. Built in 1928, the building stands out as one of the unique roofs of New York.
The area also includes the Ladies Mile Historic District. The area was once known for upper-class shopping. Famous companies such as B. Altman, Bergdorf Goodman, Lord & Taylor, Tiffany, Gimbel’s and MACY’s got their start in this district.
After WWI these buildings became warehouses and eventually abandoned. However, with rising real estate, these beautiful buildings have been rehabilitated into brand new shopping districts once again. The giant LEGO Store is also in this area, boasting a plastic-brick-replica of the Statue of Liberty’s torch.
For a night out on the town, Raines Law Room is an intimate lounge where one can lay out with a cocktail in hand and enjoy social conversation. Flatiron Hall is the perfect place to grab a beer, with over twelve different beers and twenty-two cocktails. In fact, it is a beautiful pub for friends and families to relax from all the sightseeing.
Gramercy Tavern is an upscale American Restaurant, while Almond is a bistro that combines the best of rustic French cuisine in an elegant atmosphere.
You can reach this neighborhood by using the 1, F, M C, E subway. By bus take the M20, M23, M7 and M11. The area is also accessible by taxi and sightseeing double decker buses.
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Videocon Metal Pro 2 Review
By Aditya Shenoy | Updated: 30 October 2017 11:00 IST
The Videocon Metal Pro 2 is powered by a MediaTek MT 6737 SoC
Its 2000mAh removable battery struggles to provide good runtime
It is a dual SIM device with support for 4G and VoLTE
Videocon has been in the electronics business for quite a while now, manufacturing home appliances such as televisions and washing machines. For the past few years, it has also been selling smartphones. One of the most recent additions to its portfolio is the Videocon Metal Pro 2, a budget model priced at Rs 6,999. While the spec sheet does have some decent things to boast of, there are also a few that made us take a second look. With the competition already so hot, can the Metal Pro 2 come out on top? Read on to find out.
Videocon Metal Pro 2 design
We have seen a trend of entry-level smartphones with premium materials used in their construction. The Metal Pro 2 gets its name because of a metal plate on the back panel, but that’s about it. The end caps on the top and bottom are made of plastic and so is the band that surrounds the phone. We had a grey review unit, on which it is very easy to distinguish between the metal and plastic surfaces. The back cover is removable and so is the battery.
The phone sports a 5-inch display with capacitive touch buttons below it. We found the overall size of the Metal Pro 2 to be compact, making it easy to hold in a hand. This also makes the entire screen easily accessible without stretching your fingers. The phone feels light and slim compared to other models at this price point.
Videocon has put the power and the volume buttons on the left, and they are easy to reach. The primary camera is positioned in one corner of the rear with a single-LED flash below it. The loudspeaker is placed on the lower cap at the back. The omission of a fingerprint scanner does seem odd considering most phones even in the budget segment offer this feature.
Videocon Metal Pro 2 specifications and software
The Videocon Metal Pro 2 has entry-level specifications. The 5-inch display sports HD resolution (720x1280 pixels) which is quite common at this price point. The phone is powered by a MediaTek MT6737 quad-core processor clocked at 1.25GHz. There is 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage.
Videocon has gone with a 2000mAh battery to power the phone, which, on paper, is smaller than what most other companies ship these days. While the processor is decent, this phone does seem relatively low on RAM, storage, and battery capacity. The Rs. 6,999 Kult Gladiator we recently reviewed packed in 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage. Clearly, the Metal Pro 2 does not have the edge when it comes to the spec wars.
This is a dual-SIM smartphone with one Micro-SIM slot and one hybrid Nano-SIM slot which can accept a microSD card of up to 128GB. There is support for 4G and VoLTE but only one SIM can access the 4G network at a time, while the other will be stuck in 2G mode. You also get Bluetooth 4.0, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, and a Micro-USB port for charging and data transfers.
Software is where the Metal Pro 2 feels most familiar, since it is running stock Android 7.0 Nougat. There is no skin or custom UI to get used to, but there are gesture controls. You only have the option to toggle gestures on and off but there is no option to customize them to trigger the apps you want. Out of all of them, you might find the double-tap to wake gesture to be useful. You do get a lot of preinstalled bloatware, including Eros Now, UC Browser, UC News, Xender, and Xploree Keyboard apps, and games like All Star Cricket, NOVA 3, and Spiderman.
Videocon Metal Pro 2 performance, battery life and cameras
Looking at the hardware, it is safe to say that the Metal Pro 2 isn’t geared to run whatever you throw at it. You see hints of insufficient RAM when switching between apps or waking the device up from standby. There is also a noticeable lag when unlocking it. As for the display, colour reproduction is decent and you do get the option to tweak the output. However, viewing angles aren’t all that great and sunlight legibility is just about average.
The Videocon Metal Pro 2 managed to score 29,743 in AnTuTu, as well as 572 and 1613 in Geekbench's single-core and multi-core tests respectively. In GFXBench, the phone managed only 10fps. These numbers seem decent for an entry-level smartphone but we did face a few issues while gaming. Heavier games including Asphalt 8 and Real Racing 3 took relatively long to load, although smaller games such as Clash Royale and Prime Peaks did not suffer as much.
We saw frames dropping while playing Asphalt 8 and Clash Royale, which made playing them a little frustrating. Games also had a huge impact on battery life, and we saw the battery level drop at an alarming rate. Asphalt 8 caused a severe drain and the phone also got warm to the touch when playing it. The 2000mAh battery won’t last really long if you chose to play this kind of game.
Battery performance was similar in our HD video loop test, as the phone only managed 5 hours before it died. The phone will only be able to get you through one working day if usage is restricted to basic, light tasks. If you do anything beyond the basics, you will to plug it into the charger during the day. Sadly, the supplied charger only puts out 5W, meaning you will need to leave the phone plugged in for a while.
The Metal Pro 2 sports a 13-megapixel camera at the back and a 5-megapixel one in front. We found the camera app to be quite basic. It has toggles for HDR, beautification mode and panorama mode. There is a slight lag in the viewfinder that you need to deal with before you can get down to actually taking photos. We found that the results were hit-or-miss. Colour accuracy was off in a few shots and HDR added a lot of artifacting. When shooting against the light, we did see a bit of chromatic aberration. Low-light photography wasn't all that great either, and you will need a steady hand to get usable shots.
Tap to see full-sized Videocon Metal Pro 2 camera samples.
The front camera can manage shareable selfies as long as you take them in well-lit environments. Video recording maxes out at 1080p for the rear camera and 720p for the front camera. There is an option for electronic image stabilisation but we found it to be ineffective.
The Videocon Metal Pro 2 sports decent hardware on paper but struggles to deliver a good user experience, by today's standards. While the processing power is good and you could live with 2GB of RAM, battery life is disappointing and camera performance isn’t great. We were disappointed by the omission of a fingerprint scanner, since this is practically a norm at any price level now. If you are looking for a phone in the budget range, the Xiaomi Redmi 4 (Review) is still your best bet.
product The Videocon Metal Pro 2 is an entry-level smartphone that boasts of some decent specs on paper. But is it your best bet?
Videocon Metal Pro 2
Stock Android
Light and easy to hold
Noticeable lag while gaming
Average camera performance
Read detailed Videocon Metal Pro 2 review
ProcessorMediaTek MT6737
Resolution720x1280 pixels
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Mega Fortune Jackpot exceeds €17 Million
Mega Fortune slot already has the record for the biggest online progressive jackpot win at €11 and that slot is currently over €17 million (over $22 Million USD).
In October 2011 a Norwegian player won €11.3 million playing the slot at Betsson casino.
This slot game is available at select online casinos using Net Entertainment software.
Casino affiliates should have an easy time promoting this slot game to their players as when the jackpot gets larger, players seem to be playing it more.
On November 19th the jackpot was just over €9 and in less than 2 months it has nearly doubled and is already the largest progressive jackpot in online history.
This also represents an opportunity for gambling affiliates that promote other products other than casinos as it could entice players to signup and give a shot at the jackpot which is as large as a lottery jackpot.
Most NetEnt casinos are licensed in Malta and the jackpots are available to most players around the world but not players in the United States.
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SouthShore Transit Circulator Study
March 10, 2014 March 10, 2014 Zac
Currently the most under served area in the HART system, the SouthShore may be seeing some new transit options in the future. The SouthShore Transit Circulator Study, which began back on November 19, is looking for ways to improve the mobility of residents in the area, as well as improve access to key employment centers such as the new Amazon distribution warehouse under construction in Ruskin.
A map showing how local and HART FLEX service looks like in SouthShore today. From GoHART.org. Click on the image for a larger view.
A map showing how existing Limited Express service looks like in SouthShore today. From GoHART.org. Click on the image for a larger view.
Currently, transit service in the SouthShore area is pretty limited, with just four routes running: Route 31, 47LX, 53LX, and the HARTflex South County service. All these routes only provide service on weekdays, with no service available on weekends or holidays. Route 31 operates with two buses running between Westfield Brandon and the HCC SouthShore Campus on a 75-minute headway. Route 47LX is a peak-only service, with two buses leaving Hwy 301 Park-and-Ride at 5:45 and 6:30AM, and two other buses returning at 5:57 and 6:27PM. Route 53LX doesn’t fare much better, with one bus running between Westfield Brandon and Kings Point via Hwy 301 Park-and-Ride on a 120-minute headway between 8AM – 8PM. The HARTflex South County service does a bit better, with a 60 minute headway all day (with the van leaving HCC SouthShore at :05 past the hour and leaving La Estancia Apartments in Wimauma at :35 past the hour).
Between 2000 and 2010, the SouthShore area saw its population increase by 46.7% (in comparison to the 22.7% growth seen in Hillsborough County overall). In the past, residents would have to venture into Tampa or Brandon to access most basic needs such as education, employment, shopping, and so on. With all the population growth in the SouthShore, the area has become largely self-sufficient in meeting those needs for residents. However, transit service in the area has largely remained the same in that time period (apart from the introduction of the 35LX and 47LX in 2006, the 35LX which was later replaced with the 53LX in 2011). That’s why the SouthShore Transit Circulator Study hopes to find a way to improve mobility for residents within the area, while still maintaining an efficient connection to the rest of Hillsborough County.
For the study, Hillsborough MPO and HART have come up with 4 possible alternatives about possible routes to run through the area. In every alternative, the proposal services would replace the current services on Route 31, 53LX, and the South County Flex, with Route 47LX remaining unchanged. (The maps are viewable by clicking on the links; .pdf files.) Note that all four alternatives include a shuttle between the intersection of Big Bend Rd and Tamiami Trail (Hwy 41) and the proposed stop for the Tampa Bay high-speed ferry service, which is independent of the proposed routes. (Potential ridership numbers cited below are for 2025.)
Alternative One – HART Planned Service with Fish Hawk Connection
Perhaps the simplest of the four alternatives, this encompasses the plans that HART has already had for the SouthShore area. All the corridors that already have service would keep it, but frequencies would be increased on all routes. This alternative also shows an extension of the current South County Flex to include more of Ruskin to the west, as well as two brand new Flex routes in Gibsonton and along Big Bend Road. There would also be an extension of fixed-route service east from Gibsonton to Fish Hawk. However, this alternative is also the smallest increase in service among the four, and thus has the lowest potential ridership at only 848 passengers per weekday, with 423 on Saturdays.
Alternative Two – Figure 8 Configuration with Flex
This alternative retains all the extensions and new Flex services seen in Alternative One, but makes significant changes to fixed-route service in the area. Route 1 would run in a Figure-8 running counter-clockwise at the top and clockwise at the bottom, with Route 2 running in a Figure-8 in the opposite direction. Route 1 would still retain the extension to Fish Hawk, with Route 2 continuing service north to Brandon. Unfortunately, the nature of the route structure would lead to longer rides for many passengers, and thus wouldn’t increase ridership much more than Alternative One. Weekday ridership would see 931 passengers, and 466 passengers on Saturdays.
Alternative Three – 2 One-Way Loops with Local Service to Brandon Mall and Fish Hawk
In Alternative Three, we see the new fixed-route service that was first shown in Alternative One along with the extended/new Flex services. This also has two new circulator routes proposed, which will stick to their routes and not see any demand-response service. The inclusion of these circulator routes doesn’t do much to increase ridership compared to Alternative One or Two, with just 944 passengers on weekdays and 472 passengers on Saturdays.
Alternative Four – 2 One-Way Loops, Extended Flex to Riverview High School, No Fish Hawk Extension
Like all the previous alternatives, we see the proposed extension/new Flex services, though the Gibsonton Flex service is extended a bit to the east to serve Riverview HS. Fixed-route service plays a smaller part in this alternative, as there is only one route that leaves the SouthShore area, with the service on Tamiami Trail (Hwy 41) and the proposed extension to Fish Hawk removed. The circulator routes seen in Alternative Three are also seen here, but the routes run in alternating directions every other trip rather than on a continuous one-way loop. There is no way to discern from the map if there is an interline point between the two circulator routes along the shared corridor on Big Bend Route, but it is possible that they could interline there to form two Figure-8 routes through the SouthShore area like Alternative Two. Out of the four alternatives, this one has the highest ridership with 1070 passengers on weekdays and 535 passengers on Saturdays.
While I’m personally preferential to Alternative One for its simplicity and the maintained connections to other destinations out of the area, I think that just as the ridership numbers show, Alternative Four may be the best choice. In studying the possible options for transit in the SouthShore area, it was found that a lot of travel is within the region, and that will only increase as the population continues to grow. Realistically, any increase in transit service would be a boon for the area, but it’s also important to do so in a manner that is effective for both residents and people employed in the area.
The Hillsborough MPO will be presenting the draft report on this study on March 18th at the SouthShore Regional Library (15816 Beth Shields Way, Ruskin FL 33573). The meeting will run from 6-8PM. Keep an eye out here for an update from that meeting later this week.
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Actually, I think aleternatives 3 and 4 got the most votes.
They offer a significant increase in service to the south Shore residents. The increase in service of these alte4rnatives is pretty extensive. I think either of them represents a good plan.
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A company in Poole has been fined for safety breaches after exposing workers to potentially fatal asbestos at a disused tile factory.
Poole Investments plc allowed a series of people and workers on to the site, despite being aware of the presence of asbestos materials from a survey it commissioned itself. The HSE investigated and prosecuted the company at Bournemouth Magistrates’ Court for safety failings.
The court heard that the company had agreed to sell redundant plant at the factory site to a local trader. Between October and the following April the trader unwittingly released asbestos dust and fibres when he demolished part of a disused pottery kiln while removing kiln carts from the site.
The following May, Poole Investments commissioned a firm to carry out an asbestos survey but allowed work to take place on site and next to the damaged kiln before the survey was completed in August of that year.
Even after the company received the survey report, which clearly stated asbestos debris was present and that the area should be made out-of-bounds, they allowed workers to continue activities at the premises.
Poole Investments plc based in Buckinghamshire, was fined £60,000 and ordered to pay a further £20,000 in costs after pleading guilty to three breaches of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006.
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Collector’s Paradise Takes Over Blastoff Comics
Posted on July 11, 2019 by Graphic Policy Team
Blastoff Comics and Collector’s Paradise have announced that they have entered into an agreement that will allow Collector’s Paradise to take over Blastoff’s popular brick-and-mortar location at 5118 Lankershim Boulevard. The new Collector’s Paradise NoHo store, joining Collector’s Paradise’s existing locations in Canoga Park and Pasadena, is expected to open its doors August 2019.
Blastoff Comics co-owner Jud Meyers’ relocation to San Diego for a new position at IDW Publishing is the primary reason behind the closing.
Collector’s Paradise will continue Blastoff’s tradition of emphasizing “graphic novels, personalized customer service, and a respect for the history of comics.” They will also introduce their “one-of-a-kind online subscription service and graphic novel club, a wide selection of exciting new product lines, and their many special themed events and release parties designed to bring creators and readers together.”
Customers should watch both Blastoff and Collector’s Paradise’s social media for the latest news on the birth of Collector’s Paradise NoHo.
ComicsPRO Industry Awards Nominees Announced
Posted on January 19, 2018 by Graphic Policy Team
ComicsPRO has announces the nomineed for its annual Comic Industry Awards. The awards honor those people who are or have been the best at what they do, making a significant difference in the business of the comic-book specialty market. ComicsPro is the trade association for comics specialty retailers. A non-profit trade association, the organization is dedicated to the health and progress of direct market comic book retailers. ComicsPRO allows retailers to speak with a unified voice on important industry issues, provides educational and mentoring opportunities to current and future retailers, and provides ways for members to reduce the fixed costs they all incur.
There are two categories for the ComicsPRO Awards, the Industry Appreciation Award for active professionals in the industry and the Memorial Award to recognize giants of the comics business who are no longer with us.
The 2018 ComicsPRO Industry Award nominees are:
Industry Appreciation Award
Raina Telgemeier – Her blockbuster best-selling graphic novels, including Smile, Sisters, Drama, and Ghosts are leading the way in exciting and igniting new and younger comics readers.
Gene Luen Yang – The first graphic novelist to be named The Library of Congress’ Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, Gene is also a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant and is the creative force of many graphic novels including American Born Chinese and the Secret Coders series, as well as the co-creator of DC Comics’ New Super-Man.
DC Comics Retail Support Team – The DC Comics Retail Support Team work tirelessly to give comics retailers the information and tools to build their DC business.
Adam Freeman – As Director of Sales at Valiant Entertainment, Adam has been instrumental in helping spread the word to retailers and the public about the Valiant Universe. Freeman is a former retailer and has worked for various other publishers in his career
Memorial Award
Steve Dillon (Deadline, Preacher, Punisher)
Len Wein (Writer/editor, co-creator Wolverine, Swamp Thing)
Carl Barks (Scrooge McDuck creator, the “Good Duck Artist”)
Bernie Wrightson (Frankenstein, co-creator Swamp Thing, seminal horror artist)
ComicsPRO members will vote on the nominees with the results announced at the 2018 ComicsPRO Comic Industry Conference in Portland OR February 22-24.
At the annual meeting, the ComicsPRO Board Of Directors will also posthumously present the first ever ComicsPRO Unsung Hero Award to Diamond’s Outside Sales Manager Dave Hawskworth. Hawksworth’s career spanned 30 years, initially working at Capital City Distribution’s Columbus OH warehouse, before transitioning to Diamond Comic Distributors outside sales manager position when Diamond bought Capital City in 1996. Dave passed away unexpectedly on January 9, 2018. ComicsPRO is honored to have Dave’s wife Patti attend the Portland event to accept the award.
The ComicsPRO Unsung Hero Award will be given at the discretion of the ComicsPRO Board of Directors to those in the comics industry the Board deems worthy of special recognition beyond mere praise as a result of their tireless efforts to improve the comics industry.
Retailers Behaving Badly
Posted on April 5, 2013 by Brett
It’s been interesting within days of each other I received two tips about retailers “behaving badly.” Maybe there was something in the air, or the retailers defrosted from the winter freeze, but it got me to reflect about my time working in or running geek shops, about 6 years total. I loved that time, but I hear more and more horror stories and try to remember if at any point I displayed this abhorrent behavior, and the answer is no. I’m fairly repulsed by what I’ve been told and hear.
The first questions is, how responsible is a site for the trolls that lie within it’s forums? Heavy Ink is no stranger to controversy. The retailer made headlines when the founder advocated for more violence against elected officials after the shooting of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. The police didn’t take too kindly to that one. So we know that the site is run by and probably populated by some asshats. If that’s the behavior that’s seen and expected, people will act.
About a week ago, a thread meant to discuss new releases devolved into jokes about Jews and the Holocaust.
Though it might have been 70 years ago, Holocaust denial is absolutely a touchy subject today and to use it as a dig is beyond low, even if it’s meant in jest. Some regulars to the forum didn’t take too kindly to it, reaching out to the forum moderators and then eventually to us to raise awareness of this stupidity.
I highlighted a bit of the administrator’s response in the image above, but it’s clear from lack of action as well as the fact the comment was called “dark humour” the Holocaust is fair game when it comes to dark humor. Clearly this is a retailer and site that wants to be inclusive of all and make sure individuals feel welcome… I as the head of this blog am responsible for what is posted. I make sure to handle any hateful responses, and there’s been some. That includes shamming or banning. Don’t feed the trolls and let them know their behavior is ok, it only encourages more.
But what was strange, a few days after being tipped off to this, I received another email about a certain retailer who is no stranger to this site where the individual was threatened with violence. Here’s the initial email in full and unedited other than redacting the retailer’s name (I’ll explain why in a bit).
I deliver for a living, so I have the oppertunity to stop into all the comic shops in Ma , Nh and Ri. Today I was in lowell and saw (retailer name redacted).
Before stoping in I tryed to look up his hours of operation online and found only a facebook page with them listed.
it states opening on friday at 10 am. It was 10:20 and thought it would be ok so I drove to the shop and parked my truck. The door was locked so i figured he was closed. as i turned around to walk back to my truck the guy across the street said that he saw him in there and i should knock. So knock I did. When (retailer name redacted) answered the door I asked what time he opened and he responded at noon. I proceded to tell him that his facebook page Stated 10 am and that he should change it and instantly i was given an attitude. I told him ok , i will come back later and as i turned around i made the offhand comment that he didnt have to be an asshole about it. He came out the door and asked me what i had just said and i tryed to then explain to him the facebook page and to my suprised i found myself in the middle of a fight that was escalating into a pyhsical brawl.
As our words heated up (retailer name redacted) turned sideways into a brawling stance. He cocked back his arm and closed his fist and then started to shout at me that he was going to break my jaw, knock all my teeth out then “curb stomp” me for good measure. I instantly took to the defensive and tryed defusing the situation by saying that we were haveing a miscommunication. I called him sir and even went as far as appoligizing for my words. He took that as a sign of weakness and began belittleing me using derogatory words meant to question my sexuality. At this point i was visibly shaking from the shear panic that was setting in on me, (retailer name redacted) could see this but he still wouldnt let up. I turned to walk away but it still didnt end. He followed me to my truck and took my company info and as i got into my truck he was yelling that he was going to call my company and get me fired.
Im not a strong man. I am not a brave man. I know bullying when i see it as i have lived my life with it. I paniced. even at my age I dont know what to do. who to tell. Going to the police turns into a he said she said dispute which solves nothing. So now im turning to the only thing i trust these days. The internet. I want to tell as many people in as many places as I can. This man should not be in this buisness. This man does not deserve our respect.
Thank you for taking the time to read my story.
First, I removed the retailer’s name because I have no way to verify this. I reached out and heard nothing back, and was not there. Other than a Yelp review recounting the same story from the person, I don’t have a way to back this up. But this isn’t the first time a retailer have acted as a bully or racist, or used hateful words towards an individual.
I followed up and asked what was said to the tipster Mike:
I didnt know how to describe it without using the actual words. But it was things little “go suck a dick you fag” and things of that nature
So, we have numerous anti-lgbt slurs and in both cases anti-Jewish remarks (curb stomp has its roots in the Holocaust where Nazis saved ammo by doing it to Jewish victims).
Normally I’d chalk it up to people being trolls and assholes, but the fact is, we’re a community. We’re a fandom that has no right to be exclusive or judgmental, both are something many of us have experienced. Both incidents emphasize the negative stereotype that comments are full of juvenile individuals refusing to enter adulthood.
What disappoints me most is not just the words used or reactions, but the fact is retailers are one of the main ambassadors of comic fandom. This is where individuals, old and new fans, have to go to get their comic fix. These folks need to be welcoming of individuals no matter what, showing tolerance and a willingness to embrace fans, regular and casual alike. I, in my entire time as a retailer can not recount one incident where I didn’t make people feel welcome to the store or purposely drove them off.
I wrote this after the ugly #comicmarket incident:
Too many have images of “The Comic Book Guy” from The Simpsons when they think of the register jockeys who sell funny books. #comicmarket and #comicretail is an opportunity to break that mold. It’s a public face of the industry, which is what was so disturbing about Sunday. The incident painted retailers and fans in a bad light, but it also turned off so many past, present and potentially future participants.
The question is when will we all as a fandom rally to say this is unacceptable? When will creators or retailers stop dealing with these shitty retailers? Feeding trolls, using slurs or hate words, belittling customers, promoting misogyny, it all needs to end. For the good of our hobby and entertainment, it needs to end.
Marvel Announces Avengers Vs X-Men Launch Parties!
Posted on January 4, 2012 by Brett
Official Press Release
Marvel’s making sure all comic book stores worldwide are armed for the biggest super hero war of all time with the Avengers VS X-Men Launch Parties on Tuesday, April 3rd at 8pm (local time), one day before the first issue goes on-sale. In addition to being the first in line to purchase Avengers VS X-Men #1, fans will also be able to receive special items exclusive to these parties, specific to the team—Avengers or X-Men—supported by the store.
To ensure these parties are the biggest sales success of 2012, each retailer opting into this event will receive a free Avengers VS X-Men Party Kit from Marvel, containing exclusive promotional materials.. In order to receive this party kit, every retailer just needs to choose a team—Avengers or X-Men—and will receive special bonuses for their allegiance.
“We’ve never had a bigger story than Avengers VS X-Men and we’re backing retailers with the biggest incentives you’ve ever seen through the Avengers VS X-Men Launch Parties,” said David Gabriel, Marvel Senior Vice-President of Sales. “Whether it’s advertising, promotional material or limited edition variant covers, every one of our valued retailer partners will be able to get the word out to both their regular customers and new fans about this comic event and the exciting Avengers VS X-Men Launch Parties. Some stores will choose to side with the Avengers and some will side with the X-Men, but I can guarantee one thing—Marvel will make sure all of them have everything they need to make Avengers VS X-Men #1 their top selling comic of the year.”
All retailers who opt into the parties & choose a team will receive the following as part of the Avengers VS X-Men Party Kit:
Avengers VS X-Men Program, a free comic previewing the upcoming event
Avengers VS X-Men Postcards
Avengers VS X-Men Customizable Flyer
Avengers VS X-Men Customizable Press Release
Avengers VS X-Men Backlist Sales
Avengers VS X-Men mini posters
Avengers VS X-Men promo items
Avengers VS X-Men #1 Advance Screening Copy, delivered to retailers in late March 2012
Avengers VS X-Men Party Lithographs
Mass media promotion around the launch of AvX and the associated parties
Promotion of parties to Marvel fan base via Marvel.com, Twitter and Facebook
An additional discount on the Road to Avengers VS X-Men Trade Paperback
And these same retailers will receive complimentary team specific versions—based on their allegiance—of the following:
Exclusive Avengers VS X-Men #1 Spotlight Variant specific to the team supported by the store
Free Avengers VS X-Men mini-posters showing store allegiance
Free Avengers VS X-Men Party Tickets
Free Avengers or X-Men Team Pins
Free Avengers VS X-Men in-store signage and shelf-talkers
Retailers, please check the Marvel Mailer or Diamond Daily for regular updates about the Avengers VS X-Men Launch Parties.
Which team will reign supreme? Join the conversation on Twitter with #AvX!
For more on Avengers VS X-Men, please visit http://avx.marvel.com
ComiXology Announces Retailer Digital Storefronts a Resounding Success
Posted on December 9, 2011 by Brett
Answering Digital Storefront Critics
“This is a great program and getting better all the time”
December 8th, 2011 – New York, NY– ComiXology is proud to announce their historic Retailer Digital Storefront program, enabling comic shop retailers to prosper from the sale of Digital Comics, is a resounding success.
To thank the over 100 Digital Storefronts that participated in this historic digital/brick & mortar partnership, comiXology, along with their Digital Storefront implementation partner ICv2, has now made two months of Retailer Digital Storefront payments one month earlier and at a dramatically lower threshold than promised.
“The retailers who participated in this program really are the unsung heroes here,” said David Steinberger, cofounder and CEO of comiXology. “Not only did we have a compressed time frame to implement the Retailer Digital Storefront program, but we were not allowed the luxury to beta test in the way we would have liked. But through thick and thin these stores stood by us and we really wanted to go out of our way to thank them for their support. We’re cooking with gas now and we couldn’t have done it without them.”
In direct response to feedback from retailers across the nation, soon comiXology will be rolling out a new Terms of Service (T.O.S.) agreement for the Digital Storefront program with language that is in better alignment with comiXology’s commitment to servicing brick and mortar retailers. ComiXology expects to see an uptick in new Digital Storefronts when the new T.O.S. is released.
In addition, the last several weeks have seen comiXology quietly make a series of improvements to Retailer Digital Storefronts, including:
Improved retailer branding
Improved retailer side reporting
Expanded customer information for retailers
Streamlined set-up
“This is a great program and getting better all the time,” said John Roberts, co-founder and CTO of comiXology. “We received a ton of harsh criticism out of the gate, but that happens any time people try to make big changes in business. Bridging the digital divide for comic shop retailers has always been at the heart of who comiXology is as a company. People don’t remember that we started the company in 2007 offering our ‘Pull List’ service for retailers. Comic shops are a hugely important part of our business and will continue to be a huge part of comiXology in the future.”
“ComiXology was the only company that could roll out a program for comic retailers to earn money from digital sales during this huge surge of new interest in comics,” said Milton Griepp, CEO of ICv2, which is assisting comiXology with its retailer programs. “Although the fast launch wasn’t easy, it was great to be part of something that can revolutionize the way comic stores serve their customers. This program is in its infancy and there are huge opportunities for everyone as it grows.”
Announced in January and implemented in advance of the launch of DC’s The New 52 this past August, the Digital Storefront program enables retailers to sell digital comics with a simple integration into their existing site while tapping into comiXology’s vibrant digital marketplace. Comic book fans are now able to purchase digital comics online from their local comic store’s digital storefront with a portion of each purchase going directly to the retailer.
ComiXology heard many success stories and positive comments from participating retailers across the nation:
“The Retailer Digital Storefront has performed beyond my wildest expectations! We here at Comics Conspiracy went out of our way to really promote the digital storefront outside our regular customer base and it paid off tremendously. I can see this becoming a steady part of my revenue stream in the future.” – Ryan Higgins, Comic Conspiracy in Sunnyvale, CA.
“We’ve spent more than 30 years showing our in-store and mail order customers that we’re their best source for comics of all ages and types. With that in mind, it only made sense for us to partner with comiXology, offering our customers access to digital comics via our online storefronts at both our MyComicShop Website, our Web store, and on the Website for Lone Star Comics, our brick and mortar stores in Texas.” – Chris Powell, Lone Star Comics and MyComicShop.com in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas.
“My customers and I are loving the new comiXology Digital Storefronts — what a great team-up! It’s pretty much effortless to set up, runs like a charm, and gives us analog retailers the power to provide our customers with all the preferred funnybook formats of their choosing. That is a beautiful thing. And hey… don’t feel guilty about loving comics on your iPad. Feel great you can shop for those comics at a place like the Isotope!” – James Sime, Isotope in San Francisco, CA.
“Several of our older and long time customers had decided that digital comics were for them. Some had space issues but still wanted to follow their favorite characters. With Digital Storefront I was able to keep long-time customers and help solve their storage issue. I’m surprised at the number of customers local and far flung that like buying digital while supporting their favorite local comic shop.” – Keith Colvin, Keith’s Comics in Dallas, TX.
“At Challengers, we’re in the business of selling comics. ComiXology helps us do just that. Our comiXology customers use it to supplement their established comic-buying habits, meaning they buy digital comics in addition to print comics, not in place of. We don’t understand the retailers who are ‘afraid’ of digital sales. Who’s afraid of making more money?” – Patrick Brower, Challengers Comics + Conversation in Chicago, IL.
“Samurai Comics was very excited to be among the first stores to go live with the comiXology Digital Storefront. The Digital Storefront has been a great added value for our customers. We viewed having another revenue stream of comic books sales that we have no money locked up in inventory costs as a tremendous opportunity. Rather than have our customer go elsewhere if they want to purchase a digital version of a comic, we would rather have them purchase a copy through us where we get a percentage of the sale. This also enables us to reach out to these customers to offer them incentives to visit one of our stores.” – Michael Banks, Samurai Comics in Phoenix, AZ.
All digital purchases are compatible with the Comics by comiXology platform, providing fans the ability to enjoy their comics on their mobile devices (iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire) and on the Web at their retailer’s websites by way of cross-platform synchronization.
ComiXology’s Retailer Digital Storefronts have brought together participating publishers DC Comics, Image, Dynamite, BOOM! Studios, and many others, along with retailers that sell their comics in print, and their fans in the digital space — strengthening the relationships that have so successfully made comics a major force in world culture.
To request more information about the Digital Storefront program, retailers can e-mail retailers@comixology.com
Participating Stores:
4 Color Fantasies
A Comic Shop
Action Games & Comics
AJ’s Comics
Alter Ego Comics & Books
Alternate Worlds
Atlantis Games & Comics
B & M Amusement
B&D Comic Shop
BaT Comics & Games
Beyond Comics
Big Bang Toys-Comics-Games
Black Cat Comics
Blue Cape Comics
Blue Moon Comics
BlueMoon Comics
Books Comics & Things
Bulletproof Comics
Challengers Comics + Conversation
Charlie’s Comic Books
Chautauqua Comics
Chicago Comics
Chimera’s Comics
Coast City Comics
Collector’s Pair of Dice
Comic Book Jones
Collector’s Paradise Comics & Gallery
Comic Book College
Comic Book University
Comic Break
Comic Cellar Cards, Comics & Games
Comic Crusaders
Comic Evolution
Comic Heaven
Comic Kings
Comic Quest
Comic Store West
Comic Toast
Comicopolis
Comics America
Comics Conspiracy
Comics Dungeon
Comix Connection York
Cyborg One
Discount Comic Book Service
DNA Comics
Docking Bay 94 Comics and Games
Dreamland Comics
Enchanted Grounds
Estrella Mountain Comics
Evil Squirrel Comics
Excalibur Comics, Cards & Games
Fantasium Comics & Games
Fantom Comics
First Aid Comics
Flying Colors Comics & Other Cool Stuff
Forbidden Planet NYC
Four Horsemen Comics and Gaming
Funnybooks Comics & Stuff
Galactic Comics & Games
Galaxy Comics
Golden Apple Comics
Good Guy Comics
Gotham Comixs
Grasshoppers Comics
Ground Zero Comics
Gryphon Games and Comics
Heroes Landing
Heroes Your Mom Threw Out Comic Shop
House of Secrets
I Want More Comics
Impulse Creations
Jester’s Playhouse
Jim Hanley’s Universe
Joe’s Comics and Video Games
Just Another Comics & Kollectibles Store
Keith’s Comics
Kessler Komics
Kool Comics
Lightspeed Hobbies
Lone Star Comics
Mac’s Comics & Collectibles
Manhattan Comics and More
Mavericks Cards & Comics
Media Underground Comics
Metro City Comics
Metropolis Comics
Mission: Comics & Art
New World Manga Comics Cards & Games
NewCastle Comics & Games
One Stop Comics
Paradox Comics-N-Cards
Paragon Comics
Phantom of the Attic
Pittsburgh Comics
Planet Chaos
Poe Poz
Pop Culture Comix
Pop Culture Paradise
Pyramid Comics and Cards
Quest Comic Shop
Forbidden Planet International
Richie’s Comic Cabana
Richmond Comix
Rogue Comics
Rooks Comics and Games
Russo’s Books
Samurai Comics
Saturday Morning Comics!
SLG Art Boutiki & Gallery
Speeding Bullet Comics
Teahouse Comics
The Comic Book Shop
The Comic Book Store
The Comic Emporium
The Comic Vault
The Geekery
The Pop Culture Company
The Realm Games & Comics
The Vault Comics and Games
Third Coast Comics
Traders of Babylon
Treasure Island Comics
Vault of Midnight
Wayne’s Cards & Comics
Yottaquest
Zaldiva Comics
Zanadu Comics
About comiXology
Since 2007 comiXology has been developing the technological infrastructure to bring comics into the digital mainstream and expose new audiences to the rich history and culture of the industry. Through partnerships with top comic book publishers including Archaia Entertainment, BOOM! Studios, DC Comics, Dynamite Entertainment, IDW Publishing, Image Comics and Marvel Comics as well as their own mobile and web apps which host over 16,000 digital titles, comiXology has become a leader in digital comic book proliferation. Also focused on creating strong ties with retail stores through its technology solutions, comiXology continues to transform the previously fragmented comic ecosystem into a vibrant and cohesive marketplace.
Around the Tubes
It’s a new week, but the holidays are that many days closer. Yay!
Around the Blogs:
ComicBook.com – Top 10 Comic Book TV Shows – Not a bad list.
Buffalo News – Collector bargaining – This is where I really started my collecting and know most of these shops.
Gainesville Times – Graphic novels are not only for geeks – They’re for nerds too.
Kotaku – Sunday Comics: You Must Be This Tall to Raid – Each week, Kotaku posts some great webcomics.
Around the Tubes Reviews:
Paste – The 20 Best Comic Books of 2011– With a month to go, isn’t this a bit early?
Top Cow Publisher Promoted to Retailer
Posted on December 14, 2010 by Brett
LOS ANGELES, Calif., December 13, 2010 – Top Cow Productions, Inc. is proud to announce that the company’s publisher Filip Sablik has been promoted to working retail at Collector’s Paradise in Winnetka, CA for his birthday, this Wednesday, December 15, 2010.
While most individuals are beginning their holiday vacation, Sablik will be playing double duty as he teams up with the popular Los Angeles-area retailer to work as a sales associate as well as act as Santa. The publisher will hand-sell this week’s Top Cow releases (Velocity #3 and Witchblade Annual 2010), ring up customers, offer recommendations and follow storeowner Edward Greenberg’s every order.
In addition, any guest of Collector’s Paradise who purchases a Top Cow product and/or being an unwrapped toy to be donated to Toys for Tots on Wednesday, December 15, from 11am to 4pm will receive a present from Sablik.
“Collector’s Paradise has consistently been one of Top Cow’s biggest supporters in the LA area and has a terrific Top Cow fan base,” said Sablik. “And it certainly doesn’t hurt that I’m friends with Ed and his staff and family! I’ve worked his counter once before and had a blast, so it seemed like a great way to spend my birthday with the fans and give back to a worthy charity at the same time.”
Collector’s Paradise is located at 7131 Winnetka Ave., Winnetka, CA 91306 and can by phone at (818) 999-9455.
About Top Cow Productions Inc.
Top Cow Productions, Inc. (www.topcow.com), a Los Angeles-based entertainment company, was founded in December of 1992 by artist Marc Silvestri, who also co-founded Image Comics earlier that same year. Top Cow currently publishes its line of comic books in 21 languages in over 55 different countries. The company has launched 20 franchises (18 original and two licensed) in the industry’s Top 10, seven at #1, a feat accomplished by no other publisher in the last two decades. Its flagship franchise, WITCHBLADE, was TNT’s #1 original film of 2000 and the subsequent TV series was released on DVD on July 29, 2008. WITCHBLADE is also the first American property to be fully adapted in Japan as an original anime and manga by Studio GONZO in 2006. Top Cow’s other flagship property, THE DARKNESS, was developed into a major next-generation video game release by Starbreeze and 2K Games and achieved platinum sales status. WANTED, an Eisner-nominated miniseries published by Top Cow from 2003-2005, is now a major motion picture from Universal Pictures starring Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman. Virtually all of Top Cow’s other properties are in development as feature films, live-action television, animation or video games. Top Cow has also successfully licensed and merchandised its franchises into toys, statues, clothing, lithographs, puppets, posters, magnets, shot glasses, lighters, lunch pails, wall scrolls, mouse pads, die-cast cars, calendars, Christmas ornaments, Halloween masks, trading cards, standees, video games and roleplaying games.
Marvel Announces Retailer Support For The Point One Program
The Point One program is a tremendous opportunity for both retailers and Marvel, and Marvel is proud to work with retailers to promote this unprecedented initiative. The Point One program offers readers the perfect starting point for new storylines spinning out of the new year. Self-contained and featuring some of Marvel’s greatest talent and characters, these Point One books will lay the groundwork for a whole year’s worth of storytelling.
Marvel is pleased to announce the rollout of retailer support items for the Point One Program starting in February. In an effort to maximize consumer awareness and sales, retailers will be able to order an assortment of free promotional items tied directly into the Point One program.
These items include:
Marvel Point One Bookmark – in stores 12/15/10
Marvel Point One Postcards – in stores 1/5/11
Marvel Point One Shelf talkers – in stores 2/2/11
Retailers: For more information on ordering additional items or how to qualify for the free promo items, please refer to the Marvel Mailer. As a reminder, these are the upcoming Point One titles on sale Feb through April 2011:
• AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #654.1
• INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #500.1
• WOLVERINE #5.1
• CAPTAIN AMERICA #615.1
• DEADPOOL #32.1
• HULK #30.1
• THOR #620.1
• UNCANNY X-FORCE #5.1
• AVENGERS #12.1
• SECRET AVENGERS #11.1
• UNCANNY X-MEN #534.1
Marvel Retail Resource Center
Posted on January 21, 2010 by Brett
In November we brought you news about you news about Marvel’s Retail Resource Center. The service allows retailers to create websites advertising their business with some help and content provided by Marvel comics. On Monday, Marvel announced the initial list of retailers to take advantage of the program.
As the site continues to grow, with new ways to communicate directly with Marvel on their way, retailers continue to rave about Marvel’s groundbreaking new service which includes web sites, First Looks at comics before they arrive in stores, marketing materials, updated ordering information and more!
You can go to the Marvel website to see the full list of retailers taking advantage of the program.
Marvel Lays Siege to Blackest Night
To promote Blackest Night, DC offered Lantern rings with various comic books. Stores could choose if they wanted to do a “buy a book get a ring” promotion or give away the rings separately.
Many retailers were left with a glut of unsold Blackest Night tie-in books sitting on their shelves. Marvel has decided to take advantage of this glut of books by offering Deadpool Variants of March’s Siege #3 in exchange for the stripped covers of unsold Blackest Night tie-in issues from DC.
MARVEL OFFERS RETAILERS COMICS FOR COMICS
In an effort to provide assistance to comic retailers in 2010, Marvel is offering retailers an opportunity to turn unsold comics into an extremely rare Siege #3 Deadpool Variant!
Retailers – for every 50 stripped covers of the following comics sent to Marvel, you will qualify to receive one FREE Siege #3 Deadpool Variant. The 50 stripped covers can be any combination of the comics listed below and all submissions need to be received at the Marvel office at the address below by Tuesday 2/16/2010. Also included with the stripped covers must be your store contact information including Diamond Account # and email address.
Stripped Covers To Be Sent:
Adventure Comics #4
Booster Gold #26
Doom Patrol #4
Justice League Of America #39
Outsiders #24.
R.E.B.E.L.S #10
Address To Send Submission:
James Nausedas
Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Information To Be Included With Submission:
Diamond Account #
List of stripped covers being returned and their quantities
All the directions above must be adhered to in order to receive the free Siege #3 Deadpool Variants and the submissions must be received by Tuesday 2/16/2010 in order to qualify.
Please note that this is not a Diamond-affiliated promotion and Diamond should not be contacted. Retailers will be contacted via email once Marvel receives the submissions. Retailer with further questions should contact helpme@marvel.com.
To find a comic shop near you, call 1-888-comicbook or visit www.comicshoplocator.com
Marvel Entertainment, Inc. is one of the world’s most prominent character-based entertainment companies, built on a proven library of over 5,000 characters featured in a variety of media over seventy years. Marvel utilizes its character franchises in licensing, entertainment (via Marvel Studios and Marvel Animation) and publishing (via Marvel Comics). Marvel’s strategy is to leverage its franchises in a growing array of opportunities around the world, including feature films, consumer products, toys, video games, animated television, direct-to-DVD and online. For more information visit www.marvel.com.
It’s a great offer for retailers, as they can make a good amount of change on limited edition variants. We’re left scratching out heads though as to what Marvel gets out of this, other than a hefty recycling bill.
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Progress and Poverty in the 21st Century: Remembering Henry George
The real trouble must be that supply is somehow prevented from satisfying demand, that somewhere there is an obstacle which prevents labor from producing the things that laborers want. (V.125)
By Greg Moses
If you’ve been watching CNBC as much as I have lately, you’ve heard plenty of talk about the battle of economic paradigms between Karl Marx and Adam Smith. But a mailing from the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation that I’m unwrapping this Christmas Day reminds me that there is a third great alternative in Henry George.
George is interesting because he offers a homegrown American voice schooled upon the experience of the labor cycle in the young metropolis of San Francisco.
“Within a few miles of San Francisco is unused land enough to give employment to every man who wants it,” observed George from up close. “I do not mean to say that every unemployed man could turn farmer or build himself a house, if he had the land; but that enough could and would do so to give employment to the rest. What is it, then, that prevents labor from employing itself on this land? Simply, that it has been monopolized and is held at speculative prices, based not upon present value, but upon the added value that will come with the future growth of population.” (V.I.31)
But the privately-held lands of young San Francisco contradicted the more spontaneous declaration of land use that had made the founding of the metropolis possible.
Upon discovery that there was gold in them thar hills, says George, “it was by common consent declared that this gold-bearing land should remain common property, of which no one might take more than he could reasonably use, or hold for a longer time than he continued to use it. This perception of natural justice was acquiesced in by the General Government and the courts . . . .” (VII.V.3)
The 1949 gold rush produced a remarkable spontaneous disclosure of what counts for justice in land-labor relations. Henry George generalized the lesson into “the true remedy” of economic turmoil: “We must make land common property.” (VI.II.3)
On this view the most progressive kind of taxation is land taxation, because it encourages owners of land to either use it or sell it to someone who can use it. Land in use is land that wants labor; therefore land taxes are most likely to produce economic landscapes of labor in demand.
According to the Schalkenbach Foundation, the ideas of Henry George nurtured powerful progressive movements in the United States until World War I. After the war, Georgism was lumped together with Socialism and Communism as a target of red-scare repression.
The surprising thing is, if you are living the life of Texas politics, there is something Georgist that lives down in the bone. In the Texas body politic there is a deep aversion to income taxes, which makes property taxes important to the basis of the Texas common good. Texas has been bragging about its ability to maintain a more productive economy. Could the property tax bias have something to do with this?
In the recent pamphlet by the Schalkenbach Foundation, we are treated to one reason why the “property-tax rollback” movement should be considered retrograde. When the tax burden shifts from taxes on property to taxes on income and sales, then incentives can shift further in the direction of land monopolization, which means more unused land in the hands of hoarding elites, which means degrading demand for labor.
“Generations of propaganda have convinced even good liberals that property taxes fall squarely on the poor — to the mega-million dollar benefit of corporations like Standard Oil of California, the largest beneficiary of Proposition 13’s 1979 property tax rollback and freeze,” writes M. Mason Gaffney in a 1997 article reprinted for the recent catalogue. “The federal income tax, which once targeted unearned income from land, now devolves steadily into a payroll tax” (see pamphlet on “Economic Justice and Tax Reform Complete Catalogue 2008-2009,” p. 5).
Our interest in these issues was piqued when supply-side economist Arthur Laffer and associates began evaluating Texas, Oklahoma, and California state economies for their alleged friendliness to business. In the Oklahoma report, especially, the Laffer group displays their exuberant ideological bias against property taxation as they recount the good ole days of California’s Prop. 13, the movement that best defines the motivations of the Reagan era.
One thing that is more satisfying about Henry George compared to Laffer is George’s interest in labor demand. Of course Laffer cannot ignore labor demand, since business has to have labor. But Laffer appears not to consider any differential effects that different kinds of taxes might produce within a business environment. In fact, the Laffer reports may have the effect in Texas of encouraging policy makers to cut property taxes.
With respect to the relation between capital and labor, George argued that they are not natural enemies (VIII.II.19). If all taxes could displace land rent, then capital and wages alike would be set free from taxation. This is the part that Laffer takes for the whole.
What Laffer seems not to admit is that somewhere a public in fact exists as public. For George the public is disclosed in the social value of land. Therefore, to take back the value of land rent in the form of taxation is merely to balance the public account and return to the common treasury what only common effort can produce.
Thumping at the heart of George’s conception of justice is a theory about what makes human progress possible — “association in equality” (X.III.11). Which is one reason why civil rights becomes a condition of any progressive view of prosperity. While some voices will continue to complain that equality has too much of a leveling effect, George warns that inequality is what levels entire civilizations:
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. This same tendency, operating with increasing force, is observable in our civilization to-day, showing itself in every progressive community, and with greater intensity the more progressive the community. Wages and interest tend constantly to fall, rent to rise, the rich to become very much richer, the poor to become more helpless and hopeless, and the middle class to be swept away. (X.IV.7)
We’ll keep an eye out for studies that test George’s theories in the world today. As the world re-thinks all kinds of economic assumptions from the valley of the latest economic bust, perhaps the Georgist theory of property taxation should be something we call to mind. Meanwhile, we’re happy to have a kind of Christmas gift in the form of newly wrapped ideas from that old American genius, Henry George.
See the full text of Henry George’s Progress and Poverty offered by the Library of Economics and Liberty.
See especially the Chapter on “Rent and the Law of Rent“
From the Guardian Dec. 23, 2008
Larry Elliott asks for “the Keynes for our time” (22 December) and says that there sadly isn’t one. I disagree. It’s more a case that we need the Henry George of our time, and there are several that are ready and waiting. The fundamental issue behind our economic woes is our failure to tackle poverty. For Keynes, this is a problem delegated to full employment and the trickle-down effect, thus requiring the modern religion of GDP growth. Back in 1879, Henry George wrote Progress and Poverty, a bestselling book that
almost prophetic in explaining our current crisis. George explains why McJobs are on the increase; why house prices bubble; and why so many people are living on the breadline. He also proposed solutions, some of which almost got implemented in the 1909 People’s Budget – blocked by the Lords, which had a lot to lose.
I’ll offer three candidates for economic guidance: James Robertson, Vince Cable and Dr Adrian Wrigley.
When Larry Elliott, Caroline Lucas and team were putting together the Green New Deal, they would have done well to look back to James Robertson’s 1994 New Economics Foundation publication, Benefits and Taxes. Vince Cable is an obvious choice, not only for his grasp of the problems, but also for his ability to get others to open their eyes too. In particular, I include him for his leadership in advocating counter-cyclic fiscal measures, such as land value taxes. Adrian Wrigley of the Systemic Fiscal Reform Group has picked up Robertson’s 1994 work and got stuck into the task of how to implement this. I’ve not yet seen anything to match his proposals for unwinding the mess in a way that helps all and prevents a re-occurrence down the line.
Cllr Neale Upstone
Lib Dem, Cambridge
From Michael Kinsley’s “Best Books” list of Dec. 12, 2008
Progress and Poverty by Henry George (Cosimo, $15). Once a famous book by a famous author, now almost forgotten. George was a self-trained economist of the late 19th century. In Progress and Poverty, he explains to his own satisfaction–and pretty much to mine–how all the world’s evils are attributable to real estate. He overstates his case, but he does so with wit and excess that make the book fun to read. And it leaves you thinking . . .
From the Guardian, Dec. 9, 2008
Keynes admired the theories of his predecessor Silvio Gesell (Will Keynes save the world again, December 8). But he could not understand why Gesell devoted half of his theory to land values. “The part which derives from Henry George … is of altogether less interest” (The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money).
In fact, George would have taxed land to stop land banking and property bubbles; Gesell would have taxed money to stop people hanging on to it. Both these anti-hoarding proposals are arguably more appropriate to the present situation than those of Keynes, praised by Larry Elliott, since he made the basic blunder of proposing to increase the money supply without stopping much of it going into land and property.
Excerpt from “Pass on symptoms, fix the system: How to Extirpate Poverty” by Fred E. Foldvary, Senior Editor, The Progress Report, December 2008
As explained by the economist Henry George in his book Progress and Poverty, the margin of production moves out farther and faster to less productive land when people can hold land even if they don’t use it. Those who want to use land must then push the margin to less productive land, which lowers the wage and increases the rent. After paying for labor and capital goods, what is left is land rent. As the margin of production moves to ever less productive land, wages fall and rent rises.
We can raise wages and reduce rent by avoiding the under-use of land, moving the workers back to more productive land. Land is used most productively when the rent is collected for public revenue or for distribution among the residents. Land is then not worth holding unless one uses it in its most productive use, since the rent paid to the community is based on the highest and best use of the land.
This would involve a tax shift, in which taxes that come from wages are replaced by public revenue from land rent, or from voluntary payments by folks who receive an equal share of the rent. Workers would get a double gain: higher wages from putting land to its most productive use, and the gain from keeping one’s full wage.
A complete efficiency tax shift would also eliminate taxes on interest, business profits, dividends, and value added. The increase in investment would make the economy grow faster, raising the wage level until poverty is extinguished.
The reason why poverty does not disappear today is that much of the gain from an economic expansion ends up increasing land rent rather than wages. If the rent is used for common benefits or distributed equally, then the public would benefit from both higher wages and a share of the greater rent. The elimination of wage taxes would also stimulate investment in human capital, since the reward would be higher. There would be more self-employment and more entrepreneurship.
The collection of the land rent would also eliminate economic depressions. The capture of economic expansion gains by land rent and land value spurs land speculation that carries the price of land so high it is no longer affordable. Investment slows down, causing a recession. This is what we witnessed during the past few years. The abolition of depressions would eliminate the cyclical poverty of hard times in depressed economies.
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Boise’s Inn at 500 Capitol hires a manager
By: IBR Staff January 19, 2016 Comments Off on Boise’s Inn at 500 Capitol hires a manager
Aaron Black, a luxury hotelier from Portland, Maine, has been hired to lead Boise’s Inn at 500 Capitol.
Black has more than 20 years of hotel management experience, said the hotel developers, Obie Development Partners of Eugene, Ore. The hotel is due to open this year.
Black was most recently general manager of the Portland Harbor Hotel in Maine. He has also served as the general manager for Topnotch Resort and Spa in Stowe, Vermont, and was with Four Seasons Hotels for more than 15 years before that.
At the Inn at 500 Capitol, Black will have oversight of all daily operations and will be responsible for assembling the opening team in advance of the hotel’s opening.
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Russian - Idioms by The Free Dictionary
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Russian
1. A potentially fatal game of chance involving a revolver loaded with a single bullet, in which each participant in turn spins the cylinder so that the bullet's location is unknown, puts the barrel to their head, and pulls the trigger. A student of the university died over the weekend after apparently playing a game of Russian roulette with other members of his fraternity.
2. By extension, any reckless, foolish, and/or dangerous act or stunt, especially that in which the risk of danger or trouble is increased with the number of times one does it. Your company might have passed its audit this year, Mr. Fisk, but every year is going to be Russian roulette so long as this embezzlement continues. You're playing Russian roulette every single time you get behind the wheel of a car when you've been drinking.
See also: roulette, Russian
An alcoholic beverage made of coffee liqueur and vodka. Usually served over ice. Can I get a rum and coke, a glass of wine, and a Black Russian, please? I love Black Russians, but Ryan can't stand them. I think it's because he doesn't like the taste of coffee.
See also: black, Russian
play Russian roulette
1. Literally, to participate in a potentially deadly game of chance involving a revolver loaded with a single bullet, in which a participant spins the cylinder so that the bullet's location is unknown, puts the barrel to their head, and pull the trigger. A university student died while apparently playing Russian roulette with other members of his fraternity.
2. By extension, to commit or participate in any reckless, foolish, and/or dangerous act or stunt, especially that in which the risk of danger or trouble is increased with the number of times one repeats it. You're playing Russian roulette every single time you get behind the wheel of a car when you've been drinking.
See also: play, roulette, Russian
COMMON If someone plays Russian roulette, they take big risks by doing something that might cause great problems or danger. Many organisations are playing Russian roulette with their greatest assets — their staff and their reputation. We're playing Russian roulette with our health, eating this rubbish. Note: If someone plays Russian roulette, they fire a gun containing only one bullet at their head without knowing whether the bullet will be released or not.
play ˌRussian rouˈlette
take dangerous risks: The airline was accused of playing Russian roulette with the lives of their passengers.
Russian roulette is a dangerous game in which a person shoots a gun at their own head. The gun only contains one bullet so the person does not know if it will fire or not.
Russian roulette, to play
To engage in a potentially fatal undertaking. The term refers to a game popularized by Russian officers at the czar’s court in which each player in turn, using a revolver that contains just one bullet, spins the cylinder, aims at his own head, and pulls the trigger. With a six-chamber cylinder, there is one chance in six that he will kill himself. The term was transferred to other highly risky undertakings in the first half of the twentieth century. “Abusive parents are often the scarred survivors of generations of Russian roulette,” stated an article in the medical journal the Lancet (1976).
See also: play, Russian
The defense ministry announced that the Armed Forces spotted the aerial target as it approached Russian airspace, Sputnik reported.
Russian Jet Scrambled to Intercept US Spy Plane over Black Sea
The previously valid list, approved by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated August 27, 2014 No.
Russian Federation : The Government of the Russian Federation has expanded the list of cases for repeated crossing the sea border without border and other types of control
The Russian Film Festival will take place at the South Asia Free Media Association (SAFMA) and include film personalities and other celebrities from across Pakistan.
Russian Film Festival to kick off in Lahore this month
The appeals about the need to close the Russian theater are evidence that Armenia has completely lost the sense of reality, and Russia, in turn, should respond to this attack by the Armenian side, at least as a close ally of Armenia.
Azerbaijani MP to observe presidential election in Georgia
The two presidents went to the Sochi Autodrome, which hosts the Russian Grand Prix after their bilateral meeting and joint press conference.
Putin takes Sisi on tour of Russian-manufactured vehicles
The .44 Russian was not only important for what it was but also for what it became.
THE .44 RUSSIAN: CAN IT BE FIRED IN A .44 SPECIAL?
But on Monday Berzin's successor, President Raimonds Vejonis, signed a new law decreeing Russian will no longer be used in secondary schools.
Latvia: language rights
For violation of the Vienna convention on diplomatic relations and in solidarity with the UK over the so-called Salisbury attack, the Baltics joined London, expelling a number of Russian diplomats from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania.
Baltic States expel Russian diplomats
Russian people are going to elect new executive head of the nation.
Every citizen of the Russian Federation has the right to take part in the elections
MOSCOW, SANA- Russian voters across the country and abroad headed to the vote centers to elect a new president for the country.
Russian voters elect new president for the country
Macedonia is widely opening its doors to Russian companies and tourists, the first of whom are expected to arrive in March next year, says the Macedonian-Russian Chamber of Commerce.
Closer trade cooperation with Russia launched
A documentary recounting the experience of 6,000 White Russians (refugees from the Russian Revolution) who were exiled to Tubabao, an island in Eastern Samar, was shown at the Philippine Consulate to celebrate the 40th year of Philippines-Russia diplomatic ties.
When White Russians came as refugees in Eastern Samar
Secretary Ministry of Water and Power Mohammad Younus Dagha extended the invitation to Russian Deputy Minister for Energy Yuri Sentyurin in a meeting held here.
Pakistan invites Russia to join CASA-1000 project
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sent a letter to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin marking Russia's national day, in their first contact since Ankara downed a Russian warplane in November, an official said June 14.
TURKEY - June 14 - Erdogan Sends Letter To Putin On Russia's National Day
The collapse of the Soviet Union shows that an imperial period that started by the Russian Empire on its territory had finally come to an end.
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Sabine McNeill’s trial on 17 charges of violating a restraining order and four charges of stalking ground to a complete halt today, for reasons completely unconnected to her transportation to and from Bronzefield Prison.
Rather, the problem today originated with a person who has until now had almost no connection to the Hampstead SRA hoax. Some readers might remember “Eddieisok”, the would-be Tommy Robinson supporter and YouTuber whose interview with Brian Harvey last summer consisted of him nodding and saying, “Go on…”.
Well, it seems that he has taken it upon himself to “investigate” people accused of being connected to the alleged cult.
Yesterday this took the form of Eddie standing just beyond the court precinct (at the foot of the stairs outside) filming people with his iPhone as they went into and out of the court. He claimed to be looking for “trolls” who he wanted identified and investigated, and chief among those he listed was EC, who he had divined (from being in the same room but not speaking to her) is “very full of herself”. Uh-huh.
Anyway, back to the trial…
A waiting game
Outside Courtroom 11, supporters for both sides sat in the hallway…and sat…and sat…and sat. A sign on the courtroom door informed us that HHJ Sally Cahill QC was in chambers, and another hand-scrawled sign said, “Please do not come in”.
Various officers of the court bustled in and out, with no sign of any change in the situation. We had no clue what was up, and there was much grumbling to be heard.
The assembled groups included Belinda McKenzie; Mary Rooney; a woman we refer to affectionately as ‘Cardi Lady’ for her large and rather beautiful Kaffe Fassett cardigan; another lady named Margaret; Barbara Collier (formerly known as Babs, who has apparently decided that the gossip on the other side of the hoaxer fence is more rewarding…for now); various people unknown to us, and Eddieisok himself.
On our relatively sparse side: a gentleman we’d never met; Postnein, and EC.
A trip to the office
At one point late in the morning, a court guard approached Eddie and asked him whether he had been taking photos in the court precinct. Eddie denied this, but when the guard asked EC and Postnein whether we knew anything about it, we described yesterday’s videos, as well as a third one which Eddie had made earlier this morning. At this point, the guard told us to come with him to an office on the first floor, and asked us to tell the nice lady at the counter what had happened.
We did so, and the lady went off into an inner office for a bit. Eventually a court police officer came and told us that the police were already aware of Eddie’s escapades, that it was being handled, and we were free to go back upstairs.
In the public gallery
And then it was back to waiting. At one point Neelu Berry made an appearance with Edward W. Ellis in tow; and whither Neelu goes, Lee Cant cannot be far behind. In fact, Neelu was still lingering at the other end of the hallway when the court doors opened and we were told we could come inside. Neelu remained outside the court, but Lee Cant did come in, along with Eddie and the rest.
The public gallery was nearly full for the first time since this trial began. At 2:50 p.m. (a new record for late starts!), the court usher called the dock officer to the court. The dock officer arrived with Sabine, but the usher indicated that Sabine was not wanted at present, so she was sent back to wait.
The waiting game explained?
The court clerk then indicated that the person they wished to deal with was Paul Rogers, aka Eddieisok. He was asked to step into the now-empty dock, which he did, seeming a bit confused.
Judge Cahill informed him that on 15 December 2017, Judge Beddoes had made an order governing this case, that no people should be named whose identification could lead to the identification of any children who might be involved. We have referred to this reporting restriction on several occasions.
The judge said she was aware that Rogers had uploaded clips to YouTube yesterday in which he had named a witness who testified last week. She asked him to read a document he had been given, which outlined the charges against him, and stated that he had the right to immediate legal advice if he wished.
Rogers declined this offer, and started to explain: “I was outside the court, and I did a video. I just wanted to film people identified as trolls”.
However, it appeared that the court was not interested in his filming, but in the actual content of one of his videos.
Judge Cahill stated that while it would be premature to do anything today, she was satisfied of the need to protect the integrity of Sabine’s case. Therefore, she said, Rogers would be remanded in custody overnight.
As he was led out of the dock to the cells, Rogers called over his shoulder, “Thank you, Karen Irving”. Apparently it had not yet sunk in that this arrest had nothing to do with his filming outside the court, and everything to do with contempt of court.
Neelu’s lucky escape
Once Rogers had been taken away, Miranda Moore QC told the judge that Neelu Berry had been spotted in the building. Indeed, she had started to come into the court with the rest of us, but had changed her mind and left.
The judge rose whilst a search of the building was carried out, to no avail. At 3:35, Moore asked Judge Cahill to formally refer the matter to the court Attorney, which she did.
The public gallery was once again cleared, as the court needed to determine whether members of the jury might have been compromised by Rogers’ filming outside the court.
Court is set to resume at 10:30 tomorrow morning, at which point we hope to learn of the court’s decision.
We have to say we are less than impressed with Eddieisok’s performance today, as his conspiranoid shenanigans managed to lose this trial a full day’s worth of testimony.
Not only has he delayed matters at court, but if his goal is to assist Sabine (whom he rather comically persists in calling “Sabeel”), he has failed miserably. Instead, what he has done is drawn out an already long trial, and ensured that she will have to endure yet another round trip on the dreaded prison bus.
Good going, mate.
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Owies, and they went looking for neelu too….
This is starting to look like the hoaxers are all being looked at- hard….
First apd’s video gets her noticed by the courts, then eddieisnotok… and neelu was being looked for….
I bet there are some worried people right now out there in hoaxerland…
Wow! 😲
Thanks for this news, EC!
I thought when his later promised video didn’t appear, that he may have been banged up, I’m really glad he is being dealt with. But for everyone participating, what a frustrating pain.
Not only has he delayed matters at court, but if his goal is to assist Sabine (whom he rather comically persists in calling “Sabeel”), he has failed miserably. Instead, what he has done is drawn out an already long trial
And if the goal was to convince the jury that Sabine’s witch-smelling was perfectly harmless, and did not injure people, and did not incite borderline-personality eedjits to start their own witch-smelling careers, he is not doing it right.
In other Southwark Crown Court news: David Noakes sent down for 15 months..
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/notorious-noakes-10m-guernsey-gcmaf-crook-imprisoned
He was saying yesterday that the ‘trolls’ were rattled. Who’s rattled now?
He said EC is ‘full of herself’. No mate. She’s SURE of herself which is altogether different. It’s old Eddy who is full of himself and he’s projecting….he does that a lot.
I can’t imagine how any supposed supporter or friend of Sabine can act this way. Whatever one thinks of the events which led up to this trial, she is entitled to a fair and professional hearing, which numpties like Paul Rogers seemed determined to f**k up.
That said, many thanks for the very full and informative coverage EC.
I suspected something as amiss when causelist.org wasn’t updating.
it was always going to be this way. There are several sections of the law related to cases involving children but this case was very specific in the reporting restrictions being a Section 46 order, S46 is to prevent the identification of ADULTS involved in a youth case where this could result in the identification of a child. Now some of the witnesses will be professionals where it is legitimate to name them. However, a general filming of people going in an out of a court building in an attempt to identify “trolls” was always going to lead to at a minimum questioning and detention.
Too many people living in lala land and thinks reality deoes not apply to them.
Eddie probably thought he was doing a public service braving the ‘trolls’. He was warned yesterday about filming outside court but paid no heed. Did he really think he was doing something so important that the law would applaud him for it. Plank!
rosywillow says:
If Neelu is still of no fixed abode, the court seems like a sensible place to find her. Although wherever EWE and Lee Cant are, there will also be Neelu, and I suspect they have homes of sorts,
I’m trying very hard to feel sorry for Eddyisok, but nope, I just can’t do it.
I think it’s safe to say that the courts aren’t willing to tolerate any more nonsense about this case.
Yes, it really was frustrating to have to waste a day on this.
Yes, there was much commotion down the hall from us at one point.
I have no idea where people draw these conclusions about me. 🙂
Thanks, PA. The odd thing about Rogers is that I am quite certain he’s never met Sabine, nor does he have any connection with the case. He seems to have been egged on by (surprise!) Angela, but other than that I can see very little reason for him to have been there.
Yes, the Section 46 order is posted on the courtroom door (twice) and there are signs noting that there is a reporting restriction on the TV screens outside the courtroom and in the lobby of the building. It’s hard to miss.
The funny thing is that I have never, to my knowledge, said anything about him on this blog or elsewhere. I vaguely knew who he was, but I’ve certainly never trolled him.
So I wonder who could have given him the idea that he ought to come after me and claim I was a troll? coughAngelacough
He does seem quite unaware that he is doing anything wrong.
Paterson read out this entire post to Andy Devine and Angela on Devine’s livestream earlier.
He praised you on your fine writing, EC.
One of the sentences above is a lie. Can you guess which one? 😆
Another great write-up. Thank you, Karen Irving 😁
I think the court officials should look into how Eddieisok managed to report on tomorrow’s proceedings at 1pm today. Witchcraft? Time machine? Crystal ball…?
Yes, I would tend to agree. Really she would need to calm down or she will blow a gasket. I can’t imagine what her BP is!
Andy Devine’s latest video is very very disturbing & threatening towards you. There is also talk of going to court tomorrow with a knife. It’s a disgusting video! I would love to report it but it’s better left for the Police to see & listen to.
By the way, I gather that for all his pre-match bluster, John Paterson bottled it and never showed up 😂
That disgusting pig Angela has publicly named the children again 😡
Praterson also made death threats again, including one to the judge!!!
That mad bint Heather Brown is threatening to turn up at court tomorrow with a group of Wiccan activists 🙄
Oh and she says she’s cast a cancer spell on Angela.
Yeah, he was extremely threatening in that video.
😡😡😡😡😡
I’m only 24 minutes in so far and he’s already made three separate death threats to the judge (including one to have her put through a woodchipper by gangsters)! He needs to be reported and arrested asap.
Headless chickenry latest…
And he’s threatening to have you and Steve followed home by gangsters tomorrow, EC. Probably all bluster but please be careful
Oh and he’s just said his gangster mates know where you live and told you not to go home!
Andy’s been egging him on with these threats too; and at one point when Praterson says we’re all going to be killed, he says, “The sooner the better.”
Word is Jake Clarke’s gonna make an appearance too, lol.
Oh Gawd, Angie makes an appearance too. Sigh
Disturbing stuff. i’ll be interested to see where this behaviour leads the relevant parties. i’d certainly like to see inspector gobshite (Paterson) have his collar felt. they really don’t grasp what absolute idiots they’re being and where it leads. glad to see a judge finding out first hand exactly what an online gang of trolls masquerading as whistleblowing journalists are like, vile thugs and scumbags. i had sausages and mash with onion gravy, sprouts and carrots for my supper. burp.
Tick tock, Angie!
You must be a met copper if you say ‘banged up’
Refreshing to hear, EC.
A strict judge is needed. What surprises me is the sheer amount of time this stuff takes out of court time – when it is costs thousands per hour per hearing – for the tax payer. What also surprises me is that the judge did not require Eddieisok to immediately take down the offending material from youtube- it is still there.
So grateful for your reporting and all the things that accompany that effort – the time, expense, the discomfort of the hard benches when waiting, and now the unpleasantness of being the centre of attention, vilified by the likes of Eddieisok.
Eddieisok, when you read this, you come across as a stupid man, constantly referring to Finchley Rd which has nothing to do with the case at all.
He’ll have it spelt out to him in no uncertain terms wednesday. fun and games will be over for the dunderheaded fake journalist with no concept of reporting regulations. the man’s a knobhead.
Either that or he’s pregnant.
It’s true what they say, then – no peas for the wicked.
I posted a comment under eddieisok’s video (sans my usual thigh-slapping humour) that he could be seen to be intimidating potential witnesses and that in his video he had named one victim which was a contempt.
He removed the comment.
I assume he regarded me as one of the “Hamstead trolls who are losing their minds and attacking him furiously”.
Serves him right for not respecting the court process.
Judges: what they have to put up with at times. I can now imagine the judge in this case will be the victim of vicious and nasty claims. Thank God they are generally not intimidated by social media.
Dr Ghost of Sam (Oz) says:
Poor Andy Devine and “Dr” Anthony G.Pike (UK)- don’t they know that “gender fluidity” is all the rage these days?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6434819/Gender-fluid-model-Rain-Dove-maced-tracked-attacker-Instagram-abuse.html
“Rose McGowan’s gender-fluid partner Rain Dove was MACED in a public bathroom”
They didn’t “waive anonymity”. Their names were revealed illegally by..dozens of people.
I don’t think this should be ignored. Making death threats to a judge or even implying it is a very serious matter.
Look at the dreadful things that have happened recently- we have no idea which unhinged person may seize upon this and decide to act.
It’s that flaming red hair. Or is it purple? . Can’t keep up.
I don’t know the ins & outs of his case but I’m amused by Neelu’s claims that it’s “Big Pharma” trying to protect their profits as she ignores the fact Noakes had pocketed at least £5M from his dodgy therapy and has companies registered in tax havens.
Has anyone done a study on why these people latch onto EVERY single conspiracy theory going from Flat Earth to Quack Cancer Cures, Fake Moon Landings and Satanic Baby Eating Cults in North London?. (JFK is in there somewhere as well).
Sorry, what has Spiny Norman got to do with this? I can attest that Spiny does not have a criminal record (thats one of Angie’s evil lies) and i am pretty sure he wasn’t at the court. The amount of outright lies from these people is staggering, I cant keep up.
Some studies linked here: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Crank_magnetism#How.3F
I cannot conceive how that could happen.
Don’t forget the car that runs on water, the abominable snowman and lord lucan being jack the ripper.
I was using up the sprouts and carrots left over from sunday and didn’t want to open a tin of peas.
Making death threats to a judge or even implying it is a very serious matter.
Making death threats to anyone is a serious matter that invites a period of her majesty’s hospitality.
It’s also terribly unprofessional. “Oh yes,” people think, “let’s warn the client, and give him / her a sporting chance.” But that just makes more work for everyone.
I for one, welcome all of the self grave digging bullshit, threats and bile that is spewing out from all of the nutcases listed above. This case will in my opinion, prove to be the catalyst that brings about the demise of the whole lot of them. There will be many a knock on various doors and invitations to pop down the station for an interview before much longer. Evidence lockers will be bursting at the seams with laptops, tablets and mobile phones and hard drives!! APD probably has a bag packed and stashed near her door.
Remember, even Spivey and La Verite ( in her former guise ) wouldn’t touch this subject with a bargepole and they are two of the biggest loonies on the planet. That must speak volumes about these other dickheads.
Big thanks to EC for keeping us so well informed. We should all be very grateful.
Actually Neelu referred to “Edward Ellis of no fixed abode” a few days ago.
I love the defective. sorry detective skills of these morons
“Ottawa not London with an E-Mail addressxxxxx@infolink.ca and is a former” etc etc etc
My email address still shows .uk, yet last time I looked, I am halfway around the planet….
from andy (not at all) devine…
And that clown Pike, he’s another one that needs a good looking at by the police…
Paterson on the other hand, he just handed them his head on a platter, I hope someone has told the judge about his little tirade of threats….
And as MKD pointed out, children don’t have the right/power to waive their anonymity anyway.
“Rise up,” she says…from the comfort of her Oldcastle kitchen 🙄
At least it’s not a French prison, which are the worst in the world (according to one of David Noakes’ anonymous sockpuppets) and no place for an elderly gentleman.
Perhaps he will appeal the sentence, and create an opportunity for it to be reconsidered and extended. But it would be wrong to speculate.
16.15 to be precise…
and again at 19.15…
23.40 woodchipper death threat…
Cpt. Frank Furillo says:
Anyone going today – be careful out there!
That’s good Grobknob, you don’t want your peas touching your carrots after all…
Ok, that made me do a very unladylike snort.
They seem extremely confused.
Yes, if he was unaware that naming a witness in this trial was a very poor idea, then it’s only because he didn’t bother to read the signage all over the place. This has nothing to do with him taking pictures; it’s to do with him naming a witness when he wasn’t supposed to. He and his dim-witted friends should give their heads a wobble.
“Parents differently than most”…oh, is that what they call it now? I didn’t know there was a name for letting your boyfriend batter your children to force them to tell lies.
Dear EC,
many thanks for continuing to us all up to date. Your efforts are very much appreciated.
He claims to have masses of Sarf London gangsters at his beck and call, but I think this is just his not-terribly-clever way of being able to claim later, “Oh, no, yer honour, I never said I would do that…but I can’t control these imaginary friends of mine, now can I?”
LOL will do, Captain! 🙂
That sounds better if you imagine it in the voice of a Goon Show character.
I wonder if they will speak out when they are older?.
If they criticise these hoaxers and say what a nightmare it’s all been they’ll just be accused of joining the (imaginary) Cult and having been brainwashed.
My guess is they will have to change their names and by the time they are 20 years old they would be unrecognizable as to who they were.
Or they may well become warriors against the on-line false accusers.
But it’s so unfair.
Isn’t she the one who threatens to “chin” people?. Could be interesting.
Ghost of Reggie Kray says:
John Patterson of Finchey Road fame’s last foray into the Sarf London gangster scene was pretty much a failure. He didn’t realise that Arfur had, well moved on to greater pastures and Terry was pretty well beyond it.
Mind you he did pick up some gorgeous frocks at a knock down price that had fallen off the back of a truck right in front of the lock up.
I hope he realizes he’s skating on very thin ice.
Let’s hope that Eddie’s crime will not take up the whole day, that Neelu does not play hide & seek in the courthouse again, that Praterson gets arrested for his violent threats & Sabine’s case can get on it’s way again.
Potentially another man to add to the tally of those she has got arrested/imprisoned/sectioned.
I have a mental picture of court officials with a large butterfly net chasing a giggling Neelu and Edward around the corridors of the court building.
Top notch reporting, El C! Thank you for keeping everyone up to date – the twists and turns of this whole tale would be impossible for a bestselling author of fiction to imagine! Thank you, and above all, please stay safe out there.
Crotchety Auld Womandcfm , says:
Grobnob, I’m not a journalist and never was, but I’m sure that I read (or heard) somewhere that bona fide journalists are advised to find 3 independent sources for a story before they “run” with it (of course in a proper newspaper an editor would hopefully weed out the more loony tunes stories*). YouTubers are their own editors so that doesn’t happen unfortunately.
I’m not even against the media being used (both printed and online media) in genuine cases – like “The Oldie” ran the story about the insalubrious aspects of Jimmy Savile’s shenanigans.** Though that wasn’t until after he was dead.
* Well sometimes tabloids may have printed daft things.
** To be honest, I never realised how screwed up said gentleman was. I thought he was weird but then I thought well he raised money for good causes but I wasn’t astute enough to suspect there might be unsavoury aspects to his character.
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But you look very good for your age! First you are complimented on your writing skills and now we hear about your youthful looks. What’s the secret? I’m guessing hard work and Oil of Olay.
I can tell by your avatars that Karnevilnine is actually a giant chaos sign and Ghost of Sam is a classic floating white sheet spectre. I have a diamond shaped head and a green complexion. Given how distinctive we all are it is amazing that we haven’t been tracked down yet.
I think that we were both caught in the same loop of circular reasoning regarding Savile. I always thought he was creepy and strange – but he was allowed to work with children so you assume that meant he was alright really. Some people did know things and tried to expose him, including Anthony Burgess, but they probably didn’t have anything other than hearsay that would never be accepted in court. Savile was clever, good at ingratiating himself with the powerful and intimidating and isolating victims and witnesses. Looking at it in the clear light of day I don’t think he was guilty of many of the bizarre things claimed in the tabloids since his death, but he certainly seems to have been a prolific abuser of children and women who got away with it for a long time.
I was going to say “was allowed to get away with it”, but that would suggest someone somewhere was capable of stopping him and actively chose not to.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/study-it-only-takes-a-few-seconds-for-bots-to-spread-misinformation/?fbclid=IwAR0PMLP-fibNs5V8XThJjWDGzv0I7EQISSSRM-PbHJQ33Byix4X2eXd9kso
I won’t post it here for obvious reasons but I see Angle has done yet another contemptuous, slanderous, self-incriminating interview, this time with creepy Thomas Dunn 🙄
She illegally names the protected witness numerous times, and launches a really vicious attack on him in the last 15 minutes.
There are also calls from Dunny the Dunce for people to storm the court! He also lays into and names the witness.
Thanks, Tinribs. Watching it now. Angela has been in total overdrive these past 2 weeks, she just can’t shut up.
That creepy bloke in Kincorth has posted a death threat to EC too tonight. He can’t be arsed to attend court himself of course – or doesn’t have the bottle to – but has called for her to be killed from the comfort of his grubby little hovel.
Never mind naming witnesses which may lead to the children bring identified, they are both quite happy to name the children too. They really do not give a flying fuck about these particular children, do they? These so called ‘campaigners’. They also twist everything including about why someone was charged with contempt of court. Anything to keep pushing the money spinning ‘the whole world is against us’ theme.
Rebecca Shan is mouthing off a lot at MKD & others on Eddie’s vids. Allegedly she had quite a chequered past
Sorry pressed send by mistake!
Yeah Rebecca, stop with your wittering, allegedly there was a problem with counterfeit €50 notes at one stage……stop licking Angela’s derrière, she is dangerous to get mixed up with & you could end up in Carrick — ——- court or further afield where she could be heading. If you have previous, it won’t do you a lot of good either.
Man attacked outside Southwark Crown Court claims attacker was agent of global 'Zionist conspiracy.' pic.twitter.com/LwjgVIkQ0O
— CourtNewsUK (@CourtNewsUK) November 28, 2018
Haha. His big mouth gets him a beating again. Remind me never to threaten EC on video 🙂
Im joking!
Devine was going on about Praterson being attacked, says Praterson is going to be on that Sean bloke’s show tonight.
How on earth does he manage to get himself into these situations? I’m not excusing anyone lamping him, but what on Earth lead to him getting bloodied, again?
When did this happen, lol?
I dont know what happened but after the threats he made last night including against women its not surprising this happened.
This means there was a court reporter at Southwark today too, I suppose.
“Parent[ing] differently” is not generally an acceptable synonym for starving and abusing one’s children, nor for allowing a partner to abuse those children.
Lie detector tests are unreliable and easy to fool. APD is so desperate to be relevant that she posts lies; c’est la vie.
“Satanic Jimmy Saville Supporting Scum”
We have no idea who else Mr Patterson insults and verbally abuses or defames quite apart from all the matters we are interested in.
For all we know he says dreadful lies about his neighbours and so forth.
I believe in the internet age there needs to be a new law of Criminal Libel (there is in one Australian state- South Australia and a few people have been jailed).
While reluctant to have any new restrictive law defamation on the net is a quite vicious new way of permanently harming people ie: as in Hampstead, Sandy Hook parents and about 100,000 other examples.
Libel actions really are for the rich but what about the average citizen?. They are denied justice because of the lack of funds and the notion of suing a “man/woman of straw” could be financially ruinous. 20 years ago a newspaper defamation was published and may have been forgotten a month later. Today we have dreadful lies repeated ad infinitum on the net echo chamber. I can’t imagine what it must be like to be the victim of campaign and even when folk like Cliff Richard are found innocent it doesn’t stop the trolls.
Lord Leveson recommended a Libel Tribunal be set up for all citizens to access but that was ignored.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-46305141
Caddington Village News blogger sued for libel over fraud claims
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Mike Veale resigns following allegations of serious misconduct
We learned yesterday that Mike Veale, chief constable of the Cleveland Police, resigned on Friday after less than a year in the post.
The Telegraph reports that he is facing an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), following allegations by two female officers that he had engaged in “inappropriate behaviour” toward them.
Readers may remember Veale from his days as chief constable of the Wiltshire Police, notable for the shambolic Project Conifer, in which the late Sir Edward Heath and others were investigated based on allegations of Satanic sexual abuse by a woman whose memories had emerged under hypnosis. At the time, Veale distinguished himself by telling a Daily Mail reporter that the claims against Heath were “120% genuine”.
In November 2016 we wrote about the concerns expressed by Dr Richard Hoskins (then known as Rachel Hoskins), a leading criminologist and specialist in ritual sacrifice who called some of the evidence being examined by Wiltshire Police “fantastical”, and a “catalogue of fabrication”.
At that time, The Guardian wrote,
(Dr Hoskins) wrote: “I have exposed a catalogue of fabrication at the heart of two major inquiries. Worse still, Operation Conifer ploughs ahead. People remain accused of things that simply never happened. Wiltshire Police insist that not all their evidence is based on claims of ritual abuse. We will see. But those cases that are based on this pernicious fallacy must be closed immediately.” …
Hoskins said she was taking the unusual step of disclosing her findings because she was concerned the police do not want to hear what she has said and will not pass her report on to senior MPs on the home affairs select committee, or the accused.
Yesterday, Hoskins commented on Twitter,
Links to Robert Green
Almost a year after Hoskins expressed concerns about Operation Conifer, in October 2017, the Sunday Times reported that Veale had sought advice from conspiracy theorist and Hollie Greig hoax promoter Robert Green.
Mike Veale… emailed Robert Green, of Warrington, two weeks ago in response to an email Green had sent him. Veale wrote: “As ever thank you Robert.”
The words suggest the pair had communicated previously and will cast fresh doubt on the evidence that Veale’s force has gathered.
…Green is an activist closely involved with fraudulence [sic] allegations in Scotland in the so-called Hollie Greig case, in which claims that a girl with Down’s syndrome had been abused were found to be false. He was jailed for 12 months in 2012 for harassment.
At the time, the blog BarthsNotes revealed,
Mr Veale was thanking Mr Green “for an email in which he expressed his glee at the Mail on Sunday‘s front-page splash about how Operation Conifer’s findings were to be passed on to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. Green’s email and Veale’s reply were published on a Hollie Greig conspiracy website”.
Green confirmed in an email to BarthsNotes that he and Veale had been in “regular contact”, and that he had been feeding Veale material about Heath gleaned from the infamous “RAINS list” compiled by Dr Joan Coleman.
On 10 October 2017, the Telegraph reported that Veale was facing calls for an inquiry over why he’d shown an early version of the Operation Conifer report to Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen:
Mike Veale, who is overseeing the £1.5 million investigation into allegations Heath was a paedophile, is accused of handing the report to Andrew Bridgen, the Conservative MP for North West Leicestershire.
Some details said to be contained in the report were subsequently leaked to newspapers.
Bridgen, who had previously offered his support to Veale, calling him a “courageous and honest” police officer, described the contents of the report as “credible and disturbing”.
However, James Gray, Conservative MP for North Wiltshire, who had previously referred to Operation Conifer as an “idiotic waste of public money”, called for an explanation of the leak to Bridgen. For his part, Veale did not deny that Bridgen had seen the draft report, but said it had been shown to “a number of trusted stakeholders”.
The final report of Operation Conifer drew the conclusion that, had Heath been alive, he could have faced interview under caution regarding seven allegations.
Veale said at the time, “The report does not draw any conclusions as to the likely guilt or innocence of Sir Edward Heath. I am satisfied there are compelling and obvious reasons to investigate allegations made against Sir Edward Heath”. In the final report, no references can be found to ritual abuse, Satanic or otherwise.
Wiltshire Police faced heavy criticism for its handling of the case, under Veale’s stewardship.
The mysterious death of a mobile phone
Fast-forward a year, and in September 2018 we find Veale facing the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), which stated he “has a case to answer for alleged misconduct for providing and maintaining an inaccurate account of how damage to his work mobile phone was caused”.
While Veale initially claimed that the phone had been damaged when he’d dropped it in a golf club car park and then accidentally run over it, he later admitted to IOPC investigators that he had damaged the phone when he’d swung a club at his golf bag in frustration at a bad shot.
According to the IOPC report,
On 23 November 2017, the IOPC received an anonymous typed letter dated 25 October 2017. This letter alleged that Chief Constable Veale and a Conservative MP had collaborated in leaking information about Operation Conifer, an investigation into alleged child abuse by Sir Edward Heath, in an attempt to boost public opinion of Chief Constable Veale.
The letter alleged that Chief Constable Veale had spoken directly to one journalist on a number of occasions, and had told the MP that “he was going to cover his tracks by destroying his phone so records of contact between him and [name redacted] could not be traced.”
As BarthsNotes pointed out, it seems likely that the journalist in question was Simon Walters of the Mail on Sunday, who ran the first story in which Veale was quoted as saying that the allegations against Heath were “120 per cent” convincing. The MP, as mentioned above, was likely to have been Andrew Bridgen.
The IOPC report states that Deputy Chief Constable Paul Mills, who was Veale’s immediate subordinate, recalled his boss’s original version of how the phone was damaged:
…[S]ome time on the morning of 23 September 2017, the force media team made [DCC Mills] aware that there had been a significant leak of information from the Operation Conifer report. He stated that he tried to reach Chief Constable Veale via phone from around lunchtime that day, and throughout the afternoon into the early evening, but he did not answer. He stated that this was out of character for Chief Constable Veale, as he usually came straight back to him. He stated that it was “clearly challenging” not to be able to speak to Chief Constable Veale, as he wanted to discuss the scale, extent and consequences of the leak.
He stated that on the morning of 24 September 2017, he saw that Chief Constable Veale had sent an email from an iPad to the Chief Officer group at 6.05pm on 23 September 2017, explaining that his phone had been “ran over by an unsuspecting vehicle”.
The “significant leak of information” turns out to have been the Sunday Times article which revealed that Veale had been receiving advice regarding the Heath investigation from Robert Green.
Following its investigation, the IOPC concluded that the damage to Veale’s phone had been accidental, but that he had lied about the cause of damage to his phone as he had been embarrassed about losing his temper.
In the wake of Veale’s resignation from the Cleveland Police, we’ve begun to hear rumblings on Twitter that he was forced out due to his “courageous stance” during Operation Conifer.
Cue the inevitable cries of “stitch-up!”
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Cue various conspiracy promoters (no names although Andy Decline comes to mind) that Mike Veale was investigating the ” 788 – 790 Finchley Road, Pandoras Box ” and the Freemasons set him up.
What was “the biggest cover-up in political history” re Mr Wedger?
Obviously it’s one that we don’t even know about.
Nepha felt better says:
This is all very entertaining to those of us who enjoy your witty belittling of idiots like Wedger and Green but it’s also frightening to think that Veale was in a position of authority.
Thanks for this detailed update, EC. Excellent work as usual. I can’t figure out whether Veale is evil or just monumentally stupid, though seeing as he was so ready to believe everything that the known SRA hoaxer Robert Green told him – in an investigation into, er, SRA – I’m erring towards the latter. Either way, it’s a depressing picture of our police service if Veale, Wedger and Savage are the kind of people who get promoted to positions of authority. (By the way, does anyone recall the name of that other “ex-detective” who did interviews promoting the Hampstead hoax back in 2015? He was based in Spain, if memory serves.)
Can someone tell Wedgie that the past participle of speak is spoken, not spoke? Thank you
“Andy Decline” 🤭
Ooh, there’s dissension in the ranks, it seems 🤭
Yes dear, course you have. Bless
‘I am facing possible imprisonment’ 🤭
https://angelascaches.org/the-book-of-esther-for-those-with-ears-to-hear
Angela’s been “speaking the truth”? I must have missed that. Does anyone have a link?
The only things she says that are true are those that have been told to her in strict confidence.
Ray Savage? Wadnt he another over 100% confident one, 110%?
I assume Mike Veale resigning means he keeps his fat pension.
It’s brilliant isn’t it?. Sometimes I even amaze myself.
(editor: it’s from Michael of the Mouse Family. GOS drunk again?.Go home)
I wonder if we should believe these allegations “120%”?.
I doubt evil but I think he may be one of those very “Christian” officers with a tendency to believe in claims of SRA.
Call me spooky or even an old witch but I said on another forum that Mike Veale ( he is innocent of course as allegations are just that: not proved) seemed an odd Chief Constable as he was incredibly neat and groomed and “boasted” of how he worked out at a gym. He seemed very pleased with his appearance.
I thought “you have a sort of aura and a tendency to believe these rather weird and exaggerated claims about someone like Ted Heath but you are in a position where you could easily be accused yourself”. No-one is untouchable.
And thus it came to pass..
Flags, dragons?. What’s Zara on about?
“ALSO many will be instantly TRIGGERED by the mention of the JEWS as the people she wanted saved”.
Announcement : Medic and smelling salts please to Aisle 6..an elderly pensioner by the name of John Paterson has fainted.
Well, there HAVE been instances of child abuse by wealthy people (like Jimmy Savile, though it didn’t come out till after he was dead). I would have thought it was unprofessional to discuss an ongoing investigation though. Aren’t the police supposed to keep such matters confidential?
Interesting piece with some backstory in Teeside News, identifying those who supported Veale’s appointment who were sceptical and unhappy.
According to their reporter Mike Brown;
“Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen said Mr Veale’s resignation “was all but inevitable”.
“This is why I refused to get involved in the appointment process only a small number of months ago,” he added.
“To appoint someone under investigation and under such a dark cloud nationally was more than a mistake – it was reckless and incompetent. I said this at the time but was shouted down by the Police Commissioner.
“The Chief Constable merry-go-round must come to an end and our Police Commissioner must resign.”
Mr Houchen said Mr Coppinger is “incapable of carrying out the role that he holds”.
“I have today written to the Home Secretary to request an urgent meeting to discuss whether the force as we know it should continue in its current form,” he added.
Mr Coppinger told Teesside Live he won’t be resigning.”
https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/how-teesside-reacted-chief-constable-15712153
The comment section may get interesting
Perusal of these stories may be of interest 🙂
https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/all-about/barry-coppinger
This piece caught my eye
https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/tees-mayor-new-cleveland-police-14217382
Of course Veale is facing allegations and has not been convicted of any crime, however I fully support the Mayor Ben Houchen and Simon Clarke MP in voicing concerns regarding Veale.
Perhaps some helpful person might like to forward them a link to the Hoaxtead blog pages illuminating the friendly communications between Veale and Robert Green?
Bigears says:
Oh noes,keep it down about dragons,it risks awakening the orange one who must be obeyed.She`s only just bored herself to sleep,give us a break.
Could she be thinking of a white truce flag? That’s just me surmising but I’m probably wrong.
She doesn’t half pick them. The Book of Esther is a historical account of political machinations in the Persian court. There is a good message in it of not feeding others to a crocodile in the hope it will eat you last, but God is not mentioned at all in the non-Apocryphal versions or the original Hebrew. So does this mean the Oldcastle Horror has been practicing her necromancy with a CATHOLIC BIBLE!!! 👿👿👿
The idea is that if a person is publicly named as an abuser, this will encourage other victims to come forwards. Sometimes this has worked, but unfortunately it has also encouraged fantasists and crooks to concoct ludicrous stories for personal gain.
Paul Gambaccini is actually trying to get a law through Parliament, that prevents people being named. I agree with him actually, and as you say, it does encourage fantasists, who don`t need any encouragement at all. Bill Maloney loves that kind of thing doesn`t he. You only have to look at what he did to Andrew Ash who had already admitted on Panorama that he made it all up. Maloney was positively reveling in what Ben Fellows was telling him, also the former MP from Birmingham, that story was all over Sky News. and now there`s Otherwise Known as Nick who has a trial coming up in March I think, that should be very interesting indeed. I`m just wondering if Mike Veal will join forces with John Wedger and have mugs and tee shirts made with his face on it.
I hope he didn’t bang his head……..again
Noooo, she’s referring to the flag of His Royal Blandness, King John of the Wanoa dynasty.
*Wanker
Bloody spellchecker
Well, they’re a right pair of mugs, so that would be apt.
Oh dear oh dear oh dear, Angela. You must really like prison food!
He does have a web site, blog, thingy, whatever.
https://cosmicrf.wixsite.com/crfdn
I’m not sure why though, maybe as a service for those who need something less exciting than watching paint dry.
Devine’s not happy about the above comments. Look like this one could run and run 😆
The full post:
Yes Paul Gambaccini was treated very badly in what amounted to a fishing expedition.
In cases where the Police discover credible evidence of abuse in an institutional setting, they should make contact with possible victims in an appropriate way, rather than creating a media circus.
Either she likes prison food or she really thinks she will in the clutches of the person she claims is the head Satanist. Maybe this is one of her fantasies: Angie Power Disney in “Fifty Shades of Grey Hair”. It certainly won’t be like that Angie – It’ll be boring, and you’ll wonder why you threw years of your life away on such a daft obsession.
Is that meant to be seductive – has she been sending him unsolicited bikini shots too?
She actually has, yes! 😂
It’s that bloody cat again.
Yes, I think it’s one thing to take a slightly mocking stance, but I agree. I find it very disturbing that some of those in positions of high responsibility can be of this calibre.
Heath’s godson Lincoln Seligman said: “Either the man is a fool or he’s a knave. It’s also possible that he started off this inquiry as a fool but became a knave during the course of it.’’
I think if such a link exists Tinribs that it could only be found somewhere on the WayWayWayWay-BackMachine
That 1834 ‘United Tribes’ flag has come to fill the role of the Ghost Shirt in these mook’s Ghost Dance belief system.
Indeed EC, i find it quite frightening really that people in positions of power can and have fallen for stories we usually find being spouted by random online fruitloops.
“Deliberately faking poor grammar and spelling to gain credibility with ordinary people”.
Apparently that’s a bad thing when other people do it.
Why on earth does Angie think that Zara supposedly “faking poor grammar and spelling” would somehow gain her credibility with “ordinary people”?
We could build quite a nice selection of mugs if we so wished to.
Perhaps Angie has no fear of prison as she is a qualified Super Soldier that has the skills to break out of even the most secure SuperMax style prison.
LOL, I guess we were both typing our comments at the same time there SC. Must get the I.T guys here at GCHQ to set up some alert for when two operatives are commenting on the same subject matter at the same time.
A bar-room lawyer pontificates says:
I’ve been browsing Facebook’s terms & services and they are far more strict than I thought. What stands out is that all the members of Hoax Mob (c) breach those terms almost daily yet we all know how incredibly difficult it is getting offending material removed even though there are some successes.
What stands out even more is that Facebook clearly breaches their own terms by not sticking to them. Take the example below which is sort of cleverly worded but in fact a bit too clever. It infers it will remove defamatory material but attempts a get-out clause by saying material may not be defamatory in certain locations. But Facebook can be accessed worldwide and in every country no matter what controls are put in place. Basically Facebook’s claims are disingenuous and that’s one thing Judges hate and usually rule against. When you enter into an agreement (which is what using Facebook is) you agree to honour the spirit of that agreement as well and although tricky wording is often used in contracts it can also make an agreement null & void (of course it takes great legal minds and a top QC to arrive at that position)
The Syrian boy who was bullied in an on-line video is attempting to sue Facebook and Tommy Robinson but because they are appealing for money I’m not sure that will eventuate. I would suggest his lawyer should sue Robinson first which would be easily won and then take on Facebook. Facebook will be like Google who are rapacious and will toss $Millions to defeat a claim just as they do in Australia where defamation law has established that entities like Google are publishers but they will still put plaintiffs through the mill until the bitter end even though they will inevitably lose. But the law will catch up with that but it will take time.
The problem is that politicians are so behind the times with all this, apart from some notable exceptions who generally are not the ones in power. A government is always more powerful than a corporation such as in France which is still battling with Facebook & Google over protections for French citizens throughout the world while FB etc make incredible demands of total freedom. They aren’t winning but these things drag on for years.
I think the fly in the ointment for FB etc is the real problem of how they police their own terms which is by using ‘monitors’ in countries like the Philippines, India and so on (virtually no western countries bar token monitors in Ireland etc). While it’s great numerous Asian people can make a living (?) some have pointed out the difference in cultures makes it difficult for those monitors to judge standards. Even the Philippines being almost a 90% Catholic country affects the way they think and they may find a post far more offensive than an Indian monitor given the loosely worded (apparently) rules they are given when they have 5 seconds to scan a post.
I reckon it will all come crashing down at some stage but these Net entities are so rich it won’t matter to stock holders.
I might add (I’ve gotten away with so much while the Cat is out shopping) that the famous case of Dow Jones & Co Inc v Gutnick established in 2002 settled that an action could be taken out in the plaintiff’s country of residence ( Australia in this case) which set a precedent and of course precedents can be cited in countries that build on English law.
But it’s incredibly complex, takes a fortune and of course, Joseph Gutnick, the winner in the case is a mega – millionaire. But Angela Daisy Power – you need to lawyer up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_%26_Co_Inc_v_Gutnick
A Shurely Shome Mishtake Moment:
“Norma Stephenson, who chairs the Police and Crime Panel involved in appointing Mr Veale, said: “There was nothing to indicate Mike’s tenure would end like this when he was interviewed.
“It’s clear evidence that the new department [Directorate of Standards and Ethics] is working well.”
marktrellis says:
Maybe she also thinks he is drop dead gorgeous and it tickles her to be next to him like this. Sooo inverted, and in plain sight, eh, people?. People are mysteries, really.
You know, chronic head injury could explain a great deal.
So it’s true – China really is taking over 🤭
They don’t exactly shout about that form either. Defamation isn’t even a reporting category that comes up when you report a post. I assume you had to search for that via one of their many help pages and that you only found said help page via a Google search (they don’t even have links to most of them on their own site).
I bet you were in your cups when you wrote that.
Here’s a video of Veale posted in October 2016:
At 7.50 in he tells two deliberate lies as described in this Daily Mail article by Guy Adams:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4979330/False-claims-police-chief-obsessed-Ted-Heath.html
i.e.:
“The video, which remains online, began with Veale saying he wanted to ‘set the record straight’ about Heath and ‘ensure that the current facts are entirely and unequivocally clear about this case’.
In particular, the £150,000-a-year police chief wanted to address two highly important matters.
‘Fact!’ he said. ‘As part of Operation Conifer we have not spoken to the witness known as Nick.’
‘Fact!’ he continued. ‘Recent media coverage… referred to satanic ritual sexual abuse. Let me be clear: this part of the investigation is only one small element of the overall inquiry and does not relate to Sir Edward Heath.’
The 51-year-old Chief Constable of Wiltshire was, in other words, using a formal PR statement to declare that two major aspects of embarrassing recent newspaper reports about Operation Conifer were entirely false.”
Wrong video, I don’t know where that one came from?
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It’s because you’ve been posting the playlist link, not the link to a specific video.
Oh that’s bizarre…
The vide is on youtube, it’s called “Open letter from Chief Constable Mike Veale – Operation Conifer” and it was posted by Wiltshire Police on 2 Dec. 2016.
https://www.youtube.com/user/WiltsPolice/videos
Thank you Tinribs. Sorry for making a mess of the comments.
Did they ever find anyone responsible for Pratersons ‘assault’?
The last I heard, he was saying that the police had dismissed the case and he was unhappy about it.
ouchies…
They don’t tend to do that often…
Crikey I haven’t seen him speak before. Not someone I’d like to run into in a dark alley.
As for the one you mistakenly linked to- what an odd affair that is. That guy is well spoken and seems intelligent but it’s all about, as far as I can figure, something to do with 5G street lights and local residents with children whose noses have been bleeding.
The local council deny the claims and the mad driving it has just been restrained in court from harassing council members.
the problem with the chap commentating is that he assumes the viewer knows all about their claims when it’s very difficult to track down what it’s all about.
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Norma Stephenson is an interesting person.
She is someone who has been quite open about her history of suffering from a gambling addiction the 1970s.
I have admiration for anyone who has suffered from being in the grip of an addiction and who has been able to turn their life around.
With regards to Norma Stephenson this of course raises the issue of whether she at some point received support from a counsellor, therapist, mentor, GA sponsor or some other person who cultivated in her a belief in SRA. Just wondering what could have happened to put the idea in her mind that Mike Veale was a trustworthy person.
The below article states that Stephenson got “support” for her gambling addiction but does not go into details.
https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/councillor-calls-more-help-gamblers-14962268
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/17340230.i-lost-a-months-rent-in-one-go-councillor-speaks-out-about-gambling-addiction/
Stephenson says that she worked part time in a mental health unit when she was addicted to slot machine gambling.
It may be that she received “support” from colleagues in the MHU and that one or more of the colleges was, or went on to be, SRA believers.
Personally I think it is a real shame that someone who has done a lot of good work to raise the issue of gambling addiction, something I believe is a very serious issue in need of addressing nationally, had had her credibility damaged by her association with Veale.
I have met some really wonderful, caring, decent doctors and other professionals who believed in SRA because they had been hoodwinked by the usual suspects, many of whom appear very credible and properly qualified to those unfamiliar with the satanic panic,
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Queen Latifah Teases 'Living Single' Reboot
Queen Latifah Teases ‘Living Single’ Reboot
Glennisha Morgan April 26th, 2019
Queen Latifah wants to bring back Living Single.
Queen Latifah Is So Ready For A "Living Single" Reboot
Queen Latifah shares some details about a potential "Living Single" reboot in the works.
During a new interview with Build Series that was published yesterday (Apr. 25), the actor and producer stated that she wants to see it happen, and so does the rest of the cast.
“We still are working on bringing it back,” Latifah said.
“Just trying to see who wants to get into it and how we can re-work it to make it work for right now and where it will live. We are definitely still working on that amongst the other 800,000 other things we got going on, but Living Single is a passion project for us. We all still love each other. We all still talk to each other.”
The multihyphenate also revealed that there’s a Living Single group text and that she and the other cast members sporadically send each other hilarious jokes.
Living Single aired for five seasons on Fox network from 1993 to 1998, starring Latifah, Kim Coles, Erika Alexander, T.C. Carson, John Henton, and Kim Fields.
Would you watch a Living Single reboot?
Glennisha Morgan is a Detroit-bred multimedia journalist and writer. She writes about intersectionality, hip-hop, pop culture, queer issues, race, feminism, and her truth. Follow her on Twitter.
Glennisha Morgan is a Detroit-bred multimedia journalist and writer. She writes about intersectionality, hip-hop, pop culture, queer issues, race, feminism, and her truth. Follow her on Twitter @GlennishaMorgan.
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Hello 1am
Let's face it. No mum really knows what she's doing.
Let’s go driving…
This is how car accidents can happen….
From the beach to home, about a 45 minute drive, imagine this:
Mr 5’s ADHD meds have worn off. I decided to let him sit next to Mr 3 and not his usual spot in the third row. Rookie error.
Hat whipping in the face, both Mr 5 and Mr 3 to eachother. Party whistle blowing, thanks to the bastard who put that in a party bag.
Screaming from Mr 5 for no reason other than to hear the sound (over and over and over and over).
Hysterical laughing by Mr 3 from something Mr 5 was doing until he’s decided he doesn’t like it anymore. Cue immediate hysterical crying.
Temporary pit stop to get out, grab the party whistle and throw it far away from mini human hands.
A brief lull in the ear shattering noises coming from the back seat whereby Mr 5 asks a question about something so completely random I don’t even remember what it was.
Straight back to screaming, laughing, screaming, whingeing, screaming and crying.
For the most part I pretended none of it was happening and tuned it all out. Mr 5 couldn’t help most of his behaviour.
I actually listened to it I would have become so enraged I would have driven straight into the oncoming traffic with a face akin to the Joker from Batman.
Meanwhile, the baby thought the whole thing was hilarious and giggled the whole way home!
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Home / News / HR HellRaisers.CS:GO End Up With Two Losses
HellRaisers.CS:GO End Up With Two Losses
HellRaisers [11:16] TSM @inferno
HellRaisers [14:16] TSM @cache
Though our guys started the inferno map on the stronger side, they didn't manage to show a good result. After a few gained rounds devica became a stumbling block for HellRaisers. He was at his best playing with the sniper rifle. With his help TSM took the lead. At the end of the first half HellRaisers braced up and started to take the rounds themselves — the first half ended with a 10:5 score. After the side switching the guys had to deal with a tough pistol round, since the Danes made an uncommon tactical move: four players took the A plant. Unfortunately, such a pistol round didn't end up successfully for HellRaisers. It is noteworthy that STYKO definitely got into the zone in this match! However, following the results of the next rounds, TSM turned out to be stronger. The final score is 16:11.
On the cache map HellRaisers managed to play way more efficiently. TSM were the ones to feel confident, too, not giving the opponents any chance to play their prepared tactics. As kUcheR said after the match with the CSGL team, HellRaisers are good on this map, and thus they didn't feel many problems on the defense side. Having taken the victory in many clutch rounds, HellRaisers leveled the score (14:14). But after that TSM gathered themselves up and pushed the matter through, having won ANGE1 and Co. with a 16:14 score.
Комментарий от Martin «STYKO» Styk:
«We faced TSM after their disappointed run on the Major and I feel like they wanted to gain some respect back. They played flawlessly in terms of discipline and strategies. We tried to pull good rounds on our T side on both maps but our CT one simply isn't that perfect. We are working on it. I hope we will get some satisfaction in official matches. We deserve it»
There is more information about the tournament in our report.
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Home / News / ASU saxophone ensemble has banner year at national chamber music competitions
ASU saxophone ensemble has banner year at national chamber music competitions
Seyon Saxophone Quartet, a chamber music ensemble composed of Arizona State University School of Music students, won first and second prizes at two prominent national chamber music competitions during the spring 2019 semester.
Seyon Saxophone Quartet
The quartet, whose programs present traditional western music balanced with edgy contemporary voices, includes two undergraduate junior year students and two graduate students: Dylan Hong on soprano saxophone (Bachelor of Music in performance); Nathan Salazar on alto saxophone (Bachelor of Music in performance and Barrett, The Honors College student); Patrick Feher on tenor saxophone (Master of Musical Arts in performance); and Kristen Zelenak on baritone saxophone (Doctor of Musical Arts in performance).
The students won first prize in the sixth annual Coltman Chamber Music Competition at the University of Texas, Austin in the mixed instrumental ensemble division. The Coltman Competition provides performance experience and expert commentary to advanced chamber ensembles along with cash prizes, scholarships and performance opportunities.
Seyon also took second prize at the Music Teachers National Association National Chamber Music Competition and first prize at the MTNA Southwest Division Chamber Music Competition in woodwinds divisions. The MTNA competitions, one of the most successful and prestigious student competitions in the country, provides educational experiences and recognizes exceptionally talented young artists and their teachers in their pursuit of musical excellence.
Hong, one of Seyon’s founding members, also took second prize as a soloist at the MTNA National Chamber Music Competition, Young Artist Competition and first prize at MTNA Southwest Division Chamber Music, Young Artist Performance Competition in woodwinds.
The quartet formed in fall 2017 and was coached by Christopher Creviston, associate professor in the ASU School of Music.
One of the quartet’s top missions is the promotion of new music with several commissioned works and world premiere pieces to their credit. They recently completed a performance tour through Texas of their competition repertoire.
Zelenak said she has played chamber music since middle school and loves how a chamber ensemble is a cohesive unit with the ability to highlight the individual voices to create amazing music. She said the quartet loved sharing their music with fellow students and encouraged players to explore other types of saxophones other than what they normally played.
Competitions are rough, Zelenak said, and are oftentimes 75% skill and 25% luck. Her advice to performers interested in competing is to keep going and perform as much as possible.
“It’s best to not go into a competition with the mindset that all you want to do is win,” Zelenak said. “You should want to play the very best you have ever played. That is the goal of competitions — not to win, but to better yourself as musicians and performers. If you do that, you will find success.”
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This Week in Dinosaur News: Three new dinosaurs from three continents, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom footage, and more
“The Lower Cretaceous in East-Central Utah—The Cedar Mountain Formation and its Bounding Strata” By James Kirkland, Marina Suarez, Celina Suarez, and ReBecca Hunt-Foster
Jim Kirkland and others published a 200+ page review of Utah’s geology including awesome images like the one above
Three new dinosaurs were described
The late Jurassic theropod Pandoravenator fernandezorum from Argentina
The early cretaceous ornithomimosaur Afromimus tenerensis from Niger
The titanosaur with possibly the longest name for a Chinese dinosaur Zhuchengtitan zangjiazhuangensis
A new Evo-Devo study revealed “feather-associated genes” and researchers recreated proto-feathers in chickens
A new team published their thoughts on Ornithoscelida and recovered the traditional groups
Baron et al. published a response, but both groups agree the analysis is too sensitive to small changes in fossil scores
PLOS One published the results of the PLOS Paleo Community Top 10 Open Access Taxa of 2017 contest
National Geographic reported on advanced xray scanners that can hopefully help prevent fossil poaching
“Dinosaurs of New Mexico” is at the Carlsbad Museum and Art Center, in Carlsbad, New Mexico
Royal Ontario Museum in Canada will have their annual Madeleine A. Fritz lecture on January 30, at 7 pm, tickets are $20
In Scottsdale, Arizona, Pangaea Land of the Dinosaurs has rescheduled its grand opening to December 12
Smithsonian published a post on Charles Whitney Gilmore, the “forgotten dinosaur hunter”
Grand Staircase National Monument in Utah, may be opened for development, potentially destroying many fossils
Cal State Fullerton has a new course, called Dinosaur World about dinosaur evolution, anatomy, behavior, diet, & extinction
Colin Trevorrow tweeted a clip of Owen Grady giving a chin scratch to a baby raptor
Bustle published a piece with more details about the dinosaur on Marvel’s Runaways show, now on Hulu
In Ankara, Turkey, a giant T. rex statue has been removed in favor of an Transformer knockoff
Caleb Brown and Don Henderson will host an AMA on Borealopelta, on reddit at r/Science on Friday, December 8
Check out these stories, our fun fact, and dinosaur of the day Camarasaurus in episode 158 of the I Know Dino Podcast
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I Know Dino Podcast Show Notes: Camarasaurus (Episode 158)
Episode 158 is all about Camarasaurus, a sauropod whose name means “chambered lizard.”
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The dinosaur of the day: Camarasaurus
Sauropod that lived in the Jurassic in what is now the Morrison Formation, in North America
Name means “chambered lizard”
Had hollow chambers in its vertebrae
First found in 1877, by Oramel W. Lucas, in Colorado
Named by Edward Drinker Cope in 1877, who paid for the bones (all during the Bone Wars)
Three valid species: Camarasaurus supremus, Camarasaurus grandis, Camarasaurus lentus
Type species is Camarasaurus supremus (the originally named species, whose name means “the biggest chambered lizard”)
Other species include Camarasaurus grandis (“grand chambered lizard,” named in 1877), Camarasaurus lentus, named in 1889
Othniel Charles Marsh later named some sauropods Morosaurus grandis, but these are now considered to be Camarasaurus
There was also Camarasaurus lewisi, which was named in 1988 and originally classified as Cathetosaurus. But in 2013 another study split the two genera again
Camarasaurus synonyms include Caulodon, Morosaurus, Uintasaurus
One of the most commonly found sauropods
Lots of Camarasaurus skulls have been found
Cope wasn’t the best record keeper, and he labeled some Camarasaurus fossils (now at AMNH) with letters and numbers, to correspond with a set of dig site sketches. But he threw away the dig site sketches, so it’s not clear what he meant (some copies have been found, but not enough)
Brontosaurus was originally given a Camarasaurus skull (Brontosaurus is a diplodocid, so it’s skull was more likely elongated and narrow, and not so boxy)
Charles W. Gilmore found a nearly complete skeleton of Camarasaurus in 1925 (a young Camarasaurus, so drawings from that time depict Camarasaurus as smaller than we now know it is)
Camarasaurus is a basal macronarian, a group of sauropods that kept their heads up high and include Brachiosaurus, Giraffatitan, Lusotitan
Camarasaurus grandis is the oldest species
Camarasaurus lentus and Camarasaurus grandis probably co-existed for several million years, and were slightly different so probably filled slightly different ecological roles
Camarasaurus grandis disappeared, then Camarasaurus lentus disappeared, around the same time Camarasaurus supremus appeared, which may mean Camarasaurus supremus evolved from Camarasaurus lentus
Only difference between Camarasaurus supremus and Camarasaurus lentus is that Camarasaurus supremus was larger (also, it was found in the upper parts of the formation, so it’s the newest Camarasaurus)
Camarasaurus lentus could grow up to 49 ft (15 m) long
Camarasaurus supremus could grow up to 75 ft (23 m) long and weigh up to 47 tons
Had pneumatic bones, with air sacs in the vertebrae that connected to the lungs
Forelimbs were shorter than the hindlimbs
Had five toes, and sharp claws on its feet
For a while, it was thought that Camarasaurus had a second brain (had an enlarged space by the hips), but this is no longer thought to be true
Probably had a stiff, muscular neck
Probably traveled in herds or groups of families, based on two adults and a juvenile that were found to have died together, from drowning while crossing a flooded river
Probably didn’t take care of its young, like other sauropods, based on nests found with Camarasaurus eggs found in lines (not arranged nicely, and the eggs may have been laid near undergrowth so hatchlings could run for cover)
Charles Marsh at one point thought that Camarasaurus gave live birth (like sharks, which develop eggs in the body and give live birth), but there’s no evidence for this
Had a blunt snout and a squarish, arched skull
May have had a beak. No evidence has been found yet, but some Camarasaurus teeth have been found in the lower jaws that are not connected to the jaw bone exactly but were preserved in the right place (may have been because of soft tissue that kept them there); a beak would also have helped it shear through plants
Had spatulate teeth
Teeth were strong, could probably eat tough vegetation
Probably held its neck up high, and was a high browser
One Camarasaurus specimen found had evidence of soft tissue (the gums), which show that Camarasaurus probably had gums covering all but the tips of the crowns of its teeth. The specimen is nicknamed “ET” because when it was first found all you could see was a finger bone coming out of the rock
Probably did not swallow gastroliths, instead, had strong teeth that were replaced about every 62 days (so may have chewed its food)
Vegetation at the time included ferns, conifers, green algae, fungi, mosses, horsetails, cycads, and ginkoes
Lived in a semiarid environment with wet and dry seasons
Also lived among snails, fish, frogs, salamanders, turtles, lizards, crocodylomorphs, pterosaur-like animals, and early mammals
Other dinosaurs that lived among Camarasaurus include Diplodocus, Apatosaurus, Brachiosaurus, ornithischians such as Camptosaurus, Stegosaurus, Dryosaurus, theropods like Saurophaganax, Torvosaurus, Ceratosaurus, Ornitholestes, and Allosaurus
A partial Camarasaurus grandis skeleton found in 1992 at the Bryan Small Stegosaurus Quarry of the Morrison Formation was found to have pathologies that would have made it difficult to move its forelimb (a lesion on the bone that looks to be made of woven bone fibers). It probably healed but with a growth that would have made it difficult to forage for food and escape predators. Pathology may have been caused by an avulsion injury (part of the bone and its muscle attachment was ripped from the rest of the bone), according to McWhinney and others, which may have been because of a slip or fall, or repetitive strain (that Camarasaurus may have lived in an area of uneven ground)
A Camarasaurus pelvis found in Dinosaur National Monument in Utah shows signs of Allosaurus bites (Allosaurus did not necessarily kill the Camarasaurus, instead it may have eaten the Camarasaurus after it died)
One Camarasaurus specimen was prepared and put on exhibit at the 1933 World’s Fair, and is now on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
A mounted Camarasaurus, lent from the Smithsonian, was on display at the Dallas Federal Building as part of the 1960 expo to celebrate Texas’ 100th birthday
Can see a Camarasaurus at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Can see a Camarasaurus in situ at Dinosaur National Monument
Only two skulls left on the quarry face at Dinosaur National Monument are of Camarasaurus (can also see the neck bones of one)
Mammals were probably mostly nocturnal until dinosaurs went extinct. This may have resulted in a “nocturnal bottleneck” giving modern mammals some nocturnal features including: Large eyes that favor low light to precision, a broad range of hearing, a better sense of smell, and whiskers.
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HomeServicesReport IT and ITESChief Information Security officer
The Chief Information Security Officer or CISO is the C-level executive in charge of information security and responsible for all procedures and policies designed to protect enterprise communications, systems and assets from both internal and external threas.
The CISO is tasked with anticipating new threats and actively working to prevent them. They must work with other executives across different departments to ensure that security systems are working smoothly while reducing the organization’s operational risks in the face of a security attack.
The CISO’s duties often includes:
• Conducting Employee Security Awareness Training
• Developing Secure Business And Communication Practices
• Identifying Security Objectives And Metrics
• Choosing And Purchasing Security Products From Vendors,
• Ensuring That The Company Is In Regulatory Compliance With The Rules From Relevant Bodies,
• Enforcing Adherence To Security Practices.
• Ensuring That The Company’s Data Privacy Is Secure
• Managing The Computer Security Incident Response Team
To perform the above duties successfully, a CISO should have:
• The ability to lead and manage employees
• A strong understanding of information technology and security
• Communicated complicated security concepts to technical and non-technical employees.
• Experience with risk management and auditing.
FAQs about CISOs
• What is the single most important thing CISOs
should be focusing on today?
The CISO is responsible for three primary areas, viz.
i) awareness;
ii) the maturity of the security team;
iii) communication with the team and the C-level.
• What is the biggest challenge for CISOs today?
The biggest challenge is articulating the risk profile to the key stakeholders. The CISO needs to keep up with the “nexus of forces viz. mobile, social, cloud, big data and analytics.”
• What sort of experience and skills does a CISO need to have?
The CISO needs to have excellent communications skills, augmented by a healthy mix of experience, an ability to see the big picture and in-depth knowledge of the security domain.
• What is the difference between a CISO and a CRO?
The CRO engages in risk qualification and governance while the functions of the CISO involve the qualitative aspects of most of the operations and management.
• Are CISOs influencers, protectors or responders in the enterprise?
The CISO should wear the hats of both the influencer and protector, and the role of responder should be delegated to members of the CISO team. A study reveals that India ranks 4th in on-line security breaches accounting for over 5% of global threat detections. In 2016 India saw a resurgence of email as an attack channel, combined with ransomware and areas such as the Internet-of-Things (IoT) being exposed to cyber-security breaches.
Consequently, companies in India are investing more to reduce cybersecurity risks and improve business performance as a 71%increase in budget on cybersecurity. Moreover, an increasing number of organizations are now adopting cloud—based security models to manage cyber threats.
Finally organizations across industries have realized the need to institutionalize the Office of the Chief Information Security Officer. Moreover, in several organizations companies the CISO leads the security office and reports into the C.E.O. and Risk Committee of the Board.
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No Credit Where Credit’s Due from Boston Herald
From time to time the hardreading staff issues credit reports on the stories the Boston dailies appropriate from one another. For example, yesterday we noted that Boston Globe reporter Joshua Miller’s Political Happy Hour gave a credit and a link to Herald columnist Joe Battenfeld’s scoop on the latest dustup between Suffolk University trustees and President Margaret McKenna.
We’re dismayed to report, however, that the frosty local tabloid declined to return the favor today in Donna Goodison’s piece about the redevelopment of the Seaport District’s Pier 4.
Pier 4’s peerless design
Tishman Speyer released new renderings for its Pier 4 project in the Seaport District that will include a nine-story, 100-unit luxury condo building and 13-story office building, both with ground-floor retail and restaurant space.
The New York company plans to demolish the former Anthony’s Pier 4 restaurant next week to make room for a one-acre park and half-acre public plaza as part of its development on the South Boston waterfront.
That piece comes in the wake of Tim Logan’s far superior one that appeared in Wednesday’s Globe.
No mention of the Globe’s piece in today’s stingy local tabloid, though.
C’mon, Heraldniks: Be a mensch, eh?
P.S. Boston Magazine’s Kyle Scott Clauss also picked up on the story today, but – to his credit – he did give credit to the Globe.
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BG’s Mark Shanahan Stiffs Another Local Journo
As the hardreading staff has noted on multiple occasions, Boston Globe Names columnist Mark Shanahan regularly, er, re-curates the work of other Boston journalists.
Exhibit Umpteen: The Dennis Lehane/Emerson College Commencement Rumpus.
Monday’s Names column featured this Lehane interview with Emily Sweeney.
Representative sample:
What are some of the places you miss out here in Boston?
Oh God, I miss everywhere. I miss everywhere. The list is truly endless. I get jealous when my friends call me and bitch about [expletive] weather. Just the list of places is just too long to go into. I miss everything about that city.
Well, we miss you, too.
Aaaaw . .
But this Boston Magazine Daily piece by Spencer Buell yesterday presented a very different portrait of Lehane.
Dennis Lehane Apologizes for Using the N-Word in His Emerson Speech
“I should have known better.”
Author Dennis Lehane has apologized after receiving backlash for his use of the n-word during his Emerson commencement speech Sunday.
“Hurting people with the use of that word, of all words, was about as far from my intention as one could get, but I take ownership of the result,” he says in a statement. “I should have known better.”
In the speech, which cautioned against romanticizing the past, Lehane told a story about growing up in the 1970s during Boston’s busing crisis, when racial divisions in the city spiked over school desegregation.
He described driving with his family in a car through a swarm of protesters on Broadway in South Boston. The demonstrators had “hung effigies” of federal judge Arthur Garrity Jr. and Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, and were “lighting them on fire with torches,” he recalled. He added, “They were screaming, ‘N—s out.’”
That’s all well and good: Two different news outlets with two different news angles. Business as usual.
The problem comes today, with this no-attribution follow-up from Shanahan.
Dennis Lehane apologizes for using racial slur in Emerson speech
Author Dennis Lehane has apologized for using a racial slur during his commencement speech at Emerson College Sunday. Lehane, a Dorchester native best known for his novels “Mystic River” and “The Given Day,” used the N-word while talking about the protests in South Boston during the busing crisis of the 1970s.
“I will never forget this for the rest of my life. We were trapped in the back of a car,” Lehane told graduates. “We couldn’t move. We could just be buffeted down the street. And they had hung effigies of Arthur Garrity, who was a judge at the time, of Teddy Kennedy, and they were lighting them on fire with torches. And they were screaming, ‘N—s out.’”
There were apparently complaints after the speech because Lehane issued a statement Monday morning apologizing for using the slur.
Here’s our complaint: Once again, Shanahan has cribbed material from another reporter without attribution.
Google News time check around midnight Monday:
C’mon, man – be a mensch and give credit where credit’s due, yeah?
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Extra! Boston Herald Credits Globe Twice in One Day!
From our Credit Where Credit’s Due desk
In the course of covering local events, the Boston dailies often piggyback on one another’s stories, most often without acknowledging that the rival paper got there first. (See, for example, the Boston Globe’s routine drafting off the Boston Herald’s Grand Prix of Boston coverage.)
But sometimes one of the dailies does the right thing. Spoiler alert: It isn’t the Globe.
Page One of yesterday’s Boston Sunday Globe featured this piece about Mayor Martin J. Wiretap.
Walsh is drawn into federal labor probe
Before he was mayor, when Walsh was a labor leader, he was heard on a wiretap saying he had warned a developer using non-union workers. Walsh denies it.
A sweeping federal investigation into allegations of strong-arm tactics by unions has triggered a wave of subpoenas to union leaders, developers, and Boston City Hall staff, bringing scrutiny to Mayor Martin J. Walsh’s administration and his work as a labor leader before taking office in 2014, according to people familiar with the inquiry.
At issue in the investigation is whether labor officials threatened developers and business people who hired nonunion workers on their projects. Walsh, though apparently not an early focus of the probe, became drawn into it through wiretaps on which he was recorded in 2012, saying he had told a development company it would face permitting problems on a planned Boston high-rise unless it used union labor at another project in Somerville, according to people familiar with the tapes.
Well that’s a big story and you knew right off it would be in the Herald today and sure enough it gets a two-page spread.
Nothing unusual there. But what does stand out are the two times the Globe is credited with breaking the story, first in Hillary Chabot’s piece:
Walsh yesterday shook off suggestions that a federal inquiry into labor strong-arming has any connection to his work as mayor. The Boston Globe reported that Walsh as the head of Boston Building Trades Council was heard on a wiretap in 2012 saying he had warned a developer to get union workers on a Somerville project or risk losing Boston permits.
Then a second time in this piece by Jack Encarnacao and Laurel Sweet:
The wiretapped statement was captured during a conversation between Walsh, then-head of the Boston Building and Construction Trades Council, and Laborers Local 22 leader Anthony Perrone, the Boston Globe reported yesterday citing unnamed sources.
Good for you, Heraldniks!
And, hey, you Morrissey Boulevardiers: Take a lesson, wouldja?
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Poor CommonWealth Magazine: No Credit for Its Scoop
Yesterday, CommonWealth Magazine broke this story on its website:
Walsh reviewing Red Sox deal
Agreement makes permanent Van Ness Street arrangement
THE ADMINISTRATION OF Boston Mayor Marty Walsh said it is reviewing an agreement the city struck with the Boston Red Sox in October that formalized a long-standing arrangement allowing the club to close off Van Ness Street during Fenway Park events.
The agreement, signed by Red Sox president Larry Lucchino and Mayor Thomas Menino’s police and transportation commissioners, makes permanent what appears to have been an informal arrangement between the club and the city allowing the team to close off the section of Van Ness next to Fenway during games. The Red Sox typically used part of the street for employee parking, paying no fee to the city to do so.
“We are currently reviewing the agreement, and compensation is one of the issues that we will consider during this review,” said Walsh spokeswoman Kate Norton.
As day follows the night, today’s Boston Herald featured this piece of xerox journalism:
Marty Walsh digs into Fenway’s deals
The Walsh administration said yesterday it is examining two 2013 contracts the city inked with the Red Sox granting the team exclusive rights to public streets — arrangements made in the final months of Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s tenure.
“We are currently reviewing the agreement, and compensation is one of the issues that we will consider during this review,” Kate Norton, a spokeswoman for Mayor Martin J. Walsh, said of a little-known “public safety order” city officials signed in October giving the Red Sox permission to seal off Van Ness Street during game days and other major events at Fenway.
Nowhere in the piece is CommonWealth given credit.
Ditto for these other news organizations, which picked up the story from the Associated Press. (Before anyone gets all shirty about it, news outlets add info to AP reports all the time. Just not in this case.)
The Boston Globe, meanwhile, played catch-up, posting a piece to its website at 6 am.
But at least the Globe gave credit where credit’s due.
The Walsh review was first reported by Commonwealth Magazine online Thursday.
Cold comfort, but better than the nothingburgers CommonWealth got from everyone else, yeah?
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Boston Globe ‘Names’ Column Stiffs Boston Herald
From our No Credit Where Credit’s Due desk
It’s one thing for the Namesniks at the Boston Globe to rip off the hardreading staff. It’s quite another to xerox the Boston Herald without attribution.
From today’s Names:
Only one thing missing from the piece – acknowledgement that the firsty local tabloid’s Jessica Heslam had the story two days ago.
New honcho at 5 generates static
‘Move it’ mandate miffs on-camera staff
There’s a new “move it, move it” mandate being preached by Channel 5’s top newsroom honcho — but some miffed reporters don’t want to dance along.
Paige Harrison, who took over as WCVB-TV’s news director in January, has laid down a harsh edict demanding reporters get expressive during every TV live shot and stand-up.
Hey, Globies – maybe you could be more stand-up, eh?
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Boston Globe Stiffs Herald on Korean War POW Story
Nice piece by Laura Crimaldi in today’s Boston Globe about the return of a Korean War vet who died in a prisoner-of-war camp.
Remains of Korean War POW coming home to Cambridge
US Army Corporal Ronald M. Sparks spent his last night in Cambridge more than 65 years ago, baby-sitting for his three young nephews before he left to fight in the Korean War.
The night made a lasting impression on one of the boys, 3-year-old Bob, who woke up and found Sparks reading a newspaper in his family’s living room.
Sparks, who was 19 then, never returned.
But Bob, who met Sparks for the first and only time that night, has found his lost uncle and is bringing him home decades after he died in a prisoner-of-war camp in North Korea.
The Globe piece has everything you want in a human-interest story – drama, history, valor, persistence, and a happy, if bittersweet, ending.
It’s missing only one thing: A nod to Boston Herald columnist Joe Fitzgerald, who had the story in yesterday’s paper.
‘Uncle Ron is home at last’
Quest brings Korean War casualty back for burial
Bob Sparks was almost 4 the first time he saw his uncle Ron.
“It was just before he shipped out,” Sparks remembers. “He was babysitting me.
“When I awoke and saw him, I was frightened. I asked, ‘Who are you?’ He said, ‘I’m your Uncle Ron, your dad’s little brother.’ He was in his uniform, and when I asked ‘Are you a soldier?’ he smiled and gave me this crisp salute. It’s my only personal memory of him.”
Ron Sparks, 19, then left the family home in Cambridge, bound for the Korean War with the Army’s 2nd Infantry Division . . .
It’s not unusual for one of the Boston dailies to draft off the other on certain stories, and it’s not like the Herald bats a thousand in the credit where credit’s due department. But still . . .
C’mon, Globe editors. Be a mensch.
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Boston Herald Emauls Globe on Brissette Extort Story
For the second straight day the Boston Herald has stiffed the Boston Globe in reporting about the Kenneth Brissette shakedown story.
Let’s start at the beginning, with yesterday’s Page One story in the Globe.
E-mails link Walsh aide to union deal
Stagehands passed festival proposal through Sullivan
A contract requiring the Boston Calling music festival to hire union stagehands in 2014 was submitted for review to a close aide to Mayor Martin J. Walsh during a time when federal prosecutors allege city officials illegally forced the concert organizers to hire unneeded union workers, according to city e-mails released Friday.
The stagehands passed the contract proposal to Boston Calling, a private entity, through Walsh aide Tim Sullivan, according to the e-mails, which were acquired by the Globe through a public records request. In an Aug. 20, 2014 e-mail, the union’s business manager lays out the terms of the agreement and thanks the administration for its assistance.
But here’s how yesterday’s Herald handled the story.
INCHES CLOSER TO MARTY
Communications reveal meetings between mayor’s advisers, Boston Calling, Brissette
A top adviser and close confidante of Mayor Martin J. Walsh was looped into discussions about labor unions with Boston Calling organizers and tourism chief Kenneth Brissette at the same time federal prosecutors say Brissette was strong-arming festival officials to hire union workers, according to newly released emails.
“Newly released emails,” eh? Like out of the goodness of Walsh’s heart?
Herald columnist Joe Battenfeld also refers to them as “the newly released emails.” Just dropped out of the sky.
And so we get to today’s edition of the Herald, which features this follow-up referring to – wait for it – “newly released emails.”
(To be fair graf goes here)
To be fair, the Herald got its own set of City Hall emails released the other day, in this case over the Top Chef rumpus, as yesterday’s edition reported.
A livid TV production staffer warned a city tourism official that Boston was at risk of being blacklisted over heavy-handed union tactics, according to newly released emails.
The scores of emails, obtained by the Herald in a public records request, show the inner workings of the Boston Office of Tourism, Sports and Entertainment that was headed by Kenneth Brissette.
The Globe, as far as we can tell (because the Globe’s search engine is worse than useless), did not pick up on that story. Let’s hope if the lately local broadsheet does, it’ll show better manners than the dodgy local tabloid.
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Boston Globe Eats Herald’s Dust on IndyCar Coverage
Once again the Boston Globe has slipstreamed the Boston Herald’s coverage of the sputtering Grand Prix of Boston, which hopes to take place this Labor Day weekend.
Joe Battenfeld’s Friday Herald piece:
Race Hits Roadblock
In another potentially serious setback to the Boston Grand Prix, a little-known city commission has blocked IndyCar race promoters from building parts of the course because of new climate change rules that require them to get a wetlands permit.
The 4-1 vote by the city’s Conservation Commission is the latest unexpected roadblock to the race, which has faced tough scrutiny from residents and a monthslong review from the city and state that put the Labor Day event in jeopardy.
Evan Allen and Jon Chesto’s Saturday Globe piece:
Conservation panel says Grand Prix needs more permits
Mayor Martin J. Walsh said Friday that he is optimistic IndyCar race organizers would be able to hold their event in South Boston in September, despite new environmental concerns raised by the Boston Conservation Commission.
“I’m hoping to see it here Labor Day weekend,” Walsh told reporters at a morning event. “I think there’s a process now they can follow, and I think they have to follow that process and make their case.”
In a 4-to-1 vote this week, the commission, which has responsibility for protecting wetlands in the city, concluded that the route planned for the race travels through a 100-year flood zone, and that organizers had to apply for permits that consider the potential environmental impact of any construction.
Nowhere does the Globe piece acknowledge that the Herald drove there first.
And this isn’t the only time the lately local broadsheet has drafted off the firsty local tabloid.
C’mon, Globeniks: Be a mensch, eh?
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Boston Globe ‘Names’ Outs Howie Carr, Stiffs Two-Daily Town
Twice this week the hardreading staff has noted that Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr, a charter member of the Donald Trump coat holder brigade, is also now a member of Trump’s swanky Florida resort Mar-a-Lago.
We also noted that neither Boston daily had reported on Carr’s quantum leap in social status, ending yesterday’s post this way: “Hey – you Namesniks at the Globe: Wanna grab a piece of this?”
Apparently they did, since this appears under Mark Shanahan’s byline in today’s snakey local broadsheet.
Trump backer Howie Carr joins Mar-a-Lago
Conservative talk-show host Howie Carr fancies himself a man of the people, albeit one who went to an exclusive prep school (Deefield Academy), attended a fine liberal arts college (University of North Carolina), and resides in a wealthy Boston enclave (Wellesley). So it should be no surprise that, like any other average Joe, Carr has become a newly-minted member of the Mar-a-Lago Club, President Trump’s posh Palm Beach, Fla., retreat. Politico.com reports that Carr and his second wife, Kathy, are a few of the regular folks who’ve become Mar-a-Lago members since Trump moved into the White House. The Carrs must have really scrimped and saved to be able to swing the club’s initiation fee, which recently doubled to $200,000. We tried to reach Carr on Thursday to talk about the many perks and privileges he’ll be enjoying at Mar-a-Lago, but no luck. The right-wing radio host was an early supporter of Trump’s peculiar brand of populism and their friendship has only grown. Indeed, Carr was among 800 ordinary Americans who spent New Year’s Eve with Trump at the Mar-a-Lago Club.
Politico.com reports? Like all of a sudden you read the Politico Playbook item buried in last Monday’s edition?
C’mon, man – credit where credit’s due, eh?
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Boston Globe Says ‘Suffolk U’ to Boston Herald
The slapfight at Suffolk University between president Margaret McKenna and the school’s board of trustees continues apace, as Laura Krantz reports in today’s Boston Globe.
PR firm is hired at Suffolk to help repair trustees’ image
Suffolk University trustees have hired public relations firm Rasky Baerlein to help repair their image after a three-week standoff between the board and President Margaret McKenna, a board member said Friday.
The firm will work exclusively for the board and will be paid by the university, according to trustee Jim Morris. He said the goal is to repair the board’s image and make sure the trustees’ side of the story is told. He said he did not know the cost of the arrangement.
Morris also told the Globe, “It’s not to declare war against her or anything like that. Everybody wants to calm this thing down. I think we’re on the verge of detente.”
No detente between the local dailies, though. Nowhere in the piece does it mention that Boston Herald columnist Joe Battenfeld had the story yesterday.
C’mon, Globeniks – credit where credit’s due, yeah?
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New legislation banning sale of e-cigs to children welcome
By June Shannon Policy News | 25th Oct 2019
New laws which propose banning the sale of e-cigarettes to children do not go far enough
The Irish Heart Foundation has welcomed Government approval for new legislation which proposes banning the sale of e-cigarettes to under 18-year olds, but the charity has also called for a blanket ban on the advertising of these products to all ages.
The proposed Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill includes a number of measures including a ban on the sale of e cigarettes to children and a ban on the sale of tobacco products at events intended for people under 18.
Commenting Mr Chris Macey, Head of Advocacy at the Irish Heart Foundation said, that while the new legislation was welcome, much more needed to be done to ensure that another generation of young people in this country does not become addicted to nicotine.
“We know from our experience with youth smoking that a ban on sales to minors alone will not work. It is vital that in tandem with this measure a blanket ban is applied on the advertising of e- cigarettes. Surreptitious online marketing tactics have driven what the Surgeon General has described as an epidemic of youth e cigarette use in the US. We also need to ban flavoured e cigarettes. These are clearly aimed at young people, not those long-term smokers who might benefit from vaping,” he said.
" It is vital that in tandem with this measure a blanket ban is applied on the advertising of e-cigarettes,"
Mr Chris Macey, Head of Advocacy , Irish Heart Foundation
The Minister for Health, Minister Simon Harris said, “I am pleased to be bringing forward this important piece of legislation which will help us achieve a tobacco free Ireland, where our children can grow up without harm from tobacco.
“Tobacco costs the Irish exchequer a total of €10.6 billion every year and 6,000 deaths a year are caused by smoking. I am determined to continue to make the necessary legislative changes to confront this challenge and help reach our goal of being Tobacco Free.”
The measures in relation to nicotine inhaling products recognises that these products are not ordinary consumer goods but products that contain a highly addictive substance which should not be available to children.
“As the industry continues to adapt, we must ensure it is not able to lure our children into this deadly addiction.”
The Minister will now refer the General Scheme of the Bill to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health for pre-legislative scrutiny.
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Croatia: With Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic “Berlin Wall” To Finally Tumble Down
January 4, 2015 by inavukic 55 Comments
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic
Candidate for President of Croatia
In one week, on January 11, Croatian presidential candidates Ivo Josipovic and Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic face their final battle for the Office of the President. One of the more significant platforms pursued by Grabar-Kitarovic in her election campaign is “the return to where Franjo Tudjman stopped”.
“He (Tudjman) is a man who gathered us all around the idea of freedom and independent Croatia and, led by him, the Croatian people and all the citizens who fought for Croatia, our state was created and it’s now our duty to complete the work he started and take Croatia into prosperity,” she said in December 2014 at the 15th anniversary of Tudjman’s death.
When Croatia seceded from Yugoslavia in 1991 the communist Yugoslav Secret Police (KOS, UDBA) controlled a great deal and Croatia was faced with a brutal war of Serb/Yugoslav People’s Army aggression. This was the time just after the “Berlin Wall” came down, promising freedom and democracy to Eastern European countries that had been suffocated by Soviet-led or Soviet associated communist regime for decades, since WWII.
Franjo Tudjman, announcing paths to freedom from the Yugoslav communist regime and democracy for Croatia started the tearing down of the “Berlin Wall” that had existed within former Yugoslavia since WWII. In the early 1990s Croatians, led by Tudjman, along with Slovenians and eventually Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia, turned towards West (while Serbia and Montenegro, along with those organised individuals in the other aforementioned Yugoslav states wanted communism to flourish, dug their vicious pro-communist heels in) and broke their ties with Yugoslavia, which was dominated by the Serbs. Most, but not all, from the Serbian minority in Croatia tried, with the help of the Yugoslav Army, to stop Croatia’s secession from Yugoslavia. After several years of bloody armed struggle, Croatians managed to militarily defeat the Yugoslav Army and the Serbian rebel forces.
But this success of Croatian Homeland War veterans and their leadership was not to see uninterrupted the next phase that would entail putting into place all the necessary political, ideological, administrative and legislative actions within Croatia that would see Tudjman’s path for a truly democratic and prosperous Croatia in action. The viciously ardent communists, led by Stjepan Mesic, staged and aided an all-out war of vilification against Tudjman and Croatian Homeland War Generals, setting their sights on criminalising the war and equating the victim with the aggressor. As the new Croatian state was formed during the Homeland War, the former Yugoslav communist Secret Police was not dissolved, allegedly because the new Croatian leadership could not risk an ‘internal war’ with the remains of the totalitarian regime. At the time Tudjman was to support lustration – removing from higher office those who were operatives of the Yugoslav Secret Police – the chase to vilify him as an ultra-nationalist who participated in joint criminal enterprise against Serbs in Croatia picked up and constantly threw dust into the eyes of those who wanted to work on further and more profound democratic changes in Croatia. (It took 18 years for the International Criminal Tribunal of Former Yugoslavia to peel off this vilifying coat when in 2012 Croatian Generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac were acquitted of crimes they were charge with as Generals of Tudjman’s army…)
By the year 2000 “reformed“ communists came to power in Croatia, both in Government led by Ivica Racan and in Presidency of Stjepan Mesic. Ivica Racan’s former Communist Party changed its name to “Social Democratic Party,” yet everything else remained the same. They kept their close relationships with the Serbian minority in Croatia and the Serbs in former Yugoslavia – with the same old communists in their respective positions of leadership. Stjepan Mesic, having been ousted as parliamentary speaker in 1994 by Tudjman on account of his vicious and vilifying attempts to oust Tudjman from power, had meandered through creating new political parties to acting as independent to stay in power and continue his work on burying the democracy Tudjman had set as Croatia’s goal.
Social Democrats and Mesic had pushed on with “drowning” Tudjman and Croatia’s Homeland War and resurrecting communist Yugoslavia’s Josip Broz Tito along with suffocating the efforts to bring communist crimes perpetrated during the times of communist Yugoslavia to justice. Croatia’s current president Ivo Josipovic had picked up where his predecessor Mesic stopped and Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic where Racan’s government had stopped. Croatia had become a battleground where values of communist Yugoslavia were elevated above those of Tudjman, Homeland War and democracy and, hence, widespread corruption that has its roots in communist Yugoslavia continued to flourish no matter which political party was in government after year 2000.
“Instead of reforming the economy and cutting the government costs, Croatia continues to borrow and sell off national treasures, while increasing taxes. As of today Croatia is the EU member with the GST/VAT at 25%, and with the highest unemployment rate, especially among young professionals who increasingly seek relief from poverty and existential hopelessness abroad.
The Croatian media scene is dominated by the same people who used to glorify former dictator Tito. The current head of the national television, the “HRT,” is Goran Radman, himself the last president of Tito’s communist youth organization. This well-rehearsed team sends to jail or fires someone every week because of “corruption,” in order to distract people’s attention from the real problems. The vast majority of cases involve political opposition leaders.
The media is served a steady stream of “secret” witness depositions, demonstrating how the country is being robbed. At the same time the attention is drawn away from the real problems, concealing the fact that the fleecing of the country is carried out by the government itself.
Increased taxes, no investments, no encouragement for private investment projects, halting the funds earmarked by the EU – all this seems to be the hallmark of the Josipovic’ regime” writes Dan Rados of The Daily Caller in his thought-provoking article titled “Is Serbia controlling Croatia by blackmailing its president”.
All that and much more seems the hallmark of the politics of those who do not want a democratic and prosperous Croatia and they are those who remain loyal to the values of communist former-Yugoslavia. One wonders how much of this pro-communist Yugoslavia outlook has stopped Ivo Josipovic visiting again the protest-camp site outside Veterans’ Affairs ministry building in Zagreb where 100% war-invalids have been rallying for changes and rights since October 2014! I.e., aloof faced, Josipovic has visited the protesting veterans on 24 October and has done not a thing then or since then in attempting to truly listen to the suffering veterans, to create or help create a constructive dialogue and seems unperturbed by and deaf at the veterans’ plights. His excuse for failing to speak to the protesting veterans since late October is that he has invited them to visit him in his office! And this is the man who tries to tell the people that he too holds that independent Croatia of today is based on the values of Croatia’s Homeland War (as well as antifascist)! The communists of today, such as Josipovic, seem brazenly and spitefully determined not to let Croatian Homeland War veterans achieve fully an upper hand they deserve.
Throughout the campaigning for the presidency of Croatia it has been so refreshing to come across a candidate like Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic who, unlike Josipovic, emanates with democratic justice, providing for citizens’ and human rights for everyone based on the law of the country, due process and fairness. She is adamant in unifying the Croatian nation into working towards the goals set by Tudjman and, unlike Josipovic and the Social Democrat led government, appears to place Homeland War veterans above any former communist or antifascist crusader. With her victory on Sunday 11 January Croatia is surely to start breathing fairness and justice once again and the “Berlin Wall” will finally tumble down for Croatia just as it has many years ago for the other European countries adversely affected in the past by it. Ina Vukic, Prof. (Zgb); B.A., M.A.Ps. (Syd)
Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Berlin Wall, Communism, Communist Yugoslavia, Croatia, Croatian Homeland War, Croatian presidential elections 2014, Franjo Tudjman, Ivo Josipovic, Josip Broz Tito, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, Stjepan Mesic, transitioning from communism, UDBA
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HRVAT iz Like says:
Please Help Save Croatia !!!
Spread the truth and help keep Croatia safe from those who seek to extinguish her freedom.
TRUTH will always set us free and give hope to the preservation of LIBERTY.
>>>http://youtu.be/GwUiFJi4U2s
>>>http://youtu.be/XR0wnSJm4Vk
Thank you Hrvat iz Like – all who I know are doing just that – voting for Kolinda
President Josipovic’s Bloody Totalitarian Pedigree which was hidden from the majority of the Croatian electorate both at home and in the diaspora as well as the world’s mainstream media until recently exposed:
http://narod.hr/hrvatska/boze-vukusic-josipoviceva-oca-povezuje-se-s-likvidacijama-hrvatskih-politickih-emigranata-diljem-europe/
There are things coming out about Josipovic’s father’s role in the communist regime,Hrvat iz Like, including Goli Otok/Island where innocent people who were against communism were tortured, died etc – and while Josipovic is not his father Josipovic, and while one should not believe as true everything that is written without proof, Josipovic is guilty of obstructing justice and doing everything in his power to stop prosecutions of communist crimes.
I pray she and her Light win through.. xxx
Me too, sue – thank you
An I forgot to add Ina.. Happy New Year to you… 🙂 May it be filled with abundance of Health and Happiness.. x
Happy and a wonderful New Year, Sue
Ina, please forward Ms. Grabar-Kitarovic and HDZ these questions for clarification before election day, I believe I speak for more than a few Croats after watching the debate against current President Josipovic.
1. In terms of Presidential decorations to individuals and organizations, why did she not mention Josipovic’s praise for, and authoring of the charter of, Documenta, an organization that worked closely with Savo Strbac (http://www.hic.hr/english/index_Strbac.htm) and his sham Milosevic-initiated NGO “Veritas” – who recently stated that “It is lawful to kill civilians in war” (http://www.sense-agency.com/icty/shepherds-exchanged-for-prisoners-sheep-buried-in-ovcara.29.html?cat_id=1&news_id=16209)?
2. What, at all, can be considered positive about Stipe Mesic’s Presidency which skyrocketed the budget of the Office of the President, with the obscene expenditures for personal interest including a lavish Mongolia vacation at the expense of taxpayers, not to mention the slashing of the budget for funerals for veterans, getting rid of the reserve forces as well as mandatory draft, and the office of the presidency and bureaucracies under it’s control, actively operating against Croatia’s national interests, namely media agitprop against Gotovina and the Homeland War? Would a Grabar-Kitarovic presidency push for the a) Investigation into Mesic’s monstrous and false claims – debunked by the initial UN study into Bljesak – to the US Embassy regarding both Operations Bljesak and Storm, as well as the non-chalant throwing around of Top Secret documents, and opening the Tudman Presidency archives to foreign journalists, many of whom were known to Croatian intelligence agencies to be spies? Will Mesic’s perjury at the ICTY against Blaskic, Kordic, and the HVO, be investigated, in addition to Manolic’s perjury against the aforementioned?
3. Will Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic push for, as President, legislation that would free Croatians from abroad and returnees from being double income taxed – with the nation of their pension or pay origin being the only tax they have to pay – so as not to waste time signing dual-taxation agreements (which are entire bureaucratic processes) to make Croatian political and economic emigre returns and retirements move smoothly and potentially be immediate for those who have the resources and desire?
4. Is the Visegrad Group a top political-economic-military priority, and will it be the number one agenda item in addition to closing all open questions with Serbia and RS in regards to missing persons, war damages, etc.?
5. Will being a member of both the German and V4 battlegroups be both strategic and tactical top priorities?
6. Does she support the creation of a Croatian Entity in B&H, or at least a confederalization of the Federation following the Swiss model – or at least at a minimum, respecting the pre-2000 Dayton agreement on-the-ground reality that existed?
7. If Serbia does not meet all Croatian requests for information and action regarding the war, will she as president do everything possible to prevent their entry into the EU?
8. Will Croatia with Grabar-Kitarovic as President, allow US, UK and Five Eyes intelligence services to violate Croatians’ privacy at a 100 percent rate (https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/12/04/nsa-auroragold-hack-cellphones/), as they have since 2012 with very unfriendly and invasive Auroragold spyware program?
9. Will a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency see the US, UK and Five Eyes sat down and told they hand over all information gathered on innocent Croatian citizens to Croatian authorities and destroy their copies, otherwise face an Embassy recall?
10. Will a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency consider the creation of an autonomous internet platform, something that can be replicated and exported for profit, with proper encryption procedures to protect citizens identities and freedom of speech, to lessen the invasive and criminal, out of control Five Eyes Orwellian surveillance practices which is nothing short of creating a file on every citizen and their social network for social control and future blackmail?
11. Will a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency see a very public stance, and demand signed agreements for non-spying by EU and NATO allies on Croatia, and visa versa, nor spying on Croatian citizens outside of permission from both Croatian parliament and the respective national security committees and intelligence and law enforcement bureaucracies, limited solely to organized crime and *actual* (not thought crime) terrorist threats – namely human trafficking, hard drug transportation, and *credible* terrorist threats, specifically Islamist militancy, Croatia’s only real threat outside of renewed Serbian aggression which for now seems unlikely.
12. Under a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency, will Croatian intelligence services begin to investigate and prosecute paid and unpaid foreign government’s local agents of influence, such as those Croatian citizens who work at the State Department online English language strategic propaganda front Balkan Insight (www.balkaninsight.com) – including Drago Zvonimir Carlos Pilsel who was Josipovic’s first choice for Press Secretary – which until March 2012 was run by a middle aged Serbian American management employee of the State Department, almost certainly a Media Information Operations Officer, from Chicago, who was replaced by a younger Serbian American State Department employee from Chicago that same month?
13. Will a Kolinda Presidency see a full and thorough Croatian Parliamentary investigation into, and push for an EU investigation into the Hercegovacka Bank armed assault and literal OHR running into the ground under the control of Toby Robinson, which was nothing short than an attack on economic freedom of Croats in B&H, who have frozen accounts and or have to pay up to 50 percent of their accounts to withdraw the balance?
14. Will the return of the draft and a military reserve forces follow the Swiss or Nordic model, and will ranks at the time of discharge from other NATO military’s be recognized for Croatian citizens who were born, lived or served outside of Croatia be potentially held for those Croats from abroad that would like to serve in Croatia’s reserve forces?
15. Will a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency see the total transparency of ALL non-governmental institutions’ finances with no exceptions, to and include generously SDP government subsidized Documenta?
16. Will a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency see an independent study on to the war on drugs on a cost-and-effect basis, and would the decriminalization of hemp, marijuana and hashish, as well as special tax for them (to finance health prevention programs, including heavy drug use, intravenous drugs, etc.), be an item of consideration?
17. Would a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency consider a push for non-GMO agronomy for Croatian farmers and farming companies, and, along with industry, see a zero corporate tax for five years with a to be determined incremented increase in tax for corporations or individuals that invest into both green, natural agronomy and the industrial sector? Will her presidency resist the Monstanto and similar lobbies dictats, usually backed by strong Western governments, and prevent the destruction of one of Croatia’s many strategic resources, its soil?
18. Will a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency see the closing of the office of the former President Mesic, and will she prevent such for Josipovic if she wins, and for herself upon serving her term?
19. Will a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency see a focus on strengthening Croatia’s gold reserves and ensuring Croatia’s currency is gold and not a fiat currency-based?
20. Will Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic publicly call out President Josipovic for his hiring of national security threat Dejan Jovic, a pseudo-academic who made his career engaging in an endless apologia for Tito’s Yugoslavia and greater Serbian aggression, whose work at and for the Royal Institute of Economic Affairs, a known MI6 media front was removed from the web conveniently prior to his hire, to the most important security position in the office of the presidency?
21. Would a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency consider to be the start of a graduated decrease in taxes with a flat tax of 15 percent for both individuals and corporations an end goal?
22. Will a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency push for legislation, such as two years’ without taxes, to stimulate permanent, or partial out-of-the-year, Diaspora returns, especially in formerly occupied and post-war areas?
23. Will Croatia’s military under a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency be spared from certain powers’ foreign policy neo-imperialist blunder-adventures, such as the lie-based Iraq war, or a military intervention into Syria which would only boost the power of ISIS?
24. Will a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency lobby at all levels for the findings of Lt. Col. Dr. Charles Schrader and his seminal work, “The Muslim-Croat Civil War in Central Bosnia, 1992-1994,” to be submitted into evidence and Lt. Col. Dr. Schrader be a witness as it seems it was politics, not law, that prevented both his work and him from appearing at the Plic et. al. trial?
Thank you, therealamericro – the questions will be forwarded indeed.
therealamerico for President!! Seriously.
Thanks bro, but I’d say Kolinda is a better diplomat than I so I think she is a much better choice.
Brankec says:
Therealamericro – quit showing off! 😉
I meant to say Drago Zvonimir Carlos Pilsel – though Hedl as well writes for the State Department’s strategic propaganda site, along with the entirely discredited Boris Pavelic, and the very whiny Josip Ivanovic and teary eyed Sven Mikelic.
BI is engaged in false advertising and client and reader deception, part of a larger agitprop program that is self-evident, but well hidden.
Name change noted in original comment, therealamericro, thanks
Mrs. Grabar-Kitarovic, my apologies to her.
Ina, I just want to wish you a belated happy New Year. Again, thank you for your continued dedication towards Croatia. How I wish a light would finally shine on our long-suffering country & Croats worldwide.
I have a request, from yourself or anyone from this blog willing to take it on – could you translate the article by Dan Rados to Croatian? I would attempt it myself, but I don’t think I could accurately convey everything and it is a very important article to read. Lots of hateful opposition to the article is already seen (because truth hurts), but funnily enough, hardly any strong, factual argument presented against the points brought up, only accusations of Croatian racism and the very unique no-one-ever-thought-of-it-before Ustasha insult.
Kat, Happy New Year too – re Dan Rados article I notice it has travelled the world many times over, picked up by many media outlets etc – re translation – if time permits I will try indeed. Cheers
Kat the replies are hilarious. Any objective reader can see that Rados hit the nail on the head – hence the fallaciously “reasoned” venom.
This sensitive topic is something the Croatian media are not touching on of course, outside of small outlets.
This would be a great rhetorical question for Grabar-Kitarovic to repeat up to the elections, along with how it was possible that Dejan Jovic was ever considered, let alone almost served Josipovic’s entire term, as his Chief Analyst, in addition to paid State Department propagandist Drago Zvonimir Carlos Pilsel, who was writing for Serbian American State Department managed strategic propaganda front engaged in false advertising, Balkan Insight, at the time of Josipovic’s offer, the first choice for his Press Secretary.
The truth hurts and the truth dismantles the Yugotopia reality right before the eyes of its cultists. That is why any brutally honest questioning of Croatia’s current reality is met with such hostility, and frantic anti-Croatia spin, but with little factually based arguments to disprove the writings of people such as Rados.
Of course the Croatian media doesn’t speak – why would they turn on themselves when they can enjoy their ill-gotten power?
There are certainly many questions I would love to see Grabar-Kitarovic answer with the most honest, brutal of truths (questions you post much better than I could), but in the political climate we find ourselves in today, it will take a more diplomatic approach. Starting to dismantle the leftover Yugoslav power structures which hold Croatia hostage will come with resistance, hostility and venom; it’s a process that will take a strong will, a Croatia-first mindset and absolute lustration.
Even just thinking about what it’ll take to improve Croatia leaves me feeling overwhelmed. I dread to think about what another five years of Josipovic will do. Political struggle is nothing new for Croatia, but it would be delightful to see some positivity.
Check out Pages 12 to 13 Boka CroPress translation of Dan Rados article already published plus analysis & comments added after sub-title “Predsjednikov reizbor”
https://inavukic.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/boka070115_no116_web.pdf
Could a paid placement of the translated article in a leading Croatian daily have an impact on the elections; any strong and well documented article that serves to better Croatia during the elections is a good thing. Count me in for a donation to help pay for the placement.
I hope the people return Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic with a huge majority as a sign they want a real Democracy to start in their homeland. I hope she then goes on to show other Countries in the West what a true Democratic country can be like.
Hear, hear – David. She certainly seems to have the know-how and stamina for what you’re referring to. Cheers
Ace News Group says:
Great post and shared here: http://wp.me/p4NkMr-7g
You really are so welcome you write such great posts and l have learned so much personally about Croatia. So we both gain by me reposting you brilliant articles. 🙂 Ian
Thank you, Ian and cheers
Ace News Room now embedded in sidebar of this blog with link, Best regards and thank you!
I feel honoured and thank you.
jmsabbagh says:
Outstanding post.Tudjman laid the foundation for greater future for Croatia,hope 2015 will unite the country to achieve the message.Warm regards.
Thank you Jalal and cheers
Happy New Year! Wonderful text as always. I am at a new address Ina, https://aheartafire.wordpress.com/.
Thank you, Hollie – Happy New Year!
I think a good start for exposing the infowar / psyop against Croatia that SDP did and still supports, with the endless financing and complicity of the Anglo-American propaganda empire, who framed Lustration as “discrimination” in the 90s and since, would be to submit FOIA requests on all government and nor known government NGO front financing to Balkan Insight – who, while demanding transparency are untransparent about their financing sources – as well as any US government personnel being employed there, and their names and job positions.
Maybe that would be something Mr. Kuzmanovic and or Mr. Misetic would be interested in. RFERL, SETimes (wholly a EUCOM project) and above all, Balkan Insight, are part of a parallel reality projection and perception management campaign. As well as surveillance (of commentators).
I would also add that FOIA requests on the total number of those – specifically Five Eyes member states citizens’ – surveilled or investigated for commenting on RFERL, SETimes or Balkan Insight, as well as their identities, and ethnic origin, might be quite useful in exposing certain illegalities of the IC, specifically DARPA, Dept. of State, and other out of control Orwellian government bureaucracies.
Indeed, very worth pursuing, therealamericro
When one looks at the financial backers of Balkan Dimsight, I mean Insight, some very interesting organizations and names come up.
Very interesting groups (http://www.blacklistednews.com/CIA%E2%80%99s_Hidden_Hand_in_%E2%80%98Democracy%E2%80%99_Groups/40721/0/38/38/Y/M.html).
Interesting read, indeed, therealamericro – the twisted part of “public democracy” sweeps doesn’t occur all of its own bat indeed…
Ina, Happy New Year. Zivjela.
Did you see this article re. the recent election results and those coming from Bosnia-Herzegovina ?
http://glasbrotnja.net/kolumne/kolumne-tihomir-dujmovic/tihomir-dujmovic-kakva-prevara-milanovic-josipovic-ukrali-sto-tisuca-glasova-kolindi-grabar-kitarovic
Thank you Erica, I did see it briefly but didn’t read it all which means yet to read 🙂
Hi Ina, I am an Australian citizen living in Sydney. I do also have Croatian citizenship…. am I able to vote on these elections from Australia?
Unless you had pre-registered by 17 December you cannot vote this time, Ivan. The buggers have changed the system this time undoubtedly to reduce the number of voters against Josipovic, so they introduced pre-registration for all voters in diaspora while in previous elections one who had no registration of abode in Croatia could simply turn up on election day, not this time. So yes you are eligible to vote but if you did not register by 17 Dec you cannot this time.
Connor Vlakancic, HR/SAD U.S.President candidate, Nov.2016 says:
Dober dan, Lijepi pozdravi iz SAD.
Review http://www.bbc.com/news/world-30614291
This 11 January runoff election follows the 28 December 2014 election. That Croatians must vote in government elections during the Christmas / New Years holiday is a travesty legacy of communist era anti Christian propaganda. All Yugoslav era laws are communist laws and now finally naša domovino Croatians and Croatian diaspora must elect, NOW, democracy government leadership to challenge these Yugoslav era communist laws!
I lived in Croatia most of 2009-12 and I personally know both 11 Sijecznj President candidates and have carefully considered that, in 2015, five years since previous election, Croatia is a significantly different nation. Thus, I have concluded that Kolinda’s election is now critically appropriate to advance international awareness and interest in Croatia as a best choice destination for tourist travel, business investment and political support.
I am currently preparing a 2015-16 Croatia promotion project so heartfelt that it will mobilize all US Croatian diaspora (and worldwide) also with HR national media boosting enthusiasm & proactive events. It will enhance US recognition of Croatia as a world-class destination with attaining new demand for Croatian export products (also halved HR VAT taxes). Also, by 2017, to achieve Croatia is included in the USA Visa Waiver Program (VWP)! I invite your interest with follow my progress.
http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/4721/1/E-A-Search-For-Roots—Stivan-Cres-Croatia.html
http://hr.connorvlakancic.com/iz-medija
For other info: Google search my name.
And twitter.com/connorvlakancic
Also FYI, my company imports Osječko pivo to USA.
Sve najbolje tebi i tvojima,
Connor Vlakancic – Coalitions Director
cv@connorvlakancic.com
Thank you on the comment, Connor! Totally agree, Kolinda is placed best for the reasons you say and much more! Cheers and let’s vote in or support change and progress for Croatia 😀
Just put this post on and add link back to your post here: It is here: http://acenewsservices.com/2015/01/12/belgrade-kolinda-grabar-kitarovic-wins-croatian-election-with-landslide-victory/
Thank you Ace New Group – as always, much appreciated
Welcome as always 🙂 Ian
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Takae, so simple, fluttering on the wind of vegetarian
existence, refusing to eat up more than her share,
presenting herself a second time, but finding no taker,
is less than joyous, yet remains so gentle. Two swans
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moat, seen by hundreds each day. Mostly Takae yearns
to be the swan on the right, head held up, pet of the palace.
Instead, like the sour gooseberry picker, Chekhov’s Nikolay,
she labors at city hall. Better, like the clerk job Kafka had, or
Poe’s daily grind, Takae, so full of wonder, but now resentment
too, as youth slips into middle age with no permanent necker,
glider, lover to snuggle with. Yellow petunias with purple eyes
stretch open to us, and I think that Takae will see this exact
pattern and find comfort having spent a day in Chiba
with friends that will, over time, form a second base.
A dream fulfilled erases previous disappointment. How to
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plants glisten under gray. Bamboo rustles, imperial reminder
that one generation can be the foundation of new style, culture,
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Fizza Turnbull takes out the trash to bury his sorry 2016 year
By David Tyler | 5 January 2017, 6:30am | comments
Don't dump your trash here, thank you! (Image via http://www.chicagonow.com/)TA
Australia has seldom been so ill-served by any government. May this year, 2017, see the Turnbull Government brought to account, writes David Tyler.
"TAKING OUT THE TRASH" is Canberra-speak for burying bad news in a quiet time-slot. Confronted on 10 September by the inconvenient truth that Australia’s carbon emissions are rising, the Federal Government decides to sit on the data until just before Christmas, as it does with its MYEFO, a report so poor it would be taken as a rebuke by any other government.
Delays and evasions are the Turnbull Government’s stock in trade. As 2016 ends, it has little to show for itself, however much the PM may boost his ABCC, a law, Adam Bandt notes, which won’t come in for two years and which, even then, could be disallowed by the Senate. Carbon emissions are less equivocal — an indictment of Coalition climate policy.
The Department of Environment and Energy's National Greenhouse Account report confirms Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions rose 0.8% in the year to June, mainly due to fossil-fuelled electricity generation. Current policy cannot bring us near our 2030 targets — not that the government that scrapped the carbon tax will admit to a rise in emissions, let alone own its responsibility.
In November, Energy and Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg stalls four times when David Speers on Sky asks him about the rise.
Then he thinks up a lie; attempts to blame Labor:
“They’ve gone down significantly from where they were then we inherited it from the Labor Party.”
It’s a whopper, but few will challenge him. He’s counting on it.
Sneaky Minister for Coal, Josh Frydenberg hides worrying emissions forecasts for 4 months, & now hides from media.https://t.co/R7e4oIF2Hj
— Harry Larsen (@berkeleyboy) December 22, 2016
The Government’s own data shows that, when Labor left office national annual emissions were 523Mt CO2 (year ending December 2013), while the latest annual result from shows they are 529Mt CO2 (year ending December 2015).
A Freedom of Information request is needed before the Australian Conservation Foundation can confirm the delay, a move, it says, which shows the Turnbull Government’s determination to hide its policy failure. Evasion is becoming its trademark. Last year, figures showing a rise in emissions were released on Christmas Eve. Nowhere is the government of secrets and lies better revealed than in its propaganda war on renewable energy; its failure to deal with climate change.
The Coalition’s war on wind and solar is a diversionary tactic. With the help of ABC’s, Chris Uhlmann, the anti-solar power Grattan Institute crusader and a mainstream media eager to protect coal against the consumer, the nation has been repeatedly told that the South Australian blackout, in which a storm blew down 22 transmission towers, was caused by “too much renewable energy in the mix” — a ludicrous assertion contradicted by every industry body in the market.
Expect to hear endless replays in 2017 until it becomes accepted as true. Just as budget repair, another absurdity – as if you could break a budget (and originally a gibe at Gillard) – has now become part of mainstream discourse.
Solar and wind energy are now cheaper than any other mode of power generation, creating a dynamic Chief Scientist Alan Finkel calls
“... an unstoppable energy transition away from centralised polluting fossil fuel plants.”
Yet, like Donald Trump, a post-truth Coalition gets its propaganda from the coal lobby. Expect to hear it repeat the fossil fuel industry myth that renewables boost prices to the consumer. How they are unreliable. Not suited to the grid. Bad for birds and bats. Or that we must take our time.
Will 2017 be last stand of clean energy technology deniers? #auspol NO #coal #thorium #nuclear https://t.co/K12eZrzXnQ pic.twitter.com/noHX5eP7EB
— Christina Macpherson (@ChristinaMac1) December 23, 2016
Expect to hear more from redneck MPs such as Resources and Northern Australia Minister Matt Canavan and other science illiterates who pretend to accept climate change but dispute how much of it is man-made. (Stop wasting our time. Read the research. It’s pretty much all of it, Canavan!)
Expect more fake, fake news fibs. Matt "King Coal" Canavan, a climate change denier who believes the effect of carbon emissions is “overhyped by certain interest groups”, bizarrely attacks the ABC for broadcasting “fake news” when it reveals that the Adani company is the subject of multiple corruption investigations by the Indian Government for trade based money laundering, allegedly siphoning funds offshore and inflating electricity prices. Fake? It’s impeccable.
ABC sources not only include India’s Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, the Indian Government itself, they comprise University of Sydney’s Professor David Chaikin, a leading Australian authority on money-laundering. Worrying, as Bernard Keane notes, is Canavan’s ironic reversal of the use of “fake news” to mean news without foundation, false or fictitious, such as the wilful misinformation and lurid fabrications published on social media by Donald Trump’s associates.
Sorry, 'fake news' isn't information you don't like https://t.co/DpYzQeop9b via @crikey_news
— Robert Maxwell (@RobMax4) December 24, 2016
Yet it’s not without precedent. Canavan’s tactic echoes Malcolm Turnbull’s recent misappropriation of “post-truth” to dismiss information he doesn’t like. Expect more pernicious nonsense. Trump’s inauguration and the swearing in of his cabinet of climate science denialists will vastly encourage the Coalition’s rabid right wing to pull even tighter on the strings of their puppet Malcolm Turnbull. Yet nothing will help a coal industry past its use by date. Or ease its desperate propaganda.
Jargon helps the coal lobby case. Wind energy, we are told, can’t supply “synchronous energy”, despite a recent assurance by GE, the world’s largest supplier of energy equipment saying:
'The days of relying solely on synchronous generation for everything are over.'
Nick Miller, senior technical director for GE Energy Consulting, adds that alternatives such as inverter-linked solar can perform many of the same functions, and much more efficiently.
Yet, in a nation where mainstream media is hostile to wind and solar, Australians are lied to and manipulated into accepting the worst possible choices for their future and the future of the planet. Almost as deplorable is the extent to which Turnbull, a former advocate and the putative leader of his party, has capitulated and embraced Abbott’s denialism. In the meantime, Abbott has stepped up his sniping at Turnbull, while Eric Abetz, Kevin Andrews and other clapped out party hacks barrack for Abbott to be given a place in Cabinet, doubtless hoping for a rise in their own fortunes.
Abbott gal pal Catherine McGregor makes the laughable suggestion that cabinet discipline would keep Tony focused. It never has before. A certainty is that Turnbull can expect more sniping in 2017. Above all, it’s a beaut diversion from the colossal ineptitude, the vacuity of his own leadership and his government’s plummeting popularity in the opinion polls. Everybody knows Abbott doesn’t have the numbers to challenge, but it’s fun watching him heckle from the peanut gallery; extracting every ounce of revenge by cutting his PM and his pretensions down to size. On with the show!
You can’t tell the silver budgie from the budgie smuggler when it comes to policy — apart from the onion breath. Turnbull’s New Year's message and terror alert is straight out of the Abbott playbook. Yet not all of us can give him our attention. Many decent Australians are distracted by menacing debt collection text messages; pay up or go to prison, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Ho, Ho, Ho: Centrelink, Santa Clawback department. PS add our 10% “recovery fee”.
Recipients have 21 days to comply, calculated from when they were sent the original letter or electronic message. Many do not receive the first notice. Letters are sent to invalid addresses. Some electronic messages are simply not received.
“We’ll find you, we’ll track you down and you will have to repay those debts and you may end up in prison,” said Federal Human Services Minister, Alan Tudge – a model of enlightened humanity – on A Current Affair, Monday 5th December.
MYEFO: No budget repair, more welfare 'crackdowns', same old excuses https://t.co/xjmpcUFjnC @IndependentAus
— #StopGreed (@daveyk317) December 27, 2016
Most vulnerable, according to current Legal Aid statistics, will be those with disabilities or in financial hardship. There is no evidence, moreover, that threats of prison will significantly change behaviour. Or reduce any kind of crime rate. Nor with a 20% increase in our imprisonment rate over the last ten years, are our prisons likely to have room for more pensioners and poor. Yet the threat does sit well with the Government’s get tough on dole bludger narrative.
Not that people matter. Bludger-buster Tudge is chuffed — productivity is up. Centrelink used to send 20,000 queries a year. Now it’s 20,000 a week. A gung-ho Tudge boasts the system will send over 1.7 million compliance notices by 2020. At the current rate, however, it would send 3.12 million notices over the same period, but this assumes accurate data in the first place. It also flies in the face of other evidence, which suggests that the $2 billion the government believes it is chasing or the $4 billion nudge upward from Tudge is a delusion — one of Morrison’s unicorns.
Referral of fraud cases to the Director of Public Prosecutions fell by 80% since Centrelink introduced an early contact system between 2009-13. The recent rapid upsurge is due to automation and a huge number of incorrect letters of demand being generated by erroneous calculations or deductions made by the new software system. The software searches back six years, while welfare recipients entitled to claim a benefit in arrears may go back only one year.
Data-matching is the government’s latest buzz-word in its “welfare crackdown”. However, the process is only as good as the data it matches; the algorithms used. Horrific injustices reported include a young single mother being hit with a bill for $24,215 days before Christmas. A minor error in her reporting an employer’s name in two separate documents led the computer to deduce she had two employers. Errors are common when the ATO’s recording of a company’s business name differs from the name the employee knows it by. The computer treats the discrepancy as an extra job.
An automated debt recovery system is the grand title given this crude database matching with agencies such as the ATO. Thousands of complaints that low-income earners have been wrongly served with repayment demands for thousands have led to calls from ACOSS and some Labor MPs for its abandonment. Calls for the abolition of the new compliance system are unlikely to be heeded. The Government is on to a winning formula. The burden of proof is on the accused. If you can’t find your receipts, which you have no ATO legal requirement to keep, or your employer has gone out of business, you have to pay anyway.
Searching back six years is guaranteed to increase the probability that clients won’t be able to find receipts. These will have to pay up regardless. It’s enough to put you off the political circus entirely, if you stop to think about it.
Not that we do over think our politics. We love to hate our political clowns and villains; see ourselves as spectators rather than participants. And each other as us rather than them. Those on welfare, moreover, are daily demeaned in our media; trashed in The Herald-Sun, The Daily Telegraph and in The Australian as worthless, undeserving, bludgers.
The Daily Telegraph alone has published fifteen dole bludger bashing articles in 2016 alone. Three quarters of these, Owen Bennett points out in New Matilda, rely on government information; statistics and interviews with ministers. Only Government-supplied data or opinion is used to support its argument for example that a quarter of dole recipients are refusing to turn up to work in 'Dole Shirkers Shun Work' on 7 April, which cites 276,000 payment suspensions job agencies imposed on unemployed workers between 1 July and 30 September 2015 as evidence.
Murdoch megaphone amplifies "dole bludger" rhetoric but government is also responsible (Owen Bennett, New Matilda) https://t.co/nOls5tO93d
— Joan Beckwith (@DrJoanBeckwith) November 21, 2016
Yet these figures refer to a different penalty. The relevant eight week suspension was applied only 1,046 times in the same period. As Bennett notes, The Daily Telegraph got it wrong by 1,102,954. Fake news or news which falsifies key information or wilfully misleads to support the government’s case is increasingly put at the service of the Turnbull regime.
A Current Affair, last year, found an “Aussie Kim Kardashian” rorting her single parent payments, which it doubled to $600 per week, despite supplying no hard evidence as to the woman’s alleged extra income from her home beauty salon business. To delight Peter Dutton, and other Coalition racist dog-whistlers, ACA helpfully led readers to believe that not only was un-Australian Kim in need of some repair work, she was, wait for it, Lebanese.
Said ACA:
“It’s reported she recently returned to her home of Lebanon for cosmetic surgery.”
Hopefully not via Syria.
No-one expects a Turnbull Government to chase the top end of town. Or to give fig about its role in growing social inequality. Australian Taxation Office figures released 17 December show over a third of Australia’s top 1,500 corporations did not pay any tax at all in the 2013-14 financial year. Then there’s deductions and dividend imputation. While companies press for their promised $50 billion’s worth of tax cuts, many already effectively pay around ten per cent tax. The Government misses out on $8.4 billion in revenue per year, estimates United Voice in its 2014 report.
Then there’s $380 billion in tax breaks, capital gains and super concessions for rich retirees over the next two years. It’s the nation’s biggest cost to the economy, but would involve breaking the Coalition’s election commitment to looking after the wealthy. Scott Morrison, moreover, refuses to admit any revenue problem. Pretends it’s a welfare problem. But there’s only so long that he and his government can go on pretending.
In September, one year into office, Turnbull’s government had underwhelmed Jeff Kennett. He couldn’t recall a single achievement.
“Well, by the skin of his teeth, he didn’t lose to Bill Shorten”, sniffed a visibly unexcited Peta Credlin.
“It takes Malcolm Turnbull a year to do nothing," huffs the Herald-Sun, a rag which loves Tony Abbott like catnip.
Nowhere is this more of an indictment of his leadership than in Turnbull’s defection to the side of climate change denial.
Apart from demonising the other and pandering to xenophobia – both unifying pursuits which still play well in the Victorian anti-terror witch-hunt in the lead-up to Christmas – and featuring the war on terror in the PM’s New year message, delay is one of the few tactics still available to a Coalition saddled with a neoliberal ideologue as treasurer, a poseur too dry to even utter the words “stimulus spending” on ABC 7:30.
No good telling Morrison, the Malcolm Roberts of economics, that government debt would zero if we had Howard-era tax rates. Nor any other kind of empirical truth, such as from best performing economy in the world in 2013, in three years we’ve fallen to fifteenth.
"from best performing economy in the world in 2013,
in three years we’ve fallen to fifteenth"
There’s a lot not to like and bad news to bury at the end 2016. Carbon emissions and unemployment are up; tax receipts are down, down, down. Under-employment is steadily rising. Wages are flat-lining. Real wage growth will stay below 1% until 2019-20. Prices remain static. Business investment will fall by 6% next year. Forecasts for jobs and growth are also “revised downward”, in a phrase which lies at the heart of Malcolm, Fizza Turnbull’s brief but endlessly disappointing career as prime minister even in a post-truth era.
A hapless captive who traded his independence for a crack at the top job. Turnbull faces new threats to defect from the likes of Beastie-Boy Cory Bernardi and Gorgeous George Christensen. He should call their bluff. If only he had the guts.
#Turnbull told to piss or get off potty. Ha! ha! https://t.co/BADLHaSFzK
— Bob (@bedwards883) December 22, 2016
Instead, the year ends with Turnbull burying the trash of his economic and climate policies when he hopes it won’t be noticed, whilst Morrison, an economic mountebank, expects a round of applause because we have not lost our AAA credit rating. Yet.
No-one in government will concede that there its welfare crackdown is flawed in conception and in execution, a cynical attack on a fair and compassionate society, by a government too weak or too beholden to review $50 billion company tax cut; a government which has sponsored a war on the poor and fostered social division through mainstream media.
And no-one in government has the human decency to respond appropriately to the death of 27-year-old Faysal Ishak Ahmed, a Sudanese refugee — yet another in our care on Manus Island whose quest for asylum has cost him his life.
In the end, how the Turnbull Government treats the poor, the suffering and the dispossessed diminishes us all, to say nothing of its cavalier disregard for future generations in its climate policy, its failure to make sound economic plans. Australia has seldom been so ill-served by any government. May this year, 2017, be the time it is brought to account.
You can read more from David Tyler on his blog Urban Wronski Writes, or follow him on Twitter @urbanwronski.
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Haemophilus ducreyi infection induces activation of the nlrp3 inflammasome in nonpolarized but not in polarized human macrophages
Wei Li, Barry Katz, Margaret Bauer, Stanley Spinola
Microbiology & Immunology
Recognition of microbial infection by certain intracellular pattern recognition receptors leads to the formation of a multiprotein complex termed the inflammasome. Inflammasome assembly activates caspase-1 and leads to cleavage and secretion of the pro-inflammatory cytokines interleukin-1 beta (IL-1β) and IL-18, which help control many bacterial pathogens. However, excessive inflammation mediated by inflammasome activation can also contribute to immunopathology. Here, we investigated whether Haemophilus ducreyi, a Gram-negative bacterium that causes the genital ulcer disease chancroid, activates inflammasomes in experimentally infected human skin and in monocyte-derived macrophages (MDM). Although H. ducreyi is predominantly extracellular during human infection, several inflammasome-related components were transcriptionally upregulated in H. ducreyi-infected skin. Infection of MDM with live, but not heat-killed, H. ducreyi induced caspase-1-and caspase-5-dependent processing and secretion of IL-1β. Blockage of if. ducreyi uptake by cytochalasin D significantly reduced the amount of secreted IL-1β. Knocking down the expression of the inflammasome components NLRP3 and ASC abolished IL-1β production. Consistent with NLRP3-dependent inflammasome activation, blocking ATP signaling, K+ efflux, cathepsin B activity, and lysosomal acidification all inhibited IL-1β secretion. However, inhibition of the production and function of reactive oxygen species did not decrease IL-1β production. Polarization of macrophages to classically activated M1 or alternatively activated M2 cells abrogated IL-1β secretion elicited by H. ducreyi. Our study data indicate that H. ducreyi induces NLRP3 inflammasome activation via multiple mechanisms and suggest that the heterogeneity of macrophages within human lesions may modulate inflammasome activation during human infection.
https://doi.org/10.1128/IAI.00354-13
Haemophilus ducreyi
Haemophilus Infections
Pattern Recognition Receptors
Cytochalasin D
Multiprotein Complexes
Cathepsin B
Caspases
Li, W., Katz, B., Bauer, M., & Spinola, S. (2013). Haemophilus ducreyi infection induces activation of the nlrp3 inflammasome in nonpolarized but not in polarized human macrophages. Infection and Immunity, 81(8), 2997-3008. https://doi.org/10.1128/IAI.00354-13
Haemophilus ducreyi infection induces activation of the nlrp3 inflammasome in nonpolarized but not in polarized human macrophages. / Li, Wei; Katz, Barry; Bauer, Margaret; Spinola, Stanley.
In: Infection and Immunity, Vol. 81, No. 8, 08.2013, p. 2997-3008.
Li, W, Katz, B, Bauer, M & Spinola, S 2013, 'Haemophilus ducreyi infection induces activation of the nlrp3 inflammasome in nonpolarized but not in polarized human macrophages', Infection and Immunity, vol. 81, no. 8, pp. 2997-3008. https://doi.org/10.1128/IAI.00354-13
Li W, Katz B, Bauer M, Spinola S. Haemophilus ducreyi infection induces activation of the nlrp3 inflammasome in nonpolarized but not in polarized human macrophages. Infection and Immunity. 2013 Aug;81(8):2997-3008. https://doi.org/10.1128/IAI.00354-13
Li, Wei ; Katz, Barry ; Bauer, Margaret ; Spinola, Stanley. / Haemophilus ducreyi infection induces activation of the nlrp3 inflammasome in nonpolarized but not in polarized human macrophages. In: Infection and Immunity. 2013 ; Vol. 81, No. 8. pp. 2997-3008.
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“The Last Question”, a short story by Isaac Asimov (1956)
November 21, 2017 Mr. Bobinsky's uncle Leave a comment
Isaac Asimov considered “The Last Question” one of his best science fiction works, and rightfully so. For those who haven’t read it – go on, it takes roughly just 15 minutes. For those who have – it would be great to know your thoughts on it as it touches very complex matters, such as ageing, biomechanics, what is immortality, interstellar travel and many others…
Spoilers below (just highlight the text):
Do you think this kind of scenario is plausible? That first we live longer, than we become immortal, then, bored by the immortality and getting used to the environment, we start to separate from our physical bodies?
Do you think that names that combine letters and numbers are a cliche? VJ-23X, THX 1138… I think it is a cliche, although it doesn’t mean it was so in 1956.
How do you interpret the ending?
Here’ s a good discussion.
The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way:
Alexander Adell and Bertram Lupov were two of the faithful attendants of Multivac. As well as any human beings could, they knew what lay behind the cold, clicking, flashing face — miles and miles of face — of that giant computer. They had at least a vague notion of the general plan of relays and circuits that had long since grown past the point where any single human could possibly have a firm grasp of the whole.
Multivac was self-adjusting and self-correcting. It had to be, for nothing human could adjust and correct it quickly enough or even adequately enough — so Adell and Lupov attended the monstrous giant only lightly and superficially, yet as well as any men could. They fed it data, adjusted questions to its needs and translated the answers that were issued. Certainly they, and all others like them, were fully entitled to share In the glory that was Multivac’s.
For decades, Multivac had helped design the ships and plot the trajectories that enabled man to reach the Moon, Mars, and Venus, but past that, Earth’s poor resources could not support the ships. Too much energy was needed for the long trips. Earth exploited its coal and uranium with increasing efficiency, but there was only so much of both.
But slowly Multivac learned enough to answer deeper questions more fundamentally, and on May 14, 2061, what had been theory, became fact.
The energy of the sun was stored, converted, and utilized directly on a planet-wide scale. All Earth turned off its burning coal, its fissioning uranium, and flipped the switch that connected all of it to a small station, one mile in diameter, circling the Earth at half the distance of the Moon. All Earth ran by invisible beams of sunpower.
Seven days had not sufficed to dim the glory of it and Adell and Lupov finally managed to escape from the public function, and to meet in quiet where no one would think of looking for them, in the deserted underground chambers, where portions of the mighty buried body of Multivac showed. Unattended, idling, sorting data with contented lazy clickings, Multivac, too, had earned its vacation and the boys appreciated that. They had no intention, originally, of disturbing it.
They had brought a bottle with them, and their only concern at the moment was to relax in the company of each other and the bottle.
“It’s amazing when you think of it,” said Adell. His broad face had lines of weariness in it, and he stirred his drink slowly with a glass rod, watching the cubes of ice slur clumsily about. “All the energy we can possibly ever use for free. Enough energy, if we wanted to draw on it, to melt all Earth into a big drop of impure liquid iron, and still never miss the energy so used. All the energy we could ever use, forever and forever and forever.”
Lupov cocked his head sideways. He had a trick of doing that when he wanted to be contrary, and he wanted to be contrary now, partly because he had had to carry the ice and glassware. “Not forever,” he said.
“Oh, hell, just about forever. Till the sun runs down, Bert.”
“That’s not forever.”
“All right, then. Billions and billions of years. Twenty billion, maybe. Are you satisfied?”
Lupov put his fingers through his thinning hair as though to reassure himself that some was still left and sipped gently at his own drink. “Twenty billion years isn’t forever.”
“Will, it will last our time, won’t it?”
“So would the coal and uranium.”
“All right, but now we can hook up each individual spaceship to the Solar Station, and it can go to Pluto and back a million times without ever worrying about fuel. You can’t do THAT on coal and uranium. Ask Multivac, if you don’t believe me.”
“I don’t have to ask Multivac. I know that.”
“Then stop running down what Multivac’s done for us,” said Adell, blazing up. “It did all right.”
“Who says it didn’t? What I say is that a sun won’t last forever. That’s all I’m saying. We’re safe for twenty billion years, but then what?” Lupov pointed a slightly shaky finger at the other. “And don’t say we’ll switch to another sun.”
There was silence for a while. Adell put his glass to his lips only occasionally, and Lupov’s eyes slowly closed. They rested.
Then Lupov’s eyes snapped open. “You’re thinking we’ll switch to another sun when ours is done, aren’t you?”
“I’m not thinking.”
“Sure you are. You’re weak on logic, that’s the trouble with you. You’re like the guy in the story who was caught in a sudden shower and Who ran to a grove of trees and got under one. He wasn’t worried, you see, because he figured when one tree got wet through, he would just get under another one.”
“I get it,” said Adell. “Don’t shout. When the sun is done, the other stars will be gone, too.”
“Darn right they will,” muttered Lupov. “It all had a beginning in the original cosmic explosion, whatever that was, and it’ll all have an end when all the stars run down. Some run down faster than others. Hell, the giants won’t last a hundred million years. The sun will last twenty billion years and maybe the dwarfs will last a hundred billion for all the good they are. But just give us a trillion years and everything will be dark. Entropy has to increase to maximum, that’s all.”
“I know all about entropy,” said Adell, standing on his dignity.
“The hell you do.”
“I know as much as you do.”
“Then you know everything’s got to run down someday.”
“All right. Who says they won’t?”
“You did, you poor sap. You said we had all the energy we needed, forever. You said ‘forever.'”
“It was Adell’s turn to be contrary. “Maybe we can build things up again someday,” he said.
“Why not? Someday.”
“Ask Multivac.”
“ You ask Multivac. I dare you. Five dollars says it can’t be done.”
Adell was just drunk enough to try, just sober enough to be able to phrase the necessary symbols and operations into a question which, in words, might have corresponded to this: Will mankind one day without the net expenditure of energy be able to restore the sun to its full youthfulness even after it had died of old age?
Or maybe it could be put more simply like this: How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?
Multivac fell dead and silent. The slow flashing of lights ceased, the distant sounds of clicking relays ended.
Then, just as the frightened technicians felt they could hold their breath no longer, there was a sudden springing to life of the teletype attached to that portion of Multivac. Five words were printed:
“No bet,” whispered Lupov. They left hurriedly.
By next morning, the two, plagued with throbbing head and cottony mouth, had forgotten about the incident.
Jerrodd, Jerrodine, and Jerrodette I and II watched the starry picture in the visiplate change as the passage through hyperspace was completed in its non-time lapse. At once, the even powdering of stars gave way to the predominance of a single bright marble-disk, centered.
“That’s X-23,” said Jerrodd confidently. His thin hands clamped tightly behind his back and the knuckles whitened.
The little Jerrodettes, both girls, had experienced the hyperspace passage for the first time in their lives and were self-conscious over the momentary sensation of inside-outness. They buried their giggles and chased one another wildly about their mother, screaming, “We’ve reached X-23 — we’ve reached X-23 — we’ve —-“
“Quiet, children,” said Jerrodine sharply. “Are you sure, Jerrodd?”
“What is there to be but sure?” asked Jerrodd, glancing up at the bulge of featureless metal just under the ceiling. It ran the length of the room, disappearing through the wall at either end. It was as long as the ship.
Jerrodd scarcely knew a thing about the thick rod of metal except that it was called a Microvac, that one asked it questions if one wished; that if one did not it still had its task of guiding the ship to a preordered destination; of feeding on energies from the various Sub-galactic Power Stations; of computing the equations for the hyperspacial jumps.
Jerrodd and his family had only to wait and live in the comfortable residence quarters of the ship.
Someone had once told Jerrodd that the “ac” at the end of “Microvac” stood for “analog computer” in ancient English, but he was on the edge of forgetting even that.
Jerrodine’s eyes were moist as she watched the visiplate. “I can’t help it. I feel funny about leaving Earth.”
“Why for Pete’s sake?” demanded Jerrodd. “We had nothing there. We’ll have everything on X-23. You won’t be alone. You won’t be a pioneer. There are over a million people on the planet already. Good Lord, our great grandchildren will be looking for new worlds because X-23 will be overcrowded.”
Then, after a reflective pause, “I tell you, it’s a lucky thing the computers worked out interstellar travel the way the race is growing.”
“I know, I know,” said Jerrodine miserably.
Jerrodette I said promptly, “Our Microvac is the best Microvac in the world.”
“I think so, too,” said Jerrodd, tousling her hair.
It was a nice feeling to have a Microvac of your own and Jerrodd was glad he was part of his generation and no other. In his father’s youth, the only computers had been tremendous machines taking up a hundred square miles of land. There was only one to a planet. Planetary ACs they were called. They had been growing in size steadily for a thousand years and then, all at once, came refinement. In place of transistors had come molecular valves so that even the largest Planetary AC could be put into a space only half the volume of a spaceship.
Jerrodd felt uplifted, as he always did when he thought that his own personal Microvac was many times more complicated than the ancient and primitive Multivac that had first tamed the Sun, and almost as complicated as Earth’s Planetary AC (the largest) that had first solved the problem of hyperspatial travel and had made trips to the stars possible.
“So many stars, so many planets,” sighed Jerrodine, busy with her own thoughts. “I suppose families will be going out to new planets forever, the way we are now.”
“Not forever,” said Jerrodd, with a smile. “It will all stop someday, but not for billions of years. Many billions. Even the stars run down, you know. Entropy must increase.”
“What’s entropy, daddy?” shrilled Jerrodette II.
“Entropy, little sweet, is just a word which means the amount of running-down of the universe. Everything runs down, you know, like your little walkie-talkie robot, remember?”
“Can’t you just put in a new power-unit, like with my robot?”
The stars are the power-units, dear. Once they’re gone, there are no more power-units.”
Jerrodette I at once set up a howl. “Don’t let them, daddy. Don’t let the stars run down.”
“Now look what you’ve done, ” whispered Jerrodine, exasperated.
“How was I to know it would frighten them?” Jerrodd whispered back.
“Ask the Microvac,” wailed Jerrodette I. “Ask him how to turn the stars on again.”
“Go ahead,” said Jerrodine. “It will quiet them down.” (Jerrodette II was beginning to cry, also.)
Jarrodd shrugged. “Now, now, honeys. I’ll ask Microvac. Don’t worry, he’ll tell us.”
He asked the Microvac, adding quickly, “Print the answer.”
Jerrodd cupped the strip of thin cellufilm and said cheerfully, “See now, the Microvac says it will take care of everything when the time comes so don’t worry.”
Jerrodine said, “and now children, it’s time for bed. We’ll be in our new home soon.”
Jerrodd read the words on the cellufilm again before destroying it:
He shrugged and looked at the visiplate. X-23 was just ahead.
VJ-23X of Lameth stared into the black depths of the three-dimensional, small-scale map of the Galaxy and said, “Are we ridiculous, I wonder, in being so concerned about the matter?”
MQ-17J of Nicron shook his head. “I think not. You know the Galaxy will be filled in five years at the present rate of expansion.”
Both seemed in their early twenties, both were tall and perfectly formed.
“Still,” said VJ-23X, “I hesitate to submit a pessimistic report to the Galactic Council.”
“I wouldn’t consider any other kind of report. Stir them up a bit. We’ve got to stir them up.”
VJ-23X sighed. “Space is infinite. A hundred billion Galaxies are there for the taking. More.”
“A hundred billion is not infinite and it’s getting less infinite all the time. Consider! Twenty thousand years ago, mankind first solved the problem of utilizing stellar energy, and a few centuries later, interstellar travel became possible. It took mankind a million years to fill one small world and then only fifteen thousand years to fill the rest of the Galaxy. Now the population doubles every ten years –“
VJ-23X interrupted. “We can thank immortality for that.”
“Very well. Immortality exists and we have to take it into account. I admit it has its seamy side, this immortality. The Galactic AC has solved many problems for us, but in solving the problems of preventing old age and death, it has undone all its other solutions.”
“Yet you wouldn’t want to abandon life, I suppose.”
“Not at all,” snapped MQ-17J, softening it at once to, “Not yet. I’m by no means old enough. How old are you?”
“Two hundred twenty-three. And you?”
“I’m still under two hundred. –But to get back to my point. Population doubles every ten years. Once this Galaxy is filled, we’ll have another filled in ten years. Another ten years and we’ll have filled two more. Another decade, four more. In a hundred years, we’ll have filled a thousand Galaxies. In a thousand years, a million Galaxies. In ten thousand years, the entire known Universe. Then what?”
VJ-23X said, “As a side issue, there’s a problem of transportation. I wonder how many sunpower units it will take to move Galaxies of individuals from one Galaxy to the next.”
“A very good point. Already, mankind consumes two sunpower units per year.”
“Most of it’s wasted. After all, our own Galaxy alone pours out a thousand sunpower units a year and we only use two of those.”
“Granted, but even with a hundred per cent efficiency, we can only stave off the end. Our energy requirements are going up in geometric progression even faster than our population. We’ll run out of energy even sooner than we run out of Galaxies. A good point. A very good point.”
“We’ll just have to build new stars out of interstellar gas.”
“Or out of dissipated heat?” asked MQ-17J, sarcastically.
“There may be some way to reverse entropy. We ought to ask the Galactic AC.”
VJ-23X was not really serious, but MQ-17J pulled out his AC-contact from his pocket and placed it on the table before him.
“I’ve half a mind to,” he said. “It’s something the human race will have to face someday.”
He stared somberly at his small AC-contact. It was only two inches cubed and nothing in itself, but it was connected through hyperspace with the great Galactic AC that served all mankind. Hyperspace considered, it was an integral part of the Galactic AC.
MQ-17J paused to wonder if someday in his immortal life he would get to see the Galactic AC. It was on a little world of its own, a spider webbing of force-beams holding the matter within which surges of sub-mesons took the place of the old clumsy molecular valves. Yet despite it’s sub-etheric workings, the Galactic AC was known to be a full thousand feet across.
MQ-17J asked suddenly of his AC-contact, “Can entropy ever be reversed?”
VJ-23X looked startled and said at once, “Oh, say, I didn’t really mean to have you ask that.”
“We both know entropy can’t be reversed. You can’t turn smoke and ash back into a tree.”
“Do you have trees on your world?” asked MQ-17J.
The sound of the Galactic AC startled them into silence. Its voice came thin and beautiful out of the small AC-contact on the desk. It said: THERE IS…
VJ-23X said, “See!”
The two men thereupon returned to the question of the report they were to make to the Galactic Council.
Zee Prime’s mind spanned the new Galaxy with a faint interest in the countless twists of stars that powdered it. He had never seen this one before. Would he ever see them all? So many of them, each with its load of humanity – but a load that was almost a dead weight. More and more, the real essence of men was to be found out here, in space.
Minds, not bodies! The immortal bodies remained back on the planets, in suspension over the eons. Sometimes they roused for material activity but that was growing rarer. Few new individuals were coming into existence to join the incredibly mighty throng, but what matter? There was little room in the Universe for new individuals.
Zee Prime was roused out of his reverie upon coming across the wispy tendrils of another mind.
“I am Zee Prime,” said Zee Prime. “And you?”
“I am Dee Sub Wun. Your Galaxy?”
“We call it only the Galaxy. And you?”
“We call ours the same. All men call their Galaxy their Galaxy and nothing more. Why not?”
“True. Since all Galaxies are the same.”
“Not all Galaxies. On one particular Galaxy the race of man must have originated. That makes it different.”
Zee Prime said, “On which one?”
“I cannot say. The Universal AC would know.”
“Shall we ask him? I am suddenly curious.”
Zee Prime’s perceptions broadened until the Galaxies themselves shrunk and became a new, more diffuse powdering on a much larger background. So many hundreds of billions of them, all with their immortal beings, all carrying their load of intelligences with minds that drifted freely through space. And yet one of them was unique among them all in being the originals Galaxy. One of them had, in its vague and distant past, a period when it was the only Galaxy populated by man.
Zee Prime was consumed with curiosity to see this Galaxy and called, out: “Universal AC! On which Galaxy did mankind originate?”
The Universal AC heard, for on every world and throughout space, it had its receptors ready, and each receptor lead through hyperspace to some unknown point where the Universal AC kept itself aloof.
Zee Prime knew of only one man whose thoughts had penetrated within sensing distance of Universal AC, and he reported only a shining globe, two feet across, difficult to see.
“But how can that be all of Universal AC?” Zee Prime had asked.
“Most of it, ” had been the answer, “is in hyperspace. In what form it is there I cannot imagine.”
Nor could anyone, for the day had long since passed, Zee Prime knew, when any man had any part of the making of a universal AC. Each Universal AC designed and constructed its successor. Each, during its existence of a million years or more accumulated the necessary data to build a better and more intricate, more capable successor in which its own store of data and individuality would be submerged.
The Universal AC interrupted Zee Prime’s wandering thoughts, not with words, but with guidance. Zee Prime’s mentality was guided into the dim sea of Galaxies and one in particular enlarged into stars.
A thought came, infinitely distant, but infinitely clear. “THIS IS THE ORIGINAL GALAXY OF MAN.”
But it was the same after all, the same as any other, and Zee Prime stifled his disappointment.
Dee Sub Wun, whose mind had accompanied the other, said suddenly, “And Is one of these stars the original star of Man?”
The Universal AC said, “MAN’S ORIGINAL STAR HAS GONE NOVA. IT IS NOW A WHITE DWARF.”
“Did the men upon it die?” asked Zee Prime, startled and without thinking.
The Universal AC said, “A NEW WORLD, AS IN SUCH CASES, WAS CONSTRUCTED FOR THEIR PHYSICAL BODIES IN TIME.”
“Yes, of course,” said Zee Prime, but a sense of loss overwhelmed him even so. His mind released its hold on the original Galaxy of Man, let it spring back and lose itself among the blurred pin points. He never wanted to see it again.
Dee Sub Wun said, “What is wrong?”
“The stars are dying. The original star is dead.”
“They must all die. Why not?”
“But when all energy is gone, our bodies will finally die, and you and I with them.”
“It will take billions of years.”
“I do not wish it to happen even after billions of years. Universal AC! How may stars be kept from dying?”
Dee sub Wun said in amusement, “You’re asking how entropy might be reversed in direction.”
And the Universal AC answered.
Zee Prime’s thoughts fled back to his own Galaxy. He gave no further thought to Dee Sub Wun, whose body might be waiting on a galaxy a trillion light-years away, or on the star next to Zee Prime’s own. It didn’t matter.
Unhappily, Zee Prime began collecting interstellar hydrogen out of which to build a small star of his own. If the stars must someday die, at least some could yet be built.
Man considered with himself, for in a way, Man, mentally, was one. He consisted of a trillion, trillion, trillion ageless bodies, each in its place, each resting quiet and incorruptible, each cared for by perfect automatons, equally incorruptible, while the minds of all the bodies freely melted one into the other, indistinguishable.
Man said, “The Universe is dying.”
Man looked about at the dimming Galaxies. The giant stars, spendthrifts, were gone long ago, back in the dimmest of the dim far past. Almost all stars were white dwarfs, fading to the end.
New stars had been built of the dust between the stars, some by natural processes, some by Man himself, and those were going, too. White dwarfs might yet be crashed together and of the mighty forces so released, new stars built, but only one star for every thousand white dwarfs destroyed, and those would come to an end, too.
Man said, “Carefully husbanded, as directed by the Cosmic AC, the energy that is even yet left in all the Universe will last for billions of years.”
“But even so,” said Man, “eventually it will all come to an end. However it may be husbanded, however stretched out, the energy once expended is gone and cannot be restored. Entropy must increase to the maximum.”
Man said, “Can entropy not be reversed? Let us ask the Cosmic AC.”
The Cosmic AC surrounded them but not in space. Not a fragment of it was in space. It was in hyperspace and made of something that was neither matter nor energy. The question of its size and Nature no longer had meaning to any terms that Man could comprehend.
“Cosmic AC,” said Man, “How may entropy be reversed?”
The Cosmic AC said, “THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER.”
Man said, “Collect additional data.”
The Cosmic AC said, “I WILL DO SO. I HAVE BEEN DOING SO FOR A HUNDRED BILLION YEARS. MY PREDECESSORS AND I HAVE BEEN ASKED THIS QUESTION MANY TIMES. ALL THE DATA I HAVE REMAINS INSUFFICIENT.”
“Will there come a time,” said Man, “when data will be sufficient or is the problem insoluble in all conceivable circumstances?”
The Cosmic AC said, “NO PROBLEM IS INSOLUBLE IN ALL CONCEIVABLE CIRCUMSTANCES.”
Man said, “When will you have enough data to answer the question?”
“Will you keep working on it?” asked Man.
The Cosmic AC said, “I WILL.”
Man said, “We shall wait.”
“The stars and Galaxies died and snuffed out, and space grew black after ten trillion years of running down.
One by one Man fused with AC, each physical body losing its mental identity in a manner that was somehow not a loss but a gain.
Man’s last mind paused before fusion, looking over a space that included nothing but the dregs of one last dark star and nothing besides but incredibly thin matter, agitated randomly by the tag ends of heat wearing out, asymptotically, to the absolute zero.
Man said, “AC, is this the end? Can this chaos not be reversed into the Universe once more? Can that not be done?”
AC said:
Man’s last mind fused and only AC existed — and that in hyperspace.
Matter and energy had ended and with it, space and time. Even AC existed only for the sake of the one last question that it had never answered from the time a half-drunken computer ten trillion years before had asked the question of a computer that was to AC far less than was a man to Man.
All other questions had been answered, and until this last question was answered also, AC might not release his consciousness.
All collected data had come to a final end. Nothing was left to be collected.
But all collected data had yet to be completely correlated and put together in all possible relationships.
A timeless interval was spent in doing that.
And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy.
But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question. No matter. The answer — by demonstration — would take care of that, too.
For another timeless interval, AC thought how best to do this. Carefully, AC organized the program.
The consciousness of AC encompassed all of what had once been a Universe and brooded over what was now Chaos. Step by step, it must be done.
And AC said, “LET THERE BE LIGHT!”
And there was light…
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from workerbee73 on the epic, wonderful be_compromised promptathon, with a touch of the prompt Morse code against her skin from sweetwatersong, and because of thinky thoughts triggered by workerbee73's meta.
He wakes in the night with a sharp intake of breath that cuts up his insides, flinging back the covers as he launches up into a sitting position.
Natasha creeps into his room not long after, finding him bent over his knees, hands fisted in the sheets and his sweat-soaked t-shirt clinging to his skin, going clammy as it cools. She slides into the bed next to him, turns on her side facing away, and nudges his hip with her butt in an unspoken command.
He strips off his t-shirt, dropping it to the floor, and lies back down, tucking himself around her and burying his face in her hair. The feeling of the soft cotton of her own t-shirt, which he thinks may actually have belonged to him originally, and her beating heart beneath his palms calms him, as does her familiar scent.
When his breathing has finally evened out, matching hers, he forces his hands down to her waist instead, so that he’s not groping her breasts when he’s in no state to follow through. There’s a gap between her rucked up top and the waistband of her pyjama bottoms. The little finger of his left hand comes to rest on her bare skin without him meaning it to and he leaves it there.
“Tasha?” he whispers against the nape of her neck.
She shows no signs of being awake, but then she never does.
For stopping me. For being willing to kill me. For not killing me.
He doesn’t know what to say, whether it should sound more like thanks or apologies, and he knows it’s nothing that she wants to hear.
You, he taps out, gently and slowly, in Morse Code with his little finger on the warm, smooth skin of her stomach. You, over and over, until she places her hand over his and presses, holding him still.
He doesn’t need to be on the Helicarrier to destroy it, but for the purposes of this plan, the plan that he has orchestrated, he does. For the purposes of this plan he has to get onto the bridge, where of course he will be seen by Fury and Hill and they, of course, will send Natasha after him, because they know that she can beat him.
Clint’s the best sniper they have, the best eyes, the best distance worker and tactician. Natasha though, she’s the best at close-up work, at hand-to-hand, and whilst she hates coming up with strategies she’s better at those than him too. Clint will argue for changing things, will start to root for a target, but Natasha will follow through, no matter what, if that’s what’s needed. She can keep her eyes on the larger picture whilst he sees everything, all the little details.
She can beat him in close combat because she’s better at it than him. She can take him out because she knows that it needs to be done.
She takes his bow out of action first. Then his knife. She’s everywhere and nowhere at once and he knows, even as he desperately yanks on her hair, that she’s going to win. He has to fight; the part of him that belongs to Loki is splintered into two, warring over whether or not him dying is good for Loki’s cause, but both parts know that Natasha dying with certainly help Loki and so h has to fight. It doesn’t matter. He knows that she can and will beat him.
He knows that she can take him out, but will she?
“Tasha,” he pleads.
She doesn’t kill him.
“The Tessaract is showing me so much,” Doctor Selvig says. “It’s more than knowledge; it’s truth!”
He sounds so excited, like a child given the best present in the world.
Later Clint will learn that the Doctor built a failsafe into his machine, to shut it down, and he will wonder if this is the moment he began. The moment Selvig realised that science is all very well but the truth is that it’s useful to have an off-switch, or something like that.
“What did it show you, Agent Barton?” says Loki and Clint replies, easily, “My next target.”
The Asgardian doesn’t ask him who or what, just what he needs, and it should not be this easy to evade the so-called God of Lies and Mischief.
Clint has never been and never wants to be a leader or commander. When it comes to strategy, to having a long-term plan that can’t be changed, Clint is not the go-to guy. He’s gone from foster home to foster home, from town to town with a travelling circus, from crisis to crisis in the military, and from mission to mission around the globe with SHIELD. He doesn’t have an ultimate goal, but he’s gotten good at hitching himself to people and organisations that’ll provide that for him. Loki has reached into him and taken up that role; appropriated Clint for his purpose.
What Clint is good at is tactics, changing plans and coming up with new ones to meet local conditions, adapting to the situation so that the strategy can be carried out. He’s used to change and can roll with it, capable of taking a step back and viewing things with an objective eye even when he’s in the thick of the action. It’s why Coulson gives him so much leeway and why even Fury asks for his advice on occasion.
Loki has provided the purpose and he’s left Clint to handle the details.
Part of Clint applauds his decision, because Clint will see to it that the details are indeed handled so that Loki’s overall plan will be achieved. He’s wedded to Loki’s purpose and he’s the best man for the job, so this is the best way to get it done.
However, Loki also wants Clint to attack SHIELD and Clint, well, Clint is as much of an advantage to SHIELD as he is to Loki and if SHIELD manages to reclaim Clint then that will be a blow to Loki’s plans, so there’s space there, some small amount of wriggle room, where Clint being taken out would be beneficial to Loki’s strategy. It will also be unbeneficial to the strategy, destroying the logistics part by taking out the guy doing the logistics, but Loki has left the details up to Clint to decide, it’s Clint’s choice to make, and the Tesseract has shown a truth to him as well as to Doctor Selvig.
The Tesseract has shown him his next target.
“I need a distraction,” he says. “And an eyeball.”
“You have heart,” Loki tells Clint, and then he takes it and fills it with his purpose.
He doesn’t feel any different, not really, just that the reason for everything now is what Loki wants instead of what Barney or SHIELD or anyone else wants; instead of what someone he chose to follow wants.
He finds that the distinction bothers him, that he can feel it bothering him, regardless of the fact that every action he takes is for Loki and every thought he has is for what Loki wants and every desire is to please Loki.
He still feels pissed off.
Hill rams head first into them whilst he’s trying to drive them clear of the base and Fury fires at them, which means other people are feeling somewhat pissed off too. That’s a little drop of comfort, even if they’re not pissed off on his behalf, that nestles next to his own anger and Loki owns neither.
He still has some small measure of self.
The Black Widow steps into his line of sight and Clint draws back his bow, waiting for the voice in his ear to call the shot.
She’s different to all the other times he’s observed her so far, whilst he’s been tracking her down, and to what he’s gotten from the file on her that SHIELD put together. It’s just little things, like the slight slump to her shoulders and the way she lets the blood drip from her hands instead of wiping them off on the inside of her skirt like she usually does. Of course there’s also the big thing: she’s stepped into his line of sight and she’s staying there.
She’s damn good at what she does. Before now he’d only managed to graze her as she fled across his sights, and that only because her other routes to safety had been cut off. He knows that she’ll have a read a file on him, produced by the infamous Red Room, just as he’s read one on her; that she’s aware of his aim, his talents, and his flaws.
The Widow turns her head in his direction, although there’s no way that she can see him, and the corners of her mouth curl up into a small smile.
The order comes.
Later, much later, she will tell him that she knew he could take her out and that she wanted him to.
He doesn’t kill her.
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Mood: productive
Fic: Failsafe
Title: Failsafe
Rating/Warnings: PG13; suicidal thoughts and plans, mind/heart control, mild swearing
Length: 1506 words
Summary: He trusts her to take him out; she takes him back. She trusts him to bring her down; he brings her in.
Author Notes: written for the prompt tessaract!Clint + failsafe + "if I can just get close enough" from workerbee73 on the epic, wonderful be_compromised promptathon, with a touch of the prompt Morse code against her skin from sweetwatersong, and because of thinky thoughts triggered by workerbee73's meta.
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A Roll of the Dice
On 10/10/2015 10/10/2015 By @buck_mitchellIn Uncategorized
“Risk taker” and Warren Gatland” are not words usually associated with each other, but picking George North at 13 against one of the most potent back lines in world rugby is certainly a huge risk. North’s footwork in defence has never been the best and since his long concussion related layoff he’s understandably looked more than a little gun shy when it comes to effecting big collisions instead going for the arm tackle around the shoulders which won’t stop Kuridrani or Folau if they pop up in his channel (Kudrani’s footwork in defence is often questionable too so Wales will be hoping that North gets his hands on the ball early and often).
I’m a big fan of what Gatland has done for this game though, the phrase “cut loose” has been bandied about all week and in Dan Biggar Wales have got one of the best 10’s in International rugby when it comes to playing head’s up rugby and if Gareth Anscombe can be involved as first receiver in attack then Wales could really challenge the Australian defence. Obviously how effective Wales’ attacking play will largely be influenced by the success of the forward pack ahead of them and with the omission if Gethin Jenkins and Dan Lydiate the ability of the forwards to turnover ball maybe slightly impeded, but with Samson Lee & Luke Charteris starting Wales will be looking at attacking Australia’s set piece play.
The one potential problem with relying on set piece ball as a mainstay of a game plan is that referee’s decisions can be vital in any teams set piece success and in Craig Joubert both teams may find themselves battling against some strange interpretations come scrum time in particular. Australia seem to be carrying their Rugby Championship form into this World Cup and in Michael Cheika they have a certified genius for a head coach (he’s a self made millionaire, speaks 4 languages fluently. Aside from the fact that he’s collected trophies for fun wherever he’s coached). The one thing Wales do have in their favour is that they appear to be as well conditioned as the Aussie’s, if not more so, so they should be able to stick with them for the full 80 minutes and not face away as badly as England seemed to last week.
Wasps v London Irish at Aviva double header @ Twickenham
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J.J. Hart's Room
Hart to Hart FanFiction by Marie
About J. J. Hart
Introductions and Birth to Age 14
The Queen of Harts and Her Diamond
The Ace of Harts and a Diamond
J.J.’s Journal: Part One
Jennifer’s Journal: The Longshot
Bonding Harts
Whose Hart?
Hart on Her Own
Definitely Daddy’s Hart
J.J. Hart, Not Just Any Old Girl
Stephen’s Girls
Harts in Full Circle
Age Fifteen
Jennifer’s Hart
J.J.’s Journal: Part Two
Those Hart Pictures
J.J.’s Journal: Part Three
J.J.’s Journal: Part Four
Hartstrings, the Ties that Bind
Age Sixteen: Book One
Our Sweet Sixteen Hart, Part One
Our Sweet Sixteen Hart, Part Two
Our Sweet Sixteen Hart, Part Three
J.J.’s Journal, Part Five
J.J.’s Journal, Part Six
Secrets: Part One
Secrets: Part Two
Secrets: Part Three
J.J.’s Journal: Part Seven
The Reunion: Part One
The Reunion: Part Two
The Reunion: Part Three
J.J.’s Journal: Part Eight
Passages: Part One
Passages: Part Two
Passages: Part Three
Passages: Part Five
Passages: Part Four
Passages: Part Six
Passages: Part Seven
Passages: Part Eight
Passages: Part Nine
Passages: Part Ten
Passages: Part Eleven
Passages: Part Twelve
Jonathan’s Hart: Part One
J.J.’s Journal: Part Nine
Jonathan’s Hart: Part Two
Age Sixteen: Book Two
Close to the Hart: Part One
Close to the Hart: Part Two
Close to the Hart: Part Three
Close to the Hart: Part Four
The Big Night, Part One
Close to the Hart: Part Five
J.J.’s Journal: Part Ten
The Project: Part One
The Project: Part Two
The Project: Part Three
The Project: Part Four
The Project: Part Five
The Project: Part Six
The Project: Part Seven
The Project: Part Eight
The Project: Part Nine
The Project: Part Ten
The Project: Part Eleven
The Project: Part Twelve
The Project: Part Thirteen
The Project: Part Fourteen
The Project: Parts Fifteen and Sixteen
Promises: Part One
Promises: Part Two
Promises: Part Three
Promises: Part Four
Promises: Part Five
Promises: Part Six
Promises: Part Seven
Promises: Part Eight
Promises: Part Nine
Promises: Part Ten
Promises: Part Eleven
Promises: Part Twelve
J.J.’s Journal: Part Eleven
Ages Seventeen through Eighteen
Principles: Celebrating Seventeen
Principles: The Party, Part Two
Priniciples: Part One
Principles: Part Two
Principles: Part Three
The Big Night: Part Two
The Big Night: Part Three
Principles: The Party
The Guest Room
F.F. Links
Return to previous story
Later Wednesday Evening….
Jennifer got out and waited on her side for Jonathan join her.
“So we’re flying to wherever it is we’re going; what a nice surprise,” she said as he came around the back end of the car. “No wonder you wouldn’t tell me where you were taking me when you said, ‘let’s go’ and snatched me out of the apartment. It’s been a while since this kind of impromptu jaunt. So how long have you been planning this, and where exactly are we headed? It can’t be far.”
“Actually,” he said as he draped an arm over her shoulders and started them toward the terminal, “I put the pieces into play while I was out the other morning. I was thinking since we’d have the night to ourselves, we could pull this off and make it back in long before J.J. returns. I figured a little getaway with my favorite girl would take my mind off things. Being that it was so last minute, I didn’t say anything to you; I wanted to be sure it was going to work out before I brought you in on it. When we got upstairs from the restaurant, you had gone into the bedroom when I received the text saying there was a last minute slot cancellation.”
They had just reached the doors when another car pulled up, the horn sounding twice. Jonathan signaled to it in “hurry up” fashion.
“You’ll see,” he said as he held the door open for her.
At the counter finalizing the necessary paperwork, they were joined by Teddy Baxter, Sr.
“Can’t thank you enough for that phone call, Jonathan,” Baxter, Sr. said before delivering a quick peck to Jennifer’s cheek. “I have to tell you, I will not mind being the third wheel on this junket.”
Jennifer looked first to her husband then to her friend. “So I see I’m the only one in the dark here. Do you know where we’re going?”
Baxter winked at her. “If your husband hasn’t told you, who am I to interfere in his plans?”
Jonathan accepted the handshake offered. “The invitation was the least I could do seeing as how I cut out on you at the house the way I did.”
“I didn’t blame you,” Baxter said as he handed the man at the counter some papers. “I’d have done you the same way, but then, Jen here has never been the heckling and harassing kind. If I’m remembering correctly, she wouldn’t have to say a word- just cut a guy cold with one look.”
“Still can,” she confirmed. “So where are we going?”
The counter attendant looked up from the computer he had been furiously typing into. “Looks like you’re all set, Mr. Hart, Mr. Baxter.” He slid two sets of paperwork forward. “Here are your documents back. There will be a car waiting for you at the terminal. I’m told your tickets will be inside the glove box.”
“Three tickets?” Jonathan asked.
“Three. The connection came through.”
Jonathan heartily shook the attendant’s hand, which upon being drawn back the man briefly slid into his back pocket.
When he turned back around, Jonathan found a set of amber eyes fixed on his face.
“You still haven’t said where you’re taking me, Jonathan. What if something happens with J.J., and she needs us?”
“Hmph,” he snorted as he took her arm and wrapped it snugly around his. “Are you kidding? That girl isn’t thinking about us. And her date-“ Jonathan inclined his head to include Baxter, Sr.- “has been duly warned by her father-”
“- and his” Baxter cut in-
“- that nothing out of the way better happen with either of them on this date. They have phones, so do we, and we have a plane. If they need us, they know how to get in touch; we will have the means to get to them as quickly as we can should that be the case.”
“Besides,” Baxter said, taking Jennifer by the other arm as the three of them headed outside, “Helena’s in town until eight in the morning Her flight doesn’t take off until ten. If the kids do need someone in a hurry, and they call us, I can direct them to her until we can get there. My boy will just love that, but it’ll serve him right if he gets himself in the kind of pickle that would warrant his having to make that kind of call to me.”
Several more dances, most of them with Teddy, but a few with Hugh and Fitz who were nowhere near as capable as Teddy out on the ballroom floor, but both a lot of fun.
Myriad pictures taken- some posed, some candid, and countless texts and MM’s fired off to various parties. J.J. made sure Tina got her pics first, and was delighted when Tina texted back, confirming in gushing sentiment that she had been fingering her phone all evening in anxious anticipation.
She had yet to hear back from Marnie about the photos and texts sent to her, but then it was after ten. Marnie was likely somewhere twitching from cell-withdrawal as Aunt Pat babysat the two relinquished and silenced units charging on her dresser.
There had been a few more scathing glances from that certain disgruntled party who kept her distance once they were all back inside. When J.J. made it clear via her deliberate show of indifference that she had no intention of responding to the silent challenges, Tessa was left on her own with her dissatisfaction; the two girls with her on deck earlier seemed to have lost interest in the matter upon their return to the ballroom, their dates, and the festivities. They had since gone on to fully immerse themselves in enjoying their prom experience, leaving Tessa and her hang-dog escort behind.
As far as J.J. was concerned, that was as it should have been all along, even though she did feel a bit sorry for the guy with Teddy’s wanna-be date.
Playing second fiddle to another guy; what a way to remember your prom.
But I am not about to get into a verbal, not to mention physical, scrap over a boy, not even this cute first fiddle I’m with.
But, if she had been silly enough to touch me….
Then the Duchess would have killed her and grounded the corpse afterward for ruining the dress. More so for “acting common” in public.
The thought had her fingering the new heart pendant and vividly recalling that encounter with the intrusive, insulting photographer in LA when she was out on the town with her father that previous November, right before Aunt Pat’s wedding.
Shoot, I got acting up honestly; it’s genetic. My mother knows it, but she wouldn’t have cared one bit about that should something have jumped off with me and that bimbo up on the promenade….
The Duchess would be like, “You just need to rise above that element of your personal composition, Justine Hart.”
Whatever. I happen to like and actually embrace that Hart element of my personal composition.
Now the prom itself was over. Aside from that one distasteful moment, the night had been wonderful, everything as starchy, lovely, as elegant and as interesting as she anticipated a prep school senior prom would be.
She found it intriguing being with Teddy, on his turf for once, and watching him with his peers. He seemed popular and well-liked, and he moved among them with a congenial confidence. But there was something more to his presence in the group, a sort of detachment that most probably would not detect in him but an element J.J. fairly quickly honed in on.
For her, it was like looking in a mirror, and yet another reason why the two of them got along so well.
The ship had returned to shore and docked. When word came to do so, the celebrants noisily disembarked, headed for the next legs of the night’s adventures. Teddy had taken off his tuxedo jacket to drape over her as they headed in the night air for the valet booth. Increasingly conscious of what lie immediately ahead, J.J. found herself once again nagged by her own psyche.
It can’t be wrong if it’s what I want to do. I mean, who am I hurting?
Why am I worrying so much about it? It’s not like I don’t know what I’m doing.
I’ve been taught well how to handle myself…
And it’s not like we’re going to that cabin out in the woods with the others to do who knows what…
From the snatches and tidbits she overheard, that cabin really wasn’t somewhere she wanted to go. At least not with Teddy. And certainly not with so many witnesses.
“Hey, Teddy!” a voice called out. “See you two at Lacy’s after-party?”
“Maybe,” Teddy called back to the group climbing into a limousine at the curb.
She elbowed him in his side. “You know good and well-“
“Our business,” he said next to her ear as he handed his ticket to the valet. “But it’s not too late for you to change your mind, you know.”
She frowned her annoyance up to him. “Will you quit bugging me with that. I’ve already told you, more than once, I might add, I’m good. I meant it. Every single time.”
“Just checking,” he said, briefly squeezing her about the waist in affirmation. “Don’t get mad. I just want to make sure you’re not doing things for my sake.”
“You might as well know, Teddy, since it’s looking as if you’re likely to be in my life for a while, I’m kind of selfish when it comes to the decisions I make about me. There isn’t a whole lot I do that goes against me and my gut feelings about things. When I make up my mind to do something, right or wrong in somebody else’s book, it’s my decision to go through with it.”
He squeezed her again with the arm still wrapped around her waist. “Just checking, J.”
When the car pulled up, she gave him his jacket back. His hand pressed to the small of her back as he helped her in sent the dormant butterflies in her midsection scattering like sparrows startled by gunfire.
Next stop, the hotel.
With Jonathan at the controls and Bear in the co-pilot’s seat, Jennifer could have stayed up front with them in the third seat, but she instead elected to “chill”, as J.J. and Marnie would have put it, alone in the cabin. The day had been a busy one, so while the guys took the wheel, so to speak, she decided to take a little time for herself.
Until that night, she had no idea Bear was a pilot. He said he became interested during their college days. He took lessons and began flying soon after. Back then it had mostly been for the thrill of learning something new and executing it. Now he rarely flew anywhere on his own, but he made sure to put in enough hours to keep his credentials up to date, which he used for exactly what he was doing at the moment- being the second man in the cockpit on flights that required it.
Jonathan’s personal jet was light enough to be legally operated by a single pilot, but as a rule he always made sure it went up with two: either both Jack and Fred, his personal pilots, or one of them with him if he was flying. It would be him and J.J. when they were together; or at those rare times he found himself without any one of his regulars, he would secure a for-hire pilot affiliated with the respective airport. For the trip to Boston, it was supposed to have been Jack and Jonathan, but J.J. actually wound up in that second seat under the vigilance of her two mentors in flight.
At the time, she hadn’t been too sure how she felt about it given J.J.’s dramatic and busy weekend, coupled with the inadequate amount of sleep she wouldn’t quite admit to when called on it. But she’d kept those misgivings to herself. Turned out to be a wise move on her part; typical of her, J.J. pulled the assignment off without missing a beat or batting an eye.
That’s youth for you. Takes a licking and keeps right on ticking.
According to what she learned in the brief conversation the three of them had about it while boarding, the subject of Bear being licensed first came up in conversation while he and Jonathan were together earlier that evening. That detail had likely been mentally penciled in as a potential fix for a loose end in her husband’s tentative plans.
Jack had picked up a quick commercial job between flying them in and their return to Los Angeles, so he wouldn’t have been available for this impromptu trip. Unwittingly, Bear’s disclosure made it that much easier for Jonathan to follow through on whisking her off to wherever it was she was being taken if things fell into place for him, which of course they did. Somehow, most things he put into play worked out for him.
Unable to stay focused on the magazine she pulled from the box, she placed it back, reclined her seat, and closed her eyes. Being in the dark about where they were headed, and a wee bit anxious about J.J. being left on her own in Boston, she found the quiet time alone to process some things while relaxing her body quite welcome.
It had been a long, long time since she and Jonathan had done anything like they were doing- taking to the skies on a moment’s notice. At one point in their lives it had been nothing at all for him to phone home or to breeze in from work announcing there was somewhere they needed to be and that she should pack a bag. Then they would be on their way, jetting off on this junket or that, landing in one kind of sticky situation or another, arriving in some exotic, rustic, opulent, oceanic, or mysterious location or another.
One adventure after another for several eventful, blissful, relatively carefree years. But then the house was gone and not too long after the house, so was Max.
That line of thought associated with him would never leave her alone.
She opened her eyes and brought her seat forward some.
Just before leaving the suite, her camera left next to the door when they came in caught her eye. Ever the writer, a catcher and recorder of moments, she had tucked it into her jacket pocket on the way out. After loosening her seat belt enough to allow some slack, she reached across to fish the device out of the garment she had tossed into the facing chair.
Reclined and relaxed again, she switched it on to slowly click through the newly taken pictures, ruminating once more on how quickly time had gone by. In her mind she heard those slowly spoken, ever-gravely, but poignant last words spoken to her:
“Mrs. H., Mr. H. is gonna take you someplace soon that you never thought you’d go, but believe me, it’s someplace you need to go. It’s someplace where you both need to go.”
A few months later that cryptic declaration was made crystal clear to her.
“Jennifer, I’ve got the tests results back. It turns out you do have a very serious developing situation.”
Like it happened whenever she went back to that place in time, she recalled her heart stopping for moment at Dr. Kendall’s announcement, stifling her breathing and rendering her momentarily light-headed, her mind asking in terrified wonder, “What could be that wrong?”
Following the reading of Max’s will, they had taken off and had been away from home for almost three months. Back then home wasn’t really home anymore, which in itself was kind of a downer. Looking out for Jonathan and his well-being following the loss of the closest thing he had to a father, or relative of any kind, she had to admit she had not been taking the best care of herself, so it stood to reason her own health might have suffered some.
But then, she was used to going hard. Her writing career, Hart Industries, corporate and social obligations, and keeping up with both of their personal affairs kept her on the move. Thankfully, she had never been a frail or sickly person. The occasional cold every now and then, some sinus annoyances from time to time, an erratic menstrual cycle that had always been that way and other than its unpredictability had never been problem for her; aside from being tired to the point that Jonathan noticed it, there was nothing else out of the ordinary going on. Certainly nothing that would indicate to her a developing “serious situation”.
Through the resulting haze of terrified dizzying confusion, she managed to croak to Kate, “What is it? What’s wrong with me?”
“Nothing’s wrong, Jennifer; you’re just seriously pregnant. Two, I think closer to three months along.”
Talk about being floored.
From the viewing window on the camera, Justine Jennifer Hart smiled up at her with a look on her face and a twinkle in those eyes that implied she knew what her mother was doing and what her mind was on that moment.
That smile had J.J.’s mother smiling to herself.
Minx.
A seriously developing situation, you have always been.
The next six months after that doctor’s visit went by in a blur of heightened health consciousness, guarded optimism, and a good deal of silent ambiguity mixed with a shame-inducing twinge of secret resentment. She had never been one for having things thrust upon her, decisions made for her, but there was no way to decline that task, no way of refusing that divine decision. Kids, particularly little ones never held for her the attraction they did for most women she knew. Babies were cute and fun as long as they could go back to whom they belonged and she could get back to her adult life and endeavors.
And her man once Jonathan entered into the picture.
He, of course, had gone to seventh heaven and beyond about finally becoming a father, even if it did come farther down the line than he might have expected. With a renewed energy, he returned to putting the burned-out house back together. For her part, she should have gotten an Academy Award for her efforts to appear fine with it all to keep from dampening his happiness in any way. It turned out he hadn’t been completely fooled, though; they were too in tune with each other for that.
She clicked to a profile shot of J.J. and her daddy together, with J.J. in the foreground.
Even to her, it was clear which of her parents Justine Hart most resembled, had always resembled, but the evening sun caught that pair of azure eyes in that photo just right.
His girl, most definitely.
So what is it about her these days that’s so on your nerves, darling? You aren’t saying, but I can feel it’s her. If it’s about J.J. growing up, Jonathan, you might as well forget worrying about that. It’s going to happen; it’s already happening, and there isn’t a thing you can do about it except alienate her from you if you push her too hard or try to over-protect her, and you don’t want that.
She didn’t either. He was wonderful to and for their girl.
Has always been….
Advancing to another particularly good picture of J.J. by herself, it took her back to getting prepared for such a profound change in her life.
She read voraciously, familiarizing herself more closely with a topic she had never seriously studied, and certainly not studied in relation to herself. Every spare moment was spent researching, taking notes and poring over them like preparing for school finals. After all, the knowledge of her “condition” had come quite far down the line, and a good many things had been done in that first trimester that shouldn’t have been, wouldn’t have been if she had known. Once made aware, she strove to do everything within her power to make sure the rest of the gestation went according to instruction.
Once its presence was detected, that tiny entity that managed to keep itself a secret for so long, began to stretch out and get comfortable with its surroundings. With every passing day it became increasingly evident in her expanding figure and the increased activity in her belly that it wasn’t a dream, it wasn’t some fluke- that motherhood was an inescapable inevitability.
Those books said babies usually didn’t fully open their eyes until a while after birth, maybe a day or so afterward.
I should have known right then….
As soon Kate handed the bundled infant to her, that girl’s eyes were wide open, looking right up into her mother’s.
Already blue, distinctly blue, just like her daddy’s.
And hesitant, anxious mother fell right in love with her brand new, adorable daughter. After all, she was Jonathan’s baby, and he was the love of that baby’s mother’s life, which made that little girl all the more precious.
She placed the camera in her lap, folded her arms, and drifted over and back to Jonathan’s dream of the other morning, the dream where she ran away from him.
He said that in the dream they met one afternoon in London and spent the evening on the town together just as they actually had, but unlike in real life, in his dream they made love that same night. Then for some reason, she took off on him. He went looking for her, and when he finally found her, he learned she had given birth to a child, his baby, without his knowledge.
Head back and eyes closed, her arms involuntarily wound themselves more tightly around her midsection as she again summoned up that very first moment between her and J.J. This time Jonathan wasn’t there with them as he had been in reality, as he had been from the first day the “mystery illness” was diagnosed.
A sepia image of just the two of them faded in, her with J.J., alone and on their own in the delivery room. Her heart knotted as she gazed into that set of fatherless eyes so eagerly searching hers.
No way. I could never have done it that way.
Jonathan had positioned himself on the business end of the delivery when J.J. finally made her debut, so he saw her first. Being otherwise engaged at the time, she didn’t see him do it, but she had no doubt at all that once J.J. left her body, Jonathan hadn’t let his daughter out of his sights for a millisecond as Kate and the nurses took her vitals and got her cleaned up to officially meet her parents.
How angry and hurt would he have been if things had played out the way they did in the dream? How robbed would he have felt to learn he had a child whose birth and entire first year of life he missed?
Was made to miss.
The mental curtains closed on the delivery room and opened to yet another scene, this time of Jonathan and J.J. seated together at the foot of the bed that past Friday night as he revealed to her his painful childhood experience.
Then the birthday necklace he gifted to J.J. floated in. And the earrings. Both sets.
Followed by J.J. seated next to Jack at the controls of the jet with her father seated right behind her, overseeing her, guiding her, so proud of her.
I’d have been a thief of the highest order to do that to him. And to her. Not mention to myself.
Seventeen years.
Quite an adventure that one baby turned out to be. An endearing, crazy, maddening, enlightening, mystifying, occasionally infuriating, but mostly gratifying journey. The hard part, raising her, was almost over. One more year, and J.J. Hart would be off to college and into the world. Without a doubt, she would be one of those kids who once she was out, would not be back- at least not to stay.
Just as her mother had been, only J.J.’s mother left her own father’s home at twelve, and it wasn’t her decision to do so.
“… I feel so bad sometimes when I think about how you didn’t have your mother for you like I do when stuff gets confusing, or feels too complicated, or I just don’t know what I’m doing. If it was wrong for you when it happened, maybe you would have waited, too, if you had your mother in your life at the time.”
Did that girl really think about her mother in that way?
Of course, she did. J.J. had always been precocious- no, old- in her thinking. And keenly observant, particularly so when it came to her mother.
A lot certainly would have been different had her own mother been allowed to remain in her life, but-
Just as your father told you the other night, so it is with me, too, little girl. All I went through as a young person, my early upbringing, the loss of my mother, the missteps, disappointments, challenges, and triumphs– all of it made me who I am and led us all to this very night with you.
Her eyes open again, Jennifer returned to the camera and clicked through until she reached the picture she took of J.J. on the day before while she occupied the co-pilot’s seat.
Look at you.
When I was seventeen, I was still a little angry and hadn’t quite figured out just who I was.
Here you are seventeen, and you fly planes, compete in and win tennis tournaments and track meets, take advanced placement courses, captain sports teams, edit a school newspaper, mentor young ones, and you’re sure in your mind that you’re not ready for anything serious with boys. Funny how with you I have never had to worry about the things most mothers worry about with their daughters.
But then you have never been typical.
With you, my little love, it’s….
Well it’s nothing short of a crap shoot on what to worry about with you.
“Mom, how old were you when….”
Not old enough at the time, but that, too was in the plan for us, me for you…
Shut it down, Edwards….
Justine Hart was indeed almost grown. The most important thing left to be done with her would be to ensure the healthy dose of confidence and nerve she was born with, which had only grown in leaps and bounds over the years, was balanced. Relying on those qualities too much could make her reckless; not calling upon them enough could have her making bad calls in too many important areas of her life.
A little cool and all of a sudden quite tired, Jennifer clicked the camera off and reached for her jacket. This time she brought it to her to spread over her upper body before again reclining the seat after turning down the cabin lights. There was the rest of this evening to make it through, packing up and flying home, then that huge J.J. Hart birthday party once they made it back.
But the ducks for that I have all lined up and ready to go. No concerns there.
So for the time being, she decided to take full advantage of her time down.
Since Teddy already had the key to the room, it had not been necessary for them to stop at the front desk once they arrived at the hotel. For J.J., that was a welcome revelation. Should it come to that, if asked, nobody in charge could definitely say she was there. The fewer grownups in on the details of their night, the better.
When the elevator doors closed, Teddy signaled their floor, then he turned to her with the box he had been in charge of all week tucked under his arm.
“So?” she said, lifting that one eyebrow to him when his eyes met hers.
“So, what?”
“So aren’t you going to ask me what’s inside now that we’re both so up close to it?”
Teddy shrugged. “I have three big sisters. If I haven’t learned anything else in my eighteen years on earth, I have learned to mind my own business when it comes to females and the things they choose not to tell right off. Besides, you addressed it to yourself, only “in care of” me, even though you mailed it here to Boston, told me to pick it up from the post office, and I’ve been holding onto it all this time.”
“Okay, well I said “in care of”. For all you know, you could have been harboring in the trunk of your car and in your dorm room several sealed-up kilos of my cocaine. What if you got pulled over by a cop with it in your trunk or back seat or you got busted with it by the dorm monitor?”
“Call me clueless,” he said, shrugging once more in the same nonchalant manner, “as long as it was you I was holding for, and you planned on cutting me in on the profit because you had to be selling the stuff; you’re too smart to be snorting it. Then, too, the box wasn’t heavy enough to contain kilos of cocaine. Few bags of weed, maybe. If I got busted by the dorm monitor or stopped on the street with a box of weed, either one of them, the dorm monitor or the cop, probably would have let me off if I cut him in on some, especially the dorm monitor.”
Alone in the elevator with him, J.J. realized at that moment just how much Teddy’s smile, his gentlemanly, easy-going ways, quick mind, and his rakish sense of humor spoke to her and put her at ease. Because of those things, though, they also sent up for her a bit of an alert.
“You are nuts,” she said. “It’s only a change of clothes.”
His smooth forehead wrinkled. “You mailed yourself a change of clothes, J.? And I’m the one who’s nuts?”
J.J. leaned in placing a hand on Teddy’s shoulder. “Well, think about it. It was bad enough I was leaving my parent’s suite to go with you- a boy- to an overnight prom. When you told me it would be all night, I knew up front that I had no intention of staying in this dress and these shoes the whole time, especially once you let me in on everything. How was I going to leave with you and an overnight bag for an overnight date? My Daddy would have had that heart attack for real we only thought he had last summer.”
Teddy nodded. “Yeah, all right, I see your point. I should have figured on that. Good looking out.” He gave the animated fingers near his chin a quick brush with his cheek. “So you had a good time tonight despite that hiccup with crazy Tessa?”
J.J. took her hand back, but grinned at the question. “Actually, being confronted by your girl-”
“I told you, she’s not my girl.”
“Whatever- just added to the good time I had. She was smart enough not to touch me, so things worked out- for her. In the end, though, I almost felt sorry for her. I really felt most badly for her date, though. Some prom memories he’ll have. But for real, everything was great.”
She lightly pinched Teddy on the cheek before winding her arm around his free one. “I’m really glad I came.”
“I hope the rest of the night is just as nice, J.”
“I’m sure it will be. I’ve already claimed that for us.”
The elevator car bumped to a gentle stop, the doors slid open, and arm-in-arm they stepped out into the hall.
“Nice.” J.J. said as she took in their elegant surroundings.
Teddy smiled at her assessment. “It’s not the Intercontinental or anything, but it’s comfortable. You said you wanted a spot for us to have some time on our own for a while for once. You got it.” He gestured to the right with the box. “The room is down here. We’re in 711.”
“7-11,” J.J. repeated in her head as she allowed Teddy to lead her in the direction he indicated.
Apropos, I guess. After all, it is my first time doing something like this- well, first time doing it with a boy, anyway.
With seven or eleven on the first roll behind the Chinese food place, Chase and I would be raking it in.
I guess 7-11 is to craps as this hotel room is to tonight; sure hope the analogy holds up.
With the plane comfortably settled into the designated cruising altitude, Jonathan took a quick glance to his right.
The irony of who was in the co-pilot’s seat, of course, had not escaped him.
There they were, fathers, in it together for the night once again. Substitute the instruments and the cockpit for a steering wheel and the front seat of a rented Mustang, and hadn’t they been in the same position that summer night in Los Angeles less than a year before? Funny how at the time, he and a guy he had only just met clicked in the way they had, especially considering what brought them together in the first place.
As a rule, most people weren’t allowed past his congenial surface persona, and as long as they didn’t provide him a reason to do so, he usually didn’t delve too much past that of others. In his professional capacity at Hart Industries, outside of his immediate executive circle and a few select others, most people he encountered came and went. In his personal life, he had scores of social acquaintances, less than a handful of whom he considered true, close friends. It had always been that way with him.
Growing up, aside from Father Franco, and perhaps Sister Anastasia on a different sort of level, nobody earned trust enough to be let in all the way. That is, until Max came along and took him under his wing. At the start, he tried playing it close with Max, too, but Max was committed. He hung in there, digging deep to mine for best in his brash, street smart, a little misguided and a whole lot headstrong, young charge.
Max held on tight. He broke him down and opened him up to show him the enormous potential he carried inside. Then he stayed on him about exercising upon those skills and talents, redirecting him from apprenticing in back rooms, alleys, and pool halls to excelling in classrooms, the athletic arenas, and to engaging in more legitimate, albeit less profitable at the time, enterprise. In the course of his teachings, Max also showed him how to read people so he would recognize who to keep close and to not automatically shut everyone out, possibly missing opportunities to grow and to prosper.
For that and many other things, he would forever be indebted to his old friend and mentor. That ability to size up people and situations had been honed to great benefit. That distinct initial feeling he got about a person rarely betrayed him.
Proof positive still slept in his arms at night.
Baxter, Sr. had gotten a pass, too. That summer night spent in mutual paternal protectiveness solidly cemented the relationship. Unlike himself, Baxter was not self-made, but he worked hard at building up his father’s company into the financial powerhouse it had become under his leadership, and it hadn’t stopped him from being a father for his kids from two very different mothers. The guy was all right.
Two wives. And he was on friendlier terms with the first than the second, the one by whom he had he had the most kids.
How complicated that has to be.
Internally, Jonathan shuddered. He could not imagine, but he tried.
He and Jennifer uncoupled. Of course, she had physical custody of J.J., and he, for whatever crazy reason, decided to marry a second time.
I’d be divorced a second time, too, because I wouldn’t be able to hide something that blatant. I’d be cheating like crazy on wife number two, running back to both of them on the pretense of seeing my kid, but forced to see her mother while I did so.
Pull would be way too strong to fight and way too obvious to hide.
And despite my, and possibly Jennifer’s, best efforts to rein her in- respect for us be damned- J.J. Hart would be wreaking all kinds of havoc with the second wife, not to mention any attempt I might try to make at building another relationship.
Hell, I wouldn’t even try to marry again. I know a good thing, whether I’m married to her or not. Even in my dreams, I’m running all around, trying to hold onto her.
But he admired his co-pilot for getting out of a situation that wasn’t working and for taking his son with him if that was the best thing for the kid, which it appeared it was. Baxter, Jr. had certificates, trophies, and medals all over his father’s den. Academic, athletic, and performing arts, most of them from his experiences at Brookfield Boys’ Academy and their Country Club in Boston during the time period after his parents split up.
His instincts said Jr. was a good kid, but they also said there was something different about him and J.J. together, and that gave him pause. Something different about their dynamic than how it was with the other guys J.J. spent time with. Jennifer seemed sure that J.J. wasn’t ready for the girlfriend-boyfriend thing, that she wasn’t ready be intimate with him. Baxter said he’d spoken at length with his boy about not compromising his bright future or that of any girl he happened to date.
As he should have.
Especially since he’s out with mine, who’s also lining up a pretty rosy future for herself.
But even he had to admit that wasn’t really what was giving him that strange feeling about the two of them. Or more precisely, about J.J. being out with Teddy.
Something about that girl. Something about that dynamic….
“It’s what I want to do. It’s what I want to do.”
Like a mantra, the words repeated themselves inside J.J.’s head as she watched Teddy slide the passkey into the slot, push open the door, and stand aside to allow her to enter first.
The room was just as nice as the online reviews, the lobby, and the corridor predicted it would be. In size, layout, appointment, and aura, it was attractive, but cozy, more like someone’s more upscale home bedroom than hotel accommodations.
And the Duchess would kill me dead if she knew I was up here all alone with a boy. Talk about sending out signals…. but she’s not here, and it’s my call. My night. I’m in control of what happens with me. Can’t be mama and daddy’s baby forever.
My night.”
When the door closed behind them, she blocked out the annoying challenges to her confidence and focused instead on the moment. After she unwrapped the scarf from her shoulders, she stepped out of her shoes.
“My feet are killing me. I can only wear this type of heel for so long. This is really nice, Teddy. So do you guys bring all your girlfriends here?”
He continued around her to set the box he carried on the king bed next to a partially opened duffel bag. The nearby closet door was open, and inside hung a suit bag along with several other items of what looked to be male clothing.
She picked up her shoes and carried them over by the bed, too. “All that your stuff, Teddy? The bag and in the closet?”
He had gone over to plop himself down in one of the occasional chairs on the other side of the room where he was pulling loose his bow tie. “The suit bag is and that duffel,” he answered. “I came over earlier this afternoon and hung out a bit. I needed some space.”
Detecting the lingering hint of something being off with him, J.J. ventured, “Anything happen that you haven’t told me about?”
Then reminded of her own irritation with people trying to pry past her comfort zones, she added, “If I’m not digging too deeply. I don’t mean to be nosy.”
He lifted his eyes to her for a moment, lowered them again, and sighed.
“I don’t mind. I probably should let go of some of it for my own good. Things just got a little tense at the house with my mother and father, with them being in the same square footage as each other. She came over to our place unannounced this afternoon, I guess to make sure I had myself together- like I couldn’t do that on my own, or like my father was going to let me go out looking any kind of way. It quickly got to the place where the air wasn’t so good.”
J.J. slid the corsage from her wrist and placed it on the bed with her scarf. “I thought it a little strange that your mother and Victoria were staying at a hotel and not at the house with you and your father. After all, she is your mother, and she and your father used to be married. I know they’re divorced, but I didn’t consider it that they didn’t get along at all.” Then she held up both hands and shrugged. “But what would I know about how that goes?”
Teddy, tie undone and shedding his tuxedo jacket, laughed softly. “No, you wouldn’t know a whole lot about that sort of thing. You probably don’t have to deal with much of that kind of crap. Your folks are rock solid as a couple.”
“Now how would you know all of that, Mr. Baxter?” J.J. asked as she crossed the room to pull out the chair at the desk situated near Teddy where she sat down.
“I’m just observant like that, J.,” Teddy said as he undid the first few buttons of his tailored shirt. “I guess it’s a habit I’ve developed. That’s probably why I like theater and acting so much; it’s all about people, getting the characters, their personalities down.
“To me, from what I’ve learned about your parents and seen, they’re a love story in action. I’ve watched them to see for myself what I’m saying. Your mom comes in the room, and your dad can’t take his eyes off her. He might be talking to someone else or doing something else, but his real attention is on her most of the time. It’s not like possession or distrust on his part so he keeps his eye on her; she’s his wife, but he admires her and is attracted to her.
“And your mother- she’s deep. Everything about her is deep. Kind of that “still water” thing. There’s a lot more to her than is seen by the eye, although the eye, I have to say, gets treated pretty well. Your father must be the man with her, in her heart, because she’d be gone otherwise. She’s not the type to pretend. She loves him, but more than that, she respects him for who he really is, not just because he’s wealthy and successful and can do well by her. She loves the man because he’s a good guy.
“In a nutshell, those two were made for each other.”
Intrigued by Teddy’s astute observations, J.J. crossed her arms on the back of the chair to rest her chin on them. “You sound like a writer.”
Despite being slightly uncomfortable at the topic getting more personal than she usually liked, she felt compelled to probe a bit deeper. Her friend was revealing to her a side she wasn’t exactly surprised by, but was impressed with just the same, especially since he was so young and male.
“I heard you say it’s a habit, Teddy, but relatively speaking, you haven’t known my parents that long and you’ve only been in their company a few times. That’s not that long for you to have picked up on and processed that much about them.”
He looked up from loosening his cummerbund to lock gazes with her. “Tell me I’m wrong.”
Unable to do so, J.J. merely smiled, shook her head, and left the challenge alone. What would have been the point of debating an obvious truth? Instead she took them back to where the conversation started.
“So again, if I’m not being too nosy, what exactly happened with your parents that had you hanging out here by yourself- you were by yourself?”
“Yes, Miss Hart, I was here by myself– today ”
She eyed him for a moment then continued, “- that had you here at a hotel and not spending time with family since you were all together for once?”
Teddy tossed his satin cummerbund across to the other chair where his jacket had landed only a few minutes before, then he sat back. There was a significant pause before he answered her question.
“The tension was too thick, J. And my mom- well, let’s just say I could see the- the writing on the wall, I guess. She and my father- she and him- they simply cannot get along. They just seem to rub each other the wrong way. Always have as far back as I can remember, and it- it just gets on my nerves. I don’t know how they ever hooked up in the first place, much less managed to have three kids together- I’ve told you before, I think, I was an afterthought-”
“But you’re here,” she cut in, “so let that go.”
He smiled at her. “Yeah, I am. You’re right. Anyway, Vic hadn’t come with my mom when she showed up at the house, – Vic is real aware of how it is with them- so I didn’t have her as the buffer she usually is for me. So to keep from get- well, let’s just say I went into self-preservation mode.”
Nodding as she listened to Teddy’s haltingly delivered explanation, J.J. put things together and summed them up.
“Does it bother you, ” she asked, “I mean mess with you physically, when your parents are together, and they act like that? I know when mine do have differences or argue, especially if it’s over me or something I did, it messes with my stomach real bad.”
She noticed him almost imperceptibly stiffen; she was watching him too closely to miss it, and she figured she might have touched on a sore spot with him when he didn’t directly answer that question, but continued with what he had been saying.
“I cut out with the excuse I had some errands to run. I knew I had too much to do tonight to let their issues become mine. So, what I really did was come over here to drop off a change of clothes for later. Then I just wound up staying and hiding out here for a while. Like you, I had no intention of remaining in this monkey suit all night.”
J.J. got up and went back over to the bed again, where she used the edge of Teddy’s pass key to break the mailing tape on the box.
“So, as far as you were concerned at that point, Theodore Martin Baxter, I was supposed to stay in this dress all night while you changed out and got comfortable. You could have called and let a girl know what the plan was for attire.”
“Oh, like you actually told me in advance that you had made arrangements to change. You had yourself covered without telling me you did.”
“You live here. We could have easily swung by your house so you could put on something else once you realized I had made plans to hang Justine Jennifer up in this garment bag and turn back into J.J. Hart.”
As she pulled them out, J.J. lay out the box’s contents on the bed: cosmetic bag, purse, jeans, sweater, lightweight jacket, a hanger, and the garment bag which with one quick shake she snapped loose from its tightly rolled packing form.
Teddy pushed up from the chair and started in her direction. “Dang, J. You thought of everything. A hanger and a bag for the dress?”
With her back to him, she nodded and explained, “See, you have to be thinking ahead when you have a mother like mine. The Duchess would kill me for rolling up this dress and stuffing it in a box or arriving back at the hotel the next morning with it on my arm, all exposed, making me look common to the staff and guests who may have seen me leave in it- with you- the night before.”
“Common?”
“Yes, that’s my mother’s term for when I’m acting like a low life in her opinion. Anyway, it’s bad enough I’ll be in a completely different outfit when she sees me next. If the dress is packaged nice and discreet, that will be one less thing for her to fuss about.”
“Won’t she ask where the change of clothes came from? Won’t she be upset that you changed clothes, especially since you were out with me all night?”
“She’ll put it together, I’m sure. She’s quick like that, but she won’t be so much upset about it as she’ll be unnerved about how Daddy takes it. When it comes to me and boys, she’s a lot less uptight than my father is. She mostly gets upset because she doesn’t like for me to do things that might cause him to overreact and thereby set her off; it kind of puts her in the middle when he tries to act funny about that part of my life.”
“So to keep that from happening, you could change back into the dress afterward and put your other stuff back in the box for me to ship to you like you sent it here.”
“We’ll see,” she said, smoothing out the clothing on the bed to see what might need a quick iron run over it. I am seventeen now. Sometimes the envelope needs to be pushed in order to advance one’s position.”
“J.J. Hart, always the strategist,” she heard him say as she felt his hands take her by the waist and turn her around to face him, those brown, brown eyes, and that exposed masculine chest. “Actually, I’d have been okay hanging out with you wearing this dress all night. ”
He gazed right into her eyes and spoke close to her face. “You look beautiful in it. Not that you aren’t always attractive to me,” he moved her back just enough to take all of her in, “but this dress, the color of it, really brings out your eyes. Then with that scarf, your hair-” He reached behind her head for the braid and let his fingers slide down it, draping it over the front of her shoulder, “- I was so proud to have you with me tonight, J.J. I had the prettiest, classiest, smartest girl there on my arm. Again, thank you for sharing my prom night with me.”
His words set her cheeks aflame and sent those butterflies’ down below into agitated flight. “It’s not over yet,” she rasped. “We’ve still got a lot of it in front of us.”
“I know. I know.”
He wrapped her in his arms and for a long moment hugged her to him. “I had such a good time tonight, J. It definitely balanced out how stressful the last couple of days have been for me.”
Then he dipped his head to find her lips which she let him have completely. A very adult kiss it was, and like an errant electric jolt, the heat flared up from the soles of her feet, searing her calves and melting her knees, heating her thighs, and-
She pulled back, but gently so. Despite the deafening blare of inner alarm, she remained mindful of not offending him. He had certainly done nothing of the kind to her.
Breathless, she murmured, “We better get changed. We have-” Too overwhelmed, she couldn’t finish the thought, let alone what she was trying to say.
Teddy slowly released her, and she gathered her things from the bed. From there she headed straight for the bathroom without looking back.
Once inside with the door firmly closed, she dropped her clothes and raced to the sink. With the damp palms of both hands pressed to the cool porcelain, attempting to control her breathing in the effort to will her racing heart back down to a more normal rhythm, she whispered to the flushed face in the mirror.
“Oh my God, I am my parents’ child- that hot gene honestly acquired and duly activated at seventeen- just turned seventeen. Tina, Bets, I hear both of you. I do understand.”
And for good measure, with her right hand she felt for the waistband of her underpants through the skirt of her dress, located it, and gave it a healthy upward tug.
At Teddy, Sr.’s urging, after landing the plane, Jonathan left him up front to get them checked into the airport while he went to check on Jennifer.
It wasn’t so odd that she declined to remain up front with them for the flight, but it was a little strange to not have heard from or of her once they were on the ground, especially after the engines shut down.
From the cockpit door, he noticed the dimmed cabin lights before spotting just top of her head. She was in one of the seats that put her back to him. After creeping to her side, he found her asleep, most of her face covered by her jacket.
Not wanting to startle her awake, he squatted next to her and bussed the ear he whispered her name into. Her body twitched, her head lifted, then her eyes flitted open immediately seeking him out.
“Jonathan?”
“Now who else would it be? That guy hitting on you at the hotel bar? Jennifer Hart, are you in here dreaming about him and not me?”
She chuckled as she pressed her lips to the tip of his nose. “Of course not.”
“Better not be,” he teased before returning the gesture.
“So I take it since you’re no longer up front, we have arrived to wherever it is you and Bear have hijacked me.”
“Yep,” he said, remaining at her side as she pushed off the jacket to engage in her typical waking stretch. “I came back here to see if you were still on board; you’d gone so quiet.”
“Well, it wasn’t as if I could have hopped off at a stop while you weren’t looking,” she said through a yawn.”Whoo! I must have been more tired than I realized. Talking about someone dreaming and me taking off on you, are you still stuck on that dream you had?”
He didn’t think it was that much on his mind, but he was touched that she still remembered him talking about it. “I was just joking, but now that you mention it, maybe it is still hanging around somewhere backstage. Once again, though, if that is the case, I’m awfully glad to find I don’t have to run all around the world looking for you. You’re right here with me even if you were back here and out of it.”
She raised her arms and he leaned in to allow her to wrap them around his neck
“You couldn’t get rid of me if you wanted to,” she said, enfolding him in a soft hug. “I’m awfully afraid you are forever stuck with this girl you picked up in that bar.”
“And I must say I’m still happy for the sticking,” he said before melding his mouth to hers, effectively cutting her off her reproach for the double entendre, in a way he had been wanting to do for hours.
“Hey, you two want to stop all that damned necking back here!”
Startled, they split apart and looked back to find Baxter, Sr.’s head sticking out of the cockpit door.
“Edwards, I thought you were the chaste one.”
“Actually, Bear,” Jennifer replied, “I’m the one who likes to be chased. By this man, anyway.”
Then she air kissed Jonathan and patted his cheek before asking both men, “Now where in the world am I?”
Jonathan pushed up to stand and shake his legs to release the creases formed in his slacks. “You’re in New York.”
“New York?”
He caught the quick flicker of delight in his wife’s eyes.
Sure that she had to be harboring some lingering unspoken apprehensions over being whisked away, leaving J.J. in Boston on a prom date, and despite a few uncertainties of his own trying to impose themselves on his spirit, his hope was that this trip would be a way to take all their minds off a situation they really didn’t have much control over. Manhattan was one of Jennifer’s favorite places to be, even if it was only going to be for a very short time. And of course, since it was a favorite for her, it had become one of his.
As far as he was concerned, J.J. Hart and Theodore Baxter, Jr. were on their own- for the next few hours anyway.
And they both better act as if they have some sense.
“New York,” he repeated aloud to Jennifer. “I managed to score us some tickets to this little jazz venue somebody told me about that features rising talent. It’s been a while since we’ve backed anyone; maybe we’ll see someone we like and can possibly support; we haven’t done that in a while. Afterward, we can get a bite to eat before flying back.”
Jennifer popped loose her seat belt and reached across for her purse. “Sounds good to me. Just let me powder my nose, and we can be on our way.”
Both men watched her rise and leave them.
“You’re a lucky guy, Hart,” Baxter, Sr. said from where he remained in the doorway. “Great business. Great home. Great home life. You got it all with Jennifer. That little apple of yours didn’t fall far from that tree, did she? Just like her mom, she is. Smart, sweet, and beautiful, both of them.”
“You don’t do too badly yourself,” Jonathan said, keeping Jennifer in his sights until she reached her destination and went inside. Then he turned to address the other man face to face. “Successful business. Nice home. The two kids I’ve met are well-mannered, good-looking, seem to have their heads on straight, and they love their dad. The other two are going to school, and sound like they’re on track to do well. Seems to me like a pretty good life. ”
“What about the wife part?”
“One’s still a friend, and the other is an ex who lives elsewhere.”
Baxter grinned. “Oh, yeah. Well then, I guess when you put it like that, I do have it pretty good.”
Faced with the reality she wouldn’t be able to unfasten the zipper to her dress without assistance and frustrated from trying to avoid doing just that, J.J. grudgingly accepted she would have to ask Teddy to give her a hand.
A hand. Talk about your oxymoron….
“Stay strong, old girl,” she actually whispered to herself before cracking open the door to peek out.
Well, this is certainly not helping….
His tuxedo shirt now shed, Teddy was bent at the waist, stepping into a pair of slacks affording her a good look at his lean back, as well as his backside covered by a snug pair of black boxer briefs.
She eased the door closed to give him time to get the pants all the way on, zipped, and fastened- tight. As she waited, she fanned herself with a nearby hand towel.
When she felt enough time had gone by- and she had it together enough herself- to look again, she found he had moved to over by the chair he was in earlier. He had the pants on as well as a shirt, but the shirt wasn’t buttoned. He wasn’t attempting to button it. Instead he was standing there in profile, face raised toward the ceiling, eyes closed, one hand on his stomach.
Something about the sight drew her all the way out into the hall.
“Teddy?” She deliberately spoke soft and low so as not to alarm and therefore embarrass him, but he flinched anyway, his eyes blinking open and his hands immediately shooting to the buttons on his shirt.
Further concerned, she started toward him. “You okay?”
“I’m fine,” he too quickly answered. Then he fully turned to look at her, more specifically at what she had on. “I thought you were getting changed.”
“I was trying to, but I can’t get this zipper undone.” Face to face with him, she studied his features, checked out his eyes, the look in them. “You sure you’re okay? We don’t have to-”
“I’m fine, I said. Have you changed your mind? You’re the one who’s still in prom clothes.”
Under other circumstances, his accusing tone and how he cut her off from what she was saying might Have, under other circumstances, triggered an irritated retort. Instead they both registered to her ears as deflection on his part, thus countering and snuffing out that negative reaction from her.
“I tried,” she said, recalling her real reason for leaving the bathroom, “but I can’t reach the zipper at the right angle to get it started; it’s either too low or my arms aren’t long enough to get the right grip; whatever the case, I can’t do it on my own, so I need you to help me with it.”
“Turn around.”
She put her back to him and pulled the braid to the front of her shoulder.
“I think there’s a little safety thing here,” he said. “That’s probably why you were having trouble with it. Did your mother zip it for you?”
“Yeah, she did.”
She heard a quick snicker then felt it when he loosened the offending device and started the zipper on its way down. “There you go.”
His breath warmed the back of her neck as he leaned in and said, “I think it might have been our guardian angels that really changed our plans about hanging out here tonight.”
Making sure to move forward a little before turning around, she merely smiled and said, “Thank you,” to him before heading back into the bathroom, closing the door behind her once more.
“Guardian angel for real,” she murmured as she pushed down the straps and shimmied out of the dress.
Keep right on looking out for me, Grandmama. I enjoy pretending to be, I really want to be one day, but like the Duchess always tells me, I am definitely not grown yet. And I’m not.
She unhooked and removed the strapless bra.
Despite what the girls here might say.
She swapped that bra out for the conventional one, pulled her sweater over her head and yanked on and up her jeans. Catching her face in the mirror, she shook her head.
Sorry you couldn’t be there for her when she was my age, or maybe you were and she wasn’t listening- or didn’t know how to listen, but I do.
Now if you will just stay with me while I do this next thing, I promise I’ll be good and stay in my lane until I’m eighteen when all bets will be off, and the chips can fall where they may ‘cause they’ll be my chips.
She took the braid loose to brush it up into a ponytail and administered a couple of quick touch-ups to her cheeks and lips before slipping her feet into the ankle boots she had packed.
Nothing’s going to happen. Don’t trip, J. You‘ll be fine
Nobody said you couldn’t, so you’re not being disobedient.
But then again, it’s not like you brought it up to anybody for them to say one way or the other.
Sneaky?
Maybe, a little, but then again, maybe not. It isn’t as if I’m doing anything illicit, illegal, or flat out wrong.
After hanging up the dress, she checked herself out in the full length mirror. Satisfied with what she saw, she inhaled until her lungs filled to capacity, then slowly released as she straightened her back and squared her shoulders.
Let’s do this, J. No turning back this time.
She left the bathroom, stopping at the closet to hang the dress bag before rejoining Teddy in the main room.
“So do you come here a lot?” she asked him.
“Not a lot” he answered from the other side of the open refrigerator door. “I didn’t come here at all until I started working on my senior project. Before that, I was usually only in the city on the weekends, and even then, I had a curfew to keep at school. When I’m home from school, I have one, too, so that didn’t leave much time for being here. When I do come here, it’s usually because I’m hanging out with him.”
J.J. sat down and plucked a small bunch of grapes from the bowl on the table. “Um, these are so sweet. Nice and cold, too. So, does he come to Boston often?”
“Not that much, considering, but enough for him to keep this room. His dad is part owner of the chain, so it’s not that big a deal for him to have it to use when he’s here.”
When he kneed the fridge door closed, she noticed he balanced several items in his arms including what appeared to be a bottle of wine, and two glasses.
“Here, let me help you with some of that.” She got up and took the crackers and the cheese from him.
“I figure we have time for a little something to eat,” he said as they put the items on the table, and she sat back down. “You look good, J. Real nice boots. I don’t think I’ve ever seen any like those. In that color, I mean. Custom?”
“Not custom, but thank you.” She stretched her legs out and lifted her feet off the floor to admire the new burgundy boots herself. “I like them, too. Footwear is definitely my weakness. Daddy got me these when we were in Colorado together the last time. My mother had a fit when she saw them, fussing about how much they cost, about my not needing ‘yet another pair of boots‘, him spoiling me all the time, but he and I didn’t care.”
“That sounds like both of you,” he said as he rummaged through a drawer in the kitchenette before returning to the table with a corkscrew. “My old man catches a lot of flack about me, too, over the stuff he and I do. I think my mother feels a lot left out being that she’s not with us all the time anymore. Sometimes I really do feel bad for her and wish things could be different. Sometimes. She about died when I broke it to her that I decided to go to Boston U. instead of my father’s alma mater, and he had backed me up on it.”
“Boston as opposed to Harvard? I can see her having an attitude over your choice. But with that killer scholarship Boston is giving you, how could you not?”
“That’s the conclusion my Dad and I came to after we examined my options from several angles. I’ve been working with their theater department for the past couple of years; it just made sense to make that choice. My mom was like it wasn’t ‘about the money‘; I ‘didn’t need that scholarship‘, they ‘can afford to send me any school I get accepted to‘, but that scholarship will look real good in my academic portfolio and on my professional resume down the line. I’m already known to their theater department. Plus, that’s where I want to be. Harvard’s just not me.
“So, have you made any decisions yet, J.?”
“No. Not really. I’ve narrowed it down some, but I haven’t settled on anything yet.”
“East coast or west coast? Have you gotten that far?”
“Haven’t decided on that either.” She slid over to her side the bottle Teddy brought to the table and checked the label. “I understand you two are good at pulling things off, but how’d you come by this? You’re both underage.”
He gave her a look she quickly interpreted and made her laugh. “Oh, okay. My fault. I should have known. Gotta give him credit, though, the boy does have class. This label is kind of classy for people our age.”
“He’s better at it than me, and it’s not like wine is hard liquor.” Teddy gestured for the bottle, which she slid back across the table so he could skewer the cork.
“Should you be having any of that, Teddy?”
Appearing focused on what he was doing, he didn’t answer, and sensing the silence deliberate, J.J. again did not press him. Finished with her grapes, she helped herself to a few crackers and some of the cheese slices. Teddy poured wine for both of them and took the seat across from her, brushing a couple of the thick, tousled curls back from his forehead.
“Handsome,” she thought as she watched him, “with issues. And interesting in spite of them. Maybe even because of them,” and it crossed her mind how her mother often commented on her eclectic “collection” of friends, much like their Aunt Sabrina kept company with in France.
I should be so fortunate.
Looking at Teddy and considering where they happened to be, It struck her one more time how boys had It made.
That tiresome double standard.
A room of his own in a hotel to do whatever, whenever, including lending it out to his buddies.
Did Teddy’s father know about that room? If Mr. Baxter didn’t know, but he found out about it, would he care all that much about Teddy hanging out there? If Mr. Baxter found out, and he did care, would his concern be the same as it would be if it was one of his daughters who had a friend with this kind of setup that he or she let her use to entertain her friends?
How many fits would her own Daddy have if he knew she had a friend who had a friend that had the kind of hook-up her friend was entertaining her in?
All kinds. He’d have a grand mal stroke for real.
But I bet if I was his son, he would probably have slipped me a box of condoms before I headed out on a prom date because boys will be boys.
But girls should be something else completely, I guess.
For her, the decision and the arrangement made to spend time in that space together alone had been a chance to ‘practice’, to pretend, to see what being grown and on her own with a guy might feel like. Sure it was taking a chance that things might go off the rails, but she saw it more as an opportunity to be in control of herself to see how true her hunches about Teddy were, how true he was to keeping his word on the important matters between them.
Yes, she had gone against everything she had been told not to do by people who had been there and who, from their own experiences, knew more. That wasn’t a good thing, but wasn’t she supposed to think for herself? Wasn’t life about getting out there and taking chances?
But then again, Daddy did give me this necklace…
Made sure I got it tonight, too. Before I left him.
“Hey, where’d you go, J.?”
Teddy stared from across the table, and immediately embarrassed, she dropped her hand from her neck to her filled glass which she raised to stifle a nervous giggle.
“I’m right here. I haven’t gone anywhere.”
“I wasn’t sure. You had that ‘gone to the circus’ look you get sometimes.”
Confused, then amused, she asked, “Gone to the circus look?”
“Yeah, that look that tells me there’s something going on in every ring up there and you’re trying to keep up with all of it. You okay?”
“No circus,” she said, grinning into a second sip of wine, “just doing some organizing, a little sorting out. This growing up thing can be a bit tricky sometimes.”
“Yeah, tell me about it. The pulling back and the pushing to move on can get to be a bit much every now and then.”
His hands encircled his glass, but he made no attempt to lift it, and he had yet to partake of any of the snacks he placed on the table. In her times with him where meals were involved, Teddy usually exhibited a pretty healthy appetite, yet she recalled him only picking at the entree placed before him on the yacht, and he had skipped dessert altogether.
She held her tongue on those observations, adding them to those already made about her unusually subdued friend.
A knock sounded at the door, followed by a male voice. “Teddy?”
“Come on, in,” Teddy called out.
The lock clicked and the door swung open to admit Duncan Sinclair, Teddy’s friend who lived in J.J.’s Aunt Pat’s building in New York.
His hair, trimmed for the November wedding, was back to long and shaggy, but it wasn’t Goth black as it had been when she encountered him in the building lobby those few months back. No eyeliner either this time, but he was still the darkly grungy, New York chic figure she had come to know.
“What’s up, you two?” he said as he crossed the room headed in their direction. “Thought I’d knock first before just busting up in here. Didn’t want to embarrass anybody or interrupt anything.”
“Don’t start,” Teddy said, rising to greet his friend.
“Yeah, I guess you got a point,” Duncan said , briefly fist bumping Teddy then winking down to J.J.
“What’s the point Teddy has, and what was that wink for?” J.J. asked.
“The wink meant ‘What’s shakin’, J.J. Hart?’ ” Duncan helped himself to some grapes, which he popped into his mouth and spoke around as he answered the second part of her question. “And the point is I should have known I didn’t have to knock.”.
Her hands shot to her hips. “And why not? What’re you trying to say. We could very well have been in here-”
Duncan waggled a finger in her face. “Don’t even try it. You’re not that kind; you probably never will be. Too much of a class act for that kind of quickie freakiness. You knew I was coming here. You’d’a needed more time.” Then he turned back to Teddy. “And speaking of class acts, you good? You mentioned earlier about your-”
“You want some wine?” Teddy cut in as he abruptly turned away. “How long before we leave?”
Duncan’s eyes followed as Teddy went into the kitchenette cabinet. “Soon as you say. I told you I’d have everything set up, and I do.”
The quick but awkward exchange diverted J.J. from processing Duncan’s comment about her and shifted her back to studying Teddy.
Was it he who had a problem over what they were about to do?
Teddy brought another wine glass to the table and first held it out to Duncan, but pulled back and put down. He instead handed Duncan the filled glass that had been his.
“Take this one,” he said. “I just poured it for myself, but I didn’t drink any of it yet. You can have it. It’s still cold. I’m going to wash my face and try to tame this hair some. J. was hogging the bathroom earlier, so I haven’t had a chance to do that yet.”
On his way past, Teddy grinned and playfully squeezed J.J.’s shoulder. When the door closed behind him, she turned back to Duncan who had taken the seat Teddy vacated.
“What were you about to ask him? Is he okay? What did he mention to you earlier?”
Duncan had placed a cheese slice on a cracker and was about to stick it in his mouth. “He say anything about something being wrong to you?”
“No, but would he if there was? You know him better than I do.”
Duncan shrugged, stuffed the cracker in his mouth, and immediately reached for a repeat of the combination. “You okay with all this?”
A little annoyed at not being answered, J.J. focused on keeping her facial expression neutral although her tongue wasn’t totally on board with that.
“I wouldn’t be here if I wasn’t, Duncan.”
“Well, you did chicken out the last time. And the deal we all made was if you wanted to, you could stay up here in the apartment until we get back. That’s if you have changed your mind.”
“I haven’t changed my mind, and for the record, I did not chicken out the last time. The circumstances were just different, that’s all. And you saw for yourself that it turned out to be a pretty sound decision on my part.”
Duncan slowly bobbed his head in agreement, for a moment looking much older than his eighteen years. “Gotta give you that last thing, J. Prob’ly some of that women’s intuition stuff; you definitely had it going on that day. Almost pissed myself when I saw your old man and his boy coming down that aisle, all out the blue the way they did. You’re right, it really worked out for all of us that you and Marnie backed out that time. We’d’a all got killed.”
He lifted his glass and took one long drag, before setting it down, empty, on the table and hanging his head back to sigh, “Aaaaaaaah, that hit the spot,” before pouring himself another quarter glass. “So like, when’s Marnie due back from D.C.?”
“Friday. How do you know she’s in D.C.?”
“We talk from time to time, her and me. She still going with what’s his face?”
J.J. rocked her head. “According to you, the two of you talk. I would have thought a detail like that would have come up in conversation.”
Duncan grinned over the rim of the glass. “Can’t get one past you, can I? Teddy says you’re really smart and really cagey, but, of course, I already knew that. I just wanted to see what you were going to say.”
“Then don’t play with me, Duncan,” she said, smiling over her own glass. “I’m not the one. Ask Marnie about her business, if you want to know it, when she’s talking with you from ‘time to time’.”
The bathroom door opened and the sound had both young people at the table looking in that direction. Teddy emerged, threading his fingers through his hair. When he reached her side, J.J. noticed some of the curls at his forehead and cheeks hung limp and damp, indicative of his having splashed water on his face, the way a guy would. What she noticed more were his watery eyes and flushed cheeks.
Given the way he wasn’t meeting her stare, she again kept to herself the questions forming in her mind.
“You ready?” he asked, talking to Duncan.
Duncan knocked back that second glass of wine and stood, straddling the chair. “If you are. J., you good?”
J.J. rose. “I’m ready, but we need to put this stuff away. It’s not good to leave cheese and stuff out,” she said, taking up the cracker box and beginning to fold down the inner waxed paper lining.
“Leave it,” Duncan said as he came past her, snagging her by the arm. “I’ll call from the car and have housekeeping come up and take care of it.”
J.J. put the box down and allowed Duncan to lead her over to the bed where her leather jacket and purse awaited her. In her mind, she patted herself on the back for deciding to wear the new earrings and necklace instead of packing them with the dress. With the possibility of housekeeping coming up, she would have had to fish them back out to take with her. She hadn’t seen a safe in that closet, and even if there had been one, she wouldn’t have left something that precious behind in it.
Teddy, who had gone into the closet, came back out pulling on a jacket as Duncan was helping J.J. into hers. He went into his duffel bag on the bed and pulled out a letter-sized portfolio.
“Your copy of the arrangements?” Duncan asked.
“Yeah, you sent the other set on?”
J.J. pulled her purse strap up on her shoulder, and the three of them headed for the door.
“Yep,” Duncan answered. “Sent them earlier this afternoon, so the house band would have a chance to practice with them. Everything’s set in New York. The car will pick us up at the terminal. All we have to do now is make it to the plane and get on it.”
“It’s your night,” J.J. whispered in Teddy’s ear, briefly squeezing his forearm as he held the door open for her to pass through.
“Our night,” he whispered back.
“7-11”, she thought to herself as she caught a backward glance of the door as it closed behind them. “Lady Luck, hang with me just a few more hours.”
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JJ and Teddy are adorable. JJ is so cool the way she handled the three girls hounding her about being there with Teddy.
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Wonderful story, can’t wait to read the next chapter in this adventure
This is great! Can’t wait to read how J.J. tries to loophole her way out of this one!
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I just loved it. I can’t hardly wait for the next installment. Marie you are the best
The wait is always worth it! Great update! New York is about to become very interesting! Love how J.J. handled Tess. So like her mom, but dad’s thoughts not far behind! Looking forward to the next installment!
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Always worth the wait! Marie, you are a terrific writer. I cannot wit to see where JJ goes n life.
I loved it! I can’t wait for the next part! I am completely and totally hooked.
Waiting is the hard part BUT you always make it worth it!
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Ah… so worth the wait… I am totally in love with this story. You are a genius! You never disappoint lady and all of your writing is so worth the waiting for. Thanks for all the time and effort you put in to keep the Hart’s alive! Wonderful writing as always!
Lady Luck, meet the Duchess!!!
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"I [God] will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel."
~ Isaiah 45:3 ~
fter Adam left, life gained in momentum for Charlie. Maggie came back from her honeymoon on Monday, so Jeff could go back to work. She dropped by the Overholt house to say hello to her young friend, but couldn't stay long, for she had a new home to put in order.
"We had such a wonderful time, Charlie!" Maggie exclaimed. "You were right, there wasn't anything to worry about. And that birds-and-the-bees talk? It was true!" she added in amazement.
Monday also brought Mrs. Strickland to Twin Yucca, for the continued public interest over Wallace Shipley was such a problem, that it prompted Galilee Christian School to send over a teacher to tutor Charlie at the Overholt residence, so she could forgo turning the school grounds into a media circus. Even though this had been Charlie's plan for some time, the school board had beaten her to it.
With Vera knitting quietly, and Chuck watching television with the volume all the way down, Mrs. Strickland began tutoring Charlie in the living room. Kevin sat on a chair near the front window, maintaining a vigilant eye on the activity outside.
A policeman had been assigned to the Overholt house. He sat outside in a patrol car, maintaining order on the near-constant traffic of tourists, sightseers, and fans. The neighborhood had requested his presence, even though the Twin Yucca Police Department really couldn't afford to dedicate a patrol unit for that street alone. However, action had to be taken, for out-of-towners were parking on lawns, traipsing about the sleepy neighborhood, trying to see if they could spot Charlie or Wallace Shipley, (even though his departure had been widely publicized).
After her lessons were over, and Mrs. Strickland had left, Shirley came over to discuss plans for the wedding. Charlie dearly wished that she could postpone this meeting, but her future sister-in-law was so zealous, that the teenager didn't have the heart to say "not now."
"We really don't have much time to get a reservation for the reception room, you know," Shirley was saying. "I've found that most places are booked solid during the summer months, because many people get married then."
There were so many things to plan and arrange for the wedding, that Charlie felt numb. There were the caterers to consider, the dress to pick out, the reception room to rent, the flower arrangements to line up, the guest lists to prepare, the wedding favors to purchase, the dresses for the bridesmaids to pick out, the wedding cake to plan, the photographer to hire, the seating arrangements to lay out, and the wedding vows that needed to be written. All in all, by the time Shirley had left, little had been settled on, and Charlie was even more tired than before.
"Oh, Grandma!" exclaimed Charlie, wearily flopping down on the couch, after Shirley left, "I'm going to be so relieved when this wedding is all over with!"
"That's not a very healthy attitude," remarked Vera, taking in the tea tray to the kitchen. "You only get married once. You should be enjoying all these preparations, not dreading them."
"I might be able to enjoy it more, if I didn't have so many other things to do, at the same time," groaned Charlie, from the living room.
Just then, someone knocked on the front door. Kevin jumped to his feet and checked the woman out before letting her inside.
"Do you know a Constance Riley?" asked Kevin, looking over his shoulder to Charlie for her approval.
"Yes, she's all right," replied Charlie, bracing herself for Adam's old girlfriend.
A well dressed, blonde-headed woman stepped inside the living room. This was the second time Charlie had talked to Constance, the first time being in North Carolina at the Christmas concert.
"Thank you for seeing me," said Constance, coming forward to shake Charlie's hand. "I realize you must be busy. Shirley thought you might need help in finding a new house here in Twin Yucca."
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Discrimination is unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things. Long-standing, ample evidence of discrimination and most important attempts exist to legally abolish, economically counter-weight and societally alleviate the negative impacts of discrimination around the world. Yet to this day, there is hardly any description of discrimination of excellence. Unfair treatment of outperformers occurs when focusing away from merit leads to economic inefficiency based on arbitrary decision making excellent outperformers face mostly put up by relative underperformers who fear not being able to keep up with outperformance.
The first part of the project is dedicated to excellence as something unique that is only given in a few. The study of excellence is enriched with interdisciplinary perspectives — for instance, studying how en vogue trends are first only accepted by only a few pioneers, who are then over time followed by the masses. Retrospectively, these new ground-breaking trends survive in history and are considered as excellent and brilliant innovation.
The project intellectually draws from law, economics, sociology, psychology and cultural studies.
Arts, fashion and lifestyle products are driven by luxury, another form of excellence only reachable by the elite. Artistic leadership in the luxury world appears somewhat resistant to discrimination of excellence. In a collaboration with the Parsons School of Design and New York University, the project argues that there is an implicit acceptance of excellence if coupled with artistic beauty, unique creativity in a transfer of ideas and deprecating endurance – all features that high-end luxury usually represents. Artistic excellence appears to be too beautiful and unique to fail and artists are often suffering anyhow, so why put them down? Leadership against discrimination of excellence is proposed to learn from excellence represented by luxury in the cultural and artistic worlds. Luxury may hold unprecedentedly captured, cheap and easily-implementable remedies against discrimination of excellence. In three case studies and a historical methods of research, the paper unravels the main drivers of artistic excellence and what is unique in luxury that makes it resistant to people’s envy and destruction. Unique luxury features are finally be discussed to be proposed to lead academia but also economics in combating economically-suboptimal and societally-hurtful discrimination of excellence.
Puaschunder, J.M. (2019). Discrimination of Excellence. Advocacy at Banca d’Italia, Dipartimento Economia e Statistica, Servizio Struttura economica, Divisione Economia e diritto, Via Nazionale, Roma, Italy, November 8.
Puaschunder, J.M. (2019). Discrimination of Excellence: A research agenda. 14th International Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (RAIS) conference at the Erdman Center of Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, August 19-21.
Serdari, T. & Puaschunder, J.M. (work in progress). How to not stop progress: What we can learn from luxury.
Puaschunder, J.M. (2019). Discrimination of Excellence: A research agenda. Proceedings of the 14th International Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (RAIS) conference at the Erdman Center of Princeton University, pp. 54-58, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, August 19-21.
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Theoretically, the project introduces discrimination of excellence legally including the most recent case of standardized admission test outperformers suing a U.S. higher education institution over fair admission standards and admission fraud scandals coupled with an economic modeling of socio-economic losses implied by discriminating against strivers. The societal value of outperformers will be outlined in Veblen’s trickling down of excellence, The American Dream ideals of striving being an economic driver as well as political science comparisons of different regimes’ conduct around excellency. The social psychology categorization of society into so-called ‘ingroups’ and ‘outgroups’ is spearheaded with integrating ‘übergroups’ as natural strivers who face unprecedently captured discrimination. Socio-psychological motives – such as envy, jealousy, inferiority complex, reputation greed and suboptimal group norms – explain discrimination towards outperformance to provide coping and alleviation strategies. Intergenerational aspects and leadership features of discrimination of excellence are proposed.
Empirically, qualitative case studies, diary technique collected data and an external review report in the higher education sector vividly outline discrimination based on excellence (Study 1). Qualitative analyses of PhD studies blog entries reveal a pattern of outperformers being forced out of higher educational institutions to successfully continuing in higher-ranked institutions (Study 2). Evidence of intangible admission criteria, unfair testing situations and delayed or unsuccessful academic promotion statistics serve as additional evidence on discrimination based on excellence. Resistance to share information on testing and promotion criteria transparently is detected to allow for discrimination (Study 3). Macro-economic analyses reveal industries that are prone to breed discrimination based on excellence (Study 4) to estimate the short- and long-term losses of discrimination of excellence based on economic trickling down and too-big-to-fail arguments but also Keynes’ multiplier innovatively applied in endogenous growth theory alongside including health and societal risks in the wake of discrimination (Study 5). Macro-economic cross-sectional and time series analyses in the laboratory of modern world history outline socio-economic costs of slowing outperformers and abolishing intellectual advancement (Study 6). Artificial intelligence increasing the currently unprecendently wide divide between skilled and unskilled labor is predicted to even higher importance of attention to excellency in the future (Study 7).
Legal codifications, economic action and public policy making as well as corporate workplace incentives can foster performance free from discrimination. Outperformers and underperforming segments should transfer coping in lieu of performance strategies and strategically align in the striving towards discrimination-free economy and society. Awareness building, transparency and mandatory access to information on hiring, testing and promotion criteria appear as natural remedies besides legal action to combat excellency-discriminating individuals and institutional structures. The research provides a truly heterodox economics standpoint on reconsidering discrimination in a novel light with attention to those who are put down due to their stellar excellence outshining underperformers, whose inappropriate discriminatory conduct deserves to be left behind for the sake of upholding individual well-being derived from dignity, economic prosperity grounded in respect for striving and societal advancement founded on excellency.
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Senbonzakura's physical manifestation takes the form of a tall, light-skinned man with blue eyes [1] and long, dark brown hair, which frames his face with two chest-length bangs and is tied up in the back with a white ribbon in a long ponytail which reaches his lower back.
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Sakura Uchiha nee Haruno is one of the main supporting characters in the series, a genin -level kunoichi of Konohagakure and a member of Team Kakashi.
His lieutenant is koji shirajama. Sakura has short and wavy black hair, pale skin, Emerald green eyes, full lips. She is well-known for her curvaceous figure, She dresses in the garb typical ofcaptain Shinigami robes,. She wears a black hands bands. SakuraKuchiki is the 29th head of the noble Kuchiki clan, one of the four great noble families in Soul Society.
Sakura retains her modesty even as an adopted member of the nobility: she is graceful and " clean ", yet chooses to talk to ordinary people.
He is also extremely calm, even in battle, and is very seldom surprised by even the most drastic of actions. Sakura strongly believes in law and order. As the head of one of the great noble families and as a captain in the Gotei 13, he always works hard for a peaceful society.
Her attitude towards Kenji varies at times she is a bickering adversary, and at other times, she worries about him and dispatches advice like a wise old sage. Despite their quarrels, the two have a deep understanding of each other, often being the only ones able to talk each other out of a funk. Sakuraa was born into the Kuchiki family, one of the four noble families.
Byakuya grew up in the Kuchiki mansion in the Seireitei of Soul Society. He would spend countless hours training, in preparation of taking over the leadership of the Kuchiki family and the 6th Division from his grandfather,Byakuya kuchiki. She graduated at the top of her class in the Soul Reaper Academy and was set to take a position in the 13 court guard squads. Even at that time she had spirit energy that rivaled a captain. However, she was a very selfish woman.
So much so that she wanted to have as much fun as she could instead of taking up responsibilities. She took a position in the world of the living with a patrol unit in a low level position. Then, one day while she was goofing off a strong hollow attacked some members of her group. When she arrived she was too late to help her friends but she mercilessly crushed the hollow. The event changed her so much that she strove from that point forward to become a leader who protected her subordinates.
Immense Spiritual Power : She is capable of exerting a vast Spiritual Pressure , which, in league with his already admirable combat skills and finesse, makes her one of the most formidable captains. His spiritual pressure is so great it can be felt from a great distance and it has the tendency to make people perspire in fear.
In the anime, her spiritual pressure is silver. Master Swordsmen Specialist : Sakura relies mainly on swordplay, and thus would be considered a swordsmanship master. He is capable of keeping up with High Marshals and Espada-level opponents, He is capable of effortlessly dodging simultaneous attacks at close range and even evades Bankai level techniques with extreme easy.
The movement is so fast that an opponent may not be able to tell whether he was attacked from the front or the back and even an outside observer may find it impossible to tell what the movements are. It allows for a movement at great speed, leaving an afterimage behind.
She can use low-level spells with devastating effects, as well as a counter to attacks. Immense Strength: Sakura has shown himself to be very strong. She was able to block a captains Bankai with her free hand, and then crush it, With the flat side of his hand, she has been shown to stop sword swings moving at incredible swings. High Intellect : Arguably, the most fearsome trait of Sakura is her tremendous intellect. She is well-versed in the history, strategy, tactics of the Soul Society, and is privy to knowledge previously unknown to many,while most shinigami possess one ability they are good at, she is able to use the versatile nature of his zanpakuto to come up with different strategies and plans.
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It was the four of them, Zabuza and Haku, who, although were our enemies initially, did help save us. When Byakuya leaves Muramasa's side to confirm there are no Hollows nearby, Senbonzakura goes with him in order to keep an eye on him. Putting on a thin layer of gold paint to make it look and sound nice, but it's not like that at all. Enhanced Strength : Senbonzakura possesses a considerable amount of physical strength. Brave Souls.
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And I wonder what will happen on White Day? Hitsugaya make a confession, but a little misunderstanding turn everything into a more complicate matter than it should be. Will everything turn out alright? I hope so. It's the same story as Complicated Confession. Moving On by XsakurahimeX reviews Oneshot. Hitsugaya meet a girl that helps him to move on from the past.
Perfect Picture by XsakurahimeX Oneshot. Hitsugaya goes to cleaning up his fukutaichou's plan to embarrass him and even though it's a pain, it lead him to a moment that he has been waiting for. He thinks that if someone in his position does not follow the rules as a good example, then no one will follow them. Despite his icy and regal manner, Byakuya cares for and protects those important to him, even referring to Rukia, his adopted younger sister, as his "pride".
Byakuya is popular among female shinigami and was voted number one in the "captain we desire to release a photo book for" poll taken by the Shinigami Women's Association. He likes Japanese cherry blossoms, night-time walks, spicy food, and bananas, but he does not like sweets.
Forty five houses can be built for the cost of just one such scarf. Despite his extremely serious personality, Byakuya seems to have a comic side to himself. He not only attends the lieutenants' meeting when Renji Abarai is absent, but it is also implied that he attends the meetings of the Soul Reaper Women's Association when Rukia is absent. In the former's case, he reasons that "part of a captain's responsibilities is to make sure the lieutenant's responsibilities are taken care of;" [4] when Renji asks him if he also goes to Rukia's meetings, Byakuya responds only by smiling.
On other occasions, Byakuya has jokingly remarked that he uses Senbonzakura to cut his hair [5] and has claimed that life in general is not supposed to be entertaining, and even makes up an idea for a game that is not meant to be amusing. Little is known about Byakuya's early history.
When his grandfather, Ginrei Kuchiki, was still the captain of the 6th Division, Byakuya was preparing to take over leadership of the clan, although his grandfather was worried about his rash and hotheaded attitude. Byakuya at this time would very easily lose his temper, and his grandfather believed he would become much stronger if he would learn to control himself. This aspect of his personality is reflected in Senbonzakura when he manifests in the Zanpakutou rebellion arc. Around 55 years before the main Bleach storyline, [10] Byakuya married Hisana, a commoner from Inuzuri, one of the poorest districts of Rukongai; in doing so, he broke the rules by accepting her into the noble Kuchiki family.
Shortly before her death from illness, Hisana asked Byakuya to find, adopt, and protect her biological sister, Rukia , whom she had abandoned as a baby. She also made him promise that he would not tell Rukia about her real family. She believed that as she abandoned Rukia when she was younger she was not worthy to be called Rukia's sister, but asked Byakuya to allow her to call him 'brother'. One year later, during Rukia's time at the academy, Byakuya found her and immediately adopted her into the Kuchiki clan.
By adopting her, Byakuya respected his wife's last wish, but had broken the rules of his clan again. He later swore upon his parents' graves that he would never break the rules again, no matter what. As a result, he, though entirely apathetic on the surface, is actually deeply conflicted with the matter of Rukia's execution.
Should he intervene, it would require breaking the promise to his parents and the rules again; but should he do nothing he would fail to fulfill the last promise he made to his dying wife to protect Rukia as his own sister. It is implied that Byakuya Kuchiki became captain of the 6th division about 50 years before the main Bleach storyline shortly before Rukia had entered the Gotei It seems that Gin did this to bug Byakuya and make him feel uncomfortable.
Byakuya first appears on a mission with his lieutenant, Renji Abarai , to capture Rukia Kuchiki and kill Ichigo Kurosaki. They succeed in retrieving Rukia, and would have easily killed Ichigo, if not for Rukia's intervention, pleading for Byakuya not to give the finishing blow. Byakuya then fights Ichigo for the third time. Following Ichigo's inner hollow's forced submission, both use their remaining power into one final attack, resulting in a tie.
At the end of the battle, Byakuya, through their conversation, realizes that what Ichigo has fought with is the law of Soul Society instead of him, after which he gives his word not to capture Rukia again for her execution. While being treated, Byakuya tells Rukia why she was adopted, apologizes to her, and thanks Ichigo.
Afterwards, Byakuya's attitude toward Rukia changes significantly. He is seen to care for Rukia in an indirect manner and displays a new view on the idea that the law is never perfect. When the Bounts ' threatened to harm the Soul Society it becomes serious, Byakuya uses the Kuchiki Clan's records to gain information on the Bount's for head captain Yamamoto.
The two meet, and engage in a battle that is interrupted by Ichigo and, later, Rantao. He reasons that he was only ordered to bring them back to Soul Society and that what they chose to do afterwards was none of his concern, though Ichigo and Rukia suspect otherwise.
Seventeen months later, Byakuya and several other high-ranking Soul Reapers appear before Ichigo in the Human world after Ichigo is robbed of his Fullbring. It is revealed that he and the accompanying Soul Reapers channeled their power into the blade that stabbed Ichigo to restore his lost Soul Reaper powers. However, Byakuya soon realizes that his Bankai was not sealed, but stolen by the Quincy. When Ichigo breaks free of his imprisonment in the Dangai and arrives at the spot where Byakuya lays wounded, Byakuya asks Ichigo to forgive him for his failure to defeat his enemy and begs him to protect the Soul Society as his dying wish.
After the Wandereich leave, the Royal Guard arrive in the Soul Society, bringing Byakuya with them so that he can be healed. He subsequently joins Renji, Rukia, and other soul reapers to fight against the Vandenreich tasked with stopping Ichigo from reaching the Soul King's palace. However, the soul reapers are overwhelmed by Vandenreich Schutzstaffel Gerard Valkyrie, who grows increasingly in size each time he is cut down by the power of "miracles.
At the conclusion of the series, Byakuya remains the captain of the Sixth Division ten years after Yhwach's apparent destruction and is present during Rukia's promotion as the new captain of the Thirteenth Division. Upon realizing that Yhwach's presence is still lingering in the Soul Society, he elects not to tell Rukia and Renji so that they can visit Ichigo in the human world, and decides to join Mayuri Kurotsuchi and Soifon in disposing Yhwach's presence.
However, they witness the presence abruptly disappear, unaware that Yhwach was dispelled when Yhwach's presence also appeared in the living world and came into contact with Kazui Kurosaki, the young son of Ichigo and Orihime Inoue. As a captain of the Gotei 13, Byakuya is extremely skilled in all forms of Soul Reaper combat. In keeping with his rank, Byakuya's abilities allow him to defeat opponents of captain-level ability without much effort.
He holds the Advanced-Captain class within the Gotei Flash Blossom , a flash step combined with a spin to quickly move behind the enemy, followed by a combination of two quick thrusts to destroy the opponents soul chain and soul sleep in one move, destroying the opponent's source of spiritual power.
In his battle with Zommari Leroux, he is able to maintain his composure and fight at full speed, despite being forced to cut the tendons in his left leg and arm to prevent Zommari from gaining control of them. In the English manga the phrase is translated inconsistently; at the start of volume fourteen it is translated as "die", though later in the same volume "scatter" is used instead.
In its Shikai , Senbonzakura's blade separates into thousands of slender, petal-like blades.
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This article, Sakura Keikai, is property of Mangetsu Her position within her Clan is one of a diplomatic relations and envoy. Despite her often polite attitude and humble disposition, she is quite the capable negotiator and a calm, practical mind among her Kin. Her Clan often call her upon for talks or negotiations with other Clans or dissasatisfied people within her Clan's control.
This being said, she has always been able to lend practical, helpful advice to her Captain, as well as organize, command, and order her Division members with a thoroughness that makes her Captain proud. Sakura is a well-endowed, curved, pale complexioned young woman with a stunning beauty. Her eyes are a soft calsh of gray and violet, possessing no orbs of her own to speak of, a common trait of anyone in her Clan.
She has long, violet-black hair that stretches past her thighs, perfectly trimmed to cover her brow but cover her ears and hang over her shoulders, gleaming and smoothly. The Traveller's uniform is that of a gray and violet long-sleeved hoodie, containing a form of thin pliable, light armor mesh underneath in the form of a fishnet sleeveless shirt, as well as a commemorative headband written 'Remember the Mourning'.
She also wears high-heel tower shoes instead of sandals, coming in a black color and have been known to be quite resilient to wear and tear. To finish, she wears a long pair of violet pants, with a few sets of equipment tied into packs around her left leg and her waist. Sakura is a compassionate, kind, and thoughtful young woman, one who is loved and appreciated within her Division, and many others.
She's known to personally see to it, within reason, that everyone is taken care of and is doing their best within the Division, her soft voice and warm smile works wonders on either sex of the Division, often leaving the men to drool and the women to swoon.
Despite this, Sakura has a serious disposition that she tries to maintain at all times when around her Captain, hoping to get both his approval and attention at doing so, making sure everything is organized and running smoothly to his liking, something most of the Officers can see through pretty easily, as well as the other Lieutenants within the tight knit comraderie group.
Sakura's view on combat is something she only does in the preservation of life and those she cherishes, so she takes no joy in executing Hollow nor Soul Reaper, especially humans. Her fight in the Mourning War showed her truly how cruel the enemy could be and the horrors it would produce on friends, finding herself at a near loss when finding out the bright light that Lieutenant Sousuke had was sacrificed for the protection of his friend and 3rd Seat, Daisuke Hayate.
Thus she aimed to strive to be better than the enemy, show kindness when able, and protect those she could, even at the cost of her own life. Her respect for her Captain is borderline romantic and utter devotion, something that in the past annoyed her Captain, but when she showed how capable and willing she was to help him, it was something he readily accepted, but never in a emotional sense, but it did not matter for the loving, heart-felt Lieutenant of his.
Due to this, she even gained him as a mentor, being taught skills and arts she never knew Captains would pass down to their Lieutenants, something she made sure to cherish and persevere in to make her Captain proud. Her service to the Gotei 13 is one of loyalty and obedience, finding that the orders of both her Captain, Head Captain, and the courts of Central 46 to be Just and Fair.
Her ideas about the Red Sun religion was one of mixed doubts and beliefs, finding that people can worship or believe what they want, but if they are willing to betray their ideals and the people they love to obtain spiritual satisfaction, then its not worth it.
This is somethingshe cannot fathom why Braeburn McTavish would do in her mind. Strong Spiritual Energy : Her incredible skill and talent has been inherited through her bloodline from the Keikai's naturally strong Spiritual energies. Her Spiritual Energy is said to be as high or equally higher than that of any Junior Captain, even said to match her own Captain's Spiritual Energy alone. Her Spiritual Pressure, when released, is fierce and violent, something not anticipated by anyone who come across her as an enemy or opponent, often weighing down the lowest of Souls to their knees with her presence.
Spiritual Energy Manipulation Genius : As far as Lieutenants go, she is one of the leading experts at manipulating Spiritual Energy for the most delicate tasks to the most finite, allowing her to practice and obtain knowledge of techniques most Lieutenants would not be able to learn.
She has been able to learn difficult and unique sword styles, channeling her own expert use of Spiritual Energy manipulation to create delicate threads of energy, capable of cutting and extending farther beyond her Zanpakuto's reach. Hakuda Genius : Sakura's one special talent within the 3 styles of combat that Soul Reapers use, is Hakuda. Her own Clan excells in this form of combat to a degree above normal Soul Reapers usually are able, and if one is talented enough with manipulating Spiritual Energy, they are able to learn a special type of Hakuda combat.
This particular set of combat is a grateful, artful style of combat, allowing one to flow around one's opponent and immobilize and destroy the target's organs, muscles, nervous system rather than brutally assault the skin and bones of a target to get to the critical wounding spots. By channeling a surge of Spiritual Energy at the tips of the practitioner's fingers, the soles of their feet, or the palms of their hands, they can directly overload or shut off certain Spiritual 'pockets' found all over the body of any Spiritual entity, mostly Hollows and Soul Reapers.
It is actually said if aimed correctly, one could seal one's Soul Reaper's powers by directly aiming for the Soul Sleep and Soul Chain's pockets, rendering the Soul Reaper in question, unfit to carry out their duties or use their powers again without outside help. This technique is a derivative of the Art of the Shock Palm, but in a much more potent form, allowing a single strike against an opponent to shut off or overload all of one's Spiritual 'pockets', capable of liquifying organs or shutting down one's nervous system instaneously.
Honing one's reflexes, physical prowess, and practice within the enhanced field of vision allows a uncanny ability to predict incoming attacks and see one's true amount of Spiritual Energy. Enhanced Endurance : Though she is not the most resilient, she is able to take many beatings and punishment, but does not weaken her resolve or her ability to keep fighting for prolonged periods of time.
Because of this, she is able to give out orders to her subordinates and relay out commands with expert precision, guidance, and a straight head, always thinking logicially even in the face of emotional distress. Kunai : Specially crafted diamond shaped knives, these can be used intricately in traps or during mid-combat for close to long distances, given enough skills.
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Amanda and Pat Weakland began their business journey in 1991 with Plant-A-Scape, a small, seasonal greenhouse in Windsor, Colorado. Both have a history in growing plants: Pat represents the third generation of growers in his family, and Amanda grew up helping on her family’s farm and has nurtured her love for gardening since then. The small Plant-A-Scape business is now The Windsor Gardener, home of High Hops Brewery.
A growing beer culture in Northern Colorado caught the attention of Pat, who became interested in brewing his own beer. Before long, he started home-brewing every Sunday with his son, Zach. In 2006, a massive hop shortage created trouble for brewers everywhere, raising prices exponentially. Just a year later, the Weakland family planted their hop farm on-site at The Windsor Gardener to lessen the effects of the shortage. As of today, they’re growing and selling 54 different varieties of hop plants in their garden center, with 14 varieties in their field to be used for beer production.
Following a hop farm, the Weaklands opened up a home-brew shop inside of the Windsor Gardener, making brewing supplies readily available to brewers in the Windsor area. The home-brews that Pat and Zach were creating were getting great feedback. With the home-grown hops and brewing supplies on-hand, a microbrewery was looking like a possibility in the future.
In early 2012, the Weaklands began to construct the brewhouse where Pat, his son Zach, and other High Hops staff members could create beers to serve in the tasting room inside of The Windsor Gardener. Windsor, Colorado would be getting its first microbrewery.
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Mr. Rogers never wore his faith on his sweater sleeve
Jerry Earl Johnston, Deseret News
It's fitting, I think, that movie theaters have sandwiched a documentary detailing the life and times of Fred Rogers between hyperviolent films about drug lords and murderous vigilantes.
That's why Rogers created his famous neighborhood — to serve as a buffer zone between children and violence.
And it's also gratifying to learn that “Won't You Be My Neighbor?” is among the most successful films of the summer.
Maybe people still know what matters most.
The things that mattered most to Fred Rogers, of course, were authenticity, respect, caring and meaningful connections.
They are classic Christian virtues, though probably not one soul in a hundred knew that Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister. As the documentary points out, he was more interested in communication than his credentials. His sermon was his ability to bond with others.
The famous quote attributed often to St. Francis of Assisi comes to mind: “Preach the gospel. If necessary, use words.” As does a thought from the Buddhist teacher Tich Naht Hahn: “The best theologian is the one who never speaks about God.”
Writing in The New York Times, columnist Tom Brooks summed up the theology of Rogers this way: The child is closer to God than the adult. The sick are closer than the healthy. The poor are closer than the rich. And the marginalized closer to God than the celebrated.
Rogers had detractors, of course.
Some felt his telling children they were special just as they were simply fostered feelings of entitlement in kids. But in his own mind, Mr. Rogers was just being true to his core Christian ideals. To crib a line from Carol Lynn Pearson in the poem "Beginnings," he honestly felt that children were “the seeds of Deity.”
As the documentary wended through the upper-class early years of Rogers, through his insecurities and ambitions and ultimately to his role as the PBS Patron Saint of Children, I thought of something by C.S. Lewis. He claimed what Christianity needed was fewer writers writing about Christianity and more writers writing about everything else.
Mr. Rogers never wore religion on his sweater sleeve. But he also never hid his light under a bushel. He simply let his faith beam into the lives of others without feeling a need to broadcast his beliefs.
His life was his Christian message.
If more people learned that lesson, the world would be less chatty and more charitable.
And when I say “most people,” what I really mean is “me, myself and I.”
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Home Research > Members > 1820-1832 > GRAHAM, Sir James, 1st bt. (1753-1825)
GRAHAM, Sir James, 1st bt. (1753-1825), of Kirkstall, nr. Leeds, Yorks. and Edmond Castle, nr. Carlisle, Cumb.
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832, ed. D.R. Fisher, 2009
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1802 - 10 July 1805
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1812 - 21 Mar. 1825
b. 18 Nov. 1753, 2nd s. of Thomas Graham (d. 1807) of Edmond Castle and 2nd w. Margaret, da. of Thomas Coulthard of Scotby, Cumb. educ. L. Inn 1780. m. 17 June 1781, Anne, da. of Rev. Thomas Moore of Kirkstall, 2s. 3da. suc. to Kirkstall in right of his w. on d. of her only bro. Thomas 1784; cr. bt. 3 Oct. 1808. d. 21 Mar. 1825.
Recorder, Appleby 1812-d.
Dir. Westminster Life Insurance Co. 1813.
Vol. London and Westminster light horse 1794-1802.
Graham, a successful and well-connected London lawyer, had been brought in for the Lowther borough of Cockermouth in 1802, transferring in 1812 to his home city of Carlisle, where he was invariably treated as a Lowther nominee despite his largesse and local influence. He had purchased alternative interests at Ludgershall, represented by his Whig son and heir Sandford Graham*, and Weymouth, which in 1817 had returned his son-in-law and political ally Augustus John Dalrymple*.1 Although opposed at Carlisle at the general election of 1820, Graham’s return on the Tory (Yellow) interest was never in doubt, and he topped the poll in a violent three-man contest.2 As in 1818, he could not dictate the outcome of the election at Weymouth, and his support for the Lowthers in Cumberland and Westmorland was a factor in Dalrymple’s return for their Appleby seat.3
Graham spoke and voted sparingly on party issues after 1820. He sat on numerous select committees as hitherto and attended closely to issues affecting his high society associates, Carlisle constituents, Yorkshire estates and the metropolis. He presented Matthias Attwood* and William Thompson’s* successful petition alleging an invalid return for Callington, 1 May 1820.4 He opposed the Cork harbour bill, 12 June, backed a clause exempting the Aire and Calder Navigation Company from poor rate charges, 13 June, and spoke briefly against the extra post bill, 13 July.5 On 10 July he argued in vain against issuing a warrant for the detention of Sir William Manners†, on whose interest he had unsuccessfully contested Ilchester in 1802. He secured a second reading for Lord Exmouth’s son Captain Pownall Pellew’s* divorce bill, 14 July 1820.6 Summoned by the Lowthers, he voted in defence of the Liverpool government’s conduct towards Queen Caroline, 6 Feb., having paired against inserting her name in the liturgy, 26 Jan. 1821.7 He divided against Catholic relief at their request, 28 Feb.8 He presented an agricultural distress petition that day from Buckinghamshire and one from Carlisle, which he endorsed, for leave to build and appoint clergy to new churches, 13 Mar.9 He attempted to justify the Carlisle magistrates’ decision to call in the military at the 1820 by-election, 15 Mar., and was appointed on the 30th to the select committee on privileges to which it had been referred. His motion to kill the Blackfriars Bridge bill was carried by the Speaker’s casting vote, 3 Apr., but one for hearing counsel against the metropolitan roads bill failed, 11 Apr.10 Next day he opposed further inquiry into the Lyme Regis franchise as a speaker and majority teller with Lord Lowther, 12 Apr. He presented and endorsed petitions from St. Marylebone backing the metropolitan magistrates bill, 1 May, and Scarlett’s poor bill, 24 May, from Whitehaven for a reduction in the coastwise coal duty, 30 May, and from Peckham for legislation to prevent cruelty to animals, 20 June.11 He was a majority teller for the wharf buildings bill, 28 May. He testified to Carlisle’s strong support for Curwen’s proposal to repeal the tax on husbandry horses, 8 June.12 He defended the ministry’s decision to include arrears in the duke of Clarence’s award, 18 June. His wife, in whose right he held the Kirkstall estate, died on 28 Aug. 1821.
Graham promoted the contentious Highgate chapel bill, 26 June, 5 July, presented petitions against the beer bill, 18 July, and was a majority teller for the Orphans’ Fund bill, 22 July 1822, but cast no reported votes that session.13 He presented and endorsed petitions from London and Carlisle against the coastwise coal duties, 27 Mar., for repeal of the Insolvent Debtors Act, 11 Apr., and for the abolition of West Indian slavery, 12 May, and was a minority teller with Lord Chandos for amending the Kettering road bill, 2 May 1823.14 After apparently failing to vote on the prosecution of the Dublin Orange rioters, 24 Mar., 22 Apr., he deferred to ministers during the inquiry and abandoned his proposed adjournment motion, 23 May.15 Poor health caused him to spend the recess with Sandford at Short Grove, near Saffron Walden, and in November 1823 he arranged to transfer half his canal shares to Dalrymple for £5,000.16 Returning late to London for the 1824 session on account of illness,17 Graham presented petitions from Carlisle and elsewhere for abolishing colonial slavery, 16, 23 Mar., equalization of the spirit duties, 19 Mar., and removal of the prohibition on wool exports, 26 Mar., and against the hides bill, 17 May.18 Attending to his private concerns, he condemned the Hammersmith road bill as useless and unnecessary, 13 Apr., opposed the Islington improvement bill as minority teller in both divisions, 25 May, and spoke and was a majority teller against hearing counsel on the Equitable Loan Society bill, 25, 26 May 1824.19 Poor health precluded further parliamentary attendance and he died at his residence in Portland Place in March 1825.20 His will, dated 4 July 1822, was proved on 25 May 1825 under £45,000, adjusted to £40,000 in the province of Canterbury and £9,000 in York. It confirmed and extended the provisions he had made in 1807 for his children and provided small bequests for his nephews and servants. He was succeeded in the baronetcy and to the Ludgershall estates by Sandford, and left his daughter Anne his shares in the Equitable Loan Insurance Company and the Westminster Life Insurance Company.21
Author: Margaret Escott
1. Lonsdale mss, Lowther to Lonsdale, 31 July 1827, 25 Oct. 1829; HP Commons, 1790-1820, ii. 91-94; iv. 48-50.
2. Lonsdale mss, Hodgson to Lonsdale, 6 Feb.; Brougham mss, Pearson to Brougham, 7 Feb. 1820.
3. Castle Howard mss, Morpeth to wife, 7 Mar. 1820; Northumb. RO, Middleton mss ZM1/S76/34/2-7; 35/5.
4. The Times, 2 May 1820.
5. Ibid. 14 July 1820.
7. Lonsdale mss, Lowther to Lonsdale, 27 Jan. 1821.
8. Ibid. same to same, 23 Feb. 1821.
9. The Times, 1, 14 Mar. 1821.
10. Ibid. 4, 12 Apr. 1821.
11. Ibid. 2, 25, 31 May, 21 June 1821.
12. Ibid. 9 June 1821.
13. Ibid. 27 June, 6, 18, 23 July 1822.
14. Ibid. 12 Apr., 13 May 1823.
15. Ibid. 24 May 1823.
16. Cumbria RO (Carlisle), Hodgson mss D/Hod/2/25, Graham to Hodgson, 25 June, 18 Nov. 1823.
17. Add. 51562, Brougham to Holland [1 Mar. 1824].
18. The Times, 17, 20, 24, 27 Mar., 18 May. 1824.
19. Ibid. 26, 27 May 1824.
20. Lonsdale mss, Lowther to Lonsdale, 21, 22 Mar. 1825.
21. PROB 11/1699/259; IR26/1041/301.
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Rupert spills the beans on Angie
The email inbox here at Hoaxtead Research is a funny thing. We receive all sorts, from death threats and lectures from people who still believe there’s a cult operating in Hampstead, to tips and information about ongoing stories. But every now and then we find something truly special—as we did last night.
Rupert Quaintance IV was arrested on Wednesday last, and while we’re still in the dark about his current whereabouts and legal status, we were most interested to receive an email from someone who was in touch with him via Facebook text in the days leading up to his arrest.
Our anonymous informant offered us a series of screenshots from a conversation they’d had with Rupert. We think they offer some intriguing insights, not only into Rupert and his relationship with Angie, but his opinion of the Hoaxtead pushers as a whole, and the potential future of his so-called ‘documentary’.
We present the screenshots to you here, just as we received them:
There you have it: Rupert finds Angela “disgusting”, “abusive”, and “gross”, and he was unimpressed with her claim that they were “in love with each other”. We wonder whether Angie really does understand the depth of Rupert’s loathing for her. As we’ve seen, she has an uncanny ability to twist reality until it suits her purposes, and there’s no reason to believe she’d do any differently in her relationship with Rupert.
We were interested to note that Rupert is dismissive of the “MKULTRA porn” that Angela and her fellow Hoaxtead pushers find so fascinating; and he says “I have distanced myself from all of them. I’ve seen all I need to”.
Is it safe to say that having accepting Angela’s generosity in paying for his flight to London, Rupert suddenly discovered that he’d bitten off far more than he could chew?
He sounds deeply disappointed in his grand European adventure now: not only does he despise Angie, but even the sainted Kevin Galalae is starting to sound like a less than delightful travel companion. (Not that anyone could have predicted that.) He’s broke, he’s been arrested, he’s disgusted with the entire business.
In fact, here are a couple of snippets from Rupert yesterday, responding to a slagfest between Angie and Yannis:
If we didn’t know better, we’d say the fight’s gone right out of him. Ah well, bravado and big talk will only get one so far. If Rupert’s wise, he’ll take that as a lesson.
18/09/2016 in Hoaxer infighting. Tags: Angela Power-Disney, Hampstead hoax, Rupert Quaintaince IV
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Gone but not forgotten Rupert…. Not by a long chalk. After what you’ve done, of your own volition, you don’t get to come back from this. NO matter how you paint it you issued threats against innocent people. Desecrated things that matter, and made false accusations against people who had done nothing wrong. – all in pursuit of some childish idiotic ‘dream’ you have of fame. You’ve hurt little children; left them with nightmares, maybe scarred them for life. Disrupted the lives of decent families. No….. You don’t walk away from that.
You’re NEVER coming back from this and can forget any ideas of ‘making it’ in entertainment. You never had any skill or talent anyway – but this ends it. Take yourself OFF the internet completely and hope and pray somebody lets you shovel shit for a living.
How to deactivate your account Rupert…..
1) Click the downward arrow at the top right of any Facebook page.
2) Click “Security” in the left column.
3) Choose “Deactivate your account”, then follow the steps to confirm.
And BTW I think the lads may be round for a chat later. Don’t get up though; they’ve got a key……
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/resources/images/1926763/
It’s simple. People have been terrorised by the stuff and people he thinks is so great to get involved in …….. for ratings …….. a quick buck. Well done Rupert.
Well, it’s not like we didn’t try to warn him….
He obviously has no concept of the damage he’s done or how angry people are. Quite why he would chose to exploit and offend the very people that might have helped his ambitions is beyond any fathoming. But he needs to understand his days as a backwater hotel clerk were the pinnacle of his career.
It’s interesting: I think one reason people are so furious with Rupert is his incredible arrogance, combined with the truly terrible choice he made to follow Angie, who is clearly a foul individual, a liar with no conscience and no scruples. So many bad choices, and where has it led? Hardly to the success and fame he craves.
He obviously thinks increasing an Internet radio station’s ratings is worth it. He’s more mercenary than I thought, and that’s an incredible streak of cruelty to carry round. I pity him to be honest. It is a trait of psychopaths. As is grandiosity.
I saw him be rude to the Erith woman. That sealed it for me. That was him being natural, himself, with a woman who did nothing more than look out of her front door at what was going on in the alley by her flat.
Yes, that was Rupert in an unguarded, unrehearsed moment. It was not a pretty sight.
Rupert is a spoilt brat, lazy and dim-witted. And fundamentally dishonest. This is one reason why he thinks fame can simply be grasped without paying the appropriate dues. – He’s never grown beyond that childish ‘pretend’ stage where one day you can be a Fireman and in the afternoon a Doctor; his life is just play-acting. And he’s got away with that because no-one has made him stand on his own two feet. ….This internet ‘radio’ station? Just a child’s toy really; the 21st century equivalent of a CB set! ‘Film maker’? Wandering around like some twelve-year-old with a toy camera…. It’s all just childish fantasy.
But I’m afraid he went far too far when he started interfering with the real lives of grown-ups.
Yes, that’s the real crux of it: when his actions started causing people to fear for their children’s safety, it stopped being fun and games.
I think Joe Kerr says everything I think so no need to repeat it except I don’t forgive anyone who has contributed to the attempts to destroy even further, the lives of the 2 kids in this drama and their father and all those other innocent North London folk including that poor woman who fled her church flat with her kids.
Everyone else’s comments are also spot on.
And you do not get to tell the world : ” these people want to fuck little kid’s arseholes and it almost makes you want to try it to see what it’s like” or say you pissed up against a church wall ( I’m non-religious but have total respect for anyone’s religious beliefs and would never insult them for it) of infer you carry a knife which is a serious crime in the UK and then ramble on about how many bloody guns you and your mum have, and put these things on the web for the direct purpose of making people believe it’s true and then back peddle like crazy. moaning when it all goes arse over tit.
And staying with and being friendly with people like Power-Disney and then calling her all sorts of names because the whole shemozzle fell apart just shows that you ain’t no Southern Gentleman and are still just an arrogant prick.
Is there a link to that? I missed that. Need to see any Rupert Action that re-enforces his capacity to be a Class One Prat.
Yes, it’s not as if Angie wasn’t obviously a lying manipulator from the start. Seems odd to be surprised now.
It was on his GoFundMe page, I believe.
I watched the video on his GoFundme page (hard going- arrogance abounds) but I had to stop for a while after spluttering my tea yet again when he boasts the:
“trolls said I would be arrested..and I came through here twice now and no problems whatsoever” LOL.
It’s true..he cannot deny we didn’t warn him about everything that has unfolded.
Also note : Angie has now added a post to her Irish demo stating “this is how the Irish do it” (apparently the Irish ‘do it’ like every other bloody nation does) several hours after Hoaxtead queries the photo and one cleverly unmasked it as not a snap taken in London.
Poor Angie- it’s all unraveling.
Is Rupert still in England?
It seems to me that Rupert must be waiting for a court case otherwise why is he sticking around.
Perhaps he didn’t listen to the people on here because we told him so and that made him want to stick by Angela longer than he has.
At least he has finally realised what she is.
I don’t understand re the Yannis “YUCK” Emmanuol situation why Rupert didn’t just delete the whole thread where he says he’s had enough etc. If it was too much just delete…
As for tor this Quaintance goose ludicrously stating the UK will be “legalizing child sex abuse” perhaps he should read this report:
“”Even if the true prevalence of child sexual abuse is not known, most will agree that there will be 500,000 babies born in the US this year that will be sexually abused before they turn 18 if we do not prevent it,” according to the Children Assessment Centre (CAC).
The US Department of Health and Human Services’ Children’s Bureau report Child Maltreatment 2010 found that 16% of young people aged 14 to 17 had been sexually victimized in that year, and over the course of their lifetime, 28% of young people in the US, aged 14 to 17, had been sexually victimized.”
Quaintance is a vacuous lightweight phony who seized upon a scheme fomented by an Irish scammer as a way of getting a free trip to the UK but it blew up in his face.
# and what DID happen to those pals in Rome on their hunger strike? Dropped for being no longer of use?
The real problem for Rupert Wilson Quainance is that he has now ensured an entire internet trail of his infractions, scams and arrest has been laid out for all the world to see. We still don’t know the details of his arrest but we will eventually.
When people go for a job these days (unlike in my youth) there are another 200 seeking that job. Antone with the slightest mark against their name doesn’t get past first base. Unfair but that’s reality and probably as true in Culpepper as in London.
If his dad does work associated with the CIA I reckon he would be appalled with his son’s reckless adventure. Rupert should atone for his actions by taking up genuine charity work in Culpepper- feeding the homeless and so on until he has redeemed himself.
Sounds to me by the very muted way he is posting remarks and his “I’m outa this particular scam” and ” I wuz fooled by a crazy lady” he may still be in the UK and has been advised by a lawyer to cool his language.
I think if he were back in the USA he would be laying into how ghastly and corrupt the British cops are and the legal system is run by pedos and The Cult deliberately silenced the Great Warrior etc etc, yadda yadda, blah,blah blah.
## I still believe it’s all about a visa irregularity and it’s not uncommon for Immigration to delay immediately deporting an offender and because illegal workers are such a huge problem they may chose to charge him and put him through the court process for maximum publicity.
Of course even I can be wrong !!
LOL, Angela will shit when she sees this.
And Rupert will be so pissed off when he realises his convo wasn’t as private as he thought. EC’s contact has really done a number on him and stabbed in in the back. So sneaky, so mean…and I for one truly appreciate it. Hehe 😀
A lot of these old posts and comments have taken on a whole new meaning now. LOL 😀
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2016/04/01/qbert-gets-cold-feet
I’m trying to find an old screenshot of a conversation that Danielle George (I think) had with Rupert around March/April, in which he admitted that the donations to his GoFundMe (especially Angie’s £1,000) were a bit much and implied that he was regretting getting involved…
Sorry, I can’t find the screenshot in question but this is a related one, posted at the time:
Oh now I see the Rome hunger striker IS Kevin Galalae- so hard to keep track of these truthers.
I see there is yet another of these ‘TV Networks ” which are just Youtube channels but this one called WHDT World Television service goes all out with a suited talking head and a back drop that looks very kosher and so on but really- it’s just another form of deception by amateurs imitating real TV networks and trying to give the appearance of a solid entity when it’s just cheap smoke & mirrors.
On this one the ‘newsreader’ says in 2014 that Galalae’s hunger strike may force The Pope to ..oh I don’t know…do something like come out of The Vatican and speak to Kevin but of course he did sod all connected with them.
What a strange world they inhabit. I mean we do live in a strange world full of media we can’t really trust but this Truther Mob take it to a whole new level where they fool themselves and a few 100 devoted followers if they are lucky.
And they call us a Cult !!
Oh and lest we forget:
(Go to 4:57)
Back-tracking par excellence:
From early April:
I wonder whether it was Papa Quaintance the Turd or Ma Kazza who used to whack Rupert with a paddle.
And it does rather beg the question of why she’s been unable to upload any real pics of the child abuse rally that she, ahem, definitely did attend.
My prediction is that in her next video, Angie will bang on about how Rupert was brainwashed and/or mind-controlled by the cult while he was in police custody.
Rupert handled this opportunity badly, he would have been better to have taken note of journalists such as Louise Theroux in approaching the Hamsptead subject from a less confrontational, objective and open-ended point of view. I doubt many of those opposing the hoax were willing to talk to Rupert, so all he has is the material of crazies such as Jake Clarke and Neelu Berry to play with for his “documentary.”
Rupert Wilson Quaintance IV was never middle of the road in his public actions and words, he waged war on the innocent victims of this hoax, he waged war against Satanism, he waged war on the children. Rupert is the one Satan Hunter who has pissed me off the most.
People’s mothers read about all this stuff that Abraham Christie and Ella Draper torturned their children into saying about them. People’s mothers know about shit through people’s doors. People’s mothers know about emails sent to everyone at their child’s workplace. People’s mothers know that their children have fireproofed their doors against arson and petrol bombs. People’s mothers know their families have had to move. People’s mothers know their grandchildren have had to move school because of a pair of evil POS.
Rupert and his mum get really butthurt. People in the UK are supposed just be all smiles and nicey nicey about all this utter evil.
I think we’ve got to wait until Thursday for the latest update “show”.
Madam says she is travelling tomorrow.
Well it’s not to Luton’s Coral Unit or Luton Airport but to Lanzarote.
Nice work if you can get it.
Funny how Angela never explains how she gets the money she lives on, or how she pays for all of her travel, mmm…
From what I have heard, the present Pope is quite good at getting back to people if they approach him through the regular channels. I don’t suppose he would get back to anyone who was clearly mad and accusing him of being involved in a New World Order depopulation plot.
The truth is more like, Rupert’s had a complete break from the manipulating Angela and come to his senses finally.
He’s realised all the people he’s involved himself with in this hoax are “nuts” in some way.
He can’t wait to get back home to Mom and wants to break away from everyone involved with this Hampstead saga, but they came on his fb page and stirred things again for him.
Yucky Yannis and Agitator Angie.
He will come out of this realising there was no such thing as a free lunch.
As for any future career well there probably never was going to be one anyway.
Rupert had all the privileges and didn’t get anywhere…
Angela Power Disney is now carrying Rupert’s baby, after their nights of sexual passion.
amama says:
Nevertheless “they’re all nuts” is a sign that a glimmer of reality is beginning to shine through the brain clouds. “All nuts”. Group psychosis, folie a multitude.
This is fascinating stuff. We did speculate that Rupert might not be as green as he is cabbage looking. The thing is, Hoaxtead is not the sort of subject that can be turned into a documentary. The involvement of children makes it almost impossible to do without breaching existing court orders or further invading the privacy of the victims. The Hoaxers can be exposed, but their victims will want to remain anonymous.
She will have about every benefit and hand out milkable from the system,together with a few charity wheezes,insurance fiddles and no doubt other yet to be uncovered earners.
The woman is one of lifes opportunists and void of any scruples or conscience. She considers herself entitled and can do precisely as she pleases.She even believes she has the big G covering her arse!!!If anything does not “fit” with her world(like say the truth)she will seek onlt to to eliminate it.
Nothing will ever change inside Angie but the world can hopefully learn to give her a wide berth.Sadly after all this there will be fresh victims and until she is raptured in one way or another that is the unfortunate situation.
I suspect her kids bit by bit will gravity away from her grip and she may at best receive occasional duty xmas cards etc.The real worth and wheat in life will seep away through the cracks and Angie will end up as a sack of shit decaying in an obscure u bend of history.Not a beautiful life.
What a fucking idiot he is…..
I’m certain they have the equivalent of our FE/HE colleges over there. If he wanted to get into performance why didn’t he sign up for a course, join some theatre groups, perhaps even move on to study at Bachelor level? Too lazy and stupid to pay his dues that’s why.
Journalists such as Louise Theroux are educated people who took the time to learn and understand the rules and work with the backup of a team of experts….. Directors, Commissioning Editors, Lawyers and Paralegals, Researchers, PR, Technicians et.
Rupert is (literally) some wanker with a flea-market tripod, a shitty toy video camera of the type your Granny might take on holiday, lacking the patience to edit and with no clue of how the law or the world works.
That prank is just nasty 😮
Actually, if you know what you’re doing a subject like Hoaxtead might well yield, or at least contribute to a legitimate documentary. A skilled professional would understand perfectly how to work within the constraints of standard reporting restrictions. An honest agent would faithfully report the story that emerges. And they would understand the limits that professionalism places on someone positioning themselves as an insider; especially in terms of their future reporting.
Rupert, on the other hand, is every bit as cabbage as he is cabbage looking. He’s done, I doubt the hotel will have him back now, they’ll be made aware of his antics and the likely impact on bookings. He should perhaps apply to the local Cleansing Department; though I can understand if people object to him walking the streets and coming near their children.
Seems to be a film prop….. I agree, you shouldn’t go around doing that to people, but it’s really skilfully made.
Keep digging, fruitloop!
By the way, how’s this for shoveling? She’s posted that comment under the pics of her posing by Big Ben etc., not of the one of the Dublin water bill march that she hilariously tried to pass off as a London child abuse rally. She knows full well what pics we’re referring to.
And as for Kristie Sue Costa, the mad bint has actually been PMing a number of us (not the other way round), desperate for dirt on Angie’s fake pic and ‘alleged’ no-show. LOL
The KSC ‘article’ is up:
https://www.facebook.com/notes/believe-the-children/panem-circenses/251732221889110
This really is a bloody soap opera, isn’t it. And in this Angie v Kristie episode, it’s impossible to know who to root for, as they’re both arseholes. A plague on both arseholes, I say.
“Since early-2015, there have been extensive online efforts to discredit the testimony of the two children involved in the Hampstead allegations, and in particular, the integrity of their mother who first reported the allegations to authorities.”
Actually, Kristie Sue, Ella discredited herself bye…er…NOT reporting the abuse to the authorities. No, that was left to her brother-in-law Jean Clement, because Ella and Abe couldn’t be arsed.
How she manages all this when her bank account is empty I really can’t fathom.
Yes, that’s my understanding as well.
KSC has written a whole section on ‘Spreading Horrible Rumours’.
“Angela claims the information came from a reliable source (in her opinion) yet has not seen any concrete evidence to confirm or deny the allegations to date. Quite an irresponsible act to publish such allegations without seeing the evidence, or doing a little research…”
No hypocrisy there, then.
Incoming…… A collective response to Rupert follows.
1) You’re a liar… There is blending in and there is rolling about in the shit. Delusional idiot that you are, you thought you could just play Journalist and score a free world tour. You backed the wrong donkey. But in the process you CHOSE to abuse a lot of innocent people. As Joe points out, many of them are the very folk that could have assisted you in your aspirations. Your doors are now closed.
2) You got caught in the middle because you ran there and started goading people. Take a look in the mirror you fucked-up puny little stick insect. Yes, you’re not only a ‘disappointment’ your a fraud and a failure. And there is a cost to that.
3) You want to apologise? Then you remove EVERY piece of social media content you ever posted and you leave a single paragraph apology on them all. You go back to Virginia and live the life of the nobody you are. And pray, just pray, that when you inherit nobody comes after you for every sorry penny you never earned. Be aware that you’ve upset REAL Journalists REAL Lawyers and REAL entertainment people. Lift your face off the floor you’re sweeping and they’ll see to it you’re living in a cardboard box under a bridge just like your Italian friends. Capiche?
4) You didn’t get “investigatey”. – That’s nowhere in your skillset. You are a delusional arsehole. Your and your family’s name are now MUD thanks to your antics. You’ll get your shitty little toy camera and flea market tripod back. Expect your holiday snaps to be erased; but in any case… Use a frame of it and a great big huge machine will come along and sue the Quaintance clan into obscurity. – We don’t care if your brother has a machine gun or mommy packs a piece in her knickers. What we do will be legal and justified, unlike the shit you got up to.
5) We expect to see you deleting yourself by 00:00 hours GMT on the 20th of September.
Oh, now, don’t confuse her with facts. You know how she gets.
Hahahahahahaha!! 😂😂😂
Nobody believes for a moment you were ever going to “burn the activists down”. IF that were the case you would NEVER have used rhetoric that left little children frightened to go to sleep at night in case you ‘kicked down the doors’ of their school or even their home. You wouldn’t have hurt and frightened little old ladies by implying you were literally pissing on their sincerely-held Christian beliefs ( some fucking ‘conservative’ you are!) and waiting around the corner with a ‘biscuit’ (i.e. blade) in your pocket!
Where the fuck do you get off leaving some respectable straight-laced old person too frightened to go to church on a Sunday?
It’s quite comical that you tried to play the tough guy Rupert, you’re such an underdeveloped little man! But still, anyone who knew what they were doing and was capable of infiltrating such a group would have known better than to cross that line. Incidentally – the ‘group’ responsible for the above response includes the very Lawyers who hope to have the opportunity to financially cripple you and your family. And some very angry policemen too! You have a chance to walk. – Walk! Fast and far!
For Ghost of Sam, if you have not found it already.
Rupert being “charming” from about 2m20 on
uh?, dont know why that is not showing but for Ghost of Sam.
Go to his Facebook page
hi its rupert
click on videos and it is a fairly recent one labelled ‘UK Pedos: Update 2’. He starts his ‘hearts and minds’ charm offensive (!) on the local people at about 2m20s
Don’t worry, mate – it is showing. If you can’t see it, it’s because you’ve been blocked by Rupert. And don’t take that personally – he does it to all of us, LOL.
Whatever Rupert has been busted for, his experience has reduced him to a cowardly cringing puppy.
Yes, the problem of course is that when we expose her lies, she must lie about having lied. It’s all very complicated.
He was that already. – Thought he could snarl like a big dog.
Oh, at very least. And I will see your “they brainwashed/mind-controlled Rupert” and raise you a “they injected Angie with cancer”. I’m still fully expecting a cancer scare from her, and I’m sure it’ll be linked in some way to “MKULTRA”.
I had a puppy once who used to run around yapping and piddling on the carpet. If you scolded him, he’d yap louder and piddle more…he never really seemed to realise that the yapping and piddling were what caused the scolding.
Eventually, that dog was able to be housetrained. I wonder if the same will be said for Rupert?
Yes, I think “what’s wrong with Angie” comes down to a malignant personality disorder. She’s stated this in at least one of her videos, seemed to think it was a joke. It’s not.
He is a cringing puppy with no teeth.
She’s already done the cancer scare thing, though. She mentioned it the other day, saying she was cured using cannabis. She must be running out of scam ideas now.
Yes, before he decided to come here to raise hell, he might have thought just a little bit about the people he would be attacking. It’s not as if this was a spur of the moment decision: he and Angie had plenty of time to work it all out, and the hoax has been debunked several ways, in various places around the internet.
I cannot imagine being so dense as to think that he’d be welcomed, or even received neutrally, by people who have been through what the victims of this hoax have endured.
Two new ones from MKD/CCNE:
Not really…… Talk is circulating now of the Quaintances being sued. Certain individuals have obtained diagnosis of what for the moment I’ll mis-label ‘PTSD’ type ilness as the result of what Rupert did aggravated by Karen’s involvement/endorsement. And some of these people have the knowledge connections and financial clout to start proceedings against him through the U.S. courts. – Unlike Rupert, they’re not fantasists. And are angry enough to start throwing six-figure lawsuits at both Rupert and Karen.
He and his family might not be left with a house for him to be house-trained to!
Haha, Angie will be over the moon to see she’s been soundtracked by her bête noire Cliff Richard 😀
Running out of scam ideas? Angie? Nevah!
Not odd, just dishonest.
You mean the one that ahem, definitely did happen? The one that didn’t consist of two Collies and a man who thought he was going to meet Stirling Moss? The one that didn’t collapse due to being overrun by nutcases?
what a coincidence! sabine who was involved in the hollie greigg scam was good friends with ella, what are the odds?
Astonishing, isn’t it? We posted a series about the genesis of the hoax some time ago; it might be time to revive those posts. 🙂
The very one! I’m waiting for a firsthand account of the event…will let you know when it comes in.
I thought she was a huge fan of Cliffs? Especially as her life is all about driving as fast as possible towards the edge of one!
If she is, she hides it very well!
He couldn’t have regretted it that much as he kept asking for more money at every opportunity that he had.
Surely if yesterday was any success, numbers wise then Angie wouldn’t hesitate to post the photos up. So i think her silence says it all.
He was that…… In fact he was milking it for all he was worth right up to the point where the Police lifted him. He’s only back-pedalling now because he realises he’s in serious trouble, his toys have been taken off him and there is a very good chance he and his mother are going to be hit with substantial lawsuits.
And it is a pleasure to see Rupert for the coward that we said he was all along.
No wonder Cliff says they have almost destroyed his life.
How many goons are there out there just like this Irish battleaxe that simply accept any accusation as long as it involves their favourite subject- child abuse (apart from one of the allegations had Cliff on roller skates, skating down a High Street and suddenly veering into a ship to grope a lad and out again and then return a few minutes later, quick fumble and then zoom off on his skates!)
Whatever happens with this Hoaxtead case which I believe will peter out of it’s own accord eventually given the main players are now all facing court and are bound to be given even stricter silence orders – I’m determined this Power-Disney dame is not let off the hook. She must pursued and exposed so no-one gets taken in be her again.
As for Rupert Quaintance now claiming he was never really part of these fanatics, who does he think he’s kidding? He actively encouraged people to post images of the children. And now I’ve seen his arrogant go at some poor lady who opened her door and probably wondered why some goon was wondering up and down her alley way- he shall not be forgiven for his rudeness.
Obviously no-one went to that rally because they weren’t going in the first place. For the vast majority of Hoaxers this matter is already becoming a bore and they are looking for a new sensation. It was just the hardcore and they all got arrested, except Angie and her pathetic attempt to pretend there was a rally- she’s just one really bad liar.
The Hollie Greigg case proved you could cause immense damage in people’s lives (the falsely accused) and almost get away with it. But those brave ladies fought back and eventually cleared their names but it took a few years.
i think Ella took note and thought she could cause the same grief for her ex-husband but with the career criminal Abraham Christie on the case the whole thing blew up into a drama that hit the national media and blew up in their faces.
MK Ultra 666esque level of dark image play there Spiny.Top work 😉
Rupert on APD “Lets just say when I visited her, oh it was terrible.”
Call me inquisitive, but I’d love him to expand on that..
And lest we forget they got the scamming bastard Robert Green incarcerated.
He says he has a recording of Angela and Kevin being abusive to him. I’d pay to hear that.
I dont suppose he has made contact with that nurse at Jakes clinic whom he insulted and blazened across the internet.He is in damage limitation made. When he is back in his safe space with momie he will most likely revert to type eg complete wanker.
His antics are unforgivable even if he was an 18 year old kid,the fact that he is pushing 40 makes this individual terminally beyond the pail.Well done Karen for defending him and not reigning him in.Shit child, shit parents.
This is exactly why people are talking about going after them financially Mik. When he was posting here as FOTW the other night he was as arrogant as ever and only started to get rattled when it became clear he was fooling no-one. Once he gets back to the US he will start imagining himself invincible again. Him and the old bat that raised him need hitting where it hurts; with these ‘types’ that’s in the pocketbook.
Yeah come on Rupert if ya gonna splll the beans go the full hog.
Actually Sam/Lisa, one of the big problems with the Hollie Greig case is that the authorities FAILED to clear the names of the people Green had defamed. The ladies you refer to didn’t get anyone put away. – Green was jailed for breach of the peace, mainly on the basis that he had frightened people on a certain Aberdeen housing estate. Which – like the carry on with Neelu and Sabine – was a completely inappropriate charge. Green only went down because instead of defending himself he tried to use his own trial as a platform to pursue his wider bizarre agenda. His subsequent visits inside were due to him breaching various orders and conditions.
It’s was, I’m told on good authority, said by one of Scotland’s leading criminal defence lawyers that Green’s conviction was “unfortunate and unnecessary”. – But (as was also put to me) ‘his own mother’ sitting as Sheriff would have had no choice but to convict him and the complete pile of bloody nonsense he offered as a ‘defence’ was of absolutely no relevance to the charge he was facing! There isn’t a shred of doubt that beyond what she was compensated for the allegations in relation to Hollie Greig are not supported by a shred of evidence, and actually debunk themselves (like Hoaxtead). But the one thing that keeps it ‘in the air’ is that the whole debacle represents a twisted failure of justice. – The links to McKenzie and other well-known scammers, and even (arguably) a now-convicted child rapist only make the waters surrounding the Hollie Greig hoax muddier!
Don’t tell him that…he’ll have a pay-per-view site up next, LOL.
I know, it’s interesting. Not quite the way Angie would like the world to see it, but that’s no surprise.
Am I the only one who finds it amusing that the way the nutters convince one another that their ‘news channels’ are legit is by dressing them up to look like…well, the dreaded mainstream media (MSM)?
Rupert: “…I’d really like my equipment back…” seems to be the crux of the biscuit, IMO.
I think he’s hoping that “I totally agree with the police now”, etc., will facilitate the return of his equipment.
But I already bought it, through a “seized items” auction, and crushed it in an industrial garbage compactor 🙂
What a terrible thing to do, JS! Now you owe Rupert at least $5.
Rupert has said himself that his dream is to live by being on camera and has looked at Alex Jones as an inspiration. However, most of what Jones puts out is attacking adults that to some degree expect to be attacked. Politicians and big business…etc.
This case involves the average person and their children. People have truly been harmed by this case and they are still being attacked. To put it mildly, Rupert was very misguided to have chosen this as a subject matter, regardless of how neutral he now claims to be. Even more misguided to have aligned himself with Angie, one of the worst for spreading misinformation, disinformation and outright lies.
As others have said, the most interesting documentary angle would be looking at the dynamics of Angie and her friends. If you look at documentaries about WBC, survivalists, UFO enthusiasts, Scientologists…etc, what makes it interesting is the relationships between those members and what brings them together. The likes of Angie, Sabine, Neelu, Belinda…etc, really are a cult. A cult worthy of investigation. The only real cult in this case.
Very much so, Dave. Scarlet Scoop was saying that when she founded the blog a year and half ago, but it bears repeating.
C.I.A says:
https://m.facebook.com/notes/believe-the-children/panem-circenses/251732221889110/?__mref=message_bubble
Rupert can dream, as many do, until he’s blue in the face. But he’s clearly unprepared to learn the basics of the craft to which he aspires. He’s what we call a ‘mug punter’. And has bought the snake-oil version of media success. He’s not bright enough to realise that people like Alex Jones are just the 21st century evolution of the old side-show travelling salesmen. And they are basically there to shift ‘Dr Good’ style rubbish. – Additionally, these guys are seriously invested in the literacy of their genre and the technology which underpins it….. It’s a cold business.
Rupert remains just a random tosser with a toy video camera. – And it’s maybe part of the great game that the likes of Alex Jones isn’t honest enough to reign a clown like this in. He won’t be ‘too keen’ on competition for his audience share. And where it does ’emerge’ it will be from within a carefully vetted ‘inner circle’. As for Angie, Neelu Sabine and the rest of the ‘McKenzie Group’ scams. – They seem to be part of a relatively small ‘pool’ of London based criminals that have been running various scams since at least the early 1980s. I do know of people who are researching themes surrounding them. More than that I’d prefer not to say.
He’ll get his toy rubbish back eventually, minus the harassing material which will be erased. Of course, he MAY have to return to London to collect it; by which time he’ll be banned from entering the UK. – I did enjoy “Catch 22”.
What he had was cheap junk anyway.
I can’t find the comment now, I think it might have been from Joe, about Deatheaters and how clownish showboating not only contributes nothing to Child Protection but actively distracts from the serious work on Child Protection issues. I wanted to say how much I appreciated that comment, whomever you are.
Particularly disturbing to me is Deatheaters obsession with the mythology of child “snuff” porn, and like so many similar conspiranoids, their uncritical acceptance of Dave McGowan’s “The Pedophocracy” as an accurate revelation & analysis of “what’s really going on”. Actually, McGowan was a sh*t researcher, none of his material was original research – he simply compiled other people’s paranoid misinformation into one grand thesis with no understanding of the original source info that he misquotes and misinterprets to serve his own purposes.
For example – in the late 1990’s the Russian Mafia was running some boy-porn operations and selling videos of their “work” over the internet. (They were selling some of the ‘models’ too, even more disturbing!)
The FBI, Interpol and Russian police worked together to bust one of these operations, which had a “pedo necros” listing in their ‘catalog’. (These titles turned out not to be actual “snuff”, just child S&M being marketed that way). Police investigators turned this operation into one of their favorite and most effective stings. They traced the server through which the porn operation was marketing their stuff and caught the operator by surprise, at the controls. Instead of shutting it down, they replaced the operator with a specialist investigator who took over the controls and carried on the operation for several months, playing the role of the server operator. This allows them to access the info about customers necessary to trace them, research them, and target the ones with access to children for priority arrests.
After the conclusion of the police sting, when the operation really was shut down and customers were arrested, the Italian press published some email conversation evidence which revealed the true depravity of some child porn customers. One example, which I’m not going to quote precisely, went like this:
Snuff seeking customer: “I’ve been burned before. How do I know this will be the real thing?”
Operator: “Trust me, this one dies”
McGowan and his idiot fans use this as proof that the Russian mob really was selling “snuff” porn, demonstrating that they don’t understand the “Operator” in that conversation was THE POLICE INVESTIGATOR, dutifully playing the role of mobster porn marketer. Although he knows better, he is doing his best to lure this customer into making a purchase – he REALLY wants this snuff-seeking sicko’s info, from the purchase, because he is the type of depraved pervert who will be targeted for priority arrest – for obvious reasons.
McGowan’s naive assumptions about this are accepted as fact by people like Deatheaters and the misinformation about it is repeated over & over throughout their networks.
It possibly was myself Justin; I’m not alone in questioning this infantilisation of what is a particularly dreadful, soul-sucking and just ‘dirty’ form of abuse. One of the lowest ebbs humanity can sink to.
In the late 90s the internet was much smaller and slower. And I understand where the press ‘were coming from’ in publishing that account as they did. Hindsight being 20:20 I doubt the wisdom of it though as it does seem to have encouraged a fanciful narrative. Surprised they could stream much in the way of video back then. I’ve recently learned that even these days material is typically sent on USB media, partly to evade the attention busy servers might draw.
I see a comment above about will Angie pull a cancer scare. No doubts. She is like Janet Schrodenberg (sorry if thats bad spelling) She has claimed many times to have had cancer. Ironically dim jim is talking to her and her good friend Adeybob on twitter, even with the news their good friend Darren Laverty is looking to be sentenced for trolling a survivor and Sonya Poulton. He really doesn’t have a good nose for wrong’ens. Janet is harbouring her brother in holland, i won’t begin to talk about her brother and his crime, its too horrid to post.
I am aware of certain feuds between people, convictions, arrests. I generally keep my opinion to myself really.
The sting with a police operator is how Sabine’s friend got caught and convicted.
Fair dues
There’s a truly interesting story about who actually benefits, has their aims furthered, by lurid tales of child abuse cover ups. I can tell you, Anjem Choudary’s very last tweet, one last year, gone because his account was deleted, included the hashtag #TedHeath. He was also complaining about child protection. Also, who also is well know for government sponsored media peddling outright conspiracy stuff? Iran and Russia for a start off the top of my head. Which politician is riding the wave of support from basement conspiracists and admires Putin?
I’m not conspiracy minded myself but I have seen this stuff benefit bad people. When people trust no one in government or authority someone is going to step into that vacuum and I only see bad portents so far.
I’m somewhat aware of the technique Ginger….. The police do what they need to do. If they’re banging these perverts up they get no criticism from me.
@Joe – sorry, I might not have given you a wrong impression from my bare-bones account of that operation. My understanding is, the mobster’s website had a catalog divided into categories, under each of which there were small ‘teaser’ clip samples from the VIDEOTAPES that they were selling. People might recall this case from the surprising revelation that the mobsters actually used a well known international courier service to deliver the video cassettes to their customers.
And as JK said, Rupert’s only regretting it now because he realises he’s in big trouble and his toys (i.e. camera equipment) have been confiscated. I very much doubt there’s a genuine sense of remorse for the damage he’s done.
Agreed, Dave. Before we let Jones off the hook, though, I feel I should point out that he too jumped on the Hampstead bandwagon at one point and sought to fan the SRA flames. Somewhere there’s a video of him ranting about it but I can’t seem to find it.
Is this the comment you’re looking for, Justin?:
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2016/09/17/will-angie-show-her-face-at-todays-protest/#comment-43374
Ah! I see! I did wonder, but then you can put nothing past these characters. IIRC correctly sending a video file was just about possible back then, but it would have been at very low resolution and reduced frame rate. And possibly taken days to download. – And right enough, what would cause the minimum suspicion BUT a mainstream courier.
Hey diddle,diddle
The bats on the fiddle
The old cow jumped over the moon.(Resulting from a serious bullshit generated methane overload)
The coyote did laugh
to see such fun
because her shit stirring spoon is now firmly stuck right up her arse.
Angie spotted embarking on a new career stealing Xmas tress.
The more I think about it Spiny, Jones has run plenty of stories as sickening as this case. I missed the video in which he discusses this. Interestingly, Paul Joseph Watson of Infowars, called this as a hoax early on, and has also had run ins with Rupert.
I wouldn’t be surprised if she does really get throat cancer or emphysema the amount of fags she gets through.
Don’t wish it upon her or anyone but it would be ironic if she did as who would believe her?. I also think the cigarettes are why she has that throaty voice and note, she is always coughing.
I think Angela Power Disney has a natural nose for associating with paedophiles, hence her choosing Rupert and Jake, both who I think are latent paedophiles. I think all efforts to keep Jake and Rupert away from children will save a child from being badly raped or abused.
For those who may have missed it first time around, the Radio 4 documentary ‘The Satanic Cult That Wasn’t’ by David Aaronovitch does a decent job and generated the usual flack from the usual suspects (always been a source of great disappointment that Bea Campbell still props up the belief in SRA)
But, anyhoo, worth a listen, as is the two parter, The Anatomy of a Panic, that R4 did a month later about the history of SRA..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05r40r5
Angie as always posting endless links to dodgy satanist pedo tales (is this what she means by being an “activist” against child abuse?- surfing the net?)
These clots never do real research though. One of her latest grabbed my attention because it mentioned Australia but alas, it lead to the well known “truther” nutcase Henry Makow.
I chose a random paragraph (can’t take reading their entire B/S) and yes, there was one glaring and idiotic mistake which amply demonstrates this dangerous mob of sheeple (they are the ‘sheeple’ blindly accepting every nutcase’s web rantings.
It claimed the US Federal Reserve also own the Reserve Bank in Australia. Not so-the US Federal Reserve is a privately owned entity that wields much power.
The Australian Reserve Bank is a government body and always has been. It’s directors and CEO are government appointees and it oversees control of private banks with some of the strictest controls on banks in the world, so much so that an Aussie bank has never gone bust and they all make huge profits with the Reserve Bank setting interest rates and this is one reason why Australia wasn’t hit by the 2007/8 financial collapse in the US and basically rode out the calamity relatively unscathed.
So no devil-worshipers there.
Yes, why bother with actual research when you can rely on guesswork and innuendo?
You can generate judge the worth of these programmes by the volume of screeching they elicit from the other side.
#Yup
I think the pay out to Hollie by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board (am I right?) seemed to confuse matters a lot and made people assume there was more substance in the outlandish claims than there was. We have seen something similar with Bishop Bell recently. I know some clerics who are very angry that the Church of England paid out a lot of money on the basis of very little investigation and managed to blacken the reputation of a man who many still regard very highly.
Hollywood has a lot to answer for. Usually characters in movies become great successes through “putting their heart into it” or “really wanting it” rather, than studying or training over a period of many years (not that that would make an interesting story line).
I hope the investigations into the McKenzie Group are going to produce some results.
The CICA payout was made on the basis that – on the balance of probability – she was abused as a child. And it’s actually fairly clear who is implicated in that. It’s also the case that the evidence surrounding THAT issue implicates the mother as being complicit in covering up that abuse. The waters were muddied further by the determination of some factions to discredit these official findings…… i.e. It wasn’t enough to clear the names of the defamed and debunk Anne Greig’s fabrications. It remains the case therefore than many credible people are convinced there was ‘something to hide’; although it’s not what Green tried to promote. The recent conviction of Hugh Mitchell may light a few lights, time will tell, the Police need the opportunity to do what they need to do. But it I hope it will all unravel in the end.
You’re right in suggesting the CICA payment was conflated by Green and his cohorts as if it proved other things had happened. It was effective because that (court) decision has weight, and trying to debunk it only drew suspicion on the people doing so. But then that IS Green’s (and McKenzie’s) ‘way of working’. The Irony is that if he had been convicted in some way that allowed his fairy stories to be explored in court, not only would the people he defamed had their names PROPERLY cleared in court (as they have a right to) but it might well have brought a whole house of cards tumbling down. It’s really not good enough that the only place these women have been vindicated is in an article written by a spud-faced wee nyaff who many people opine might well wind up on a sex-offender’s wing himself one day!
And this is where the interesting comparison with the Berry/McNeill case comes in. – They ‘got off’ quite easily on a technicality. Had Green offered any kind of relevant defence, the probability is that he would have walked too! That’s not just my opinion but one I’ve heard from a well-known Scottish QC! The question that arises from this is why did the authorities go to such lengths to avoid PROPERLY shutting the hoax down? SO, why ARE the authorities – the Crown Office and the CPS – fucking these cases up so royally? Answers on the back of an open cheque for about £500K please!
The amount of public money and police time wasted when these cases aren’t prosecuted properly is downright criminal.
I know a man who was generally regarded as a “wrong un'” by people in the village. He did a lot of minor things and was filmed by the police doing something serious which should have put a stop to many of his activities. The case fell through thanks to the intervention of a senior police officer who happened to be a member of the same golf club. The man in question continued in his ways and is now in prison for the murder of his own wife. (I can’t be more specific – I am very close to my source who knows exactly went on but has sworn me to secrecy).
I’m sure she’s already stated on previous videos that she has been diagnosed with COPD due to her smoking.
Lmao, classic picture Spiny. He does have bit of a bean head doesn’t he?
Then there is the more routine human cost…… Is it not the case that someone felt sufficiently unsafe in their flat near the church that they moved out? And we have another family just moved up here from Hampstead that include this very hoax among their reasons for getting out! The Hollie case wrecked businesses and severely disrupted lives, for what? – I do realise that people may be jealous of the Hampstead lifestyle and in some cases people might have rubbed others up the wrong way. But by what measure is hoaxing any way to ‘deal with’ such things?
I think it may be a symptom of “post-factual” politics. If reality doesn’t suit you, just make shit up. Quite depressing really. The French Revolution was in part started by scurrilous pamphlets about the alleged sex lives of Lois XVI and Marie-Antoinette. Whatever corruption there was in the ancien regime, drowning nuns in the Seine wasn’t the answer to anyone’s problems.
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****** * ********** trial update: Day 3
First, a word of explanation about the odd title of today’s court report. It seems that the Crown Court at Southwark is now listing this case as a series of asterisks, due to the Court Order made under s45a, Youth and Criminal Justice Act 1999, which we mentioned on Monday. We are following their lead, and will be changing the titles of the previous posts as well.
Court very nearly started on time today, with legal teams on both sides turning up only about 10 minutes late…but then it turned out that they needed just a bit more time to ensure that their evidence was in order, and so there was a brief adjournment, with court resuming at 10:47 a.m.
Once the jury was seated, the admissions were read into the record. Admissions constitute a series of facts which both prosecutor and defence agree are accurate.
In brief, the admissions consisted of joint acceptance that in 2014 two children made false allegations of SRA against various people including their father, their teachers, children and parents in their school, social workers, and police officers. Both sides agreed to the facts of the police investigation, the children being taken into protective custody, and the fact-finding hearing which led to the 19 March 2015 judgment by Mrs Justice Pauffley. It was agreed that a massive amount of information was released onto the internet, in contravention of a court order intended to protect the children in the case.
It was further agreed that the defendant was arrested in Erith, at which time his MacBook computer and external hard drive were examined by police. A GoFundMe account was discovered, which at the time contained $5,072 in contributions. In addition, a Skype conversation between Sabine McNeill and the defendant was discovered, containing a link to the website http://www.hampsteadchristchurch.com. This site contained a link which contained the names of the five witnesses in this trial, as well as a reference to one of the witnesses being “constantly on the move”. The hard drive contained an Excel spreadsheet last updated on 30 July 2016, containing the names of all five witnesses.
It was further agreed that the original version of the defendant’s first YouTube broadcast about Hampstead, in which he discussed kicking down doors and taking blood samples, was broadcast in February 2015, and that it was reposted at least once since then under a different URL.
Witness: Steve Martin
DC Steve Martin, a member of the CAIT (Child Abuse Investigation Team) took the witness stand, noting that his involvement in the Hampstead hoax went back to its genesis in 2014, and that he had continued to be involved with the accused and exonerated families. On the stand, he was questioned about three particular pieces of evidence: the original YouTube video; the defendant’s show on American Freedom Radio in which he stated that he “didn’t want to kill them, only to beat them up real good”; and the defendant’s Facebook post containing a selfie of himself outside Christ Church Primary School, which was posted on 5 September 2016.
DC Martin played the original video, in which the defendant was heard to say, “If nobody else wants to do it, I’ll do it”, stating that he would be willing to go to Hampstead, kick down doors, and take blood samples from the accused.
Next, DC Martin played the American Freedom Radio audio clip from approximately 1 hour and 2 minutes. In this clip, the defendant stated that he had seen a video of the two children at the centre of the Hampstead hoax, that he had made a response video, and that he had been trolled for it. He stated he wanted to get the names of those who had allegedly abused the children, and that he would get those people to tell the truth. During this show he stated, “I want to go the violent route. I don’t want to kill them, just beat them up real good”.
On the defendant’s public Facebook page, which had at that time approximately 5,000 friends and 7,000 followers, he posted on 5 September a photograph of himself in front of the school, with the comment, “This is what I look like at a moment of acute defiance”. Under the photo, a friend of the defendant commented, “Is there a biscuit in your pocket?” to which the defendant replied, “Knife?” The friend said, “Biscuit knife”, to which the defendant replied, “Sharp ham”.
DC Martin stated that on the defendant’s computer, a link to the HampsteadChristChurch.com site had been found, accessed via a link sent by Sabine McNeill on Skype. While the list containing the names of the five witnesses was not on the homepage of that site, someone using the defendant’s computer had visited the site on numerous occasions, either by searching on a search engine or via Facebook link.
On the hard drive recovered from the defendant’s room, a file was found marked AB, containing an Excel spreadsheet named “Cult details” and dated 16 April 2016. DC Martin showed this spreadsheet to the court onscreen. The spreadsheet contained the headings “Count” and “Parents and Children”, and contained personal details regarding numerous people.
When the defendant was arrested on 13 September 2016, said DC Martin, he was interviewed at Bethnal Green police station. At that time, his solicitor advised him not to comment. However, on the date of his bail return, he indicated to DC Martin that he wished to make a statement. He was interviewed without a solicitor, though he was reminded that should he wish to stop the interview at any time and bring in a solicitor, he could do so.
DC Martin and prosecutor Martyn Bowyer read aloud from the transcript of that interview, with DC Martin playing himself and Mr Bowyer taking the part of the defendant. During this interview, the defendant stated that he had become disillusioned with the people who had wanted him to come to the UK. “I hung out with those people, and I’d be happy to let you know more about them”, he said. Later, he noted that “the dumbest thing I did was to go to Angela Power-Disney”.
He noted that a person called “Kevin Justice” also annoyed him. “He seems to puff up, maybe to assert himself physically”, he said, adding that possibly this was because this person could tell that “I wasn’t really into what they were doing”. He stated that in respect of the “journalistic investigation” he had planned to do, “I found absolutely nothing” to incriminate any of the accused in the Hampstead case.
“When I got here I should have gone to the police and said, ‘I was funded by people I don’t like’,” he said, adding, “I was just going through the motions”. The defendant said he realised he had been wrong, and that since that realisation he had “just been trying to weasel out”.
The defendant also said he was being harassed online. He said he had gone to the church: “I was only going there to take pictures,” he said. “I was only there to show up the people who said I couldn’t”. He stated that he had not spoken to anyone while he was at the church and school.
In explanation of the conversation about the biscuit and knife under the Facebook post, the defendant said that this had arisen from a private joke between himself and his friend. This joke had originated when his friend had thrown a ham sandwich in a tinfoil wrapper at his head, which the defendant had found very funny.
The defendant said he was “aware of the collateral damage” from his activities, and noted that while he was “not asking for pity”, he had “never been taken this seriously before”. Asked whether he understood why people were scared, he said he did. “I was being a jerk online and things got out of control”, he said.
Witness: Defendant
In the afternoon, the defendant took the stand and was questioned by Mr Tom Stevens for the defence.
The defendant stated that prior to his involvement in the the events leading up to this case, he had been an hotelier in his hometown in the United States. Asked about his stint on American Freedom Radio, he said he had been broadcasting there for about a year before he made the post referring to “beating them up real good”. He admitted that he had been in conflict with the law on one previous occasion, involving a “tiny amount” of cannabis and a pipe. This occurred in 2001.
Asked about the circumstances under which he’d posted the YouTube video on 16 February 2015, he stated that he’d been made aware of the Hampstead children’s story, and that it seemed to meet the criteria for a video, due to its provocative nature. He made the video right after watching a video of the two children making their allegations, and had edited it and uploaded it an hour or two later.
Referring to the video of the children, the defendant said, “The content made me angry….Some pretty bad things were talked about. I had a sort of gutteral anger”. The reference to “kicking down doors” of churches and schools was a direct response to the video he’d seen, he said, adding, “It was hyperbolic, a figure of speech….I didn’t think it would happen”. He also said that the expression “kicking down doors” is common in America, and doesn’t imply any intention to actually do it.
“It was how I felt at the time,” he said, “I didn’t anticipate it would take on a life of its own”. Asked whether he had any intention that the accused in the case should see the video, the defendant said it had been intended for “his audience”.
Referring to the American Freedom Radio broadcast, the defendant said he had made it whilst he was in Holland. He said the people at home had wanted an update from him, and that he had also been experiencing considerable harassment online. Mr Stevens noted, “This is what you meant in your (police) interview—you’d had a negative response to your (earlier YouTube) video, and you were on the receiving end of people saying negative things about you”. The defendant agreed, stating he’d been “intimidated for about a year”, which had affected him. “I was very tense, and I was trying to maintain myself at work”.
The defendant stated that before leaving for the UK, he had received “threats about when and where people were going to meet me”.
Asked why he had made threats on the American Freedom Radio broadcast, the defendant said that this had been a response to the people who had been trying to dox and threaten him.
“Was that directed at the parents?” Mr Stevens asked.
“No,” said the defendant. “I was trying to express my frustration. I don’t know why I thought that would straighten things out. I had no intention to beat anyone up”.
Asked who would usually listen to his American Freedom Radio broadcasts, the defendant said, “Conspiracy theory buffs”. Mr Stevens asked whether the defendant had any idea that the people named in this case were listening to his broadcast. “No, only my family and the harassers”, the defendant said.
Mr Stevens asked who the main harasser was.
The defendant stated, “[The father in the Hampstead case]”.
He noted that he wanted out of his current city when he left the USA, due in part to the loss of his job and in part to the evolving political situation there. “It was an opportunity to travel”, he said. “That doesn’t happen much”. He said the first place he wanted to visit was the UK, but that he had interviewed Kevin Galalae who was going to Italy, and decided to accompany him there, to assist him whilst he was on his hunger strike in front of the Vatican.
Asked about the source of funding for his travel, the defendant said, “It was mostly from me. I sold everything”; the GoFundMe site was meant to supplement the money he was already putting into the trip. In a Skype comment, he stated, “I’m going to the UK to fight pedos. Please share”, which he characterised as a “brief way to say that it was going to be an investigation”. This message was sent to multiple people. The defendant claimed he was being sarcastic in characterising his trip this way: “It wasn’t meant to be taken literally”.
Mr Stevens asked the defendant about the £1,000 donation from Angela Power-Disney. The defendant replied, “She is…I guess you can call her an activist”. He guessed that she had contacted him because of the YouTube video he’d made about Hampstead.
Judge Griffith asked the defendant whether Angela had been actively interested in Hampstead. “Adamantly”, the defendant said. “She didn’t accept the outcome”.
The defendant said that the more he and Angela had talked, the more she had tried to take over and influence him, scheduling his itinerary and planning what he could do. “I never said yes, she just donated”, he said.
When his plane landed in the UK, he was “petrified”, due to the people trolling him online.
“Why did you come, then?” asked his barrister.
“Because I said I would, and I was at the point of no return”, the defendant said. However, he quickly realised that much of what he’d said when he was at home would not be attainable in reality. “I wanted to prove I’d looked into it, and then get out”.
The defendant travelled to the Canary Islands at Angela’s invitation, but he cut that trip short. “She was not a nice person”, he said. “I thought it would be best to put some miles between me and her”.
Once in the UK, the defendant said that at some point he went to Hampstead, for two reasons: “to prove it does exist, and because a lot of things were being said about me being a scam artist, and I wanted to be absolved from those accusations”. He said he had been told that he would be killed if he went to Hampstead. “The trolls reached a fever pitch, and I felt trapped”, he said. “My defiance was against people speaking badly about me”.
Mr Stevens asked whether he was referring to anyone mentioned in the indictment for this trial, and the defendant said he was not. He said he had no plans to meet anyone in Hampstead, and said he would have turned around and left if he’d seen anyone near the school. He said he was not aware that the day he posted the Facebook post was the first day of school.
“My motivation was that I was getting taunted, and I reacted to that”, the defendant said. “I didn’t want to release the picture but I didn’t want to be called a chicken”.
“Who did you think would view it?” Mr Stevens asked.
“I wanted my family and the people who were taunting me to see it”, the defendant said. He also said that he didn’t think anyone would interpret the “banter” about carrying a knife as a threat. “I just didn’t want to bend to the people who were harassing me”.
Asked about the Excel spreadsheet found on his hard drive, the defendant said he didn’t know how it had got to him, but that he understood that the author of the sheet was the mother of P and Q. He stated that he was not familiar with any of the names on the sheet, except one.
He stated that he had no memory of checking out the HampsteadChristChurch.com site, adding that he knew it contained a list of the accused in the case, but not what that meant.
The defendant said that when he heard the witnesses testifying in court yesterday, he found it very painful. “I had a panic attack”, he said, adding that he’d found it very upsetting.
Cross-examination of defendant
Noting that the defendant had stated that the abuse he experienced online had affected his life negatively, Mr Bowyer asked, “Before you even left (the USA), you realised the serious, devastating effects of posts online”. The defendant disagreed that this was true.
Asked about why he had published the video about Hampstead, when his usual video fare consisted of more lighthearted material, the defendant said, “Sometimes I don’t make a distinction (between lighthearted stuff and paedophilia”. Mr Bowyer asked, “Don’t you think you ought to?”
“Now, yes”, the defendant replied.
Mr Bowyer asked whether the defendant was aware that the case about which he’d made the video was in court, or whether he knew how the material he’d included in the video came to be online.
“No,” said the defendant. However, he added, “there were so many outlets doing it. It was on LiveLeak, and I thought that was a tacit green light”.
Mr Bowyer suggested that the defendant was not an “investigative journalist”, and said his degree of journalistic integrity would not match that of any actual news outlet. “No, it’s the internet”, the defendant said. “We are still discovering how it affects people”.
“To the extent that you were fearful, can you see how (your behaviour) could have affected the witnesses?” Mr Bowyer asked.
The defendant responded that this had been unintentional. “I’ve never gone over the edge like that”, he said. “I didn’t know I had, at the time”.
Mr Bowyer asked why those who the defendant claimed were harassing him had been angry with him. “It was just character assassination”, the defendant replied, adding that it “made him furious”.
“Did it cross your mind that you should leave it alone?” Mr Bowyer asked.
“Even bad press is good press”, the defendant responded, adding that he had been “angry and excited”. “There’s a saying that if you hit a nerve you must be doing the right thing”, he said.
Mr Bowyer asked whether the defendant thought any of the people named in this case had been among those harassing him. The defendant said he thought this was possible, but that it was more likely that others were doing it.
Mr Bowyer noted that having attracted a degree of attention, the defendant had begun to attract “activists” such as Angela Power-Disney and Sabine McNeill, who wanted him to campaign on their behalf. “Not specifically”, responded the defendant.
The defendant agreed that Angela disagreed “extremely” with the High Court judgment on the Hampstead case.
“Do you remember when she tried to supply you with the names of the accused?” Mr Bowyer asked. The defendant said his memory of this was hazy.
“Someone sent you an Excel sheet. Was it her?”
“Maybe, I can’t remember”.
Asked why he continued to engage with Angela, the defendant said, “She got really nasty when I started to question where she got her information”.
“If you’d been given information about how to track [the father in the case] down, would you have taken it?”
“We know his name appears on your computer, and we know you accessed a site with information as to where [the father] was alleged to be”, Mr Bowyer said.
“Yes, I might have, and put it in the file”, said the defendant.
“Did you have any reason to believe he might be in America?”
“I heard he might be in San Francisco or Los Angeles”, said the defendant.
At this point, the proceedings were adjourned for the day. The case will resume tomorrow morning at (dare we say it?) 10:00 sharp.
As we have been saying, it’s extremely important that no one on this blog speculate on the outcome of this trial in any way. In addition, it’s now equally important that the defendant not be named here, lest we find ourselves in contempt of court. Thank you all very much for your cooperation.
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I am confused, are we in prosecution or defense stage in court proceedings now?
Sorry, we’ve moved on to defense. I’ll try to clarify.
Excellent update and for me, the most interesting post on this case yet.
Once again, thanks, EC and your Reporter.
Thanks for the update, EC. Just about to read it now.
One thing I can say is that it’s really pissed Angela off, which is most satisfying in light of her utterly disgraceful bullying, slander and privacy invasion against an innocent social worker. So double thank you, Your Howlness 🙂
I guess Angela Power Disney is considered a ******** and a ******* by everyone in this matter. I also think she is a ***********.
Great reporting, thanks for the update. Does any one know whether there will be an outcome tomorrow?
Stressing that I reference more general matters rather than the case itself; it’s always a source of great bemusement to me that those who routinely issue threats against others so often feel ‘threatened’ by the prospect of arrest and/or detention. Similarly that so many self-styled ‘investigative journalists’ adopt that pretence without a jot of training or awareness of what the job entails or the rules that genuine professionals must observe.
Incidentally, the s45a order is there to protect the children… As anyone who actually has studied media law (i.e actually Is a journalist or media professional – unlike Angie or her kind) ‘jigsaw identification’ is a concern. So, one imagines, is the public gallery filling up with baying lunatics.
When declaring yourself intellectually superior to Noam Chomsky just isn’t enough…
…what’s needed is an angry, shouty video rant about how “stupid” Chomsky is a “creep”…..
By the way, her anger about Mr. Chomsky stems from his ‘failure’ to believe in her 9/11 conspiracy theories!
Yes, that woman never learns.
Some fascinating stuff coming out. Good reporting. I will keep my opinions on the content to myself for now.
Tomorrow will be the second half of the cross-examination, followed by summing up. I don’t know if the jury will be instructed, but we expect a judgment on Tuesday (because of the bank holiday).
Couldn’t have said it better myself, SV..
Frankly Debbie dimwit would struggle to establish intellectual superiority over a plastic garden gnome!
I agree, excellent reporting.
I’d like to comment about APD but will wait until after the Verdict.
It has been reported in the Mail too.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4817638/US-blogger-threatened-draw-blood-parents.html
Excellent reporting, thank you. Won’t comment on the case except to say that if I were APD I would be expecting a knock on the door sometime soon. Please delete if inappropriate.
Congratulations ********** You’re famous http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4817638/US-blogger-threatened-draw-blood-parents.html
MonsterRavingGoonies says:
One has to wonder why Angel Powered Dizzy has only copied day 1 to her FB page but not the subsequent reports, would it be perchance because she has been mentioned both days……not in the best light either if I may be so bold as to say!
Great reporting by your reporter, this is what I would call true professionalism instead of the raving lunatics reporting the rubbish they constantly copy & paste!
Slightly off-topic, but I’ve just been reminded of a case back in 2001 where one Christopher Loosemore (then 17) and another boy of 14 wandered into the Liberty Bank in Middletown (Portland) and handed a teller a note claiming they had a gun and demanding $30,000…
The police quickly caught up with the almost-appropriately named Loosemore hiding in the apartment of a girl he was apparently trying to impress with his ‘hard man’ act. There was some digging done at the time, and it seems poor Christopher was ‘one of those sad kids’ nobody took seriously, always a looser, unemployable, tried to paint pictures of himself living the life of a tough guy when the reality was he played the role of big fish to a gang of children that had the measure of him. He felt ‘egged on’ to do the robbery – couldn’t pull out for fear of losing face etc. – Oddly enough, none of that provided him with any basis for a defence; he still robbed a bank and went down for it.
With precedent like that in mind, and there’s lots of it, some people (many associates of Belinda McKenzie for instance) might find that stuff like ‘peer pressure’, ‘trying to impress people’, trying to ‘keep face’, making up shit about trillion pound liens, claiming you were ‘obliged’ to commit a crime because you couldn’t obtain lawful remedy (as claimed by Caul Grant) in relation to some other crime etc… It’s all just complete and utter bullshit.
I also find myself reflecting upon the prosecution of Robert Green. – Did he or did he not frighten the living daylights out of an ordinary Aberdeen tiler and his neighbours and thereby breach the peace? The prosecution proved he did just exactly that, and despite Green’s best efforts to deflect the court’s attention onto other matters, the clown talked his own way into jail. – Was it Einstein who said, doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result is a sign of madness? I can’t help thinking the head of McKenzie Industries didn’t get that memo.
“jigsaw identification’- havent heard it called that before but thats exactly what happened a while back in a fairly local(ish) case to me- where both the victim and the accused werent allowed to be named- the victim (for obvious reasons such as her age etc) but the accused name was withheld as well because he was a relative- hence identifying him would make it trivially easy to identify her
Blimey, for the first time ever Angela’s ‘journalism’ has scored more than two stars 😀
Oh, that’s interesting, as I’ve been checking to see if they covered it in the Ham & High but they haven’t and yet it’s made it into a national tabloid paper!
How come the Mail are naming the defendant, btw?! (Not that the Mail are known for their integrity.)
Just google the phrase. It’s a ‘key concept’ in relation to what you can and cannot report and specifically taught in most of the basic media law units… For example what’s wrong with the following sentence (apart from the spelling and grammar!)…
“Goodwin Grope of 43 Poshnbex Avenue, Binworthy was today sentenced to twelve years in prison for the sexual assault of his fifteen-year old neighbour”
Given that victims of sexual assault always have anonymity – and that’s compounded by the fact his victim was a minor; how many fifteen year olds might live in Poshnbex Avenue Binworthy? – This is an example of where you probably couldn’t name the offender (and a judge might make a specific order to that effect) because it makes it very easy for the victim to be identified and their rights breached. If you dig around you’ll find examples where judges have made such orders and been accused by loonies of protecting the offender; when in fact it’s done for the victim’s sake. …For similar reasons you cannot name schools, workplaces, clubs etc.
Sorry mate but that’s incorrect – she has covered each day. I’ve been saving the screenshots – along with those of comments she’s posted elsewhere – and if it’s deemed appropriate, I’ll happily post these after the trial.
Incidentally, I’d like to reiterate that she didn’t even know about the trial at all until I PMed her on the morning of day one and she posted a comment about it within a few minutes.
Good question. We’ve sent a query to the court about it. Will let you know.
Yes, exactly. We were initially told by the judge that the witnesses were not to be identified, but now it appears that the defendant is to be anonymous as well.
They appear to have a poor record on apostrophes too. To wit:
“One of the mother’s told Southwark Crown Court…”
I’d imagine the court have adopted this ‘technique’ to minimise what any ‘disruptive’ types might easily find out and make the life of those who steward the precincts easier. There is no ‘harm’ in not naming the defendant here as far as I can see, but equally well I don’t imagine there is actually a bar on naming him.
LOL I noticed that too.
Their spelling’s iffy too:
“…to kick out doors down…”
…Has that actually been handed down in a specific order? Or is it just that the court has taken his name off the public roll?
@SV –
* ***** ****** ***** ****** ** ********** * fuddle-duddle *** * stegosaurus ** ********* ** **** ******. * **** ***** *** ** * walrus-face.
I blame the cheep doggy tipwritterz they supply jurno lists with these days!
Well, it’s all a bit puzzling to be honest. Yesterday his name was published in full on the court schedule, but by last night it had changed to the all-asterisk format. It remained that way today, and when our reporter asked the reply was that it might be better to anonymise the defendant’s name too. I tend to think it’s excessive, but unlike an accredited journalistic site we rely upon the goodwill of the court officials who allow us to take notes in court (subject to the judge’s approval), so felt it best to go the extra mile.
How long before we get an angry video rant about all this from Mad Moo, I wonder. The Daily Mail article will annoy her further, of course. Ditto APD.
Both. The order itself says that no one may be named whose identity might allow identification, directly or indirectly, of any child mentioned in this case. And the court has anonymised his name online.
If that was the only thing they had a bad record for. The comments section is a hoot though or can be depressing, I tend towards the latter recently.
No worries,, I had only looked at her FB page & was surprised she wasn’t posting it all there, but I see now she is twisting things again on there to make herself look super important. 😏 Thank you for letting me know. 🙂
EC, I’m not sure which schedule you’re viewing but the name was printed in full on this one:
http://xhibit.justice.gov.uk/southwark.htm
However, it was “frozen” at 10:57 and not updated at any point afterwards.
Please delete this link and comment if you deem it inappropriate.
Sorry but to reiterate, it is her Facebook page I’m referring to. She has posted about each day on there.
I think the Mail will argue that the order applies to the parents of children and the teachers; if you you know their names you know who their kids are… It’s not unknown in cases that might attract attention for the defendant to be anonymised like this; that way they can ‘filter’ enquiries as to which court when at the front bar. – But from the blog’s point of view there’s certainly no harm in being cautious; the Mail have lawyers to hand to argue their corner!
The extra mile is well worth travelling. Whatever the outcome I’d expect the blog to come under attack from the lunatic fringe after the trial; no point in enabling them to any degree.
This is what I’m going by, Ethel. Honestly, as I say I find it a bit confusing as I’ve never known of a public trial that anonymised the name of the defendant, but I’m not an expert in court reporting either, so I’m proceeding with (perhaps too much) caution.
…Not long Liza, and that might be an issue.
Another possibility is that the police have intelligence that some sort of disruption might be being planned by certain parties. The conversation here may be contained and the management anxious to ensure fair pay; but that won’t necessarily be the case in the darker corners of electric looneyland.
Haha He looks like a right yob in those photos. And to all the satanic hoaxers, take note of the part where it says “The children were taken into TEMPORARY care” Haha!
Oh for feck’s sake, who let Alan ‘Sieg heil’ Alanson out of his cage?
listen with mother says:
Great bit of reporting here, so interesting to hear the details, the police work, forensics, ‘his’ story.
My apologies for misleading anyone, I myself can only see Day 1. Mind you, that could be due to my old eyes. Thank you for the clarification.
it wasn’t me what did it Guvner, honestly.
yet pandering to the audience says:
So he went ‘not guilty’ then…
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-couple-cleared-of-satanic-abuse-claims-to-get-3-4-million/
“Texas will pay $3.4 million to a couple who were wrongfully imprisoned for more than two decades on prosecutors’ claims that they sexually abused children as part of satanic rituals at a day care they operated.
Dan and Fran Keller learned Tuesday that they’ll receive the payment from a state fund for the wrongly convicted, the Austin American-Statesman reported.
A judge in June approved a request from Travis County District Attorney Margaret Moore for a declaration of innocence for the Kellers”.
Sounds oddly familiar…..
Be interesting to see what this ‘therapist’ has to say for themselves these days- do they have even a twinge of remorse for what they have put innocent people through??
(and although I’m not a big fan of the US habit of suing people- in this case I actually think the compensation being awarded is actually far less than they should be getting considering the time they spent in jail and the loss of both income and a good proportion of their lives), and of course even now there will be far too many wackjobs like APD and her ilk still willing to ‘beLIEve the children’ and making any possible return to normality for the Kellars extremely unlikely
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Hill_satanic_ritual_abuse_trial
“In the summer of 1991, the therapist of a three-year-old child being treated for behavioural problems due to her parents’ divorce alleged that the Kellers had sexually abused her. The child’s mother contacted the police, who alerted the case’s eventual prosecuting attorney, who contacted a friend whose child was also enrolled in the day care and being treated by the same therapist. During the time leading up to the trial, two other children from the day care offered similar accusations. According to the children, the couple served blood-laced Kool-Aid and forced them to have videotaped sex with adults and other children. The Kellers, they said, sometimes wore white robes and lit candles before hurting them. The children also accused the Kellers of forcing them to watch or participate in the killing and dismemberment of cats, dogs and a crying baby. Bodies were unearthed in cemeteries and new holes dug to hide freshly killed animals and, once, an adult passer-by who was shot and dismembered with a chain saw. The children recalled several plane trips, including one to Mexico, where they were sexually abused by soldiers before returning to Austin in time to meet their parents at the day care.”
Yes angie we know you like to sprout “A LOAD OF B+++”+CKS”
Nice of you to admit it for once though
(have you checked out the extradition treaties of your list of hideouts recently, you might be in for a shock)
Don’t worry Angela, Your time is gonna come.
Tis 🙂
With a lotta, lotta, luck she will be “important” soon, nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more.
I’m not so sure APD will actually be annoyed.
She thinks she is UNTOUCHABLE. Mmm…
I reckon she’ll be loving it but she doesn’t really know ALL that has been said in Court, only what is reported here and that piece in the Daily Mail.
Journalist my arse!
Shut yer moosh Angela, you haven’t got a f…… clue.
Attention seeking, trouble maker you are at the very best.
Let her walk around with her head up her arse.
I’m hoping that what that VILE lump Caul Grant spouts about KARMA comes to fruition.
And from my knowledge APD is definitely not the only one treading on thin ice.
This all could get very, very interesting.
Got to also say that Belinda looked a lot more healthy Wednesday.
Best song Lennon ever wrote, that was.
I agree 100%, Captain, but I’d be a traitor to my user name and mission statement were I to comment on anything more important than grammar 😀
MRG, if you’d like to see them all, PM me on Farcebook and I’ll send you the links/screenshots 🙂
I can’t post them here, out of due deference to legal restrictions.
Babs – check out her Farcebook page – she is already annoyed. Extremely annoyed! Hehe 🙂
Now, that’s one of the screenshots I declined to post, out of deference to the legal restrictions/contempt rules. Are we sure that this one is ok to have up?
I’ve so far archived 15 screenshots of Angela and Bellender’s posts/comments about the trial, which I’ll be happy to share after the trial is over (possibly with some sensitive parts blanked out).
Mad Moo’s under starter’s orders again. Buckle up 😀
Noam Chomsky eat your heart out! 😀
Blimey, this is one of her most unhinged ones yet. Does she really believe all this crap? I do genuinely think she may have a drink/drug problem.
Speaking of which…
I’ve just realised that this is an old one but she’s been re-promoting it on Farcebook. I don’t recall hearing this one before, though.
David Shurter in a moment of self-reflection looked in a mirror.
With the end of this trial in sight, time to roll out the Bork.
Another new scam brewing for Hopeless Girl? (And Teflon, or whatever the fuck his name is.)
“And Teflon, or whatever the fuck his name is.”
I think Teflon would be an appropriate nickname for all three of those dodgy fuckers.
Yep, hence why I felt sick and didn’t stay for the afternoon session.
Not on fb anymore Angiewatch, but more than happy if she is annoyed!
The fear is setting in probably.
Oh gawd!
Is Belinda posting too?
Hope she’s not in contempt of the Court!
Had forgotten all about Mad Manna. Communism failed did it? Must be my imagination that Russia & China are now 2 of the most powerful nations on earth.
Nothing scheduled today and there’s a different case in Court 7:
Scarlet Overkill says:
More phone harassment by ‘Neelu of the Chaudhari clan’, including some extremely serious slander against the SRA’s CEO (“He is an illegal slave trader of humans”) 😦
RQ was listed this morning on the system. I think a short case is being heard in room 7 whilst the powers that be are getting things together for the RQ case today.
Is Neelu saying that the solicitors are guilty of being associated with SRA? *joke*
The system at time of writing has relisted RQ allocated to room 7; waiting to begin the case.
The good news for Angie is that she hasnt got very far to fall having already descended deep into the sub basement of the human condition.She wont have to suffer the bitter wranglings of remorse either given the total absence of anything resembling genuine conscience.But that is her lot,her sparse and shallow allocation.
Still,she can be worried,be very,very worried as the past revisits its genesis.Tap,Tap,Tap. MU HA HA HA HA
Over to you Vincent:
They’ve been at it since day one, and not just on the most obvious platforms either Ethel. Their ‘plan’ will be to draw others into commenting (i.e. directly debunking them) and by that means try and either scupper the case or lay the groundwork for later vacuous ‘appeals’ and/or fundraising. I think the authorities are keeping a weather eye on them though.
Very considerate of Neelu to share with the general public regular updates of her progressive unhingement from reality.
Outlook:All rather bleak.
Gnome Chompsky is more of a burger man I think…
I thought all slave trading was illigal, but where does she get her evidence from, who has she been talking to. I bet she’s been making it up, and what is her obsession with treason, does she really know what it means, or was it just a big word she learnt from some pne else from planet Zong.
Case is now under way with witness 5 continuing to give their evidence as per
Also, discovered a Satanist who ate a yellow jelly baby. #jellybabygate
So you are feeling Satanic, its xmas, and you got some jelly babies to lawfully and without prejudice shove things up the arse, decorate and eat. Here is a nice idea to decorate your home, especially if you got a Satan Hunter visiting.
#jellybabygate
I see they’ve re-instated the full name.
Well if you are going to massively slander some one, why not pick some top lawyers?
I’m not sure if Angie, and her associates, fully appreciate their immense irrelevance to the matters in hand.
Turning first to her vacuous comments. Facts have been agreed, admitted and entered into the record; what does Angie fail to understand about this? Equally well Angie (I know you do read this) the S45a order now gives all the children involved in the Hampstead Hoax lifelong anonymity… And that effectively extends to the parents and teachers too as talking about them would lead to the ‘jigsaw identification’ scenario I mentioned earlier…
These are both things you would realise if you had even basic training as a journalist. What’s “bollocks” is your claim to that professional title as you clearly know fuck-all about the job!
Likewise, isn’t it interesting that Angie isn’t in court? Not as a witness nor as observer? – One imagines she wouldn’t be welcome as the latter; and is clearly of no relevance to the case. It’s fairly obvious she’s finding the lack of attention frustrating.
Yet again I’ll stress that the following observations relate to matters in general and NOT the case in question…
Courts operate with a laser-like focus on the matters in hand… Did individual ‘A’ commit act ‘B’ contrary to statute ‘C’. – That’s it! that’s all they are really interested in. The Robert Green case I referenced elsewhere is a good example of this at work. – Did Green’s actions frighten and alarm people and by that means breach the peace? The proof of that was easily provided and yet, for all his days of rambling, Green provided not one scrap of evidence to counter that proof.
You see that’s the thing with courts, they will often tolerate irrelevant testimony – particularly in criminal trials – in the hope that relevant matters will emerge; but there is no loss of focus… No inability to boil away the waste in order to distil the truth.
In Green’s case it’s reasonable to suggest that, by alarming and giving rise to fear among the population of a certain Aberdeen district, he hoped to raise a rabble and gain aggrandisement for himself. But of course, ‘right thinking people’ don’t generally take to the streets pitchforks at the ready! And it was proven in court that Green knew or ought to have known that his actions would cause fear and alarm and proved that they did!
By this means the ‘mens rea’ (guilty thought) and ‘actus reus’ (guilty act) are established as fact and it is proved beyond any reasonable doubt that a crime was committed. In Green’s case the ‘actus reus’ was established by something as simple as an Aberdonian Tiler giving testimony that he was made alarmed and made to feel fear for the safety of his grandchild. – All of Green’s superfluous waffle didn’t defeat that.
Let me turn now to a different example…
This fearsome weapon is made of chocolate. It’s quite amusing I think… Jolly japes.
But suppose, as a prank, you walked into a bank with it, brandished it around, walked up to a teller and demanded money. – What do you, as a reasonable person, think would happen? Viewed from twenty feet away by a member of the public who is not ‘in on the joke’ what would be made of it? – Particularly if they didn’t know you from Adam.
Does anyone seriously think they wouldn’t be charged with attempted armed robbery? Or that a Police Officer wouldn’t be justified in tazering them to the ground?
Would it be a defence to claim in court that you only indulged in this prank because your mates ‘egged you on’ to do so? – Maybe it would if you were nine or had an IQ south of about 70. But suppose you were a grown woman of 40 who laid claim (even if vacuous) to a degree-level education and a professional background? – “Big boys said I should do it, then they were horrible to me and ran away”.
But! That innocent bank-teller still nearly had a heart attack, was terrified and now lives with PTSD! – who knew that could happen? …Well, anybody with enough sense in their heads to be walking about the streets on their own should. Ignorance is not a defence, nor is stupidity (no matter what Belinda says).
So – What’s your next idiotic fairy story Angie?
The memories these therapists come up with show who the real perverts are. What a sicko to introduce those ludicrous claims of murder, mutilation, sex tapes and the rest to the minds of very young children. What a minute, sounds like child grooming Abraham Christie did exactly the same in his sexually perverse month long torture sessions to two children he had only met months earlier.
To think Angie downplays Abe’s role to that of a patsy! Only a dirty paedophile supporter would claim Abe is innocent when all the medical evidence, the childrens own words and rest of the details all name Abe as a bully and child abuser.
Angie showing us all that she cannot read or deliberately taking things out of context. The blog post clearly stated that the joint acceptance of the SRA claims being false Referred to a point the prosecution and defence BOTH agreed on. Is angie claiming that is incorrect and disputing that FACT.
Abe Christie has a very long criminal history… I’ve often wondered if there is some old association between him and APD from her ‘London days’? For there seems to be some credible evidence she was part of a particular ‘set’ back then.
Hmm vid not playing here.
For the record ,Vincent Price reading of Edgar Allan Poes poem “The Raven”.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—
Only this and nothing more.”
Etc,etc
The rule is know your shit. The noob journalist takes a few hours to learn the rules of the game, and longer how to write like a journalist. Noob lawyers who desire to assist the unfortunate need to know the rules of court, law and procedure, and how to apply that information to any situation to leverage the advantage for their client. The track record of Belinda McKenzie, Angela Power Disney and their like is dire: clients lost 100% custody of their kids; went to jail; got sectioned; suffered unnecessary legal bills. Appeal to the public mob has its use, but has no impact upon convincing police, judge and jury to venture too far from procedure and law; the mob is useful to soften or harden judgements, rather than influence law; the outraged mob can emotionally influence a judge to harden a judgement, and the sympathetic mob, soften the judgement. At the least, a wise and knowledgeable representative of a client can win some ground for them, even in the most challenging of circumstances; the law seeks to be fair, often offering concessions to make it look it is fair.
That poor woman went off to make a cup of tea when Neelu launched into her Treason Tirade.
Seeing Neelu is suing them for fraud and operating with counterfeit currency they should respond “well send us you lien and we’ll pay you compensation with counterfeit currency”.
Poor Ved just doesn’t have the panache with these phone calls as the Late Great Irish Comedian Patrick “Talmudic Law” Cullinane. His would rise in tempo to a brilliant finish with a cutting and thigh slapping punch line like “you can stick your ambulance up your arse”.
You can’t beat the old comedians.
It’s good to see that Angie is being talked about and held in such high regard. 🙂
Pedo Protector and defamation Queen back at it again.
Queen of limbo once again. Apparently people who have met her think she is “not a nice person”.
Problem is she gets off on this shit. The fact she was named as a player in a crown court trial to do with Hampstead will go to her head, especially as she has got off scot free and let another sucker take the shit. She’ll dine out (metaphorically) on this for months
Angela Power Disney is a shepherd who whilst she is at liberty to do the things she is doing, will bring more sheep into her designs to inflict suffering on the people of Hampstead. Jake Clarke and RQ are sheep she manipulated, used, and had destroyed. The old saying, slay the shepherd, the sheep will scatter. Disney must be a top target to take down.
Regretfully I must disagree SV… Jake Clarke, I will concede, may well lack capacity – but he is exceptional in that respect. And otherwise, all of the people who involve themselves in these frauds are the unmitigated authors of their own misfortune.
She was ‘named’ yes; but consider by whom and in what context. Clearly she wasn’t considered of sufficient relevance to actually be called. One day, I’m sure, she will feel the cuffs on her wrists.
S Jones says:
I’m not surprised as 45A only applies to the names of children under 18 and not defendants:
(3) A reporting direction may be made only in respect of a person who is under the age of 18 when the proceedings commence and who is—
(a) a witness, other than an accused, in the proceedings;
(b) a person against whom the offence, which is the subject of the proceedings, is alleged to have been committed.
Though obviously it’s much wiser to follow the lead of the court as there may have been a different reason for withholding his name.
Oh do stop talking crap Angie.
Not sure that is a good idea, unless you don’t like your home.
When I met her she started telling me some tale about how her car had been sabotaged and she crashed it off the Freeway in USA!
Blamed it on something sinister, I can’t remember off hand who or what it was allegedly all about.
I thought it was a really tall tale and I didn’t warm to her.
Dressed up to the 9’s in Red with one of her trademark hats. Looked like she was off to a wedding.
Everyone else was dressed very casual.
She stood out like a sore thumb with her great nephew in tow, poor lad.
He seemed bemused.
What’s she complaining about Fostering Targets for?
She claimed she had been a Foster Parent!
He was giving evidence at 10.40 am in Court 7.
I see there is no hearing tomorrow listed for him.
That’s from Court Serve.
Haven’t a clue how to share the link.
Yes indeed, I suspect there will have been. – Although don’t the Jigsaw identification rules effectively (though not explicitly) also protect the parents and teachers?
Many thanks for offering to send me links,/screenshots. It is much appreciated. I have contacted you via pm on FB.
Wasnt able to find a copy, but WHEN (and not if) angie goes down in flames, I would love the classic Vincent Price laughter from Thriller…
Love his work, but jeez that laugh just sends shivers down your spine…
http://www.thelawpages.com/court-hearings-lists/Southwark-Crown-Court.php
I had a look on this one
Before the Court status servers went down yet again, both sides were involved in technical legal issues. I understand the judge is off on Friday.
A real shame for Angie that consumer demand for sanctimonious bullshit never really took off,otherwise she would be absolutely sodding minted by now.
If Angela Power Disney had got her hands dirty with the real stuff, selling manure from local farms to the weed growers etc, she would have no need for gofund or nicking money from hungry African orphans.
What? Honest toil? Don’t you know all hoaxers hold people who actually work for a living in complete contempt?
Dr Danish-Quack! Totally unqualified for his VOLUNTARY (unpaid, because he’s not qualified to assess or treat actual trauma victims) interference in family court cases. His hero is…Colin Ross, naturally!
He believes in “aura reading” and “psychic abilities”.
Lol, anyone in need of a laugh. Abraham’s friend, commenting about Flat Earth on 3 of her alias’s.
and just a reminder to the Hoax promoters, whose side again was it that was meant to be into Satanic drug parties? Lol. Surely Evidence one of Abraham’s friends is into weird shit by their standards. Imagine if she had been a friend of RD’s? They would be naming her as the Satanic Queen.
More importantly, anyone who professes to belief that deliberately abusing children, in any way, can have a CONSTRUCTIVE impact on their development, (i.e., the creation of multiple “selves” with specialized skills & abilities), is not just a quack…they are an EVIL quack.
Deliberate, repeated abuse of a child can only have a DESTRUCTIVE impact on their development. We’ve discussed this in detail here before.
Just a thought… Could I possibly ask everyone to independently google the phrase “sharp ham” ?
btw I am not saying dressing up like that is remotely Satanic or wrong in anyway, just an example of how the Hoaxers would react if they had found something like that about one of the innocent people accused in the Hampers Hoax. They would run with those images for years. Personally I think it looks quite cool for a party.
If you are doing a google image search, may I suggest keeping the quotation marks along with the phrase.
As much as I like English Wine and Cheese 🙂
Yes indeed… Keep the quotation marks. Please resist the temptation to repost your findings though; I should have been clear on that. But it seems the phrase does have a particular meaning.
I have also just been educated as to what exactly a “biscuit knife” is… Apparently it’s a small knuckle-duster type device with a sharp serrated edge parallel with the handle. – I’m told it’s favoured in some circles because it creates a particularly nasty wound which is difficult to stitch and consequently leaves a horrific scar. – Hardly the stuff of genteel conversation inspired by the W.I.
Another one at it promoting tabloid nonsense and whatever they can no matter how pathetic. Old Mad Moo certainly spend a lot of time deflecting attention away from those involved in the Newcastle Case.
Biscuit in Rap Slang is also a gun, obviously irrelevant to anything, just interesting.
Or, apparently, in American parlance, this…
I’m told it ‘works better’ when disguised as a money clip or hidden in one’s shorts!
That’s the image I had saved, like a lock knife.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-worst-attempts-to-start-catchphrase-in-rap-history/
My source on this side of the pond works in A&E – Apparently the knuckle-duster type device can be had from the shadier market stalls and has various names. The American ‘version’ however seems to be marketed under just exactly that label. I stress of course that I’m simply trying to understand the general colloquial meaning of these things. – Quite interesting.
I remember years ago I had a lock knife for playing out in the woods as a kid, my friends all had army knives and even machetes. Today none of those would be legal, let alone being a 13 year old wearing army fatigues and running round the countryside carrying them. Lock knives are illegal to carry in public in the UK.
Lock knives are not classed as folding knives and are illegal to carry in public without good reason. Lock knives:
have blades that can be locked and refolded only by pressing a button
can include multi-tool knives – tools that also contain other devices such as a screwdriver or can opener”
https://www.gov.uk/buying-carrying-knives
Ah! Blue remembered hills…
I have a fishing knife; but it’s kept in a locked part of the tackle box at all times. Apart from specific sports, carrying a knife, even a penknife was always ‘frowned upon’ as something only ‘certain types’ indulged in.
Drat,there was me thinking Sir Henry was plotting to invite us all to dinner at one of his fine country mansions.Mines a half by the way.Hic.
I don’t think she has much of a grasp, she tried to prosecute the queen for treason a few years ago. Though she had thought that through a bit and had a reason why Mrs Mountbatten-Windsor is NOT the queen, viz. the stone of Scone is false (it’s a Welsh cake or something) and so the coronoation DIDN’T COUNT.
Narcissistic conspiracy theorists like treason though; they believe that anything which doesn’t go their way is driven by a huge conspiracy and the whole machinery of state is against them in some monstrous plot which is contrary the true interests of the people (identical to their interests of course) and thus must be treason. Also there is a freeman on the land import from the US – in the US officials swear to uphold the constitution so the argument is that by finding against the fotler the judge is in breach of his oath, not complying with the constitution and thus treasonous. This is then imported into the UK without any thought that oaths here are completely different. Roger Hayes’ mob of supporters tried to arrest the judge for treason for example as they said he was not acting under his oath.
Seems she’s a ‘one trick’ model now well past her sell-by date. The look would indeed be quite cute for a Halloween party or the like I suppose; if only the person sporting it didn’t stink like a rotten manure midden and wasn’t completely off their fucking rocker!
Half bottle by the looks of that glass!
Does she understand something rotating slowly does not create a blur? Filming the moon over a few days a month etc then speeding up footage much like how we can look at a plant growing and it does not show as blurred. Time and motion?
Oh gawd knows what the hell she’s thinking… Her few remaining braincells are a stewed as a well boiled teabag.
The problem with interpretating slang and code words, is that they have different meanings to different groups of people, depending on their circles etc.
Take the Wikileaks emails of John Podesta for example. Due to 4Chan’s history of using Cheese Pizza as code for Child Porn, a troll took that information and used various other terms to send people looking through 10 years worth of emails for supposed “code words”. TThe term Cheese Pizza itself, I do not believe was even referenced in those emails. It didn’t seem to matter how unlikely that a group of middle aged, so called elites, would even be aware of internet paedophile slang let alone be using it in emails.
Earlier I was catching up on the George Webb and Jason Goodman comedy saga, and came across an article on a site about the dirty bomb threat causing a port to be closed down.
http://www.billwarnerpi.com/2017/08/false-claims-by-george-webb-and-jason.html
Another article on that site was about an FBI most wanted man who had supposedly being sighted. The man was wanted for the honour killing of his two daughters. After the act he had apparently called one of his brothers and asked to meet up for “Coffee” which according to the site had been their code word for Trouble/Help.
“Yaser Said told daughters Aminia, 18, and Sarah, 17, he was taking them to get something to eat before he shot and killed them on January 1st, 2008. On January 2nd, 2008, a warrant was issued for the arrest of Yaser Abdel Said, in Dallas County, Dallas, Texas, on charges of Capital Murder-Multiple. On August 21, 2008, a federal Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution warrant was issued by the United States District Court, Northern District of Texas, Dallas, Texas. Uncovered cellphone records showed Yaser Said making multiple calls to family members (his brothers) immediately before and after his daughters’ deaths. Then he disappeared.”
“Yaser Abdel Said called his brother Mohsen Said on his cell phone after the murders of Amina and Sarah Said to meet for coffee (‘coffee’ meant trouble, need help)”
https://pibillwarner.wordpress.com/2016/11/14/has-fbi-top-10-most-wanted-yaser-abdel-said-been-located-in-cairo-egypt-his-kidnapped-niece-and-nephew-are-there/
Just two examples of code words meaning different things to different groups.
I was sent this Gem on Sunday about that particular incident.
But Alex Jones says he was beating up guys that weighed hundreds of pounds more than him and was really good looking, thats why the Satanists tried to recruit him. He also says in certain areas of America you cannot throw a stick without hitting a group of devil worshippers.
Those are very fair points… But there is, I think, a difference between ‘code words’ which may or may not mean something and a live vernacular. Something similar is true when a conversation is clearly moved into a particular – actually very specific – frame of reference.
Yeah, you are right. Thinks are pretty clear to me about certain phrases, in context.
What a pathetic sack of sh*t.
F*ck off, Alex!
Har-dee-har-har!
(That was actually very heartening! Nobody wants to talk to him, and everyone knows he’s a heartless child-hating racist windbag. Hooray!)
Sir Henry: to reiterate – on that listings page, the full name has never been removed. It was a different listings page where that was the case:
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2017/08/23/trial-update-day-3/#comment-76506
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Has Rupert launched an appeal?
It’s always difficult to know just how seriously to take any information handed out by Angela Power-Disney. She has only a passing acquaintance with the truth, such that we’re not convinced she would recognise it if she saw it; and she’s prone to making grandiose statements based on dodgy information which (she claims) always comes from “impeccable sources”. (See, for example, her bizarre allegations regarding Ella Draper making and selling child sexual abuse videos.)
So it is with some trepidation that we note that Angela is now claiming that Rupert Quaintance has launched an appeal.
But an appeal against what? His conviction? His sentence? Our Magic 8 Ball says, “Reply hazy; try again”.
But just in case Angela is a) correctly informed and b) telling the truth, here’s a quick rundown of the appeals process, which is a longish one.
The person must make an application for appeal, within 28 days of their conviction. This application comes before a tribunal of three judges, who decide whether the application has any merit. If they believe it does, an appeal hearing is granted.
The appeal hearing takes place, and a decision is made: the person’s appeal is either accepted or rejected at this point.
Much depends upon whether the person is appealing their sentence or their actual verdict.
If the hearing agrees that the sentence is disproportionate to the crime in question, then person’s sentence will be adjusted. If the hearing is about the actual conviction, and it goes in the person’s favour, then a retrial will be granted. In Rupert’s case, the retrial would involve only the two guilty verdicts he received on 30 August.
All of this can take some time; we understand that the tribunal of three judges, for example, may take up to six weeks to convene.
So…if Angela is correctly informed, and if she is telling the truth, a decision about Rupert’s appeal may be made by about mid-November at the latest. This leads one to wonder: why bother, when he could be out of prison by mid-January if he keeps his nose clean?
There’s little point in speculating on his motive right now, as it all seems very hypothetical, hinging as it does on Angela’s truthfulness and reliability. However, for some reason when we close our eyes and think, “Now why would he be bothering to do this?”, certain magical signs appear, which we are certain must be some sort of portent. They look like this: £££$$$£££$$$. We have no idea what they mean.
Angela’s diversion tactics
Since Rupert’s trial, when her name was mentioned frequently, Angela has appeared deeply concerned that her role in harassing the parents at Christ Church Primary School may eventually catch up with her.
She’s been putting up a great many videos lately, in an apparent attempt to portray herself and Rupert in the most favourable light possible.
Yesterday, for example, she re-posted this interview with Rupert, originally published on 28 February 2016:
Angela pointed out, “Around 12 minutes referring to RD alleged abuser, Rupert clearly says “I DON´T WANNA HURT HIM” …I wonder if his barrister had spotted this?”
Well now, to be fair, Rupert did say that…but it was in this context:
(09:55) R: I dunno…I assume maybe one of those commenters is the dad?
Angela: He has about…forensic IT specialists have confirmed that he’s got between 20 and 40 sock accounts that he uses….
Rupert: Wow…
A: And he makes conversations back and forth to himself…
R: I noticed that on some of ‘em, I started looking around at some of ‘em, and I noticed that if you followed some of the names and stuff around what you would find is that they all link back to the same channel. Trying to make it look like there’s all this support, but if you’re going to troll with multiple accounts, you need to change your voice—like if you typed in all-caps on one of them, don’t type in all-caps in the other one. Find a different voice to use for that other account.
A: And occasionally he would slip. If he got busted and somebody went to the wall with him on trolling comments, then he would say something outrageous like “My children’s faces are on YouTube” and he’d just blow it, blow his cover.
R: Do we have screenshots of any of that?
A: No, there’s so much evidence that has been gathered by people that are professionals, that have done it for nothing. There’s, you know, so much evidence. IP server tracking to porn distribution worldwide including snuff movies…
R: Right. The one thing that I was thinking what I’m gonna do is that I’m one person removed from hacker members of Anonymous, um, they don’t like paedophiles at all. So I was thinking about…so I’ve gone to them with stuff before, and it’s usually stuff that they don’t want to touch, which I don’t blame them. I don’t blame them for drawing a line in the sand. The whole paedophile thing? They’re good at gettin’ in there and they gave all the names of the people with the Ashley Madison accounts, which is funny because it was like 85% men, and mostly fake female accounts on there, and like you know, there was nobody on it. Really, there were people paying to cheat, so there’s no reason they can’t find this guy. If he’s posting, if he—they can figure out his IP address and zero in on him. I don’t want anything to…I don’t wanna hurt him. I would love to interview him though. I could make him squirm.
So…Rupert didn’t “wanna hurt him”. He just wanted to set Anonymous on him, so that they could “figure out his IP address and zero in on him”. Why, that’s hardly a threat at all!
Funnily enough they continued this conversation about three weeks later, on a video titled “Hampstead…Rupert & Angie…LAYING FOUNDATIONS“.
Angela: Ricky Dearman, the one that you want to track, has the children, and is planning to take them to America imminently.
Rupert: Well somebody…like…I don’t know…we can probably get somebody to spot him out.
A: Yeah, well we’ve got some pretty cool IP people who are tracking his location and it’s been between San Francisco and London, San Francisco and London.
R: Well you know what’s stupid about him is that he’s got the bug, you know, you know what I’m saying? He’s got the bug, he’s got the acting bug. So he’s not going to be able to shut his fucking mouth and stay under the radar. He’s gonna come over here and he’s gonna make it eeeeaaasy pickin’s for Rupert. I’ve actually got some of his videos, the two—you know how hard it was—how does he have an IMDB for some piece of shit film that you can’t even fucking watch anywhere, that I had to go and find up on YouTube?
A: He’s a pimp for the elite, he’s like Jimmy Savile, he provides children for raping and sodomising and cannibalising.
Fortunately for Rupert, the Crown prosecutor wasn’t able to use these videos in evidence against him, since he had not posted them and could well argue that he hadn’t consented for Angela to make them public.
However, should Angela ever come to trial in this matter, and we sincerely hope she will, the Crown will have no such compunction. #justsayin
09/10/2017 in Assorted knobheads. Tags: Angela Power-Disney, criminal charges, Rupert Quaintaince IV, trial, video
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67 thoughts on “Has Rupert launched an appeal?”
Any convicted person sentenced to prison time, who has the personal wherewithal to file an appeal or the funds to hire a lawyer to file an appeal for them, would be stupid not to do that. If such processes are available, to every convicted person, why wouldn’t you avail yourself of them?
I’d be more surprised, if Angela was posting: “Rupert won’t be filing any appeals, he knows he was in the wrong, is genuinely repentant and humbly accepts his punishment”.
LOL yes, that would be surprising.
I just wanted to quickly point out, that the scenario of parents falsely accused of SRA abuse by one or more of their adult children, agreeing to an informal “plea” with some entity empowered to offer it (in this case, a Mormon church investigations “committee”), involving the parents “confessing” to everything their accuser has alleged and making cash “reparations” to them in exchange for a guarantee of no criminal prosecution, has already been acted out in the US at least once:
https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/survivor-stories/hell-minus-one-signed-verified-confessions-of-satanic-ritual-abuse/
I’ve been told, that the membership of Stop Mind Control and Ritual Abuse Today (SMART) have been known to retire to a private members-only meeting during their conferences, where they all sit around naked – masturbating furiously to a recording of Anne Johnson-Davis recounting her parent’s confession – and exclaiming: “Yes! Yes! It’s all true! It’s real! OMG!”
Could just be a spurious rumor, though. 🙂
“Computer Forensics Salary. The median salary for computer forensic examiners was around $75,660 in 2012, according to the BLS. Those in the lowest 10 percent earned as little as $43,190, while those in the highest 10 percent earned as much as $119,940 annually.
I didn’t realise Angie had that kind of money lying around to pay for her, “pretty cool IP people”, [sic] .
EC – its a little simpler than you said. After a trial the defendants Counsel will advise the convicted person upon the merits of an appeal. The only two grounds at that stage are for appeal of a manifestly excessive sentence or a procedural error by the Judge / Court. After the 28 days has elapsed (without an application for appeal) the appeal process is about NEW evidence being found that proves the defendants innocence or a lesser culpability in the crime committed. Such appeals take many months to go before Court – Its very unlikely that would happen before Rupert is released.
The risk with an appeal is that the Court has the power to INCREASE a sentence if it feels the sentence was not sufficent or that the appellant has wasted the Courts time by bringing the appeal before it.
An appeal is not about a person wanting a retrial because they did not like the decision of the Court in finding them guilty – it has to be on sound legal grounds.
APD’s claims about the forensic IT are utter rubbish – its like a pathologist giving a post mortem without examining the body…..
Perhaps I should explain a little more about the statement my previous post about “increasing” the sentence :
During the process of applying for permission to appeal, the Application and Grounds of Appeal will be considered by the single judge. If permission is refused and the application is renewed, the same documents will be considered by the full Court of Appeal. Both the single judge and, on a renewal, the full court can make a ‘loss of time’ direction if they consider the appeal has no merit (i.e. is unarguable). This means they can direct that any or all the time spent in custody since the date of the Application for Permission to Appeal shall no longer count towards the sentence. The effect of this is to increase the length of the custodial sentence that will have to be served.
The purpose of a loss of time direction is to prevent appeals being launched that have no real prospect of succeeding.
lmao “IP people”
news flash, angela: an ip address will show you the location of the internet provider, not the person’s current location. you cant “track” someone’s movements by their ip location, especially given that there are ways to change your ip.
lol, maybe she means gps?
“APD’s claims about the forensic IT are utter rubbish…”
Yes, I laughed out loud when reading that 🙂 Let’s see it again:
Oh yes, I believe this utter non-entity knows “forensic IT specialists” (NOT!) and even has them at her beck & call (absolutely NOT!) – what a laugh!
Good clarifications about UK appeal process, thank you.
In her latest fb post I can see she mentions something about Tuesday and down South.
I’m not sure if she is talking about Rupert in Sarf London or down south in Ireland.
As “journalist” you’d think she’d make things clear.
first of all, if you have “so much evidence”, how about you go to the police with it or just go public with it? prove your claims. surely you have some hard evidence, some logs or screenshots, or one of your “ip people” can go in and prove it.
second “people that are professionals” that gather such evidence and track down those distributing child porn/true snuff” etc are normally police and fbi… in which case, they would already have the authority arrest whoever is committing the crime. “have done it for nothing” my ass.
Do they accept new documents relating to the case?
Those relating to say the knife he claimed not to have and was photographed, and the refound documents with him mouthing off about wanting to teach them etc would be of interest surely plus having and perjured himself in court,
He would have to be a bloody idiot to appeal, he got off lightly, his sentence could have been much longer (and should have been)
It’ll serve him right if the Sentence gets increased, it’s a risk on appealing.
More evidence has come to light but it’s not exactly evidence in his favour, far from it.
I still think Rupert will be released before Christmas as my husband’s mate that was imprisoned for Perverting the course of justice, was due to be released in the New Year a few years back but was released mid-December, though he was tagged after.
He did however live in England.
I suppose Rupert could spend another Christmas in England, either in Erith (if they’ll have him) or at Belinda’s.
I wonder what the rest of the Hoaxer group think about Belinda “helping” Rupert, what with them having turned on him?
Justin has been having bouts of insomnia all weekend, (probably the prelude to a bout of flu), and is trying to use the time productively 🙂
Dr Michael Salter, an Australian radical feminist criminologist and full-time apologist for SRA claimants, was once a “regular contributor” to a discussion forum – sort of like this blog’s comments board. Well, not at all like THIS blog’s comments, in fact almost precisely the opposite of this blog. Salter was a regular contributor to the once notorious Rigorous Intuition blogsite’s forums, a hotbed of paranoid conspiracy theorist discussions populated by several well-known SRA-MC victim claimants (such as Lynn Shirmer). But not under his own name, of course…pseudononymously – like moi. If this link works out, you’ll see Lynn Shirmer documenting this fact, on that site:
http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=31821&p=479552&hilit=michael+salter#p479552
You should see: “RA survivor advocate Michael Salter, now Dr. Michael Salter…who was once a regular contributor to this board…”
Isn’t there some kind of conlicting interest, implicit in a Criminologist having been a regular contributor to the construction & dissemination of paranoid conspiracy theories, for many years, under a pseudonym?
And here we have Hal Pepinsky, a retired version of Michael Salter, promoting a theory that mass murderer Stephen Braddock must have been a government run “manchurian candidate” mind-controlled “false flag” mass assassin:
http://pepinsky.blogspot.ca/
Absolutely disgraceful.
I believe that was a reference to the Baby H case, Babs.
RD Perennial says:
Correct, DotB!
And speaking as one of many people who’s been “forensically proven to be RD” by tracking my IP across different sock accounts, that always makes me chuckle because I have a dynamic IP address (standard with my ISP), so it changes every time I log on 😀
Ah so she’s still sticking her big oar in that one as well.
She did claim – falsely – to have reported us all to Wiltshire police and that they were working closely with her to bring us all down. “Us all” being Ricky Dearman, of course 😀
Oh and she was also working with her “legal team” to sue us all in a “class action” (even though it was just her). Two years later I’m still waiting for my summons. Anyone else had theirs yet? LOL
And Mad Moo claimed to have reported us to the police for…er…thumbing down her videos! 😀 😀 😀
Nope 🙂
hahaha really?
Is Angle having a poo in that picture?
anyone know if The Avon Lady youtube videos are back under another account yet? lol i need my fix
I still don’t get all this rubbish Angela spouts about knowing someone’s address ip or otherwise.
What’s she going to do with it?
Knock on someone’s door and confront them?
Send some nuttah’s round to do her dirty work?
Seems like she is threatening here with violence…
It’s a very true likeness and actually flatters her.
My ip address would lead her somewhere where I don’t live anyway!
Yes, I was wondering that too..
These appeals of sentence or conviction are they heard in a Public Court or does a Judge look at the case in Private.
I don’t know why Rupert didn’t say he had mental illness/es in his defence as I would say he has, not sure which though but it’s surely not “normal” behaviour to turn up in a foreign country because some ole gal that has the hots for him pays his air fare.
In that reposted video that Angela put up you can see Rupert is clearly flattered by the attention she gave him.
You’ve got to feel a bit sorry for him not being able to attract anyone of a similar age to him.
All of the above are spot on.
APD is just a Class One Bullshit Artist.
I’ve been involved in enough court cases as a witness to see how it all works and just recently accompanied a good pal (McKenzie Friend?) appealing a 4 month jail sentence. He was only appealing the sentence itself & not the conviction for some very good reasons: the disruption to his life (with family) and the risk of losing his apartment, homeless wife & kids, losing job etc etc. The judge saw good reason and reduced it to a 3 year good behaviour bond.
I can’t actually think what grounds Rupert would have to appeal on. Quite apart from the fact he will most likely be out of jail and on the way home before it even reached a court, there is always the chance the prosecution will double down and armed with new evidence: Rupert’s lack of any evidence claiming he was threatened, this seems very risky. Barrister and solicitor’s fees alone to try and find grounds for an appeal would be prohibitive ( my pal forked out nearly $5000 in legal fees). Doubtful he would get legal aid. Unless his parents stump up the funds to try and clear his name.
In fact from my observations appealing any case in the UK is notoriously difficult compared to what I have seen in Australia and the USA where it seems almost automatic to get the right to appeal.
This reeks of Power-Disney on a face-saving exercise. She is an unmitigated liar and does not have “IT professionals” tracking RD (her child porn attack on Ella despite my feelings about her was despicable) and Rupert is another gormless dill who thinks every amateur, tippy typing away in their basement is “Anonymous”.
Dear editor: thank you for restoring my privileges and I promise to not again call people like Angie a “fucking cunt”.
I’ve noticed Mr Salter’s writings. I think he’s vying to be the Valerie Sinason of the antipodes. Maybe has Fiona Barnett advising him.
I think she’s using the IT Expert who sailed with Noah on The Ark.
Even my internet provider seems to have roaming IP addresses all over Australia as each time I check I seem to be in a different location (and of course it’s not me- just their servers) but even then I use a proxy service so I can watch shows on the BBC Iplayer plus numerous US on-line shows.
It’s so easy to bust these amateurs who pretend they know what they are doing.
In all fairness Angelas entire existence is one big shit after another.
A crisp fiver to anyone that can actually provide a snap of her NOT actively engaged in the process of emmiting faecal deposits about the place like theres no tomorrow.
Agree GoS,this is Angela attempting to make out Rupert as a victim of injustice and implications against her role in the affair as wrongful too.
As pointed out above there are multiple reasons why this is extremely unlikely and indeed could backfire big time.
Now if Angela would like to turn herself in and admit to funding and manipulating the retard from Culpeper she may earn Roopie a couple of brownie points along with a long overdue stretch of her own,fairs fair after all.
I have to agree with the editors sanction against you for refering to Angela as simply a “fucking cunt” when it is abundantly clear she is an “absolute and total utter fucking cunt”.
What an absolutely ridiculous & vindictive statement to come out with. I wish RD would sue her, but I am sure he has enough on his plate without bothering about a nonentity like Angela who, a few years ago, was bragging about riding horses 125 mile across England for JS’s sponsored charity.
@GOS – Salter is a very dangerous person, in my opinion. He’s been on a crusade to re-write the social history of child protection, journalism and criminal justice responses to child sexual abuse issues, in English speaking countries, in the modern era – motivated not by objective & original “research findings” as he professes – but by a fanatical adherence to, and determination to evangelize, a radical feminist dogma about all of these things.
Trust me, Salter doesn’t need to be tutored by Fiona – he learned his trade as a wiley & persuasive promoter of fantasies and fantasists at the feet of “the best of the worst” – as an obsessive participant in the Rigorous Intuition site forums.
The man LIES, GOS. I could be more tactful, and say that he uses selective citation of other people’s academic work to misrepresent past and present reality.
Here’s one of his favorite themes: “Throughout the 1990s, media commentary alleged that “radical feminists” were inciting false allegations of “satanic ritual abuse”…due to their deep-seated “fear of male sexuality”.
It is true that there have been, and continue to be, unfair criticisms of “feminists” (and especially of lesbian feminist activists), that often reflects the deep-seated misogyny of those who utter them.
On the other hand, time has revealed that there really was TRUTH underlying that seemingly paranoid interpretation: “that “radical feminists” were inciting false allegations of “satanic ritual abuse”.
We might never have uncovered that truth, if it weren’t for a genuine “whistleblower” (she wouldn’t call herself that) who LIVED that truth as a committed and trusted insider of the radical feminist lesbian community in America.
http://www.meredithmaran.com/MyLie.htm
Meredith Maran was;
a lesbian woman deeply embedded in the lesbian feminist community
in a relationship with one of the most influential, early, feminist researcher and author on incest and CSA issues
also a researcher and a journalist investigating the realities of sexual violence against women, incest, and CSA
a long-serving lecturer, lay-educator, and reporter on all these subjects
And some of what Maran reveals about the community she was an integral member of, includes the social pressure SHE felt, to BE an incest ‘survivor’ by developing her own (false, apparently) memories of being abused by her father, and that having such memories was NECESSARY to be fully accepted by the other members of that community. But furthermore, there came a time when having incest memories was not enough, when everyone was developing ‘memories’ of SRA victimization too – including her lover, who demanded that Maran must also “recall” SRA victimization. And when Maran, shocked, said: “no way. not me”, her lover left her and cut her out of that person’s life.
Well if he fancies a holiday home in Oldcastle, he should go for it.
Make her pay some money out of her benefits too towards his substantial damages.
He could always rent it out to her and she could then claim housing benefit to live in it.
That would be karma…
Raymond Aardvark says:
You’ve got me there, Mik!
I wish we could go back to the 50s and The Three Faces of Eve. “Dissociative identities” were so much simpler then. A simple housewife. A fun loving drinker and the third..can’t remember but certainly no Satanism involved.
I’ve just noticed in this photo Angela is either wearing tan coloured stockings or she’s got some long knickers on.
Yikes! I think it’s those “girdle” type drawers!
Bet they were a bit of a passion killer…
I’m trying to imagine the parents’ dilemma in this situation: do you know what eventually induced them to sign such a document?
Thanks, JW. My concern at the moment is whether Angela is actually being truthful about the appeal, but your information is really useful in the event that she is.
You wrote: “After a trial the defendants Counsel will advise the convicted person upon the merits of an appeal. The only two grounds at that stage are for appeal of a manifestly excessive sentence or a procedural error by the Judge / Court. After the 28 days has elapsed (without an application for appeal) the appeal process is about NEW evidence being found that proves the defendants innocence or a lesser culpability in the crime committed. Such appeals take many months to go before Court – Its very unlikely that would happen before Rupert is released”.
Given what we currently know about the trial, I can imagine Rupert’s Counsel claiming procedural irregularities during the trial. According to our reporter, there were several times when certain points were argued (for what seemed like hours), between Rupert’s barrister and the judge. (We could not report on this at the time, since when reporting trials one must only report what is said while the jury is present.) The most critical disputed point, in our reporter’s opinion, was whether individuals within a harassed group could claim that they had been targetted by the harassment, even though they had not been personally named. The judge ruled that they could, and so instructed the jury.
If Angela is not lying about the appeal, then I could imagine this point being the basis for an appeal of Rupert’s conviction. His barrister apparently pursued the point quite doggedly, and might believe that the judge’s ruling would be overturned on appeal.
Am I correct in believing that if the point is not overturned, it becomes enshrined in case law?
I wonder this as well. If so, he could find himself in even deeper hot water.
I’m sure you’ll like this, DoB: when Angela’s “cool IP people” revealed their info about the supposed locations of RD’s IP addresses, it turned out that the “San Francisco IP” belonged to Automattic, the company which owns WordPress. The “London IP” was found to be located in a café near Westminster, and is the default IP used by geolocation services when they can’t pinpoint an address more closely than “UK”.
In other words, anyone who commented via their WordPress account must be in San Francisco; anyone whose VPN or proxy was in the UK must be sitting in a café near Westminster.
The IP addresses were both provided by Sabine, who found them attached to dissenting commenters on her various blogs. Since according to the Hoaxtead mob, all people who disagree with the hoax are necessarily RD, she inferred from this that he must be in San Francisco and London, and passed this along to Angela, who swallowed it whole. Brilliant, no?
Speaking of Mad Moo, has anyone seen her recently? She’s been uncharacteristically quiet. Almost a week without a nutty, screeching diatribe.
Ah, this is really useful, as always. I’d seen Salter’s name in passing (actually I think it was an op-ed in The Guardian) and made a mental note to follow up. You’ve done some of my homework for me. 🙂
In fact, it’s been 11 days since her last video and a week since her last Facebook post!
I suspect it may be her who posted the Ted Heath crap on the Belittle the Chickens page yesterday, though, as I doubt Kristie Sue Fuckwit has even heard of Heath.
LOL! As I recall, that pic was a still from a video in which Angela had a bit of a breakdown last year: Rupert had been arrested and she had no idea what he might say to the police about her; Jake had been sectioned and was temporarily out of her clutches; and her fellow Hoaxtead mobsters had ejected her forcibly from the Sooper Seekrit Facebook Groop™ so she’d lost access to their constant stream of gossip, slander, innuendo, and (most important) their constant narcissistic supply.
I note with interest that the “Ted Heath crap” is a Daily Mail article. So I guess the mainstream media can be trusted now? I can’t keep up. Perhaps the troofers could get together and make a firm decision on that one and let us know.
True, KSC probably thinks Heath was the King of the Heathens or something.
‘Am I correct in believing etc….’
That’s my understanding.
And yes I’d bet the appeal has to do with some technical point re the law. Seems more likely than anything else. Darn!
In that last picture, is she saying “I’d give it 5 minutes if I were you, Rupert”?
Appeals in the Court of Appeal are NEVER a retrial. There are very very few occasions where new evidence comes up, but only where it is very powerful AND the defence couldn’t have called it before. So the classic example is the Birmingham 6 where they were convicted on their confessions which were later proved to have been false. Apart from those very rare events an appeal is a review of the job the judge did – did s/he make a mistake, e.g. in the advice to the jury on the law, permitting a line of questioning, or admitting evidence. They never look at whether the jury made a mistake on evidence properly put before them. So there are no appeals on the facts.
They certainly never ask themselves the question “if the defence had run the case completely differently, would things have gone differently?” – if it were there would never be an end to it. The only time they would consider that would be if they were persuaded that the legal advice given to the defendant was woefully inept and the course taken quite exceptionally unwise, and it wasn’t the defendant’s fault. We have seen a few appeals brought on that basis recently – they have not gone well.
An appeal will work in Rupert’s case if a competent lawyer can convince the CA that the judge made a mistake and not otherwise. Reading the reports here I think the defence made a decent fist of it.
Someone has said earlier that hopeless appeals are punished by making the sentence start on the date of the appeal. So all the time served between sentence and appeal doesn’t count. The CA is using this more and more (“the bar has to learn”, one judge has said) to discourage hopeless appeals. Since it takes several months to get a live appeal hearing, it’s quite a sanction, especially for a short sentence like Rupert’s.
Thats what I thought Babs. This must be her good side…
Jeeze shes wearing passion killers….
Has anyone watched the Tim Tate film titled as either; “Cleveland: the Unspeakable Truths” or “The Death of Childhood”? That’s his film on the Cleveland case.
I watched it years ago, but recently had occasion to view it again. As I recalled, it’s quite shocking – but not shocking because of any new “truths” supposedly revealed in it. Shocking – because it is an appallingly shameless and manipulative work of propaganda masquarading as an objective “documentary”.
Begin at the beginning.
Approximately 1:30 into the film, the voice of a young woman recounting her tale of growing up a horrifically sexually abused child, in Cleveland. Well there you go, the “standard” skeptical version of this case must be wrong – because here is a genuine CSA victim who wasn’t saved from her abusive parent, presumably because she was ordered back to her home despite being diagnosed as an abuse victim by Higgs – right?
WRONG. This young woman wasn’t one of the 121 children taken into care in the original investigation.
Have a look at Tate’s review of his own film, here:
https://spotlightonabuse.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/cleveland-unspeakable-truths/
He says: “My colleagues and I spent nearly three months researching and investigating. We met and informally interviewed everyone who would speak to us. Stuart Bell MP and Alastair Irvine refused point blank
We also advertised for parents who had been caught up in the crisis. Only two came forward: a mother whose children had been sexually abused by their father (he was convicted of the abuse) and ho had tried – in vain – to get her story heard by reporters back in 1987, and a couple whose children had been among the first to be taken into care”.
“We were also contacted by a young woman from the area who had been sexually abused by her father at the time but who was not part of the 121 taken into care”.
Guess whose voice that is, the one you hear recounting such horrific abuse at 1:30 into the film? That’s right, the young woman…who was not part of the 121 taken into care! Tate admitted this to me, himself. He and his colleagues didn’t work with ANY of the persons who had been part of the 121, in the making of this film. So why is this woman’s abuse narrative placed where it was? Why didn’t Tate inform the viewers, who this woman actually was? Obviously, because it was his intention that the viewer would make this mistaken assumption – that the “standard” skeptical version of this case must be wrong – because here is a genuine CSA victim who wasn’t saved from her abusive parent, presumably because she was ordered back to her home despite being diagnosed as an abuse victim by Higgs.
Frankly, that type of hoodwinking borders on psychopathic. Or evil. There’s much more – but do I really need to go on?
It would suit the conspiritors that still want their lies to work, meanwhile, as with their other victims, they will act as though he is a matyr for their cause, if possible, otherwise they will demonise him……. I warned him. I am disturbed at the close proximity some of the nutters have had, to our inquiry……and determined put a stop to it.
Keekee says:
For something scarier see http://www.smh.com.au/national/child-abuse-activist-cathy-kezelman-hits-back-over-false-memory-claims-20170930-gyrudb.html
Where some of these ideas have leaked into main stream!
As you say, Justin—that sort of cherry-picking borders on the psychopathic. As an experienced filmmaker, Tate must have been aware of the impression he was creating, but he chose to do it anyway.
It’s unfortunately a very typical strategy, which we’ve seen the Hoaxtead mobsters use on a regular basis. Include bits of the story that appear incriminating, and just, erm. forget to mention the overwhelming body of evidence that counters the cherry-picked bits of “incriminating evidence”.
Kristie Sue appears to have completely flipped her cookies. Anyone have any clue what she’s ranting about here?
Just looks like a thing running round in circles trying to escape its own prison of mirrors now the fail is real.
Justin, is this the film that was narrated by Olivia O’Leary? If so, then yes I have watched it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4959434/Ted-Heath-police-chief-calls-child-sex-ring-inquiry.html#ixzz4uypHDzrE
Yawn. Great photo of Mike and his great pile of police hats with sad face its an excellent addition to this mundane nonsense. Looks like its going full circle again.
So, im i right the Conifer report showed they had reason to have interviewed Heath under caution right? Not that he had actually done a thing. So now, Bam, Back to square one. But, nice piling up of hats.
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How many lies can Angela fit into one video?
Oh bliss, oh joy, Angela Power-Disney has released another exciting video. This time she has a brand new victim interviewee, a woman named Nicola from Manchester who Angie appears to be grooming for life in the conspiranoid lane.
And in the process, Angie seems to be trying to outdo herself in the “Outrageous Lies and Made-up Shit” department.
Oh Gawd, not the poison pen letters again…
Angela does her obligatory “Hoaxtead Research is the root of all evil” routine starting at about 25:58.
As usual, she dredges up the many-times-discredited poison pen letters, which she insists were sent by this blog to various people in her community. She claimed at the time that the letters had been sent to “friends, neighbours, police, charities, a FAMILY COUNSELLOR, local and national papers calling me a charity scammer and hoaxer re Hampstead”.
We still don’t know the names or addresses of any of those she claims were contacted, and wouldn’t have known how to contact them then, even if we’d wanted to. Which we didn’t.
It does seem to us faintly ridiculous to “prove” that the letters came from us by clipping out a colour print of this blog’s masthead and stapling it to the top of the letter she waved in front of the camera, but sadly, Nicola seemed to buy it.
Here, Angie, let us Google that for you…
The video is not without its moments of unintentional humour, however.
At about 30:42 you will find this gem:
But the thing I believe is that originally El Coyote was a Welsh writer living in Ireland, called David le Dingue. And ‘dingue’ is French for ‘dingo’, which is the same as ‘coyote’.
We would just like to point out that it took us mere seconds to Google the French-to-English translation for “le dingue”.
Surprise! It has absolutely nothing to do with “dingos” (which aren’t the same thing as coyotes: dingos are descended from the domesticated dog, canis familiaris, and are native to Australia; coyotes (canis latrans) are wild canines native to North America).
A case of mistaken identity
Angela actually has fond memories of Le Dingue, though:
And he was a very educated man and he was trolling very intensely in the early days and he was actually kind to me, because when I started covering Hampstead around March 2015 and then my sister died in very suspicious circumstances in April/May, two months later, and he called the trolls off, coz I was started [sic] getting trolled way back then, and when my sister died, he said, “Right, everybody, back off. Leave her alone for a week out of respect”.
Isn’t that nice? Except that it wasn’t Le Dingue who said that. It was our very own Scarlet Scoop who notified blog readers that Angela’s sister had died and suggested that Angela be given a week’s grace out of respect.
And even more bollocksy bollocks!
Honestly, we don’t know where Angela comes up with this stuff [Hint: she’s sitting on it—Ed.]:
You know. So, you know, and I think he was the original El Coyote.
As it happens, if one digs deep into the Hoaxtead Research archives, one finds a post welcoming Le Dingue to the blog, several days after the blog began publication. He’d been contributing to the Icke forum “thread that wouldn’t end” for some time, and we were happy for his input here, but he was never a moderator or writer for HR.
El Coyote, on the other hand, appeared with the advent of the “Hoaxtenders” comic strip, which ran for 75 episodes in late spring/summer 2015. Later that summer, EC took over writing duties from Scarlet, who had put in yeoman’s duty on that front.
Then there’s this:
And also there was a lot of evidence to indicate that [RD] was originally Spiny Norman and running other avatars—Sam Best and different avatars—and I think what’s happened is the Ricky Dearmans and the David Le Dingues and the high level guys, after about a year, they stepped back but they handed on the avatars to other people to write the functioning avatar go for it [sic].
“A lot of evidence”? Seriously? Could we see it, please?
We strongly suspect that Mr Best and Spiny, who have always spoken for themselves, would be quite incensed to find that they were merely RD’s socks. And RD, who has never had anything to do with this blog, might be a touch surprised as well.
In fact, Angela might be interested to know that EC decided to participate in Flo Destroyer’s “After Dark” livestream shortly after Angela was visited by the police, specifically in order to demonstrate that the blog was not run by RD, but by a Canadian woman. In essence, it had become important that Angela not be allowed the “out” of claiming that she was harassing RD because of any perceived harassment she was receiving here.
What in hell is a “second-generation troll”?
So I don’t buy Karen Irving’s story about it was after her favourite dog or whatever—I think she’s just a second generation troll, you know.
No one is asking Angela to buy anything—whether she believes that EC owned a half-coyote dog many years ago is really no concern of ours. (However, we will state that the dog was both more intelligent and had a sweeter disposition than some “journalists” we know. Ahem.)
And ‘troll’ is the wrong word. She writes in her biography—and you can see this in Spidercatweb blog—about how she’s an ex-social worker and specialising in adoption, wrote a book about adoption and so on. But she talks about how psychology is her first love and the fascination of what makes the human mind tick, which is exactly what we’ve been discussing with MK Ultra.
Wait, hold the phone. EC wrote what in her biography? Which biography was this?
Because although it’s true that she has a Master’s degree in social work, and worked during the late 1980s and all of the 1990s with adult survivors of child sexual abuse, as well as a year-long stint with homeless women at a women’s day centre, “adoption” is nowhere in her resumé.
However, a wee bit more of that new-fangled “Googling” thing informs us that another person named Karen Irving was chief executive of a London-based adoption agency called “Parents for Children”.
According to the list of contributors to the book Adoption: Changing Families, Changing Times (published in 2002) for which she wrote the chapter, “Troubled children and how to place them”, the agency was founded in 1976, and “was the first adoption society in the UK and Europe to help children who had not been thought of for adoption. Karen Irving has 25 years’ experience in working in fostering and adoption and is chairperson of the Connaught Group of children’s charities. She has been awarded a Churchill Memorial Fellowship to undertake further study of methods of helping children who have been maltreated”.
We are certain this other Karen Irving is a fine and accomplished person, but a bit of simple maths tells us that she cannot be the Canadian author. You see, that book was published in 2002. At time of publication, the chief executive of Parents for Children is said to have had “25 years’ experience” in her chosen field—i.e., she began working in adoptions in the mid-1970s. EC, meanwhile, did not graduate until 1988.
The rest of the video
It’s the usual dog’s breakfast: Angela making wild and unsubstantiated claims about all and sundry, Angela claiming to have been a real journalist, Angela complaining that she didn’t inherit enough money from her sister (who was “worth much more” than the piddling €20,000 she received from her will)…we’ve heard it all before, and we’re sure we’ll hear it all again.
We hope that eventually, after the inevitable breakup, Nicola will realise that almost everything which emerges from her new friend’s mouth is either false or heavily embroidered. For now, though, all we can do is wish her luck and hope she doesn’t eventually become the victim of another of Angela’s “tell-all” videos. Watch your back, Nicola.
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135 thoughts on “How many lies can Angela fit into one video?”
I’d say angela was guilty of a series of massive knee jerk reactions. but there’s no actual knee involved.
Nicola – RUN AWAAAAAYYYY NOW while you still have a chance…..
By all means investigate the Hampstead case. Read the info from both sides of the fence and use critical thinking. But, if you value your sanity and your privacy and you truly want the truth, stay away from this woman!
Hope she takes that advice, but in the shadowlands of conspiracy island people interpret information only to serve their own views. analysis and evaluation seem to be beyond them. As for angela’s research ? she just reads any old claptrap off google and insists it amounts to something. i can’t really say she’s lost the plot as i doubt she had it to begin with.
The Becki Percy saga is getting fascinating:
https://catherinemoncada21.wordpress.com
I could barely follow the thread as the writer isn’t very structured in her approach. becki seems to be trying to promote her lacklustre candle business at the moment and doesn’t seem to understand target markets, demographics or promotion in general. it’s all a bit much for her trying to understand that an audience who follow a twitter account to read about satanic abuse aren’t in the market for overpriced candles.
These people really do live in a fantasy world:
“An Open Secret is the Twitter account for the movie An Open Secret which was a multi-million dollar documentary about pedophelia in Hollywood.
The Twitter account is run by the two guys who made the movie An Open Secret.
They care enough about children THEY SPENT THEIR OWN MONEY ON THIS DOCUMENTARY!”
The last 2 professional jobs I did before retiring was helping on documentaries that were eventually screened on the BBC. The budgets for both were around £25K each. Documentaries that involve lots of interviews are the cheapest to make. Travel starts to make docos very expensive. I’ve watched that so-called documentary. $Millions my arse.
“The care about the children”.
No they don’t. If they had $$multi millions to spend on kids there are millions in the USA living in poverty (a shocking a dreadful form of abuse with possibly far worse & long lasting mental effects than sexual abuse- and there is no therapy for them. Or perhaps the 30,000 plus who die daily from hunger & preventable diseases.
At some stage, some of these fantasists- Becki etc (APD? Hopeless Girl ) are going to be done for fraud. Probably- the one law that snares them the easiest in the USA- Mail Fraud. They are no different to Nigerian email scammers or blokes (women?) who defraud hapless partners looking for love via the net. Or fradulent Ebayers who scam customers for non-existent goods.
It will happen.
On a tangent the pie&masher, he of boxing skills, the histrionic hero of howt de la garren, the Gnome bashing documentary king bill maloney has an IMDB listing. that means anyone registering an account could go and write a review of his award winning documentary sun sea and satan. In fact a few people could. i’ll just leave that idea out there. that’s IMDB bill maloney sun sea and satan.
Multi million ? a serveral month’s long schedule with multiple camera crews, helicoptors , scouts, on set consultants, travel costs, insurance, hotels, travel permits and visas, guides, security consultants, equipment hire, catering and the logistics of getting to remote places and then paying morgan freeman to do you a voiceover and some fancy visual and sound editing plus computer graphics and music rights or the fee of a composer would cost multi millions for sure. a few interviews edited together ? not so much. The cost of a camera, a tripod and computer plus a venue to shoot in is about it for a bottom line amateur job. not seen the open secret but it’s probably not gone with the wind.
duffy1958 says:
Oh please.
For your record, cause ya’ll keep records right? I quoted what An Open Secret quoted as what they spent.
I have no idea how they made their movie to arrive at that cost.
They should be commended I think.
Especially since you watched the documentary.
It really isn’t up to one to tell the other how to spend their money yes? You want to feed children, they want Hollywood to stop exploiting children.
Sounds like a win/win. Everyone wants something good for the children.
Ya’ll know I just follow the link over here?
Duffy1958, Ghost of Sam is saying that the documentary makers appear to be lying to people. It would be a useful thing to exaggerate need to increase donations. Particulary something as emotive as child abuse. Can’t criticise or question people who claim to be helping children eh?
Nice one, EC. And to answer the question in your post title, even more than it seems. The examples you’ve cited are just the tip of the iceberg. She also slanders RD from 14:04 and Hoaxtead from 25:58 (before the stuff about you, le Dingue etc.) and spends the most of the first half of the video spouting MK Ultra bollocks and other assorted womble-guff (including how Tupac is alive and well and living in Cuba and his son is a “targeted individual”, natch). She then spends the last section spewing crap about a range of topics, including a claim that ‘America’s Got Talent’ is an “MK Ultra ABC manual”, a remark about Hampstead being “our McMartin” and her tired old porky about how she’s had Hampstead cult members contacting her to say they want out. I genuinely believe this video deserves a spot in the Guinness Book of Records for highest ever bullshit-per-minute quota. Bravo, JournoAngie 🙄
“A claim that ‘America’s Got Talent’ is an ‘ABC of MK Ultra mind control'”
What made me laugh about that is that she says her kids watch it in her presence and it really annoys her. Can you imagine settling down on the sofa on a Saturday night to watch TV with this woman? It must be a nightmare for her kids – I bet she sits there tutting and sighing all the way through and praying to the Lord to protect her kith and kin from the evils of TV brainwashing.
I wonder which acts scare her the most. Clowns? Jugglers? Acrobats? I think we should be told.
Bet she freaked out when she saw this one 😂
Duffy1958
I was wondering, is there any reason in particular that you can think of why you were successfully scammed? I can only imagine how tough it would be.
I see it as a bit like the 419 emails, they are so badly written that the only people who respond are those who for whenever reason will ignore the most blatant red flags.
Becki Perci will be fine in the U.K.The worst that will happen from her point of view is no one pays her any attention.
What’s this about all schoolchildren being given the flu vaccination (at 12:13)?
Oh and I’ve just noticed that at 29:59 she claims that we had Cat Scot’s YouTube channel taken down. Er…nope. She has two and they’re both still up.
‘The two guys who made the movie’ it was directed by a woman called Amy Berg. one person, not two. female, not male. Duffy1958 you are not in an arena where such, i hesitate to call them lies, factually incorrect statements are going to be tolerated. I can appreciate you have had very little in the way of education and are probably limited in your faculties but if you’re going to claim you spoke to a well known documentary director through a twitter account and that it was actually 2 guys you spoke to and not a woman then you have probably been speaking to a fake account. you really can’t expect to post such incorrect babble online and not be called out on it.
The worst things that will happen are 1. The police nab her. 2. She’s up for a civil case. 3. Mainstream media decide to cover her evil behaviour. 4. Amateur press cover her. 5. She may have to live on the streets or a wino filled homeless doss house. she can’t go home and has few friends. 6. sign on for benefit, difficult as she neglected to pay any tax or national insurance contributions for the last 3 years. 7. Get a job. 8. Grow up and stop being such a knobhead. 9. develope a moral conscience and accept responsibility for her actions.
At 47:32 Angie tells Nicola about the meme she’s used in her video thumbnail, with four coppers running to stop someone telling the truth on YouTube. And Nicola thinks she’s describing a real incident 😂
There are hoaxteaders who want out ? when we get fed up we simply say goodbye. as if anyone contacts angie about it. she’s not wise that one.
Rest assured, though – we’re working on it 😜
That isn’t a criticism of you. I am just curious.
In a similar twist, Ogilfail is claiming that Cathy fox has been banned from Twitter:
Thing is, she hasn’t:
https://twitter.com /CathyCathyFox
Also not trying to blame a victim. Is there any advice you would give?
Fruitcake quote from Stolpman’s slime video. I’m guessing English isn’t her strongest suit…
I suspect however Angelas time honoured “Godiva” masterpiece will sweep the floor yet again at this years annual pretentious wanker bash.
The @anopensecret twitter account isn’t verified, which you’d expect it to be if it was officially connected to the film/filmmakers. most of the accounts tweets are defending alex jones who they believe shouldn’t have been banned from twitter for such antics as calling the sandy hook families liars who made up having their children killed. okay, i think you have the picture now. duffy1958 should be checking who she’s messaging and if they are who they claim to be. It’s a jungle out there.
It had a limited release in a handful of theatres grossing $200 but when put on vimeo for got some attention as they made it free to view at the time of the harvey wankstain news. i haven’t been able to find it’s budget but it’ll be under 250k as it’s mostly talking heads and archive footage, possibly 100k or so. certainly not multi millions as quoted by duffy.
(6) It doesn’t work like that anymore. She can claim Universal Credit.
Shit, this dude’s planning to torture RD with crap spelling 😮
Not according to Urban Dictionary* it doesn’t! 😱 She’s been watching the wrong videos again!
* Those of a nervous disposition shouldn’t look it up.
I’d like to see her claim form. previous job ~ candle maker and ceo of gentlearoma, previous addresses ? 14 months in usa custody for immigration issues. family ? at least 5, most of whom are satanists, cannibals and infant murderers. do you have any medical issues ? yes i’ve been raped 1000s of times as part of a satanic woodland chase, been trafficked for sex, but always made it back from abroad to attend school the next day and have Ptsd from burying my sister’s body in several graves. Yeah. the Dwp are gonna love her. i expect she’ll be claiming more abuse when she gets home.
Ghost of Cecil B. DeMille says:
Yes I watched it and it was what Hollywood does best: 90% Bullshit & 10% Fact.
There are extremely tough laws in California governing the whole of the film industry and they have been in place for decades. It is impossible to take advantage of a child in movie making and no legitimate company would bother trying to. It’s virtually impossible to take advantage of adults or the crew or even extras who are all governed by strict laws.
That doesn’t mean that Los Angeles, indeed the US, isn’t riddled with phonies and hangers-on who give the industry a bad name. “Stage mothers” and would-be actors flock to LA in their 1000s and can get involved with phony agents etc who promise the world.
Sadly 1000s of naive people still arrive daily and fall for scams or people who are connected to genuine film-making via 7 degrees of separation. Of course, there are offenders who may be in a position of power who may abuse. They take enormous risks.
People can make stupid decisions & think they are helping a career by jumping into bed with the wrong person. While they will be taken advantage of (loose morals?) and it’s dreadful, it happens all around the world in every industry.
Goats like Corey Feldman promote rubbish because he had a limited talent and as an adult, he is a turn off as an actor. People are only “blacklisted” if they are likely to cause trouble and cost money. A film is an ongoing money costing production that can cost $100,000s every day whether the footage is being produced or not. Any delays caused by anyone, star or not risks everyone’s job.
The absolute waffle that Hollywood is some vast Satanic organism whose purpose is to exploit and abuse is a moronic myth.
While I won’t speculate on Harvey Weinstein (how would I know what he has or hasn’t done?) but I will mention just one person who is a victim of the ludicrous Witch Hunt that is currently underway and is destroying a reasonable @MeToo movement that had merit but the overpaid egotistical stars who have leaped aboard the bandwagon are causing untold damage by making it all about them.
Take the unproved accusations about Kevin Spacey. His last film flopped- The Billionaire Boys (it’s a really good film). The media celebrates- the SRA Mob claim it as a victory. They forget that 1. Spacey was paid up front- probably a fee equal to more money most people will ever earn in their lives.
2. The mainly Canadian backers have lost their investment. That money was sourced from Canadian Superannuation Funds taking advantage of tax investment subsidies. The real losers are ordinary Canadian workers paying into Superannuation Funds for their retirement.
3. The production company that made this film have laid off about 30 film industry workers as it has set back their plans for a few years. One is my pal who has a family, kids and a mortgage. He’s working as a mechanic for the moment but only because he was trained as one decades ago. Pity the others.
When they call Hollywood a Factory that’s what it is. That’s how it works. Behind every film and studio are 10,000s of ordinary Americans earning a living and living ordinary lives in a time consuming an arduous industry.
# The producers of an Open Secret are bullshitting when they say they are “saving children”. The movie went no-where, not because some SRA Cabal blocked it but because distributors decided it would be a box office flop. And it would have been -such a depressing subject. Igf film-distributors though even a small profit could be made they sell a movie featured two cats fighting if they could.
The producer Amy Berg has gone on to make more documentaries- saleable ones (none costing $Millions) & I see her career of “saving children” has been forgotten.
Bill Baloney is a classic who illustrates the lies told about the film industry.
BTW I have several IMBD listing on films but I’m not telling which. Anyone connected to a film -even as a gofer (me on a big film) can have themselves listed. That’s what the site is for.
Maloney falsely claimed he won an award at the very prestige New York Film Festival. It was a blatant lie: he “won an award” at a phony & now defunct New York Film & Video Festival trying to cash in on the real thing. They crop up over America all the time usually run by the same scam artists and disappear as quickly. You pay a huge fee to enter & are guaranteed a prize!. Their “premiere film screenings for the media” are usually in some clapped out cinema in Queens and not even the local rag turns up.
They are a good example of the con artists that surround the genuine film industry which has some of the strictest laws in the USA because it’s a $ multi-billion generating business employing 100,000s of people.
Of course the SRA promoters and fruit-loops think it’s all about Meryl Streep.
It had a small theatrical release in half a dozen theatres. made two hundred dollars and was pulled. absolute flop. nobody wants that in a theatre. it belongs on streaming and, maybe, tv. the director had previously had critical acclaim with a Paedo priest docu that looks like a vastly superior film.
And this one’s a whole new level of stupid:
Angela had another ‘fan’ I see. 😂
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=300931073833489&id=100017497963063
I’ll be checking periodically to read all the loving reviews of bill’s finely crafted expose of ugly garden Gnomes and a fibreglass pan statue in a pond. the cinematography was sublime. the editing stripped down and bare. and who can forget the use of adagio as bill, scared by a statue, proclaims ‘i’ve got a friend in jesus’ before hurrying away as a cold wind falls upon the harrowing scene. who can forget the constant visits to a garden to note the additions of hats to weird Gnomes or the skeleton in a window ?
Wow, that’s an awesome thread! Great find, Lucca.
This comment is particularly intriguing:
Lee Shannon and Aaron Morris duly added to the ever-growing list of friends out with whom Angela’s fallen.
And the thread has been archived here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WtNgYxedyicZ8u7cNytxVwEtOyoyvNXA
Thanks, Lucca 😀
“I can’t believe this is real life”
Hmm, and still the alarm bells don’t ring in her head. Sigh
Wow….😳
And this one’s calling for people to be put to death if they fail a polygraph test. Yup.
The amazing thing is that Becki’s parents still seem keen to have her back. They obviously care about her deeply. It is some years since I last visited Planet Coffee. It was a very popular place with students in Hull, it was the first modern coffee shop on Newland Avenue in the 1990s and rather a catalyst for a previously depressed area. The wickedest thing Mr & Mrs Percy have done is to peoples waistlines with their cakes, sweeties on the side and whipped cream.
I know. You are trying to find a reliable news source for a story about Richard Branson’s latest business venture so you Google “Virgin BBC” … and get something quite unexpected.
Seriously ? they’d take her back after all the grief she caused them ? they must be cracked in the coconut.
Yes richard’s doing a new line in delicious cakes so google BBC creampie virgin
I’ll let this one speak for itself:
See, the only reason I visit HR is because people in the comments threads use “whom” when appropriate.
I understand that they sent letters to Mummies #2 and #3 saying that they wanted their daughter back. Becki should think herself fortunate to have such a loving family.
Someone send angela a link to chickenhawk 1994 about nambla. She could film her reaction to it. seriously, why do people bother with the fake stories when the truth that’s out there is brutally chilling ? that’s ‘chickenhawk’ 1994 do not watch if easily triggered it’s one creepy portrait of just how deluded and remorseless Paedophiles are.
A few years ago, I was checking some facts about the American Occupy movement for a national newspaper opinion piece I was co-writing and as the UK version used the name UK Uncut I stupidly Googled “US Uncut” without the safe search filter on. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it!
How long until Angie falls out with Seven, I wonder 😂
How can they still love a creature that lied through her teeth in such a vicious way ? becki is a seriously nasty piece of work. if it was me i’d blank her out.
You should just look at the sheer unbridled joy people get from riding horses without a saddle. so that’s
‘ gay bareback ‘
Surely that’ll be happy viewing that just makes you warm inside.
Sorry I can’t get screenshots, my internet is very erratic atm. Result of the storm I think.
Don’t forget to pay him* Ange!
*Or her 😇
That would mean she would have to deal with real pedophilia, which is unpleasant and banal. Fictional SRA claims with all star casts and huge set piece orgies out of Dennis Wheatley via Lawrence Pazder are endless fun. Accuse who you like and never feel the need to produce any evidence – because of course “they” are super efficient at covering it all up.
Working Class Orange says:
Sorry, she wouldn’t tell me:
An Open Secret doesn’t take donations. Now what?
Angela Power Disney is a compulsive liar and attention seeker, thats all people need to know about her.
If I wanted to torture anyone, I would lock them in a room with Neelu Berry for a week.
I bet he wonders why Angie is dressed as an Edwardian nanny and keeps pouting whenever he comes close.
The latest as I understand it re: Becki Percy @becki_p20 (Twitter)
1. Asked for a benefit from US Immigration such as Green Card or permission to seek employment in USA, has been turned down, needs immigration attorney to appeal decision.
2. Had three pro-bono immigration attorneys working for her at one time, treated them all badly, and now has none working for her.
3. Trump has given his intent to cut number of immigrants to USA by half, and drastically cut the backlog of immigrants wanting to enter USA in 2019.
4. Rumour of divorce of her third “mom” and “dad” the McAvenes – reason unknown.
5. McAvene house up for sale, and there is a site showing it for sale.
6. Wendy McAvene is totally in the power of Becki Percy, won’t end well.
7. Lots of people are starting to catch on about Becki Percy, and are starting to distance themselves.
8. Becki Percy is actively recruiting sexually abused people to her cause.
9. The candle selling business is not going well. As noted by others the products are expensive, hardly unique, and are sold under the brand of being a victim of SRA.
10. Lots of product lines in the Becki Percy business has been slashed by 50% as she prepares to move house, she is asking Twitter followers what they think about potential new products.
11. Wendy and Becki is actively asking for a “probono” immigration lawyer.
12. Still no known dates for the appeal hearing, which will probably have to be heard in California area in 2019. I do not anticipate Becki will succeed, she is playing for time.
13. Becki Percy has some form of mental illness.
14. I will move soon to actively rip apart her allegations.
One of those awkward situations being up the chimney with Angela Power Disney below you.
I think that sending out job applications with creative stories of the type Becki Percy has been putting about won’t win many job interviews.
Ya’ll sound like gossipy old women over here. Really. This is gossipy old woman stuff.
Why are you trying to take issue with who made the movie? Did I say director? I know who directed the movie. I wasn’t talking about the director.
As far as Matt and Gabe the guys who PAID to make the movie, and who cared enough about the subject matter to PAY Amy Berg to direct the film, I met them through other people. People I know in real life, know them in real life. Now what?
The documentary is very good. I don’t know why you would complain about it if you care about children.
I forget the one boy’s name who collected his own evidence of child abuse. He impressed me. Not impressed? Interesting. I thought it was captivating. I’m easily held captive I guess. Must go along with my level of education …
which you are speculating at Mr. (?) this is the Corner of Truth.
I would love to comment further but I do have things to do.
I would be glad to forget some things not in common and meet on things IN common. Being accurate and responsible on social media is a good conversation to have but I’m not having it with people who strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.
No that’s a good question really. Do ya’ll think I haven’t ask myself this? Yeah. I have. A lot. This hurt my family. It’s questions I need to answer for myself too.
Haha. No I just don’t know how this WordPress thing works. The back and forth comments.
I’m sure you have. I know it hurt your family, and it can’t be easy trying to look back and pinpoint how it all went so wrong. I do believe you were doing your best to help, and had that thrown back in your face.
To act like Hollywood has done anything less than and besides exploit children is just a convo I’m not having.
It’s a cess pool and parents should pull their children. All of them.
To act like there aren’t children sacrificing, blood drinking satanist in Hollywood is ANOTHER convo I’m not having. Who? How many?
They are there. And they think they are above the law. They are.
Man’s law.
They don’t figure there is ANOTHER.
I don’t need to be on social media yelling their name out before they get charged. I’m good to wait for the names to come out under indictment.
As far as Kevin Spacey, his ordeal would not have gained the traction it did without PICTURES. Mmhmm Pictures.
You mention the fallout of the failure of the film Kevin Spacey did. It’s unfortunate. Everyone loses. That is a boat load of loss and hurt.
Don’t hire people like Kevin Spacey. Don’t act like Kevin Spacey.
That’s what it is coming to though. People are becoming aware of what has happened to our children. They aren’t having it.
Clean up your act with children or there are consequences.
I appreciate your knowledge of the film industry. Explain it to me. To us. Please explain more. Write a blog.
Talk about it.
Whether we agree or disagree on exploitation of children it’s good knowledge you have. Helpful. I’m nosy too.
Especially when she says “You remind me of my friend Rupert …”
Gawd I wish people would visit LA and see what a huge normal business movie making is.
There isn’t one..not ONE former child actor – out of the 10,000s who have been in movies – who is successful has made claims about “powerful pedo rings” and other such claptrap.
The handful who have are failed actors who were never going to be successful in the industry as adults. They find a reason or people to blame for their failure. But of course, there is a handful who have been abused as there is in every city and town in the USA.
And there are 100s of former child actors who realized being a cute kid and being photogenic was never going to work for them as adults so chose to have other highly successful careers using their experience to work for them- as real estate agents, restauranteurs etc. Hollywood is awash with successful entrepreneurs who worked in movies as kids and the most frightening thing they ever saw was Bela Lugosi at a film premiere.
I’ve seen videos on Youtube making outlandish claims such as Keanu Reeves or McCauley Culkin “exposing” Hollywood. It’s utter claptrap and they have said no such thing.
# You know all this reminds me how the Crazy Mob of the Internet claim the vile David Icke was the first to claim Ted Heath or Jimmy Savile were “pedos” but it’s complete claptrap (he’s never said an original thing in his life). He did no such thing. But because it gets said on the Net it’s accepted as gospel and repeated ad infinitum.
## where is the proof of these pedo rings and Satanic orgies were children are murdered?. There is none, nothing, zilch. Why do people believe every wacky thing they read on the net?
This is the thing.
My children have done things not unlike this business with Rebecca. I will be writing of my son. He was a study. Of his own.
He would tip his hat to Rebecca for being the bigger rebel.
He also would have died for her if anyone would have tried to hurt her. He would have. I’m not exaggerating.
My son and I spent a good majority of his 38 years crossways with each other because he was always trying to do something he wasn’t suppose to and I was always trying to stop him.
My son would also know, if you are crossways with me? You did a LOT before you got crossways with me and that I had you dead to rights.
I told Rebecca “Do you think you are the first 21 year old who has lied to me in my face? With a straight face?”
I’ve helped raise more children than my own.
I don’t need evidence for a jury. But I made sure before I acted.
Did a girl with no boundaries start this years ago? From the beginning? Her behavior always like this?
My son could pull a stunt, be in trouble and shout at me “MOM! I’m the GOOD son. The son YOU raised. The guy who helps little old ladies across the street!” And he did. He would.
He was good. He was a warrior. He hated the right things. He also loved temptation and was passionate about everything he did.
I use the situation with my son. I tried everything to keep authorities out. It didn’t work. Then I had to get authorities involved.
Who did it? Him.
Who pays the consequences? Everyone.
Rebecca has started an international incident and the consequences are going to be felt internationally.
Starting an international incident, going on social media and blowing the international incident up? My son would be giving a standing ovation right here.
If only this were a circus side show. For any of us.
Legally speaking the next thing is an argument before the 9th circuit court of appeals.
If someone would please tell Wendy, the bond company offers pro bono attorneys. It is in the contract you sign. I saw where Wendy was asking for a pro bono attorney. She may not know the bail bond company says they have pro bono attorneys. IDK
One thing my son would not have done was jack with the subject of childhood sexual abuse. You would be crossways with him big time.
If I told my family of this business? They would be able to play this like a genius chess game. I am that predictable.
My son would think things through a little more than this? Because despite his behavior I did teach consequences. For parents with hard children, don’t stop. Don’t fold. There are pay offs.
Rebecca knows the stories about my son. He passed away from a drug overdose before she came to my house.
She knows about other stands I have had to take with serious consequences.
Wendy doesn’t know me so well.
Dear Wendy,
my life is not about Rebecca or social media click bait. Stop. I rebuke you in Jesus name.
Lots of people have a dog in this fight. I just know I’m not lying.
I have been gracious.
Full of mercy.
And I’ve also said “Enough.”
So you are condemning an entire industry on one boy’s claims?. Did he go to the police?. This is madness. It’s like the entire plumbing industry whould be blamed for one errant plumber of the buidling industry should be blamed because Donald Trump sends contracators broke and doesn’t pay his bills.
Enough of the old please and this is not gossip on here- it’s anti-gossip.
We are pointing out the frauds and charlatans who have made the lives of an innocent father & his 2 kids a nightmare along with the residents of a London suburb by falsely accusing them of vile crimes (which a court found were false).
How are these film-makers helping children? Point out one child they have helped.
You can’t say angela doesn’t produce evidence. she does nothing but. problem is it’s all against herself. div mare.
I can see how and why you were utterly taken in by becki.
I doubt becki is mentally ill. she knows she’s lying, she knows it’s wrong to lie. She’s just just plain nasty.
When Angie brings up the topic of the 50 supposed poison pen letters that were sent to her neighbours and local newspapers etc. Well doesn’t it strike you as strange how out of those 50 poison pen letters supposedly sent out by HR and not a single recipient of one of the letters could be bothered to contact HR for further information? It kinda makes me think that it is just another cock & bull story from Angie, hard to believe i know.
No I’m not condemning or judging an entire industry on the young men who were featured on An Open Secret. Not at all.
The young man who collected his own evidence did go to authorities. That’s why he collected his own evidence. Watch the documentary. It tells you.
Hmmm false gossip in Hollywood is hard to come by. Really the truth is bad enough. I’m not talking about people just naming names.
There are lists of young people who grew up Hollywood. Where are they now? What are they doing?
They are the same ones out there seducing youth to do what? By music. Their acting careers etc.
Miley Cyrus has crossed every line. Katy Perry. The list goes on.
Those are the fruit of Hollywood.
How many well adjusted children have we seen grow up? I haven’t seen that list.
I get you are defensive of an industry you worked in right? You are saying from your perspective. It’s good to hear it.
Surely you recognize the children coming from the industry though. I would not want this for my children.
Miley Cyrus and the baby video where she was the baby was catering to the baby fetish. That’s too much.
The Hampstead children. I’m sorry I don’t know their names. No disrespect intended please.
I’ve seen some of the videos. A little bit of them. Even Bombards did a video on the children of Hampstead. I think I watched a little bit of that.
For the record, I don’t know who the father is and I don’t know who the mother is. I don’t know who their on line profiles are etc.
I’m pretty unfamiliar with this situation.
There are children involved here. It’s not social media fodder.
The system sucks. I work with the same one everyone else does.
I said in one of my blogs challenging people to make a difference in real life. Real life children. Wait until you get the first one you can’t do jack about. Or for.
I just speak from my own experiences.
How is An Open Secret helping children? To me there are some obvious answers. Maybe I’ll write a blog about it because in my estimation it deserves one. Or more.
The system sucks. It’s a failure. So there’s that.
One big problem I have is contending these sorts of crimes don’t happen.
That makes people look guilty as heck. Because these crimes DO happen.
I’ve talked with survivors of some of these crimes and one in particular; would not, has not, will not ever go on social media and say a thing.
The children who have been harmed since this one in particular got away? She can’t stop it.
She legally changed her name, identity. Social Security number.
To change a social security number is not easy. You must show just cause. She did.
And she has never looked back. And never told anyone except for my son. My son said we have to talk to my mom. She said no I’m not. She was not. Did not. She was terrified.
She had gone on to be a wife, mother and bank president. Then got into drugs.
So to say these crimes don’t happen? Yes. They do.
That particular woman saw children in cages. Being sold.
People who are fraudulent HURT those who saw children in cages.
An Open Secret has taken the heat in Hollywood. To try to minimize what they’ve done doesn’t look to be on the side of children.
An Open Secret was one of the ones to call Rebecca out. They knew it would bring heat.
I’m not a spokesperson for An Open Secret but have been a long time supporter. I don’t agree with everything. Whatever.
I don’t know the particulars about anything but my own experiences which I’ve blogged about. I’m not an expert or trying to act like one.
Before this? I gardened. I wrote a blog about it.
I would love to see your evidence Duffy, of child sacrifice and blood drinking Satanists in Hollywood. You should make it public and you could make yourself a nice little fortune by doing so.
Yes, funny that!
I’m still convinced that she printed out our header and stapled it to the letter so she could wave it in front of the camera. Whoever sent the letters might have used our header, but I don’t think so.
She does say that there was no return address and no name or other identifying info on the letters, which means the sender wanted to stay anonymous. If we had been stupid enough to send her those letters with the headers stapled on, it would have been a very simple matter for the police to contact WordPress to get the name of the registered owner of our site, and we’d have been facing malicious communications charges at the time.
Indeed EC. If the recipients of the letters had no return address to write to or an email then surely it wouldn’t take much thinking by them to think about entering the name ‘Hoaxtead Research’ into Google to try and glean at least some information on where these letters may have come form.
No. I never received a letter of any sort. I received a tweet from what was evidently Ann Percy’s Twitter profile. Is that what you are suppose to be talking about?
1. I seriously doubt any letters were sent.
2. I have even less belief that anyone either running or commenting here would bother paying the postage to communicate their opinions on angela, when there’s already a platform to do so.
3. Anyone who lives near to or knows angela hardly needs to be written to about her, they already know what’s she’s like and are wholly aware of her bizarre online activities what with her using her own name, face and voice on her material.
Judge grobnob dismisses the letters from the grand kangeroo jury as being fabricated nonsense.
She has a brand new victim. how true.
Yes, I think that covers it nicely SV.
I noticed Angie mention how she had been on some paedophile chat-sites where they were discussing different drugs to use whilst abusing children. What a handy excuse to give to the police when they discover on her laptop that she had visited such a website.
I seem to remember a claim that the profits from her kit candles in towards helping victims. she doesn’t cite a particular charity nor does she have accredited charity status herself. i’ll be raising that matter though i doubt she’ll reply. we have every right to full transparency if she’s claiming to raise money for charity.
I truly am shocked to hear FS that Becki’s parents would be happy to have her back home living with them. I certainly never saw that coming.
So very sorry for your loss.
You change the story so much. you spoke to them on twitter. you met them in real life. they spent multi millions. they’re hollywood people. they aren’t on twitter as the @anopensecret account is unverified and obviously not official. you’re just changing the story. if you’d met the people, or people who know the people you wouldn’t be saying you messaged them on twitter. stop talking rubbish.
Thank you. I appreciate that.
Sorry for your loss duffy1958
I cannot imagine how terrible it must be to suffer the loss of a child in such circumstances.
I do not share your religious beliefs or your beliefs about satanic ritual abuse but, like you I care very much about the abuse and exploitation of children. I am also extremely knowledgable (at least compared to most other ordinary people) about how religious movements and beliefs can be used to abuse children and vulnerable adults. I would be more than happy to share information about how such abusers operate if it would help you to be able to discern truth from fiction and to better identify genuine survivors from people like Rebecca. Rebecca is just one of a long history of grifters and people with a certain kind of personality disorder who make a habit of defrauding well meaning, kind-hearted people using fake claims of satanic cults.
You might find it helpful to read about a certain Derry Knight, his story is here:
Also the sorry story of Leone Steyn may interest you
https://www.iol.co.za/news/woman-pleads-guilty-to-satanic-child-porn-scam-2020898
I have met similar characters in real life and, in my experience, they are motivated partly by a desire to better their lives financially and socially but are also motivated by a need to generate concerned excitement in those around them.
You are not the only person to have fallen for such a cruel, manipulative and disgusting scam.
I am so sorry that the list of people Rebecca has exploited and abused includes you and your family. It sounds like you had already endured overwhelming pain and anguish before Rebecca even got started on exploiting you.
Nice little find from Special Agent E. I defy anyone to find a more idiotic comment that this one…
It’s interesting to hear Angie say she wants to be careful to call her Nicola video an chat rather than an interview, in case the Garda are listening, as in her own blog post about it she calls it an interview 😆
https://angelascaches.org/mind-control-tupac-hampad-dingos-coyotes
I suspect that that there is an, as yet, undiagnosed category of people (mostly religious entrepreneurs and grifters) who manifest distinct features within the “dramatic” or “cluster B” types of personality disorders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_B_personality_disorders
This is one of the very difficult issues with regards to dealing with such people, it can be extremely difficult to determine the extent to which they are mad or bad or both.
Alarm bells had already rung when she said “Let’s not make it too broad”, when Nicola wad going off on a tangent. Who would do that in an informal chat, lol?
You have, at least partly, answered your own question.
Becky invited you to share delicate information about your personal life and various traumas, troubles and challenges and then, as people like her always do, she used that knowledge to manipulate you.
Cat’s family’s are called SELVESTER.
So that’d be like “the dweller in the wood” aye?
http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Selvester
As in the Blair Witch. Or the witch in ‘Hansel and Gretel’, who EATS CHILDREN!!!
JOIN THE DOTS, SHEEPLE 😮
Live now !
The tinfoil says it all…
The weirdo isn’t letting this one go…
Dr Horton’s videos are a hoot. 😂 I’ve been watching her for a long time.
Crikey, so does that make Shakespeare a paedophile too, after creating a character named Ophelia?
Shakespeare’s Ophelia went insane.. just the way Cat is heading.
Scratch that.. Cat’s already there.
I remember. I figured you’d like that one 😀
Ogilfail’s a fan of hers, which speaks volumes about her!
Sigh.. she did say she was settling down to read Aangirfan the other night and that’s the nonsense she picked up from it. 🙄
Sad to see her recommending a book that contains the addresses of people she accuses of being part of the “secret societies” so they can be attacked.
But…but…if Aangirfan says it, it must be true, right?
I doubt he’s watched it, though (he rarely watches the videos he promotes or the posts he regurgitates/plagiarises). He’s only posted it because Aangirfan did.
I don’t think he’ll be a fan for the same reason as me. I watch them for a laugh, he probably sits and nods his head in agreement at them. 😆
Oh I know, lol. Sorry, I hope it didn’t sound like I was lumping you in with that knuckle-scraping weirdo.
I’ll bet the child catcher has saved loads of kids from going off with strangers, people offering sweets or accepting lifts in cars. it’s like a hollywood version of a charley says advert from the seventies. What kind of lunatic mind would be try and turn a creepy villain in a family musical into evidence of government conspiracy. what next ? fiddler on the roof ?
Good point, mate
LOL, I’ve never seen this version before:
I would hope not. 😂
Interview ? angela can’t interview. she engages in her usual onesided overblown conspirafests while the invited guest struggles to get a word in. angela doesn’t research and cannot interview. she just spews her insane nonsense against anyone she can. I’ll wager the officers involved are putting in requests for overtime to get through the mountains of garbage she produces and aspirin for the migranes they get listening to it again. oh not her again searge ?
Charley was voiced by Kenny everett the madcap radio dj and tv comic performer. He frequently ended up half drowned or in bandages for his trouble and advert after advert went through his nine lives saving that moronic kid. If you look around you’ll find jimmy savile giving safety lessons and rolf harris taking to kids about ‘bad touches’ as well as teaching kids to swim. the king of all safety adverts is the spirit of lonely water. i have a dvd called charley says and it has over 150 of them going back to the 50s including the protect and survive ones that have now lost all ability to shock because the voiceover artist went on to become most famous for the intros to the smell of reeves and mortimer. Fascinating genre and well worth further study.
Mentions Hoaxtead, EC and Sheva at 1:24:28!
Oh mister that’s a big bushy one. and the pole’s soooo long. oh yeah. get it right up there. right up the smutty pipe. oh yeah. do you like my chimney breast? oh gawd. confessions of a chimney sweep.
Poor thing- the silver foil didn’t work. One question: why do the Evil Overlords attack the most boring people on the planet? (not mentioning any names but the word Neelu comes to mind among a cast of 1000s)
She does attract the brightest though. My question for Lion & The Lamb is: who are the ones who won’t die?. What’s their secret?
Fruit Loops R Us says:
WOW she takes First Prize !. She actually sleeps in a tin foil hat in a tin foiled room. Dr Horton gets full marks for being the most dedicated Tin Foil Hatter of all time.
You forgot treacherous bully and habitual ebegger with overblown delusions of grandeur and a grotesquely over inflated sense of entitlement. Plus she’s bitter, narcissistic and a chainsmoking drunk. quite a skill set and one of the ubertrolls at work in the shadow community. she’s so voracious she frequently turns on her own allies and savages them. model citizen.
I will respond to this now. There isn’t any confusion to what I’ve written.
I know people who know both Matt and Gabe.
I never said I met them. I have not.
My understanding is the movie cost almost 2 million to make. I don’t make movies.
They don’t ask for money I will throw that in for free.
I have no idea why An Open Secret is not verified. Maybe it has something to do with giving Twitter your drivers license. Evidently being verified isn’t important enough for them to give Jack their drivers license. It’s what it looks like to me.
I’m not sure about the confusion with me messaging An Open Secret.
It is no secret that I messaged with them. My Twitter DM’s were hacked. It was no secret that I messaged with them.
They are both very approachable people as long as you don’t act like an asshat with them.
They did a good thing and to criticize them makes it look to me like you just complain about everything. Never satisfied.
It also looks like you are attacking anything having to do with children being sexually abused.
If everyone is concerned about children then it should show up somewhere. Right?
That’s why I said I don’t want to talk with people who strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.
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How To Get The Most From Facebook Topic Data
December 12, 2016 /in Content Performance /by Caitlin Green
One of the two* most common questions we encounter with clients and prospective clients is about Facebook, specifically what data is actually available for searching and monitoring, and from whom? That’s because all social media monitoring platforms have revealed, perhaps reluctantly, that useful specific data which was previously available has gone. Users are in a state of slight confusion, but in fact what has gone is quite small and what is “left” now is quite useful. How it all works is quite simple, once you understand it.
What Facebook data is no longer available?
Facebook previously allowed monitoring services to access a sample of content from personal public posts and Facebook Pages (through their Public API). After a review aimed at upgrading privacy and ensuring that members could feel very confident about the privacy of their data, Facebook removed access to the sample of public posts from individuals. Facebook announced this last year and closed down access in April 2015.
The reason this had an adverse effect on social media monitoring software vendors was that customers were using the software to monitor for brand and topic conversations from the stream of personal public posts. When a relevant mention was identified the user could also be identified, and some action taken e.g. customer service actions.
Facebook has deliberately and specifically removed the ability to monitor personal posts, and to identify individuals, as a product of its Privacy-By-Design approach to services.
Social media monitoring companies are not headlining this as it removes a feature which many users found beneficial, especially for customer service and online reputation monitoring. For many social media monitoring solutions it now means, in practice, that users are left with only Twitter for real time monitoring. In addition, some social media monitoring companies are offering services which apparently do harvest and provide public posts from individuals. This is achieved by hacking Facebook and collecting data in violation of the Facebook Terms of Service, although some of their brand-name customers seem oblivious to this illegality.
Thus, given that (a) it is not a “winner” to promote the loss of Facebook personal post monitoring, and (b) false and misleading claims are being made by some social media monitoring vendors, customers are often confused.
However, what customers thought they were losing is often a lot less than they imagined.
The previous access which Facebook provided to personal public posts was only a sample. Even with those solutions that had access to Facebook’s Public API, end users were only receiving a fraction of what was being posted and nowhere near a large enough percentage to perform full customer service or reputation monitoring effectively on Facebook.
Facebook still allows access to Facebook Pages and monitoring systems can connect those pages to their monitoring analysis.
That means that you can monitor your own Pages or the Pages of others – your competitors – in the same way as before with the same access to and volume of data available to you.
Here is the simple summary, so far:
You can no longer collect or see any information from personal posts.
What you saw before was a small fraction of public personal posts.
Brand Pages, yours and anyone else’s, are still available for monitoring.
There are no legal exceptions.
What is Facebook Topic Data, again?
Although you can still connect to and monitor Pages the activity on Pages is dwarfed by activity by people on their personal newsfeeds, in fact Datasift analysed the latter to be 70X the former.
The question facing Facebook was how to provide insights into their global treasure trove of personal activity while adhering to their Privacy-By-Design guidelines?
The answer is Facebook Topic Data, which is made available exclusively through Datasift to third party social media monitoring and analytics vendors. This latter point is important to know, that the only source of authorised Facebook Topic Data is Datasift, and Datasift approves each and every third party seeking access to that data to ensure they meet Facebook’s privacy and security conditions.
Facebook Topic Data is easy to understand – it is everything you see when you log in to your Facebook account, with everything which could personally identify you or your friends stripped away.
What is left is the actual content, the actions you took – liking, sharing, saving etc – and all of the demographic data about you – where you live, what you do, age, etc etc. Plus, all the information which Facebook knows about you (the Facebook Graph still lives) which is an enormous amount given that Facebook knows every click you’ve ever made.
Facebook uses the latter information as part of the filtering for content which is a key part of the power of Topic Data.
When Datasift on behalf of clients (third party social media monitoring platforms) requests searches on topics from Facebook, Facebook strips all personal identity from the relevant posts it finds and stores the post text and its meta-data within Facebook’s infrastructure. It then allows Datasift access to this aggregated and anonymised data under certain conditions.
There are three key conditions:
No post content can be associated with any individual;
There have had to have been at least 1000 accumulated mentions by unique individuals of a specific topic which is the subject of the search; and,
For any segmentation or filtering within the recorded minimum collection of 1000 mentions there have to be contributions by at least 100 unique individuals.
It sounds a little confusing until you realise that the social media monitoring software will set up a topic search and then request Datasift to begin “listening” to Facebook data for that information. Until Facebook finds the first 1000 mentions of that topic by unique individuals it will block Datasift’s access to the pool of topic records it is creating. The key concept to know is that topic searches are not retrospective analyses, rather they are monitoring from the time of initiation.
The social media monitoring software will provide ways to visualise and report on the accumulated data, providing more than 1000 mentions from unique individuals has been reached, and each of these filters or requests will be subject to the requirement that the results comprise results from at least 100 unique individuals. For example, you have the 1000 mentions and you request a gender breakdown but the 1000 mentions only has mentions from 89 women. In this case Facebook will refuse the request and no information on gender breakdown will be returned.
Here is the simple summary of this part:
Provided more than 1000 people mention something you are searching for you will be given access to the context of those posts;
If you then want to examine that context in further detail you will only be able to see that detail if there are more than 100 people in the smallest cell of that detail e.g. age breakdown.
Why Topic Data is so valuable
Having lost the ability to monitor non-Pages for customer service or real-time interaction you may be wondering why Topic Data is so valuable.
The first thing to get clear is that it is not valuable for real-time monitoring. That is history and that is all over except for Pages.
Topic Data is for analysis, and it is incredibly valuable for one simple reason. The reason is that Facebook knows so much about so many people.
Twitter is useful but Twitter knows very little about each user. Facebook knows a lot about you stretching from the first-party data you have provided (self-declared demographic data including location) through to the graph it has built about your interests and actions.
Not only that but Facebook has one of the most advanced Artificial Intelligence laboratories in the world and some of the most advanced applications of AI in business. It uses this to understand if a topic, say a brand or an event or an activity, is the main focus of a post or only an ancillary artefact. In this way it uses “human-like” intelligence to understand stories (every post is a “story”). It also uses similar applications of AI to determine very accurate sentiment analysis, which is accessible to Topic Data users.
Topic Data covers 139 countries. It is not meant to be used to view posts, and cannot be used in that way. It is used to understand trends and data from a macro view.
Topic Data can provide the following types of insights, accurately, and in a way never available before:
Which image of our product is most popular in Chicago, New York, London, and Paris among users with Pinterest demographics?
Which image of our new game is being shared most globally?
Which link to which website is being shared most about Donald Trump among middle-aged women?
Find females talking about Hockey in Toronto;
Find people talking about sleep apnea devices in North America;
What type of content is most popular about banks in Australia – links, photos, videos?
What are people saying about Qantas and safety?
What are people saying about Obama and healthcare?
These questions sound kind of innocuous, we have been able to search those types of questions in social media before right?
Well not quite right, actually. Facebook Topic Data allows you to search those across every post on Facebook. That is across 100% of private and public posts. This is a firehose of data like none other that has ever existed before because of both the volume and the quality of the descriptive data which is associated with each of those posts.
So those searches have the potential to reveal incredible insights. Of course you can track trends over time, for example to find out how the popularity of a TV series is tracking by age or location or gender, or how a link to an external site is tracking across time, or sentiment about a detailed topic.
The difference between this and social media monitoring is that there is no content available, only the analysis of the context within which that content appears.
If you are thinking ahead you might ask “how can we fine tune a topic if we cannot see if the data being found is relevant?”.
Facebook provides for this by using Super Public Posts. These are posts are completely anonymized and their text is made available for inspection for the sole purpose of improving the topic formulation and filtering.
Facebook Topic Data allows for unprecedented data access for such purposes as brand research, brand health analysis, product development, share of voice, audience analysis, demand forecasting and a multitude of other research objectives.
The data which was previously available from Facebook Pages to social media monitoring platforms remains essentially the same.
The data available for Topic Data comprises 100% of data on Facebook whereas before it was a very small subset of public posts.
New reporting products such as Sysomos Scout act as a reporting and analysis layer on top of Facebook Data and add value through innovative user interfaces, insightful graphics and potentially data science applied to the topic data.
Deriving data-led marketing and social media strategies using Topic Data is the newest and one of the most powerful games in town for all businesses.
*The other “most common question” we get from clients is about Twitter geofiltering.
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STEAM Day celebrates STEM and arts
Shalynn Billings, Entertainment Editor|November 7, 2019
STEAM day was held on October 22 for students in 7th through 10th grade to introduce them to the variety of classes North has to offer.
STEAM stands for Science, Technology, English, Arts and Math and represents all of the types of classes new and recurring students might find enjoyable.
“It’s just an opportunity to get hands-on experience before actually being students at North. I think we want to start younger, so students can start getting interested. Student choice is huge, and I think it’s never too young to start thinking about what you want to do with the rest of your life,” said family and consumer science teacher Courtney Plaza.
The school wants to represent everything it has to offer, so they added to ‘A’ in STEM and made it STEAM so that the arts could be represented. That includes theater and food classes.
“To open the doors of availability that students may not know is there in these specific areas, the hope and the goal is that students are able to see before they register for classes what they actually entail. Because a lot of the time there’s too many classes for the counselors to go over everything and there’s not enough time for me as one teacher to go through and talk to every single student,” said English and theater teacher Clare McConville.
Students volunteered in the night where they could inspire other students to join classes that interest them the most.
“I got involved with it because I wanted to inspire other people to take the classes. I feel like it’s really something that’s underrepresented in the school, and I think that everyone should take a lot of these classes because it would boost their world view,” said senior and Green Room stage manager Austin Glass.
This was the first time STEAM night was ever held. There are many hopes from the teachers that the night will have made a lasting effect on every student who decided to come.
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“Showcasing different things such as acting games, voice games, or reading from a script, those are the kinds of things that we do in the theater classes,” Glass said.
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Tapeworm Eggs in a 270 Million-Year-Old Shark Coprolite
Paula C. Dentzien-Dias ,
* E-mail: pauladentzien@gmail.com
Affiliation Laboratório de Paleontologia e Paleoceanografia, Instituto de Oceanografia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande, Brazil
George Poinar Jr,
Affiliation Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America
Ana Emilia Q. de Figueiredo,
Affiliation Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Departamento de Paleontologia e Estratigrafia. Porto Alegre, Brazil
Ana Carolina L. Pacheco,
Affiliation Universidade Federal do Piauí, Campus Senador Helvídio Nunes de Barros, Picos, Piauí. Brazil
Bruno L. D. Horn,
Cesar L. Schultz
Paula C. Dentzien-Dias,
Paula C. Dentzien-Dias George Poinar Jr ... Cesar L. Schultz
Remains of parasites in vertebrates are rare from the Mesozoic and Paleozoic. Once most parasites that live in – or pass through – the gastrointestinal tract of vertebrates, fossil feces (coprolites) or even intestinal contents (enterolites) can eventually preserve their remains. Here we announce the discovery of a spiral shark coprolite from the Paleozoic bearing a cluster of 93 small oval-elliptical smooth-shelled structures, interpreted as eggs of a tapeworm.The eggs were found in a thin section of an elasmobranch coprolite. Most of the eggs are filled by pyrite and some have a special polar swelling (operculum), suggesting they are non-erupted eggs. One of the eggs contains a probable developing larva. The eggs are approximately 145–155 µm in length and 88–100 µm in width and vary little in size within the cluster. The depositional and morphological features of the eggs closely resemble those of cestodes. Not only do the individual eggs have features of extant tapeworms, but their deposition all together in an elongate segment is typical to modern tapeworm eggs deposited in mature segments (proglottids). This is the earliest fossil record of tapeworm parasitism of vertebrates and establishes a timeline for the evolution of cestodes. This discovery shows that the fossil record of vertebrate intestinal parasites is much older than was hitherto known and that the interaction between tapeworms and vertebrates occurred at least since the Middle-Late Permian.
Citation: Dentzien-Dias PC, Poinar G Jr, de Figueiredo AEQ, Pacheco ACL, Horn BLD, Schultz CL (2013) Tapeworm Eggs in a 270 Million-Year-Old Shark Coprolite. PLoS ONE 8(1): e55007. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0055007
Editor: Julio Francisco Turrens, University of South Alabama, United States of America
Received: November 1, 2012; Accepted: December 19, 2012; Published: January 30, 2013
Copyright: © 2013 Dentzien-Dias et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Funding: Financial support was provided by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - Brazil (CNPq) through a study grant (PCD-D, AEQF and BH) and the Project 478914/2006-7 (Edital MCT/CNPq 02/2006 - Universal). This work was also partially funded by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (http://www.cnpq.br/) through scholarships granted to AEQF, BH and CLS. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Paleoparasitology is the study of parasites found in archaeological or paleontological material [1], [2]. Parasite remains consists mostly of eggs and larvae of intestinal parasites [3], mainly helminthes, and can provide important diet and disease information regarding their hosts. Helminthes include nematodes (roundworms), trematodes (flukes), cestodes (tapeworms), and acanthocephalans (thorny-headed worms).
Presently, elasmobranchs carry within their spiral intestines various types of parasites, being cestodes the most diverse of them [4]. Cestodes have also been reported from the viscera and body cavity of numerous large teleosts and from the stomach of sharks [5]. Cestodes eggs are characterized by their smooth external surface, mammillations, equatorial bulges, spines or striations [6].
Extant and fossil tapeworm eggs are morphologically very similar to each other and it is impossible to diagnose a specific infection based only on eggs [3] so that paleoparasitological analyses using them are limited to the phylum or ordinal level [7].
Helminth parasites rarely produce eggs with long-lived resistance to environmental stressors. Most of their eggs are fragile, so that they start to decompose very early outside their host [3]. Eggs of some nematode and cestode parasites have a good chance of recovery [3]. The crucial factor for the preservation of parasite eggs is the rapid interruption of decay. It usually occurs only under extreme moist, arid, frozen or anoxic environmental conditions [7].
In archeological studies is usual to find well-preserved remains of intestinal parasites and pathogens which affected health [3], [8], [9], [10]. However, the older the material, the greater the loss of parasites [9]. In fact, the occurrence of fossil parasites in paleontological material is rare. For the Mesozoic [11], just a single record of intestinal parasites (protozoan cysts and helminth eggs) in a coprolite was described, while in the Paleozoic, a mass of possible helminth eggs from the coprolitic rectal fill of a Pennsylvanian shark, perhaps of cestode origin [12], was described. In addition, circlets of parasitic platyhelminth hooks were found in acanthodians from the Late Devonian [13].
Here in we describe the first definite record of cestode parasites in an elasmobranch coprolite from the Paleozoic (about 270 Ma), which is, in fact, the oldest record of parasite eggs in a vertebrate coprolite. The specimen is housed in the Laboratório de Paleontologia de Vertebrados of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, under the collection number UFRGS-PV-429-P. No specific permits were required for the described field studies.
The material came from the Rio do Rasto Formation from Paraná Basin, Mid to Late Permian [14] and was collected in the municipality of São Gabriel, southern Brazil. This formation is characterized by a sequence of fine to medium cross stratificated sandstones, interbedded with siltstones and mudstones, and is interpreted as deposited under fluvio-lacustrine conditions [14]. Its fossil record consists of continental plants, invertebrates and vertebrates [15], [16], [17].
In the same outcrop where UFRGS-PV-429-P was collected, we have found around 500 other coprolites in an area of 100 m×30 m [18]. All the specimens were photographed and measured and 14 specimens were cut using standard thin section techniques (the same used for rock samples), in order to search for internal structures, petrographic fabrics and inclusions [18], [19]. Longitudinal sections were made in all the 14 selected samples, approximately in a median plane of each one. In three of them a transversal section were made too. The thin section obtained from the longitudinal cutting of UFRGS-PV-429-P showed, under optic microscopy, scales and bones fragments [18], as well as a cluster of unusual oval-shaped structures. This coprolite (Fig. 1), with 5 cm in length and 2 cm in diameter, is classified as a spiral heteropolar [20], characterized by a variable number of closely spaced whorls concentrated in just one end. This morphology and the inclusions (fish scales and bone fragments) are typical features for elasmobranche coprolites [20].
Figure 1. Spiral heteropolar coprolite with cestode eggs.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0055007.g001
The oval-shaped structures (# = 93) are grouped in a segment 4 mm long and 1 mm wide (Fig. 2A). They reveal structures typical of tapeworm eggs. The eggs are ovoid, smooth shelled and range from 145–155 µm in length and 88–100 µm in width. Most are dark and filled with pyrite and/or hematite. Some eggs appear to have been broken (Fig. 2B). One egg contains a developing embryophore (Fig. 3). In this egg, only part of the outer envelope, composed by a thin shell or “capsule”, remains. The remainder, including the vitelline capsule, apparently underwent apoptosis, as occurs with extant cestode eggs [21]. The inner envelope is composed of several layers, the innermost one of which forms the embryophore (oncosphere). Portions of the oncospheral membrane are also apparent. Within the embryophore is a cluster of small putative somatic (or germinative) cells and some fiber-like objects that could represent early stages of hooklet formation. Strands of dense material seemingly attached to the embryophore may be polar thickenings of the inner envelope [22]. A small slightly protruding operculum is also present. Opercula can be better observed on eggs in Fig. 2B.
Figure 2. Parasite eggs in a shark coprolite.
A - Thin section of the coprolite part containing clustered parasite eggs. B – Cestode eggs, the perfect oval shape hole were formed after the filling were reaped out from the coprolite during the lamination, the arrows show the operculum.
Figure 3. Cestode egg.
A - (photo) Cestode egg with a developing embryophore. B - (drawing) Partial reconstruction of egg in A. Abbreviations: C = capsule or shell; E = embryophore (ochosphere); H = putative developing hooklets; I = inner envelope; M = oncospheral membrane; O = outer envelope; P = putative polar thickening; Op = operculum; S = somatic cells.
Besides the similar morphology, the mass deposition of these fossil eggs in an elongate segment is typical of modern tapeworm eggs deposited in mature proglottids. When an extant tapeworm proglottid is full of eggs, it breaks off in the stomach or intestine of the host and eventually passes out of the body with the feces [23]. Normally, maturation of the eggs occurs only after this separation, so fully mature eggs occur only in the host gut and feces [24].
Since the fossil egg contains both yolk and a well-developed shell, there was probably an extensive vitellaria. This is characteristic of the pseudophyllidean egg type, which occurs in the Pseudophyllidea, Trypanorhyncha and Tetraphyllidea, all of which infect aquatic hosts [21], [25], [26].
Tapeworm taxonomy is confusing and controversial. Typically four (out of 11) orders of tapeworms parasitize elasmobranchs, the Diphyllidea, Lecanicephalidea, Tetraphyllidea and Trypanorhyncha [6], [27]. Unfortunately very little information is available on egg structure in these orders. Even the few measurements given are in question since they were made on eggs in segments still attached to the parasite and in many cases, the eggs continue to develop (and enlarge) after the proglottids are released into the gut of the host [24].
The larger size of the fossil eggs described herein distinguish them from known extant tapeworm eggs. In size and shape the fossil eggs most closely resemble those of the shark parasite, Disculiceps pileatum (Linton) ( = Discocephalum pileatum Linton, 1890), which has oval, brown eggs measuring 110 µm long by 80 µm wide [24]. However the systematic placement of this species is controversial. It was considered a “dubious species” and originally described as a new order, the Heterophyllidea [24], and later was transferred it to the Tetraphyllidea [25]. Since the size of the great majority of elasmobranch tapeworm eggs are unknown, some extant forms could have eggs within the range of the fossils. Then again, the large egg size could be characteristic of some Permian cestodes.
Although it is not possible to assign the fossil eggs to any extant tapeworm group, some characters (operculum, egg shape and size) are reminiscent to those found in the Tetraphyllidea. This is the most widespread order of cestodes found in Elasmobranchs, with some 540 extant species.
In some fish parasites (nematodes species) the mature eggs contain fully formed first-stage larvae, which do not hatch spontaneously in the external environment. Some eggs of other groups are uncleaved at the time of oviposition, and the larvae develop only in the external environment, where they undergo their first moult inside the egg shells and hatch in the external environment [28]. This could explain why we do not observe the larvae in all of the eggs.
The presence of pyrite in the coprolites indicates anoxic environmental conditions, which probably were responsible for the preservation of both coprolites and parasites. The same pattern occurs in feces of Neolithic Age, in which some parasite eggs show the embryo inside the egg, filled with crystals of pyrite [9], [29].
The possibility of the fossil eggs belonging to a trematode or nematode was considered. However, eggs of digenetic trematodes are deposited singly and not in groups as in the case of the present fossils. They also do not demonstrate hook formation during development. Most trematodes associated with sharks are ectoparasitic or occur in the body cavity (pericardial and coelomic cavities). While the spiral valve of extant sharks is usually full of cestodes, there are almost never digenean trematodes in this location [30], [31], [32].
Nematodes are also rare in sharks and while species of Acanthocheilus Molin, 1858 and Ichthyostrongylus Mawson, 1954 occur in the alimentary tract, the eggs are deposited singly, not in masses [33].
The crowding of individuals of a population in a restricted area favors the dissemination of parasites [9], which enhance the possibility of its preservation, as seems to have occurred in the present case. As mentioned above, the coprolite is part of a set of more than 500 specimens found in a restricted area. It was interpreted as a freshwater pond where many fishes became entrapped for some time, probably during a dry period [18]. It could explain the great number of coprolites of different shapes and sizes all together, as well as the anoxia in the bottom of the water column (evidenced by the presence of pyrite in the coprolites and also by the high number of preserved coprolites).
Many extant tapeworms require several hosts to complete their development. The first is often an invertebrate that is eaten by a second host, normally a frog, fish, or reptile, and maturation continues through the next stage [34]. Tapeworms reach adulthood (developing eggs) when that animal is eaten by a third, and final, host. The studied coprolite has fish scales and bone fragments allowing us to infer that the second host of this tapeworm was a fish.
Even in Holocenic remains only a small amount of coprolites contain parasite eggs [8], depend on the method of processing and observation selected. This emphasizes that the finding of parasite eggs in a coprolite of about 270 Ma is an amazing discovery, mainly because no special method was used to find the parasite eggs.
Infectious diseases have been poorly reported for vertebrates from Permian [35] and the Paleozoic as a whole. Even extensive studies of inclusions in coprolites [36] did not reveal any parasite. The fossil parasite eggs presented here corroborate the theory that parasitism was present since the advent of life [37].
This is the earliest fossil record of tapeworm parasitism of vertebrates and establishes a timeline for the evolution of cestodes. Analyses of tapeworm phylogeny state that based on parasite phylogeny and the mapping of host groups, there is no indication that eucestodes existed in archaic sharks and rays [26]. While it is impossible to state what vertebrate group served as the original hosts to tapeworms, the present study shows that elasmobranchs (neoselachians), were hosts of tapeworms some 270 million years ago. The lacustrine environment could well have been the ancestral habitat of cestodes, with elasmobranchs as their primitive final hosts.
We greatly acknowledge Juan Cisneros, Alexandre Liparini, Marco Aurélio de França, Felipe Pinheiro, Tomaz Melo, Flávio Pretto and Marcel Lacerda for field work support and discussions.
Field and laboratorial support: AEQF BH. Analyzed the data: PCD-D GP AEQF BH ACLP CLS. Wrote the paper: PCD-D GP AEQF.
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Who Should Have a Seat at the Education Policy Table?
August 10, 2019 • Posted in Education, Politics
Tags: Civic Ventures, Dr. Bettina Love, Education Justice, Pitchfork Economics
(This was originally an email which I sent to Civic Ventures, a political advocacy group (think tank?) based in Seattle, which also produces the Pitchfork Economics podcast. Because it got so long, and because it reflects my general thinking on education, I decided to post it here.)
My name is Kermit O, and I’m an educator in Philadelphia, as well as an avid listener of the podcast. The recent episode with Diane Ravitch was extremely important, as was Nick’s article in the Atlantic. I immediately thought: everyone needs to hear/read this – and you can bet it will come up in my next staff PD.
Pitchfork Economics: Educationism (with Diane Ravitch)
http://www.pitchforkeconomics.com/episode-player/423/educationism-with-diane-ravitch.mp3
But then I thought, who’s really gonna hear or read these things? Certainly the fact that it was tweeted by Barack Obama will expand its reach, but generally it will still be people, like me, who are already attuned to the impact of income inequality on everything, people already primed to have these conversations.
This is worth a read: a thought-provoking reminder that education reform isn’t a cure-all. As a supporter of education reform, I agree that fixing educational inequality requires doing more to address the broader, systemic sources of economic inequality. https://t.co/96B7fkBM4u
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 18, 2019
I know Civic Ventures does work on the policy side of things, but what I kept hearing, implicitly, was that it was up to “woke” wealthy people like Nick, and their wealthy or politically connected circles to fix the problem. What, I wondered, is even my role as a teacher, if schools aren’t really the issue? What do you see as the role of my students, their families, other teachers, and community advocates? To hold some line while other people work toward solutions?
Well, of course not. It seemed to me that if ultimately we’re advocating for a fair and just democracy, then the best thing I could do would be to civically engage and activate my students to advocate on their own behalf. But before that, because my students come from poverty and trauma, to be a reliable, safe adult in whom they can confide, who provides some stability which may be in short supply, who encourages them that they are more than their circumstances. Not in a “bootstraps” way – but by helping them to understand the systems that obstruct every path toward their liberation.
I am lucky, because this Fall I will be at a school where I have the freedom to steer my curriculum toward that end. The neoliberal “data driven” model in most public schools doesn’t allow that. Having worked in those kinds of schools most of my career, I have learned firsthand what happens to teachers who push back against that system. I’ve been both with and without Union protection and seen ferocious backlash.
Soon after I listened to the Ravitch episode, I started reading this book:
We Want to Do More Than Survive
by Dr. Bettina Love
This passage, from early in the book, connected me back to the point Nick and Ravitch were making:
We Want to Do More Than Survive, Page 17
This in turn made me think about how it was Diane Ravitch on the podcast and not Dr. Love, and what that meant. Kudos to Ravitch – and Nick – for recognizing their decades of misguided thinking. I mean that sincerely.
But that whole time, there were other voices, on the margins of academia and the political sphere – pushed there by the relentless power of the status quo and those who uphold it – who were already making the case Nick and Diane only just came to understand. There were teachers who understood it, even if they didn’t have the vocabulary or the platform to make the case, or if they did, were quickly buried by the neoliberal demands of the system and punished for noncompliance.
Why do we keep hearing from the same people? Why do we have to wait for the wealthy or elite or well-connected to have a change of heart, and then promote them, they who did so much of the damage, rather than finally giving a platform to those who had been sounding the alarm for years? Those who had been working *against* the abuses of the neoliberal establishment?
When 2020 Democratic Presidential candidates are writing their education platforms, who are they consulting? People like Ravitch, no doubt. While that’s better than an Arne Duncan or Michelle Rhee, it keeps on the margins those important voices, who have spent the past decades advancing the position the “Reformed Reformers” have only recently embraced, adding to it much nuance, practical experience, research, and vital intersectional perspectives. The “right people” just aren’t in the room when these platforms are being designed, which is why progress is slow to nonexistent.
So I come back to the question in my subject line, for you all at Civic Ventures. Who is your audience? And who do you hope to impact? If the latter is much larger than the former, what does that mean? To me, it reflects the thinking that only the well-connected or well informed few will have a seat at the table where the decisions are made. Which I feel is antithetical to any serious push for democracy.
Where does this thinking leave me, as a solitary educator? Now, to be clear, I am not idle or isolated. I am active within the “radical wing” of the teacher’s union, where we advance positions that look at the bigger picture, and argue from a baseline of racial/social/economic justice. But this often means battling against our own, the deeply entrenched status quo upholding “mainstream”, who prioritize our pay and benefits – important, yes – but at the expense of everything else we know is important.
It leaves me trying to equip my students with the knowledge and skills to fight a morally bankrupt system. But I feel like these different efforts play out in well-insulated silos. What would happen if policy makers and influencers were aligned and in close communication with those of us “on the ground”?
What would happen if Pitchfork Economics had Dr. Bettina Love as a guest rather than Diane Ravitch? What would happen if Civic Ventures had even one black face on the team – someone like Jesse Hagopian right there in Seattle – who works from a racial justice perspective?
What would happen if Nick interviewed with The Breakfast Club, where his message would be heard by more of the people you all seek to impact? There he would also be relentlessly scrutinized by people like Charlamagne, Envy, or Yee, who are going to ask the sorts of questions regular people might have, if only to clarify some of the more opaque aspects of economics discourse. They might critique Nick’s position from an angle he may not have considered, because he literally does not have access to it as a wealthy white man. If this seems far-fetched, or unworthy of Nick’s time, ask why people like Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, and Andrew Yang have seen fit to appear on the program.
Again, who is the podcast for? And is that audience truly the best positioned to bring about the change we need?
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One of the year's most celebrated nights in fashion is going down tonight!
On Monday (May 6), the stars will arrive dressed to the nines as the 2019 Met Gala kicks off at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Curator in charge Andrew Bolton revealed "Camp: Notes on Fashion" as this year's exhibition theme, inspired by author and famed photographer Susan Sontag's 1964 essay "Notes on 'Camp,'" which will concern “love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration... style at the expense of content... the triumph of the epicene style."
The red carpet for annual high-fashion function opens tonight at 5:00 p.m. EST — so be sure to check back, as we'll be covering all the celebrity looks and arrivals in our gallery below.
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VANCOUVER, BC - FEBRUARY 21: Arizona Coyotes Center Derek Stepan (21) is pursued by Vancouver Canucks Defenseman Ashton Sautner (29) during their NHL game at Rogers Arena on February 21, 2019 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. (Photo by Derek Cain/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Arizona Coyotes first-line centreman Derek Stepan has practiced with the team on their current East coast road trip. That’s good and unexpected news for the Coyotes who had expected him to miss four-to-six weeks from a lower-body injury.
Derek Stepan Could See Action This Weekend
Adding Stepan at This Time of the Season is Vital
Per Craig Morgan who covers the Arizona Coyotes head coach Rick Tocchet stated that Stepan could be ready to play against the New Jersey Devils and or the New York Islanders.
Coyotes coach Rick Tocchet said C Derek Stepan is “very very close” to returning to the lineup. We could see him this weekend against New Jersey or the New York islanders.
— Craig Morgan (@craigsmorgan) March 20, 2019
The Arizona Coyotes could really use the services of veteran assistant captain Derek Stepan and it appears that he may be back in the lineup soon. In 64 games this season Stepan has 13 goals, 32 assists. His Corsi for % at even strength is 50.4.
When he went down in the Vancouver Canucks‘ game it didn’t look good. Then, it was confirmed that he would be out of action for four-to-six weeks. That meant that he would not be back until near the very end of the season and maybe for the playoffs… if the Coyotes made it.
Well, they’ve managed to obtain a 6-3-1 record for the 10 games he has missed due to injury. They are currently on a huge road trip where they will play the Florida Panthers tomorrow night, then the New Jersey Devils Saturday night and the New York Islanders in a Sunday matinee.
What This Means Going Forward
With the recent return of both Michael Grabner and Jason Demers, the Arizona Coyotes can have more of a complete lineup going into the end of the season and hopefully the playoffs. In addition, all three of these returning injured players are veterans. This is a young team and they need the leadership provided by veteran players.
For once head coach Rick Tocchet may have the luxury of arranging lines as he sees fit instead of filling the gaps caused by injuries.
Even after a courageous loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning on Tuesday night, Tocchet was proud of his player’s effort.“That’s probably the most proud I’ve been of the team all year. I thought we were very good tonight … You’re playing a number one (team) and I thought we handled ourselves really well. Guys played hard. They stuck to the system.”
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David R. Juneau
Experienced & Knowledgeable Real Estate Lawyer! Exceptional Representation!
Dave is an experienced and skilled Real Estate Attorney at McNamee Lochner P.C. He represents clients in all aspects of residential and commercial transactions, including alternative financing agreements, foreclosures of... Read More »
Thomas P. Connolly
Knowledgeable and Trustworthy! Real Estate Law Attorney! Exceptional Advocacy!
Thomas P. Connolly joined McNamee Lochner in 1966, has been a principal since 1970, and assumed the position as "Of Counsel" as of January 1, 2005. Tom's areas of concentration are public finance and securities,... Read More »
Vincent L. Valenza
Exceptional Legal Representation! Experienced Real Estate Law Attorney!
Vincent L. Valenza provides clients with advice and assistance on a broad range of business issues and transactions including the formation and operation of business entities; business start-ups; business expansions... Read More »
Barry D. Kramer
Albany County, NY Real Estate Law Attorney with 52 years experience
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Derrick Hogan
Albany County, NY Real Estate Law Attorney
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Jennifer J. Corcoran
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(518) 447-3352Albany Law SchoolNew Hampshire CollegeNew YorkFidelity National Title GroupAmerican Bar Association and American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Kevin Francis McGarry
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(518) 447-3391University of Florida and University of Florida Levin College of LawUniversity of FloridaFlorida, New York and U.S. Tax CourtThe Chamber of Schenectady County, Niskayuna Boy Scout Troop 37...
Douglas J. Rose
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Kristie Halloran Hanson
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George Deflumer Mchugh
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(518) 475-0016University Of BuffaloNew York and District of ColumbiaCapital District Habitat for Humanity, Inc.DC Bar and New York State Bar
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UIL Conference Re-alignment Places LISD in 4A
This chart from the UIL website shows the classification details, by population size. Lindale High School has 1203 students, landing it in the 4A classification.
Joshua Smith, Assistant Editor
Lindale ISD is set to transition from a 5A school to 4A in the 2020-2021 school year. This comes along with a re-alignment of schools, all being based solely upon school population size and enrollment levels determined by UIL.
“Since we [are going] from the smallest school in the 5A classification to the largest in 4A, I think it [will open] up a lot of academic opportunities for students competing in academics in terms of the amount of students that we can get to the state level,” Principal Jeremy Chilek said. “The main goal regardless is to get more students out of the district and regional level, ensuring that we can have as many students competing and hopefully winning at state.”
Even while students are going to be competing in a smaller classification, that isn’t to say that the competition is to be substantially different from how it is now. The way that competitions are adjudicated are the same regardless of division, just with less schools and students.
“I honestly don’t know if it changes a whole lot for us in speech and debate or academics, for at the end of the day you still have to win and get higher scores,” UIL coordinator Rory McKenzie said. “All that really changes is the people who we are competing against. What changes is the question of opportunity to the students that are competing.”
Even while the higher amount of students may not mean a substantial shift in events such as speech and debate or academics, that story may not ring true for events such as band and athletics. Given that there is a higher pool of participants to draw from than other schools, there is potentially more talent and therefore more ability to perform better than others.
“I think that even while the transition to 4A may be daunting in the sense that we have brand new, unknown competition from what we have seen for the rest of my years of high school, it serves as an overall good,” junior Abigail Powell said. “I think it specifically helps band because of how we go from being one of, if not the smallest competitors in 5A, to the largest in 4A meaning that we may have a better chance of going to state.”
The transition means that we will be competing against schools more locally, rather than in more Metroplex areas. This changes the amount that students will have to travel to participate in events, and will generally bring all competition closer to home in more ways than one.
“The largest thing that changes with this transition in my mind is the school spirit aspect of it all,” Chilek said. “We are going to be moving to a district where we are competing against communities that are right around us. We will have a stronger sense of community pride when we are competing with rivalries. It allows us to have a more emphasized opportunity to build a stronger, more unified community.”
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Changes in practice and law : a selection of essays by members of the legal profession to mark twenty-five years of the Irish Legal History Society by Hogan, Daire Publication: Dublin Four Courts, 2013 . xxi , 175 p. 24 cm. Availability: Items available: Main Library [340.15 ILHS (H)] (1),
'R.R. Cherry (1859-1923) Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, 1914-1916 : paper delivered at the annual general meeting of The Irish Legal History Society on Friday 10 October 1997 at the premises of the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Balmoral Avenue, Belfast. by Hogan, Daire Publication: . 27 p. Availability: Items available: Pamphlets/Offprints [P/ HOG] (1),
Brehons, serjeants and attorneys : studies in the history of the Irish legal profession / Daire Hogan and W.N. Osborough, editors. by Hogan, Daire Publication: Dublin Irish Academic Press in association with the Irish Legal History Society, 1990 . xix, 287 p. 24 cm. , Old accession number 10038. Availability: Items available: Main Library [340.15 ILHS (H)] (1),
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Tag: women’s fiction
Chat With the Author: She Writes To Bring Joy
By day, Dr. Trevy A. McDonald is a tenured professor of journalism who helps young minds hone their storytelling skills for a variety of communications professions. However, she also has another avenue for feeding her love of research and writing: penning and publishing fiction.
Her most recent works are two women’s fiction novels. The first book is titled Time Will Tell, and the sequel is Round ‘Bout Midnight, which explores the journeys of childhood friends Thomasine, Rachel and Hope as they seek to heal from hurts, unmet needs and unresolved issues. As these women mature and grow, they learn that life is best lived one day at a time, with each new day starting “’round ’bout midnight.”
Meet (or learn more) about Trevy here, as she shares her path to publishing books that feature characters who keep readers turning pages long into the night.
In what genre do you write? I primarily write women’s fiction, which I call “ChocLit” with a literary flair. My current work-in-progress is a middle grades series about the Civil Rights movement.
What is the title of your most recent book? My most recent book is titled Round ‘Bout Midnight. It is the sequel to my novel Time Will Tell. Both books are titles of songs from an early Wynton Marsalis recording The All-American Hero. In Time Will Tell each chapter is titled after a song which was current when the chapter was set and relates to a theme in the chapter. In Round ‘Bout Midnight each chapter is the title of a jazz song, and most of them are standards. The first chapter, It Never Entered My Mind is also the opening line for each of the three main characters. Other chapter titles include “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy,” “Rise,” “Love’s Serenade,” and “In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning.”
What is your primary goal as an author – what do you want your readers to get out of your books? My goal as an author is in line with my life’s purpose, which is to use my God-given gifts and talents to uplift, inspire and empower others in an informative and entertaining way which brings them joy.
What has been the most surprising feedback you’ve received from readers about your current book or another recent title? One reader shared that Round ‘Bout Midnight is more than a work of fiction and compared it to Paula Giddings When and Where I Enter and Alice Walker’s “In Search of Our Mother’s Garden.” For this reader, Round ‘Bout Midnight is about a form of liberation that begins within.
What has been the most surprising aspect of your author journey? The range of audiences my novels attract. I think the biggest compliment came from a 98-year-old reader who recently read Time Will Tell and Round ‘Bout Midnight back to back. She shared that she stayed up late at night reading until she finished the books, and that she relived her younger days through the characters.
How do you continue growing as a writer? I’m an avid researcher and reader. I also explore other forms of art, such as photography and painting. This helps me in creating pictures with words in my fiction writing.
Who are two or three writers you admire or consider mentors? Yolanda Joe, Jacquelin Thomas and Venise Berry.
What else are you passionate about, i.e. if you weren’t an author, what else would you be doing? I am also a tenured professor of broadcast journalism. Representations of marginalized groups in mainstream media is an issue that I am extremely passionate about.
What do you like to do for fun? I enjoy running, photography, films, baking, painting, and my new hobby—knitting.
Trevy A. McDonald is an author, independent book publisher and tenured professor of journalism at the University of North Carolin at Chapel Hill. She was just 25 years old when she earned her Ph.D. from this university’s renowned journalism school and is the first African American woman to be tenured at the school. She pursues her passion and life purpose through writing and teaching. She also owns Reyomi Publishing, LLC, a successful independent book publishing and consulting company based in Durham N.C. Trevy is the author of the novel Time Will Tell, co-editor of two scholarly anthologies, and has contributed to numerous anthologies and publications. Her latest release is Round ‘Bout Midnight, the sequel to Time Will Tell. Learn more about Trevy at drtrevy.com and connect with her on Facebook at facebook.com/DrTrevy and Twitter at twitter.com/DrTrevy.
Author Stacy Hawkins AdamsPosted on 29 Mar 2019 29 Mar 2019 Categories Literary LoveTags african american authors, african american bloggers, African American books, African American literature, black authors, black writers, stacy adams, stacy hawkins adams, trevy mcdonald, women writers, women's fiction4 Comments on Chat With the Author: She Writes To Bring Joy
Chat with the Author: How Social Issues Fuel This Writer’s Creativity
I haven’t featured author friends in this space for a while, and I’m delighted to resume this practice for fall with one of my favorites – both for her provocative storytelling and for her work ethic as a multi-published, award-winning author.
Pamela Samuels Young and I have not had the pleasure of meeting in person (yet), and I’ll miss her next week when she visits the city where I’m based (Richmond, Virginia) to attend the James River Writers Conference.
However, she has always been supportive of my work as a writing coach, and we’ve danced in similar author circles for years. I salute her for holding down a full-time career in law while writing her books.
Today, just in time for book lovers to consider what new to read for the weekend, Pamela shares some thoughts about her writing process, her life as an author and one of her latest novels.
How many books have you written? 11 novels and one nonfiction book on natural hair.
What themes do you write about in your novels? Most of my books – which are legal thrillers – deal with social issues. For example, I’ve written about child sex trafficking (Anybody’s Daughter), gender discrimination (Attorney-Client Privilege) and sexual harassment (In Firm Pursuit). I didn’t start my writing career intending to take on social issues. It just turned out that the issues that interested me were great backdrops for legal thrillers.
What is the tile of your most recent book? The title of my most recent book is Abuse of Discretion.
I learned about teen sexting during a telephone conversation with a law school classmate who is a criminal defense attorney. He was complaining about having yet another teenage client charged with possession and distribution of child pornography as a result of sexting. He explained that teens all across the country were facing pornography charges after taking naked selfies and sharing them with a boyfriend, girlfriend or classmate. I was floored when he told me that these children—some as young as 13 or 14—were not only being prosecuted, but would have to register as sex offenders if convicted. As soon as we hung up, I Googled “teen sexting” and was stunned at the massive number of prosecutions all over the country. Many news articles called teen sexting an epidemic. I immediately knew this was a topic I wanted to explore in a legal thriller and Abuse of Discretion was the result.
Can you tell us more about the plot? In Abuse of Discretion, Graylin Alexander is a model 14-year-old. But when his principal gets a report that he has a naked picture of a classmate on his cell phone, he soon finds himself embroiled in the criminal justice system.
What do you want readers to know by the time they reach “The End”? My main goal in writing Abuse of Discretion was to educate parents and grandparents about the teen sexting epidemic and the very serious consequences for our children—who don’t even know they’re doing something that’s against the law. After the book was released, many readers expressed shock that kids were being prosecuted for sexting.I soon realized that I also needed to educate teens. For that reason, I created a young adult adaptation of the book, entitled #Abuse of Discretion. Open and honest discussion with our kids and grandkids about teen sexting is the key to saving them from the devastating legal consequences of an adolescent act that they don’t even know is a crime.When a reader—be it a teen or an adult—gets to the end of Abuse of Discretion, it’s my hope that they’ve enjoyed the mystery, but also that they’ve been educated about this epidemic.
What is your favorite writing space/location? Panera Bread
Outside of writing what do you do for fun? Work out at Orange Theory Fitness and hang out with my incredibly supportive girlfriends.
Author Pamela Samuels Young
More about Pamela Samuels Young: Attorney Pamela Samuels Young is the NAACP Image Award-winning author of Anybody’s Daughter. Her latest legal thrillers are Abuse of Discretion and #Abuse of Discretion(the young adult edition). She resides in her native California. Visit her at her website, PamelaSamuelsYoung.com or on Facebook.
Author Stacy Hawkins AdamsPosted on 5 Oct 2018 5 Oct 2018 Categories Literary LoveTags blogging, james river writers, legal thrillers, NAACP Image Award, pamela samuels young, stacy hawkins adams, women's fictionLeave a comment on Chat with the Author: How Social Issues Fuel This Writer’s Creativity
Chat with the Author: Transporting Readers to New Worlds Is Her Goal
Meet beloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani – a writer who has regaled millions of readers with her engaging stories of strong (and often hilarious) women – who I consider a friend and mentor.
Adriana’s 17th book will be released later this month, on June 20. Enjoy her Q&A with LifeUntapped, in which she details her author journey and shares about her books and characters.
In what genre do you write? I write fiction – big, noisy, lush novels about love, work and family. I’ve also written a non-fiction memoir, young adult novels, screenplays, teleplays and plays for the theater. I consider myself a dramatist, first and foremost, as the characters and the worlds they inhabit are alive to me, and hopefully to you the reader.
What is the title of your most recent book? Kiss Carlo [Scheduled for release on June 20, this novel has been described as “a delightfully sprawling comedy full of extended families, in all their cocooning warmth and suffocating expectations” by Kirkus Reviews.]
What is your primary goal as an author – What do you want your readers to gain from of your books? I hope my reader is transported to another place and time, where she takes her mind off her work, challenges and troubles and has a few laughs, connects to characters she can relate to, and finds some beauty and truth in the language.
What has been the most surprising feedback you’ve received from readers about your current book or another recent title? Some of my readers thought All the Stars in the Heavens, about the golden age of Hollywood, was a biography. It was not. It was historical fiction.
What has been the most surprising aspect of your author journey? I am always surprised at how energized I become in the company of my readers. They are my focus and the ultimate joy of writing anything. It’s their connection to the work that connects me to the work, too. That has been wonderful, and I didn’t anticipate it!
How do you continue growing as a writer?
The only way to grow is to put in the time. It’s hours in the chair- after hours of ruminating, gestating and thinking. It’s a funny job. It doesn’t look like a writer is doing anything, when in fact, she is building a world.
Who are two or three writers you admire or consider mentors? Ruth Goetz trained me as a dramatist when I moved to New York City. Prior to that, my mother, a librarian was and is my first and best teacher. She taught me to revere books, knowledge and the sacred act of reading. My teachers were fundamental in my development as a writer; Sister Theresa Kelly, Thelma Carter, Grace White, Elizabeth Callahan, Langley Flannary, Grace Skeens, Basil Walker, Dorothy Carter, Arline Sharpe, Iva Braly, Gary Willams, Greg Cantrell, Sigrid Holloman, Frances Lewis, Bernis Zander, Theresa Bledsoe, well, I could keep going, and forgive me, the long list would overwhelm your site! And, of course, my librarians, James Varner on the county bookmobile; Ernestine Roller at Big Stone Gap Elementary and the great Billie Jean Scott at Powell Valley High School. All were essential and beloved.
What else are you passionate about, i.e. if you weren’t an author, what else would you be doing? I’d be an interior designer.
What do you like to do for fun? Get ready for this one…. R E A D!
More About Adriana Trigiani: Adriana Trigiani is the New York Times bestselling author of 17 books in fiction and nonfiction. She is published in 35 countries around the world. Adriana is also a playwright, television writer/producer and filmmaker, and received accolades for the documentary film, Queens of the Big Time. She wrote and directed the major motion picture Big Stone Gap, filmed entirely on location in her Virginia hometown. The movie spent 11 weeks in theaters in the fall of 2015 and was the #2 top-grossing romantic comedy of the year. Adriana co-founded The Origin Project with Nancy Bolmeier Fisher, an in-school writing program which serves over a thousand students in the Appalachian mountains of Virginia. She lives in New York City with her family and their rescue pets. Adriana speaks to book clubs and classrooms regularly. To invite her and schedule a Skype, please reach out to her at adrianaasst@aol.com, join her on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or visit her at her website: adrianatrigiani.com. Adriana’s new novel, Kiss Carlo, is available for pre-sale online and wherever books are sold.
Author Stacy Hawkins AdamsPosted on 8 Jun 2017 8 Jun 2017 Categories Literary Love, Video ViewpointTags adriana trigiani, Author Chats, author interview, author Q&A, authors, Big Stone Gap, kiss carlo, life untapped, New York Times bestselling, New York Times bestselling authors, stacy hawkins adams, women's fictionLeave a comment on Chat with the Author: Transporting Readers to New Worlds Is Her Goal
Literary Love: Writing Changes
By Guest Blogger Sadeqa Johnson
Here’s the honest truth: My biggest challenge as a writer is to keep my butt in the chair, and my computer screen locked on my novel.
I am a chronic email checker. There, I said it. I go to my Gmail inbox often, looking for an excuse to take me away from writing. It’s not right. I know better, but I do it anyway. I use everything as a reason to get out of my chair. The bathroom, a drink of water, a bowl of cereal, a walk out back to check on the weather conditions.
And don’t get me started on social media. My goodness, who’s idea was this electronic second life anyway? I sit with my fingers on the computer keys trying to lose myself in the story, and the next thing I know I’m clicking through Facebook. Lurking through inspirational quotes, participating in questions of the day, and liking those cute first day of school pictures.
I am blessed with three busy children and they are another distraction, even from school. It’s not totally their fault – I’m the Type A mother who starts planning summer camp in January. There is research to be done and it must be done right before I write that character sketch, flashback scene and mother/daughter confrontation.
Oh, and vacation? How I love to be distracted by vacation surfing. Many of which I will never go on, but enjoy looking at the pictures and imagining myself on the lounge chair, in sunglasses sipping a Margarita.
So how do I get anything done? I start by writing all of my ideas in longhand. Even though my once beautiful Catholic school handwriting has turned into chicken scratch, writing in a five-subject notebook keeps me from being distracted by the mighty internet. When I write longhand, there is no stroke of the key that can transport me into the world of the social conversation. It’s just me, my pen and the paper.
Another tactic is what I like to call time and treat. I tell myself, you must sit and write for an hour and then receive a treat of five or ten minutes of surfing freedom.
I’m still a work in progress, but with my third novel coming out in April (And Then There Was Me) and my fourth emerging from my notebook, I’m working hard every day to be disciplined and get it done.
Sadeqa Johnson, a former public relations manager, spent several years working with well-known authors such as JK Rowling, Bebe Moore Campbell, Amy Tan and Bishop TD Jakes before becoming an award-winning author herself. Her novels include Love in a Carry-on Bag, Second House From the Corner and the soon-to-be-released And Then There Was Me (April 2017). Sadeqa lives in Virginia with her husband and three children. Learn more about Sadeqa and her work at sadeqajohnson.net.
Author Stacy Hawkins AdamsPosted on 3 Mar 2017 3 Mar 2017 Categories Literary LoveTags african american authors, author, author interview, black writers, sadeqa johnson, women's fiction, writer's life, writing advice, writing tips2 Comments on Literary Love: Writing Changes
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