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MEP 'horrified' by rumoured next US ambassador to EU
Written by Martin Banks on 30 January 2017 in News
The man widely tipped to become the next US ambassador to the EU is facing calls for him to be stripped of the post.
Ted Malloch | Photo credit: BBC Daily Politics
The UK-based Professor Ted Malloch has reportedly been interviewed for the EU ambassador role and is expected to be appointed following the confirmation of Rex Tillerson, the US secretary of state-elect.
The 64-year-old academic was reportedly recommended to US President Donald Trump by Nigel Farage, the former Ukip leader.
He has angered some with his reported comments about the EU and his prediction that the single currency could collapse "within 18 months."
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German Socialist MEP Jo Leinen has now broken ranks by publicly calling for his nomination to be vetoed.
Leinen said, "The European Union should refuse to accredit the designated US ambassador to the EU, Ted Malloch."
Leinen said that Malloch's latest reported remarks about the EU "show he is unfit for the job."
He added, "I have been horrified by some of the things Malloch has been saying in the press. This is the language of Nigel Farage and he has discredited himself from the outset. His nomination would have to be ratified by the Commission, Council, EEAS and all member states and, given what he has said about the EU, I do not think that is likely.
"He seems to have a strange perception of the EU and what it is about. I think that to have a US ambassador who is openly against the core principles of the EU should set the alarm bells ringing. There is still time for the EU to look closely at this nomination but I certainly hope that he is not chosen."
Leinen insisted Malloch should not be offered the job, adding, "What we don't need now is an obstructionist who dreams of the end of the euro and of taming and wrestling down the EU like he allegedly did with the Soviet Union."
Malloch, who worked for the United Nations in the late 1980s, has never held back his contempt for the EU.
The former Oxford University professor said that the UK and US could cut a bilateral trade deal in 90 days and that elections in Europe this year could sweep away the EU as we know it.
"The one thing I would do in 2017 is short the euro," Malloch told the BBC, "I think it is a currency that is not only in demise, but has a real problem and could in fact collapse in the coming year, year and a half."
He recently predicted that the EU would back down over its refusal to negotiate an early trade deal with Britain.
On Monday, Malloch told this website that he was unable to comment on the EU job until his nomination is confirmed.
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Schulz: Parliament committed to to EU-Turkey deal
Written by Martin Banks on 2 September 2016 in News
European Parliament President Martin Schulz has re-stated the EU's commitment to granting visa-free access to Europe for Turkish citizens.
Martin Schulz and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | Photo credit: European Parliament audiovisual
Speaking during a one-day visit to Ankara on Thursday, the German MEP said he had "reiterated the Parliament's continued willingness" to commit to the terms of the 18 March EU-Turkey agreement.
This includes visa liberalisation, "on the condition that the required benchmarks are fulfilled."
Schulz, who had a meeting with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara, added, "Parliament remains a committed supporter in advancing and deepening EU-Turkey relations."
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Turkey has criticised its European counterparts for not visiting following the events of 15 July, when members of the armed forces sought to overthrow the government, leading to the death of more than 260 people
Schulz is the first senior EU political figure to visit the country since the botched coup.
The Socialist deputy reiterated that the EU wants to see changes to Turkey's anti-terrorism law, which it considers too harsh. However, differences over the issue do not mean a deal to grant Turkish citizens visa-free access to Europe will fail, he added.
Turkey has long waited for EU membership and the country has had the status of an associate member at the Economic Community - the predecessor of the EU since 1963.
Erdoğan has said that if the EU cancels the visa agreement, Ankara will not be able to receive illegal migrants from the EU adding that the EU still has not paid €3bn allocated for maintenance of refugees.
In a statement, Schulz "firmly and clearly" condemned the attempted coup, adding that Parliament's support for democracy in Turkey "remains unequivocal."
Schulz said, "The attempt against democracy was paramount and required exceptional measures to safeguard the democratic institutions. Yet the exceptional nature of the measures and of the state of emergency should not fail the test of proportionality and of the rule of law.
"We must also always remember, in Europe and beyond, that democracy is much more than the simple act of voting: democratic standards require pluralism, a vibrant press, a separation of power and free parliamentarians with an independent mandate."
Schulz's trip follows visits to Turkey by US Vice President Joe Biden, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak in recent weeks.
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and Johannes Hahn, the Commissioner in charge of EU accession, are expected in Ankara on 9 September for talks.
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Vegan diets and omega-3s – are we getting enough?
By Elena Holmes BSc, PGDip Nutritional Therapy, MSc Nutritional Therapy (pending)
‘Where do you get your protein?’ ‘But what about iron?’ ‘Are you sure you get enough calcium?’ – I challenge any vegan to say that no one has asked them at least one of these questions before. And we all know the answer – actually, many versions of the same answer – ‘it is not a problem, I get “A, B, C” from “a, b, c” etc. But what about our omega-3s?
What are omega-3s?
Omega-3 is an umbrella term for the three essential types of fat or, to be more specific, polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs). These PUFAs are alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) and its longer-chain derivatives eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). The term ‘essential’ means that our body cannot produce it and, therefore, has to get it from food or through supplementation. We get ALA from foods like flaxseed, walnuts, chia seeds, rapeseed oil as well as – in much smaller amounts – dark leafy greens. In our bodies ALA is converted into EPA and then DHA. Pre-formed EPA/DHA are found mainly in some microalgae, fish, molluscs and shellfish.
The other essential PUFA is omega-6, or linoleic acid (LA). It is abundant in all seeds, nuts and plant-based oils, such as sunflower, safflower, soybean or corn oil.
Why are EPA/DHA important?
These long-chain fatty acids are paramount for heart and blood vessel health because of their anti-inflammatory, blood lipid and blood pressure regulating effects. They also help in preventing or managing other inflammation-related conditions, such as asthma, psoriasis, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, certain cancers, dry eye syndrome, age-related macular degeneration and depression. DHA, being one of the main components of the brain, decreases the likelihood of cognitive decline and neurodegenerative diseases and is also critical for good pre- and post-natal development.
The signs of low DHA
Dry, scaly skin, high levels of ‘bad’ (LDL) cholesterol, concentration problems, or depression are just a few of the signs of possible DHA deficiency or suboptimal amounts in the body.
Does a vegan diet protect us from DHA deficiency?
A wholesome vegan diet – based on fresh fruit and vegetables, pulses, wholegrains, nuts and seeds with very little or no added sugars and processed foods – provides ALA (which your body converts to EPA/DHA) and has been proven to be heart-healthy and anti-inflammatory. The components of such diet – fibre, B group vitamins (except B12), antioxidants, such as vitamins C and E, carotenoids and flavonoids as well as low consumption of saturated and hydrogenated fats – protect and support the health of the nervous system as well.
How much omega-3s should we get?
The current UK dietary guidelines recommend consuming 0.45 g/day of EPA/DHA. This is a very small amount but it is important to our health.
At least five per cent of the ALA we eat is converted into EPA and with a sufficient dietary intake of ALA (see below) this long-chain fatty acid poses little concern. During the next step, 10 per cent of EPA is converted to the final product, DHA (some authors provide slightly higher numbers, up to 25 per cent, but the majority agrees on 10 per cent).
How well we convert can be affected by many factors:
Dietary omega-6 to omega-3 ratio. The ratio should be no more than 4:1, whereas in our modern Western diet, because of the abundance of processed foods and oils, it ranges from a whopping 15:1 to 20:1!
Genes. There are individual variations in our genes, which makes us ‘better’ or ‘worse’ converters.
Gender. Women convert more successfully because oestrogen improves the process.
Age. The older we get, the less efficiently we convert.
Certain dietary components. Vitamins B3, B5, B6, biotin (B7), A, C and E and the minerals magnesium, calcium and zinc improve the conversion, whereas trans (hydrogenated) fats, saturated fats and alcohol diminish it.
Some health conditions, such as metabolic syndrome or diabetes, also reduce the conversion.
Gut bacteria. Increasing scientific evidence about the bacteria residing in our gut (microbiota) shows that they actively participate in many metabolic processes and the species present can strongly influence not only how we react to the food we eat, but also how our immune, circulatory, endocrine and nervous systems work. Research also suggests that microbiota may play a very important role in how we process the essential fatty acids.
The best plant sources of ALA
ALA (g/100g)
1. Flaxseed oil 53.4
2. Flaxseed 22.8
3. Chia seeds 17.8
4. Rapeseed oil 9.1
5. Walnuts 9.1
6. Hemp seeds 8.7
7. Mustard seeds 3.8
8. Parsley (dried) 1.9
9. Oregano (dried) 0.6
10. Blueberries (fresh) 0.3
As you can see, the best sources by far are flaxseeds, chia seeds, walnuts and hemp seeds. These should be your ‘go-to foods’ in order to ensure your recommended daily ALA intake. A couple of tablespoons of the seeds, some walnuts and cooking with small amounts of rapeseed oil should provide you with enough ALA in a day.
We can improve our omega-3 levels quite easily by taking these steps:
Ensure a sufficient ALA intake by eating ALA-rich foods, such as walnuts*, ground flaxseed* and flaxseed oil*, chia seeds*, rapeseed oil and also dark leafy vegetables, such as rocket, kale, chard, spring greens, purslane or lambs lettuce.
* Omega-3s due to their chemical structure are very unstable and lose their health properties when exposed to light and heat. Therefore it is recommended to consume omega-3-rich nuts and seeds raw, and use cold-pressed flaxseed oil on salads or add it to meals after cooking. An exception is rapeseed oil because it has a high smoke point. This means that it does not change its chemical structure and, therefore, does not lose its good properties when heated and can be used for cooking.
Maintain a good omega-6 to omega-3 ratio in your diet by avoiding omega-6-rich oils, such as sunflower, corn, soybean, safflower, cottonseed, grapeseed, poppyseed, wheatgerm, and peanut oils and highly processed foods.
Avoid foods containing saturated and hydrogenated fats.
Do not smoke and reduce your alcohol intake.
Eat foods rich in magnesium, zinc, vitamins B2 and B6. These include dark leafy greens, nuts (especially walnuts and almonds), seeds and pulses.
There is no arguing about how important omega-3s are for our health. Yet at this point there is no strong evidence that every vegan should supplement with EPA/DHA. Following the dietary advice above should provide vegans with enough EPA and some DHA. Those who need more DHA – children, women who are pregnant or breastfeeding, likewise those who may be converting less efficiently, such as the elderly (especially elderly men), vegans who eat a lot of processed foods and have an unvaried diet, smokers, and people with certain health conditions – should ‘err on the side of safety’ and consider taking an algae-based EPA/DHA supplement.
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Alaqua rescues critically ill animals
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Alaqua Animal Refuge recently took in a group of ’critical condition’ animals from various places. The newest additions include some horses, puppies, cats and rabbits.
FREEPORT — A local activist said the holidays can be a rough time of year for animals.
In the midst of what Laurie Hood, founder of Alaqua Animal Refuge, described as an influx of needed rescues, the shelter recently took on a new and diverse group of animals.
The additions include three horses, four rabbits, five cats, 15 puppies and a single dog — all of which were in critical condition.
“It’s a classic example of just about everything we try to fight for in the community for animals,” Hood said. “We try to prioritize when we get calls about animals. ... If there’s a chance that they’re going to die, then we try to push them up on our list of intakes.”
While that might seem like a lot of animals to save in one day, the shelter gets more than 100 calls for help a day, Hood added.
“We obviously can’t take all of those, but (we) do our best to try to fit critical ones in when we can,” she said. “We see a higher influx of starved farm animals and horses during the winter time because of the lack of grass, and people just don’t take the initiative to supplement with hay.”
According to Hood, Alaqua’s newest members were taken from Jackson, Walton and Bay counties.
She added that there is still an ongoing investigation in Jackson County to find the owner of the horses, which were in the worst shape of all the rescued animals.
“There were five horses on the property and one ... had to be put down,” said Hood, who added that another was adopted by a neighbor. “If we wouldn’t have taken them, likely two of the three would not be with us today.”
To help more animals find homes before the holidays, Alaqua plans to offer free adoptions from Dec. 13-14. Dubbed “Empty the Shelters,” the event will be sponsored by Bissell Pet Foundation, which will reimburse Alaqua for all adoption fees.
Looking ahead, the refuge also plans to move into its new facility toward the end of next summer.
“It’s always tight over here, and we are definitely looking forward to getting to the new property,” Hood said. "Not only because we’ll have more room, but we’ll have a better facility so we can educate the public and the community on how to prevent this many animals from being in need, instead of just putting a Band-Aid on the problem and just taking them in like we do now.“
She added that Dec. 3 marks “Giving Tuesday,” a global day of donations with the goal of helping local organizations fulfill their missions. Alaqua will use 100% of the contribution from this year on animal care.
To donate, visit www.alaqua.org/how-to-help/donate-now.
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Shorewomen Sink Sea Gulls, 111.5-93.5
Shorewomen's Win is 26th Straight Over Rivals
SALISBURY, MD -- The Washington College women's swim team defeated Eastern Shore rival Salisbury University for the 26th consecutive time, downing the host Sea Gulls, 111.5-93.5, in a non-conference meet tonight. The meet was conducted using metric events (rather than the typical events in yards) due to Salisbury's Maggs Pool being 25 meters long.
Juniors Ellie Miskiel (Gaithersburg, MD/Quince Orchard) and Carly Ogren (Burke, VA/Lake Braddock) won two events each for the Shorewomen. Miskiel took the 100-meter freestyle in 1:03.93 and the 100-meter breaststroke in 1:19.59. Ogren won the 50-meter freestyle in 29.29 and the 400-meter freestyle in 4:53.71.
Senior Sarah Sykes (Haworth, NJ/Northern Valley-Demarest) added a first-place finish in the 200-meter freestyle in 2:20.33 and a second-place finish in the 100-meter butterfly in 1:13.45, while senior Allison Kvien (Mechanicsville, MD/Chopticon) captured the 800-meter freestyle in 10:19.77. Freshman Julianna Fritzinger (Red Lion, PA/Red Lion Area) finished second in both the 200-meter individual medley (2:40.40) and the 100-meter breaststroke (1:24.53), while sophomore Alicia Howard (Wilmington, DE/Charter School of Wilmington) placed second in the 100-meter backstroke in 1:13.50.
The Shorewomen also won the 200-meter medley relay as Howard, Miskiel, Sykes, and Ogren completed the race in 2:13.44.
After losing the first meeting between the two teams, 75-55, during the 1985-86 season, the Shorewomen have not lost to the Sea Gulls since.
The Shorewomen, now 1-1 on the season, return to action Friday with a 6:00 p.m. non-conference meet at St. Mary's College of Maryland.
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Camarillo High School water main break fixed, students will head back to campus Tuesday
Camarillo High School, which was closed Monday due to a water main break, will reopen for back-to-school night Monday and classes Tuesday.
Camarillo High School water main break fixed, students will head back to campus Tuesday Camarillo High School, which was closed Monday due to a water main break, will reopen for back-to-school night Monday and classes Tuesday. Check out this story on vcstar.com: https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/education/2018/10/08/camarillo-high-school-closed-due-water-main-break/1565451002/
Alexa D'Angelo, Ventura County Star Published 8:34 a.m. PT Oct. 8, 2018 | Updated 3:38 p.m. PT Oct. 8, 2018
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Camarillo High School will reopen Monday evening for back-to-school night after an early morning water main break shut down the campus.
The school had to close for the day after the water main broke at about 4 a.m. this morning, said Oxnard Union High School District Superintendent Penelope DeLeon. Monday night is back-to-school night for the Camarillo campus so students were to be on a minimum day schedule prior to the closure.
DeLeon said Monday afternoon the campus would be open for back-to-school night at 5 p.m. Monday and students would return to campus for classes Tuesday.
Early morning water main break... https://t.co/OOtFs674c3
— Adolfo Camarillo HS (@achs_scorpions) October 8, 2018
Principal Kim Stephenson told The Star the break may have been related to irrigation. She expressed gratitude for the district's $350 million bond Measure A that voters passed in June that will, in part, fix aging infrastructure like old pipes at the district's high schools.
Ian Prichard, water resource manager with the Camrosa Water District, said school officials called and reported a leak early Monday. Prichard said the leak was then isolated and the water shut off.
DeLeon said the pipe had been fixed as of Monday afternoon.
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Vernier Radiation Monitor User Manual
Order Code: VRM-BTD
The Vernier Radiation Monitor is used to monitor alpha, beta, and gamma radiation. It can be used with a number of interfaces to measure the total number of counts per specified timing interval.
Use this sensor to
Detect the presence of a source of radiation.
Monitor counts/interval (rate) as different thicknesses of a particular type of shielding are placed between the Geiger-Mueller tube of the Radiation Monitor and a beta or gamma source.
Compare the effect of different types of materials to shield beta or gamma radiation.
Set up a histogram with a very long run time to show students how initial randomness of data develops first in a Poisson distribution, and then into a Gaussian distribution curve.
Measure radiation of common radioactive materials, such as lantern mantels or pre-World War II Fiestaware.
Monitor variation in background radiation at different elevations.
Monitor radioactivity in the environment over long periods of time.
Monitor counts per interval (rate) from a beta or gamma radiation source as a function of the distance between the source and the Radiation Monitor.
The Vernier Radiation Monitor is fully supported with LabQuest 2 (version 2.8.5), a standalone data logger with built-in graphing and analysis software.
Logger Pro
LabQuest Mini
Full support Full support
LabQuest Stream
Full support 1 Full support
Connect LabQuest Stream via USB. Future software updates will support connection via Bluetooth® technology
Full support 1 Full support 1
Connect the sensor to the interface (LabQuest Mini, LabQuest 2, etc.).
Start the appropriate data-collection software (Logger Pro, Logger Lite, LabQuest App, or Graphical Analysis 4) if not already running, and choose New from File menu. The software will identify the sensor and load a default data-collection setup. You are now ready to collect data.
If you are collecting data using a Chromebook™, mobile device such as iPad® or Android™ tablet, or a Vernier wireless interface, please see the following link for up-to-date connection information:
www.vernier.com/start/vrm-btd
LND 712 (or equivalent) halogen-quenched GM tube with a 1.5 to
2.0 mg/cm2 mica end window
Gamma sensitivity
18 cps/mR/he referenced to Co-60
–20 to 50°C
Operating range CPS
Note: This sensor is equipped with circuitry that supports auto-ID. When used with LabQuest 2, LabQuest, LabQuest Mini, LabPro, SensorDAQ, TI-Nspire™ Lab Cradle, or CBL 2™, the data-collection software identifies the sensor and uses pre-defined parameters to configure an experiment appropriate to the recognized sensor.
Suggested Experiments
Counts/Interval vs. Distance Studies
The data in the two graphs below were collected by monitoring gamma radiation at various distances from a Radiation Monitor. Data were collected with the run intervals set at 100 seconds. After each 100-second interval, the source was moved one centimeter further from the source. Since distance is proportional to time (300 seconds in the first graph corresponds to 3 cm in the second graph;
400 seconds to 4 cm, etc.), a new distance column was made using time divided by 100. The curved fit shown corresponds to distance raised to the –2 power (inverse squared).
Counts/interval vs. time and distance
Counts/Interval vs. Shielding Studies
The data shown here were collected by monitoring gamma radiation with an increasing number of pieces of silver foil placed between the source and a Radiation Monitor. Data was collected with the run interval set at 100 seconds. After each 100-second interval, another piece of silver foil was placed between the source and the Radiation Monitor. Since the number of pieces is proportional to time (300 seconds corresponds to 3 pieces of foil, 400 seconds to 4 pieces of foil, etc.), a new column, pieces of silver foil, was made using time divided by 100.
Counts/interval vs. thickness of filter
Half-Life Determination (Counts/Interval vs. Time)
Using a daughter isotope generator, it is possible to generate isotopes with a relatively short half-life. A solution that selectively dissolves a short half-life daughter isotope is passed through the generator. The linear plot of natural log of decay rate vs. time can be used to determine the half-life of the daughter isotope, using the formula
ln 2 = λt½
where λ is the decay rate constant and t½ is the half-life of the daughter isotope (in minutes).
In the plot of natural log of decay rate vs. time, the decay rate constant, λ, is equal to –m. Using the slope value of m = –0.217 in the example here, the
half-life was calculated to be 3.19 minutes.
Half-life determination
Histogram Data Analysis
For an easy in-class experiment, set up a histogram with a very long run time and start data collection. Whenever the graph overflows the top of the graph, it will be rescaled. This data collection shows students how initial randomness of data develops into a Gaussian distribution. A gamma radiation source was used.
A distribution graph
Lantern Mantles
This graph shows a study of old and new Coleman mantle lanterns. These mantles formerly contained thorium and were often used for radiation demonstrations. In the early 1990s, Coleman changed the production methods and now the mantles are not radioactive. First, no mantle was near the monitor for ten minutes, then an old mantle for ten minutes, and then a new, non-radioactive mantle for the last ten minutes.
New and old lantern mantles
Background Radiation
Here is an experiment performed in the days before airlines insisted that you turn off your personal computer before takeoff. It shows the counts/interval between takeoff and the time the plane reached its cruising altitude of 39,000 ft.
Radiation during an airline flight
Curricular Materials
Nuclear Radiation with Vernier
by John Gastineau
This book has six experiments written for the Vernier Radiation Monitor. Each of the six experiments has a computer version (for LabPro, LabQuest, or LabQuest Mini), a calculator version (for LabPro or CBL 2™), and a LabQuest version (for LabQuest 2 or the original LabQuest as a standalone device). The electronic resources for Nuclear Radiation with Vernier contain the word-processing files for all student experiments.
Radioactive Sources
If you do not have radiation sources, you may be able to obtain pre-1990 Coleman lantern mantles or other brands of lantern mantles (for a weak source of Thorium). You may also be able to find pottery, watches, clocks, or minerals that are moderately radioactive. Vaseline glass and red-orange Fiestaware plates made prior to 1943 can be found in antique stores.
For something more active, order radioactive minerals from these scientific supply houses. The
2.5 cm disk sources of alpha, beta and gamma radiation are particularly convenient.
Flinn Scientific Inc.
www.flinnsci.com
Spectrum Techniques
106 Union Valley Road
www.spectrumtechniques.com
Do not insert anything through the screen at the tip of the sensor. The surface is very fragile.
Do not wrap the cable tightly around the sensor for storage. Repeatedly doing so can irreparably damage the wires and is not covered under warranty.
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David Roediger
David Roediger - Making Solidarity Uneasy: Cautions on a Keyword from Black Lives Matter to the Past
Solidarity is a central concept in the left political lexicon, yet, as David Roediger shows in this extract from Class, Race and Marxism, solidarity is anything but simple and easy. See all our race and class reading here.
“Solidarity is always an active achievement, the result of active struggle to construct the universal on the basis of particulars/differences.” - Chandra Talpade Mohanty (2006)
The important insurgencies that have matured in response to the vigilante murder of Trayvon Martin and to the many murders by police of mostly young Black women and men have brought outpourings of solidarity and important debates over what forms such solidarity should take. These developments, like the efforts of the American Studies Association (ASA) to be in solidarity with Palestine, challenge the ASA to approach the question of solidarity in a direct and sustained manner. The Ferguson, Missouri killing of Michael Brown quickly brought massive August, 2014 demonstrations often explicitly expressing “Solidarity with Mike Brown.” Thousands of young people were introduced to the idea and actuality of solidarity in these protests.
However, the solidarity was anything but simple and easy. In Ferguson, Minneapolis, Providence, upstate New York, and elsewhere demonstrators collectively debated whether protesters who were not Black ought to raise their hands in “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” chants and to participate in die-ins, given that whites were far less likely to suffer fatal attacks from the police. Debates over whites wearing “I Am Trayvon Martin” t-shirts—signaled especially by the widely circulated internet video “I Am Not Trayvon Martin” featuring the University of Kansas activist and American Studies major Emma Halling--troubled a too easy discussion of unity by pointing out that some populations face threats of extralegal and unpunished violence in ways very different from what others face. Embryonic movement debates even developed over whether the word “ally” ought to give way to “accomplice” as a better description of the role best played in a Black-led movement by those who are not whites. The counter-position, that simply invoking of a past golden age of solidarity could settle matters, was also put forward. Thus the often perceptive political philosopher Steven D’Arcy wrote less than convincingly that the loss of a language of solidarity, and the rise of “positionality” as a term, had derailed the left. He specifically held that “I am not Trayvon Martin” disabled whites from “identifying with African American resistance.” Solidarity, on the other hand, had treated “injuries to one” as “injuries to all” and succeeded in “resisting them in common.”
My giving the ASA presidential address, available online and significantly different in presentation from this article, unexpectedly underlined the difficulties of calling at once not only for more scholarly consideration of solidarity but also for more sober and uneasy reflection on the difficulties of thinking through its promises and difficulties. I began with just such a call but then played, for reasons clarified below, a video clip of Utah Phillips singing “Solidarity Forever.” Despite my promptings toward unease with solidarity a fair share of audience members sang along. Doubly complicating matters was my realization that, positions reversed, I would surely have been among the singers. Nevertheless it remains critical to make a case for embracing solidarity but simultaneously being uneasy about the assumptions it sometimes evokes. The unease ought to make us wonder if solidarity is always a good thing, to recall what and whom solidarity leaves out and how it is premised on those leavings out, to consider how solidarity works across differences in kinds and degrees of oppression, and to ask if the presence of solidarity is the logic of things or if for long periods it may be a treasured exception. The article also focuses on “solidarity” as a surprisingly neglected keyword in cultural studies and discusses how we ought to historicize and memorialize the word.
The last twenty years of my career, roughly evenly split between service in the ASA and in the Working Class Studies Association (WCSA), inevitably shape my approach. In the ASA, talk of solidarity—at least using that word—has been almost absent in presidential addresses over those years, even when such great historians of working people as Vicki Ruiz and Michael Frisch delivered the talks. Digital searches return no more than a handful of such usages, more or less offhand, until the last two years. In the two presidential addresses before mine, in the wake of the ASA’s attempts at solidarity with Palestine, solidarity came to appear several times in the searching presentations of presidents Curtis Marez and Lisa Duggan. Duggan vividly contrasted the “fun of solidarity” with the “fury of critique.” Her remarks sparked a response from Scott Morgensen that anticipated themes within my contribution here. Morgensen explicitly addressed “relationality within solidarity,” seeking in tribute to the late Jose Munoz, “a politics not yet known.” That so many young scholars experienced in graduate student labor activism invigorate ASA also argues for investigating and interrogating solidarity as an American Studies topic.
On the other hand, searches for an inspiring record of solidarity very much drive labor history and working class studies scholarship, though not always leavened by sufficient curiosity regarding what scholars are doing when we search hard for a usable past. My own 2009 WCSA presidential address shared this lack of curiosity, supposing that there was an archive of solidarity answering our needs, needing only to rediscovered or perhaps just popularized. As Jana Lipman and Dan Bender have written in introducing their excellent recent collection on labor and empire, “Solidarity is one of the most evoked but least analyzed concepts in U.S. labor history. [It] always has been a central assumption—rarely a topic of analysis . . . simultaneously a powerful ideal and a slippery category.”
Needing Solidarity and Keeping Balance
My own first hearing of “solidarity” was perhaps an exotic one. Although I was raised in a family of trade unionists in the 1950s and 60s, the “solidarity of labor” did not register with me through my teen years. By the time I heard “Solidarity Forever,” probably first in the context of support for the United Farm Workers’ grape boycott, the idea of “solidarity with the Vietnamese revolution” was familiar to me. Both examples matter in showing how modern learnings the word are associated with coming be on the side of angels. Indeed they suggest the several dominant axes on which the recent and contemporary left has cherished solidarity—as labor unity, as (for example in the grape boycott) interracialism, and as internationalism. Solidarity’s magnificent association with the good fights is thus well-established in its recent past. To encourage an unease with the magic seemingly worked by such a word is therefore perilous. It risks being misheard as defeatism and resignation in the face of division rather than as an appeal for sober reflection on the difference that differences make even in how unity is apprehended. Nevertheless the magnificence of solidarity can hardly be realized if tethered to impossible expectations leaving us coming up forever short of an unexamined ideal.
A personal and a recent historical example will have to suffice to introduce these points. The personal one involves self-criticism and led to my sampling Utah Phillips in the presidential address. The book I was writing two years ago in celebration of the sesquicentennial of the general strike of the slaves, Seizing Freedom, included from its earliest drafts discussions of three songs sharing one tune. The first was the Union Army song “John Brown’s Body,” composed in 1861 and quickly a favorite of troops. Memorializing the eponymous Kansas freedom fighter and abolitionist martyr, but not his specific politics, “John Brown’s Body” was soon given new lyrics by Julia Ward Howe in her nationalist anthem “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Connected to both feminism and abolition. Howe herself long supported antislavery causes. Her husband secretly funded Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry and went into exile in the repression that followed. She was soon to be president of the New England Women’s Suffrage Association. Fast forward fifty years from Howe’s composition and the labor organizer Ralph Chaplin was borrowing the tune in writing “Solidarity Forever.” I found myself listening to the songs—as performed by Paul Robson, Janice Harrington and Phillips respectively--in writing.
The three songs brought together the emancipation of slaves, of women, and of wage workers in ways that resonated with Seizing Freedom’s argument that the example of the slaves’ general strike energized the reinvented women’s suffrage and labor movements. The songs formed the soundtrack that led to my considering briefly whether to end Seizing Freedom at the high point of solidarity just after the war rather than also telling the bleak story that followed. But I knew that the music could only guide me so much in romanticizing matters because the slaves themselves were absent in the songs and because the sharp divisions that almost immediately emerged among the African American, white workers’ and women’s movements necessarily ended the story I ultimately needed to tell on a fully somber note.
Just as the manuscript was almost done, I read Harvard historian John Stauffer’s introduction to the reissue of Slave Culture, the classic study by my wonderful mentor Sterling Stuckey. Stauffer answered a question that should have occurred to me: Where did the creators of “John Brown’s Body” get the tune? They heard it, Stauffer shows, it in “Say Brothers,” a camp meeting religious song. That song in turn originated as a “ring shout,” a counterclockwise dance and call-and-response musical performance that Stuckey places at the center of African culture in the United States. Variously titled, it was sung and danced from the Carolina coastal areas all the way to Arkansas. Listening to Sparky and Rhonda Rucker sing “Say Brothers,” I also heard their version of the “Marching Song of the First Arkansas,” in which African American troops fighting for emancipation sang late in war of revolutionized social relations:
They will have to pay us wages, the wages of their sin,
They will have to bow their foreheads to their colored kith and kin.
The tune is attributed to “John Brown’s Body,” but some who sang would have known it as the ring shout “Say Brothers.”
The timing of my learning all of this as the book was being completed seemed almost providential and rekindled my desire for a usable past making solidarity easy. The symmetries for a moment seemed so perfect, right down to the room for audiences to improvise new verses, present from the shout, to “John Brown’s Body,” to “Solidarity Forever.” I almost concluded the book with that symmetry, trying to make music seal an easy solidarity only undermined by the real lives of social movements but opted instead for a closing meditation on the difficulties of solidarity. It is such a pull towards believing so urgently that everything is connected that we minimize the disconnections that I hope to make us uneasy about, especially insofar as the argument becomes that the Black solidarity of the ring shout becomes the supposedly broader class solidarity of “Solidarity Forever” in any unproblematic way.
Looking as well at the forms of solidarity that emerged after the killing of Mike Brown underscores another dimension of the difficulties involved in arriving at a sober assessment of the phenomenon. We confront,, that is, not only the question of our own desires but also perhaps an erratic pattern of ways in which solidarity actually comes and fails to come into the world. In at least two particular areas—Black/Palestinian solidarity and Black/queer solidarity—the dramatic successes after Ferguson seemed almost simple in their triumphs—a matter of showing up and reaching out and waiting. And yet other efforts at solidarity, such as trade union solidarity with victims of police white supremacist police violence, solidarity proceeds excruciatingly slowly and not always forward.
The connecting of Black and Palestinian issues moved forward from early in the Ferguson protests. The reaching out and showing up occurred through social media and physical presence. Activists in Palestine sent pictures of their demonstrations of support, some simply a picture of young people with a sign saying “FERGUSON WITH LOVE FROM PALESTINE.” They sent advice about coping with tear gas. Knowledge that some police deployed in Ferguson had received training in control of demonstrators from Israeli authorities brought points home. Above all pro-Palestine forces in the United States mobilized impressively for the Fall, 2014 marches in Ferguson and St. Louis, joining locally based Palestinians. They came to demonstrate and also to address questions of day-to-day interactions between Arab and Islamic owners of stores and their African American customers. Within months African American activists from St. Louis and nationally were touring Palestine. Summer of 2015 saw solidarity flow from Black America with dozens of organizations and over a thousand movement leaders signing a statement declaring for Palestinian freedom.“
Queer solidarity often seemed as charmed. From the beginning of the overnight presence of demonstrators near where Brown died, participants reflected on the presence of trans people and the impact of their bravery and their ideas. Thus central figures in Millennial Activists United and other movements were young African American lesbians so much so that Reverend Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou, a veteran organizer, recently told an interview, “I take my orders from 23-year old queer women.” In December, 2014 local St. Louis leaders Brittany Ferrell and Alexis Templeton, took advantage of an opening for same-sex marrage. They went to St. Louis’ City Hall, site of so many protests again police violence, to apply for a marriage license. The local African American paper, the venerable and typically mainstream St. Louis American, headlined on page one: “REVOLUTIONARY LOVE.” The same issue included a guest editorial urging African American advocacy of trans issues.
Somewhat more caution could be useful in thinking about even such inspiring victories. If they seemed spontaneous, such examples of solidarity reflected prior and ongoing work across Black/queer, Black/ Palestinian, and even Black queer/Palestinian differences. At times Ferguson protesters had to fight their ways on to the agendas of existing LGBTQ groups. Nor of course were debates and even fights over priorities absent. However, the larger point remains that groups who built solidarity by first showing up and reaching out stood the best chance of prevailing.
In other instances solidarities developed far more slowly. The very high rates of killings by police of American Indian people generated an impressive Indian Lives Matter movement that gained traction only slowly before joint protests with groups focusing on Black lives disrupted the 2015 Twin Cities marathon. Immigrant rights, a movement in which Black Lives Matter founder Opal Tometi had organizing roots, nevertheless has come into alliance with anti-police violence initiatives only modestly. Nor, despite many rank-and-file participants being active in both movements, have ongoing ties with the “Fight for 15” minimum wage movement among fast food workers matured quickly along programmatic lines. To comment on such matters is not to suppose that solidarities in these areas can’t or won’t develop but it is to say that timing, spatial distance between groups, varied histories and difference in the forms oppression takes can make the achievement of unity a large and long task. Nor in this instance could the overarching unity of class bind constituencies effectively. The heralded statement on Ferguson by the AFL-CIO head Richard Trumka turned out to offer a re-acknowledgment of the position that police unions are labor organizations just like any other: As Trumka had it
Lesley McSpadden, Michael Brown’s mother who works in a grocery store, is our sister, an AFL-CIO union member, and Darren Wilson, the officer who killed Michael Brown, is a union member, too, and he is our brother. Our brother killed our sister’s son and we do not have to wait for the judgment of prosecutors or courts to tell us how terrible this is.
Moblization of membership by the AFL-CIO for demonstrations in solidarity with Mike Brown was unsurprisingly meager.
Solidarity's Checkered Origins
Beginning with the longer history of “solidarity” as what the American Studies tradition has called a “keyword” opens some space for reflection. From Raymond Williams’ innovative 1976 volume in British cultural studies, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, to recent American Studies volumes of such words edited by Bruce Burgett, Glenn Hendler, and others, scholarship in this area has produced scores of essays on the shifting meanings of particularly resonant words around which Anglophone conceptions of power and social knowledge have coalesced. Ranging back especially to Latin and French origins, the contributions often establish that it is less the precision of a keyword than its various, even conflicting, resonances that underpin its power. Neither Williams nor American Studies scholars have yet made “solidarity” a keyword, but in the forthcoming Keywords for Radicals Markus Kip contributes a fine entry on the word.
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) entry on “solidarity” reveals the jumble of meanings, historically and now, attached to the word. The first definition refers to the “fact or quality, on the part of communities, etc., of being perfectly united or at one in some respect, esp. in interests, sympathies, or aspirations,” a meaning easily congruent with the unity of a preindustrial village, across lines of class. However the OED quickly adds “spec. with reference to the aspirations or actions of trade-union members.” Two further additions send us to older and newer meanings. First a separate but related meaning sends us back to Roman civil law: A “form of obligation involving joint and several responsibilities or rights.” Second a recent example of usage points towards forms of solidarity absolutely transcending particular local communities, connoting instead interracialism and internationalism, as illustrated by “Afro-Asian Peoples Solidarity Committees.”
The origins of the term “solidarity,” and even usage into the nineteenth century, are surprisingly entwined with impulses that, if not conservative, are seemingly at odds with the left uses of the word so common today. In the longest view, the word arose from Roman law, and specifically the enforcement of “in solido” obligations of debtors in common to each be responsible, if held to account, for an entire debt. As Gaius’ Institutionum Iuris Civilis put it “Every creditor is severally entitled to receive the whole object of the active obligation, and every debtor is bound to discharge the whole object of the passive obligation.” The rearticulation of this principle in Napoleonic law after the French Revolution coincided with the opening of political space for a consideration of corporate obligations more generally, especially under the auspices of Catholic social thinkers. Thus the OED notes the “French origin of the word is freq. referred to during the period of its introduction into English use.”
Well into the nineteenth century, the Catholic Church, not radicals, deployed “solidarity” most effectively being better poised to survive repression and more able to combine a critique of bourgeois individualism with a hankering for older pre-industrial regimes of rule, including at times even royalism. Even near the end of the 1800s “solidarite” in France and elsewhere was elaborated as part of what Michael Hoelzl described as “the exchange between theological and political ideals” and its emergence at times in mainstream discourses bespoke elite attempts to arrive at a response within capitalism to heightening class divisions. None of this reveals “solidarity” to be devoid of social critique. Even as they favored creditors over groups of debtors in the main, “in solido” obligations (nominated in English as “solidarity obligation”) were part of pre-capitalist discourses on debt that were at times able to take community norms and even moral economies into account. Catholic emphases on of solidarity both underpinned the Church’s episodic commitments to the poor and expanded, especially after Pierre Leroux’s 1840 De’ l’Humanite, in secularizations animating a variety of political positions. Two years later Hippolyle Renaud’s Solidarity, a brief study of utopian socialist Charles Fourier, became the first book explicitly taking its title from the ideal of “solidarity.” However, it is worth emphasizing that into the early twentieth century key ideas of solidarity in France and elsewhere had much to do with both the internationalism of Catholicism and with that of socialism, if only to remind us that what the historian of France J.E.S. Hayward calls the “mystique” of solidarity cut in many directions.
Laboring Solidarity
In second half of the nineteenth century the connection between solidarity and labor became firm for the first time at the level of both practice and theory. Ironically Marxist practice, far more than Karl Marx’s theoretical writings, spread the use of “solidarity”—often in its English rather than in its French form—across national boundaries. The elaboration in theoretical work came principally from the French sociologist Émile Durkheim. Both Marxism and Durkheim predicted, in very different ways, that industrial society would make possible wholly new forms of solidarity. Both traditions also missed at times the extent to which existing patterns of racial divisions and uneven development produced solidarities compromised by their creation within industrial capitalism and imperial expansion. The empire-inflected work of the great radical artist Walter Crane, who attempted to “labor solidarity” in drawings at about the same time as Marx and Durkheim did so in words, will illustrate some of the complications.
At the time of the 1848 revolutions, Marx and Engels had maintained that the growth of industry created the conditions for solidarity, though they did not use the word. Machines and new divisions of labor minimized distinctions based on skill and flattened wage differences, they argued in The Communist Manifesto. Thus “equalized,” though in desperation and alienation not in freedom, workers could move together in new ways. Moreover, “National differences and antagonism between peoples are daily more and more vanishing, owing . . . to the world market, to uniformity in the mode of production.” By 1864, with Marx as a leading force, the newly formed International Working Men’s Association (IWA) decided on its “General Rules.” Their drafting made “solidarity stand among the first words of an organization uniting communists, anarchists, and trade union leaders. The four brief rules insisted that solidarity could not be left to the processes set in motion by capital but that it could be organized. The last of them described the stakes, at home and internationally: “That all efforts aiming at the great end [of labor’s emancipation] hitherto failed from the want of solidarity between the manifold divisions of labor in each country, and from the absence of a fraternal bond of union between the working classes of different countries.” A year later, when the IWA issued cards to members their text described the International’s goal as “complete emancipation, economical and political, of the Working Classes.” The means to reach such an end included to “promote the establishment of solidarity between the manifold divisions of labour in each country, and the co-operation of the Working Classes of different countries.” In 1872, Marx would speak of “the basic principle of the International: Solidarity,” which doubled also as the “great lesson of the [defeat of the] French Commune."
While a passionate concern of the Marxist political project, solidarity did not centrally figure in Marx’s main theoretical work. The word appears not at all in the first volume of Capital, published in German in 1867 amidst Marx’s concerted activism on solidarity’s behalf and subsequently translated into English. The Canadian Marxist economist Michael Lebowitz made this point powerfully from a related angle. Lebowitz wrote of the lack of any theorizing of the necessity for capital of producing differences among workers in order to maintain hegemony within the process of production. He name that difference-generating variable the “x-factor.” X, “the tendency to divide workers,” functions as “part of the essence of capital, indeed, an essential aspect of the logic of capital.” Lebowitz allowed that Marx “recognised well,” as for example in the latter’s famous writings on the role of anti-Irish prejudices of English workers in weakening the movement of the latter group that fostering disunity was a “secret . . . by which the capitalist class maintains its power.” However, at the level of theory “the importance to capital of dividing workers” remained unaccounted for by Marx. Specifically, Lebowitz continued, “racism and sexism [do] not appear as part of the essence of capital in Marx’s Capital.” Within the American Studies tradition such a critique of, or (as I’d prefer) supplement of, Marxism has been powerfully advanced by Lisa Lowe, Grace Kwungwon Hong, and others.
The flip side of Lebowitz’s insights is what interests me here, namely the extent to which Marx’s relative disinterest in theorizing how solidarity operates simplifies matters, but at a cost. We inherit the rather different stops of the Manifesto, seeing labor unity as produced by capitalism, and of the IWA writings, casting solidarity as needing to be urgently built across difference by the purposeful, powerfully opposed, voluntary actions of workers. These are the poles in thinking about solidarity that this article seeks to trouble: first that our success in producing unity lies in the logic of capital and secondly that our own voluntary action can easily secure solidarity’s triumph.
Durkheim’s far less globally ambitious work nevertheless made him the nineteenth century thinker most explicitly articulating a theory of solidarity, particularly in The Division of Labor in Society(1893). Specialization in industrial society played for Durkheim an almost magical role in creating the basis for new human bonds. He was not very interested in specific configurations of productive processes, and far more apt to write about legal codes than factories even in a volume ostensibly centered on the possibilities opened by the modern division of labor. However, Durkheim hinged big ideas about a more dynamic and meaningful solidarity on new labor processes, differentiated political and social roles, urbanization, and the consequent rise of complex personalities able to see that others had necessary skills and roles that they did not. He twinned that hopefulness with a very constricted view of the possibilities of meaningful solidarity in preindustrial and especially in kin-based societies. Durkheim termed the constricted “solidarity by similarities” that applied in such societies as mere “mechanical solidarity.” His metaphors to describe such societies and their solidarities came often from science. The people caught in them lacked individuality and the societies resembled segmented worms accreting in webs of sameness. At another juncture Durkheim regarded the persons in village or tribal settings as being like molecules fixed in “inorganic” objects. Thus it was poosible to name the meaningful solidarity that he saw as being enabled by modern of divisions of labor as “organic solidarity.” This made logical the counterintuitive terminology in which Durkheim had the age of capitalist mechanization supplanting “mechanical solidarity” with a manufactured “organic solidarity.”
Aspects of Durkheim’s thought, on “slotting” into jobs for example, suggest ways to think about how the division of labor was also racialized and gendered but his central arguments on solidarity do not. Persistent problems foreclosed possibilities of his addressing how solidarity might apply in a highly uneven world. Durkheim’s analysis of mechanical solidarity does usefully describes reciprocities based on likeness and reminds us that the word “solidarity: might apply to also describe insularity. However, positing such a deep gulf between the pre-modern and the industrial leaves little rooms for his considering the xenophobic but thoroughly modern solidarities of, for example, the racially exclusionary “sundown town” and the imperial state.
Moreover, as Lawrence Wilde’s very generous appraisals of Durkheim’s work on modern solidarity observe, the latter’s theorizing of solidarity assumed the nation as its unit of analysis, though with some musings on what a broader framework would look like. Although he was very active as a French liberal reformer and associate of Léon Bourgeois, the politician and author of the wildly popular 1896 volume Solidairité, room for Durkheim to reflect on global inequalities was scant. Nor did his framework of seeing history as a triumph of civilization and productivityover backwardness expand possibilities for such analysis. While the late Marx had moved decisively towards an appreciation of the what Native American and Russian village society offered to those prizing solidarity, Durkheim held that industrial society excelled in both individualism and solidarity. Such a formulation also absented the extent to which modern working class solidarities continued to be lived in small communities and kin networks. Nor did Durkheim provide a strong alternative to views that regarded solidarity as “natural” given the existing division of labor. While he recognized that class struggle, economic crises, and something like alienation attended the division of labor, these were “abnormalities” born of an “extreme division of labor,” not structural features of a system he saw as normally producing “happiness.”
Picturing Empire and Solidarity
A recent discovery in the history of cartography dramatically shows how race and uneven economic development across the globe burdened the laboring of solidarity. The map itself was made in 1886 for the Imperial Federation League (IFL), which commissioned it for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of that year. The IRL had the map published as a lavish special supplement to the liberal weekly The Graphic. Huge and colorful the map included inset facts, prepared by Captain J. C. R. Colomb, the Conservative MP, on the value of empire. His essay of the IRL and empire appeared in the same issue of The Graphic as the map. Within the pro-imperial run-up to Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee celebrations in 1887 and in the early stages of the “New Imperialism” period and the attendant “Scramble for Africa,” the map shaded the Queen’s realm in pink. It demands being read as an artifact publicizing empire’s appeals and showing support for expansion, and for the IRL’s plans to modernize and reform imperial rule, across party lines. A Mercator projection, the map made Britain the center of the world. Orientalist imagery, exotic animals, partially clad women, and racial stereotypes abounded. The links among peoples pictured were trade routes and a shared turning towards the reclining figure of Britannia, bottom center, who seems in turn to watch out for all. Three banners at the map’s top proclaim the promise of the reformed and expanded empire: “FREEDOM,” “FRATERNITY,” and “FEDERATION."
FIGURE ONE: Walter Crane, “Imperial Federation Map Showing the Extent of the British Empire (1886),” The Graphic [supplement] (July 24, 1886).
Just over a decade ago a graduate student geographer, , spotted a signature of sorts on the 1886 map and recognized its import. In the lower left corner, the artist had signed with a tiny rebus, or pictogram, depicting a crane and adding the still tinier stylized letters “W” and “C.” Such was the mark of Walter Crane, known as the “artist of socialism” and a major figure with William Morris in the radical Arts and Crafts movement. For the purposes of this article, the most significant of Crane’s drawings was the 1890 frontispiece to an American edition of William Morris’ News from Nowhere. Titled “Labour’s May Day,” but proclaiming “Solidarity of Labour,” it is the first major artistic work to name “solidarity, in English, as its theme.
FIGURE TWO: Walter Crane, “Labour’s May Day,” in William Morris, News from Nowhere (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890), frontispiece.
It too shows a Britain-centered globe, held up by an Atlas figure, labelled “Europe” and now joined by clasped hands with the workers of the world. Nature and a liberty-inspiring woman again feature prominently and the three banners topping the image change in only one instance: “FREEDOM” and “FRATERNITY” survive but the IRL’s beloved “FEDERATION” yields to “EQUALITY” in the socialist internationalist version.
Both of the main writers on the 1886 imperial Crane map, Biltcliffe and the curator and geographer Felix Driver, situate it amidst Crane’s socialist and eventually strongly anti-imperialist works. They specifically consider “Solidarity of Labour” in counterpoint to the IRL-commissioned map and rightly refuse to regard the two works as completely separate in their politics. This Crane scholarship notes that as an artist needing paid work he could hardly have created only revolutionary art and emphasizes that the 1886 map was very much produced with the demands of the employer in mind. Crane’s textiles reproducing imperial and Orientalist images might be considered in the same light. Moreover, both authors find in the 1886 map a certain success by Crane in smuggling subversions into a work commissioned to praise the possibilities of empire. The three draped women at the top, for example, sport headwear, “distinctly reminiscent . . . of the red Phrygian cap worn by liberated Roman slaves, which had become a symbol of liberation and specifically of opposition to colonialism, figuring as it did in the flag of revolutionary Haiti. Asian labor is pictured as both bowed down by exploitation, “struggling in midst of plenty” as Driver writes, but also as powerful. Atlas, holding up all, wears a belt reading, albeit in tiny letters, “HUMAN LABOUR.” A plausible case can be made for seeing the map as containing subbterranean critique. Indeed the IRL seems to have quickly lost interest in promoting it, preferring a simple version with the empire colored in a far more dramatic dark blue.
The problem, revealingly enough, lies more in the 1890 map and its easy assumptions regarding solidarity across difference. In it, women all but disappear with what Driver calls “masculine brotherhood” carrying the message. Indigenous people of both North America and the Antipodes are present in 1886 but not in 1890. The figure representing the labor of Africa appears to be a white, if sun-drenched, worker in Crane’s later depiction of the “solidarity of labour.” Perhaps most significantly, the idea that images can simply be borrowed in a drawing of global solidarity from a paean to empire suggests that Driver is correct when he writes that Crane at times thought “that empire is potentially a vehicle and not an obstacle to socialism.” Driver further argues that despite his unearthing of subversion in the iconic 1886 map, it remains “in some ways a troubling image.” As much can also be said for Crane’s likewise iconic representation of solidarity in 1890.
A United Statesian Keyword
The 601 uses in 480 published works between 1843 and 1901 returned from searching Cornell University Library “Making of America” digitized website for the word “solidarity” reveal a great variety of usages; many simply suggest a commonality among all manner of things. However, the chronologically first citation retrieved is very important for our purposes and some patterns do emerge. In June, 1843, Orestes A. Brownson, making his way from liberal Christianity to Catholicism—his conversion would be completed the following year—wrote of “the mutual solidarity of the human race” in an article on “Universal History.” He traced the language to a “French legal term.” A few months later he offered further complications, based on individualism and access to property. In 1853, scholar and merchant Charles Eliot Norton connected “Communism” and “solidarity” briefly, rejecting both in favor of faith in his Considerations on Some Recent Social Theories. Nevertheless the central fact regarding usage of “solidarity” through 1860 was its infrequency. As measured by Google Ngram the last 40 years of the nineteenth century saw a 13-fold increase in usage of the word over 1860 levels and the by 1920 that increase was nearly 40-fold.
Writing in 1874 the New York lawyer and literary critic Richard Grant White, regarded the word “solidarity” as exemplifying that “we [in the U.S.] have adopted a few very expansive French words.” Generally true, White’s observation cannot account for what may be the earliest usages of solidarity as a pro-labor noun in the United States. The militant abolitionist Richard Hinton, who fought in support of John Brown in Kansas and later joined the International Workingmen’s Association borrowed from English-language publications of the IWA as he publicized the organization to readers of Atlantic Monthly. Hinton wrote of a “new and imposing politico-social organization” acting on the belief that “It is useless for the working people of one nation to attempt to remodel society; there must be a combination of all the nations.” Combining the labor and internationalist strands of solidarity’s modern meanings, he quoted an IWA resolution from its Brussels meeting: “The Congress reckons upon the solidarity of workingmen of all countries for [a] strike of the people against war.”
The Knights of Labor rightly and wrongly enjoys a reputation for advancing the cause of solidarity in its practice as the leading nineteenth century U.S. mass organization of working people, and one particularly willing to organize across lines of skill, gender, nationality, and race. Its powerful slogan “An injury to one is the concern of all” has resonated widely in changing forms in subsequent labor movements as one basis of solidarity. Nevertheless in its 1880s heyday, the organization used the term “solidarity” scantily and contradictorily much more often describing its own ideal as “fraternity.” Indeed even the celebrated “injury to one” motto dated from the early days of the Knights as a secret fraternal brotherhood and was unevenly used during its heyday as an openly organizing labor organization. In the six fat volumes of the Knights’ Journal of United Labor published in the early and middle 1880s only two articles used the word “solidarity.” In the first, “The Present Slavery—The Coming Freedom,” the cooperative leader Justus O. Woods reflected the tendency to use solidarity to mean Christian brotherhood: “The solidarity of human interests may be safely assumed. One part of our race cannot be permanently elevated and happy while the other is degraded and miserable.” The line resonated with Marx’s famous pronouncement that “Labor cannot emancipate itself in the white skin while in the black it is branded,” but without the labor. Christian faith, Woods held, furnished “the noblest ideal of human society” that of a “grand brotherhood of the race.” Countering the individualism of social Darwinian, he used solidarity to establish right to legislate for social good.
Woods’ usage built on a strong tradition of Protestant humanitarianism, and at times internationalism and egalitarianism that in the United States often pioneered the explicit use of “solidarity” to breach racial lines. In 1886, for example, the editorial, “Daniel Webster and Caste” in The American Missionary reproduced a small part of Webster’s 1820 Plymouth Rock oration. The editors praised it as a speech that “declares for the solidarity of the race” and “frowns upon the spirit of caste at all times and everywhere.” Solidarity here was their word, not Webster’s and the evidence that Webster was a determined foe of caste is less than impressive. However, the editorial repeats a usage of “solidarity” quite firmly developed in The American Missionary, which used the word twenty-three times in the late nineteenth century, almost always in support of human brotherhood and supporting Christian education abroad and/or African American and American Indian education at home. In one remarkable 1894 article, chronicling racial oppression in the United States, the author glories specifically in the “racial solidarity” forming around the term “Afro-American.”
The other Journal of United Labor article using “solidarity” shows that there was at least some use of the word to signify of labor unity within the Knights. Part of the long, unsigned “Chapters on Labor” series, it defended the tactic of going on strike even when immediate results were poor--most Knights of Labor had resulted in defeat according to author—because the experience “has taught us the power of unity; it has shown us that all our interests are identical; it has enabled us to understand solidarity.” The author looked forward, after the growth of cooperatives, to “a general strike, which will be the last strike, the great strike, the universal strike.” The major novel reflecting the experience of the Knights from a member’s—albeit a lawyer whom the order’s formal rules barred from membership--point-of-view, T. Fulton Gantt’s 1887 Breaking the Chains, echoes this usage. As Maud Simpson, a leading female character and the novel’s best spokesperson for the logic of labor organizing, puts it, “The Knights have learned that they are powerless to accomplish anything individually and so labor for their whole class, It is the correct idea—solidarity.”
On the other hand, the same novel winds its way toward culminating scenes that offer an occasion for unease about the power of solidarity that Maud Simpson evokes. The strand of anti-Chinese racism that animated a subplot of the story, compounds into a deadly brew of opium addiction, elite decadence, and anxiety regarding interracial sex as a Chinese servant provides drugs to a young rich woman. That such casual racism did not seem to the author to clash with phrasings regarding solidarity underlines how wary we should be of seeing solidarity as merely incomplete, awaiting further inclusions. Generations of workers died with almost no impulse toward even beginning to move beyond a reflexive impulse toward Chinese exclusion. The most honest and exemplary study in this regard, Alexander Saxton’s The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Chinese Exclusion Movement in California, argues that an important part of the labor movement was built not despite a commitment to anti-Chinese racism but through such a commitment. Critical in modeling the productive uneasiness regarding solidarity urged in this article is Saxton’s repeated inclusion in his study of the anti-racist barber and seaman’s organizer Sigismund Danielewicz. Long fighting a lonely crusade against overwhelming forces that either believed in Chinese exclusion or thought themselves able to use it tactically, Danielewizc lost again and again. His brilliance as an organizer could not overcome his insistence on principle. His last appearance in the book finds Danielewizc making a statement against anti-Chinese racism knowing “beforehand that his comrades would permit him to be guffawed and howled and booed from the podium.” His presence hardly signaled for Saxton that there was always a saving remnant of the labor movement seeking a broader solidarity. In this case, there wasn’t.
Full use of “solidarity” within a language of U.S. labor awaited the twentieth century, and specifically the rise of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). That organization would in 1909 launch the publication Solidarity so that when Chaplin’s anthem “Solidarity Forever,” appeared six years later its lyrics debuted in Solidarity. Two years later the idea that solidarity might be represented by a clenched fist appeared, again in Solidarity, with a striking cartoon in which (white male) workers form strong underground roots of a powerful fist emerging above the ground. Signed with his pen name “Bingo,” the cartoon was also the work of Chaplin, then an editor of Solidarity. In both song and image the desire for solidarity is touching but hardly interested in portraying difference, or in thinking, beyond a spirited reliance on a language of class, about what produced unity.
FIGURE THREE: “Bingo” [Ralph Chaplin], “The Hand That Will Rule the World,” Solidarity (June 30, 1917).
Solidarity, History, Memory
As someone trained in history I want to reflect in closing on three instances concerning how remembering the past reflect a sometimes enervating desire for solidarity to be easy. To raise this set of issues is not to disavow the pull towards what the French georgrapher, anarchist, antislavery travel writer on the United States, and Communard Élisée Reclus described as solidarity with “those who are no longer here.” Such an aspiration was beautifully apparent when freedpeople sang of the “many thousand gone” in contemplating their liberation and their future. Such a sensibility challenges, among other things, too firm separations of mechanical solidarity from organic solidarity. However, to imagine ourselves in solidarity with social movements of the past presents challenges us to remember them as presenting both ways forward and ways in which broad solidarities have often been elusive and difficult.
Perhaps the leading case in which historians have rewritten the history of solidarity in the last fifty years, Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia in 1675 and 1676, provides the first challenging example. Before the late 1960s two connecting interpretations informed thinking about how the armed revolt led by the plantation owner Nathaniel Bacon and followed by common people presaged later anti-colonial and democratic initiatives. In the first Bacon was the “torchbearer” for a revolution a century away. The second interpretation, reading the historical record with perhaps less license, emphasized the rebellion’s anti-Indian character. When one of the leading U.S. liberal historians, Edmund S. Morgan, and one of our leading radical historians, Theodore Allen, reinterpreted Bacon, they placed his revolt in the context of many other insurgencies in Maryland and Virginia between 1660 and 1680. Turning on questions of land and labor, these class conflicts united the “giddy multitude,” indentured and formerly indentured workers of both African and European ancestry, and shook the colonial order’s foundations. Allen in particular argued forcefully that the result of threats to elite control was the “invention of the white race.” Elites reacted not only by turning to more slave labor but also to strategies drawing a color line enlisting the white poor, accorded petty privileges, in the defense of a slave system soon also functioning as a racial system. Though not quite an example of interracial solidarity of labor—on Allen’s argument racial categories came after the rebellion—Bacpn’s insurgency stood as a shining example of class solidarity.
For many radical historians of race, myself certainly included, the reinterpretations of Bacon were profoundly attractive and remain so. So much is this the case that what they have left out has been minimized. Where gender was concerned the important work of Kathleen Brown quickly pointed to a critical omission, but one that the revisionist and traditional historians of Bacon’s Rebellion had shared. More recently historians have reasserted and detailed an older anti-Indian story that ought also to complicate our understanding of the solidarity of the “giddy multitude.” Both James Davis and the late Ethan Schmidt have weighed in with powerful reminders that while Bacon’s forces came into class solidarity around a desire for land, their more precise goal was speedy movement onto Indian land. Davis demonstrates that the setting was not simply a colony but rather “Indian country.” For Schmidt, the emphases are equally on “social conflict and Indian hatred.” Indeed in concert with new work establishing some materially based pre-Bacon’s Rebellion impulses towards white supremacy and preference for slave labor, the question could be raised whether class solidarity in a settler alliance led by Bacon actually served the interests of African-descended poor people.
In the city where I live a monument particularly exemplifies how memorializing an historic impulse towards solidarity against one form of oppression can coexist with a refusal to acknowledge another. The striking 23-ton reddish pink rock, with a plaque affixed, sits across from the Lawrence, Kansas city hall. The text rightly recalls the heroism those who founded the town as an antislavery outpost:
TO THE PIONEERS OF KANSAS WHO IN DEVOTION TO HUMAN FREEDOM CAME INTO A WILDERNESS, SUFFERED HARDSHIPS AND FACED DANGER AND DEATH TO FOUND THIS STATE IN RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Disappeared in the plaque’s words is the fact of settlement on native land, so tragically a part of the story of the monument itself. The stone anchoring its plaque was Shunganunga boulder, an oddity among the regions yellowish-white stone, carried from the Dakotas on a glacier during the last Ice Age. Its distinctiveness was not lost on the Kanza Indians living near its location at the intersection of Shunganunga Creek and the Kaw River. Having incorporated the boulder into water worship rites, the Kanza recalled it as a source of collective identity long after their removal to Oklahoma in the wake of the Civil War. In 1929, as part of Lawrence’s 75th anniversary celebration, the Santa Fe Railroad helped to move the stone from its centuries-old resting place. It went from marking sacred native place to being Founders Monument in Lawrence. In 1989, the Kanza asked that the Shunganunga boulder be restored to its former place in the river. a Lawrence Sesquicentennial Commission member justified rejecting the proposal on grounds clarifying that a monument to abolition could also be deeply embedded in long, unacknowledged histories of colonialism: "To the Kanza, these things had a life and a spirit," the commission member said, "In some ways, the spirituality of the rock has been shifted to a different area. The boulder was very important to the residents of Lawrence who brought it here -- it was kind of like their Plymouth Rock."
FIGURE FOUR: Pepsy M. Kettavong’s “Let’s Have Tea.” Rochester, New York. Bronze. 2001.
The last of the cautions regarding memory and solidarity directly returns us to my doubts regarding how to write Seizing Freedom. In “Let’s Have Tea” the Laotian-born American artist Pepsy M. Kettavong pays tribute to the friendship of Rochester, New York’s two great feminist-abolitionists, Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony. The decades of their collaboration, also commemorated by their names jointly gracing a spectacular bridge near the sculpture, richly deserve remembering. In an interview the artist cast his own role in producing the work and its subject matter as exemplifying the U.S. democracy at its best. All of that granted, the installation implies an ease in solidarity that the lives of Douglass and Anthony both exemplify and contradict. Their long and fruitful collaborations before and during the Civil War ought to be recalled. But so too should be the fact that in the immediate postwar years, when the questions of African American and women’s rights emerged with unprecedented intensity, bitter political splits utterly divided the two leaders.
To insist that school children who visit the park would benefit from knowing both stories is not to deprecate the plain heroism and the capacity for alliance Anthony and Douglass often displayed. Nevertheless profound structural differences in the ways in which African American men and middle class white women experienced both misery and the possibilities for redress left them in different and indeed opposing organizations. Indeed the fine eponymous documentary film based on the “Let’s Have Tea” sculpture makes just that point. To understand the power of those pressures working against solidarity is also a usable part of remembering the past, alerting us to structural differences between forms of domination in the past the present and allowing activists to know that not all fallings out of coalition are the result of bad faith.
Expressing an unease with the solidarity we nevertheless desire intersects with a variety of recent rethinking of the questions of optimism. These include Terry Eagleton’s Hope without Optimism, the excellent new British journal Salvage, and Lauren Berlant’s work on the perils of “cruel optimism.” In a related way the surrealist concept of “miserabilism,” which animated the call for papers of the 2015 ASA conference, holds that the terrible miseries social systems produce can at times reinforce the ability of elites to rule. Such different warnings against easy optimisms are far from calls for quietism. Instead they reflect on the extent to which the desire for reassurances that social motion is proceeding in our favor can lead in practice to immobilization, especially when defeats accumulate and hollow victories are extolled. They urge that we realize what we are up against and how uneasy the road ahead is bound to be. We ought to be willing to make solidarity uneasy as well, seeking it by owning its difficulties.
David Roediger is the Foundation Distinguished Professor of American Studies and History at Kansas University. This latest book, Class, Race and Marxism, from which this extract is taken, is out now from Verso.
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Pelosi Selling Shirts ‘Don’t Mess With Me’ After Her Meltdown Attack On Reporter
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— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) December 6, 2019
If Trump had done that, they’d still be talking about how he threatened a reporter and “endangered our democracy.”
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is trying to use a testy exchange with a reporter to her advantage.
Nancy Pelosi for Congress is selling “Don’t Mess with Nancy” crewneck sweatshirts in an apparent attempt to fundraise off the media attention she received after Thursday’s press briefing. The Speaker caused an uproar after she told a reporter not to “mess with” her, pushing back on a question about whether she hated the president.
“As a Catholic, I resent your using the word ‘hate’ in a sentence that addresses me. I don’t hate anyone,” she told Sinclair reporter James Rosen.
“I was raised in a way that is a heart full of love and always pray for the president. And I still pray for the president. And I pray for the president all the time, so don’t mess with me when it comes to words like that.”
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Carnivores are in the firing line, with nations including Germany, Denmark and Sweden considering a tax on meat.
Advocates of such a plan say the environmental impact, health ramifications and concerns about animal welfare underpin the need for such a levy. But how realistic is it? And would it really work?
While the idea is likely to face opposition from farming bodies and industry lobby groups, in Germany Green and Social Democrat lawmakers are backing a higher sales tax on meat. Officials in Denmark and Sweden have considered similar proposals, according to a report from financial intelligence firm Fitch Solutions.
High emissions
Raising animals for food requires huge amounts of land, food and water. Added to that, the livestock sector plays a significant role in emitting greenhouse gases, producing 7.1 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). That’s around 15% of all human-induced emissions.
While meat consumption is falling in some developed nations, it is rising elsewhere, including in China, according to research published in Science. When you add to that the FAO’s prediction that overall global demand for livestock is set to increase by 70% by 2050, you can see why some politicians back policies to limit it.
The environmental impact of meat vs other foods
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There’s a growing move away from meat in many developed countries. A recent report commissioned by the United Nations advocates plant-based diets to help mitigate climate change, including a policy recommendation to reduce meat consumption.
A tax on meat would echo other levies imposed around the world to promote public health and well-being. In addition to long-standing charges on alcohol and tobacco, sugar taxes are now in place in many countries including the UK, Ireland, Portugal and the UAE.
Really effective?
Even so, such measures can be controversial, with some arguing they fall disproportionately on low-income consumers. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is planning a review of how “sin taxes” work in the UK.
Others argue that better-designed policies could make these taxes work more effectively and alleviate the impact on the low-income population. A working paper from the US National Bureau of Economic Research explores how this could function in practice through the theoretical framework of a soda tax.
A study in Science contends more evidence is needed about the effectiveness of trying to influence people’s food purchasing and consumption.
“The multitude of factors that influence the price and availability of meat, and how it is processed and marketed, determine a socioeconomic landscape that profoundly affects, and is affected by, norms and behaviors,” the authors wrote.
“The existence of major vested interests and centres of power makes the political economy of diet change highly challenging.”
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Vancouver Whitecaps’ Scott Sutter, left, and Houston Dynamo’s Memo Rodriguez vie for the ball during the second half of an MLS soccer game in Vancouver, on Saturday September 14, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Last-minute Montero goal seals 2-1 win for Vancouver Whitecaps
Striker tallies to lift ‘Caps past Houston, snapping 3-game skid
VANCOUVER — Fredy Montero played hero for the Vancouver Whitecaps on Saturday, scoring a late goal to lift his team to a 2-1 victory over the Houston Dynamo.
The striker’s tally came in the 90th minute, snapping Vancouver’s (7-14-10) three-game losing skid.
Hwang In-beom also scored on a penalty kick for Vancouver and Mauro Manotas put away the lone goal for Houston (10-16-4).
The Whitecaps first goal came in the 54th minute, with Hwang sending a rocket into the bottom left side of the net on a penalty kick.
The goal was the South Korean midfielders third of the year.
Whitecaps goalkeeper Zac MacMath made five saves. Joe Willis stopped two-of-four on-target shots for Houston.
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Minutes earlier, ‘Caps striker Yordy Reyna had taken a free kick from outside the Houston box and the ball hit a leaping Manotas in the hand.
Officials on the field called a hand ball on the play but the call went to video review. A second look determined the original call was good.
Vancouver appeared poised to snatch a victory until the 78th minute, when MacMath dropped to the turf to stop a long ball from Maynor Figueroa.
Prone on the ground, the ‘keeper couldn’t control the rebound and Mantos popped an easy ball into the net for his club-leading 13th goal of the season.
Montero came off the bench to score the winning tally.
Mood 🎺#VANvHOU | #VWFC pic.twitter.com/Q9YqoX1vs3
— Vancouver Whitecaps FC (@WhitecapsFC) September 15, 2019
The Colombian forward collected a high ball from teammate Theo Bair and got a left-footed shot off from down low, beating Willis to tally his seventh goal of the year in the 90th minute.
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Saturday’s loss complicates the Dynamo’s path to the playoffs. Houston currently has 34 points and sits four spots back of a post-season berth.
The Whitecaps have already been eliminated from playoff contention.
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NOTES: Jasser Khmiri made the Whitecaps 18 for the first time but did not come off the bench. The Tunisian centreback joined the ‘Caps last November and has spent all season rehabbing a knee injury.
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Danielle Burgio
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Danielle Burgio left home, went to New York and within two weeks landed her first acting job in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Starlight Express, which has an entire cast on roller skates. The musical was incredibly successful and staggeringly difficult to perform!
After New York, Danielle Burgio headed for Hollywood and created a mind-boggling amount of work as the triple threat of actress, dancer, and stuntwoman. She has worked consistently in both TV and film and continues to stretch her skills. Danielle Burgio ‘moonlights’ as a director and writer, and has two award winning shorts, Lucy Falls and Girl Trip.
As a stuntwoman in both film and television, Danielle Burgio has stunt doubled for a huge array of stars, including Jennifer Garner, Michelle Monahan, and her possible favorite, Carrie Anne Moss (Trinity) in the Matrix sequels. Her work can be seen in TV shows such as Ghost Whisperer, Angel, and Scandal. Her films include the aforementioned Matrix sequels, Daredevil, The Green Hornet and she was stunt coordinator for The Blackout.
Danielle Burgio’s diverse talents have led her down an exciting path from Broadway dancer to top Hollywood stunt woman, to up-and-coming actress of the moment, and as that path continues to wind and take its turns, the future can only be golden for this very talented young woman. At an early age, Danielle left the confines of Greensboro, North Carolina, where she grew up, and headed out to New York City to live with her grandmother. While in New York, Danielle found early success both on Broadway and touring nationally.
After touring through Los Angeles, Danielle quickly realized where life’s path was leading her. She quickly packed up her life and headed west finding herself performing alongside Cher at “The American Music Awards”. Being the social butterfly that she is, Danielle quickly began to make friends all over town and it wasn’t long before she encountered a couple of stuntman. A little interest led to a little help and before she knew it she was on the set of John Carpenter’s Vampires (1998). This powerful experience quickly caused Danielle to switch gears. She hit the pavement running and enrolled in gymnastics and martial arts classes, letting the stunt coordinators around town know who she was. Her reputation led her to the producers of TBS Superstation’s Worst Case Scenario (2000). They invited her to co-host as “Gear Girl”, which enabled her to perform some of the most thrilling stunts of her career and put her face in the public eye. This exposure landed her one of the top spots on TV Guide’s list of “Hot Picks” for the Boys and Girls of Summer.
Danielle Burgio has now stunt-doubled for such high profile talents including Jennifer Lopez in Monster-in-Law (2005), Kelly Hu in Martial Law (1998), Jennifer Garner in Daredevil (2003), Kate Beckinsale in Pearl Harbor (2001), Debra Messing in Will & Grace (1998), and of course, her favorite project, “The Matrix” sequels where she landed the dream job of being the “Trinity” fight double. She has been profiled on CNN Headline News, Entertainment Tonight (1981) and Good Morning America (1975), and made numerous guest appearances on talk shows where she has been known to display her daredevil talents at a moment’s notice.
Chronicle/Quirk Books published Danielle’s first book, The Stuntwoman’s Workout, in May, 2005.
In 2018 Danielle Burgio, with her upbeat and incredible personality, an her surprisingly indomitable spirit, received the Unsung Hero Award at the Artemis Women in Action Film Festival. “It is my immense privilege to be receiving the Unsung Hero Award from Artemis, who continues to blaze a mighty trail in recognizing powerful women in motion pictures. My journey in this industry has been a lesson in facing fear and learning the true definition of perseverance (both of which I continue to face on a daily basis!) and one that wouldn’t be possible without the love and support of my friends, family and peers. Thank you for showing me that grit pays off!” says Ms. Burgio.
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Works of Art Hair Studio is celebrating it’s 10th year in it’s current location on Hollywood Boulevard near Vermont Street, in the hip, stylish Los Feliz shopping and entertainment district. Situated above one of the best restaurants in Los Angeles, Umami Burger, and down the street from one of L.A.’s top art galleries, La Luz de Jesus, Works of Art Hair Studio fits right in to make this little strip of Hollywood Boulevard a great destination.
From art openings to fashion shows, Works of Art Hair Studio has been a major part of the Hollywood scene for over a decade. It has, however, maintained it’s easygoing atmosphere. Not wanting to become an overly trendy, uncomfortable place for wanna-be celebs, the hair studio is and always has been a comfy neighborhood hang, with many clients just stopping by to say hello to Art or his mother Dee, our receptionist and celebrity in her own right, who has been with Art since day one.
Art Cardiel, owner, is very attune to the ever-changing needs of the clients, which brings a constant stream of educators and classes into the salon to keep our stylists up-to-date with the latest trends and styles. “If we can’t give it them, they will go elsewhere.” says Cardiel. “Besides, we like to keep ourselves motivated and challenged so that we stay excited about doing hair. If we are not excited, our clients will not be either.”
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Some of our stylists have backgrounds as Platform artists or educators for major manufacturers, or as freelance stylists in the entertainment industry.
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You will feel right at home when you step into Works of Art Hair Studio
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Jambo! Welcome to Magical Kenya
No other country on earth can offer the visitor as much to see and do. Within the borders of a single country, you will find savannahs rich with big game, timeless cultures unchanged by the modern world, pristine beaches and coral reef, equatorial forests and mighty snow-capped mountains, searing deserts and cool highland retreats and endless opportunities for adventure, discovery, relaxation; more than you would ever expect.
Kenya - Quick Facts
Kenya lies astride the equator on the eastern coast of Africa. It is a medium-sized country by continental standards, covering an area of about 586,600km sq. Inland water bodies cover some 10,700km sq, the bulk of this in Lakes Victoria and Turkana.
Kenya has tremendous topographical diversity, including glaciated mountains with snow-capped peaks, the Rift Valley with its scarps and volcanoes, ancient granitic hills, flat desert landscapes and coral reefs and islets.
Kenya is generally a dry country; over 75% of its area is classed as arid of semi-arid with only around 20% being viable for agriculture. Inland, rainfall and temperatures are closely related to altitude changes, with variations induced by local topography. Generally the climate is warm and humid at the coast, cool and humid in the central highlands, and hot and dry in the north and east.
Across most of the country, rainfall is strongly seasonal, although its pattern, timing and extent vary greatly from place to place and from year to year.
Kenya has an extensive domestic travel network, with plenty of options to suit any traveller's needs. Whether you're looking for speed, comfort, sightseeing or service you'll find something to suit as you travel around Kenya.
Kenya Safari Styles - Experience a different safari every day
Kenya offers the traveller an unparalleled range of options. The incredible diversity of landscapes, cultures, wildlife and activities mean endless opportunities. With so many choices at hand, some people find the prospect of planning a trip quite daunting. It doesn’t have to be that way.
In Kenya it is very easy to plan and prepare for a safari that is as individual as you are, and that satisfies your own personal needs and interests. If you are planning a trip, use this website to explore Kenya in advance, and decide where you would like to go, what you would like to see and what you would like to do.
Kenya's Rich Culture
Kenya has a culture born of countless sources. This region has been crossed by the paths of a long and complex history. From the prehistoric records of early man to the present day, Kenya has been a land of unending change, contrasts and diversity.
The early tribal states saw cycles of migration and shifting power, with Kenya as a meeting place for peoples from the plainlands of the south, the forests of the West and the deserts of the North.
The sea brought influences from the outside world, and the passage of the spice trade created the unique coastal culture, where lines between Africa and Arabia blurred. The open coast brought European influences into this world of change and began a turbulent struggle for control whose exotic history lingers today.
Kenya Music and Dance Traditionally, Kenyan music originates from several sources. Many of the Nomadic tribes of this region share some common ground in the use of songs and chants, particularly among Maa speaking groups. Maa song has always played a large role in ceremonial life.
Kenya’s culture exemplifies the art of adornment and decoration, and history shows that this has been a long and influential tradition. Throughout the country, there are many examples of rock art and cave painting by early man, and of similar designs and motifs carried through recent centuries.
Modern Culture
Kenyan Modern Culture was born of myriad sources and influences both new and old. Despite the many and varied influences that have shaped Kenyan society, the culture in Kenya has become truly and purely Kenyan.
If any one thing of Kenya speaks of this unique character, it is the modern melding of traditional societies and culture. In Kenya it is possible to leave Nairobi, a city with a thriving business heart powered by the latest information technology, and drive in just a few hours to a place where life is lived in accordance to tradition and custom, where warriors armed with spears drive cattle into thorn brush enclosures to protect them from lions at night.
In Kenya the modern and the traditional live side by side, and at times the lines blur. For many visitors to Kenya, this is evident within minutes of arrival. Among the busy urban traffic, the median strips of fresh grass along the airport road are a popular place for Maasai herdsmen to graze their cattle.
Some people lament the gradual change in lifestyles, and loss of many customs and traditions in deference to modern life and values. But much more than any other country on earth Kenya has maintained many of its traditional cultures. Indeed, in Kenya tradition and custom is not seen as being linked to the past, but as being an amorphous and evolving part of everyday life.
The result is a completely unique culture, in which it is possible to see a Maasai walking across the plains using his distended earlobes to support walkman headphones, a group of urban Kikuyu joining in a traditional wedding ritual in which a bride is sung out of her house by the grooms family, or a Samburu Business man with a traditionally beaded mobile phone cover.
The ease with which Kenyans adopt and adapt to new cultural influences has a long history. Kenyan culture is built on the acceptance and absorption of new and varied cultures, whether it was migrant nomads or sea borne traders.
The end result is a culture of endless influence and yet one completely uniquely Kenyan in character.
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Artistic Ambivalence in Clay: Portraits of Pottery, Ceramics, and Gender (Hardback, Unabridged edition)
By Weida, Courtney Lee
This book is a collection of glimpses into the lives and works of fifteen prominent women artists in contemporary ceramics. Spanning multiple genres, generations, and geographies, these potters and ceramic sculptors describe nuances, contradictions, and tensions surrounding their... artworks, artistic processes, and professional lives. Within this text, artistic ambivalences are questioned and analyzed in terms of myriad gender issues. Featured ceramicists include women working in the United States: Maureen Burns-Bowie, Esta Carnahan, Ellen Day, Cara Gay Driscoll, Dolores Dunning, Heidi Fahrenbacher, DeBorah Goletz, Lynn Goodman, Joan Hardin, Beth Heit, Tsehai Johnson, Kate Malone, Norma Messing, Elspeth Owen, and Mary Trainor. The qualitative research summarized within this book draws influence from feminist methodologies and the visual arts methodology of portraiture. Artists, art historians, and art educators interested in ceramics and gender will find detailed discussion of subtle and unexpected persistence of gendered associations within ceramic technology, binaries of gender identity in symbols and traditions of clay, and subtle sexism surrounding ceramics education. At the same time, this text celebrates women's work in ceramics as an often neglected set of perspectives, highlighting the intricate complexities of artistic ambivalences and lived experiences of art within a dynamic dialogue.
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Courtney Lee Weida is a ceramic artist and Assistant Professor of Art Education. Her education includes degrees from Northeastern University, Harvard University, and Columbia University Teachers College. She has taught within public schools, museums, and arts organizations. Her publications include contributions to the Teaching Artist Journal, the Guild of Book Workers' Journal, the Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, and multiple publications of the National Art Education Association. For more details of her work, please visit www.courtneyweida.com.
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Club Artwork
The Board of Directors and Management of Windermere Golf and Country Club, are pleased to present the the following featured artists. Click on the links above to visit Gallery Websites.
CARMEN WILDE - C WILDE DESIGNS
Carmen Wilde is a Canadian artist, grass roots from Vegreville, Alberta now living in Edmonton. Her love of natural beauty and color are the top influences of her acrylic paintings.Her images convey joy and beauty found in nature, whether it be the prairies, mountains or sea. When people see her art for the first time they often comment about how playful and vibrant the colors are.
Carmen’s experience in the interior design industry has made way for her to follow her passion for painting. In her early design career she worked with Telus and developed their fine art and corporate art collection province wide. Furthering her creative spirit she took classes from renowned artists such as Marilyn Wells, Gail Adams and Jim Kingwell. Studying under Willie Wong for the past four years, has given her the confidence to follow her dream.
Although her interest mainly lies with Canadian landscapes, her love of architecture has yet to be explored. She chooses to use a more transitional impressionistic approach to her painting and is excited in the direction this is taking her.
WEI WONG - W2 GALLERY
Born in Borneo, Malaysia in 1968, Wei moved to Edmonton, Alberta in 1986, bringing his love of drawing, sketching, and painting with him. Much of his early artistic focus was engaged primarily with the Watercolour medium, but shifted to photography in the early 2000’s with the advance in digital technology.
Embracing the beauty of the Canadian landscapes surrounding him, he has been able to capture a variety of subjects, from the grandeur of city skylines to pebbles in a backyard brook.
Wei’s passion in finding the beauty in details and objects that many may pass over has inspired him to reproduce and enlarge those images on canvas and other media, all beginning with a simple photograph.
His works have been sought after by both public and private collectors around the world. Wei began his career in the picture framing industry in 1987 and is now the proud owner of a Fine Art and Framing Business where he is continuously exploring new mediums through which to express his art.
KEE WONG - KAMENA GALLERY
Artist Kee Wong is a fine art impressionist who loves to create pieces of art that reflect the rustic yet the sublime beauty of nature.
The effects in his work are ethereal and transcendent. Wong's transference of “Light” is most notable. His uses of colors are subtle with remarkable color placements yet almost monochromatic. The language articulated in his art is exquisite; it breathes an air of freshness that delights all five senses and implicitly exudes the more delicate qualities of beauty and poetic nuances of life.
Ultimately, his language impresses the hearts of those who enjoy seascapes and all other subjects concerning nature and its rhythms of surrounding existence.
WILLIE WONG - KAMENA GALLERY
Born in Malaysian Borneo, land of the head hunters, in 1959, this vanishing tropical island of exotic flowers and birds influenced Willie Wong to study art in various locations throughout South East Asia under various renowned Chinese artists.
After completing the Senior Cambridge examinations, Willie settled in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 1979. There he studied at both the Alberta College and the University of Alberta.Embracing Edmonton’s cultural liveliness, Willie participated off and on at the Works and The Fringe festivals, as well as having served on the Board of Directors for The Art Park. Willie also served as art critic and juror throughout the city for various art groups, and as a watercolor instructor for the Edmonton Public School Board in its Continuing Education programs.
Also, he has conducted watercolor workshops at Edmonton’s Devonian Gardens since 1987 and numerous other workshops for various art clubs throughout Alberta every year. Willie teaches ELLA at The U of A and also works as an artist in residence for both the public and catholic schools. The rest of the time, Willie teaches out of Kamena Gallery and helps his two brothers with the framing business.
Willie Wong traveled to Yellowknife and Inuvik to conduct workshops for the Great Northern Arts & Crafts Festival in July between 1990 and 1995 where his ‘Northern Lights’ art shows held in Inuvik were some of the most popular events enjoyed by international tourists.
Collected publicly as well as privately all across Canada, the United States, Malaysia and Singapore, some collectors of Willie’s work include Amoco, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Canada Council for the Art Bank, Northwestern Utilities, the Royal Bank, Telus, the University of Alberta Hospital and etc.
Artist statement:
“I believe a paint brush is like a musical instrument to a musician; I paint whatever my mood inspires me. But my love is to study and paint the memorable human conditions all over the world.”
Email: williewong59@hotmail.com / Phone: 780-944-9497
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UPDATE: Power outages affect thousands across Tennessee Valley
Power crews were working all day to clear outages caused by wind and downed trees.
Thursday, October 31st 2019, 3:51 PM EDT by Claudia Coco
Thursday, October 31st 2019, 6:07 PM EDT
UPDATE: As of 5:45 p.m., an EPB spokesperson says about 900 customers are without power on Thursday night.
EPB crews will be working as quickly as possible to restore power.
Stay with the WRCB app for updates.
PREVIOUS STORY: From Varnell, Georgia to Chattanooga, people experienced power outages stemming from wind gusts and downed trees throughout Thursday.
Allison Gregoire, spokesperson for Georgia Power says they had an outage in Varnell on Thursday morning.
"And a large tree fell inside one of our sub-stations," said Gregoire.
J. Ed. Marston with EPB says they were having some issues with trees as well.
"We're seeing a lot of tree branches, whole tree falling over lines, lines being blown down," said Marston.
Wind gusts up to 30 mph and trees were the main cause of these outages.
READ MORE | PHOTOS: Thursday storm damage around Tennessee Valley
"We had as many as 1,000 people out this morning but as of 10:30 we had only 43 people out," said Gregoire.
She says their crews responded quickly, and power has now been restored to all customers.
Marston says customers were reporting outages throughout the day.
"We're seeing a lot of incidents but they're impacting a relatively small amount of customers, it's about 3,000 customers as of noon," said Marston.
Marston says when they would repair one line, another would go down.
"But as soon as we make one repair because the high winds continue we're seeing additional outages occur, additional damage occur," said Marston.
When the winds pick up, all hands are on deck for repairs.
"We have all of our line crews deploy to repair and restore the outages as quickly as possible and we're actually also seeking outside crews to aid in that effort," said Marston.
If someone is worried about a tree near a power line, Marston says to call EPB so they can assess it.
READ MORE | UPDATE: Freeze warning in place for Thursday morning
"If the tree is located in the public right of way and they think that it might impact a power line, they can contact us, we're constantly pruning trees back to keep them away from power lines," said Marston.
For a list of current outages click here for EPB and here for Georgia Power. Those links also provide a place to report an outage.
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Life With Asperger’s
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We talk with John Elder Robison about his memoir, [amazon-product text=”Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Aspergers” type=”text”]0307396185[/amazon-product]. Brother to best-selling author Augusten Burroughs (RUNNING WITH SCISSORS), Robison has written a sweet, compelling tale about growing up with Asperger’s Syndrome, a high-functioning form of autism. From the inside, he reveals what it’s like to be a misfit, the savant-like talents he feels Asperger’s gave him, and how he overcame the condition’s deficits and celebrated its gifts.
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We also talk with Free Press director Josh Silver about new developments in the fight to preserve net neutrality.
March 1, 2008 asperger’s syndrome, augusten_burroughs, autism, free_press, john_elder_robison, look_me_in_the_eye, memoir, net_neutrality, Nonfiction, robison, running_with_scissors, savantFrancesca Rheannon
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We talk with John Elder Robison about his wonderful memoir, LOOK ME IN THE EYE: My Life With Asperger’s.
Click the following link to hear a Web-only clip from our interview with John Elder Robison: what he told his kid about who Santa Claus really is…
And you can listen to the full interview here.
February 28, 2008 asperger’s syndrome, augusten_burroughs, autism, free_press, john_elder_robison, look_me_in_the_eye, memoir, net_neutrality, Nonfiction, robison, running_with_scissors, savantFrancesca Rheannon
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Hotels Near The Birchmere Music Hall
ALEXANDRIA, VA. – Decades before the legendary Birchmere Music Hall opened in Del Ray, Alexandria had a thriving music scene, which revolved around – of all places – its roller skating rink. The Alexandria Roller Rink closed its doors for good in 1986, but 42 years after the legendary show avid.
Hotels. Restaurants. With venues ranging from DAR Constitution Hall to the Verizon Center near D.C.’s Chinatown to Northern Virginia’s Birchmere Music Hall and Maryland’s Music Center at.
View Crystal City Marriott At Reagan National Airport amenities, map and availability to help you plan your next trip to Arlington VA. University George Washington University Trinity College Northern Virginia Community College Carpool Crystal City Sports Pub Birchmere Music Hall Capitol City Brewing Company Clarendon Ballroom 9:30 Club ESPN.
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Hotel Indigo Old Town Alexandria showcases the colonial charm of the area. Enjoy our boutique Old Town Alexandria Hotel located at one of the busiest ports in early America. Hotel Indigo Old Town Alexandria showcases the colonial charm of the area. Your session will expire in 5 minutes, 0 seconds, due to inactivity.
The week will close out with a horde of new concert tickets hitting the market with something to please every music fan under the sun. 12:45 AM LIVN After Wednesday Delmar Hall Saint Louis.
Spend time at Courtyard Arlington Crystal City/Reagan National Airport on your next vacation road trip. Book a stay at our hotel near Crystal City, VA today! Amenities · 24-hour front desk · ATM/Cash machine · Accessible facilities · Accessible parking · Barber shop – (In Area). – Birchmere Music Hall – Kennedy Center – National Theatre
This is the experience you’ll find at the Shadow Woods Metal Festival in White Hall, Maryland, just outside of Frederick. For the past two years, Shadow Woods has seen metalheads descend into the.
As a Top ArtPlace 2013, cultural activities abound at galleries like the popular Torpedo Factory Art Center and the Athenaeum, or live entertainment staples MetroStage and the legendary Birchmere Music Hall. Alexandria is primarily known for its rich colonial history as George Washington’s hometown, and includes attractions frequented by.
Legendary film director returns to the Birchmere for his annual holiday show next week and we never miss a chance to chat him up. His comments have been slightly edited for length. WASHINGTON BLADE:.
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The 95-acre garden is a beautiful and peaceful place to explore with its’ walking trails, lakes, cherry trees, irises, peonies, an extensive shade garden, native wildflowers, gazebos, birds, and butterflies.
Choose from over 75 Birchmere hotels with great savings. Nov 16, 2018 · Birchmere Music Hall currently has a list of concerts available to see in the calendar.
Spring is in the air, which means it’s time to start venturing outdoors for the freshest music, whether you’d prefer Idina Menzel at Jiffy Lube Live, Brandi Carlile returning to Wolf Trap or Common.
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Buy Birchmere tickets at Ticketmaster.com. Find Birchmere venue concert and event schedules, venue information, directions, and seating charts. Buy Birchmere tickets at Ticketmaster.com. Find Birchmere venue concert and event schedules, venue information, directions, and seating charts.
Ah, spring. A time when temperatures are rising, flowers are in bloom and people are naturally anticipating doing it outdoors. And by ”it,” we mean seeing concerts. (Is your mind always in the gutter?.
Enjoy quick access to Birchmere Music Hall and Crystal City Metro from Renaissance Arlington Capital View, a well-placed hotel near Alexandria, VA.
New Year’s Eve at Birchmere Music Hall On Monday, December 31, 2018, starting at 8 p.m., you can celebrate New Year’s Eve at the Birchmere Music Hall in Alexandria, Virginia, with The Seldom Scene, The High & Wides, and Ms. Adventure for their annual New Year’s Eve concert.
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Chapter 696: Spiritual Core Forms, True Soul Appears!
Time passed bit by bit...
Sitting on the ancient altar that was surrounded by eight flame dragon skeletons, Nie Tian picked up spirit jades from time to time to absorb their copious spiritual power.
The merging of the two vortexes of spiritual power caused splitting pain in his head and the transformation of his psychic power.
His psychic power quietly gathered and became a cluster of white mist, along with his memories and knowledge of all sorts of power and incantations.
This cluster of white mist kept releasing his unique soul aura.
Violent soul fluctuations burned his mind like boiling lava, making him dizzy.
Like steel, wisps of psychic power were being hammered a thousand times over before being refined into soul power.
The transformation of his psychic power was also causing changes to his memories, which were mixing and brooding in the cluster of white mist.
As tiny dark spots exploded from time to time within the cluster of white mist, images flashed across Nie Tian’s eyes.
It started with his childhood memories in Black Cloud City in the Realm of Flame Heaven.
Brawls between him and the other Nie Clan children, his experience in the Green Illusion dimension, learning from Wu Ji, the fierce battles during the Heaven Gate trial...
Scenes of his lifelong memories continued to appear and vanish before his eyes like a slideshow.
The cluster of white mist expanded and shrank from time to time. In one moment, it would grow long and assume Nie Tian’s figure, but in the next moment, it would shatter and shrink back into a cluster of mist.
As that happened, his vortexes of spiritual power continued to merge with one another.
CRACK!
Another spirit jade was drained of spiritual power and cracked.
Without saying a word or opening his eyes, he picked up a new one.
He had long since known that his psychic power would transform into soul power and a true soul would form when he advanced to the Worldly realm.
However, he hadn’t been aware that such changes would take place in his spiritual sea.
Now, he knew that as he broke through into the Worldly realm, his nine vortexes of spiritual power would become one.
His master, Wu Ji, had never told him anything about what changes would happen to him when he made breakthroughs in his cultivation.
Wu Ji had done that so that he would get to examine and study the changes himself.
Wu Ji had only told him that breakthroughs would take place when he was ready, and that he didn’t need to learn much about them beforehand.
Meanwhile, it had never occurred to Hua Mu, Zhen Huilan, or the other seniors to tell him about the changes that would happen during his breakthroughs, because they had all assumed that Wu Ji had told him about them in detail already.
After all, Fang Hui, Chang Sen, and every other expert from the Realm of Flame Heaven praised Wu Ji as the best mentor one could ever want.
Wu Ji’s method turned out to be brilliant.
Every time Nie Tian tried to make a breakthrough, he didn’t know what changes would occur. Because of this, he would act with great caution and pay close attention to every subtle change that took place during his breakthrough.
He had to observe closely and try to fathom the changes in order not to get into trouble.
As one spirit jade after another was reduced to ordinary stones and piled up beside him, his nine vortexes of spiritual power finally finished merging and became one.
However, he still experienced stabbing pain in his head as changes continued to take place in his mind.
More and more psychic power was turned into soul power as the cluster of white mist fluctuated.
Gradually, Nie Tian started to have a feeling that the cluster of white mist had become the vessel of his soul.
The wisps of soul power within it were like his soul’s meridians and flesh.
As one spirit jade after another was consumed, his mind gradually drifted away, reliving his previous experiences and enlightenments.
Eventually, the extended breakthrough process came to an end.
As the huge waves in his spiritual sea calmed, his nine vortexes of spiritual power had already merged into one.
His new vortex of spiritual power was, to a large extent, similar to his original vortexes of spiritual power.
The only difference was that it had a semi-transparent liquid core that was the size of a fist floating at its center.
It seemed that the core contained highly concentrated, refined spiritual power.
Liquidized spiritual power could be seen flowing in a mysterious way inside the core.
“Is this... a spiritual core?” It seemed that, by only looking at the mysterious core, he learned what it was called.
The formation of the spiritual core seemed to mark the end of the violent changes in his spiritual sea.
As a thought entered his mind, wisps of pure spiritual power streamed into his meridians. He could use such spiritual power to activate protective wards or launch attacks however he liked. He felt that he had been vested with endless battle prowess.
As he continued to channel spiritual power from the spirit jades in his hands, wisps of spiritual power flowed into his new, single vortex of spiritual power, and after refinement, merged into that spiritual core.
Then, he observed his vortexes of flame power, wood power, and star power, and discovered that they were floating around the new vortex of spiritual power.
Some profound connection seemed to have been established between the three vortexes of different attributes and the new vortex of spiritual power that had a spiritual core at its center.
However, his vortexes of flame power, wood power, and star power didn’t seem to have undergone any noticeable changes. They hadn’t merged with each other or formed spiritual cores.
Then, as he refocused his attention on his soul, a strange feeling hit him.
He felt as if his awareness had returned home, and the cluster of white mist in his soul was the origin of his inner awareness.
It was as if that was his true soul.
Eyes narrowed, he examined it with rapt attention, and then quickly realized that his memories, soul imprints, and understandings of various incantations, which had been scattered in every corner of his soul, were now gathered inside his true soul.
Unlike his spiritual core, which was in a liquid state, his true soul was illusory and mist-like.
At this moment, his true soul was only a fluctuating cluster of white mist.
He had heard that truly powerful Qi warriors possessed true souls of their own shapes and appearances. Not only did they look very distinct, but they could even fly out of their bodies and exist independently.
However, his true soul was now nowhere near that level.
“It seems that this is what my true soul is like at the Worldly realm. Perhaps only when I make another breakthrough in cultivation will new changes occur. Perhaps only after I enter the Profound realm or the Soul realm will it become distinct, and assume my shape and appearance.”
With these thoughts, his awareness slowly descended into his true soul.
That was when he realized that there was a soul imprint at the heart of his true soul, which seemed to carry his lifelong memories and understandings of everything.
Wisps of soul power were gathered closely around the soul imprint, as if they were protecting it.
As long as a thought entered his mind, soul power would be able to fly out of his soul to scan heaven and earth.
Before, the awareness he had used to scan his surroundings could only be referred to as psychic awareness, since it had stemmed from his psychic power.
But now, it had become soul awareness.
As wisps of soul awareness flew out of his mind, he closed his eyes and instantly discovered that the detection range of his soul awareness was many times vaster than that of his psychic awareness.
Not just that, but he had a feeling that his soul awareness was now allowing him to truly explore heaven and earth.
His perception of everything around him was much clearer than before, when he had to use his psychic awareness.
Withdrawing his soul awareness, he noticed that the nine fragmentary stars in his soul hadn’t undergone noticeable changes. They were still shining over his sea of awareness like bright stars.
In fact, he didn’t know much about them. Normally, he would only use them to form Heaven Eyes.
He thought he might try it again, so he summoned power from them to form Heaven Eyes.
As soon as the nine Heaven Eyes came to form, they scattered and sped off in different directions, their speed shockingly fast.
Immediately afterwards, the images that they captured were reflected in his true soul. Through them, he could see even the tiniest fissures on the dilapidated altar, and the fine fingerprints on the titan hands that were more than five kilometers away.
The connection between him and his Heaven Eyes had become tighter than ever, and the perception of his Heaven Eyes had multiplied.
“Spiritual core forms, true soul appears, Worldly realm achieved!”
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Timmy Kusnierek April 21, 2015 EDM News
Earlier this year, Mike Lévy announced that Coachella would be the final Gesaffelstein Live performance. The techno enigma laid waste to sold-out venues across North America in preparation for this final act.
Everything about the show perfectly accentuates Gesaffelstein’s dark and ominous tones. The visually accompaniment is executed flawlessly, relying heavily on the classic pairing of smoke and strobe lights. As a final detail, the entire journey is conducted from behind an altar, providing a wildly immersive atmosphere. It’s no wonder the Frenchman is shrouded in mystique.
Click below to relive the spectacle.
Mike Lévy has accumulated quite a portfolio, having worked with the likes of Kanye West, Brodinski, and even Daft Punk. Recently, the legendary Jean-Michel Jarre elected Gesaffelstein to collaborate on his first piece of original music in nearly eight years. The track, titled “Conquistador,” is the first offering from Jarre’s forthcoming album, and is available now exclusively on Beatport.
Mike Lévy’s genius is bound to continue producing new material, and his endless pursuit of a comprehensive aesthetic has already left a lasting impression on the entire genre. I don’t believe we’ve seen the last of Gesaffelstein.
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Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 29 Number 2, June 2005 /
OzFoodNet: enhancing foodborne disease surveillance across Australia: Quarterly report, January to March 2005
This report published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Vol 29 Issue Number 2, contains the OzFoodNet quarterly report for the first quarter of 2005.
Page last updated: 15 June 2005
The Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing established the OzFoodNet network in 2000 to collaborate nationally to investigate foodborne disease. OzFoodNet conducts studies on the burden of illness and coordinates national investigations into outbreaks of foodborne disease. This quarterly report documents investigations of outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness and clusters of disease potentially related to food occurring around the country.
This report summarises the occurrence of foodborne disease outbreaks and cluster investigations between January and March 2005. Data were received from OzFoodNet representatives in all Australian states and territories and a sentinel site in the Hunter region of New South Wales. The data in this report are provisional and subject to change, as results of outbreak investigations can take months to finalise. We would like to thank the investigators in the public health units and state and territory departments of health as well as public health laboratories and local government environmental health officers who collected data used in this report.
Foodborne disease outbreaks
During the first quarter of 2005, OzFoodNet sites reported 145 outbreaks of foodborne or enteric illness. In total, these outbreaks affected 2,446 people and hospitalised 77 persons. Three deaths were reported. All three of the deaths occurred in aged care facilities. Two were associated with outbreaks of norovirus infection and one with Salmonella infection. As usual, the majority (51%, n=74) of outbreaks resulted from infections spread from person-to-person (Figure).
Figure. Mode of transmission for outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness reported by OzFoodNet sites, January to March 2005
There were 31 outbreaks of illness where contaminated food was suspected or proven to be the primary mode of transmission. This compares with 24 outbreaks for the first quarter of the previous year and 25 outbreaks in the fourth quarter of 2004. Salmonella Typhimurium was the causative agent for seven outbreaks, while Ciguatera toxin was responsible for three outbreaks and Campylobacter for two. Of the remaining outbreaks, one each was caused by Clostridium perfringens, Salmonella Enteritidis 26 var, Salmonella Hessarek, Salmonella Saintpaul, and suspected scombroid poisoning. In one outbreak caused by Salmonella, there were multiple serotypes isolated from patients including: Chester, Muenchen and Subspecies 3b. An aetiological agent was not identified in 42 per cent (13/31) of the outbreaks.
Ten of the outbreaks were associated with meals prepared in restaurants and another seven with food prepared in private residences. Five occurred in aged-care facilities and four were associated with food prepared by commercial caterers. Two outbreaks involved food prepared in takeaway food outlets. Single outbreaks occurred at a school camp, an institution and an undefined setting. Thirteen of the outbreaks occurred in January, six in February and 10 in March.
To investigate these outbreaks, sites conducted six cohort studies and two case control studies. For 21 outbreaks, only descriptive data were collected and in two outbreaks no individual case data was collected. In eight outbreaks, investigators obtained microbiological evidence linking a food vehicle to illness, and analytical epidemiological evidence in five outbreaks. For the remaining outbreaks, investigators obtained descriptive epidemiological evidence implicating the food vehicle or suggesting foodborne transmission.
In New South Wales there were eight outbreaks of foodborne illness reported during the quarter. One outbreak of Campylobacter jejuni in an institution affected two residents on a diet of pureed foods, although no food vehicle was identified. A second outbreak of Salmonella Saintpaul in a private residence affecting two people was suspected to be caused by cross contamination of salad by raw chicken. In the other six outbreaks no causative agent was identified. Four of these involved restaurants and two of the four followed the consumption of chicken. The suspected food vehicle was not identified in the other two outbreaks. These restaurant-related outbreaks affected between two and seven people each. The other two outbreaks of unknown aetiology involved a beef casserole prepared by a commercial caterer (13 cases) and food from a takeaway store (3 cases).
Victoria reported 14 outbreaks of foodborne disease, five of which were associated with different phage types of Salmonella Typhimurium. There was one large outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium 197 at a Turkish restaurant. S. Typhimurium 197 was isolated from dips served at the restaurant. The results of this investigation are still being finalised. An outbreak of S. Typhimurium 12 following a barbeque at a private residence resulted in 15 people being ill. The specific food vehicle causing the outbreak was not identified.
Victoria reported two outbreaks of S. Typhimurium 9, one of which was associated with food prepared in a restaurant and the other was associated with a takeaway outlet. The restaurant outbreak affecting 13 people was caused by hollandaise sauce made with raw eggs. S. Typhimurium 9 was cultured from a sample of leftover hollandaise sauce. Hollandaise sauce at this restaurant also resulted in an outbreak of S. Typhimurium 9 one year earlier in May 2004. Trace back of the eggs revealed that the eggs were supplied by the same company for both outbreaks. The second Victorian outbreak of S. Typhimurium 9 was also caused by eggs from this company. In this outbreak affecting 14 people participating in a children's cooking class run by a commercial caterer, investigations implicated chocolate mousse made with raw eggs. Environmental investigations were undertaken on the farm supplying eggs and Salmonella Typhimurium 9 was cultured from a wash sample of dirty eggs.
Eggs were also suspected to be the cause of outbreaks of S. Enteritidis 26 var in an aged care facility and S. Typhimurium 126 var 4 in a private residence. The first affected seven residents and the eggs were traced back to a producer who had recently isolated S. Enteritidis 26 from one of their farms. In the second outbreak five people were ill after consuming chocolate mousse containing S. Typhimurium 126 var 4, although it was not possible to trace back the supply of eggs to a specific farm.
Victoria reported that 30 children and seven staff were ill with campylobacteriosis following a school camp. Campylobacter was isolated from the drinking water supply at the camp, although children also drank unpasturised milk and had contact with farm animals.
There were seven outbreaks in Victoria in which no causative agent was identified. Two of these occurred in aged care facilities and affected 30 and 11 residents respectively. Both were suspected to be caused by Clostridium perfringens. Three of the outbreaks were associated with commercial caterers, one with a restaurant and one with a takeaway outlet. Food vehicles associated with these outbreaks of unknown aetiology included chicken vol-au-vents, veal rolls, red curry, seafood platter, baked fish and hommus dip.
Queensland reported six outbreaks of foodborne illness, three of which were due to ciguatera fish poisoning. The fish responsible for the outbreaks of ciguatera were mackerel, black trevally and yellowtail kingfish. An outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium 12 affected 10 people, although no food vehicle was identified. Thirty-six people were ill in an outbreak of Clostridium perfringens after a meal of braised steak and gravy at an aged care facility. C. perfringens was isolated from both the food eaten and residents' stools. In a second outbreak in an aged care facility, eight residents were ill with salmonellosis thought to be caused by a contaminated rainwater tank. Patients were infected with multiple serotypes of Salmonella, including Muenchen, Chester, and Subspecies 3b over a three month period. Subspecies 3b was isolated from water from the facility's rainwater tank. The tank water was also heavily contaminated with E. coli. The source of the pathogens is unknown but may have been due to amphibians or reptiles.
South Australia reported an outbreak of S. Typhimurium 9 affecting 13 people following a restaurant meal. Shallot pancakes were the only food with a high, but non-significant, association with gastroenteritis.
Tasmania reported one outbreak of suspected scombroid poisoning in two people, thought to be due to yellowfin tuna in a nicoise salad served at a restaurant.
The Australian Capital Territory reported an outbreak of S. Hessarek caused by contaminated free range eggs. The eggs were served at a restaurant as poached eggs and as hollandaise sauce.
During the first quarter of 2005, there were five outbreaks suspected to be caused by contaminated eggs, which is a continuing concern for Australia.1 Two of these outbreaks were related to hollandaise sauce prepared in restaurants in two different states. These outbreaks clearly highlight the importance of restaurants using pasteurised eggs in sauces and desserts.2 It is a concern that one of the egg associated outbreaks during the quarter was an outbreak of S. Enteritidis in a Victorian aged care facility. Australia does not have S. Enteritidis endemic in egg laying flocks, so it is vital that public health agencies investigate infected patients, as they may represent sentinels for new emerging sources of this pathogen.3
During January to March 2005, there was an increase in S. Typhimurium 197 cases in New South Wales that occurred among people of Middle Eastern ethnicity. While this community-wide increase in infections occurred at the same time as the large outbreak in Melbourne, there was no apparent connection between the two outbreaks. The number of cases of S. Typhimurium 170/108 was also markedly increased in New South Wales during the first quarter of 2005. New South Wales investigated the increases of both of these phage types of S. Typhimurium using a case control study methodology exploring hypotheses developed during interviews of a series of infected patients. The hypotheses included consumption of poultry and red meats, although results of these studies were not finalised at the time of this report and are not reported in the summary of outbreaks above.
During the quarter, there were two outbreaks potentially associated with drinking water. The first was associated with an outbreak of campylobacteriosis on a school visit to a farm and the second with a prolonged outbreak of salmonellosis at an aged care facility. The aged care facility used rainwater tanks as the source of drinking water. The tanks may have been contaminated by animals on roof catchment areas. This outbreak and previous microbiological surveys illustrate that tanks may be unsuitable as a source of drinking water for aged care facilities.4 Rainwater tanks have been implicated as a source of disease previously and they are difficult to clean and maintain.5,6 Rainwater tanks may be a more common cause of disease than previously recognised.
1. Dalton CB, Gregory J, Kirk MD, Stafford RJ, Givney R, Kraa E, Gould D. Foodborne disease outbreaks in Australia, 1995 to 2000. Commun Dis Intell 2004;28:211–224.
2. Mintz ED, Cartter ML, Hadler JL, Wassell JT, Zingeser JA, Tauxe RV. Dose-response effects in an outbreak of Salmonella enteritidis. Epidemiol Infect 1994;112:13–23.
3. OzFoodNet Working Group. Foodborne disease investigation across Australia: annual report of the OzFoodNet network, 2003. Commun Dis Intell 2004;28:359–389.
4. Simmons G, Hope V, Lewis G, Whitmore J, Gao W. Contamination of potable roof-collected rainwater in Auckland, New Zealand. Water Res 2001;35:1518–1524.
5. Merritt A, Miles R, Bates J. An outbreak of Campylobacter enteritis on an island resort, north Queensland. Commun Dis Intell 1999;23:215–219.
6. Taylor R, Sloan D, Cooper T, Morton B, Hunter I. A waterborne outbreak of Salmonella Saintpaul. Commun Dis Intell 2000;24:336–340.
Table. Outbreaks of foodborne disease reported by OzFoodNet sites,* January to March 2005
Month of outbreak
Setting prepared
Number affected
Responsible vehicle
ACT Mar Restaurant S. Hessarek
NSW Jan Restaurant Unknown
Mar Restaurant Unknown
Chicken and fish green curry dishes
Chicken Caesar salad and chicken burger
Mar Caterer Unknown
Jan Home Campylobacter jejuni
Feb Institution S. Saintpaul
Suspect vegetable filled naan or rice
Mar Takeaway Unknown
Qld Jan Home Ciguatoxin
Jan Home Ciguatoxin
Black trevally
Jan Aged care Clostridium perfringens
Braised steak and gravy
Feb Other S. Typhimurium 12
Mar Home Ciguatoxin
Yellowtail kingfish
Jan n/a S. Chester, S. Muenchen, S. Subspecies 3b
Contaminated rainwater tank
SA Feb Restaurant S. Typhimirium 9
Tas Feb Restaurant Suspected scombroid poisoning
Vic Jan Home Unknown
Jan Aged care S. Enteritidis 26 var
Suspect eggs
Jan Aged care Unknown
Jan Home S. Typhimurium 126 var 4
Jan Caterer Unknown
Chicken vol-au-vents
Jan Restaurant S. Typhimurium 197
Veal rolls/red curry
Feb Camp Campylobacter
Suspected water
Feb Restaurant Unknown
Seafood platter/baked fish/octopus
Mar Home S. Typhimurium 12
Mar Restaurant S. Typhimurium 9
Mar Aged care Unknown
Mar Caterer S. Typhimurium 9
D = Descriptive evidence implicating the suspected vehicle or suggesting foodborne transmission.
A = Analytical epidemiological association between illness and one or more foods.
M = Microbiological confirmation of agent in the suspect vehicle and cases.
* No foodborne outbreaks reported from Western Australia or the Northern Territory during the quarter.
All data are reported using the date the report was received by the health agency.
The OzFoodNet Working Group is (in alphabetical order): Jenny Barralet (Qld), Robert Bell (Qld), Andrew Black (ACT), Barry Combs (SA), Craig Dalton (Hunter New England), Gerard Fitzsimmons (DoHA), Joy Gregory (Vic), Gillian Hall (NCEPH), Brigid Hardy (DAFF), Geoff Hogg (MDU), Melissa Irwin (NSW), Martyn Kirk (DoHA), Karin Lalor (Vic), Deon Mahoney (FSANZ), Tony Merritt (Hunter PHU), Rosanne Muller (NT), Sally Munnoch (Hunter New England), Lillian Mwanri (SA), Chris Oxenford (DoHA, NCEPH), Rhonda Owen (DoHA), Jane Raupach (SA), Cameron Sault (TAS), Russell Stafford (Qld), Barbara Telfer (NSW), Leanne Unicomb (Hunter PHU), Hassan Vally (WA), Kefle Yohannes (DoHA)
Corresponding author: Mr Martyn Kirk, Coordinating Epidemiologist, OzFoodNet, Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, GPO Box 9848, MDP 15, Canberra, ACT 2601. Telephone: +61 2 6289 9010. Facsimile: +61 2 6289 5100. Email: martyn.kirk@health.gov.au
This article was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Vol 29 No 2, June 2005.
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Egypt participates in African Ebola conference
The Prime Minister also opened an embassy on his visit to Equatorial Guinea
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Minister of Health Adel Al-Adawi participated in the International Conference of Africa’s Fight Against Ebola in Equatorial Guinea Tuesday, according to a statement from the Health Ministry.
Al-Adawi presented his ministry’s extensive plans for fighting the disease, keeping Egypt free of it, and aiding African nations in combating it.
The plans included raising the levels of alerts in medical inspection, especially at airports, in order to detect any carriers of the disease. They also comprised the formation of several administrations to monitor and respond to any possible spread of the virus.
Egyptian Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb is also due to take part in the conference, and address world leaders later Tuesday.
Mehleb proclaimed that Egypt has regained its prestige in light of efforts to root out corruption, as directed by President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, as he met the Egyptian community in the capital Malabo.
He made the comments at the new Egyptian embassy, after opening it in the capital. He assured that nepotism and favouritism are being combated, and that officials are given the opportunity to take decisions without fear. He also said that the youth are being placed in positions of authority in the state.
The embassy was opened in Malabo on 30 June, after six months of construction by the Arab Contractors, an Egyptian state-affiliated company.
The prime minister said that Egypt has changed, and that no one can stop the will of the Egyptians. He added that there have been advances in every field, including economically, socially, politically and in terms of security.
He also called for the promotion of moderate Islam among youth, and to combat extremist ideologies. Mehleb also advocated fighting drug use among youth.
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Politicians between hope and scepticism on how Trump administration will affect Middle East policies, terrorism - Daily News Egypt
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Politicians between hope and scepticism on how Trump administration will affect Middle East policies, terrorism
Egypt’s administration welcomed Trump’s victory
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The victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential elections on Wednesday sparked new hopes for Egypt, as the presidency positively received the news.
At the same time, it raises the question on how the new Trump administration will affect the issue of terrorism and the Middle East as a whole, where politicians differ on whether Trump’s stances towards Muslims and Islamists will bring positive or negative results.
On one hand, Nader El-Sharkawy, secretary general of the Free Egyptians Party (FEP), sees the presidency of Trump as a better alternative for Egypt, given that the new American president had previously expressed support for his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi.
Moreover, El-Sharkawy highlighted Trump’s rejection of the Muslim Brotherhood, a group outlawed by Egyptian authorities. According to El-Sharkawy, “unlike the polls predictions, Trump was able to attract more voters to the right wing by playing on the fear of terrorism.”
Commenting on Trump’s controversial statements on Arabs and Muslims, El-Sharkawy argued that there is a difference between Trump, the candidate who was acting on his personal volition, and Trump, the US president bound by the rule of institutions, constitution, and laws.
“Now the entire congress will be controlled by the Republicans, which I find more realistic when dealing with the Middle East and approaching terrorism. There’s going to be a boycott of relations with Iran, maybe a softer approach to the Syrian crisis, but we will have to wait and see how the strategic alliance with Saudi Arabia will develop,” El-Sharkawy said in comments to Daily News Egypt on Wednesday.
El-Sharkawy had followed polls expecting the victory of rival candidate Hillary Clinton, which according to him failed to properly assess the presidential race by following traditional methods of data collection which did not take the general mood of Americans into consideration.
“Clinton represented ruthless pragmatism, while Trump played on exposing corrupt Washington, and gaining more voters’ support,” he argued.
On the other hand, Farid Zahran, head of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party (ESDP) was much more sceptical of Trump’s intentions towards the Middle East.
“Trump is known for his anti-Islamic and anti-Arab stance, even if at some point he retracted some of his outrageous comments for calculations related to the electoral process,” Zahran told Daily News Egypt on Wednesday.
To Zahran, Trump’s victory will reinforce worldwide racism and polarisation, although he said he hoped that US institutions will be able to control some of Trump’s “wildness”.
“It would be a mistake to celebrate Trump’s hostility towards Islamist extremism, even if he helps a particular force or country in the Middle East in countering terrorism, because he does not differentiate between Islamist extremism and Muslims or Arabs in general,” Zahran reasoned.
Referring to the George W. Bush administration, Zahran stated that US policies led to the division of Iraq. “The world is involved in wars related to ethnicity and sectarianism and that is only going to get worse, unless efforts are made on an international level by democratic political forces and humanitarian groups,” he said.
To Zahran, the new Trump administration will have no radical changes in the existing Republicans’ beliefs but that on the long-run, such policies will negatively affect the Middle East.
Meanwhile, member of parliament Nadia Henry of the 25-30 Alliance did not express a supporting or opposing stance to Trump’s victory, but rather looked at the circumstances behind the election outcome and how this will translate into policies.
“Perhaps, his victory is another negative result of the Barack Obama administration? But as Egyptians, we should not be biased,” Henry commented in a Wednesday statement to Daily News Egypt.
“What matters are the interests of and harmony between Egyptian and US presidents, especially in issues like fighting terrorism in the region, as well as the Israeli-Palestinian peace process,” she stated.
According to her, Trump, a businessman, is direct and clearly expresses what he really feels, unlike Clinton who has been using her political intelligence in a way that people got fed up with.
Henry raised several questions, including how Trump’s limited political background and business expertise will affect his rule and policies. Will the US realise that it is not the world’s superpower and pay attention to other powerful nations?
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United fans were in joyous mood at Old Trafford and applauded the whole players after the final whistle.
But the visitors were the first who had the chance to score in the 6th minute when Tiago Ilori sent a long ball to Danny Loader, but he could not beat United goalie Sergio Romero.
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The hosts however netted their first goal in the 22nd minute via a penalty scored by Juan Mata who was brought down by Omar Richards.
Alexis Sanchez provided a nice assist in the 45th minute for Romelu Lukaku to score the second goal as Manchester United won 2-0 and qualified for the next round of the FA Cup.
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Baby Boomers: 1946-1964
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For example, if we take a group of 1,000 people that like a certain mobile application and see that 20% of them are fans of David Bowie and we take another group of 1,000 people (e.g. a nationally representative group) and find that only 15% of them are fans of David Bowie, in this case, even though just 20% of people that like the mobile application are fans of David Bowie (which isn’t a majority) we are able to see that compared with the rest of the population, the people who like that mobile application are more likely to be fans of David Bowie. The Z score is therefore a very interesting statistical tool used to better understand audiences because it brings to the surface information that particularly differentiates a group that might otherwise be missed, or be difficult to see just looking at absolute percentages or majority proportions.
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What the Chuck?
People always vastly underestimate the power of the Jewish Billionaires on American politics. No matter how ridiculous it seems to be to talk about ZOG, the reality of the tentacles of evil Jewish power over Americans is much, much, much, much worse than most Americans can imagine. Obama would never have been able to float a Chuck Hagel trial balloon without the express prior written consent of the Jewish Billionaires who support him (the group I like to call 'Hollywood', although most of them are based in Wall Street). The weird dance of the Obama Administration is actually a reflection of the bifurcation amongst American - as if any of them are truly 'American' - Jewish Billionaires. The split is between those who are angry at what they perceive to be incompetence at worldwide Gentile management by Bibi, and those who support a damn-the-torpedoes settler program, leading to a very quick 'final solution' of some sort for the Palestinians. The battle amongst the Jews, however they might order us to categorize themselves, is never about building Greater Israel, but always about the strategy and timing of the project of the annihilation of the Gentile peoples of the Middle East.
In fact, 'Hollywood' is furious at the old-fashioned American Likudniks, and part of the trial balloon strategy is to smoke them out, allowing their arrogance and assumptions about their control of American politics to lead to an overreaching assertion of power. The goal is to embarrass Bibi's American power base, and thus attempt to rein in Bibi and Israeli politics, which is lurching so quickly rightwards that 'Hollywood' is terrified that the Gentiles will catch on to the vile realities of the collective Jewish project for the Middle East.
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The US is a mess
"School Shootings in the US"
"After Islamophobic hate crime in New York City, mayor wants public to ‘keep death in perspective’"
"Washington’s Blog: Facebook Censors Prominent Political Critics"
"Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy":
". . . a terrifying network of coordinated DHS, FBI, police, regional fusion center, and private-sector activity so completely merged into one another that the monstrous whole is, in fact, one entity: in some cases, bearing a single name, the Domestic Security Alliance Council. And it reveals this merged entity to have one centrally planned, locally executed mission. The documents, in short, show the cops and DHS working for and with banks to target, arrest, and politically disable peaceful American citizens."
"Americans Are The Most Spied On People In World History"
Atzmon: "Jewish Projection For Christmas". Me: "The crucifixion of Christ, and the attack on Iraq".
"MI6 codebreaker Gareth Williams 'probably locked himself into sports bag'" Forget the fact that they have already admitted that this is impossible. A 'a retired Army sergeant' showed them how to do it, sort of. The lack of hand and footprints in the bathroom proves that somebody wiped it clean, presumably Williams just before he locked himself in the bag! More background and speculation:
"Murder Of Spook Gareth Williams: Nsa; Mind Control"
"Death of a GCHQ code-breaker: no wonder his family smell a rat"
"MI6 codebreaker attended US security conference just before his death"
"New Zealand's largest paper calls Kim Dotcom “good for this country”"
"The Ultimate Logic of a Society Built on Mass Murder"
"Zionism, anti-Semitism and colonialism" Honest writing about the bullshit known as 'anti-
Semitism' is the rarest thing in the world:
"In 1935, the German Zionist branch was the only political force that supported the Nazi Nuremberg Laws in the country, and was the only party still allowed to publish its own newspaper the Rundschau until after Kristallnacht in 1938. Nazi officials would visit Palestine as guests of the Zionists in 1934 and in 1937. In the latter year, it was none other than Adolf Eichmann and Herbert Hagen who arrived in the country. The two were taken by the Zionist envoy Feivel Polkes to Mount Carmel to visit a Jewish colonial-settlement.
Eichmann's second arrival in the country in the early 60s to be tried and executed was indeed his second visit, something Israeli propaganda always forgets to mention. Yet Zionism would always claim that its collaboration with anti-Semitism was strategic, namely to save Jews."
They said Libya was yet another War For Oil, as the alternative is too horrible to state out loud (hint: it rhymes with War For The News): "INTERVIEW-Libya to sweeten terms for foreign oil companies":
"Royal Dutch Shell suspended drilling and abandoned exploration on two Libya blocks due to disappointing results, it said in May, while other firms are wary about resuming exploration because of concerns about safety."
Extremely rare mention of the ongoing civil war in Libya from the Guardian in June.
"DND removes report on killing of Canadian soldier by Israeli forces"
"'Meet the Kagans' and No, It's Not a Sitcom" The weird level of access provided by Petraeus is part and parcel of living under ZOG. It wasn't enough to protect him from Cantor.
The gain of a train in vain
"Biofuel credits behind mystery cross-border train shipments"
"St. Louis city board shelves Veolia contract following activist outcry over human rights abuses"
"Rideau Transit Group scoops Ottawa ‘Confederation Line’ LRT contract":
"The Rideau Transit Group (RTG) is led by ACS Infrastructure and includes a big Canadian component, with Quebec engineering firm SNC-Lavalin and assorted subsidiaries playing roles as financiers, engineers, operators and maintenance overseers. Additional team members of the consortium include EllisDon Corporation, Dragados Canada, Veolia Transportation Services, Adamson Associates, BBB Architects Ottawa, Dr G Sauer & Partners Corporation, Fast + Epp, Hatch Mott McDonald, IBI Group, L2 Advisors, MMM Group, Scotia Capital, Sereca Fire Consulting and Thurber Engineering."
The Canadian media is focusing on the participation of the sleazeballs at SNC-Lavalin, and the Veolia sleazeballs slipped right in. I imagine there are all sorts of ways to complicate the work of the consortium until it removes Veolia.
"On the captors of Richard Engel: the plot thickens" So the only question is whether NBC was in on this, or just displaying the normal journalistic incompetence.
"The Insane Sandy Hook Conspiracy Theories That Are Already Flooding Facebook and Twitter" By the way, Gawker refused to play along with the Engel news blackout.
"Strange links: Aurora, Hunger Games, Sandy Hook, Batman"
"Russian warships set sail to Mediterranean amid possible Syria evacuation" More likely to be bringing something, and they want everybody to know it.
"No "Jewish Leaders" Headlines?" "Washington Post defends picture of dead Gaza child after complaints from ‘Jews in large numbers’"
"Tactical Reality"
"Newtown Conspiracy Hoax Spreads Fast Across Fringe"
"Chomsky supports BDS"
"it should be obvious that chomsky is lying through his teeth here"
"Richard Engel and NBC News team freed from captors in Syria" - "The captors were unidentified." Added: oh wait, they have "a 'very good idea' about who they were".
"The new Libya" The almost completely unreported ongoing civil war in Libya.
"Man Who Will Die In Great Eastern Seaboard Flood Of 2023 Preparing For Mayan Apocalypse"
The real deep problem
There's the guns - most made for killing in military situations and with no other possible legitimate purpose, and the massive magazines, and, of course, the handguns - and there is the systematic corruption of American politics by lobby groups - most famously and destructively, the Israel lobby, but in this case the gun manufacturers' lobby groups - and there is the problem of a mercenary medical care system with no money to treat mental health issues in a large portion of the population, but those are not the real deep problem. The real deep problem is the American fascist culture of violence, the ultimate blow-back from all the Wars For The Jews (which, of course, we're not allowed to mention). I'm growing very sensitive to this problem in Canada, with all the clear indications that the Harper government is intentionally instilling this fascist militarized culture of violence, on the American model, in Canada.
If you have a culture that celebrates killing brownish Middle Easterners, and a culture which celebrates Islamophobia (all encouraged by Jewish-billionaire-financed lobby groups and think tanks, and, of course, the Jew-owned Entertainment Industrial Complex), and a culture where the ultimate life goal for many young men is to be a commando conducting mass murder behind enemy lines while thinking that all Americans are currently living behind enemy lines (so 'double-tapping' school children is just part of the campaign), the series of American mass civilian murders is inevitable. But you won't see anybody, particularly anybody on the 'left', even daring to mention the real problem (the hero of the 'left' is Susan Rice, leader of the Progressives for Civilian Carpet Bombing, with 'Responsibility to Protect' being the latest version of the White Man's Burden excuses for the violence of imperialism). The issues raised are just too challenging to the power structure. It is easier to try to ban a few of the most ridiculous guns, and whine about video games.
An attempt at a Counter-Revolution?
The Revolution.
The period of Slavery and Suffering.
An attempt at a Counter-Revolution? That puts Obama in the mix as a counterrevolutionary, as his complete non-support for Rice freed up a spot for Kerry, and made it more difficult for the Republicans to keep whining, thus freeing up a spot for Hagel.
This timing of the Pollard treason release may not be a coincidence.
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Bog-down-ov
Putin needs to fire Mikhail Bogdanov. I'm sure the Russians are frustrated that Assad seems to be wasting precious time, and want to give him a sense of urgency. Providing propaganda ammunition to World Jewry and its Jew-controlled media isn't the way to do it.
If the Americans manage to use a proxy army of 'al Qaeda' to take over Syria (not a prospect at the moment, but the rebels are doing serious humanitarian damage), an American proxy army of 'al Qaeda' will be fighting on Russian soil within a couple of years. The battle over Syria is much more important to the Russians than just losing its Syrian base.
When you are attacked by vampires
"HSBC, too big to jail, is the new poster child for US two-tiered justice system"
This is about the War For The Jews against Iran, but is spun as a under-regulated banking story (with a spectacularly out-of-place complaint about systematic Islamophobia in the American justice system).
You really have to wonder if World Jewry's arrogance of power isn't going to come back and bite them in the ass.
When you are attacked by vampires garlic is no longer enough. Forget about crosses. You need to employ a different kind of talisman.
Crime blotter
The fact that Ben-Menashe suggests Israel as the culprit leads me to think it is not Israel: "Who Bombed Ben-Menashe’s House?" Montreal organized crime is currently in a state of uproar due to the construction industry corruption hearings.
"Lord Lucan 'mystery man' witness statement uncovered"
"Tim Grobaty: Convicted killer Jeffrey MacDonald won't give up"
Deak's murder makes the (sort of) mainstream media: "Was CIA financier-turned Wall Street banker assassinated by the bearded bag lady? New evidence may solve mystery of 1985 shooting"
"Dominique Strauss-Kahn to pay New York maid $6 million"
The only thing that matters
"An American Coup in Egypt?" by As'ad AbuKhalil:
"The American administration and Congress have made it very clear that the only criterion that matters to the US is the preservation of the Egyptian-Israeli treaty."
"Egypt's political crisis":
"President Mohamed Morsi and his advisors cannot have expected that his November 22 constitutional declaration would throw Egypt into a renewed state of turmoil. That it has speaks volumes to the immense changes that have occurred in the country during the past two years. Morsi's support for President Barack Obama's truce initiative during the fighting in Gaza clearly reassured the U.S. president that under a Muslim Brotherhood (MB) president Egypt would keep the peace with Israel. Because this has been the dominant concern within the U.S. foreign policy elite about the Egyptian revolution, Morsi had good reason to believe that the United States and the Egyptian Armed Forces would not object to his domestic decisions."
"Why did the Bahraini Crown Prince snub the USA?":
"His only mention of the United States came as a thinly veiled criticism of America's failure to make progress in the Middle East peace process.
"For the United States in particular, it is managing its relationship with the state of Israel and the stalled peace process, which is important to us all," Salman said.
Most attendees at the speech praised the crown prince for giving a speech that called for dialogue and reconciliation with the Bahraini opposition. But delegates from several countries noted over post-dinner drinks that his failure to say anything positive about the United States, which keeps the Navy's Fifth Fleet in Bahrain and supplies the island kingdom with more arms than any other country, could not have been an accident or an oversight."
The Jewish billionaire control over American politics creates these weird distortions in American foreign policy. Many are now complaining that the Americans are now allied with the Muslim Brotherhood, but that is not quite right. The fact is that Middle East governments can do whatever they want, whether it be to the people of Egypt or the people of Bahrain, no matter what the effect on real American long- or short-term interests, as long as they broadly agree to lay off essential Zionist interests (Oslo and the settlements). Vague criticisms of the 'stalled peace process' are fine (phony concern for the Palestinians is allowed and even encouraged if it is to shore up domestic political support), but don't try to go any further.
The 'enemy of Israel's enemy is my friend' American approach to everything is leading to the bizarre plan to use a proxy war by 'al Qaeda' to oust Assad, and then start another war in Syria to oust 'al Qaeda'. This two-war scheme follows the model of Afghanistan (and will probably be eventually required in Libya as well).
As long as Likudnik interests are all that matters in much of American foreign policy, we will continue to see these upside-down American alliances coupled with a seeming complete lack of concern for the domestic actions of Middle East governments. The freedom to do whatever the hell they want is the pay-back by the Americans for laying off the Zionist Empire. Zionism distorts everything.
Atzmon on Weiss.
Strange Weiss interview of Jonathan Cook, in which Weiss calmly reports how Jonathan Cook told Weiss that Weiss was full of shit (note how Weiss' new censorship of discussion of Jewish 'culture' has made his comment section a total mess).
Weiss accepts the basic tenets of Official Zionism (all nonsense to cover up for a now very unfashionable 19th century violent racist group nationalism, which is what Zionism really is, and which is firmly rooted in the Jewish 'culture' of group supremacism):
The Jews are always under imminent threat of genocide all around the world due to ubiquitous and murderous Jew hatred;
this Jew hatred is completely irrational, meaning that there is absolutely nothing the Jews can do to stop it;
therefore the only salvation for the Jews is to build an ark of militarily fortified safety, which ark happens to be Israel.
The only difference between Weiss and the hard core Zionists is that Weiss believes that the United States is also an ark of safety, making Israel unnecessary, and the hardest oppression of the Palestinians counter-productive. Of course, once the United States stops or modifies its ridiculous support of Zionism, the United States will lose its status as an ark, and you won't be able to distinguish Weiss from the concentration camp guard.
Highly modern lapses in ethical techniques
"What if 'In Cold Blood' got it wrong about Walker murders?":
"As local detectives pursue cold-case leads tying Smith and Hickock to Sarasota on the date of the Walker murders, age-old questions about Capote's motivations, scruples and literary style are inevitable. In fact, Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University, suggests that one of Capote's legacies is actually an antecedent to 'highly modern lapses in ethical techniques' in media."
Ben-Menashe arson attack
"Ben-Menashe Case Eyes Bomb Residue" by Robert Parry:
"The Montreal arson squad is investigating whether a military-grade accelerant was used in the firebombing that consumed the luxury home of ex-Israeli intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe on Sunday night.
Late Wednesday afternoon, police investigators digging through the scorched rubble took samples from what was left of the downstairs rug and sofa where the incendiary device was believed to have landed, touching off the blaze that spread rapidly forcing Ben-Menashe and a woman in the house to flee.
Police also are believed to have identified a suspect seen running away after the fire began, but the police had not yet found the individual. Several houses in the upscale neighborhood are equipped with security cameras, which may have recorded video of the attack.
The woman in Ben-Menashe’s house, who asked not to be identified for reasons of security, told me she attempted to extinguish the fire with water but to no avail. As it continued to spread, she escaped through the front door. Ben-Menashe said he made his escape through a rear entrance.
Police are reportedly hoping the detailed samples of the accelerant may help them determine who was behind the attack. The arson squad’s initial assessment is said to be that the flammable agent was beyond the sort of accelerant used by common criminals."
"Montreal home of self-described Israeli spy ‘gutted’ in alleged firebombing" - pictures and more background. I like how the World's Worst Newspaper describes him as a 'self-described' Israeli spy.
Strolled
"Serbia Nato envoy jumps to death in Brussels car park":
"After talking with colleagues, Mr Milinkovic suddenly strolled to a barrier, climbed over and flung himself to the ground below, a diplomat told the Associated Press.
Earlier on Tuesday, Mr Milinkovic had seemed "completely normal, talking to journalists in the corridors of Nato", a Serbian journalist in Brussels told the AFP news agency."
More details, and less plausibility:
"Serbia's ambassador to NATO was chatting and joking with colleagues in a multistory parking garage at Brussels Airport when he suddenly strolled to a barrier, climbed over and flung himself to the ground below, a diplomat said."
Poor bastard didn't even rate much of an effort at a lie.
"CN's $2.6M mystery U.S. trips never unloaded biodiesel" European environmental tax credit scam?
"James Bond and the killer bag lady"
"Hollywood Hitmen":
"The official ‘accident’ explanation of Gary’s death is certainly creative, if nothing else. By the police’s own calculations, in order to have ended up in the aqueduct, Gary would have had to have driven in excess of 110km/h without headlights – they had been deliberately turned off, the investigation found – the wrong way up a major highway for 3.2km, unnoticed, and through the only gap in the road rail – a mere 5m wide – all without causing any damage to either rail or car. “Evel Knievel on his best night couldn’t do that,” snorts Hollywood private investigator Don Crutchfield.
Officially, the wreckage was discovered following some savvy sleuthing by a laid-off accident specialist from aerospace giant Lockheed Martin. Gary’s ex-wife – and Babylon 5 star – Claudia Christian finds the circumstances suspicious, telling us via email: “My friends (one of whom is an ex-marine) took infrared equipment to the aqueduct where he was found days after he was missing and found nothing… so they were convinced that his car and that body was planted there.”
A number of things were missing from Gary’s car – the laptop computer containing The Big Steal, the gun and ammunition he always carried with him on long trips… and his hands. "
"William Pawley, the Kennedy Assassination, and Watergate"
"Notes on Lunch with Arlen Specter on January 4, 2012" Must-read.
"Alleged tip two days before assassination links Eunice and JFK"
Losing touch with reality
"Gaza shows impact of Arab revolts" Obama chose the Muslim Brotherhood over Bibi, one has to assume with the blessing of 'Hollywood'. Mursi, seeing how indispensable he was to saving the Americans from the results of mad-dog Zionism, took the opportunity to declare himself Pharaoh.
It appears that the Israelis decided well before the American election that they were going to attack Gaza immediately after the election, on the assumption, based on those same faulty polls that fooled the Republicans, that Romney and Sheldon were going to win. When Obama won, Bibi naturally assumed that AIPAC would take care of the American government as usual, and AIPAC certainly worked its magic with Congress. No need to pass up an enjoyable caged hunt.
Bibi knew that the Palestinians were working on drumming up support for their UN bid, and slaughtered Gaza children would only help the Palestinian cause. Again, he assumed that the Jewish billionaire control over the American government was strong enough that the Americans would strong arm all the Europeans into voting no. That American support either did not occur, or was too unenthusiastic to sway natural European outrage.
The one advantage of the Gaza attack to the Israeli generals is the propaganda over the 'success' of the Iron Dome, leaving them free to attack Lebanon, at which point Hezbollah rockets will tear Israel to pieces.
All group supremacists eventually fall into this trap, leaving the reality based community in a haze of their own superiority beliefs. The Nazis knew about bad Russian winter weather, but assumed the laws of nature didn't apply to them.
It would not surprise me in the least if Abbas, the Collaborator-in-Chief, after he gets his statehood vote, claims he had to make side-deals to get the votes, side-deals which prevent the Palestinians from having access to the International Criminal Court. Access to legal sanctions against Israel is what World Jewry really fears, and would enable the Palestinians to fight using the lawfare which the Jews invented and perfected. Expected collaboration would explain why Israel has stopped whining, and why Cameron floated the side-deal idea.
"'New Berkeley chancellor must renounce divestment position!'" Note how he has to explain what his wife did ten years ago! 'Ferociously independent person'. I think the Jews ought to set up reeducation camps where 'anti-Semites' can spend a decade or so in hard manual labor until they become sufficiently evil for reintroduction to society.
"Palestinians under occupation should demand voting rights (Goldberg’s latest variation)" Weird on so many levels.
Ray Charles passes up Sun City: "Stevie Wonder Saw The Light After All … Pulls Out Of IDF Support Concert" This was odd from the beginning. Almost all the musicians who perform Zionist-supporting concerts, whether in Israel or elsewhere, are losers who are desperate for the gig.
Grotesque caricatures
"Syria: "The menagerie of 'rebel' has not been able to hold ANY ground at all against government forces when they wish to retake it"" Despite what you may read in the Jew-controlled media, this hasn't changed since the beginnings of the foreign intervention.
"Minor victory for the antisemitism card":
"There have been many grotesque caricatures of Jews in the past and, of course, more recently. One recurring theme is the power of Jews to manipulate apparently powerful politicians. But what do we do when reality resembles these antisemitic caricatures?"
"Brayer: The Absolute Right of Palestinian Resistance" Never forget it. The only restraint on the Palestinians is effectiveness. All the moral fault lies on the oppressors.
Atzmon: "Paul Larudee: BDS, Arab Land and the Custodian of Absentee Property" I'm sick and tired of all the 'tactics' (which are almost always a cover for some form of lite Zionism). The goal is to permanently remove any Jew-controlled political entity from the Middle East. It will be then up to the Palestinians what role Jews will play in their state. BDS is one of the tools to cause a legitimacy crisis in the Jewish state, and that is why it is so feared by lite Zionists and why they are constantly messing with it.
"Britain and the Palestinian vote at the UN" You didn't think they were going to do the right thing, did you? Note what the Jews are really afraid of.
"The Way of the World" The entire scam that is the stock market is based on what is supposed to be illegal, insider trading.
All this talk that the Gaza attack was really about Iran might as well come straight out of Bibi's office (and if you keep reading the same sort of 'Iran talk' from the same source, you might want to consider who is funding that source). From the Angry Arab:
"Western media, or experts cited in Western media, are often so ignorant of the realities in the Middle East. They have been railing about Iranian role in the war on Gaza in the last few weeks. Most analysts cited did not even know that there has been conflict between Iran and Hamas over the last several months. Khaild Mish`al relations with Iran has deteriorated as he has been receiving more cash support from GCC countries--not only Qatar."
Weiss is forthcoming on his censorship in discussing the surprisingly brave, and surprisingly still employed, Patrick Pexton:
"Pexton raises a delicate and important issue. By identifying the religion of complaint-writers (on what basis I can only surmise; hey, I also guess at last names), he is saying that American Jews support Israel overwhelmingly. Well, it is on this basis that some have blamed the American Jewish collective for Israel's behavior, and said that any American Jewish organization is responsible for the human rights atrocities Israel is committing. I am saying that Pexton's generalization could foster anti-Semitism, as more and more Americans are disgusted by Israel's actions and look around for who to blame for Israel's impunity from accountability.
Which leads to my challenge. Isn't it time that American media organizations and American Jewish groups began pulling apart the issue of To what extent the American Jewish community is married to Israel? I.e., When did Zionism (Jewish nationalism) ravish the Jewish community, and why? How many American Jews are no longer drinking that potion? I think the answer is, Many object to Israel's conduct. And it's time we heard from them. Because their argument is persuasive, and because an open fight among American Jews over Israel's conduct will help everyone. More later.
(P.S. In fairness, once sharing Pexton's generalization, I used to do posts saying that there are too many Jews on the Israel beat in our newspapers and too many Jews at the Council on Foreign Relations. I dropped that line because it was imprecise and because I came to believe, based on all the anti-Zionists I was meeting, that there is actual diversity inside the Jewish community. The media ought to foster that diversity by reporting on it.)"
Weiss perceives his job as protecting American Jews from the consequences of their Zionism. Of course, in so doing he provides them space to continue to do the evil that they do.
"Obama 'drone-warfare rulebook' condemned by human rights groups" We must never forget that 'Hollywood', i.e., rich liberal Jews, are behind this, as the drones are substitutes for the boots on the ground in fighting the Wars For The Jews. Just another example of the destruction of international law by Zionism.
Pilger: "As Gaza is savaged again, BBC’s role is exposed":
"This is notably true in the Middle East, where the Israeli state has successfully intimidated the BBC into presenting the theft of Palestinian land and the caging, torturing and killing of its people as an intractable “conflict” between equals. Standing in the rubble from an Israeli attack, one BBC journalist went further and referred to “Gaza’s strong culture of martyrdom”. So great is the distortion that young viewers of BBC news have told Glasgow University researchers they are left with the impression that Palestinians are the illegal colonisers of their own country. The current BBC “coverage” of Gaza’s genocidal misery reinforces this."
"NYC Haredim Voted Overwhelmingly For Romney"
"Dotcom: We've hit the jackpot" The FBI is an organized crime organization, and, in this case, is working for 'Hollywood'.
"Canned hunt"
Host Management: A Guide For Parasites
I keep reading how clever Bibi is, and how the attack on Gaza was part of a larger brilliant strategy against Egypt, Syria, or Iran. I think it is time we put the 'smart Jew' meme to bed. Israel hasn't done anything smart in decades, and the latest Gaza mass murder is just another in a sad list of hopeless stupidities. What exactly did Bibi think was going to happen?
I return to the idea that there are two types of Jewish billionaires, the Jews who support Obama and the Obama Doctrine (these Jews we could call 'Hollywood'), and the Jews like Sheldon who won't accept anything less than full boots-on-the-ground Wars For The Jews.
It is primarily a difference in opinion on how to properly manage a host from the point of view of the parasite. World Jewry and its Zionist Empire is a parasite on the United States. The problem for all parasites is how to extract the most resources from the host before it dies. Parasites generally have an alternative host to move to, but no other powerful country is stupid enough, or corrupt enough in the proper way, to fall into that trap. Once the American Empire is dead, the Jews have no more options. Sheldon believes he can still extract more boots-on-the-ground Wars For The Jews before the United States is just a hollowed-out shell; 'Hollywood' accepts Obama's assertion that the Obama Doctrine is the best he can do, and that maximum value from what is left of the American Empire can only be obtained in a more limited way.
Bibi threw his lot in with Romney and Sheldon, and almost certainly can't even contact Obama directly to get a feel for the American position. Obama has 'Hollywood' backing to protect the interests of the American Empire, at least as far as keeping it alive long enough to maximize Jewish parasitic value extraction. Bibi's lack of access and information, together with the bifurcation in American Jewish billionaire positions, is a recipe for Israeli disaster. The only reason Bibi is still around is that the generals who really run Israel are as stupid as he is.
The deep and easy innocence of a group supremacist:
"Gazans are ‘ho-hum’ about the deaths of relatives — NYT’s Rudoren";
"NYT’s Jodi Rudoren responds to criticism of Facebook comments"
Note the amusing 180 degree turn after someone informed her that Weiss is an integral part of the Zionist project, reinforcing the idea that there can be a 'good Jew' who allows superficial criticism of Zionism - just don't mention Jewish 'culture'! - while concealing the time wasting strategy - while slowly killing people and stealing their land - that is the essence of modern Zionism.
This general idea that the outsiders are of a much lower status, and so can't suffer like real human beings do while the supremacist group takes their lives and property, is a constant in group supremacist writing. Remember the more 'liberal' Rudoren was supposed to be an improvement over Bronner, a man whose Zionist conflicts of interest were so extreme that they (eventually) forced the New York Times to replace him.
These periodic bouts of Jewish ritual slaughter of gentiles are . . . clarifying. For example, it is simply not possible for anyone to watch or read any snippet of Gaza coverage from the mainstream media and miss the fact that the Jews own and control the media, and that they manipulate the coverage for the purposes of advancing the cause of violent Jewish group supremacism.
Similarly, the public reaction of the American government, both executive branch and legislative branch, makes clear the cost of Jewish billionaire financing of American political candidates. Meanwhile, the American government is furiously working behind the scenes to try to mitigate some of the horrible damage done to the United States by this pandering to the Jewish billionaires.
In a nutshell, the Obama Doctrine - the deal between Barry and the Jewish billionaires - is that the United States will publicly back any bouts of Jewish ritual slaughter of gentiles while maintaining the right to try to reel in the Israeli government quietly and behind the scenes. At the same time, the Americans do not need to put boots on the ground, or take any precipitous steps that might lead to the Americans having to put boots on the ground, in any future Wars For The Jews, as long as they fight any and all Wars For The Jews required of them using:
drone warfare, and
economic sanctions, and,
proxy armies like the MEK or 'al Qaeda'.
Hoist with their own petard
Cryptome on Petraeus/Broadwell. Oddly naive. Both Petraeus and Broadwell were part of the Intelligence Industrial Complex, and would have reasonably expected that:
all their communications would be monitored by some bored NSA boffin; and
there would be absolutely no negative consequences to either of them, affair or no affair.
The Intelligence Industrial Complex is part of the War On Terror, which is itself just a tool of the institutional Islamophobia intended to assist Jews in killing people and stealing their land to build a Zionist Empire across the Middle East. The War On Terror does not apply to upper middle class white people. In fact, it almost never applies to white people of any class. If it did, political pressure would instantly put a stop to the whole thing.
I've already reviewed the series of extremely unlikely things that had to have happened for Petraeus, Broadwell and Allen to have been caught. There is an enjoyable irony - Schadenfreude - in watching these people who lived and prospered off the evil of Islamophobia get hoist with their own petard.
If the old white architect who publishes Cryptome were black, or, heaven forbid, Muslim, he'd be in jail right now.
This posting may be dangerous to your health
"Kurtz Rips Murdoch for 'Atrocious' Tweet Suggesting 'Jewish' Press Have Hidden Agenda"
Some blog postings should come with a health warning. Seriously, you could laugh so hard that you might do yourself life-threatening harm. Don't read the following quote from Howard Kurtz unless you are sure that you have full health insurance:
"And beyond that, this media mogul who isn't shy about interfering in his own newsrooms is suggesting that Jewish Americans have a hidden agenda in which their religion trumps their commitment to journalism. That is atrocious and it is beneath Rupert Murdoch."
The "Jewish owned press"
"Born again Christian Zionist Rupert Murdoch berates "Jewish owned press""
This is funny on so many levels, particularly coming through the very touchy lite Zionists at Jews sans frontieres. It is always a lite Zionist festival of self-congratulation whenever the ongoing Jewish violence gets too obvious (see also Finkelstein, Mondoweiss, etc). Much celebration of Jewish violence accompanied by tut-tut-tutting.
The Angry Arab has been documenting all the ridiculously slanted overage of the mainstream media. I notice the New York Times is - under overwhelming provocation - now included amongst the 'Zionist media', though I assume the more telling 'Jew-controlled media' is still treif. 'Zionist media' is completely meaningless as, per Noam, Zionism is just a branch of American imperialism (an easy mistake to make these days, with the Jew-controlled Obama and the Jew-controlled Congress enabling the Jewish violence in every possible way).
There is no way to hide the massive disproportionality of the Jewish violence, so the main media theme is that somehow the Jews are constantly reacting to Palestinian violence, an outright Jewish lie:
"Time line of attacks and responses between Hamas and Israel plus analysis."
"How Israel shattered Gaza truce leading to escalating death and tragedy: a timeline"
"Gaza: Timeline, Fineline and Endgame"
Bonus fun, this time through the concentration camp guard.
Added: More laughs: "Worried about Zionist pets: for the Jerusalem Post"
Showing off the new dome
There have been a number of theories why Bibi decided to go apeshit at this particular time. Of course, the massive weight of evidence, including the gloating, is that Jews just enjoy watching gentiles die cruel deaths. There is also a formula in Bibi's office which shows him how many additional votes he gets with every slaughtered Palestinian child.
But I'm thinking Lebanon, particularly the planned Jewish theft of the waters of the Litani River. The problem is the retaliatory rockets fired by Hezbollah in self-defense, and the fear of such retaliation in the Jewish population. The Iron Dome is a PR exercise in order to make the upcoming illegal attack seem safe for Jewish Israelis.
It has been a dismal failure, but it is being spun as an incredible success. Its targets are homemade, very slow rockets fired by amateur collaborators of the Israelis - thus giving the Israelis a pretty good idea of the trajectories - and the vast majority of rockets are getting through. Hezbollah, with professional rockets and professional rocket technicians, will do much, much better.
Iron Dome as a military device - abject failure. Iron Dome as a PR device to fool Israelis - overwhelming success. I'm not complaining. This is the sure road to the end of the Jewish state.
If it wasn't for bad luck, the generals would have no luck at all
Calculating the series of really unlikely events that had to occur for General Petraeus and General Allen to get in such trouble:
Jill Kelley had to overreact to Paula Broadwell's innocuous emails;
Jill Kelley had to be really connected to the FBI, enough to have them to take an interest in, and waste a shitload of money on, a completely non-criminal issue;
an FBI employee had to be a total freak willing to risk his career to politicize this non-issue;
the tale had to make its way to Eric Cantor, with his peculiar Jewish and personal interest in going after Petraeus;
the investigation had to uncover a totally different massive email correspondence between Kelley and General Allen, the risk of discovery of which apparently didn't disturb Kelley.
Of course, number 5 may not be an unlikely event but the real intent of the exercise.
Had any of these unlikely events not occurred, General Petraeus would still be leading the CIA and General Allen would be well on his way to being named Supreme Allied Commander Europe.
Another way of looking at it
Good link from MarxMarvelous in the comments: "Are the Twins Operatives for a Foreign Intelligence Agency?" I'm struggling to see that Paula Broadwell actually did anything wrong (they're going to hang her on her research, which seems to be more the fault of Petraeus than her). In fact, is it possible that her efforts were an attempt at getting a potential national security threat away from Petraeus? I know we're supposed to see her as the crazy woman scorned, but, absent some strange and possibly criminal actions by a bizarro FBI, she might have been able to stop a mini coup d'etat.
Enemy of the Jews
Israel assassinated a Hamas commander not because he threatened Israel's security, but because he threatened Israel's 'insecurity' through his work on a truce. You'll never see a hint of that in the American Jew-controlled media.
Thurdsay, November 15, 2012
"Wow, Small World"
"Meet the Lebanese characters in the Petraeus affair: on the "persecution" of Catholics in Lebanon"
Fashionable in certain circles: "Lockheed Martin exec resigns after affair"
"Jonathan Langdale":
"Dude, Petraeus went to Tripoli himself right after Broadwell's keynote in late October, when & where he conducted a personal investigation into Benghazi.
I think Petraeus confirmed that politically motivated agents disobeyed orders and made the attack than it would have been. Then it comes down to who disobeyed orders. If that person doesn't like Petraeus and doesn't like Obama, that person probably played the affair card. So Petraeus called their bluff and resigned (the affair is a manufactured excuse, or a convenient one).
GOP knew about this to some degree, but it was classified and they couldn't be caught leaking it before the election. The best they could do was the FOX story on the 26th, also before Petraeus' trip.
This has Benghazi written all over it. The scandal is what FOX reported, except it's worse."
"Knuckle-draggers"
The concentration camp guard's latest job is to convince Americans how wonderful and non-threatening the Syrian rebels are.
"Is Israel Escalating War on Gaza to Foil US-Iran Deal?" No, as Hamas has broken with Syria-Iran so its leaders can be free to accept the Qatari graft payments.
"Did a CIA Drone Really Level Two Homes in Indianapolis?" Sorcha Faal, so reader beware, but something like this will happen soon enough in the United States.
I've always liked Emo, but prefer the crazier, younger version, which I guess was too creepy as he became older: "Well Then"
Those investigative journalists at Stormfront spent pages and pages trying to prove Paula Broadbent was Jewish, and only came up with a family photo with one family member wearing as sweater with a Christmas tree on it in a house decorated with pointsettias. She comes from Bismarck, N.D. and is extremely athletic and extremely military.
It appears someone has altered her biography to add the words: "Born to A Jewish family which relocated to Bismark, North Dakota".
On the other hand, Jill Kelley is of Maronite Christian background (note the typical completely backasswards spin).
Like a wedding party hit by a drone
"Levin: Number of e-mails between Kelley and Allen ‘astounding’" Between 20,000 and 30,000 pages of e-mails. I wonder if General John Allen, the guy who runs the War For The Jews - Afghanistan Division, is the real target of all this, and Petraeus is just collateral damage, like a wedding party hit by a drone. Or maybe it is a two-for-one special.
"Paula Broadwell's Father: 'This Is About Something Else Entirely, And The Truth Will Come Out'"
"Paula Broadwell’s Driver’s License Discovered in D.C. Park As Things Just Keep Getting Crazier"
My emphasis in red: "The revelation threatens to fell another of the U.S. military’s biggest names after Petraeus’ surprise resignation last week. It also complicates President Barack Obama’s efforts to wind down the war in Afghanistan and reorganize his national security team following his re-election."
Angry Arab: "By the way, this has not been known in the US press. But Jill Kelley who was the one who alerted the FBI to the harassing emails from Paula Broadwell is a Lebanese woman. Her name is Jill Khawwam."
Note the comment by MichaelX to this 'flowchart':
"I'm no conspiracy theorist, but I'm convinced Jill Kelley is a spook. The sudden shift of reports from "she works for the State Department" to "wait no, she's an 'unpaid social planner.'" The seemingly overreaching step of triggering an FBI probe when she started getting emails about Petraeus. The swift hiring of a team of Washington power lawyers and crisis management experts. I mean, if it's true, she's clearly not that great at keeping a low profile, but still.. "
Added: "Jill Kelley, Woman Who Sparked Petraeus Scandal, Ran Questionable Charity"
Cantor 2016
The scandal, which is really getting out of hand, does have a Jewish conspiracy angle, as it was Eric Cantor who really set the end of Petraeus in motion. To put it bluntly, if Cantor had not intervened, nothing would have come of this 'scandal', and Petraeus would have been running the CIA until Presidential politics called. Why would Cantor want to do this?;
Petraeus' candor about Israel made him not 'good for the Jews';
Petraeus' testimony on Benghazi would not be good for the ongoing series of Wars For The Jews; and
if Cantor should want to be the first Jewish President Petraeus might well be his biggest obstacle to getting the Republican nomination.
Buchanan: "Petraeus and Benghazi: A Time for Truth":
"There are four basic questions.
Why were repeated warnings from Benghazi about terrorist activity in the area ignored and more security not provided, despite urgent pleas from Stevens and others at the consulate?
Why was the U.S. military unable to come to the rescue of our people begging for help, when the battle in Benghazi lasted on and off for seven hours?
Who, if anyone, gave an order for forces to “stand down” and not go to the rescue of the consulate compound or the safe house? A week before Petraeus’ resignation, the CIA issued a flat denial that any order to stand down ever came from anyone in the agency.
Fourth, when the CIA knew it was a terrorist attack, why did Jay Carney on Sept. 13, David Petraeus to Congress on Sept. 14, U.N. Amb. Susan Rice on Sept 16 on five TV shows, and Obama before the U.N. two weeks after 9/11 all keep pushing what the CIA knew was a false and phony story: That it had all come out of a spontaneous protest of an anti-Islamic video made by some clown in California?
There was no protest. Was the video-protest line a cover story to conceal a horrible lapse of security before the attack and a failure to respond during the attack — resulting in the slaughter?"
The biggest issue is the only issue in American politics, how Obama retained his Jewish Billionaire funding. He managed to convince the Jews that America could simply no longer fight the expected Wars For The Jews with boots on the ground and full-fledged wars. What it can do is fight the Wars For The Jews using new, smarter means - sanctions, proxy armies, and drones. The sane-ish Jewish Billionaires - i.e., not Sheldon - accepted this as the best possible violence the gentiles could provide under all the circumstances.
So the private CIA purporting to secure the CIA field office in Benghazi did a deal with the proxy fighters in Libya, Sunni Islamist militants who hate America and are generally called 'al-Qaeda', that there would be a spectacular attack on the compound which would increase business for the private CIA and liberate a few imprisoned 'al-Qaeda' fighters held by the Americans. The real CIA either didn't know about it or agreed to look the other way (as many in the CIA look to retire to lucrative jobs with the private CIA). The scandals of allowing this to happen and using 'al-Qaeda' to fight Wars For The Jews were so important that Obama officials lied and blamed everything on the movie. There still is no evidence that there actually was an affair - though Petraeus gave a star-struck biographer w-a-y too much access - but Petraeus got caught in an enormous amount of American-Zionist crossfire.
Bunny boiler theory to the rescue
"FBI Scrutinized on Petraeus"
"A Petraeus Puzzle: Were Politics Involved?"
"Timeline of events surrounding CIA Director Petraeus' resignation"
The newest Official Story that the other woman was a bit of a bunny boiler puts to rest the possibility that she was part of an espionage action against Petraeus, as she'd hardly go out of her way in attacking the possible other other woman if it would wreck the operation. This relieves some embarrassment at the CIA.
The FBI employee improperly going to the Republicans is funny as Petraeus is a Republican and was a possible Presidential candidate, and God knows the Republicans are in desperate need of a Presidential candidate who isn't a complete joke.
The newest Official Story has it that Petraeus didn't fall on his sword as an honorable man, but waited until he had no choice except resigning.
Added: the Jews-did-it theory, always an excellent guess, but a bit strained here: "A Covert Affair: Petraeus Caught in the Honeypot?"
The Benghazi affair
"The Convenient Resignation of General Petraeus" Careful neocon sniping contains a little truth: ". . . . . barring a subpoena, the primary witness to who ordered the CIA to stand down in Benghazi has been removed."
"CIA director Petraeus resigns citing extramarital affair, will not testify on Benghazi attack in Libya"
Agony aunt conspiracy: "Did Paula Broadwell’s Cuckolded Husband Write a Letter to Chuck Klosterman in the The New York Times?" Unlikely as part of the wider conspiracy as the letter was written before the attack on Benghazi.
The 'fan fiction': "The Legend of David Petraeus" Petraeus is w-a-y too careful in building his carefully constructed legend to make this kind of mistake. By the way, the biography written by the alleged adulteress is called - wait for it - "All In".
Slate (my emphasis in red):
"It had long been rumored that something was going on between Petraeus and Broadwell. Her book, co-written with Vernon Loeb, is widely regarded as a valentine to the general. When she was embedded with him in Afghanistan, they went on frequent 5-mile runs together. But Petraeus went on 5-mile runs with many reporters, and few people who knew him took the rumors seriously. In his personal life, he’s always been seen as a straight shooter, a square. Few could have imagined that his end would come as the result of a morals scandal."
The two political issues around Benghazi - issues which never come up in the discussion as they embarrass both parties - are:
the American use/misuse of radical Sunni Islamists to conduct proxy wars, and
the foolish use of a 'private CIA' whose motives are exactly the opposite of the motives of the American government and who may have been involved in a conspiracy to allow the attack on Benghazi to succeed.
Now everything can be swept under the carpet.
Painting yourself into the hate corner
Finally!: "Did The Republican Party’s Vilification Of Muslim Americans Just Cost It The Presidency?" linking to "The GOP And Me."
"National Exit Poll: Asians vote 74-25 for Obama" Probably a lot of Muslims in this group.
On blacks doing poorly under Obama and voting for him anyway . . . it is not illogical when you consider that Romney is effectively a high priest in a religion that still thinks - though they play it down - that blacks are literally devils.
Insulting and viciously attacking everybody who isn't a white male has caused so many problems for the Republicans that some paleocons are urging a disassociation from the Christian Evangelicals. The only problem is that Christian Evangelicals are most of their current voters.
Carrying on Kahane
Can you imagine what would happen if a prominent and (unfortunately) influential columnist at an important American magazine admitted to having been a member of the KKK?: "The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg Was a Follower of Jewish Rightwing Terrorist Meir " (via Silverstein).
The Drone King
I almost fell off my chair when I looked at the picture:
"Senior Obama Adviser Leads Secret Talks With Iran"
"A long war in the shadows" Summary: the US must use 'al Qaeda' as proxies to fight its wars, while simultaneously killing 'al Qaeda' members.
"The Permanent Militarization of America"
"British Have Invaded Nine Out of Ten Countries" America just follows the master.
"Nicholas Levene, City financier, jailed for fraud" A mini-Madoff, with the obligatory 'home in Israel'.
"Carleton University and the silencing of dissent" Imagine the amount of effort expended by the Jews in almost every university in the Western world.
"The Long Con: Mail-order conservatism" Right-wing political nonsense free with every order of snake oil.
"The Wrong Side Absolutely Must Not Win" Reflect as you vote for the Blessed Barry, the Drone King.
Motive, means, and opportunity, and the only mofos around
Ever since I read the comments to this Moon of Alabama posting, with all the varying conjectures and inconsistencies in the Official Story, I've been thinking that there was only one interested party who really benefited from the Benghazi attack. Even 'al Qaeda' failed to benefit, as Christopher Stevens was on their side, in the middle of provisioning their cousins fighting in Syria. No, the single, solitary beneficiary of the attack was the private security company hired to make sure it didn't happen. As a general rule, if one party:
was the sole beneficiary of an event; and
was supposed to prevent that event, but didn't
you would probably want to take a good, hard look at their possible culpability.
Stratfor: "they know shit about nothing"
"Behind the Sources (I): The One-Stop Shop" Great detective work in discovering yet another player in the Hezbollah-disparagement industry (the analysis of the payment trail seems fairly conclusive, and the last line of the article is my title). This is just a small part of the greater propaganda program being conducted by World Jewry, with Stratfor playing a key role throughout.
"Could The US Have Saved Tens Of Thousands Of Jews From The Holocaust? Maybe Not" I really, really enjoy the underlying Jewish supremacist assumption that the United States was under a moral imperative to risk the lives of its own citizens - not to mention imperiling the war effort, possibly risking the United States itself, and thus leading to the death of more Jews in the process - to take an unlikely flyer on possibly stopping something it really didn't know was happening.
It is like watching hyenas eat: "Discredited Nazi-Looted Art Hunter Loses Suit":
"A federal judge rebuffed a disbarred lawyer's second attempt to stake a claim against Nazi-looted art in Czech galleries on behalf of Holocaust survivors.
Before his ouster, Edward Fagan successfully represented thousands of Holocaust survivors and their descendents in restitution lawsuits over bank accounts and property confiscated from Nazi victims during Hitler's occupation of Europe. Fagan's reputation and business, however, began to decline after former clients accused him of negligence and fraud.
Fagan was dismissed from the New York and New Jersey Bars in 2008, after a federal judge found no trace of a Holocaust survivor group Fagan purported to represent and imposed sanctions that Fagan could not pay."
"Average White Wealth = 22 x Average Black Wealth":
"In fact, blacks are worse off than they were four years ago. The wealth gap between blacks and whites has doubled, with whites now having 22 times the average wealth of blacks. The education gap has increased. While the national unemployment rate has remained fairly steady under the Obama administration, black unemployment has gone up 11%.
One can argue about the cause of those changes and the degree to which Obama bears any responsibility for either creating them or fixing them. But one cannot argue about the fact of them: the ascent of America’s first black president has coincided with the one of the steepest descents of the economic fortunes of black Americans since the second world war both in real terms and relative to whites.
This situation stands in stark contrast to the devotion of black voters to the president’s election. Both four years ago and now Obama can count on 90% of the vote from the African-American community, though as one community leader told Younge, that’s 90% of those motivated enough to go vote. Yet the fact remains that the group most loyal to Obama has benefited least from his tenure. Still, very few members of that group have questioned the president's approach or policies, at least publicly."
"Hard-hit by sanctions, Iran suspends 20-percent uranium enrichment" "Iran denies suspending uranium enrichment":
"This article was corrected on 4 November 2012. An earlier version of this story ran with the headline "Iran suspends uranium enrichment" based on Asafari's quotes as reported by al-Arabiya."
"Remembering Abu Jihad and why, really, the Israelis killed him"
"British millionaire pleads guilty in Iran missile scheme"
I also enjoy reading 'Langley' on Langley: "Republicans Tip world off to covert CIA Role in Libya" The desperate Republicans think they have a political issue in Benghazi, and they do, except for the small problem that they can't discuss what the real problem is. "Obama’s New Libyan Defense Chief: Bush’s Paul Wolfowitz, on Benghazi" The photo looks 'shopped to morph George Bush in there somehow.
"Campaign to Establish a Canadian Department of Peace"
She can see right through you
Niqnaq quotes Glick (I like how she adds the casino, for Sheldon no reason). You see how it works? You can try your hardest to be 'progressive' and politically correct, but Glick sees right through you. Your feeble attempts at euphemism just prove how obsessed you are in your Jew-hatred. Goddammit, the Jews have a right to run the banks, the courts, the universities, the governments and the wars, and who are you to question any of it?
Consistent devotion to truthfulness is the only talisman against Evil.
"Israel 'admits' killing Arafat's deputy"
"Khalil al-Wazir Death: Israel Admits To Assassination Of Abu Jihad, Arafat Deputy In 1988"
So why is the violet supremacist Jewish collective announcing this now? Could it be a warning to the Palestinian leadership about the current UN statehood bid? The Jews have a long and sordid history of using legal trickery by their lawyers - I think the technical term is 'shysters' - to 'legitimize' their murdering and thieving, Thugs like Dershowitz and Cotler spend all their days scheming up new tricks, and the massive Jewish legal sniping against Iran is just a small example of this. The violet supremacist Jewish collective is terrified that any kind of recognition will allow the Palestinians access to the World Court.
Preposterous lies about Hezbollah and Nasrallah, lies which are then spread in the Jew-controlled media:
"‘NYT’ op-ed equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism relied on Nasrallah quote that is in all likelihood a fabrication" (the riposte has to go back 20 years)
"Have you noticed that Zionist and Saudi media seem to have exclusive access to the "secrets" of Hizbullah" A very obvious attempt to drive a wedge between Syria and Hezbollah by claiming the break has already occurred.
Nasrallah is fat! "Nasrallah's weight" "Hizbullah Under Duress?"
"fabricating Nasrallah Quotes: the Wetern cottage industry"
"More fabrications attributed to Hasan Nasrallah: it is an industry"
The real preoccupation of World Jewry is not genocide against Iran, but stealing south Lebanon and the Litani River, and thus the Jews have to find a way to deal with Hezbollah. The Jewslaves have been ordered to march: "Washington Lobbies Europe to Join Its War on Hezbollah".
There is no question that the best thing for Americans in the long run would be a Romney victory. For one thing, it would finally drive the absolutely necessary and absolutely normal wedge between American 'progressives' and the Jews, a wedge missing in action since Jewish propaganda about what happened to the Jews in the 30s and 40s: "Jewish support in prize battlegrounds could hand election to the Republicans" Of course, the usual lie that forms the basis of the article is that it is Jewish votes, and not Jewish money, that matters.
"Was Ambassador Stevens in Benghazi for the transfer of 'SA-7 missiles & RPGs' ...to Syria?" Stevens was the last guy that 'al Qaeda' would want to kill.
"World's most prominent Jews to descend on Jerusalem, talk money" (my emphasis in red):
"What I find striking about this conference is that while there may be a few philanthropists among the 120 wise men (and women I assume ), the great majority of those gathered, despite being well-paid professionals and public servants, will not actually be discussing how to use their own fortunes. The "resources available within the Jewish world" means essentially other people's money - that of Israeli taxpayers (and in some cases that of citizens of other countries ) and the hard-earned cash of Jewish givers, be they humble middle-class synagogue membership payers and annual subscribers or billionaire mega-donors. "
"Protocols of Elders of Zion read aloud in Greek Parliament"
"On Facebook, IDF illustrates Palestinian violence - with photo from Bahrain"
They get to everybody with something to lose, eventually: "Landis Drops a Bomb"
Where's my brown paper bag?: "Canada, Israel Call for UN Investigator's Resignation"
"Did Russian hitmen kill UK oil executive? Police probe motive for father-of-three's gun death with link to world of industrial espionage not ruled out" The manner of the killing completely rules out eco-activists and the carjacking scenario.
"Sudan: A front for Israel's proxy war on Sinai jihadis?"
"Canada proves the decline of unions is not inevitable"
Thursday,October 25, 2012
"Was Michel Samaha Set Up by Wissam al-Hassan?" Lebanon is a series of conspiracy theories posing as a nation.
"'Homeland,' Obama’s Show" Very entertaining series, both extremely well executed and surprisingly crude in the blood-pouring-from-the-fangs Zionist propaganda.
"Ehud Barak’s Cousin (Mis)Directs America’s Christian Zionists" The confidence of not even trying to hide the strings.
"The Jewish Oligarchy: Running and Ruining America"
"The assassination of President John F Kennedy: the finger points to the KGB" There is not a shred of evidence for this, although creating an imaginary rogue operation allows you to get away with all kinds of speculation.
What shall we not talk about today?
Mondoweiss:
". . . a significant part of the community wants to talk about Israeli policy in the context of Jewish history and Jewish identity, and do so in a highly critical manner. Clearly a lot of people, including many in our community, want to have these conversations and regard them as necessary to resolving the Middle East conflict. We don’t. We are tired of serving as a platform for this discussion, including in the comment section, and don’t see the conversation as a productive one. From here on out, the Mondoweiss comment section will no longer serve as a forum to pillory Jewish culture and religion as the driving factors in Israeli and US policy.
We are making this change because this discussion makes for a toxic, often racist, discourse, and scares off others who would otherwise be drawn to the issues this site concerns itself with."
I look forward to the 'Roots of Slavery in the Old South' forum, which consists entirely of a discussion of the sufferings of the slaveholders, and how their actions derived entirely from the racism experienced by their Scots-Irish forefathers.
Of course, the deeper issue is that Zionism is based, not in Jewish suffering or the mythology of a universal irrational hatred of Jews, but in Jewish violent group supremacism. This is easy to see in that Zionism waxes in times of Jewish group dominance (like now), and wanes in the relatively rare times of Jewish group oppression. The lite Zionists are always more skittish about hiding Jewish supremacism than the hard-core Zionists.
Top hats and strings
"Is debt free money an option?" The real issue is that bankers are snakes.
"No More Israel in 10 Years" Good, but Lendman knows better than to write: "Winning the Jewish vote was important." As always, it was Jewish money, not votes.
"Antisemitism? Famous NYC Restaurant Enforces Minimum On Haredim, Not On Others" Top hats and strings? This is an example of the rarest thing in the universe, real anti-Semitism, though the sheer gall of the Haredim is appalling.
Following up on the murder of Toronto philanthropist Glen Davis, whose death led to conspiracy theories due to his connections to the suspicious WWF: "Indebted roofer agreed to kill philanthropist for $150K, court hears"
Fact about Canada: "Topping the charts is Canada — the only nation in the world where more than half its residents can proudly hang college degrees up on their walls." This is due to political policy decisions to keep education accessible, decisions that have largely been reversed in recent years due to the 'necessity' of austerity (the successful Quebec student strike started over this 'necessity', which turns out not to have been so necessary after all). Nevertheless, the damage has been done, and it is difficult to see that conservatism has much of a future in Canada.
"Gilad Atzmon: Jewish domination? Occupation more likely" From the comment by Dr. Patrick Slattery:
"Part of the reason that Palestinian solidarity activists have been largely protected from the stigmatizing charge of anti-Semitism is the disproportionately large number of Jews involved in the movement, including its leadership positions. However, as Gilad Atzmon has been pointing out in his critique of anti-Zionist Zionists, the Jewish involvement in the movement has been a two-edge sword. These same Jewish activists who provide cover from charges of anti-Semitism also police the movement to make sure that the taboo on discussion of Jewish power is preserved. And when it comes down to it, many Jewish activists in the movement are probably more worried about a backlash against their power due to Zionists going too far than they are about the plight of the Palestinians.
It is this taboo on the discussion of Jewish power, and ultimately Jewish supremacism, that lies on the other side of the edge. And where more likely for the taboo to be broken than within the Palestinian solidarity movement, which focuses on the actions of the blatently sociopathic Jewish State of Israel. Gilad Atzmon became one of the first to be expelled from the movement for breaking the taboo by examining not just Zionism but also Jewishness. Atzmon was denounced earlier this year by Ali Abunimah, an extremely talented writer and researcher who unfortunately seems to have decided to side with the anti-Zionist Zionists against Atzmon, presumably to preserve his access to Jewish media outlets."
It is the discussion of Jewish supremacism that drives lite Zionists crazy.
"Chomsky in Gaza: academic boycott “will strengthen support for Israel”" Note how he makes exactly the same kind of argument made by the Jews in their recent attacks on pro-Palestinian activists, essentially that you have to tie yourself in knots - oh and, by the way, completely wreck your movement - to look good to ignorant people. It is so common we could call it the 'Jewish argument'.
"U.S. Administration Claims Iraqn Allied With AlQaeda" A staple of recent Jewish propaganda is that all Muslims are the same in that all they do is hate Jews and Americans and that their hatred is so all-consuming that it brings all Muslims together.
Just in case you've temporarily forgotten why people hate Jews: "Did Joe Biden Just Go Soft on Iran?"
"U.S. Officials Say Iran Has Agreed to Nuclear Talks":
"Israeli officials initially expressed an awareness of, and openness to, a diplomatic initiative. But when asked for a response on Saturday, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Michael B. Oren, said the administration had not informed Israel . . ."
Had they informed Israel the Jews would have used their media control and their political donations to put a stop to it.
"The New York Times Sets Record Straight on an Alleged Terrorist’s Fruity Drink of Choice"
I love it when the lites get into a fight about how best to manipulate the goyim through the use of the slur. The whole point, of course, is to turn the debate into a meaningless discussion of Jewish preoccupations while weakening any opposition of good and moral people against violent Jewish group supremacism. The tragedy isn't Jewish naval gazing, but the fact that Palestinian 'leadership', people like Ali Abunimah, are assisting the Jews in this crapfest. I suppose we shouldn't be shocked that the Palestinians have trouble finding leaders.
"Syria's Obvious MANPAD Counterstrategy" If all these weapons are in the hands of radical fighters, why are commercial airliners not going down?
"Former head of Israel’s spy agency Mossad Meir Dagan seeks liver transplant in Belarus after European and US surgeons 'refuse to treat him'" If you scroll down, you'll see the real reason why he's a pariah:
"After leaving the state’s employ, Mr Dagan emerged as one of the most outspoken detractors of a pre-emptive Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, describing the idea last year as the “stupidest thing I have ever heard.”"
"Holocaust Scam Cohort Pleads Guilty To Stealing $150K From Survivors"
Police are getting good at solving really old cold cases using new technology.
"Of course, another possible consequence of independence is said to be a permanent shift to the right in what remains of the UK once the sizeable contingent of Labour MPs is gone, with more shifts towards a US-style devil-take-the-hindmost neoliberalism."
"The West’s Stalwart Ally in the War on Drugs: Iran (Yes, That Iran)" Meanwhile, Israelis manufacture ecstasy in the US in huge quantities. Occasionally, one of the illegal Israelis is caught, driving a white van, and is quietly deported.
"US exports to Iran soar despite sanctions" I've already mentioned the understanding that, sanctions or no sanctions, the 1% have to earn, and are allowed to do so as long as they are discrete.
"Protestant churches’ letter on Israel straining ties with Jews" You have to remember that these interfaith meetings are a Jewish concept intended to increase Jewish power.
"The Jewish majority is history" First official acknowledgement by the Israeli government.
British Sign Language used to be more fun.
The 2012 Global Peace Index (pdf) from the Institute for Economics and Peace.
I see number 2 is Denmark. "NATO used Israeli ammunition to bomb Libya" As we all know, there is nothing more peaceful than using Israeli ammunition to carpet bomb civilian targets.
Number 4 is Canada. Speaking of carpet bombing civilians: "Canada contributed a disproportionate amount to Libya air strikes: sources"
Qatar is number 12. Qatar is of course supporting the most radical Sunni terrorists in the ongoing campaign against the civilians of Syria.
I'm wondering if there was a error and the 'peaceful' list somehow ended up printed upside down. Of course, the list measures how much of a victim you are of the warfare of others, and the countries at the bottom of the list, with the obvious exception of Israel, are all the subjects of recent attacks from Western countries, mostly Wars For The Jews. 'Peaceful' doesn't mean what you might think - it just means nobody is actively attacking you.
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New Pacific Reports High Recovery of Silver From Various Metallurgical Processes for Sulphide, Transition and Oxide Styles of Mineralization From Silver Sand, Bolivia
PLEASE SEE UPDATE TO THIS PRESS RELEASE:
https://newpacificmetals.com/news-and-media/2019/8/23/correction-to-news-release-dated-august-20-2019
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 20, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- New Pacific Metals Corp. (TSX-V: NUAG) (OTCQX: NUPMF) (the “Company”) is pleased to announce the final results of a preliminary metallurgical test work program for its Silver Sand Project. The Company is very pleased with the positive results achieved so far from the completed test work. The results suggest that the mineralized materials from the Silver Sand Project would be amenable to processing using conventional flotation or whole ore cyanidation at atmospheric pressure at large scale. This preliminary metallurgical program has demonstrated that good silver extraction rates are possible using these simple extraction methods and that further improvements and refinements should be possible in future programs after fine-tuning the various test parameters.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE COMPLETED TEST PROGRAM
Composite samples of sulphide, transition and oxide mineralization were submitted for laboratory-scale rougher-scavenger flotation testing and this achieved up to 96.0%, 86.8% and 92.0% silver recovery respectively.
Composite samples of sulphide, transition and oxide mineralization were submitted for bottle roll cyanidation testing and this achieved up to 96.7%, 97.0% and 96.3% silver extraction respectively.
Samples of oxide mineralization were submitted for coarse column leach cyanidation testing and this achieved up to 82% silver extraction.
High recoveries achieved during cyanidation tests indicate that silver-bearing minerals within the sulphide and transition composite samples tested can be considered non-refractory in nature.
Composite samples were found to be mostly in the soft to medium grindability range with low to medium values of abrasion index.
METALLURGICAL TEST WORK DETAILS
Several metallurgical composites of oxide, transition and sulphide mineralization from two areas of the Silver Sand deposit were prepared from samples of available half-core. A geometallurgical sampling approach was used and was designed to highlight the effect of differences in silver grade, degree of oxidation and lithology.
Four independent geo-metallurgical test work programs (mineral characterization, comminution, froth flotation and cyanide leaching) were carried out on the different metallurgical composites. Six metallurgical domains (MET1 to MET6) were identified for the flotation and leaching test work and six geological domains (GEO1 to GEO6) were branded for the comminution test work.
Comminution, flotation and leaching programs were completed by SGS Mineral Services in Lima, Peru, while the mineral characterization work was completed by the Research Centre for Mining and Metallurgy (CIMM) and Oruro Technical University (OTU) in Bolivia. Results from the individual test work programs are summarized below.
Mineral Characterization
Mineral characterization work consisted of size fraction assaying, heavy liquids testing and a preliminary program of quantitative mineralogy. The mineral characterization and Sink & Float tests are designed to assess the mineral response to gravity separation.
Size Fraction Assaying:
Twelve crushed composites were screened into seven size fractions, and each fraction was individually assayed to obtain a distribution of silver by size. Figure 1 shows the results and illustrates that for almost every composite, the silver tends to concentrate into the finest size fraction (-74 microns). This concentration effect gives rise to an upgrade in silver content of approximately 2.5 to 3 times within that fraction – a potentially useful processing characteristic.
A photo accompanying this announcement is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/fdbfdb27-655e-463a-8765-44e2963e6248.
Heavy Liquid Testing:
Six of the composites (high and low grade oxide, transition and sulphide mineralization) were sized into seven fractions each, and these were then subjected to a simple gravity separation using heavy liquid at a density of 2.58 kg/l. On average for all composites, roughly 46% of the total silver was concentrated into 15% of the mass as a “dense” (>2.58 kg/l) fraction. Importantly however, this effect was far more pronounced on average within certain size fractions, as shown in the chart below, with roughly 80% of silver concentrated into less than 20% of the mass (in the 595 to 74-micron range).
The gravity concentration effect was not seen in the coarser size fractions (+595 micron), likely due to insufficient liberation of silver minerals in these size fractions.
A photo accompanying this announcement is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/393511d4-b44d-4466-8114-8bbae6ce50b1.
Four geological domain composites were subjected to a program of comminution scoping tests, including Crushing Work Index (CWi), Bond Ball Mill Work Index (BWi) and Abrasion Index (Ai). Twenty-one samples were tested in total. CWi tests reported energy consumptions between 4.8 and 11.3kWh/t, while the BWi measurements were from 4.8 to 15.9kWh/t with only one sample above 14 kWh/t. Thus, the majority of the samples tested fell into the category of soft or medium competency level for crushing and grinding. These early indications suggest that relatively low capital and operating costs could be anticipated for any potential comminution circuits. The reported values of abrasion index of between 0.06g and 0.54g corresponds to low to medium abrasivity for these samples. Sulphide materials reported the highest values in the range of medium abrasion behaviour, while the oxides were generally the lowest.
Flotation Testing
Three metallurgical composites of oxide, transition and sulphide mineralization were prepared for a program of froth flotation scoping work, consisting of 23 bench scale rougher-scavenger tests using a variety of conditions (grind sizes, reagent types, reagent dosages and, slurry pH). Composite grades are shown in Table 1 below.
Table 1 – Flotation Program Composite Details
Composite ID
Head Assay
Ag, g/t Stot, % Cu, % Pb, % Zn, %
Oxide (Z1 FLOATMET 4) 201 0.12 0.006 0.108 0.003
Transition (Z1 FLOATMET 5) 123 1.01 0.02 0.391 0.010
Sulphide (Z1 FLOATMET 6) 124 1.63 0.03 0.217 0.812
In general, the flotation performance of these composites was very good, with high silver recoveries achieved using Potassium Amyl Xanthate (PAX) as the primary mineral collector. Silver recoveries of up to 96% for the sulphide composite and 86.8% for the transition composite were reported using this simple approach. Silver recovery appeared to be relatively insensitive to pulp pH although finer grinds and the addition of a secondary collector appeared to give marginal increases in metallurgical performance for the transition composite.
Table 2 – Summary of Results for Rougher-Scavenger Test Work
Composite Flotation conditions % Recovery
P80 (µm) Collector Mix/Dose Pulp pH Flotation Gas Ag, % Ssul, %
Sulphide (Z1 FLOATMET 6) 74 PAX, 45 g/t 9.0 Air 96.0 98.4
Transition (Z1 FLOATMET 5) 74 PAX, 30 g/t + OX100, 15 g/t Natural Air 86.8 94.8
Oxide (Z1 FLOATMET 4) 74 PAX, 45 g/t + OX100, 20 g/t 9.0 N2 92.0 49.9
The oxide composite also responded well to standard sulphide flotation conditions with silver recoveries in the 90% range. Maximum recoveries were achieved using nitrogen gas for oxide composite flotation, although this slight improvement appears to have been achieved primarily as a result of higher concentrate mass pull.
These initial scoping tests show that silver minerals can be efficiently concentrated using relatively simple froth flotation conditions. Flotation concentrates containing 2,500 – 3,000 g/t silver were produced without using a cleaner flotation stage.
Bottle Roll Leach Testing
Four metallurgical composites of oxide, transition and sulphide mineralization were prepared for cyanide leaching test work as summarized in Table 3. The bottle roll test work program comprised of a battery of 33 individual scoping tests, each running for 72 hours and using a variety of conditions (grind sizes, cyanide solution strength, oxygen levels, and temperatures) to assist begin definition of the metallurgical characterization of Silver Sand mineralization.
Table 3 - Bottle Roll Composite Details
Composite ID Head Assay
LG Oxide (Z1 LEACHMET 1) 29 0.15 0.010 0.062 0.008
HG Oxide (Z1 LEACHMET 4) 132 0.21 0.009 0.055 0.003
HG Transition (Z1 LEACHMET 5) 157 1.45 0.040 0.120 0.343
HG Sulphide (Z1 LEACHMET 6) 124 2.13 0.031 0.089 0.054
A variety of results were obtained from the work. A summary of the better data points is presented in Table 4 below.
Table 4 - Bottle Roll Test Results Summary
Composite ID Grind
P80, µm % Sol. Strength Consumption, kg/t Temp℃ Sparge Gas % Extraction
NaCN NaCN CaO Ag Cu
LG Oxide (Z1 LEACHMET 1) 74 0.30 6.71 0.78 59 O2 81.6 48.5
HG Oxide (Z1 LEACHMET 4) 74 0.30 3.94 0.78 59 O2 96.3 34.5
HG Transition (Z1 LEACHMET 5) 50 0.30 9.78 0.78 56 O2 97.0 81.6
HG Sulphide (Z1 LEACHMET 6) 50 0.30 10.2 0.79 57 O2 96.7 73.7
Very high silver extractions (greater than 96%) were achieved for the sulphide and transition composites when intensive cyanidation conditions were used (oxygen sparging plus elevated pulp temperature). Oxide composite performance was more variable, with silver extractions between 81 and 96% achieved under similar conditions.
These leaching results are in general very encouraging and further optimization test work is recommended to better characterize the deposit.
Column Leach Testing
Column leach tests were completed on the two oxide samples, using coarser material than the bottle roll work (crushed to 100% passing 1/2”). Each column test ran for 75 days and the dissolved oxygen (DO) level was maintained throughout all tests. (See Figure 3)
Table 5 – Column Leach Test Results Summary
Composite ID Mesh of Grind
mm % Sol. Strength Solution Rate
l/h/m2 Consumption, kg/t % Extraction
(calculated from PLS concs)
Z1 LEACHMET 1 -12.7 0.40 7.0 6.3 1.4 75.3 45.8
Z1 LEACHMET 4 -12.7 0.40 10.0 8.6 1.6 84.4 45.1
A photo accompanying this announcement is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/c07b2e17-363b-4c5f-9bd7-f8f5e8926f5f.
Technical information contained in this news release has been approved by Andy Holloway, P.Eng., CEng., Principal Process Engineer at AGP Mining Consultants Inc., who is a Qualified Person for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects (“NI 43-101”).
ABOUT NEW PACIFIC
New Pacific is a Canadian exploration and development company which owns the Silver Sand Project in Potosí Department of Bolivia, the Tagish Lake gold project in Yukon, Canada and the RZY Project in Qinghai Province, China. Its largest shareholders are Silvercorp Metals Inc. and Pan American Silver Corp., one of the world's largest primary silver producers, which operates six mines, including the San Vicente mine located in the Potosí Department of Bolivia.
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Silver Distribution by Size Fraction
Average Mass & Silver Recovery in the >2.58 kg/l Density Class
Column Leach Test Results Summary Graph
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Streams | Talking Circles
The Conference program will consist of a mix of plenary and parallel sessions, running from 16-18 January 2009.
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Talking circles are meetings of minds, often around points of difference or difficulty. They are common in indigenous cultures. The inherent tension of these meetings is balanced by protocols of listening and respect for varied viewpoints. From this, rather than criticism and confrontation, productive possibilities may emerge.
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The purpose of the Talking Circles is to give shape to a conference that is wide-ranging in its scope and broad-minded in its interests. They also give people an opportunity to interact around the key ideas of the Conference away from the formalities of the plenary, paper, workshop and colloquium sessions. They are places for the cross-fertilisation of ideas, where cycles of conversation are begun, and relationships and networks formed.
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Talking Circle 1 (45 minutes): Who are we? What is our common ground?
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Closing Plenary: 15-minute contribution to the closing plenary by the talking circles co-ordinator.
It is important to note that each talking circle may be organised in any way that members of the group agree is appropriate. They may be informal and discursive, or structured and task-oriented. Each talking circle group has a facilitator.
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The facilitator must be comfortable with the process of thinking ‘out of the square’ and also embracing multiple and diverse scenarios. The process is one of creating a kind of collective intelligence around the stream. The facilitator should shape a conversation that is open to possibilities and new lines of inquiry or action; they should embody a spirit of openness to new knowledge rather than the closure of advocacy. The facilitator is required to keep a record of the main discussion points. These points need to be summarised for the Talking Circles co-ordinator who will make in a 15-minute presentation in the closing plenary session at the Conference.
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Talking Circle 1 (45 minutes): Who are we?
Orientation: members of the group briefly introduce themselves.
What could be the narrative flow of the talking circle sessions?
What could be the outcomes of the work of this group and its contribution to the closing plenary session, the Journal and the Forum as a whole (including the themes for next year’s conference)?
Assessing the landscape, mapping the territory: What is the scope of our stream? Do we want to rename it?
What are the burning issues, the key questions for this stream?
What are the forces or drivers that will affect us as professionals, thinkers, citizens, and aware and concerned people whose focus is this particular stream?
Where could we be, say, ten years hence? Scenario 1: optimism of the will, Scenario 2: pessimism of the intellect.
Talking Circle 2 (45 minutes): What themes are emerging?
*What are our differences?
The setting: present and imminent shocks, crises, problems, dilemmas - what are they and what is the range of responses?
What are the cleavages, the points of dissonance and conflict?
What are the dimensions of our differences (1)? Politics, society, economics, culture, technology, environment.
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*What is our common ground?
Where are the moments of productive diversity?
What are the bases for collaboration (1)? Politics, society, economics, culture, technology, environment.
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- Alternative futures: outline several alternative scenarios.
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*What is to be done?
What’s been coming up in the parallel sessions in this stream since the last talking circle?
What is the emerging view of the future?
Can we foresee, let alone predict alternative futures?
Looking back a decade hence, what might be decisive or seminal in the present?
Scenarios: can we create images of possibility and agendas for robust alternative futures?
Directions: conventional and unconventional wisdoms?
Strategies: resilience in the face of the inevitable or creative adaptation?
What could be done: review the scenarios developed in Talking Circle 1.
Axes of uncertainty: working towards the right questions even when there’s no certainty about the answers.
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Gingrich Camp Responds to Verum Serum Story
They break stories over there.
Gingrich says the difference between Fannie/Freddie Gingirch and today's Gingrich is the collapse itself, which has caused him to rethink the viability of the government-sponsored entity model, at least as regards mortgages and home-ownership promotion.
Which is all well and good but so what? Everyone can say that. Everyone now knows this. (Except Democrats, but they can't permit themselves to know it.)
It’s perfectly understandable that one would have a different view after the crisis.
Sure, John, but it doesn't explain the soft-thinking prior to the collapse.
Sexton continues:
That said, it doesn’t quite line up with his recollection at the CNBC debate, i.e. that he warned Freddie Mac their business model was impossible and insane. That seems like a little bit of retro-projection based on hindsight. The actual record reflects that he was a paid consultant and a Fannie/Freddie defender in 2007.
Eh, I guess I'm butthurt that my guy's miserable failures seem to stick so firmly in people's heads while other guy's miserable failures get a shrug.
Earlier: Newt claimed in the CNBC interview that his involvement with Fannie/Freddie was confined to telling them how insane it was to promote mortgages for people who couldn't afford them.
For those who thought, "I really doubt someone would be paid $1.6 million for such advice," congrats, it seems they got a little more than some criticism.
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La Colline | Hospitality Design & Branding project
category Interior & Branding Design in Oss, The Netherlands
Hills & Hollandaise
French casual dining in the Dutch heartland
Paris is magic after midnight, alive with casual elegance and forever carrying with it the stories of the roaring twenties. “La Colline” is a place where that magic is transported into the here and now of a French brasserie in Oss, the Netherlands.
The best places to hang out are those that tell a compelling story. “La Colline” is a true raconteur, sharing its own history as a French bistro and the deeper, richer story of the French brasserie in its heyday: the Jazz Age in Paris, when poets, painters, “hommes d’affaires” and people from all walks of life met each other under the glowing brasserie lights. Aces of Space combined the magical powers of nostalgia - minus the déjà vu - and contemporary design to create a place that welcomes its current guests into the past, present and future of this typically French casual elegance. Is nostal-chic a word? It is now.
We view life through the lens of our own experience; so we spared no effort to create a unique “La Colline” filter that instantly coats reality with a pleasant, slightly nostalgic and welcoming feel. “La Colline” means “the place on the hill”, so the interior design uses rolling, rich, velvety green accents throughout the space. This particular shade of green also filters and softens the angle of the light, enhancing the “nostal-chic” (we’re using it) vibes no matter where you look.
“nostal-chic” (we’re using it)
Le Orangerie
Guests enter the “La Colline” universe through the “orangerie”, an informal space with organic touches of greenery and varied plush furnishing that allows for casual apéritifs or sharing a meal outside.
The new bar is the first thing you see when you enter the interior space: a real eye-catcher that invites guests to sit down, enjoy a drink with a coterie of friends or order from the local cuisine
The salon in the back is slightly elevated, but everything here happens at a lower pace. Luxurious fabrics and lowered furniture lure the guests into a highly comfortable state of mind.
Even though the entire space was given a thorough make-over, much of its history remains part of both the interior design and the overall branding. “Le nouveau logo” is a more refined version of the past, with a subtle “clin d’œil” towards the meaning of the name in the stylized, hill-shaped design of the letter “A”. The menu, signage and staff couture are all part of the same redesign, adding texture and impact and deepening the experience & overall storyline of the design concept. Chef’s (French) kiss emoji!
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Candy Crush IPO: Crushing Candy into Gold
27 Feb 2014 Posted by admin
EEarlier this month, Irish interactive entertainment company King Digital Entertainment announced its plan to pursue an initial public offering (IPO). Unlike Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn, King is not a household name. However, the millions of users rendered powerless by the sweet enticement of its crowning achievement “Candy Crash Saga” recognize all too well the orange backed yellow King logo. King has other games in its repertory, “Papa Pear” for one. Heard of it? No? Thought not.
In order to pursue an IPO, a company must first release previously private information. King’s filings revealed a bunch of interesting statistics. The staggering data begs the question, is “Candy Crush” the Michael to King Digital’s Jackson Five?
The data King disclosed can be used to learn a ton about “Candy Crush”:
For the month of December 2013
King (all games) Daily Average Users (DAU): 128 million
“Candy Crush” Daily Average Users: 93 million
“Candy Crush” accounts for 73% of DAUs.
King game plays per day: 1.2 billion
“Candy Crush” game plays per day: 1.1 billion
“Candy Crush” accounts for 90% of game plays per day. This is an important statistic; “Candy Crush” basically makes up King’s entire business.
Key takeaway: “Candy Crush” users play an average of 12 times per day (1.1 billion divided by 93 million). Given the likelihood that many users play only once or twice, it stands to reason that some diehards land north of 20 crush attempts per day.
If each turn takes around 2.5 minutes that means users spend an average of 30 minutes a day playing “Candy Crush.” How else might a Candy Crusher spend those valuable 30 minutes?
A quick 30-minute run burns something close to 500 calories and helps a person maintain a certain level of fitness. Sure, many people play mobile games during commutes, at work or in other instances when exercise isn’t particularly feasible. To them, their conscience should say, “Read a book!” Reading 30 minutes a day at a rate of a page a minute means finishing a book every one to two weeks. That’s like 30 books a year. Somehow that seems better than matching pieces of colored candy, no matter how frequently that freaky little girl says “Splendid days.”
Now for the all-important question: How much is “Candy Crush” worth?
King disclosures for calendar year 2013:
King Unique Payers (the number of people who actually spend money on virtual goods and extensions): 39.6 million
Assuming the ratio of game plays (90%) is a good proxy for what portion of King Unique Payers comes from “Candy Crush,” then the megahit saw 35.8 million individuals cough up their hard earned cash on what’s effectively a free game
King (all games) player spend: $1.98 billion
Assuming the same 90% ratio, “Candy Crush” players spent $1.79 billion
35.8 million unique payers spending $1.79 billion means the average “Candy Crush” payer spent $50 in 2013
King converts 42% of its player spending to profit
Assuming a similar conversion rate for “Candy Crush”, the game generated $745 million of profit
Investors in the stock market generally value companies by looking at profits generated. High growth online companies like King trade at a high multiple of profit relative to most companies in the market. As an example, Zynga is currently worth 35x its profit (compare that to Starbucks which is worth 14x its profit.) Using the Zynga multiple, “Candy Crush” is worth $26 billion. The company recently valued its private stock at $9.4 billion (so if “Candy Crush” makes up 90% of King’s value that equates to $8.1 billion – clearly this transaction should be nicknamed the Candy Crush IPO). The real value lies somewhere between $8 billion and $26 billion – an astonishing figure anywhere in that range. To put that in perspective, here are some values for some well known assets – Manchester United: around $4 billion; New York Yankees: around $2.5 billion; and Electronic Arts: around $9 billion. So next time you fire up “Candy Crush” on your smartphone or tablet, understand that you have helped make a bunch of people in Ireland very wealthy.
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4 vie for Turner Prize 2014
The Turner Prize 2014 exhibition opens at Tate Britain 30 September 2014 and will be on view to 4 January 2015.
The artists vying for the 30th Turner Prize, Duncan Campbell, Ciara Phillips, James Richards and Tris Vonna-Michell, were shortlisted earlier this year. The winner of the GBP 40,000 prize will be announced live on Channel 4 by British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor on 1 December.
James Richards is showing Rosebud 2013, where filmed censored photographs from Tokyo library books are interspersed with passages of a more tender nature. Richards also shows The Screens 2013, which features projected images from a theatrical make-up manual, and Untitled Merchandise (Lovers and Dealers) 2007. The latter transposes snapshots of lovers and art dealers who were close to artist Keith Haring on to souvenir blankets that ordinarily depict members of the US military.
Tris Vonna-Michell is showing Postscript II (Berlin) 2014, a slide installation based on a story about his mother’s childhood in post-war Germany with an accompanying intimate and calm monologue that reflects the personal nature of the story. Vonna-Michell also shows his first film installation, Finding Chopin: Dans l’Essex 2014 which revolves around French sound poet Henri Chopin (1922 – 2008), a reappearing figure in Vonna-Michell’s work.
Ciara Phillips presents a new installation, Things Shared 2014. Colourful handmade screenprints are pasted straight onto the gallery walls from floor to ceiling. A giant 3D ‘OK’ punctuates the room interrupting and redirecting our sightline. The installation combines new work with reconfigured and re-presented elements from existing projects. The title of the installation points towards Phillips’s long-standing interest in collaboration and her process driven approach.
Duncan Campbell’s It for Others 2013 responds to a 1953 film essay about historical African art and colonialism, Statues Also Die by Chris Marker and Alan Resnais. Campbell’s entry has already triggered a major controversy with the British Museum, specifically with director Neil MacGregor. Diverse archive footage and new material includes a new dance work by the choreographer Michael Clark, anthropomorphic packaging and the infamous 1971 photography of Official IRA volunteer Joseph McCann. Campbell will also show Sigmar 2008, inspired by his interest in but scant personal knowledge of German artist Sigmar Polke.
The Turner Prize, established in 1984, is awarded to a British artist under fifty for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the twelve months preceding 17 April 2014. It is intended to promote public discussion of new developments in contemporary British art.
The Prize award is GBP 40,000 with GBP 25,000 going to the winner and GBP 5,000 each for the other shortlisted artists.
The winner this year will be decided by a jury whose members are: Stefan Kalmár, Executive Director and Curator, Artists Space, New York; Helen Legg, Director, Spike Island, Bristol; Sarah McCrory, Director, Glasgow International; Dirk Snauwaert, Artistic Director, Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels chaired by Penelope Curtis, Director of Tate Britain.
The Turner Prize 2014 Exhibition. 30 September 2014 – 4 January 2015. Tate Britain, Open daily 10.00 – 18.00. Entrance charges apply. www.tate.org.uk
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Avi :)
25 January, 2016 by avi
All Year Riding Gear
I've had another discussion on Reddit that went on long enough that I thought I ought to put it somewhere more concisely. It began with the question "What should I buy, and how much should I spend, on all-year riding gear?".
For 'all year' or even 'winter' riding kit, I'd buy a decent set of lightweight riding gear (I've a mesh Dainese jacket, and mesh Rev'It trousers), some decent layers for temperature regulation (base layers, a microfleece for under the jacket and maybe something to go over it) and some cheap-but-functional waterproofs - I use army surplus trousers and an RAF jacket, you can get them for about £50 for the pair off eBay generally, sometimes cheaper at airshows.
All-year motorbike kit is a massive compromise, and "waterproof" motorbike kit often isn't anyway; there's a couple of common compromises going on:
Firstly, we expect a lot from multi-season bike kit - it should provide armour, waterproofing, removable thermal insulation and some abrasion resistance. The waterproofing needs to be on the outside, really, and the armour right on the inside, where it won't move around. The normal solution to this problem, though, is to have a single outer layer with the abrasion resistance, waterproofing and armour in it, and to have the insulation as a removable inner liner. This means that the outer layer must be designed to fit on the outside of the insulation, leaving it relatively baggy and prone to flapping around - including the armour - when the lining is removed. Sometime it can be strapped down, but that creates creases that fill with water in the rain. With the insulation fitted it's arguably worse, as that fleecy layer acts as a lubricating layer between armour and skin.
Secondly, these waterproof membranes tend to be designed to work (at least in part) by having water bead up and run off the surface, but with the breathable function permitting standing water to seep through. That's a problem when the fabric is creased up as in the strapping-down of the sleeves/legs above, but it's a more general problem when a garment to be worn every-day on a motorbike is made waterproof. The usual approach to constructing these garments is to attach a durable outer layer to the waterproof membrane in order to protect it. Normally this is something like cordura which is incredibly durable, but it's also not waterproof and somewhat absorbent; even if the jacket happens to keep the wearer dry for a day, for example, this cordura outer will have absorbed water, and probably still be wet the next day. Often it will have become trapped between the cordura and the waterproofing, which tends to cause it to seep through the membrane. Depending on the design, water will likely have crept round the cuffs and neck, too.
This is often even worse on jackets where the waterproof layer is a removable internal liner, because there's even more material on the outside of it, though arguably the outer shell should be easier to dry. Gore Tex's Laminate product, and Columbia's Outdry each are designed to be waterproof outer-layers and so obviate this problem, but are very much at the top-end of waterproof membranes and still don't really solve the armour/insulation problem above.
Outside of the compromises, we like to have pockets in our jackets, and in the summer we like to have vents. Lots of "all weather" riding gear is sold to the adventure bike crowd, so it's got to look right, too, and that means pockets and vents everywhere. There's two approaches with a pocket on a waterproof jacket: if the pocket is itself waterproof then anything in the pocket is likely to get drowned in a downpour as the pocket fills with water, but if the pocket is not-waterproof, then any rain that gets into it soaks through to the wearer. Waterproof zips are, obviously, a thing, and so are massive flaps on pockets, but neither's as reliable as a single sheet of waterproof fabric (especially if, like me, the rider forgets to check they're properly closed).
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, however nice and breathable it's billed as, waterproof membranes are always less good than something that's made no effort at all to be waterproof. Whatever we like to say about it, the weather's not that bad in the UK - really it's not-raining the huge majority of the time and it's difficult to be genuinely surprised by rain on a one-or-two day ride. I think having waterproof riding gear and wearing that all the time is a terrible compromise, and it detracts from my riding when it's not raining more than it's a saviour when it is. The inconveniences the result from being completely watertight are fine when it's actually raining, but annoying the other 340-odd days of the year.
If you really want to spend all the money on bike specific gear, I'd say get the top-end Klim stuff for when it might rain:
http://www.adventure-spec.com/default/klim-latitude-jacket.html
http://www.adventure-spec.com/default/klim-latitude-pant.html
and a selection of heated layers, so you don't need to be able to accommodate much insulation under it. Then get something nice and vented for the summer. I don't think that would be particularly more functional than having the nice summer gear and £50 (or even £80) of MoD surplus Gore-Tex, though.
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Welcome To The LouZee Banjo Website
Mike's Bio
This Site is Dedicated to the Memory & Legacy of Mike Longworth
The Creator of the LouZee Banjo
For Mike's Thoughts on a LouZee Banjo
Welcome to LouZee Banjos
(LouZee is Pronounced "Lousy")
Mike Longworth's Biography
Mike was the historian of the C.F. Martin™ guitar company. He was also one of the most gifted inlay artists of his day. After Mike's tour of duty in the Air Force as an electronic specialist was complete, he reopened his guitar shop in Chattanooga, Tennessee and began repairing all sorts of fretted instruments. His specialty soon became converting Martin D-28 guitars to D-45's. Due to Mike's innate ability as an inlay artist, Martin was sending most of their D-45 guitars to him to add those special inlays. Due to the folk music boom of the 1960's, the demand for the D-45 guitars increased tremendously. Soon their work load was so great Mike could no longer produce these guitars in Chattanooga by himself. So Martin created a new department to produce the D-45, and hired Mike to come to Nazareth, Pennsylvania to train a whole new team of inlay artists.
One of the more notable instruments Mike did while he was still in Chattanooga was Hank Snow's guitar. Martin sent the guitar to Mike to perform his special artistry. Mike added the D-45 trim and the inlay bearing Hank's name in the fingerboard. According to Sue Longworth, this fingerboard was inlaid on the Longworth kitchen table. This fingerboard was later replaced by Mike while at Martin. He kept the original fingerboard as payment for the replacement fingerboard. At Mike's request, Sue gave the original fingerboard to Paul and David Hopkins after Mike's death.
The LouZee fingerboard was the last inlay pattern designed by Mike Longworth.
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Don Mescall and Aslan Release ‘Catch Your Fall’ In Aid of Pieta House Suicide Awareness
Posted April 8, 2013 by markdowning in AMA Entertainment
Legendary Dublin Rock band Aslan have teamed up again with acclaimed singer-songwriter Don Mescall, to release a new single, ‘Catch Your Fall’, in aid of Pieta House Suicide and Self Harm Awareness.
The new single will be released to radio stations across Ireland and further afield on Friday 5th April 2013. It will then be released for download through iTunes, the following week, on Friday 12th April.
The collaboration between Don Mescall and Aslan follows on from the No.1 hit “‘Too Late For Hallelujah’.penned for Aslan by Mescall . The band performed the song on RTE’s flagship programme ‘The Late Late Show’ before releasing it on their album ‘Nudie Books and Frenchies’.
Having fervently supported Pieta House as a charity in the past, Don Mescall wrote ‘Catch Your Fall’ to raise awareness of suicide and self harm in Ireland. After discussions with Aslan following the success of ‘Too Late For Hallelujah’, they decided to team up to record the new song and donate all proceeds to Pieta House.
Don Mescall and Aslan will also appear on the Saturday Night Show on RTE 1 20th April to perform the song.
For further information, to request a copy of the single for radio airplay, or to arrange an interview, contact Carmel Mannion at Jump The Moon on (+353) 89 460 7519 or email jumpthemoonpr@gmail.com.
– Aslan are one of Ireland’s best-known rock bands of the last three decades, since having formed in 1982. They have six studio albums to their credit, and have toured throughout Europe, US and Australia.
– Don Mescall is one of Ireland’s most exported singer-songwriters, having written international hits for Ronan Keating, Backstreet Boys, Rascal Flatts , Lonestar , and many more. His contribution to the Irish Music Industry was recognised last year, when he picked up a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Irish World Awards.
– Pieta House Suicide Awareness was founded by psychologist Joan Freeman in 2006. It provides counselling and support, with the goal of preventing suicide and self-harm. In 2012, over 3000 people received support from Pieta House. Over 90% of Pieta House funding comes from voluntary donations and funding.
– To arrange an interview or for further information on the new single from Aslan, contact Jump The Moon on jumpthemoonpr@gmail.com.
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Random radio jottings
Radio 3 Announcers
This post concentrates on the Radio 3 continuity team of the late 1970s, simply because I have some small clips of audio from that period.
When the BBC’s Third Programme started in 1946 it had its own continuity announcing team consisting of Alvar Lidell, Patrick Butler (who made the opening announcement), Christopher Pemberton, Marjorie Anderson (later of Woman’s Hour renown) and, on a part-time basis Denys Drower. By the early 1950s Alvar and Marjorie had left and joining the team were Richard Baker (later of BBC TV news fame), Tom Crowe and Peter Fettes.
From around the mid 50s to early 70s announcers potentially worked across all the networks. From 1972 Radio 3 had its own Presentation team led by Cormac Rigby. The post of Presentation Editor was later held by Piers Burton-Page and Donald Macleod.
In 1995 the then Controller of Radio 3 Nicholas Kenyon had ambitions to shake-up the network, partly driven by the imminent arrival of Classic FM. That shake-up included the announcing team who were told that “not all of their services will be required in the future”. Three of the team stayed as ‘presenter-producers: Piers Burton-Page, Chris de Souza and Andrew Lyle; three remained as announcers: Penny Gore, Paul Guinery and Susan Sharpe; but three long-serving members were made redundant: Peter Barker, Tony Scotland and Malcolm Ruthven. This move signalled the end of the separate announcer role as the remaining announcers eventually became programme presenters and/or producers.
Below are audio clips and ‘capsule’ biographies for the Radio 3 announcing team in the late 70s. I may add further team members at a later date by editing this post. Further audio and information may also be added and I would welcome any contributions from readers of this blog.
Radio 3 Presentation Team in 1972. Back row (l to r): Jon Curle, Victor Hallam, Tony Scotland, Donald Price, Cormac Rigby
Front row: part of Tom Crowe, Peter Barker, Patricia Hughes, Robin Holmes, Norman Mcleod
Peter Barker
Trained at RADA and worked for several years as an actor. Joined the BBC in 1962 as announcer across all the radio services. Presenter on Morning Melody on Radio 4 in the late 60s. Moved to the Radio 3 team in 1972 later presenter of Concert Hall. Reader on Quote…Unquote (Series 18). Retired in 1992.
Michael Berkeley
Principally a composer but joined the announcing team in 1974. Left the staff in 1979 but returned as one of the presenters of Mainly for Pleasure. Still on the air hosting Private Passions every Sunday.
Piers Burton-Page
Joined the BBC as a studio manager before becoming announcer/newsreader on Radio 4 and then Radio 3 in 1977. Music Organiser for the World Service until 1985 when he was back at Radio as Presentation Editor. Became one of the presenter-producers from the early 1990s. First presenter of On Air. Left the BBC in 1997.
Tom Crowe
Joined the BBC as announcer on the General Overseas Service in 1950. Moved to the Light Programme and then joined the Third Programme in 1952. Left in 1962 returning in 1967. Retired in 1982. Briefly an announcer with the South African Broadcasting Corporation.
Jon Curle
An actor recruited as an announcer in 1959 by Peter Fettes, by then Head of Staff Training. Worked on all networks but much featured on the Light Programme. Worked on programmes such as The Men from the Ministry, Friday Night is Music Night, It’s One O’Clock, Night Ride, Matinee Musical, The Best of Broadway, Mainly for Pleasure, Sounds Familiar and Whacko.
Victor Hallam
John Holmstom
Radio announcer from 1951 and with the Third Programme from 1954. Presented The Critics on the Home Service. Died in 2013.
Patricia Hughes
Joined the BBC as a secretary in 1944 before becoming an announcer on the General Overseas Service in 1946. Later on the Home Service, Light Programme and Third Programme. Left the BBC in 1962 to look after her family, returning in 1969 initially freelance and then back on the staff in 1970. Allocated to the Radio 3 team where she stayed until retiring in 1983. Claimed to be the first woman newsreader on BBC radio as Radio 3 announcers also read the news but this claim is usually attributed to Sheila Tracy on Radio 4 in 1974. Described as having a “dark brown voice” by The Listener (14 June 1979). In contrast one-time network controller Stephen Hearst wanted to “get rid of that terrible woman with the Kensington voice.” One of the readers on Quote...Unquote from 1994. Died in 2013.
Donald Price
Cormac Rigby
Joined the BBC as a radio announcer in 1965 in response to an ad in the New Musical Express. In 1968 attached as a programme planner for the Third Programme (by then part of Radio 3). Became the Presentation Editor in 1972. Presenter of Royal Repertoire and Come to the Ballet (on Radio 2). Left in 1985 to join the Catholic priesthood. Died in 2007.
Malcolm Ruthven
Worked in orchestral management including General Manager of the Ulster Orchestra. Joined Radio 4 in Northern Ireland in 1972 before transferring to Radio 3 as announcer and presenter of Playbill. Reader and narrator under the name Gregory York. Designed the Talking Notes service for the South Bank Centre.
Tony Scotland
Became a reporter on leaving school and then emigrated to Australia where he worked on the Sydney Morning Herald and then as a reporter for ABC in Tasmania. Returned to UK in 1968 joining the BBC reported on Look East and then as radio news sub-editor Joined the Radio 3 announcing team in 1972. Created and produced The Arts Worldwide. Worked at Classic FM from its launch in 1992 until 1998. Now freelance writer and author (The Empty Throne and Lennox and Freda) and still occasionally broadcasting.
Roy Williamson
BBC studio manager in 1956 becoming an announcer on the Light Programme in 1957. On the Music Programme in 64-65 with Your Midweek Choice. Was a newsreader on Radio 4 and presented Town and Around on BBC TV.
David Willmott
On BFBS in Egypt in 1950 before joining the BBC as a studio manager in 1953. Worked in both radio and television as a drama director. For a time at the BBC in Manchester where he gave Ray Moore his first job in radio. Written and read the Morning Story on Radio 4. Announcer and newsreader on Radio 4 and then Radio 3 from 1979.
Other Radio 3 announcers from this period were Robin Holmes, Anthony Sargeant, Anthony Burton and Andrew Lyle.
A continuity announcer from 1982, and now presenter of Composer of the Week, Donald Macleod featured in a 1998 edition of the Radio Times.
Biographical information has been compiled from my own notes, internet research, Who’s Who on Radio by Sheila Tracy and The Envy of the World by Humphrey Carpenter.
Edit 23 April 2011: Add photos for Piers Burton Page and Cormac Rigby. Minor edit to David Willmott biog.
Edits 2013: Updated audio for Patricia Hughes & Cormac Rigby.
Edit 2015: Added Donald Macleod scan
Posted by Andy Walmsley at 11:48
Labels: Announcers, Radio 3
Steve Morton said...
I think the 'Friends of Radio 3' are worth a mention too....
http://www.for3.org/
qxr963 said...
Many of these voices are almost musical in their own right. Much of what made Radio 3 special has been lost in the quest for 'accessibility'. We are now at the point where Rob Cowan and Sara Mohr-Pietsch are reduced to punting for texts and reading bits from the papers, in between ever-shorter chunks of music. And the great Radio 3 pause, sad to say, is a thing of history.
Thanks for sharing these clips, they bring back so many memories of the Radio 3 I grew up with, before they decided to emulate Classic FM in the early 1990s.
I will have to hunt for my tape of Tony Scotland(?) attempting to play a CD (sorry, "cmPACT" disc) of some Schubert piano works, battling with two faulty CD players, then upsetting his tea into the newly-installed mixing desk, and finally, after several minutes of silence, re-appearing from another studio, completely out of breath.
Andy Walmsley said...
Thank you for the feedback. Any audio clips are welcome. Comments about the over-reliance on texts could, of course, apply to many programmes these days. Whilst good at allowing instant feedback, especially on topical issues, they are used to excess on many DJ-hosted shows as a cheap way of filling airtime.
Charles Nove said...
Victor Hallam - a charming man, always immaculately clad in a 3 piece suit, with gold watch and chain. Marvellous plummy voice, wicked sense of humour.
Tom Crowe, quite possibly the thinnest man I've ever seen, and the only one who could sleep on the aged sofa in the Announcers' Lounge (those were the days) which sported a coiled spring, poking up through the upholstery. Tom could manage to kink himself round it and snore away, contentedly.
Thanks Charles for your amusing anecdotes on this and other blog posts. Great to hear from you.
From a former Manchester-based announcer for Radio 3 during the late 60s and then from 1983 to 1996.... So sad to hear of the passing Oct 2013 of the great John Holmstrom - he really was my hero and I enjoyed his company during my few Continuity shifts in R3 Con in the late 90s. I see you have his heroic fill-in at the Albet Hall when the piano-lift blew a fuse. Masterful. A great talent and will be much missed. ALAN SYKES, s.e. Spain
Alan, lovely to hear from you. Even in those fairly formal R3 announcements John sounded like a great character.
By the way if you ever feel like writing about your days at the BBC please get in touch. A clip of you launching Radio Manchester made it into my BBC90 sound montage.
How wonderful to hear some of these voices again. I remember catching the tail-end of this era of authoritative but inobtrusive announcers in the 1980s. I spent many a happy weekend with my Grandfather being introduced into serious (and not-so serious) music with Radio 3 being a chief tool in his technique. These announcers provided so much of the flavour of the station with their precise diction. The general decline on Radio 3 into a too-chummy (accessible?) version of Radio 2 is something to be mourned with seemingly endless sequences of recordings (often excerpts) strung tenuously together around listener requests and - worse still - texts and tweets.
Was it Robin Holmes who used to read so beautifully john Clare's Shepherd's Calendar each month? It was wonderful but before the days of iPlayer, so you couldn't catch up on what you had missed.
cobweb said...
Robin Holmes was the father of Jeremy Holmes who is currently giving readings of Tolstoy from a psychodynamic perspective..he is a psychiatrist/ retired psychoanlytic psychotherapist and world renowned expert of attachment theor. Interesting that he is to some extent following in father's footsteps in a love of literature and giving talks readings and lectures though with a different twist
see the The therapeutic imagination
In that much-circulated picture of the Radio 3 announcing team in 1972, on the right-hand end of the front row, is one Norman Macleod. I'd always assumed that this was a misprint for Donald Macleod, but it doesn't look anything like him (I knew him slightly at the time) and I don't recall a Norman. Can anyone throw any light on the identity of this person?
Garry, I took the names from Humphrey Carpenter's book The Envy of the World but can't be 100% certain. He wasn't one of the team by the time I started listening in 1976.
Towards the end of his career Peter Barker used to read the news just before closedown. His gentle, elderly voice was the last one heard before the national anthem, when he invariably signed off "That was the news, and that was Peter Barker reading it". One night - it must have been very shortly before he retired - he had made a few fluffs, and it was "That was the news, and I'm sorry I read it so badly". He sounded so apologetic I wished I could have told him not to worry about it.
Norman Pen said...
Sorry about the deletes, nothing untoward. My tribute to the peerless Robin Holmes. Introducing Ravel's Miroirs, he read Ravel's own description of noctuelles, 'as of butterflies draped over an old beam, like some sort of cravat.' But alborado del Gracioso was in his own words - 'described by some as a sort of Andalusian Petrushka, though it was of course written some years before Stravinsky's ballet.'
I still have the cassette.
Victor Hallam told me he had been "the forces sweetheart in Trieste" Although he didn't supply any other context. Tom Crowe had been a prisoner of the Japanese, which (we thought) explained his nervous twitch - a slightly worrying trope when he was putting on vinyl records.
Readers interested in hearing the inimitable tones of Robin Holmes (I noticed someone mentioned him reading Clare's Shepherd's Calendar) might be interested in the following recording culled from an old cassette tape of a Radio 3 concert, in the days when the interval - however short - was filled with words (rather than recorded music). In this case, the words formed a long-running series of monthly poetry readings 'chosen and read by Robin Holmes'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOHvQyktlGg
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2020 Yamaha YZF-R1 When the first Yamaha YZF-R1 fell from the heavens in 1998, that stunning sportbike was a proverbial game changer. Twenty-two years later, the R1 and its up-spec brother, the R1M, remain the Iwata factory's brand-defining machines. To remain on par with the always-moving yardstick of superbike performance, Yamaha has further developed the new-from-the-ground-up package introduced in 2015, which went on to become a Cycle World Ten Best Winner, not to mention a four-time MotoAmerica Superbike champion. For 2020, Yamaha revised the cylinder head , intake layout, fuel...
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One of the larger grey geese, the greylag is the stock from which most western Europe farmyard geese are descended (unlike eastern Europe where the bean goose gave rise to most farm stock). Both sexes are brownish grey with paler grey forewings and white barred tail coverts. The bill is orange in the western race and the legs are flesh coloured. The heavy head and bill are more obvious in flight than with other geese and the pale grey shoulders and white rump show up clearly. It has a low "aung-aung" call similar to farmyard geese.
Pinkfooted Goose (Anser branchyrhynchus)
Somewhat smaller and daintier than the greylag, the pinkfoot is characterised by a chocolate brown head and neck. The body is paler brown with bluish-grey tinges in the wing coverts and darker grey in the tail. The rump, as with all grey geese, is white. The bill of the pinkfoot is smaller and neater than that of the greylag, being pink coloured with variable black markings at base and tip. As the name suggests, the legs and feet are pink. In flight the dark neck and head are obvious and, when compared to a greylag, its slender shape and neat head are clear. It has the familiar "wink-wink-wink" call.
Whitefronted Goose (Anser albifrons)
The USSR whitefront is a dark goose, mainly grey-brown with black traverse barring across the lower breast and belly. Adults have a distinctive white forehead. The bill and legs are bright orange. Birds of the European race tend to have an overall lighter plumage and a pink bill. It is of medium to large size and in flight can be seen to have a darker, more slender head than the greylag. It gives out a high pitched "hank-hank-hank" call.
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Bean Goose (Anser fabalis)
The bean goose is a very large bird with dark brown neck and head and dull brown underparts. The breast is light brown, there are pale edgings to the wing coverts and the bill is orange with black markings.
Barnacle Goose (Branta leucopsis)
Both sexes have a black crown, neck and breast with white cheeks. The back is grey and the underparts are off-white. In flight it is a smallish goose with the white face and black breast clear. It rarely flies in formation, preferring loose flocks. The voices of a flock of barnacles sounds like the "yipping" of a pack of small dogs.
Brent Goose (Branta bernicla)
There are two distinct sub-species of brent geese; the light-bellied race breeds in Greenland and Spitzbergen and winters in Ireland and at Lindisfarne while the dark-bellied Siberian population migrates to the marshes of Iraq & Iraqn in winter. This latter race has increased dramatically in recent years and a change in habits has taken place with the flocks partially forsaking the salt marsh and adapting to feeding on agricultural land.
Both races have a black head, breast and neck and a dark grey-brown back. There is a light patch on each side of the neck and, as the names suggest, the Atlantic population has a lighter belly than the Siberian race. In flight the brent has fast wingbeats and frequently flies in tight packs. It is often silent and is more likely to be mistaken for a mallard than for any other goose.
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The Cinecon Movie Memorabilia Show
Here's your chance to take home a piece of film history. Our fabulous dealers' room features some of the best vintage movie items available anywhere.
Every year Cinecon features one of the best movie memorabilia markets in the country, and this year will be no exception. Our memorabilia show will be located in the third floor meeting area of the Loews Hollywood Hotel, at 1755 N. Highland Ave. The show will feature dealers from across the country and around the world who will be bringing some of their best products. You will be able to find original items that span the history of film from silent era classics through today's hottest blockbusters. The quality of the merchandise is unequalled at any other show.
Our show always features a large assortment of collectable items which includes posters, stills, books, lobby cards, DVDs and videos, pressbooks and so much more. Whether you have a vast collection or are just starting out you are sure to find something of interest here--you name it and you'll find it all in the Cinecon dealers' rooms. So when you take a break from our fabulous films be sure to make your way back to the hotel to take advantage of this treasure trove.
Click this Dealers List to see the names of dealers currently scheduled to attend this year's show.
By the way, if you're not interested in attending the screenings at the Egyptian Theater and only want to shop, we sell Dealers' Room Only passes for $15 per day at our Loews Hollywood Hotel registration table.
Our next show will be over Labor Day weekend (Aug. 29 - Sep. 2) in 2019. If you're interested in becoming a vendor at Cinecon 55, please contact Danny Schwartz at (805) 581-7089 during Pacific Coast business hours for dealer contract information.
The Book Signing event is part of the memorabilia show
As a special added attraction to the memorabilia show our exciting book signing event will be back. Several authors will be on hand at various times throughout the weekend to personally inscribe copies of their latest editions. Our attendees always enjoy the opportunity to meet and talk with their favorite author. Here's your chance to get the best of the new film related books directly from their authors. All types of books are represented: actor and director biographies, comprehensive studio histories, pictorials, general film books and more. In addition we frequently have celebrities visit our show to sign copies of their autobiographies.
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Clinton Fein: Please Lie to Me
Art Mur 15th Anniversary Exhibition
Montreal gallery, Art Mur is located at 5826 rue St-Hubert. "Please Lie to Me," features Clinton Fein along with a group of talented artists, including the highly controversial Chinese artist duo, the Gao Brothers
Saturday November 5, 2011 - December 17, 2011
Berkeley Says "No" to Torture
Defying Torture - The Art of Dissent
A conversation with historian/critic/activist Peter Selz and artists Clinton Fein and Richard Kamler. Location: UC Berkeley Art Museum Theater, 2621 Durant Avenue, Berkeley
Wednesday Oct 13, 2010 at 4:30 pm
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Kamler also asked South Africa's infamous Clinton Fein to contribute. You remember him: last year, his wall-sized photographs re-creating Abu Ghraib torture scenes reverberated like mortar bombs throughout the 49 Geary art complex. Imagine what he could do with a white dove.
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TIME MAGAZINE: NOTEBOOK, Verbatim
"Who says what's officially annoying? Is that a business we really want our government to be in?" -- Clinton Fein, purveyor of the website Annoy.com, complaining about a bill in Congress that would make it a federal crime to "annoy" someone over the Internet.
Time Magazine, February 26, 2006
Cyberstalking law opens debate on what's annoying
"It's a stupid law that has slipped in under the radar," says Clinton Fein, a San Francisco-based artist who runs annoy.com, a website that he says offers "unique and irreverent" commentary on politics and culture.
Richard Willing, USA Today, February 14, 2006
New cyberstalker law raises criticism
Clinton Fein, who runs the Annoy.com Web site, is also aghast. His site is specifically set up to annoy people through, among other means, anonymous postcards sent through the mail that direct the recipient to read the sender's message at the Annoy.com site. Fein calls the new legislation annoying.
Reid Goldsborough, Philadelphia Inquirer, January 29, 2006
Is it illegal, or just annoying?
The nation's new cyberstalking restrictions started this month. The legislation updates laws designed to protect people from harrassment. The updated law makes it illegal to use the Internet to harrass someone. But a provision of the legislation also adds the word "annoy" to the types of communication that's illegal.
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One of the people who picked up on this new language is the creator of the Web site annoy.com. Clinton Fein calls himself a political artist. He's based in San Francisco. He photoshops irreverant and frequently offensive digital postcards for users to send anonymously to whomever they want--the attorney general of the United States, for example, or perhaps your boss. Fein readily admits to pushing legal boundaries. But he wonders who, under the new law, decides what is legally annoying.
Art Hughes Interview, Future Tense, January 20, 2006
Does New Cyberstalking Law Criminalize Free Expression?
First, we will discover what Section 113 truly means when someone challenges the law. A candidate being mentioned on the Internet is Annoy.com; the site offers a "service by which people send politically incorrect postcards without being required to furnish their identity."
The site owner Clinton Fein has a history of "seeking declaratory and injunctive relief" against the Communications Decency Act of 1996 through which "indecent" computer communication that is intended to "annoy" was criminalized. Fein believes Section 113 "warrant[s] a constitutional challenge."
Wendy McElroy, Fox News, January 17, 2006
PERSPECTIVE: CREATE AN E-ANNOYANCE, GO TO JAIL.
Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime. It's no joke. Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity.
Clinton Fein, a San Francisco resident who runs the Annoy.com site, says a feature permitting visitors to send obnoxious and profane postcards through e-mail could be imperiled.
"Who decides what's annoying? That's the ultimate question," Fein said. He added: "If you send an annoying message via the United States Post Office, do you have to reveal your identity?"
Declan McCullagh, C|Net, January 9, 2006
WITH INTENT TO ANNOY!
Clinton Fein responds to new legislation making it a crime to send anonymous email with an "intent to annoy."
US criminalises cyber-harassment
Civil liberties groups have vowed to fight the legislation in the courts under the First Amendment, claiming that it would make it impossible for whistleblowers to operate without putting themselves at risk.
Clinton Fein, a South African activist who runs Annoy.com, was scathing about the new law.
"It appears that one is guilty of a crime if one were simply to 'utilise' a telecoms device 'with intent to annoy' a person regardless of the content or even in its absence," he said. "A conduct rather than a content crime; perhaps waving a BlackBerry in someone's face."
Iain Thomson, vnunet.com, January 10, 2006
ARTIST. This South African provocateur's vitriolic, darkly comic digital montages attack President Bush, his cabinet and his Iraq policies. The New York Times.
Clinton Fein (born 1964) is a South African born artist, writer and activist, closely identified with his controversial web site,Annoy.com and his notable Supreme Court victory against Janet Reno, Attorney General of the United States, challenging the constitutionality of the Communications Decency Act in 1997, where Fein's right to disseminate his art (such as the uenequivocally indecent and annoying Torture exhibition) was upheld in a landmark victory for the First Amendment.
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ART, POLITICS AND CENSORSHIP
As an artist, Fein is represented by Toomey Tourell Gallery in San Francisco and Axis Gallery in New York, and his shows have been dogged by controversy. In 2001, Fein was scheduled to open a solo exhibition in San Francisco in October. After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, Artforum Magazine pulled an advertisment for Fein's show from their October issue. In 2004, printing company Zazzle found themselves embroiled in an ugly censorship dispute after they deliberately destroyed two of Fein's images.
ApolloMedia vs. The United States Navy (The Conduct Unbecoming Censorship Dispute).
ApolloMedia vs. Reno (The Annoy.com Supreme Court challenge).
The United States vs. ApolloMedia (The Annoy.com Federal suit defense).
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Blockchain Technology Fixes the Loopholes of Centralized KYC Solutions
While several projects prefer to use centralized repositories to store data during Know Your Customer (KYC) procedures, these databases exhibit several limitations such as susceptibility to hacks and high cost of management, which can be mitigated by distributed ledger technology (DLT), reports TechRadar on May 14, 2019.
Centralized Databases are Weak
Per the report, several projects from times past till today have sought ways to build centralized KYC solutions that can manage customers’ data in the most efficient and safe manner while also minimizing identity theft.
In a bid to meet these demands, two models of KYC systems are often designed: the first is a silo model in which a central repository can be created and monetized by a company.
The second is a shared model owned by a group of companies who have come to the terms of an agreement that will be used to access data and exchange information.
Limitations of Centralized KYC Solutions
However, there are certain limitations inherent in centralized models irrespective of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) jurisdictions where they are employed. The ease at which these systems can be hacked has made them fail woefully in ensuring that customer data is as safe as possible.
Similarly, the unsecured nature of centralized KYC databases has led to declining confidence in banks. It has also given people the impression that financial institutions are not as trusted as they have paraded themselves to be.
It does not also come as a surprise that a number of companies are more concerned about the profit that can be generated through the sales of KYC data instead of prioritizing their level of security.
Asides from the unsecured nature of data in a centralized repository, certain issues like who owns data and who can profit from such data arises. The latter is yet to be decided by the court and it is believed the law may allow those who create data to be its legal owners.
DLT to the Rescue
Despite these risks, a better way out is with the use of the distributed ledger technology, an automatic and decentralized database which allows customers to own their identity.
As an immutable ledger whose content cannot be changed, it promises a highly secure KYC system over the use of centralized models thereby allowing millions of personal records to be stored in an efficient way.
Consequently, KYC3 and Peer Mountain have collaborated to design a Decentralized KYC (DKYC) that will enable customers to carry out their KYC once and then use it on different platforms instead of having to repeat the same processes over and over again.
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Action Grantee: Sally Snow / Power to Protect / LAMAVE
Sally Snow / Power to Protect
Video of Sally Snow / Power to Protect
This briefing video is done by Action Grantee Sally Snow. Power to Protect is a short film that introduces key interaction guidelines that every tourist should be following when interacting with marine animals in the Philippines. Delivered by local communities at the heart of marine wildlife tourism in the Philippines, theses guidelines are brought to life by iconic marine species present in the Philippines: sharks, whale shark, turtles, cetaceans... The film is the final film from Their Future Our Future, a video campaign to raise awareness on marine wildlife interaction protocol in anticipation of the launch of new national marine wildlife interaction guidelines in the Philippines. Guidelines are in place to protect not only the marine wildlife we interact with, but also the community who's livelihood relies on the welfare of the animal and the local environment. Play your part. Interact with wildlife responsibly. Learn more about Sally's project here.
Sally Snow: Their Future Our Future
Sally Snow's My Future is Your Future videos are part of a campaign by LAMAVE, The Large Marine Vertebrate Research Institute Philippines, to support passing a new marine wildlife interaction law in the Philippines and to educate locals & tourists about respectful wildlife interaction. The project will consist of a set of 1-minute videos to "inspire, educate, and empower, while creating a sense of respect and ownership over our actions."
CMG met Sally through our Action Grant pitch session at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival. Her project was one of eight finalists chosen to pitch and was selected as one of three winners. CMG awarded My Future is Your Future a $10,000 grant to cover necessary production and distribution costs over the next year.
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Constitution, Environment, Human Rights, Obama Administration, Politics, Religion, Right Wing, The Bush-43 Administration
The Moral Imperative of Activism
Exclusive: Today’s crises endless war, environmental catastrophe, desperate poverty and more can seem so daunting that they paralyze action rather than inspire activism. But the imperative to do something in the face of injustice defines one’s moral place in the universe, as ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern explains.
That America is in deep moral and legal trouble was pretty much obvious to everyone before Edward Snowden released official documents showing the extent to which the U.S. government has been playing fast and loose with the Fourth Amendment rights of Americans to be protected against unreasonable searches and seizures.
Snowden’s revelations as explosive as they are were, in one sense, merely the latest challenge to those of us who took a solemn oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic. That has been a commitment tested repeatedly in recent years, especially since the 9/11 attacks.
St. Thomas Aquinas, a theologian of the Thirteenth Century.
After all the many troubling disclosures — from torture to “extraordinary renditions” to aggressive war under false pretenses to warrantless wiretaps to lethal drone strikes to whistleblowers prosecutions to the expanded “surveillance state” — it might be time to take a moment for what the Germans call “eine Denkpause,” a “thinking break.” And it is high time to heed and honor the Noah Principle: “No more awards for predicting rain; awards only for building arks.”
This is our summer of discontent. The question we need to ask ourselves is whether that discontent will move us to action. Never in my lifetime have there been such serious challenges to whether the Republic established by the Founders will survive. Immediately after the Constitutional Convention, Ben Franklin told a questioner that the new structure created “a Republic, if you can keep it.” He was right, of course; it is up to us.
So let’s face it. The Obama White House and its co-conspirators in Congress and the Judiciary have thrown the gauntlet down at our feet. It turned out that we are the ones we’ve been waiting for. As Annie Dillard, one of my favorite theologians, has put it, “There is only us; there never has been any other.” And as one of my favorite activists/prophets continued to insist, “Do not say there are not enough of us. There ARE enough of us!”
Besides threats to basic constitutional rights and gross violations of international law, there are other pressing issues for Americans, especially the obscene, growing chasm between the very rich and the jobless (and often homeless) poor. There is widespread reluctance, even so, to ask the key questions?
Is it right to fire teachers, police and firefighters; to close libraries; leave students in permanent debt; gut safety-net programs all by feigning lack of money? Yet, simultaneously, is it moral to squander on the Pentagon and military contractors half of the country’s discretionary income from taxes an outlay equivalent to what the whole rest of the world put together spends for defense?
It seems we are guided far more by profits than by prophets. And without prophetic vision, the people perish.
America’s lucrative war-making industry operates within a fiendishly self-perpetuating business model: U.S. military interventions around the world (including security arrangements to prop up unpopular allies and thus to thwart the will of large segments of national populations) guarantee an inexhaustible supply of “militants, insurgents, terrorists or simply ‘bad guys’” a list that sometimes comes to include American citizens.
These troublemakers must be hunted down and vaporized by our remote killing machines, which inflict enough destruction and stir up enough outrage to generate even more “militants, insurgents, terrorists or simply ‘bad guys.’”
And, in turn, the blowback toward the United States — the occasional terrorist attack — creates enough fear at home to “justify” the introduction of draconian Third Reich-style “Enabling Act” legislation not very different from the unconstitutional laws ushering in the abuses in Germany 80 years ago.
With only muted murmur from “progressive” supporters, the Obama administration has continued much of the post-9/11 assault on constitutional rights begun by George W. Bush and in regard to Barack Obama’s aggressive prosecutorial campaign against “leakers,” Obama has taken these transgressions even further.
Are we to look on, like the proverbial “obedient Germans,” as Establishment Washington validates the truth of James Madison’s warning: “If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”
Yet, while countless billions of dollars are spent on “security” against “terrorism,” little attention is devoted to the truly existential threat from global warming. Can we adults in good conscience continue to shun the dire implications of climate change?
This question was again brought home to me personally on Aug. 6, as our ninth grandchild pushed her way out into a world with challenges undreamed of just decades ago. When she is my age, will she rue joining us last Tuesday? I can only hope she will forgive me and my generation for not having the guts to face down those whose unconscionable greed continues to rape what seemed to be a rather pure and pleasant planet when I made my appearance seven short decades ago.
Prophets on the Margin
And, then there is the worship of “free market” idolatry which has savaged America’s Great Middle Class and expanded the ranks of the desperate poor. The late Rabbi Abraham Heschel had challenging words for us: Decrying the agony of the “plundered poor,” Heschel insisted that wherever injustice takes place, “few are guilty, but all are responsible.” He added that, “Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself.”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., warned: “A time comes when silence is betrayal … We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak…. There is such a thing as being too late…. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with lost opportunity…. Over the bleached bones of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: ‘Too late.’”
Amid these daunting challenges endless war, encroachment on liberties, environmental devastation and economic disparity there is also the question: Are our churches riding shotgun for the System.
As truly historic events unfold in our country and abroad, I often think of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Lutheran pastor who founded the Confessing Church as an alternative to the overwhelming number of Catholics and Lutherans who gave priority to protecting themselves by going along with Hitler. How deeply disappointed Bonhoeffer was at the failure of the institutional church in Germany to put itself “where the battle rages.”
This is the phrase Martin Luther himself used centuries before: “If, I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at the moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing him. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved and to be steady on all the battlefield, except there, is mere flight and disgrace if one flinches at that point.”
No one has put it better than a precious new friend I met on a “cruise” in June/July 2011 hoping to reach Gaza author and poet Alice Walker who said: “Activism is my rent for living on this planet.”
As some of you know, that attitude found her a passenger on “The Audacity of Hope”, the U.S. Boat to Gaza. On July 1, 2011, we made an activist break for the open sea and Gaza but were able to sail only nine nautical miles out of Athens before the Greek government, under strong pressure from the White House, ordered its Coast Guard to intercept us, bring us back to port, and impound our boat.
Okay to be Angry?
Recalling the anger I felt at the time, I was reminded that, all too often, people are conflicted about whether or not to allow themselves to be angry at such injustice whether it be in Gaza, on the Aegean, or elsewhere. I had been in that category of doubt, until I remembered learning that none other than Thomas Aquinas had something very useful to say about anger.
In the Thirteenth Century, Aquinas wrote a lot about virtue and got quite angry when he realized there was no word in Latin for just the right amount of anger, for the virtue of anger. He had to go back to what Fourth-Century Doctor of the Church John Chrysostom said on the subject: “He or she who is not angry, when there is just cause for anger, sins.”
Why? Because as John Chrysostom put it, “Anger respicit bonum justitiae, anger looks to the good of Justice, and if you can live amid injustice without anger you are unjust.”
Aquinas added his own corollary; he railed against what he called “unreasoned patience,” which, he said, “sows the seeds of vice, nourishes negligence, and persuades not only evil people but good people to do evil.”
Frankly, I have not thought of us activists being virtuous, but maybe we are, at least in our willingness to channel our anger into challenging and changing the many injustices here and around the world. There should be no room these days for “unreasoned patience.”
One saving grace peculiar not only to the ancient prophets and theologians but to the Alice Walkers and Medea Benjamins of today is that they did not get hung up on the all-too-familiar drive for success. That drive, I think, is a distinctly American trait. We generally do not want to embark on some significant course of action without there being a reasonable prospect of success, do we? Who enjoys becoming the object of ridicule?
The felt imperative to be “successful” can be a real impediment to acting for Justice. One prophet/activist from whom I have drawn inspiration is Dan Berrigan. I’d like to share some of the wisdom that seeps through his autobiography, To Dwell in Peace.
Berrigan writes that after he, his brother Phil, and a small group of others had used homemade napalm to burn draft cards in Catonsville, Maryland, in May 1968 at the height of the Vietnam War, Dan mused about why he took such a risk:
“I came upon a precious insight. Something like this: presupposing integrity and discipline, one is justified in entering upon a large risk; not indeed because the outcome is assured, but because the integrity and value of the act have spoken aloud.
“Success or efficiency are placed where they belong: in the background. They are not irrelevant, but they are far from central. I was in need of such reflections as we faced the public after our crime. All sides agreed, we were fools or renegades or plain crazy.
“One had very little to go on; and one went ahead nonetheless. … The act was let go, its truth and goodness were entrusted to the four winds. Indeed, good consequences were of small matter to me, compared with the integrity of the action, the need responded to, the spirits lifted.”
The more recent prophets and activists I have known have generally been able to do this, to release the truth of the act to the four winds. And I am sure that helps them avoid taking themselves too seriously.
Anticipate the Jut-Jaw
Here’s how Dan Berrigan recounts the immediate aftermath of the action at Catonsville:
“We sat in custody in the back room of the Catonsville Post Office, weak with relief. Three or four FBI honchos entered portentously. Their leader, a jut-jawed paradigm, surveyed us from the doorway. His eagle-eye lit on Philip. He roared out: ‘Him again! Good God, I’m changing my religion!’
“I could think of no greater tribute to my brother.”
The Berrigans help affirm for me that this God of ours is a God of laughter, and we are the entertainment. And that’s just one reason a light touch seems to be required. Will we be successful? Wrong question. The right one is will we be faithful? Will we dare to go with the Berrigans to where the battle rages.
I am very much looking forward to being able to refresh my spirit, and also my sense of humor, with some later-day prophets at the upcoming Conference on the Moral Imperative of Activism, Aug. 16-17, at the National Kateri Tekakwitha Shrine in Fonda, New York.
Let me close with a poem written by the German writer Peter Gan in 1935 during the Third Reich. I think it summons us in a thoughtful way to contemplate who we are and what we are called to do today.
But first the most important thing:
“What are you doing in these great times?
“Great, I say, for times seem great
to me, when each man driven
half to death by the era’s hate,
and standing in the place he’s given,
“Must willy-nilly contemplate
no less a thing than his own BEING!
A little breath, a second’s wait
May well suffice you catch my meaning?”
Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the ecumenical church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington, and teaches and learns at its Servant Leadership School. McGovern was an Army officer and a CIA analyst for 30 years, and is co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS). His Web site is raymcgovern.com.
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10 comments for “The Moral Imperative of Activism”
John Kirsch
I like this article because it suggest, at least to me, that anger is sometimes justified. That helps to even the playing field for anger, which is routinely demonized by our overmedicated culture of “closure” and “forgiveness.” There’s nothing inherently wrong with those ideas. It’s just that the conditions we face are so blatantly bad, so obviously the result of deliberate decisions, that anger is the only appropriate response. I’m no historian but I suspect that most of the positive changes over the years have been initiated by people who were angry, not happy and contented.
Regina Schulte
I firmly support Ray McGovern’s stance regarding the dire challenges facing us today. To accept the notion that we can do nothing about them is to betray the human community’s universal responsibility to provide for peace, justice, and the well-being of all peoples. It is also a denial of human intelligence.
david eberhardt
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“Protest is when I say I don’t like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.â€
― Ulrike Meinhof
tags: activism, protest, resistance
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“Objection is when I say: this doesn’t suit me. Resistance is when I make sure that what doesn’t suit me never happens again.â€
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“But that is who we are, that is where we come from. We are the offspring of metropolitan annihilation and destruction, of the war of all against all, of the conflict of each individual with every other individual, of a system governed by fear, of the compulsion to produce, of the profit of one to the detriment of others, of the division of people into men and women, young and old, sick and healthy, foreigners and Germans, and of the struggle for prestige. Where do we come from? From isolation in individual row-houses, from the suburban concrete cities, from prison cells, from the asylums and special units, from media brainwashing, from consumerism, from corporal punishment, from the ideology of nonviolence, from depression, from illness, from degradation, from humiliation, from the debasement of human beings, from all the people exploited by imperialism.â€
Bill Holcombe
I worked with Dan Berrigan during my years at Cornell in the 60s.
For me, in the midst of so many worthy causes, the threat to the planet posed by the mutually reinforcing Lords of CO2, population, and human/corporate greed unsettles me these days and calls into question my capacity to do anything in the face of completely overwhelming odds.
Erica Stuart
I believe Ray McGover “exclusive” description of the Imperative of Activism
describes it well. Without that Moral Imperative we fall into the description given by Pope Francis of “Cult of Money” and there is where our values as a nation have dscended. “Activism” is the needed shower to clean ourselves of it.
Vivek Jain
Ray McGovern writes:
Snowden’s revelations – as explosive as they are – were, in one sense, merely the latest challenge to those of us who took a solemn oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic.
During his long career in the CIA, did he oppose the policies of the Agency?
After he left the Agency, why did he criticize patriots such as the whistleblower ex-CIA Phil Agee?
F. G. Sanford
Obscurantism rules the day. Too late, decries the bygone age,
When truths were plain but hatred reigned, solutions begged for pity’s glance.
No one looked. Instead, they turned away.
Some time remains to flee the flame. The falling man remained alive,
A soul with human foibles made the choice to jump. Despite his fate,
He won another moment in the game.
We watch an eternal act reprieve the living life that can’t be saved.
The cold equations always win. Meters per second per second accrue.
Those laws, though cold hearted, have yet to deceive.
But what did he think as he fell to the end? How can this be, and what have I done?
Will my children survive, or who’ll feed my dog? Did he wonder at all, or helplessly scream?
Could he warn them below, or pray that they’d see him descend?
Gravity looms as the great reminder. It mocks the disdain for the laws that we flaunt.
Reality begs, but we choose the lies. Somehow, the fracking at Bakken will save us.
The yield disappoints, but the lies are so much kinder.
Each smoking gun brings diminished suspicion. Ignoring the bullets intended for others
Engenders a mandate that sanctifies shooters. They’ll keep us safe as the clouds gather near,
Though inside those clouds hide the flames of perdition.
You’d think that we’d jump at the chance to succeed. Or that freedom would temper the will to resist.
Those ancients who said, “It’s too late”, were not fools. They also admonished a great leap of faith.
When the flames grow much higher, I’m sure that we’ll heed, but we may have much farther to fall.
Thanks, Ray. Some readers might also enjoy:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/Lies-Damnable-Lies-and-P-by-Michael-Byron-130810-598.html
Looks like there’s not much time left.
Bob Jacobson
A most timely and inspiring essay. Thanks, Ray. Thanks, Bob.
“The Berrigans help affirm for me that this God of ours is a God of laughter”
This sort of “God people” stuff is depressing.
Google “United States war crimes – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia” and you get
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I googled “United States war crimes – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia” as you suggested, and Google had no problem finding Wikipedia and finding that subject on Wikipedia. I use Firefox instead of Google Chrome, but that shouldn’t make a difference.
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Biodiversity data are sparse, biased and collected at many resolutions. So techniques are needed to combine these data and provide some clarity. This is where downscaling comes in. Downscaling predicts the occupancy of a species in a given area. That is, the number of grid squares a species is predicted to occupy in a standard grid of equally sized squares. Downscaling uses the intrinsic patterns in the spatial organization of an organism’s distributions to predict what the occupancy would be, given the occupancy at a coarser resolution.
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By warbird-1, July 29, 2007 in Off Topic
caniac23
Brendl Believer
LocationFt. Myers, FL
I would be ecstatic for the Rays if they made it to the playoffs. No other team (sorry Jays and Os) deserves it more than the Rays after all they've endured. Years and years of embarrasment, torment, frustration... If they even made it to the WS, wow... I couldn't even imagine Tampa.
Root Administrators
LocationCary, NC
Agreed. Rays have that "something special" thing about them right now, it'll be interesting to see if they can take it right into the playoffs.
Red Sox are holding it together but still have questions with pitching and David Ortiz. At least they seemed to have solved the SS issues with Lowrie, and Ellsbury is starting to heat up again. If Youk can stop getting nailed with pitches, they may actually have the pieces to make a nice run again.
hattrickboy33
I will be really interesting to see what happens in the playoffs!
Rotator cuff tendinitis sends Joba to DL
Injury is same as Posada's; Yanks to start Kennedy on Friday
The diagnosis was right rotator cuff tendinitis, the same injury that sidelined catcher Jorge Posada for the entire month of May. Posada eventually returned but never regained full strength in his throwing shoulder, undergoing season-ending surgery on a right shoulder strain last week.
The Yankees can only hope that Chamberlain won't suffer a similar fate.
"To be quite honest with you, you can't sit here and hang your head about it," shortstop Derek Jeter said. "Hopefully, it's not something that goes for an extended period of time."
Chamberlain, 23, was 4-3 with a 2.63 ERA, and 3-1 with a 2.76 ERA since becoming a starter in early June. He joins fellow Yankee starters Chien-Ming Wang and Phil Hughes on the disabled list.
full article here: http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/news/articl...sp&c_id=nyy
TarheelMike
Chad Bradford to the Rays via a waiver deal. Solid bullpen addition for Tampa... which will only get stiffer once they bring up Price.
goeb
As long as the Yankees don't make it I'm happy, i'd just love to see the reaction if they didn't make the playoffs. Especially during the last seaosn at Yankee Stadium.
I sound evil, but they are the evil empire.
Interesting pick up indeed. Submariner if I remember correctly from when he was a Red Sox, nasty pitch if he's on.
The Rays are definately going for it and they should. Yanks are down and the Red Sox have plenty of questions so why not take full advantage when it loooks like all the pieces are in place for them. Should be fun.
I dont get this one, the Red Sox dont need anymore outfielders. Unless they're just keeping him away from say......Tampa?
Red Sox Claim Padres Giles off waivers
CHICAGO -- The Red Sox did submit a waiver claim for the Padres' Brian Giles yesterday, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.
That means that the teams can either work out a trade for the outfielder or the Padres can pull him back off waivers within a 48-hour period that ends tomorrow. But there are complications with a trade, given that the Red Sox are one of eight teams to which Giles can block a trade, according to the limited no-trade provision in his contract. Giles is being paid $9 million this season, plus a $2 million increase if he gets traded.
Giles, 37, is hitting .295 this season with six home runs and 37 RBI in 103 games. He also has a .390 on-base percentage this season. He did not start today's game against the Mets, but pinch hit in the eighth inning and grounded into a force out.
The San Diego Union-Tribune first reported that the Sox had put in the claim on Giles.
They were only called the Evil Empire because they had "all the power" supposedly. We also had the money to sign the huge power hitter guys (Giambi) and good pitchers (Mussina) (keep in mind, this was years before steroids were leaked and Giambi was "good" and so was Moose. Moose is still good, but hopefully, for me, this is his last year), and won 4 championships in 5 years (96, 98, 99, 00). Also outbidding the players the Sox wanted. I think the Sox pres. labeled us that one year after outbidding him for a latin pitcher I think... can't remember exactley. We spent 209 mil this year on payroll, Sox spend 133, which is 4th. (2007, Yanks spent 218 mil, Sox spent 155)
Sox also won 2 Championships in 4 years (possibly 3 in 5 years). Also, on the verge of winning their second title, Sox fans were being asked "Are the Sox the New Evil Empire?". They're making a strong run for it.
BTW, Don't ever count the Yanks out. We were 14 1/2 games out last season. 14 1/2 games out and still made the playoffs through the wild card. Rays are making a strong push for it, and I'm happy for them. Plagued with injuries (sound familiar???), we'll probably end up just like the Cane's and miss out by a game or so.
rollinsox007
It is now being reported that the commissioner's office is investigating Manny and Boras for their little stunt to get out of Boston. Serves 'em right. Boras pulls this *edit* all the time and it is great he's finally getting called on it.
MannyGate
"Feeling a little duped, Red Sox Nation? Still wondering if this whole thing was on the level?
"You are not alone. The commissioner's office is investigating the circumstances of Manny's final hours with the Red Sox. The Globe has learned (from a source with direct knowledge of the inquiry) that Bud Selig directed Major League Baseball executive vice president Rob Manfred to contact all parties for an explanation of how things unfolded around last week's trading deadline. According to the source, Manfred has yet to report back to the commissioner.
"Here's why Selig's office is looking into the matter:
"The Red Sox had an option to retain Ram
Asylum44
medfordcaniac7
wow, if that is true you really have to wonder about what else he did to try to 'get his point across' but then again you could take the other point and just say that you can't really prove that.....either way i think manny wasn't playing his hardest during his last few weeks as a red sock ( or is it still sox?) either way, I think he should have owed more to boston than taking strikes and jogging to first just because he was unhappy.
All you have to do is look at my signature and avatar
I am a huge Dodgers fan but also like the Sox and
to me the Sox were manipulated by a scumbag.
What a jerk he is.
Go Jason Bay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sadly, nothing can ever really be proved. Selig can say he's concerned about the integrity of the game but without any hard evidence, what can he prove? Scott Boris can claim whatever he wants but he was the hired gun by Manny.
The only person who should be held responsible for this is Manny. The Red Sox did what they had to do to preserve the integrity of their team and Manny forced their hand. If any employee went out and under performed unpurpose just to get fired, is it illegal? Classless, cheap and unethical....but not illegal. The only ground the league has to stand on would be collusion since that's against MLB rules. But can it be proved.
Nothing will come of this IMO, but hopefully Bud Selig's office makes enough noise in disgust to deter the next "Manny" from being able to hold another team hostage by tanking. No way does the league suspend Manny because LA is a huge market in desperate need of what Manny is bringing right now. What would be fair would be to have Manny forfeit the $7 million he's still being paid by the Red Sox. Or better yet, have Scott Boris pay him. <_<
If you read enough of the media reports out today, the players all knew this was going on for some time and thats why finally he had to go. Like I said in an earlier post, I hope history will not be kind to Manny. Having his legacy tarnished will be the perfect punishment for a guy who's all about himself and not the game or his team.
can the unkind tarnishment happen after the Dodgers make the playoffs
Ok... I'm getting a little annoyed with LA and their "poundings".... <_<
BTW: Nice catch by Brandon Moss!
ANAHEIM, Calif. - Having successfully orchestrated his divorce from Boston and his landing in with the Dodgers, Manny Ramirez would like to make life miserable for the Red Sox during the next few seasons.
According to people who have spoken to the eccentric outfielder since he was dealt to L.A. on July 31, Ramirez wants to sign a free-agent deal with the YankeesNew York Yankees this offseason and get 19 chances a year to punish Boston.
"He wants to play for the Yankees so he can get at the Red Sox," a close friend of Ramirez's told The Post.
No surprise here
Man... let's hope not. I could only see him being used as a DH. He's not a great outfielder. I would love for the Yanks to get Denard Span. I think with time, and great coaching, that kid is going to be fantastic.
#@%!@$!#%$~ Bullpen!
GreatsavebyGerber
I would be ecstatic for the Rays if they made it to the playoffs. No other team (sorry Jays and Os) deserves it more than the Rays after all they've endured. Years and years of embarrasment, torment, frustration... If they even made it to the WS, wow...
Not even the San Diego Padres, who've been in the National League since 1969? I like the Rays, c23, and am delighted for them and their success, but the Pads have been in the bigs longer by 29 years, involved in postseason play only five times ('84, '96, '98, '05, and '05), and advanced further than the NLDS only twice ('84 and '98).
Sorry, but as a Padre fan since 1973, I'm thinking that the Friars have waited a whole lot longer for a World Series title than the Rays. (Then again, the Cubbies have been searching for one since 1908.)
Jan/GSBG
The Padres have had respectable runs though. The Rays were basically the laughing stock of the AL East, and to see them emerge and finally above the Sox and Yanks, is really saying something (then again, the Angels aren't having any trouble either)
The Padres have had respectable runs though.
Only a few, c23, but they'd been through many more years reminiscent of the mid- to late-'60s Mets, the crew that made Casey Stengel, the Amazins' first manager, ask his team in disbelief after an especially egregious loss, "Can anybody play this here game?"
Bottom line: The Pads have had many more sad-sack years than have the Rays. Let's close this case.
The Rays were basically the laughing stock of the AL East, and to see them emerge and finally above the Sox and Yanks, is really saying something (then again, the Angels aren't having any trouble either)
Agreed. Still, without wishing to argue this point further, it's worthwile to knowing baseball fans to understand the drought the Padres have gone through: five playoff appearances in 40 major-league seasons, without one World Series title to show for it. (And, yes, the Pads have been described as a laughing stock for many seasons more than have the Rays.)
The lack of a championship is truly a painful thing for long-time Friar fans to acknowlege, including this one -- a fan since 1973, Dave Winfield's rookie season.
For the Sox fans here, I think its time for Bucholtz to be sent to AAA
He looks lost out there. Maybe the nohitter last year was the worst
thing that happened to him because it puts unrealistic expectations on him.
I think Masterson should be put back in the rotation with Michael Bowden
coming up. Just what I hope for. We shall see
The Sox better win tonight with Beckett because Tampa is on fire
and they are going to run away with the East if they keep it up.
Focus on the Wild Card, get in the playoffs and see what happens.
As for my Dodgers they keep choking games away they should win.
I hope for better tonight as they are actually on TV locally for once.
I just wish Kershaw was pitching, I want to watch him in a game
on TV this year. He is going to be very good IMHO
Buchholz just looks like he has ZERO confidence in his pitches. He was sent down in order to learn how use his fastball effectively like he did last year and early this year. He uses his fastball a lot in early innings, but whenever it gets hit just one time he stops throwing it or starts throwing it much slower in order to hit his location. It is horrible to watch him pitch, he can be cruising then if he runs into one ounce of trouble he just shuts down and looks like he doesn't know what the hell he's doing.
If Beckett is back to being Beckett then that would solve one problem. The other one is that Colon looked good in his last start and could be ready to replace Buchholz eventually, but now Wakefield is gone for 2 weeks.
Bodies are dropping everywhere. Rays lost Crawford and Longoria, that's going to hurt them (no pun intended). It's going to be a slugfest for the division/wildcard in the AL East. Either way, I don't quit on my Yanks, but I don't see them grabbing the Division this year. Hughes, Wang, Joba out, who knows for how long...
tonight has been fun watching the Dodgers on TV and them
actually hitting
Also hearing Hershiser reminice about the good old days
has been great. I hope there are no Philly fans here
as this has been like A Dodger home broadcast. lol
I just hope they can get some consistency for once.
They need Saito back IMO to make a run at the West
and great win for Boston tonight, focus on the WC
and see if you catch Tampa, which I think its their
season to make the playoffs and rightfully so.
Their fans have suffered for a long time, we as Canes
fans have had success, why not the Rays as well
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Identification of molecular markers associated with kernel iron and zinc concentrations in groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.)
K. Sadaiah*, K. Radhika, V.L.N. Reddy and V. Padma Indian Institute of Rice Research, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad
Keywords: Groundnut, kernel iron and zinc concentrations, phenotyping, single marker analysis, SSR markers
Micronutrient malnutrition affects more than one-half of the world’s population, especially women and pre-school children. Poor consumers in developing countries acquire roughly one-half of their total iron intakes and a higher percentage of zinc intakes from staple foods. Bio-fortification, an approach of breeding crop plants for higher micronutrient concentration, is a cost effective and sustainable solution for tackling the micronutrient deficiencies. Developing countries, where micronutrient deficiencies are widespread, contribute world’s maximum peanut area and production. Thus, peanut can contribute significantly towards reduction of protein-energy and micronutrient malnutrition. With the advent of molecular markers, by using segregating populations for the trait of interest for breeders, it has now become effective to map genes or Quantitative Traits Loci (QTLs) and identify valuable alleles for the corresponding traits. In the present study, an F2:3 mapping population derived from the cross ICGV 06099 × ICGV 93468 was genotyped using 33 polymorphic SSR markers to identify the putative genomic regions associated with the kernel iron and zinc concentrations in groundnut using Single Marker Analysis (SMA). Results revealed that three markers viz., SEQ1B09 (0.23 %), IPAHM245 (2.19 %) and SEQ9G05 (6.34 %) showed significant association with the kernel iron and three markers viz., GM2638 (1.75 %), IPAHM245 (2.25 %) and SEQ9G05 (6.01 %) showed significant association with kernel zinc concentration. Significant positive association (0.549) was observed between kernel iron and zinc concentrations. Validation of these markers in an alternate F2:3 population derived from the cross ICGV 06040 × ICGV 87141 also showed strong association of these markers with the traits of interest.
K. Sadaiah*, K. Radhika, V.L.N. Reddy and V. Padma, Indian Institute of Rice Research, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad
senior research fellow, biotechnology, Indian Institute of Rice Research, rajendranagar, hyderabad.
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15 results for Gigley, Chris
1.Top Banana by Gigley, Chris Our State Vol. 72 Issue 3, Aug 2004
Gigley, Chris
“Banana pudding is the most widely served dessert in North Carolina's barbecue's restaurants,†writes Bob Garner, North Carolina's barbecue guru. But as to how this dessert made with tropical fruit became such a favorite in the Old North State is anybody's guess. Garner says, “Probably because it's relatively quick and easy to make, and because the creamy taste and soft texture provide a pleasant contrast to the tangy bite of the barbecue and/or coleslaw.†Gigley lists five restaurants and describes their particular styles of banana pudding. They are Jed's Bar-B-Cue, Greensboro; Gary's Barbecue, China Grove; The Gathering Place, Archdale; Taste of Country Buffet, Wilmington; and Tupelo Honey Café, Asheville.
Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 72 Issue 3, Aug 2004, p118-121, il Periodical Website
Puddings; Desserts
2.Pit Crew by Gigley, Chris Our State Vol. 72 Issue 8, Jan 2005
Beth Jones opened Big Ed's Chicken Pit in High Point in 2000. Gigley discusses the owner, how the restaurant got its name, and what is served there.
Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 72 Issue 8, Jan 2005, p124-125, por Periodical Website
Restaurants--High point
3.A League Above by Gigley, Chris Our State Vol. 73 Issue 2, July 2005
In 1997, Pete Bock and Jerry Pettit launched the Coastal Plain League with six teams in Eastern North Carolina. The summer league ranks as one of the country's best for college players, professional baseball scouts, and fans. In 2005, the league totals fourteen teams that play a fifty-six game schedule. The league revived a number of the state's historic ballparks formerly used by minor league teams. Although the players are amateurs, the teams operate just like minor league baseball teams, selling billboard advertising, food and drinks, and offering the usual promotions fans are accustomed to at minor league parks.
Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 73 Issue 2, July 2005, p104,106, 108, il Periodical Website
Baseball players; Baseball teams; College athletes
4.Some Pig by Gigley, Chris Our State Vol. 73 Issue 12, May 2006
Jean Martin and her partner Steve Flaugher transformed the old Piggly Wiggly grocery at Raleigh's Five Points neighborhood into a restaurant. Called NOFO at the Pig, the restaurant opened in 2001. The upper level features a gift shop that offers a selection of gifts, gourmet goods, home items, and a deli that sells many items from the restaurant's menu. The restaurant is located on the lower level and has been a neighborhood favorite since the day it opened.
Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 73 Issue 12, May 2006, p234-236, il Periodical Website
Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration--Raleigh; Restaurants--Raleigh
5.Return of the River Freighter by Gigley, Chris Our State Vol. 74 Issue 3, Aug 2006
On the Dan River in the 1800s, the bateau was the choice of residents for shipping and receiving goods. The bateau, a double-ended, flat-bottomed vessel with a wide hull, can measure up to 60 feet with a capacity for carrying 10,000 pounds of cargo. Propulsion is man-powered by a crew of three. One sits in the back and works the tiller, while the other two plunge long poles down to the river bottom, push their weight against them, and walk from one end of the bateau to the other. The first bateau appeared on the Dan in 1792. Three Rivers Outfitters of Eden has revived this relic of the 19th-century. The company's 40-foot replica takes passengers on a one-mile voyage from Eden Wildlife Access to Leaksville Landing. Gigley recounts his experiences on the voyage.
Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 3, Aug 2006, p174-176, 178, il Periodical Website
Inland waterway vessels
6.Bottling Success by Gigley, Chris Our State Vol. 75 Issue 4, Sept 2007
Gigley discusses the development of Charlotte-based Pangleheimers Beverages and its signature soda, Gourmet Blush. The drink, which was developed about fifteen years ago by David Pangle, tastes like a mild fruit punch but has a kick at the end. Pangle and wife Maxine discuss the ups and downs of breaking a new soft drink into a market dominated by Pepsi and Coca Cola.
Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 75 Issue 4, Sept 2007, p38-40, il, por Periodical Website
Soft drink industry--Charlotte
7.Wilson by Gigley, Chris Our State Vol. 75 Issue 5, Oct 2007
Wilson, county seat of Wilson County, is OUR STATE magazine's Tar Heel Town of the Month. The town incorporated in 1849. For years its economy depended on tobacco, but that product has now declined. Gigley discusses the town's emergence as an entertainment-and-arts hub.
Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 75 Issue 5, Oct 2007, p20-22, 24-25, il, map Periodical Website
Wilson--Description and travel
8.Mr. Baseball by Gigley, Chris Our State Vol. 75 Issue 3, Aug 2007
Baseball coach Joe Ferebee won more games than any other coach in North Carolina history--694 coaching American Legion teams and 677 as head coach at Pfeiffer College. He also has a vast knowledge of baseball history. What his players remember him for is his guidance and wisdom.
Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 75 Issue 3, Aug 2007, p29-31, por Periodical Website
Baseball coaches; Ferebee, Joe
9.Making the Calls by Gigley, Chris Our State Vol. 76 Issue 7, Dec 2008
Jerry McGee is president of Wingate College. He is also a top field official during the Atlantic Coast Conference's football season. McGee began officiating in 1973 and has worked over four hundred games. Among them are two national championship games--the 1990 Orange Bowl and the 1997 Rose Bowl--and eighteen bowl games overall.
Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 76 Issue 7, Dec 2008, p36-39, il, por Periodical Website
Football--Officiating--Atlantic Coast Conference; Wingate College--President; College sports--North Carolina
10.Wilson by Gigley, Chris Our State Vol. 76 Issue 10, Mar 2009
Gigley describes a baseball weekend in Wilson, including where to stay and where to eat. Besides games in Wilson, fans can enjoy games at Kinston's Grainger Field, only an hour away, and at Zebulon's Five Country Stadium, only twenty-five minutes away.
Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 76 Issue 10, Mar 2009, p72-75, il Periodical Website
Minor league baseball--Wilson
11.Burgaw by Gigley, Chris Our State Vol. 76 Issue 11, Apr 2009
Burgaw, county seat of Pender County and home to the North Carolina Blueberry Festival, is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month.
Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 76 Issue 11, Apr 2009, p22-24, 26, il, map Periodical Website
Burgaw--Description and travel
12.Sneads Ferry by Gigley, Chris Our State Vol. 77 Issue 5, Oct 2009
Sneads Ferry, located just south of Jacksonville in Onslow County, is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month.
Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 77 Issue 5, Oct 2009, p28-30, 32-35, il Periodical Website
Sneads Ferry--Description and travel
13.Elizabeth City by Gigley, Chris Our State Vol. 77 Issue 9, Feb 2010
Elizabeth City, the county seat of Pasquotank County, has the largest collection of Antebellum homes and buildings in North Carolina. Our State magazine features the city in its Tar Heel Town of the Month section.
Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 77 Issue 9, Feb 2010, p26-28, 30-32, il Periodical Website
Elizabeth City--Description and travel
14.Syrup of the South by Gigley, Chris Our State Vol. 77 Issue 9, Feb 2010
Maple Creek Farm, located near Burnsville, is the state's only commercial maple syrup operation and the southernmost one in the country.
Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 77 Issue 9, Feb 2010, p140-142, 144, 146, il Periodical Website
Maple syrup industry--Burnsville
15.Siler City's Burgermaster by Gigley, Chris Our State Vol. 78 Issue 1, June 2010
Claxton Johnson opened Johnson's Drive-In in 1946 in Siler City and for the next sixty-four years the specialty of the house has been his cheeseburgers, which have developed a devoted following. Two other items, hot dogs and toasted cheese sandwiches, make up the rest of the menu.
Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 78 Issue 1, June 2010, p156-158, 160, il Periodical Website
Drive-in restaurants--Siler City; Cheeseburgers--Siler City
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Earth Hour 2010 Launched by CM Shiela Dixit, Abhishek Bachchan
Earth Hour is a WWF initiative where citizens around the globe show their support for action on climate change by turning off lights for one hour. This year the switch off is being observed on March 27, 2010, from 8.30 pm to 9.30 pm.
The campaign was recently launched by the Chief Minister of Delhi Smt. Sheila Dikshit and film actor Abhishek Bachchan, in the presence of WWF-India’s SG and CEO Mr. Ravi Singh. Abhishek along with Smt Sheila Dikshit lit the ‘candle of hope’ encouraging citizens of India to ‘switch on’ their minds and showcase solidarity and commitment towards climate change and energy conservation by ‘switching off’ the lights for one hour on the 27th of March.
Earth Hour 2010 is expected to be a culmination of over one billion people around the globe, in more than 6000 cities and towns worldwide, turning off lights and showing support for action on climate change. Mr. Ravi Singh, Secretary General and CEO, WWF-India, said, “Earth Hour 2009 was the largest climate action in history. It was heartening to receive tremendous support for the campaign from all sections of the society all across India it symbolized the aspirations and willingness of our citizens to adopt a more sustainable lifestyle. He hoped Earth Hour 2010 will have even wider participation.
Hon’ble Chief Minister of Delhi Sheila Dikshit reminded everyone of how Delhi was the lead city for Earth Hour 2009 when India joined this global campaign. Several historical buildings, office complexes, RWAs, shopping centers and hotels switched off in support, resulting in close to 600 MW power saving in Delhi alone. She expressed hope as well as confidence that Earth Hour 2010 will also be taken forward in Delhi in a similar manner, only with even greater participation.
Participate in Earth Hour 2010: Switch off your lights, electrical appliances (even your mobile phone for one hour!) on March 27th, 2010 — from 8.30 PM to 9.30 PM (or longer if you wish to!)
Previously on Delhi Greens:
Earth Hour at Dilli Haat Amidst Rain and Lightening
About Delhi Greens
Delhi Greens is a Delhi based non-profit organisation set up in the year 2007 with the objective of protecting and preserving our common environment. Delhi Greens is more than just an organisation. It is a Delhi-based national movement working to bring together like-minded people for the protection of Our Common Environment.
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3 thoughts on “Earth Hour 2010 Launched by CM Shiela Dixit, Abhishek Bachchan”
vardaan arora says:
its very touching to see the present scenario with no one to take care of our environment specilly when we are now in a great need for public awareness. here is a great opporunity… we can put our commitments into actions…. just switching our homeligths, mobiles,inverters,laptops for an hour will do a great deal.
Govind Singh says:
Yup…time to act and show that we care!
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The Rise (Wasteland) Trailer & Release
Flicks And The City Aug 15, 2013 Movie News Movie Trailers Movies
The Rise (aka Wasteland) is the highly anticipated feature debut from director Rowan Athale starring Luke Treadaway (Attack the Block, You Instead), who this year won the Olivier Award as Best Actor for the multi-award winning West End hit The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Iwan Rheon (Wild Bill, Game of Thrones) also stars alongside Matthew Lewis (Harry Potter), Neil Maskell (Wild Bill, Kill List), Gerard Kearns (Shameless, Looking for Eric) Vanessa Kirby (BBC’s Great Expectations, and this year’s About Time) and Timothy Spall (Secrets & Lies, The King’s Speech).
Shot on location in Leeds & Yorkshire The Rise is British film at its best, a heist film, an underdog story and a thriller delivered with unexpected originality from the producers of Cherry Tree Lane and Ill Manors. This bold take on a much-loved genre showcases some of Britain’s best new talent (Luke Treadaway, Iwan Rheon) as well as acting gentry Timothy Spall.
Battered, bruised and under arrest, Harvey Miller (Treadaway) sits in a police interview room facing interrogation. Clutching a stack of eyewitness statements, Detective Inspector West (Spall) has no doubt as to Harvey’s part in a foiled robbery, and the subsequent attempted murder of local businessman Steven Roper (Maskell).
Denying nothing, Harvey agrees to tell his version of events in full. We take in his release from prison a month earlier and the malevolent, unjust act that put him there. We see his emotional reunion with his sibling-like best friends, and the immovable loyalty they have for one another. We see the rekindling of a lost love, a second chance for two people meant for each other. We see the ingenious planning of the ill-fated robbery, the amazing twist, the shocking outcome, and the real driving force behind it – retribution. What unfolds is an exhilarating, moving and often hilarious story of loyalty, jealousy, friendship, revenge and the pursuit of happiness.
Release date: 20 September 2013
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The World Is Watching Featurette Released for The 33
Benedict Cumberbatch Character Poster For The Imitation Game Released
Incredible New Kong: Skull Island Stills Released
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Lobby transparency
Big oil spent over 250 million euros lobbying the EU
Civil society organisations demand fossil free politics
The world’s five big oil and gas majors and their lobbyists have spent at least 251 million euros lobbying the EU since 2010, new research reveals – as almost 200 civil society organisations demand fossil free politics.
How the EIB can become Europe's climate bank
by Colin Roche, fossil free campaigner - originally published in Foresight
Exxon’s climate denialism: EU lobbying could be restricted
Exxon-Mobil's tactics of deliberately spreading false information on climate change have been exposed today in a public hearing in the European Parliament.
But the company’s refusal to attend the hearing has led a growing number of Members of the European Parliament to back calls to strip Exxon-Mobil lobbyists of their parliamentary access badges.
Myriam Douo, transparency campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe said:
European governments are protecting big business over victims of human rights abuses
Opinion piece by Neelanjana Mukhia, head of global engagement at ActionAid International, and Paul de Clerck, coordinator of the economic justice programme at Friends of the Earth Europe, published in Euronews
Extreme influence of big business threatens citizens’ rights in Europe
Excessive corporate influence over policy-making remains a serious threat to the public interest across Europe and at the EU level, warns a new report published today by the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation in the EU (ALTER-EU).
EU Ombudsman demands action on Barrosogate
Today, the European Ombudsman issued a damning critique of the systemic problems in the Commission's handling of ex-Commission President Barroso's revolving door move to Goldman Sachs International. The Ombudsman's recommendations take up the concerns that the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation in the EU (ALTER-EU) raised in a complaint submitted in March 2017.
Commission confirms Barroso lobbies for Goldman Sachs, must re-assess case
European Commission Vice-President Jyrki Katainen confirmed he had a lobby meeting with ex-Commission President Barroso who represented investment bank Goldman Sachs International. ALTER-EU (the Alliance for Lobby Transparency and Ethics Regulation, of which Friends of the Earth Europe is a member) asked the European Commission to re-assess Barroso's job.
Over 250 NGOs launch alternative vision for Europe
More than 250 non-government organisations from across Europe have today released an alternative vision for a more democratic, just and sustainable Europe.
Intended to influence the debate on the future direction of Europe, this alternative vision is endorsed by organisations representing a multitude of public interest issues, including labour rights, culture, development, environment, health, women's rights, youth, and anti-discrimination groups.
Untangling the 'BaySanto' web
This Saturday, activists around the world will unite, and march against Monsanto. Opposition has been mounting to the Bayer-Monsanto mega-merger, Friends of the Earth Europe even staged a 'marriage made in hell' outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels.
Yellow card for juncker commission – corporate bias continues
As the European Commission reaches half-time in its term of office, campaigners are calling for urgent action to address the bias towards corporate interests as evidenced by data on lobby meetings held by Commissioners.
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Category Archives: State Constitution
Friday Follies for May 29, 2015
Posted on Friday, May 29, 2015, 11:29 am by Crucis
This story could correctly be entitled, “Cycles.” For most of the 20th Century and the first decade and a half of the 21st, we’ve watched this cycle occur in our foreign and defense policies. It began with Wilson, continued with FDR, Carter, Clinton and now Obama. Each iteration of liberal polices led to disaster. It always seem to require a conservative administration to put our house back in order…until the next liberal administration betrays us once again.
Disavowing the appeal of the appeaser
The next president will be forced to face down tyrants whom Obama ignored
By Victor Davis Hanson – – Wednesday, May 27, 2015
For a time, reset, concessions and appeasement work to delay wars. But finally, nations wake up, grasp their blunders, rearm and face down enemies.
That gets dangerous. The shocked aggressors cannot quite believe that their targets are suddenly serious and willing to punch back. Usually, the bullies foolishly press aggression, and war breaks out.
It was insane of Nazi Germany and its Axis partners to even imagine that they could defeat the Allied trio of Imperial Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States.
But why not try?
Hitler figured that for a decade America had been unarmed and isolationist. Britain repeatedly had appeased the Third Reich. The Soviets initially collaborated with Hitler.
Hitler met no opposition after militarizing the Rhineland. He annexed Austria with impunity. He gobbled up Czechoslovakia without opposition.
Why shouldn’t Hitler have been stunned in 1939 when exasperated Britain and France finally declared war over his invasion of distant Poland?
Six years of war and some 60 million dead followed, re-establishing what should have been the obvious fact that democracies would not quite commit suicide.
By 1979, the Jimmy Carter administration had drastically cut the defense budget. President Carter promised that he would make human rights govern American foreign policy. It sounded great to Americans after Vietnam — and even greater to America’s enemies.
Then Iran imploded. The American embassy in Tehran was stormed. Diplomats were taken hostage. Radical Islamic terrorism spread throughout the Middle East. Communist insurrection followed throughout Central America. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. China went into Vietnam.
Dictators such as the Soviet Union’s Leonid Brezhnev and Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini assumed that Mr. Carter no longer was willing to protect the U.S. postwar order. Or perhaps they figured that the inexperienced American president was too weak to respond even had he wished to do so.
Then, Ronald Reagan defeated Mr. Carter in 1980 on the promise of restoring U.S. power. At first, both America’s friends and enemies were aghast at Reagan’s simplistic worldview that free markets were better than communism, that democracy was superior to dictatorship, and that in the ensuing struggle, the West would win and the rest would lose.
Foreign media damned Reagan as a warmonger for beefing up the U.S. defense budget, reassuring America’s allies and going after terrorists with military force.
The column continues onto a second page with Hanson’s analysis of Obama. The pattern is well established. Liberal, i.e., democrat administrations, weaken the nation, creates choas within our military with massive cuts and misappropriation of funds, thus allowing our enemies to become emboldened. The problems resist until a conservative administration is elected to fix the problems the liberals have created.
The column ends with this final statement:
The Obama foreign policy cannot continue much longer without provoking even more chaos or a large war. Yet correcting it will be nearly as dangerous.
Jumping off the global tiger is dangerous, but climbing back on will seem riskier.
Now you know why I said this section could rightfully be titled, “Cycles.”
Here is an item where the ACLU and Missouri conservatives agree. The use of ‘StingRay’ technology should be banned within the state. The St Louis Post Dispatch published this editorial on Wednesday.
Editorial: Secret use of StingRay technology could backfire on St. Louis police
May 27, 2015 4:07 pm • By the Editorial Board
Last summer, as the American Civil Liberties Union was standing side-by-side with Missouri Republicans supporting the passage of a constitutional amendment that sought to protect “electronic communication and data” from unreasonable search and seizure, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department was sitting on a secret.
In cooperation with the FBI, the St. Louis police had been using a cellphone tracking device known generically by the brand name of one such device: StingRay. The high-tech gadgets allow police to mimic a cell tower. They screen and track nearby digital data, determining the specific location in a building, for instance, of the cell phone they are tracking.
Last month, as first reported by the Post-Dispatch’s Robert Patrick, prosecutors dropped more than a dozen charges against three defendants in a case where the technology was employed. Defense attorneys believe the charges were dropped because police don’t want to reveal details about their new high-tech toy.
But in Missouri, there may be a bigger problem. It has to do with that constitutional amendment that the strange bedfellows of the ACLU and Missouri Republicans were promoting.
A plain reading of the language of Amendment 9, passed by 75 percent of the voters who turned out on Aug. 5, suggests that it is now unconstitutional in Missouri to use a StingRay device — at least without a warrant that offers significantly more detail about the data being sought.
The column continues at the website. As the editorial admits, the Post-Dispatch opposed the passage of Amendment 9 last year. They are reconsidering that opposition now that it appears the St Louis Police Department is actually using StingRay technology in defiance to Federal, and now, Missouri law.
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Posted in 4th Amendment, ACLU, Police State, Preparedness, Progressives, Progressivism, Ronald Reagan, Spying, State Constitution, Surveillance, What goes around comes around
Friday Follies for August 29, 2014
Posted on Friday, August 29, 2014, 11:45 am by Crucis
It has been a long week. It shouldn’t have seemed that way but it did. I’ve been beating the bushes trying to get conservatives involved in politics. I’ve not been very successful.
Case in point. I’m a member of several conservative political organizations. In every one, there is a small group that is active. Each group has an occasional drop-in who may visit for a meeting or two but their attendance is irregular at best. Most, pleading a busy schedule, drift off.
There is a distinct age gulf in the membership. All the active members are older—in their 50s and up. The younger crowd is too busy to bother—and that is a problem. Not for us, but for them.
We want to get younger members to join, whole families if possible. But we are rarely successful—“We’re too busy! The kids have too many activities. I have to take Junior to baseball/softball/soccer/football/basketball/swimming practice.” It is just the same for the girls. Then, during school session, add voice/band/music practice, Boy Scouts/Girl Scouts/4-H, plus the kids come home with a 30lb backpack full of homework (do the kids ever do work at school anymore?).
Oh, we can still get a turnout for an isolated meeting for a cause such as Common Core or Agenda 21. But when it come to electing officials who will represent us in government, people claim they don’t have time.
It’s a cop-out. People can and will act if their private ox is being gored but politics? Heavens, no! In reality, it is a matter of priorities. What is more important. Being a helicopter parent who is determined their kids are under constant scrutiny or insuring those same children have any freedom when they become adults.
I constantly hear, “I’m not interested in politics!” and every time I remember the remainder of that quote—“but politics is interested in you.”
Homeschoolers! Lissen-up!
Need a project for your kids? Take them to the upcoming Missouri Legislature Veto Override session. There are a number of interesting issues that will be voted upon to override Governor Jay Nixon’s veto.
Meet the legislators; visit your state Representative and Senator, watch the bills being discussed and voted upon from the visitor’s gallery. See your state government in action. Coordinate your activity with another group (WMSA pitch here.) Find other homeschoolers, combine resources and perhaps share costs.
When I was in grade school and later in high school, I was required to pass a test of the US and state constitutions. One test was required to graduate into high school. The other was a state requirement for a high school diploma. In my high school, we spent a complete semester being taught the mechanics of government. Anyone who failed had a second chance in summer school. There was a third chance to pass the test for a high school diploma in a night class with adults, an early form of G.E.D.
That requirement no longer exists. It should, but it doesn’t. I suppose it’s more important to be taught diversity and other social engineering agendas than for students to understand how government works.
Homeschoolers take note of this opportunity. Every year I see a number of Jeff City public and private school kids touring the Capitol. I’ve seen other homeschoolers there as well with their kids. Witnessing government in action is too good an educational opportunity to miss. Perhaps you, too, will learn something as well.
ISIS is back in the news and Obama is, as usual, ignoring that crises. “We’re not at war with ISIS,” he claims. Obama ignores the statements from ISIS that they are at war with us and the rest of the world.
Islamic State’s ‘Laptop of Doom’
By Rick Moran, August 29, 2014
We don’t have a strategy yet to attack Islamic State. But they are developing a strategy to attack us.
A laptop found by Syrian rebels last January in an ISIS hideout proved to be a goldmine of information. Foreign Policy’s Harald Doornbos and Jenan Moussa got their hands on the machine, downloaded 146 gigabytes of material, and were shocked at what they found:
The laptop’s contents turn out to be a treasure trove of documents that provide ideological justifications for jihadi organizations — and practical training on how to carry out the Islamic State’s deadly campaigns. They include videos of Osama bin Laden, manuals on how to make bombs, instructions for stealing cars, and lessons on how to use disguises in order to avoid getting arrested while traveling from one jihadi hot spot to another.
But after hours upon hours of scrolling through the documents, it became clear that the ISIS laptop contains more than the typical propaganda and instruction manuals used by jihadists. The documents also suggest that the laptop’s owner was teaching himself about the use of biological weaponry, in preparation for a potential attack that would have shocked the world.
The information on the laptop makes clear that its owner is a Tunisian national named Muhammed S. who joined ISIS in Syria and who studied chemistry and physics at two universities in Tunisia’s northeast. Even more disturbing is how he planned to use that education:
The ISIS laptop contains a 19-page document in Arabic on how to develop biological weapons and how to weaponize the bubonic plague from infected animals.
“The advantage of biological weapons is that they do not cost a lot of money, while the human casualties can be huge,” the document states.
The document includes instructions for how to test the weaponized disease safely, before it is used in a terrorist attack. “When the microbe is injected in small mice, the symptoms of the disease should start to appear within 24 hours,” the document says.
The laptop also includes a 26-page fatwa, or Islamic ruling, on the usage of weapons of mass destruction. “If Muslims cannot defeat the kafir [unbelievers] in a different way, it is permissible to use weapons of mass destruction,” states the fatwa by Saudi jihadi cleric Nasir al-Fahd, who is currently imprisoned in Saudi Arabia. “Even if it kills all of them and wipes them and their descendants off the face of the Earth.”
When contacted by phone, a staff member at a Tunisian university listed on Muhammed’s exam papers confirmed that he indeed studied chemistry and physics there. She said the university lost track of him after 2011, however.
It is very difficult to weaponize any biological agent. You need a modern lab and a trained team of scientists to build a usuable weapon. But that doesn’t mean that the terrorists aren’t trying very hard to build one:
Nothing on the ISIS laptop, of course, suggests that the jihadists already possess these dangerous weapons. And any jihadi organization contemplating a bioterrorist attack will face many difficulties: Al Qaeda tried unsuccessfully for years to get its hands on such weapons, and the United States has devoted massive resources to preventing terrorists from making just this sort of breakthrough. The material on this laptop, however, is a reminder that jihadists are also hard at work at acquiring the weapons that could allow them to kill thousands of people with one blow.
“The real difficulty in all of these weapons … [is] to actually have a workable distribution system that will kill a lot of people,” said Magnus Ranstorp, research director of the Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defence College. “But to produce quite scary weapons is certainly within [the Islamic State’s] capabilities.”
As you can see, ISIS is not a bunch of sheepherders hiding in caves. Educated professionals are also flocking to their banner and you have to think they can accomplish just about anything any modern army does – including building weapons of mass destruction.
Islamists call us “Crusaders.” There have been many Crusades over the last millennium. Perhaps it is time for another one. It is already being fought from the Islamist’ side. If we are to survive as a people and culture, it is time to recognize that fact for what it is.
Money laundering. Says it all.
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Election Issue: Sales Tax Increase
Posted on Friday, June 27, 2014, 10:54 am by Crucis
August 5, 2014 is the Missouri Primary. In addition to selecting candidates for the general election in November, there are a number of other issues added to the ballot. I’ve mentioned one Missouri Constitutional amendment passed in the legislature as SJR 36. That is Constitutional amendment #5.
There will be another issue on the ballot—raising the sales tax for Transportation. The state and counties like St Louis, has been wasting their highway maintenance money for decades. A couple of years ago, the state started repairing a number of small bridges throughout the state.
St Louis, on the other hand, did not. They just continued to whine for more state money. And…they have the unions and construction companies on their side; lusting after that tax money.
If you read the description from Ballotpedia above and scroll down the page, you will see the list of supporters for this tax increase. There is a wide spread surge of political ads across Missouri in support of this tax increase. Most of the funding is by MISSOURIANS FOR SAFE TRANSPORTATION & NEW JOBS INC. This organization is a front created by the construction unions in Missouri.
I was given a link yesterday that disclosed the contributions to this orgranization. Here is the contributions for one day, June 25, 2014.
C131133 06/26/2014 MISSOURIANS FOR SAFE TRANSPORTATION & NEW JOBS INC The Monarch Cement Company PO Box 1000 Humboldt KS 66748 6/25/2014 $10,000.00
C131133 06/26/2014 MISSOURIANS FOR SAFE TRANSPORTATION & NEW JOBS INC Central Plains Cement LLC 2200 North Courtney Road Sugar Creek MO 64050 6/25/2014 $25,000.00
C131133 06/26/2014 MISSOURIANS FOR SAFE TRANSPORTATION & NEW JOBS INC Ash Grove Cement Company PO Box 25900 Overland Park KS 66225 6/25/2014 $10,000.00
C131133 06/26/2014 MISSOURIANS FOR SAFE TRANSPORTATION & NEW JOBS INC Continental Cement Co LLC 10107 Highway 79 Hannibal MO 63401 6/25/2014 $20,000.00
C131133 06/26/2014 MISSOURIANS FOR SAFE TRANSPORTATION & NEW JOBS INC Pace Construction Company 1620 Woodson Road St Louis MO 63114 6/25/2014 $17,500.00
C131133 06/26/2014 MISSOURIANS FOR SAFE TRANSPORTATION & NEW JOBS INC Massman Construction Co PO Box 8458 Kansas City MO 64114 6/25/2014 $50,000.00
If you add the contributions, it adds up to $132,500 in just one day! If you want a real eye-opener, use the Advanced search option on that webpage, enter the month of June 2014 for the beginning and end search dates, with the Committee ID (MECID) of C131133.
Never let it be said the dems—and a few RINOs, never saw a tax increase they didn’t like. Especially if they can grab some of it for themselves. Unions are having trouble justifying their exorbitant pay scales. Here, they have a captive supplier and they see an opportunity to seize taxpayer money and they’re willing to spend millions to get it.
Posted in Local Elections, Spending, State Constitution, State Legislature, State Mismanagement, State Politics, Tax to Spend, Taxation, taxes, Unions
Posted on Thursday, June 19, 2014, 10:46 am by Crucis
One of the legislative actions passed in this last Missouri session was a proposed Constitutional Amendment. The amendment, known as SJR 36, would add text to the state constitution that says the right to keep and bear arms is an ‘unalienable’ right. The current ballot summary follows.
[Proposed by the 97th General Assembly (Second Regular Session) SCS SJR 36]
Official Ballot Title:
Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to include a declaration that the right to keep and bear arms is a unalienable right and that the state government is obligated to uphold that right?
State and local governmental entities should have no direct costs or savings from this proposal. However, the proposal’s passage will likely lead to increased litigation and criminal justice related costs. The total potential costs are unknown, but could be significant.
* Fair Ballot Language to be Completed by June 30, 2014.
The St. Louis Police Chief, and a Bloomberg surrogate from Mothers Demand Action, Rebecca Morgan, object. Chief Dotson is a well known gun-grabber.
Judge weighs rewrite of Missouri gun rights plan
By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press
JEFFERSON CITY • A Missouri judge denied a request Wednesday to stop election officials from distributing absentee ballots for a proposed state constitutional amendment dealing with gun rights.
Although he declined to issue a temporary restraining order, Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem said he would consider whether to rewrite the summary for the Aug. 5 ballot measure as requested in a lawsuit brought by St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson and a gun-control activist.
Absentee voting is to begin Tuesday on the measure, which was referred to the ballot by the Republican-led Legislature.
The summary that legislators prepared will ask voters whether to amend the Missouri Constitution “to include a declaration that the right to keep and bear arms is an unalienable right and that the state government is obligated to uphold that right.”
According to the lawsuit, the summary wrongly implies that the measure is establishing a constitutional right, when one already exists. It also contends the summary fails to note that the measure would require strict legal scrutiny of any laws restricting gun rights, including those limiting the ability to carry concealed guns.
Attorney Chuck Hatfield, who filed the lawsuit, said the ballot summary is insufficient and unfair. “The title says what’s already existing law — it doesn’t tell the voters anything — and then the title ignores all the things that are important, all the things that are actually changing,” Hatfield said.
A second lawsuit posing a similar challenge to the “fairness and sufficiency” of the ballot wording was brought Wednesday by St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer M. Joyce and Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters-Baker.
Beetem rejected Hatfield’s request to block election officials from giving voters ballots containing the disputed wording while he considers the merits of the case. The judge gave no specific date for when he will rule on the request to rewrite the summary.
The proposed constitutional amendment was sponsored by Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, who is running for state attorney general in 2016.
Schaefer, who attended the hearing, said afterward that the proposed standard of “strict scrutiny” for gun-rights restrictions would be a significant change. But Schaefer said he believed that was adequately conveyed by the summary’s wording about an “unalienable right” to bear arms.
The complete article can be found here.
The two suits are just more examples of the extremes the anti-gun radicals will go to suppress our Constitutional rights. The battle isn’t over. The Judge refused to block the release of absentee ballots. Those will be issued with the current ballot summary written by the Legislature. The jury Judge is still out on the remainder of the lawsuits.
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General => General => Topic started by: geekydaddy on June 26, 2018, 02:47:21 pm
Title: stoping a scene
Post by: geekydaddy on June 26, 2018, 02:47:21 pm
Ok, I have this setup, when light switch comes one then turn off in 30 minutes. Simple scene.
So light switch turns on, scene triggers and wait for 30 minutes.
So this is my issue.
Within this 30 minutes, the light switch is turned off manually let's say after 20 minutes. Then let's say 5 minutes later the light switch turns on again, which triggers another instance of the scene and waits 30 minutes. Now 5 minutes passes and the first instance of the scene is finished waiting and turns off the light switch. Still needing light, the person turns on the light switch which now triggers a another instance of the scene. By now Scene 1 is done, Scene 2 has about 25 minutes left of waiting and Scene 3 has 30 minutes of waiting. So 25 minutes passes and the light switch turns off from Scene 2, then 5 more minutes passes and scene 3 sends to the command to turn off the light switch but it's off already.
Is there a way that when the light switch is turned off manually that the scene which was triggered when the light switch turn on would stop?
Title: Re: stoping a scene
Post by: jswim788 on June 26, 2018, 02:57:13 pm
You can't stop a scene. But you could make the delay scene call a second scene which has some checks to see what the state of the switch is (or any other sensor) and act accordingly.
But this seems like a case where the DelayLight plugin would work: http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,60498.0.html
Post by: kev b on June 26, 2018, 06:10:34 pm
Countdown Timer can also do what you want- start the timer when the switch is turned on, and cancel the timer when the switch is turned off.
Post by: rigpapa on June 26, 2018, 06:12:55 pm
DelayLight will also handle this gracefully, and will preserve the timing over Luup/Vera restarts.
Post by: RichardTSchaefer on July 01, 2018, 12:40:31 pm
You can also use PLEG and/or PLTS to handle this.
Lots of examples out there.
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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), the leading manufacturer of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) systems, radars, electro-optic and related mission systems, announced that four more Belgium-based businesses have been selected to join five previously identified companies to support the development of MQ-9B SkyGuardian RPA for Belgium. AeroSimulators Group (ASG), AIRobot, ALX Systems and Hexagon will join Team SkyGuardian, which already includes the following five Belgium companies: SABCA, Thales Belgium, Esterline, Newtec and DronePort.
“The addition of these four companies to Team SkyGuardian will further enhance the capabilities of SkyGuardian and build on our already strong business partnerships in Belgium,” said Linden Blue, CEO, GA-ASI. “GA-ASI looks forward to working with our Belgian teammates to make the MQ-9B procurement a success.”
In order to identify small to medium-sized Belgian companies that could support SkyGuardian development, GA-ASI held an outreach event called Blue Magic Belgium (BMB) on May 15th and 16th. This search for cutting-edge capabilities from local companies followed the Government of Belgium’s approval for Belgian Defense to negotiate acquisition of GA-ASI’s SkyGuardian to meet the nation’s RPA requirements.
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The House Carpenter composed by Frederick Speck. Arranged by B. Ward. For concert band. Piccolo, Flute 1, Flute 2, Oboe, Bassoon, Bb Clarinet 1, Bb Clarinet 2, Bb Clarinet 3, Bb Bass Clarinet, Eb Alto Saxophone 1, Eb Alto Saxophone 2, Bb Tenor Saxophone, Eb Baritone Saxophone, Bb Trumpet 1, Bb Trumpet 2, Bb Trumpet 3, F Horn 1, F Horn 2, Tro. Grade 4. Score only. Duration 5. 15. Published by C. Alan Publications. CN.17721. Based on a simple English ballad, Frederick Speck spins out "The House Carpenter" in his dynamic, perpetual, minimalistic fashion, keeping the listener's interested with ever-changing textures. Near the end of the nineteenth century, Francis James Child published a five-volume collection called 'The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. ' This huge collection of English and Scottish ballads includes 305 groups of songs. As it is common for folk songs to exist in varied forms, some of Child's inclusions have more than a hundred different versions. In modern times, this ballad has been performed and recorded by artists such as Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Nickel Creek. Essentially, a ballad is a narrative with music, telling a story reminiscent of the lore of a culture. One of the best known ballads in his collection, 'The House Carpenter' is also known as 'James Harris' or 'The Demon Lover. ' Its text conveys the spirit of a morality play, in which a woman, tempted by a former lover abandons her 'house carpenter' husband and children, escaping with him by means of the sea. This act is not without consequence, however, as the closing song text states, 'They had not been on the ship three weeks, I-m sure it was not four, when there came a leak, in the bottom of the ship and sank them for to rise no more. ' The naturally repetitive, rough-hewn simplicity of the melody of this folk song lends well to developing a concert band piece that builds layers of rhythm into colorful textures. This particular setting employs an ABA form, with the B section having a slower, more lyrical and somewhat longing character, in contrast to the energetic A sections on its flanks.
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Ziguang Unisoc unveils 4-in-1 communication chip 'Chuntong 2651' for BeiDou No. 3
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Unisoc Chuntong(春藤, IVY)2651.
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According to the local media, Unisoc Chuntong 2651 is the world's first communication chip that supports BeiDou No. 3. The five Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) supported by Chuntong 2651 are US GPS, GLONASS of Russia, Europe Galileo, BeiDou, and BeiDou No. 3. It has been announced that BeiDou is divided into existing BeiDou (No. 2) and the next-generation BeiDou No. 3 to support the five GNSSs.
Satellite navigation is implemented as a system with dozens of satellites orbiting the earth. Currently, BeiDou operates 33 satellites in the orbit including 15 BeiDou No. 2 satellites and 18 No. 3 satellites. BeiDou No. 2 is the satellite navigation system of China for the Asia-Pacific region and it had been called Compass or BeiDou without additional description. BeiDou No. 3 is the global satellite navigation system that started its formal service last month. "We launched 19 BeiDou satellites in 2018," Lan said. BeiDou No. 1 refers to the system used at the Qualcomm first supported BeiDou in Samsung Galaxy Note 3 that installed Snapdragon 800 for the Chinese market in 2013. Taiwan MediaTek has been releasing BeiDou support models from the beginning as well. The date when Apple will start supporting BeiDou on the iPhone is one of the concerns of the Chinese IT media and the community.
Unisoc's predecessor is Spreadtrum and RDA. The Ziguang Group bought two fabless companies listed on the Nasdaq and then bundled them together to form Spreadtrum & RDA. Afterward, it renamed it to Unisoc last year. Intel has announced a partnership with Spreadtrum & RDA (now Unisoc) in the field of the next-generation 5G smartphones last February before its name was changed. According to Chinese corporate information company Chis Cha, Intel owns 14.3% stake in Unisoc 's holding company, Beijing Ziguang Zhanrui Technology Co., Ltd.
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There was a poor but good little girl who lived alone with her mother, and they no longer had anything to eat. So the child went into the forest, and there an aged woman met her who was aware of her sorrow, and presented her with a little pot, which when she said, "Cook, little pot, cook," would cook good, sweet porridge, and when she said, "Stop, little pot," it ceased to cook. The girl took the pot home to her mother, and now they were freed from their poverty and hunger, and ate sweet porridge as often as they chose. Once on a time when the girl had gone out, her mother said, "Cook, little pot, cook." And it did cook and she ate till she was satisfied, and then she wanted the pot to stop cooking, but did not know the word. So it went on cooking and the porridge rose over the edge, and still it cooked on until the kitchen and whole house were full, and then the next house, and then the whole street, just as if it wanted to satisfy the hunger of the whole world, and there was the greatest distress, but no one knew how to stop it. At last when only one single house remained, the child came home and just said, "Stop, little pot," and it stopped and gave up cooking, and whosoever wished to return to the town had to eat his way back.
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Kinetics of sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate adsorption on hematite
Bhagat, R P (1999) Kinetics of sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate adsorption on hematite. Scandinavian Journal of Metallurgy, 28 (4). pp. 156-161.
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The adsorption of sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate (Na-DBS), an anionic surfactant, on hematite mineral surface has been studied through equilibration and during kinetic measurement. The surfactant adsorbs strongly on the hematite surface. The adsorption isotherms have shown different regions in accordance with the definition reported elsewhere, which reflect different modes of collector adsorption as the equilibrium concentration is increased. The concentration at which the isotherm reaches saturation is higher than that which corresponds to the critical micelle concentration. The adsorption density as well as the rate of adsorption are dependent on the suspension pH. The adsorption decreases with increasing pH value. The rate of Na-DBS adsorption on hematite is a slow process which reaches 77 to 83% of the corresponding equilibrium values depending upon pH after 10 min. The adsorption density reaches its equilibrium values sooner in the case of alkaline suspension and conversely later in case of acidic pH. The initial adsorption density is lower at pH 4 than that at higher pH (neutral and basic), whereas the adsorption density near to saturation is higher at pH 4 when compared to that at higher pH. Adsorption in stages: firstly, at the Stern layer, and secondly at the mineral surface, has been proposed which explains the nature of the kinetics curves at different pH levels.
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GARY PUCKETT AND THE UNION GAP – “Young Girl”
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#250, 25th May 1968
Girls ‘turning out to be’ underage was doubtless a very real concern for your gigging rock star of the 60s and 70s, though I suspect a don’t-ask-don’t-tell policy would be closer to the truth than Gary Puckett’s horrified self-denial. Puckett lays out the classic Lolita defense – grown man no match for deceitful nymphet with her skirts and make-up and “come-on look”. There’s something breathily weak, tearful almost, about Puckett’s vocals on the verse which makes the whole thing sleazier: his struggling for control is all too convincing. The sleaze has a strong setting: Puckett’s songwriters were highly regarded and the chorus especially is the sort of thing I might find myself bellowing along to in the pub, leaving me with a feeling of nervous shame the next day. A good match of content and effect, then.
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Doctor Mod on 17 Aug 2006 #
The photo sums up the sleaze perfectly.
As usual, the pedophile (whether wittingly or unwittingly so) paints himself as the pained victim of a lascivious child. It’s her fault, he claims: “You kept a secret of your youth,” “You know that it’s wrong to be in love with me,” “That come-on look is in your eyes.” But in truth this is about a guy who is all id with no super-ego.
Yet this was standard fare for GP. There was “Woman, Woman,” in which GP is situated as the victim of a woman about to cheat on him (hey, I wonder why), “Lady Willpower” in which he tries to break down the sexual reticence of a woman apparently his own age, one who possesses what he so obviously lacks. And then there’s the one that asks, “Why am I losing sleep over you?” in which he simply can’t understand why a woman would dump him. Seems to me that there are some nasty obsessions going on here.
It’s all quite disgusting and pathetic–and pretty misogynistic in the bargain. The sexual bully wallows in self-pity and cries when things don’t go his way. (In academia I’ve worked with any number of blatant sexual harrassers who cry that they’re victims every time they get caught out–then do the same thing with students again and again.) Many cultural historians and sociologists now claim that the much-vaunted “sexual revolution” of the 60s was about the liberation of straight white men alone. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that, but the songs of Gary Puckett and the Union Gap do demonstrate a certain assumption of privilege on the part of those who fall into those categories. And the fact that all these songs were substantial hits suggests there were any number of consumers out there and around the world who found the sentiments expressed therein to reflect their own.
And yet–and yet . . . . The song has a sort of cheap quasi-operatic bravura that makes anyone with a big voice want to beller along with it.
Paul † on 18 Aug 2006 #
The problem with the “its misogynistic” line of critisism is that most rock/pop of the 60s and 70s (and a good deal from today)is misogynistic. This is especially true of the Beatles and Rolling Stones who seem to be very Popular on this site.
This song isn’t bad because it is misogynistic – its bad because its over the top.
Oh dear–just say the word “misogynistic” and someone will be offended.
Erithian † on 18 Aug 2006 #
And congrats on reaching the 250th Number 1. A quarter of the way to the 1000th – are you planning to stop there?
pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør on 18 Aug 2006 #
WE WILL NOT ALLOW HIM TO STOP! NOT EVER! bwahaha!! BWAHAHA!!
Tom on 18 Aug 2006 #
The plan was at one point to stop at 1000 but the 1000th No.1 was SUCH A DISGRACEFUL FIDDLE that the intention now is just to keep going until I get up to date, then update once every week* or two weeks or whenever new number ones come along.
*a schedule I have plenty of practise in.
Chris Brown † on 19 Aug 2006 #
It’s a sort of subject matter you don’t get any more isn’t it? The last time I can remember something like that in the charts was ‘U-16 Girls’ by Travis.
I can’t really comment on other Gary Puckett songs, because I don’t remember any of them, but this sounds sort of out-of-time (as in dated, not rhythmically dodgy) already. I do remember this song being a minor plot point in an episode of Shelley though.
koganbot on 19 Aug 2006 #
Gary Puckett was born in the town Dylan grew up in. Roger Maris was born there too (though most of you don’t know who he is).
Intothefireuk † on 21 Aug 2006 #
Poor old Jerry Fuller – (lets not forget he wrote the damn thing) – time hasn’t been kind to his songs. I guess in it’s time period (it was a hit in both 1968 & 1974 in the UK) the lyrics didn’t even raise an eyebrow. Is it possible the writer was incredibly naive ? These were after all far more innocent times. The popularity of the record in the 60s & 70s would seem to suggest the public didn’t recoil at his denials. I suspect though the truth is that even now the ‘sound’ of the record far outweighs the lyrical impact. The lovely melody and orchestral arrangement and Pucketts soulful voice still work for me and despite the possibly dodgy lyrics I have no guilty feelings about liking it. Mr Fuller himself believes his songs were about empowering women !! So that explains it then……..
Daniel_Rf † on 21 Aug 2006 #
“Many cultural historians and sociologists now claim that the much-vaunted “sexual revolution” of the 60s was about the liberation of straight white men alone. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that, but the songs of Gary Puckett and the Union Gap do demonstrate a certain assumption of privilege on the part of those who fall into those categories.” – considering the amount of “the revolution’s coming so you gotta have sex with me” songs that the 60’s and early 70’s brought out, I’m not about to deny that there is something to this, but surely the Union Gap had bugger all to do with it? Judging by the instrumentation and general aesthetic of this song, I’d guessed that Gary Puckett got his #1 mainly from the adult-contemporary crowd?
blount † on 22 Aug 2006 #
was there ac in the uk in 68? is there ac in the uk now? it seems to me very much am pop in the vein of the monkees other opener in 1986: the grass roots (albeit nowhere remotely as good as the grass roots). how did am/fm work in the uk? in the us i can imagine anything on here from ‘lady madonna’ and onwards that managed to get any play in the us (sorry cliff) being right up am’s alley until ‘jumping jack flash’ presents either a line in the sand or at the very least a headache – the schism between ‘rock’ and ‘pop’ even within a rock context definitely seems to be widening (though we’re still not quite at archies vs. zeppelin yet).
what’s ac? alternating current? yes we have that blount! OUR PLUGS AND ELECTRIC SYSTEMS ARE BETTER THAN YOURS thk you — also we had mobile phones b4 you and we invented hiphop
prior to 1967, radio = bbc light (non-serious music), bbc home (non-music) and bbc third (serious music) + eg radio caroline, an offshore pirate devoted to 60s pop, and radio luxembourg (beaming pop in from the EU)
after 1967, radio = bbc radio 1 (pop), bbc radio 2 (light), bbc radio 3 (serious), bbc radio (non-music)
no commercial radio until the 80s, if memory serves (i could look this up but i need more coffee)
i don’t think the AM/FM divide operates at all — the BBC broadcast in both once FM came online
i had a nice old bakelight radio which picked long, medium and shortwave when i was a kid, with a dial that said “moscow”, “peking”, “hawaii” etc — but you could could never pick any of the far places up
Pete Baran on 22 Aug 2006 #
The AM / FM issue only really started rearing its head in the mid to late 80’s. Up to then the FM band was guarded by the BBC (though often not exploited) and “parts of the dial used for national security” (Save Our Static Snow campaign).
Commercial Radio did not start til the mid seventies (LBC and Capital in 1973!), and were predominantly housewife favourite pop (slightly more grown up Radio One). In the mid-eighties some of the commercials (who often had an AM and FM frequency) split their frequencies to have AM Gold (oldies) stations.
Radio One was predominantly on AM until the early nineties with the exception of particular shows and sequences (ie on Saturday afternoon etc).
Mark M † on 22 Aug 2006 #
To answer Blount’s question maybe slightly more directly, the AM (pop) v FM (rock) divide that existed in the US was one of the many, many, many cultural tics that never crossed the Atlantic.
Point taken. though now its taken me on a reverie on Capital Radio’s history which may turn into something more longform…
i wonder how much of a role the fm/am divide in the states and the lack of it in the uk plays in the relative success of glam in the two countries – someone who ‘was there’ (dr mod, kogan maybe) can illuminate further but from what i can tell fm by the early 70s (in the us) very much firmly ‘rockist’ with am shifting away from rock then toward purer pop, easy listening, etc., away from the ‘glorious top 40 60s’ hence carpenters on one dial and yes on the other and seldom the two shall cross paths. i might be overstating am’s shift somewhat though – i can remember looking at wabc playlists and ‘happy’ and ‘tumbling dice’ (but i don’t think any ‘immigrant song’ or ‘stairway’ though i might be wrong) popping up – but is it fair to say that am radio circa 71 rocks less than am radio circa 66? in which case glam – which is kasenetz/katz + jagger/richards or zeppelin + archies – is out of place on either side – too rock for am, too pop for fm.
Atnevon † on 23 Aug 2006 #
This is my least favorite of the four big Gary Puckett hits, but it’s still wonderful. That is all.
Blount–You ask about the AM and FM divide in the States and how this affects any number of things. That would take a long essay (maybe a book) to answer, but here’s a few random thoughts. 1968 is a bit early in this particular history–my own recollections in this regard are wound up in that other icon of US culture, the automobile. In the 1960s, virtually no one I knew had a car with a radio that picked up FM stations. We had such a radio at home, but there was hardly anything to listen to on FM anyhow. At the beginning of the 70s, though, the situation was rapidly changing, and I recall that in 1971, I seriously coveted a car radio with an FM band, and all of a sudden all the people of my own age were listening to the “progressive” FM rock stations. (I won’t even start on a discussion of the term “progressive” in this context as that’s a huge story in and of itself.)
Most of my peers had started to become alienated from what was becoming the usual pop fare, and I’m of the opinion that the Beatles calling it quits was a watershed moment for this. Around 1969, there was the rise of bubblegum (another term as problematic as “progressive,” as certain groups–e.g., the Bee Gees–were capable of falling on either side of that dichotomy). There was also the rise of pre-adolescent lead singers in “family” groups like the Jackson 5, the Osmonds, the Partridge Family, the Cowsills, ad nauseam, who were definitely retreating from the sex-drugs-rock&roll references and “lifestyle” (I hate that word) that was an increasingly overt part of rock culture. One might want to see it as the split between liberal and conservative–after all, the so-called Moral Majority was a big issue kicking off the Nixon era–even though that too was quite simplistic.
I don’t want to go off on too many digressions, so just let me say, in answer to your question(s), that you probably wouldn’t hear “Young Girl” on FM in the late 60s/early 70s. You definitely wouldn’t have heard Engelbert, Des O’Connor (who was never heard in the US anyway), or any other nostalgic, sentimental, or “cute” performer. (Somehow, though, Cat Stevens and Gilbert O’Sullivan were often played on FM in the mid-70s.) You could indeed, though, still hear the Stones/Led Zep/Yes back to back with Archies/Osmonds/Carpenters–as well as soul music!–on AM. (Ironically, this phenomenon is nowadays replicated on FM “oldies” stations in the US.) By the mid-70s, the gap between the sort of popular music on AM vs that on FM was quite large. To my mind, the 70s were a pretty sad decade for popular music in the US. At this late date, I find most 70s music–AM and FM types alike–mostly unlistenable.
My AM listening days ended around 1971/72. Even now, I only listen to AM (and only in my car) for news broadcasts, which tend to be few and far between on FM.
From some of the scholarly/archival work I’ve done on 60s rock/pop, I’ve noticed that a lot of artists who had relatively enduring successes throughout the 60s (and here I’m thinking particularly about the female singers of the period) vanished from the radar screen around 1970. Apparently, they were too pop for FM and starting to go in directions that were above the relentless banality of AM.
Glam is another matter altogether. It depends on whom you regard as glam. Gary Glitter, for example, was strictly AM, but T-Rex, on the other had, was mostly FM. David Bowie was (sort of ) problematic, and I think most stations, whether AM or FM were slow to accept him. FM tended to be super-macho (very, very few female performs were played) and generally homophobic, but curiously Bowie and Freddie Mercury managed to become FM icons–probably because the “dudes” refused to see what they didn’t want to see and Queen were, after all, LOUD.
But now I’m getting way beyond 1968. More on this as the time comes.
Lena † on 4 Oct 2006 #
This gets played fairly regularly on an FM station I listen to here – CHFI – on their oldies Saturday night show. It’s a really scary song and without going into much personal history, reminds me of being a girl, or rather some unpleasant incidents from my girlhood. How it could be said to empower anyone is beyond me…
Waldo † on 29 Oct 2009 #
I think it’s a fucking bit rich of yon Puckett telling the young girl to leg it when it is he who’s doing the kiddie fiddling. And if Gazza had jumped on this little madam in Mississippi or Alabama back in ’68, he would have been looking at a rape charge and the prospect of fixing rail roads for the next fifty years with some demented prison warder called Muskie standing over him clubbing him with a rifle. You literally don’t fuck about down home, boy. Y’hear?!
sandra Barr † on 27 Jan 2010 #
This morning I watched ‘Young Girl’ on you tube, I then went into a few of Pucketts other tunes…’like young girl, you are now a woman’! And after reading Cathy O’Briens book ‘Trance Formation America’ and other books on the CIAs mind control programmes, Puckett just reeks of pedophillia!
His songs are sick…and he is a pervert! How come no one noticed this before! Google MK ULTRA!
Things were not as innocent in the 60s/70s as some of you think! The Mind control programmes have been running from the 50s, and the music industry has been one of its many fronts. Pucketts song are not only full of pedophilia innuendo, they also include MK ULTRA mind control triggers, having listened to the testimony of recovered mind control slaves, and read their testimonies, I am in no doubt whatsoever, that Gary Puckett and his song writers were part of the programe!
Pete Baran on 27 Jan 2010 #
Milton Keynes Mind Control -RUN TO THE HILLS!!!
Erithian † on 27 Jan 2010 #
No Pete, we’re talking Iron Maiden on the “Final Countdown” thread at the mo.
thefatgit † on 28 Jan 2010 #
The older you get, the more disturbing the lyrics become.
DADDYLOVESHER1 † on 29 Jan 2010 #
I don’t get you people at all . . too much head and not enough HEART in these comments above . . any FEELING, LOVING hearted person can identify with these lyrics . . . and hopefully FEEL what this is saying . . no doubt the interplay between the music, singer’s voice and lyrics ALL work together beautifully to evoke this effect–this song evokes great emotion in me and I think that is precisely what it is supposed to do . . I experience in the voice of Gary Puckett the sentimentality of watching your lovely daughter child growing up and no longer being “daddy’s little girl” . . it succeeds in making me cry uncontrollably when I hear it . . I do cry because I will NEVER EVER get over seeing my little girl . . once so close and so sweet and going everywhere and doing everything together . .then as if I turned my head . .and she was all grown up and experiencing her first love . . and possibly heartbreak. She is a “woman now . . she’s found out what it’s all about . . ” this is a tragic song that tears at my heart making me return in memory and stare hopelessly at photos of my beautiful little girl–that will never be that again-and those years gone and my life changed. WOW How tragic life is . .maybe most people can’t relate to my depth of feeling concerning my baby . . but she was my one and only and yes I DO have a great great sentimental attachment to her . . and this song is really successful in bring that out in me . .in that Mr Puckett succeeds as well as my vivid memories of that year 1969-and hearing it on the radio-so there is that element of one’s own childhood as well.
All this PROJECTION into the song about sexual abuse of and such just isn’t there . . . consider the lyric:
This girl walked in dreams
Playing in a world of her own
This girl was a child
Existing in a playground of stone
Then one night her world was changed
Her life and dreams were rearanged
And she would never be the same again
This girl is a woman now, and she’s learning how to give
This girl is a woman now, she’s found out what it’s all about
And she’s learning, learning to live
This girl tasted love, as tender as the gentle dawn
She cried a single tear, A teardrop that was sweet and warm
Our hearts told us we were right
And on that sweet and velvet night
A child had died, a woman had been born
This girl is a woman now,she’s learning how to give
This girl is a woman now,she’s found out what it’s all about
And she’s learning, learning, learning to live
GOD ALWAYS BLESS YOU Lia .. you will forever be my little girl and the years we spent together were the BEST years of my life. I will go to my grave with you on my mind and in my soul an spirit !
gapfan forever † on 7 Mar 2011 #
These comments are the dummest things I have heard in a long time. To suggest that Gary Puckett is a pervert is just a ridiculous rant of a jealous mind. I grew up listening to Gary sing these beautiful songs and I can assure you that I am neither warped nor disturbed by these lyrics. They got me through my adolescent years with hope and promise that one day I too, would be a woman and be cherished by someone like him. Listen to that emotional voice and forget about your wordly problems and just LISTEN to the music! To slam a man of his character and to declare that he is sick is a travesty to everyone who loved rock’n’roll. Everyone who loves his music should stand up for him and the things his music did for rock.
punctum on 7 Mar 2011 #
“dummest”
Mark G † on 7 Mar 2011 #
GP is not a pervert (probably), he’s a singer.
The song is about being conflicted. To like this song (I don’t, I have to say) doesn’t mean you automatically feel the same way.
Oh, and girls grow up (I know). You can’t wish them forever babies/’innocent’.
Grow up also.
“Consider this lyric” um… ?
Jimmy the Swede † on 7 Mar 2011 #
Dear God, who’s been eating our porridge? We’ll have bloody Sarah Palin onto us next. Better run, folks.
See what I did there?
I must remember to add “sense of humour” to your file. They tend to leave out things like that. Very important.
Cheers, Marcello. But I’m certainly not going to climb into a crate with that Estonian bird again. Man I had a dreadful flight. And in the end I didn’t even go anywhere. Bloody Fotheringay!
wichita lineman † on 8 Mar 2011 #
As in Sandy Denny? How did she get dragged into this?
One thing I’d say about G Puckett is that he has a phenomenal, expressive voice, could’ve been up there with Neil Diamond or Elvis in the 70s as a quality big ballad singer, and was ill served by a bunch of singles that sound great individually but were ALMOST IDENTICAL; the result was that the UK and US were thoroughly tired of him by mid ’69.
Album tracks like the heartbreaking, regretful Then And Now do him justice. (Without having the records handy, I’m not sure which producer/A&R man stuffed his career).
ps I do have a real picture sleeve of this which I can lend you if you want to keep Jeffrey Epstein apologists from the door. Just saying.
Don’t worry, WL. It was a good idea and you did your best. I’ll stress it in my report.
Thus Leo is off the hook.
I haven’t got a clue what you’re on about… I feel like Lex trying to get his head round the Steve Milliband “gag”.
WL – Well, let’s see here. Ah, yes. When you enter an arts and crafts competition, don’t go all Turner Prize on us. Just do a picture of Beardie like everyone else.
Never purchase a tapestry off on old lady from the same village unless you really want to hang it in your own home.
Never take a watch off a guy in Poland, who isn’t really in Poland.
Never try to outswim a former Olympic Bronze medalist.
But do count the chimes of Big Ben.
OK? If not, MC, I’m sure, will be happy to be less oblique. But first I’d bet you could do with a decent drink.
In the mid-nineties when I lived in Stamford Brook, my next-door neighbour was Kevin Stoney!
Erithian † on 9 Mar 2011 #
I’m with you on this Wichita, and I’m glad you said so first. Now that Eric Cantona has said the seagulls and trawlers thing was nonsense, I’m not trying to understand these two…
Don’t worry, Erithian. You’ll be cured. No more bad dreams. If you have so much as a nightmare, you will come whimpering to tell it to me.
WHIMPERING!
Anywhere you like as long as you arrive back here in the end.
(Wichita – I thought as much, they’re going all Prisoner on our ass again.)
Ah… that had crossed my mind, but I still didn’t get a single reference (sad face). Now, if it had been the Avengers…
Jimmy the Swede † on 12 Mar 2011 #
“Gentlemen…HELLFIRE!!!!”
wichita lineman † on 12 Mar 2011 #
Now Peter Wyngarde would have made for a very intreeguing Popular entrant.
A friend of mine somehow got his phone number in the nineties and just for the hell of it called him up. The phone rang and rang, and just as my friend was about to put the phone down, Mr Wyngarde picked up and said, in his ripest Jason King, “There you are.”
As a matter of fact, WL, Wyngarde has been discussed already by myself and a few others, including, inevitably, my Rt Hon Friend the punctum of the Green Dome, back in the midst of time but I’m blessed if I can remember where. We, of course, considered the cottage industry et al and the fact that Jason King was accepted at the time as an inveterate womaniser and that one naturally assumed Peter to be the same. It’s only with hindsight and looking back on those old shows that the truth becomes apparent. King was as camp as Butlins and to see him flopping over some of the lovliest girlies of the period is now, frankly, comical. But when all is said and done, Peter Wyngarde was a fine classically trained actor. He made two brilliant appearances in The Avengers, firstly as the manic misogynistic Cartney in “A Touch of Brimstone”, an episode understandably remembered most for it’s closing stages and then as Kirby in “Epic”, which I always felt may have been an inspiration for Vincent Price’s character in “Theatre of Blood”. For Prisoner groupies like me and the Scottish lad, Wyngarde also appeared as Number Two in one of the very finest episodes of the series where he dished out a severe beating to Number Six in every sense of the word, as well as revealing to everyone what a prize prawn the supposed hero could be at times.
I agree that Wyngarde would have made a wonderful Popular entrant, although perhaps “Young Girl” may not have been a judicious choice. Perhaps “I Pretend” would have fitted better.
pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør on 12 Mar 2011 #
This is where the FT search function sends you if you enter “Peter Wyngarde“
Gosh, thanks men. So many Wyngarde refs – and I’m curious to know if Tom uncovered much more “late-60s, highly-ornamented ‘progressive pop’”!
My other PW story. A friend of mine went for lunch with him and said he was vegetarian. “Oh really?” purred Mr Wyngarde. “I’m 50% vegetarian, 100% bisexual.”
Inevitably, Peter also turned up in The Saint in an episode called “The Man Who Loved Lions” in which he played a bloke who… er… well, loved lions. I think they all ended up dressed as Roman gladiators, right up Wyngarde’s strasse obviously.
Also in the memory bank is an ad he did for a deodorant:
Wyngarde face to camera
Voiveover: “Peter Wyngarde smells…”
Peter looks outraged
Voiceover: “…GREAT with Right Guard!!”
As Jason would have put it: “Fancy!”
punctum on 14 Mar 2011 #
Wyngarde as Number 2 was a scream. Caked in mascara, doing his meditative karate chops, without the Jason ‘tache and looking alarmingly like the younger Alan Rickman. Couldn’t find his “The Pink Prisoner” sketch on YouTube or similar but it is out there somewhere and is a hoot.
Here’s what I had to say about his one and only album some while back:
http://cookham.blogspot.com/2003_06_22_archive.html
He still does plan a sequel to the record, this time concerning guns and shooting (as in the sport).
Speaking of “Checkmate” and Paddy Mac in general: what was it with Number 6 and his attraction to older women? Georgina Cookson, Rosalie Crutchley, Nadia Gray…
Mark G † on 14 Mar 2011 #
He didn’t feel comfortable cavorting with the dollybirds, being a married man, etc.
Annette Andre was the closest Paddy Fitz got to a dollybird (physically, I mean), but she was the watchmaker’s daughter so….
(punchlines ad infinit, obv)
Well, the Number 6 thing with women was always most odd. Even when one brushes aside Paddy Mac’s well-known reluctance, indeed refusal, to get into a serious clinch with any of his female co-stars (something which of course ruled him out of playing Bond) Number 6 was clearly never interested in getting his leg over. I would therefore dispute MC’s contention that he was attracted to older (indeed any) women. Of the three examples he gives, the homely Rosalie Crutchley, admittedly under the influence, persues him relentlessly and 6 is disinterested to the point of rudeness towards her. A different story emerges with the far more appealing Nadia Gray, who he does clearly take a shine to, only for her to betray him. With Georgina Cookson (she does also briefly appear in “A, B and C”), things do get rather interesting. Her character, Mrs Butterworth, is very sexually charged but our hero just doesn’t see it. I recently wrote a pastiche on this episode, which very crudely mocks this relationship and Number 6’s (ahem!) habits in general. It’s completely barking, perhaps, but underpins the fact that Georgina is a horny old gal clearly on offer and Number 6 demurs. When she ultimately emerges as Number 2, after 6’s comical return to the Village, he should have leapt on her like a cat with the birthday cake playing a central role in the proceedings. But he just turns away and stares out of the window. Strange lad.
The there’s the small matter of Angela Browne but I’ll think I’ll stop now.
The end scene of Many Happy Returns got edited:
Mrs Butterworth: “Many happy returns!”
#6 grumpily pulling the curtains.
Mrs B: “Now come on big boy, you know there’s no way out of here so howzabout some high-falutin’ rumpy pumpy then?”
Cue Benny Hill-style chase around 6’s pad. 6 escapes through the door, stopping only to pat Angelo Muscat on the head in rapid strokes.
God bless Ms Cookson, still with us and now in her nineties.
Yes, that’s how it should have finished. And “A Change of Mind” could have ended happier for #6 too when a hypnotised #48 asked him “Was there anything further?”
Obviously there was a Benny Hill element in “The Girl who was Death” as well but all the sexual stuff was coming from the lovely leggy Sonia. Once again #6 simply didn’t see the red light. But then again it was only “a blessed fairytale”, I suppose.
Snif † on 15 Mar 2011 #
Oi, what about Jane Merrow as No 24 in “The Schizoid Man”…there was even a mental link between them.
That’s a good call, Snifmeister. Jane Merrow was a right little darling but the relationship between her and Six was apparent from the opening shots. It was uncle/niece and nothing else and was soon swallowed up anyway by the power of the main storyline. Alison’s contrition at the end was out of pure regret for her betrayal rather than the fact that she wanted some upsy-downsy with Pat.
There was also never anything happening between Six and Annette Andre beyond merely teaming up to stop her ludicrously overacting dad from blowing up Number Two. Sparks between them there came none.
Same deal with Norma West, another definite, if rather robotic, piece of eye candy. Denise Buckley’s maid was even more tempting but dear old Pat just had constant rows with her instead of getting down to business.
Look, let’s just nail this here and now. If the part of Number Six had been cast to Sid James, the entire history of popular arts in Britain would have been altered.
Sir Sid James, as I like to think of him.
The only ways in which 6 cops off with The Ladies:
A) When he’s dreaming about it (Katherine Kath, “A, B & C”). Dishy Number 14’s got the hots for you in real life, you damn fool!
B) When he’s Owen MD (“Do Not Forsake Me…”) wherein he magically gains a fiancee, necks big time with Zena Walker etc…and all on the same set as “A, B & C”!
There was also Kathy, the good time bar gal. But Pat was under the knock-out drops again. And as soon as he revived, she died!
Madam Engadine was indeed another mature glam. And dreaming Number Six could well have ended up as the filling in an Engadine/Butterworth sandwich and enjoyed the young French maid as desert. Typically, he didn’t. Do you think a dribbling, panting, chuckling, low-growling Sid would have passed up on all that?
No, but wherever and whoever he was in with, the “Orange Alert” would have piped up to “innit marvellous!”
I wonder how old Sid would have got on against Leo in the “Decree Absolute”. Now THAT would have been darned good telly.
“Get out of here before I have the time to change my mind, ‘cos I’m afraid we’ll go too far” said an honourable Sir Sid to Dishy No.14.
Right. That’s it. I’ve bought the box set off Amazon for a stupidly low price.
Katherine Kath still going at 91!
Blimey, is she really? Wot, Engadine AND Mrs Butterworth still turning up at those wonderful parties in Paris? Well, with both Sid and Pat in the ground, it’s up to Peter Bowles now.
Sheila Allen (Dishy Number 14) also still around, monitoring dreams at 78.
Are you sure Sid James wouldn’t have been better as Number Two?
Just thinking of that bit in the opening titles..
McGoohan: I am not a number, I am a free man!
James: *laughs*
Now really, apart from Mr McKern, who could have delivered that laugh as well?
Erithian † on 16 Mar 2011 #
“Number Two” is a good Carry On character name for Sid too.
The real Prisoner/Carry On link is Fenella Fielding: “Congratulations on yet another day…today’s flavour is strawberry…”
Yes, well done, Snif. Sid, of course, would have been far better as Number Two and would have driven Paddy Mac bonkers. He might have even got all the secrets out of the pillock.
“Arf Arf Arf Arf!!!”
With Tony Hancock as Number 6; “Stone me, what am I flipping doing in this place?”
Hancock’s Number 6 would never have made an effort to escape from the Village. Thus he would never have encountered Mrs Butterworth. He would have just sat moping around cotemplating the Buddah as he always did back at Railway Cuttings. Then Patrick Cargill would have turned up pretending to be a doctor when all along he was Number 2 and Tony would have sung like a canary for a cup of PG Tips and a couple of custard creams.
Cargill: “I see you know your Goethe.”
Hancock: “Oh yes, he’s marvellous, I’ve got all his 78s.”
Stevie † on 21 Mar 2011 #
More than a few Union Gap songs were about jailbait, but who cares when the hooks and riffs are so scrumptious?? As I’ve lamented elsewhere, WHY CAN’T ANYONE WRITE STUFF THIS CATCHY ANYMORE??
Interesting choice of adjective: “scrumptious.”
Re 70: Really? I can’t think of any others.
…and with perfect timing, Young Girl pops up on Capitol Gold. Daily occurrence, I’m sure, but I only listen to it about once a month.
“This girl is a woman now.. and she’s learning, learning how to love..”
“Did no one ever tell you the facts of life.. well there’s so much you have to learn.. and I would gladly teach you…”
Let’s face it, they’re not exactly singing about matrons here ;)
It’s not exactly “Cyprus Avenue,” is it?
Punctum, I just spotted elsewhere that you think Young Girl is the WORST number one EVER and I’m intrigued to know why. It’s not Cyprus Avenue*, but then almost nothing else is, “raaaaaiinbooow riiiibbons” and all.
Stevie, err, yeah, soz. Amazing how easily I’m taken by a singer who has words like “lady” and “woman” in his songtitles.
*which I always thought was Cypress Avenue until I just checked.
Mark M † on 22 Mar 2011 #
Re 75: I’d be surprised if anything less than about 85% of people who knew the track also presumed it was Cypress rather than Cyprus – I certainly did. You live and learn.
#74: Can’t remember where I said that but here’s something I wrote (privately) about the song five years ago which is a lot more generous than I would be inclined to feel now:
Few singers of chart-topping songs have, I think, ever sounded as scared as Puckett does on “Young Girl.” The key line here is the first: “Young girl, get out of my mind” – note, not out of “my life” – and although there are references to “that come-on look…in your eyes” and entreaties to “hurry home to your mama,” the really disturbing factor in the song is that it gives no evidence that protagonist and girl (or victim?) have actually met. Puckett’s rather strained voice consumes itself in potential terror, as though he’s observing the girl through his bedroom window, or from the opposing street corner, or through the school playground railings – “’cause I’m afraid we’ll go too far.” Meanwhile the song alternately insists with Motown chorus beats and glides on mistakenly serene seraphims of strings, like an intercepted Gaudio and Crewe backing track. But nearly everyone who bought it and/or danced to it treated it simply as a tremulous, slightly beefier mid-tempo update of “Go Away, Little Girl.” And, to complicate matters further, the band were apt to dress in Civil War uniforms. So did “Young Girl” simply represent a 1968 Ashley Wilkes, anxious about Scarlett?
You said somewhere on a Popular ’68 entry that a particularly bad Top 3 was Young Girl, B Goldsboro’s Honey, Eng Hump’s Man Without Love.
Good call on the Gaudio/Crewe prodn. I wonder if the latterday antipathy towards Young Girl would be eased if Frankie Valli was singing it, rather than the physically bigger sounding Puckett? He was often tortured inside a doomed relationship (the adulterer in Bye Bye Baby, the wronged serviceman in Toy Soldier, the boy from the right side of the tracks in Rag Doll). Or Del Shannon? I can’t think of an obvious lyrical precursor, bar Go Away Little Girl, but you wonder what’s behind the paranoia in Keep Searchin’ and Stranger In Town. Better to keep the mystery caged.
Not sure that the man and girl haven’t met, though – how does he know she’s younger than he initially thought? “Get out of here…” suggests the setting is the singer’s family home. The stricken sound in his voice is what lifts this away from the patronising, sickly Go Away Little Girl (and I write that as someone who can put up with a LOT of middling Goffin & King) in which the protagonist barely puts up any resistance.
Well, there’s “Only Sixteen” which is more in the irony olympics for “oh, I was 16, I’ve aged a year since then!”
(however, not “Just Thirteen” by The Lurkers, which was not about jailbait but the frustrations of not being old enough to get into gigs, etc, but got banned by the beeb just to be sure)
Remember the Regents’ “7Teen” – “… and not yet a woman”?!
There are a few girl group 45s from the other point of view (which puts me on thin ice, so I’ll tread carefully): Goffin and King’s Just A Little Girl by Donna Loren , and the campy Is Thirteen Too Young To Fall In Love by The Petites.
Best of all is Piccola Pupa’s awesome Put Two Extra Candles On My Cake (cos she’s only 14 and wants to go out with an older boy, you see), written by Neil Sedaka’s regular co-writer Howard Greenfield and Toni ‘Groovy Kind Of Love’ Wine, who must have been about 16 at the time.
Piccola also did a terrific version of Breakaway , which is much closer to Tracey Ullman’s cover than the Irma Thomas original.
#80, yes, and I know a story about that song, but it’s probably libellous so I’ll have to say no.
#82 Ooh, is it anything to do with the band’s appearance on one of those short-lived Saturday morning’s kids’ TV shows? Gary Crowley was the presenter, and in his usual intensely irritating Cockney geezer style he did a quick interview with the lead singer. He asked (and even as he asked it I thought it was an odd question) “So how did you get the money together to do the record?” Singer (looking embarrassed): “Well, we did this, er, job in London.” Crowley: “Oh yeah, you’ve got a bit of a dodgy past aintcha?” And carried on with the show as though nothing had happened.
Googling “Gary Crowley” and “The Regents” brings up lots of references to him and the band both having a bust-up with Devo on a show called Fun Factory in 1980, so perhaps it was then.
Paulito on 23 Mar 2011 #
@77 Methinks lines such as “And though you know that it’s wrong to be/ alone with me/ that come-on look is in your eyes” make it fairly plain that he’s directly involved with the girl. A similar ‘stalker’ theory has been postulated about “I’m Not in Love” (mischievously fuelled by Eric Stewart himself). In neither case does the suggestion stand up to scrutiny.
Mutley † on 23 Mar 2011 #
I’m not sure where the criticism of “stalker” lyrics of songs from another era is leading. Should the songs be banned or the offending passages edited out? Each age has its censorship – for example, in the 1950s the BBC would not play “religious” pop songs or songs that mentioned brand names. Certainly, not even the mildest swearing in songs would have been broadcast. At the same time, Cliff Richard’s Living Doll could go to no.1 containing the lines “I’m gonna lock her up in a trunk so no big hunk /Can steal her away from me”. Elvis Presley’s Dirty, Dirty Feeling has the verse:
I hear you’re pretty good at runnin’/ But pretty soon you’ll slip and fall/ That’s when I’ll drag you home with me girl /I’m gonna chain you to the wall.
In a world that has experienced the activities of Josef Fritzl and others would such lyrics would be acceptable in mainstream pop now? I think the discussion of the lyrics of Young Girl, taken in isolation, leads nowhere.
#84: In your final sentence you missed out the word “my” between “to” and “scrutiny.”
I would suggest that “Out Of Time” trumps “Go Away Little Girl” but also understand the difference. The latter is telling a dolled-up, lovestruck early teen to push off, whilst the former involves a sneering bloke rounding on his cheating bird in a more adult setting. Poor old Mick. What did he do to deserve that?
I don’t think that’s right about either song. The first doesn’t mention ‘cheating’ as such, only that the girl has been ‘away’. In Jail, on tour or back with her mum, who knows.
And the latter isn’t sneery, is it?
#88 – I don’t actually mention cheating as far as “Go Away Little Girl” is concerned.
As for “Out Of Time”, I think the aggrieved man is sneering all day long but naturally that’s just my opinion.
I was at a 50th birthday party last year where 80s music was the go – someone asked the DJ to play “My Sharona”, but was rebuffed with “I don’t play songs about paedophilia.”
@86 Thanks for pointing that out. No doubt a quick perusal of your own posts will show that you apply a similar qualification each time you express a viewpoint.
#89, I think you have your “former” and “latter” mixed up, or maybe I do…
#92 – I think we’ve both hit the buffers now, Mark. Let’s quit while we’re ahead.
#90 – The DJ could have avoided the puzzling comment about “My Sharona” by simply declining to play it on account of it being from the 70s rather than the 80s.
@93: The DJ was presumably thinking of that uber-sleazy line about how the narrator “always get[s] it up for the touch of the younger kind”. A harsh interpretation perhaps, but I can see where he was coming from…
Maybe we should just ban every piece of music that offends anybody.
Exactly. And the corollary of this, of course, would be that we would never play anything ever again. The day the music died would be upon us.
Well, we wouldn’t be allowed to sing “American Pie” …
sükråt tanned rested unlogged and awesome † on 25 Mar 2011 #
surely the sacrifice is worth it
Yeah yeah, always with the Don McLean slagging!
Which makes me realise I never thought to check what Tom made of John Denver. I shudder.
I too have never understood the serial toeing poor old Don always gets from the brass here. Any more of this and the poor bugger may well take his life as lovers often do.
THEY’RE NOT LISTENING STILL! PERHAPS THEY NEVER WILL! <– this means us
His popularity in Britain did wane following the inexorable rise of his near-namesake, zany Brummie funnyman Don Maclean, pronounced as in opposite of dirty, viz. “Maclean!” “Yes I had a bath this morning.” What chance did Playing Favourites stand against his classic renditions of “Golden Years,” “A Glass Of Champagne” etc.?
So how does the pronounciation differ? Aren’t they both “clean” ?
No, Don “American Pie” McLean rhymes with “wane.”
I’m going to resist the severe temptation of plunging in to another discussion with punctum regarding Crackerjack Don and the way he and dear old Peter Glaze used to present bizarre versions of chart hits of the day. Peter’s rendition of Boz Scaggs’ “Lido Shuffle” was and is legendary.
The less pleasant side of Don arose when he presented the God slot show for Radio 2 (now in the hands of the perfectly decent Aled Jones) and seemed to suggest that George Harrison’s passing would provide George the opportunity of atoning for his part in “Life of Brian”.
Shades of Rowan Atkinson as the Devil welcoming souls to Hell: “Everyone who saw Monty Python’s Life of Brian? – Sorry, I’m afraid He can’t take a joke after all…”
Andy Partridge said in Smash Hits that he knew he was a proper pop star when Peter Glaze sang Making Plans For Nigel.
I wonder if Don Maclean had a go at Don McLean’s Crying a few months later?
This “singing a pop song of the day” lark was replicated on a truly dire pop show from the end of the seventies on ITV called “Get It Together”. One of the presenters was Roy North, one time oppo of Basil Brush. The spot in question opened the show unlike in “Crackerjack” when it arrived in a costume sketch piece towards the end.
Roy once stuck a peg at the end of his hooter and treated us to a rendidtion of “Ma Na Ma Na”. The look he received from fellow presenter Linda Fletcher, a sturdy good time-looking gal, echoed the thoughts of us all in suggesting that North should have been sectioned.
@85: Interesting comment about “Dirty, Dirty Feeling” and how such dodgy lyrics didn’t appear to bother the censors of the day, although they were happy to ban popular songs that they saw as in any way blasphemous or sexually immoral. Another example of this phenomenon is ‘You Been Torturing Me’, a minor US hit in 1961 both for the Four Young Men and for Gary “Alley Oop” Paxton. As far as I know, neither version was banned or censored in any state, yet the lyrics are possibly the most unpleasant I’ve ever heard in a mainstream pop song. Herewith in full:
“I’m gonna stomp you on the top of your foot
And hang you from a big long fishing hook
And drop you down to the bottom of the sea, hey-hey
Let the sharks eat you all up
If them mean old whales don’t interrupt
Cos baby you know how you been torturing little ol’ me
Hey-hey
“I’m the judge, the jury too
Judgement has been brought upon you
You been convicted for the crime you’ve done
You made me feel like a little ol’ crumb
“You know it’s wrong to torture me
You love my friends the same way you love me
And like Tom, I don’t wanna hang from a big oak tree over you
When I say hop, I mean make like a frog
And when I say bark, you better sound like a dog
Cos I’m gonna torture you
The same way you been torturing little ol’ me, hey-hey”
The song is too stupid to be in any way ironic, although the singer’s goofy drawl (in either version) presumably signifies that it’s meant to be humorous, playful even. It doesn’t sound that way.
Examples such as the above, the Elvis lyric cited by Mutley and, of course, the (in)famous line “I’d rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man” as featured in numbers by the King and later the Fabs – all of which were untroubled by bans of any kind, AFAIK – seem to show how, notwithstanding their general overweening piety and censoriousness, the moral authorities of the day weren’t too bothered about suggestions of rape/murderous revenge for female infidelity appearing in music for kiddies and juveniles. I’m not remotely suggesting that such songs should have been banned (indeed, the use of the “see you dead” line in ‘Baby Let’s Play House’ gives the song a deliciously dark undertone), merely that they reflect the misogynistic “angels or whores” attitude to women that was so common in those days and so rarely challenged at the time.
Then there’s Goffin and King’s “He Hit Me (It Felt Like A Kiss)”…
He hit me
And it felt like a kiss
But it didn’t hurt me
He couldn’t stand to hear me say
That I’d been with someone new,
And when I told him I had been untrue
And I knew he loved me
If he didn’t care for me
I could have never made him mad
But he hit me
And I was glad
Yes, he hit me
And I knew I loved him
And then he took me in his arms
With all the tenderness there is,
And when he kissed me,
He made me his
Goffin & King also wrote Please Hurt Me for Little Eva.
Their psychological S&M tendencies, presumably drawn for their own relationship, make them my favourite Brill Building team.
People REALLY objected to He Hit Me at the time, though. Even though it fell between two of the Crystals biggest hits (Uptown and He’s A Rebel) it didn’t chart and didn’t get airplay.
The flip side of He Hit Me, No One Ever Tells You, is almost as bleak, but with a resigned wrist-slashing lyric, and a valium-fuelled arrangement. Great!
A shout out, surely, at this point for Spiritualized’s “She Kissed Me (It Felt Like A Hit)”!
Hard to imagine Carole King being involved with a song like that.
#111 but did they? It sits on their debut album without outrage (the album wasn’t banned).
I’m more of the opinion that it was not a hit because the track is slow, morose, and has no good-time vibe like “He’s a rebel” and “da doo ron ron” (don’t know “Uptown” off-hand) so probably didn’t get airplay for all sorts of reasons.
vinylscot † on 31 Mar 2011 #
A more up-to-date example would be Florence and the Machine’s, “Kiss Like A Fist” which was inexplicably used as a continmuity ad on BBC TV for a time. Does it get away with it because it’s a happy wee tune…. or because it’s being sung by a female?
You hit me once
I hit you back
You gave a kick
I gave a slap
You smashed a plate
Over my head
Then I set fire to our bed
My black eye casts no shadow
Your red eye sees no pain
Your slaps don’t stick
Your kicks don’t hit
So we remain the same
Blood sticks and sweat drips
Break the lock if it don’t fit
A kick in the teeth is good for some
A kiss with a fist is better than none
A-woah, a kiss with a fist is better than none
Broke your jaw once before
Spilled your blood upon the floor
You broke my leg in return
Sit back and watch the bed burn
Well love sticks, sweat drips
You smashed a plate over my head
Possibly because she gives as good as she gets.
Mark, I think the fact the lyric on He Hit Me is so bare – with the stark, blunt arrangement suggesting brute violence – just meant that everyone heard the lyrics, and felt queasy. I didn’t say it was banned.
I’m sure there are quotes from Lester Sill on how no radio station would touch it. It didn’t even merit a UK release. When copies turn up on ebay they are almost always promos – no one bought it.
For the record, I think it’s amazing, so shocking it feels like it stops time.
Songs like Dirty Dirty Feeling or Run For Your Life are upbeat and danceable, so the impact of the lyric is considerably lessened. How often to you hear people say “I don’t really listen to lyrics that much”?
Cumbrian on 31 Mar 2011 #
Wiki has a source (from allmusic.com – so take that for what it is worth) claiming that He Hit Me is grounded in truth – that Goffin and King found out that Little Eva’s boyfriend was abusing her and asked why she stayed with him and got the gist of the song as a response. I suspect them writing this and giving Please Hurt Me to Little Eva might well have been them trying to get her to wake up (although this might be charitable – I can’t for the life of me imagine why else you would give her songs to sing about her own domestic violence situation, so I assume it is intervention by song).
Yes that sounds familiar, maybe it’s in the Alan Betrock Girl Groups book or Always Magic In The Air. G&K’s autobigraphical songs tend to be more psychological torment than physical.
punctum on 16 Jun 2011 #
TPL offers yet more thoughts on “Young Girl” and nineteen other pieces which come together to form an unexpectedly moving picture:
http://nobilliards.blogspot.com/2011/06/various-artists-20-flash-back-greats-of.html
Mutley † on 17 Jun 2011 #
Re the discussion above (around late March 2011)about censorship and banning records, this is an appropriate spot to mention the recent death of Carl Gardner, lead singer of the Coasters, who produced a string of rock’n’roll Leiber and Stoller classics in the mid to late 50s, including Charlie Brown, which was banned by the BBC because of the use of the word “spitball”. I believe the BBC later rescinded its ban following popular protest.
Lena on 13 Dec 2011 #
And if you think this song’s bad; well, let’s just say at least she’s alive: http://musicsoundsbetterwithtwo.blogspot.com/2011/12/laugh-until-you-cry-bobby-goldsboro.html
Ta for reading, everyone!
intothefireuk † on 10 Sep 2013 #
lonepilgrim on 25 May 2016 #
I can remember very clearly hearing this at the time as it is a bit of an ear worm and GP sings the hell out of it but there’s no denying its problematic lyrics. You can pick up similar sentiments in other songs as detailed above. I’ve always found ‘Your life, little girl, is an empty page/That men will want to write on’ and the whole of ‘You are Sixteen, going on Seventeen’ from ‘The Sound of Music’ pretty creepy.
chrisew71 on 11 Jun 2018 #
Puckett (minus the Union Gap) opened for the Monkees when they toured in the ’80s. All I remember of his set is that a group of middle-aged women in the front row were very much into him, he played barefoot, and “Young Girl” was even creepier sung by a guy likely in his 40s by then.
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Print: Color Cover, Greyscale Interior
Size: 8 x 10.5
Parental Rating: NC-17 - Graphic sexual situations, language
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Music & Minorities: The 2015 Human Rights Watch Film Fest
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The New York stop of The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, which ran June 11 to 21, 2015, at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the IFC Center, provided intense, close-up views of some of the worst problems people inflict on people in the United States and around the world. Four films this year documented cultural identity under stress and made a strong case that peoples’ survival must include cultural preservation: for women singers in Iran, storytellers in the Middle East, minority tribes in Sudan, and Palestinian nationalism.
Bahman Ghobadi’s Half Moon (2006) featured a striking scene of magic realism protest that imagined a village of women exiles banned from singing in Iran since the 1979 revolution who gather at dusk on the roofs to join their voices in song. Musician Sara Najafi was determined to bring the long tradition of women singing back to Iran in real life. For three years, her brother, director Ayat Najafi, followed her gutsy, patient, and clever path, as creative politically as artistically, to produce a concert, garnering the festival’s annual Nestor Almendros Award for courage in filmmaking.
As the first woman to get a diploma of composition in Iran who now teaches at the Music Conservatory of Teheran, Sara provides the historical background of a flowering of women singing there in the first half of the 20th century, with rare archival footage of the popular, groundbreaking singer Qamar ol-Molouk Vaziri. She first enlists Parvin Namazi, who tells of her solo singing career before the revolution, her exile with a European world music ensemble in the 1980’s, then return to study Kurdish folk music in the 1990’s—where her recordings are banned. Sara also wants to break the isolation of Iranian women singers, and a considerable time in the film is given over to rehearsals in France with three female singers from Paris and their male band mates working on her pieces. She also dares to include Emel Mathlouthi, a Tunisian singer whose song for freedom during the first protests of the Arab Spring she found on YouTube.
The fascinating heart of the film is back in Teheran where she finds a lovely concert hall that can only be used with the permission of the Ministry of Culture. Then she embarks on Orwellian negotiations with the Minister of Culture, who changes just about every month, with each religious bureaucrat demanding different conditions -- yes and no on males and females on stage and in the audience, yes and no on men singing louder than the women; yes and no on accompanists. Each argues contradictory theological explanations -- whether men or women would get more sexually aroused or what the Koran does or does not say (They sound a lot like Orthodox rabbis on the same issue of women’s voices in prayer and song). But unbeknownst to these petty censors is that she’s wired for sound, so even though no cameras are allowed at their meetings, and the screen goes blank, we can hear their conversations, like listening to gangsters’ wiretaps at a trial. (The film has not been shown in Iran and the director does not expect it will be.) Then there’s the last minute wrangling over the international musicians’ visas – whether tourist or working, whether they can perform or not, and they saw Mathlouthi’s controversial Facebook postings. The ever-wily Sara boxes the gatekeepers into a corner by claiming this will insult the French government. By the climax, the standing ovations at the marvelous SRO concert on September 19, 2013 is not just for the 13 performers sharing their cultures on the stage that evening, with traditional Persian and Western instruments and vocalizations, but the victory for completing the maze.
The Dream Of Shahrazad
Music and stories can unite themes of hope and empathy across the Middle East, here through the shared heritage of 1,001 Arabian Nights, where the princess’s nightly tales to the sultan saved lives. Organized around (pompous but politically concerned) Turkish conductor Cem Mansur’s educational rehearsals with a youth orchestra and their performance of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade (1888), montages of centuries of multi-media images of the classic (from paintings and drawings to shadow puppets and silent film clips) flow by with each of the suite’s movements. South African director Francois Verster then follows other artists inspired by the legend. An older muralist has painted the storyteller for years, but is now concerned how Islamic fundamentalists will censor his large-scale work. In an updated version, a young Lebanese actress feels empowered by posting accounts of the Arab Spring on social media to a growing audience.
In the most moving extension of the metaphor, the power of storytelling demonstrates how to cross barriers of class, religion, and politics. As footage of the thwarted Egyptian revolution plays out, Hassan el Geretly, director of the El Warsha Theatre Troupe, comes from Alexandria to explore with secular musical and theater artists in Cairo how to grapple with what to do next. After sharing songs and poems of peace, they suggest she pay a condolence call on a grieving mother of a young Muslim Brotherhood member killed by police. Hesitant at first with an anguished woman swathed in a hijab, she gradually bonds by their same age, and she absorbs her accent, manner, biography, and tears. By the time she embodies the mother on stage (in the style of Anna Deavere Smith’s pieces), the beaming mother is thrilled at this memorial to her son that will keep alive his memory and the injustice he suffered. The legacy of Shahrazad lives on.
Beats of the Antonov
Songs are an essential building block of culture, as oral history, for peers, as lifecycle ritual passed on from parents to children, and, shared experiences separate from other groups. In war-torn Sudan, the many documentaries, such as The Devil Came On Horseback and Darfur Now, have focused on the genocide and brutality the refugees have suffered, While the opening of this hour-long documentary sets the same context, with bomber planes strafing a bare displaced persons camp, Sudanese director Hajooj Kuka, familiar with the different tribes from reporting in this region between the Blue Nile and the Nuba Mountains since 2003, listens to their songs. With his musician guide Sarah “Alsarah” Mohamed (who can differentiate between elders’ traditional tunes and pop songs adapted by teenagers), they closely watch as the music takes their spirits far from their barren environs and moves them to rhythmically clap and dance. Despite a political epilogue by a guerrilla leader defending them, disjointed editing, and minimal subtitled lyrics, the pride of culture to bolster people’s sense of humanity and identity comes through loud and clear. (Airing on PBS in August 2015)
This Is My Land
French-Israeli director Tamara Erde set an ambitious agenda for her (uneven and sometimes confusing) documentary feature debut: to follow history classes over the full academic in six diverse schools in Israel, the disputed occupied territories in the West Bank, and in Palestine, to see how the future generation will perceive their same patch of land. The Orthodox school in an occupied West Bank settlement is always the clearest to pick out, with the students’ and teachers’ distinctive dress and religious perspective. In Palestine are a boys’ school in a refugee camp in Nablus and an elementary school in Ramallah, whose teacher puts on anti-Israel and pro-martyr propaganda displays for the camera.
In addition to a stuck-in supplement of a Galilee intercultural learning high school’s Zionist-oriented trip to Auschwitz, within Israel proper, what can be seen distinguishing an independent secular school in Haifa from an integrated elementary school, between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, is that the latter is team-taught by a quiet Israeli Jewish man and a charismatic Israeli Arab woman whose increasing frustration with the Education Ministry’s required Zionist curriculum takes up more and more screen time. (A lot of her discomfort at being a Muslim within a calendar marked by Jewish and Israeli holidays was already seen in a similar profile, Dove’s Cry, shown at the 2013 Other Israel Film Festival.) The climax is a showing of American animator Nina Paley’s short film This Land Is Mine that amusingly illustrates millennia of Middle East military confrontations, and the bitter Israeli-Arab teacher lets loose with an unchallenged anti-Israel conclusion.
SXSW Review: 6 Years
Published on Thursday, 26 March 2015 21:18
Written by Matt Oakes
In the throes of first love, life becomes exasperatingly disoriented. We convince ourselves that there is but one person who can appreciate, understand and care for us and that that person should not be let go lest we never experience such a sensation of belonging again. Future aspirations come to head with plans of fidelity and the person you are and the person you want to become begin to be at odds. With 6 Years, Hannah Fidell is able to poke her camera into the epicenter of a relationship at the structural crossroads of graduating from college as they differentiate the needs of the "me" versus the needs of the "us".
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SXSW Review: The Frontier
To watch The Frontier is to take a drivers seat in the Delorean and dial the settings to 1971. It has a distinctively "homage" feeling to it - as if it were a previously unreleased Hitchcock movie, filmed a short peck after The Birds. Unlike The Guest or Cold in July, The Frontier doesn't play with old movie tropes so much as it practices a brand of straight-forward imitation, aping the style of Vietnam-era genre films, much like Ti West has done with The House of the Devil. The result is as if A Simple Plans met Pyscho in a back-alley, early-70s country thriller. It's not quite horror, not quite a western but Oren Shai's pulpy throwback is stylized beyond reproach, even if rather laid back narratively.
Read more: SXSW Review: The Frontier
SXSW Review: The Look of Silence
In psychology class, you learn about the concept of diffusion of responsibility, a sociopathic event that explains that when more people are present or complicit in an unfavorable event, the less personally responsible that group will feel for its outcome. The public murder of Kitty Genovese - in which a woman was stabbed to death in NYC but not one neighbor alerted the police - is a tragic true-to-life example of this but no piece of fiction or nonfiction has better captured the ghastly phenomenon than Joshua Oppenheimer's The Look of Silence.
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Mirroring Characters in The Black Cauldron
Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles make good use of theme, and one of the ways Alexander expresses his theme is with mirroring characters. In The Black Cauldron (my favorite in the series) Taran has two mirror characters: Adaon and Ellidyr. (Fair warning; if you haven't read the book and don't want any spoilers, you may not want to read this post.)
Adaon, son of the chief bard of Prydain, is everything Taran wants to be; kind, wise, brave and honorable, all without seeming to struggle for it. Actually, he is a lot like what Taran eventually becomes by the end of The High King.
Taran soon realized there was little Adaon had not seen and done. He had sailed far beyond the Isle of Mona, even to the northern sea; he had worked at the potter's wheel, cast nets with the fisherfolk, woven cloth at the looms of the cottagers; and, like Taran, labored over the glowing forge.
Pottery and weaving are two of the skills Taran learns in Taran Wanderer, and he sails to Mona in The Castle of Llyr. At this point in The Black Cauldron, Taran lacks Adaon's experience. Most of all, Taran lacks Adaon's understanding that true honor does not depend on having your deeds recognized.
Ellydyr, on the other hand, is an echo of where Taran is at the start of The Black Cauldron. Ellidyr is near Taran's age, and even more proud and impulsive. He, like Taran, is desperately seeking recognition -and confusing public recognition with honor. Ellidyr, the youngest son of an impoverished noble, is obsessed with rank (as is Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper, so named because at least that way he'll have a title even if it's only one Coll invented for him.) Unlike Taran, Ellidyr is so consumed by his desire for `honor' that he is willing to act unscrupulously to get the public notice he thinks he deserves. He is a warning of what Taran could become if he continues to think of honor as dependent on how others view him, rather than dependent on his own actions.
With the characters of Adaon and Ellidyr, Lloyd Alexander is able to clearly illustrate the choice Taran is making about the man he wants to become. He shows us where each of those paths lead. I don't think its a coincidence that both Adaon and Ellidyr die over the course of the story, or that Ellidyr sees what he has become before the end. Alexander shows where the roads go completely, including their end.
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Horrible in the Half Court
by Albert · January 28, 2011
The Heat’s half court struggles are confounding to all.
The Miami Heat is averaging 101.3 points per game thus far this season, while shooting 47.0% from the field.
That’s the best ever scoring output in the Pat Riley era and the second best efficiency mark in the NBA. Mighty impressive stuff for a team still very much a work-in-progress.
Yet hidden behind these statistics is a highly disturbing reality. The team simply cannot score in the half court. And Erik Spoelstra’s offensive system is to blame.
The expectation heading into the season was that the Heat would torment teams in transition, that Dwyane Wade and LeBron James would captivate us regularly with electrifying fastbreak dunks.
And, for the most part, they have. The Heat is shooting 61.3% en route to an average of 1.22 points on each transition possession, best in the league.
But the team only gets about 14 transition opportunities per game. While that’s actually quite a high total, it still leaves around 85 half court sets to deal with.
The problem, quite simply, is a fundamental lack of team basketball.
NBA basketball is entirely about floor spacing. The teams that have it score. Those that don’t fail. It’s simple logic. A basketball can move much faster through the air between teammates than can a rotating defender.
The best half-court offenses embrace this concept.
Instead, Spoelstra utilizes an isolation-intensive half court system.
There’s good logic for it. Size mismatches, speed mismatches, and strength mismatches give both LeBron James and Dwyane Wade an almost nightly advantage over their defenders.
But isolation basketball promotes the individual over the team. It, by definition, creates far from ideal floor spacing. Four players standing around bunched together — often confused and bumping into each other, often simply watching the individual greatness of a Heat superstar — can rather easily be guarded by a relatively small number of defenders, leaving the rest to double, triple or sometimes quadruple-team the ball handler. As a result, Wade and James are shooting a combined 39.4% on isolation plays on the season.
Spoelstra also likes to utilize the pick-and-roll with his centers at the high post.
There’s good logic for this as well. Picks are one of the most utilized and effective tools in freeing up a teammate against a man-to-man defense in the game today.
But a pick-and-roll only works if the man setting that pick is a threat to the defense on a roll to the basket. None of the Heat’s quad of centers matches that description, as do the best pick-and-roll finishers in the game (e.g., Amare Stoudemire, Carlos Boozer, Dwight Howard, Tyson Chandler). For the Heat center contingent, the screen has very much the opposite of the desired effect – it effectively brings a double-team to the ball handler at no cost to the integrity of the defense. The last thing the Heat wants to do is pass the ball to a moving Joel Anthony. And defenses across the league know it.
Finally, Spoelstra likes to initiate the offense with his center receiving the ball in the high post.
There’s even good logic for this approach. Doing so enables the playmakers to rotate off of screens set down low and catch the ball on the wings while still in motion ahead of a scrambling defender.
But should a team that features the Big Three really have Joel Anthony as the initiator of the offense, handling the basketball near the three-point line for the better part of twenty-four seconds? Needless to say, it oftentimes results in a turnover. And when it doesn’t, it still drains a great deal of the shot clock.
Toss the playbook. Scrap it. Start over. Rebuild the half-court offensive from scratch.
Create a scheme tailored to the talent the Heat currently has in place – one that has each of the five players always in a position on the court where he is a credible threat to the defense.
The Heat has the two best penetrators in the game, and a bunch of knock-down spot-up shooters.
Embrace it.
There is no defensive tandem in the league that can consistently stop both LeBron James and Dwyane Wade over the course of a full 48 minutes. They don’t need a Joel screen to get to the basket; they need open space.
How do you create open space?
Ignore convention.
Instead, place two knock-down three-point shooters on opposite corners of the court, two playmakers on opposite sides of the top of the key, and a low post threat around the basket. Each player would then rotate as necessary to maximize floor spacing, depending upon the position of the basketball. This creates perfect floor spacing, both vertically and horizontally.
Applying the philosophy to the starting rotation Spoelstra should employ would yield Mario Chalmers and Mike Miller in opposite corners of the court, Dwyane Wade and LeBron James on opposite sides of the top of the key, and Chris Bosh on the block down low.
The rest is exceedingly simple: penetrate and kick.
Simply by having two deadly three-point shooters camping out in the corners, defenders are presented with the following dilemma: Should they sag into the paint and prevent LeBron James or Dwyane Wade from penetrating and risk a kick-out, or should they stick to the shooters and leave the driving player unattended? That’s a tricky proposition made nearly impossible by the quality of the Heat’s three-point shooters and the lethality of a James or Wade barreling down the lane.
Let’s break it down.
When either James or Wade is guarded by a lone defender, he is always going to attack the basket. It’s in their DNA. And so when they do, only one of two things can happen:
Defenses can collapse to stop the penetration, leaving the shooters wide open for a jump shot on a kick-out. And if by chance the shooter to whom the ball is kicked out does not find himself wide open against a now scrambling defense, he would need only to rotate the ball along the perimeter until it lands in the hands of someone who is. This season, the Heat is shooting 46% on unguarded three-point jump shots (according to Synergy Sports Technology), second best in the league. Remember, if you’re willing to leave a 46% 3-point shooter open, it’s equivalent to leaving a 69% two-point shooter open. Statistically speaking, the payoff is exactly the same. It’s why 3-point shooters are so deadly when handcuffed to elite dribble-penetrators.
Defenses can stay out on the shooters, leaving the driving lanes wide open for a finish at the rim. James and Wade are shooting a combined 66% at the rim thus far this season. They are, quite simply, the two best penetrators in the game today. On the rare occasions when they should miss or draw a double team at the rim, Bosh would be right there on the opposite block for the clean-up. And the offense rebounds.
Such a system allows the playmakers to make plays while keeping the rest of the team actively involved. It promotes proper floor spacing and quick ball movement, which leads to a balanced scoring attack.
Within the confines of this exceedingly simplistic offensive scheme, complexities can be added.
First, the slash to the basket.
Defenders are often so keen on stopping Wade and James when either has the ball in his hands, they very often lose sight of their own defensive assignments. They cheat. Expose it. If they lose sight of you, move. The easiest way to score the basketball is on a slash to the basket – with sharp, well-timed cuts through the lane. The Big Three are shooting a whopping 68% from the floor when they receive the ball on a slash to the rim, on more than 200 attempts.
Second, the Bosh post-up.
Of Miami’s three stars, Bosh has been forced to concede the most. James and Wade still function as initiators of the offense, while Bosh has been used primarily as a spot-up shooter on the weak side. That’s a significant concession for a star like Bosh, who’s accustomed to not only more offensive involvement, but also to having a system tailor-made to his strengths.
In the 2009-10 season, Bosh scored at a rate of 1.11 points per possession on the block for the Raptors, which put him in the 91st percentile of post scorers. This year has been drastically different, as Bosh is scoring just 0.88 points per possession in his more limited opportunities for the Heat. To stay engaged, Bosh needs the ball in his hands more consistently.
Third, the pick-and-roll.
Dwyane Wade. LeBron James. Chris Bosh.
Pick any two of these three and toss them into the pick-and-roll. It doesn’t matter which two. Any which way, it’s going to be fun to watch and enormously successful.
The most intriguing combination is Wade-James. Imagine this play unfolding with James Jones and Chris Bosh spotting up on opposite sides of the court. How the heck is a defense going to guard that?
The other combinations are just as intriguing, particularly a James-Bosh pairing. Only six players in the league produced more points per possession last season as the ball-handler on pick-and-rolls than LeBron, and he now has one of the game’s great roll men to pair with in Bosh. Imagine this play unfolding with Wade working as a weak-side cutter and Miller spotting up for three.
In short, as long as the shooters maintain their spacing at all times, it will provide the Big Three the necessary room to capitalize on whatever the defense allows — whether it be a slash to the basket, post-up opportunity, pick-and-roll, or otherwise. That, in turn, creates an efficient half court offense.
If the Heat can combine such an efficient half-court offensive attack with the type of defense it is capable of playing when motivated, there’s no reason to think they can’t blow out its opponents nightly… and, hopefully, well into the playoffs.
Wouldn’t it be fun to watch the Heat score 110 points per game, and give up 95?
The Miami Heat has the talent. Now let’s add the system.
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Heat-Struck says:
YOU’RE BACK! Glad I never removed you from my RSS feed. Now, I have to actually read your new post…
…finished reading. Spo could possibly be the worst offensive coach in the NBA. They should seriously hire an assistant who specializes in teaching offensive in the half-court set.
Does this mean you’re back for good?
“a fundamental lack of team basketball” – co-signed. This team needs to start moving the ball better and getting more production from its role players.
I’d like to know why Carlos Arroyo is playing at all… If we are playing ISO ball, why is Arroyo in there? More Miller time please! Also, a message to Wade and Lebron. ISO is all fine and dandy, but when you get doubled in the paint, don’t force it up! Pass it out to the shooters! It’s the whole point…
glad to see that you’re writing again! i’m also glad that i never removed this site from my RSS feed.
What is wrong with Spo? Yea we have a great defensive team but why does Spo get credit for that? He starts Bibby and Z? Those are regular season offensive players, we need Chalmers and Anthony because everybody knows defense wins championships. Can someone tell me why House isnt playing at all in the playoffs especially against Boston his old team and especially after putting up 35 against Toronto the last game of the season?? Finally we won a close game but damn all season long we lost close games and thats coaching. There is no movement on the court and with all this talent we should of swept the Celtics especially since they don’t have Perkins a key playoff player. I hope we win it all but honestly even if we do I rather have a coach players respect, whos going to respect this video coordinator who hasnt even coached a highschool basketball team? We need to start Chalmers and Anthony and have House and Jones coming off the bench. Hopefully Haslem is truly back and we have a championship team. I LOVE THE HEAT, IM A SEASON TICKET HOLDER AND I WANT EVERYONE AT THE GAME TO GO CRAZY. ENOUGH HIGH HEEL, MANICURE BS LETS TAKE IT BACK TO THE MIAMI ARENA DAYS… 305!
Less Miller time please, more House, Haslem and Chalmers
berkeley223 says:
TIME TO BRING THIS BLOG BACK!!
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May 2, 2019 May 2, 2019 gsksmo
Spotlight on 2019 Gold Award Girl Scout Twins Claire & Grace Genis
Reaching for Gold is the ultimate goal for every young Girl Scout. However, achieving the Gold Award is much more difficult than one might expect. Gold Award Girl Scouts must take all they have learned from their time as a Girl Scout and develop a project that will create sustainable lasting change in their community.
To earn a Gold Award, Girl Scouts epitomize what it means to be a G.I.R.L., by being a go-getter, an innovator, a risk-taker and a leader. These are the reasons the Gold Award is the most prestigious award for Girls in the world! Grace and Claire Genis are two Girl Scouts in the 2019 Gold Award class who have a special sisterhood beyond the Girl Scout community. They are twins!
When asked to describe their sister in three words, Claire describes Grace as “intelligent, hardworking and kind.” Grace describes Claire as “bubbly, creative and happy”. Since joining Girl Scouts in kindergarten, Grace and Claire have gone on to earn all three of the Highest Awards in Girl Scouting, the Bronze, Silver and Gold Award.
The girls still look back at the beginning of their Girl Scout journey fondly, recalling a visit to the fire station as Daisies. “The firefighters talked to us and we got a tour […] I just thought it was super cool,” Grace said. “I really liked the camp outs when we learned about astronomy and the telescopes,” Claire said.
The idea of two girls Going for Gold in one household seemed impossible but these Go-Getter Girl Scouts and their family worked together to help their local community. Claire and Grace have grown up inspired by their mother who followed her heart and works with special needs students. Her suggestions helped the girls use their own passions to form strong and innovative project plans.
Grace’s project, titled Operation Explore the World, addressed the lack of materials in her community for visually impaired students. Grace is visually impaired and built four light boxes, which are used to develop awareness of light, color and objects for students also challenged with a visual impairment. As a student who has faced the same obstacles, Grace knows the power this project will have on young kids who are just beginning their educational journey.
Claire’s project, titled Music for Everyone, addressed the lack of clubs and activities offered to special needs students in her high school. Claire developed a music club for these students and received 12 donated instruments; a total value of over $10,000 dollars. A majority of the instrument donations were supplied by Band of Angels, an organization that collects donated instruments and distributes them to children in need.
Claire and Grace implemented their leadership skills by getting their community members involved with their projects. Grace successfully recruited high school students and family members to help build lightboxes that are sturdy and will last for years. Claire recruited and organized students at her high school to teach music to special needs students each week. “Once I told [other band students] about my project, they immediately jumped in and said, ‘Hey I want to help!’” said Claire. She also inspired students to become leaders themselves and continue the music club next year after Claire graduates from high school.
By stepping out of their comfort zone and being risk-takers, the girls were able to meet people from all different walks of life. “I have made connections and relationships with people I may not have known if not for Girl Scouts” Grace said. Girl Scouts has given the Genis sisters friendships and a life-long sisterhood. “I am so humbled that I could be part of this organization from such a young age.”
After Claire and Grace graduate high school in May they plan to attend college together in the fall at Johnson County Community College. Claire plans to pursue her passion of playing music and Grace will pursue a career in nursing. The twins hope Girl Scouts who plan to Go for Gold will find a project they are truly inspired and passionate about. Claire says, “The amount of work you put into it WILL pay off! Keep [Girl] Scouting!”
Learn about all 47 of our 2019 Gold Award Girl Scouts and what they did to make our world a better place at gsksmo.org/inspire
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Earning the Highest Awards in Girl Scouting
October 19, 2018 October 19, 2018 gsksmo
What you need to know & expanded criteria
In Girl Scouting, the Bronze, Silver and Gold Award are the highest honors a girl can achieve. Each award gives girls a chance to identify an issue they’re passionate about and create lasting change within their community!
The highest awards are progressive. The earlier a girl starts the process in their applicable level, the better prepared she is to go for the next level – and the better prepared you are to support her!
As Juniors, girls work together on their Bronze Award as a troop, sharing responsibilities and practicing group decision making.
Troop 3327 from Topeka, KS made comfort kits for children undergoing cancer treatments at Children’s Mercy Hospital after one of their fellow troop member’s sister went through cancer treatment herself. After the troop did some initial research, they invited the sister to the troop meeting to help them brainstorm care package items and make a shopping list. They created five different packages based on age and included blankets and homemade cards in each kit.
Left: Guest speaker talking about her cancer treatment experience at Children’s Mercy. Right: girls making blankets for comfort kits.
As Cadettes, each girl increases her level of responsibility and can work in small groups of one to three girls to complete their Silver Award Project.
In Troop 2041 in Kansas City, MO, three Girl Scouts identified three issues that they cared about. Emma S. wanted more children to experience the joy of art so she created and sold her own pieces to purchase supplies for children at Mattie Rhodes Art Center. Avery W. educated her community on water pollution and how to keep water clean and water bills down, earning her Citizenship award in the process! Andra B. became interested in the issue of light pollution after traveling to a national park and seeing the true night sky for the first time then created a website article and is initiating conversation on the issue of human caused pollution of light.
Left: Snip it of Emma’s flier. Center: Avery selling her art. Right: Light Pollution image on Andra’s article (Photo Credit: chungking / Fotolia).
Then, as a Senior or Ambassador, a Girl Scout is ready to lead a project on her own and earn her Gold Award – the most prestigious award in the world for girls. Each year we recognize Girl Scouts who have achieved this honor and present them with their Gold Award Pin at Inspire a Girl – Expo & Gold Award Ceremony.
Taylor Edwards from Troop 506 in Lansing, KS earned her Gold Award last year after creating the Young Voters Committee at Lansing High School. She worked with her State Representative and History Teacher to create workshops educating her peers on political issues that are affecting their community and it is now a recognized school club that meets monthly reviewing issues on upcoming ballots with elected officials attending as guest speakers!
“Because of Girl Scouts I was able to find myself as a leader not only in my troop or school, but in my community,” Taylor said.
Left: Taylor with Debbie Deere, State Representative 40th Ditto, during Gold Award project. Center: Receiving her Gold Award Pin from troop leader, Carla Wiegers at Inspire a Girl. Right: Taylor in the Buck O’Neil Legacy Seat at Girl Scout Day at the K.
When girls are introduced to and practice the components of the highest awards as Juniors and Cadettes, they are best prepared to Go Gold! However, Bronze and Silver are not prerequisites for the Gold Award.
As of October 1, 2018 Girl Scouts of the USA expanded the criteria for Silver and Gold Award projects to no longer exclude Girl Scouts from being the beneficiary of a Silver or Gold Award project. It is still important for girls to go through the process of identifying and selecting the cause that is important to them. Silver and Gold Award projects should only serve Girl Scouts if the girl(s) decide that is the best audience for their project! Any projects benefiting our council or Girl Scout property will need to be approved by a GSKMO Vice President. For more information, contact TracyHull@gsksmo.org.
The Bronze and Silver Awards are approved at the troop level, there is no paperwork required on the council level once the project is complete; but we do ask that you complete the tracker so we know about your project and can potentially share your story! Upon project completion you’ll want to visit the Girl Scout Shop to get all the swag that shows your accomplishments, especially the Bronze or Silver Award pins!
Beyond sharing your troop or girls’ story with us, help them share it within their community and beyond. On social media use #gsBronzeAward, #gsSilverAward, #gsGoldAward and #gsksmo. If you have media inquiries during or after the project is complete, contact prdept@gsksmo.org so we can work with you to tell the story in those mediums.
The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards program is the United States’ largest youth recognition program based exclusively on volunteer community service and honors students in grades 5-12 for making meaningful contributions to their communities. This is a great opportunity for girls who have achieved earned any of their highest awards to potentially be recognized. In 2017, we had two Girl Scouts receive honors! 2018 applications are due November 6.
Earning these highest awards and leadership achievements is a BIG ACCOMPLISHMENT! We want all our Girls Scouts to be proud and share their accomplishments far and wide!!
Girl Scout Green was the Color of the Day at the K
July 10, 2018 July 10, 2018 gsksmo
Another Awesome GS Day at the K is a Wrap
The 2018 Girl Scout Day at the K is a wrap! Over 10,000 Girl Scouts, friends and family packed Kauffman Stadium to cheer on our Kansas City Royals as they took on the Boston Red Sox on Sunday, July 8! You didn’t have to look hard to spot Girl Scout green, vests and sashes as well as homemade signs and apparel at the K!
The Kansas City Royals made sure that everyone else in the stadium knew that it was Girl Scout Day as well!
Girl Scouts who sold 300+ boxes of Girl Scout Cookies earned 2 free tickets and the opportunity to walk around the field prior to the game! These girls were led by high achieving cookie sellers Rebecca McCreight from Spring Hill, KS, Alma Solano from Independence, MO, Joslin Ungles from Skidmore, MO and Patricia Smith from Leavenworth, KS.
Our top cookie seller (3,551 packages and the top seller for the second year in a row), Girl Scout Brownie Paige Thomas from Lee’s Summit, MO delivered the game ball to the pitcher’s mound.
(Photo by Jason Hanna/Kansas City Royals)
Our second-place seller (2,701 packages), Girl Scout Brownie Emauri Snider from Eudura, KS served as our Captain’s Club representative and accepting a game ball for our incredible ticket sales.
Photo by Jason Hanna/Kansas City Royals)
The first pitch and first catch were completed by 2018 Gold Award Girl Scouts AND top cookie sellers, Tehya Frederick from Kansas City, MO and Kresynda Robinson from Olathe, KS!
The colors were presented by the Sgt. Audie Murphy Club from Fort Leavenworth, KS with three of the four members being Girl Scout Alums!
In the Buck O’Neil Legacy Seat was Gold Award Girl Scout and National Yong Woman of Distinction nominee, Taylor Edwards from Lansing, KS. For her Gold Award project Taylor created the Young Voters Committee at Lansing High School. Taylor worked with her State Representative and History Teacher to create workshops educating her peers on political issues that are affecting their community. It’s now a recognized school club that meets monthly reviewing issues on upcoming ballots with elected officials attending as guest speakers.
Girl Scout Dad and troop leader Tech. Sgt. Robert Jennings from Whiteman Airforce Base was recognized in the Salute to Heroes seat!
Prior to the game, Caitlin Stratmann from Topeka, KS, Zia Montigny from Raymore, MO, Lily Wollum Lenexa, KS and Amara Wray from Lee’s Summit, MO, delivered a sweet snack break to Rex Hudler and Ryan Lefebvre in the Fox Sports Broadcast booth and received an autographed baseball in return!
Haley Guyer from Olathe, KS, Alana Mallen from Lone Jack, MO and Layla Bradley from Junction City, KS officially declared the start of the game by announcing “Play Ball!”
Thank you to everyone who came out and participated in 2018 Girl Scout Day at the K! We want to hear about the memories you made with your girl, family or troop, so be sure to leave those in the comments below!
Want more photos? See all our 2018 Girl Scout Day at the K photos here! Feel free to view, download, share and/or print!
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Gold Standard for Change
May 11, 2018 May 10, 2018 gsksmo
Spotlight on Gold Award Girl Scout Lauren Ingraham
Winters in the Midwest can wreak havoc on communities. It doesn’t take much rain, ice or snow for individuals to be impacted by the unfavorable conditions. Unfortunately, life must go on and we find ourselves cautiously navigating our surroundings.
For Girl Scout Ambassador Lauren Ingraham, all it took was one Midwest winter in her very own neighborhood for her Gold Award project to be born.
Lauren lives in what was anticipated to be small subdivision in Kansas City, MO. When the road was built, the city didn’t anticipate it serving more than one neighborhood. As the community grew, so did the use of the road, which rapidly became unsafe, especially in winter conditions. It was that one mild winter storm that Lauren realized that something needed to be done. There were too many cars that had gone off the road and slid into the ditches on either side of the road.
The winter storm and hazardous road conditions that inspired Lauren’s project.
“Seeing these accidents made me want to take action and help my neighborhood. I decided the best solution to this problem was to see if the road itself could be improved because it has no curbs or sidewalks,” Lauren said in her guest blog post with KC Healthy Kids. “The only way I would be able to fix the road was to convince the city of Kansas City, Missouri, to improve them. In order to do this, I would have to petition the Public Improvements Advisory Committee (PIAC).”
PIAC is a group of 13 individuals representing six Kansas City council districts appointed by the mayor and City Council.
While many might find this task daunting, Lauren did not! She got to work gathering data, writing letters and gathering support with the help of KC Healthy Kids. She presented her proposal at the PIAC meeting and received a positive response, including one from of Sara Loar, daughter of council-woman Teresa Loar. Sara was inspired by Lauren’s proposal and coached Lauren through her speech and the process of working with her local government.
Left: Lauren & Sara Loar. Right: Lauren presenting at the PIAC meeting.
Lauren’s proposal was ultimately supported by the PIAC committee and was sent to the City Council where they just recently approved the project and granted funding for the road to be repaired. Construction on the road will start sometime this summer or fall and is slated to be completed by next year!
“Even though I am a teenager and not yet old enough to vote, everyone has been genuinely supportive that I was speaking out for something that makes my neighborhood unsafe. I encourage all kids to do the same. If you see a problem in your neighborhood, speak out and get help to get it fixed!”
Lauren’s Gold Award project has inspired her to become more involved and use her voice in the political arena. She’s now volunteering on a Missouri State senate campaign and plans to be involved in a U.S. Senate campaign this fall!
Civic engagement is one of Girl Scouts’ four focus areas. Through the G.I.R.L. Agenda, Girl Scouts of the USA is providing tools and support to encourage Girl Scouts, like Lauren, to be a catalyst for change within their own communities. The Civic Action Toolkit is available for Girl Scouts of all ages as well as volunteers!
“Because of Girl Scouts I have learned that you don’t have to be an adult or someone in a position of power to make a difference in your community,” Lauren said.
On April 14, 2018 we celebrated and recognized 60 Gold Award Girl Scouts! You can read about all of their projects here!
Girl Scouts Shine Bright
April 25, 2018 April 24, 2018 gsksmo
Spotlight on our 2018 Beth Winters Scholarship Recipients
Beth Winters was a passionate Girl Scout; she loved camping, traveling and was part of Girl Scouts of the USA’s “Leadership Today and Tomorrow” program as a girl member. Beth was the kind of person who wanted to know everything about everything and she attended the University of Missouri where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in Journalism.
Just four years after graduating college, Beth was tragically killed in a car accident.
Upon her passing, Beth’s Mother Joyce Termini and brother Chip began thinking of ways to honor and remember her. With Beth’s passion for continuing education and her love of Girl Scouts, a scholarship for graduating Girl Scouts in seemed like the perfect fit. “This was exactly the right answer,” is how Joyce describes starting the scholarship in 1995.
Over the past 22 years, the Beth Winters Memorial Scholarship has provided 32 scholarships totaling more than $50,000 to Gold Award Girl Scouts from our council. This year, we were honored to recognize three Beth Winters Memorial Scholarship recipients at Inspire at Girl on April 14, 2018.
Emily Musembi, Joyce Termini, Isabella Barnes, Chloe Rothery and Chip Winters
Isabella Barnes
Isabella’s Gold Award project addressed lack of literacy and emphasis on fostering the love of learning in at-risk communities in Kansas City. Prior to the sessions, children would spend time on their phones during Harvesters-sponsored Kid’s Café, only to return to their computers after their meals. After observing a few sessions of Kid’s Café in the summer of 2016, Isabella realized that their time could be put to better use, and could be a catalyst for change.
Isabella worked with the Bluford Branch of the Kansas City Public Library and the Kid’s Café to plan and execute the interdisciplinary literacy outreach program using arts-based curriculum. These bi-monthly sessions will continue to happen and Isabella is currently training another youth facilitator!
Emily Musembi
Emily’s Gold Award project addressed the memory preservation and overall wellbeing for survivors of domestic abuse. In many situations, survivors have to leave quickly and cannot take personal items like scrapbooks, art and journals. This program provided them with art supplies to help them express themselves while recording memories and helping them start a new life. For children, the art supplies allowed them to create works of art that could help define their new spaces as “home.”
Emily worked with Synergy Services, local Girl Scouts and a teacher to gather supplies, share the program and plan the events. Her program will be made available to future coordinators who may want to recreate the project through instructions, a video and the supplies Emily donated. She learned to project manage, gather donations and lead a program through this process. She hopes that the project will be shared with other shelters and the video will inspire others to recreate the program. Through art, survivors can find healing and a way to begin a new life and record positive experiences that make wonderful memories and scrapbooks.
Chloe Rothery
Chloe’s Gold Award project addressed the lack of awareness about opportunities in science classes and career pathways at Liberty High School. Working with local 8th graders, Chloe set-up a fair for them to learn about the opportunities available in high school and spark excitement about science. She asked fellow high school students to set up booths and talk about their classes and future careers. Many included interactive displays and experiments.
Chloe worked with her high school and Liberty Middle School to coordinate the 8th grade attendees and the fair. Her fellow high school students loved sharing their love of science with the middle schoolers and she found that the excitement translated to the younger students as planned. While most answered “no” when asked if they’d considered a career in science when they arrived, a large number said “yes” by the time they left! She hopes that this excitement will encourage more students to go into sciences for their careers, leading to a more robust STEM pipeline in the future!
Thank you to Joyce, Chip and Beth’s friends and family for making this scholarship possible!
We are excited to announce that an additional scholarship will be available in 2019 for graduating Girl Scouts form our council! This new scholarship is being sponsored by Highest Award Alum and Lifetime Member, Connie Davis and more information will be available soon!
Read how the other 57 Gold Award Girl Scouts are making an impact on our community here!
Interested in learning more about how you can start a scholarship for Girl Scouts? Contact Vanessa Van Goethem-Piela at Vanessa@gsksmo.org or 816-759-3072.
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Take Action – Change the World – Inspire Others
Wrapping Up 2018 Inspire a Girl
What a truly inspiring day we had on April 14 at the Overland Park Convention Center! Girl Scouts, volunteers, alums and supporters joined us to celebrate our 60 Gold Award Girl Scouts!
These young women have made an extraordinary impact on their communities through the Gold Award. Each Girl Scout completed a Take Action project with a minimum of 80 hours in planning and implementation. They have created lasting change through sustainable projects and their impact will be felt for years to come. Their Take Action projects included STEM kits for Children’s Mercy, education workshops on local political issues and reading programs for the underserved, just to name a few. Read about all of their projects here!
We kicked off the day with a special breakfast for Gold Award Girl Scouts and program investors, hosted by GSKSMO CEO Joy Wheeler. Girls were joined by our very special guest, creator of Willow Tree and artist/maker, Susan Lordi! Each Gold Award Girl Scout received her new Willow Tree piece, “Butterfly,” to remind them that they are the ultimate Butterfly – resilient, determined, courageous and beautiful, courtesy of DEMDACO!
To encourage Girl Scouts to “Shine Bright like a G.I.R.L.”, they visited a combination of Community Partner and GSKSMO Program booths, to collect a Go-Getter, Innovator, Risk-Taker and Leader sticker for their card! Activities included digitally connected instruments made from everyday objects with Google Fiber, Play60 games with the Kansas City Chiefs, building towers with Kansas Children’s Discovery Center and painting kindness rocks with Treehouse Art Studio, just to name a few!
Upstairs Girl Scouts visited Bronze and Silver Award Girl Scouts, collecting their respective starburst sticker! They completed their activity card by visiting with at least four Gold Award Girl Scouts and earned their Inspire a Girl patch!
Our very special guest, Gold Award Alum, Miss Teen USA and keynote for the Gold Award Ceremony, Sophia Dominguez-Heithoff joined in on the G.I.R.L expo fun and did a special photo op with Girl Scouts before heading into the ballroom to celebrate the stars of the day, our Gold Award Girl Scouts.
This extraordinary day culminated with our Gold Award Ceremony where the Gold Award Girl Scouts officially received their Gold Award Pin and the Beth Winters Memorial Scholarship was presented to Isabella Barnes, Emily Musembi and Chloe Rothery.
The ceremony was keynoted by Sophia, who shared her story of “Shining Bright like a G.I.R.L.” Her message was powerful and she encouraged girls to hold onto their Girl Scout roots and use them as a platform and springboard to continue creating change within their communities, wherever they may go.
Left: Beth Winters Memorial Scholarship Recipients, Emily Musembi, Isabella Barnes and Chloe Rothery. Center: Gold Award Girl Scout MaKynzee Gaddy with her Pinners. Right: Sophia Dominguez-Heithoff delivering the keynote.
As Dr. Seuss so greatly said, “Congratulations, today is your day. You’re off to great places! You’re off and away!”
See all the photos from the day, the Gold Award Take Action Project video and Sophia’s Keynote on our webpage.
We want to hear how you were inspired at Inspire a Girl, so leave us a comment below!
A SmART Gold Award Girl Scout
Inspiring today youth is one of the best ways to make a lasting impact on the world. When Girl Scout Grace Brunner decided to answer the call to Take Action, she wanted it to be with a project that connects underserved children with arts education. Working with Avenue of Life in Kansas City, KS, Grace established Camp SmART for underserved children to help them develop art and critical thinking skills through arts education.
This project grew out of a love for arts education and a passion for helping other kids get the same experiences she got as a kid. “Even though I’m not pursuing a career in arts education, I learned a lot as a kid from it and I’ve been involved with arts organizations,” Grace said. By providing arts programs to kids in areas with limited funding means Grace is putting the power of education in the hands of kids who may otherwise not have access to it. That’s the power of the Gold Award – a Girl Scout learning to lead while improving her community!
Grace with students at Camp SmART!
“I had some of the best art teachers in the world and I can’t imagine getting to where I am now without those teachers and opportunities,” Grace said. After doing research on the improvements students have in academic testing when exposed to art, Grace felt exposing young students to the arts would help them across the board in their educational pursuits. By improving their connection with the arts, it could have a positive impact on their information processing and critical thinking skills.
For her arts camp, Grace had students come daily over winter break and take art classes at Avenue of Life. The students did painting and other artistic activities while surrounded by encouraging instructors. Thanks to her project, students had a fun, art-filled winter break!
Not only did the camp fill a need for students in KCK, it gave Grace a better understanding of the needs of students in underserved communities. “It was a new experience for me because, growing up in Blue Valley, I had so many educational opportunities available to me. When we did this camp, I saw the students were from districts that are underfunded, some were homeless and were coming to camp while their parents went to food kitchens. It was a very different experience than what I grew up with,” Grace said.
Grace Brunner as a young Girl Scout through Ambassador!
Earning the Gold Award has been the pinnacle of Grace’s amazing Girl Scout journey. Starting as a Kindergartener, she got to experience field trips, working with a group and building a support system that all came together through working on her Gold Award project. “I love Girl Scouts because we have so many opportunities [… such as] leadership experiences, outdoor opportunities, the chance to be entrepreneurs. It’s just so much programming that people don’t even realize,” Grace said.
“Through the Gold Award, I found an inner leadership and strength I didn’t know was there,” Grace said. With all her incredible work on her Gold Award under her belt and years of Girl Scouting to prepare her, Grace is now excelling at the University of Kansas, volunteering as Director of Hospital and Family Relations for KU Dance Marathon, a charity by students at KU. She’s also serving as an intern for Kansas House Representative Koesten! Talk about a G.I.R.L. (Go-getter, Innovator, Risk-taker, Leader)™
We couldn’t be more proud of Grace or her incredible work through Girl Scouts to serve her community! You can meet Grace and our awesome 2018 Gold Award Girl Scout class at Inspire a Girl on Saturday, April 14th!
Stepping into Leadership
April 10, 2018 April 9, 2018 gsksmo
A Spotlight on Gold Award Girl Scout Abby Bidwell
This year we are truly honored to celebrate 60 Gold Award Girl Scouts during the biggest party of the year, Inspire a Girl! These girls have completed outstanding projects addressing needs in their communities. As these girls worked to go Gold, they put in countless hours to execute a plan and conduct research to leave their mark as a Girl Scout.
Girl Scout Ambassador Abby Bidwell understood what it would take to achieve the Gold Award, after earning both the Bronze and Silver Awards she was not afraid to take on the challenge.
When Abby discovered a student council program was not offered to the students at Tiffany Ridge Elementary, she instantly wanted to come up with something that would encourage 5th graders to begin stepping into leadership roles preparing them for middle school. She decided the best way to tackle the issue was to create the Emerging Leaders club.
Not only would the club help students learn the importance of being leaders in their community but as the club’s creator and ambassador, Abby would help students develop skills in public speaking and team work while they improved work ethic. Emerging Leaders students were able to work closely together to plan spirit assemblies for Tiffany Ridge Elementary. Abby led as a risk-taking Girl Scout by helping her students create a huge change in the school community, implementing student-led assemblies at the elementary level.
The impact of the first assembly was reported to Abby following a conversation she had with one of the teachers, “the next day, a second grader told their teacher he wanted to try really hard to have perfect attendance so his name can be called at the next assembly,” Abby said.
Abby did not anticipate the impact Emerging Leaders would have on the younger student or herself. She stated, “I’m inspiring 5th graders, while they are inspiring everyone else.” Later in her project she decided to create an Emerging Leaders manual providing the parent letter, an application and t-shirt permission slips along with every meeting agenda. With the hopes of encouraging other people to sponsor Emerging Leaders in different schools, Abby provided all 10 elementary schools in Park Hill High School District with a manual.
Assembly at Tiffany Ridge Elementary School
“I hope to see more students interested in leadership and more teachers and parents supporting student leadership in the future,” she said.
To share their story, Emerging Leaders had the opportunity to sit down with Channel 18 news for an interview. In the interview, members of Emerging Leaders expressed what they learned throughout the year and how they felt their skills would impact them in the future.
“Emerging Leaders has helped me become who I want to be and who I strive to be every day, and to be the leader I want to be when I grow up.” Lydia Keller shared. By educating students and parents about the importance of student leadership, the students of Emerging Leaders plan to apply to be a part of their middle and high school Student Council.
With the help of Tiffany Ridge’s principal, Mr. Fitzmorris, Abby has put 110 hours into her Gold Award project and will continue to work with the kids of Emerging Leaders to influence more guidance among the younger generation.
“I told my 5th graders that this is a place where they are the leaders and here, they don’t have to wait for a teacher or parent to tell them what to do. They get to decide.”
As Abby worked through her Gold Award project she had the chance to experience what it would be like to be a teacher. Getting the experience to email parents, work with the students and be their teacher for a few hours out of the week, Abby discovered her passion for teaching and established her desired career path. She plans to be a secondary education teacher and is considering the Peace Corps to impact students internationally through her teaching.
“Being a leader is fun, but having our voice heard and being part of making something happen is amazing!”
Congratulations on earning your Gold Award, Abby! We’re excited to celebrate you and the 59 other Gold Award Girl Scouts at Inspire a Girl on April 14!
A Sisterhood that Defies All Boundaries
March 30, 2018 April 2, 2018 gsksmo
Spotlight on Gold Award Girl Scout, Faith Endsley
The Girl Scout Gold Award is the most prestigious award in the world for girls, the most difficult to earn and it’s only attainable by Girl Scouts. The Gold Award requires a Girl Scout to identify an issue that is important to her and her community. She researches, plans, presents and takes action, spending no less than 80 hours on a project that will be sustainable within her community.
When Girl Scout Ambassador Faith Endsley started thinking about going Gold, she knew exactly what she wanted to do to improve the community that she is a part of.
Faith is a member of Girls Night Out (GNO), a social skills and self-care program for adolescent girls with autism and other developmental disabilities through the University of Kansas Medical System. Through GNO, girls who have autism are paired up with a mentor, a girl who does not have autism for one year. Throughout that year they get together for monthly activities like movie outings, shopping events, spa nights and holiday parties, just to name a few. However, when that year is over the mentors and participants are considered alumni and the program is just over for those girls. There weren’t next steps or resources for those girls who had spent a year making friends, interpreting social cues, learning personal hygiene, working on their eye contact and other things that those with autism struggle with.
That wasn’t something that set well with Faith who was diagnosed with autism at the age of 3. So, for her Gold Award project, she put together a plan to expand the GNO program far beyond that first year.
“I’ve learned things like self-care skills, how to dress and social skills [because of GNO],” Faith said.
Faith worked closely with the founder of the program and her community advisor, Dr. Jamison to put together multiple resources for GNO program alumni. One of the resources was an application for girls to complete that would better match them with others of similar interests.
“It’s hard sometimes for girls with autism to make friends,” Faith said.
This application will allow girls to be matched with other girls based on shared interests, removing the sometimes awkward step of finding common ground when trying to make a new friend with autism.
The second part of her project was to create a catalog of activities that girls could reference when planning activities. Faith spent hours researching and compiling a wide variety of activities being sure to include time of year, location, cost and other details that are important in selecting activities to do with friends.
“I want to see girls connecting, making and keeping friends because they’re doing things together that they’re both interested in [through Girls Night Out],” she said.
Lastly, she put together a presentation for Dr. Jamison to be able to use to tell the GNO story. She will be used at conferences to encourage her colleagues across the country to start similar programs and be shared with potential donors to garner additional support for the program.
At this point, Faith has put more than 160 hours into her Gold Award project and still working with Dr. Jamison to get everything hosted online and distributed to the alumni.
Girls Night Out Participants
Community service is something that Faith is passionate about and Faith’s mom, Christie Endsley credits the structure of her Girl Scout meetings these past eight years for fostering this passion within Faith. Each month the troop would have one meeting of a fun activity, a meeting that involved a badge lesson and a meeting that would be community service.
Just this week, Faith made and donated 14 pet blankets to KC Pet Project and she regularly folds origami and fills it with candy, delivering to police and fire stations and emergency rooms on all the major holidays.
“It makes me feel good to help others,” Faith said.
In addition to the Gold Award, Faith has also earned the Girl Scout Silver and Bronze Awards. Her community service has earned her the Bronze Presidential Medal of Service and the Gold Presidential Medal of Service – skipping right over the Silver!
Faith will graduate from Staley High School in May with a 3.88 GPA and all the honors mentioned above.
“I want to be a medical laboratory technologist,” Faith proudly said.
Right now she’s looking at two options following graduation. She’s applied to Project Search at Children’s Mercy Hospital, a program that allows students to experience what a career in the medical field is like before deciding to pursue that education path. Her second option is to attend Maple Woods Community College where she’s earned herself two years of free tuition through the A+ program because of her outstanding academic performance.
Faith as Brownie, Junior and Ambassador!
“[When she was diagnosed with autism] the doctors said she wouldn’t have a sense of humor. Anyone who knows her knows how funny she is! They weren’t sure she would talk or be social. They didn’t think she would have any empathy. It was very gloomy diagnosis,” Christie Endsley explained. “Here she is doing community service like crazy! She’s excelled past all expectations, medically and personally.”
“I plan to be a lifetime Girl Scout member and remain active with Girl Scouts. I will participate in GNO Connections as a founder, member, coordinator and supporter. It’s good to have positive girl groups to belong to. It gives me a sisterhood I do not get anywhere else.”
Join us on April 14 at Inspire a Girl where we will celebrate Faith and our 59 other Gold Award Girl Scouts. If you stop by Faith’s display, she might just have a special treat for you…
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Going Gold in the North & West Regions
February 8, 2018 February 9, 2018 gsksmo
The projects are done, the paperwork is in and excitement is brewing for Inspire a Girl! On April 14 we will honor sixty, (6-0!!!) Girl Scouts who completed their Gold Award Project and earned the highest award in Girl Scouting this year! This is the largest Gold Award Girl Scout class in recent history and it includes nine Girl Scouts from our council’s West & North regions! This group of young women have spent more than 800 hours giving back to their communities. From creating literacy programs to community improvement projects and educational programs, these Girl Scouts have achieved the highest honor she can earn, the Gold Award!
Skylar Clark, Atchison, KS
Troop 8184, Service Unit 801
Train Depot – For her Gold Award project, Skylar Clark wanted to encourage local children to learn about their town’s history and have fun while doing it! She worked with the Atchison Chamber of Commerce and the Northeast Kansas Railroad Association to breathe new life into Atchison’s Train Depot. With the help of some friends and family members she did some painting at the depot and planted a brand new garden. After that, she hosted an educational workshop for children to learn about trains.
“I feel more connected to my community through the service that I’ve done for it.”
Werthen Gass, Trenton, MO
NomNom ReadRead – Werthen Gass saw a need for additional literacy programs for young children, specifically those living in poverty. In her experience, those children were not prepared to become readers because they lacked resources in their life to provide the necessary equipment. To address the issue, she created the NomNom ReadRead YouTube channel in conjunction with the Trenton High School Key Club and Jewett Norris Library. She shared this resource with teachers and got their support to use the program within their own classrooms. To-date, she has 1,144 subscribers to the channel and nearly 1 million views!
“Through this project I realized that some kids never see any print in their homes. As a result, I developed a deeper sense of the world around me and I resolved to give the gift of reading to others.”
Latorrie Johnson, Trenton, MO
Recycling on a Rural Community Level – Over the past few years, Latorrie Johnson noticed that the recycling had decreased in her rural town of Trenton, MO. To promote recycling on a local level she collected old bins and repurposed them into recycling bins and encouraged attendees to use them at community events. Latorrie also created a flier and passed it out at the local health fair and ran an article in the local newspaper to raise awareness about the importance of recycling!
“I have developed values such as persistency, determination, to work hard and never give up.”
Katelyn Kesinger, Atchison, KS
American Flag Etiquette – Katelyn Kessinger wanted to educate her community on how to properly dispose of an American Flag. She worked with the Daughter of the American Revolution to create an education program that taught others how to hold an American Flag Retirement Ceremony and created a brochure that people could take away and refer to in the future.
“I learned that I just need to be more confident in myself and everything will go just fine!”
E’Lizabeth (Elle) Neal, Trenton, MO
Preserving Trenton High School – Elle Neal saw a need for the digitization of her high school’s past yearbooks. The district didn’t have the capacity to do the work, so Elle stepped up. She collected yearbooks and scanned the thousands of pages to create a digital version of each one. She then created a website where the yearbooks would be accessible to alumni who are now living all around the world!
“I felt accomplished with the simple difference I made and I will try to continue to make a difference, no matter how little or big.”
Miranda Wagner, Atchison, KS
Forest of Friendship; Make It Known – In Atchison, KS is an International Forest of Friendship that was a gift from the City of Atchison and the international organization of women pilots, the Ninety-Nines that had been neglected by the community for quite some time. Miranda took it upon herself to not only revitalize it, but create programming around the history of the forest and educate her community. She planted perennial flowers, created fact sheets and an educational scavenger hunt and installed a weather-proof box to make her resources available to all visitors. She promoted her project on the local radio station and held an event during the forest’s annual flag ceremony!
“Through my project I have shown how much one person can impact the world.”
Samantha Hall , Manhattan, KS
Conversation about Conservation – Samantha Hall’s Gold Award project focused on the conservation of animals by focusing on the ways humans unknowingly harm the environment around them. She created a program centered around the palm oil crisis. Palm oil is a common item in household cleaning products that displaces and harms animals every day. She worked with the Manhattan Sunset Zoo, creating backpack kits that visitors can check out and learn about ways they can easily help with animal conservation!
“I developed a stronger sense of self throughout this project. It made me take charge in ways that I haven’t before, prompting me to figure out how I work with people and the best way to get things done.”
Samantha Edwards, Sabetha, KS
Birds of Prey Awareness – Samantha Edwards wanted to change the negative perception birds of prey have by educating people on the positive ways they impact the environment and ecosystem. Samantha created a presentation and website with interesting facts, benefits of their existence and how humans can help them thrive. She also created bird swag bags containing bird seed and trading cards. Her presentation and information will continue through efforts of her school and community library.
“I feel that my confidence will grow tremendously because this project showed me that I can speak my mind and that anything is possible of you put your mind to it. I set a goal and I accomplished it.”
Kelly Wichmann, Manhattan, KS
Bike to School Day – Kelly Wichmann’s Gold award project started when she realized that her school parking lot was overflowing. She thought about the impact that all those cars had on the environment and decided to create a Bike to School day to help the environment while encouraging her peers to be active. Included in her project was work to update and better the bike racks at her school to encourage her classmates to consider bicycling as a form of transportation every day, not just on one day!
“I know the assertiveness in which I built upon during the project will definitely be of great importance as I move on to my college years.”
Make plans to join us at Inspire a Girl on April 14 at the Overland Park Convention Center as we celebrate our entire 2018 Gold Award Girl Scout Class with a hands-on Expo and Honors Ceremony where they will officially receive their Gold Award Pin!
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shocking stuff....what a rubbish game...dublin supporters leaving when they are 15 mins away from WINNING a Leinster final...where else would you find it?..the monster has indeed been created
mayotyroneman (Tyrone) - Posts: 1742 - 23/06/2019 17:24:57 2199094
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Replying To Ulsterman: "The Association should take a long hard look, this is the future of Gaelic football and the game will die if drastic action isn't taken. The crowds are staying away and people are bored stiff now. Turgid, turgid rubbish but you can't blame Meath who just want to keep the score down. The GAA have created a monster in Dublin that they can't, or more likely don't want to control. The game is dying a death."
All the "money", "unfair funding", "population" cannot be blamed for a team not having the ability to kick very scorable chances and frees. Meath shooting is shocking and adds weight to the GAA's view of counties looking at their own coaching of basic skills. Today's match shows something beyond "unfairness" is an issue in Leinster. Cutting Dublin's €1.3million will not result in other teams having the basic skills to compete overnight. What has happened a big, successful, traditional county like Meath? I'm afraid the GAA are correct when questioning coaching practices in some counties. You cannot blame Dublin for this!
sam1884 (UK) - Posts: 545 - 23/06/2019 17:26:40 2199097
Utterly pathetic performance from Meath. I think they may reevaluate their opinion of themselves after that. Obviously put everything into the league when teams weren't at full throttle
JJ1 (Kildare) - Posts: 541 - 23/06/2019 17:27:43 2199099
Replying To Whammo86: "How do you say something like that? Dublin hammered Kildare in the semifinals."
Kildare "only" lost by 15 points and at least we scored 11 points.
jimski (Kildare) - Posts: 338 - 23/06/2019 17:34:35 2199105
You could at least attribute some sort of blame to whoever in the meath setup picks the shooting drills at training
ctowers (Dublin) - Posts: 77 - 23/06/2019 17:34:58 2199106
I think I justified not attending. Most meath fans stayed away too. I presume the GAA will provide meath with 1.5m a year in funding now. We need it more then Dublin.
Jack_Goff (Meath) - Posts: 2920 - 23/06/2019 17:35:16 2199107
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Any chance Jim Gavin fancies a challenge in Ireland's 2nd city? Even he must be getting bored at this stage
SaffronDon (Antrim) - Posts: 1801 - 23/06/2019 17:35:32 2199108
Jaysus that was a poor match. Dubs at a canter
11jm11 (Kildare) - Posts: 333 - 23/06/2019 17:37:41 2199111
Well, congratulations Dublin, I suppose. Not much to celebrate from that game, but you can only play the team on front of you. Meath were tragic.
festinog (Galway) - Posts: 2769 - 23/06/2019 17:37:42 2199112
Meath are pathetic- Absolutely useless To only score 4 points against The dubs in second gear - London would have done better.
FrankAnnyalla (Monaghan) - Posts: 320 - 23/06/2019 17:38:08 2199115
Another nail in the coffin of Gaelic football.
greysoil (Monaghan) - Posts: 690 - 23/06/2019 17:39:06 2199118
Replying To Jack_Goff: "I think I justified not attending. Most meath fans stayed away too. I presume the GAA will provide meath with 1.5m a year in funding now. We need it more then Dublin."
Shame on you Jack, abandoning our lads.
Htaem (Meath) - Posts: 8299 - 23/06/2019 17:39:36 2199120
The scoreline doesn't tell the full story. Meath actually matched Dublin for long periods of that game, just couldn't score. Every wide flattened the belief further, can't get anything going when you can't hit a barn door. Woeful shooting from very score-able positions. 4 out of 21 chances taken.
It's a psychology ingrained in this team for the past few years. When the chips are down, Meath wilt, and no leader stands out to drive the team. Cruising against Donegal, collapse. Had Tyrone beaten last year, collapse. Same story for years. Have the players, can cut out alot of Dublin's a attacks, can match them in open play for long periods, but no leaders to stand up to the occasion when the pressure comes on
32_4_1 (Meath) - Posts: 4116 - 23/06/2019 17:40:17 2199123
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Well done to the Dubs, fabolous team in fairness, I think we were a bit nervous and left the kicking boots on the bus but we'll learn from it.
Dubs are well deserved winners, a joy to watch, well done.
I think we can rebound though and I'll be there the next day shouting the boys on. UP DA ROYAL!!
Replying To jimski: "Kildare "only" lost by 15 points and at least we scored 11 points."
Oh right, do you want a medal for being Leinster's "second best team"? Kildare were beaten from the first minute. Meath acquitted themselves far better than Kildare over 70 minutes in open play, just the shooting was turgid.
Forwards really let us down. Such poor finishing.
Dublin just cruising. Fenton really should been black carded for the hand trip as Jones went through on goal. And Mannion's Neymar theatrics at the start were a bit disappointing.
Just depressing. Suppose we just need more volunteers and then everything will be fine.
HighKings (Meath) - Posts: 207 - 23/06/2019 17:46:11 2199130
Well done Dublin. Most unlike ye in the first half though. Meath were an absolute joke. There is no excuse for how bad they were in front of the posts today. You cannot blame Dublin or anyone else on that. Well you can but it would be complete deflection and not addressing your own inadequacies of which you have plenty.
lilylanger (Kildare) - Posts: 396 - 23/06/2019 17:47:55 2199131
Didn't think Meath could be as bad as that.
McEntee liooked stunned at the end.
Hard to see Meath recover from that
carlovia (None) - Posts: 1012 - 23/06/2019 17:48:23 2199132
Replying To JJ1: "Utterly pathetic performance from Meath. I think they may reevaluate their opinion of themselves after that. Obviously put everything into the league when teams weren't at full throttle"
Looks that way alright, Offaly should have beaten them in the first round. Today was embarrassing to watch no matter who they playing and Dublin were even off colour today.
They look like the worst of the provincial finalists.
county man (Limerick) - Posts: 1082 - 23/06/2019 17:48:29 2199133
Race to the bottom lad, you either win or lose, no pride in the margin of loss!
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This week I reached out for a Big Brunch Burger, part of the new Ultimate Steakburgers lineup at America's 24/7 breakfast bar, IHOB (note the name change), with 1,800 restaurants dotting all 50 states.
That's "IHOB," for the time being. Did you fall for the publicity stunt? The iconic pancake chain will resume its well-worn, familiar IHOP name in about a month, when the ad campaign runs its course. The IHOB ruse was to draw attention to its new burgers. The idea is IHOP is more than a breakfast nook, it's an all-purpose, full-menu diner, IHOP wants a piece of America's obsession with burgers.
Thing is, IHOP has always served burgers, right from opening day in 1958. They're just getting serious about burgers now, and they mean business — at the cash register on your way out.
A temporary name change isn't exactly new: Remember when Prince went by an unpronounceable symbol from 1993 to 2000? Roseanne Barr altered her closing credit to Roseanne Arnold during her 1990-1994 marriage to actor Tom Arnold. Kentucky Fried Chicken changed to KFC in 1991 and back to Kentucky Fried Chicken in 2006.
Here's the Big Brunch Burger breakdown: a 1/4-pound patty of 100-percent USDA Black Angus beef, hickory-smoked bacon, fried egg, American cheese, golden hash browns and IHOP's signature sauce on a toasted bun.
Total calories: 1,040. Fat grams: 61. Sodium: 2,210 mg. Carbs: 43 g. Dietary fiber: 1 g. Served with unlimited fries. Manufacturer's suggested retail price: $11.99.
The Big Brunch is breakfast and lunch on a bun, with calories and price to match. It lives up to its billing, it's big, and my new favorite thing on the IHOP menu. Tied for second: the Colorado Omelette and all-you-can-eat pancakes. (If they ever build a fast food hall of fame, IHOP's legendary buttermilk pancakes are a first-ballot lock.)
IHOP/IHOB doesn't miss a trick with the Big Brunch — this goes for the rest of its Ultimate Steakburgers. It starts with a hunk of Black Angus beef, tossed on a flat grill and smushed with a spatula so the edges get crispy. That's how a burger is supposed to be cooked, with a little crunch on the first bite.
A few years ago, at a joint called The Bird in Hamburg, I tried my first burger with an egg on top. I was hooked. IHOP's egg on the Big Brunch is perfect, fried over-easy so the yolk is runny and covers the burger patty. It's a delicious, oozy mess. Just push the napkin dispenser to my side of the table.
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Here are the other Ultimate Steakburgers: The Classic ($6.99), Cowboy BBQ ($10.99), Jalapeno Kick ($10.99), The Classic with Bacon ($9.99), Mushroom & Swiss ($9.99) and Mega Monster Double ($11.99).
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Louisville guard Lamarr Kimble (0) tries to pass after falling with Texas Tech forward TJ Holyfield (22) and Texas Tech guard Avery Benson (24) defending him during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in the Jimmy V Classic, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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By RUSS BROWN, Kentucky Today
A college basketball story in the New York Times Tuesday morning had this headline: "Louisville and Ohio State Are Soaring."
No more, at least in one case. Before the day ended, U of L (9-1) had come back to earth with a thud as unranked Texas Tech (6-3) pulled off a stunning 70-57 upset in the Jimmy V Classic in Madison Square Garden and more than likely ended the Cardinals' two-week reign at No. 1.
U of L became the fourth team to lose as No. 1, so now No. 2 Kansas or No. 3 Ohio State will probably take over the top spot when the new polls are released next Monday.
"I think it just means it's a great year for college basketball," Texas Tech coach Chris Beard said of the revolving door at number one.
U of L had won two games as the top-ranked team, beating No. 4 Michigan and Pittsburgh, but couldn't overcome the gutsy play of Texas Tech, which was 0-6 all-time against No. 1 teams and staggered into the Big Apple on a three-game losing streak.
It was no fluke. The Red Raiders dominated the game despite being young, outsized and shorthanded by virtue of playing without their leading scorer, freshman guard Jahmi'us Ramsey (17.3 ppg).
Didn't matter. As ESPN commentator Jay Bilas pointed out often throughout the game, Texas Tech was stronger, tougher and played harder. He would get no argument on that count from disgusted U of L coach Chris Mack, who kept his players in the locker room for 20 minutes afterwards.
For their effort, the Red Raiders were rewarded with a standing ovation from the Garden crowd for the second year in a row, duplicating the appreciation they got last season after upsetting Duke, which turned out to be a harbinger of their NCAA Tournament run that resulted in a runnerup finish to Virginia.
It was far from the Louisville team that had shown up throughout November and early this month. The Cards' offense was terrible. They rushed shots and were so sloppy with the ball that they committed a season-high 19 turnovers that Texas Tech converted into 18 points. U of L shot a season-low 34.0 percent on 18-of-53, including 3-of-17 from 3-point land.
Point guard Darius Perry committed six turnovers and didn't have a single assist. Jordan Nwora was 4-of-16 overall and 1-of-7 from beyond the arc while scoring a season-low 14 points. Steven Enoch was U of L's only other double-figure scorer with 10 points, but he got just eight shots because the Cards mysteriously ignored him for most of the evening.
But a stagnant offense wasn't the Cards' only problem. They also missed block-outs and were lackadaisical too often on defense.
"We didn't play very well," Mack said, vastly understating his team's poor performance. "Early in the game when we got a seven-point lead we were getting a ton of defensive stops and we just couldn't convert on them. We made some ill-advised decisions, we charged on a couple of two-on-ones, we took a couple quick shots.
“We really didn't test their defense and really set the wrong tone on offense. You give credit to Texas Tech, I think they're a terrific defensive team. Our defensive intensity after our offense was letting us down was really disappointing. We've talked about staying in games no matter what your offense did and tonight we could never really get our offense going.
"I think (the charges) mess with your psyche, but we have to be more mature, continue to drive the ball, be under control when we get there and we didn't do that. We took bad shots like we had a lot of underclassmen on the floor instead of upperclassmen. We've talked ad nauseum about when you have bad offensive nights where you can't get going, you've got to believe in your defense and play inspired basketball, and for the first time all year, I felt we really let our guard down on that end of the floor, feeling sorry for ourselves. We've got to grow from this as disappointing as it is."
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"He's a three-year player for us, that's what he's supposed to do," Beard said of Benson. "I have confidence in all our players, but Avery certainly answered the bell tonight."
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"Our effort was there, our energy was there," said Beard, whose team was No. 11 in the preseason poll but dropped out after its first two losses. "I told our players before the game that we didn't have to be better than Louisville, we just had to be better tonight. We dropped out of the top-25 quick, but we're pretty good. I hope people remember."
U of L trailed for all but the first 6 1/2 minutes of the game. Back-to-back 3-pointers by Moretti staked the Red Raiders to a 47-36 lead with 11:43 left. An 8-1 spurt narrowed the gap to 48-44, but the Cards could get no closer and Texas Tech pulled away again in the last four minutes.
The Cards will have a few days to regroup before hosting Eastern Kentucky at noon Saturday in the KFC Yum! Center.
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MSU Homecoming Week Events Planned
By Ashley Hanley|2019-09-27T05:28:24-06:00September 27th, 2019|
Minnesota State University, Mankato will hold its annual Homecoming week from Monday, Sept. 30-Saturday, Oct. 5, with “Land of 120,000 Mavericks” being the 2019 theme.
University and student activities throughout the week are open to the public. A partial list of events occurring throughout the week includes:
On Monday from 9-10:20 a.m. in the Performing Arts Building’s Room 126, Minnesota State Mankato’s Dance Program invites the public to attend a free master’s class on Nepalese Classical and Folk Dance taught by Parisha Rajbhandari.
On Monday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the Centennial Student Union Mall is a “Meet Your Royalty Candidates,” as well as a dunk tank and interactive art exhibit.
Monday evening events, free and open to the public, begin at 8 p.m. behind Blakeslee Stadium with a 25-foot bonfire. A 15-minute fireworks show will begin at 10 p.m. There will also be free food, a photo booth, games and more.
Public parking for Monday evening events will be available in Lot 20, located on the corner of Stadium Road and Warren Street. No outside food or beverage is permitted, and Minnesota State Mankato is an alcohol-free, drug-free and tobacco-free campus.
On Tuesday, there will be a blood drive from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Centennial Student Union Ballroom, and at 7:30 p.m., the Minnesota Storytellers Series will welcome indie pop-singer-songwriter Jeremy Messersmith to an event in the Elias J. Halling Recital Hall. Call 507-389-5549 for ticket information.
Wednesday’s featured events include “Stomp Your Chomp” food-eating contest from 12-1 p.m. in Centennial Student Union’s Hearth Lounge, with participants consuming tater tot hot dish in the first round and trifle (as in the TV show “Friends”) in the final round.
Thursday’s featured events feature a lip sync at 7 p.m. in Bresnan Arena, followed by royalty coronation, and the Department of Theatre and Dance will perform “Newsies” from Thursday-Sunday in the Ted Paul Theatre. Tickets are available at MSUTheatre.com.
University events Friday include a 4 p.m. ribbon-cutting ceremony at Wiecking Center that will celebrate 70 years of the Department of Family Consumer Science and honor department alumni. A 4-7 p.m. Open House in Wiecking Center will include tours of the department’s new food science lab, textile lab and classrooms, a wall mural and displays. Refreshments will be served. Contact Jennifer Brady at 507-389-2421 or Heather Von Bank at 507-389-5915 for more information.
Friday at 7 p.m. there will be a Homecoming concert by hip-hop artist Kyle in Myers Field House. Public tickets are still available for sale. Details are available online.
Saturday, Oct. 5 events – all open to the public – include the President’s free community pancake breakfast from 9-11 a.m. behind Blakeslee Stadium.
The 85th annual Homecoming Parade, expected to attract more than 3,000 spectators, will be held from 12-1 p.m. on Warren Street, and the Maverick football game against Minnesota Duluth will begin at 2 p.m. at Blakeslee Stadium. Dates and times of other athletic events throughout the weekend are available online at msumavericks.com.
Minnesota State Mankato’s School of Nursing will be holding an event, “Advancing Family and Community Health and Healing,” Saturday, Oct. 5 from 5-8 p.m. in Centennial Student Union, Room 253. The public may reserve dinner tickets for $25 online here. The dinner program will feature talks from former faculty who have become published authors, tours, displays and more.
Other Saturday evening events include a Homecoming block party at 7 p.m. that will feature a petting zoo, laser tag and cosmic mini golf on the University Dining Center lawn.
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The New LA Noir, A mystery and crime writer takes us on a pop cultural tour of L.A. as the sun-washe...
The New LA Noir, A mystery and crime writer takes us on a pop cultural tour of L.A. as the sun-washed city of dreams and despair chronicled in books, films and music of varying shades and notes of noir.
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I drank some OJ and my ears no longer ring constantly
Ringings Sounds In Your Ears Will Never Happen Again
Tomorrow morning all you will hear is silence
Sleeping, working, relaxing, and reading were impossible since all I could hear was an extremely high pitch ringing sound in both my ears
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Its not always that the hot topic of conversation among Red Sox fans or sports talk radio hosts is the same topic thats being discussed inside the walls of the organization, but when it comes to Pablo Sandovals , the team has reason to care. Manager John Farrell, who said last year at this time the Sox were not concerned about his , offered a different view yesterday, shortly after the third baseman arrived to spring training. There was the need for Pablo to come back into camp in better overall condition, Farrell said. Heres why, and its not just so Sandoval is more visually appealing when in uniform The Red Sox cannot afford another defensive liability. The club is already taking a sizable risk in transitioning Hanley Ramirez to first base, his fourth position in five seasons (shortstop and third base for the Los Angeles Dodgers left field for the Sox). If Sandoval were to return to his glory days as a third baseman â€" he was statistically an above-average defender in three of his previous four years with the San Francisco Giants before signing with the Red Sox and was once nominated for a Gold Glove â€" pitchers could get a little extra help. With Sandoval on the field last season, the Sox lost 32 games by one or two runs. Sandoval was considered one of the worst defenders in the game, providing the Sox with -11 defensive runs saved, according to FanGraphs.com. In other words, with simply replacement-level defense at third base instead of Sandoval, the Sox would have allowed 11 fewer runs last year, perhaps winning some of those one- or two-run games. Sandoval also cost the club with his poor baserunning, once even getting thrown out trying to go from first to home on a ball hit into the gap that slowly rolled to the fence. He had to come out of the game due to dehydration. These are issues the Sox are hoping to avoid this year, and thats why theyve asked Sandoval to trim down.
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Business News›Industry›Auto›Auto Components›Sundaram-Clayton unveils Rs 750-crore expansion plan; announces US factory
Sundaram-Clayton unveils Rs 750-crore expansion plan; announces US factory
The key reason for the American venture was to get geographically closer to the company’s customers so that supply can be agile and flexible to changing production demands of manufacturers.
Updated: Feb 09, 2017, 09.03 PM IST
The reason for choosing Dorchester County, South Carolina, was skilled labour, proximity to a port and conducive business climate.
CHENNAI: Sundaram-Clayton, automotive component manufacturer which is also the holding company of the $1.6 billion TVS Motor, is investing Rs 400 crore to expand its facilities in India and Rs 350 crore to build a 50-acre greenfield plant in the US. The expansion, including the US venture, will raise the company’s production capacity to 80,000 tonnes. In terms of investments, the company had invested Rs 408 crore in the last five years.
The key reason for the American venture was to get geographically closer to the company’s customers so that supply can be agile and flexible to changing production demands of manufacturers. Construction at the plant is set to begin by April this year and production is set to begin by 2018. Being a green-field plant, the timeline for revenue accrual would be a little longer than Indian expansions, though the US plant is expected to yield income by 2018 calendar year.
Lakshmi Venu, Joint Managing Director of the company, said recent developments of protectionism under the new American regime were a phenomenon that requires a deeper study to comment and that the move to set up a plant in the US, was thought up two years back.
While the costs of production are not expected to be vastly different from making in India, Venu said: “More than costs, the driving imperative for the move was to shorten logistics, and get near-shore for making our supply nimble.”
The reason for choosing Dorchester County, South Carolina, was skilled labour, proximity to a port and conducive business climate. The US, where many of Sundaram-Clayton’s customers are located, commands a sizable portion of the company’s exports. Rest of the exports is dominated by shipments to Germany and Sweden.
On Indian business, Venu said: “Over the last decade, the automotive components industry in India has grown three times in size and exports have grown rapidly as well. I believe that there is a bright future for Indian auto component companies both in India and in the export market. I am also confident that India will be among the fastest growing markets globally in the next few years and we will continue to invest strongly and grow in India.”
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Every application that has more than one page needs a concept for navigating between these pages. In LaxarJS this is achieved by a flow that determines which page is rendered based on a given URL, and how other pages are related to the current location.
Preliminary readings:
LaxarJS Core Concepts
The Flow
The flow is the top-level artifact that ties together all parts of a LaxarJS application: it defines what pages are reachable, which in turn determines the set of widgets and controls that are loaded as part of an application. Before bootstrapping your application, you must specify which flow to use in your application. The default flow configured by the Yeoman generator is called "main". Adding more flows allows you to create several "perspectives" onto your application, automatically picking pages and widgets from your project as needed. For example, you could have a flow to present to new visitors, a second flow for registered users, and a third flow to implement a back-office tool.
Each flow is specified using a flow definition file in JSON format, and it primarily consists of a set of named places.
Each place is either associated with a specific page to be rendered when entering that place, or it is a redirect to another place.
To determine which place is active when navigating to an application, the browser URL is matched against each place's patterns until a match is found. This process is called routing. These patterns are also used to generate URLs to create link between pages, and to update the browser URL when performing event-based navigation.
For the actual pattern matching and routing, LaxarJS uses with the micro-library Navigo and its routing pattern syntax, which should be familiar to users of frameworks such as AngularJS or React and their routing solutions.
Let us start with an example for a simple flow definition file that we call main.json:
"places": {
"index": {
"patterns": [ "/" ],
"redirectTo": "details"
"details": {
"patterns": [ "/details/:item", "/details" ],
"page": "first_page"
"team": {
"patterns": [ "/team" ],
"redirectToPath": "/details/team"
A flow definition is always a JSON object with the top-level property places, which in turn is a map. Each entry of that map consists of the place's ID as key and a place definition as value.
The ID is a non-empty alphanumeric string that identifies a place within an application. It is used to reference places when creating links or to perform event-based navigation.
Place Patterns
Each place definition has a non-empty list of URL-patterns, specified under the key patterns. In the example, the place index has a single pattern (/), while the place details has two patterns: /details/:item with the named parameter item filled in by the router, and /details which will not set the item parameter when navigated to. If no patterns are specified, a place with ID $some-id will automatically be assigned the patterns list [ "/$some-id" ], which will only match a slash followed by the exact place ID.
The syntax for URL patterns ultimately depends on what the router (Navigo) deems valid. It is strongly recommended to always start patterns with a leading slash, as relative paths will quickly break down in most setups. Also note that each list of patterns should start with a reversible pattern, as explained in the next section. Note that regular-expression patterns, while in principle supported by Navigo, are currently not available for use in a LaxarJS flow definition, both because they are not reversible, and because there is no JSON notation for them.
Apart from its patterns, a place has either a page entry, a redirectTo or a redirectToPath entry. The first determines that the corresponding page will be looked up relative to the pages directory of your application and instantiated when entering the place, while the latter makes it a redirect to another place specified by ID or full path, respectively. In the example, the place index specifies a redirect to the place details, while the place team specifies a direct redirect to the path /details/team. You can use redirects to support legacy URLs in your application and to forward them to actual pages, or provide shortcuts for otherwise complex paths.
Application may also enable query-strings using the configuration key router.query.enabled. Query parameters are never used for routing, but carry optional parameter values that may be useful to widgets on a page. Because query parameters are optional, each place may specify an object containing defaultParameters, that are published with navigation events if no matching query parameter was passed. Note that regular place parameters always override query parameters of the same name.
Reverse Routing
The declarative routing configuration used by LaxarJS is a bit more restrictive than free-form programmatic routing. On the other hand, this notation allows applications to automatically generate URLs to any place, just from an ID and possibly a set of named parameters. The widgets and activities within your application do not need to know about the URL patterns associated with their respective place, which makes them portable across pages and even application.
To make use of reverse routing, it is important that the first pattern for each place is reversible. Specifically, any wildcard parts of the URL pattern must be named, so that they can be substituted for the actual parameter names by the router. The pattern * that matches any path is not reversible, for example. Also, Navigo regular expression patterns are not reversible, because JavaScript does not support named capturing groups in regular expressions. However, their syntax is not supported by the JSON flow definition anyway, so applications cannot use them by mistake. The following pattern styles are known to work well with reverse routing:
verbatim: /some/path
named parameter segments /some/:param/:other-param
If query parameters are enabled, any additional parameters that are not part of the pattern to reverse will be encoded into query parameters, except if the parameter value to be encoded equals the default value of the target place.
Initiating navigation
To initiate navigation, widgets have two options:
Widgets may render regular HTML links and use the method constructAbsoluteUrl of the axFlowService to calculate the URLs of each link based on place ID and parameters.
Alternatively, widgets may initiate navigation by issuing a navigateRequest event expressing the desired new location within the application and providing values for place parameters. How event-based navigation works in detail can be read in the separate manual covering events.
In HTTP/REST) terms, event-based navigation is used to express POST-like semantics, where an URL change is associated with an effectful user action (save, sign up, purchase, etc.), while links should always follow GET semantics so that the user can safely switch back and forth between URLs.
Even better, neither widgets nor pages need to deal with specific place IDs, and can instead use semantic targets to initiate navigation or to construct links, as explained in the next section.
Using both events and links, it is possible to always navigate directly from place to place, simply by specifying the ID of the target place. However, this approach causes a tight coupling between the widget triggering navigation on one hand and the flow definition on the other hand, hurting reuse. Even more, this would smear knowledge about the navigational structure throughout the application, making it more difficult to later change this structure.
Instead, a widget or a page (via the feature configuration of its widgets) should specify semantic navigation targets such as "next", "previous", "details", which are then resolved based on the current place and its definition in the application flow. The idea is roughly comparable to relations in REST style architectures. In LaxarJS, each place can define its own mapping from semantic target identifiers to the IDs of other places within the application flow.
"introduction": {
"patterns": [ "/introduction/:userId" ],
"page": "introduction",
"targets": {
"next": "interests"
"interests": {
"patterns": [ "/interests/:userId" ],
"page": "interests",
"previous": "introduction",
"next": "profession",
"help": "interestsHelp"
"profession": {
"patterns": [ "/profession/:userId" ],
"page": "profession",
"previous": "interests",
"help": "professionHelp"
"interestsHelp": {
"patterns": [ "/interests-help/:userId" ],
"page": "interests_help",
"back": "interests"
"professionHelp": {
"patterns": [ "/profession-help/:userId" ],
"page": "profession_help",
"back": "profession"
This flow is typical for a wizard-like application, as it allows forward and backward navigation, but only sparsely jumping in between pages. The first place in the example is called introduction, which simply displays a page and just lets the user navigate to the next target, which would be resolved to the place interests. Here a page is displayed where the user can input his interests, such as hobbies or taste in music. As we are in the middle of the wizard now, a previous target is reachable in addition to the next and help targets. Unsurprisingly the previous target references the first place, introduction. The next target instead leads us to another new place with identifier profession. The profession place may only lead us back to the interests place via the previous target.
Let us assume that our pages contain tricky input components, on which we would like to assist the user. This is where the help target comes into play. Both the interests and the profession page use this target, but the places behind these targets are different depending on the source page. This allows you to provide contextual semantics to standard navigation controls, such as a row of back/forward/help buttons. Returning from the help pages is familiar, via the back target leading to the respective places.
Using the mechanisms introduced here, most navigation scenarios as well as integration into external applications should be possible. To find out how to construct links between pages, refer to the axFlowService API. To learn how to trigger event-based navigation from within widgets and activities, you should go on reading the events documentation and learn about the navigateRequest and didNavigate events.
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August 12, 2013 - By Kim Krueger and Prerna Anand
Glow, a data company providing health insurance solutions, raised $6M in funding from Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, and several strategic angel investors. The company’s Glow app helps women track their fertility and pregnancy, as well as access a non-profit infertility treatment fund called Glow First.
Alere Analytics, a healthcare analytics and clinical decision support technology company, debuted Electronic Laboratory Reporting (ELR) solution for automating lab results submissions by hospitals to the State Department of Health. It will help eligible hospitals meet Meaningful Use requirements and improve coordination between lab personnel and clinicians.
MyFitnessPal, a personal health and fitness platform, raised $18M in Series A funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and Accel Partners. John Doerr, a partner at KPCB and Andrew Braccia, a partner at Accel Partners, have also joined the company’s board.
Researchers at the Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI) launched Wired for Health, a clinical study to assess the role of mobile devices in lowering health costs. Collaborators in the effort include Scripps Health; Qualcomm Life Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated; HealthComp; and Accenture.
CareInSync, a health care communication software provider, raised an undisclosed amount in funding from Samsung Venture Investment Co. CareInSync will be use this investment to expand its care coordination product offering to the Android platform.
Kinsights launched a cloud-based digital health record and community forum, specifically for parents. On the site, parents can securely store and upload information about their child’s health.
Beddit, a maker of sleep tracking equipment, launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise $80K for the consumer version of its wireless sleep sensor. This sensor monitors sleep, heart rate and breathing, and uses an analysis app to help with personal training, stress management, athletic performance, optimizing wake-up times, and other sleep related disorders.
Healthbox’s Jacksonville, Florida program announced its inaugural accelerator class. The startups were broken into two categories, wellness, which has three startups, and consumer engagement, which has four.
Care quality for pediatric patients in rural emergency rooms improved “significantly” when delivered via telemedicine consultations, according to a study published online in the journal Critical Care Medicine.
Medtronic acquired Cardiocom, a privately held developer and provider of integrated telehealth and patient services for the management of chronic diseases. This acquisition marks an expansion by Medtronic into disease management.
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Foreign players who are playing EPL 2020
Asian Challenger Trophy to be held in Bhairahawa
Sandeep Lamichhane picks 2 wickets against Melbourne Renegades
Test Championship
Kohli, Dhawan inch towards top 10, new highs for Zazai and Munsey
LetzCricket Team
26th September 2019, Thursday
Source : ICC Media Release
India batsmen Virat Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan have moved towards the top 10 while Afghanistan’s Hazratullah Zazai and Scotland’s George Munsey have achieved new highs for their respective teams in the MRF Tyres ICC Men’s T20I Player Rankings.
Kohli’s unbeaten 72 in the second T20I of the three-match series against South Africa that ended in a 1-1 draw, has seen him gain one spot and reach 11th in the batting list while Dhawan has moved up three places to 13th after scores of 40 and 36.
The latest rankings update takes into account the India-South Africa series, the Bangladesh tri-series also featuring Afghanistan and Zimbabwe, as well as the Ireland tri-series in which Scotland and the Netherlands were the other teams.
Fifth-ranked Zazai’s current 727 points are the highest by an Afghanistan batsman in history while 21st-ranked Munsey became the first Scotland batsman to reach 600 points after scoring an unbeaten 127 off just 56 balls against the Netherlands before dropping to 585 at the end of the series.
The series in India also saw South Africa’s Quinton de Kock move up from 49th to 30th, his highest position in two years, after scores of 52 and 79 not out. Spinner Tabraiz Shamsi has reached the top 20 in the bowlers’ list for the first time while Andile Phehlukwayo has achieved a career-best ranking of seventh.
There were also some interesting facts in the Bangladesh tri-series. Captain Hamilton Masakadza retired from international cricket in 22nd place as Zimbabwe’s highest ranked batsman at the time and Afghanistan spinner Mujeeb Ur Rahman has moved into the top 10 with seven wickets in the series.
The Ireland series saw the Dutch pair of Ben Cooper and Max O’Dowd achieve their highest rankings at joint 41st among batsmen while Ireland’s Kevin O’Brien has achieved a career-high 459 rating points in batting. Andrew Balbirnie has also progressed from 95th to 53rd in the same list.
There is also some good news for players from Scotland, who are currently ranked 12th in the MRF Tyres ICC Men’s T20I Team Rankings, as seamers Alasdair Evans and Richie Berrington have achieved career-bests during the Malahide tournament.
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The Resource The gifting club "gotcha", (electronic resource)
The gifting club "gotcha", (electronic resource)
The item The gifting club "gotcha", (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Denver Public Library.
United States, Federal Trade Commission | Office of Consumer and Business Education
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) presents the January 2000 consumer alert "The Gifting Club 'Gotcha'" in PDF format. The alert describes an illegal pyramid scheme called gifting clubs. The scam is spreading throughout the mid-Atlantic states and the Pacific Northwest
Washington, D.C., Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Office of Consumer and Business Education, 2000
Title from title screen (viewed on Apr. 21, 2003)
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS29882
The gifting club "gotcha"
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Diversity: A QA Challenge and Opportunity
Lisa Lupo
Within the last four months, I have — or will have — been in nine U.S. states outside my home state of Ohio. Most were for business, including trade shows, conferences, and profile visits, with some vacation added this summer. While travel can be quite wearing and a bit disruptive to the normal course of business, it also brings an incredible perspective of the diversity of the people and cultures of our world.
In my May/June Viewpoint column, I discussed insights I gained from my visit to China — for both this issue’s cover profile on Qinba tea and the May/June profile on McCormick China — and why an understanding of people and culture is important in doing business.
But even while focusing on our ever-expanding global supply chain, one must not forget the uniqueness and diversity of our own country — and how that plays into one’s business success as well. I went from the expansive natural vistas of Arizona which pull its residents to a similar naturalness of lifestyle to the Nashville music-dominated state of Tennessee where microbreweries seem to be exploding on the scene (thus our upcoming profile on Fat Bottom Brewery in September/October). From the fast-paced city of Chicago which has a distinctive culinary focus all its own (e.g., its celebrated deep-dish pizza) to Minnesota’s State Fair fame for anything-on-a-stick — and fish from its 10,000+ lakes. From Utah’s confusing, but easing, liquor laws to Michigan’s medical legalizing of marijuana-infused edibles. And that’s not even bringing in the travels to Idaho, Virginia, and Oregon.
It is just such national diversity that brings challenges to the food producer that decides to expand beyond its origin. Do the people across the country care as much (or as little) about GMOs, gluten, natural, or local as those in your hometown? Will your strong sustainability focus that has drawn in community customers be as desirable in neighboring states? Are the unique flavors of your food more of a local taste preference that won’t play as well outside your region? ... Or will you, perhaps, be introducing something new and unique that will put your company on the map?
All such questions are challenges that can fall under the auspices of the quality assurance team — particularly for smaller companies at which managers frequently wear a number of hats. But all, also, are opportunities to look at your product from a new perspective. Can you tweak your flavor to add an entirely new line that brings in new customers — and provides a different twist for current customers? Do you need to shift focus from your local branding to grow outside the 100-mile radius? Are there other quality factors that are important the next state over that you’ve never before considered?
Author Henry Miller said, “One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.” Food for thought.
Food Fraud and Authenticity Are Shaping the Industry
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You are at the section Rock Music Today in Birthdays and Deaths (sorted by name)
Rock Music Today in Birthdays and Deaths by Name October 3
🎵🎸Lindsey Buckingham -- is 71 in the year 2020 and 72 in the year 2021; b.10/3/1949
Hall of Famer, Songwriter, Rock & Roll Singer/Guitarist, American
Misc: some say b. 1947
Group Names: Fleetwood Mac, soloist
Song Titles: Trouble, Go Insane
Album Titles: Law and Order, Go Insane
🎭🎵🎸Chubby Checker -- is 79 in the year 2020 and 80 in the year 2021; b.10/3/1941 N.S.
Hall of Famer, Dancer, Songwriter, Rock & Roll Singer
Names/Places: b. in Philadelphia; RN:Ernest Evans
Misc: Did impersonations of famous singers; in the Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame
Song Titles: The Twist, The Hucklebuck, Pony Time, The Fly, Jingle Bell Rock, Slow Twisting, Dancin' Party, Twistin' Round The World, Limbo Rock, Popeye The Hitchhiker, Twist It Up, Loddy Lo, The Twist (Yo Twist with the Fat Boys)
🎵🎸G. Love -- is 48 in the year 2020 and 49 in the year 2021; b.10/3/1972
Rock & Roll Performer
🎵🎸Jack Grodin -- is 69 in the year 2020 and 70 in the year 2021; b.10/3/1951
Rock & Roll Musician
Group Names: .38 Special
🎵🎸Frank Hannon -- is 54 in the year 2020 and 55 in the year 2021; b.10/3/1966
Songwriter, Heavy Metal Guitarst
Group Names: Tesla
🎵🎸Mark King -- is 38 in the year 2020 and 39 in the year 2021; b.10/3/1982
Group Names: Hinder
🎵🎸Josh Klinghoffer -- is 41 in the year 2020 and 42 in the year 2021; b.10/3/1979
Hall of Famer, Alternative Rock Guitarist
Group Names: Red Hot Chili Peppers
🎵🎸🏆🏌Tommy Lee -- is 58 in the year 2020 and 59 in the year 2021; b.10/3/1962
Heavy Metal Drummer, Golfer, Greek
Names/Places: Heather Locklear's ex-hubby, Pamela Anderson Lee's hubby
Group Names: Motley Crue
🎭🎵🎸Gwen Stefani -- is 51 in the year 2020 and 52 in the year 2021; b.10/3/1969 N.S.
Actress, Songwriter, Modern Rock Singer
Group Names: No Doubt (lead)
Song Titles: Just a Girl, Don't Speak, Hey Baby, Underneath It All, It's My Life (previous five as No Doubt), Rich Girl, Hollaback Girl, Wind It Up, The Sweet Escape, Make Me Like You, Misery
Album Titles: Tragic Kingdom, Return of Saturn, Rock Steady, Push and Shove (previous four albums as No Doubt), Love Angel Music Baby, The Sweet Escape, This is What the Truth Feels Like
🎭🎵🎸Adair Tishler -- is 24 in the year 2020 and 25 in the year 2021; b.10/3/1996 N.S.
Actress, Alternative Rock Singer
Group Names: Smash It Up
TV Shows: Heroes (as Molly Walker)
Movie Titles: American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong
🎵🎸Eddie Cochran -- Birth Anniversary -- b.10/3/1938 N.S. d.4/17/1960 N.S. (21)
Hall of Famer, Songwriter, Rock & Roll Singer/Guitarist
Names/Places: b. in Oklahoma City; RN:Ray Edward Cochrane
Song Titles: C'mon Everybody, Somethin' Else, Summertime Blues
🎵🎸John Curulewski -- Birth Anniversary -- b.10/3/1950 d.2/13/1988 (37)
Group Names: Styx
🎵🎸Felix Pappalardi -- Birth Anniversary -- b.10/3/1938 d.4/17/1983 (44)
Music Producer, Songwriter, Guitarist, Rock & Roll Bassist
Group Names: Mountain, Cream
🎵🎸Stevie Ray Vaughan -- Birth Anniversary -- b.10/3/1954 d.8/27/1990 (35)
Hall of Famer, Music Producer, Songwriter, Blues Singer, Blues Guitarist, Rock & Roll Singer
Group Names: Triple Threat (lead), Double Trouble, soloist
Album Titles: Texas Flood, Couldn't Stand The Weather, Soul To Soul, In Step, Family Style, The Sky is Crying
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🎵🎸Darryl DeLoach -- Death Anniversary -- b.9/12/1947 d.10/3/2002 (55)
Rock & Roll Singer
Group Names: Iron Butterfly (first lead singer)
🎵🎸Benjamin Orr -- Death Anniversary -- b.8/9/1947 d.10/3/2000 (53)
Hall of Famer, Bassist, Rock & Roll Singer
Misc: some say b. 1950, AP gives 1955
Group Names: The Cars
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Lev Parnas Has a ‘Serious Credibility Problem — CNN’s Jake Tapper
Sanders leads, with Warren, Buttigieg, Biden chasing in Iowa Democratic poll
by Wayne Curry | January 12, 2020 | 01:25
The margin of error of +/- 3.7 percent indicates an extremely tight race among the top tier of candidates.
Of the 701 likely Democratic caucusgoers questioned between January 2-8, 40 percent said their mind was made up on who they would support on caucus night - a 10 percentage point jump since November.
This is the first poll this election cycle landing Sanders in the lead without sharing the first-place spot with any other candidate, and it shows a clear upswing for the Vermont senator with momentum at a critical time in the race.
"There's no denying that this is a good poll for Bernie Sanders".
But Biden regains a sharp advantage in the 35 to 49 age group (41%-16%), and among voters older than 65 there is no contest: Biden enjoys 68% popularity, with second-placed Sanders floundering at 8%.
In the last Des Moines Register poll in November, Klobuchar also finished fifth, with 6% support. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota will be next to Buttigieg. Booker, after campaigning aggressively in Iowa for almost a year, has support of just 3% of likely caucus-goers, according to the poll.
The results also came hours ahead of the midnight Friday deadline for candidates to meet the Democratic National Committee's polling requirement to participate in Tuesday's scheduled debate in Des Moines, the last before Iowans caucus on February 3. Cory Booker, D-N.J., at 3 percent. With voters preparing to render the final verdicts, the poll serves as an early barometer of where the 2020 presidential candidates stand at a crucial juncture in the primary contest.
But another candidate struggling in Iowa - California billionaire Tom Steyer - will be debating in Des Moines on Tuesday.
The poll found Warren at 17%, Buttigieg at 16% and Biden at 15%.
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The Post noted that the former mayor, 37, "is among the leaders in polls in the predominantly white states of Iowa and New Hampshire but ... a lack of familiarity with him and concerns about his experience and sexual orientation appear to be contributing to his current standing" with black voters. Bloomberg, a late entrant into the race, is largely bypassing Iowa and other states that vote early. The former vice president's advisers have said Biden's strength in the Democratic race will show in racially diverse states such as Nevada, with its large Latino population, and SC, with its sizable black population.
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While 5 koalas lounge on the automobile seats and the steering wheel, a mom koala is seen within the boot of the automobile. In a video, two teenagers driving around to rescue koalas has gladdened hearts on social media.
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The researchers described the infectious agent as a "coronavirus", identified in a hospitalised person with pneumonia in Wuhan. All 739 close contacts, including 419 medical staff, have undergone medical observation and no related cases have been found.
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After Madrid, trying round they have been all unhappy once more, however the Champions League final yr was a therapeutic second for me.
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Neil announced his retirement from the band in 2015 - he'd been battling chronic pain, like tendonitis. Legendary Rush drummer Neil Peart has died at the age of 67 on January 7 after battling brain cancer.
Libya's Haftar rejects Ankara, Moscow's call for ceasefire
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U.S. Announces New Iran Sanctions On Senior Officials, Metals Industry
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British Presenter Wins Equal Pay Case Against the BBC
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Boudette v. Boudette
TAMMY MARIE BOUDETTE, n/k/a TAMMY MARIE OSKERSON, Plaintiff and Appellant,
DANIEL BRIAN BOUDETTE, Defendant, Counter-Claimant, and Appellee.
Submitted on Briefs: September 4, 2019
APPEAL FROM: District Court of the First Judicial District, In and For the County of Broadwater, Cause No. BDV-2012-49 Honorable Michael F. McMahon, Presiding Judge.
For Appellant: Adam H. Owens, Gregory G. Constanza, Granite Peak Law, PLLC, Bozeman, Montana
For Appellee: Daniel B. Boudette, Self-Represented, Townsend, Montana
Beth Baker Justice.
¶1 Daniel Boudette, a Montana resident, and Tammy Boudette (now Tammy Oskerson) were married and divorced in Arizona. The Arizona Decree of Dissolution of Marriage ordered Daniel to pay Tammy a sum certain for her share of the parties' community proceeds. In 2012, Tammy registered the Arizona judgment in Montana under the Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act ("UEFJA"). In 2018, Daniel moved to extinguish the registered Arizona judgment because Arizona's statute of limitations for enforcing judgments had expired. Tammy asserted that Montana's longer statute of limitations should apply to foreign judgments filed in Montana. The District Court granted Daniel's motion to dismiss, holding that the Full Faith and Credit Clause required the court to apply Arizona law. Because Montana law allows a registered foreign judgment to be enforced just as a Montana judgment would be, we hold that the Montana statute of limitations applies. We reverse and remand for further proceedings on Tammy's enforcement of the Arizona judgment.
¶2 Daniel and Tammy were married in Arizona in 1994. In 2005, they moved to Montana. Tammy later returned to Arizona and, in 2008, filed for dissolution of marriage. An Arizona court entered the Decree on December 18, 2009. The court held that proceeds from the sale of property in Arizona-which the parties used to purchase property in Montana-were community funds; it ordered Daniel to reimburse Tammy $68, 293.50 for her share of those proceeds. Daniel was given six months to pay Tammy or to make the necessary arrangements, after which she could seek to foreclose her community interest in the Montana property and enforce the money judgment. The Arizona Court of Appeals affirmed the Decree, and the Arizona Supreme Court denied review. Daniel did not pay Tammy or make arrangements to do so.
¶3 Tammy registered the Arizona judgment on September 12, 2012, in Broadwater County, Montana, pursuant to the UEFJA. Title 25, chapter 9, part 5, MCA. She took no further steps to enforce the foreign judgment.
¶4 On December 13, 2018, Daniel moved to extinguish Tammy's December 2009 Arizona judgment, contending that under applicable Arizona law, the statute of limitations to enforce the judgment had expired because Tammy did not seek enforcement within five years of the 2009 Decree. Arizona law limited execution on a judgment lien to five years absent renewal of the judgment. Ariz. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 12-1551 (2009). Tammy responded that Montana's ten-year statute of limitations for actions upon judgments, § 27-2-201(1), MCA, instead applied. The District Court granted Daniel's motion to extinguish on March 13, 2019. Citing its "exacting" full faith and credit obligation owed to final judgments of sister states, the court held that Arizona law applied to determine the time limit for execution on the judgment. The court held the money judgment unenforceable because more than five years had elapsed since the Decree was issued. Tammy appealed.
¶5 The District Court concluded that Tammy's foreign judgment was unenforceable in Montana as a matter of law. We review a district court's conclusions of law to determine whether they are correct. Rose v. Rose, 2016 MT 7, ¶ 10, 382 Mont. 88, 364 P.3d 1244.
¶6 Did the District Court err when it applied Arizona's statute of limitations forenforcing a judgment lien to an Arizona judgment registered in Montana under ...
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